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Softball. Fastpitch softball, Chicago, Olympic sports, American football, 1996 Summer Olympics, International Softball Federation, International Olympic Committee, National Collegiate Athletic Association. ... Read more

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Soccer has been written primarily for team trainers, coaches and athletes involved in the game, but should also be of interest to doctors and other health professionals involved in the treatment of soccer players. The coverage is comprehensive, with chapters on every aspect of the game from tactics to nutrition, and from the history of soccer to injury treatment and prevention. Special chapters deal with the female soccer player, the referee, and the goalkeeper and the role of the team physician. ... Read more

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Chapters: Membership of Kosovo in international sports federations, Football Superleague of Kosovo, Olympic Committee of Kosovo, Football Federation of Kosovo, Liga e Parë, Siguria Superleague, Kosovo national basketball team, Basketball Federation of Kosova, Tennis Federation of Kosovo, Handball Federation of Kosovo, Table Tennis Federation of Kosovo,. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 38. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The following sports federations have either admitted or have received the application from Kosovo to be admitted into their membership. Kosovo was a part of several federations in the 1990s, but have applied to be a part of more after their 17 February 2008 declaration of independence from Serbia. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) does not recognize the Olympic Committee of Kosovo, created in 1992. Although the president of the IOC's international relations commission announced on 17 February 2008 that the IOC was set to recognise Kosovo, on the following day an IOC spokesperson specified the requirements that Kosovo needs to meet before IOC recognition, most notably its recognition as an independent state by the United Nations. In October 2008, the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) rejected the Football Federation of Kosovo (FFK) application for affiliation, as it was deemed not to comply with article 10 of the FIFA statutes, which stipulates that only "an independent state recognised by the international community" may be admitted. As a result, Kosovo cannot play any friendly FIFA matches, and many Kosovan soccer players play for other national teams, notably Albania's. In November 2009, FIFA organised a meeting between officials of Kosovo and Serbia football associations and Geoff Thompson, where according to the spokesman of F...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=18865067 ... Read more

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Chapters: Ecuador at the Olympics, Ecuadorian Football Clubs, National Sports Teams of Ecuador, Liga Deportiva Universitaria de Quito, Barcelona Sporting Club, Club Sport Emelec, Ecuador National Football Team, Club Social Y Deportivo Macará, Ecuador at the 2008 Summer Olympics, Club Deportivo El Nacional, List of Football Clubs in Ecuador, Sociedad Deportivo Quito, Club Deportivo Cuenca, Club Sport Patria, Club Deportivo Espoli, Liga Deportiva Universitaria de Portoviejo, Club Deportivo Universidad Católica Del Ecuador, Centro Deportivo Olmedo, Club Social Y Deportivo Independiente José Terán, Club Deportivo Técnico Universitario, Ecuador at the 2000 Summer Olympics, Manta Fútbol Club, Ecuador at the 1996 Summer Olympics, Sociedad Deportiva Aucas, Ecuador at the 2004 Summer Olympics, Club Deportivo Audaz Octubrino, Club 9 de Octubre, América de Quito, Club Atlético Guayaquil, Ecuador at the 1992 Summer Olympics, Ecuador at the 1988 Summer Olympics, Ecuador at the 1924 Summer Olympics, Ecuador at the 1980 Summer Olympics, Panamá Sporting Club, Ecuador National Futsal Team, Sociedad Deportiva Flamengo, Club Deportivo Esmeraldas Petrolero, Ecuador at the 1968 Summer Olympics, Ecuador at the 1984 Summer Olympics, Liga Deportiva Universitaria de Loja, Deportivo Azogues, Club Deportivo River Plate Ecuador, Club Deportivo Atlético Audaz, Imbabura Sporting Club, Club Deportivo Universidad Técnica de Cotopaxi, Club Social Y Deportivo Universidad Tecnológica Equinoccial, Club Atlético Green Cross, Rocafuerte Fútbol Club, Club Deportivo Municipal Cañar, Club de Deportes Paladín, Liga Deportiva Universitaria Estudiantil, Club Social, Cultural Y Deportivo Grecia, Ecuador at the 1976 Summer Olympics, Club Deportivo Saquisilí, Ecuador at the 1972 Summer Olympics, Club Social, Cultural Y Deportivo Brasilia, Club Deportivo Quevedo, Ecuador National Baseball Team, Liga Deportiva Universitaria de Cuenca, Ecuador Davis Cup Team, Ecuador Fed C...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=2296369 ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Palaestra, published by Challenge Publications Limited on January 1, 1992. The length of the article is 412 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Soccer/football. (Official Sports) (The 1991 ISSOG: Special Olympics International)
Author: Claudine Sherrill
Publication: Palaestra (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 1, 1992
Publisher: Challenge Publications Limited
Volume: v8Issue: n2Page: p25(2)

