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From: robillar@goofi.greco-prog.fr (robilliard marc-olivier,Marco)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.soccer
Subject: PSG.
Date: 14 Apr 92 10:30:17 GMT
Organization: ENSERB, Bordeaux, France.
Originator: robillar@goofi

to Kent : about PSG

	Simba amara is not international senegalian but international french.
	
Marco.
From: schraag@fwi.uva.nl (Joost Schraag)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.soccer
Subject: Dutch competition, round 31.
Summary: played 11/4 and 12/4.
Date: 13 Apr 92 11:46:00 GMT
Organization: FWI, University of Amsterdam
X-Should-Be-Newsgroup: rec.sport.football.real

de Graafschap - Volendam 3-0
    6' Kraay
   67' Koolhof
   88' Koolhof

PSV - Willem II 3-0
    6' Popescu
   51' Kalusha
   74' Ellerman

Fortuna Sittard - SVV/D '90 0-0

FC Utrecht - Vitesse 1-1
   39' van Arum    0-1
   76' van der Ark 1-1

Ajax - FC den Haag 3-2
   17' Kreek        1-0
   29' van Eijkeren 1-1 (penalty)
   35' Pettersson   2-1 (penalty)
   52' Pettersson   3-1
   78' Valk         3-2

FC Groningen - Feijenoord 1-0
    8' Djurovski

RKC - MVV 1-1
   20' van Hoogdalem 1-0
   53' Visser        1-1

Sparta - Roda JC 4-0
   13' Vurens 
   24' van den Berg
   48' Verhagen (own goal)
   77' Sandel

FC Twente - VVV 2-1
    7' de Boer   1-0
   19' Mulder    2-0
   74' Babangida 2-1


PSV           31 22  8  1 52 69-24
Ajax          31 22  5  4 49 72-23
Feijenoord    30 17  8  5 42 45-18
Vitesse       31 14  9  8 37 44-30
FC Groningen  30 14  8  8 36 41-31
FC Twente     31 13  8 10 34 52-46
Roda JC       31 12 10  9 34 38-37
RKC           31 10 13  8 33 49-41
FC Utrecht    32  9 14  9 32 36-36
Sparta        31 10 11 10 31 45-50
MVV           30  9 11 10 29 31-39
Willem II     30 10  7 13 27 40-41
Volendam      32 10  7 15 27 33-46
SVV/D '90     31  8  6 17 22 36-58
Fortuna S.    31  5 11 15 21 31-46
de Graafschap 31  6  8 17 20 28-50
FC den Haag   32  5 10 17 20 29-58
VVV           30  2  6 22 10 28-73 (relegated to second division)

joost.

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From: jcostas@cbnewsb.cb.att.com (constantinos.n.tsioras)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.soccer
Subject: Greek Cup result, Wed 8 Apr
Keywords: controversy and fighting at the big game
Date: 8 Apr 92 22:28:21 GMT
Organization: AT&T

Greek Cup Quarter-Final, 2nd leg:

Panathinaikos 1      Olympiakos 1   (first game 0-0, Olympiakos advances on
                                     away goals rule)
Saravakos 62' (pen)  Protasov 91'(pen)

Attendance: 50,000

Incredible scenes at the end of the big game.
Panathinaikos scored first after 62 mins by a penalty kick taken by
Dimitris Saravakos. In injury time, the referee awarded a penalty to Olympiakos
which was succesfully converted by Oleg Protasov. The referee blew the
final whistle straight after the penalty kick and all hell broke lose.
There were reports of fights inside the pitch and outside the Olympic
Stadium afterwards.
Yet another bad ending in a game between the two rivals. These two clubs 
really hate one other so it was hardly surprising.

The semi-finals (two legs again) of the Greek Cup have now shaped up to:

PAOK Thessaloniki vs. AEK Athens

Olympiakos Pireaus vs. Atromitos Peristeri (2nd div)

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Xref: sparky rec.sport.soccer:5581 soc.culture.french:3176
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Subject: MONACO qualified for the CWC final!
From: zxnoueih@wsuhub.uc.twsu.edu (...VALENCIA...)
Date: 15 Apr 92 16:41:25 CST
Organization: Wichita State University, Wichita, Ks

Hello!

I just finished listening to the Feyenord-Monaco game. The final score is:

Feyenord - MONACO: 2-2
 ?? (52')   Weah (33')
 ?? (87')   Rui Barros (51')

Att.: 57000

First game in Monaco:  MONACO - Feyenord: 1-1

MONACO qualified for the final in Lisbonne!

Monaco will face Werder Bremen who defeated Bruges 2-0.

