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The Oval is a place in London, England where important cricket matches are played. The Oval is the home place for Surrey County Cricket Club when they play other counties and England often play their last home test matches there at the end of the summer.

The Oval is located in Kennington, South London. The nearest tube station is also called Oval but you can get to the place easily from Vauxhall station.

Cricket
1845 establishments in England
Trophallaxis in biology refers the sharing of food by members of a community. 

It is most highly developed in social insects such as ants, termites, wasps and bees. The word was introduced by the entomologist William Morton Wheeler in 1918. The behaviour has been used to explain theories of how social behaviour developed in insects. The French psychologist and entomologist August Forel also believed that food sharing was key to ant society. He used an illustration of it as the frontispiece for his book The social world of the ants compared with that of man.

Trophallaxis serves as a means of communication, at least in bees and ants. In some species of ants, it may play a role in spreading the colony odour that identifies members.

References 

Animals by eating behaviors
Oval tube station in Kennington is a station on the Northern line of the London Underground. It is between Stockwell and Kennington stations. It is the only station on the Morden branch of the Northern line whose name begins with a vowel. Oval station is in Travelcard Zone 2. It is named for The Oval, which it serves.

References

Other websites
 London Transport Museum Photographic Archive 

Northern line stations
Tube stations in the London Borough of Lambeth
London Travelcard zone 2
Nikolaus Harnoncourt (born Berlin, 6 December 1929, died St. Georgen im Attergau, 5 March 2016) was an Austrian conductor.  He was famous for his conducting music from many years ago using orchestras with period instruments.

Life
Harnoncourt was born in Berlin into a noble family who were related to the Holy Roman Emperors and other European royalties.  His full name was Johann Nicolaus Graf de la Fontaine und d’Harnoncourt-Unverzag.  He was brought up in Graz, Austria and studied music in Vienna.

From 1952 to 1969 he was a cellist with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra.  He soon became interested in performing old music with period instruments.  He started a group called Concentus Musicus Wien.  They tried to make the music of composers from the Baroque period sound like it had done when it was written.  Harnoncourt played the viola da gamba as well as the cello.  In 1970 he conducted Monteverdi's opera Ritorno d'Ulisse in Patria at La Scala, Milan.
In 1971, Harnoncourt started to work with the conductor Gustav Leonhardt.  They recorded all of J.S. Bach's cantatas. This project took until 1990 to finish.  He also recorded Bach's St. Matthew Passion.  He performed with many other orchestras, including the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra.  Often they were orchestras who used modern instruments, but he tried to make them play with an understanding of a historical style (bowing, phrasing etc).  Like other musicians working with historical instruments, he gradually realized that music from later periods such as the Classical music period and even the Romantic period used to sound different from what we usually hear today.  He recorded the symphonies and concertos of Beethoven.  He received many awards for these recordings.
Harnoncourt was married to Alice until his death. The couple had a daughter, Elisabeth von Magnus, and three sons: Philipp, Franz and Eberhard (who died in 1990). Harnoncourt retired in December 2015 because of an illness. Harnoncourt died on 5 March 2016 from the illness. He was aged 86.

Recordings
Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Frans Brüggen, Leopold Stastny, Herbert Tachezi. Johann Sebastian Bach: Gamba Sonatas — Trio Sonata in G major. Viola da gamba: Jacobus Stainer; Cello: Andrea Castagneri; Flute: A.Grenser; Harpsichord: a copy after Italian builders by Martin Skowroneck. Label: Telefunken.
 Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Gustav Leonhardt, Leonhardt-Consort (Orchestra), Concentus musicus Wien (Orchestra), Alan Curtis, Anneke Ulttenbosch, Herbert Tachezi. Johann Sebastian Bach: Harpsichord Concertos BWV 1052, 1057, 1064. Violin, continuo, harpsichord. Label: Teldec
 Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Franz Schubert. Symphonies. Label: Ica Classics.
 Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Rudolf Buchbinder (fortepiano). Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Piano concertos No. 23&25.  Played on a Walter fortepiano replica by Paul McNulty. Label: Sony.
Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano). Ludwig van Beethoven. Piano Concertos Nos. 1-5. Played on a modern piano.  Label: Teldec Classics. 
 Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Gidon Kremer (violin), Martha Argerich (piano). Schumann: Piano Concerto and Violin Concerto. Played on a modern piano. Label: Teldec Classics
References

Other websites
Nikolaus Harnoncourt official website 

1929 births
2016 deaths
Austrian conductors
Grammy Award winners
Musicians from Berlin
People from Graz
Performers of early music
Austrian nobility
Sir Roger Norrington OBE (born 16 March 1934) is a British conductor who is famous for conducting music from historical periods using period instruments.

Life
Norrington studied at Clare College, Cambridge and the Royal College of Music where his teachers included  Adrian Boult.

Norrington started his career singing tenor.  In 1962 he formed the Schütz Choir (later the Schütz Choir of London). From 1969 to 1984, he was conductor (music director) of Kent Opera. In 1978 he formed the London Classical Players and he conducted them until 1997.  From 1985 to 1989 he was Principal Conductor of the Bournemouth Sinfonietta. From 1990 to 1994, he was music director of the Orchestra of St. Luke's. In 1998, he became principal conductor of the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra.  He became Artistic Advisor of the Handel and Haydn Society in 2006.
Norrington is best known for performances of Baroque, Classical and Romantic music using period instruments and period style.  He likes his orchestras to play with very little vibrato.

He conducted the Last Night of The Proms for the first time on 13 September 2008.

Norrington was made an OBE in 1980, a CBE in 1990 and a Knight Bachelor in 1997.

British conductors
Performers of early music
1934 births
Living people
Grammy Award winners
Officers of the Order of the British Empire
Knights Bachelor
Surrey County Cricket Club are a cricket team who play first class county leagues. They play their home games at The Oval in Kennington, South London.

Cricket clubs in the United Kingdom
Organisations based in Surrey
Gustav Leonhardt (born 's-Graveland, Netherlands, 30 May 1928, died Amsterdam, 16 January 2012) was a famous Dutch harpsichordist, organist and conductor who became well known for playing music from historical periods on period instruments. At the beginning of his career the harpsichord was not yet a popular instrument and music from the Renaissance and Baroque periods was usually played in the same way as music from later centuries. Gustav Leonhardt made his audiences aware of what music by Johann Sebastian Bach would have sounded like in Bach's day.

