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Latin Cup (other)
The Latin Cup (1949-1957) is a former international association football tournament for club sides from the Latin European nations of France, Italy, Portugal and Spain. Latin Cup may also refer to: * Latin Cup (basketball) (1953-1966), international tournament for club sides from France, Italy, Portugal, Spain and Switzerland. * Latin Cup (roller hockey) (est. 1956), international tournament held by the youth (under-23) national teams of France, Italy, Portugal and Spain. * {{ill, Latin Cup (rugby union), es, Copa Latina (rugby), fr, Coupe latine de rugby à XV, it, Coppa Latina (rugby a 15) (1995 & 1997), international tournament for the national teams of Argentina, France, Italy and Romania. * ''Copa Latina'' (beach soccer) (1998-2011), international tournament for national teams, organized by Brazil. * ''Volleyball Copa Latina'' (est. 2009), international tournament for women national teams, organized by Peru. See also * Pan-Latinism * Latin Union (1954-2012), an internation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Latin Cup
The Latin Cup was an international official football tournament for club sides from the Southwest European nations of France, Italy, Spain, and Portugal. In 1949, the football federations came together and requested FIFA launch the competition. European clubs could not afford hefty travel costs, so competition was staged at the end of every season in a single host country. The competition featured two semi-finals, a third-place play-off, and a final.La curiosa aventura de la Copa Latina by Alfredo Relaño on ''El País'', 25 September 2016 This competition is considered a predecessor of European club tournaments, namely the , [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Latin Cup (basketball)
The Latin Cup (; ; or ''Copa Latina''; ) was an international basketball tournament for club sides from the Romance-speaking Europe, Latin European nations of France, Italy, Spain, and from Switzerland or Portugal, in a similar way than the Latin Cup of Association football, football. History The basketball tournament did not start until 1953, being the immediate precedent of the precursor competition of the European Cup organized by FIBA in the 1958 FIBA European Champions Cup, 1957-58 season. The competition was organized by the Commission of International Organizations of Basketball - an organization belonging to the maximum basketball estate of the FIBA-, jointly with the national federations of the participating clubs. In spite of the football precedent and the success, Latin Cup had only two editions. After the first celebrated the same year of its establishment, the second one took place on the occasion of the second edition of a competition sponsored by the FIBA and lat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Copa Latina (beach Soccer)
The Copa Latina () was an international beach soccer tournament that took place annually in Brazil between 1998 and 2011 (save for 2007 and 2008). Four teams took part which were invitees from Latin Europe or Latin America (with the exception of 2003 participant Canada, which nevertheless has a substantial Latin sub-region). First played in Vitória, the competition rotated between several cities. After the knockout format of the inaugural tournament, all subsequent editions featured a round-robin format. Few nations won the tournament: Brazil dominated the event, winning nine titles; Chile, Portugal and Uruguay Uruguay, officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay, is a country in South America. It shares borders with Argentina to its west and southwest and Brazil to its north and northeast, while bordering the Río de la Plata to the south and the A ... also won one title each. Venues The following is a table showing when and where the Copa Latina has been held: Tou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Volleyball Copa Latina
The Copa Latina (Latin Cup) was a tournament organized by the Peruvian Volleyball Federation and Frecuencia Latina. This tournament serves as preparation for women national teams from all over the world to different Volleyball competitions, mainly the Pan-American Volleyball Cup. The Cup features Peru's national team and three invitees, the first two Cups only had teams from the Americas but since the third cup, European and Asian teams are invited also. The format of the Cup has remained the same since the first edition, a preliminary round with a round-robin system between all four teams, the two top teams play the finals while the two bottom teams play for the bronze. History See also * |
Pan-Latinism
Pan-Latinism is an ideology that promotes the unification of the Romance peoples, Romance-speaking peoples. Pan-Latinism first rose to prominence in France particularly from the influence of Michel Chevalier (1806–1879) who contrasted the "Latins, Latin" peoples of the Americas with the "Anglo-Saxon" peoples there. Nineteenth-Century French writer Stendhal spoke of "Latinism" as an imperial idea that the Latins should rule over their non-Latin neighbours. It was later adopted by Napoleon III, who declared support for the cultural unity of Latin peoples and presented France as the modern leader of the Latin peoples to justify French intervention in Mexican politics that led to the creation of the pro-French Second Mexican Empire. Sociologist writes that the medieval Italian poet Dante toyed with the idea of European domination by Latins in his treatise ''De Monarchia'', which celebrated the "world empire" of the Romans. In the aftermath of France's defeat in the Franco-Prussian W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Latin Union
The Latin Union is an international organization of nations that use Romance languages, whose activities have been suspended since 2012. Headquartered in Paris, France, it aims to protect, project, and promote the common cultural heritage of Latin peoples and unifying identities of the Romance, and Romance-influenced, world. It was created in 1954 in Madrid, Spain. It started to operate in 1983 and its membership rose from 12 to 36 states, including countries in North America, South America, Northern Europe, Southern Europe, Africa, and the Asia-Pacific region. Due to financial difficulties, the Latin Union announced on 26 January 2012 the suspension of its activities, the dissolution of its Secretariat General (effective 31 July 2012), and the termination of employment for all the organization's personnel. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |