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  Football Association of Serbia and Montenegro - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Football Association of Serbia and Montenegro (FSSCG) (Serbian: Fudbalski Savez Srbije i Crne Gore) is the governing body of football in Serbia and Montenegro, based in Belgrade.
It organizes the football league, the First League of Serbia and Montenegro, the Serbia and Montenegro national football team, as well as the Second Leagues of both republics.
FSSCG replaced the Football Association of Yugoslavia, which was founded in 1919.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Football_Association_of_Serbia_and_Montenegro   (121 words)

  
 Yugoslavia national football team - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Yugoslavia national football team existed in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia and in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
The Football Federation of then Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes was founded in Zagreb in 1919 (and admitted into FIFA), and the national team played its first international game in Antwerp in 1920.
In 1929, the country was renamed to Yugoslavia and the football association became Fudbalski Savez Jugoslavije and moved its headquarters to Belgrade.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Yugoslavia_national_football_team   (404 words)

  
 FAIreland: Football Association of Ireland
Although football was being played in Ireland since the 1860s, it was mainly based in Ulster and it was not until the 1880s that the game spread to other areas of the country.
FAI formation Despite this, it was not until after the 1916 Rising and the rise of Nationalism that southern affiliates, such as the Leinster FA, took an aggressive approach in their dealings with the IFA.
A meeting of southern associations and clubs was arranged and on June 1 1921, the Football Association of the Irish Free State (FAIFS) was formed in Molesworth Hall in Dublin.
www.freewebs.com /irelandfa/faihistory.htm   (3467 words)

  
 Finland National Football Team | Reports | Yugoslavia 2 Finland 0   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Yugoslavia were finding it hard to find any rhythm in midfield and were wasteful of possession.
Yugoslavia did get the ball in the net from a header, but Niemi was blatantly obstructed and the goal was disallowed.
Yugoslavia opened the scoring in the 54th minute with one of their first real openings and there was a touch of good fortune about it.
www.finland-football.net /yugoslavia161002.asp   (1302 words)

  
 Serbia and Montenegro national football team - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The Serbia and Montenegro national football team is the national team of Serbia and Montenegro and is controlled by the Football Association of Serbia and Montenegro.
It was previously known as the Yugoslavia national football team.
Although the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was formed on April 28, 1992, because of the civil wars, the football team didn't play its first match until 23 December, 1994, when they lost to Brazil.
www.pineville.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Serbia_and_Montenegro_national_football_team   (352 words)

  
 Football | Boy Wonder, Bags, and Bigwigs
I will have had 18 years of professional football, which is a good time to pack your bags." At least then he won't have to leave without a clean pair of undies.
Yes, Yugoslavia have rebranded as Serbia & Montenegro, after the funky new monicker was formally ratified by the United Nations.
- the Football Association of Serbia and Montenegro (or the catchy FSSCG for short).
football.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4603666-3137,00.html   (1294 words)

  
 England Player Honours - Football Association England National Team Hall of Fame
The Football Association, with no fanfare apparent, launched a hall of fame for England national team players on its website as it was reformatted in mid-May, 2002, just before the World Cup final tournament began.
In the wake of failed attempts to launch commercial halls of fame in England and elsewhere, it was fitting that the Football Association, rather than some private company or organisation, took on the task.
The Football Association is correct in taking the view that a hall of fame does not require an expensive physical structure or grandiose marketing schemes.
www.englandfootballonline.com /TeamHons/HonsHallFameFaEng.html   (883 words)

  
 Football and HIV/AIDS prevention
During the 90-minute span of a football match, some 400 young people, aged 15 to 24 years old, around the world will be infected with the HIV virus, some 100 children under the age of 15 will die of AIDS, and another 400 will lose their parents to AIDS.
Football is the most popular sport in the world, played by hundreds of millions of children.
At the recent RTK events that took place in Jamaica, Yugoslavia, Ghana, and Zambia, young people worked as partners and learned how to use new tools to draw others in their community to the initiative.
www.unicef.org /football/aids   (711 words)