Life
Life

Gustav Leonhardt was born into a Dutch, Protestant family who lived in the countryside. His Protestantism was an important part of his life. His father was a wealthy business man. His parents were both very keen amateur musicians. When Gustav was ten they bought a harpsichord. When World War II broke out life was hard in the country and Leonhardt often had to hide under the floorboards so that he was not sent away to slave labour. When he was not hiding he spent a lot of time practising the harpsichord.
In 1952 he became professor of harpischord at the Vienna Hochschule fur Musik. He met Nikolaus Harnoncourt who had similar interests to his. He soon became professor of harpsichord at the Amsterdam Conservatorium and remained there until 1988. He was also organist at the Waalse Kerk, Amsterdam. This church has a very famous historical organ. He became well known for his harpsichord concerts and recordings. He led the Leonhardt Baroque Ensemble with the English counter-tenor Alfred Deller with whom he made one of the first recordings of some Bach cantatas. The ensemble included his wife Marie, as well as Nikolaus Harnoncourt who played the cello. Together with Harnoncourt he conducted and recorded all Bach's cantatas.

Leonhardt lived in a big 16th century house facing one of the canals in the centre of Amsterdam. He looked very serious on the concert platform, but he had a sense of humour and occasionally played a bit of ragtime at the end of a recital.

Leonhardt died in Amsterdam on 16 January 2012.
References

Other websites

short biography at www.bach-cantatas.com
http://www.earlymusicworld.com/id2.html

1928 births
2012 deaths
Dutch Calvinists
Dutch conductors
Dutch educators
Dutch organists
Harpsichordists
Musicians from North Holland
Performers of early music
The Vienna Symphony () is an orchestra in Vienna, Austria.

History
The orchestra was formed in 1900 by the conductor Ferdinand Löwe.  It was then called the Wiener Concertverein (Vienna Concert Society).  In 1913 it moved into the Konzerthaus, Vienna.  In 1919 it joined with the Tonkünstler Orchestra.  In 1933 it got the name it has today: Vienna Symphony (Wiener Symphoniker).

During World War II the Nazis forced them to be part of the German Culture Orchestras and they were used for propaganda.  They stopped playing in 1944.

Their first concert after the war was on 16 September 1945, when they performed Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 3. Their conductor Josef Krips quickly helped them to become a great orchestra.  From 1946 they were often conducted by Herbert von Karajan who toured with them throughout Europe and North America. In 1959 the VSO performed for Pope John XXIII at Vatican City.

When Wolfgang Sawallisch became their conductor he toured with them to the United States and Japan.
Today Fabio Luisi is their chief conductor.

Chief conductors

1900-1925 Ferdinand Löwe
1920s-1930s Wilhelm Furtwängler (as director of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde)
1933-1940s Oswald Kabasta
1946-1948 Hans Swarowsky
1948-1960 Herbert von Karajan (as director of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde) 
1960-1970 Wolfgang Sawallisch
1970-1973 Josef Krips (artistic advisor)
1973-1976 Carlo Maria Giulini
1980-1982 Gennady Rozhdestvensky
1986-1991 Georges Prêtre (principal guest conductor)
1991-1996 Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos
1997-2005 Vladimir Fedoseyev
2005-present Fabio Luisi

Related pages
 Vienna Philharmonic

Other websites
 History of the Vienna Symphony Orchestra 

Orchestras
Vienna
The Liber Linteus Zagrabiensis (or Liber Agramensis) (Latin: Linen Book of Zagreb or Book of Agram) is the longest Etruscan text and the only existing linen book. 

Most of the text has not been translated, because the Etruscan language is only known little. According to the few words that can be understood, the text is probably a ritual calendar.

The fabric of the book was preserved when it was used to wrap a mummy from Ptolemaic Egypt.  The mummy and the manuscript are now kept in a refrigerated room at the Archaeological Museum in Zagreb, Croatia.

Other websites
 The Etruscan Liber Linteus ; contains etexts of the book, proposed translations, and notes on haruspicy.
 Information on the Liber Linteus from the Archaeological Museum in Zagreb 

Etruscan civilization
Zagreb
The Eel River is a river in the north part of the U.S. state of California. It flows north about 200 mi (322 km) to the Pacific Ocean, draining 3,684 square miles (9,542 square km). Its largest tributary is the Middle Fork Eel River, followed by the South Fork, Van Duzen River, and North Fork. The river is dammed near its headwaters to divert water into the Russian River valley. The two dams form Van Arsdale Reservoir and the larger Lake Pillsbury. Most of the river is in the humid Coast Ranges of California. Much of the river is isolated, in steep and rugged terrain. 

Towns along the Eel include Ferndale, Rio Dell, and Dos Rios (at the confluence with the Middle Fork). Weott is near the South Fork confluence.

U.S. Highway 101 follows the river until the South Fork confluence, and the Great Northern Railway also follows a portion of the river. 37 bridges cross the Eel and 24 cross the South Fork. The South Fork is the longest tributary. The Middle Fork has the largest watershed.
Rivers of California
Mendocino County, California
Humboldt County, California
Lake County, California
Trinity County, California
A cultivar is a variant of a plant that has been selected for planting and sale because it has certain characteristics. It keeps its traits when it is propagated because they are inherited. 

Usually, cultivars are given a name which is not related to their biological taxon. There is a system of naming run by the International Code of Nomenclature for Cultivated Plants (the ICNCP), commonly known as the Cultivated Plant Code.

Related pages 
Domestication
Variety (botany)

Botany
Plant taxonomy
Plant propagation is when a plant is distributed. There are several ways to do this:
 Through seeds or spores (which have been grown sexually)
 Division
 Grafting (used with fruit trees, especially)
 Stolons or runners
 Micropropagation
 Storage organs such as bulbs, corms, tubers and rhizomes
 Striking or cuttings
 Twin-scaling

Plant physiology
Cardamom is the name used for two herbs related to ginger. Their seeds are used as a spice. The two species are named Elettaria and Amomum. The seeds grow in a small seedpod. This seedpod is triangular in cross-section and has the shape of a spindle. There is a thin papery outer shell and small black seeds. Elettaria pods are light green in color,  Amomum pods are larger and dark brown.

Elettaria is commonly known as cardamom, green cardamom or true cardamom. It grows from India to Malaysia. 

Amomum is usually called black cardamom, or white cardamom. It grows in Asia and Australia.

Uses 

Both forms of cardamom are used to add flavor to both food and drink, as cooking spices and as a medicine. 
Elettaria cardamomum (the usual type of cardamom) is used as a spice and in medicine; it is also smoked sometimes; it is used as a food plant by the larva of the moth Endoclita hosei.

