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5 unusual facts about DDR-Liga


Claus Kreul

In 1985, Kreul left to manage F.C. Hansa Rostock, but was unsuccessful: After only one year, at the end of which the club was relegated to the second-tier DDR-Liga, Kreul was replaced by Werner Voigt.

Hermann Stöcker

After helping the reserve team win promotion to the DDR-Liga by scoring two goals in the decisive play-off match, Stöcker was given an official farewell before the kickoff to a friendly against Barada SC on 26 July 1969.

Joachim Walter

Walter only played one year in the second-tier DDR-Liga, his 4 goals in 13 matches helping the club secure immediate re-promotion.

Jürgen Sparwasser

When Magdeburg had been relegated to the second-tier DDR-Liga at the end of the 1965–66 season, Sparwasser was an integral part in winning immediate repromotion, scoring 22 goals in 27 matches.

Wolfgang Steinbach

FC Magdeburg until 1987, when he left for his home town club of Motor Schönebeck where he spent the next one and a half years in the second-tier DDR-Liga.


1939 Taça de Portugal Final

The match was played on 25 June 1939 at the Campo das Salésias in Lisbon, and opposed two Primeira Liga sides: Académica de Coimbra and Benfica.

2009 Taça da Liga Final

After Quim saved Hélder Postiga's penalty, Carlos Martins stepped up to the penalty spot and scored the decisive penalty to clinch Benfica's first Taça da Liga.

2010 Madeira floods and mudslides

In support of the flood victims, Real Madrid footballer and noted Madeiran Cristiano Ronaldo pledged to play in a charity match in Madeira, between the Portuguese Liga club Porto and players from Madeiran-based Portuguese Liga clubs C.S. Marítimo and Nacional.

2011–12 Liga Alef

Maccabi Yavne won the promotion play-offs and promoted to Liga Leumit.

2011–12 Liga de Honra

The 2011–12 Liga de Honra (known as Liga Orangina due to sponsorship reasons) is the 22nd season of the second-tier of football in Portugal.

Admir Salihović

In the summer of 2007, Salihovic trained with Bosnian Premijer Liga club FK Željeznicar, which is based in the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo.

Alejandro Acosta

He joined Veracruz during the 2011 Liga de Ascenso draft that took place on on June 9, 2011 in Playa del Carmen.

Alex Arancibia

Alex Arancibia Chavez (born January 28, 1990 in Santa Cruz de la Sierra) commonly known as Arancibia, is a Bolivian professional footballer who currently plays for Liga de Futbol Profesional Boliviano Club Oriente Petrolero and Bolivia U-20.

Anderson Varejão

While Varejão did not play in the Liga ACB playoffs that year, FC Barcelona, led by Juan Carlos Navarro, Šarūnas Jasikevičius, and Dejan Bodiroga, won the Liga ACB championship.

Ars Ensis

In order to test members' fencing skills the association organizes an annual AE tournament called Lovagi Torna (Chivalric Tournament) held at different historic locations, for instance the old royal residence in Visegrád, and also a series of fencing opportunities called Liga (League) with its finals at the last training of a given year, AE's Christmas Workout.

Asociación Nacional de Fútbol Profesional

The first one was the Liga Profesional de Fútbol (LPF) created in 1933 by the dissident clubs of the Asociación de Fútbol de Santiago (AFS), the first organizer of a national football competition, after a dispute over the policy of paying salaries to their players.

Atlético Independiente

The club originally played in Liga de Fútbol “Amado Sánchez”, an independent league in Siguatepeque, until 1979, when the club was promoted to Segunda Division (now called Liga de Ascenso de Honduras).

Beka Gotsiridze

He began his career at FC Zestafoni, in Georgia's Umaglesi Liga before in January 2009 joined to FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk.

Bernd Stumpf

Bernd Stumpf (* 16. June 1940 in Jena) is a football referee from Jena who served as a match official in the first division DDR-Oberliga of the former East Germany.

Chiapas F.C.

On May 20, 2013 it was announced Chiapas Liga MX team Jaguares de Chiapas was sold and relocated to Querétaro, Mexico.

DDR Motorsport

DDR make his debut launching the DDR SP4 "Sport Prototype 4 cylinder" in the 2005 Knott's Berry Farm kit car show in California.

DoDTechipedia

Several DoD organizations are working together to develop, maintain and govern DoDTechipedia, including: Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics (AT&L), Director of Defense Research and Engineering (DDR&E), Networks and Information Integration and Department of Defense Chief Information Officer (NII/DoD CIO), and Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC).

DRG Class E 19

The locomotives were stationed at the Nuremberg depot and mainly used between Nuremberg on Frankenwald and Probstzella in the DDR, as well as between Nuremberg and Regensburg.

Edder Vaca

He scored one of Liga's penalties in quarter final game against San Lorenzo.

Eolomea

Kruschel, Karsten: "Leim für die Venus. Der Science-Fiction-Film in der DDR." Das Science Fiction Jahr 2007 ed.

