FIFA World Cup
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The 1930 FIFA World Cup: The Inaugural Chapter of Football History The 1930 FIFA World Cup stands as a landmark event in the history of sports, marking the beginning of what would become the most prestigious football tournament in the world. Held in Uruguay from July 13 to July 30, 1930, this inaugural edition of
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The Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA; /ˈfiːfə/ FEE-fə), meaning International Federation of Association Football, is the global governing body of association football, beach soccer, and futsal. Founded on 21 May 1904, FIFA was established to oversee international competition among the national associations of Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain (represented by Real Madrid
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The Netherlands has produced some of the greatest football players in the world. The Dutch are proud of their footballing history. My hometown of Geleen is where Dutch professional football originated. However, there are some football stars we are not proud of. Gejus van der Meulen was a goalkeeper of HFC and the Dutch national
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Now that the FIFA World cup is well on its way, it might be a good time to have a look at the history of Football. I will be referring to the sport as Football and not soccer, because the name is Associated Football. It is one of the most if not the most popular
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In general, I don’t do blogs pointing out individuals, but sometimes I feel I have to. Regardless of what you think of Ronaldo as a person, if you really love football, especially international football, you have to agree with me that Ronaldo should never ever play again. Of course, most of the players have done
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This is one of those forgotten battles you don’t hear about in history classes. It was a battle between Hungary and Brazil. But as you can guess from the picture above it wasn’t a battle during any war but fought on a football pitch during the 1954 World Cup in Switzerland. The score was 43-3
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No this is not a piece on World War 2 or any other war for that matter,although it is often said that football is war. The Battle of Santiago is the name given to a particularly infamous football match during the 1962 FIFA World Cup. It was a game played between host Chile and Italy
History of Sorts 
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