Food and drink
Food and drink 

Cardamom has a strong taste and an intense smell. Black cardamom has coolness similar to that of mint. It is commonly used in Pakistani cooking. In Scandinavia it is often used for baking. 

Green cardamom is one of the most expensive spices by weight but little is needed to give the flavor. Cardamom is best stored in pod form. Once the seeds are exposed or ground, they quickly lose their flavor. High-quality ground cardamom powder can often be a substitute for the pods. That way, ten pods is about the same quantity as one and a half teaspoons of ground cardamom.
In the Middle East, green cardamom powder is used as a spice for sweet dishes. Traditionally, it is also added as a flavoring to coffee and tea there. In Arabic, cardamom is called al-Hayl. In Persian, it is called hel. In Hebrew, it is also called hel (הל). In Gujarati (a derivative of Sanskrit), it is "Ē-lī-chē".
In some Middle Eastern countries, coffee and cardamom are often ground in a wooden mortar and cooked together in a mihbaz, an oven using wood or gas, to produce mixtures that are as much as forty percent cardamom.

In South Asia, green cardamom is often used in traditional Pakistani sweets and in Masala chai (spiced tea).
Black cardamom is sometimes used in garam masala for curries. It is occasionally used as a garnish in basmati rice and other dishes. It is often referred to as fat cardamom due its size ('Moti Elaichi'). Individual seeds are sometimes chewed, in much the same way as chewing-gum. It has also been known to be used to make gin. Cardamom was used to make the spiced wine, claret, in the Middle Ages.

In traditional medicine 
In South Asia, Green cardamom is often used to treat infections of the teeth and gums. It is also used against troubles of the throat, congestion of the lungs and pulmonary tuberculosis, inflammation of eyelids and also digestive disorders. It has been used to break up kidney and gall stones, and as an antidote against the poison of certain snake bites.
Amomum is used as a spice and as an ingredient in traditional medicine in systems of the traditional Chinese medicine in China, in Ayurveda in India, Japan, Korea and Vietnam.
 
Among other species, varieties and cultivars, Amomum villosum cultivated in China, Laos and Vietnam is used in traditional Chinese medicine to treat stomach-aches, constipation, dysentery, and other digestion problems. "Tsaoko" cardamom Amomum tsao-ko is cultivated in Yunnan, China and northwest Vietnam, both for medicinal purposes and as a spice.

The demand for these herbs has increased since the 1980s. Growing cardamom has become an important source of income for many poor farmers. These people usually live in higher altitudes, sometimes in remote areas, in China, Laos and Vietnam. 

Until recently, Nepal has been the world's largest producer of large cardamom. Guatemala has become the world's largest producer and exporter of cardamom, with an export total of US$137.2 million for 2007.

Gallery
Gallery 

Zingiberales
Spices
Middle Eastern foods
Hayden Foxe (born 23 June 1977) is an Australian football player. He has played for Australia national team.

Club career statistics

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|1997/98||Arminia Bielefeld||Bundesliga||1||0||||||||||1||0

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|1998||rowspan="3"|Sanfrecce Hiroshima||rowspan="3"|J. League 1||15||3||1||0||0||0||16||3
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|1999||22||2||5||3||2||0||29||5
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|2000||0||0||0||0||0||0||0||0

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|2000/01||Mechelen||First Division||4||0||||||||||4||0

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|2000/01||rowspan="2"|West Ham United||rowspan="2"|Premier League||5||0||||||||||5||0
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|2001/02||6||0||||||||||6||0
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|2002/03||rowspan="4"|Portsmouth||First Division||32||1||||||||||32||1
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|2003/04||rowspan="3"|Premier League||10||1||||||||||10||1
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|2004/05||0||0||||||||||0||0
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|2005/06||0||0||||||||||0||0
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|2006/07||Leeds United||League Championship||18||1||||||||||18||1
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|2007/08||rowspan="2"|Perth Glory||rowspan="2"|A-League||6||0||||||||||6||0
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|2008/09||2||0||||||||||2||0
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|2009/10||Sydney||A-League||||||||||||||||
1||0||||||||||1||0
37||5||6||3||2||0||45||8
4||0||||||||||4||0
71||3||||||||||71||3
8||0||||||||||8||0
121||8||6||3||2||0||129||11
|}

International career statistics

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|1998||1||0
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|1999||0||0
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|2000||4||0
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|2001||5||2
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|2002||0||0
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|2003||1||0
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!Total||11||2
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References

1977 births
Living people
Australian men's soccer players
Sportspeople from Sydney
is an Argentine-Japanese football player. He plays for Urawa Red Diamonds.

Club career statistics

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|2005||rowspan="6"|Urawa Red Diamonds||rowspan="6"|J. League 1||5||0||0||0||2||0||colspan="2"|-||7||0
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|2006||1||0||0||0||3||1||colspan="2"|-||4||1
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|2007||1||0||0||0||0||0||0||0||1||0
|-
|2008||13||0||2||1||1||0||1||0||17||1
|-
|2009||23||3||0||0||7||1||colspan="2"|-||30||4
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|2010||||||||||||||||||||
43||3||2||1||13||2||1||0||59||6
43||3||2||1||13||2||1||0||59||6
|}

1988 births
Living people
Footballers from Granada
is a former Argentine-Japanese football player.

Club career statistics

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|1992||Urawa Red Diamonds||J. League 1||colspan="2"|-||0||0||0||0||0||0
colspan="2"|-||0||0||0||0||0||0
colspan="2"|-||0||0||0||0||0||0
|}

Other websites
 Profile at BDfutbol
 Profile at BDFA.com.ar

1964 births
Living people
Argentine footballers
Osvaldo Escudero (born October 15, 1960) is a former Argentine football player.

Club career statistics

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|1991/92||Mitsubishi Motors||JSL Division 1||18||4||||||1||0||19||4
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|1992||Urawa Red Diamonds||J. League 1||colspan="2"|-||4||0||7||0||11||0
18||4||4||0||8||0||30||4
18||4||4||0||8||0||30||4
|}

References 

1960 births
Living people
Argentine footballers
Giorgio Chiellini (born 14 August 1984) is a former Italian football player. He played for Juventus and Italy national team.