  
 FIFA.com The Official web site of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association
The Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) was founded in the rear of the headquarters of the Union Française de Sports Athlétiques at the rue Saint Honoré 229 in Paris on 21 May 1904.
He greeted the Football Associations on the continent in writing and asked to study the possibility of founding an umbrella organisation.
Moreover, the Football Association was ready to take over all the costs as for example, the passage and accommodation of the participants.
www.fifa.com /en/PrinterFriendly/0,3875,HOF13-History-2004,00.html   (3949 words)

  
 Soccer News, November 13, 1998
The landmark decision was greeted with disbelief in Dublin by FAI officials, who had sought from FIFA only the application of one of their own rules that specifies players be released from club commitments five days before a competitive international.
The FAI could seek to challenge FIFA's ruling in court and in the circumstances there seems no logical reason why they could not do so, confident of a decision in their favour.
Yugoslavia, in fact, informed FIFA they were in favour of their players, most of whom play abroad, representing their clubs at the weekend.
archives.tcm.ie /irishexaminer/1998/11/13/phead.htm   (6044 words)

  
 Soccer News of Wednesday, 25 September 2002   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Ghanaian football officials and the football loving population are furious over the coach’s conduct with some leading local newspapers asking whether Mr.
He sent his resignation letter to the Ghana Football Association (GFA) from Yugoslavia, where he is said to be visiting his sick mother.
Millan’s strange behaviour creates a void for the GFA and the ministry of youth and sports to fill before October 13 when the Black Stars are expected to play their second of their 2004 Nations Cup qualifier against robust Rwanda in Accra.
www.ghanaweb.com /GhanaHomePage/soccer/artikel.php?ID=27737   (475 words)

  
 uefa.com - Magazine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
But Sir Trevor Brooking, director of development at the Football Association, said it is time to bury old-established prejudices and enter a united British team in 2012.
So far, the Irish Football Association has pledged its support in principle for a combined team while the Football Association of Wales says it is still processing London's 2012 victory.
Only the Scottish Football Association has publicly opposed a united team and its views are shared by former Scotland and Manchester United FC striker Joe Jordan.
www.uefa.com /magazine/news/Kind=128/newsId=317869.html   (555 words)

  
 Denmark History
The Danish Football Association, founded in 1889, is one of the world's oldest.
The 1977 European Footballer of the Year inspired a generation of Danish talent and by the mid-1980s, Denmark were rubbing shoulders with the world's finest.
The Danish Football Association was formed in 1899, but it was not until 1992 that they made their lasting contribution to European football.
www.freewebs.com /euromatchtips/denmark_history.htm   (873 words)

  
 Sports News of Tuesday, 24 September 2002   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Zivadinovic sent his resignation letter to the Ghana Football Association (GFA) from Yugoslavia, where he is said to be visiting his sick mother.
He was furious with the GFA for cancelling three friendly matches in Turkey and Yugoslavia.
In a letter sent to his employers from his native Yugoslavia yesterday, Millan said he was unable to return to his job because he was undergoing treatment in his country due to unfavourable weather conditions in Ghana.
www.ghanaweb.com /GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/artikel.php?ID=27682   (656 words)

  
 The Association of Football Statisticians   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Despite the first official International match being played 1872 (between England and Scotland), and the formation of FIFA (The Federation Internationale de Football Association) in 1904, up until the first World Cup Competition in 1930 the Olympic Tournament was regarded as the only true international football competition.
The rise of the professional footballer caused problems, however, and after several nations withdrew from the 1928 Olympic competition a resolution from Henri Delauney, secretary of the French FA, was put forward at the FIFA Congress in Amsterdam on May 28th 1928;
The trophy would become the most well known in football, and despite being lost in 1966 it would remain the prize for winning the World Cup until it was won outright by Brazil when they won the trophy for the third time in 1970.
www.11v11.co.uk /page329   (577 words)

