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  Football (soccer) Info - Bored Net - Boredom   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
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 schoolss 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").
www.borednet.com /e/n/encyclopedia/f/fo/football__soccer_.html   (1843 words)

  
 Ireland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Irish Football Association (IFA) was originally the governing body for football (soccer) throughout the island.
Football was being played in Ireland since the 1860s (Cliftonville F.C. Belfast being the oldest club on the island), but remained a minority sport outside of Ulster until the 1880s.
Despite the new organisation being initially fllisted by the Home Nations' football associations, the Association was recognised by FIFA in 1923 and organised its first international fixture in 1926 (against Italy in Turin).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ireland   (6902 words)

  
 Football (soccer) around the world - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Most European countries have two principal football (soccer) competitions: a more prestigious league which is typically a double round-robin tournament restricted to the elite clubs, and a cup which is a single-elimination tournament open to both the elite and lesser clubs.
In Latin America, leagues are often organised as multi-stage tournaments, or separate Apertura and Clausura stages.
For overviews of women's football see "Women's football around the world".
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Football_(soccer)_around_the_world   (118 words)

  
 trophys
The Calcutta football club which had been started by former students of rugby school 4 years earlier had been wound up and the remaining rupees in the club's funds were melted down to be re-worked into the trophy.
Those teams lift for the occasion, and bring thousands of supporters with them to the challenge venue to parade their colours.
The finials of the five challenging teams are kept in a hidden drawer in the plinth throughout the Championship.
www.rugbyfootballhistory.com /trophys.htm   (1674 words)

  
 The Eastern League
The Champions League is a rich man's club, complain football teams from nine south and east European countries.
Steaua and Rapid from Romania, The Turkish Galatasaray Istanbul and Besiktas PAOK Salonic of Greece, the Serbian Steaua and Partizan Belgrade, Hajduk Split from Croatia, the Cyrpiot Apoel Nicosia, Maribor from Slovenia, the Bulgarian teams TSKA Sofia and Levski Sofia and the Ukrainian contributions of Shakhtor Donestk and Dinamo Kiev.
Football teams in the former communist countries realize that it is either big time or no time at all.
samvak.tripod.com /brief-football01.html   (1016 words)

  
 BUCHAREST DAILY NEWS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
The president of the Professional Football League, Dumitru Dragomir, expressed his intention to ask the government to reschedule the debts that football clubs in the first division (Divizia A) of the Romanian championship have to the state.
He said that at least ten clubs would go bankrupt if their debts to the state are not rescheduled, since all of the teams have debts and no money to pay them.
The Minister of Finance, Ionut Popescu, said that the state is not interested in the risk of not having enough teams for the start of the 2005-2006 championship, adding that those who did not pay their debts should have thought about this before.
www.daily-news.ro /print_preview.php?idarticle=7439   (182 words)

  
 Tottenham Hotspur FC History, Players, Team, Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
They are one of only three teams to win the FA Cup in consecutive years since the end of the 19th century, the others being Arsenal and Newcastle United and the only team to have done so on two occasions.
Blanchflower, the club captain, later had a spell as Chelsea team manager and was later a football writer until his death in 1993 at the age of 67.
But a League Cup final losing appearance in the 2001-02 season was as good as it got for Tottenham under Hoddle, and he was sacked in September 2003 after two-and-a-half years in charge.
www.123football.com /clubs/england/tottenham-hotspur/index.htm   (1294 words)

  
 K.League First Stage Review 2006 :: Soccerphile.com
When SK Corporation suddenly moved the team from Bucheon to the southern island, it was not expected that the ever dwindling number of new fans would witness defeat after defeat as the team spent most of the time rooted to the bottom of the league.
Like the winners, the south-eastern team also lost their striker as Lee Dong-guk went down injured and out of the World Cup but even then the Steelers were a distant second to Seongnam.
The star-studded team may be rueing decisions to let Hyun Yong-min and Kim Jung-woo go to Russia and Japan respectively as the team is a shadow of the one that stormed to the title last season.
www.soccerphile.com /soccerphile/news/korean-soccer/1st-stage-review-2006.html   (1210 words)

  
 Romanian Football Federation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Romanian Football Federation (FRF) (Romanian: Federaţia Română de Fotbal) is the governing body of football in Romania.
It organizes the football league, the Romanian Football League, and the Romania national football team.
This article about a football-related organization is a stub.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Romanian_Football_Federation   (82 words)

  
 USA Football - Health & Safety - Conditioning - 9 Training Exercises To Make You Stronger For Next Season
One great thing about football is the long off-season, which gives you time to prepare your body for the next season.
Athletes who play a single sport all year long-on club teams and school teams, and on the playground-are often overworked and not physically well-rounded.
If you only play football, when the season ends you should consider a strength and conditioning plan to prepare your body for the next season.
www.usafootball.com /articles/17-health-safety/85-conditioning/179-9-training-exercises-to-make-you-stronger-for-next-season.php   (1678 words)