Club career statistics 

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|2000/01||rowspan="4"|Livorno||rowspan="2"|Serie C1||3||0||0||0||colspan="2"|-||3||0
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|2001/02||5||0||0||0||colspan="2"|-||5||0
|-
|2002/03||rowspan="2"|Serie B||6||0||1||0||colspan="2"|-||7||0
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|2003/04||41||4||1||0||colspan="2"|-||42||4
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|2004/05||Fiorentina||Serie A||37||3||5||0||colspan="2"|-||42||3
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|2005/06||rowspan="5"|Juventus||Serie A||17||0||0||0||6||0||23||0
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|2006/07||Serie B||32||3||3||1||colspan="2"|-||35||4
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|2007/08||rowspan="3"|Serie A||30||3||2||0||colspan="2"|-||32||3
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|2008/09||27||4||1||0||8||1||36||5
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|2009/10||||||||||||||||
198||17||13||1||14||1||225||19
198||17||13||1||14||1||225||19
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|2004||1||0
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|2005||4||0
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|2006||1||0
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|2007||3||1
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|2008||7||0
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|2009||11||1
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|2010||||
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!Total||27||2
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References
References 

1984 births
Living people
2010 FIFA World Cup players
2014 FIFA World Cup players
Footballers from Pisa
Jonathan Zebina (born 19 July 1978) is a French football player. He plays for Juventus.

Club career statistics

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|1996/97||rowspan="2"|Cannes||rowspan="2"|Division 1||6||0||||||colspan="2"|-||6||0
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|1997/98||21||0||||||colspan="2"|-||21||0

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|1998/99||rowspan="2"|Cagliari||rowspan="2"|Serie A||22||0||4||0||colspan="2"|-||26||0
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|1999/00||26||0||6||0||colspan="2"|-||32||0
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|2000/01||rowspan="4"|Roma||rowspan="4"|Serie A||22||0||0||0||4||0||26||0
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|2001/02||24||0||2||0||10||0||36||0
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|2002/03||19||0||4||0||8||0||31||0
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|2003/04||23||1||2||0||7||0||32||1
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|2004/05||rowspan="6"|Juventus||rowspan="2"|Serie A||24||0||1||0||6||0||31||0
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|2005/06||10||0||2||0||2||0||14||0
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|2006/07||Serie B||24||0||0||0||colspan="2"|-||24||0
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|2007/08||rowspan="3"|Serie A||16||0||1||0||colspan="2"|-||17||0
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|2008/09||8||0||0||0||0||0||8||0
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|2009/10||||||||||||||||
27||0||||||colspan="2"|-||27||0
218||1||22||0||37||0||277||1
245||1||22||0||37||0||304||1
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|2005||1||0
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!Total||1||0
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References

1978 births
Living people
Footballers from Paris
Alessio Tacchinardi (born 23 July 1975) is a former Italian football player. He has played for Italy national team.

Club career statistics

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|1992/93||rowspan="2"|Atalanta||rowspan="2"|Serie A||1||0
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|1993/94||8||0
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|1994/95||rowspan="11"|Juventus||rowspan="11"|Serie A||24||0
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|1995/96||16||0
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|1996/97||19||1
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|1997/98||23||1
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|1998/99||23||1
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|1999/00||30||0
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|2000/01||31||2
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|2001/02||28||2
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|2002/03||27||2
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|2003/04||24||0
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|2004/05||16||0

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|2005/06||rowspan="2"|Villarreal||rowspan="2"|La Liga||23||2
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|2006/07||22||1

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|2007/08||Brescia||Serie B||34||9
304||18
45||3
349||21
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|1995||1||0
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|1996||0||0
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|1997||0||0
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|1998||0||0
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|1999||0||0
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|2000||2||0
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|2001||7||0
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|2002||1||0
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|2003||2||0
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!Total||13||0
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References

1975 births
Living people
Footballers from Lombardy
People from Crema, Lombardy
Irondino Ferreira Neto (born 23 July 1975) is a Brazilian football player.

Club career statistics 

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|2005||rowspan="2"|Sanfrecce Hiroshima||rowspan="2"|J. League 1||30||1||1||0||5||0||36||1
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|2006||5||0||0||0||1||0||6||0
35||1||1||0||6||0||42||1
35||1||1||0||6||0||42||1

References 

1975 births
Living people
Brazilian footballers
Júlio Baptista (born 1 October 1981) is a Brazilian football player. He plays for Roma and Brazil national team.

Club career statistics

International career statistics 

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|2001||2||0
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|2002||0||0
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|2003||5||0
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|2004||7||0
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|2005||5||0
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|2006||3||0
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|2007||9||3
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|2008||6||0
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|2009||8||2
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!Total||45||5
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References 

1981 births
Living people
Brazilian footballers
Dido Havenaar (born 26 September 1957) is a former Dutch-Japanese football player.

Club career statistics

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|1986/87||rowspan="2"|Mazda||rowspan="2"|JSL Division 1||22||0||||||||||22||0
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|1987/88||22||0||||||||||22||0
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|1988/89||rowspan="3"|Yomiuri||rowspan="3"|JSL Division 1||||||||||||||||
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|1989/90||4||0||||||||||4||0
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|1990/91||0||0||0||0||0||0||0||0
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|1992||rowspan="3"|Nagoya Grampus Eight||rowspan="3"|J. League 1||colspan="2"|-||||||10||0||10||0
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|1993||19||0||0||0||0||0||19||0
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|1994||27||0||0||0||0||0||27||0
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|1995||rowspan="2"|Júbilo Iwata||rowspan="2"|J. League 1||52||0||2||0||colspan="2"|-||54||0
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|1996||16||0||1||0||14||0||31||0
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|1997||rowspan="2"|Consadole Sapporo||Football League||26||0||3||0||8||0||37||0
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|1998||J. League 1||34||0||0||0||3||0||37||0
222||0||6||0||35||0||263||0
222||0||6||0||35||0||263||0

1957 births
Living people
Dutch association football goalkeepers
Sportspeople from South Holland
Japanese association football goalkeepers
Miguel Ángel Angulo Valderrey (; born 23 June 1977) is a Spanish football player. He has played for Spain national team.

Career statistics

Club
Source:

International
Source:

References

Other websites

CiberChe biography and stats 

1977 births
Living people
Spanish footballers
People from Oviedo
Manuele Blasi (born 17 August 1980) is an Italian football player. He plays for Città di Palermo.

