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	Slovak Football Association - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Slovak Football Association (SFZ) (Slovak: Slovenský futbalový zväz) is the governing body of football in Slovakia.
		It organises the Slovak football league and the Slovakia national football team.
		It originally became a member of FIFA in 1907, but disbanded after World War II because Czech and Slovak football competitions combined, and so did the national teams.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Slovak_Football_Association (121 words)

	Slovakia national football team - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Slovakia national football team is the national football team of Slovakia and is controlled by the Slovak Football Association.
		The team played 16 matches between 1939 and 1944, then it was disbanded after World War II, as the Czech and Slovak teams played together in the Czechoslovakia national football team.
		After Czechoslovakia broke up in 1992, the national team was reformed, playing its first match on October 14, 1992, a 1-0 victory against Lithuania at Vilnius.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Slovakia_national_football_team (175 words)

	CNNSI.com - Soccer - Slovak chief apologizes for racism vs. English - Monday October 14, 2002 02:45 PM
		Meanwhile, the president of the Slovak Football Association, Frantisek Laurinec, send a letter to the FA on Monday apologizing for the racist chants.
		BRATISLAVA (Reuters) -- Slovak police have detained eight England soccer fans on suspicion of attacking a police officer during a weekend of violence surrounding England's 2004 European championship qualifier.
		Slovak police said one officer had been attacked when he turned up to aid a security guard at a restaurant damaged by England fans.
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /soccer/news/2002/10/14/uefa_trouble (1559 words)

	ESPN.com - SOCCER - Personal letters to be sent to Heskey, Cole
		Slovak Football Association President Frantisek Laurinec apologized to English FA chairman Geoff Thompson, saying the racism was not representative of Slovak fans as a whole.
		"SFA apologizes for all the statements and behavior that negatively affected the atmosphere of this international match, and is prepared to cooperate actively in investigating the case."
		Slovak striker Szilard Nemeth, who plays for Middlesbrough in the premier league, has also apologized for the abuse.
	espn.go.com /soccer/news/2002/1014/1445848.html (656 words)

	The Slovak Spectator - Slovakia's English Language Newspaper
		It is unlikely that the Slovak squad could prepare a similar surprise for its fans in the foreseeable future, as Slovak soccer is not in very good shape and little seems to indicate that it will get better.
		Despite this popularity, professional Slovak footballers continue to struggle to achieve good results against foreign teams and are no more successful at attracting large audiences at home.
		Slovaks have gotten accustomed to the fact that the only Slovak you are likely to see on the football field during a top-level European match is a referee.
	www.slovakspectator.sk /clanok-16647.html (1082 words)

	rediff.com sports: Slovak soccer chief apologises for crowd racism
		Slovak Football Association President Frantisek Laurinec apologised to English FA chairman Geoff Thompson, saying the racism was not representative of Slovak fans as a whole.
		"SFA apologises for all the statements and behaviour that negatively affected the atmosphere of this international match, and is prepared to co-operate actively in investigating the case."
		Slovak striker Szilard Nemeth, who plays for Middlesbrough in the premier league, has also apologised for the abuse.
	www.rediff.com /sports/2002/oct/15foot.htm (665 words)

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		Almost all Czech football clubs involved in bribery says policeman Up to 14 of the 16 football clubs in the Czech first division have had some involvement with bribery, a police source told Friday's edition of the newspaper Mlada fronta Dnes.
		Teplice football club comes under investigation, as Synot are allowed to stay in first division Following earlier reports that investigations into corruption in the Czech league would intensify after Euro 2004, police have begun looking into allegations involving Teplice football club.
		Three more football referees arrested as unprecedented bribery scandal grows The police have arrested three more football referees in connection with a bribery scandal which is being described as the worst in the history of Czech football.
	www.blogger.com /email-post.g?blogID=6557789&postID=110960610127948364 (984 words)

	football unites
		The conference is being organised by European football's governing body, the English Football Association and the pan-European Football Against Racism (FARE) network, which has been given significant support by UEFA, including financial backing, since the network began its activities in 1999.
		Racism and xenophobia has been a cancer within football for many years, and there is widespread consensus that racist attitudes have a detrimental effect on the game at all levels, on and off the field of play.
		FARE is Football Against Racism in Europe, and their aim is to rid football of racism by combining the resources of anti-racist football organizations throughout Europe.
	www.footballsupporters.info /footunites/racism.htm (1242 words)