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Aruba at the Olympics, Aruban Sportspeople, Football in Aruba, Sports Venues in Aruba, Tennis in Aruba, Aruba National Football Team, Aruba at the 2008 Summer Olympics, Aruba at the 2000 Summer Olympics, Arubaanse Voetbal Bond, Aruba at the 2004 Summer Olympics, Aruba at the 1992 Summer Olympics, Aruba at the 1988 Summer Olympics, Trinidad Stadium, Aruba at the 1996 Summer Olympics, Aruba Davis Cup Team, Fiderd Vis. Excerpt: The Aruba national football team is the national team of Aruba and is controlled by the Arubaanse Voetbal Bond. The following players were called up for the Caribbean Championships 2008 Group Stage in July 2008. ... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=1198098 ... Read more

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Chapters: Nanjing Olympic Sports Center. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 199. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Nanjing Olympic Sports Center (Simplified Chinese: ) is located in Nanjing Hexi New City, covers an area of 89.6 hectares, with a total construction area of about 401,000 square meters. As the main venue of the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics and of the 10th National Games of the People's Republic of China, the Nanjing Olympic Sports Center, Jiangsu Province, the largest since the founding of the social utility projects, is also a period of 15 construction projects in Jiangsu, one of large-scale government investment. Olympic Sports Center with a total investment of about 4 billion yuan RMB, from Australia's architectural design firm HOK Sports designed in 2002, January 28 officially started in 2005 put into operation successively participate in the project construction nearly 200 units in the main building by a large stadium, a gymnasium, and swimming pool, tennis center and sports science and technology centers; roads, parking area is about 15 million square meters; green area of nearly 40 million square meters. Stadium invest 869.8 million yuan into the construction area of 136.34 thousand square meters, with 62000 seats in the audience could be organized track and field, soccer and many other sporting events and large-scale performances. Building at the top of dual-surface structure, two red arch outward tilt 45 degrees up to 361.58 meters span for the Olympic logo. Stadium track with the IAAF finds that exemption of the Italian brand "Mondo (Mondo)", sports a large color screen is the Belgian brand "Barco (Barco)", north and south two screens a total area of 560 square meters, for the nation most. Tenth National Games stadium hosted the opening and closing ceremonies...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=5305909 ... Read more

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The culture of Croatia has roots in a long history: the Croatian people have been inhabiting the area for fourteen centuries, but there are important remnants of the earlier periods still preserved in the country. Ancient monuments from the Paleolithic era are very poor and consist of simple stone and bone objects. Some of the earliest remaining historical features include 100,000 year old bones of a Neandertal man near Krapina. The most interesting Copper Age or Eneolithic finds are from Vu?edol culture . Out of that culture sprung out Bronze Age Vinkovci culture that is recognizable by bronze fibulas that were replacing objects like needles and buttons. Bronze Age culture of Illyrians, ethnic group with distinct culture and art form started to organize itself in 7th century BC. Numerous monumental sculptures are preserved, as well as walls of citadel Nezakcijnear Pula, one of numerous Istrian cities from Iron Age. ... Read more

