Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Goson Sakai
After researching this some more, it seems that J3 League is more complicated than I thought. While all the teams are members of the Japan Professional Football League, and are thus professional teams, the rules are more relaxed compared to J1 and J2, so some teams can have amateurs, even though most of the players are professional. J3 is thus a more complex phenomenon than can be dealt with here. As the rules now stand, he fails . It is a bit more complicated with regard to . Since he comes from a famous family of soccer and judo players, he has gotten more coverage than one would expect of someone at this stage in his career. Some of the following are significant RS, and even those that are not significant coverage use his name in the headline: http://www.sponichi.co.jp/soccer/news/2013/11/14/kiji/K20131114007005410.html, http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20140514-00000000-spnavi-socc, http://www.soccer-king.jp/news/japan/jl/20131113/147934.html, http://web.ultra-soccer.jp/news/view?news_no=162811, http://www.nikkansports.com/soccer/news/f-sc-tp1-20131113-1217811.html, http://www.excite.co.jp/News/soccer/20140412/Gekisaka_136607-136607-fl.html, http://www.sanspo.com/soccer/news/20131113/jle13111318290002-n1.html, http://news.livedoor.com/article/detail/8249163/. I even found this YouTube video of a TV show featuring him: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dclr1BLScVs. My concern is that his notability at this stage is, in a sense, inherited from his family. So far, he has not yet shown independent notability. That is the reason I am voting "weak delete
— User:Michitaro, 01:52, 4 June 2014 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:NFOOTBALL||WP:GNG (Wikipedia:Notability)