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[ { "contents": "Sri Lankan cricket team in England in 2014\n\n\nThe Sri Lanka national cricket team toured England from 13 May to 24 June 2014 for a Twenty20 International (T20I), five One Day Internationals (ODIs) and two Test matches against the England cricket team. They also played three one-day and one four-day tour matches against English county sides, as well as preceding the entire tour with a two-match ODI series against Ireland. Sri Lanka won the Test series 1–0 (the first time they had won a Test series in England), the ODI series", "id": "21939883" }, { "contents": "New Zealand cricket team in England in 2015\n\n\nThe New Zealand national cricket team toured England from 8 May to 23 June 2015 for two Test matches, five One Day Internationals (ODIs) and a Twenty20 International (T20I) against the England cricket team. They also played two four-day tour matches and a one-day match against English county sides. England won the first Test at Lord's before New Zealand claimed victory in the second Test at Headingley to level the series. England then took an early lead in the ODI series after hitting more than 400 runs", "id": "943447" }, { "contents": "Australian cricket team in England and Ireland in 2015\n\n\nThe Australia national cricket team toured England from June to September 2015 for a five-match Test series, five One Day International (ODI) matches and one Twenty20 International (T20I). The Test series was for the Ashes. They also played two four-day and two three-day first-class matches against English county sides. Australia also played one ODI against Ireland in Belfast. On 31 March 2015, Australia announced a 17-man touring party for the Ashes series. England announced their squad for the first Test on", "id": "1657670" }, { "contents": "David Constant\n\n\n67 first-class appearances. In total he scored 1,517 first-class runs at a batting average of 19.20 with a highest score of 80. Tony Lewis described his innings against Glamorgan on a difficult pitch at Leicester in 1965 as \"one of the bravest innings I ever saw\". His first Test as umpire was the Third Test between England and Pakistan in July 1971. He last stood in an international cricket match in the England v. Australia One Day International at The Oval, London in June 2001. He was the", "id": "14539375" }, { "contents": "Pakistani cricket team in Sri Lanka in 2015\n\n\nThe Pakistan cricket team toured Sri Lanka from 11 June to 1 August 2015. The tour consisted of a three-day tour match against a SLCB President's XI, three Test matches, five One Day International and two Twenty20 International matches. The third Test was originally scheduled to be played at the R Premadasa Stadium, but was changed to the Pallekele International Cricket Stadium in early May. Pakistan outplayed the hosts in all forms of the game by winning the Test series 2–1, the ODI series 3–2 and the T20I series 2–0.", "id": "15080177" }, { "contents": "2010 in American music\n\n\n17 March 22 March 23 March 26 March 30 April 6 April 8 April 13 April 19 April 20 April 21 April 27 April 30 May 4 May 11 May 14 May 17 May 18 May 21 May 25 May 31 June 1 June 8 June 14 June 15 June 18 June 21 June 22 June 28 June 29 July 6 July 7 July 12 July 13 July 15 July 20 July 23 July 25 July 27 July 29 August 3 August 17 August 24 August 31 September 7 September 14 September 21 September 23 September 28 October 5 October", "id": "18556206" }, { "contents": "Warwickshire County Cricket Club\n\n\nand gold and the shirt sponsor is Gullivers Sports Travel. The club's home is Edgbaston Cricket Ground in south Birmingham, which regularly hosts Test and One Day International matches. Cricket may have reached Warwickshire by the end of the 17th century. The \"Warwickshire & Staffordshire Journal\" was certainly aware of the sport in 1738 for it carried a report of a London v Mitcham game at the Artillery Ground on 11 August (London won by 1 wicket). The earliest confirmed reference to cricket in the county is a match announcement", "id": "8941185" }, { "contents": "Irish cricket team in England in 2019\n\n\nThe Ireland cricket team toured England in July 2019 to play a one-off four-day Test match at Lord's. It was the first Test match to be played between the two sides, and was England's first four-day Test match since they toured New Zealand in 1971. It was Ireland's third Test match, and their twelfth international fixture against England. The Test match was part of England's preparations for the 2019 Ashes series. Ahead of the Test, the England cricket team visited Ireland in May", "id": "16268672" }, { "contents": "1919 English cricket season\n\n\n(five wins from fourteen) and Warwickshire were bottom with 7.14% (one win from fourteen). The 1919 County Championship was the 26th since the competition acquired official status in 1890. The opening matches began on Friday, 16 May. These were Middlesex v Nottinghamshire at Lord's and the 1914 (reigning) champions Surrey against Somerset at The Oval. The final match between Essex and Surrey at Leyton was completed on Monday, 1 September. The situation between Yorkshire and Kent on Saturday, 30 August (the second day in", "id": "7320450" }, { "contents": "Timeline of the 2013 Pacific hurricane season\n\n\n15 May 16 May 17 May 28 May 29 May 30 June 1 June 23 June 24 June 25 June 26 June 27 June 29 June 30 July 2 July 3 July 4 July 5 July 6 July 7 July 9 July 25 July 27 July 30 July 31 August 2 August 3 August 4 August 6 August 7 August 8 August 9 August 11 August 16 August 18 August 19 August 20 August 22 August 23 August 24 August 25 August 28 August 29 August 30 August 31 September 1 September 2 September 5 September 6 September 7 September", "id": "957237" }, { "contents": "Prince's Cricket Ground\n\n\nas 'grand and quick and one of the finest playing grounds in England'. The first match played on the ground was Household Brigade v. Lords and Commons on 3 June 1871. Middlesex County Cricket Club used the ground between 1872 and 1876 and played their first match on 23–25 May 1872 against Yorkshire. The ground was also used by South of England and by Gentlemen of the South. Several Gentlemen v Players fixtures were also played there, the first taking place in July 1873. In 1878, the touring Australians played two", "id": "19086180" }, { "contents": "Callum Jackson\n\n\nSussex youth ranks, playing at under-13, under-14, under-15 and under-17 level before joining the second XI as a 16-year-old in 2011. He was selected to represent an English Schools Cricket Association XI in 2011 before making his first appearance for the Sussex first XI on 1 May 2012 in a non-first-class match against the Leeds/Bradford MCC Universities team. In early 2013, Jackson was selected for the England under-19 side to tour South Africa, where he played in both Youth Test matches and three One Day", "id": "16290826" }, { "contents": "2018 English cricket season\n\n\nHurricane Irma and Hurricane Maria in September 2017. Pakistan played two Test matches against England at Lord's and Headingley at the end of May and beginning of June. The series was drawn, each side winning one match. Ahead of the Tests, two first-class matches were played against Kent and Northants. Their match against Ireland took place after the two first-class county matches, and a two-day match was played against Leicestershire between this and the first Test against England. Pakistan won the first Test match by", "id": "6929603" }, { "contents": "1963 in Norwegian football\n\n\nResults from Norwegian football in 1963. April 26 April 28 May 3 May 4 May 5 May 11 May 12 May 30 May 19 May 22 May 23 May 26 May 27 June 7 June 8 June 9 June 14 June 15 June 16 June 22 June 23 June 24 July 26 July 28 July 29 August 2 August 4 August 6 August 17 August 18 August 21 August 22 August 24 August 25 September 7 September 8 September 20 September 22 October 4 October 6 October 13 Årstad promoted Nidelv promoted Harstad - Bodø/Glimt 4 -", "id": "20433032" }, { "contents": "West Indian cricket team in England in 1991\n\n\nThe West Indian cricket team in England in 1991 played three one day internationals and five Tests, under the captaincy of Viv Richards, as part of an extensive tour in which they also played first-class matches against 11 first-class county teams, the combined Minor Counties, the Combined Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, and a World XI to finish, plus 55-over one-day matches against one more first-class county (Gloucestershire) and the Duchess of Norfolk's Invitation XI. Of the non-international matches,", "id": "5157419" }, { "contents": "West Indian cricket team in England in 2007\n\n\nThe West Indian cricket team toured England from 12 May to 7 July 2007 as part of the 2007 English cricket season. The tour included four Tests, two Twenty20 international matches and three One Day Internationals. While England dominated the Test series 3–0, including a record victory over the West Indies, the latter took the ODI series 2:1. In the ICC Test Championship, England are ranked second and West Indies are ranked eighth, though England's most recent series was a whitewash loss in the Ashes against Australia for the first time", "id": "12941423" }, { "contents": "Sri Lankan cricket team in the West Indies in 2018\n\n\nOn 19 May 2018, Cricket West Indies (CWI) announced that they may scrap one of the Test fixtures, replacing it with a couple of one-day matches. However, the day before the first Test, the International Cricket Council (ICC) confirmed that it would be a three-match Test series. Prior to the start of day three of the second Test, the Sri Lankan cricket team protested against umpires' decision on starting the third day's play with a new ball, replacing the old ball.", "id": "19622271" }, { "contents": "Timeline of the 2017 Pacific hurricane season\n\n\ncyclone formations, strengthening, weakening, landfalls, extratropical transitions, and dissipations during the season. May 9 May 10 May 11 May 12 May 15 May 31 June 1 June 2 June 11 June 12 June 13 June 24 June 25 June 26 June 27 June 28 July 1 July 7 July 8 July 9 July 10 July 11 July 12 July 13 July 14 July 15 July 16 July 17 July 18 July 19 July 20 July 21 July 22 July 23 July 24 July 25 July 26 July 27 July 28 July 31 August 1", "id": "7169450" }, { "contents": "Daniel Bell-Drummond\n\n\nmade his youth Test debut on 21 July 2010 at the County Ground, Northampton before scoring unbeaten 88 in the second youth Test later in the same month, aged only 16. He played in both under-19 Test matches and in four youth one-day international matches during England's return tour of Sri Lanka in January and February 2011. In July 2011 Bell-Drummond played in a one-day series against South Africa under-19s. He top-scored for England in three of the seven matches in the series and was the", "id": "6732560" }, { "contents": "1967 in Norwegian football\n\n\nResults from Norwegian football in 1967. April 27 April 28 April 30 May 4 May 6 May 7 May 10 May 11 May 15 May 16 May 18 May 19 May 20 May 21 May 22 June 22 May 25 May 28 June 4 June 10 June 11 June 12 June 13 June 18 June 19 July 30 July 31 August 2 August 6 August 7 August 9 August 10 August 20 August 16 August 20 August 21 September 7 September 10 September 16 September 17 October 6 October 8 October 9 October 12 October 15 October 20 October", "id": "2081596" }, { "contents": "Phil Carlson\n\n\nPhillip Henry Carlson (born 8 August 1951, Nundah, Queensland) is a former Australian cricketer who played in two Tests and four One Day Internationals (ODIs) in 1979. Carlson was an all-rounder who played for Queensland between 1969–70 and 1980–81. He played two Test matches for Australia v England in 1978–79 Ashes series and four One Day Internationals against the same opponents. He was called up by Australia when most of their regular first-choice players were playing in World Series Cricket. Carlson took two Test wickets and", "id": "11409623" }, { "contents": "1962 in Norwegian football\n\n\nResults from Norwegian football in 1962. July 30 August 2 August 3 August 9 August 8 August 13 August 16 August 20 August 21 September 2 September 3 Ørn - Brann 0 - 7 September 24 September 28 October 1 October 15 April 25 October 6 October 8 April 29 May 6 May 12 May 13 May 14 May 20 May 21 May 23 May 24 May 27 May 30 May 31 June 3 June 15 June 16 June 17 June 24 June 25 June 30 July 1 July 29 August 1 August 2 August 4 August 5 August", "id": "9107175" }, { "contents": "Alan Igglesden\n\n\nAlan Paul Igglesden (born 8 October 1964) is a former English Test cricketer. He played three Test Matches and four One Day Internationals (ODIs) for the England cricket team between 1989 and 1994 as a fast bowler. He played most of his first-class cricket career for Kent County Cricket Club. Igglesden was born in Farnborough, London in 1964. He first played for Kent County Cricket Club's Second XI in 1983 before making his first-class cricket debut of the county in July 1986 against Somerset at Maidstone", "id": "8795795" }, { "contents": "Sri Lankan cricket team in England and Ireland in 2016\n\n\nThe Sri Lanka national cricket team toured England from 8 May to 5 July 2016 for a three-match Test series, a five-match One Day International (ODI) series and a one-off Twenty20 International (T20I) against the England cricket team. England won the Test series 2–0, the ODI series 3–0 and won the one-off T20I match by 8 wickets. They also played two first-class matches against Essex and Leicestershire prior to the Test series, and two ODI matches against Ireland prior to the", "id": "15635062" }, { "contents": "South African cricket team in England in 2008\n\n\nThe South African cricket team toured England between 29 June and 4 September 2008. They played four Test matches, one Twenty20 International and five One Day Internationals against England. They also played six tour matches against Somerset, Middlesex, Bangladesh A, a PCA Masters XI and two against the England Lions. It was announced that following the conclusion of this four-match series, future matches between England and South Africa would comprise five Test matches but only three one-day matches after the series was granted 'icon' status.", "id": "18079110" }, { "contents": "2018 English cricket season\n\n\nthe first time in an ODI. The South African women's team also toured England to play three One Day International matches against the England women's cricket team in June and to compete in the 2018 England women's Tri-Nation Series Twenty20 competition against England and New Zealand. New Zealand then played three One Day Internationals against England in July. In addition the West Indies men's side played a single Twenty20 International against a Rest of the World XI team at Lord's in May 2018 to raise funds for stadiums damaged by", "id": "6929602" }, { "contents": "American Rally Association\n\n\nWood Rally March 15 - 16 Olympus Rally April 27 - 28 Oregon Trail Rally May 31 - June 2 Idaho Rally International June 22 - 23 New England Forest Rally July 19 - 20 Muscatell Ojibwe Forests Rally August 23 - 24 Susquehannock Trail Performance Rally September 13 - 14 Lake Superior Performance Rally October 18 - 19 2019 ARA Super Regional Events Southern Ohio Forest Rally May 16 - 18 Rally Colorado July 26 - 27 Tour de Forest Rally September 21, 2019 Empire State Performance Rally October 25 - 26 2019 ARA One-Day Regional", "id": "6404348" }, { "contents": "Pakistani cricket team in England and Ireland in 2016\n\n\nThe Pakistan national cricket team toured England and Ireland from 3 July to 7 September 2016 for a four-match Test series, a five-match One Day International (ODI) series and a one-off Twenty20 International (T20I) against the England cricket team. They also played two three-day matches against Somerset and Sussex prior to the Test series, a two-day match against Worcestershire during the Test series, and two ODI matches against Ireland prior to the ODI series. England's ODI matches against Pakistan was", "id": "15635130" }, { "contents": "Second Test, 1948 Ashes series\n\n\nThe Second Test of the 1948 Ashes series was one of five Tests in a cricket series between Australia and England. The match was played at Lord's in London from 24 to 29 June, with a rest day on 27 June. Australia won the match by 409 runs to take a 2–0 lead, meaning that England would need to win the remaining three matches to regain The Ashes. Australian captain Don Bradman won the toss and elected to bat. The tourists had won the First Test convincingly, and decided to field the", "id": "497516" }, { "contents": "MCC v Australians at Lord's, 27 May 1878\n\n\nin England, the team left Sydney on 29 March 1878 and sailed via Auckland and Honolulu to San Francisco, from where they travelled across America by train to New York City. They crossed the Atlantic, arriving in Liverpool on 13 May, and then went by train to Nottingham where they played their first match, starting on Monday, 20 May. This was a three-day match against Nottinghamshire at Trent Bridge and the Australians were well beaten by an innings and 14 runs, an inauspicious start which dampened much of the public", "id": "16383632" }, { "contents": "Australian women's cricket team in England in 2013\n\n\nThe Australian women's cricket team toured England in 2013. The visitors were defending the Women's Ashes. The only Test match of the tour took place on 11–14 August at Wormsley Park, and was drawn. Three One-Day Internationals (ODIs) were played: the first at Lord's on 20 August, and the other two at Hove on 23 and 25 August. Also three Twenty20 International (T20I) matches were played, on 27, 29 and 31 August, at Chelmsford, Southampton and Chester-le-", "id": "19064429" }, { "contents": "South African cricket team in England in 2017\n\n\nThe South African cricket team toured England and Wales between May and August 2017, playing three One Day Internationals (ODIs), three Twenty20 Internationals (T20Is) and four Test matches. The ODI matches were in preparation for the 2017 ICC Champions Trophy, which took place in England and Wales during June. Extra security was provided to South Africa for the ODI series following the Manchester bombing. England won the ODI series 2–1 and the T20 series 2–1. Ahead of the ODI series, South Africa played one-day warm-", "id": "1555384" }, { "contents": "1Malaysia Development Berhad scandal\n\n\n- 30 September onwards October 20 November 25 December 1 December 5 December 31 2016 January 26 January 29 February 1 February 3 February 7 February 19 February 29 March 23 March 31 April 2 April 5 April 7 April 9 April 12 April 13 April 19 April 28 May 24 May 31 July 11 1MDB agrees to resolve its dispute with International Petroleum Investment Company via the London Court of International Arbitration. July 21 August 9 October 11 December 2 2017 March 22 April 24 May 30 June 15 June 16 August 1 August 2 August 11 August", "id": "14280441" }, { "contents": "Timeline of events preceding World War II\n\n\nJune 30 September 14 May 19 September 18 September 19 January 7 January 28 February 27 March 1 April 10 May 30 August 30 November 21 December 3 January 1 January 30 February 27 February 28 March 4 March 20 March 23 March 24 March 27 April 1 April 26 May 2 May 15 May 31 June 21 July 14 August 25 September 12 October 19 November 24 January 26 February 12–16 March 20 June 30 July 20 July 25 August 2 August 8 September October 16 December 1 December 5 December 29 January 7 June 18 August 31 September", "id": "6767330" }, { "contents": "Timeline of the 2018 Pacific hurricane season\n\n\ntropical cyclone formations, strengthening, weakening, landfalls, extratropical transitions, and dissipations during the season. May 10 May 11 May 13 May 15 June 1 June 6 June 7 June 8 June 9 June 10 June 11 June 12 June 13 June 14 June 15 June 16 June 17 June 19 June 24 June 25 June 26 June 27 June 28 June 29 June 30 July 1 July 2 July 3 July 4 July 5 July 6 July 9 July 26 July 27 July 28 July 29 July 31 August 1 August 2 August 3 August", "id": "21166816" }, { "contents": "English cricket team in Australia in 2017–18\n\n\nThe England cricket team toured Australia between November 2017 and February 2018 to play five Tests and five One Day Internationals (ODIs). They also played in a three nation Twenty20 International (T20I) tournament, along with New Zealand, who co-hosted the tournament along with Australia. England additionally played two first-class matches, a two-day tour match and a one-day tour match against Cricket Australia XI, as well as a Twenty20 against the Prime Minister's XI. The Test matches made up the 2017–18", "id": "21532277" }, { "contents": "Timeline of events preceding World War II\n\n\nApril 16 August 13 October October 11 October 29 November 1 January 11 June July 24 August 31 September 27 October 29 November 8 January 21 February 1 March 16 April 1 April 6 June 10 August 16 August 18 May 12 July 18 December 1 January 3 January 31 April 4 April 24 September 8 December 25 April 12 May 20 June 7 November 12 December 14 May 3 May 28 June 4 August 2 August 27 October 1 February 9 February 11 March 4 March 28 April 3 June 7 July 24 August 31 October 29 April 22", "id": "6767329" }, { "contents": "W. G. Grace in the 1878 English cricket season\n\n\nNewcastle upon Tyne, Bolton and Birmingham to play odds games against local opposition. Grace took 21 wickets in the match against the 22 men of Melton Mowbray in a three-day match starting on Monday, 1 July. He scored 42 and 57 not out in his two innings, the match ending in a draw. Grace caught the evening train to be in London ready for the first Gentlemen v Players match at The Oval, starting on Thursday, 4 July. The next USEE match at Leeds Holbeck followed the second Gentlemen", "id": "15478205" }, { "contents": "List of accidents and incidents involving military aircraft (1950–1954)\n\n\n12 December 19 December 23 December 10 January 11 January 15 January 21 January 28 January 31 January 14 February 13 March 14 March 17 March 23 March 3 April 5 April 5 April 8 April 25 April 27 April 6 May 18 May 19 May 8 June 13 June 15 June 18 June 23 June 23 June 30 June 8 July 31 July Summer 13 August 18 August 21 August 22 August 26 August 27 August 16 September 29 September 15 October 11 November 13 November 19 November 27 November 3 December 7 December 21 December 12 January 15", "id": "21637229" }, { "contents": "Lord's\n\n\nbe switched off by 11 pm. The floodlights were first used successfully on 27 May 2009 during the Twenty20 Cup match between Middlesex and Kent. Lord's hosts Test matches, one-day internationals, some Middlesex home matches, MCC matches and (starting with a fixture between Middlesex and Surrey in July 2004) some of Middlesex's home Twenty20 games. Lord's typically hosts two Tests every summer plus two one-day internationals. Lord's also plays host to the finals of the National Village Cricket Competition, the MCC Universities", "id": "10760657" }, { "contents": "2011 in American music\n\n\nThe following is a list of notable events and releases that happened in 2011 in music in the United States. January 11 January 17 January 18 January 21 January 25 January 31 February 1 February 8 February 15 February 22 March 1 March 8 March 15 March 22 March 29 April 5 April 11 April 12 April 26 May 3 May 10 May 17 May 23 May 24 May 31 June 7 June 14 June 21 June 28 July 5 July 8 July 12 July 13 July 19 July 26 August 2 August 8 August 9 August 16 August", "id": "15423555" }, { "contents": "MCC v Australians at Lord's, 27 May 1878\n\n\nenthusiasm that their visit had generated. The Australians were next due to play Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) in a three-day match at Lord's, commencing on Monday, 27 May. In the meantime, Charles Bannerman and Billy Midwinter were invited to visit Dublin and play for the United South of England Eleven (USEE) against 15 past and present players of Dublin University. This was due to be played over three days, starting on Thursday, 23 May, at College Park. The USEE was captained by W. G.", "id": "16383633" }, { "contents": "West Indian cricket team in England in 1928\n\n\nreach three figures. As at Lord's and Old Trafford, the match was over before lunch on the third day. Including the three Tests, 30 first-class matches were played on the tour, plus six other games. The West Indians won just seven of these 36 matches (five of the first-class games) and lost 12. By the end of May, the touring side had won matches against Derbyshire and Cambridge University, plus a minor match against Northumberland, and had drawn all the other games.", "id": "12941340" }, { "contents": "Bob Willis\n\n\n26 August against Worcestershire's Seconds. Willis, 19 years of age, took one wicket for 48 runs in the first innings, and bowled four wicketless overs in the second. He was not called on to bat at all. Two days later, he faced Glamorgan and took three wickets. He played several further Second XI matches through May and June 1969, before his first-class debut on 6 August. Scotland was touring England that season and had already beaten Warwickshire. Willis took three wickets for 13 runs from 13", "id": "16238759" }, { "contents": "Rock in Rio\n\n\n5 July 6 May 21 / 82.000 May 22 / 45.000 May 27 / 85.000 May 29 / 95.000 May 30 / 38.000 June 4 / 51.000 June 5 / 85.000 June 6 / 90.000 June 11 / 30.000 June 14 / 48.000 Rock in Rio Lisboa V Rock in Rio Lisboa VII Rock in Rio Lisboa VIII June 24 sold out almost three months prior to the festival. \"Rock in Rio USA\" was the first North American edition of the festival, being held in Las Vegas on May 8, 9, 15 and 16", "id": "11140715" }, { "contents": "Indian cricket team in Sri Lanka in 2015\n\n\nThe Indian cricket team toured Sri Lanka from 6 August to 1 September 2015 to play a tour match and three Test matches. On 27 June, Sri Lankan batsman Kumar Sangakkara said he would retire from international cricket after the second Test of the series. The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) and Sri Lanka Cricket Board confirmed the schedule of India's tour to Sri Lanka in August to September 2015. The tour started with a three-day warm-up game against Sri Lanka Board President's XI,", "id": "22038367" }, { "contents": "Andy Cottam\n\n\nAndrew Colin Cottam (born 14 July 1973 in Northampton, England) was an English cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman and a left-arm slow bowler. He played in 2 Under-19 Tests in 1992 and 13 first-class matches between 1992 and 1996. His father is the cricketer and coach Bob Cottam. In 1990 Andy Cottam started playing for Somerset Second XI and Devon. In 1992 he was selected for Under-19's tour of Pakistan and played in the Third Test and 2 one-day matches against Pakistan", "id": "2981363" }, { "contents": "Lord's\n\n\n. The hundredth Lord's Test match was in 2000, England v West Indies. As of 25 August 2010 England have played 119 Test matches at Lord's, winning 45, losing 28 and drawing 46. Lord's often hosts two Test matches each summer, one match for each visiting team. In 2010, the ground hosted three Test matches: as well as England's matches against Bangladesh and Pakistan, a Test match between Australia and Pakistan was held there in July. Lord's was the venue of the 2000th test", "id": "10760663" }, { "contents": "Australian cricket team in Sri Lanka in 2016\n\n\nThe Australian cricket team toured Sri Lanka from 18 July to 9 September 2016 to play three Test matches, five One Day Internationals (ODIs), two Twenty20 Internationals (T20Is) matches and a first-class practice match. The Test series was played for Warne-Muralitharan Trophy, with Sri Lanka winning 3–0, their first ever series whitewash against Australia. As a result, Australia slipped from first to third in the ICC Test Championship; Sri Lanka, who had started the series ranked seventh, moved up to sixth.", "id": "14912886" }, { "contents": "South African cricket team in Australia in 2005–06\n\n\nThe South African cricket team toured Australia for cricket matches during the 2005–06 season. South Africa had already played two One Day International series during this season, beating New Zealand 4–0 at home before travelling to India and drawing the series there 2–2. The team had been playing 14 successive ODIs (tour matches excluded) before arriving in Australia, with their last Test match against West Indies in April and May 2005. South Africa played one first class warm-up match, one three-day warm-up match without first class", "id": "19860549" }, { "contents": "Peter Lever\n\n\n6/38, before his final Test ended on 5 August 1975 during another Ashes tour, Australia facing England at Lord's. Lever also played ten One Day Internationals, including the 1975 Cricket World Cup, taking 11 wickets but scoring only 17 runs. His ODI debut was also against Australia, at Melbourne on 5 January 1971, and his last match was at Headingley, Leeds, again against Australia, on 18 June 1975. This gives Lever the unusual distinction of having played both his debut, and last match, against Australia", "id": "17765992" }, { "contents": "Australian women's cricket team in England in 2009\n\n\nThe Australian women's cricket team toured England between 25 June and 13 July 2009, playing one Test match, five One Day Internationals and a Twenty20 International. Australia won the Twenty20 International, while England won the One Day International series 4–0. The Test match, which was for the Women's Ashes, was drawn; ensuring that England retained them. Prior to the series, both sides took part in the 2009 ICC Women's World Twenty20, which was also held in England in June. England won the tournament, in", "id": "13250607" }, { "contents": "List of accidents and incidents involving military aircraft (1950–1954)\n\n\nJanuary 31 January 7 February 18 March 21 April 24 April May 11 May 12 May 15 May 9 June 11 June 13 June 17 June 18 June 21 June 15 July 17 July 30 July 6 August 6 August 12 August 23 August 26 August 30 August 5 September 9 September 9 September 9 September 11 September 19 September 19 September 25 September 1 October 1 October 7 October 8 October 8 October 11 October 13 October 14 October 17 October 18 October 19 October 20 October 22 October 26 October 2 November 8 November 17 November 23 November", "id": "21637231" }, { "contents": "Follow-on\n\n\n, and gave England a slender lead of 129. The next day a fired-up Bob Willis took 8 for 43, and Australia slumped to 111 all out. Australia, who had won their 16 previous Test matches, including the first of the three-Test series between the two teams, had scored 445 in the first innings of the second Test and restricted India to 171; only V. V. S. Laxman (59) and Rahul Dravid reached 25 runs. The only other bright spot for India was the bowling of", "id": "1078812" }, { "contents": "West Indian cricket team in England in 2017\n\n\nThe West Indies cricket team toured England in August and September 2017 to play three Test matches competing for the Wisden Trophy, one Twenty20 International (T20I) and five One Day Internationals (ODIs). Ahead of the Test series, the West Indies played first-class warm-up matches against Derbyshire, Essex and Kent. They also played a two-day match against Leicestershire, as they did not get to the final of the 2017 NatWest t20 Blast. In October 2016 the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB)", "id": "1555387" }, { "contents": "England women's national rugby league team\n\n\nCup - WIN v France WIN v Russia | LOSS v Australia LOSS v New Zealand WIN v Pacific Islands 2009 International Tests - 25 July | France 8-28 England; France 0-36 England 2010 International Tests - 9 November | England 36-8 France 10 November | New Zealand 44-6 England 16 November | New Zealand 38-6 England 2011 International Tests - 2 July | France 6-36 England 6 July | France 4-42 England 2012 International Test - 15 June | England 48-0 France", "id": "9166568" }, { "contents": "International cricket\n\n\n, One-Day and Twenty20 matches take place in the form of \"tours\". In a tour, one nation travels to another and plays warm-up matches, which may be first-class matches, against domestic teams such as county or state teams, a series of Test matches against the host nation, and either a series of One-Day (ODi) and T20 matches against the host nation or a tournament involving the host nation and another touring nation. Tours may include Test, ODI and T20I matches", "id": "6028418" }, { "contents": "West Indian cricket team in England in 2000\n\n\nThe West Indies cricket team toured England in the 2000 cricket season. West Indies played five Tests against England - two in June and three in August - with a triangular One Day International (ODI) series involving Zimbabwe in July. In June, West Indies won the 1st Test at Edgbaston convincingly, before England narrowly won the 2nd Test at Lord's, having bowled West Indies out for 54 in their second innings. The ODI series, sponsored by NatWest, took place in July, with England, West Indies and Zimbabwe", "id": "12941417" }, { "contents": "First Test, 1948 Ashes series\n\n\nThe First Test of the 1948 Ashes series was one of five Tests in a cricket series between Australia and England. The match was played at Trent Bridge in Nottingham from 10 to 15 June with a rest day on 13 June. Australia won the match by eight wickets to take a 1–0 series lead. The Australians started the match as firm favourites, having won the previous series against England 3–0; in the lead-up to the 1948 series, they had won 10 of their 12 tour matches in England, mostly by", "id": "497621" }, { "contents": "Giles Baring\n\n\nAfricans on 22 May 1935, for Hampshire in Hampshire v Australians on 25 May 1938, and for H. D. G. Leveson Gowers XI v Australian Services on 7 July 1945. He played for Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) between 1935 and 1946, and his last first-class game was in the MCC v Cambridge University match on 29 June 1946. Baring was a right-arm fast bowler and also a right-hand batsman. As a bowler, he took 197 wickets for 5,607 runs, an average of 28.46.", "id": "9091808" }, { "contents": "Herbert Sutcliffe's cricket career (1919–27)\n\n\nWaddington in 1925. Arthur Mitchell was still a reserve and Cyril Turner made his first-class debut. The first four Tests of the 1926 England v Australia series were scheduled for just three days and were all curtailed by poor weather. The final Test at The Oval was timeless to ensure a finish. It has become one of the most famous matches in cricket history, not because England regained The Ashes for the first time since 1912 but for the manner it which it was achieved as Hobbs and Sutcliffe produced their most famous", "id": "18930780" }, { "contents": "Günther Lützow\n\n\nfighter destroyed. Two days later, he destroyed three aircraft, two SB-2 bombers and a Petlyakov Pe-2 ground attack aircraft. On 27 June, he shot down an Ilyushin DB-3 bomber followed by another Pe-2 on the following day, his last victory of June 1941. Following a DB-3 bomber claimed on 7 July, Lützow was credited with four aerial victories on 10 July, consisting of one Vultee V-11 attack aircraft and three I-153s. The next day he claimed an II-16. On 15 July he shot down two further I-16s and another", "id": "3340503" }, { "contents": "1966 in Norwegian football\n\n\nResults from Norwegian football in 1966. April 22 April 24 April 27 May 19 April 30 May 1 May 6 May 7 May 8 May 15 May 19 May 22 May 23 May 27 May 28 May 30 May 31 June 3 June 4 June 5 June 15 June 16 June 19 June 20 July 31 August 3 August 6 August 7 August 8 August 24 August 17 August 27 August 28 September 11 September 22 September 23 September 24 October 9 October 15 October 16 October 17 October 23 July 31 August 1 August 2 August 3 Rematch", "id": "21974049" }, { "contents": "Headingley Cricket Ground\n\n\nwickets each. Donald Bradman's innings of 334 in the 1930 Ashes Test included 309 runs on the first day, and he followed it in the Australians' next test at Headingley in 1934 with an innings of 304. Spinner Hedley Verity took 10 wickets for 10 runs in 1932 for Yorkshire v Nottinghamshire, still the best bowling analysis ever in first-class cricket. Verity had also taken all ten against Warwickshire at Headingley in 1931. In the 1948 Ashes series, Australia scored 404 for three on the last day to beat", "id": "11240346" }, { "contents": "List of international awards of Rohit Sharma\n\n\nRohit Sharma is an Indian international cricketer. He made his international cricket debut in June 2007. He has scored twenty-nine centuries in international cricket; three in Tests, twenty-two in One Day Internationals (ODI) and four in Twenty20 International (T20Is). As of July 2019, Sharma has played 27 Tests, 215 One Day Internationals and 94 Twenty20 Internationals. As of July 2019, Rohit won 19 Man of the Match awards and 4 Man of the Series awards in One Day Internationals; 1 Man of", "id": "21442897" }, { "contents": "Ollie Pope\n\n\nthe 2016 Royal London One-Day Cup against Yorkshire. He made his first-class debut on 28 March 2017 for Surrey against Oxford MCCU as part of the Marylebone Cricket Club University fixtures. Pope scored his maiden List A half-century on 7 May 2017 against Sussex. He made his Twenty20 debut for Surrey in the 2017 NatWest t20 Blast on 7 July 2017. In August 2018, he was added to England's squad for the second Test against India. He made his Test debut at Lord's for England against", "id": "11076451" }, { "contents": "Australian cricket team in the West Indies in 2015\n\n\nThe Australian cricket team toured the West Indies from 27 May to 15 June 2015. The tour consisted of one first-class warm-up match and two Test matches. On 8 April 2015, the West Indies Cricket Board brought forward the date of the two Test matches by two days \"due to a number of logistical challenges beyond [their] control\". Australia won the 2-match Test series 2–0 and therefore retained the Frank Worrell Trophy. Australia announced their squad on 31 March 2015. They included three uncapped players,", "id": "17936722" }, { "contents": "Zimbabwean cricket team in Sri Lanka in 2017\n\n\nThe Zimbabwe cricket team toured Sri Lanka in June and July 2017 to play one Test match and five One Day Internationals (ODIs). Originally, the schedule was for two Test matches and three ODIs. It was Zimbabwe's first tour to Sri Lanka since January 2002. All the matches were played as day games. Zimbabwe won the ODI series 3–2, their first ever series win against Sri Lanka. It was their first away series win since 2009 and the first away series win against a Test nation since defeating Bangladesh in", "id": "5384529" }, { "contents": "Ashwell Prince\n\n\nthe batting. Opening with debutant Imraan Khan, Prince scored 150, his 11th Test century. Prince signed a contract to play for Lancashire County Cricket Club the 2009 English season. He acted as cover for V. V. S. Laxman, the club's other overseas player, who was unavailable at times because he was playing in the Indian Premier League. Prince score his first century for Lancashire at the start of May during a match against Nottinghamshire. The knock came off 135 not out from 189 balls came on the final day of", "id": "12899038" }, { "contents": "Herbert Sutcliffe\n\n\nand 1926, Sutcliffe's skill was a primary factor in Yorkshire having the longest unbeaten run in county cricket: i.e., 70 matches without loss until early 1927. After three defeats in 1927, Yorkshire went a further 58 games without loss until 1929. The first four Tests of the 1926 England v Australia series were scheduled for just three days and were all curtailed by poor weather. The final Test at the Oval was timeless to ensure a finish. It has become one of the most famous matches in cricket history, not", "id": "18571331" }, { "contents": "Indian cricket team in England in 2011\n\n\nThe Indian cricket team toured England from 21 July to 16 September 2011. The tour consisted of one Twenty20 International (T20I), five One Day Internationals (ODIs) and four Test matches, as well as a number of matches against English county sides. The opening Test at Lord's was the 2,000th Test. England's victory in the Third Test put them number one in the world rankings. Virat Kohli, Pragyan Ojha and RP Singh replaced the injured Yuvraj Singh, Harbhajan Singh and Zaheer Khan, respectively, for the", "id": "4970296" }, { "contents": "Cricket in the British Isles\n\n\nIt played its first test match against Australia in 1877 and played its first One Day International (ODI) also againist Australia in 1971. One of the main cricket grounds in England, and also widely regarded as the spiritual home of cricket, is Lords Cricket Ground in London. Other major cricket grounds include The Oval (also in London), Edgbaston in Birmingham, Old Trafford in Manchester and Trent Bridge in Nottingham. From 1909 until 2017 England was the only country within the British Isles to have full membership of the ICC", "id": "17756246" }, { "contents": "Eton v Harrow\n\n\nplayed for Harrow in the four matches in 1822 to 1825, and arranged the first University Match at Lord's in 1827, two years before the first Boat Race. Many Eton and Harrow players went on to win blues at Oxford and Cambridge. Eton v Harrow was joined by the University Match and Gentlemen v Players as the three key features in the England cricket season. In its heyday, in the late 19th century and early 20th century, \"the School's day\" was one of the highlights of the London \"", "id": "10600897" }, { "contents": "Mathew Dimond\n\n\nMathew Dimond (born 24 September 1975) is a former English cricketer who made played for Somerset County Cricket Club between 1994 and 1997. Early in his career, he toured the West Indies with the England Under-19 cricket team, playing three Tests and one One Day International at Under-19 level. A right-arm fast-medium bowler, he made his first-class debut for Somerset in June 1994. Playing in the County Championship against Hampshire, Dimond claimed a solitary wicket in the match, which was shortened to single innings", "id": "558840" }, { "contents": "Charlie Charters\n\n\n’ Although the 2004 Islanders lost each of the three Test matches they played (29-14 v Wallabies, 41-26 v All Blacks and 24-38 v Springboks in Gosford, Australia), they scored 10 tries in three matches. By comparison that same southern hemisphere season, England and Scotland scored only three tries between them in their five Tests against the All Blacks and Wallabies. In fact, the 2004 Islanders scored more tries in one Test against the All Blacks (four) than the three tries the 2005", "id": "16741154" }, { "contents": "Australian cricket team in South Africa in 1993–94\n\n\nmatch by one run, levelling the ODI series at 4–4 with an \"improbable victory\". As well as the internationals, three first-class matches and two other matches were played during the tour The tour began with a friendly one-day match against NF Oppenheimer's XI, followed by a first-class match against Northern Transvaal and a one-day match against a representative side. Before the first Test match Australia played a first-class match against Orange Free State and between the first and second Tests they played", "id": "5209672" }, { "contents": "Bangladeshi cricket team in Zimbabwe in 2011\n\n\nThe Bangladesh cricket team toured Zimbabwe from 4 to 21 August 2011. The tour consisted of one Test match and five One Day Internationals (ODIs) played against the Zimbabwean national team and one first-class match played against a Zimbabwean representative team. The Test match was Zimbabwe's first since India toured Zimbabwe in 2005. Zimbabwe won the Test match by 130 runs and also won the one-day series 3–2. Bangladesh announced its squad for the Test match and ODI series on 15 July 2011. Zimbabwe announced its squad for", "id": "19159411" }, { "contents": "V. V. S. Laxman\n\n\nfrom international cricket. Although he was selected for the upcoming New Zealand series, he opted not to play in the series but he will play in domestic cricket for Hyderabad and the Indian Premier League . It was announced that the northern stand at the Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium will now be named after him. Laxman was particularly prolific against Australia, in both Tests and One Day Internationals. Six out of his 17 Test hundreds, and four out of his six ODI hundreds came against Australia. He has two double-centuries", "id": "9815623" }, { "contents": "3rd Battalion, 319th Field Artillery Regiment\n\n\nVII and another platoon to LZ Challenge from 3–5 July. Battery C located at FSB Rock near Bac Loc and conducted two 1-day raids on 11 & 13 June. Battery D located at LZ Lowboy, with 2 howitzers sent on Operation Red Thrust V in 5 days ending 2 May. On 12 July, Battery D displaced to support Battery A from FSB Hawkeye but returned to LZ Lowboy until 28 July, then occupied FSB Hunky. The battalion received three 105mm howitzers in May. In July, LTC John R. Martin replaced LTC Joseph", "id": "2060226" }, { "contents": "W. G. Grace in the 1878 English cricket season\n\n\nthis match attracted few spectators as it coincided with the Surrey v Australians match at The Oval, which drew very large crowds. \"Wisden Cricketers' Almanack\" commented that \"the Australians were attracting monster gatherings at The Oval on the days that this match was played, consequently very few visitors were at Lord's\". There were three North v South fixtures in June. The first two were played at Prince's Cricket Ground and Lord's with the South as the \"home\" team; the third took place at the", "id": "15478186" }, { "contents": "Third Test, 1948 Ashes series\n\n\nThe Third Test of the 1948 Ashes series was one of five Tests in a cricket series between teams representing Australia and England. The match was played at Old Trafford in Manchester from 8–13 July, with a rest day on 11 July. The match was drawn after the whole of the fourth day and the first half of the fifth day was washed out due to rain; England had the upper hand before the weather intervened. The draw maintained Australia's 2–0 lead in the series, which was established through victories in the first", "id": "497412" }, { "contents": "Giles Baring\n\n\n, Gresham's School, Holt, and Magdalene College, Cambridge. He represented Cambridge University in 1930 and 1931 and Hampshire between 1930 and 1939. Apart from more than fifty regular county championship games, he played in the Cambridge University v New Zealanders match of 3 June 1931, for the Gentlemen in the Gentlemen v Players matches of 2 September 1931 and 11 July 1934, for Hampshire in Hampshire v West Indians on 24 May 1933, for Hampshire in Hampshire v Australians on 23 May 1934, for Hampshire in Hampshire v South", "id": "9091807" }, { "contents": "2013–14 Bangladeshi cricket season\n\n\nand Mirpur. Both Test matches ended in draws, Bangladesh won all three One Day Internationals and New Zealand won the sole Twenty20 International. Sri Lanka toured Bangladesh in January and February 2014 playing two Test Matches, three One Day Internationals and two Twenty20 Internationals. Sri Lanka won every match, with the exception of the second Test match which ended in a draw. Initially it was planned that the NCL would be held in November and December 2013, the BCL in May and June 2014 and the BPL in December and January.", "id": "18068868" }, { "contents": "Darrell Hair\n\n\nby the ICC on 12 March 2008 and stood in the England v New Zealand tests at Old Trafford in May and Trent Bridge in June 2008. Hair umpired his first Test match in January 1992, between Australia and India in Adelaide. In 1994 the International Cricket Council (ICC) introduced a policy of appointing one umpire to each Test match from a non-participating country, and since 2002 both umpires have been appointed from non-participating nations. Since 2002 the majority of Hair’s Test matches have been played outside Australia", "id": "17469081" }, { "contents": "Timeline of events preceding World War II\n\n\n15 October 2 November 14 January February 6 March 7 March 25 May 5 June 3 July 17 August 1 October October 18 November 14 November 15 November 25 December 1 December 12 December 23 December 24 January 20 May 28 July 7 August 13 October 5 November 6 November 26 December 1 December 8 December 11 December 12 December 13 January 26 March 6 March 13 March 24 July 6–16 July 29 August September 27 September 30 October 5 November 7 November 9 January 25 January 27 March 14 March 15 March 16 March 20 March 21 March 23", "id": "6767331" }, { "contents": "South African cricket team in England in 1924\n\n\nThe South African cricket team toured England in the 1924 season to play a five-match Test series against England. England won the series 3-0 with 2 matches drawn. The tourists, with their ages on the first day of the first match of the tour on 3 May, were: George Parker (24) also played three first-class matches (including the first two Tests) and Aubrey Faulkner (42) played one match, the Third Test. The manager was George Allsop. South Africa's score", "id": "12941168" }, { "contents": "2018 English cricket season\n\n\ninternational sides toured England and Wales during the season: Pakistan, Australia and India. Pakistan also visited Ireland midway through the tour and played the Irish team's first Test match at Malahide near Dublin. In preparation for this match the Irish team played a first-class match against Somerset at Taunton in April. At the end of their tour Pakistan played two T20 matches in Scotland on 12 and 13 June. The England team played a One Day International (ODI) against Scotland in Edinburgh in June, losing to Scotland for", "id": "6929601" }, { "contents": "V. V. S. Laxman\n\n\n112 in the second test. This ensured his place on the tour of Australia which would be his third to that country. Laxman's good form continued in the 2007-08 Test series against Australia with him scoring 109 against Australia on the second day of the controversial Sydney Test to put India back into the contest. It was his 12th hundred in Test matches, and his 5th against Australia. It was also his third consecutive century at SCG, giving him an average well above 90 at the venue. He followed this", "id": "9815609" }, { "contents": "2019 Ashes series\n\n\nthree cricketers were named in Australia's squad for the 2019 Ashes. Meanwhile, England warmed up for the 2019 Ashes with a Test series earlier in the year against the West Indies and a one-off Test against Ireland in July. The tour of the West Indies comprised three matches and was won 2–1 by the West Indies. England also won the one-off Test against Ireland, by 143 runs. Ahead of the series, it was announced that Day 2 of the Lord’s Test would benefit the Ruth Strauss Foundation", "id": "18532603" }, { "contents": "V. V. S. Laxman\n\n\n1–1. He was awarded the Man of the Match for his match-winning innings of 96. His knock was voted as the best Test batting performance of the year by ESPNCricinfo. In three test matches, Laxman scored three consecutive fifties including two scores in eighties against the West Indies during India's tour of West Indies in June 2011. During India's Tour to England, Laxman scored just two half-centuries in eight innings as India went down 0–4 to England. This was India's first Test series loss since its", "id": "9815620" }, { "contents": "2014–15 Bangladeshi cricket season\n\n\nThe 2014–15 Bangladeshi cricket season featured tours of the country by Zimbabwe and Pakistan. Rangpur Division won the National Cricket League (NCL) championship title for the first time. Zimbabwe toured Bangladesh from 26 October to 1 December 2014, playing three Test matches and five One Day International matches. Bangladesh won the Test series 3–0 and the ODI series 5–0. Pakistan toured from 15 April to 10 May 2015, playing one Twenty20 International (T20I), three One Day Internationals (ODIs) and two Test matches. Pakistan won the Test", "id": "895026" }, { "contents": "Australia women's cricket team in England in 2019\n\n\nThe Australia women's cricket team toured England in June and July 2019 to play the England women's cricket team to contest the Women's Ashes. The tour consisted of three Women's One Day Internationals (WODIs), one Women's Test match and three Women's Twenty20 Internationals (WT20Is). A points-based system was used across all three formats of the tour. The Women's Ashes were held by Australia prior to the start of the series. Australia women won the WODI series 3–0, therefore taking a 6–0", "id": "15341273" }, { "contents": "Pakistani cricket team in England in 1962\n\n\nof three one-day games (not limited overs). The first two were drawn and the Pakistanis won the third one against Colonel Stevens' XI. These three matches were, in effect, warm-ups only and not first-class. The opening first-class fixture was against Worcestershire at New Road, starting on Wednesday, 2 May. The Pakistanis were given a foretaste of the Test series to come in that Tom Graveney scored a century for the home team (and was presented with his county cap immediately afterwards", "id": "12941094" }, { "contents": "New Zealand cricket team in Australia in 2015–16\n\n\nThe New Zealand cricket team toured Australia from 23 October to 1 December 2015 to play three Test matches and four tour matches. The third match of the series at the Adelaide Oval was the first ever day-night Test. Michael Hussey captained the Prime Minister's XI side for the tour match, and in preparation for the day-night Test, a pink ball was used in this game. Australia won the series 2–0, with victories in Brisbane and Adelaide, with the second Test in Perth being drawn. Following the", "id": "1307472" }, { "contents": "Kennington\n\n\nThe Kia Oval\", is the home ground for Surrey County Cricket Club and hosts the final Test match of the English summer season. The Oval was the first ground in the United Kingdom to host Test cricket, was the location for the England v Scotland representative matches, the first ever international football match, the first FA Cup final in 1872, and held the second ever rugby union international match between England and Scotland in 1872. England's unfortunate performance against Australia here in 1882 gave rise to The Ashes. The Oval", "id": "10346916" }, { "contents": "Indian cricket team in Zimbabwe in 2001\n\n\nThe Indian cricket team toured Zimbabwe from 28 May to 7 July 2001 and played two Test matches against Zimbabwe, with each team winning one game match. This would be Zimbabwe's only Test victory over a side other than Bangladesh until they beat Pakistan in the second Test in 2013. India and Zimbabwe also participated in a triangular One Day International (ODI) competition with West Indies, with the latter eventually winning the competition. The Coca-Cola Cup was a One Day International (ODI) tournament that followed the Test series", "id": "4099650" }, { "contents": "Andrew Balbirnie\n\n\nHe played three further One Day International's during the tournament. He made his Twenty20 International debut against Scotland on 19 June 2015, although no play was possible due to rain. He was part of the Ireland A team which toured Bangladesh in October 2017 to play one first-class match and five limited overs matches against the Bangladesh A team. In May 2018, he was named in a fourteen-man squad for Ireland's first ever Test match, which was played against Pakistan later the same month. He made his", "id": "2597279" }, { "contents": "Pakistani cricket team in Scotland in 2018\n\n\nThe Pakistan cricket team toured Scotland to play two Twenty20 International (T20I) matches at The Grange Club, Edinburgh, on 12 and 13 June 2018. Pakistan last toured Scotland in May 2013 to play two One Day Internationals. Both teams last met in a T20I fixture in the group stage of the 2007 ICC World Twenty20 tournament. This was the first time that Scotland had played a home T20I match against a full member side. The tour followed Pakistan's tour of England and their one Test series in Ireland. England also", "id": "373509" }, { "contents": "2017 June rugby union tests\n\n\n2 sides. Australia, the only southern hemisphere Tier 1 nation not to host a test series, staged three one-off test matches; Scotland, Italy and Fiji. The Fijian test was the first between the two sides in Australia since 2010, and was also the first Australia v Tier 2 nation match in Australia since Samoa visited in 2011. Fiji also played host to Italy and Scotland to become the second Tier 2 nation to play three back-back Tier 1 sides during an international window, after Samoa participated in", "id": "13232867" }, { "contents": "Timeline of the 2014 Pacific hurricane season\n\n\nJune 11 June 12 June 13 June 14 June 15 June 28 June 30 July 1 July 2 July 3 July 6 July 7 July 9 July 17 July 18 July 19 July 25 July 26 July 27 July 28 July 29 July 31 August 1 August 2 August 3 August 4 August 5 August 6 August 7 August 8 August 9 August 10 August 12 August 13 August 14 August 15 August 17 August 18 August 21 August 22 August 23 August 24 August 25 August 26 August 27 August 28 August 29 September 2 September 4 September 6", "id": "2400921" } ]

[ { "contents": "Sri Lankan cricket team in England in 2014\n\n\nThe Sri Lanka national cricket team toured England from 13 May to 24 June 2014 for a Twenty20 International (T20I), five One Day Internationals (ODIs) and two Test matches against the England cricket team. They also played three one-day and one four-day tour matches against English county sides, as well as preceding the entire tour with a two-match ODI series against Ireland. Sri Lanka won the Test series 1–0 (the first time they had won a Test series in England), the ODI series", "id": "21939883" }, { "contents": "New Zealand cricket team in England in 2015\n\n\nThe New Zealand national cricket team toured England from 8 May to 23 June 2015 for two Test matches, five One Day Internationals (ODIs) and a Twenty20 International (T20I) against the England cricket team. They also played two four-day tour matches and a one-day match against English county sides. England won the first Test at Lord's before New Zealand claimed victory in the second Test at Headingley to level the series. England then took an early lead in the ODI series after hitting more than 400 runs", "id": "943447" }, { "contents": "Australian cricket team in England and Ireland in 2015\n\n\nThe Australia national cricket team toured England from June to September 2015 for a five-match Test series, five One Day International (ODI) matches and one Twenty20 International (T20I). The Test series was for the Ashes. They also played two four-day and two three-day first-class matches against English county sides. Australia also played one ODI against Ireland in Belfast. On 31 March 2015, Australia announced a 17-man touring party for the Ashes series. England announced their squad for the first Test on", "id": "1657670" }, { "contents": "David Constant\n\n\n67 first-class appearances. In total he scored 1,517 first-class runs at a batting average of 19.20 with a highest score of 80. Tony Lewis described his innings against Glamorgan on a difficult pitch at Leicester in 1965 as \"one of the bravest innings I ever saw\". His first Test as umpire was the Third Test between England and Pakistan in July 1971. He last stood in an international cricket match in the England v. Australia One Day International at The Oval, London in June 2001. He was the", "id": "14539375" }, { "contents": "Pakistani cricket team in Sri Lanka in 2015\n\n\nThe Pakistan cricket team toured Sri Lanka from 11 June to 1 August 2015. The tour consisted of a three-day tour match against a SLCB President's XI, three Test matches, five One Day International and two Twenty20 International matches. The third Test was originally scheduled to be played at the R Premadasa Stadium, but was changed to the Pallekele International Cricket Stadium in early May. Pakistan outplayed the hosts in all forms of the game by winning the Test series 2–1, the ODI series 3–2 and the T20I series 2–0.", "id": "15080177" }, { "contents": "2010 in American music\n\n\n17 March 22 March 23 March 26 March 30 April 6 April 8 April 13 April 19 April 20 April 21 April 27 April 30 May 4 May 11 May 14 May 17 May 18 May 21 May 25 May 31 June 1 June 8 June 14 June 15 June 18 June 21 June 22 June 28 June 29 July 6 July 7 July 12 July 13 July 15 July 20 July 23 July 25 July 27 July 29 August 3 August 17 August 24 August 31 September 7 September 14 September 21 September 23 September 28 October 5 October", "id": "18556206" }, { "contents": "Warwickshire County Cricket Club\n\n\nand gold and the shirt sponsor is Gullivers Sports Travel. The club's home is Edgbaston Cricket Ground in south Birmingham, which regularly hosts Test and One Day International matches. Cricket may have reached Warwickshire by the end of the 17th century. The \"Warwickshire & Staffordshire Journal\" was certainly aware of the sport in 1738 for it carried a report of a London v Mitcham game at the Artillery Ground on 11 August (London won by 1 wicket). The earliest confirmed reference to cricket in the county is a match announcement", "id": "8941185" }, { "contents": "Irish cricket team in England in 2019\n\n\nThe Ireland cricket team toured England in July 2019 to play a one-off four-day Test match at Lord's. It was the first Test match to be played between the two sides, and was England's first four-day Test match since they toured New Zealand in 1971. It was Ireland's third Test match, and their twelfth international fixture against England. The Test match was part of England's preparations for the 2019 Ashes series. Ahead of the Test, the England cricket team visited Ireland in May", "id": "16268672" }, { "contents": "1919 English cricket season\n\n\n(five wins from fourteen) and Warwickshire were bottom with 7.14% (one win from fourteen). The 1919 County Championship was the 26th since the competition acquired official status in 1890. The opening matches began on Friday, 16 May. These were Middlesex v Nottinghamshire at Lord's and the 1914 (reigning) champions Surrey against Somerset at The Oval. The final match between Essex and Surrey at Leyton was completed on Monday, 1 September. The situation between Yorkshire and Kent on Saturday, 30 August (the second day in", "id": "7320450" }, { "contents": "Timeline of the 2013 Pacific hurricane season\n\n\n15 May 16 May 17 May 28 May 29 May 30 June 1 June 23 June 24 June 25 June 26 June 27 June 29 June 30 July 2 July 3 July 4 July 5 July 6 July 7 July 9 July 25 July 27 July 30 July 31 August 2 August 3 August 4 August 6 August 7 August 8 August 9 August 11 August 16 August 18 August 19 August 20 August 22 August 23 August 24 August 25 August 28 August 29 August 30 August 31 September 1 September 2 September 5 September 6 September 7 September", "id": "957237" }, { "contents": "Prince's Cricket Ground\n\n\nas 'grand and quick and one of the finest playing grounds in England'. The first match played on the ground was Household Brigade v. Lords and Commons on 3 June 1871. Middlesex County Cricket Club used the ground between 1872 and 1876 and played their first match on 23–25 May 1872 against Yorkshire. The ground was also used by South of England and by Gentlemen of the South. Several Gentlemen v Players fixtures were also played there, the first taking place in July 1873. In 1878, the touring Australians played two", "id": "19086180" }, { "contents": "Callum Jackson\n\n\nSussex youth ranks, playing at under-13, under-14, under-15 and under-17 level before joining the second XI as a 16-year-old in 2011. He was selected to represent an English Schools Cricket Association XI in 2011 before making his first appearance for the Sussex first XI on 1 May 2012 in a non-first-class match against the Leeds/Bradford MCC Universities team. In early 2013, Jackson was selected for the England under-19 side to tour South Africa, where he played in both Youth Test matches and three One Day", "id": "16290826" }, { "contents": "2018 English cricket season\n\n\nHurricane Irma and Hurricane Maria in September 2017. Pakistan played two Test matches against England at Lord's and Headingley at the end of May and beginning of June. The series was drawn, each side winning one match. Ahead of the Tests, two first-class matches were played against Kent and Northants. Their match against Ireland took place after the two first-class county matches, and a two-day match was played against Leicestershire between this and the first Test against England. Pakistan won the first Test match by", "id": "6929603" }, { "contents": "1963 in Norwegian football\n\n\nResults from Norwegian football in 1963. April 26 April 28 May 3 May 4 May 5 May 11 May 12 May 30 May 19 May 22 May 23 May 26 May 27 June 7 June 8 June 9 June 14 June 15 June 16 June 22 June 23 June 24 July 26 July 28 July 29 August 2 August 4 August 6 August 17 August 18 August 21 August 22 August 24 August 25 September 7 September 8 September 20 September 22 October 4 October 6 October 13 Årstad promoted Nidelv promoted Harstad - Bodø/Glimt 4 -", "id": "20433032" }, { "contents": "West Indian cricket team in England in 1991\n\n\nThe West Indian cricket team in England in 1991 played three one day internationals and five Tests, under the captaincy of Viv Richards, as part of an extensive tour in which they also played first-class matches against 11 first-class county teams, the combined Minor Counties, the Combined Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, and a World XI to finish, plus 55-over one-day matches against one more first-class county (Gloucestershire) and the Duchess of Norfolk's Invitation XI. Of the non-international matches,", "id": "5157419" }, { "contents": "West Indian cricket team in England in 2007\n\n\nThe West Indian cricket team toured England from 12 May to 7 July 2007 as part of the 2007 English cricket season. The tour included four Tests, two Twenty20 international matches and three One Day Internationals. While England dominated the Test series 3–0, including a record victory over the West Indies, the latter took the ODI series 2:1. In the ICC Test Championship, England are ranked second and West Indies are ranked eighth, though England's most recent series was a whitewash loss in the Ashes against Australia for the first time", "id": "12941423" }, { "contents": "Sri Lankan cricket team in the West Indies in 2018\n\n\nOn 19 May 2018, Cricket West Indies (CWI) announced that they may scrap one of the Test fixtures, replacing it with a couple of one-day matches. However, the day before the first Test, the International Cricket Council (ICC) confirmed that it would be a three-match Test series. Prior to the start of day three of the second Test, the Sri Lankan cricket team protested against umpires' decision on starting the third day's play with a new ball, replacing the old ball.", "id": "19622271" }, { "contents": "Timeline of the 2017 Pacific hurricane season\n\n\ncyclone formations, strengthening, weakening, landfalls, extratropical transitions, and dissipations during the season. May 9 May 10 May 11 May 12 May 15 May 31 June 1 June 2 June 11 June 12 June 13 June 24 June 25 June 26 June 27 June 28 July 1 July 7 July 8 July 9 July 10 July 11 July 12 July 13 July 14 July 15 July 16 July 17 July 18 July 19 July 20 July 21 July 22 July 23 July 24 July 25 July 26 July 27 July 28 July 31 August 1", "id": "7169450" }, { "contents": "Daniel Bell-Drummond\n\n\nmade his youth Test debut on 21 July 2010 at the County Ground, Northampton before scoring unbeaten 88 in the second youth Test later in the same month, aged only 16. He played in both under-19 Test matches and in four youth one-day international matches during England's return tour of Sri Lanka in January and February 2011. In July 2011 Bell-Drummond played in a one-day series against South Africa under-19s. He top-scored for England in three of the seven matches in the series and was the", "id": "6732560" }, { "contents": "1967 in Norwegian football\n\n\nResults from Norwegian football in 1967. April 27 April 28 April 30 May 4 May 6 May 7 May 10 May 11 May 15 May 16 May 18 May 19 May 20 May 21 May 22 June 22 May 25 May 28 June 4 June 10 June 11 June 12 June 13 June 18 June 19 July 30 July 31 August 2 August 6 August 7 August 9 August 10 August 20 August 16 August 20 August 21 September 7 September 10 September 16 September 17 October 6 October 8 October 9 October 12 October 15 October 20 October", "id": "2081596" }, { "contents": "Phil Carlson\n\n\nPhillip Henry Carlson (born 8 August 1951, Nundah, Queensland) is a former Australian cricketer who played in two Tests and four One Day Internationals (ODIs) in 1979. Carlson was an all-rounder who played for Queensland between 1969–70 and 1980–81. He played two Test matches for Australia v England in 1978–79 Ashes series and four One Day Internationals against the same opponents. He was called up by Australia when most of their regular first-choice players were playing in World Series Cricket. Carlson took two Test wickets and", "id": "11409623" }, { "contents": "1962 in Norwegian football\n\n\nResults from Norwegian football in 1962. July 30 August 2 August 3 August 9 August 8 August 13 August 16 August 20 August 21 September 2 September 3 Ørn - Brann 0 - 7 September 24 September 28 October 1 October 15 April 25 October 6 October 8 April 29 May 6 May 12 May 13 May 14 May 20 May 21 May 23 May 24 May 27 May 30 May 31 June 3 June 15 June 16 June 17 June 24 June 25 June 30 July 1 July 29 August 1 August 2 August 4 August 5 August", "id": "9107175" }, { "contents": "Alan Igglesden\n\n\nAlan Paul Igglesden (born 8 October 1964) is a former English Test cricketer. He played three Test Matches and four One Day Internationals (ODIs) for the England cricket team between 1989 and 1994 as a fast bowler. He played most of his first-class cricket career for Kent County Cricket Club. Igglesden was born in Farnborough, London in 1964. He first played for Kent County Cricket Club's Second XI in 1983 before making his first-class cricket debut of the county in July 1986 against Somerset at Maidstone", "id": "8795795" }, { "contents": "Sri Lankan cricket team in England and Ireland in 2016\n\n\nThe Sri Lanka national cricket team toured England from 8 May to 5 July 2016 for a three-match Test series, a five-match One Day International (ODI) series and a one-off Twenty20 International (T20I) against the England cricket team. England won the Test series 2–0, the ODI series 3–0 and won the one-off T20I match by 8 wickets. They also played two first-class matches against Essex and Leicestershire prior to the Test series, and two ODI matches against Ireland prior to the", "id": "15635062" }, { "contents": "South African cricket team in England in 2008\n\n\nThe South African cricket team toured England between 29 June and 4 September 2008. They played four Test matches, one Twenty20 International and five One Day Internationals against England. They also played six tour matches against Somerset, Middlesex, Bangladesh A, a PCA Masters XI and two against the England Lions. It was announced that following the conclusion of this four-match series, future matches between England and South Africa would comprise five Test matches but only three one-day matches after the series was granted 'icon' status.", "id": "18079110" }, { "contents": "2018 English cricket season\n\n\nthe first time in an ODI. The South African women's team also toured England to play three One Day International matches against the England women's cricket team in June and to compete in the 2018 England women's Tri-Nation Series Twenty20 competition against England and New Zealand. New Zealand then played three One Day Internationals against England in July. In addition the West Indies men's side played a single Twenty20 International against a Rest of the World XI team at Lord's in May 2018 to raise funds for stadiums damaged by", "id": "6929602" }, { "contents": "American Rally Association\n\n\nWood Rally March 15 - 16 Olympus Rally April 27 - 28 Oregon Trail Rally May 31 - June 2 Idaho Rally International June 22 - 23 New England Forest Rally July 19 - 20 Muscatell Ojibwe Forests Rally August 23 - 24 Susquehannock Trail Performance Rally September 13 - 14 Lake Superior Performance Rally October 18 - 19 2019 ARA Super Regional Events Southern Ohio Forest Rally May 16 - 18 Rally Colorado July 26 - 27 Tour de Forest Rally September 21, 2019 Empire State Performance Rally October 25 - 26 2019 ARA One-Day Regional", "id": "6404348" }, { "contents": "Pakistani cricket team in England and Ireland in 2016\n\n\nThe Pakistan national cricket team toured England and Ireland from 3 July to 7 September 2016 for a four-match Test series, a five-match One Day International (ODI) series and a one-off Twenty20 International (T20I) against the England cricket team. They also played two three-day matches against Somerset and Sussex prior to the Test series, a two-day match against Worcestershire during the Test series, and two ODI matches against Ireland prior to the ODI series. England's ODI matches against Pakistan was", "id": "15635130" }, { "contents": "Second Test, 1948 Ashes series\n\n\nThe Second Test of the 1948 Ashes series was one of five Tests in a cricket series between Australia and England. The match was played at Lord's in London from 24 to 29 June, with a rest day on 27 June. Australia won the match by 409 runs to take a 2–0 lead, meaning that England would need to win the remaining three matches to regain The Ashes. Australian captain Don Bradman won the toss and elected to bat. The tourists had won the First Test convincingly, and decided to field the", "id": "497516" }, { "contents": "MCC v Australians at Lord's, 27 May 1878\n\n\nin England, the team left Sydney on 29 March 1878 and sailed via Auckland and Honolulu to San Francisco, from where they travelled across America by train to New York City. They crossed the Atlantic, arriving in Liverpool on 13 May, and then went by train to Nottingham where they played their first match, starting on Monday, 20 May. This was a three-day match against Nottinghamshire at Trent Bridge and the Australians were well beaten by an innings and 14 runs, an inauspicious start which dampened much of the public", "id": "16383632" }, { "contents": "Australian women's cricket team in England in 2013\n\n\nThe Australian women's cricket team toured England in 2013. The visitors were defending the Women's Ashes. The only Test match of the tour took place on 11–14 August at Wormsley Park, and was drawn. Three One-Day Internationals (ODIs) were played: the first at Lord's on 20 August, and the other two at Hove on 23 and 25 August. Also three Twenty20 International (T20I) matches were played, on 27, 29 and 31 August, at Chelmsford, Southampton and Chester-le-", "id": "19064429" }, { "contents": "South African cricket team in England in 2017\n\n\nThe South African cricket team toured England and Wales between May and August 2017, playing three One Day Internationals (ODIs), three Twenty20 Internationals (T20Is) and four Test matches. The ODI matches were in preparation for the 2017 ICC Champions Trophy, which took place in England and Wales during June. Extra security was provided to South Africa for the ODI series following the Manchester bombing. England won the ODI series 2–1 and the T20 series 2–1. Ahead of the ODI series, South Africa played one-day warm-", "id": "1555384" }, { "contents": "1Malaysia Development Berhad scandal\n\n\n- 30 September onwards October 20 November 25 December 1 December 5 December 31 2016 January 26 January 29 February 1 February 3 February 7 February 19 February 29 March 23 March 31 April 2 April 5 April 7 April 9 April 12 April 13 April 19 April 28 May 24 May 31 July 11 1MDB agrees to resolve its dispute with International Petroleum Investment Company via the London Court of International Arbitration. July 21 August 9 October 11 December 2 2017 March 22 April 24 May 30 June 15 June 16 August 1 August 2 August 11 August", "id": "14280441" }, { "contents": "Timeline of events preceding World War II\n\n\nJune 30 September 14 May 19 September 18 September 19 January 7 January 28 February 27 March 1 April 10 May 30 August 30 November 21 December 3 January 1 January 30 February 27 February 28 March 4 March 20 March 23 March 24 March 27 April 1 April 26 May 2 May 15 May 31 June 21 July 14 August 25 September 12 October 19 November 24 January 26 February 12–16 March 20 June 30 July 20 July 25 August 2 August 8 September October 16 December 1 December 5 December 29 January 7 June 18 August 31 September", "id": "6767330" }, { "contents": "Timeline of the 2018 Pacific hurricane season\n\n\ntropical cyclone formations, strengthening, weakening, landfalls, extratropical transitions, and dissipations during the season. May 10 May 11 May 13 May 15 June 1 June 6 June 7 June 8 June 9 June 10 June 11 June 12 June 13 June 14 June 15 June 16 June 17 June 19 June 24 June 25 June 26 June 27 June 28 June 29 June 30 July 1 July 2 July 3 July 4 July 5 July 6 July 9 July 26 July 27 July 28 July 29 July 31 August 1 August 2 August 3 August", "id": "21166816" }, { "contents": "English cricket team in Australia in 2017–18\n\n\nThe England cricket team toured Australia between November 2017 and February 2018 to play five Tests and five One Day Internationals (ODIs). They also played in a three nation Twenty20 International (T20I) tournament, along with New Zealand, who co-hosted the tournament along with Australia. England additionally played two first-class matches, a two-day tour match and a one-day tour match against Cricket Australia XI, as well as a Twenty20 against the Prime Minister's XI. The Test matches made up the 2017–18", "id": "21532277" }, { "contents": "Timeline of events preceding World War II\n\n\nApril 16 August 13 October October 11 October 29 November 1 January 11 June July 24 August 31 September 27 October 29 November 8 January 21 February 1 March 16 April 1 April 6 June 10 August 16 August 18 May 12 July 18 December 1 January 3 January 31 April 4 April 24 September 8 December 25 April 12 May 20 June 7 November 12 December 14 May 3 May 28 June 4 August 2 August 27 October 1 February 9 February 11 March 4 March 28 April 3 June 7 July 24 August 31 October 29 April 22", "id": "6767329" }, { "contents": "W. G. Grace in the 1878 English cricket season\n\n\nNewcastle upon Tyne, Bolton and Birmingham to play odds games against local opposition. Grace took 21 wickets in the match against the 22 men of Melton Mowbray in a three-day match starting on Monday, 1 July. He scored 42 and 57 not out in his two innings, the match ending in a draw. Grace caught the evening train to be in London ready for the first Gentlemen v Players match at The Oval, starting on Thursday, 4 July. The next USEE match at Leeds Holbeck followed the second Gentlemen", "id": "15478205" }, { "contents": "List of accidents and incidents involving military aircraft (1950–1954)\n\n\n12 December 19 December 23 December 10 January 11 January 15 January 21 January 28 January 31 January 14 February 13 March 14 March 17 March 23 March 3 April 5 April 5 April 8 April 25 April 27 April 6 May 18 May 19 May 8 June 13 June 15 June 18 June 23 June 23 June 30 June 8 July 31 July Summer 13 August 18 August 21 August 22 August 26 August 27 August 16 September 29 September 15 October 11 November 13 November 19 November 27 November 3 December 7 December 21 December 12 January 15", "id": "21637229" }, { "contents": "Lord's\n\n\nbe switched off by 11 pm. The floodlights were first used successfully on 27 May 2009 during the Twenty20 Cup match between Middlesex and Kent. Lord's hosts Test matches, one-day internationals, some Middlesex home matches, MCC matches and (starting with a fixture between Middlesex and Surrey in July 2004) some of Middlesex's home Twenty20 games. Lord's typically hosts two Tests every summer plus two one-day internationals. Lord's also plays host to the finals of the National Village Cricket Competition, the MCC Universities", "id": "10760657" }, { "contents": "2011 in American music\n\n\nThe following is a list of notable events and releases that happened in 2011 in music in the United States. January 11 January 17 January 18 January 21 January 25 January 31 February 1 February 8 February 15 February 22 March 1 March 8 March 15 March 22 March 29 April 5 April 11 April 12 April 26 May 3 May 10 May 17 May 23 May 24 May 31 June 7 June 14 June 21 June 28 July 5 July 8 July 12 July 13 July 19 July 26 August 2 August 8 August 9 August 16 August", "id": "15423555" }, { "contents": "MCC v Australians at Lord's, 27 May 1878\n\n\nenthusiasm that their visit had generated. The Australians were next due to play Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) in a three-day match at Lord's, commencing on Monday, 27 May. In the meantime, Charles Bannerman and Billy Midwinter were invited to visit Dublin and play for the United South of England Eleven (USEE) against 15 past and present players of Dublin University. This was due to be played over three days, starting on Thursday, 23 May, at College Park. The USEE was captained by W. G.", "id": "16383633" }, { "contents": "West Indian cricket team in England in 1928\n\n\nreach three figures. As at Lord's and Old Trafford, the match was over before lunch on the third day. Including the three Tests, 30 first-class matches were played on the tour, plus six other games. The West Indians won just seven of these 36 matches (five of the first-class games) and lost 12. By the end of May, the touring side had won matches against Derbyshire and Cambridge University, plus a minor match against Northumberland, and had drawn all the other games.", "id": "12941340" }, { "contents": "Bob Willis\n\n\n26 August against Worcestershire's Seconds. Willis, 19 years of age, took one wicket for 48 runs in the first innings, and bowled four wicketless overs in the second. He was not called on to bat at all. Two days later, he faced Glamorgan and took three wickets. He played several further Second XI matches through May and June 1969, before his first-class debut on 6 August. Scotland was touring England that season and had already beaten Warwickshire. Willis took three wickets for 13 runs from 13", "id": "16238759" }, { "contents": "Rock in Rio\n\n\n5 July 6 May 21 / 82.000 May 22 / 45.000 May 27 / 85.000 May 29 / 95.000 May 30 / 38.000 June 4 / 51.000 June 5 / 85.000 June 6 / 90.000 June 11 / 30.000 June 14 / 48.000 Rock in Rio Lisboa V Rock in Rio Lisboa VII Rock in Rio Lisboa VIII June 24 sold out almost three months prior to the festival. \"Rock in Rio USA\" was the first North American edition of the festival, being held in Las Vegas on May 8, 9, 15 and 16", "id": "11140715" }, { "contents": "Indian cricket team in Sri Lanka in 2015\n\n\nThe Indian cricket team toured Sri Lanka from 6 August to 1 September 2015 to play a tour match and three Test matches. On 27 June, Sri Lankan batsman Kumar Sangakkara said he would retire from international cricket after the second Test of the series. The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) and Sri Lanka Cricket Board confirmed the schedule of India's tour to Sri Lanka in August to September 2015. The tour started with a three-day warm-up game against Sri Lanka Board President's XI,", "id": "22038367" }, { "contents": "Andy Cottam\n\n\nAndrew Colin Cottam (born 14 July 1973 in Northampton, England) was an English cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman and a left-arm slow bowler. He played in 2 Under-19 Tests in 1992 and 13 first-class matches between 1992 and 1996. His father is the cricketer and coach Bob Cottam. In 1990 Andy Cottam started playing for Somerset Second XI and Devon. In 1992 he was selected for Under-19's tour of Pakistan and played in the Third Test and 2 one-day matches against Pakistan", "id": "2981363" }, { "contents": "Lord's\n\n\n. The hundredth Lord's Test match was in 2000, England v West Indies. As of 25 August 2010 England have played 119 Test matches at Lord's, winning 45, losing 28 and drawing 46. Lord's often hosts two Test matches each summer, one match for each visiting team. In 2010, the ground hosted three Test matches: as well as England's matches against Bangladesh and Pakistan, a Test match between Australia and Pakistan was held there in July. Lord's was the venue of the 2000th test", "id": "10760663" }, { "contents": "Australian cricket team in Sri Lanka in 2016\n\n\nThe Australian cricket team toured Sri Lanka from 18 July to 9 September 2016 to play three Test matches, five One Day Internationals (ODIs), two Twenty20 Internationals (T20Is) matches and a first-class practice match. The Test series was played for Warne-Muralitharan Trophy, with Sri Lanka winning 3–0, their first ever series whitewash against Australia. As a result, Australia slipped from first to third in the ICC Test Championship; Sri Lanka, who had started the series ranked seventh, moved up to sixth.", "id": "14912886" }, { "contents": "South African cricket team in Australia in 2005–06\n\n\nThe South African cricket team toured Australia for cricket matches during the 2005–06 season. South Africa had already played two One Day International series during this season, beating New Zealand 4–0 at home before travelling to India and drawing the series there 2–2. The team had been playing 14 successive ODIs (tour matches excluded) before arriving in Australia, with their last Test match against West Indies in April and May 2005. South Africa played one first class warm-up match, one three-day warm-up match without first class", "id": "19860549" }, { "contents": "Peter Lever\n\n\n6/38, before his final Test ended on 5 August 1975 during another Ashes tour, Australia facing England at Lord's. Lever also played ten One Day Internationals, including the 1975 Cricket World Cup, taking 11 wickets but scoring only 17 runs. His ODI debut was also against Australia, at Melbourne on 5 January 1971, and his last match was at Headingley, Leeds, again against Australia, on 18 June 1975. This gives Lever the unusual distinction of having played both his debut, and last match, against Australia", "id": "17765992" }, { "contents": "Australian women's cricket team in England in 2009\n\n\nThe Australian women's cricket team toured England between 25 June and 13 July 2009, playing one Test match, five One Day Internationals and a Twenty20 International. Australia won the Twenty20 International, while England won the One Day International series 4–0. The Test match, which was for the Women's Ashes, was drawn; ensuring that England retained them. Prior to the series, both sides took part in the 2009 ICC Women's World Twenty20, which was also held in England in June. England won the tournament, in", "id": "13250607" }, { "contents": "List of accidents and incidents involving military aircraft (1950–1954)\n\n\nJanuary 31 January 7 February 18 March 21 April 24 April May 11 May 12 May 15 May 9 June 11 June 13 June 17 June 18 June 21 June 15 July 17 July 30 July 6 August 6 August 12 August 23 August 26 August 30 August 5 September 9 September 9 September 9 September 11 September 19 September 19 September 25 September 1 October 1 October 7 October 8 October 8 October 11 October 13 October 14 October 17 October 18 October 19 October 20 October 22 October 26 October 2 November 8 November 17 November 23 November", "id": "21637231" }, { "contents": "Follow-on\n\n\n, and gave England a slender lead of 129. The next day a fired-up Bob Willis took 8 for 43, and Australia slumped to 111 all out. Australia, who had won their 16 previous Test matches, including the first of the three-Test series between the two teams, had scored 445 in the first innings of the second Test and restricted India to 171; only V. V. S. Laxman (59) and Rahul Dravid reached 25 runs. The only other bright spot for India was the bowling of", "id": "1078812" }, { "contents": "West Indian cricket team in England in 2017\n\n\nThe West Indies cricket team toured England in August and September 2017 to play three Test matches competing for the Wisden Trophy, one Twenty20 International (T20I) and five One Day Internationals (ODIs). Ahead of the Test series, the West Indies played first-class warm-up matches against Derbyshire, Essex and Kent. They also played a two-day match against Leicestershire, as they did not get to the final of the 2017 NatWest t20 Blast. In October 2016 the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB)", "id": "1555387" }, { "contents": "England women's national rugby league team\n\n\nCup - WIN v France WIN v Russia | LOSS v Australia LOSS v New Zealand WIN v Pacific Islands 2009 International Tests - 25 July | France 8-28 England; France 0-36 England 2010 International Tests - 9 November | England 36-8 France 10 November | New Zealand 44-6 England 16 November | New Zealand 38-6 England 2011 International Tests - 2 July | France 6-36 England 6 July | France 4-42 England 2012 International Test - 15 June | England 48-0 France", "id": "9166568" }, { "contents": "International cricket\n\n\n, One-Day and Twenty20 matches take place in the form of \"tours\". In a tour, one nation travels to another and plays warm-up matches, which may be first-class matches, against domestic teams such as county or state teams, a series of Test matches against the host nation, and either a series of One-Day (ODi) and T20 matches against the host nation or a tournament involving the host nation and another touring nation. Tours may include Test, ODI and T20I matches", "id": "6028418" }, { "contents": "West Indian cricket team in England in 2000\n\n\nThe West Indies cricket team toured England in the 2000 cricket season. West Indies played five Tests against England - two in June and three in August - with a triangular One Day International (ODI) series involving Zimbabwe in July. In June, West Indies won the 1st Test at Edgbaston convincingly, before England narrowly won the 2nd Test at Lord's, having bowled West Indies out for 54 in their second innings. The ODI series, sponsored by NatWest, took place in July, with England, West Indies and Zimbabwe", "id": "12941417" }, { "contents": "First Test, 1948 Ashes series\n\n\nThe First Test of the 1948 Ashes series was one of five Tests in a cricket series between Australia and England. The match was played at Trent Bridge in Nottingham from 10 to 15 June with a rest day on 13 June. Australia won the match by eight wickets to take a 1–0 series lead. The Australians started the match as firm favourites, having won the previous series against England 3–0; in the lead-up to the 1948 series, they had won 10 of their 12 tour matches in England, mostly by", "id": "497621" }, { "contents": "Giles Baring\n\n\nAfricans on 22 May 1935, for Hampshire in Hampshire v Australians on 25 May 1938, and for H. D. G. Leveson Gowers XI v Australian Services on 7 July 1945. He played for Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) between 1935 and 1946, and his last first-class game was in the MCC v Cambridge University match on 29 June 1946. Baring was a right-arm fast bowler and also a right-hand batsman. As a bowler, he took 197 wickets for 5,607 runs, an average of 28.46.", "id": "9091808" }, { "contents": "Herbert Sutcliffe's cricket career (1919–27)\n\n\nWaddington in 1925. Arthur Mitchell was still a reserve and Cyril Turner made his first-class debut. The first four Tests of the 1926 England v Australia series were scheduled for just three days and were all curtailed by poor weather. The final Test at The Oval was timeless to ensure a finish. It has become one of the most famous matches in cricket history, not because England regained The Ashes for the first time since 1912 but for the manner it which it was achieved as Hobbs and Sutcliffe produced their most famous", "id": "18930780" }, { "contents": "Günther Lützow\n\n\nfighter destroyed. Two days later, he destroyed three aircraft, two SB-2 bombers and a Petlyakov Pe-2 ground attack aircraft. On 27 June, he shot down an Ilyushin DB-3 bomber followed by another Pe-2 on the following day, his last victory of June 1941. Following a DB-3 bomber claimed on 7 July, Lützow was credited with four aerial victories on 10 July, consisting of one Vultee V-11 attack aircraft and three I-153s. The next day he claimed an II-16. On 15 July he shot down two further I-16s and another", "id": "3340503" }, { "contents": "1966 in Norwegian football\n\n\nResults from Norwegian football in 1966. April 22 April 24 April 27 May 19 April 30 May 1 May 6 May 7 May 8 May 15 May 19 May 22 May 23 May 27 May 28 May 30 May 31 June 3 June 4 June 5 June 15 June 16 June 19 June 20 July 31 August 3 August 6 August 7 August 8 August 24 August 17 August 27 August 28 September 11 September 22 September 23 September 24 October 9 October 15 October 16 October 17 October 23 July 31 August 1 August 2 August 3 Rematch", "id": "21974049" }, { "contents": "Headingley Cricket Ground\n\n\nwickets each. Donald Bradman's innings of 334 in the 1930 Ashes Test included 309 runs on the first day, and he followed it in the Australians' next test at Headingley in 1934 with an innings of 304. Spinner Hedley Verity took 10 wickets for 10 runs in 1932 for Yorkshire v Nottinghamshire, still the best bowling analysis ever in first-class cricket. Verity had also taken all ten against Warwickshire at Headingley in 1931. In the 1948 Ashes series, Australia scored 404 for three on the last day to beat", "id": "11240346" }, { "contents": "List of international awards of Rohit Sharma\n\n\nRohit Sharma is an Indian international cricketer. He made his international cricket debut in June 2007. He has scored twenty-nine centuries in international cricket; three in Tests, twenty-two in One Day Internationals (ODI) and four in Twenty20 International (T20Is). As of July 2019, Sharma has played 27 Tests, 215 One Day Internationals and 94 Twenty20 Internationals. As of July 2019, Rohit won 19 Man of the Match awards and 4 Man of the Series awards in One Day Internationals; 1 Man of", "id": "21442897" }, { "contents": "Ollie Pope\n\n\nthe 2016 Royal London One-Day Cup against Yorkshire. He made his first-class debut on 28 March 2017 for Surrey against Oxford MCCU as part of the Marylebone Cricket Club University fixtures. Pope scored his maiden List A half-century on 7 May 2017 against Sussex. He made his Twenty20 debut for Surrey in the 2017 NatWest t20 Blast on 7 July 2017. In August 2018, he was added to England's squad for the second Test against India. He made his Test debut at Lord's for England against", "id": "11076451" }, { "contents": "Australian cricket team in the West Indies in 2015\n\n\nThe Australian cricket team toured the West Indies from 27 May to 15 June 2015. The tour consisted of one first-class warm-up match and two Test matches. On 8 April 2015, the West Indies Cricket Board brought forward the date of the two Test matches by two days \"due to a number of logistical challenges beyond [their] control\". Australia won the 2-match Test series 2–0 and therefore retained the Frank Worrell Trophy. Australia announced their squad on 31 March 2015. They included three uncapped players,", "id": "17936722" }, { "contents": "Zimbabwean cricket team in Sri Lanka in 2017\n\n\nThe Zimbabwe cricket team toured Sri Lanka in June and July 2017 to play one Test match and five One Day Internationals (ODIs). Originally, the schedule was for two Test matches and three ODIs. It was Zimbabwe's first tour to Sri Lanka since January 2002. All the matches were played as day games. Zimbabwe won the ODI series 3–2, their first ever series win against Sri Lanka. It was their first away series win since 2009 and the first away series win against a Test nation since defeating Bangladesh in", "id": "5384529" }, { "contents": "Ashwell Prince\n\n\nthe batting. Opening with debutant Imraan Khan, Prince scored 150, his 11th Test century. Prince signed a contract to play for Lancashire County Cricket Club the 2009 English season. He acted as cover for V. V. S. Laxman, the club's other overseas player, who was unavailable at times because he was playing in the Indian Premier League. Prince score his first century for Lancashire at the start of May during a match against Nottinghamshire. The knock came off 135 not out from 189 balls came on the final day of", "id": "12899038" }, { "contents": "Herbert Sutcliffe\n\n\nand 1926, Sutcliffe's skill was a primary factor in Yorkshire having the longest unbeaten run in county cricket: i.e., 70 matches without loss until early 1927. After three defeats in 1927, Yorkshire went a further 58 games without loss until 1929. The first four Tests of the 1926 England v Australia series were scheduled for just three days and were all curtailed by poor weather. The final Test at the Oval was timeless to ensure a finish. It has become one of the most famous matches in cricket history, not", "id": "18571331" }, { "contents": "Indian cricket team in England in 2011\n\n\nThe Indian cricket team toured England from 21 July to 16 September 2011. The tour consisted of one Twenty20 International (T20I), five One Day Internationals (ODIs) and four Test matches, as well as a number of matches against English county sides. The opening Test at Lord's was the 2,000th Test. England's victory in the Third Test put them number one in the world rankings. Virat Kohli, Pragyan Ojha and RP Singh replaced the injured Yuvraj Singh, Harbhajan Singh and Zaheer Khan, respectively, for the", "id": "4970296" }, { "contents": "Cricket in the British Isles\n\n\nIt played its first test match against Australia in 1877 and played its first One Day International (ODI) also againist Australia in 1971. One of the main cricket grounds in England, and also widely regarded as the spiritual home of cricket, is Lords Cricket Ground in London. Other major cricket grounds include The Oval (also in London), Edgbaston in Birmingham, Old Trafford in Manchester and Trent Bridge in Nottingham. From 1909 until 2017 England was the only country within the British Isles to have full membership of the ICC", "id": "17756246" }, { "contents": "Eton v Harrow\n\n\nplayed for Harrow in the four matches in 1822 to 1825, and arranged the first University Match at Lord's in 1827, two years before the first Boat Race. Many Eton and Harrow players went on to win blues at Oxford and Cambridge. Eton v Harrow was joined by the University Match and Gentlemen v Players as the three key features in the England cricket season. In its heyday, in the late 19th century and early 20th century, \"the School's day\" was one of the highlights of the London \"", "id": "10600897" }, { "contents": "Mathew Dimond\n\n\nMathew Dimond (born 24 September 1975) is a former English cricketer who made played for Somerset County Cricket Club between 1994 and 1997. Early in his career, he toured the West Indies with the England Under-19 cricket team, playing three Tests and one One Day International at Under-19 level. A right-arm fast-medium bowler, he made his first-class debut for Somerset in June 1994. Playing in the County Championship against Hampshire, Dimond claimed a solitary wicket in the match, which was shortened to single innings", "id": "558840" }, { "contents": "Charlie Charters\n\n\n’ Although the 2004 Islanders lost each of the three Test matches they played (29-14 v Wallabies, 41-26 v All Blacks and 24-38 v Springboks in Gosford, Australia), they scored 10 tries in three matches. By comparison that same southern hemisphere season, England and Scotland scored only three tries between them in their five Tests against the All Blacks and Wallabies. In fact, the 2004 Islanders scored more tries in one Test against the All Blacks (four) than the three tries the 2005", "id": "16741154" }, { "contents": "Australian cricket team in South Africa in 1993–94\n\n\nmatch by one run, levelling the ODI series at 4–4 with an \"improbable victory\". As well as the internationals, three first-class matches and two other matches were played during the tour The tour began with a friendly one-day match against NF Oppenheimer's XI, followed by a first-class match against Northern Transvaal and a one-day match against a representative side. Before the first Test match Australia played a first-class match against Orange Free State and between the first and second Tests they played", "id": "5209672" }, { "contents": "Bangladeshi cricket team in Zimbabwe in 2011\n\n\nThe Bangladesh cricket team toured Zimbabwe from 4 to 21 August 2011. The tour consisted of one Test match and five One Day Internationals (ODIs) played against the Zimbabwean national team and one first-class match played against a Zimbabwean representative team. The Test match was Zimbabwe's first since India toured Zimbabwe in 2005. Zimbabwe won the Test match by 130 runs and also won the one-day series 3–2. Bangladesh announced its squad for the Test match and ODI series on 15 July 2011. Zimbabwe announced its squad for", "id": "19159411" }, { "contents": "V. V. S. Laxman\n\n\nfrom international cricket. Although he was selected for the upcoming New Zealand series, he opted not to play in the series but he will play in domestic cricket for Hyderabad and the Indian Premier League . It was announced that the northern stand at the Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium will now be named after him. Laxman was particularly prolific against Australia, in both Tests and One Day Internationals. Six out of his 17 Test hundreds, and four out of his six ODI hundreds came against Australia. He has two double-centuries", "id": "9815623" }, { "contents": "3rd Battalion, 319th Field Artillery Regiment\n\n\nVII and another platoon to LZ Challenge from 3–5 July. Battery C located at FSB Rock near Bac Loc and conducted two 1-day raids on 11 & 13 June. Battery D located at LZ Lowboy, with 2 howitzers sent on Operation Red Thrust V in 5 days ending 2 May. On 12 July, Battery D displaced to support Battery A from FSB Hawkeye but returned to LZ Lowboy until 28 July, then occupied FSB Hunky. The battalion received three 105mm howitzers in May. In July, LTC John R. Martin replaced LTC Joseph", "id": "2060226" }, { "contents": "W. G. Grace in the 1878 English cricket season\n\n\nthis match attracted few spectators as it coincided with the Surrey v Australians match at The Oval, which drew very large crowds. \"Wisden Cricketers' Almanack\" commented that \"the Australians were attracting monster gatherings at The Oval on the days that this match was played, consequently very few visitors were at Lord's\". There were three North v South fixtures in June. The first two were played at Prince's Cricket Ground and Lord's with the South as the \"home\" team; the third took place at the", "id": "15478186" }, { "contents": "Third Test, 1948 Ashes series\n\n\nThe Third Test of the 1948 Ashes series was one of five Tests in a cricket series between teams representing Australia and England. The match was played at Old Trafford in Manchester from 8–13 July, with a rest day on 11 July. The match was drawn after the whole of the fourth day and the first half of the fifth day was washed out due to rain; England had the upper hand before the weather intervened. The draw maintained Australia's 2–0 lead in the series, which was established through victories in the first", "id": "497412" }, { "contents": "Giles Baring\n\n\n, Gresham's School, Holt, and Magdalene College, Cambridge. He represented Cambridge University in 1930 and 1931 and Hampshire between 1930 and 1939. Apart from more than fifty regular county championship games, he played in the Cambridge University v New Zealanders match of 3 June 1931, for the Gentlemen in the Gentlemen v Players matches of 2 September 1931 and 11 July 1934, for Hampshire in Hampshire v West Indians on 24 May 1933, for Hampshire in Hampshire v Australians on 23 May 1934, for Hampshire in Hampshire v South", "id": "9091807" }, { "contents": "2013–14 Bangladeshi cricket season\n\n\nand Mirpur. Both Test matches ended in draws, Bangladesh won all three One Day Internationals and New Zealand won the sole Twenty20 International. Sri Lanka toured Bangladesh in January and February 2014 playing two Test Matches, three One Day Internationals and two Twenty20 Internationals. Sri Lanka won every match, with the exception of the second Test match which ended in a draw. Initially it was planned that the NCL would be held in November and December 2013, the BCL in May and June 2014 and the BPL in December and January.", "id": "18068868" }, { "contents": "Darrell Hair\n\n\nby the ICC on 12 March 2008 and stood in the England v New Zealand tests at Old Trafford in May and Trent Bridge in June 2008. Hair umpired his first Test match in January 1992, between Australia and India in Adelaide. In 1994 the International Cricket Council (ICC) introduced a policy of appointing one umpire to each Test match from a non-participating country, and since 2002 both umpires have been appointed from non-participating nations. Since 2002 the majority of Hair’s Test matches have been played outside Australia", "id": "17469081" }, { "contents": "Timeline of events preceding World War II\n\n\n15 October 2 November 14 January February 6 March 7 March 25 May 5 June 3 July 17 August 1 October October 18 November 14 November 15 November 25 December 1 December 12 December 23 December 24 January 20 May 28 July 7 August 13 October 5 November 6 November 26 December 1 December 8 December 11 December 12 December 13 January 26 March 6 March 13 March 24 July 6–16 July 29 August September 27 September 30 October 5 November 7 November 9 January 25 January 27 March 14 March 15 March 16 March 20 March 21 March 23", "id": "6767331" }, { "contents": "South African cricket team in England in 1924\n\n\nThe South African cricket team toured England in the 1924 season to play a five-match Test series against England. England won the series 3-0 with 2 matches drawn. The tourists, with their ages on the first day of the first match of the tour on 3 May, were: George Parker (24) also played three first-class matches (including the first two Tests) and Aubrey Faulkner (42) played one match, the Third Test. The manager was George Allsop. South Africa's score", "id": "12941168" }, { "contents": "2018 English cricket season\n\n\ninternational sides toured England and Wales during the season: Pakistan, Australia and India. Pakistan also visited Ireland midway through the tour and played the Irish team's first Test match at Malahide near Dublin. In preparation for this match the Irish team played a first-class match against Somerset at Taunton in April. At the end of their tour Pakistan played two T20 matches in Scotland on 12 and 13 June. The England team played a One Day International (ODI) against Scotland in Edinburgh in June, losing to Scotland for", "id": "6929601" }, { "contents": "V. V. S. Laxman\n\n\n112 in the second test. This ensured his place on the tour of Australia which would be his third to that country. Laxman's good form continued in the 2007-08 Test series against Australia with him scoring 109 against Australia on the second day of the controversial Sydney Test to put India back into the contest. It was his 12th hundred in Test matches, and his 5th against Australia. It was also his third consecutive century at SCG, giving him an average well above 90 at the venue. He followed this", "id": "9815609" }, { "contents": "2019 Ashes series\n\n\nthree cricketers were named in Australia's squad for the 2019 Ashes. Meanwhile, England warmed up for the 2019 Ashes with a Test series earlier in the year against the West Indies and a one-off Test against Ireland in July. The tour of the West Indies comprised three matches and was won 2–1 by the West Indies. England also won the one-off Test against Ireland, by 143 runs. Ahead of the series, it was announced that Day 2 of the Lord’s Test would benefit the Ruth Strauss Foundation", "id": "18532603" }, { "contents": "V. V. S. Laxman\n\n\n1–1. He was awarded the Man of the Match for his match-winning innings of 96. His knock was voted as the best Test batting performance of the year by ESPNCricinfo. In three test matches, Laxman scored three consecutive fifties including two scores in eighties against the West Indies during India's tour of West Indies in June 2011. During India's Tour to England, Laxman scored just two half-centuries in eight innings as India went down 0–4 to England. This was India's first Test series loss since its", "id": "9815620" }, { "contents": "2014–15 Bangladeshi cricket season\n\n\nThe 2014–15 Bangladeshi cricket season featured tours of the country by Zimbabwe and Pakistan. Rangpur Division won the National Cricket League (NCL) championship title for the first time. Zimbabwe toured Bangladesh from 26 October to 1 December 2014, playing three Test matches and five One Day International matches. Bangladesh won the Test series 3–0 and the ODI series 5–0. Pakistan toured from 15 April to 10 May 2015, playing one Twenty20 International (T20I), three One Day Internationals (ODIs) and two Test matches. Pakistan won the Test", "id": "895026" }, { "contents": "Australia women's cricket team in England in 2019\n\n\nThe Australia women's cricket team toured England in June and July 2019 to play the England women's cricket team to contest the Women's Ashes. The tour consisted of three Women's One Day Internationals (WODIs), one Women's Test match and three Women's Twenty20 Internationals (WT20Is). A points-based system was used across all three formats of the tour. The Women's Ashes were held by Australia prior to the start of the series. Australia women won the WODI series 3–0, therefore taking a 6–0", "id": "15341273" }, { "contents": "Pakistani cricket team in England in 1962\n\n\nof three one-day games (not limited overs). The first two were drawn and the Pakistanis won the third one against Colonel Stevens' XI. These three matches were, in effect, warm-ups only and not first-class. The opening first-class fixture was against Worcestershire at New Road, starting on Wednesday, 2 May. The Pakistanis were given a foretaste of the Test series to come in that Tom Graveney scored a century for the home team (and was presented with his county cap immediately afterwards", "id": "12941094" }, { "contents": "New Zealand cricket team in Australia in 2015–16\n\n\nThe New Zealand cricket team toured Australia from 23 October to 1 December 2015 to play three Test matches and four tour matches. The third match of the series at the Adelaide Oval was the first ever day-night Test. Michael Hussey captained the Prime Minister's XI side for the tour match, and in preparation for the day-night Test, a pink ball was used in this game. Australia won the series 2–0, with victories in Brisbane and Adelaide, with the second Test in Perth being drawn. Following the", "id": "1307472" }, { "contents": "Kennington\n\n\nThe Kia Oval\", is the home ground for Surrey County Cricket Club and hosts the final Test match of the English summer season. The Oval was the first ground in the United Kingdom to host Test cricket, was the location for the England v Scotland representative matches, the first ever international football match, the first FA Cup final in 1872, and held the second ever rugby union international match between England and Scotland in 1872. England's unfortunate performance against Australia here in 1882 gave rise to The Ashes. The Oval", "id": "10346916" }, { "contents": "Indian cricket team in Zimbabwe in 2001\n\n\nThe Indian cricket team toured Zimbabwe from 28 May to 7 July 2001 and played two Test matches against Zimbabwe, with each team winning one game match. This would be Zimbabwe's only Test victory over a side other than Bangladesh until they beat Pakistan in the second Test in 2013. India and Zimbabwe also participated in a triangular One Day International (ODI) competition with West Indies, with the latter eventually winning the competition. The Coca-Cola Cup was a One Day International (ODI) tournament that followed the Test series", "id": "4099650" }, { "contents": "Andrew Balbirnie\n\n\nHe played three further One Day International's during the tournament. He made his Twenty20 International debut against Scotland on 19 June 2015, although no play was possible due to rain. He was part of the Ireland A team which toured Bangladesh in October 2017 to play one first-class match and five limited overs matches against the Bangladesh A team. In May 2018, he was named in a fourteen-man squad for Ireland's first ever Test match, which was played against Pakistan later the same month. He made his", "id": "2597279" }, { "contents": "Pakistani cricket team in Scotland in 2018\n\n\nThe Pakistan cricket team toured Scotland to play two Twenty20 International (T20I) matches at The Grange Club, Edinburgh, on 12 and 13 June 2018. Pakistan last toured Scotland in May 2013 to play two One Day Internationals. Both teams last met in a T20I fixture in the group stage of the 2007 ICC World Twenty20 tournament. This was the first time that Scotland had played a home T20I match against a full member side. The tour followed Pakistan's tour of England and their one Test series in Ireland. England also", "id": "373509" }, { "contents": "2017 June rugby union tests\n\n\n2 sides. Australia, the only southern hemisphere Tier 1 nation not to host a test series, staged three one-off test matches; Scotland, Italy and Fiji. The Fijian test was the first between the two sides in Australia since 2010, and was also the first Australia v Tier 2 nation match in Australia since Samoa visited in 2011. Fiji also played host to Italy and Scotland to become the second Tier 2 nation to play three back-back Tier 1 sides during an international window, after Samoa participated in", "id": "13232867" }, { "contents": "Timeline of the 2014 Pacific hurricane season\n\n\nJune 11 June 12 June 13 June 14 June 15 June 28 June 30 July 1 July 2 July 3 July 6 July 7 July 9 July 17 July 18 July 19 July 25 July 26 July 27 July 28 July 29 July 31 August 1 August 2 August 3 August 4 August 5 August 6 August 7 August 8 August 9 August 10 August 12 August 13 August 14 August 15 August 17 August 18 August 21 August 22 August 23 August 24 August 25 August 26 August 27 August 28 August 29 September 2 September 4 September 6", "id": "2400921" } ]

[ { "contents": "Sri Lankan cricket team in England in 2014\n\n\nThe Sri Lanka national cricket team toured England from 13 May to 24 June 2014 for a Twenty20 International (T20I), five One Day Internationals (ODIs) and two Test matches against the England cricket team. They also played three one-day and one four-day tour matches against English county sides, as well as preceding the entire tour with a two-match ODI series against Ireland. Sri Lanka won the Test series 1–0 (the first time they had won a Test series in England), the ODI series", "id": "21939883" }, { "contents": "New Zealand cricket team in England in 2015\n\n\nThe New Zealand national cricket team toured England from 8 May to 23 June 2015 for two Test matches, five One Day Internationals (ODIs) and a Twenty20 International (T20I) against the England cricket team. They also played two four-day tour matches and a one-day match against English county sides. England won the first Test at Lord's before New Zealand claimed victory in the second Test at Headingley to level the series. England then took an early lead in the ODI series after hitting more than 400 runs", "id": "943447" }, { "contents": "Australian cricket team in England and Ireland in 2015\n\n\nThe Australia national cricket team toured England from June to September 2015 for a five-match Test series, five One Day International (ODI) matches and one Twenty20 International (T20I). The Test series was for the Ashes. They also played two four-day and two three-day first-class matches against English county sides. Australia also played one ODI against Ireland in Belfast. On 31 March 2015, Australia announced a 17-man touring party for the Ashes series. England announced their squad for the first Test on", "id": "1657670" }, { "contents": "David Constant\n\n\n67 first-class appearances. In total he scored 1,517 first-class runs at a batting average of 19.20 with a highest score of 80. Tony Lewis described his innings against Glamorgan on a difficult pitch at Leicester in 1965 as \"one of the bravest innings I ever saw\". His first Test as umpire was the Third Test between England and Pakistan in July 1971. He last stood in an international cricket match in the England v. Australia One Day International at The Oval, London in June 2001. He was the", "id": "14539375" }, { "contents": "Pakistani cricket team in Sri Lanka in 2015\n\n\nThe Pakistan cricket team toured Sri Lanka from 11 June to 1 August 2015. The tour consisted of a three-day tour match against a SLCB President's XI, three Test matches, five One Day International and two Twenty20 International matches. The third Test was originally scheduled to be played at the R Premadasa Stadium, but was changed to the Pallekele International Cricket Stadium in early May. Pakistan outplayed the hosts in all forms of the game by winning the Test series 2–1, the ODI series 3–2 and the T20I series 2–0.", "id": "15080177" }, { "contents": "2010 in American music\n\n\n17 March 22 March 23 March 26 March 30 April 6 April 8 April 13 April 19 April 20 April 21 April 27 April 30 May 4 May 11 May 14 May 17 May 18 May 21 May 25 May 31 June 1 June 8 June 14 June 15 June 18 June 21 June 22 June 28 June 29 July 6 July 7 July 12 July 13 July 15 July 20 July 23 July 25 July 27 July 29 August 3 August 17 August 24 August 31 September 7 September 14 September 21 September 23 September 28 October 5 October", "id": "18556206" }, { "contents": "Warwickshire County Cricket Club\n\n\nand gold and the shirt sponsor is Gullivers Sports Travel. The club's home is Edgbaston Cricket Ground in south Birmingham, which regularly hosts Test and One Day International matches. Cricket may have reached Warwickshire by the end of the 17th century. The \"Warwickshire & Staffordshire Journal\" was certainly aware of the sport in 1738 for it carried a report of a London v Mitcham game at the Artillery Ground on 11 August (London won by 1 wicket). The earliest confirmed reference to cricket in the county is a match announcement", "id": "8941185" }, { "contents": "Irish cricket team in England in 2019\n\n\nThe Ireland cricket team toured England in July 2019 to play a one-off four-day Test match at Lord's. It was the first Test match to be played between the two sides, and was England's first four-day Test match since they toured New Zealand in 1971. It was Ireland's third Test match, and their twelfth international fixture against England. The Test match was part of England's preparations for the 2019 Ashes series. Ahead of the Test, the England cricket team visited Ireland in May", "id": "16268672" }, { "contents": "1919 English cricket season\n\n\n(five wins from fourteen) and Warwickshire were bottom with 7.14% (one win from fourteen). The 1919 County Championship was the 26th since the competition acquired official status in 1890. The opening matches began on Friday, 16 May. These were Middlesex v Nottinghamshire at Lord's and the 1914 (reigning) champions Surrey against Somerset at The Oval. The final match between Essex and Surrey at Leyton was completed on Monday, 1 September. The situation between Yorkshire and Kent on Saturday, 30 August (the second day in", "id": "7320450" }, { "contents": "Timeline of the 2013 Pacific hurricane season\n\n\n15 May 16 May 17 May 28 May 29 May 30 June 1 June 23 June 24 June 25 June 26 June 27 June 29 June 30 July 2 July 3 July 4 July 5 July 6 July 7 July 9 July 25 July 27 July 30 July 31 August 2 August 3 August 4 August 6 August 7 August 8 August 9 August 11 August 16 August 18 August 19 August 20 August 22 August 23 August 24 August 25 August 28 August 29 August 30 August 31 September 1 September 2 September 5 September 6 September 7 September", "id": "957237" }, { "contents": "Prince's Cricket Ground\n\n\nas 'grand and quick and one of the finest playing grounds in England'. The first match played on the ground was Household Brigade v. Lords and Commons on 3 June 1871. Middlesex County Cricket Club used the ground between 1872 and 1876 and played their first match on 23–25 May 1872 against Yorkshire. The ground was also used by South of England and by Gentlemen of the South. Several Gentlemen v Players fixtures were also played there, the first taking place in July 1873. In 1878, the touring Australians played two", "id": "19086180" }, { "contents": "Callum Jackson\n\n\nSussex youth ranks, playing at under-13, under-14, under-15 and under-17 level before joining the second XI as a 16-year-old in 2011. He was selected to represent an English Schools Cricket Association XI in 2011 before making his first appearance for the Sussex first XI on 1 May 2012 in a non-first-class match against the Leeds/Bradford MCC Universities team. In early 2013, Jackson was selected for the England under-19 side to tour South Africa, where he played in both Youth Test matches and three One Day", "id": "16290826" }, { "contents": "2018 English cricket season\n\n\nHurricane Irma and Hurricane Maria in September 2017. Pakistan played two Test matches against England at Lord's and Headingley at the end of May and beginning of June. The series was drawn, each side winning one match. Ahead of the Tests, two first-class matches were played against Kent and Northants. Their match against Ireland took place after the two first-class county matches, and a two-day match was played against Leicestershire between this and the first Test against England. Pakistan won the first Test match by", "id": "6929603" }, { "contents": "1963 in Norwegian football\n\n\nResults from Norwegian football in 1963. April 26 April 28 May 3 May 4 May 5 May 11 May 12 May 30 May 19 May 22 May 23 May 26 May 27 June 7 June 8 June 9 June 14 June 15 June 16 June 22 June 23 June 24 July 26 July 28 July 29 August 2 August 4 August 6 August 17 August 18 August 21 August 22 August 24 August 25 September 7 September 8 September 20 September 22 October 4 October 6 October 13 Årstad promoted Nidelv promoted Harstad - Bodø/Glimt 4 -", "id": "20433032" }, { "contents": "West Indian cricket team in England in 1991\n\n\nThe West Indian cricket team in England in 1991 played three one day internationals and five Tests, under the captaincy of Viv Richards, as part of an extensive tour in which they also played first-class matches against 11 first-class county teams, the combined Minor Counties, the Combined Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, and a World XI to finish, plus 55-over one-day matches against one more first-class county (Gloucestershire) and the Duchess of Norfolk's Invitation XI. Of the non-international matches,", "id": "5157419" }, { "contents": "West Indian cricket team in England in 2007\n\n\nThe West Indian cricket team toured England from 12 May to 7 July 2007 as part of the 2007 English cricket season. The tour included four Tests, two Twenty20 international matches and three One Day Internationals. While England dominated the Test series 3–0, including a record victory over the West Indies, the latter took the ODI series 2:1. In the ICC Test Championship, England are ranked second and West Indies are ranked eighth, though England's most recent series was a whitewash loss in the Ashes against Australia for the first time", "id": "12941423" }, { "contents": "Sri Lankan cricket team in the West Indies in 2018\n\n\nOn 19 May 2018, Cricket West Indies (CWI) announced that they may scrap one of the Test fixtures, replacing it with a couple of one-day matches. However, the day before the first Test, the International Cricket Council (ICC) confirmed that it would be a three-match Test series. Prior to the start of day three of the second Test, the Sri Lankan cricket team protested against umpires' decision on starting the third day's play with a new ball, replacing the old ball.", "id": "19622271" }, { "contents": "Timeline of the 2017 Pacific hurricane season\n\n\ncyclone formations, strengthening, weakening, landfalls, extratropical transitions, and dissipations during the season. May 9 May 10 May 11 May 12 May 15 May 31 June 1 June 2 June 11 June 12 June 13 June 24 June 25 June 26 June 27 June 28 July 1 July 7 July 8 July 9 July 10 July 11 July 12 July 13 July 14 July 15 July 16 July 17 July 18 July 19 July 20 July 21 July 22 July 23 July 24 July 25 July 26 July 27 July 28 July 31 August 1", "id": "7169450" }, { "contents": "Daniel Bell-Drummond\n\n\nmade his youth Test debut on 21 July 2010 at the County Ground, Northampton before scoring unbeaten 88 in the second youth Test later in the same month, aged only 16. He played in both under-19 Test matches and in four youth one-day international matches during England's return tour of Sri Lanka in January and February 2011. In July 2011 Bell-Drummond played in a one-day series against South Africa under-19s. He top-scored for England in three of the seven matches in the series and was the", "id": "6732560" }, { "contents": "1967 in Norwegian football\n\n\nResults from Norwegian football in 1967. April 27 April 28 April 30 May 4 May 6 May 7 May 10 May 11 May 15 May 16 May 18 May 19 May 20 May 21 May 22 June 22 May 25 May 28 June 4 June 10 June 11 June 12 June 13 June 18 June 19 July 30 July 31 August 2 August 6 August 7 August 9 August 10 August 20 August 16 August 20 August 21 September 7 September 10 September 16 September 17 October 6 October 8 October 9 October 12 October 15 October 20 October", "id": "2081596" }, { "contents": "Phil Carlson\n\n\nPhillip Henry Carlson (born 8 August 1951, Nundah, Queensland) is a former Australian cricketer who played in two Tests and four One Day Internationals (ODIs) in 1979. Carlson was an all-rounder who played for Queensland between 1969–70 and 1980–81. He played two Test matches for Australia v England in 1978–79 Ashes series and four One Day Internationals against the same opponents. He was called up by Australia when most of their regular first-choice players were playing in World Series Cricket. Carlson took two Test wickets and", "id": "11409623" }, { "contents": "1962 in Norwegian football\n\n\nResults from Norwegian football in 1962. July 30 August 2 August 3 August 9 August 8 August 13 August 16 August 20 August 21 September 2 September 3 Ørn - Brann 0 - 7 September 24 September 28 October 1 October 15 April 25 October 6 October 8 April 29 May 6 May 12 May 13 May 14 May 20 May 21 May 23 May 24 May 27 May 30 May 31 June 3 June 15 June 16 June 17 June 24 June 25 June 30 July 1 July 29 August 1 August 2 August 4 August 5 August", "id": "9107175" }, { "contents": "Alan Igglesden\n\n\nAlan Paul Igglesden (born 8 October 1964) is a former English Test cricketer. He played three Test Matches and four One Day Internationals (ODIs) for the England cricket team between 1989 and 1994 as a fast bowler. He played most of his first-class cricket career for Kent County Cricket Club. Igglesden was born in Farnborough, London in 1964. He first played for Kent County Cricket Club's Second XI in 1983 before making his first-class cricket debut of the county in July 1986 against Somerset at Maidstone", "id": "8795795" }, { "contents": "Sri Lankan cricket team in England and Ireland in 2016\n\n\nThe Sri Lanka national cricket team toured England from 8 May to 5 July 2016 for a three-match Test series, a five-match One Day International (ODI) series and a one-off Twenty20 International (T20I) against the England cricket team. England won the Test series 2–0, the ODI series 3–0 and won the one-off T20I match by 8 wickets. They also played two first-class matches against Essex and Leicestershire prior to the Test series, and two ODI matches against Ireland prior to the", "id": "15635062" }, { "contents": "South African cricket team in England in 2008\n\n\nThe South African cricket team toured England between 29 June and 4 September 2008. They played four Test matches, one Twenty20 International and five One Day Internationals against England. They also played six tour matches against Somerset, Middlesex, Bangladesh A, a PCA Masters XI and two against the England Lions. It was announced that following the conclusion of this four-match series, future matches between England and South Africa would comprise five Test matches but only three one-day matches after the series was granted 'icon' status.", "id": "18079110" }, { "contents": "2018 English cricket season\n\n\nthe first time in an ODI. The South African women's team also toured England to play three One Day International matches against the England women's cricket team in June and to compete in the 2018 England women's Tri-Nation Series Twenty20 competition against England and New Zealand. New Zealand then played three One Day Internationals against England in July. In addition the West Indies men's side played a single Twenty20 International against a Rest of the World XI team at Lord's in May 2018 to raise funds for stadiums damaged by", "id": "6929602" }, { "contents": "American Rally Association\n\n\nWood Rally March 15 - 16 Olympus Rally April 27 - 28 Oregon Trail Rally May 31 - June 2 Idaho Rally International June 22 - 23 New England Forest Rally July 19 - 20 Muscatell Ojibwe Forests Rally August 23 - 24 Susquehannock Trail Performance Rally September 13 - 14 Lake Superior Performance Rally October 18 - 19 2019 ARA Super Regional Events Southern Ohio Forest Rally May 16 - 18 Rally Colorado July 26 - 27 Tour de Forest Rally September 21, 2019 Empire State Performance Rally October 25 - 26 2019 ARA One-Day Regional", "id": "6404348" }, { "contents": "Pakistani cricket team in England and Ireland in 2016\n\n\nThe Pakistan national cricket team toured England and Ireland from 3 July to 7 September 2016 for a four-match Test series, a five-match One Day International (ODI) series and a one-off Twenty20 International (T20I) against the England cricket team. They also played two three-day matches against Somerset and Sussex prior to the Test series, a two-day match against Worcestershire during the Test series, and two ODI matches against Ireland prior to the ODI series. England's ODI matches against Pakistan was", "id": "15635130" }, { "contents": "Second Test, 1948 Ashes series\n\n\nThe Second Test of the 1948 Ashes series was one of five Tests in a cricket series between Australia and England. The match was played at Lord's in London from 24 to 29 June, with a rest day on 27 June. Australia won the match by 409 runs to take a 2–0 lead, meaning that England would need to win the remaining three matches to regain The Ashes. Australian captain Don Bradman won the toss and elected to bat. The tourists had won the First Test convincingly, and decided to field the", "id": "497516" }, { "contents": "MCC v Australians at Lord's, 27 May 1878\n\n\nin England, the team left Sydney on 29 March 1878 and sailed via Auckland and Honolulu to San Francisco, from where they travelled across America by train to New York City. They crossed the Atlantic, arriving in Liverpool on 13 May, and then went by train to Nottingham where they played their first match, starting on Monday, 20 May. This was a three-day match against Nottinghamshire at Trent Bridge and the Australians were well beaten by an innings and 14 runs, an inauspicious start which dampened much of the public", "id": "16383632" }, { "contents": "Australian women's cricket team in England in 2013\n\n\nThe Australian women's cricket team toured England in 2013. The visitors were defending the Women's Ashes. The only Test match of the tour took place on 11–14 August at Wormsley Park, and was drawn. Three One-Day Internationals (ODIs) were played: the first at Lord's on 20 August, and the other two at Hove on 23 and 25 August. Also three Twenty20 International (T20I) matches were played, on 27, 29 and 31 August, at Chelmsford, Southampton and Chester-le-", "id": "19064429" }, { "contents": "South African cricket team in England in 2017\n\n\nThe South African cricket team toured England and Wales between May and August 2017, playing three One Day Internationals (ODIs), three Twenty20 Internationals (T20Is) and four Test matches. The ODI matches were in preparation for the 2017 ICC Champions Trophy, which took place in England and Wales during June. Extra security was provided to South Africa for the ODI series following the Manchester bombing. England won the ODI series 2–1 and the T20 series 2–1. Ahead of the ODI series, South Africa played one-day warm-", "id": "1555384" }, { "contents": "1Malaysia Development Berhad scandal\n\n\n- 30 September onwards October 20 November 25 December 1 December 5 December 31 2016 January 26 January 29 February 1 February 3 February 7 February 19 February 29 March 23 March 31 April 2 April 5 April 7 April 9 April 12 April 13 April 19 April 28 May 24 May 31 July 11 1MDB agrees to resolve its dispute with International Petroleum Investment Company via the London Court of International Arbitration. July 21 August 9 October 11 December 2 2017 March 22 April 24 May 30 June 15 June 16 August 1 August 2 August 11 August", "id": "14280441" }, { "contents": "Timeline of events preceding World War II\n\n\nJune 30 September 14 May 19 September 18 September 19 January 7 January 28 February 27 March 1 April 10 May 30 August 30 November 21 December 3 January 1 January 30 February 27 February 28 March 4 March 20 March 23 March 24 March 27 April 1 April 26 May 2 May 15 May 31 June 21 July 14 August 25 September 12 October 19 November 24 January 26 February 12–16 March 20 June 30 July 20 July 25 August 2 August 8 September October 16 December 1 December 5 December 29 January 7 June 18 August 31 September", "id": "6767330" }, { "contents": "Timeline of the 2018 Pacific hurricane season\n\n\ntropical cyclone formations, strengthening, weakening, landfalls, extratropical transitions, and dissipations during the season. May 10 May 11 May 13 May 15 June 1 June 6 June 7 June 8 June 9 June 10 June 11 June 12 June 13 June 14 June 15 June 16 June 17 June 19 June 24 June 25 June 26 June 27 June 28 June 29 June 30 July 1 July 2 July 3 July 4 July 5 July 6 July 9 July 26 July 27 July 28 July 29 July 31 August 1 August 2 August 3 August", "id": "21166816" }, { "contents": "English cricket team in Australia in 2017–18\n\n\nThe England cricket team toured Australia between November 2017 and February 2018 to play five Tests and five One Day Internationals (ODIs). They also played in a three nation Twenty20 International (T20I) tournament, along with New Zealand, who co-hosted the tournament along with Australia. England additionally played two first-class matches, a two-day tour match and a one-day tour match against Cricket Australia XI, as well as a Twenty20 against the Prime Minister's XI. The Test matches made up the 2017–18", "id": "21532277" }, { "contents": "Timeline of events preceding World War II\n\n\nApril 16 August 13 October October 11 October 29 November 1 January 11 June July 24 August 31 September 27 October 29 November 8 January 21 February 1 March 16 April 1 April 6 June 10 August 16 August 18 May 12 July 18 December 1 January 3 January 31 April 4 April 24 September 8 December 25 April 12 May 20 June 7 November 12 December 14 May 3 May 28 June 4 August 2 August 27 October 1 February 9 February 11 March 4 March 28 April 3 June 7 July 24 August 31 October 29 April 22", "id": "6767329" }, { "contents": "W. G. Grace in the 1878 English cricket season\n\n\nNewcastle upon Tyne, Bolton and Birmingham to play odds games against local opposition. Grace took 21 wickets in the match against the 22 men of Melton Mowbray in a three-day match starting on Monday, 1 July. He scored 42 and 57 not out in his two innings, the match ending in a draw. Grace caught the evening train to be in London ready for the first Gentlemen v Players match at The Oval, starting on Thursday, 4 July. The next USEE match at Leeds Holbeck followed the second Gentlemen", "id": "15478205" }, { "contents": "List of accidents and incidents involving military aircraft (1950–1954)\n\n\n12 December 19 December 23 December 10 January 11 January 15 January 21 January 28 January 31 January 14 February 13 March 14 March 17 March 23 March 3 April 5 April 5 April 8 April 25 April 27 April 6 May 18 May 19 May 8 June 13 June 15 June 18 June 23 June 23 June 30 June 8 July 31 July Summer 13 August 18 August 21 August 22 August 26 August 27 August 16 September 29 September 15 October 11 November 13 November 19 November 27 November 3 December 7 December 21 December 12 January 15", "id": "21637229" }, { "contents": "Lord's\n\n\nbe switched off by 11 pm. The floodlights were first used successfully on 27 May 2009 during the Twenty20 Cup match between Middlesex and Kent. Lord's hosts Test matches, one-day internationals, some Middlesex home matches, MCC matches and (starting with a fixture between Middlesex and Surrey in July 2004) some of Middlesex's home Twenty20 games. Lord's typically hosts two Tests every summer plus two one-day internationals. Lord's also plays host to the finals of the National Village Cricket Competition, the MCC Universities", "id": "10760657" }, { "contents": "2011 in American music\n\n\nThe following is a list of notable events and releases that happened in 2011 in music in the United States. January 11 January 17 January 18 January 21 January 25 January 31 February 1 February 8 February 15 February 22 March 1 March 8 March 15 March 22 March 29 April 5 April 11 April 12 April 26 May 3 May 10 May 17 May 23 May 24 May 31 June 7 June 14 June 21 June 28 July 5 July 8 July 12 July 13 July 19 July 26 August 2 August 8 August 9 August 16 August", "id": "15423555" }, { "contents": "MCC v Australians at Lord's, 27 May 1878\n\n\nenthusiasm that their visit had generated. The Australians were next due to play Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) in a three-day match at Lord's, commencing on Monday, 27 May. In the meantime, Charles Bannerman and Billy Midwinter were invited to visit Dublin and play for the United South of England Eleven (USEE) against 15 past and present players of Dublin University. This was due to be played over three days, starting on Thursday, 23 May, at College Park. The USEE was captained by W. G.", "id": "16383633" }, { "contents": "West Indian cricket team in England in 1928\n\n\nreach three figures. As at Lord's and Old Trafford, the match was over before lunch on the third day. Including the three Tests, 30 first-class matches were played on the tour, plus six other games. The West Indians won just seven of these 36 matches (five of the first-class games) and lost 12. By the end of May, the touring side had won matches against Derbyshire and Cambridge University, plus a minor match against Northumberland, and had drawn all the other games.", "id": "12941340" }, { "contents": "Bob Willis\n\n\n26 August against Worcestershire's Seconds. Willis, 19 years of age, took one wicket for 48 runs in the first innings, and bowled four wicketless overs in the second. He was not called on to bat at all. Two days later, he faced Glamorgan and took three wickets. He played several further Second XI matches through May and June 1969, before his first-class debut on 6 August. Scotland was touring England that season and had already beaten Warwickshire. Willis took three wickets for 13 runs from 13", "id": "16238759" }, { "contents": "Rock in Rio\n\n\n5 July 6 May 21 / 82.000 May 22 / 45.000 May 27 / 85.000 May 29 / 95.000 May 30 / 38.000 June 4 / 51.000 June 5 / 85.000 June 6 / 90.000 June 11 / 30.000 June 14 / 48.000 Rock in Rio Lisboa V Rock in Rio Lisboa VII Rock in Rio Lisboa VIII June 24 sold out almost three months prior to the festival. \"Rock in Rio USA\" was the first North American edition of the festival, being held in Las Vegas on May 8, 9, 15 and 16", "id": "11140715" }, { "contents": "Indian cricket team in Sri Lanka in 2015\n\n\nThe Indian cricket team toured Sri Lanka from 6 August to 1 September 2015 to play a tour match and three Test matches. On 27 June, Sri Lankan batsman Kumar Sangakkara said he would retire from international cricket after the second Test of the series. The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) and Sri Lanka Cricket Board confirmed the schedule of India's tour to Sri Lanka in August to September 2015. The tour started with a three-day warm-up game against Sri Lanka Board President's XI,", "id": "22038367" }, { "contents": "Andy Cottam\n\n\nAndrew Colin Cottam (born 14 July 1973 in Northampton, England) was an English cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman and a left-arm slow bowler. He played in 2 Under-19 Tests in 1992 and 13 first-class matches between 1992 and 1996. His father is the cricketer and coach Bob Cottam. In 1990 Andy Cottam started playing for Somerset Second XI and Devon. In 1992 he was selected for Under-19's tour of Pakistan and played in the Third Test and 2 one-day matches against Pakistan", "id": "2981363" }, { "contents": "Lord's\n\n\n. The hundredth Lord's Test match was in 2000, England v West Indies. As of 25 August 2010 England have played 119 Test matches at Lord's, winning 45, losing 28 and drawing 46. Lord's often hosts two Test matches each summer, one match for each visiting team. In 2010, the ground hosted three Test matches: as well as England's matches against Bangladesh and Pakistan, a Test match between Australia and Pakistan was held there in July. Lord's was the venue of the 2000th test", "id": "10760663" }, { "contents": "Australian cricket team in Sri Lanka in 2016\n\n\nThe Australian cricket team toured Sri Lanka from 18 July to 9 September 2016 to play three Test matches, five One Day Internationals (ODIs), two Twenty20 Internationals (T20Is) matches and a first-class practice match. The Test series was played for Warne-Muralitharan Trophy, with Sri Lanka winning 3–0, their first ever series whitewash against Australia. As a result, Australia slipped from first to third in the ICC Test Championship; Sri Lanka, who had started the series ranked seventh, moved up to sixth.", "id": "14912886" }, { "contents": "South African cricket team in Australia in 2005–06\n\n\nThe South African cricket team toured Australia for cricket matches during the 2005–06 season. South Africa had already played two One Day International series during this season, beating New Zealand 4–0 at home before travelling to India and drawing the series there 2–2. The team had been playing 14 successive ODIs (tour matches excluded) before arriving in Australia, with their last Test match against West Indies in April and May 2005. South Africa played one first class warm-up match, one three-day warm-up match without first class", "id": "19860549" }, { "contents": "Peter Lever\n\n\n6/38, before his final Test ended on 5 August 1975 during another Ashes tour, Australia facing England at Lord's. Lever also played ten One Day Internationals, including the 1975 Cricket World Cup, taking 11 wickets but scoring only 17 runs. His ODI debut was also against Australia, at Melbourne on 5 January 1971, and his last match was at Headingley, Leeds, again against Australia, on 18 June 1975. This gives Lever the unusual distinction of having played both his debut, and last match, against Australia", "id": "17765992" }, { "contents": "Australian women's cricket team in England in 2009\n\n\nThe Australian women's cricket team toured England between 25 June and 13 July 2009, playing one Test match, five One Day Internationals and a Twenty20 International. Australia won the Twenty20 International, while England won the One Day International series 4–0. The Test match, which was for the Women's Ashes, was drawn; ensuring that England retained them. Prior to the series, both sides took part in the 2009 ICC Women's World Twenty20, which was also held in England in June. England won the tournament, in", "id": "13250607" }, { "contents": "List of accidents and incidents involving military aircraft (1950–1954)\n\n\nJanuary 31 January 7 February 18 March 21 April 24 April May 11 May 12 May 15 May 9 June 11 June 13 June 17 June 18 June 21 June 15 July 17 July 30 July 6 August 6 August 12 August 23 August 26 August 30 August 5 September 9 September 9 September 9 September 11 September 19 September 19 September 25 September 1 October 1 October 7 October 8 October 8 October 11 October 13 October 14 October 17 October 18 October 19 October 20 October 22 October 26 October 2 November 8 November 17 November 23 November", "id": "21637231" }, { "contents": "Follow-on\n\n\n, and gave England a slender lead of 129. The next day a fired-up Bob Willis took 8 for 43, and Australia slumped to 111 all out. Australia, who had won their 16 previous Test matches, including the first of the three-Test series between the two teams, had scored 445 in the first innings of the second Test and restricted India to 171; only V. V. S. Laxman (59) and Rahul Dravid reached 25 runs. The only other bright spot for India was the bowling of", "id": "1078812" }, { "contents": "West Indian cricket team in England in 2017\n\n\nThe West Indies cricket team toured England in August and September 2017 to play three Test matches competing for the Wisden Trophy, one Twenty20 International (T20I) and five One Day Internationals (ODIs). Ahead of the Test series, the West Indies played first-class warm-up matches against Derbyshire, Essex and Kent. They also played a two-day match against Leicestershire, as they did not get to the final of the 2017 NatWest t20 Blast. In October 2016 the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB)", "id": "1555387" }, { "contents": "England women's national rugby league team\n\n\nCup - WIN v France WIN v Russia | LOSS v Australia LOSS v New Zealand WIN v Pacific Islands 2009 International Tests - 25 July | France 8-28 England; France 0-36 England 2010 International Tests - 9 November | England 36-8 France 10 November | New Zealand 44-6 England 16 November | New Zealand 38-6 England 2011 International Tests - 2 July | France 6-36 England 6 July | France 4-42 England 2012 International Test - 15 June | England 48-0 France", "id": "9166568" }, { "contents": "International cricket\n\n\n, One-Day and Twenty20 matches take place in the form of \"tours\". In a tour, one nation travels to another and plays warm-up matches, which may be first-class matches, against domestic teams such as county or state teams, a series of Test matches against the host nation, and either a series of One-Day (ODi) and T20 matches against the host nation or a tournament involving the host nation and another touring nation. Tours may include Test, ODI and T20I matches", "id": "6028418" }, { "contents": "West Indian cricket team in England in 2000\n\n\nThe West Indies cricket team toured England in the 2000 cricket season. West Indies played five Tests against England - two in June and three in August - with a triangular One Day International (ODI) series involving Zimbabwe in July. In June, West Indies won the 1st Test at Edgbaston convincingly, before England narrowly won the 2nd Test at Lord's, having bowled West Indies out for 54 in their second innings. The ODI series, sponsored by NatWest, took place in July, with England, West Indies and Zimbabwe", "id": "12941417" }, { "contents": "First Test, 1948 Ashes series\n\n\nThe First Test of the 1948 Ashes series was one of five Tests in a cricket series between Australia and England. The match was played at Trent Bridge in Nottingham from 10 to 15 June with a rest day on 13 June. Australia won the match by eight wickets to take a 1–0 series lead. The Australians started the match as firm favourites, having won the previous series against England 3–0; in the lead-up to the 1948 series, they had won 10 of their 12 tour matches in England, mostly by", "id": "497621" }, { "contents": "Giles Baring\n\n\nAfricans on 22 May 1935, for Hampshire in Hampshire v Australians on 25 May 1938, and for H. D. G. Leveson Gowers XI v Australian Services on 7 July 1945. He played for Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) between 1935 and 1946, and his last first-class game was in the MCC v Cambridge University match on 29 June 1946. Baring was a right-arm fast bowler and also a right-hand batsman. As a bowler, he took 197 wickets for 5,607 runs, an average of 28.46.", "id": "9091808" }, { "contents": "Herbert Sutcliffe's cricket career (1919–27)\n\n\nWaddington in 1925. Arthur Mitchell was still a reserve and Cyril Turner made his first-class debut. The first four Tests of the 1926 England v Australia series were scheduled for just three days and were all curtailed by poor weather. The final Test at The Oval was timeless to ensure a finish. It has become one of the most famous matches in cricket history, not because England regained The Ashes for the first time since 1912 but for the manner it which it was achieved as Hobbs and Sutcliffe produced their most famous", "id": "18930780" }, { "contents": "Günther Lützow\n\n\nfighter destroyed. Two days later, he destroyed three aircraft, two SB-2 bombers and a Petlyakov Pe-2 ground attack aircraft. On 27 June, he shot down an Ilyushin DB-3 bomber followed by another Pe-2 on the following day, his last victory of June 1941. Following a DB-3 bomber claimed on 7 July, Lützow was credited with four aerial victories on 10 July, consisting of one Vultee V-11 attack aircraft and three I-153s. The next day he claimed an II-16. On 15 July he shot down two further I-16s and another", "id": "3340503" }, { "contents": "1966 in Norwegian football\n\n\nResults from Norwegian football in 1966. April 22 April 24 April 27 May 19 April 30 May 1 May 6 May 7 May 8 May 15 May 19 May 22 May 23 May 27 May 28 May 30 May 31 June 3 June 4 June 5 June 15 June 16 June 19 June 20 July 31 August 3 August 6 August 7 August 8 August 24 August 17 August 27 August 28 September 11 September 22 September 23 September 24 October 9 October 15 October 16 October 17 October 23 July 31 August 1 August 2 August 3 Rematch", "id": "21974049" }, { "contents": "Headingley Cricket Ground\n\n\nwickets each. Donald Bradman's innings of 334 in the 1930 Ashes Test included 309 runs on the first day, and he followed it in the Australians' next test at Headingley in 1934 with an innings of 304. Spinner Hedley Verity took 10 wickets for 10 runs in 1932 for Yorkshire v Nottinghamshire, still the best bowling analysis ever in first-class cricket. Verity had also taken all ten against Warwickshire at Headingley in 1931. In the 1948 Ashes series, Australia scored 404 for three on the last day to beat", "id": "11240346" }, { "contents": "List of international awards of Rohit Sharma\n\n\nRohit Sharma is an Indian international cricketer. He made his international cricket debut in June 2007. He has scored twenty-nine centuries in international cricket; three in Tests, twenty-two in One Day Internationals (ODI) and four in Twenty20 International (T20Is). As of July 2019, Sharma has played 27 Tests, 215 One Day Internationals and 94 Twenty20 Internationals. As of July 2019, Rohit won 19 Man of the Match awards and 4 Man of the Series awards in One Day Internationals; 1 Man of", "id": "21442897" }, { "contents": "Ollie Pope\n\n\nthe 2016 Royal London One-Day Cup against Yorkshire. He made his first-class debut on 28 March 2017 for Surrey against Oxford MCCU as part of the Marylebone Cricket Club University fixtures. Pope scored his maiden List A half-century on 7 May 2017 against Sussex. He made his Twenty20 debut for Surrey in the 2017 NatWest t20 Blast on 7 July 2017. In August 2018, he was added to England's squad for the second Test against India. He made his Test debut at Lord's for England against", "id": "11076451" }, { "contents": "Australian cricket team in the West Indies in 2015\n\n\nThe Australian cricket team toured the West Indies from 27 May to 15 June 2015. The tour consisted of one first-class warm-up match and two Test matches. On 8 April 2015, the West Indies Cricket Board brought forward the date of the two Test matches by two days \"due to a number of logistical challenges beyond [their] control\". Australia won the 2-match Test series 2–0 and therefore retained the Frank Worrell Trophy. Australia announced their squad on 31 March 2015. They included three uncapped players,", "id": "17936722" }, { "contents": "Zimbabwean cricket team in Sri Lanka in 2017\n\n\nThe Zimbabwe cricket team toured Sri Lanka in June and July 2017 to play one Test match and five One Day Internationals (ODIs). Originally, the schedule was for two Test matches and three ODIs. It was Zimbabwe's first tour to Sri Lanka since January 2002. All the matches were played as day games. Zimbabwe won the ODI series 3–2, their first ever series win against Sri Lanka. It was their first away series win since 2009 and the first away series win against a Test nation since defeating Bangladesh in", "id": "5384529" }, { "contents": "Ashwell Prince\n\n\nthe batting. Opening with debutant Imraan Khan, Prince scored 150, his 11th Test century. Prince signed a contract to play for Lancashire County Cricket Club the 2009 English season. He acted as cover for V. V. S. Laxman, the club's other overseas player, who was unavailable at times because he was playing in the Indian Premier League. Prince score his first century for Lancashire at the start of May during a match against Nottinghamshire. The knock came off 135 not out from 189 balls came on the final day of", "id": "12899038" }, { "contents": "Herbert Sutcliffe\n\n\nand 1926, Sutcliffe's skill was a primary factor in Yorkshire having the longest unbeaten run in county cricket: i.e., 70 matches without loss until early 1927. After three defeats in 1927, Yorkshire went a further 58 games without loss until 1929. The first four Tests of the 1926 England v Australia series were scheduled for just three days and were all curtailed by poor weather. The final Test at the Oval was timeless to ensure a finish. It has become one of the most famous matches in cricket history, not", "id": "18571331" }, { "contents": "Indian cricket team in England in 2011\n\n\nThe Indian cricket team toured England from 21 July to 16 September 2011. The tour consisted of one Twenty20 International (T20I), five One Day Internationals (ODIs) and four Test matches, as well as a number of matches against English county sides. The opening Test at Lord's was the 2,000th Test. England's victory in the Third Test put them number one in the world rankings. Virat Kohli, Pragyan Ojha and RP Singh replaced the injured Yuvraj Singh, Harbhajan Singh and Zaheer Khan, respectively, for the", "id": "4970296" }, { "contents": "Cricket in the British Isles\n\n\nIt played its first test match against Australia in 1877 and played its first One Day International (ODI) also againist Australia in 1971. One of the main cricket grounds in England, and also widely regarded as the spiritual home of cricket, is Lords Cricket Ground in London. Other major cricket grounds include The Oval (also in London), Edgbaston in Birmingham, Old Trafford in Manchester and Trent Bridge in Nottingham. From 1909 until 2017 England was the only country within the British Isles to have full membership of the ICC", "id": "17756246" }, { "contents": "Eton v Harrow\n\n\nplayed for Harrow in the four matches in 1822 to 1825, and arranged the first University Match at Lord's in 1827, two years before the first Boat Race. Many Eton and Harrow players went on to win blues at Oxford and Cambridge. Eton v Harrow was joined by the University Match and Gentlemen v Players as the three key features in the England cricket season. In its heyday, in the late 19th century and early 20th century, \"the School's day\" was one of the highlights of the London \"", "id": "10600897" }, { "contents": "Mathew Dimond\n\n\nMathew Dimond (born 24 September 1975) is a former English cricketer who made played for Somerset County Cricket Club between 1994 and 1997. Early in his career, he toured the West Indies with the England Under-19 cricket team, playing three Tests and one One Day International at Under-19 level. A right-arm fast-medium bowler, he made his first-class debut for Somerset in June 1994. Playing in the County Championship against Hampshire, Dimond claimed a solitary wicket in the match, which was shortened to single innings", "id": "558840" }, { "contents": "Charlie Charters\n\n\n’ Although the 2004 Islanders lost each of the three Test matches they played (29-14 v Wallabies, 41-26 v All Blacks and 24-38 v Springboks in Gosford, Australia), they scored 10 tries in three matches. By comparison that same southern hemisphere season, England and Scotland scored only three tries between them in their five Tests against the All Blacks and Wallabies. In fact, the 2004 Islanders scored more tries in one Test against the All Blacks (four) than the three tries the 2005", "id": "16741154" }, { "contents": "Australian cricket team in South Africa in 1993–94\n\n\nmatch by one run, levelling the ODI series at 4–4 with an \"improbable victory\". As well as the internationals, three first-class matches and two other matches were played during the tour The tour began with a friendly one-day match against NF Oppenheimer's XI, followed by a first-class match against Northern Transvaal and a one-day match against a representative side. Before the first Test match Australia played a first-class match against Orange Free State and between the first and second Tests they played", "id": "5209672" }, { "contents": "Bangladeshi cricket team in Zimbabwe in 2011\n\n\nThe Bangladesh cricket team toured Zimbabwe from 4 to 21 August 2011. The tour consisted of one Test match and five One Day Internationals (ODIs) played against the Zimbabwean national team and one first-class match played against a Zimbabwean representative team. The Test match was Zimbabwe's first since India toured Zimbabwe in 2005. Zimbabwe won the Test match by 130 runs and also won the one-day series 3–2. Bangladesh announced its squad for the Test match and ODI series on 15 July 2011. Zimbabwe announced its squad for", "id": "19159411" }, { "contents": "V. V. S. Laxman\n\n\nfrom international cricket. Although he was selected for the upcoming New Zealand series, he opted not to play in the series but he will play in domestic cricket for Hyderabad and the Indian Premier League . It was announced that the northern stand at the Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium will now be named after him. Laxman was particularly prolific against Australia, in both Tests and One Day Internationals. Six out of his 17 Test hundreds, and four out of his six ODI hundreds came against Australia. He has two double-centuries", "id": "9815623" }, { "contents": "3rd Battalion, 319th Field Artillery Regiment\n\n\nVII and another platoon to LZ Challenge from 3–5 July. Battery C located at FSB Rock near Bac Loc and conducted two 1-day raids on 11 & 13 June. Battery D located at LZ Lowboy, with 2 howitzers sent on Operation Red Thrust V in 5 days ending 2 May. On 12 July, Battery D displaced to support Battery A from FSB Hawkeye but returned to LZ Lowboy until 28 July, then occupied FSB Hunky. The battalion received three 105mm howitzers in May. In July, LTC John R. Martin replaced LTC Joseph", "id": "2060226" }, { "contents": "W. G. Grace in the 1878 English cricket season\n\n\nthis match attracted few spectators as it coincided with the Surrey v Australians match at The Oval, which drew very large crowds. \"Wisden Cricketers' Almanack\" commented that \"the Australians were attracting monster gatherings at The Oval on the days that this match was played, consequently very few visitors were at Lord's\". There were three North v South fixtures in June. The first two were played at Prince's Cricket Ground and Lord's with the South as the \"home\" team; the third took place at the", "id": "15478186" }, { "contents": "Third Test, 1948 Ashes series\n\n\nThe Third Test of the 1948 Ashes series was one of five Tests in a cricket series between teams representing Australia and England. The match was played at Old Trafford in Manchester from 8–13 July, with a rest day on 11 July. The match was drawn after the whole of the fourth day and the first half of the fifth day was washed out due to rain; England had the upper hand before the weather intervened. The draw maintained Australia's 2–0 lead in the series, which was established through victories in the first", "id": "497412" }, { "contents": "Giles Baring\n\n\n, Gresham's School, Holt, and Magdalene College, Cambridge. He represented Cambridge University in 1930 and 1931 and Hampshire between 1930 and 1939. Apart from more than fifty regular county championship games, he played in the Cambridge University v New Zealanders match of 3 June 1931, for the Gentlemen in the Gentlemen v Players matches of 2 September 1931 and 11 July 1934, for Hampshire in Hampshire v West Indians on 24 May 1933, for Hampshire in Hampshire v Australians on 23 May 1934, for Hampshire in Hampshire v South", "id": "9091807" }, { "contents": "2013–14 Bangladeshi cricket season\n\n\nand Mirpur. Both Test matches ended in draws, Bangladesh won all three One Day Internationals and New Zealand won the sole Twenty20 International. Sri Lanka toured Bangladesh in January and February 2014 playing two Test Matches, three One Day Internationals and two Twenty20 Internationals. Sri Lanka won every match, with the exception of the second Test match which ended in a draw. Initially it was planned that the NCL would be held in November and December 2013, the BCL in May and June 2014 and the BPL in December and January.", "id": "18068868" }, { "contents": "Darrell Hair\n\n\nby the ICC on 12 March 2008 and stood in the England v New Zealand tests at Old Trafford in May and Trent Bridge in June 2008. Hair umpired his first Test match in January 1992, between Australia and India in Adelaide. In 1994 the International Cricket Council (ICC) introduced a policy of appointing one umpire to each Test match from a non-participating country, and since 2002 both umpires have been appointed from non-participating nations. Since 2002 the majority of Hair’s Test matches have been played outside Australia", "id": "17469081" }, { "contents": "Timeline of events preceding World War II\n\n\n15 October 2 November 14 January February 6 March 7 March 25 May 5 June 3 July 17 August 1 October October 18 November 14 November 15 November 25 December 1 December 12 December 23 December 24 January 20 May 28 July 7 August 13 October 5 November 6 November 26 December 1 December 8 December 11 December 12 December 13 January 26 March 6 March 13 March 24 July 6–16 July 29 August September 27 September 30 October 5 November 7 November 9 January 25 January 27 March 14 March 15 March 16 March 20 March 21 March 23", "id": "6767331" }, { "contents": "South African cricket team in England in 1924\n\n\nThe South African cricket team toured England in the 1924 season to play a five-match Test series against England. England won the series 3-0 with 2 matches drawn. The tourists, with their ages on the first day of the first match of the tour on 3 May, were: George Parker (24) also played three first-class matches (including the first two Tests) and Aubrey Faulkner (42) played one match, the Third Test. The manager was George Allsop. South Africa's score", "id": "12941168" }, { "contents": "2018 English cricket season\n\n\ninternational sides toured England and Wales during the season: Pakistan, Australia and India. Pakistan also visited Ireland midway through the tour and played the Irish team's first Test match at Malahide near Dublin. In preparation for this match the Irish team played a first-class match against Somerset at Taunton in April. At the end of their tour Pakistan played two T20 matches in Scotland on 12 and 13 June. The England team played a One Day International (ODI) against Scotland in Edinburgh in June, losing to Scotland for", "id": "6929601" }, { "contents": "V. V. S. Laxman\n\n\n112 in the second test. This ensured his place on the tour of Australia which would be his third to that country. Laxman's good form continued in the 2007-08 Test series against Australia with him scoring 109 against Australia on the second day of the controversial Sydney Test to put India back into the contest. It was his 12th hundred in Test matches, and his 5th against Australia. It was also his third consecutive century at SCG, giving him an average well above 90 at the venue. He followed this", "id": "9815609" }, { "contents": "2019 Ashes series\n\n\nthree cricketers were named in Australia's squad for the 2019 Ashes. Meanwhile, England warmed up for the 2019 Ashes with a Test series earlier in the year against the West Indies and a one-off Test against Ireland in July. The tour of the West Indies comprised three matches and was won 2–1 by the West Indies. England also won the one-off Test against Ireland, by 143 runs. Ahead of the series, it was announced that Day 2 of the Lord’s Test would benefit the Ruth Strauss Foundation", "id": "18532603" }, { "contents": "V. V. S. Laxman\n\n\n1–1. He was awarded the Man of the Match for his match-winning innings of 96. His knock was voted as the best Test batting performance of the year by ESPNCricinfo. In three test matches, Laxman scored three consecutive fifties including two scores in eighties against the West Indies during India's tour of West Indies in June 2011. During India's Tour to England, Laxman scored just two half-centuries in eight innings as India went down 0–4 to England. This was India's first Test series loss since its", "id": "9815620" }, { "contents": "2014–15 Bangladeshi cricket season\n\n\nThe 2014–15 Bangladeshi cricket season featured tours of the country by Zimbabwe and Pakistan. Rangpur Division won the National Cricket League (NCL) championship title for the first time. Zimbabwe toured Bangladesh from 26 October to 1 December 2014, playing three Test matches and five One Day International matches. Bangladesh won the Test series 3–0 and the ODI series 5–0. Pakistan toured from 15 April to 10 May 2015, playing one Twenty20 International (T20I), three One Day Internationals (ODIs) and two Test matches. Pakistan won the Test", "id": "895026" }, { "contents": "Australia women's cricket team in England in 2019\n\n\nThe Australia women's cricket team toured England in June and July 2019 to play the England women's cricket team to contest the Women's Ashes. The tour consisted of three Women's One Day Internationals (WODIs), one Women's Test match and three Women's Twenty20 Internationals (WT20Is). A points-based system was used across all three formats of the tour. The Women's Ashes were held by Australia prior to the start of the series. Australia women won the WODI series 3–0, therefore taking a 6–0", "id": "15341273" }, { "contents": "Pakistani cricket team in England in 1962\n\n\nof three one-day games (not limited overs). The first two were drawn and the Pakistanis won the third one against Colonel Stevens' XI. These three matches were, in effect, warm-ups only and not first-class. The opening first-class fixture was against Worcestershire at New Road, starting on Wednesday, 2 May. The Pakistanis were given a foretaste of the Test series to come in that Tom Graveney scored a century for the home team (and was presented with his county cap immediately afterwards", "id": "12941094" }, { "contents": "New Zealand cricket team in Australia in 2015–16\n\n\nThe New Zealand cricket team toured Australia from 23 October to 1 December 2015 to play three Test matches and four tour matches. The third match of the series at the Adelaide Oval was the first ever day-night Test. Michael Hussey captained the Prime Minister's XI side for the tour match, and in preparation for the day-night Test, a pink ball was used in this game. Australia won the series 2–0, with victories in Brisbane and Adelaide, with the second Test in Perth being drawn. Following the", "id": "1307472" }, { "contents": "Kennington\n\n\nThe Kia Oval\", is the home ground for Surrey County Cricket Club and hosts the final Test match of the English summer season. The Oval was the first ground in the United Kingdom to host Test cricket, was the location for the England v Scotland representative matches, the first ever international football match, the first FA Cup final in 1872, and held the second ever rugby union international match between England and Scotland in 1872. England's unfortunate performance against Australia here in 1882 gave rise to The Ashes. The Oval", "id": "10346916" }, { "contents": "Indian cricket team in Zimbabwe in 2001\n\n\nThe Indian cricket team toured Zimbabwe from 28 May to 7 July 2001 and played two Test matches against Zimbabwe, with each team winning one game match. This would be Zimbabwe's only Test victory over a side other than Bangladesh until they beat Pakistan in the second Test in 2013. India and Zimbabwe also participated in a triangular One Day International (ODI) competition with West Indies, with the latter eventually winning the competition. The Coca-Cola Cup was a One Day International (ODI) tournament that followed the Test series", "id": "4099650" }, { "contents": "Andrew Balbirnie\n\n\nHe played three further One Day International's during the tournament. He made his Twenty20 International debut against Scotland on 19 June 2015, although no play was possible due to rain. He was part of the Ireland A team which toured Bangladesh in October 2017 to play one first-class match and five limited overs matches against the Bangladesh A team. In May 2018, he was named in a fourteen-man squad for Ireland's first ever Test match, which was played against Pakistan later the same month. He made his", "id": "2597279" }, { "contents": "Pakistani cricket team in Scotland in 2018\n\n\nThe Pakistan cricket team toured Scotland to play two Twenty20 International (T20I) matches at The Grange Club, Edinburgh, on 12 and 13 June 2018. Pakistan last toured Scotland in May 2013 to play two One Day Internationals. Both teams last met in a T20I fixture in the group stage of the 2007 ICC World Twenty20 tournament. This was the first time that Scotland had played a home T20I match against a full member side. The tour followed Pakistan's tour of England and their one Test series in Ireland. England also", "id": "373509" }, { "contents": "2017 June rugby union tests\n\n\n2 sides. Australia, the only southern hemisphere Tier 1 nation not to host a test series, staged three one-off test matches; Scotland, Italy and Fiji. The Fijian test was the first between the two sides in Australia since 2010, and was also the first Australia v Tier 2 nation match in Australia since Samoa visited in 2011. Fiji also played host to Italy and Scotland to become the second Tier 2 nation to play three back-back Tier 1 sides during an international window, after Samoa participated in", "id": "13232867" }, { "contents": "Timeline of the 2014 Pacific hurricane season\n\n\nJune 11 June 12 June 13 June 14 June 15 June 28 June 30 July 1 July 2 July 3 July 6 July 7 July 9 July 17 July 18 July 19 July 25 July 26 July 27 July 28 July 29 July 31 August 1 August 2 August 3 August 4 August 5 August 6 August 7 August 8 August 9 August 10 August 12 August 13 August 14 August 15 August 17 August 18 August 21 August 22 August 23 August 24 August 25 August 26 August 27 August 28 August 29 September 2 September 4 September 6", "id": "2400921" } ]

[ { "contents": "Sri Lankan cricket team in England in 2014\n\n\nThe Sri Lanka national cricket team toured England from 13 May to 24 June 2014 for a Twenty20 International (T20I), five One Day Internationals (ODIs) and two Test matches against the England cricket team. They also played three one-day and one four-day tour matches against English county sides, as well as preceding the entire tour with a two-match ODI series against Ireland. Sri Lanka won the Test series 1–0 (the first time they had won a Test series in England), the ODI series", "id": "21939883" }, { "contents": "New Zealand cricket team in England in 2015\n\n\nThe New Zealand national cricket team toured England from 8 May to 23 June 2015 for two Test matches, five One Day Internationals (ODIs) and a Twenty20 International (T20I) against the England cricket team. They also played two four-day tour matches and a one-day match against English county sides. England won the first Test at Lord's before New Zealand claimed victory in the second Test at Headingley to level the series. England then took an early lead in the ODI series after hitting more than 400 runs", "id": "943447" }, { "contents": "Australian cricket team in England and Ireland in 2015\n\n\nThe Australia national cricket team toured England from June to September 2015 for a five-match Test series, five One Day International (ODI) matches and one Twenty20 International (T20I). The Test series was for the Ashes. They also played two four-day and two three-day first-class matches against English county sides. Australia also played one ODI against Ireland in Belfast. On 31 March 2015, Australia announced a 17-man touring party for the Ashes series. England announced their squad for the first Test on", "id": "1657670" }, { "contents": "David Constant\n\n\n67 first-class appearances. In total he scored 1,517 first-class runs at a batting average of 19.20 with a highest score of 80. Tony Lewis described his innings against Glamorgan on a difficult pitch at Leicester in 1965 as \"one of the bravest innings I ever saw\". His first Test as umpire was the Third Test between England and Pakistan in July 1971. He last stood in an international cricket match in the England v. Australia One Day International at The Oval, London in June 2001. He was the", "id": "14539375" }, { "contents": "Pakistani cricket team in Sri Lanka in 2015\n\n\nThe Pakistan cricket team toured Sri Lanka from 11 June to 1 August 2015. The tour consisted of a three-day tour match against a SLCB President's XI, three Test matches, five One Day International and two Twenty20 International matches. The third Test was originally scheduled to be played at the R Premadasa Stadium, but was changed to the Pallekele International Cricket Stadium in early May. Pakistan outplayed the hosts in all forms of the game by winning the Test series 2–1, the ODI series 3–2 and the T20I series 2–0.", "id": "15080177" }, { "contents": "2010 in American music\n\n\n17 March 22 March 23 March 26 March 30 April 6 April 8 April 13 April 19 April 20 April 21 April 27 April 30 May 4 May 11 May 14 May 17 May 18 May 21 May 25 May 31 June 1 June 8 June 14 June 15 June 18 June 21 June 22 June 28 June 29 July 6 July 7 July 12 July 13 July 15 July 20 July 23 July 25 July 27 July 29 August 3 August 17 August 24 August 31 September 7 September 14 September 21 September 23 September 28 October 5 October", "id": "18556206" }, { "contents": "Warwickshire County Cricket Club\n\n\nand gold and the shirt sponsor is Gullivers Sports Travel. The club's home is Edgbaston Cricket Ground in south Birmingham, which regularly hosts Test and One Day International matches. Cricket may have reached Warwickshire by the end of the 17th century. The \"Warwickshire & Staffordshire Journal\" was certainly aware of the sport in 1738 for it carried a report of a London v Mitcham game at the Artillery Ground on 11 August (London won by 1 wicket). The earliest confirmed reference to cricket in the county is a match announcement", "id": "8941185" }, { "contents": "Irish cricket team in England in 2019\n\n\nThe Ireland cricket team toured England in July 2019 to play a one-off four-day Test match at Lord's. It was the first Test match to be played between the two sides, and was England's first four-day Test match since they toured New Zealand in 1971. It was Ireland's third Test match, and their twelfth international fixture against England. The Test match was part of England's preparations for the 2019 Ashes series. Ahead of the Test, the England cricket team visited Ireland in May", "id": "16268672" }, { "contents": "1919 English cricket season\n\n\n(five wins from fourteen) and Warwickshire were bottom with 7.14% (one win from fourteen). The 1919 County Championship was the 26th since the competition acquired official status in 1890. The opening matches began on Friday, 16 May. These were Middlesex v Nottinghamshire at Lord's and the 1914 (reigning) champions Surrey against Somerset at The Oval. The final match between Essex and Surrey at Leyton was completed on Monday, 1 September. The situation between Yorkshire and Kent on Saturday, 30 August (the second day in", "id": "7320450" }, { "contents": "Timeline of the 2013 Pacific hurricane season\n\n\n15 May 16 May 17 May 28 May 29 May 30 June 1 June 23 June 24 June 25 June 26 June 27 June 29 June 30 July 2 July 3 July 4 July 5 July 6 July 7 July 9 July 25 July 27 July 30 July 31 August 2 August 3 August 4 August 6 August 7 August 8 August 9 August 11 August 16 August 18 August 19 August 20 August 22 August 23 August 24 August 25 August 28 August 29 August 30 August 31 September 1 September 2 September 5 September 6 September 7 September", "id": "957237" }, { "contents": "Prince's Cricket Ground\n\n\nas 'grand and quick and one of the finest playing grounds in England'. The first match played on the ground was Household Brigade v. Lords and Commons on 3 June 1871. Middlesex County Cricket Club used the ground between 1872 and 1876 and played their first match on 23–25 May 1872 against Yorkshire. The ground was also used by South of England and by Gentlemen of the South. Several Gentlemen v Players fixtures were also played there, the first taking place in July 1873. In 1878, the touring Australians played two", "id": "19086180" }, { "contents": "Callum Jackson\n\n\nSussex youth ranks, playing at under-13, under-14, under-15 and under-17 level before joining the second XI as a 16-year-old in 2011. He was selected to represent an English Schools Cricket Association XI in 2011 before making his first appearance for the Sussex first XI on 1 May 2012 in a non-first-class match against the Leeds/Bradford MCC Universities team. In early 2013, Jackson was selected for the England under-19 side to tour South Africa, where he played in both Youth Test matches and three One Day", "id": "16290826" }, { "contents": "2018 English cricket season\n\n\nHurricane Irma and Hurricane Maria in September 2017. Pakistan played two Test matches against England at Lord's and Headingley at the end of May and beginning of June. The series was drawn, each side winning one match. Ahead of the Tests, two first-class matches were played against Kent and Northants. Their match against Ireland took place after the two first-class county matches, and a two-day match was played against Leicestershire between this and the first Test against England. Pakistan won the first Test match by", "id": "6929603" }, { "contents": "1963 in Norwegian football\n\n\nResults from Norwegian football in 1963. April 26 April 28 May 3 May 4 May 5 May 11 May 12 May 30 May 19 May 22 May 23 May 26 May 27 June 7 June 8 June 9 June 14 June 15 June 16 June 22 June 23 June 24 July 26 July 28 July 29 August 2 August 4 August 6 August 17 August 18 August 21 August 22 August 24 August 25 September 7 September 8 September 20 September 22 October 4 October 6 October 13 Årstad promoted Nidelv promoted Harstad - Bodø/Glimt 4 -", "id": "20433032" }, { "contents": "West Indian cricket team in England in 1991\n\n\nThe West Indian cricket team in England in 1991 played three one day internationals and five Tests, under the captaincy of Viv Richards, as part of an extensive tour in which they also played first-class matches against 11 first-class county teams, the combined Minor Counties, the Combined Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, and a World XI to finish, plus 55-over one-day matches against one more first-class county (Gloucestershire) and the Duchess of Norfolk's Invitation XI. Of the non-international matches,", "id": "5157419" }, { "contents": "West Indian cricket team in England in 2007\n\n\nThe West Indian cricket team toured England from 12 May to 7 July 2007 as part of the 2007 English cricket season. The tour included four Tests, two Twenty20 international matches and three One Day Internationals. While England dominated the Test series 3–0, including a record victory over the West Indies, the latter took the ODI series 2:1. In the ICC Test Championship, England are ranked second and West Indies are ranked eighth, though England's most recent series was a whitewash loss in the Ashes against Australia for the first time", "id": "12941423" }, { "contents": "Sri Lankan cricket team in the West Indies in 2018\n\n\nOn 19 May 2018, Cricket West Indies (CWI) announced that they may scrap one of the Test fixtures, replacing it with a couple of one-day matches. However, the day before the first Test, the International Cricket Council (ICC) confirmed that it would be a three-match Test series. Prior to the start of day three of the second Test, the Sri Lankan cricket team protested against umpires' decision on starting the third day's play with a new ball, replacing the old ball.", "id": "19622271" }, { "contents": "Timeline of the 2017 Pacific hurricane season\n\n\ncyclone formations, strengthening, weakening, landfalls, extratropical transitions, and dissipations during the season. May 9 May 10 May 11 May 12 May 15 May 31 June 1 June 2 June 11 June 12 June 13 June 24 June 25 June 26 June 27 June 28 July 1 July 7 July 8 July 9 July 10 July 11 July 12 July 13 July 14 July 15 July 16 July 17 July 18 July 19 July 20 July 21 July 22 July 23 July 24 July 25 July 26 July 27 July 28 July 31 August 1", "id": "7169450" }, { "contents": "Daniel Bell-Drummond\n\n\nmade his youth Test debut on 21 July 2010 at the County Ground, Northampton before scoring unbeaten 88 in the second youth Test later in the same month, aged only 16. He played in both under-19 Test matches and in four youth one-day international matches during England's return tour of Sri Lanka in January and February 2011. In July 2011 Bell-Drummond played in a one-day series against South Africa under-19s. He top-scored for England in three of the seven matches in the series and was the", "id": "6732560" }, { "contents": "1967 in Norwegian football\n\n\nResults from Norwegian football in 1967. April 27 April 28 April 30 May 4 May 6 May 7 May 10 May 11 May 15 May 16 May 18 May 19 May 20 May 21 May 22 June 22 May 25 May 28 June 4 June 10 June 11 June 12 June 13 June 18 June 19 July 30 July 31 August 2 August 6 August 7 August 9 August 10 August 20 August 16 August 20 August 21 September 7 September 10 September 16 September 17 October 6 October 8 October 9 October 12 October 15 October 20 October", "id": "2081596" }, { "contents": "Phil Carlson\n\n\nPhillip Henry Carlson (born 8 August 1951, Nundah, Queensland) is a former Australian cricketer who played in two Tests and four One Day Internationals (ODIs) in 1979. Carlson was an all-rounder who played for Queensland between 1969–70 and 1980–81. He played two Test matches for Australia v England in 1978–79 Ashes series and four One Day Internationals against the same opponents. He was called up by Australia when most of their regular first-choice players were playing in World Series Cricket. Carlson took two Test wickets and", "id": "11409623" }, { "contents": "1962 in Norwegian football\n\n\nResults from Norwegian football in 1962. July 30 August 2 August 3 August 9 August 8 August 13 August 16 August 20 August 21 September 2 September 3 Ørn - Brann 0 - 7 September 24 September 28 October 1 October 15 April 25 October 6 October 8 April 29 May 6 May 12 May 13 May 14 May 20 May 21 May 23 May 24 May 27 May 30 May 31 June 3 June 15 June 16 June 17 June 24 June 25 June 30 July 1 July 29 August 1 August 2 August 4 August 5 August", "id": "9107175" }, { "contents": "Alan Igglesden\n\n\nAlan Paul Igglesden (born 8 October 1964) is a former English Test cricketer. He played three Test Matches and four One Day Internationals (ODIs) for the England cricket team between 1989 and 1994 as a fast bowler. He played most of his first-class cricket career for Kent County Cricket Club. Igglesden was born in Farnborough, London in 1964. He first played for Kent County Cricket Club's Second XI in 1983 before making his first-class cricket debut of the county in July 1986 against Somerset at Maidstone", "id": "8795795" }, { "contents": "Sri Lankan cricket team in England and Ireland in 2016\n\n\nThe Sri Lanka national cricket team toured England from 8 May to 5 July 2016 for a three-match Test series, a five-match One Day International (ODI) series and a one-off Twenty20 International (T20I) against the England cricket team. England won the Test series 2–0, the ODI series 3–0 and won the one-off T20I match by 8 wickets. They also played two first-class matches against Essex and Leicestershire prior to the Test series, and two ODI matches against Ireland prior to the", "id": "15635062" }, { "contents": "South African cricket team in England in 2008\n\n\nThe South African cricket team toured England between 29 June and 4 September 2008. They played four Test matches, one Twenty20 International and five One Day Internationals against England. They also played six tour matches against Somerset, Middlesex, Bangladesh A, a PCA Masters XI and two against the England Lions. It was announced that following the conclusion of this four-match series, future matches between England and South Africa would comprise five Test matches but only three one-day matches after the series was granted 'icon' status.", "id": "18079110" }, { "contents": "2018 English cricket season\n\n\nthe first time in an ODI. The South African women's team also toured England to play three One Day International matches against the England women's cricket team in June and to compete in the 2018 England women's Tri-Nation Series Twenty20 competition against England and New Zealand. New Zealand then played three One Day Internationals against England in July. In addition the West Indies men's side played a single Twenty20 International against a Rest of the World XI team at Lord's in May 2018 to raise funds for stadiums damaged by", "id": "6929602" }, { "contents": "American Rally Association\n\n\nWood Rally March 15 - 16 Olympus Rally April 27 - 28 Oregon Trail Rally May 31 - June 2 Idaho Rally International June 22 - 23 New England Forest Rally July 19 - 20 Muscatell Ojibwe Forests Rally August 23 - 24 Susquehannock Trail Performance Rally September 13 - 14 Lake Superior Performance Rally October 18 - 19 2019 ARA Super Regional Events Southern Ohio Forest Rally May 16 - 18 Rally Colorado July 26 - 27 Tour de Forest Rally September 21, 2019 Empire State Performance Rally October 25 - 26 2019 ARA One-Day Regional", "id": "6404348" }, { "contents": "Pakistani cricket team in England and Ireland in 2016\n\n\nThe Pakistan national cricket team toured England and Ireland from 3 July to 7 September 2016 for a four-match Test series, a five-match One Day International (ODI) series and a one-off Twenty20 International (T20I) against the England cricket team. They also played two three-day matches against Somerset and Sussex prior to the Test series, a two-day match against Worcestershire during the Test series, and two ODI matches against Ireland prior to the ODI series. England's ODI matches against Pakistan was", "id": "15635130" }, { "contents": "Second Test, 1948 Ashes series\n\n\nThe Second Test of the 1948 Ashes series was one of five Tests in a cricket series between Australia and England. The match was played at Lord's in London from 24 to 29 June, with a rest day on 27 June. Australia won the match by 409 runs to take a 2–0 lead, meaning that England would need to win the remaining three matches to regain The Ashes. Australian captain Don Bradman won the toss and elected to bat. The tourists had won the First Test convincingly, and decided to field the", "id": "497516" }, { "contents": "MCC v Australians at Lord's, 27 May 1878\n\n\nin England, the team left Sydney on 29 March 1878 and sailed via Auckland and Honolulu to San Francisco, from where they travelled across America by train to New York City. They crossed the Atlantic, arriving in Liverpool on 13 May, and then went by train to Nottingham where they played their first match, starting on Monday, 20 May. This was a three-day match against Nottinghamshire at Trent Bridge and the Australians were well beaten by an innings and 14 runs, an inauspicious start which dampened much of the public", "id": "16383632" }, { "contents": "Australian women's cricket team in England in 2013\n\n\nThe Australian women's cricket team toured England in 2013. The visitors were defending the Women's Ashes. The only Test match of the tour took place on 11–14 August at Wormsley Park, and was drawn. Three One-Day Internationals (ODIs) were played: the first at Lord's on 20 August, and the other two at Hove on 23 and 25 August. Also three Twenty20 International (T20I) matches were played, on 27, 29 and 31 August, at Chelmsford, Southampton and Chester-le-", "id": "19064429" }, { "contents": "South African cricket team in England in 2017\n\n\nThe South African cricket team toured England and Wales between May and August 2017, playing three One Day Internationals (ODIs), three Twenty20 Internationals (T20Is) and four Test matches. The ODI matches were in preparation for the 2017 ICC Champions Trophy, which took place in England and Wales during June. Extra security was provided to South Africa for the ODI series following the Manchester bombing. England won the ODI series 2–1 and the T20 series 2–1. Ahead of the ODI series, South Africa played one-day warm-", "id": "1555384" }, { "contents": "1Malaysia Development Berhad scandal\n\n\n- 30 September onwards October 20 November 25 December 1 December 5 December 31 2016 January 26 January 29 February 1 February 3 February 7 February 19 February 29 March 23 March 31 April 2 April 5 April 7 April 9 April 12 April 13 April 19 April 28 May 24 May 31 July 11 1MDB agrees to resolve its dispute with International Petroleum Investment Company via the London Court of International Arbitration. July 21 August 9 October 11 December 2 2017 March 22 April 24 May 30 June 15 June 16 August 1 August 2 August 11 August", "id": "14280441" }, { "contents": "Timeline of events preceding World War II\n\n\nJune 30 September 14 May 19 September 18 September 19 January 7 January 28 February 27 March 1 April 10 May 30 August 30 November 21 December 3 January 1 January 30 February 27 February 28 March 4 March 20 March 23 March 24 March 27 April 1 April 26 May 2 May 15 May 31 June 21 July 14 August 25 September 12 October 19 November 24 January 26 February 12–16 March 20 June 30 July 20 July 25 August 2 August 8 September October 16 December 1 December 5 December 29 January 7 June 18 August 31 September", "id": "6767330" }, { "contents": "Timeline of the 2018 Pacific hurricane season\n\n\ntropical cyclone formations, strengthening, weakening, landfalls, extratropical transitions, and dissipations during the season. May 10 May 11 May 13 May 15 June 1 June 6 June 7 June 8 June 9 June 10 June 11 June 12 June 13 June 14 June 15 June 16 June 17 June 19 June 24 June 25 June 26 June 27 June 28 June 29 June 30 July 1 July 2 July 3 July 4 July 5 July 6 July 9 July 26 July 27 July 28 July 29 July 31 August 1 August 2 August 3 August", "id": "21166816" }, { "contents": "English cricket team in Australia in 2017–18\n\n\nThe England cricket team toured Australia between November 2017 and February 2018 to play five Tests and five One Day Internationals (ODIs). They also played in a three nation Twenty20 International (T20I) tournament, along with New Zealand, who co-hosted the tournament along with Australia. England additionally played two first-class matches, a two-day tour match and a one-day tour match against Cricket Australia XI, as well as a Twenty20 against the Prime Minister's XI. The Test matches made up the 2017–18", "id": "21532277" }, { "contents": "Timeline of events preceding World War II\n\n\nApril 16 August 13 October October 11 October 29 November 1 January 11 June July 24 August 31 September 27 October 29 November 8 January 21 February 1 March 16 April 1 April 6 June 10 August 16 August 18 May 12 July 18 December 1 January 3 January 31 April 4 April 24 September 8 December 25 April 12 May 20 June 7 November 12 December 14 May 3 May 28 June 4 August 2 August 27 October 1 February 9 February 11 March 4 March 28 April 3 June 7 July 24 August 31 October 29 April 22", "id": "6767329" }, { "contents": "W. G. Grace in the 1878 English cricket season\n\n\nNewcastle upon Tyne, Bolton and Birmingham to play odds games against local opposition. Grace took 21 wickets in the match against the 22 men of Melton Mowbray in a three-day match starting on Monday, 1 July. He scored 42 and 57 not out in his two innings, the match ending in a draw. Grace caught the evening train to be in London ready for the first Gentlemen v Players match at The Oval, starting on Thursday, 4 July. The next USEE match at Leeds Holbeck followed the second Gentlemen", "id": "15478205" }, { "contents": "List of accidents and incidents involving military aircraft (1950–1954)\n\n\n12 December 19 December 23 December 10 January 11 January 15 January 21 January 28 January 31 January 14 February 13 March 14 March 17 March 23 March 3 April 5 April 5 April 8 April 25 April 27 April 6 May 18 May 19 May 8 June 13 June 15 June 18 June 23 June 23 June 30 June 8 July 31 July Summer 13 August 18 August 21 August 22 August 26 August 27 August 16 September 29 September 15 October 11 November 13 November 19 November 27 November 3 December 7 December 21 December 12 January 15", "id": "21637229" }, { "contents": "Lord's\n\n\nbe switched off by 11 pm. The floodlights were first used successfully on 27 May 2009 during the Twenty20 Cup match between Middlesex and Kent. Lord's hosts Test matches, one-day internationals, some Middlesex home matches, MCC matches and (starting with a fixture between Middlesex and Surrey in July 2004) some of Middlesex's home Twenty20 games. Lord's typically hosts two Tests every summer plus two one-day internationals. Lord's also plays host to the finals of the National Village Cricket Competition, the MCC Universities", "id": "10760657" }, { "contents": "2011 in American music\n\n\nThe following is a list of notable events and releases that happened in 2011 in music in the United States. January 11 January 17 January 18 January 21 January 25 January 31 February 1 February 8 February 15 February 22 March 1 March 8 March 15 March 22 March 29 April 5 April 11 April 12 April 26 May 3 May 10 May 17 May 23 May 24 May 31 June 7 June 14 June 21 June 28 July 5 July 8 July 12 July 13 July 19 July 26 August 2 August 8 August 9 August 16 August", "id": "15423555" }, { "contents": "MCC v Australians at Lord's, 27 May 1878\n\n\nenthusiasm that their visit had generated. The Australians were next due to play Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) in a three-day match at Lord's, commencing on Monday, 27 May. In the meantime, Charles Bannerman and Billy Midwinter were invited to visit Dublin and play for the United South of England Eleven (USEE) against 15 past and present players of Dublin University. This was due to be played over three days, starting on Thursday, 23 May, at College Park. The USEE was captained by W. G.", "id": "16383633" }, { "contents": "West Indian cricket team in England in 1928\n\n\nreach three figures. As at Lord's and Old Trafford, the match was over before lunch on the third day. Including the three Tests, 30 first-class matches were played on the tour, plus six other games. The West Indians won just seven of these 36 matches (five of the first-class games) and lost 12. By the end of May, the touring side had won matches against Derbyshire and Cambridge University, plus a minor match against Northumberland, and had drawn all the other games.", "id": "12941340" }, { "contents": "Bob Willis\n\n\n26 August against Worcestershire's Seconds. Willis, 19 years of age, took one wicket for 48 runs in the first innings, and bowled four wicketless overs in the second. He was not called on to bat at all. Two days later, he faced Glamorgan and took three wickets. He played several further Second XI matches through May and June 1969, before his first-class debut on 6 August. Scotland was touring England that season and had already beaten Warwickshire. Willis took three wickets for 13 runs from 13", "id": "16238759" }, { "contents": "Rock in Rio\n\n\n5 July 6 May 21 / 82.000 May 22 / 45.000 May 27 / 85.000 May 29 / 95.000 May 30 / 38.000 June 4 / 51.000 June 5 / 85.000 June 6 / 90.000 June 11 / 30.000 June 14 / 48.000 Rock in Rio Lisboa V Rock in Rio Lisboa VII Rock in Rio Lisboa VIII June 24 sold out almost three months prior to the festival. \"Rock in Rio USA\" was the first North American edition of the festival, being held in Las Vegas on May 8, 9, 15 and 16", "id": "11140715" }, { "contents": "Indian cricket team in Sri Lanka in 2015\n\n\nThe Indian cricket team toured Sri Lanka from 6 August to 1 September 2015 to play a tour match and three Test matches. On 27 June, Sri Lankan batsman Kumar Sangakkara said he would retire from international cricket after the second Test of the series. The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) and Sri Lanka Cricket Board confirmed the schedule of India's tour to Sri Lanka in August to September 2015. The tour started with a three-day warm-up game against Sri Lanka Board President's XI,", "id": "22038367" }, { "contents": "Andy Cottam\n\n\nAndrew Colin Cottam (born 14 July 1973 in Northampton, England) was an English cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman and a left-arm slow bowler. He played in 2 Under-19 Tests in 1992 and 13 first-class matches between 1992 and 1996. His father is the cricketer and coach Bob Cottam. In 1990 Andy Cottam started playing for Somerset Second XI and Devon. In 1992 he was selected for Under-19's tour of Pakistan and played in the Third Test and 2 one-day matches against Pakistan", "id": "2981363" }, { "contents": "Lord's\n\n\n. The hundredth Lord's Test match was in 2000, England v West Indies. As of 25 August 2010 England have played 119 Test matches at Lord's, winning 45, losing 28 and drawing 46. Lord's often hosts two Test matches each summer, one match for each visiting team. In 2010, the ground hosted three Test matches: as well as England's matches against Bangladesh and Pakistan, a Test match between Australia and Pakistan was held there in July. Lord's was the venue of the 2000th test", "id": "10760663" }, { "contents": "Australian cricket team in Sri Lanka in 2016\n\n\nThe Australian cricket team toured Sri Lanka from 18 July to 9 September 2016 to play three Test matches, five One Day Internationals (ODIs), two Twenty20 Internationals (T20Is) matches and a first-class practice match. The Test series was played for Warne-Muralitharan Trophy, with Sri Lanka winning 3–0, their first ever series whitewash against Australia. As a result, Australia slipped from first to third in the ICC Test Championship; Sri Lanka, who had started the series ranked seventh, moved up to sixth.", "id": "14912886" }, { "contents": "South African cricket team in Australia in 2005–06\n\n\nThe South African cricket team toured Australia for cricket matches during the 2005–06 season. South Africa had already played two One Day International series during this season, beating New Zealand 4–0 at home before travelling to India and drawing the series there 2–2. The team had been playing 14 successive ODIs (tour matches excluded) before arriving in Australia, with their last Test match against West Indies in April and May 2005. South Africa played one first class warm-up match, one three-day warm-up match without first class", "id": "19860549" }, { "contents": "Peter Lever\n\n\n6/38, before his final Test ended on 5 August 1975 during another Ashes tour, Australia facing England at Lord's. Lever also played ten One Day Internationals, including the 1975 Cricket World Cup, taking 11 wickets but scoring only 17 runs. His ODI debut was also against Australia, at Melbourne on 5 January 1971, and his last match was at Headingley, Leeds, again against Australia, on 18 June 1975. This gives Lever the unusual distinction of having played both his debut, and last match, against Australia", "id": "17765992" }, { "contents": "Australian women's cricket team in England in 2009\n\n\nThe Australian women's cricket team toured England between 25 June and 13 July 2009, playing one Test match, five One Day Internationals and a Twenty20 International. Australia won the Twenty20 International, while England won the One Day International series 4–0. The Test match, which was for the Women's Ashes, was drawn; ensuring that England retained them. Prior to the series, both sides took part in the 2009 ICC Women's World Twenty20, which was also held in England in June. England won the tournament, in", "id": "13250607" }, { "contents": "List of accidents and incidents involving military aircraft (1950–1954)\n\n\nJanuary 31 January 7 February 18 March 21 April 24 April May 11 May 12 May 15 May 9 June 11 June 13 June 17 June 18 June 21 June 15 July 17 July 30 July 6 August 6 August 12 August 23 August 26 August 30 August 5 September 9 September 9 September 9 September 11 September 19 September 19 September 25 September 1 October 1 October 7 October 8 October 8 October 11 October 13 October 14 October 17 October 18 October 19 October 20 October 22 October 26 October 2 November 8 November 17 November 23 November", "id": "21637231" }, { "contents": "Follow-on\n\n\n, and gave England a slender lead of 129. The next day a fired-up Bob Willis took 8 for 43, and Australia slumped to 111 all out. Australia, who had won their 16 previous Test matches, including the first of the three-Test series between the two teams, had scored 445 in the first innings of the second Test and restricted India to 171; only V. V. S. Laxman (59) and Rahul Dravid reached 25 runs. The only other bright spot for India was the bowling of", "id": "1078812" }, { "contents": "West Indian cricket team in England in 2017\n\n\nThe West Indies cricket team toured England in August and September 2017 to play three Test matches competing for the Wisden Trophy, one Twenty20 International (T20I) and five One Day Internationals (ODIs). Ahead of the Test series, the West Indies played first-class warm-up matches against Derbyshire, Essex and Kent. They also played a two-day match against Leicestershire, as they did not get to the final of the 2017 NatWest t20 Blast. In October 2016 the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB)", "id": "1555387" }, { "contents": "England women's national rugby league team\n\n\nCup - WIN v France WIN v Russia | LOSS v Australia LOSS v New Zealand WIN v Pacific Islands 2009 International Tests - 25 July | France 8-28 England; France 0-36 England 2010 International Tests - 9 November | England 36-8 France 10 November | New Zealand 44-6 England 16 November | New Zealand 38-6 England 2011 International Tests - 2 July | France 6-36 England 6 July | France 4-42 England 2012 International Test - 15 June | England 48-0 France", "id": "9166568" }, { "contents": "International cricket\n\n\n, One-Day and Twenty20 matches take place in the form of \"tours\". In a tour, one nation travels to another and plays warm-up matches, which may be first-class matches, against domestic teams such as county or state teams, a series of Test matches against the host nation, and either a series of One-Day (ODi) and T20 matches against the host nation or a tournament involving the host nation and another touring nation. Tours may include Test, ODI and T20I matches", "id": "6028418" }, { "contents": "West Indian cricket team in England in 2000\n\n\nThe West Indies cricket team toured England in the 2000 cricket season. West Indies played five Tests against England - two in June and three in August - with a triangular One Day International (ODI) series involving Zimbabwe in July. In June, West Indies won the 1st Test at Edgbaston convincingly, before England narrowly won the 2nd Test at Lord's, having bowled West Indies out for 54 in their second innings. The ODI series, sponsored by NatWest, took place in July, with England, West Indies and Zimbabwe", "id": "12941417" }, { "contents": "First Test, 1948 Ashes series\n\n\nThe First Test of the 1948 Ashes series was one of five Tests in a cricket series between Australia and England. The match was played at Trent Bridge in Nottingham from 10 to 15 June with a rest day on 13 June. Australia won the match by eight wickets to take a 1–0 series lead. The Australians started the match as firm favourites, having won the previous series against England 3–0; in the lead-up to the 1948 series, they had won 10 of their 12 tour matches in England, mostly by", "id": "497621" }, { "contents": "Giles Baring\n\n\nAfricans on 22 May 1935, for Hampshire in Hampshire v Australians on 25 May 1938, and for H. D. G. Leveson Gowers XI v Australian Services on 7 July 1945. He played for Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) between 1935 and 1946, and his last first-class game was in the MCC v Cambridge University match on 29 June 1946. Baring was a right-arm fast bowler and also a right-hand batsman. As a bowler, he took 197 wickets for 5,607 runs, an average of 28.46.", "id": "9091808" }, { "contents": "Herbert Sutcliffe's cricket career (1919–27)\n\n\nWaddington in 1925. Arthur Mitchell was still a reserve and Cyril Turner made his first-class debut. The first four Tests of the 1926 England v Australia series were scheduled for just three days and were all curtailed by poor weather. The final Test at The Oval was timeless to ensure a finish. It has become one of the most famous matches in cricket history, not because England regained The Ashes for the first time since 1912 but for the manner it which it was achieved as Hobbs and Sutcliffe produced their most famous", "id": "18930780" }, { "contents": "Günther Lützow\n\n\nfighter destroyed. Two days later, he destroyed three aircraft, two SB-2 bombers and a Petlyakov Pe-2 ground attack aircraft. On 27 June, he shot down an Ilyushin DB-3 bomber followed by another Pe-2 on the following day, his last victory of June 1941. Following a DB-3 bomber claimed on 7 July, Lützow was credited with four aerial victories on 10 July, consisting of one Vultee V-11 attack aircraft and three I-153s. The next day he claimed an II-16. On 15 July he shot down two further I-16s and another", "id": "3340503" }, { "contents": "1966 in Norwegian football\n\n\nResults from Norwegian football in 1966. April 22 April 24 April 27 May 19 April 30 May 1 May 6 May 7 May 8 May 15 May 19 May 22 May 23 May 27 May 28 May 30 May 31 June 3 June 4 June 5 June 15 June 16 June 19 June 20 July 31 August 3 August 6 August 7 August 8 August 24 August 17 August 27 August 28 September 11 September 22 September 23 September 24 October 9 October 15 October 16 October 17 October 23 July 31 August 1 August 2 August 3 Rematch", "id": "21974049" }, { "contents": "Headingley Cricket Ground\n\n\nwickets each. Donald Bradman's innings of 334 in the 1930 Ashes Test included 309 runs on the first day, and he followed it in the Australians' next test at Headingley in 1934 with an innings of 304. Spinner Hedley Verity took 10 wickets for 10 runs in 1932 for Yorkshire v Nottinghamshire, still the best bowling analysis ever in first-class cricket. Verity had also taken all ten against Warwickshire at Headingley in 1931. In the 1948 Ashes series, Australia scored 404 for three on the last day to beat", "id": "11240346" }, { "contents": "List of international awards of Rohit Sharma\n\n\nRohit Sharma is an Indian international cricketer. He made his international cricket debut in June 2007. He has scored twenty-nine centuries in international cricket; three in Tests, twenty-two in One Day Internationals (ODI) and four in Twenty20 International (T20Is). As of July 2019, Sharma has played 27 Tests, 215 One Day Internationals and 94 Twenty20 Internationals. As of July 2019, Rohit won 19 Man of the Match awards and 4 Man of the Series awards in One Day Internationals; 1 Man of", "id": "21442897" }, { "contents": "Ollie Pope\n\n\nthe 2016 Royal London One-Day Cup against Yorkshire. He made his first-class debut on 28 March 2017 for Surrey against Oxford MCCU as part of the Marylebone Cricket Club University fixtures. Pope scored his maiden List A half-century on 7 May 2017 against Sussex. He made his Twenty20 debut for Surrey in the 2017 NatWest t20 Blast on 7 July 2017. In August 2018, he was added to England's squad for the second Test against India. He made his Test debut at Lord's for England against", "id": "11076451" }, { "contents": "Australian cricket team in the West Indies in 2015\n\n\nThe Australian cricket team toured the West Indies from 27 May to 15 June 2015. The tour consisted of one first-class warm-up match and two Test matches. On 8 April 2015, the West Indies Cricket Board brought forward the date of the two Test matches by two days \"due to a number of logistical challenges beyond [their] control\". Australia won the 2-match Test series 2–0 and therefore retained the Frank Worrell Trophy. Australia announced their squad on 31 March 2015. They included three uncapped players,", "id": "17936722" }, { "contents": "Zimbabwean cricket team in Sri Lanka in 2017\n\n\nThe Zimbabwe cricket team toured Sri Lanka in June and July 2017 to play one Test match and five One Day Internationals (ODIs). Originally, the schedule was for two Test matches and three ODIs. It was Zimbabwe's first tour to Sri Lanka since January 2002. All the matches were played as day games. Zimbabwe won the ODI series 3–2, their first ever series win against Sri Lanka. It was their first away series win since 2009 and the first away series win against a Test nation since defeating Bangladesh in", "id": "5384529" }, { "contents": "Ashwell Prince\n\n\nthe batting. Opening with debutant Imraan Khan, Prince scored 150, his 11th Test century. Prince signed a contract to play for Lancashire County Cricket Club the 2009 English season. He acted as cover for V. V. S. Laxman, the club's other overseas player, who was unavailable at times because he was playing in the Indian Premier League. Prince score his first century for Lancashire at the start of May during a match against Nottinghamshire. The knock came off 135 not out from 189 balls came on the final day of", "id": "12899038" }, { "contents": "Herbert Sutcliffe\n\n\nand 1926, Sutcliffe's skill was a primary factor in Yorkshire having the longest unbeaten run in county cricket: i.e., 70 matches without loss until early 1927. After three defeats in 1927, Yorkshire went a further 58 games without loss until 1929. The first four Tests of the 1926 England v Australia series were scheduled for just three days and were all curtailed by poor weather. The final Test at the Oval was timeless to ensure a finish. It has become one of the most famous matches in cricket history, not", "id": "18571331" }, { "contents": "Indian cricket team in England in 2011\n\n\nThe Indian cricket team toured England from 21 July to 16 September 2011. The tour consisted of one Twenty20 International (T20I), five One Day Internationals (ODIs) and four Test matches, as well as a number of matches against English county sides. The opening Test at Lord's was the 2,000th Test. England's victory in the Third Test put them number one in the world rankings. Virat Kohli, Pragyan Ojha and RP Singh replaced the injured Yuvraj Singh, Harbhajan Singh and Zaheer Khan, respectively, for the", "id": "4970296" }, { "contents": "Cricket in the British Isles\n\n\nIt played its first test match against Australia in 1877 and played its first One Day International (ODI) also againist Australia in 1971. One of the main cricket grounds in England, and also widely regarded as the spiritual home of cricket, is Lords Cricket Ground in London. Other major cricket grounds include The Oval (also in London), Edgbaston in Birmingham, Old Trafford in Manchester and Trent Bridge in Nottingham. From 1909 until 2017 England was the only country within the British Isles to have full membership of the ICC", "id": "17756246" }, { "contents": "Eton v Harrow\n\n\nplayed for Harrow in the four matches in 1822 to 1825, and arranged the first University Match at Lord's in 1827, two years before the first Boat Race. Many Eton and Harrow players went on to win blues at Oxford and Cambridge. Eton v Harrow was joined by the University Match and Gentlemen v Players as the three key features in the England cricket season. In its heyday, in the late 19th century and early 20th century, \"the School's day\" was one of the highlights of the London \"", "id": "10600897" }, { "contents": "Mathew Dimond\n\n\nMathew Dimond (born 24 September 1975) is a former English cricketer who made played for Somerset County Cricket Club between 1994 and 1997. Early in his career, he toured the West Indies with the England Under-19 cricket team, playing three Tests and one One Day International at Under-19 level. A right-arm fast-medium bowler, he made his first-class debut for Somerset in June 1994. Playing in the County Championship against Hampshire, Dimond claimed a solitary wicket in the match, which was shortened to single innings", "id": "558840" }, { "contents": "Charlie Charters\n\n\n’ Although the 2004 Islanders lost each of the three Test matches they played (29-14 v Wallabies, 41-26 v All Blacks and 24-38 v Springboks in Gosford, Australia), they scored 10 tries in three matches. By comparison that same southern hemisphere season, England and Scotland scored only three tries between them in their five Tests against the All Blacks and Wallabies. In fact, the 2004 Islanders scored more tries in one Test against the All Blacks (four) than the three tries the 2005", "id": "16741154" }, { "contents": "Australian cricket team in South Africa in 1993–94\n\n\nmatch by one run, levelling the ODI series at 4–4 with an \"improbable victory\". As well as the internationals, three first-class matches and two other matches were played during the tour The tour began with a friendly one-day match against NF Oppenheimer's XI, followed by a first-class match against Northern Transvaal and a one-day match against a representative side. Before the first Test match Australia played a first-class match against Orange Free State and between the first and second Tests they played", "id": "5209672" }, { "contents": "Bangladeshi cricket team in Zimbabwe in 2011\n\n\nThe Bangladesh cricket team toured Zimbabwe from 4 to 21 August 2011. The tour consisted of one Test match and five One Day Internationals (ODIs) played against the Zimbabwean national team and one first-class match played against a Zimbabwean representative team. The Test match was Zimbabwe's first since India toured Zimbabwe in 2005. Zimbabwe won the Test match by 130 runs and also won the one-day series 3–2. Bangladesh announced its squad for the Test match and ODI series on 15 July 2011. Zimbabwe announced its squad for", "id": "19159411" }, { "contents": "V. V. S. Laxman\n\n\nfrom international cricket. Although he was selected for the upcoming New Zealand series, he opted not to play in the series but he will play in domestic cricket for Hyderabad and the Indian Premier League . It was announced that the northern stand at the Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium will now be named after him. Laxman was particularly prolific against Australia, in both Tests and One Day Internationals. Six out of his 17 Test hundreds, and four out of his six ODI hundreds came against Australia. He has two double-centuries", "id": "9815623" }, { "contents": "3rd Battalion, 319th Field Artillery Regiment\n\n\nVII and another platoon to LZ Challenge from 3–5 July. Battery C located at FSB Rock near Bac Loc and conducted two 1-day raids on 11 & 13 June. Battery D located at LZ Lowboy, with 2 howitzers sent on Operation Red Thrust V in 5 days ending 2 May. On 12 July, Battery D displaced to support Battery A from FSB Hawkeye but returned to LZ Lowboy until 28 July, then occupied FSB Hunky. The battalion received three 105mm howitzers in May. In July, LTC John R. Martin replaced LTC Joseph", "id": "2060226" }, { "contents": "W. G. Grace in the 1878 English cricket season\n\n\nthis match attracted few spectators as it coincided with the Surrey v Australians match at The Oval, which drew very large crowds. \"Wisden Cricketers' Almanack\" commented that \"the Australians were attracting monster gatherings at The Oval on the days that this match was played, consequently very few visitors were at Lord's\". There were three North v South fixtures in June. The first two were played at Prince's Cricket Ground and Lord's with the South as the \"home\" team; the third took place at the", "id": "15478186" }, { "contents": "Third Test, 1948 Ashes series\n\n\nThe Third Test of the 1948 Ashes series was one of five Tests in a cricket series between teams representing Australia and England. The match was played at Old Trafford in Manchester from 8–13 July, with a rest day on 11 July. The match was drawn after the whole of the fourth day and the first half of the fifth day was washed out due to rain; England had the upper hand before the weather intervened. The draw maintained Australia's 2–0 lead in the series, which was established through victories in the first", "id": "497412" }, { "contents": "Giles Baring\n\n\n, Gresham's School, Holt, and Magdalene College, Cambridge. He represented Cambridge University in 1930 and 1931 and Hampshire between 1930 and 1939. Apart from more than fifty regular county championship games, he played in the Cambridge University v New Zealanders match of 3 June 1931, for the Gentlemen in the Gentlemen v Players matches of 2 September 1931 and 11 July 1934, for Hampshire in Hampshire v West Indians on 24 May 1933, for Hampshire in Hampshire v Australians on 23 May 1934, for Hampshire in Hampshire v South", "id": "9091807" }, { "contents": "2013–14 Bangladeshi cricket season\n\n\nand Mirpur. Both Test matches ended in draws, Bangladesh won all three One Day Internationals and New Zealand won the sole Twenty20 International. Sri Lanka toured Bangladesh in January and February 2014 playing two Test Matches, three One Day Internationals and two Twenty20 Internationals. Sri Lanka won every match, with the exception of the second Test match which ended in a draw. Initially it was planned that the NCL would be held in November and December 2013, the BCL in May and June 2014 and the BPL in December and January.", "id": "18068868" }, { "contents": "Darrell Hair\n\n\nby the ICC on 12 March 2008 and stood in the England v New Zealand tests at Old Trafford in May and Trent Bridge in June 2008. Hair umpired his first Test match in January 1992, between Australia and India in Adelaide. In 1994 the International Cricket Council (ICC) introduced a policy of appointing one umpire to each Test match from a non-participating country, and since 2002 both umpires have been appointed from non-participating nations. Since 2002 the majority of Hair’s Test matches have been played outside Australia", "id": "17469081" }, { "contents": "Timeline of events preceding World War II\n\n\n15 October 2 November 14 January February 6 March 7 March 25 May 5 June 3 July 17 August 1 October October 18 November 14 November 15 November 25 December 1 December 12 December 23 December 24 January 20 May 28 July 7 August 13 October 5 November 6 November 26 December 1 December 8 December 11 December 12 December 13 January 26 March 6 March 13 March 24 July 6–16 July 29 August September 27 September 30 October 5 November 7 November 9 January 25 January 27 March 14 March 15 March 16 March 20 March 21 March 23", "id": "6767331" }, { "contents": "South African cricket team in England in 1924\n\n\nThe South African cricket team toured England in the 1924 season to play a five-match Test series against England. England won the series 3-0 with 2 matches drawn. The tourists, with their ages on the first day of the first match of the tour on 3 May, were: George Parker (24) also played three first-class matches (including the first two Tests) and Aubrey Faulkner (42) played one match, the Third Test. The manager was George Allsop. South Africa's score", "id": "12941168" }, { "contents": "2018 English cricket season\n\n\ninternational sides toured England and Wales during the season: Pakistan, Australia and India. Pakistan also visited Ireland midway through the tour and played the Irish team's first Test match at Malahide near Dublin. In preparation for this match the Irish team played a first-class match against Somerset at Taunton in April. At the end of their tour Pakistan played two T20 matches in Scotland on 12 and 13 June. The England team played a One Day International (ODI) against Scotland in Edinburgh in June, losing to Scotland for", "id": "6929601" }, { "contents": "V. V. S. Laxman\n\n\n112 in the second test. This ensured his place on the tour of Australia which would be his third to that country. Laxman's good form continued in the 2007-08 Test series against Australia with him scoring 109 against Australia on the second day of the controversial Sydney Test to put India back into the contest. It was his 12th hundred in Test matches, and his 5th against Australia. It was also his third consecutive century at SCG, giving him an average well above 90 at the venue. He followed this", "id": "9815609" }, { "contents": "2019 Ashes series\n\n\nthree cricketers were named in Australia's squad for the 2019 Ashes. Meanwhile, England warmed up for the 2019 Ashes with a Test series earlier in the year against the West Indies and a one-off Test against Ireland in July. The tour of the West Indies comprised three matches and was won 2–1 by the West Indies. England also won the one-off Test against Ireland, by 143 runs. Ahead of the series, it was announced that Day 2 of the Lord’s Test would benefit the Ruth Strauss Foundation", "id": "18532603" }, { "contents": "V. V. S. Laxman\n\n\n1–1. He was awarded the Man of the Match for his match-winning innings of 96. His knock was voted as the best Test batting performance of the year by ESPNCricinfo. In three test matches, Laxman scored three consecutive fifties including two scores in eighties against the West Indies during India's tour of West Indies in June 2011. During India's Tour to England, Laxman scored just two half-centuries in eight innings as India went down 0–4 to England. This was India's first Test series loss since its", "id": "9815620" }, { "contents": "2014–15 Bangladeshi cricket season\n\n\nThe 2014–15 Bangladeshi cricket season featured tours of the country by Zimbabwe and Pakistan. Rangpur Division won the National Cricket League (NCL) championship title for the first time. Zimbabwe toured Bangladesh from 26 October to 1 December 2014, playing three Test matches and five One Day International matches. Bangladesh won the Test series 3–0 and the ODI series 5–0. Pakistan toured from 15 April to 10 May 2015, playing one Twenty20 International (T20I), three One Day Internationals (ODIs) and two Test matches. Pakistan won the Test", "id": "895026" }, { "contents": "Australia women's cricket team in England in 2019\n\n\nThe Australia women's cricket team toured England in June and July 2019 to play the England women's cricket team to contest the Women's Ashes. The tour consisted of three Women's One Day Internationals (WODIs), one Women's Test match and three Women's Twenty20 Internationals (WT20Is). A points-based system was used across all three formats of the tour. The Women's Ashes were held by Australia prior to the start of the series. Australia women won the WODI series 3–0, therefore taking a 6–0", "id": "15341273" }, { "contents": "Pakistani cricket team in England in 1962\n\n\nof three one-day games (not limited overs). The first two were drawn and the Pakistanis won the third one against Colonel Stevens' XI. These three matches were, in effect, warm-ups only and not first-class. The opening first-class fixture was against Worcestershire at New Road, starting on Wednesday, 2 May. The Pakistanis were given a foretaste of the Test series to come in that Tom Graveney scored a century for the home team (and was presented with his county cap immediately afterwards", "id": "12941094" }, { "contents": "New Zealand cricket team in Australia in 2015–16\n\n\nThe New Zealand cricket team toured Australia from 23 October to 1 December 2015 to play three Test matches and four tour matches. The third match of the series at the Adelaide Oval was the first ever day-night Test. Michael Hussey captained the Prime Minister's XI side for the tour match, and in preparation for the day-night Test, a pink ball was used in this game. Australia won the series 2–0, with victories in Brisbane and Adelaide, with the second Test in Perth being drawn. Following the", "id": "1307472" }, { "contents": "Kennington\n\n\nThe Kia Oval\", is the home ground for Surrey County Cricket Club and hosts the final Test match of the English summer season. The Oval was the first ground in the United Kingdom to host Test cricket, was the location for the England v Scotland representative matches, the first ever international football match, the first FA Cup final in 1872, and held the second ever rugby union international match between England and Scotland in 1872. England's unfortunate performance against Australia here in 1882 gave rise to The Ashes. The Oval", "id": "10346916" }, { "contents": "Indian cricket team in Zimbabwe in 2001\n\n\nThe Indian cricket team toured Zimbabwe from 28 May to 7 July 2001 and played two Test matches against Zimbabwe, with each team winning one game match. This would be Zimbabwe's only Test victory over a side other than Bangladesh until they beat Pakistan in the second Test in 2013. India and Zimbabwe also participated in a triangular One Day International (ODI) competition with West Indies, with the latter eventually winning the competition. The Coca-Cola Cup was a One Day International (ODI) tournament that followed the Test series", "id": "4099650" }, { "contents": "Andrew Balbirnie\n\n\nHe played three further One Day International's during the tournament. He made his Twenty20 International debut against Scotland on 19 June 2015, although no play was possible due to rain. He was part of the Ireland A team which toured Bangladesh in October 2017 to play one first-class match and five limited overs matches against the Bangladesh A team. In May 2018, he was named in a fourteen-man squad for Ireland's first ever Test match, which was played against Pakistan later the same month. He made his", "id": "2597279" }, { "contents": "Pakistani cricket team in Scotland in 2018\n\n\nThe Pakistan cricket team toured Scotland to play two Twenty20 International (T20I) matches at The Grange Club, Edinburgh, on 12 and 13 June 2018. Pakistan last toured Scotland in May 2013 to play two One Day Internationals. Both teams last met in a T20I fixture in the group stage of the 2007 ICC World Twenty20 tournament. This was the first time that Scotland had played a home T20I match against a full member side. The tour followed Pakistan's tour of England and their one Test series in Ireland. England also", "id": "373509" }, { "contents": "2017 June rugby union tests\n\n\n2 sides. Australia, the only southern hemisphere Tier 1 nation not to host a test series, staged three one-off test matches; Scotland, Italy and Fiji. The Fijian test was the first between the two sides in Australia since 2010, and was also the first Australia v Tier 2 nation match in Australia since Samoa visited in 2011. Fiji also played host to Italy and Scotland to become the second Tier 2 nation to play three back-back Tier 1 sides during an international window, after Samoa participated in", "id": "13232867" }, { "contents": "Timeline of the 2014 Pacific hurricane season\n\n\nJune 11 June 12 June 13 June 14 June 15 June 28 June 30 July 1 July 2 July 3 July 6 July 7 July 9 July 17 July 18 July 19 July 25 July 26 July 27 July 28 July 29 July 31 August 1 August 2 August 3 August 4 August 5 August 6 August 7 August 8 August 9 August 10 August 12 August 13 August 14 August 15 August 17 August 18 August 21 August 22 August 23 August 24 August 25 August 26 August 27 August 28 August 29 September 2 September 4 September 6", "id": "2400921" } ]