Fausto Ruíz

Fausto David Ruiz Villalobos (born April 25, 1985 in San Luis Potosí, Mexico) is a Mexican footballer currently playing for C.F. Mérida of the Liga de Ascenso in Mexico.

Football Federation of the 6th Department Caazapá

The Liga Yuteña de Fútbol is based in the city of Yuty.

The Liga Caazapeña de Fútbol is based in the city of Caazapá.

Grêmio Esportivo Novorizontino

The club was founded to dispute a Catanduva city amateur competition called Liga Catanduvense.

Guaynabo, Puerto Rico

The Mets de Guaynabo are the local women's volleyball team that play in the LVSF, or The Liga de Voliebol Superior Femenino.

HNL

Prva HNL (Hrvatska nogometna liga), the top football league in Croatia

Icons.com

Icons.com also supplies the prizes for the weekly Sky Sports programme, Revista de la liga.

Jizzakh

The city has two universities, with a total of approximately 7,000 students, and is home to a football team, Sogdiana Jizzakh, which plays in the Uzbek League (Oliy Liga).

Juan Carlos Plata

Plata, born in Guatemala City, made his debut in the Liga Mayor (Major League, now Liga Nacional) in the 1990–1991 league season, won by Municipal, under coach Rubén Amorín.

Julie E. Cram

Julie E. Cram is a lobbyist for DDR Advocacy and a Republican operative who worked for former U.S. President George W. Bush.

Klupci

They currently play in the Serbian League West (Srpska liga Zapad), a third tier in Serbia's football league.

Mohammad Shafiq Hamdam

From November 2004 to November 2008 he worked as Culture Advisor and Linguist for the US forces in Afghanistan (Operation Enduring Freedom) and from January 2004 to November 2004 he served as a Main Awareness Trainer, Admin and Logistic Officer and Medical Assistant at the Demobilization Disarmament and Reintegration (DDR) project of the United Nations in Kabul.

Motagua–Real España football rivalry

First game in Liga Nacional: Held on 5 September 1965 at San Pedro Sula, Motagua defeated España 0–2 with two goals from Elio Banegas.

Non-League football

It is also used throughout Europe, although in Germany non-professional leagues are known as Regionalliga, as the leagues are all regional depending on the location of the town or city the team represents, unlike 1. Bundesliga, 2. Bundesliga and 3. Liga all being national leagues.

Pablo Aguilar

Pablo César Aguilar (born 1987), Paraguayan football defender who plays for Club Tijuana in the Liga MX (Mexican Primera División)

Sertãozinho Futebol Clube

Between 1944 and 1969, the club only disputed amateur competitions, like Liga Ribeirãopretana de Futebol (Ribeirão Preto Football League) in the 1950s.

Sportschau

As there is a contractual agreement that the Bundesliga may only be shown from 6:30pm the program reports about the second and third league in the first half hour.

SSV Markranstädt

Rudi Glöckner worked as a referee in East Germany's top flight DDR-Oberliga from 1959–1977 and officiated in the final of the 1970 World Cup in Mexico.

Tim Hodgkinson

In February 1987 Hodgkinson toured with South African band Kalahari Surfers, playing at the "Rote Lieder DDR" Festival of Political Songs.

Ümit Ergirdi

Ergirdi made 5 appearances in the 3. Fußball-Liga for SV Babelsberg 03 before deciding to end his professional career and to finish his law studies at the Free University of Berlin.

Valentín Díaz

Being a resident of Tondo in Manila, he joined the La Liga council that was headed by Andrés Bonifacio, who founded the Katipunan.

Venetian regional election, 2010

The Venetian PdL is afraid that Liga Veneta, headed by Zaia, will dominate regional politics for many years to come, similarly to what the South Tyrolean People's Party has done in South Tyrol.

Veracruz Sporting Club

The club was founded in 1908 by the native Spaniards living in Veracruz in the early 1900s.The first owners were the brothers Ángel and Mariano Rivera.The club played in the old Liga amateur de Veracruz from 1908 when in 1931 they were invited to pay in the Liga amateur del Distrito Federal After clubs México FC and Real Club España left some spots open due to economical problems.

Vlad Bujor

He scored his first goal against FC Universitatea Craiova, from the penalty spot, in the opening day of Liga II 2013-2014.

Waffenfarbe

East German (DDR) Nationale Volksarmee uniforms initially wore the waffenfarbe as worn by the Wehrmacht, i.e. as base and filling of the collar and sleeve patches and as a piping around the shoulder boards/shoulder straps.

When Games Attack

The girl would usually wear clothing that wasn't suitable to dance in and compete at Dance Dance Revolution or DDR for short.

Zamboanga City Council

Composed of 18 members, with 16 councilors elected from Zamboanga City's two legislative districts and two members composed of the President of the Liga ng mga Barangay ng Lungsod ng Zamboanga (English: League of Barangays of the City of Zamboanga) and the President of the Pederasyon ng Sangguniang Kabataan (English: Federation of Youth Councils).


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