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Isco Citizens Remix
Francisco Román Alarcón Suárez (; born 21 April 1992), commonly known as Isco (), is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder or left winger for La Liga club Real Betis, which he captains and the Spain national team. Isco began his career at Valencia, playing mainly in its reserve team, before joining Málaga in 2011. His performances at Málaga earned him the Golden Boy award in 2012, and a €65 million move to Real Madrid in June 2013, with whom he won 27 major trophies including five UEFA Champions League titles, three La Liga titles, one Copa del Rey and four FIFA Club World Cup titles. Isco represented Spain at various youth levels, including at the 2012 Olympics, and made his senior international debut in 2013, later taking part at the 2018 FIFA World Cup. Club career Valencia Isco was born in Benalmadena, Málaga, Andalusia. As a child he played for Atlético Benamiel. A product of Valencia's youth system, he spent the 2009– ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spain National Under-23 Football Team
The Spain Olympic football team (also known as Spain Under-23, or Spain U-23) represents Spain in international football competitions in the Olympic Games. The selection is limited to players under the age of 23, except for the Olympics which allows the men's team up to three overage players. The team is controlled by the Royal Spanish Football Federation. Having qualified for six Olympic competitions since 1992, Spain has won two gold medals (1992 and 2024) and two silver medals (2000 and 2020). History 1920–1988 Summer Olympics Unlike later tournaments, the Summer Olympics used to be represented by senior or amateur teams. Spain's first participation in the Olympics was in Antwerp, Belgium, in 1920. Fourteen teams entered the competition which was organized on a knockout basis. Twelve teams entered the first round, with the six winners joining the host nation (Belgium) and France, in the quarter-finals. Czechoslovakia, participating in their first international tournament, cru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Liga
The Campeonato Nacional de Liga de Primera División, commonly known as the Primera División or La Liga, and officially known as LaLiga EA Sports for sponsorship reasons, is a professional association football league in Spain and the highest level of the Spanish football league system. It is controlled by the Liga Nacional de Fútbol Profesional and contested by 20 teams over a 38-matchday period. Since its inception, All-time La Liga table, 62 teams have competed in La Liga, with nine teams crowned champions. Real Madrid CF, Real Madrid and FC Barcelona, Barcelona have dominated the competition, winning 36 and 28 titles respectively. In the 1940s, Valencia CF, Valencia, Atlético Madrid, and Barcelona emerged as the strongest clubs. Real Madrid and Barcelona led the charge in the 1950s, each winning four titles. During the 1960s and 1970s, Real Madrid dominated with fourteen titles, with Atlético Madrid winning four. During the 1980s and 1990s, Real Madrid remained prominent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Left Winger
In the sport of association football, a midfielder takes an outfield position primarily in the middle of the pitch. Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in that case known as defensive midfielders. As central midfielders often go across boundaries, with mobility and passing ability, they are often referred to as deep-lying midfielders, play-makers, box-to-box midfielders, or holding midfielders. There are also attacking midfielders with limited defensive assignments. The size of midfield units on a team and their assigned roles depend on which formation is used; the unit of these players on the pitch is commonly referred to as the midfield. Its name derives from the fact that midfield units typically make up the in-between units to the defensive units and forward units of a formation. Managers frequently assign one or more midfielders to disrupt the opposing team's attacks, while others may be tasked with creating goals, or have ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Association Football
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] |
2013 UEFA European Under-21 Championship Squads
This article lists the squads for the 2013 UEFA European Under-21 Championship that was hosted in Israel. Only players born on or after 1 January 1990 were eligible to play. Each participating team had to submit a list of forty players, including no fewer than four goalkeepers, thirty days before the opening match. This then had to be reduced to a final squad of 23 players by 26 May 2013. Players born no earlier than 1 January 1990 were eligible for the tournament, meaning some participants were 23 years old as the 'under-21' limit applied at the start of the qualifying competition. Players in boldface have been capped at full international level at some point in their career. Players with a dagger had been given a full international cap by their country prior to the start of the tournament. ''Age, caps, goals and club as of 5 June 2013.'' Group A Head coach: Stuart Pearce England named their squad on 14 May 2013. Callum McManaman was ruled out with injury and replaced by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2013 UEFA European Under-21 Championship