Club career statistics 

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|1997/98||Roma||Serie A||0||0||0||0||colspan="2"|-||0||0
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|1998/99||Lecce||Serie B||12||0||6||0||colspan="2"|-||18||0
|-
|1999/00||Roma||Serie A||5||0||2||0||colspan="2"|-||7||0
|-
|2000/01||rowspan="3"|Perugia||rowspan="3"|Serie A||20||0||1||0||colspan="2"|-||21||0
|-
|2001/02||26||0||4||0||colspan="2"|-||30||0
|-
|2002/03||30||0||5||0||2||0||37||0
|-
|2003/04||Parma||Serie A||12||0||0||0||1||0||13||0
|-
|2004/05||rowspan="2"|Juventus||rowspan="2"|Serie A||27||0||1||0||colspan="2"|-||28||0
|-
|2005/06||13||0||3||0||colspan="2"|-||16||0
|-
|2006/07||Fiorentina||Serie A||31||1||2||0||colspan="2"|-||33||1
|-
|2007/08||rowspan="2"|Napoli||rowspan="2"|Serie A||27||0||3||0||colspan="2"|-||30||0
|-
|2008/09||32||0||0||0||5||0||37||0
|-
|2009/10||Città di Palermo||Serie A||||||||||||||||
235||1||27||0||8||0||270||1
235||1||27||0||8||0||270||1
|}

International career statistics
|-
|2004||4||0
|-
|2005||4||0
|-
!Total||8||0
|}

References 

1980 births
Living people
Footballers from Lazio
Stephen Appiah (born 24 December 1980) is a Ghanaian football player. He played for Ghana national team.

Club career statistics 

|-
|1997/98||rowspan="3"|Udinese||rowspan="3"|Serie A||11||0
|-
|1998/99||21||0
|-
|1999/00||4||0
|-
|2000/01||rowspan="2"|Parma||rowspan="2"|Serie A||16||0
|-
|2001/02||13||0
|-
|2002/03||Brescia||Serie A||31||7
|-
|2003/04||rowspan="2"|Juventus||rowspan="2"|Serie A||30||1
|-
|2004/05||18||2

|-
|2005/06||rowspan="3"|Fenerbahçe||rowspan="3"|Süper Lig||32||8
|-
|2006/07||26||3
|-
|2007/08||6||0

|-
|2009/10||Bologna||Serie A||||
144||10
64||11
208||21
|}

International career statistics 

|-
|1995||0||0
|-
|1996||1||0
|-
|1997||0||0
|-
|1998||2||0
|-
|1999||1||0
|-
|2000||5||1
|-
|2001||5||2
|-
|2002||2||0
|-
|2003||5||3
|-
|2004||5||2
|-
|2005||7||1
|-
|2006||16||2
|-
|2007||3||1
|-
|2008||3||1
|-
|2009||7||1
|-
|2010||3||0
|-
!Total||67||14
|}

References 

1980 births
Living people
Ghanaian footballers
Sportspeople from Accra
Ancyloxypha is a genus of butterflies in the family Hesperiidae.

Species

 Ancyloxypha arene Edwards, 1871 - Tropical Least Skipper
 Ancyloxypha aurea Hayward, 1940 
 Ancyloxypha dryas Hayward, 1942
 Ancyloxypha melanoneura C. & R. Felder, 1867
 Ancyloxypha nitedula Burmeister, 1878
 Ancyloxypha numitor Fabricius, 1793 - Least Skipper
 Ancyloxypha ramba Evans, 1955

References

Hesperiidae
A developed country (also known as an industrialised country or more economically developed country (MEDC)) is a country that has more businesses and infrastructures (roads, airports, electricity, etc) than a developing country.  The numbers most used for measuring economic growth is gross domestic product (GDP) and per capita income (average money per person). Others include the amount of industry, how much infrastructure there is, literacy, life expectancy and the basic standard of living.  There is no exact way of saying what country is developed or developing.  People often discuss the question of whose countries are the most developed ones,
Developed countries have post-industrial economies, which means that the service sector becomes more important, and the industrial sector is less important.  Service sector jobs are those where a person does something for another, like selling or fixing a product. Industry sector jobs are actually making a product, usually in a factory.  In a developed country, industry jobs may be moved (outsourced) to less developed countries that pay workers less money. Developing countries may be in the process of industrialization (building the factories and infrastructure) and underdeveloped countries usually depend on agriculture, often subsistence farming.

The first industrialised country was the UK, followed by Belgium. Later industrialised countries were Germany, the US, France and other Western European countries. According to Jeffrey Sachs, the current split between the developed and developing world is mostly an event of the 20th century.

Influence
Influence 

According to the International Monetary Fund, developed countries supplied over half of the global GDP in 2010. In 2012, the major advanced economies were the US, Japan, Germany, France, the UK, Italy, and Canada.  These are also called the G7.

The G7 has 10% of the world's population, but produces nearly 40% of the world's GDP. They also control many of the economic decisions that affect the world.  The United Nations Security Council has five permanent members, four of those are in the G8 (G7 plus Russia).

Similar terms 
Terms similar to developed country include advanced country, industrialised country, more developed country (MDC), more economically developed country (MEDC) (compared to less economically developed country(LEDC)), Global North country, first-world country, and post-industrial country.
Other ways to measure 
Economic criteria are usually seen as most important. This includes income per capita (average money for each person). Countries with high GDP per capita and mature industrialization are described as developed countries.  But modernization is not always seen as the only way to measure progress.
Recently, another measure, the Human Development Index (HDI), which combines jobs, income, along with access to medicine, life expectancy, and education has become prominent. The UN HDI is measures a country's level of human development.  While there is a strong connection between a high HDI score and a prosperous economy, it is not always the case. The top 47 countries by HDI have scores ranging from 0.793 in Barbados to 0.955 in Norway. Many countries having an HDI of 0.788 and over (as of 2010), are also listed by IMF or CIA as "advanced" (as of 2009).  The country of Bhutan started the idea of Gross National Happiness (GNH), to measure how happy people actually are.  They felt the GNH was as important as GDP, and this idea has spread beyond Bhutan.

References 

Country classifications
Development
Economic geography
A market town is a settlement in Europe that has the right to have markets. This separates them from villages and cities. A town may be described as a market town or as having market rights even if it does not have a market anymore, provided the right to do so still holds.

Towns
 
Business law
A moped is a vehicle with two wheels and a motor, like a motorcycle but smaller. It usually has pedals, like a bicycle.

The size of the motor is usually 49cc, much smaller than most motorcycle motors. Because of the small motor, mopeds usually can not go faster than 50 kph (30 mph). Mopeds use less fuel than motorcycles, but some people complain that mopeds create more air pollution than motorcycles. Most of the time, you need a special license to ride a motorcycle but you only need an ordinary driver's license to ride a moped. It is usually illegal to ride a moped without a helmet.

