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Rendezvous FC
Rendezvous FC is a Barbadian professional football club that currently plays in the Barbados Premier Division, the top level of domestic football. The club's home ground is the Emmerton Playing Field in Saint Michael. Crest The club's crest features two hands shaking, with a flag imprinted on each sleeve: one with the flag of Barbados and the other the flag of neighboring Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. Achievements *Barbados Premier Division Runner-Up (1): 2015 *Barbados FA Cup Winner (1): 2013 *Barbados FA Cup The Barbados FA Cup is the top knockout tournament of the Barbado football. It is run by the Barbados Football Association. It was founded in 1910 and has been running ever since. Winners *1910 : Kensington Rovers *1911 : Kensington Rovers *191 ... Runner-Up: 2015 References External linksBarbados FA profile [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barbados Premier League
The Premier League is the top Association football, football league in Barbados. It was created in 1947 and is headed by the Barbados Football Association. Ten teams participate in this league. It is known as the Digicel Premier League for sponsorship reasons. Despite being a league competition in CONCACAF none of the Barbados, Barbadian teams have played in CFU Club Championship or CONCACAF Champions' Cup (the last appearance was in 2000). The 9th and 10th-placed teams are relegated to Barbados Division One. Many teams play their home games at the 5,000-capacity Barbados National Stadium in Bridgetown, Barbados, Bridgetown. Clubs *Barbados Defence Force Sports Program, Barbados Defence Force (Wildey, Barbados, Wildey) * Empire Club (football), Empire Club (Bank Hall, Bridgetown) *Brittons Hill, Brittons Hill United (Brittons Hill, Bridgetown) *Ellerto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barbados
Barbados, officially the Republic of Barbados, is an island country in the Atlantic Ocean. It is part of the Lesser Antilles of the West Indies and the easternmost island of the Caribbean region. It lies on the boundary of the South American Plate, South American and Caribbean Plate, Caribbean plates. Its capital and largest city is Bridgetown. Inhabited by Island Caribs, Kalinago people since the 13th century, and prior to that by other Indigenous peoples of the Americas, Indigenous peoples, Barbados was claimed for the Crown of Castile by Spanish navigators in the late 15th century. It first appeared on a Spanish map in 1511. The Portuguese Empire claimed the island between 1532 and 1536, but abandoned it in 1620 with their only remnants being the introduction of wild boars intended as a supply of meat whenever the island was visited. An Kingdom of England, English ship, the ''Olive Blossom'', arrived in Barbados on 14 May 1625; its men took possession of the island in the n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Football (soccer)
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] |
Barbados Premier Division
The Premier League is the top football league in Barbados. It was created in 1947 and is headed by the Barbados Football Association. Ten teams participate in this league. It is known as the Digicel Premier League for sponsorship reasons. Despite being a league competition in CONCACAF none of the Barbadian teams have played in CFU Club Championship or CONCACAF Champions' Cup (the last appearance was in 2000). The 9th and 10th-placed teams are relegated to Barbados Division One. Many teams play their home games at the 5,000-capacity Barbados National Stadium in Bridgetown. Clubs *Barbados Defence Force ( Wildey) * Empire Club (Bank Hall, Bridgetown) * Brittons Hill United (Brittons Hill, Bridgetown) * Ellerton ( Ellerton) * Notre Dame (Bayville, Bridgetown) *Paradise (Dover, Christ Church, Barbados) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint Michael, Barbados
The parish of St. Michael is one of eleven parishes of Barbados. It has a land area of and is found at the southwest portion of the island. Saint Michael has survived by name as one of the original six parishes created in 1629 by Governor Sir William Tufton. The parish is home to Bridgetown, the capital of Barbados. Bridgetown is the centre of commercial activity in Barbados, as well as a central hub for the public transport network. Other major infrastructure in St. Michael is the international seaport of Barbados—the Deep Water Harbour. Therein, a number of cruise ships arrive and depart including various lines such as Royal Caribbean and Cunard. The harbour features several sugar towers for loading locally produced sugar into transport ships, and a tower for loading flour for transport. The Needham's Point Lighthouse and Charles Fort are both located in Needham's Point, Saint Michael, behind the Hilton Barbados Resort. Under Barbados's historical vestry system, the m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Handshake
A handshake is a globally widespread, brief greeting or parting tradition in which two people grasp one of each other's hands, and in most cases, it is accompanied by a brief up-and-down movement of the grasped hands. Customs surrounding handshakes are specific to cultures. Different cultures may be more or less likely to shake hands, or there may be different customs about how or when to shake hands.Fist bump can pound out flu transmission __TOC__ History The handshake may have originated in prehistory as a demonstration of peaceful intent, since it shows that the hand holds no weapon. Another possibility is that it originated as a symbolic gesture of mutual commitment to an oath or promise: two hands clasping each other represents the sea ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flag Of Barbados