This will be MONACO's first participation in any European Cup final!
From the radio commentator, Monaco played very well, despite the two goals
scored against them. They led 2-0 for a minute when Feyenord scored its first
goal. The second Feyenord goal came three minutes before the end of the game,
making the end of the game very exciting. The referee allowed more than four
(4) minutes of injury time. Monaco seemed to be in control of the game most of
the time. The impression one is left with after the game is that Monaco
should have won the game without those final scary minutes.
So much for that Feyenord defense :-):)

Monaco WILL be the first french team to win a European cup!
HIP! HIP! HIP!...HOURA!

Ziad.
From: scogpw@thor.cf.ac.uk (Gordon Walker)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.soccer
Subject: Re: GRAEME SOUNESS - MY HERO
Date: 9 Apr 92 16:50:19 GMT
Organization: University of Wales College at Cardiff
X-Mailer: Cardiff Computing Maths PP Mail Open News Gateway

In article <1992Apr8.094154.11880@phillip.edu.au> t8914229@phillip.edu.au writes:
|MY BELOVED Graeme Souness is to have heart surgery on Monday......

DENISE finds the Caps-Lock button - hurrah!!

|Those who refer to him as a "thug" or a "cheat" should refrain from doing
|so right now because I don't think it's appropriate.....

Well, I still find it hard to forget the fact he ruined the career of
one of the most talented footballers of the current generation - Siggi
Jonsson. Playing for Scotland vs Iceland, Souness basically went on a
witchhunt for Iceland's star player, and his tackle about 20 mins into
the match left him out for a year and must have contributed to his
retirement last year. He was only about 26 I think. The physio at Shef
Wed, Alan Smith, is meant to have said he had never seen such a talented
17 year-old when he first came to Britain (this from a man who has dealt
extensively with the National youth and U-21 teams). 
(I wonder if Alan Smith still thinks that, with Chris Bart-Williams having
just arrived?)

|
|	LIVERPOOL'S DEDICATION TO GRAEME SOUNESS:
|	=========================================
|    [crap deleted] ........

Oh dear - the Caps-Lock has got stuck again.

gordon
From: archer@hsi86.hsi.com (Garry Archer)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.soccer
Subject: Re: Should we have an FAQ list ?
Date: 10 Apr 92 15:14:21 GMT
Reply-To: archer@hsi86.hsi.com.com (Garry Archer)
Organization: 3M Health Information Systems, Wallingford

In article <1992Apr9.153928.5620@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu> marco@Damrod.McRCIM.McGill.EDU (Marco Petroni) writes:
>In article <HANS.92Apr9153122@ravn.iesd.auc.dk> hans@iesd.auc.dk (Hans Huttel) writes:
>>Quite a few groups have a monthly
>>FAQ (Frequebtly Asked Questions) posting. Isn't it about time we had
>>something similar for rec.sport.soccer ?
>
>Sounds good to me but what could be put in the FAQ in addition to the
>"History of the word 'soccer'"? Well, I would suggest news on the
>soccer-related mailing lists which exist on the net, perhaps news on
>soccer programs/broadcasts on shortwave/satellite, soccer
>magazines/publications, where to find a soccer rule-book, etc. I'm
>sure others out there can easily add or delete from my short list...

Here's a start:

	1) Broadcast wavelengths for soccer games from all over the world.

	2) Addresses of soccer magazines and other publications.

	3) History of the word 'soccer'.

	4) Sites and capacities of the stadiums selected for World Cup 1994.

	5) Schedule (when available) of World Cup 1994 matches.

	6) Ticket information (when available) for World Cup 1994 matches.

	7) Information on other soccer news bulletin boards (i.e. Compuserv?)

	8) Rules of The Game (this could be a separate list).

	9) Addresses of Football Associations around the world (another list?)

	10) History of matches and locations of all World Cups.

Please add more!

As you can see, some categories may require separate lists (especially
Rules of The Game) and therefore more folks may be responsible for different
lists.

It might require a huge effort to compile some lists.  Rules of The Game
could be provided by one or several of the referees who read r.s.s
Other information could be provided by several folks.  I would be willing
to help with the Addresses of Football Associations of the world and
history of the World Cup (especially early pre-1980 history).  Some of
these lists may be continuously updated as more and more information becomes
available.  It could take months!

By lists, I mean "FAQ (Part 1)" and "FAQ (Part 2)" ad infinitum.  Or perhaps
its a good idea to only maintain one list of FAQ?


>Oh yes, we also need a volunteer to compile and maintain the list... :)

Thanks for volunteering, Marco!

