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Beckham earns whopping 10.7 million pounds, doubling his payout

Saturday, November 7, 2009

Ace midfielder David Beckham has raked in a whopping 10.7 million pounds last year in sponsorship deals, doubling his payout from the previous 12 months.Beckham boosted his fortune by endorsing a range of goods including Armani and adidas.It is believed his off-the-pitch earnings were given a massive boost by the success of his raunchy Armani underwear ads, the Daily Star reports.The dad-of-three’s firm Footwork Productions enjoyed a massive cash injection in 2008, according to Companies House statistics.After taking home 5.2 million pounds in 2007, Becks’ sponsorship pay packet grew to a handsome 10.7 million pounds last year.The figures show the England star raked in almost 30,000 pounds a day, without his huge football salary.It proved a lucrative 12 months as Beckham also kept his crown as the world’s richest footballer in the annual players’ rich list.

Manipur wins All India Women''s Football title

Thursday, October 15, 2009

Manipur today lifted Pempa Dorji memorial 1st All India Women''s Football Championship defeating Orissa 3-2 in a tie-breaker in the final played at Paljor Stadium here. For Manipur, S Ibeyaima Devi, S Meera Devi and L Ashrani Devi converted the penalties, while Sasmita Malik and Alochana Senapati scored for Orissa.

The two teams were locked 0-0 at full time to force the result into a tiebreaker. Orissa''s Seeta Sharma was named the best player of the tournament.

Montevideo: A narrow 1-0 win in Uruguay helped Argentina to seal their place at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. Honduras, Switzerland and Slovak

HAMBURG, Germany: Germany, already through to the 2010 World Cup, needed a last-gasp equaliser by striker Lukas Podolski to grab a 1-1 draw with eliminated Finland in their final qualifier on Wednesday.

Germany, who beat second-placed Russia 1-0 on Saturday to seal top spot in Group Four, went behind after 11 minutes.

The hosts failed to clear a header by Roman Eremenko and the ball landed at the feet of Jonathan Johansson, who netted on his 100th international appearance.

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Having made six changes to the line-up which beat Russia, Germany looked uninspired, failing to create a single scoring chance in the first half.

Lacking stability in their backline and clinical finishing in attack despite playing with three strikers, the Germans were facing what looked like their first defeat by Finland in 86 years.

Finnish striker Jari Litmanen put the ball into the net early in the second half but his effort was ruled off side.

The Germans gradually upped the tempo and the arrivals on the pitch of midfielder Mesut Ozil and striker Miroslav Klose added much-needed pace.

With fans jeering throughout the second half, it was Ozil who lifted the ball into the box, the Finnish defence scrambled to clear and Klose found Podolski to slot home with seconds left.

Argentina clinch World Cup berth

Montevideo: A narrow 1-0 win in Uruguay helped Argentina to seal their place at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.

Honduras, Switzerland and Slovakia also earned spots in the 32-nation field.

Mario Bolatti scored in the 84th minute to help Maradona's boys to grab the final automatic berth for next year's tournament.

Brazil (9-2-7) finished first in South America with 34 points, one ahead of Chile and Paraguay (10-5-3), which had earlier clinched the first three berths from South America.

Argentina (8-6-4), who would have missed their first World Cup since 1970 if they had lost, wound up fourth with 28 points and will go to the tournament for the 10th straight time.

"Thanks to my players, today I was consecrated as a coach," Argentina's Diego Maradona said defiantly during post-match remarks laced with profanities. "We are in the World Cup with full honors."

'Giving Becks man of the match award like giving Obama the Nobel'

London: A bewildered England coach Fabio Capello said that the naming of sub David Beckham as England's Man of the Match against Belarus despite playing for just 31 minutes had left him completely flummoxed.

"Yes, I was surprised by that one. I just thought it was like Barack Obama getting the Nobel Peace Prize after eight months as USA President," The Sun quoted Capello, as saying.