The flag of Barbados was designed by Grantley W. Prescod and was officially adopted to represent Barbados at midnight on 30 November 1966, the Independence Day, day the country gained independence. The flag was chosen as part of a nationwide open contest held by the government. Prescod's design won the over a field of one thousand entries. The flag is a Triband (flag), triband design, with the outermost stripes coloured ultramarine, to represent the sea and the sky, and the middle stripe coloured gold, to represent the sand. Within the middle band is displayed the head of a trident. This trident is meant to represent the trident of Poseidon, most visibly held by Britannia, Britiannia in Barbados' colonial Coat of arms, coat-of-arms. The fact that it is broken is meant to represent the breaking of Colony of Barbados, colonial rule in Barbados and independence from the British Empire. After Prescod's design was selected as the winner of the contest, he was asked to make sev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flag Of Saint Vincent And The Grenadines
The flag of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines is a Canadian pale triband consisting of blue, gold, and green bands charged with three green diamonds at the middle. Adopted in 1985 to replace a similar design used from the time of independence, it has been the flag of Saint Vincent since that year. The design of the present flag entailed substituting the country's coat of arms on a breadfruit leaf with the diamonds. They are a reference to both the letter "V", which is the first letter of the country's name, and its nickname as the "Gems of the Antilles" and "Jewels of the Caribbean". Accordingly, the flag itself has been given the moniker of "The Gems". History Sovereignty over Saint Vincent switched hands between the French and the British throughout the 18th century. This continued until 1783, when the Peace of Paris saw France permanently relinquish the island to the United Kingdom, and Saint Vincent eventually became a crown colony within the latter's colonial empir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint Vincent And The Grenadines
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, sometimes known simply as Saint Vincent or SVG, is an island country in the eastern Caribbean. It is located in the southeast Windward Islands of the Lesser Antilles, which lie in the West Indies, at the southern end of the eastern border between the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. To the north lies Saint Lucia, to the east is Barbados, and Grenada lies to the south. Spanning a land area of , most of its territory consists of the northernmost island of Saint Vincent, which includes the capital and largest city, Kingstown. To the south lie two-thirds of the northern part of the Grenadines, a chain of 32 smaller islands; the remaining southern third make up Grenada. Seven of the islands are inhabited, of which the largest and most populous are Bequia, Mustique, Canouan, and Union Island. With an estimated population of around 110,872, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines has a population density of over 300 inhabitants/km2 (700 per sq ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2015 Barbados Premier Division
The 2015 Barbados Premier Division (officially the Digicel Premiere League for sponsorship reasons) was the 69th season of the highest tier of football in Barbados. Barbados Defense Force won their final six matches to hold off Rendezvous FC for their third consecutive league title and fifth overall. With BDF having already completed their schedule, Rendezvous FC needed to make up 11 goals in goal differential with a win on the final day of the season to pull even with BDF, but managed only a 2-1 victory over Weymouth Wales. The season began on February 8 and concluded on July 23. Changes from 2014 * Cosmos and Dayrells Road FC were relegated to the Barbados First Division. * Rendezvous FC and U.W.I. BlackBirds were promoted to the Premier Division. Table Results Statistics Top Scorers Hat-tricks References {{Football in Barbados 2011 Barb Barb football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kick (football), kicking a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
RSSSF
The Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation (''RSSSF'') is an international organisation dedicated to collecting statistics about association football. The foundation aims to build an exhaustive archive of football-related information from around the world. Website The RSSSF website contains football-related statistics in the form of lists without commentary and it is maintained by volunteer contributors. It is considered one of "the most complete" publicly available statistical football databases in the world, and has virtually every piece of historical information. This enterprise, according to its founders, was created in January 1994 by three regulars of the Big 8 (Usenet)#Hierarchies, Rec.Sport.Soccer (RSS) Usenet newsgroup: Lars Aarhus, Kent Hedlundh, and Karel Stokkermans. It was originally known as the "North European Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation", but the geographical reference was dropped as its membership from other regions grew. The RSSSF has members and con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barbados FA Cup
The Barbados FA Cup is the top knockout tournament of the Barbado football. It is run by the Barbados Football Association. It was founded in 1910 and has been running ever since. Winners *1910 : Kensington Rovers *1911 : Kensington Rovers *1912 : Kensington Rovers and Harrison College (shared) *1913 : Harrison College *1914 : Kensington Rovers *1915 : Kensington Rovers *1916 : Kensington Rovers *1917 : Kensington Rovers *1918 : Kensington Rovers *1919 : Kensington Rovers *1920 : Harrison College *1921 : Kensington Rovers *1922 : Kensington Rovers *1923 : Harrison College *1924 : Empire *1925 : Empire *1926 : Empire *1927 : Spartan *1928 : Empire *1947–48 : Everton *1949 : Spartan *1950 : Spartan *1952 : Carlton *1960 : Everton *1962 : Everton *1967 : New South Wales 5–0 Spartans *1969 : New South Wales *1970 : New South Wales *1972 : New South Wales *1975 : New South Wales *1982 : Notre Dame *1984 : Weymouth Wales *1986 : Everton bt Pinelands * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