Land vehicles
Hagerstown () is a city in northwestern Maryland, United States. It is the county seat of Washington County, and one of the largest cities in a region known as Western Maryland. The population of Hagerstown city according to 2008 estimates by the United States Census Bureau is 39,728, and the total 2000 Urbanized Area population is 120,326 (~80,000 in MD). 

Hagerstown anchors the Hagerstown-Martinsburg, MD-WV Metropolitan Statistical Area, which lies just northwest of the Washington-Baltimore-Northern Virginia, DC-MD-VA-WV Combined Statistical Area in the Great Appalachian Valley. The population of the metropolitan area in 2000 was 222,771 and the 2008 estimate is 263,753 (U.S. Rank 169). It is the fastest growing metro area in the State of Maryland and among the fastest growing in the United States.
Hagerstown is a center of transit and commerce. Interstates 81 and 70, CSX, Norfolk Southern, and the Winchester and Western railroads, and Hagerstown Regional Airport cross in the city. Hagerstown is also the chief commercial and industrial hub for a greater Tri-State Area that includes much of Western Maryland as well as great extents of South Central Pennsylvania and the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia. Hagerstown has often been referred to as and is nicknamed the Hub City.

References

Cities in Maryland
County seats in Maryland
1762 establishments in the Thirteen Colonies
18th-century establishments in Maryland
Matteo Brighi (born 14 February 1981) is an Italian football player. He played for Roma and Italy national team.

Club career statistics 

|-
|1998/99||rowspan="2"|Rimini Calcio||rowspan="2"|Serie C2||10||1||||||colspan="2"|-||10||1
|-
|1999/00||34||6||||||colspan="2"|-||34||6
|-
|2000/01||Juventus||Serie A||11||0||1||0||colspan="2"|-||12||0
|-
|2001/02||Bologna||Serie A||32||0||1||0||colspan="2"|-||33||0
|-
|2002/03||Parma||Serie A||22||1||0||0||3||0||25||1
|-
|2003/04||Brescia||Serie A||29||1||2||0||colspan="2"|-||31||1
|-
|2004/05||rowspan="3"|Roma||rowspan="3"|Serie A||35||1||1||0||colspan="2"|-||36||1
|-
|2005/06||26||2||0||0||colspan="2"|-||26||2
|-
|2006/07||27||6||1||0||3||0||31||6
|-
|2007/08||rowspan="2"|ChievoVerona||rowspan="2"|Serie A||24||1||5||0||2||0||31||1
|-
|2008/09||35||3||2||0||7||3||44||6
|-
|2009/10||Roma||Serie A||||||||||||||||
285||22||13||0||15||3||313||25
285||22||13||0||15||3||313||25
|}

International career statistics
|-
|2002||1||0
|-
|2003||0||0
|-
|2004||0||0
|-
|2005||0||0
|-
|2006||0||0
|-
|2007||0||0
|-
|2008||0||0
|-
|2009||3||0
|-
!Total||4||0
|}

References 

1981 births
Living people
Footballers from Emilia-Romagna
People from Rimini
is a former Japanese football player. He played for the Japan national team.

Biography
Myojin was born in Kobe on January 24, 1978. He joined J1 League club Kashiwa Reysol from their youth team in 1996. He played many matches as defensive midfielder from first season. He became a regular player under manager Akira Nishino in 1998. In 1999, Reysol won the champions in J.League Cup and the 3rd place in J1 League. In 2000, Reysol won the 3rd place in J1 League for 2 years in a row and he was selected Best Eleven award. However the club results were sluggish from 2002 and was relegated to J2 League end of 2005 season.
In 2016, Myojin moved to Nagoya Grampus. However he could not play many matches. Grampus also finished at the 16th place and was relegated to J2. In 2017, Myojin moved to J3 League club AC Nagano Parceiro; after three seasons, he retired at the end of 2019.

In June 1997, Myojin was selected the Japan U-20 national team for 1997 World Youth Championship. At this tournament, he played full time in all 5 matches as defensive midfielder. In September 2000, he was selected Japan U-23 national team for 2000 Summer Olympics. At this tournament, he played full time in all 4 matches as defensive midfielder with Junichi Inamoto.

He was capped 26 times and scored 3 goals for the Japanese national team between 2000 and 2002. He played three games at the 2002 World Cup.

Statistics
|-
|1996||rowspan="10"|Kashiwa Reysol||rowspan="10"|J1 League||11||0||0||0||2||0||colspan="2"|-||13||0
|-
|1997||13||1||1||0||6||0||colspan="2"|-||20||1
|-
|1998||28||0||2||0||4||1||colspan="2"|-||34||1
|-
|1999||30||1||3||0||4||0||colspan="2"|-||37||1
|-
|2000||29||2||2||0||2||0||colspan="2"|-||33||2
|-
|2001||29||0||1||0||4||0||colspan="2"|-||34||0
|-
|2002||27||1||0||0||1||0||colspan="2"|-||28||1
|-
|2003||29||1||2||1||4||0||colspan="2"|-||35||2
|-
|2004||28||5||0||0||6||0||colspan="2"|-||34||5
|-
|2005||28||1||1||0||4||0||colspan="2"|-||33||1
|-
|2006||rowspan="10"|Gamba Osaka||rowspan="7"|J1 League||25||0||5||0||2||0||3||0||35||0
|-
|2007||33||2||2||0||10||0||colspan="2"|-||45||2
|-
|2008||32||3||5||0||4||0||11||1||52||4
|-
|2009||31||2||5||2||2||1||5||0||43||5
|-
|2010||29||4||3||0||1||0||6||0||39||4
|-
|2011||27||2||1||0||0||0||5||0||33||2
|-
|2012||31||1||5||1||2||0||5||0||43||2
|-
|2013||J2 League||20||0||1||0||0||0||colspan="2"|-||21||0
|-
|-
|2014||rowspan="2"|J1 League||12||0||4||0||5||0||colspan="2"|-||21||0
|-
|2015||10||0||1||0||3||0||4||0||18||0
|-
|2016||Nagoya Grampus||J1 League||15||0||0||0||3||0||colspan="2"|-||18||0
|-
|2017||rowspan="3"|AC Nagano Parceiro||rowspan="3"|J3 League||16||0||1||0||colspan="2"|-||colspan="2"|-||17||0
|-
|2018||14||0||0||0||colspan="2"|-||colspan="2"|-||14||0
|-
|2019||8||0||2||0||colspan="2"|-||colspan="2"|-||10||0
555||26||47||4||69||2||39||1||701||33
555||26||47||4||69||2||39||1||701||33
|}
|-
|2000||9||2
|-
|2001||7||0
|-
|2002||10||1
|-
!Total||26||3
|}