[ { "contents": "Sri Lankan cricket team in England in 2014\n\n\nThe Sri Lanka national cricket team toured England from 13 May to 24 June 2014 for a Twenty20 International (T20I), five One Day Internationals (ODIs) and two Test matches against the England cricket team. They also played three one-day and one four-day tour matches against English county sides, as well as preceding the entire tour with a two-match ODI series against Ireland. Sri Lanka won the Test series 1–0 (the first time they had won a Test series in England), the ODI series", "id": "21939883" }, { "contents": "New Zealand cricket team in England in 2015\n\n\nThe New Zealand national cricket team toured England from 8 May to 23 June 2015 for two Test matches, five One Day Internationals (ODIs) and a Twenty20 International (T20I) against the England cricket team. They also played two four-day tour matches and a one-day match against English county sides. England won the first Test at Lord's before New Zealand claimed victory in the second Test at Headingley to level the series. England then took an early lead in the ODI series after hitting more than 400 runs", "id": "943447" }, { "contents": "Australian cricket team in England and Ireland in 2015\n\n\nThe Australia national cricket team toured England from June to September 2015 for a five-match Test series, five One Day International (ODI) matches and one Twenty20 International (T20I). The Test series was for the Ashes. They also played two four-day and two three-day first-class matches against English county sides. Australia also played one ODI against Ireland in Belfast. On 31 March 2015, Australia announced a 17-man touring party for the Ashes series. England announced their squad for the first Test on", "id": "1657670" }, { "contents": "David Constant\n\n\n67 first-class appearances. In total he scored 1,517 first-class runs at a batting average of 19.20 with a highest score of 80. Tony Lewis described his innings against Glamorgan on a difficult pitch at Leicester in 1965 as \"one of the bravest innings I ever saw\". His first Test as umpire was the Third Test between England and Pakistan in July 1971. He last stood in an international cricket match in the England v. Australia One Day International at The Oval, London in June 2001. He was the", "id": "14539375" }, { "contents": "Pakistani cricket team in Sri Lanka in 2015\n\n\nThe Pakistan cricket team toured Sri Lanka from 11 June to 1 August 2015. The tour consisted of a three-day tour match against a SLCB President's XI, three Test matches, five One Day International and two Twenty20 International matches. The third Test was originally scheduled to be played at the R Premadasa Stadium, but was changed to the Pallekele International Cricket Stadium in early May. Pakistan outplayed the hosts in all forms of the game by winning the Test series 2–1, the ODI series 3–2 and the T20I series 2–0.", "id": "15080177" }, { "contents": "2010 in American music\n\n\n17 March 22 March 23 March 26 March 30 April 6 April 8 April 13 April 19 April 20 April 21 April 27 April 30 May 4 May 11 May 14 May 17 May 18 May 21 May 25 May 31 June 1 June 8 June 14 June 15 June 18 June 21 June 22 June 28 June 29 July 6 July 7 July 12 July 13 July 15 July 20 July 23 July 25 July 27 July 29 August 3 August 17 August 24 August 31 September 7 September 14 September 21 September 23 September 28 October 5 October", "id": "18556206" }, { "contents": "Warwickshire County Cricket Club\n\n\nand gold and the shirt sponsor is Gullivers Sports Travel. The club's home is Edgbaston Cricket Ground in south Birmingham, which regularly hosts Test and One Day International matches. Cricket may have reached Warwickshire by the end of the 17th century. The \"Warwickshire & Staffordshire Journal\" was certainly aware of the sport in 1738 for it carried a report of a London v Mitcham game at the Artillery Ground on 11 August (London won by 1 wicket). The earliest confirmed reference to cricket in the county is a match announcement", "id": "8941185" }, { "contents": "Irish cricket team in England in 2019\n\n\nThe Ireland cricket team toured England in July 2019 to play a one-off four-day Test match at Lord's. It was the first Test match to be played between the two sides, and was England's first four-day Test match since they toured New Zealand in 1971. It was Ireland's third Test match, and their twelfth international fixture against England. The Test match was part of England's preparations for the 2019 Ashes series. Ahead of the Test, the England cricket team visited Ireland in May", "id": "16268672" }, { "contents": "1919 English cricket season\n\n\n(five wins from fourteen) and Warwickshire were bottom with 7.14% (one win from fourteen). The 1919 County Championship was the 26th since the competition acquired official status in 1890. The opening matches began on Friday, 16 May. These were Middlesex v Nottinghamshire at Lord's and the 1914 (reigning) champions Surrey against Somerset at The Oval. The final match between Essex and Surrey at Leyton was completed on Monday, 1 September. The situation between Yorkshire and Kent on Saturday, 30 August (the second day in", "id": "7320450" }, { "contents": "Timeline of the 2013 Pacific hurricane season\n\n\n15 May 16 May 17 May 28 May 29 May 30 June 1 June 23 June 24 June 25 June 26 June 27 June 29 June 30 July 2 July 3 July 4 July 5 July 6 July 7 July 9 July 25 July 27 July 30 July 31 August 2 August 3 August 4 August 6 August 7 August 8 August 9 August 11 August 16 August 18 August 19 August 20 August 22 August 23 August 24 August 25 August 28 August 29 August 30 August 31 September 1 September 2 September 5 September 6 September 7 September", "id": "957237" }, { "contents": "Prince's Cricket Ground\n\n\nas 'grand and quick and one of the finest playing grounds in England'. The first match played on the ground was Household Brigade v. Lords and Commons on 3 June 1871. Middlesex County Cricket Club used the ground between 1872 and 1876 and played their first match on 23–25 May 1872 against Yorkshire. The ground was also used by South of England and by Gentlemen of the South. Several Gentlemen v Players fixtures were also played there, the first taking place in July 1873. In 1878, the touring Australians played two", "id": "19086180" }, { "contents": "Callum Jackson\n\n\nSussex youth ranks, playing at under-13, under-14, under-15 and under-17 level before joining the second XI as a 16-year-old in 2011. He was selected to represent an English Schools Cricket Association XI in 2011 before making his first appearance for the Sussex first XI on 1 May 2012 in a non-first-class match against the Leeds/Bradford MCC Universities team. In early 2013, Jackson was selected for the England under-19 side to tour South Africa, where he played in both Youth Test matches and three One Day", "id": "16290826" }, { "contents": "2018 English cricket season\n\n\nHurricane Irma and Hurricane Maria in September 2017. Pakistan played two Test matches against England at Lord's and Headingley at the end of May and beginning of June. The series was drawn, each side winning one match. Ahead of the Tests, two first-class matches were played against Kent and Northants. Their match against Ireland took place after the two first-class county matches, and a two-day match was played against Leicestershire between this and the first Test against England. Pakistan won the first Test match by", "id": "6929603" }, { "contents": "1963 in Norwegian football\n\n\nResults from Norwegian football in 1963. April 26 April 28 May 3 May 4 May 5 May 11 May 12 May 30 May 19 May 22 May 23 May 26 May 27 June 7 June 8 June 9 June 14 June 15 June 16 June 22 June 23 June 24 July 26 July 28 July 29 August 2 August 4 August 6 August 17 August 18 August 21 August 22 August 24 August 25 September 7 September 8 September 20 September 22 October 4 October 6 October 13 Årstad promoted Nidelv promoted Harstad - Bodø/Glimt 4 -", "id": "20433032" }, { "contents": "West Indian cricket team in England in 1991\n\n\nThe West Indian cricket team in England in 1991 played three one day internationals and five Tests, under the captaincy of Viv Richards, as part of an extensive tour in which they also played first-class matches against 11 first-class county teams, the combined Minor Counties, the Combined Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, and a World XI to finish, plus 55-over one-day matches against one more first-class county (Gloucestershire) and the Duchess of Norfolk's Invitation XI. Of the non-international matches,", "id": "5157419" }, { "contents": "West Indian cricket team in England in 2007\n\n\nThe West Indian cricket team toured England from 12 May to 7 July 2007 as part of the 2007 English cricket season. The tour included four Tests, two Twenty20 international matches and three One Day Internationals. While England dominated the Test series 3–0, including a record victory over the West Indies, the latter took the ODI series 2:1. In the ICC Test Championship, England are ranked second and West Indies are ranked eighth, though England's most recent series was a whitewash loss in the Ashes against Australia for the first time", "id": "12941423" }, { "contents": "Sri Lankan cricket team in the West Indies in 2018\n\n\nOn 19 May 2018, Cricket West Indies (CWI) announced that they may scrap one of the Test fixtures, replacing it with a couple of one-day matches. However, the day before the first Test, the International Cricket Council (ICC) confirmed that it would be a three-match Test series. Prior to the start of day three of the second Test, the Sri Lankan cricket team protested against umpires' decision on starting the third day's play with a new ball, replacing the old ball.", "id": "19622271" }, { "contents": "Timeline of the 2017 Pacific hurricane season\n\n\ncyclone formations, strengthening, weakening, landfalls, extratropical transitions, and dissipations during the season. May 9 May 10 May 11 May 12 May 15 May 31 June 1 June 2 June 11 June 12 June 13 June 24 June 25 June 26 June 27 June 28 July 1 July 7 July 8 July 9 July 10 July 11 July 12 July 13 July 14 July 15 July 16 July 17 July 18 July 19 July 20 July 21 July 22 July 23 July 24 July 25 July 26 July 27 July 28 July 31 August 1", "id": "7169450" }, { "contents": "Daniel Bell-Drummond\n\n\nmade his youth Test debut on 21 July 2010 at the County Ground, Northampton before scoring unbeaten 88 in the second youth Test later in the same month, aged only 16. He played in both under-19 Test matches and in four youth one-day international matches during England's return tour of Sri Lanka in January and February 2011. In July 2011 Bell-Drummond played in a one-day series against South Africa under-19s. He top-scored for England in three of the seven matches in the series and was the", "id": "6732560" }, { "contents": "1967 in Norwegian football\n\n\nResults from Norwegian football in 1967. April 27 April 28 April 30 May 4 May 6 May 7 May 10 May 11 May 15 May 16 May 18 May 19 May 20 May 21 May 22 June 22 May 25 May 28 June 4 June 10 June 11 June 12 June 13 June 18 June 19 July 30 July 31 August 2 August 6 August 7 August 9 August 10 August 20 August 16 August 20 August 21 September 7 September 10 September 16 September 17 October 6 October 8 October 9 October 12 October 15 October 20 October", "id": "2081596" }, { "contents": "Phil Carlson\n\n\nPhillip Henry Carlson (born 8 August 1951, Nundah, Queensland) is a former Australian cricketer who played in two Tests and four One Day Internationals (ODIs) in 1979. Carlson was an all-rounder who played for Queensland between 1969–70 and 1980–81. He played two Test matches for Australia v England in 1978–79 Ashes series and four One Day Internationals against the same opponents. He was called up by Australia when most of their regular first-choice players were playing in World Series Cricket. Carlson took two Test wickets and", "id": "11409623" }, { "contents": "1962 in Norwegian football\n\n\nResults from Norwegian football in 1962. July 30 August 2 August 3 August 9 August 8 August 13 August 16 August 20 August 21 September 2 September 3 Ørn - Brann 0 - 7 September 24 September 28 October 1 October 15 April 25 October 6 October 8 April 29 May 6 May 12 May 13 May 14 May 20 May 21 May 23 May 24 May 27 May 30 May 31 June 3 June 15 June 16 June 17 June 24 June 25 June 30 July 1 July 29 August 1 August 2 August 4 August 5 August", "id": "9107175" }, { "contents": "Alan Igglesden\n\n\nAlan Paul Igglesden (born 8 October 1964) is a former English Test cricketer. He played three Test Matches and four One Day Internationals (ODIs) for the England cricket team between 1989 and 1994 as a fast bowler. He played most of his first-class cricket career for Kent County Cricket Club. Igglesden was born in Farnborough, London in 1964. He first played for Kent County Cricket Club's Second XI in 1983 before making his first-class cricket debut of the county in July 1986 against Somerset at Maidstone", "id": "8795795" }, { "contents": "Sri Lankan cricket team in England and Ireland in 2016\n\n\nThe Sri Lanka national cricket team toured England from 8 May to 5 July 2016 for a three-match Test series, a five-match One Day International (ODI) series and a one-off Twenty20 International (T20I) against the England cricket team. England won the Test series 2–0, the ODI series 3–0 and won the one-off T20I match by 8 wickets. They also played two first-class matches against Essex and Leicestershire prior to the Test series, and two ODI matches against Ireland prior to the", "id": "15635062" }, { "contents": "South African cricket team in England in 2008\n\n\nThe South African cricket team toured England between 29 June and 4 September 2008. They played four Test matches, one Twenty20 International and five One Day Internationals against England. They also played six tour matches against Somerset, Middlesex, Bangladesh A, a PCA Masters XI and two against the England Lions. It was announced that following the conclusion of this four-match series, future matches between England and South Africa would comprise five Test matches but only three one-day matches after the series was granted 'icon' status.", "id": "18079110" }, { "contents": "2018 English cricket season\n\n\nthe first time in an ODI. The South African women's team also toured England to play three One Day International matches against the England women's cricket team in June and to compete in the 2018 England women's Tri-Nation Series Twenty20 competition against England and New Zealand. New Zealand then played three One Day Internationals against England in July. In addition the West Indies men's side played a single Twenty20 International against a Rest of the World XI team at Lord's in May 2018 to raise funds for stadiums damaged by", "id": "6929602" }, { "contents": "American Rally Association\n\n\nWood Rally March 15 - 16 Olympus Rally April 27 - 28 Oregon Trail Rally May 31 - June 2 Idaho Rally International June 22 - 23 New England Forest Rally July 19 - 20 Muscatell Ojibwe Forests Rally August 23 - 24 Susquehannock Trail Performance Rally September 13 - 14 Lake Superior Performance Rally October 18 - 19 2019 ARA Super Regional Events Southern Ohio Forest Rally May 16 - 18 Rally Colorado July 26 - 27 Tour de Forest Rally September 21, 2019 Empire State Performance Rally October 25 - 26 2019 ARA One-Day Regional", "id": "6404348" }, { "contents": "Pakistani cricket team in England and Ireland in 2016\n\n\nThe Pakistan national cricket team toured England and Ireland from 3 July to 7 September 2016 for a four-match Test series, a five-match One Day International (ODI) series and a one-off Twenty20 International (T20I) against the England cricket team. They also played two three-day matches against Somerset and Sussex prior to the Test series, a two-day match against Worcestershire during the Test series, and two ODI matches against Ireland prior to the ODI series. England's ODI matches against Pakistan was", "id": "15635130" }, { "contents": "Second Test, 1948 Ashes series\n\n\nThe Second Test of the 1948 Ashes series was one of five Tests in a cricket series between Australia and England. The match was played at Lord's in London from 24 to 29 June, with a rest day on 27 June. Australia won the match by 409 runs to take a 2–0 lead, meaning that England would need to win the remaining three matches to regain The Ashes. Australian captain Don Bradman won the toss and elected to bat. The tourists had won the First Test convincingly, and decided to field the", "id": "497516" }, { "contents": "MCC v Australians at Lord's, 27 May 1878\n\n\nin England, the team left Sydney on 29 March 1878 and sailed via Auckland and Honolulu to San Francisco, from where they travelled across America by train to New York City. They crossed the Atlantic, arriving in Liverpool on 13 May, and then went by train to Nottingham where they played their first match, starting on Monday, 20 May. This was a three-day match against Nottinghamshire at Trent Bridge and the Australians were well beaten by an innings and 14 runs, an inauspicious start which dampened much of the public", "id": "16383632" }, { "contents": "Australian women's cricket team in England in 2013\n\n\nThe Australian women's cricket team toured England in 2013. The visitors were defending the Women's Ashes. The only Test match of the tour took place on 11–14 August at Wormsley Park, and was drawn. Three One-Day Internationals (ODIs) were played: the first at Lord's on 20 August, and the other two at Hove on 23 and 25 August. Also three Twenty20 International (T20I) matches were played, on 27, 29 and 31 August, at Chelmsford, Southampton and Chester-le-", "id": "19064429" }, { "contents": "South African cricket team in England in 2017\n\n\nThe South African cricket team toured England and Wales between May and August 2017, playing three One Day Internationals (ODIs), three Twenty20 Internationals (T20Is) and four Test matches. The ODI matches were in preparation for the 2017 ICC Champions Trophy, which took place in England and Wales during June. Extra security was provided to South Africa for the ODI series following the Manchester bombing. England won the ODI series 2–1 and the T20 series 2–1. Ahead of the ODI series, South Africa played one-day warm-", "id": "1555384" }, { "contents": "1Malaysia Development Berhad scandal\n\n\n- 30 September onwards October 20 November 25 December 1 December 5 December 31 2016 January 26 January 29 February 1 February 3 February 7 February 19 February 29 March 23 March 31 April 2 April 5 April 7 April 9 April 12 April 13 April 19 April 28 May 24 May 31 July 11 1MDB agrees to resolve its dispute with International Petroleum Investment Company via the London Court of International Arbitration. July 21 August 9 October 11 December 2 2017 March 22 April 24 May 30 June 15 June 16 August 1 August 2 August 11 August", "id": "14280441" }, { "contents": "Timeline of events preceding World War II\n\n\nJune 30 September 14 May 19 September 18 September 19 January 7 January 28 February 27 March 1 April 10 May 30 August 30 November 21 December 3 January 1 January 30 February 27 February 28 March 4 March 20 March 23 March 24 March 27 April 1 April 26 May 2 May 15 May 31 June 21 July 14 August 25 September 12 October 19 November 24 January 26 February 12–16 March 20 June 30 July 20 July 25 August 2 August 8 September October 16 December 1 December 5 December 29 January 7 June 18 August 31 September", "id": "6767330" }, { "contents": "Timeline of the 2018 Pacific hurricane season\n\n\ntropical cyclone formations, strengthening, weakening, landfalls, extratropical transitions, and dissipations during the season. May 10 May 11 May 13 May 15 June 1 June 6 June 7 June 8 June 9 June 10 June 11 June 12 June 13 June 14 June 15 June 16 June 17 June 19 June 24 June 25 June 26 June 27 June 28 June 29 June 30 July 1 July 2 July 3 July 4 July 5 July 6 July 9 July 26 July 27 July 28 July 29 July 31 August 1 August 2 August 3 August", "id": "21166816" }, { "contents": "English cricket team in Australia in 2017–18\n\n\nThe England cricket team toured Australia between November 2017 and February 2018 to play five Tests and five One Day Internationals (ODIs). They also played in a three nation Twenty20 International (T20I) tournament, along with New Zealand, who co-hosted the tournament along with Australia. England additionally played two first-class matches, a two-day tour match and a one-day tour match against Cricket Australia XI, as well as a Twenty20 against the Prime Minister's XI. The Test matches made up the 2017–18", "id": "21532277" }, { "contents": "Timeline of events preceding World War II\n\n\nApril 16 August 13 October October 11 October 29 November 1 January 11 June July 24 August 31 September 27 October 29 November 8 January 21 February 1 March 16 April 1 April 6 June 10 August 16 August 18 May 12 July 18 December 1 January 3 January 31 April 4 April 24 September 8 December 25 April 12 May 20 June 7 November 12 December 14 May 3 May 28 June 4 August 2 August 27 October 1 February 9 February 11 March 4 March 28 April 3 June 7 July 24 August 31 October 29 April 22", "id": "6767329" }, { "contents": "W. G. Grace in the 1878 English cricket season\n\n\nNewcastle upon Tyne, Bolton and Birmingham to play odds games against local opposition. Grace took 21 wickets in the match against the 22 men of Melton Mowbray in a three-day match starting on Monday, 1 July. He scored 42 and 57 not out in his two innings, the match ending in a draw. Grace caught the evening train to be in London ready for the first Gentlemen v Players match at The Oval, starting on Thursday, 4 July. The next USEE match at Leeds Holbeck followed the second Gentlemen", "id": "15478205" }, { "contents": "List of accidents and incidents involving military aircraft (1950–1954)\n\n\n12 December 19 December 23 December 10 January 11 January 15 January 21 January 28 January 31 January 14 February 13 March 14 March 17 March 23 March 3 April 5 April 5 April 8 April 25 April 27 April 6 May 18 May 19 May 8 June 13 June 15 June 18 June 23 June 23 June 30 June 8 July 31 July Summer 13 August 18 August 21 August 22 August 26 August 27 August 16 September 29 September 15 October 11 November 13 November 19 November 27 November 3 December 7 December 21 December 12 January 15", "id": "21637229" }, { "contents": "Lord's\n\n\nbe switched off by 11 pm. The floodlights were first used successfully on 27 May 2009 during the Twenty20 Cup match between Middlesex and Kent. Lord's hosts Test matches, one-day internationals, some Middlesex home matches, MCC matches and (starting with a fixture between Middlesex and Surrey in July 2004) some of Middlesex's home Twenty20 games. Lord's typically hosts two Tests every summer plus two one-day internationals. Lord's also plays host to the finals of the National Village Cricket Competition, the MCC Universities", "id": "10760657" }, { "contents": "2011 in American music\n\n\nThe following is a list of notable events and releases that happened in 2011 in music in the United States. January 11 January 17 January 18 January 21 January 25 January 31 February 1 February 8 February 15 February 22 March 1 March 8 March 15 March 22 March 29 April 5 April 11 April 12 April 26 May 3 May 10 May 17 May 23 May 24 May 31 June 7 June 14 June 21 June 28 July 5 July 8 July 12 July 13 July 19 July 26 August 2 August 8 August 9 August 16 August", "id": "15423555" }, { "contents": "MCC v Australians at Lord's, 27 May 1878\n\n\nenthusiasm that their visit had generated. The Australians were next due to play Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) in a three-day match at Lord's, commencing on Monday, 27 May. In the meantime, Charles Bannerman and Billy Midwinter were invited to visit Dublin and play for the United South of England Eleven (USEE) against 15 past and present players of Dublin University. This was due to be played over three days, starting on Thursday, 23 May, at College Park. The USEE was captained by W. G.", "id": "16383633" }, { "contents": "West Indian cricket team in England in 1928\n\n\nreach three figures. As at Lord's and Old Trafford, the match was over before lunch on the third day. Including the three Tests, 30 first-class matches were played on the tour, plus six other games. The West Indians won just seven of these 36 matches (five of the first-class games) and lost 12. By the end of May, the touring side had won matches against Derbyshire and Cambridge University, plus a minor match against Northumberland, and had drawn all the other games.", "id": "12941340" }, { "contents": "Bob Willis\n\n\n26 August against Worcestershire's Seconds. Willis, 19 years of age, took one wicket for 48 runs in the first innings, and bowled four wicketless overs in the second. He was not called on to bat at all. Two days later, he faced Glamorgan and took three wickets. He played several further Second XI matches through May and June 1969, before his first-class debut on 6 August. Scotland was touring England that season and had already beaten Warwickshire. Willis took three wickets for 13 runs from 13", "id": "16238759" }, { "contents": "Rock in Rio\n\n\n5 July 6 May 21 / 82.000 May 22 / 45.000 May 27 / 85.000 May 29 / 95.000 May 30 / 38.000 June 4 / 51.000 June 5 / 85.000 June 6 / 90.000 June 11 / 30.000 June 14 / 48.000 Rock in Rio Lisboa V Rock in Rio Lisboa VII Rock in Rio Lisboa VIII June 24 sold out almost three months prior to the festival. \"Rock in Rio USA\" was the first North American edition of the festival, being held in Las Vegas on May 8, 9, 15 and 16", "id": "11140715" }, { "contents": "Indian cricket team in Sri Lanka in 2015\n\n\nThe Indian cricket team toured Sri Lanka from 6 August to 1 September 2015 to play a tour match and three Test matches. On 27 June, Sri Lankan batsman Kumar Sangakkara said he would retire from international cricket after the second Test of the series. The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) and Sri Lanka Cricket Board confirmed the schedule of India's tour to Sri Lanka in August to September 2015. The tour started with a three-day warm-up game against Sri Lanka Board President's XI,", "id": "22038367" }, { "contents": "Andy Cottam\n\n\nAndrew Colin Cottam (born 14 July 1973 in Northampton, England) was an English cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman and a left-arm slow bowler. He played in 2 Under-19 Tests in 1992 and 13 first-class matches between 1992 and 1996. His father is the cricketer and coach Bob Cottam. In 1990 Andy Cottam started playing for Somerset Second XI and Devon. In 1992 he was selected for Under-19's tour of Pakistan and played in the Third Test and 2 one-day matches against Pakistan", "id": "2981363" }, { "contents": "Lord's\n\n\n. The hundredth Lord's Test match was in 2000, England v West Indies. As of 25 August 2010 England have played 119 Test matches at Lord's, winning 45, losing 28 and drawing 46. Lord's often hosts two Test matches each summer, one match for each visiting team. In 2010, the ground hosted three Test matches: as well as England's matches against Bangladesh and Pakistan, a Test match between Australia and Pakistan was held there in July. Lord's was the venue of the 2000th test", "id": "10760663" }, { "contents": "Australian cricket team in Sri Lanka in 2016\n\n\nThe Australian cricket team toured Sri Lanka from 18 July to 9 September 2016 to play three Test matches, five One Day Internationals (ODIs), two Twenty20 Internationals (T20Is) matches and a first-class practice match. The Test series was played for Warne-Muralitharan Trophy, with Sri Lanka winning 3–0, their first ever series whitewash against Australia. As a result, Australia slipped from first to third in the ICC Test Championship; Sri Lanka, who had started the series ranked seventh, moved up to sixth.", "id": "14912886" }, { "contents": "South African cricket team in Australia in 2005–06\n\n\nThe South African cricket team toured Australia for cricket matches during the 2005–06 season. South Africa had already played two One Day International series during this season, beating New Zealand 4–0 at home before travelling to India and drawing the series there 2–2. The team had been playing 14 successive ODIs (tour matches excluded) before arriving in Australia, with their last Test match against West Indies in April and May 2005. South Africa played one first class warm-up match, one three-day warm-up match without first class", "id": "19860549" }, { "contents": "Peter Lever\n\n\n6/38, before his final Test ended on 5 August 1975 during another Ashes tour, Australia facing England at Lord's. Lever also played ten One Day Internationals, including the 1975 Cricket World Cup, taking 11 wickets but scoring only 17 runs. His ODI debut was also against Australia, at Melbourne on 5 January 1971, and his last match was at Headingley, Leeds, again against Australia, on 18 June 1975. This gives Lever the unusual distinction of having played both his debut, and last match, against Australia", "id": "17765992" }, { "contents": "Australian women's cricket team in England in 2009\n\n\nThe Australian women's cricket team toured England between 25 June and 13 July 2009, playing one Test match, five One Day Internationals and a Twenty20 International. Australia won the Twenty20 International, while England won the One Day International series 4–0. The Test match, which was for the Women's Ashes, was drawn; ensuring that England retained them. Prior to the series, both sides took part in the 2009 ICC Women's World Twenty20, which was also held in England in June. England won the tournament, in", "id": "13250607" }, { "contents": "List of accidents and incidents involving military aircraft (1950–1954)\n\n\nJanuary 31 January 7 February 18 March 21 April 24 April May 11 May 12 May 15 May 9 June 11 June 13 June 17 June 18 June 21 June 15 July 17 July 30 July 6 August 6 August 12 August 23 August 26 August 30 August 5 September 9 September 9 September 9 September 11 September 19 September 19 September 25 September 1 October 1 October 7 October 8 October 8 October 11 October 13 October 14 October 17 October 18 October 19 October 20 October 22 October 26 October 2 November 8 November 17 November 23 November", "id": "21637231" }, { "contents": "Follow-on\n\n\n, and gave England a slender lead of 129. The next day a fired-up Bob Willis took 8 for 43, and Australia slumped to 111 all out. Australia, who had won their 16 previous Test matches, including the first of the three-Test series between the two teams, had scored 445 in the first innings of the second Test and restricted India to 171; only V. V. S. Laxman (59) and Rahul Dravid reached 25 runs. The only other bright spot for India was the bowling of", "id": "1078812" }, { "contents": "West Indian cricket team in England in 2017\n\n\nThe West Indies cricket team toured England in August and September 2017 to play three Test matches competing for the Wisden Trophy, one Twenty20 International (T20I) and five One Day Internationals (ODIs). Ahead of the Test series, the West Indies played first-class warm-up matches against Derbyshire, Essex and Kent. They also played a two-day match against Leicestershire, as they did not get to the final of the 2017 NatWest t20 Blast. In October 2016 the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB)", "id": "1555387" }, { "contents": "England women's national rugby league team\n\n\nCup - WIN v France WIN v Russia | LOSS v Australia LOSS v New Zealand WIN v Pacific Islands 2009 International Tests - 25 July | France 8-28 England; France 0-36 England 2010 International Tests - 9 November | England 36-8 France 10 November | New Zealand 44-6 England 16 November | New Zealand 38-6 England 2011 International Tests - 2 July | France 6-36 England 6 July | France 4-42 England 2012 International Test - 15 June | England 48-0 France", "id": "9166568" }, { "contents": "International cricket\n\n\n, One-Day and Twenty20 matches take place in the form of \"tours\". In a tour, one nation travels to another and plays warm-up matches, which may be first-class matches, against domestic teams such as county or state teams, a series of Test matches against the host nation, and either a series of One-Day (ODi) and T20 matches against the host nation or a tournament involving the host nation and another touring nation. Tours may include Test, ODI and T20I matches", "id": "6028418" }, { "contents": "West Indian cricket team in England in 2000\n\n\nThe West Indies cricket team toured England in the 2000 cricket season. West Indies played five Tests against England - two in June and three in August - with a triangular One Day International (ODI) series involving Zimbabwe in July. In June, West Indies won the 1st Test at Edgbaston convincingly, before England narrowly won the 2nd Test at Lord's, having bowled West Indies out for 54 in their second innings. The ODI series, sponsored by NatWest, took place in July, with England, West Indies and Zimbabwe", "id": "12941417" }, { "contents": "First Test, 1948 Ashes series\n\n\nThe First Test of the 1948 Ashes series was one of five Tests in a cricket series between Australia and England. The match was played at Trent Bridge in Nottingham from 10 to 15 June with a rest day on 13 June. Australia won the match by eight wickets to take a 1–0 series lead. The Australians started the match as firm favourites, having won the previous series against England 3–0; in the lead-up to the 1948 series, they had won 10 of their 12 tour matches in England, mostly by", "id": "497621" }, { "contents": "Giles Baring\n\n\nAfricans on 22 May 1935, for Hampshire in Hampshire v Australians on 25 May 1938, and for H. D. G. Leveson Gowers XI v Australian Services on 7 July 1945. He played for Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) between 1935 and 1946, and his last first-class game was in the MCC v Cambridge University match on 29 June 1946. Baring was a right-arm fast bowler and also a right-hand batsman. As a bowler, he took 197 wickets for 5,607 runs, an average of 28.46.", "id": "9091808" }, { "contents": "Herbert Sutcliffe's cricket career (1919–27)\n\n\nWaddington in 1925. Arthur Mitchell was still a reserve and Cyril Turner made his first-class debut. The first four Tests of the 1926 England v Australia series were scheduled for just three days and were all curtailed by poor weather. The final Test at The Oval was timeless to ensure a finish. It has become one of the most famous matches in cricket history, not because England regained The Ashes for the first time since 1912 but for the manner it which it was achieved as Hobbs and Sutcliffe produced their most famous", "id": "18930780" }, { "contents": "Günther Lützow\n\n\nfighter destroyed. Two days later, he destroyed three aircraft, two SB-2 bombers and a Petlyakov Pe-2 ground attack aircraft. On 27 June, he shot down an Ilyushin DB-3 bomber followed by another Pe-2 on the following day, his last victory of June 1941. Following a DB-3 bomber claimed on 7 July, Lützow was credited with four aerial victories on 10 July, consisting of one Vultee V-11 attack aircraft and three I-153s. The next day he claimed an II-16. On 15 July he shot down two further I-16s and another", "id": "3340503" }, { "contents": "1966 in Norwegian football\n\n\nResults from Norwegian football in 1966. April 22 April 24 April 27 May 19 April 30 May 1 May 6 May 7 May 8 May 15 May 19 May 22 May 23 May 27 May 28 May 30 May 31 June 3 June 4 June 5 June 15 June 16 June 19 June 20 July 31 August 3 August 6 August 7 August 8 August 24 August 17 August 27 August 28 September 11 September 22 September 23 September 24 October 9 October 15 October 16 October 17 October 23 July 31 August 1 August 2 August 3 Rematch", "id": "21974049" }, { "contents": "Headingley Cricket Ground\n\n\nwickets each. Donald Bradman's innings of 334 in the 1930 Ashes Test included 309 runs on the first day, and he followed it in the Australians' next test at Headingley in 1934 with an innings of 304. Spinner Hedley Verity took 10 wickets for 10 runs in 1932 for Yorkshire v Nottinghamshire, still the best bowling analysis ever in first-class cricket. Verity had also taken all ten against Warwickshire at Headingley in 1931. In the 1948 Ashes series, Australia scored 404 for three on the last day to beat", "id": "11240346" }, { "contents": "List of international awards of Rohit Sharma\n\n\nRohit Sharma is an Indian international cricketer. He made his international cricket debut in June 2007. He has scored twenty-nine centuries in international cricket; three in Tests, twenty-two in One Day Internationals (ODI) and four in Twenty20 International (T20Is). As of July 2019, Sharma has played 27 Tests, 215 One Day Internationals and 94 Twenty20 Internationals. As of July 2019, Rohit won 19 Man of the Match awards and 4 Man of the Series awards in One Day Internationals; 1 Man of", "id": "21442897" }, { "contents": "Ollie Pope\n\n\nthe 2016 Royal London One-Day Cup against Yorkshire. He made his first-class debut on 28 March 2017 for Surrey against Oxford MCCU as part of the Marylebone Cricket Club University fixtures. Pope scored his maiden List A half-century on 7 May 2017 against Sussex. He made his Twenty20 debut for Surrey in the 2017 NatWest t20 Blast on 7 July 2017. In August 2018, he was added to England's squad for the second Test against India. He made his Test debut at Lord's for England against", "id": "11076451" }, { "contents": "Australian cricket team in the West Indies in 2015\n\n\nThe Australian cricket team toured the West Indies from 27 May to 15 June 2015. The tour consisted of one first-class warm-up match and two Test matches. On 8 April 2015, the West Indies Cricket Board brought forward the date of the two Test matches by two days \"due to a number of logistical challenges beyond [their] control\". Australia won the 2-match Test series 2–0 and therefore retained the Frank Worrell Trophy. Australia announced their squad on 31 March 2015. They included three uncapped players,", "id": "17936722" }, { "contents": "Zimbabwean cricket team in Sri Lanka in 2017\n\n\nThe Zimbabwe cricket team toured Sri Lanka in June and July 2017 to play one Test match and five One Day Internationals (ODIs). Originally, the schedule was for two Test matches and three ODIs. It was Zimbabwe's first tour to Sri Lanka since January 2002. All the matches were played as day games. Zimbabwe won the ODI series 3–2, their first ever series win against Sri Lanka. It was their first away series win since 2009 and the first away series win against a Test nation since defeating Bangladesh in", "id": "5384529" }, { "contents": "Ashwell Prince\n\n\nthe batting. Opening with debutant Imraan Khan, Prince scored 150, his 11th Test century. Prince signed a contract to play for Lancashire County Cricket Club the 2009 English season. He acted as cover for V. V. S. Laxman, the club's other overseas player, who was unavailable at times because he was playing in the Indian Premier League. Prince score his first century for Lancashire at the start of May during a match against Nottinghamshire. The knock came off 135 not out from 189 balls came on the final day of", "id": "12899038" }, { "contents": "Herbert Sutcliffe\n\n\nand 1926, Sutcliffe's skill was a primary factor in Yorkshire having the longest unbeaten run in county cricket: i.e., 70 matches without loss until early 1927. After three defeats in 1927, Yorkshire went a further 58 games without loss until 1929. The first four Tests of the 1926 England v Australia series were scheduled for just three days and were all curtailed by poor weather. The final Test at the Oval was timeless to ensure a finish. It has become one of the most famous matches in cricket history, not", "id": "18571331" }, { "contents": "Indian cricket team in England in 2011\n\n\nThe Indian cricket team toured England from 21 July to 16 September 2011. The tour consisted of one Twenty20 International (T20I), five One Day Internationals (ODIs) and four Test matches, as well as a number of matches against English county sides. The opening Test at Lord's was the 2,000th Test. England's victory in the Third Test put them number one in the world rankings. Virat Kohli, Pragyan Ojha and RP Singh replaced the injured Yuvraj Singh, Harbhajan Singh and Zaheer Khan, respectively, for the", "id": "4970296" }, { "contents": "Cricket in the British Isles\n\n\nIt played its first test match against Australia in 1877 and played its first One Day International (ODI) also againist Australia in 1971. One of the main cricket grounds in England, and also widely regarded as the spiritual home of cricket, is Lords Cricket Ground in London. Other major cricket grounds include The Oval (also in London), Edgbaston in Birmingham, Old Trafford in Manchester and Trent Bridge in Nottingham. From 1909 until 2017 England was the only country within the British Isles to have full membership of the ICC", "id": "17756246" }, { "contents": "Eton v Harrow\n\n\nplayed for Harrow in the four matches in 1822 to 1825, and arranged the first University Match at Lord's in 1827, two years before the first Boat Race. Many Eton and Harrow players went on to win blues at Oxford and Cambridge. Eton v Harrow was joined by the University Match and Gentlemen v Players as the three key features in the England cricket season. In its heyday, in the late 19th century and early 20th century, \"the School's day\" was one of the highlights of the London \"", "id": "10600897" }, { "contents": "Mathew Dimond\n\n\nMathew Dimond (born 24 September 1975) is a former English cricketer who made played for Somerset County Cricket Club between 1994 and 1997. Early in his career, he toured the West Indies with the England Under-19 cricket team, playing three Tests and one One Day International at Under-19 level. A right-arm fast-medium bowler, he made his first-class debut for Somerset in June 1994. Playing in the County Championship against Hampshire, Dimond claimed a solitary wicket in the match, which was shortened to single innings", "id": "558840" }, { "contents": "Charlie Charters\n\n\n’ Although the 2004 Islanders lost each of the three Test matches they played (29-14 v Wallabies, 41-26 v All Blacks and 24-38 v Springboks in Gosford, Australia), they scored 10 tries in three matches. By comparison that same southern hemisphere season, England and Scotland scored only three tries between them in their five Tests against the All Blacks and Wallabies. In fact, the 2004 Islanders scored more tries in one Test against the All Blacks (four) than the three tries the 2005", "id": "16741154" }, { "contents": "Australian cricket team in South Africa in 1993–94\n\n\nmatch by one run, levelling the ODI series at 4–4 with an \"improbable victory\". As well as the internationals, three first-class matches and two other matches were played during the tour The tour began with a friendly one-day match against NF Oppenheimer's XI, followed by a first-class match against Northern Transvaal and a one-day match against a representative side. Before the first Test match Australia played a first-class match against Orange Free State and between the first and second Tests they played", "id": "5209672" }, { "contents": "Bangladeshi cricket team in Zimbabwe in 2011\n\n\nThe Bangladesh cricket team toured Zimbabwe from 4 to 21 August 2011. The tour consisted of one Test match and five One Day Internationals (ODIs) played against the Zimbabwean national team and one first-class match played against a Zimbabwean representative team. The Test match was Zimbabwe's first since India toured Zimbabwe in 2005. Zimbabwe won the Test match by 130 runs and also won the one-day series 3–2. Bangladesh announced its squad for the Test match and ODI series on 15 July 2011. Zimbabwe announced its squad for", "id": "19159411" }, { "contents": "V. V. S. Laxman\n\n\nfrom international cricket. Although he was selected for the upcoming New Zealand series, he opted not to play in the series but he will play in domestic cricket for Hyderabad and the Indian Premier League . It was announced that the northern stand at the Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium will now be named after him. Laxman was particularly prolific against Australia, in both Tests and One Day Internationals. Six out of his 17 Test hundreds, and four out of his six ODI hundreds came against Australia. He has two double-centuries", "id": "9815623" }, { "contents": "3rd Battalion, 319th Field Artillery Regiment\n\n\nVII and another platoon to LZ Challenge from 3–5 July. Battery C located at FSB Rock near Bac Loc and conducted two 1-day raids on 11 & 13 June. Battery D located at LZ Lowboy, with 2 howitzers sent on Operation Red Thrust V in 5 days ending 2 May. On 12 July, Battery D displaced to support Battery A from FSB Hawkeye but returned to LZ Lowboy until 28 July, then occupied FSB Hunky. The battalion received three 105mm howitzers in May. In July, LTC John R. Martin replaced LTC Joseph", "id": "2060226" }, { "contents": "W. G. Grace in the 1878 English cricket season\n\n\nthis match attracted few spectators as it coincided with the Surrey v Australians match at The Oval, which drew very large crowds. \"Wisden Cricketers' Almanack\" commented that \"the Australians were attracting monster gatherings at The Oval on the days that this match was played, consequently very few visitors were at Lord's\". There were three North v South fixtures in June. The first two were played at Prince's Cricket Ground and Lord's with the South as the \"home\" team; the third took place at the", "id": "15478186" }, { "contents": "Third Test, 1948 Ashes series\n\n\nThe Third Test of the 1948 Ashes series was one of five Tests in a cricket series between teams representing Australia and England. The match was played at Old Trafford in Manchester from 8–13 July, with a rest day on 11 July. The match was drawn after the whole of the fourth day and the first half of the fifth day was washed out due to rain; England had the upper hand before the weather intervened. The draw maintained Australia's 2–0 lead in the series, which was established through victories in the first", "id": "497412" }, { "contents": "Giles Baring\n\n\n, Gresham's School, Holt, and Magdalene College, Cambridge. He represented Cambridge University in 1930 and 1931 and Hampshire between 1930 and 1939. Apart from more than fifty regular county championship games, he played in the Cambridge University v New Zealanders match of 3 June 1931, for the Gentlemen in the Gentlemen v Players matches of 2 September 1931 and 11 July 1934, for Hampshire in Hampshire v West Indians on 24 May 1933, for Hampshire in Hampshire v Australians on 23 May 1934, for Hampshire in Hampshire v South", "id": "9091807" }, { "contents": "2013–14 Bangladeshi cricket season\n\n\nand Mirpur. Both Test matches ended in draws, Bangladesh won all three One Day Internationals and New Zealand won the sole Twenty20 International. Sri Lanka toured Bangladesh in January and February 2014 playing two Test Matches, three One Day Internationals and two Twenty20 Internationals. Sri Lanka won every match, with the exception of the second Test match which ended in a draw. Initially it was planned that the NCL would be held in November and December 2013, the BCL in May and June 2014 and the BPL in December and January.", "id": "18068868" }, { "contents": "Darrell Hair\n\n\nby the ICC on 12 March 2008 and stood in the England v New Zealand tests at Old Trafford in May and Trent Bridge in June 2008. Hair umpired his first Test match in January 1992, between Australia and India in Adelaide. In 1994 the International Cricket Council (ICC) introduced a policy of appointing one umpire to each Test match from a non-participating country, and since 2002 both umpires have been appointed from non-participating nations. Since 2002 the majority of Hair’s Test matches have been played outside Australia", "id": "17469081" }, { "contents": "Timeline of events preceding World War II\n\n\n15 October 2 November 14 January February 6 March 7 March 25 May 5 June 3 July 17 August 1 October October 18 November 14 November 15 November 25 December 1 December 12 December 23 December 24 January 20 May 28 July 7 August 13 October 5 November 6 November 26 December 1 December 8 December 11 December 12 December 13 January 26 March 6 March 13 March 24 July 6–16 July 29 August September 27 September 30 October 5 November 7 November 9 January 25 January 27 March 14 March 15 March 16 March 20 March 21 March 23", "id": "6767331" }, { "contents": "South African cricket team in England in 1924\n\n\nThe South African cricket team toured England in the 1924 season to play a five-match Test series against England. England won the series 3-0 with 2 matches drawn. The tourists, with their ages on the first day of the first match of the tour on 3 May, were: George Parker (24) also played three first-class matches (including the first two Tests) and Aubrey Faulkner (42) played one match, the Third Test. The manager was George Allsop. South Africa's score", "id": "12941168" }, { "contents": "2018 English cricket season\n\n\ninternational sides toured England and Wales during the season: Pakistan, Australia and India. Pakistan also visited Ireland midway through the tour and played the Irish team's first Test match at Malahide near Dublin. In preparation for this match the Irish team played a first-class match against Somerset at Taunton in April. At the end of their tour Pakistan played two T20 matches in Scotland on 12 and 13 June. The England team played a One Day International (ODI) against Scotland in Edinburgh in June, losing to Scotland for", "id": "6929601" }, { "contents": "V. V. S. Laxman\n\n\n112 in the second test. This ensured his place on the tour of Australia which would be his third to that country. Laxman's good form continued in the 2007-08 Test series against Australia with him scoring 109 against Australia on the second day of the controversial Sydney Test to put India back into the contest. It was his 12th hundred in Test matches, and his 5th against Australia. It was also his third consecutive century at SCG, giving him an average well above 90 at the venue. He followed this", "id": "9815609" }, { "contents": "2019 Ashes series\n\n\nthree cricketers were named in Australia's squad for the 2019 Ashes. Meanwhile, England warmed up for the 2019 Ashes with a Test series earlier in the year against the West Indies and a one-off Test against Ireland in July. The tour of the West Indies comprised three matches and was won 2–1 by the West Indies. England also won the one-off Test against Ireland, by 143 runs. Ahead of the series, it was announced that Day 2 of the Lord’s Test would benefit the Ruth Strauss Foundation", "id": "18532603" }, { "contents": "V. V. S. Laxman\n\n\n1–1. He was awarded the Man of the Match for his match-winning innings of 96. His knock was voted as the best Test batting performance of the year by ESPNCricinfo. In three test matches, Laxman scored three consecutive fifties including two scores in eighties against the West Indies during India's tour of West Indies in June 2011. During India's Tour to England, Laxman scored just two half-centuries in eight innings as India went down 0–4 to England. This was India's first Test series loss since its", "id": "9815620" }, { "contents": "2014–15 Bangladeshi cricket season\n\n\nThe 2014–15 Bangladeshi cricket season featured tours of the country by Zimbabwe and Pakistan. Rangpur Division won the National Cricket League (NCL) championship title for the first time. Zimbabwe toured Bangladesh from 26 October to 1 December 2014, playing three Test matches and five One Day International matches. Bangladesh won the Test series 3–0 and the ODI series 5–0. Pakistan toured from 15 April to 10 May 2015, playing one Twenty20 International (T20I), three One Day Internationals (ODIs) and two Test matches. Pakistan won the Test", "id": "895026" }, { "contents": "Australia women's cricket team in England in 2019\n\n\nThe Australia women's cricket team toured England in June and July 2019 to play the England women's cricket team to contest the Women's Ashes. The tour consisted of three Women's One Day Internationals (WODIs), one Women's Test match and three Women's Twenty20 Internationals (WT20Is). A points-based system was used across all three formats of the tour. The Women's Ashes were held by Australia prior to the start of the series. Australia women won the WODI series 3–0, therefore taking a 6–0", "id": "15341273" }, { "contents": "Pakistani cricket team in England in 1962\n\n\nof three one-day games (not limited overs). The first two were drawn and the Pakistanis won the third one against Colonel Stevens' XI. These three matches were, in effect, warm-ups only and not first-class. The opening first-class fixture was against Worcestershire at New Road, starting on Wednesday, 2 May. The Pakistanis were given a foretaste of the Test series to come in that Tom Graveney scored a century for the home team (and was presented with his county cap immediately afterwards", "id": "12941094" }, { "contents": "New Zealand cricket team in Australia in 2015–16\n\n\nThe New Zealand cricket team toured Australia from 23 October to 1 December 2015 to play three Test matches and four tour matches. The third match of the series at the Adelaide Oval was the first ever day-night Test. Michael Hussey captained the Prime Minister's XI side for the tour match, and in preparation for the day-night Test, a pink ball was used in this game. Australia won the series 2–0, with victories in Brisbane and Adelaide, with the second Test in Perth being drawn. Following the", "id": "1307472" }, { "contents": "Kennington\n\n\nThe Kia Oval\", is the home ground for Surrey County Cricket Club and hosts the final Test match of the English summer season. The Oval was the first ground in the United Kingdom to host Test cricket, was the location for the England v Scotland representative matches, the first ever international football match, the first FA Cup final in 1872, and held the second ever rugby union international match between England and Scotland in 1872. England's unfortunate performance against Australia here in 1882 gave rise to The Ashes. The Oval", "id": "10346916" }, { "contents": "Indian cricket team in Zimbabwe in 2001\n\n\nThe Indian cricket team toured Zimbabwe from 28 May to 7 July 2001 and played two Test matches against Zimbabwe, with each team winning one game match. This would be Zimbabwe's only Test victory over a side other than Bangladesh until they beat Pakistan in the second Test in 2013. India and Zimbabwe also participated in a triangular One Day International (ODI) competition with West Indies, with the latter eventually winning the competition. The Coca-Cola Cup was a One Day International (ODI) tournament that followed the Test series", "id": "4099650" }, { "contents": "Andrew Balbirnie\n\n\nHe played three further One Day International's during the tournament. He made his Twenty20 International debut against Scotland on 19 June 2015, although no play was possible due to rain. He was part of the Ireland A team which toured Bangladesh in October 2017 to play one first-class match and five limited overs matches against the Bangladesh A team. In May 2018, he was named in a fourteen-man squad for Ireland's first ever Test match, which was played against Pakistan later the same month. He made his", "id": "2597279" }, { "contents": "Pakistani cricket team in Scotland in 2018\n\n\nThe Pakistan cricket team toured Scotland to play two Twenty20 International (T20I) matches at The Grange Club, Edinburgh, on 12 and 13 June 2018. Pakistan last toured Scotland in May 2013 to play two One Day Internationals. Both teams last met in a T20I fixture in the group stage of the 2007 ICC World Twenty20 tournament. This was the first time that Scotland had played a home T20I match against a full member side. The tour followed Pakistan's tour of England and their one Test series in Ireland. England also", "id": "373509" }, { "contents": "2017 June rugby union tests\n\n\n2 sides. Australia, the only southern hemisphere Tier 1 nation not to host a test series, staged three one-off test matches; Scotland, Italy and Fiji. The Fijian test was the first between the two sides in Australia since 2010, and was also the first Australia v Tier 2 nation match in Australia since Samoa visited in 2011. Fiji also played host to Italy and Scotland to become the second Tier 2 nation to play three back-back Tier 1 sides during an international window, after Samoa participated in", "id": "13232867" }, { "contents": "Timeline of the 2014 Pacific hurricane season\n\n\nJune 11 June 12 June 13 June 14 June 15 June 28 June 30 July 1 July 2 July 3 July 6 July 7 July 9 July 17 July 18 July 19 July 25 July 26 July 27 July 28 July 29 July 31 August 1 August 2 August 3 August 4 August 5 August 6 August 7 August 8 August 9 August 10 August 12 August 13 August 14 August 15 August 17 August 18 August 21 August 22 August 23 August 24 August 25 August 26 August 27 August 28 August 29 September 2 September 4 September 6", "id": "2400921" } ]

[ { "contents": "Sri Lankan cricket team in England in 2014\n\n\nThe Sri Lanka national cricket team toured England from 13 May to 24 June 2014 for a Twenty20 International (T20I), five One Day Internationals (ODIs) and two Test matches against the England cricket team. They also played three one-day and one four-day tour matches against English county sides, as well as preceding the entire tour with a two-match ODI series against Ireland. Sri Lanka won the Test series 1–0 (the first time they had won a Test series in England), the ODI series", "id": "21939883" }, { "contents": "New Zealand cricket team in England in 2015\n\n\nThe New Zealand national cricket team toured England from 8 May to 23 June 2015 for two Test matches, five One Day Internationals (ODIs) and a Twenty20 International (T20I) against the England cricket team. They also played two four-day tour matches and a one-day match against English county sides. England won the first Test at Lord's before New Zealand claimed victory in the second Test at Headingley to level the series. England then took an early lead in the ODI series after hitting more than 400 runs", "id": "943447" }, { "contents": "Australian cricket team in England and Ireland in 2015\n\n\nThe Australia national cricket team toured England from June to September 2015 for a five-match Test series, five One Day International (ODI) matches and one Twenty20 International (T20I). The Test series was for the Ashes. They also played two four-day and two three-day first-class matches against English county sides. Australia also played one ODI against Ireland in Belfast. On 31 March 2015, Australia announced a 17-man touring party for the Ashes series. England announced their squad for the first Test on", "id": "1657670" }, { "contents": "David Constant\n\n\n67 first-class appearances. In total he scored 1,517 first-class runs at a batting average of 19.20 with a highest score of 80. Tony Lewis described his innings against Glamorgan on a difficult pitch at Leicester in 1965 as \"one of the bravest innings I ever saw\". His first Test as umpire was the Third Test between England and Pakistan in July 1971. He last stood in an international cricket match in the England v. Australia One Day International at The Oval, London in June 2001. He was the", "id": "14539375" }, { "contents": "Pakistani cricket team in Sri Lanka in 2015\n\n\nThe Pakistan cricket team toured Sri Lanka from 11 June to 1 August 2015. The tour consisted of a three-day tour match against a SLCB President's XI, three Test matches, five One Day International and two Twenty20 International matches. The third Test was originally scheduled to be played at the R Premadasa Stadium, but was changed to the Pallekele International Cricket Stadium in early May. Pakistan outplayed the hosts in all forms of the game by winning the Test series 2–1, the ODI series 3–2 and the T20I series 2–0.", "id": "15080177" }, { "contents": "2010 in American music\n\n\n17 March 22 March 23 March 26 March 30 April 6 April 8 April 13 April 19 April 20 April 21 April 27 April 30 May 4 May 11 May 14 May 17 May 18 May 21 May 25 May 31 June 1 June 8 June 14 June 15 June 18 June 21 June 22 June 28 June 29 July 6 July 7 July 12 July 13 July 15 July 20 July 23 July 25 July 27 July 29 August 3 August 17 August 24 August 31 September 7 September 14 September 21 September 23 September 28 October 5 October", "id": "18556206" }, { "contents": "Warwickshire County Cricket Club\n\n\nand gold and the shirt sponsor is Gullivers Sports Travel. The club's home is Edgbaston Cricket Ground in south Birmingham, which regularly hosts Test and One Day International matches. Cricket may have reached Warwickshire by the end of the 17th century. The \"Warwickshire & Staffordshire Journal\" was certainly aware of the sport in 1738 for it carried a report of a London v Mitcham game at the Artillery Ground on 11 August (London won by 1 wicket). The earliest confirmed reference to cricket in the county is a match announcement", "id": "8941185" }, { "contents": "Irish cricket team in England in 2019\n\n\nThe Ireland cricket team toured England in July 2019 to play a one-off four-day Test match at Lord's. It was the first Test match to be played between the two sides, and was England's first four-day Test match since they toured New Zealand in 1971. It was Ireland's third Test match, and their twelfth international fixture against England. The Test match was part of England's preparations for the 2019 Ashes series. Ahead of the Test, the England cricket team visited Ireland in May", "id": "16268672" }, { "contents": "1919 English cricket season\n\n\n(five wins from fourteen) and Warwickshire were bottom with 7.14% (one win from fourteen). The 1919 County Championship was the 26th since the competition acquired official status in 1890. The opening matches began on Friday, 16 May. These were Middlesex v Nottinghamshire at Lord's and the 1914 (reigning) champions Surrey against Somerset at The Oval. The final match between Essex and Surrey at Leyton was completed on Monday, 1 September. The situation between Yorkshire and Kent on Saturday, 30 August (the second day in", "id": "7320450" }, { "contents": "Timeline of the 2013 Pacific hurricane season\n\n\n15 May 16 May 17 May 28 May 29 May 30 June 1 June 23 June 24 June 25 June 26 June 27 June 29 June 30 July 2 July 3 July 4 July 5 July 6 July 7 July 9 July 25 July 27 July 30 July 31 August 2 August 3 August 4 August 6 August 7 August 8 August 9 August 11 August 16 August 18 August 19 August 20 August 22 August 23 August 24 August 25 August 28 August 29 August 30 August 31 September 1 September 2 September 5 September 6 September 7 September", "id": "957237" }, { "contents": "Prince's Cricket Ground\n\n\nas 'grand and quick and one of the finest playing grounds in England'. The first match played on the ground was Household Brigade v. Lords and Commons on 3 June 1871. Middlesex County Cricket Club used the ground between 1872 and 1876 and played their first match on 23–25 May 1872 against Yorkshire. The ground was also used by South of England and by Gentlemen of the South. Several Gentlemen v Players fixtures were also played there, the first taking place in July 1873. In 1878, the touring Australians played two", "id": "19086180" }, { "contents": "Callum Jackson\n\n\nSussex youth ranks, playing at under-13, under-14, under-15 and under-17 level before joining the second XI as a 16-year-old in 2011. He was selected to represent an English Schools Cricket Association XI in 2011 before making his first appearance for the Sussex first XI on 1 May 2012 in a non-first-class match against the Leeds/Bradford MCC Universities team. In early 2013, Jackson was selected for the England under-19 side to tour South Africa, where he played in both Youth Test matches and three One Day", "id": "16290826" }, { "contents": "2018 English cricket season\n\n\nHurricane Irma and Hurricane Maria in September 2017. Pakistan played two Test matches against England at Lord's and Headingley at the end of May and beginning of June. The series was drawn, each side winning one match. Ahead of the Tests, two first-class matches were played against Kent and Northants. Their match against Ireland took place after the two first-class county matches, and a two-day match was played against Leicestershire between this and the first Test against England. Pakistan won the first Test match by", "id": "6929603" }, { "contents": "1963 in Norwegian football\n\n\nResults from Norwegian football in 1963. April 26 April 28 May 3 May 4 May 5 May 11 May 12 May 30 May 19 May 22 May 23 May 26 May 27 June 7 June 8 June 9 June 14 June 15 June 16 June 22 June 23 June 24 July 26 July 28 July 29 August 2 August 4 August 6 August 17 August 18 August 21 August 22 August 24 August 25 September 7 September 8 September 20 September 22 October 4 October 6 October 13 Årstad promoted Nidelv promoted Harstad - Bodø/Glimt 4 -", "id": "20433032" }, { "contents": "West Indian cricket team in England in 1991\n\n\nThe West Indian cricket team in England in 1991 played three one day internationals and five Tests, under the captaincy of Viv Richards, as part of an extensive tour in which they also played first-class matches against 11 first-class county teams, the combined Minor Counties, the Combined Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, and a World XI to finish, plus 55-over one-day matches against one more first-class county (Gloucestershire) and the Duchess of Norfolk's Invitation XI. Of the non-international matches,", "id": "5157419" }, { "contents": "West Indian cricket team in England in 2007\n\n\nThe West Indian cricket team toured England from 12 May to 7 July 2007 as part of the 2007 English cricket season. The tour included four Tests, two Twenty20 international matches and three One Day Internationals. While England dominated the Test series 3–0, including a record victory over the West Indies, the latter took the ODI series 2:1. In the ICC Test Championship, England are ranked second and West Indies are ranked eighth, though England's most recent series was a whitewash loss in the Ashes against Australia for the first time", "id": "12941423" }, { "contents": "Sri Lankan cricket team in the West Indies in 2018\n\n\nOn 19 May 2018, Cricket West Indies (CWI) announced that they may scrap one of the Test fixtures, replacing it with a couple of one-day matches. However, the day before the first Test, the International Cricket Council (ICC) confirmed that it would be a three-match Test series. Prior to the start of day three of the second Test, the Sri Lankan cricket team protested against umpires' decision on starting the third day's play with a new ball, replacing the old ball.", "id": "19622271" }, { "contents": "Timeline of the 2017 Pacific hurricane season\n\n\ncyclone formations, strengthening, weakening, landfalls, extratropical transitions, and dissipations during the season. May 9 May 10 May 11 May 12 May 15 May 31 June 1 June 2 June 11 June 12 June 13 June 24 June 25 June 26 June 27 June 28 July 1 July 7 July 8 July 9 July 10 July 11 July 12 July 13 July 14 July 15 July 16 July 17 July 18 July 19 July 20 July 21 July 22 July 23 July 24 July 25 July 26 July 27 July 28 July 31 August 1", "id": "7169450" }, { "contents": "Daniel Bell-Drummond\n\n\nmade his youth Test debut on 21 July 2010 at the County Ground, Northampton before scoring unbeaten 88 in the second youth Test later in the same month, aged only 16. He played in both under-19 Test matches and in four youth one-day international matches during England's return tour of Sri Lanka in January and February 2011. In July 2011 Bell-Drummond played in a one-day series against South Africa under-19s. He top-scored for England in three of the seven matches in the series and was the", "id": "6732560" }, { "contents": "1967 in Norwegian football\n\n\nResults from Norwegian football in 1967. April 27 April 28 April 30 May 4 May 6 May 7 May 10 May 11 May 15 May 16 May 18 May 19 May 20 May 21 May 22 June 22 May 25 May 28 June 4 June 10 June 11 June 12 June 13 June 18 June 19 July 30 July 31 August 2 August 6 August 7 August 9 August 10 August 20 August 16 August 20 August 21 September 7 September 10 September 16 September 17 October 6 October 8 October 9 October 12 October 15 October 20 October", "id": "2081596" }, { "contents": "Phil Carlson\n\n\nPhillip Henry Carlson (born 8 August 1951, Nundah, Queensland) is a former Australian cricketer who played in two Tests and four One Day Internationals (ODIs) in 1979. Carlson was an all-rounder who played for Queensland between 1969–70 and 1980–81. He played two Test matches for Australia v England in 1978–79 Ashes series and four One Day Internationals against the same opponents. He was called up by Australia when most of their regular first-choice players were playing in World Series Cricket. Carlson took two Test wickets and", "id": "11409623" }, { "contents": "1962 in Norwegian football\n\n\nResults from Norwegian football in 1962. July 30 August 2 August 3 August 9 August 8 August 13 August 16 August 20 August 21 September 2 September 3 Ørn - Brann 0 - 7 September 24 September 28 October 1 October 15 April 25 October 6 October 8 April 29 May 6 May 12 May 13 May 14 May 20 May 21 May 23 May 24 May 27 May 30 May 31 June 3 June 15 June 16 June 17 June 24 June 25 June 30 July 1 July 29 August 1 August 2 August 4 August 5 August", "id": "9107175" }, { "contents": "Alan Igglesden\n\n\nAlan Paul Igglesden (born 8 October 1964) is a former English Test cricketer. He played three Test Matches and four One Day Internationals (ODIs) for the England cricket team between 1989 and 1994 as a fast bowler. He played most of his first-class cricket career for Kent County Cricket Club. Igglesden was born in Farnborough, London in 1964. He first played for Kent County Cricket Club's Second XI in 1983 before making his first-class cricket debut of the county in July 1986 against Somerset at Maidstone", "id": "8795795" }, { "contents": "Sri Lankan cricket team in England and Ireland in 2016\n\n\nThe Sri Lanka national cricket team toured England from 8 May to 5 July 2016 for a three-match Test series, a five-match One Day International (ODI) series and a one-off Twenty20 International (T20I) against the England cricket team. England won the Test series 2–0, the ODI series 3–0 and won the one-off T20I match by 8 wickets. They also played two first-class matches against Essex and Leicestershire prior to the Test series, and two ODI matches against Ireland prior to the", "id": "15635062" }, { "contents": "South African cricket team in England in 2008\n\n\nThe South African cricket team toured England between 29 June and 4 September 2008. They played four Test matches, one Twenty20 International and five One Day Internationals against England. They also played six tour matches against Somerset, Middlesex, Bangladesh A, a PCA Masters XI and two against the England Lions. It was announced that following the conclusion of this four-match series, future matches between England and South Africa would comprise five Test matches but only three one-day matches after the series was granted 'icon' status.", "id": "18079110" }, { "contents": "2018 English cricket season\n\n\nthe first time in an ODI. The South African women's team also toured England to play three One Day International matches against the England women's cricket team in June and to compete in the 2018 England women's Tri-Nation Series Twenty20 competition against England and New Zealand. New Zealand then played three One Day Internationals against England in July. In addition the West Indies men's side played a single Twenty20 International against a Rest of the World XI team at Lord's in May 2018 to raise funds for stadiums damaged by", "id": "6929602" }, { "contents": "American Rally Association\n\n\nWood Rally March 15 - 16 Olympus Rally April 27 - 28 Oregon Trail Rally May 31 - June 2 Idaho Rally International June 22 - 23 New England Forest Rally July 19 - 20 Muscatell Ojibwe Forests Rally August 23 - 24 Susquehannock Trail Performance Rally September 13 - 14 Lake Superior Performance Rally October 18 - 19 2019 ARA Super Regional Events Southern Ohio Forest Rally May 16 - 18 Rally Colorado July 26 - 27 Tour de Forest Rally September 21, 2019 Empire State Performance Rally October 25 - 26 2019 ARA One-Day Regional", "id": "6404348" }, { "contents": "Pakistani cricket team in England and Ireland in 2016\n\n\nThe Pakistan national cricket team toured England and Ireland from 3 July to 7 September 2016 for a four-match Test series, a five-match One Day International (ODI) series and a one-off Twenty20 International (T20I) against the England cricket team. They also played two three-day matches against Somerset and Sussex prior to the Test series, a two-day match against Worcestershire during the Test series, and two ODI matches against Ireland prior to the ODI series. England's ODI matches against Pakistan was", "id": "15635130" }, { "contents": "Second Test, 1948 Ashes series\n\n\nThe Second Test of the 1948 Ashes series was one of five Tests in a cricket series between Australia and England. The match was played at Lord's in London from 24 to 29 June, with a rest day on 27 June. Australia won the match by 409 runs to take a 2–0 lead, meaning that England would need to win the remaining three matches to regain The Ashes. Australian captain Don Bradman won the toss and elected to bat. The tourists had won the First Test convincingly, and decided to field the", "id": "497516" }, { "contents": "MCC v Australians at Lord's, 27 May 1878\n\n\nin England, the team left Sydney on 29 March 1878 and sailed via Auckland and Honolulu to San Francisco, from where they travelled across America by train to New York City. They crossed the Atlantic, arriving in Liverpool on 13 May, and then went by train to Nottingham where they played their first match, starting on Monday, 20 May. This was a three-day match against Nottinghamshire at Trent Bridge and the Australians were well beaten by an innings and 14 runs, an inauspicious start which dampened much of the public", "id": "16383632" }, { "contents": "Australian women's cricket team in England in 2013\n\n\nThe Australian women's cricket team toured England in 2013. The visitors were defending the Women's Ashes. The only Test match of the tour took place on 11–14 August at Wormsley Park, and was drawn. Three One-Day Internationals (ODIs) were played: the first at Lord's on 20 August, and the other two at Hove on 23 and 25 August. Also three Twenty20 International (T20I) matches were played, on 27, 29 and 31 August, at Chelmsford, Southampton and Chester-le-", "id": "19064429" }, { "contents": "South African cricket team in England in 2017\n\n\nThe South African cricket team toured England and Wales between May and August 2017, playing three One Day Internationals (ODIs), three Twenty20 Internationals (T20Is) and four Test matches. The ODI matches were in preparation for the 2017 ICC Champions Trophy, which took place in England and Wales during June. Extra security was provided to South Africa for the ODI series following the Manchester bombing. England won the ODI series 2–1 and the T20 series 2–1. Ahead of the ODI series, South Africa played one-day warm-", "id": "1555384" }, { "contents": "1Malaysia Development Berhad scandal\n\n\n- 30 September onwards October 20 November 25 December 1 December 5 December 31 2016 January 26 January 29 February 1 February 3 February 7 February 19 February 29 March 23 March 31 April 2 April 5 April 7 April 9 April 12 April 13 April 19 April 28 May 24 May 31 July 11 1MDB agrees to resolve its dispute with International Petroleum Investment Company via the London Court of International Arbitration. July 21 August 9 October 11 December 2 2017 March 22 April 24 May 30 June 15 June 16 August 1 August 2 August 11 August", "id": "14280441" }, { "contents": "Timeline of events preceding World War II\n\n\nJune 30 September 14 May 19 September 18 September 19 January 7 January 28 February 27 March 1 April 10 May 30 August 30 November 21 December 3 January 1 January 30 February 27 February 28 March 4 March 20 March 23 March 24 March 27 April 1 April 26 May 2 May 15 May 31 June 21 July 14 August 25 September 12 October 19 November 24 January 26 February 12–16 March 20 June 30 July 20 July 25 August 2 August 8 September October 16 December 1 December 5 December 29 January 7 June 18 August 31 September", "id": "6767330" }, { "contents": "Timeline of the 2018 Pacific hurricane season\n\n\ntropical cyclone formations, strengthening, weakening, landfalls, extratropical transitions, and dissipations during the season. May 10 May 11 May 13 May 15 June 1 June 6 June 7 June 8 June 9 June 10 June 11 June 12 June 13 June 14 June 15 June 16 June 17 June 19 June 24 June 25 June 26 June 27 June 28 June 29 June 30 July 1 July 2 July 3 July 4 July 5 July 6 July 9 July 26 July 27 July 28 July 29 July 31 August 1 August 2 August 3 August", "id": "21166816" }, { "contents": "English cricket team in Australia in 2017–18\n\n\nThe England cricket team toured Australia between November 2017 and February 2018 to play five Tests and five One Day Internationals (ODIs). They also played in a three nation Twenty20 International (T20I) tournament, along with New Zealand, who co-hosted the tournament along with Australia. England additionally played two first-class matches, a two-day tour match and a one-day tour match against Cricket Australia XI, as well as a Twenty20 against the Prime Minister's XI. The Test matches made up the 2017–18", "id": "21532277" }, { "contents": "Timeline of events preceding World War II\n\n\nApril 16 August 13 October October 11 October 29 November 1 January 11 June July 24 August 31 September 27 October 29 November 8 January 21 February 1 March 16 April 1 April 6 June 10 August 16 August 18 May 12 July 18 December 1 January 3 January 31 April 4 April 24 September 8 December 25 April 12 May 20 June 7 November 12 December 14 May 3 May 28 June 4 August 2 August 27 October 1 February 9 February 11 March 4 March 28 April 3 June 7 July 24 August 31 October 29 April 22", "id": "6767329" }, { "contents": "W. G. Grace in the 1878 English cricket season\n\n\nNewcastle upon Tyne, Bolton and Birmingham to play odds games against local opposition. Grace took 21 wickets in the match against the 22 men of Melton Mowbray in a three-day match starting on Monday, 1 July. He scored 42 and 57 not out in his two innings, the match ending in a draw. Grace caught the evening train to be in London ready for the first Gentlemen v Players match at The Oval, starting on Thursday, 4 July. The next USEE match at Leeds Holbeck followed the second Gentlemen", "id": "15478205" }, { "contents": "List of accidents and incidents involving military aircraft (1950–1954)\n\n\n12 December 19 December 23 December 10 January 11 January 15 January 21 January 28 January 31 January 14 February 13 March 14 March 17 March 23 March 3 April 5 April 5 April 8 April 25 April 27 April 6 May 18 May 19 May 8 June 13 June 15 June 18 June 23 June 23 June 30 June 8 July 31 July Summer 13 August 18 August 21 August 22 August 26 August 27 August 16 September 29 September 15 October 11 November 13 November 19 November 27 November 3 December 7 December 21 December 12 January 15", "id": "21637229" }, { "contents": "Lord's\n\n\nbe switched off by 11 pm. The floodlights were first used successfully on 27 May 2009 during the Twenty20 Cup match between Middlesex and Kent. Lord's hosts Test matches, one-day internationals, some Middlesex home matches, MCC matches and (starting with a fixture between Middlesex and Surrey in July 2004) some of Middlesex's home Twenty20 games. Lord's typically hosts two Tests every summer plus two one-day internationals. Lord's also plays host to the finals of the National Village Cricket Competition, the MCC Universities", "id": "10760657" }, { "contents": "2011 in American music\n\n\nThe following is a list of notable events and releases that happened in 2011 in music in the United States. January 11 January 17 January 18 January 21 January 25 January 31 February 1 February 8 February 15 February 22 March 1 March 8 March 15 March 22 March 29 April 5 April 11 April 12 April 26 May 3 May 10 May 17 May 23 May 24 May 31 June 7 June 14 June 21 June 28 July 5 July 8 July 12 July 13 July 19 July 26 August 2 August 8 August 9 August 16 August", "id": "15423555" }, { "contents": "MCC v Australians at Lord's, 27 May 1878\n\n\nenthusiasm that their visit had generated. The Australians were next due to play Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) in a three-day match at Lord's, commencing on Monday, 27 May. In the meantime, Charles Bannerman and Billy Midwinter were invited to visit Dublin and play for the United South of England Eleven (USEE) against 15 past and present players of Dublin University. This was due to be played over three days, starting on Thursday, 23 May, at College Park. The USEE was captained by W. G.", "id": "16383633" }, { "contents": "West Indian cricket team in England in 1928\n\n\nreach three figures. As at Lord's and Old Trafford, the match was over before lunch on the third day. Including the three Tests, 30 first-class matches were played on the tour, plus six other games. The West Indians won just seven of these 36 matches (five of the first-class games) and lost 12. By the end of May, the touring side had won matches against Derbyshire and Cambridge University, plus a minor match against Northumberland, and had drawn all the other games.", "id": "12941340" }, { "contents": "Bob Willis\n\n\n26 August against Worcestershire's Seconds. Willis, 19 years of age, took one wicket for 48 runs in the first innings, and bowled four wicketless overs in the second. He was not called on to bat at all. Two days later, he faced Glamorgan and took three wickets. He played several further Second XI matches through May and June 1969, before his first-class debut on 6 August. Scotland was touring England that season and had already beaten Warwickshire. Willis took three wickets for 13 runs from 13", "id": "16238759" }, { "contents": "Rock in Rio\n\n\n5 July 6 May 21 / 82.000 May 22 / 45.000 May 27 / 85.000 May 29 / 95.000 May 30 / 38.000 June 4 / 51.000 June 5 / 85.000 June 6 / 90.000 June 11 / 30.000 June 14 / 48.000 Rock in Rio Lisboa V Rock in Rio Lisboa VII Rock in Rio Lisboa VIII June 24 sold out almost three months prior to the festival. \"Rock in Rio USA\" was the first North American edition of the festival, being held in Las Vegas on May 8, 9, 15 and 16", "id": "11140715" }, { "contents": "Indian cricket team in Sri Lanka in 2015\n\n\nThe Indian cricket team toured Sri Lanka from 6 August to 1 September 2015 to play a tour match and three Test matches. On 27 June, Sri Lankan batsman Kumar Sangakkara said he would retire from international cricket after the second Test of the series. The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) and Sri Lanka Cricket Board confirmed the schedule of India's tour to Sri Lanka in August to September 2015. The tour started with a three-day warm-up game against Sri Lanka Board President's XI,", "id": "22038367" }, { "contents": "Andy Cottam\n\n\nAndrew Colin Cottam (born 14 July 1973 in Northampton, England) was an English cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman and a left-arm slow bowler. He played in 2 Under-19 Tests in 1992 and 13 first-class matches between 1992 and 1996. His father is the cricketer and coach Bob Cottam. In 1990 Andy Cottam started playing for Somerset Second XI and Devon. In 1992 he was selected for Under-19's tour of Pakistan and played in the Third Test and 2 one-day matches against Pakistan", "id": "2981363" }, { "contents": "Lord's\n\n\n. The hundredth Lord's Test match was in 2000, England v West Indies. As of 25 August 2010 England have played 119 Test matches at Lord's, winning 45, losing 28 and drawing 46. Lord's often hosts two Test matches each summer, one match for each visiting team. In 2010, the ground hosted three Test matches: as well as England's matches against Bangladesh and Pakistan, a Test match between Australia and Pakistan was held there in July. Lord's was the venue of the 2000th test", "id": "10760663" }, { "contents": "Australian cricket team in Sri Lanka in 2016\n\n\nThe Australian cricket team toured Sri Lanka from 18 July to 9 September 2016 to play three Test matches, five One Day Internationals (ODIs), two Twenty20 Internationals (T20Is) matches and a first-class practice match. The Test series was played for Warne-Muralitharan Trophy, with Sri Lanka winning 3–0, their first ever series whitewash against Australia. As a result, Australia slipped from first to third in the ICC Test Championship; Sri Lanka, who had started the series ranked seventh, moved up to sixth.", "id": "14912886" }, { "contents": "South African cricket team in Australia in 2005–06\n\n\nThe South African cricket team toured Australia for cricket matches during the 2005–06 season. South Africa had already played two One Day International series during this season, beating New Zealand 4–0 at home before travelling to India and drawing the series there 2–2. The team had been playing 14 successive ODIs (tour matches excluded) before arriving in Australia, with their last Test match against West Indies in April and May 2005. South Africa played one first class warm-up match, one three-day warm-up match without first class", "id": "19860549" }, { "contents": "Peter Lever\n\n\n6/38, before his final Test ended on 5 August 1975 during another Ashes tour, Australia facing England at Lord's. Lever also played ten One Day Internationals, including the 1975 Cricket World Cup, taking 11 wickets but scoring only 17 runs. His ODI debut was also against Australia, at Melbourne on 5 January 1971, and his last match was at Headingley, Leeds, again against Australia, on 18 June 1975. This gives Lever the unusual distinction of having played both his debut, and last match, against Australia", "id": "17765992" }, { "contents": "Australian women's cricket team in England in 2009\n\n\nThe Australian women's cricket team toured England between 25 June and 13 July 2009, playing one Test match, five One Day Internationals and a Twenty20 International. Australia won the Twenty20 International, while England won the One Day International series 4–0. The Test match, which was for the Women's Ashes, was drawn; ensuring that England retained them. Prior to the series, both sides took part in the 2009 ICC Women's World Twenty20, which was also held in England in June. England won the tournament, in", "id": "13250607" }, { "contents": "List of accidents and incidents involving military aircraft (1950–1954)\n\n\nJanuary 31 January 7 February 18 March 21 April 24 April May 11 May 12 May 15 May 9 June 11 June 13 June 17 June 18 June 21 June 15 July 17 July 30 July 6 August 6 August 12 August 23 August 26 August 30 August 5 September 9 September 9 September 9 September 11 September 19 September 19 September 25 September 1 October 1 October 7 October 8 October 8 October 11 October 13 October 14 October 17 October 18 October 19 October 20 October 22 October 26 October 2 November 8 November 17 November 23 November", "id": "21637231" }, { "contents": "Follow-on\n\n\n, and gave England a slender lead of 129. The next day a fired-up Bob Willis took 8 for 43, and Australia slumped to 111 all out. Australia, who had won their 16 previous Test matches, including the first of the three-Test series between the two teams, had scored 445 in the first innings of the second Test and restricted India to 171; only V. V. S. Laxman (59) and Rahul Dravid reached 25 runs. The only other bright spot for India was the bowling of", "id": "1078812" }, { "contents": "West Indian cricket team in England in 2017\n\n\nThe West Indies cricket team toured England in August and September 2017 to play three Test matches competing for the Wisden Trophy, one Twenty20 International (T20I) and five One Day Internationals (ODIs). Ahead of the Test series, the West Indies played first-class warm-up matches against Derbyshire, Essex and Kent. They also played a two-day match against Leicestershire, as they did not get to the final of the 2017 NatWest t20 Blast. In October 2016 the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB)", "id": "1555387" }, { "contents": "England women's national rugby league team\n\n\nCup - WIN v France WIN v Russia | LOSS v Australia LOSS v New Zealand WIN v Pacific Islands 2009 International Tests - 25 July | France 8-28 England; France 0-36 England 2010 International Tests - 9 November | England 36-8 France 10 November | New Zealand 44-6 England 16 November | New Zealand 38-6 England 2011 International Tests - 2 July | France 6-36 England 6 July | France 4-42 England 2012 International Test - 15 June | England 48-0 France", "id": "9166568" }, { "contents": "International cricket\n\n\n, One-Day and Twenty20 matches take place in the form of \"tours\". In a tour, one nation travels to another and plays warm-up matches, which may be first-class matches, against domestic teams such as county or state teams, a series of Test matches against the host nation, and either a series of One-Day (ODi) and T20 matches against the host nation or a tournament involving the host nation and another touring nation. Tours may include Test, ODI and T20I matches", "id": "6028418" }, { "contents": "West Indian cricket team in England in 2000\n\n\nThe West Indies cricket team toured England in the 2000 cricket season. West Indies played five Tests against England - two in June and three in August - with a triangular One Day International (ODI) series involving Zimbabwe in July. In June, West Indies won the 1st Test at Edgbaston convincingly, before England narrowly won the 2nd Test at Lord's, having bowled West Indies out for 54 in their second innings. The ODI series, sponsored by NatWest, took place in July, with England, West Indies and Zimbabwe", "id": "12941417" }, { "contents": "First Test, 1948 Ashes series\n\n\nThe First Test of the 1948 Ashes series was one of five Tests in a cricket series between Australia and England. The match was played at Trent Bridge in Nottingham from 10 to 15 June with a rest day on 13 June. Australia won the match by eight wickets to take a 1–0 series lead. The Australians started the match as firm favourites, having won the previous series against England 3–0; in the lead-up to the 1948 series, they had won 10 of their 12 tour matches in England, mostly by", "id": "497621" }, { "contents": "Giles Baring\n\n\nAfricans on 22 May 1935, for Hampshire in Hampshire v Australians on 25 May 1938, and for H. D. G. Leveson Gowers XI v Australian Services on 7 July 1945. He played for Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) between 1935 and 1946, and his last first-class game was in the MCC v Cambridge University match on 29 June 1946. Baring was a right-arm fast bowler and also a right-hand batsman. As a bowler, he took 197 wickets for 5,607 runs, an average of 28.46.", "id": "9091808" }, { "contents": "Herbert Sutcliffe's cricket career (1919–27)\n\n\nWaddington in 1925. Arthur Mitchell was still a reserve and Cyril Turner made his first-class debut. The first four Tests of the 1926 England v Australia series were scheduled for just three days and were all curtailed by poor weather. The final Test at The Oval was timeless to ensure a finish. It has become one of the most famous matches in cricket history, not because England regained The Ashes for the first time since 1912 but for the manner it which it was achieved as Hobbs and Sutcliffe produced their most famous", "id": "18930780" }, { "contents": "Günther Lützow\n\n\nfighter destroyed. Two days later, he destroyed three aircraft, two SB-2 bombers and a Petlyakov Pe-2 ground attack aircraft. On 27 June, he shot down an Ilyushin DB-3 bomber followed by another Pe-2 on the following day, his last victory of June 1941. Following a DB-3 bomber claimed on 7 July, Lützow was credited with four aerial victories on 10 July, consisting of one Vultee V-11 attack aircraft and three I-153s. The next day he claimed an II-16. On 15 July he shot down two further I-16s and another", "id": "3340503" }, { "contents": "1966 in Norwegian football\n\n\nResults from Norwegian football in 1966. April 22 April 24 April 27 May 19 April 30 May 1 May 6 May 7 May 8 May 15 May 19 May 22 May 23 May 27 May 28 May 30 May 31 June 3 June 4 June 5 June 15 June 16 June 19 June 20 July 31 August 3 August 6 August 7 August 8 August 24 August 17 August 27 August 28 September 11 September 22 September 23 September 24 October 9 October 15 October 16 October 17 October 23 July 31 August 1 August 2 August 3 Rematch", "id": "21974049" }, { "contents": "Headingley Cricket Ground\n\n\nwickets each. Donald Bradman's innings of 334 in the 1930 Ashes Test included 309 runs on the first day, and he followed it in the Australians' next test at Headingley in 1934 with an innings of 304. Spinner Hedley Verity took 10 wickets for 10 runs in 1932 for Yorkshire v Nottinghamshire, still the best bowling analysis ever in first-class cricket. Verity had also taken all ten against Warwickshire at Headingley in 1931. In the 1948 Ashes series, Australia scored 404 for three on the last day to beat", "id": "11240346" }, { "contents": "List of international awards of Rohit Sharma\n\n\nRohit Sharma is an Indian international cricketer. He made his international cricket debut in June 2007. He has scored twenty-nine centuries in international cricket; three in Tests, twenty-two in One Day Internationals (ODI) and four in Twenty20 International (T20Is). As of July 2019, Sharma has played 27 Tests, 215 One Day Internationals and 94 Twenty20 Internationals. As of July 2019, Rohit won 19 Man of the Match awards and 4 Man of the Series awards in One Day Internationals; 1 Man of", "id": "21442897" }, { "contents": "Ollie Pope\n\n\nthe 2016 Royal London One-Day Cup against Yorkshire. He made his first-class debut on 28 March 2017 for Surrey against Oxford MCCU as part of the Marylebone Cricket Club University fixtures. Pope scored his maiden List A half-century on 7 May 2017 against Sussex. He made his Twenty20 debut for Surrey in the 2017 NatWest t20 Blast on 7 July 2017. In August 2018, he was added to England's squad for the second Test against India. He made his Test debut at Lord's for England against", "id": "11076451" }, { "contents": "Australian cricket team in the West Indies in 2015\n\n\nThe Australian cricket team toured the West Indies from 27 May to 15 June 2015. The tour consisted of one first-class warm-up match and two Test matches. On 8 April 2015, the West Indies Cricket Board brought forward the date of the two Test matches by two days \"due to a number of logistical challenges beyond [their] control\". Australia won the 2-match Test series 2–0 and therefore retained the Frank Worrell Trophy. Australia announced their squad on 31 March 2015. They included three uncapped players,", "id": "17936722" }, { "contents": "Zimbabwean cricket team in Sri Lanka in 2017\n\n\nThe Zimbabwe cricket team toured Sri Lanka in June and July 2017 to play one Test match and five One Day Internationals (ODIs). Originally, the schedule was for two Test matches and three ODIs. It was Zimbabwe's first tour to Sri Lanka since January 2002. All the matches were played as day games. Zimbabwe won the ODI series 3–2, their first ever series win against Sri Lanka. It was their first away series win since 2009 and the first away series win against a Test nation since defeating Bangladesh in", "id": "5384529" }, { "contents": "Ashwell Prince\n\n\nthe batting. Opening with debutant Imraan Khan, Prince scored 150, his 11th Test century. Prince signed a contract to play for Lancashire County Cricket Club the 2009 English season. He acted as cover for V. V. S. Laxman, the club's other overseas player, who was unavailable at times because he was playing in the Indian Premier League. Prince score his first century for Lancashire at the start of May during a match against Nottinghamshire. The knock came off 135 not out from 189 balls came on the final day of", "id": "12899038" }, { "contents": "Herbert Sutcliffe\n\n\nand 1926, Sutcliffe's skill was a primary factor in Yorkshire having the longest unbeaten run in county cricket: i.e., 70 matches without loss until early 1927. After three defeats in 1927, Yorkshire went a further 58 games without loss until 1929. The first four Tests of the 1926 England v Australia series were scheduled for just three days and were all curtailed by poor weather. The final Test at the Oval was timeless to ensure a finish. It has become one of the most famous matches in cricket history, not", "id": "18571331" }, { "contents": "Indian cricket team in England in 2011\n\n\nThe Indian cricket team toured England from 21 July to 16 September 2011. The tour consisted of one Twenty20 International (T20I), five One Day Internationals (ODIs) and four Test matches, as well as a number of matches against English county sides. The opening Test at Lord's was the 2,000th Test. England's victory in the Third Test put them number one in the world rankings. Virat Kohli, Pragyan Ojha and RP Singh replaced the injured Yuvraj Singh, Harbhajan Singh and Zaheer Khan, respectively, for the", "id": "4970296" }, { "contents": "Cricket in the British Isles\n\n\nIt played its first test match against Australia in 1877 and played its first One Day International (ODI) also againist Australia in 1971. One of the main cricket grounds in England, and also widely regarded as the spiritual home of cricket, is Lords Cricket Ground in London. Other major cricket grounds include The Oval (also in London), Edgbaston in Birmingham, Old Trafford in Manchester and Trent Bridge in Nottingham. From 1909 until 2017 England was the only country within the British Isles to have full membership of the ICC", "id": "17756246" }, { "contents": "Eton v Harrow\n\n\nplayed for Harrow in the four matches in 1822 to 1825, and arranged the first University Match at Lord's in 1827, two years before the first Boat Race. Many Eton and Harrow players went on to win blues at Oxford and Cambridge. Eton v Harrow was joined by the University Match and Gentlemen v Players as the three key features in the England cricket season. In its heyday, in the late 19th century and early 20th century, \"the School's day\" was one of the highlights of the London \"", "id": "10600897" }, { "contents": "Mathew Dimond\n\n\nMathew Dimond (born 24 September 1975) is a former English cricketer who made played for Somerset County Cricket Club between 1994 and 1997. Early in his career, he toured the West Indies with the England Under-19 cricket team, playing three Tests and one One Day International at Under-19 level. A right-arm fast-medium bowler, he made his first-class debut for Somerset in June 1994. Playing in the County Championship against Hampshire, Dimond claimed a solitary wicket in the match, which was shortened to single innings", "id": "558840" }, { "contents": "Charlie Charters\n\n\n’ Although the 2004 Islanders lost each of the three Test matches they played (29-14 v Wallabies, 41-26 v All Blacks and 24-38 v Springboks in Gosford, Australia), they scored 10 tries in three matches. By comparison that same southern hemisphere season, England and Scotland scored only three tries between them in their five Tests against the All Blacks and Wallabies. In fact, the 2004 Islanders scored more tries in one Test against the All Blacks (four) than the three tries the 2005", "id": "16741154" }, { "contents": "Australian cricket team in South Africa in 1993–94\n\n\nmatch by one run, levelling the ODI series at 4–4 with an \"improbable victory\". As well as the internationals, three first-class matches and two other matches were played during the tour The tour began with a friendly one-day match against NF Oppenheimer's XI, followed by a first-class match against Northern Transvaal and a one-day match against a representative side. Before the first Test match Australia played a first-class match against Orange Free State and between the first and second Tests they played", "id": "5209672" }, { "contents": "Bangladeshi cricket team in Zimbabwe in 2011\n\n\nThe Bangladesh cricket team toured Zimbabwe from 4 to 21 August 2011. The tour consisted of one Test match and five One Day Internationals (ODIs) played against the Zimbabwean national team and one first-class match played against a Zimbabwean representative team. The Test match was Zimbabwe's first since India toured Zimbabwe in 2005. Zimbabwe won the Test match by 130 runs and also won the one-day series 3–2. Bangladesh announced its squad for the Test match and ODI series on 15 July 2011. Zimbabwe announced its squad for", "id": "19159411" }, { "contents": "V. V. S. Laxman\n\n\nfrom international cricket. Although he was selected for the upcoming New Zealand series, he opted not to play in the series but he will play in domestic cricket for Hyderabad and the Indian Premier League . It was announced that the northern stand at the Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium will now be named after him. Laxman was particularly prolific against Australia, in both Tests and One Day Internationals. Six out of his 17 Test hundreds, and four out of his six ODI hundreds came against Australia. He has two double-centuries", "id": "9815623" }, { "contents": "3rd Battalion, 319th Field Artillery Regiment\n\n\nVII and another platoon to LZ Challenge from 3–5 July. Battery C located at FSB Rock near Bac Loc and conducted two 1-day raids on 11 & 13 June. Battery D located at LZ Lowboy, with 2 howitzers sent on Operation Red Thrust V in 5 days ending 2 May. On 12 July, Battery D displaced to support Battery A from FSB Hawkeye but returned to LZ Lowboy until 28 July, then occupied FSB Hunky. The battalion received three 105mm howitzers in May. In July, LTC John R. Martin replaced LTC Joseph", "id": "2060226" }, { "contents": "W. G. Grace in the 1878 English cricket season\n\n\nthis match attracted few spectators as it coincided with the Surrey v Australians match at The Oval, which drew very large crowds. \"Wisden Cricketers' Almanack\" commented that \"the Australians were attracting monster gatherings at The Oval on the days that this match was played, consequently very few visitors were at Lord's\". There were three North v South fixtures in June. The first two were played at Prince's Cricket Ground and Lord's with the South as the \"home\" team; the third took place at the", "id": "15478186" }, { "contents": "Third Test, 1948 Ashes series\n\n\nThe Third Test of the 1948 Ashes series was one of five Tests in a cricket series between teams representing Australia and England. The match was played at Old Trafford in Manchester from 8–13 July, with a rest day on 11 July. The match was drawn after the whole of the fourth day and the first half of the fifth day was washed out due to rain; England had the upper hand before the weather intervened. The draw maintained Australia's 2–0 lead in the series, which was established through victories in the first", "id": "497412" }, { "contents": "Giles Baring\n\n\n, Gresham's School, Holt, and Magdalene College, Cambridge. He represented Cambridge University in 1930 and 1931 and Hampshire between 1930 and 1939. Apart from more than fifty regular county championship games, he played in the Cambridge University v New Zealanders match of 3 June 1931, for the Gentlemen in the Gentlemen v Players matches of 2 September 1931 and 11 July 1934, for Hampshire in Hampshire v West Indians on 24 May 1933, for Hampshire in Hampshire v Australians on 23 May 1934, for Hampshire in Hampshire v South", "id": "9091807" }, { "contents": "2013–14 Bangladeshi cricket season\n\n\nand Mirpur. Both Test matches ended in draws, Bangladesh won all three One Day Internationals and New Zealand won the sole Twenty20 International. Sri Lanka toured Bangladesh in January and February 2014 playing two Test Matches, three One Day Internationals and two Twenty20 Internationals. Sri Lanka won every match, with the exception of the second Test match which ended in a draw. Initially it was planned that the NCL would be held in November and December 2013, the BCL in May and June 2014 and the BPL in December and January.", "id": "18068868" }, { "contents": "Darrell Hair\n\n\nby the ICC on 12 March 2008 and stood in the England v New Zealand tests at Old Trafford in May and Trent Bridge in June 2008. Hair umpired his first Test match in January 1992, between Australia and India in Adelaide. In 1994 the International Cricket Council (ICC) introduced a policy of appointing one umpire to each Test match from a non-participating country, and since 2002 both umpires have been appointed from non-participating nations. Since 2002 the majority of Hair’s Test matches have been played outside Australia", "id": "17469081" }, { "contents": "Timeline of events preceding World War II\n\n\n15 October 2 November 14 January February 6 March 7 March 25 May 5 June 3 July 17 August 1 October October 18 November 14 November 15 November 25 December 1 December 12 December 23 December 24 January 20 May 28 July 7 August 13 October 5 November 6 November 26 December 1 December 8 December 11 December 12 December 13 January 26 March 6 March 13 March 24 July 6–16 July 29 August September 27 September 30 October 5 November 7 November 9 January 25 January 27 March 14 March 15 March 16 March 20 March 21 March 23", "id": "6767331" }, { "contents": "South African cricket team in England in 1924\n\n\nThe South African cricket team toured England in the 1924 season to play a five-match Test series against England. England won the series 3-0 with 2 matches drawn. The tourists, with their ages on the first day of the first match of the tour on 3 May, were: George Parker (24) also played three first-class matches (including the first two Tests) and Aubrey Faulkner (42) played one match, the Third Test. The manager was George Allsop. South Africa's score", "id": "12941168" }, { "contents": "2018 English cricket season\n\n\ninternational sides toured England and Wales during the season: Pakistan, Australia and India. Pakistan also visited Ireland midway through the tour and played the Irish team's first Test match at Malahide near Dublin. In preparation for this match the Irish team played a first-class match against Somerset at Taunton in April. At the end of their tour Pakistan played two T20 matches in Scotland on 12 and 13 June. The England team played a One Day International (ODI) against Scotland in Edinburgh in June, losing to Scotland for", "id": "6929601" }, { "contents": "V. V. S. Laxman\n\n\n112 in the second test. This ensured his place on the tour of Australia which would be his third to that country. Laxman's good form continued in the 2007-08 Test series against Australia with him scoring 109 against Australia on the second day of the controversial Sydney Test to put India back into the contest. It was his 12th hundred in Test matches, and his 5th against Australia. It was also his third consecutive century at SCG, giving him an average well above 90 at the venue. He followed this", "id": "9815609" }, { "contents": "2019 Ashes series\n\n\nthree cricketers were named in Australia's squad for the 2019 Ashes. Meanwhile, England warmed up for the 2019 Ashes with a Test series earlier in the year against the West Indies and a one-off Test against Ireland in July. The tour of the West Indies comprised three matches and was won 2–1 by the West Indies. England also won the one-off Test against Ireland, by 143 runs. Ahead of the series, it was announced that Day 2 of the Lord’s Test would benefit the Ruth Strauss Foundation", "id": "18532603" }, { "contents": "V. V. S. Laxman\n\n\n1–1. He was awarded the Man of the Match for his match-winning innings of 96. His knock was voted as the best Test batting performance of the year by ESPNCricinfo. In three test matches, Laxman scored three consecutive fifties including two scores in eighties against the West Indies during India's tour of West Indies in June 2011. During India's Tour to England, Laxman scored just two half-centuries in eight innings as India went down 0–4 to England. This was India's first Test series loss since its", "id": "9815620" }, { "contents": "2014–15 Bangladeshi cricket season\n\n\nThe 2014–15 Bangladeshi cricket season featured tours of the country by Zimbabwe and Pakistan. Rangpur Division won the National Cricket League (NCL) championship title for the first time. Zimbabwe toured Bangladesh from 26 October to 1 December 2014, playing three Test matches and five One Day International matches. Bangladesh won the Test series 3–0 and the ODI series 5–0. Pakistan toured from 15 April to 10 May 2015, playing one Twenty20 International (T20I), three One Day Internationals (ODIs) and two Test matches. Pakistan won the Test", "id": "895026" }, { "contents": "Australia women's cricket team in England in 2019\n\n\nThe Australia women's cricket team toured England in June and July 2019 to play the England women's cricket team to contest the Women's Ashes. The tour consisted of three Women's One Day Internationals (WODIs), one Women's Test match and three Women's Twenty20 Internationals (WT20Is). A points-based system was used across all three formats of the tour. The Women's Ashes were held by Australia prior to the start of the series. Australia women won the WODI series 3–0, therefore taking a 6–0", "id": "15341273" }, { "contents": "Pakistani cricket team in England in 1962\n\n\nof three one-day games (not limited overs). The first two were drawn and the Pakistanis won the third one against Colonel Stevens' XI. These three matches were, in effect, warm-ups only and not first-class. The opening first-class fixture was against Worcestershire at New Road, starting on Wednesday, 2 May. The Pakistanis were given a foretaste of the Test series to come in that Tom Graveney scored a century for the home team (and was presented with his county cap immediately afterwards", "id": "12941094" }, { "contents": "New Zealand cricket team in Australia in 2015–16\n\n\nThe New Zealand cricket team toured Australia from 23 October to 1 December 2015 to play three Test matches and four tour matches. The third match of the series at the Adelaide Oval was the first ever day-night Test. Michael Hussey captained the Prime Minister's XI side for the tour match, and in preparation for the day-night Test, a pink ball was used in this game. Australia won the series 2–0, with victories in Brisbane and Adelaide, with the second Test in Perth being drawn. Following the", "id": "1307472" }, { "contents": "Kennington\n\n\nThe Kia Oval\", is the home ground for Surrey County Cricket Club and hosts the final Test match of the English summer season. The Oval was the first ground in the United Kingdom to host Test cricket, was the location for the England v Scotland representative matches, the first ever international football match, the first FA Cup final in 1872, and held the second ever rugby union international match between England and Scotland in 1872. England's unfortunate performance against Australia here in 1882 gave rise to The Ashes. The Oval", "id": "10346916" }, { "contents": "Indian cricket team in Zimbabwe in 2001\n\n\nThe Indian cricket team toured Zimbabwe from 28 May to 7 July 2001 and played two Test matches against Zimbabwe, with each team winning one game match. This would be Zimbabwe's only Test victory over a side other than Bangladesh until they beat Pakistan in the second Test in 2013. India and Zimbabwe also participated in a triangular One Day International (ODI) competition with West Indies, with the latter eventually winning the competition. The Coca-Cola Cup was a One Day International (ODI) tournament that followed the Test series", "id": "4099650" }, { "contents": "Andrew Balbirnie\n\n\nHe played three further One Day International's during the tournament. He made his Twenty20 International debut against Scotland on 19 June 2015, although no play was possible due to rain. He was part of the Ireland A team which toured Bangladesh in October 2017 to play one first-class match and five limited overs matches against the Bangladesh A team. In May 2018, he was named in a fourteen-man squad for Ireland's first ever Test match, which was played against Pakistan later the same month. He made his", "id": "2597279" }, { "contents": "Pakistani cricket team in Scotland in 2018\n\n\nThe Pakistan cricket team toured Scotland to play two Twenty20 International (T20I) matches at The Grange Club, Edinburgh, on 12 and 13 June 2018. Pakistan last toured Scotland in May 2013 to play two One Day Internationals. Both teams last met in a T20I fixture in the group stage of the 2007 ICC World Twenty20 tournament. This was the first time that Scotland had played a home T20I match against a full member side. The tour followed Pakistan's tour of England and their one Test series in Ireland. England also", "id": "373509" }, { "contents": "2017 June rugby union tests\n\n\n2 sides. Australia, the only southern hemisphere Tier 1 nation not to host a test series, staged three one-off test matches; Scotland, Italy and Fiji. The Fijian test was the first between the two sides in Australia since 2010, and was also the first Australia v Tier 2 nation match in Australia since Samoa visited in 2011. Fiji also played host to Italy and Scotland to become the second Tier 2 nation to play three back-back Tier 1 sides during an international window, after Samoa participated in", "id": "13232867" }, { "contents": "Timeline of the 2014 Pacific hurricane season\n\n\nJune 11 June 12 June 13 June 14 June 15 June 28 June 30 July 1 July 2 July 3 July 6 July 7 July 9 July 17 July 18 July 19 July 25 July 26 July 27 July 28 July 29 July 31 August 1 August 2 August 3 August 4 August 5 August 6 August 7 August 8 August 9 August 10 August 12 August 13 August 14 August 15 August 17 August 18 August 21 August 22 August 23 August 24 August 25 August 26 August 27 August 28 August 29 September 2 September 4 September 6", "id": "2400921" } ]

[ { "contents": "Sri Lankan cricket team in England in 2014\n\n\nThe Sri Lanka national cricket team toured England from 13 May to 24 June 2014 for a Twenty20 International (T20I), five One Day Internationals (ODIs) and two Test matches against the England cricket team. They also played three one-day and one four-day tour matches against English county sides, as well as preceding the entire tour with a two-match ODI series against Ireland. Sri Lanka won the Test series 1–0 (the first time they had won a Test series in England), the ODI series", "id": "21939883" }, { "contents": "New Zealand cricket team in England in 2015\n\n\nThe New Zealand national cricket team toured England from 8 May to 23 June 2015 for two Test matches, five One Day Internationals (ODIs) and a Twenty20 International (T20I) against the England cricket team. They also played two four-day tour matches and a one-day match against English county sides. England won the first Test at Lord's before New Zealand claimed victory in the second Test at Headingley to level the series. England then took an early lead in the ODI series after hitting more than 400 runs", "id": "943447" }, { "contents": "Australian cricket team in England and Ireland in 2015\n\n\nThe Australia national cricket team toured England from June to September 2015 for a five-match Test series, five One Day International (ODI) matches and one Twenty20 International (T20I). The Test series was for the Ashes. They also played two four-day and two three-day first-class matches against English county sides. Australia also played one ODI against Ireland in Belfast. On 31 March 2015, Australia announced a 17-man touring party for the Ashes series. England announced their squad for the first Test on", "id": "1657670" }, { "contents": "David Constant\n\n\n67 first-class appearances. In total he scored 1,517 first-class runs at a batting average of 19.20 with a highest score of 80. Tony Lewis described his innings against Glamorgan on a difficult pitch at Leicester in 1965 as \"one of the bravest innings I ever saw\". His first Test as umpire was the Third Test between England and Pakistan in July 1971. He last stood in an international cricket match in the England v. Australia One Day International at The Oval, London in June 2001. He was the", "id": "14539375" }, { "contents": "Pakistani cricket team in Sri Lanka in 2015\n\n\nThe Pakistan cricket team toured Sri Lanka from 11 June to 1 August 2015. The tour consisted of a three-day tour match against a SLCB President's XI, three Test matches, five One Day International and two Twenty20 International matches. The third Test was originally scheduled to be played at the R Premadasa Stadium, but was changed to the Pallekele International Cricket Stadium in early May. Pakistan outplayed the hosts in all forms of the game by winning the Test series 2–1, the ODI series 3–2 and the T20I series 2–0.", "id": "15080177" }, { "contents": "2010 in American music\n\n\n17 March 22 March 23 March 26 March 30 April 6 April 8 April 13 April 19 April 20 April 21 April 27 April 30 May 4 May 11 May 14 May 17 May 18 May 21 May 25 May 31 June 1 June 8 June 14 June 15 June 18 June 21 June 22 June 28 June 29 July 6 July 7 July 12 July 13 July 15 July 20 July 23 July 25 July 27 July 29 August 3 August 17 August 24 August 31 September 7 September 14 September 21 September 23 September 28 October 5 October", "id": "18556206" }, { "contents": "Warwickshire County Cricket Club\n\n\nand gold and the shirt sponsor is Gullivers Sports Travel. The club's home is Edgbaston Cricket Ground in south Birmingham, which regularly hosts Test and One Day International matches. Cricket may have reached Warwickshire by the end of the 17th century. The \"Warwickshire & Staffordshire Journal\" was certainly aware of the sport in 1738 for it carried a report of a London v Mitcham game at the Artillery Ground on 11 August (London won by 1 wicket). The earliest confirmed reference to cricket in the county is a match announcement", "id": "8941185" }, { "contents": "Irish cricket team in England in 2019\n\n\nThe Ireland cricket team toured England in July 2019 to play a one-off four-day Test match at Lord's. It was the first Test match to be played between the two sides, and was England's first four-day Test match since they toured New Zealand in 1971. It was Ireland's third Test match, and their twelfth international fixture against England. The Test match was part of England's preparations for the 2019 Ashes series. Ahead of the Test, the England cricket team visited Ireland in May", "id": "16268672" }, { "contents": "1919 English cricket season\n\n\n(five wins from fourteen) and Warwickshire were bottom with 7.14% (one win from fourteen). The 1919 County Championship was the 26th since the competition acquired official status in 1890. The opening matches began on Friday, 16 May. These were Middlesex v Nottinghamshire at Lord's and the 1914 (reigning) champions Surrey against Somerset at The Oval. The final match between Essex and Surrey at Leyton was completed on Monday, 1 September. The situation between Yorkshire and Kent on Saturday, 30 August (the second day in", "id": "7320450" }, { "contents": "Timeline of the 2013 Pacific hurricane season\n\n\n15 May 16 May 17 May 28 May 29 May 30 June 1 June 23 June 24 June 25 June 26 June 27 June 29 June 30 July 2 July 3 July 4 July 5 July 6 July 7 July 9 July 25 July 27 July 30 July 31 August 2 August 3 August 4 August 6 August 7 August 8 August 9 August 11 August 16 August 18 August 19 August 20 August 22 August 23 August 24 August 25 August 28 August 29 August 30 August 31 September 1 September 2 September 5 September 6 September 7 September", "id": "957237" }, { "contents": "Prince's Cricket Ground\n\n\nas 'grand and quick and one of the finest playing grounds in England'. The first match played on the ground was Household Brigade v. Lords and Commons on 3 June 1871. Middlesex County Cricket Club used the ground between 1872 and 1876 and played their first match on 23–25 May 1872 against Yorkshire. The ground was also used by South of England and by Gentlemen of the South. Several Gentlemen v Players fixtures were also played there, the first taking place in July 1873. In 1878, the touring Australians played two", "id": "19086180" }, { "contents": "Callum Jackson\n\n\nSussex youth ranks, playing at under-13, under-14, under-15 and under-17 level before joining the second XI as a 16-year-old in 2011. He was selected to represent an English Schools Cricket Association XI in 2011 before making his first appearance for the Sussex first XI on 1 May 2012 in a non-first-class match against the Leeds/Bradford MCC Universities team. In early 2013, Jackson was selected for the England under-19 side to tour South Africa, where he played in both Youth Test matches and three One Day", "id": "16290826" }, { "contents": "2018 English cricket season\n\n\nHurricane Irma and Hurricane Maria in September 2017. Pakistan played two Test matches against England at Lord's and Headingley at the end of May and beginning of June. The series was drawn, each side winning one match. Ahead of the Tests, two first-class matches were played against Kent and Northants. Their match against Ireland took place after the two first-class county matches, and a two-day match was played against Leicestershire between this and the first Test against England. Pakistan won the first Test match by", "id": "6929603" }, { "contents": "1963 in Norwegian football\n\n\nResults from Norwegian football in 1963. April 26 April 28 May 3 May 4 May 5 May 11 May 12 May 30 May 19 May 22 May 23 May 26 May 27 June 7 June 8 June 9 June 14 June 15 June 16 June 22 June 23 June 24 July 26 July 28 July 29 August 2 August 4 August 6 August 17 August 18 August 21 August 22 August 24 August 25 September 7 September 8 September 20 September 22 October 4 October 6 October 13 Årstad promoted Nidelv promoted Harstad - Bodø/Glimt 4 -", "id": "20433032" }, { "contents": "West Indian cricket team in England in 1991\n\n\nThe West Indian cricket team in England in 1991 played three one day internationals and five Tests, under the captaincy of Viv Richards, as part of an extensive tour in which they also played first-class matches against 11 first-class county teams, the combined Minor Counties, the Combined Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, and a World XI to finish, plus 55-over one-day matches against one more first-class county (Gloucestershire) and the Duchess of Norfolk's Invitation XI. Of the non-international matches,", "id": "5157419" }, { "contents": "West Indian cricket team in England in 2007\n\n\nThe West Indian cricket team toured England from 12 May to 7 July 2007 as part of the 2007 English cricket season. The tour included four Tests, two Twenty20 international matches and three One Day Internationals. While England dominated the Test series 3–0, including a record victory over the West Indies, the latter took the ODI series 2:1. In the ICC Test Championship, England are ranked second and West Indies are ranked eighth, though England's most recent series was a whitewash loss in the Ashes against Australia for the first time", "id": "12941423" }, { "contents": "Sri Lankan cricket team in the West Indies in 2018\n\n\nOn 19 May 2018, Cricket West Indies (CWI) announced that they may scrap one of the Test fixtures, replacing it with a couple of one-day matches. However, the day before the first Test, the International Cricket Council (ICC) confirmed that it would be a three-match Test series. Prior to the start of day three of the second Test, the Sri Lankan cricket team protested against umpires' decision on starting the third day's play with a new ball, replacing the old ball.", "id": "19622271" }, { "contents": "Timeline of the 2017 Pacific hurricane season\n\n\ncyclone formations, strengthening, weakening, landfalls, extratropical transitions, and dissipations during the season. May 9 May 10 May 11 May 12 May 15 May 31 June 1 June 2 June 11 June 12 June 13 June 24 June 25 June 26 June 27 June 28 July 1 July 7 July 8 July 9 July 10 July 11 July 12 July 13 July 14 July 15 July 16 July 17 July 18 July 19 July 20 July 21 July 22 July 23 July 24 July 25 July 26 July 27 July 28 July 31 August 1", "id": "7169450" }, { "contents": "Daniel Bell-Drummond\n\n\nmade his youth Test debut on 21 July 2010 at the County Ground, Northampton before scoring unbeaten 88 in the second youth Test later in the same month, aged only 16. He played in both under-19 Test matches and in four youth one-day international matches during England's return tour of Sri Lanka in January and February 2011. In July 2011 Bell-Drummond played in a one-day series against South Africa under-19s. He top-scored for England in three of the seven matches in the series and was the", "id": "6732560" }, { "contents": "1967 in Norwegian football\n\n\nResults from Norwegian football in 1967. April 27 April 28 April 30 May 4 May 6 May 7 May 10 May 11 May 15 May 16 May 18 May 19 May 20 May 21 May 22 June 22 May 25 May 28 June 4 June 10 June 11 June 12 June 13 June 18 June 19 July 30 July 31 August 2 August 6 August 7 August 9 August 10 August 20 August 16 August 20 August 21 September 7 September 10 September 16 September 17 October 6 October 8 October 9 October 12 October 15 October 20 October", "id": "2081596" }, { "contents": "Phil Carlson\n\n\nPhillip Henry Carlson (born 8 August 1951, Nundah, Queensland) is a former Australian cricketer who played in two Tests and four One Day Internationals (ODIs) in 1979. Carlson was an all-rounder who played for Queensland between 1969–70 and 1980–81. He played two Test matches for Australia v England in 1978–79 Ashes series and four One Day Internationals against the same opponents. He was called up by Australia when most of their regular first-choice players were playing in World Series Cricket. Carlson took two Test wickets and", "id": "11409623" }, { "contents": "1962 in Norwegian football\n\n\nResults from Norwegian football in 1962. July 30 August 2 August 3 August 9 August 8 August 13 August 16 August 20 August 21 September 2 September 3 Ørn - Brann 0 - 7 September 24 September 28 October 1 October 15 April 25 October 6 October 8 April 29 May 6 May 12 May 13 May 14 May 20 May 21 May 23 May 24 May 27 May 30 May 31 June 3 June 15 June 16 June 17 June 24 June 25 June 30 July 1 July 29 August 1 August 2 August 4 August 5 August", "id": "9107175" }, { "contents": "Alan Igglesden\n\n\nAlan Paul Igglesden (born 8 October 1964) is a former English Test cricketer. He played three Test Matches and four One Day Internationals (ODIs) for the England cricket team between 1989 and 1994 as a fast bowler. He played most of his first-class cricket career for Kent County Cricket Club. Igglesden was born in Farnborough, London in 1964. He first played for Kent County Cricket Club's Second XI in 1983 before making his first-class cricket debut of the county in July 1986 against Somerset at Maidstone", "id": "8795795" }, { "contents": "Sri Lankan cricket team in England and Ireland in 2016\n\n\nThe Sri Lanka national cricket team toured England from 8 May to 5 July 2016 for a three-match Test series, a five-match One Day International (ODI) series and a one-off Twenty20 International (T20I) against the England cricket team. England won the Test series 2–0, the ODI series 3–0 and won the one-off T20I match by 8 wickets. They also played two first-class matches against Essex and Leicestershire prior to the Test series, and two ODI matches against Ireland prior to the", "id": "15635062" }, { "contents": "South African cricket team in England in 2008\n\n\nThe South African cricket team toured England between 29 June and 4 September 2008. They played four Test matches, one Twenty20 International and five One Day Internationals against England. They also played six tour matches against Somerset, Middlesex, Bangladesh A, a PCA Masters XI and two against the England Lions. It was announced that following the conclusion of this four-match series, future matches between England and South Africa would comprise five Test matches but only three one-day matches after the series was granted 'icon' status.", "id": "18079110" }, { "contents": "2018 English cricket season\n\n\nthe first time in an ODI. The South African women's team also toured England to play three One Day International matches against the England women's cricket team in June and to compete in the 2018 England women's Tri-Nation Series Twenty20 competition against England and New Zealand. New Zealand then played three One Day Internationals against England in July. In addition the West Indies men's side played a single Twenty20 International against a Rest of the World XI team at Lord's in May 2018 to raise funds for stadiums damaged by", "id": "6929602" }, { "contents": "American Rally Association\n\n\nWood Rally March 15 - 16 Olympus Rally April 27 - 28 Oregon Trail Rally May 31 - June 2 Idaho Rally International June 22 - 23 New England Forest Rally July 19 - 20 Muscatell Ojibwe Forests Rally August 23 - 24 Susquehannock Trail Performance Rally September 13 - 14 Lake Superior Performance Rally October 18 - 19 2019 ARA Super Regional Events Southern Ohio Forest Rally May 16 - 18 Rally Colorado July 26 - 27 Tour de Forest Rally September 21, 2019 Empire State Performance Rally October 25 - 26 2019 ARA One-Day Regional", "id": "6404348" }, { "contents": "Pakistani cricket team in England and Ireland in 2016\n\n\nThe Pakistan national cricket team toured England and Ireland from 3 July to 7 September 2016 for a four-match Test series, a five-match One Day International (ODI) series and a one-off Twenty20 International (T20I) against the England cricket team. They also played two three-day matches against Somerset and Sussex prior to the Test series, a two-day match against Worcestershire during the Test series, and two ODI matches against Ireland prior to the ODI series. England's ODI matches against Pakistan was", "id": "15635130" }, { "contents": "Second Test, 1948 Ashes series\n\n\nThe Second Test of the 1948 Ashes series was one of five Tests in a cricket series between Australia and England. The match was played at Lord's in London from 24 to 29 June, with a rest day on 27 June. Australia won the match by 409 runs to take a 2–0 lead, meaning that England would need to win the remaining three matches to regain The Ashes. Australian captain Don Bradman won the toss and elected to bat. The tourists had won the First Test convincingly, and decided to field the", "id": "497516" }, { "contents": "MCC v Australians at Lord's, 27 May 1878\n\n\nin England, the team left Sydney on 29 March 1878 and sailed via Auckland and Honolulu to San Francisco, from where they travelled across America by train to New York City. They crossed the Atlantic, arriving in Liverpool on 13 May, and then went by train to Nottingham where they played their first match, starting on Monday, 20 May. This was a three-day match against Nottinghamshire at Trent Bridge and the Australians were well beaten by an innings and 14 runs, an inauspicious start which dampened much of the public", "id": "16383632" }, { "contents": "Australian women's cricket team in England in 2013\n\n\nThe Australian women's cricket team toured England in 2013. The visitors were defending the Women's Ashes. The only Test match of the tour took place on 11–14 August at Wormsley Park, and was drawn. Three One-Day Internationals (ODIs) were played: the first at Lord's on 20 August, and the other two at Hove on 23 and 25 August. Also three Twenty20 International (T20I) matches were played, on 27, 29 and 31 August, at Chelmsford, Southampton and Chester-le-", "id": "19064429" }, { "contents": "South African cricket team in England in 2017\n\n\nThe South African cricket team toured England and Wales between May and August 2017, playing three One Day Internationals (ODIs), three Twenty20 Internationals (T20Is) and four Test matches. The ODI matches were in preparation for the 2017 ICC Champions Trophy, which took place in England and Wales during June. Extra security was provided to South Africa for the ODI series following the Manchester bombing. England won the ODI series 2–1 and the T20 series 2–1. Ahead of the ODI series, South Africa played one-day warm-", "id": "1555384" }, { "contents": "1Malaysia Development Berhad scandal\n\n\n- 30 September onwards October 20 November 25 December 1 December 5 December 31 2016 January 26 January 29 February 1 February 3 February 7 February 19 February 29 March 23 March 31 April 2 April 5 April 7 April 9 April 12 April 13 April 19 April 28 May 24 May 31 July 11 1MDB agrees to resolve its dispute with International Petroleum Investment Company via the London Court of International Arbitration. July 21 August 9 October 11 December 2 2017 March 22 April 24 May 30 June 15 June 16 August 1 August 2 August 11 August", "id": "14280441" }, { "contents": "Timeline of events preceding World War II\n\n\nJune 30 September 14 May 19 September 18 September 19 January 7 January 28 February 27 March 1 April 10 May 30 August 30 November 21 December 3 January 1 January 30 February 27 February 28 March 4 March 20 March 23 March 24 March 27 April 1 April 26 May 2 May 15 May 31 June 21 July 14 August 25 September 12 October 19 November 24 January 26 February 12–16 March 20 June 30 July 20 July 25 August 2 August 8 September October 16 December 1 December 5 December 29 January 7 June 18 August 31 September", "id": "6767330" }, { "contents": "Timeline of the 2018 Pacific hurricane season\n\n\ntropical cyclone formations, strengthening, weakening, landfalls, extratropical transitions, and dissipations during the season. May 10 May 11 May 13 May 15 June 1 June 6 June 7 June 8 June 9 June 10 June 11 June 12 June 13 June 14 June 15 June 16 June 17 June 19 June 24 June 25 June 26 June 27 June 28 June 29 June 30 July 1 July 2 July 3 July 4 July 5 July 6 July 9 July 26 July 27 July 28 July 29 July 31 August 1 August 2 August 3 August", "id": "21166816" }, { "contents": "English cricket team in Australia in 2017–18\n\n\nThe England cricket team toured Australia between November 2017 and February 2018 to play five Tests and five One Day Internationals (ODIs). They also played in a three nation Twenty20 International (T20I) tournament, along with New Zealand, who co-hosted the tournament along with Australia. England additionally played two first-class matches, a two-day tour match and a one-day tour match against Cricket Australia XI, as well as a Twenty20 against the Prime Minister's XI. The Test matches made up the 2017–18", "id": "21532277" }, { "contents": "Timeline of events preceding World War II\n\n\nApril 16 August 13 October October 11 October 29 November 1 January 11 June July 24 August 31 September 27 October 29 November 8 January 21 February 1 March 16 April 1 April 6 June 10 August 16 August 18 May 12 July 18 December 1 January 3 January 31 April 4 April 24 September 8 December 25 April 12 May 20 June 7 November 12 December 14 May 3 May 28 June 4 August 2 August 27 October 1 February 9 February 11 March 4 March 28 April 3 June 7 July 24 August 31 October 29 April 22", "id": "6767329" }, { "contents": "W. G. Grace in the 1878 English cricket season\n\n\nNewcastle upon Tyne, Bolton and Birmingham to play odds games against local opposition. Grace took 21 wickets in the match against the 22 men of Melton Mowbray in a three-day match starting on Monday, 1 July. He scored 42 and 57 not out in his two innings, the match ending in a draw. Grace caught the evening train to be in London ready for the first Gentlemen v Players match at The Oval, starting on Thursday, 4 July. The next USEE match at Leeds Holbeck followed the second Gentlemen", "id": "15478205" }, { "contents": "List of accidents and incidents involving military aircraft (1950–1954)\n\n\n12 December 19 December 23 December 10 January 11 January 15 January 21 January 28 January 31 January 14 February 13 March 14 March 17 March 23 March 3 April 5 April 5 April 8 April 25 April 27 April 6 May 18 May 19 May 8 June 13 June 15 June 18 June 23 June 23 June 30 June 8 July 31 July Summer 13 August 18 August 21 August 22 August 26 August 27 August 16 September 29 September 15 October 11 November 13 November 19 November 27 November 3 December 7 December 21 December 12 January 15", "id": "21637229" }, { "contents": "Lord's\n\n\nbe switched off by 11 pm. The floodlights were first used successfully on 27 May 2009 during the Twenty20 Cup match between Middlesex and Kent. Lord's hosts Test matches, one-day internationals, some Middlesex home matches, MCC matches and (starting with a fixture between Middlesex and Surrey in July 2004) some of Middlesex's home Twenty20 games. Lord's typically hosts two Tests every summer plus two one-day internationals. Lord's also plays host to the finals of the National Village Cricket Competition, the MCC Universities", "id": "10760657" }, { "contents": "2011 in American music\n\n\nThe following is a list of notable events and releases that happened in 2011 in music in the United States. January 11 January 17 January 18 January 21 January 25 January 31 February 1 February 8 February 15 February 22 March 1 March 8 March 15 March 22 March 29 April 5 April 11 April 12 April 26 May 3 May 10 May 17 May 23 May 24 May 31 June 7 June 14 June 21 June 28 July 5 July 8 July 12 July 13 July 19 July 26 August 2 August 8 August 9 August 16 August", "id": "15423555" }, { "contents": "MCC v Australians at Lord's, 27 May 1878\n\n\nenthusiasm that their visit had generated. The Australians were next due to play Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) in a three-day match at Lord's, commencing on Monday, 27 May. In the meantime, Charles Bannerman and Billy Midwinter were invited to visit Dublin and play for the United South of England Eleven (USEE) against 15 past and present players of Dublin University. This was due to be played over three days, starting on Thursday, 23 May, at College Park. The USEE was captained by W. G.", "id": "16383633" }, { "contents": "West Indian cricket team in England in 1928\n\n\nreach three figures. As at Lord's and Old Trafford, the match was over before lunch on the third day. Including the three Tests, 30 first-class matches were played on the tour, plus six other games. The West Indians won just seven of these 36 matches (five of the first-class games) and lost 12. By the end of May, the touring side had won matches against Derbyshire and Cambridge University, plus a minor match against Northumberland, and had drawn all the other games.", "id": "12941340" }, { "contents": "Bob Willis\n\n\n26 August against Worcestershire's Seconds. Willis, 19 years of age, took one wicket for 48 runs in the first innings, and bowled four wicketless overs in the second. He was not called on to bat at all. Two days later, he faced Glamorgan and took three wickets. He played several further Second XI matches through May and June 1969, before his first-class debut on 6 August. Scotland was touring England that season and had already beaten Warwickshire. Willis took three wickets for 13 runs from 13", "id": "16238759" }, { "contents": "Rock in Rio\n\n\n5 July 6 May 21 / 82.000 May 22 / 45.000 May 27 / 85.000 May 29 / 95.000 May 30 / 38.000 June 4 / 51.000 June 5 / 85.000 June 6 / 90.000 June 11 / 30.000 June 14 / 48.000 Rock in Rio Lisboa V Rock in Rio Lisboa VII Rock in Rio Lisboa VIII June 24 sold out almost three months prior to the festival. \"Rock in Rio USA\" was the first North American edition of the festival, being held in Las Vegas on May 8, 9, 15 and 16", "id": "11140715" }, { "contents": "Indian cricket team in Sri Lanka in 2015\n\n\nThe Indian cricket team toured Sri Lanka from 6 August to 1 September 2015 to play a tour match and three Test matches. On 27 June, Sri Lankan batsman Kumar Sangakkara said he would retire from international cricket after the second Test of the series. The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) and Sri Lanka Cricket Board confirmed the schedule of India's tour to Sri Lanka in August to September 2015. The tour started with a three-day warm-up game against Sri Lanka Board President's XI,", "id": "22038367" }, { "contents": "Andy Cottam\n\n\nAndrew Colin Cottam (born 14 July 1973 in Northampton, England) was an English cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman and a left-arm slow bowler. He played in 2 Under-19 Tests in 1992 and 13 first-class matches between 1992 and 1996. His father is the cricketer and coach Bob Cottam. In 1990 Andy Cottam started playing for Somerset Second XI and Devon. In 1992 he was selected for Under-19's tour of Pakistan and played in the Third Test and 2 one-day matches against Pakistan", "id": "2981363" }, { "contents": "Lord's\n\n\n. The hundredth Lord's Test match was in 2000, England v West Indies. As of 25 August 2010 England have played 119 Test matches at Lord's, winning 45, losing 28 and drawing 46. Lord's often hosts two Test matches each summer, one match for each visiting team. In 2010, the ground hosted three Test matches: as well as England's matches against Bangladesh and Pakistan, a Test match between Australia and Pakistan was held there in July. Lord's was the venue of the 2000th test", "id": "10760663" }, { "contents": "Australian cricket team in Sri Lanka in 2016\n\n\nThe Australian cricket team toured Sri Lanka from 18 July to 9 September 2016 to play three Test matches, five One Day Internationals (ODIs), two Twenty20 Internationals (T20Is) matches and a first-class practice match. The Test series was played for Warne-Muralitharan Trophy, with Sri Lanka winning 3–0, their first ever series whitewash against Australia. As a result, Australia slipped from first to third in the ICC Test Championship; Sri Lanka, who had started the series ranked seventh, moved up to sixth.", "id": "14912886" }, { "contents": "South African cricket team in Australia in 2005–06\n\n\nThe South African cricket team toured Australia for cricket matches during the 2005–06 season. South Africa had already played two One Day International series during this season, beating New Zealand 4–0 at home before travelling to India and drawing the series there 2–2. The team had been playing 14 successive ODIs (tour matches excluded) before arriving in Australia, with their last Test match against West Indies in April and May 2005. South Africa played one first class warm-up match, one three-day warm-up match without first class", "id": "19860549" }, { "contents": "Peter Lever\n\n\n6/38, before his final Test ended on 5 August 1975 during another Ashes tour, Australia facing England at Lord's. Lever also played ten One Day Internationals, including the 1975 Cricket World Cup, taking 11 wickets but scoring only 17 runs. His ODI debut was also against Australia, at Melbourne on 5 January 1971, and his last match was at Headingley, Leeds, again against Australia, on 18 June 1975. This gives Lever the unusual distinction of having played both his debut, and last match, against Australia", "id": "17765992" }, { "contents": "Australian women's cricket team in England in 2009\n\n\nThe Australian women's cricket team toured England between 25 June and 13 July 2009, playing one Test match, five One Day Internationals and a Twenty20 International. Australia won the Twenty20 International, while England won the One Day International series 4–0. The Test match, which was for the Women's Ashes, was drawn; ensuring that England retained them. Prior to the series, both sides took part in the 2009 ICC Women's World Twenty20, which was also held in England in June. England won the tournament, in", "id": "13250607" }, { "contents": "List of accidents and incidents involving military aircraft (1950–1954)\n\n\nJanuary 31 January 7 February 18 March 21 April 24 April May 11 May 12 May 15 May 9 June 11 June 13 June 17 June 18 June 21 June 15 July 17 July 30 July 6 August 6 August 12 August 23 August 26 August 30 August 5 September 9 September 9 September 9 September 11 September 19 September 19 September 25 September 1 October 1 October 7 October 8 October 8 October 11 October 13 October 14 October 17 October 18 October 19 October 20 October 22 October 26 October 2 November 8 November 17 November 23 November", "id": "21637231" }, { "contents": "Follow-on\n\n\n, and gave England a slender lead of 129. The next day a fired-up Bob Willis took 8 for 43, and Australia slumped to 111 all out. Australia, who had won their 16 previous Test matches, including the first of the three-Test series between the two teams, had scored 445 in the first innings of the second Test and restricted India to 171; only V. V. S. Laxman (59) and Rahul Dravid reached 25 runs. The only other bright spot for India was the bowling of", "id": "1078812" }, { "contents": "West Indian cricket team in England in 2017\n\n\nThe West Indies cricket team toured England in August and September 2017 to play three Test matches competing for the Wisden Trophy, one Twenty20 International (T20I) and five One Day Internationals (ODIs). Ahead of the Test series, the West Indies played first-class warm-up matches against Derbyshire, Essex and Kent. They also played a two-day match against Leicestershire, as they did not get to the final of the 2017 NatWest t20 Blast. In October 2016 the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB)", "id": "1555387" }, { "contents": "England women's national rugby league team\n\n\nCup - WIN v France WIN v Russia | LOSS v Australia LOSS v New Zealand WIN v Pacific Islands 2009 International Tests - 25 July | France 8-28 England; France 0-36 England 2010 International Tests - 9 November | England 36-8 France 10 November | New Zealand 44-6 England 16 November | New Zealand 38-6 England 2011 International Tests - 2 July | France 6-36 England 6 July | France 4-42 England 2012 International Test - 15 June | England 48-0 France", "id": "9166568" }, { "contents": "International cricket\n\n\n, One-Day and Twenty20 matches take place in the form of \"tours\". In a tour, one nation travels to another and plays warm-up matches, which may be first-class matches, against domestic teams such as county or state teams, a series of Test matches against the host nation, and either a series of One-Day (ODi) and T20 matches against the host nation or a tournament involving the host nation and another touring nation. Tours may include Test, ODI and T20I matches", "id": "6028418" }, { "contents": "West Indian cricket team in England in 2000\n\n\nThe West Indies cricket team toured England in the 2000 cricket season. West Indies played five Tests against England - two in June and three in August - with a triangular One Day International (ODI) series involving Zimbabwe in July. In June, West Indies won the 1st Test at Edgbaston convincingly, before England narrowly won the 2nd Test at Lord's, having bowled West Indies out for 54 in their second innings. The ODI series, sponsored by NatWest, took place in July, with England, West Indies and Zimbabwe", "id": "12941417" }, { "contents": "First Test, 1948 Ashes series\n\n\nThe First Test of the 1948 Ashes series was one of five Tests in a cricket series between Australia and England. The match was played at Trent Bridge in Nottingham from 10 to 15 June with a rest day on 13 June. Australia won the match by eight wickets to take a 1–0 series lead. The Australians started the match as firm favourites, having won the previous series against England 3–0; in the lead-up to the 1948 series, they had won 10 of their 12 tour matches in England, mostly by", "id": "497621" }, { "contents": "Giles Baring\n\n\nAfricans on 22 May 1935, for Hampshire in Hampshire v Australians on 25 May 1938, and for H. D. G. Leveson Gowers XI v Australian Services on 7 July 1945. He played for Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) between 1935 and 1946, and his last first-class game was in the MCC v Cambridge University match on 29 June 1946. Baring was a right-arm fast bowler and also a right-hand batsman. As a bowler, he took 197 wickets for 5,607 runs, an average of 28.46.", "id": "9091808" }, { "contents": "Herbert Sutcliffe's cricket career (1919–27)\n\n\nWaddington in 1925. Arthur Mitchell was still a reserve and Cyril Turner made his first-class debut. The first four Tests of the 1926 England v Australia series were scheduled for just three days and were all curtailed by poor weather. The final Test at The Oval was timeless to ensure a finish. It has become one of the most famous matches in cricket history, not because England regained The Ashes for the first time since 1912 but for the manner it which it was achieved as Hobbs and Sutcliffe produced their most famous", "id": "18930780" }, { "contents": "Günther Lützow\n\n\nfighter destroyed. Two days later, he destroyed three aircraft, two SB-2 bombers and a Petlyakov Pe-2 ground attack aircraft. On 27 June, he shot down an Ilyushin DB-3 bomber followed by another Pe-2 on the following day, his last victory of June 1941. Following a DB-3 bomber claimed on 7 July, Lützow was credited with four aerial victories on 10 July, consisting of one Vultee V-11 attack aircraft and three I-153s. The next day he claimed an II-16. On 15 July he shot down two further I-16s and another", "id": "3340503" }, { "contents": "1966 in Norwegian football\n\n\nResults from Norwegian football in 1966. April 22 April 24 April 27 May 19 April 30 May 1 May 6 May 7 May 8 May 15 May 19 May 22 May 23 May 27 May 28 May 30 May 31 June 3 June 4 June 5 June 15 June 16 June 19 June 20 July 31 August 3 August 6 August 7 August 8 August 24 August 17 August 27 August 28 September 11 September 22 September 23 September 24 October 9 October 15 October 16 October 17 October 23 July 31 August 1 August 2 August 3 Rematch", "id": "21974049" }, { "contents": "Headingley Cricket Ground\n\n\nwickets each. Donald Bradman's innings of 334 in the 1930 Ashes Test included 309 runs on the first day, and he followed it in the Australians' next test at Headingley in 1934 with an innings of 304. Spinner Hedley Verity took 10 wickets for 10 runs in 1932 for Yorkshire v Nottinghamshire, still the best bowling analysis ever in first-class cricket. Verity had also taken all ten against Warwickshire at Headingley in 1931. In the 1948 Ashes series, Australia scored 404 for three on the last day to beat", "id": "11240346" }, { "contents": "List of international awards of Rohit Sharma\n\n\nRohit Sharma is an Indian international cricketer. He made his international cricket debut in June 2007. He has scored twenty-nine centuries in international cricket; three in Tests, twenty-two in One Day Internationals (ODI) and four in Twenty20 International (T20Is). As of July 2019, Sharma has played 27 Tests, 215 One Day Internationals and 94 Twenty20 Internationals. As of July 2019, Rohit won 19 Man of the Match awards and 4 Man of the Series awards in One Day Internationals; 1 Man of", "id": "21442897" }, { "contents": "Ollie Pope\n\n\nthe 2016 Royal London One-Day Cup against Yorkshire. He made his first-class debut on 28 March 2017 for Surrey against Oxford MCCU as part of the Marylebone Cricket Club University fixtures. Pope scored his maiden List A half-century on 7 May 2017 against Sussex. He made his Twenty20 debut for Surrey in the 2017 NatWest t20 Blast on 7 July 2017. In August 2018, he was added to England's squad for the second Test against India. He made his Test debut at Lord's for England against", "id": "11076451" }, { "contents": "Australian cricket team in the West Indies in 2015\n\n\nThe Australian cricket team toured the West Indies from 27 May to 15 June 2015. The tour consisted of one first-class warm-up match and two Test matches. On 8 April 2015, the West Indies Cricket Board brought forward the date of the two Test matches by two days \"due to a number of logistical challenges beyond [their] control\". Australia won the 2-match Test series 2–0 and therefore retained the Frank Worrell Trophy. Australia announced their squad on 31 March 2015. They included three uncapped players,", "id": "17936722" }, { "contents": "Zimbabwean cricket team in Sri Lanka in 2017\n\n\nThe Zimbabwe cricket team toured Sri Lanka in June and July 2017 to play one Test match and five One Day Internationals (ODIs). Originally, the schedule was for two Test matches and three ODIs. It was Zimbabwe's first tour to Sri Lanka since January 2002. All the matches were played as day games. Zimbabwe won the ODI series 3–2, their first ever series win against Sri Lanka. It was their first away series win since 2009 and the first away series win against a Test nation since defeating Bangladesh in", "id": "5384529" }, { "contents": "Ashwell Prince\n\n\nthe batting. Opening with debutant Imraan Khan, Prince scored 150, his 11th Test century. Prince signed a contract to play for Lancashire County Cricket Club the 2009 English season. He acted as cover for V. V. S. Laxman, the club's other overseas player, who was unavailable at times because he was playing in the Indian Premier League. Prince score his first century for Lancashire at the start of May during a match against Nottinghamshire. The knock came off 135 not out from 189 balls came on the final day of", "id": "12899038" }, { "contents": "Herbert Sutcliffe\n\n\nand 1926, Sutcliffe's skill was a primary factor in Yorkshire having the longest unbeaten run in county cricket: i.e., 70 matches without loss until early 1927. After three defeats in 1927, Yorkshire went a further 58 games without loss until 1929. The first four Tests of the 1926 England v Australia series were scheduled for just three days and were all curtailed by poor weather. The final Test at the Oval was timeless to ensure a finish. It has become one of the most famous matches in cricket history, not", "id": "18571331" }, { "contents": "Indian cricket team in England in 2011\n\n\nThe Indian cricket team toured England from 21 July to 16 September 2011. The tour consisted of one Twenty20 International (T20I), five One Day Internationals (ODIs) and four Test matches, as well as a number of matches against English county sides. The opening Test at Lord's was the 2,000th Test. England's victory in the Third Test put them number one in the world rankings. Virat Kohli, Pragyan Ojha and RP Singh replaced the injured Yuvraj Singh, Harbhajan Singh and Zaheer Khan, respectively, for the", "id": "4970296" }, { "contents": "Cricket in the British Isles\n\n\nIt played its first test match against Australia in 1877 and played its first One Day International (ODI) also againist Australia in 1971. One of the main cricket grounds in England, and also widely regarded as the spiritual home of cricket, is Lords Cricket Ground in London. Other major cricket grounds include The Oval (also in London), Edgbaston in Birmingham, Old Trafford in Manchester and Trent Bridge in Nottingham. From 1909 until 2017 England was the only country within the British Isles to have full membership of the ICC", "id": "17756246" }, { "contents": "Eton v Harrow\n\n\nplayed for Harrow in the four matches in 1822 to 1825, and arranged the first University Match at Lord's in 1827, two years before the first Boat Race. Many Eton and Harrow players went on to win blues at Oxford and Cambridge. Eton v Harrow was joined by the University Match and Gentlemen v Players as the three key features in the England cricket season. In its heyday, in the late 19th century and early 20th century, \"the School's day\" was one of the highlights of the London \"", "id": "10600897" }, { "contents": "Mathew Dimond\n\n\nMathew Dimond (born 24 September 1975) is a former English cricketer who made played for Somerset County Cricket Club between 1994 and 1997. Early in his career, he toured the West Indies with the England Under-19 cricket team, playing three Tests and one One Day International at Under-19 level. A right-arm fast-medium bowler, he made his first-class debut for Somerset in June 1994. Playing in the County Championship against Hampshire, Dimond claimed a solitary wicket in the match, which was shortened to single innings", "id": "558840" }, { "contents": "Charlie Charters\n\n\n’ Although the 2004 Islanders lost each of the three Test matches they played (29-14 v Wallabies, 41-26 v All Blacks and 24-38 v Springboks in Gosford, Australia), they scored 10 tries in three matches. By comparison that same southern hemisphere season, England and Scotland scored only three tries between them in their five Tests against the All Blacks and Wallabies. In fact, the 2004 Islanders scored more tries in one Test against the All Blacks (four) than the three tries the 2005", "id": "16741154" }, { "contents": "Australian cricket team in South Africa in 1993–94\n\n\nmatch by one run, levelling the ODI series at 4–4 with an \"improbable victory\". As well as the internationals, three first-class matches and two other matches were played during the tour The tour began with a friendly one-day match against NF Oppenheimer's XI, followed by a first-class match against Northern Transvaal and a one-day match against a representative side. Before the first Test match Australia played a first-class match against Orange Free State and between the first and second Tests they played", "id": "5209672" }, { "contents": "Bangladeshi cricket team in Zimbabwe in 2011\n\n\nThe Bangladesh cricket team toured Zimbabwe from 4 to 21 August 2011. The tour consisted of one Test match and five One Day Internationals (ODIs) played against the Zimbabwean national team and one first-class match played against a Zimbabwean representative team. The Test match was Zimbabwe's first since India toured Zimbabwe in 2005. Zimbabwe won the Test match by 130 runs and also won the one-day series 3–2. Bangladesh announced its squad for the Test match and ODI series on 15 July 2011. Zimbabwe announced its squad for", "id": "19159411" }, { "contents": "V. V. S. Laxman\n\n\nfrom international cricket. Although he was selected for the upcoming New Zealand series, he opted not to play in the series but he will play in domestic cricket for Hyderabad and the Indian Premier League . It was announced that the northern stand at the Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium will now be named after him. Laxman was particularly prolific against Australia, in both Tests and One Day Internationals. Six out of his 17 Test hundreds, and four out of his six ODI hundreds came against Australia. He has two double-centuries", "id": "9815623" }, { "contents": "3rd Battalion, 319th Field Artillery Regiment\n\n\nVII and another platoon to LZ Challenge from 3–5 July. Battery C located at FSB Rock near Bac Loc and conducted two 1-day raids on 11 & 13 June. Battery D located at LZ Lowboy, with 2 howitzers sent on Operation Red Thrust V in 5 days ending 2 May. On 12 July, Battery D displaced to support Battery A from FSB Hawkeye but returned to LZ Lowboy until 28 July, then occupied FSB Hunky. The battalion received three 105mm howitzers in May. In July, LTC John R. Martin replaced LTC Joseph", "id": "2060226" }, { "contents": "W. G. Grace in the 1878 English cricket season\n\n\nthis match attracted few spectators as it coincided with the Surrey v Australians match at The Oval, which drew very large crowds. \"Wisden Cricketers' Almanack\" commented that \"the Australians were attracting monster gatherings at The Oval on the days that this match was played, consequently very few visitors were at Lord's\". There were three North v South fixtures in June. The first two were played at Prince's Cricket Ground and Lord's with the South as the \"home\" team; the third took place at the", "id": "15478186" }, { "contents": "Third Test, 1948 Ashes series\n\n\nThe Third Test of the 1948 Ashes series was one of five Tests in a cricket series between teams representing Australia and England. The match was played at Old Trafford in Manchester from 8–13 July, with a rest day on 11 July. The match was drawn after the whole of the fourth day and the first half of the fifth day was washed out due to rain; England had the upper hand before the weather intervened. The draw maintained Australia's 2–0 lead in the series, which was established through victories in the first", "id": "497412" }, { "contents": "Giles Baring\n\n\n, Gresham's School, Holt, and Magdalene College, Cambridge. He represented Cambridge University in 1930 and 1931 and Hampshire between 1930 and 1939. Apart from more than fifty regular county championship games, he played in the Cambridge University v New Zealanders match of 3 June 1931, for the Gentlemen in the Gentlemen v Players matches of 2 September 1931 and 11 July 1934, for Hampshire in Hampshire v West Indians on 24 May 1933, for Hampshire in Hampshire v Australians on 23 May 1934, for Hampshire in Hampshire v South", "id": "9091807" }, { "contents": "2013–14 Bangladeshi cricket season\n\n\nand Mirpur. Both Test matches ended in draws, Bangladesh won all three One Day Internationals and New Zealand won the sole Twenty20 International. Sri Lanka toured Bangladesh in January and February 2014 playing two Test Matches, three One Day Internationals and two Twenty20 Internationals. Sri Lanka won every match, with the exception of the second Test match which ended in a draw. Initially it was planned that the NCL would be held in November and December 2013, the BCL in May and June 2014 and the BPL in December and January.", "id": "18068868" }, { "contents": "Darrell Hair\n\n\nby the ICC on 12 March 2008 and stood in the England v New Zealand tests at Old Trafford in May and Trent Bridge in June 2008. Hair umpired his first Test match in January 1992, between Australia and India in Adelaide. In 1994 the International Cricket Council (ICC) introduced a policy of appointing one umpire to each Test match from a non-participating country, and since 2002 both umpires have been appointed from non-participating nations. Since 2002 the majority of Hair’s Test matches have been played outside Australia", "id": "17469081" }, { "contents": "Timeline of events preceding World War II\n\n\n15 October 2 November 14 January February 6 March 7 March 25 May 5 June 3 July 17 August 1 October October 18 November 14 November 15 November 25 December 1 December 12 December 23 December 24 January 20 May 28 July 7 August 13 October 5 November 6 November 26 December 1 December 8 December 11 December 12 December 13 January 26 March 6 March 13 March 24 July 6–16 July 29 August September 27 September 30 October 5 November 7 November 9 January 25 January 27 March 14 March 15 March 16 March 20 March 21 March 23", "id": "6767331" }, { "contents": "South African cricket team in England in 1924\n\n\nThe South African cricket team toured England in the 1924 season to play a five-match Test series against England. England won the series 3-0 with 2 matches drawn. The tourists, with their ages on the first day of the first match of the tour on 3 May, were: George Parker (24) also played three first-class matches (including the first two Tests) and Aubrey Faulkner (42) played one match, the Third Test. The manager was George Allsop. South Africa's score", "id": "12941168" }, { "contents": "2018 English cricket season\n\n\ninternational sides toured England and Wales during the season: Pakistan, Australia and India. Pakistan also visited Ireland midway through the tour and played the Irish team's first Test match at Malahide near Dublin. In preparation for this match the Irish team played a first-class match against Somerset at Taunton in April. At the end of their tour Pakistan played two T20 matches in Scotland on 12 and 13 June. The England team played a One Day International (ODI) against Scotland in Edinburgh in June, losing to Scotland for", "id": "6929601" }, { "contents": "V. V. S. Laxman\n\n\n112 in the second test. This ensured his place on the tour of Australia which would be his third to that country. Laxman's good form continued in the 2007-08 Test series against Australia with him scoring 109 against Australia on the second day of the controversial Sydney Test to put India back into the contest. It was his 12th hundred in Test matches, and his 5th against Australia. It was also his third consecutive century at SCG, giving him an average well above 90 at the venue. He followed this", "id": "9815609" }, { "contents": "2019 Ashes series\n\n\nthree cricketers were named in Australia's squad for the 2019 Ashes. Meanwhile, England warmed up for the 2019 Ashes with a Test series earlier in the year against the West Indies and a one-off Test against Ireland in July. The tour of the West Indies comprised three matches and was won 2–1 by the West Indies. England also won the one-off Test against Ireland, by 143 runs. Ahead of the series, it was announced that Day 2 of the Lord’s Test would benefit the Ruth Strauss Foundation", "id": "18532603" }, { "contents": "V. V. S. Laxman\n\n\n1–1. He was awarded the Man of the Match for his match-winning innings of 96. His knock was voted as the best Test batting performance of the year by ESPNCricinfo. In three test matches, Laxman scored three consecutive fifties including two scores in eighties against the West Indies during India's tour of West Indies in June 2011. During India's Tour to England, Laxman scored just two half-centuries in eight innings as India went down 0–4 to England. This was India's first Test series loss since its", "id": "9815620" }, { "contents": "2014–15 Bangladeshi cricket season\n\n\nThe 2014–15 Bangladeshi cricket season featured tours of the country by Zimbabwe and Pakistan. Rangpur Division won the National Cricket League (NCL) championship title for the first time. Zimbabwe toured Bangladesh from 26 October to 1 December 2014, playing three Test matches and five One Day International matches. Bangladesh won the Test series 3–0 and the ODI series 5–0. Pakistan toured from 15 April to 10 May 2015, playing one Twenty20 International (T20I), three One Day Internationals (ODIs) and two Test matches. Pakistan won the Test", "id": "895026" }, { "contents": "Australia women's cricket team in England in 2019\n\n\nThe Australia women's cricket team toured England in June and July 2019 to play the England women's cricket team to contest the Women's Ashes. The tour consisted of three Women's One Day Internationals (WODIs), one Women's Test match and three Women's Twenty20 Internationals (WT20Is). A points-based system was used across all three formats of the tour. The Women's Ashes were held by Australia prior to the start of the series. Australia women won the WODI series 3–0, therefore taking a 6–0", "id": "15341273" }, { "contents": "Pakistani cricket team in England in 1962\n\n\nof three one-day games (not limited overs). The first two were drawn and the Pakistanis won the third one against Colonel Stevens' XI. These three matches were, in effect, warm-ups only and not first-class. The opening first-class fixture was against Worcestershire at New Road, starting on Wednesday, 2 May. The Pakistanis were given a foretaste of the Test series to come in that Tom Graveney scored a century for the home team (and was presented with his county cap immediately afterwards", "id": "12941094" }, { "contents": "New Zealand cricket team in Australia in 2015–16\n\n\nThe New Zealand cricket team toured Australia from 23 October to 1 December 2015 to play three Test matches and four tour matches. The third match of the series at the Adelaide Oval was the first ever day-night Test. Michael Hussey captained the Prime Minister's XI side for the tour match, and in preparation for the day-night Test, a pink ball was used in this game. Australia won the series 2–0, with victories in Brisbane and Adelaide, with the second Test in Perth being drawn. Following the", "id": "1307472" }, { "contents": "Kennington\n\n\nThe Kia Oval\", is the home ground for Surrey County Cricket Club and hosts the final Test match of the English summer season. The Oval was the first ground in the United Kingdom to host Test cricket, was the location for the England v Scotland representative matches, the first ever international football match, the first FA Cup final in 1872, and held the second ever rugby union international match between England and Scotland in 1872. England's unfortunate performance against Australia here in 1882 gave rise to The Ashes. The Oval", "id": "10346916" }, { "contents": "Indian cricket team in Zimbabwe in 2001\n\n\nThe Indian cricket team toured Zimbabwe from 28 May to 7 July 2001 and played two Test matches against Zimbabwe, with each team winning one game match. This would be Zimbabwe's only Test victory over a side other than Bangladesh until they beat Pakistan in the second Test in 2013. India and Zimbabwe also participated in a triangular One Day International (ODI) competition with West Indies, with the latter eventually winning the competition. The Coca-Cola Cup was a One Day International (ODI) tournament that followed the Test series", "id": "4099650" }, { "contents": "Andrew Balbirnie\n\n\nHe played three further One Day International's during the tournament. He made his Twenty20 International debut against Scotland on 19 June 2015, although no play was possible due to rain. He was part of the Ireland A team which toured Bangladesh in October 2017 to play one first-class match and five limited overs matches against the Bangladesh A team. In May 2018, he was named in a fourteen-man squad for Ireland's first ever Test match, which was played against Pakistan later the same month. He made his", "id": "2597279" }, { "contents": "Pakistani cricket team in Scotland in 2018\n\n\nThe Pakistan cricket team toured Scotland to play two Twenty20 International (T20I) matches at The Grange Club, Edinburgh, on 12 and 13 June 2018. Pakistan last toured Scotland in May 2013 to play two One Day Internationals. Both teams last met in a T20I fixture in the group stage of the 2007 ICC World Twenty20 tournament. This was the first time that Scotland had played a home T20I match against a full member side. The tour followed Pakistan's tour of England and their one Test series in Ireland. England also", "id": "373509" }, { "contents": "2017 June rugby union tests\n\n\n2 sides. Australia, the only southern hemisphere Tier 1 nation not to host a test series, staged three one-off test matches; Scotland, Italy and Fiji. The Fijian test was the first between the two sides in Australia since 2010, and was also the first Australia v Tier 2 nation match in Australia since Samoa visited in 2011. Fiji also played host to Italy and Scotland to become the second Tier 2 nation to play three back-back Tier 1 sides during an international window, after Samoa participated in", "id": "13232867" }, { "contents": "Timeline of the 2014 Pacific hurricane season\n\n\nJune 11 June 12 June 13 June 14 June 15 June 28 June 30 July 1 July 2 July 3 July 6 July 7 July 9 July 17 July 18 July 19 July 25 July 26 July 27 July 28 July 29 July 31 August 1 August 2 August 3 August 4 August 5 August 6 August 7 August 8 August 9 August 10 August 12 August 13 August 14 August 15 August 17 August 18 August 21 August 22 August 23 August 24 August 25 August 26 August 27 August 28 August 29 September 2 September 4 September 6", "id": "2400921" } ]

