Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Football

Q1
The winner of most fifa cups is Brazil.
They have won 5 Fifa cups.
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Q2
Diego Armando Maradona was born in Lanus, Argentina. 30 October 1960.
He is a former argentinian football player.
currently Diego is the manager of the Argentinian national team.
He is also considered to be the best footballer of all time (Sharing the title with Pele).
Over his football career Diego has played for Argentinos Juniors, Boca Juniors, Barcelona, Newwells Old Boys, Napoli.
He first started playing football for a team at the age of 10. He became the staple of Los Cebollitas.
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Q3

Andrew Watson is considered to be the first Black football player who played at an international level.
He was born in 18 may 1857 in Demerara, British Guiana.
Although Andrew was the first black football player to play in an international level. The first proffesional black football player is considered to be Arthur Warton. Born in Ghana.

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Q4

The First Description of a football match was written by William FitzStephen somewhere in 1170.
He described it as a game that most of the youths in england went to play after dinner.
At the time the game was called Ball. It was a very popular game. William described that people arrived to the scene on horses to watch the game.


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Q5

The first player to score 2000 points in NFL was George Blanda
He is also known as "The Grand Old Man"
He was born in 17 September 1927
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Q6

David Beckham is a famous footballer. He’s real name is David Robert Joseph Beckham.

He was born May 2 1975 in Leytonstone. Thanks to he’s father Ted who was a Manchester United fan David was introduced to football. Every Christmas David would get a new football from Santa Claus. He would first play with his father and later with his friends. He regularly played football in Ridgeway Park. The first team he played for was the Ridgeway Rovers which was coached by his own father.

Beckham has played for 4 teams throughout his career.

Manchester United:1993-2003

Real Madrid:2003-2007

Los Angeles Galaxy: 2007-20??

Currently David is Loan player for AC Milan

David Beckham is a footballer known by most of the world. He could be considered the “Poster boy” of football because most people would refer to him when asked about football. David is also referred to as “DB7” or the bit inappropriate “Golden Balls”.

He got the name “Golden Balls” from his tattooist. He was named so because he sat trough a six hour session of tattooing without twitching once from the agonizing pain.

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Q7

Edison Arantes do Nascimento A.K.A Pelé was born in 1940, 23 October. He is considered to be the best
footballer of all time. During his career he claimed the title King Of Football. He is the only player in the world to own three World Cup winning medals.
Right now Pele is 69 years old and retired. He has been retired since 1977



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Q8

Gridiron is the American style football. The game descends from Rugby football.

It consists of bits from other types of football mixed together. It is a highly tactical game with lots of football codes. It is named “Gridiron” because of its field of play. It consists a series of parallel lines which resemble a gridiron. It is mostly played in the United States and Canada. The most famous team is surely the Dallas Cowboys. They are also known as “America’s Team”. they have been known for having more fans at away games than the home team playing.
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Q9
There is evidence of ball games being played with feet in ancient Rome and Greek in the period during 300 BC. There is also evidence of the game being played in the Chinese and Japanese culture. However, the game became very popular in the Middle ages in Europe and there were matches held especially in England. The proper rules for the game were established in the 1800s and later adjusted in the 1900s

Q10
Estonia is ranked 102. place in the Coca Cola/Fifa World Ranking
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