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On Wednesday of this week, interim CONCACAF president Alfredo Hawit gave the clearest signal yet
that the confederation will collaborate much more closely with CONMEBOL than they have in the past.
Will it be a merger in everything but name? Not yet, but significant factions within both groups
are considering the possibilities.
We had some upload issues with the podcast, but here's the podcast from this past week. Thad and I
discussed national team call ups, preseason news, the roster so far, my article about wanting a
Sporting KC/KC Brass merger. It's up for you on Posterous and on iTunes.
Good news. I think. Persires have merged with former Liga Primer Indonesia team Bali De Vata and
will play in the, for now, official Divisi Utama. Persires are from some unknown place on Sumatra
while Bali is bloody miles away.
If Persires do have any fans, and I'm sure they do, it is not known what they feel about this
merger.
A charming shot of an F.A. Vase match between Bemerton Heath Harlequins at their ground in
Wiltshire, England, against visitors Saltash United. Bemerton Heath were founded as recently as
1989, after a merger of three local clubs.
Photo taken on November 19, 2011 by Pitchside Photo on Flickr
A new youth soccer tournament created by the merger of the Chesterfield United Icebreaker and the
Kickers Invitational, The Ultimate Cup tournament features a Girls and Boys weekend, scheduled to
launch February 24-26, 2012 and March 2-4, 2012. Applications are available; click here for the
Girls Weekend application, and here for the Boys Weekend application.
Full Name: Evian Thonon Gaillard Football Club
City: Thonon-les-Bains
Founded: 2003 (1924)
Stadium: Parc des Sports (15,600)
Colors: Red, White
If you're looking for a football club with a convoluted history you've come to the right
place.
Full Name: Dijon Football Côte-d'Or
City: Dijon
Founded: April 29, 1998
Stadium: Stade Gaston Gérard (15,995)
Colors: Red, White
Dijon FCO (the most common name for this French club) were formed by the 1998 merger of two
rival Dijon clubs - Cercle Sportif Dijonnais et le Dijon FC with the goal of creating one club from
Dijon who could compete at the national level.
The second part of the Mapping Leicestershire series covers division 1 of the Leicestershire Senior
League:
View LSL Division 1 - 2011/12 in a larger map
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League) 3Belgrave2010 (prev.
Full Name: Stade Brestois 29
City: Brest
Founded: 1950
Stadium: Stade Francis-Le Blé (15,097)
Colors: Red, White
Brest were formed in 1950 by the merger of several local Brest clubs, most notably Armoricaine
de Brest (1903).
No surprise given their "issues."
But wonder what their response will be.
1.Learn, dynamically rebrand/engage and go again - (requires a massive change of strategy)
2. Head in the sand; and increase Croatian colours and imagery around the ground and celebrate the
annual winning of the ACT Premier League thru simply paying more dough.
This is the Second Qualifying Round of the FA Cup, isn't it? By this stage of the competition,
we would usually be wearing something approaching our winter woollies and sipping at Bovril which
remains scalding hot for three minutes for turning stone cold in the amount of time that it takes
to blink, but summer has come late this year, and Surrey is unusually temperate this afternoon.
This is the Second Qualifying Round of the FA Cup, isn't it? By this stage of the competition,
we would usually be wearing something approaching our winter woollies and sipping at Bovril which
remains scalding hot for three minutes for turning stone cold in the amount of time that it takes
to blink, but summer has come late this year, and Surrey is unusually temperate this afternoon.
Full Name: Professional Football Club Ludogorets Razgrad 1945
Bulgarian Name: Лудогорец азград
City: Razgrad
Founded: 1945 (2001)
Stadium: Ludogorets Arena (5000)
Colors: Green, White
Ludogorets Razgrad are the latest incarnation of professional football in the northeastern
Bulgarian city of Razgrad.
Formed in 2003 from the merger of lower league clubs FC Gaillard and FC Ville-la-Grand, Evian
Thonon Gaillard Football Club (commonly referred to as Evian TG or Evian) is playing in the French
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Currently fighting to get out of the relegation zone of the 2011 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A,
Clube Atlético Paranaense has launched two new retro jerseys celebrating the club's history. The
new shirts pay homage to the March 1924 merger of Internacional-PR and América-PR to form what is
now Atlético Paranaense.
Full Name: Oud-Heverlee Leuven
City: Leuven
Founded: 1957 (2002)
Stadium: Stadion Den Dreef (8000)
Colors: White
Previous: Zwarte Duivels Oud-Heverlee (1957-2002)
Nicknames: OHL, OH Leuven
Oud-Heverlee Leuven was formed by the merger of three clubs in the Leuvens area - K.