  
 Sports Betting Information : Football : Belgium : First Division 2006/2007
Football is the most popular sport in Belgium and the Royal Belgian Football Association is the largest sports federation in the country.
Each year the team with the worst record is relegated and replaced by the champion of the Belgian Second Division.
If two teams are tied in points and wins and they are involved in battles for the title or Europe, or against relegation, a two-legged tie will be played to determine their final ranking.
www.betinf.com /belgium.htm   (673 words)

  
 Central Europe Review - Romanian News Round-up
Members of the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) team, together with representatives of the International Commission on the Protection of the Danube, are to carry out an investigation into the possible pollution of the River Danube by the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia.
Minority issues continue to pervade all aspects of Romanian life and are often to be found just beneath the surface of what seem to be normal everyday happenings - such as football.
The Romanian media reported on 24 August that Mitreu had written to Roman to apologise for his anti-Semitic remark but suggested that it had been taken out of context.
www.ce-review.org /99/10/romanianews10.html   (2264 words)

  
 Football BG | Bulgarian Football News
All three Bulgarian participants in the UEFA Cup are looking with a moderate optimism at their chances to reach the new group stage of the revised UEFA Cup tournament.
The Romanian side has lost some of its glamour from the mid and late 80s, but will certainly be a challanging opponent.
The two teams last met in a 1997 Champions League qualifier where Steaua prevailed after a 3:3 goal thriller at home followed by a convincing 2:0 away victory in Sofia.
www.footballbg.net /news/EpAuZZylEVigsxRZVX.html   (290 words)

  
 Sports Betting Information : Football : Italy : Serie A 2005/2006
The teams play a total of 380 matches in a season, with three points awarded for a victory and one for a draw.
According to the final standings, the first two teams enter the group phase of the UEFA Champions League, while the third and fourth have to go through qualifying rounds to enter the competition.
The bottom three teams in Serie A are relegated to the Italian Second Division, Serie B. The Serie B champions and the runners-up are promoted directly, while the third promoted team is determined by a play-off between the four teams finishing from third through sixth place.
www.betinf.com /italy.htm   (809 words)

  
 Central Europe Review - Romanian News Review
The occasion was used to highlight the fact that the Romanian Penal Code Articles 205 and 206, which dispense imprisonment for libel and slander, are being increasingly used against journalists.
Environmental Agency teams have managed to prevent the pollutants from escaping into the Crisul Negru and downstream to Hungary.
On Friday, chief prosecutor Mircea Criste said that the French had asked for help from Romania in their investigations of Romanian born businessman Adrian Costea in connection with laundering USD 100 million between 1992 and 1996.
www.ce-review.org /00/18/romanianews18.html   (1611 words)

  
 IranFootballCenter Forums - IFC Exclusive Interview with Vahid Hashemian
At that time we had a good team as well and as you know I left the team during the WCQ because of differences I had with the IFF.
Moreover the Pro League in Iran has improved greatly since the last four years and as a result of this improvement the players in the league have improved as well.
All of the teams participating in the finals next year had to face strong sides from their continents in order to reach the finals and they all deserve to be there.
www.iranfootballcenter.com /forum/printthread.php?t=1177   (2121 words)

  
 Human Rights are your rights too
Valentin Alexandru from the Romanian Football League declared that there is no racism in the stadiums and that “them, the Roma, are a shame for our country”.
Cristi Bivolaru, the head of international relations at the Romanian Football Federation (FRF) and an observer for the European football authority UEFA, stated: “The English had two crows[3] in their team and the spectators in the stadium made crow sounds.
The Romanian Football League, lead by Dumitru Dragomir, who is member of the extremist party Romania Mare and was investigated for owning an anti-Semitic publication, once again sent Valentin Alexandru to the game as observer.
www.romanetwork.org /Football.html   (947 words)

  
 Washingtonpost.com: UEFA Champions League
Goals from Argentine striker Claudio Lopez and reserve team midfielder Roberto Baronio gave Lazio their eighth win in 11 matches in all competitions since Dino Zoff took over as coach in early January.
The Belgian league leaders equalised five minutes after the interval through a fine right foot shot from Romanian midfielder Alin Stoica, who came on at the end of the first half for injured Czech striker Jan Koller.
The match appeared to be petering towards a draw until Baronio scored his first goal in the competition with a slightly fortunate strike in the 77th minute.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/sports/soccer/longterm/2000/uefa/champleague/secondphase/report57.htm   (388 words)

  
 Football - Vieira gunning for old friends - Eurosport
Vieira, who won three Premier League titles and four FA Cups in a nine-year career with Arsenal, will be back in north London for the quarter-final first leg after joining Juve last year.
In a further twist, one of the 29-year-old's main tasks in what should be a pulsating encounter will be to stop the man who replaced him as Arsenal's captain, Thierry Henry.
Having won the World Cup and Euro 2000 together for France and jointly steered Arsenal to the top of English football, Vieira's job will be to cut off the supply lines to the Premier League's most successful striker over the past four years.
www.eurosport.com /football/uefa-champions-league/2005-2006/sport_sto857459.shtml   (672 words)