[ { "contents": "Sri Lankan cricket team in England in 2014\n\n\nThe Sri Lanka national cricket team toured England from 13 May to 24 June 2014 for a Twenty20 International (T20I), five One Day Internationals (ODIs) and two Test matches against the England cricket team. They also played three one-day and one four-day tour matches against English county sides, as well as preceding the entire tour with a two-match ODI series against Ireland. Sri Lanka won the Test series 1–0 (the first time they had won a Test series in England), the ODI series", "id": "21939883" }, { "contents": "New Zealand cricket team in England in 2015\n\n\nThe New Zealand national cricket team toured England from 8 May to 23 June 2015 for two Test matches, five One Day Internationals (ODIs) and a Twenty20 International (T20I) against the England cricket team. They also played two four-day tour matches and a one-day match against English county sides. England won the first Test at Lord's before New Zealand claimed victory in the second Test at Headingley to level the series. England then took an early lead in the ODI series after hitting more than 400 runs", "id": "943447" }, { "contents": "Australian cricket team in England and Ireland in 2015\n\n\nThe Australia national cricket team toured England from June to September 2015 for a five-match Test series, five One Day International (ODI) matches and one Twenty20 International (T20I). The Test series was for the Ashes. They also played two four-day and two three-day first-class matches against English county sides. Australia also played one ODI against Ireland in Belfast. On 31 March 2015, Australia announced a 17-man touring party for the Ashes series. England announced their squad for the first Test on", "id": "1657670" }, { "contents": "David Constant\n\n\n67 first-class appearances. In total he scored 1,517 first-class runs at a batting average of 19.20 with a highest score of 80. Tony Lewis described his innings against Glamorgan on a difficult pitch at Leicester in 1965 as \"one of the bravest innings I ever saw\". His first Test as umpire was the Third Test between England and Pakistan in July 1971. He last stood in an international cricket match in the England v. Australia One Day International at The Oval, London in June 2001. He was the", "id": "14539375" }, { "contents": "Pakistani cricket team in Sri Lanka in 2015\n\n\nThe Pakistan cricket team toured Sri Lanka from 11 June to 1 August 2015. The tour consisted of a three-day tour match against a SLCB President's XI, three Test matches, five One Day International and two Twenty20 International matches. The third Test was originally scheduled to be played at the R Premadasa Stadium, but was changed to the Pallekele International Cricket Stadium in early May. Pakistan outplayed the hosts in all forms of the game by winning the Test series 2–1, the ODI series 3–2 and the T20I series 2–0.", "id": "15080177" }, { "contents": "2010 in American music\n\n\n17 March 22 March 23 March 26 March 30 April 6 April 8 April 13 April 19 April 20 April 21 April 27 April 30 May 4 May 11 May 14 May 17 May 18 May 21 May 25 May 31 June 1 June 8 June 14 June 15 June 18 June 21 June 22 June 28 June 29 July 6 July 7 July 12 July 13 July 15 July 20 July 23 July 25 July 27 July 29 August 3 August 17 August 24 August 31 September 7 September 14 September 21 September 23 September 28 October 5 October", "id": "18556206" }, { "contents": "Warwickshire County Cricket Club\n\n\nand gold and the shirt sponsor is Gullivers Sports Travel. The club's home is Edgbaston Cricket Ground in south Birmingham, which regularly hosts Test and One Day International matches. Cricket may have reached Warwickshire by the end of the 17th century. The \"Warwickshire & Staffordshire Journal\" was certainly aware of the sport in 1738 for it carried a report of a London v Mitcham game at the Artillery Ground on 11 August (London won by 1 wicket). The earliest confirmed reference to cricket in the county is a match announcement", "id": "8941185" }, { "contents": "Irish cricket team in England in 2019\n\n\nThe Ireland cricket team toured England in July 2019 to play a one-off four-day Test match at Lord's. It was the first Test match to be played between the two sides, and was England's first four-day Test match since they toured New Zealand in 1971. It was Ireland's third Test match, and their twelfth international fixture against England. The Test match was part of England's preparations for the 2019 Ashes series. Ahead of the Test, the England cricket team visited Ireland in May", "id": "16268672" }, { "contents": "1919 English cricket season\n\n\n(five wins from fourteen) and Warwickshire were bottom with 7.14% (one win from fourteen). The 1919 County Championship was the 26th since the competition acquired official status in 1890. The opening matches began on Friday, 16 May. These were Middlesex v Nottinghamshire at Lord's and the 1914 (reigning) champions Surrey against Somerset at The Oval. The final match between Essex and Surrey at Leyton was completed on Monday, 1 September. The situation between Yorkshire and Kent on Saturday, 30 August (the second day in", "id": "7320450" }, { "contents": "Timeline of the 2013 Pacific hurricane season\n\n\n15 May 16 May 17 May 28 May 29 May 30 June 1 June 23 June 24 June 25 June 26 June 27 June 29 June 30 July 2 July 3 July 4 July 5 July 6 July 7 July 9 July 25 July 27 July 30 July 31 August 2 August 3 August 4 August 6 August 7 August 8 August 9 August 11 August 16 August 18 August 19 August 20 August 22 August 23 August 24 August 25 August 28 August 29 August 30 August 31 September 1 September 2 September 5 September 6 September 7 September", "id": "957237" }, { "contents": "Prince's Cricket Ground\n\n\nas 'grand and quick and one of the finest playing grounds in England'. The first match played on the ground was Household Brigade v. Lords and Commons on 3 June 1871. Middlesex County Cricket Club used the ground between 1872 and 1876 and played their first match on 23–25 May 1872 against Yorkshire. The ground was also used by South of England and by Gentlemen of the South. Several Gentlemen v Players fixtures were also played there, the first taking place in July 1873. In 1878, the touring Australians played two", "id": "19086180" }, { "contents": "Callum Jackson\n\n\nSussex youth ranks, playing at under-13, under-14, under-15 and under-17 level before joining the second XI as a 16-year-old in 2011. He was selected to represent an English Schools Cricket Association XI in 2011 before making his first appearance for the Sussex first XI on 1 May 2012 in a non-first-class match against the Leeds/Bradford MCC Universities team. In early 2013, Jackson was selected for the England under-19 side to tour South Africa, where he played in both Youth Test matches and three One Day", "id": "16290826" }, { "contents": "2018 English cricket season\n\n\nHurricane Irma and Hurricane Maria in September 2017. Pakistan played two Test matches against England at Lord's and Headingley at the end of May and beginning of June. The series was drawn, each side winning one match. Ahead of the Tests, two first-class matches were played against Kent and Northants. Their match against Ireland took place after the two first-class county matches, and a two-day match was played against Leicestershire between this and the first Test against England. Pakistan won the first Test match by", "id": "6929603" }, { "contents": "1963 in Norwegian football\n\n\nResults from Norwegian football in 1963. April 26 April 28 May 3 May 4 May 5 May 11 May 12 May 30 May 19 May 22 May 23 May 26 May 27 June 7 June 8 June 9 June 14 June 15 June 16 June 22 June 23 June 24 July 26 July 28 July 29 August 2 August 4 August 6 August 17 August 18 August 21 August 22 August 24 August 25 September 7 September 8 September 20 September 22 October 4 October 6 October 13 Årstad promoted Nidelv promoted Harstad - Bodø/Glimt 4 -", "id": "20433032" }, { "contents": "West Indian cricket team in England in 1991\n\n\nThe West Indian cricket team in England in 1991 played three one day internationals and five Tests, under the captaincy of Viv Richards, as part of an extensive tour in which they also played first-class matches against 11 first-class county teams, the combined Minor Counties, the Combined Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, and a World XI to finish, plus 55-over one-day matches against one more first-class county (Gloucestershire) and the Duchess of Norfolk's Invitation XI. Of the non-international matches,", "id": "5157419" }, { "contents": "West Indian cricket team in England in 2007\n\n\nThe West Indian cricket team toured England from 12 May to 7 July 2007 as part of the 2007 English cricket season. The tour included four Tests, two Twenty20 international matches and three One Day Internationals. While England dominated the Test series 3–0, including a record victory over the West Indies, the latter took the ODI series 2:1. In the ICC Test Championship, England are ranked second and West Indies are ranked eighth, though England's most recent series was a whitewash loss in the Ashes against Australia for the first time", "id": "12941423" }, { "contents": "Sri Lankan cricket team in the West Indies in 2018\n\n\nOn 19 May 2018, Cricket West Indies (CWI) announced that they may scrap one of the Test fixtures, replacing it with a couple of one-day matches. However, the day before the first Test, the International Cricket Council (ICC) confirmed that it would be a three-match Test series. Prior to the start of day three of the second Test, the Sri Lankan cricket team protested against umpires' decision on starting the third day's play with a new ball, replacing the old ball.", "id": "19622271" }, { "contents": "Timeline of the 2017 Pacific hurricane season\n\n\ncyclone formations, strengthening, weakening, landfalls, extratropical transitions, and dissipations during the season. May 9 May 10 May 11 May 12 May 15 May 31 June 1 June 2 June 11 June 12 June 13 June 24 June 25 June 26 June 27 June 28 July 1 July 7 July 8 July 9 July 10 July 11 July 12 July 13 July 14 July 15 July 16 July 17 July 18 July 19 July 20 July 21 July 22 July 23 July 24 July 25 July 26 July 27 July 28 July 31 August 1", "id": "7169450" }, { "contents": "Daniel Bell-Drummond\n\n\nmade his youth Test debut on 21 July 2010 at the County Ground, Northampton before scoring unbeaten 88 in the second youth Test later in the same month, aged only 16. He played in both under-19 Test matches and in four youth one-day international matches during England's return tour of Sri Lanka in January and February 2011. In July 2011 Bell-Drummond played in a one-day series against South Africa under-19s. He top-scored for England in three of the seven matches in the series and was the", "id": "6732560" }, { "contents": "1967 in Norwegian football\n\n\nResults from Norwegian football in 1967. April 27 April 28 April 30 May 4 May 6 May 7 May 10 May 11 May 15 May 16 May 18 May 19 May 20 May 21 May 22 June 22 May 25 May 28 June 4 June 10 June 11 June 12 June 13 June 18 June 19 July 30 July 31 August 2 August 6 August 7 August 9 August 10 August 20 August 16 August 20 August 21 September 7 September 10 September 16 September 17 October 6 October 8 October 9 October 12 October 15 October 20 October", "id": "2081596" }, { "contents": "Phil Carlson\n\n\nPhillip Henry Carlson (born 8 August 1951, Nundah, Queensland) is a former Australian cricketer who played in two Tests and four One Day Internationals (ODIs) in 1979. Carlson was an all-rounder who played for Queensland between 1969–70 and 1980–81. He played two Test matches for Australia v England in 1978–79 Ashes series and four One Day Internationals against the same opponents. He was called up by Australia when most of their regular first-choice players were playing in World Series Cricket. Carlson took two Test wickets and", "id": "11409623" }, { "contents": "1962 in Norwegian football\n\n\nResults from Norwegian football in 1962. July 30 August 2 August 3 August 9 August 8 August 13 August 16 August 20 August 21 September 2 September 3 Ørn - Brann 0 - 7 September 24 September 28 October 1 October 15 April 25 October 6 October 8 April 29 May 6 May 12 May 13 May 14 May 20 May 21 May 23 May 24 May 27 May 30 May 31 June 3 June 15 June 16 June 17 June 24 June 25 June 30 July 1 July 29 August 1 August 2 August 4 August 5 August", "id": "9107175" }, { "contents": "Alan Igglesden\n\n\nAlan Paul Igglesden (born 8 October 1964) is a former English Test cricketer. He played three Test Matches and four One Day Internationals (ODIs) for the England cricket team between 1989 and 1994 as a fast bowler. He played most of his first-class cricket career for Kent County Cricket Club. Igglesden was born in Farnborough, London in 1964. He first played for Kent County Cricket Club's Second XI in 1983 before making his first-class cricket debut of the county in July 1986 against Somerset at Maidstone", "id": "8795795" }, { "contents": "Sri Lankan cricket team in England and Ireland in 2016\n\n\nThe Sri Lanka national cricket team toured England from 8 May to 5 July 2016 for a three-match Test series, a five-match One Day International (ODI) series and a one-off Twenty20 International (T20I) against the England cricket team. England won the Test series 2–0, the ODI series 3–0 and won the one-off T20I match by 8 wickets. They also played two first-class matches against Essex and Leicestershire prior to the Test series, and two ODI matches against Ireland prior to the", "id": "15635062" }, { "contents": "South African cricket team in England in 2008\n\n\nThe South African cricket team toured England between 29 June and 4 September 2008. They played four Test matches, one Twenty20 International and five One Day Internationals against England. They also played six tour matches against Somerset, Middlesex, Bangladesh A, a PCA Masters XI and two against the England Lions. It was announced that following the conclusion of this four-match series, future matches between England and South Africa would comprise five Test matches but only three one-day matches after the series was granted 'icon' status.", "id": "18079110" }, { "contents": "2018 English cricket season\n\n\nthe first time in an ODI. The South African women's team also toured England to play three One Day International matches against the England women's cricket team in June and to compete in the 2018 England women's Tri-Nation Series Twenty20 competition against England and New Zealand. New Zealand then played three One Day Internationals against England in July. In addition the West Indies men's side played a single Twenty20 International against a Rest of the World XI team at Lord's in May 2018 to raise funds for stadiums damaged by", "id": "6929602" }, { "contents": "American Rally Association\n\n\nWood Rally March 15 - 16 Olympus Rally April 27 - 28 Oregon Trail Rally May 31 - June 2 Idaho Rally International June 22 - 23 New England Forest Rally July 19 - 20 Muscatell Ojibwe Forests Rally August 23 - 24 Susquehannock Trail Performance Rally September 13 - 14 Lake Superior Performance Rally October 18 - 19 2019 ARA Super Regional Events Southern Ohio Forest Rally May 16 - 18 Rally Colorado July 26 - 27 Tour de Forest Rally September 21, 2019 Empire State Performance Rally October 25 - 26 2019 ARA One-Day Regional", "id": "6404348" }, { "contents": "Pakistani cricket team in England and Ireland in 2016\n\n\nThe Pakistan national cricket team toured England and Ireland from 3 July to 7 September 2016 for a four-match Test series, a five-match One Day International (ODI) series and a one-off Twenty20 International (T20I) against the England cricket team. They also played two three-day matches against Somerset and Sussex prior to the Test series, a two-day match against Worcestershire during the Test series, and two ODI matches against Ireland prior to the ODI series. England's ODI matches against Pakistan was", "id": "15635130" }, { "contents": "Second Test, 1948 Ashes series\n\n\nThe Second Test of the 1948 Ashes series was one of five Tests in a cricket series between Australia and England. The match was played at Lord's in London from 24 to 29 June, with a rest day on 27 June. Australia won the match by 409 runs to take a 2–0 lead, meaning that England would need to win the remaining three matches to regain The Ashes. Australian captain Don Bradman won the toss and elected to bat. The tourists had won the First Test convincingly, and decided to field the", "id": "497516" }, { "contents": "MCC v Australians at Lord's, 27 May 1878\n\n\nin England, the team left Sydney on 29 March 1878 and sailed via Auckland and Honolulu to San Francisco, from where they travelled across America by train to New York City. They crossed the Atlantic, arriving in Liverpool on 13 May, and then went by train to Nottingham where they played their first match, starting on Monday, 20 May. This was a three-day match against Nottinghamshire at Trent Bridge and the Australians were well beaten by an innings and 14 runs, an inauspicious start which dampened much of the public", "id": "16383632" }, { "contents": "Australian women's cricket team in England in 2013\n\n\nThe Australian women's cricket team toured England in 2013. The visitors were defending the Women's Ashes. The only Test match of the tour took place on 11–14 August at Wormsley Park, and was drawn. Three One-Day Internationals (ODIs) were played: the first at Lord's on 20 August, and the other two at Hove on 23 and 25 August. Also three Twenty20 International (T20I) matches were played, on 27, 29 and 31 August, at Chelmsford, Southampton and Chester-le-", "id": "19064429" }, { "contents": "South African cricket team in England in 2017\n\n\nThe South African cricket team toured England and Wales between May and August 2017, playing three One Day Internationals (ODIs), three Twenty20 Internationals (T20Is) and four Test matches. The ODI matches were in preparation for the 2017 ICC Champions Trophy, which took place in England and Wales during June. Extra security was provided to South Africa for the ODI series following the Manchester bombing. England won the ODI series 2–1 and the T20 series 2–1. Ahead of the ODI series, South Africa played one-day warm-", "id": "1555384" }, { "contents": "1Malaysia Development Berhad scandal\n\n\n- 30 September onwards October 20 November 25 December 1 December 5 December 31 2016 January 26 January 29 February 1 February 3 February 7 February 19 February 29 March 23 March 31 April 2 April 5 April 7 April 9 April 12 April 13 April 19 April 28 May 24 May 31 July 11 1MDB agrees to resolve its dispute with International Petroleum Investment Company via the London Court of International Arbitration. July 21 August 9 October 11 December 2 2017 March 22 April 24 May 30 June 15 June 16 August 1 August 2 August 11 August", "id": "14280441" }, { "contents": "Timeline of events preceding World War II\n\n\nJune 30 September 14 May 19 September 18 September 19 January 7 January 28 February 27 March 1 April 10 May 30 August 30 November 21 December 3 January 1 January 30 February 27 February 28 March 4 March 20 March 23 March 24 March 27 April 1 April 26 May 2 May 15 May 31 June 21 July 14 August 25 September 12 October 19 November 24 January 26 February 12–16 March 20 June 30 July 20 July 25 August 2 August 8 September October 16 December 1 December 5 December 29 January 7 June 18 August 31 September", "id": "6767330" }, { "contents": "Timeline of the 2018 Pacific hurricane season\n\n\ntropical cyclone formations, strengthening, weakening, landfalls, extratropical transitions, and dissipations during the season. May 10 May 11 May 13 May 15 June 1 June 6 June 7 June 8 June 9 June 10 June 11 June 12 June 13 June 14 June 15 June 16 June 17 June 19 June 24 June 25 June 26 June 27 June 28 June 29 June 30 July 1 July 2 July 3 July 4 July 5 July 6 July 9 July 26 July 27 July 28 July 29 July 31 August 1 August 2 August 3 August", "id": "21166816" }, { "contents": "English cricket team in Australia in 2017–18\n\n\nThe England cricket team toured Australia between November 2017 and February 2018 to play five Tests and five One Day Internationals (ODIs). They also played in a three nation Twenty20 International (T20I) tournament, along with New Zealand, who co-hosted the tournament along with Australia. England additionally played two first-class matches, a two-day tour match and a one-day tour match against Cricket Australia XI, as well as a Twenty20 against the Prime Minister's XI. The Test matches made up the 2017–18", "id": "21532277" }, { "contents": "Timeline of events preceding World War II\n\n\nApril 16 August 13 October October 11 October 29 November 1 January 11 June July 24 August 31 September 27 October 29 November 8 January 21 February 1 March 16 April 1 April 6 June 10 August 16 August 18 May 12 July 18 December 1 January 3 January 31 April 4 April 24 September 8 December 25 April 12 May 20 June 7 November 12 December 14 May 3 May 28 June 4 August 2 August 27 October 1 February 9 February 11 March 4 March 28 April 3 June 7 July 24 August 31 October 29 April 22", "id": "6767329" }, { "contents": "W. G. Grace in the 1878 English cricket season\n\n\nNewcastle upon Tyne, Bolton and Birmingham to play odds games against local opposition. Grace took 21 wickets in the match against the 22 men of Melton Mowbray in a three-day match starting on Monday, 1 July. He scored 42 and 57 not out in his two innings, the match ending in a draw. Grace caught the evening train to be in London ready for the first Gentlemen v Players match at The Oval, starting on Thursday, 4 July. The next USEE match at Leeds Holbeck followed the second Gentlemen", "id": "15478205" }, { "contents": "List of accidents and incidents involving military aircraft (1950–1954)\n\n\n12 December 19 December 23 December 10 January 11 January 15 January 21 January 28 January 31 January 14 February 13 March 14 March 17 March 23 March 3 April 5 April 5 April 8 April 25 April 27 April 6 May 18 May 19 May 8 June 13 June 15 June 18 June 23 June 23 June 30 June 8 July 31 July Summer 13 August 18 August 21 August 22 August 26 August 27 August 16 September 29 September 15 October 11 November 13 November 19 November 27 November 3 December 7 December 21 December 12 January 15", "id": "21637229" }, { "contents": "Lord's\n\n\nbe switched off by 11 pm. The floodlights were first used successfully on 27 May 2009 during the Twenty20 Cup match between Middlesex and Kent. Lord's hosts Test matches, one-day internationals, some Middlesex home matches, MCC matches and (starting with a fixture between Middlesex and Surrey in July 2004) some of Middlesex's home Twenty20 games. Lord's typically hosts two Tests every summer plus two one-day internationals. Lord's also plays host to the finals of the National Village Cricket Competition, the MCC Universities", "id": "10760657" }, { "contents": "2011 in American music\n\n\nThe following is a list of notable events and releases that happened in 2011 in music in the United States. January 11 January 17 January 18 January 21 January 25 January 31 February 1 February 8 February 15 February 22 March 1 March 8 March 15 March 22 March 29 April 5 April 11 April 12 April 26 May 3 May 10 May 17 May 23 May 24 May 31 June 7 June 14 June 21 June 28 July 5 July 8 July 12 July 13 July 19 July 26 August 2 August 8 August 9 August 16 August", "id": "15423555" }, { "contents": "MCC v Australians at Lord's, 27 May 1878\n\n\nenthusiasm that their visit had generated. The Australians were next due to play Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) in a three-day match at Lord's, commencing on Monday, 27 May. In the meantime, Charles Bannerman and Billy Midwinter were invited to visit Dublin and play for the United South of England Eleven (USEE) against 15 past and present players of Dublin University. This was due to be played over three days, starting on Thursday, 23 May, at College Park. The USEE was captained by W. G.", "id": "16383633" }, { "contents": "West Indian cricket team in England in 1928\n\n\nreach three figures. As at Lord's and Old Trafford, the match was over before lunch on the third day. Including the three Tests, 30 first-class matches were played on the tour, plus six other games. The West Indians won just seven of these 36 matches (five of the first-class games) and lost 12. By the end of May, the touring side had won matches against Derbyshire and Cambridge University, plus a minor match against Northumberland, and had drawn all the other games.", "id": "12941340" }, { "contents": "Bob Willis\n\n\n26 August against Worcestershire's Seconds. Willis, 19 years of age, took one wicket for 48 runs in the first innings, and bowled four wicketless overs in the second. He was not called on to bat at all. Two days later, he faced Glamorgan and took three wickets. He played several further Second XI matches through May and June 1969, before his first-class debut on 6 August. Scotland was touring England that season and had already beaten Warwickshire. Willis took three wickets for 13 runs from 13", "id": "16238759" }, { "contents": "Rock in Rio\n\n\n5 July 6 May 21 / 82.000 May 22 / 45.000 May 27 / 85.000 May 29 / 95.000 May 30 / 38.000 June 4 / 51.000 June 5 / 85.000 June 6 / 90.000 June 11 / 30.000 June 14 / 48.000 Rock in Rio Lisboa V Rock in Rio Lisboa VII Rock in Rio Lisboa VIII June 24 sold out almost three months prior to the festival. \"Rock in Rio USA\" was the first North American edition of the festival, being held in Las Vegas on May 8, 9, 15 and 16", "id": "11140715" }, { "contents": "Indian cricket team in Sri Lanka in 2015\n\n\nThe Indian cricket team toured Sri Lanka from 6 August to 1 September 2015 to play a tour match and three Test matches. On 27 June, Sri Lankan batsman Kumar Sangakkara said he would retire from international cricket after the second Test of the series. The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) and Sri Lanka Cricket Board confirmed the schedule of India's tour to Sri Lanka in August to September 2015. The tour started with a three-day warm-up game against Sri Lanka Board President's XI,", "id": "22038367" }, { "contents": "Andy Cottam\n\n\nAndrew Colin Cottam (born 14 July 1973 in Northampton, England) was an English cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman and a left-arm slow bowler. He played in 2 Under-19 Tests in 1992 and 13 first-class matches between 1992 and 1996. His father is the cricketer and coach Bob Cottam. In 1990 Andy Cottam started playing for Somerset Second XI and Devon. In 1992 he was selected for Under-19's tour of Pakistan and played in the Third Test and 2 one-day matches against Pakistan", "id": "2981363" }, { "contents": "Lord's\n\n\n. The hundredth Lord's Test match was in 2000, England v West Indies. As of 25 August 2010 England have played 119 Test matches at Lord's, winning 45, losing 28 and drawing 46. Lord's often hosts two Test matches each summer, one match for each visiting team. In 2010, the ground hosted three Test matches: as well as England's matches against Bangladesh and Pakistan, a Test match between Australia and Pakistan was held there in July. Lord's was the venue of the 2000th test", "id": "10760663" }, { "contents": "Australian cricket team in Sri Lanka in 2016\n\n\nThe Australian cricket team toured Sri Lanka from 18 July to 9 September 2016 to play three Test matches, five One Day Internationals (ODIs), two Twenty20 Internationals (T20Is) matches and a first-class practice match. The Test series was played for Warne-Muralitharan Trophy, with Sri Lanka winning 3–0, their first ever series whitewash against Australia. As a result, Australia slipped from first to third in the ICC Test Championship; Sri Lanka, who had started the series ranked seventh, moved up to sixth.", "id": "14912886" }, { "contents": "South African cricket team in Australia in 2005–06\n\n\nThe South African cricket team toured Australia for cricket matches during the 2005–06 season. South Africa had already played two One Day International series during this season, beating New Zealand 4–0 at home before travelling to India and drawing the series there 2–2. The team had been playing 14 successive ODIs (tour matches excluded) before arriving in Australia, with their last Test match against West Indies in April and May 2005. South Africa played one first class warm-up match, one three-day warm-up match without first class", "id": "19860549" }, { "contents": "Peter Lever\n\n\n6/38, before his final Test ended on 5 August 1975 during another Ashes tour, Australia facing England at Lord's. Lever also played ten One Day Internationals, including the 1975 Cricket World Cup, taking 11 wickets but scoring only 17 runs. His ODI debut was also against Australia, at Melbourne on 5 January 1971, and his last match was at Headingley, Leeds, again against Australia, on 18 June 1975. This gives Lever the unusual distinction of having played both his debut, and last match, against Australia", "id": "17765992" }, { "contents": "Australian women's cricket team in England in 2009\n\n\nThe Australian women's cricket team toured England between 25 June and 13 July 2009, playing one Test match, five One Day Internationals and a Twenty20 International. Australia won the Twenty20 International, while England won the One Day International series 4–0. The Test match, which was for the Women's Ashes, was drawn; ensuring that England retained them. Prior to the series, both sides took part in the 2009 ICC Women's World Twenty20, which was also held in England in June. England won the tournament, in", "id": "13250607" }, { "contents": "List of accidents and incidents involving military aircraft (1950–1954)\n\n\nJanuary 31 January 7 February 18 March 21 April 24 April May 11 May 12 May 15 May 9 June 11 June 13 June 17 June 18 June 21 June 15 July 17 July 30 July 6 August 6 August 12 August 23 August 26 August 30 August 5 September 9 September 9 September 9 September 11 September 19 September 19 September 25 September 1 October 1 October 7 October 8 October 8 October 11 October 13 October 14 October 17 October 18 October 19 October 20 October 22 October 26 October 2 November 8 November 17 November 23 November", "id": "21637231" }, { "contents": "Follow-on\n\n\n, and gave England a slender lead of 129. The next day a fired-up Bob Willis took 8 for 43, and Australia slumped to 111 all out. Australia, who had won their 16 previous Test matches, including the first of the three-Test series between the two teams, had scored 445 in the first innings of the second Test and restricted India to 171; only V. V. S. Laxman (59) and Rahul Dravid reached 25 runs. The only other bright spot for India was the bowling of", "id": "1078812" }, { "contents": "West Indian cricket team in England in 2017\n\n\nThe West Indies cricket team toured England in August and September 2017 to play three Test matches competing for the Wisden Trophy, one Twenty20 International (T20I) and five One Day Internationals (ODIs). Ahead of the Test series, the West Indies played first-class warm-up matches against Derbyshire, Essex and Kent. They also played a two-day match against Leicestershire, as they did not get to the final of the 2017 NatWest t20 Blast. In October 2016 the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB)", "id": "1555387" }, { "contents": "England women's national rugby league team\n\n\nCup - WIN v France WIN v Russia | LOSS v Australia LOSS v New Zealand WIN v Pacific Islands 2009 International Tests - 25 July | France 8-28 England; France 0-36 England 2010 International Tests - 9 November | England 36-8 France 10 November | New Zealand 44-6 England 16 November | New Zealand 38-6 England 2011 International Tests - 2 July | France 6-36 England 6 July | France 4-42 England 2012 International Test - 15 June | England 48-0 France", "id": "9166568" }, { "contents": "International cricket\n\n\n, One-Day and Twenty20 matches take place in the form of \"tours\". In a tour, one nation travels to another and plays warm-up matches, which may be first-class matches, against domestic teams such as county or state teams, a series of Test matches against the host nation, and either a series of One-Day (ODi) and T20 matches against the host nation or a tournament involving the host nation and another touring nation. Tours may include Test, ODI and T20I matches", "id": "6028418" }, { "contents": "West Indian cricket team in England in 2000\n\n\nThe West Indies cricket team toured England in the 2000 cricket season. West Indies played five Tests against England - two in June and three in August - with a triangular One Day International (ODI) series involving Zimbabwe in July. In June, West Indies won the 1st Test at Edgbaston convincingly, before England narrowly won the 2nd Test at Lord's, having bowled West Indies out for 54 in their second innings. The ODI series, sponsored by NatWest, took place in July, with England, West Indies and Zimbabwe", "id": "12941417" }, { "contents": "First Test, 1948 Ashes series\n\n\nThe First Test of the 1948 Ashes series was one of five Tests in a cricket series between Australia and England. The match was played at Trent Bridge in Nottingham from 10 to 15 June with a rest day on 13 June. Australia won the match by eight wickets to take a 1–0 series lead. The Australians started the match as firm favourites, having won the previous series against England 3–0; in the lead-up to the 1948 series, they had won 10 of their 12 tour matches in England, mostly by", "id": "497621" }, { "contents": "Giles Baring\n\n\nAfricans on 22 May 1935, for Hampshire in Hampshire v Australians on 25 May 1938, and for H. D. G. Leveson Gowers XI v Australian Services on 7 July 1945. He played for Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) between 1935 and 1946, and his last first-class game was in the MCC v Cambridge University match on 29 June 1946. Baring was a right-arm fast bowler and also a right-hand batsman. As a bowler, he took 197 wickets for 5,607 runs, an average of 28.46.", "id": "9091808" }, { "contents": "Herbert Sutcliffe's cricket career (1919–27)\n\n\nWaddington in 1925. Arthur Mitchell was still a reserve and Cyril Turner made his first-class debut. The first four Tests of the 1926 England v Australia series were scheduled for just three days and were all curtailed by poor weather. The final Test at The Oval was timeless to ensure a finish. It has become one of the most famous matches in cricket history, not because England regained The Ashes for the first time since 1912 but for the manner it which it was achieved as Hobbs and Sutcliffe produced their most famous", "id": "18930780" }, { "contents": "Günther Lützow\n\n\nfighter destroyed. Two days later, he destroyed three aircraft, two SB-2 bombers and a Petlyakov Pe-2 ground attack aircraft. On 27 June, he shot down an Ilyushin DB-3 bomber followed by another Pe-2 on the following day, his last victory of June 1941. Following a DB-3 bomber claimed on 7 July, Lützow was credited with four aerial victories on 10 July, consisting of one Vultee V-11 attack aircraft and three I-153s. The next day he claimed an II-16. On 15 July he shot down two further I-16s and another", "id": "3340503" }, { "contents": "1966 in Norwegian football\n\n\nResults from Norwegian football in 1966. April 22 April 24 April 27 May 19 April 30 May 1 May 6 May 7 May 8 May 15 May 19 May 22 May 23 May 27 May 28 May 30 May 31 June 3 June 4 June 5 June 15 June 16 June 19 June 20 July 31 August 3 August 6 August 7 August 8 August 24 August 17 August 27 August 28 September 11 September 22 September 23 September 24 October 9 October 15 October 16 October 17 October 23 July 31 August 1 August 2 August 3 Rematch", "id": "21974049" }, { "contents": "Headingley Cricket Ground\n\n\nwickets each. Donald Bradman's innings of 334 in the 1930 Ashes Test included 309 runs on the first day, and he followed it in the Australians' next test at Headingley in 1934 with an innings of 304. Spinner Hedley Verity took 10 wickets for 10 runs in 1932 for Yorkshire v Nottinghamshire, still the best bowling analysis ever in first-class cricket. Verity had also taken all ten against Warwickshire at Headingley in 1931. In the 1948 Ashes series, Australia scored 404 for three on the last day to beat", "id": "11240346" }, { "contents": "List of international awards of Rohit Sharma\n\n\nRohit Sharma is an Indian international cricketer. He made his international cricket debut in June 2007. He has scored twenty-nine centuries in international cricket; three in Tests, twenty-two in One Day Internationals (ODI) and four in Twenty20 International (T20Is). As of July 2019, Sharma has played 27 Tests, 215 One Day Internationals and 94 Twenty20 Internationals. As of July 2019, Rohit won 19 Man of the Match awards and 4 Man of the Series awards in One Day Internationals; 1 Man of", "id": "21442897" }, { "contents": "Ollie Pope\n\n\nthe 2016 Royal London One-Day Cup against Yorkshire. He made his first-class debut on 28 March 2017 for Surrey against Oxford MCCU as part of the Marylebone Cricket Club University fixtures. Pope scored his maiden List A half-century on 7 May 2017 against Sussex. He made his Twenty20 debut for Surrey in the 2017 NatWest t20 Blast on 7 July 2017. In August 2018, he was added to England's squad for the second Test against India. He made his Test debut at Lord's for England against", "id": "11076451" }, { "contents": "Australian cricket team in the West Indies in 2015\n\n\nThe Australian cricket team toured the West Indies from 27 May to 15 June 2015. The tour consisted of one first-class warm-up match and two Test matches. On 8 April 2015, the West Indies Cricket Board brought forward the date of the two Test matches by two days \"due to a number of logistical challenges beyond [their] control\". Australia won the 2-match Test series 2–0 and therefore retained the Frank Worrell Trophy. Australia announced their squad on 31 March 2015. They included three uncapped players,", "id": "17936722" }, { "contents": "Zimbabwean cricket team in Sri Lanka in 2017\n\n\nThe Zimbabwe cricket team toured Sri Lanka in June and July 2017 to play one Test match and five One Day Internationals (ODIs). Originally, the schedule was for two Test matches and three ODIs. It was Zimbabwe's first tour to Sri Lanka since January 2002. All the matches were played as day games. Zimbabwe won the ODI series 3–2, their first ever series win against Sri Lanka. It was their first away series win since 2009 and the first away series win against a Test nation since defeating Bangladesh in", "id": "5384529" }, { "contents": "Ashwell Prince\n\n\nthe batting. Opening with debutant Imraan Khan, Prince scored 150, his 11th Test century. Prince signed a contract to play for Lancashire County Cricket Club the 2009 English season. He acted as cover for V. V. S. Laxman, the club's other overseas player, who was unavailable at times because he was playing in the Indian Premier League. Prince score his first century for Lancashire at the start of May during a match against Nottinghamshire. The knock came off 135 not out from 189 balls came on the final day of", "id": "12899038" }, { "contents": "Herbert Sutcliffe\n\n\nand 1926, Sutcliffe's skill was a primary factor in Yorkshire having the longest unbeaten run in county cricket: i.e., 70 matches without loss until early 1927. After three defeats in 1927, Yorkshire went a further 58 games without loss until 1929. The first four Tests of the 1926 England v Australia series were scheduled for just three days and were all curtailed by poor weather. The final Test at the Oval was timeless to ensure a finish. It has become one of the most famous matches in cricket history, not", "id": "18571331" }, { "contents": "Indian cricket team in England in 2011\n\n\nThe Indian cricket team toured England from 21 July to 16 September 2011. The tour consisted of one Twenty20 International (T20I), five One Day Internationals (ODIs) and four Test matches, as well as a number of matches against English county sides. The opening Test at Lord's was the 2,000th Test. England's victory in the Third Test put them number one in the world rankings. Virat Kohli, Pragyan Ojha and RP Singh replaced the injured Yuvraj Singh, Harbhajan Singh and Zaheer Khan, respectively, for the", "id": "4970296" }, { "contents": "Cricket in the British Isles\n\n\nIt played its first test match against Australia in 1877 and played its first One Day International (ODI) also againist Australia in 1971. One of the main cricket grounds in England, and also widely regarded as the spiritual home of cricket, is Lords Cricket Ground in London. Other major cricket grounds include The Oval (also in London), Edgbaston in Birmingham, Old Trafford in Manchester and Trent Bridge in Nottingham. From 1909 until 2017 England was the only country within the British Isles to have full membership of the ICC", "id": "17756246" }, { "contents": "Eton v Harrow\n\n\nplayed for Harrow in the four matches in 1822 to 1825, and arranged the first University Match at Lord's in 1827, two years before the first Boat Race. Many Eton and Harrow players went on to win blues at Oxford and Cambridge. Eton v Harrow was joined by the University Match and Gentlemen v Players as the three key features in the England cricket season. In its heyday, in the late 19th century and early 20th century, \"the School's day\" was one of the highlights of the London \"", "id": "10600897" }, { "contents": "Mathew Dimond\n\n\nMathew Dimond (born 24 September 1975) is a former English cricketer who made played for Somerset County Cricket Club between 1994 and 1997. Early in his career, he toured the West Indies with the England Under-19 cricket team, playing three Tests and one One Day International at Under-19 level. A right-arm fast-medium bowler, he made his first-class debut for Somerset in June 1994. Playing in the County Championship against Hampshire, Dimond claimed a solitary wicket in the match, which was shortened to single innings", "id": "558840" }, { "contents": "Charlie Charters\n\n\n’ Although the 2004 Islanders lost each of the three Test matches they played (29-14 v Wallabies, 41-26 v All Blacks and 24-38 v Springboks in Gosford, Australia), they scored 10 tries in three matches. By comparison that same southern hemisphere season, England and Scotland scored only three tries between them in their five Tests against the All Blacks and Wallabies. In fact, the 2004 Islanders scored more tries in one Test against the All Blacks (four) than the three tries the 2005", "id": "16741154" }, { "contents": "Australian cricket team in South Africa in 1993–94\n\n\nmatch by one run, levelling the ODI series at 4–4 with an \"improbable victory\". As well as the internationals, three first-class matches and two other matches were played during the tour The tour began with a friendly one-day match against NF Oppenheimer's XI, followed by a first-class match against Northern Transvaal and a one-day match against a representative side. Before the first Test match Australia played a first-class match against Orange Free State and between the first and second Tests they played", "id": "5209672" }, { "contents": "Bangladeshi cricket team in Zimbabwe in 2011\n\n\nThe Bangladesh cricket team toured Zimbabwe from 4 to 21 August 2011. The tour consisted of one Test match and five One Day Internationals (ODIs) played against the Zimbabwean national team and one first-class match played against a Zimbabwean representative team. The Test match was Zimbabwe's first since India toured Zimbabwe in 2005. Zimbabwe won the Test match by 130 runs and also won the one-day series 3–2. Bangladesh announced its squad for the Test match and ODI series on 15 July 2011. Zimbabwe announced its squad for", "id": "19159411" }, { "contents": "V. V. S. Laxman\n\n\nfrom international cricket. Although he was selected for the upcoming New Zealand series, he opted not to play in the series but he will play in domestic cricket for Hyderabad and the Indian Premier League . It was announced that the northern stand at the Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium will now be named after him. Laxman was particularly prolific against Australia, in both Tests and One Day Internationals. Six out of his 17 Test hundreds, and four out of his six ODI hundreds came against Australia. He has two double-centuries", "id": "9815623" }, { "contents": "3rd Battalion, 319th Field Artillery Regiment\n\n\nVII and another platoon to LZ Challenge from 3–5 July. Battery C located at FSB Rock near Bac Loc and conducted two 1-day raids on 11 & 13 June. Battery D located at LZ Lowboy, with 2 howitzers sent on Operation Red Thrust V in 5 days ending 2 May. On 12 July, Battery D displaced to support Battery A from FSB Hawkeye but returned to LZ Lowboy until 28 July, then occupied FSB Hunky. The battalion received three 105mm howitzers in May. In July, LTC John R. Martin replaced LTC Joseph", "id": "2060226" }, { "contents": "W. G. Grace in the 1878 English cricket season\n\n\nthis match attracted few spectators as it coincided with the Surrey v Australians match at The Oval, which drew very large crowds. \"Wisden Cricketers' Almanack\" commented that \"the Australians were attracting monster gatherings at The Oval on the days that this match was played, consequently very few visitors were at Lord's\". There were three North v South fixtures in June. The first two were played at Prince's Cricket Ground and Lord's with the South as the \"home\" team; the third took place at the", "id": "15478186" }, { "contents": "Third Test, 1948 Ashes series\n\n\nThe Third Test of the 1948 Ashes series was one of five Tests in a cricket series between teams representing Australia and England. The match was played at Old Trafford in Manchester from 8–13 July, with a rest day on 11 July. The match was drawn after the whole of the fourth day and the first half of the fifth day was washed out due to rain; England had the upper hand before the weather intervened. The draw maintained Australia's 2–0 lead in the series, which was established through victories in the first", "id": "497412" }, { "contents": "Giles Baring\n\n\n, Gresham's School, Holt, and Magdalene College, Cambridge. He represented Cambridge University in 1930 and 1931 and Hampshire between 1930 and 1939. Apart from more than fifty regular county championship games, he played in the Cambridge University v New Zealanders match of 3 June 1931, for the Gentlemen in the Gentlemen v Players matches of 2 September 1931 and 11 July 1934, for Hampshire in Hampshire v West Indians on 24 May 1933, for Hampshire in Hampshire v Australians on 23 May 1934, for Hampshire in Hampshire v South", "id": "9091807" }, { "contents": "2013–14 Bangladeshi cricket season\n\n\nand Mirpur. Both Test matches ended in draws, Bangladesh won all three One Day Internationals and New Zealand won the sole Twenty20 International. Sri Lanka toured Bangladesh in January and February 2014 playing two Test Matches, three One Day Internationals and two Twenty20 Internationals. Sri Lanka won every match, with the exception of the second Test match which ended in a draw. Initially it was planned that the NCL would be held in November and December 2013, the BCL in May and June 2014 and the BPL in December and January.", "id": "18068868" }, { "contents": "Darrell Hair\n\n\nby the ICC on 12 March 2008 and stood in the England v New Zealand tests at Old Trafford in May and Trent Bridge in June 2008. Hair umpired his first Test match in January 1992, between Australia and India in Adelaide. In 1994 the International Cricket Council (ICC) introduced a policy of appointing one umpire to each Test match from a non-participating country, and since 2002 both umpires have been appointed from non-participating nations. Since 2002 the majority of Hair’s Test matches have been played outside Australia", "id": "17469081" }, { "contents": "Timeline of events preceding World War II\n\n\n15 October 2 November 14 January February 6 March 7 March 25 May 5 June 3 July 17 August 1 October October 18 November 14 November 15 November 25 December 1 December 12 December 23 December 24 January 20 May 28 July 7 August 13 October 5 November 6 November 26 December 1 December 8 December 11 December 12 December 13 January 26 March 6 March 13 March 24 July 6–16 July 29 August September 27 September 30 October 5 November 7 November 9 January 25 January 27 March 14 March 15 March 16 March 20 March 21 March 23", "id": "6767331" }, { "contents": "South African cricket team in England in 1924\n\n\nThe South African cricket team toured England in the 1924 season to play a five-match Test series against England. England won the series 3-0 with 2 matches drawn. The tourists, with their ages on the first day of the first match of the tour on 3 May, were: George Parker (24) also played three first-class matches (including the first two Tests) and Aubrey Faulkner (42) played one match, the Third Test. The manager was George Allsop. South Africa's score", "id": "12941168" }, { "contents": "2018 English cricket season\n\n\ninternational sides toured England and Wales during the season: Pakistan, Australia and India. Pakistan also visited Ireland midway through the tour and played the Irish team's first Test match at Malahide near Dublin. In preparation for this match the Irish team played a first-class match against Somerset at Taunton in April. At the end of their tour Pakistan played two T20 matches in Scotland on 12 and 13 June. The England team played a One Day International (ODI) against Scotland in Edinburgh in June, losing to Scotland for", "id": "6929601" }, { "contents": "V. V. S. Laxman\n\n\n112 in the second test. This ensured his place on the tour of Australia which would be his third to that country. Laxman's good form continued in the 2007-08 Test series against Australia with him scoring 109 against Australia on the second day of the controversial Sydney Test to put India back into the contest. It was his 12th hundred in Test matches, and his 5th against Australia. It was also his third consecutive century at SCG, giving him an average well above 90 at the venue. He followed this", "id": "9815609" }, { "contents": "2019 Ashes series\n\n\nthree cricketers were named in Australia's squad for the 2019 Ashes. Meanwhile, England warmed up for the 2019 Ashes with a Test series earlier in the year against the West Indies and a one-off Test against Ireland in July. The tour of the West Indies comprised three matches and was won 2–1 by the West Indies. England also won the one-off Test against Ireland, by 143 runs. Ahead of the series, it was announced that Day 2 of the Lord’s Test would benefit the Ruth Strauss Foundation", "id": "18532603" }, { "contents": "V. V. S. Laxman\n\n\n1–1. He was awarded the Man of the Match for his match-winning innings of 96. His knock was voted as the best Test batting performance of the year by ESPNCricinfo. In three test matches, Laxman scored three consecutive fifties including two scores in eighties against the West Indies during India's tour of West Indies in June 2011. During India's Tour to England, Laxman scored just two half-centuries in eight innings as India went down 0–4 to England. This was India's first Test series loss since its", "id": "9815620" }, { "contents": "2014–15 Bangladeshi cricket season\n\n\nThe 2014–15 Bangladeshi cricket season featured tours of the country by Zimbabwe and Pakistan. Rangpur Division won the National Cricket League (NCL) championship title for the first time. Zimbabwe toured Bangladesh from 26 October to 1 December 2014, playing three Test matches and five One Day International matches. Bangladesh won the Test series 3–0 and the ODI series 5–0. Pakistan toured from 15 April to 10 May 2015, playing one Twenty20 International (T20I), three One Day Internationals (ODIs) and two Test matches. Pakistan won the Test", "id": "895026" }, { "contents": "Australia women's cricket team in England in 2019\n\n\nThe Australia women's cricket team toured England in June and July 2019 to play the England women's cricket team to contest the Women's Ashes. The tour consisted of three Women's One Day Internationals (WODIs), one Women's Test match and three Women's Twenty20 Internationals (WT20Is). A points-based system was used across all three formats of the tour. The Women's Ashes were held by Australia prior to the start of the series. Australia women won the WODI series 3–0, therefore taking a 6–0", "id": "15341273" }, { "contents": "Pakistani cricket team in England in 1962\n\n\nof three one-day games (not limited overs). The first two were drawn and the Pakistanis won the third one against Colonel Stevens' XI. These three matches were, in effect, warm-ups only and not first-class. The opening first-class fixture was against Worcestershire at New Road, starting on Wednesday, 2 May. The Pakistanis were given a foretaste of the Test series to come in that Tom Graveney scored a century for the home team (and was presented with his county cap immediately afterwards", "id": "12941094" }, { "contents": "New Zealand cricket team in Australia in 2015–16\n\n\nThe New Zealand cricket team toured Australia from 23 October to 1 December 2015 to play three Test matches and four tour matches. The third match of the series at the Adelaide Oval was the first ever day-night Test. Michael Hussey captained the Prime Minister's XI side for the tour match, and in preparation for the day-night Test, a pink ball was used in this game. Australia won the series 2–0, with victories in Brisbane and Adelaide, with the second Test in Perth being drawn. Following the", "id": "1307472" }, { "contents": "Kennington\n\n\nThe Kia Oval\", is the home ground for Surrey County Cricket Club and hosts the final Test match of the English summer season. The Oval was the first ground in the United Kingdom to host Test cricket, was the location for the England v Scotland representative matches, the first ever international football match, the first FA Cup final in 1872, and held the second ever rugby union international match between England and Scotland in 1872. England's unfortunate performance against Australia here in 1882 gave rise to The Ashes. The Oval", "id": "10346916" }, { "contents": "Indian cricket team in Zimbabwe in 2001\n\n\nThe Indian cricket team toured Zimbabwe from 28 May to 7 July 2001 and played two Test matches against Zimbabwe, with each team winning one game match. This would be Zimbabwe's only Test victory over a side other than Bangladesh until they beat Pakistan in the second Test in 2013. India and Zimbabwe also participated in a triangular One Day International (ODI) competition with West Indies, with the latter eventually winning the competition. The Coca-Cola Cup was a One Day International (ODI) tournament that followed the Test series", "id": "4099650" }, { "contents": "Andrew Balbirnie\n\n\nHe played three further One Day International's during the tournament. He made his Twenty20 International debut against Scotland on 19 June 2015, although no play was possible due to rain. He was part of the Ireland A team which toured Bangladesh in October 2017 to play one first-class match and five limited overs matches against the Bangladesh A team. In May 2018, he was named in a fourteen-man squad for Ireland's first ever Test match, which was played against Pakistan later the same month. He made his", "id": "2597279" }, { "contents": "Pakistani cricket team in Scotland in 2018\n\n\nThe Pakistan cricket team toured Scotland to play two Twenty20 International (T20I) matches at The Grange Club, Edinburgh, on 12 and 13 June 2018. Pakistan last toured Scotland in May 2013 to play two One Day Internationals. Both teams last met in a T20I fixture in the group stage of the 2007 ICC World Twenty20 tournament. This was the first time that Scotland had played a home T20I match against a full member side. The tour followed Pakistan's tour of England and their one Test series in Ireland. England also", "id": "373509" }, { "contents": "2017 June rugby union tests\n\n\n2 sides. Australia, the only southern hemisphere Tier 1 nation not to host a test series, staged three one-off test matches; Scotland, Italy and Fiji. The Fijian test was the first between the two sides in Australia since 2010, and was also the first Australia v Tier 2 nation match in Australia since Samoa visited in 2011. Fiji also played host to Italy and Scotland to become the second Tier 2 nation to play three back-back Tier 1 sides during an international window, after Samoa participated in", "id": "13232867" }, { "contents": "Timeline of the 2014 Pacific hurricane season\n\n\nJune 11 June 12 June 13 June 14 June 15 June 28 June 30 July 1 July 2 July 3 July 6 July 7 July 9 July 17 July 18 July 19 July 25 July 26 July 27 July 28 July 29 July 31 August 1 August 2 August 3 August 4 August 5 August 6 August 7 August 8 August 9 August 10 August 12 August 13 August 14 August 15 August 17 August 18 August 21 August 22 August 23 August 24 August 25 August 26 August 27 August 28 August 29 September 2 September 4 September 6", "id": "2400921" } ]

[ { "contents": "Sri Lankan cricket team in England in 2014\n\n\nThe Sri Lanka national cricket team toured England from 13 May to 24 June 2014 for a Twenty20 International (T20I), five One Day Internationals (ODIs) and two Test matches against the England cricket team. They also played three one-day and one four-day tour matches against English county sides, as well as preceding the entire tour with a two-match ODI series against Ireland. Sri Lanka won the Test series 1–0 (the first time they had won a Test series in England), the ODI series", "id": "21939883" }, { "contents": "New Zealand cricket team in England in 2015\n\n\nThe New Zealand national cricket team toured England from 8 May to 23 June 2015 for two Test matches, five One Day Internationals (ODIs) and a Twenty20 International (T20I) against the England cricket team. They also played two four-day tour matches and a one-day match against English county sides. England won the first Test at Lord's before New Zealand claimed victory in the second Test at Headingley to level the series. England then took an early lead in the ODI series after hitting more than 400 runs", "id": "943447" }, { "contents": "Australian cricket team in England and Ireland in 2015\n\n\nThe Australia national cricket team toured England from June to September 2015 for a five-match Test series, five One Day International (ODI) matches and one Twenty20 International (T20I). The Test series was for the Ashes. They also played two four-day and two three-day first-class matches against English county sides. Australia also played one ODI against Ireland in Belfast. On 31 March 2015, Australia announced a 17-man touring party for the Ashes series. England announced their squad for the first Test on", "id": "1657670" }, { "contents": "David Constant\n\n\n67 first-class appearances. In total he scored 1,517 first-class runs at a batting average of 19.20 with a highest score of 80. Tony Lewis described his innings against Glamorgan on a difficult pitch at Leicester in 1965 as \"one of the bravest innings I ever saw\". His first Test as umpire was the Third Test between England and Pakistan in July 1971. He last stood in an international cricket match in the England v. Australia One Day International at The Oval, London in June 2001. He was the", "id": "14539375" }, { "contents": "Pakistani cricket team in Sri Lanka in 2015\n\n\nThe Pakistan cricket team toured Sri Lanka from 11 June to 1 August 2015. The tour consisted of a three-day tour match against a SLCB President's XI, three Test matches, five One Day International and two Twenty20 International matches. The third Test was originally scheduled to be played at the R Premadasa Stadium, but was changed to the Pallekele International Cricket Stadium in early May. Pakistan outplayed the hosts in all forms of the game by winning the Test series 2–1, the ODI series 3–2 and the T20I series 2–0.", "id": "15080177" }, { "contents": "2010 in American music\n\n\n17 March 22 March 23 March 26 March 30 April 6 April 8 April 13 April 19 April 20 April 21 April 27 April 30 May 4 May 11 May 14 May 17 May 18 May 21 May 25 May 31 June 1 June 8 June 14 June 15 June 18 June 21 June 22 June 28 June 29 July 6 July 7 July 12 July 13 July 15 July 20 July 23 July 25 July 27 July 29 August 3 August 17 August 24 August 31 September 7 September 14 September 21 September 23 September 28 October 5 October", "id": "18556206" }, { "contents": "Warwickshire County Cricket Club\n\n\nand gold and the shirt sponsor is Gullivers Sports Travel. The club's home is Edgbaston Cricket Ground in south Birmingham, which regularly hosts Test and One Day International matches. Cricket may have reached Warwickshire by the end of the 17th century. The \"Warwickshire & Staffordshire Journal\" was certainly aware of the sport in 1738 for it carried a report of a London v Mitcham game at the Artillery Ground on 11 August (London won by 1 wicket). The earliest confirmed reference to cricket in the county is a match announcement", "id": "8941185" }, { "contents": "Irish cricket team in England in 2019\n\n\nThe Ireland cricket team toured England in July 2019 to play a one-off four-day Test match at Lord's. It was the first Test match to be played between the two sides, and was England's first four-day Test match since they toured New Zealand in 1971. It was Ireland's third Test match, and their twelfth international fixture against England. The Test match was part of England's preparations for the 2019 Ashes series. Ahead of the Test, the England cricket team visited Ireland in May", "id": "16268672" }, { "contents": "1919 English cricket season\n\n\n(five wins from fourteen) and Warwickshire were bottom with 7.14% (one win from fourteen). The 1919 County Championship was the 26th since the competition acquired official status in 1890. The opening matches began on Friday, 16 May. These were Middlesex v Nottinghamshire at Lord's and the 1914 (reigning) champions Surrey against Somerset at The Oval. The final match between Essex and Surrey at Leyton was completed on Monday, 1 September. The situation between Yorkshire and Kent on Saturday, 30 August (the second day in", "id": "7320450" }, { "contents": "Timeline of the 2013 Pacific hurricane season\n\n\n15 May 16 May 17 May 28 May 29 May 30 June 1 June 23 June 24 June 25 June 26 June 27 June 29 June 30 July 2 July 3 July 4 July 5 July 6 July 7 July 9 July 25 July 27 July 30 July 31 August 2 August 3 August 4 August 6 August 7 August 8 August 9 August 11 August 16 August 18 August 19 August 20 August 22 August 23 August 24 August 25 August 28 August 29 August 30 August 31 September 1 September 2 September 5 September 6 September 7 September", "id": "957237" }, { "contents": "Prince's Cricket Ground\n\n\nas 'grand and quick and one of the finest playing grounds in England'. The first match played on the ground was Household Brigade v. Lords and Commons on 3 June 1871. Middlesex County Cricket Club used the ground between 1872 and 1876 and played their first match on 23–25 May 1872 against Yorkshire. The ground was also used by South of England and by Gentlemen of the South. Several Gentlemen v Players fixtures were also played there, the first taking place in July 1873. In 1878, the touring Australians played two", "id": "19086180" }, { "contents": "Callum Jackson\n\n\nSussex youth ranks, playing at under-13, under-14, under-15 and under-17 level before joining the second XI as a 16-year-old in 2011. He was selected to represent an English Schools Cricket Association XI in 2011 before making his first appearance for the Sussex first XI on 1 May 2012 in a non-first-class match against the Leeds/Bradford MCC Universities team. In early 2013, Jackson was selected for the England under-19 side to tour South Africa, where he played in both Youth Test matches and three One Day", "id": "16290826" }, { "contents": "2018 English cricket season\n\n\nHurricane Irma and Hurricane Maria in September 2017. Pakistan played two Test matches against England at Lord's and Headingley at the end of May and beginning of June. The series was drawn, each side winning one match. Ahead of the Tests, two first-class matches were played against Kent and Northants. Their match against Ireland took place after the two first-class county matches, and a two-day match was played against Leicestershire between this and the first Test against England. Pakistan won the first Test match by", "id": "6929603" }, { "contents": "1963 in Norwegian football\n\n\nResults from Norwegian football in 1963. April 26 April 28 May 3 May 4 May 5 May 11 May 12 May 30 May 19 May 22 May 23 May 26 May 27 June 7 June 8 June 9 June 14 June 15 June 16 June 22 June 23 June 24 July 26 July 28 July 29 August 2 August 4 August 6 August 17 August 18 August 21 August 22 August 24 August 25 September 7 September 8 September 20 September 22 October 4 October 6 October 13 Årstad promoted Nidelv promoted Harstad - Bodø/Glimt 4 -", "id": "20433032" }, { "contents": "West Indian cricket team in England in 1991\n\n\nThe West Indian cricket team in England in 1991 played three one day internationals and five Tests, under the captaincy of Viv Richards, as part of an extensive tour in which they also played first-class matches against 11 first-class county teams, the combined Minor Counties, the Combined Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, and a World XI to finish, plus 55-over one-day matches against one more first-class county (Gloucestershire) and the Duchess of Norfolk's Invitation XI. Of the non-international matches,", "id": "5157419" }, { "contents": "West Indian cricket team in England in 2007\n\n\nThe West Indian cricket team toured England from 12 May to 7 July 2007 as part of the 2007 English cricket season. The tour included four Tests, two Twenty20 international matches and three One Day Internationals. While England dominated the Test series 3–0, including a record victory over the West Indies, the latter took the ODI series 2:1. In the ICC Test Championship, England are ranked second and West Indies are ranked eighth, though England's most recent series was a whitewash loss in the Ashes against Australia for the first time", "id": "12941423" }, { "contents": "Sri Lankan cricket team in the West Indies in 2018\n\n\nOn 19 May 2018, Cricket West Indies (CWI) announced that they may scrap one of the Test fixtures, replacing it with a couple of one-day matches. However, the day before the first Test, the International Cricket Council (ICC) confirmed that it would be a three-match Test series. Prior to the start of day three of the second Test, the Sri Lankan cricket team protested against umpires' decision on starting the third day's play with a new ball, replacing the old ball.", "id": "19622271" }, { "contents": "Timeline of the 2017 Pacific hurricane season\n\n\ncyclone formations, strengthening, weakening, landfalls, extratropical transitions, and dissipations during the season. May 9 May 10 May 11 May 12 May 15 May 31 June 1 June 2 June 11 June 12 June 13 June 24 June 25 June 26 June 27 June 28 July 1 July 7 July 8 July 9 July 10 July 11 July 12 July 13 July 14 July 15 July 16 July 17 July 18 July 19 July 20 July 21 July 22 July 23 July 24 July 25 July 26 July 27 July 28 July 31 August 1", "id": "7169450" }, { "contents": "Daniel Bell-Drummond\n\n\nmade his youth Test debut on 21 July 2010 at the County Ground, Northampton before scoring unbeaten 88 in the second youth Test later in the same month, aged only 16. He played in both under-19 Test matches and in four youth one-day international matches during England's return tour of Sri Lanka in January and February 2011. In July 2011 Bell-Drummond played in a one-day series against South Africa under-19s. He top-scored for England in three of the seven matches in the series and was the", "id": "6732560" }, { "contents": "1967 in Norwegian football\n\n\nResults from Norwegian football in 1967. April 27 April 28 April 30 May 4 May 6 May 7 May 10 May 11 May 15 May 16 May 18 May 19 May 20 May 21 May 22 June 22 May 25 May 28 June 4 June 10 June 11 June 12 June 13 June 18 June 19 July 30 July 31 August 2 August 6 August 7 August 9 August 10 August 20 August 16 August 20 August 21 September 7 September 10 September 16 September 17 October 6 October 8 October 9 October 12 October 15 October 20 October", "id": "2081596" }, { "contents": "Phil Carlson\n\n\nPhillip Henry Carlson (born 8 August 1951, Nundah, Queensland) is a former Australian cricketer who played in two Tests and four One Day Internationals (ODIs) in 1979. Carlson was an all-rounder who played for Queensland between 1969–70 and 1980–81. He played two Test matches for Australia v England in 1978–79 Ashes series and four One Day Internationals against the same opponents. He was called up by Australia when most of their regular first-choice players were playing in World Series Cricket. Carlson took two Test wickets and", "id": "11409623" }, { "contents": "1962 in Norwegian football\n\n\nResults from Norwegian football in 1962. July 30 August 2 August 3 August 9 August 8 August 13 August 16 August 20 August 21 September 2 September 3 Ørn - Brann 0 - 7 September 24 September 28 October 1 October 15 April 25 October 6 October 8 April 29 May 6 May 12 May 13 May 14 May 20 May 21 May 23 May 24 May 27 May 30 May 31 June 3 June 15 June 16 June 17 June 24 June 25 June 30 July 1 July 29 August 1 August 2 August 4 August 5 August", "id": "9107175" }, { "contents": "Alan Igglesden\n\n\nAlan Paul Igglesden (born 8 October 1964) is a former English Test cricketer. He played three Test Matches and four One Day Internationals (ODIs) for the England cricket team between 1989 and 1994 as a fast bowler. He played most of his first-class cricket career for Kent County Cricket Club. Igglesden was born in Farnborough, London in 1964. He first played for Kent County Cricket Club's Second XI in 1983 before making his first-class cricket debut of the county in July 1986 against Somerset at Maidstone", "id": "8795795" }, { "contents": "Sri Lankan cricket team in England and Ireland in 2016\n\n\nThe Sri Lanka national cricket team toured England from 8 May to 5 July 2016 for a three-match Test series, a five-match One Day International (ODI) series and a one-off Twenty20 International (T20I) against the England cricket team. England won the Test series 2–0, the ODI series 3–0 and won the one-off T20I match by 8 wickets. They also played two first-class matches against Essex and Leicestershire prior to the Test series, and two ODI matches against Ireland prior to the", "id": "15635062" }, { "contents": "South African cricket team in England in 2008\n\n\nThe South African cricket team toured England between 29 June and 4 September 2008. They played four Test matches, one Twenty20 International and five One Day Internationals against England. They also played six tour matches against Somerset, Middlesex, Bangladesh A, a PCA Masters XI and two against the England Lions. It was announced that following the conclusion of this four-match series, future matches between England and South Africa would comprise five Test matches but only three one-day matches after the series was granted 'icon' status.", "id": "18079110" }, { "contents": "2018 English cricket season\n\n\nthe first time in an ODI. The South African women's team also toured England to play three One Day International matches against the England women's cricket team in June and to compete in the 2018 England women's Tri-Nation Series Twenty20 competition against England and New Zealand. New Zealand then played three One Day Internationals against England in July. In addition the West Indies men's side played a single Twenty20 International against a Rest of the World XI team at Lord's in May 2018 to raise funds for stadiums damaged by", "id": "6929602" }, { "contents": "American Rally Association\n\n\nWood Rally March 15 - 16 Olympus Rally April 27 - 28 Oregon Trail Rally May 31 - June 2 Idaho Rally International June 22 - 23 New England Forest Rally July 19 - 20 Muscatell Ojibwe Forests Rally August 23 - 24 Susquehannock Trail Performance Rally September 13 - 14 Lake Superior Performance Rally October 18 - 19 2019 ARA Super Regional Events Southern Ohio Forest Rally May 16 - 18 Rally Colorado July 26 - 27 Tour de Forest Rally September 21, 2019 Empire State Performance Rally October 25 - 26 2019 ARA One-Day Regional", "id": "6404348" }, { "contents": "Pakistani cricket team in England and Ireland in 2016\n\n\nThe Pakistan national cricket team toured England and Ireland from 3 July to 7 September 2016 for a four-match Test series, a five-match One Day International (ODI) series and a one-off Twenty20 International (T20I) against the England cricket team. They also played two three-day matches against Somerset and Sussex prior to the Test series, a two-day match against Worcestershire during the Test series, and two ODI matches against Ireland prior to the ODI series. England's ODI matches against Pakistan was", "id": "15635130" }, { "contents": "Second Test, 1948 Ashes series\n\n\nThe Second Test of the 1948 Ashes series was one of five Tests in a cricket series between Australia and England. The match was played at Lord's in London from 24 to 29 June, with a rest day on 27 June. Australia won the match by 409 runs to take a 2–0 lead, meaning that England would need to win the remaining three matches to regain The Ashes. Australian captain Don Bradman won the toss and elected to bat. The tourists had won the First Test convincingly, and decided to field the", "id": "497516" }, { "contents": "MCC v Australians at Lord's, 27 May 1878\n\n\nin England, the team left Sydney on 29 March 1878 and sailed via Auckland and Honolulu to San Francisco, from where they travelled across America by train to New York City. They crossed the Atlantic, arriving in Liverpool on 13 May, and then went by train to Nottingham where they played their first match, starting on Monday, 20 May. This was a three-day match against Nottinghamshire at Trent Bridge and the Australians were well beaten by an innings and 14 runs, an inauspicious start which dampened much of the public", "id": "16383632" }, { "contents": "Australian women's cricket team in England in 2013\n\n\nThe Australian women's cricket team toured England in 2013. The visitors were defending the Women's Ashes. The only Test match of the tour took place on 11–14 August at Wormsley Park, and was drawn. Three One-Day Internationals (ODIs) were played: the first at Lord's on 20 August, and the other two at Hove on 23 and 25 August. Also three Twenty20 International (T20I) matches were played, on 27, 29 and 31 August, at Chelmsford, Southampton and Chester-le-", "id": "19064429" }, { "contents": "South African cricket team in England in 2017\n\n\nThe South African cricket team toured England and Wales between May and August 2017, playing three One Day Internationals (ODIs), three Twenty20 Internationals (T20Is) and four Test matches. The ODI matches were in preparation for the 2017 ICC Champions Trophy, which took place in England and Wales during June. Extra security was provided to South Africa for the ODI series following the Manchester bombing. England won the ODI series 2–1 and the T20 series 2–1. Ahead of the ODI series, South Africa played one-day warm-", "id": "1555384" }, { "contents": "1Malaysia Development Berhad scandal\n\n\n- 30 September onwards October 20 November 25 December 1 December 5 December 31 2016 January 26 January 29 February 1 February 3 February 7 February 19 February 29 March 23 March 31 April 2 April 5 April 7 April 9 April 12 April 13 April 19 April 28 May 24 May 31 July 11 1MDB agrees to resolve its dispute with International Petroleum Investment Company via the London Court of International Arbitration. July 21 August 9 October 11 December 2 2017 March 22 April 24 May 30 June 15 June 16 August 1 August 2 August 11 August", "id": "14280441" }, { "contents": "Timeline of events preceding World War II\n\n\nJune 30 September 14 May 19 September 18 September 19 January 7 January 28 February 27 March 1 April 10 May 30 August 30 November 21 December 3 January 1 January 30 February 27 February 28 March 4 March 20 March 23 March 24 March 27 April 1 April 26 May 2 May 15 May 31 June 21 July 14 August 25 September 12 October 19 November 24 January 26 February 12–16 March 20 June 30 July 20 July 25 August 2 August 8 September October 16 December 1 December 5 December 29 January 7 June 18 August 31 September", "id": "6767330" }, { "contents": "Timeline of the 2018 Pacific hurricane season\n\n\ntropical cyclone formations, strengthening, weakening, landfalls, extratropical transitions, and dissipations during the season. May 10 May 11 May 13 May 15 June 1 June 6 June 7 June 8 June 9 June 10 June 11 June 12 June 13 June 14 June 15 June 16 June 17 June 19 June 24 June 25 June 26 June 27 June 28 June 29 June 30 July 1 July 2 July 3 July 4 July 5 July 6 July 9 July 26 July 27 July 28 July 29 July 31 August 1 August 2 August 3 August", "id": "21166816" }, { "contents": "English cricket team in Australia in 2017–18\n\n\nThe England cricket team toured Australia between November 2017 and February 2018 to play five Tests and five One Day Internationals (ODIs). They also played in a three nation Twenty20 International (T20I) tournament, along with New Zealand, who co-hosted the tournament along with Australia. England additionally played two first-class matches, a two-day tour match and a one-day tour match against Cricket Australia XI, as well as a Twenty20 against the Prime Minister's XI. The Test matches made up the 2017–18", "id": "21532277" }, { "contents": "Timeline of events preceding World War II\n\n\nApril 16 August 13 October October 11 October 29 November 1 January 11 June July 24 August 31 September 27 October 29 November 8 January 21 February 1 March 16 April 1 April 6 June 10 August 16 August 18 May 12 July 18 December 1 January 3 January 31 April 4 April 24 September 8 December 25 April 12 May 20 June 7 November 12 December 14 May 3 May 28 June 4 August 2 August 27 October 1 February 9 February 11 March 4 March 28 April 3 June 7 July 24 August 31 October 29 April 22", "id": "6767329" }, { "contents": "W. G. Grace in the 1878 English cricket season\n\n\nNewcastle upon Tyne, Bolton and Birmingham to play odds games against local opposition. Grace took 21 wickets in the match against the 22 men of Melton Mowbray in a three-day match starting on Monday, 1 July. He scored 42 and 57 not out in his two innings, the match ending in a draw. Grace caught the evening train to be in London ready for the first Gentlemen v Players match at The Oval, starting on Thursday, 4 July. The next USEE match at Leeds Holbeck followed the second Gentlemen", "id": "15478205" }, { "contents": "List of accidents and incidents involving military aircraft (1950–1954)\n\n\n12 December 19 December 23 December 10 January 11 January 15 January 21 January 28 January 31 January 14 February 13 March 14 March 17 March 23 March 3 April 5 April 5 April 8 April 25 April 27 April 6 May 18 May 19 May 8 June 13 June 15 June 18 June 23 June 23 June 30 June 8 July 31 July Summer 13 August 18 August 21 August 22 August 26 August 27 August 16 September 29 September 15 October 11 November 13 November 19 November 27 November 3 December 7 December 21 December 12 January 15", "id": "21637229" }, { "contents": "Lord's\n\n\nbe switched off by 11 pm. The floodlights were first used successfully on 27 May 2009 during the Twenty20 Cup match between Middlesex and Kent. Lord's hosts Test matches, one-day internationals, some Middlesex home matches, MCC matches and (starting with a fixture between Middlesex and Surrey in July 2004) some of Middlesex's home Twenty20 games. Lord's typically hosts two Tests every summer plus two one-day internationals. Lord's also plays host to the finals of the National Village Cricket Competition, the MCC Universities", "id": "10760657" }, { "contents": "2011 in American music\n\n\nThe following is a list of notable events and releases that happened in 2011 in music in the United States. January 11 January 17 January 18 January 21 January 25 January 31 February 1 February 8 February 15 February 22 March 1 March 8 March 15 March 22 March 29 April 5 April 11 April 12 April 26 May 3 May 10 May 17 May 23 May 24 May 31 June 7 June 14 June 21 June 28 July 5 July 8 July 12 July 13 July 19 July 26 August 2 August 8 August 9 August 16 August", "id": "15423555" }, { "contents": "MCC v Australians at Lord's, 27 May 1878\n\n\nenthusiasm that their visit had generated. The Australians were next due to play Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) in a three-day match at Lord's, commencing on Monday, 27 May. In the meantime, Charles Bannerman and Billy Midwinter were invited to visit Dublin and play for the United South of England Eleven (USEE) against 15 past and present players of Dublin University. This was due to be played over three days, starting on Thursday, 23 May, at College Park. The USEE was captained by W. G.", "id": "16383633" }, { "contents": "West Indian cricket team in England in 1928\n\n\nreach three figures. As at Lord's and Old Trafford, the match was over before lunch on the third day. Including the three Tests, 30 first-class matches were played on the tour, plus six other games. The West Indians won just seven of these 36 matches (five of the first-class games) and lost 12. By the end of May, the touring side had won matches against Derbyshire and Cambridge University, plus a minor match against Northumberland, and had drawn all the other games.", "id": "12941340" }, { "contents": "Bob Willis\n\n\n26 August against Worcestershire's Seconds. Willis, 19 years of age, took one wicket for 48 runs in the first innings, and bowled four wicketless overs in the second. He was not called on to bat at all. Two days later, he faced Glamorgan and took three wickets. He played several further Second XI matches through May and June 1969, before his first-class debut on 6 August. Scotland was touring England that season and had already beaten Warwickshire. Willis took three wickets for 13 runs from 13", "id": "16238759" }, { "contents": "Rock in Rio\n\n\n5 July 6 May 21 / 82.000 May 22 / 45.000 May 27 / 85.000 May 29 / 95.000 May 30 / 38.000 June 4 / 51.000 June 5 / 85.000 June 6 / 90.000 June 11 / 30.000 June 14 / 48.000 Rock in Rio Lisboa V Rock in Rio Lisboa VII Rock in Rio Lisboa VIII June 24 sold out almost three months prior to the festival. \"Rock in Rio USA\" was the first North American edition of the festival, being held in Las Vegas on May 8, 9, 15 and 16", "id": "11140715" }, { "contents": "Indian cricket team in Sri Lanka in 2015\n\n\nThe Indian cricket team toured Sri Lanka from 6 August to 1 September 2015 to play a tour match and three Test matches. On 27 June, Sri Lankan batsman Kumar Sangakkara said he would retire from international cricket after the second Test of the series. The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) and Sri Lanka Cricket Board confirmed the schedule of India's tour to Sri Lanka in August to September 2015. The tour started with a three-day warm-up game against Sri Lanka Board President's XI,", "id": "22038367" }, { "contents": "Andy Cottam\n\n\nAndrew Colin Cottam (born 14 July 1973 in Northampton, England) was an English cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman and a left-arm slow bowler. He played in 2 Under-19 Tests in 1992 and 13 first-class matches between 1992 and 1996. His father is the cricketer and coach Bob Cottam. In 1990 Andy Cottam started playing for Somerset Second XI and Devon. In 1992 he was selected for Under-19's tour of Pakistan and played in the Third Test and 2 one-day matches against Pakistan", "id": "2981363" }, { "contents": "Lord's\n\n\n. The hundredth Lord's Test match was in 2000, England v West Indies. As of 25 August 2010 England have played 119 Test matches at Lord's, winning 45, losing 28 and drawing 46. Lord's often hosts two Test matches each summer, one match for each visiting team. In 2010, the ground hosted three Test matches: as well as England's matches against Bangladesh and Pakistan, a Test match between Australia and Pakistan was held there in July. Lord's was the venue of the 2000th test", "id": "10760663" }, { "contents": "Australian cricket team in Sri Lanka in 2016\n\n\nThe Australian cricket team toured Sri Lanka from 18 July to 9 September 2016 to play three Test matches, five One Day Internationals (ODIs), two Twenty20 Internationals (T20Is) matches and a first-class practice match. The Test series was played for Warne-Muralitharan Trophy, with Sri Lanka winning 3–0, their first ever series whitewash against Australia. As a result, Australia slipped from first to third in the ICC Test Championship; Sri Lanka, who had started the series ranked seventh, moved up to sixth.", "id": "14912886" }, { "contents": "South African cricket team in Australia in 2005–06\n\n\nThe South African cricket team toured Australia for cricket matches during the 2005–06 season. South Africa had already played two One Day International series during this season, beating New Zealand 4–0 at home before travelling to India and drawing the series there 2–2. The team had been playing 14 successive ODIs (tour matches excluded) before arriving in Australia, with their last Test match against West Indies in April and May 2005. South Africa played one first class warm-up match, one three-day warm-up match without first class", "id": "19860549" }, { "contents": "Peter Lever\n\n\n6/38, before his final Test ended on 5 August 1975 during another Ashes tour, Australia facing England at Lord's. Lever also played ten One Day Internationals, including the 1975 Cricket World Cup, taking 11 wickets but scoring only 17 runs. His ODI debut was also against Australia, at Melbourne on 5 January 1971, and his last match was at Headingley, Leeds, again against Australia, on 18 June 1975. This gives Lever the unusual distinction of having played both his debut, and last match, against Australia", "id": "17765992" }, { "contents": "Australian women's cricket team in England in 2009\n\n\nThe Australian women's cricket team toured England between 25 June and 13 July 2009, playing one Test match, five One Day Internationals and a Twenty20 International. Australia won the Twenty20 International, while England won the One Day International series 4–0. The Test match, which was for the Women's Ashes, was drawn; ensuring that England retained them. Prior to the series, both sides took part in the 2009 ICC Women's World Twenty20, which was also held in England in June. England won the tournament, in", "id": "13250607" }, { "contents": "List of accidents and incidents involving military aircraft (1950–1954)\n\n\nJanuary 31 January 7 February 18 March 21 April 24 April May 11 May 12 May 15 May 9 June 11 June 13 June 17 June 18 June 21 June 15 July 17 July 30 July 6 August 6 August 12 August 23 August 26 August 30 August 5 September 9 September 9 September 9 September 11 September 19 September 19 September 25 September 1 October 1 October 7 October 8 October 8 October 11 October 13 October 14 October 17 October 18 October 19 October 20 October 22 October 26 October 2 November 8 November 17 November 23 November", "id": "21637231" }, { "contents": "Follow-on\n\n\n, and gave England a slender lead of 129. The next day a fired-up Bob Willis took 8 for 43, and Australia slumped to 111 all out. Australia, who had won their 16 previous Test matches, including the first of the three-Test series between the two teams, had scored 445 in the first innings of the second Test and restricted India to 171; only V. V. S. Laxman (59) and Rahul Dravid reached 25 runs. The only other bright spot for India was the bowling of", "id": "1078812" }, { "contents": "West Indian cricket team in England in 2017\n\n\nThe West Indies cricket team toured England in August and September 2017 to play three Test matches competing for the Wisden Trophy, one Twenty20 International (T20I) and five One Day Internationals (ODIs). Ahead of the Test series, the West Indies played first-class warm-up matches against Derbyshire, Essex and Kent. They also played a two-day match against Leicestershire, as they did not get to the final of the 2017 NatWest t20 Blast. In October 2016 the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB)", "id": "1555387" }, { "contents": "England women's national rugby league team\n\n\nCup - WIN v France WIN v Russia | LOSS v Australia LOSS v New Zealand WIN v Pacific Islands 2009 International Tests - 25 July | France 8-28 England; France 0-36 England 2010 International Tests - 9 November | England 36-8 France 10 November | New Zealand 44-6 England 16 November | New Zealand 38-6 England 2011 International Tests - 2 July | France 6-36 England 6 July | France 4-42 England 2012 International Test - 15 June | England 48-0 France", "id": "9166568" }, { "contents": "International cricket\n\n\n, One-Day and Twenty20 matches take place in the form of \"tours\". In a tour, one nation travels to another and plays warm-up matches, which may be first-class matches, against domestic teams such as county or state teams, a series of Test matches against the host nation, and either a series of One-Day (ODi) and T20 matches against the host nation or a tournament involving the host nation and another touring nation. Tours may include Test, ODI and T20I matches", "id": "6028418" }, { "contents": "West Indian cricket team in England in 2000\n\n\nThe West Indies cricket team toured England in the 2000 cricket season. West Indies played five Tests against England - two in June and three in August - with a triangular One Day International (ODI) series involving Zimbabwe in July. In June, West Indies won the 1st Test at Edgbaston convincingly, before England narrowly won the 2nd Test at Lord's, having bowled West Indies out for 54 in their second innings. The ODI series, sponsored by NatWest, took place in July, with England, West Indies and Zimbabwe", "id": "12941417" }, { "contents": "First Test, 1948 Ashes series\n\n\nThe First Test of the 1948 Ashes series was one of five Tests in a cricket series between Australia and England. The match was played at Trent Bridge in Nottingham from 10 to 15 June with a rest day on 13 June. Australia won the match by eight wickets to take a 1–0 series lead. The Australians started the match as firm favourites, having won the previous series against England 3–0; in the lead-up to the 1948 series, they had won 10 of their 12 tour matches in England, mostly by", "id": "497621" }, { "contents": "Giles Baring\n\n\nAfricans on 22 May 1935, for Hampshire in Hampshire v Australians on 25 May 1938, and for H. D. G. Leveson Gowers XI v Australian Services on 7 July 1945. He played for Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) between 1935 and 1946, and his last first-class game was in the MCC v Cambridge University match on 29 June 1946. Baring was a right-arm fast bowler and also a right-hand batsman. As a bowler, he took 197 wickets for 5,607 runs, an average of 28.46.", "id": "9091808" }, { "contents": "Herbert Sutcliffe's cricket career (1919–27)\n\n\nWaddington in 1925. Arthur Mitchell was still a reserve and Cyril Turner made his first-class debut. The first four Tests of the 1926 England v Australia series were scheduled for just three days and were all curtailed by poor weather. The final Test at The Oval was timeless to ensure a finish. It has become one of the most famous matches in cricket history, not because England regained The Ashes for the first time since 1912 but for the manner it which it was achieved as Hobbs and Sutcliffe produced their most famous", "id": "18930780" }, { "contents": "Günther Lützow\n\n\nfighter destroyed. Two days later, he destroyed three aircraft, two SB-2 bombers and a Petlyakov Pe-2 ground attack aircraft. On 27 June, he shot down an Ilyushin DB-3 bomber followed by another Pe-2 on the following day, his last victory of June 1941. Following a DB-3 bomber claimed on 7 July, Lützow was credited with four aerial victories on 10 July, consisting of one Vultee V-11 attack aircraft and three I-153s. The next day he claimed an II-16. On 15 July he shot down two further I-16s and another", "id": "3340503" }, { "contents": "1966 in Norwegian football\n\n\nResults from Norwegian football in 1966. April 22 April 24 April 27 May 19 April 30 May 1 May 6 May 7 May 8 May 15 May 19 May 22 May 23 May 27 May 28 May 30 May 31 June 3 June 4 June 5 June 15 June 16 June 19 June 20 July 31 August 3 August 6 August 7 August 8 August 24 August 17 August 27 August 28 September 11 September 22 September 23 September 24 October 9 October 15 October 16 October 17 October 23 July 31 August 1 August 2 August 3 Rematch", "id": "21974049" }, { "contents": "Headingley Cricket Ground\n\n\nwickets each. Donald Bradman's innings of 334 in the 1930 Ashes Test included 309 runs on the first day, and he followed it in the Australians' next test at Headingley in 1934 with an innings of 304. Spinner Hedley Verity took 10 wickets for 10 runs in 1932 for Yorkshire v Nottinghamshire, still the best bowling analysis ever in first-class cricket. Verity had also taken all ten against Warwickshire at Headingley in 1931. In the 1948 Ashes series, Australia scored 404 for three on the last day to beat", "id": "11240346" }, { "contents": "List of international awards of Rohit Sharma\n\n\nRohit Sharma is an Indian international cricketer. He made his international cricket debut in June 2007. He has scored twenty-nine centuries in international cricket; three in Tests, twenty-two in One Day Internationals (ODI) and four in Twenty20 International (T20Is). As of July 2019, Sharma has played 27 Tests, 215 One Day Internationals and 94 Twenty20 Internationals. As of July 2019, Rohit won 19 Man of the Match awards and 4 Man of the Series awards in One Day Internationals; 1 Man of", "id": "21442897" }, { "contents": "Ollie Pope\n\n\nthe 2016 Royal London One-Day Cup against Yorkshire. He made his first-class debut on 28 March 2017 for Surrey against Oxford MCCU as part of the Marylebone Cricket Club University fixtures. Pope scored his maiden List A half-century on 7 May 2017 against Sussex. He made his Twenty20 debut for Surrey in the 2017 NatWest t20 Blast on 7 July 2017. In August 2018, he was added to England's squad for the second Test against India. He made his Test debut at Lord's for England against", "id": "11076451" }, { "contents": "Australian cricket team in the West Indies in 2015\n\n\nThe Australian cricket team toured the West Indies from 27 May to 15 June 2015. The tour consisted of one first-class warm-up match and two Test matches. On 8 April 2015, the West Indies Cricket Board brought forward the date of the two Test matches by two days \"due to a number of logistical challenges beyond [their] control\". Australia won the 2-match Test series 2–0 and therefore retained the Frank Worrell Trophy. Australia announced their squad on 31 March 2015. They included three uncapped players,", "id": "17936722" }, { "contents": "Zimbabwean cricket team in Sri Lanka in 2017\n\n\nThe Zimbabwe cricket team toured Sri Lanka in June and July 2017 to play one Test match and five One Day Internationals (ODIs). Originally, the schedule was for two Test matches and three ODIs. It was Zimbabwe's first tour to Sri Lanka since January 2002. All the matches were played as day games. Zimbabwe won the ODI series 3–2, their first ever series win against Sri Lanka. It was their first away series win since 2009 and the first away series win against a Test nation since defeating Bangladesh in", "id": "5384529" }, { "contents": "Ashwell Prince\n\n\nthe batting. Opening with debutant Imraan Khan, Prince scored 150, his 11th Test century. Prince signed a contract to play for Lancashire County Cricket Club the 2009 English season. He acted as cover for V. V. S. Laxman, the club's other overseas player, who was unavailable at times because he was playing in the Indian Premier League. Prince score his first century for Lancashire at the start of May during a match against Nottinghamshire. The knock came off 135 not out from 189 balls came on the final day of", "id": "12899038" }, { "contents": "Herbert Sutcliffe\n\n\nand 1926, Sutcliffe's skill was a primary factor in Yorkshire having the longest unbeaten run in county cricket: i.e., 70 matches without loss until early 1927. After three defeats in 1927, Yorkshire went a further 58 games without loss until 1929. The first four Tests of the 1926 England v Australia series were scheduled for just three days and were all curtailed by poor weather. The final Test at the Oval was timeless to ensure a finish. It has become one of the most famous matches in cricket history, not", "id": "18571331" }, { "contents": "Indian cricket team in England in 2011\n\n\nThe Indian cricket team toured England from 21 July to 16 September 2011. The tour consisted of one Twenty20 International (T20I), five One Day Internationals (ODIs) and four Test matches, as well as a number of matches against English county sides. The opening Test at Lord's was the 2,000th Test. England's victory in the Third Test put them number one in the world rankings. Virat Kohli, Pragyan Ojha and RP Singh replaced the injured Yuvraj Singh, Harbhajan Singh and Zaheer Khan, respectively, for the", "id": "4970296" }, { "contents": "Cricket in the British Isles\n\n\nIt played its first test match against Australia in 1877 and played its first One Day International (ODI) also againist Australia in 1971. One of the main cricket grounds in England, and also widely regarded as the spiritual home of cricket, is Lords Cricket Ground in London. Other major cricket grounds include The Oval (also in London), Edgbaston in Birmingham, Old Trafford in Manchester and Trent Bridge in Nottingham. From 1909 until 2017 England was the only country within the British Isles to have full membership of the ICC", "id": "17756246" }, { "contents": "Eton v Harrow\n\n\nplayed for Harrow in the four matches in 1822 to 1825, and arranged the first University Match at Lord's in 1827, two years before the first Boat Race. Many Eton and Harrow players went on to win blues at Oxford and Cambridge. Eton v Harrow was joined by the University Match and Gentlemen v Players as the three key features in the England cricket season. In its heyday, in the late 19th century and early 20th century, \"the School's day\" was one of the highlights of the London \"", "id": "10600897" }, { "contents": "Mathew Dimond\n\n\nMathew Dimond (born 24 September 1975) is a former English cricketer who made played for Somerset County Cricket Club between 1994 and 1997. Early in his career, he toured the West Indies with the England Under-19 cricket team, playing three Tests and one One Day International at Under-19 level. A right-arm fast-medium bowler, he made his first-class debut for Somerset in June 1994. Playing in the County Championship against Hampshire, Dimond claimed a solitary wicket in the match, which was shortened to single innings", "id": "558840" }, { "contents": "Charlie Charters\n\n\n’ Although the 2004 Islanders lost each of the three Test matches they played (29-14 v Wallabies, 41-26 v All Blacks and 24-38 v Springboks in Gosford, Australia), they scored 10 tries in three matches. By comparison that same southern hemisphere season, England and Scotland scored only three tries between them in their five Tests against the All Blacks and Wallabies. In fact, the 2004 Islanders scored more tries in one Test against the All Blacks (four) than the three tries the 2005", "id": "16741154" }, { "contents": "Australian cricket team in South Africa in 1993–94\n\n\nmatch by one run, levelling the ODI series at 4–4 with an \"improbable victory\". As well as the internationals, three first-class matches and two other matches were played during the tour The tour began with a friendly one-day match against NF Oppenheimer's XI, followed by a first-class match against Northern Transvaal and a one-day match against a representative side. Before the first Test match Australia played a first-class match against Orange Free State and between the first and second Tests they played", "id": "5209672" }, { "contents": "Bangladeshi cricket team in Zimbabwe in 2011\n\n\nThe Bangladesh cricket team toured Zimbabwe from 4 to 21 August 2011. The tour consisted of one Test match and five One Day Internationals (ODIs) played against the Zimbabwean national team and one first-class match played against a Zimbabwean representative team. The Test match was Zimbabwe's first since India toured Zimbabwe in 2005. Zimbabwe won the Test match by 130 runs and also won the one-day series 3–2. Bangladesh announced its squad for the Test match and ODI series on 15 July 2011. Zimbabwe announced its squad for", "id": "19159411" }, { "contents": "V. V. S. Laxman\n\n\nfrom international cricket. Although he was selected for the upcoming New Zealand series, he opted not to play in the series but he will play in domestic cricket for Hyderabad and the Indian Premier League . It was announced that the northern stand at the Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium will now be named after him. Laxman was particularly prolific against Australia, in both Tests and One Day Internationals. Six out of his 17 Test hundreds, and four out of his six ODI hundreds came against Australia. He has two double-centuries", "id": "9815623" }, { "contents": "3rd Battalion, 319th Field Artillery Regiment\n\n\nVII and another platoon to LZ Challenge from 3–5 July. Battery C located at FSB Rock near Bac Loc and conducted two 1-day raids on 11 & 13 June. Battery D located at LZ Lowboy, with 2 howitzers sent on Operation Red Thrust V in 5 days ending 2 May. On 12 July, Battery D displaced to support Battery A from FSB Hawkeye but returned to LZ Lowboy until 28 July, then occupied FSB Hunky. The battalion received three 105mm howitzers in May. In July, LTC John R. Martin replaced LTC Joseph", "id": "2060226" }, { "contents": "W. G. Grace in the 1878 English cricket season\n\n\nthis match attracted few spectators as it coincided with the Surrey v Australians match at The Oval, which drew very large crowds. \"Wisden Cricketers' Almanack\" commented that \"the Australians were attracting monster gatherings at The Oval on the days that this match was played, consequently very few visitors were at Lord's\". There were three North v South fixtures in June. The first two were played at Prince's Cricket Ground and Lord's with the South as the \"home\" team; the third took place at the", "id": "15478186" }, { "contents": "Third Test, 1948 Ashes series\n\n\nThe Third Test of the 1948 Ashes series was one of five Tests in a cricket series between teams representing Australia and England. The match was played at Old Trafford in Manchester from 8–13 July, with a rest day on 11 July. The match was drawn after the whole of the fourth day and the first half of the fifth day was washed out due to rain; England had the upper hand before the weather intervened. The draw maintained Australia's 2–0 lead in the series, which was established through victories in the first", "id": "497412" }, { "contents": "Giles Baring\n\n\n, Gresham's School, Holt, and Magdalene College, Cambridge. He represented Cambridge University in 1930 and 1931 and Hampshire between 1930 and 1939. Apart from more than fifty regular county championship games, he played in the Cambridge University v New Zealanders match of 3 June 1931, for the Gentlemen in the Gentlemen v Players matches of 2 September 1931 and 11 July 1934, for Hampshire in Hampshire v West Indians on 24 May 1933, for Hampshire in Hampshire v Australians on 23 May 1934, for Hampshire in Hampshire v South", "id": "9091807" }, { "contents": "2013–14 Bangladeshi cricket season\n\n\nand Mirpur. Both Test matches ended in draws, Bangladesh won all three One Day Internationals and New Zealand won the sole Twenty20 International. Sri Lanka toured Bangladesh in January and February 2014 playing two Test Matches, three One Day Internationals and two Twenty20 Internationals. Sri Lanka won every match, with the exception of the second Test match which ended in a draw. Initially it was planned that the NCL would be held in November and December 2013, the BCL in May and June 2014 and the BPL in December and January.", "id": "18068868" }, { "contents": "Darrell Hair\n\n\nby the ICC on 12 March 2008 and stood in the England v New Zealand tests at Old Trafford in May and Trent Bridge in June 2008. Hair umpired his first Test match in January 1992, between Australia and India in Adelaide. In 1994 the International Cricket Council (ICC) introduced a policy of appointing one umpire to each Test match from a non-participating country, and since 2002 both umpires have been appointed from non-participating nations. Since 2002 the majority of Hair’s Test matches have been played outside Australia", "id": "17469081" }, { "contents": "Timeline of events preceding World War II\n\n\n15 October 2 November 14 January February 6 March 7 March 25 May 5 June 3 July 17 August 1 October October 18 November 14 November 15 November 25 December 1 December 12 December 23 December 24 January 20 May 28 July 7 August 13 October 5 November 6 November 26 December 1 December 8 December 11 December 12 December 13 January 26 March 6 March 13 March 24 July 6–16 July 29 August September 27 September 30 October 5 November 7 November 9 January 25 January 27 March 14 March 15 March 16 March 20 March 21 March 23", "id": "6767331" }, { "contents": "South African cricket team in England in 1924\n\n\nThe South African cricket team toured England in the 1924 season to play a five-match Test series against England. England won the series 3-0 with 2 matches drawn. The tourists, with their ages on the first day of the first match of the tour on 3 May, were: George Parker (24) also played three first-class matches (including the first two Tests) and Aubrey Faulkner (42) played one match, the Third Test. The manager was George Allsop. South Africa's score", "id": "12941168" }, { "contents": "2018 English cricket season\n\n\ninternational sides toured England and Wales during the season: Pakistan, Australia and India. Pakistan also visited Ireland midway through the tour and played the Irish team's first Test match at Malahide near Dublin. In preparation for this match the Irish team played a first-class match against Somerset at Taunton in April. At the end of their tour Pakistan played two T20 matches in Scotland on 12 and 13 June. The England team played a One Day International (ODI) against Scotland in Edinburgh in June, losing to Scotland for", "id": "6929601" }, { "contents": "V. V. S. Laxman\n\n\n112 in the second test. This ensured his place on the tour of Australia which would be his third to that country. Laxman's good form continued in the 2007-08 Test series against Australia with him scoring 109 against Australia on the second day of the controversial Sydney Test to put India back into the contest. It was his 12th hundred in Test matches, and his 5th against Australia. It was also his third consecutive century at SCG, giving him an average well above 90 at the venue. He followed this", "id": "9815609" }, { "contents": "2019 Ashes series\n\n\nthree cricketers were named in Australia's squad for the 2019 Ashes. Meanwhile, England warmed up for the 2019 Ashes with a Test series earlier in the year against the West Indies and a one-off Test against Ireland in July. The tour of the West Indies comprised three matches and was won 2–1 by the West Indies. England also won the one-off Test against Ireland, by 143 runs. Ahead of the series, it was announced that Day 2 of the Lord’s Test would benefit the Ruth Strauss Foundation", "id": "18532603" }, { "contents": "V. V. S. Laxman\n\n\n1–1. He was awarded the Man of the Match for his match-winning innings of 96. His knock was voted as the best Test batting performance of the year by ESPNCricinfo. In three test matches, Laxman scored three consecutive fifties including two scores in eighties against the West Indies during India's tour of West Indies in June 2011. During India's Tour to England, Laxman scored just two half-centuries in eight innings as India went down 0–4 to England. This was India's first Test series loss since its", "id": "9815620" }, { "contents": "2014–15 Bangladeshi cricket season\n\n\nThe 2014–15 Bangladeshi cricket season featured tours of the country by Zimbabwe and Pakistan. Rangpur Division won the National Cricket League (NCL) championship title for the first time. Zimbabwe toured Bangladesh from 26 October to 1 December 2014, playing three Test matches and five One Day International matches. Bangladesh won the Test series 3–0 and the ODI series 5–0. Pakistan toured from 15 April to 10 May 2015, playing one Twenty20 International (T20I), three One Day Internationals (ODIs) and two Test matches. Pakistan won the Test", "id": "895026" }, { "contents": "Australia women's cricket team in England in 2019\n\n\nThe Australia women's cricket team toured England in June and July 2019 to play the England women's cricket team to contest the Women's Ashes. The tour consisted of three Women's One Day Internationals (WODIs), one Women's Test match and three Women's Twenty20 Internationals (WT20Is). A points-based system was used across all three formats of the tour. The Women's Ashes were held by Australia prior to the start of the series. Australia women won the WODI series 3–0, therefore taking a 6–0", "id": "15341273" }, { "contents": "Pakistani cricket team in England in 1962\n\n\nof three one-day games (not limited overs). The first two were drawn and the Pakistanis won the third one against Colonel Stevens' XI. These three matches were, in effect, warm-ups only and not first-class. The opening first-class fixture was against Worcestershire at New Road, starting on Wednesday, 2 May. The Pakistanis were given a foretaste of the Test series to come in that Tom Graveney scored a century for the home team (and was presented with his county cap immediately afterwards", "id": "12941094" }, { "contents": "New Zealand cricket team in Australia in 2015–16\n\n\nThe New Zealand cricket team toured Australia from 23 October to 1 December 2015 to play three Test matches and four tour matches. The third match of the series at the Adelaide Oval was the first ever day-night Test. Michael Hussey captained the Prime Minister's XI side for the tour match, and in preparation for the day-night Test, a pink ball was used in this game. Australia won the series 2–0, with victories in Brisbane and Adelaide, with the second Test in Perth being drawn. Following the", "id": "1307472" }, { "contents": "Kennington\n\n\nThe Kia Oval\", is the home ground for Surrey County Cricket Club and hosts the final Test match of the English summer season. The Oval was the first ground in the United Kingdom to host Test cricket, was the location for the England v Scotland representative matches, the first ever international football match, the first FA Cup final in 1872, and held the second ever rugby union international match between England and Scotland in 1872. England's unfortunate performance against Australia here in 1882 gave rise to The Ashes. The Oval", "id": "10346916" }, { "contents": "Indian cricket team in Zimbabwe in 2001\n\n\nThe Indian cricket team toured Zimbabwe from 28 May to 7 July 2001 and played two Test matches against Zimbabwe, with each team winning one game match. This would be Zimbabwe's only Test victory over a side other than Bangladesh until they beat Pakistan in the second Test in 2013. India and Zimbabwe also participated in a triangular One Day International (ODI) competition with West Indies, with the latter eventually winning the competition. The Coca-Cola Cup was a One Day International (ODI) tournament that followed the Test series", "id": "4099650" }, { "contents": "Andrew Balbirnie\n\n\nHe played three further One Day International's during the tournament. He made his Twenty20 International debut against Scotland on 19 June 2015, although no play was possible due to rain. He was part of the Ireland A team which toured Bangladesh in October 2017 to play one first-class match and five limited overs matches against the Bangladesh A team. In May 2018, he was named in a fourteen-man squad for Ireland's first ever Test match, which was played against Pakistan later the same month. He made his", "id": "2597279" }, { "contents": "Pakistani cricket team in Scotland in 2018\n\n\nThe Pakistan cricket team toured Scotland to play two Twenty20 International (T20I) matches at The Grange Club, Edinburgh, on 12 and 13 June 2018. Pakistan last toured Scotland in May 2013 to play two One Day Internationals. Both teams last met in a T20I fixture in the group stage of the 2007 ICC World Twenty20 tournament. This was the first time that Scotland had played a home T20I match against a full member side. The tour followed Pakistan's tour of England and their one Test series in Ireland. England also", "id": "373509" }, { "contents": "2017 June rugby union tests\n\n\n2 sides. Australia, the only southern hemisphere Tier 1 nation not to host a test series, staged three one-off test matches; Scotland, Italy and Fiji. The Fijian test was the first between the two sides in Australia since 2010, and was also the first Australia v Tier 2 nation match in Australia since Samoa visited in 2011. Fiji also played host to Italy and Scotland to become the second Tier 2 nation to play three back-back Tier 1 sides during an international window, after Samoa participated in", "id": "13232867" }, { "contents": "Timeline of the 2014 Pacific hurricane season\n\n\nJune 11 June 12 June 13 June 14 June 15 June 28 June 30 July 1 July 2 July 3 July 6 July 7 July 9 July 17 July 18 July 19 July 25 July 26 July 27 July 28 July 29 July 31 August 1 August 2 August 3 August 4 August 5 August 6 August 7 August 8 August 9 August 10 August 12 August 13 August 14 August 15 August 17 August 18 August 21 August 22 August 23 August 24 August 25 August 26 August 27 August 28 August 29 September 2 September 4 September 6", "id": "2400921" } ]

[ { "contents": "Sri Lankan cricket team in England in 2014\n\n\nThe Sri Lanka national cricket team toured England from 13 May to 24 June 2014 for a Twenty20 International (T20I), five One Day Internationals (ODIs) and two Test matches against the England cricket team. They also played three one-day and one four-day tour matches against English county sides, as well as preceding the entire tour with a two-match ODI series against Ireland. Sri Lanka won the Test series 1–0 (the first time they had won a Test series in England), the ODI series", "id": "21939883" }, { "contents": "New Zealand cricket team in England in 2015\n\n\nThe New Zealand national cricket team toured England from 8 May to 23 June 2015 for two Test matches, five One Day Internationals (ODIs) and a Twenty20 International (T20I) against the England cricket team. They also played two four-day tour matches and a one-day match against English county sides. England won the first Test at Lord's before New Zealand claimed victory in the second Test at Headingley to level the series. England then took an early lead in the ODI series after hitting more than 400 runs", "id": "943447" }, { "contents": "Australian cricket team in England and Ireland in 2015\n\n\nThe Australia national cricket team toured England from June to September 2015 for a five-match Test series, five One Day International (ODI) matches and one Twenty20 International (T20I). The Test series was for the Ashes. They also played two four-day and two three-day first-class matches against English county sides. Australia also played one ODI against Ireland in Belfast. On 31 March 2015, Australia announced a 17-man touring party for the Ashes series. England announced their squad for the first Test on", "id": "1657670" }, { "contents": "David Constant\n\n\n67 first-class appearances. In total he scored 1,517 first-class runs at a batting average of 19.20 with a highest score of 80. Tony Lewis described his innings against Glamorgan on a difficult pitch at Leicester in 1965 as \"one of the bravest innings I ever saw\". His first Test as umpire was the Third Test between England and Pakistan in July 1971. He last stood in an international cricket match in the England v. Australia One Day International at The Oval, London in June 2001. He was the", "id": "14539375" }, { "contents": "Pakistani cricket team in Sri Lanka in 2015\n\n\nThe Pakistan cricket team toured Sri Lanka from 11 June to 1 August 2015. The tour consisted of a three-day tour match against a SLCB President's XI, three Test matches, five One Day International and two Twenty20 International matches. The third Test was originally scheduled to be played at the R Premadasa Stadium, but was changed to the Pallekele International Cricket Stadium in early May. Pakistan outplayed the hosts in all forms of the game by winning the Test series 2–1, the ODI series 3–2 and the T20I series 2–0.", "id": "15080177" }, { "contents": "2010 in American music\n\n\n17 March 22 March 23 March 26 March 30 April 6 April 8 April 13 April 19 April 20 April 21 April 27 April 30 May 4 May 11 May 14 May 17 May 18 May 21 May 25 May 31 June 1 June 8 June 14 June 15 June 18 June 21 June 22 June 28 June 29 July 6 July 7 July 12 July 13 July 15 July 20 July 23 July 25 July 27 July 29 August 3 August 17 August 24 August 31 September 7 September 14 September 21 September 23 September 28 October 5 October", "id": "18556206" }, { "contents": "Warwickshire County Cricket Club\n\n\nand gold and the shirt sponsor is Gullivers Sports Travel. The club's home is Edgbaston Cricket Ground in south Birmingham, which regularly hosts Test and One Day International matches. Cricket may have reached Warwickshire by the end of the 17th century. The \"Warwickshire & Staffordshire Journal\" was certainly aware of the sport in 1738 for it carried a report of a London v Mitcham game at the Artillery Ground on 11 August (London won by 1 wicket). The earliest confirmed reference to cricket in the county is a match announcement", "id": "8941185" }, { "contents": "Irish cricket team in England in 2019\n\n\nThe Ireland cricket team toured England in July 2019 to play a one-off four-day Test match at Lord's. It was the first Test match to be played between the two sides, and was England's first four-day Test match since they toured New Zealand in 1971. It was Ireland's third Test match, and their twelfth international fixture against England. The Test match was part of England's preparations for the 2019 Ashes series. Ahead of the Test, the England cricket team visited Ireland in May", "id": "16268672" }, { "contents": "1919 English cricket season\n\n\n(five wins from fourteen) and Warwickshire were bottom with 7.14% (one win from fourteen). The 1919 County Championship was the 26th since the competition acquired official status in 1890. The opening matches began on Friday, 16 May. These were Middlesex v Nottinghamshire at Lord's and the 1914 (reigning) champions Surrey against Somerset at The Oval. The final match between Essex and Surrey at Leyton was completed on Monday, 1 September. The situation between Yorkshire and Kent on Saturday, 30 August (the second day in", "id": "7320450" }, { "contents": "Timeline of the 2013 Pacific hurricane season\n\n\n15 May 16 May 17 May 28 May 29 May 30 June 1 June 23 June 24 June 25 June 26 June 27 June 29 June 30 July 2 July 3 July 4 July 5 July 6 July 7 July 9 July 25 July 27 July 30 July 31 August 2 August 3 August 4 August 6 August 7 August 8 August 9 August 11 August 16 August 18 August 19 August 20 August 22 August 23 August 24 August 25 August 28 August 29 August 30 August 31 September 1 September 2 September 5 September 6 September 7 September", "id": "957237" }, { "contents": "Prince's Cricket Ground\n\n\nas 'grand and quick and one of the finest playing grounds in England'. The first match played on the ground was Household Brigade v. Lords and Commons on 3 June 1871. Middlesex County Cricket Club used the ground between 1872 and 1876 and played their first match on 23–25 May 1872 against Yorkshire. The ground was also used by South of England and by Gentlemen of the South. Several Gentlemen v Players fixtures were also played there, the first taking place in July 1873. In 1878, the touring Australians played two", "id": "19086180" }, { "contents": "Callum Jackson\n\n\nSussex youth ranks, playing at under-13, under-14, under-15 and under-17 level before joining the second XI as a 16-year-old in 2011. He was selected to represent an English Schools Cricket Association XI in 2011 before making his first appearance for the Sussex first XI on 1 May 2012 in a non-first-class match against the Leeds/Bradford MCC Universities team. In early 2013, Jackson was selected for the England under-19 side to tour South Africa, where he played in both Youth Test matches and three One Day", "id": "16290826" }, { "contents": "2018 English cricket season\n\n\nHurricane Irma and Hurricane Maria in September 2017. Pakistan played two Test matches against England at Lord's and Headingley at the end of May and beginning of June. The series was drawn, each side winning one match. Ahead of the Tests, two first-class matches were played against Kent and Northants. Their match against Ireland took place after the two first-class county matches, and a two-day match was played against Leicestershire between this and the first Test against England. Pakistan won the first Test match by", "id": "6929603" }, { "contents": "1963 in Norwegian football\n\n\nResults from Norwegian football in 1963. April 26 April 28 May 3 May 4 May 5 May 11 May 12 May 30 May 19 May 22 May 23 May 26 May 27 June 7 June 8 June 9 June 14 June 15 June 16 June 22 June 23 June 24 July 26 July 28 July 29 August 2 August 4 August 6 August 17 August 18 August 21 August 22 August 24 August 25 September 7 September 8 September 20 September 22 October 4 October 6 October 13 Årstad promoted Nidelv promoted Harstad - Bodø/Glimt 4 -", "id": "20433032" }, { "contents": "West Indian cricket team in England in 1991\n\n\nThe West Indian cricket team in England in 1991 played three one day internationals and five Tests, under the captaincy of Viv Richards, as part of an extensive tour in which they also played first-class matches against 11 first-class county teams, the combined Minor Counties, the Combined Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, and a World XI to finish, plus 55-over one-day matches against one more first-class county (Gloucestershire) and the Duchess of Norfolk's Invitation XI. Of the non-international matches,", "id": "5157419" }, { "contents": "West Indian cricket team in England in 2007\n\n\nThe West Indian cricket team toured England from 12 May to 7 July 2007 as part of the 2007 English cricket season. The tour included four Tests, two Twenty20 international matches and three One Day Internationals. While England dominated the Test series 3–0, including a record victory over the West Indies, the latter took the ODI series 2:1. In the ICC Test Championship, England are ranked second and West Indies are ranked eighth, though England's most recent series was a whitewash loss in the Ashes against Australia for the first time", "id": "12941423" }, { "contents": "Sri Lankan cricket team in the West Indies in 2018\n\n\nOn 19 May 2018, Cricket West Indies (CWI) announced that they may scrap one of the Test fixtures, replacing it with a couple of one-day matches. However, the day before the first Test, the International Cricket Council (ICC) confirmed that it would be a three-match Test series. Prior to the start of day three of the second Test, the Sri Lankan cricket team protested against umpires' decision on starting the third day's play with a new ball, replacing the old ball.", "id": "19622271" }, { "contents": "Timeline of the 2017 Pacific hurricane season\n\n\ncyclone formations, strengthening, weakening, landfalls, extratropical transitions, and dissipations during the season. May 9 May 10 May 11 May 12 May 15 May 31 June 1 June 2 June 11 June 12 June 13 June 24 June 25 June 26 June 27 June 28 July 1 July 7 July 8 July 9 July 10 July 11 July 12 July 13 July 14 July 15 July 16 July 17 July 18 July 19 July 20 July 21 July 22 July 23 July 24 July 25 July 26 July 27 July 28 July 31 August 1", "id": "7169450" }, { "contents": "Daniel Bell-Drummond\n\n\nmade his youth Test debut on 21 July 2010 at the County Ground, Northampton before scoring unbeaten 88 in the second youth Test later in the same month, aged only 16. He played in both under-19 Test matches and in four youth one-day international matches during England's return tour of Sri Lanka in January and February 2011. In July 2011 Bell-Drummond played in a one-day series against South Africa under-19s. He top-scored for England in three of the seven matches in the series and was the", "id": "6732560" }, { "contents": "1967 in Norwegian football\n\n\nResults from Norwegian football in 1967. April 27 April 28 April 30 May 4 May 6 May 7 May 10 May 11 May 15 May 16 May 18 May 19 May 20 May 21 May 22 June 22 May 25 May 28 June 4 June 10 June 11 June 12 June 13 June 18 June 19 July 30 July 31 August 2 August 6 August 7 August 9 August 10 August 20 August 16 August 20 August 21 September 7 September 10 September 16 September 17 October 6 October 8 October 9 October 12 October 15 October 20 October", "id": "2081596" }, { "contents": "Phil Carlson\n\n\nPhillip Henry Carlson (born 8 August 1951, Nundah, Queensland) is a former Australian cricketer who played in two Tests and four One Day Internationals (ODIs) in 1979. Carlson was an all-rounder who played for Queensland between 1969–70 and 1980–81. He played two Test matches for Australia v England in 1978–79 Ashes series and four One Day Internationals against the same opponents. He was called up by Australia when most of their regular first-choice players were playing in World Series Cricket. Carlson took two Test wickets and", "id": "11409623" }, { "contents": "1962 in Norwegian football\n\n\nResults from Norwegian football in 1962. July 30 August 2 August 3 August 9 August 8 August 13 August 16 August 20 August 21 September 2 September 3 Ørn - Brann 0 - 7 September 24 September 28 October 1 October 15 April 25 October 6 October 8 April 29 May 6 May 12 May 13 May 14 May 20 May 21 May 23 May 24 May 27 May 30 May 31 June 3 June 15 June 16 June 17 June 24 June 25 June 30 July 1 July 29 August 1 August 2 August 4 August 5 August", "id": "9107175" }, { "contents": "Alan Igglesden\n\n\nAlan Paul Igglesden (born 8 October 1964) is a former English Test cricketer. He played three Test Matches and four One Day Internationals (ODIs) for the England cricket team between 1989 and 1994 as a fast bowler. He played most of his first-class cricket career for Kent County Cricket Club. Igglesden was born in Farnborough, London in 1964. He first played for Kent County Cricket Club's Second XI in 1983 before making his first-class cricket debut of the county in July 1986 against Somerset at Maidstone", "id": "8795795" }, { "contents": "Sri Lankan cricket team in England and Ireland in 2016\n\n\nThe Sri Lanka national cricket team toured England from 8 May to 5 July 2016 for a three-match Test series, a five-match One Day International (ODI) series and a one-off Twenty20 International (T20I) against the England cricket team. England won the Test series 2–0, the ODI series 3–0 and won the one-off T20I match by 8 wickets. They also played two first-class matches against Essex and Leicestershire prior to the Test series, and two ODI matches against Ireland prior to the", "id": "15635062" }, { "contents": "South African cricket team in England in 2008\n\n\nThe South African cricket team toured England between 29 June and 4 September 2008. They played four Test matches, one Twenty20 International and five One Day Internationals against England. They also played six tour matches against Somerset, Middlesex, Bangladesh A, a PCA Masters XI and two against the England Lions. It was announced that following the conclusion of this four-match series, future matches between England and South Africa would comprise five Test matches but only three one-day matches after the series was granted 'icon' status.", "id": "18079110" }, { "contents": "2018 English cricket season\n\n\nthe first time in an ODI. The South African women's team also toured England to play three One Day International matches against the England women's cricket team in June and to compete in the 2018 England women's Tri-Nation Series Twenty20 competition against England and New Zealand. New Zealand then played three One Day Internationals against England in July. In addition the West Indies men's side played a single Twenty20 International against a Rest of the World XI team at Lord's in May 2018 to raise funds for stadiums damaged by", "id": "6929602" }, { "contents": "American Rally Association\n\n\nWood Rally March 15 - 16 Olympus Rally April 27 - 28 Oregon Trail Rally May 31 - June 2 Idaho Rally International June 22 - 23 New England Forest Rally July 19 - 20 Muscatell Ojibwe Forests Rally August 23 - 24 Susquehannock Trail Performance Rally September 13 - 14 Lake Superior Performance Rally October 18 - 19 2019 ARA Super Regional Events Southern Ohio Forest Rally May 16 - 18 Rally Colorado July 26 - 27 Tour de Forest Rally September 21, 2019 Empire State Performance Rally October 25 - 26 2019 ARA One-Day Regional", "id": "6404348" }, { "contents": "Pakistani cricket team in England and Ireland in 2016\n\n\nThe Pakistan national cricket team toured England and Ireland from 3 July to 7 September 2016 for a four-match Test series, a five-match One Day International (ODI) series and a one-off Twenty20 International (T20I) against the England cricket team. They also played two three-day matches against Somerset and Sussex prior to the Test series, a two-day match against Worcestershire during the Test series, and two ODI matches against Ireland prior to the ODI series. England's ODI matches against Pakistan was", "id": "15635130" }, { "contents": "Second Test, 1948 Ashes series\n\n\nThe Second Test of the 1948 Ashes series was one of five Tests in a cricket series between Australia and England. The match was played at Lord's in London from 24 to 29 June, with a rest day on 27 June. Australia won the match by 409 runs to take a 2–0 lead, meaning that England would need to win the remaining three matches to regain The Ashes. Australian captain Don Bradman won the toss and elected to bat. The tourists had won the First Test convincingly, and decided to field the", "id": "497516" }, { "contents": "MCC v Australians at Lord's, 27 May 1878\n\n\nin England, the team left Sydney on 29 March 1878 and sailed via Auckland and Honolulu to San Francisco, from where they travelled across America by train to New York City. They crossed the Atlantic, arriving in Liverpool on 13 May, and then went by train to Nottingham where they played their first match, starting on Monday, 20 May. This was a three-day match against Nottinghamshire at Trent Bridge and the Australians were well beaten by an innings and 14 runs, an inauspicious start which dampened much of the public", "id": "16383632" }, { "contents": "Australian women's cricket team in England in 2013\n\n\nThe Australian women's cricket team toured England in 2013. The visitors were defending the Women's Ashes. The only Test match of the tour took place on 11–14 August at Wormsley Park, and was drawn. Three One-Day Internationals (ODIs) were played: the first at Lord's on 20 August, and the other two at Hove on 23 and 25 August. Also three Twenty20 International (T20I) matches were played, on 27, 29 and 31 August, at Chelmsford, Southampton and Chester-le-", "id": "19064429" }, { "contents": "South African cricket team in England in 2017\n\n\nThe South African cricket team toured England and Wales between May and August 2017, playing three One Day Internationals (ODIs), three Twenty20 Internationals (T20Is) and four Test matches. The ODI matches were in preparation for the 2017 ICC Champions Trophy, which took place in England and Wales during June. Extra security was provided to South Africa for the ODI series following the Manchester bombing. England won the ODI series 2–1 and the T20 series 2–1. Ahead of the ODI series, South Africa played one-day warm-", "id": "1555384" }, { "contents": "1Malaysia Development Berhad scandal\n\n\n- 30 September onwards October 20 November 25 December 1 December 5 December 31 2016 January 26 January 29 February 1 February 3 February 7 February 19 February 29 March 23 March 31 April 2 April 5 April 7 April 9 April 12 April 13 April 19 April 28 May 24 May 31 July 11 1MDB agrees to resolve its dispute with International Petroleum Investment Company via the London Court of International Arbitration. July 21 August 9 October 11 December 2 2017 March 22 April 24 May 30 June 15 June 16 August 1 August 2 August 11 August", "id": "14280441" }, { "contents": "Timeline of events preceding World War II\n\n\nJune 30 September 14 May 19 September 18 September 19 January 7 January 28 February 27 March 1 April 10 May 30 August 30 November 21 December 3 January 1 January 30 February 27 February 28 March 4 March 20 March 23 March 24 March 27 April 1 April 26 May 2 May 15 May 31 June 21 July 14 August 25 September 12 October 19 November 24 January 26 February 12–16 March 20 June 30 July 20 July 25 August 2 August 8 September October 16 December 1 December 5 December 29 January 7 June 18 August 31 September", "id": "6767330" }, { "contents": "Timeline of the 2018 Pacific hurricane season\n\n\ntropical cyclone formations, strengthening, weakening, landfalls, extratropical transitions, and dissipations during the season. May 10 May 11 May 13 May 15 June 1 June 6 June 7 June 8 June 9 June 10 June 11 June 12 June 13 June 14 June 15 June 16 June 17 June 19 June 24 June 25 June 26 June 27 June 28 June 29 June 30 July 1 July 2 July 3 July 4 July 5 July 6 July 9 July 26 July 27 July 28 July 29 July 31 August 1 August 2 August 3 August", "id": "21166816" }, { "contents": "English cricket team in Australia in 2017–18\n\n\nThe England cricket team toured Australia between November 2017 and February 2018 to play five Tests and five One Day Internationals (ODIs). They also played in a three nation Twenty20 International (T20I) tournament, along with New Zealand, who co-hosted the tournament along with Australia. England additionally played two first-class matches, a two-day tour match and a one-day tour match against Cricket Australia XI, as well as a Twenty20 against the Prime Minister's XI. The Test matches made up the 2017–18", "id": "21532277" }, { "contents": "Timeline of events preceding World War II\n\n\nApril 16 August 13 October October 11 October 29 November 1 January 11 June July 24 August 31 September 27 October 29 November 8 January 21 February 1 March 16 April 1 April 6 June 10 August 16 August 18 May 12 July 18 December 1 January 3 January 31 April 4 April 24 September 8 December 25 April 12 May 20 June 7 November 12 December 14 May 3 May 28 June 4 August 2 August 27 October 1 February 9 February 11 March 4 March 28 April 3 June 7 July 24 August 31 October 29 April 22", "id": "6767329" }, { "contents": "W. G. Grace in the 1878 English cricket season\n\n\nNewcastle upon Tyne, Bolton and Birmingham to play odds games against local opposition. Grace took 21 wickets in the match against the 22 men of Melton Mowbray in a three-day match starting on Monday, 1 July. He scored 42 and 57 not out in his two innings, the match ending in a draw. Grace caught the evening train to be in London ready for the first Gentlemen v Players match at The Oval, starting on Thursday, 4 July. The next USEE match at Leeds Holbeck followed the second Gentlemen", "id": "15478205" }, { "contents": "List of accidents and incidents involving military aircraft (1950–1954)\n\n\n12 December 19 December 23 December 10 January 11 January 15 January 21 January 28 January 31 January 14 February 13 March 14 March 17 March 23 March 3 April 5 April 5 April 8 April 25 April 27 April 6 May 18 May 19 May 8 June 13 June 15 June 18 June 23 June 23 June 30 June 8 July 31 July Summer 13 August 18 August 21 August 22 August 26 August 27 August 16 September 29 September 15 October 11 November 13 November 19 November 27 November 3 December 7 December 21 December 12 January 15", "id": "21637229" }, { "contents": "Lord's\n\n\nbe switched off by 11 pm. The floodlights were first used successfully on 27 May 2009 during the Twenty20 Cup match between Middlesex and Kent. Lord's hosts Test matches, one-day internationals, some Middlesex home matches, MCC matches and (starting with a fixture between Middlesex and Surrey in July 2004) some of Middlesex's home Twenty20 games. Lord's typically hosts two Tests every summer plus two one-day internationals. Lord's also plays host to the finals of the National Village Cricket Competition, the MCC Universities", "id": "10760657" }, { "contents": "2011 in American music\n\n\nThe following is a list of notable events and releases that happened in 2011 in music in the United States. January 11 January 17 January 18 January 21 January 25 January 31 February 1 February 8 February 15 February 22 March 1 March 8 March 15 March 22 March 29 April 5 April 11 April 12 April 26 May 3 May 10 May 17 May 23 May 24 May 31 June 7 June 14 June 21 June 28 July 5 July 8 July 12 July 13 July 19 July 26 August 2 August 8 August 9 August 16 August", "id": "15423555" }, { "contents": "MCC v Australians at Lord's, 27 May 1878\n\n\nenthusiasm that their visit had generated. The Australians were next due to play Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) in a three-day match at Lord's, commencing on Monday, 27 May. In the meantime, Charles Bannerman and Billy Midwinter were invited to visit Dublin and play for the United South of England Eleven (USEE) against 15 past and present players of Dublin University. This was due to be played over three days, starting on Thursday, 23 May, at College Park. The USEE was captained by W. G.", "id": "16383633" }, { "contents": "West Indian cricket team in England in 1928\n\n\nreach three figures. As at Lord's and Old Trafford, the match was over before lunch on the third day. Including the three Tests, 30 first-class matches were played on the tour, plus six other games. The West Indians won just seven of these 36 matches (five of the first-class games) and lost 12. By the end of May, the touring side had won matches against Derbyshire and Cambridge University, plus a minor match against Northumberland, and had drawn all the other games.", "id": "12941340" }, { "contents": "Bob Willis\n\n\n26 August against Worcestershire's Seconds. Willis, 19 years of age, took one wicket for 48 runs in the first innings, and bowled four wicketless overs in the second. He was not called on to bat at all. Two days later, he faced Glamorgan and took three wickets. He played several further Second XI matches through May and June 1969, before his first-class debut on 6 August. Scotland was touring England that season and had already beaten Warwickshire. Willis took three wickets for 13 runs from 13", "id": "16238759" }, { "contents": "Rock in Rio\n\n\n5 July 6 May 21 / 82.000 May 22 / 45.000 May 27 / 85.000 May 29 / 95.000 May 30 / 38.000 June 4 / 51.000 June 5 / 85.000 June 6 / 90.000 June 11 / 30.000 June 14 / 48.000 Rock in Rio Lisboa V Rock in Rio Lisboa VII Rock in Rio Lisboa VIII June 24 sold out almost three months prior to the festival. \"Rock in Rio USA\" was the first North American edition of the festival, being held in Las Vegas on May 8, 9, 15 and 16", "id": "11140715" }, { "contents": "Indian cricket team in Sri Lanka in 2015\n\n\nThe Indian cricket team toured Sri Lanka from 6 August to 1 September 2015 to play a tour match and three Test matches. On 27 June, Sri Lankan batsman Kumar Sangakkara said he would retire from international cricket after the second Test of the series. The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) and Sri Lanka Cricket Board confirmed the schedule of India's tour to Sri Lanka in August to September 2015. The tour started with a three-day warm-up game against Sri Lanka Board President's XI,", "id": "22038367" }, { "contents": "Andy Cottam\n\n\nAndrew Colin Cottam (born 14 July 1973 in Northampton, England) was an English cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman and a left-arm slow bowler. He played in 2 Under-19 Tests in 1992 and 13 first-class matches between 1992 and 1996. His father is the cricketer and coach Bob Cottam. In 1990 Andy Cottam started playing for Somerset Second XI and Devon. In 1992 he was selected for Under-19's tour of Pakistan and played in the Third Test and 2 one-day matches against Pakistan", "id": "2981363" }, { "contents": "Lord's\n\n\n. The hundredth Lord's Test match was in 2000, England v West Indies. As of 25 August 2010 England have played 119 Test matches at Lord's, winning 45, losing 28 and drawing 46. Lord's often hosts two Test matches each summer, one match for each visiting team. In 2010, the ground hosted three Test matches: as well as England's matches against Bangladesh and Pakistan, a Test match between Australia and Pakistan was held there in July. Lord's was the venue of the 2000th test", "id": "10760663" }, { "contents": "Australian cricket team in Sri Lanka in 2016\n\n\nThe Australian cricket team toured Sri Lanka from 18 July to 9 September 2016 to play three Test matches, five One Day Internationals (ODIs), two Twenty20 Internationals (T20Is) matches and a first-class practice match. The Test series was played for Warne-Muralitharan Trophy, with Sri Lanka winning 3–0, their first ever series whitewash against Australia. As a result, Australia slipped from first to third in the ICC Test Championship; Sri Lanka, who had started the series ranked seventh, moved up to sixth.", "id": "14912886" }, { "contents": "South African cricket team in Australia in 2005–06\n\n\nThe South African cricket team toured Australia for cricket matches during the 2005–06 season. South Africa had already played two One Day International series during this season, beating New Zealand 4–0 at home before travelling to India and drawing the series there 2–2. The team had been playing 14 successive ODIs (tour matches excluded) before arriving in Australia, with their last Test match against West Indies in April and May 2005. South Africa played one first class warm-up match, one three-day warm-up match without first class", "id": "19860549" }, { "contents": "Peter Lever\n\n\n6/38, before his final Test ended on 5 August 1975 during another Ashes tour, Australia facing England at Lord's. Lever also played ten One Day Internationals, including the 1975 Cricket World Cup, taking 11 wickets but scoring only 17 runs. His ODI debut was also against Australia, at Melbourne on 5 January 1971, and his last match was at Headingley, Leeds, again against Australia, on 18 June 1975. This gives Lever the unusual distinction of having played both his debut, and last match, against Australia", "id": "17765992" }, { "contents": "Australian women's cricket team in England in 2009\n\n\nThe Australian women's cricket team toured England between 25 June and 13 July 2009, playing one Test match, five One Day Internationals and a Twenty20 International. Australia won the Twenty20 International, while England won the One Day International series 4–0. The Test match, which was for the Women's Ashes, was drawn; ensuring that England retained them. Prior to the series, both sides took part in the 2009 ICC Women's World Twenty20, which was also held in England in June. England won the tournament, in", "id": "13250607" }, { "contents": "List of accidents and incidents involving military aircraft (1950–1954)\n\n\nJanuary 31 January 7 February 18 March 21 April 24 April May 11 May 12 May 15 May 9 June 11 June 13 June 17 June 18 June 21 June 15 July 17 July 30 July 6 August 6 August 12 August 23 August 26 August 30 August 5 September 9 September 9 September 9 September 11 September 19 September 19 September 25 September 1 October 1 October 7 October 8 October 8 October 11 October 13 October 14 October 17 October 18 October 19 October 20 October 22 October 26 October 2 November 8 November 17 November 23 November", "id": "21637231" }, { "contents": "Follow-on\n\n\n, and gave England a slender lead of 129. The next day a fired-up Bob Willis took 8 for 43, and Australia slumped to 111 all out. Australia, who had won their 16 previous Test matches, including the first of the three-Test series between the two teams, had scored 445 in the first innings of the second Test and restricted India to 171; only V. V. S. Laxman (59) and Rahul Dravid reached 25 runs. The only other bright spot for India was the bowling of", "id": "1078812" }, { "contents": "West Indian cricket team in England in 2017\n\n\nThe West Indies cricket team toured England in August and September 2017 to play three Test matches competing for the Wisden Trophy, one Twenty20 International (T20I) and five One Day Internationals (ODIs). Ahead of the Test series, the West Indies played first-class warm-up matches against Derbyshire, Essex and Kent. They also played a two-day match against Leicestershire, as they did not get to the final of the 2017 NatWest t20 Blast. In October 2016 the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB)", "id": "1555387" }, { "contents": "England women's national rugby league team\n\n\nCup - WIN v France WIN v Russia | LOSS v Australia LOSS v New Zealand WIN v Pacific Islands 2009 International Tests - 25 July | France 8-28 England; France 0-36 England 2010 International Tests - 9 November | England 36-8 France 10 November | New Zealand 44-6 England 16 November | New Zealand 38-6 England 2011 International Tests - 2 July | France 6-36 England 6 July | France 4-42 England 2012 International Test - 15 June | England 48-0 France", "id": "9166568" }, { "contents": "International cricket\n\n\n, One-Day and Twenty20 matches take place in the form of \"tours\". In a tour, one nation travels to another and plays warm-up matches, which may be first-class matches, against domestic teams such as county or state teams, a series of Test matches against the host nation, and either a series of One-Day (ODi) and T20 matches against the host nation or a tournament involving the host nation and another touring nation. Tours may include Test, ODI and T20I matches", "id": "6028418" }, { "contents": "West Indian cricket team in England in 2000\n\n\nThe West Indies cricket team toured England in the 2000 cricket season. West Indies played five Tests against England - two in June and three in August - with a triangular One Day International (ODI) series involving Zimbabwe in July. In June, West Indies won the 1st Test at Edgbaston convincingly, before England narrowly won the 2nd Test at Lord's, having bowled West Indies out for 54 in their second innings. The ODI series, sponsored by NatWest, took place in July, with England, West Indies and Zimbabwe", "id": "12941417" }, { "contents": "First Test, 1948 Ashes series\n\n\nThe First Test of the 1948 Ashes series was one of five Tests in a cricket series between Australia and England. The match was played at Trent Bridge in Nottingham from 10 to 15 June with a rest day on 13 June. Australia won the match by eight wickets to take a 1–0 series lead. The Australians started the match as firm favourites, having won the previous series against England 3–0; in the lead-up to the 1948 series, they had won 10 of their 12 tour matches in England, mostly by", "id": "497621" }, { "contents": "Giles Baring\n\n\nAfricans on 22 May 1935, for Hampshire in Hampshire v Australians on 25 May 1938, and for H. D. G. Leveson Gowers XI v Australian Services on 7 July 1945. He played for Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) between 1935 and 1946, and his last first-class game was in the MCC v Cambridge University match on 29 June 1946. Baring was a right-arm fast bowler and also a right-hand batsman. As a bowler, he took 197 wickets for 5,607 runs, an average of 28.46.", "id": "9091808" }, { "contents": "Herbert Sutcliffe's cricket career (1919–27)\n\n\nWaddington in 1925. Arthur Mitchell was still a reserve and Cyril Turner made his first-class debut. The first four Tests of the 1926 England v Australia series were scheduled for just three days and were all curtailed by poor weather. The final Test at The Oval was timeless to ensure a finish. It has become one of the most famous matches in cricket history, not because England regained The Ashes for the first time since 1912 but for the manner it which it was achieved as Hobbs and Sutcliffe produced their most famous", "id": "18930780" }, { "contents": "Günther Lützow\n\n\nfighter destroyed. Two days later, he destroyed three aircraft, two SB-2 bombers and a Petlyakov Pe-2 ground attack aircraft. On 27 June, he shot down an Ilyushin DB-3 bomber followed by another Pe-2 on the following day, his last victory of June 1941. Following a DB-3 bomber claimed on 7 July, Lützow was credited with four aerial victories on 10 July, consisting of one Vultee V-11 attack aircraft and three I-153s. The next day he claimed an II-16. On 15 July he shot down two further I-16s and another", "id": "3340503" }, { "contents": "1966 in Norwegian football\n\n\nResults from Norwegian football in 1966. April 22 April 24 April 27 May 19 April 30 May 1 May 6 May 7 May 8 May 15 May 19 May 22 May 23 May 27 May 28 May 30 May 31 June 3 June 4 June 5 June 15 June 16 June 19 June 20 July 31 August 3 August 6 August 7 August 8 August 24 August 17 August 27 August 28 September 11 September 22 September 23 September 24 October 9 October 15 October 16 October 17 October 23 July 31 August 1 August 2 August 3 Rematch", "id": "21974049" }, { "contents": "Headingley Cricket Ground\n\n\nwickets each. Donald Bradman's innings of 334 in the 1930 Ashes Test included 309 runs on the first day, and he followed it in the Australians' next test at Headingley in 1934 with an innings of 304. Spinner Hedley Verity took 10 wickets for 10 runs in 1932 for Yorkshire v Nottinghamshire, still the best bowling analysis ever in first-class cricket. Verity had also taken all ten against Warwickshire at Headingley in 1931. In the 1948 Ashes series, Australia scored 404 for three on the last day to beat", "id": "11240346" }, { "contents": "List of international awards of Rohit Sharma\n\n\nRohit Sharma is an Indian international cricketer. He made his international cricket debut in June 2007. He has scored twenty-nine centuries in international cricket; three in Tests, twenty-two in One Day Internationals (ODI) and four in Twenty20 International (T20Is). As of July 2019, Sharma has played 27 Tests, 215 One Day Internationals and 94 Twenty20 Internationals. As of July 2019, Rohit won 19 Man of the Match awards and 4 Man of the Series awards in One Day Internationals; 1 Man of", "id": "21442897" }, { "contents": "Ollie Pope\n\n\nthe 2016 Royal London One-Day Cup against Yorkshire. He made his first-class debut on 28 March 2017 for Surrey against Oxford MCCU as part of the Marylebone Cricket Club University fixtures. Pope scored his maiden List A half-century on 7 May 2017 against Sussex. He made his Twenty20 debut for Surrey in the 2017 NatWest t20 Blast on 7 July 2017. In August 2018, he was added to England's squad for the second Test against India. He made his Test debut at Lord's for England against", "id": "11076451" }, { "contents": "Australian cricket team in the West Indies in 2015\n\n\nThe Australian cricket team toured the West Indies from 27 May to 15 June 2015. The tour consisted of one first-class warm-up match and two Test matches. On 8 April 2015, the West Indies Cricket Board brought forward the date of the two Test matches by two days \"due to a number of logistical challenges beyond [their] control\". Australia won the 2-match Test series 2–0 and therefore retained the Frank Worrell Trophy. Australia announced their squad on 31 March 2015. They included three uncapped players,", "id": "17936722" }, { "contents": "Zimbabwean cricket team in Sri Lanka in 2017\n\n\nThe Zimbabwe cricket team toured Sri Lanka in June and July 2017 to play one Test match and five One Day Internationals (ODIs). Originally, the schedule was for two Test matches and three ODIs. It was Zimbabwe's first tour to Sri Lanka since January 2002. All the matches were played as day games. Zimbabwe won the ODI series 3–2, their first ever series win against Sri Lanka. It was their first away series win since 2009 and the first away series win against a Test nation since defeating Bangladesh in", "id": "5384529" }, { "contents": "Ashwell Prince\n\n\nthe batting. Opening with debutant Imraan Khan, Prince scored 150, his 11th Test century. Prince signed a contract to play for Lancashire County Cricket Club the 2009 English season. He acted as cover for V. V. S. Laxman, the club's other overseas player, who was unavailable at times because he was playing in the Indian Premier League. Prince score his first century for Lancashire at the start of May during a match against Nottinghamshire. The knock came off 135 not out from 189 balls came on the final day of", "id": "12899038" }, { "contents": "Herbert Sutcliffe\n\n\nand 1926, Sutcliffe's skill was a primary factor in Yorkshire having the longest unbeaten run in county cricket: i.e., 70 matches without loss until early 1927. After three defeats in 1927, Yorkshire went a further 58 games without loss until 1929. The first four Tests of the 1926 England v Australia series were scheduled for just three days and were all curtailed by poor weather. The final Test at the Oval was timeless to ensure a finish. It has become one of the most famous matches in cricket history, not", "id": "18571331" }, { "contents": "Indian cricket team in England in 2011\n\n\nThe Indian cricket team toured England from 21 July to 16 September 2011. The tour consisted of one Twenty20 International (T20I), five One Day Internationals (ODIs) and four Test matches, as well as a number of matches against English county sides. The opening Test at Lord's was the 2,000th Test. England's victory in the Third Test put them number one in the world rankings. Virat Kohli, Pragyan Ojha and RP Singh replaced the injured Yuvraj Singh, Harbhajan Singh and Zaheer Khan, respectively, for the", "id": "4970296" }, { "contents": "Cricket in the British Isles\n\n\nIt played its first test match against Australia in 1877 and played its first One Day International (ODI) also againist Australia in 1971. One of the main cricket grounds in England, and also widely regarded as the spiritual home of cricket, is Lords Cricket Ground in London. Other major cricket grounds include The Oval (also in London), Edgbaston in Birmingham, Old Trafford in Manchester and Trent Bridge in Nottingham. From 1909 until 2017 England was the only country within the British Isles to have full membership of the ICC", "id": "17756246" }, { "contents": "Eton v Harrow\n\n\nplayed for Harrow in the four matches in 1822 to 1825, and arranged the first University Match at Lord's in 1827, two years before the first Boat Race. Many Eton and Harrow players went on to win blues at Oxford and Cambridge. Eton v Harrow was joined by the University Match and Gentlemen v Players as the three key features in the England cricket season. In its heyday, in the late 19th century and early 20th century, \"the School's day\" was one of the highlights of the London \"", "id": "10600897" }, { "contents": "Mathew Dimond\n\n\nMathew Dimond (born 24 September 1975) is a former English cricketer who made played for Somerset County Cricket Club between 1994 and 1997. Early in his career, he toured the West Indies with the England Under-19 cricket team, playing three Tests and one One Day International at Under-19 level. A right-arm fast-medium bowler, he made his first-class debut for Somerset in June 1994. Playing in the County Championship against Hampshire, Dimond claimed a solitary wicket in the match, which was shortened to single innings", "id": "558840" }, { "contents": "Charlie Charters\n\n\n’ Although the 2004 Islanders lost each of the three Test matches they played (29-14 v Wallabies, 41-26 v All Blacks and 24-38 v Springboks in Gosford, Australia), they scored 10 tries in three matches. By comparison that same southern hemisphere season, England and Scotland scored only three tries between them in their five Tests against the All Blacks and Wallabies. In fact, the 2004 Islanders scored more tries in one Test against the All Blacks (four) than the three tries the 2005", "id": "16741154" }, { "contents": "Australian cricket team in South Africa in 1993–94\n\n\nmatch by one run, levelling the ODI series at 4–4 with an \"improbable victory\". As well as the internationals, three first-class matches and two other matches were played during the tour The tour began with a friendly one-day match against NF Oppenheimer's XI, followed by a first-class match against Northern Transvaal and a one-day match against a representative side. Before the first Test match Australia played a first-class match against Orange Free State and between the first and second Tests they played", "id": "5209672" }, { "contents": "Bangladeshi cricket team in Zimbabwe in 2011\n\n\nThe Bangladesh cricket team toured Zimbabwe from 4 to 21 August 2011. The tour consisted of one Test match and five One Day Internationals (ODIs) played against the Zimbabwean national team and one first-class match played against a Zimbabwean representative team. The Test match was Zimbabwe's first since India toured Zimbabwe in 2005. Zimbabwe won the Test match by 130 runs and also won the one-day series 3–2. Bangladesh announced its squad for the Test match and ODI series on 15 July 2011. Zimbabwe announced its squad for", "id": "19159411" }, { "contents": "V. V. S. Laxman\n\n\nfrom international cricket. Although he was selected for the upcoming New Zealand series, he opted not to play in the series but he will play in domestic cricket for Hyderabad and the Indian Premier League . It was announced that the northern stand at the Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium will now be named after him. Laxman was particularly prolific against Australia, in both Tests and One Day Internationals. Six out of his 17 Test hundreds, and four out of his six ODI hundreds came against Australia. He has two double-centuries", "id": "9815623" }, { "contents": "3rd Battalion, 319th Field Artillery Regiment\n\n\nVII and another platoon to LZ Challenge from 3–5 July. Battery C located at FSB Rock near Bac Loc and conducted two 1-day raids on 11 & 13 June. Battery D located at LZ Lowboy, with 2 howitzers sent on Operation Red Thrust V in 5 days ending 2 May. On 12 July, Battery D displaced to support Battery A from FSB Hawkeye but returned to LZ Lowboy until 28 July, then occupied FSB Hunky. The battalion received three 105mm howitzers in May. In July, LTC John R. Martin replaced LTC Joseph", "id": "2060226" }, { "contents": "W. G. Grace in the 1878 English cricket season\n\n\nthis match attracted few spectators as it coincided with the Surrey v Australians match at The Oval, which drew very large crowds. \"Wisden Cricketers' Almanack\" commented that \"the Australians were attracting monster gatherings at The Oval on the days that this match was played, consequently very few visitors were at Lord's\". There were three North v South fixtures in June. The first two were played at Prince's Cricket Ground and Lord's with the South as the \"home\" team; the third took place at the", "id": "15478186" }, { "contents": "Third Test, 1948 Ashes series\n\n\nThe Third Test of the 1948 Ashes series was one of five Tests in a cricket series between teams representing Australia and England. The match was played at Old Trafford in Manchester from 8–13 July, with a rest day on 11 July. The match was drawn after the whole of the fourth day and the first half of the fifth day was washed out due to rain; England had the upper hand before the weather intervened. The draw maintained Australia's 2–0 lead in the series, which was established through victories in the first", "id": "497412" }, { "contents": "Giles Baring\n\n\n, Gresham's School, Holt, and Magdalene College, Cambridge. He represented Cambridge University in 1930 and 1931 and Hampshire between 1930 and 1939. Apart from more than fifty regular county championship games, he played in the Cambridge University v New Zealanders match of 3 June 1931, for the Gentlemen in the Gentlemen v Players matches of 2 September 1931 and 11 July 1934, for Hampshire in Hampshire v West Indians on 24 May 1933, for Hampshire in Hampshire v Australians on 23 May 1934, for Hampshire in Hampshire v South", "id": "9091807" }, { "contents": "2013–14 Bangladeshi cricket season\n\n\nand Mirpur. Both Test matches ended in draws, Bangladesh won all three One Day Internationals and New Zealand won the sole Twenty20 International. Sri Lanka toured Bangladesh in January and February 2014 playing two Test Matches, three One Day Internationals and two Twenty20 Internationals. Sri Lanka won every match, with the exception of the second Test match which ended in a draw. Initially it was planned that the NCL would be held in November and December 2013, the BCL in May and June 2014 and the BPL in December and January.", "id": "18068868" }, { "contents": "Darrell Hair\n\n\nby the ICC on 12 March 2008 and stood in the England v New Zealand tests at Old Trafford in May and Trent Bridge in June 2008. Hair umpired his first Test match in January 1992, between Australia and India in Adelaide. In 1994 the International Cricket Council (ICC) introduced a policy of appointing one umpire to each Test match from a non-participating country, and since 2002 both umpires have been appointed from non-participating nations. Since 2002 the majority of Hair’s Test matches have been played outside Australia", "id": "17469081" }, { "contents": "Timeline of events preceding World War II\n\n\n15 October 2 November 14 January February 6 March 7 March 25 May 5 June 3 July 17 August 1 October October 18 November 14 November 15 November 25 December 1 December 12 December 23 December 24 January 20 May 28 July 7 August 13 October 5 November 6 November 26 December 1 December 8 December 11 December 12 December 13 January 26 March 6 March 13 March 24 July 6–16 July 29 August September 27 September 30 October 5 November 7 November 9 January 25 January 27 March 14 March 15 March 16 March 20 March 21 March 23", "id": "6767331" }, { "contents": "South African cricket team in England in 1924\n\n\nThe South African cricket team toured England in the 1924 season to play a five-match Test series against England. England won the series 3-0 with 2 matches drawn. The tourists, with their ages on the first day of the first match of the tour on 3 May, were: George Parker (24) also played three first-class matches (including the first two Tests) and Aubrey Faulkner (42) played one match, the Third Test. The manager was George Allsop. South Africa's score", "id": "12941168" }, { "contents": "2018 English cricket season\n\n\ninternational sides toured England and Wales during the season: Pakistan, Australia and India. Pakistan also visited Ireland midway through the tour and played the Irish team's first Test match at Malahide near Dublin. In preparation for this match the Irish team played a first-class match against Somerset at Taunton in April. At the end of their tour Pakistan played two T20 matches in Scotland on 12 and 13 June. The England team played a One Day International (ODI) against Scotland in Edinburgh in June, losing to Scotland for", "id": "6929601" }, { "contents": "V. V. S. Laxman\n\n\n112 in the second test. This ensured his place on the tour of Australia which would be his third to that country. Laxman's good form continued in the 2007-08 Test series against Australia with him scoring 109 against Australia on the second day of the controversial Sydney Test to put India back into the contest. It was his 12th hundred in Test matches, and his 5th against Australia. It was also his third consecutive century at SCG, giving him an average well above 90 at the venue. He followed this", "id": "9815609" }, { "contents": "2019 Ashes series\n\n\nthree cricketers were named in Australia's squad for the 2019 Ashes. Meanwhile, England warmed up for the 2019 Ashes with a Test series earlier in the year against the West Indies and a one-off Test against Ireland in July. The tour of the West Indies comprised three matches and was won 2–1 by the West Indies. England also won the one-off Test against Ireland, by 143 runs. Ahead of the series, it was announced that Day 2 of the Lord’s Test would benefit the Ruth Strauss Foundation", "id": "18532603" }, { "contents": "V. V. S. Laxman\n\n\n1–1. He was awarded the Man of the Match for his match-winning innings of 96. His knock was voted as the best Test batting performance of the year by ESPNCricinfo. In three test matches, Laxman scored three consecutive fifties including two scores in eighties against the West Indies during India's tour of West Indies in June 2011. During India's Tour to England, Laxman scored just two half-centuries in eight innings as India went down 0–4 to England. This was India's first Test series loss since its", "id": "9815620" }, { "contents": "2014–15 Bangladeshi cricket season\n\n\nThe 2014–15 Bangladeshi cricket season featured tours of the country by Zimbabwe and Pakistan. Rangpur Division won the National Cricket League (NCL) championship title for the first time. Zimbabwe toured Bangladesh from 26 October to 1 December 2014, playing three Test matches and five One Day International matches. Bangladesh won the Test series 3–0 and the ODI series 5–0. Pakistan toured from 15 April to 10 May 2015, playing one Twenty20 International (T20I), three One Day Internationals (ODIs) and two Test matches. Pakistan won the Test", "id": "895026" }, { "contents": "Australia women's cricket team in England in 2019\n\n\nThe Australia women's cricket team toured England in June and July 2019 to play the England women's cricket team to contest the Women's Ashes. The tour consisted of three Women's One Day Internationals (WODIs), one Women's Test match and three Women's Twenty20 Internationals (WT20Is). A points-based system was used across all three formats of the tour. The Women's Ashes were held by Australia prior to the start of the series. Australia women won the WODI series 3–0, therefore taking a 6–0", "id": "15341273" }, { "contents": "Pakistani cricket team in England in 1962\n\n\nof three one-day games (not limited overs). The first two were drawn and the Pakistanis won the third one against Colonel Stevens' XI. These three matches were, in effect, warm-ups only and not first-class. The opening first-class fixture was against Worcestershire at New Road, starting on Wednesday, 2 May. The Pakistanis were given a foretaste of the Test series to come in that Tom Graveney scored a century for the home team (and was presented with his county cap immediately afterwards", "id": "12941094" }, { "contents": "New Zealand cricket team in Australia in 2015–16\n\n\nThe New Zealand cricket team toured Australia from 23 October to 1 December 2015 to play three Test matches and four tour matches. The third match of the series at the Adelaide Oval was the first ever day-night Test. Michael Hussey captained the Prime Minister's XI side for the tour match, and in preparation for the day-night Test, a pink ball was used in this game. Australia won the series 2–0, with victories in Brisbane and Adelaide, with the second Test in Perth being drawn. Following the", "id": "1307472" }, { "contents": "Kennington\n\n\nThe Kia Oval\", is the home ground for Surrey County Cricket Club and hosts the final Test match of the English summer season. The Oval was the first ground in the United Kingdom to host Test cricket, was the location for the England v Scotland representative matches, the first ever international football match, the first FA Cup final in 1872, and held the second ever rugby union international match between England and Scotland in 1872. England's unfortunate performance against Australia here in 1882 gave rise to The Ashes. The Oval", "id": "10346916" }, { "contents": "Indian cricket team in Zimbabwe in 2001\n\n\nThe Indian cricket team toured Zimbabwe from 28 May to 7 July 2001 and played two Test matches against Zimbabwe, with each team winning one game match. This would be Zimbabwe's only Test victory over a side other than Bangladesh until they beat Pakistan in the second Test in 2013. India and Zimbabwe also participated in a triangular One Day International (ODI) competition with West Indies, with the latter eventually winning the competition. The Coca-Cola Cup was a One Day International (ODI) tournament that followed the Test series", "id": "4099650" }, { "contents": "Andrew Balbirnie\n\n\nHe played three further One Day International's during the tournament. He made his Twenty20 International debut against Scotland on 19 June 2015, although no play was possible due to rain. He was part of the Ireland A team which toured Bangladesh in October 2017 to play one first-class match and five limited overs matches against the Bangladesh A team. In May 2018, he was named in a fourteen-man squad for Ireland's first ever Test match, which was played against Pakistan later the same month. He made his", "id": "2597279" }, { "contents": "Pakistani cricket team in Scotland in 2018\n\n\nThe Pakistan cricket team toured Scotland to play two Twenty20 International (T20I) matches at The Grange Club, Edinburgh, on 12 and 13 June 2018. Pakistan last toured Scotland in May 2013 to play two One Day Internationals. Both teams last met in a T20I fixture in the group stage of the 2007 ICC World Twenty20 tournament. This was the first time that Scotland had played a home T20I match against a full member side. The tour followed Pakistan's tour of England and their one Test series in Ireland. England also", "id": "373509" }, { "contents": "2017 June rugby union tests\n\n\n2 sides. Australia, the only southern hemisphere Tier 1 nation not to host a test series, staged three one-off test matches; Scotland, Italy and Fiji. The Fijian test was the first between the two sides in Australia since 2010, and was also the first Australia v Tier 2 nation match in Australia since Samoa visited in 2011. Fiji also played host to Italy and Scotland to become the second Tier 2 nation to play three back-back Tier 1 sides during an international window, after Samoa participated in", "id": "13232867" }, { "contents": "Timeline of the 2014 Pacific hurricane season\n\n\nJune 11 June 12 June 13 June 14 June 15 June 28 June 30 July 1 July 2 July 3 July 6 July 7 July 9 July 17 July 18 July 19 July 25 July 26 July 27 July 28 July 29 July 31 August 1 August 2 August 3 August 4 August 5 August 6 August 7 August 8 August 9 August 10 August 12 August 13 August 14 August 15 August 17 August 18 August 21 August 22 August 23 August 24 August 25 August 26 August 27 August 28 August 29 September 2 September 4 September 6", "id": "2400921" } ]

[ { "contents": "Sri Lankan cricket team in England in 2014\n\n\nThe Sri Lanka national cricket team toured England from 13 May to 24 June 2014 for a Twenty20 International (T20I), five One Day Internationals (ODIs) and two Test matches against the England cricket team. They also played three one-day and one four-day tour matches against English county sides, as well as preceding the entire tour with a two-match ODI series against Ireland. Sri Lanka won the Test series 1–0 (the first time they had won a Test series in England), the ODI series", "id": "21939883" }, { "contents": "New Zealand cricket team in England in 2015\n\n\nThe New Zealand national cricket team toured England from 8 May to 23 June 2015 for two Test matches, five One Day Internationals (ODIs) and a Twenty20 International (T20I) against the England cricket team. They also played two four-day tour matches and a one-day match against English county sides. England won the first Test at Lord's before New Zealand claimed victory in the second Test at Headingley to level the series. England then took an early lead in the ODI series after hitting more than 400 runs", "id": "943447" }, { "contents": "Australian cricket team in England and Ireland in 2015\n\n\nThe Australia national cricket team toured England from June to September 2015 for a five-match Test series, five One Day International (ODI) matches and one Twenty20 International (T20I). The Test series was for the Ashes. They also played two four-day and two three-day first-class matches against English county sides. Australia also played one ODI against Ireland in Belfast. On 31 March 2015, Australia announced a 17-man touring party for the Ashes series. England announced their squad for the first Test on", "id": "1657670" }, { "contents": "David Constant\n\n\n67 first-class appearances. In total he scored 1,517 first-class runs at a batting average of 19.20 with a highest score of 80. Tony Lewis described his innings against Glamorgan on a difficult pitch at Leicester in 1965 as \"one of the bravest innings I ever saw\". His first Test as umpire was the Third Test between England and Pakistan in July 1971. He last stood in an international cricket match in the England v. Australia One Day International at The Oval, London in June 2001. He was the", "id": "14539375" }, { "contents": "Pakistani cricket team in Sri Lanka in 2015\n\n\nThe Pakistan cricket team toured Sri Lanka from 11 June to 1 August 2015. The tour consisted of a three-day tour match against a SLCB President's XI, three Test matches, five One Day International and two Twenty20 International matches. The third Test was originally scheduled to be played at the R Premadasa Stadium, but was changed to the Pallekele International Cricket Stadium in early May. Pakistan outplayed the hosts in all forms of the game by winning the Test series 2–1, the ODI series 3–2 and the T20I series 2–0.", "id": "15080177" }, { "contents": "2010 in American music\n\n\n17 March 22 March 23 March 26 March 30 April 6 April 8 April 13 April 19 April 20 April 21 April 27 April 30 May 4 May 11 May 14 May 17 May 18 May 21 May 25 May 31 June 1 June 8 June 14 June 15 June 18 June 21 June 22 June 28 June 29 July 6 July 7 July 12 July 13 July 15 July 20 July 23 July 25 July 27 July 29 August 3 August 17 August 24 August 31 September 7 September 14 September 21 September 23 September 28 October 5 October", "id": "18556206" }, { "contents": "Warwickshire County Cricket Club\n\n\nand gold and the shirt sponsor is Gullivers Sports Travel. The club's home is Edgbaston Cricket Ground in south Birmingham, which regularly hosts Test and One Day International matches. Cricket may have reached Warwickshire by the end of the 17th century. The \"Warwickshire & Staffordshire Journal\" was certainly aware of the sport in 1738 for it carried a report of a London v Mitcham game at the Artillery Ground on 11 August (London won by 1 wicket). The earliest confirmed reference to cricket in the county is a match announcement", "id": "8941185" }, { "contents": "Irish cricket team in England in 2019\n\n\nThe Ireland cricket team toured England in July 2019 to play a one-off four-day Test match at Lord's. It was the first Test match to be played between the two sides, and was England's first four-day Test match since they toured New Zealand in 1971. It was Ireland's third Test match, and their twelfth international fixture against England. The Test match was part of England's preparations for the 2019 Ashes series. Ahead of the Test, the England cricket team visited Ireland in May", "id": "16268672" }, { "contents": "1919 English cricket season\n\n\n(five wins from fourteen) and Warwickshire were bottom with 7.14% (one win from fourteen). The 1919 County Championship was the 26th since the competition acquired official status in 1890. The opening matches began on Friday, 16 May. These were Middlesex v Nottinghamshire at Lord's and the 1914 (reigning) champions Surrey against Somerset at The Oval. The final match between Essex and Surrey at Leyton was completed on Monday, 1 September. The situation between Yorkshire and Kent on Saturday, 30 August (the second day in", "id": "7320450" }, { "contents": "Timeline of the 2013 Pacific hurricane season\n\n\n15 May 16 May 17 May 28 May 29 May 30 June 1 June 23 June 24 June 25 June 26 June 27 June 29 June 30 July 2 July 3 July 4 July 5 July 6 July 7 July 9 July 25 July 27 July 30 July 31 August 2 August 3 August 4 August 6 August 7 August 8 August 9 August 11 August 16 August 18 August 19 August 20 August 22 August 23 August 24 August 25 August 28 August 29 August 30 August 31 September 1 September 2 September 5 September 6 September 7 September", "id": "957237" }, { "contents": "Prince's Cricket Ground\n\n\nas 'grand and quick and one of the finest playing grounds in England'. The first match played on the ground was Household Brigade v. Lords and Commons on 3 June 1871. Middlesex County Cricket Club used the ground between 1872 and 1876 and played their first match on 23–25 May 1872 against Yorkshire. The ground was also used by South of England and by Gentlemen of the South. Several Gentlemen v Players fixtures were also played there, the first taking place in July 1873. In 1878, the touring Australians played two", "id": "19086180" }, { "contents": "Callum Jackson\n\n\nSussex youth ranks, playing at under-13, under-14, under-15 and under-17 level before joining the second XI as a 16-year-old in 2011. He was selected to represent an English Schools Cricket Association XI in 2011 before making his first appearance for the Sussex first XI on 1 May 2012 in a non-first-class match against the Leeds/Bradford MCC Universities team. In early 2013, Jackson was selected for the England under-19 side to tour South Africa, where he played in both Youth Test matches and three One Day", "id": "16290826" }, { "contents": "2018 English cricket season\n\n\nHurricane Irma and Hurricane Maria in September 2017. Pakistan played two Test matches against England at Lord's and Headingley at the end of May and beginning of June. The series was drawn, each side winning one match. Ahead of the Tests, two first-class matches were played against Kent and Northants. Their match against Ireland took place after the two first-class county matches, and a two-day match was played against Leicestershire between this and the first Test against England. Pakistan won the first Test match by", "id": "6929603" }, { "contents": "1963 in Norwegian football\n\n\nResults from Norwegian football in 1963. April 26 April 28 May 3 May 4 May 5 May 11 May 12 May 30 May 19 May 22 May 23 May 26 May 27 June 7 June 8 June 9 June 14 June 15 June 16 June 22 June 23 June 24 July 26 July 28 July 29 August 2 August 4 August 6 August 17 August 18 August 21 August 22 August 24 August 25 September 7 September 8 September 20 September 22 October 4 October 6 October 13 Årstad promoted Nidelv promoted Harstad - Bodø/Glimt 4 -", "id": "20433032" }, { "contents": "West Indian cricket team in England in 1991\n\n\nThe West Indian cricket team in England in 1991 played three one day internationals and five Tests, under the captaincy of Viv Richards, as part of an extensive tour in which they also played first-class matches against 11 first-class county teams, the combined Minor Counties, the Combined Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, and a World XI to finish, plus 55-over one-day matches against one more first-class county (Gloucestershire) and the Duchess of Norfolk's Invitation XI. Of the non-international matches,", "id": "5157419" }, { "contents": "West Indian cricket team in England in 2007\n\n\nThe West Indian cricket team toured England from 12 May to 7 July 2007 as part of the 2007 English cricket season. The tour included four Tests, two Twenty20 international matches and three One Day Internationals. While England dominated the Test series 3–0, including a record victory over the West Indies, the latter took the ODI series 2:1. In the ICC Test Championship, England are ranked second and West Indies are ranked eighth, though England's most recent series was a whitewash loss in the Ashes against Australia for the first time", "id": "12941423" }, { "contents": "Sri Lankan cricket team in the West Indies in 2018\n\n\nOn 19 May 2018, Cricket West Indies (CWI) announced that they may scrap one of the Test fixtures, replacing it with a couple of one-day matches. However, the day before the first Test, the International Cricket Council (ICC) confirmed that it would be a three-match Test series. Prior to the start of day three of the second Test, the Sri Lankan cricket team protested against umpires' decision on starting the third day's play with a new ball, replacing the old ball.", "id": "19622271" }, { "contents": "Timeline of the 2017 Pacific hurricane season\n\n\ncyclone formations, strengthening, weakening, landfalls, extratropical transitions, and dissipations during the season. May 9 May 10 May 11 May 12 May 15 May 31 June 1 June 2 June 11 June 12 June 13 June 24 June 25 June 26 June 27 June 28 July 1 July 7 July 8 July 9 July 10 July 11 July 12 July 13 July 14 July 15 July 16 July 17 July 18 July 19 July 20 July 21 July 22 July 23 July 24 July 25 July 26 July 27 July 28 July 31 August 1", "id": "7169450" }, { "contents": "Daniel Bell-Drummond\n\n\nmade his youth Test debut on 21 July 2010 at the County Ground, Northampton before scoring unbeaten 88 in the second youth Test later in the same month, aged only 16. He played in both under-19 Test matches and in four youth one-day international matches during England's return tour of Sri Lanka in January and February 2011. In July 2011 Bell-Drummond played in a one-day series against South Africa under-19s. He top-scored for England in three of the seven matches in the series and was the", "id": "6732560" }, { "contents": "1967 in Norwegian football\n\n\nResults from Norwegian football in 1967. April 27 April 28 April 30 May 4 May 6 May 7 May 10 May 11 May 15 May 16 May 18 May 19 May 20 May 21 May 22 June 22 May 25 May 28 June 4 June 10 June 11 June 12 June 13 June 18 June 19 July 30 July 31 August 2 August 6 August 7 August 9 August 10 August 20 August 16 August 20 August 21 September 7 September 10 September 16 September 17 October 6 October 8 October 9 October 12 October 15 October 20 October", "id": "2081596" }, { "contents": "Phil Carlson\n\n\nPhillip Henry Carlson (born 8 August 1951, Nundah, Queensland) is a former Australian cricketer who played in two Tests and four One Day Internationals (ODIs) in 1979. Carlson was an all-rounder who played for Queensland between 1969–70 and 1980–81. He played two Test matches for Australia v England in 1978–79 Ashes series and four One Day Internationals against the same opponents. He was called up by Australia when most of their regular first-choice players were playing in World Series Cricket. Carlson took two Test wickets and", "id": "11409623" }, { "contents": "1962 in Norwegian football\n\n\nResults from Norwegian football in 1962. July 30 August 2 August 3 August 9 August 8 August 13 August 16 August 20 August 21 September 2 September 3 Ørn - Brann 0 - 7 September 24 September 28 October 1 October 15 April 25 October 6 October 8 April 29 May 6 May 12 May 13 May 14 May 20 May 21 May 23 May 24 May 27 May 30 May 31 June 3 June 15 June 16 June 17 June 24 June 25 June 30 July 1 July 29 August 1 August 2 August 4 August 5 August", "id": "9107175" }, { "contents": "Alan Igglesden\n\n\nAlan Paul Igglesden (born 8 October 1964) is a former English Test cricketer. He played three Test Matches and four One Day Internationals (ODIs) for the England cricket team between 1989 and 1994 as a fast bowler. He played most of his first-class cricket career for Kent County Cricket Club. Igglesden was born in Farnborough, London in 1964. He first played for Kent County Cricket Club's Second XI in 1983 before making his first-class cricket debut of the county in July 1986 against Somerset at Maidstone", "id": "8795795" }, { "contents": "Sri Lankan cricket team in England and Ireland in 2016\n\n\nThe Sri Lanka national cricket team toured England from 8 May to 5 July 2016 for a three-match Test series, a five-match One Day International (ODI) series and a one-off Twenty20 International (T20I) against the England cricket team. England won the Test series 2–0, the ODI series 3–0 and won the one-off T20I match by 8 wickets. They also played two first-class matches against Essex and Leicestershire prior to the Test series, and two ODI matches against Ireland prior to the", "id": "15635062" }, { "contents": "South African cricket team in England in 2008\n\n\nThe South African cricket team toured England between 29 June and 4 September 2008. They played four Test matches, one Twenty20 International and five One Day Internationals against England. They also played six tour matches against Somerset, Middlesex, Bangladesh A, a PCA Masters XI and two against the England Lions. It was announced that following the conclusion of this four-match series, future matches between England and South Africa would comprise five Test matches but only three one-day matches after the series was granted 'icon' status.", "id": "18079110" }, { "contents": "2018 English cricket season\n\n\nthe first time in an ODI. The South African women's team also toured England to play three One Day International matches against the England women's cricket team in June and to compete in the 2018 England women's Tri-Nation Series Twenty20 competition against England and New Zealand. New Zealand then played three One Day Internationals against England in July. In addition the West Indies men's side played a single Twenty20 International against a Rest of the World XI team at Lord's in May 2018 to raise funds for stadiums damaged by", "id": "6929602" }, { "contents": "American Rally Association\n\n\nWood Rally March 15 - 16 Olympus Rally April 27 - 28 Oregon Trail Rally May 31 - June 2 Idaho Rally International June 22 - 23 New England Forest Rally July 19 - 20 Muscatell Ojibwe Forests Rally August 23 - 24 Susquehannock Trail Performance Rally September 13 - 14 Lake Superior Performance Rally October 18 - 19 2019 ARA Super Regional Events Southern Ohio Forest Rally May 16 - 18 Rally Colorado July 26 - 27 Tour de Forest Rally September 21, 2019 Empire State Performance Rally October 25 - 26 2019 ARA One-Day Regional", "id": "6404348" }, { "contents": "Pakistani cricket team in England and Ireland in 2016\n\n\nThe Pakistan national cricket team toured England and Ireland from 3 July to 7 September 2016 for a four-match Test series, a five-match One Day International (ODI) series and a one-off Twenty20 International (T20I) against the England cricket team. They also played two three-day matches against Somerset and Sussex prior to the Test series, a two-day match against Worcestershire during the Test series, and two ODI matches against Ireland prior to the ODI series. England's ODI matches against Pakistan was", "id": "15635130" }, { "contents": "Second Test, 1948 Ashes series\n\n\nThe Second Test of the 1948 Ashes series was one of five Tests in a cricket series between Australia and England. The match was played at Lord's in London from 24 to 29 June, with a rest day on 27 June. Australia won the match by 409 runs to take a 2–0 lead, meaning that England would need to win the remaining three matches to regain The Ashes. Australian captain Don Bradman won the toss and elected to bat. The tourists had won the First Test convincingly, and decided to field the", "id": "497516" }, { "contents": "MCC v Australians at Lord's, 27 May 1878\n\n\nin England, the team left Sydney on 29 March 1878 and sailed via Auckland and Honolulu to San Francisco, from where they travelled across America by train to New York City. They crossed the Atlantic, arriving in Liverpool on 13 May, and then went by train to Nottingham where they played their first match, starting on Monday, 20 May. This was a three-day match against Nottinghamshire at Trent Bridge and the Australians were well beaten by an innings and 14 runs, an inauspicious start which dampened much of the public", "id": "16383632" }, { "contents": "Australian women's cricket team in England in 2013\n\n\nThe Australian women's cricket team toured England in 2013. The visitors were defending the Women's Ashes. The only Test match of the tour took place on 11–14 August at Wormsley Park, and was drawn. Three One-Day Internationals (ODIs) were played: the first at Lord's on 20 August, and the other two at Hove on 23 and 25 August. Also three Twenty20 International (T20I) matches were played, on 27, 29 and 31 August, at Chelmsford, Southampton and Chester-le-", "id": "19064429" }, { "contents": "South African cricket team in England in 2017\n\n\nThe South African cricket team toured England and Wales between May and August 2017, playing three One Day Internationals (ODIs), three Twenty20 Internationals (T20Is) and four Test matches. The ODI matches were in preparation for the 2017 ICC Champions Trophy, which took place in England and Wales during June. Extra security was provided to South Africa for the ODI series following the Manchester bombing. England won the ODI series 2–1 and the T20 series 2–1. Ahead of the ODI series, South Africa played one-day warm-", "id": "1555384" }, { "contents": "1Malaysia Development Berhad scandal\n\n\n- 30 September onwards October 20 November 25 December 1 December 5 December 31 2016 January 26 January 29 February 1 February 3 February 7 February 19 February 29 March 23 March 31 April 2 April 5 April 7 April 9 April 12 April 13 April 19 April 28 May 24 May 31 July 11 1MDB agrees to resolve its dispute with International Petroleum Investment Company via the London Court of International Arbitration. July 21 August 9 October 11 December 2 2017 March 22 April 24 May 30 June 15 June 16 August 1 August 2 August 11 August", "id": "14280441" }, { "contents": "Timeline of events preceding World War II\n\n\nJune 30 September 14 May 19 September 18 September 19 January 7 January 28 February 27 March 1 April 10 May 30 August 30 November 21 December 3 January 1 January 30 February 27 February 28 March 4 March 20 March 23 March 24 March 27 April 1 April 26 May 2 May 15 May 31 June 21 July 14 August 25 September 12 October 19 November 24 January 26 February 12–16 March 20 June 30 July 20 July 25 August 2 August 8 September October 16 December 1 December 5 December 29 January 7 June 18 August 31 September", "id": "6767330" }, { "contents": "Timeline of the 2018 Pacific hurricane season\n\n\ntropical cyclone formations, strengthening, weakening, landfalls, extratropical transitions, and dissipations during the season. May 10 May 11 May 13 May 15 June 1 June 6 June 7 June 8 June 9 June 10 June 11 June 12 June 13 June 14 June 15 June 16 June 17 June 19 June 24 June 25 June 26 June 27 June 28 June 29 June 30 July 1 July 2 July 3 July 4 July 5 July 6 July 9 July 26 July 27 July 28 July 29 July 31 August 1 August 2 August 3 August", "id": "21166816" }, { "contents": "English cricket team in Australia in 2017–18\n\n\nThe England cricket team toured Australia between November 2017 and February 2018 to play five Tests and five One Day Internationals (ODIs). They also played in a three nation Twenty20 International (T20I) tournament, along with New Zealand, who co-hosted the tournament along with Australia. England additionally played two first-class matches, a two-day tour match and a one-day tour match against Cricket Australia XI, as well as a Twenty20 against the Prime Minister's XI. The Test matches made up the 2017–18", "id": "21532277" }, { "contents": "Timeline of events preceding World War II\n\n\nApril 16 August 13 October October 11 October 29 November 1 January 11 June July 24 August 31 September 27 October 29 November 8 January 21 February 1 March 16 April 1 April 6 June 10 August 16 August 18 May 12 July 18 December 1 January 3 January 31 April 4 April 24 September 8 December 25 April 12 May 20 June 7 November 12 December 14 May 3 May 28 June 4 August 2 August 27 October 1 February 9 February 11 March 4 March 28 April 3 June 7 July 24 August 31 October 29 April 22", "id": "6767329" }, { "contents": "W. G. Grace in the 1878 English cricket season\n\n\nNewcastle upon Tyne, Bolton and Birmingham to play odds games against local opposition. Grace took 21 wickets in the match against the 22 men of Melton Mowbray in a three-day match starting on Monday, 1 July. He scored 42 and 57 not out in his two innings, the match ending in a draw. Grace caught the evening train to be in London ready for the first Gentlemen v Players match at The Oval, starting on Thursday, 4 July. The next USEE match at Leeds Holbeck followed the second Gentlemen", "id": "15478205" }, { "contents": "List of accidents and incidents involving military aircraft (1950–1954)\n\n\n12 December 19 December 23 December 10 January 11 January 15 January 21 January 28 January 31 January 14 February 13 March 14 March 17 March 23 March 3 April 5 April 5 April 8 April 25 April 27 April 6 May 18 May 19 May 8 June 13 June 15 June 18 June 23 June 23 June 30 June 8 July 31 July Summer 13 August 18 August 21 August 22 August 26 August 27 August 16 September 29 September 15 October 11 November 13 November 19 November 27 November 3 December 7 December 21 December 12 January 15", "id": "21637229" }, { "contents": "Lord's\n\n\nbe switched off by 11 pm. The floodlights were first used successfully on 27 May 2009 during the Twenty20 Cup match between Middlesex and Kent. Lord's hosts Test matches, one-day internationals, some Middlesex home matches, MCC matches and (starting with a fixture between Middlesex and Surrey in July 2004) some of Middlesex's home Twenty20 games. Lord's typically hosts two Tests every summer plus two one-day internationals. Lord's also plays host to the finals of the National Village Cricket Competition, the MCC Universities", "id": "10760657" }, { "contents": "2011 in American music\n\n\nThe following is a list of notable events and releases that happened in 2011 in music in the United States. January 11 January 17 January 18 January 21 January 25 January 31 February 1 February 8 February 15 February 22 March 1 March 8 March 15 March 22 March 29 April 5 April 11 April 12 April 26 May 3 May 10 May 17 May 23 May 24 May 31 June 7 June 14 June 21 June 28 July 5 July 8 July 12 July 13 July 19 July 26 August 2 August 8 August 9 August 16 August", "id": "15423555" }, { "contents": "MCC v Australians at Lord's, 27 May 1878\n\n\nenthusiasm that their visit had generated. The Australians were next due to play Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) in a three-day match at Lord's, commencing on Monday, 27 May. In the meantime, Charles Bannerman and Billy Midwinter were invited to visit Dublin and play for the United South of England Eleven (USEE) against 15 past and present players of Dublin University. This was due to be played over three days, starting on Thursday, 23 May, at College Park. The USEE was captained by W. G.", "id": "16383633" }, { "contents": "West Indian cricket team in England in 1928\n\n\nreach three figures. As at Lord's and Old Trafford, the match was over before lunch on the third day. Including the three Tests, 30 first-class matches were played on the tour, plus six other games. The West Indians won just seven of these 36 matches (five of the first-class games) and lost 12. By the end of May, the touring side had won matches against Derbyshire and Cambridge University, plus a minor match against Northumberland, and had drawn all the other games.", "id": "12941340" }, { "contents": "Bob Willis\n\n\n26 August against Worcestershire's Seconds. Willis, 19 years of age, took one wicket for 48 runs in the first innings, and bowled four wicketless overs in the second. He was not called on to bat at all. Two days later, he faced Glamorgan and took three wickets. He played several further Second XI matches through May and June 1969, before his first-class debut on 6 August. Scotland was touring England that season and had already beaten Warwickshire. Willis took three wickets for 13 runs from 13", "id": "16238759" }, { "contents": "Rock in Rio\n\n\n5 July 6 May 21 / 82.000 May 22 / 45.000 May 27 / 85.000 May 29 / 95.000 May 30 / 38.000 June 4 / 51.000 June 5 / 85.000 June 6 / 90.000 June 11 / 30.000 June 14 / 48.000 Rock in Rio Lisboa V Rock in Rio Lisboa VII Rock in Rio Lisboa VIII June 24 sold out almost three months prior to the festival. \"Rock in Rio USA\" was the first North American edition of the festival, being held in Las Vegas on May 8, 9, 15 and 16", "id": "11140715" }, { "contents": "Indian cricket team in Sri Lanka in 2015\n\n\nThe Indian cricket team toured Sri Lanka from 6 August to 1 September 2015 to play a tour match and three Test matches. On 27 June, Sri Lankan batsman Kumar Sangakkara said he would retire from international cricket after the second Test of the series. The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) and Sri Lanka Cricket Board confirmed the schedule of India's tour to Sri Lanka in August to September 2015. The tour started with a three-day warm-up game against Sri Lanka Board President's XI,", "id": "22038367" }, { "contents": "Andy Cottam\n\n\nAndrew Colin Cottam (born 14 July 1973 in Northampton, England) was an English cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman and a left-arm slow bowler. He played in 2 Under-19 Tests in 1992 and 13 first-class matches between 1992 and 1996. His father is the cricketer and coach Bob Cottam. In 1990 Andy Cottam started playing for Somerset Second XI and Devon. In 1992 he was selected for Under-19's tour of Pakistan and played in the Third Test and 2 one-day matches against Pakistan", "id": "2981363" }, { "contents": "Lord's\n\n\n. The hundredth Lord's Test match was in 2000, England v West Indies. As of 25 August 2010 England have played 119 Test matches at Lord's, winning 45, losing 28 and drawing 46. Lord's often hosts two Test matches each summer, one match for each visiting team. In 2010, the ground hosted three Test matches: as well as England's matches against Bangladesh and Pakistan, a Test match between Australia and Pakistan was held there in July. Lord's was the venue of the 2000th test", "id": "10760663" }, { "contents": "Australian cricket team in Sri Lanka in 2016\n\n\nThe Australian cricket team toured Sri Lanka from 18 July to 9 September 2016 to play three Test matches, five One Day Internationals (ODIs), two Twenty20 Internationals (T20Is) matches and a first-class practice match. The Test series was played for Warne-Muralitharan Trophy, with Sri Lanka winning 3–0, their first ever series whitewash against Australia. As a result, Australia slipped from first to third in the ICC Test Championship; Sri Lanka, who had started the series ranked seventh, moved up to sixth.", "id": "14912886" }, { "contents": "South African cricket team in Australia in 2005–06\n\n\nThe South African cricket team toured Australia for cricket matches during the 2005–06 season. South Africa had already played two One Day International series during this season, beating New Zealand 4–0 at home before travelling to India and drawing the series there 2–2. The team had been playing 14 successive ODIs (tour matches excluded) before arriving in Australia, with their last Test match against West Indies in April and May 2005. South Africa played one first class warm-up match, one three-day warm-up match without first class", "id": "19860549" }, { "contents": "Peter Lever\n\n\n6/38, before his final Test ended on 5 August 1975 during another Ashes tour, Australia facing England at Lord's. Lever also played ten One Day Internationals, including the 1975 Cricket World Cup, taking 11 wickets but scoring only 17 runs. His ODI debut was also against Australia, at Melbourne on 5 January 1971, and his last match was at Headingley, Leeds, again against Australia, on 18 June 1975. This gives Lever the unusual distinction of having played both his debut, and last match, against Australia", "id": "17765992" }, { "contents": "Australian women's cricket team in England in 2009\n\n\nThe Australian women's cricket team toured England between 25 June and 13 July 2009, playing one Test match, five One Day Internationals and a Twenty20 International. Australia won the Twenty20 International, while England won the One Day International series 4–0. The Test match, which was for the Women's Ashes, was drawn; ensuring that England retained them. Prior to the series, both sides took part in the 2009 ICC Women's World Twenty20, which was also held in England in June. England won the tournament, in", "id": "13250607" }, { "contents": "List of accidents and incidents involving military aircraft (1950–1954)\n\n\nJanuary 31 January 7 February 18 March 21 April 24 April May 11 May 12 May 15 May 9 June 11 June 13 June 17 June 18 June 21 June 15 July 17 July 30 July 6 August 6 August 12 August 23 August 26 August 30 August 5 September 9 September 9 September 9 September 11 September 19 September 19 September 25 September 1 October 1 October 7 October 8 October 8 October 11 October 13 October 14 October 17 October 18 October 19 October 20 October 22 October 26 October 2 November 8 November 17 November 23 November", "id": "21637231" }, { "contents": "Follow-on\n\n\n, and gave England a slender lead of 129. The next day a fired-up Bob Willis took 8 for 43, and Australia slumped to 111 all out. Australia, who had won their 16 previous Test matches, including the first of the three-Test series between the two teams, had scored 445 in the first innings of the second Test and restricted India to 171; only V. V. S. Laxman (59) and Rahul Dravid reached 25 runs. The only other bright spot for India was the bowling of", "id": "1078812" }, { "contents": "West Indian cricket team in England in 2017\n\n\nThe West Indies cricket team toured England in August and September 2017 to play three Test matches competing for the Wisden Trophy, one Twenty20 International (T20I) and five One Day Internationals (ODIs). Ahead of the Test series, the West Indies played first-class warm-up matches against Derbyshire, Essex and Kent. They also played a two-day match against Leicestershire, as they did not get to the final of the 2017 NatWest t20 Blast. In October 2016 the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB)", "id": "1555387" }, { "contents": "England women's national rugby league team\n\n\nCup - WIN v France WIN v Russia | LOSS v Australia LOSS v New Zealand WIN v Pacific Islands 2009 International Tests - 25 July | France 8-28 England; France 0-36 England 2010 International Tests - 9 November | England 36-8 France 10 November | New Zealand 44-6 England 16 November | New Zealand 38-6 England 2011 International Tests - 2 July | France 6-36 England 6 July | France 4-42 England 2012 International Test - 15 June | England 48-0 France", "id": "9166568" }, { "contents": "International cricket\n\n\n, One-Day and Twenty20 matches take place in the form of \"tours\". In a tour, one nation travels to another and plays warm-up matches, which may be first-class matches, against domestic teams such as county or state teams, a series of Test matches against the host nation, and either a series of One-Day (ODi) and T20 matches against the host nation or a tournament involving the host nation and another touring nation. Tours may include Test, ODI and T20I matches", "id": "6028418" }, { "contents": "West Indian cricket team in England in 2000\n\n\nThe West Indies cricket team toured England in the 2000 cricket season. West Indies played five Tests against England - two in June and three in August - with a triangular One Day International (ODI) series involving Zimbabwe in July. In June, West Indies won the 1st Test at Edgbaston convincingly, before England narrowly won the 2nd Test at Lord's, having bowled West Indies out for 54 in their second innings. The ODI series, sponsored by NatWest, took place in July, with England, West Indies and Zimbabwe", "id": "12941417" }, { "contents": "First Test, 1948 Ashes series\n\n\nThe First Test of the 1948 Ashes series was one of five Tests in a cricket series between Australia and England. The match was played at Trent Bridge in Nottingham from 10 to 15 June with a rest day on 13 June. Australia won the match by eight wickets to take a 1–0 series lead. The Australians started the match as firm favourites, having won the previous series against England 3–0; in the lead-up to the 1948 series, they had won 10 of their 12 tour matches in England, mostly by", "id": "497621" }, { "contents": "Giles Baring\n\n\nAfricans on 22 May 1935, for Hampshire in Hampshire v Australians on 25 May 1938, and for H. D. G. Leveson Gowers XI v Australian Services on 7 July 1945. He played for Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) between 1935 and 1946, and his last first-class game was in the MCC v Cambridge University match on 29 June 1946. Baring was a right-arm fast bowler and also a right-hand batsman. As a bowler, he took 197 wickets for 5,607 runs, an average of 28.46.", "id": "9091808" }, { "contents": "Herbert Sutcliffe's cricket career (1919–27)\n\n\nWaddington in 1925. Arthur Mitchell was still a reserve and Cyril Turner made his first-class debut. The first four Tests of the 1926 England v Australia series were scheduled for just three days and were all curtailed by poor weather. The final Test at The Oval was timeless to ensure a finish. It has become one of the most famous matches in cricket history, not because England regained The Ashes for the first time since 1912 but for the manner it which it was achieved as Hobbs and Sutcliffe produced their most famous", "id": "18930780" }, { "contents": "Günther Lützow\n\n\nfighter destroyed. Two days later, he destroyed three aircraft, two SB-2 bombers and a Petlyakov Pe-2 ground attack aircraft. On 27 June, he shot down an Ilyushin DB-3 bomber followed by another Pe-2 on the following day, his last victory of June 1941. Following a DB-3 bomber claimed on 7 July, Lützow was credited with four aerial victories on 10 July, consisting of one Vultee V-11 attack aircraft and three I-153s. The next day he claimed an II-16. On 15 July he shot down two further I-16s and another", "id": "3340503" }, { "contents": "1966 in Norwegian football\n\n\nResults from Norwegian football in 1966. April 22 April 24 April 27 May 19 April 30 May 1 May 6 May 7 May 8 May 15 May 19 May 22 May 23 May 27 May 28 May 30 May 31 June 3 June 4 June 5 June 15 June 16 June 19 June 20 July 31 August 3 August 6 August 7 August 8 August 24 August 17 August 27 August 28 September 11 September 22 September 23 September 24 October 9 October 15 October 16 October 17 October 23 July 31 August 1 August 2 August 3 Rematch", "id": "21974049" }, { "contents": "Headingley Cricket Ground\n\n\nwickets each. Donald Bradman's innings of 334 in the 1930 Ashes Test included 309 runs on the first day, and he followed it in the Australians' next test at Headingley in 1934 with an innings of 304. Spinner Hedley Verity took 10 wickets for 10 runs in 1932 for Yorkshire v Nottinghamshire, still the best bowling analysis ever in first-class cricket. Verity had also taken all ten against Warwickshire at Headingley in 1931. In the 1948 Ashes series, Australia scored 404 for three on the last day to beat", "id": "11240346" }, { "contents": "List of international awards of Rohit Sharma\n\n\nRohit Sharma is an Indian international cricketer. He made his international cricket debut in June 2007. He has scored twenty-nine centuries in international cricket; three in Tests, twenty-two in One Day Internationals (ODI) and four in Twenty20 International (T20Is). As of July 2019, Sharma has played 27 Tests, 215 One Day Internationals and 94 Twenty20 Internationals. As of July 2019, Rohit won 19 Man of the Match awards and 4 Man of the Series awards in One Day Internationals; 1 Man of", "id": "21442897" }, { "contents": "Ollie Pope\n\n\nthe 2016 Royal London One-Day Cup against Yorkshire. He made his first-class debut on 28 March 2017 for Surrey against Oxford MCCU as part of the Marylebone Cricket Club University fixtures. Pope scored his maiden List A half-century on 7 May 2017 against Sussex. He made his Twenty20 debut for Surrey in the 2017 NatWest t20 Blast on 7 July 2017. In August 2018, he was added to England's squad for the second Test against India. He made his Test debut at Lord's for England against", "id": "11076451" }, { "contents": "Australian cricket team in the West Indies in 2015\n\n\nThe Australian cricket team toured the West Indies from 27 May to 15 June 2015. The tour consisted of one first-class warm-up match and two Test matches. On 8 April 2015, the West Indies Cricket Board brought forward the date of the two Test matches by two days \"due to a number of logistical challenges beyond [their] control\". Australia won the 2-match Test series 2–0 and therefore retained the Frank Worrell Trophy. Australia announced their squad on 31 March 2015. They included three uncapped players,", "id": "17936722" }, { "contents": "Zimbabwean cricket team in Sri Lanka in 2017\n\n\nThe Zimbabwe cricket team toured Sri Lanka in June and July 2017 to play one Test match and five One Day Internationals (ODIs). Originally, the schedule was for two Test matches and three ODIs. It was Zimbabwe's first tour to Sri Lanka since January 2002. All the matches were played as day games. Zimbabwe won the ODI series 3–2, their first ever series win against Sri Lanka. It was their first away series win since 2009 and the first away series win against a Test nation since defeating Bangladesh in", "id": "5384529" }, { "contents": "Ashwell Prince\n\n\nthe batting. Opening with debutant Imraan Khan, Prince scored 150, his 11th Test century. Prince signed a contract to play for Lancashire County Cricket Club the 2009 English season. He acted as cover for V. V. S. Laxman, the club's other overseas player, who was unavailable at times because he was playing in the Indian Premier League. Prince score his first century for Lancashire at the start of May during a match against Nottinghamshire. The knock came off 135 not out from 189 balls came on the final day of", "id": "12899038" }, { "contents": "Herbert Sutcliffe\n\n\nand 1926, Sutcliffe's skill was a primary factor in Yorkshire having the longest unbeaten run in county cricket: i.e., 70 matches without loss until early 1927. After three defeats in 1927, Yorkshire went a further 58 games without loss until 1929. The first four Tests of the 1926 England v Australia series were scheduled for just three days and were all curtailed by poor weather. The final Test at the Oval was timeless to ensure a finish. It has become one of the most famous matches in cricket history, not", "id": "18571331" }, { "contents": "Indian cricket team in England in 2011\n\n\nThe Indian cricket team toured England from 21 July to 16 September 2011. The tour consisted of one Twenty20 International (T20I), five One Day Internationals (ODIs) and four Test matches, as well as a number of matches against English county sides. The opening Test at Lord's was the 2,000th Test. England's victory in the Third Test put them number one in the world rankings. Virat Kohli, Pragyan Ojha and RP Singh replaced the injured Yuvraj Singh, Harbhajan Singh and Zaheer Khan, respectively, for the", "id": "4970296" }, { "contents": "Cricket in the British Isles\n\n\nIt played its first test match against Australia in 1877 and played its first One Day International (ODI) also againist Australia in 1971. One of the main cricket grounds in England, and also widely regarded as the spiritual home of cricket, is Lords Cricket Ground in London. Other major cricket grounds include The Oval (also in London), Edgbaston in Birmingham, Old Trafford in Manchester and Trent Bridge in Nottingham. From 1909 until 2017 England was the only country within the British Isles to have full membership of the ICC", "id": "17756246" }, { "contents": "Eton v Harrow\n\n\nplayed for Harrow in the four matches in 1822 to 1825, and arranged the first University Match at Lord's in 1827, two years before the first Boat Race. Many Eton and Harrow players went on to win blues at Oxford and Cambridge. Eton v Harrow was joined by the University Match and Gentlemen v Players as the three key features in the England cricket season. In its heyday, in the late 19th century and early 20th century, \"the School's day\" was one of the highlights of the London \"", "id": "10600897" }, { "contents": "Mathew Dimond\n\n\nMathew Dimond (born 24 September 1975) is a former English cricketer who made played for Somerset County Cricket Club between 1994 and 1997. Early in his career, he toured the West Indies with the England Under-19 cricket team, playing three Tests and one One Day International at Under-19 level. A right-arm fast-medium bowler, he made his first-class debut for Somerset in June 1994. Playing in the County Championship against Hampshire, Dimond claimed a solitary wicket in the match, which was shortened to single innings", "id": "558840" }, { "contents": "Charlie Charters\n\n\n’ Although the 2004 Islanders lost each of the three Test matches they played (29-14 v Wallabies, 41-26 v All Blacks and 24-38 v Springboks in Gosford, Australia), they scored 10 tries in three matches. By comparison that same southern hemisphere season, England and Scotland scored only three tries between them in their five Tests against the All Blacks and Wallabies. In fact, the 2004 Islanders scored more tries in one Test against the All Blacks (four) than the three tries the 2005", "id": "16741154" }, { "contents": "Australian cricket team in South Africa in 1993–94\n\n\nmatch by one run, levelling the ODI series at 4–4 with an \"improbable victory\". As well as the internationals, three first-class matches and two other matches were played during the tour The tour began with a friendly one-day match against NF Oppenheimer's XI, followed by a first-class match against Northern Transvaal and a one-day match against a representative side. Before the first Test match Australia played a first-class match against Orange Free State and between the first and second Tests they played", "id": "5209672" }, { "contents": "Bangladeshi cricket team in Zimbabwe in 2011\n\n\nThe Bangladesh cricket team toured Zimbabwe from 4 to 21 August 2011. The tour consisted of one Test match and five One Day Internationals (ODIs) played against the Zimbabwean national team and one first-class match played against a Zimbabwean representative team. The Test match was Zimbabwe's first since India toured Zimbabwe in 2005. Zimbabwe won the Test match by 130 runs and also won the one-day series 3–2. Bangladesh announced its squad for the Test match and ODI series on 15 July 2011. Zimbabwe announced its squad for", "id": "19159411" }, { "contents": "V. V. S. Laxman\n\n\nfrom international cricket. Although he was selected for the upcoming New Zealand series, he opted not to play in the series but he will play in domestic cricket for Hyderabad and the Indian Premier League . It was announced that the northern stand at the Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium will now be named after him. Laxman was particularly prolific against Australia, in both Tests and One Day Internationals. Six out of his 17 Test hundreds, and four out of his six ODI hundreds came against Australia. He has two double-centuries", "id": "9815623" }, { "contents": "3rd Battalion, 319th Field Artillery Regiment\n\n\nVII and another platoon to LZ Challenge from 3–5 July. Battery C located at FSB Rock near Bac Loc and conducted two 1-day raids on 11 & 13 June. Battery D located at LZ Lowboy, with 2 howitzers sent on Operation Red Thrust V in 5 days ending 2 May. On 12 July, Battery D displaced to support Battery A from FSB Hawkeye but returned to LZ Lowboy until 28 July, then occupied FSB Hunky. The battalion received three 105mm howitzers in May. In July, LTC John R. Martin replaced LTC Joseph", "id": "2060226" }, { "contents": "W. G. Grace in the 1878 English cricket season\n\n\nthis match attracted few spectators as it coincided with the Surrey v Australians match at The Oval, which drew very large crowds. \"Wisden Cricketers' Almanack\" commented that \"the Australians were attracting monster gatherings at The Oval on the days that this match was played, consequently very few visitors were at Lord's\". There were three North v South fixtures in June. The first two were played at Prince's Cricket Ground and Lord's with the South as the \"home\" team; the third took place at the", "id": "15478186" }, { "contents": "Third Test, 1948 Ashes series\n\n\nThe Third Test of the 1948 Ashes series was one of five Tests in a cricket series between teams representing Australia and England. The match was played at Old Trafford in Manchester from 8–13 July, with a rest day on 11 July. The match was drawn after the whole of the fourth day and the first half of the fifth day was washed out due to rain; England had the upper hand before the weather intervened. The draw maintained Australia's 2–0 lead in the series, which was established through victories in the first", "id": "497412" }, { "contents": "Giles Baring\n\n\n, Gresham's School, Holt, and Magdalene College, Cambridge. He represented Cambridge University in 1930 and 1931 and Hampshire between 1930 and 1939. Apart from more than fifty regular county championship games, he played in the Cambridge University v New Zealanders match of 3 June 1931, for the Gentlemen in the Gentlemen v Players matches of 2 September 1931 and 11 July 1934, for Hampshire in Hampshire v West Indians on 24 May 1933, for Hampshire in Hampshire v Australians on 23 May 1934, for Hampshire in Hampshire v South", "id": "9091807" }, { "contents": "2013–14 Bangladeshi cricket season\n\n\nand Mirpur. Both Test matches ended in draws, Bangladesh won all three One Day Internationals and New Zealand won the sole Twenty20 International. Sri Lanka toured Bangladesh in January and February 2014 playing two Test Matches, three One Day Internationals and two Twenty20 Internationals. Sri Lanka won every match, with the exception of the second Test match which ended in a draw. Initially it was planned that the NCL would be held in November and December 2013, the BCL in May and June 2014 and the BPL in December and January.", "id": "18068868" }, { "contents": "Darrell Hair\n\n\nby the ICC on 12 March 2008 and stood in the England v New Zealand tests at Old Trafford in May and Trent Bridge in June 2008. Hair umpired his first Test match in January 1992, between Australia and India in Adelaide. In 1994 the International Cricket Council (ICC) introduced a policy of appointing one umpire to each Test match from a non-participating country, and since 2002 both umpires have been appointed from non-participating nations. Since 2002 the majority of Hair’s Test matches have been played outside Australia", "id": "17469081" }, { "contents": "Timeline of events preceding World War II\n\n\n15 October 2 November 14 January February 6 March 7 March 25 May 5 June 3 July 17 August 1 October October 18 November 14 November 15 November 25 December 1 December 12 December 23 December 24 January 20 May 28 July 7 August 13 October 5 November 6 November 26 December 1 December 8 December 11 December 12 December 13 January 26 March 6 March 13 March 24 July 6–16 July 29 August September 27 September 30 October 5 November 7 November 9 January 25 January 27 March 14 March 15 March 16 March 20 March 21 March 23", "id": "6767331" }, { "contents": "South African cricket team in England in 1924\n\n\nThe South African cricket team toured England in the 1924 season to play a five-match Test series against England. England won the series 3-0 with 2 matches drawn. The tourists, with their ages on the first day of the first match of the tour on 3 May, were: George Parker (24) also played three first-class matches (including the first two Tests) and Aubrey Faulkner (42) played one match, the Third Test. The manager was George Allsop. South Africa's score", "id": "12941168" }, { "contents": "2018 English cricket season\n\n\ninternational sides toured England and Wales during the season: Pakistan, Australia and India. Pakistan also visited Ireland midway through the tour and played the Irish team's first Test match at Malahide near Dublin. In preparation for this match the Irish team played a first-class match against Somerset at Taunton in April. At the end of their tour Pakistan played two T20 matches in Scotland on 12 and 13 June. The England team played a One Day International (ODI) against Scotland in Edinburgh in June, losing to Scotland for", "id": "6929601" }, { "contents": "V. V. S. Laxman\n\n\n112 in the second test. This ensured his place on the tour of Australia which would be his third to that country. Laxman's good form continued in the 2007-08 Test series against Australia with him scoring 109 against Australia on the second day of the controversial Sydney Test to put India back into the contest. It was his 12th hundred in Test matches, and his 5th against Australia. It was also his third consecutive century at SCG, giving him an average well above 90 at the venue. He followed this", "id": "9815609" }, { "contents": "2019 Ashes series\n\n\nthree cricketers were named in Australia's squad for the 2019 Ashes. Meanwhile, England warmed up for the 2019 Ashes with a Test series earlier in the year against the West Indies and a one-off Test against Ireland in July. The tour of the West Indies comprised three matches and was won 2–1 by the West Indies. England also won the one-off Test against Ireland, by 143 runs. Ahead of the series, it was announced that Day 2 of the Lord’s Test would benefit the Ruth Strauss Foundation", "id": "18532603" }, { "contents": "V. V. S. Laxman\n\n\n1–1. He was awarded the Man of the Match for his match-winning innings of 96. His knock was voted as the best Test batting performance of the year by ESPNCricinfo. In three test matches, Laxman scored three consecutive fifties including two scores in eighties against the West Indies during India's tour of West Indies in June 2011. During India's Tour to England, Laxman scored just two half-centuries in eight innings as India went down 0–4 to England. This was India's first Test series loss since its", "id": "9815620" }, { "contents": "2014–15 Bangladeshi cricket season\n\n\nThe 2014–15 Bangladeshi cricket season featured tours of the country by Zimbabwe and Pakistan. Rangpur Division won the National Cricket League (NCL) championship title for the first time. Zimbabwe toured Bangladesh from 26 October to 1 December 2014, playing three Test matches and five One Day International matches. Bangladesh won the Test series 3–0 and the ODI series 5–0. Pakistan toured from 15 April to 10 May 2015, playing one Twenty20 International (T20I), three One Day Internationals (ODIs) and two Test matches. Pakistan won the Test", "id": "895026" }, { "contents": "Australia women's cricket team in England in 2019\n\n\nThe Australia women's cricket team toured England in June and July 2019 to play the England women's cricket team to contest the Women's Ashes. The tour consisted of three Women's One Day Internationals (WODIs), one Women's Test match and three Women's Twenty20 Internationals (WT20Is). A points-based system was used across all three formats of the tour. The Women's Ashes were held by Australia prior to the start of the series. Australia women won the WODI series 3–0, therefore taking a 6–0", "id": "15341273" }, { "contents": "Pakistani cricket team in England in 1962\n\n\nof three one-day games (not limited overs). The first two were drawn and the Pakistanis won the third one against Colonel Stevens' XI. These three matches were, in effect, warm-ups only and not first-class. The opening first-class fixture was against Worcestershire at New Road, starting on Wednesday, 2 May. The Pakistanis were given a foretaste of the Test series to come in that Tom Graveney scored a century for the home team (and was presented with his county cap immediately afterwards", "id": "12941094" }, { "contents": "New Zealand cricket team in Australia in 2015–16\n\n\nThe New Zealand cricket team toured Australia from 23 October to 1 December 2015 to play three Test matches and four tour matches. The third match of the series at the Adelaide Oval was the first ever day-night Test. Michael Hussey captained the Prime Minister's XI side for the tour match, and in preparation for the day-night Test, a pink ball was used in this game. Australia won the series 2–0, with victories in Brisbane and Adelaide, with the second Test in Perth being drawn. Following the", "id": "1307472" }, { "contents": "Kennington\n\n\nThe Kia Oval\", is the home ground for Surrey County Cricket Club and hosts the final Test match of the English summer season. The Oval was the first ground in the United Kingdom to host Test cricket, was the location for the England v Scotland representative matches, the first ever international football match, the first FA Cup final in 1872, and held the second ever rugby union international match between England and Scotland in 1872. England's unfortunate performance against Australia here in 1882 gave rise to The Ashes. The Oval", "id": "10346916" }, { "contents": "Indian cricket team in Zimbabwe in 2001\n\n\nThe Indian cricket team toured Zimbabwe from 28 May to 7 July 2001 and played two Test matches against Zimbabwe, with each team winning one game match. This would be Zimbabwe's only Test victory over a side other than Bangladesh until they beat Pakistan in the second Test in 2013. India and Zimbabwe also participated in a triangular One Day International (ODI) competition with West Indies, with the latter eventually winning the competition. The Coca-Cola Cup was a One Day International (ODI) tournament that followed the Test series", "id": "4099650" }, { "contents": "Andrew Balbirnie\n\n\nHe played three further One Day International's during the tournament. He made his Twenty20 International debut against Scotland on 19 June 2015, although no play was possible due to rain. He was part of the Ireland A team which toured Bangladesh in October 2017 to play one first-class match and five limited overs matches against the Bangladesh A team. In May 2018, he was named in a fourteen-man squad for Ireland's first ever Test match, which was played against Pakistan later the same month. He made his", "id": "2597279" }, { "contents": "Pakistani cricket team in Scotland in 2018\n\n\nThe Pakistan cricket team toured Scotland to play two Twenty20 International (T20I) matches at The Grange Club, Edinburgh, on 12 and 13 June 2018. Pakistan last toured Scotland in May 2013 to play two One Day Internationals. Both teams last met in a T20I fixture in the group stage of the 2007 ICC World Twenty20 tournament. This was the first time that Scotland had played a home T20I match against a full member side. The tour followed Pakistan's tour of England and their one Test series in Ireland. England also", "id": "373509" }, { "contents": "2017 June rugby union tests\n\n\n2 sides. Australia, the only southern hemisphere Tier 1 nation not to host a test series, staged three one-off test matches; Scotland, Italy and Fiji. The Fijian test was the first between the two sides in Australia since 2010, and was also the first Australia v Tier 2 nation match in Australia since Samoa visited in 2011. Fiji also played host to Italy and Scotland to become the second Tier 2 nation to play three back-back Tier 1 sides during an international window, after Samoa participated in", "id": "13232867" }, { "contents": "Timeline of the 2014 Pacific hurricane season\n\n\nJune 11 June 12 June 13 June 14 June 15 June 28 June 30 July 1 July 2 July 3 July 6 July 7 July 9 July 17 July 18 July 19 July 25 July 26 July 27 July 28 July 29 July 31 August 1 August 2 August 3 August 4 August 5 August 6 August 7 August 8 August 9 August 10 August 12 August 13 August 14 August 15 August 17 August 18 August 21 August 22 August 23 August 24 August 25 August 26 August 27 August 28 August 29 September 2 September 4 September 6", "id": "2400921" } ]

