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Félix Balyu
Félix Balyu (5 August 1891 – 15 January 1971) was a Belgian footballer who played as a goalkeeper for Club Brugge and US Tourquennoise. He he represented the Belgium national team at the 1920 Olympic Games in Antwerp, winning a gold medal. Club career Balyu began his football career in the youth ranks of Club Brugge in 1908, aged 17, making his senior debut in 1911. He helped the club reach the 1914 Belgian Cup final at Stade du Vivier d'Oie, which ended in a 2–1 loss to Royale Union Saint-Gilloise. Balyu played a crucial role in helping Brugge win its first-ever Belgian Championship in 1919–20, scoring 23 goals. He stayed loyal to the club for over a decade until 1923, when he left for FC Rouen. In 1925, he moved to US Tourquennoise, where he was also in charge of training young people. In 1928, the French newspaper L'Auto described the 37-year-old Balyu as "the oldest player in France". International career In early 1915, Balyu, together with a small group of Belgi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liège
Liège ( ; ; ; ; ) is a City status in Belgium, city and Municipalities in Belgium, municipality of Wallonia, and the capital of the Liège Province, province of Liège, Belgium. The city is situated in the valley of the Meuse, in the east of Belgium, not far from borders with the Netherlands (Maastricht is about to the north) and with Germany (Aachen is about north-east). In Liège, the Meuse meets the river Ourthe. The city is part of the ''sillon industriel'', the former industrial backbone of Wallonia. It still is the principal economic and cultural centre of the region. The municipality consists of the following Deelgemeente, sub-municipalities: Angleur, Bressoux, Chênée, Glain, Grivegnée, Jupille-sur-Meuse, Liège proper, Rocourt, Liège, Rocourt, and Wandre. In November 2012, Liège had 198,280 inhabitants. The metropolitan area, including the outer commuter zone, covers an area of 1,879 km2 (725 sq mi) and had a total population of 749,110 on 1 January 2008. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Belgian Pro League
The Belgian Pro League (; ; ), officially the Jupiler Pro League () for sponsor Jupiler, is a professional association football league in Belgium and the highest level of the Belgian football league system. Contested by 16 clubs from the 2023–24 season until 2025–26 when it will expand to 18 teams from 2026–27 onwards, it operates on a system of promotion and relegation with the Challenger Pro League. Seasons run from late July to late March, with teams playing 30 matches each in the regular season, and then entering Play-offs I (also known as the ''Championship Playoff'', ''title playoffs'' or ''Champions' play-offs''), Play-offs II (also known as the ''Europa League playoff'' or ''Europe play-offs'') or Play-offs III (also known as the ''Relegation play-offs'') according to their position in the regular season. Play-offs I are contested by the top-six clubs in the regular season, with each club playing each other twice. The teams finishing in 15th and 16th place are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gymnastic And Sports Federation Of French Patronages
The Gymnastic and Sports Federation of French Patronages (in French, ''Fédération gymnastique et sportive des patronages de France'', FGSPF) is a French multi-sports federation established in 1898 in Paris by Dr. Paul Michaux. Initially known as the Union of Gymnastics and Military Instruction Societies of French Patronages and Youth Organizations, it changed its name to the Federation of Catholic Gymnastics Societies in 1901 before adopting its current name in 1903. During the Occupation, it integrated the women's organization of the Women's Sports Rayon. It formally merged with it in 1947, evolving into the Sports Federation of France and later the Sports and Cultural Federation of France in 1968. The FGSPF, as indicated by its acronyms, is primarily a gymnastics federation, competing with the Union of Gymnastics Societies of France. The latter is closely associated with the Ligue des Patriotes, League of Patriots and the Ligue de l'enseignement (League of Education), both of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Journées Du Poilu Sportif
The Journées du Poilu Sportif () was a sports events held across France organized by the French sports weekly magazine ''Sporting''. The goal of this initiative was to collect money and to send balls and boxing gloves to French soldiers. The biggest sports event was a football tournament in the Paris area with seven different teams representing four countries; Belgium won the tournament. Background After having ceased in the fall of 1914 due to the outbreak of the First World War, sporting competitions and spectacles gradually resumed from 1915 and especially in 1916, first justified by the need to train the next generation of sports and military personnel and to celebrate the fraternity uniting the allies, and later justified for charitable causes, even becoming the laboratory for certain successful competitions between the wars. In France, from the first months of the conflict, the four federations administering football in France set up "war" competitions, which given the mobi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
FIFA
The Fédération Internationale de Football Association (), more commonly known by its acronym FIFA ( ), is the international self-regulatory governing body of association football, beach soccer, and futsal. It was founded on 21 May 1904 to oversee international competition among the national associations of Royal Belgian Football Association, Belgium, Danish Football Union, Denmark, Union des Sociétés Françaises de Sports Athlétiques, France, German Football Association, Germany, the Royal Dutch Football Association, Netherlands, Royal Spanish Football Federation, Spain (represented by Real Madrid CF), Swedish Football Association, Sweden, and Swiss Football Association, Switzerland. Headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland, its membership now comprises List of FIFA Member Associations, 211 national associations. These national associations must also be members of one of the six regional confederations: Confederation of African Football, CAF (Africa), Asian Football Confederat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Interfederal Committee
