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Miljan Mrdaković
Miljan Mrdaković (, ; 6 May 1982 – 22 May 2020) was a Serbian professional footballer who played as a striker. A journeyman, he played for 20 clubs across ten countries and scored 150 goals in all competitions. He also represented Serbia at the 2008 Olympics. Club career Mrdaković was born in Niš, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. After starting out at Radnički Niš and Partizan he moved to Belgian club Anderlecht at the age of 16, playing for their youth and reserve teams before going on loan to fellow Belgian Pro League side Eendracht Aalst in early 2002. Subsequently, Mrdaković returned to his homeland and signed for OFK Beograd on a free transfer. He was his team's top scorer in the 2002–03 season and third overall with 20 league goals, and in August 2003 transferred back to Belgium by joining Gent on a four-year contract. He left by mutual agreement in April 2004, then spent a further one and a half years with OFK. In early 2005, Mrdaković signed w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eurosport
Eurosport is a group of pay television networks in Europe and parts of Asia, owned and operated by Warner Bros. Discovery through its WBD Sports unit, it operates two main channels—Eurosport 1 and Eurosport 2—across most of its territories, and streams on Max (streaming service), Max and Discovery+. Originally a joint venture between the European Broadcasting Union and Sky Television (1984–1990), Sky established in 1989, it was briefly shut down in 1991 following complaints by competitor Screensport. It was subsequently acquired by TF1 Group, and later merged with Screensport. For a period, it was a joint venture between TF1, Canal+ Group, and Havas Images. TF1 Group later bought out the other owners' shares. In 2012, Discovery, Inc., Discovery Communications began to take an ownership in Eurosport, eventually leading to a full buyout in 2015. Eurosport is the main rights holder of the Olympic Games in most of Europe, as well as, with some exceptions, the tennis Grand S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Enosis Neon Paralimni FC
Enosis Neon Paralimni Football Club (, ''Enosi Neon Paralimniou''; ), commonly referred to as ENP, is a Cyprus, Cypriot association football, football team from Paralimni. Currently playing in the Cypriot First Division, first division, it holds home games at the Paralimni Stadium, Paralimni Municipal Stadium "Tasos Marcou", which holds 5,800 people. History Enosis Neon Paralimniou was founded in April 1944, following the merger of two Paralimni clubs, Heracles and People's Love. The club's emblem is the Parthenon, with a trumpeter and the year 1936 inscription, birth year of the club Heracles. The only reason why founders decided to adopt the year 1936 as the new club's birth year instead of the year 1944 has purely to do with Heracles official papers. On those, it was clear that whenever the club's members decided to cease its operations, all of its assets (movable and immovable property) would go straight to the Cypriot Orthodox Church, Church. In view of that and in order to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Football At The 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's Tournament
The men's football tournament at the 2008 Summer Olympics was held in Beijing and four other cities in the People's Republic of China from 7 to 23 August. Associations affiliated with FIFA were invited to enter their men's under-23 teams in regional qualifying competitions, from which 15 teams, plus the host nation, reached the final tournament. Men's teams were allowed to augment their squads with up to three players over the age of 23. For these Games, the men competed in a 16-team tournament. Preliminary matches commenced on 7 August, the day before the Games' opening ceremony. The teams were grouped into four pools of four teams each for a round-robin preliminary round. The top two teams in each pool advanced to an eight-team single-elimination bracket. The tournament was won by Argentina, who beat Nigeria 1–0 in the final, as part of a record streak of 12 consecutive wins in football competitions at the Summer Olympics (six wins in 2004, six wins in 2008). Despite th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Journeyman (sports)
In American English, a journeyman or journeywoman is an athlete who is technically competent but unable to excel. The term is used elsewhere (such as in American English, American, British English, British and Australian English, Australian contexts) to refer to a professional sportsman who plays for numerous clubs during his career. In Britain, the term is also used derogatorily, along with ''mercenary'', to refer to players who join various affluent clubs purely in search of higher contractual payouts rather than to further their career; usually clubs which they would likely never join otherwise. American English Journeymen often make up a significant part of the roster of even the richest clubs because of the difficulty of guaranteeing all of their star players sufficient playing time and restrictions on a team's payroll (salary cap or financial penalties for overspending). This is especially true in the context of baseball, where journeymen often make up large parts of a team' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Striker (association Football)
In the sport of association football, a forward (attacker or striker) is an outfield position which primarily plays further up the pitch than midfielders and defenders. As with any attacking player, the role of the forward relies heavily on being able to create space for attack. Their advanced position and limited defensive responsibilities mean forwards normally score more goals on behalf of their team than other players. Attacking positions generally favour direct players who take on the defense of the opponent in order to create scoring chances, where they benefit from a lack of predictability in attacking play. Modern team formations normally include one to three forwards. For example, the common 4–2–3–1 includes one forward. Less conventional formations may include more than three forwards, or sometimes none. Centre-forward The traditional shirt for centre-forwards is number 9. The traditional role is to score the majority of goals on behalf of the team. If t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Association Football
