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UEFA Euro 2008 Qualifying Group B
Standings and results for Group B of the UEFA Euro 2008 qualifying tournament. Italy and France secured qualification to the tournament proper on 17 November 2007 following Italy's 2–1 win against Scotland, becoming the fifth and sixth teams in the whole of the qualification stage to do so. Standings Matches Group B fixtures were decided with a random draw conducted on Thursday 9 March 2006, because fixtures could not be agreed between delegates. Ukraine was the only side unable to come to a consensus with the rest of the group.Bathgate, Stuart"Scotland dealt an even hand as Euro 2008 draw resolved" ''The Scotsman'', 10 March 2006. Retrieved 27 March 2007. ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- Goalscorers References UEFA website {{DEFAULTSORT:Euro Group B Group B was a set of regulations for Grand tourer, grand touring (GT) cars used in sports car racing and r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
UEFA Euro 2008 Qualifying
Qualifying for the UEFA Euro 2008 finals tournament took place between August 2006 and November 2007. Fifty teams were divided into seven groups. In a Round-robin tournament, double round-robin system, each team played against each of the others in their group on a home-and-away basis. The winner and runner-up of each group qualified automatically for the final tournament. This was the first Euro qualification since expansion to have no playoff. Austria national football team, Austria and Switzerland national football team, Switzerland qualified automatically as co-hosts of the event. Qualified teams Seedings UEFA used the 2005 UEFA coefficient#Men's national team coefficient, UEFA national team coefficient to rank the teams according to their results in both UEFA Euro 2004 qualifying, UEFA Euro 2004 and 2006 FIFA World Cup qualification (UEFA), 2006 FIFA World Cup qualification. Only the group matches counted towards the coefficients. As defending champions, Greece nationa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Igor Egorov
Igor Vyacheslavovich Egorov (; born 4 November 1968) is a Russian football official and a former referee and player. He works as a team director with FC Yenisey Krasnoyarsk. Refereeing career He has been a FIFA international referee since 2003. He lives in Nizhny Novgorod and is a businessman. He was named best Russian referee by the Sport Express newspaper in 2006 and 2007. He has refereed games in the UEFA Champions League and UEFA Cup, as well as UEFA Euro 2008 and 2010 FIFA World Cup The 2010 FIFA World Cup was the 19th FIFA World Cup, the world championship for List of men's national association football teams, men's national Association football, football teams. It took place in South Africa from 11 June to 11 July 2010. ... qualifiers. Personal life He is the father of former Dzerzhinsk defender Yegor Yegorov, who became a referee himself in 2014. References 1968 births Footballers from Nizhny Novgorod Living people Russian football referees Men's associat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stadio San Paolo
Stadio Diego Armando Maradona, formerly known as Stadio San Paolo, is an all-seater football stadium in Naples, Italy. Completed in 1959, it is the fourth largest football stadium in Italy after Milan's San Siro, Rome's Stadio Olimpico and Bari's San Nicola. The stadium currently seats 54,726, but prior to converting to an all-seater venue it could hold about 90,000 people — most of them standing. It is the home of SSC Napoli, the reigning Serie A champions. Following the death of Diego Maradona in 2020, city mayor Luigi de Magistris and Napoli president Aurelio De Laurentiis proposed renaming the stadium to "Stadio Diego Armando Maradona." The proposal was passed on 4 December 2020, and was announced by the mayor on social media and made official that same day. History Napoli was in need of a replacement stadium after the Stadio Partenopeo had been destroyed during the bombing of Naples in the Second World War. The team had been playing at a smaller nearby venue ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tomas Danilevičius