Beckham was nominated by former Manchester United teammate Steve Bruce, who was analysing the match for ITV.

England boss Fabio Capello grills Rio Ferdinand twice

The LA Galaxy superstar admitted: "I don't know how I got that one. Thanks Brucie. I played with him, of course."

Sunderland boss Bruce insisted: "For me, David had the biggest impact on the game even though he was only on for 30 minutes. He is desperate to get on that plane to South Africa and tonight he lifted the whole occasion. You can't deny his range of passing and it's great for him that he can still play balls like he did out there tonight."

Beckham, 34, has now won 115 England caps and is near to completing another loan move to AC Milan to keep himself in the World Cup frame.

India's Sania Mirza stormed into the $220,000 Japan Open tennis quarterfinals with a 6-4, 6-3 win over Ukraine's Viktoriya Kutuzova in the second roun

London: Saudi royal Prince Faisal al-Saud has said that he is "close" to concluding a deal with Liverpool co-owner George Gillett.

According to The Telegraph, Gillett arrived in Riyadh on Tuesday night for talks with Prince Faisal, ostensibly on the subject of setting up branded academies in the Middle East and north Africa, as well as continuing discussions over the sale of part or all of Gillett's 50 per cent holding in the club.

'Giving Becks man of the match award like giving Obama the Nobel'

"Our negotiations to buy shares in Liverpool are ongoing. Meetings are taking place and we might be in the final stages in the coming days," Prince Faisal said.

Tom Hicks, Gillett's partner at Anfield, appeared to give his blessing to Gillett departing should he receive a suitable offer by agreeing to forego his right to veto any attempt to sell out.

FIFA World Cup History

Tuesday, October 13, 2009

207 teams have competed to qualiy for the FIFA World Cup Finals, 78 of them qualified at least once, 11 out of these made it to final match, and only seven has won, Brazil alone crowned with five victories. This is the glimpse of FIFA World Cup.

Jules Rimbet, the third president of FIFA, in the 1920s, led a group of visionary French football administrators to bring the world’s strongest national football teams together to compete for the title of World Champions. This gave birth to the first ever FIFA World Cup. It was organized in Uruguay in 1930 and to continue it once in every four years.

Three World Cups were held in the 1930s. The 1942 and 1946 World Cups could not make its presence due to World War II. However, the tournament resumed in 1950.

The earlier FIFA World Cups were held in the Americas and Europe alternatively. After 1998, there was a change in the system. Now the host country is chosen in a vote by FIFA’s executive committee. It is done under a single transferable vote system and is made six years in advance of the tournament.

FIFA World Cup Summary

Year	Host	Winner	Date	Runner Up
1930	Uruguay	Uruguay	2-Apr	Argentina
1934	Italy	Italy	1-Feb (after extra time)	Czechoslovakia
1938	France	Italy	2-Apr	Hungary
1950	Brazil	Uruguay	[20]	Brazil
1954	Switzerland	Germany	2-Mar	Hungary
1958	Sweden	Brazil	2-May	Sweden
1962	Chile	Brazil	1-Mar	Czechoslovakia
1966	England	England	2-Apr	Germany
1970	Mexico	Brazil	1-Apr	Italy
1974	West Germany	Germany	1-Feb	Netherlands
1978	Argentina	Argentina	1-Mar	Netherlands
1982	Spain	Italy	1-Mar	Germany
1986	Mexico	Argentina	2-Mar	Germany
1990	Italy	Germany	Jan-00	Argentina
1994	USA	Brazil	0 - 0 (3 - 2 - On Penalties)	Italy
1998	France	France	Mar-00	Brazil
2002	South Korea & Japan	Brazil	Feb-00	Germany
2006	Germany	Italy	9-July	France