[ { "contents": "Sri Lankan cricket team in England in 2014\n\n\nThe Sri Lanka national cricket team toured England from 13 May to 24 June 2014 for a Twenty20 International (T20I), five One Day Internationals (ODIs) and two Test matches against the England cricket team. They also played three one-day and one four-day tour matches against English county sides, as well as preceding the entire tour with a two-match ODI series against Ireland. Sri Lanka won the Test series 1–0 (the first time they had won a Test series in England), the ODI series", "id": "21939883" }, { "contents": "New Zealand cricket team in England in 2015\n\n\nThe New Zealand national cricket team toured England from 8 May to 23 June 2015 for two Test matches, five One Day Internationals (ODIs) and a Twenty20 International (T20I) against the England cricket team. They also played two four-day tour matches and a one-day match against English county sides. England won the first Test at Lord's before New Zealand claimed victory in the second Test at Headingley to level the series. England then took an early lead in the ODI series after hitting more than 400 runs", "id": "943447" }, { "contents": "Australian cricket team in England and Ireland in 2015\n\n\nThe Australia national cricket team toured England from June to September 2015 for a five-match Test series, five One Day International (ODI) matches and one Twenty20 International (T20I). The Test series was for the Ashes. They also played two four-day and two three-day first-class matches against English county sides. Australia also played one ODI against Ireland in Belfast. On 31 March 2015, Australia announced a 17-man touring party for the Ashes series. England announced their squad for the first Test on", "id": "1657670" }, { "contents": "David Constant\n\n\n67 first-class appearances. In total he scored 1,517 first-class runs at a batting average of 19.20 with a highest score of 80. Tony Lewis described his innings against Glamorgan on a difficult pitch at Leicester in 1965 as \"one of the bravest innings I ever saw\". His first Test as umpire was the Third Test between England and Pakistan in July 1971. He last stood in an international cricket match in the England v. Australia One Day International at The Oval, London in June 2001. He was the", "id": "14539375" }, { "contents": "Pakistani cricket team in Sri Lanka in 2015\n\n\nThe Pakistan cricket team toured Sri Lanka from 11 June to 1 August 2015. The tour consisted of a three-day tour match against a SLCB President's XI, three Test matches, five One Day International and two Twenty20 International matches. The third Test was originally scheduled to be played at the R Premadasa Stadium, but was changed to the Pallekele International Cricket Stadium in early May. Pakistan outplayed the hosts in all forms of the game by winning the Test series 2–1, the ODI series 3–2 and the T20I series 2–0.", "id": "15080177" }, { "contents": "2010 in American music\n\n\n17 March 22 March 23 March 26 March 30 April 6 April 8 April 13 April 19 April 20 April 21 April 27 April 30 May 4 May 11 May 14 May 17 May 18 May 21 May 25 May 31 June 1 June 8 June 14 June 15 June 18 June 21 June 22 June 28 June 29 July 6 July 7 July 12 July 13 July 15 July 20 July 23 July 25 July 27 July 29 August 3 August 17 August 24 August 31 September 7 September 14 September 21 September 23 September 28 October 5 October", "id": "18556206" }, { "contents": "Warwickshire County Cricket Club\n\n\nand gold and the shirt sponsor is Gullivers Sports Travel. The club's home is Edgbaston Cricket Ground in south Birmingham, which regularly hosts Test and One Day International matches. Cricket may have reached Warwickshire by the end of the 17th century. The \"Warwickshire & Staffordshire Journal\" was certainly aware of the sport in 1738 for it carried a report of a London v Mitcham game at the Artillery Ground on 11 August (London won by 1 wicket). The earliest confirmed reference to cricket in the county is a match announcement", "id": "8941185" }, { "contents": "Irish cricket team in England in 2019\n\n\nThe Ireland cricket team toured England in July 2019 to play a one-off four-day Test match at Lord's. It was the first Test match to be played between the two sides, and was England's first four-day Test match since they toured New Zealand in 1971. It was Ireland's third Test match, and their twelfth international fixture against England. The Test match was part of England's preparations for the 2019 Ashes series. Ahead of the Test, the England cricket team visited Ireland in May", "id": "16268672" }, { "contents": "1919 English cricket season\n\n\n(five wins from fourteen) and Warwickshire were bottom with 7.14% (one win from fourteen). The 1919 County Championship was the 26th since the competition acquired official status in 1890. The opening matches began on Friday, 16 May. These were Middlesex v Nottinghamshire at Lord's and the 1914 (reigning) champions Surrey against Somerset at The Oval. The final match between Essex and Surrey at Leyton was completed on Monday, 1 September. The situation between Yorkshire and Kent on Saturday, 30 August (the second day in", "id": "7320450" }, { "contents": "Timeline of the 2013 Pacific hurricane season\n\n\n15 May 16 May 17 May 28 May 29 May 30 June 1 June 23 June 24 June 25 June 26 June 27 June 29 June 30 July 2 July 3 July 4 July 5 July 6 July 7 July 9 July 25 July 27 July 30 July 31 August 2 August 3 August 4 August 6 August 7 August 8 August 9 August 11 August 16 August 18 August 19 August 20 August 22 August 23 August 24 August 25 August 28 August 29 August 30 August 31 September 1 September 2 September 5 September 6 September 7 September", "id": "957237" }, { "contents": "Prince's Cricket Ground\n\n\nas 'grand and quick and one of the finest playing grounds in England'. The first match played on the ground was Household Brigade v. Lords and Commons on 3 June 1871. Middlesex County Cricket Club used the ground between 1872 and 1876 and played their first match on 23–25 May 1872 against Yorkshire. The ground was also used by South of England and by Gentlemen of the South. Several Gentlemen v Players fixtures were also played there, the first taking place in July 1873. In 1878, the touring Australians played two", "id": "19086180" }, { "contents": "Callum Jackson\n\n\nSussex youth ranks, playing at under-13, under-14, under-15 and under-17 level before joining the second XI as a 16-year-old in 2011. He was selected to represent an English Schools Cricket Association XI in 2011 before making his first appearance for the Sussex first XI on 1 May 2012 in a non-first-class match against the Leeds/Bradford MCC Universities team. In early 2013, Jackson was selected for the England under-19 side to tour South Africa, where he played in both Youth Test matches and three One Day", "id": "16290826" }, { "contents": "2018 English cricket season\n\n\nHurricane Irma and Hurricane Maria in September 2017. Pakistan played two Test matches against England at Lord's and Headingley at the end of May and beginning of June. The series was drawn, each side winning one match. Ahead of the Tests, two first-class matches were played against Kent and Northants. Their match against Ireland took place after the two first-class county matches, and a two-day match was played against Leicestershire between this and the first Test against England. Pakistan won the first Test match by", "id": "6929603" }, { "contents": "1963 in Norwegian football\n\n\nResults from Norwegian football in 1963. April 26 April 28 May 3 May 4 May 5 May 11 May 12 May 30 May 19 May 22 May 23 May 26 May 27 June 7 June 8 June 9 June 14 June 15 June 16 June 22 June 23 June 24 July 26 July 28 July 29 August 2 August 4 August 6 August 17 August 18 August 21 August 22 August 24 August 25 September 7 September 8 September 20 September 22 October 4 October 6 October 13 Årstad promoted Nidelv promoted Harstad - Bodø/Glimt 4 -", "id": "20433032" }, { "contents": "West Indian cricket team in England in 1991\n\n\nThe West Indian cricket team in England in 1991 played three one day internationals and five Tests, under the captaincy of Viv Richards, as part of an extensive tour in which they also played first-class matches against 11 first-class county teams, the combined Minor Counties, the Combined Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, and a World XI to finish, plus 55-over one-day matches against one more first-class county (Gloucestershire) and the Duchess of Norfolk's Invitation XI. Of the non-international matches,", "id": "5157419" }, { "contents": "West Indian cricket team in England in 2007\n\n\nThe West Indian cricket team toured England from 12 May to 7 July 2007 as part of the 2007 English cricket season. The tour included four Tests, two Twenty20 international matches and three One Day Internationals. While England dominated the Test series 3–0, including a record victory over the West Indies, the latter took the ODI series 2:1. In the ICC Test Championship, England are ranked second and West Indies are ranked eighth, though England's most recent series was a whitewash loss in the Ashes against Australia for the first time", "id": "12941423" }, { "contents": "Sri Lankan cricket team in the West Indies in 2018\n\n\nOn 19 May 2018, Cricket West Indies (CWI) announced that they may scrap one of the Test fixtures, replacing it with a couple of one-day matches. However, the day before the first Test, the International Cricket Council (ICC) confirmed that it would be a three-match Test series. Prior to the start of day three of the second Test, the Sri Lankan cricket team protested against umpires' decision on starting the third day's play with a new ball, replacing the old ball.", "id": "19622271" }, { "contents": "Timeline of the 2017 Pacific hurricane season\n\n\ncyclone formations, strengthening, weakening, landfalls, extratropical transitions, and dissipations during the season. May 9 May 10 May 11 May 12 May 15 May 31 June 1 June 2 June 11 June 12 June 13 June 24 June 25 June 26 June 27 June 28 July 1 July 7 July 8 July 9 July 10 July 11 July 12 July 13 July 14 July 15 July 16 July 17 July 18 July 19 July 20 July 21 July 22 July 23 July 24 July 25 July 26 July 27 July 28 July 31 August 1", "id": "7169450" }, { "contents": "Daniel Bell-Drummond\n\n\nmade his youth Test debut on 21 July 2010 at the County Ground, Northampton before scoring unbeaten 88 in the second youth Test later in the same month, aged only 16. He played in both under-19 Test matches and in four youth one-day international matches during England's return tour of Sri Lanka in January and February 2011. In July 2011 Bell-Drummond played in a one-day series against South Africa under-19s. He top-scored for England in three of the seven matches in the series and was the", "id": "6732560" }, { "contents": "1967 in Norwegian football\n\n\nResults from Norwegian football in 1967. April 27 April 28 April 30 May 4 May 6 May 7 May 10 May 11 May 15 May 16 May 18 May 19 May 20 May 21 May 22 June 22 May 25 May 28 June 4 June 10 June 11 June 12 June 13 June 18 June 19 July 30 July 31 August 2 August 6 August 7 August 9 August 10 August 20 August 16 August 20 August 21 September 7 September 10 September 16 September 17 October 6 October 8 October 9 October 12 October 15 October 20 October", "id": "2081596" }, { "contents": "Phil Carlson\n\n\nPhillip Henry Carlson (born 8 August 1951, Nundah, Queensland) is a former Australian cricketer who played in two Tests and four One Day Internationals (ODIs) in 1979. Carlson was an all-rounder who played for Queensland between 1969–70 and 1980–81. He played two Test matches for Australia v England in 1978–79 Ashes series and four One Day Internationals against the same opponents. He was called up by Australia when most of their regular first-choice players were playing in World Series Cricket. Carlson took two Test wickets and", "id": "11409623" }, { "contents": "1962 in Norwegian football\n\n\nResults from Norwegian football in 1962. July 30 August 2 August 3 August 9 August 8 August 13 August 16 August 20 August 21 September 2 September 3 Ørn - Brann 0 - 7 September 24 September 28 October 1 October 15 April 25 October 6 October 8 April 29 May 6 May 12 May 13 May 14 May 20 May 21 May 23 May 24 May 27 May 30 May 31 June 3 June 15 June 16 June 17 June 24 June 25 June 30 July 1 July 29 August 1 August 2 August 4 August 5 August", "id": "9107175" }, { "contents": "Alan Igglesden\n\n\nAlan Paul Igglesden (born 8 October 1964) is a former English Test cricketer. He played three Test Matches and four One Day Internationals (ODIs) for the England cricket team between 1989 and 1994 as a fast bowler. He played most of his first-class cricket career for Kent County Cricket Club. Igglesden was born in Farnborough, London in 1964. He first played for Kent County Cricket Club's Second XI in 1983 before making his first-class cricket debut of the county in July 1986 against Somerset at Maidstone", "id": "8795795" }, { "contents": "Sri Lankan cricket team in England and Ireland in 2016\n\n\nThe Sri Lanka national cricket team toured England from 8 May to 5 July 2016 for a three-match Test series, a five-match One Day International (ODI) series and a one-off Twenty20 International (T20I) against the England cricket team. England won the Test series 2–0, the ODI series 3–0 and won the one-off T20I match by 8 wickets. They also played two first-class matches against Essex and Leicestershire prior to the Test series, and two ODI matches against Ireland prior to the", "id": "15635062" }, { "contents": "South African cricket team in England in 2008\n\n\nThe South African cricket team toured England between 29 June and 4 September 2008. They played four Test matches, one Twenty20 International and five One Day Internationals against England. They also played six tour matches against Somerset, Middlesex, Bangladesh A, a PCA Masters XI and two against the England Lions. It was announced that following the conclusion of this four-match series, future matches between England and South Africa would comprise five Test matches but only three one-day matches after the series was granted 'icon' status.", "id": "18079110" }, { "contents": "2018 English cricket season\n\n\nthe first time in an ODI. The South African women's team also toured England to play three One Day International matches against the England women's cricket team in June and to compete in the 2018 England women's Tri-Nation Series Twenty20 competition against England and New Zealand. New Zealand then played three One Day Internationals against England in July. In addition the West Indies men's side played a single Twenty20 International against a Rest of the World XI team at Lord's in May 2018 to raise funds for stadiums damaged by", "id": "6929602" }, { "contents": "American Rally Association\n\n\nWood Rally March 15 - 16 Olympus Rally April 27 - 28 Oregon Trail Rally May 31 - June 2 Idaho Rally International June 22 - 23 New England Forest Rally July 19 - 20 Muscatell Ojibwe Forests Rally August 23 - 24 Susquehannock Trail Performance Rally September 13 - 14 Lake Superior Performance Rally October 18 - 19 2019 ARA Super Regional Events Southern Ohio Forest Rally May 16 - 18 Rally Colorado July 26 - 27 Tour de Forest Rally September 21, 2019 Empire State Performance Rally October 25 - 26 2019 ARA One-Day Regional", "id": "6404348" }, { "contents": "Pakistani cricket team in England and Ireland in 2016\n\n\nThe Pakistan national cricket team toured England and Ireland from 3 July to 7 September 2016 for a four-match Test series, a five-match One Day International (ODI) series and a one-off Twenty20 International (T20I) against the England cricket team. They also played two three-day matches against Somerset and Sussex prior to the Test series, a two-day match against Worcestershire during the Test series, and two ODI matches against Ireland prior to the ODI series. England's ODI matches against Pakistan was", "id": "15635130" }, { "contents": "Second Test, 1948 Ashes series\n\n\nThe Second Test of the 1948 Ashes series was one of five Tests in a cricket series between Australia and England. The match was played at Lord's in London from 24 to 29 June, with a rest day on 27 June. Australia won the match by 409 runs to take a 2–0 lead, meaning that England would need to win the remaining three matches to regain The Ashes. Australian captain Don Bradman won the toss and elected to bat. The tourists had won the First Test convincingly, and decided to field the", "id": "497516" }, { "contents": "MCC v Australians at Lord's, 27 May 1878\n\n\nin England, the team left Sydney on 29 March 1878 and sailed via Auckland and Honolulu to San Francisco, from where they travelled across America by train to New York City. They crossed the Atlantic, arriving in Liverpool on 13 May, and then went by train to Nottingham where they played their first match, starting on Monday, 20 May. This was a three-day match against Nottinghamshire at Trent Bridge and the Australians were well beaten by an innings and 14 runs, an inauspicious start which dampened much of the public", "id": "16383632" }, { "contents": "Australian women's cricket team in England in 2013\n\n\nThe Australian women's cricket team toured England in 2013. The visitors were defending the Women's Ashes. The only Test match of the tour took place on 11–14 August at Wormsley Park, and was drawn. Three One-Day Internationals (ODIs) were played: the first at Lord's on 20 August, and the other two at Hove on 23 and 25 August. Also three Twenty20 International (T20I) matches were played, on 27, 29 and 31 August, at Chelmsford, Southampton and Chester-le-", "id": "19064429" }, { "contents": "South African cricket team in England in 2017\n\n\nThe South African cricket team toured England and Wales between May and August 2017, playing three One Day Internationals (ODIs), three Twenty20 Internationals (T20Is) and four Test matches. The ODI matches were in preparation for the 2017 ICC Champions Trophy, which took place in England and Wales during June. Extra security was provided to South Africa for the ODI series following the Manchester bombing. England won the ODI series 2–1 and the T20 series 2–1. Ahead of the ODI series, South Africa played one-day warm-", "id": "1555384" }, { "contents": "1Malaysia Development Berhad scandal\n\n\n- 30 September onwards October 20 November 25 December 1 December 5 December 31 2016 January 26 January 29 February 1 February 3 February 7 February 19 February 29 March 23 March 31 April 2 April 5 April 7 April 9 April 12 April 13 April 19 April 28 May 24 May 31 July 11 1MDB agrees to resolve its dispute with International Petroleum Investment Company via the London Court of International Arbitration. July 21 August 9 October 11 December 2 2017 March 22 April 24 May 30 June 15 June 16 August 1 August 2 August 11 August", "id": "14280441" }, { "contents": "Timeline of events preceding World War II\n\n\nJune 30 September 14 May 19 September 18 September 19 January 7 January 28 February 27 March 1 April 10 May 30 August 30 November 21 December 3 January 1 January 30 February 27 February 28 March 4 March 20 March 23 March 24 March 27 April 1 April 26 May 2 May 15 May 31 June 21 July 14 August 25 September 12 October 19 November 24 January 26 February 12–16 March 20 June 30 July 20 July 25 August 2 August 8 September October 16 December 1 December 5 December 29 January 7 June 18 August 31 September", "id": "6767330" }, { "contents": "Timeline of the 2018 Pacific hurricane season\n\n\ntropical cyclone formations, strengthening, weakening, landfalls, extratropical transitions, and dissipations during the season. May 10 May 11 May 13 May 15 June 1 June 6 June 7 June 8 June 9 June 10 June 11 June 12 June 13 June 14 June 15 June 16 June 17 June 19 June 24 June 25 June 26 June 27 June 28 June 29 June 30 July 1 July 2 July 3 July 4 July 5 July 6 July 9 July 26 July 27 July 28 July 29 July 31 August 1 August 2 August 3 August", "id": "21166816" }, { "contents": "English cricket team in Australia in 2017–18\n\n\nThe England cricket team toured Australia between November 2017 and February 2018 to play five Tests and five One Day Internationals (ODIs). They also played in a three nation Twenty20 International (T20I) tournament, along with New Zealand, who co-hosted the tournament along with Australia. England additionally played two first-class matches, a two-day tour match and a one-day tour match against Cricket Australia XI, as well as a Twenty20 against the Prime Minister's XI. The Test matches made up the 2017–18", "id": "21532277" }, { "contents": "Timeline of events preceding World War II\n\n\nApril 16 August 13 October October 11 October 29 November 1 January 11 June July 24 August 31 September 27 October 29 November 8 January 21 February 1 March 16 April 1 April 6 June 10 August 16 August 18 May 12 July 18 December 1 January 3 January 31 April 4 April 24 September 8 December 25 April 12 May 20 June 7 November 12 December 14 May 3 May 28 June 4 August 2 August 27 October 1 February 9 February 11 March 4 March 28 April 3 June 7 July 24 August 31 October 29 April 22", "id": "6767329" }, { "contents": "W. G. Grace in the 1878 English cricket season\n\n\nNewcastle upon Tyne, Bolton and Birmingham to play odds games against local opposition. Grace took 21 wickets in the match against the 22 men of Melton Mowbray in a three-day match starting on Monday, 1 July. He scored 42 and 57 not out in his two innings, the match ending in a draw. Grace caught the evening train to be in London ready for the first Gentlemen v Players match at The Oval, starting on Thursday, 4 July. The next USEE match at Leeds Holbeck followed the second Gentlemen", "id": "15478205" }, { "contents": "List of accidents and incidents involving military aircraft (1950–1954)\n\n\n12 December 19 December 23 December 10 January 11 January 15 January 21 January 28 January 31 January 14 February 13 March 14 March 17 March 23 March 3 April 5 April 5 April 8 April 25 April 27 April 6 May 18 May 19 May 8 June 13 June 15 June 18 June 23 June 23 June 30 June 8 July 31 July Summer 13 August 18 August 21 August 22 August 26 August 27 August 16 September 29 September 15 October 11 November 13 November 19 November 27 November 3 December 7 December 21 December 12 January 15", "id": "21637229" }, { "contents": "Lord's\n\n\nbe switched off by 11 pm. The floodlights were first used successfully on 27 May 2009 during the Twenty20 Cup match between Middlesex and Kent. Lord's hosts Test matches, one-day internationals, some Middlesex home matches, MCC matches and (starting with a fixture between Middlesex and Surrey in July 2004) some of Middlesex's home Twenty20 games. Lord's typically hosts two Tests every summer plus two one-day internationals. Lord's also plays host to the finals of the National Village Cricket Competition, the MCC Universities", "id": "10760657" }, { "contents": "2011 in American music\n\n\nThe following is a list of notable events and releases that happened in 2011 in music in the United States. January 11 January 17 January 18 January 21 January 25 January 31 February 1 February 8 February 15 February 22 March 1 March 8 March 15 March 22 March 29 April 5 April 11 April 12 April 26 May 3 May 10 May 17 May 23 May 24 May 31 June 7 June 14 June 21 June 28 July 5 July 8 July 12 July 13 July 19 July 26 August 2 August 8 August 9 August 16 August", "id": "15423555" }, { "contents": "MCC v Australians at Lord's, 27 May 1878\n\n\nenthusiasm that their visit had generated. The Australians were next due to play Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) in a three-day match at Lord's, commencing on Monday, 27 May. In the meantime, Charles Bannerman and Billy Midwinter were invited to visit Dublin and play for the United South of England Eleven (USEE) against 15 past and present players of Dublin University. This was due to be played over three days, starting on Thursday, 23 May, at College Park. The USEE was captained by W. G.", "id": "16383633" }, { "contents": "West Indian cricket team in England in 1928\n\n\nreach three figures. As at Lord's and Old Trafford, the match was over before lunch on the third day. Including the three Tests, 30 first-class matches were played on the tour, plus six other games. The West Indians won just seven of these 36 matches (five of the first-class games) and lost 12. By the end of May, the touring side had won matches against Derbyshire and Cambridge University, plus a minor match against Northumberland, and had drawn all the other games.", "id": "12941340" }, { "contents": "Bob Willis\n\n\n26 August against Worcestershire's Seconds. Willis, 19 years of age, took one wicket for 48 runs in the first innings, and bowled four wicketless overs in the second. He was not called on to bat at all. Two days later, he faced Glamorgan and took three wickets. He played several further Second XI matches through May and June 1969, before his first-class debut on 6 August. Scotland was touring England that season and had already beaten Warwickshire. Willis took three wickets for 13 runs from 13", "id": "16238759" }, { "contents": "Rock in Rio\n\n\n5 July 6 May 21 / 82.000 May 22 / 45.000 May 27 / 85.000 May 29 / 95.000 May 30 / 38.000 June 4 / 51.000 June 5 / 85.000 June 6 / 90.000 June 11 / 30.000 June 14 / 48.000 Rock in Rio Lisboa V Rock in Rio Lisboa VII Rock in Rio Lisboa VIII June 24 sold out almost three months prior to the festival. \"Rock in Rio USA\" was the first North American edition of the festival, being held in Las Vegas on May 8, 9, 15 and 16", "id": "11140715" }, { "contents": "Indian cricket team in Sri Lanka in 2015\n\n\nThe Indian cricket team toured Sri Lanka from 6 August to 1 September 2015 to play a tour match and three Test matches. On 27 June, Sri Lankan batsman Kumar Sangakkara said he would retire from international cricket after the second Test of the series. The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) and Sri Lanka Cricket Board confirmed the schedule of India's tour to Sri Lanka in August to September 2015. The tour started with a three-day warm-up game against Sri Lanka Board President's XI,", "id": "22038367" }, { "contents": "Andy Cottam\n\n\nAndrew Colin Cottam (born 14 July 1973 in Northampton, England) was an English cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman and a left-arm slow bowler. He played in 2 Under-19 Tests in 1992 and 13 first-class matches between 1992 and 1996. His father is the cricketer and coach Bob Cottam. In 1990 Andy Cottam started playing for Somerset Second XI and Devon. In 1992 he was selected for Under-19's tour of Pakistan and played in the Third Test and 2 one-day matches against Pakistan", "id": "2981363" }, { "contents": "Lord's\n\n\n. The hundredth Lord's Test match was in 2000, England v West Indies. As of 25 August 2010 England have played 119 Test matches at Lord's, winning 45, losing 28 and drawing 46. Lord's often hosts two Test matches each summer, one match for each visiting team. In 2010, the ground hosted three Test matches: as well as England's matches against Bangladesh and Pakistan, a Test match between Australia and Pakistan was held there in July. Lord's was the venue of the 2000th test", "id": "10760663" }, { "contents": "Australian cricket team in Sri Lanka in 2016\n\n\nThe Australian cricket team toured Sri Lanka from 18 July to 9 September 2016 to play three Test matches, five One Day Internationals (ODIs), two Twenty20 Internationals (T20Is) matches and a first-class practice match. The Test series was played for Warne-Muralitharan Trophy, with Sri Lanka winning 3–0, their first ever series whitewash against Australia. As a result, Australia slipped from first to third in the ICC Test Championship; Sri Lanka, who had started the series ranked seventh, moved up to sixth.", "id": "14912886" }, { "contents": "South African cricket team in Australia in 2005–06\n\n\nThe South African cricket team toured Australia for cricket matches during the 2005–06 season. South Africa had already played two One Day International series during this season, beating New Zealand 4–0 at home before travelling to India and drawing the series there 2–2. The team had been playing 14 successive ODIs (tour matches excluded) before arriving in Australia, with their last Test match against West Indies in April and May 2005. South Africa played one first class warm-up match, one three-day warm-up match without first class", "id": "19860549" }, { "contents": "Peter Lever\n\n\n6/38, before his final Test ended on 5 August 1975 during another Ashes tour, Australia facing England at Lord's. Lever also played ten One Day Internationals, including the 1975 Cricket World Cup, taking 11 wickets but scoring only 17 runs. His ODI debut was also against Australia, at Melbourne on 5 January 1971, and his last match was at Headingley, Leeds, again against Australia, on 18 June 1975. This gives Lever the unusual distinction of having played both his debut, and last match, against Australia", "id": "17765992" }, { "contents": "Australian women's cricket team in England in 2009\n\n\nThe Australian women's cricket team toured England between 25 June and 13 July 2009, playing one Test match, five One Day Internationals and a Twenty20 International. Australia won the Twenty20 International, while England won the One Day International series 4–0. The Test match, which was for the Women's Ashes, was drawn; ensuring that England retained them. Prior to the series, both sides took part in the 2009 ICC Women's World Twenty20, which was also held in England in June. England won the tournament, in", "id": "13250607" }, { "contents": "List of accidents and incidents involving military aircraft (1950–1954)\n\n\nJanuary 31 January 7 February 18 March 21 April 24 April May 11 May 12 May 15 May 9 June 11 June 13 June 17 June 18 June 21 June 15 July 17 July 30 July 6 August 6 August 12 August 23 August 26 August 30 August 5 September 9 September 9 September 9 September 11 September 19 September 19 September 25 September 1 October 1 October 7 October 8 October 8 October 11 October 13 October 14 October 17 October 18 October 19 October 20 October 22 October 26 October 2 November 8 November 17 November 23 November", "id": "21637231" }, { "contents": "Follow-on\n\n\n, and gave England a slender lead of 129. The next day a fired-up Bob Willis took 8 for 43, and Australia slumped to 111 all out. Australia, who had won their 16 previous Test matches, including the first of the three-Test series between the two teams, had scored 445 in the first innings of the second Test and restricted India to 171; only V. V. S. Laxman (59) and Rahul Dravid reached 25 runs. The only other bright spot for India was the bowling of", "id": "1078812" }, { "contents": "West Indian cricket team in England in 2017\n\n\nThe West Indies cricket team toured England in August and September 2017 to play three Test matches competing for the Wisden Trophy, one Twenty20 International (T20I) and five One Day Internationals (ODIs). Ahead of the Test series, the West Indies played first-class warm-up matches against Derbyshire, Essex and Kent. They also played a two-day match against Leicestershire, as they did not get to the final of the 2017 NatWest t20 Blast. In October 2016 the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB)", "id": "1555387" }, { "contents": "England women's national rugby league team\n\n\nCup - WIN v France WIN v Russia | LOSS v Australia LOSS v New Zealand WIN v Pacific Islands 2009 International Tests - 25 July | France 8-28 England; France 0-36 England 2010 International Tests - 9 November | England 36-8 France 10 November | New Zealand 44-6 England 16 November | New Zealand 38-6 England 2011 International Tests - 2 July | France 6-36 England 6 July | France 4-42 England 2012 International Test - 15 June | England 48-0 France", "id": "9166568" }, { "contents": "International cricket\n\n\n, One-Day and Twenty20 matches take place in the form of \"tours\". In a tour, one nation travels to another and plays warm-up matches, which may be first-class matches, against domestic teams such as county or state teams, a series of Test matches against the host nation, and either a series of One-Day (ODi) and T20 matches against the host nation or a tournament involving the host nation and another touring nation. Tours may include Test, ODI and T20I matches", "id": "6028418" }, { "contents": "West Indian cricket team in England in 2000\n\n\nThe West Indies cricket team toured England in the 2000 cricket season. West Indies played five Tests against England - two in June and three in August - with a triangular One Day International (ODI) series involving Zimbabwe in July. In June, West Indies won the 1st Test at Edgbaston convincingly, before England narrowly won the 2nd Test at Lord's, having bowled West Indies out for 54 in their second innings. The ODI series, sponsored by NatWest, took place in July, with England, West Indies and Zimbabwe", "id": "12941417" }, { "contents": "First Test, 1948 Ashes series\n\n\nThe First Test of the 1948 Ashes series was one of five Tests in a cricket series between Australia and England. The match was played at Trent Bridge in Nottingham from 10 to 15 June with a rest day on 13 June. Australia won the match by eight wickets to take a 1–0 series lead. The Australians started the match as firm favourites, having won the previous series against England 3–0; in the lead-up to the 1948 series, they had won 10 of their 12 tour matches in England, mostly by", "id": "497621" }, { "contents": "Giles Baring\n\n\nAfricans on 22 May 1935, for Hampshire in Hampshire v Australians on 25 May 1938, and for H. D. G. Leveson Gowers XI v Australian Services on 7 July 1945. He played for Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) between 1935 and 1946, and his last first-class game was in the MCC v Cambridge University match on 29 June 1946. Baring was a right-arm fast bowler and also a right-hand batsman. As a bowler, he took 197 wickets for 5,607 runs, an average of 28.46.", "id": "9091808" }, { "contents": "Herbert Sutcliffe's cricket career (1919–27)\n\n\nWaddington in 1925. Arthur Mitchell was still a reserve and Cyril Turner made his first-class debut. The first four Tests of the 1926 England v Australia series were scheduled for just three days and were all curtailed by poor weather. The final Test at The Oval was timeless to ensure a finish. It has become one of the most famous matches in cricket history, not because England regained The Ashes for the first time since 1912 but for the manner it which it was achieved as Hobbs and Sutcliffe produced their most famous", "id": "18930780" }, { "contents": "Günther Lützow\n\n\nfighter destroyed. Two days later, he destroyed three aircraft, two SB-2 bombers and a Petlyakov Pe-2 ground attack aircraft. On 27 June, he shot down an Ilyushin DB-3 bomber followed by another Pe-2 on the following day, his last victory of June 1941. Following a DB-3 bomber claimed on 7 July, Lützow was credited with four aerial victories on 10 July, consisting of one Vultee V-11 attack aircraft and three I-153s. The next day he claimed an II-16. On 15 July he shot down two further I-16s and another", "id": "3340503" }, { "contents": "1966 in Norwegian football\n\n\nResults from Norwegian football in 1966. April 22 April 24 April 27 May 19 April 30 May 1 May 6 May 7 May 8 May 15 May 19 May 22 May 23 May 27 May 28 May 30 May 31 June 3 June 4 June 5 June 15 June 16 June 19 June 20 July 31 August 3 August 6 August 7 August 8 August 24 August 17 August 27 August 28 September 11 September 22 September 23 September 24 October 9 October 15 October 16 October 17 October 23 July 31 August 1 August 2 August 3 Rematch", "id": "21974049" }, { "contents": "Headingley Cricket Ground\n\n\nwickets each. Donald Bradman's innings of 334 in the 1930 Ashes Test included 309 runs on the first day, and he followed it in the Australians' next test at Headingley in 1934 with an innings of 304. Spinner Hedley Verity took 10 wickets for 10 runs in 1932 for Yorkshire v Nottinghamshire, still the best bowling analysis ever in first-class cricket. Verity had also taken all ten against Warwickshire at Headingley in 1931. In the 1948 Ashes series, Australia scored 404 for three on the last day to beat", "id": "11240346" }, { "contents": "List of international awards of Rohit Sharma\n\n\nRohit Sharma is an Indian international cricketer. He made his international cricket debut in June 2007. He has scored twenty-nine centuries in international cricket; three in Tests, twenty-two in One Day Internationals (ODI) and four in Twenty20 International (T20Is). As of July 2019, Sharma has played 27 Tests, 215 One Day Internationals and 94 Twenty20 Internationals. As of July 2019, Rohit won 19 Man of the Match awards and 4 Man of the Series awards in One Day Internationals; 1 Man of", "id": "21442897" }, { "contents": "Ollie Pope\n\n\nthe 2016 Royal London One-Day Cup against Yorkshire. He made his first-class debut on 28 March 2017 for Surrey against Oxford MCCU as part of the Marylebone Cricket Club University fixtures. Pope scored his maiden List A half-century on 7 May 2017 against Sussex. He made his Twenty20 debut for Surrey in the 2017 NatWest t20 Blast on 7 July 2017. In August 2018, he was added to England's squad for the second Test against India. He made his Test debut at Lord's for England against", "id": "11076451" }, { "contents": "Australian cricket team in the West Indies in 2015\n\n\nThe Australian cricket team toured the West Indies from 27 May to 15 June 2015. The tour consisted of one first-class warm-up match and two Test matches. On 8 April 2015, the West Indies Cricket Board brought forward the date of the two Test matches by two days \"due to a number of logistical challenges beyond [their] control\". Australia won the 2-match Test series 2–0 and therefore retained the Frank Worrell Trophy. Australia announced their squad on 31 March 2015. They included three uncapped players,", "id": "17936722" }, { "contents": "Zimbabwean cricket team in Sri Lanka in 2017\n\n\nThe Zimbabwe cricket team toured Sri Lanka in June and July 2017 to play one Test match and five One Day Internationals (ODIs). Originally, the schedule was for two Test matches and three ODIs. It was Zimbabwe's first tour to Sri Lanka since January 2002. All the matches were played as day games. Zimbabwe won the ODI series 3–2, their first ever series win against Sri Lanka. It was their first away series win since 2009 and the first away series win against a Test nation since defeating Bangladesh in", "id": "5384529" }, { "contents": "Ashwell Prince\n\n\nthe batting. Opening with debutant Imraan Khan, Prince scored 150, his 11th Test century. Prince signed a contract to play for Lancashire County Cricket Club the 2009 English season. He acted as cover for V. V. S. Laxman, the club's other overseas player, who was unavailable at times because he was playing in the Indian Premier League. Prince score his first century for Lancashire at the start of May during a match against Nottinghamshire. The knock came off 135 not out from 189 balls came on the final day of", "id": "12899038" }, { "contents": "Herbert Sutcliffe\n\n\nand 1926, Sutcliffe's skill was a primary factor in Yorkshire having the longest unbeaten run in county cricket: i.e., 70 matches without loss until early 1927. After three defeats in 1927, Yorkshire went a further 58 games without loss until 1929. The first four Tests of the 1926 England v Australia series were scheduled for just three days and were all curtailed by poor weather. The final Test at the Oval was timeless to ensure a finish. It has become one of the most famous matches in cricket history, not", "id": "18571331" }, { "contents": "Indian cricket team in England in 2011\n\n\nThe Indian cricket team toured England from 21 July to 16 September 2011. The tour consisted of one Twenty20 International (T20I), five One Day Internationals (ODIs) and four Test matches, as well as a number of matches against English county sides. The opening Test at Lord's was the 2,000th Test. England's victory in the Third Test put them number one in the world rankings. Virat Kohli, Pragyan Ojha and RP Singh replaced the injured Yuvraj Singh, Harbhajan Singh and Zaheer Khan, respectively, for the", "id": "4970296" }, { "contents": "Cricket in the British Isles\n\n\nIt played its first test match against Australia in 1877 and played its first One Day International (ODI) also againist Australia in 1971. One of the main cricket grounds in England, and also widely regarded as the spiritual home of cricket, is Lords Cricket Ground in London. Other major cricket grounds include The Oval (also in London), Edgbaston in Birmingham, Old Trafford in Manchester and Trent Bridge in Nottingham. From 1909 until 2017 England was the only country within the British Isles to have full membership of the ICC", "id": "17756246" }, { "contents": "Eton v Harrow\n\n\nplayed for Harrow in the four matches in 1822 to 1825, and arranged the first University Match at Lord's in 1827, two years before the first Boat Race. Many Eton and Harrow players went on to win blues at Oxford and Cambridge. Eton v Harrow was joined by the University Match and Gentlemen v Players as the three key features in the England cricket season. In its heyday, in the late 19th century and early 20th century, \"the School's day\" was one of the highlights of the London \"", "id": "10600897" }, { "contents": "Mathew Dimond\n\n\nMathew Dimond (born 24 September 1975) is a former English cricketer who made played for Somerset County Cricket Club between 1994 and 1997. Early in his career, he toured the West Indies with the England Under-19 cricket team, playing three Tests and one One Day International at Under-19 level. A right-arm fast-medium bowler, he made his first-class debut for Somerset in June 1994. Playing in the County Championship against Hampshire, Dimond claimed a solitary wicket in the match, which was shortened to single innings", "id": "558840" }, { "contents": "Charlie Charters\n\n\n’ Although the 2004 Islanders lost each of the three Test matches they played (29-14 v Wallabies, 41-26 v All Blacks and 24-38 v Springboks in Gosford, Australia), they scored 10 tries in three matches. By comparison that same southern hemisphere season, England and Scotland scored only three tries between them in their five Tests against the All Blacks and Wallabies. In fact, the 2004 Islanders scored more tries in one Test against the All Blacks (four) than the three tries the 2005", "id": "16741154" }, { "contents": "Australian cricket team in South Africa in 1993–94\n\n\nmatch by one run, levelling the ODI series at 4–4 with an \"improbable victory\". As well as the internationals, three first-class matches and two other matches were played during the tour The tour began with a friendly one-day match against NF Oppenheimer's XI, followed by a first-class match against Northern Transvaal and a one-day match against a representative side. Before the first Test match Australia played a first-class match against Orange Free State and between the first and second Tests they played", "id": "5209672" }, { "contents": "Bangladeshi cricket team in Zimbabwe in 2011\n\n\nThe Bangladesh cricket team toured Zimbabwe from 4 to 21 August 2011. The tour consisted of one Test match and five One Day Internationals (ODIs) played against the Zimbabwean national team and one first-class match played against a Zimbabwean representative team. The Test match was Zimbabwe's first since India toured Zimbabwe in 2005. Zimbabwe won the Test match by 130 runs and also won the one-day series 3–2. Bangladesh announced its squad for the Test match and ODI series on 15 July 2011. Zimbabwe announced its squad for", "id": "19159411" }, { "contents": "V. V. S. Laxman\n\n\nfrom international cricket. Although he was selected for the upcoming New Zealand series, he opted not to play in the series but he will play in domestic cricket for Hyderabad and the Indian Premier League . It was announced that the northern stand at the Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium will now be named after him. Laxman was particularly prolific against Australia, in both Tests and One Day Internationals. Six out of his 17 Test hundreds, and four out of his six ODI hundreds came against Australia. He has two double-centuries", "id": "9815623" }, { "contents": "3rd Battalion, 319th Field Artillery Regiment\n\n\nVII and another platoon to LZ Challenge from 3–5 July. Battery C located at FSB Rock near Bac Loc and conducted two 1-day raids on 11 & 13 June. Battery D located at LZ Lowboy, with 2 howitzers sent on Operation Red Thrust V in 5 days ending 2 May. On 12 July, Battery D displaced to support Battery A from FSB Hawkeye but returned to LZ Lowboy until 28 July, then occupied FSB Hunky. The battalion received three 105mm howitzers in May. In July, LTC John R. Martin replaced LTC Joseph", "id": "2060226" }, { "contents": "W. G. Grace in the 1878 English cricket season\n\n\nthis match attracted few spectators as it coincided with the Surrey v Australians match at The Oval, which drew very large crowds. \"Wisden Cricketers' Almanack\" commented that \"the Australians were attracting monster gatherings at The Oval on the days that this match was played, consequently very few visitors were at Lord's\". There were three North v South fixtures in June. The first two were played at Prince's Cricket Ground and Lord's with the South as the \"home\" team; the third took place at the", "id": "15478186" }, { "contents": "Third Test, 1948 Ashes series\n\n\nThe Third Test of the 1948 Ashes series was one of five Tests in a cricket series between teams representing Australia and England. The match was played at Old Trafford in Manchester from 8–13 July, with a rest day on 11 July. The match was drawn after the whole of the fourth day and the first half of the fifth day was washed out due to rain; England had the upper hand before the weather intervened. The draw maintained Australia's 2–0 lead in the series, which was established through victories in the first", "id": "497412" }, { "contents": "Giles Baring\n\n\n, Gresham's School, Holt, and Magdalene College, Cambridge. He represented Cambridge University in 1930 and 1931 and Hampshire between 1930 and 1939. Apart from more than fifty regular county championship games, he played in the Cambridge University v New Zealanders match of 3 June 1931, for the Gentlemen in the Gentlemen v Players matches of 2 September 1931 and 11 July 1934, for Hampshire in Hampshire v West Indians on 24 May 1933, for Hampshire in Hampshire v Australians on 23 May 1934, for Hampshire in Hampshire v South", "id": "9091807" }, { "contents": "2013–14 Bangladeshi cricket season\n\n\nand Mirpur. Both Test matches ended in draws, Bangladesh won all three One Day Internationals and New Zealand won the sole Twenty20 International. Sri Lanka toured Bangladesh in January and February 2014 playing two Test Matches, three One Day Internationals and two Twenty20 Internationals. Sri Lanka won every match, with the exception of the second Test match which ended in a draw. Initially it was planned that the NCL would be held in November and December 2013, the BCL in May and June 2014 and the BPL in December and January.", "id": "18068868" }, { "contents": "Darrell Hair\n\n\nby the ICC on 12 March 2008 and stood in the England v New Zealand tests at Old Trafford in May and Trent Bridge in June 2008. Hair umpired his first Test match in January 1992, between Australia and India in Adelaide. In 1994 the International Cricket Council (ICC) introduced a policy of appointing one umpire to each Test match from a non-participating country, and since 2002 both umpires have been appointed from non-participating nations. Since 2002 the majority of Hair’s Test matches have been played outside Australia", "id": "17469081" }, { "contents": "Timeline of events preceding World War II\n\n\n15 October 2 November 14 January February 6 March 7 March 25 May 5 June 3 July 17 August 1 October October 18 November 14 November 15 November 25 December 1 December 12 December 23 December 24 January 20 May 28 July 7 August 13 October 5 November 6 November 26 December 1 December 8 December 11 December 12 December 13 January 26 March 6 March 13 March 24 July 6–16 July 29 August September 27 September 30 October 5 November 7 November 9 January 25 January 27 March 14 March 15 March 16 March 20 March 21 March 23", "id": "6767331" }, { "contents": "South African cricket team in England in 1924\n\n\nThe South African cricket team toured England in the 1924 season to play a five-match Test series against England. England won the series 3-0 with 2 matches drawn. The tourists, with their ages on the first day of the first match of the tour on 3 May, were: George Parker (24) also played three first-class matches (including the first two Tests) and Aubrey Faulkner (42) played one match, the Third Test. The manager was George Allsop. South Africa's score", "id": "12941168" }, { "contents": "2018 English cricket season\n\n\ninternational sides toured England and Wales during the season: Pakistan, Australia and India. Pakistan also visited Ireland midway through the tour and played the Irish team's first Test match at Malahide near Dublin. In preparation for this match the Irish team played a first-class match against Somerset at Taunton in April. At the end of their tour Pakistan played two T20 matches in Scotland on 12 and 13 June. The England team played a One Day International (ODI) against Scotland in Edinburgh in June, losing to Scotland for", "id": "6929601" }, { "contents": "V. V. S. Laxman\n\n\n112 in the second test. This ensured his place on the tour of Australia which would be his third to that country. Laxman's good form continued in the 2007-08 Test series against Australia with him scoring 109 against Australia on the second day of the controversial Sydney Test to put India back into the contest. It was his 12th hundred in Test matches, and his 5th against Australia. It was also his third consecutive century at SCG, giving him an average well above 90 at the venue. He followed this", "id": "9815609" }, { "contents": "2019 Ashes series\n\n\nthree cricketers were named in Australia's squad for the 2019 Ashes. Meanwhile, England warmed up for the 2019 Ashes with a Test series earlier in the year against the West Indies and a one-off Test against Ireland in July. The tour of the West Indies comprised three matches and was won 2–1 by the West Indies. England also won the one-off Test against Ireland, by 143 runs. Ahead of the series, it was announced that Day 2 of the Lord’s Test would benefit the Ruth Strauss Foundation", "id": "18532603" }, { "contents": "V. V. S. Laxman\n\n\n1–1. He was awarded the Man of the Match for his match-winning innings of 96. His knock was voted as the best Test batting performance of the year by ESPNCricinfo. In three test matches, Laxman scored three consecutive fifties including two scores in eighties against the West Indies during India's tour of West Indies in June 2011. During India's Tour to England, Laxman scored just two half-centuries in eight innings as India went down 0–4 to England. This was India's first Test series loss since its", "id": "9815620" }, { "contents": "2014–15 Bangladeshi cricket season\n\n\nThe 2014–15 Bangladeshi cricket season featured tours of the country by Zimbabwe and Pakistan. Rangpur Division won the National Cricket League (NCL) championship title for the first time. Zimbabwe toured Bangladesh from 26 October to 1 December 2014, playing three Test matches and five One Day International matches. Bangladesh won the Test series 3–0 and the ODI series 5–0. Pakistan toured from 15 April to 10 May 2015, playing one Twenty20 International (T20I), three One Day Internationals (ODIs) and two Test matches. Pakistan won the Test", "id": "895026" }, { "contents": "Australia women's cricket team in England in 2019\n\n\nThe Australia women's cricket team toured England in June and July 2019 to play the England women's cricket team to contest the Women's Ashes. The tour consisted of three Women's One Day Internationals (WODIs), one Women's Test match and three Women's Twenty20 Internationals (WT20Is). A points-based system was used across all three formats of the tour. The Women's Ashes were held by Australia prior to the start of the series. Australia women won the WODI series 3–0, therefore taking a 6–0", "id": "15341273" }, { "contents": "Pakistani cricket team in England in 1962\n\n\nof three one-day games (not limited overs). The first two were drawn and the Pakistanis won the third one against Colonel Stevens' XI. These three matches were, in effect, warm-ups only and not first-class. The opening first-class fixture was against Worcestershire at New Road, starting on Wednesday, 2 May. The Pakistanis were given a foretaste of the Test series to come in that Tom Graveney scored a century for the home team (and was presented with his county cap immediately afterwards", "id": "12941094" }, { "contents": "New Zealand cricket team in Australia in 2015–16\n\n\nThe New Zealand cricket team toured Australia from 23 October to 1 December 2015 to play three Test matches and four tour matches. The third match of the series at the Adelaide Oval was the first ever day-night Test. Michael Hussey captained the Prime Minister's XI side for the tour match, and in preparation for the day-night Test, a pink ball was used in this game. Australia won the series 2–0, with victories in Brisbane and Adelaide, with the second Test in Perth being drawn. Following the", "id": "1307472" }, { "contents": "Kennington\n\n\nThe Kia Oval\", is the home ground for Surrey County Cricket Club and hosts the final Test match of the English summer season. The Oval was the first ground in the United Kingdom to host Test cricket, was the location for the England v Scotland representative matches, the first ever international football match, the first FA Cup final in 1872, and held the second ever rugby union international match between England and Scotland in 1872. England's unfortunate performance against Australia here in 1882 gave rise to The Ashes. The Oval", "id": "10346916" }, { "contents": "Indian cricket team in Zimbabwe in 2001\n\n\nThe Indian cricket team toured Zimbabwe from 28 May to 7 July 2001 and played two Test matches against Zimbabwe, with each team winning one game match. This would be Zimbabwe's only Test victory over a side other than Bangladesh until they beat Pakistan in the second Test in 2013. India and Zimbabwe also participated in a triangular One Day International (ODI) competition with West Indies, with the latter eventually winning the competition. The Coca-Cola Cup was a One Day International (ODI) tournament that followed the Test series", "id": "4099650" }, { "contents": "Andrew Balbirnie\n\n\nHe played three further One Day International's during the tournament. He made his Twenty20 International debut against Scotland on 19 June 2015, although no play was possible due to rain. He was part of the Ireland A team which toured Bangladesh in October 2017 to play one first-class match and five limited overs matches against the Bangladesh A team. In May 2018, he was named in a fourteen-man squad for Ireland's first ever Test match, which was played against Pakistan later the same month. He made his", "id": "2597279" }, { "contents": "Pakistani cricket team in Scotland in 2018\n\n\nThe Pakistan cricket team toured Scotland to play two Twenty20 International (T20I) matches at The Grange Club, Edinburgh, on 12 and 13 June 2018. Pakistan last toured Scotland in May 2013 to play two One Day Internationals. Both teams last met in a T20I fixture in the group stage of the 2007 ICC World Twenty20 tournament. This was the first time that Scotland had played a home T20I match against a full member side. The tour followed Pakistan's tour of England and their one Test series in Ireland. England also", "id": "373509" }, { "contents": "2017 June rugby union tests\n\n\n2 sides. Australia, the only southern hemisphere Tier 1 nation not to host a test series, staged three one-off test matches; Scotland, Italy and Fiji. The Fijian test was the first between the two sides in Australia since 2010, and was also the first Australia v Tier 2 nation match in Australia since Samoa visited in 2011. Fiji also played host to Italy and Scotland to become the second Tier 2 nation to play three back-back Tier 1 sides during an international window, after Samoa participated in", "id": "13232867" }, { "contents": "Timeline of the 2014 Pacific hurricane season\n\n\nJune 11 June 12 June 13 June 14 June 15 June 28 June 30 July 1 July 2 July 3 July 6 July 7 July 9 July 17 July 18 July 19 July 25 July 26 July 27 July 28 July 29 July 31 August 1 August 2 August 3 August 4 August 5 August 6 August 7 August 8 August 9 August 10 August 12 August 13 August 14 August 15 August 17 August 18 August 21 August 22 August 23 August 24 August 25 August 26 August 27 August 28 August 29 September 2 September 4 September 6", "id": "2400921" } ]

[ { "contents": "Sri Lankan cricket team in England in 2014\n\n\nThe Sri Lanka national cricket team toured England from 13 May to 24 June 2014 for a Twenty20 International (T20I), five One Day Internationals (ODIs) and two Test matches against the England cricket team. They also played three one-day and one four-day tour matches against English county sides, as well as preceding the entire tour with a two-match ODI series against Ireland. Sri Lanka won the Test series 1–0 (the first time they had won a Test series in England), the ODI series", "id": "21939883" }, { "contents": "New Zealand cricket team in England in 2015\n\n\nThe New Zealand national cricket team toured England from 8 May to 23 June 2015 for two Test matches, five One Day Internationals (ODIs) and a Twenty20 International (T20I) against the England cricket team. They also played two four-day tour matches and a one-day match against English county sides. England won the first Test at Lord's before New Zealand claimed victory in the second Test at Headingley to level the series. England then took an early lead in the ODI series after hitting more than 400 runs", "id": "943447" }, { "contents": "Australian cricket team in England and Ireland in 2015\n\n\nThe Australia national cricket team toured England from June to September 2015 for a five-match Test series, five One Day International (ODI) matches and one Twenty20 International (T20I). The Test series was for the Ashes. They also played two four-day and two three-day first-class matches against English county sides. Australia also played one ODI against Ireland in Belfast. On 31 March 2015, Australia announced a 17-man touring party for the Ashes series. England announced their squad for the first Test on", "id": "1657670" }, { "contents": "David Constant\n\n\n67 first-class appearances. In total he scored 1,517 first-class runs at a batting average of 19.20 with a highest score of 80. Tony Lewis described his innings against Glamorgan on a difficult pitch at Leicester in 1965 as \"one of the bravest innings I ever saw\". His first Test as umpire was the Third Test between England and Pakistan in July 1971. He last stood in an international cricket match in the England v. Australia One Day International at The Oval, London in June 2001. He was the", "id": "14539375" }, { "contents": "Pakistani cricket team in Sri Lanka in 2015\n\n\nThe Pakistan cricket team toured Sri Lanka from 11 June to 1 August 2015. The tour consisted of a three-day tour match against a SLCB President's XI, three Test matches, five One Day International and two Twenty20 International matches. The third Test was originally scheduled to be played at the R Premadasa Stadium, but was changed to the Pallekele International Cricket Stadium in early May. Pakistan outplayed the hosts in all forms of the game by winning the Test series 2–1, the ODI series 3–2 and the T20I series 2–0.", "id": "15080177" }, { "contents": "2010 in American music\n\n\n17 March 22 March 23 March 26 March 30 April 6 April 8 April 13 April 19 April 20 April 21 April 27 April 30 May 4 May 11 May 14 May 17 May 18 May 21 May 25 May 31 June 1 June 8 June 14 June 15 June 18 June 21 June 22 June 28 June 29 July 6 July 7 July 12 July 13 July 15 July 20 July 23 July 25 July 27 July 29 August 3 August 17 August 24 August 31 September 7 September 14 September 21 September 23 September 28 October 5 October", "id": "18556206" }, { "contents": "Warwickshire County Cricket Club\n\n\nand gold and the shirt sponsor is Gullivers Sports Travel. The club's home is Edgbaston Cricket Ground in south Birmingham, which regularly hosts Test and One Day International matches. Cricket may have reached Warwickshire by the end of the 17th century. The \"Warwickshire & Staffordshire Journal\" was certainly aware of the sport in 1738 for it carried a report of a London v Mitcham game at the Artillery Ground on 11 August (London won by 1 wicket). The earliest confirmed reference to cricket in the county is a match announcement", "id": "8941185" }, { "contents": "Irish cricket team in England in 2019\n\n\nThe Ireland cricket team toured England in July 2019 to play a one-off four-day Test match at Lord's. It was the first Test match to be played between the two sides, and was England's first four-day Test match since they toured New Zealand in 1971. It was Ireland's third Test match, and their twelfth international fixture against England. The Test match was part of England's preparations for the 2019 Ashes series. Ahead of the Test, the England cricket team visited Ireland in May", "id": "16268672" }, { "contents": "1919 English cricket season\n\n\n(five wins from fourteen) and Warwickshire were bottom with 7.14% (one win from fourteen). The 1919 County Championship was the 26th since the competition acquired official status in 1890. The opening matches began on Friday, 16 May. These were Middlesex v Nottinghamshire at Lord's and the 1914 (reigning) champions Surrey against Somerset at The Oval. The final match between Essex and Surrey at Leyton was completed on Monday, 1 September. The situation between Yorkshire and Kent on Saturday, 30 August (the second day in", "id": "7320450" }, { "contents": "Timeline of the 2013 Pacific hurricane season\n\n\n15 May 16 May 17 May 28 May 29 May 30 June 1 June 23 June 24 June 25 June 26 June 27 June 29 June 30 July 2 July 3 July 4 July 5 July 6 July 7 July 9 July 25 July 27 July 30 July 31 August 2 August 3 August 4 August 6 August 7 August 8 August 9 August 11 August 16 August 18 August 19 August 20 August 22 August 23 August 24 August 25 August 28 August 29 August 30 August 31 September 1 September 2 September 5 September 6 September 7 September", "id": "957237" }, { "contents": "Prince's Cricket Ground\n\n\nas 'grand and quick and one of the finest playing grounds in England'. The first match played on the ground was Household Brigade v. Lords and Commons on 3 June 1871. Middlesex County Cricket Club used the ground between 1872 and 1876 and played their first match on 23–25 May 1872 against Yorkshire. The ground was also used by South of England and by Gentlemen of the South. Several Gentlemen v Players fixtures were also played there, the first taking place in July 1873. In 1878, the touring Australians played two", "id": "19086180" }, { "contents": "Callum Jackson\n\n\nSussex youth ranks, playing at under-13, under-14, under-15 and under-17 level before joining the second XI as a 16-year-old in 2011. He was selected to represent an English Schools Cricket Association XI in 2011 before making his first appearance for the Sussex first XI on 1 May 2012 in a non-first-class match against the Leeds/Bradford MCC Universities team. In early 2013, Jackson was selected for the England under-19 side to tour South Africa, where he played in both Youth Test matches and three One Day", "id": "16290826" }, { "contents": "2018 English cricket season\n\n\nHurricane Irma and Hurricane Maria in September 2017. Pakistan played two Test matches against England at Lord's and Headingley at the end of May and beginning of June. The series was drawn, each side winning one match. Ahead of the Tests, two first-class matches were played against Kent and Northants. Their match against Ireland took place after the two first-class county matches, and a two-day match was played against Leicestershire between this and the first Test against England. Pakistan won the first Test match by", "id": "6929603" }, { "contents": "1963 in Norwegian football\n\n\nResults from Norwegian football in 1963. April 26 April 28 May 3 May 4 May 5 May 11 May 12 May 30 May 19 May 22 May 23 May 26 May 27 June 7 June 8 June 9 June 14 June 15 June 16 June 22 June 23 June 24 July 26 July 28 July 29 August 2 August 4 August 6 August 17 August 18 August 21 August 22 August 24 August 25 September 7 September 8 September 20 September 22 October 4 October 6 October 13 Årstad promoted Nidelv promoted Harstad - Bodø/Glimt 4 -", "id": "20433032" }, { "contents": "West Indian cricket team in England in 1991\n\n\nThe West Indian cricket team in England in 1991 played three one day internationals and five Tests, under the captaincy of Viv Richards, as part of an extensive tour in which they also played first-class matches against 11 first-class county teams, the combined Minor Counties, the Combined Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, and a World XI to finish, plus 55-over one-day matches against one more first-class county (Gloucestershire) and the Duchess of Norfolk's Invitation XI. Of the non-international matches,", "id": "5157419" }, { "contents": "West Indian cricket team in England in 2007\n\n\nThe West Indian cricket team toured England from 12 May to 7 July 2007 as part of the 2007 English cricket season. The tour included four Tests, two Twenty20 international matches and three One Day Internationals. While England dominated the Test series 3–0, including a record victory over the West Indies, the latter took the ODI series 2:1. In the ICC Test Championship, England are ranked second and West Indies are ranked eighth, though England's most recent series was a whitewash loss in the Ashes against Australia for the first time", "id": "12941423" }, { "contents": "Sri Lankan cricket team in the West Indies in 2018\n\n\nOn 19 May 2018, Cricket West Indies (CWI) announced that they may scrap one of the Test fixtures, replacing it with a couple of one-day matches. However, the day before the first Test, the International Cricket Council (ICC) confirmed that it would be a three-match Test series. Prior to the start of day three of the second Test, the Sri Lankan cricket team protested against umpires' decision on starting the third day's play with a new ball, replacing the old ball.", "id": "19622271" }, { "contents": "Timeline of the 2017 Pacific hurricane season\n\n\ncyclone formations, strengthening, weakening, landfalls, extratropical transitions, and dissipations during the season. May 9 May 10 May 11 May 12 May 15 May 31 June 1 June 2 June 11 June 12 June 13 June 24 June 25 June 26 June 27 June 28 July 1 July 7 July 8 July 9 July 10 July 11 July 12 July 13 July 14 July 15 July 16 July 17 July 18 July 19 July 20 July 21 July 22 July 23 July 24 July 25 July 26 July 27 July 28 July 31 August 1", "id": "7169450" }, { "contents": "Daniel Bell-Drummond\n\n\nmade his youth Test debut on 21 July 2010 at the County Ground, Northampton before scoring unbeaten 88 in the second youth Test later in the same month, aged only 16. He played in both under-19 Test matches and in four youth one-day international matches during England's return tour of Sri Lanka in January and February 2011. In July 2011 Bell-Drummond played in a one-day series against South Africa under-19s. He top-scored for England in three of the seven matches in the series and was the", "id": "6732560" }, { "contents": "1967 in Norwegian football\n\n\nResults from Norwegian football in 1967. April 27 April 28 April 30 May 4 May 6 May 7 May 10 May 11 May 15 May 16 May 18 May 19 May 20 May 21 May 22 June 22 May 25 May 28 June 4 June 10 June 11 June 12 June 13 June 18 June 19 July 30 July 31 August 2 August 6 August 7 August 9 August 10 August 20 August 16 August 20 August 21 September 7 September 10 September 16 September 17 October 6 October 8 October 9 October 12 October 15 October 20 October", "id": "2081596" }, { "contents": "Phil Carlson\n\n\nPhillip Henry Carlson (born 8 August 1951, Nundah, Queensland) is a former Australian cricketer who played in two Tests and four One Day Internationals (ODIs) in 1979. Carlson was an all-rounder who played for Queensland between 1969–70 and 1980–81. He played two Test matches for Australia v England in 1978–79 Ashes series and four One Day Internationals against the same opponents. He was called up by Australia when most of their regular first-choice players were playing in World Series Cricket. Carlson took two Test wickets and", "id": "11409623" }, { "contents": "1962 in Norwegian football\n\n\nResults from Norwegian football in 1962. July 30 August 2 August 3 August 9 August 8 August 13 August 16 August 20 August 21 September 2 September 3 Ørn - Brann 0 - 7 September 24 September 28 October 1 October 15 April 25 October 6 October 8 April 29 May 6 May 12 May 13 May 14 May 20 May 21 May 23 May 24 May 27 May 30 May 31 June 3 June 15 June 16 June 17 June 24 June 25 June 30 July 1 July 29 August 1 August 2 August 4 August 5 August", "id": "9107175" }, { "contents": "Alan Igglesden\n\n\nAlan Paul Igglesden (born 8 October 1964) is a former English Test cricketer. He played three Test Matches and four One Day Internationals (ODIs) for the England cricket team between 1989 and 1994 as a fast bowler. He played most of his first-class cricket career for Kent County Cricket Club. Igglesden was born in Farnborough, London in 1964. He first played for Kent County Cricket Club's Second XI in 1983 before making his first-class cricket debut of the county in July 1986 against Somerset at Maidstone", "id": "8795795" }, { "contents": "Sri Lankan cricket team in England and Ireland in 2016\n\n\nThe Sri Lanka national cricket team toured England from 8 May to 5 July 2016 for a three-match Test series, a five-match One Day International (ODI) series and a one-off Twenty20 International (T20I) against the England cricket team. England won the Test series 2–0, the ODI series 3–0 and won the one-off T20I match by 8 wickets. They also played two first-class matches against Essex and Leicestershire prior to the Test series, and two ODI matches against Ireland prior to the", "id": "15635062" }, { "contents": "South African cricket team in England in 2008\n\n\nThe South African cricket team toured England between 29 June and 4 September 2008. They played four Test matches, one Twenty20 International and five One Day Internationals against England. They also played six tour matches against Somerset, Middlesex, Bangladesh A, a PCA Masters XI and two against the England Lions. It was announced that following the conclusion of this four-match series, future matches between England and South Africa would comprise five Test matches but only three one-day matches after the series was granted 'icon' status.", "id": "18079110" }, { "contents": "2018 English cricket season\n\n\nthe first time in an ODI. The South African women's team also toured England to play three One Day International matches against the England women's cricket team in June and to compete in the 2018 England women's Tri-Nation Series Twenty20 competition against England and New Zealand. New Zealand then played three One Day Internationals against England in July. In addition the West Indies men's side played a single Twenty20 International against a Rest of the World XI team at Lord's in May 2018 to raise funds for stadiums damaged by", "id": "6929602" }, { "contents": "American Rally Association\n\n\nWood Rally March 15 - 16 Olympus Rally April 27 - 28 Oregon Trail Rally May 31 - June 2 Idaho Rally International June 22 - 23 New England Forest Rally July 19 - 20 Muscatell Ojibwe Forests Rally August 23 - 24 Susquehannock Trail Performance Rally September 13 - 14 Lake Superior Performance Rally October 18 - 19 2019 ARA Super Regional Events Southern Ohio Forest Rally May 16 - 18 Rally Colorado July 26 - 27 Tour de Forest Rally September 21, 2019 Empire State Performance Rally October 25 - 26 2019 ARA One-Day Regional", "id": "6404348" }, { "contents": "Pakistani cricket team in England and Ireland in 2016\n\n\nThe Pakistan national cricket team toured England and Ireland from 3 July to 7 September 2016 for a four-match Test series, a five-match One Day International (ODI) series and a one-off Twenty20 International (T20I) against the England cricket team. They also played two three-day matches against Somerset and Sussex prior to the Test series, a two-day match against Worcestershire during the Test series, and two ODI matches against Ireland prior to the ODI series. England's ODI matches against Pakistan was", "id": "15635130" }, { "contents": "Second Test, 1948 Ashes series\n\n\nThe Second Test of the 1948 Ashes series was one of five Tests in a cricket series between Australia and England. The match was played at Lord's in London from 24 to 29 June, with a rest day on 27 June. Australia won the match by 409 runs to take a 2–0 lead, meaning that England would need to win the remaining three matches to regain The Ashes. Australian captain Don Bradman won the toss and elected to bat. The tourists had won the First Test convincingly, and decided to field the", "id": "497516" }, { "contents": "MCC v Australians at Lord's, 27 May 1878\n\n\nin England, the team left Sydney on 29 March 1878 and sailed via Auckland and Honolulu to San Francisco, from where they travelled across America by train to New York City. They crossed the Atlantic, arriving in Liverpool on 13 May, and then went by train to Nottingham where they played their first match, starting on Monday, 20 May. This was a three-day match against Nottinghamshire at Trent Bridge and the Australians were well beaten by an innings and 14 runs, an inauspicious start which dampened much of the public", "id": "16383632" }, { "contents": "Australian women's cricket team in England in 2013\n\n\nThe Australian women's cricket team toured England in 2013. The visitors were defending the Women's Ashes. The only Test match of the tour took place on 11–14 August at Wormsley Park, and was drawn. Three One-Day Internationals (ODIs) were played: the first at Lord's on 20 August, and the other two at Hove on 23 and 25 August. Also three Twenty20 International (T20I) matches were played, on 27, 29 and 31 August, at Chelmsford, Southampton and Chester-le-", "id": "19064429" }, { "contents": "South African cricket team in England in 2017\n\n\nThe South African cricket team toured England and Wales between May and August 2017, playing three One Day Internationals (ODIs), three Twenty20 Internationals (T20Is) and four Test matches. The ODI matches were in preparation for the 2017 ICC Champions Trophy, which took place in England and Wales during June. Extra security was provided to South Africa for the ODI series following the Manchester bombing. England won the ODI series 2–1 and the T20 series 2–1. Ahead of the ODI series, South Africa played one-day warm-", "id": "1555384" }, { "contents": "1Malaysia Development Berhad scandal\n\n\n- 30 September onwards October 20 November 25 December 1 December 5 December 31 2016 January 26 January 29 February 1 February 3 February 7 February 19 February 29 March 23 March 31 April 2 April 5 April 7 April 9 April 12 April 13 April 19 April 28 May 24 May 31 July 11 1MDB agrees to resolve its dispute with International Petroleum Investment Company via the London Court of International Arbitration. July 21 August 9 October 11 December 2 2017 March 22 April 24 May 30 June 15 June 16 August 1 August 2 August 11 August", "id": "14280441" }, { "contents": "Timeline of events preceding World War II\n\n\nJune 30 September 14 May 19 September 18 September 19 January 7 January 28 February 27 March 1 April 10 May 30 August 30 November 21 December 3 January 1 January 30 February 27 February 28 March 4 March 20 March 23 March 24 March 27 April 1 April 26 May 2 May 15 May 31 June 21 July 14 August 25 September 12 October 19 November 24 January 26 February 12–16 March 20 June 30 July 20 July 25 August 2 August 8 September October 16 December 1 December 5 December 29 January 7 June 18 August 31 September", "id": "6767330" }, { "contents": "Timeline of the 2018 Pacific hurricane season\n\n\ntropical cyclone formations, strengthening, weakening, landfalls, extratropical transitions, and dissipations during the season. May 10 May 11 May 13 May 15 June 1 June 6 June 7 June 8 June 9 June 10 June 11 June 12 June 13 June 14 June 15 June 16 June 17 June 19 June 24 June 25 June 26 June 27 June 28 June 29 June 30 July 1 July 2 July 3 July 4 July 5 July 6 July 9 July 26 July 27 July 28 July 29 July 31 August 1 August 2 August 3 August", "id": "21166816" }, { "contents": "English cricket team in Australia in 2017–18\n\n\nThe England cricket team toured Australia between November 2017 and February 2018 to play five Tests and five One Day Internationals (ODIs). They also played in a three nation Twenty20 International (T20I) tournament, along with New Zealand, who co-hosted the tournament along with Australia. England additionally played two first-class matches, a two-day tour match and a one-day tour match against Cricket Australia XI, as well as a Twenty20 against the Prime Minister's XI. The Test matches made up the 2017–18", "id": "21532277" }, { "contents": "Timeline of events preceding World War II\n\n\nApril 16 August 13 October October 11 October 29 November 1 January 11 June July 24 August 31 September 27 October 29 November 8 January 21 February 1 March 16 April 1 April 6 June 10 August 16 August 18 May 12 July 18 December 1 January 3 January 31 April 4 April 24 September 8 December 25 April 12 May 20 June 7 November 12 December 14 May 3 May 28 June 4 August 2 August 27 October 1 February 9 February 11 March 4 March 28 April 3 June 7 July 24 August 31 October 29 April 22", "id": "6767329" }, { "contents": "W. G. Grace in the 1878 English cricket season\n\n\nNewcastle upon Tyne, Bolton and Birmingham to play odds games against local opposition. Grace took 21 wickets in the match against the 22 men of Melton Mowbray in a three-day match starting on Monday, 1 July. He scored 42 and 57 not out in his two innings, the match ending in a draw. Grace caught the evening train to be in London ready for the first Gentlemen v Players match at The Oval, starting on Thursday, 4 July. The next USEE match at Leeds Holbeck followed the second Gentlemen", "id": "15478205" }, { "contents": "List of accidents and incidents involving military aircraft (1950–1954)\n\n\n12 December 19 December 23 December 10 January 11 January 15 January 21 January 28 January 31 January 14 February 13 March 14 March 17 March 23 March 3 April 5 April 5 April 8 April 25 April 27 April 6 May 18 May 19 May 8 June 13 June 15 June 18 June 23 June 23 June 30 June 8 July 31 July Summer 13 August 18 August 21 August 22 August 26 August 27 August 16 September 29 September 15 October 11 November 13 November 19 November 27 November 3 December 7 December 21 December 12 January 15", "id": "21637229" }, { "contents": "Lord's\n\n\nbe switched off by 11 pm. The floodlights were first used successfully on 27 May 2009 during the Twenty20 Cup match between Middlesex and Kent. Lord's hosts Test matches, one-day internationals, some Middlesex home matches, MCC matches and (starting with a fixture between Middlesex and Surrey in July 2004) some of Middlesex's home Twenty20 games. Lord's typically hosts two Tests every summer plus two one-day internationals. Lord's also plays host to the finals of the National Village Cricket Competition, the MCC Universities", "id": "10760657" }, { "contents": "2011 in American music\n\n\nThe following is a list of notable events and releases that happened in 2011 in music in the United States. January 11 January 17 January 18 January 21 January 25 January 31 February 1 February 8 February 15 February 22 March 1 March 8 March 15 March 22 March 29 April 5 April 11 April 12 April 26 May 3 May 10 May 17 May 23 May 24 May 31 June 7 June 14 June 21 June 28 July 5 July 8 July 12 July 13 July 19 July 26 August 2 August 8 August 9 August 16 August", "id": "15423555" }, { "contents": "MCC v Australians at Lord's, 27 May 1878\n\n\nenthusiasm that their visit had generated. The Australians were next due to play Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) in a three-day match at Lord's, commencing on Monday, 27 May. In the meantime, Charles Bannerman and Billy Midwinter were invited to visit Dublin and play for the United South of England Eleven (USEE) against 15 past and present players of Dublin University. This was due to be played over three days, starting on Thursday, 23 May, at College Park. The USEE was captained by W. G.", "id": "16383633" }, { "contents": "West Indian cricket team in England in 1928\n\n\nreach three figures. As at Lord's and Old Trafford, the match was over before lunch on the third day. Including the three Tests, 30 first-class matches were played on the tour, plus six other games. The West Indians won just seven of these 36 matches (five of the first-class games) and lost 12. By the end of May, the touring side had won matches against Derbyshire and Cambridge University, plus a minor match against Northumberland, and had drawn all the other games.", "id": "12941340" }, { "contents": "Bob Willis\n\n\n26 August against Worcestershire's Seconds. Willis, 19 years of age, took one wicket for 48 runs in the first innings, and bowled four wicketless overs in the second. He was not called on to bat at all. Two days later, he faced Glamorgan and took three wickets. He played several further Second XI matches through May and June 1969, before his first-class debut on 6 August. Scotland was touring England that season and had already beaten Warwickshire. Willis took three wickets for 13 runs from 13", "id": "16238759" }, { "contents": "Rock in Rio\n\n\n5 July 6 May 21 / 82.000 May 22 / 45.000 May 27 / 85.000 May 29 / 95.000 May 30 / 38.000 June 4 / 51.000 June 5 / 85.000 June 6 / 90.000 June 11 / 30.000 June 14 / 48.000 Rock in Rio Lisboa V Rock in Rio Lisboa VII Rock in Rio Lisboa VIII June 24 sold out almost three months prior to the festival. \"Rock in Rio USA\" was the first North American edition of the festival, being held in Las Vegas on May 8, 9, 15 and 16", "id": "11140715" }, { "contents": "Indian cricket team in Sri Lanka in 2015\n\n\nThe Indian cricket team toured Sri Lanka from 6 August to 1 September 2015 to play a tour match and three Test matches. On 27 June, Sri Lankan batsman Kumar Sangakkara said he would retire from international cricket after the second Test of the series. The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) and Sri Lanka Cricket Board confirmed the schedule of India's tour to Sri Lanka in August to September 2015. The tour started with a three-day warm-up game against Sri Lanka Board President's XI,", "id": "22038367" }, { "contents": "Andy Cottam\n\n\nAndrew Colin Cottam (born 14 July 1973 in Northampton, England) was an English cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman and a left-arm slow bowler. He played in 2 Under-19 Tests in 1992 and 13 first-class matches between 1992 and 1996. His father is the cricketer and coach Bob Cottam. In 1990 Andy Cottam started playing for Somerset Second XI and Devon. In 1992 he was selected for Under-19's tour of Pakistan and played in the Third Test and 2 one-day matches against Pakistan", "id": "2981363" }, { "contents": "Lord's\n\n\n. The hundredth Lord's Test match was in 2000, England v West Indies. As of 25 August 2010 England have played 119 Test matches at Lord's, winning 45, losing 28 and drawing 46. Lord's often hosts two Test matches each summer, one match for each visiting team. In 2010, the ground hosted three Test matches: as well as England's matches against Bangladesh and Pakistan, a Test match between Australia and Pakistan was held there in July. Lord's was the venue of the 2000th test", "id": "10760663" }, { "contents": "Australian cricket team in Sri Lanka in 2016\n\n\nThe Australian cricket team toured Sri Lanka from 18 July to 9 September 2016 to play three Test matches, five One Day Internationals (ODIs), two Twenty20 Internationals (T20Is) matches and a first-class practice match. The Test series was played for Warne-Muralitharan Trophy, with Sri Lanka winning 3–0, their first ever series whitewash against Australia. As a result, Australia slipped from first to third in the ICC Test Championship; Sri Lanka, who had started the series ranked seventh, moved up to sixth.", "id": "14912886" }, { "contents": "South African cricket team in Australia in 2005–06\n\n\nThe South African cricket team toured Australia for cricket matches during the 2005–06 season. South Africa had already played two One Day International series during this season, beating New Zealand 4–0 at home before travelling to India and drawing the series there 2–2. The team had been playing 14 successive ODIs (tour matches excluded) before arriving in Australia, with their last Test match against West Indies in April and May 2005. South Africa played one first class warm-up match, one three-day warm-up match without first class", "id": "19860549" }, { "contents": "Peter Lever\n\n\n6/38, before his final Test ended on 5 August 1975 during another Ashes tour, Australia facing England at Lord's. Lever also played ten One Day Internationals, including the 1975 Cricket World Cup, taking 11 wickets but scoring only 17 runs. His ODI debut was also against Australia, at Melbourne on 5 January 1971, and his last match was at Headingley, Leeds, again against Australia, on 18 June 1975. This gives Lever the unusual distinction of having played both his debut, and last match, against Australia", "id": "17765992" }, { "contents": "Australian women's cricket team in England in 2009\n\n\nThe Australian women's cricket team toured England between 25 June and 13 July 2009, playing one Test match, five One Day Internationals and a Twenty20 International. Australia won the Twenty20 International, while England won the One Day International series 4–0. The Test match, which was for the Women's Ashes, was drawn; ensuring that England retained them. Prior to the series, both sides took part in the 2009 ICC Women's World Twenty20, which was also held in England in June. England won the tournament, in", "id": "13250607" }, { "contents": "List of accidents and incidents involving military aircraft (1950–1954)\n\n\nJanuary 31 January 7 February 18 March 21 April 24 April May 11 May 12 May 15 May 9 June 11 June 13 June 17 June 18 June 21 June 15 July 17 July 30 July 6 August 6 August 12 August 23 August 26 August 30 August 5 September 9 September 9 September 9 September 11 September 19 September 19 September 25 September 1 October 1 October 7 October 8 October 8 October 11 October 13 October 14 October 17 October 18 October 19 October 20 October 22 October 26 October 2 November 8 November 17 November 23 November", "id": "21637231" }, { "contents": "Follow-on\n\n\n, and gave England a slender lead of 129. The next day a fired-up Bob Willis took 8 for 43, and Australia slumped to 111 all out. Australia, who had won their 16 previous Test matches, including the first of the three-Test series between the two teams, had scored 445 in the first innings of the second Test and restricted India to 171; only V. V. S. Laxman (59) and Rahul Dravid reached 25 runs. The only other bright spot for India was the bowling of", "id": "1078812" }, { "contents": "West Indian cricket team in England in 2017\n\n\nThe West Indies cricket team toured England in August and September 2017 to play three Test matches competing for the Wisden Trophy, one Twenty20 International (T20I) and five One Day Internationals (ODIs). Ahead of the Test series, the West Indies played first-class warm-up matches against Derbyshire, Essex and Kent. They also played a two-day match against Leicestershire, as they did not get to the final of the 2017 NatWest t20 Blast. In October 2016 the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB)", "id": "1555387" }, { "contents": "England women's national rugby league team\n\n\nCup - WIN v France WIN v Russia | LOSS v Australia LOSS v New Zealand WIN v Pacific Islands 2009 International Tests - 25 July | France 8-28 England; France 0-36 England 2010 International Tests - 9 November | England 36-8 France 10 November | New Zealand 44-6 England 16 November | New Zealand 38-6 England 2011 International Tests - 2 July | France 6-36 England 6 July | France 4-42 England 2012 International Test - 15 June | England 48-0 France", "id": "9166568" }, { "contents": "International cricket\n\n\n, One-Day and Twenty20 matches take place in the form of \"tours\". In a tour, one nation travels to another and plays warm-up matches, which may be first-class matches, against domestic teams such as county or state teams, a series of Test matches against the host nation, and either a series of One-Day (ODi) and T20 matches against the host nation or a tournament involving the host nation and another touring nation. Tours may include Test, ODI and T20I matches", "id": "6028418" }, { "contents": "West Indian cricket team in England in 2000\n\n\nThe West Indies cricket team toured England in the 2000 cricket season. West Indies played five Tests against England - two in June and three in August - with a triangular One Day International (ODI) series involving Zimbabwe in July. In June, West Indies won the 1st Test at Edgbaston convincingly, before England narrowly won the 2nd Test at Lord's, having bowled West Indies out for 54 in their second innings. The ODI series, sponsored by NatWest, took place in July, with England, West Indies and Zimbabwe", "id": "12941417" }, { "contents": "First Test, 1948 Ashes series\n\n\nThe First Test of the 1948 Ashes series was one of five Tests in a cricket series between Australia and England. The match was played at Trent Bridge in Nottingham from 10 to 15 June with a rest day on 13 June. Australia won the match by eight wickets to take a 1–0 series lead. The Australians started the match as firm favourites, having won the previous series against England 3–0; in the lead-up to the 1948 series, they had won 10 of their 12 tour matches in England, mostly by", "id": "497621" }, { "contents": "Giles Baring\n\n\nAfricans on 22 May 1935, for Hampshire in Hampshire v Australians on 25 May 1938, and for H. D. G. Leveson Gowers XI v Australian Services on 7 July 1945. He played for Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) between 1935 and 1946, and his last first-class game was in the MCC v Cambridge University match on 29 June 1946. Baring was a right-arm fast bowler and also a right-hand batsman. As a bowler, he took 197 wickets for 5,607 runs, an average of 28.46.", "id": "9091808" }, { "contents": "Herbert Sutcliffe's cricket career (1919–27)\n\n\nWaddington in 1925. Arthur Mitchell was still a reserve and Cyril Turner made his first-class debut. The first four Tests of the 1926 England v Australia series were scheduled for just three days and were all curtailed by poor weather. The final Test at The Oval was timeless to ensure a finish. It has become one of the most famous matches in cricket history, not because England regained The Ashes for the first time since 1912 but for the manner it which it was achieved as Hobbs and Sutcliffe produced their most famous", "id": "18930780" }, { "contents": "Günther Lützow\n\n\nfighter destroyed. Two days later, he destroyed three aircraft, two SB-2 bombers and a Petlyakov Pe-2 ground attack aircraft. On 27 June, he shot down an Ilyushin DB-3 bomber followed by another Pe-2 on the following day, his last victory of June 1941. Following a DB-3 bomber claimed on 7 July, Lützow was credited with four aerial victories on 10 July, consisting of one Vultee V-11 attack aircraft and three I-153s. The next day he claimed an II-16. On 15 July he shot down two further I-16s and another", "id": "3340503" }, { "contents": "1966 in Norwegian football\n\n\nResults from Norwegian football in 1966. April 22 April 24 April 27 May 19 April 30 May 1 May 6 May 7 May 8 May 15 May 19 May 22 May 23 May 27 May 28 May 30 May 31 June 3 June 4 June 5 June 15 June 16 June 19 June 20 July 31 August 3 August 6 August 7 August 8 August 24 August 17 August 27 August 28 September 11 September 22 September 23 September 24 October 9 October 15 October 16 October 17 October 23 July 31 August 1 August 2 August 3 Rematch", "id": "21974049" }, { "contents": "Headingley Cricket Ground\n\n\nwickets each. Donald Bradman's innings of 334 in the 1930 Ashes Test included 309 runs on the first day, and he followed it in the Australians' next test at Headingley in 1934 with an innings of 304. Spinner Hedley Verity took 10 wickets for 10 runs in 1932 for Yorkshire v Nottinghamshire, still the best bowling analysis ever in first-class cricket. Verity had also taken all ten against Warwickshire at Headingley in 1931. In the 1948 Ashes series, Australia scored 404 for three on the last day to beat", "id": "11240346" }, { "contents": "List of international awards of Rohit Sharma\n\n\nRohit Sharma is an Indian international cricketer. He made his international cricket debut in June 2007. He has scored twenty-nine centuries in international cricket; three in Tests, twenty-two in One Day Internationals (ODI) and four in Twenty20 International (T20Is). As of July 2019, Sharma has played 27 Tests, 215 One Day Internationals and 94 Twenty20 Internationals. As of July 2019, Rohit won 19 Man of the Match awards and 4 Man of the Series awards in One Day Internationals; 1 Man of", "id": "21442897" }, { "contents": "Ollie Pope\n\n\nthe 2016 Royal London One-Day Cup against Yorkshire. He made his first-class debut on 28 March 2017 for Surrey against Oxford MCCU as part of the Marylebone Cricket Club University fixtures. Pope scored his maiden List A half-century on 7 May 2017 against Sussex. He made his Twenty20 debut for Surrey in the 2017 NatWest t20 Blast on 7 July 2017. In August 2018, he was added to England's squad for the second Test against India. He made his Test debut at Lord's for England against", "id": "11076451" }, { "contents": "Australian cricket team in the West Indies in 2015\n\n\nThe Australian cricket team toured the West Indies from 27 May to 15 June 2015. The tour consisted of one first-class warm-up match and two Test matches. On 8 April 2015, the West Indies Cricket Board brought forward the date of the two Test matches by two days \"due to a number of logistical challenges beyond [their] control\". Australia won the 2-match Test series 2–0 and therefore retained the Frank Worrell Trophy. Australia announced their squad on 31 March 2015. They included three uncapped players,", "id": "17936722" }, { "contents": "Zimbabwean cricket team in Sri Lanka in 2017\n\n\nThe Zimbabwe cricket team toured Sri Lanka in June and July 2017 to play one Test match and five One Day Internationals (ODIs). Originally, the schedule was for two Test matches and three ODIs. It was Zimbabwe's first tour to Sri Lanka since January 2002. All the matches were played as day games. Zimbabwe won the ODI series 3–2, their first ever series win against Sri Lanka. It was their first away series win since 2009 and the first away series win against a Test nation since defeating Bangladesh in", "id": "5384529" }, { "contents": "Ashwell Prince\n\n\nthe batting. Opening with debutant Imraan Khan, Prince scored 150, his 11th Test century. Prince signed a contract to play for Lancashire County Cricket Club the 2009 English season. He acted as cover for V. V. S. Laxman, the club's other overseas player, who was unavailable at times because he was playing in the Indian Premier League. Prince score his first century for Lancashire at the start of May during a match against Nottinghamshire. The knock came off 135 not out from 189 balls came on the final day of", "id": "12899038" }, { "contents": "Herbert Sutcliffe\n\n\nand 1926, Sutcliffe's skill was a primary factor in Yorkshire having the longest unbeaten run in county cricket: i.e., 70 matches without loss until early 1927. After three defeats in 1927, Yorkshire went a further 58 games without loss until 1929. The first four Tests of the 1926 England v Australia series were scheduled for just three days and were all curtailed by poor weather. The final Test at the Oval was timeless to ensure a finish. It has become one of the most famous matches in cricket history, not", "id": "18571331" }, { "contents": "Indian cricket team in England in 2011\n\n\nThe Indian cricket team toured England from 21 July to 16 September 2011. The tour consisted of one Twenty20 International (T20I), five One Day Internationals (ODIs) and four Test matches, as well as a number of matches against English county sides. The opening Test at Lord's was the 2,000th Test. England's victory in the Third Test put them number one in the world rankings. Virat Kohli, Pragyan Ojha and RP Singh replaced the injured Yuvraj Singh, Harbhajan Singh and Zaheer Khan, respectively, for the", "id": "4970296" }, { "contents": "Cricket in the British Isles\n\n\nIt played its first test match against Australia in 1877 and played its first One Day International (ODI) also againist Australia in 1971. One of the main cricket grounds in England, and also widely regarded as the spiritual home of cricket, is Lords Cricket Ground in London. Other major cricket grounds include The Oval (also in London), Edgbaston in Birmingham, Old Trafford in Manchester and Trent Bridge in Nottingham. From 1909 until 2017 England was the only country within the British Isles to have full membership of the ICC", "id": "17756246" }, { "contents": "Eton v Harrow\n\n\nplayed for Harrow in the four matches in 1822 to 1825, and arranged the first University Match at Lord's in 1827, two years before the first Boat Race. Many Eton and Harrow players went on to win blues at Oxford and Cambridge. Eton v Harrow was joined by the University Match and Gentlemen v Players as the three key features in the England cricket season. In its heyday, in the late 19th century and early 20th century, \"the School's day\" was one of the highlights of the London \"", "id": "10600897" }, { "contents": "Mathew Dimond\n\n\nMathew Dimond (born 24 September 1975) is a former English cricketer who made played for Somerset County Cricket Club between 1994 and 1997. Early in his career, he toured the West Indies with the England Under-19 cricket team, playing three Tests and one One Day International at Under-19 level. A right-arm fast-medium bowler, he made his first-class debut for Somerset in June 1994. Playing in the County Championship against Hampshire, Dimond claimed a solitary wicket in the match, which was shortened to single innings", "id": "558840" }, { "contents": "Charlie Charters\n\n\n’ Although the 2004 Islanders lost each of the three Test matches they played (29-14 v Wallabies, 41-26 v All Blacks and 24-38 v Springboks in Gosford, Australia), they scored 10 tries in three matches. By comparison that same southern hemisphere season, England and Scotland scored only three tries between them in their five Tests against the All Blacks and Wallabies. In fact, the 2004 Islanders scored more tries in one Test against the All Blacks (four) than the three tries the 2005", "id": "16741154" }, { "contents": "Australian cricket team in South Africa in 1993–94\n\n\nmatch by one run, levelling the ODI series at 4–4 with an \"improbable victory\". As well as the internationals, three first-class matches and two other matches were played during the tour The tour began with a friendly one-day match against NF Oppenheimer's XI, followed by a first-class match against Northern Transvaal and a one-day match against a representative side. Before the first Test match Australia played a first-class match against Orange Free State and between the first and second Tests they played", "id": "5209672" }, { "contents": "Bangladeshi cricket team in Zimbabwe in 2011\n\n\nThe Bangladesh cricket team toured Zimbabwe from 4 to 21 August 2011. The tour consisted of one Test match and five One Day Internationals (ODIs) played against the Zimbabwean national team and one first-class match played against a Zimbabwean representative team. The Test match was Zimbabwe's first since India toured Zimbabwe in 2005. Zimbabwe won the Test match by 130 runs and also won the one-day series 3–2. Bangladesh announced its squad for the Test match and ODI series on 15 July 2011. Zimbabwe announced its squad for", "id": "19159411" }, { "contents": "V. V. S. Laxman\n\n\nfrom international cricket. Although he was selected for the upcoming New Zealand series, he opted not to play in the series but he will play in domestic cricket for Hyderabad and the Indian Premier League . It was announced that the northern stand at the Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium will now be named after him. Laxman was particularly prolific against Australia, in both Tests and One Day Internationals. Six out of his 17 Test hundreds, and four out of his six ODI hundreds came against Australia. He has two double-centuries", "id": "9815623" }, { "contents": "3rd Battalion, 319th Field Artillery Regiment\n\n\nVII and another platoon to LZ Challenge from 3–5 July. Battery C located at FSB Rock near Bac Loc and conducted two 1-day raids on 11 & 13 June. Battery D located at LZ Lowboy, with 2 howitzers sent on Operation Red Thrust V in 5 days ending 2 May. On 12 July, Battery D displaced to support Battery A from FSB Hawkeye but returned to LZ Lowboy until 28 July, then occupied FSB Hunky. The battalion received three 105mm howitzers in May. In July, LTC John R. Martin replaced LTC Joseph", "id": "2060226" }, { "contents": "W. G. Grace in the 1878 English cricket season\n\n\nthis match attracted few spectators as it coincided with the Surrey v Australians match at The Oval, which drew very large crowds. \"Wisden Cricketers' Almanack\" commented that \"the Australians were attracting monster gatherings at The Oval on the days that this match was played, consequently very few visitors were at Lord's\". There were three North v South fixtures in June. The first two were played at Prince's Cricket Ground and Lord's with the South as the \"home\" team; the third took place at the", "id": "15478186" }, { "contents": "Third Test, 1948 Ashes series\n\n\nThe Third Test of the 1948 Ashes series was one of five Tests in a cricket series between teams representing Australia and England. The match was played at Old Trafford in Manchester from 8–13 July, with a rest day on 11 July. The match was drawn after the whole of the fourth day and the first half of the fifth day was washed out due to rain; England had the upper hand before the weather intervened. The draw maintained Australia's 2–0 lead in the series, which was established through victories in the first", "id": "497412" }, { "contents": "Giles Baring\n\n\n, Gresham's School, Holt, and Magdalene College, Cambridge. He represented Cambridge University in 1930 and 1931 and Hampshire between 1930 and 1939. Apart from more than fifty regular county championship games, he played in the Cambridge University v New Zealanders match of 3 June 1931, for the Gentlemen in the Gentlemen v Players matches of 2 September 1931 and 11 July 1934, for Hampshire in Hampshire v West Indians on 24 May 1933, for Hampshire in Hampshire v Australians on 23 May 1934, for Hampshire in Hampshire v South", "id": "9091807" }, { "contents": "2013–14 Bangladeshi cricket season\n\n\nand Mirpur. Both Test matches ended in draws, Bangladesh won all three One Day Internationals and New Zealand won the sole Twenty20 International. Sri Lanka toured Bangladesh in January and February 2014 playing two Test Matches, three One Day Internationals and two Twenty20 Internationals. Sri Lanka won every match, with the exception of the second Test match which ended in a draw. Initially it was planned that the NCL would be held in November and December 2013, the BCL in May and June 2014 and the BPL in December and January.", "id": "18068868" }, { "contents": "Darrell Hair\n\n\nby the ICC on 12 March 2008 and stood in the England v New Zealand tests at Old Trafford in May and Trent Bridge in June 2008. Hair umpired his first Test match in January 1992, between Australia and India in Adelaide. In 1994 the International Cricket Council (ICC) introduced a policy of appointing one umpire to each Test match from a non-participating country, and since 2002 both umpires have been appointed from non-participating nations. Since 2002 the majority of Hair’s Test matches have been played outside Australia", "id": "17469081" }, { "contents": "Timeline of events preceding World War II\n\n\n15 October 2 November 14 January February 6 March 7 March 25 May 5 June 3 July 17 August 1 October October 18 November 14 November 15 November 25 December 1 December 12 December 23 December 24 January 20 May 28 July 7 August 13 October 5 November 6 November 26 December 1 December 8 December 11 December 12 December 13 January 26 March 6 March 13 March 24 July 6–16 July 29 August September 27 September 30 October 5 November 7 November 9 January 25 January 27 March 14 March 15 March 16 March 20 March 21 March 23", "id": "6767331" }, { "contents": "South African cricket team in England in 1924\n\n\nThe South African cricket team toured England in the 1924 season to play a five-match Test series against England. England won the series 3-0 with 2 matches drawn. The tourists, with their ages on the first day of the first match of the tour on 3 May, were: George Parker (24) also played three first-class matches (including the first two Tests) and Aubrey Faulkner (42) played one match, the Third Test. The manager was George Allsop. South Africa's score", "id": "12941168" }, { "contents": "2018 English cricket season\n\n\ninternational sides toured England and Wales during the season: Pakistan, Australia and India. Pakistan also visited Ireland midway through the tour and played the Irish team's first Test match at Malahide near Dublin. In preparation for this match the Irish team played a first-class match against Somerset at Taunton in April. At the end of their tour Pakistan played two T20 matches in Scotland on 12 and 13 June. The England team played a One Day International (ODI) against Scotland in Edinburgh in June, losing to Scotland for", "id": "6929601" }, { "contents": "V. V. S. Laxman\n\n\n112 in the second test. This ensured his place on the tour of Australia which would be his third to that country. Laxman's good form continued in the 2007-08 Test series against Australia with him scoring 109 against Australia on the second day of the controversial Sydney Test to put India back into the contest. It was his 12th hundred in Test matches, and his 5th against Australia. It was also his third consecutive century at SCG, giving him an average well above 90 at the venue. He followed this", "id": "9815609" }, { "contents": "2019 Ashes series\n\n\nthree cricketers were named in Australia's squad for the 2019 Ashes. Meanwhile, England warmed up for the 2019 Ashes with a Test series earlier in the year against the West Indies and a one-off Test against Ireland in July. The tour of the West Indies comprised three matches and was won 2–1 by the West Indies. England also won the one-off Test against Ireland, by 143 runs. Ahead of the series, it was announced that Day 2 of the Lord’s Test would benefit the Ruth Strauss Foundation", "id": "18532603" }, { "contents": "V. V. S. Laxman\n\n\n1–1. He was awarded the Man of the Match for his match-winning innings of 96. His knock was voted as the best Test batting performance of the year by ESPNCricinfo. In three test matches, Laxman scored three consecutive fifties including two scores in eighties against the West Indies during India's tour of West Indies in June 2011. During India's Tour to England, Laxman scored just two half-centuries in eight innings as India went down 0–4 to England. This was India's first Test series loss since its", "id": "9815620" }, { "contents": "2014–15 Bangladeshi cricket season\n\n\nThe 2014–15 Bangladeshi cricket season featured tours of the country by Zimbabwe and Pakistan. Rangpur Division won the National Cricket League (NCL) championship title for the first time. Zimbabwe toured Bangladesh from 26 October to 1 December 2014, playing three Test matches and five One Day International matches. Bangladesh won the Test series 3–0 and the ODI series 5–0. Pakistan toured from 15 April to 10 May 2015, playing one Twenty20 International (T20I), three One Day Internationals (ODIs) and two Test matches. Pakistan won the Test", "id": "895026" }, { "contents": "Australia women's cricket team in England in 2019\n\n\nThe Australia women's cricket team toured England in June and July 2019 to play the England women's cricket team to contest the Women's Ashes. The tour consisted of three Women's One Day Internationals (WODIs), one Women's Test match and three Women's Twenty20 Internationals (WT20Is). A points-based system was used across all three formats of the tour. The Women's Ashes were held by Australia prior to the start of the series. Australia women won the WODI series 3–0, therefore taking a 6–0", "id": "15341273" }, { "contents": "Pakistani cricket team in England in 1962\n\n\nof three one-day games (not limited overs). The first two were drawn and the Pakistanis won the third one against Colonel Stevens' XI. These three matches were, in effect, warm-ups only and not first-class. The opening first-class fixture was against Worcestershire at New Road, starting on Wednesday, 2 May. The Pakistanis were given a foretaste of the Test series to come in that Tom Graveney scored a century for the home team (and was presented with his county cap immediately afterwards", "id": "12941094" }, { "contents": "New Zealand cricket team in Australia in 2015–16\n\n\nThe New Zealand cricket team toured Australia from 23 October to 1 December 2015 to play three Test matches and four tour matches. The third match of the series at the Adelaide Oval was the first ever day-night Test. Michael Hussey captained the Prime Minister's XI side for the tour match, and in preparation for the day-night Test, a pink ball was used in this game. Australia won the series 2–0, with victories in Brisbane and Adelaide, with the second Test in Perth being drawn. Following the", "id": "1307472" }, { "contents": "Kennington\n\n\nThe Kia Oval\", is the home ground for Surrey County Cricket Club and hosts the final Test match of the English summer season. The Oval was the first ground in the United Kingdom to host Test cricket, was the location for the England v Scotland representative matches, the first ever international football match, the first FA Cup final in 1872, and held the second ever rugby union international match between England and Scotland in 1872. England's unfortunate performance against Australia here in 1882 gave rise to The Ashes. The Oval", "id": "10346916" }, { "contents": "Indian cricket team in Zimbabwe in 2001\n\n\nThe Indian cricket team toured Zimbabwe from 28 May to 7 July 2001 and played two Test matches against Zimbabwe, with each team winning one game match. This would be Zimbabwe's only Test victory over a side other than Bangladesh until they beat Pakistan in the second Test in 2013. India and Zimbabwe also participated in a triangular One Day International (ODI) competition with West Indies, with the latter eventually winning the competition. The Coca-Cola Cup was a One Day International (ODI) tournament that followed the Test series", "id": "4099650" }, { "contents": "Andrew Balbirnie\n\n\nHe played three further One Day International's during the tournament. He made his Twenty20 International debut against Scotland on 19 June 2015, although no play was possible due to rain. He was part of the Ireland A team which toured Bangladesh in October 2017 to play one first-class match and five limited overs matches against the Bangladesh A team. In May 2018, he was named in a fourteen-man squad for Ireland's first ever Test match, which was played against Pakistan later the same month. He made his", "id": "2597279" }, { "contents": "Pakistani cricket team in Scotland in 2018\n\n\nThe Pakistan cricket team toured Scotland to play two Twenty20 International (T20I) matches at The Grange Club, Edinburgh, on 12 and 13 June 2018. Pakistan last toured Scotland in May 2013 to play two One Day Internationals. Both teams last met in a T20I fixture in the group stage of the 2007 ICC World Twenty20 tournament. This was the first time that Scotland had played a home T20I match against a full member side. The tour followed Pakistan's tour of England and their one Test series in Ireland. England also", "id": "373509" }, { "contents": "2017 June rugby union tests\n\n\n2 sides. Australia, the only southern hemisphere Tier 1 nation not to host a test series, staged three one-off test matches; Scotland, Italy and Fiji. The Fijian test was the first between the two sides in Australia since 2010, and was also the first Australia v Tier 2 nation match in Australia since Samoa visited in 2011. Fiji also played host to Italy and Scotland to become the second Tier 2 nation to play three back-back Tier 1 sides during an international window, after Samoa participated in", "id": "13232867" }, { "contents": "Timeline of the 2014 Pacific hurricane season\n\n\nJune 11 June 12 June 13 June 14 June 15 June 28 June 30 July 1 July 2 July 3 July 6 July 7 July 9 July 17 July 18 July 19 July 25 July 26 July 27 July 28 July 29 July 31 August 1 August 2 August 3 August 4 August 5 August 6 August 7 August 8 August 9 August 10 August 12 August 13 August 14 August 15 August 17 August 18 August 21 August 22 August 23 August 24 August 25 August 26 August 27 August 28 August 29 September 2 September 4 September 6", "id": "2400921" } ]

[ { "contents": "Sri Lankan cricket team in England in 2014\n\n\nThe Sri Lanka national cricket team toured England from 13 May to 24 June 2014 for a Twenty20 International (T20I), five One Day Internationals (ODIs) and two Test matches against the England cricket team. They also played three one-day and one four-day tour matches against English county sides, as well as preceding the entire tour with a two-match ODI series against Ireland. Sri Lanka won the Test series 1–0 (the first time they had won a Test series in England), the ODI series", "id": "21939883" }, { "contents": "New Zealand cricket team in England in 2015\n\n\nThe New Zealand national cricket team toured England from 8 May to 23 June 2015 for two Test matches, five One Day Internationals (ODIs) and a Twenty20 International (T20I) against the England cricket team. They also played two four-day tour matches and a one-day match against English county sides. England won the first Test at Lord's before New Zealand claimed victory in the second Test at Headingley to level the series. England then took an early lead in the ODI series after hitting more than 400 runs", "id": "943447" }, { "contents": "Australian cricket team in England and Ireland in 2015\n\n\nThe Australia national cricket team toured England from June to September 2015 for a five-match Test series, five One Day International (ODI) matches and one Twenty20 International (T20I). The Test series was for the Ashes. They also played two four-day and two three-day first-class matches against English county sides. Australia also played one ODI against Ireland in Belfast. On 31 March 2015, Australia announced a 17-man touring party for the Ashes series. England announced their squad for the first Test on", "id": "1657670" }, { "contents": "David Constant\n\n\n67 first-class appearances. In total he scored 1,517 first-class runs at a batting average of 19.20 with a highest score of 80. Tony Lewis described his innings against Glamorgan on a difficult pitch at Leicester in 1965 as \"one of the bravest innings I ever saw\". His first Test as umpire was the Third Test between England and Pakistan in July 1971. He last stood in an international cricket match in the England v. Australia One Day International at The Oval, London in June 2001. He was the", "id": "14539375" }, { "contents": "Pakistani cricket team in Sri Lanka in 2015\n\n\nThe Pakistan cricket team toured Sri Lanka from 11 June to 1 August 2015. The tour consisted of a three-day tour match against a SLCB President's XI, three Test matches, five One Day International and two Twenty20 International matches. The third Test was originally scheduled to be played at the R Premadasa Stadium, but was changed to the Pallekele International Cricket Stadium in early May. Pakistan outplayed the hosts in all forms of the game by winning the Test series 2–1, the ODI series 3–2 and the T20I series 2–0.", "id": "15080177" }, { "contents": "2010 in American music\n\n\n17 March 22 March 23 March 26 March 30 April 6 April 8 April 13 April 19 April 20 April 21 April 27 April 30 May 4 May 11 May 14 May 17 May 18 May 21 May 25 May 31 June 1 June 8 June 14 June 15 June 18 June 21 June 22 June 28 June 29 July 6 July 7 July 12 July 13 July 15 July 20 July 23 July 25 July 27 July 29 August 3 August 17 August 24 August 31 September 7 September 14 September 21 September 23 September 28 October 5 October", "id": "18556206" }, { "contents": "Warwickshire County Cricket Club\n\n\nand gold and the shirt sponsor is Gullivers Sports Travel. The club's home is Edgbaston Cricket Ground in south Birmingham, which regularly hosts Test and One Day International matches. Cricket may have reached Warwickshire by the end of the 17th century. The \"Warwickshire & Staffordshire Journal\" was certainly aware of the sport in 1738 for it carried a report of a London v Mitcham game at the Artillery Ground on 11 August (London won by 1 wicket). The earliest confirmed reference to cricket in the county is a match announcement", "id": "8941185" }, { "contents": "Irish cricket team in England in 2019\n\n\nThe Ireland cricket team toured England in July 2019 to play a one-off four-day Test match at Lord's. It was the first Test match to be played between the two sides, and was England's first four-day Test match since they toured New Zealand in 1971. It was Ireland's third Test match, and their twelfth international fixture against England. The Test match was part of England's preparations for the 2019 Ashes series. Ahead of the Test, the England cricket team visited Ireland in May", "id": "16268672" }, { "contents": "1919 English cricket season\n\n\n(five wins from fourteen) and Warwickshire were bottom with 7.14% (one win from fourteen). The 1919 County Championship was the 26th since the competition acquired official status in 1890. The opening matches began on Friday, 16 May. These were Middlesex v Nottinghamshire at Lord's and the 1914 (reigning) champions Surrey against Somerset at The Oval. The final match between Essex and Surrey at Leyton was completed on Monday, 1 September. The situation between Yorkshire and Kent on Saturday, 30 August (the second day in", "id": "7320450" }, { "contents": "Timeline of the 2013 Pacific hurricane season\n\n\n15 May 16 May 17 May 28 May 29 May 30 June 1 June 23 June 24 June 25 June 26 June 27 June 29 June 30 July 2 July 3 July 4 July 5 July 6 July 7 July 9 July 25 July 27 July 30 July 31 August 2 August 3 August 4 August 6 August 7 August 8 August 9 August 11 August 16 August 18 August 19 August 20 August 22 August 23 August 24 August 25 August 28 August 29 August 30 August 31 September 1 September 2 September 5 September 6 September 7 September", "id": "957237" }, { "contents": "Prince's Cricket Ground\n\n\nas 'grand and quick and one of the finest playing grounds in England'. The first match played on the ground was Household Brigade v. Lords and Commons on 3 June 1871. Middlesex County Cricket Club used the ground between 1872 and 1876 and played their first match on 23–25 May 1872 against Yorkshire. The ground was also used by South of England and by Gentlemen of the South. Several Gentlemen v Players fixtures were also played there, the first taking place in July 1873. In 1878, the touring Australians played two", "id": "19086180" }, { "contents": "Callum Jackson\n\n\nSussex youth ranks, playing at under-13, under-14, under-15 and under-17 level before joining the second XI as a 16-year-old in 2011. He was selected to represent an English Schools Cricket Association XI in 2011 before making his first appearance for the Sussex first XI on 1 May 2012 in a non-first-class match against the Leeds/Bradford MCC Universities team. In early 2013, Jackson was selected for the England under-19 side to tour South Africa, where he played in both Youth Test matches and three One Day", "id": "16290826" }, { "contents": "2018 English cricket season\n\n\nHurricane Irma and Hurricane Maria in September 2017. Pakistan played two Test matches against England at Lord's and Headingley at the end of May and beginning of June. The series was drawn, each side winning one match. Ahead of the Tests, two first-class matches were played against Kent and Northants. Their match against Ireland took place after the two first-class county matches, and a two-day match was played against Leicestershire between this and the first Test against England. Pakistan won the first Test match by", "id": "6929603" }, { "contents": "1963 in Norwegian football\n\n\nResults from Norwegian football in 1963. April 26 April 28 May 3 May 4 May 5 May 11 May 12 May 30 May 19 May 22 May 23 May 26 May 27 June 7 June 8 June 9 June 14 June 15 June 16 June 22 June 23 June 24 July 26 July 28 July 29 August 2 August 4 August 6 August 17 August 18 August 21 August 22 August 24 August 25 September 7 September 8 September 20 September 22 October 4 October 6 October 13 Årstad promoted Nidelv promoted Harstad - Bodø/Glimt 4 -", "id": "20433032" }, { "contents": "West Indian cricket team in England in 1991\n\n\nThe West Indian cricket team in England in 1991 played three one day internationals and five Tests, under the captaincy of Viv Richards, as part of an extensive tour in which they also played first-class matches against 11 first-class county teams, the combined Minor Counties, the Combined Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, and a World XI to finish, plus 55-over one-day matches against one more first-class county (Gloucestershire) and the Duchess of Norfolk's Invitation XI. Of the non-international matches,", "id": "5157419" }, { "contents": "West Indian cricket team in England in 2007\n\n\nThe West Indian cricket team toured England from 12 May to 7 July 2007 as part of the 2007 English cricket season. The tour included four Tests, two Twenty20 international matches and three One Day Internationals. While England dominated the Test series 3–0, including a record victory over the West Indies, the latter took the ODI series 2:1. In the ICC Test Championship, England are ranked second and West Indies are ranked eighth, though England's most recent series was a whitewash loss in the Ashes against Australia for the first time", "id": "12941423" }, { "contents": "Sri Lankan cricket team in the West Indies in 2018\n\n\nOn 19 May 2018, Cricket West Indies (CWI) announced that they may scrap one of the Test fixtures, replacing it with a couple of one-day matches. However, the day before the first Test, the International Cricket Council (ICC) confirmed that it would be a three-match Test series. Prior to the start of day three of the second Test, the Sri Lankan cricket team protested against umpires' decision on starting the third day's play with a new ball, replacing the old ball.", "id": "19622271" }, { "contents": "Timeline of the 2017 Pacific hurricane season\n\n\ncyclone formations, strengthening, weakening, landfalls, extratropical transitions, and dissipations during the season. May 9 May 10 May 11 May 12 May 15 May 31 June 1 June 2 June 11 June 12 June 13 June 24 June 25 June 26 June 27 June 28 July 1 July 7 July 8 July 9 July 10 July 11 July 12 July 13 July 14 July 15 July 16 July 17 July 18 July 19 July 20 July 21 July 22 July 23 July 24 July 25 July 26 July 27 July 28 July 31 August 1", "id": "7169450" }, { "contents": "Daniel Bell-Drummond\n\n\nmade his youth Test debut on 21 July 2010 at the County Ground, Northampton before scoring unbeaten 88 in the second youth Test later in the same month, aged only 16. He played in both under-19 Test matches and in four youth one-day international matches during England's return tour of Sri Lanka in January and February 2011. In July 2011 Bell-Drummond played in a one-day series against South Africa under-19s. He top-scored for England in three of the seven matches in the series and was the", "id": "6732560" }, { "contents": "1967 in Norwegian football\n\n\nResults from Norwegian football in 1967. April 27 April 28 April 30 May 4 May 6 May 7 May 10 May 11 May 15 May 16 May 18 May 19 May 20 May 21 May 22 June 22 May 25 May 28 June 4 June 10 June 11 June 12 June 13 June 18 June 19 July 30 July 31 August 2 August 6 August 7 August 9 August 10 August 20 August 16 August 20 August 21 September 7 September 10 September 16 September 17 October 6 October 8 October 9 October 12 October 15 October 20 October", "id": "2081596" }, { "contents": "Phil Carlson\n\n\nPhillip Henry Carlson (born 8 August 1951, Nundah, Queensland) is a former Australian cricketer who played in two Tests and four One Day Internationals (ODIs) in 1979. Carlson was an all-rounder who played for Queensland between 1969–70 and 1980–81. He played two Test matches for Australia v England in 1978–79 Ashes series and four One Day Internationals against the same opponents. He was called up by Australia when most of their regular first-choice players were playing in World Series Cricket. Carlson took two Test wickets and", "id": "11409623" }, { "contents": "1962 in Norwegian football\n\n\nResults from Norwegian football in 1962. July 30 August 2 August 3 August 9 August 8 August 13 August 16 August 20 August 21 September 2 September 3 Ørn - Brann 0 - 7 September 24 September 28 October 1 October 15 April 25 October 6 October 8 April 29 May 6 May 12 May 13 May 14 May 20 May 21 May 23 May 24 May 27 May 30 May 31 June 3 June 15 June 16 June 17 June 24 June 25 June 30 July 1 July 29 August 1 August 2 August 4 August 5 August", "id": "9107175" }, { "contents": "Alan Igglesden\n\n\nAlan Paul Igglesden (born 8 October 1964) is a former English Test cricketer. He played three Test Matches and four One Day Internationals (ODIs) for the England cricket team between 1989 and 1994 as a fast bowler. He played most of his first-class cricket career for Kent County Cricket Club. Igglesden was born in Farnborough, London in 1964. He first played for Kent County Cricket Club's Second XI in 1983 before making his first-class cricket debut of the county in July 1986 against Somerset at Maidstone", "id": "8795795" }, { "contents": "Sri Lankan cricket team in England and Ireland in 2016\n\n\nThe Sri Lanka national cricket team toured England from 8 May to 5 July 2016 for a three-match Test series, a five-match One Day International (ODI) series and a one-off Twenty20 International (T20I) against the England cricket team. England won the Test series 2–0, the ODI series 3–0 and won the one-off T20I match by 8 wickets. They also played two first-class matches against Essex and Leicestershire prior to the Test series, and two ODI matches against Ireland prior to the", "id": "15635062" }, { "contents": "South African cricket team in England in 2008\n\n\nThe South African cricket team toured England between 29 June and 4 September 2008. They played four Test matches, one Twenty20 International and five One Day Internationals against England. They also played six tour matches against Somerset, Middlesex, Bangladesh A, a PCA Masters XI and two against the England Lions. It was announced that following the conclusion of this four-match series, future matches between England and South Africa would comprise five Test matches but only three one-day matches after the series was granted 'icon' status.", "id": "18079110" }, { "contents": "2018 English cricket season\n\n\nthe first time in an ODI. The South African women's team also toured England to play three One Day International matches against the England women's cricket team in June and to compete in the 2018 England women's Tri-Nation Series Twenty20 competition against England and New Zealand. New Zealand then played three One Day Internationals against England in July. In addition the West Indies men's side played a single Twenty20 International against a Rest of the World XI team at Lord's in May 2018 to raise funds for stadiums damaged by", "id": "6929602" }, { "contents": "American Rally Association\n\n\nWood Rally March 15 - 16 Olympus Rally April 27 - 28 Oregon Trail Rally May 31 - June 2 Idaho Rally International June 22 - 23 New England Forest Rally July 19 - 20 Muscatell Ojibwe Forests Rally August 23 - 24 Susquehannock Trail Performance Rally September 13 - 14 Lake Superior Performance Rally October 18 - 19 2019 ARA Super Regional Events Southern Ohio Forest Rally May 16 - 18 Rally Colorado July 26 - 27 Tour de Forest Rally September 21, 2019 Empire State Performance Rally October 25 - 26 2019 ARA One-Day Regional", "id": "6404348" }, { "contents": "Pakistani cricket team in England and Ireland in 2016\n\n\nThe Pakistan national cricket team toured England and Ireland from 3 July to 7 September 2016 for a four-match Test series, a five-match One Day International (ODI) series and a one-off Twenty20 International (T20I) against the England cricket team. They also played two three-day matches against Somerset and Sussex prior to the Test series, a two-day match against Worcestershire during the Test series, and two ODI matches against Ireland prior to the ODI series. England's ODI matches against Pakistan was", "id": "15635130" }, { "contents": "Second Test, 1948 Ashes series\n\n\nThe Second Test of the 1948 Ashes series was one of five Tests in a cricket series between Australia and England. The match was played at Lord's in London from 24 to 29 June, with a rest day on 27 June. Australia won the match by 409 runs to take a 2–0 lead, meaning that England would need to win the remaining three matches to regain The Ashes. Australian captain Don Bradman won the toss and elected to bat. The tourists had won the First Test convincingly, and decided to field the", "id": "497516" }, { "contents": "MCC v Australians at Lord's, 27 May 1878\n\n\nin England, the team left Sydney on 29 March 1878 and sailed via Auckland and Honolulu to San Francisco, from where they travelled across America by train to New York City. They crossed the Atlantic, arriving in Liverpool on 13 May, and then went by train to Nottingham where they played their first match, starting on Monday, 20 May. This was a three-day match against Nottinghamshire at Trent Bridge and the Australians were well beaten by an innings and 14 runs, an inauspicious start which dampened much of the public", "id": "16383632" }, { "contents": "Australian women's cricket team in England in 2013\n\n\nThe Australian women's cricket team toured England in 2013. The visitors were defending the Women's Ashes. The only Test match of the tour took place on 11–14 August at Wormsley Park, and was drawn. Three One-Day Internationals (ODIs) were played: the first at Lord's on 20 August, and the other two at Hove on 23 and 25 August. Also three Twenty20 International (T20I) matches were played, on 27, 29 and 31 August, at Chelmsford, Southampton and Chester-le-", "id": "19064429" }, { "contents": "South African cricket team in England in 2017\n\n\nThe South African cricket team toured England and Wales between May and August 2017, playing three One Day Internationals (ODIs), three Twenty20 Internationals (T20Is) and four Test matches. The ODI matches were in preparation for the 2017 ICC Champions Trophy, which took place in England and Wales during June. Extra security was provided to South Africa for the ODI series following the Manchester bombing. England won the ODI series 2–1 and the T20 series 2–1. Ahead of the ODI series, South Africa played one-day warm-", "id": "1555384" }, { "contents": "1Malaysia Development Berhad scandal\n\n\n- 30 September onwards October 20 November 25 December 1 December 5 December 31 2016 January 26 January 29 February 1 February 3 February 7 February 19 February 29 March 23 March 31 April 2 April 5 April 7 April 9 April 12 April 13 April 19 April 28 May 24 May 31 July 11 1MDB agrees to resolve its dispute with International Petroleum Investment Company via the London Court of International Arbitration. July 21 August 9 October 11 December 2 2017 March 22 April 24 May 30 June 15 June 16 August 1 August 2 August 11 August", "id": "14280441" }, { "contents": "Timeline of events preceding World War II\n\n\nJune 30 September 14 May 19 September 18 September 19 January 7 January 28 February 27 March 1 April 10 May 30 August 30 November 21 December 3 January 1 January 30 February 27 February 28 March 4 March 20 March 23 March 24 March 27 April 1 April 26 May 2 May 15 May 31 June 21 July 14 August 25 September 12 October 19 November 24 January 26 February 12–16 March 20 June 30 July 20 July 25 August 2 August 8 September October 16 December 1 December 5 December 29 January 7 June 18 August 31 September", "id": "6767330" }, { "contents": "Timeline of the 2018 Pacific hurricane season\n\n\ntropical cyclone formations, strengthening, weakening, landfalls, extratropical transitions, and dissipations during the season. May 10 May 11 May 13 May 15 June 1 June 6 June 7 June 8 June 9 June 10 June 11 June 12 June 13 June 14 June 15 June 16 June 17 June 19 June 24 June 25 June 26 June 27 June 28 June 29 June 30 July 1 July 2 July 3 July 4 July 5 July 6 July 9 July 26 July 27 July 28 July 29 July 31 August 1 August 2 August 3 August", "id": "21166816" }, { "contents": "English cricket team in Australia in 2017–18\n\n\nThe England cricket team toured Australia between November 2017 and February 2018 to play five Tests and five One Day Internationals (ODIs). They also played in a three nation Twenty20 International (T20I) tournament, along with New Zealand, who co-hosted the tournament along with Australia. England additionally played two first-class matches, a two-day tour match and a one-day tour match against Cricket Australia XI, as well as a Twenty20 against the Prime Minister's XI. The Test matches made up the 2017–18", "id": "21532277" }, { "contents": "Timeline of events preceding World War II\n\n\nApril 16 August 13 October October 11 October 29 November 1 January 11 June July 24 August 31 September 27 October 29 November 8 January 21 February 1 March 16 April 1 April 6 June 10 August 16 August 18 May 12 July 18 December 1 January 3 January 31 April 4 April 24 September 8 December 25 April 12 May 20 June 7 November 12 December 14 May 3 May 28 June 4 August 2 August 27 October 1 February 9 February 11 March 4 March 28 April 3 June 7 July 24 August 31 October 29 April 22", "id": "6767329" }, { "contents": "W. G. Grace in the 1878 English cricket season\n\n\nNewcastle upon Tyne, Bolton and Birmingham to play odds games against local opposition. Grace took 21 wickets in the match against the 22 men of Melton Mowbray in a three-day match starting on Monday, 1 July. He scored 42 and 57 not out in his two innings, the match ending in a draw. Grace caught the evening train to be in London ready for the first Gentlemen v Players match at The Oval, starting on Thursday, 4 July. The next USEE match at Leeds Holbeck followed the second Gentlemen", "id": "15478205" }, { "contents": "List of accidents and incidents involving military aircraft (1950–1954)\n\n\n12 December 19 December 23 December 10 January 11 January 15 January 21 January 28 January 31 January 14 February 13 March 14 March 17 March 23 March 3 April 5 April 5 April 8 April 25 April 27 April 6 May 18 May 19 May 8 June 13 June 15 June 18 June 23 June 23 June 30 June 8 July 31 July Summer 13 August 18 August 21 August 22 August 26 August 27 August 16 September 29 September 15 October 11 November 13 November 19 November 27 November 3 December 7 December 21 December 12 January 15", "id": "21637229" }, { "contents": "Lord's\n\n\nbe switched off by 11 pm. The floodlights were first used successfully on 27 May 2009 during the Twenty20 Cup match between Middlesex and Kent. Lord's hosts Test matches, one-day internationals, some Middlesex home matches, MCC matches and (starting with a fixture between Middlesex and Surrey in July 2004) some of Middlesex's home Twenty20 games. Lord's typically hosts two Tests every summer plus two one-day internationals. Lord's also plays host to the finals of the National Village Cricket Competition, the MCC Universities", "id": "10760657" }, { "contents": "2011 in American music\n\n\nThe following is a list of notable events and releases that happened in 2011 in music in the United States. January 11 January 17 January 18 January 21 January 25 January 31 February 1 February 8 February 15 February 22 March 1 March 8 March 15 March 22 March 29 April 5 April 11 April 12 April 26 May 3 May 10 May 17 May 23 May 24 May 31 June 7 June 14 June 21 June 28 July 5 July 8 July 12 July 13 July 19 July 26 August 2 August 8 August 9 August 16 August", "id": "15423555" }, { "contents": "MCC v Australians at Lord's, 27 May 1878\n\n\nenthusiasm that their visit had generated. The Australians were next due to play Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) in a three-day match at Lord's, commencing on Monday, 27 May. In the meantime, Charles Bannerman and Billy Midwinter were invited to visit Dublin and play for the United South of England Eleven (USEE) against 15 past and present players of Dublin University. This was due to be played over three days, starting on Thursday, 23 May, at College Park. The USEE was captained by W. G.", "id": "16383633" }, { "contents": "West Indian cricket team in England in 1928\n\n\nreach three figures. As at Lord's and Old Trafford, the match was over before lunch on the third day. Including the three Tests, 30 first-class matches were played on the tour, plus six other games. The West Indians won just seven of these 36 matches (five of the first-class games) and lost 12. By the end of May, the touring side had won matches against Derbyshire and Cambridge University, plus a minor match against Northumberland, and had drawn all the other games.", "id": "12941340" }, { "contents": "Bob Willis\n\n\n26 August against Worcestershire's Seconds. Willis, 19 years of age, took one wicket for 48 runs in the first innings, and bowled four wicketless overs in the second. He was not called on to bat at all. Two days later, he faced Glamorgan and took three wickets. He played several further Second XI matches through May and June 1969, before his first-class debut on 6 August. Scotland was touring England that season and had already beaten Warwickshire. Willis took three wickets for 13 runs from 13", "id": "16238759" }, { "contents": "Rock in Rio\n\n\n5 July 6 May 21 / 82.000 May 22 / 45.000 May 27 / 85.000 May 29 / 95.000 May 30 / 38.000 June 4 / 51.000 June 5 / 85.000 June 6 / 90.000 June 11 / 30.000 June 14 / 48.000 Rock in Rio Lisboa V Rock in Rio Lisboa VII Rock in Rio Lisboa VIII June 24 sold out almost three months prior to the festival. \"Rock in Rio USA\" was the first North American edition of the festival, being held in Las Vegas on May 8, 9, 15 and 16", "id": "11140715" }, { "contents": "Indian cricket team in Sri Lanka in 2015\n\n\nThe Indian cricket team toured Sri Lanka from 6 August to 1 September 2015 to play a tour match and three Test matches. On 27 June, Sri Lankan batsman Kumar Sangakkara said he would retire from international cricket after the second Test of the series. The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) and Sri Lanka Cricket Board confirmed the schedule of India's tour to Sri Lanka in August to September 2015. The tour started with a three-day warm-up game against Sri Lanka Board President's XI,", "id": "22038367" }, { "contents": "Andy Cottam\n\n\nAndrew Colin Cottam (born 14 July 1973 in Northampton, England) was an English cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman and a left-arm slow bowler. He played in 2 Under-19 Tests in 1992 and 13 first-class matches between 1992 and 1996. His father is the cricketer and coach Bob Cottam. In 1990 Andy Cottam started playing for Somerset Second XI and Devon. In 1992 he was selected for Under-19's tour of Pakistan and played in the Third Test and 2 one-day matches against Pakistan", "id": "2981363" }, { "contents": "Lord's\n\n\n. The hundredth Lord's Test match was in 2000, England v West Indies. As of 25 August 2010 England have played 119 Test matches at Lord's, winning 45, losing 28 and drawing 46. Lord's often hosts two Test matches each summer, one match for each visiting team. In 2010, the ground hosted three Test matches: as well as England's matches against Bangladesh and Pakistan, a Test match between Australia and Pakistan was held there in July. Lord's was the venue of the 2000th test", "id": "10760663" }, { "contents": "Australian cricket team in Sri Lanka in 2016\n\n\nThe Australian cricket team toured Sri Lanka from 18 July to 9 September 2016 to play three Test matches, five One Day Internationals (ODIs), two Twenty20 Internationals (T20Is) matches and a first-class practice match. The Test series was played for Warne-Muralitharan Trophy, with Sri Lanka winning 3–0, their first ever series whitewash against Australia. As a result, Australia slipped from first to third in the ICC Test Championship; Sri Lanka, who had started the series ranked seventh, moved up to sixth.", "id": "14912886" }, { "contents": "South African cricket team in Australia in 2005–06\n\n\nThe South African cricket team toured Australia for cricket matches during the 2005–06 season. South Africa had already played two One Day International series during this season, beating New Zealand 4–0 at home before travelling to India and drawing the series there 2–2. The team had been playing 14 successive ODIs (tour matches excluded) before arriving in Australia, with their last Test match against West Indies in April and May 2005. South Africa played one first class warm-up match, one three-day warm-up match without first class", "id": "19860549" }, { "contents": "Peter Lever\n\n\n6/38, before his final Test ended on 5 August 1975 during another Ashes tour, Australia facing England at Lord's. Lever also played ten One Day Internationals, including the 1975 Cricket World Cup, taking 11 wickets but scoring only 17 runs. His ODI debut was also against Australia, at Melbourne on 5 January 1971, and his last match was at Headingley, Leeds, again against Australia, on 18 June 1975. This gives Lever the unusual distinction of having played both his debut, and last match, against Australia", "id": "17765992" }, { "contents": "Australian women's cricket team in England in 2009\n\n\nThe Australian women's cricket team toured England between 25 June and 13 July 2009, playing one Test match, five One Day Internationals and a Twenty20 International. Australia won the Twenty20 International, while England won the One Day International series 4–0. The Test match, which was for the Women's Ashes, was drawn; ensuring that England retained them. Prior to the series, both sides took part in the 2009 ICC Women's World Twenty20, which was also held in England in June. England won the tournament, in", "id": "13250607" }, { "contents": "List of accidents and incidents involving military aircraft (1950–1954)\n\n\nJanuary 31 January 7 February 18 March 21 April 24 April May 11 May 12 May 15 May 9 June 11 June 13 June 17 June 18 June 21 June 15 July 17 July 30 July 6 August 6 August 12 August 23 August 26 August 30 August 5 September 9 September 9 September 9 September 11 September 19 September 19 September 25 September 1 October 1 October 7 October 8 October 8 October 11 October 13 October 14 October 17 October 18 October 19 October 20 October 22 October 26 October 2 November 8 November 17 November 23 November", "id": "21637231" }, { "contents": "Follow-on\n\n\n, and gave England a slender lead of 129. The next day a fired-up Bob Willis took 8 for 43, and Australia slumped to 111 all out. Australia, who had won their 16 previous Test matches, including the first of the three-Test series between the two teams, had scored 445 in the first innings of the second Test and restricted India to 171; only V. V. S. Laxman (59) and Rahul Dravid reached 25 runs. The only other bright spot for India was the bowling of", "id": "1078812" }, { "contents": "West Indian cricket team in England in 2017\n\n\nThe West Indies cricket team toured England in August and September 2017 to play three Test matches competing for the Wisden Trophy, one Twenty20 International (T20I) and five One Day Internationals (ODIs). Ahead of the Test series, the West Indies played first-class warm-up matches against Derbyshire, Essex and Kent. They also played a two-day match against Leicestershire, as they did not get to the final of the 2017 NatWest t20 Blast. In October 2016 the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB)", "id": "1555387" }, { "contents": "England women's national rugby league team\n\n\nCup - WIN v France WIN v Russia | LOSS v Australia LOSS v New Zealand WIN v Pacific Islands 2009 International Tests - 25 July | France 8-28 England; France 0-36 England 2010 International Tests - 9 November | England 36-8 France 10 November | New Zealand 44-6 England 16 November | New Zealand 38-6 England 2011 International Tests - 2 July | France 6-36 England 6 July | France 4-42 England 2012 International Test - 15 June | England 48-0 France", "id": "9166568" }, { "contents": "International cricket\n\n\n, One-Day and Twenty20 matches take place in the form of \"tours\". In a tour, one nation travels to another and plays warm-up matches, which may be first-class matches, against domestic teams such as county or state teams, a series of Test matches against the host nation, and either a series of One-Day (ODi) and T20 matches against the host nation or a tournament involving the host nation and another touring nation. Tours may include Test, ODI and T20I matches", "id": "6028418" }, { "contents": "West Indian cricket team in England in 2000\n\n\nThe West Indies cricket team toured England in the 2000 cricket season. West Indies played five Tests against England - two in June and three in August - with a triangular One Day International (ODI) series involving Zimbabwe in July. In June, West Indies won the 1st Test at Edgbaston convincingly, before England narrowly won the 2nd Test at Lord's, having bowled West Indies out for 54 in their second innings. The ODI series, sponsored by NatWest, took place in July, with England, West Indies and Zimbabwe", "id": "12941417" }, { "contents": "First Test, 1948 Ashes series\n\n\nThe First Test of the 1948 Ashes series was one of five Tests in a cricket series between Australia and England. The match was played at Trent Bridge in Nottingham from 10 to 15 June with a rest day on 13 June. Australia won the match by eight wickets to take a 1–0 series lead. The Australians started the match as firm favourites, having won the previous series against England 3–0; in the lead-up to the 1948 series, they had won 10 of their 12 tour matches in England, mostly by", "id": "497621" }, { "contents": "Giles Baring\n\n\nAfricans on 22 May 1935, for Hampshire in Hampshire v Australians on 25 May 1938, and for H. D. G. Leveson Gowers XI v Australian Services on 7 July 1945. He played for Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) between 1935 and 1946, and his last first-class game was in the MCC v Cambridge University match on 29 June 1946. Baring was a right-arm fast bowler and also a right-hand batsman. As a bowler, he took 197 wickets for 5,607 runs, an average of 28.46.", "id": "9091808" }, { "contents": "Herbert Sutcliffe's cricket career (1919–27)\n\n\nWaddington in 1925. Arthur Mitchell was still a reserve and Cyril Turner made his first-class debut. The first four Tests of the 1926 England v Australia series were scheduled for just three days and were all curtailed by poor weather. The final Test at The Oval was timeless to ensure a finish. It has become one of the most famous matches in cricket history, not because England regained The Ashes for the first time since 1912 but for the manner it which it was achieved as Hobbs and Sutcliffe produced their most famous", "id": "18930780" }, { "contents": "Günther Lützow\n\n\nfighter destroyed. Two days later, he destroyed three aircraft, two SB-2 bombers and a Petlyakov Pe-2 ground attack aircraft. On 27 June, he shot down an Ilyushin DB-3 bomber followed by another Pe-2 on the following day, his last victory of June 1941. Following a DB-3 bomber claimed on 7 July, Lützow was credited with four aerial victories on 10 July, consisting of one Vultee V-11 attack aircraft and three I-153s. The next day he claimed an II-16. On 15 July he shot down two further I-16s and another", "id": "3340503" }, { "contents": "1966 in Norwegian football\n\n\nResults from Norwegian football in 1966. April 22 April 24 April 27 May 19 April 30 May 1 May 6 May 7 May 8 May 15 May 19 May 22 May 23 May 27 May 28 May 30 May 31 June 3 June 4 June 5 June 15 June 16 June 19 June 20 July 31 August 3 August 6 August 7 August 8 August 24 August 17 August 27 August 28 September 11 September 22 September 23 September 24 October 9 October 15 October 16 October 17 October 23 July 31 August 1 August 2 August 3 Rematch", "id": "21974049" }, { "contents": "Headingley Cricket Ground\n\n\nwickets each. Donald Bradman's innings of 334 in the 1930 Ashes Test included 309 runs on the first day, and he followed it in the Australians' next test at Headingley in 1934 with an innings of 304. Spinner Hedley Verity took 10 wickets for 10 runs in 1932 for Yorkshire v Nottinghamshire, still the best bowling analysis ever in first-class cricket. Verity had also taken all ten against Warwickshire at Headingley in 1931. In the 1948 Ashes series, Australia scored 404 for three on the last day to beat", "id": "11240346" }, { "contents": "List of international awards of Rohit Sharma\n\n\nRohit Sharma is an Indian international cricketer. He made his international cricket debut in June 2007. He has scored twenty-nine centuries in international cricket; three in Tests, twenty-two in One Day Internationals (ODI) and four in Twenty20 International (T20Is). As of July 2019, Sharma has played 27 Tests, 215 One Day Internationals and 94 Twenty20 Internationals. As of July 2019, Rohit won 19 Man of the Match awards and 4 Man of the Series awards in One Day Internationals; 1 Man of", "id": "21442897" }, { "contents": "Ollie Pope\n\n\nthe 2016 Royal London One-Day Cup against Yorkshire. He made his first-class debut on 28 March 2017 for Surrey against Oxford MCCU as part of the Marylebone Cricket Club University fixtures. Pope scored his maiden List A half-century on 7 May 2017 against Sussex. He made his Twenty20 debut for Surrey in the 2017 NatWest t20 Blast on 7 July 2017. In August 2018, he was added to England's squad for the second Test against India. He made his Test debut at Lord's for England against", "id": "11076451" }, { "contents": "Australian cricket team in the West Indies in 2015\n\n\nThe Australian cricket team toured the West Indies from 27 May to 15 June 2015. The tour consisted of one first-class warm-up match and two Test matches. On 8 April 2015, the West Indies Cricket Board brought forward the date of the two Test matches by two days \"due to a number of logistical challenges beyond [their] control\". Australia won the 2-match Test series 2–0 and therefore retained the Frank Worrell Trophy. Australia announced their squad on 31 March 2015. They included three uncapped players,", "id": "17936722" }, { "contents": "Zimbabwean cricket team in Sri Lanka in 2017\n\n\nThe Zimbabwe cricket team toured Sri Lanka in June and July 2017 to play one Test match and five One Day Internationals (ODIs). Originally, the schedule was for two Test matches and three ODIs. It was Zimbabwe's first tour to Sri Lanka since January 2002. All the matches were played as day games. Zimbabwe won the ODI series 3–2, their first ever series win against Sri Lanka. It was their first away series win since 2009 and the first away series win against a Test nation since defeating Bangladesh in", "id": "5384529" }, { "contents": "Ashwell Prince\n\n\nthe batting. Opening with debutant Imraan Khan, Prince scored 150, his 11th Test century. Prince signed a contract to play for Lancashire County Cricket Club the 2009 English season. He acted as cover for V. V. S. Laxman, the club's other overseas player, who was unavailable at times because he was playing in the Indian Premier League. Prince score his first century for Lancashire at the start of May during a match against Nottinghamshire. The knock came off 135 not out from 189 balls came on the final day of", "id": "12899038" }, { "contents": "Herbert Sutcliffe\n\n\nand 1926, Sutcliffe's skill was a primary factor in Yorkshire having the longest unbeaten run in county cricket: i.e., 70 matches without loss until early 1927. After three defeats in 1927, Yorkshire went a further 58 games without loss until 1929. The first four Tests of the 1926 England v Australia series were scheduled for just three days and were all curtailed by poor weather. The final Test at the Oval was timeless to ensure a finish. It has become one of the most famous matches in cricket history, not", "id": "18571331" }, { "contents": "Indian cricket team in England in 2011\n\n\nThe Indian cricket team toured England from 21 July to 16 September 2011. The tour consisted of one Twenty20 International (T20I), five One Day Internationals (ODIs) and four Test matches, as well as a number of matches against English county sides. The opening Test at Lord's was the 2,000th Test. England's victory in the Third Test put them number one in the world rankings. Virat Kohli, Pragyan Ojha and RP Singh replaced the injured Yuvraj Singh, Harbhajan Singh and Zaheer Khan, respectively, for the", "id": "4970296" }, { "contents": "Cricket in the British Isles\n\n\nIt played its first test match against Australia in 1877 and played its first One Day International (ODI) also againist Australia in 1971. One of the main cricket grounds in England, and also widely regarded as the spiritual home of cricket, is Lords Cricket Ground in London. Other major cricket grounds include The Oval (also in London), Edgbaston in Birmingham, Old Trafford in Manchester and Trent Bridge in Nottingham. From 1909 until 2017 England was the only country within the British Isles to have full membership of the ICC", "id": "17756246" }, { "contents": "Eton v Harrow\n\n\nplayed for Harrow in the four matches in 1822 to 1825, and arranged the first University Match at Lord's in 1827, two years before the first Boat Race. Many Eton and Harrow players went on to win blues at Oxford and Cambridge. Eton v Harrow was joined by the University Match and Gentlemen v Players as the three key features in the England cricket season. In its heyday, in the late 19th century and early 20th century, \"the School's day\" was one of the highlights of the London \"", "id": "10600897" }, { "contents": "Mathew Dimond\n\n\nMathew Dimond (born 24 September 1975) is a former English cricketer who made played for Somerset County Cricket Club between 1994 and 1997. Early in his career, he toured the West Indies with the England Under-19 cricket team, playing three Tests and one One Day International at Under-19 level. A right-arm fast-medium bowler, he made his first-class debut for Somerset in June 1994. Playing in the County Championship against Hampshire, Dimond claimed a solitary wicket in the match, which was shortened to single innings", "id": "558840" }, { "contents": "Charlie Charters\n\n\n’ Although the 2004 Islanders lost each of the three Test matches they played (29-14 v Wallabies, 41-26 v All Blacks and 24-38 v Springboks in Gosford, Australia), they scored 10 tries in three matches. By comparison that same southern hemisphere season, England and Scotland scored only three tries between them in their five Tests against the All Blacks and Wallabies. In fact, the 2004 Islanders scored more tries in one Test against the All Blacks (four) than the three tries the 2005", "id": "16741154" }, { "contents": "Australian cricket team in South Africa in 1993–94\n\n\nmatch by one run, levelling the ODI series at 4–4 with an \"improbable victory\". As well as the internationals, three first-class matches and two other matches were played during the tour The tour began with a friendly one-day match against NF Oppenheimer's XI, followed by a first-class match against Northern Transvaal and a one-day match against a representative side. Before the first Test match Australia played a first-class match against Orange Free State and between the first and second Tests they played", "id": "5209672" }, { "contents": "Bangladeshi cricket team in Zimbabwe in 2011\n\n\nThe Bangladesh cricket team toured Zimbabwe from 4 to 21 August 2011. The tour consisted of one Test match and five One Day Internationals (ODIs) played against the Zimbabwean national team and one first-class match played against a Zimbabwean representative team. The Test match was Zimbabwe's first since India toured Zimbabwe in 2005. Zimbabwe won the Test match by 130 runs and also won the one-day series 3–2. Bangladesh announced its squad for the Test match and ODI series on 15 July 2011. Zimbabwe announced its squad for", "id": "19159411" }, { "contents": "V. V. S. Laxman\n\n\nfrom international cricket. Although he was selected for the upcoming New Zealand series, he opted not to play in the series but he will play in domestic cricket for Hyderabad and the Indian Premier League . It was announced that the northern stand at the Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium will now be named after him. Laxman was particularly prolific against Australia, in both Tests and One Day Internationals. Six out of his 17 Test hundreds, and four out of his six ODI hundreds came against Australia. He has two double-centuries", "id": "9815623" }, { "contents": "3rd Battalion, 319th Field Artillery Regiment\n\n\nVII and another platoon to LZ Challenge from 3–5 July. Battery C located at FSB Rock near Bac Loc and conducted two 1-day raids on 11 & 13 June. Battery D located at LZ Lowboy, with 2 howitzers sent on Operation Red Thrust V in 5 days ending 2 May. On 12 July, Battery D displaced to support Battery A from FSB Hawkeye but returned to LZ Lowboy until 28 July, then occupied FSB Hunky. The battalion received three 105mm howitzers in May. In July, LTC John R. Martin replaced LTC Joseph", "id": "2060226" }, { "contents": "W. G. Grace in the 1878 English cricket season\n\n\nthis match attracted few spectators as it coincided with the Surrey v Australians match at The Oval, which drew very large crowds. \"Wisden Cricketers' Almanack\" commented that \"the Australians were attracting monster gatherings at The Oval on the days that this match was played, consequently very few visitors were at Lord's\". There were three North v South fixtures in June. The first two were played at Prince's Cricket Ground and Lord's with the South as the \"home\" team; the third took place at the", "id": "15478186" }, { "contents": "Third Test, 1948 Ashes series\n\n\nThe Third Test of the 1948 Ashes series was one of five Tests in a cricket series between teams representing Australia and England. The match was played at Old Trafford in Manchester from 8–13 July, with a rest day on 11 July. The match was drawn after the whole of the fourth day and the first half of the fifth day was washed out due to rain; England had the upper hand before the weather intervened. The draw maintained Australia's 2–0 lead in the series, which was established through victories in the first", "id": "497412" }, { "contents": "Giles Baring\n\n\n, Gresham's School, Holt, and Magdalene College, Cambridge. He represented Cambridge University in 1930 and 1931 and Hampshire between 1930 and 1939. Apart from more than fifty regular county championship games, he played in the Cambridge University v New Zealanders match of 3 June 1931, for the Gentlemen in the Gentlemen v Players matches of 2 September 1931 and 11 July 1934, for Hampshire in Hampshire v West Indians on 24 May 1933, for Hampshire in Hampshire v Australians on 23 May 1934, for Hampshire in Hampshire v South", "id": "9091807" }, { "contents": "2013–14 Bangladeshi cricket season\n\n\nand Mirpur. Both Test matches ended in draws, Bangladesh won all three One Day Internationals and New Zealand won the sole Twenty20 International. Sri Lanka toured Bangladesh in January and February 2014 playing two Test Matches, three One Day Internationals and two Twenty20 Internationals. Sri Lanka won every match, with the exception of the second Test match which ended in a draw. Initially it was planned that the NCL would be held in November and December 2013, the BCL in May and June 2014 and the BPL in December and January.", "id": "18068868" }, { "contents": "Darrell Hair\n\n\nby the ICC on 12 March 2008 and stood in the England v New Zealand tests at Old Trafford in May and Trent Bridge in June 2008. Hair umpired his first Test match in January 1992, between Australia and India in Adelaide. In 1994 the International Cricket Council (ICC) introduced a policy of appointing one umpire to each Test match from a non-participating country, and since 2002 both umpires have been appointed from non-participating nations. Since 2002 the majority of Hair’s Test matches have been played outside Australia", "id": "17469081" }, { "contents": "Timeline of events preceding World War II\n\n\n15 October 2 November 14 January February 6 March 7 March 25 May 5 June 3 July 17 August 1 October October 18 November 14 November 15 November 25 December 1 December 12 December 23 December 24 January 20 May 28 July 7 August 13 October 5 November 6 November 26 December 1 December 8 December 11 December 12 December 13 January 26 March 6 March 13 March 24 July 6–16 July 29 August September 27 September 30 October 5 November 7 November 9 January 25 January 27 March 14 March 15 March 16 March 20 March 21 March 23", "id": "6767331" }, { "contents": "South African cricket team in England in 1924\n\n\nThe South African cricket team toured England in the 1924 season to play a five-match Test series against England. England won the series 3-0 with 2 matches drawn. The tourists, with their ages on the first day of the first match of the tour on 3 May, were: George Parker (24) also played three first-class matches (including the first two Tests) and Aubrey Faulkner (42) played one match, the Third Test. The manager was George Allsop. South Africa's score", "id": "12941168" }, { "contents": "2018 English cricket season\n\n\ninternational sides toured England and Wales during the season: Pakistan, Australia and India. Pakistan also visited Ireland midway through the tour and played the Irish team's first Test match at Malahide near Dublin. In preparation for this match the Irish team played a first-class match against Somerset at Taunton in April. At the end of their tour Pakistan played two T20 matches in Scotland on 12 and 13 June. The England team played a One Day International (ODI) against Scotland in Edinburgh in June, losing to Scotland for", "id": "6929601" }, { "contents": "V. V. S. Laxman\n\n\n112 in the second test. This ensured his place on the tour of Australia which would be his third to that country. Laxman's good form continued in the 2007-08 Test series against Australia with him scoring 109 against Australia on the second day of the controversial Sydney Test to put India back into the contest. It was his 12th hundred in Test matches, and his 5th against Australia. It was also his third consecutive century at SCG, giving him an average well above 90 at the venue. He followed this", "id": "9815609" }, { "contents": "2019 Ashes series\n\n\nthree cricketers were named in Australia's squad for the 2019 Ashes. Meanwhile, England warmed up for the 2019 Ashes with a Test series earlier in the year against the West Indies and a one-off Test against Ireland in July. The tour of the West Indies comprised three matches and was won 2–1 by the West Indies. England also won the one-off Test against Ireland, by 143 runs. Ahead of the series, it was announced that Day 2 of the Lord’s Test would benefit the Ruth Strauss Foundation", "id": "18532603" }, { "contents": "V. V. S. Laxman\n\n\n1–1. He was awarded the Man of the Match for his match-winning innings of 96. His knock was voted as the best Test batting performance of the year by ESPNCricinfo. In three test matches, Laxman scored three consecutive fifties including two scores in eighties against the West Indies during India's tour of West Indies in June 2011. During India's Tour to England, Laxman scored just two half-centuries in eight innings as India went down 0–4 to England. This was India's first Test series loss since its", "id": "9815620" }, { "contents": "2014–15 Bangladeshi cricket season\n\n\nThe 2014–15 Bangladeshi cricket season featured tours of the country by Zimbabwe and Pakistan. Rangpur Division won the National Cricket League (NCL) championship title for the first time. Zimbabwe toured Bangladesh from 26 October to 1 December 2014, playing three Test matches and five One Day International matches. Bangladesh won the Test series 3–0 and the ODI series 5–0. Pakistan toured from 15 April to 10 May 2015, playing one Twenty20 International (T20I), three One Day Internationals (ODIs) and two Test matches. Pakistan won the Test", "id": "895026" }, { "contents": "Australia women's cricket team in England in 2019\n\n\nThe Australia women's cricket team toured England in June and July 2019 to play the England women's cricket team to contest the Women's Ashes. The tour consisted of three Women's One Day Internationals (WODIs), one Women's Test match and three Women's Twenty20 Internationals (WT20Is). A points-based system was used across all three formats of the tour. The Women's Ashes were held by Australia prior to the start of the series. Australia women won the WODI series 3–0, therefore taking a 6–0", "id": "15341273" }, { "contents": "Pakistani cricket team in England in 1962\n\n\nof three one-day games (not limited overs). The first two were drawn and the Pakistanis won the third one against Colonel Stevens' XI. These three matches were, in effect, warm-ups only and not first-class. The opening first-class fixture was against Worcestershire at New Road, starting on Wednesday, 2 May. The Pakistanis were given a foretaste of the Test series to come in that Tom Graveney scored a century for the home team (and was presented with his county cap immediately afterwards", "id": "12941094" }, { "contents": "New Zealand cricket team in Australia in 2015–16\n\n\nThe New Zealand cricket team toured Australia from 23 October to 1 December 2015 to play three Test matches and four tour matches. The third match of the series at the Adelaide Oval was the first ever day-night Test. Michael Hussey captained the Prime Minister's XI side for the tour match, and in preparation for the day-night Test, a pink ball was used in this game. Australia won the series 2–0, with victories in Brisbane and Adelaide, with the second Test in Perth being drawn. Following the", "id": "1307472" }, { "contents": "Kennington\n\n\nThe Kia Oval\", is the home ground for Surrey County Cricket Club and hosts the final Test match of the English summer season. The Oval was the first ground in the United Kingdom to host Test cricket, was the location for the England v Scotland representative matches, the first ever international football match, the first FA Cup final in 1872, and held the second ever rugby union international match between England and Scotland in 1872. England's unfortunate performance against Australia here in 1882 gave rise to The Ashes. The Oval", "id": "10346916" }, { "contents": "Indian cricket team in Zimbabwe in 2001\n\n\nThe Indian cricket team toured Zimbabwe from 28 May to 7 July 2001 and played two Test matches against Zimbabwe, with each team winning one game match. This would be Zimbabwe's only Test victory over a side other than Bangladesh until they beat Pakistan in the second Test in 2013. India and Zimbabwe also participated in a triangular One Day International (ODI) competition with West Indies, with the latter eventually winning the competition. The Coca-Cola Cup was a One Day International (ODI) tournament that followed the Test series", "id": "4099650" }, { "contents": "Andrew Balbirnie\n\n\nHe played three further One Day International's during the tournament. He made his Twenty20 International debut against Scotland on 19 June 2015, although no play was possible due to rain. He was part of the Ireland A team which toured Bangladesh in October 2017 to play one first-class match and five limited overs matches against the Bangladesh A team. In May 2018, he was named in a fourteen-man squad for Ireland's first ever Test match, which was played against Pakistan later the same month. He made his", "id": "2597279" }, { "contents": "Pakistani cricket team in Scotland in 2018\n\n\nThe Pakistan cricket team toured Scotland to play two Twenty20 International (T20I) matches at The Grange Club, Edinburgh, on 12 and 13 June 2018. Pakistan last toured Scotland in May 2013 to play two One Day Internationals. Both teams last met in a T20I fixture in the group stage of the 2007 ICC World Twenty20 tournament. This was the first time that Scotland had played a home T20I match against a full member side. The tour followed Pakistan's tour of England and their one Test series in Ireland. England also", "id": "373509" }, { "contents": "2017 June rugby union tests\n\n\n2 sides. Australia, the only southern hemisphere Tier 1 nation not to host a test series, staged three one-off test matches; Scotland, Italy and Fiji. The Fijian test was the first between the two sides in Australia since 2010, and was also the first Australia v Tier 2 nation match in Australia since Samoa visited in 2011. Fiji also played host to Italy and Scotland to become the second Tier 2 nation to play three back-back Tier 1 sides during an international window, after Samoa participated in", "id": "13232867" }, { "contents": "Timeline of the 2014 Pacific hurricane season\n\n\nJune 11 June 12 June 13 June 14 June 15 June 28 June 30 July 1 July 2 July 3 July 6 July 7 July 9 July 17 July 18 July 19 July 25 July 26 July 27 July 28 July 29 July 31 August 1 August 2 August 3 August 4 August 5 August 6 August 7 August 8 August 9 August 10 August 12 August 13 August 14 August 15 August 17 August 18 August 21 August 22 August 23 August 24 August 25 August 26 August 27 August 28 August 29 September 2 September 4 September 6", "id": "2400921" } ]

[ { "contents": "Sri Lankan cricket team in England in 2014\n\n\nThe Sri Lanka national cricket team toured England from 13 May to 24 June 2014 for a Twenty20 International (T20I), five One Day Internationals (ODIs) and two Test matches against the England cricket team. They also played three one-day and one four-day tour matches against English county sides, as well as preceding the entire tour with a two-match ODI series against Ireland. Sri Lanka won the Test series 1–0 (the first time they had won a Test series in England), the ODI series", "id": "21939883" }, { "contents": "New Zealand cricket team in England in 2015\n\n\nThe New Zealand national cricket team toured England from 8 May to 23 June 2015 for two Test matches, five One Day Internationals (ODIs) and a Twenty20 International (T20I) against the England cricket team. They also played two four-day tour matches and a one-day match against English county sides. England won the first Test at Lord's before New Zealand claimed victory in the second Test at Headingley to level the series. England then took an early lead in the ODI series after hitting more than 400 runs", "id": "943447" }, { "contents": "Australian cricket team in England and Ireland in 2015\n\n\nThe Australia national cricket team toured England from June to September 2015 for a five-match Test series, five One Day International (ODI) matches and one Twenty20 International (T20I). The Test series was for the Ashes. They also played two four-day and two three-day first-class matches against English county sides. Australia also played one ODI against Ireland in Belfast. On 31 March 2015, Australia announced a 17-man touring party for the Ashes series. England announced their squad for the first Test on", "id": "1657670" }, { "contents": "David Constant\n\n\n67 first-class appearances. In total he scored 1,517 first-class runs at a batting average of 19.20 with a highest score of 80. Tony Lewis described his innings against Glamorgan on a difficult pitch at Leicester in 1965 as \"one of the bravest innings I ever saw\". His first Test as umpire was the Third Test between England and Pakistan in July 1971. He last stood in an international cricket match in the England v. Australia One Day International at The Oval, London in June 2001. He was the", "id": "14539375" }, { "contents": "Pakistani cricket team in Sri Lanka in 2015\n\n\nThe Pakistan cricket team toured Sri Lanka from 11 June to 1 August 2015. The tour consisted of a three-day tour match against a SLCB President's XI, three Test matches, five One Day International and two Twenty20 International matches. The third Test was originally scheduled to be played at the R Premadasa Stadium, but was changed to the Pallekele International Cricket Stadium in early May. Pakistan outplayed the hosts in all forms of the game by winning the Test series 2–1, the ODI series 3–2 and the T20I series 2–0.", "id": "15080177" }, { "contents": "2010 in American music\n\n\n17 March 22 March 23 March 26 March 30 April 6 April 8 April 13 April 19 April 20 April 21 April 27 April 30 May 4 May 11 May 14 May 17 May 18 May 21 May 25 May 31 June 1 June 8 June 14 June 15 June 18 June 21 June 22 June 28 June 29 July 6 July 7 July 12 July 13 July 15 July 20 July 23 July 25 July 27 July 29 August 3 August 17 August 24 August 31 September 7 September 14 September 21 September 23 September 28 October 5 October", "id": "18556206" }, { "contents": "Warwickshire County Cricket Club\n\n\nand gold and the shirt sponsor is Gullivers Sports Travel. The club's home is Edgbaston Cricket Ground in south Birmingham, which regularly hosts Test and One Day International matches. Cricket may have reached Warwickshire by the end of the 17th century. The \"Warwickshire & Staffordshire Journal\" was certainly aware of the sport in 1738 for it carried a report of a London v Mitcham game at the Artillery Ground on 11 August (London won by 1 wicket). The earliest confirmed reference to cricket in the county is a match announcement", "id": "8941185" }, { "contents": "Irish cricket team in England in 2019\n\n\nThe Ireland cricket team toured England in July 2019 to play a one-off four-day Test match at Lord's. It was the first Test match to be played between the two sides, and was England's first four-day Test match since they toured New Zealand in 1971. It was Ireland's third Test match, and their twelfth international fixture against England. The Test match was part of England's preparations for the 2019 Ashes series. Ahead of the Test, the England cricket team visited Ireland in May", "id": "16268672" }, { "contents": "1919 English cricket season\n\n\n(five wins from fourteen) and Warwickshire were bottom with 7.14% (one win from fourteen). The 1919 County Championship was the 26th since the competition acquired official status in 1890. The opening matches began on Friday, 16 May. These were Middlesex v Nottinghamshire at Lord's and the 1914 (reigning) champions Surrey against Somerset at The Oval. The final match between Essex and Surrey at Leyton was completed on Monday, 1 September. The situation between Yorkshire and Kent on Saturday, 30 August (the second day in", "id": "7320450" }, { "contents": "Timeline of the 2013 Pacific hurricane season\n\n\n15 May 16 May 17 May 28 May 29 May 30 June 1 June 23 June 24 June 25 June 26 June 27 June 29 June 30 July 2 July 3 July 4 July 5 July 6 July 7 July 9 July 25 July 27 July 30 July 31 August 2 August 3 August 4 August 6 August 7 August 8 August 9 August 11 August 16 August 18 August 19 August 20 August 22 August 23 August 24 August 25 August 28 August 29 August 30 August 31 September 1 September 2 September 5 September 6 September 7 September", "id": "957237" }, { "contents": "Prince's Cricket Ground\n\n\nas 'grand and quick and one of the finest playing grounds in England'. The first match played on the ground was Household Brigade v. Lords and Commons on 3 June 1871. Middlesex County Cricket Club used the ground between 1872 and 1876 and played their first match on 23–25 May 1872 against Yorkshire. The ground was also used by South of England and by Gentlemen of the South. Several Gentlemen v Players fixtures were also played there, the first taking place in July 1873. In 1878, the touring Australians played two", "id": "19086180" }, { "contents": "Callum Jackson\n\n\nSussex youth ranks, playing at under-13, under-14, under-15 and under-17 level before joining the second XI as a 16-year-old in 2011. He was selected to represent an English Schools Cricket Association XI in 2011 before making his first appearance for the Sussex first XI on 1 May 2012 in a non-first-class match against the Leeds/Bradford MCC Universities team. In early 2013, Jackson was selected for the England under-19 side to tour South Africa, where he played in both Youth Test matches and three One Day", "id": "16290826" }, { "contents": "2018 English cricket season\n\n\nHurricane Irma and Hurricane Maria in September 2017. Pakistan played two Test matches against England at Lord's and Headingley at the end of May and beginning of June. The series was drawn, each side winning one match. Ahead of the Tests, two first-class matches were played against Kent and Northants. Their match against Ireland took place after the two first-class county matches, and a two-day match was played against Leicestershire between this and the first Test against England. Pakistan won the first Test match by", "id": "6929603" }, { "contents": "1963 in Norwegian football\n\n\nResults from Norwegian football in 1963. April 26 April 28 May 3 May 4 May 5 May 11 May 12 May 30 May 19 May 22 May 23 May 26 May 27 June 7 June 8 June 9 June 14 June 15 June 16 June 22 June 23 June 24 July 26 July 28 July 29 August 2 August 4 August 6 August 17 August 18 August 21 August 22 August 24 August 25 September 7 September 8 September 20 September 22 October 4 October 6 October 13 Årstad promoted Nidelv promoted Harstad - Bodø/Glimt 4 -", "id": "20433032" }, { "contents": "West Indian cricket team in England in 1991\n\n\nThe West Indian cricket team in England in 1991 played three one day internationals and five Tests, under the captaincy of Viv Richards, as part of an extensive tour in which they also played first-class matches against 11 first-class county teams, the combined Minor Counties, the Combined Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, and a World XI to finish, plus 55-over one-day matches against one more first-class county (Gloucestershire) and the Duchess of Norfolk's Invitation XI. Of the non-international matches,", "id": "5157419" }, { "contents": "West Indian cricket team in England in 2007\n\n\nThe West Indian cricket team toured England from 12 May to 7 July 2007 as part of the 2007 English cricket season. The tour included four Tests, two Twenty20 international matches and three One Day Internationals. While England dominated the Test series 3–0, including a record victory over the West Indies, the latter took the ODI series 2:1. In the ICC Test Championship, England are ranked second and West Indies are ranked eighth, though England's most recent series was a whitewash loss in the Ashes against Australia for the first time", "id": "12941423" }, { "contents": "Sri Lankan cricket team in the West Indies in 2018\n\n\nOn 19 May 2018, Cricket West Indies (CWI) announced that they may scrap one of the Test fixtures, replacing it with a couple of one-day matches. However, the day before the first Test, the International Cricket Council (ICC) confirmed that it would be a three-match Test series. Prior to the start of day three of the second Test, the Sri Lankan cricket team protested against umpires' decision on starting the third day's play with a new ball, replacing the old ball.", "id": "19622271" }, { "contents": "Timeline of the 2017 Pacific hurricane season\n\n\ncyclone formations, strengthening, weakening, landfalls, extratropical transitions, and dissipations during the season. May 9 May 10 May 11 May 12 May 15 May 31 June 1 June 2 June 11 June 12 June 13 June 24 June 25 June 26 June 27 June 28 July 1 July 7 July 8 July 9 July 10 July 11 July 12 July 13 July 14 July 15 July 16 July 17 July 18 July 19 July 20 July 21 July 22 July 23 July 24 July 25 July 26 July 27 July 28 July 31 August 1", "id": "7169450" }, { "contents": "Daniel Bell-Drummond\n\n\nmade his youth Test debut on 21 July 2010 at the County Ground, Northampton before scoring unbeaten 88 in the second youth Test later in the same month, aged only 16. He played in both under-19 Test matches and in four youth one-day international matches during England's return tour of Sri Lanka in January and February 2011. In July 2011 Bell-Drummond played in a one-day series against South Africa under-19s. He top-scored for England in three of the seven matches in the series and was the", "id": "6732560" }, { "contents": "1967 in Norwegian football\n\n\nResults from Norwegian football in 1967. April 27 April 28 April 30 May 4 May 6 May 7 May 10 May 11 May 15 May 16 May 18 May 19 May 20 May 21 May 22 June 22 May 25 May 28 June 4 June 10 June 11 June 12 June 13 June 18 June 19 July 30 July 31 August 2 August 6 August 7 August 9 August 10 August 20 August 16 August 20 August 21 September 7 September 10 September 16 September 17 October 6 October 8 October 9 October 12 October 15 October 20 October", "id": "2081596" }, { "contents": "Phil Carlson\n\n\nPhillip Henry Carlson (born 8 August 1951, Nundah, Queensland) is a former Australian cricketer who played in two Tests and four One Day Internationals (ODIs) in 1979. Carlson was an all-rounder who played for Queensland between 1969–70 and 1980–81. He played two Test matches for Australia v England in 1978–79 Ashes series and four One Day Internationals against the same opponents. He was called up by Australia when most of their regular first-choice players were playing in World Series Cricket. Carlson took two Test wickets and", "id": "11409623" }, { "contents": "1962 in Norwegian football\n\n\nResults from Norwegian football in 1962. July 30 August 2 August 3 August 9 August 8 August 13 August 16 August 20 August 21 September 2 September 3 Ørn - Brann 0 - 7 September 24 September 28 October 1 October 15 April 25 October 6 October 8 April 29 May 6 May 12 May 13 May 14 May 20 May 21 May 23 May 24 May 27 May 30 May 31 June 3 June 15 June 16 June 17 June 24 June 25 June 30 July 1 July 29 August 1 August 2 August 4 August 5 August", "id": "9107175" }, { "contents": "Alan Igglesden\n\n\nAlan Paul Igglesden (born 8 October 1964) is a former English Test cricketer. He played three Test Matches and four One Day Internationals (ODIs) for the England cricket team between 1989 and 1994 as a fast bowler. He played most of his first-class cricket career for Kent County Cricket Club. Igglesden was born in Farnborough, London in 1964. He first played for Kent County Cricket Club's Second XI in 1983 before making his first-class cricket debut of the county in July 1986 against Somerset at Maidstone", "id": "8795795" }, { "contents": "Sri Lankan cricket team in England and Ireland in 2016\n\n\nThe Sri Lanka national cricket team toured England from 8 May to 5 July 2016 for a three-match Test series, a five-match One Day International (ODI) series and a one-off Twenty20 International (T20I) against the England cricket team. England won the Test series 2–0, the ODI series 3–0 and won the one-off T20I match by 8 wickets. They also played two first-class matches against Essex and Leicestershire prior to the Test series, and two ODI matches against Ireland prior to the", "id": "15635062" }, { "contents": "South African cricket team in England in 2008\n\n\nThe South African cricket team toured England between 29 June and 4 September 2008. They played four Test matches, one Twenty20 International and five One Day Internationals against England. They also played six tour matches against Somerset, Middlesex, Bangladesh A, a PCA Masters XI and two against the England Lions. It was announced that following the conclusion of this four-match series, future matches between England and South Africa would comprise five Test matches but only three one-day matches after the series was granted 'icon' status.", "id": "18079110" }, { "contents": "2018 English cricket season\n\n\nthe first time in an ODI. The South African women's team also toured England to play three One Day International matches against the England women's cricket team in June and to compete in the 2018 England women's Tri-Nation Series Twenty20 competition against England and New Zealand. New Zealand then played three One Day Internationals against England in July. In addition the West Indies men's side played a single Twenty20 International against a Rest of the World XI team at Lord's in May 2018 to raise funds for stadiums damaged by", "id": "6929602" }, { "contents": "American Rally Association\n\n\nWood Rally March 15 - 16 Olympus Rally April 27 - 28 Oregon Trail Rally May 31 - June 2 Idaho Rally International June 22 - 23 New England Forest Rally July 19 - 20 Muscatell Ojibwe Forests Rally August 23 - 24 Susquehannock Trail Performance Rally September 13 - 14 Lake Superior Performance Rally October 18 - 19 2019 ARA Super Regional Events Southern Ohio Forest Rally May 16 - 18 Rally Colorado July 26 - 27 Tour de Forest Rally September 21, 2019 Empire State Performance Rally October 25 - 26 2019 ARA One-Day Regional", "id": "6404348" }, { "contents": "Pakistani cricket team in England and Ireland in 2016\n\n\nThe Pakistan national cricket team toured England and Ireland from 3 July to 7 September 2016 for a four-match Test series, a five-match One Day International (ODI) series and a one-off Twenty20 International (T20I) against the England cricket team. They also played two three-day matches against Somerset and Sussex prior to the Test series, a two-day match against Worcestershire during the Test series, and two ODI matches against Ireland prior to the ODI series. England's ODI matches against Pakistan was", "id": "15635130" }, { "contents": "Second Test, 1948 Ashes series\n\n\nThe Second Test of the 1948 Ashes series was one of five Tests in a cricket series between Australia and England. The match was played at Lord's in London from 24 to 29 June, with a rest day on 27 June. Australia won the match by 409 runs to take a 2–0 lead, meaning that England would need to win the remaining three matches to regain The Ashes. Australian captain Don Bradman won the toss and elected to bat. The tourists had won the First Test convincingly, and decided to field the", "id": "497516" }, { "contents": "MCC v Australians at Lord's, 27 May 1878\n\n\nin England, the team left Sydney on 29 March 1878 and sailed via Auckland and Honolulu to San Francisco, from where they travelled across America by train to New York City. They crossed the Atlantic, arriving in Liverpool on 13 May, and then went by train to Nottingham where they played their first match, starting on Monday, 20 May. This was a three-day match against Nottinghamshire at Trent Bridge and the Australians were well beaten by an innings and 14 runs, an inauspicious start which dampened much of the public", "id": "16383632" }, { "contents": "Australian women's cricket team in England in 2013\n\n\nThe Australian women's cricket team toured England in 2013. The visitors were defending the Women's Ashes. The only Test match of the tour took place on 11–14 August at Wormsley Park, and was drawn. Three One-Day Internationals (ODIs) were played: the first at Lord's on 20 August, and the other two at Hove on 23 and 25 August. Also three Twenty20 International (T20I) matches were played, on 27, 29 and 31 August, at Chelmsford, Southampton and Chester-le-", "id": "19064429" }, { "contents": "South African cricket team in England in 2017\n\n\nThe South African cricket team toured England and Wales between May and August 2017, playing three One Day Internationals (ODIs), three Twenty20 Internationals (T20Is) and four Test matches. The ODI matches were in preparation for the 2017 ICC Champions Trophy, which took place in England and Wales during June. Extra security was provided to South Africa for the ODI series following the Manchester bombing. England won the ODI series 2–1 and the T20 series 2–1. Ahead of the ODI series, South Africa played one-day warm-", "id": "1555384" }, { "contents": "1Malaysia Development Berhad scandal\n\n\n- 30 September onwards October 20 November 25 December 1 December 5 December 31 2016 January 26 January 29 February 1 February 3 February 7 February 19 February 29 March 23 March 31 April 2 April 5 April 7 April 9 April 12 April 13 April 19 April 28 May 24 May 31 July 11 1MDB agrees to resolve its dispute with International Petroleum Investment Company via the London Court of International Arbitration. July 21 August 9 October 11 December 2 2017 March 22 April 24 May 30 June 15 June 16 August 1 August 2 August 11 August", "id": "14280441" }, { "contents": "Timeline of events preceding World War II\n\n\nJune 30 September 14 May 19 September 18 September 19 January 7 January 28 February 27 March 1 April 10 May 30 August 30 November 21 December 3 January 1 January 30 February 27 February 28 March 4 March 20 March 23 March 24 March 27 April 1 April 26 May 2 May 15 May 31 June 21 July 14 August 25 September 12 October 19 November 24 January 26 February 12–16 March 20 June 30 July 20 July 25 August 2 August 8 September October 16 December 1 December 5 December 29 January 7 June 18 August 31 September", "id": "6767330" }, { "contents": "Timeline of the 2018 Pacific hurricane season\n\n\ntropical cyclone formations, strengthening, weakening, landfalls, extratropical transitions, and dissipations during the season. May 10 May 11 May 13 May 15 June 1 June 6 June 7 June 8 June 9 June 10 June 11 June 12 June 13 June 14 June 15 June 16 June 17 June 19 June 24 June 25 June 26 June 27 June 28 June 29 June 30 July 1 July 2 July 3 July 4 July 5 July 6 July 9 July 26 July 27 July 28 July 29 July 31 August 1 August 2 August 3 August", "id": "21166816" }, { "contents": "English cricket team in Australia in 2017–18\n\n\nThe England cricket team toured Australia between November 2017 and February 2018 to play five Tests and five One Day Internationals (ODIs). They also played in a three nation Twenty20 International (T20I) tournament, along with New Zealand, who co-hosted the tournament along with Australia. England additionally played two first-class matches, a two-day tour match and a one-day tour match against Cricket Australia XI, as well as a Twenty20 against the Prime Minister's XI. The Test matches made up the 2017–18", "id": "21532277" }, { "contents": "Timeline of events preceding World War II\n\n\nApril 16 August 13 October October 11 October 29 November 1 January 11 June July 24 August 31 September 27 October 29 November 8 January 21 February 1 March 16 April 1 April 6 June 10 August 16 August 18 May 12 July 18 December 1 January 3 January 31 April 4 April 24 September 8 December 25 April 12 May 20 June 7 November 12 December 14 May 3 May 28 June 4 August 2 August 27 October 1 February 9 February 11 March 4 March 28 April 3 June 7 July 24 August 31 October 29 April 22", "id": "6767329" }, { "contents": "W. G. Grace in the 1878 English cricket season\n\n\nNewcastle upon Tyne, Bolton and Birmingham to play odds games against local opposition. Grace took 21 wickets in the match against the 22 men of Melton Mowbray in a three-day match starting on Monday, 1 July. He scored 42 and 57 not out in his two innings, the match ending in a draw. Grace caught the evening train to be in London ready for the first Gentlemen v Players match at The Oval, starting on Thursday, 4 July. The next USEE match at Leeds Holbeck followed the second Gentlemen", "id": "15478205" }, { "contents": "List of accidents and incidents involving military aircraft (1950–1954)\n\n\n12 December 19 December 23 December 10 January 11 January 15 January 21 January 28 January 31 January 14 February 13 March 14 March 17 March 23 March 3 April 5 April 5 April 8 April 25 April 27 April 6 May 18 May 19 May 8 June 13 June 15 June 18 June 23 June 23 June 30 June 8 July 31 July Summer 13 August 18 August 21 August 22 August 26 August 27 August 16 September 29 September 15 October 11 November 13 November 19 November 27 November 3 December 7 December 21 December 12 January 15", "id": "21637229" }, { "contents": "Lord's\n\n\nbe switched off by 11 pm. The floodlights were first used successfully on 27 May 2009 during the Twenty20 Cup match between Middlesex and Kent. Lord's hosts Test matches, one-day internationals, some Middlesex home matches, MCC matches and (starting with a fixture between Middlesex and Surrey in July 2004) some of Middlesex's home Twenty20 games. Lord's typically hosts two Tests every summer plus two one-day internationals. Lord's also plays host to the finals of the National Village Cricket Competition, the MCC Universities", "id": "10760657" }, { "contents": "2011 in American music\n\n\nThe following is a list of notable events and releases that happened in 2011 in music in the United States. January 11 January 17 January 18 January 21 January 25 January 31 February 1 February 8 February 15 February 22 March 1 March 8 March 15 March 22 March 29 April 5 April 11 April 12 April 26 May 3 May 10 May 17 May 23 May 24 May 31 June 7 June 14 June 21 June 28 July 5 July 8 July 12 July 13 July 19 July 26 August 2 August 8 August 9 August 16 August", "id": "15423555" }, { "contents": "MCC v Australians at Lord's, 27 May 1878\n\n\nenthusiasm that their visit had generated. The Australians were next due to play Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) in a three-day match at Lord's, commencing on Monday, 27 May. In the meantime, Charles Bannerman and Billy Midwinter were invited to visit Dublin and play for the United South of England Eleven (USEE) against 15 past and present players of Dublin University. This was due to be played over three days, starting on Thursday, 23 May, at College Park. The USEE was captained by W. G.", "id": "16383633" }, { "contents": "West Indian cricket team in England in 1928\n\n\nreach three figures. As at Lord's and Old Trafford, the match was over before lunch on the third day. Including the three Tests, 30 first-class matches were played on the tour, plus six other games. The West Indians won just seven of these 36 matches (five of the first-class games) and lost 12. By the end of May, the touring side had won matches against Derbyshire and Cambridge University, plus a minor match against Northumberland, and had drawn all the other games.", "id": "12941340" }, { "contents": "Bob Willis\n\n\n26 August against Worcestershire's Seconds. Willis, 19 years of age, took one wicket for 48 runs in the first innings, and bowled four wicketless overs in the second. He was not called on to bat at all. Two days later, he faced Glamorgan and took three wickets. He played several further Second XI matches through May and June 1969, before his first-class debut on 6 August. Scotland was touring England that season and had already beaten Warwickshire. Willis took three wickets for 13 runs from 13", "id": "16238759" }, { "contents": "Rock in Rio\n\n\n5 July 6 May 21 / 82.000 May 22 / 45.000 May 27 / 85.000 May 29 / 95.000 May 30 / 38.000 June 4 / 51.000 June 5 / 85.000 June 6 / 90.000 June 11 / 30.000 June 14 / 48.000 Rock in Rio Lisboa V Rock in Rio Lisboa VII Rock in Rio Lisboa VIII June 24 sold out almost three months prior to the festival. \"Rock in Rio USA\" was the first North American edition of the festival, being held in Las Vegas on May 8, 9, 15 and 16", "id": "11140715" }, { "contents": "Indian cricket team in Sri Lanka in 2015\n\n\nThe Indian cricket team toured Sri Lanka from 6 August to 1 September 2015 to play a tour match and three Test matches. On 27 June, Sri Lankan batsman Kumar Sangakkara said he would retire from international cricket after the second Test of the series. The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) and Sri Lanka Cricket Board confirmed the schedule of India's tour to Sri Lanka in August to September 2015. The tour started with a three-day warm-up game against Sri Lanka Board President's XI,", "id": "22038367" }, { "contents": "Andy Cottam\n\n\nAndrew Colin Cottam (born 14 July 1973 in Northampton, England) was an English cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman and a left-arm slow bowler. He played in 2 Under-19 Tests in 1992 and 13 first-class matches between 1992 and 1996. His father is the cricketer and coach Bob Cottam. In 1990 Andy Cottam started playing for Somerset Second XI and Devon. In 1992 he was selected for Under-19's tour of Pakistan and played in the Third Test and 2 one-day matches against Pakistan", "id": "2981363" }, { "contents": "Lord's\n\n\n. The hundredth Lord's Test match was in 2000, England v West Indies. As of 25 August 2010 England have played 119 Test matches at Lord's, winning 45, losing 28 and drawing 46. Lord's often hosts two Test matches each summer, one match for each visiting team. In 2010, the ground hosted three Test matches: as well as England's matches against Bangladesh and Pakistan, a Test match between Australia and Pakistan was held there in July. Lord's was the venue of the 2000th test", "id": "10760663" }, { "contents": "Australian cricket team in Sri Lanka in 2016\n\n\nThe Australian cricket team toured Sri Lanka from 18 July to 9 September 2016 to play three Test matches, five One Day Internationals (ODIs), two Twenty20 Internationals (T20Is) matches and a first-class practice match. The Test series was played for Warne-Muralitharan Trophy, with Sri Lanka winning 3–0, their first ever series whitewash against Australia. As a result, Australia slipped from first to third in the ICC Test Championship; Sri Lanka, who had started the series ranked seventh, moved up to sixth.", "id": "14912886" }, { "contents": "South African cricket team in Australia in 2005–06\n\n\nThe South African cricket team toured Australia for cricket matches during the 2005–06 season. South Africa had already played two One Day International series during this season, beating New Zealand 4–0 at home before travelling to India and drawing the series there 2–2. The team had been playing 14 successive ODIs (tour matches excluded) before arriving in Australia, with their last Test match against West Indies in April and May 2005. South Africa played one first class warm-up match, one three-day warm-up match without first class", "id": "19860549" }, { "contents": "Peter Lever\n\n\n6/38, before his final Test ended on 5 August 1975 during another Ashes tour, Australia facing England at Lord's. Lever also played ten One Day Internationals, including the 1975 Cricket World Cup, taking 11 wickets but scoring only 17 runs. His ODI debut was also against Australia, at Melbourne on 5 January 1971, and his last match was at Headingley, Leeds, again against Australia, on 18 June 1975. This gives Lever the unusual distinction of having played both his debut, and last match, against Australia", "id": "17765992" }, { "contents": "Australian women's cricket team in England in 2009\n\n\nThe Australian women's cricket team toured England between 25 June and 13 July 2009, playing one Test match, five One Day Internationals and a Twenty20 International. Australia won the Twenty20 International, while England won the One Day International series 4–0. The Test match, which was for the Women's Ashes, was drawn; ensuring that England retained them. Prior to the series, both sides took part in the 2009 ICC Women's World Twenty20, which was also held in England in June. England won the tournament, in", "id": "13250607" }, { "contents": "List of accidents and incidents involving military aircraft (1950–1954)\n\n\nJanuary 31 January 7 February 18 March 21 April 24 April May 11 May 12 May 15 May 9 June 11 June 13 June 17 June 18 June 21 June 15 July 17 July 30 July 6 August 6 August 12 August 23 August 26 August 30 August 5 September 9 September 9 September 9 September 11 September 19 September 19 September 25 September 1 October 1 October 7 October 8 October 8 October 11 October 13 October 14 October 17 October 18 October 19 October 20 October 22 October 26 October 2 November 8 November 17 November 23 November", "id": "21637231" }, { "contents": "Follow-on\n\n\n, and gave England a slender lead of 129. The next day a fired-up Bob Willis took 8 for 43, and Australia slumped to 111 all out. Australia, who had won their 16 previous Test matches, including the first of the three-Test series between the two teams, had scored 445 in the first innings of the second Test and restricted India to 171; only V. V. S. Laxman (59) and Rahul Dravid reached 25 runs. The only other bright spot for India was the bowling of", "id": "1078812" }, { "contents": "West Indian cricket team in England in 2017\n\n\nThe West Indies cricket team toured England in August and September 2017 to play three Test matches competing for the Wisden Trophy, one Twenty20 International (T20I) and five One Day Internationals (ODIs). Ahead of the Test series, the West Indies played first-class warm-up matches against Derbyshire, Essex and Kent. They also played a two-day match against Leicestershire, as they did not get to the final of the 2017 NatWest t20 Blast. In October 2016 the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB)", "id": "1555387" }, { "contents": "England women's national rugby league team\n\n\nCup - WIN v France WIN v Russia | LOSS v Australia LOSS v New Zealand WIN v Pacific Islands 2009 International Tests - 25 July | France 8-28 England; France 0-36 England 2010 International Tests - 9 November | England 36-8 France 10 November | New Zealand 44-6 England 16 November | New Zealand 38-6 England 2011 International Tests - 2 July | France 6-36 England 6 July | France 4-42 England 2012 International Test - 15 June | England 48-0 France", "id": "9166568" }, { "contents": "International cricket\n\n\n, One-Day and Twenty20 matches take place in the form of \"tours\". In a tour, one nation travels to another and plays warm-up matches, which may be first-class matches, against domestic teams such as county or state teams, a series of Test matches against the host nation, and either a series of One-Day (ODi) and T20 matches against the host nation or a tournament involving the host nation and another touring nation. Tours may include Test, ODI and T20I matches", "id": "6028418" }, { "contents": "West Indian cricket team in England in 2000\n\n\nThe West Indies cricket team toured England in the 2000 cricket season. West Indies played five Tests against England - two in June and three in August - with a triangular One Day International (ODI) series involving Zimbabwe in July. In June, West Indies won the 1st Test at Edgbaston convincingly, before England narrowly won the 2nd Test at Lord's, having bowled West Indies out for 54 in their second innings. The ODI series, sponsored by NatWest, took place in July, with England, West Indies and Zimbabwe", "id": "12941417" }, { "contents": "First Test, 1948 Ashes series\n\n\nThe First Test of the 1948 Ashes series was one of five Tests in a cricket series between Australia and England. The match was played at Trent Bridge in Nottingham from 10 to 15 June with a rest day on 13 June. Australia won the match by eight wickets to take a 1–0 series lead. The Australians started the match as firm favourites, having won the previous series against England 3–0; in the lead-up to the 1948 series, they had won 10 of their 12 tour matches in England, mostly by", "id": "497621" }, { "contents": "Giles Baring\n\n\nAfricans on 22 May 1935, for Hampshire in Hampshire v Australians on 25 May 1938, and for H. D. G. Leveson Gowers XI v Australian Services on 7 July 1945. He played for Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) between 1935 and 1946, and his last first-class game was in the MCC v Cambridge University match on 29 June 1946. Baring was a right-arm fast bowler and also a right-hand batsman. As a bowler, he took 197 wickets for 5,607 runs, an average of 28.46.", "id": "9091808" }, { "contents": "Herbert Sutcliffe's cricket career (1919–27)\n\n\nWaddington in 1925. Arthur Mitchell was still a reserve and Cyril Turner made his first-class debut. The first four Tests of the 1926 England v Australia series were scheduled for just three days and were all curtailed by poor weather. The final Test at The Oval was timeless to ensure a finish. It has become one of the most famous matches in cricket history, not because England regained The Ashes for the first time since 1912 but for the manner it which it was achieved as Hobbs and Sutcliffe produced their most famous", "id": "18930780" }, { "contents": "Günther Lützow\n\n\nfighter destroyed. Two days later, he destroyed three aircraft, two SB-2 bombers and a Petlyakov Pe-2 ground attack aircraft. On 27 June, he shot down an Ilyushin DB-3 bomber followed by another Pe-2 on the following day, his last victory of June 1941. Following a DB-3 bomber claimed on 7 July, Lützow was credited with four aerial victories on 10 July, consisting of one Vultee V-11 attack aircraft and three I-153s. The next day he claimed an II-16. On 15 July he shot down two further I-16s and another", "id": "3340503" }, { "contents": "1966 in Norwegian football\n\n\nResults from Norwegian football in 1966. April 22 April 24 April 27 May 19 April 30 May 1 May 6 May 7 May 8 May 15 May 19 May 22 May 23 May 27 May 28 May 30 May 31 June 3 June 4 June 5 June 15 June 16 June 19 June 20 July 31 August 3 August 6 August 7 August 8 August 24 August 17 August 27 August 28 September 11 September 22 September 23 September 24 October 9 October 15 October 16 October 17 October 23 July 31 August 1 August 2 August 3 Rematch", "id": "21974049" }, { "contents": "Headingley Cricket Ground\n\n\nwickets each. Donald Bradman's innings of 334 in the 1930 Ashes Test included 309 runs on the first day, and he followed it in the Australians' next test at Headingley in 1934 with an innings of 304. Spinner Hedley Verity took 10 wickets for 10 runs in 1932 for Yorkshire v Nottinghamshire, still the best bowling analysis ever in first-class cricket. Verity had also taken all ten against Warwickshire at Headingley in 1931. In the 1948 Ashes series, Australia scored 404 for three on the last day to beat", "id": "11240346" }, { "contents": "List of international awards of Rohit Sharma\n\n\nRohit Sharma is an Indian international cricketer. He made his international cricket debut in June 2007. He has scored twenty-nine centuries in international cricket; three in Tests, twenty-two in One Day Internationals (ODI) and four in Twenty20 International (T20Is). As of July 2019, Sharma has played 27 Tests, 215 One Day Internationals and 94 Twenty20 Internationals. As of July 2019, Rohit won 19 Man of the Match awards and 4 Man of the Series awards in One Day Internationals; 1 Man of", "id": "21442897" }, { "contents": "Ollie Pope\n\n\nthe 2016 Royal London One-Day Cup against Yorkshire. He made his first-class debut on 28 March 2017 for Surrey against Oxford MCCU as part of the Marylebone Cricket Club University fixtures. Pope scored his maiden List A half-century on 7 May 2017 against Sussex. He made his Twenty20 debut for Surrey in the 2017 NatWest t20 Blast on 7 July 2017. In August 2018, he was added to England's squad for the second Test against India. He made his Test debut at Lord's for England against", "id": "11076451" }, { "contents": "Australian cricket team in the West Indies in 2015\n\n\nThe Australian cricket team toured the West Indies from 27 May to 15 June 2015. The tour consisted of one first-class warm-up match and two Test matches. On 8 April 2015, the West Indies Cricket Board brought forward the date of the two Test matches by two days \"due to a number of logistical challenges beyond [their] control\". Australia won the 2-match Test series 2–0 and therefore retained the Frank Worrell Trophy. Australia announced their squad on 31 March 2015. They included three uncapped players,", "id": "17936722" }, { "contents": "Zimbabwean cricket team in Sri Lanka in 2017\n\n\nThe Zimbabwe cricket team toured Sri Lanka in June and July 2017 to play one Test match and five One Day Internationals (ODIs). Originally, the schedule was for two Test matches and three ODIs. It was Zimbabwe's first tour to Sri Lanka since January 2002. All the matches were played as day games. Zimbabwe won the ODI series 3–2, their first ever series win against Sri Lanka. It was their first away series win since 2009 and the first away series win against a Test nation since defeating Bangladesh in", "id": "5384529" }, { "contents": "Ashwell Prince\n\n\nthe batting. Opening with debutant Imraan Khan, Prince scored 150, his 11th Test century. Prince signed a contract to play for Lancashire County Cricket Club the 2009 English season. He acted as cover for V. V. S. Laxman, the club's other overseas player, who was unavailable at times because he was playing in the Indian Premier League. Prince score his first century for Lancashire at the start of May during a match against Nottinghamshire. The knock came off 135 not out from 189 balls came on the final day of", "id": "12899038" }, { "contents": "Herbert Sutcliffe\n\n\nand 1926, Sutcliffe's skill was a primary factor in Yorkshire having the longest unbeaten run in county cricket: i.e., 70 matches without loss until early 1927. After three defeats in 1927, Yorkshire went a further 58 games without loss until 1929. The first four Tests of the 1926 England v Australia series were scheduled for just three days and were all curtailed by poor weather. The final Test at the Oval was timeless to ensure a finish. It has become one of the most famous matches in cricket history, not", "id": "18571331" }, { "contents": "Indian cricket team in England in 2011\n\n\nThe Indian cricket team toured England from 21 July to 16 September 2011. The tour consisted of one Twenty20 International (T20I), five One Day Internationals (ODIs) and four Test matches, as well as a number of matches against English county sides. The opening Test at Lord's was the 2,000th Test. England's victory in the Third Test put them number one in the world rankings. Virat Kohli, Pragyan Ojha and RP Singh replaced the injured Yuvraj Singh, Harbhajan Singh and Zaheer Khan, respectively, for the", "id": "4970296" }, { "contents": "Cricket in the British Isles\n\n\nIt played its first test match against Australia in 1877 and played its first One Day International (ODI) also againist Australia in 1971. One of the main cricket grounds in England, and also widely regarded as the spiritual home of cricket, is Lords Cricket Ground in London. Other major cricket grounds include The Oval (also in London), Edgbaston in Birmingham, Old Trafford in Manchester and Trent Bridge in Nottingham. From 1909 until 2017 England was the only country within the British Isles to have full membership of the ICC", "id": "17756246" }, { "contents": "Eton v Harrow\n\n\nplayed for Harrow in the four matches in 1822 to 1825, and arranged the first University Match at Lord's in 1827, two years before the first Boat Race. Many Eton and Harrow players went on to win blues at Oxford and Cambridge. Eton v Harrow was joined by the University Match and Gentlemen v Players as the three key features in the England cricket season. In its heyday, in the late 19th century and early 20th century, \"the School's day\" was one of the highlights of the London \"", "id": "10600897" }, { "contents": "Mathew Dimond\n\n\nMathew Dimond (born 24 September 1975) is a former English cricketer who made played for Somerset County Cricket Club between 1994 and 1997. Early in his career, he toured the West Indies with the England Under-19 cricket team, playing three Tests and one One Day International at Under-19 level. A right-arm fast-medium bowler, he made his first-class debut for Somerset in June 1994. Playing in the County Championship against Hampshire, Dimond claimed a solitary wicket in the match, which was shortened to single innings", "id": "558840" }, { "contents": "Charlie Charters\n\n\n’ Although the 2004 Islanders lost each of the three Test matches they played (29-14 v Wallabies, 41-26 v All Blacks and 24-38 v Springboks in Gosford, Australia), they scored 10 tries in three matches. By comparison that same southern hemisphere season, England and Scotland scored only three tries between them in their five Tests against the All Blacks and Wallabies. In fact, the 2004 Islanders scored more tries in one Test against the All Blacks (four) than the three tries the 2005", "id": "16741154" }, { "contents": "Australian cricket team in South Africa in 1993–94\n\n\nmatch by one run, levelling the ODI series at 4–4 with an \"improbable victory\". As well as the internationals, three first-class matches and two other matches were played during the tour The tour began with a friendly one-day match against NF Oppenheimer's XI, followed by a first-class match against Northern Transvaal and a one-day match against a representative side. Before the first Test match Australia played a first-class match against Orange Free State and between the first and second Tests they played", "id": "5209672" }, { "contents": "Bangladeshi cricket team in Zimbabwe in 2011\n\n\nThe Bangladesh cricket team toured Zimbabwe from 4 to 21 August 2011. The tour consisted of one Test match and five One Day Internationals (ODIs) played against the Zimbabwean national team and one first-class match played against a Zimbabwean representative team. The Test match was Zimbabwe's first since India toured Zimbabwe in 2005. Zimbabwe won the Test match by 130 runs and also won the one-day series 3–2. Bangladesh announced its squad for the Test match and ODI series on 15 July 2011. Zimbabwe announced its squad for", "id": "19159411" }, { "contents": "V. V. S. Laxman\n\n\nfrom international cricket. Although he was selected for the upcoming New Zealand series, he opted not to play in the series but he will play in domestic cricket for Hyderabad and the Indian Premier League . It was announced that the northern stand at the Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium will now be named after him. Laxman was particularly prolific against Australia, in both Tests and One Day Internationals. Six out of his 17 Test hundreds, and four out of his six ODI hundreds came against Australia. He has two double-centuries", "id": "9815623" }, { "contents": "3rd Battalion, 319th Field Artillery Regiment\n\n\nVII and another platoon to LZ Challenge from 3–5 July. Battery C located at FSB Rock near Bac Loc and conducted two 1-day raids on 11 & 13 June. Battery D located at LZ Lowboy, with 2 howitzers sent on Operation Red Thrust V in 5 days ending 2 May. On 12 July, Battery D displaced to support Battery A from FSB Hawkeye but returned to LZ Lowboy until 28 July, then occupied FSB Hunky. The battalion received three 105mm howitzers in May. In July, LTC John R. Martin replaced LTC Joseph", "id": "2060226" }, { "contents": "W. G. Grace in the 1878 English cricket season\n\n\nthis match attracted few spectators as it coincided with the Surrey v Australians match at The Oval, which drew very large crowds. \"Wisden Cricketers' Almanack\" commented that \"the Australians were attracting monster gatherings at The Oval on the days that this match was played, consequently very few visitors were at Lord's\". There were three North v South fixtures in June. The first two were played at Prince's Cricket Ground and Lord's with the South as the \"home\" team; the third took place at the", "id": "15478186" }, { "contents": "Third Test, 1948 Ashes series\n\n\nThe Third Test of the 1948 Ashes series was one of five Tests in a cricket series between teams representing Australia and England. The match was played at Old Trafford in Manchester from 8–13 July, with a rest day on 11 July. The match was drawn after the whole of the fourth day and the first half of the fifth day was washed out due to rain; England had the upper hand before the weather intervened. The draw maintained Australia's 2–0 lead in the series, which was established through victories in the first", "id": "497412" }, { "contents": "Giles Baring\n\n\n, Gresham's School, Holt, and Magdalene College, Cambridge. He represented Cambridge University in 1930 and 1931 and Hampshire between 1930 and 1939. Apart from more than fifty regular county championship games, he played in the Cambridge University v New Zealanders match of 3 June 1931, for the Gentlemen in the Gentlemen v Players matches of 2 September 1931 and 11 July 1934, for Hampshire in Hampshire v West Indians on 24 May 1933, for Hampshire in Hampshire v Australians on 23 May 1934, for Hampshire in Hampshire v South", "id": "9091807" }, { "contents": "2013–14 Bangladeshi cricket season\n\n\nand Mirpur. Both Test matches ended in draws, Bangladesh won all three One Day Internationals and New Zealand won the sole Twenty20 International. Sri Lanka toured Bangladesh in January and February 2014 playing two Test Matches, three One Day Internationals and two Twenty20 Internationals. Sri Lanka won every match, with the exception of the second Test match which ended in a draw. Initially it was planned that the NCL would be held in November and December 2013, the BCL in May and June 2014 and the BPL in December and January.", "id": "18068868" }, { "contents": "Darrell Hair\n\n\nby the ICC on 12 March 2008 and stood in the England v New Zealand tests at Old Trafford in May and Trent Bridge in June 2008. Hair umpired his first Test match in January 1992, between Australia and India in Adelaide. In 1994 the International Cricket Council (ICC) introduced a policy of appointing one umpire to each Test match from a non-participating country, and since 2002 both umpires have been appointed from non-participating nations. Since 2002 the majority of Hair’s Test matches have been played outside Australia", "id": "17469081" }, { "contents": "Timeline of events preceding World War II\n\n\n15 October 2 November 14 January February 6 March 7 March 25 May 5 June 3 July 17 August 1 October October 18 November 14 November 15 November 25 December 1 December 12 December 23 December 24 January 20 May 28 July 7 August 13 October 5 November 6 November 26 December 1 December 8 December 11 December 12 December 13 January 26 March 6 March 13 March 24 July 6–16 July 29 August September 27 September 30 October 5 November 7 November 9 January 25 January 27 March 14 March 15 March 16 March 20 March 21 March 23", "id": "6767331" }, { "contents": "South African cricket team in England in 1924\n\n\nThe South African cricket team toured England in the 1924 season to play a five-match Test series against England. England won the series 3-0 with 2 matches drawn. The tourists, with their ages on the first day of the first match of the tour on 3 May, were: George Parker (24) also played three first-class matches (including the first two Tests) and Aubrey Faulkner (42) played one match, the Third Test. The manager was George Allsop. South Africa's score", "id": "12941168" }, { "contents": "2018 English cricket season\n\n\ninternational sides toured England and Wales during the season: Pakistan, Australia and India. Pakistan also visited Ireland midway through the tour and played the Irish team's first Test match at Malahide near Dublin. In preparation for this match the Irish team played a first-class match against Somerset at Taunton in April. At the end of their tour Pakistan played two T20 matches in Scotland on 12 and 13 June. The England team played a One Day International (ODI) against Scotland in Edinburgh in June, losing to Scotland for", "id": "6929601" }, { "contents": "V. V. S. Laxman\n\n\n112 in the second test. This ensured his place on the tour of Australia which would be his third to that country. Laxman's good form continued in the 2007-08 Test series against Australia with him scoring 109 against Australia on the second day of the controversial Sydney Test to put India back into the contest. It was his 12th hundred in Test matches, and his 5th against Australia. It was also his third consecutive century at SCG, giving him an average well above 90 at the venue. He followed this", "id": "9815609" }, { "contents": "2019 Ashes series\n\n\nthree cricketers were named in Australia's squad for the 2019 Ashes. Meanwhile, England warmed up for the 2019 Ashes with a Test series earlier in the year against the West Indies and a one-off Test against Ireland in July. The tour of the West Indies comprised three matches and was won 2–1 by the West Indies. England also won the one-off Test against Ireland, by 143 runs. Ahead of the series, it was announced that Day 2 of the Lord’s Test would benefit the Ruth Strauss Foundation", "id": "18532603" }, { "contents": "V. V. S. Laxman\n\n\n1–1. He was awarded the Man of the Match for his match-winning innings of 96. His knock was voted as the best Test batting performance of the year by ESPNCricinfo. In three test matches, Laxman scored three consecutive fifties including two scores in eighties against the West Indies during India's tour of West Indies in June 2011. During India's Tour to England, Laxman scored just two half-centuries in eight innings as India went down 0–4 to England. This was India's first Test series loss since its", "id": "9815620" }, { "contents": "2014–15 Bangladeshi cricket season\n\n\nThe 2014–15 Bangladeshi cricket season featured tours of the country by Zimbabwe and Pakistan. Rangpur Division won the National Cricket League (NCL) championship title for the first time. Zimbabwe toured Bangladesh from 26 October to 1 December 2014, playing three Test matches and five One Day International matches. Bangladesh won the Test series 3–0 and the ODI series 5–0. Pakistan toured from 15 April to 10 May 2015, playing one Twenty20 International (T20I), three One Day Internationals (ODIs) and two Test matches. Pakistan won the Test", "id": "895026" }, { "contents": "Australia women's cricket team in England in 2019\n\n\nThe Australia women's cricket team toured England in June and July 2019 to play the England women's cricket team to contest the Women's Ashes. The tour consisted of three Women's One Day Internationals (WODIs), one Women's Test match and three Women's Twenty20 Internationals (WT20Is). A points-based system was used across all three formats of the tour. The Women's Ashes were held by Australia prior to the start of the series. Australia women won the WODI series 3–0, therefore taking a 6–0", "id": "15341273" }, { "contents": "Pakistani cricket team in England in 1962\n\n\nof three one-day games (not limited overs). The first two were drawn and the Pakistanis won the third one against Colonel Stevens' XI. These three matches were, in effect, warm-ups only and not first-class. The opening first-class fixture was against Worcestershire at New Road, starting on Wednesday, 2 May. The Pakistanis were given a foretaste of the Test series to come in that Tom Graveney scored a century for the home team (and was presented with his county cap immediately afterwards", "id": "12941094" }, { "contents": "New Zealand cricket team in Australia in 2015–16\n\n\nThe New Zealand cricket team toured Australia from 23 October to 1 December 2015 to play three Test matches and four tour matches. The third match of the series at the Adelaide Oval was the first ever day-night Test. Michael Hussey captained the Prime Minister's XI side for the tour match, and in preparation for the day-night Test, a pink ball was used in this game. Australia won the series 2–0, with victories in Brisbane and Adelaide, with the second Test in Perth being drawn. Following the", "id": "1307472" }, { "contents": "Kennington\n\n\nThe Kia Oval\", is the home ground for Surrey County Cricket Club and hosts the final Test match of the English summer season. The Oval was the first ground in the United Kingdom to host Test cricket, was the location for the England v Scotland representative matches, the first ever international football match, the first FA Cup final in 1872, and held the second ever rugby union international match between England and Scotland in 1872. England's unfortunate performance against Australia here in 1882 gave rise to The Ashes. The Oval", "id": "10346916" }, { "contents": "Indian cricket team in Zimbabwe in 2001\n\n\nThe Indian cricket team toured Zimbabwe from 28 May to 7 July 2001 and played two Test matches against Zimbabwe, with each team winning one game match. This would be Zimbabwe's only Test victory over a side other than Bangladesh until they beat Pakistan in the second Test in 2013. India and Zimbabwe also participated in a triangular One Day International (ODI) competition with West Indies, with the latter eventually winning the competition. The Coca-Cola Cup was a One Day International (ODI) tournament that followed the Test series", "id": "4099650" }, { "contents": "Andrew Balbirnie\n\n\nHe played three further One Day International's during the tournament. He made his Twenty20 International debut against Scotland on 19 June 2015, although no play was possible due to rain. He was part of the Ireland A team which toured Bangladesh in October 2017 to play one first-class match and five limited overs matches against the Bangladesh A team. In May 2018, he was named in a fourteen-man squad for Ireland's first ever Test match, which was played against Pakistan later the same month. He made his", "id": "2597279" }, { "contents": "Pakistani cricket team in Scotland in 2018\n\n\nThe Pakistan cricket team toured Scotland to play two Twenty20 International (T20I) matches at The Grange Club, Edinburgh, on 12 and 13 June 2018. Pakistan last toured Scotland in May 2013 to play two One Day Internationals. Both teams last met in a T20I fixture in the group stage of the 2007 ICC World Twenty20 tournament. This was the first time that Scotland had played a home T20I match against a full member side. The tour followed Pakistan's tour of England and their one Test series in Ireland. England also", "id": "373509" }, { "contents": "2017 June rugby union tests\n\n\n2 sides. Australia, the only southern hemisphere Tier 1 nation not to host a test series, staged three one-off test matches; Scotland, Italy and Fiji. The Fijian test was the first between the two sides in Australia since 2010, and was also the first Australia v Tier 2 nation match in Australia since Samoa visited in 2011. Fiji also played host to Italy and Scotland to become the second Tier 2 nation to play three back-back Tier 1 sides during an international window, after Samoa participated in", "id": "13232867" }, { "contents": "Timeline of the 2014 Pacific hurricane season\n\n\nJune 11 June 12 June 13 June 14 June 15 June 28 June 30 July 1 July 2 July 3 July 6 July 7 July 9 July 17 July 18 July 19 July 25 July 26 July 27 July 28 July 29 July 31 August 1 August 2 August 3 August 4 August 5 August 6 August 7 August 8 August 9 August 10 August 12 August 13 August 14 August 15 August 17 August 18 August 21 August 22 August 23 August 24 August 25 August 26 August 27 August 28 August 29 September 2 September 4 September 6", "id": "2400921" } ]