The French Interfederal Committee (, CFI) is the direct ancestor of the French Football Federation (FFF), founded in 1919 by the transformation of the said committee. History The first governing body of football in France was the USFSA, which was the country's sports governing body, founded in November 1890. The USFSA only managed amateur sports, so not boxing or cycling, which had the ''Union Vélocipédique de France'' (UVF). However, some UVF clubs founded sports sections other than cycling, and as a result, they left this federation and founded the French Amateur Cycling Federation (FCAF) in 1905, which had a football department. As for the professionals, there was the Federation of Athletic Societies of France, which changed its name to ''Federation of Professional Athletic Societies of France'' (FSAPF) in 1906. Furthermore, a myriad of federations appeared in regions that did not want to depend on Paris, which was so far away, such as FASO in the South-West. This disorder did ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maurice Vandendriessche
Maurice Vandendriessche (2 April 1887 – 18 November 1959) was a French footballer who played as a midfielder for RC Roubaix and the French national team. Early life Vandendriessche was born in Lille on 2 April 1887, as the eighth child in a family of eleven, to a Belgian father, a carpenter, and a French mother. Therefore, he had the choice between the two nationalities, but as long as he was still a minor, which at the time was aged 21, he was French by assimilation. Club career Vandendriessche began his football career at RC Roubaix, where he climbed all the ranks, going from the fourth team to the third team in 1903 until taking his place in the first team in 1905. He was a member of the team that won the 1906 USFSA Football Championship after beating CA Paris 4–1 in the final on 29 April in Tourcoing. Two years later, he won his second USFSA national title in 1908, this time beating RC de France 2–1 in the final on 3 May. On 2 April 1908, Vandendriessche turned 21 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan Van Cant
Jan, JaN or JAN may refer to: Acronyms * Jackson, Mississippi (Amtrak station), US, Amtrak station code JAN * Jackson-Evers International Airport, Mississippi, US, IATA code * Jabhat al-Nusra (JaN), a Syrian militant group * Japanese Article Number, a barcode standard compatible with EAN * Japanese Accepted Name, a Japanese nonproprietary drug name * Job Accommodation Network, US, for people with disabilities * ''Joint Army-Navy'', US standards for electronic color codes, etc. * ''Journal of Advanced Nursing'' Personal name * Jan (name), male variant of ''John'', female shortened form of ''Janet'' and ''Janice'' * Jan (Persian name), Persian word meaning 'life', 'soul', 'dear'; also used as a name * Ran (surname), romanized from Mandarin as Jan in Wade–Giles * Ján, Slovak name Other uses * January, as an abbreviation for the first month of the year in the Gregorian calendar * Jan (cards), a term in some card games when a player loses without taking any tricks or scoring a mini ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emile Hanse
Emile or Émile may refer to: * Émile (novel) (1827), autobiographical novel based on Emile de Girardin, Émile de Girardin's early life * Emile (film), Emile, Canadian film made in 2003 by Carl Bessai * ''Emile, or On Education, Emile: or, On Education'' (1762) by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, a treatise on education; full title ''Émile ou de l'education'' People * Emile (producer), American hip hop producer Emile Haynie * Emil (given name), includes people and characters with given name Emile or Émile * Barbara Emile, British television producer * Chris Emile, American dancer * Jonathan Emile, stage name of Jamaican-Canadian singer, rapper and record producer Jonathan Whyte Potter-Mäl (born 1986) * Yonan Emile, Iraqi Olympic basketball player * Emile Witbooi. South African soccer player See also * Emil (other) * Saint-Émile (other) {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
France National Football Team
The France national football team () represents France in men's international Association football, football. It is controlled by the French Football Federation (FFF; ), the governing body for football in France. It is a member of UEFA in Europe and FIFA in global competitions. The team's colours and imagery reference two national symbols: the French Flag of France, blue-white-red tricolour and Gallic rooster (''coq gaulois''). The team is colloquially known as ''Les Bleus'' (The Blues). They play home matches at the Stade de France in Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis, Saint-Denis and train at :fr:Centre_national_du_football, Centre National du Football in Clairefontaine-en-Yvelines. Founded in 1904, the team has won two FIFA World Cups, two UEFA European Championships, one CONMEBOL–UEFA Cup of Champions, two FIFA Confederations Cups and one UEFA Nations League title. France was one of the four European teams that participated in the first World Cup in 1930 FIFA World Cup, 1930 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paris
Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, largest city of France. With an estimated population of 2,048,472 residents in January 2025 in an area of more than , Paris is the List of cities in the European Union by population within city limits, fourth-most populous city in the European Union and the List of cities proper by population density, 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2022. Since the 17th century, Paris has been one of the world's major centres of finance, diplomacy, commerce, culture, Fashion capital, fashion, and gastronomy. Because of its leading role in the French art, arts and Science and technology in France, sciences and its early adoption of extensive street lighting, Paris became known as the City of Light in the 19th century. The City of Paris is the centre of the Île-de-France region, or Paris Region, with an official estimated population of 12,271,794 inhabitants in January 2023, or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Royal Belgian Football Association
The Royal Belgian Football Association (RBFA; ; ; ) is the governing body of football in Belgium. It was a founding member of FIFA in 1904 and UEFA in 1954 and was based in Brussels, not far from the King Baudouin Stadium. Since October 2021, the headquarters of the RBFA are located in Tubize, next to its technical centre. Its chairman is . Teams and competitions The Association organizes the Belgium men's, women's, youth national teams, and national eSports team for FIFA. It also runs the Belgian football league system, which includes the following competitions: * First division A * First division B * National Division 1 * Division 2 * Division 3 * Provincial leagues * Cup * Supercup * Futsal competitions * Women's competitions: ** Super League ** First Division ** Second Division ** Third Division ** Cup ** From the 2012–13 through 2014–15 seasons, the federation partnered with its Dutch counterpart to operate a joint national league, the BeNe League. The two ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