  
 Fédération Internationale de Football Association
The image of the flag of the FIFA shows it to be blue, with on it two footballs, their height about a third of the flag's height, drawn in white, side by side, the dexter slightly obscuring the sinister.
The image of the previous flag of the FIFA shows it to have been blue, with on it two footballs, their height about half of the flags height, drawn in white with mostly fl details, side by side, the dexter slightly obscuring the sinister.
Currently FIFA counts up 205 national football associations affiliated, the last one was New Caledonia, which was admited in 2004, during the FIFA Centenial celebrations.
www.fotw.us /flags/int@fifa.html   (777 words)

  
 Pravda.RU England Football Association chooses non-English manager for the first time   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The English Football Association has tried to keep the appointment a secret but contacts in Italy, close to Lazio, confirmed that Eriksson had been contacted by the English Football Association and that he was very enthusiastic about the job.
After weeks of secrecy by the English Football Association, Pravda.ru is the first to reveal who is the new manager of the England team: Sven-Goran Eriksson, currently manager of Lazio in Rome, who he led to the Italian Championship last season.
FOOTBALL : WORLD CUP QUALIFIER GROUP 9 In the last game at London's historic Wembley Stadium, home of English football, and the stage where England won its only World Cup triumph in 1966 against West Germany the English party was ruined by More details...
english.pravda.ru /sport/2000/10/31/586.html   (1375 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited Football | News | Irish to twist clubs' arms
The Football Association of Ireland is standing firm in its resolve to invoke Fifa's five-day rule on the release of players for competitive international games.
After the Irish manager Mick McCarthy had announced his 20-man squad for the senior game yesterday morning, Charlton Athletic faxed the FAI saying they would not release their midfielder Mark Kinsella as he was required for Premiership duty on Saturday.
The Yugoslavia game was originally scheduled for October 10 but Uefa decided to postpone it because of the threat of Nato bombing, but it was agreed last week that the match should go ahead on November 18.
football.guardian.co.uk /News_Story/0,1563,12223,00.html   (409 words)

  
 AllSports' NBA News - Yugoslavia edges Argentina to win World Championships   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Yugoslavia became just the second nation to win consecutive World Basketball Championships, again erasing a late deficit and defeating Argentina, 84-77, in overtime in Sunday's gold medal game at raucous Conseco Fieldhouse.
Yugoslavia's Dejan Bodiroga scored 18 of his 27 points in the fourth quarter and overtime, leading the comeback.
Yugoslavia won despite shooting under 38 percent (25-of-66) from the field, including 6-of-27 from the arc.
www.allsports.com /cgi-bin/showstory.cgi?story_id=34029   (813 words)

  
 Yugoslavia National Team List of Results - Introduction Page
Subsequently, Football Federation was founded in 1919, even though the first club had been founded in Subotica in 1901: FK Backa.
Yugoslavia had a comfortable 2:0 lead over rulling European and World champions, but within last 15 minutes Germans managed to come back and eliminate Yugoslavia in overtime.
They are separate countries, separate football associations, separate leagues, separate national teams.
www.rsssf.com /tablesj/joeg-intres-intro.html   (2571 words)

  
 The Building Industry Association of San Diego - Builder Magazine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Simmons’ 3,300 square-foot facility in Ramona also stocks and supplies various brands and sizes of tile, each featuring up to 300 colors, and sells them in as small an increment as one tile, rather than in larger amounts or sheets as is customary for distributors.
He also stocks all grout products and other materials associated with the mosaic from start to finish, although he does recommend that it be professionally installed.
Of all the artists and artisans we spoke with, Marinovic is truly the most closely associated with the notion of “artist” — although he stubbornly refuses to call himself one.
www.biasandiego.org /Magazine/sept04artisansfeature.htm   (4418 words)

  
 uefa.com
As a consequence, the Football Association of Yugoslavia (FSJ), after 83 years of existence, has been renamed the Football Association of Serbia and Montenegro (FSSCG).
The flag of the former Yugoslavia hanging outside the United Nations seat in New York will for the time being continue to represent the new country, allowing Serbia and Montenegro to keep wearing their traditional blue, white and red shirts with the old FSJ's symbols on.
The Yugoslav Football Association originally comprised Serbians, Croatians and Slovenians.
www.uefa.com /news/newsId=53489,printer.htmx   (470 words)