  
 BBC SPORT | Football | Champions League | Bellamy faces head-butt charge
If European football's governing body feels that there is a case, the evidence will be put before a disciplinary committee on 10 October for investigation.
The day is also the date set for the Worthington Football Awards Presentation Evening in Cardiff, with Bellamy among those in contention for the player of the year award.
Newcastle were involved in a physical clash in the Olimpiyskyi Stadium on Wednesday, with Newcastle striker Alan Shearer having to leave the field early to have a head wound seen to.
news.bbc.co.uk /sport2/hi/football/champions_league/2271006.stm   (261 words)

  
 K.League Team Preview 2006 :: Soccerphile.com
Jeju FC One month ago, this team was known as Bucheon SK until the company suddenly moved the club to the southern island.
Classy Romanian striker Adrain Naega showed enough to suggest that he could be a real star in the K-League before injuries interfered and the team – usually, one striving for the play-offs – sank like a stone.
The team is solid but lacks inspiration and with national team striker Lee Dong-gook openly admitting that he is looking for a new challenge, the signing of national team squad striker Choi Tae-wook for Japan’s Shimizu S-Pulse doesn’t seem quite as exciting.
www.soccerphile.com /soccerphile/news/korean-soccer/preview-2006.html   (1324 words)

  
 superliga news - april 2004
There was a pitch invasion at the end of the game, and the team coach was stoned, presumably by Vitória supporters.
Porto became mathematical champions and the team celebrated in their hotel ahead of their game against Alverca Sunday.
The top three teams all won, FC Porto and Benfica with some difficulty, Sporting at a canter against bottom club Estrela da Amadora.
www.footballportugal.com.pt /_news_/superliga_news_-_april_2004_/superliga_news_-_april_2004_.html   (2990 words)

  
 Persian Football News
The Iranian team, one of Asia’s top sides and currently 22nd in the Fifa world rankings, have also found them themselves suffering from the fall-out of their hardline government’s worsening relationship with the West.
The Iranian Football Federation had raised the possibility of Ahmadinejad travelling to Germany to support the national team at the June 9-July 9 finals — although this idea was quickly killed off.
That came after both Romania and Ukraine refused to travel to Tehran — with Romanian Foreign Minister Razvan Ungureanu warning of the “risks” involved — and a deal to bring Argentina over also fell through even though Iran was ready to pay the huge appearance fee.
www.persianfootball.com /pfdcnews20060521593306600044.htm   (600 words)

  
 Footballclips.net   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
He was the cream of the top in the 90's and nowadays he continues to play at the same level.
He is certainly included in the "Hall of Fame" of his team.
He was promoted in the 1st team and from that moment since he proved to be one of the best No. 7 in the world.
www.footballclips.net /node/feed?page=9   (894 words)

  
 uefa.com - Football Europe   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
FC Steaua Bucuresti are the only Romanian club to have triumphed in Europe, winning the UEFA European Champion Clubs' Cup in 1986 2-0 on penalties against FC Barcelona.
With eleven places left in the UEFA Champions League group stage, 22 teams will be in action tonight hoping to join the big names in Thursday evening's draw.
The final lineup for the UEFA Champions League group stage will be decided this week while pride will be at stake in the UEFA Cup and the UEFA Super Cup.
www.uefa.com /footballEurope/Club=50065/competition=14/news/index.html   (374 words)

  
 ESPN.com Soccernet Europe: News - Nantes treble chasers say league is the priority
They travel to face the amateurs of Carcassonne in the French Cup round of 16 on Saturday, in their quest to become only the third side in their country's football history to win the trophy three years in a row.
Olympique Lyon, triple Cup winners and chasing success in the Champions League as well as all three domestic trophies, are away to Fontenay-le-Comte, who play in a regional fourth division.
There is a history of lower league teams doing well in the French Cup.
www.soccernet.com /europe/news/2001/0308/20010308nantesleague.html   (451 words)

  
 uefa.com - Football Europe - News & Features - News Specific   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
The Romanian season restart has been postponed by a week due to bad weather and the poor state of many of the top-flight clubs' pitches.
The Romanian Professional Football League (comprising the 16 First Division teams) took the decision to reschedule the first week of the spring campaign for 11/12/13 March, from the original dates of 4/5/6 March, after more wintry conditions were forecast for the week ahead.
Romania's national team coach Victor Piturca said: "It's the third year running that, because of bad weather and bad pitches, the second part of the championship has been put back a week."
www.uefa.com /FootballEurope/news/Kind=2/newsId=284416.html   (120 words)

  
 Ivy League Sports
The Ivy League representatives made the most of their time in Greece, however, collecting a total of eight medals including two gold in their two weeks in Athens.
But the Romanians were able to overtake the U.S. before the 1,500-meter mark and would claim the victory in 6:17.70 with the U.S. squad finishing a close second in 6:19.56 for the silver.
The only Ivy League women to earn a medal in the eight before were Anne Warner (Yale) and Marion Greig (Cornell), who claimed bronze together in Montreal in 1976.
www.ivyleaguesports.com /article.asp?intID=3595   (923 words)

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