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  Football (soccer) - FreeEncyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Football, also called soccer and referred to colloquially as footie, is the most popular team sport[?] in the world in both number of spectators and number of active participants.
The rules of football are known as Laws of Football[?] [1] (http://www.fifa.com/refs/laws_E.html) and are based on efforts made in the mid-19th century to standardise the rules of the widely varying games of football played at the public schools and universities of England[?].
Each team has a goal keeper that is allowed to touch the ball with his arms and shoulders when he is standing within the outer marked area around the home goal, which is called the penalty area (aka the "box").
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 Football (soccer)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Football, (official but largely unused name: Association Football) also called soccer and known colloquially in Britain as footie is the most popular team sport in the world in both number of spectators and number of active participants.
The rules of football are known as Laws of Football[1] and are based on efforts made in the mid-19th century to standardise the rules of the widely varying games of football played at the public schoolss and universities of England.
According to IFAB regulations the length of the football field (or "pitch") for international matches should be in the range (100-110 metres) and the width should be in the range 64-75 metres.
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 Brazil - Open Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
About 74% of all Brazilians claims to be member of the Roman Catholic Church; most of the remaining 26% adhere to various Protestant faiths, Kardecism, Candomblé, Umbanda, Judaism, Islam, and Buddhism.
The Brazilian language Língua Geral which is now almost extinct, at one time, until the late 1800s, was the common language used by a large number of indigenous and African and African-descendent peoples throughout the coast of Brazil - in other words, it was spoken by the majority of the population in the land.
Meanwhile, on the Argentine and Uruguayan border regions Brazilian students are being introduced (formally) to the Spanish language.
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 Brazil   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Brazilian democracy was replaced by dictatorship three times — 1930–1934 and 1937–1945 under Getulio Vargas, and 1964–1985 under a succession of generals appointed by the military.
Some Brazilians have advocated a parliamentary, rather than presidential, system of government, while some have even advocated restoring the monarchy as a symbol of national unity and political stability.
About 80% of all Brazilians belong to the Roman Catholic Church; most of the remaining 20% adhere to various Protestant faiths, Kardecism, Candomblé, Umbanda, Judaism, Islam, and Buddhism.
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 J League Teams: Tokyo Verdy 1969   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Greed and mismanagement turned the team from a dominant powerhouse into the whipping boy of the league, and despite a bold effort to try to rebuild itself, the team has basically opted to try to relive past glories rather than really focusing on the future.
In late 1999, the team won approval for its move, and at the end of the 2000 season the team changed its name from Verdy Kawasaki to "Tokyo Verdy 1969" (the 1969 refers to the date of the original team's founding, perhaps in an effort to recall "the glory years").
Brazilian bad-boy Edmundo "The Animal", who was in the bad graces of most clubs in his home country, needed a new start and a clean slate.
www.wldcup.com /Asia/jleague/verdy.html   (1230 words)

  
 Brazil - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Brazilian democracy was replaced by dictatorship three times — 1930–1934 and 1937–1945 under Getúlio Vargas, and 1964–1985 under a succession of generals appointed by the military.
The 1988 constitution grants broad powers to the federal government, of which the President and Vice-President are elected on the same ticket by popular vote for four-year terms.
However, Brazilian economy seems to have detached itself from politics and after a GDP decrease of 0.2% in 2003, Brazil has enjoyed a robust growth in 2004 and prospects for 2005 and 2006 also indicate significant growth.
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 Northern Counties East Football League - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Northern Counties East League is an English association football league that was founded in 1982 by the merger of the former Yorkshire League and Midland Counties League.
Its two divisions are on the ninth and tenth levels of the football pyramid.
The League's First Division received a great deal of press attention during the early part of the 2004/05 season when Garforth Town F.C. signed the legendary Brazilian striker Sócrates on a month-long contract, and signed Lee Sharpe on a permanent basis.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Northern_Counties_East_Football_League   (282 words)

  
 United Soccer Leagues (USL)
The Select League, a higher level of Division III at the time, was granted Division II status for the upcoming 1997 season by USSF, an action that would have far-reaching effects for soccer in North America in the near future.
The Select League was just another selling point for USL as it came to an agreement with Major League Soccer, which made its debut in ‘96, to serve as a player development system for the Division I league.
Teams in the two leagues would continue playing interleague games for travel-purposes but the mission was simple.
www.uslsoccer.com /aboutusl/history/index_E.html   (1013 words)

  
 K.League News :: Soccerphile.com | Jan 2004
The two teams that finish at the top of the tree in each stage will enter a play-off that will determine the champs from the chumps.
Teams in the bottom half didn't have to fear falling out of the tree as relegation didn't and still doesn't exist.
All in all, by the middle of January, thirteen Brazilians have said OK to the K-League.
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Though they returned in 1821, the interlude led to a growing desire for independence amongst Brazilians and in 1822 the then prince-regent Dom Pedro I established the independent Empire of Brazil.
This lasted until the next emperor, Dom Pedro II was deposed in 1889 and a republican based federation was adopted.
Four major groups make up the Brazilian population: the Portuguese, the original colonisers; Africans brought to Brazil as slaves; various other European, Middle Eastern, and Asian immigrant groups who have settled in Brazil since the mid-19th century; and indigenous people of Tupi and Guarani language stock.
www.online-encyclopedia.info /encyclopedia/b/br/brazil.html   (874 words)

