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2018 UEFA European Under-19 Championship Qualification
The 2018 UEFA European Under-19 Championship qualifying competition was a men's under-19 football competition that determined the seven teams joining the automatically qualified hosts Finland in the 2018 UEFA European Under-19 Championship final tournament. Apart from Finland, all remaining 54 UEFA member national teams entered the qualifying competition (including Kosovo who entered for the first time). Players born on or after 1 January 1999 were eligible to participate. Format The qualifying competition consisted of two rounds: *Qualifying round: Apart from Spain and Portugal, which received byes to the elite round as the teams with the highest seeding coefficient, the remaining 52 teams were drawn into 13 groups of four teams. Each group was played in single round-robin format at one of the teams selected as hosts after the draw. The 13 group winners and the 13 runners-up advanced to the elite round. *Elite round: The 28 teams were drawn into seven groups of four teams. Each gr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erling Haaland
Erling Braut Haaland (, ; born 21 July 2000) is a Norwegian professional Association football, footballer who plays as a Striker (association football), striker for club Manchester City F.C., Manchester City and the Norway national football team, Norway national team. Considered one of the best players in the world, he is known for his speed, strength, positioning, and finishing Penalty area, inside the box. In his 2022–23 Premier League, debut Premier League season, Haaland broke the record for the most goals scored by a player in a single season, with 36. Coming through the youth system, Haaland played for Norwegian sides Bryne FK, Bryne and Molde FK, Molde, before relocating to Austria with FC Red Bull Salzburg, Red Bull Salzburg in January 2019. His performances there earned him a move to Bundesliga club Borussia Dortmund, where he won the DFB-Pokal in 2021 DFB-Pokal final, 2021. In the summer of 2022, he transferred to Manchester City for a fee of €60 million (£5 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2014 UEFA European Under-19 Championship Elite Round
The 2014 UEFA European Under-19 Championship elite round was the second round of qualification for the 2014 UEFA European Under-19 Championship final tournament. The 27 teams advancing from the first qualification round plus Spain, who received a bye to the elite round, were distributed into seven groups of four teams, with one of the teams in each group hosting all six matches in a round-robin format. The seven group-winning teams qualified automatically for the final tournament in Hungary. Seeding The draw for the elite round was held at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, on 28 November 2013. Each team was placed in one of four drawing pots, according to their qualifying round results. The seven sides with the best records were seeded in Pot A, and so forth until Pot D, which contained the seven teams with the weakest records. During the draw, each group was filled with one team from every pot, taking into account that teams that played each other in the first qualifying round co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Football Federation Of Armenia
The Football Federation of Armenia (FFA) (, ''Hayastani Futboli Federats’ia'') is the governing body of association football in Armenia. Its headquarters are located in Yerevan. The Federation organizes the Armenian Premier League, the Armenian First League, the Armenian Super Cup, the Armenian Independence Cup, and the Armenian Futsal Premier League. It is responsible for appointing the management of the Armenia national football team, and the Armenia women's national football team. The Armenia national futsal team is also managed by the Federation. The FFA was awarded a synthetic football turf pitch by FIFA through its GOAL programme. History Armenia's official football history began in the early 1990s, but its traditions with the sport dates back further. The collapse of the Soviet Union and Armenia's declaration of independence in 1991 were significant moments in the country's sporting development, as well as in its political history. From a footballing perspective, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rovinj
Rovinj (; Venetian and ; Istriot: or ; ; ) is a city in west Croatia situated on the north Adriatic Sea with a population of 14,294 (2011). Located on the western coast of the Istrian peninsula, it is a popular tourist resort and beach destination, in addition to being an active fishing port. Istriot, a Romance language once widely spoken in this part of Istria, is still spoken by some of the residents. The town is officially bilingual, Croatian and Italian, hence both town names are official and equal. History Rovinj was already a settlement of Venetian or Illyrian tribes before being captured by the Romans, who called it ''Arupinium'' or ''Mons Rubineus'', and later ''Ruginium'' and ''Ruvinium''. Rovinj was eventually incorporated into the Byzantine Empire, later becoming part of the Exarchate of Ravenna in the 6th century, before being taken over by the Frankish Empire in 788. For the following several centuries it was ruled by a succession of feudal lords, and in 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stadion Valbruna
Stadion (Greek , Latin ''stadium'', nominative plural ''stadia'' in both Greek and Latin) may refer to: People * Christoph von Stadion (1478–1543), Prince-Bishop of Augsburg * Johann Philipp Stadion, Count von Warthausen (1763–1824), Austrian statesman * Franz Stadion, Count von Warthausen (1806–1853), Austrian statesman, son of the previous * Franz Konrad von Stadion und Thannhausen (1679–1757), Prince-Bishop of Bamberg * Philipp von Stadion und Thannhausen (1799–1868), Austrian field marshal Stadiums * Stadion Lohmühle, a multi-use stadium in Lübeck, Germany * Stockholm Olympic Stadium, commonly referred to as "Stadion," a stadium in Stockholm, Sweden * Eleda Stadion, the home ground of Malmö FF since 2010, is commonly referred to as "Stadion". Train stations * Stadion metro station, a metro station in Stockholm, Sweden * Stadion (Vienna U-Bahn), a metro station in Vienna, Austria Other * ''Stadion'' (journal), a multilingual academic journal covering the histor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Darko Nejašmić