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Newsgroups: rec.sport.soccer
From: yfeng@watdragon.waterloo.edu (Yongbing Feng)
Subject: Re: Is China that bad internatinoally? (USA - China)
Organization: University of Waterloo
Distribution: world,local
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1992 17:29:14 GMT

In article <1992Apr6.190846.1@skyblu.ccit.arizona.edu> desert@skyblu.ccit.arizona.edu (Desert Man...) writes:
|:In article <1992Apr6.005803.1@mscf.med.upenn.edu>, mills_j@mscf.med.upenn.edu writes:
|:>> USA beat China, 5-0 yesterday in Palo Alto, California before ~32,000 people.
|:>> The US had been winless in their last 5 games, which included the tour to
|:>> Central & South America and Spain & Morroco. The US managed to score only 
|:>> once during those matches.
|:>> 
|:>> 
|:>> USA 5     -    China 0
|:>> Perez (2)
|:>> Wynalda (2)
|:>> Kinnear
|:>      Caught this game on Univision and was a bit surprised to see the U.S.
|:> team so dominant.  I've seen us both win and draw before but always got
|:> the impression that any goals we scored were 3/4 luck, and the only part
|:> of the team that deserved kudos was the backfield.  This game was dif-
|:> ferent.  Is the Chinese team that bad internationally?
|:	   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
|:
|:No they are not... I believe this was either their 2nd or 3rd squad playing!!!
|:They are getting themselves ready for the Asian Cup(s) games and etc...
|:
|:Ali...
|:-- 

The Chinese national team mainly consists of two teams in division A, and it
will run for Asian Cup for China. The reason is that the head coach of national
team is suspended because of the failure of Chinese Olimpic team( the same
head coach for both teams), and there is no way to construct the real national
team in short time. By the way, the two teams are not best in china, but they
come from South China, and supposed to familiar to the climate in South Asia.

Yongbing
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Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: rec.sport.soccer
Date: Thu,  9 Apr 1992 09:23:27 -0400 
From: Saverio Cittadini <sc4n+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Pievigina

A few days ago someone asked information on Pievigina...
Well, I checked: this team plays in Group B of "Interregionale" (5th
division). After 30 games (4 to go) they have 30 points, with 9 wins,
12 draws and 9 losses. They have no chance of promotion, but should
be able to avoid relegation without serious trouble.

                                                   Saverio

e-mail: CITTADINI@SIVAX.CINECA.IT
"The sky is light-blue, since God is a Napoli fan"
V I N C I   P E R   N O I   M A G I C O   N A P O L I  !!!
From: eftv20@castle.ed.ac.uk (G C Stewart)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.soccer
Subject: Re: More about shirts
Date: 16 Apr 92 19:40:16 GMT
Organization: Edinburgh University

In article <3324@svin02.info.win.tue.nl> wsinjosc@info.win.tue.nl writes:
>Inspired by KNVB's persistance to let Holland play in
>the weirdest outfits (instead of the `classic' oufit) I intend to
>to compile a list of national teams with the following data
>Official name of the country, the nick name local and translated ,
>the classic outfit (shirt,shorts,socks), current outfit.
>
>Some examples (correct me if I'm wrong)
>
>
>ENGLAND
>Aka: none
>Classic: Blue shirt, white shorts, blue socks
>Current: Idem.

    Wrong! White shirts and blue shorts actually, or in Bryan Robson's
  case, it's the strip plus four bandaged limbs and an elastoplast on
  his neck to stop his head being blown off.
>
>
>Current: Idem.
>
>SCOTLAND
>Aka: none
>Classic: Blue shirt, white shorts, blue socks
>Current: Idem, except for hor. blue band on shorts.

   Traditionally Scotland play in red socks to pacify to small but 
  noisy Unionist element of their population :-). The blue band round
  the naughty bits (or the knees in Gordon Strachan's case) hasn't been
  seen since Scotland's battling 0-0 draw with Luxembourg in 1987. The
  strip they wore during the 1990 World Cup was actually voted the most
   fashionable of the tournament -w hich may explain the rather liberal
  amount of posing by the Scottish defenders during the game with Costa
  Rica. The latest strip, which you'll see in Sweden this summer, is
  modelled on a 1920's - about as close Andy Roxburgh's lads will get
  emulating the Wembley Wizards:-( . (er, England 1 Scotland 5 in 1928
  for those uninformed).
>
>SWEDEN
>Aka: none
>Classic: Yellow shirt, blue shorts, yellow so

    Is Tomas Brolin the ugliest player in Europe?