  
 Milosevic buys football tickets to avert protest
Nevertheless, Budimir Vujacic, the Yugoslav Football Association's technical director, believes that the war can be forgotten when the two teams clash in the European championship.
Yugoslavia's Mijatovic and Croatia's Suker, for example, were at Real Madrid together last season.
Even apart, Yugoslavia and Croatia are regarded as two of the most talented footballing nations in Europe.
www.telegraph.co.uk /htmlContent.jhtml?html=/archive/1999/08/14/wkos14.html   (849 words)

  
 Serbia Info News / Yugoslavia-Croatia football match postponed till August 18
Belgrade, March 24 (Tanjug) - A match between Yugoslavia and Croatia, within the eighth group qualifier for the European Football Championship 2000, that was to be played in Belgrade on March 27 has been rescheduled for August 18, the Union European Football Association (UEFA) said on Wednesday.
A qualifier match between Yugoslavia and Macedonia that was to be played in Belgrade on March 31, has been rescheduled for September 4.
The UEFA statement said that, "due to the unstable situation in Yugoslavia," it was still uncertain whether Macedonia and Ireland would play as planned, in Skopje, on March 27.
www.serbia-info.com /news/1999-03/24/10062.html   (118 words)

  
 SENAYAN About FAI
It is difficult to accommodate the popularity of football in Indonesia into a competition due to geographical situation, as a world's largest archipelago.
Meanwhile, the All Indonesian Football Federation / Football Association of Indonesia - Persatuan Sepakbola Seluruh Indonesia (PSSI) - was founded in Yogya also that year on Saturday, April 19, 1930.
Sometime earlier, an organization of Indonesian Football, called IVB (Indonesische Voetbal Bond) was born in Surabaya, but in Yogyakarta delegation from Surabaya decided to disperse IVB and then joined the new organization.
senayan.8k.com /About/aboutfai.htm   (1486 words)

  
 CNN/SI - World Soccer - Yugoslavia match with Ireland still on despite pressures - Wednesday June 02, 1999 09:48 PM
Ireland, which is not a NATO member, had repeatedly urged the European soccer authorities UEFA to cancel the game in recognition of Yugoslavia's atrocities against ethnic Albanians in Kosovo.
The Football Association of Ireland had already pledged to ban the Yugoslav flag and anthem from Dublin's Lansdowne Road stadium if the game went ahead, while the major soccer fans' organization had called for the public not to attend.
The Irish are currently in a four-way tie with Yugoslavia, Croatia and Macedonia in the championship's Group 8.
sportsillustrated.cnn.com /soccer/world/news/1999/06/02/yugoslavia_ban   (481 words)

  
 - Irish Football Grounds -   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The Football Association of Ireland has become one of the first National Associations to have their Club Licensing Manual accredited by UEFA.
The other National Associations who have had their Manuals accredited by UEFA are Macedonia, Georgia, Iceland, Lithuania, Poland, Russia and Serbia and Montenegro (formerly Yugoslavia).
The objective of the FAI Licensing assessments is to ensure that the same criteria apply equally to all clubs and to establish a relationship of trust between UEFA, the FAI, the eircom League and the clubs.
ifgrounds.com /licensing.html   (255 words)

  
 SENAYAN Indonesian football ... in English!
Tuesday, April 10, 2001 1:53 PM The international football body (FIFA) warned the Football Association of Indonesia (PSSI) about the unruly behavior of local sports fans when Indonesia hosted the 2002 World Cup Asia zone Group Nine qualifying match at Bung Karno Stadium in the Senayan sports complex on Sunday (4/8).
Saturday, April 7, 2001 2:18 PM Football Association of Indonesia (PSSI) Chairman Agum Gumelar has asked Bima Sakti and friends to 'drown' Maldives in their first 2002 World Cup qualifier on Sunday (4/8) at Bung Karno Main Stadium in Jakarta.
Monday, April 2, 2001 11:48 PM At least there are three clubs, Persebaya Surabaya, PSM Makassar, and Petrokimia Gresik have asked Football Association of Indonesia (FAI) not to postpone the second half of the league.
senayan.8k.com   (1445 words)

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