Darko Nejašmić (born 25 January 1999) is a Croatian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for UAE Pro League club Sharjah. Club career Born in Split, Nejašmić represented the academy of local Adriatic Split as a youth, before moving on to the youth team of Hajduk Split. In 2017, he was promoted to the reserve team and played regularly during the season. On 20 September 2017, he made his first team debut, coming on as a substitute for Josip Radošević in a 3–0 victory over Oriolik in Croatian Cup. On 18 June 2018, Nejašmić was promoted to the senior team and signed his first professional contract. He made his league debut on 1 December, playing the whole ninety minutes of a 4–1 victory over Rudeš. On 6 May 2022, Osijek signed him permanently on a three-year contract. On 6 September 2024, Nejašmić joined UAE Pro League club Sharjah on a two-year contract. International career On 2 October 2018, Nejašmić was called to the under-21 national team fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sandro Kulenović
Sandro Kulenović (; born 4 December 1999) is a Croatian professional footballer who plays as a striker for Dinamo Zagreb. Club career Kulenović was born in Zagreb in 1999. His father Almin Kulenović, who hails from Bihać, is a former Bosnian international who has seven caps for Bosnia and Herzegovina. His mother Tajana () is the daughter of Croatian musician Franjo "Nano" Prša. Kulenović joined the academy of Dinamo Zagreb in 2008. During the 2015–16 season, he played 27 times for the reserves, scoring 22 goals and adding 11 assists. On 7 June 2016, he moved abroad and joined the academy of Polish club Legia Warsaw on a three-year contract. On 22 July 2017, he was loaned out to the youth team of Italian club Juventus, but returned to his parent club in the following June. On 10 July 2018, Kulenović made his first team debut, playing the last nine minutes of a 1–0 victory over Irish club Cork City in the UEFA Champions League. On 22 August, he signed a three-year co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tiebreakers
In games and sport, a tiebreaker or tiebreak is any method used to determine a winner or to rank participants when there is a tie - meaning two or more parties have achieved a same score or result. A tiebreaker provides the additional criterion or set of criteria to distinguish between the tied participants and establish a clear ranking or winner. In some sports, it is known as a countback. General operation In matches In some situations, the tiebreaker may consist of another round of play. For example, if contestants are tied at the end of a quiz game, they each might be asked one or more extra questions, and whoever correctly answers the most from that extra set is the winner. In many sports, teams that are tied at the end of a match compete in an additional period of play called "overtime" or "extra time". The extra round may also not follow the regular format, e.g. a tiebreak in tennis or a penalty shootout in association football. In the '' Super Smash Bros.'' series of pl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Central European Summer Time
Central European Summer Time (CEST, UTC+02:00), sometimes referred to as Central European Daylight Time (CEDT), is the standard clock time observed during the period of summer daylight-saving in those European countries which observe Central European Time (CET; UTC+01:00) during the other part of the year. It corresponds to UTC+02:00, which makes it the same as Eastern European Time, Central Africa Time, South African Standard Time, Egypt Standard Time and Kaliningrad Time in Russia. Names Other names which have been applied to Central European Summer Time are Middle European Summer Time (MEST), Central European Daylight Saving Time (CEDT), and Bravo Time (after the second letter of the NATO phonetic alphabet). Period of observation Since 1996, European Summer Time has been observed between 01:00 UTC (02:00 CET and 03:00 CEST) on the last Sunday of March, and 01:00 UTC on the last Sunday of October; previously the rules were not uniform across the European Union. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
FIFA International Match Calendar
The FIFA International Match Calendar (sometimes abbreviated as the FIFA Calendar) is an outline agreement between FIFA, the six continental football confederations, the European Club Association, and FIFPro, which sets out which dates can be used for "official" and "Exhibition game#Association football, friendly" international matches. Individual periods of these dates are commonly referred to as "international breaks". The current dates are within five windows: in March, June, September, October, and November. The match calendar also determines when international competitions such as the AFC Asian Cup, Africa Cup of Nations, Copa América, CONCACAF Gold Cup, OFC Nations Cup, UEFA European Championship, FIFA World Cup, and the Summer Olympic Games, Summer Olympics can take place. Official matches have a release period of four days, which means that players can take up to four days away from club duties to partake in national team duties. If a player participates in an official ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elite Round
In political and sociological theory, the elite (, from , to select or to sort out) are a small group of powerful or wealthy people who hold a disproportionate amount of wealth, privilege, political power, or skill in a group. Defined by the ''Cambridge Dictionary'', the "elite" are "the richest, most powerful, best-educated, or best-trained group in a society". American sociologist C. Wright Mills states that members of the elite accept their fellows' position of importance in society. "As a rule, 'they accept one another, understand one another, marry one another, tend to work, and to think, if not together at least alike'." It is a well-regulated existence where education plays a critical role. Plantations As European settlers began to colonize the Americas in the 16th and 17th centuries, they quickly realized the economic potential of growing cash crops which were in high demand in Europe. Owned by the planter class, plantations, large-scale farms where large numbers of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2016 UEFA European Under-19 Championship Qualification
The 2016 UEFA European Under-19 Championship qualification was a men's under-19 football competition organised by UEFA to determine the seven national teams joining the automatically qualified hosts Germany in the 2016 UEFA European Under-19 Championship final tournament. A total of 53 national teams entered this qualifying competition, which was played in two rounds between September 2015 and March 2016. Players born on or after 1 January 1997 were eligible to participate. Format The qualifying competition consisted of two rounds: *Qualifying round: Apart from Spain, which received a bye to the elite round as the team with the highest seeding coefficient, the remaining 52 teams were drawn into 13 groups of four teams. Each group was played in single round-robin format at one of the teams selected as hosts after the draw. The 13 group winners, the 13 runners-up, and the third-placed team with the best record against the first- and second-placed teams in its group advanced to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