[ { "contents": "Sri Lankan cricket team in England in 2014\n\n\nThe Sri Lanka national cricket team toured England from 13 May to 24 June 2014 for a Twenty20 International (T20I), five One Day Internationals (ODIs) and two Test matches against the England cricket team. They also played three one-day and one four-day tour matches against English county sides, as well as preceding the entire tour with a two-match ODI series against Ireland. Sri Lanka won the Test series 1–0 (the first time they had won a Test series in England), the ODI series", "id": "21939883" }, { "contents": "New Zealand cricket team in England in 2015\n\n\nThe New Zealand national cricket team toured England from 8 May to 23 June 2015 for two Test matches, five One Day Internationals (ODIs) and a Twenty20 International (T20I) against the England cricket team. They also played two four-day tour matches and a one-day match against English county sides. England won the first Test at Lord's before New Zealand claimed victory in the second Test at Headingley to level the series. England then took an early lead in the ODI series after hitting more than 400 runs", "id": "943447" }, { "contents": "Australian cricket team in England and Ireland in 2015\n\n\nThe Australia national cricket team toured England from June to September 2015 for a five-match Test series, five One Day International (ODI) matches and one Twenty20 International (T20I). The Test series was for the Ashes. They also played two four-day and two three-day first-class matches against English county sides. Australia also played one ODI against Ireland in Belfast. On 31 March 2015, Australia announced a 17-man touring party for the Ashes series. England announced their squad for the first Test on", "id": "1657670" }, { "contents": "David Constant\n\n\n67 first-class appearances. In total he scored 1,517 first-class runs at a batting average of 19.20 with a highest score of 80. Tony Lewis described his innings against Glamorgan on a difficult pitch at Leicester in 1965 as \"one of the bravest innings I ever saw\". His first Test as umpire was the Third Test between England and Pakistan in July 1971. He last stood in an international cricket match in the England v. Australia One Day International at The Oval, London in June 2001. He was the", "id": "14539375" }, { "contents": "Pakistani cricket team in Sri Lanka in 2015\n\n\nThe Pakistan cricket team toured Sri Lanka from 11 June to 1 August 2015. The tour consisted of a three-day tour match against a SLCB President's XI, three Test matches, five One Day International and two Twenty20 International matches. The third Test was originally scheduled to be played at the R Premadasa Stadium, but was changed to the Pallekele International Cricket Stadium in early May. Pakistan outplayed the hosts in all forms of the game by winning the Test series 2–1, the ODI series 3–2 and the T20I series 2–0.", "id": "15080177" }, { "contents": "2010 in American music\n\n\n17 March 22 March 23 March 26 March 30 April 6 April 8 April 13 April 19 April 20 April 21 April 27 April 30 May 4 May 11 May 14 May 17 May 18 May 21 May 25 May 31 June 1 June 8 June 14 June 15 June 18 June 21 June 22 June 28 June 29 July 6 July 7 July 12 July 13 July 15 July 20 July 23 July 25 July 27 July 29 August 3 August 17 August 24 August 31 September 7 September 14 September 21 September 23 September 28 October 5 October", "id": "18556206" }, { "contents": "Warwickshire County Cricket Club\n\n\nand gold and the shirt sponsor is Gullivers Sports Travel. The club's home is Edgbaston Cricket Ground in south Birmingham, which regularly hosts Test and One Day International matches. Cricket may have reached Warwickshire by the end of the 17th century. The \"Warwickshire & Staffordshire Journal\" was certainly aware of the sport in 1738 for it carried a report of a London v Mitcham game at the Artillery Ground on 11 August (London won by 1 wicket). The earliest confirmed reference to cricket in the county is a match announcement", "id": "8941185" }, { "contents": "Irish cricket team in England in 2019\n\n\nThe Ireland cricket team toured England in July 2019 to play a one-off four-day Test match at Lord's. It was the first Test match to be played between the two sides, and was England's first four-day Test match since they toured New Zealand in 1971. It was Ireland's third Test match, and their twelfth international fixture against England. The Test match was part of England's preparations for the 2019 Ashes series. Ahead of the Test, the England cricket team visited Ireland in May", "id": "16268672" }, { "contents": "1919 English cricket season\n\n\n(five wins from fourteen) and Warwickshire were bottom with 7.14% (one win from fourteen). The 1919 County Championship was the 26th since the competition acquired official status in 1890. The opening matches began on Friday, 16 May. These were Middlesex v Nottinghamshire at Lord's and the 1914 (reigning) champions Surrey against Somerset at The Oval. The final match between Essex and Surrey at Leyton was completed on Monday, 1 September. The situation between Yorkshire and Kent on Saturday, 30 August (the second day in", "id": "7320450" }, { "contents": "Timeline of the 2013 Pacific hurricane season\n\n\n15 May 16 May 17 May 28 May 29 May 30 June 1 June 23 June 24 June 25 June 26 June 27 June 29 June 30 July 2 July 3 July 4 July 5 July 6 July 7 July 9 July 25 July 27 July 30 July 31 August 2 August 3 August 4 August 6 August 7 August 8 August 9 August 11 August 16 August 18 August 19 August 20 August 22 August 23 August 24 August 25 August 28 August 29 August 30 August 31 September 1 September 2 September 5 September 6 September 7 September", "id": "957237" }, { "contents": "Prince's Cricket Ground\n\n\nas 'grand and quick and one of the finest playing grounds in England'. The first match played on the ground was Household Brigade v. Lords and Commons on 3 June 1871. Middlesex County Cricket Club used the ground between 1872 and 1876 and played their first match on 23–25 May 1872 against Yorkshire. The ground was also used by South of England and by Gentlemen of the South. Several Gentlemen v Players fixtures were also played there, the first taking place in July 1873. In 1878, the touring Australians played two", "id": "19086180" }, { "contents": "Callum Jackson\n\n\nSussex youth ranks, playing at under-13, under-14, under-15 and under-17 level before joining the second XI as a 16-year-old in 2011. He was selected to represent an English Schools Cricket Association XI in 2011 before making his first appearance for the Sussex first XI on 1 May 2012 in a non-first-class match against the Leeds/Bradford MCC Universities team. In early 2013, Jackson was selected for the England under-19 side to tour South Africa, where he played in both Youth Test matches and three One Day", "id": "16290826" }, { "contents": "2018 English cricket season\n\n\nHurricane Irma and Hurricane Maria in September 2017. Pakistan played two Test matches against England at Lord's and Headingley at the end of May and beginning of June. The series was drawn, each side winning one match. Ahead of the Tests, two first-class matches were played against Kent and Northants. Their match against Ireland took place after the two first-class county matches, and a two-day match was played against Leicestershire between this and the first Test against England. Pakistan won the first Test match by", "id": "6929603" }, { "contents": "1963 in Norwegian football\n\n\nResults from Norwegian football in 1963. April 26 April 28 May 3 May 4 May 5 May 11 May 12 May 30 May 19 May 22 May 23 May 26 May 27 June 7 June 8 June 9 June 14 June 15 June 16 June 22 June 23 June 24 July 26 July 28 July 29 August 2 August 4 August 6 August 17 August 18 August 21 August 22 August 24 August 25 September 7 September 8 September 20 September 22 October 4 October 6 October 13 Årstad promoted Nidelv promoted Harstad - Bodø/Glimt 4 -", "id": "20433032" }, { "contents": "West Indian cricket team in England in 1991\n\n\nThe West Indian cricket team in England in 1991 played three one day internationals and five Tests, under the captaincy of Viv Richards, as part of an extensive tour in which they also played first-class matches against 11 first-class county teams, the combined Minor Counties, the Combined Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, and a World XI to finish, plus 55-over one-day matches against one more first-class county (Gloucestershire) and the Duchess of Norfolk's Invitation XI. Of the non-international matches,", "id": "5157419" }, { "contents": "West Indian cricket team in England in 2007\n\n\nThe West Indian cricket team toured England from 12 May to 7 July 2007 as part of the 2007 English cricket season. The tour included four Tests, two Twenty20 international matches and three One Day Internationals. While England dominated the Test series 3–0, including a record victory over the West Indies, the latter took the ODI series 2:1. In the ICC Test Championship, England are ranked second and West Indies are ranked eighth, though England's most recent series was a whitewash loss in the Ashes against Australia for the first time", "id": "12941423" }, { "contents": "Sri Lankan cricket team in the West Indies in 2018\n\n\nOn 19 May 2018, Cricket West Indies (CWI) announced that they may scrap one of the Test fixtures, replacing it with a couple of one-day matches. However, the day before the first Test, the International Cricket Council (ICC) confirmed that it would be a three-match Test series. Prior to the start of day three of the second Test, the Sri Lankan cricket team protested against umpires' decision on starting the third day's play with a new ball, replacing the old ball.", "id": "19622271" }, { "contents": "Timeline of the 2017 Pacific hurricane season\n\n\ncyclone formations, strengthening, weakening, landfalls, extratropical transitions, and dissipations during the season. May 9 May 10 May 11 May 12 May 15 May 31 June 1 June 2 June 11 June 12 June 13 June 24 June 25 June 26 June 27 June 28 July 1 July 7 July 8 July 9 July 10 July 11 July 12 July 13 July 14 July 15 July 16 July 17 July 18 July 19 July 20 July 21 July 22 July 23 July 24 July 25 July 26 July 27 July 28 July 31 August 1", "id": "7169450" }, { "contents": "Daniel Bell-Drummond\n\n\nmade his youth Test debut on 21 July 2010 at the County Ground, Northampton before scoring unbeaten 88 in the second youth Test later in the same month, aged only 16. He played in both under-19 Test matches and in four youth one-day international matches during England's return tour of Sri Lanka in January and February 2011. In July 2011 Bell-Drummond played in a one-day series against South Africa under-19s. He top-scored for England in three of the seven matches in the series and was the", "id": "6732560" }, { "contents": "1967 in Norwegian football\n\n\nResults from Norwegian football in 1967. April 27 April 28 April 30 May 4 May 6 May 7 May 10 May 11 May 15 May 16 May 18 May 19 May 20 May 21 May 22 June 22 May 25 May 28 June 4 June 10 June 11 June 12 June 13 June 18 June 19 July 30 July 31 August 2 August 6 August 7 August 9 August 10 August 20 August 16 August 20 August 21 September 7 September 10 September 16 September 17 October 6 October 8 October 9 October 12 October 15 October 20 October", "id": "2081596" }, { "contents": "Phil Carlson\n\n\nPhillip Henry Carlson (born 8 August 1951, Nundah, Queensland) is a former Australian cricketer who played in two Tests and four One Day Internationals (ODIs) in 1979. Carlson was an all-rounder who played for Queensland between 1969–70 and 1980–81. He played two Test matches for Australia v England in 1978–79 Ashes series and four One Day Internationals against the same opponents. He was called up by Australia when most of their regular first-choice players were playing in World Series Cricket. Carlson took two Test wickets and", "id": "11409623" }, { "contents": "1962 in Norwegian football\n\n\nResults from Norwegian football in 1962. July 30 August 2 August 3 August 9 August 8 August 13 August 16 August 20 August 21 September 2 September 3 Ørn - Brann 0 - 7 September 24 September 28 October 1 October 15 April 25 October 6 October 8 April 29 May 6 May 12 May 13 May 14 May 20 May 21 May 23 May 24 May 27 May 30 May 31 June 3 June 15 June 16 June 17 June 24 June 25 June 30 July 1 July 29 August 1 August 2 August 4 August 5 August", "id": "9107175" }, { "contents": "Alan Igglesden\n\n\nAlan Paul Igglesden (born 8 October 1964) is a former English Test cricketer. He played three Test Matches and four One Day Internationals (ODIs) for the England cricket team between 1989 and 1994 as a fast bowler. He played most of his first-class cricket career for Kent County Cricket Club. Igglesden was born in Farnborough, London in 1964. He first played for Kent County Cricket Club's Second XI in 1983 before making his first-class cricket debut of the county in July 1986 against Somerset at Maidstone", "id": "8795795" }, { "contents": "Sri Lankan cricket team in England and Ireland in 2016\n\n\nThe Sri Lanka national cricket team toured England from 8 May to 5 July 2016 for a three-match Test series, a five-match One Day International (ODI) series and a one-off Twenty20 International (T20I) against the England cricket team. England won the Test series 2–0, the ODI series 3–0 and won the one-off T20I match by 8 wickets. They also played two first-class matches against Essex and Leicestershire prior to the Test series, and two ODI matches against Ireland prior to the", "id": "15635062" }, { "contents": "South African cricket team in England in 2008\n\n\nThe South African cricket team toured England between 29 June and 4 September 2008. They played four Test matches, one Twenty20 International and five One Day Internationals against England. They also played six tour matches against Somerset, Middlesex, Bangladesh A, a PCA Masters XI and two against the England Lions. It was announced that following the conclusion of this four-match series, future matches between England and South Africa would comprise five Test matches but only three one-day matches after the series was granted 'icon' status.", "id": "18079110" }, { "contents": "2018 English cricket season\n\n\nthe first time in an ODI. The South African women's team also toured England to play three One Day International matches against the England women's cricket team in June and to compete in the 2018 England women's Tri-Nation Series Twenty20 competition against England and New Zealand. New Zealand then played three One Day Internationals against England in July. In addition the West Indies men's side played a single Twenty20 International against a Rest of the World XI team at Lord's in May 2018 to raise funds for stadiums damaged by", "id": "6929602" }, { "contents": "American Rally Association\n\n\nWood Rally March 15 - 16 Olympus Rally April 27 - 28 Oregon Trail Rally May 31 - June 2 Idaho Rally International June 22 - 23 New England Forest Rally July 19 - 20 Muscatell Ojibwe Forests Rally August 23 - 24 Susquehannock Trail Performance Rally September 13 - 14 Lake Superior Performance Rally October 18 - 19 2019 ARA Super Regional Events Southern Ohio Forest Rally May 16 - 18 Rally Colorado July 26 - 27 Tour de Forest Rally September 21, 2019 Empire State Performance Rally October 25 - 26 2019 ARA One-Day Regional", "id": "6404348" }, { "contents": "Pakistani cricket team in England and Ireland in 2016\n\n\nThe Pakistan national cricket team toured England and Ireland from 3 July to 7 September 2016 for a four-match Test series, a five-match One Day International (ODI) series and a one-off Twenty20 International (T20I) against the England cricket team. They also played two three-day matches against Somerset and Sussex prior to the Test series, a two-day match against Worcestershire during the Test series, and two ODI matches against Ireland prior to the ODI series. England's ODI matches against Pakistan was", "id": "15635130" }, { "contents": "Second Test, 1948 Ashes series\n\n\nThe Second Test of the 1948 Ashes series was one of five Tests in a cricket series between Australia and England. The match was played at Lord's in London from 24 to 29 June, with a rest day on 27 June. Australia won the match by 409 runs to take a 2–0 lead, meaning that England would need to win the remaining three matches to regain The Ashes. Australian captain Don Bradman won the toss and elected to bat. The tourists had won the First Test convincingly, and decided to field the", "id": "497516" }, { "contents": "MCC v Australians at Lord's, 27 May 1878\n\n\nin England, the team left Sydney on 29 March 1878 and sailed via Auckland and Honolulu to San Francisco, from where they travelled across America by train to New York City. They crossed the Atlantic, arriving in Liverpool on 13 May, and then went by train to Nottingham where they played their first match, starting on Monday, 20 May. This was a three-day match against Nottinghamshire at Trent Bridge and the Australians were well beaten by an innings and 14 runs, an inauspicious start which dampened much of the public", "id": "16383632" }, { "contents": "Australian women's cricket team in England in 2013\n\n\nThe Australian women's cricket team toured England in 2013. The visitors were defending the Women's Ashes. The only Test match of the tour took place on 11–14 August at Wormsley Park, and was drawn. Three One-Day Internationals (ODIs) were played: the first at Lord's on 20 August, and the other two at Hove on 23 and 25 August. Also three Twenty20 International (T20I) matches were played, on 27, 29 and 31 August, at Chelmsford, Southampton and Chester-le-", "id": "19064429" }, { "contents": "South African cricket team in England in 2017\n\n\nThe South African cricket team toured England and Wales between May and August 2017, playing three One Day Internationals (ODIs), three Twenty20 Internationals (T20Is) and four Test matches. The ODI matches were in preparation for the 2017 ICC Champions Trophy, which took place in England and Wales during June. Extra security was provided to South Africa for the ODI series following the Manchester bombing. England won the ODI series 2–1 and the T20 series 2–1. Ahead of the ODI series, South Africa played one-day warm-", "id": "1555384" }, { "contents": "1Malaysia Development Berhad scandal\n\n\n- 30 September onwards October 20 November 25 December 1 December 5 December 31 2016 January 26 January 29 February 1 February 3 February 7 February 19 February 29 March 23 March 31 April 2 April 5 April 7 April 9 April 12 April 13 April 19 April 28 May 24 May 31 July 11 1MDB agrees to resolve its dispute with International Petroleum Investment Company via the London Court of International Arbitration. July 21 August 9 October 11 December 2 2017 March 22 April 24 May 30 June 15 June 16 August 1 August 2 August 11 August", "id": "14280441" }, { "contents": "Timeline of events preceding World War II\n\n\nJune 30 September 14 May 19 September 18 September 19 January 7 January 28 February 27 March 1 April 10 May 30 August 30 November 21 December 3 January 1 January 30 February 27 February 28 March 4 March 20 March 23 March 24 March 27 April 1 April 26 May 2 May 15 May 31 June 21 July 14 August 25 September 12 October 19 November 24 January 26 February 12–16 March 20 June 30 July 20 July 25 August 2 August 8 September October 16 December 1 December 5 December 29 January 7 June 18 August 31 September", "id": "6767330" }, { "contents": "Timeline of the 2018 Pacific hurricane season\n\n\ntropical cyclone formations, strengthening, weakening, landfalls, extratropical transitions, and dissipations during the season. May 10 May 11 May 13 May 15 June 1 June 6 June 7 June 8 June 9 June 10 June 11 June 12 June 13 June 14 June 15 June 16 June 17 June 19 June 24 June 25 June 26 June 27 June 28 June 29 June 30 July 1 July 2 July 3 July 4 July 5 July 6 July 9 July 26 July 27 July 28 July 29 July 31 August 1 August 2 August 3 August", "id": "21166816" }, { "contents": "English cricket team in Australia in 2017–18\n\n\nThe England cricket team toured Australia between November 2017 and February 2018 to play five Tests and five One Day Internationals (ODIs). They also played in a three nation Twenty20 International (T20I) tournament, along with New Zealand, who co-hosted the tournament along with Australia. England additionally played two first-class matches, a two-day tour match and a one-day tour match against Cricket Australia XI, as well as a Twenty20 against the Prime Minister's XI. The Test matches made up the 2017–18", "id": "21532277" }, { "contents": "Timeline of events preceding World War II\n\n\nApril 16 August 13 October October 11 October 29 November 1 January 11 June July 24 August 31 September 27 October 29 November 8 January 21 February 1 March 16 April 1 April 6 June 10 August 16 August 18 May 12 July 18 December 1 January 3 January 31 April 4 April 24 September 8 December 25 April 12 May 20 June 7 November 12 December 14 May 3 May 28 June 4 August 2 August 27 October 1 February 9 February 11 March 4 March 28 April 3 June 7 July 24 August 31 October 29 April 22", "id": "6767329" }, { "contents": "W. G. Grace in the 1878 English cricket season\n\n\nNewcastle upon Tyne, Bolton and Birmingham to play odds games against local opposition. Grace took 21 wickets in the match against the 22 men of Melton Mowbray in a three-day match starting on Monday, 1 July. He scored 42 and 57 not out in his two innings, the match ending in a draw. Grace caught the evening train to be in London ready for the first Gentlemen v Players match at The Oval, starting on Thursday, 4 July. The next USEE match at Leeds Holbeck followed the second Gentlemen", "id": "15478205" }, { "contents": "List of accidents and incidents involving military aircraft (1950–1954)\n\n\n12 December 19 December 23 December 10 January 11 January 15 January 21 January 28 January 31 January 14 February 13 March 14 March 17 March 23 March 3 April 5 April 5 April 8 April 25 April 27 April 6 May 18 May 19 May 8 June 13 June 15 June 18 June 23 June 23 June 30 June 8 July 31 July Summer 13 August 18 August 21 August 22 August 26 August 27 August 16 September 29 September 15 October 11 November 13 November 19 November 27 November 3 December 7 December 21 December 12 January 15", "id": "21637229" }, { "contents": "Lord's\n\n\nbe switched off by 11 pm. The floodlights were first used successfully on 27 May 2009 during the Twenty20 Cup match between Middlesex and Kent. Lord's hosts Test matches, one-day internationals, some Middlesex home matches, MCC matches and (starting with a fixture between Middlesex and Surrey in July 2004) some of Middlesex's home Twenty20 games. Lord's typically hosts two Tests every summer plus two one-day internationals. Lord's also plays host to the finals of the National Village Cricket Competition, the MCC Universities", "id": "10760657" }, { "contents": "2011 in American music\n\n\nThe following is a list of notable events and releases that happened in 2011 in music in the United States. January 11 January 17 January 18 January 21 January 25 January 31 February 1 February 8 February 15 February 22 March 1 March 8 March 15 March 22 March 29 April 5 April 11 April 12 April 26 May 3 May 10 May 17 May 23 May 24 May 31 June 7 June 14 June 21 June 28 July 5 July 8 July 12 July 13 July 19 July 26 August 2 August 8 August 9 August 16 August", "id": "15423555" }, { "contents": "MCC v Australians at Lord's, 27 May 1878\n\n\nenthusiasm that their visit had generated. The Australians were next due to play Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) in a three-day match at Lord's, commencing on Monday, 27 May. In the meantime, Charles Bannerman and Billy Midwinter were invited to visit Dublin and play for the United South of England Eleven (USEE) against 15 past and present players of Dublin University. This was due to be played over three days, starting on Thursday, 23 May, at College Park. The USEE was captained by W. G.", "id": "16383633" }, { "contents": "West Indian cricket team in England in 1928\n\n\nreach three figures. As at Lord's and Old Trafford, the match was over before lunch on the third day. Including the three Tests, 30 first-class matches were played on the tour, plus six other games. The West Indians won just seven of these 36 matches (five of the first-class games) and lost 12. By the end of May, the touring side had won matches against Derbyshire and Cambridge University, plus a minor match against Northumberland, and had drawn all the other games.", "id": "12941340" }, { "contents": "Bob Willis\n\n\n26 August against Worcestershire's Seconds. Willis, 19 years of age, took one wicket for 48 runs in the first innings, and bowled four wicketless overs in the second. He was not called on to bat at all. Two days later, he faced Glamorgan and took three wickets. He played several further Second XI matches through May and June 1969, before his first-class debut on 6 August. Scotland was touring England that season and had already beaten Warwickshire. Willis took three wickets for 13 runs from 13", "id": "16238759" }, { "contents": "Rock in Rio\n\n\n5 July 6 May 21 / 82.000 May 22 / 45.000 May 27 / 85.000 May 29 / 95.000 May 30 / 38.000 June 4 / 51.000 June 5 / 85.000 June 6 / 90.000 June 11 / 30.000 June 14 / 48.000 Rock in Rio Lisboa V Rock in Rio Lisboa VII Rock in Rio Lisboa VIII June 24 sold out almost three months prior to the festival. \"Rock in Rio USA\" was the first North American edition of the festival, being held in Las Vegas on May 8, 9, 15 and 16", "id": "11140715" }, { "contents": "Indian cricket team in Sri Lanka in 2015\n\n\nThe Indian cricket team toured Sri Lanka from 6 August to 1 September 2015 to play a tour match and three Test matches. On 27 June, Sri Lankan batsman Kumar Sangakkara said he would retire from international cricket after the second Test of the series. The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) and Sri Lanka Cricket Board confirmed the schedule of India's tour to Sri Lanka in August to September 2015. The tour started with a three-day warm-up game against Sri Lanka Board President's XI,", "id": "22038367" }, { "contents": "Andy Cottam\n\n\nAndrew Colin Cottam (born 14 July 1973 in Northampton, England) was an English cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman and a left-arm slow bowler. He played in 2 Under-19 Tests in 1992 and 13 first-class matches between 1992 and 1996. His father is the cricketer and coach Bob Cottam. In 1990 Andy Cottam started playing for Somerset Second XI and Devon. In 1992 he was selected for Under-19's tour of Pakistan and played in the Third Test and 2 one-day matches against Pakistan", "id": "2981363" }, { "contents": "Lord's\n\n\n. The hundredth Lord's Test match was in 2000, England v West Indies. As of 25 August 2010 England have played 119 Test matches at Lord's, winning 45, losing 28 and drawing 46. Lord's often hosts two Test matches each summer, one match for each visiting team. In 2010, the ground hosted three Test matches: as well as England's matches against Bangladesh and Pakistan, a Test match between Australia and Pakistan was held there in July. Lord's was the venue of the 2000th test", "id": "10760663" }, { "contents": "Australian cricket team in Sri Lanka in 2016\n\n\nThe Australian cricket team toured Sri Lanka from 18 July to 9 September 2016 to play three Test matches, five One Day Internationals (ODIs), two Twenty20 Internationals (T20Is) matches and a first-class practice match. The Test series was played for Warne-Muralitharan Trophy, with Sri Lanka winning 3–0, their first ever series whitewash against Australia. As a result, Australia slipped from first to third in the ICC Test Championship; Sri Lanka, who had started the series ranked seventh, moved up to sixth.", "id": "14912886" }, { "contents": "South African cricket team in Australia in 2005–06\n\n\nThe South African cricket team toured Australia for cricket matches during the 2005–06 season. South Africa had already played two One Day International series during this season, beating New Zealand 4–0 at home before travelling to India and drawing the series there 2–2. The team had been playing 14 successive ODIs (tour matches excluded) before arriving in Australia, with their last Test match against West Indies in April and May 2005. South Africa played one first class warm-up match, one three-day warm-up match without first class", "id": "19860549" }, { "contents": "Peter Lever\n\n\n6/38, before his final Test ended on 5 August 1975 during another Ashes tour, Australia facing England at Lord's. Lever also played ten One Day Internationals, including the 1975 Cricket World Cup, taking 11 wickets but scoring only 17 runs. His ODI debut was also against Australia, at Melbourne on 5 January 1971, and his last match was at Headingley, Leeds, again against Australia, on 18 June 1975. This gives Lever the unusual distinction of having played both his debut, and last match, against Australia", "id": "17765992" }, { "contents": "Australian women's cricket team in England in 2009\n\n\nThe Australian women's cricket team toured England between 25 June and 13 July 2009, playing one Test match, five One Day Internationals and a Twenty20 International. Australia won the Twenty20 International, while England won the One Day International series 4–0. The Test match, which was for the Women's Ashes, was drawn; ensuring that England retained them. Prior to the series, both sides took part in the 2009 ICC Women's World Twenty20, which was also held in England in June. England won the tournament, in", "id": "13250607" }, { "contents": "List of accidents and incidents involving military aircraft (1950–1954)\n\n\nJanuary 31 January 7 February 18 March 21 April 24 April May 11 May 12 May 15 May 9 June 11 June 13 June 17 June 18 June 21 June 15 July 17 July 30 July 6 August 6 August 12 August 23 August 26 August 30 August 5 September 9 September 9 September 9 September 11 September 19 September 19 September 25 September 1 October 1 October 7 October 8 October 8 October 11 October 13 October 14 October 17 October 18 October 19 October 20 October 22 October 26 October 2 November 8 November 17 November 23 November", "id": "21637231" }, { "contents": "Follow-on\n\n\n, and gave England a slender lead of 129. The next day a fired-up Bob Willis took 8 for 43, and Australia slumped to 111 all out. Australia, who had won their 16 previous Test matches, including the first of the three-Test series between the two teams, had scored 445 in the first innings of the second Test and restricted India to 171; only V. V. S. Laxman (59) and Rahul Dravid reached 25 runs. The only other bright spot for India was the bowling of", "id": "1078812" }, { "contents": "West Indian cricket team in England in 2017\n\n\nThe West Indies cricket team toured England in August and September 2017 to play three Test matches competing for the Wisden Trophy, one Twenty20 International (T20I) and five One Day Internationals (ODIs). Ahead of the Test series, the West Indies played first-class warm-up matches against Derbyshire, Essex and Kent. They also played a two-day match against Leicestershire, as they did not get to the final of the 2017 NatWest t20 Blast. In October 2016 the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB)", "id": "1555387" }, { "contents": "England women's national rugby league team\n\n\nCup - WIN v France WIN v Russia | LOSS v Australia LOSS v New Zealand WIN v Pacific Islands 2009 International Tests - 25 July | France 8-28 England; France 0-36 England 2010 International Tests - 9 November | England 36-8 France 10 November | New Zealand 44-6 England 16 November | New Zealand 38-6 England 2011 International Tests - 2 July | France 6-36 England 6 July | France 4-42 England 2012 International Test - 15 June | England 48-0 France", "id": "9166568" }, { "contents": "International cricket\n\n\n, One-Day and Twenty20 matches take place in the form of \"tours\". In a tour, one nation travels to another and plays warm-up matches, which may be first-class matches, against domestic teams such as county or state teams, a series of Test matches against the host nation, and either a series of One-Day (ODi) and T20 matches against the host nation or a tournament involving the host nation and another touring nation. Tours may include Test, ODI and T20I matches", "id": "6028418" }, { "contents": "West Indian cricket team in England in 2000\n\n\nThe West Indies cricket team toured England in the 2000 cricket season. West Indies played five Tests against England - two in June and three in August - with a triangular One Day International (ODI) series involving Zimbabwe in July. In June, West Indies won the 1st Test at Edgbaston convincingly, before England narrowly won the 2nd Test at Lord's, having bowled West Indies out for 54 in their second innings. The ODI series, sponsored by NatWest, took place in July, with England, West Indies and Zimbabwe", "id": "12941417" }, { "contents": "First Test, 1948 Ashes series\n\n\nThe First Test of the 1948 Ashes series was one of five Tests in a cricket series between Australia and England. The match was played at Trent Bridge in Nottingham from 10 to 15 June with a rest day on 13 June. Australia won the match by eight wickets to take a 1–0 series lead. The Australians started the match as firm favourites, having won the previous series against England 3–0; in the lead-up to the 1948 series, they had won 10 of their 12 tour matches in England, mostly by", "id": "497621" }, { "contents": "Giles Baring\n\n\nAfricans on 22 May 1935, for Hampshire in Hampshire v Australians on 25 May 1938, and for H. D. G. Leveson Gowers XI v Australian Services on 7 July 1945. He played for Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) between 1935 and 1946, and his last first-class game was in the MCC v Cambridge University match on 29 June 1946. Baring was a right-arm fast bowler and also a right-hand batsman. As a bowler, he took 197 wickets for 5,607 runs, an average of 28.46.", "id": "9091808" }, { "contents": "Herbert Sutcliffe's cricket career (1919–27)\n\n\nWaddington in 1925. Arthur Mitchell was still a reserve and Cyril Turner made his first-class debut. The first four Tests of the 1926 England v Australia series were scheduled for just three days and were all curtailed by poor weather. The final Test at The Oval was timeless to ensure a finish. It has become one of the most famous matches in cricket history, not because England regained The Ashes for the first time since 1912 but for the manner it which it was achieved as Hobbs and Sutcliffe produced their most famous", "id": "18930780" }, { "contents": "Günther Lützow\n\n\nfighter destroyed. Two days later, he destroyed three aircraft, two SB-2 bombers and a Petlyakov Pe-2 ground attack aircraft. On 27 June, he shot down an Ilyushin DB-3 bomber followed by another Pe-2 on the following day, his last victory of June 1941. Following a DB-3 bomber claimed on 7 July, Lützow was credited with four aerial victories on 10 July, consisting of one Vultee V-11 attack aircraft and three I-153s. The next day he claimed an II-16. On 15 July he shot down two further I-16s and another", "id": "3340503" }, { "contents": "1966 in Norwegian football\n\n\nResults from Norwegian football in 1966. April 22 April 24 April 27 May 19 April 30 May 1 May 6 May 7 May 8 May 15 May 19 May 22 May 23 May 27 May 28 May 30 May 31 June 3 June 4 June 5 June 15 June 16 June 19 June 20 July 31 August 3 August 6 August 7 August 8 August 24 August 17 August 27 August 28 September 11 September 22 September 23 September 24 October 9 October 15 October 16 October 17 October 23 July 31 August 1 August 2 August 3 Rematch", "id": "21974049" }, { "contents": "Headingley Cricket Ground\n\n\nwickets each. Donald Bradman's innings of 334 in the 1930 Ashes Test included 309 runs on the first day, and he followed it in the Australians' next test at Headingley in 1934 with an innings of 304. Spinner Hedley Verity took 10 wickets for 10 runs in 1932 for Yorkshire v Nottinghamshire, still the best bowling analysis ever in first-class cricket. Verity had also taken all ten against Warwickshire at Headingley in 1931. In the 1948 Ashes series, Australia scored 404 for three on the last day to beat", "id": "11240346" }, { "contents": "List of international awards of Rohit Sharma\n\n\nRohit Sharma is an Indian international cricketer. He made his international cricket debut in June 2007. He has scored twenty-nine centuries in international cricket; three in Tests, twenty-two in One Day Internationals (ODI) and four in Twenty20 International (T20Is). As of July 2019, Sharma has played 27 Tests, 215 One Day Internationals and 94 Twenty20 Internationals. As of July 2019, Rohit won 19 Man of the Match awards and 4 Man of the Series awards in One Day Internationals; 1 Man of", "id": "21442897" }, { "contents": "Ollie Pope\n\n\nthe 2016 Royal London One-Day Cup against Yorkshire. He made his first-class debut on 28 March 2017 for Surrey against Oxford MCCU as part of the Marylebone Cricket Club University fixtures. Pope scored his maiden List A half-century on 7 May 2017 against Sussex. He made his Twenty20 debut for Surrey in the 2017 NatWest t20 Blast on 7 July 2017. In August 2018, he was added to England's squad for the second Test against India. He made his Test debut at Lord's for England against", "id": "11076451" }, { "contents": "Australian cricket team in the West Indies in 2015\n\n\nThe Australian cricket team toured the West Indies from 27 May to 15 June 2015. The tour consisted of one first-class warm-up match and two Test matches. On 8 April 2015, the West Indies Cricket Board brought forward the date of the two Test matches by two days \"due to a number of logistical challenges beyond [their] control\". Australia won the 2-match Test series 2–0 and therefore retained the Frank Worrell Trophy. Australia announced their squad on 31 March 2015. They included three uncapped players,", "id": "17936722" }, { "contents": "Zimbabwean cricket team in Sri Lanka in 2017\n\n\nThe Zimbabwe cricket team toured Sri Lanka in June and July 2017 to play one Test match and five One Day Internationals (ODIs). Originally, the schedule was for two Test matches and three ODIs. It was Zimbabwe's first tour to Sri Lanka since January 2002. All the matches were played as day games. Zimbabwe won the ODI series 3–2, their first ever series win against Sri Lanka. It was their first away series win since 2009 and the first away series win against a Test nation since defeating Bangladesh in", "id": "5384529" }, { "contents": "Ashwell Prince\n\n\nthe batting. Opening with debutant Imraan Khan, Prince scored 150, his 11th Test century. Prince signed a contract to play for Lancashire County Cricket Club the 2009 English season. He acted as cover for V. V. S. Laxman, the club's other overseas player, who was unavailable at times because he was playing in the Indian Premier League. Prince score his first century for Lancashire at the start of May during a match against Nottinghamshire. The knock came off 135 not out from 189 balls came on the final day of", "id": "12899038" }, { "contents": "Herbert Sutcliffe\n\n\nand 1926, Sutcliffe's skill was a primary factor in Yorkshire having the longest unbeaten run in county cricket: i.e., 70 matches without loss until early 1927. After three defeats in 1927, Yorkshire went a further 58 games without loss until 1929. The first four Tests of the 1926 England v Australia series were scheduled for just three days and were all curtailed by poor weather. The final Test at the Oval was timeless to ensure a finish. It has become one of the most famous matches in cricket history, not", "id": "18571331" }, { "contents": "Indian cricket team in England in 2011\n\n\nThe Indian cricket team toured England from 21 July to 16 September 2011. The tour consisted of one Twenty20 International (T20I), five One Day Internationals (ODIs) and four Test matches, as well as a number of matches against English county sides. The opening Test at Lord's was the 2,000th Test. England's victory in the Third Test put them number one in the world rankings. Virat Kohli, Pragyan Ojha and RP Singh replaced the injured Yuvraj Singh, Harbhajan Singh and Zaheer Khan, respectively, for the", "id": "4970296" }, { "contents": "Cricket in the British Isles\n\n\nIt played its first test match against Australia in 1877 and played its first One Day International (ODI) also againist Australia in 1971. One of the main cricket grounds in England, and also widely regarded as the spiritual home of cricket, is Lords Cricket Ground in London. Other major cricket grounds include The Oval (also in London), Edgbaston in Birmingham, Old Trafford in Manchester and Trent Bridge in Nottingham. From 1909 until 2017 England was the only country within the British Isles to have full membership of the ICC", "id": "17756246" }, { "contents": "Eton v Harrow\n\n\nplayed for Harrow in the four matches in 1822 to 1825, and arranged the first University Match at Lord's in 1827, two years before the first Boat Race. Many Eton and Harrow players went on to win blues at Oxford and Cambridge. Eton v Harrow was joined by the University Match and Gentlemen v Players as the three key features in the England cricket season. In its heyday, in the late 19th century and early 20th century, \"the School's day\" was one of the highlights of the London \"", "id": "10600897" }, { "contents": "Mathew Dimond\n\n\nMathew Dimond (born 24 September 1975) is a former English cricketer who made played for Somerset County Cricket Club between 1994 and 1997. Early in his career, he toured the West Indies with the England Under-19 cricket team, playing three Tests and one One Day International at Under-19 level. A right-arm fast-medium bowler, he made his first-class debut for Somerset in June 1994. Playing in the County Championship against Hampshire, Dimond claimed a solitary wicket in the match, which was shortened to single innings", "id": "558840" }, { "contents": "Charlie Charters\n\n\n’ Although the 2004 Islanders lost each of the three Test matches they played (29-14 v Wallabies, 41-26 v All Blacks and 24-38 v Springboks in Gosford, Australia), they scored 10 tries in three matches. 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Before the first Test match Australia played a first-class match against Orange Free State and between the first and second Tests they played", "id": "5209672" }, { "contents": "Bangladeshi cricket team in Zimbabwe in 2011\n\n\nThe Bangladesh cricket team toured Zimbabwe from 4 to 21 August 2011. The tour consisted of one Test match and five One Day Internationals (ODIs) played against the Zimbabwean national team and one first-class match played against a Zimbabwean representative team. The Test match was Zimbabwe's first since India toured Zimbabwe in 2005. Zimbabwe won the Test match by 130 runs and also won the one-day series 3–2. Bangladesh announced its squad for the Test match and ODI series on 15 July 2011. Zimbabwe announced its squad for", "id": "19159411" }, { "contents": "V. V. S. Laxman\n\n\nfrom international cricket. Although he was selected for the upcoming New Zealand series, he opted not to play in the series but he will play in domestic cricket for Hyderabad and the Indian Premier League . It was announced that the northern stand at the Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium will now be named after him. Laxman was particularly prolific against Australia, in both Tests and One Day Internationals. Six out of his 17 Test hundreds, and four out of his six ODI hundreds came against Australia. He has two double-centuries", "id": "9815623" }, { "contents": "3rd Battalion, 319th Field Artillery Regiment\n\n\nVII and another platoon to LZ Challenge from 3–5 July. Battery C located at FSB Rock near Bac Loc and conducted two 1-day raids on 11 & 13 June. Battery D located at LZ Lowboy, with 2 howitzers sent on Operation Red Thrust V in 5 days ending 2 May. On 12 July, Battery D displaced to support Battery A from FSB Hawkeye but returned to LZ Lowboy until 28 July, then occupied FSB Hunky. The battalion received three 105mm howitzers in May. In July, LTC John R. Martin replaced LTC Joseph", "id": "2060226" }, { "contents": "W. G. Grace in the 1878 English cricket season\n\n\nthis match attracted few spectators as it coincided with the Surrey v Australians match at The Oval, which drew very large crowds. \"Wisden Cricketers' Almanack\" commented that \"the Australians were attracting monster gatherings at The Oval on the days that this match was played, consequently very few visitors were at Lord's\". There were three North v South fixtures in June. The first two were played at Prince's Cricket Ground and Lord's with the South as the \"home\" team; the third took place at the", "id": "15478186" }, { "contents": "Third Test, 1948 Ashes series\n\n\nThe Third Test of the 1948 Ashes series was one of five Tests in a cricket series between teams representing Australia and England. The match was played at Old Trafford in Manchester from 8–13 July, with a rest day on 11 July. The match was drawn after the whole of the fourth day and the first half of the fifth day was washed out due to rain; England had the upper hand before the weather intervened. The draw maintained Australia's 2–0 lead in the series, which was established through victories in the first", "id": "497412" }, { "contents": "Giles Baring\n\n\n, Gresham's School, Holt, and Magdalene College, Cambridge. He represented Cambridge University in 1930 and 1931 and Hampshire between 1930 and 1939. Apart from more than fifty regular county championship games, he played in the Cambridge University v New Zealanders match of 3 June 1931, for the Gentlemen in the Gentlemen v Players matches of 2 September 1931 and 11 July 1934, for Hampshire in Hampshire v West Indians on 24 May 1933, for Hampshire in Hampshire v Australians on 23 May 1934, for Hampshire in Hampshire v South", "id": "9091807" }, { "contents": "2013–14 Bangladeshi cricket season\n\n\nand Mirpur. Both Test matches ended in draws, Bangladesh won all three One Day Internationals and New Zealand won the sole Twenty20 International. Sri Lanka toured Bangladesh in January and February 2014 playing two Test Matches, three One Day Internationals and two Twenty20 Internationals. Sri Lanka won every match, with the exception of the second Test match which ended in a draw. Initially it was planned that the NCL would be held in November and December 2013, the BCL in May and June 2014 and the BPL in December and January.", "id": "18068868" }, { "contents": "Darrell Hair\n\n\nby the ICC on 12 March 2008 and stood in the England v New Zealand tests at Old Trafford in May and Trent Bridge in June 2008. Hair umpired his first Test match in January 1992, between Australia and India in Adelaide. In 1994 the International Cricket Council (ICC) introduced a policy of appointing one umpire to each Test match from a non-participating country, and since 2002 both umpires have been appointed from non-participating nations. Since 2002 the majority of Hair’s Test matches have been played outside Australia", "id": "17469081" }, { "contents": "Timeline of events preceding World War II\n\n\n15 October 2 November 14 January February 6 March 7 March 25 May 5 June 3 July 17 August 1 October October 18 November 14 November 15 November 25 December 1 December 12 December 23 December 24 January 20 May 28 July 7 August 13 October 5 November 6 November 26 December 1 December 8 December 11 December 12 December 13 January 26 March 6 March 13 March 24 July 6–16 July 29 August September 27 September 30 October 5 November 7 November 9 January 25 January 27 March 14 March 15 March 16 March 20 March 21 March 23", "id": "6767331" }, { "contents": "South African cricket team in England in 1924\n\n\nThe South African cricket team toured England in the 1924 season to play a five-match Test series against England. England won the series 3-0 with 2 matches drawn. The tourists, with their ages on the first day of the first match of the tour on 3 May, were: George Parker (24) also played three first-class matches (including the first two Tests) and Aubrey Faulkner (42) played one match, the Third Test. The manager was George Allsop. South Africa's score", "id": "12941168" }, { "contents": "2018 English cricket season\n\n\ninternational sides toured England and Wales during the season: Pakistan, Australia and India. Pakistan also visited Ireland midway through the tour and played the Irish team's first Test match at Malahide near Dublin. In preparation for this match the Irish team played a first-class match against Somerset at Taunton in April. At the end of their tour Pakistan played two T20 matches in Scotland on 12 and 13 June. The England team played a One Day International (ODI) against Scotland in Edinburgh in June, losing to Scotland for", "id": "6929601" }, { "contents": "V. V. S. Laxman\n\n\n112 in the second test. This ensured his place on the tour of Australia which would be his third to that country. Laxman's good form continued in the 2007-08 Test series against Australia with him scoring 109 against Australia on the second day of the controversial Sydney Test to put India back into the contest. It was his 12th hundred in Test matches, and his 5th against Australia. It was also his third consecutive century at SCG, giving him an average well above 90 at the venue. He followed this", "id": "9815609" }, { "contents": "2019 Ashes series\n\n\nthree cricketers were named in Australia's squad for the 2019 Ashes. Meanwhile, England warmed up for the 2019 Ashes with a Test series earlier in the year against the West Indies and a one-off Test against Ireland in July. The tour of the West Indies comprised three matches and was won 2–1 by the West Indies. England also won the one-off Test against Ireland, by 143 runs. Ahead of the series, it was announced that Day 2 of the Lord’s Test would benefit the Ruth Strauss Foundation", "id": "18532603" }, { "contents": "V. V. S. Laxman\n\n\n1–1. He was awarded the Man of the Match for his match-winning innings of 96. His knock was voted as the best Test batting performance of the year by ESPNCricinfo. In three test matches, Laxman scored three consecutive fifties including two scores in eighties against the West Indies during India's tour of West Indies in June 2011. During India's Tour to England, Laxman scored just two half-centuries in eight innings as India went down 0–4 to England. This was India's first Test series loss since its", "id": "9815620" }, { "contents": "2014–15 Bangladeshi cricket season\n\n\nThe 2014–15 Bangladeshi cricket season featured tours of the country by Zimbabwe and Pakistan. Rangpur Division won the National Cricket League (NCL) championship title for the first time. Zimbabwe toured Bangladesh from 26 October to 1 December 2014, playing three Test matches and five One Day International matches. Bangladesh won the Test series 3–0 and the ODI series 5–0. Pakistan toured from 15 April to 10 May 2015, playing one Twenty20 International (T20I), three One Day Internationals (ODIs) and two Test matches. Pakistan won the Test", "id": "895026" }, { "contents": "Australia women's cricket team in England in 2019\n\n\nThe Australia women's cricket team toured England in June and July 2019 to play the England women's cricket team to contest the Women's Ashes. The tour consisted of three Women's One Day Internationals (WODIs), one Women's Test match and three Women's Twenty20 Internationals (WT20Is). A points-based system was used across all three formats of the tour. The Women's Ashes were held by Australia prior to the start of the series. Australia women won the WODI series 3–0, therefore taking a 6–0", "id": "15341273" }, { "contents": "Pakistani cricket team in England in 1962\n\n\nof three one-day games (not limited overs). The first two were drawn and the Pakistanis won the third one against Colonel Stevens' XI. These three matches were, in effect, warm-ups only and not first-class. The opening first-class fixture was against Worcestershire at New Road, starting on Wednesday, 2 May. The Pakistanis were given a foretaste of the Test series to come in that Tom Graveney scored a century for the home team (and was presented with his county cap immediately afterwards", "id": "12941094" }, { "contents": "New Zealand cricket team in Australia in 2015–16\n\n\nThe New Zealand cricket team toured Australia from 23 October to 1 December 2015 to play three Test matches and four tour matches. The third match of the series at the Adelaide Oval was the first ever day-night Test. Michael Hussey captained the Prime Minister's XI side for the tour match, and in preparation for the day-night Test, a pink ball was used in this game. Australia won the series 2–0, with victories in Brisbane and Adelaide, with the second Test in Perth being drawn. Following the", "id": "1307472" }, { "contents": "Kennington\n\n\nThe Kia Oval\", is the home ground for Surrey County Cricket Club and hosts the final Test match of the English summer season. The Oval was the first ground in the United Kingdom to host Test cricket, was the location for the England v Scotland representative matches, the first ever international football match, the first FA Cup final in 1872, and held the second ever rugby union international match between England and Scotland in 1872. England's unfortunate performance against Australia here in 1882 gave rise to The Ashes. The Oval", "id": "10346916" }, { "contents": "Indian cricket team in Zimbabwe in 2001\n\n\nThe Indian cricket team toured Zimbabwe from 28 May to 7 July 2001 and played two Test matches against Zimbabwe, with each team winning one game match. This would be Zimbabwe's only Test victory over a side other than Bangladesh until they beat Pakistan in the second Test in 2013. India and Zimbabwe also participated in a triangular One Day International (ODI) competition with West Indies, with the latter eventually winning the competition. The Coca-Cola Cup was a One Day International (ODI) tournament that followed the Test series", "id": "4099650" }, { "contents": "Andrew Balbirnie\n\n\nHe played three further One Day International's during the tournament. He made his Twenty20 International debut against Scotland on 19 June 2015, although no play was possible due to rain. He was part of the Ireland A team which toured Bangladesh in October 2017 to play one first-class match and five limited overs matches against the Bangladesh A team. In May 2018, he was named in a fourteen-man squad for Ireland's first ever Test match, which was played against Pakistan later the same month. He made his", "id": "2597279" }, { "contents": "Pakistani cricket team in Scotland in 2018\n\n\nThe Pakistan cricket team toured Scotland to play two Twenty20 International (T20I) matches at The Grange Club, Edinburgh, on 12 and 13 June 2018. Pakistan last toured Scotland in May 2013 to play two One Day Internationals. Both teams last met in a T20I fixture in the group stage of the 2007 ICC World Twenty20 tournament. This was the first time that Scotland had played a home T20I match against a full member side. The tour followed Pakistan's tour of England and their one Test series in Ireland. England also", "id": "373509" }, { "contents": "2017 June rugby union tests\n\n\n2 sides. Australia, the only southern hemisphere Tier 1 nation not to host a test series, staged three one-off test matches; Scotland, Italy and Fiji. The Fijian test was the first between the two sides in Australia since 2010, and was also the first Australia v Tier 2 nation match in Australia since Samoa visited in 2011. Fiji also played host to Italy and Scotland to become the second Tier 2 nation to play three back-back Tier 1 sides during an international window, after Samoa participated in", "id": "13232867" }, { "contents": "Timeline of the 2014 Pacific hurricane season\n\n\nJune 11 June 12 June 13 June 14 June 15 June 28 June 30 July 1 July 2 July 3 July 6 July 7 July 9 July 17 July 18 July 19 July 25 July 26 July 27 July 28 July 29 July 31 August 1 August 2 August 3 August 4 August 5 August 6 August 7 August 8 August 9 August 10 August 12 August 13 August 14 August 15 August 17 August 18 August 21 August 22 August 23 August 24 August 25 August 26 August 27 August 28 August 29 September 2 September 4 September 6", "id": "2400921" } ]

[ { "contents": "Sri Lankan cricket team in England in 2014\n\n\nThe Sri Lanka national cricket team toured England from 13 May to 24 June 2014 for a Twenty20 International (T20I), five One Day Internationals (ODIs) and two Test matches against the England cricket team. They also played three one-day and one four-day tour matches against English county sides, as well as preceding the entire tour with a two-match ODI series against Ireland. Sri Lanka won the Test series 1–0 (the first time they had won a Test series in England), the ODI series", "id": "21939883" }, { "contents": "New Zealand cricket team in England in 2015\n\n\nThe New Zealand national cricket team toured England from 8 May to 23 June 2015 for two Test matches, five One Day Internationals (ODIs) and a Twenty20 International (T20I) against the England cricket team. They also played two four-day tour matches and a one-day match against English county sides. England won the first Test at Lord's before New Zealand claimed victory in the second Test at Headingley to level the series. England then took an early lead in the ODI series after hitting more than 400 runs", "id": "943447" }, { "contents": "Australian cricket team in England and Ireland in 2015\n\n\nThe Australia national cricket team toured England from June to September 2015 for a five-match Test series, five One Day International (ODI) matches and one Twenty20 International (T20I). The Test series was for the Ashes. They also played two four-day and two three-day first-class matches against English county sides. Australia also played one ODI against Ireland in Belfast. On 31 March 2015, Australia announced a 17-man touring party for the Ashes series. England announced their squad for the first Test on", "id": "1657670" }, { "contents": "David Constant\n\n\n67 first-class appearances. In total he scored 1,517 first-class runs at a batting average of 19.20 with a highest score of 80. Tony Lewis described his innings against Glamorgan on a difficult pitch at Leicester in 1965 as \"one of the bravest innings I ever saw\". His first Test as umpire was the Third Test between England and Pakistan in July 1971. He last stood in an international cricket match in the England v. Australia One Day International at The Oval, London in June 2001. He was the", "id": "14539375" }, { "contents": "Pakistani cricket team in Sri Lanka in 2015\n\n\nThe Pakistan cricket team toured Sri Lanka from 11 June to 1 August 2015. The tour consisted of a three-day tour match against a SLCB President's XI, three Test matches, five One Day International and two Twenty20 International matches. The third Test was originally scheduled to be played at the R Premadasa Stadium, but was changed to the Pallekele International Cricket Stadium in early May. Pakistan outplayed the hosts in all forms of the game by winning the Test series 2–1, the ODI series 3–2 and the T20I series 2–0.", "id": "15080177" }, { "contents": "2010 in American music\n\n\n17 March 22 March 23 March 26 March 30 April 6 April 8 April 13 April 19 April 20 April 21 April 27 April 30 May 4 May 11 May 14 May 17 May 18 May 21 May 25 May 31 June 1 June 8 June 14 June 15 June 18 June 21 June 22 June 28 June 29 July 6 July 7 July 12 July 13 July 15 July 20 July 23 July 25 July 27 July 29 August 3 August 17 August 24 August 31 September 7 September 14 September 21 September 23 September 28 October 5 October", "id": "18556206" }, { "contents": "Warwickshire County Cricket Club\n\n\nand gold and the shirt sponsor is Gullivers Sports Travel. The club's home is Edgbaston Cricket Ground in south Birmingham, which regularly hosts Test and One Day International matches. Cricket may have reached Warwickshire by the end of the 17th century. The \"Warwickshire & Staffordshire Journal\" was certainly aware of the sport in 1738 for it carried a report of a London v Mitcham game at the Artillery Ground on 11 August (London won by 1 wicket). The earliest confirmed reference to cricket in the county is a match announcement", "id": "8941185" }, { "contents": "Irish cricket team in England in 2019\n\n\nThe Ireland cricket team toured England in July 2019 to play a one-off four-day Test match at Lord's. It was the first Test match to be played between the two sides, and was England's first four-day Test match since they toured New Zealand in 1971. It was Ireland's third Test match, and their twelfth international fixture against England. The Test match was part of England's preparations for the 2019 Ashes series. Ahead of the Test, the England cricket team visited Ireland in May", "id": "16268672" }, { "contents": "1919 English cricket season\n\n\n(five wins from fourteen) and Warwickshire were bottom with 7.14% (one win from fourteen). The 1919 County Championship was the 26th since the competition acquired official status in 1890. The opening matches began on Friday, 16 May. These were Middlesex v Nottinghamshire at Lord's and the 1914 (reigning) champions Surrey against Somerset at The Oval. The final match between Essex and Surrey at Leyton was completed on Monday, 1 September. The situation between Yorkshire and Kent on Saturday, 30 August (the second day in", "id": "7320450" }, { "contents": "Timeline of the 2013 Pacific hurricane season\n\n\n15 May 16 May 17 May 28 May 29 May 30 June 1 June 23 June 24 June 25 June 26 June 27 June 29 June 30 July 2 July 3 July 4 July 5 July 6 July 7 July 9 July 25 July 27 July 30 July 31 August 2 August 3 August 4 August 6 August 7 August 8 August 9 August 11 August 16 August 18 August 19 August 20 August 22 August 23 August 24 August 25 August 28 August 29 August 30 August 31 September 1 September 2 September 5 September 6 September 7 September", "id": "957237" }, { "contents": "Prince's Cricket Ground\n\n\nas 'grand and quick and one of the finest playing grounds in England'. The first match played on the ground was Household Brigade v. Lords and Commons on 3 June 1871. Middlesex County Cricket Club used the ground between 1872 and 1876 and played their first match on 23–25 May 1872 against Yorkshire. The ground was also used by South of England and by Gentlemen of the South. Several Gentlemen v Players fixtures were also played there, the first taking place in July 1873. In 1878, the touring Australians played two", "id": "19086180" }, { "contents": "Callum Jackson\n\n\nSussex youth ranks, playing at under-13, under-14, under-15 and under-17 level before joining the second XI as a 16-year-old in 2011. He was selected to represent an English Schools Cricket Association XI in 2011 before making his first appearance for the Sussex first XI on 1 May 2012 in a non-first-class match against the Leeds/Bradford MCC Universities team. In early 2013, Jackson was selected for the England under-19 side to tour South Africa, where he played in both Youth Test matches and three One Day", "id": "16290826" }, { "contents": "2018 English cricket season\n\n\nHurricane Irma and Hurricane Maria in September 2017. Pakistan played two Test matches against England at Lord's and Headingley at the end of May and beginning of June. The series was drawn, each side winning one match. Ahead of the Tests, two first-class matches were played against Kent and Northants. Their match against Ireland took place after the two first-class county matches, and a two-day match was played against Leicestershire between this and the first Test against England. Pakistan won the first Test match by", "id": "6929603" }, { "contents": "1963 in Norwegian football\n\n\nResults from Norwegian football in 1963. April 26 April 28 May 3 May 4 May 5 May 11 May 12 May 30 May 19 May 22 May 23 May 26 May 27 June 7 June 8 June 9 June 14 June 15 June 16 June 22 June 23 June 24 July 26 July 28 July 29 August 2 August 4 August 6 August 17 August 18 August 21 August 22 August 24 August 25 September 7 September 8 September 20 September 22 October 4 October 6 October 13 Årstad promoted Nidelv promoted Harstad - Bodø/Glimt 4 -", "id": "20433032" }, { "contents": "West Indian cricket team in England in 1991\n\n\nThe West Indian cricket team in England in 1991 played three one day internationals and five Tests, under the captaincy of Viv Richards, as part of an extensive tour in which they also played first-class matches against 11 first-class county teams, the combined Minor Counties, the Combined Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, and a World XI to finish, plus 55-over one-day matches against one more first-class county (Gloucestershire) and the Duchess of Norfolk's Invitation XI. Of the non-international matches,", "id": "5157419" }, { "contents": "West Indian cricket team in England in 2007\n\n\nThe West Indian cricket team toured England from 12 May to 7 July 2007 as part of the 2007 English cricket season. The tour included four Tests, two Twenty20 international matches and three One Day Internationals. While England dominated the Test series 3–0, including a record victory over the West Indies, the latter took the ODI series 2:1. In the ICC Test Championship, England are ranked second and West Indies are ranked eighth, though England's most recent series was a whitewash loss in the Ashes against Australia for the first time", "id": "12941423" }, { "contents": "Sri Lankan cricket team in the West Indies in 2018\n\n\nOn 19 May 2018, Cricket West Indies (CWI) announced that they may scrap one of the Test fixtures, replacing it with a couple of one-day matches. However, the day before the first Test, the International Cricket Council (ICC) confirmed that it would be a three-match Test series. Prior to the start of day three of the second Test, the Sri Lankan cricket team protested against umpires' decision on starting the third day's play with a new ball, replacing the old ball.", "id": "19622271" }, { "contents": "Timeline of the 2017 Pacific hurricane season\n\n\ncyclone formations, strengthening, weakening, landfalls, extratropical transitions, and dissipations during the season. May 9 May 10 May 11 May 12 May 15 May 31 June 1 June 2 June 11 June 12 June 13 June 24 June 25 June 26 June 27 June 28 July 1 July 7 July 8 July 9 July 10 July 11 July 12 July 13 July 14 July 15 July 16 July 17 July 18 July 19 July 20 July 21 July 22 July 23 July 24 July 25 July 26 July 27 July 28 July 31 August 1", "id": "7169450" }, { "contents": "Daniel Bell-Drummond\n\n\nmade his youth Test debut on 21 July 2010 at the County Ground, Northampton before scoring unbeaten 88 in the second youth Test later in the same month, aged only 16. He played in both under-19 Test matches and in four youth one-day international matches during England's return tour of Sri Lanka in January and February 2011. In July 2011 Bell-Drummond played in a one-day series against South Africa under-19s. He top-scored for England in three of the seven matches in the series and was the", "id": "6732560" }, { "contents": "1967 in Norwegian football\n\n\nResults from Norwegian football in 1967. April 27 April 28 April 30 May 4 May 6 May 7 May 10 May 11 May 15 May 16 May 18 May 19 May 20 May 21 May 22 June 22 May 25 May 28 June 4 June 10 June 11 June 12 June 13 June 18 June 19 July 30 July 31 August 2 August 6 August 7 August 9 August 10 August 20 August 16 August 20 August 21 September 7 September 10 September 16 September 17 October 6 October 8 October 9 October 12 October 15 October 20 October", "id": "2081596" }, { "contents": "Phil Carlson\n\n\nPhillip Henry Carlson (born 8 August 1951, Nundah, Queensland) is a former Australian cricketer who played in two Tests and four One Day Internationals (ODIs) in 1979. Carlson was an all-rounder who played for Queensland between 1969–70 and 1980–81. He played two Test matches for Australia v England in 1978–79 Ashes series and four One Day Internationals against the same opponents. He was called up by Australia when most of their regular first-choice players were playing in World Series Cricket. Carlson took two Test wickets and", "id": "11409623" }, { "contents": "1962 in Norwegian football\n\n\nResults from Norwegian football in 1962. July 30 August 2 August 3 August 9 August 8 August 13 August 16 August 20 August 21 September 2 September 3 Ørn - Brann 0 - 7 September 24 September 28 October 1 October 15 April 25 October 6 October 8 April 29 May 6 May 12 May 13 May 14 May 20 May 21 May 23 May 24 May 27 May 30 May 31 June 3 June 15 June 16 June 17 June 24 June 25 June 30 July 1 July 29 August 1 August 2 August 4 August 5 August", "id": "9107175" }, { "contents": "Alan Igglesden\n\n\nAlan Paul Igglesden (born 8 October 1964) is a former English Test cricketer. He played three Test Matches and four One Day Internationals (ODIs) for the England cricket team between 1989 and 1994 as a fast bowler. He played most of his first-class cricket career for Kent County Cricket Club. Igglesden was born in Farnborough, London in 1964. He first played for Kent County Cricket Club's Second XI in 1983 before making his first-class cricket debut of the county in July 1986 against Somerset at Maidstone", "id": "8795795" }, { "contents": "Sri Lankan cricket team in England and Ireland in 2016\n\n\nThe Sri Lanka national cricket team toured England from 8 May to 5 July 2016 for a three-match Test series, a five-match One Day International (ODI) series and a one-off Twenty20 International (T20I) against the England cricket team. England won the Test series 2–0, the ODI series 3–0 and won the one-off T20I match by 8 wickets. They also played two first-class matches against Essex and Leicestershire prior to the Test series, and two ODI matches against Ireland prior to the", "id": "15635062" }, { "contents": "South African cricket team in England in 2008\n\n\nThe South African cricket team toured England between 29 June and 4 September 2008. They played four Test matches, one Twenty20 International and five One Day Internationals against England. They also played six tour matches against Somerset, Middlesex, Bangladesh A, a PCA Masters XI and two against the England Lions. It was announced that following the conclusion of this four-match series, future matches between England and South Africa would comprise five Test matches but only three one-day matches after the series was granted 'icon' status.", "id": "18079110" }, { "contents": "2018 English cricket season\n\n\nthe first time in an ODI. The South African women's team also toured England to play three One Day International matches against the England women's cricket team in June and to compete in the 2018 England women's Tri-Nation Series Twenty20 competition against England and New Zealand. New Zealand then played three One Day Internationals against England in July. In addition the West Indies men's side played a single Twenty20 International against a Rest of the World XI team at Lord's in May 2018 to raise funds for stadiums damaged by", "id": "6929602" }, { "contents": "American Rally Association\n\n\nWood Rally March 15 - 16 Olympus Rally April 27 - 28 Oregon Trail Rally May 31 - June 2 Idaho Rally International June 22 - 23 New England Forest Rally July 19 - 20 Muscatell Ojibwe Forests Rally August 23 - 24 Susquehannock Trail Performance Rally September 13 - 14 Lake Superior Performance Rally October 18 - 19 2019 ARA Super Regional Events Southern Ohio Forest Rally May 16 - 18 Rally Colorado July 26 - 27 Tour de Forest Rally September 21, 2019 Empire State Performance Rally October 25 - 26 2019 ARA One-Day Regional", "id": "6404348" }, { "contents": "Pakistani cricket team in England and Ireland in 2016\n\n\nThe Pakistan national cricket team toured England and Ireland from 3 July to 7 September 2016 for a four-match Test series, a five-match One Day International (ODI) series and a one-off Twenty20 International (T20I) against the England cricket team. They also played two three-day matches against Somerset and Sussex prior to the Test series, a two-day match against Worcestershire during the Test series, and two ODI matches against Ireland prior to the ODI series. England's ODI matches against Pakistan was", "id": "15635130" }, { "contents": "Second Test, 1948 Ashes series\n\n\nThe Second Test of the 1948 Ashes series was one of five Tests in a cricket series between Australia and England. The match was played at Lord's in London from 24 to 29 June, with a rest day on 27 June. Australia won the match by 409 runs to take a 2–0 lead, meaning that England would need to win the remaining three matches to regain The Ashes. Australian captain Don Bradman won the toss and elected to bat. The tourists had won the First Test convincingly, and decided to field the", "id": "497516" }, { "contents": "MCC v Australians at Lord's, 27 May 1878\n\n\nin England, the team left Sydney on 29 March 1878 and sailed via Auckland and Honolulu to San Francisco, from where they travelled across America by train to New York City. They crossed the Atlantic, arriving in Liverpool on 13 May, and then went by train to Nottingham where they played their first match, starting on Monday, 20 May. This was a three-day match against Nottinghamshire at Trent Bridge and the Australians were well beaten by an innings and 14 runs, an inauspicious start which dampened much of the public", "id": "16383632" }, { "contents": "Australian women's cricket team in England in 2013\n\n\nThe Australian women's cricket team toured England in 2013. The visitors were defending the Women's Ashes. The only Test match of the tour took place on 11–14 August at Wormsley Park, and was drawn. Three One-Day Internationals (ODIs) were played: the first at Lord's on 20 August, and the other two at Hove on 23 and 25 August. Also three Twenty20 International (T20I) matches were played, on 27, 29 and 31 August, at Chelmsford, Southampton and Chester-le-", "id": "19064429" }, { "contents": "South African cricket team in England in 2017\n\n\nThe South African cricket team toured England and Wales between May and August 2017, playing three One Day Internationals (ODIs), three Twenty20 Internationals (T20Is) and four Test matches. The ODI matches were in preparation for the 2017 ICC Champions Trophy, which took place in England and Wales during June. Extra security was provided to South Africa for the ODI series following the Manchester bombing. England won the ODI series 2–1 and the T20 series 2–1. Ahead of the ODI series, South Africa played one-day warm-", "id": "1555384" }, { "contents": "1Malaysia Development Berhad scandal\n\n\n- 30 September onwards October 20 November 25 December 1 December 5 December 31 2016 January 26 January 29 February 1 February 3 February 7 February 19 February 29 March 23 March 31 April 2 April 5 April 7 April 9 April 12 April 13 April 19 April 28 May 24 May 31 July 11 1MDB agrees to resolve its dispute with International Petroleum Investment Company via the London Court of International Arbitration. July 21 August 9 October 11 December 2 2017 March 22 April 24 May 30 June 15 June 16 August 1 August 2 August 11 August", "id": "14280441" }, { "contents": "Timeline of events preceding World War II\n\n\nJune 30 September 14 May 19 September 18 September 19 January 7 January 28 February 27 March 1 April 10 May 30 August 30 November 21 December 3 January 1 January 30 February 27 February 28 March 4 March 20 March 23 March 24 March 27 April 1 April 26 May 2 May 15 May 31 June 21 July 14 August 25 September 12 October 19 November 24 January 26 February 12–16 March 20 June 30 July 20 July 25 August 2 August 8 September October 16 December 1 December 5 December 29 January 7 June 18 August 31 September", "id": "6767330" }, { "contents": "Timeline of the 2018 Pacific hurricane season\n\n\ntropical cyclone formations, strengthening, weakening, landfalls, extratropical transitions, and dissipations during the season. May 10 May 11 May 13 May 15 June 1 June 6 June 7 June 8 June 9 June 10 June 11 June 12 June 13 June 14 June 15 June 16 June 17 June 19 June 24 June 25 June 26 June 27 June 28 June 29 June 30 July 1 July 2 July 3 July 4 July 5 July 6 July 9 July 26 July 27 July 28 July 29 July 31 August 1 August 2 August 3 August", "id": "21166816" }, { "contents": "English cricket team in Australia in 2017–18\n\n\nThe England cricket team toured Australia between November 2017 and February 2018 to play five Tests and five One Day Internationals (ODIs). They also played in a three nation Twenty20 International (T20I) tournament, along with New Zealand, who co-hosted the tournament along with Australia. England additionally played two first-class matches, a two-day tour match and a one-day tour match against Cricket Australia XI, as well as a Twenty20 against the Prime Minister's XI. The Test matches made up the 2017–18", "id": "21532277" }, { "contents": "Timeline of events preceding World War II\n\n\nApril 16 August 13 October October 11 October 29 November 1 January 11 June July 24 August 31 September 27 October 29 November 8 January 21 February 1 March 16 April 1 April 6 June 10 August 16 August 18 May 12 July 18 December 1 January 3 January 31 April 4 April 24 September 8 December 25 April 12 May 20 June 7 November 12 December 14 May 3 May 28 June 4 August 2 August 27 October 1 February 9 February 11 March 4 March 28 April 3 June 7 July 24 August 31 October 29 April 22", "id": "6767329" }, { "contents": "W. G. Grace in the 1878 English cricket season\n\n\nNewcastle upon Tyne, Bolton and Birmingham to play odds games against local opposition. Grace took 21 wickets in the match against the 22 men of Melton Mowbray in a three-day match starting on Monday, 1 July. He scored 42 and 57 not out in his two innings, the match ending in a draw. Grace caught the evening train to be in London ready for the first Gentlemen v Players match at The Oval, starting on Thursday, 4 July. The next USEE match at Leeds Holbeck followed the second Gentlemen", "id": "15478205" }, { "contents": "List of accidents and incidents involving military aircraft (1950–1954)\n\n\n12 December 19 December 23 December 10 January 11 January 15 January 21 January 28 January 31 January 14 February 13 March 14 March 17 March 23 March 3 April 5 April 5 April 8 April 25 April 27 April 6 May 18 May 19 May 8 June 13 June 15 June 18 June 23 June 23 June 30 June 8 July 31 July Summer 13 August 18 August 21 August 22 August 26 August 27 August 16 September 29 September 15 October 11 November 13 November 19 November 27 November 3 December 7 December 21 December 12 January 15", "id": "21637229" }, { "contents": "Lord's\n\n\nbe switched off by 11 pm. The floodlights were first used successfully on 27 May 2009 during the Twenty20 Cup match between Middlesex and Kent. Lord's hosts Test matches, one-day internationals, some Middlesex home matches, MCC matches and (starting with a fixture between Middlesex and Surrey in July 2004) some of Middlesex's home Twenty20 games. Lord's typically hosts two Tests every summer plus two one-day internationals. Lord's also plays host to the finals of the National Village Cricket Competition, the MCC Universities", "id": "10760657" }, { "contents": "2011 in American music\n\n\nThe following is a list of notable events and releases that happened in 2011 in music in the United States. January 11 January 17 January 18 January 21 January 25 January 31 February 1 February 8 February 15 February 22 March 1 March 8 March 15 March 22 March 29 April 5 April 11 April 12 April 26 May 3 May 10 May 17 May 23 May 24 May 31 June 7 June 14 June 21 June 28 July 5 July 8 July 12 July 13 July 19 July 26 August 2 August 8 August 9 August 16 August", "id": "15423555" }, { "contents": "MCC v Australians at Lord's, 27 May 1878\n\n\nenthusiasm that their visit had generated. The Australians were next due to play Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) in a three-day match at Lord's, commencing on Monday, 27 May. In the meantime, Charles Bannerman and Billy Midwinter were invited to visit Dublin and play for the United South of England Eleven (USEE) against 15 past and present players of Dublin University. This was due to be played over three days, starting on Thursday, 23 May, at College Park. The USEE was captained by W. G.", "id": "16383633" }, { "contents": "West Indian cricket team in England in 1928\n\n\nreach three figures. As at Lord's and Old Trafford, the match was over before lunch on the third day. Including the three Tests, 30 first-class matches were played on the tour, plus six other games. The West Indians won just seven of these 36 matches (five of the first-class games) and lost 12. By the end of May, the touring side had won matches against Derbyshire and Cambridge University, plus a minor match against Northumberland, and had drawn all the other games.", "id": "12941340" }, { "contents": "Bob Willis\n\n\n26 August against Worcestershire's Seconds. Willis, 19 years of age, took one wicket for 48 runs in the first innings, and bowled four wicketless overs in the second. He was not called on to bat at all. Two days later, he faced Glamorgan and took three wickets. He played several further Second XI matches through May and June 1969, before his first-class debut on 6 August. Scotland was touring England that season and had already beaten Warwickshire. Willis took three wickets for 13 runs from 13", "id": "16238759" }, { "contents": "Rock in Rio\n\n\n5 July 6 May 21 / 82.000 May 22 / 45.000 May 27 / 85.000 May 29 / 95.000 May 30 / 38.000 June 4 / 51.000 June 5 / 85.000 June 6 / 90.000 June 11 / 30.000 June 14 / 48.000 Rock in Rio Lisboa V Rock in Rio Lisboa VII Rock in Rio Lisboa VIII June 24 sold out almost three months prior to the festival. \"Rock in Rio USA\" was the first North American edition of the festival, being held in Las Vegas on May 8, 9, 15 and 16", "id": "11140715" }, { "contents": "Indian cricket team in Sri Lanka in 2015\n\n\nThe Indian cricket team toured Sri Lanka from 6 August to 1 September 2015 to play a tour match and three Test matches. On 27 June, Sri Lankan batsman Kumar Sangakkara said he would retire from international cricket after the second Test of the series. The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) and Sri Lanka Cricket Board confirmed the schedule of India's tour to Sri Lanka in August to September 2015. The tour started with a three-day warm-up game against Sri Lanka Board President's XI,", "id": "22038367" }, { "contents": "Andy Cottam\n\n\nAndrew Colin Cottam (born 14 July 1973 in Northampton, England) was an English cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman and a left-arm slow bowler. He played in 2 Under-19 Tests in 1992 and 13 first-class matches between 1992 and 1996. His father is the cricketer and coach Bob Cottam. In 1990 Andy Cottam started playing for Somerset Second XI and Devon. In 1992 he was selected for Under-19's tour of Pakistan and played in the Third Test and 2 one-day matches against Pakistan", "id": "2981363" }, { "contents": "Lord's\n\n\n. The hundredth Lord's Test match was in 2000, England v West Indies. As of 25 August 2010 England have played 119 Test matches at Lord's, winning 45, losing 28 and drawing 46. Lord's often hosts two Test matches each summer, one match for each visiting team. In 2010, the ground hosted three Test matches: as well as England's matches against Bangladesh and Pakistan, a Test match between Australia and Pakistan was held there in July. Lord's was the venue of the 2000th test", "id": "10760663" }, { "contents": "Australian cricket team in Sri Lanka in 2016\n\n\nThe Australian cricket team toured Sri Lanka from 18 July to 9 September 2016 to play three Test matches, five One Day Internationals (ODIs), two Twenty20 Internationals (T20Is) matches and a first-class practice match. The Test series was played for Warne-Muralitharan Trophy, with Sri Lanka winning 3–0, their first ever series whitewash against Australia. As a result, Australia slipped from first to third in the ICC Test Championship; Sri Lanka, who had started the series ranked seventh, moved up to sixth.", "id": "14912886" }, { "contents": "South African cricket team in Australia in 2005–06\n\n\nThe South African cricket team toured Australia for cricket matches during the 2005–06 season. South Africa had already played two One Day International series during this season, beating New Zealand 4–0 at home before travelling to India and drawing the series there 2–2. The team had been playing 14 successive ODIs (tour matches excluded) before arriving in Australia, with their last Test match against West Indies in April and May 2005. South Africa played one first class warm-up match, one three-day warm-up match without first class", "id": "19860549" }, { "contents": "Peter Lever\n\n\n6/38, before his final Test ended on 5 August 1975 during another Ashes tour, Australia facing England at Lord's. Lever also played ten One Day Internationals, including the 1975 Cricket World Cup, taking 11 wickets but scoring only 17 runs. His ODI debut was also against Australia, at Melbourne on 5 January 1971, and his last match was at Headingley, Leeds, again against Australia, on 18 June 1975. This gives Lever the unusual distinction of having played both his debut, and last match, against Australia", "id": "17765992" }, { "contents": "Australian women's cricket team in England in 2009\n\n\nThe Australian women's cricket team toured England between 25 June and 13 July 2009, playing one Test match, five One Day Internationals and a Twenty20 International. Australia won the Twenty20 International, while England won the One Day International series 4–0. The Test match, which was for the Women's Ashes, was drawn; ensuring that England retained them. Prior to the series, both sides took part in the 2009 ICC Women's World Twenty20, which was also held in England in June. England won the tournament, in", "id": "13250607" }, { "contents": "List of accidents and incidents involving military aircraft (1950–1954)\n\n\nJanuary 31 January 7 February 18 March 21 April 24 April May 11 May 12 May 15 May 9 June 11 June 13 June 17 June 18 June 21 June 15 July 17 July 30 July 6 August 6 August 12 August 23 August 26 August 30 August 5 September 9 September 9 September 9 September 11 September 19 September 19 September 25 September 1 October 1 October 7 October 8 October 8 October 11 October 13 October 14 October 17 October 18 October 19 October 20 October 22 October 26 October 2 November 8 November 17 November 23 November", "id": "21637231" }, { "contents": "Follow-on\n\n\n, and gave England a slender lead of 129. The next day a fired-up Bob Willis took 8 for 43, and Australia slumped to 111 all out. Australia, who had won their 16 previous Test matches, including the first of the three-Test series between the two teams, had scored 445 in the first innings of the second Test and restricted India to 171; only V. V. S. Laxman (59) and Rahul Dravid reached 25 runs. The only other bright spot for India was the bowling of", "id": "1078812" }, { "contents": "West Indian cricket team in England in 2017\n\n\nThe West Indies cricket team toured England in August and September 2017 to play three Test matches competing for the Wisden Trophy, one Twenty20 International (T20I) and five One Day Internationals (ODIs). Ahead of the Test series, the West Indies played first-class warm-up matches against Derbyshire, Essex and Kent. They also played a two-day match against Leicestershire, as they did not get to the final of the 2017 NatWest t20 Blast. In October 2016 the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB)", "id": "1555387" }, { "contents": "England women's national rugby league team\n\n\nCup - WIN v France WIN v Russia | LOSS v Australia LOSS v New Zealand WIN v Pacific Islands 2009 International Tests - 25 July | France 8-28 England; France 0-36 England 2010 International Tests - 9 November | England 36-8 France 10 November | New Zealand 44-6 England 16 November | New Zealand 38-6 England 2011 International Tests - 2 July | France 6-36 England 6 July | France 4-42 England 2012 International Test - 15 June | England 48-0 France", "id": "9166568" }, { "contents": "International cricket\n\n\n, One-Day and Twenty20 matches take place in the form of \"tours\". In a tour, one nation travels to another and plays warm-up matches, which may be first-class matches, against domestic teams such as county or state teams, a series of Test matches against the host nation, and either a series of One-Day (ODi) and T20 matches against the host nation or a tournament involving the host nation and another touring nation. Tours may include Test, ODI and T20I matches", "id": "6028418" }, { "contents": "West Indian cricket team in England in 2000\n\n\nThe West Indies cricket team toured England in the 2000 cricket season. West Indies played five Tests against England - two in June and three in August - with a triangular One Day International (ODI) series involving Zimbabwe in July. In June, West Indies won the 1st Test at Edgbaston convincingly, before England narrowly won the 2nd Test at Lord's, having bowled West Indies out for 54 in their second innings. The ODI series, sponsored by NatWest, took place in July, with England, West Indies and Zimbabwe", "id": "12941417" }, { "contents": "First Test, 1948 Ashes series\n\n\nThe First Test of the 1948 Ashes series was one of five Tests in a cricket series between Australia and England. The match was played at Trent Bridge in Nottingham from 10 to 15 June with a rest day on 13 June. Australia won the match by eight wickets to take a 1–0 series lead. The Australians started the match as firm favourites, having won the previous series against England 3–0; in the lead-up to the 1948 series, they had won 10 of their 12 tour matches in England, mostly by", "id": "497621" }, { "contents": "Giles Baring\n\n\nAfricans on 22 May 1935, for Hampshire in Hampshire v Australians on 25 May 1938, and for H. D. G. Leveson Gowers XI v Australian Services on 7 July 1945. He played for Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) between 1935 and 1946, and his last first-class game was in the MCC v Cambridge University match on 29 June 1946. Baring was a right-arm fast bowler and also a right-hand batsman. As a bowler, he took 197 wickets for 5,607 runs, an average of 28.46.", "id": "9091808" }, { "contents": "Herbert Sutcliffe's cricket career (1919–27)\n\n\nWaddington in 1925. Arthur Mitchell was still a reserve and Cyril Turner made his first-class debut. The first four Tests of the 1926 England v Australia series were scheduled for just three days and were all curtailed by poor weather. The final Test at The Oval was timeless to ensure a finish. It has become one of the most famous matches in cricket history, not because England regained The Ashes for the first time since 1912 but for the manner it which it was achieved as Hobbs and Sutcliffe produced their most famous", "id": "18930780" }, { "contents": "Günther Lützow\n\n\nfighter destroyed. Two days later, he destroyed three aircraft, two SB-2 bombers and a Petlyakov Pe-2 ground attack aircraft. On 27 June, he shot down an Ilyushin DB-3 bomber followed by another Pe-2 on the following day, his last victory of June 1941. Following a DB-3 bomber claimed on 7 July, Lützow was credited with four aerial victories on 10 July, consisting of one Vultee V-11 attack aircraft and three I-153s. The next day he claimed an II-16. On 15 July he shot down two further I-16s and another", "id": "3340503" }, { "contents": "1966 in Norwegian football\n\n\nResults from Norwegian football in 1966. April 22 April 24 April 27 May 19 April 30 May 1 May 6 May 7 May 8 May 15 May 19 May 22 May 23 May 27 May 28 May 30 May 31 June 3 June 4 June 5 June 15 June 16 June 19 June 20 July 31 August 3 August 6 August 7 August 8 August 24 August 17 August 27 August 28 September 11 September 22 September 23 September 24 October 9 October 15 October 16 October 17 October 23 July 31 August 1 August 2 August 3 Rematch", "id": "21974049" }, { "contents": "Headingley Cricket Ground\n\n\nwickets each. Donald Bradman's innings of 334 in the 1930 Ashes Test included 309 runs on the first day, and he followed it in the Australians' next test at Headingley in 1934 with an innings of 304. Spinner Hedley Verity took 10 wickets for 10 runs in 1932 for Yorkshire v Nottinghamshire, still the best bowling analysis ever in first-class cricket. Verity had also taken all ten against Warwickshire at Headingley in 1931. In the 1948 Ashes series, Australia scored 404 for three on the last day to beat", "id": "11240346" }, { "contents": "List of international awards of Rohit Sharma\n\n\nRohit Sharma is an Indian international cricketer. He made his international cricket debut in June 2007. He has scored twenty-nine centuries in international cricket; three in Tests, twenty-two in One Day Internationals (ODI) and four in Twenty20 International (T20Is). As of July 2019, Sharma has played 27 Tests, 215 One Day Internationals and 94 Twenty20 Internationals. As of July 2019, Rohit won 19 Man of the Match awards and 4 Man of the Series awards in One Day Internationals; 1 Man of", "id": "21442897" }, { "contents": "Ollie Pope\n\n\nthe 2016 Royal London One-Day Cup against Yorkshire. He made his first-class debut on 28 March 2017 for Surrey against Oxford MCCU as part of the Marylebone Cricket Club University fixtures. Pope scored his maiden List A half-century on 7 May 2017 against Sussex. He made his Twenty20 debut for Surrey in the 2017 NatWest t20 Blast on 7 July 2017. In August 2018, he was added to England's squad for the second Test against India. He made his Test debut at Lord's for England against", "id": "11076451" }, { "contents": "Australian cricket team in the West Indies in 2015\n\n\nThe Australian cricket team toured the West Indies from 27 May to 15 June 2015. The tour consisted of one first-class warm-up match and two Test matches. On 8 April 2015, the West Indies Cricket Board brought forward the date of the two Test matches by two days \"due to a number of logistical challenges beyond [their] control\". Australia won the 2-match Test series 2–0 and therefore retained the Frank Worrell Trophy. Australia announced their squad on 31 March 2015. They included three uncapped players,", "id": "17936722" }, { "contents": "Zimbabwean cricket team in Sri Lanka in 2017\n\n\nThe Zimbabwe cricket team toured Sri Lanka in June and July 2017 to play one Test match and five One Day Internationals (ODIs). Originally, the schedule was for two Test matches and three ODIs. It was Zimbabwe's first tour to Sri Lanka since January 2002. All the matches were played as day games. Zimbabwe won the ODI series 3–2, their first ever series win against Sri Lanka. It was their first away series win since 2009 and the first away series win against a Test nation since defeating Bangladesh in", "id": "5384529" }, { "contents": "Ashwell Prince\n\n\nthe batting. Opening with debutant Imraan Khan, Prince scored 150, his 11th Test century. Prince signed a contract to play for Lancashire County Cricket Club the 2009 English season. He acted as cover for V. V. S. Laxman, the club's other overseas player, who was unavailable at times because he was playing in the Indian Premier League. Prince score his first century for Lancashire at the start of May during a match against Nottinghamshire. The knock came off 135 not out from 189 balls came on the final day of", "id": "12899038" }, { "contents": "Herbert Sutcliffe\n\n\nand 1926, Sutcliffe's skill was a primary factor in Yorkshire having the longest unbeaten run in county cricket: i.e., 70 matches without loss until early 1927. After three defeats in 1927, Yorkshire went a further 58 games without loss until 1929. The first four Tests of the 1926 England v Australia series were scheduled for just three days and were all curtailed by poor weather. The final Test at the Oval was timeless to ensure a finish. It has become one of the most famous matches in cricket history, not", "id": "18571331" }, { "contents": "Indian cricket team in England in 2011\n\n\nThe Indian cricket team toured England from 21 July to 16 September 2011. The tour consisted of one Twenty20 International (T20I), five One Day Internationals (ODIs) and four Test matches, as well as a number of matches against English county sides. The opening Test at Lord's was the 2,000th Test. England's victory in the Third Test put them number one in the world rankings. Virat Kohli, Pragyan Ojha and RP Singh replaced the injured Yuvraj Singh, Harbhajan Singh and Zaheer Khan, respectively, for the", "id": "4970296" }, { "contents": "Cricket in the British Isles\n\n\nIt played its first test match against Australia in 1877 and played its first One Day International (ODI) also againist Australia in 1971. One of the main cricket grounds in England, and also widely regarded as the spiritual home of cricket, is Lords Cricket Ground in London. Other major cricket grounds include The Oval (also in London), Edgbaston in Birmingham, Old Trafford in Manchester and Trent Bridge in Nottingham. From 1909 until 2017 England was the only country within the British Isles to have full membership of the ICC", "id": "17756246" }, { "contents": "Eton v Harrow\n\n\nplayed for Harrow in the four matches in 1822 to 1825, and arranged the first University Match at Lord's in 1827, two years before the first Boat Race. Many Eton and Harrow players went on to win blues at Oxford and Cambridge. Eton v Harrow was joined by the University Match and Gentlemen v Players as the three key features in the England cricket season. In its heyday, in the late 19th century and early 20th century, \"the School's day\" was one of the highlights of the London \"", "id": "10600897" }, { "contents": "Mathew Dimond\n\n\nMathew Dimond (born 24 September 1975) is a former English cricketer who made played for Somerset County Cricket Club between 1994 and 1997. Early in his career, he toured the West Indies with the England Under-19 cricket team, playing three Tests and one One Day International at Under-19 level. A right-arm fast-medium bowler, he made his first-class debut for Somerset in June 1994. Playing in the County Championship against Hampshire, Dimond claimed a solitary wicket in the match, which was shortened to single innings", "id": "558840" }, { "contents": "Charlie Charters\n\n\n’ Although the 2004 Islanders lost each of the three Test matches they played (29-14 v Wallabies, 41-26 v All Blacks and 24-38 v Springboks in Gosford, Australia), they scored 10 tries in three matches. By comparison that same southern hemisphere season, England and Scotland scored only three tries between them in their five Tests against the All Blacks and Wallabies. In fact, the 2004 Islanders scored more tries in one Test against the All Blacks (four) than the three tries the 2005", "id": "16741154" }, { "contents": "Australian cricket team in South Africa in 1993–94\n\n\nmatch by one run, levelling the ODI series at 4–4 with an \"improbable victory\". As well as the internationals, three first-class matches and two other matches were played during the tour The tour began with a friendly one-day match against NF Oppenheimer's XI, followed by a first-class match against Northern Transvaal and a one-day match against a representative side. Before the first Test match Australia played a first-class match against Orange Free State and between the first and second Tests they played", "id": "5209672" }, { "contents": "Bangladeshi cricket team in Zimbabwe in 2011\n\n\nThe Bangladesh cricket team toured Zimbabwe from 4 to 21 August 2011. The tour consisted of one Test match and five One Day Internationals (ODIs) played against the Zimbabwean national team and one first-class match played against a Zimbabwean representative team. The Test match was Zimbabwe's first since India toured Zimbabwe in 2005. Zimbabwe won the Test match by 130 runs and also won the one-day series 3–2. Bangladesh announced its squad for the Test match and ODI series on 15 July 2011. Zimbabwe announced its squad for", "id": "19159411" }, { "contents": "V. V. S. Laxman\n\n\nfrom international cricket. Although he was selected for the upcoming New Zealand series, he opted not to play in the series but he will play in domestic cricket for Hyderabad and the Indian Premier League . It was announced that the northern stand at the Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium will now be named after him. Laxman was particularly prolific against Australia, in both Tests and One Day Internationals. Six out of his 17 Test hundreds, and four out of his six ODI hundreds came against Australia. He has two double-centuries", "id": "9815623" }, { "contents": "3rd Battalion, 319th Field Artillery Regiment\n\n\nVII and another platoon to LZ Challenge from 3–5 July. Battery C located at FSB Rock near Bac Loc and conducted two 1-day raids on 11 & 13 June. Battery D located at LZ Lowboy, with 2 howitzers sent on Operation Red Thrust V in 5 days ending 2 May. On 12 July, Battery D displaced to support Battery A from FSB Hawkeye but returned to LZ Lowboy until 28 July, then occupied FSB Hunky. The battalion received three 105mm howitzers in May. In July, LTC John R. Martin replaced LTC Joseph", "id": "2060226" }, { "contents": "W. G. Grace in the 1878 English cricket season\n\n\nthis match attracted few spectators as it coincided with the Surrey v Australians match at The Oval, which drew very large crowds. \"Wisden Cricketers' Almanack\" commented that \"the Australians were attracting monster gatherings at The Oval on the days that this match was played, consequently very few visitors were at Lord's\". There were three North v South fixtures in June. The first two were played at Prince's Cricket Ground and Lord's with the South as the \"home\" team; the third took place at the", "id": "15478186" }, { "contents": "Third Test, 1948 Ashes series\n\n\nThe Third Test of the 1948 Ashes series was one of five Tests in a cricket series between teams representing Australia and England. The match was played at Old Trafford in Manchester from 8–13 July, with a rest day on 11 July. The match was drawn after the whole of the fourth day and the first half of the fifth day was washed out due to rain; England had the upper hand before the weather intervened. The draw maintained Australia's 2–0 lead in the series, which was established through victories in the first", "id": "497412" }, { "contents": "Giles Baring\n\n\n, Gresham's School, Holt, and Magdalene College, Cambridge. He represented Cambridge University in 1930 and 1931 and Hampshire between 1930 and 1939. Apart from more than fifty regular county championship games, he played in the Cambridge University v New Zealanders match of 3 June 1931, for the Gentlemen in the Gentlemen v Players matches of 2 September 1931 and 11 July 1934, for Hampshire in Hampshire v West Indians on 24 May 1933, for Hampshire in Hampshire v Australians on 23 May 1934, for Hampshire in Hampshire v South", "id": "9091807" }, { "contents": "2013–14 Bangladeshi cricket season\n\n\nand Mirpur. Both Test matches ended in draws, Bangladesh won all three One Day Internationals and New Zealand won the sole Twenty20 International. Sri Lanka toured Bangladesh in January and February 2014 playing two Test Matches, three One Day Internationals and two Twenty20 Internationals. Sri Lanka won every match, with the exception of the second Test match which ended in a draw. Initially it was planned that the NCL would be held in November and December 2013, the BCL in May and June 2014 and the BPL in December and January.", "id": "18068868" }, { "contents": "Darrell Hair\n\n\nby the ICC on 12 March 2008 and stood in the England v New Zealand tests at Old Trafford in May and Trent Bridge in June 2008. Hair umpired his first Test match in January 1992, between Australia and India in Adelaide. In 1994 the International Cricket Council (ICC) introduced a policy of appointing one umpire to each Test match from a non-participating country, and since 2002 both umpires have been appointed from non-participating nations. Since 2002 the majority of Hair’s Test matches have been played outside Australia", "id": "17469081" }, { "contents": "Timeline of events preceding World War II\n\n\n15 October 2 November 14 January February 6 March 7 March 25 May 5 June 3 July 17 August 1 October October 18 November 14 November 15 November 25 December 1 December 12 December 23 December 24 January 20 May 28 July 7 August 13 October 5 November 6 November 26 December 1 December 8 December 11 December 12 December 13 January 26 March 6 March 13 March 24 July 6–16 July 29 August September 27 September 30 October 5 November 7 November 9 January 25 January 27 March 14 March 15 March 16 March 20 March 21 March 23", "id": "6767331" }, { "contents": "South African cricket team in England in 1924\n\n\nThe South African cricket team toured England in the 1924 season to play a five-match Test series against England. England won the series 3-0 with 2 matches drawn. The tourists, with their ages on the first day of the first match of the tour on 3 May, were: George Parker (24) also played three first-class matches (including the first two Tests) and Aubrey Faulkner (42) played one match, the Third Test. The manager was George Allsop. South Africa's score", "id": "12941168" }, { "contents": "2018 English cricket season\n\n\ninternational sides toured England and Wales during the season: Pakistan, Australia and India. Pakistan also visited Ireland midway through the tour and played the Irish team's first Test match at Malahide near Dublin. In preparation for this match the Irish team played a first-class match against Somerset at Taunton in April. At the end of their tour Pakistan played two T20 matches in Scotland on 12 and 13 June. The England team played a One Day International (ODI) against Scotland in Edinburgh in June, losing to Scotland for", "id": "6929601" }, { "contents": "V. V. S. Laxman\n\n\n112 in the second test. This ensured his place on the tour of Australia which would be his third to that country. Laxman's good form continued in the 2007-08 Test series against Australia with him scoring 109 against Australia on the second day of the controversial Sydney Test to put India back into the contest. It was his 12th hundred in Test matches, and his 5th against Australia. It was also his third consecutive century at SCG, giving him an average well above 90 at the venue. He followed this", "id": "9815609" }, { "contents": "2019 Ashes series\n\n\nthree cricketers were named in Australia's squad for the 2019 Ashes. Meanwhile, England warmed up for the 2019 Ashes with a Test series earlier in the year against the West Indies and a one-off Test against Ireland in July. The tour of the West Indies comprised three matches and was won 2–1 by the West Indies. England also won the one-off Test against Ireland, by 143 runs. Ahead of the series, it was announced that Day 2 of the Lord’s Test would benefit the Ruth Strauss Foundation", "id": "18532603" }, { "contents": "V. V. S. Laxman\n\n\n1–1. He was awarded the Man of the Match for his match-winning innings of 96. His knock was voted as the best Test batting performance of the year by ESPNCricinfo. In three test matches, Laxman scored three consecutive fifties including two scores in eighties against the West Indies during India's tour of West Indies in June 2011. During India's Tour to England, Laxman scored just two half-centuries in eight innings as India went down 0–4 to England. This was India's first Test series loss since its", "id": "9815620" }, { "contents": "2014–15 Bangladeshi cricket season\n\n\nThe 2014–15 Bangladeshi cricket season featured tours of the country by Zimbabwe and Pakistan. Rangpur Division won the National Cricket League (NCL) championship title for the first time. Zimbabwe toured Bangladesh from 26 October to 1 December 2014, playing three Test matches and five One Day International matches. Bangladesh won the Test series 3–0 and the ODI series 5–0. Pakistan toured from 15 April to 10 May 2015, playing one Twenty20 International (T20I), three One Day Internationals (ODIs) and two Test matches. Pakistan won the Test", "id": "895026" }, { "contents": "Australia women's cricket team in England in 2019\n\n\nThe Australia women's cricket team toured England in June and July 2019 to play the England women's cricket team to contest the Women's Ashes. The tour consisted of three Women's One Day Internationals (WODIs), one Women's Test match and three Women's Twenty20 Internationals (WT20Is). A points-based system was used across all three formats of the tour. The Women's Ashes were held by Australia prior to the start of the series. Australia women won the WODI series 3–0, therefore taking a 6–0", "id": "15341273" }, { "contents": "Pakistani cricket team in England in 1962\n\n\nof three one-day games (not limited overs). The first two were drawn and the Pakistanis won the third one against Colonel Stevens' XI. These three matches were, in effect, warm-ups only and not first-class. The opening first-class fixture was against Worcestershire at New Road, starting on Wednesday, 2 May. The Pakistanis were given a foretaste of the Test series to come in that Tom Graveney scored a century for the home team (and was presented with his county cap immediately afterwards", "id": "12941094" }, { "contents": "New Zealand cricket team in Australia in 2015–16\n\n\nThe New Zealand cricket team toured Australia from 23 October to 1 December 2015 to play three Test matches and four tour matches. The third match of the series at the Adelaide Oval was the first ever day-night Test. Michael Hussey captained the Prime Minister's XI side for the tour match, and in preparation for the day-night Test, a pink ball was used in this game. Australia won the series 2–0, with victories in Brisbane and Adelaide, with the second Test in Perth being drawn. Following the", "id": "1307472" }, { "contents": "Kennington\n\n\nThe Kia Oval\", is the home ground for Surrey County Cricket Club and hosts the final Test match of the English summer season. The Oval was the first ground in the United Kingdom to host Test cricket, was the location for the England v Scotland representative matches, the first ever international football match, the first FA Cup final in 1872, and held the second ever rugby union international match between England and Scotland in 1872. England's unfortunate performance against Australia here in 1882 gave rise to The Ashes. The Oval", "id": "10346916" }, { "contents": "Indian cricket team in Zimbabwe in 2001\n\n\nThe Indian cricket team toured Zimbabwe from 28 May to 7 July 2001 and played two Test matches against Zimbabwe, with each team winning one game match. This would be Zimbabwe's only Test victory over a side other than Bangladesh until they beat Pakistan in the second Test in 2013. India and Zimbabwe also participated in a triangular One Day International (ODI) competition with West Indies, with the latter eventually winning the competition. The Coca-Cola Cup was a One Day International (ODI) tournament that followed the Test series", "id": "4099650" }, { "contents": "Andrew Balbirnie\n\n\nHe played three further One Day International's during the tournament. He made his Twenty20 International debut against Scotland on 19 June 2015, although no play was possible due to rain. He was part of the Ireland A team which toured Bangladesh in October 2017 to play one first-class match and five limited overs matches against the Bangladesh A team. In May 2018, he was named in a fourteen-man squad for Ireland's first ever Test match, which was played against Pakistan later the same month. He made his", "id": "2597279" }, { "contents": "Pakistani cricket team in Scotland in 2018\n\n\nThe Pakistan cricket team toured Scotland to play two Twenty20 International (T20I) matches at The Grange Club, Edinburgh, on 12 and 13 June 2018. Pakistan last toured Scotland in May 2013 to play two One Day Internationals. Both teams last met in a T20I fixture in the group stage of the 2007 ICC World Twenty20 tournament. This was the first time that Scotland had played a home T20I match against a full member side. The tour followed Pakistan's tour of England and their one Test series in Ireland. England also", "id": "373509" }, { "contents": "2017 June rugby union tests\n\n\n2 sides. Australia, the only southern hemisphere Tier 1 nation not to host a test series, staged three one-off test matches; Scotland, Italy and Fiji. The Fijian test was the first between the two sides in Australia since 2010, and was also the first Australia v Tier 2 nation match in Australia since Samoa visited in 2011. Fiji also played host to Italy and Scotland to become the second Tier 2 nation to play three back-back Tier 1 sides during an international window, after Samoa participated in", "id": "13232867" }, { "contents": "Timeline of the 2014 Pacific hurricane season\n\n\nJune 11 June 12 June 13 June 14 June 15 June 28 June 30 July 1 July 2 July 3 July 6 July 7 July 9 July 17 July 18 July 19 July 25 July 26 July 27 July 28 July 29 July 31 August 1 August 2 August 3 August 4 August 5 August 6 August 7 August 8 August 9 August 10 August 12 August 13 August 14 August 15 August 17 August 18 August 21 August 22 August 23 August 24 August 25 August 26 August 27 August 28 August 29 September 2 September 4 September 6", "id": "2400921" } ]

[ { "contents": "Sri Lankan cricket team in England in 2014\n\n\nThe Sri Lanka national cricket team toured England from 13 May to 24 June 2014 for a Twenty20 International (T20I), five One Day Internationals (ODIs) and two Test matches against the England cricket team. They also played three one-day and one four-day tour matches against English county sides, as well as preceding the entire tour with a two-match ODI series against Ireland. Sri Lanka won the Test series 1–0 (the first time they had won a Test series in England), the ODI series", "id": "21939883" }, { "contents": "New Zealand cricket team in England in 2015\n\n\nThe New Zealand national cricket team toured England from 8 May to 23 June 2015 for two Test matches, five One Day Internationals (ODIs) and a Twenty20 International (T20I) against the England cricket team. They also played two four-day tour matches and a one-day match against English county sides. England won the first Test at Lord's before New Zealand claimed victory in the second Test at Headingley to level the series. England then took an early lead in the ODI series after hitting more than 400 runs", "id": "943447" }, { "contents": "Australian cricket team in England and Ireland in 2015\n\n\nThe Australia national cricket team toured England from June to September 2015 for a five-match Test series, five One Day International (ODI) matches and one Twenty20 International (T20I). The Test series was for the Ashes. They also played two four-day and two three-day first-class matches against English county sides. Australia also played one ODI against Ireland in Belfast. On 31 March 2015, Australia announced a 17-man touring party for the Ashes series. England announced their squad for the first Test on", "id": "1657670" }, { "contents": "David Constant\n\n\n67 first-class appearances. In total he scored 1,517 first-class runs at a batting average of 19.20 with a highest score of 80. Tony Lewis described his innings against Glamorgan on a difficult pitch at Leicester in 1965 as \"one of the bravest innings I ever saw\". His first Test as umpire was the Third Test between England and Pakistan in July 1971. He last stood in an international cricket match in the England v. Australia One Day International at The Oval, London in June 2001. He was the", "id": "14539375" }, { "contents": "Pakistani cricket team in Sri Lanka in 2015\n\n\nThe Pakistan cricket team toured Sri Lanka from 11 June to 1 August 2015. The tour consisted of a three-day tour match against a SLCB President's XI, three Test matches, five One Day International and two Twenty20 International matches. The third Test was originally scheduled to be played at the R Premadasa Stadium, but was changed to the Pallekele International Cricket Stadium in early May. Pakistan outplayed the hosts in all forms of the game by winning the Test series 2–1, the ODI series 3–2 and the T20I series 2–0.", "id": "15080177" }, { "contents": "2010 in American music\n\n\n17 March 22 March 23 March 26 March 30 April 6 April 8 April 13 April 19 April 20 April 21 April 27 April 30 May 4 May 11 May 14 May 17 May 18 May 21 May 25 May 31 June 1 June 8 June 14 June 15 June 18 June 21 June 22 June 28 June 29 July 6 July 7 July 12 July 13 July 15 July 20 July 23 July 25 July 27 July 29 August 3 August 17 August 24 August 31 September 7 September 14 September 21 September 23 September 28 October 5 October", "id": "18556206" }, { "contents": "Warwickshire County Cricket Club\n\n\nand gold and the shirt sponsor is Gullivers Sports Travel. The club's home is Edgbaston Cricket Ground in south Birmingham, which regularly hosts Test and One Day International matches. Cricket may have reached Warwickshire by the end of the 17th century. The \"Warwickshire & Staffordshire Journal\" was certainly aware of the sport in 1738 for it carried a report of a London v Mitcham game at the Artillery Ground on 11 August (London won by 1 wicket). The earliest confirmed reference to cricket in the county is a match announcement", "id": "8941185" }, { "contents": "Irish cricket team in England in 2019\n\n\nThe Ireland cricket team toured England in July 2019 to play a one-off four-day Test match at Lord's. It was the first Test match to be played between the two sides, and was England's first four-day Test match since they toured New Zealand in 1971. It was Ireland's third Test match, and their twelfth international fixture against England. The Test match was part of England's preparations for the 2019 Ashes series. Ahead of the Test, the England cricket team visited Ireland in May", "id": "16268672" }, { "contents": "1919 English cricket season\n\n\n(five wins from fourteen) and Warwickshire were bottom with 7.14% (one win from fourteen). The 1919 County Championship was the 26th since the competition acquired official status in 1890. The opening matches began on Friday, 16 May. These were Middlesex v Nottinghamshire at Lord's and the 1914 (reigning) champions Surrey against Somerset at The Oval. The final match between Essex and Surrey at Leyton was completed on Monday, 1 September. The situation between Yorkshire and Kent on Saturday, 30 August (the second day in", "id": "7320450" }, { "contents": "Timeline of the 2013 Pacific hurricane season\n\n\n15 May 16 May 17 May 28 May 29 May 30 June 1 June 23 June 24 June 25 June 26 June 27 June 29 June 30 July 2 July 3 July 4 July 5 July 6 July 7 July 9 July 25 July 27 July 30 July 31 August 2 August 3 August 4 August 6 August 7 August 8 August 9 August 11 August 16 August 18 August 19 August 20 August 22 August 23 August 24 August 25 August 28 August 29 August 30 August 31 September 1 September 2 September 5 September 6 September 7 September", "id": "957237" }, { "contents": "Prince's Cricket Ground\n\n\nas 'grand and quick and one of the finest playing grounds in England'. The first match played on the ground was Household Brigade v. Lords and Commons on 3 June 1871. Middlesex County Cricket Club used the ground between 1872 and 1876 and played their first match on 23–25 May 1872 against Yorkshire. The ground was also used by South of England and by Gentlemen of the South. Several Gentlemen v Players fixtures were also played there, the first taking place in July 1873. In 1878, the touring Australians played two", "id": "19086180" }, { "contents": "Callum Jackson\n\n\nSussex youth ranks, playing at under-13, under-14, under-15 and under-17 level before joining the second XI as a 16-year-old in 2011. He was selected to represent an English Schools Cricket Association XI in 2011 before making his first appearance for the Sussex first XI on 1 May 2012 in a non-first-class match against the Leeds/Bradford MCC Universities team. In early 2013, Jackson was selected for the England under-19 side to tour South Africa, where he played in both Youth Test matches and three One Day", "id": "16290826" }, { "contents": "2018 English cricket season\n\n\nHurricane Irma and Hurricane Maria in September 2017. Pakistan played two Test matches against England at Lord's and Headingley at the end of May and beginning of June. The series was drawn, each side winning one match. Ahead of the Tests, two first-class matches were played against Kent and Northants. Their match against Ireland took place after the two first-class county matches, and a two-day match was played against Leicestershire between this and the first Test against England. Pakistan won the first Test match by", "id": "6929603" }, { "contents": "1963 in Norwegian football\n\n\nResults from Norwegian football in 1963. April 26 April 28 May 3 May 4 May 5 May 11 May 12 May 30 May 19 May 22 May 23 May 26 May 27 June 7 June 8 June 9 June 14 June 15 June 16 June 22 June 23 June 24 July 26 July 28 July 29 August 2 August 4 August 6 August 17 August 18 August 21 August 22 August 24 August 25 September 7 September 8 September 20 September 22 October 4 October 6 October 13 Årstad promoted Nidelv promoted Harstad - Bodø/Glimt 4 -", "id": "20433032" }, { "contents": "West Indian cricket team in England in 1991\n\n\nThe West Indian cricket team in England in 1991 played three one day internationals and five Tests, under the captaincy of Viv Richards, as part of an extensive tour in which they also played first-class matches against 11 first-class county teams, the combined Minor Counties, the Combined Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, and a World XI to finish, plus 55-over one-day matches against one more first-class county (Gloucestershire) and the Duchess of Norfolk's Invitation XI. Of the non-international matches,", "id": "5157419" }, { "contents": "West Indian cricket team in England in 2007\n\n\nThe West Indian cricket team toured England from 12 May to 7 July 2007 as part of the 2007 English cricket season. The tour included four Tests, two Twenty20 international matches and three One Day Internationals. While England dominated the Test series 3–0, including a record victory over the West Indies, the latter took the ODI series 2:1. In the ICC Test Championship, England are ranked second and West Indies are ranked eighth, though England's most recent series was a whitewash loss in the Ashes against Australia for the first time", "id": "12941423" }, { "contents": "Sri Lankan cricket team in the West Indies in 2018\n\n\nOn 19 May 2018, Cricket West Indies (CWI) announced that they may scrap one of the Test fixtures, replacing it with a couple of one-day matches. However, the day before the first Test, the International Cricket Council (ICC) confirmed that it would be a three-match Test series. Prior to the start of day three of the second Test, the Sri Lankan cricket team protested against umpires' decision on starting the third day's play with a new ball, replacing the old ball.", "id": "19622271" }, { "contents": "Timeline of the 2017 Pacific hurricane season\n\n\ncyclone formations, strengthening, weakening, landfalls, extratropical transitions, and dissipations during the season. May 9 May 10 May 11 May 12 May 15 May 31 June 1 June 2 June 11 June 12 June 13 June 24 June 25 June 26 June 27 June 28 July 1 July 7 July 8 July 9 July 10 July 11 July 12 July 13 July 14 July 15 July 16 July 17 July 18 July 19 July 20 July 21 July 22 July 23 July 24 July 25 July 26 July 27 July 28 July 31 August 1", "id": "7169450" }, { "contents": "Daniel Bell-Drummond\n\n\nmade his youth Test debut on 21 July 2010 at the County Ground, Northampton before scoring unbeaten 88 in the second youth Test later in the same month, aged only 16. He played in both under-19 Test matches and in four youth one-day international matches during England's return tour of Sri Lanka in January and February 2011. In July 2011 Bell-Drummond played in a one-day series against South Africa under-19s. He top-scored for England in three of the seven matches in the series and was the", "id": "6732560" }, { "contents": "1967 in Norwegian football\n\n\nResults from Norwegian football in 1967. April 27 April 28 April 30 May 4 May 6 May 7 May 10 May 11 May 15 May 16 May 18 May 19 May 20 May 21 May 22 June 22 May 25 May 28 June 4 June 10 June 11 June 12 June 13 June 18 June 19 July 30 July 31 August 2 August 6 August 7 August 9 August 10 August 20 August 16 August 20 August 21 September 7 September 10 September 16 September 17 October 6 October 8 October 9 October 12 October 15 October 20 October", "id": "2081596" }, { "contents": "Phil Carlson\n\n\nPhillip Henry Carlson (born 8 August 1951, Nundah, Queensland) is a former Australian cricketer who played in two Tests and four One Day Internationals (ODIs) in 1979. Carlson was an all-rounder who played for Queensland between 1969–70 and 1980–81. He played two Test matches for Australia v England in 1978–79 Ashes series and four One Day Internationals against the same opponents. He was called up by Australia when most of their regular first-choice players were playing in World Series Cricket. Carlson took two Test wickets and", "id": "11409623" }, { "contents": "1962 in Norwegian football\n\n\nResults from Norwegian football in 1962. July 30 August 2 August 3 August 9 August 8 August 13 August 16 August 20 August 21 September 2 September 3 Ørn - Brann 0 - 7 September 24 September 28 October 1 October 15 April 25 October 6 October 8 April 29 May 6 May 12 May 13 May 14 May 20 May 21 May 23 May 24 May 27 May 30 May 31 June 3 June 15 June 16 June 17 June 24 June 25 June 30 July 1 July 29 August 1 August 2 August 4 August 5 August", "id": "9107175" }, { "contents": "Alan Igglesden\n\n\nAlan Paul Igglesden (born 8 October 1964) is a former English Test cricketer. He played three Test Matches and four One Day Internationals (ODIs) for the England cricket team between 1989 and 1994 as a fast bowler. He played most of his first-class cricket career for Kent County Cricket Club. Igglesden was born in Farnborough, London in 1964. He first played for Kent County Cricket Club's Second XI in 1983 before making his first-class cricket debut of the county in July 1986 against Somerset at Maidstone", "id": "8795795" }, { "contents": "Sri Lankan cricket team in England and Ireland in 2016\n\n\nThe Sri Lanka national cricket team toured England from 8 May to 5 July 2016 for a three-match Test series, a five-match One Day International (ODI) series and a one-off Twenty20 International (T20I) against the England cricket team. England won the Test series 2–0, the ODI series 3–0 and won the one-off T20I match by 8 wickets. They also played two first-class matches against Essex and Leicestershire prior to the Test series, and two ODI matches against Ireland prior to the", "id": "15635062" }, { "contents": "South African cricket team in England in 2008\n\n\nThe South African cricket team toured England between 29 June and 4 September 2008. They played four Test matches, one Twenty20 International and five One Day Internationals against England. They also played six tour matches against Somerset, Middlesex, Bangladesh A, a PCA Masters XI and two against the England Lions. It was announced that following the conclusion of this four-match series, future matches between England and South Africa would comprise five Test matches but only three one-day matches after the series was granted 'icon' status.", "id": "18079110" }, { "contents": "2018 English cricket season\n\n\nthe first time in an ODI. The South African women's team also toured England to play three One Day International matches against the England women's cricket team in June and to compete in the 2018 England women's Tri-Nation Series Twenty20 competition against England and New Zealand. New Zealand then played three One Day Internationals against England in July. In addition the West Indies men's side played a single Twenty20 International against a Rest of the World XI team at Lord's in May 2018 to raise funds for stadiums damaged by", "id": "6929602" }, { "contents": "American Rally Association\n\n\nWood Rally March 15 - 16 Olympus Rally April 27 - 28 Oregon Trail Rally May 31 - June 2 Idaho Rally International June 22 - 23 New England Forest Rally July 19 - 20 Muscatell Ojibwe Forests Rally August 23 - 24 Susquehannock Trail Performance Rally September 13 - 14 Lake Superior Performance Rally October 18 - 19 2019 ARA Super Regional Events Southern Ohio Forest Rally May 16 - 18 Rally Colorado July 26 - 27 Tour de Forest Rally September 21, 2019 Empire State Performance Rally October 25 - 26 2019 ARA One-Day Regional", "id": "6404348" }, { "contents": "Pakistani cricket team in England and Ireland in 2016\n\n\nThe Pakistan national cricket team toured England and Ireland from 3 July to 7 September 2016 for a four-match Test series, a five-match One Day International (ODI) series and a one-off Twenty20 International (T20I) against the England cricket team. They also played two three-day matches against Somerset and Sussex prior to the Test series, a two-day match against Worcestershire during the Test series, and two ODI matches against Ireland prior to the ODI series. England's ODI matches against Pakistan was", "id": "15635130" }, { "contents": "Second Test, 1948 Ashes series\n\n\nThe Second Test of the 1948 Ashes series was one of five Tests in a cricket series between Australia and England. The match was played at Lord's in London from 24 to 29 June, with a rest day on 27 June. Australia won the match by 409 runs to take a 2–0 lead, meaning that England would need to win the remaining three matches to regain The Ashes. Australian captain Don Bradman won the toss and elected to bat. The tourists had won the First Test convincingly, and decided to field the", "id": "497516" }, { "contents": "MCC v Australians at Lord's, 27 May 1878\n\n\nin England, the team left Sydney on 29 March 1878 and sailed via Auckland and Honolulu to San Francisco, from where they travelled across America by train to New York City. They crossed the Atlantic, arriving in Liverpool on 13 May, and then went by train to Nottingham where they played their first match, starting on Monday, 20 May. This was a three-day match against Nottinghamshire at Trent Bridge and the Australians were well beaten by an innings and 14 runs, an inauspicious start which dampened much of the public", "id": "16383632" }, { "contents": "Australian women's cricket team in England in 2013\n\n\nThe Australian women's cricket team toured England in 2013. The visitors were defending the Women's Ashes. The only Test match of the tour took place on 11–14 August at Wormsley Park, and was drawn. Three One-Day Internationals (ODIs) were played: the first at Lord's on 20 August, and the other two at Hove on 23 and 25 August. Also three Twenty20 International (T20I) matches were played, on 27, 29 and 31 August, at Chelmsford, Southampton and Chester-le-", "id": "19064429" }, { "contents": "South African cricket team in England in 2017\n\n\nThe South African cricket team toured England and Wales between May and August 2017, playing three One Day Internationals (ODIs), three Twenty20 Internationals (T20Is) and four Test matches. The ODI matches were in preparation for the 2017 ICC Champions Trophy, which took place in England and Wales during June. Extra security was provided to South Africa for the ODI series following the Manchester bombing. England won the ODI series 2–1 and the T20 series 2–1. Ahead of the ODI series, South Africa played one-day warm-", "id": "1555384" }, { "contents": "1Malaysia Development Berhad scandal\n\n\n- 30 September onwards October 20 November 25 December 1 December 5 December 31 2016 January 26 January 29 February 1 February 3 February 7 February 19 February 29 March 23 March 31 April 2 April 5 April 7 April 9 April 12 April 13 April 19 April 28 May 24 May 31 July 11 1MDB agrees to resolve its dispute with International Petroleum Investment Company via the London Court of International Arbitration. July 21 August 9 October 11 December 2 2017 March 22 April 24 May 30 June 15 June 16 August 1 August 2 August 11 August", "id": "14280441" }, { "contents": "Timeline of events preceding World War II\n\n\nJune 30 September 14 May 19 September 18 September 19 January 7 January 28 February 27 March 1 April 10 May 30 August 30 November 21 December 3 January 1 January 30 February 27 February 28 March 4 March 20 March 23 March 24 March 27 April 1 April 26 May 2 May 15 May 31 June 21 July 14 August 25 September 12 October 19 November 24 January 26 February 12–16 March 20 June 30 July 20 July 25 August 2 August 8 September October 16 December 1 December 5 December 29 January 7 June 18 August 31 September", "id": "6767330" }, { "contents": "Timeline of the 2018 Pacific hurricane season\n\n\ntropical cyclone formations, strengthening, weakening, landfalls, extratropical transitions, and dissipations during the season. May 10 May 11 May 13 May 15 June 1 June 6 June 7 June 8 June 9 June 10 June 11 June 12 June 13 June 14 June 15 June 16 June 17 June 19 June 24 June 25 June 26 June 27 June 28 June 29 June 30 July 1 July 2 July 3 July 4 July 5 July 6 July 9 July 26 July 27 July 28 July 29 July 31 August 1 August 2 August 3 August", "id": "21166816" }, { "contents": "English cricket team in Australia in 2017–18\n\n\nThe England cricket team toured Australia between November 2017 and February 2018 to play five Tests and five One Day Internationals (ODIs). They also played in a three nation Twenty20 International (T20I) tournament, along with New Zealand, who co-hosted the tournament along with Australia. England additionally played two first-class matches, a two-day tour match and a one-day tour match against Cricket Australia XI, as well as a Twenty20 against the Prime Minister's XI. The Test matches made up the 2017–18", "id": "21532277" }, { "contents": "Timeline of events preceding World War II\n\n\nApril 16 August 13 October October 11 October 29 November 1 January 11 June July 24 August 31 September 27 October 29 November 8 January 21 February 1 March 16 April 1 April 6 June 10 August 16 August 18 May 12 July 18 December 1 January 3 January 31 April 4 April 24 September 8 December 25 April 12 May 20 June 7 November 12 December 14 May 3 May 28 June 4 August 2 August 27 October 1 February 9 February 11 March 4 March 28 April 3 June 7 July 24 August 31 October 29 April 22", "id": "6767329" }, { "contents": "W. G. Grace in the 1878 English cricket season\n\n\nNewcastle upon Tyne, Bolton and Birmingham to play odds games against local opposition. Grace took 21 wickets in the match against the 22 men of Melton Mowbray in a three-day match starting on Monday, 1 July. He scored 42 and 57 not out in his two innings, the match ending in a draw. Grace caught the evening train to be in London ready for the first Gentlemen v Players match at The Oval, starting on Thursday, 4 July. The next USEE match at Leeds Holbeck followed the second Gentlemen", "id": "15478205" }, { "contents": "List of accidents and incidents involving military aircraft (1950–1954)\n\n\n12 December 19 December 23 December 10 January 11 January 15 January 21 January 28 January 31 January 14 February 13 March 14 March 17 March 23 March 3 April 5 April 5 April 8 April 25 April 27 April 6 May 18 May 19 May 8 June 13 June 15 June 18 June 23 June 23 June 30 June 8 July 31 July Summer 13 August 18 August 21 August 22 August 26 August 27 August 16 September 29 September 15 October 11 November 13 November 19 November 27 November 3 December 7 December 21 December 12 January 15", "id": "21637229" }, { "contents": "Lord's\n\n\nbe switched off by 11 pm. The floodlights were first used successfully on 27 May 2009 during the Twenty20 Cup match between Middlesex and Kent. Lord's hosts Test matches, one-day internationals, some Middlesex home matches, MCC matches and (starting with a fixture between Middlesex and Surrey in July 2004) some of Middlesex's home Twenty20 games. Lord's typically hosts two Tests every summer plus two one-day internationals. Lord's also plays host to the finals of the National Village Cricket Competition, the MCC Universities", "id": "10760657" }, { "contents": "2011 in American music\n\n\nThe following is a list of notable events and releases that happened in 2011 in music in the United States. January 11 January 17 January 18 January 21 January 25 January 31 February 1 February 8 February 15 February 22 March 1 March 8 March 15 March 22 March 29 April 5 April 11 April 12 April 26 May 3 May 10 May 17 May 23 May 24 May 31 June 7 June 14 June 21 June 28 July 5 July 8 July 12 July 13 July 19 July 26 August 2 August 8 August 9 August 16 August", "id": "15423555" }, { "contents": "MCC v Australians at Lord's, 27 May 1878\n\n\nenthusiasm that their visit had generated. The Australians were next due to play Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) in a three-day match at Lord's, commencing on Monday, 27 May. In the meantime, Charles Bannerman and Billy Midwinter were invited to visit Dublin and play for the United South of England Eleven (USEE) against 15 past and present players of Dublin University. This was due to be played over three days, starting on Thursday, 23 May, at College Park. The USEE was captained by W. G.", "id": "16383633" }, { "contents": "West Indian cricket team in England in 1928\n\n\nreach three figures. As at Lord's and Old Trafford, the match was over before lunch on the third day. Including the three Tests, 30 first-class matches were played on the tour, plus six other games. The West Indians won just seven of these 36 matches (five of the first-class games) and lost 12. By the end of May, the touring side had won matches against Derbyshire and Cambridge University, plus a minor match against Northumberland, and had drawn all the other games.", "id": "12941340" }, { "contents": "Bob Willis\n\n\n26 August against Worcestershire's Seconds. Willis, 19 years of age, took one wicket for 48 runs in the first innings, and bowled four wicketless overs in the second. He was not called on to bat at all. Two days later, he faced Glamorgan and took three wickets. He played several further Second XI matches through May and June 1969, before his first-class debut on 6 August. Scotland was touring England that season and had already beaten Warwickshire. Willis took three wickets for 13 runs from 13", "id": "16238759" }, { "contents": "Rock in Rio\n\n\n5 July 6 May 21 / 82.000 May 22 / 45.000 May 27 / 85.000 May 29 / 95.000 May 30 / 38.000 June 4 / 51.000 June 5 / 85.000 June 6 / 90.000 June 11 / 30.000 June 14 / 48.000 Rock in Rio Lisboa V Rock in Rio Lisboa VII Rock in Rio Lisboa VIII June 24 sold out almost three months prior to the festival. \"Rock in Rio USA\" was the first North American edition of the festival, being held in Las Vegas on May 8, 9, 15 and 16", "id": "11140715" }, { "contents": "Indian cricket team in Sri Lanka in 2015\n\n\nThe Indian cricket team toured Sri Lanka from 6 August to 1 September 2015 to play a tour match and three Test matches. On 27 June, Sri Lankan batsman Kumar Sangakkara said he would retire from international cricket after the second Test of the series. The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) and Sri Lanka Cricket Board confirmed the schedule of India's tour to Sri Lanka in August to September 2015. The tour started with a three-day warm-up game against Sri Lanka Board President's XI,", "id": "22038367" }, { "contents": "Andy Cottam\n\n\nAndrew Colin Cottam (born 14 July 1973 in Northampton, England) was an English cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman and a left-arm slow bowler. He played in 2 Under-19 Tests in 1992 and 13 first-class matches between 1992 and 1996. His father is the cricketer and coach Bob Cottam. In 1990 Andy Cottam started playing for Somerset Second XI and Devon. In 1992 he was selected for Under-19's tour of Pakistan and played in the Third Test and 2 one-day matches against Pakistan", "id": "2981363" }, { "contents": "Lord's\n\n\n. The hundredth Lord's Test match was in 2000, England v West Indies. As of 25 August 2010 England have played 119 Test matches at Lord's, winning 45, losing 28 and drawing 46. Lord's often hosts two Test matches each summer, one match for each visiting team. In 2010, the ground hosted three Test matches: as well as England's matches against Bangladesh and Pakistan, a Test match between Australia and Pakistan was held there in July. Lord's was the venue of the 2000th test", "id": "10760663" }, { "contents": "Australian cricket team in Sri Lanka in 2016\n\n\nThe Australian cricket team toured Sri Lanka from 18 July to 9 September 2016 to play three Test matches, five One Day Internationals (ODIs), two Twenty20 Internationals (T20Is) matches and a first-class practice match. The Test series was played for Warne-Muralitharan Trophy, with Sri Lanka winning 3–0, their first ever series whitewash against Australia. As a result, Australia slipped from first to third in the ICC Test Championship; Sri Lanka, who had started the series ranked seventh, moved up to sixth.", "id": "14912886" }, { "contents": "South African cricket team in Australia in 2005–06\n\n\nThe South African cricket team toured Australia for cricket matches during the 2005–06 season. South Africa had already played two One Day International series during this season, beating New Zealand 4–0 at home before travelling to India and drawing the series there 2–2. The team had been playing 14 successive ODIs (tour matches excluded) before arriving in Australia, with their last Test match against West Indies in April and May 2005. South Africa played one first class warm-up match, one three-day warm-up match without first class", "id": "19860549" }, { "contents": "Peter Lever\n\n\n6/38, before his final Test ended on 5 August 1975 during another Ashes tour, Australia facing England at Lord's. Lever also played ten One Day Internationals, including the 1975 Cricket World Cup, taking 11 wickets but scoring only 17 runs. His ODI debut was also against Australia, at Melbourne on 5 January 1971, and his last match was at Headingley, Leeds, again against Australia, on 18 June 1975. This gives Lever the unusual distinction of having played both his debut, and last match, against Australia", "id": "17765992" }, { "contents": "Australian women's cricket team in England in 2009\n\n\nThe Australian women's cricket team toured England between 25 June and 13 July 2009, playing one Test match, five One Day Internationals and a Twenty20 International. Australia won the Twenty20 International, while England won the One Day International series 4–0. The Test match, which was for the Women's Ashes, was drawn; ensuring that England retained them. Prior to the series, both sides took part in the 2009 ICC Women's World Twenty20, which was also held in England in June. England won the tournament, in", "id": "13250607" }, { "contents": "List of accidents and incidents involving military aircraft (1950–1954)\n\n\nJanuary 31 January 7 February 18 March 21 April 24 April May 11 May 12 May 15 May 9 June 11 June 13 June 17 June 18 June 21 June 15 July 17 July 30 July 6 August 6 August 12 August 23 August 26 August 30 August 5 September 9 September 9 September 9 September 11 September 19 September 19 September 25 September 1 October 1 October 7 October 8 October 8 October 11 October 13 October 14 October 17 October 18 October 19 October 20 October 22 October 26 October 2 November 8 November 17 November 23 November", "id": "21637231" }, { "contents": "Follow-on\n\n\n, and gave England a slender lead of 129. The next day a fired-up Bob Willis took 8 for 43, and Australia slumped to 111 all out. Australia, who had won their 16 previous Test matches, including the first of the three-Test series between the two teams, had scored 445 in the first innings of the second Test and restricted India to 171; only V. V. S. Laxman (59) and Rahul Dravid reached 25 runs. The only other bright spot for India was the bowling of", "id": "1078812" }, { "contents": "West Indian cricket team in England in 2017\n\n\nThe West Indies cricket team toured England in August and September 2017 to play three Test matches competing for the Wisden Trophy, one Twenty20 International (T20I) and five One Day Internationals (ODIs). Ahead of the Test series, the West Indies played first-class warm-up matches against Derbyshire, Essex and Kent. They also played a two-day match against Leicestershire, as they did not get to the final of the 2017 NatWest t20 Blast. In October 2016 the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB)", "id": "1555387" }, { "contents": "England women's national rugby league team\n\n\nCup - WIN v France WIN v Russia | LOSS v Australia LOSS v New Zealand WIN v Pacific Islands 2009 International Tests - 25 July | France 8-28 England; France 0-36 England 2010 International Tests - 9 November | England 36-8 France 10 November | New Zealand 44-6 England 16 November | New Zealand 38-6 England 2011 International Tests - 2 July | France 6-36 England 6 July | France 4-42 England 2012 International Test - 15 June | England 48-0 France", "id": "9166568" }, { "contents": "International cricket\n\n\n, One-Day and Twenty20 matches take place in the form of \"tours\". In a tour, one nation travels to another and plays warm-up matches, which may be first-class matches, against domestic teams such as county or state teams, a series of Test matches against the host nation, and either a series of One-Day (ODi) and T20 matches against the host nation or a tournament involving the host nation and another touring nation. Tours may include Test, ODI and T20I matches", "id": "6028418" }, { "contents": "West Indian cricket team in England in 2000\n\n\nThe West Indies cricket team toured England in the 2000 cricket season. West Indies played five Tests against England - two in June and three in August - with a triangular One Day International (ODI) series involving Zimbabwe in July. In June, West Indies won the 1st Test at Edgbaston convincingly, before England narrowly won the 2nd Test at Lord's, having bowled West Indies out for 54 in their second innings. The ODI series, sponsored by NatWest, took place in July, with England, West Indies and Zimbabwe", "id": "12941417" }, { "contents": "First Test, 1948 Ashes series\n\n\nThe First Test of the 1948 Ashes series was one of five Tests in a cricket series between Australia and England. The match was played at Trent Bridge in Nottingham from 10 to 15 June with a rest day on 13 June. Australia won the match by eight wickets to take a 1–0 series lead. The Australians started the match as firm favourites, having won the previous series against England 3–0; in the lead-up to the 1948 series, they had won 10 of their 12 tour matches in England, mostly by", "id": "497621" }, { "contents": "Giles Baring\n\n\nAfricans on 22 May 1935, for Hampshire in Hampshire v Australians on 25 May 1938, and for H. D. G. Leveson Gowers XI v Australian Services on 7 July 1945. He played for Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) between 1935 and 1946, and his last first-class game was in the MCC v Cambridge University match on 29 June 1946. Baring was a right-arm fast bowler and also a right-hand batsman. As a bowler, he took 197 wickets for 5,607 runs, an average of 28.46.", "id": "9091808" }, { "contents": "Herbert Sutcliffe's cricket career (1919–27)\n\n\nWaddington in 1925. Arthur Mitchell was still a reserve and Cyril Turner made his first-class debut. The first four Tests of the 1926 England v Australia series were scheduled for just three days and were all curtailed by poor weather. The final Test at The Oval was timeless to ensure a finish. It has become one of the most famous matches in cricket history, not because England regained The Ashes for the first time since 1912 but for the manner it which it was achieved as Hobbs and Sutcliffe produced their most famous", "id": "18930780" }, { "contents": "Günther Lützow\n\n\nfighter destroyed. Two days later, he destroyed three aircraft, two SB-2 bombers and a Petlyakov Pe-2 ground attack aircraft. On 27 June, he shot down an Ilyushin DB-3 bomber followed by another Pe-2 on the following day, his last victory of June 1941. Following a DB-3 bomber claimed on 7 July, Lützow was credited with four aerial victories on 10 July, consisting of one Vultee V-11 attack aircraft and three I-153s. The next day he claimed an II-16. On 15 July he shot down two further I-16s and another", "id": "3340503" }, { "contents": "1966 in Norwegian football\n\n\nResults from Norwegian football in 1966. April 22 April 24 April 27 May 19 April 30 May 1 May 6 May 7 May 8 May 15 May 19 May 22 May 23 May 27 May 28 May 30 May 31 June 3 June 4 June 5 June 15 June 16 June 19 June 20 July 31 August 3 August 6 August 7 August 8 August 24 August 17 August 27 August 28 September 11 September 22 September 23 September 24 October 9 October 15 October 16 October 17 October 23 July 31 August 1 August 2 August 3 Rematch", "id": "21974049" }, { "contents": "Headingley Cricket Ground\n\n\nwickets each. Donald Bradman's innings of 334 in the 1930 Ashes Test included 309 runs on the first day, and he followed it in the Australians' next test at Headingley in 1934 with an innings of 304. Spinner Hedley Verity took 10 wickets for 10 runs in 1932 for Yorkshire v Nottinghamshire, still the best bowling analysis ever in first-class cricket. Verity had also taken all ten against Warwickshire at Headingley in 1931. In the 1948 Ashes series, Australia scored 404 for three on the last day to beat", "id": "11240346" }, { "contents": "List of international awards of Rohit Sharma\n\n\nRohit Sharma is an Indian international cricketer. He made his international cricket debut in June 2007. He has scored twenty-nine centuries in international cricket; three in Tests, twenty-two in One Day Internationals (ODI) and four in Twenty20 International (T20Is). As of July 2019, Sharma has played 27 Tests, 215 One Day Internationals and 94 Twenty20 Internationals. As of July 2019, Rohit won 19 Man of the Match awards and 4 Man of the Series awards in One Day Internationals; 1 Man of", "id": "21442897" }, { "contents": "Ollie Pope\n\n\nthe 2016 Royal London One-Day Cup against Yorkshire. He made his first-class debut on 28 March 2017 for Surrey against Oxford MCCU as part of the Marylebone Cricket Club University fixtures. Pope scored his maiden List A half-century on 7 May 2017 against Sussex. He made his Twenty20 debut for Surrey in the 2017 NatWest t20 Blast on 7 July 2017. In August 2018, he was added to England's squad for the second Test against India. He made his Test debut at Lord's for England against", "id": "11076451" }, { "contents": "Australian cricket team in the West Indies in 2015\n\n\nThe Australian cricket team toured the West Indies from 27 May to 15 June 2015. The tour consisted of one first-class warm-up match and two Test matches. On 8 April 2015, the West Indies Cricket Board brought forward the date of the two Test matches by two days \"due to a number of logistical challenges beyond [their] control\". Australia won the 2-match Test series 2–0 and therefore retained the Frank Worrell Trophy. Australia announced their squad on 31 March 2015. They included three uncapped players,", "id": "17936722" }, { "contents": "Zimbabwean cricket team in Sri Lanka in 2017\n\n\nThe Zimbabwe cricket team toured Sri Lanka in June and July 2017 to play one Test match and five One Day Internationals (ODIs). Originally, the schedule was for two Test matches and three ODIs. It was Zimbabwe's first tour to Sri Lanka since January 2002. All the matches were played as day games. Zimbabwe won the ODI series 3–2, their first ever series win against Sri Lanka. It was their first away series win since 2009 and the first away series win against a Test nation since defeating Bangladesh in", "id": "5384529" }, { "contents": "Ashwell Prince\n\n\nthe batting. Opening with debutant Imraan Khan, Prince scored 150, his 11th Test century. Prince signed a contract to play for Lancashire County Cricket Club the 2009 English season. He acted as cover for V. V. S. Laxman, the club's other overseas player, who was unavailable at times because he was playing in the Indian Premier League. Prince score his first century for Lancashire at the start of May during a match against Nottinghamshire. The knock came off 135 not out from 189 balls came on the final day of", "id": "12899038" }, { "contents": "Herbert Sutcliffe\n\n\nand 1926, Sutcliffe's skill was a primary factor in Yorkshire having the longest unbeaten run in county cricket: i.e., 70 matches without loss until early 1927. After three defeats in 1927, Yorkshire went a further 58 games without loss until 1929. The first four Tests of the 1926 England v Australia series were scheduled for just three days and were all curtailed by poor weather. The final Test at the Oval was timeless to ensure a finish. It has become one of the most famous matches in cricket history, not", "id": "18571331" }, { "contents": "Indian cricket team in England in 2011\n\n\nThe Indian cricket team toured England from 21 July to 16 September 2011. The tour consisted of one Twenty20 International (T20I), five One Day Internationals (ODIs) and four Test matches, as well as a number of matches against English county sides. The opening Test at Lord's was the 2,000th Test. England's victory in the Third Test put them number one in the world rankings. Virat Kohli, Pragyan Ojha and RP Singh replaced the injured Yuvraj Singh, Harbhajan Singh and Zaheer Khan, respectively, for the", "id": "4970296" }, { "contents": "Cricket in the British Isles\n\n\nIt played its first test match against Australia in 1877 and played its first One Day International (ODI) also againist Australia in 1971. One of the main cricket grounds in England, and also widely regarded as the spiritual home of cricket, is Lords Cricket Ground in London. Other major cricket grounds include The Oval (also in London), Edgbaston in Birmingham, Old Trafford in Manchester and Trent Bridge in Nottingham. From 1909 until 2017 England was the only country within the British Isles to have full membership of the ICC", "id": "17756246" }, { "contents": "Eton v Harrow\n\n\nplayed for Harrow in the four matches in 1822 to 1825, and arranged the first University Match at Lord's in 1827, two years before the first Boat Race. Many Eton and Harrow players went on to win blues at Oxford and Cambridge. Eton v Harrow was joined by the University Match and Gentlemen v Players as the three key features in the England cricket season. In its heyday, in the late 19th century and early 20th century, \"the School's day\" was one of the highlights of the London \"", "id": "10600897" }, { "contents": "Mathew Dimond\n\n\nMathew Dimond (born 24 September 1975) is a former English cricketer who made played for Somerset County Cricket Club between 1994 and 1997. Early in his career, he toured the West Indies with the England Under-19 cricket team, playing three Tests and one One Day International at Under-19 level. A right-arm fast-medium bowler, he made his first-class debut for Somerset in June 1994. Playing in the County Championship against Hampshire, Dimond claimed a solitary wicket in the match, which was shortened to single innings", "id": "558840" }, { "contents": "Charlie Charters\n\n\n’ Although the 2004 Islanders lost each of the three Test matches they played (29-14 v Wallabies, 41-26 v All Blacks and 24-38 v Springboks in Gosford, Australia), they scored 10 tries in three matches. By comparison that same southern hemisphere season, England and Scotland scored only three tries between them in their five Tests against the All Blacks and Wallabies. In fact, the 2004 Islanders scored more tries in one Test against the All Blacks (four) than the three tries the 2005", "id": "16741154" }, { "contents": "Australian cricket team in South Africa in 1993–94\n\n\nmatch by one run, levelling the ODI series at 4–4 with an \"improbable victory\". As well as the internationals, three first-class matches and two other matches were played during the tour The tour began with a friendly one-day match against NF Oppenheimer's XI, followed by a first-class match against Northern Transvaal and a one-day match against a representative side. Before the first Test match Australia played a first-class match against Orange Free State and between the first and second Tests they played", "id": "5209672" }, { "contents": "Bangladeshi cricket team in Zimbabwe in 2011\n\n\nThe Bangladesh cricket team toured Zimbabwe from 4 to 21 August 2011. The tour consisted of one Test match and five One Day Internationals (ODIs) played against the Zimbabwean national team and one first-class match played against a Zimbabwean representative team. The Test match was Zimbabwe's first since India toured Zimbabwe in 2005. Zimbabwe won the Test match by 130 runs and also won the one-day series 3–2. Bangladesh announced its squad for the Test match and ODI series on 15 July 2011. Zimbabwe announced its squad for", "id": "19159411" }, { "contents": "V. V. S. Laxman\n\n\nfrom international cricket. Although he was selected for the upcoming New Zealand series, he opted not to play in the series but he will play in domestic cricket for Hyderabad and the Indian Premier League . It was announced that the northern stand at the Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium will now be named after him. Laxman was particularly prolific against Australia, in both Tests and One Day Internationals. Six out of his 17 Test hundreds, and four out of his six ODI hundreds came against Australia. He has two double-centuries", "id": "9815623" }, { "contents": "3rd Battalion, 319th Field Artillery Regiment\n\n\nVII and another platoon to LZ Challenge from 3–5 July. Battery C located at FSB Rock near Bac Loc and conducted two 1-day raids on 11 & 13 June. Battery D located at LZ Lowboy, with 2 howitzers sent on Operation Red Thrust V in 5 days ending 2 May. On 12 July, Battery D displaced to support Battery A from FSB Hawkeye but returned to LZ Lowboy until 28 July, then occupied FSB Hunky. The battalion received three 105mm howitzers in May. In July, LTC John R. Martin replaced LTC Joseph", "id": "2060226" }, { "contents": "W. G. Grace in the 1878 English cricket season\n\n\nthis match attracted few spectators as it coincided with the Surrey v Australians match at The Oval, which drew very large crowds. \"Wisden Cricketers' Almanack\" commented that \"the Australians were attracting monster gatherings at The Oval on the days that this match was played, consequently very few visitors were at Lord's\". There were three North v South fixtures in June. The first two were played at Prince's Cricket Ground and Lord's with the South as the \"home\" team; the third took place at the", "id": "15478186" }, { "contents": "Third Test, 1948 Ashes series\n\n\nThe Third Test of the 1948 Ashes series was one of five Tests in a cricket series between teams representing Australia and England. The match was played at Old Trafford in Manchester from 8–13 July, with a rest day on 11 July. The match was drawn after the whole of the fourth day and the first half of the fifth day was washed out due to rain; England had the upper hand before the weather intervened. The draw maintained Australia's 2–0 lead in the series, which was established through victories in the first", "id": "497412" }, { "contents": "Giles Baring\n\n\n, Gresham's School, Holt, and Magdalene College, Cambridge. He represented Cambridge University in 1930 and 1931 and Hampshire between 1930 and 1939. Apart from more than fifty regular county championship games, he played in the Cambridge University v New Zealanders match of 3 June 1931, for the Gentlemen in the Gentlemen v Players matches of 2 September 1931 and 11 July 1934, for Hampshire in Hampshire v West Indians on 24 May 1933, for Hampshire in Hampshire v Australians on 23 May 1934, for Hampshire in Hampshire v South", "id": "9091807" }, { "contents": "2013–14 Bangladeshi cricket season\n\n\nand Mirpur. Both Test matches ended in draws, Bangladesh won all three One Day Internationals and New Zealand won the sole Twenty20 International. Sri Lanka toured Bangladesh in January and February 2014 playing two Test Matches, three One Day Internationals and two Twenty20 Internationals. Sri Lanka won every match, with the exception of the second Test match which ended in a draw. Initially it was planned that the NCL would be held in November and December 2013, the BCL in May and June 2014 and the BPL in December and January.", "id": "18068868" }, { "contents": "Darrell Hair\n\n\nby the ICC on 12 March 2008 and stood in the England v New Zealand tests at Old Trafford in May and Trent Bridge in June 2008. Hair umpired his first Test match in January 1992, between Australia and India in Adelaide. In 1994 the International Cricket Council (ICC) introduced a policy of appointing one umpire to each Test match from a non-participating country, and since 2002 both umpires have been appointed from non-participating nations. Since 2002 the majority of Hair’s Test matches have been played outside Australia", "id": "17469081" }, { "contents": "Timeline of events preceding World War II\n\n\n15 October 2 November 14 January February 6 March 7 March 25 May 5 June 3 July 17 August 1 October October 18 November 14 November 15 November 25 December 1 December 12 December 23 December 24 January 20 May 28 July 7 August 13 October 5 November 6 November 26 December 1 December 8 December 11 December 12 December 13 January 26 March 6 March 13 March 24 July 6–16 July 29 August September 27 September 30 October 5 November 7 November 9 January 25 January 27 March 14 March 15 March 16 March 20 March 21 March 23", "id": "6767331" }, { "contents": "South African cricket team in England in 1924\n\n\nThe South African cricket team toured England in the 1924 season to play a five-match Test series against England. England won the series 3-0 with 2 matches drawn. The tourists, with their ages on the first day of the first match of the tour on 3 May, were: George Parker (24) also played three first-class matches (including the first two Tests) and Aubrey Faulkner (42) played one match, the Third Test. The manager was George Allsop. South Africa's score", "id": "12941168" }, { "contents": "2018 English cricket season\n\n\ninternational sides toured England and Wales during the season: Pakistan, Australia and India. Pakistan also visited Ireland midway through the tour and played the Irish team's first Test match at Malahide near Dublin. In preparation for this match the Irish team played a first-class match against Somerset at Taunton in April. At the end of their tour Pakistan played two T20 matches in Scotland on 12 and 13 June. The England team played a One Day International (ODI) against Scotland in Edinburgh in June, losing to Scotland for", "id": "6929601" }, { "contents": "V. V. S. Laxman\n\n\n112 in the second test. This ensured his place on the tour of Australia which would be his third to that country. Laxman's good form continued in the 2007-08 Test series against Australia with him scoring 109 against Australia on the second day of the controversial Sydney Test to put India back into the contest. It was his 12th hundred in Test matches, and his 5th against Australia. It was also his third consecutive century at SCG, giving him an average well above 90 at the venue. He followed this", "id": "9815609" }, { "contents": "2019 Ashes series\n\n\nthree cricketers were named in Australia's squad for the 2019 Ashes. Meanwhile, England warmed up for the 2019 Ashes with a Test series earlier in the year against the West Indies and a one-off Test against Ireland in July. The tour of the West Indies comprised three matches and was won 2–1 by the West Indies. England also won the one-off Test against Ireland, by 143 runs. Ahead of the series, it was announced that Day 2 of the Lord’s Test would benefit the Ruth Strauss Foundation", "id": "18532603" }, { "contents": "V. V. S. Laxman\n\n\n1–1. He was awarded the Man of the Match for his match-winning innings of 96. His knock was voted as the best Test batting performance of the year by ESPNCricinfo. In three test matches, Laxman scored three consecutive fifties including two scores in eighties against the West Indies during India's tour of West Indies in June 2011. During India's Tour to England, Laxman scored just two half-centuries in eight innings as India went down 0–4 to England. This was India's first Test series loss since its", "id": "9815620" }, { "contents": "2014–15 Bangladeshi cricket season\n\n\nThe 2014–15 Bangladeshi cricket season featured tours of the country by Zimbabwe and Pakistan. Rangpur Division won the National Cricket League (NCL) championship title for the first time. Zimbabwe toured Bangladesh from 26 October to 1 December 2014, playing three Test matches and five One Day International matches. Bangladesh won the Test series 3–0 and the ODI series 5–0. Pakistan toured from 15 April to 10 May 2015, playing one Twenty20 International (T20I), three One Day Internationals (ODIs) and two Test matches. Pakistan won the Test", "id": "895026" }, { "contents": "Australia women's cricket team in England in 2019\n\n\nThe Australia women's cricket team toured England in June and July 2019 to play the England women's cricket team to contest the Women's Ashes. The tour consisted of three Women's One Day Internationals (WODIs), one Women's Test match and three Women's Twenty20 Internationals (WT20Is). A points-based system was used across all three formats of the tour. The Women's Ashes were held by Australia prior to the start of the series. Australia women won the WODI series 3–0, therefore taking a 6–0", "id": "15341273" }, { "contents": "Pakistani cricket team in England in 1962\n\n\nof three one-day games (not limited overs). The first two were drawn and the Pakistanis won the third one against Colonel Stevens' XI. These three matches were, in effect, warm-ups only and not first-class. The opening first-class fixture was against Worcestershire at New Road, starting on Wednesday, 2 May. The Pakistanis were given a foretaste of the Test series to come in that Tom Graveney scored a century for the home team (and was presented with his county cap immediately afterwards", "id": "12941094" }, { "contents": "New Zealand cricket team in Australia in 2015–16\n\n\nThe New Zealand cricket team toured Australia from 23 October to 1 December 2015 to play three Test matches and four tour matches. The third match of the series at the Adelaide Oval was the first ever day-night Test. Michael Hussey captained the Prime Minister's XI side for the tour match, and in preparation for the day-night Test, a pink ball was used in this game. Australia won the series 2–0, with victories in Brisbane and Adelaide, with the second Test in Perth being drawn. Following the", "id": "1307472" }, { "contents": "Kennington\n\n\nThe Kia Oval\", is the home ground for Surrey County Cricket Club and hosts the final Test match of the English summer season. The Oval was the first ground in the United Kingdom to host Test cricket, was the location for the England v Scotland representative matches, the first ever international football match, the first FA Cup final in 1872, and held the second ever rugby union international match between England and Scotland in 1872. England's unfortunate performance against Australia here in 1882 gave rise to The Ashes. The Oval", "id": "10346916" }, { "contents": "Indian cricket team in Zimbabwe in 2001\n\n\nThe Indian cricket team toured Zimbabwe from 28 May to 7 July 2001 and played two Test matches against Zimbabwe, with each team winning one game match. This would be Zimbabwe's only Test victory over a side other than Bangladesh until they beat Pakistan in the second Test in 2013. India and Zimbabwe also participated in a triangular One Day International (ODI) competition with West Indies, with the latter eventually winning the competition. The Coca-Cola Cup was a One Day International (ODI) tournament that followed the Test series", "id": "4099650" }, { "contents": "Andrew Balbirnie\n\n\nHe played three further One Day International's during the tournament. He made his Twenty20 International debut against Scotland on 19 June 2015, although no play was possible due to rain. He was part of the Ireland A team which toured Bangladesh in October 2017 to play one first-class match and five limited overs matches against the Bangladesh A team. In May 2018, he was named in a fourteen-man squad for Ireland's first ever Test match, which was played against Pakistan later the same month. He made his", "id": "2597279" }, { "contents": "Pakistani cricket team in Scotland in 2018\n\n\nThe Pakistan cricket team toured Scotland to play two Twenty20 International (T20I) matches at The Grange Club, Edinburgh, on 12 and 13 June 2018. Pakistan last toured Scotland in May 2013 to play two One Day Internationals. Both teams last met in a T20I fixture in the group stage of the 2007 ICC World Twenty20 tournament. This was the first time that Scotland had played a home T20I match against a full member side. The tour followed Pakistan's tour of England and their one Test series in Ireland. England also", "id": "373509" }, { "contents": "2017 June rugby union tests\n\n\n2 sides. Australia, the only southern hemisphere Tier 1 nation not to host a test series, staged three one-off test matches; Scotland, Italy and Fiji. The Fijian test was the first between the two sides in Australia since 2010, and was also the first Australia v Tier 2 nation match in Australia since Samoa visited in 2011. Fiji also played host to Italy and Scotland to become the second Tier 2 nation to play three back-back Tier 1 sides during an international window, after Samoa participated in", "id": "13232867" }, { "contents": "Timeline of the 2014 Pacific hurricane season\n\n\nJune 11 June 12 June 13 June 14 June 15 June 28 June 30 July 1 July 2 July 3 July 6 July 7 July 9 July 17 July 18 July 19 July 25 July 26 July 27 July 28 July 29 July 31 August 1 August 2 August 3 August 4 August 5 August 6 August 7 August 8 August 9 August 10 August 12 August 13 August 14 August 15 August 17 August 18 August 21 August 22 August 23 August 24 August 25 August 26 August 27 August 28 August 29 September 2 September 4 September 6", "id": "2400921" } ]

[ { "contents": "Sri Lankan cricket team in England in 2014\n\n\nThe Sri Lanka national cricket team toured England from 13 May to 24 June 2014 for a Twenty20 International (T20I), five One Day Internationals (ODIs) and two Test matches against the England cricket team. They also played three one-day and one four-day tour matches against English county sides, as well as preceding the entire tour with a two-match ODI series against Ireland. Sri Lanka won the Test series 1–0 (the first time they had won a Test series in England), the ODI series", "id": "21939883" }, { "contents": "New Zealand cricket team in England in 2015\n\n\nThe New Zealand national cricket team toured England from 8 May to 23 June 2015 for two Test matches, five One Day Internationals (ODIs) and a Twenty20 International (T20I) against the England cricket team. They also played two four-day tour matches and a one-day match against English county sides. England won the first Test at Lord's before New Zealand claimed victory in the second Test at Headingley to level the series. England then took an early lead in the ODI series after hitting more than 400 runs", "id": "943447" }, { "contents": "Australian cricket team in England and Ireland in 2015\n\n\nThe Australia national cricket team toured England from June to September 2015 for a five-match Test series, five One Day International (ODI) matches and one Twenty20 International (T20I). The Test series was for the Ashes. They also played two four-day and two three-day first-class matches against English county sides. Australia also played one ODI against Ireland in Belfast. On 31 March 2015, Australia announced a 17-man touring party for the Ashes series. England announced their squad for the first Test on", "id": "1657670" }, { "contents": "David Constant\n\n\n67 first-class appearances. In total he scored 1,517 first-class runs at a batting average of 19.20 with a highest score of 80. Tony Lewis described his innings against Glamorgan on a difficult pitch at Leicester in 1965 as \"one of the bravest innings I ever saw\". His first Test as umpire was the Third Test between England and Pakistan in July 1971. He last stood in an international cricket match in the England v. Australia One Day International at The Oval, London in June 2001. He was the", "id": "14539375" }, { "contents": "Pakistani cricket team in Sri Lanka in 2015\n\n\nThe Pakistan cricket team toured Sri Lanka from 11 June to 1 August 2015. The tour consisted of a three-day tour match against a SLCB President's XI, three Test matches, five One Day International and two Twenty20 International matches. The third Test was originally scheduled to be played at the R Premadasa Stadium, but was changed to the Pallekele International Cricket Stadium in early May. Pakistan outplayed the hosts in all forms of the game by winning the Test series 2–1, the ODI series 3–2 and the T20I series 2–0.", "id": "15080177" }, { "contents": "2010 in American music\n\n\n17 March 22 March 23 March 26 March 30 April 6 April 8 April 13 April 19 April 20 April 21 April 27 April 30 May 4 May 11 May 14 May 17 May 18 May 21 May 25 May 31 June 1 June 8 June 14 June 15 June 18 June 21 June 22 June 28 June 29 July 6 July 7 July 12 July 13 July 15 July 20 July 23 July 25 July 27 July 29 August 3 August 17 August 24 August 31 September 7 September 14 September 21 September 23 September 28 October 5 October", "id": "18556206" }, { "contents": "Warwickshire County Cricket Club\n\n\nand gold and the shirt sponsor is Gullivers Sports Travel. The club's home is Edgbaston Cricket Ground in south Birmingham, which regularly hosts Test and One Day International matches. Cricket may have reached Warwickshire by the end of the 17th century. The \"Warwickshire & Staffordshire Journal\" was certainly aware of the sport in 1738 for it carried a report of a London v Mitcham game at the Artillery Ground on 11 August (London won by 1 wicket). The earliest confirmed reference to cricket in the county is a match announcement", "id": "8941185" }, { "contents": "Irish cricket team in England in 2019\n\n\nThe Ireland cricket team toured England in July 2019 to play a one-off four-day Test match at Lord's. It was the first Test match to be played between the two sides, and was England's first four-day Test match since they toured New Zealand in 1971. It was Ireland's third Test match, and their twelfth international fixture against England. The Test match was part of England's preparations for the 2019 Ashes series. Ahead of the Test, the England cricket team visited Ireland in May", "id": "16268672" }, { "contents": "1919 English cricket season\n\n\n(five wins from fourteen) and Warwickshire were bottom with 7.14% (one win from fourteen). The 1919 County Championship was the 26th since the competition acquired official status in 1890. The opening matches began on Friday, 16 May. These were Middlesex v Nottinghamshire at Lord's and the 1914 (reigning) champions Surrey against Somerset at The Oval. The final match between Essex and Surrey at Leyton was completed on Monday, 1 September. The situation between Yorkshire and Kent on Saturday, 30 August (the second day in", "id": "7320450" }, { "contents": "Timeline of the 2013 Pacific hurricane season\n\n\n15 May 16 May 17 May 28 May 29 May 30 June 1 June 23 June 24 June 25 June 26 June 27 June 29 June 30 July 2 July 3 July 4 July 5 July 6 July 7 July 9 July 25 July 27 July 30 July 31 August 2 August 3 August 4 August 6 August 7 August 8 August 9 August 11 August 16 August 18 August 19 August 20 August 22 August 23 August 24 August 25 August 28 August 29 August 30 August 31 September 1 September 2 September 5 September 6 September 7 September", "id": "957237" }, { "contents": "Prince's Cricket Ground\n\n\nas 'grand and quick and one of the finest playing grounds in England'. The first match played on the ground was Household Brigade v. Lords and Commons on 3 June 1871. Middlesex County Cricket Club used the ground between 1872 and 1876 and played their first match on 23–25 May 1872 against Yorkshire. The ground was also used by South of England and by Gentlemen of the South. Several Gentlemen v Players fixtures were also played there, the first taking place in July 1873. In 1878, the touring Australians played two", "id": "19086180" }, { "contents": "Callum Jackson\n\n\nSussex youth ranks, playing at under-13, under-14, under-15 and under-17 level before joining the second XI as a 16-year-old in 2011. He was selected to represent an English Schools Cricket Association XI in 2011 before making his first appearance for the Sussex first XI on 1 May 2012 in a non-first-class match against the Leeds/Bradford MCC Universities team. In early 2013, Jackson was selected for the England under-19 side to tour South Africa, where he played in both Youth Test matches and three One Day", "id": "16290826" }, { "contents": "2018 English cricket season\n\n\nHurricane Irma and Hurricane Maria in September 2017. Pakistan played two Test matches against England at Lord's and Headingley at the end of May and beginning of June. The series was drawn, each side winning one match. Ahead of the Tests, two first-class matches were played against Kent and Northants. Their match against Ireland took place after the two first-class county matches, and a two-day match was played against Leicestershire between this and the first Test against England. Pakistan won the first Test match by", "id": "6929603" }, { "contents": "1963 in Norwegian football\n\n\nResults from Norwegian football in 1963. April 26 April 28 May 3 May 4 May 5 May 11 May 12 May 30 May 19 May 22 May 23 May 26 May 27 June 7 June 8 June 9 June 14 June 15 June 16 June 22 June 23 June 24 July 26 July 28 July 29 August 2 August 4 August 6 August 17 August 18 August 21 August 22 August 24 August 25 September 7 September 8 September 20 September 22 October 4 October 6 October 13 Årstad promoted Nidelv promoted Harstad - Bodø/Glimt 4 -", "id": "20433032" }, { "contents": "West Indian cricket team in England in 1991\n\n\nThe West Indian cricket team in England in 1991 played three one day internationals and five Tests, under the captaincy of Viv Richards, as part of an extensive tour in which they also played first-class matches against 11 first-class county teams, the combined Minor Counties, the Combined Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, and a World XI to finish, plus 55-over one-day matches against one more first-class county (Gloucestershire) and the Duchess of Norfolk's Invitation XI. Of the non-international matches,", "id": "5157419" }, { "contents": "West Indian cricket team in England in 2007\n\n\nThe West Indian cricket team toured England from 12 May to 7 July 2007 as part of the 2007 English cricket season. The tour included four Tests, two Twenty20 international matches and three One Day Internationals. While England dominated the Test series 3–0, including a record victory over the West Indies, the latter took the ODI series 2:1. In the ICC Test Championship, England are ranked second and West Indies are ranked eighth, though England's most recent series was a whitewash loss in the Ashes against Australia for the first time", "id": "12941423" }, { "contents": "Sri Lankan cricket team in the West Indies in 2018\n\n\nOn 19 May 2018, Cricket West Indies (CWI) announced that they may scrap one of the Test fixtures, replacing it with a couple of one-day matches. However, the day before the first Test, the International Cricket Council (ICC) confirmed that it would be a three-match Test series. Prior to the start of day three of the second Test, the Sri Lankan cricket team protested against umpires' decision on starting the third day's play with a new ball, replacing the old ball.", "id": "19622271" }, { "contents": "Timeline of the 2017 Pacific hurricane season\n\n\ncyclone formations, strengthening, weakening, landfalls, extratropical transitions, and dissipations during the season. May 9 May 10 May 11 May 12 May 15 May 31 June 1 June 2 June 11 June 12 June 13 June 24 June 25 June 26 June 27 June 28 July 1 July 7 July 8 July 9 July 10 July 11 July 12 July 13 July 14 July 15 July 16 July 17 July 18 July 19 July 20 July 21 July 22 July 23 July 24 July 25 July 26 July 27 July 28 July 31 August 1", "id": "7169450" }, { "contents": "Daniel Bell-Drummond\n\n\nmade his youth Test debut on 21 July 2010 at the County Ground, Northampton before scoring unbeaten 88 in the second youth Test later in the same month, aged only 16. He played in both under-19 Test matches and in four youth one-day international matches during England's return tour of Sri Lanka in January and February 2011. In July 2011 Bell-Drummond played in a one-day series against South Africa under-19s. He top-scored for England in three of the seven matches in the series and was the", "id": "6732560" }, { "contents": "1967 in Norwegian football\n\n\nResults from Norwegian football in 1967. April 27 April 28 April 30 May 4 May 6 May 7 May 10 May 11 May 15 May 16 May 18 May 19 May 20 May 21 May 22 June 22 May 25 May 28 June 4 June 10 June 11 June 12 June 13 June 18 June 19 July 30 July 31 August 2 August 6 August 7 August 9 August 10 August 20 August 16 August 20 August 21 September 7 September 10 September 16 September 17 October 6 October 8 October 9 October 12 October 15 October 20 October", "id": "2081596" }, { "contents": "Phil Carlson\n\n\nPhillip Henry Carlson (born 8 August 1951, Nundah, Queensland) is a former Australian cricketer who played in two Tests and four One Day Internationals (ODIs) in 1979. Carlson was an all-rounder who played for Queensland between 1969–70 and 1980–81. He played two Test matches for Australia v England in 1978–79 Ashes series and four One Day Internationals against the same opponents. He was called up by Australia when most of their regular first-choice players were playing in World Series Cricket. Carlson took two Test wickets and", "id": "11409623" }, { "contents": "1962 in Norwegian football\n\n\nResults from Norwegian football in 1962. July 30 August 2 August 3 August 9 August 8 August 13 August 16 August 20 August 21 September 2 September 3 Ørn - Brann 0 - 7 September 24 September 28 October 1 October 15 April 25 October 6 October 8 April 29 May 6 May 12 May 13 May 14 May 20 May 21 May 23 May 24 May 27 May 30 May 31 June 3 June 15 June 16 June 17 June 24 June 25 June 30 July 1 July 29 August 1 August 2 August 4 August 5 August", "id": "9107175" }, { "contents": "Alan Igglesden\n\n\nAlan Paul Igglesden (born 8 October 1964) is a former English Test cricketer. He played three Test Matches and four One Day Internationals (ODIs) for the England cricket team between 1989 and 1994 as a fast bowler. He played most of his first-class cricket career for Kent County Cricket Club. Igglesden was born in Farnborough, London in 1964. He first played for Kent County Cricket Club's Second XI in 1983 before making his first-class cricket debut of the county in July 1986 against Somerset at Maidstone", "id": "8795795" }, { "contents": "Sri Lankan cricket team in England and Ireland in 2016\n\n\nThe Sri Lanka national cricket team toured England from 8 May to 5 July 2016 for a three-match Test series, a five-match One Day International (ODI) series and a one-off Twenty20 International (T20I) against the England cricket team. England won the Test series 2–0, the ODI series 3–0 and won the one-off T20I match by 8 wickets. They also played two first-class matches against Essex and Leicestershire prior to the Test series, and two ODI matches against Ireland prior to the", "id": "15635062" }, { "contents": "South African cricket team in England in 2008\n\n\nThe South African cricket team toured England between 29 June and 4 September 2008. They played four Test matches, one Twenty20 International and five One Day Internationals against England. They also played six tour matches against Somerset, Middlesex, Bangladesh A, a PCA Masters XI and two against the England Lions. It was announced that following the conclusion of this four-match series, future matches between England and South Africa would comprise five Test matches but only three one-day matches after the series was granted 'icon' status.", "id": "18079110" }, { "contents": "2018 English cricket season\n\n\nthe first time in an ODI. The South African women's team also toured England to play three One Day International matches against the England women's cricket team in June and to compete in the 2018 England women's Tri-Nation Series Twenty20 competition against England and New Zealand. New Zealand then played three One Day Internationals against England in July. In addition the West Indies men's side played a single Twenty20 International against a Rest of the World XI team at Lord's in May 2018 to raise funds for stadiums damaged by", "id": "6929602" }, { "contents": "American Rally Association\n\n\nWood Rally March 15 - 16 Olympus Rally April 27 - 28 Oregon Trail Rally May 31 - June 2 Idaho Rally International June 22 - 23 New England Forest Rally July 19 - 20 Muscatell Ojibwe Forests Rally August 23 - 24 Susquehannock Trail Performance Rally September 13 - 14 Lake Superior Performance Rally October 18 - 19 2019 ARA Super Regional Events Southern Ohio Forest Rally May 16 - 18 Rally Colorado July 26 - 27 Tour de Forest Rally September 21, 2019 Empire State Performance Rally October 25 - 26 2019 ARA One-Day Regional", "id": "6404348" }, { "contents": "Pakistani cricket team in England and Ireland in 2016\n\n\nThe Pakistan national cricket team toured England and Ireland from 3 July to 7 September 2016 for a four-match Test series, a five-match One Day International (ODI) series and a one-off Twenty20 International (T20I) against the England cricket team. They also played two three-day matches against Somerset and Sussex prior to the Test series, a two-day match against Worcestershire during the Test series, and two ODI matches against Ireland prior to the ODI series. England's ODI matches against Pakistan was", "id": "15635130" }, { "contents": "Second Test, 1948 Ashes series\n\n\nThe Second Test of the 1948 Ashes series was one of five Tests in a cricket series between Australia and England. The match was played at Lord's in London from 24 to 29 June, with a rest day on 27 June. Australia won the match by 409 runs to take a 2–0 lead, meaning that England would need to win the remaining three matches to regain The Ashes. Australian captain Don Bradman won the toss and elected to bat. The tourists had won the First Test convincingly, and decided to field the", "id": "497516" }, { "contents": "MCC v Australians at Lord's, 27 May 1878\n\n\nin England, the team left Sydney on 29 March 1878 and sailed via Auckland and Honolulu to San Francisco, from where they travelled across America by train to New York City. They crossed the Atlantic, arriving in Liverpool on 13 May, and then went by train to Nottingham where they played their first match, starting on Monday, 20 May. This was a three-day match against Nottinghamshire at Trent Bridge and the Australians were well beaten by an innings and 14 runs, an inauspicious start which dampened much of the public", "id": "16383632" }, { "contents": "Australian women's cricket team in England in 2013\n\n\nThe Australian women's cricket team toured England in 2013. The visitors were defending the Women's Ashes. The only Test match of the tour took place on 11–14 August at Wormsley Park, and was drawn. Three One-Day Internationals (ODIs) were played: the first at Lord's on 20 August, and the other two at Hove on 23 and 25 August. Also three Twenty20 International (T20I) matches were played, on 27, 29 and 31 August, at Chelmsford, Southampton and Chester-le-", "id": "19064429" }, { "contents": "South African cricket team in England in 2017\n\n\nThe South African cricket team toured England and Wales between May and August 2017, playing three One Day Internationals (ODIs), three Twenty20 Internationals (T20Is) and four Test matches. The ODI matches were in preparation for the 2017 ICC Champions Trophy, which took place in England and Wales during June. Extra security was provided to South Africa for the ODI series following the Manchester bombing. England won the ODI series 2–1 and the T20 series 2–1. Ahead of the ODI series, South Africa played one-day warm-", "id": "1555384" }, { "contents": "1Malaysia Development Berhad scandal\n\n\n- 30 September onwards October 20 November 25 December 1 December 5 December 31 2016 January 26 January 29 February 1 February 3 February 7 February 19 February 29 March 23 March 31 April 2 April 5 April 7 April 9 April 12 April 13 April 19 April 28 May 24 May 31 July 11 1MDB agrees to resolve its dispute with International Petroleum Investment Company via the London Court of International Arbitration. July 21 August 9 October 11 December 2 2017 March 22 April 24 May 30 June 15 June 16 August 1 August 2 August 11 August", "id": "14280441" }, { "contents": "Timeline of events preceding World War II\n\n\nJune 30 September 14 May 19 September 18 September 19 January 7 January 28 February 27 March 1 April 10 May 30 August 30 November 21 December 3 January 1 January 30 February 27 February 28 March 4 March 20 March 23 March 24 March 27 April 1 April 26 May 2 May 15 May 31 June 21 July 14 August 25 September 12 October 19 November 24 January 26 February 12–16 March 20 June 30 July 20 July 25 August 2 August 8 September October 16 December 1 December 5 December 29 January 7 June 18 August 31 September", "id": "6767330" }, { "contents": "Timeline of the 2018 Pacific hurricane season\n\n\ntropical cyclone formations, strengthening, weakening, landfalls, extratropical transitions, and dissipations during the season. May 10 May 11 May 13 May 15 June 1 June 6 June 7 June 8 June 9 June 10 June 11 June 12 June 13 June 14 June 15 June 16 June 17 June 19 June 24 June 25 June 26 June 27 June 28 June 29 June 30 July 1 July 2 July 3 July 4 July 5 July 6 July 9 July 26 July 27 July 28 July 29 July 31 August 1 August 2 August 3 August", "id": "21166816" }, { "contents": "English cricket team in Australia in 2017–18\n\n\nThe England cricket team toured Australia between November 2017 and February 2018 to play five Tests and five One Day Internationals (ODIs). They also played in a three nation Twenty20 International (T20I) tournament, along with New Zealand, who co-hosted the tournament along with Australia. England additionally played two first-class matches, a two-day tour match and a one-day tour match against Cricket Australia XI, as well as a Twenty20 against the Prime Minister's XI. The Test matches made up the 2017–18", "id": "21532277" }, { "contents": "Timeline of events preceding World War II\n\n\nApril 16 August 13 October October 11 October 29 November 1 January 11 June July 24 August 31 September 27 October 29 November 8 January 21 February 1 March 16 April 1 April 6 June 10 August 16 August 18 May 12 July 18 December 1 January 3 January 31 April 4 April 24 September 8 December 25 April 12 May 20 June 7 November 12 December 14 May 3 May 28 June 4 August 2 August 27 October 1 February 9 February 11 March 4 March 28 April 3 June 7 July 24 August 31 October 29 April 22", "id": "6767329" }, { "contents": "W. G. Grace in the 1878 English cricket season\n\n\nNewcastle upon Tyne, Bolton and Birmingham to play odds games against local opposition. Grace took 21 wickets in the match against the 22 men of Melton Mowbray in a three-day match starting on Monday, 1 July. He scored 42 and 57 not out in his two innings, the match ending in a draw. Grace caught the evening train to be in London ready for the first Gentlemen v Players match at The Oval, starting on Thursday, 4 July. The next USEE match at Leeds Holbeck followed the second Gentlemen", "id": "15478205" }, { "contents": "List of accidents and incidents involving military aircraft (1950–1954)\n\n\n12 December 19 December 23 December 10 January 11 January 15 January 21 January 28 January 31 January 14 February 13 March 14 March 17 March 23 March 3 April 5 April 5 April 8 April 25 April 27 April 6 May 18 May 19 May 8 June 13 June 15 June 18 June 23 June 23 June 30 June 8 July 31 July Summer 13 August 18 August 21 August 22 August 26 August 27 August 16 September 29 September 15 October 11 November 13 November 19 November 27 November 3 December 7 December 21 December 12 January 15", "id": "21637229" }, { "contents": "Lord's\n\n\nbe switched off by 11 pm. The floodlights were first used successfully on 27 May 2009 during the Twenty20 Cup match between Middlesex and Kent. Lord's hosts Test matches, one-day internationals, some Middlesex home matches, MCC matches and (starting with a fixture between Middlesex and Surrey in July 2004) some of Middlesex's home Twenty20 games. Lord's typically hosts two Tests every summer plus two one-day internationals. Lord's also plays host to the finals of the National Village Cricket Competition, the MCC Universities", "id": "10760657" }, { "contents": "2011 in American music\n\n\nThe following is a list of notable events and releases that happened in 2011 in music in the United States. January 11 January 17 January 18 January 21 January 25 January 31 February 1 February 8 February 15 February 22 March 1 March 8 March 15 March 22 March 29 April 5 April 11 April 12 April 26 May 3 May 10 May 17 May 23 May 24 May 31 June 7 June 14 June 21 June 28 July 5 July 8 July 12 July 13 July 19 July 26 August 2 August 8 August 9 August 16 August", "id": "15423555" }, { "contents": "MCC v Australians at Lord's, 27 May 1878\n\n\nenthusiasm that their visit had generated. The Australians were next due to play Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) in a three-day match at Lord's, commencing on Monday, 27 May. In the meantime, Charles Bannerman and Billy Midwinter were invited to visit Dublin and play for the United South of England Eleven (USEE) against 15 past and present players of Dublin University. This was due to be played over three days, starting on Thursday, 23 May, at College Park. The USEE was captained by W. G.", "id": "16383633" }, { "contents": "West Indian cricket team in England in 1928\n\n\nreach three figures. As at Lord's and Old Trafford, the match was over before lunch on the third day. Including the three Tests, 30 first-class matches were played on the tour, plus six other games. The West Indians won just seven of these 36 matches (five of the first-class games) and lost 12. By the end of May, the touring side had won matches against Derbyshire and Cambridge University, plus a minor match against Northumberland, and had drawn all the other games.", "id": "12941340" }, { "contents": "Bob Willis\n\n\n26 August against Worcestershire's Seconds. Willis, 19 years of age, took one wicket for 48 runs in the first innings, and bowled four wicketless overs in the second. He was not called on to bat at all. Two days later, he faced Glamorgan and took three wickets. He played several further Second XI matches through May and June 1969, before his first-class debut on 6 August. Scotland was touring England that season and had already beaten Warwickshire. Willis took three wickets for 13 runs from 13", "id": "16238759" }, { "contents": "Rock in Rio\n\n\n5 July 6 May 21 / 82.000 May 22 / 45.000 May 27 / 85.000 May 29 / 95.000 May 30 / 38.000 June 4 / 51.000 June 5 / 85.000 June 6 / 90.000 June 11 / 30.000 June 14 / 48.000 Rock in Rio Lisboa V Rock in Rio Lisboa VII Rock in Rio Lisboa VIII June 24 sold out almost three months prior to the festival. \"Rock in Rio USA\" was the first North American edition of the festival, being held in Las Vegas on May 8, 9, 15 and 16", "id": "11140715" }, { "contents": "Indian cricket team in Sri Lanka in 2015\n\n\nThe Indian cricket team toured Sri Lanka from 6 August to 1 September 2015 to play a tour match and three Test matches. On 27 June, Sri Lankan batsman Kumar Sangakkara said he would retire from international cricket after the second Test of the series. The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) and Sri Lanka Cricket Board confirmed the schedule of India's tour to Sri Lanka in August to September 2015. The tour started with a three-day warm-up game against Sri Lanka Board President's XI,", "id": "22038367" }, { "contents": "Andy Cottam\n\n\nAndrew Colin Cottam (born 14 July 1973 in Northampton, England) was an English cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman and a left-arm slow bowler. He played in 2 Under-19 Tests in 1992 and 13 first-class matches between 1992 and 1996. His father is the cricketer and coach Bob Cottam. In 1990 Andy Cottam started playing for Somerset Second XI and Devon. In 1992 he was selected for Under-19's tour of Pakistan and played in the Third Test and 2 one-day matches against Pakistan", "id": "2981363" }, { "contents": "Lord's\n\n\n. The hundredth Lord's Test match was in 2000, England v West Indies. As of 25 August 2010 England have played 119 Test matches at Lord's, winning 45, losing 28 and drawing 46. Lord's often hosts two Test matches each summer, one match for each visiting team. In 2010, the ground hosted three Test matches: as well as England's matches against Bangladesh and Pakistan, a Test match between Australia and Pakistan was held there in July. Lord's was the venue of the 2000th test", "id": "10760663" }, { "contents": "Australian cricket team in Sri Lanka in 2016\n\n\nThe Australian cricket team toured Sri Lanka from 18 July to 9 September 2016 to play three Test matches, five One Day Internationals (ODIs), two Twenty20 Internationals (T20Is) matches and a first-class practice match. The Test series was played for Warne-Muralitharan Trophy, with Sri Lanka winning 3–0, their first ever series whitewash against Australia. As a result, Australia slipped from first to third in the ICC Test Championship; Sri Lanka, who had started the series ranked seventh, moved up to sixth.", "id": "14912886" }, { "contents": "South African cricket team in Australia in 2005–06\n\n\nThe South African cricket team toured Australia for cricket matches during the 2005–06 season. South Africa had already played two One Day International series during this season, beating New Zealand 4–0 at home before travelling to India and drawing the series there 2–2. The team had been playing 14 successive ODIs (tour matches excluded) before arriving in Australia, with their last Test match against West Indies in April and May 2005. South Africa played one first class warm-up match, one three-day warm-up match without first class", "id": "19860549" }, { "contents": "Peter Lever\n\n\n6/38, before his final Test ended on 5 August 1975 during another Ashes tour, Australia facing England at Lord's. Lever also played ten One Day Internationals, including the 1975 Cricket World Cup, taking 11 wickets but scoring only 17 runs. His ODI debut was also against Australia, at Melbourne on 5 January 1971, and his last match was at Headingley, Leeds, again against Australia, on 18 June 1975. This gives Lever the unusual distinction of having played both his debut, and last match, against Australia", "id": "17765992" }, { "contents": "Australian women's cricket team in England in 2009\n\n\nThe Australian women's cricket team toured England between 25 June and 13 July 2009, playing one Test match, five One Day Internationals and a Twenty20 International. Australia won the Twenty20 International, while England won the One Day International series 4–0. The Test match, which was for the Women's Ashes, was drawn; ensuring that England retained them. Prior to the series, both sides took part in the 2009 ICC Women's World Twenty20, which was also held in England in June. England won the tournament, in", "id": "13250607" }, { "contents": "List of accidents and incidents involving military aircraft (1950–1954)\n\n\nJanuary 31 January 7 February 18 March 21 April 24 April May 11 May 12 May 15 May 9 June 11 June 13 June 17 June 18 June 21 June 15 July 17 July 30 July 6 August 6 August 12 August 23 August 26 August 30 August 5 September 9 September 9 September 9 September 11 September 19 September 19 September 25 September 1 October 1 October 7 October 8 October 8 October 11 October 13 October 14 October 17 October 18 October 19 October 20 October 22 October 26 October 2 November 8 November 17 November 23 November", "id": "21637231" }, { "contents": "Follow-on\n\n\n, and gave England a slender lead of 129. The next day a fired-up Bob Willis took 8 for 43, and Australia slumped to 111 all out. Australia, who had won their 16 previous Test matches, including the first of the three-Test series between the two teams, had scored 445 in the first innings of the second Test and restricted India to 171; only V. V. S. Laxman (59) and Rahul Dravid reached 25 runs. The only other bright spot for India was the bowling of", "id": "1078812" }, { "contents": "West Indian cricket team in England in 2017\n\n\nThe West Indies cricket team toured England in August and September 2017 to play three Test matches competing for the Wisden Trophy, one Twenty20 International (T20I) and five One Day Internationals (ODIs). Ahead of the Test series, the West Indies played first-class warm-up matches against Derbyshire, Essex and Kent. They also played a two-day match against Leicestershire, as they did not get to the final of the 2017 NatWest t20 Blast. In October 2016 the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB)", "id": "1555387" }, { "contents": "England women's national rugby league team\n\n\nCup - WIN v France WIN v Russia | LOSS v Australia LOSS v New Zealand WIN v Pacific Islands 2009 International Tests - 25 July | France 8-28 England; France 0-36 England 2010 International Tests - 9 November | England 36-8 France 10 November | New Zealand 44-6 England 16 November | New Zealand 38-6 England 2011 International Tests - 2 July | France 6-36 England 6 July | France 4-42 England 2012 International Test - 15 June | England 48-0 France", "id": "9166568" }, { "contents": "International cricket\n\n\n, One-Day and Twenty20 matches take place in the form of \"tours\". In a tour, one nation travels to another and plays warm-up matches, which may be first-class matches, against domestic teams such as county or state teams, a series of Test matches against the host nation, and either a series of One-Day (ODi) and T20 matches against the host nation or a tournament involving the host nation and another touring nation. Tours may include Test, ODI and T20I matches", "id": "6028418" }, { "contents": "West Indian cricket team in England in 2000\n\n\nThe West Indies cricket team toured England in the 2000 cricket season. West Indies played five Tests against England - two in June and three in August - with a triangular One Day International (ODI) series involving Zimbabwe in July. In June, West Indies won the 1st Test at Edgbaston convincingly, before England narrowly won the 2nd Test at Lord's, having bowled West Indies out for 54 in their second innings. The ODI series, sponsored by NatWest, took place in July, with England, West Indies and Zimbabwe", "id": "12941417" }, { "contents": "First Test, 1948 Ashes series\n\n\nThe First Test of the 1948 Ashes series was one of five Tests in a cricket series between Australia and England. The match was played at Trent Bridge in Nottingham from 10 to 15 June with a rest day on 13 June. Australia won the match by eight wickets to take a 1–0 series lead. The Australians started the match as firm favourites, having won the previous series against England 3–0; in the lead-up to the 1948 series, they had won 10 of their 12 tour matches in England, mostly by", "id": "497621" }, { "contents": "Giles Baring\n\n\nAfricans on 22 May 1935, for Hampshire in Hampshire v Australians on 25 May 1938, and for H. D. G. Leveson Gowers XI v Australian Services on 7 July 1945. He played for Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) between 1935 and 1946, and his last first-class game was in the MCC v Cambridge University match on 29 June 1946. Baring was a right-arm fast bowler and also a right-hand batsman. As a bowler, he took 197 wickets for 5,607 runs, an average of 28.46.", "id": "9091808" }, { "contents": "Herbert Sutcliffe's cricket career (1919–27)\n\n\nWaddington in 1925. Arthur Mitchell was still a reserve and Cyril Turner made his first-class debut. The first four Tests of the 1926 England v Australia series were scheduled for just three days and were all curtailed by poor weather. The final Test at The Oval was timeless to ensure a finish. It has become one of the most famous matches in cricket history, not because England regained The Ashes for the first time since 1912 but for the manner it which it was achieved as Hobbs and Sutcliffe produced their most famous", "id": "18930780" }, { "contents": "Günther Lützow\n\n\nfighter destroyed. Two days later, he destroyed three aircraft, two SB-2 bombers and a Petlyakov Pe-2 ground attack aircraft. On 27 June, he shot down an Ilyushin DB-3 bomber followed by another Pe-2 on the following day, his last victory of June 1941. Following a DB-3 bomber claimed on 7 July, Lützow was credited with four aerial victories on 10 July, consisting of one Vultee V-11 attack aircraft and three I-153s. The next day he claimed an II-16. On 15 July he shot down two further I-16s and another", "id": "3340503" }, { "contents": "1966 in Norwegian football\n\n\nResults from Norwegian football in 1966. April 22 April 24 April 27 May 19 April 30 May 1 May 6 May 7 May 8 May 15 May 19 May 22 May 23 May 27 May 28 May 30 May 31 June 3 June 4 June 5 June 15 June 16 June 19 June 20 July 31 August 3 August 6 August 7 August 8 August 24 August 17 August 27 August 28 September 11 September 22 September 23 September 24 October 9 October 15 October 16 October 17 October 23 July 31 August 1 August 2 August 3 Rematch", "id": "21974049" }, { "contents": "Headingley Cricket Ground\n\n\nwickets each. Donald Bradman's innings of 334 in the 1930 Ashes Test included 309 runs on the first day, and he followed it in the Australians' next test at Headingley in 1934 with an innings of 304. Spinner Hedley Verity took 10 wickets for 10 runs in 1932 for Yorkshire v Nottinghamshire, still the best bowling analysis ever in first-class cricket. Verity had also taken all ten against Warwickshire at Headingley in 1931. In the 1948 Ashes series, Australia scored 404 for three on the last day to beat", "id": "11240346" }, { "contents": "List of international awards of Rohit Sharma\n\n\nRohit Sharma is an Indian international cricketer. He made his international cricket debut in June 2007. He has scored twenty-nine centuries in international cricket; three in Tests, twenty-two in One Day Internationals (ODI) and four in Twenty20 International (T20Is). As of July 2019, Sharma has played 27 Tests, 215 One Day Internationals and 94 Twenty20 Internationals. As of July 2019, Rohit won 19 Man of the Match awards and 4 Man of the Series awards in One Day Internationals; 1 Man of", "id": "21442897" }, { "contents": "Ollie Pope\n\n\nthe 2016 Royal London One-Day Cup against Yorkshire. He made his first-class debut on 28 March 2017 for Surrey against Oxford MCCU as part of the Marylebone Cricket Club University fixtures. Pope scored his maiden List A half-century on 7 May 2017 against Sussex. He made his Twenty20 debut for Surrey in the 2017 NatWest t20 Blast on 7 July 2017. In August 2018, he was added to England's squad for the second Test against India. He made his Test debut at Lord's for England against", "id": "11076451" }, { "contents": "Australian cricket team in the West Indies in 2015\n\n\nThe Australian cricket team toured the West Indies from 27 May to 15 June 2015. The tour consisted of one first-class warm-up match and two Test matches. On 8 April 2015, the West Indies Cricket Board brought forward the date of the two Test matches by two days \"due to a number of logistical challenges beyond [their] control\". Australia won the 2-match Test series 2–0 and therefore retained the Frank Worrell Trophy. Australia announced their squad on 31 March 2015. They included three uncapped players,", "id": "17936722" }, { "contents": "Zimbabwean cricket team in Sri Lanka in 2017\n\n\nThe Zimbabwe cricket team toured Sri Lanka in June and July 2017 to play one Test match and five One Day Internationals (ODIs). Originally, the schedule was for two Test matches and three ODIs. It was Zimbabwe's first tour to Sri Lanka since January 2002. All the matches were played as day games. Zimbabwe won the ODI series 3–2, their first ever series win against Sri Lanka. It was their first away series win since 2009 and the first away series win against a Test nation since defeating Bangladesh in", "id": "5384529" }, { "contents": "Ashwell Prince\n\n\nthe batting. Opening with debutant Imraan Khan, Prince scored 150, his 11th Test century. Prince signed a contract to play for Lancashire County Cricket Club the 2009 English season. He acted as cover for V. V. S. Laxman, the club's other overseas player, who was unavailable at times because he was playing in the Indian Premier League. Prince score his first century for Lancashire at the start of May during a match against Nottinghamshire. The knock came off 135 not out from 189 balls came on the final day of", "id": "12899038" }, { "contents": "Herbert Sutcliffe\n\n\nand 1926, Sutcliffe's skill was a primary factor in Yorkshire having the longest unbeaten run in county cricket: i.e., 70 matches without loss until early 1927. After three defeats in 1927, Yorkshire went a further 58 games without loss until 1929. The first four Tests of the 1926 England v Australia series were scheduled for just three days and were all curtailed by poor weather. The final Test at the Oval was timeless to ensure a finish. It has become one of the most famous matches in cricket history, not", "id": "18571331" }, { "contents": "Indian cricket team in England in 2011\n\n\nThe Indian cricket team toured England from 21 July to 16 September 2011. The tour consisted of one Twenty20 International (T20I), five One Day Internationals (ODIs) and four Test matches, as well as a number of matches against English county sides. The opening Test at Lord's was the 2,000th Test. England's victory in the Third Test put them number one in the world rankings. Virat Kohli, Pragyan Ojha and RP Singh replaced the injured Yuvraj Singh, Harbhajan Singh and Zaheer Khan, respectively, for the", "id": "4970296" }, { "contents": "Cricket in the British Isles\n\n\nIt played its first test match against Australia in 1877 and played its first One Day International (ODI) also againist Australia in 1971. One of the main cricket grounds in England, and also widely regarded as the spiritual home of cricket, is Lords Cricket Ground in London. Other major cricket grounds include The Oval (also in London), Edgbaston in Birmingham, Old Trafford in Manchester and Trent Bridge in Nottingham. From 1909 until 2017 England was the only country within the British Isles to have full membership of the ICC", "id": "17756246" }, { "contents": "Eton v Harrow\n\n\nplayed for Harrow in the four matches in 1822 to 1825, and arranged the first University Match at Lord's in 1827, two years before the first Boat Race. Many Eton and Harrow players went on to win blues at Oxford and Cambridge. Eton v Harrow was joined by the University Match and Gentlemen v Players as the three key features in the England cricket season. In its heyday, in the late 19th century and early 20th century, \"the School's day\" was one of the highlights of the London \"", "id": "10600897" }, { "contents": "Mathew Dimond\n\n\nMathew Dimond (born 24 September 1975) is a former English cricketer who made played for Somerset County Cricket Club between 1994 and 1997. Early in his career, he toured the West Indies with the England Under-19 cricket team, playing three Tests and one One Day International at Under-19 level. A right-arm fast-medium bowler, he made his first-class debut for Somerset in June 1994. Playing in the County Championship against Hampshire, Dimond claimed a solitary wicket in the match, which was shortened to single innings", "id": "558840" }, { "contents": "Charlie Charters\n\n\n’ Although the 2004 Islanders lost each of the three Test matches they played (29-14 v Wallabies, 41-26 v All Blacks and 24-38 v Springboks in Gosford, Australia), they scored 10 tries in three matches. By comparison that same southern hemisphere season, England and Scotland scored only three tries between them in their five Tests against the All Blacks and Wallabies. In fact, the 2004 Islanders scored more tries in one Test against the All Blacks (four) than the three tries the 2005", "id": "16741154" }, { "contents": "Australian cricket team in South Africa in 1993–94\n\n\nmatch by one run, levelling the ODI series at 4–4 with an \"improbable victory\". As well as the internationals, three first-class matches and two other matches were played during the tour The tour began with a friendly one-day match against NF Oppenheimer's XI, followed by a first-class match against Northern Transvaal and a one-day match against a representative side. Before the first Test match Australia played a first-class match against Orange Free State and between the first and second Tests they played", "id": "5209672" }, { "contents": "Bangladeshi cricket team in Zimbabwe in 2011\n\n\nThe Bangladesh cricket team toured Zimbabwe from 4 to 21 August 2011. The tour consisted of one Test match and five One Day Internationals (ODIs) played against the Zimbabwean national team and one first-class match played against a Zimbabwean representative team. The Test match was Zimbabwe's first since India toured Zimbabwe in 2005. Zimbabwe won the Test match by 130 runs and also won the one-day series 3–2. Bangladesh announced its squad for the Test match and ODI series on 15 July 2011. Zimbabwe announced its squad for", "id": "19159411" }, { "contents": "V. V. S. Laxman\n\n\nfrom international cricket. Although he was selected for the upcoming New Zealand series, he opted not to play in the series but he will play in domestic cricket for Hyderabad and the Indian Premier League . It was announced that the northern stand at the Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium will now be named after him. Laxman was particularly prolific against Australia, in both Tests and One Day Internationals. Six out of his 17 Test hundreds, and four out of his six ODI hundreds came against Australia. He has two double-centuries", "id": "9815623" }, { "contents": "3rd Battalion, 319th Field Artillery Regiment\n\n\nVII and another platoon to LZ Challenge from 3–5 July. Battery C located at FSB Rock near Bac Loc and conducted two 1-day raids on 11 & 13 June. Battery D located at LZ Lowboy, with 2 howitzers sent on Operation Red Thrust V in 5 days ending 2 May. On 12 July, Battery D displaced to support Battery A from FSB Hawkeye but returned to LZ Lowboy until 28 July, then occupied FSB Hunky. The battalion received three 105mm howitzers in May. In July, LTC John R. Martin replaced LTC Joseph", "id": "2060226" }, { "contents": "W. G. Grace in the 1878 English cricket season\n\n\nthis match attracted few spectators as it coincided with the Surrey v Australians match at The Oval, which drew very large crowds. \"Wisden Cricketers' Almanack\" commented that \"the Australians were attracting monster gatherings at The Oval on the days that this match was played, consequently very few visitors were at Lord's\". There were three North v South fixtures in June. The first two were played at Prince's Cricket Ground and Lord's with the South as the \"home\" team; the third took place at the", "id": "15478186" }, { "contents": "Third Test, 1948 Ashes series\n\n\nThe Third Test of the 1948 Ashes series was one of five Tests in a cricket series between teams representing Australia and England. The match was played at Old Trafford in Manchester from 8–13 July, with a rest day on 11 July. The match was drawn after the whole of the fourth day and the first half of the fifth day was washed out due to rain; England had the upper hand before the weather intervened. The draw maintained Australia's 2–0 lead in the series, which was established through victories in the first", "id": "497412" }, { "contents": "Giles Baring\n\n\n, Gresham's School, Holt, and Magdalene College, Cambridge. He represented Cambridge University in 1930 and 1931 and Hampshire between 1930 and 1939. Apart from more than fifty regular county championship games, he played in the Cambridge University v New Zealanders match of 3 June 1931, for the Gentlemen in the Gentlemen v Players matches of 2 September 1931 and 11 July 1934, for Hampshire in Hampshire v West Indians on 24 May 1933, for Hampshire in Hampshire v Australians on 23 May 1934, for Hampshire in Hampshire v South", "id": "9091807" }, { "contents": "2013–14 Bangladeshi cricket season\n\n\nand Mirpur. Both Test matches ended in draws, Bangladesh won all three One Day Internationals and New Zealand won the sole Twenty20 International. Sri Lanka toured Bangladesh in January and February 2014 playing two Test Matches, three One Day Internationals and two Twenty20 Internationals. Sri Lanka won every match, with the exception of the second Test match which ended in a draw. Initially it was planned that the NCL would be held in November and December 2013, the BCL in May and June 2014 and the BPL in December and January.", "id": "18068868" }, { "contents": "Darrell Hair\n\n\nby the ICC on 12 March 2008 and stood in the England v New Zealand tests at Old Trafford in May and Trent Bridge in June 2008. Hair umpired his first Test match in January 1992, between Australia and India in Adelaide. In 1994 the International Cricket Council (ICC) introduced a policy of appointing one umpire to each Test match from a non-participating country, and since 2002 both umpires have been appointed from non-participating nations. Since 2002 the majority of Hair’s Test matches have been played outside Australia", "id": "17469081" }, { "contents": "Timeline of events preceding World War II\n\n\n15 October 2 November 14 January February 6 March 7 March 25 May 5 June 3 July 17 August 1 October October 18 November 14 November 15 November 25 December 1 December 12 December 23 December 24 January 20 May 28 July 7 August 13 October 5 November 6 November 26 December 1 December 8 December 11 December 12 December 13 January 26 March 6 March 13 March 24 July 6–16 July 29 August September 27 September 30 October 5 November 7 November 9 January 25 January 27 March 14 March 15 March 16 March 20 March 21 March 23", "id": "6767331" }, { "contents": "South African cricket team in England in 1924\n\n\nThe South African cricket team toured England in the 1924 season to play a five-match Test series against England. England won the series 3-0 with 2 matches drawn. The tourists, with their ages on the first day of the first match of the tour on 3 May, were: George Parker (24) also played three first-class matches (including the first two Tests) and Aubrey Faulkner (42) played one match, the Third Test. The manager was George Allsop. South Africa's score", "id": "12941168" }, { "contents": "2018 English cricket season\n\n\ninternational sides toured England and Wales during the season: Pakistan, Australia and India. Pakistan also visited Ireland midway through the tour and played the Irish team's first Test match at Malahide near Dublin. In preparation for this match the Irish team played a first-class match against Somerset at Taunton in April. At the end of their tour Pakistan played two T20 matches in Scotland on 12 and 13 June. The England team played a One Day International (ODI) against Scotland in Edinburgh in June, losing to Scotland for", "id": "6929601" }, { "contents": "V. V. S. Laxman\n\n\n112 in the second test. This ensured his place on the tour of Australia which would be his third to that country. Laxman's good form continued in the 2007-08 Test series against Australia with him scoring 109 against Australia on the second day of the controversial Sydney Test to put India back into the contest. It was his 12th hundred in Test matches, and his 5th against Australia. It was also his third consecutive century at SCG, giving him an average well above 90 at the venue. He followed this", "id": "9815609" }, { "contents": "2019 Ashes series\n\n\nthree cricketers were named in Australia's squad for the 2019 Ashes. Meanwhile, England warmed up for the 2019 Ashes with a Test series earlier in the year against the West Indies and a one-off Test against Ireland in July. The tour of the West Indies comprised three matches and was won 2–1 by the West Indies. England also won the one-off Test against Ireland, by 143 runs. Ahead of the series, it was announced that Day 2 of the Lord’s Test would benefit the Ruth Strauss Foundation", "id": "18532603" }, { "contents": "V. V. S. Laxman\n\n\n1–1. He was awarded the Man of the Match for his match-winning innings of 96. His knock was voted as the best Test batting performance of the year by ESPNCricinfo. In three test matches, Laxman scored three consecutive fifties including two scores in eighties against the West Indies during India's tour of West Indies in June 2011. During India's Tour to England, Laxman scored just two half-centuries in eight innings as India went down 0–4 to England. This was India's first Test series loss since its", "id": "9815620" }, { "contents": "2014–15 Bangladeshi cricket season\n\n\nThe 2014–15 Bangladeshi cricket season featured tours of the country by Zimbabwe and Pakistan. Rangpur Division won the National Cricket League (NCL) championship title for the first time. Zimbabwe toured Bangladesh from 26 October to 1 December 2014, playing three Test matches and five One Day International matches. Bangladesh won the Test series 3–0 and the ODI series 5–0. Pakistan toured from 15 April to 10 May 2015, playing one Twenty20 International (T20I), three One Day Internationals (ODIs) and two Test matches. Pakistan won the Test", "id": "895026" }, { "contents": "Australia women's cricket team in England in 2019\n\n\nThe Australia women's cricket team toured England in June and July 2019 to play the England women's cricket team to contest the Women's Ashes. The tour consisted of three Women's One Day Internationals (WODIs), one Women's Test match and three Women's Twenty20 Internationals (WT20Is). A points-based system was used across all three formats of the tour. The Women's Ashes were held by Australia prior to the start of the series. Australia women won the WODI series 3–0, therefore taking a 6–0", "id": "15341273" }, { "contents": "Pakistani cricket team in England in 1962\n\n\nof three one-day games (not limited overs). The first two were drawn and the Pakistanis won the third one against Colonel Stevens' XI. These three matches were, in effect, warm-ups only and not first-class. The opening first-class fixture was against Worcestershire at New Road, starting on Wednesday, 2 May. The Pakistanis were given a foretaste of the Test series to come in that Tom Graveney scored a century for the home team (and was presented with his county cap immediately afterwards", "id": "12941094" }, { "contents": "New Zealand cricket team in Australia in 2015–16\n\n\nThe New Zealand cricket team toured Australia from 23 October to 1 December 2015 to play three Test matches and four tour matches. The third match of the series at the Adelaide Oval was the first ever day-night Test. Michael Hussey captained the Prime Minister's XI side for the tour match, and in preparation for the day-night Test, a pink ball was used in this game. Australia won the series 2–0, with victories in Brisbane and Adelaide, with the second Test in Perth being drawn. Following the", "id": "1307472" }, { "contents": "Kennington\n\n\nThe Kia Oval\", is the home ground for Surrey County Cricket Club and hosts the final Test match of the English summer season. The Oval was the first ground in the United Kingdom to host Test cricket, was the location for the England v Scotland representative matches, the first ever international football match, the first FA Cup final in 1872, and held the second ever rugby union international match between England and Scotland in 1872. England's unfortunate performance against Australia here in 1882 gave rise to The Ashes. The Oval", "id": "10346916" }, { "contents": "Indian cricket team in Zimbabwe in 2001\n\n\nThe Indian cricket team toured Zimbabwe from 28 May to 7 July 2001 and played two Test matches against Zimbabwe, with each team winning one game match. This would be Zimbabwe's only Test victory over a side other than Bangladesh until they beat Pakistan in the second Test in 2013. India and Zimbabwe also participated in a triangular One Day International (ODI) competition with West Indies, with the latter eventually winning the competition. The Coca-Cola Cup was a One Day International (ODI) tournament that followed the Test series", "id": "4099650" }, { "contents": "Andrew Balbirnie\n\n\nHe played three further One Day International's during the tournament. He made his Twenty20 International debut against Scotland on 19 June 2015, although no play was possible due to rain. He was part of the Ireland A team which toured Bangladesh in October 2017 to play one first-class match and five limited overs matches against the Bangladesh A team. In May 2018, he was named in a fourteen-man squad for Ireland's first ever Test match, which was played against Pakistan later the same month. He made his", "id": "2597279" }, { "contents": "Pakistani cricket team in Scotland in 2018\n\n\nThe Pakistan cricket team toured Scotland to play two Twenty20 International (T20I) matches at The Grange Club, Edinburgh, on 12 and 13 June 2018. Pakistan last toured Scotland in May 2013 to play two One Day Internationals. Both teams last met in a T20I fixture in the group stage of the 2007 ICC World Twenty20 tournament. This was the first time that Scotland had played a home T20I match against a full member side. The tour followed Pakistan's tour of England and their one Test series in Ireland. England also", "id": "373509" }, { "contents": "2017 June rugby union tests\n\n\n2 sides. Australia, the only southern hemisphere Tier 1 nation not to host a test series, staged three one-off test matches; Scotland, Italy and Fiji. The Fijian test was the first between the two sides in Australia since 2010, and was also the first Australia v Tier 2 nation match in Australia since Samoa visited in 2011. Fiji also played host to Italy and Scotland to become the second Tier 2 nation to play three back-back Tier 1 sides during an international window, after Samoa participated in", "id": "13232867" }, { "contents": "Timeline of the 2014 Pacific hurricane season\n\n\nJune 11 June 12 June 13 June 14 June 15 June 28 June 30 July 1 July 2 July 3 July 6 July 7 July 9 July 17 July 18 July 19 July 25 July 26 July 27 July 28 July 29 July 31 August 1 August 2 August 3 August 4 August 5 August 6 August 7 August 8 August 9 August 10 August 12 August 13 August 14 August 15 August 17 August 18 August 21 August 22 August 23 August 24 August 25 August 26 August 27 August 28 August 29 September 2 September 4 September 6", "id": "2400921" } ]

