Some places allowed carrying the ball; in others it could only be kicked. Some towns allowed pushing and tripping of opponent; others did not. Imagine how hard it was when teams from towns with different rules met. The first attempt to create unified rules came in 1862. The next year brought the first meeting of the Football Association‚ an English group that still exists today. The result of these meetings was that two distinct games emerged. One did not allow holding the ball. We now call that
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become like his idol‚ Zico. In 1988‚ Ronaldo joined his first club team‚ Tennis Club Valqueire‚ where he played indoor soccer. He played with a size 2 ball on a basketball court. The ball had very little bounce which meant the ball was always on the ground. This game was designed to encourage foot control and is credited with being the reason why Brazilian players are so skillful. Ronaldo started his first game with this club team on the bench‚ where they selected him as cover for the goalkeeper.
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weekend as a young child‚ Casillas forgot to post his father’s football predictions on the weekend his father had correctly predicted all 14 results. The family lost out on an estimated €1.2m (£1m).[10] Real Madrid[edit] Casillas at the Estadio Santiago Bernabéu Casillas started his career in Real Madrid’s youth system‚ known as La Fábrica‚ during the 1990–91 season. On 27 November 1997 at age 16 he was first called up to the first team to face Rosenborg in Champions League‚ but it wasn’t until
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considered by experts and fans to be one of the greatest football players of all time.[2][3] He is one of only three men to have won the FIFA World Player of the Year award three times‚ along with Zinedine Zidane and Lionel Messi. He won his first Ballon d ’Or in 1997 and won the award again in 2002. Considered by many the most complete striker in the past thirty years‚ in 2007 he was named a member of the best starting eleven of all-time by France Football and was named to the FIFA 100‚ a list of the greatest
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DEUTSCHES INSTITUT FÜR JAPANSTUDIEN Harald Dolles & Sten Söderman Globalization of Sports The Case of Professional Football and its International Management Challenges Working Paper 05/1 Contact authors: Dr. Harald Dolles Deutsches Institut für Japanstudien E-mail: dolles@dijtokyo.org Prof. Dr. Sten Söderman School of Business‚ Stockholm University E-mail: sod@fek.su.se ドイツ・日本研究所 Deutsches Institut für Japanstudien German Institute for Japanese Studies Kudan Minami
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The Legend of Football Malaysia By hasnady1987 | October 2010 Zoom InZoom Out Page 1 of 2 Mokhtar Dahari (13 November 1953 – 11 July 1991) was a Malaysian footballplayer from Setapak‚ Selangor (now Kuala Lumpur). He was one of the best players in Asia in the 1970s. He was a legend for Malaysia. Born in Setapak‚ Mokhtar showed interest in playing football at an early age. He played for his school and later for his home state‚ Selangor FA. He attended secondary school at Victoria Institution‚ Kuala
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(Brazil‚ pp. 1-5). Soccer is a source of great national pride for Brazil‚ and it is a huge passion for Brazilians of all ages. First‚ of course‚ the history of the Brazilian national soccer team. Charles Miller brought futebol‚ which means soccer in Portuguese‚ to Brazil in 1885. At first‚ it was only practiced in private clubs by young men from elite and rich families. The Brazilian Football Confederation was founded in 1914. The national soccer team‚ also founded in 1914 and affiliated with FIFA
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will be rather different from most of other papers you will receive and this will have following reasons: We chose to focus on the German football club FC Bayern Munich and apply some of the concepts of Organizational Behavior on the new appearance of this club. We think that leading a global company has to some extent similarities to leading an international football club‚ due to the fact that hierarchical structures (employees‚ Managers‚ CEOs etc.) are
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plays for Serie A club Juventus and for the Italian national team. He is usually deployed as a deep-lying playmaker for both Juventus and Italy and is regarded as a leading exponent of this position.[3] Praised for his technique‚ dribbling‚ control‚ incredible vision‚ inventive play and his accurate passing ability‚ he is also a set-piece specialist and is known for his long distance shooting and passing.[4][5] Fellow players on the Italian team gave him the nickname "l’architetto" (the architect)
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Soccer is widely regarded as the most popular sport in the world‚ in terms of participation and the number of fans who watch the game. ‘The Federation International de Football Association’‚ commonly known as FIFA‚ is the governing body for the World game. FIFA governs and regulates all major competitions‚ both at club and national level and helps to oversee and uphold the rules of the game‚ both on and off the field of play‚ and organise all the major world soccer competitions. Although FIFA is
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