Featuring Germany World Cup 2006 and 2010 star Lukas Podolski, 1. FC Köln is a German professional
football club based in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia. It was formed in 1948 as a merger of the
clubs Kölner Ballspiel-Club 1901 and SpVgg Sülz 07. The club finished the 2010/11 German
Bundesliga season in a respectable 10th place.
ACF Fiorentina, commonly referred to as simply Fiorentina or La Viola, is a professional Italian
football club from Florence, Tuscany. Founded by a merger in 1926, Fiorentina has played at the
top-level of Italian football for the majority of their its existence. After climbing back up the
Italian football system in the early 2000s from Serie [.
Trabzonspor is a professional Turkish football club located in the city of Trabzon. Formed in 1967
through a merger of several Trabzon-based clubs, Trabzonspor is nicknamed Bordo-Mavililer
(Maroon-Blues). Starting its professional history in the 2.Lig, Trabzonspor earned promotion in
1974 and has been in the top-tier of Turkish, the Süper Lig, since.
This week's From the Byline to the Back Post is up for your listening pleasure. This week Thad and
I discuss the New York, LA, and New England Open Cup qualifier. We talk about the Teal Bunbury
rumors, the Gold Cup call ups and their potential impact on the roster, and the job security for
Peter Vermes.
It's not often anyone has all that much to say about Albion Rovers. So now that they've got
quite a good side and at the midway point of this two-legged play-off final look favourites to go
up to the second division, let me take a few moments to do so.
It doesn't help that they have a rather undistinguishable named.
Another crucial few days in Indonesian football with the FA having a meeting later this week, with
AFC and FIFA sending representatives, in Jakarta to elect a new leadership. The last meeting, in
Palembang, ended up a disaster and saw Nurdin Halid removed from his position as chairman.
The normalisation committee, charged by FIFA to try and organise new elections, have appealed
FIFA's decision to bar businessman Arifin Panigoro and military man George Toisutta and if
successfull they could stand.
The one constant in indoor soccer in the United States – change – continues.
The Major Indoor Soccer League announced a deal Monday that see the United Soccer Leagues
oversee the league starting next season.
"We are thrilled about the merger and are excited about the future of professional indoor
soccer," Milwaukee Wave owner and MISL vice chairman Jim Lindenberg said in a news
release.
Featuring Germany World Cup 2006 and 2010 star Lukas Podolski, 1. FC Köln is a German professional
football club based in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia. It was formed in 1948 as a merger of the
clubs Kölner Ballspiel-Club 1901 and SpVgg Sülz 07. The club finished the 2009/10 German
Bundesliga season in 13th place and is [.
One of English football's most desperate races at present is that to avoid the drop from the
Blue Square Premier at the end of this season. There are just four points separating Cambridge
United in sixteenth place and Altrincham in twenty-second position and, with Eastbourne Borough and
Histon already all but condemned, this means that any two from seven could join them, with just
five or six matches depending on which club we are talking about left to play.
The year is 1970. The Kansas City Chiefs have just defeated the Minnesota Vikings in Super Bowl IV,
evening the score at two wins each for the NFL and the AFL. It's now time for the merger between
the two leagues to take place. But instead of the Baltimore Colts, Cleveland Browns, and Pittsburgh
Steelers jumping to the new American Football Conference and making one 26 team league, the owners
instead decide to take a cue from European soccer and institute pro/rel in a major American sport
for the first time.
AFC Kempston Rovers 4 Northampton ON Chenecks 0 - United Counties League, Division
One
Kempston was once known as the largest village in England but is now a town. Until the 19th century
Kempston was a mainly rural parish. It was one of the largest in Bedfordshire with an area of 5,025
acres at the time of enclosure in 1804, and was in Redbournestoke Hundred.
It's been almost 12 months since DISH Network were the first TV provider to launch Fox Soccer
Channel in HD. Since then, slowly but surely, other major TV providers such as DirecTV, some Time
Warner regions and smaller cable providers have added the channel. Verizon FiOS customers have been
enduring an agonizing wait to find out when the channel will be added to their programming
guide.
The inaugural FIFA Ballon D'Or awards, a merger between the FIFA World awards and the longer
established France Football Ballon D'Or, has taken place in Zurich to honour football's finest in
2010. The winners are as follows:
- World Player of the Year - Lionel Messi
- Women's World Player of the Year - Marta (Brazil)
- Coach of the Year - Jose Mourinho
- Women's Coach of the Year - Silvia Neid (Germany)
- Team of the Year - Iker Casillas, Maicon, Lucio, Gerard Pique, Carles Puyol, Wesley
Sneijder, Xavi, Andres Iniesta, Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo, David Villa
- Fair Play Award - Haiti U-17 women's team
- Presidential Award - Archbishop Desmond Tutu
- Puskas award (goal of the year) - Hamit Altintop
-Sean O'Conor
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