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Chapters: Bolivia at the Olympics, Football in Bolivia, Rugby Union in Bolivia, Sports Festivals in Bolivia, Tennis in Bolivia, 1997 Copa América, Bolivia National Football Team, Liga de Fútbol Profesional Boliviano, 1963 South American Championship, Bolivian Football Regional Leagues, 1981 South American Championships in Athletics, Lfpb - 2007, Copa Simón Bolívar, Tahuichi Academy, Bolivia National Under-20 Football Team, Bolivia at the 2008 Summer Olympics, Bolivia at the 1992 Summer Olympics, 2009 Bolivarian Games, Bolivia at the 2000 Summer Olympics, Bolivia at the 1984 Summer Olympics, La Pesada Verde, Bolivian Football Federation, Bolivia at the 1988 Summer Olympics, Bolivia at the 2004 Summer Olympics, 1978 Southern Cross Games, Bolivia at the 1996 Summer Olympics, 1993 Bolivarian Games, Bolivia at the 1972 Summer Olympics, 1977 Bolivarian Games, Bolivia at the 1976 Summer Olympics, Bolivia at the 1936 Summer Olympics, Bolivia at the 1968 Summer Olympics, Bolivia at the 1980 Winter Olympics, Bolivia at the 1956 Winter Olympics, Bolivia at the 1984 Winter Olympics, Bolivia at the 1964 Summer Olympics, Bolivia Davis Cup Team, Bolivia at the 1988 Winter Olympics, Bolivia at the 1992 Winter Olympics, Bolivia Fed Cup Team, Bolivia Women's National Football Team. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 126. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Bolivia hosted the Copa América for the second time in its 38th edition. It was held from June 11 to June 29, 1997. It was organised by CONMEBOL, South America's football governing body. There is no qualifying for the final tournament. All South American countries (10 countries) participate, along with two more invited countries, making a total of twelve teams competing in the tournament. In the 1997 edition, Costa Rica and Mexico were the invitees. T...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=1031844 ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Comoros at the Olympics, Football in Comoros, Comoros National Football Team, Comoros at the 2008 Summer Olympics, Fédération Comorienne de Football, Comoros at the 2004 Summer Olympics, Comoros at the 1996 Summer Olympics, Comoros at the 2000 Summer Olympics. Excerpt: The Comoros national football team is the national football team of Comoros, which is controlled by the Fédération Comorienne de Football. It was formed in 1979, joined CAF in 2003, and became a FIFA member in 2005. The first matches with full FIFA recognition were Arab Cup 2009 qualifying matches in Yemen in December 2006, and included a 4-2 victory over Djibouti, which is considered the largest win in the Comorian team's history. In 2007, Comoros first entered qualification for the World Cup and the African Nations Cup for the 2010 tournaments, but lost in the preliminary round 2-10 on aggregate to Madagascar. The following players were called up for the 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification. ... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=2681102 ... Read more

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Chapters: Chad at the Olympics, Football in Chad, Rugby Union in Chad, Dambe, Chad National Football Team, Chad at the 2008 Summer Olympics, Chad at the 2000 Summer Olympics, Fédération Tchadienne de Football, Chad at the 1988 Summer Olympics, Chad at the 1972 Summer Olympics, Chad at the 1964 Summer Olympics, Chad at the 1984 Summer Olympics, Chad at the 1992 Summer Olympics, Chad at the 1996 Summer Olympics, Chad at the 2004 Summer Olympics, Chad at the 1968 Summer Olympics, Chad National Rugby Union Team, List of Football Clubs in Chad. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 50. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Dambe, also known as Kokawa is a form of boxing associated with the Hausa people of West Africa. Historically, Dambe included a wrestling component, known as Kokawa, but today it is essentially a striking art. The tradition is dominated by Hausa butcher caste groups, and over the last century evolved from clans of butchers traveling to farm villages at harvest time, integrating a fighting challenge by the outsiders into local harvest festival entertainment. It was also traditionally practised as a way for men to get ready for war, and many of the techniques and terminology allude to warfare. Today, companies of boxers travel, performing outdoor matches accompanied by ceremony and drumming, throughout the traditional Hausa homelands of northern Nigeria, southern Niger and southwestern Chad. The name "Dambe" derives from the Hausa word for "boxing", and appears in languages like Bole as Dembe. Boxers are called by the Hausa word "daæmaænga" Although there are no formal weight classes, usually competitors in Dambe matches are fairly matched in size. Matches last three rounds. There is no time-limit to these rounds. Instead, they end when: 1) there is no activity, 2) one of the pa...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=9786394 ... Read more

