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Amateur VS. Professional[edit]

I have never heard the term "not fully professional" used before. Are we referring to a semi-professional athlete / league? Chris1834 Talk 12:48, 11 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Chris1834: See Wikipedia:WikiProject Football/Fully professional leagues. Semi-professional is not really the right term to use in the article, because it refers to athletes, not teams. Fully professional leagues are those where all the clubs in the league pay all or substantially all their players. Not fully professional leagues are leagues in which some teams may not pay any of their players, others may pay most of their players or at least most of their regular starters, and some more teams may fall somewhere in between. The changes you made to the article are difficult to understand: I don't know what a semi-professional league is. If it is a league comprising only semi-professional players, then I don't know such a league, and the NPSL and PDL/USL League Two would certainly not meet that definition, since many fully professional players play in those two leagues. Taxman1913 (talk) 16:20, 11 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for pointing me to that. I had never heard the term used and I have been around soccer all my life. I reverted my edit back as I agree with you on the semi-pro comment as well. Learn something new every day! Chris1834 Talk 19:19, 11 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]