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Jul
20
2009

What Can and Cannot be Gained From Pre-Season Friendlies

After a summer of discussion, controversy and the dominance of Manchester City and Real Madrid in the transfer market, club football has finally returned to our lives albeit in a non-competitive format.

Obviously after the seemingly endless...

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Jul
15
2009

Where’s Willer? A Brazilian in the East

Summer in the east. After a short break in June which felt almost as long as the frozen abyss of winter, football across eastern Europe is underway once more on green fields and under blue skies, half a continent and a whole world away from the frenzied...

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Jul
7
2009

Celtic search for salvation and a league to play in

What is it with teams from Leeds overstretching themselves in pursuit of glory? First there was Leeds United, the club that was one of the biggest teams in England in the 70s and Champions League semi-finalists as recently as 2001. Their fall was as...

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Jul
5
2009

Football Federations Around The Globe – A Look At The World Of Football

The world of football is made up of 6 main football federations; UEFA, CONCACAF, CONMEBOL, AFC, CAF & OFC. These governing bodies look after different areas of world football, roughly along the lines of the geographical continents of the world.

Each...

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Jul
4
2009

FIFA (International Federation of Association Football)

The first thing you’ll notice about FIFA is that the name should be IFAF. Well fear not, the governing body of world football isn’t dyslexic, it’s just that the name in the title is the English translation, it’s proper name...

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Jul
4
2009

AFC (Asian Football Confederation)

The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) governs the footballing community of Asia and also now includes Australia, but it doesn’t include a number of Asian (or part-Asian) countries, who are part of UEFA. The headquarters are located in Kuala...

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Jul
4
2009

UEFA (Union of European Football Associations)

UEFA is the governing body of European football and is by far the most lucrative and most watched of all the 6 confederations of FIFA. UEFA’s influence over the world of football is unprecedented and in the last 20 years its success has magnified...

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Jul
4
2009

CAF (Confederation of African Football)

The Confederation of African Football (or Confédération Africaine de Football as it’s known to it’s mom) covers the giant continent of Africa and is the federation that follows it’s geographical continent the closest. It has the...

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Jul
4
2009

CONCACAF (Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football)

CONCACAF stands for (take a deep breath) the Confederation of North, Central...

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Jul
4
2009

CONMEBOL (Confederación Sudamericana de Fútbol)

CONMEBOL is the South American Football Confederation (officially known as the Confederación Sudamericana de Fútbol)...

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