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Cultural History of Sports
This is a collection of essays about the effects that major sports events have had on countries that hosted the events. The Olympics and Football World Cup are featured, and the authors of each essay explore different aspects of how each society reacted to some peculiar facet of the experience. In Argentina during the 1978 World Cup, a brutal repression of leftist dissidence was going on while the home country was battling for the trophy they eventually won. The author explains how the Cup experience unified even those being imprisoned and tortured with their right wing captors in the headiness of nationalist sports fervor. Similarly, another essay looks at the way South Korea's and Japan's peoples behaved during the joint World Cup they co-hosted in 2002; whereas the Japanese were reserved to the point of banning street viewings on large screen TVs of the matches, the Koreans enthusiastically embraced the tournament that saw their squad advance to the semi-finals. Some essays are more interesting than others, always an issue with such collections of varying writing skills. But all in all a useful summary of the cultural impact that global sports can have. ... Read more

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Chapters: Egypt at the Olympics, National Sports Teams of Egypt, Egypt National Football Team, Egypt at the 2008 Summer Olympics, Egypt National Cricket Team, Egypt National Under-20 Football Team, Egypt at the 1920 Summer Olympics, Egypt at the 1924 Summer Olympics, Egypt at the 2000 Summer Olympics, Egypt Men's National Volleyball Team, Egypt at the 1984 Summer Olympics, Egypt at the 2004 Summer Olympics, Egypt Men's National Water Polo Team, Egypt National Futsal Team, Egypt at the 1988 Summer Olympics, Egypt at the 1992 Summer Olympics, Egypt at the 1976 Summer Olympics, Egypt at the 1952 Summer Olympics, Egypt at the 1936 Summer Olympics, Egypt at the 1960 Summer Olympics, Egypt at the 1996 Summer Olympics, Egypt at the 1928 Summer Olympics, Egypt at the 1948 Summer Olympics, Egypt at the 1968 Summer Olympics, Egypt at the 1956 Summer Olympics, Egypt at the 1984 Winter Olympics, Egyptian Olympic Committee, Egypt at the 1972 Summer Olympics, Egypt at the 1912 Summer Olympics, Egypt Davis Cup Team, Egypt at the 1964 Summer Olympics, Egypt Fed Cup Team, Egypt National Beach Handball Team. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 137. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Egypt national football team (Arabic: ), nicknamed The Pharaohs (Arabic: ), is the national team of Egypt and is administered by the Egyptian Football Association. They are the current African Champions having won the 2010 African Nations Cup. They are also the most successful African team at Confederation level, winning the ACN seven times: the inaugural African Nations Cup in Sudan 1957, and also won the tournament in the United Arab Republic 1959, Egypt 1986, Burkina Faso 1998, Egypt 2006, Ghana 2008 and Angola 2010.In the Fifa ranking Egypt was placed as the number 10 best team worldwide making it the highest ranked ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=1022953 ... Read more

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Edson Arantes do Nascimento is one of the most successful sports players in history.You probably know this Brazilian soccer player by his nickname – Pelé.Pelé played soccer professionally for 20 years between 1957 and 1977.In this time he went from being a young sporting prodigy to the most admired and distinguished soccer player in history.Pelé referred to his beloved sport as “the beautiful game” and he is one of soccer history’s star players.In his accomplished career, he displayed such skill and talent that he won awards spanning all sporting fields.In 1999, the International Olympic Committee named Pelé the “Athlete of the Century”.

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Ages 8-10. Beginning readers can practice their reading skills with this 6-book set that introduces some of the sports played during the Olympic Games. The Easy Olympic Sports Readers are fun-to-read for primary grade children and are highly motivational. These 16-page books are also filled with exciting full color photographs. ... Read more

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Great Early Reader for Sports Fan!
My 6-year-old son is a new independent reader and a huge soccer fan.This was a great book for him to read himself.The pictures are big and of players he knows. ... Read more