FIFA World Cup Records

Largest margin of victory: Hungary 9-0 South Korea, 1954; Yugoslavia 9-0 Zaire 1974; Hungary 10-1 El Salvador, 1982
Most goals scored by one player in a game: Oleg Salenko scored 5 goals for Russia vs Cameroon in the 1994 World Cup.
Fastest goal from kickoff: Hakan ªükür, 11 seconds, Turkey vs South Korea, 2002
Most World Cup tournament appearances: Antonio Carbajal (Mexico, 1950-1966) and Lothar Matthäus (West Germany and Germany, 1982-1998), 5
Most World Cup match appearances: Lothar Matthäus, 25
Most goals scored: Gerd Müller (West Germany 1970-1974), 14
Most goals scored in one tournament: Just Fontaine (France), 13, 1958
Oldest player to score a goal: Roger Milla, 42 years and 39 days, Cameroon vs Russia, 1994
Most goals scored in a World Cup qualifier: 31, Australia, Australia 31-0 American Samoa, 2002 qualification.

FIFA World Cup Awards

The Adidas Golden Shoe (formerly called the Golden Shoe, or, sometimes, the Golden Boot, first awarded in 1930) for top goal scorer.
The Adidas Golden Ball for best player (formerly called the Golden Ball, first awarded in 1982).
The Yashin Award for best goalkeeper (first awarded in 1994).
The FIFA Fair Play Award for the team with the best record of fair play (first awarded in 1978).
The Most Entertaining Team award for the team that has entertained the public the most during the World Cup final tournament, as determined by a poll of the general public, first awarded in 1994.
The Gillette Best Young Player award for best player under 21 years of age at the start of the calendar year, which will be awarded for the first time in 2006.

FIFA Qualification Procedure

32 teams were decided to play in the FIFA World Cup 2006. The host, Germany got a guaranteed place, as per the rule. The automatic place of Brazil was scraped and it competed through the qualifying process. The procedure for qualifying is given below according to the zones:

Europe
It has 14 slots, including Germany. 51 teams competed for the 13 slots from 8 groups. The winners of eight group and two best runner-up teams qualified. The other six second-place teams played with each other over two-legged play-offs to complete the final three berths.

South America
The 10 teams played with each other, home and away, and the top 4 teams qualified. The fifth place team played two-leg home and away play-off against the top team from the Oceania group. The winner of it qualified.

Africa
30 nations were drawn into 5 groups of 6 teams. The teams played each other home and away. The winners of five group qualified.

Asia

32 nations were drawn into 8 groups of 4 teams. The winners moved on to the Final Stage. The 8 teams in it were divided in two groups. The top 2 teams qualified. The two third place teams met in a home and away play-off to decide. The winner faced the fourth-place team from the North America, Central America and the Caribbean Zone in a two-leg play-off. The winner qualified.

North America, Central America and the Caribbean
12 teams had advanced from the first round of matches. These 12 entered the 2nd stage with 3 groups of 4 teams. The top 2 teams from each group reached the final stage of a final round of 6 teams. It was played as 1 group and the top 3 teams qualified. The 4th place team faced the 5th place of Asian team in a two-leg play-off. The winner qualified.

Oceania
The winner of the group undergone a play-off over two legs against the 5th placed team from South America. The winner qualified.

FIFA World Cup 2006

Football (Soccer) World Cup 2006:

Thirty-two teams, 8 groups, twelve German cities, one ball and one destination, its FIFA World Cup 2006. Cheer up! This is eighteenth episode of the soccer World Cup, Germany won the right to host, beating the bids of England, Brazil, Morocco and South Africa. This, much awaited in every four years, football tournament odyssey from Munich on 9th of June to Berlin on 9th of July will be exciting, thrilling and everything to make you shout in front of your TV sets, 'GOAL...'

Ronaldinho, David Beckham, Michael Ballack, Ronaldo, Kaka, Carlos Bilardo are only few to be named, the largest game on the planet will give birth to more superstars to over 30 billion viewers across the world. With 'A Time to Make Friends,' as the slogan goes and the cheerful faces in its logo in yellow, blue and green, FIFA speaks out to soccer lovers a time to celebrate football with friends and heroes. So, cheer up!