2013 UEFA European Under-21 Championship, or simply the 2013 Euro Under-21, was the 19th staging of UEFA's UEFA European Under-21 Championship, European Under-21 Championship. The final tournament was hosted by Israel from 5–18 June 2013. The Israeli bid was chosen by UEFA's Executive Committee on 27 January 2011 in Nyon, Switzerland. This bid defeated the other bids from Bulgaria, Czech Republic, England and Wales. Spain national under-21 football team, Spain defended the title they won two years prior, winning their fourth championship after defeating Italy national under-21 football team, Italy 4–2 in the 2013 UEFA European Under-21 Championship Final, final. Qualification The draw for the group stage of qualifying for the 2013 UEFA European Under-21 Championship took place on 3 February in Nyon, Switzerland. 52 national teams took part in the qualifying. The group stage of qualifying began on 25 March 2011. There were a total of ten groups, consisting of five or six teams ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
UEFA European Under-21 Championship
The UEFA European Under-21 Championship, the UEFA Under-21 Championship or simply the Euro Under-21, is a biennial football competition contested by the European men's under-21 national teams of the UEFA member associations. Since 1992, the competition also serves as the UEFA qualification tournament for the Summer Olympics. Italy and Spain are the most successful teams in the tournament's history, having won five titles each. England are the current champions, having beaten Spain 1–0 in the 2023 final. History The competition in its current form has existed since 1978. It was preceded by the Under-23 Challenge Cup, which ran from 1967 to 1970. Bulgaria won the inaugural Challenge Cup in 1967, defeating East Germany 3–2. As defending champions, they faced randomly drawn "challengers" for a single match in Bulgaria. They retained the title three times, twice more in 1967 and once in 1968. By the final edition in 1970, only Bulgaria and Yugoslavia had won the competition ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2009 FIFA U-17 World Cup Squads
Group A Head coach: John Obuh Head coach: Marco Pezzaiuoli Head coach: Emilio Umanzor Head coach: José Luís Brown Group B Head coach: Lucho Nizzo Head coach: Yutaka Ikeuchi Head coach: José Luis González China Head coach: Dany Ryser Group C Head coach: Ali Doustimehr Head coach: Tariq Saigy Head coach: Ramiro Viafara Head coach: Albert Stuivenberg Group D Head coach: Abdullah Ercan Head coach: Rainer Willfeld Head coach: Juan Diego Quesada Head coach: Stephen Cain Group E Head coach: Ali Ebrahim Head coach: John Kaputa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2009 FIFA U-17 World Cup
The 2009 FIFA U-17 World Cup was the thirteenth tournament of the FIFA U-17 World Cup held in Nigeria from 24 October to 15 November 2009. Switzerland national under-17 football team, Switzerland won the tournament, beating the host team and holders, Nigeria national under-17 football team, Nigeria, with a solitary 63rd-minute goal separating the two teams. The Golden Ball to the Best Player was given to Nigeria national under-17 football team, Nigerian Sani Emmanuel; the World Cup Golden Boot, Golden Shoe for top scorer was given to Spain national under-17 football team, Spaniard Borja González, Borja, with five goals (although he tied with Nigeria national under-17 football team, Nigerian Sani Emmanuel, Uruguay national under-17 football team, Uruguayan Sebastián Gallegos, and Switzerland national under-17 football team, Swiss Haris Seferovic); the FIFA U-17 World Cup#Awards, Golden Glove was given to Switzerland national under-17 football team, Swiss Benjamin Siegrist; finally, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
FIFA U-17 World Cup
The FIFA U-17 World Cup, founded as the FIFA U-16 World Championship, later changed to U-17 in 1991 and to its current name in 2007, is the annual world championship of association football for male players under the age of 17 organized by ''Fédération Internationale de Football Association'' (FIFA). The reigning champions are Germany national football team, Germany, which won their first title at the 2023 FIFA U-17 World Cup, 2023 tournament. History The tournament was inspired by the Lion City Cup that was created by the Football Association of Singapore in 1977. The Lion City Cup was the first under-16 football tournament in the world. Following FIFA's then secretary-general Sepp Blatter's recommendation after he was in Singapore for the 1982 Lion City Cup, FIFA created the FIFA U-16 World Championship. The first edition was staged in 1985 FIFA U-16 World Championship, 1985 in China, and tournaments have been played every two years since then. It began as a competition for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2025 UEFA Nations League Finals
The 2025 UEFA Nations League Finals was the final tournament of the 2024–25 UEFA Nations League, 2024–25 edition of the UEFA Nations League, the fourth season of the international Association football, football competition involving the men's national teams of the 55 member associations of UEFA. The tournament was held from 4 to 8 June 2025 in Germany, and was contested by the four quarter-final winners from 2024–25 UEFA Nations League A, Nations League A. The tournament consisted of two semi-finals, a third place play-off and final to determine the champions of the UEFA Nations League. Spain national football team, Spain were the defending champions, having won the 2023 UEFA Nations League Finals, 2023 finals. Portugal national football team, Portugal won the 2025 UEFA Nations League final, final against Spain on penalties, following a 2–2 draw after Overtime (sports)#Association football, extra time, for their second Nations League title. Format The Nations League Fin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
