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19 unusual facts about FIFA


1912–13 in American soccer

The 1912–13 season was the 1st season of FIFA-sanctioned soccer in the United States.

1913–14 in American soccer

The 1913–14 season was the 1st season of FIFA-sanctioned soccer in the United States.

Benny Prasad

He has performed before presidents and parliaments, before the crowds of 2007 military world games, 2006 FIFA world cup and the 2004 olympic games.

Erik von Frenckell

Erik von Frenckell (18 November 1887 – 13 September 1977) was a Swedish-speaking Finnish nobleman, member of the Parliament of Finland, member of the International Olympic Committee and a vice president of the International Football Association FIFA.

Futsal in England

Both the FA and FIFA had representatives at the tournament, there were also members of the British Universities Sport’s Association present.

Gota Yashiki

In 2004 to celebrate the first centenary of FIFA he made some arregements to the anthem composed by Franz Lambert in 1994 and is the one heard in all the FIFA officially sanctioned matches since then.

Henri Delaunay

As a member of FIFA, he sat on its board as deputy from 1924 until 1928.

International Australian Football Council

In 1890, the first Australasian Football Council is formed in Melbourne under Australasian Rules to take control of all International Football matches (14 years before FIFA).

Li Fenglou

During his reign China were not affiliated with FIFA and the national team played very few official games, however he would still lead the team to one official game against Finland on August 4, 1952 in a 4-0 defeat.

Mathare Football for Hope Centre

The Mathare Football for Hope Centre was made possible by “20 Centres for 2010,” the Official Campaign of the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa.

Morné du Plessis

Initially involved with the Stade de France company in developing and managing Cape Town Stadium for the 2010 FIFA Soccer World Cup, Sail withdrew from the project in 2010.

Neighborhoods of Hartford, Connecticut

The area's Italian population came out in full force when Italy won the FIFA World Cup in 2006 with thousands marching and driving down Franklin Avenue for hours with Italian flags raised high.

Neo Geo Cup '98: The Road to the Victory

Due to failure of getting any official FIFA license (EA Sports held the license) the tournaments are all unlicensed.

Ottawa Soccer Stadium

The field would have had a natural grass surface built to MLS and FIFA specifications.

Papi fut

It is similar to FIFA football, but goals must be scored from within the goal area.

Santiago Bernabéu Yeste

In his honour FIFA decreed three days of mourning during the tournament.

Sky Net

SKYNET DTH will start boradcast all match of Barclays Premier League from 2013/2014 season after accquired rights from FA.SKYNET DTH also have media rights of all competition held by FIFA,so SKYNET will definitely live FIFA World Cup 2014.

St. Marianna University School of Medicine

The school is also the first in Asia to be approved as a medical center for the FIFA world soccer association, and is the medical provider for the Japan national football team.

Swapan Sadhan Bose

He is also a member of the Federation International Football Association (FIFA) Club Task Force.


2006 FIFA World Cup seeding

Significant differences between this ranking of the teams and the official FIFA rankings at the time of the draw can be seen for Czech Republic, Germany and the Korean Republic (ρ=0.87).

2012–13 V AFG

1Lokomotiv Mezdra were excluded from V Grupa on 29th March due to a FIFA decision in favor of the former Mezdra player Damian Rączka for unpaid salary.

6+5 rule

At an informal meeting of the European sports ministers in Biarritz on 27 and 28 November 2008, FIFA was again seeking support for its proposed rule.

Adam El-Abd

On 15 May 2012, and for the first time, Egypt national team coach Bob Bradley included El-Abd in the squad for friendly games against Cameroon, Togo, and Senegal, and also against Mozambique in a FIFA World Cup Qualifier.

Austrian Football Association

The 1950s saw more achievememts with their well-known football greats such as Ernst Ocwirk (twice captain of the FIFA World Selection Team), Ernst Happel, Gerhard Hanappi and Walter Zeman.

Bhutan women's national football team

After being received by the King of Bhutan Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck on 6 March 2012, the FIFA President met with the country’s sports’ representative, Prince Jigyel and Prime Minister Jigme Thinley.

Brazilian Football Confederation

It was announced on September 29, 2007 that the CBF would launch a women's league and cup competition in October 2007 following pressure from FIFA president Sepp Blatter during the 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup in China.

ChangeFIFA

Joining forces with Change FIFA, Damian Collins, Conservative Member of Parliament for Folkestone and Hythe and member of the House of Commons' Culture, Media and Sport Committee, has called for Sepp Blatter's re‑election as FIFA president to be suspended and a "reform agenda" to be introduced at football's ruling organisation.

Claudio Reyna

Reyna married Danielle Egan, then a member of the United States women's national soccer team, in July 1997, one week after attending the FIFA All-Star Game in Hong Kong and two weeks after the U.S. team's World Cup qualifier at El Salvador.

Craig Forrest

Forrest is now the Canadian FIFA Ambassador for SOS Children's Villages, joining over 80 international stars who are official ambassadors.

Dan Croll

As well as FIFA, a remix of From Nowhere, titled From Nowhere (Baardsen Remix), was featured on the soundtrack of Grand Theft Auto V.

Danielle Egan

Egan married Claudio Reyna, then a member of the United States national soccer team, in July 1997, one week after he attended the FIFA All-Star Game in Hong Kong and two weeks after the male U.S. team's World Cup qualifier at El Salvador.