Tomas Danilevičius (born 18 July 1978) is a Lithuanian footballer and former president of the Lithuanian Football Federation. Club career Danilevičius previously played for Livorno, Arsenal (playing twice in the league, in games against Sunderland and Charlton), FC Dynamo Moscow, K.S.K. Beveren, Dunfermline Athletic, Lausanne Sports and Club Brugge. Whilst at Arsenal he scored in a pre-season game against FC Barcelona. He was signed by Bologna in January 2007 in a co-ownership deal for €2 million. After one year at Bologna he signed a six-month loan deal with Grosseto Grosseto () is a city and a ''comune'' in the central Italian region of Tuscany, the capital of the province of Grosseto and the main city of the Maremma region. The city lies from the Tyrrhenian Sea, at the centre of an alluvial plain on the ... before returning to Livorno in June 2008 for a €400,000 transfer fee and on a four-year contract.Bologna F.C. 1909 S.p.A. ''bilancio'' (financial report and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Filippo Inzaghi
Filippo "Pippo" Inzaghi (; born 9 August 1973) is an Italian professional football manager and former player who played as a striker. He was most recently the head coach of club Pisa. He was nicknamed "Superpippo" (" Super Goof") or "Alta tensione" ("High Tension") by fans and commentators during his playing career. His younger brother, Simone Inzaghi, is also a football manager and former player. Inzaghi is regarded as one of the greatest strikers of his generation. Inzaghi played for several Italian clubs, and spent the most notable spells of his club career with Juventus and AC Milan, winning two UEFA Champions League titles (2003, 2007), and three Serie A titles (1998, 2004, 2011). He is the seventh highest scorer in Italy, with 313 goals scored in official matches. He is currently the sixth-highest goal scorer in European club competitions with 70 goals, behind only Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi, Robert Lewandowski, Raúl and Karim Benzema. He is also Milan's top ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
UTC+2
UTC+02:00 is an identifier for a time offset from UTC of +02:00. In ISO 8601, the associated time would be written as 2020-11-08T23:41:45+02:00. As standard time (year-round) Principal cities: Pretoria, Cape Town, Johannesburg, Durban, Port Elizabeth, Khartoum, Lubumbashi, Kigali, Gaborone, Bujumbura, Manzini, Maseru, Tripoli, Lilongwe, Maputo, Windhoek, Omdurman, Juba, Lusaka, Harare, Kaliningrad Central Africa *Botswana *Burundi *Democratic Republic of the Congo **The provinces of Bas-Uele, Haut-Katanga, Haut-Lomami, Haut-Uele, Kasaï, Kasaï Occidental, Kasaï Oriental, Katanga, Lomami, Lualaba, Maniema, Nord-Kivu, Orientale, Sankuru, Sud-Kivu, Tanganyika, Tshopo, and Ituri Interim Administration *Eswatini *Lesotho *Libya *Malawi *Mozambique *Namibia *Rwanda *South Africa (except Prince Edward Islands) *South Sudan *Sudan *Zambia *Zimbabwe Europe *Russia ** Northwestern Federal District ***Kaliningrad Oblast As standard time (Northern Hemi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Royal Dutch Football Association
The Royal Dutch Football Association (, ; KNVB ) is the governing body of football in the Netherlands. It organises the main Dutch football leagues ( Eredivisie and Eerste Divisie), the amateur leagues, the KNVB Cup, and the Dutch men's and women's national teams. For three seasons in the 2010s, the KNVB and its Belgian counterpart operated a joint top-level women's league, the BeNe League, until the two countries dissolved the league after the 2014–15 season and re-established their own top-level leagues. The KNVB is based in the central municipality of Zeist. With over 1.2 million members, the KNVB is the single largest sports association in the Netherlands. History In 1889, the Nederlandse Voetbal en Athletiek Bond was founded. Due to certain disagreements, several football clubs ended their association with it and joined together to form Koninklijke Nederlandse Voetbalbond (KNVB) which was later renamed to its present name. It was one of the founding members of FIFA ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan Wegereef
Jan Willem Wegereef (born 17 January 1962 in Rijssen) is a former top-level Dutch football (soccer) referee, living in Hellevoetsluis. He refereed one match at the 2002 World Cup and has officiated a total of 12 UEFA Champions League matches (as of 6 November 2006). As of 2008, he had officiated in 42 matches across all UEFA competitions. He also officiated the 2006–07 Saudi Premier League final. Wegereef officiated in numerous international competitions, including the 1999 FIFA World Youth Championship and qualifying matches for the 2002 World Cup, 2006 World Cup, Euro 2000, and Euro 2008.UEFA"Kazakhstan 1-2 Portugal" 17 October 2007. Retrieved on 23 May 2013. He is known to have served as a 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 o ... referee during the period from 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tbilisi
