Deletion of 2021 International Friendlies

Comment: Everyone seems to think this is either useless and/or indiscriminate. I don't think it's either. In fact, if this 2021 version is the first of its kind on Wikipedia, I'm surprised. Assuming (and I may be wrong to do so, but in that case the article could probably be developed in that direction) this means only the ''official FIFA-sanctioned international friendlies'', that's certainly a very clearly defined and finite list of matches, selected to suit the teams' objectives and carefully scheduled to fit within the specified friendly windows and around each team's other commitments; these matches also count towards official player statistics etc. And if you search for 'international friendlies', you get hits from the likes of BBC Sport, ESPN, ''The Guardian'', etc., so clearly the term is used widely to refer to this set of matches. As for the argument that this information can be found elsewhere — sure, but that's true of most list-type articles; the whole point of lists is that they pull together information that is ''easier'' accessed as a list: if you know that, say, Luxembourg played a friendly against Israel in 2002, you can find that eg. in the article Luxembourg_national_football_team_results_(2000–2019), but what if you wanted to know ''who'' played friendlies against Israel that year, how easy would it be to find that information without a list like this? Finally, I don't think this is , as in "important only to a small population of enthusiastic fans": these are national teams we're talking about, not a bunch of mates playing Sunday morning footy in the park, with the matches televised and widely reported in the press. In short, I think this list is useful, the subject is notable, and with some improvements (mostly ensuring that only the official friendlies are included, and that the information is properly sourced) the article should stay. And similar articles should be created for earlier years
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Fancruft (WP:CRUFT)

Comment: as a clear example of , in particular 
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not (WP:NOT||WP:INDISCRIMINATE)

Comment: further to the other delete comments, I would struggle to see how such a list would ever satisfy ; these matches are not generally discussed as a group or even really referred to as a group. A friendly is just any non-competitive match between two teams and there is otherwise no connection between any of these matches. This is different from a list of matches in one tournament, where there is a clear connection between the matches and where, in some cases, the outcome of one match may have an effect on the outcome for teams not participating in that one match (in group stages or in terms of who to play against next in a knockout stage). There's no real connection between Ethiopia beating Malawi and then Oman having a goalless draw with Jordan 3 days later other than the fact that both games were completely inconsequential, which, in my view, is not enough of a reason to group them together in one list. Furthermore, I am struggling to see how this meets any of the purposes listed at ; it is not a valuable information source, it certainly isn't navigational (none of the individual matches are notable) and it does not aid in development of our encyclopaedia
Stance: comment
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:LISTN||WP:LISTPURP)