Glentoran F.C.

Burrows won the ESPN goal of the season and Sky Sports goal of the season, achieved almost 5 million views on YouTube and went up against world famous player Lionel Messi for the FIFA goal of the season award.

GUA

Guatemala, IOC and FIFA country code (but not ISO 3166-2 — see GTM)

Kristinn Jakobsson

He has been a FIFA-listed referee since 1997, but did not referee his first UEFA Champions League qualifying match until August 2001, when he took charge of a second qualifying round match between Sloga Jugomagnat and Steaua Bucureşti.

Labinot Haliti

He holds Albanian, Australian and Kosovar passports, making him eligible to represent Albania, Australia and the non FIFA-recognised Kosovo.

Leeuwenhosen

Following the Netherlands-Denmark match in Johannesburg, FIFA forcibly removed 36 female fans because they wore the dresses and detained and questioned the three Dutch nationals for three hours (the other 33 were South African).

MafiaBoy

MafiaBoy was the Internet alias of Michael Demon Calce, a high school student from West Island, Quebec, who launched a series of highly publicized denial-of-service attacks in February 2000 against large commercial websites including Yahoo!, Fifa.com, Amazon.com, Dell, Inc., E*TRADE, eBay, and CNN.

Manuel Jiménez

Manuel Jiménez Jiménez (born 1964), Spanish footballer selected for the 1990 FIFA World Cup, and coach of AEK Athens F.C.

Manuel Jiménez Abalo (born 1956), Spanish footballer selected for the 1982 FIFA World Cup

Moustapha Sall

Sall oversaw the opening of a new training centre and artificial pitch in the Mauritanian capital Nouakchott, with assistance from the FIFA Goal programme and stated that his main aim was to lead the country's national team into the top 100 in the FIFA rankings.

N. S. Madhavan

In this work, Madhavan models his protagonist, priest Father Geevarghese, on René Higuita, the 1990 FIFA World Cup goalkeeper for Colombia.

Nompumelelo Nyandeni

In 2010 she took part in a FIFA campaign for improving health through recreational football together with players such as Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi and Didier Drogba.

Oldřich Nejedlý

This has been officially recognized by FIFA since November 2006, as he was initially credited with only four, making him joint top scorer with Angelo Schiavio and Edmund Conen.

Óscar Sánchez

Óscar Carmelo Sánchez (1971–2007), Bolivian footballer, member of the Bolivia national football team at the 1994 FIFA World Cup

Peter Kenneth

He also has a lot of interest in sports, having been the chairman of Kenya Football Federation from 1996 to 2000, and FIFA Committee Member (FUTSAL) from 1998 to 2000.

Robert Contiguglia

Among his achievements as President of the USSF were successfully hosting the 1999 Women's World Cup, convincing FIFA to relocate the 2003 Women's World Cup to the United States after the original plans to host it in China fell through, and hiring Bruce Arena as coach for the United States national team.

Roberto Silvera

He has been an International FIFA referee since 2003 and officiated several important fixtures since then which include the semifinals of Copa Libertadores in 2007 between Boca Juniors and Cúcuta Deportivo (second leg) and again in 2008 between Boca Juniors and Fluminense (first leg).

Stadio Sant'Elia

Although it was denied by local and FIFA organisers, it was widely rumoured that the stadium had been chosen for all of England's group matches as a way to control their reputation at the time for hooliganism.

Thingsoft

Thingsoft was responsible for the development of several online games including FIFA Online, FIFA Online 2, the NBA Street Online series, Battlefield Online, Warlord, Xogu Pigu, Sashinmu, and Perfect KO.

Tiny Wharton

He was described by FIFA president Sepp Blatter as "one of the world's most distinguished refereeing officials".

Tony Kerr

Tony is the younger brother of FIFA beach soccer coach Luke Kerr.

Tor-Kristian Karlsen

In addition to his scouting engagement, Karlsen have been working freelance for TV 2 (Norway), BBC Radio, FIFA Magazine, SportBild, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, The Independent, The Times and Four Four Two as an football expert and analyzer.

Vicarage Road

The Rous Stand — named after former FIFA president Sir Stanley Rous — runs along the side of the pitch, on the west side of the ground.

Weah

George Weah, a Liberian politician and former football (soccer) forward, who was the FIFA World Player of the Year of 1995

West African Football Union

The union's current president is actually Amos Adamu, but was banned for three years from football activity by FIFA over vote-buying claims for the bids of the 2018 and 2022 FIFA World Cups.

West Indies national football team

It is not a member of FIFA, CFU or CONCACAF, but is an member of the N.F.-Board, an organisation for teams who are not members of FIFA.

Worawi Makudi

In May 2011, Lord Triesman gave evidence in the British Parliament that Makudi had demanded the TV rights to a friendly between England and the Thai national team in return for voting for England to host the 2018 FIFA World Cup.

World Football Insider

The publication’s growing readership includes: FIFA members, officials from the six confederations (CAF, CONCACAF, CONMEBOL, OFC, UEFA and AFC); organizers of the next three World Cups in Brazil, Russia and Qatar; England's Premier League and other leagues from around the world; football clubs; football agents and consultants; sponsors and sports marketing companies; officials from sports ministries; and national governing bodies.

Ye Jia

As china-borned Ye Jia has lived in Hong Kong over 2 years, according to the FIFA Statues, he is eligible for the Hong Kong national football team.