>to wsinjosc@win.tue.nl
>
>Of course I'll post the complete list 


     My candidates for the worst three strip designs of all time,

     3) Denmark c. 1986 (with Preben Elkjeaer contained inside)
     2) Wales c. 1978 (with Terry Yorath contained inside)
     1) Rangers now (with the badge on the back - which from a
     distance looks like Frank Rijkaard's signature. This bottom
     ranking is conditional of course, on Davie Dodds being contained
     inside.)


                  Gerry
>
>Jos
From: lah014@cck.coventry.ac.uk (Richard Marshall)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.soccer
Subject: About Aldershot F.C. (an obscure question)
Date: 6 Apr 92 13:55:14 GMT
Organization: Coventry Polytechnic, Coventry, UK

Please help.
Does anybody out there have Aldershot's record for this season before
they were expelled from the league ?
All I need to know is their results and fixtures.
Thanks.


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From: mehta@watson.bms.com (Pradhyuman Mehta)
Subject: Re: Please post the USA: CHINA result.
Followup-To: rec.sport.soccer
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.4-b1  
Organization: Bristol Myers Squibb Pharmaceutical Research Institute
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 14:01:00 GMT

In article <15902@bunny.GTE.COM>, andy (Andy Busa) writes...
> 
>> Where do you get the third division from? I was refering to their (Wednesday) 
>> third team as opposed to their first or second team.
> 
>I guess I still don't understand what you mean.  Are you talking about
>33 different players or are you only talking about one or two
>subs?  To me there is a huge difference between someones third team and
>their subs.  As we both know it is extremely rare for any team in any sport
>to go a season with all starters.  If you are considering, lets say Neilson
>being hurt and John Harkes replacing him as their second team then I completely
>misunderstood you.  I apologize.  But if you were talking about three seperate
>teams then you can see why I would compare the third team to a third division
>team.
> 
>> You include some teams that the USA have beaten 
>> or drawn with. How about listing the games that they have lost so that we can 
>> get a good perspective on the teams performance.
> 
>Sure thats only fair.  The team has lost to Spain(away), Morroco (away), Brazil
>(away), El Salvador (US B team away), Russia (home), Italy(90 Cup), Austria(90
>Cup) and Checkoslovakia(90 Cup?). As you can see we seem to have a great
>deal of trouble playing away from the States.  That can be attributed to
>a lack of skill level and experience in playing abroad.
> 
>Andy

Andy 'ole chap,

    When I said third team, I meant it sarcastically. In any case a 3rd team 
would be a C team similar to the B team you show above. Only a few sports that 
I know e.g. field hockey have 3rd teams. I've not heard of any 1st division
teams with a 3rd team, so thats where the sarcasm came from. In England, most
teams have a '2 team' or a 'second eleven'. This team plays different teams of
the same rank. I hope that clears up any confusion. Oh and there really is no 
comparision, that I know of, between a '3 team' and a 3rd division team.

    The results of the USA meeting world class teams speaks differently does it 
not. These teams are ones that I would be glad to see my team win against.
Plus, as you point out the USA does not fair well away from home. The above
results I believe, add strength to my argument that the USA has a long way to
go before it is to be taken seriously. I still think that the USA would not do
that well against 1st. division sides.

Cheers,

Prej.
From: jj1@st-andrews.ac.uk (John Johnston)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.soccer
Subject: Highland League Footie!
Date: 11 Apr 92 23:04:18 GMT
Organization: St. Andrews University

Well how many of you peeps have heard of Inverness Caley? For long they have been the best team in the highland league and have played well in the scottish cup. This year was a fine example.

 	Scottish Cup 2nd Round:

        Stenhousemuir 1(1) - (0)4 Caley
	Can't Remember 24	  Emmm...oops forgot who scored

	Scottish Cup 3rd Round:

	Caley	3(1) - (1)1 Clyde
	Christie 32       Morrison 37
	Urquhart 71
	Hercher ??

	Scottish Cup 4th Round:

	Caley 2 (0) - (1) 2 St. Johnstone
	Hercher pen.	    Moore 40,46
	Polworth

Admitedly we lost 3-0 in the replay but Caley fully deserved to beat the premier league outfit at Telford Street. 

Caley even have plans for a new all seater stadium which has a capacity of 3000 with the capability of increasing if the need be.

I mean it is boring in some cases going to watch caley play the likes of Rothes etc 
who you know fine well they will slaughter. Take the last 6 games caley have played...

well seven games....

They have scored 29 goals and conceded 4. One game was 8-0 to caley, but we were worried at half time..It was 0-0!!!!!!!!

Also Caleys average home gate is bigger than most second dicision clubs.

So mail me if  you think they should be allowed into the league or If you have your own opinions.....