This section of FIFA World Cup will take you to a virtual tour to Germany for all the exciting happenings. Be a part of all the evidences which are awaiting to create history with records and record-breaking moments. We will keep you updated and make you part of this World Cup, now and even later, remembering the past.

- FIFA Organization
- Qualified Teams
- Qualification Procedure
- Match Schedules
- Venues
- Match Results
- World Cup History

Football Rankings

Since August 1993, FIFA has started ranking international teams in order to publish comparisons of their relative strengths at regular intervals. Initially one point was given for a draw and three for victory. This system of ranking was very simple and was far from the original objective. FIFA realized that more factors affect the result and to make the ranking more comprehensive, it made the following few changes:

Scaling up the point ranking by a factor of ten.
Changing the calculation to take into account:
Number of goals
Home or away match
Importance of Match/Competition
Regional strength
Not having fixed points for a victory or a draw.
Allowing the match losers to earn points.

Previously the evolution period was eight years, but after World Cup 2006, it will be cut down to four years.

FIFA/Coca-Cola World Ranking 2008: World Top 20 Football (Soccer)Teams)

Ranking	Country Flag	Team Name	Points
1		Spain	1565
2		Italy	1339
3		Germany	1329
4		Netherlands	1295
5		Croatia	1266
6		Brazil	1252
7		Argentina	1230
8		Czech Republic	1134
9		Portugal	1120
10		Turkey	1033
11		France	1019
12		Russia	1013
13		Romania	1007
14		Cameroon	999
15		England	991
16		Scotland	976
17		Bulgaria	976
18		Greece	921
19		Israel	874
20		Ghana	864

Football Stadiums

The word 'Stadium' has been originated from the Greek word 'Stadion,' which literally mean a place where people stand. Staiums built for football are quite common. It contains a football pitch with a running track, two netted (goal) posts at both ends and galleries (also known as terraces) on all sides for people to sit and enjoy the game. These are some of the most popular football stadiums of the world with their capcity along with the city and country they are situated in:

World Football (Soccer) Stadiums:

Rungrado May Day Stadium
Capacity: 1,50,000
City: Pyongyang
Country: North Korea

Salt Lake Stadium
Capacity: 1,20,000
City: Kolkata
Country: India

Azteca Stadium
Capacity: 1,05,000
City: Mexico City
Country: Mexico

Azadi Stadium
Capacity: 1,00,000
City: Tehran
Country: Iran

Beijing National Stadium
Capacity: 91,000
City: Beijing
Country: China

Olympiastadion
Capacity: 74,228
City: Berlin
Country: Germany

Athens Olympic Stadium
Capacity: 71,030
City: Athens
Country: Greece

Gillette Stadium
Capacity: 68,756
City: Foxborough
Country: USA

Seoul World Cup Stadium
Capacity: 66,080
City: Seoul
Country: South Korea

El Monumental
Capacity: 65,645
City: Buenos Aires
Country: Argentina

Football Teams

A football team is the collective name for number of players playing together in a football game. At present there are 207 football teams which are affiliated to FIFA. Each of the teams is also affiliated to one of the six confederations of FIFA according to their respective continental zones.

List of National Football Teams Affilated To FIFA By Their Continental Zones

ASIA - Asian Football Confederation

Africa - Confederation Africaine de Football

North and Central America - Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football

South America - Confederacion Sudamericana de Futbol

Oceania - Oceania Football Confederation

Europe - Union of European Football Associations

View World Cup Qualified Football Team Profile

Football Introduction

Advancing the ball with kicks, running with it, passing to other team mates, trying to forward it to the opponent’s end of the field, shooting in between the goal posts and scoring a point, this is football. The winning team is the one that has scored more number of points (goals) when a specified length of time has elapsed.

