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Tomislav Piplica
Tomislav Piplica (born 5 April 1969) is a Bosnian football manager who formerly played as goalkeeper. His nickname is "Pipi" and he is considered to be a ''cult-goalkeeper'', in Germany as well as in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Playing career Club Piplica has played in his career for NK Iskra Bugojno, NK Zagreb, NK Istra 1961, HNK Segesta, NK Samobor and FC Energie Cottbus. He is famous not only as a cult-goalkeeper. but also for well known goalkeeping blunders. He is especially well remembered for his own goal against Borussia Mönchengladbach in 2002, in which he appeared to head the ball into his own net, after standing rooted to his line. In this particular game Energie Cottbus was leading 3–2, but with four minutes to go, Piplica's howler leveled the game at 3–3, and it finished that way. Nevertheless, Piplica has a cult status with Energie fans, who nicknamed him "Pipi", and for the club president Ulrich Lepsch who claims that he was always special with special status in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bugojno
Bugojno ( sr-cyrl, Бугојно) is a town and municipality in the Central Bosnia Canton of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, an entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is situated on the river Vrbas, to the northwest of Sarajevo. According to the 2013 census, the town has a population of 15,555 inhabitants, with 31,470 inhabitants in the municipality. To the west towards Kupres is a region called Koprivnica. This enormous forest was once one of President Tito's favorite hunting spots. The uninhabited dense forest has created a sanctuary for wild animals. Hunting associations are very active in this region and there are many mountain and hunting lodges dotting the forest. Duboka Valley (lit. "deep valley") is a designated hunting area covered by thick spruce. Kalin Mountain is a popular weekend area for hikers and nature lovers. History When the German and Italian Zones of Influence were revised on 24 June 1942, Bugojno fell in , administered civilly by Croatia and m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1987 FIFA World Youth Championship
The 1987 FIFA World Youth Championship took place in Chile from 10 to 25 October 1987. The 1987 championship was the 6th edition of the FIFA World Youth Championship and won for the first time by Yugoslavia. Remarkably, in the course of the tournament the Yugoslavs defeated each of the three other semi-finalists, and eliminated the defending champions Brazil. The tournament took place in four venues: Antofagasta, Valparaíso, Concepción and Santiago. Qualification :1.Teams that made their debut. Squads ''For a list of all squads that played in the final tournament, see 1987 FIFA World Youth Championship squads'' Group stage The 16 teams were split into four groups of four teams. Four group winners, and four second-place finishers qualify for the knockout round. Group A ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- Group B ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- Group C ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- Group D ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- Knockout stage Quarter-fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
FIFA World Cup 2014
The 2014 FIFA World Cup was the 20th FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial world championship for men's national football teams organised by FIFA. It took place in Brazil from 12 June to 13 July 2014, after the country was awarded the hosting rights in 2007. It was the second time that Brazil staged the competition, the first being in 1950, and the fifth time that it was held in South America. 31 national teams advanced through qualification competitions to join the host nation in the final tournament (with Bosnia and Herzegovina as the only debutant). A total of 64 matches were played in 12 venues located in as many host cities across Brazil. For the first time at a World Cup finals, match officials used goal-line technology, as well as vanishing spray for free kicks. FIFA Fan Fests in each host city gathered a total of 5 million people, and the country received 1 million visitors from 202 countries. Spain, the defending champions, were eliminated at the group stage. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Serbia And Montenegro National Football Team
The Serbia and Montenegro national football team ( sh-Cyrl-Latn, Фудбалска репрезентација Србије и Црне Горе, Fudbalska reprezentacija Srbije i Crne Gore) was a national football team that represented the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro. It was controlled by the Football Association of Serbia and Montenegro. For 11 years, it was known as the FR Yugoslavia national football team ( sh-Cyrl-Latn, Фудбалска репрезентација СР Југославије, Fudbalska reprezentacija SR Jugoslavije) when the state was called the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, until February 2003, when the name of the country was changed to Serbia and Montenegro. In 2006, Montenegro declared its separation from Serbia, with the result that the country's football team was renamed as the Serbia national football team on 28 June 2006 with the Montenegro national football team created to represent the renewed state of Montenegro. Though politicall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Friendly Match
An exhibition game (also known as a friendly, scrimmage, demonstration, training match, pre-season game, warmup match, or preparation match, depending at least in part on the sport) is a sport, sporting event whose prize money and impact on the player's or the team's rankings is either zero or otherwise greatly reduced. Exhibition games often serve as "warm-up matches", particularly in many team sports where these games help coaches and managers select and condition players, before the competitive matches of a Season (sports), league season or tournament. If the players usually play in different teams in other leagues, exhibition games offer an opportunity for the players to learn to work with each other. The games can be held between separate teams or between parts of the same team. An exhibition game may also be used to settle a challenge, to provide professional entertainment, to promote the sport, to commemorate an anniversary or a famous player, or to raise money for Chari ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Austria National Football Team