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 Football player, players who almost exclusively use their feet to propel a Ball (association football), ball around a rectangular field called a Football pitch, pitch. The objective of the game is to Scoring in association football, score more goals than the opposing team by moving the ball beyond the goal line into a rectangular-framed Goal (sport), goal defended by the opposing team. Traditionally, the game has been played over two 45-minute halves, for a total match time of 90 minutes. With an estimated 250 million players active in over 200 countries and territories, it is the world's most popular sport. Association football is played in accordance with the Laws of the Game (association football), Laws of the Game, a set of rules that has been in effect since 1863 and maintained by the International Football Association Board, IFAB since 1886. The game is pla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Overage Players In Olympic Football
Since the Football at the 1992 Summer Olympics, 1992 tournament, male squads have been required to consist of players under 23 years old; since the Football at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament, 1996 tournament, a maximum of three players over the age of 23 have been allowed per squad. This is a list of all-time overage players (also known as Wild card (sports), wild card players in some countries) in Football at the Summer Olympics, Olympic football since the Football at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament, 1996 tournament. Overage players rules in Olympic football have influenced other competitions like Football at the Asian Games, Asian Games football, Football at the Pan American Games, Pan American Games football, and Football at the African Games, African Games football. Africa (CAF) Algeria Overage players of Algeria national under-23 football team Cameroon Overage players of Cameroon national under-23 football team Egypt Overage players ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Serbia National Under-21 Football Team
The Serbia national under-21 football team is the national under-21 football team of Serbia and is controlled by the Football Association of Serbia. Both FIFA and UEFA consider the Serbia national team to be the direct and sole successor of the Yugoslavia under-21 and Serbia and Montenegro under-21 national teams.Serbia at official website History Serbia's under-21 national team qualified for the held in the Netherlands, in June 2007, after ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Serbia National Under-19 Football Team
The Serbia national under-19 football team () is the national under-19 football team of Serbia and is controlled by the Football Association of Serbia. The team is considered the successor to the Serbia and Montenegro national under-19 football team, which in turn was the successor to the Yugoslavia national under-19 football team. Serbia won their first U19 title as independent country at the 2013 UEFA European Under-19 Championship, where they beat France in the final 1–0. History The Yugoslav U18 team represented the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia until the country dissolved in 1992. From 1995, the under-18 team represented the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. The FR Yugoslavia (and the team) changed its name to Serbia and Montenegro in 2003. In 2006, Serbia and Montenegro separated and its governing body converted into the Football Association of Serbia. Competition history Their first international competition was on the 1951 FIFA Youth Tournament Under- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
FK Rad
FK Rad () is a football club based in Banjica, Belgrade, Serbia. They compete in the Belgrade Zone League, the fourth tier of the national league system. Founded in 1958, the club spent a total of 30 seasons in the top flight between 1987 and 2021, including five seasons in the Yugoslav First League, 12 seasons in the First League of Serbia and Montenegro, and 13 seasons in the Serbian SuperLiga. History The club was founded on 10 March 1958 by GP Rad, a local construction company. They acquired the league rights from FK Razvitak, a small club based in Banjica, going on to compete in the local leagues of Belgrade until the early 1970s. The club earned promotion to the Yugoslav Second League in 1973, spending the next 14 seasons in the second tier of Yugoslav football. They also reached the 1981–82 Yugoslav Cup quarter-finals, losing to Dinamo Zagreb. In the 1986–87 Yugoslav Second League, the club became champions in Group East and took promotion to the Yugoslav First L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
FK Vojvodina
Fudbalski klub Vojvodina ( sr-Cyrl, Фудбалски клуб Војводина), commonly known as Vojvodina and colloquially as Voša ( sr-Cyrl, Воша), is a Serbian professional football club based in Novi Sad, Serbia, the second largest city in Serbia, and one of the most popular clubs in the country. The club is the major part of the SD Vojvodina, Vojvodina multi-sport club and currently the third oldest football club in the Serbian SuperLiga and the most successful football club in Serbia next to the rivals Red Star Belgrade, Crvena zvezda and FK Partizan, Partizan. In its long history, Vojvodina were one of the most successful clubs in the former Yugoslavia, winning two Yugoslav First League, First League titles, in 1965–66 Yugoslav First League, 1966 and 1988–89 Yugoslav First League, 1989, were runners-up in 1956–57 Yugoslav First League, 1957, 1961–62 Yugoslav First League, 1962 and 1974–75 Yugoslav First League, 1975, achieved 3rd place in 1991–92 Yu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
