Talk:N.F.-Board

message: I see nothing on the http://www.nf-board.com/home.htm page that mentions the members or associated members listed here. Or indeed any mention of a World Cup competition in November in Northern Cyprus for 2006. There is a reference to a proposed competition for 2005 (in French) on http://www.nf-board.com/cp_6.html  Is this actually going to happen? Jooler 01:21, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I believe this is the new discussion forum https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/roonbafr/alternative-representative-football-f1/
My Favourite Account (talk) 00:30, 22 September 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: I'm finding it a little hard, from my position of knowing very little outside of what I've read here, to understand CSANF's relation with the NF. It's described as a member confederation - does that mean it's like UEFA to FIFA? I would have automatically assumed this, but with the introduction of the CSANF, it would seem that this confederation has gone out and recruited its own members, with the exception of Easter Island, and NF doesn't seem to be treating any of them as members of NF - where, say, Argentina is a member of both CONMEBOL (the FIFA South American confederation) and FIFA, the NF Board seems to treat affiliated teams as either NF-Board members or CSANF members, but not both. Is this the case? Or am I just getting confused, somehow? Falastur2 00:18, 27 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It's like in CONCACAF and CAF where some of their members are not FIFA members (Guadeloupe, Martinique, French Guyana, Zanzibar).. it's like a pyramid, usually all members of the top (FIFA) are also members of the botton (confederations), but the opposite don't happen all the time. The only South American team in NFBoard is also member of CSANF..so till the moment there is no different between FIFA and NFB confederations Calapez 15:12, 27 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  CSANF 

message: I've deleted the last part of this sentence:
It is made up of teams that represent nations that are not recognized as sovereign states and which are therefore not eligible to become members of FIFA, football's world governing body.
Because it is simply not thrue:
*Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland and England aren't sovereign states (they don't even claim to be) but are members of FIFA and UEFA
*Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau aren't internationally recognized, though are members of FIFA and AFC, just as Guam which is a part of the USA
*CONCACAF has Britsh Virgin Islands, French Guiana, Sint Maarten, saint-Martin, Netherlands Antilles, Guadeloupe and Puerto Rico as members, neither of them claims to be a sovereign state
*OFC has American Somoa, cook Islands and Tahiti
Wu Bangguo (talk) 21:51, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Taiwan is not a member of FIFA, Chinese Taipei Football Association is. The general rule is, that the new members have to be either internationally recognised, or the bid has to be supported by the association to which the area of the new association formerly belongs. For example in the case of the Kosovo FA it means that either Kosovo is judged to be an internationally recognised independent state, or the FA of Serbia accepts its bid. Another rule is, that the current conditions do not apply to associations that already are FIFA members – therefore previous examples are not relevant. -91.32.230.184 (talk) 15:47, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Not entirely accurate. The Gibraltar FA is affiliated to the FA (the English one). Back a few years ago, it applied for admission to UEFA and the British FAs championed its cause. It still had to go to a confederation vote, which was shot down when Spain's FA threatened a boycott on all UEFA competitions in protest. In this case, the FA accepting its admission wasn't enough to have it admitted. Falastur2 (talk) 19:29, 24 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Non sovereign states 

message: I'm German, but I've never heard of "Southern Lower Saxony" as an entity of any type, much less as a nation. Unless this name refers to a region outside of Germany (in which case the wiki link and the flag would be completely misleading), this seems like a joke to me. --Roentgenium111 (talk) 13:05, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Southern Lower Saxony" 

message: Can someone please provide a link to a website that lists the membership of the NF-Board? I can find some information on the 3 teams who took part in the initial VIVA World Cup, and the rsssf has the results of the 2008 edition, which adds a few more sides but that leaves the majority of listed teams as unverified. Thanks Stu.W UK (talk) 21:59, 16 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Hard to do, since the NF themselves took down all the useful content on their site and made it a glorified link to the VIVA World Cup website. I wasn't happy at that... Makes it a right hassle to research them now. Falastur2 Talk 22:51, 16 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: http://cenf.110mb.com/cenf.html?a=1NFBNewMembers Calapez (talk) 23:15, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

text:  Thanks Calapez. I've added the link in the article.Stu.W UK (talk) 09:42, 17 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Verifiability of members 

message: A number of the teams listed here are yet to play a game and as such I wonder whether they each need a wikipedia article or whether it would be better to redirect to a new page called something like 'NF-Board Associations without competitive teams'? Stu.W UK (talk) 09:42, 17 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: No wikilink to the team then, or link the region. -Koppapa (talk) 20:13, 21 September 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Notability of Members 

message: I fear the NF-Board is inactive or non-existing anymore.I tried to contact their General Secretary and president, but no response. No response on Twitter and non-existent on Facebook. The homepage hasn't change a single word since it was launched. There is also no word about another VIVA somewhere. Is there any proof that they are still existing? NikauTokelau (talk) 15:35, 12 August 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Happy to see you are contributing to the talk finally! When I started editing there where 2 "official" pages. You are right, one of them seems to be dead now for some reason. I am not doing any vandalism at all. I just try to do a informational and neutral article out of it. I just again edited it a little bit and erased some wrong, NFB promo and irrelevant information. I did not touch the members list again, though. Nevertheless I still prefer to have a member lists of active FAs (huge work) or of just the VIVA playing teams. Still many of the FAs mentioned are inactive (Sardinia), never played (Southern Cameroon) or never heard of the NFB (Somaliland, Easter Island). But you are wrong, the official teams list them as members. But some of those members are non-existent (South Lower Saxony) or never have heard of the NFB (Somaliland). There are at least 20 of the members who are not connected to the NFB in any way I think. So I doubt we should just repeat that dubious info on wiki.NikauTokelau (talk) 08:18, 8 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Inactivity 

message: Is this related to ConIFA in any way? I think ConIFA should be mentioned in the article, with an explanation of the similarities and differences. 2A02:8109:9340:136C:8CB1:CFCD:8297:438A (talk) 00:25, 3 June 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Relationship to ConIFA 

message: I did change the article, including the fact that the NF-Board is defunct since January 2013 and deleting the "membership info" as defunct organisation, obviously, cannot have members.
However, my change was undone, without explanation, even though I even provided sources.
What do you think? I found at least 20 articles claiming the NF-Board to be defunct since January 2013. The only "proof" of existence is a homepage, that did not change since mid-2014. I tried to contact the NF-Board: No replies, half of the mentioned email addresses on their homepage are dead. I spoke to a few teams and a few "Board members" who all said they have not been in touch since mid-2013 and thought the NF-Board is not existing anymore.
So, which drives Wiki to believe they are exisiting?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:908:CD20:FF20:B6B6:76FF:FE1B:91D0 (talk) 13:03, 20 September 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  NF-Board defunct 

message: Can Cilento be added as a former member? They have a national team,  even a team flag. My Favourite Account Talk 01:39, 22 September 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Hmm, when diod they play. After 2013 they belong to the CONIFA article. -Koppapa (talk) 04:32, 22 September 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: That is why they are in the list of former members? For when they played, see the 3rd link below. My Favourite Account Talk 22:35, 22 September 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  September 2018