The origin of the game ‘Football’ predates the recorded history. Documented evidence, a manual of Chinese military during the Han Dynasty in about 2nd century BC, describes an organized activity resembling football. It was known as ‘Cuju’ (Tsu Chu), which involved kicking a leather ball through a hole in a piece of silk cloth strung between two 30 foot poles.

The game was re-invented, after over a thousand years by the English. But the name ‘Football’ was used by number of different related team sports, such as Rugby football, American football, Australian rules football, Gelic football and Canadian football. Association football goes by the name ‘Soccer.’ However, many believe that Walter Camp adapted rugby into the sport of football. He contributed many changes from Rugby and Soccer to American football. Few of them are given below:

One side retained undisputed possession of the ball, until that side gives up the ball as a result of its own violations.
The line of scrimmage.
11 on a team instead of 15.
Created the quarter-back and center positions.
Forward pass.
Standardized the scoring system, numerical scoring.
Created the safety, interference, penalties, and the neutral zone.
Tackling as low as the knee was permitted - 1888.
A touchdown increased in value to six points and field goals went down to three points - 1912.
Today, the laws of football are determined by the International Football Association Board (IFAB) that was formed in 1886. Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), the international organising body for football adhere to the rules laid down by the IFAB and it organises the most prestigious international football competition, FIFA World Cup, most widely-viewed sporting event in the world

Football (Soccer)

Association Football or Football is the most popular sport in the world which is played in more countries than any other game. This game is known as football globally but in some countries such as United States of America (USA), Canada, Japan, New Zealand and South Africa, it is known as Soccer.

Now everything about adventurous sport of Football across the globe is just a few clicks away. The best of Football also known as Soccer has been covered in this dedicated sports section of Surfindia. So just go ahead and surf for your favorite sport of Football that the whole world cheers.

Surfindia sports section has fasten its belt to make you information rich about everything in the world of Soccer. Now scroll over these below given navigation links to find out the history of Football and know how and where first Football match was kicked off. Also know about the International Football Teams, Football Players, Football Stadiums, Football Records and comprehensive coverage of the most excited FIFA World Cup tournaments.

Football Introduction: Find out in this dedicated section that how this world's favorite sport was originated, where and between which teams the first football match was played, rules of football match and also check out some of the interesting facts about Football.

Football Teams: Know in this segment everything about the Football teams in the world. Here you can get the List of National Football Teams Affiliated To FIFA (Fédération Internationale de Football Association).

Football Stadiums: Here we have lined up world's some of the most popular Football stadiums according to their capacity and where they are situated in. These stadiums are the venues for the world's biggest sporting events of Football/Soccer.

Football Rankings: Check out here how many points your favorite team has and where it stands in the points tally of FIFA World Rankings. Here you can find the points gained by a Top 20 football/soccer teams in the world.

FIFA World Cup 2006: In this exclusive section of Surfindia Football we have covered every single detail about FIFA World Cup which is the greatest extravaganza in International sports. Find out here about the history, matches venues, results and the participating teams of Football/Soccer world cup.

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Beckham earns whopping 10.7 million pounds, doubling his payout

Saturday, November 7, 2009

Manipur wins All India Women''s Football title

Thursday, October 15, 2009

Montevideo: A narrow 1-0 win in Uruguay helped Argentina to seal their place at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. Honduras, Switzerland and Slovak

Argentina clinch World Cup berth

'Giving Becks man of the match award like giving Obama the Nobel'

India's Sania Mirza stormed into the $220,000 Japan Open tennis quarterfinals with a 6-4, 6-3 win over Ukraine's Viktoriya Kutuzova in the second roun

FIFA World Cup History

Tuesday, October 13, 2009

FIFA Qualification Procedure

FIFA World Cup 2006

Football Rankings

Football Stadiums

Football Teams

List of National Football Teams Affilated To FIFA By Their Continental Zones

Football Introduction

Football (Soccer)

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