[ { "contents": "Sri Lankan cricket team in England in 2014\n\n\nThe Sri Lanka national cricket team toured England from 13 May to 24 June 2014 for a Twenty20 International (T20I), five One Day Internationals (ODIs) and two Test matches against the England cricket team. They also played three one-day and one four-day tour matches against English county sides, as well as preceding the entire tour with a two-match ODI series against Ireland. Sri Lanka won the Test series 1–0 (the first time they had won a Test series in England), the ODI series", "id": "21939883" }, { "contents": "New Zealand cricket team in England in 2015\n\n\nThe New Zealand national cricket team toured England from 8 May to 23 June 2015 for two Test matches, five One Day Internationals (ODIs) and a Twenty20 International (T20I) against the England cricket team. They also played two four-day tour matches and a one-day match against English county sides. England won the first Test at Lord's before New Zealand claimed victory in the second Test at Headingley to level the series. England then took an early lead in the ODI series after hitting more than 400 runs", "id": "943447" }, { "contents": "Australian cricket team in England and Ireland in 2015\n\n\nThe Australia national cricket team toured England from June to September 2015 for a five-match Test series, five One Day International (ODI) matches and one Twenty20 International (T20I). The Test series was for the Ashes. They also played two four-day and two three-day first-class matches against English county sides. Australia also played one ODI against Ireland in Belfast. On 31 March 2015, Australia announced a 17-man touring party for the Ashes series. England announced their squad for the first Test on", "id": "1657670" }, { "contents": "David Constant\n\n\n67 first-class appearances. In total he scored 1,517 first-class runs at a batting average of 19.20 with a highest score of 80. Tony Lewis described his innings against Glamorgan on a difficult pitch at Leicester in 1965 as \"one of the bravest innings I ever saw\". His first Test as umpire was the Third Test between England and Pakistan in July 1971. He last stood in an international cricket match in the England v. Australia One Day International at The Oval, London in June 2001. He was the", "id": "14539375" }, { "contents": "Pakistani cricket team in Sri Lanka in 2015\n\n\nThe Pakistan cricket team toured Sri Lanka from 11 June to 1 August 2015. The tour consisted of a three-day tour match against a SLCB President's XI, three Test matches, five One Day International and two Twenty20 International matches. The third Test was originally scheduled to be played at the R Premadasa Stadium, but was changed to the Pallekele International Cricket Stadium in early May. Pakistan outplayed the hosts in all forms of the game by winning the Test series 2–1, the ODI series 3–2 and the T20I series 2–0.", "id": "15080177" }, { "contents": "2010 in American music\n\n\n17 March 22 March 23 March 26 March 30 April 6 April 8 April 13 April 19 April 20 April 21 April 27 April 30 May 4 May 11 May 14 May 17 May 18 May 21 May 25 May 31 June 1 June 8 June 14 June 15 June 18 June 21 June 22 June 28 June 29 July 6 July 7 July 12 July 13 July 15 July 20 July 23 July 25 July 27 July 29 August 3 August 17 August 24 August 31 September 7 September 14 September 21 September 23 September 28 October 5 October", "id": "18556206" }, { "contents": "Warwickshire County Cricket Club\n\n\nand gold and the shirt sponsor is Gullivers Sports Travel. The club's home is Edgbaston Cricket Ground in south Birmingham, which regularly hosts Test and One Day International matches. Cricket may have reached Warwickshire by the end of the 17th century. The \"Warwickshire & Staffordshire Journal\" was certainly aware of the sport in 1738 for it carried a report of a London v Mitcham game at the Artillery Ground on 11 August (London won by 1 wicket). The earliest confirmed reference to cricket in the county is a match announcement", "id": "8941185" }, { "contents": "Irish cricket team in England in 2019\n\n\nThe Ireland cricket team toured England in July 2019 to play a one-off four-day Test match at Lord's. It was the first Test match to be played between the two sides, and was England's first four-day Test match since they toured New Zealand in 1971. It was Ireland's third Test match, and their twelfth international fixture against England. The Test match was part of England's preparations for the 2019 Ashes series. Ahead of the Test, the England cricket team visited Ireland in May", "id": "16268672" }, { "contents": "1919 English cricket season\n\n\n(five wins from fourteen) and Warwickshire were bottom with 7.14% (one win from fourteen). The 1919 County Championship was the 26th since the competition acquired official status in 1890. The opening matches began on Friday, 16 May. These were Middlesex v Nottinghamshire at Lord's and the 1914 (reigning) champions Surrey against Somerset at The Oval. The final match between Essex and Surrey at Leyton was completed on Monday, 1 September. The situation between Yorkshire and Kent on Saturday, 30 August (the second day in", "id": "7320450" }, { "contents": "Timeline of the 2013 Pacific hurricane season\n\n\n15 May 16 May 17 May 28 May 29 May 30 June 1 June 23 June 24 June 25 June 26 June 27 June 29 June 30 July 2 July 3 July 4 July 5 July 6 July 7 July 9 July 25 July 27 July 30 July 31 August 2 August 3 August 4 August 6 August 7 August 8 August 9 August 11 August 16 August 18 August 19 August 20 August 22 August 23 August 24 August 25 August 28 August 29 August 30 August 31 September 1 September 2 September 5 September 6 September 7 September", "id": "957237" }, { "contents": "Prince's Cricket Ground\n\n\nas 'grand and quick and one of the finest playing grounds in England'. The first match played on the ground was Household Brigade v. Lords and Commons on 3 June 1871. Middlesex County Cricket Club used the ground between 1872 and 1876 and played their first match on 23–25 May 1872 against Yorkshire. The ground was also used by South of England and by Gentlemen of the South. Several Gentlemen v Players fixtures were also played there, the first taking place in July 1873. In 1878, the touring Australians played two", "id": "19086180" }, { "contents": "Callum Jackson\n\n\nSussex youth ranks, playing at under-13, under-14, under-15 and under-17 level before joining the second XI as a 16-year-old in 2011. He was selected to represent an English Schools Cricket Association XI in 2011 before making his first appearance for the Sussex first XI on 1 May 2012 in a non-first-class match against the Leeds/Bradford MCC Universities team. In early 2013, Jackson was selected for the England under-19 side to tour South Africa, where he played in both Youth Test matches and three One Day", "id": "16290826" }, { "contents": "2018 English cricket season\n\n\nHurricane Irma and Hurricane Maria in September 2017. Pakistan played two Test matches against England at Lord's and Headingley at the end of May and beginning of June. The series was drawn, each side winning one match. Ahead of the Tests, two first-class matches were played against Kent and Northants. Their match against Ireland took place after the two first-class county matches, and a two-day match was played against Leicestershire between this and the first Test against England. Pakistan won the first Test match by", "id": "6929603" }, { "contents": "1963 in Norwegian football\n\n\nResults from Norwegian football in 1963. April 26 April 28 May 3 May 4 May 5 May 11 May 12 May 30 May 19 May 22 May 23 May 26 May 27 June 7 June 8 June 9 June 14 June 15 June 16 June 22 June 23 June 24 July 26 July 28 July 29 August 2 August 4 August 6 August 17 August 18 August 21 August 22 August 24 August 25 September 7 September 8 September 20 September 22 October 4 October 6 October 13 Årstad promoted Nidelv promoted Harstad - Bodø/Glimt 4 -", "id": "20433032" }, { "contents": "West Indian cricket team in England in 1991\n\n\nThe West Indian cricket team in England in 1991 played three one day internationals and five Tests, under the captaincy of Viv Richards, as part of an extensive tour in which they also played first-class matches against 11 first-class county teams, the combined Minor Counties, the Combined Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, and a World XI to finish, plus 55-over one-day matches against one more first-class county (Gloucestershire) and the Duchess of Norfolk's Invitation XI. Of the non-international matches,", "id": "5157419" }, { "contents": "West Indian cricket team in England in 2007\n\n\nThe West Indian cricket team toured England from 12 May to 7 July 2007 as part of the 2007 English cricket season. The tour included four Tests, two Twenty20 international matches and three One Day Internationals. While England dominated the Test series 3–0, including a record victory over the West Indies, the latter took the ODI series 2:1. In the ICC Test Championship, England are ranked second and West Indies are ranked eighth, though England's most recent series was a whitewash loss in the Ashes against Australia for the first time", "id": "12941423" }, { "contents": "Sri Lankan cricket team in the West Indies in 2018\n\n\nOn 19 May 2018, Cricket West Indies (CWI) announced that they may scrap one of the Test fixtures, replacing it with a couple of one-day matches. However, the day before the first Test, the International Cricket Council (ICC) confirmed that it would be a three-match Test series. Prior to the start of day three of the second Test, the Sri Lankan cricket team protested against umpires' decision on starting the third day's play with a new ball, replacing the old ball.", "id": "19622271" }, { "contents": "Timeline of the 2017 Pacific hurricane season\n\n\ncyclone formations, strengthening, weakening, landfalls, extratropical transitions, and dissipations during the season. May 9 May 10 May 11 May 12 May 15 May 31 June 1 June 2 June 11 June 12 June 13 June 24 June 25 June 26 June 27 June 28 July 1 July 7 July 8 July 9 July 10 July 11 July 12 July 13 July 14 July 15 July 16 July 17 July 18 July 19 July 20 July 21 July 22 July 23 July 24 July 25 July 26 July 27 July 28 July 31 August 1", "id": "7169450" }, { "contents": "Daniel Bell-Drummond\n\n\nmade his youth Test debut on 21 July 2010 at the County Ground, Northampton before scoring unbeaten 88 in the second youth Test later in the same month, aged only 16. He played in both under-19 Test matches and in four youth one-day international matches during England's return tour of Sri Lanka in January and February 2011. In July 2011 Bell-Drummond played in a one-day series against South Africa under-19s. He top-scored for England in three of the seven matches in the series and was the", "id": "6732560" }, { "contents": "1967 in Norwegian football\n\n\nResults from Norwegian football in 1967. April 27 April 28 April 30 May 4 May 6 May 7 May 10 May 11 May 15 May 16 May 18 May 19 May 20 May 21 May 22 June 22 May 25 May 28 June 4 June 10 June 11 June 12 June 13 June 18 June 19 July 30 July 31 August 2 August 6 August 7 August 9 August 10 August 20 August 16 August 20 August 21 September 7 September 10 September 16 September 17 October 6 October 8 October 9 October 12 October 15 October 20 October", "id": "2081596" }, { "contents": "Phil Carlson\n\n\nPhillip Henry Carlson (born 8 August 1951, Nundah, Queensland) is a former Australian cricketer who played in two Tests and four One Day Internationals (ODIs) in 1979. Carlson was an all-rounder who played for Queensland between 1969–70 and 1980–81. He played two Test matches for Australia v England in 1978–79 Ashes series and four One Day Internationals against the same opponents. He was called up by Australia when most of their regular first-choice players were playing in World Series Cricket. Carlson took two Test wickets and", "id": "11409623" }, { "contents": "1962 in Norwegian football\n\n\nResults from Norwegian football in 1962. July 30 August 2 August 3 August 9 August 8 August 13 August 16 August 20 August 21 September 2 September 3 Ørn - Brann 0 - 7 September 24 September 28 October 1 October 15 April 25 October 6 October 8 April 29 May 6 May 12 May 13 May 14 May 20 May 21 May 23 May 24 May 27 May 30 May 31 June 3 June 15 June 16 June 17 June 24 June 25 June 30 July 1 July 29 August 1 August 2 August 4 August 5 August", "id": "9107175" }, { "contents": "Alan Igglesden\n\n\nAlan Paul Igglesden (born 8 October 1964) is a former English Test cricketer. He played three Test Matches and four One Day Internationals (ODIs) for the England cricket team between 1989 and 1994 as a fast bowler. He played most of his first-class cricket career for Kent County Cricket Club. Igglesden was born in Farnborough, London in 1964. He first played for Kent County Cricket Club's Second XI in 1983 before making his first-class cricket debut of the county in July 1986 against Somerset at Maidstone", "id": "8795795" }, { "contents": "Sri Lankan cricket team in England and Ireland in 2016\n\n\nThe Sri Lanka national cricket team toured England from 8 May to 5 July 2016 for a three-match Test series, a five-match One Day International (ODI) series and a one-off Twenty20 International (T20I) against the England cricket team. England won the Test series 2–0, the ODI series 3–0 and won the one-off T20I match by 8 wickets. They also played two first-class matches against Essex and Leicestershire prior to the Test series, and two ODI matches against Ireland prior to the", "id": "15635062" }, { "contents": "South African cricket team in England in 2008\n\n\nThe South African cricket team toured England between 29 June and 4 September 2008. They played four Test matches, one Twenty20 International and five One Day Internationals against England. They also played six tour matches against Somerset, Middlesex, Bangladesh A, a PCA Masters XI and two against the England Lions. It was announced that following the conclusion of this four-match series, future matches between England and South Africa would comprise five Test matches but only three one-day matches after the series was granted 'icon' status.", "id": "18079110" }, { "contents": "2018 English cricket season\n\n\nthe first time in an ODI. The South African women's team also toured England to play three One Day International matches against the England women's cricket team in June and to compete in the 2018 England women's Tri-Nation Series Twenty20 competition against England and New Zealand. New Zealand then played three One Day Internationals against England in July. In addition the West Indies men's side played a single Twenty20 International against a Rest of the World XI team at Lord's in May 2018 to raise funds for stadiums damaged by", "id": "6929602" }, { "contents": "American Rally Association\n\n\nWood Rally March 15 - 16 Olympus Rally April 27 - 28 Oregon Trail Rally May 31 - June 2 Idaho Rally International June 22 - 23 New England Forest Rally July 19 - 20 Muscatell Ojibwe Forests Rally August 23 - 24 Susquehannock Trail Performance Rally September 13 - 14 Lake Superior Performance Rally October 18 - 19 2019 ARA Super Regional Events Southern Ohio Forest Rally May 16 - 18 Rally Colorado July 26 - 27 Tour de Forest Rally September 21, 2019 Empire State Performance Rally October 25 - 26 2019 ARA One-Day Regional", "id": "6404348" }, { "contents": "Pakistani cricket team in England and Ireland in 2016\n\n\nThe Pakistan national cricket team toured England and Ireland from 3 July to 7 September 2016 for a four-match Test series, a five-match One Day International (ODI) series and a one-off Twenty20 International (T20I) against the England cricket team. They also played two three-day matches against Somerset and Sussex prior to the Test series, a two-day match against Worcestershire during the Test series, and two ODI matches against Ireland prior to the ODI series. England's ODI matches against Pakistan was", "id": "15635130" }, { "contents": "Second Test, 1948 Ashes series\n\n\nThe Second Test of the 1948 Ashes series was one of five Tests in a cricket series between Australia and England. The match was played at Lord's in London from 24 to 29 June, with a rest day on 27 June. Australia won the match by 409 runs to take a 2–0 lead, meaning that England would need to win the remaining three matches to regain The Ashes. Australian captain Don Bradman won the toss and elected to bat. The tourists had won the First Test convincingly, and decided to field the", "id": "497516" }, { "contents": "MCC v Australians at Lord's, 27 May 1878\n\n\nin England, the team left Sydney on 29 March 1878 and sailed via Auckland and Honolulu to San Francisco, from where they travelled across America by train to New York City. They crossed the Atlantic, arriving in Liverpool on 13 May, and then went by train to Nottingham where they played their first match, starting on Monday, 20 May. This was a three-day match against Nottinghamshire at Trent Bridge and the Australians were well beaten by an innings and 14 runs, an inauspicious start which dampened much of the public", "id": "16383632" }, { "contents": "Australian women's cricket team in England in 2013\n\n\nThe Australian women's cricket team toured England in 2013. The visitors were defending the Women's Ashes. The only Test match of the tour took place on 11–14 August at Wormsley Park, and was drawn. Three One-Day Internationals (ODIs) were played: the first at Lord's on 20 August, and the other two at Hove on 23 and 25 August. Also three Twenty20 International (T20I) matches were played, on 27, 29 and 31 August, at Chelmsford, Southampton and Chester-le-", "id": "19064429" }, { "contents": "South African cricket team in England in 2017\n\n\nThe South African cricket team toured England and Wales between May and August 2017, playing three One Day Internationals (ODIs), three Twenty20 Internationals (T20Is) and four Test matches. The ODI matches were in preparation for the 2017 ICC Champions Trophy, which took place in England and Wales during June. Extra security was provided to South Africa for the ODI series following the Manchester bombing. England won the ODI series 2–1 and the T20 series 2–1. Ahead of the ODI series, South Africa played one-day warm-", "id": "1555384" }, { "contents": "1Malaysia Development Berhad scandal\n\n\n- 30 September onwards October 20 November 25 December 1 December 5 December 31 2016 January 26 January 29 February 1 February 3 February 7 February 19 February 29 March 23 March 31 April 2 April 5 April 7 April 9 April 12 April 13 April 19 April 28 May 24 May 31 July 11 1MDB agrees to resolve its dispute with International Petroleum Investment Company via the London Court of International Arbitration. July 21 August 9 October 11 December 2 2017 March 22 April 24 May 30 June 15 June 16 August 1 August 2 August 11 August", "id": "14280441" }, { "contents": "Timeline of events preceding World War II\n\n\nJune 30 September 14 May 19 September 18 September 19 January 7 January 28 February 27 March 1 April 10 May 30 August 30 November 21 December 3 January 1 January 30 February 27 February 28 March 4 March 20 March 23 March 24 March 27 April 1 April 26 May 2 May 15 May 31 June 21 July 14 August 25 September 12 October 19 November 24 January 26 February 12–16 March 20 June 30 July 20 July 25 August 2 August 8 September October 16 December 1 December 5 December 29 January 7 June 18 August 31 September", "id": "6767330" }, { "contents": "Timeline of the 2018 Pacific hurricane season\n\n\ntropical cyclone formations, strengthening, weakening, landfalls, extratropical transitions, and dissipations during the season. May 10 May 11 May 13 May 15 June 1 June 6 June 7 June 8 June 9 June 10 June 11 June 12 June 13 June 14 June 15 June 16 June 17 June 19 June 24 June 25 June 26 June 27 June 28 June 29 June 30 July 1 July 2 July 3 July 4 July 5 July 6 July 9 July 26 July 27 July 28 July 29 July 31 August 1 August 2 August 3 August", "id": "21166816" }, { "contents": "English cricket team in Australia in 2017–18\n\n\nThe England cricket team toured Australia between November 2017 and February 2018 to play five Tests and five One Day Internationals (ODIs). They also played in a three nation Twenty20 International (T20I) tournament, along with New Zealand, who co-hosted the tournament along with Australia. England additionally played two first-class matches, a two-day tour match and a one-day tour match against Cricket Australia XI, as well as a Twenty20 against the Prime Minister's XI. The Test matches made up the 2017–18", "id": "21532277" }, { "contents": "Timeline of events preceding World War II\n\n\nApril 16 August 13 October October 11 October 29 November 1 January 11 June July 24 August 31 September 27 October 29 November 8 January 21 February 1 March 16 April 1 April 6 June 10 August 16 August 18 May 12 July 18 December 1 January 3 January 31 April 4 April 24 September 8 December 25 April 12 May 20 June 7 November 12 December 14 May 3 May 28 June 4 August 2 August 27 October 1 February 9 February 11 March 4 March 28 April 3 June 7 July 24 August 31 October 29 April 22", "id": "6767329" }, { "contents": "W. G. Grace in the 1878 English cricket season\n\n\nNewcastle upon Tyne, Bolton and Birmingham to play odds games against local opposition. Grace took 21 wickets in the match against the 22 men of Melton Mowbray in a three-day match starting on Monday, 1 July. He scored 42 and 57 not out in his two innings, the match ending in a draw. Grace caught the evening train to be in London ready for the first Gentlemen v Players match at The Oval, starting on Thursday, 4 July. The next USEE match at Leeds Holbeck followed the second Gentlemen", "id": "15478205" }, { "contents": "List of accidents and incidents involving military aircraft (1950–1954)\n\n\n12 December 19 December 23 December 10 January 11 January 15 January 21 January 28 January 31 January 14 February 13 March 14 March 17 March 23 March 3 April 5 April 5 April 8 April 25 April 27 April 6 May 18 May 19 May 8 June 13 June 15 June 18 June 23 June 23 June 30 June 8 July 31 July Summer 13 August 18 August 21 August 22 August 26 August 27 August 16 September 29 September 15 October 11 November 13 November 19 November 27 November 3 December 7 December 21 December 12 January 15", "id": "21637229" }, { "contents": "Lord's\n\n\nbe switched off by 11 pm. The floodlights were first used successfully on 27 May 2009 during the Twenty20 Cup match between Middlesex and Kent. Lord's hosts Test matches, one-day internationals, some Middlesex home matches, MCC matches and (starting with a fixture between Middlesex and Surrey in July 2004) some of Middlesex's home Twenty20 games. Lord's typically hosts two Tests every summer plus two one-day internationals. Lord's also plays host to the finals of the National Village Cricket Competition, the MCC Universities", "id": "10760657" }, { "contents": "2011 in American music\n\n\nThe following is a list of notable events and releases that happened in 2011 in music in the United States. January 11 January 17 January 18 January 21 January 25 January 31 February 1 February 8 February 15 February 22 March 1 March 8 March 15 March 22 March 29 April 5 April 11 April 12 April 26 May 3 May 10 May 17 May 23 May 24 May 31 June 7 June 14 June 21 June 28 July 5 July 8 July 12 July 13 July 19 July 26 August 2 August 8 August 9 August 16 August", "id": "15423555" }, { "contents": "MCC v Australians at Lord's, 27 May 1878\n\n\nenthusiasm that their visit had generated. The Australians were next due to play Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) in a three-day match at Lord's, commencing on Monday, 27 May. In the meantime, Charles Bannerman and Billy Midwinter were invited to visit Dublin and play for the United South of England Eleven (USEE) against 15 past and present players of Dublin University. This was due to be played over three days, starting on Thursday, 23 May, at College Park. The USEE was captained by W. G.", "id": "16383633" }, { "contents": "West Indian cricket team in England in 1928\n\n\nreach three figures. As at Lord's and Old Trafford, the match was over before lunch on the third day. Including the three Tests, 30 first-class matches were played on the tour, plus six other games. The West Indians won just seven of these 36 matches (five of the first-class games) and lost 12. By the end of May, the touring side had won matches against Derbyshire and Cambridge University, plus a minor match against Northumberland, and had drawn all the other games.", "id": "12941340" }, { "contents": "Bob Willis\n\n\n26 August against Worcestershire's Seconds. Willis, 19 years of age, took one wicket for 48 runs in the first innings, and bowled four wicketless overs in the second. He was not called on to bat at all. Two days later, he faced Glamorgan and took three wickets. He played several further Second XI matches through May and June 1969, before his first-class debut on 6 August. Scotland was touring England that season and had already beaten Warwickshire. Willis took three wickets for 13 runs from 13", "id": "16238759" }, { "contents": "Rock in Rio\n\n\n5 July 6 May 21 / 82.000 May 22 / 45.000 May 27 / 85.000 May 29 / 95.000 May 30 / 38.000 June 4 / 51.000 June 5 / 85.000 June 6 / 90.000 June 11 / 30.000 June 14 / 48.000 Rock in Rio Lisboa V Rock in Rio Lisboa VII Rock in Rio Lisboa VIII June 24 sold out almost three months prior to the festival. \"Rock in Rio USA\" was the first North American edition of the festival, being held in Las Vegas on May 8, 9, 15 and 16", "id": "11140715" }, { "contents": "Indian cricket team in Sri Lanka in 2015\n\n\nThe Indian cricket team toured Sri Lanka from 6 August to 1 September 2015 to play a tour match and three Test matches. On 27 June, Sri Lankan batsman Kumar Sangakkara said he would retire from international cricket after the second Test of the series. The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) and Sri Lanka Cricket Board confirmed the schedule of India's tour to Sri Lanka in August to September 2015. The tour started with a three-day warm-up game against Sri Lanka Board President's XI,", "id": "22038367" }, { "contents": "Andy Cottam\n\n\nAndrew Colin Cottam (born 14 July 1973 in Northampton, England) was an English cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman and a left-arm slow bowler. He played in 2 Under-19 Tests in 1992 and 13 first-class matches between 1992 and 1996. His father is the cricketer and coach Bob Cottam. In 1990 Andy Cottam started playing for Somerset Second XI and Devon. In 1992 he was selected for Under-19's tour of Pakistan and played in the Third Test and 2 one-day matches against Pakistan", "id": "2981363" }, { "contents": "Lord's\n\n\n. The hundredth Lord's Test match was in 2000, England v West Indies. As of 25 August 2010 England have played 119 Test matches at Lord's, winning 45, losing 28 and drawing 46. Lord's often hosts two Test matches each summer, one match for each visiting team. In 2010, the ground hosted three Test matches: as well as England's matches against Bangladesh and Pakistan, a Test match between Australia and Pakistan was held there in July. Lord's was the venue of the 2000th test", "id": "10760663" }, { "contents": "Australian cricket team in Sri Lanka in 2016\n\n\nThe Australian cricket team toured Sri Lanka from 18 July to 9 September 2016 to play three Test matches, five One Day Internationals (ODIs), two Twenty20 Internationals (T20Is) matches and a first-class practice match. The Test series was played for Warne-Muralitharan Trophy, with Sri Lanka winning 3–0, their first ever series whitewash against Australia. As a result, Australia slipped from first to third in the ICC Test Championship; Sri Lanka, who had started the series ranked seventh, moved up to sixth.", "id": "14912886" }, { "contents": "South African cricket team in Australia in 2005–06\n\n\nThe South African cricket team toured Australia for cricket matches during the 2005–06 season. South Africa had already played two One Day International series during this season, beating New Zealand 4–0 at home before travelling to India and drawing the series there 2–2. The team had been playing 14 successive ODIs (tour matches excluded) before arriving in Australia, with their last Test match against West Indies in April and May 2005. South Africa played one first class warm-up match, one three-day warm-up match without first class", "id": "19860549" }, { "contents": "Peter Lever\n\n\n6/38, before his final Test ended on 5 August 1975 during another Ashes tour, Australia facing England at Lord's. Lever also played ten One Day Internationals, including the 1975 Cricket World Cup, taking 11 wickets but scoring only 17 runs. His ODI debut was also against Australia, at Melbourne on 5 January 1971, and his last match was at Headingley, Leeds, again against Australia, on 18 June 1975. This gives Lever the unusual distinction of having played both his debut, and last match, against Australia", "id": "17765992" }, { "contents": "Australian women's cricket team in England in 2009\n\n\nThe Australian women's cricket team toured England between 25 June and 13 July 2009, playing one Test match, five One Day Internationals and a Twenty20 International. Australia won the Twenty20 International, while England won the One Day International series 4–0. The Test match, which was for the Women's Ashes, was drawn; ensuring that England retained them. Prior to the series, both sides took part in the 2009 ICC Women's World Twenty20, which was also held in England in June. England won the tournament, in", "id": "13250607" }, { "contents": "List of accidents and incidents involving military aircraft (1950–1954)\n\n\nJanuary 31 January 7 February 18 March 21 April 24 April May 11 May 12 May 15 May 9 June 11 June 13 June 17 June 18 June 21 June 15 July 17 July 30 July 6 August 6 August 12 August 23 August 26 August 30 August 5 September 9 September 9 September 9 September 11 September 19 September 19 September 25 September 1 October 1 October 7 October 8 October 8 October 11 October 13 October 14 October 17 October 18 October 19 October 20 October 22 October 26 October 2 November 8 November 17 November 23 November", "id": "21637231" }, { "contents": "Follow-on\n\n\n, and gave England a slender lead of 129. The next day a fired-up Bob Willis took 8 for 43, and Australia slumped to 111 all out. Australia, who had won their 16 previous Test matches, including the first of the three-Test series between the two teams, had scored 445 in the first innings of the second Test and restricted India to 171; only V. V. S. Laxman (59) and Rahul Dravid reached 25 runs. The only other bright spot for India was the bowling of", "id": "1078812" }, { "contents": "West Indian cricket team in England in 2017\n\n\nThe West Indies cricket team toured England in August and September 2017 to play three Test matches competing for the Wisden Trophy, one Twenty20 International (T20I) and five One Day Internationals (ODIs). Ahead of the Test series, the West Indies played first-class warm-up matches against Derbyshire, Essex and Kent. They also played a two-day match against Leicestershire, as they did not get to the final of the 2017 NatWest t20 Blast. In October 2016 the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB)", "id": "1555387" }, { "contents": "England women's national rugby league team\n\n\nCup - WIN v France WIN v Russia | LOSS v Australia LOSS v New Zealand WIN v Pacific Islands 2009 International Tests - 25 July | France 8-28 England; France 0-36 England 2010 International Tests - 9 November | England 36-8 France 10 November | New Zealand 44-6 England 16 November | New Zealand 38-6 England 2011 International Tests - 2 July | France 6-36 England 6 July | France 4-42 England 2012 International Test - 15 June | England 48-0 France", "id": "9166568" }, { "contents": "International cricket\n\n\n, One-Day and Twenty20 matches take place in the form of \"tours\". In a tour, one nation travels to another and plays warm-up matches, which may be first-class matches, against domestic teams such as county or state teams, a series of Test matches against the host nation, and either a series of One-Day (ODi) and T20 matches against the host nation or a tournament involving the host nation and another touring nation. Tours may include Test, ODI and T20I matches", "id": "6028418" }, { "contents": "West Indian cricket team in England in 2000\n\n\nThe West Indies cricket team toured England in the 2000 cricket season. West Indies played five Tests against England - two in June and three in August - with a triangular One Day International (ODI) series involving Zimbabwe in July. In June, West Indies won the 1st Test at Edgbaston convincingly, before England narrowly won the 2nd Test at Lord's, having bowled West Indies out for 54 in their second innings. The ODI series, sponsored by NatWest, took place in July, with England, West Indies and Zimbabwe", "id": "12941417" }, { "contents": "First Test, 1948 Ashes series\n\n\nThe First Test of the 1948 Ashes series was one of five Tests in a cricket series between Australia and England. The match was played at Trent Bridge in Nottingham from 10 to 15 June with a rest day on 13 June. Australia won the match by eight wickets to take a 1–0 series lead. The Australians started the match as firm favourites, having won the previous series against England 3–0; in the lead-up to the 1948 series, they had won 10 of their 12 tour matches in England, mostly by", "id": "497621" }, { "contents": "Giles Baring\n\n\nAfricans on 22 May 1935, for Hampshire in Hampshire v Australians on 25 May 1938, and for H. D. G. Leveson Gowers XI v Australian Services on 7 July 1945. He played for Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) between 1935 and 1946, and his last first-class game was in the MCC v Cambridge University match on 29 June 1946. Baring was a right-arm fast bowler and also a right-hand batsman. As a bowler, he took 197 wickets for 5,607 runs, an average of 28.46.", "id": "9091808" }, { "contents": "Herbert Sutcliffe's cricket career (1919–27)\n\n\nWaddington in 1925. Arthur Mitchell was still a reserve and Cyril Turner made his first-class debut. The first four Tests of the 1926 England v Australia series were scheduled for just three days and were all curtailed by poor weather. The final Test at The Oval was timeless to ensure a finish. It has become one of the most famous matches in cricket history, not because England regained The Ashes for the first time since 1912 but for the manner it which it was achieved as Hobbs and Sutcliffe produced their most famous", "id": "18930780" }, { "contents": "Günther Lützow\n\n\nfighter destroyed. Two days later, he destroyed three aircraft, two SB-2 bombers and a Petlyakov Pe-2 ground attack aircraft. On 27 June, he shot down an Ilyushin DB-3 bomber followed by another Pe-2 on the following day, his last victory of June 1941. Following a DB-3 bomber claimed on 7 July, Lützow was credited with four aerial victories on 10 July, consisting of one Vultee V-11 attack aircraft and three I-153s. The next day he claimed an II-16. On 15 July he shot down two further I-16s and another", "id": "3340503" }, { "contents": "1966 in Norwegian football\n\n\nResults from Norwegian football in 1966. April 22 April 24 April 27 May 19 April 30 May 1 May 6 May 7 May 8 May 15 May 19 May 22 May 23 May 27 May 28 May 30 May 31 June 3 June 4 June 5 June 15 June 16 June 19 June 20 July 31 August 3 August 6 August 7 August 8 August 24 August 17 August 27 August 28 September 11 September 22 September 23 September 24 October 9 October 15 October 16 October 17 October 23 July 31 August 1 August 2 August 3 Rematch", "id": "21974049" }, { "contents": "Headingley Cricket Ground\n\n\nwickets each. Donald Bradman's innings of 334 in the 1930 Ashes Test included 309 runs on the first day, and he followed it in the Australians' next test at Headingley in 1934 with an innings of 304. Spinner Hedley Verity took 10 wickets for 10 runs in 1932 for Yorkshire v Nottinghamshire, still the best bowling analysis ever in first-class cricket. Verity had also taken all ten against Warwickshire at Headingley in 1931. In the 1948 Ashes series, Australia scored 404 for three on the last day to beat", "id": "11240346" }, { "contents": "List of international awards of Rohit Sharma\n\n\nRohit Sharma is an Indian international cricketer. He made his international cricket debut in June 2007. He has scored twenty-nine centuries in international cricket; three in Tests, twenty-two in One Day Internationals (ODI) and four in Twenty20 International (T20Is). As of July 2019, Sharma has played 27 Tests, 215 One Day Internationals and 94 Twenty20 Internationals. As of July 2019, Rohit won 19 Man of the Match awards and 4 Man of the Series awards in One Day Internationals; 1 Man of", "id": "21442897" }, { "contents": "Ollie Pope\n\n\nthe 2016 Royal London One-Day Cup against Yorkshire. He made his first-class debut on 28 March 2017 for Surrey against Oxford MCCU as part of the Marylebone Cricket Club University fixtures. Pope scored his maiden List A half-century on 7 May 2017 against Sussex. He made his Twenty20 debut for Surrey in the 2017 NatWest t20 Blast on 7 July 2017. In August 2018, he was added to England's squad for the second Test against India. He made his Test debut at Lord's for England against", "id": "11076451" }, { "contents": "Australian cricket team in the West Indies in 2015\n\n\nThe Australian cricket team toured the West Indies from 27 May to 15 June 2015. The tour consisted of one first-class warm-up match and two Test matches. On 8 April 2015, the West Indies Cricket Board brought forward the date of the two Test matches by two days \"due to a number of logistical challenges beyond [their] control\". Australia won the 2-match Test series 2–0 and therefore retained the Frank Worrell Trophy. Australia announced their squad on 31 March 2015. They included three uncapped players,", "id": "17936722" }, { "contents": "Zimbabwean cricket team in Sri Lanka in 2017\n\n\nThe Zimbabwe cricket team toured Sri Lanka in June and July 2017 to play one Test match and five One Day Internationals (ODIs). Originally, the schedule was for two Test matches and three ODIs. It was Zimbabwe's first tour to Sri Lanka since January 2002. All the matches were played as day games. Zimbabwe won the ODI series 3–2, their first ever series win against Sri Lanka. It was their first away series win since 2009 and the first away series win against a Test nation since defeating Bangladesh in", "id": "5384529" }, { "contents": "Ashwell Prince\n\n\nthe batting. Opening with debutant Imraan Khan, Prince scored 150, his 11th Test century. Prince signed a contract to play for Lancashire County Cricket Club the 2009 English season. He acted as cover for V. V. S. Laxman, the club's other overseas player, who was unavailable at times because he was playing in the Indian Premier League. Prince score his first century for Lancashire at the start of May during a match against Nottinghamshire. The knock came off 135 not out from 189 balls came on the final day of", "id": "12899038" }, { "contents": "Herbert Sutcliffe\n\n\nand 1926, Sutcliffe's skill was a primary factor in Yorkshire having the longest unbeaten run in county cricket: i.e., 70 matches without loss until early 1927. After three defeats in 1927, Yorkshire went a further 58 games without loss until 1929. The first four Tests of the 1926 England v Australia series were scheduled for just three days and were all curtailed by poor weather. The final Test at the Oval was timeless to ensure a finish. It has become one of the most famous matches in cricket history, not", "id": "18571331" }, { "contents": "Indian cricket team in England in 2011\n\n\nThe Indian cricket team toured England from 21 July to 16 September 2011. The tour consisted of one Twenty20 International (T20I), five One Day Internationals (ODIs) and four Test matches, as well as a number of matches against English county sides. The opening Test at Lord's was the 2,000th Test. England's victory in the Third Test put them number one in the world rankings. Virat Kohli, Pragyan Ojha and RP Singh replaced the injured Yuvraj Singh, Harbhajan Singh and Zaheer Khan, respectively, for the", "id": "4970296" }, { "contents": "Cricket in the British Isles\n\n\nIt played its first test match against Australia in 1877 and played its first One Day International (ODI) also againist Australia in 1971. One of the main cricket grounds in England, and also widely regarded as the spiritual home of cricket, is Lords Cricket Ground in London. Other major cricket grounds include The Oval (also in London), Edgbaston in Birmingham, Old Trafford in Manchester and Trent Bridge in Nottingham. From 1909 until 2017 England was the only country within the British Isles to have full membership of the ICC", "id": "17756246" }, { "contents": "Eton v Harrow\n\n\nplayed for Harrow in the four matches in 1822 to 1825, and arranged the first University Match at Lord's in 1827, two years before the first Boat Race. Many Eton and Harrow players went on to win blues at Oxford and Cambridge. Eton v Harrow was joined by the University Match and Gentlemen v Players as the three key features in the England cricket season. In its heyday, in the late 19th century and early 20th century, \"the School's day\" was one of the highlights of the London \"", "id": "10600897" }, { "contents": "Mathew Dimond\n\n\nMathew Dimond (born 24 September 1975) is a former English cricketer who made played for Somerset County Cricket Club between 1994 and 1997. Early in his career, he toured the West Indies with the England Under-19 cricket team, playing three Tests and one One Day International at Under-19 level. A right-arm fast-medium bowler, he made his first-class debut for Somerset in June 1994. Playing in the County Championship against Hampshire, Dimond claimed a solitary wicket in the match, which was shortened to single innings", "id": "558840" }, { "contents": "Charlie Charters\n\n\n’ Although the 2004 Islanders lost each of the three Test matches they played (29-14 v Wallabies, 41-26 v All Blacks and 24-38 v Springboks in Gosford, Australia), they scored 10 tries in three matches. By comparison that same southern hemisphere season, England and Scotland scored only three tries between them in their five Tests against the All Blacks and Wallabies. In fact, the 2004 Islanders scored more tries in one Test against the All Blacks (four) than the three tries the 2005", "id": "16741154" }, { "contents": "Australian cricket team in South Africa in 1993–94\n\n\nmatch by one run, levelling the ODI series at 4–4 with an \"improbable victory\". As well as the internationals, three first-class matches and two other matches were played during the tour The tour began with a friendly one-day match against NF Oppenheimer's XI, followed by a first-class match against Northern Transvaal and a one-day match against a representative side. Before the first Test match Australia played a first-class match against Orange Free State and between the first and second Tests they played", "id": "5209672" }, { "contents": "Bangladeshi cricket team in Zimbabwe in 2011\n\n\nThe Bangladesh cricket team toured Zimbabwe from 4 to 21 August 2011. The tour consisted of one Test match and five One Day Internationals (ODIs) played against the Zimbabwean national team and one first-class match played against a Zimbabwean representative team. The Test match was Zimbabwe's first since India toured Zimbabwe in 2005. Zimbabwe won the Test match by 130 runs and also won the one-day series 3–2. Bangladesh announced its squad for the Test match and ODI series on 15 July 2011. Zimbabwe announced its squad for", "id": "19159411" }, { "contents": "V. V. S. Laxman\n\n\nfrom international cricket. Although he was selected for the upcoming New Zealand series, he opted not to play in the series but he will play in domestic cricket for Hyderabad and the Indian Premier League . It was announced that the northern stand at the Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium will now be named after him. Laxman was particularly prolific against Australia, in both Tests and One Day Internationals. Six out of his 17 Test hundreds, and four out of his six ODI hundreds came against Australia. He has two double-centuries", "id": "9815623" }, { "contents": "3rd Battalion, 319th Field Artillery Regiment\n\n\nVII and another platoon to LZ Challenge from 3–5 July. Battery C located at FSB Rock near Bac Loc and conducted two 1-day raids on 11 & 13 June. Battery D located at LZ Lowboy, with 2 howitzers sent on Operation Red Thrust V in 5 days ending 2 May. On 12 July, Battery D displaced to support Battery A from FSB Hawkeye but returned to LZ Lowboy until 28 July, then occupied FSB Hunky. The battalion received three 105mm howitzers in May. In July, LTC John R. Martin replaced LTC Joseph", "id": "2060226" }, { "contents": "W. G. Grace in the 1878 English cricket season\n\n\nthis match attracted few spectators as it coincided with the Surrey v Australians match at The Oval, which drew very large crowds. \"Wisden Cricketers' Almanack\" commented that \"the Australians were attracting monster gatherings at The Oval on the days that this match was played, consequently very few visitors were at Lord's\". There were three North v South fixtures in June. The first two were played at Prince's Cricket Ground and Lord's with the South as the \"home\" team; the third took place at the", "id": "15478186" }, { "contents": "Third Test, 1948 Ashes series\n\n\nThe Third Test of the 1948 Ashes series was one of five Tests in a cricket series between teams representing Australia and England. The match was played at Old Trafford in Manchester from 8–13 July, with a rest day on 11 July. The match was drawn after the whole of the fourth day and the first half of the fifth day was washed out due to rain; England had the upper hand before the weather intervened. The draw maintained Australia's 2–0 lead in the series, which was established through victories in the first", "id": "497412" }, { "contents": "Giles Baring\n\n\n, Gresham's School, Holt, and Magdalene College, Cambridge. He represented Cambridge University in 1930 and 1931 and Hampshire between 1930 and 1939. Apart from more than fifty regular county championship games, he played in the Cambridge University v New Zealanders match of 3 June 1931, for the Gentlemen in the Gentlemen v Players matches of 2 September 1931 and 11 July 1934, for Hampshire in Hampshire v West Indians on 24 May 1933, for Hampshire in Hampshire v Australians on 23 May 1934, for Hampshire in Hampshire v South", "id": "9091807" }, { "contents": "2013–14 Bangladeshi cricket season\n\n\nand Mirpur. Both Test matches ended in draws, Bangladesh won all three One Day Internationals and New Zealand won the sole Twenty20 International. Sri Lanka toured Bangladesh in January and February 2014 playing two Test Matches, three One Day Internationals and two Twenty20 Internationals. Sri Lanka won every match, with the exception of the second Test match which ended in a draw. Initially it was planned that the NCL would be held in November and December 2013, the BCL in May and June 2014 and the BPL in December and January.", "id": "18068868" }, { "contents": "Darrell Hair\n\n\nby the ICC on 12 March 2008 and stood in the England v New Zealand tests at Old Trafford in May and Trent Bridge in June 2008. Hair umpired his first Test match in January 1992, between Australia and India in Adelaide. In 1994 the International Cricket Council (ICC) introduced a policy of appointing one umpire to each Test match from a non-participating country, and since 2002 both umpires have been appointed from non-participating nations. Since 2002 the majority of Hair’s Test matches have been played outside Australia", "id": "17469081" }, { "contents": "Timeline of events preceding World War II\n\n\n15 October 2 November 14 January February 6 March 7 March 25 May 5 June 3 July 17 August 1 October October 18 November 14 November 15 November 25 December 1 December 12 December 23 December 24 January 20 May 28 July 7 August 13 October 5 November 6 November 26 December 1 December 8 December 11 December 12 December 13 January 26 March 6 March 13 March 24 July 6–16 July 29 August September 27 September 30 October 5 November 7 November 9 January 25 January 27 March 14 March 15 March 16 March 20 March 21 March 23", "id": "6767331" }, { "contents": "South African cricket team in England in 1924\n\n\nThe South African cricket team toured England in the 1924 season to play a five-match Test series against England. England won the series 3-0 with 2 matches drawn. The tourists, with their ages on the first day of the first match of the tour on 3 May, were: George Parker (24) also played three first-class matches (including the first two Tests) and Aubrey Faulkner (42) played one match, the Third Test. The manager was George Allsop. South Africa's score", "id": "12941168" }, { "contents": "2018 English cricket season\n\n\ninternational sides toured England and Wales during the season: Pakistan, Australia and India. Pakistan also visited Ireland midway through the tour and played the Irish team's first Test match at Malahide near Dublin. In preparation for this match the Irish team played a first-class match against Somerset at Taunton in April. At the end of their tour Pakistan played two T20 matches in Scotland on 12 and 13 June. The England team played a One Day International (ODI) against Scotland in Edinburgh in June, losing to Scotland for", "id": "6929601" }, { "contents": "V. V. S. Laxman\n\n\n112 in the second test. This ensured his place on the tour of Australia which would be his third to that country. Laxman's good form continued in the 2007-08 Test series against Australia with him scoring 109 against Australia on the second day of the controversial Sydney Test to put India back into the contest. It was his 12th hundred in Test matches, and his 5th against Australia. It was also his third consecutive century at SCG, giving him an average well above 90 at the venue. He followed this", "id": "9815609" }, { "contents": "2019 Ashes series\n\n\nthree cricketers were named in Australia's squad for the 2019 Ashes. Meanwhile, England warmed up for the 2019 Ashes with a Test series earlier in the year against the West Indies and a one-off Test against Ireland in July. The tour of the West Indies comprised three matches and was won 2–1 by the West Indies. England also won the one-off Test against Ireland, by 143 runs. Ahead of the series, it was announced that Day 2 of the Lord’s Test would benefit the Ruth Strauss Foundation", "id": "18532603" }, { "contents": "V. V. S. Laxman\n\n\n1–1. He was awarded the Man of the Match for his match-winning innings of 96. His knock was voted as the best Test batting performance of the year by ESPNCricinfo. In three test matches, Laxman scored three consecutive fifties including two scores in eighties against the West Indies during India's tour of West Indies in June 2011. During India's Tour to England, Laxman scored just two half-centuries in eight innings as India went down 0–4 to England. This was India's first Test series loss since its", "id": "9815620" }, { "contents": "2014–15 Bangladeshi cricket season\n\n\nThe 2014–15 Bangladeshi cricket season featured tours of the country by Zimbabwe and Pakistan. Rangpur Division won the National Cricket League (NCL) championship title for the first time. Zimbabwe toured Bangladesh from 26 October to 1 December 2014, playing three Test matches and five One Day International matches. Bangladesh won the Test series 3–0 and the ODI series 5–0. Pakistan toured from 15 April to 10 May 2015, playing one Twenty20 International (T20I), three One Day Internationals (ODIs) and two Test matches. Pakistan won the Test", "id": "895026" }, { "contents": "Australia women's cricket team in England in 2019\n\n\nThe Australia women's cricket team toured England in June and July 2019 to play the England women's cricket team to contest the Women's Ashes. The tour consisted of three Women's One Day Internationals (WODIs), one Women's Test match and three Women's Twenty20 Internationals (WT20Is). A points-based system was used across all three formats of the tour. The Women's Ashes were held by Australia prior to the start of the series. Australia women won the WODI series 3–0, therefore taking a 6–0", "id": "15341273" }, { "contents": "Pakistani cricket team in England in 1962\n\n\nof three one-day games (not limited overs). The first two were drawn and the Pakistanis won the third one against Colonel Stevens' XI. These three matches were, in effect, warm-ups only and not first-class. The opening first-class fixture was against Worcestershire at New Road, starting on Wednesday, 2 May. The Pakistanis were given a foretaste of the Test series to come in that Tom Graveney scored a century for the home team (and was presented with his county cap immediately afterwards", "id": "12941094" }, { "contents": "New Zealand cricket team in Australia in 2015–16\n\n\nThe New Zealand cricket team toured Australia from 23 October to 1 December 2015 to play three Test matches and four tour matches. The third match of the series at the Adelaide Oval was the first ever day-night Test. Michael Hussey captained the Prime Minister's XI side for the tour match, and in preparation for the day-night Test, a pink ball was used in this game. Australia won the series 2–0, with victories in Brisbane and Adelaide, with the second Test in Perth being drawn. Following the", "id": "1307472" }, { "contents": "Kennington\n\n\nThe Kia Oval\", is the home ground for Surrey County Cricket Club and hosts the final Test match of the English summer season. The Oval was the first ground in the United Kingdom to host Test cricket, was the location for the England v Scotland representative matches, the first ever international football match, the first FA Cup final in 1872, and held the second ever rugby union international match between England and Scotland in 1872. England's unfortunate performance against Australia here in 1882 gave rise to The Ashes. The Oval", "id": "10346916" }, { "contents": "Indian cricket team in Zimbabwe in 2001\n\n\nThe Indian cricket team toured Zimbabwe from 28 May to 7 July 2001 and played two Test matches against Zimbabwe, with each team winning one game match. This would be Zimbabwe's only Test victory over a side other than Bangladesh until they beat Pakistan in the second Test in 2013. India and Zimbabwe also participated in a triangular One Day International (ODI) competition with West Indies, with the latter eventually winning the competition. The Coca-Cola Cup was a One Day International (ODI) tournament that followed the Test series", "id": "4099650" }, { "contents": "Andrew Balbirnie\n\n\nHe played three further One Day International's during the tournament. He made his Twenty20 International debut against Scotland on 19 June 2015, although no play was possible due to rain. He was part of the Ireland A team which toured Bangladesh in October 2017 to play one first-class match and five limited overs matches against the Bangladesh A team. In May 2018, he was named in a fourteen-man squad for Ireland's first ever Test match, which was played against Pakistan later the same month. He made his", "id": "2597279" }, { "contents": "Pakistani cricket team in Scotland in 2018\n\n\nThe Pakistan cricket team toured Scotland to play two Twenty20 International (T20I) matches at The Grange Club, Edinburgh, on 12 and 13 June 2018. Pakistan last toured Scotland in May 2013 to play two One Day Internationals. Both teams last met in a T20I fixture in the group stage of the 2007 ICC World Twenty20 tournament. This was the first time that Scotland had played a home T20I match against a full member side. The tour followed Pakistan's tour of England and their one Test series in Ireland. England also", "id": "373509" }, { "contents": "2017 June rugby union tests\n\n\n2 sides. Australia, the only southern hemisphere Tier 1 nation not to host a test series, staged three one-off test matches; Scotland, Italy and Fiji. The Fijian test was the first between the two sides in Australia since 2010, and was also the first Australia v Tier 2 nation match in Australia since Samoa visited in 2011. Fiji also played host to Italy and Scotland to become the second Tier 2 nation to play three back-back Tier 1 sides during an international window, after Samoa participated in", "id": "13232867" }, { "contents": "Timeline of the 2014 Pacific hurricane season\n\n\nJune 11 June 12 June 13 June 14 June 15 June 28 June 30 July 1 July 2 July 3 July 6 July 7 July 9 July 17 July 18 July 19 July 25 July 26 July 27 July 28 July 29 July 31 August 1 August 2 August 3 August 4 August 5 August 6 August 7 August 8 August 9 August 10 August 12 August 13 August 14 August 15 August 17 August 18 August 21 August 22 August 23 August 24 August 25 August 26 August 27 August 28 August 29 September 2 September 4 September 6", "id": "2400921" } ]

[ { "contents": "Tony Adams\n\n\n\"I have some resentment over the way Glenn Hoddle gave the captaincy to Alan Shearer instead of me but I can let that go. I reacted positively. I disagreed with him [Hoddle] and he thought Alan could get more penalties being a centre forward. People know my reaction to that\". Adams continued to play for the national side, however and he finally appeared in a World Cup finals in 1998. His international swansong was England's unsuccessful Euro 2000 campaign. With Shearer retiring from international football after the tournament", "id": "6104102" }, { "contents": "Tony Adams\n\n\nin defence, and after the retirement of Gary Lineker in 1992, Adams unofficially shared the captaincy of England with David Platt, though Adams became England captain outright before Euro 96, as Platt's place in the side became less secure. England reached the semi-finals of Euro 96, before losing on penalties to Germany. When England manager Glenn Hoddle took the Captain's armband from Adams and gave it to Alan Shearer it was a bitter pill for Adams to swallow. Speaking at a fans' forum in 2008 Adams remarked", "id": "6104101" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nThis time, Germany won from the spot; although Shearer scored, his teammate Gareth Southgate missed his kick and England were eliminated. Shearer's five goals made him the competition's top scorer, and together with teammates David Seaman and Steve McManaman, was listed in the official UEFA team of the tournament. The new England manager Glenn Hoddle appointed Shearer captain for the 1998 FIFA World Cup qualifier against Moldova on 1 September 1996, and the player held onto the captaincy after scoring once in that match and twice in the following game", "id": "13592541" }, { "contents": "Dimitar Berbatov\n\n\nhe consequently modelled himself after Marco van Basten, the Dutch forward for that team. However, the 1996 European Championship, held in England, gave Berbatov a new role model; the 15-year-old Berbatov began to look up to the English front man Alan Shearer, who played for Newcastle United. Berbatov's mother later spoke of her son's teenage dream of playing for Newcastle United, and said that his admiration for Shearer was such that, during these years, he slept in a Newcastle shirt. Berbatov began his youth", "id": "3905446" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\n's participation in what was to be Shearer's only World Cup tournament. In September 1999, Shearer scored his only England hat-trick in a UEFA Euro 2000 qualifier against Luxembourg. This helped England reach a play-off against Scotland; England won the game over two legs and in doing so qualified for the European Championships. By now, Shearer was approaching his 30th birthday, and he announced that he intended to retire from international football after the Euro 2000 tournament. Shearer did not score in England's opening 3–2 defeat", "id": "13592544" }, { "contents": "Southampton F.C.\n\n\nwas Alan Shearer, who at the age of 17 scored a hat-trick against Arsenal in a league match in April 1988. Shearer was a first team regular by 1990, and stayed with Southampton until July 1992, when he was sold to Blackburn Rovers for a national record of more than £3 million. He then became the most expensive footballer in the world when Blackburn sold him to Newcastle for £15 million in 1996. He also scored 30 times for England internationally. Southampton were founding members of the Premier League", "id": "3265953" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\ntime to play in England's UEFA European Championship campaign. After Euro 96, Manchester United again sought to sign Shearer, and attempted to enter the battle for his signature. However Manchester United chairman Martin Edwards stated that Blackburn Rovers refused to let Shearer go to Old Trafford. Ultimately Shearer joined his boyhood club: Newcastle United, Manchester United's title rivals. On 30 July 1996, for a world transfer record-breaking £15 million (equivalent to £ million today) Shearer joined his hometown club and league runners-up", "id": "13592519" }, { "contents": "History of the England national football team\n\n\nyear after his last game at club level. Hoddle selected Alan Shearer as captain, replacing Tony Adams, but also brought a number of emerging talents into the squad, including the Manchester United midfield trio of Paul Scholes, Nicky Butt and David Beckham, and central defenders Rio Ferdinand and Sol Campbell. Hoddle oversaw England's qualification for the 1998 World Cup (the first World Cup with 32 teams instead of 24) with a 0–0 draw against Italy at the Stadio Olimpico in Rome, and drew out a winning performance in the", "id": "15089406" }, { "contents": "History of the England national football team\n\n\nthe underwhelming performance at the World Cup, England suffered a poor start to the Euro 2000 qualifying tournament, and there was reported discontent between Hoddle and several senior players, most notably Shearer. Hoddle was dismissed on 2 February 1999, two days after an interview with \"The Sunday Times\" in which he spoke about his belief in reincarnation and claimed that disabled people were paying for sins in a previous life. Under considerable media and public pressure, the FA appointed former captain Kevin Keegan, who only just managed to get England", "id": "15089410" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nagainst Poland. He scored a total of five goals in England's successful qualification campaign for the World Cup, adding strikes against Georgia and away to Poland to his tally. Shearer was sidelined for much of the 1997–98 season, but recovered to play in the World Cup finals. With Michael Owen replacing Teddy Sheringham as Shearer's strike partner, Shearer's return saw him score England's first goal of the tournament, in a 2–0 win over Tunisia, his only goal in the three group matches. England faced long-time", "id": "13592542" }, { "contents": "Newcastle United F.C.\n\n\n. The attacking philosophy of Keegan led to the team being labelled \"The Entertainers\" by Sky Sports. Keegan took Newcastle to two consecutive runners-up finishes in the league in 1995–96 and 1996–97, coming very close to winning the title in the former season. This success was in part due to the talent of players like David Ginola, Les Ferdinand and Alan Shearer, who was signed on 30 July 1996 for a then world record fee of £15 million. Keegan left Newcastle in January 1997 and was replaced by Kenny", "id": "12636363" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nAlan Shearer, CBE, DL (born 13 August 1970) is an English retired footballer. He played as a striker in the top level of English league football for Southampton, Blackburn Rovers, Newcastle United and the England national team. He is Newcastle's and the Premier League's record goalscorer. He was named Football Writers' Association Player of the Year in 1994 and won the PFA Player of the Year award in 1995. In 1996, he was third in the FIFA World Player of the Year awards. In 2004", "id": "13592501" }, { "contents": "Teddy Sheringham\n\n\nmanager Terry Venables (1994–96) Sheringham came to be the preferred strike partner for Alan Shearer. During this time, England had a wealth of strikers with the likes of Andrew Cole, Ian Wright, a young Robbie Fowler and Les Ferdinand all battling to partner Shearer in the England team. The two formed a famous partnership at international level, as they complemented each other's strengths: Shearer the out-and-out goalscorer, big, strong and powerful, Sheringham just 'dropping off' his strike partner, finding spaces", "id": "2997066" }, { "contents": "History of Newcastle United F.C.\n\n\n's title chances for the 1994–95 season, in which they finished sixth. The club, however, continued to build up a reputation for playing attacking football under Keegan. In the 1995–96 season, high-profile foreign stars David Ginola and Faustino Asprilla, in addition to British players Peter Beardsley and striker Les Ferdinand, guided the team to a second-place finish. During the 1996–97 season, Keegan made one signing, securing the services of England striker Alan Shearer for a then-world record transfer fee of £15 million", "id": "6803863" }, { "contents": "1996–97 Newcastle United F.C. season\n\n\n...I think Kevin wanted it free-flowing in all departments and that doesn't necessarily happen.\" Keegan responded to the previous season's disappointment by breaking the world record transfer fee to sign centre forward Alan Shearer from Blackburn Rovers for £15 million. Shearer, whose five goals made him the top scorer in Euro 96, had supported Newcastle since childhood – he had been a ball-boy at St James' Park on the day that Keegan had left in a helicopter after his final Newcastle appearance as a player.", "id": "1207050" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nin the games.\" Shearer captained his school team and helped a Newcastle City Schools team win a seven-a-side tournament at St James' Park, before joining the amateur Wallsend Boys Club as a teenager. It was while playing for the Wallsend club that he was spotted by Southampton's scout, Jack Hixon, which resulted in Shearer spending his summers training with the club's youth team, a time he would later refer to as \"the making of me\". Shearer had successful trials for First Division clubs", "id": "13592505" }, { "contents": "Duncan Shearer\n\n\nFavourites\" during the club's centenary in 2008. However, he was unable to prevent Huddersfield's relegation to the Third Division at the end of the 1987–88 season. Weeks before this, the unrelated English striker Alan Shearer (aged 17) had scored a hat-trick in the First Division for Southampton against Arsenal, a game which Arsenal captain Tony Adams missed through injury. In his autobiography 11 years later, Adams said that he had followed the progress of the game on Ceefax and mistakingly believed that the Shearer who scored", "id": "3716405" }, { "contents": "David Hirst (footballer)\n\n\nHe came on at half-time and within three minutes of the restart he scored his first (and only) England goal. With Gary Lineker injured, he lined up with Alan Shearer against France at Wembley. Bryan Robson said that, \"It's not a question of who will replace Lineker, but who will partner David Hirst\". It became Hirst's third and final England match. Although he was selected for more England squads, injuries kept him out of the team. Manchester United boss Alex Ferguson tried six", "id": "18892949" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nthrough to May due to injury and England's World Cup qualification chances were hit by a run of poor form. Returning to fitness for the 1993–94 season, he scored 31 goals from 40 games as Blackburn finished runners-up in the Premier League. His performances for the club led to him being named the Football Writers' Association Footballer of the Year for that season. On the international scene, England had failed to qualify for the 1994 World Cup finals, but Shearer added three more goals to his international tally before embarking", "id": "13592514" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nfive points out of a possible twenty-four. Shearer did not get the manager's job on permanent basis. Chris Hughton stepped up from the coaching staff to take charge of the quest to get Newcastle back into the Premier League, which was achieved at the first attempt as Newcastle finished top of the Championship in the 2009–10 season. Shearer is married to Lainya, whom he met whilst a Southampton player. The couple lived locally with her parents during Shearer's second year at the south coast club, and were married on", "id": "13592557" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nagainst Portugal, but did so as England defeated Germany 1–0 in Charleroi, ensuring that England beat their European neighbours for the first time since the 1966 World Cup Final. To remain in the tournament, England only required a draw against Romania in the final group match, and Shearer scored a penalty as England went in at half-time 2–1 up, but Romania ultimately won 3–2. England's tournament was over, and so was Shearer's international career. From his 63 caps, he captained the team 34 times and scored", "id": "13592545" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nrecord return which is still unbeaten. The striker's goals at this level, coupled with his club form, meant he was soon promoted to the senior squad by coach Graham Taylor. Marking his debut in the 2–0 win against France in February 1992 with a goal, he made his only appearance for the England B team a month later. Due to replace Gary Lineker, who retired from international action after UEFA Euro 1992, in the England attack, Shearer played only intermittently in the qualifying campaign for the 1994 FIFA World Cup", "id": "13592538" }, { "contents": "1993 Trans-Tasman Test series\n\n\n's Canberra Raiders team mate and New South Wales captain Laurie Daley. The test series took place following the 1993 State of Origin series which was won by NSW. Dale Shearer's performances at fullback for Qld saw him earn a test recall in front of well performed World Cup and NSW fullback Tim Brasher (though Shearer had been selected at centre for all 3 Ashes series tests in 1992 but withdrew from all 3 with injury). Bradley Clyde, who had not played in the Origin series due to injury was also recalled to", "id": "16616631" }, { "contents": "Glenn Hoddle\n\n\nRedknapp resigned, following which Hoddle also left the club. In June 2016, after England's 2–1 loss to Iceland at Euro 2016 and manager Roy Hodgson's subsequent resignation, Harry Redknapp and Alan Shearer both put forward Hoddle as a candidate for the job before Sam Allardyce was appointed. Hoddle has done punditry work since his retirement from coaching. He has worked for ESPN, ITV Sport and BT Sport. Hoddle began working with ESPN during Euro 2012 as a pundit. Since then, he has worked with ITV for the 2014", "id": "8847620" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nhim onto the pitch following the striker's testimonial in May 2006 as he performed a lap of honour at St James' Park. On 6 December 2000, Shearer was given Honorary Freedom of the City of Newcastle upon Tyne, with the citation \"in recognition of his role as captain of Newcastle United Football Club and as former captain of England which have enhanced the reputation of the City\". Shearer was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2001 Queen's Birthday Honours and Commander of the", "id": "13592559" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nhis four years in the Southampton first team, Shearer made a total of 158 appearances in all competitions, scoring 43 goals. Despite making just one goalless appearance as England failed to progress past the Euro 1992 group stages, Shearer was soon subject to an English transfer record-breaking £3.6 million bid from Blackburn Rovers. Although there was also interest from Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson, Blackburn benefactor Jack Walker's millions were enough to prise the striker from the \"Saints\", and Shearer moved north to Ewood Park in the", "id": "13592512" }, { "contents": "Andy Cole\n\n\nof the season to help United win the Premier League title for the third time in four years. He also played in their FA Cup final victory to become part of England's first ever side to win the double twice. Before the 1996–97 season began, Cole had to deal with being offered to Blackburn Rovers as part-exchange in a £12 million deal that would have brought Alan Shearer to Old Trafford, but the offer was rejected and Shearer joined Newcastle instead. Despite Alex Ferguson's clear indication to Cole that he", "id": "9629547" }, { "contents": "Shearer's Bar\n\n\nShearer's Bar is the former name of a sports bar owned by Newcastle United and forming part of St James' Park, the team's stadium in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. It was named in honour of the club's all-time top scorer, Alan Shearer. The bar was renamed Nine in July 2013 by the club, who said that popularity of the venue had \"dwindled\". The bar was opened in December 2004 and became an important part of the features at St James' Park. It is", "id": "15298144" }, { "contents": "Kevin Keegan\n\n\nrelationship between the pair. In April 2003, it was named as Quote of the Decade in the Premier League 10 Seasons Awards and Most Memorable Quote in the 20 Seasons Awards in May 2012. It also appeared in Channel 4's \"100 Greatest Sporting Moments\". Keegan then broke the world transfer fee record by signing Blackburn Rovers and England striker Alan Shearer in July 1996. Shearer, who had been the Premier League's top scorer in the last two seasons, was born in Newcastle and had grown up as a fan", "id": "826455" }, { "contents": "England national football team\n\n\nBetween 1994 and 1996, Terry Venables managed the team. At UEFA Euro 1996, held in England, they equalled their best performance at a European Championship, reaching the semi-finals as they did in 1968, before exiting via a penalty shoot-out loss to Germany. England striker Alan Shearer was the tournament's top scorer with five goals. Venables resigned following investigations into his financial activities. Venables' successor, Glenn Hoddle, similarly left the job for non-footballing reasons after just one international tournament – the 1998", "id": "9748695" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nmiddle of 1992. His first season with Blackburn was mixed – he missed half of it through injury after snapping his right anterior cruciate ligament in a match against Leeds United in December 1992, but scored a prolific 16 goals in the 21 games in which he did feature. Shearer also became a regular in the England team this season and scored his second international goal; it came in a 4–0 1994 FIFA World Cup qualifier win over Turkey in November. The season ended sourly, however, as Shearer was forced to miss January", "id": "13592513" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nover from head coach Chris Hughton who was in temporary charge while the permanent manager Joe Kinnear recovered from heart surgery, having taken ill on 7 February. Shearer stated \"It's a club I love and I don't want them to go down. I'll do everything I can to stop that.\" Shearer was unveiled at a press conference the following day by club managing director Derek Llambias. In explaining his acceptance of a managerial role at Newcastle at this time, Shearer stated that he would not have done this for", "id": "13592552" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nwas being run in the wake of the departure of Kevin Keegan. These reports were denied by the club. Shearer features in EA Sports' \"FIFA\" video game series; he was included in the \"FIFA 15\" Ultimate Team Legends. During his playing days, Shearer had been involved with the children's charity the NSPCC, taking part in the organisation's Full Stop campaign in 1999. Since retiring from football Shearer has also done work for several charities both nationally and in the Newcastle area. In his testimonial match", "id": "13592565" }, { "contents": "2005–06 Newcastle United F.C. season\n\n\n. The fee, £17 million, surpassed Newcastle's previous record of £15 million for Alan Shearer from Blackburn in 1996. In the closing hours of the transfer window, the club re-signed Nolberto Solano from Aston Villa. Souness's decision to pair Shearer and Owen together up front proved to be lethal, but Owen broke his fourth metatarsal bone in his foot after a clash with Paul Robinson in a match against Tottenham Hotspur, keeping him out for the rest of the season. With Owen injured the team's", "id": "18086094" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\ndue to injury and the team failed to reach the competition finals. UEFA Euro 1996 was a more positive experience for both Shearer and England. With England not required to qualify as hosts, Shearer had not scored in 12 games in the 21 months prior, and even his overall goalscoring record for England did not look too impressive so far, with five goals in 23 games. However, he found the net in the 22nd minute of the first game, against Switzerland. Scoring once in the following game against Scotland and twice", "id": "13592539" }, { "contents": "Teddy Sheringham\n\n\nthe 2000 European Championships by then manager Kevin Keegan, but the retirement of Shearer (despite being four years younger than Sheringham) from international football after that tournament and the arrival of new manager Sven-Göran Eriksson in 2001 saw a return to international favour for him. He was often deployed as a tactical substitute late in games by Eriksson, valued for his ability to hold the ball up and create intelligent play. In 2001, Sheringham scored an important goal for England against Greece in a World Cup qualifying match within 15 seconds", "id": "2997070" }, { "contents": "Ruud Gullit\n\n\n, chairman Ken Bates famously said of Gullit, \"I didn't like his arrogance – in fact I never liked him.\" In August 1998, Gullit was named manager of Newcastle United two games into the new league season and reached the 1999 FA Cup Final in his first year. Fans remained supportive despite a poor run of results, although a well-publicised contretemps with the team's top scorer Alan Shearer and captain Robert Lee did not put him in a favourable light. Gullit even refused to assign Lee a squad", "id": "13592616" }, { "contents": "Scott Parker\n\n\ndefeat on 25 March 2006. Later that month he was diagnosed with glandular fever, putting an end to his season. The timing was especially unfortunate for Parker, who had been playing well for Newcastle, as it ended any hopes he may have had of forcing his way into the 2006 FIFA World Cup. In July 2006, he was named Newcastle United's new captain by manager Glenn Roeder, succeeding the retired Alan Shearer. His first goal as captain came against Wigan Athletic on 19 August 2006, in a 2–1 win", "id": "14327157" }, { "contents": "History of football in England\n\n\n. United's main challengers for the title in the Premier League's first few years were Blackburn Rovers, led by star striker Alan Shearer, also won their first league title since World War I in 1994–95, and Newcastle United, who famously conceded a 10-point lead at Christmas to lose the title to United in 1995–96. Newcastle had reached the Premiership in 1993 as Division One champions, and in their first Premiership campaign finished third to qualify for the UEFA Cup. They finished second in 1996 and again in 1997, but by", "id": "3652862" }, { "contents": "1992–93 FA Premier League\n\n\nPremier League as an attempt by the Football Association to \"hijack\" the First Division. Shortly before the season began, newly promoted Blackburn Rovers signed Southampton's 21-year-old England international striker Alan Shearer for a new British record fee variously reported as £3.3 million, £3.4 million, or £3.6 million. Several other players moved for fees of £2 million or more, including Arsenal's David Rocastle, who joined Leeds United, Dean Saunders, who moved from Liverpool to Aston Villa, and Teddy Sheringham, who", "id": "12442383" }, { "contents": "Darren Anderton\n\n\nhappy at the prospect of losing another key player as he had already lost Jürgen Klinsmann and Gheorghe Popescu that summer; and Nick Barmby was on the verge of joining Middlesbrough. Despite missing most of the 1995–96 season through injury, Anderton played an important part in the Euro 96 England team that reached the semi-finals and included players like Paul Gascoigne, Alan Shearer, Steve McManaman and Teddy Sheringham. In the semi final against Germany, the match went to golden goal extra time. Anderton came within inches of putting England into", "id": "4331581" }, { "contents": "Wallsend Boys Club\n\n\nJanuary which damaged one of the walls of the building. Professional players to have played for the club include: The club has had a representative at four of the six FIFA World Cup finals since 1986, with the two exceptions coming in 1994, when the England national football team did not qualify, and 2002. In 1986 and 1990 Peter Beardsley starred for England. In 1998 Alan Shearer was England captain. Michael Carrick made appearances for England in both the 2006 and 2010 tournaments. Fraser Forster was in the 2014 squad but", "id": "21182372" }, { "contents": "Harry Kane\n\n\n\". Clive Allen, who coached him at Tottenham, stated that \"one thing I'd say about him, which unfortunately you don't say about a lot of young footballers, is that he had a passion for the game. He loves football, he loves playing, he loves scoring goals\". His former Tottenham under-21 coach Les Ferdinand likened Kane's movement to their former forward Teddy Sheringham, and the power and accuracy of his shots to Alan Shearer. Kane's style of play has been compared to that of", "id": "1925319" }, { "contents": "Kieron Dyer\n\n\nthat he would soon rejoin for Ipswich. After representing England at Youth, Under 21 and \"B\" level, Dyer's debut for the senior team came on 4 September 1999 when he started in England's 6–0 win against Luxembourg. He was deployed out of position at right back, and was replaced by Gary Neville at half-time after injuring himself while setting up Alan Shearer's third goal of the match. The injury was not serious and he was able to make his second England appearance four days later, coming", "id": "17666181" }, { "contents": "1996–97 Blackburn Rovers F.C. season\n\n\nthe end of the season, when he handed over the reins to Roy Hodgson after Sampdoria's Sven-Göran Eriksson lied about accepting the manager's job and joined Lazio instead. Parkes steered Blackburn to safety as they finished 13th. The world record £15 million sale of striker Alan Shearer to Newcastle United was seen as the biggest factor in Blackburn's lowest top flight finish since they returned to the elite in 1992. However, his strike-partner Chris Sutton helped keep the club alive after recovering from a drastic loss of", "id": "7811146" }, { "contents": "Michael Owen\n\n\nmuch of the campaign as England struggled, with Hoddle being replaced by Kevin Keegan. On 4 September 1999, he scored his first goal at Wembley Stadium in a 6–0 win over Luxembourg. At the finals, Owen scored once in three matches, as England were knocked out at the group stage. After Alan Shearer's retirement, Owen took over as England's senior striker under new manager Sven-Göran Eriksson. He scored six times during 2002 World Cup qualifying, including a hat-trick against Germany at Munich's Olympiastadion", "id": "21886807" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nyet to start the UEFA Pro Licence course, which is required to be permitted to manage a team in the Premier League and European competition. Reflecting his desire for personal time off to \"enjoy life\", in July 2006 he turned down a coaching role with England, citing his BBC commitments and desire to be away from the pressure of a job within football. Despite this, Shearer was often linked in the media with managerial or coaching positions at his three former clubs. Shearer took a brief role in the dugout for", "id": "13592550" }, { "contents": "History of Southampton F.C.\n\n\nappearances for the England national team – he finally retired in 2002 at the age of 33. During his time with the Saints, Le Tissier was approached more than once by several bigger clubs (including Manchester United) but chose to stick with the Saints despite never winning a major trophy or experiencing European football with them. From 1989 to 1992, Le Tissier was regularly partnered up front by another notable player, Alan Shearer, who as a 17-year-old had scored a hat-trick on his Saints debut against Arsenal in", "id": "15948278" }, { "contents": "Sir Bobby Robson Trophy match\n\n\nNewcastle United, picking up on Alan Shearer's reply of \"I know as much as you do,\" to a pre-match question as to whether he would be installed as Newcastle manager for the forthcoming season beginning in 13 days, with the club being up for sale and with the first team without a manager, being in the care of coach Chris Hughton. Neither the Newcastle United owner Mike Ashley or managing director Derek Llambias were in attendance at the charity match. Having left England after Italia '90, Sir", "id": "19612022" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nChancellor Liam Donaldson stated \"Newcastle United are my team. Alan Shearer is more than just a local legend, he's probably one of the greatest footballers of all time\". On 12 September 2016, a statue of Shearer's likeness was unveiled outside St James' Park. It was sculpted by Tom Maley, and paid for by the Shepherd family. After his retirement and following guest appearances, Shearer became a regular pundit for the BBC's \"Match of the Day\". He also formed part of the team which", "id": "13592563" }, { "contents": "Gary McAllister\n\n\ntournament, scoring in a 3–0 win over the CIS. However, Scotland did not qualify from their group. Scotland failed to qualify for the 1994 FIFA World Cup but did qualify for UEFA Euro 1996 in England, with McAllister the captain of the team. Scotland's second match of the group stage was against England at Wembley Stadium. In the second half Scotland, trailing 0–1 to an Alan Shearer goal, were awarded a penalty. McAllister's kick was saved by David Seaman and Scotland lost 0–2. The team won their", "id": "19492391" }, { "contents": "David Seaman\n\n\nEngland's quarter-final against Spain ended scoreless, Seaman saved Miguel Angel Nadal's kick in the shootout to knock Spain out of the tournament. England eventually were eliminated in the semi-final by Germany on penalties,after Andreas Köpke saved the penalty taken by Gareth Southgate. Seaman was named alongside Golden Boot winner Alan Shearer and winger Steve McManaman in the UEFA \"Team of the Tournament\". Euro 96 sponsor Philips named him \"Player of the Tournament\". Seaman remained first choice under the management of Glenn Hoddle for", "id": "7321893" }, { "contents": "1998 FA Cup Final\n\n\nand so has the mixture between the foreign and English players.\" Wenger reserved praise for the goalscorers Overmars (\"a world-class player\") and Anelka (\"Nicolas is very young. But you saw in the second half today what he can do\"), and felt the turning point in the match was Shearer's shot hitting the post. He sympathised with Newcastle, as did his captain, Adams who said afterwards: \"The team and their fans did everything they could out there, but it was", "id": "10844688" }, { "contents": "David McMahon (association footballer)\n\n\nabout the role of striker from watching England international Alan Shearer in training, but likened himself more to Newcastle's Scotland international Duncan Ferguson, \"because I am taller and like to battle for things in the air.\" Brian Kerr, then manager of Ireland under-17s, described McMahon as honest and hard-working, \"not the most skilful player, but will get goals\", but Darlington manager Gary Bennett believed there was more to his game: that he and strike partner John Williams both had enough skill to play a", "id": "5423888" }, { "contents": "Andy Carroll\n\n\nUEFA Euro 2012. He opened the scoring for England with a powerful header in their second group match against Sweden, which England went on to win 3–2. Carroll has been compared to Newcastle's record goalscorer Alan Shearer, Ivory Coast striker Didier Drogba and former Italy forward Christian Vieri. He has also been referred to as a classic centre forward, owing to his strength, powerful shot and excellent heading ability. Former Newcastle manager and Liverpool player Kevin Keegan stated \"he is probably in the top three headers of a ball I", "id": "11961542" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\n-chasing Manchester United. On the opening day of the 1999–2000 season, Shearer received the first red card of his career in his 100th appearance for Newcastle. After dropping Shearer to the bench in a Tyne-Wear derby loss against Sunderland, the unpopular Gullit resigned to be replaced by the 66-year-old Bobby Robson. Despite Gullit giving Shearer the captain's armband, reports of a rift between club captain and manager were rife, Gullit's decision to drop Shearer proved deeply unpopular with fans and his departure capped a dismal start", "id": "13592525" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nAn almost injury-free season helped Shearer improve on his previous year's tally in the 1998–99 season, the striker converting 14 goals in 30 league games and replacing Rob Lee as Newcastle captain, but Newcastle finished 13th again, with Ruud Gullit having replaced Kenny Dalglish just after the season got underway. He also helped Newcastle to a second consecutive FA Cup final and qualification for the following season's UEFA Cup, scoring twice in the semi-final against Tottenham Hotspur, but they once again lost, this time 2–0 to treble", "id": "13592524" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nhis final three games under Glenn Roeder. Shearer had rejected offers of coaching or assistant roles at Newcastle under both the returning Kevin Keegan in February 2008 and Joe Kinnear in November 2008. Shearer had previously had talks about, but never been offered, a full-time manager's role at Newcastle until his appointment on 1 April 2009. In a surprise move, late on 1 April 2009, it was announced that Shearer would become the manager of his former club Newcastle United for the remaining eight games of the season, taking", "id": "13592551" }, { "contents": "Fabio Cannavaro\n\n\nnational team on 22 January 1997, in a friendly match against Northern Ireland. The same year, he earned plaudits for his handling of England striker Alan Shearer in a World Cup qualifying game at Wembley Stadium. Shearer was then considered by the partisan English crowd to be the best striker in the world, and thought he would make fun of the inexperienced Italian defender. Nevertheless, in a display ranking alongside those of the very best Italian defenders Claudio Gentile and Franco Baresi, Cannavaro managed to keep Shearer quiet for the whole game", "id": "3625067" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\n, with media sources claiming that video footage showed him intentionally kicking Neil Lennon in the head following a challenge. The referee of the game took no action against Shearer, and he was then cleared of all charges by the FA, with Lennon giving evidence in the player's defence. Former Football Association chief Graham Kelly, who brought the charges against the player, later claimed in his autobiography that Shearer had threatened to withdraw himself from the 1998 World Cup squad if the charges were upheld, a claim strenuously denied by Shearer.", "id": "13592523" }, { "contents": "History of the Romania national football team\n\n\nminnows Tunisia. Adrian Ilie scored the only goal with a fine chip in their first match against Colombia at Lyon's Stade Gerland. In Toulouse, they met an England side starting with prodigal striker Michael Owen on the bench, with Teddy Sheringham preferred alongside Alan Shearer. A mistake by Tony Adams was punished by Viorel Moldovan, who played for Coventry City, before Owen came on to claim an equalizer. But Romania won with a scrappy late goal from Dan Petrescu, also playing in England with Chelsea, fighting off his club", "id": "16435718" }, { "contents": "John Barnes (footballer)\n\n\nNewcastle United, although an approach had already been made by Harry Redknapp of West Ham; Barnes had agreed in principle to join them until at the final moment Dalglish called him and Barnes changed his mind. In the 1997–98 season Barnes played up front mostly, deputising for Alan Shearer after Shearer was injured for most of the season, and Barnes ended up Newcastle's top league scorer with six goals, which highlighted the Magpies' lack of ability to score in the absence of Shearer and Ferdinand (who had been sold along with", "id": "19616669" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\ncould not find a more iconic person than Alan, not just for what he has done in football but for all the extra work he tirelessly does for charity and communities. I am delighted he has accepted the role of Deputy Lieutenant because he is a real role model. I have promised him he is not going to have to do too much, but even if it is just one occasion a year he is the perfect choice\" On 7 December 2009, Shearer was made a Doctor of Civil Law by Newcastle University.", "id": "13592562" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nLaw of Northumbria and Newcastle Universities. Shearer was born in Gosforth, Newcastle, in 1970 to working-class parents Alan and Anne Shearer. His father, a sheet-metal worker, encouraged a keen Shearer to play football in his youth, and the young player continued with the sport as he progressed through school. He was educated at Gosforth Central Middle School and Gosforth High School. Growing up playing on the streets of his hometown, he originally played in midfield because \"it meant [he] could get more involved", "id": "13592504" }, { "contents": "Paul Kitson\n\n\n. Newcastle finished second that season after being overhauled in the second half campaign by a Manchester United side who sealed the title by a five-point margin barely four months after Newcastle had led by 10 points, but Kitson's part in Newcastle's exciting though ultimately disappointing campaign had been minimal as he had played just seven league games and scored twice. But he remained loyal to the Magpies even after another blow at the end of July 1996 – the arrival of £15 million world record signing Alan Shearer. He managed three", "id": "19054464" }, { "contents": "Ray Harford\n\n\nthe Premier League for much of the season. During the summer of 1996, Alan Shearer was sold to Newcastle United for a then world record fee of £15 million, and Harford failed to adequately replace him. Harford stated that \"I'm told we need a big name. Engelbert Humperdinck is a big name but it doesn't mean he can play football.\" The 1996–97 season also started badly for Blackburn. They failed to win any of their first ten games and were knocked out of the League Cup by Division", "id": "5365351" }, { "contents": "Patrick Kluivert\n\n\nagain featured for Barca in a legends game against Uganda all stars where he, in lobbing the ball, scored an amazing goal. Kluivert joined Newcastle United on a free transfer in July 2004. He stated that his reasons for joining Newcastle was due to the overwhelming reaction he received whilst playing for Barcelona against Newcastle during a pre season friendly as well as teaming up with Newcastle's star players such as Alan Shearer. Kluivert scored some classy and crucial goals at and away from St James's Park namely in winning strikes against both", "id": "21654890" }, { "contents": "Duncan Shearer\n\n\nbetween 1994 and 1995, scoring two goals including an important opening strike in an away win over Finland which helped the national side qualify for Euro 96, although Shearer did not make the squad for that tournament. The senior team was his first experience of international football, having never played at any age-group level. He achieved a childhood ambition when he played in the national team alongside John McGinlay, a childhood friend also from Fort William. In season 1999–00 he began to concentrate more on coaching than playing, and was", "id": "3716411" }, { "contents": "Les Ferdinand\n\n\nscored 50 goals in only 84 games at Newcastle, forming a successful partnership with Alan Shearer. He was and indeed is still very highly thought of by Newcastle United. Ferdinand received a standing ovation when he returned to St. James' Park as a Tottenham player, trying to put Alan Shearer's number 9 shirt on to complete a lap of honour, he broke down in tears and could only manage to put the shirt on inside out and back to front before being helped from the field. Ferdinand returned again, when he", "id": "2996528" }, { "contents": "David Platt (footballer)\n\n\nTurkey, San Marino, the Netherlands and Norway. The qualifiers began at home to Norway. England dominated the game and Platt carried the goal threat, with Alan Shearer and Ian Wright struggling to find form. He scored the opening goal after an hour. England dominated the remainder of the game and were unlucky to concede to a long-range shot from Kjetil Rekdal. Platt continued his drive from midfield in wins over Turkey at home (4-0) and San Marino (6-0). Platt scored four", "id": "16718350" }, { "contents": "Jason Wilcox\n\n\n-pound investments of Jack Walker. He played an important part in the title-winning Blackburn team of 1995. Playing on the left flank with attacking fullback Graeme Le Saux behind him and Stuart Ripley on the opposite flank, they forged a strong attacking line-up with Alan Shearer and Chris Sutton. International recognition was harder to come by for Wilcox and he managed only 3 international caps despite his effective partnership with Shearer, Le Saux and Tim Sherwood. Lengthy injury problems restricted his effectiveness in subsequent seasons and, after experiencing", "id": "14527253" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nclub's form, and Newcastle finished just 13th in the Premier League. However, United (now managed by Shearer's old boss at Blackburn, Kenny Dalglish) had a good run in the FA Cup; Shearer scored the winning goal in a semi-final victory over Sheffield United as the team reached the final. The team were unable to get on the scoresheet at Wembley, and lost the game 2–0 to Arsenal. An incident during a game against Leicester City in the league saw Shearer charged with misconduct by the FA", "id": "13592522" }, { "contents": "Aleksandar Mitrović (footballer)\n\n\nhim the competition's top scorer, and 28 in all competitions. On 22 March 2015, he scored the team's only goal in the 2–1 Belgian Cup Final loss to Club Brugge KV in Brussels. On 21 July 2015, Mitrović joined Newcastle United on a five-year contract for a reported £13 million, saying he hoped to be able to play like club legend Alan Shearer. He made his debut on 9 August as Newcastle began the season with a 2–2 draw against Southampton at St James' Park, playing", "id": "20923735" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nWest Bromwich Albion, Manchester City and Newcastle United, before being offered a youth contract with Southampton in April 1986. Shearer was promoted to the first team after spending two years with the youth squad. He made his professional debut for Southampton on 26 March 1988, coming on as a substitute in a First Division fixture at Chelsea, before prompting national headlines in his full debut at The Dell two weeks later. He scored a hat-trick, helping the team to a 4–2 victory against Arsenal, thus becoming the youngest player", "id": "13592506" }, { "contents": "James Milner\n\n\ndo what was \"in the club's best interest\" and in July 2004, he agreed a five-year contract with Newcastle. Milner made his first appearance for Newcastle United during their pre-season tour of Asia, scoring his first goal for the club in a 1–1 draw against Kitchee, in Hong Kong. During this tour, he took the opportunity to observe how Newcastle striker Alan Shearer dealt with attention from fans and the media. He said that his association with people like Shearer gave him a better idea of", "id": "1860603" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nretain the ball and provide opportunities for teammates. Playing as a lone striker between wide men, Rod Wallace and Matt Le Tissier, Shearer scored three goals in 26 appearances in the 1989–90 season, and in the next, four goals in 36 games. His performances in the centre of the \"Saints\" attack were soon recognised by the fans, who voted him their Player of the Year for 1991. In the middle of 1991, Shearer was a member of the England national under-21 football squad in the Toulon Tournament in Toulon", "id": "13592508" }, { "contents": "Teddy Sheringham\n\n\n, creating play and providing key passes, forming the link between Shearer and the England midfield. The pairing came to be known as 'The SAS' ('Shearer and Sheringham') and their most successful time together came in the 1996 European Championships, held in England. Their most famous contribution was in the 4–1 victory over the Netherlands, a game in the opening group stages in which they both scored twice against one of the strongest teams in the tournament. Though England were eventually knocked out in the semi-finals", "id": "2997067" }, { "contents": "History of the England national football team\n\n\ninto Euro 2000 after a 2–1 aggregate playoff win over Scotland. At the finals in Belgium and the Netherlands, a lacklustre England failed to get beyond the group stage, losing to both Portugal and Romania after leading in each game. After England's exit, Alan Shearer retired from international football, he had announced his intentions before the tournament, and no-one could persuade him to change his mind. On 7 October 2000, shortly after losing the opening World Cup qualifier to Germany in the last-ever game at Wembley", "id": "15089411" }, { "contents": "Premier League 10 Seasons Awards\n\n\nrepresented, with five players. The teams were as follows: English striker Alan Shearer was named Domestic Player of the Decade in the main 10 Seasons awards announcements, in addition to being given the Outstanding Contribution to the FA Premier League award. Two weeks later he was also named as the Overall Player of the Decade. In the first decade, Shearer played for Blackburn Rovers, and then Newcastle United. Shearer has been described as a classic English centre-forward with great shooting power, a single-minded striker who could", "id": "11856460" }, { "contents": "Wartime League\n\n\narguments debate that a player who exceeds one's record through their wartime matches should nonetheless be seen as the club's highest goal scorer or appearance having been part of the team's squad even if only for a short time. The most recent argument relates to the goal-difference between Jackie Milburn's and Alan Shearer's Newcastle United goal-scoring records. When counting Jackie's wartime matches, he scored a total of 238 professional goals for Newcastle United FC. In May 2005, Alan Shearer finished his career at 206 goals", "id": "17626256" }, { "contents": "Jon Dahl Tomasson\n\n\nas the perfect link-up player to England national team striker Alan Shearer. The partnership initially worked well, with Tomasson impressing during a pre-season friendly tournament in the Republic of Ireland. However, a career threatening injury to Shearer, combined with the controversial transfer of popular striker Les Ferdinand to Tottenham Hotspur, meant that Tomasson was moved from his traditional attacking midfield position to that of striker. He struggled to adapt to his new position on the field, and to the English game, due to his lack of physical", "id": "19324628" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\ncovered the World Cups and European Championships from 2006 onwards for the BBC. Former Newcastle chairman Freddy Shepherd announced that, after Shearer finished the 2005–06 season as Newcastle's caretaker assistant manager, he would become the club's \"Sporting Ambassador\" for the 2006–07 season. However, in September 2008, it was reported that Shearer was removed from this largely honorary position by the club's owner Mike Ashley, despite protests from players such as Steven Taylor and Damien Duff, due to Shearer's criticism of the way in which the club", "id": "13592564" }, { "contents": "1998 FA Cup Final\n\n\nthe final that Bergkamp had resumed training and \"medically he looked all right\", but the player received a further setback when he suffered a reaction to his hamstring. He ruled himself out of the match and told reporters: \"I'm very disappointed. As a little boy in Holland I always watched the FA Cup final. And I used to dream about playing in it myself one day.\" Ian Wright was listed as Bergkamp's probable replacement to partner Anelka. Newcastle had their own issues surrounding Shearer. The England", "id": "10844676" }, { "contents": "2008–09 in English football\n\n\n's surprise resignation in December; whilst their final points tally wasn't spectacular, they had the satisfaction of being the top North-East team in football after both Middlesbrough and Newcastle United were relegated, ending 11 and 16 year spells in the top flight respectively, the latter going through four managers in Kevin Keegan, Joe Kinnear, Chris Hughton and even former striker Alan Shearer during the campaign. Despite a brilliant start to the season which saw them as high as third place in October, Hull City won just 1 of their", "id": "1311754" }, { "contents": "1996 FA Charity Shield\n\n\nfrom Eric Cantona, Nicky Butt, David Beckham and Roy Keane. The game saw new signings Jordi Cruyff and Karel Poborský make their debuts for Manchester United, though neither of these players had particularly successful careers at Old Trafford and both had left the club within four years. The day before the game had seen the surprise sale of one of Manchester United's longest serving players — Lee Sharpe. The game saw Newcastle United give a debut to £15 million world record signing Alan Shearer, who would remain at the club until", "id": "2797098" }, { "contents": "UEFA Euro 2016 knockout phase\n\n\nsection begin=g6 /section end=g6 / section begin=g7 /section end=g7 / The match has been described as one of England's worst defeats ever. Former footballer and Talksport presenter Stan Collymore, who was commentating on the game, panned the England team, reserving special criticism for goalkeeper Joe Hart and captain Wayne Rooney. Former England international and BBC Sport pundit Alan Shearer described it as the worst performance he had ever seen from an England team. The defeat was called England's most shocking since losing 1–0 to", "id": "11344909" }, { "contents": "Maurice E. Shearer\n\n\nApplication at Annapolis, Maryland, with classmates Holland Smith, Ralph S. Keyser and Andrew B. Drum. In July, Shearer sailed for duty to be the commander of the 35 man Marine detachment on Midway Island. In May 1908, he was selected for promotion to first lieutenant and to the rank of captain in June 1916. During World War I, forces under Major Shearer's command made an attack on Belleau Wood, finally clearing that forest of Germans. On 26 June 1918, he sent a now famous report: \"", "id": "8315540" }, { "contents": "Newcastle upon Tyne\n\n\nF.C. became Football League members in 1893. They have won four top division titles (the first in 1905 and the most recent in 1927), six FA Cups (the first in 1910 and the most recent in 1955) and the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup in 1969. They broke the world transfer record in 1996 by paying £15 million for Blackburn Rovers and England striker Alan Shearer, one of the most prolific goalscorers of that era. In 2017 Newcastle was the venue for the 2017 Freedom City festival. The 2017", "id": "20529704" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\ngame and came off the bench to score a penalty, helping Newcastle win the game 3–2. The match was a sell-out, and saw Shearer perform a lap of honour at the end with his family, with his young son notably covering his ears due to the volume of noise produced by the crowd in tribute. Shearer's international career began in 1990 when he was handed a callup to the England under-21 squad under Dave Sexton. During his time with the squad, he scored 13 times in 11 games, a", "id": "13592537" }, { "contents": "2011–12 Cardiff City F.C. season\n\n\nserving manager in the Championship having held his post since May 2005. The club held talks with former England and Newcastle United captain Alan Shearer to replace Jones but he rejected the job despite stating that he was impressed with the \"vision, ambition and determination of the owner Dato Chan Tien Ghee and the board\". The \"Bluebirds\" instead approached Championship rivals Watford for permission to speak to their manager Malky Mackay, which was initially rejected. However, after the two clubs agreed a compensation fee, Mackay was officially appointed as", "id": "7599659" }, { "contents": "Kevin Keegan\n\n\nto Michael Owen, stating, \"He's not scared to give his opinion when he's right, and he's not scared to say what he feels. He's a tremendous professional, and he trains properly every day.\" Keegan announced on 22 January that he and Alan Shearer held talks about the two linking up with Shearer as his assistant, but decided against the idea, leaving the door open for him to take other roles he was interested in. Keegan's first eight games back at Newcastle passed without a", "id": "826473" }, { "contents": "Transfer (association football)\n\n\n£3.6 million Alan Shearer moved to Blackburn Rovers from Southampton, a decade after the world's first £3 million transfer. Lentini's transfer remained intact the world record fee for the next four years, although the national record was broken more than once in many countries including England. Shearer's £3.6million record fee was narrowly eclipsed 12 months later when Manchester United signed Roy Keane from Nottingham Forest for £3.75 million. In 1994, Blackburn Rovers paid a record £5 million for Chris Sutton from Norwich City, a decade", "id": "11200095" }, { "contents": "Roy Hodgson\n\n\nagainst Costa Rica to finish bottom of Group D. Hodgson named Rooney as the new captain of England in August 2014, following the retirement of Steven Gerrard from international football. Hodgson's first match after the World Cup was a 1–0 win against Norway in an international friendly match at Wembley on 3 September 2014. During the match, England made only two shots on target. Hodgson was infuriated when asked about this, describing the statistic as \"fucking bollocks\". Former England player, Alan Shearer, admitted that the match was so", "id": "12858624" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nto the season. The animosity between Shearer and Gullit was later confirmed by the latter, who reported telling the striker that he was \"...the most overrated player I have ever seen.\" Ironically, Robson had tried to sign Shearer for Barcelona in 1997, making a bid of £20million which would have seen Shearer break the world's transfer fee record for the second time in 12 months. However, then Newcastle manager Kenny Dalglish rejected the offer. In Robson's first match in charge, Shearer scored five goals in", "id": "13592526" }, { "contents": "Premier League 10 Seasons Awards\n\n\nin his talks with Alex Ferguson, he could not guarantee that Eric Cantona the Overseas Player of the Decade could be persuaded to let Shearer take penalty kicks. Shearer gained a second PFA Players' Player of the Year Award in April 1997, becoming just the second player to have received the PFA award twice, after Mark Hughes. After the 2000 European Championships, Shearer had retired from international football with England, having been England captain since 1998, and having made his senior début in 1992. Shearer was awarded the OBE in", "id": "11856465" }, { "contents": "Emile Heskey\n\n\nthe two matches, with former England international Alan Shearer commenting, \"Never in a million years did I expect to be discussing whether Emile Heskey should keep his place ahead of Wayne Rooney but the Wigan striker was outstanding over both matches.\" Heskey was called into manager Fabio Capello's first squad against Switzerland, but had to withdraw due to an injury. He was called into the squad for a friendly against the Czech Republic in August 2008 and came on as a 46th-minute substitute, in a match that finished 2–2", "id": "174986" }, { "contents": "Habib Beye\n\n\nUEFA Cup Final, a run which involved him putting in a star performance as a central defender against (his now former team) Newcastle United, where he was particularly effective against Newcastle's talisman striker Alan Shearer. He ended up on the losing side as Marseille lost the final to Valencia 2–0. He was also a beaten finalist in the 2006 French Cup against former club Paris Saint-Germain, a match which his team lost 2–1, and again in 2007 when his Marseille team lost on penalties to FC Sochaux. His", "id": "16217445" }, { "contents": "Stan Collymore\n\n\nseason in the Premier League, Collymore was called up to Terry Venables' England squad for the Umbro Cup in June 1995. He made his début at Wembley Stadium against Japan, partnering Alan Shearer in a 2–1 win. He won his second cap as a 90th minute substitute against Brazil. Collymore made his third and final appearance for England as a substitute in a 4–0 win over Moldova during qualification for the 1998 FIFA World Cup. Collymore contributed to his biography \"Stan: Tackling my demons\" with Oliver Holt. In 2005", "id": "3955590" }, { "contents": "Graeme Souness\n\n\nAt £8.2 million, Boumsong was his first big signing and Souness said he would replace Jonathan Woodgate in the Newcastle defence, which had conceded several leads earlier in the season. Newcastle were well aware of Boumsong prior to his move from Auxerre to Rangers on a free transfer. Robson had travelled to France to watch him, but he declined the opportunity to sign Boumsong. Liverpool were also interested in signing Boumsong. Robson's doubts were confirmed when Boumsong marked Alan Shearer in a pre-season game against Rangers. Shearer came", "id": "18029254" }, { "contents": "Saido Berahino\n\n\nrate of a goal every other match, including three to help the team qualify for the European Championship. Berahino has the all-time third-highest goal tally for the England under-21 side with 10 goals in 13 appearances, behind Francis Jeffers and Alan Shearer. On 6 November 2014, England manager Roy Hodgson – who promoted Berahino to the West Bromwich Albion first team in 2011 – named Berahino in his squad for the first time, ahead of a UEFA Euro 2016 qualifying match against Slovenia at Wembley Stadium on the 15th and", "id": "1000466" } ]

[ { "contents": "Tony Adams\n\n\n\"I have some resentment over the way Glenn Hoddle gave the captaincy to Alan Shearer instead of me but I can let that go. I reacted positively. I disagreed with him [Hoddle] and he thought Alan could get more penalties being a centre forward. People know my reaction to that\". Adams continued to play for the national side, however and he finally appeared in a World Cup finals in 1998. His international swansong was England's unsuccessful Euro 2000 campaign. With Shearer retiring from international football after the tournament", "id": "6104102" }, { "contents": "Tony Adams\n\n\nin defence, and after the retirement of Gary Lineker in 1992, Adams unofficially shared the captaincy of England with David Platt, though Adams became England captain outright before Euro 96, as Platt's place in the side became less secure. England reached the semi-finals of Euro 96, before losing on penalties to Germany. When England manager Glenn Hoddle took the Captain's armband from Adams and gave it to Alan Shearer it was a bitter pill for Adams to swallow. Speaking at a fans' forum in 2008 Adams remarked", "id": "6104101" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nThis time, Germany won from the spot; although Shearer scored, his teammate Gareth Southgate missed his kick and England were eliminated. Shearer's five goals made him the competition's top scorer, and together with teammates David Seaman and Steve McManaman, was listed in the official UEFA team of the tournament. The new England manager Glenn Hoddle appointed Shearer captain for the 1998 FIFA World Cup qualifier against Moldova on 1 September 1996, and the player held onto the captaincy after scoring once in that match and twice in the following game", "id": "13592541" }, { "contents": "Dimitar Berbatov\n\n\nhe consequently modelled himself after Marco van Basten, the Dutch forward for that team. However, the 1996 European Championship, held in England, gave Berbatov a new role model; the 15-year-old Berbatov began to look up to the English front man Alan Shearer, who played for Newcastle United. Berbatov's mother later spoke of her son's teenage dream of playing for Newcastle United, and said that his admiration for Shearer was such that, during these years, he slept in a Newcastle shirt. Berbatov began his youth", "id": "3905446" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\n's participation in what was to be Shearer's only World Cup tournament. In September 1999, Shearer scored his only England hat-trick in a UEFA Euro 2000 qualifier against Luxembourg. This helped England reach a play-off against Scotland; England won the game over two legs and in doing so qualified for the European Championships. By now, Shearer was approaching his 30th birthday, and he announced that he intended to retire from international football after the Euro 2000 tournament. Shearer did not score in England's opening 3–2 defeat", "id": "13592544" }, { "contents": "Southampton F.C.\n\n\nwas Alan Shearer, who at the age of 17 scored a hat-trick against Arsenal in a league match in April 1988. Shearer was a first team regular by 1990, and stayed with Southampton until July 1992, when he was sold to Blackburn Rovers for a national record of more than £3 million. He then became the most expensive footballer in the world when Blackburn sold him to Newcastle for £15 million in 1996. He also scored 30 times for England internationally. Southampton were founding members of the Premier League", "id": "3265953" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\ntime to play in England's UEFA European Championship campaign. After Euro 96, Manchester United again sought to sign Shearer, and attempted to enter the battle for his signature. However Manchester United chairman Martin Edwards stated that Blackburn Rovers refused to let Shearer go to Old Trafford. Ultimately Shearer joined his boyhood club: Newcastle United, Manchester United's title rivals. On 30 July 1996, for a world transfer record-breaking £15 million (equivalent to £ million today) Shearer joined his hometown club and league runners-up", "id": "13592519" }, { "contents": "History of the England national football team\n\n\nyear after his last game at club level. Hoddle selected Alan Shearer as captain, replacing Tony Adams, but also brought a number of emerging talents into the squad, including the Manchester United midfield trio of Paul Scholes, Nicky Butt and David Beckham, and central defenders Rio Ferdinand and Sol Campbell. Hoddle oversaw England's qualification for the 1998 World Cup (the first World Cup with 32 teams instead of 24) with a 0–0 draw against Italy at the Stadio Olimpico in Rome, and drew out a winning performance in the", "id": "15089406" }, { "contents": "History of the England national football team\n\n\nthe underwhelming performance at the World Cup, England suffered a poor start to the Euro 2000 qualifying tournament, and there was reported discontent between Hoddle and several senior players, most notably Shearer. Hoddle was dismissed on 2 February 1999, two days after an interview with \"The Sunday Times\" in which he spoke about his belief in reincarnation and claimed that disabled people were paying for sins in a previous life. Under considerable media and public pressure, the FA appointed former captain Kevin Keegan, who only just managed to get England", "id": "15089410" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nagainst Poland. He scored a total of five goals in England's successful qualification campaign for the World Cup, adding strikes against Georgia and away to Poland to his tally. Shearer was sidelined for much of the 1997–98 season, but recovered to play in the World Cup finals. With Michael Owen replacing Teddy Sheringham as Shearer's strike partner, Shearer's return saw him score England's first goal of the tournament, in a 2–0 win over Tunisia, his only goal in the three group matches. England faced long-time", "id": "13592542" }, { "contents": "Newcastle United F.C.\n\n\n. The attacking philosophy of Keegan led to the team being labelled \"The Entertainers\" by Sky Sports. Keegan took Newcastle to two consecutive runners-up finishes in the league in 1995–96 and 1996–97, coming very close to winning the title in the former season. This success was in part due to the talent of players like David Ginola, Les Ferdinand and Alan Shearer, who was signed on 30 July 1996 for a then world record fee of £15 million. Keegan left Newcastle in January 1997 and was replaced by Kenny", "id": "12636363" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nAlan Shearer, CBE, DL (born 13 August 1970) is an English retired footballer. He played as a striker in the top level of English league football for Southampton, Blackburn Rovers, Newcastle United and the England national team. He is Newcastle's and the Premier League's record goalscorer. He was named Football Writers' Association Player of the Year in 1994 and won the PFA Player of the Year award in 1995. In 1996, he was third in the FIFA World Player of the Year awards. In 2004", "id": "13592501" }, { "contents": "Teddy Sheringham\n\n\nmanager Terry Venables (1994–96) Sheringham came to be the preferred strike partner for Alan Shearer. During this time, England had a wealth of strikers with the likes of Andrew Cole, Ian Wright, a young Robbie Fowler and Les Ferdinand all battling to partner Shearer in the England team. The two formed a famous partnership at international level, as they complemented each other's strengths: Shearer the out-and-out goalscorer, big, strong and powerful, Sheringham just 'dropping off' his strike partner, finding spaces", "id": "2997066" }, { "contents": "History of Newcastle United F.C.\n\n\n's title chances for the 1994–95 season, in which they finished sixth. The club, however, continued to build up a reputation for playing attacking football under Keegan. In the 1995–96 season, high-profile foreign stars David Ginola and Faustino Asprilla, in addition to British players Peter Beardsley and striker Les Ferdinand, guided the team to a second-place finish. During the 1996–97 season, Keegan made one signing, securing the services of England striker Alan Shearer for a then-world record transfer fee of £15 million", "id": "6803863" }, { "contents": "1996–97 Newcastle United F.C. season\n\n\n...I think Kevin wanted it free-flowing in all departments and that doesn't necessarily happen.\" Keegan responded to the previous season's disappointment by breaking the world record transfer fee to sign centre forward Alan Shearer from Blackburn Rovers for £15 million. Shearer, whose five goals made him the top scorer in Euro 96, had supported Newcastle since childhood – he had been a ball-boy at St James' Park on the day that Keegan had left in a helicopter after his final Newcastle appearance as a player.", "id": "1207050" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nin the games.\" Shearer captained his school team and helped a Newcastle City Schools team win a seven-a-side tournament at St James' Park, before joining the amateur Wallsend Boys Club as a teenager. It was while playing for the Wallsend club that he was spotted by Southampton's scout, Jack Hixon, which resulted in Shearer spending his summers training with the club's youth team, a time he would later refer to as \"the making of me\". Shearer had successful trials for First Division clubs", "id": "13592505" }, { "contents": "Duncan Shearer\n\n\nFavourites\" during the club's centenary in 2008. However, he was unable to prevent Huddersfield's relegation to the Third Division at the end of the 1987–88 season. Weeks before this, the unrelated English striker Alan Shearer (aged 17) had scored a hat-trick in the First Division for Southampton against Arsenal, a game which Arsenal captain Tony Adams missed through injury. In his autobiography 11 years later, Adams said that he had followed the progress of the game on Ceefax and mistakingly believed that the Shearer who scored", "id": "3716405" }, { "contents": "David Hirst (footballer)\n\n\nHe came on at half-time and within three minutes of the restart he scored his first (and only) England goal. With Gary Lineker injured, he lined up with Alan Shearer against France at Wembley. Bryan Robson said that, \"It's not a question of who will replace Lineker, but who will partner David Hirst\". It became Hirst's third and final England match. Although he was selected for more England squads, injuries kept him out of the team. Manchester United boss Alex Ferguson tried six", "id": "18892949" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nthrough to May due to injury and England's World Cup qualification chances were hit by a run of poor form. Returning to fitness for the 1993–94 season, he scored 31 goals from 40 games as Blackburn finished runners-up in the Premier League. His performances for the club led to him being named the Football Writers' Association Footballer of the Year for that season. On the international scene, England had failed to qualify for the 1994 World Cup finals, but Shearer added three more goals to his international tally before embarking", "id": "13592514" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nfive points out of a possible twenty-four. Shearer did not get the manager's job on permanent basis. Chris Hughton stepped up from the coaching staff to take charge of the quest to get Newcastle back into the Premier League, which was achieved at the first attempt as Newcastle finished top of the Championship in the 2009–10 season. Shearer is married to Lainya, whom he met whilst a Southampton player. The couple lived locally with her parents during Shearer's second year at the south coast club, and were married on", "id": "13592557" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nagainst Portugal, but did so as England defeated Germany 1–0 in Charleroi, ensuring that England beat their European neighbours for the first time since the 1966 World Cup Final. To remain in the tournament, England only required a draw against Romania in the final group match, and Shearer scored a penalty as England went in at half-time 2–1 up, but Romania ultimately won 3–2. England's tournament was over, and so was Shearer's international career. From his 63 caps, he captained the team 34 times and scored", "id": "13592545" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nrecord return which is still unbeaten. The striker's goals at this level, coupled with his club form, meant he was soon promoted to the senior squad by coach Graham Taylor. Marking his debut in the 2–0 win against France in February 1992 with a goal, he made his only appearance for the England B team a month later. Due to replace Gary Lineker, who retired from international action after UEFA Euro 1992, in the England attack, Shearer played only intermittently in the qualifying campaign for the 1994 FIFA World Cup", "id": "13592538" }, { "contents": "1993 Trans-Tasman Test series\n\n\n's Canberra Raiders team mate and New South Wales captain Laurie Daley. The test series took place following the 1993 State of Origin series which was won by NSW. Dale Shearer's performances at fullback for Qld saw him earn a test recall in front of well performed World Cup and NSW fullback Tim Brasher (though Shearer had been selected at centre for all 3 Ashes series tests in 1992 but withdrew from all 3 with injury). Bradley Clyde, who had not played in the Origin series due to injury was also recalled to", "id": "16616631" }, { "contents": "Glenn Hoddle\n\n\nRedknapp resigned, following which Hoddle also left the club. In June 2016, after England's 2–1 loss to Iceland at Euro 2016 and manager Roy Hodgson's subsequent resignation, Harry Redknapp and Alan Shearer both put forward Hoddle as a candidate for the job before Sam Allardyce was appointed. Hoddle has done punditry work since his retirement from coaching. He has worked for ESPN, ITV Sport and BT Sport. Hoddle began working with ESPN during Euro 2012 as a pundit. Since then, he has worked with ITV for the 2014", "id": "8847620" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nhim onto the pitch following the striker's testimonial in May 2006 as he performed a lap of honour at St James' Park. On 6 December 2000, Shearer was given Honorary Freedom of the City of Newcastle upon Tyne, with the citation \"in recognition of his role as captain of Newcastle United Football Club and as former captain of England which have enhanced the reputation of the City\". Shearer was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2001 Queen's Birthday Honours and Commander of the", "id": "13592559" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nhis four years in the Southampton first team, Shearer made a total of 158 appearances in all competitions, scoring 43 goals. Despite making just one goalless appearance as England failed to progress past the Euro 1992 group stages, Shearer was soon subject to an English transfer record-breaking £3.6 million bid from Blackburn Rovers. Although there was also interest from Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson, Blackburn benefactor Jack Walker's millions were enough to prise the striker from the \"Saints\", and Shearer moved north to Ewood Park in the", "id": "13592512" }, { "contents": "Andy Cole\n\n\nof the season to help United win the Premier League title for the third time in four years. He also played in their FA Cup final victory to become part of England's first ever side to win the double twice. Before the 1996–97 season began, Cole had to deal with being offered to Blackburn Rovers as part-exchange in a £12 million deal that would have brought Alan Shearer to Old Trafford, but the offer was rejected and Shearer joined Newcastle instead. Despite Alex Ferguson's clear indication to Cole that he", "id": "9629547" }, { "contents": "Shearer's Bar\n\n\nShearer's Bar is the former name of a sports bar owned by Newcastle United and forming part of St James' Park, the team's stadium in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. It was named in honour of the club's all-time top scorer, Alan Shearer. The bar was renamed Nine in July 2013 by the club, who said that popularity of the venue had \"dwindled\". The bar was opened in December 2004 and became an important part of the features at St James' Park. It is", "id": "15298144" }, { "contents": "Kevin Keegan\n\n\nrelationship between the pair. In April 2003, it was named as Quote of the Decade in the Premier League 10 Seasons Awards and Most Memorable Quote in the 20 Seasons Awards in May 2012. It also appeared in Channel 4's \"100 Greatest Sporting Moments\". Keegan then broke the world transfer fee record by signing Blackburn Rovers and England striker Alan Shearer in July 1996. Shearer, who had been the Premier League's top scorer in the last two seasons, was born in Newcastle and had grown up as a fan", "id": "826455" }, { "contents": "England national football team\n\n\nBetween 1994 and 1996, Terry Venables managed the team. At UEFA Euro 1996, held in England, they equalled their best performance at a European Championship, reaching the semi-finals as they did in 1968, before exiting via a penalty shoot-out loss to Germany. England striker Alan Shearer was the tournament's top scorer with five goals. Venables resigned following investigations into his financial activities. Venables' successor, Glenn Hoddle, similarly left the job for non-footballing reasons after just one international tournament – the 1998", "id": "9748695" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nmiddle of 1992. His first season with Blackburn was mixed – he missed half of it through injury after snapping his right anterior cruciate ligament in a match against Leeds United in December 1992, but scored a prolific 16 goals in the 21 games in which he did feature. Shearer also became a regular in the England team this season and scored his second international goal; it came in a 4–0 1994 FIFA World Cup qualifier win over Turkey in November. The season ended sourly, however, as Shearer was forced to miss January", "id": "13592513" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nover from head coach Chris Hughton who was in temporary charge while the permanent manager Joe Kinnear recovered from heart surgery, having taken ill on 7 February. Shearer stated \"It's a club I love and I don't want them to go down. I'll do everything I can to stop that.\" Shearer was unveiled at a press conference the following day by club managing director Derek Llambias. In explaining his acceptance of a managerial role at Newcastle at this time, Shearer stated that he would not have done this for", "id": "13592552" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nwas being run in the wake of the departure of Kevin Keegan. These reports were denied by the club. Shearer features in EA Sports' \"FIFA\" video game series; he was included in the \"FIFA 15\" Ultimate Team Legends. During his playing days, Shearer had been involved with the children's charity the NSPCC, taking part in the organisation's Full Stop campaign in 1999. Since retiring from football Shearer has also done work for several charities both nationally and in the Newcastle area. In his testimonial match", "id": "13592565" }, { "contents": "2005–06 Newcastle United F.C. season\n\n\n. The fee, £17 million, surpassed Newcastle's previous record of £15 million for Alan Shearer from Blackburn in 1996. In the closing hours of the transfer window, the club re-signed Nolberto Solano from Aston Villa. Souness's decision to pair Shearer and Owen together up front proved to be lethal, but Owen broke his fourth metatarsal bone in his foot after a clash with Paul Robinson in a match against Tottenham Hotspur, keeping him out for the rest of the season. With Owen injured the team's", "id": "18086094" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\ndue to injury and the team failed to reach the competition finals. UEFA Euro 1996 was a more positive experience for both Shearer and England. With England not required to qualify as hosts, Shearer had not scored in 12 games in the 21 months prior, and even his overall goalscoring record for England did not look too impressive so far, with five goals in 23 games. However, he found the net in the 22nd minute of the first game, against Switzerland. Scoring once in the following game against Scotland and twice", "id": "13592539" }, { "contents": "Teddy Sheringham\n\n\nthe 2000 European Championships by then manager Kevin Keegan, but the retirement of Shearer (despite being four years younger than Sheringham) from international football after that tournament and the arrival of new manager Sven-Göran Eriksson in 2001 saw a return to international favour for him. He was often deployed as a tactical substitute late in games by Eriksson, valued for his ability to hold the ball up and create intelligent play. In 2001, Sheringham scored an important goal for England against Greece in a World Cup qualifying match within 15 seconds", "id": "2997070" }, { "contents": "Ruud Gullit\n\n\n, chairman Ken Bates famously said of Gullit, \"I didn't like his arrogance – in fact I never liked him.\" In August 1998, Gullit was named manager of Newcastle United two games into the new league season and reached the 1999 FA Cup Final in his first year. Fans remained supportive despite a poor run of results, although a well-publicised contretemps with the team's top scorer Alan Shearer and captain Robert Lee did not put him in a favourable light. Gullit even refused to assign Lee a squad", "id": "13592616" }, { "contents": "Scott Parker\n\n\ndefeat on 25 March 2006. Later that month he was diagnosed with glandular fever, putting an end to his season. The timing was especially unfortunate for Parker, who had been playing well for Newcastle, as it ended any hopes he may have had of forcing his way into the 2006 FIFA World Cup. In July 2006, he was named Newcastle United's new captain by manager Glenn Roeder, succeeding the retired Alan Shearer. His first goal as captain came against Wigan Athletic on 19 August 2006, in a 2–1 win", "id": "14327157" }, { "contents": "History of football in England\n\n\n. United's main challengers for the title in the Premier League's first few years were Blackburn Rovers, led by star striker Alan Shearer, also won their first league title since World War I in 1994–95, and Newcastle United, who famously conceded a 10-point lead at Christmas to lose the title to United in 1995–96. Newcastle had reached the Premiership in 1993 as Division One champions, and in their first Premiership campaign finished third to qualify for the UEFA Cup. They finished second in 1996 and again in 1997, but by", "id": "3652862" }, { "contents": "1992–93 FA Premier League\n\n\nPremier League as an attempt by the Football Association to \"hijack\" the First Division. Shortly before the season began, newly promoted Blackburn Rovers signed Southampton's 21-year-old England international striker Alan Shearer for a new British record fee variously reported as £3.3 million, £3.4 million, or £3.6 million. Several other players moved for fees of £2 million or more, including Arsenal's David Rocastle, who joined Leeds United, Dean Saunders, who moved from Liverpool to Aston Villa, and Teddy Sheringham, who", "id": "12442383" }, { "contents": "Darren Anderton\n\n\nhappy at the prospect of losing another key player as he had already lost Jürgen Klinsmann and Gheorghe Popescu that summer; and Nick Barmby was on the verge of joining Middlesbrough. Despite missing most of the 1995–96 season through injury, Anderton played an important part in the Euro 96 England team that reached the semi-finals and included players like Paul Gascoigne, Alan Shearer, Steve McManaman and Teddy Sheringham. In the semi final against Germany, the match went to golden goal extra time. Anderton came within inches of putting England into", "id": "4331581" }, { "contents": "Wallsend Boys Club\n\n\nJanuary which damaged one of the walls of the building. Professional players to have played for the club include: The club has had a representative at four of the six FIFA World Cup finals since 1986, with the two exceptions coming in 1994, when the England national football team did not qualify, and 2002. In 1986 and 1990 Peter Beardsley starred for England. In 1998 Alan Shearer was England captain. Michael Carrick made appearances for England in both the 2006 and 2010 tournaments. Fraser Forster was in the 2014 squad but", "id": "21182372" }, { "contents": "Harry Kane\n\n\n\". Clive Allen, who coached him at Tottenham, stated that \"one thing I'd say about him, which unfortunately you don't say about a lot of young footballers, is that he had a passion for the game. He loves football, he loves playing, he loves scoring goals\". His former Tottenham under-21 coach Les Ferdinand likened Kane's movement to their former forward Teddy Sheringham, and the power and accuracy of his shots to Alan Shearer. Kane's style of play has been compared to that of", "id": "1925319" }, { "contents": "Kieron Dyer\n\n\nthat he would soon rejoin for Ipswich. After representing England at Youth, Under 21 and \"B\" level, Dyer's debut for the senior team came on 4 September 1999 when he started in England's 6–0 win against Luxembourg. He was deployed out of position at right back, and was replaced by Gary Neville at half-time after injuring himself while setting up Alan Shearer's third goal of the match. The injury was not serious and he was able to make his second England appearance four days later, coming", "id": "17666181" }, { "contents": "1996–97 Blackburn Rovers F.C. season\n\n\nthe end of the season, when he handed over the reins to Roy Hodgson after Sampdoria's Sven-Göran Eriksson lied about accepting the manager's job and joined Lazio instead. Parkes steered Blackburn to safety as they finished 13th. The world record £15 million sale of striker Alan Shearer to Newcastle United was seen as the biggest factor in Blackburn's lowest top flight finish since they returned to the elite in 1992. However, his strike-partner Chris Sutton helped keep the club alive after recovering from a drastic loss of", "id": "7811146" }, { "contents": "Michael Owen\n\n\nmuch of the campaign as England struggled, with Hoddle being replaced by Kevin Keegan. On 4 September 1999, he scored his first goal at Wembley Stadium in a 6–0 win over Luxembourg. At the finals, Owen scored once in three matches, as England were knocked out at the group stage. After Alan Shearer's retirement, Owen took over as England's senior striker under new manager Sven-Göran Eriksson. He scored six times during 2002 World Cup qualifying, including a hat-trick against Germany at Munich's Olympiastadion", "id": "21886807" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nyet to start the UEFA Pro Licence course, which is required to be permitted to manage a team in the Premier League and European competition. Reflecting his desire for personal time off to \"enjoy life\", in July 2006 he turned down a coaching role with England, citing his BBC commitments and desire to be away from the pressure of a job within football. Despite this, Shearer was often linked in the media with managerial or coaching positions at his three former clubs. Shearer took a brief role in the dugout for", "id": "13592550" }, { "contents": "History of Southampton F.C.\n\n\nappearances for the England national team – he finally retired in 2002 at the age of 33. During his time with the Saints, Le Tissier was approached more than once by several bigger clubs (including Manchester United) but chose to stick with the Saints despite never winning a major trophy or experiencing European football with them. From 1989 to 1992, Le Tissier was regularly partnered up front by another notable player, Alan Shearer, who as a 17-year-old had scored a hat-trick on his Saints debut against Arsenal in", "id": "15948278" }, { "contents": "Sir Bobby Robson Trophy match\n\n\nNewcastle United, picking up on Alan Shearer's reply of \"I know as much as you do,\" to a pre-match question as to whether he would be installed as Newcastle manager for the forthcoming season beginning in 13 days, with the club being up for sale and with the first team without a manager, being in the care of coach Chris Hughton. Neither the Newcastle United owner Mike Ashley or managing director Derek Llambias were in attendance at the charity match. Having left England after Italia '90, Sir", "id": "19612022" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nChancellor Liam Donaldson stated \"Newcastle United are my team. Alan Shearer is more than just a local legend, he's probably one of the greatest footballers of all time\". On 12 September 2016, a statue of Shearer's likeness was unveiled outside St James' Park. It was sculpted by Tom Maley, and paid for by the Shepherd family. After his retirement and following guest appearances, Shearer became a regular pundit for the BBC's \"Match of the Day\". He also formed part of the team which", "id": "13592563" }, { "contents": "Gary McAllister\n\n\ntournament, scoring in a 3–0 win over the CIS. However, Scotland did not qualify from their group. Scotland failed to qualify for the 1994 FIFA World Cup but did qualify for UEFA Euro 1996 in England, with McAllister the captain of the team. Scotland's second match of the group stage was against England at Wembley Stadium. In the second half Scotland, trailing 0–1 to an Alan Shearer goal, were awarded a penalty. McAllister's kick was saved by David Seaman and Scotland lost 0–2. The team won their", "id": "19492391" }, { "contents": "David Seaman\n\n\nEngland's quarter-final against Spain ended scoreless, Seaman saved Miguel Angel Nadal's kick in the shootout to knock Spain out of the tournament. England eventually were eliminated in the semi-final by Germany on penalties,after Andreas Köpke saved the penalty taken by Gareth Southgate. Seaman was named alongside Golden Boot winner Alan Shearer and winger Steve McManaman in the UEFA \"Team of the Tournament\". Euro 96 sponsor Philips named him \"Player of the Tournament\". Seaman remained first choice under the management of Glenn Hoddle for", "id": "7321893" }, { "contents": "1998 FA Cup Final\n\n\nand so has the mixture between the foreign and English players.\" Wenger reserved praise for the goalscorers Overmars (\"a world-class player\") and Anelka (\"Nicolas is very young. But you saw in the second half today what he can do\"), and felt the turning point in the match was Shearer's shot hitting the post. He sympathised with Newcastle, as did his captain, Adams who said afterwards: \"The team and their fans did everything they could out there, but it was", "id": "10844688" }, { "contents": "David McMahon (association footballer)\n\n\nabout the role of striker from watching England international Alan Shearer in training, but likened himself more to Newcastle's Scotland international Duncan Ferguson, \"because I am taller and like to battle for things in the air.\" Brian Kerr, then manager of Ireland under-17s, described McMahon as honest and hard-working, \"not the most skilful player, but will get goals\", but Darlington manager Gary Bennett believed there was more to his game: that he and strike partner John Williams both had enough skill to play a", "id": "5423888" }, { "contents": "Andy Carroll\n\n\nUEFA Euro 2012. He opened the scoring for England with a powerful header in their second group match against Sweden, which England went on to win 3–2. Carroll has been compared to Newcastle's record goalscorer Alan Shearer, Ivory Coast striker Didier Drogba and former Italy forward Christian Vieri. He has also been referred to as a classic centre forward, owing to his strength, powerful shot and excellent heading ability. Former Newcastle manager and Liverpool player Kevin Keegan stated \"he is probably in the top three headers of a ball I", "id": "11961542" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\n-chasing Manchester United. On the opening day of the 1999–2000 season, Shearer received the first red card of his career in his 100th appearance for Newcastle. After dropping Shearer to the bench in a Tyne-Wear derby loss against Sunderland, the unpopular Gullit resigned to be replaced by the 66-year-old Bobby Robson. Despite Gullit giving Shearer the captain's armband, reports of a rift between club captain and manager were rife, Gullit's decision to drop Shearer proved deeply unpopular with fans and his departure capped a dismal start", "id": "13592525" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nAn almost injury-free season helped Shearer improve on his previous year's tally in the 1998–99 season, the striker converting 14 goals in 30 league games and replacing Rob Lee as Newcastle captain, but Newcastle finished 13th again, with Ruud Gullit having replaced Kenny Dalglish just after the season got underway. He also helped Newcastle to a second consecutive FA Cup final and qualification for the following season's UEFA Cup, scoring twice in the semi-final against Tottenham Hotspur, but they once again lost, this time 2–0 to treble", "id": "13592524" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nhis final three games under Glenn Roeder. Shearer had rejected offers of coaching or assistant roles at Newcastle under both the returning Kevin Keegan in February 2008 and Joe Kinnear in November 2008. Shearer had previously had talks about, but never been offered, a full-time manager's role at Newcastle until his appointment on 1 April 2009. In a surprise move, late on 1 April 2009, it was announced that Shearer would become the manager of his former club Newcastle United for the remaining eight games of the season, taking", "id": "13592551" }, { "contents": "Fabio Cannavaro\n\n\nnational team on 22 January 1997, in a friendly match against Northern Ireland. The same year, he earned plaudits for his handling of England striker Alan Shearer in a World Cup qualifying game at Wembley Stadium. Shearer was then considered by the partisan English crowd to be the best striker in the world, and thought he would make fun of the inexperienced Italian defender. Nevertheless, in a display ranking alongside those of the very best Italian defenders Claudio Gentile and Franco Baresi, Cannavaro managed to keep Shearer quiet for the whole game", "id": "3625067" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\n, with media sources claiming that video footage showed him intentionally kicking Neil Lennon in the head following a challenge. The referee of the game took no action against Shearer, and he was then cleared of all charges by the FA, with Lennon giving evidence in the player's defence. Former Football Association chief Graham Kelly, who brought the charges against the player, later claimed in his autobiography that Shearer had threatened to withdraw himself from the 1998 World Cup squad if the charges were upheld, a claim strenuously denied by Shearer.", "id": "13592523" }, { "contents": "History of the Romania national football team\n\n\nminnows Tunisia. Adrian Ilie scored the only goal with a fine chip in their first match against Colombia at Lyon's Stade Gerland. In Toulouse, they met an England side starting with prodigal striker Michael Owen on the bench, with Teddy Sheringham preferred alongside Alan Shearer. A mistake by Tony Adams was punished by Viorel Moldovan, who played for Coventry City, before Owen came on to claim an equalizer. But Romania won with a scrappy late goal from Dan Petrescu, also playing in England with Chelsea, fighting off his club", "id": "16435718" }, { "contents": "John Barnes (footballer)\n\n\nNewcastle United, although an approach had already been made by Harry Redknapp of West Ham; Barnes had agreed in principle to join them until at the final moment Dalglish called him and Barnes changed his mind. In the 1997–98 season Barnes played up front mostly, deputising for Alan Shearer after Shearer was injured for most of the season, and Barnes ended up Newcastle's top league scorer with six goals, which highlighted the Magpies' lack of ability to score in the absence of Shearer and Ferdinand (who had been sold along with", "id": "19616669" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\ncould not find a more iconic person than Alan, not just for what he has done in football but for all the extra work he tirelessly does for charity and communities. I am delighted he has accepted the role of Deputy Lieutenant because he is a real role model. I have promised him he is not going to have to do too much, but even if it is just one occasion a year he is the perfect choice\" On 7 December 2009, Shearer was made a Doctor of Civil Law by Newcastle University.", "id": "13592562" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nLaw of Northumbria and Newcastle Universities. Shearer was born in Gosforth, Newcastle, in 1970 to working-class parents Alan and Anne Shearer. His father, a sheet-metal worker, encouraged a keen Shearer to play football in his youth, and the young player continued with the sport as he progressed through school. He was educated at Gosforth Central Middle School and Gosforth High School. Growing up playing on the streets of his hometown, he originally played in midfield because \"it meant [he] could get more involved", "id": "13592504" }, { "contents": "Paul Kitson\n\n\n. Newcastle finished second that season after being overhauled in the second half campaign by a Manchester United side who sealed the title by a five-point margin barely four months after Newcastle had led by 10 points, but Kitson's part in Newcastle's exciting though ultimately disappointing campaign had been minimal as he had played just seven league games and scored twice. But he remained loyal to the Magpies even after another blow at the end of July 1996 – the arrival of £15 million world record signing Alan Shearer. He managed three", "id": "19054464" }, { "contents": "Ray Harford\n\n\nthe Premier League for much of the season. During the summer of 1996, Alan Shearer was sold to Newcastle United for a then world record fee of £15 million, and Harford failed to adequately replace him. Harford stated that \"I'm told we need a big name. Engelbert Humperdinck is a big name but it doesn't mean he can play football.\" The 1996–97 season also started badly for Blackburn. They failed to win any of their first ten games and were knocked out of the League Cup by Division", "id": "5365351" }, { "contents": "Patrick Kluivert\n\n\nagain featured for Barca in a legends game against Uganda all stars where he, in lobbing the ball, scored an amazing goal. Kluivert joined Newcastle United on a free transfer in July 2004. He stated that his reasons for joining Newcastle was due to the overwhelming reaction he received whilst playing for Barcelona against Newcastle during a pre season friendly as well as teaming up with Newcastle's star players such as Alan Shearer. Kluivert scored some classy and crucial goals at and away from St James's Park namely in winning strikes against both", "id": "21654890" }, { "contents": "Duncan Shearer\n\n\nbetween 1994 and 1995, scoring two goals including an important opening strike in an away win over Finland which helped the national side qualify for Euro 96, although Shearer did not make the squad for that tournament. The senior team was his first experience of international football, having never played at any age-group level. He achieved a childhood ambition when he played in the national team alongside John McGinlay, a childhood friend also from Fort William. In season 1999–00 he began to concentrate more on coaching than playing, and was", "id": "3716411" }, { "contents": "Les Ferdinand\n\n\nscored 50 goals in only 84 games at Newcastle, forming a successful partnership with Alan Shearer. He was and indeed is still very highly thought of by Newcastle United. Ferdinand received a standing ovation when he returned to St. James' Park as a Tottenham player, trying to put Alan Shearer's number 9 shirt on to complete a lap of honour, he broke down in tears and could only manage to put the shirt on inside out and back to front before being helped from the field. Ferdinand returned again, when he", "id": "2996528" }, { "contents": "David Platt (footballer)\n\n\nTurkey, San Marino, the Netherlands and Norway. The qualifiers began at home to Norway. England dominated the game and Platt carried the goal threat, with Alan Shearer and Ian Wright struggling to find form. He scored the opening goal after an hour. England dominated the remainder of the game and were unlucky to concede to a long-range shot from Kjetil Rekdal. Platt continued his drive from midfield in wins over Turkey at home (4-0) and San Marino (6-0). Platt scored four", "id": "16718350" }, { "contents": "Jason Wilcox\n\n\n-pound investments of Jack Walker. He played an important part in the title-winning Blackburn team of 1995. Playing on the left flank with attacking fullback Graeme Le Saux behind him and Stuart Ripley on the opposite flank, they forged a strong attacking line-up with Alan Shearer and Chris Sutton. International recognition was harder to come by for Wilcox and he managed only 3 international caps despite his effective partnership with Shearer, Le Saux and Tim Sherwood. Lengthy injury problems restricted his effectiveness in subsequent seasons and, after experiencing", "id": "14527253" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nclub's form, and Newcastle finished just 13th in the Premier League. However, United (now managed by Shearer's old boss at Blackburn, Kenny Dalglish) had a good run in the FA Cup; Shearer scored the winning goal in a semi-final victory over Sheffield United as the team reached the final. The team were unable to get on the scoresheet at Wembley, and lost the game 2–0 to Arsenal. An incident during a game against Leicester City in the league saw Shearer charged with misconduct by the FA", "id": "13592522" }, { "contents": "Aleksandar Mitrović (footballer)\n\n\nhim the competition's top scorer, and 28 in all competitions. On 22 March 2015, he scored the team's only goal in the 2–1 Belgian Cup Final loss to Club Brugge KV in Brussels. On 21 July 2015, Mitrović joined Newcastle United on a five-year contract for a reported £13 million, saying he hoped to be able to play like club legend Alan Shearer. He made his debut on 9 August as Newcastle began the season with a 2–2 draw against Southampton at St James' Park, playing", "id": "20923735" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nWest Bromwich Albion, Manchester City and Newcastle United, before being offered a youth contract with Southampton in April 1986. Shearer was promoted to the first team after spending two years with the youth squad. He made his professional debut for Southampton on 26 March 1988, coming on as a substitute in a First Division fixture at Chelsea, before prompting national headlines in his full debut at The Dell two weeks later. He scored a hat-trick, helping the team to a 4–2 victory against Arsenal, thus becoming the youngest player", "id": "13592506" }, { "contents": "James Milner\n\n\ndo what was \"in the club's best interest\" and in July 2004, he agreed a five-year contract with Newcastle. Milner made his first appearance for Newcastle United during their pre-season tour of Asia, scoring his first goal for the club in a 1–1 draw against Kitchee, in Hong Kong. During this tour, he took the opportunity to observe how Newcastle striker Alan Shearer dealt with attention from fans and the media. He said that his association with people like Shearer gave him a better idea of", "id": "1860603" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nretain the ball and provide opportunities for teammates. Playing as a lone striker between wide men, Rod Wallace and Matt Le Tissier, Shearer scored three goals in 26 appearances in the 1989–90 season, and in the next, four goals in 36 games. His performances in the centre of the \"Saints\" attack were soon recognised by the fans, who voted him their Player of the Year for 1991. In the middle of 1991, Shearer was a member of the England national under-21 football squad in the Toulon Tournament in Toulon", "id": "13592508" }, { "contents": "Teddy Sheringham\n\n\n, creating play and providing key passes, forming the link between Shearer and the England midfield. The pairing came to be known as 'The SAS' ('Shearer and Sheringham') and their most successful time together came in the 1996 European Championships, held in England. Their most famous contribution was in the 4–1 victory over the Netherlands, a game in the opening group stages in which they both scored twice against one of the strongest teams in the tournament. Though England were eventually knocked out in the semi-finals", "id": "2997067" }, { "contents": "History of the England national football team\n\n\ninto Euro 2000 after a 2–1 aggregate playoff win over Scotland. At the finals in Belgium and the Netherlands, a lacklustre England failed to get beyond the group stage, losing to both Portugal and Romania after leading in each game. After England's exit, Alan Shearer retired from international football, he had announced his intentions before the tournament, and no-one could persuade him to change his mind. On 7 October 2000, shortly after losing the opening World Cup qualifier to Germany in the last-ever game at Wembley", "id": "15089411" }, { "contents": "Premier League 10 Seasons Awards\n\n\nrepresented, with five players. The teams were as follows: English striker Alan Shearer was named Domestic Player of the Decade in the main 10 Seasons awards announcements, in addition to being given the Outstanding Contribution to the FA Premier League award. Two weeks later he was also named as the Overall Player of the Decade. In the first decade, Shearer played for Blackburn Rovers, and then Newcastle United. Shearer has been described as a classic English centre-forward with great shooting power, a single-minded striker who could", "id": "11856460" }, { "contents": "Wartime League\n\n\narguments debate that a player who exceeds one's record through their wartime matches should nonetheless be seen as the club's highest goal scorer or appearance having been part of the team's squad even if only for a short time. The most recent argument relates to the goal-difference between Jackie Milburn's and Alan Shearer's Newcastle United goal-scoring records. When counting Jackie's wartime matches, he scored a total of 238 professional goals for Newcastle United FC. In May 2005, Alan Shearer finished his career at 206 goals", "id": "17626256" }, { "contents": "Jon Dahl Tomasson\n\n\nas the perfect link-up player to England national team striker Alan Shearer. The partnership initially worked well, with Tomasson impressing during a pre-season friendly tournament in the Republic of Ireland. However, a career threatening injury to Shearer, combined with the controversial transfer of popular striker Les Ferdinand to Tottenham Hotspur, meant that Tomasson was moved from his traditional attacking midfield position to that of striker. He struggled to adapt to his new position on the field, and to the English game, due to his lack of physical", "id": "19324628" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\ncovered the World Cups and European Championships from 2006 onwards for the BBC. Former Newcastle chairman Freddy Shepherd announced that, after Shearer finished the 2005–06 season as Newcastle's caretaker assistant manager, he would become the club's \"Sporting Ambassador\" for the 2006–07 season. However, in September 2008, it was reported that Shearer was removed from this largely honorary position by the club's owner Mike Ashley, despite protests from players such as Steven Taylor and Damien Duff, due to Shearer's criticism of the way in which the club", "id": "13592564" }, { "contents": "1998 FA Cup Final\n\n\nthe final that Bergkamp had resumed training and \"medically he looked all right\", but the player received a further setback when he suffered a reaction to his hamstring. He ruled himself out of the match and told reporters: \"I'm very disappointed. As a little boy in Holland I always watched the FA Cup final. And I used to dream about playing in it myself one day.\" Ian Wright was listed as Bergkamp's probable replacement to partner Anelka. Newcastle had their own issues surrounding Shearer. The England", "id": "10844676" }, { "contents": "2008–09 in English football\n\n\n's surprise resignation in December; whilst their final points tally wasn't spectacular, they had the satisfaction of being the top North-East team in football after both Middlesbrough and Newcastle United were relegated, ending 11 and 16 year spells in the top flight respectively, the latter going through four managers in Kevin Keegan, Joe Kinnear, Chris Hughton and even former striker Alan Shearer during the campaign. Despite a brilliant start to the season which saw them as high as third place in October, Hull City won just 1 of their", "id": "1311754" }, { "contents": "1996 FA Charity Shield\n\n\nfrom Eric Cantona, Nicky Butt, David Beckham and Roy Keane. The game saw new signings Jordi Cruyff and Karel Poborský make their debuts for Manchester United, though neither of these players had particularly successful careers at Old Trafford and both had left the club within four years. The day before the game had seen the surprise sale of one of Manchester United's longest serving players — Lee Sharpe. The game saw Newcastle United give a debut to £15 million world record signing Alan Shearer, who would remain at the club until", "id": "2797098" }, { "contents": "UEFA Euro 2016 knockout phase\n\n\nsection begin=g6 /section end=g6 / section begin=g7 /section end=g7 / The match has been described as one of England's worst defeats ever. Former footballer and Talksport presenter Stan Collymore, who was commentating on the game, panned the England team, reserving special criticism for goalkeeper Joe Hart and captain Wayne Rooney. Former England international and BBC Sport pundit Alan Shearer described it as the worst performance he had ever seen from an England team. The defeat was called England's most shocking since losing 1–0 to", "id": "11344909" }, { "contents": "Maurice E. Shearer\n\n\nApplication at Annapolis, Maryland, with classmates Holland Smith, Ralph S. Keyser and Andrew B. Drum. In July, Shearer sailed for duty to be the commander of the 35 man Marine detachment on Midway Island. In May 1908, he was selected for promotion to first lieutenant and to the rank of captain in June 1916. During World War I, forces under Major Shearer's command made an attack on Belleau Wood, finally clearing that forest of Germans. On 26 June 1918, he sent a now famous report: \"", "id": "8315540" }, { "contents": "Newcastle upon Tyne\n\n\nF.C. became Football League members in 1893. They have won four top division titles (the first in 1905 and the most recent in 1927), six FA Cups (the first in 1910 and the most recent in 1955) and the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup in 1969. They broke the world transfer record in 1996 by paying £15 million for Blackburn Rovers and England striker Alan Shearer, one of the most prolific goalscorers of that era. In 2017 Newcastle was the venue for the 2017 Freedom City festival. The 2017", "id": "20529704" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\ngame and came off the bench to score a penalty, helping Newcastle win the game 3–2. The match was a sell-out, and saw Shearer perform a lap of honour at the end with his family, with his young son notably covering his ears due to the volume of noise produced by the crowd in tribute. Shearer's international career began in 1990 when he was handed a callup to the England under-21 squad under Dave Sexton. During his time with the squad, he scored 13 times in 11 games, a", "id": "13592537" }, { "contents": "2011–12 Cardiff City F.C. season\n\n\nserving manager in the Championship having held his post since May 2005. The club held talks with former England and Newcastle United captain Alan Shearer to replace Jones but he rejected the job despite stating that he was impressed with the \"vision, ambition and determination of the owner Dato Chan Tien Ghee and the board\". The \"Bluebirds\" instead approached Championship rivals Watford for permission to speak to their manager Malky Mackay, which was initially rejected. However, after the two clubs agreed a compensation fee, Mackay was officially appointed as", "id": "7599659" }, { "contents": "Kevin Keegan\n\n\nto Michael Owen, stating, \"He's not scared to give his opinion when he's right, and he's not scared to say what he feels. He's a tremendous professional, and he trains properly every day.\" Keegan announced on 22 January that he and Alan Shearer held talks about the two linking up with Shearer as his assistant, but decided against the idea, leaving the door open for him to take other roles he was interested in. Keegan's first eight games back at Newcastle passed without a", "id": "826473" }, { "contents": "Transfer (association football)\n\n\n£3.6 million Alan Shearer moved to Blackburn Rovers from Southampton, a decade after the world's first £3 million transfer. Lentini's transfer remained intact the world record fee for the next four years, although the national record was broken more than once in many countries including England. Shearer's £3.6million record fee was narrowly eclipsed 12 months later when Manchester United signed Roy Keane from Nottingham Forest for £3.75 million. In 1994, Blackburn Rovers paid a record £5 million for Chris Sutton from Norwich City, a decade", "id": "11200095" }, { "contents": "Roy Hodgson\n\n\nagainst Costa Rica to finish bottom of Group D. Hodgson named Rooney as the new captain of England in August 2014, following the retirement of Steven Gerrard from international football. Hodgson's first match after the World Cup was a 1–0 win against Norway in an international friendly match at Wembley on 3 September 2014. During the match, England made only two shots on target. Hodgson was infuriated when asked about this, describing the statistic as \"fucking bollocks\". Former England player, Alan Shearer, admitted that the match was so", "id": "12858624" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nto the season. The animosity between Shearer and Gullit was later confirmed by the latter, who reported telling the striker that he was \"...the most overrated player I have ever seen.\" Ironically, Robson had tried to sign Shearer for Barcelona in 1997, making a bid of £20million which would have seen Shearer break the world's transfer fee record for the second time in 12 months. However, then Newcastle manager Kenny Dalglish rejected the offer. In Robson's first match in charge, Shearer scored five goals in", "id": "13592526" }, { "contents": "Premier League 10 Seasons Awards\n\n\nin his talks with Alex Ferguson, he could not guarantee that Eric Cantona the Overseas Player of the Decade could be persuaded to let Shearer take penalty kicks. Shearer gained a second PFA Players' Player of the Year Award in April 1997, becoming just the second player to have received the PFA award twice, after Mark Hughes. After the 2000 European Championships, Shearer had retired from international football with England, having been England captain since 1998, and having made his senior début in 1992. Shearer was awarded the OBE in", "id": "11856465" }, { "contents": "Emile Heskey\n\n\nthe two matches, with former England international Alan Shearer commenting, \"Never in a million years did I expect to be discussing whether Emile Heskey should keep his place ahead of Wayne Rooney but the Wigan striker was outstanding over both matches.\" Heskey was called into manager Fabio Capello's first squad against Switzerland, but had to withdraw due to an injury. He was called into the squad for a friendly against the Czech Republic in August 2008 and came on as a 46th-minute substitute, in a match that finished 2–2", "id": "174986" }, { "contents": "Habib Beye\n\n\nUEFA Cup Final, a run which involved him putting in a star performance as a central defender against (his now former team) Newcastle United, where he was particularly effective against Newcastle's talisman striker Alan Shearer. He ended up on the losing side as Marseille lost the final to Valencia 2–0. He was also a beaten finalist in the 2006 French Cup against former club Paris Saint-Germain, a match which his team lost 2–1, and again in 2007 when his Marseille team lost on penalties to FC Sochaux. His", "id": "16217445" }, { "contents": "Stan Collymore\n\n\nseason in the Premier League, Collymore was called up to Terry Venables' England squad for the Umbro Cup in June 1995. He made his début at Wembley Stadium against Japan, partnering Alan Shearer in a 2–1 win. He won his second cap as a 90th minute substitute against Brazil. Collymore made his third and final appearance for England as a substitute in a 4–0 win over Moldova during qualification for the 1998 FIFA World Cup. Collymore contributed to his biography \"Stan: Tackling my demons\" with Oliver Holt. In 2005", "id": "3955590" }, { "contents": "Graeme Souness\n\n\nAt £8.2 million, Boumsong was his first big signing and Souness said he would replace Jonathan Woodgate in the Newcastle defence, which had conceded several leads earlier in the season. Newcastle were well aware of Boumsong prior to his move from Auxerre to Rangers on a free transfer. Robson had travelled to France to watch him, but he declined the opportunity to sign Boumsong. Liverpool were also interested in signing Boumsong. Robson's doubts were confirmed when Boumsong marked Alan Shearer in a pre-season game against Rangers. Shearer came", "id": "18029254" }, { "contents": "Saido Berahino\n\n\nrate of a goal every other match, including three to help the team qualify for the European Championship. Berahino has the all-time third-highest goal tally for the England under-21 side with 10 goals in 13 appearances, behind Francis Jeffers and Alan Shearer. On 6 November 2014, England manager Roy Hodgson – who promoted Berahino to the West Bromwich Albion first team in 2011 – named Berahino in his squad for the first time, ahead of a UEFA Euro 2016 qualifying match against Slovenia at Wembley Stadium on the 15th and", "id": "1000466" } ]

