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N.F.-Board
The N.F.-Board (New Football Federations-Board; NFB) is a federation for football associations established on 12 December 2003. The NFB is made up of teams that represent nations, dependencies, unrecognized states, minorities, stateless peoples, regions and micronations not affiliated to FIFA. One of the founders was Luc Misson, a lawyer who represented Belgian footballer Jean-Marc Bosman in a case that led to the Bosman ruling. History Foundation The N.F.-Board was founded on 12 December 2003 by the World Foot-Balls Observatory () in À la Mort Subite, a bar in Brussels, consisting of 5 members: Northern Cyprus, Sápmi, Monaco, Western Sahara, and the Chagos Islands. When the NFB was founded, a deadline was set for applications: 15 January 2004. However, at some point, it was postponed to May, and the ''candidate member'' list ballooned to 76 members. Double dead link. This list included the Falkland Islands, Greenland, Tibet, Guadelope, Jersey, Vatican City, Corsica, Britt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Members
A list is a set of discrete items of information collected and set forth in some format for utility, entertainment, or other purposes. A list may be memorialized in any number of ways, including existing only in the mind of the list-maker, but lists are frequently written down on paper, or maintained electronically. Lists are "most frequently a tool", and "one does not ''read'' but only ''uses'' a list: one looks up the relevant information in it, but usually does not need to deal with it as a whole".Lucie Doležalová,The Potential and Limitations of Studying Lists, in Lucie Doležalová, ed., ''The Charm of a List: From the Sumerians to Computerised Data Processing'' (2009). Purpose It has been observed that, with a few exceptions, "the scholarship on lists remains fragmented". David Wallechinsky, a co-author of ''The Book of Lists'', described the attraction of lists as being "because we live in an era of overstimulation, especially in terms of information, and lists help us ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Die Welt
(, ) is a German national daily newspaper, published as a broadsheet by Axel Springer SE. is the flagship newspaper of the Axel Springer publishing group and it is considered a newspaper of record in Germany. Its leading competitors are the , the ''Süddeutsche Zeitung'' and the '' Frankfurter Rundschau''. The modern paper takes a self-described "liberal cosmopolitan" position in editing, but it is generally considered to be conservative."The World from Berlin" '''', 28 December 2009. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vatican City National Football Team
The Vatican City national football team () is the association football, football team that represents Vatican City under the control of the Vatican Amateur Sports Association, headquartered in the Vatican's Cortile di San Damaso. The Vatican City football association was founded in 1972. Its current president is Domenico Ruggiero. Massimiliano Strapetti, an Italian, is the current head coach. The team played its first match in 1985, a 3–0 victory against a representative of Austrian journalists. In 2018, the Vatican also created a Vatican City women's national football team, women's representative team. Overview In the year 2000, Pope John Paul II established a Vatican sports department with the aim of "reinvigorating the tradition (of sport) within the Christian community". In 2006, Cardinal Secretary of State Tarcisio Bertone suggested that the Vatican could field a team of men from Catholic seminary, seminaries. About the prospect, the cardinal stated, "If we just take ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jersey Official Football Team
The Jersey official football team represents the British Crown Dependency of Jersey in non-FIFA international matches. The Jersey Football Association is affiliated to the English Football Association. As they are not affiliated to either FIFA or UEFA, the Jersey official football team is not eligible to take part in qualification for both the FIFA World Cup and the European Football Championship. In December 2015 an application was submitted to UEFA to allow Jersey to take part in international matches, following on from Gibraltar's admission two years earlier. In October 2016, Jersey's bid to join UEFA was rejected, but this decision was appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in June 2017. In September 2017, the CAS ordered the UEFA Congress to hear Jersey's case. In February 2018 a majority of the member associations of UEFA voted against admitting Jersey as a member. An independent Parishes of Jersey team subsequently formed in August 2018, joining ConIFA in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guadeloupe National Football Team
The Guadeloupe national football team () represents the French overseas department and region of Guadeloupe in men's international football. The team is controlled by the Ligue guadeloupéenne de football (), a local branch of the FFF. As an overseas department of the French Republic, Guadeloupe is an integral part of France and is not a member of FIFA and is therefore not eligible to enter the FIFA World Cup or any competition organized first-hand by the organization. Guadeloupeans, being French citizens, are eligible to play for the France national football team. Guadeloupe is, however, a member of CONCACAF and the CFU and is eligible for all competitions organized by both the organizations. Indeed, according to the status of the FFF (article 34, paragraph 6): " ..nder the control of related continental confederations, and with the agreement of the FFF, those leagues can organize international sport events at a regional level or set up teams in order to participate to them." ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tibet National Football Team
The Tibet national football team is a association football, football team that represents the Culture, cultural region of Tibet in Non-FIFA football, non-FIFA international tournaments, and is organized by the Tibetan National Football Association (TNFA), an organization of exiled Tibetans. Many of the players are in exile and represent the Central Tibetan Administration, Tibetan Government in Exile. The team is part of neither FIFA nor the Asian Football Confederation, AFC and does not participate in international tournaments. The TNFA was founded in 2001 and its goal is to gain an official status. History The Forbidden Team The first international game against a non-Asian team was versus Greenland national football team, Greenland, which took place in Denmark. The team was followed by a documentary film crew during the process of forming the team, practicing, playing the match, and events in between. The documentary was titled 'The Forbidden Team'. To form the team, a selecti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greenland National Football Team
The Greenland national football team (; ) represents Greenland in Non-FIFA football, non-FIFA international tournaments. It is controlled by the Football Association of Greenland. Although it has the same status as the Faroe Islands within the Kingdom of Denmark, Greenland is not, unlike the Faroe Islands national football team, a member of FIFA nor of any continental confederation and therefore is not eligible to enter the Football World Cup, World Cup or other sanctioned tournaments. Most of the matches they have played have been against the Faroe Islands national football team, Faroe Islands and Iceland national football team, Iceland, but neither of the two consider those games full internationals. In May 2024, it was announced that Greenland had officially applied to become a member of CONCACAF, however the application was later rejected. Overview History The Football Association of Greenland was founded in 1971 to oversee the development of football in the territory, althou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Falkland Islands Official Football Team
The Falkland Islands official football team is a representative Association football, football team of the Falkland Islands, organised by the Falkland Islands Football League. The Falkland Islands Football League does not belong to the CONMEBOL, as its member countries support Argentina in the Falkland Islands sovereignty dispute, sovereignty conflict, and therefore neither can it be a member of FIFA. Thus, the team is not eligible to play in official competitions such as the FIFA World Cup, World Cup and the Copa América. The team has played in the Island Games in 2001, 2005, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017 and 2023. In 2013 the team enjoyed a record win and a 3rd place medal. After two years with no League football it was decided that the Falkland Islands Football League (FIFL) would be completely revamped, a Constitution was drawn up and Committee members were put forward and accepted. After the Constitution was passed by interested players, a new league was organised with four ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