Tbilisi ( ; ka, თბილისი, ), in some languages still known by its pre-1936 name Tiflis ( ), ( ka, ტფილისი, tr ) is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns in Georgia (country), largest city of Georgia (country), Georgia, located on the banks of the Kura (Caspian Sea), Kura River. With around 1.2 million inhabitants, it contains almost one third of the country's population. Tbilisi was founded in the fifth century Anno Domini, AD by Vakhtang I of Iberia and has since served as the capital of various Georgian kingdoms and republics. Between 1801 and 1917, then part of the Russian Empire, it was the seat of the Caucasus Viceroyalty (1801–1917), Caucasus Viceroyalty, governing both the North Caucasus, northern and the South Caucasus, southern sides of the Caucasus. Because of its location at the crossroads between Europe and Asia, and its proximity to the lucrative Silk Road, throughout history, Tbilisi has been a point of contention ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boris Paichadze Stadium
The Boris Paitchadze Dinamo Arena ( ''Boris P’aich’adzis erovnuli st’adioni''), formerly known as Boris Paitchadze National Stadium, is a stadium in Tbilisi, Georgia, and the home stadium of Dinamo Tbilisi, Georgia national rugby union team and Georgia national football team. With a capacity of 54,202, the stadium is the largest in Georgia. Built in 1976 by the Georgian architect Gia Kurdiani, the Dinamo Arena was named Vladimir Ilyich Lenin Dinamo Stadium after Russian Communist leader but later, in 1995 was renamed Boris Paitchadze National Stadium after the famous Georgian football player Boris Paichadze (1915–1990). Prior to the construction of Boris Paitchadze Dinamo Arena, the home stadium of Dinamo Tbilisi was the Central Stadium with an approximate capacity of 35,000 spectators. The demand for a much bigger stadium was increased with the successful performance of Dinamo Tbilisi in the mid 1970s. After the inauguration of the stadium, it became the third-largest i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malkhaz Asatiani
Malkhaz Asatiani ( ka, მალხაზ ასათიანი; born 4 August 1981) is a Georgian former professional footballer who played as a defender. Club career His club career started in Torpedo Kutaisi. During his stay of three and a half years the team won the Georgian league title three consecutive seasons. He then earned a transfer to Russian team Lokomotiv Moscow. He plays mostly as a defender at the club and mostly as a midfielder in the national team. On 3 December. Asatiani told the Russian newspaper, Sport-Express, that he will be leaving Lokomotiv in the end of 2010 on a free transfer. On 21 December the departure was made official. In August 2008, Asatiani was bought on a half-year loan by Dynamo Kyiv. International career For the National Team, Malkhaz has played 18 international matches and scored 4 goals since his debut in 2001. One of the goals came against rivals Russia in a Euro 2004 qualifying match, something for which Asatiani received prai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis Saha
Louis Laurent Saha (born 8 August 1978) is a French former professional footballer who played as a striker. Saha was capped 20 times for the France national team and scored four goals. Louis Saha was a former scholar at the Clairefontaine football academy, he began his career at Metz before playing on loan at Newcastle United. Before the start of the 2000–01 season, Saha moved to Fulham where he established himself as first-choice striker, helping them to gain promotion to the Premier League in his first season with them. His performances gained attraction from Manchester United, who eventually secured his signing for around £12.4 million midway through the 2003–04 season. Injuries plagued his Old Trafford career, however he enjoyed major success including winning the Premier League title twice, the UEFA Champions League in 2008, and the League Cup in 2006 where he was the top scorer in the competition and netted in the final. Despite Saha's injury woes, United s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