[ { "contents": "Tony Adams\n\n\n\"I have some resentment over the way Glenn Hoddle gave the captaincy to Alan Shearer instead of me but I can let that go. I reacted positively. I disagreed with him [Hoddle] and he thought Alan could get more penalties being a centre forward. People know my reaction to that\". Adams continued to play for the national side, however and he finally appeared in a World Cup finals in 1998. His international swansong was England's unsuccessful Euro 2000 campaign. With Shearer retiring from international football after the tournament", "id": "6104102" }, { "contents": "Tony Adams\n\n\nin defence, and after the retirement of Gary Lineker in 1992, Adams unofficially shared the captaincy of England with David Platt, though Adams became England captain outright before Euro 96, as Platt's place in the side became less secure. England reached the semi-finals of Euro 96, before losing on penalties to Germany. When England manager Glenn Hoddle took the Captain's armband from Adams and gave it to Alan Shearer it was a bitter pill for Adams to swallow. Speaking at a fans' forum in 2008 Adams remarked", "id": "6104101" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nThis time, Germany won from the spot; although Shearer scored, his teammate Gareth Southgate missed his kick and England were eliminated. Shearer's five goals made him the competition's top scorer, and together with teammates David Seaman and Steve McManaman, was listed in the official UEFA team of the tournament. The new England manager Glenn Hoddle appointed Shearer captain for the 1998 FIFA World Cup qualifier against Moldova on 1 September 1996, and the player held onto the captaincy after scoring once in that match and twice in the following game", "id": "13592541" }, { "contents": "Dimitar Berbatov\n\n\nhe consequently modelled himself after Marco van Basten, the Dutch forward for that team. However, the 1996 European Championship, held in England, gave Berbatov a new role model; the 15-year-old Berbatov began to look up to the English front man Alan Shearer, who played for Newcastle United. Berbatov's mother later spoke of her son's teenage dream of playing for Newcastle United, and said that his admiration for Shearer was such that, during these years, he slept in a Newcastle shirt. Berbatov began his youth", "id": "3905446" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\n's participation in what was to be Shearer's only World Cup tournament. In September 1999, Shearer scored his only England hat-trick in a UEFA Euro 2000 qualifier against Luxembourg. This helped England reach a play-off against Scotland; England won the game over two legs and in doing so qualified for the European Championships. By now, Shearer was approaching his 30th birthday, and he announced that he intended to retire from international football after the Euro 2000 tournament. Shearer did not score in England's opening 3–2 defeat", "id": "13592544" }, { "contents": "Southampton F.C.\n\n\nwas Alan Shearer, who at the age of 17 scored a hat-trick against Arsenal in a league match in April 1988. Shearer was a first team regular by 1990, and stayed with Southampton until July 1992, when he was sold to Blackburn Rovers for a national record of more than £3 million. He then became the most expensive footballer in the world when Blackburn sold him to Newcastle for £15 million in 1996. He also scored 30 times for England internationally. Southampton were founding members of the Premier League", "id": "3265953" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\ntime to play in England's UEFA European Championship campaign. After Euro 96, Manchester United again sought to sign Shearer, and attempted to enter the battle for his signature. However Manchester United chairman Martin Edwards stated that Blackburn Rovers refused to let Shearer go to Old Trafford. Ultimately Shearer joined his boyhood club: Newcastle United, Manchester United's title rivals. On 30 July 1996, for a world transfer record-breaking £15 million (equivalent to £ million today) Shearer joined his hometown club and league runners-up", "id": "13592519" }, { "contents": "History of the England national football team\n\n\nyear after his last game at club level. Hoddle selected Alan Shearer as captain, replacing Tony Adams, but also brought a number of emerging talents into the squad, including the Manchester United midfield trio of Paul Scholes, Nicky Butt and David Beckham, and central defenders Rio Ferdinand and Sol Campbell. Hoddle oversaw England's qualification for the 1998 World Cup (the first World Cup with 32 teams instead of 24) with a 0–0 draw against Italy at the Stadio Olimpico in Rome, and drew out a winning performance in the", "id": "15089406" }, { "contents": "History of the England national football team\n\n\nthe underwhelming performance at the World Cup, England suffered a poor start to the Euro 2000 qualifying tournament, and there was reported discontent between Hoddle and several senior players, most notably Shearer. Hoddle was dismissed on 2 February 1999, two days after an interview with \"The Sunday Times\" in which he spoke about his belief in reincarnation and claimed that disabled people were paying for sins in a previous life. Under considerable media and public pressure, the FA appointed former captain Kevin Keegan, who only just managed to get England", "id": "15089410" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nagainst Poland. He scored a total of five goals in England's successful qualification campaign for the World Cup, adding strikes against Georgia and away to Poland to his tally. Shearer was sidelined for much of the 1997–98 season, but recovered to play in the World Cup finals. With Michael Owen replacing Teddy Sheringham as Shearer's strike partner, Shearer's return saw him score England's first goal of the tournament, in a 2–0 win over Tunisia, his only goal in the three group matches. England faced long-time", "id": "13592542" }, { "contents": "Newcastle United F.C.\n\n\n. The attacking philosophy of Keegan led to the team being labelled \"The Entertainers\" by Sky Sports. Keegan took Newcastle to two consecutive runners-up finishes in the league in 1995–96 and 1996–97, coming very close to winning the title in the former season. This success was in part due to the talent of players like David Ginola, Les Ferdinand and Alan Shearer, who was signed on 30 July 1996 for a then world record fee of £15 million. Keegan left Newcastle in January 1997 and was replaced by Kenny", "id": "12636363" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nAlan Shearer, CBE, DL (born 13 August 1970) is an English retired footballer. He played as a striker in the top level of English league football for Southampton, Blackburn Rovers, Newcastle United and the England national team. He is Newcastle's and the Premier League's record goalscorer. He was named Football Writers' Association Player of the Year in 1994 and won the PFA Player of the Year award in 1995. In 1996, he was third in the FIFA World Player of the Year awards. In 2004", "id": "13592501" }, { "contents": "Teddy Sheringham\n\n\nmanager Terry Venables (1994–96) Sheringham came to be the preferred strike partner for Alan Shearer. During this time, England had a wealth of strikers with the likes of Andrew Cole, Ian Wright, a young Robbie Fowler and Les Ferdinand all battling to partner Shearer in the England team. The two formed a famous partnership at international level, as they complemented each other's strengths: Shearer the out-and-out goalscorer, big, strong and powerful, Sheringham just 'dropping off' his strike partner, finding spaces", "id": "2997066" }, { "contents": "History of Newcastle United F.C.\n\n\n's title chances for the 1994–95 season, in which they finished sixth. The club, however, continued to build up a reputation for playing attacking football under Keegan. In the 1995–96 season, high-profile foreign stars David Ginola and Faustino Asprilla, in addition to British players Peter Beardsley and striker Les Ferdinand, guided the team to a second-place finish. During the 1996–97 season, Keegan made one signing, securing the services of England striker Alan Shearer for a then-world record transfer fee of £15 million", "id": "6803863" }, { "contents": "1996–97 Newcastle United F.C. season\n\n\n...I think Kevin wanted it free-flowing in all departments and that doesn't necessarily happen.\" Keegan responded to the previous season's disappointment by breaking the world record transfer fee to sign centre forward Alan Shearer from Blackburn Rovers for £15 million. Shearer, whose five goals made him the top scorer in Euro 96, had supported Newcastle since childhood – he had been a ball-boy at St James' Park on the day that Keegan had left in a helicopter after his final Newcastle appearance as a player.", "id": "1207050" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nin the games.\" Shearer captained his school team and helped a Newcastle City Schools team win a seven-a-side tournament at St James' Park, before joining the amateur Wallsend Boys Club as a teenager. It was while playing for the Wallsend club that he was spotted by Southampton's scout, Jack Hixon, which resulted in Shearer spending his summers training with the club's youth team, a time he would later refer to as \"the making of me\". Shearer had successful trials for First Division clubs", "id": "13592505" }, { "contents": "Duncan Shearer\n\n\nFavourites\" during the club's centenary in 2008. However, he was unable to prevent Huddersfield's relegation to the Third Division at the end of the 1987–88 season. Weeks before this, the unrelated English striker Alan Shearer (aged 17) had scored a hat-trick in the First Division for Southampton against Arsenal, a game which Arsenal captain Tony Adams missed through injury. In his autobiography 11 years later, Adams said that he had followed the progress of the game on Ceefax and mistakingly believed that the Shearer who scored", "id": "3716405" }, { "contents": "David Hirst (footballer)\n\n\nHe came on at half-time and within three minutes of the restart he scored his first (and only) England goal. With Gary Lineker injured, he lined up with Alan Shearer against France at Wembley. Bryan Robson said that, \"It's not a question of who will replace Lineker, but who will partner David Hirst\". It became Hirst's third and final England match. Although he was selected for more England squads, injuries kept him out of the team. Manchester United boss Alex Ferguson tried six", "id": "18892949" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nthrough to May due to injury and England's World Cup qualification chances were hit by a run of poor form. Returning to fitness for the 1993–94 season, he scored 31 goals from 40 games as Blackburn finished runners-up in the Premier League. His performances for the club led to him being named the Football Writers' Association Footballer of the Year for that season. On the international scene, England had failed to qualify for the 1994 World Cup finals, but Shearer added three more goals to his international tally before embarking", "id": "13592514" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nfive points out of a possible twenty-four. Shearer did not get the manager's job on permanent basis. Chris Hughton stepped up from the coaching staff to take charge of the quest to get Newcastle back into the Premier League, which was achieved at the first attempt as Newcastle finished top of the Championship in the 2009–10 season. Shearer is married to Lainya, whom he met whilst a Southampton player. The couple lived locally with her parents during Shearer's second year at the south coast club, and were married on", "id": "13592557" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nagainst Portugal, but did so as England defeated Germany 1–0 in Charleroi, ensuring that England beat their European neighbours for the first time since the 1966 World Cup Final. To remain in the tournament, England only required a draw against Romania in the final group match, and Shearer scored a penalty as England went in at half-time 2–1 up, but Romania ultimately won 3–2. England's tournament was over, and so was Shearer's international career. From his 63 caps, he captained the team 34 times and scored", "id": "13592545" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nrecord return which is still unbeaten. The striker's goals at this level, coupled with his club form, meant he was soon promoted to the senior squad by coach Graham Taylor. Marking his debut in the 2–0 win against France in February 1992 with a goal, he made his only appearance for the England B team a month later. Due to replace Gary Lineker, who retired from international action after UEFA Euro 1992, in the England attack, Shearer played only intermittently in the qualifying campaign for the 1994 FIFA World Cup", "id": "13592538" }, { "contents": "1993 Trans-Tasman Test series\n\n\n's Canberra Raiders team mate and New South Wales captain Laurie Daley. The test series took place following the 1993 State of Origin series which was won by NSW. Dale Shearer's performances at fullback for Qld saw him earn a test recall in front of well performed World Cup and NSW fullback Tim Brasher (though Shearer had been selected at centre for all 3 Ashes series tests in 1992 but withdrew from all 3 with injury). Bradley Clyde, who had not played in the Origin series due to injury was also recalled to", "id": "16616631" }, { "contents": "Glenn Hoddle\n\n\nRedknapp resigned, following which Hoddle also left the club. In June 2016, after England's 2–1 loss to Iceland at Euro 2016 and manager Roy Hodgson's subsequent resignation, Harry Redknapp and Alan Shearer both put forward Hoddle as a candidate for the job before Sam Allardyce was appointed. Hoddle has done punditry work since his retirement from coaching. He has worked for ESPN, ITV Sport and BT Sport. Hoddle began working with ESPN during Euro 2012 as a pundit. Since then, he has worked with ITV for the 2014", "id": "8847620" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nhim onto the pitch following the striker's testimonial in May 2006 as he performed a lap of honour at St James' Park. On 6 December 2000, Shearer was given Honorary Freedom of the City of Newcastle upon Tyne, with the citation \"in recognition of his role as captain of Newcastle United Football Club and as former captain of England which have enhanced the reputation of the City\". Shearer was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2001 Queen's Birthday Honours and Commander of the", "id": "13592559" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nhis four years in the Southampton first team, Shearer made a total of 158 appearances in all competitions, scoring 43 goals. Despite making just one goalless appearance as England failed to progress past the Euro 1992 group stages, Shearer was soon subject to an English transfer record-breaking £3.6 million bid from Blackburn Rovers. Although there was also interest from Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson, Blackburn benefactor Jack Walker's millions were enough to prise the striker from the \"Saints\", and Shearer moved north to Ewood Park in the", "id": "13592512" }, { "contents": "Andy Cole\n\n\nof the season to help United win the Premier League title for the third time in four years. He also played in their FA Cup final victory to become part of England's first ever side to win the double twice. Before the 1996–97 season began, Cole had to deal with being offered to Blackburn Rovers as part-exchange in a £12 million deal that would have brought Alan Shearer to Old Trafford, but the offer was rejected and Shearer joined Newcastle instead. Despite Alex Ferguson's clear indication to Cole that he", "id": "9629547" }, { "contents": "Shearer's Bar\n\n\nShearer's Bar is the former name of a sports bar owned by Newcastle United and forming part of St James' Park, the team's stadium in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. It was named in honour of the club's all-time top scorer, Alan Shearer. The bar was renamed Nine in July 2013 by the club, who said that popularity of the venue had \"dwindled\". The bar was opened in December 2004 and became an important part of the features at St James' Park. It is", "id": "15298144" }, { "contents": "Kevin Keegan\n\n\nrelationship between the pair. In April 2003, it was named as Quote of the Decade in the Premier League 10 Seasons Awards and Most Memorable Quote in the 20 Seasons Awards in May 2012. It also appeared in Channel 4's \"100 Greatest Sporting Moments\". Keegan then broke the world transfer fee record by signing Blackburn Rovers and England striker Alan Shearer in July 1996. Shearer, who had been the Premier League's top scorer in the last two seasons, was born in Newcastle and had grown up as a fan", "id": "826455" }, { "contents": "England national football team\n\n\nBetween 1994 and 1996, Terry Venables managed the team. At UEFA Euro 1996, held in England, they equalled their best performance at a European Championship, reaching the semi-finals as they did in 1968, before exiting via a penalty shoot-out loss to Germany. England striker Alan Shearer was the tournament's top scorer with five goals. Venables resigned following investigations into his financial activities. Venables' successor, Glenn Hoddle, similarly left the job for non-footballing reasons after just one international tournament – the 1998", "id": "9748695" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nmiddle of 1992. His first season with Blackburn was mixed – he missed half of it through injury after snapping his right anterior cruciate ligament in a match against Leeds United in December 1992, but scored a prolific 16 goals in the 21 games in which he did feature. Shearer also became a regular in the England team this season and scored his second international goal; it came in a 4–0 1994 FIFA World Cup qualifier win over Turkey in November. The season ended sourly, however, as Shearer was forced to miss January", "id": "13592513" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nover from head coach Chris Hughton who was in temporary charge while the permanent manager Joe Kinnear recovered from heart surgery, having taken ill on 7 February. Shearer stated \"It's a club I love and I don't want them to go down. I'll do everything I can to stop that.\" Shearer was unveiled at a press conference the following day by club managing director Derek Llambias. In explaining his acceptance of a managerial role at Newcastle at this time, Shearer stated that he would not have done this for", "id": "13592552" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nwas being run in the wake of the departure of Kevin Keegan. These reports were denied by the club. Shearer features in EA Sports' \"FIFA\" video game series; he was included in the \"FIFA 15\" Ultimate Team Legends. During his playing days, Shearer had been involved with the children's charity the NSPCC, taking part in the organisation's Full Stop campaign in 1999. Since retiring from football Shearer has also done work for several charities both nationally and in the Newcastle area. In his testimonial match", "id": "13592565" }, { "contents": "2005–06 Newcastle United F.C. season\n\n\n. The fee, £17 million, surpassed Newcastle's previous record of £15 million for Alan Shearer from Blackburn in 1996. In the closing hours of the transfer window, the club re-signed Nolberto Solano from Aston Villa. Souness's decision to pair Shearer and Owen together up front proved to be lethal, but Owen broke his fourth metatarsal bone in his foot after a clash with Paul Robinson in a match against Tottenham Hotspur, keeping him out for the rest of the season. With Owen injured the team's", "id": "18086094" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\ndue to injury and the team failed to reach the competition finals. UEFA Euro 1996 was a more positive experience for both Shearer and England. With England not required to qualify as hosts, Shearer had not scored in 12 games in the 21 months prior, and even his overall goalscoring record for England did not look too impressive so far, with five goals in 23 games. However, he found the net in the 22nd minute of the first game, against Switzerland. Scoring once in the following game against Scotland and twice", "id": "13592539" }, { "contents": "Teddy Sheringham\n\n\nthe 2000 European Championships by then manager Kevin Keegan, but the retirement of Shearer (despite being four years younger than Sheringham) from international football after that tournament and the arrival of new manager Sven-Göran Eriksson in 2001 saw a return to international favour for him. He was often deployed as a tactical substitute late in games by Eriksson, valued for his ability to hold the ball up and create intelligent play. In 2001, Sheringham scored an important goal for England against Greece in a World Cup qualifying match within 15 seconds", "id": "2997070" }, { "contents": "Ruud Gullit\n\n\n, chairman Ken Bates famously said of Gullit, \"I didn't like his arrogance – in fact I never liked him.\" In August 1998, Gullit was named manager of Newcastle United two games into the new league season and reached the 1999 FA Cup Final in his first year. Fans remained supportive despite a poor run of results, although a well-publicised contretemps with the team's top scorer Alan Shearer and captain Robert Lee did not put him in a favourable light. Gullit even refused to assign Lee a squad", "id": "13592616" }, { "contents": "Scott Parker\n\n\ndefeat on 25 March 2006. Later that month he was diagnosed with glandular fever, putting an end to his season. The timing was especially unfortunate for Parker, who had been playing well for Newcastle, as it ended any hopes he may have had of forcing his way into the 2006 FIFA World Cup. In July 2006, he was named Newcastle United's new captain by manager Glenn Roeder, succeeding the retired Alan Shearer. His first goal as captain came against Wigan Athletic on 19 August 2006, in a 2–1 win", "id": "14327157" }, { "contents": "History of football in England\n\n\n. United's main challengers for the title in the Premier League's first few years were Blackburn Rovers, led by star striker Alan Shearer, also won their first league title since World War I in 1994–95, and Newcastle United, who famously conceded a 10-point lead at Christmas to lose the title to United in 1995–96. Newcastle had reached the Premiership in 1993 as Division One champions, and in their first Premiership campaign finished third to qualify for the UEFA Cup. They finished second in 1996 and again in 1997, but by", "id": "3652862" }, { "contents": "1992–93 FA Premier League\n\n\nPremier League as an attempt by the Football Association to \"hijack\" the First Division. Shortly before the season began, newly promoted Blackburn Rovers signed Southampton's 21-year-old England international striker Alan Shearer for a new British record fee variously reported as £3.3 million, £3.4 million, or £3.6 million. Several other players moved for fees of £2 million or more, including Arsenal's David Rocastle, who joined Leeds United, Dean Saunders, who moved from Liverpool to Aston Villa, and Teddy Sheringham, who", "id": "12442383" }, { "contents": "Darren Anderton\n\n\nhappy at the prospect of losing another key player as he had already lost Jürgen Klinsmann and Gheorghe Popescu that summer; and Nick Barmby was on the verge of joining Middlesbrough. Despite missing most of the 1995–96 season through injury, Anderton played an important part in the Euro 96 England team that reached the semi-finals and included players like Paul Gascoigne, Alan Shearer, Steve McManaman and Teddy Sheringham. In the semi final against Germany, the match went to golden goal extra time. Anderton came within inches of putting England into", "id": "4331581" }, { "contents": "Wallsend Boys Club\n\n\nJanuary which damaged one of the walls of the building. Professional players to have played for the club include: The club has had a representative at four of the six FIFA World Cup finals since 1986, with the two exceptions coming in 1994, when the England national football team did not qualify, and 2002. In 1986 and 1990 Peter Beardsley starred for England. In 1998 Alan Shearer was England captain. Michael Carrick made appearances for England in both the 2006 and 2010 tournaments. Fraser Forster was in the 2014 squad but", "id": "21182372" }, { "contents": "Harry Kane\n\n\n\". Clive Allen, who coached him at Tottenham, stated that \"one thing I'd say about him, which unfortunately you don't say about a lot of young footballers, is that he had a passion for the game. He loves football, he loves playing, he loves scoring goals\". His former Tottenham under-21 coach Les Ferdinand likened Kane's movement to their former forward Teddy Sheringham, and the power and accuracy of his shots to Alan Shearer. Kane's style of play has been compared to that of", "id": "1925319" }, { "contents": "Kieron Dyer\n\n\nthat he would soon rejoin for Ipswich. After representing England at Youth, Under 21 and \"B\" level, Dyer's debut for the senior team came on 4 September 1999 when he started in England's 6–0 win against Luxembourg. He was deployed out of position at right back, and was replaced by Gary Neville at half-time after injuring himself while setting up Alan Shearer's third goal of the match. The injury was not serious and he was able to make his second England appearance four days later, coming", "id": "17666181" }, { "contents": "1996–97 Blackburn Rovers F.C. season\n\n\nthe end of the season, when he handed over the reins to Roy Hodgson after Sampdoria's Sven-Göran Eriksson lied about accepting the manager's job and joined Lazio instead. Parkes steered Blackburn to safety as they finished 13th. The world record £15 million sale of striker Alan Shearer to Newcastle United was seen as the biggest factor in Blackburn's lowest top flight finish since they returned to the elite in 1992. However, his strike-partner Chris Sutton helped keep the club alive after recovering from a drastic loss of", "id": "7811146" }, { "contents": "Michael Owen\n\n\nmuch of the campaign as England struggled, with Hoddle being replaced by Kevin Keegan. On 4 September 1999, he scored his first goal at Wembley Stadium in a 6–0 win over Luxembourg. At the finals, Owen scored once in three matches, as England were knocked out at the group stage. After Alan Shearer's retirement, Owen took over as England's senior striker under new manager Sven-Göran Eriksson. He scored six times during 2002 World Cup qualifying, including a hat-trick against Germany at Munich's Olympiastadion", "id": "21886807" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nyet to start the UEFA Pro Licence course, which is required to be permitted to manage a team in the Premier League and European competition. Reflecting his desire for personal time off to \"enjoy life\", in July 2006 he turned down a coaching role with England, citing his BBC commitments and desire to be away from the pressure of a job within football. Despite this, Shearer was often linked in the media with managerial or coaching positions at his three former clubs. Shearer took a brief role in the dugout for", "id": "13592550" }, { "contents": "History of Southampton F.C.\n\n\nappearances for the England national team – he finally retired in 2002 at the age of 33. During his time with the Saints, Le Tissier was approached more than once by several bigger clubs (including Manchester United) but chose to stick with the Saints despite never winning a major trophy or experiencing European football with them. From 1989 to 1992, Le Tissier was regularly partnered up front by another notable player, Alan Shearer, who as a 17-year-old had scored a hat-trick on his Saints debut against Arsenal in", "id": "15948278" }, { "contents": "Sir Bobby Robson Trophy match\n\n\nNewcastle United, picking up on Alan Shearer's reply of \"I know as much as you do,\" to a pre-match question as to whether he would be installed as Newcastle manager for the forthcoming season beginning in 13 days, with the club being up for sale and with the first team without a manager, being in the care of coach Chris Hughton. Neither the Newcastle United owner Mike Ashley or managing director Derek Llambias were in attendance at the charity match. Having left England after Italia '90, Sir", "id": "19612022" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nChancellor Liam Donaldson stated \"Newcastle United are my team. Alan Shearer is more than just a local legend, he's probably one of the greatest footballers of all time\". On 12 September 2016, a statue of Shearer's likeness was unveiled outside St James' Park. It was sculpted by Tom Maley, and paid for by the Shepherd family. After his retirement and following guest appearances, Shearer became a regular pundit for the BBC's \"Match of the Day\". He also formed part of the team which", "id": "13592563" }, { "contents": "Gary McAllister\n\n\ntournament, scoring in a 3–0 win over the CIS. However, Scotland did not qualify from their group. Scotland failed to qualify for the 1994 FIFA World Cup but did qualify for UEFA Euro 1996 in England, with McAllister the captain of the team. Scotland's second match of the group stage was against England at Wembley Stadium. In the second half Scotland, trailing 0–1 to an Alan Shearer goal, were awarded a penalty. McAllister's kick was saved by David Seaman and Scotland lost 0–2. The team won their", "id": "19492391" }, { "contents": "David Seaman\n\n\nEngland's quarter-final against Spain ended scoreless, Seaman saved Miguel Angel Nadal's kick in the shootout to knock Spain out of the tournament. England eventually were eliminated in the semi-final by Germany on penalties,after Andreas Köpke saved the penalty taken by Gareth Southgate. Seaman was named alongside Golden Boot winner Alan Shearer and winger Steve McManaman in the UEFA \"Team of the Tournament\". Euro 96 sponsor Philips named him \"Player of the Tournament\". Seaman remained first choice under the management of Glenn Hoddle for", "id": "7321893" }, { "contents": "1998 FA Cup Final\n\n\nand so has the mixture between the foreign and English players.\" Wenger reserved praise for the goalscorers Overmars (\"a world-class player\") and Anelka (\"Nicolas is very young. But you saw in the second half today what he can do\"), and felt the turning point in the match was Shearer's shot hitting the post. He sympathised with Newcastle, as did his captain, Adams who said afterwards: \"The team and their fans did everything they could out there, but it was", "id": "10844688" }, { "contents": "David McMahon (association footballer)\n\n\nabout the role of striker from watching England international Alan Shearer in training, but likened himself more to Newcastle's Scotland international Duncan Ferguson, \"because I am taller and like to battle for things in the air.\" Brian Kerr, then manager of Ireland under-17s, described McMahon as honest and hard-working, \"not the most skilful player, but will get goals\", but Darlington manager Gary Bennett believed there was more to his game: that he and strike partner John Williams both had enough skill to play a", "id": "5423888" }, { "contents": "Andy Carroll\n\n\nUEFA Euro 2012. He opened the scoring for England with a powerful header in their second group match against Sweden, which England went on to win 3–2. Carroll has been compared to Newcastle's record goalscorer Alan Shearer, Ivory Coast striker Didier Drogba and former Italy forward Christian Vieri. He has also been referred to as a classic centre forward, owing to his strength, powerful shot and excellent heading ability. Former Newcastle manager and Liverpool player Kevin Keegan stated \"he is probably in the top three headers of a ball I", "id": "11961542" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\n-chasing Manchester United. On the opening day of the 1999–2000 season, Shearer received the first red card of his career in his 100th appearance for Newcastle. After dropping Shearer to the bench in a Tyne-Wear derby loss against Sunderland, the unpopular Gullit resigned to be replaced by the 66-year-old Bobby Robson. Despite Gullit giving Shearer the captain's armband, reports of a rift between club captain and manager were rife, Gullit's decision to drop Shearer proved deeply unpopular with fans and his departure capped a dismal start", "id": "13592525" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nAn almost injury-free season helped Shearer improve on his previous year's tally in the 1998–99 season, the striker converting 14 goals in 30 league games and replacing Rob Lee as Newcastle captain, but Newcastle finished 13th again, with Ruud Gullit having replaced Kenny Dalglish just after the season got underway. He also helped Newcastle to a second consecutive FA Cup final and qualification for the following season's UEFA Cup, scoring twice in the semi-final against Tottenham Hotspur, but they once again lost, this time 2–0 to treble", "id": "13592524" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nhis final three games under Glenn Roeder. Shearer had rejected offers of coaching or assistant roles at Newcastle under both the returning Kevin Keegan in February 2008 and Joe Kinnear in November 2008. Shearer had previously had talks about, but never been offered, a full-time manager's role at Newcastle until his appointment on 1 April 2009. In a surprise move, late on 1 April 2009, it was announced that Shearer would become the manager of his former club Newcastle United for the remaining eight games of the season, taking", "id": "13592551" }, { "contents": "Fabio Cannavaro\n\n\nnational team on 22 January 1997, in a friendly match against Northern Ireland. The same year, he earned plaudits for his handling of England striker Alan Shearer in a World Cup qualifying game at Wembley Stadium. Shearer was then considered by the partisan English crowd to be the best striker in the world, and thought he would make fun of the inexperienced Italian defender. Nevertheless, in a display ranking alongside those of the very best Italian defenders Claudio Gentile and Franco Baresi, Cannavaro managed to keep Shearer quiet for the whole game", "id": "3625067" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\n, with media sources claiming that video footage showed him intentionally kicking Neil Lennon in the head following a challenge. The referee of the game took no action against Shearer, and he was then cleared of all charges by the FA, with Lennon giving evidence in the player's defence. Former Football Association chief Graham Kelly, who brought the charges against the player, later claimed in his autobiography that Shearer had threatened to withdraw himself from the 1998 World Cup squad if the charges were upheld, a claim strenuously denied by Shearer.", "id": "13592523" }, { "contents": "History of the Romania national football team\n\n\nminnows Tunisia. Adrian Ilie scored the only goal with a fine chip in their first match against Colombia at Lyon's Stade Gerland. In Toulouse, they met an England side starting with prodigal striker Michael Owen on the bench, with Teddy Sheringham preferred alongside Alan Shearer. A mistake by Tony Adams was punished by Viorel Moldovan, who played for Coventry City, before Owen came on to claim an equalizer. But Romania won with a scrappy late goal from Dan Petrescu, also playing in England with Chelsea, fighting off his club", "id": "16435718" }, { "contents": "John Barnes (footballer)\n\n\nNewcastle United, although an approach had already been made by Harry Redknapp of West Ham; Barnes had agreed in principle to join them until at the final moment Dalglish called him and Barnes changed his mind. In the 1997–98 season Barnes played up front mostly, deputising for Alan Shearer after Shearer was injured for most of the season, and Barnes ended up Newcastle's top league scorer with six goals, which highlighted the Magpies' lack of ability to score in the absence of Shearer and Ferdinand (who had been sold along with", "id": "19616669" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\ncould not find a more iconic person than Alan, not just for what he has done in football but for all the extra work he tirelessly does for charity and communities. I am delighted he has accepted the role of Deputy Lieutenant because he is a real role model. I have promised him he is not going to have to do too much, but even if it is just one occasion a year he is the perfect choice\" On 7 December 2009, Shearer was made a Doctor of Civil Law by Newcastle University.", "id": "13592562" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nLaw of Northumbria and Newcastle Universities. Shearer was born in Gosforth, Newcastle, in 1970 to working-class parents Alan and Anne Shearer. His father, a sheet-metal worker, encouraged a keen Shearer to play football in his youth, and the young player continued with the sport as he progressed through school. He was educated at Gosforth Central Middle School and Gosforth High School. Growing up playing on the streets of his hometown, he originally played in midfield because \"it meant [he] could get more involved", "id": "13592504" }, { "contents": "Paul Kitson\n\n\n. Newcastle finished second that season after being overhauled in the second half campaign by a Manchester United side who sealed the title by a five-point margin barely four months after Newcastle had led by 10 points, but Kitson's part in Newcastle's exciting though ultimately disappointing campaign had been minimal as he had played just seven league games and scored twice. But he remained loyal to the Magpies even after another blow at the end of July 1996 – the arrival of £15 million world record signing Alan Shearer. He managed three", "id": "19054464" }, { "contents": "Ray Harford\n\n\nthe Premier League for much of the season. During the summer of 1996, Alan Shearer was sold to Newcastle United for a then world record fee of £15 million, and Harford failed to adequately replace him. Harford stated that \"I'm told we need a big name. Engelbert Humperdinck is a big name but it doesn't mean he can play football.\" The 1996–97 season also started badly for Blackburn. They failed to win any of their first ten games and were knocked out of the League Cup by Division", "id": "5365351" }, { "contents": "Patrick Kluivert\n\n\nagain featured for Barca in a legends game against Uganda all stars where he, in lobbing the ball, scored an amazing goal. Kluivert joined Newcastle United on a free transfer in July 2004. He stated that his reasons for joining Newcastle was due to the overwhelming reaction he received whilst playing for Barcelona against Newcastle during a pre season friendly as well as teaming up with Newcastle's star players such as Alan Shearer. Kluivert scored some classy and crucial goals at and away from St James's Park namely in winning strikes against both", "id": "21654890" }, { "contents": "Duncan Shearer\n\n\nbetween 1994 and 1995, scoring two goals including an important opening strike in an away win over Finland which helped the national side qualify for Euro 96, although Shearer did not make the squad for that tournament. The senior team was his first experience of international football, having never played at any age-group level. He achieved a childhood ambition when he played in the national team alongside John McGinlay, a childhood friend also from Fort William. In season 1999–00 he began to concentrate more on coaching than playing, and was", "id": "3716411" }, { "contents": "Les Ferdinand\n\n\nscored 50 goals in only 84 games at Newcastle, forming a successful partnership with Alan Shearer. He was and indeed is still very highly thought of by Newcastle United. Ferdinand received a standing ovation when he returned to St. James' Park as a Tottenham player, trying to put Alan Shearer's number 9 shirt on to complete a lap of honour, he broke down in tears and could only manage to put the shirt on inside out and back to front before being helped from the field. Ferdinand returned again, when he", "id": "2996528" }, { "contents": "David Platt (footballer)\n\n\nTurkey, San Marino, the Netherlands and Norway. The qualifiers began at home to Norway. England dominated the game and Platt carried the goal threat, with Alan Shearer and Ian Wright struggling to find form. He scored the opening goal after an hour. England dominated the remainder of the game and were unlucky to concede to a long-range shot from Kjetil Rekdal. Platt continued his drive from midfield in wins over Turkey at home (4-0) and San Marino (6-0). Platt scored four", "id": "16718350" }, { "contents": "Jason Wilcox\n\n\n-pound investments of Jack Walker. He played an important part in the title-winning Blackburn team of 1995. Playing on the left flank with attacking fullback Graeme Le Saux behind him and Stuart Ripley on the opposite flank, they forged a strong attacking line-up with Alan Shearer and Chris Sutton. International recognition was harder to come by for Wilcox and he managed only 3 international caps despite his effective partnership with Shearer, Le Saux and Tim Sherwood. Lengthy injury problems restricted his effectiveness in subsequent seasons and, after experiencing", "id": "14527253" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nclub's form, and Newcastle finished just 13th in the Premier League. However, United (now managed by Shearer's old boss at Blackburn, Kenny Dalglish) had a good run in the FA Cup; Shearer scored the winning goal in a semi-final victory over Sheffield United as the team reached the final. The team were unable to get on the scoresheet at Wembley, and lost the game 2–0 to Arsenal. An incident during a game against Leicester City in the league saw Shearer charged with misconduct by the FA", "id": "13592522" }, { "contents": "Aleksandar Mitrović (footballer)\n\n\nhim the competition's top scorer, and 28 in all competitions. On 22 March 2015, he scored the team's only goal in the 2–1 Belgian Cup Final loss to Club Brugge KV in Brussels. On 21 July 2015, Mitrović joined Newcastle United on a five-year contract for a reported £13 million, saying he hoped to be able to play like club legend Alan Shearer. He made his debut on 9 August as Newcastle began the season with a 2–2 draw against Southampton at St James' Park, playing", "id": "20923735" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nWest Bromwich Albion, Manchester City and Newcastle United, before being offered a youth contract with Southampton in April 1986. Shearer was promoted to the first team after spending two years with the youth squad. He made his professional debut for Southampton on 26 March 1988, coming on as a substitute in a First Division fixture at Chelsea, before prompting national headlines in his full debut at The Dell two weeks later. He scored a hat-trick, helping the team to a 4–2 victory against Arsenal, thus becoming the youngest player", "id": "13592506" }, { "contents": "James Milner\n\n\ndo what was \"in the club's best interest\" and in July 2004, he agreed a five-year contract with Newcastle. Milner made his first appearance for Newcastle United during their pre-season tour of Asia, scoring his first goal for the club in a 1–1 draw against Kitchee, in Hong Kong. During this tour, he took the opportunity to observe how Newcastle striker Alan Shearer dealt with attention from fans and the media. He said that his association with people like Shearer gave him a better idea of", "id": "1860603" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nretain the ball and provide opportunities for teammates. Playing as a lone striker between wide men, Rod Wallace and Matt Le Tissier, Shearer scored three goals in 26 appearances in the 1989–90 season, and in the next, four goals in 36 games. His performances in the centre of the \"Saints\" attack were soon recognised by the fans, who voted him their Player of the Year for 1991. In the middle of 1991, Shearer was a member of the England national under-21 football squad in the Toulon Tournament in Toulon", "id": "13592508" }, { "contents": "Teddy Sheringham\n\n\n, creating play and providing key passes, forming the link between Shearer and the England midfield. The pairing came to be known as 'The SAS' ('Shearer and Sheringham') and their most successful time together came in the 1996 European Championships, held in England. Their most famous contribution was in the 4–1 victory over the Netherlands, a game in the opening group stages in which they both scored twice against one of the strongest teams in the tournament. Though England were eventually knocked out in the semi-finals", "id": "2997067" }, { "contents": "History of the England national football team\n\n\ninto Euro 2000 after a 2–1 aggregate playoff win over Scotland. At the finals in Belgium and the Netherlands, a lacklustre England failed to get beyond the group stage, losing to both Portugal and Romania after leading in each game. After England's exit, Alan Shearer retired from international football, he had announced his intentions before the tournament, and no-one could persuade him to change his mind. On 7 October 2000, shortly after losing the opening World Cup qualifier to Germany in the last-ever game at Wembley", "id": "15089411" }, { "contents": "Premier League 10 Seasons Awards\n\n\nrepresented, with five players. The teams were as follows: English striker Alan Shearer was named Domestic Player of the Decade in the main 10 Seasons awards announcements, in addition to being given the Outstanding Contribution to the FA Premier League award. Two weeks later he was also named as the Overall Player of the Decade. In the first decade, Shearer played for Blackburn Rovers, and then Newcastle United. Shearer has been described as a classic English centre-forward with great shooting power, a single-minded striker who could", "id": "11856460" }, { "contents": "Wartime League\n\n\narguments debate that a player who exceeds one's record through their wartime matches should nonetheless be seen as the club's highest goal scorer or appearance having been part of the team's squad even if only for a short time. The most recent argument relates to the goal-difference between Jackie Milburn's and Alan Shearer's Newcastle United goal-scoring records. When counting Jackie's wartime matches, he scored a total of 238 professional goals for Newcastle United FC. In May 2005, Alan Shearer finished his career at 206 goals", "id": "17626256" }, { "contents": "Jon Dahl Tomasson\n\n\nas the perfect link-up player to England national team striker Alan Shearer. The partnership initially worked well, with Tomasson impressing during a pre-season friendly tournament in the Republic of Ireland. However, a career threatening injury to Shearer, combined with the controversial transfer of popular striker Les Ferdinand to Tottenham Hotspur, meant that Tomasson was moved from his traditional attacking midfield position to that of striker. He struggled to adapt to his new position on the field, and to the English game, due to his lack of physical", "id": "19324628" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\ncovered the World Cups and European Championships from 2006 onwards for the BBC. Former Newcastle chairman Freddy Shepherd announced that, after Shearer finished the 2005–06 season as Newcastle's caretaker assistant manager, he would become the club's \"Sporting Ambassador\" for the 2006–07 season. However, in September 2008, it was reported that Shearer was removed from this largely honorary position by the club's owner Mike Ashley, despite protests from players such as Steven Taylor and Damien Duff, due to Shearer's criticism of the way in which the club", "id": "13592564" }, { "contents": "1998 FA Cup Final\n\n\nthe final that Bergkamp had resumed training and \"medically he looked all right\", but the player received a further setback when he suffered a reaction to his hamstring. He ruled himself out of the match and told reporters: \"I'm very disappointed. As a little boy in Holland I always watched the FA Cup final. And I used to dream about playing in it myself one day.\" Ian Wright was listed as Bergkamp's probable replacement to partner Anelka. Newcastle had their own issues surrounding Shearer. The England", "id": "10844676" }, { "contents": "2008–09 in English football\n\n\n's surprise resignation in December; whilst their final points tally wasn't spectacular, they had the satisfaction of being the top North-East team in football after both Middlesbrough and Newcastle United were relegated, ending 11 and 16 year spells in the top flight respectively, the latter going through four managers in Kevin Keegan, Joe Kinnear, Chris Hughton and even former striker Alan Shearer during the campaign. Despite a brilliant start to the season which saw them as high as third place in October, Hull City won just 1 of their", "id": "1311754" }, { "contents": "1996 FA Charity Shield\n\n\nfrom Eric Cantona, Nicky Butt, David Beckham and Roy Keane. The game saw new signings Jordi Cruyff and Karel Poborský make their debuts for Manchester United, though neither of these players had particularly successful careers at Old Trafford and both had left the club within four years. The day before the game had seen the surprise sale of one of Manchester United's longest serving players — Lee Sharpe. The game saw Newcastle United give a debut to £15 million world record signing Alan Shearer, who would remain at the club until", "id": "2797098" }, { "contents": "UEFA Euro 2016 knockout phase\n\n\nsection begin=g6 /section end=g6 / section begin=g7 /section end=g7 / The match has been described as one of England's worst defeats ever. Former footballer and Talksport presenter Stan Collymore, who was commentating on the game, panned the England team, reserving special criticism for goalkeeper Joe Hart and captain Wayne Rooney. Former England international and BBC Sport pundit Alan Shearer described it as the worst performance he had ever seen from an England team. The defeat was called England's most shocking since losing 1–0 to", "id": "11344909" }, { "contents": "Maurice E. Shearer\n\n\nApplication at Annapolis, Maryland, with classmates Holland Smith, Ralph S. Keyser and Andrew B. Drum. In July, Shearer sailed for duty to be the commander of the 35 man Marine detachment on Midway Island. In May 1908, he was selected for promotion to first lieutenant and to the rank of captain in June 1916. During World War I, forces under Major Shearer's command made an attack on Belleau Wood, finally clearing that forest of Germans. On 26 June 1918, he sent a now famous report: \"", "id": "8315540" }, { "contents": "Newcastle upon Tyne\n\n\nF.C. became Football League members in 1893. They have won four top division titles (the first in 1905 and the most recent in 1927), six FA Cups (the first in 1910 and the most recent in 1955) and the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup in 1969. They broke the world transfer record in 1996 by paying £15 million for Blackburn Rovers and England striker Alan Shearer, one of the most prolific goalscorers of that era. In 2017 Newcastle was the venue for the 2017 Freedom City festival. The 2017", "id": "20529704" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\ngame and came off the bench to score a penalty, helping Newcastle win the game 3–2. The match was a sell-out, and saw Shearer perform a lap of honour at the end with his family, with his young son notably covering his ears due to the volume of noise produced by the crowd in tribute. Shearer's international career began in 1990 when he was handed a callup to the England under-21 squad under Dave Sexton. During his time with the squad, he scored 13 times in 11 games, a", "id": "13592537" }, { "contents": "2011–12 Cardiff City F.C. season\n\n\nserving manager in the Championship having held his post since May 2005. The club held talks with former England and Newcastle United captain Alan Shearer to replace Jones but he rejected the job despite stating that he was impressed with the \"vision, ambition and determination of the owner Dato Chan Tien Ghee and the board\". The \"Bluebirds\" instead approached Championship rivals Watford for permission to speak to their manager Malky Mackay, which was initially rejected. However, after the two clubs agreed a compensation fee, Mackay was officially appointed as", "id": "7599659" }, { "contents": "Kevin Keegan\n\n\nto Michael Owen, stating, \"He's not scared to give his opinion when he's right, and he's not scared to say what he feels. He's a tremendous professional, and he trains properly every day.\" Keegan announced on 22 January that he and Alan Shearer held talks about the two linking up with Shearer as his assistant, but decided against the idea, leaving the door open for him to take other roles he was interested in. Keegan's first eight games back at Newcastle passed without a", "id": "826473" }, { "contents": "Transfer (association football)\n\n\n£3.6 million Alan Shearer moved to Blackburn Rovers from Southampton, a decade after the world's first £3 million transfer. Lentini's transfer remained intact the world record fee for the next four years, although the national record was broken more than once in many countries including England. Shearer's £3.6million record fee was narrowly eclipsed 12 months later when Manchester United signed Roy Keane from Nottingham Forest for £3.75 million. In 1994, Blackburn Rovers paid a record £5 million for Chris Sutton from Norwich City, a decade", "id": "11200095" }, { "contents": "Roy Hodgson\n\n\nagainst Costa Rica to finish bottom of Group D. Hodgson named Rooney as the new captain of England in August 2014, following the retirement of Steven Gerrard from international football. Hodgson's first match after the World Cup was a 1–0 win against Norway in an international friendly match at Wembley on 3 September 2014. During the match, England made only two shots on target. Hodgson was infuriated when asked about this, describing the statistic as \"fucking bollocks\". Former England player, Alan Shearer, admitted that the match was so", "id": "12858624" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nto the season. The animosity between Shearer and Gullit was later confirmed by the latter, who reported telling the striker that he was \"...the most overrated player I have ever seen.\" Ironically, Robson had tried to sign Shearer for Barcelona in 1997, making a bid of £20million which would have seen Shearer break the world's transfer fee record for the second time in 12 months. However, then Newcastle manager Kenny Dalglish rejected the offer. In Robson's first match in charge, Shearer scored five goals in", "id": "13592526" }, { "contents": "Premier League 10 Seasons Awards\n\n\nin his talks with Alex Ferguson, he could not guarantee that Eric Cantona the Overseas Player of the Decade could be persuaded to let Shearer take penalty kicks. Shearer gained a second PFA Players' Player of the Year Award in April 1997, becoming just the second player to have received the PFA award twice, after Mark Hughes. After the 2000 European Championships, Shearer had retired from international football with England, having been England captain since 1998, and having made his senior début in 1992. Shearer was awarded the OBE in", "id": "11856465" }, { "contents": "Emile Heskey\n\n\nthe two matches, with former England international Alan Shearer commenting, \"Never in a million years did I expect to be discussing whether Emile Heskey should keep his place ahead of Wayne Rooney but the Wigan striker was outstanding over both matches.\" Heskey was called into manager Fabio Capello's first squad against Switzerland, but had to withdraw due to an injury. He was called into the squad for a friendly against the Czech Republic in August 2008 and came on as a 46th-minute substitute, in a match that finished 2–2", "id": "174986" }, { "contents": "Habib Beye\n\n\nUEFA Cup Final, a run which involved him putting in a star performance as a central defender against (his now former team) Newcastle United, where he was particularly effective against Newcastle's talisman striker Alan Shearer. He ended up on the losing side as Marseille lost the final to Valencia 2–0. He was also a beaten finalist in the 2006 French Cup against former club Paris Saint-Germain, a match which his team lost 2–1, and again in 2007 when his Marseille team lost on penalties to FC Sochaux. His", "id": "16217445" }, { "contents": "Stan Collymore\n\n\nseason in the Premier League, Collymore was called up to Terry Venables' England squad for the Umbro Cup in June 1995. He made his début at Wembley Stadium against Japan, partnering Alan Shearer in a 2–1 win. He won his second cap as a 90th minute substitute against Brazil. Collymore made his third and final appearance for England as a substitute in a 4–0 win over Moldova during qualification for the 1998 FIFA World Cup. Collymore contributed to his biography \"Stan: Tackling my demons\" with Oliver Holt. In 2005", "id": "3955590" }, { "contents": "Graeme Souness\n\n\nAt £8.2 million, Boumsong was his first big signing and Souness said he would replace Jonathan Woodgate in the Newcastle defence, which had conceded several leads earlier in the season. Newcastle were well aware of Boumsong prior to his move from Auxerre to Rangers on a free transfer. Robson had travelled to France to watch him, but he declined the opportunity to sign Boumsong. Liverpool were also interested in signing Boumsong. Robson's doubts were confirmed when Boumsong marked Alan Shearer in a pre-season game against Rangers. Shearer came", "id": "18029254" }, { "contents": "Saido Berahino\n\n\nrate of a goal every other match, including three to help the team qualify for the European Championship. Berahino has the all-time third-highest goal tally for the England under-21 side with 10 goals in 13 appearances, behind Francis Jeffers and Alan Shearer. On 6 November 2014, England manager Roy Hodgson – who promoted Berahino to the West Bromwich Albion first team in 2011 – named Berahino in his squad for the first time, ahead of a UEFA Euro 2016 qualifying match against Slovenia at Wembley Stadium on the 15th and", "id": "1000466" } ]

[ { "contents": "Tony Adams\n\n\n\"I have some resentment over the way Glenn Hoddle gave the captaincy to Alan Shearer instead of me but I can let that go. I reacted positively. I disagreed with him [Hoddle] and he thought Alan could get more penalties being a centre forward. People know my reaction to that\". Adams continued to play for the national side, however and he finally appeared in a World Cup finals in 1998. His international swansong was England's unsuccessful Euro 2000 campaign. With Shearer retiring from international football after the tournament", "id": "6104102" }, { "contents": "Tony Adams\n\n\nin defence, and after the retirement of Gary Lineker in 1992, Adams unofficially shared the captaincy of England with David Platt, though Adams became England captain outright before Euro 96, as Platt's place in the side became less secure. England reached the semi-finals of Euro 96, before losing on penalties to Germany. When England manager Glenn Hoddle took the Captain's armband from Adams and gave it to Alan Shearer it was a bitter pill for Adams to swallow. Speaking at a fans' forum in 2008 Adams remarked", "id": "6104101" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nThis time, Germany won from the spot; although Shearer scored, his teammate Gareth Southgate missed his kick and England were eliminated. Shearer's five goals made him the competition's top scorer, and together with teammates David Seaman and Steve McManaman, was listed in the official UEFA team of the tournament. The new England manager Glenn Hoddle appointed Shearer captain for the 1998 FIFA World Cup qualifier against Moldova on 1 September 1996, and the player held onto the captaincy after scoring once in that match and twice in the following game", "id": "13592541" }, { "contents": "Dimitar Berbatov\n\n\nhe consequently modelled himself after Marco van Basten, the Dutch forward for that team. However, the 1996 European Championship, held in England, gave Berbatov a new role model; the 15-year-old Berbatov began to look up to the English front man Alan Shearer, who played for Newcastle United. Berbatov's mother later spoke of her son's teenage dream of playing for Newcastle United, and said that his admiration for Shearer was such that, during these years, he slept in a Newcastle shirt. Berbatov began his youth", "id": "3905446" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\n's participation in what was to be Shearer's only World Cup tournament. In September 1999, Shearer scored his only England hat-trick in a UEFA Euro 2000 qualifier against Luxembourg. This helped England reach a play-off against Scotland; England won the game over two legs and in doing so qualified for the European Championships. By now, Shearer was approaching his 30th birthday, and he announced that he intended to retire from international football after the Euro 2000 tournament. Shearer did not score in England's opening 3–2 defeat", "id": "13592544" }, { "contents": "Southampton F.C.\n\n\nwas Alan Shearer, who at the age of 17 scored a hat-trick against Arsenal in a league match in April 1988. Shearer was a first team regular by 1990, and stayed with Southampton until July 1992, when he was sold to Blackburn Rovers for a national record of more than £3 million. He then became the most expensive footballer in the world when Blackburn sold him to Newcastle for £15 million in 1996. He also scored 30 times for England internationally. Southampton were founding members of the Premier League", "id": "3265953" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\ntime to play in England's UEFA European Championship campaign. After Euro 96, Manchester United again sought to sign Shearer, and attempted to enter the battle for his signature. However Manchester United chairman Martin Edwards stated that Blackburn Rovers refused to let Shearer go to Old Trafford. Ultimately Shearer joined his boyhood club: Newcastle United, Manchester United's title rivals. On 30 July 1996, for a world transfer record-breaking £15 million (equivalent to £ million today) Shearer joined his hometown club and league runners-up", "id": "13592519" }, { "contents": "History of the England national football team\n\n\nyear after his last game at club level. Hoddle selected Alan Shearer as captain, replacing Tony Adams, but also brought a number of emerging talents into the squad, including the Manchester United midfield trio of Paul Scholes, Nicky Butt and David Beckham, and central defenders Rio Ferdinand and Sol Campbell. Hoddle oversaw England's qualification for the 1998 World Cup (the first World Cup with 32 teams instead of 24) with a 0–0 draw against Italy at the Stadio Olimpico in Rome, and drew out a winning performance in the", "id": "15089406" }, { "contents": "History of the England national football team\n\n\nthe underwhelming performance at the World Cup, England suffered a poor start to the Euro 2000 qualifying tournament, and there was reported discontent between Hoddle and several senior players, most notably Shearer. Hoddle was dismissed on 2 February 1999, two days after an interview with \"The Sunday Times\" in which he spoke about his belief in reincarnation and claimed that disabled people were paying for sins in a previous life. Under considerable media and public pressure, the FA appointed former captain Kevin Keegan, who only just managed to get England", "id": "15089410" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nagainst Poland. He scored a total of five goals in England's successful qualification campaign for the World Cup, adding strikes against Georgia and away to Poland to his tally. Shearer was sidelined for much of the 1997–98 season, but recovered to play in the World Cup finals. With Michael Owen replacing Teddy Sheringham as Shearer's strike partner, Shearer's return saw him score England's first goal of the tournament, in a 2–0 win over Tunisia, his only goal in the three group matches. England faced long-time", "id": "13592542" }, { "contents": "Newcastle United F.C.\n\n\n. The attacking philosophy of Keegan led to the team being labelled \"The Entertainers\" by Sky Sports. Keegan took Newcastle to two consecutive runners-up finishes in the league in 1995–96 and 1996–97, coming very close to winning the title in the former season. This success was in part due to the talent of players like David Ginola, Les Ferdinand and Alan Shearer, who was signed on 30 July 1996 for a then world record fee of £15 million. Keegan left Newcastle in January 1997 and was replaced by Kenny", "id": "12636363" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nAlan Shearer, CBE, DL (born 13 August 1970) is an English retired footballer. He played as a striker in the top level of English league football for Southampton, Blackburn Rovers, Newcastle United and the England national team. He is Newcastle's and the Premier League's record goalscorer. He was named Football Writers' Association Player of the Year in 1994 and won the PFA Player of the Year award in 1995. In 1996, he was third in the FIFA World Player of the Year awards. In 2004", "id": "13592501" }, { "contents": "Teddy Sheringham\n\n\nmanager Terry Venables (1994–96) Sheringham came to be the preferred strike partner for Alan Shearer. During this time, England had a wealth of strikers with the likes of Andrew Cole, Ian Wright, a young Robbie Fowler and Les Ferdinand all battling to partner Shearer in the England team. The two formed a famous partnership at international level, as they complemented each other's strengths: Shearer the out-and-out goalscorer, big, strong and powerful, Sheringham just 'dropping off' his strike partner, finding spaces", "id": "2997066" }, { "contents": "History of Newcastle United F.C.\n\n\n's title chances for the 1994–95 season, in which they finished sixth. The club, however, continued to build up a reputation for playing attacking football under Keegan. In the 1995–96 season, high-profile foreign stars David Ginola and Faustino Asprilla, in addition to British players Peter Beardsley and striker Les Ferdinand, guided the team to a second-place finish. During the 1996–97 season, Keegan made one signing, securing the services of England striker Alan Shearer for a then-world record transfer fee of £15 million", "id": "6803863" }, { "contents": "1996–97 Newcastle United F.C. season\n\n\n...I think Kevin wanted it free-flowing in all departments and that doesn't necessarily happen.\" Keegan responded to the previous season's disappointment by breaking the world record transfer fee to sign centre forward Alan Shearer from Blackburn Rovers for £15 million. Shearer, whose five goals made him the top scorer in Euro 96, had supported Newcastle since childhood – he had been a ball-boy at St James' Park on the day that Keegan had left in a helicopter after his final Newcastle appearance as a player.", "id": "1207050" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nin the games.\" Shearer captained his school team and helped a Newcastle City Schools team win a seven-a-side tournament at St James' Park, before joining the amateur Wallsend Boys Club as a teenager. It was while playing for the Wallsend club that he was spotted by Southampton's scout, Jack Hixon, which resulted in Shearer spending his summers training with the club's youth team, a time he would later refer to as \"the making of me\". Shearer had successful trials for First Division clubs", "id": "13592505" }, { "contents": "Duncan Shearer\n\n\nFavourites\" during the club's centenary in 2008. However, he was unable to prevent Huddersfield's relegation to the Third Division at the end of the 1987–88 season. Weeks before this, the unrelated English striker Alan Shearer (aged 17) had scored a hat-trick in the First Division for Southampton against Arsenal, a game which Arsenal captain Tony Adams missed through injury. In his autobiography 11 years later, Adams said that he had followed the progress of the game on Ceefax and mistakingly believed that the Shearer who scored", "id": "3716405" }, { "contents": "David Hirst (footballer)\n\n\nHe came on at half-time and within three minutes of the restart he scored his first (and only) England goal. With Gary Lineker injured, he lined up with Alan Shearer against France at Wembley. Bryan Robson said that, \"It's not a question of who will replace Lineker, but who will partner David Hirst\". It became Hirst's third and final England match. Although he was selected for more England squads, injuries kept him out of the team. Manchester United boss Alex Ferguson tried six", "id": "18892949" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nthrough to May due to injury and England's World Cup qualification chances were hit by a run of poor form. Returning to fitness for the 1993–94 season, he scored 31 goals from 40 games as Blackburn finished runners-up in the Premier League. His performances for the club led to him being named the Football Writers' Association Footballer of the Year for that season. On the international scene, England had failed to qualify for the 1994 World Cup finals, but Shearer added three more goals to his international tally before embarking", "id": "13592514" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nfive points out of a possible twenty-four. Shearer did not get the manager's job on permanent basis. Chris Hughton stepped up from the coaching staff to take charge of the quest to get Newcastle back into the Premier League, which was achieved at the first attempt as Newcastle finished top of the Championship in the 2009–10 season. Shearer is married to Lainya, whom he met whilst a Southampton player. The couple lived locally with her parents during Shearer's second year at the south coast club, and were married on", "id": "13592557" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nagainst Portugal, but did so as England defeated Germany 1–0 in Charleroi, ensuring that England beat their European neighbours for the first time since the 1966 World Cup Final. To remain in the tournament, England only required a draw against Romania in the final group match, and Shearer scored a penalty as England went in at half-time 2–1 up, but Romania ultimately won 3–2. England's tournament was over, and so was Shearer's international career. From his 63 caps, he captained the team 34 times and scored", "id": "13592545" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nrecord return which is still unbeaten. The striker's goals at this level, coupled with his club form, meant he was soon promoted to the senior squad by coach Graham Taylor. Marking his debut in the 2–0 win against France in February 1992 with a goal, he made his only appearance for the England B team a month later. Due to replace Gary Lineker, who retired from international action after UEFA Euro 1992, in the England attack, Shearer played only intermittently in the qualifying campaign for the 1994 FIFA World Cup", "id": "13592538" }, { "contents": "1993 Trans-Tasman Test series\n\n\n's Canberra Raiders team mate and New South Wales captain Laurie Daley. The test series took place following the 1993 State of Origin series which was won by NSW. Dale Shearer's performances at fullback for Qld saw him earn a test recall in front of well performed World Cup and NSW fullback Tim Brasher (though Shearer had been selected at centre for all 3 Ashes series tests in 1992 but withdrew from all 3 with injury). Bradley Clyde, who had not played in the Origin series due to injury was also recalled to", "id": "16616631" }, { "contents": "Glenn Hoddle\n\n\nRedknapp resigned, following which Hoddle also left the club. In June 2016, after England's 2–1 loss to Iceland at Euro 2016 and manager Roy Hodgson's subsequent resignation, Harry Redknapp and Alan Shearer both put forward Hoddle as a candidate for the job before Sam Allardyce was appointed. Hoddle has done punditry work since his retirement from coaching. He has worked for ESPN, ITV Sport and BT Sport. Hoddle began working with ESPN during Euro 2012 as a pundit. Since then, he has worked with ITV for the 2014", "id": "8847620" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nhim onto the pitch following the striker's testimonial in May 2006 as he performed a lap of honour at St James' Park. On 6 December 2000, Shearer was given Honorary Freedom of the City of Newcastle upon Tyne, with the citation \"in recognition of his role as captain of Newcastle United Football Club and as former captain of England which have enhanced the reputation of the City\". Shearer was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2001 Queen's Birthday Honours and Commander of the", "id": "13592559" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nhis four years in the Southampton first team, Shearer made a total of 158 appearances in all competitions, scoring 43 goals. Despite making just one goalless appearance as England failed to progress past the Euro 1992 group stages, Shearer was soon subject to an English transfer record-breaking £3.6 million bid from Blackburn Rovers. Although there was also interest from Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson, Blackburn benefactor Jack Walker's millions were enough to prise the striker from the \"Saints\", and Shearer moved north to Ewood Park in the", "id": "13592512" }, { "contents": "Andy Cole\n\n\nof the season to help United win the Premier League title for the third time in four years. He also played in their FA Cup final victory to become part of England's first ever side to win the double twice. Before the 1996–97 season began, Cole had to deal with being offered to Blackburn Rovers as part-exchange in a £12 million deal that would have brought Alan Shearer to Old Trafford, but the offer was rejected and Shearer joined Newcastle instead. Despite Alex Ferguson's clear indication to Cole that he", "id": "9629547" }, { "contents": "Shearer's Bar\n\n\nShearer's Bar is the former name of a sports bar owned by Newcastle United and forming part of St James' Park, the team's stadium in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. It was named in honour of the club's all-time top scorer, Alan Shearer. The bar was renamed Nine in July 2013 by the club, who said that popularity of the venue had \"dwindled\". The bar was opened in December 2004 and became an important part of the features at St James' Park. It is", "id": "15298144" }, { "contents": "Kevin Keegan\n\n\nrelationship between the pair. In April 2003, it was named as Quote of the Decade in the Premier League 10 Seasons Awards and Most Memorable Quote in the 20 Seasons Awards in May 2012. It also appeared in Channel 4's \"100 Greatest Sporting Moments\". Keegan then broke the world transfer fee record by signing Blackburn Rovers and England striker Alan Shearer in July 1996. Shearer, who had been the Premier League's top scorer in the last two seasons, was born in Newcastle and had grown up as a fan", "id": "826455" }, { "contents": "England national football team\n\n\nBetween 1994 and 1996, Terry Venables managed the team. At UEFA Euro 1996, held in England, they equalled their best performance at a European Championship, reaching the semi-finals as they did in 1968, before exiting via a penalty shoot-out loss to Germany. England striker Alan Shearer was the tournament's top scorer with five goals. Venables resigned following investigations into his financial activities. Venables' successor, Glenn Hoddle, similarly left the job for non-footballing reasons after just one international tournament – the 1998", "id": "9748695" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nmiddle of 1992. His first season with Blackburn was mixed – he missed half of it through injury after snapping his right anterior cruciate ligament in a match against Leeds United in December 1992, but scored a prolific 16 goals in the 21 games in which he did feature. Shearer also became a regular in the England team this season and scored his second international goal; it came in a 4–0 1994 FIFA World Cup qualifier win over Turkey in November. The season ended sourly, however, as Shearer was forced to miss January", "id": "13592513" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nover from head coach Chris Hughton who was in temporary charge while the permanent manager Joe Kinnear recovered from heart surgery, having taken ill on 7 February. Shearer stated \"It's a club I love and I don't want them to go down. I'll do everything I can to stop that.\" Shearer was unveiled at a press conference the following day by club managing director Derek Llambias. In explaining his acceptance of a managerial role at Newcastle at this time, Shearer stated that he would not have done this for", "id": "13592552" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nwas being run in the wake of the departure of Kevin Keegan. These reports were denied by the club. Shearer features in EA Sports' \"FIFA\" video game series; he was included in the \"FIFA 15\" Ultimate Team Legends. During his playing days, Shearer had been involved with the children's charity the NSPCC, taking part in the organisation's Full Stop campaign in 1999. Since retiring from football Shearer has also done work for several charities both nationally and in the Newcastle area. In his testimonial match", "id": "13592565" }, { "contents": "2005–06 Newcastle United F.C. season\n\n\n. The fee, £17 million, surpassed Newcastle's previous record of £15 million for Alan Shearer from Blackburn in 1996. In the closing hours of the transfer window, the club re-signed Nolberto Solano from Aston Villa. Souness's decision to pair Shearer and Owen together up front proved to be lethal, but Owen broke his fourth metatarsal bone in his foot after a clash with Paul Robinson in a match against Tottenham Hotspur, keeping him out for the rest of the season. With Owen injured the team's", "id": "18086094" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\ndue to injury and the team failed to reach the competition finals. UEFA Euro 1996 was a more positive experience for both Shearer and England. With England not required to qualify as hosts, Shearer had not scored in 12 games in the 21 months prior, and even his overall goalscoring record for England did not look too impressive so far, with five goals in 23 games. However, he found the net in the 22nd minute of the first game, against Switzerland. Scoring once in the following game against Scotland and twice", "id": "13592539" }, { "contents": "Teddy Sheringham\n\n\nthe 2000 European Championships by then manager Kevin Keegan, but the retirement of Shearer (despite being four years younger than Sheringham) from international football after that tournament and the arrival of new manager Sven-Göran Eriksson in 2001 saw a return to international favour for him. He was often deployed as a tactical substitute late in games by Eriksson, valued for his ability to hold the ball up and create intelligent play. In 2001, Sheringham scored an important goal for England against Greece in a World Cup qualifying match within 15 seconds", "id": "2997070" }, { "contents": "Ruud Gullit\n\n\n, chairman Ken Bates famously said of Gullit, \"I didn't like his arrogance – in fact I never liked him.\" In August 1998, Gullit was named manager of Newcastle United two games into the new league season and reached the 1999 FA Cup Final in his first year. Fans remained supportive despite a poor run of results, although a well-publicised contretemps with the team's top scorer Alan Shearer and captain Robert Lee did not put him in a favourable light. Gullit even refused to assign Lee a squad", "id": "13592616" }, { "contents": "Scott Parker\n\n\ndefeat on 25 March 2006. Later that month he was diagnosed with glandular fever, putting an end to his season. The timing was especially unfortunate for Parker, who had been playing well for Newcastle, as it ended any hopes he may have had of forcing his way into the 2006 FIFA World Cup. In July 2006, he was named Newcastle United's new captain by manager Glenn Roeder, succeeding the retired Alan Shearer. His first goal as captain came against Wigan Athletic on 19 August 2006, in a 2–1 win", "id": "14327157" }, { "contents": "History of football in England\n\n\n. United's main challengers for the title in the Premier League's first few years were Blackburn Rovers, led by star striker Alan Shearer, also won their first league title since World War I in 1994–95, and Newcastle United, who famously conceded a 10-point lead at Christmas to lose the title to United in 1995–96. Newcastle had reached the Premiership in 1993 as Division One champions, and in their first Premiership campaign finished third to qualify for the UEFA Cup. They finished second in 1996 and again in 1997, but by", "id": "3652862" }, { "contents": "1992–93 FA Premier League\n\n\nPremier League as an attempt by the Football Association to \"hijack\" the First Division. Shortly before the season began, newly promoted Blackburn Rovers signed Southampton's 21-year-old England international striker Alan Shearer for a new British record fee variously reported as £3.3 million, £3.4 million, or £3.6 million. Several other players moved for fees of £2 million or more, including Arsenal's David Rocastle, who joined Leeds United, Dean Saunders, who moved from Liverpool to Aston Villa, and Teddy Sheringham, who", "id": "12442383" }, { "contents": "Darren Anderton\n\n\nhappy at the prospect of losing another key player as he had already lost Jürgen Klinsmann and Gheorghe Popescu that summer; and Nick Barmby was on the verge of joining Middlesbrough. Despite missing most of the 1995–96 season through injury, Anderton played an important part in the Euro 96 England team that reached the semi-finals and included players like Paul Gascoigne, Alan Shearer, Steve McManaman and Teddy Sheringham. In the semi final against Germany, the match went to golden goal extra time. Anderton came within inches of putting England into", "id": "4331581" }, { "contents": "Wallsend Boys Club\n\n\nJanuary which damaged one of the walls of the building. Professional players to have played for the club include: The club has had a representative at four of the six FIFA World Cup finals since 1986, with the two exceptions coming in 1994, when the England national football team did not qualify, and 2002. In 1986 and 1990 Peter Beardsley starred for England. In 1998 Alan Shearer was England captain. Michael Carrick made appearances for England in both the 2006 and 2010 tournaments. Fraser Forster was in the 2014 squad but", "id": "21182372" }, { "contents": "Harry Kane\n\n\n\". Clive Allen, who coached him at Tottenham, stated that \"one thing I'd say about him, which unfortunately you don't say about a lot of young footballers, is that he had a passion for the game. He loves football, he loves playing, he loves scoring goals\". His former Tottenham under-21 coach Les Ferdinand likened Kane's movement to their former forward Teddy Sheringham, and the power and accuracy of his shots to Alan Shearer. Kane's style of play has been compared to that of", "id": "1925319" }, { "contents": "Kieron Dyer\n\n\nthat he would soon rejoin for Ipswich. After representing England at Youth, Under 21 and \"B\" level, Dyer's debut for the senior team came on 4 September 1999 when he started in England's 6–0 win against Luxembourg. He was deployed out of position at right back, and was replaced by Gary Neville at half-time after injuring himself while setting up Alan Shearer's third goal of the match. The injury was not serious and he was able to make his second England appearance four days later, coming", "id": "17666181" }, { "contents": "1996–97 Blackburn Rovers F.C. season\n\n\nthe end of the season, when he handed over the reins to Roy Hodgson after Sampdoria's Sven-Göran Eriksson lied about accepting the manager's job and joined Lazio instead. Parkes steered Blackburn to safety as they finished 13th. The world record £15 million sale of striker Alan Shearer to Newcastle United was seen as the biggest factor in Blackburn's lowest top flight finish since they returned to the elite in 1992. However, his strike-partner Chris Sutton helped keep the club alive after recovering from a drastic loss of", "id": "7811146" }, { "contents": "Michael Owen\n\n\nmuch of the campaign as England struggled, with Hoddle being replaced by Kevin Keegan. On 4 September 1999, he scored his first goal at Wembley Stadium in a 6–0 win over Luxembourg. At the finals, Owen scored once in three matches, as England were knocked out at the group stage. After Alan Shearer's retirement, Owen took over as England's senior striker under new manager Sven-Göran Eriksson. He scored six times during 2002 World Cup qualifying, including a hat-trick against Germany at Munich's Olympiastadion", "id": "21886807" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nyet to start the UEFA Pro Licence course, which is required to be permitted to manage a team in the Premier League and European competition. Reflecting his desire for personal time off to \"enjoy life\", in July 2006 he turned down a coaching role with England, citing his BBC commitments and desire to be away from the pressure of a job within football. Despite this, Shearer was often linked in the media with managerial or coaching positions at his three former clubs. Shearer took a brief role in the dugout for", "id": "13592550" }, { "contents": "History of Southampton F.C.\n\n\nappearances for the England national team – he finally retired in 2002 at the age of 33. During his time with the Saints, Le Tissier was approached more than once by several bigger clubs (including Manchester United) but chose to stick with the Saints despite never winning a major trophy or experiencing European football with them. From 1989 to 1992, Le Tissier was regularly partnered up front by another notable player, Alan Shearer, who as a 17-year-old had scored a hat-trick on his Saints debut against Arsenal in", "id": "15948278" }, { "contents": "Sir Bobby Robson Trophy match\n\n\nNewcastle United, picking up on Alan Shearer's reply of \"I know as much as you do,\" to a pre-match question as to whether he would be installed as Newcastle manager for the forthcoming season beginning in 13 days, with the club being up for sale and with the first team without a manager, being in the care of coach Chris Hughton. Neither the Newcastle United owner Mike Ashley or managing director Derek Llambias were in attendance at the charity match. Having left England after Italia '90, Sir", "id": "19612022" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nChancellor Liam Donaldson stated \"Newcastle United are my team. Alan Shearer is more than just a local legend, he's probably one of the greatest footballers of all time\". On 12 September 2016, a statue of Shearer's likeness was unveiled outside St James' Park. It was sculpted by Tom Maley, and paid for by the Shepherd family. After his retirement and following guest appearances, Shearer became a regular pundit for the BBC's \"Match of the Day\". He also formed part of the team which", "id": "13592563" }, { "contents": "Gary McAllister\n\n\ntournament, scoring in a 3–0 win over the CIS. However, Scotland did not qualify from their group. Scotland failed to qualify for the 1994 FIFA World Cup but did qualify for UEFA Euro 1996 in England, with McAllister the captain of the team. Scotland's second match of the group stage was against England at Wembley Stadium. In the second half Scotland, trailing 0–1 to an Alan Shearer goal, were awarded a penalty. McAllister's kick was saved by David Seaman and Scotland lost 0–2. The team won their", "id": "19492391" }, { "contents": "David Seaman\n\n\nEngland's quarter-final against Spain ended scoreless, Seaman saved Miguel Angel Nadal's kick in the shootout to knock Spain out of the tournament. England eventually were eliminated in the semi-final by Germany on penalties,after Andreas Köpke saved the penalty taken by Gareth Southgate. Seaman was named alongside Golden Boot winner Alan Shearer and winger Steve McManaman in the UEFA \"Team of the Tournament\". Euro 96 sponsor Philips named him \"Player of the Tournament\". Seaman remained first choice under the management of Glenn Hoddle for", "id": "7321893" }, { "contents": "1998 FA Cup Final\n\n\nand so has the mixture between the foreign and English players.\" Wenger reserved praise for the goalscorers Overmars (\"a world-class player\") and Anelka (\"Nicolas is very young. But you saw in the second half today what he can do\"), and felt the turning point in the match was Shearer's shot hitting the post. He sympathised with Newcastle, as did his captain, Adams who said afterwards: \"The team and their fans did everything they could out there, but it was", "id": "10844688" }, { "contents": "David McMahon (association footballer)\n\n\nabout the role of striker from watching England international Alan Shearer in training, but likened himself more to Newcastle's Scotland international Duncan Ferguson, \"because I am taller and like to battle for things in the air.\" Brian Kerr, then manager of Ireland under-17s, described McMahon as honest and hard-working, \"not the most skilful player, but will get goals\", but Darlington manager Gary Bennett believed there was more to his game: that he and strike partner John Williams both had enough skill to play a", "id": "5423888" }, { "contents": "Andy Carroll\n\n\nUEFA Euro 2012. He opened the scoring for England with a powerful header in their second group match against Sweden, which England went on to win 3–2. Carroll has been compared to Newcastle's record goalscorer Alan Shearer, Ivory Coast striker Didier Drogba and former Italy forward Christian Vieri. He has also been referred to as a classic centre forward, owing to his strength, powerful shot and excellent heading ability. Former Newcastle manager and Liverpool player Kevin Keegan stated \"he is probably in the top three headers of a ball I", "id": "11961542" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\n-chasing Manchester United. On the opening day of the 1999–2000 season, Shearer received the first red card of his career in his 100th appearance for Newcastle. After dropping Shearer to the bench in a Tyne-Wear derby loss against Sunderland, the unpopular Gullit resigned to be replaced by the 66-year-old Bobby Robson. Despite Gullit giving Shearer the captain's armband, reports of a rift between club captain and manager were rife, Gullit's decision to drop Shearer proved deeply unpopular with fans and his departure capped a dismal start", "id": "13592525" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nAn almost injury-free season helped Shearer improve on his previous year's tally in the 1998–99 season, the striker converting 14 goals in 30 league games and replacing Rob Lee as Newcastle captain, but Newcastle finished 13th again, with Ruud Gullit having replaced Kenny Dalglish just after the season got underway. He also helped Newcastle to a second consecutive FA Cup final and qualification for the following season's UEFA Cup, scoring twice in the semi-final against Tottenham Hotspur, but they once again lost, this time 2–0 to treble", "id": "13592524" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nhis final three games under Glenn Roeder. Shearer had rejected offers of coaching or assistant roles at Newcastle under both the returning Kevin Keegan in February 2008 and Joe Kinnear in November 2008. Shearer had previously had talks about, but never been offered, a full-time manager's role at Newcastle until his appointment on 1 April 2009. In a surprise move, late on 1 April 2009, it was announced that Shearer would become the manager of his former club Newcastle United for the remaining eight games of the season, taking", "id": "13592551" }, { "contents": "Fabio Cannavaro\n\n\nnational team on 22 January 1997, in a friendly match against Northern Ireland. The same year, he earned plaudits for his handling of England striker Alan Shearer in a World Cup qualifying game at Wembley Stadium. Shearer was then considered by the partisan English crowd to be the best striker in the world, and thought he would make fun of the inexperienced Italian defender. Nevertheless, in a display ranking alongside those of the very best Italian defenders Claudio Gentile and Franco Baresi, Cannavaro managed to keep Shearer quiet for the whole game", "id": "3625067" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\n, with media sources claiming that video footage showed him intentionally kicking Neil Lennon in the head following a challenge. The referee of the game took no action against Shearer, and he was then cleared of all charges by the FA, with Lennon giving evidence in the player's defence. Former Football Association chief Graham Kelly, who brought the charges against the player, later claimed in his autobiography that Shearer had threatened to withdraw himself from the 1998 World Cup squad if the charges were upheld, a claim strenuously denied by Shearer.", "id": "13592523" }, { "contents": "History of the Romania national football team\n\n\nminnows Tunisia. Adrian Ilie scored the only goal with a fine chip in their first match against Colombia at Lyon's Stade Gerland. In Toulouse, they met an England side starting with prodigal striker Michael Owen on the bench, with Teddy Sheringham preferred alongside Alan Shearer. A mistake by Tony Adams was punished by Viorel Moldovan, who played for Coventry City, before Owen came on to claim an equalizer. But Romania won with a scrappy late goal from Dan Petrescu, also playing in England with Chelsea, fighting off his club", "id": "16435718" }, { "contents": "John Barnes (footballer)\n\n\nNewcastle United, although an approach had already been made by Harry Redknapp of West Ham; Barnes had agreed in principle to join them until at the final moment Dalglish called him and Barnes changed his mind. In the 1997–98 season Barnes played up front mostly, deputising for Alan Shearer after Shearer was injured for most of the season, and Barnes ended up Newcastle's top league scorer with six goals, which highlighted the Magpies' lack of ability to score in the absence of Shearer and Ferdinand (who had been sold along with", "id": "19616669" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\ncould not find a more iconic person than Alan, not just for what he has done in football but for all the extra work he tirelessly does for charity and communities. I am delighted he has accepted the role of Deputy Lieutenant because he is a real role model. I have promised him he is not going to have to do too much, but even if it is just one occasion a year he is the perfect choice\" On 7 December 2009, Shearer was made a Doctor of Civil Law by Newcastle University.", "id": "13592562" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nLaw of Northumbria and Newcastle Universities. Shearer was born in Gosforth, Newcastle, in 1970 to working-class parents Alan and Anne Shearer. His father, a sheet-metal worker, encouraged a keen Shearer to play football in his youth, and the young player continued with the sport as he progressed through school. He was educated at Gosforth Central Middle School and Gosforth High School. Growing up playing on the streets of his hometown, he originally played in midfield because \"it meant [he] could get more involved", "id": "13592504" }, { "contents": "Paul Kitson\n\n\n. Newcastle finished second that season after being overhauled in the second half campaign by a Manchester United side who sealed the title by a five-point margin barely four months after Newcastle had led by 10 points, but Kitson's part in Newcastle's exciting though ultimately disappointing campaign had been minimal as he had played just seven league games and scored twice. But he remained loyal to the Magpies even after another blow at the end of July 1996 – the arrival of £15 million world record signing Alan Shearer. He managed three", "id": "19054464" }, { "contents": "Ray Harford\n\n\nthe Premier League for much of the season. During the summer of 1996, Alan Shearer was sold to Newcastle United for a then world record fee of £15 million, and Harford failed to adequately replace him. Harford stated that \"I'm told we need a big name. Engelbert Humperdinck is a big name but it doesn't mean he can play football.\" The 1996–97 season also started badly for Blackburn. They failed to win any of their first ten games and were knocked out of the League Cup by Division", "id": "5365351" }, { "contents": "Patrick Kluivert\n\n\nagain featured for Barca in a legends game against Uganda all stars where he, in lobbing the ball, scored an amazing goal. Kluivert joined Newcastle United on a free transfer in July 2004. He stated that his reasons for joining Newcastle was due to the overwhelming reaction he received whilst playing for Barcelona against Newcastle during a pre season friendly as well as teaming up with Newcastle's star players such as Alan Shearer. Kluivert scored some classy and crucial goals at and away from St James's Park namely in winning strikes against both", "id": "21654890" }, { "contents": "Duncan Shearer\n\n\nbetween 1994 and 1995, scoring two goals including an important opening strike in an away win over Finland which helped the national side qualify for Euro 96, although Shearer did not make the squad for that tournament. The senior team was his first experience of international football, having never played at any age-group level. He achieved a childhood ambition when he played in the national team alongside John McGinlay, a childhood friend also from Fort William. In season 1999–00 he began to concentrate more on coaching than playing, and was", "id": "3716411" }, { "contents": "Les Ferdinand\n\n\nscored 50 goals in only 84 games at Newcastle, forming a successful partnership with Alan Shearer. He was and indeed is still very highly thought of by Newcastle United. Ferdinand received a standing ovation when he returned to St. James' Park as a Tottenham player, trying to put Alan Shearer's number 9 shirt on to complete a lap of honour, he broke down in tears and could only manage to put the shirt on inside out and back to front before being helped from the field. Ferdinand returned again, when he", "id": "2996528" }, { "contents": "David Platt (footballer)\n\n\nTurkey, San Marino, the Netherlands and Norway. The qualifiers began at home to Norway. England dominated the game and Platt carried the goal threat, with Alan Shearer and Ian Wright struggling to find form. He scored the opening goal after an hour. England dominated the remainder of the game and were unlucky to concede to a long-range shot from Kjetil Rekdal. Platt continued his drive from midfield in wins over Turkey at home (4-0) and San Marino (6-0). Platt scored four", "id": "16718350" }, { "contents": "Jason Wilcox\n\n\n-pound investments of Jack Walker. He played an important part in the title-winning Blackburn team of 1995. Playing on the left flank with attacking fullback Graeme Le Saux behind him and Stuart Ripley on the opposite flank, they forged a strong attacking line-up with Alan Shearer and Chris Sutton. International recognition was harder to come by for Wilcox and he managed only 3 international caps despite his effective partnership with Shearer, Le Saux and Tim Sherwood. Lengthy injury problems restricted his effectiveness in subsequent seasons and, after experiencing", "id": "14527253" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nclub's form, and Newcastle finished just 13th in the Premier League. However, United (now managed by Shearer's old boss at Blackburn, Kenny Dalglish) had a good run in the FA Cup; Shearer scored the winning goal in a semi-final victory over Sheffield United as the team reached the final. The team were unable to get on the scoresheet at Wembley, and lost the game 2–0 to Arsenal. An incident during a game against Leicester City in the league saw Shearer charged with misconduct by the FA", "id": "13592522" }, { "contents": "Aleksandar Mitrović (footballer)\n\n\nhim the competition's top scorer, and 28 in all competitions. On 22 March 2015, he scored the team's only goal in the 2–1 Belgian Cup Final loss to Club Brugge KV in Brussels. On 21 July 2015, Mitrović joined Newcastle United on a five-year contract for a reported £13 million, saying he hoped to be able to play like club legend Alan Shearer. He made his debut on 9 August as Newcastle began the season with a 2–2 draw against Southampton at St James' Park, playing", "id": "20923735" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nWest Bromwich Albion, Manchester City and Newcastle United, before being offered a youth contract with Southampton in April 1986. Shearer was promoted to the first team after spending two years with the youth squad. He made his professional debut for Southampton on 26 March 1988, coming on as a substitute in a First Division fixture at Chelsea, before prompting national headlines in his full debut at The Dell two weeks later. He scored a hat-trick, helping the team to a 4–2 victory against Arsenal, thus becoming the youngest player", "id": "13592506" }, { "contents": "James Milner\n\n\ndo what was \"in the club's best interest\" and in July 2004, he agreed a five-year contract with Newcastle. Milner made his first appearance for Newcastle United during their pre-season tour of Asia, scoring his first goal for the club in a 1–1 draw against Kitchee, in Hong Kong. During this tour, he took the opportunity to observe how Newcastle striker Alan Shearer dealt with attention from fans and the media. He said that his association with people like Shearer gave him a better idea of", "id": "1860603" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nretain the ball and provide opportunities for teammates. Playing as a lone striker between wide men, Rod Wallace and Matt Le Tissier, Shearer scored three goals in 26 appearances in the 1989–90 season, and in the next, four goals in 36 games. His performances in the centre of the \"Saints\" attack were soon recognised by the fans, who voted him their Player of the Year for 1991. In the middle of 1991, Shearer was a member of the England national under-21 football squad in the Toulon Tournament in Toulon", "id": "13592508" }, { "contents": "Teddy Sheringham\n\n\n, creating play and providing key passes, forming the link between Shearer and the England midfield. The pairing came to be known as 'The SAS' ('Shearer and Sheringham') and their most successful time together came in the 1996 European Championships, held in England. Their most famous contribution was in the 4–1 victory over the Netherlands, a game in the opening group stages in which they both scored twice against one of the strongest teams in the tournament. Though England were eventually knocked out in the semi-finals", "id": "2997067" }, { "contents": "History of the England national football team\n\n\ninto Euro 2000 after a 2–1 aggregate playoff win over Scotland. At the finals in Belgium and the Netherlands, a lacklustre England failed to get beyond the group stage, losing to both Portugal and Romania after leading in each game. After England's exit, Alan Shearer retired from international football, he had announced his intentions before the tournament, and no-one could persuade him to change his mind. On 7 October 2000, shortly after losing the opening World Cup qualifier to Germany in the last-ever game at Wembley", "id": "15089411" }, { "contents": "Premier League 10 Seasons Awards\n\n\nrepresented, with five players. The teams were as follows: English striker Alan Shearer was named Domestic Player of the Decade in the main 10 Seasons awards announcements, in addition to being given the Outstanding Contribution to the FA Premier League award. Two weeks later he was also named as the Overall Player of the Decade. In the first decade, Shearer played for Blackburn Rovers, and then Newcastle United. Shearer has been described as a classic English centre-forward with great shooting power, a single-minded striker who could", "id": "11856460" }, { "contents": "Wartime League\n\n\narguments debate that a player who exceeds one's record through their wartime matches should nonetheless be seen as the club's highest goal scorer or appearance having been part of the team's squad even if only for a short time. The most recent argument relates to the goal-difference between Jackie Milburn's and Alan Shearer's Newcastle United goal-scoring records. When counting Jackie's wartime matches, he scored a total of 238 professional goals for Newcastle United FC. In May 2005, Alan Shearer finished his career at 206 goals", "id": "17626256" }, { "contents": "Jon Dahl Tomasson\n\n\nas the perfect link-up player to England national team striker Alan Shearer. The partnership initially worked well, with Tomasson impressing during a pre-season friendly tournament in the Republic of Ireland. However, a career threatening injury to Shearer, combined with the controversial transfer of popular striker Les Ferdinand to Tottenham Hotspur, meant that Tomasson was moved from his traditional attacking midfield position to that of striker. He struggled to adapt to his new position on the field, and to the English game, due to his lack of physical", "id": "19324628" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\ncovered the World Cups and European Championships from 2006 onwards for the BBC. Former Newcastle chairman Freddy Shepherd announced that, after Shearer finished the 2005–06 season as Newcastle's caretaker assistant manager, he would become the club's \"Sporting Ambassador\" for the 2006–07 season. However, in September 2008, it was reported that Shearer was removed from this largely honorary position by the club's owner Mike Ashley, despite protests from players such as Steven Taylor and Damien Duff, due to Shearer's criticism of the way in which the club", "id": "13592564" }, { "contents": "1998 FA Cup Final\n\n\nthe final that Bergkamp had resumed training and \"medically he looked all right\", but the player received a further setback when he suffered a reaction to his hamstring. He ruled himself out of the match and told reporters: \"I'm very disappointed. As a little boy in Holland I always watched the FA Cup final. And I used to dream about playing in it myself one day.\" Ian Wright was listed as Bergkamp's probable replacement to partner Anelka. Newcastle had their own issues surrounding Shearer. The England", "id": "10844676" }, { "contents": "2008–09 in English football\n\n\n's surprise resignation in December; whilst their final points tally wasn't spectacular, they had the satisfaction of being the top North-East team in football after both Middlesbrough and Newcastle United were relegated, ending 11 and 16 year spells in the top flight respectively, the latter going through four managers in Kevin Keegan, Joe Kinnear, Chris Hughton and even former striker Alan Shearer during the campaign. Despite a brilliant start to the season which saw them as high as third place in October, Hull City won just 1 of their", "id": "1311754" }, { "contents": "1996 FA Charity Shield\n\n\nfrom Eric Cantona, Nicky Butt, David Beckham and Roy Keane. The game saw new signings Jordi Cruyff and Karel Poborský make their debuts for Manchester United, though neither of these players had particularly successful careers at Old Trafford and both had left the club within four years. The day before the game had seen the surprise sale of one of Manchester United's longest serving players — Lee Sharpe. The game saw Newcastle United give a debut to £15 million world record signing Alan Shearer, who would remain at the club until", "id": "2797098" }, { "contents": "UEFA Euro 2016 knockout phase\n\n\nsection begin=g6 /section end=g6 / section begin=g7 /section end=g7 / The match has been described as one of England's worst defeats ever. Former footballer and Talksport presenter Stan Collymore, who was commentating on the game, panned the England team, reserving special criticism for goalkeeper Joe Hart and captain Wayne Rooney. Former England international and BBC Sport pundit Alan Shearer described it as the worst performance he had ever seen from an England team. The defeat was called England's most shocking since losing 1–0 to", "id": "11344909" }, { "contents": "Maurice E. Shearer\n\n\nApplication at Annapolis, Maryland, with classmates Holland Smith, Ralph S. Keyser and Andrew B. Drum. In July, Shearer sailed for duty to be the commander of the 35 man Marine detachment on Midway Island. In May 1908, he was selected for promotion to first lieutenant and to the rank of captain in June 1916. During World War I, forces under Major Shearer's command made an attack on Belleau Wood, finally clearing that forest of Germans. On 26 June 1918, he sent a now famous report: \"", "id": "8315540" }, { "contents": "Newcastle upon Tyne\n\n\nF.C. became Football League members in 1893. They have won four top division titles (the first in 1905 and the most recent in 1927), six FA Cups (the first in 1910 and the most recent in 1955) and the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup in 1969. They broke the world transfer record in 1996 by paying £15 million for Blackburn Rovers and England striker Alan Shearer, one of the most prolific goalscorers of that era. In 2017 Newcastle was the venue for the 2017 Freedom City festival. The 2017", "id": "20529704" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\ngame and came off the bench to score a penalty, helping Newcastle win the game 3–2. The match was a sell-out, and saw Shearer perform a lap of honour at the end with his family, with his young son notably covering his ears due to the volume of noise produced by the crowd in tribute. Shearer's international career began in 1990 when he was handed a callup to the England under-21 squad under Dave Sexton. During his time with the squad, he scored 13 times in 11 games, a", "id": "13592537" }, { "contents": "2011–12 Cardiff City F.C. season\n\n\nserving manager in the Championship having held his post since May 2005. The club held talks with former England and Newcastle United captain Alan Shearer to replace Jones but he rejected the job despite stating that he was impressed with the \"vision, ambition and determination of the owner Dato Chan Tien Ghee and the board\". The \"Bluebirds\" instead approached Championship rivals Watford for permission to speak to their manager Malky Mackay, which was initially rejected. However, after the two clubs agreed a compensation fee, Mackay was officially appointed as", "id": "7599659" }, { "contents": "Kevin Keegan\n\n\nto Michael Owen, stating, \"He's not scared to give his opinion when he's right, and he's not scared to say what he feels. He's a tremendous professional, and he trains properly every day.\" Keegan announced on 22 January that he and Alan Shearer held talks about the two linking up with Shearer as his assistant, but decided against the idea, leaving the door open for him to take other roles he was interested in. Keegan's first eight games back at Newcastle passed without a", "id": "826473" }, { "contents": "Transfer (association football)\n\n\n£3.6 million Alan Shearer moved to Blackburn Rovers from Southampton, a decade after the world's first £3 million transfer. Lentini's transfer remained intact the world record fee for the next four years, although the national record was broken more than once in many countries including England. Shearer's £3.6million record fee was narrowly eclipsed 12 months later when Manchester United signed Roy Keane from Nottingham Forest for £3.75 million. In 1994, Blackburn Rovers paid a record £5 million for Chris Sutton from Norwich City, a decade", "id": "11200095" }, { "contents": "Roy Hodgson\n\n\nagainst Costa Rica to finish bottom of Group D. Hodgson named Rooney as the new captain of England in August 2014, following the retirement of Steven Gerrard from international football. Hodgson's first match after the World Cup was a 1–0 win against Norway in an international friendly match at Wembley on 3 September 2014. During the match, England made only two shots on target. Hodgson was infuriated when asked about this, describing the statistic as \"fucking bollocks\". Former England player, Alan Shearer, admitted that the match was so", "id": "12858624" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nto the season. The animosity between Shearer and Gullit was later confirmed by the latter, who reported telling the striker that he was \"...the most overrated player I have ever seen.\" Ironically, Robson had tried to sign Shearer for Barcelona in 1997, making a bid of £20million which would have seen Shearer break the world's transfer fee record for the second time in 12 months. However, then Newcastle manager Kenny Dalglish rejected the offer. In Robson's first match in charge, Shearer scored five goals in", "id": "13592526" }, { "contents": "Premier League 10 Seasons Awards\n\n\nin his talks with Alex Ferguson, he could not guarantee that Eric Cantona the Overseas Player of the Decade could be persuaded to let Shearer take penalty kicks. Shearer gained a second PFA Players' Player of the Year Award in April 1997, becoming just the second player to have received the PFA award twice, after Mark Hughes. After the 2000 European Championships, Shearer had retired from international football with England, having been England captain since 1998, and having made his senior début in 1992. Shearer was awarded the OBE in", "id": "11856465" }, { "contents": "Emile Heskey\n\n\nthe two matches, with former England international Alan Shearer commenting, \"Never in a million years did I expect to be discussing whether Emile Heskey should keep his place ahead of Wayne Rooney but the Wigan striker was outstanding over both matches.\" Heskey was called into manager Fabio Capello's first squad against Switzerland, but had to withdraw due to an injury. He was called into the squad for a friendly against the Czech Republic in August 2008 and came on as a 46th-minute substitute, in a match that finished 2–2", "id": "174986" }, { "contents": "Habib Beye\n\n\nUEFA Cup Final, a run which involved him putting in a star performance as a central defender against (his now former team) Newcastle United, where he was particularly effective against Newcastle's talisman striker Alan Shearer. He ended up on the losing side as Marseille lost the final to Valencia 2–0. He was also a beaten finalist in the 2006 French Cup against former club Paris Saint-Germain, a match which his team lost 2–1, and again in 2007 when his Marseille team lost on penalties to FC Sochaux. His", "id": "16217445" }, { "contents": "Stan Collymore\n\n\nseason in the Premier League, Collymore was called up to Terry Venables' England squad for the Umbro Cup in June 1995. He made his début at Wembley Stadium against Japan, partnering Alan Shearer in a 2–1 win. He won his second cap as a 90th minute substitute against Brazil. Collymore made his third and final appearance for England as a substitute in a 4–0 win over Moldova during qualification for the 1998 FIFA World Cup. Collymore contributed to his biography \"Stan: Tackling my demons\" with Oliver Holt. In 2005", "id": "3955590" }, { "contents": "Graeme Souness\n\n\nAt £8.2 million, Boumsong was his first big signing and Souness said he would replace Jonathan Woodgate in the Newcastle defence, which had conceded several leads earlier in the season. Newcastle were well aware of Boumsong prior to his move from Auxerre to Rangers on a free transfer. Robson had travelled to France to watch him, but he declined the opportunity to sign Boumsong. Liverpool were also interested in signing Boumsong. Robson's doubts were confirmed when Boumsong marked Alan Shearer in a pre-season game against Rangers. Shearer came", "id": "18029254" }, { "contents": "Saido Berahino\n\n\nrate of a goal every other match, including three to help the team qualify for the European Championship. Berahino has the all-time third-highest goal tally for the England under-21 side with 10 goals in 13 appearances, behind Francis Jeffers and Alan Shearer. On 6 November 2014, England manager Roy Hodgson – who promoted Berahino to the West Bromwich Albion first team in 2011 – named Berahino in his squad for the first time, ahead of a UEFA Euro 2016 qualifying match against Slovenia at Wembley Stadium on the 15th and", "id": "1000466" } ]

[ { "contents": "Tony Adams\n\n\n\"I have some resentment over the way Glenn Hoddle gave the captaincy to Alan Shearer instead of me but I can let that go. I reacted positively. I disagreed with him [Hoddle] and he thought Alan could get more penalties being a centre forward. People know my reaction to that\". Adams continued to play for the national side, however and he finally appeared in a World Cup finals in 1998. His international swansong was England's unsuccessful Euro 2000 campaign. With Shearer retiring from international football after the tournament", "id": "6104102" }, { "contents": "Tony Adams\n\n\nin defence, and after the retirement of Gary Lineker in 1992, Adams unofficially shared the captaincy of England with David Platt, though Adams became England captain outright before Euro 96, as Platt's place in the side became less secure. England reached the semi-finals of Euro 96, before losing on penalties to Germany. When England manager Glenn Hoddle took the Captain's armband from Adams and gave it to Alan Shearer it was a bitter pill for Adams to swallow. Speaking at a fans' forum in 2008 Adams remarked", "id": "6104101" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nThis time, Germany won from the spot; although Shearer scored, his teammate Gareth Southgate missed his kick and England were eliminated. Shearer's five goals made him the competition's top scorer, and together with teammates David Seaman and Steve McManaman, was listed in the official UEFA team of the tournament. The new England manager Glenn Hoddle appointed Shearer captain for the 1998 FIFA World Cup qualifier against Moldova on 1 September 1996, and the player held onto the captaincy after scoring once in that match and twice in the following game", "id": "13592541" }, { "contents": "Dimitar Berbatov\n\n\nhe consequently modelled himself after Marco van Basten, the Dutch forward for that team. However, the 1996 European Championship, held in England, gave Berbatov a new role model; the 15-year-old Berbatov began to look up to the English front man Alan Shearer, who played for Newcastle United. Berbatov's mother later spoke of her son's teenage dream of playing for Newcastle United, and said that his admiration for Shearer was such that, during these years, he slept in a Newcastle shirt. Berbatov began his youth", "id": "3905446" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\n's participation in what was to be Shearer's only World Cup tournament. In September 1999, Shearer scored his only England hat-trick in a UEFA Euro 2000 qualifier against Luxembourg. This helped England reach a play-off against Scotland; England won the game over two legs and in doing so qualified for the European Championships. By now, Shearer was approaching his 30th birthday, and he announced that he intended to retire from international football after the Euro 2000 tournament. Shearer did not score in England's opening 3–2 defeat", "id": "13592544" }, { "contents": "Southampton F.C.\n\n\nwas Alan Shearer, who at the age of 17 scored a hat-trick against Arsenal in a league match in April 1988. Shearer was a first team regular by 1990, and stayed with Southampton until July 1992, when he was sold to Blackburn Rovers for a national record of more than £3 million. He then became the most expensive footballer in the world when Blackburn sold him to Newcastle for £15 million in 1996. He also scored 30 times for England internationally. Southampton were founding members of the Premier League", "id": "3265953" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\ntime to play in England's UEFA European Championship campaign. After Euro 96, Manchester United again sought to sign Shearer, and attempted to enter the battle for his signature. However Manchester United chairman Martin Edwards stated that Blackburn Rovers refused to let Shearer go to Old Trafford. Ultimately Shearer joined his boyhood club: Newcastle United, Manchester United's title rivals. On 30 July 1996, for a world transfer record-breaking £15 million (equivalent to £ million today) Shearer joined his hometown club and league runners-up", "id": "13592519" }, { "contents": "History of the England national football team\n\n\nyear after his last game at club level. Hoddle selected Alan Shearer as captain, replacing Tony Adams, but also brought a number of emerging talents into the squad, including the Manchester United midfield trio of Paul Scholes, Nicky Butt and David Beckham, and central defenders Rio Ferdinand and Sol Campbell. Hoddle oversaw England's qualification for the 1998 World Cup (the first World Cup with 32 teams instead of 24) with a 0–0 draw against Italy at the Stadio Olimpico in Rome, and drew out a winning performance in the", "id": "15089406" }, { "contents": "History of the England national football team\n\n\nthe underwhelming performance at the World Cup, England suffered a poor start to the Euro 2000 qualifying tournament, and there was reported discontent between Hoddle and several senior players, most notably Shearer. Hoddle was dismissed on 2 February 1999, two days after an interview with \"The Sunday Times\" in which he spoke about his belief in reincarnation and claimed that disabled people were paying for sins in a previous life. Under considerable media and public pressure, the FA appointed former captain Kevin Keegan, who only just managed to get England", "id": "15089410" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nagainst Poland. He scored a total of five goals in England's successful qualification campaign for the World Cup, adding strikes against Georgia and away to Poland to his tally. Shearer was sidelined for much of the 1997–98 season, but recovered to play in the World Cup finals. With Michael Owen replacing Teddy Sheringham as Shearer's strike partner, Shearer's return saw him score England's first goal of the tournament, in a 2–0 win over Tunisia, his only goal in the three group matches. England faced long-time", "id": "13592542" }, { "contents": "Newcastle United F.C.\n\n\n. The attacking philosophy of Keegan led to the team being labelled \"The Entertainers\" by Sky Sports. Keegan took Newcastle to two consecutive runners-up finishes in the league in 1995–96 and 1996–97, coming very close to winning the title in the former season. This success was in part due to the talent of players like David Ginola, Les Ferdinand and Alan Shearer, who was signed on 30 July 1996 for a then world record fee of £15 million. Keegan left Newcastle in January 1997 and was replaced by Kenny", "id": "12636363" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nAlan Shearer, CBE, DL (born 13 August 1970) is an English retired footballer. He played as a striker in the top level of English league football for Southampton, Blackburn Rovers, Newcastle United and the England national team. He is Newcastle's and the Premier League's record goalscorer. He was named Football Writers' Association Player of the Year in 1994 and won the PFA Player of the Year award in 1995. In 1996, he was third in the FIFA World Player of the Year awards. In 2004", "id": "13592501" }, { "contents": "Teddy Sheringham\n\n\nmanager Terry Venables (1994–96) Sheringham came to be the preferred strike partner for Alan Shearer. During this time, England had a wealth of strikers with the likes of Andrew Cole, Ian Wright, a young Robbie Fowler and Les Ferdinand all battling to partner Shearer in the England team. The two formed a famous partnership at international level, as they complemented each other's strengths: Shearer the out-and-out goalscorer, big, strong and powerful, Sheringham just 'dropping off' his strike partner, finding spaces", "id": "2997066" }, { "contents": "History of Newcastle United F.C.\n\n\n's title chances for the 1994–95 season, in which they finished sixth. The club, however, continued to build up a reputation for playing attacking football under Keegan. In the 1995–96 season, high-profile foreign stars David Ginola and Faustino Asprilla, in addition to British players Peter Beardsley and striker Les Ferdinand, guided the team to a second-place finish. During the 1996–97 season, Keegan made one signing, securing the services of England striker Alan Shearer for a then-world record transfer fee of £15 million", "id": "6803863" }, { "contents": "1996–97 Newcastle United F.C. season\n\n\n...I think Kevin wanted it free-flowing in all departments and that doesn't necessarily happen.\" Keegan responded to the previous season's disappointment by breaking the world record transfer fee to sign centre forward Alan Shearer from Blackburn Rovers for £15 million. Shearer, whose five goals made him the top scorer in Euro 96, had supported Newcastle since childhood – he had been a ball-boy at St James' Park on the day that Keegan had left in a helicopter after his final Newcastle appearance as a player.", "id": "1207050" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nin the games.\" Shearer captained his school team and helped a Newcastle City Schools team win a seven-a-side tournament at St James' Park, before joining the amateur Wallsend Boys Club as a teenager. It was while playing for the Wallsend club that he was spotted by Southampton's scout, Jack Hixon, which resulted in Shearer spending his summers training with the club's youth team, a time he would later refer to as \"the making of me\". Shearer had successful trials for First Division clubs", "id": "13592505" }, { "contents": "Duncan Shearer\n\n\nFavourites\" during the club's centenary in 2008. However, he was unable to prevent Huddersfield's relegation to the Third Division at the end of the 1987–88 season. Weeks before this, the unrelated English striker Alan Shearer (aged 17) had scored a hat-trick in the First Division for Southampton against Arsenal, a game which Arsenal captain Tony Adams missed through injury. In his autobiography 11 years later, Adams said that he had followed the progress of the game on Ceefax and mistakingly believed that the Shearer who scored", "id": "3716405" }, { "contents": "David Hirst (footballer)\n\n\nHe came on at half-time and within three minutes of the restart he scored his first (and only) England goal. With Gary Lineker injured, he lined up with Alan Shearer against France at Wembley. Bryan Robson said that, \"It's not a question of who will replace Lineker, but who will partner David Hirst\". It became Hirst's third and final England match. Although he was selected for more England squads, injuries kept him out of the team. Manchester United boss Alex Ferguson tried six", "id": "18892949" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nthrough to May due to injury and England's World Cup qualification chances were hit by a run of poor form. Returning to fitness for the 1993–94 season, he scored 31 goals from 40 games as Blackburn finished runners-up in the Premier League. His performances for the club led to him being named the Football Writers' Association Footballer of the Year for that season. On the international scene, England had failed to qualify for the 1994 World Cup finals, but Shearer added three more goals to his international tally before embarking", "id": "13592514" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nfive points out of a possible twenty-four. Shearer did not get the manager's job on permanent basis. Chris Hughton stepped up from the coaching staff to take charge of the quest to get Newcastle back into the Premier League, which was achieved at the first attempt as Newcastle finished top of the Championship in the 2009–10 season. Shearer is married to Lainya, whom he met whilst a Southampton player. The couple lived locally with her parents during Shearer's second year at the south coast club, and were married on", "id": "13592557" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nagainst Portugal, but did so as England defeated Germany 1–0 in Charleroi, ensuring that England beat their European neighbours for the first time since the 1966 World Cup Final. To remain in the tournament, England only required a draw against Romania in the final group match, and Shearer scored a penalty as England went in at half-time 2–1 up, but Romania ultimately won 3–2. England's tournament was over, and so was Shearer's international career. From his 63 caps, he captained the team 34 times and scored", "id": "13592545" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nrecord return which is still unbeaten. The striker's goals at this level, coupled with his club form, meant he was soon promoted to the senior squad by coach Graham Taylor. Marking his debut in the 2–0 win against France in February 1992 with a goal, he made his only appearance for the England B team a month later. Due to replace Gary Lineker, who retired from international action after UEFA Euro 1992, in the England attack, Shearer played only intermittently in the qualifying campaign for the 1994 FIFA World Cup", "id": "13592538" }, { "contents": "1993 Trans-Tasman Test series\n\n\n's Canberra Raiders team mate and New South Wales captain Laurie Daley. The test series took place following the 1993 State of Origin series which was won by NSW. Dale Shearer's performances at fullback for Qld saw him earn a test recall in front of well performed World Cup and NSW fullback Tim Brasher (though Shearer had been selected at centre for all 3 Ashes series tests in 1992 but withdrew from all 3 with injury). Bradley Clyde, who had not played in the Origin series due to injury was also recalled to", "id": "16616631" }, { "contents": "Glenn Hoddle\n\n\nRedknapp resigned, following which Hoddle also left the club. In June 2016, after England's 2–1 loss to Iceland at Euro 2016 and manager Roy Hodgson's subsequent resignation, Harry Redknapp and Alan Shearer both put forward Hoddle as a candidate for the job before Sam Allardyce was appointed. Hoddle has done punditry work since his retirement from coaching. He has worked for ESPN, ITV Sport and BT Sport. Hoddle began working with ESPN during Euro 2012 as a pundit. Since then, he has worked with ITV for the 2014", "id": "8847620" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nhim onto the pitch following the striker's testimonial in May 2006 as he performed a lap of honour at St James' Park. On 6 December 2000, Shearer was given Honorary Freedom of the City of Newcastle upon Tyne, with the citation \"in recognition of his role as captain of Newcastle United Football Club and as former captain of England which have enhanced the reputation of the City\". Shearer was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2001 Queen's Birthday Honours and Commander of the", "id": "13592559" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nhis four years in the Southampton first team, Shearer made a total of 158 appearances in all competitions, scoring 43 goals. Despite making just one goalless appearance as England failed to progress past the Euro 1992 group stages, Shearer was soon subject to an English transfer record-breaking £3.6 million bid from Blackburn Rovers. Although there was also interest from Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson, Blackburn benefactor Jack Walker's millions were enough to prise the striker from the \"Saints\", and Shearer moved north to Ewood Park in the", "id": "13592512" }, { "contents": "Andy Cole\n\n\nof the season to help United win the Premier League title for the third time in four years. He also played in their FA Cup final victory to become part of England's first ever side to win the double twice. Before the 1996–97 season began, Cole had to deal with being offered to Blackburn Rovers as part-exchange in a £12 million deal that would have brought Alan Shearer to Old Trafford, but the offer was rejected and Shearer joined Newcastle instead. Despite Alex Ferguson's clear indication to Cole that he", "id": "9629547" }, { "contents": "Shearer's Bar\n\n\nShearer's Bar is the former name of a sports bar owned by Newcastle United and forming part of St James' Park, the team's stadium in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. It was named in honour of the club's all-time top scorer, Alan Shearer. The bar was renamed Nine in July 2013 by the club, who said that popularity of the venue had \"dwindled\". The bar was opened in December 2004 and became an important part of the features at St James' Park. It is", "id": "15298144" }, { "contents": "Kevin Keegan\n\n\nrelationship between the pair. In April 2003, it was named as Quote of the Decade in the Premier League 10 Seasons Awards and Most Memorable Quote in the 20 Seasons Awards in May 2012. It also appeared in Channel 4's \"100 Greatest Sporting Moments\". Keegan then broke the world transfer fee record by signing Blackburn Rovers and England striker Alan Shearer in July 1996. Shearer, who had been the Premier League's top scorer in the last two seasons, was born in Newcastle and had grown up as a fan", "id": "826455" }, { "contents": "England national football team\n\n\nBetween 1994 and 1996, Terry Venables managed the team. At UEFA Euro 1996, held in England, they equalled their best performance at a European Championship, reaching the semi-finals as they did in 1968, before exiting via a penalty shoot-out loss to Germany. England striker Alan Shearer was the tournament's top scorer with five goals. Venables resigned following investigations into his financial activities. Venables' successor, Glenn Hoddle, similarly left the job for non-footballing reasons after just one international tournament – the 1998", "id": "9748695" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nmiddle of 1992. His first season with Blackburn was mixed – he missed half of it through injury after snapping his right anterior cruciate ligament in a match against Leeds United in December 1992, but scored a prolific 16 goals in the 21 games in which he did feature. Shearer also became a regular in the England team this season and scored his second international goal; it came in a 4–0 1994 FIFA World Cup qualifier win over Turkey in November. The season ended sourly, however, as Shearer was forced to miss January", "id": "13592513" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nover from head coach Chris Hughton who was in temporary charge while the permanent manager Joe Kinnear recovered from heart surgery, having taken ill on 7 February. Shearer stated \"It's a club I love and I don't want them to go down. I'll do everything I can to stop that.\" Shearer was unveiled at a press conference the following day by club managing director Derek Llambias. In explaining his acceptance of a managerial role at Newcastle at this time, Shearer stated that he would not have done this for", "id": "13592552" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nwas being run in the wake of the departure of Kevin Keegan. These reports were denied by the club. Shearer features in EA Sports' \"FIFA\" video game series; he was included in the \"FIFA 15\" Ultimate Team Legends. During his playing days, Shearer had been involved with the children's charity the NSPCC, taking part in the organisation's Full Stop campaign in 1999. Since retiring from football Shearer has also done work for several charities both nationally and in the Newcastle area. In his testimonial match", "id": "13592565" }, { "contents": "2005–06 Newcastle United F.C. season\n\n\n. The fee, £17 million, surpassed Newcastle's previous record of £15 million for Alan Shearer from Blackburn in 1996. In the closing hours of the transfer window, the club re-signed Nolberto Solano from Aston Villa. Souness's decision to pair Shearer and Owen together up front proved to be lethal, but Owen broke his fourth metatarsal bone in his foot after a clash with Paul Robinson in a match against Tottenham Hotspur, keeping him out for the rest of the season. With Owen injured the team's", "id": "18086094" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\ndue to injury and the team failed to reach the competition finals. UEFA Euro 1996 was a more positive experience for both Shearer and England. With England not required to qualify as hosts, Shearer had not scored in 12 games in the 21 months prior, and even his overall goalscoring record for England did not look too impressive so far, with five goals in 23 games. However, he found the net in the 22nd minute of the first game, against Switzerland. Scoring once in the following game against Scotland and twice", "id": "13592539" }, { "contents": "Teddy Sheringham\n\n\nthe 2000 European Championships by then manager Kevin Keegan, but the retirement of Shearer (despite being four years younger than Sheringham) from international football after that tournament and the arrival of new manager Sven-Göran Eriksson in 2001 saw a return to international favour for him. He was often deployed as a tactical substitute late in games by Eriksson, valued for his ability to hold the ball up and create intelligent play. In 2001, Sheringham scored an important goal for England against Greece in a World Cup qualifying match within 15 seconds", "id": "2997070" }, { "contents": "Ruud Gullit\n\n\n, chairman Ken Bates famously said of Gullit, \"I didn't like his arrogance – in fact I never liked him.\" In August 1998, Gullit was named manager of Newcastle United two games into the new league season and reached the 1999 FA Cup Final in his first year. Fans remained supportive despite a poor run of results, although a well-publicised contretemps with the team's top scorer Alan Shearer and captain Robert Lee did not put him in a favourable light. Gullit even refused to assign Lee a squad", "id": "13592616" }, { "contents": "Scott Parker\n\n\ndefeat on 25 March 2006. Later that month he was diagnosed with glandular fever, putting an end to his season. The timing was especially unfortunate for Parker, who had been playing well for Newcastle, as it ended any hopes he may have had of forcing his way into the 2006 FIFA World Cup. In July 2006, he was named Newcastle United's new captain by manager Glenn Roeder, succeeding the retired Alan Shearer. His first goal as captain came against Wigan Athletic on 19 August 2006, in a 2–1 win", "id": "14327157" }, { "contents": "History of football in England\n\n\n. United's main challengers for the title in the Premier League's first few years were Blackburn Rovers, led by star striker Alan Shearer, also won their first league title since World War I in 1994–95, and Newcastle United, who famously conceded a 10-point lead at Christmas to lose the title to United in 1995–96. Newcastle had reached the Premiership in 1993 as Division One champions, and in their first Premiership campaign finished third to qualify for the UEFA Cup. They finished second in 1996 and again in 1997, but by", "id": "3652862" }, { "contents": "1992–93 FA Premier League\n\n\nPremier League as an attempt by the Football Association to \"hijack\" the First Division. Shortly before the season began, newly promoted Blackburn Rovers signed Southampton's 21-year-old England international striker Alan Shearer for a new British record fee variously reported as £3.3 million, £3.4 million, or £3.6 million. Several other players moved for fees of £2 million or more, including Arsenal's David Rocastle, who joined Leeds United, Dean Saunders, who moved from Liverpool to Aston Villa, and Teddy Sheringham, who", "id": "12442383" }, { "contents": "Darren Anderton\n\n\nhappy at the prospect of losing another key player as he had already lost Jürgen Klinsmann and Gheorghe Popescu that summer; and Nick Barmby was on the verge of joining Middlesbrough. Despite missing most of the 1995–96 season through injury, Anderton played an important part in the Euro 96 England team that reached the semi-finals and included players like Paul Gascoigne, Alan Shearer, Steve McManaman and Teddy Sheringham. In the semi final against Germany, the match went to golden goal extra time. Anderton came within inches of putting England into", "id": "4331581" }, { "contents": "Wallsend Boys Club\n\n\nJanuary which damaged one of the walls of the building. Professional players to have played for the club include: The club has had a representative at four of the six FIFA World Cup finals since 1986, with the two exceptions coming in 1994, when the England national football team did not qualify, and 2002. In 1986 and 1990 Peter Beardsley starred for England. In 1998 Alan Shearer was England captain. Michael Carrick made appearances for England in both the 2006 and 2010 tournaments. Fraser Forster was in the 2014 squad but", "id": "21182372" }, { "contents": "Harry Kane\n\n\n\". Clive Allen, who coached him at Tottenham, stated that \"one thing I'd say about him, which unfortunately you don't say about a lot of young footballers, is that he had a passion for the game. He loves football, he loves playing, he loves scoring goals\". His former Tottenham under-21 coach Les Ferdinand likened Kane's movement to their former forward Teddy Sheringham, and the power and accuracy of his shots to Alan Shearer. Kane's style of play has been compared to that of", "id": "1925319" }, { "contents": "Kieron Dyer\n\n\nthat he would soon rejoin for Ipswich. After representing England at Youth, Under 21 and \"B\" level, Dyer's debut for the senior team came on 4 September 1999 when he started in England's 6–0 win against Luxembourg. He was deployed out of position at right back, and was replaced by Gary Neville at half-time after injuring himself while setting up Alan Shearer's third goal of the match. The injury was not serious and he was able to make his second England appearance four days later, coming", "id": "17666181" }, { "contents": "1996–97 Blackburn Rovers F.C. season\n\n\nthe end of the season, when he handed over the reins to Roy Hodgson after Sampdoria's Sven-Göran Eriksson lied about accepting the manager's job and joined Lazio instead. Parkes steered Blackburn to safety as they finished 13th. The world record £15 million sale of striker Alan Shearer to Newcastle United was seen as the biggest factor in Blackburn's lowest top flight finish since they returned to the elite in 1992. However, his strike-partner Chris Sutton helped keep the club alive after recovering from a drastic loss of", "id": "7811146" }, { "contents": "Michael Owen\n\n\nmuch of the campaign as England struggled, with Hoddle being replaced by Kevin Keegan. On 4 September 1999, he scored his first goal at Wembley Stadium in a 6–0 win over Luxembourg. At the finals, Owen scored once in three matches, as England were knocked out at the group stage. After Alan Shearer's retirement, Owen took over as England's senior striker under new manager Sven-Göran Eriksson. He scored six times during 2002 World Cup qualifying, including a hat-trick against Germany at Munich's Olympiastadion", "id": "21886807" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nyet to start the UEFA Pro Licence course, which is required to be permitted to manage a team in the Premier League and European competition. Reflecting his desire for personal time off to \"enjoy life\", in July 2006 he turned down a coaching role with England, citing his BBC commitments and desire to be away from the pressure of a job within football. Despite this, Shearer was often linked in the media with managerial or coaching positions at his three former clubs. Shearer took a brief role in the dugout for", "id": "13592550" }, { "contents": "History of Southampton F.C.\n\n\nappearances for the England national team – he finally retired in 2002 at the age of 33. During his time with the Saints, Le Tissier was approached more than once by several bigger clubs (including Manchester United) but chose to stick with the Saints despite never winning a major trophy or experiencing European football with them. From 1989 to 1992, Le Tissier was regularly partnered up front by another notable player, Alan Shearer, who as a 17-year-old had scored a hat-trick on his Saints debut against Arsenal in", "id": "15948278" }, { "contents": "Sir Bobby Robson Trophy match\n\n\nNewcastle United, picking up on Alan Shearer's reply of \"I know as much as you do,\" to a pre-match question as to whether he would be installed as Newcastle manager for the forthcoming season beginning in 13 days, with the club being up for sale and with the first team without a manager, being in the care of coach Chris Hughton. Neither the Newcastle United owner Mike Ashley or managing director Derek Llambias were in attendance at the charity match. Having left England after Italia '90, Sir", "id": "19612022" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nChancellor Liam Donaldson stated \"Newcastle United are my team. Alan Shearer is more than just a local legend, he's probably one of the greatest footballers of all time\". On 12 September 2016, a statue of Shearer's likeness was unveiled outside St James' Park. It was sculpted by Tom Maley, and paid for by the Shepherd family. After his retirement and following guest appearances, Shearer became a regular pundit for the BBC's \"Match of the Day\". He also formed part of the team which", "id": "13592563" }, { "contents": "Gary McAllister\n\n\ntournament, scoring in a 3–0 win over the CIS. However, Scotland did not qualify from their group. Scotland failed to qualify for the 1994 FIFA World Cup but did qualify for UEFA Euro 1996 in England, with McAllister the captain of the team. Scotland's second match of the group stage was against England at Wembley Stadium. In the second half Scotland, trailing 0–1 to an Alan Shearer goal, were awarded a penalty. McAllister's kick was saved by David Seaman and Scotland lost 0–2. The team won their", "id": "19492391" }, { "contents": "David Seaman\n\n\nEngland's quarter-final against Spain ended scoreless, Seaman saved Miguel Angel Nadal's kick in the shootout to knock Spain out of the tournament. England eventually were eliminated in the semi-final by Germany on penalties,after Andreas Köpke saved the penalty taken by Gareth Southgate. Seaman was named alongside Golden Boot winner Alan Shearer and winger Steve McManaman in the UEFA \"Team of the Tournament\". Euro 96 sponsor Philips named him \"Player of the Tournament\". Seaman remained first choice under the management of Glenn Hoddle for", "id": "7321893" }, { "contents": "1998 FA Cup Final\n\n\nand so has the mixture between the foreign and English players.\" Wenger reserved praise for the goalscorers Overmars (\"a world-class player\") and Anelka (\"Nicolas is very young. But you saw in the second half today what he can do\"), and felt the turning point in the match was Shearer's shot hitting the post. He sympathised with Newcastle, as did his captain, Adams who said afterwards: \"The team and their fans did everything they could out there, but it was", "id": "10844688" }, { "contents": "David McMahon (association footballer)\n\n\nabout the role of striker from watching England international Alan Shearer in training, but likened himself more to Newcastle's Scotland international Duncan Ferguson, \"because I am taller and like to battle for things in the air.\" Brian Kerr, then manager of Ireland under-17s, described McMahon as honest and hard-working, \"not the most skilful player, but will get goals\", but Darlington manager Gary Bennett believed there was more to his game: that he and strike partner John Williams both had enough skill to play a", "id": "5423888" }, { "contents": "Andy Carroll\n\n\nUEFA Euro 2012. He opened the scoring for England with a powerful header in their second group match against Sweden, which England went on to win 3–2. Carroll has been compared to Newcastle's record goalscorer Alan Shearer, Ivory Coast striker Didier Drogba and former Italy forward Christian Vieri. He has also been referred to as a classic centre forward, owing to his strength, powerful shot and excellent heading ability. Former Newcastle manager and Liverpool player Kevin Keegan stated \"he is probably in the top three headers of a ball I", "id": "11961542" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\n-chasing Manchester United. On the opening day of the 1999–2000 season, Shearer received the first red card of his career in his 100th appearance for Newcastle. After dropping Shearer to the bench in a Tyne-Wear derby loss against Sunderland, the unpopular Gullit resigned to be replaced by the 66-year-old Bobby Robson. Despite Gullit giving Shearer the captain's armband, reports of a rift between club captain and manager were rife, Gullit's decision to drop Shearer proved deeply unpopular with fans and his departure capped a dismal start", "id": "13592525" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nAn almost injury-free season helped Shearer improve on his previous year's tally in the 1998–99 season, the striker converting 14 goals in 30 league games and replacing Rob Lee as Newcastle captain, but Newcastle finished 13th again, with Ruud Gullit having replaced Kenny Dalglish just after the season got underway. He also helped Newcastle to a second consecutive FA Cup final and qualification for the following season's UEFA Cup, scoring twice in the semi-final against Tottenham Hotspur, but they once again lost, this time 2–0 to treble", "id": "13592524" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nhis final three games under Glenn Roeder. Shearer had rejected offers of coaching or assistant roles at Newcastle under both the returning Kevin Keegan in February 2008 and Joe Kinnear in November 2008. Shearer had previously had talks about, but never been offered, a full-time manager's role at Newcastle until his appointment on 1 April 2009. In a surprise move, late on 1 April 2009, it was announced that Shearer would become the manager of his former club Newcastle United for the remaining eight games of the season, taking", "id": "13592551" }, { "contents": "Fabio Cannavaro\n\n\nnational team on 22 January 1997, in a friendly match against Northern Ireland. The same year, he earned plaudits for his handling of England striker Alan Shearer in a World Cup qualifying game at Wembley Stadium. Shearer was then considered by the partisan English crowd to be the best striker in the world, and thought he would make fun of the inexperienced Italian defender. Nevertheless, in a display ranking alongside those of the very best Italian defenders Claudio Gentile and Franco Baresi, Cannavaro managed to keep Shearer quiet for the whole game", "id": "3625067" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\n, with media sources claiming that video footage showed him intentionally kicking Neil Lennon in the head following a challenge. The referee of the game took no action against Shearer, and he was then cleared of all charges by the FA, with Lennon giving evidence in the player's defence. Former Football Association chief Graham Kelly, who brought the charges against the player, later claimed in his autobiography that Shearer had threatened to withdraw himself from the 1998 World Cup squad if the charges were upheld, a claim strenuously denied by Shearer.", "id": "13592523" }, { "contents": "History of the Romania national football team\n\n\nminnows Tunisia. Adrian Ilie scored the only goal with a fine chip in their first match against Colombia at Lyon's Stade Gerland. In Toulouse, they met an England side starting with prodigal striker Michael Owen on the bench, with Teddy Sheringham preferred alongside Alan Shearer. A mistake by Tony Adams was punished by Viorel Moldovan, who played for Coventry City, before Owen came on to claim an equalizer. But Romania won with a scrappy late goal from Dan Petrescu, also playing in England with Chelsea, fighting off his club", "id": "16435718" }, { "contents": "John Barnes (footballer)\n\n\nNewcastle United, although an approach had already been made by Harry Redknapp of West Ham; Barnes had agreed in principle to join them until at the final moment Dalglish called him and Barnes changed his mind. In the 1997–98 season Barnes played up front mostly, deputising for Alan Shearer after Shearer was injured for most of the season, and Barnes ended up Newcastle's top league scorer with six goals, which highlighted the Magpies' lack of ability to score in the absence of Shearer and Ferdinand (who had been sold along with", "id": "19616669" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\ncould not find a more iconic person than Alan, not just for what he has done in football but for all the extra work he tirelessly does for charity and communities. I am delighted he has accepted the role of Deputy Lieutenant because he is a real role model. I have promised him he is not going to have to do too much, but even if it is just one occasion a year he is the perfect choice\" On 7 December 2009, Shearer was made a Doctor of Civil Law by Newcastle University.", "id": "13592562" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nLaw of Northumbria and Newcastle Universities. Shearer was born in Gosforth, Newcastle, in 1970 to working-class parents Alan and Anne Shearer. His father, a sheet-metal worker, encouraged a keen Shearer to play football in his youth, and the young player continued with the sport as he progressed through school. He was educated at Gosforth Central Middle School and Gosforth High School. Growing up playing on the streets of his hometown, he originally played in midfield because \"it meant [he] could get more involved", "id": "13592504" }, { "contents": "Paul Kitson\n\n\n. Newcastle finished second that season after being overhauled in the second half campaign by a Manchester United side who sealed the title by a five-point margin barely four months after Newcastle had led by 10 points, but Kitson's part in Newcastle's exciting though ultimately disappointing campaign had been minimal as he had played just seven league games and scored twice. But he remained loyal to the Magpies even after another blow at the end of July 1996 – the arrival of £15 million world record signing Alan Shearer. He managed three", "id": "19054464" }, { "contents": "Ray Harford\n\n\nthe Premier League for much of the season. During the summer of 1996, Alan Shearer was sold to Newcastle United for a then world record fee of £15 million, and Harford failed to adequately replace him. Harford stated that \"I'm told we need a big name. Engelbert Humperdinck is a big name but it doesn't mean he can play football.\" The 1996–97 season also started badly for Blackburn. They failed to win any of their first ten games and were knocked out of the League Cup by Division", "id": "5365351" }, { "contents": "Patrick Kluivert\n\n\nagain featured for Barca in a legends game against Uganda all stars where he, in lobbing the ball, scored an amazing goal. Kluivert joined Newcastle United on a free transfer in July 2004. He stated that his reasons for joining Newcastle was due to the overwhelming reaction he received whilst playing for Barcelona against Newcastle during a pre season friendly as well as teaming up with Newcastle's star players such as Alan Shearer. Kluivert scored some classy and crucial goals at and away from St James's Park namely in winning strikes against both", "id": "21654890" }, { "contents": "Duncan Shearer\n\n\nbetween 1994 and 1995, scoring two goals including an important opening strike in an away win over Finland which helped the national side qualify for Euro 96, although Shearer did not make the squad for that tournament. The senior team was his first experience of international football, having never played at any age-group level. He achieved a childhood ambition when he played in the national team alongside John McGinlay, a childhood friend also from Fort William. In season 1999–00 he began to concentrate more on coaching than playing, and was", "id": "3716411" }, { "contents": "Les Ferdinand\n\n\nscored 50 goals in only 84 games at Newcastle, forming a successful partnership with Alan Shearer. He was and indeed is still very highly thought of by Newcastle United. Ferdinand received a standing ovation when he returned to St. James' Park as a Tottenham player, trying to put Alan Shearer's number 9 shirt on to complete a lap of honour, he broke down in tears and could only manage to put the shirt on inside out and back to front before being helped from the field. Ferdinand returned again, when he", "id": "2996528" }, { "contents": "David Platt (footballer)\n\n\nTurkey, San Marino, the Netherlands and Norway. The qualifiers began at home to Norway. England dominated the game and Platt carried the goal threat, with Alan Shearer and Ian Wright struggling to find form. He scored the opening goal after an hour. England dominated the remainder of the game and were unlucky to concede to a long-range shot from Kjetil Rekdal. Platt continued his drive from midfield in wins over Turkey at home (4-0) and San Marino (6-0). Platt scored four", "id": "16718350" }, { "contents": "Jason Wilcox\n\n\n-pound investments of Jack Walker. He played an important part in the title-winning Blackburn team of 1995. Playing on the left flank with attacking fullback Graeme Le Saux behind him and Stuart Ripley on the opposite flank, they forged a strong attacking line-up with Alan Shearer and Chris Sutton. International recognition was harder to come by for Wilcox and he managed only 3 international caps despite his effective partnership with Shearer, Le Saux and Tim Sherwood. Lengthy injury problems restricted his effectiveness in subsequent seasons and, after experiencing", "id": "14527253" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nclub's form, and Newcastle finished just 13th in the Premier League. However, United (now managed by Shearer's old boss at Blackburn, Kenny Dalglish) had a good run in the FA Cup; Shearer scored the winning goal in a semi-final victory over Sheffield United as the team reached the final. The team were unable to get on the scoresheet at Wembley, and lost the game 2–0 to Arsenal. An incident during a game against Leicester City in the league saw Shearer charged with misconduct by the FA", "id": "13592522" }, { "contents": "Aleksandar Mitrović (footballer)\n\n\nhim the competition's top scorer, and 28 in all competitions. On 22 March 2015, he scored the team's only goal in the 2–1 Belgian Cup Final loss to Club Brugge KV in Brussels. On 21 July 2015, Mitrović joined Newcastle United on a five-year contract for a reported £13 million, saying he hoped to be able to play like club legend Alan Shearer. He made his debut on 9 August as Newcastle began the season with a 2–2 draw against Southampton at St James' Park, playing", "id": "20923735" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nWest Bromwich Albion, Manchester City and Newcastle United, before being offered a youth contract with Southampton in April 1986. Shearer was promoted to the first team after spending two years with the youth squad. He made his professional debut for Southampton on 26 March 1988, coming on as a substitute in a First Division fixture at Chelsea, before prompting national headlines in his full debut at The Dell two weeks later. He scored a hat-trick, helping the team to a 4–2 victory against Arsenal, thus becoming the youngest player", "id": "13592506" }, { "contents": "James Milner\n\n\ndo what was \"in the club's best interest\" and in July 2004, he agreed a five-year contract with Newcastle. Milner made his first appearance for Newcastle United during their pre-season tour of Asia, scoring his first goal for the club in a 1–1 draw against Kitchee, in Hong Kong. During this tour, he took the opportunity to observe how Newcastle striker Alan Shearer dealt with attention from fans and the media. He said that his association with people like Shearer gave him a better idea of", "id": "1860603" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nretain the ball and provide opportunities for teammates. Playing as a lone striker between wide men, Rod Wallace and Matt Le Tissier, Shearer scored three goals in 26 appearances in the 1989–90 season, and in the next, four goals in 36 games. His performances in the centre of the \"Saints\" attack were soon recognised by the fans, who voted him their Player of the Year for 1991. In the middle of 1991, Shearer was a member of the England national under-21 football squad in the Toulon Tournament in Toulon", "id": "13592508" }, { "contents": "Teddy Sheringham\n\n\n, creating play and providing key passes, forming the link between Shearer and the England midfield. The pairing came to be known as 'The SAS' ('Shearer and Sheringham') and their most successful time together came in the 1996 European Championships, held in England. Their most famous contribution was in the 4–1 victory over the Netherlands, a game in the opening group stages in which they both scored twice against one of the strongest teams in the tournament. Though England were eventually knocked out in the semi-finals", "id": "2997067" }, { "contents": "History of the England national football team\n\n\ninto Euro 2000 after a 2–1 aggregate playoff win over Scotland. At the finals in Belgium and the Netherlands, a lacklustre England failed to get beyond the group stage, losing to both Portugal and Romania after leading in each game. After England's exit, Alan Shearer retired from international football, he had announced his intentions before the tournament, and no-one could persuade him to change his mind. On 7 October 2000, shortly after losing the opening World Cup qualifier to Germany in the last-ever game at Wembley", "id": "15089411" }, { "contents": "Premier League 10 Seasons Awards\n\n\nrepresented, with five players. The teams were as follows: English striker Alan Shearer was named Domestic Player of the Decade in the main 10 Seasons awards announcements, in addition to being given the Outstanding Contribution to the FA Premier League award. Two weeks later he was also named as the Overall Player of the Decade. In the first decade, Shearer played for Blackburn Rovers, and then Newcastle United. Shearer has been described as a classic English centre-forward with great shooting power, a single-minded striker who could", "id": "11856460" }, { "contents": "Wartime League\n\n\narguments debate that a player who exceeds one's record through their wartime matches should nonetheless be seen as the club's highest goal scorer or appearance having been part of the team's squad even if only for a short time. The most recent argument relates to the goal-difference between Jackie Milburn's and Alan Shearer's Newcastle United goal-scoring records. When counting Jackie's wartime matches, he scored a total of 238 professional goals for Newcastle United FC. In May 2005, Alan Shearer finished his career at 206 goals", "id": "17626256" }, { "contents": "Jon Dahl Tomasson\n\n\nas the perfect link-up player to England national team striker Alan Shearer. The partnership initially worked well, with Tomasson impressing during a pre-season friendly tournament in the Republic of Ireland. However, a career threatening injury to Shearer, combined with the controversial transfer of popular striker Les Ferdinand to Tottenham Hotspur, meant that Tomasson was moved from his traditional attacking midfield position to that of striker. He struggled to adapt to his new position on the field, and to the English game, due to his lack of physical", "id": "19324628" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\ncovered the World Cups and European Championships from 2006 onwards for the BBC. Former Newcastle chairman Freddy Shepherd announced that, after Shearer finished the 2005–06 season as Newcastle's caretaker assistant manager, he would become the club's \"Sporting Ambassador\" for the 2006–07 season. However, in September 2008, it was reported that Shearer was removed from this largely honorary position by the club's owner Mike Ashley, despite protests from players such as Steven Taylor and Damien Duff, due to Shearer's criticism of the way in which the club", "id": "13592564" }, { "contents": "1998 FA Cup Final\n\n\nthe final that Bergkamp had resumed training and \"medically he looked all right\", but the player received a further setback when he suffered a reaction to his hamstring. He ruled himself out of the match and told reporters: \"I'm very disappointed. As a little boy in Holland I always watched the FA Cup final. And I used to dream about playing in it myself one day.\" Ian Wright was listed as Bergkamp's probable replacement to partner Anelka. Newcastle had their own issues surrounding Shearer. The England", "id": "10844676" }, { "contents": "2008–09 in English football\n\n\n's surprise resignation in December; whilst their final points tally wasn't spectacular, they had the satisfaction of being the top North-East team in football after both Middlesbrough and Newcastle United were relegated, ending 11 and 16 year spells in the top flight respectively, the latter going through four managers in Kevin Keegan, Joe Kinnear, Chris Hughton and even former striker Alan Shearer during the campaign. Despite a brilliant start to the season which saw them as high as third place in October, Hull City won just 1 of their", "id": "1311754" }, { "contents": "1996 FA Charity Shield\n\n\nfrom Eric Cantona, Nicky Butt, David Beckham and Roy Keane. The game saw new signings Jordi Cruyff and Karel Poborský make their debuts for Manchester United, though neither of these players had particularly successful careers at Old Trafford and both had left the club within four years. The day before the game had seen the surprise sale of one of Manchester United's longest serving players — Lee Sharpe. The game saw Newcastle United give a debut to £15 million world record signing Alan Shearer, who would remain at the club until", "id": "2797098" }, { "contents": "UEFA Euro 2016 knockout phase\n\n\nsection begin=g6 /section end=g6 / section begin=g7 /section end=g7 / The match has been described as one of England's worst defeats ever. Former footballer and Talksport presenter Stan Collymore, who was commentating on the game, panned the England team, reserving special criticism for goalkeeper Joe Hart and captain Wayne Rooney. Former England international and BBC Sport pundit Alan Shearer described it as the worst performance he had ever seen from an England team. The defeat was called England's most shocking since losing 1–0 to", "id": "11344909" }, { "contents": "Maurice E. Shearer\n\n\nApplication at Annapolis, Maryland, with classmates Holland Smith, Ralph S. Keyser and Andrew B. Drum. In July, Shearer sailed for duty to be the commander of the 35 man Marine detachment on Midway Island. In May 1908, he was selected for promotion to first lieutenant and to the rank of captain in June 1916. During World War I, forces under Major Shearer's command made an attack on Belleau Wood, finally clearing that forest of Germans. On 26 June 1918, he sent a now famous report: \"", "id": "8315540" }, { "contents": "Newcastle upon Tyne\n\n\nF.C. became Football League members in 1893. They have won four top division titles (the first in 1905 and the most recent in 1927), six FA Cups (the first in 1910 and the most recent in 1955) and the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup in 1969. They broke the world transfer record in 1996 by paying £15 million for Blackburn Rovers and England striker Alan Shearer, one of the most prolific goalscorers of that era. In 2017 Newcastle was the venue for the 2017 Freedom City festival. The 2017", "id": "20529704" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\ngame and came off the bench to score a penalty, helping Newcastle win the game 3–2. The match was a sell-out, and saw Shearer perform a lap of honour at the end with his family, with his young son notably covering his ears due to the volume of noise produced by the crowd in tribute. Shearer's international career began in 1990 when he was handed a callup to the England under-21 squad under Dave Sexton. During his time with the squad, he scored 13 times in 11 games, a", "id": "13592537" }, { "contents": "2011–12 Cardiff City F.C. season\n\n\nserving manager in the Championship having held his post since May 2005. The club held talks with former England and Newcastle United captain Alan Shearer to replace Jones but he rejected the job despite stating that he was impressed with the \"vision, ambition and determination of the owner Dato Chan Tien Ghee and the board\". The \"Bluebirds\" instead approached Championship rivals Watford for permission to speak to their manager Malky Mackay, which was initially rejected. However, after the two clubs agreed a compensation fee, Mackay was officially appointed as", "id": "7599659" }, { "contents": "Kevin Keegan\n\n\nto Michael Owen, stating, \"He's not scared to give his opinion when he's right, and he's not scared to say what he feels. He's a tremendous professional, and he trains properly every day.\" Keegan announced on 22 January that he and Alan Shearer held talks about the two linking up with Shearer as his assistant, but decided against the idea, leaving the door open for him to take other roles he was interested in. Keegan's first eight games back at Newcastle passed without a", "id": "826473" }, { "contents": "Transfer (association football)\n\n\n£3.6 million Alan Shearer moved to Blackburn Rovers from Southampton, a decade after the world's first £3 million transfer. Lentini's transfer remained intact the world record fee for the next four years, although the national record was broken more than once in many countries including England. Shearer's £3.6million record fee was narrowly eclipsed 12 months later when Manchester United signed Roy Keane from Nottingham Forest for £3.75 million. In 1994, Blackburn Rovers paid a record £5 million for Chris Sutton from Norwich City, a decade", "id": "11200095" }, { "contents": "Roy Hodgson\n\n\nagainst Costa Rica to finish bottom of Group D. Hodgson named Rooney as the new captain of England in August 2014, following the retirement of Steven Gerrard from international football. Hodgson's first match after the World Cup was a 1–0 win against Norway in an international friendly match at Wembley on 3 September 2014. During the match, England made only two shots on target. Hodgson was infuriated when asked about this, describing the statistic as \"fucking bollocks\". Former England player, Alan Shearer, admitted that the match was so", "id": "12858624" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nto the season. The animosity between Shearer and Gullit was later confirmed by the latter, who reported telling the striker that he was \"...the most overrated player I have ever seen.\" Ironically, Robson had tried to sign Shearer for Barcelona in 1997, making a bid of £20million which would have seen Shearer break the world's transfer fee record for the second time in 12 months. However, then Newcastle manager Kenny Dalglish rejected the offer. In Robson's first match in charge, Shearer scored five goals in", "id": "13592526" }, { "contents": "Premier League 10 Seasons Awards\n\n\nin his talks with Alex Ferguson, he could not guarantee that Eric Cantona the Overseas Player of the Decade could be persuaded to let Shearer take penalty kicks. Shearer gained a second PFA Players' Player of the Year Award in April 1997, becoming just the second player to have received the PFA award twice, after Mark Hughes. After the 2000 European Championships, Shearer had retired from international football with England, having been England captain since 1998, and having made his senior début in 1992. Shearer was awarded the OBE in", "id": "11856465" }, { "contents": "Emile Heskey\n\n\nthe two matches, with former England international Alan Shearer commenting, \"Never in a million years did I expect to be discussing whether Emile Heskey should keep his place ahead of Wayne Rooney but the Wigan striker was outstanding over both matches.\" Heskey was called into manager Fabio Capello's first squad against Switzerland, but had to withdraw due to an injury. He was called into the squad for a friendly against the Czech Republic in August 2008 and came on as a 46th-minute substitute, in a match that finished 2–2", "id": "174986" }, { "contents": "Habib Beye\n\n\nUEFA Cup Final, a run which involved him putting in a star performance as a central defender against (his now former team) Newcastle United, where he was particularly effective against Newcastle's talisman striker Alan Shearer. He ended up on the losing side as Marseille lost the final to Valencia 2–0. He was also a beaten finalist in the 2006 French Cup against former club Paris Saint-Germain, a match which his team lost 2–1, and again in 2007 when his Marseille team lost on penalties to FC Sochaux. His", "id": "16217445" }, { "contents": "Stan Collymore\n\n\nseason in the Premier League, Collymore was called up to Terry Venables' England squad for the Umbro Cup in June 1995. He made his début at Wembley Stadium against Japan, partnering Alan Shearer in a 2–1 win. He won his second cap as a 90th minute substitute against Brazil. Collymore made his third and final appearance for England as a substitute in a 4–0 win over Moldova during qualification for the 1998 FIFA World Cup. Collymore contributed to his biography \"Stan: Tackling my demons\" with Oliver Holt. In 2005", "id": "3955590" }, { "contents": "Graeme Souness\n\n\nAt £8.2 million, Boumsong was his first big signing and Souness said he would replace Jonathan Woodgate in the Newcastle defence, which had conceded several leads earlier in the season. Newcastle were well aware of Boumsong prior to his move from Auxerre to Rangers on a free transfer. Robson had travelled to France to watch him, but he declined the opportunity to sign Boumsong. Liverpool were also interested in signing Boumsong. Robson's doubts were confirmed when Boumsong marked Alan Shearer in a pre-season game against Rangers. Shearer came", "id": "18029254" }, { "contents": "Saido Berahino\n\n\nrate of a goal every other match, including three to help the team qualify for the European Championship. Berahino has the all-time third-highest goal tally for the England under-21 side with 10 goals in 13 appearances, behind Francis Jeffers and Alan Shearer. On 6 November 2014, England manager Roy Hodgson – who promoted Berahino to the West Bromwich Albion first team in 2011 – named Berahino in his squad for the first time, ahead of a UEFA Euro 2016 qualifying match against Slovenia at Wembley Stadium on the 15th and", "id": "1000466" } ]

[ { "contents": "Tony Adams\n\n\n\"I have some resentment over the way Glenn Hoddle gave the captaincy to Alan Shearer instead of me but I can let that go. I reacted positively. I disagreed with him [Hoddle] and he thought Alan could get more penalties being a centre forward. People know my reaction to that\". Adams continued to play for the national side, however and he finally appeared in a World Cup finals in 1998. His international swansong was England's unsuccessful Euro 2000 campaign. With Shearer retiring from international football after the tournament", "id": "6104102" }, { "contents": "Tony Adams\n\n\nin defence, and after the retirement of Gary Lineker in 1992, Adams unofficially shared the captaincy of England with David Platt, though Adams became England captain outright before Euro 96, as Platt's place in the side became less secure. England reached the semi-finals of Euro 96, before losing on penalties to Germany. When England manager Glenn Hoddle took the Captain's armband from Adams and gave it to Alan Shearer it was a bitter pill for Adams to swallow. Speaking at a fans' forum in 2008 Adams remarked", "id": "6104101" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nThis time, Germany won from the spot; although Shearer scored, his teammate Gareth Southgate missed his kick and England were eliminated. Shearer's five goals made him the competition's top scorer, and together with teammates David Seaman and Steve McManaman, was listed in the official UEFA team of the tournament. The new England manager Glenn Hoddle appointed Shearer captain for the 1998 FIFA World Cup qualifier against Moldova on 1 September 1996, and the player held onto the captaincy after scoring once in that match and twice in the following game", "id": "13592541" }, { "contents": "Dimitar Berbatov\n\n\nhe consequently modelled himself after Marco van Basten, the Dutch forward for that team. However, the 1996 European Championship, held in England, gave Berbatov a new role model; the 15-year-old Berbatov began to look up to the English front man Alan Shearer, who played for Newcastle United. Berbatov's mother later spoke of her son's teenage dream of playing for Newcastle United, and said that his admiration for Shearer was such that, during these years, he slept in a Newcastle shirt. Berbatov began his youth", "id": "3905446" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\n's participation in what was to be Shearer's only World Cup tournament. In September 1999, Shearer scored his only England hat-trick in a UEFA Euro 2000 qualifier against Luxembourg. This helped England reach a play-off against Scotland; England won the game over two legs and in doing so qualified for the European Championships. By now, Shearer was approaching his 30th birthday, and he announced that he intended to retire from international football after the Euro 2000 tournament. Shearer did not score in England's opening 3–2 defeat", "id": "13592544" }, { "contents": "Southampton F.C.\n\n\nwas Alan Shearer, who at the age of 17 scored a hat-trick against Arsenal in a league match in April 1988. Shearer was a first team regular by 1990, and stayed with Southampton until July 1992, when he was sold to Blackburn Rovers for a national record of more than £3 million. He then became the most expensive footballer in the world when Blackburn sold him to Newcastle for £15 million in 1996. He also scored 30 times for England internationally. Southampton were founding members of the Premier League", "id": "3265953" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\ntime to play in England's UEFA European Championship campaign. After Euro 96, Manchester United again sought to sign Shearer, and attempted to enter the battle for his signature. However Manchester United chairman Martin Edwards stated that Blackburn Rovers refused to let Shearer go to Old Trafford. Ultimately Shearer joined his boyhood club: Newcastle United, Manchester United's title rivals. On 30 July 1996, for a world transfer record-breaking £15 million (equivalent to £ million today) Shearer joined his hometown club and league runners-up", "id": "13592519" }, { "contents": "History of the England national football team\n\n\nyear after his last game at club level. Hoddle selected Alan Shearer as captain, replacing Tony Adams, but also brought a number of emerging talents into the squad, including the Manchester United midfield trio of Paul Scholes, Nicky Butt and David Beckham, and central defenders Rio Ferdinand and Sol Campbell. Hoddle oversaw England's qualification for the 1998 World Cup (the first World Cup with 32 teams instead of 24) with a 0–0 draw against Italy at the Stadio Olimpico in Rome, and drew out a winning performance in the", "id": "15089406" }, { "contents": "History of the England national football team\n\n\nthe underwhelming performance at the World Cup, England suffered a poor start to the Euro 2000 qualifying tournament, and there was reported discontent between Hoddle and several senior players, most notably Shearer. Hoddle was dismissed on 2 February 1999, two days after an interview with \"The Sunday Times\" in which he spoke about his belief in reincarnation and claimed that disabled people were paying for sins in a previous life. Under considerable media and public pressure, the FA appointed former captain Kevin Keegan, who only just managed to get England", "id": "15089410" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nagainst Poland. He scored a total of five goals in England's successful qualification campaign for the World Cup, adding strikes against Georgia and away to Poland to his tally. Shearer was sidelined for much of the 1997–98 season, but recovered to play in the World Cup finals. With Michael Owen replacing Teddy Sheringham as Shearer's strike partner, Shearer's return saw him score England's first goal of the tournament, in a 2–0 win over Tunisia, his only goal in the three group matches. England faced long-time", "id": "13592542" }, { "contents": "Newcastle United F.C.\n\n\n. The attacking philosophy of Keegan led to the team being labelled \"The Entertainers\" by Sky Sports. Keegan took Newcastle to two consecutive runners-up finishes in the league in 1995–96 and 1996–97, coming very close to winning the title in the former season. This success was in part due to the talent of players like David Ginola, Les Ferdinand and Alan Shearer, who was signed on 30 July 1996 for a then world record fee of £15 million. Keegan left Newcastle in January 1997 and was replaced by Kenny", "id": "12636363" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nAlan Shearer, CBE, DL (born 13 August 1970) is an English retired footballer. He played as a striker in the top level of English league football for Southampton, Blackburn Rovers, Newcastle United and the England national team. He is Newcastle's and the Premier League's record goalscorer. He was named Football Writers' Association Player of the Year in 1994 and won the PFA Player of the Year award in 1995. In 1996, he was third in the FIFA World Player of the Year awards. In 2004", "id": "13592501" }, { "contents": "Teddy Sheringham\n\n\nmanager Terry Venables (1994–96) Sheringham came to be the preferred strike partner for Alan Shearer. During this time, England had a wealth of strikers with the likes of Andrew Cole, Ian Wright, a young Robbie Fowler and Les Ferdinand all battling to partner Shearer in the England team. The two formed a famous partnership at international level, as they complemented each other's strengths: Shearer the out-and-out goalscorer, big, strong and powerful, Sheringham just 'dropping off' his strike partner, finding spaces", "id": "2997066" }, { "contents": "History of Newcastle United F.C.\n\n\n's title chances for the 1994–95 season, in which they finished sixth. The club, however, continued to build up a reputation for playing attacking football under Keegan. In the 1995–96 season, high-profile foreign stars David Ginola and Faustino Asprilla, in addition to British players Peter Beardsley and striker Les Ferdinand, guided the team to a second-place finish. During the 1996–97 season, Keegan made one signing, securing the services of England striker Alan Shearer for a then-world record transfer fee of £15 million", "id": "6803863" }, { "contents": "1996–97 Newcastle United F.C. season\n\n\n...I think Kevin wanted it free-flowing in all departments and that doesn't necessarily happen.\" Keegan responded to the previous season's disappointment by breaking the world record transfer fee to sign centre forward Alan Shearer from Blackburn Rovers for £15 million. Shearer, whose five goals made him the top scorer in Euro 96, had supported Newcastle since childhood – he had been a ball-boy at St James' Park on the day that Keegan had left in a helicopter after his final Newcastle appearance as a player.", "id": "1207050" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nin the games.\" Shearer captained his school team and helped a Newcastle City Schools team win a seven-a-side tournament at St James' Park, before joining the amateur Wallsend Boys Club as a teenager. It was while playing for the Wallsend club that he was spotted by Southampton's scout, Jack Hixon, which resulted in Shearer spending his summers training with the club's youth team, a time he would later refer to as \"the making of me\". Shearer had successful trials for First Division clubs", "id": "13592505" }, { "contents": "Duncan Shearer\n\n\nFavourites\" during the club's centenary in 2008. However, he was unable to prevent Huddersfield's relegation to the Third Division at the end of the 1987–88 season. Weeks before this, the unrelated English striker Alan Shearer (aged 17) had scored a hat-trick in the First Division for Southampton against Arsenal, a game which Arsenal captain Tony Adams missed through injury. In his autobiography 11 years later, Adams said that he had followed the progress of the game on Ceefax and mistakingly believed that the Shearer who scored", "id": "3716405" }, { "contents": "David Hirst (footballer)\n\n\nHe came on at half-time and within three minutes of the restart he scored his first (and only) England goal. With Gary Lineker injured, he lined up with Alan Shearer against France at Wembley. Bryan Robson said that, \"It's not a question of who will replace Lineker, but who will partner David Hirst\". It became Hirst's third and final England match. Although he was selected for more England squads, injuries kept him out of the team. Manchester United boss Alex Ferguson tried six", "id": "18892949" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nthrough to May due to injury and England's World Cup qualification chances were hit by a run of poor form. Returning to fitness for the 1993–94 season, he scored 31 goals from 40 games as Blackburn finished runners-up in the Premier League. His performances for the club led to him being named the Football Writers' Association Footballer of the Year for that season. On the international scene, England had failed to qualify for the 1994 World Cup finals, but Shearer added three more goals to his international tally before embarking", "id": "13592514" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nfive points out of a possible twenty-four. Shearer did not get the manager's job on permanent basis. Chris Hughton stepped up from the coaching staff to take charge of the quest to get Newcastle back into the Premier League, which was achieved at the first attempt as Newcastle finished top of the Championship in the 2009–10 season. Shearer is married to Lainya, whom he met whilst a Southampton player. The couple lived locally with her parents during Shearer's second year at the south coast club, and were married on", "id": "13592557" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nagainst Portugal, but did so as England defeated Germany 1–0 in Charleroi, ensuring that England beat their European neighbours for the first time since the 1966 World Cup Final. To remain in the tournament, England only required a draw against Romania in the final group match, and Shearer scored a penalty as England went in at half-time 2–1 up, but Romania ultimately won 3–2. England's tournament was over, and so was Shearer's international career. From his 63 caps, he captained the team 34 times and scored", "id": "13592545" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nrecord return which is still unbeaten. The striker's goals at this level, coupled with his club form, meant he was soon promoted to the senior squad by coach Graham Taylor. Marking his debut in the 2–0 win against France in February 1992 with a goal, he made his only appearance for the England B team a month later. Due to replace Gary Lineker, who retired from international action after UEFA Euro 1992, in the England attack, Shearer played only intermittently in the qualifying campaign for the 1994 FIFA World Cup", "id": "13592538" }, { "contents": "1993 Trans-Tasman Test series\n\n\n's Canberra Raiders team mate and New South Wales captain Laurie Daley. The test series took place following the 1993 State of Origin series which was won by NSW. Dale Shearer's performances at fullback for Qld saw him earn a test recall in front of well performed World Cup and NSW fullback Tim Brasher (though Shearer had been selected at centre for all 3 Ashes series tests in 1992 but withdrew from all 3 with injury). Bradley Clyde, who had not played in the Origin series due to injury was also recalled to", "id": "16616631" }, { "contents": "Glenn Hoddle\n\n\nRedknapp resigned, following which Hoddle also left the club. In June 2016, after England's 2–1 loss to Iceland at Euro 2016 and manager Roy Hodgson's subsequent resignation, Harry Redknapp and Alan Shearer both put forward Hoddle as a candidate for the job before Sam Allardyce was appointed. Hoddle has done punditry work since his retirement from coaching. He has worked for ESPN, ITV Sport and BT Sport. Hoddle began working with ESPN during Euro 2012 as a pundit. Since then, he has worked with ITV for the 2014", "id": "8847620" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nhim onto the pitch following the striker's testimonial in May 2006 as he performed a lap of honour at St James' Park. On 6 December 2000, Shearer was given Honorary Freedom of the City of Newcastle upon Tyne, with the citation \"in recognition of his role as captain of Newcastle United Football Club and as former captain of England which have enhanced the reputation of the City\". Shearer was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2001 Queen's Birthday Honours and Commander of the", "id": "13592559" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nhis four years in the Southampton first team, Shearer made a total of 158 appearances in all competitions, scoring 43 goals. Despite making just one goalless appearance as England failed to progress past the Euro 1992 group stages, Shearer was soon subject to an English transfer record-breaking £3.6 million bid from Blackburn Rovers. Although there was also interest from Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson, Blackburn benefactor Jack Walker's millions were enough to prise the striker from the \"Saints\", and Shearer moved north to Ewood Park in the", "id": "13592512" }, { "contents": "Andy Cole\n\n\nof the season to help United win the Premier League title for the third time in four years. He also played in their FA Cup final victory to become part of England's first ever side to win the double twice. Before the 1996–97 season began, Cole had to deal with being offered to Blackburn Rovers as part-exchange in a £12 million deal that would have brought Alan Shearer to Old Trafford, but the offer was rejected and Shearer joined Newcastle instead. Despite Alex Ferguson's clear indication to Cole that he", "id": "9629547" }, { "contents": "Shearer's Bar\n\n\nShearer's Bar is the former name of a sports bar owned by Newcastle United and forming part of St James' Park, the team's stadium in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. It was named in honour of the club's all-time top scorer, Alan Shearer. The bar was renamed Nine in July 2013 by the club, who said that popularity of the venue had \"dwindled\". The bar was opened in December 2004 and became an important part of the features at St James' Park. It is", "id": "15298144" }, { "contents": "Kevin Keegan\n\n\nrelationship between the pair. In April 2003, it was named as Quote of the Decade in the Premier League 10 Seasons Awards and Most Memorable Quote in the 20 Seasons Awards in May 2012. It also appeared in Channel 4's \"100 Greatest Sporting Moments\". Keegan then broke the world transfer fee record by signing Blackburn Rovers and England striker Alan Shearer in July 1996. Shearer, who had been the Premier League's top scorer in the last two seasons, was born in Newcastle and had grown up as a fan", "id": "826455" }, { "contents": "England national football team\n\n\nBetween 1994 and 1996, Terry Venables managed the team. At UEFA Euro 1996, held in England, they equalled their best performance at a European Championship, reaching the semi-finals as they did in 1968, before exiting via a penalty shoot-out loss to Germany. England striker Alan Shearer was the tournament's top scorer with five goals. Venables resigned following investigations into his financial activities. Venables' successor, Glenn Hoddle, similarly left the job for non-footballing reasons after just one international tournament – the 1998", "id": "9748695" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nmiddle of 1992. His first season with Blackburn was mixed – he missed half of it through injury after snapping his right anterior cruciate ligament in a match against Leeds United in December 1992, but scored a prolific 16 goals in the 21 games in which he did feature. Shearer also became a regular in the England team this season and scored his second international goal; it came in a 4–0 1994 FIFA World Cup qualifier win over Turkey in November. The season ended sourly, however, as Shearer was forced to miss January", "id": "13592513" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nover from head coach Chris Hughton who was in temporary charge while the permanent manager Joe Kinnear recovered from heart surgery, having taken ill on 7 February. Shearer stated \"It's a club I love and I don't want them to go down. I'll do everything I can to stop that.\" Shearer was unveiled at a press conference the following day by club managing director Derek Llambias. In explaining his acceptance of a managerial role at Newcastle at this time, Shearer stated that he would not have done this for", "id": "13592552" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nwas being run in the wake of the departure of Kevin Keegan. These reports were denied by the club. Shearer features in EA Sports' \"FIFA\" video game series; he was included in the \"FIFA 15\" Ultimate Team Legends. During his playing days, Shearer had been involved with the children's charity the NSPCC, taking part in the organisation's Full Stop campaign in 1999. Since retiring from football Shearer has also done work for several charities both nationally and in the Newcastle area. In his testimonial match", "id": "13592565" }, { "contents": "2005–06 Newcastle United F.C. season\n\n\n. The fee, £17 million, surpassed Newcastle's previous record of £15 million for Alan Shearer from Blackburn in 1996. In the closing hours of the transfer window, the club re-signed Nolberto Solano from Aston Villa. Souness's decision to pair Shearer and Owen together up front proved to be lethal, but Owen broke his fourth metatarsal bone in his foot after a clash with Paul Robinson in a match against Tottenham Hotspur, keeping him out for the rest of the season. With Owen injured the team's", "id": "18086094" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\ndue to injury and the team failed to reach the competition finals. UEFA Euro 1996 was a more positive experience for both Shearer and England. With England not required to qualify as hosts, Shearer had not scored in 12 games in the 21 months prior, and even his overall goalscoring record for England did not look too impressive so far, with five goals in 23 games. However, he found the net in the 22nd minute of the first game, against Switzerland. Scoring once in the following game against Scotland and twice", "id": "13592539" }, { "contents": "Teddy Sheringham\n\n\nthe 2000 European Championships by then manager Kevin Keegan, but the retirement of Shearer (despite being four years younger than Sheringham) from international football after that tournament and the arrival of new manager Sven-Göran Eriksson in 2001 saw a return to international favour for him. He was often deployed as a tactical substitute late in games by Eriksson, valued for his ability to hold the ball up and create intelligent play. In 2001, Sheringham scored an important goal for England against Greece in a World Cup qualifying match within 15 seconds", "id": "2997070" }, { "contents": "Ruud Gullit\n\n\n, chairman Ken Bates famously said of Gullit, \"I didn't like his arrogance – in fact I never liked him.\" In August 1998, Gullit was named manager of Newcastle United two games into the new league season and reached the 1999 FA Cup Final in his first year. Fans remained supportive despite a poor run of results, although a well-publicised contretemps with the team's top scorer Alan Shearer and captain Robert Lee did not put him in a favourable light. Gullit even refused to assign Lee a squad", "id": "13592616" }, { "contents": "Scott Parker\n\n\ndefeat on 25 March 2006. Later that month he was diagnosed with glandular fever, putting an end to his season. The timing was especially unfortunate for Parker, who had been playing well for Newcastle, as it ended any hopes he may have had of forcing his way into the 2006 FIFA World Cup. In July 2006, he was named Newcastle United's new captain by manager Glenn Roeder, succeeding the retired Alan Shearer. His first goal as captain came against Wigan Athletic on 19 August 2006, in a 2–1 win", "id": "14327157" }, { "contents": "History of football in England\n\n\n. United's main challengers for the title in the Premier League's first few years were Blackburn Rovers, led by star striker Alan Shearer, also won their first league title since World War I in 1994–95, and Newcastle United, who famously conceded a 10-point lead at Christmas to lose the title to United in 1995–96. Newcastle had reached the Premiership in 1993 as Division One champions, and in their first Premiership campaign finished third to qualify for the UEFA Cup. They finished second in 1996 and again in 1997, but by", "id": "3652862" }, { "contents": "1992–93 FA Premier League\n\n\nPremier League as an attempt by the Football Association to \"hijack\" the First Division. Shortly before the season began, newly promoted Blackburn Rovers signed Southampton's 21-year-old England international striker Alan Shearer for a new British record fee variously reported as £3.3 million, £3.4 million, or £3.6 million. Several other players moved for fees of £2 million or more, including Arsenal's David Rocastle, who joined Leeds United, Dean Saunders, who moved from Liverpool to Aston Villa, and Teddy Sheringham, who", "id": "12442383" }, { "contents": "Darren Anderton\n\n\nhappy at the prospect of losing another key player as he had already lost Jürgen Klinsmann and Gheorghe Popescu that summer; and Nick Barmby was on the verge of joining Middlesbrough. Despite missing most of the 1995–96 season through injury, Anderton played an important part in the Euro 96 England team that reached the semi-finals and included players like Paul Gascoigne, Alan Shearer, Steve McManaman and Teddy Sheringham. In the semi final against Germany, the match went to golden goal extra time. Anderton came within inches of putting England into", "id": "4331581" }, { "contents": "Wallsend Boys Club\n\n\nJanuary which damaged one of the walls of the building. Professional players to have played for the club include: The club has had a representative at four of the six FIFA World Cup finals since 1986, with the two exceptions coming in 1994, when the England national football team did not qualify, and 2002. In 1986 and 1990 Peter Beardsley starred for England. In 1998 Alan Shearer was England captain. Michael Carrick made appearances for England in both the 2006 and 2010 tournaments. Fraser Forster was in the 2014 squad but", "id": "21182372" }, { "contents": "Harry Kane\n\n\n\". Clive Allen, who coached him at Tottenham, stated that \"one thing I'd say about him, which unfortunately you don't say about a lot of young footballers, is that he had a passion for the game. He loves football, he loves playing, he loves scoring goals\". His former Tottenham under-21 coach Les Ferdinand likened Kane's movement to their former forward Teddy Sheringham, and the power and accuracy of his shots to Alan Shearer. Kane's style of play has been compared to that of", "id": "1925319" }, { "contents": "Kieron Dyer\n\n\nthat he would soon rejoin for Ipswich. After representing England at Youth, Under 21 and \"B\" level, Dyer's debut for the senior team came on 4 September 1999 when he started in England's 6–0 win against Luxembourg. He was deployed out of position at right back, and was replaced by Gary Neville at half-time after injuring himself while setting up Alan Shearer's third goal of the match. The injury was not serious and he was able to make his second England appearance four days later, coming", "id": "17666181" }, { "contents": "1996–97 Blackburn Rovers F.C. season\n\n\nthe end of the season, when he handed over the reins to Roy Hodgson after Sampdoria's Sven-Göran Eriksson lied about accepting the manager's job and joined Lazio instead. Parkes steered Blackburn to safety as they finished 13th. The world record £15 million sale of striker Alan Shearer to Newcastle United was seen as the biggest factor in Blackburn's lowest top flight finish since they returned to the elite in 1992. However, his strike-partner Chris Sutton helped keep the club alive after recovering from a drastic loss of", "id": "7811146" }, { "contents": "Michael Owen\n\n\nmuch of the campaign as England struggled, with Hoddle being replaced by Kevin Keegan. On 4 September 1999, he scored his first goal at Wembley Stadium in a 6–0 win over Luxembourg. At the finals, Owen scored once in three matches, as England were knocked out at the group stage. After Alan Shearer's retirement, Owen took over as England's senior striker under new manager Sven-Göran Eriksson. He scored six times during 2002 World Cup qualifying, including a hat-trick against Germany at Munich's Olympiastadion", "id": "21886807" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nyet to start the UEFA Pro Licence course, which is required to be permitted to manage a team in the Premier League and European competition. Reflecting his desire for personal time off to \"enjoy life\", in July 2006 he turned down a coaching role with England, citing his BBC commitments and desire to be away from the pressure of a job within football. Despite this, Shearer was often linked in the media with managerial or coaching positions at his three former clubs. Shearer took a brief role in the dugout for", "id": "13592550" }, { "contents": "History of Southampton F.C.\n\n\nappearances for the England national team – he finally retired in 2002 at the age of 33. During his time with the Saints, Le Tissier was approached more than once by several bigger clubs (including Manchester United) but chose to stick with the Saints despite never winning a major trophy or experiencing European football with them. From 1989 to 1992, Le Tissier was regularly partnered up front by another notable player, Alan Shearer, who as a 17-year-old had scored a hat-trick on his Saints debut against Arsenal in", "id": "15948278" }, { "contents": "Sir Bobby Robson Trophy match\n\n\nNewcastle United, picking up on Alan Shearer's reply of \"I know as much as you do,\" to a pre-match question as to whether he would be installed as Newcastle manager for the forthcoming season beginning in 13 days, with the club being up for sale and with the first team without a manager, being in the care of coach Chris Hughton. Neither the Newcastle United owner Mike Ashley or managing director Derek Llambias were in attendance at the charity match. Having left England after Italia '90, Sir", "id": "19612022" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nChancellor Liam Donaldson stated \"Newcastle United are my team. Alan Shearer is more than just a local legend, he's probably one of the greatest footballers of all time\". On 12 September 2016, a statue of Shearer's likeness was unveiled outside St James' Park. It was sculpted by Tom Maley, and paid for by the Shepherd family. After his retirement and following guest appearances, Shearer became a regular pundit for the BBC's \"Match of the Day\". He also formed part of the team which", "id": "13592563" }, { "contents": "Gary McAllister\n\n\ntournament, scoring in a 3–0 win over the CIS. However, Scotland did not qualify from their group. Scotland failed to qualify for the 1994 FIFA World Cup but did qualify for UEFA Euro 1996 in England, with McAllister the captain of the team. Scotland's second match of the group stage was against England at Wembley Stadium. In the second half Scotland, trailing 0–1 to an Alan Shearer goal, were awarded a penalty. McAllister's kick was saved by David Seaman and Scotland lost 0–2. The team won their", "id": "19492391" }, { "contents": "David Seaman\n\n\nEngland's quarter-final against Spain ended scoreless, Seaman saved Miguel Angel Nadal's kick in the shootout to knock Spain out of the tournament. England eventually were eliminated in the semi-final by Germany on penalties,after Andreas Köpke saved the penalty taken by Gareth Southgate. Seaman was named alongside Golden Boot winner Alan Shearer and winger Steve McManaman in the UEFA \"Team of the Tournament\". Euro 96 sponsor Philips named him \"Player of the Tournament\". Seaman remained first choice under the management of Glenn Hoddle for", "id": "7321893" }, { "contents": "1998 FA Cup Final\n\n\nand so has the mixture between the foreign and English players.\" Wenger reserved praise for the goalscorers Overmars (\"a world-class player\") and Anelka (\"Nicolas is very young. But you saw in the second half today what he can do\"), and felt the turning point in the match was Shearer's shot hitting the post. He sympathised with Newcastle, as did his captain, Adams who said afterwards: \"The team and their fans did everything they could out there, but it was", "id": "10844688" }, { "contents": "David McMahon (association footballer)\n\n\nabout the role of striker from watching England international Alan Shearer in training, but likened himself more to Newcastle's Scotland international Duncan Ferguson, \"because I am taller and like to battle for things in the air.\" Brian Kerr, then manager of Ireland under-17s, described McMahon as honest and hard-working, \"not the most skilful player, but will get goals\", but Darlington manager Gary Bennett believed there was more to his game: that he and strike partner John Williams both had enough skill to play a", "id": "5423888" }, { "contents": "Andy Carroll\n\n\nUEFA Euro 2012. He opened the scoring for England with a powerful header in their second group match against Sweden, which England went on to win 3–2. Carroll has been compared to Newcastle's record goalscorer Alan Shearer, Ivory Coast striker Didier Drogba and former Italy forward Christian Vieri. He has also been referred to as a classic centre forward, owing to his strength, powerful shot and excellent heading ability. Former Newcastle manager and Liverpool player Kevin Keegan stated \"he is probably in the top three headers of a ball I", "id": "11961542" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\n-chasing Manchester United. On the opening day of the 1999–2000 season, Shearer received the first red card of his career in his 100th appearance for Newcastle. After dropping Shearer to the bench in a Tyne-Wear derby loss against Sunderland, the unpopular Gullit resigned to be replaced by the 66-year-old Bobby Robson. Despite Gullit giving Shearer the captain's armband, reports of a rift between club captain and manager were rife, Gullit's decision to drop Shearer proved deeply unpopular with fans and his departure capped a dismal start", "id": "13592525" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nAn almost injury-free season helped Shearer improve on his previous year's tally in the 1998–99 season, the striker converting 14 goals in 30 league games and replacing Rob Lee as Newcastle captain, but Newcastle finished 13th again, with Ruud Gullit having replaced Kenny Dalglish just after the season got underway. He also helped Newcastle to a second consecutive FA Cup final and qualification for the following season's UEFA Cup, scoring twice in the semi-final against Tottenham Hotspur, but they once again lost, this time 2–0 to treble", "id": "13592524" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nhis final three games under Glenn Roeder. Shearer had rejected offers of coaching or assistant roles at Newcastle under both the returning Kevin Keegan in February 2008 and Joe Kinnear in November 2008. Shearer had previously had talks about, but never been offered, a full-time manager's role at Newcastle until his appointment on 1 April 2009. In a surprise move, late on 1 April 2009, it was announced that Shearer would become the manager of his former club Newcastle United for the remaining eight games of the season, taking", "id": "13592551" }, { "contents": "Fabio Cannavaro\n\n\nnational team on 22 January 1997, in a friendly match against Northern Ireland. The same year, he earned plaudits for his handling of England striker Alan Shearer in a World Cup qualifying game at Wembley Stadium. Shearer was then considered by the partisan English crowd to be the best striker in the world, and thought he would make fun of the inexperienced Italian defender. Nevertheless, in a display ranking alongside those of the very best Italian defenders Claudio Gentile and Franco Baresi, Cannavaro managed to keep Shearer quiet for the whole game", "id": "3625067" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\n, with media sources claiming that video footage showed him intentionally kicking Neil Lennon in the head following a challenge. The referee of the game took no action against Shearer, and he was then cleared of all charges by the FA, with Lennon giving evidence in the player's defence. Former Football Association chief Graham Kelly, who brought the charges against the player, later claimed in his autobiography that Shearer had threatened to withdraw himself from the 1998 World Cup squad if the charges were upheld, a claim strenuously denied by Shearer.", "id": "13592523" }, { "contents": "History of the Romania national football team\n\n\nminnows Tunisia. Adrian Ilie scored the only goal with a fine chip in their first match against Colombia at Lyon's Stade Gerland. In Toulouse, they met an England side starting with prodigal striker Michael Owen on the bench, with Teddy Sheringham preferred alongside Alan Shearer. A mistake by Tony Adams was punished by Viorel Moldovan, who played for Coventry City, before Owen came on to claim an equalizer. But Romania won with a scrappy late goal from Dan Petrescu, also playing in England with Chelsea, fighting off his club", "id": "16435718" }, { "contents": "John Barnes (footballer)\n\n\nNewcastle United, although an approach had already been made by Harry Redknapp of West Ham; Barnes had agreed in principle to join them until at the final moment Dalglish called him and Barnes changed his mind. In the 1997–98 season Barnes played up front mostly, deputising for Alan Shearer after Shearer was injured for most of the season, and Barnes ended up Newcastle's top league scorer with six goals, which highlighted the Magpies' lack of ability to score in the absence of Shearer and Ferdinand (who had been sold along with", "id": "19616669" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\ncould not find a more iconic person than Alan, not just for what he has done in football but for all the extra work he tirelessly does for charity and communities. I am delighted he has accepted the role of Deputy Lieutenant because he is a real role model. I have promised him he is not going to have to do too much, but even if it is just one occasion a year he is the perfect choice\" On 7 December 2009, Shearer was made a Doctor of Civil Law by Newcastle University.", "id": "13592562" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nLaw of Northumbria and Newcastle Universities. Shearer was born in Gosforth, Newcastle, in 1970 to working-class parents Alan and Anne Shearer. His father, a sheet-metal worker, encouraged a keen Shearer to play football in his youth, and the young player continued with the sport as he progressed through school. He was educated at Gosforth Central Middle School and Gosforth High School. Growing up playing on the streets of his hometown, he originally played in midfield because \"it meant [he] could get more involved", "id": "13592504" }, { "contents": "Paul Kitson\n\n\n. Newcastle finished second that season after being overhauled in the second half campaign by a Manchester United side who sealed the title by a five-point margin barely four months after Newcastle had led by 10 points, but Kitson's part in Newcastle's exciting though ultimately disappointing campaign had been minimal as he had played just seven league games and scored twice. But he remained loyal to the Magpies even after another blow at the end of July 1996 – the arrival of £15 million world record signing Alan Shearer. He managed three", "id": "19054464" }, { "contents": "Ray Harford\n\n\nthe Premier League for much of the season. During the summer of 1996, Alan Shearer was sold to Newcastle United for a then world record fee of £15 million, and Harford failed to adequately replace him. Harford stated that \"I'm told we need a big name. Engelbert Humperdinck is a big name but it doesn't mean he can play football.\" The 1996–97 season also started badly for Blackburn. They failed to win any of their first ten games and were knocked out of the League Cup by Division", "id": "5365351" }, { "contents": "Patrick Kluivert\n\n\nagain featured for Barca in a legends game against Uganda all stars where he, in lobbing the ball, scored an amazing goal. Kluivert joined Newcastle United on a free transfer in July 2004. He stated that his reasons for joining Newcastle was due to the overwhelming reaction he received whilst playing for Barcelona against Newcastle during a pre season friendly as well as teaming up with Newcastle's star players such as Alan Shearer. Kluivert scored some classy and crucial goals at and away from St James's Park namely in winning strikes against both", "id": "21654890" }, { "contents": "Duncan Shearer\n\n\nbetween 1994 and 1995, scoring two goals including an important opening strike in an away win over Finland which helped the national side qualify for Euro 96, although Shearer did not make the squad for that tournament. The senior team was his first experience of international football, having never played at any age-group level. He achieved a childhood ambition when he played in the national team alongside John McGinlay, a childhood friend also from Fort William. In season 1999–00 he began to concentrate more on coaching than playing, and was", "id": "3716411" }, { "contents": "Les Ferdinand\n\n\nscored 50 goals in only 84 games at Newcastle, forming a successful partnership with Alan Shearer. He was and indeed is still very highly thought of by Newcastle United. Ferdinand received a standing ovation when he returned to St. James' Park as a Tottenham player, trying to put Alan Shearer's number 9 shirt on to complete a lap of honour, he broke down in tears and could only manage to put the shirt on inside out and back to front before being helped from the field. Ferdinand returned again, when he", "id": "2996528" }, { "contents": "David Platt (footballer)\n\n\nTurkey, San Marino, the Netherlands and Norway. The qualifiers began at home to Norway. England dominated the game and Platt carried the goal threat, with Alan Shearer and Ian Wright struggling to find form. He scored the opening goal after an hour. England dominated the remainder of the game and were unlucky to concede to a long-range shot from Kjetil Rekdal. Platt continued his drive from midfield in wins over Turkey at home (4-0) and San Marino (6-0). Platt scored four", "id": "16718350" }, { "contents": "Jason Wilcox\n\n\n-pound investments of Jack Walker. He played an important part in the title-winning Blackburn team of 1995. Playing on the left flank with attacking fullback Graeme Le Saux behind him and Stuart Ripley on the opposite flank, they forged a strong attacking line-up with Alan Shearer and Chris Sutton. International recognition was harder to come by for Wilcox and he managed only 3 international caps despite his effective partnership with Shearer, Le Saux and Tim Sherwood. Lengthy injury problems restricted his effectiveness in subsequent seasons and, after experiencing", "id": "14527253" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nclub's form, and Newcastle finished just 13th in the Premier League. However, United (now managed by Shearer's old boss at Blackburn, Kenny Dalglish) had a good run in the FA Cup; Shearer scored the winning goal in a semi-final victory over Sheffield United as the team reached the final. The team were unable to get on the scoresheet at Wembley, and lost the game 2–0 to Arsenal. An incident during a game against Leicester City in the league saw Shearer charged with misconduct by the FA", "id": "13592522" }, { "contents": "Aleksandar Mitrović (footballer)\n\n\nhim the competition's top scorer, and 28 in all competitions. On 22 March 2015, he scored the team's only goal in the 2–1 Belgian Cup Final loss to Club Brugge KV in Brussels. On 21 July 2015, Mitrović joined Newcastle United on a five-year contract for a reported £13 million, saying he hoped to be able to play like club legend Alan Shearer. He made his debut on 9 August as Newcastle began the season with a 2–2 draw against Southampton at St James' Park, playing", "id": "20923735" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nWest Bromwich Albion, Manchester City and Newcastle United, before being offered a youth contract with Southampton in April 1986. Shearer was promoted to the first team after spending two years with the youth squad. He made his professional debut for Southampton on 26 March 1988, coming on as a substitute in a First Division fixture at Chelsea, before prompting national headlines in his full debut at The Dell two weeks later. He scored a hat-trick, helping the team to a 4–2 victory against Arsenal, thus becoming the youngest player", "id": "13592506" }, { "contents": "James Milner\n\n\ndo what was \"in the club's best interest\" and in July 2004, he agreed a five-year contract with Newcastle. Milner made his first appearance for Newcastle United during their pre-season tour of Asia, scoring his first goal for the club in a 1–1 draw against Kitchee, in Hong Kong. During this tour, he took the opportunity to observe how Newcastle striker Alan Shearer dealt with attention from fans and the media. He said that his association with people like Shearer gave him a better idea of", "id": "1860603" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nretain the ball and provide opportunities for teammates. Playing as a lone striker between wide men, Rod Wallace and Matt Le Tissier, Shearer scored three goals in 26 appearances in the 1989–90 season, and in the next, four goals in 36 games. His performances in the centre of the \"Saints\" attack were soon recognised by the fans, who voted him their Player of the Year for 1991. In the middle of 1991, Shearer was a member of the England national under-21 football squad in the Toulon Tournament in Toulon", "id": "13592508" }, { "contents": "Teddy Sheringham\n\n\n, creating play and providing key passes, forming the link between Shearer and the England midfield. The pairing came to be known as 'The SAS' ('Shearer and Sheringham') and their most successful time together came in the 1996 European Championships, held in England. Their most famous contribution was in the 4–1 victory over the Netherlands, a game in the opening group stages in which they both scored twice against one of the strongest teams in the tournament. Though England were eventually knocked out in the semi-finals", "id": "2997067" }, { "contents": "History of the England national football team\n\n\ninto Euro 2000 after a 2–1 aggregate playoff win over Scotland. At the finals in Belgium and the Netherlands, a lacklustre England failed to get beyond the group stage, losing to both Portugal and Romania after leading in each game. After England's exit, Alan Shearer retired from international football, he had announced his intentions before the tournament, and no-one could persuade him to change his mind. On 7 October 2000, shortly after losing the opening World Cup qualifier to Germany in the last-ever game at Wembley", "id": "15089411" }, { "contents": "Premier League 10 Seasons Awards\n\n\nrepresented, with five players. The teams were as follows: English striker Alan Shearer was named Domestic Player of the Decade in the main 10 Seasons awards announcements, in addition to being given the Outstanding Contribution to the FA Premier League award. Two weeks later he was also named as the Overall Player of the Decade. In the first decade, Shearer played for Blackburn Rovers, and then Newcastle United. Shearer has been described as a classic English centre-forward with great shooting power, a single-minded striker who could", "id": "11856460" }, { "contents": "Wartime League\n\n\narguments debate that a player who exceeds one's record through their wartime matches should nonetheless be seen as the club's highest goal scorer or appearance having been part of the team's squad even if only for a short time. The most recent argument relates to the goal-difference between Jackie Milburn's and Alan Shearer's Newcastle United goal-scoring records. When counting Jackie's wartime matches, he scored a total of 238 professional goals for Newcastle United FC. In May 2005, Alan Shearer finished his career at 206 goals", "id": "17626256" }, { "contents": "Jon Dahl Tomasson\n\n\nas the perfect link-up player to England national team striker Alan Shearer. The partnership initially worked well, with Tomasson impressing during a pre-season friendly tournament in the Republic of Ireland. However, a career threatening injury to Shearer, combined with the controversial transfer of popular striker Les Ferdinand to Tottenham Hotspur, meant that Tomasson was moved from his traditional attacking midfield position to that of striker. He struggled to adapt to his new position on the field, and to the English game, due to his lack of physical", "id": "19324628" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\ncovered the World Cups and European Championships from 2006 onwards for the BBC. Former Newcastle chairman Freddy Shepherd announced that, after Shearer finished the 2005–06 season as Newcastle's caretaker assistant manager, he would become the club's \"Sporting Ambassador\" for the 2006–07 season. However, in September 2008, it was reported that Shearer was removed from this largely honorary position by the club's owner Mike Ashley, despite protests from players such as Steven Taylor and Damien Duff, due to Shearer's criticism of the way in which the club", "id": "13592564" }, { "contents": "1998 FA Cup Final\n\n\nthe final that Bergkamp had resumed training and \"medically he looked all right\", but the player received a further setback when he suffered a reaction to his hamstring. He ruled himself out of the match and told reporters: \"I'm very disappointed. As a little boy in Holland I always watched the FA Cup final. And I used to dream about playing in it myself one day.\" Ian Wright was listed as Bergkamp's probable replacement to partner Anelka. Newcastle had their own issues surrounding Shearer. The England", "id": "10844676" }, { "contents": "2008–09 in English football\n\n\n's surprise resignation in December; whilst their final points tally wasn't spectacular, they had the satisfaction of being the top North-East team in football after both Middlesbrough and Newcastle United were relegated, ending 11 and 16 year spells in the top flight respectively, the latter going through four managers in Kevin Keegan, Joe Kinnear, Chris Hughton and even former striker Alan Shearer during the campaign. Despite a brilliant start to the season which saw them as high as third place in October, Hull City won just 1 of their", "id": "1311754" }, { "contents": "1996 FA Charity Shield\n\n\nfrom Eric Cantona, Nicky Butt, David Beckham and Roy Keane. The game saw new signings Jordi Cruyff and Karel Poborský make their debuts for Manchester United, though neither of these players had particularly successful careers at Old Trafford and both had left the club within four years. The day before the game had seen the surprise sale of one of Manchester United's longest serving players — Lee Sharpe. The game saw Newcastle United give a debut to £15 million world record signing Alan Shearer, who would remain at the club until", "id": "2797098" }, { "contents": "UEFA Euro 2016 knockout phase\n\n\nsection begin=g6 /section end=g6 / section begin=g7 /section end=g7 / The match has been described as one of England's worst defeats ever. Former footballer and Talksport presenter Stan Collymore, who was commentating on the game, panned the England team, reserving special criticism for goalkeeper Joe Hart and captain Wayne Rooney. Former England international and BBC Sport pundit Alan Shearer described it as the worst performance he had ever seen from an England team. The defeat was called England's most shocking since losing 1–0 to", "id": "11344909" }, { "contents": "Maurice E. Shearer\n\n\nApplication at Annapolis, Maryland, with classmates Holland Smith, Ralph S. Keyser and Andrew B. Drum. In July, Shearer sailed for duty to be the commander of the 35 man Marine detachment on Midway Island. In May 1908, he was selected for promotion to first lieutenant and to the rank of captain in June 1916. During World War I, forces under Major Shearer's command made an attack on Belleau Wood, finally clearing that forest of Germans. On 26 June 1918, he sent a now famous report: \"", "id": "8315540" }, { "contents": "Newcastle upon Tyne\n\n\nF.C. became Football League members in 1893. They have won four top division titles (the first in 1905 and the most recent in 1927), six FA Cups (the first in 1910 and the most recent in 1955) and the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup in 1969. They broke the world transfer record in 1996 by paying £15 million for Blackburn Rovers and England striker Alan Shearer, one of the most prolific goalscorers of that era. In 2017 Newcastle was the venue for the 2017 Freedom City festival. The 2017", "id": "20529704" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\ngame and came off the bench to score a penalty, helping Newcastle win the game 3–2. The match was a sell-out, and saw Shearer perform a lap of honour at the end with his family, with his young son notably covering his ears due to the volume of noise produced by the crowd in tribute. Shearer's international career began in 1990 when he was handed a callup to the England under-21 squad under Dave Sexton. During his time with the squad, he scored 13 times in 11 games, a", "id": "13592537" }, { "contents": "2011–12 Cardiff City F.C. season\n\n\nserving manager in the Championship having held his post since May 2005. The club held talks with former England and Newcastle United captain Alan Shearer to replace Jones but he rejected the job despite stating that he was impressed with the \"vision, ambition and determination of the owner Dato Chan Tien Ghee and the board\". The \"Bluebirds\" instead approached Championship rivals Watford for permission to speak to their manager Malky Mackay, which was initially rejected. However, after the two clubs agreed a compensation fee, Mackay was officially appointed as", "id": "7599659" }, { "contents": "Kevin Keegan\n\n\nto Michael Owen, stating, \"He's not scared to give his opinion when he's right, and he's not scared to say what he feels. He's a tremendous professional, and he trains properly every day.\" Keegan announced on 22 January that he and Alan Shearer held talks about the two linking up with Shearer as his assistant, but decided against the idea, leaving the door open for him to take other roles he was interested in. Keegan's first eight games back at Newcastle passed without a", "id": "826473" }, { "contents": "Transfer (association football)\n\n\n£3.6 million Alan Shearer moved to Blackburn Rovers from Southampton, a decade after the world's first £3 million transfer. Lentini's transfer remained intact the world record fee for the next four years, although the national record was broken more than once in many countries including England. Shearer's £3.6million record fee was narrowly eclipsed 12 months later when Manchester United signed Roy Keane from Nottingham Forest for £3.75 million. In 1994, Blackburn Rovers paid a record £5 million for Chris Sutton from Norwich City, a decade", "id": "11200095" }, { "contents": "Roy Hodgson\n\n\nagainst Costa Rica to finish bottom of Group D. Hodgson named Rooney as the new captain of England in August 2014, following the retirement of Steven Gerrard from international football. Hodgson's first match after the World Cup was a 1–0 win against Norway in an international friendly match at Wembley on 3 September 2014. During the match, England made only two shots on target. Hodgson was infuriated when asked about this, describing the statistic as \"fucking bollocks\". Former England player, Alan Shearer, admitted that the match was so", "id": "12858624" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nto the season. The animosity between Shearer and Gullit was later confirmed by the latter, who reported telling the striker that he was \"...the most overrated player I have ever seen.\" Ironically, Robson had tried to sign Shearer for Barcelona in 1997, making a bid of £20million which would have seen Shearer break the world's transfer fee record for the second time in 12 months. However, then Newcastle manager Kenny Dalglish rejected the offer. In Robson's first match in charge, Shearer scored five goals in", "id": "13592526" }, { "contents": "Premier League 10 Seasons Awards\n\n\nin his talks with Alex Ferguson, he could not guarantee that Eric Cantona the Overseas Player of the Decade could be persuaded to let Shearer take penalty kicks. Shearer gained a second PFA Players' Player of the Year Award in April 1997, becoming just the second player to have received the PFA award twice, after Mark Hughes. After the 2000 European Championships, Shearer had retired from international football with England, having been England captain since 1998, and having made his senior début in 1992. Shearer was awarded the OBE in", "id": "11856465" }, { "contents": "Emile Heskey\n\n\nthe two matches, with former England international Alan Shearer commenting, \"Never in a million years did I expect to be discussing whether Emile Heskey should keep his place ahead of Wayne Rooney but the Wigan striker was outstanding over both matches.\" Heskey was called into manager Fabio Capello's first squad against Switzerland, but had to withdraw due to an injury. He was called into the squad for a friendly against the Czech Republic in August 2008 and came on as a 46th-minute substitute, in a match that finished 2–2", "id": "174986" }, { "contents": "Habib Beye\n\n\nUEFA Cup Final, a run which involved him putting in a star performance as a central defender against (his now former team) Newcastle United, where he was particularly effective against Newcastle's talisman striker Alan Shearer. He ended up on the losing side as Marseille lost the final to Valencia 2–0. He was also a beaten finalist in the 2006 French Cup against former club Paris Saint-Germain, a match which his team lost 2–1, and again in 2007 when his Marseille team lost on penalties to FC Sochaux. His", "id": "16217445" }, { "contents": "Stan Collymore\n\n\nseason in the Premier League, Collymore was called up to Terry Venables' England squad for the Umbro Cup in June 1995. He made his début at Wembley Stadium against Japan, partnering Alan Shearer in a 2–1 win. He won his second cap as a 90th minute substitute against Brazil. Collymore made his third and final appearance for England as a substitute in a 4–0 win over Moldova during qualification for the 1998 FIFA World Cup. Collymore contributed to his biography \"Stan: Tackling my demons\" with Oliver Holt. In 2005", "id": "3955590" }, { "contents": "Graeme Souness\n\n\nAt £8.2 million, Boumsong was his first big signing and Souness said he would replace Jonathan Woodgate in the Newcastle defence, which had conceded several leads earlier in the season. Newcastle were well aware of Boumsong prior to his move from Auxerre to Rangers on a free transfer. Robson had travelled to France to watch him, but he declined the opportunity to sign Boumsong. Liverpool were also interested in signing Boumsong. Robson's doubts were confirmed when Boumsong marked Alan Shearer in a pre-season game against Rangers. Shearer came", "id": "18029254" }, { "contents": "Saido Berahino\n\n\nrate of a goal every other match, including three to help the team qualify for the European Championship. Berahino has the all-time third-highest goal tally for the England under-21 side with 10 goals in 13 appearances, behind Francis Jeffers and Alan Shearer. On 6 November 2014, England manager Roy Hodgson – who promoted Berahino to the West Bromwich Albion first team in 2011 – named Berahino in his squad for the first time, ahead of a UEFA Euro 2016 qualifying match against Slovenia at Wembley Stadium on the 15th and", "id": "1000466" } ]