	FIFA.com The Official web site of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association
		Slovakian football was given a huge boost on 6 September 2003 when FIFA President Joseph S. Blatter officially opened the Slovak Football Association Technical Centre in Senec, the flagship of the world governing body's extensive Goal programme in the Eastern European nation.
		The association has also received support from the government for its initiatives in developing youth and grassroots football as well as the senior game.
		The FIFA President and his delegation concluded their visit with a private audience with President of the Slovak Republic, Rudolf Schuster, the first President to be elected by popular vote in 1999 and a well-known sports fan.
	www.fifa.com /en/print/article/0,4039,71936,00.html (555 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Football \| News \| Racism in football crowds
		It was later claimed that the English supporters were provoked by the Slovaks' racist chants.
		The Football Association lodged a formal protest with European football's governing body, Uefa, which could result in a ban on Slovak fans travelling to the return fixture in England in June or a fine.
		In response to criticism over its lenient response to racism, Uefa signalled its intent to take a tough line by moving to increase its own disciplinary panel's punishment of PSV Eindhoven, where Arsenal striker Thierry Henry was subjected to racist abuse.
	football.guardian.co.uk /comment/story/0,9753,815420,00.html (450 words)

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	www.skaffe.com /viewCat/2209 (533 words)

	The Telegraph - Calcutta
		Slovakia’s FA chief apologised on Monday to his English counterpart after Slovak fans yelled racist taunts at England’s fl players during their Euro 2004 qualifier last Saturday, reports Reuters from Bratislava.
		During the match that was also marred by violence between England supporters and police, part of the Slovak crowd shouted racist abuse when England players Ashley Cole and Emile Heskey touched the ball.
		Slovak Football Association president Frantisek Laurinec apologised to English FA chairman Geoff Thompson, saying the racism was not reresentative of Slovak fans as a whole.
	www.telegraphindia.com /1021015/asp/sports/story_1293361.asp (357 words)

	Kick It Out - Latest news
		Slovakian football clubs have responded to a call by the Slovakia National Football Association to kick racism out of the stadiums by taking a co-ordinated anti-racism stance ahead of the weekend matches.
		At a joint press conference with the NGO People Against Racism (Ludia Proto Razismu) and a FARE representative on Thursday in Bratislava the Slovak Football Association expressed its continued commitment to fight racism in football.
		He also said that the disciplinary action taken by UEFA had the positive effect that the Slovak football became active.
	www.kickitout.org /index.php?id=9&StoryID=1581 (235 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.
		As for September 2005, FIFA counts up 20 national football associations affiliated, New Caledonia was admited in 2004, during the FIFA Centenial celebrations, but the newest member are Comoros, and Timor-Leste [This is the official short-form name in English], which joined the football family during the 55
	flagspot.net /flags/int@fifa.html (779 words)

	London Calling
		In a press report the SFA condemned all racist chants and racist behaviour of Slovak fans and declared its intention to start an anti-racist campaign in co-operation with football clubs and schools.
		The SFA has admitted there were racist chants during the Euro 2004 qualifier in Bratislava, but they defend themselves stating that the racism was only a problem among a small group of local hooligans, rather than among all Slovak football fans.
		The general secretary of SFA, Dusan Titel, added, that he was surprised by all post-match talk of racism.
	www.londonclasswar.org /london_calling_2002.htm (8063 words)

	AMERICAN SLOVAK WORLD WIDE WEB
		The association's purpose is to display and nurture the cultivation of Slovak cultural and to preserve and pass on the traditions of their heritage.
		The association's specific purposes are to promote and preserve the Slovak language, heritage, cultural and civic activities through the dissemination of literature, music, history ideals and to implement scholarship grants.
		The American Slovak Cultural Association of the Mahoning Valley is pleased to announce the winners of its two $1,000.00, 1998 Scholarships, The Ervin J. Begalla Memorial Scholarship and The American Slovak Cultural Association Executive Committee Scholarship.
	www.iarelative.com /asca.htm (966 words)

	BBC Sport Academy \| Football \| Features \| Lowdown on Slovakia
		They were crowned world ice hockey champions in 2002, but unfortunately this football malarkey is played on grass.
		And the football coach has 5.4 million Slovaks to pick from.
		Football, volleyball, tennis are popular, but it's ice hockey and skiing that make them tick.
	news.bbc.co.uk /sportacademy/hi/sa/football/features/newsid_2303000/2303713.stm (242 words)

	When Saturday Comes - the half decent football magazine
		The Czech Football Association's official site is a better place to catch up on the latest stats, with limited parts of the site in English.
		There's a semi-useful, up-to-date English language site for Hungarian football stats at Wsoccer.com, although many of the links take you back to the home page and the site appears to be largely still under construction.
		One of the few worthwhile talking points in Austrian football of late has been the messing with club names to include their sponsors, and no club has been more totalnetworksolutioned than FC Superfund.
	www.wsc.co.uk /webroundup/web209.html (869 words)