References

Other websites

1978 births
Living people
Footballers from Hyōgo Prefecture
Japan international footballers
J1 League players
J2 League players
J3 League players
Kashiwa Reysol players
Gamba Osaka players
Nagoya Grampus players
AC Nagano Parceiro players
2002 FIFA World Cup players
2001 FIFA Confederations Cup players
2003 FIFA Confederations Cup players
Footballers at the 2000 Summer Olympics
2000 AFC Asian Cup players
AFC Asian Cup-winning players
is a former Japanese football player. He played for the Japan national team. His brother Yuki Maki is also a former footballer.
Maki was born in Uki on August 7, 1980. After graduating from Komazawa University, he joined J1 League club JEF United Ichihara (later JEF United Chiba) in 2003. For his first year at JEF, he was often used as a second-half substitute. However, in 2005 he became a starting forward for the team. JEF won the champions in 2005 and 2006 J.League Cup. However many players left the club and the club results were sluggish late 2000s. JEF finished at the bottom place in 2009 season and was relegated to J2 League first time in the club history. His opportunity to play decreased for generational change in 2010. In July 2010, Maki moved to Russian Premier League club Amkar Perm. In March 2011, he moved to Chinese Super League club Shenzhen Ruby. However he could not play many matches in both clubs. In August 2011, he returned to Japan and signed with J2 League club Tokyo Verdy. He played many matches as mainly substitute forward in 3 seasons. In 2014, he moved to his local club Roasso Kumamoto
. He played more than 30 matches as mainly substitute forward every season. However his opportunity to play decreased in 2018 and Roasso was relegated to J3 League end of 2018 season. He retired end of 2018 season.
In July 2005, Maki was selected Japan national team for 2005 East Asian Football Championship. At this tournament, he debuted against North Korea on July 31. In 2006, he was selected for Japan's 2006 World Cup squad and started a match against Brazil. He was a member of the Japan team for the 2007 Asian Cup and played 4 games. He scored 2 goals in the tournament, both against Vietnam. He played 38 games and scored 8 goals for Japan until 2009.

Statistics

|-
|2003||rowspan="2"|JEF United Ichihara||rowspan="2"|J1 League||17||2||3||1||4||0||24||3
|-
|2004||30||6||1||0||5||4||36||10
|-
|2005||rowspan="6"|JEF United Chiba||rowspan="5"|J1 League||33||12||2||1||10||4||45||17
|-
|2006||32||12||1||0||5||3||38||15
|-
|2007||34||5||1||0||6||0||41||5
|-
|2008||30||11||0||0||3||0||33||11
|-
|2009||31||5||3||1||5||1||39||7
|-
|2010||J2 League||13||0||0||0||colspan="2"|-||13||0

|-
|2010||Amkar Perm||Premier League||9||0||0||0||colspan="2"|-||9||0

|-
|2011||Shenzhen Ruby||Super League||4||0||0||0||colspan="2"|-||4||0
|-
|2011||rowspan="3"|Tokyo Verdy||rowspan="3"|J2 League||14||3||2||0||colspan="2"|-||16||3
|-
|2012||18||1||0||0||colspan="2"|-||18||1
|-
|2013||19||3||2||2||colspan="2"|-||21||5
|-
|2014||rowspan="5"|Roasso Kumamoto||rowspan="5"|J2 League||38||2||1||0||colspan="2"|-||39||2
|-
|2015||39||3||2||0||colspan="2"|-||41||3
|-
|2016||35||0||0||0||colspan="2"|-||35||0
|-
|2017||30||3||2||0||colspan="2"|-||32||3
|-
|2018||25||1||1||0||colspan="2"|-||26||1
438||69||21||5||38||12||497||86
9||0||0||0||colspan="2"|-||9||0
4||0||0||0||colspan="2"|-||4||0
451||69||21||5||38||12||510||86
|}

|-
|2005||3||0
|-
|2006||14||3
|-
|2007||9||4
|-
|2008||9||1
|-
|2009||3||0
|-
!Total||38||8
|}

References

Other websites

1980 births
Living people
Footballers from Kumamoto Prefecture
Japan international footballers
J1 League players
J2 League players
JEF United Chiba players
Tokyo Verdy players
Roasso Kumamoto players
2006 FIFA World Cup players
Biography
Kawashima was born in Saitama on March 20, 1983. After graduating from Urawa Higashi High School, he joined his local club Omiya Ardija in J2 League in 2001. He played many matches from 2003. In 2004, he moved to J1 League club Nagoya Grampus Eight. However he could not play many matches behind Seigo Narazaki who playing for the Japan national team. In 2007, he moved to Kawasaki Frontale. He became a first choice goalkeeper from first season. Kawasaki also won the 2nd place in the 2008 and 2009 J1 League. In summer 2010, he moved to Belgian Pro League club Lierse and played in 2 seasons. In 2012, he moved to Standard Liège. Although he played as first choice goalkeeper until 2014, he lost his position in 2015 and he left the club end of 2014/15 season. After half year blank, he signed with Scottish Premiership club Dundee United. However the club was relegated to Scottish Championship end of the 2015/16 season. In 2016, he moved to French Ligue 1 club Metz. In 2018, he moved to Strasbourg Alsace.
In 2003, Kawasahima was selected the Japan U-20 national team for 2003 World Youth Championship and played all 5 matches. In February 2008, he was selected the Japan national team for 2008 East Asian Football Championship. At this tournament, he debuted against North Korea on February 17. However he could not play many matches behind Seigo Narazaki. In 2010, he was selected the Japan for 2010 World Cup. In May, he became a first choice goalkeeper instead Narazaki just before the 2010 World Cup. Kawashima played all 4 matches at the 2010 World Cup and Japan qualified to the knockout stage. After the 2010 World Cup, Narazaki retired from national team and Kawashima became a egular goalkeeper under new manager Alberto Zaccheroni. In 2011, he played at 2011 Asian Cup and won the champions. He also played at 2013 Confederations Cup, 2014 World Cup and 2015 Asian Cup. Although he lost his position behind Shusaku Nishikawa from 2015, Kawashima played many matches again from 2017
. In 2018, he was selected the Japan for 2018 World Cup. He played all 4 matches and Japan qualified to the knockout stage. He also played at 2019 Copa América. He played 91 games for Japan until 2019.
Kawashima helped develop a program to improve the foreign language skills of Japanese athletes and coaches who play and coach internationally.  He is fluent in English and Italian.  He works to improve speaking and listening skills in Dutch, French and Portuguese skills.

