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Topic: European Cup and Champions League History


  
  UEFA Champions League - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The current holders of the UEFA Champions League trophy are FC Barcelona of Spain, who beat Arsenal F.C. of England 2-1 at the Stade de France on 17 May 2006 after coming from 0-1 behind.
The UEFA Champions league is open to the league champions of all UEFA member associations (except Liechenstein, Andorra and San Marino), as well as to the clubs finishing from second to fourth position in the strongest leagues.
The UEFA Champions League Anthem, officially titled simply as "Champions League", is an arrangement by Tony Britten of Georg Frideric Handel's "Zadok the Priest" from the Coronation Anthems.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/UEFA_Champions_League   (1654 words)

  
 British Chess Magazine: The Chess Shop and the Bridge Shop
Well, the recent world and European women's championships were both won by pregnant women, so the latest evidence suggests that it is no bad thing for a female chessplayer to be expecting a child.
Following the city's successful bid to be crowned European Capital of Culture 2008, plans have been put in place to hold the European Union Chess Championships in September of this year, followed by a possible European Individual Championship in 2007, and a world-class GM tournament plus the British Championships in 2008.
Topalov is the official FIDE world champion, while Kramnik won Kasparov's more traditional version of the world title by beating him in 2000, so the winner would be the first undisputed world chess champion for 13 years.
www.bcmchess.co.uk   (6028 words)

  
 All About Man Utd @ ManchesterUnited.y2u.co.uk   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The club is one of the most successful clubs in England, having won the Premier League fifteen times and the European Cup twice, and has had the highest average attendance in English football for the majority of the past fifty seasons.
United won the F.A. Cup in 1983 and 1985 and were overwhelming favourites to win the league in the 1985-86 season after winning their first ten league games, opening a ten-point gap over their rivals as early as October.
United won the European Cup Winners' Cup in 1990-91, beating that season's Spanish champions Barcelona in the final, but the following season was a disaster for United, though, as a late season slump saw them miss out on the league to rivals Leeds United.
manchesterunited.y2u.co.uk   (3196 words)

  
 History
What has changed drastically over the last 30 or so years is the material the ball is made of and the shape of the panels that make up the ball.
Mitre and Thomlinson's of Glasgow were two of the first companies to mass produce soccer balls during that time.
The soccer ball may have even played a part in the outcome of the first world cup in 1930.
www.soccerballworld.com /History.htm   (1505 words)

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