Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Reiji Sato
As written,  does not explicitly state that cup games are not eligible for consideration. I can understand not making them the only consideration when the player is playing for a team in a non-professional league that participates in a larger cup competition, but why are cup games ineligible when the player is definitely on a professional league team squad and playing against another fully professional team (his most recent match was against Querétaro FC, a top division team)? Sato is also the first Japanese player to play a match for a Mexican top division team (and he has played in http://www.footballzz.co.uk/jogador.php?id=311829&epoca_id=142&op=zoomstats four matches so far, all cup games). That itself has generated some news in Japan. I have added two Japanese news articles as references. As for satisfying , beyond the articles already cited in English and Japanese, there are a number in Spanish: http://www.goal.com/es-mx/news/4774/liga-mx/2013/02/26/3780806/reiji-sato-la-perla-oriental-que-monarcas-morelia-impulsa, http://www.vavel.com/mx/futbol-mexicano/liga-mx/morelia/211814-reiji-sato-es-como-un-sueno.html, http://www.provincia.com.mx/2013/02/reiji-sato-el-samurai-monarca/, etc
— User:Michitaro, 21:30, 16 March 2013 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:NFOOTBALL||WP:GNG (Wikipedia:Notability)