Statistics

|-
|2001||rowspan="3"|Omiya Ardija||rowspan="3"|J2 League||0||0||0||0||0||0||colspan="2"|-||0||0
|-
|2002||8||0||4||0||colspan="2"|-||colspan="2"|-||12||0
|-
|2003||33||0||0||0||colspan="2"|-||colspan="2"|-||33||0
|-
|2004||rowspan="3"|Nagoya Grampus Eight||rowspan="3"|J1 League||4||0||0||0||8||0||colspan="2"|-||12||0
|-
|2005||3||0||1||0||6||0||colspan="2"|-||10||0
|-
|2006||10||0||0||0||4||0||colspan="2"|-||14||0
|-
|2007||rowspan="4"|Kawasaki Frontale||rowspan="4"|J1 League||34||0||4||0||3||0||7||0||48||0
|-
|2008||34||0||1||0||1||0||colspan="2"|-||36||0
|-
|2009||34||0||1||0||3||0||9||0||47||0
|-
|2010||11||0||0||0||0||0||6||0||17||0
|-
|2010/11||rowspan="2"|Lierse||rowspan="2"|Pro League||23||0||2||0||colspan="2"|-||colspan="2"|-||25||0
|-
|2011/12||30||0||6||0||colspan="2"|-||colspan="2"|-||36||0
|-
|2012/13||rowspan="3"|Standard Liège||rowspan="3"|Pro League||30||0||0||0||colspan="2"|-||colspan="2"|-||30||0
|-
|2013/14||27||0||1||0||colspan="2"|-||9||0||37||0
|-
|2014/15||11||0||1||0||colspan="2"|-||7||0||19||0

|-
|2015/16||Dundee United||Premiership||16||0||3||0||0||0||colspan="2"|-||19||0

|-
|2016/17||rowspan="2"|Metz||rowspan="2"|Ligue 1||5||0||1||0||0||0||colspan="2"|-||6||0
|-
|2017/18||29||0||1||0||0||0||colspan="2"|-||30||0
|-
|2018/19||rowspan="3"|Strasbourg Alsace||rowspan="3"|Ligue 1||1||0||0||0||0||0||colspan="2"|-||1||0
|-
|2019/20||0||0||0||0||0||0||colspan="2"|-||0||0
|-
|2020/21||||||||||||||||||||
171||0||11||0||25||0||22||0||229||0
141||0||10||0||colspan="2"|-||16||0||167||0
16||0||3||0||0||0||colspan="2"|-||19||0
35||0||2||0||0||0||colspan="2"|-||37||0
363||0||26||0||25||0||22||0||436||0
|}
|-
|2008||1||0
|-
|2009||7||0
|-
|2010||8||0
|-
|2011||12||0
|-
|2012||11||0
|-
|2013||14||0
|-
|2014||11||0
|-
|2015||7||0
|-
|2016||1||0
|-
|2017||9||0
|-
|2018||7||0
|-
|2019||3||0
|-
!Total||91||0
|}

References

Other websites

1983 births
Living people
Footballers from Saitama Prefecture
Japan international footballers
J1 League players
J2 League players
Omiya Ardija players
Nagoya Grampus players
Kawasaki Frontale players
2010 FIFA World Cup players
2014 FIFA World Cup players
2018 FIFA World Cup players
2013 FIFA Confederations Cup players
2022 FIFA World Cup players
is a former Japanese football player. He played for the Japan national team.

Biography
Sakai was born in Misato on June 29, 1979. He joined JEF United Ichihara from their youth team in 1997. He played many matches as defensive midfielder from first season. He moved to Nagoya Grampus Eight in 2001. He also played as right midfielder not only defensive midfielder. His opportunity to play decreased from the middle of 2003. He moved to Urawa Reds in 2004. Although he did not have much opportunity to play, the club won the 2nd place in 2004 and 2005 J1 League and the champions 2005 Emperor's Cup. He moved to Vissel Kobe in July 2007 and Fujieda MYFC in 2009. From 2010, he moved to Indonesia and played for Pelita Jaya, Persiwa Wamena, Persiram Raja Ampat and Deltras Sidoarjo. He retired in 2013.
In August 1995, Sakai was selected the Japan U-17 national team for 1995 U-17 World Championship. He played full-time in all 3 matches. In April 1999, he was also selected the Japan U-20 national team for 1999 World Youth Championship. He played full-time in all 7 matches as right midfielder and Japan won the 2nd place.

In September 2000, Sakai was selected the Japan U-23 national team for 2000 Summer Olympics who carried high hopes of the nation because Sakai's teammates included such household names as Hidetoshi Nakata, Shunsuke Nakamura and Naohiro Takahara. Sakai played all 4 matches. However, in the team's quarterfinal match, Sakai committed a foul inside his own box at the 90th minute, conceding the United States, Japan's opponents, a crucial penalty to make it 2-2. The United States went on to win the penalty shootouts after 120 minutes of play could not separate the two teams.

On December 20, 2000, Sakai debuted for the Japan national team against South Korea.

Statistics
Statistics

|-
|1997||rowspan="4"|JEF United Ichihara||rowspan="4"|J1 League||18||2||2||0||1||0||21||2
|-
|1998||25||0||1||0||6||1||32||1
|-
|1999||22||0||1||1||0||0||23||1
|-
|2000||27||1||3||1||2||0||32||2
|-
|2001||rowspan="3"|Nagoya Grampus Eight||rowspan="3"|J1 League||25||3||1||0||6||0||32||3
|-
|2002||29||1||3||0||6||0||38||1
|-
|2003||17||1||0||0||3||0||20||1
|-
|2004||rowspan="4"|Urawa Reds||rowspan="4"|J1 League||19||1||3||0||7||1||29||2
|-
|2005||18||2||4||0||6||0||28||2
|-
|2006||3||0||3||0||5||1||11||1
|-
|2007||0||0||0||0||0||0||0||0
|-
|2007||rowspan="2"|Vissel Kobe||rowspan="2"|J1 League||10||0||2||0||0||0||12||0
|-
|2008||0||0||0||0||0||0||0||0
|-
|2009||Fujieda MYFC||Prefectural Leagues||8||3||colspan="2"|-||colspan="2"|-||8||3