  
 Korean Football & K.League News :: Soccerphile.com | November 2004
Cha, the former national team coach, won't let his boys from Brazil or the rest of his team rest on their laurels and will push them on to win their last game in the nearby port city of Incheon in order to win the second stage title.
The team from Jeonju, in the south-west of Korea have slipped to ninth and their only recent win was at home to second-stage whipping-boys Pohang.
On the bright side, Cha Kyung-bok's team do have the considerable consolation prize of the final of the Asian Champions League, to be played against Chonbuk conquerors, Saudi side Al Ittihad on November 24th and December 1st.
www.soccerphile.com /soccerphile/news/korean-soccer/kleague_news11.html   (1187 words)

  
 K.League Preview 2004 :: Soccerphile.com
Intead of big-money moves abroad, promising young players are sent to the military team and are probably paid the same as the rest of the conscripts, about $15 and a couple of packs of noodles a month.
Brazilian striker (yes, another one) Itamar scored 23 goals last season and if he does the same this season with a solid midfield, marshaled by World Cup star Kim Nam-il, behind him, the Dragons have a chance.
Daegu FC The team from Korea’s third largest city made their debut in 2003 and finished next to bottom – a creditable performance from this cash-strapped team playing in Korea’s biggest stadium.
www.soccerphile.com /soccerphile/news/korean-soccer/preview-2004.html   (2096 words)

  
 J League Teams: Kawasaki Frontale
In truth, the team was far better than its 2000 record in league matches would suggest, and Frontale was a favourite to win promotion back to the top division in 2001.
The team enjoyed reasonable success in the JSL, and only just missed inclusion in the J.League at its inception, and remaining around the middle of the table in the JFL throughout the 1990s.
But the team shook off the disappointment quickly, and set out in 2004 on a crusade to ensure that they would not be disappointed again.
www.wldcup.com /Asia/jleague/frontale.html   (632 words)

  
 Real Estate in Brazil - Guide to locating & purchasing real estate in Brazil
Brazilian health care also is funded by private medical insurance, which both complements and, in some cases, competes with SUS.
Brazilian hospitals may specialize in specific areas of medicine such as trauma or cardiology.
The Brazilian language Língua Geral which is now almost extinct, at one time, until the late 1800s, was the common language used by a large number of indigenous and
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 Football (soccer) - InfoSearchPoint.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Football, (official but largely unused name: Association Football) also called soccer and occasionally known colloquially in Britain as footy, is the most popular team sport in the world in both number of spectators and number of active participants.
The rules of football are known as Laws of Football[1] and are based on efforts made in the mid-19th century to standardise the rules of the widely varying games of football played at the public schools and universities of England.
The major club event in Europe is the Champions League, while the major club event in South America is the Copa Libertadores.
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 J League Teams: Nagoya Grampus
The official team name is "Nagoya Grampus Eight", and a variety of reasons have been given over the years for the word eight.
Nagoya fans hoped that their team might be able to contend for a championships, but the year following Wenger's departure, there was a sharp drop in the team's performance.
For the next three years, the team was viewed as one of the preseason favourites to win the title.
www.wldcup.com /Asia/jleague/grampus.html   (713 words)

  
 BBC SPORT | Football | Champions League | Monaco maul Deportivo
French league leaders Monaco went in to a 4-0 lead with just half an hour gone, Jerome Rothen and Ludovic Giuly scoring before Prso bagged a quickfire double.
Jaroslav Plasil scored his first Champions league goal moments after the restart and Prso added his fourth soon after, before Tristan and Edouard Cisse exchanged strikes to complete the scoring.
Brazilian Elber settled the tie eight minutes into the second half, slotting home from a tight angle to seal the three points for his new employers.
news.bbc.co.uk /sport2/low/football/champions_league/3240153.stm   (584 words)

  
 CNNSI.com - Soccer - Americas: Brazil to use European league model - Wednesday December 18, 2002 04:36 PM
Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) director Virgilio Elision dismissed the commonly expressed fear that a club could run away with the lead and wrap up the title several rounds from the end.
This year a relatively straightforward system was used in which the 26 teams played each other once, with the top four being relegated and the top eight going into the knockout stages.
Two years ago, the top two teams from the second division and the winners of the third qualified for the knockout stages along with half of the first division.
sportsillustrated.cnn.com /soccer/news/2002/12/18/latin_rdp   (945 words)