The Austria national football team () represents Austria in men's international Association football, football competitions, and is controlled by the Austrian Football Association. The Austrian Football Association (ÖFB) was founded on 18 March 1904, in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. During the 1930s, under coach Hugo Meisl, Austria's national team, known as the "Wunderteam" (literally "Wonder Team"), became a dominant force in European football. Notable achievements included a fourth-place finish in the 1934 FIFA World Cup and runners-up at the 1936 Summer Olympics. The Anschluss in 1938, which annexed Austria into Nazi Germany, led to the dissolution of the ÖFB and the obligatory integration of Austrian players into the Germany national football team, German national team for the 1938 World Cup. After World War II, Austria reestablished its national team and achieved significant success in the 1954 FIFA World Cup, 1954 World Cup, finishing third. The team continued to be comp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2002 FIFA World Cup Qualification
The 2002 FIFA World Cup qualification competition was a series of tournaments organised by the six FIFA confederations. Each confederation — the AFC (Asia), CAF (Africa), CONCACAF (North, Central America and Caribbean), CONMEBOL (South America), OFC (Oceania), and UEFA (Europe) — was allocated a certain number of the 32 places at the tournament. 199 teams entered the tournament qualification rounds, competing for 32 spots in the final tournament. South Korea and Japan, as the co-hosts, and France, as the defending champions, qualified automatically, leaving 29 spots open for competition. Qualified teams 1Includes 10 appearances by DFB representing West Germany between 1954 and 1990. Excludes 1 appearance by ''DVF'' representing East Germany between 1954 and 1990. 2Includes appearances by USSR. Qualification process The 32 spots available in the 2002 World Cup would be distributed among the continental zones as follows: * Europe (UEFA): ''14.5 places'', 1 of them went ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dragoje Leković
Dragoje Leković ( sr-Cyrl, Драгоје Лековић, ; born 21 November 1967) is a retired professional Association football, footballer who played as a Goalkeeper (association football), goalkeeper. Club career Leković was born in Sivac, Socialist Republic of Serbia, SR Serbia, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, SFR Yugoslavia. In Yugoslavia, he played mainly for Yugoslav First League club FK Budućnost Titograd and also spent one season with the well known club, Red Star Belgrade. Leković played in 17 of 30 matches in the 1991–92 Yugoslav First League and also started both legs of the 1991–92 Yugoslav Cup finals, losing out to FK Partizan. After 18 months with modest club FK Mogren and a brief comeback spell at Budućnost, Leković joined Kilmarnock F.C., Kilmarnock in Scotland in fall 1994, where he was the first choice goalkeeper during his spell and was part of the squad that won the 1996–97 Scottish Cup, 1997 Scottish Cup versus Falkirk F.C., Falkirk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
FIFA World Youth Championship 1987
The 1987 FIFA World Youth Championship took place in Chile from 10 to 25 October 1987. The 1987 championship was the 6th edition of the FIFA World Youth Championship and won for the first time by Yugoslavia. Remarkably, in the course of the tournament the Yugoslavs defeated each of the three other semi-finalists, and eliminated the defending champions Brazil. The tournament took place in four venues: Antofagasta, Valparaíso, Concepción and Santiago. Qualification :1.Teams that made their debut. Squads ''For a list of all squads that played in the final tournament, see 1987 FIFA World Youth Championship squads'' Group stage The 16 teams were split into four groups of four teams. Four group winners, and four second-place finishers qualify for the knockout round. Group A ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- Group B ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- Group C ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- Group D ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- Knockout stage Quarter-fina ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yugoslavia National Football Team
The Yugoslavia national football team; ; ; represented Yugoslavia in international association football. Although the team mainly represented the pre-war Kingdom of Yugoslavia and the post-war SFR Yugoslavia, various iterations of the state were formally constituted in football, including the: * Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (1918–1929) * Kingdom of Yugoslavia (1929–1945) * Democratic Federal Yugoslavia (1945) * Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia (1945–1963) * Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (1963–1992) It enjoyed success in international competition, reaching the semi-finals at the 1930 FIFA World Cup, 1930 and 1962 FIFA World Cups. In 1992, during the Yugoslav wars, the team was suspended from international competition as part of the United Nations sanctions on Yugoslavia. History The first national team was in the kingdom that existed between the two world wars. The Football Federation of what was then the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Borussia Mönchengladbach
Borussia Verein für Leibesübungen 1900 e.V. Mönchengladbach, better known as Borussia Mönchengladbach () and colloquially known as just Gladbach, is a professional Association football, football club based in Mönchengladbach, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. They play in the Bundesliga, the top flight of Football in Germany, German football. Nicknamed ''Die Fohlen'' (The Foals), the club has won five league titles, three DFB-Pokals and two UEFA Cup titles.News – Bundesliga – official website . Bundesliga.de. Borussia Mönchengladbach was founded in 1900, with its name derived from a Latinised form of Prussia, which was a popular name for German clubs in the former Kingdom of Prussia. The team joined the Bundesliga in 1965 and saw the majority of its suc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Own Goal
An own goal occurs in sports when a player performs actions that result in scoring points for the opposition, such as when a Association football, footballer puts a ball into their own net. In some parts of the world, the term has become a metaphor for ''any'' action that backfires on the person or group undertaking it, sometimes even carrying a sense of "poetic justice". During The Troubles, for instance, it acquired a specific metaphorical meaning in Belfast, referring to an IED (improvised explosive device) that detonated prematurely, killing the person making or handling the bomb with the intent to harm others. A player trying to Match fixing, throw a game might deliberately attempt an own goal. Such players run the risk of being sanctioned or banned from further play. Association football In association football, an own goal occurs when a player causes the ball to go into their own team's Goal (sport), goal, resulting in a Scoring in association football, goal being scor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