	CNNSI.com - Soccer - World: UEFA bans Angulo, fines Milan and Roma - Wednesday December 18, 2002 04:22 PM
		AS Roma were fined 20,000 Swiss francs after their fans threw missiles during a 3-1 Group B defeat to Arsenal at the Olympic Stadium in the Champions League on November 27.
		BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) -- The Slovak Football Association said Wednesday it would appeal a decision by UEFA to fine the organization for racist chanting and crowd trouble during a Euro 2004 qualifier against England two months ago.
		In a statement sent to The Associated Press on Wednesday, the president of the Slovak association, Frantisek Laurinec, criticized the punishment and said the organization would appeal the verdict.
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /soccer/news/2002/12/18/int_rdp (867 words)

	Indymedia UK - London Calling - December (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The response of the coach of the Slovak national team Ladislav Jurkemik was “I couldn´t hear the racial chants, because I was fully concentrated at the game“.
		Most journalists and delegates of SFA were sure that their English counterparts made this into a problem bigger than it was.
		Souleyman Fall, a Spartak Trnava player from Senegal, in an interview about racism at football has admitted, that he has been racist abused, when there were fans, who came with bunches of bananas and the audience made loud monkey noises at the player throughout the game.
	www.indymedia.org.uk /en/2002/11/47694.html (2989 words)

	Kick It Out - Latest news
		The Slovak Football Association (SFZ) are to appeal against the fine imposed on them by UEFA earlier this week for racist abuse levelled by their fans at England players during a Euro 2004 qualifier in October.
		The £30,000 punishment for abuse directed at England's Emile Heskey and Ashley Cole during the match in Bratislava, was the second highest penalty ever handed out by UEFA for racist behaviour.
		Footballers want to win, but with respect and fairness.
	www.kickitout.org /index.php?id=9&StoryID=1987 (196 words)

	"Slovak Links" - The World's Largest Collection of Slovak-related Web Links!
		Slovak Academy Information Agency - Non-governmental, non-profit agency whose mission is to strengthen a civil society to assist in the development of
		Slovak Alphabet - An explanation of the Slovak alphabet.
		Slovak and Czech Studies - University of Washington.
	www.hosmanek.com /slovak/page8.htm (1243 words)

	RADIO FREE EUROPE/ RADIO LIBERTY
		This past weekend's match in Bratislava, where Slovak fans taunted fl England players, was only the latest in a series of recent matches marred by racist behavior.
		Michal Vasecka is a research fellow with the Slovak Institute for Public Affairs and an expert on issues of ethnicity and exclusion.
		The Slovak press, while focusing also on the poor behavior of the English supporters, has roundly condemned the actions of the spectators.
	www.rferl.org /features/2002/10/16102002161355.asp (848 words)

	football - Wiktionary
		(US) (American football) (uncountable) A game similar to rugby football in which two teams attempt to get an ovoid ball to the end of each other's territory.
		A game played on a wide field in which two teams attempt to get an ovoid ball to the end of each other's territory.
		(Australia) (uncountable) Term occasionally used to refer to the same game as the British definition (association football), though the official name in Australia is "soccer".
	en.wiktionary.org /wiki/Football (413 words)

	ESPN.com Soccernet Europe: News - Slovak soccer chief apologises for crowd racism
		'SFA apologises for all the statements and behaviour that negatively affected the atmosphere of this international match, and is prepared to cooperate actively in investigating the case.'
		Wiping out racism in soccer has risen to the top of the agenda of the sport's governing body in Europe UEFA after fl players have been the target of abuse in recent matches, particularly in ex-communist Europe.
		The Slovakian ambassador to London and the general secretary of the Slovakian FA met Football Association director of international affairs David Davies today in the wake of the problems in Bratislava.
	www.soccernet.com /europe/news/2002/1014/20021014slovakracism.html (686 words)

	Google bomb - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Created by the Smart Bitches, it is based on comments he made after a bill in the South Dakota State Legislature was passed that, if it stands up to the scrutiny of the United States Supreme Court, will ban abortion in that state.
		The SGAE is an extremely unpopular association in Spain since they successfully lobbied for the surcharges on the price of physical media such as recordable CDs in order to account for the theoretical losses due to P2P exchanges.
		Zlodej a klamar (Slovak for "thief and liar") - returned a personal profile on Slovak National Parliament pages of Vladimír Mečiar, controversial former Prime Minister of the Slovakia.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Googlebomb (4598 words)

	The Prague Post Online
		BRATISLAVA-Czechs and Slovaks acted out their rivalry in grand fashion during a World Cup qualifier marked by catcalls, flying debris and taunts by the Slovak goalkeeper.ĘSlovakia's national team defeated the Czechs 2-1 in the Aug. 24, match in Bratislava, keeping alive their hopes of qualifying for the 1998 World Cup in France.
		The Czechs reciprocated during the Slovak hymn, and then play began.ĘIn the 14th minute, a lapse in the Slovak defense allowed Vladimir Smicer to score for the Czechs.
		To the delight of many Slovaks, one policeman took matters into his own hands and began tearing Czech flags from the terrace fencing.
	www.praguepost.com /P02/pp.php/?id=26697&a=3 (715 words)

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