  
 Brazil - Gurupedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Brazilian democracy was replaced by dictatorship three times — 1930–1934 and
The only clearly separated minority ethnic groups in Brazil are the various non-assimilated indigenous tribes, comprising less than 1% of the population, who live in officially delimited reservations and either avoid contact with "civilized" people, or have assimilated mainstream Brazilain culture to some extent but still constitute separate social and political communities.
Brazil is the only Portuguese-speaking nation in the Americas, a fact that has substantially prevented it from developing close cultural ties with its Spanish-speaking neighbors.
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 Xtratime Community - Balkan Football League????
Adrijatic basketboll league(Goodyear league) is a bigg success and is time for soccer to follow royal league and goodyear liga.
The skandinavian say that royal league will help skandinavian teams to do better in europ for that reason they will play against good teams constant and that will help them to develop for international games.
It could be a nice thing,I don't know,but first of all Royal League in scandinavia is possible because of the good organization,don't forget that..in the balkans this is crap for the moment,and then you ofcourse have the thing about crazy people not going for the match,but because they hate the other team.
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 Xtratime Community - Treta Liga (3 league)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Teams: FK Pelister FK Crvena Zvezda and Macedonia NT Drugata godina i Pelister ke se anoga tamu ako prodolzat vaka..
Football is a game in which a handful of fit men run around for one and a half hours watched by millions of people who could really use the exercise
Teams: FK Pelister FK Crvena Zvezda and Macedonia NT I hope not also, but i have a question does anyone how the 3rd division is played do all teams play in a regional league and then they have a playoff or is it like the 1st and 2nd division were everybody plays each other.
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 wikien.info: Main_Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Brazilian language Língua Geral which is now almost extinct, at one time, until the late 1800s, was the common language used by a large number of indigenous and African and African-descendent peoples throughout the coast of Brazil — in other words, it was spoken by the majority of the population in the land.
More and more people are realizing in Brazil that a person can master and carry more than one language throughout their lives.
Brazilians who hear it are surprised that it is a unique Portuguese creole.
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The Brazilian striker is the first player to top 50 points on a season since 1998 when Mark Baena of Seattle also had 51 points and led the league in scoring.
Martins is the first player to win the A-League Scoring Championship from a team that did not reach the postseason since 1990 when Chance Fry posted 39 points for the 10-10 Seattle Storm.
Brent Goulet was honored by the Western Soccer League in 1997 while playing for FC Portland, who finished fifth with a 5-5 record in the six-team league that saw the San Diego Nomads finish with a league-best 6-4 record.
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BAYAMON, PUERTO RICO - United Soccer Leagues, in conjunction with the city of Bayamon, Puerto Rico, introduced the Puerto Rico Islanders as the A-League's newest expansion franchise at a press conference at Juan Ramon Loubriel Stadium, the club's home field, Monday afternoon.
Vitor Hugo Barros was also announced as the Technical Director/Head Coach of the club and is expected to bring in some Brazilian and Argentinean talent to accentuate their roster noted Islanders President Joe Serralta, who is the leading candidate for the upcoming election for President of the Puerto Rico Futbol Federation in February.
Trials for the team are anticipated to begin the second week of January at the Efrain Calcano Alicea sports complex.
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 SENAYAN News
Chinese league champions Shandong Luneng will bring 46 people: 24 players, 7 reporters and correspondents, and the rest are miscellaneous.
Shandong Luneng is probably the only team in the tournament that will feature the most number of foreign players.
Coached by Russian Boris Ignatiev, the team is comprised of South Americans Jose Oscar Herrera Corominas, Gabriel Rafael Mendoze Ibarra, Devalle Ruiz Casiano Wilberto, and European Serhii Nahorniak.
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 Futebol The Brazilian Way of Life   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Brazilian football is living a new golden age.
With regular news, features and chat about the national team and the domestic league you will be able to keep up with all the goings on from Rio de Janeiro to the Amazon, and from Barcelona to AC Milan.
Mark is gathering information on the all of the teams, current squads, coaches and rising stars.
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 Sporting Life - Football | Barclays Premiership Live, Everton v Chelsea, Newcastle v Sunderland, SPL, Championship, ...
Team news for Saturday's clash between Blackburn and Birmingham.
Team news for Sunday's clash between Everton and Chelsea.
Team news for Sunday's clash between Bolton and West Brom.
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 Brazil Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The 1988 constitution grants broad powers to the federal government, of which the Presidents of Brazilpresident and vice president are elected on the same ticket by popular vote for four-year terms.
In January 1999, the Brazilian Central Bank announced that the Real %28currency%29Real would no longer be pegged to the US dollar.
This devaluation helped moderate the downturn in economic growth in 1999 that investors had expressed concerns about over the summer of 1998, and the country posted moderate Gross Domestic ProductGDP growth.
www.echostatic.com /Brazil.html   (1266 words)

  
 Articles - F.C. Tokyo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
With addition of the Brazilian football player Amarao and the manager Kiyoshi Okuma at the helm, the team gradually became competitive and in 1997, the team placed second, winning the JFL championship the next year.
In 1999, the same year the team became eligible, it won the J2 championship and joined the J1 league beginning in the 2000 season.
In August of the same year, it held a friendly match against one of the greatest football clubs, Real Madrid losing three–nil but gaining valuable experiences both on and off the field for what it takes to be a great football club.
www.gaple.com /articles/FC_Tokyo   (577 words)

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