John (CALEY FC) Johnston (My other team is Hamilton and we'll not mention West ham's poor showing!!!)))
From: archer@hsi86.hsi.com (Garry Archer)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.soccer
Subject: Re: Football at the movies etc.
Date: 9 Apr 92 13:37:52 GMT
Reply-To: archer@hsi86.hsi.com.com (Garry Archer)
Organization: 3M Health Information Systems, Wallingford

In article <1992Apr7.153729.23119@retix.com> darragh@retix.com (Darragh Stokes) writes:
>What about the low-budget BUT EXCELLENT Scottish film, Gregory's Girl.  
>Fitba,  isn't the main topic but is a nice part of it.  ( Claire Grogan 
>( who sang that all time classic ;-)  'Happy Birthday' )  made her acting 
>'breakthrough' in this film.
>
>Well worth a watch,  but I haven't seen it on video over here in the U.S.


Yes, I forgot this one.   Yeah, I liked this one too.  (A Bill Forsyth
film, as others have already pointed out).  Gregory's girlfriend is
very good at footy and makes the school team.  Can't remember, wasn't
Gregory the goalkeeper?  Not important, its been several years since
I saw it.  And it was over here in the U.S. on The Movie Channel.


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Newsgroups: rec.sport.soccer
From: orhan@leland.Stanford.EDU (Orhan Mehmet Arsel)
Subject: Re: Turkish soccer results
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 92 06:14:42 GMT

In article <1992Apr8.023731.4682@news.unomaha.edu> MUTLU@Zeus.unomaha.edu writes:
>Here the results of turkish soccer games, from 29-Apr.
                                           ^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
>	Fenerbahce	:	Bolu		2:0
>	Konya		:	Besiktas  	0:3
>	Adana D.S.	:	Trabzon		0:0
>	Galatasaray	:	Gaziantep	0:1
>	Ankaragucu	:	Sariyer		3:1
>	Bursa		:	Altay		0:0
>	Bakirkoy	:	Gencler B.	4:1
>	Aydin		:	Samsun		2:1
>
>
>Regards, MUTLU.
>	

I believe the above date should read "29. March". Thanks for the
results. Can you possibly post the league-standings as well ?

Sincerely,

Orhan.
From: cmorris@Ingres.COM (Colin Morris)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.soccer
Subject: Re: Please post the USA: CHINA result.
Date: 15 Apr 92 00:45:00 GMT
Reply-To: cmorris@Ingres.COM (Colin Morris)
Distribution: na
Organization: Ask Computer Systems Inc., Ingres Division, Alameda CA 94501

In article <1992Apr9.193608.4088@oakhill.sps.mot.com> asim@oakhill.sps.mot.com (Asim Omair) writes:
>In article <12437@umd5.umd.edu> ap63@woodstock.umd.edu (Jurgen Klinsmann) writes:
>>In article <8APR199213164616@watson.bms.com> mehta@watson.bms.com (Pradhyuman Mehta) writes:
>>>In article <andy-4/8/92+12:00:37?PM@rocky>, andy@rocky.gte.com (Andy Busa) writes...
>>>>> I wouldn't fancy the chances of the US team against most English
>>>>> first division sides.
>>>>For what it is worth, a very weaken US team beat Sheffield Wednesday 2-0
>>>I guess Wednesday must have played their 3rd team in this game :-) No to demean 
>>>the US team, but I doubt that they'd do well in your scenario. Just a gut 
>>Note: i attended this game and the Maryland Bays - Sheffield Wedneday match
>>a couple of days before. Bays (ex-APSL) lost 0-2 on a superb 2nd half 
>>turnaround by the Owls. Bays had 2 excellent chances to score by Jean Harbor
>>on  breakaways, he shot short of the near post and fell on the other chance.
>>Normally, Harbor would have made these shots if they hadn't played on such
>>a crummy pitch. The score was 0-0 at half and was evenly played by both teams.
>   ^^^^^^^^^^^^
>If the ground had been better then may be Sheffield Wednesday had won by a
>bigger margin.
>
>>Wednesday were with their full squad; Hirst, Pearson, Sheridan, Worthington,
>>Williams and the like.
>>Woods wasn't signed yet and Turner was in goal. Harkes was made
>>captain, and Viv Anderson and Trevor Francais played too.
>>It was a close game and Maryland Bays dominated in the air throughout the
>>entire match.
>

Remember, these games were the first two pre-season "friendlies" for
Sheffield Wednesday. Hardly a good yardstick to measure their team by.
Also, I understand from my correspondent (my brother, who happens to
live in Sheffield) that Wednesday were more than a little pissed at
the playing surface for the U.S. game (undampened artificial turf with
uneven mats covering up the baseball-inflicted dirt areas). I expect
they were quite relieved to get through that game without injury.

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