[ { "contents": "Tony Adams\n\n\n\"I have some resentment over the way Glenn Hoddle gave the captaincy to Alan Shearer instead of me but I can let that go. I reacted positively. I disagreed with him [Hoddle] and he thought Alan could get more penalties being a centre forward. People know my reaction to that\". Adams continued to play for the national side, however and he finally appeared in a World Cup finals in 1998. His international swansong was England's unsuccessful Euro 2000 campaign. With Shearer retiring from international football after the tournament", "id": "6104102" }, { "contents": "Tony Adams\n\n\nin defence, and after the retirement of Gary Lineker in 1992, Adams unofficially shared the captaincy of England with David Platt, though Adams became England captain outright before Euro 96, as Platt's place in the side became less secure. England reached the semi-finals of Euro 96, before losing on penalties to Germany. When England manager Glenn Hoddle took the Captain's armband from Adams and gave it to Alan Shearer it was a bitter pill for Adams to swallow. Speaking at a fans' forum in 2008 Adams remarked", "id": "6104101" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nThis time, Germany won from the spot; although Shearer scored, his teammate Gareth Southgate missed his kick and England were eliminated. Shearer's five goals made him the competition's top scorer, and together with teammates David Seaman and Steve McManaman, was listed in the official UEFA team of the tournament. The new England manager Glenn Hoddle appointed Shearer captain for the 1998 FIFA World Cup qualifier against Moldova on 1 September 1996, and the player held onto the captaincy after scoring once in that match and twice in the following game", "id": "13592541" }, { "contents": "Dimitar Berbatov\n\n\nhe consequently modelled himself after Marco van Basten, the Dutch forward for that team. However, the 1996 European Championship, held in England, gave Berbatov a new role model; the 15-year-old Berbatov began to look up to the English front man Alan Shearer, who played for Newcastle United. Berbatov's mother later spoke of her son's teenage dream of playing for Newcastle United, and said that his admiration for Shearer was such that, during these years, he slept in a Newcastle shirt. Berbatov began his youth", "id": "3905446" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\n's participation in what was to be Shearer's only World Cup tournament. In September 1999, Shearer scored his only England hat-trick in a UEFA Euro 2000 qualifier against Luxembourg. This helped England reach a play-off against Scotland; England won the game over two legs and in doing so qualified for the European Championships. By now, Shearer was approaching his 30th birthday, and he announced that he intended to retire from international football after the Euro 2000 tournament. Shearer did not score in England's opening 3–2 defeat", "id": "13592544" }, { "contents": "Southampton F.C.\n\n\nwas Alan Shearer, who at the age of 17 scored a hat-trick against Arsenal in a league match in April 1988. Shearer was a first team regular by 1990, and stayed with Southampton until July 1992, when he was sold to Blackburn Rovers for a national record of more than £3 million. He then became the most expensive footballer in the world when Blackburn sold him to Newcastle for £15 million in 1996. He also scored 30 times for England internationally. Southampton were founding members of the Premier League", "id": "3265953" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\ntime to play in England's UEFA European Championship campaign. After Euro 96, Manchester United again sought to sign Shearer, and attempted to enter the battle for his signature. However Manchester United chairman Martin Edwards stated that Blackburn Rovers refused to let Shearer go to Old Trafford. Ultimately Shearer joined his boyhood club: Newcastle United, Manchester United's title rivals. On 30 July 1996, for a world transfer record-breaking £15 million (equivalent to £ million today) Shearer joined his hometown club and league runners-up", "id": "13592519" }, { "contents": "History of the England national football team\n\n\nyear after his last game at club level. Hoddle selected Alan Shearer as captain, replacing Tony Adams, but also brought a number of emerging talents into the squad, including the Manchester United midfield trio of Paul Scholes, Nicky Butt and David Beckham, and central defenders Rio Ferdinand and Sol Campbell. Hoddle oversaw England's qualification for the 1998 World Cup (the first World Cup with 32 teams instead of 24) with a 0–0 draw against Italy at the Stadio Olimpico in Rome, and drew out a winning performance in the", "id": "15089406" }, { "contents": "History of the England national football team\n\n\nthe underwhelming performance at the World Cup, England suffered a poor start to the Euro 2000 qualifying tournament, and there was reported discontent between Hoddle and several senior players, most notably Shearer. Hoddle was dismissed on 2 February 1999, two days after an interview with \"The Sunday Times\" in which he spoke about his belief in reincarnation and claimed that disabled people were paying for sins in a previous life. Under considerable media and public pressure, the FA appointed former captain Kevin Keegan, who only just managed to get England", "id": "15089410" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nagainst Poland. He scored a total of five goals in England's successful qualification campaign for the World Cup, adding strikes against Georgia and away to Poland to his tally. Shearer was sidelined for much of the 1997–98 season, but recovered to play in the World Cup finals. With Michael Owen replacing Teddy Sheringham as Shearer's strike partner, Shearer's return saw him score England's first goal of the tournament, in a 2–0 win over Tunisia, his only goal in the three group matches. England faced long-time", "id": "13592542" }, { "contents": "Newcastle United F.C.\n\n\n. The attacking philosophy of Keegan led to the team being labelled \"The Entertainers\" by Sky Sports. Keegan took Newcastle to two consecutive runners-up finishes in the league in 1995–96 and 1996–97, coming very close to winning the title in the former season. This success was in part due to the talent of players like David Ginola, Les Ferdinand and Alan Shearer, who was signed on 30 July 1996 for a then world record fee of £15 million. Keegan left Newcastle in January 1997 and was replaced by Kenny", "id": "12636363" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nAlan Shearer, CBE, DL (born 13 August 1970) is an English retired footballer. He played as a striker in the top level of English league football for Southampton, Blackburn Rovers, Newcastle United and the England national team. He is Newcastle's and the Premier League's record goalscorer. He was named Football Writers' Association Player of the Year in 1994 and won the PFA Player of the Year award in 1995. In 1996, he was third in the FIFA World Player of the Year awards. In 2004", "id": "13592501" }, { "contents": "Teddy Sheringham\n\n\nmanager Terry Venables (1994–96) Sheringham came to be the preferred strike partner for Alan Shearer. During this time, England had a wealth of strikers with the likes of Andrew Cole, Ian Wright, a young Robbie Fowler and Les Ferdinand all battling to partner Shearer in the England team. The two formed a famous partnership at international level, as they complemented each other's strengths: Shearer the out-and-out goalscorer, big, strong and powerful, Sheringham just 'dropping off' his strike partner, finding spaces", "id": "2997066" }, { "contents": "History of Newcastle United F.C.\n\n\n's title chances for the 1994–95 season, in which they finished sixth. The club, however, continued to build up a reputation for playing attacking football under Keegan. In the 1995–96 season, high-profile foreign stars David Ginola and Faustino Asprilla, in addition to British players Peter Beardsley and striker Les Ferdinand, guided the team to a second-place finish. During the 1996–97 season, Keegan made one signing, securing the services of England striker Alan Shearer for a then-world record transfer fee of £15 million", "id": "6803863" }, { "contents": "1996–97 Newcastle United F.C. season\n\n\n...I think Kevin wanted it free-flowing in all departments and that doesn't necessarily happen.\" Keegan responded to the previous season's disappointment by breaking the world record transfer fee to sign centre forward Alan Shearer from Blackburn Rovers for £15 million. Shearer, whose five goals made him the top scorer in Euro 96, had supported Newcastle since childhood – he had been a ball-boy at St James' Park on the day that Keegan had left in a helicopter after his final Newcastle appearance as a player.", "id": "1207050" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nin the games.\" Shearer captained his school team and helped a Newcastle City Schools team win a seven-a-side tournament at St James' Park, before joining the amateur Wallsend Boys Club as a teenager. It was while playing for the Wallsend club that he was spotted by Southampton's scout, Jack Hixon, which resulted in Shearer spending his summers training with the club's youth team, a time he would later refer to as \"the making of me\". Shearer had successful trials for First Division clubs", "id": "13592505" }, { "contents": "Duncan Shearer\n\n\nFavourites\" during the club's centenary in 2008. However, he was unable to prevent Huddersfield's relegation to the Third Division at the end of the 1987–88 season. Weeks before this, the unrelated English striker Alan Shearer (aged 17) had scored a hat-trick in the First Division for Southampton against Arsenal, a game which Arsenal captain Tony Adams missed through injury. In his autobiography 11 years later, Adams said that he had followed the progress of the game on Ceefax and mistakingly believed that the Shearer who scored", "id": "3716405" }, { "contents": "David Hirst (footballer)\n\n\nHe came on at half-time and within three minutes of the restart he scored his first (and only) England goal. With Gary Lineker injured, he lined up with Alan Shearer against France at Wembley. Bryan Robson said that, \"It's not a question of who will replace Lineker, but who will partner David Hirst\". It became Hirst's third and final England match. Although he was selected for more England squads, injuries kept him out of the team. Manchester United boss Alex Ferguson tried six", "id": "18892949" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nthrough to May due to injury and England's World Cup qualification chances were hit by a run of poor form. Returning to fitness for the 1993–94 season, he scored 31 goals from 40 games as Blackburn finished runners-up in the Premier League. His performances for the club led to him being named the Football Writers' Association Footballer of the Year for that season. On the international scene, England had failed to qualify for the 1994 World Cup finals, but Shearer added three more goals to his international tally before embarking", "id": "13592514" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nfive points out of a possible twenty-four. Shearer did not get the manager's job on permanent basis. Chris Hughton stepped up from the coaching staff to take charge of the quest to get Newcastle back into the Premier League, which was achieved at the first attempt as Newcastle finished top of the Championship in the 2009–10 season. Shearer is married to Lainya, whom he met whilst a Southampton player. The couple lived locally with her parents during Shearer's second year at the south coast club, and were married on", "id": "13592557" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nagainst Portugal, but did so as England defeated Germany 1–0 in Charleroi, ensuring that England beat their European neighbours for the first time since the 1966 World Cup Final. To remain in the tournament, England only required a draw against Romania in the final group match, and Shearer scored a penalty as England went in at half-time 2–1 up, but Romania ultimately won 3–2. England's tournament was over, and so was Shearer's international career. From his 63 caps, he captained the team 34 times and scored", "id": "13592545" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nrecord return which is still unbeaten. The striker's goals at this level, coupled with his club form, meant he was soon promoted to the senior squad by coach Graham Taylor. Marking his debut in the 2–0 win against France in February 1992 with a goal, he made his only appearance for the England B team a month later. Due to replace Gary Lineker, who retired from international action after UEFA Euro 1992, in the England attack, Shearer played only intermittently in the qualifying campaign for the 1994 FIFA World Cup", "id": "13592538" }, { "contents": "1993 Trans-Tasman Test series\n\n\n's Canberra Raiders team mate and New South Wales captain Laurie Daley. The test series took place following the 1993 State of Origin series which was won by NSW. Dale Shearer's performances at fullback for Qld saw him earn a test recall in front of well performed World Cup and NSW fullback Tim Brasher (though Shearer had been selected at centre for all 3 Ashes series tests in 1992 but withdrew from all 3 with injury). Bradley Clyde, who had not played in the Origin series due to injury was also recalled to", "id": "16616631" }, { "contents": "Glenn Hoddle\n\n\nRedknapp resigned, following which Hoddle also left the club. In June 2016, after England's 2–1 loss to Iceland at Euro 2016 and manager Roy Hodgson's subsequent resignation, Harry Redknapp and Alan Shearer both put forward Hoddle as a candidate for the job before Sam Allardyce was appointed. Hoddle has done punditry work since his retirement from coaching. He has worked for ESPN, ITV Sport and BT Sport. Hoddle began working with ESPN during Euro 2012 as a pundit. Since then, he has worked with ITV for the 2014", "id": "8847620" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nhim onto the pitch following the striker's testimonial in May 2006 as he performed a lap of honour at St James' Park. On 6 December 2000, Shearer was given Honorary Freedom of the City of Newcastle upon Tyne, with the citation \"in recognition of his role as captain of Newcastle United Football Club and as former captain of England which have enhanced the reputation of the City\". Shearer was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2001 Queen's Birthday Honours and Commander of the", "id": "13592559" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nhis four years in the Southampton first team, Shearer made a total of 158 appearances in all competitions, scoring 43 goals. Despite making just one goalless appearance as England failed to progress past the Euro 1992 group stages, Shearer was soon subject to an English transfer record-breaking £3.6 million bid from Blackburn Rovers. Although there was also interest from Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson, Blackburn benefactor Jack Walker's millions were enough to prise the striker from the \"Saints\", and Shearer moved north to Ewood Park in the", "id": "13592512" }, { "contents": "Andy Cole\n\n\nof the season to help United win the Premier League title for the third time in four years. He also played in their FA Cup final victory to become part of England's first ever side to win the double twice. Before the 1996–97 season began, Cole had to deal with being offered to Blackburn Rovers as part-exchange in a £12 million deal that would have brought Alan Shearer to Old Trafford, but the offer was rejected and Shearer joined Newcastle instead. Despite Alex Ferguson's clear indication to Cole that he", "id": "9629547" }, { "contents": "Shearer's Bar\n\n\nShearer's Bar is the former name of a sports bar owned by Newcastle United and forming part of St James' Park, the team's stadium in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. It was named in honour of the club's all-time top scorer, Alan Shearer. The bar was renamed Nine in July 2013 by the club, who said that popularity of the venue had \"dwindled\". The bar was opened in December 2004 and became an important part of the features at St James' Park. It is", "id": "15298144" }, { "contents": "Kevin Keegan\n\n\nrelationship between the pair. In April 2003, it was named as Quote of the Decade in the Premier League 10 Seasons Awards and Most Memorable Quote in the 20 Seasons Awards in May 2012. It also appeared in Channel 4's \"100 Greatest Sporting Moments\". Keegan then broke the world transfer fee record by signing Blackburn Rovers and England striker Alan Shearer in July 1996. Shearer, who had been the Premier League's top scorer in the last two seasons, was born in Newcastle and had grown up as a fan", "id": "826455" }, { "contents": "England national football team\n\n\nBetween 1994 and 1996, Terry Venables managed the team. At UEFA Euro 1996, held in England, they equalled their best performance at a European Championship, reaching the semi-finals as they did in 1968, before exiting via a penalty shoot-out loss to Germany. England striker Alan Shearer was the tournament's top scorer with five goals. Venables resigned following investigations into his financial activities. Venables' successor, Glenn Hoddle, similarly left the job for non-footballing reasons after just one international tournament – the 1998", "id": "9748695" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nmiddle of 1992. His first season with Blackburn was mixed – he missed half of it through injury after snapping his right anterior cruciate ligament in a match against Leeds United in December 1992, but scored a prolific 16 goals in the 21 games in which he did feature. Shearer also became a regular in the England team this season and scored his second international goal; it came in a 4–0 1994 FIFA World Cup qualifier win over Turkey in November. The season ended sourly, however, as Shearer was forced to miss January", "id": "13592513" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nover from head coach Chris Hughton who was in temporary charge while the permanent manager Joe Kinnear recovered from heart surgery, having taken ill on 7 February. Shearer stated \"It's a club I love and I don't want them to go down. I'll do everything I can to stop that.\" Shearer was unveiled at a press conference the following day by club managing director Derek Llambias. In explaining his acceptance of a managerial role at Newcastle at this time, Shearer stated that he would not have done this for", "id": "13592552" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nwas being run in the wake of the departure of Kevin Keegan. These reports were denied by the club. Shearer features in EA Sports' \"FIFA\" video game series; he was included in the \"FIFA 15\" Ultimate Team Legends. During his playing days, Shearer had been involved with the children's charity the NSPCC, taking part in the organisation's Full Stop campaign in 1999. Since retiring from football Shearer has also done work for several charities both nationally and in the Newcastle area. In his testimonial match", "id": "13592565" }, { "contents": "2005–06 Newcastle United F.C. season\n\n\n. The fee, £17 million, surpassed Newcastle's previous record of £15 million for Alan Shearer from Blackburn in 1996. In the closing hours of the transfer window, the club re-signed Nolberto Solano from Aston Villa. Souness's decision to pair Shearer and Owen together up front proved to be lethal, but Owen broke his fourth metatarsal bone in his foot after a clash with Paul Robinson in a match against Tottenham Hotspur, keeping him out for the rest of the season. With Owen injured the team's", "id": "18086094" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\ndue to injury and the team failed to reach the competition finals. UEFA Euro 1996 was a more positive experience for both Shearer and England. With England not required to qualify as hosts, Shearer had not scored in 12 games in the 21 months prior, and even his overall goalscoring record for England did not look too impressive so far, with five goals in 23 games. However, he found the net in the 22nd minute of the first game, against Switzerland. Scoring once in the following game against Scotland and twice", "id": "13592539" }, { "contents": "Teddy Sheringham\n\n\nthe 2000 European Championships by then manager Kevin Keegan, but the retirement of Shearer (despite being four years younger than Sheringham) from international football after that tournament and the arrival of new manager Sven-Göran Eriksson in 2001 saw a return to international favour for him. He was often deployed as a tactical substitute late in games by Eriksson, valued for his ability to hold the ball up and create intelligent play. In 2001, Sheringham scored an important goal for England against Greece in a World Cup qualifying match within 15 seconds", "id": "2997070" }, { "contents": "Ruud Gullit\n\n\n, chairman Ken Bates famously said of Gullit, \"I didn't like his arrogance – in fact I never liked him.\" In August 1998, Gullit was named manager of Newcastle United two games into the new league season and reached the 1999 FA Cup Final in his first year. Fans remained supportive despite a poor run of results, although a well-publicised contretemps with the team's top scorer Alan Shearer and captain Robert Lee did not put him in a favourable light. Gullit even refused to assign Lee a squad", "id": "13592616" }, { "contents": "Scott Parker\n\n\ndefeat on 25 March 2006. Later that month he was diagnosed with glandular fever, putting an end to his season. The timing was especially unfortunate for Parker, who had been playing well for Newcastle, as it ended any hopes he may have had of forcing his way into the 2006 FIFA World Cup. In July 2006, he was named Newcastle United's new captain by manager Glenn Roeder, succeeding the retired Alan Shearer. His first goal as captain came against Wigan Athletic on 19 August 2006, in a 2–1 win", "id": "14327157" }, { "contents": "History of football in England\n\n\n. United's main challengers for the title in the Premier League's first few years were Blackburn Rovers, led by star striker Alan Shearer, also won their first league title since World War I in 1994–95, and Newcastle United, who famously conceded a 10-point lead at Christmas to lose the title to United in 1995–96. Newcastle had reached the Premiership in 1993 as Division One champions, and in their first Premiership campaign finished third to qualify for the UEFA Cup. They finished second in 1996 and again in 1997, but by", "id": "3652862" }, { "contents": "1992–93 FA Premier League\n\n\nPremier League as an attempt by the Football Association to \"hijack\" the First Division. Shortly before the season began, newly promoted Blackburn Rovers signed Southampton's 21-year-old England international striker Alan Shearer for a new British record fee variously reported as £3.3 million, £3.4 million, or £3.6 million. Several other players moved for fees of £2 million or more, including Arsenal's David Rocastle, who joined Leeds United, Dean Saunders, who moved from Liverpool to Aston Villa, and Teddy Sheringham, who", "id": "12442383" }, { "contents": "Darren Anderton\n\n\nhappy at the prospect of losing another key player as he had already lost Jürgen Klinsmann and Gheorghe Popescu that summer; and Nick Barmby was on the verge of joining Middlesbrough. Despite missing most of the 1995–96 season through injury, Anderton played an important part in the Euro 96 England team that reached the semi-finals and included players like Paul Gascoigne, Alan Shearer, Steve McManaman and Teddy Sheringham. In the semi final against Germany, the match went to golden goal extra time. Anderton came within inches of putting England into", "id": "4331581" }, { "contents": "Wallsend Boys Club\n\n\nJanuary which damaged one of the walls of the building. Professional players to have played for the club include: The club has had a representative at four of the six FIFA World Cup finals since 1986, with the two exceptions coming in 1994, when the England national football team did not qualify, and 2002. In 1986 and 1990 Peter Beardsley starred for England. In 1998 Alan Shearer was England captain. Michael Carrick made appearances for England in both the 2006 and 2010 tournaments. Fraser Forster was in the 2014 squad but", "id": "21182372" }, { "contents": "Harry Kane\n\n\n\". Clive Allen, who coached him at Tottenham, stated that \"one thing I'd say about him, which unfortunately you don't say about a lot of young footballers, is that he had a passion for the game. He loves football, he loves playing, he loves scoring goals\". His former Tottenham under-21 coach Les Ferdinand likened Kane's movement to their former forward Teddy Sheringham, and the power and accuracy of his shots to Alan Shearer. Kane's style of play has been compared to that of", "id": "1925319" }, { "contents": "Kieron Dyer\n\n\nthat he would soon rejoin for Ipswich. After representing England at Youth, Under 21 and \"B\" level, Dyer's debut for the senior team came on 4 September 1999 when he started in England's 6–0 win against Luxembourg. He was deployed out of position at right back, and was replaced by Gary Neville at half-time after injuring himself while setting up Alan Shearer's third goal of the match. The injury was not serious and he was able to make his second England appearance four days later, coming", "id": "17666181" }, { "contents": "1996–97 Blackburn Rovers F.C. season\n\n\nthe end of the season, when he handed over the reins to Roy Hodgson after Sampdoria's Sven-Göran Eriksson lied about accepting the manager's job and joined Lazio instead. Parkes steered Blackburn to safety as they finished 13th. The world record £15 million sale of striker Alan Shearer to Newcastle United was seen as the biggest factor in Blackburn's lowest top flight finish since they returned to the elite in 1992. However, his strike-partner Chris Sutton helped keep the club alive after recovering from a drastic loss of", "id": "7811146" }, { "contents": "Michael Owen\n\n\nmuch of the campaign as England struggled, with Hoddle being replaced by Kevin Keegan. On 4 September 1999, he scored his first goal at Wembley Stadium in a 6–0 win over Luxembourg. At the finals, Owen scored once in three matches, as England were knocked out at the group stage. After Alan Shearer's retirement, Owen took over as England's senior striker under new manager Sven-Göran Eriksson. He scored six times during 2002 World Cup qualifying, including a hat-trick against Germany at Munich's Olympiastadion", "id": "21886807" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nyet to start the UEFA Pro Licence course, which is required to be permitted to manage a team in the Premier League and European competition. Reflecting his desire for personal time off to \"enjoy life\", in July 2006 he turned down a coaching role with England, citing his BBC commitments and desire to be away from the pressure of a job within football. Despite this, Shearer was often linked in the media with managerial or coaching positions at his three former clubs. Shearer took a brief role in the dugout for", "id": "13592550" }, { "contents": "History of Southampton F.C.\n\n\nappearances for the England national team – he finally retired in 2002 at the age of 33. During his time with the Saints, Le Tissier was approached more than once by several bigger clubs (including Manchester United) but chose to stick with the Saints despite never winning a major trophy or experiencing European football with them. From 1989 to 1992, Le Tissier was regularly partnered up front by another notable player, Alan Shearer, who as a 17-year-old had scored a hat-trick on his Saints debut against Arsenal in", "id": "15948278" }, { "contents": "Sir Bobby Robson Trophy match\n\n\nNewcastle United, picking up on Alan Shearer's reply of \"I know as much as you do,\" to a pre-match question as to whether he would be installed as Newcastle manager for the forthcoming season beginning in 13 days, with the club being up for sale and with the first team without a manager, being in the care of coach Chris Hughton. Neither the Newcastle United owner Mike Ashley or managing director Derek Llambias were in attendance at the charity match. Having left England after Italia '90, Sir", "id": "19612022" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nChancellor Liam Donaldson stated \"Newcastle United are my team. Alan Shearer is more than just a local legend, he's probably one of the greatest footballers of all time\". On 12 September 2016, a statue of Shearer's likeness was unveiled outside St James' Park. It was sculpted by Tom Maley, and paid for by the Shepherd family. After his retirement and following guest appearances, Shearer became a regular pundit for the BBC's \"Match of the Day\". He also formed part of the team which", "id": "13592563" }, { "contents": "Gary McAllister\n\n\ntournament, scoring in a 3–0 win over the CIS. However, Scotland did not qualify from their group. Scotland failed to qualify for the 1994 FIFA World Cup but did qualify for UEFA Euro 1996 in England, with McAllister the captain of the team. Scotland's second match of the group stage was against England at Wembley Stadium. In the second half Scotland, trailing 0–1 to an Alan Shearer goal, were awarded a penalty. McAllister's kick was saved by David Seaman and Scotland lost 0–2. The team won their", "id": "19492391" }, { "contents": "David Seaman\n\n\nEngland's quarter-final against Spain ended scoreless, Seaman saved Miguel Angel Nadal's kick in the shootout to knock Spain out of the tournament. England eventually were eliminated in the semi-final by Germany on penalties,after Andreas Köpke saved the penalty taken by Gareth Southgate. Seaman was named alongside Golden Boot winner Alan Shearer and winger Steve McManaman in the UEFA \"Team of the Tournament\". Euro 96 sponsor Philips named him \"Player of the Tournament\". Seaman remained first choice under the management of Glenn Hoddle for", "id": "7321893" }, { "contents": "1998 FA Cup Final\n\n\nand so has the mixture between the foreign and English players.\" Wenger reserved praise for the goalscorers Overmars (\"a world-class player\") and Anelka (\"Nicolas is very young. But you saw in the second half today what he can do\"), and felt the turning point in the match was Shearer's shot hitting the post. He sympathised with Newcastle, as did his captain, Adams who said afterwards: \"The team and their fans did everything they could out there, but it was", "id": "10844688" }, { "contents": "David McMahon (association footballer)\n\n\nabout the role of striker from watching England international Alan Shearer in training, but likened himself more to Newcastle's Scotland international Duncan Ferguson, \"because I am taller and like to battle for things in the air.\" Brian Kerr, then manager of Ireland under-17s, described McMahon as honest and hard-working, \"not the most skilful player, but will get goals\", but Darlington manager Gary Bennett believed there was more to his game: that he and strike partner John Williams both had enough skill to play a", "id": "5423888" }, { "contents": "Andy Carroll\n\n\nUEFA Euro 2012. He opened the scoring for England with a powerful header in their second group match against Sweden, which England went on to win 3–2. Carroll has been compared to Newcastle's record goalscorer Alan Shearer, Ivory Coast striker Didier Drogba and former Italy forward Christian Vieri. He has also been referred to as a classic centre forward, owing to his strength, powerful shot and excellent heading ability. Former Newcastle manager and Liverpool player Kevin Keegan stated \"he is probably in the top three headers of a ball I", "id": "11961542" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\n-chasing Manchester United. On the opening day of the 1999–2000 season, Shearer received the first red card of his career in his 100th appearance for Newcastle. After dropping Shearer to the bench in a Tyne-Wear derby loss against Sunderland, the unpopular Gullit resigned to be replaced by the 66-year-old Bobby Robson. Despite Gullit giving Shearer the captain's armband, reports of a rift between club captain and manager were rife, Gullit's decision to drop Shearer proved deeply unpopular with fans and his departure capped a dismal start", "id": "13592525" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nAn almost injury-free season helped Shearer improve on his previous year's tally in the 1998–99 season, the striker converting 14 goals in 30 league games and replacing Rob Lee as Newcastle captain, but Newcastle finished 13th again, with Ruud Gullit having replaced Kenny Dalglish just after the season got underway. He also helped Newcastle to a second consecutive FA Cup final and qualification for the following season's UEFA Cup, scoring twice in the semi-final against Tottenham Hotspur, but they once again lost, this time 2–0 to treble", "id": "13592524" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nhis final three games under Glenn Roeder. Shearer had rejected offers of coaching or assistant roles at Newcastle under both the returning Kevin Keegan in February 2008 and Joe Kinnear in November 2008. Shearer had previously had talks about, but never been offered, a full-time manager's role at Newcastle until his appointment on 1 April 2009. In a surprise move, late on 1 April 2009, it was announced that Shearer would become the manager of his former club Newcastle United for the remaining eight games of the season, taking", "id": "13592551" }, { "contents": "Fabio Cannavaro\n\n\nnational team on 22 January 1997, in a friendly match against Northern Ireland. The same year, he earned plaudits for his handling of England striker Alan Shearer in a World Cup qualifying game at Wembley Stadium. Shearer was then considered by the partisan English crowd to be the best striker in the world, and thought he would make fun of the inexperienced Italian defender. Nevertheless, in a display ranking alongside those of the very best Italian defenders Claudio Gentile and Franco Baresi, Cannavaro managed to keep Shearer quiet for the whole game", "id": "3625067" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\n, with media sources claiming that video footage showed him intentionally kicking Neil Lennon in the head following a challenge. The referee of the game took no action against Shearer, and he was then cleared of all charges by the FA, with Lennon giving evidence in the player's defence. Former Football Association chief Graham Kelly, who brought the charges against the player, later claimed in his autobiography that Shearer had threatened to withdraw himself from the 1998 World Cup squad if the charges were upheld, a claim strenuously denied by Shearer.", "id": "13592523" }, { "contents": "History of the Romania national football team\n\n\nminnows Tunisia. Adrian Ilie scored the only goal with a fine chip in their first match against Colombia at Lyon's Stade Gerland. In Toulouse, they met an England side starting with prodigal striker Michael Owen on the bench, with Teddy Sheringham preferred alongside Alan Shearer. A mistake by Tony Adams was punished by Viorel Moldovan, who played for Coventry City, before Owen came on to claim an equalizer. But Romania won with a scrappy late goal from Dan Petrescu, also playing in England with Chelsea, fighting off his club", "id": "16435718" }, { "contents": "John Barnes (footballer)\n\n\nNewcastle United, although an approach had already been made by Harry Redknapp of West Ham; Barnes had agreed in principle to join them until at the final moment Dalglish called him and Barnes changed his mind. In the 1997–98 season Barnes played up front mostly, deputising for Alan Shearer after Shearer was injured for most of the season, and Barnes ended up Newcastle's top league scorer with six goals, which highlighted the Magpies' lack of ability to score in the absence of Shearer and Ferdinand (who had been sold along with", "id": "19616669" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\ncould not find a more iconic person than Alan, not just for what he has done in football but for all the extra work he tirelessly does for charity and communities. I am delighted he has accepted the role of Deputy Lieutenant because he is a real role model. I have promised him he is not going to have to do too much, but even if it is just one occasion a year he is the perfect choice\" On 7 December 2009, Shearer was made a Doctor of Civil Law by Newcastle University.", "id": "13592562" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nLaw of Northumbria and Newcastle Universities. Shearer was born in Gosforth, Newcastle, in 1970 to working-class parents Alan and Anne Shearer. His father, a sheet-metal worker, encouraged a keen Shearer to play football in his youth, and the young player continued with the sport as he progressed through school. He was educated at Gosforth Central Middle School and Gosforth High School. Growing up playing on the streets of his hometown, he originally played in midfield because \"it meant [he] could get more involved", "id": "13592504" }, { "contents": "Paul Kitson\n\n\n. Newcastle finished second that season after being overhauled in the second half campaign by a Manchester United side who sealed the title by a five-point margin barely four months after Newcastle had led by 10 points, but Kitson's part in Newcastle's exciting though ultimately disappointing campaign had been minimal as he had played just seven league games and scored twice. But he remained loyal to the Magpies even after another blow at the end of July 1996 – the arrival of £15 million world record signing Alan Shearer. He managed three", "id": "19054464" }, { "contents": "Ray Harford\n\n\nthe Premier League for much of the season. During the summer of 1996, Alan Shearer was sold to Newcastle United for a then world record fee of £15 million, and Harford failed to adequately replace him. Harford stated that \"I'm told we need a big name. Engelbert Humperdinck is a big name but it doesn't mean he can play football.\" The 1996–97 season also started badly for Blackburn. They failed to win any of their first ten games and were knocked out of the League Cup by Division", "id": "5365351" }, { "contents": "Patrick Kluivert\n\n\nagain featured for Barca in a legends game against Uganda all stars where he, in lobbing the ball, scored an amazing goal. Kluivert joined Newcastle United on a free transfer in July 2004. He stated that his reasons for joining Newcastle was due to the overwhelming reaction he received whilst playing for Barcelona against Newcastle during a pre season friendly as well as teaming up with Newcastle's star players such as Alan Shearer. Kluivert scored some classy and crucial goals at and away from St James's Park namely in winning strikes against both", "id": "21654890" }, { "contents": "Duncan Shearer\n\n\nbetween 1994 and 1995, scoring two goals including an important opening strike in an away win over Finland which helped the national side qualify for Euro 96, although Shearer did not make the squad for that tournament. The senior team was his first experience of international football, having never played at any age-group level. He achieved a childhood ambition when he played in the national team alongside John McGinlay, a childhood friend also from Fort William. In season 1999–00 he began to concentrate more on coaching than playing, and was", "id": "3716411" }, { "contents": "Les Ferdinand\n\n\nscored 50 goals in only 84 games at Newcastle, forming a successful partnership with Alan Shearer. He was and indeed is still very highly thought of by Newcastle United. Ferdinand received a standing ovation when he returned to St. James' Park as a Tottenham player, trying to put Alan Shearer's number 9 shirt on to complete a lap of honour, he broke down in tears and could only manage to put the shirt on inside out and back to front before being helped from the field. Ferdinand returned again, when he", "id": "2996528" }, { "contents": "David Platt (footballer)\n\n\nTurkey, San Marino, the Netherlands and Norway. The qualifiers began at home to Norway. England dominated the game and Platt carried the goal threat, with Alan Shearer and Ian Wright struggling to find form. He scored the opening goal after an hour. England dominated the remainder of the game and were unlucky to concede to a long-range shot from Kjetil Rekdal. Platt continued his drive from midfield in wins over Turkey at home (4-0) and San Marino (6-0). Platt scored four", "id": "16718350" }, { "contents": "Jason Wilcox\n\n\n-pound investments of Jack Walker. He played an important part in the title-winning Blackburn team of 1995. Playing on the left flank with attacking fullback Graeme Le Saux behind him and Stuart Ripley on the opposite flank, they forged a strong attacking line-up with Alan Shearer and Chris Sutton. International recognition was harder to come by for Wilcox and he managed only 3 international caps despite his effective partnership with Shearer, Le Saux and Tim Sherwood. Lengthy injury problems restricted his effectiveness in subsequent seasons and, after experiencing", "id": "14527253" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nclub's form, and Newcastle finished just 13th in the Premier League. However, United (now managed by Shearer's old boss at Blackburn, Kenny Dalglish) had a good run in the FA Cup; Shearer scored the winning goal in a semi-final victory over Sheffield United as the team reached the final. The team were unable to get on the scoresheet at Wembley, and lost the game 2–0 to Arsenal. An incident during a game against Leicester City in the league saw Shearer charged with misconduct by the FA", "id": "13592522" }, { "contents": "Aleksandar Mitrović (footballer)\n\n\nhim the competition's top scorer, and 28 in all competitions. On 22 March 2015, he scored the team's only goal in the 2–1 Belgian Cup Final loss to Club Brugge KV in Brussels. On 21 July 2015, Mitrović joined Newcastle United on a five-year contract for a reported £13 million, saying he hoped to be able to play like club legend Alan Shearer. He made his debut on 9 August as Newcastle began the season with a 2–2 draw against Southampton at St James' Park, playing", "id": "20923735" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nWest Bromwich Albion, Manchester City and Newcastle United, before being offered a youth contract with Southampton in April 1986. Shearer was promoted to the first team after spending two years with the youth squad. He made his professional debut for Southampton on 26 March 1988, coming on as a substitute in a First Division fixture at Chelsea, before prompting national headlines in his full debut at The Dell two weeks later. He scored a hat-trick, helping the team to a 4–2 victory against Arsenal, thus becoming the youngest player", "id": "13592506" }, { "contents": "James Milner\n\n\ndo what was \"in the club's best interest\" and in July 2004, he agreed a five-year contract with Newcastle. Milner made his first appearance for Newcastle United during their pre-season tour of Asia, scoring his first goal for the club in a 1–1 draw against Kitchee, in Hong Kong. During this tour, he took the opportunity to observe how Newcastle striker Alan Shearer dealt with attention from fans and the media. He said that his association with people like Shearer gave him a better idea of", "id": "1860603" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nretain the ball and provide opportunities for teammates. Playing as a lone striker between wide men, Rod Wallace and Matt Le Tissier, Shearer scored three goals in 26 appearances in the 1989–90 season, and in the next, four goals in 36 games. His performances in the centre of the \"Saints\" attack were soon recognised by the fans, who voted him their Player of the Year for 1991. In the middle of 1991, Shearer was a member of the England national under-21 football squad in the Toulon Tournament in Toulon", "id": "13592508" }, { "contents": "Teddy Sheringham\n\n\n, creating play and providing key passes, forming the link between Shearer and the England midfield. The pairing came to be known as 'The SAS' ('Shearer and Sheringham') and their most successful time together came in the 1996 European Championships, held in England. Their most famous contribution was in the 4–1 victory over the Netherlands, a game in the opening group stages in which they both scored twice against one of the strongest teams in the tournament. Though England were eventually knocked out in the semi-finals", "id": "2997067" }, { "contents": "History of the England national football team\n\n\ninto Euro 2000 after a 2–1 aggregate playoff win over Scotland. At the finals in Belgium and the Netherlands, a lacklustre England failed to get beyond the group stage, losing to both Portugal and Romania after leading in each game. After England's exit, Alan Shearer retired from international football, he had announced his intentions before the tournament, and no-one could persuade him to change his mind. On 7 October 2000, shortly after losing the opening World Cup qualifier to Germany in the last-ever game at Wembley", "id": "15089411" }, { "contents": "Premier League 10 Seasons Awards\n\n\nrepresented, with five players. The teams were as follows: English striker Alan Shearer was named Domestic Player of the Decade in the main 10 Seasons awards announcements, in addition to being given the Outstanding Contribution to the FA Premier League award. Two weeks later he was also named as the Overall Player of the Decade. In the first decade, Shearer played for Blackburn Rovers, and then Newcastle United. Shearer has been described as a classic English centre-forward with great shooting power, a single-minded striker who could", "id": "11856460" }, { "contents": "Wartime League\n\n\narguments debate that a player who exceeds one's record through their wartime matches should nonetheless be seen as the club's highest goal scorer or appearance having been part of the team's squad even if only for a short time. The most recent argument relates to the goal-difference between Jackie Milburn's and Alan Shearer's Newcastle United goal-scoring records. When counting Jackie's wartime matches, he scored a total of 238 professional goals for Newcastle United FC. In May 2005, Alan Shearer finished his career at 206 goals", "id": "17626256" }, { "contents": "Jon Dahl Tomasson\n\n\nas the perfect link-up player to England national team striker Alan Shearer. The partnership initially worked well, with Tomasson impressing during a pre-season friendly tournament in the Republic of Ireland. However, a career threatening injury to Shearer, combined with the controversial transfer of popular striker Les Ferdinand to Tottenham Hotspur, meant that Tomasson was moved from his traditional attacking midfield position to that of striker. He struggled to adapt to his new position on the field, and to the English game, due to his lack of physical", "id": "19324628" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\ncovered the World Cups and European Championships from 2006 onwards for the BBC. Former Newcastle chairman Freddy Shepherd announced that, after Shearer finished the 2005–06 season as Newcastle's caretaker assistant manager, he would become the club's \"Sporting Ambassador\" for the 2006–07 season. However, in September 2008, it was reported that Shearer was removed from this largely honorary position by the club's owner Mike Ashley, despite protests from players such as Steven Taylor and Damien Duff, due to Shearer's criticism of the way in which the club", "id": "13592564" }, { "contents": "1998 FA Cup Final\n\n\nthe final that Bergkamp had resumed training and \"medically he looked all right\", but the player received a further setback when he suffered a reaction to his hamstring. He ruled himself out of the match and told reporters: \"I'm very disappointed. As a little boy in Holland I always watched the FA Cup final. And I used to dream about playing in it myself one day.\" Ian Wright was listed as Bergkamp's probable replacement to partner Anelka. Newcastle had their own issues surrounding Shearer. The England", "id": "10844676" }, { "contents": "2008–09 in English football\n\n\n's surprise resignation in December; whilst their final points tally wasn't spectacular, they had the satisfaction of being the top North-East team in football after both Middlesbrough and Newcastle United were relegated, ending 11 and 16 year spells in the top flight respectively, the latter going through four managers in Kevin Keegan, Joe Kinnear, Chris Hughton and even former striker Alan Shearer during the campaign. Despite a brilliant start to the season which saw them as high as third place in October, Hull City won just 1 of their", "id": "1311754" }, { "contents": "1996 FA Charity Shield\n\n\nfrom Eric Cantona, Nicky Butt, David Beckham and Roy Keane. The game saw new signings Jordi Cruyff and Karel Poborský make their debuts for Manchester United, though neither of these players had particularly successful careers at Old Trafford and both had left the club within four years. The day before the game had seen the surprise sale of one of Manchester United's longest serving players — Lee Sharpe. The game saw Newcastle United give a debut to £15 million world record signing Alan Shearer, who would remain at the club until", "id": "2797098" }, { "contents": "UEFA Euro 2016 knockout phase\n\n\nsection begin=g6 /section end=g6 / section begin=g7 /section end=g7 / The match has been described as one of England's worst defeats ever. Former footballer and Talksport presenter Stan Collymore, who was commentating on the game, panned the England team, reserving special criticism for goalkeeper Joe Hart and captain Wayne Rooney. Former England international and BBC Sport pundit Alan Shearer described it as the worst performance he had ever seen from an England team. The defeat was called England's most shocking since losing 1–0 to", "id": "11344909" }, { "contents": "Maurice E. Shearer\n\n\nApplication at Annapolis, Maryland, with classmates Holland Smith, Ralph S. Keyser and Andrew B. Drum. In July, Shearer sailed for duty to be the commander of the 35 man Marine detachment on Midway Island. In May 1908, he was selected for promotion to first lieutenant and to the rank of captain in June 1916. During World War I, forces under Major Shearer's command made an attack on Belleau Wood, finally clearing that forest of Germans. On 26 June 1918, he sent a now famous report: \"", "id": "8315540" }, { "contents": "Newcastle upon Tyne\n\n\nF.C. became Football League members in 1893. They have won four top division titles (the first in 1905 and the most recent in 1927), six FA Cups (the first in 1910 and the most recent in 1955) and the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup in 1969. They broke the world transfer record in 1996 by paying £15 million for Blackburn Rovers and England striker Alan Shearer, one of the most prolific goalscorers of that era. In 2017 Newcastle was the venue for the 2017 Freedom City festival. The 2017", "id": "20529704" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\ngame and came off the bench to score a penalty, helping Newcastle win the game 3–2. The match was a sell-out, and saw Shearer perform a lap of honour at the end with his family, with his young son notably covering his ears due to the volume of noise produced by the crowd in tribute. Shearer's international career began in 1990 when he was handed a callup to the England under-21 squad under Dave Sexton. During his time with the squad, he scored 13 times in 11 games, a", "id": "13592537" }, { "contents": "2011–12 Cardiff City F.C. season\n\n\nserving manager in the Championship having held his post since May 2005. The club held talks with former England and Newcastle United captain Alan Shearer to replace Jones but he rejected the job despite stating that he was impressed with the \"vision, ambition and determination of the owner Dato Chan Tien Ghee and the board\". The \"Bluebirds\" instead approached Championship rivals Watford for permission to speak to their manager Malky Mackay, which was initially rejected. However, after the two clubs agreed a compensation fee, Mackay was officially appointed as", "id": "7599659" }, { "contents": "Kevin Keegan\n\n\nto Michael Owen, stating, \"He's not scared to give his opinion when he's right, and he's not scared to say what he feels. He's a tremendous professional, and he trains properly every day.\" Keegan announced on 22 January that he and Alan Shearer held talks about the two linking up with Shearer as his assistant, but decided against the idea, leaving the door open for him to take other roles he was interested in. Keegan's first eight games back at Newcastle passed without a", "id": "826473" }, { "contents": "Transfer (association football)\n\n\n£3.6 million Alan Shearer moved to Blackburn Rovers from Southampton, a decade after the world's first £3 million transfer. Lentini's transfer remained intact the world record fee for the next four years, although the national record was broken more than once in many countries including England. Shearer's £3.6million record fee was narrowly eclipsed 12 months later when Manchester United signed Roy Keane from Nottingham Forest for £3.75 million. In 1994, Blackburn Rovers paid a record £5 million for Chris Sutton from Norwich City, a decade", "id": "11200095" }, { "contents": "Roy Hodgson\n\n\nagainst Costa Rica to finish bottom of Group D. Hodgson named Rooney as the new captain of England in August 2014, following the retirement of Steven Gerrard from international football. Hodgson's first match after the World Cup was a 1–0 win against Norway in an international friendly match at Wembley on 3 September 2014. During the match, England made only two shots on target. Hodgson was infuriated when asked about this, describing the statistic as \"fucking bollocks\". Former England player, Alan Shearer, admitted that the match was so", "id": "12858624" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nto the season. The animosity between Shearer and Gullit was later confirmed by the latter, who reported telling the striker that he was \"...the most overrated player I have ever seen.\" Ironically, Robson had tried to sign Shearer for Barcelona in 1997, making a bid of £20million which would have seen Shearer break the world's transfer fee record for the second time in 12 months. However, then Newcastle manager Kenny Dalglish rejected the offer. In Robson's first match in charge, Shearer scored five goals in", "id": "13592526" }, { "contents": "Premier League 10 Seasons Awards\n\n\nin his talks with Alex Ferguson, he could not guarantee that Eric Cantona the Overseas Player of the Decade could be persuaded to let Shearer take penalty kicks. Shearer gained a second PFA Players' Player of the Year Award in April 1997, becoming just the second player to have received the PFA award twice, after Mark Hughes. After the 2000 European Championships, Shearer had retired from international football with England, having been England captain since 1998, and having made his senior début in 1992. Shearer was awarded the OBE in", "id": "11856465" }, { "contents": "Emile Heskey\n\n\nthe two matches, with former England international Alan Shearer commenting, \"Never in a million years did I expect to be discussing whether Emile Heskey should keep his place ahead of Wayne Rooney but the Wigan striker was outstanding over both matches.\" Heskey was called into manager Fabio Capello's first squad against Switzerland, but had to withdraw due to an injury. He was called into the squad for a friendly against the Czech Republic in August 2008 and came on as a 46th-minute substitute, in a match that finished 2–2", "id": "174986" }, { "contents": "Habib Beye\n\n\nUEFA Cup Final, a run which involved him putting in a star performance as a central defender against (his now former team) Newcastle United, where he was particularly effective against Newcastle's talisman striker Alan Shearer. He ended up on the losing side as Marseille lost the final to Valencia 2–0. He was also a beaten finalist in the 2006 French Cup against former club Paris Saint-Germain, a match which his team lost 2–1, and again in 2007 when his Marseille team lost on penalties to FC Sochaux. His", "id": "16217445" }, { "contents": "Stan Collymore\n\n\nseason in the Premier League, Collymore was called up to Terry Venables' England squad for the Umbro Cup in June 1995. He made his début at Wembley Stadium against Japan, partnering Alan Shearer in a 2–1 win. He won his second cap as a 90th minute substitute against Brazil. Collymore made his third and final appearance for England as a substitute in a 4–0 win over Moldova during qualification for the 1998 FIFA World Cup. Collymore contributed to his biography \"Stan: Tackling my demons\" with Oliver Holt. In 2005", "id": "3955590" }, { "contents": "Graeme Souness\n\n\nAt £8.2 million, Boumsong was his first big signing and Souness said he would replace Jonathan Woodgate in the Newcastle defence, which had conceded several leads earlier in the season. Newcastle were well aware of Boumsong prior to his move from Auxerre to Rangers on a free transfer. Robson had travelled to France to watch him, but he declined the opportunity to sign Boumsong. Liverpool were also interested in signing Boumsong. Robson's doubts were confirmed when Boumsong marked Alan Shearer in a pre-season game against Rangers. Shearer came", "id": "18029254" }, { "contents": "Saido Berahino\n\n\nrate of a goal every other match, including three to help the team qualify for the European Championship. Berahino has the all-time third-highest goal tally for the England under-21 side with 10 goals in 13 appearances, behind Francis Jeffers and Alan Shearer. On 6 November 2014, England manager Roy Hodgson – who promoted Berahino to the West Bromwich Albion first team in 2011 – named Berahino in his squad for the first time, ahead of a UEFA Euro 2016 qualifying match against Slovenia at Wembley Stadium on the 15th and", "id": "1000466" } ]

[ { "contents": "Tony Adams\n\n\n\"I have some resentment over the way Glenn Hoddle gave the captaincy to Alan Shearer instead of me but I can let that go. I reacted positively. I disagreed with him [Hoddle] and he thought Alan could get more penalties being a centre forward. People know my reaction to that\". Adams continued to play for the national side, however and he finally appeared in a World Cup finals in 1998. His international swansong was England's unsuccessful Euro 2000 campaign. With Shearer retiring from international football after the tournament", "id": "6104102" }, { "contents": "Tony Adams\n\n\nin defence, and after the retirement of Gary Lineker in 1992, Adams unofficially shared the captaincy of England with David Platt, though Adams became England captain outright before Euro 96, as Platt's place in the side became less secure. England reached the semi-finals of Euro 96, before losing on penalties to Germany. When England manager Glenn Hoddle took the Captain's armband from Adams and gave it to Alan Shearer it was a bitter pill for Adams to swallow. Speaking at a fans' forum in 2008 Adams remarked", "id": "6104101" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nThis time, Germany won from the spot; although Shearer scored, his teammate Gareth Southgate missed his kick and England were eliminated. Shearer's five goals made him the competition's top scorer, and together with teammates David Seaman and Steve McManaman, was listed in the official UEFA team of the tournament. The new England manager Glenn Hoddle appointed Shearer captain for the 1998 FIFA World Cup qualifier against Moldova on 1 September 1996, and the player held onto the captaincy after scoring once in that match and twice in the following game", "id": "13592541" }, { "contents": "Dimitar Berbatov\n\n\nhe consequently modelled himself after Marco van Basten, the Dutch forward for that team. However, the 1996 European Championship, held in England, gave Berbatov a new role model; the 15-year-old Berbatov began to look up to the English front man Alan Shearer, who played for Newcastle United. Berbatov's mother later spoke of her son's teenage dream of playing for Newcastle United, and said that his admiration for Shearer was such that, during these years, he slept in a Newcastle shirt. Berbatov began his youth", "id": "3905446" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\n's participation in what was to be Shearer's only World Cup tournament. In September 1999, Shearer scored his only England hat-trick in a UEFA Euro 2000 qualifier against Luxembourg. This helped England reach a play-off against Scotland; England won the game over two legs and in doing so qualified for the European Championships. By now, Shearer was approaching his 30th birthday, and he announced that he intended to retire from international football after the Euro 2000 tournament. Shearer did not score in England's opening 3–2 defeat", "id": "13592544" }, { "contents": "Southampton F.C.\n\n\nwas Alan Shearer, who at the age of 17 scored a hat-trick against Arsenal in a league match in April 1988. Shearer was a first team regular by 1990, and stayed with Southampton until July 1992, when he was sold to Blackburn Rovers for a national record of more than £3 million. He then became the most expensive footballer in the world when Blackburn sold him to Newcastle for £15 million in 1996. He also scored 30 times for England internationally. Southampton were founding members of the Premier League", "id": "3265953" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\ntime to play in England's UEFA European Championship campaign. After Euro 96, Manchester United again sought to sign Shearer, and attempted to enter the battle for his signature. However Manchester United chairman Martin Edwards stated that Blackburn Rovers refused to let Shearer go to Old Trafford. Ultimately Shearer joined his boyhood club: Newcastle United, Manchester United's title rivals. On 30 July 1996, for a world transfer record-breaking £15 million (equivalent to £ million today) Shearer joined his hometown club and league runners-up", "id": "13592519" }, { "contents": "History of the England national football team\n\n\nyear after his last game at club level. Hoddle selected Alan Shearer as captain, replacing Tony Adams, but also brought a number of emerging talents into the squad, including the Manchester United midfield trio of Paul Scholes, Nicky Butt and David Beckham, and central defenders Rio Ferdinand and Sol Campbell. Hoddle oversaw England's qualification for the 1998 World Cup (the first World Cup with 32 teams instead of 24) with a 0–0 draw against Italy at the Stadio Olimpico in Rome, and drew out a winning performance in the", "id": "15089406" }, { "contents": "History of the England national football team\n\n\nthe underwhelming performance at the World Cup, England suffered a poor start to the Euro 2000 qualifying tournament, and there was reported discontent between Hoddle and several senior players, most notably Shearer. Hoddle was dismissed on 2 February 1999, two days after an interview with \"The Sunday Times\" in which he spoke about his belief in reincarnation and claimed that disabled people were paying for sins in a previous life. Under considerable media and public pressure, the FA appointed former captain Kevin Keegan, who only just managed to get England", "id": "15089410" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nagainst Poland. He scored a total of five goals in England's successful qualification campaign for the World Cup, adding strikes against Georgia and away to Poland to his tally. Shearer was sidelined for much of the 1997–98 season, but recovered to play in the World Cup finals. With Michael Owen replacing Teddy Sheringham as Shearer's strike partner, Shearer's return saw him score England's first goal of the tournament, in a 2–0 win over Tunisia, his only goal in the three group matches. England faced long-time", "id": "13592542" }, { "contents": "Newcastle United F.C.\n\n\n. The attacking philosophy of Keegan led to the team being labelled \"The Entertainers\" by Sky Sports. Keegan took Newcastle to two consecutive runners-up finishes in the league in 1995–96 and 1996–97, coming very close to winning the title in the former season. This success was in part due to the talent of players like David Ginola, Les Ferdinand and Alan Shearer, who was signed on 30 July 1996 for a then world record fee of £15 million. Keegan left Newcastle in January 1997 and was replaced by Kenny", "id": "12636363" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nAlan Shearer, CBE, DL (born 13 August 1970) is an English retired footballer. He played as a striker in the top level of English league football for Southampton, Blackburn Rovers, Newcastle United and the England national team. He is Newcastle's and the Premier League's record goalscorer. He was named Football Writers' Association Player of the Year in 1994 and won the PFA Player of the Year award in 1995. In 1996, he was third in the FIFA World Player of the Year awards. In 2004", "id": "13592501" }, { "contents": "Teddy Sheringham\n\n\nmanager Terry Venables (1994–96) Sheringham came to be the preferred strike partner for Alan Shearer. During this time, England had a wealth of strikers with the likes of Andrew Cole, Ian Wright, a young Robbie Fowler and Les Ferdinand all battling to partner Shearer in the England team. The two formed a famous partnership at international level, as they complemented each other's strengths: Shearer the out-and-out goalscorer, big, strong and powerful, Sheringham just 'dropping off' his strike partner, finding spaces", "id": "2997066" }, { "contents": "History of Newcastle United F.C.\n\n\n's title chances for the 1994–95 season, in which they finished sixth. The club, however, continued to build up a reputation for playing attacking football under Keegan. In the 1995–96 season, high-profile foreign stars David Ginola and Faustino Asprilla, in addition to British players Peter Beardsley and striker Les Ferdinand, guided the team to a second-place finish. During the 1996–97 season, Keegan made one signing, securing the services of England striker Alan Shearer for a then-world record transfer fee of £15 million", "id": "6803863" }, { "contents": "1996–97 Newcastle United F.C. season\n\n\n...I think Kevin wanted it free-flowing in all departments and that doesn't necessarily happen.\" Keegan responded to the previous season's disappointment by breaking the world record transfer fee to sign centre forward Alan Shearer from Blackburn Rovers for £15 million. Shearer, whose five goals made him the top scorer in Euro 96, had supported Newcastle since childhood – he had been a ball-boy at St James' Park on the day that Keegan had left in a helicopter after his final Newcastle appearance as a player.", "id": "1207050" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nin the games.\" Shearer captained his school team and helped a Newcastle City Schools team win a seven-a-side tournament at St James' Park, before joining the amateur Wallsend Boys Club as a teenager. It was while playing for the Wallsend club that he was spotted by Southampton's scout, Jack Hixon, which resulted in Shearer spending his summers training with the club's youth team, a time he would later refer to as \"the making of me\". Shearer had successful trials for First Division clubs", "id": "13592505" }, { "contents": "Duncan Shearer\n\n\nFavourites\" during the club's centenary in 2008. However, he was unable to prevent Huddersfield's relegation to the Third Division at the end of the 1987–88 season. Weeks before this, the unrelated English striker Alan Shearer (aged 17) had scored a hat-trick in the First Division for Southampton against Arsenal, a game which Arsenal captain Tony Adams missed through injury. In his autobiography 11 years later, Adams said that he had followed the progress of the game on Ceefax and mistakingly believed that the Shearer who scored", "id": "3716405" }, { "contents": "David Hirst (footballer)\n\n\nHe came on at half-time and within three minutes of the restart he scored his first (and only) England goal. With Gary Lineker injured, he lined up with Alan Shearer against France at Wembley. Bryan Robson said that, \"It's not a question of who will replace Lineker, but who will partner David Hirst\". It became Hirst's third and final England match. Although he was selected for more England squads, injuries kept him out of the team. Manchester United boss Alex Ferguson tried six", "id": "18892949" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nthrough to May due to injury and England's World Cup qualification chances were hit by a run of poor form. Returning to fitness for the 1993–94 season, he scored 31 goals from 40 games as Blackburn finished runners-up in the Premier League. His performances for the club led to him being named the Football Writers' Association Footballer of the Year for that season. On the international scene, England had failed to qualify for the 1994 World Cup finals, but Shearer added three more goals to his international tally before embarking", "id": "13592514" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nfive points out of a possible twenty-four. Shearer did not get the manager's job on permanent basis. Chris Hughton stepped up from the coaching staff to take charge of the quest to get Newcastle back into the Premier League, which was achieved at the first attempt as Newcastle finished top of the Championship in the 2009–10 season. Shearer is married to Lainya, whom he met whilst a Southampton player. The couple lived locally with her parents during Shearer's second year at the south coast club, and were married on", "id": "13592557" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nagainst Portugal, but did so as England defeated Germany 1–0 in Charleroi, ensuring that England beat their European neighbours for the first time since the 1966 World Cup Final. To remain in the tournament, England only required a draw against Romania in the final group match, and Shearer scored a penalty as England went in at half-time 2–1 up, but Romania ultimately won 3–2. England's tournament was over, and so was Shearer's international career. From his 63 caps, he captained the team 34 times and scored", "id": "13592545" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nrecord return which is still unbeaten. The striker's goals at this level, coupled with his club form, meant he was soon promoted to the senior squad by coach Graham Taylor. Marking his debut in the 2–0 win against France in February 1992 with a goal, he made his only appearance for the England B team a month later. Due to replace Gary Lineker, who retired from international action after UEFA Euro 1992, in the England attack, Shearer played only intermittently in the qualifying campaign for the 1994 FIFA World Cup", "id": "13592538" }, { "contents": "1993 Trans-Tasman Test series\n\n\n's Canberra Raiders team mate and New South Wales captain Laurie Daley. The test series took place following the 1993 State of Origin series which was won by NSW. Dale Shearer's performances at fullback for Qld saw him earn a test recall in front of well performed World Cup and NSW fullback Tim Brasher (though Shearer had been selected at centre for all 3 Ashes series tests in 1992 but withdrew from all 3 with injury). Bradley Clyde, who had not played in the Origin series due to injury was also recalled to", "id": "16616631" }, { "contents": "Glenn Hoddle\n\n\nRedknapp resigned, following which Hoddle also left the club. In June 2016, after England's 2–1 loss to Iceland at Euro 2016 and manager Roy Hodgson's subsequent resignation, Harry Redknapp and Alan Shearer both put forward Hoddle as a candidate for the job before Sam Allardyce was appointed. Hoddle has done punditry work since his retirement from coaching. He has worked for ESPN, ITV Sport and BT Sport. Hoddle began working with ESPN during Euro 2012 as a pundit. Since then, he has worked with ITV for the 2014", "id": "8847620" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nhim onto the pitch following the striker's testimonial in May 2006 as he performed a lap of honour at St James' Park. On 6 December 2000, Shearer was given Honorary Freedom of the City of Newcastle upon Tyne, with the citation \"in recognition of his role as captain of Newcastle United Football Club and as former captain of England which have enhanced the reputation of the City\". Shearer was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2001 Queen's Birthday Honours and Commander of the", "id": "13592559" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nhis four years in the Southampton first team, Shearer made a total of 158 appearances in all competitions, scoring 43 goals. Despite making just one goalless appearance as England failed to progress past the Euro 1992 group stages, Shearer was soon subject to an English transfer record-breaking £3.6 million bid from Blackburn Rovers. Although there was also interest from Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson, Blackburn benefactor Jack Walker's millions were enough to prise the striker from the \"Saints\", and Shearer moved north to Ewood Park in the", "id": "13592512" }, { "contents": "Andy Cole\n\n\nof the season to help United win the Premier League title for the third time in four years. He also played in their FA Cup final victory to become part of England's first ever side to win the double twice. Before the 1996–97 season began, Cole had to deal with being offered to Blackburn Rovers as part-exchange in a £12 million deal that would have brought Alan Shearer to Old Trafford, but the offer was rejected and Shearer joined Newcastle instead. Despite Alex Ferguson's clear indication to Cole that he", "id": "9629547" }, { "contents": "Shearer's Bar\n\n\nShearer's Bar is the former name of a sports bar owned by Newcastle United and forming part of St James' Park, the team's stadium in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. It was named in honour of the club's all-time top scorer, Alan Shearer. The bar was renamed Nine in July 2013 by the club, who said that popularity of the venue had \"dwindled\". The bar was opened in December 2004 and became an important part of the features at St James' Park. It is", "id": "15298144" }, { "contents": "Kevin Keegan\n\n\nrelationship between the pair. In April 2003, it was named as Quote of the Decade in the Premier League 10 Seasons Awards and Most Memorable Quote in the 20 Seasons Awards in May 2012. It also appeared in Channel 4's \"100 Greatest Sporting Moments\". Keegan then broke the world transfer fee record by signing Blackburn Rovers and England striker Alan Shearer in July 1996. Shearer, who had been the Premier League's top scorer in the last two seasons, was born in Newcastle and had grown up as a fan", "id": "826455" }, { "contents": "England national football team\n\n\nBetween 1994 and 1996, Terry Venables managed the team. At UEFA Euro 1996, held in England, they equalled their best performance at a European Championship, reaching the semi-finals as they did in 1968, before exiting via a penalty shoot-out loss to Germany. England striker Alan Shearer was the tournament's top scorer with five goals. Venables resigned following investigations into his financial activities. Venables' successor, Glenn Hoddle, similarly left the job for non-footballing reasons after just one international tournament – the 1998", "id": "9748695" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nmiddle of 1992. His first season with Blackburn was mixed – he missed half of it through injury after snapping his right anterior cruciate ligament in a match against Leeds United in December 1992, but scored a prolific 16 goals in the 21 games in which he did feature. Shearer also became a regular in the England team this season and scored his second international goal; it came in a 4–0 1994 FIFA World Cup qualifier win over Turkey in November. The season ended sourly, however, as Shearer was forced to miss January", "id": "13592513" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nover from head coach Chris Hughton who was in temporary charge while the permanent manager Joe Kinnear recovered from heart surgery, having taken ill on 7 February. Shearer stated \"It's a club I love and I don't want them to go down. I'll do everything I can to stop that.\" Shearer was unveiled at a press conference the following day by club managing director Derek Llambias. In explaining his acceptance of a managerial role at Newcastle at this time, Shearer stated that he would not have done this for", "id": "13592552" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nwas being run in the wake of the departure of Kevin Keegan. These reports were denied by the club. Shearer features in EA Sports' \"FIFA\" video game series; he was included in the \"FIFA 15\" Ultimate Team Legends. During his playing days, Shearer had been involved with the children's charity the NSPCC, taking part in the organisation's Full Stop campaign in 1999. Since retiring from football Shearer has also done work for several charities both nationally and in the Newcastle area. In his testimonial match", "id": "13592565" }, { "contents": "2005–06 Newcastle United F.C. season\n\n\n. The fee, £17 million, surpassed Newcastle's previous record of £15 million for Alan Shearer from Blackburn in 1996. In the closing hours of the transfer window, the club re-signed Nolberto Solano from Aston Villa. Souness's decision to pair Shearer and Owen together up front proved to be lethal, but Owen broke his fourth metatarsal bone in his foot after a clash with Paul Robinson in a match against Tottenham Hotspur, keeping him out for the rest of the season. With Owen injured the team's", "id": "18086094" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\ndue to injury and the team failed to reach the competition finals. UEFA Euro 1996 was a more positive experience for both Shearer and England. With England not required to qualify as hosts, Shearer had not scored in 12 games in the 21 months prior, and even his overall goalscoring record for England did not look too impressive so far, with five goals in 23 games. However, he found the net in the 22nd minute of the first game, against Switzerland. Scoring once in the following game against Scotland and twice", "id": "13592539" }, { "contents": "Teddy Sheringham\n\n\nthe 2000 European Championships by then manager Kevin Keegan, but the retirement of Shearer (despite being four years younger than Sheringham) from international football after that tournament and the arrival of new manager Sven-Göran Eriksson in 2001 saw a return to international favour for him. He was often deployed as a tactical substitute late in games by Eriksson, valued for his ability to hold the ball up and create intelligent play. In 2001, Sheringham scored an important goal for England against Greece in a World Cup qualifying match within 15 seconds", "id": "2997070" }, { "contents": "Ruud Gullit\n\n\n, chairman Ken Bates famously said of Gullit, \"I didn't like his arrogance – in fact I never liked him.\" In August 1998, Gullit was named manager of Newcastle United two games into the new league season and reached the 1999 FA Cup Final in his first year. Fans remained supportive despite a poor run of results, although a well-publicised contretemps with the team's top scorer Alan Shearer and captain Robert Lee did not put him in a favourable light. Gullit even refused to assign Lee a squad", "id": "13592616" }, { "contents": "Scott Parker\n\n\ndefeat on 25 March 2006. Later that month he was diagnosed with glandular fever, putting an end to his season. The timing was especially unfortunate for Parker, who had been playing well for Newcastle, as it ended any hopes he may have had of forcing his way into the 2006 FIFA World Cup. In July 2006, he was named Newcastle United's new captain by manager Glenn Roeder, succeeding the retired Alan Shearer. His first goal as captain came against Wigan Athletic on 19 August 2006, in a 2–1 win", "id": "14327157" }, { "contents": "History of football in England\n\n\n. United's main challengers for the title in the Premier League's first few years were Blackburn Rovers, led by star striker Alan Shearer, also won their first league title since World War I in 1994–95, and Newcastle United, who famously conceded a 10-point lead at Christmas to lose the title to United in 1995–96. Newcastle had reached the Premiership in 1993 as Division One champions, and in their first Premiership campaign finished third to qualify for the UEFA Cup. They finished second in 1996 and again in 1997, but by", "id": "3652862" }, { "contents": "1992–93 FA Premier League\n\n\nPremier League as an attempt by the Football Association to \"hijack\" the First Division. Shortly before the season began, newly promoted Blackburn Rovers signed Southampton's 21-year-old England international striker Alan Shearer for a new British record fee variously reported as £3.3 million, £3.4 million, or £3.6 million. Several other players moved for fees of £2 million or more, including Arsenal's David Rocastle, who joined Leeds United, Dean Saunders, who moved from Liverpool to Aston Villa, and Teddy Sheringham, who", "id": "12442383" }, { "contents": "Darren Anderton\n\n\nhappy at the prospect of losing another key player as he had already lost Jürgen Klinsmann and Gheorghe Popescu that summer; and Nick Barmby was on the verge of joining Middlesbrough. Despite missing most of the 1995–96 season through injury, Anderton played an important part in the Euro 96 England team that reached the semi-finals and included players like Paul Gascoigne, Alan Shearer, Steve McManaman and Teddy Sheringham. In the semi final against Germany, the match went to golden goal extra time. Anderton came within inches of putting England into", "id": "4331581" }, { "contents": "Wallsend Boys Club\n\n\nJanuary which damaged one of the walls of the building. Professional players to have played for the club include: The club has had a representative at four of the six FIFA World Cup finals since 1986, with the two exceptions coming in 1994, when the England national football team did not qualify, and 2002. In 1986 and 1990 Peter Beardsley starred for England. In 1998 Alan Shearer was England captain. Michael Carrick made appearances for England in both the 2006 and 2010 tournaments. Fraser Forster was in the 2014 squad but", "id": "21182372" }, { "contents": "Harry Kane\n\n\n\". Clive Allen, who coached him at Tottenham, stated that \"one thing I'd say about him, which unfortunately you don't say about a lot of young footballers, is that he had a passion for the game. He loves football, he loves playing, he loves scoring goals\". His former Tottenham under-21 coach Les Ferdinand likened Kane's movement to their former forward Teddy Sheringham, and the power and accuracy of his shots to Alan Shearer. Kane's style of play has been compared to that of", "id": "1925319" }, { "contents": "Kieron Dyer\n\n\nthat he would soon rejoin for Ipswich. After representing England at Youth, Under 21 and \"B\" level, Dyer's debut for the senior team came on 4 September 1999 when he started in England's 6–0 win against Luxembourg. He was deployed out of position at right back, and was replaced by Gary Neville at half-time after injuring himself while setting up Alan Shearer's third goal of the match. The injury was not serious and he was able to make his second England appearance four days later, coming", "id": "17666181" }, { "contents": "1996–97 Blackburn Rovers F.C. season\n\n\nthe end of the season, when he handed over the reins to Roy Hodgson after Sampdoria's Sven-Göran Eriksson lied about accepting the manager's job and joined Lazio instead. Parkes steered Blackburn to safety as they finished 13th. The world record £15 million sale of striker Alan Shearer to Newcastle United was seen as the biggest factor in Blackburn's lowest top flight finish since they returned to the elite in 1992. However, his strike-partner Chris Sutton helped keep the club alive after recovering from a drastic loss of", "id": "7811146" }, { "contents": "Michael Owen\n\n\nmuch of the campaign as England struggled, with Hoddle being replaced by Kevin Keegan. On 4 September 1999, he scored his first goal at Wembley Stadium in a 6–0 win over Luxembourg. At the finals, Owen scored once in three matches, as England were knocked out at the group stage. After Alan Shearer's retirement, Owen took over as England's senior striker under new manager Sven-Göran Eriksson. He scored six times during 2002 World Cup qualifying, including a hat-trick against Germany at Munich's Olympiastadion", "id": "21886807" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nyet to start the UEFA Pro Licence course, which is required to be permitted to manage a team in the Premier League and European competition. Reflecting his desire for personal time off to \"enjoy life\", in July 2006 he turned down a coaching role with England, citing his BBC commitments and desire to be away from the pressure of a job within football. Despite this, Shearer was often linked in the media with managerial or coaching positions at his three former clubs. Shearer took a brief role in the dugout for", "id": "13592550" }, { "contents": "History of Southampton F.C.\n\n\nappearances for the England national team – he finally retired in 2002 at the age of 33. During his time with the Saints, Le Tissier was approached more than once by several bigger clubs (including Manchester United) but chose to stick with the Saints despite never winning a major trophy or experiencing European football with them. From 1989 to 1992, Le Tissier was regularly partnered up front by another notable player, Alan Shearer, who as a 17-year-old had scored a hat-trick on his Saints debut against Arsenal in", "id": "15948278" }, { "contents": "Sir Bobby Robson Trophy match\n\n\nNewcastle United, picking up on Alan Shearer's reply of \"I know as much as you do,\" to a pre-match question as to whether he would be installed as Newcastle manager for the forthcoming season beginning in 13 days, with the club being up for sale and with the first team without a manager, being in the care of coach Chris Hughton. Neither the Newcastle United owner Mike Ashley or managing director Derek Llambias were in attendance at the charity match. Having left England after Italia '90, Sir", "id": "19612022" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nChancellor Liam Donaldson stated \"Newcastle United are my team. Alan Shearer is more than just a local legend, he's probably one of the greatest footballers of all time\". On 12 September 2016, a statue of Shearer's likeness was unveiled outside St James' Park. It was sculpted by Tom Maley, and paid for by the Shepherd family. After his retirement and following guest appearances, Shearer became a regular pundit for the BBC's \"Match of the Day\". He also formed part of the team which", "id": "13592563" }, { "contents": "Gary McAllister\n\n\ntournament, scoring in a 3–0 win over the CIS. However, Scotland did not qualify from their group. Scotland failed to qualify for the 1994 FIFA World Cup but did qualify for UEFA Euro 1996 in England, with McAllister the captain of the team. Scotland's second match of the group stage was against England at Wembley Stadium. In the second half Scotland, trailing 0–1 to an Alan Shearer goal, were awarded a penalty. McAllister's kick was saved by David Seaman and Scotland lost 0–2. The team won their", "id": "19492391" }, { "contents": "David Seaman\n\n\nEngland's quarter-final against Spain ended scoreless, Seaman saved Miguel Angel Nadal's kick in the shootout to knock Spain out of the tournament. England eventually were eliminated in the semi-final by Germany on penalties,after Andreas Köpke saved the penalty taken by Gareth Southgate. Seaman was named alongside Golden Boot winner Alan Shearer and winger Steve McManaman in the UEFA \"Team of the Tournament\". Euro 96 sponsor Philips named him \"Player of the Tournament\". Seaman remained first choice under the management of Glenn Hoddle for", "id": "7321893" }, { "contents": "1998 FA Cup Final\n\n\nand so has the mixture between the foreign and English players.\" Wenger reserved praise for the goalscorers Overmars (\"a world-class player\") and Anelka (\"Nicolas is very young. But you saw in the second half today what he can do\"), and felt the turning point in the match was Shearer's shot hitting the post. He sympathised with Newcastle, as did his captain, Adams who said afterwards: \"The team and their fans did everything they could out there, but it was", "id": "10844688" }, { "contents": "David McMahon (association footballer)\n\n\nabout the role of striker from watching England international Alan Shearer in training, but likened himself more to Newcastle's Scotland international Duncan Ferguson, \"because I am taller and like to battle for things in the air.\" Brian Kerr, then manager of Ireland under-17s, described McMahon as honest and hard-working, \"not the most skilful player, but will get goals\", but Darlington manager Gary Bennett believed there was more to his game: that he and strike partner John Williams both had enough skill to play a", "id": "5423888" }, { "contents": "Andy Carroll\n\n\nUEFA Euro 2012. He opened the scoring for England with a powerful header in their second group match against Sweden, which England went on to win 3–2. Carroll has been compared to Newcastle's record goalscorer Alan Shearer, Ivory Coast striker Didier Drogba and former Italy forward Christian Vieri. He has also been referred to as a classic centre forward, owing to his strength, powerful shot and excellent heading ability. Former Newcastle manager and Liverpool player Kevin Keegan stated \"he is probably in the top three headers of a ball I", "id": "11961542" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\n-chasing Manchester United. On the opening day of the 1999–2000 season, Shearer received the first red card of his career in his 100th appearance for Newcastle. After dropping Shearer to the bench in a Tyne-Wear derby loss against Sunderland, the unpopular Gullit resigned to be replaced by the 66-year-old Bobby Robson. Despite Gullit giving Shearer the captain's armband, reports of a rift between club captain and manager were rife, Gullit's decision to drop Shearer proved deeply unpopular with fans and his departure capped a dismal start", "id": "13592525" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nAn almost injury-free season helped Shearer improve on his previous year's tally in the 1998–99 season, the striker converting 14 goals in 30 league games and replacing Rob Lee as Newcastle captain, but Newcastle finished 13th again, with Ruud Gullit having replaced Kenny Dalglish just after the season got underway. He also helped Newcastle to a second consecutive FA Cup final and qualification for the following season's UEFA Cup, scoring twice in the semi-final against Tottenham Hotspur, but they once again lost, this time 2–0 to treble", "id": "13592524" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nhis final three games under Glenn Roeder. Shearer had rejected offers of coaching or assistant roles at Newcastle under both the returning Kevin Keegan in February 2008 and Joe Kinnear in November 2008. Shearer had previously had talks about, but never been offered, a full-time manager's role at Newcastle until his appointment on 1 April 2009. In a surprise move, late on 1 April 2009, it was announced that Shearer would become the manager of his former club Newcastle United for the remaining eight games of the season, taking", "id": "13592551" }, { "contents": "Fabio Cannavaro\n\n\nnational team on 22 January 1997, in a friendly match against Northern Ireland. The same year, he earned plaudits for his handling of England striker Alan Shearer in a World Cup qualifying game at Wembley Stadium. Shearer was then considered by the partisan English crowd to be the best striker in the world, and thought he would make fun of the inexperienced Italian defender. Nevertheless, in a display ranking alongside those of the very best Italian defenders Claudio Gentile and Franco Baresi, Cannavaro managed to keep Shearer quiet for the whole game", "id": "3625067" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\n, with media sources claiming that video footage showed him intentionally kicking Neil Lennon in the head following a challenge. The referee of the game took no action against Shearer, and he was then cleared of all charges by the FA, with Lennon giving evidence in the player's defence. Former Football Association chief Graham Kelly, who brought the charges against the player, later claimed in his autobiography that Shearer had threatened to withdraw himself from the 1998 World Cup squad if the charges were upheld, a claim strenuously denied by Shearer.", "id": "13592523" }, { "contents": "History of the Romania national football team\n\n\nminnows Tunisia. Adrian Ilie scored the only goal with a fine chip in their first match against Colombia at Lyon's Stade Gerland. In Toulouse, they met an England side starting with prodigal striker Michael Owen on the bench, with Teddy Sheringham preferred alongside Alan Shearer. A mistake by Tony Adams was punished by Viorel Moldovan, who played for Coventry City, before Owen came on to claim an equalizer. But Romania won with a scrappy late goal from Dan Petrescu, also playing in England with Chelsea, fighting off his club", "id": "16435718" }, { "contents": "John Barnes (footballer)\n\n\nNewcastle United, although an approach had already been made by Harry Redknapp of West Ham; Barnes had agreed in principle to join them until at the final moment Dalglish called him and Barnes changed his mind. In the 1997–98 season Barnes played up front mostly, deputising for Alan Shearer after Shearer was injured for most of the season, and Barnes ended up Newcastle's top league scorer with six goals, which highlighted the Magpies' lack of ability to score in the absence of Shearer and Ferdinand (who had been sold along with", "id": "19616669" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\ncould not find a more iconic person than Alan, not just for what he has done in football but for all the extra work he tirelessly does for charity and communities. I am delighted he has accepted the role of Deputy Lieutenant because he is a real role model. I have promised him he is not going to have to do too much, but even if it is just one occasion a year he is the perfect choice\" On 7 December 2009, Shearer was made a Doctor of Civil Law by Newcastle University.", "id": "13592562" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nLaw of Northumbria and Newcastle Universities. Shearer was born in Gosforth, Newcastle, in 1970 to working-class parents Alan and Anne Shearer. His father, a sheet-metal worker, encouraged a keen Shearer to play football in his youth, and the young player continued with the sport as he progressed through school. He was educated at Gosforth Central Middle School and Gosforth High School. Growing up playing on the streets of his hometown, he originally played in midfield because \"it meant [he] could get more involved", "id": "13592504" }, { "contents": "Paul Kitson\n\n\n. Newcastle finished second that season after being overhauled in the second half campaign by a Manchester United side who sealed the title by a five-point margin barely four months after Newcastle had led by 10 points, but Kitson's part in Newcastle's exciting though ultimately disappointing campaign had been minimal as he had played just seven league games and scored twice. But he remained loyal to the Magpies even after another blow at the end of July 1996 – the arrival of £15 million world record signing Alan Shearer. He managed three", "id": "19054464" }, { "contents": "Ray Harford\n\n\nthe Premier League for much of the season. During the summer of 1996, Alan Shearer was sold to Newcastle United for a then world record fee of £15 million, and Harford failed to adequately replace him. Harford stated that \"I'm told we need a big name. Engelbert Humperdinck is a big name but it doesn't mean he can play football.\" The 1996–97 season also started badly for Blackburn. They failed to win any of their first ten games and were knocked out of the League Cup by Division", "id": "5365351" }, { "contents": "Patrick Kluivert\n\n\nagain featured for Barca in a legends game against Uganda all stars where he, in lobbing the ball, scored an amazing goal. Kluivert joined Newcastle United on a free transfer in July 2004. He stated that his reasons for joining Newcastle was due to the overwhelming reaction he received whilst playing for Barcelona against Newcastle during a pre season friendly as well as teaming up with Newcastle's star players such as Alan Shearer. Kluivert scored some classy and crucial goals at and away from St James's Park namely in winning strikes against both", "id": "21654890" }, { "contents": "Duncan Shearer\n\n\nbetween 1994 and 1995, scoring two goals including an important opening strike in an away win over Finland which helped the national side qualify for Euro 96, although Shearer did not make the squad for that tournament. The senior team was his first experience of international football, having never played at any age-group level. He achieved a childhood ambition when he played in the national team alongside John McGinlay, a childhood friend also from Fort William. In season 1999–00 he began to concentrate more on coaching than playing, and was", "id": "3716411" }, { "contents": "Les Ferdinand\n\n\nscored 50 goals in only 84 games at Newcastle, forming a successful partnership with Alan Shearer. He was and indeed is still very highly thought of by Newcastle United. Ferdinand received a standing ovation when he returned to St. James' Park as a Tottenham player, trying to put Alan Shearer's number 9 shirt on to complete a lap of honour, he broke down in tears and could only manage to put the shirt on inside out and back to front before being helped from the field. Ferdinand returned again, when he", "id": "2996528" }, { "contents": "David Platt (footballer)\n\n\nTurkey, San Marino, the Netherlands and Norway. The qualifiers began at home to Norway. England dominated the game and Platt carried the goal threat, with Alan Shearer and Ian Wright struggling to find form. He scored the opening goal after an hour. England dominated the remainder of the game and were unlucky to concede to a long-range shot from Kjetil Rekdal. Platt continued his drive from midfield in wins over Turkey at home (4-0) and San Marino (6-0). Platt scored four", "id": "16718350" }, { "contents": "Jason Wilcox\n\n\n-pound investments of Jack Walker. He played an important part in the title-winning Blackburn team of 1995. Playing on the left flank with attacking fullback Graeme Le Saux behind him and Stuart Ripley on the opposite flank, they forged a strong attacking line-up with Alan Shearer and Chris Sutton. International recognition was harder to come by for Wilcox and he managed only 3 international caps despite his effective partnership with Shearer, Le Saux and Tim Sherwood. Lengthy injury problems restricted his effectiveness in subsequent seasons and, after experiencing", "id": "14527253" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nclub's form, and Newcastle finished just 13th in the Premier League. However, United (now managed by Shearer's old boss at Blackburn, Kenny Dalglish) had a good run in the FA Cup; Shearer scored the winning goal in a semi-final victory over Sheffield United as the team reached the final. The team were unable to get on the scoresheet at Wembley, and lost the game 2–0 to Arsenal. An incident during a game against Leicester City in the league saw Shearer charged with misconduct by the FA", "id": "13592522" }, { "contents": "Aleksandar Mitrović (footballer)\n\n\nhim the competition's top scorer, and 28 in all competitions. On 22 March 2015, he scored the team's only goal in the 2–1 Belgian Cup Final loss to Club Brugge KV in Brussels. On 21 July 2015, Mitrović joined Newcastle United on a five-year contract for a reported £13 million, saying he hoped to be able to play like club legend Alan Shearer. He made his debut on 9 August as Newcastle began the season with a 2–2 draw against Southampton at St James' Park, playing", "id": "20923735" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nWest Bromwich Albion, Manchester City and Newcastle United, before being offered a youth contract with Southampton in April 1986. Shearer was promoted to the first team after spending two years with the youth squad. He made his professional debut for Southampton on 26 March 1988, coming on as a substitute in a First Division fixture at Chelsea, before prompting national headlines in his full debut at The Dell two weeks later. He scored a hat-trick, helping the team to a 4–2 victory against Arsenal, thus becoming the youngest player", "id": "13592506" }, { "contents": "James Milner\n\n\ndo what was \"in the club's best interest\" and in July 2004, he agreed a five-year contract with Newcastle. Milner made his first appearance for Newcastle United during their pre-season tour of Asia, scoring his first goal for the club in a 1–1 draw against Kitchee, in Hong Kong. During this tour, he took the opportunity to observe how Newcastle striker Alan Shearer dealt with attention from fans and the media. He said that his association with people like Shearer gave him a better idea of", "id": "1860603" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nretain the ball and provide opportunities for teammates. Playing as a lone striker between wide men, Rod Wallace and Matt Le Tissier, Shearer scored three goals in 26 appearances in the 1989–90 season, and in the next, four goals in 36 games. His performances in the centre of the \"Saints\" attack were soon recognised by the fans, who voted him their Player of the Year for 1991. In the middle of 1991, Shearer was a member of the England national under-21 football squad in the Toulon Tournament in Toulon", "id": "13592508" }, { "contents": "Teddy Sheringham\n\n\n, creating play and providing key passes, forming the link between Shearer and the England midfield. The pairing came to be known as 'The SAS' ('Shearer and Sheringham') and their most successful time together came in the 1996 European Championships, held in England. Their most famous contribution was in the 4–1 victory over the Netherlands, a game in the opening group stages in which they both scored twice against one of the strongest teams in the tournament. Though England were eventually knocked out in the semi-finals", "id": "2997067" }, { "contents": "History of the England national football team\n\n\ninto Euro 2000 after a 2–1 aggregate playoff win over Scotland. At the finals in Belgium and the Netherlands, a lacklustre England failed to get beyond the group stage, losing to both Portugal and Romania after leading in each game. After England's exit, Alan Shearer retired from international football, he had announced his intentions before the tournament, and no-one could persuade him to change his mind. On 7 October 2000, shortly after losing the opening World Cup qualifier to Germany in the last-ever game at Wembley", "id": "15089411" }, { "contents": "Premier League 10 Seasons Awards\n\n\nrepresented, with five players. The teams were as follows: English striker Alan Shearer was named Domestic Player of the Decade in the main 10 Seasons awards announcements, in addition to being given the Outstanding Contribution to the FA Premier League award. Two weeks later he was also named as the Overall Player of the Decade. In the first decade, Shearer played for Blackburn Rovers, and then Newcastle United. Shearer has been described as a classic English centre-forward with great shooting power, a single-minded striker who could", "id": "11856460" }, { "contents": "Wartime League\n\n\narguments debate that a player who exceeds one's record through their wartime matches should nonetheless be seen as the club's highest goal scorer or appearance having been part of the team's squad even if only for a short time. The most recent argument relates to the goal-difference between Jackie Milburn's and Alan Shearer's Newcastle United goal-scoring records. When counting Jackie's wartime matches, he scored a total of 238 professional goals for Newcastle United FC. In May 2005, Alan Shearer finished his career at 206 goals", "id": "17626256" }, { "contents": "Jon Dahl Tomasson\n\n\nas the perfect link-up player to England national team striker Alan Shearer. The partnership initially worked well, with Tomasson impressing during a pre-season friendly tournament in the Republic of Ireland. However, a career threatening injury to Shearer, combined with the controversial transfer of popular striker Les Ferdinand to Tottenham Hotspur, meant that Tomasson was moved from his traditional attacking midfield position to that of striker. He struggled to adapt to his new position on the field, and to the English game, due to his lack of physical", "id": "19324628" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\ncovered the World Cups and European Championships from 2006 onwards for the BBC. Former Newcastle chairman Freddy Shepherd announced that, after Shearer finished the 2005–06 season as Newcastle's caretaker assistant manager, he would become the club's \"Sporting Ambassador\" for the 2006–07 season. However, in September 2008, it was reported that Shearer was removed from this largely honorary position by the club's owner Mike Ashley, despite protests from players such as Steven Taylor and Damien Duff, due to Shearer's criticism of the way in which the club", "id": "13592564" }, { "contents": "1998 FA Cup Final\n\n\nthe final that Bergkamp had resumed training and \"medically he looked all right\", but the player received a further setback when he suffered a reaction to his hamstring. He ruled himself out of the match and told reporters: \"I'm very disappointed. As a little boy in Holland I always watched the FA Cup final. And I used to dream about playing in it myself one day.\" Ian Wright was listed as Bergkamp's probable replacement to partner Anelka. Newcastle had their own issues surrounding Shearer. The England", "id": "10844676" }, { "contents": "2008–09 in English football\n\n\n's surprise resignation in December; whilst their final points tally wasn't spectacular, they had the satisfaction of being the top North-East team in football after both Middlesbrough and Newcastle United were relegated, ending 11 and 16 year spells in the top flight respectively, the latter going through four managers in Kevin Keegan, Joe Kinnear, Chris Hughton and even former striker Alan Shearer during the campaign. Despite a brilliant start to the season which saw them as high as third place in October, Hull City won just 1 of their", "id": "1311754" }, { "contents": "1996 FA Charity Shield\n\n\nfrom Eric Cantona, Nicky Butt, David Beckham and Roy Keane. The game saw new signings Jordi Cruyff and Karel Poborský make their debuts for Manchester United, though neither of these players had particularly successful careers at Old Trafford and both had left the club within four years. The day before the game had seen the surprise sale of one of Manchester United's longest serving players — Lee Sharpe. The game saw Newcastle United give a debut to £15 million world record signing Alan Shearer, who would remain at the club until", "id": "2797098" }, { "contents": "UEFA Euro 2016 knockout phase\n\n\nsection begin=g6 /section end=g6 / section begin=g7 /section end=g7 / The match has been described as one of England's worst defeats ever. Former footballer and Talksport presenter Stan Collymore, who was commentating on the game, panned the England team, reserving special criticism for goalkeeper Joe Hart and captain Wayne Rooney. Former England international and BBC Sport pundit Alan Shearer described it as the worst performance he had ever seen from an England team. The defeat was called England's most shocking since losing 1–0 to", "id": "11344909" }, { "contents": "Maurice E. Shearer\n\n\nApplication at Annapolis, Maryland, with classmates Holland Smith, Ralph S. Keyser and Andrew B. Drum. In July, Shearer sailed for duty to be the commander of the 35 man Marine detachment on Midway Island. In May 1908, he was selected for promotion to first lieutenant and to the rank of captain in June 1916. During World War I, forces under Major Shearer's command made an attack on Belleau Wood, finally clearing that forest of Germans. On 26 June 1918, he sent a now famous report: \"", "id": "8315540" }, { "contents": "Newcastle upon Tyne\n\n\nF.C. became Football League members in 1893. They have won four top division titles (the first in 1905 and the most recent in 1927), six FA Cups (the first in 1910 and the most recent in 1955) and the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup in 1969. They broke the world transfer record in 1996 by paying £15 million for Blackburn Rovers and England striker Alan Shearer, one of the most prolific goalscorers of that era. In 2017 Newcastle was the venue for the 2017 Freedom City festival. The 2017", "id": "20529704" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\ngame and came off the bench to score a penalty, helping Newcastle win the game 3–2. The match was a sell-out, and saw Shearer perform a lap of honour at the end with his family, with his young son notably covering his ears due to the volume of noise produced by the crowd in tribute. Shearer's international career began in 1990 when he was handed a callup to the England under-21 squad under Dave Sexton. During his time with the squad, he scored 13 times in 11 games, a", "id": "13592537" }, { "contents": "2011–12 Cardiff City F.C. season\n\n\nserving manager in the Championship having held his post since May 2005. The club held talks with former England and Newcastle United captain Alan Shearer to replace Jones but he rejected the job despite stating that he was impressed with the \"vision, ambition and determination of the owner Dato Chan Tien Ghee and the board\". The \"Bluebirds\" instead approached Championship rivals Watford for permission to speak to their manager Malky Mackay, which was initially rejected. However, after the two clubs agreed a compensation fee, Mackay was officially appointed as", "id": "7599659" }, { "contents": "Kevin Keegan\n\n\nto Michael Owen, stating, \"He's not scared to give his opinion when he's right, and he's not scared to say what he feels. He's a tremendous professional, and he trains properly every day.\" Keegan announced on 22 January that he and Alan Shearer held talks about the two linking up with Shearer as his assistant, but decided against the idea, leaving the door open for him to take other roles he was interested in. Keegan's first eight games back at Newcastle passed without a", "id": "826473" }, { "contents": "Transfer (association football)\n\n\n£3.6 million Alan Shearer moved to Blackburn Rovers from Southampton, a decade after the world's first £3 million transfer. Lentini's transfer remained intact the world record fee for the next four years, although the national record was broken more than once in many countries including England. Shearer's £3.6million record fee was narrowly eclipsed 12 months later when Manchester United signed Roy Keane from Nottingham Forest for £3.75 million. In 1994, Blackburn Rovers paid a record £5 million for Chris Sutton from Norwich City, a decade", "id": "11200095" }, { "contents": "Roy Hodgson\n\n\nagainst Costa Rica to finish bottom of Group D. Hodgson named Rooney as the new captain of England in August 2014, following the retirement of Steven Gerrard from international football. Hodgson's first match after the World Cup was a 1–0 win against Norway in an international friendly match at Wembley on 3 September 2014. During the match, England made only two shots on target. Hodgson was infuriated when asked about this, describing the statistic as \"fucking bollocks\". Former England player, Alan Shearer, admitted that the match was so", "id": "12858624" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nto the season. The animosity between Shearer and Gullit was later confirmed by the latter, who reported telling the striker that he was \"...the most overrated player I have ever seen.\" Ironically, Robson had tried to sign Shearer for Barcelona in 1997, making a bid of £20million which would have seen Shearer break the world's transfer fee record for the second time in 12 months. However, then Newcastle manager Kenny Dalglish rejected the offer. In Robson's first match in charge, Shearer scored five goals in", "id": "13592526" }, { "contents": "Premier League 10 Seasons Awards\n\n\nin his talks with Alex Ferguson, he could not guarantee that Eric Cantona the Overseas Player of the Decade could be persuaded to let Shearer take penalty kicks. Shearer gained a second PFA Players' Player of the Year Award in April 1997, becoming just the second player to have received the PFA award twice, after Mark Hughes. After the 2000 European Championships, Shearer had retired from international football with England, having been England captain since 1998, and having made his senior début in 1992. Shearer was awarded the OBE in", "id": "11856465" }, { "contents": "Emile Heskey\n\n\nthe two matches, with former England international Alan Shearer commenting, \"Never in a million years did I expect to be discussing whether Emile Heskey should keep his place ahead of Wayne Rooney but the Wigan striker was outstanding over both matches.\" Heskey was called into manager Fabio Capello's first squad against Switzerland, but had to withdraw due to an injury. He was called into the squad for a friendly against the Czech Republic in August 2008 and came on as a 46th-minute substitute, in a match that finished 2–2", "id": "174986" }, { "contents": "Habib Beye\n\n\nUEFA Cup Final, a run which involved him putting in a star performance as a central defender against (his now former team) Newcastle United, where he was particularly effective against Newcastle's talisman striker Alan Shearer. He ended up on the losing side as Marseille lost the final to Valencia 2–0. He was also a beaten finalist in the 2006 French Cup against former club Paris Saint-Germain, a match which his team lost 2–1, and again in 2007 when his Marseille team lost on penalties to FC Sochaux. His", "id": "16217445" }, { "contents": "Stan Collymore\n\n\nseason in the Premier League, Collymore was called up to Terry Venables' England squad for the Umbro Cup in June 1995. He made his début at Wembley Stadium against Japan, partnering Alan Shearer in a 2–1 win. He won his second cap as a 90th minute substitute against Brazil. Collymore made his third and final appearance for England as a substitute in a 4–0 win over Moldova during qualification for the 1998 FIFA World Cup. Collymore contributed to his biography \"Stan: Tackling my demons\" with Oliver Holt. In 2005", "id": "3955590" }, { "contents": "Graeme Souness\n\n\nAt £8.2 million, Boumsong was his first big signing and Souness said he would replace Jonathan Woodgate in the Newcastle defence, which had conceded several leads earlier in the season. Newcastle were well aware of Boumsong prior to his move from Auxerre to Rangers on a free transfer. Robson had travelled to France to watch him, but he declined the opportunity to sign Boumsong. Liverpool were also interested in signing Boumsong. Robson's doubts were confirmed when Boumsong marked Alan Shearer in a pre-season game against Rangers. Shearer came", "id": "18029254" }, { "contents": "Saido Berahino\n\n\nrate of a goal every other match, including three to help the team qualify for the European Championship. Berahino has the all-time third-highest goal tally for the England under-21 side with 10 goals in 13 appearances, behind Francis Jeffers and Alan Shearer. On 6 November 2014, England manager Roy Hodgson – who promoted Berahino to the West Bromwich Albion first team in 2011 – named Berahino in his squad for the first time, ahead of a UEFA Euro 2016 qualifying match against Slovenia at Wembley Stadium on the 15th and", "id": "1000466" } ]

[ { "contents": "Tony Adams\n\n\n\"I have some resentment over the way Glenn Hoddle gave the captaincy to Alan Shearer instead of me but I can let that go. I reacted positively. I disagreed with him [Hoddle] and he thought Alan could get more penalties being a centre forward. People know my reaction to that\". Adams continued to play for the national side, however and he finally appeared in a World Cup finals in 1998. His international swansong was England's unsuccessful Euro 2000 campaign. With Shearer retiring from international football after the tournament", "id": "6104102" }, { "contents": "Tony Adams\n\n\nin defence, and after the retirement of Gary Lineker in 1992, Adams unofficially shared the captaincy of England with David Platt, though Adams became England captain outright before Euro 96, as Platt's place in the side became less secure. England reached the semi-finals of Euro 96, before losing on penalties to Germany. When England manager Glenn Hoddle took the Captain's armband from Adams and gave it to Alan Shearer it was a bitter pill for Adams to swallow. Speaking at a fans' forum in 2008 Adams remarked", "id": "6104101" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nThis time, Germany won from the spot; although Shearer scored, his teammate Gareth Southgate missed his kick and England were eliminated. Shearer's five goals made him the competition's top scorer, and together with teammates David Seaman and Steve McManaman, was listed in the official UEFA team of the tournament. The new England manager Glenn Hoddle appointed Shearer captain for the 1998 FIFA World Cup qualifier against Moldova on 1 September 1996, and the player held onto the captaincy after scoring once in that match and twice in the following game", "id": "13592541" }, { "contents": "Dimitar Berbatov\n\n\nhe consequently modelled himself after Marco van Basten, the Dutch forward for that team. However, the 1996 European Championship, held in England, gave Berbatov a new role model; the 15-year-old Berbatov began to look up to the English front man Alan Shearer, who played for Newcastle United. Berbatov's mother later spoke of her son's teenage dream of playing for Newcastle United, and said that his admiration for Shearer was such that, during these years, he slept in a Newcastle shirt. Berbatov began his youth", "id": "3905446" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\n's participation in what was to be Shearer's only World Cup tournament. In September 1999, Shearer scored his only England hat-trick in a UEFA Euro 2000 qualifier against Luxembourg. This helped England reach a play-off against Scotland; England won the game over two legs and in doing so qualified for the European Championships. By now, Shearer was approaching his 30th birthday, and he announced that he intended to retire from international football after the Euro 2000 tournament. Shearer did not score in England's opening 3–2 defeat", "id": "13592544" }, { "contents": "Southampton F.C.\n\n\nwas Alan Shearer, who at the age of 17 scored a hat-trick against Arsenal in a league match in April 1988. Shearer was a first team regular by 1990, and stayed with Southampton until July 1992, when he was sold to Blackburn Rovers for a national record of more than £3 million. He then became the most expensive footballer in the world when Blackburn sold him to Newcastle for £15 million in 1996. He also scored 30 times for England internationally. Southampton were founding members of the Premier League", "id": "3265953" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\ntime to play in England's UEFA European Championship campaign. After Euro 96, Manchester United again sought to sign Shearer, and attempted to enter the battle for his signature. However Manchester United chairman Martin Edwards stated that Blackburn Rovers refused to let Shearer go to Old Trafford. Ultimately Shearer joined his boyhood club: Newcastle United, Manchester United's title rivals. On 30 July 1996, for a world transfer record-breaking £15 million (equivalent to £ million today) Shearer joined his hometown club and league runners-up", "id": "13592519" }, { "contents": "History of the England national football team\n\n\nyear after his last game at club level. Hoddle selected Alan Shearer as captain, replacing Tony Adams, but also brought a number of emerging talents into the squad, including the Manchester United midfield trio of Paul Scholes, Nicky Butt and David Beckham, and central defenders Rio Ferdinand and Sol Campbell. Hoddle oversaw England's qualification for the 1998 World Cup (the first World Cup with 32 teams instead of 24) with a 0–0 draw against Italy at the Stadio Olimpico in Rome, and drew out a winning performance in the", "id": "15089406" }, { "contents": "History of the England national football team\n\n\nthe underwhelming performance at the World Cup, England suffered a poor start to the Euro 2000 qualifying tournament, and there was reported discontent between Hoddle and several senior players, most notably Shearer. Hoddle was dismissed on 2 February 1999, two days after an interview with \"The Sunday Times\" in which he spoke about his belief in reincarnation and claimed that disabled people were paying for sins in a previous life. Under considerable media and public pressure, the FA appointed former captain Kevin Keegan, who only just managed to get England", "id": "15089410" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nagainst Poland. He scored a total of five goals in England's successful qualification campaign for the World Cup, adding strikes against Georgia and away to Poland to his tally. Shearer was sidelined for much of the 1997–98 season, but recovered to play in the World Cup finals. With Michael Owen replacing Teddy Sheringham as Shearer's strike partner, Shearer's return saw him score England's first goal of the tournament, in a 2–0 win over Tunisia, his only goal in the three group matches. England faced long-time", "id": "13592542" }, { "contents": "Newcastle United F.C.\n\n\n. The attacking philosophy of Keegan led to the team being labelled \"The Entertainers\" by Sky Sports. Keegan took Newcastle to two consecutive runners-up finishes in the league in 1995–96 and 1996–97, coming very close to winning the title in the former season. This success was in part due to the talent of players like David Ginola, Les Ferdinand and Alan Shearer, who was signed on 30 July 1996 for a then world record fee of £15 million. Keegan left Newcastle in January 1997 and was replaced by Kenny", "id": "12636363" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nAlan Shearer, CBE, DL (born 13 August 1970) is an English retired footballer. He played as a striker in the top level of English league football for Southampton, Blackburn Rovers, Newcastle United and the England national team. He is Newcastle's and the Premier League's record goalscorer. He was named Football Writers' Association Player of the Year in 1994 and won the PFA Player of the Year award in 1995. In 1996, he was third in the FIFA World Player of the Year awards. In 2004", "id": "13592501" }, { "contents": "Teddy Sheringham\n\n\nmanager Terry Venables (1994–96) Sheringham came to be the preferred strike partner for Alan Shearer. During this time, England had a wealth of strikers with the likes of Andrew Cole, Ian Wright, a young Robbie Fowler and Les Ferdinand all battling to partner Shearer in the England team. The two formed a famous partnership at international level, as they complemented each other's strengths: Shearer the out-and-out goalscorer, big, strong and powerful, Sheringham just 'dropping off' his strike partner, finding spaces", "id": "2997066" }, { "contents": "History of Newcastle United F.C.\n\n\n's title chances for the 1994–95 season, in which they finished sixth. The club, however, continued to build up a reputation for playing attacking football under Keegan. In the 1995–96 season, high-profile foreign stars David Ginola and Faustino Asprilla, in addition to British players Peter Beardsley and striker Les Ferdinand, guided the team to a second-place finish. During the 1996–97 season, Keegan made one signing, securing the services of England striker Alan Shearer for a then-world record transfer fee of £15 million", "id": "6803863" }, { "contents": "1996–97 Newcastle United F.C. season\n\n\n...I think Kevin wanted it free-flowing in all departments and that doesn't necessarily happen.\" Keegan responded to the previous season's disappointment by breaking the world record transfer fee to sign centre forward Alan Shearer from Blackburn Rovers for £15 million. Shearer, whose five goals made him the top scorer in Euro 96, had supported Newcastle since childhood – he had been a ball-boy at St James' Park on the day that Keegan had left in a helicopter after his final Newcastle appearance as a player.", "id": "1207050" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nin the games.\" Shearer captained his school team and helped a Newcastle City Schools team win a seven-a-side tournament at St James' Park, before joining the amateur Wallsend Boys Club as a teenager. It was while playing for the Wallsend club that he was spotted by Southampton's scout, Jack Hixon, which resulted in Shearer spending his summers training with the club's youth team, a time he would later refer to as \"the making of me\". Shearer had successful trials for First Division clubs", "id": "13592505" }, { "contents": "Duncan Shearer\n\n\nFavourites\" during the club's centenary in 2008. However, he was unable to prevent Huddersfield's relegation to the Third Division at the end of the 1987–88 season. Weeks before this, the unrelated English striker Alan Shearer (aged 17) had scored a hat-trick in the First Division for Southampton against Arsenal, a game which Arsenal captain Tony Adams missed through injury. In his autobiography 11 years later, Adams said that he had followed the progress of the game on Ceefax and mistakingly believed that the Shearer who scored", "id": "3716405" }, { "contents": "David Hirst (footballer)\n\n\nHe came on at half-time and within three minutes of the restart he scored his first (and only) England goal. With Gary Lineker injured, he lined up with Alan Shearer against France at Wembley. Bryan Robson said that, \"It's not a question of who will replace Lineker, but who will partner David Hirst\". It became Hirst's third and final England match. Although he was selected for more England squads, injuries kept him out of the team. Manchester United boss Alex Ferguson tried six", "id": "18892949" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nthrough to May due to injury and England's World Cup qualification chances were hit by a run of poor form. Returning to fitness for the 1993–94 season, he scored 31 goals from 40 games as Blackburn finished runners-up in the Premier League. His performances for the club led to him being named the Football Writers' Association Footballer of the Year for that season. On the international scene, England had failed to qualify for the 1994 World Cup finals, but Shearer added three more goals to his international tally before embarking", "id": "13592514" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nfive points out of a possible twenty-four. Shearer did not get the manager's job on permanent basis. Chris Hughton stepped up from the coaching staff to take charge of the quest to get Newcastle back into the Premier League, which was achieved at the first attempt as Newcastle finished top of the Championship in the 2009–10 season. Shearer is married to Lainya, whom he met whilst a Southampton player. The couple lived locally with her parents during Shearer's second year at the south coast club, and were married on", "id": "13592557" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nagainst Portugal, but did so as England defeated Germany 1–0 in Charleroi, ensuring that England beat their European neighbours for the first time since the 1966 World Cup Final. To remain in the tournament, England only required a draw against Romania in the final group match, and Shearer scored a penalty as England went in at half-time 2–1 up, but Romania ultimately won 3–2. England's tournament was over, and so was Shearer's international career. From his 63 caps, he captained the team 34 times and scored", "id": "13592545" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nrecord return which is still unbeaten. The striker's goals at this level, coupled with his club form, meant he was soon promoted to the senior squad by coach Graham Taylor. Marking his debut in the 2–0 win against France in February 1992 with a goal, he made his only appearance for the England B team a month later. Due to replace Gary Lineker, who retired from international action after UEFA Euro 1992, in the England attack, Shearer played only intermittently in the qualifying campaign for the 1994 FIFA World Cup", "id": "13592538" }, { "contents": "1993 Trans-Tasman Test series\n\n\n's Canberra Raiders team mate and New South Wales captain Laurie Daley. The test series took place following the 1993 State of Origin series which was won by NSW. Dale Shearer's performances at fullback for Qld saw him earn a test recall in front of well performed World Cup and NSW fullback Tim Brasher (though Shearer had been selected at centre for all 3 Ashes series tests in 1992 but withdrew from all 3 with injury). Bradley Clyde, who had not played in the Origin series due to injury was also recalled to", "id": "16616631" }, { "contents": "Glenn Hoddle\n\n\nRedknapp resigned, following which Hoddle also left the club. In June 2016, after England's 2–1 loss to Iceland at Euro 2016 and manager Roy Hodgson's subsequent resignation, Harry Redknapp and Alan Shearer both put forward Hoddle as a candidate for the job before Sam Allardyce was appointed. Hoddle has done punditry work since his retirement from coaching. He has worked for ESPN, ITV Sport and BT Sport. Hoddle began working with ESPN during Euro 2012 as a pundit. Since then, he has worked with ITV for the 2014", "id": "8847620" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nhim onto the pitch following the striker's testimonial in May 2006 as he performed a lap of honour at St James' Park. On 6 December 2000, Shearer was given Honorary Freedom of the City of Newcastle upon Tyne, with the citation \"in recognition of his role as captain of Newcastle United Football Club and as former captain of England which have enhanced the reputation of the City\". Shearer was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2001 Queen's Birthday Honours and Commander of the", "id": "13592559" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nhis four years in the Southampton first team, Shearer made a total of 158 appearances in all competitions, scoring 43 goals. Despite making just one goalless appearance as England failed to progress past the Euro 1992 group stages, Shearer was soon subject to an English transfer record-breaking £3.6 million bid from Blackburn Rovers. Although there was also interest from Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson, Blackburn benefactor Jack Walker's millions were enough to prise the striker from the \"Saints\", and Shearer moved north to Ewood Park in the", "id": "13592512" }, { "contents": "Andy Cole\n\n\nof the season to help United win the Premier League title for the third time in four years. He also played in their FA Cup final victory to become part of England's first ever side to win the double twice. Before the 1996–97 season began, Cole had to deal with being offered to Blackburn Rovers as part-exchange in a £12 million deal that would have brought Alan Shearer to Old Trafford, but the offer was rejected and Shearer joined Newcastle instead. Despite Alex Ferguson's clear indication to Cole that he", "id": "9629547" }, { "contents": "Shearer's Bar\n\n\nShearer's Bar is the former name of a sports bar owned by Newcastle United and forming part of St James' Park, the team's stadium in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. It was named in honour of the club's all-time top scorer, Alan Shearer. The bar was renamed Nine in July 2013 by the club, who said that popularity of the venue had \"dwindled\". The bar was opened in December 2004 and became an important part of the features at St James' Park. It is", "id": "15298144" }, { "contents": "Kevin Keegan\n\n\nrelationship between the pair. In April 2003, it was named as Quote of the Decade in the Premier League 10 Seasons Awards and Most Memorable Quote in the 20 Seasons Awards in May 2012. It also appeared in Channel 4's \"100 Greatest Sporting Moments\". Keegan then broke the world transfer fee record by signing Blackburn Rovers and England striker Alan Shearer in July 1996. Shearer, who had been the Premier League's top scorer in the last two seasons, was born in Newcastle and had grown up as a fan", "id": "826455" }, { "contents": "England national football team\n\n\nBetween 1994 and 1996, Terry Venables managed the team. At UEFA Euro 1996, held in England, they equalled their best performance at a European Championship, reaching the semi-finals as they did in 1968, before exiting via a penalty shoot-out loss to Germany. England striker Alan Shearer was the tournament's top scorer with five goals. Venables resigned following investigations into his financial activities. Venables' successor, Glenn Hoddle, similarly left the job for non-footballing reasons after just one international tournament – the 1998", "id": "9748695" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nmiddle of 1992. His first season with Blackburn was mixed – he missed half of it through injury after snapping his right anterior cruciate ligament in a match against Leeds United in December 1992, but scored a prolific 16 goals in the 21 games in which he did feature. Shearer also became a regular in the England team this season and scored his second international goal; it came in a 4–0 1994 FIFA World Cup qualifier win over Turkey in November. The season ended sourly, however, as Shearer was forced to miss January", "id": "13592513" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nover from head coach Chris Hughton who was in temporary charge while the permanent manager Joe Kinnear recovered from heart surgery, having taken ill on 7 February. Shearer stated \"It's a club I love and I don't want them to go down. I'll do everything I can to stop that.\" Shearer was unveiled at a press conference the following day by club managing director Derek Llambias. In explaining his acceptance of a managerial role at Newcastle at this time, Shearer stated that he would not have done this for", "id": "13592552" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nwas being run in the wake of the departure of Kevin Keegan. These reports were denied by the club. Shearer features in EA Sports' \"FIFA\" video game series; he was included in the \"FIFA 15\" Ultimate Team Legends. During his playing days, Shearer had been involved with the children's charity the NSPCC, taking part in the organisation's Full Stop campaign in 1999. Since retiring from football Shearer has also done work for several charities both nationally and in the Newcastle area. In his testimonial match", "id": "13592565" }, { "contents": "2005–06 Newcastle United F.C. season\n\n\n. The fee, £17 million, surpassed Newcastle's previous record of £15 million for Alan Shearer from Blackburn in 1996. In the closing hours of the transfer window, the club re-signed Nolberto Solano from Aston Villa. Souness's decision to pair Shearer and Owen together up front proved to be lethal, but Owen broke his fourth metatarsal bone in his foot after a clash with Paul Robinson in a match against Tottenham Hotspur, keeping him out for the rest of the season. With Owen injured the team's", "id": "18086094" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\ndue to injury and the team failed to reach the competition finals. UEFA Euro 1996 was a more positive experience for both Shearer and England. With England not required to qualify as hosts, Shearer had not scored in 12 games in the 21 months prior, and even his overall goalscoring record for England did not look too impressive so far, with five goals in 23 games. However, he found the net in the 22nd minute of the first game, against Switzerland. Scoring once in the following game against Scotland and twice", "id": "13592539" }, { "contents": "Teddy Sheringham\n\n\nthe 2000 European Championships by then manager Kevin Keegan, but the retirement of Shearer (despite being four years younger than Sheringham) from international football after that tournament and the arrival of new manager Sven-Göran Eriksson in 2001 saw a return to international favour for him. He was often deployed as a tactical substitute late in games by Eriksson, valued for his ability to hold the ball up and create intelligent play. In 2001, Sheringham scored an important goal for England against Greece in a World Cup qualifying match within 15 seconds", "id": "2997070" }, { "contents": "Ruud Gullit\n\n\n, chairman Ken Bates famously said of Gullit, \"I didn't like his arrogance – in fact I never liked him.\" In August 1998, Gullit was named manager of Newcastle United two games into the new league season and reached the 1999 FA Cup Final in his first year. Fans remained supportive despite a poor run of results, although a well-publicised contretemps with the team's top scorer Alan Shearer and captain Robert Lee did not put him in a favourable light. Gullit even refused to assign Lee a squad", "id": "13592616" }, { "contents": "Scott Parker\n\n\ndefeat on 25 March 2006. Later that month he was diagnosed with glandular fever, putting an end to his season. The timing was especially unfortunate for Parker, who had been playing well for Newcastle, as it ended any hopes he may have had of forcing his way into the 2006 FIFA World Cup. In July 2006, he was named Newcastle United's new captain by manager Glenn Roeder, succeeding the retired Alan Shearer. His first goal as captain came against Wigan Athletic on 19 August 2006, in a 2–1 win", "id": "14327157" }, { "contents": "History of football in England\n\n\n. United's main challengers for the title in the Premier League's first few years were Blackburn Rovers, led by star striker Alan Shearer, also won their first league title since World War I in 1994–95, and Newcastle United, who famously conceded a 10-point lead at Christmas to lose the title to United in 1995–96. Newcastle had reached the Premiership in 1993 as Division One champions, and in their first Premiership campaign finished third to qualify for the UEFA Cup. They finished second in 1996 and again in 1997, but by", "id": "3652862" }, { "contents": "1992–93 FA Premier League\n\n\nPremier League as an attempt by the Football Association to \"hijack\" the First Division. Shortly before the season began, newly promoted Blackburn Rovers signed Southampton's 21-year-old England international striker Alan Shearer for a new British record fee variously reported as £3.3 million, £3.4 million, or £3.6 million. Several other players moved for fees of £2 million or more, including Arsenal's David Rocastle, who joined Leeds United, Dean Saunders, who moved from Liverpool to Aston Villa, and Teddy Sheringham, who", "id": "12442383" }, { "contents": "Darren Anderton\n\n\nhappy at the prospect of losing another key player as he had already lost Jürgen Klinsmann and Gheorghe Popescu that summer; and Nick Barmby was on the verge of joining Middlesbrough. Despite missing most of the 1995–96 season through injury, Anderton played an important part in the Euro 96 England team that reached the semi-finals and included players like Paul Gascoigne, Alan Shearer, Steve McManaman and Teddy Sheringham. In the semi final against Germany, the match went to golden goal extra time. Anderton came within inches of putting England into", "id": "4331581" }, { "contents": "Wallsend Boys Club\n\n\nJanuary which damaged one of the walls of the building. Professional players to have played for the club include: The club has had a representative at four of the six FIFA World Cup finals since 1986, with the two exceptions coming in 1994, when the England national football team did not qualify, and 2002. In 1986 and 1990 Peter Beardsley starred for England. In 1998 Alan Shearer was England captain. Michael Carrick made appearances for England in both the 2006 and 2010 tournaments. Fraser Forster was in the 2014 squad but", "id": "21182372" }, { "contents": "Harry Kane\n\n\n\". Clive Allen, who coached him at Tottenham, stated that \"one thing I'd say about him, which unfortunately you don't say about a lot of young footballers, is that he had a passion for the game. He loves football, he loves playing, he loves scoring goals\". His former Tottenham under-21 coach Les Ferdinand likened Kane's movement to their former forward Teddy Sheringham, and the power and accuracy of his shots to Alan Shearer. Kane's style of play has been compared to that of", "id": "1925319" }, { "contents": "Kieron Dyer\n\n\nthat he would soon rejoin for Ipswich. After representing England at Youth, Under 21 and \"B\" level, Dyer's debut for the senior team came on 4 September 1999 when he started in England's 6–0 win against Luxembourg. He was deployed out of position at right back, and was replaced by Gary Neville at half-time after injuring himself while setting up Alan Shearer's third goal of the match. The injury was not serious and he was able to make his second England appearance four days later, coming", "id": "17666181" }, { "contents": "1996–97 Blackburn Rovers F.C. season\n\n\nthe end of the season, when he handed over the reins to Roy Hodgson after Sampdoria's Sven-Göran Eriksson lied about accepting the manager's job and joined Lazio instead. Parkes steered Blackburn to safety as they finished 13th. The world record £15 million sale of striker Alan Shearer to Newcastle United was seen as the biggest factor in Blackburn's lowest top flight finish since they returned to the elite in 1992. However, his strike-partner Chris Sutton helped keep the club alive after recovering from a drastic loss of", "id": "7811146" }, { "contents": "Michael Owen\n\n\nmuch of the campaign as England struggled, with Hoddle being replaced by Kevin Keegan. On 4 September 1999, he scored his first goal at Wembley Stadium in a 6–0 win over Luxembourg. At the finals, Owen scored once in three matches, as England were knocked out at the group stage. After Alan Shearer's retirement, Owen took over as England's senior striker under new manager Sven-Göran Eriksson. He scored six times during 2002 World Cup qualifying, including a hat-trick against Germany at Munich's Olympiastadion", "id": "21886807" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nyet to start the UEFA Pro Licence course, which is required to be permitted to manage a team in the Premier League and European competition. Reflecting his desire for personal time off to \"enjoy life\", in July 2006 he turned down a coaching role with England, citing his BBC commitments and desire to be away from the pressure of a job within football. Despite this, Shearer was often linked in the media with managerial or coaching positions at his three former clubs. Shearer took a brief role in the dugout for", "id": "13592550" }, { "contents": "History of Southampton F.C.\n\n\nappearances for the England national team – he finally retired in 2002 at the age of 33. During his time with the Saints, Le Tissier was approached more than once by several bigger clubs (including Manchester United) but chose to stick with the Saints despite never winning a major trophy or experiencing European football with them. From 1989 to 1992, Le Tissier was regularly partnered up front by another notable player, Alan Shearer, who as a 17-year-old had scored a hat-trick on his Saints debut against Arsenal in", "id": "15948278" }, { "contents": "Sir Bobby Robson Trophy match\n\n\nNewcastle United, picking up on Alan Shearer's reply of \"I know as much as you do,\" to a pre-match question as to whether he would be installed as Newcastle manager for the forthcoming season beginning in 13 days, with the club being up for sale and with the first team without a manager, being in the care of coach Chris Hughton. Neither the Newcastle United owner Mike Ashley or managing director Derek Llambias were in attendance at the charity match. Having left England after Italia '90, Sir", "id": "19612022" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nChancellor Liam Donaldson stated \"Newcastle United are my team. Alan Shearer is more than just a local legend, he's probably one of the greatest footballers of all time\". On 12 September 2016, a statue of Shearer's likeness was unveiled outside St James' Park. It was sculpted by Tom Maley, and paid for by the Shepherd family. After his retirement and following guest appearances, Shearer became a regular pundit for the BBC's \"Match of the Day\". He also formed part of the team which", "id": "13592563" }, { "contents": "Gary McAllister\n\n\ntournament, scoring in a 3–0 win over the CIS. However, Scotland did not qualify from their group. Scotland failed to qualify for the 1994 FIFA World Cup but did qualify for UEFA Euro 1996 in England, with McAllister the captain of the team. Scotland's second match of the group stage was against England at Wembley Stadium. In the second half Scotland, trailing 0–1 to an Alan Shearer goal, were awarded a penalty. McAllister's kick was saved by David Seaman and Scotland lost 0–2. The team won their", "id": "19492391" }, { "contents": "David Seaman\n\n\nEngland's quarter-final against Spain ended scoreless, Seaman saved Miguel Angel Nadal's kick in the shootout to knock Spain out of the tournament. England eventually were eliminated in the semi-final by Germany on penalties,after Andreas Köpke saved the penalty taken by Gareth Southgate. Seaman was named alongside Golden Boot winner Alan Shearer and winger Steve McManaman in the UEFA \"Team of the Tournament\". Euro 96 sponsor Philips named him \"Player of the Tournament\". Seaman remained first choice under the management of Glenn Hoddle for", "id": "7321893" }, { "contents": "1998 FA Cup Final\n\n\nand so has the mixture between the foreign and English players.\" Wenger reserved praise for the goalscorers Overmars (\"a world-class player\") and Anelka (\"Nicolas is very young. But you saw in the second half today what he can do\"), and felt the turning point in the match was Shearer's shot hitting the post. He sympathised with Newcastle, as did his captain, Adams who said afterwards: \"The team and their fans did everything they could out there, but it was", "id": "10844688" }, { "contents": "David McMahon (association footballer)\n\n\nabout the role of striker from watching England international Alan Shearer in training, but likened himself more to Newcastle's Scotland international Duncan Ferguson, \"because I am taller and like to battle for things in the air.\" Brian Kerr, then manager of Ireland under-17s, described McMahon as honest and hard-working, \"not the most skilful player, but will get goals\", but Darlington manager Gary Bennett believed there was more to his game: that he and strike partner John Williams both had enough skill to play a", "id": "5423888" }, { "contents": "Andy Carroll\n\n\nUEFA Euro 2012. He opened the scoring for England with a powerful header in their second group match against Sweden, which England went on to win 3–2. Carroll has been compared to Newcastle's record goalscorer Alan Shearer, Ivory Coast striker Didier Drogba and former Italy forward Christian Vieri. He has also been referred to as a classic centre forward, owing to his strength, powerful shot and excellent heading ability. Former Newcastle manager and Liverpool player Kevin Keegan stated \"he is probably in the top three headers of a ball I", "id": "11961542" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\n-chasing Manchester United. On the opening day of the 1999–2000 season, Shearer received the first red card of his career in his 100th appearance for Newcastle. After dropping Shearer to the bench in a Tyne-Wear derby loss against Sunderland, the unpopular Gullit resigned to be replaced by the 66-year-old Bobby Robson. Despite Gullit giving Shearer the captain's armband, reports of a rift between club captain and manager were rife, Gullit's decision to drop Shearer proved deeply unpopular with fans and his departure capped a dismal start", "id": "13592525" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nAn almost injury-free season helped Shearer improve on his previous year's tally in the 1998–99 season, the striker converting 14 goals in 30 league games and replacing Rob Lee as Newcastle captain, but Newcastle finished 13th again, with Ruud Gullit having replaced Kenny Dalglish just after the season got underway. He also helped Newcastle to a second consecutive FA Cup final and qualification for the following season's UEFA Cup, scoring twice in the semi-final against Tottenham Hotspur, but they once again lost, this time 2–0 to treble", "id": "13592524" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nhis final three games under Glenn Roeder. Shearer had rejected offers of coaching or assistant roles at Newcastle under both the returning Kevin Keegan in February 2008 and Joe Kinnear in November 2008. Shearer had previously had talks about, but never been offered, a full-time manager's role at Newcastle until his appointment on 1 April 2009. In a surprise move, late on 1 April 2009, it was announced that Shearer would become the manager of his former club Newcastle United for the remaining eight games of the season, taking", "id": "13592551" }, { "contents": "Fabio Cannavaro\n\n\nnational team on 22 January 1997, in a friendly match against Northern Ireland. The same year, he earned plaudits for his handling of England striker Alan Shearer in a World Cup qualifying game at Wembley Stadium. Shearer was then considered by the partisan English crowd to be the best striker in the world, and thought he would make fun of the inexperienced Italian defender. Nevertheless, in a display ranking alongside those of the very best Italian defenders Claudio Gentile and Franco Baresi, Cannavaro managed to keep Shearer quiet for the whole game", "id": "3625067" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\n, with media sources claiming that video footage showed him intentionally kicking Neil Lennon in the head following a challenge. The referee of the game took no action against Shearer, and he was then cleared of all charges by the FA, with Lennon giving evidence in the player's defence. Former Football Association chief Graham Kelly, who brought the charges against the player, later claimed in his autobiography that Shearer had threatened to withdraw himself from the 1998 World Cup squad if the charges were upheld, a claim strenuously denied by Shearer.", "id": "13592523" }, { "contents": "History of the Romania national football team\n\n\nminnows Tunisia. Adrian Ilie scored the only goal with a fine chip in their first match against Colombia at Lyon's Stade Gerland. In Toulouse, they met an England side starting with prodigal striker Michael Owen on the bench, with Teddy Sheringham preferred alongside Alan Shearer. A mistake by Tony Adams was punished by Viorel Moldovan, who played for Coventry City, before Owen came on to claim an equalizer. But Romania won with a scrappy late goal from Dan Petrescu, also playing in England with Chelsea, fighting off his club", "id": "16435718" }, { "contents": "John Barnes (footballer)\n\n\nNewcastle United, although an approach had already been made by Harry Redknapp of West Ham; Barnes had agreed in principle to join them until at the final moment Dalglish called him and Barnes changed his mind. In the 1997–98 season Barnes played up front mostly, deputising for Alan Shearer after Shearer was injured for most of the season, and Barnes ended up Newcastle's top league scorer with six goals, which highlighted the Magpies' lack of ability to score in the absence of Shearer and Ferdinand (who had been sold along with", "id": "19616669" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\ncould not find a more iconic person than Alan, not just for what he has done in football but for all the extra work he tirelessly does for charity and communities. I am delighted he has accepted the role of Deputy Lieutenant because he is a real role model. I have promised him he is not going to have to do too much, but even if it is just one occasion a year he is the perfect choice\" On 7 December 2009, Shearer was made a Doctor of Civil Law by Newcastle University.", "id": "13592562" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nLaw of Northumbria and Newcastle Universities. Shearer was born in Gosforth, Newcastle, in 1970 to working-class parents Alan and Anne Shearer. His father, a sheet-metal worker, encouraged a keen Shearer to play football in his youth, and the young player continued with the sport as he progressed through school. He was educated at Gosforth Central Middle School and Gosforth High School. Growing up playing on the streets of his hometown, he originally played in midfield because \"it meant [he] could get more involved", "id": "13592504" }, { "contents": "Paul Kitson\n\n\n. Newcastle finished second that season after being overhauled in the second half campaign by a Manchester United side who sealed the title by a five-point margin barely four months after Newcastle had led by 10 points, but Kitson's part in Newcastle's exciting though ultimately disappointing campaign had been minimal as he had played just seven league games and scored twice. But he remained loyal to the Magpies even after another blow at the end of July 1996 – the arrival of £15 million world record signing Alan Shearer. He managed three", "id": "19054464" }, { "contents": "Ray Harford\n\n\nthe Premier League for much of the season. During the summer of 1996, Alan Shearer was sold to Newcastle United for a then world record fee of £15 million, and Harford failed to adequately replace him. Harford stated that \"I'm told we need a big name. Engelbert Humperdinck is a big name but it doesn't mean he can play football.\" The 1996–97 season also started badly for Blackburn. They failed to win any of their first ten games and were knocked out of the League Cup by Division", "id": "5365351" }, { "contents": "Patrick Kluivert\n\n\nagain featured for Barca in a legends game against Uganda all stars where he, in lobbing the ball, scored an amazing goal. Kluivert joined Newcastle United on a free transfer in July 2004. He stated that his reasons for joining Newcastle was due to the overwhelming reaction he received whilst playing for Barcelona against Newcastle during a pre season friendly as well as teaming up with Newcastle's star players such as Alan Shearer. Kluivert scored some classy and crucial goals at and away from St James's Park namely in winning strikes against both", "id": "21654890" }, { "contents": "Duncan Shearer\n\n\nbetween 1994 and 1995, scoring two goals including an important opening strike in an away win over Finland which helped the national side qualify for Euro 96, although Shearer did not make the squad for that tournament. The senior team was his first experience of international football, having never played at any age-group level. He achieved a childhood ambition when he played in the national team alongside John McGinlay, a childhood friend also from Fort William. In season 1999–00 he began to concentrate more on coaching than playing, and was", "id": "3716411" }, { "contents": "Les Ferdinand\n\n\nscored 50 goals in only 84 games at Newcastle, forming a successful partnership with Alan Shearer. He was and indeed is still very highly thought of by Newcastle United. Ferdinand received a standing ovation when he returned to St. James' Park as a Tottenham player, trying to put Alan Shearer's number 9 shirt on to complete a lap of honour, he broke down in tears and could only manage to put the shirt on inside out and back to front before being helped from the field. Ferdinand returned again, when he", "id": "2996528" }, { "contents": "David Platt (footballer)\n\n\nTurkey, San Marino, the Netherlands and Norway. The qualifiers began at home to Norway. England dominated the game and Platt carried the goal threat, with Alan Shearer and Ian Wright struggling to find form. He scored the opening goal after an hour. England dominated the remainder of the game and were unlucky to concede to a long-range shot from Kjetil Rekdal. Platt continued his drive from midfield in wins over Turkey at home (4-0) and San Marino (6-0). Platt scored four", "id": "16718350" }, { "contents": "Jason Wilcox\n\n\n-pound investments of Jack Walker. He played an important part in the title-winning Blackburn team of 1995. Playing on the left flank with attacking fullback Graeme Le Saux behind him and Stuart Ripley on the opposite flank, they forged a strong attacking line-up with Alan Shearer and Chris Sutton. International recognition was harder to come by for Wilcox and he managed only 3 international caps despite his effective partnership with Shearer, Le Saux and Tim Sherwood. Lengthy injury problems restricted his effectiveness in subsequent seasons and, after experiencing", "id": "14527253" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nclub's form, and Newcastle finished just 13th in the Premier League. However, United (now managed by Shearer's old boss at Blackburn, Kenny Dalglish) had a good run in the FA Cup; Shearer scored the winning goal in a semi-final victory over Sheffield United as the team reached the final. The team were unable to get on the scoresheet at Wembley, and lost the game 2–0 to Arsenal. An incident during a game against Leicester City in the league saw Shearer charged with misconduct by the FA", "id": "13592522" }, { "contents": "Aleksandar Mitrović (footballer)\n\n\nhim the competition's top scorer, and 28 in all competitions. On 22 March 2015, he scored the team's only goal in the 2–1 Belgian Cup Final loss to Club Brugge KV in Brussels. On 21 July 2015, Mitrović joined Newcastle United on a five-year contract for a reported £13 million, saying he hoped to be able to play like club legend Alan Shearer. He made his debut on 9 August as Newcastle began the season with a 2–2 draw against Southampton at St James' Park, playing", "id": "20923735" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nWest Bromwich Albion, Manchester City and Newcastle United, before being offered a youth contract with Southampton in April 1986. Shearer was promoted to the first team after spending two years with the youth squad. He made his professional debut for Southampton on 26 March 1988, coming on as a substitute in a First Division fixture at Chelsea, before prompting national headlines in his full debut at The Dell two weeks later. He scored a hat-trick, helping the team to a 4–2 victory against Arsenal, thus becoming the youngest player", "id": "13592506" }, { "contents": "James Milner\n\n\ndo what was \"in the club's best interest\" and in July 2004, he agreed a five-year contract with Newcastle. Milner made his first appearance for Newcastle United during their pre-season tour of Asia, scoring his first goal for the club in a 1–1 draw against Kitchee, in Hong Kong. During this tour, he took the opportunity to observe how Newcastle striker Alan Shearer dealt with attention from fans and the media. He said that his association with people like Shearer gave him a better idea of", "id": "1860603" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nretain the ball and provide opportunities for teammates. Playing as a lone striker between wide men, Rod Wallace and Matt Le Tissier, Shearer scored three goals in 26 appearances in the 1989–90 season, and in the next, four goals in 36 games. His performances in the centre of the \"Saints\" attack were soon recognised by the fans, who voted him their Player of the Year for 1991. In the middle of 1991, Shearer was a member of the England national under-21 football squad in the Toulon Tournament in Toulon", "id": "13592508" }, { "contents": "Teddy Sheringham\n\n\n, creating play and providing key passes, forming the link between Shearer and the England midfield. The pairing came to be known as 'The SAS' ('Shearer and Sheringham') and their most successful time together came in the 1996 European Championships, held in England. Their most famous contribution was in the 4–1 victory over the Netherlands, a game in the opening group stages in which they both scored twice against one of the strongest teams in the tournament. Though England were eventually knocked out in the semi-finals", "id": "2997067" }, { "contents": "History of the England national football team\n\n\ninto Euro 2000 after a 2–1 aggregate playoff win over Scotland. At the finals in Belgium and the Netherlands, a lacklustre England failed to get beyond the group stage, losing to both Portugal and Romania after leading in each game. After England's exit, Alan Shearer retired from international football, he had announced his intentions before the tournament, and no-one could persuade him to change his mind. On 7 October 2000, shortly after losing the opening World Cup qualifier to Germany in the last-ever game at Wembley", "id": "15089411" }, { "contents": "Premier League 10 Seasons Awards\n\n\nrepresented, with five players. The teams were as follows: English striker Alan Shearer was named Domestic Player of the Decade in the main 10 Seasons awards announcements, in addition to being given the Outstanding Contribution to the FA Premier League award. Two weeks later he was also named as the Overall Player of the Decade. In the first decade, Shearer played for Blackburn Rovers, and then Newcastle United. Shearer has been described as a classic English centre-forward with great shooting power, a single-minded striker who could", "id": "11856460" }, { "contents": "Wartime League\n\n\narguments debate that a player who exceeds one's record through their wartime matches should nonetheless be seen as the club's highest goal scorer or appearance having been part of the team's squad even if only for a short time. The most recent argument relates to the goal-difference between Jackie Milburn's and Alan Shearer's Newcastle United goal-scoring records. When counting Jackie's wartime matches, he scored a total of 238 professional goals for Newcastle United FC. In May 2005, Alan Shearer finished his career at 206 goals", "id": "17626256" }, { "contents": "Jon Dahl Tomasson\n\n\nas the perfect link-up player to England national team striker Alan Shearer. The partnership initially worked well, with Tomasson impressing during a pre-season friendly tournament in the Republic of Ireland. However, a career threatening injury to Shearer, combined with the controversial transfer of popular striker Les Ferdinand to Tottenham Hotspur, meant that Tomasson was moved from his traditional attacking midfield position to that of striker. He struggled to adapt to his new position on the field, and to the English game, due to his lack of physical", "id": "19324628" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\ncovered the World Cups and European Championships from 2006 onwards for the BBC. Former Newcastle chairman Freddy Shepherd announced that, after Shearer finished the 2005–06 season as Newcastle's caretaker assistant manager, he would become the club's \"Sporting Ambassador\" for the 2006–07 season. However, in September 2008, it was reported that Shearer was removed from this largely honorary position by the club's owner Mike Ashley, despite protests from players such as Steven Taylor and Damien Duff, due to Shearer's criticism of the way in which the club", "id": "13592564" }, { "contents": "1998 FA Cup Final\n\n\nthe final that Bergkamp had resumed training and \"medically he looked all right\", but the player received a further setback when he suffered a reaction to his hamstring. He ruled himself out of the match and told reporters: \"I'm very disappointed. As a little boy in Holland I always watched the FA Cup final. And I used to dream about playing in it myself one day.\" Ian Wright was listed as Bergkamp's probable replacement to partner Anelka. Newcastle had their own issues surrounding Shearer. The England", "id": "10844676" }, { "contents": "2008–09 in English football\n\n\n's surprise resignation in December; whilst their final points tally wasn't spectacular, they had the satisfaction of being the top North-East team in football after both Middlesbrough and Newcastle United were relegated, ending 11 and 16 year spells in the top flight respectively, the latter going through four managers in Kevin Keegan, Joe Kinnear, Chris Hughton and even former striker Alan Shearer during the campaign. Despite a brilliant start to the season which saw them as high as third place in October, Hull City won just 1 of their", "id": "1311754" }, { "contents": "1996 FA Charity Shield\n\n\nfrom Eric Cantona, Nicky Butt, David Beckham and Roy Keane. The game saw new signings Jordi Cruyff and Karel Poborský make their debuts for Manchester United, though neither of these players had particularly successful careers at Old Trafford and both had left the club within four years. The day before the game had seen the surprise sale of one of Manchester United's longest serving players — Lee Sharpe. The game saw Newcastle United give a debut to £15 million world record signing Alan Shearer, who would remain at the club until", "id": "2797098" }, { "contents": "UEFA Euro 2016 knockout phase\n\n\nsection begin=g6 /section end=g6 / section begin=g7 /section end=g7 / The match has been described as one of England's worst defeats ever. Former footballer and Talksport presenter Stan Collymore, who was commentating on the game, panned the England team, reserving special criticism for goalkeeper Joe Hart and captain Wayne Rooney. Former England international and BBC Sport pundit Alan Shearer described it as the worst performance he had ever seen from an England team. The defeat was called England's most shocking since losing 1–0 to", "id": "11344909" }, { "contents": "Maurice E. Shearer\n\n\nApplication at Annapolis, Maryland, with classmates Holland Smith, Ralph S. Keyser and Andrew B. Drum. In July, Shearer sailed for duty to be the commander of the 35 man Marine detachment on Midway Island. In May 1908, he was selected for promotion to first lieutenant and to the rank of captain in June 1916. During World War I, forces under Major Shearer's command made an attack on Belleau Wood, finally clearing that forest of Germans. On 26 June 1918, he sent a now famous report: \"", "id": "8315540" }, { "contents": "Newcastle upon Tyne\n\n\nF.C. became Football League members in 1893. They have won four top division titles (the first in 1905 and the most recent in 1927), six FA Cups (the first in 1910 and the most recent in 1955) and the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup in 1969. They broke the world transfer record in 1996 by paying £15 million for Blackburn Rovers and England striker Alan Shearer, one of the most prolific goalscorers of that era. In 2017 Newcastle was the venue for the 2017 Freedom City festival. The 2017", "id": "20529704" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\ngame and came off the bench to score a penalty, helping Newcastle win the game 3–2. The match was a sell-out, and saw Shearer perform a lap of honour at the end with his family, with his young son notably covering his ears due to the volume of noise produced by the crowd in tribute. Shearer's international career began in 1990 when he was handed a callup to the England under-21 squad under Dave Sexton. During his time with the squad, he scored 13 times in 11 games, a", "id": "13592537" }, { "contents": "2011–12 Cardiff City F.C. season\n\n\nserving manager in the Championship having held his post since May 2005. The club held talks with former England and Newcastle United captain Alan Shearer to replace Jones but he rejected the job despite stating that he was impressed with the \"vision, ambition and determination of the owner Dato Chan Tien Ghee and the board\". The \"Bluebirds\" instead approached Championship rivals Watford for permission to speak to their manager Malky Mackay, which was initially rejected. However, after the two clubs agreed a compensation fee, Mackay was officially appointed as", "id": "7599659" }, { "contents": "Kevin Keegan\n\n\nto Michael Owen, stating, \"He's not scared to give his opinion when he's right, and he's not scared to say what he feels. He's a tremendous professional, and he trains properly every day.\" Keegan announced on 22 January that he and Alan Shearer held talks about the two linking up with Shearer as his assistant, but decided against the idea, leaving the door open for him to take other roles he was interested in. Keegan's first eight games back at Newcastle passed without a", "id": "826473" }, { "contents": "Transfer (association football)\n\n\n£3.6 million Alan Shearer moved to Blackburn Rovers from Southampton, a decade after the world's first £3 million transfer. Lentini's transfer remained intact the world record fee for the next four years, although the national record was broken more than once in many countries including England. Shearer's £3.6million record fee was narrowly eclipsed 12 months later when Manchester United signed Roy Keane from Nottingham Forest for £3.75 million. In 1994, Blackburn Rovers paid a record £5 million for Chris Sutton from Norwich City, a decade", "id": "11200095" }, { "contents": "Roy Hodgson\n\n\nagainst Costa Rica to finish bottom of Group D. Hodgson named Rooney as the new captain of England in August 2014, following the retirement of Steven Gerrard from international football. Hodgson's first match after the World Cup was a 1–0 win against Norway in an international friendly match at Wembley on 3 September 2014. During the match, England made only two shots on target. Hodgson was infuriated when asked about this, describing the statistic as \"fucking bollocks\". Former England player, Alan Shearer, admitted that the match was so", "id": "12858624" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nto the season. The animosity between Shearer and Gullit was later confirmed by the latter, who reported telling the striker that he was \"...the most overrated player I have ever seen.\" Ironically, Robson had tried to sign Shearer for Barcelona in 1997, making a bid of £20million which would have seen Shearer break the world's transfer fee record for the second time in 12 months. However, then Newcastle manager Kenny Dalglish rejected the offer. In Robson's first match in charge, Shearer scored five goals in", "id": "13592526" }, { "contents": "Premier League 10 Seasons Awards\n\n\nin his talks with Alex Ferguson, he could not guarantee that Eric Cantona the Overseas Player of the Decade could be persuaded to let Shearer take penalty kicks. Shearer gained a second PFA Players' Player of the Year Award in April 1997, becoming just the second player to have received the PFA award twice, after Mark Hughes. After the 2000 European Championships, Shearer had retired from international football with England, having been England captain since 1998, and having made his senior début in 1992. Shearer was awarded the OBE in", "id": "11856465" }, { "contents": "Emile Heskey\n\n\nthe two matches, with former England international Alan Shearer commenting, \"Never in a million years did I expect to be discussing whether Emile Heskey should keep his place ahead of Wayne Rooney but the Wigan striker was outstanding over both matches.\" Heskey was called into manager Fabio Capello's first squad against Switzerland, but had to withdraw due to an injury. He was called into the squad for a friendly against the Czech Republic in August 2008 and came on as a 46th-minute substitute, in a match that finished 2–2", "id": "174986" }, { "contents": "Habib Beye\n\n\nUEFA Cup Final, a run which involved him putting in a star performance as a central defender against (his now former team) Newcastle United, where he was particularly effective against Newcastle's talisman striker Alan Shearer. He ended up on the losing side as Marseille lost the final to Valencia 2–0. He was also a beaten finalist in the 2006 French Cup against former club Paris Saint-Germain, a match which his team lost 2–1, and again in 2007 when his Marseille team lost on penalties to FC Sochaux. His", "id": "16217445" }, { "contents": "Stan Collymore\n\n\nseason in the Premier League, Collymore was called up to Terry Venables' England squad for the Umbro Cup in June 1995. He made his début at Wembley Stadium against Japan, partnering Alan Shearer in a 2–1 win. He won his second cap as a 90th minute substitute against Brazil. Collymore made his third and final appearance for England as a substitute in a 4–0 win over Moldova during qualification for the 1998 FIFA World Cup. Collymore contributed to his biography \"Stan: Tackling my demons\" with Oliver Holt. In 2005", "id": "3955590" }, { "contents": "Graeme Souness\n\n\nAt £8.2 million, Boumsong was his first big signing and Souness said he would replace Jonathan Woodgate in the Newcastle defence, which had conceded several leads earlier in the season. Newcastle were well aware of Boumsong prior to his move from Auxerre to Rangers on a free transfer. Robson had travelled to France to watch him, but he declined the opportunity to sign Boumsong. Liverpool were also interested in signing Boumsong. Robson's doubts were confirmed when Boumsong marked Alan Shearer in a pre-season game against Rangers. Shearer came", "id": "18029254" }, { "contents": "Saido Berahino\n\n\nrate of a goal every other match, including three to help the team qualify for the European Championship. Berahino has the all-time third-highest goal tally for the England under-21 side with 10 goals in 13 appearances, behind Francis Jeffers and Alan Shearer. On 6 November 2014, England manager Roy Hodgson – who promoted Berahino to the West Bromwich Albion first team in 2011 – named Berahino in his squad for the first time, ahead of a UEFA Euro 2016 qualifying match against Slovenia at Wembley Stadium on the 15th and", "id": "1000466" } ]

[ { "contents": "Tony Adams\n\n\n\"I have some resentment over the way Glenn Hoddle gave the captaincy to Alan Shearer instead of me but I can let that go. I reacted positively. I disagreed with him [Hoddle] and he thought Alan could get more penalties being a centre forward. People know my reaction to that\". Adams continued to play for the national side, however and he finally appeared in a World Cup finals in 1998. His international swansong was England's unsuccessful Euro 2000 campaign. With Shearer retiring from international football after the tournament", "id": "6104102" }, { "contents": "Tony Adams\n\n\nin defence, and after the retirement of Gary Lineker in 1992, Adams unofficially shared the captaincy of England with David Platt, though Adams became England captain outright before Euro 96, as Platt's place in the side became less secure. England reached the semi-finals of Euro 96, before losing on penalties to Germany. When England manager Glenn Hoddle took the Captain's armband from Adams and gave it to Alan Shearer it was a bitter pill for Adams to swallow. Speaking at a fans' forum in 2008 Adams remarked", "id": "6104101" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nThis time, Germany won from the spot; although Shearer scored, his teammate Gareth Southgate missed his kick and England were eliminated. Shearer's five goals made him the competition's top scorer, and together with teammates David Seaman and Steve McManaman, was listed in the official UEFA team of the tournament. The new England manager Glenn Hoddle appointed Shearer captain for the 1998 FIFA World Cup qualifier against Moldova on 1 September 1996, and the player held onto the captaincy after scoring once in that match and twice in the following game", "id": "13592541" }, { "contents": "Dimitar Berbatov\n\n\nhe consequently modelled himself after Marco van Basten, the Dutch forward for that team. However, the 1996 European Championship, held in England, gave Berbatov a new role model; the 15-year-old Berbatov began to look up to the English front man Alan Shearer, who played for Newcastle United. Berbatov's mother later spoke of her son's teenage dream of playing for Newcastle United, and said that his admiration for Shearer was such that, during these years, he slept in a Newcastle shirt. Berbatov began his youth", "id": "3905446" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\n's participation in what was to be Shearer's only World Cup tournament. In September 1999, Shearer scored his only England hat-trick in a UEFA Euro 2000 qualifier against Luxembourg. This helped England reach a play-off against Scotland; England won the game over two legs and in doing so qualified for the European Championships. By now, Shearer was approaching his 30th birthday, and he announced that he intended to retire from international football after the Euro 2000 tournament. Shearer did not score in England's opening 3–2 defeat", "id": "13592544" }, { "contents": "Southampton F.C.\n\n\nwas Alan Shearer, who at the age of 17 scored a hat-trick against Arsenal in a league match in April 1988. Shearer was a first team regular by 1990, and stayed with Southampton until July 1992, when he was sold to Blackburn Rovers for a national record of more than £3 million. He then became the most expensive footballer in the world when Blackburn sold him to Newcastle for £15 million in 1996. He also scored 30 times for England internationally. Southampton were founding members of the Premier League", "id": "3265953" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\ntime to play in England's UEFA European Championship campaign. After Euro 96, Manchester United again sought to sign Shearer, and attempted to enter the battle for his signature. However Manchester United chairman Martin Edwards stated that Blackburn Rovers refused to let Shearer go to Old Trafford. Ultimately Shearer joined his boyhood club: Newcastle United, Manchester United's title rivals. On 30 July 1996, for a world transfer record-breaking £15 million (equivalent to £ million today) Shearer joined his hometown club and league runners-up", "id": "13592519" }, { "contents": "History of the England national football team\n\n\nyear after his last game at club level. Hoddle selected Alan Shearer as captain, replacing Tony Adams, but also brought a number of emerging talents into the squad, including the Manchester United midfield trio of Paul Scholes, Nicky Butt and David Beckham, and central defenders Rio Ferdinand and Sol Campbell. Hoddle oversaw England's qualification for the 1998 World Cup (the first World Cup with 32 teams instead of 24) with a 0–0 draw against Italy at the Stadio Olimpico in Rome, and drew out a winning performance in the", "id": "15089406" }, { "contents": "History of the England national football team\n\n\nthe underwhelming performance at the World Cup, England suffered a poor start to the Euro 2000 qualifying tournament, and there was reported discontent between Hoddle and several senior players, most notably Shearer. Hoddle was dismissed on 2 February 1999, two days after an interview with \"The Sunday Times\" in which he spoke about his belief in reincarnation and claimed that disabled people were paying for sins in a previous life. Under considerable media and public pressure, the FA appointed former captain Kevin Keegan, who only just managed to get England", "id": "15089410" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nagainst Poland. He scored a total of five goals in England's successful qualification campaign for the World Cup, adding strikes against Georgia and away to Poland to his tally. Shearer was sidelined for much of the 1997–98 season, but recovered to play in the World Cup finals. With Michael Owen replacing Teddy Sheringham as Shearer's strike partner, Shearer's return saw him score England's first goal of the tournament, in a 2–0 win over Tunisia, his only goal in the three group matches. England faced long-time", "id": "13592542" }, { "contents": "Newcastle United F.C.\n\n\n. The attacking philosophy of Keegan led to the team being labelled \"The Entertainers\" by Sky Sports. Keegan took Newcastle to two consecutive runners-up finishes in the league in 1995–96 and 1996–97, coming very close to winning the title in the former season. This success was in part due to the talent of players like David Ginola, Les Ferdinand and Alan Shearer, who was signed on 30 July 1996 for a then world record fee of £15 million. Keegan left Newcastle in January 1997 and was replaced by Kenny", "id": "12636363" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nAlan Shearer, CBE, DL (born 13 August 1970) is an English retired footballer. He played as a striker in the top level of English league football for Southampton, Blackburn Rovers, Newcastle United and the England national team. He is Newcastle's and the Premier League's record goalscorer. He was named Football Writers' Association Player of the Year in 1994 and won the PFA Player of the Year award in 1995. In 1996, he was third in the FIFA World Player of the Year awards. In 2004", "id": "13592501" }, { "contents": "Teddy Sheringham\n\n\nmanager Terry Venables (1994–96) Sheringham came to be the preferred strike partner for Alan Shearer. During this time, England had a wealth of strikers with the likes of Andrew Cole, Ian Wright, a young Robbie Fowler and Les Ferdinand all battling to partner Shearer in the England team. The two formed a famous partnership at international level, as they complemented each other's strengths: Shearer the out-and-out goalscorer, big, strong and powerful, Sheringham just 'dropping off' his strike partner, finding spaces", "id": "2997066" }, { "contents": "History of Newcastle United F.C.\n\n\n's title chances for the 1994–95 season, in which they finished sixth. The club, however, continued to build up a reputation for playing attacking football under Keegan. In the 1995–96 season, high-profile foreign stars David Ginola and Faustino Asprilla, in addition to British players Peter Beardsley and striker Les Ferdinand, guided the team to a second-place finish. During the 1996–97 season, Keegan made one signing, securing the services of England striker Alan Shearer for a then-world record transfer fee of £15 million", "id": "6803863" }, { "contents": "1996–97 Newcastle United F.C. season\n\n\n...I think Kevin wanted it free-flowing in all departments and that doesn't necessarily happen.\" Keegan responded to the previous season's disappointment by breaking the world record transfer fee to sign centre forward Alan Shearer from Blackburn Rovers for £15 million. Shearer, whose five goals made him the top scorer in Euro 96, had supported Newcastle since childhood – he had been a ball-boy at St James' Park on the day that Keegan had left in a helicopter after his final Newcastle appearance as a player.", "id": "1207050" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nin the games.\" Shearer captained his school team and helped a Newcastle City Schools team win a seven-a-side tournament at St James' Park, before joining the amateur Wallsend Boys Club as a teenager. It was while playing for the Wallsend club that he was spotted by Southampton's scout, Jack Hixon, which resulted in Shearer spending his summers training with the club's youth team, a time he would later refer to as \"the making of me\". Shearer had successful trials for First Division clubs", "id": "13592505" }, { "contents": "Duncan Shearer\n\n\nFavourites\" during the club's centenary in 2008. However, he was unable to prevent Huddersfield's relegation to the Third Division at the end of the 1987–88 season. Weeks before this, the unrelated English striker Alan Shearer (aged 17) had scored a hat-trick in the First Division for Southampton against Arsenal, a game which Arsenal captain Tony Adams missed through injury. In his autobiography 11 years later, Adams said that he had followed the progress of the game on Ceefax and mistakingly believed that the Shearer who scored", "id": "3716405" }, { "contents": "David Hirst (footballer)\n\n\nHe came on at half-time and within three minutes of the restart he scored his first (and only) England goal. With Gary Lineker injured, he lined up with Alan Shearer against France at Wembley. Bryan Robson said that, \"It's not a question of who will replace Lineker, but who will partner David Hirst\". It became Hirst's third and final England match. Although he was selected for more England squads, injuries kept him out of the team. Manchester United boss Alex Ferguson tried six", "id": "18892949" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nthrough to May due to injury and England's World Cup qualification chances were hit by a run of poor form. Returning to fitness for the 1993–94 season, he scored 31 goals from 40 games as Blackburn finished runners-up in the Premier League. His performances for the club led to him being named the Football Writers' Association Footballer of the Year for that season. On the international scene, England had failed to qualify for the 1994 World Cup finals, but Shearer added three more goals to his international tally before embarking", "id": "13592514" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nfive points out of a possible twenty-four. Shearer did not get the manager's job on permanent basis. Chris Hughton stepped up from the coaching staff to take charge of the quest to get Newcastle back into the Premier League, which was achieved at the first attempt as Newcastle finished top of the Championship in the 2009–10 season. Shearer is married to Lainya, whom he met whilst a Southampton player. The couple lived locally with her parents during Shearer's second year at the south coast club, and were married on", "id": "13592557" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nagainst Portugal, but did so as England defeated Germany 1–0 in Charleroi, ensuring that England beat their European neighbours for the first time since the 1966 World Cup Final. To remain in the tournament, England only required a draw against Romania in the final group match, and Shearer scored a penalty as England went in at half-time 2–1 up, but Romania ultimately won 3–2. England's tournament was over, and so was Shearer's international career. From his 63 caps, he captained the team 34 times and scored", "id": "13592545" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nrecord return which is still unbeaten. The striker's goals at this level, coupled with his club form, meant he was soon promoted to the senior squad by coach Graham Taylor. Marking his debut in the 2–0 win against France in February 1992 with a goal, he made his only appearance for the England B team a month later. Due to replace Gary Lineker, who retired from international action after UEFA Euro 1992, in the England attack, Shearer played only intermittently in the qualifying campaign for the 1994 FIFA World Cup", "id": "13592538" }, { "contents": "1993 Trans-Tasman Test series\n\n\n's Canberra Raiders team mate and New South Wales captain Laurie Daley. The test series took place following the 1993 State of Origin series which was won by NSW. Dale Shearer's performances at fullback for Qld saw him earn a test recall in front of well performed World Cup and NSW fullback Tim Brasher (though Shearer had been selected at centre for all 3 Ashes series tests in 1992 but withdrew from all 3 with injury). Bradley Clyde, who had not played in the Origin series due to injury was also recalled to", "id": "16616631" }, { "contents": "Glenn Hoddle\n\n\nRedknapp resigned, following which Hoddle also left the club. In June 2016, after England's 2–1 loss to Iceland at Euro 2016 and manager Roy Hodgson's subsequent resignation, Harry Redknapp and Alan Shearer both put forward Hoddle as a candidate for the job before Sam Allardyce was appointed. Hoddle has done punditry work since his retirement from coaching. He has worked for ESPN, ITV Sport and BT Sport. Hoddle began working with ESPN during Euro 2012 as a pundit. Since then, he has worked with ITV for the 2014", "id": "8847620" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nhim onto the pitch following the striker's testimonial in May 2006 as he performed a lap of honour at St James' Park. On 6 December 2000, Shearer was given Honorary Freedom of the City of Newcastle upon Tyne, with the citation \"in recognition of his role as captain of Newcastle United Football Club and as former captain of England which have enhanced the reputation of the City\". Shearer was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2001 Queen's Birthday Honours and Commander of the", "id": "13592559" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nhis four years in the Southampton first team, Shearer made a total of 158 appearances in all competitions, scoring 43 goals. Despite making just one goalless appearance as England failed to progress past the Euro 1992 group stages, Shearer was soon subject to an English transfer record-breaking £3.6 million bid from Blackburn Rovers. Although there was also interest from Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson, Blackburn benefactor Jack Walker's millions were enough to prise the striker from the \"Saints\", and Shearer moved north to Ewood Park in the", "id": "13592512" }, { "contents": "Andy Cole\n\n\nof the season to help United win the Premier League title for the third time in four years. He also played in their FA Cup final victory to become part of England's first ever side to win the double twice. Before the 1996–97 season began, Cole had to deal with being offered to Blackburn Rovers as part-exchange in a £12 million deal that would have brought Alan Shearer to Old Trafford, but the offer was rejected and Shearer joined Newcastle instead. Despite Alex Ferguson's clear indication to Cole that he", "id": "9629547" }, { "contents": "Shearer's Bar\n\n\nShearer's Bar is the former name of a sports bar owned by Newcastle United and forming part of St James' Park, the team's stadium in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. It was named in honour of the club's all-time top scorer, Alan Shearer. The bar was renamed Nine in July 2013 by the club, who said that popularity of the venue had \"dwindled\". The bar was opened in December 2004 and became an important part of the features at St James' Park. It is", "id": "15298144" }, { "contents": "Kevin Keegan\n\n\nrelationship between the pair. In April 2003, it was named as Quote of the Decade in the Premier League 10 Seasons Awards and Most Memorable Quote in the 20 Seasons Awards in May 2012. It also appeared in Channel 4's \"100 Greatest Sporting Moments\". Keegan then broke the world transfer fee record by signing Blackburn Rovers and England striker Alan Shearer in July 1996. Shearer, who had been the Premier League's top scorer in the last two seasons, was born in Newcastle and had grown up as a fan", "id": "826455" }, { "contents": "England national football team\n\n\nBetween 1994 and 1996, Terry Venables managed the team. At UEFA Euro 1996, held in England, they equalled their best performance at a European Championship, reaching the semi-finals as they did in 1968, before exiting via a penalty shoot-out loss to Germany. England striker Alan Shearer was the tournament's top scorer with five goals. Venables resigned following investigations into his financial activities. Venables' successor, Glenn Hoddle, similarly left the job for non-footballing reasons after just one international tournament – the 1998", "id": "9748695" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nmiddle of 1992. His first season with Blackburn was mixed – he missed half of it through injury after snapping his right anterior cruciate ligament in a match against Leeds United in December 1992, but scored a prolific 16 goals in the 21 games in which he did feature. Shearer also became a regular in the England team this season and scored his second international goal; it came in a 4–0 1994 FIFA World Cup qualifier win over Turkey in November. The season ended sourly, however, as Shearer was forced to miss January", "id": "13592513" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nover from head coach Chris Hughton who was in temporary charge while the permanent manager Joe Kinnear recovered from heart surgery, having taken ill on 7 February. Shearer stated \"It's a club I love and I don't want them to go down. I'll do everything I can to stop that.\" Shearer was unveiled at a press conference the following day by club managing director Derek Llambias. In explaining his acceptance of a managerial role at Newcastle at this time, Shearer stated that he would not have done this for", "id": "13592552" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nwas being run in the wake of the departure of Kevin Keegan. These reports were denied by the club. Shearer features in EA Sports' \"FIFA\" video game series; he was included in the \"FIFA 15\" Ultimate Team Legends. During his playing days, Shearer had been involved with the children's charity the NSPCC, taking part in the organisation's Full Stop campaign in 1999. Since retiring from football Shearer has also done work for several charities both nationally and in the Newcastle area. In his testimonial match", "id": "13592565" }, { "contents": "2005–06 Newcastle United F.C. season\n\n\n. The fee, £17 million, surpassed Newcastle's previous record of £15 million for Alan Shearer from Blackburn in 1996. In the closing hours of the transfer window, the club re-signed Nolberto Solano from Aston Villa. Souness's decision to pair Shearer and Owen together up front proved to be lethal, but Owen broke his fourth metatarsal bone in his foot after a clash with Paul Robinson in a match against Tottenham Hotspur, keeping him out for the rest of the season. With Owen injured the team's", "id": "18086094" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\ndue to injury and the team failed to reach the competition finals. UEFA Euro 1996 was a more positive experience for both Shearer and England. With England not required to qualify as hosts, Shearer had not scored in 12 games in the 21 months prior, and even his overall goalscoring record for England did not look too impressive so far, with five goals in 23 games. However, he found the net in the 22nd minute of the first game, against Switzerland. Scoring once in the following game against Scotland and twice", "id": "13592539" }, { "contents": "Teddy Sheringham\n\n\nthe 2000 European Championships by then manager Kevin Keegan, but the retirement of Shearer (despite being four years younger than Sheringham) from international football after that tournament and the arrival of new manager Sven-Göran Eriksson in 2001 saw a return to international favour for him. He was often deployed as a tactical substitute late in games by Eriksson, valued for his ability to hold the ball up and create intelligent play. In 2001, Sheringham scored an important goal for England against Greece in a World Cup qualifying match within 15 seconds", "id": "2997070" }, { "contents": "Ruud Gullit\n\n\n, chairman Ken Bates famously said of Gullit, \"I didn't like his arrogance – in fact I never liked him.\" In August 1998, Gullit was named manager of Newcastle United two games into the new league season and reached the 1999 FA Cup Final in his first year. Fans remained supportive despite a poor run of results, although a well-publicised contretemps with the team's top scorer Alan Shearer and captain Robert Lee did not put him in a favourable light. Gullit even refused to assign Lee a squad", "id": "13592616" }, { "contents": "Scott Parker\n\n\ndefeat on 25 March 2006. Later that month he was diagnosed with glandular fever, putting an end to his season. The timing was especially unfortunate for Parker, who had been playing well for Newcastle, as it ended any hopes he may have had of forcing his way into the 2006 FIFA World Cup. In July 2006, he was named Newcastle United's new captain by manager Glenn Roeder, succeeding the retired Alan Shearer. His first goal as captain came against Wigan Athletic on 19 August 2006, in a 2–1 win", "id": "14327157" }, { "contents": "History of football in England\n\n\n. United's main challengers for the title in the Premier League's first few years were Blackburn Rovers, led by star striker Alan Shearer, also won their first league title since World War I in 1994–95, and Newcastle United, who famously conceded a 10-point lead at Christmas to lose the title to United in 1995–96. Newcastle had reached the Premiership in 1993 as Division One champions, and in their first Premiership campaign finished third to qualify for the UEFA Cup. They finished second in 1996 and again in 1997, but by", "id": "3652862" }, { "contents": "1992–93 FA Premier League\n\n\nPremier League as an attempt by the Football Association to \"hijack\" the First Division. Shortly before the season began, newly promoted Blackburn Rovers signed Southampton's 21-year-old England international striker Alan Shearer for a new British record fee variously reported as £3.3 million, £3.4 million, or £3.6 million. Several other players moved for fees of £2 million or more, including Arsenal's David Rocastle, who joined Leeds United, Dean Saunders, who moved from Liverpool to Aston Villa, and Teddy Sheringham, who", "id": "12442383" }, { "contents": "Darren Anderton\n\n\nhappy at the prospect of losing another key player as he had already lost Jürgen Klinsmann and Gheorghe Popescu that summer; and Nick Barmby was on the verge of joining Middlesbrough. Despite missing most of the 1995–96 season through injury, Anderton played an important part in the Euro 96 England team that reached the semi-finals and included players like Paul Gascoigne, Alan Shearer, Steve McManaman and Teddy Sheringham. In the semi final against Germany, the match went to golden goal extra time. Anderton came within inches of putting England into", "id": "4331581" }, { "contents": "Wallsend Boys Club\n\n\nJanuary which damaged one of the walls of the building. Professional players to have played for the club include: The club has had a representative at four of the six FIFA World Cup finals since 1986, with the two exceptions coming in 1994, when the England national football team did not qualify, and 2002. In 1986 and 1990 Peter Beardsley starred for England. In 1998 Alan Shearer was England captain. Michael Carrick made appearances for England in both the 2006 and 2010 tournaments. Fraser Forster was in the 2014 squad but", "id": "21182372" }, { "contents": "Harry Kane\n\n\n\". Clive Allen, who coached him at Tottenham, stated that \"one thing I'd say about him, which unfortunately you don't say about a lot of young footballers, is that he had a passion for the game. He loves football, he loves playing, he loves scoring goals\". His former Tottenham under-21 coach Les Ferdinand likened Kane's movement to their former forward Teddy Sheringham, and the power and accuracy of his shots to Alan Shearer. Kane's style of play has been compared to that of", "id": "1925319" }, { "contents": "Kieron Dyer\n\n\nthat he would soon rejoin for Ipswich. After representing England at Youth, Under 21 and \"B\" level, Dyer's debut for the senior team came on 4 September 1999 when he started in England's 6–0 win against Luxembourg. He was deployed out of position at right back, and was replaced by Gary Neville at half-time after injuring himself while setting up Alan Shearer's third goal of the match. The injury was not serious and he was able to make his second England appearance four days later, coming", "id": "17666181" }, { "contents": "1996–97 Blackburn Rovers F.C. season\n\n\nthe end of the season, when he handed over the reins to Roy Hodgson after Sampdoria's Sven-Göran Eriksson lied about accepting the manager's job and joined Lazio instead. Parkes steered Blackburn to safety as they finished 13th. The world record £15 million sale of striker Alan Shearer to Newcastle United was seen as the biggest factor in Blackburn's lowest top flight finish since they returned to the elite in 1992. However, his strike-partner Chris Sutton helped keep the club alive after recovering from a drastic loss of", "id": "7811146" }, { "contents": "Michael Owen\n\n\nmuch of the campaign as England struggled, with Hoddle being replaced by Kevin Keegan. On 4 September 1999, he scored his first goal at Wembley Stadium in a 6–0 win over Luxembourg. At the finals, Owen scored once in three matches, as England were knocked out at the group stage. After Alan Shearer's retirement, Owen took over as England's senior striker under new manager Sven-Göran Eriksson. He scored six times during 2002 World Cup qualifying, including a hat-trick against Germany at Munich's Olympiastadion", "id": "21886807" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nyet to start the UEFA Pro Licence course, which is required to be permitted to manage a team in the Premier League and European competition. Reflecting his desire for personal time off to \"enjoy life\", in July 2006 he turned down a coaching role with England, citing his BBC commitments and desire to be away from the pressure of a job within football. Despite this, Shearer was often linked in the media with managerial or coaching positions at his three former clubs. Shearer took a brief role in the dugout for", "id": "13592550" }, { "contents": "History of Southampton F.C.\n\n\nappearances for the England national team – he finally retired in 2002 at the age of 33. During his time with the Saints, Le Tissier was approached more than once by several bigger clubs (including Manchester United) but chose to stick with the Saints despite never winning a major trophy or experiencing European football with them. From 1989 to 1992, Le Tissier was regularly partnered up front by another notable player, Alan Shearer, who as a 17-year-old had scored a hat-trick on his Saints debut against Arsenal in", "id": "15948278" }, { "contents": "Sir Bobby Robson Trophy match\n\n\nNewcastle United, picking up on Alan Shearer's reply of \"I know as much as you do,\" to a pre-match question as to whether he would be installed as Newcastle manager for the forthcoming season beginning in 13 days, with the club being up for sale and with the first team without a manager, being in the care of coach Chris Hughton. Neither the Newcastle United owner Mike Ashley or managing director Derek Llambias were in attendance at the charity match. Having left England after Italia '90, Sir", "id": "19612022" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nChancellor Liam Donaldson stated \"Newcastle United are my team. Alan Shearer is more than just a local legend, he's probably one of the greatest footballers of all time\". On 12 September 2016, a statue of Shearer's likeness was unveiled outside St James' Park. It was sculpted by Tom Maley, and paid for by the Shepherd family. After his retirement and following guest appearances, Shearer became a regular pundit for the BBC's \"Match of the Day\". He also formed part of the team which", "id": "13592563" }, { "contents": "Gary McAllister\n\n\ntournament, scoring in a 3–0 win over the CIS. However, Scotland did not qualify from their group. Scotland failed to qualify for the 1994 FIFA World Cup but did qualify for UEFA Euro 1996 in England, with McAllister the captain of the team. Scotland's second match of the group stage was against England at Wembley Stadium. In the second half Scotland, trailing 0–1 to an Alan Shearer goal, were awarded a penalty. McAllister's kick was saved by David Seaman and Scotland lost 0–2. The team won their", "id": "19492391" }, { "contents": "David Seaman\n\n\nEngland's quarter-final against Spain ended scoreless, Seaman saved Miguel Angel Nadal's kick in the shootout to knock Spain out of the tournament. England eventually were eliminated in the semi-final by Germany on penalties,after Andreas Köpke saved the penalty taken by Gareth Southgate. Seaman was named alongside Golden Boot winner Alan Shearer and winger Steve McManaman in the UEFA \"Team of the Tournament\". Euro 96 sponsor Philips named him \"Player of the Tournament\". Seaman remained first choice under the management of Glenn Hoddle for", "id": "7321893" }, { "contents": "1998 FA Cup Final\n\n\nand so has the mixture between the foreign and English players.\" Wenger reserved praise for the goalscorers Overmars (\"a world-class player\") and Anelka (\"Nicolas is very young. But you saw in the second half today what he can do\"), and felt the turning point in the match was Shearer's shot hitting the post. He sympathised with Newcastle, as did his captain, Adams who said afterwards: \"The team and their fans did everything they could out there, but it was", "id": "10844688" }, { "contents": "David McMahon (association footballer)\n\n\nabout the role of striker from watching England international Alan Shearer in training, but likened himself more to Newcastle's Scotland international Duncan Ferguson, \"because I am taller and like to battle for things in the air.\" Brian Kerr, then manager of Ireland under-17s, described McMahon as honest and hard-working, \"not the most skilful player, but will get goals\", but Darlington manager Gary Bennett believed there was more to his game: that he and strike partner John Williams both had enough skill to play a", "id": "5423888" }, { "contents": "Andy Carroll\n\n\nUEFA Euro 2012. He opened the scoring for England with a powerful header in their second group match against Sweden, which England went on to win 3–2. Carroll has been compared to Newcastle's record goalscorer Alan Shearer, Ivory Coast striker Didier Drogba and former Italy forward Christian Vieri. He has also been referred to as a classic centre forward, owing to his strength, powerful shot and excellent heading ability. Former Newcastle manager and Liverpool player Kevin Keegan stated \"he is probably in the top three headers of a ball I", "id": "11961542" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\n-chasing Manchester United. On the opening day of the 1999–2000 season, Shearer received the first red card of his career in his 100th appearance for Newcastle. After dropping Shearer to the bench in a Tyne-Wear derby loss against Sunderland, the unpopular Gullit resigned to be replaced by the 66-year-old Bobby Robson. Despite Gullit giving Shearer the captain's armband, reports of a rift between club captain and manager were rife, Gullit's decision to drop Shearer proved deeply unpopular with fans and his departure capped a dismal start", "id": "13592525" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nAn almost injury-free season helped Shearer improve on his previous year's tally in the 1998–99 season, the striker converting 14 goals in 30 league games and replacing Rob Lee as Newcastle captain, but Newcastle finished 13th again, with Ruud Gullit having replaced Kenny Dalglish just after the season got underway. He also helped Newcastle to a second consecutive FA Cup final and qualification for the following season's UEFA Cup, scoring twice in the semi-final against Tottenham Hotspur, but they once again lost, this time 2–0 to treble", "id": "13592524" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nhis final three games under Glenn Roeder. Shearer had rejected offers of coaching or assistant roles at Newcastle under both the returning Kevin Keegan in February 2008 and Joe Kinnear in November 2008. Shearer had previously had talks about, but never been offered, a full-time manager's role at Newcastle until his appointment on 1 April 2009. In a surprise move, late on 1 April 2009, it was announced that Shearer would become the manager of his former club Newcastle United for the remaining eight games of the season, taking", "id": "13592551" }, { "contents": "Fabio Cannavaro\n\n\nnational team on 22 January 1997, in a friendly match against Northern Ireland. The same year, he earned plaudits for his handling of England striker Alan Shearer in a World Cup qualifying game at Wembley Stadium. Shearer was then considered by the partisan English crowd to be the best striker in the world, and thought he would make fun of the inexperienced Italian defender. Nevertheless, in a display ranking alongside those of the very best Italian defenders Claudio Gentile and Franco Baresi, Cannavaro managed to keep Shearer quiet for the whole game", "id": "3625067" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\n, with media sources claiming that video footage showed him intentionally kicking Neil Lennon in the head following a challenge. The referee of the game took no action against Shearer, and he was then cleared of all charges by the FA, with Lennon giving evidence in the player's defence. Former Football Association chief Graham Kelly, who brought the charges against the player, later claimed in his autobiography that Shearer had threatened to withdraw himself from the 1998 World Cup squad if the charges were upheld, a claim strenuously denied by Shearer.", "id": "13592523" }, { "contents": "History of the Romania national football team\n\n\nminnows Tunisia. Adrian Ilie scored the only goal with a fine chip in their first match against Colombia at Lyon's Stade Gerland. In Toulouse, they met an England side starting with prodigal striker Michael Owen on the bench, with Teddy Sheringham preferred alongside Alan Shearer. A mistake by Tony Adams was punished by Viorel Moldovan, who played for Coventry City, before Owen came on to claim an equalizer. But Romania won with a scrappy late goal from Dan Petrescu, also playing in England with Chelsea, fighting off his club", "id": "16435718" }, { "contents": "John Barnes (footballer)\n\n\nNewcastle United, although an approach had already been made by Harry Redknapp of West Ham; Barnes had agreed in principle to join them until at the final moment Dalglish called him and Barnes changed his mind. In the 1997–98 season Barnes played up front mostly, deputising for Alan Shearer after Shearer was injured for most of the season, and Barnes ended up Newcastle's top league scorer with six goals, which highlighted the Magpies' lack of ability to score in the absence of Shearer and Ferdinand (who had been sold along with", "id": "19616669" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\ncould not find a more iconic person than Alan, not just for what he has done in football but for all the extra work he tirelessly does for charity and communities. I am delighted he has accepted the role of Deputy Lieutenant because he is a real role model. I have promised him he is not going to have to do too much, but even if it is just one occasion a year he is the perfect choice\" On 7 December 2009, Shearer was made a Doctor of Civil Law by Newcastle University.", "id": "13592562" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nLaw of Northumbria and Newcastle Universities. Shearer was born in Gosforth, Newcastle, in 1970 to working-class parents Alan and Anne Shearer. His father, a sheet-metal worker, encouraged a keen Shearer to play football in his youth, and the young player continued with the sport as he progressed through school. He was educated at Gosforth Central Middle School and Gosforth High School. Growing up playing on the streets of his hometown, he originally played in midfield because \"it meant [he] could get more involved", "id": "13592504" }, { "contents": "Paul Kitson\n\n\n. Newcastle finished second that season after being overhauled in the second half campaign by a Manchester United side who sealed the title by a five-point margin barely four months after Newcastle had led by 10 points, but Kitson's part in Newcastle's exciting though ultimately disappointing campaign had been minimal as he had played just seven league games and scored twice. But he remained loyal to the Magpies even after another blow at the end of July 1996 – the arrival of £15 million world record signing Alan Shearer. He managed three", "id": "19054464" }, { "contents": "Ray Harford\n\n\nthe Premier League for much of the season. During the summer of 1996, Alan Shearer was sold to Newcastle United for a then world record fee of £15 million, and Harford failed to adequately replace him. Harford stated that \"I'm told we need a big name. Engelbert Humperdinck is a big name but it doesn't mean he can play football.\" The 1996–97 season also started badly for Blackburn. They failed to win any of their first ten games and were knocked out of the League Cup by Division", "id": "5365351" }, { "contents": "Patrick Kluivert\n\n\nagain featured for Barca in a legends game against Uganda all stars where he, in lobbing the ball, scored an amazing goal. Kluivert joined Newcastle United on a free transfer in July 2004. He stated that his reasons for joining Newcastle was due to the overwhelming reaction he received whilst playing for Barcelona against Newcastle during a pre season friendly as well as teaming up with Newcastle's star players such as Alan Shearer. Kluivert scored some classy and crucial goals at and away from St James's Park namely in winning strikes against both", "id": "21654890" }, { "contents": "Duncan Shearer\n\n\nbetween 1994 and 1995, scoring two goals including an important opening strike in an away win over Finland which helped the national side qualify for Euro 96, although Shearer did not make the squad for that tournament. The senior team was his first experience of international football, having never played at any age-group level. He achieved a childhood ambition when he played in the national team alongside John McGinlay, a childhood friend also from Fort William. In season 1999–00 he began to concentrate more on coaching than playing, and was", "id": "3716411" }, { "contents": "Les Ferdinand\n\n\nscored 50 goals in only 84 games at Newcastle, forming a successful partnership with Alan Shearer. He was and indeed is still very highly thought of by Newcastle United. Ferdinand received a standing ovation when he returned to St. James' Park as a Tottenham player, trying to put Alan Shearer's number 9 shirt on to complete a lap of honour, he broke down in tears and could only manage to put the shirt on inside out and back to front before being helped from the field. Ferdinand returned again, when he", "id": "2996528" }, { "contents": "David Platt (footballer)\n\n\nTurkey, San Marino, the Netherlands and Norway. The qualifiers began at home to Norway. England dominated the game and Platt carried the goal threat, with Alan Shearer and Ian Wright struggling to find form. He scored the opening goal after an hour. England dominated the remainder of the game and were unlucky to concede to a long-range shot from Kjetil Rekdal. Platt continued his drive from midfield in wins over Turkey at home (4-0) and San Marino (6-0). Platt scored four", "id": "16718350" }, { "contents": "Jason Wilcox\n\n\n-pound investments of Jack Walker. He played an important part in the title-winning Blackburn team of 1995. Playing on the left flank with attacking fullback Graeme Le Saux behind him and Stuart Ripley on the opposite flank, they forged a strong attacking line-up with Alan Shearer and Chris Sutton. International recognition was harder to come by for Wilcox and he managed only 3 international caps despite his effective partnership with Shearer, Le Saux and Tim Sherwood. Lengthy injury problems restricted his effectiveness in subsequent seasons and, after experiencing", "id": "14527253" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nclub's form, and Newcastle finished just 13th in the Premier League. However, United (now managed by Shearer's old boss at Blackburn, Kenny Dalglish) had a good run in the FA Cup; Shearer scored the winning goal in a semi-final victory over Sheffield United as the team reached the final. The team were unable to get on the scoresheet at Wembley, and lost the game 2–0 to Arsenal. An incident during a game against Leicester City in the league saw Shearer charged with misconduct by the FA", "id": "13592522" }, { "contents": "Aleksandar Mitrović (footballer)\n\n\nhim the competition's top scorer, and 28 in all competitions. On 22 March 2015, he scored the team's only goal in the 2–1 Belgian Cup Final loss to Club Brugge KV in Brussels. On 21 July 2015, Mitrović joined Newcastle United on a five-year contract for a reported £13 million, saying he hoped to be able to play like club legend Alan Shearer. He made his debut on 9 August as Newcastle began the season with a 2–2 draw against Southampton at St James' Park, playing", "id": "20923735" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nWest Bromwich Albion, Manchester City and Newcastle United, before being offered a youth contract with Southampton in April 1986. Shearer was promoted to the first team after spending two years with the youth squad. He made his professional debut for Southampton on 26 March 1988, coming on as a substitute in a First Division fixture at Chelsea, before prompting national headlines in his full debut at The Dell two weeks later. He scored a hat-trick, helping the team to a 4–2 victory against Arsenal, thus becoming the youngest player", "id": "13592506" }, { "contents": "James Milner\n\n\ndo what was \"in the club's best interest\" and in July 2004, he agreed a five-year contract with Newcastle. Milner made his first appearance for Newcastle United during their pre-season tour of Asia, scoring his first goal for the club in a 1–1 draw against Kitchee, in Hong Kong. During this tour, he took the opportunity to observe how Newcastle striker Alan Shearer dealt with attention from fans and the media. He said that his association with people like Shearer gave him a better idea of", "id": "1860603" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nretain the ball and provide opportunities for teammates. Playing as a lone striker between wide men, Rod Wallace and Matt Le Tissier, Shearer scored three goals in 26 appearances in the 1989–90 season, and in the next, four goals in 36 games. His performances in the centre of the \"Saints\" attack were soon recognised by the fans, who voted him their Player of the Year for 1991. In the middle of 1991, Shearer was a member of the England national under-21 football squad in the Toulon Tournament in Toulon", "id": "13592508" }, { "contents": "Teddy Sheringham\n\n\n, creating play and providing key passes, forming the link between Shearer and the England midfield. The pairing came to be known as 'The SAS' ('Shearer and Sheringham') and their most successful time together came in the 1996 European Championships, held in England. Their most famous contribution was in the 4–1 victory over the Netherlands, a game in the opening group stages in which they both scored twice against one of the strongest teams in the tournament. Though England were eventually knocked out in the semi-finals", "id": "2997067" }, { "contents": "History of the England national football team\n\n\ninto Euro 2000 after a 2–1 aggregate playoff win over Scotland. At the finals in Belgium and the Netherlands, a lacklustre England failed to get beyond the group stage, losing to both Portugal and Romania after leading in each game. After England's exit, Alan Shearer retired from international football, he had announced his intentions before the tournament, and no-one could persuade him to change his mind. On 7 October 2000, shortly after losing the opening World Cup qualifier to Germany in the last-ever game at Wembley", "id": "15089411" }, { "contents": "Premier League 10 Seasons Awards\n\n\nrepresented, with five players. The teams were as follows: English striker Alan Shearer was named Domestic Player of the Decade in the main 10 Seasons awards announcements, in addition to being given the Outstanding Contribution to the FA Premier League award. Two weeks later he was also named as the Overall Player of the Decade. In the first decade, Shearer played for Blackburn Rovers, and then Newcastle United. Shearer has been described as a classic English centre-forward with great shooting power, a single-minded striker who could", "id": "11856460" }, { "contents": "Wartime League\n\n\narguments debate that a player who exceeds one's record through their wartime matches should nonetheless be seen as the club's highest goal scorer or appearance having been part of the team's squad even if only for a short time. The most recent argument relates to the goal-difference between Jackie Milburn's and Alan Shearer's Newcastle United goal-scoring records. When counting Jackie's wartime matches, he scored a total of 238 professional goals for Newcastle United FC. In May 2005, Alan Shearer finished his career at 206 goals", "id": "17626256" }, { "contents": "Jon Dahl Tomasson\n\n\nas the perfect link-up player to England national team striker Alan Shearer. The partnership initially worked well, with Tomasson impressing during a pre-season friendly tournament in the Republic of Ireland. However, a career threatening injury to Shearer, combined with the controversial transfer of popular striker Les Ferdinand to Tottenham Hotspur, meant that Tomasson was moved from his traditional attacking midfield position to that of striker. He struggled to adapt to his new position on the field, and to the English game, due to his lack of physical", "id": "19324628" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\ncovered the World Cups and European Championships from 2006 onwards for the BBC. Former Newcastle chairman Freddy Shepherd announced that, after Shearer finished the 2005–06 season as Newcastle's caretaker assistant manager, he would become the club's \"Sporting Ambassador\" for the 2006–07 season. However, in September 2008, it was reported that Shearer was removed from this largely honorary position by the club's owner Mike Ashley, despite protests from players such as Steven Taylor and Damien Duff, due to Shearer's criticism of the way in which the club", "id": "13592564" }, { "contents": "1998 FA Cup Final\n\n\nthe final that Bergkamp had resumed training and \"medically he looked all right\", but the player received a further setback when he suffered a reaction to his hamstring. He ruled himself out of the match and told reporters: \"I'm very disappointed. As a little boy in Holland I always watched the FA Cup final. And I used to dream about playing in it myself one day.\" Ian Wright was listed as Bergkamp's probable replacement to partner Anelka. Newcastle had their own issues surrounding Shearer. The England", "id": "10844676" }, { "contents": "2008–09 in English football\n\n\n's surprise resignation in December; whilst their final points tally wasn't spectacular, they had the satisfaction of being the top North-East team in football after both Middlesbrough and Newcastle United were relegated, ending 11 and 16 year spells in the top flight respectively, the latter going through four managers in Kevin Keegan, Joe Kinnear, Chris Hughton and even former striker Alan Shearer during the campaign. Despite a brilliant start to the season which saw them as high as third place in October, Hull City won just 1 of their", "id": "1311754" }, { "contents": "1996 FA Charity Shield\n\n\nfrom Eric Cantona, Nicky Butt, David Beckham and Roy Keane. The game saw new signings Jordi Cruyff and Karel Poborský make their debuts for Manchester United, though neither of these players had particularly successful careers at Old Trafford and both had left the club within four years. The day before the game had seen the surprise sale of one of Manchester United's longest serving players — Lee Sharpe. The game saw Newcastle United give a debut to £15 million world record signing Alan Shearer, who would remain at the club until", "id": "2797098" }, { "contents": "UEFA Euro 2016 knockout phase\n\n\nsection begin=g6 /section end=g6 / section begin=g7 /section end=g7 / The match has been described as one of England's worst defeats ever. Former footballer and Talksport presenter Stan Collymore, who was commentating on the game, panned the England team, reserving special criticism for goalkeeper Joe Hart and captain Wayne Rooney. Former England international and BBC Sport pundit Alan Shearer described it as the worst performance he had ever seen from an England team. The defeat was called England's most shocking since losing 1–0 to", "id": "11344909" }, { "contents": "Maurice E. Shearer\n\n\nApplication at Annapolis, Maryland, with classmates Holland Smith, Ralph S. Keyser and Andrew B. Drum. In July, Shearer sailed for duty to be the commander of the 35 man Marine detachment on Midway Island. In May 1908, he was selected for promotion to first lieutenant and to the rank of captain in June 1916. During World War I, forces under Major Shearer's command made an attack on Belleau Wood, finally clearing that forest of Germans. On 26 June 1918, he sent a now famous report: \"", "id": "8315540" }, { "contents": "Newcastle upon Tyne\n\n\nF.C. became Football League members in 1893. They have won four top division titles (the first in 1905 and the most recent in 1927), six FA Cups (the first in 1910 and the most recent in 1955) and the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup in 1969. They broke the world transfer record in 1996 by paying £15 million for Blackburn Rovers and England striker Alan Shearer, one of the most prolific goalscorers of that era. In 2017 Newcastle was the venue for the 2017 Freedom City festival. The 2017", "id": "20529704" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\ngame and came off the bench to score a penalty, helping Newcastle win the game 3–2. The match was a sell-out, and saw Shearer perform a lap of honour at the end with his family, with his young son notably covering his ears due to the volume of noise produced by the crowd in tribute. Shearer's international career began in 1990 when he was handed a callup to the England under-21 squad under Dave Sexton. During his time with the squad, he scored 13 times in 11 games, a", "id": "13592537" }, { "contents": "2011–12 Cardiff City F.C. season\n\n\nserving manager in the Championship having held his post since May 2005. The club held talks with former England and Newcastle United captain Alan Shearer to replace Jones but he rejected the job despite stating that he was impressed with the \"vision, ambition and determination of the owner Dato Chan Tien Ghee and the board\". The \"Bluebirds\" instead approached Championship rivals Watford for permission to speak to their manager Malky Mackay, which was initially rejected. However, after the two clubs agreed a compensation fee, Mackay was officially appointed as", "id": "7599659" }, { "contents": "Kevin Keegan\n\n\nto Michael Owen, stating, \"He's not scared to give his opinion when he's right, and he's not scared to say what he feels. He's a tremendous professional, and he trains properly every day.\" Keegan announced on 22 January that he and Alan Shearer held talks about the two linking up with Shearer as his assistant, but decided against the idea, leaving the door open for him to take other roles he was interested in. Keegan's first eight games back at Newcastle passed without a", "id": "826473" }, { "contents": "Transfer (association football)\n\n\n£3.6 million Alan Shearer moved to Blackburn Rovers from Southampton, a decade after the world's first £3 million transfer. Lentini's transfer remained intact the world record fee for the next four years, although the national record was broken more than once in many countries including England. Shearer's £3.6million record fee was narrowly eclipsed 12 months later when Manchester United signed Roy Keane from Nottingham Forest for £3.75 million. In 1994, Blackburn Rovers paid a record £5 million for Chris Sutton from Norwich City, a decade", "id": "11200095" }, { "contents": "Roy Hodgson\n\n\nagainst Costa Rica to finish bottom of Group D. Hodgson named Rooney as the new captain of England in August 2014, following the retirement of Steven Gerrard from international football. Hodgson's first match after the World Cup was a 1–0 win against Norway in an international friendly match at Wembley on 3 September 2014. During the match, England made only two shots on target. Hodgson was infuriated when asked about this, describing the statistic as \"fucking bollocks\". Former England player, Alan Shearer, admitted that the match was so", "id": "12858624" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nto the season. The animosity between Shearer and Gullit was later confirmed by the latter, who reported telling the striker that he was \"...the most overrated player I have ever seen.\" Ironically, Robson had tried to sign Shearer for Barcelona in 1997, making a bid of £20million which would have seen Shearer break the world's transfer fee record for the second time in 12 months. However, then Newcastle manager Kenny Dalglish rejected the offer. In Robson's first match in charge, Shearer scored five goals in", "id": "13592526" }, { "contents": "Premier League 10 Seasons Awards\n\n\nin his talks with Alex Ferguson, he could not guarantee that Eric Cantona the Overseas Player of the Decade could be persuaded to let Shearer take penalty kicks. Shearer gained a second PFA Players' Player of the Year Award in April 1997, becoming just the second player to have received the PFA award twice, after Mark Hughes. After the 2000 European Championships, Shearer had retired from international football with England, having been England captain since 1998, and having made his senior début in 1992. Shearer was awarded the OBE in", "id": "11856465" }, { "contents": "Emile Heskey\n\n\nthe two matches, with former England international Alan Shearer commenting, \"Never in a million years did I expect to be discussing whether Emile Heskey should keep his place ahead of Wayne Rooney but the Wigan striker was outstanding over both matches.\" Heskey was called into manager Fabio Capello's first squad against Switzerland, but had to withdraw due to an injury. He was called into the squad for a friendly against the Czech Republic in August 2008 and came on as a 46th-minute substitute, in a match that finished 2–2", "id": "174986" }, { "contents": "Habib Beye\n\n\nUEFA Cup Final, a run which involved him putting in a star performance as a central defender against (his now former team) Newcastle United, where he was particularly effective against Newcastle's talisman striker Alan Shearer. He ended up on the losing side as Marseille lost the final to Valencia 2–0. He was also a beaten finalist in the 2006 French Cup against former club Paris Saint-Germain, a match which his team lost 2–1, and again in 2007 when his Marseille team lost on penalties to FC Sochaux. His", "id": "16217445" }, { "contents": "Stan Collymore\n\n\nseason in the Premier League, Collymore was called up to Terry Venables' England squad for the Umbro Cup in June 1995. He made his début at Wembley Stadium against Japan, partnering Alan Shearer in a 2–1 win. He won his second cap as a 90th minute substitute against Brazil. Collymore made his third and final appearance for England as a substitute in a 4–0 win over Moldova during qualification for the 1998 FIFA World Cup. Collymore contributed to his biography \"Stan: Tackling my demons\" with Oliver Holt. In 2005", "id": "3955590" }, { "contents": "Graeme Souness\n\n\nAt £8.2 million, Boumsong was his first big signing and Souness said he would replace Jonathan Woodgate in the Newcastle defence, which had conceded several leads earlier in the season. Newcastle were well aware of Boumsong prior to his move from Auxerre to Rangers on a free transfer. Robson had travelled to France to watch him, but he declined the opportunity to sign Boumsong. Liverpool were also interested in signing Boumsong. Robson's doubts were confirmed when Boumsong marked Alan Shearer in a pre-season game against Rangers. Shearer came", "id": "18029254" }, { "contents": "Saido Berahino\n\n\nrate of a goal every other match, including three to help the team qualify for the European Championship. Berahino has the all-time third-highest goal tally for the England under-21 side with 10 goals in 13 appearances, behind Francis Jeffers and Alan Shearer. On 6 November 2014, England manager Roy Hodgson – who promoted Berahino to the West Bromwich Albion first team in 2011 – named Berahino in his squad for the first time, ahead of a UEFA Euro 2016 qualifying match against Slovenia at Wembley Stadium on the 15th and", "id": "1000466" } ]

[ { "contents": "Tony Adams\n\n\n\"I have some resentment over the way Glenn Hoddle gave the captaincy to Alan Shearer instead of me but I can let that go. I reacted positively. I disagreed with him [Hoddle] and he thought Alan could get more penalties being a centre forward. People know my reaction to that\". Adams continued to play for the national side, however and he finally appeared in a World Cup finals in 1998. His international swansong was England's unsuccessful Euro 2000 campaign. With Shearer retiring from international football after the tournament", "id": "6104102" }, { "contents": "Tony Adams\n\n\nin defence, and after the retirement of Gary Lineker in 1992, Adams unofficially shared the captaincy of England with David Platt, though Adams became England captain outright before Euro 96, as Platt's place in the side became less secure. England reached the semi-finals of Euro 96, before losing on penalties to Germany. When England manager Glenn Hoddle took the Captain's armband from Adams and gave it to Alan Shearer it was a bitter pill for Adams to swallow. Speaking at a fans' forum in 2008 Adams remarked", "id": "6104101" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nThis time, Germany won from the spot; although Shearer scored, his teammate Gareth Southgate missed his kick and England were eliminated. Shearer's five goals made him the competition's top scorer, and together with teammates David Seaman and Steve McManaman, was listed in the official UEFA team of the tournament. The new England manager Glenn Hoddle appointed Shearer captain for the 1998 FIFA World Cup qualifier against Moldova on 1 September 1996, and the player held onto the captaincy after scoring once in that match and twice in the following game", "id": "13592541" }, { "contents": "Dimitar Berbatov\n\n\nhe consequently modelled himself after Marco van Basten, the Dutch forward for that team. However, the 1996 European Championship, held in England, gave Berbatov a new role model; the 15-year-old Berbatov began to look up to the English front man Alan Shearer, who played for Newcastle United. Berbatov's mother later spoke of her son's teenage dream of playing for Newcastle United, and said that his admiration for Shearer was such that, during these years, he slept in a Newcastle shirt. Berbatov began his youth", "id": "3905446" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\n's participation in what was to be Shearer's only World Cup tournament. In September 1999, Shearer scored his only England hat-trick in a UEFA Euro 2000 qualifier against Luxembourg. This helped England reach a play-off against Scotland; England won the game over two legs and in doing so qualified for the European Championships. By now, Shearer was approaching his 30th birthday, and he announced that he intended to retire from international football after the Euro 2000 tournament. Shearer did not score in England's opening 3–2 defeat", "id": "13592544" }, { "contents": "Southampton F.C.\n\n\nwas Alan Shearer, who at the age of 17 scored a hat-trick against Arsenal in a league match in April 1988. Shearer was a first team regular by 1990, and stayed with Southampton until July 1992, when he was sold to Blackburn Rovers for a national record of more than £3 million. He then became the most expensive footballer in the world when Blackburn sold him to Newcastle for £15 million in 1996. He also scored 30 times for England internationally. Southampton were founding members of the Premier League", "id": "3265953" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\ntime to play in England's UEFA European Championship campaign. After Euro 96, Manchester United again sought to sign Shearer, and attempted to enter the battle for his signature. However Manchester United chairman Martin Edwards stated that Blackburn Rovers refused to let Shearer go to Old Trafford. Ultimately Shearer joined his boyhood club: Newcastle United, Manchester United's title rivals. On 30 July 1996, for a world transfer record-breaking £15 million (equivalent to £ million today) Shearer joined his hometown club and league runners-up", "id": "13592519" }, { "contents": "History of the England national football team\n\n\nyear after his last game at club level. Hoddle selected Alan Shearer as captain, replacing Tony Adams, but also brought a number of emerging talents into the squad, including the Manchester United midfield trio of Paul Scholes, Nicky Butt and David Beckham, and central defenders Rio Ferdinand and Sol Campbell. Hoddle oversaw England's qualification for the 1998 World Cup (the first World Cup with 32 teams instead of 24) with a 0–0 draw against Italy at the Stadio Olimpico in Rome, and drew out a winning performance in the", "id": "15089406" }, { "contents": "History of the England national football team\n\n\nthe underwhelming performance at the World Cup, England suffered a poor start to the Euro 2000 qualifying tournament, and there was reported discontent between Hoddle and several senior players, most notably Shearer. Hoddle was dismissed on 2 February 1999, two days after an interview with \"The Sunday Times\" in which he spoke about his belief in reincarnation and claimed that disabled people were paying for sins in a previous life. Under considerable media and public pressure, the FA appointed former captain Kevin Keegan, who only just managed to get England", "id": "15089410" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nagainst Poland. He scored a total of five goals in England's successful qualification campaign for the World Cup, adding strikes against Georgia and away to Poland to his tally. Shearer was sidelined for much of the 1997–98 season, but recovered to play in the World Cup finals. With Michael Owen replacing Teddy Sheringham as Shearer's strike partner, Shearer's return saw him score England's first goal of the tournament, in a 2–0 win over Tunisia, his only goal in the three group matches. England faced long-time", "id": "13592542" }, { "contents": "Newcastle United F.C.\n\n\n. The attacking philosophy of Keegan led to the team being labelled \"The Entertainers\" by Sky Sports. Keegan took Newcastle to two consecutive runners-up finishes in the league in 1995–96 and 1996–97, coming very close to winning the title in the former season. This success was in part due to the talent of players like David Ginola, Les Ferdinand and Alan Shearer, who was signed on 30 July 1996 for a then world record fee of £15 million. Keegan left Newcastle in January 1997 and was replaced by Kenny", "id": "12636363" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nAlan Shearer, CBE, DL (born 13 August 1970) is an English retired footballer. He played as a striker in the top level of English league football for Southampton, Blackburn Rovers, Newcastle United and the England national team. He is Newcastle's and the Premier League's record goalscorer. He was named Football Writers' Association Player of the Year in 1994 and won the PFA Player of the Year award in 1995. In 1996, he was third in the FIFA World Player of the Year awards. In 2004", "id": "13592501" }, { "contents": "Teddy Sheringham\n\n\nmanager Terry Venables (1994–96) Sheringham came to be the preferred strike partner for Alan Shearer. During this time, England had a wealth of strikers with the likes of Andrew Cole, Ian Wright, a young Robbie Fowler and Les Ferdinand all battling to partner Shearer in the England team. The two formed a famous partnership at international level, as they complemented each other's strengths: Shearer the out-and-out goalscorer, big, strong and powerful, Sheringham just 'dropping off' his strike partner, finding spaces", "id": "2997066" }, { "contents": "History of Newcastle United F.C.\n\n\n's title chances for the 1994–95 season, in which they finished sixth. The club, however, continued to build up a reputation for playing attacking football under Keegan. In the 1995–96 season, high-profile foreign stars David Ginola and Faustino Asprilla, in addition to British players Peter Beardsley and striker Les Ferdinand, guided the team to a second-place finish. During the 1996–97 season, Keegan made one signing, securing the services of England striker Alan Shearer for a then-world record transfer fee of £15 million", "id": "6803863" }, { "contents": "1996–97 Newcastle United F.C. season\n\n\n...I think Kevin wanted it free-flowing in all departments and that doesn't necessarily happen.\" Keegan responded to the previous season's disappointment by breaking the world record transfer fee to sign centre forward Alan Shearer from Blackburn Rovers for £15 million. Shearer, whose five goals made him the top scorer in Euro 96, had supported Newcastle since childhood – he had been a ball-boy at St James' Park on the day that Keegan had left in a helicopter after his final Newcastle appearance as a player.", "id": "1207050" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nin the games.\" Shearer captained his school team and helped a Newcastle City Schools team win a seven-a-side tournament at St James' Park, before joining the amateur Wallsend Boys Club as a teenager. It was while playing for the Wallsend club that he was spotted by Southampton's scout, Jack Hixon, which resulted in Shearer spending his summers training with the club's youth team, a time he would later refer to as \"the making of me\". Shearer had successful trials for First Division clubs", "id": "13592505" }, { "contents": "Duncan Shearer\n\n\nFavourites\" during the club's centenary in 2008. However, he was unable to prevent Huddersfield's relegation to the Third Division at the end of the 1987–88 season. Weeks before this, the unrelated English striker Alan Shearer (aged 17) had scored a hat-trick in the First Division for Southampton against Arsenal, a game which Arsenal captain Tony Adams missed through injury. In his autobiography 11 years later, Adams said that he had followed the progress of the game on Ceefax and mistakingly believed that the Shearer who scored", "id": "3716405" }, { "contents": "David Hirst (footballer)\n\n\nHe came on at half-time and within three minutes of the restart he scored his first (and only) England goal. With Gary Lineker injured, he lined up with Alan Shearer against France at Wembley. Bryan Robson said that, \"It's not a question of who will replace Lineker, but who will partner David Hirst\". It became Hirst's third and final England match. Although he was selected for more England squads, injuries kept him out of the team. Manchester United boss Alex Ferguson tried six", "id": "18892949" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nthrough to May due to injury and England's World Cup qualification chances were hit by a run of poor form. Returning to fitness for the 1993–94 season, he scored 31 goals from 40 games as Blackburn finished runners-up in the Premier League. His performances for the club led to him being named the Football Writers' Association Footballer of the Year for that season. On the international scene, England had failed to qualify for the 1994 World Cup finals, but Shearer added three more goals to his international tally before embarking", "id": "13592514" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nfive points out of a possible twenty-four. Shearer did not get the manager's job on permanent basis. Chris Hughton stepped up from the coaching staff to take charge of the quest to get Newcastle back into the Premier League, which was achieved at the first attempt as Newcastle finished top of the Championship in the 2009–10 season. Shearer is married to Lainya, whom he met whilst a Southampton player. The couple lived locally with her parents during Shearer's second year at the south coast club, and were married on", "id": "13592557" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nagainst Portugal, but did so as England defeated Germany 1–0 in Charleroi, ensuring that England beat their European neighbours for the first time since the 1966 World Cup Final. To remain in the tournament, England only required a draw against Romania in the final group match, and Shearer scored a penalty as England went in at half-time 2–1 up, but Romania ultimately won 3–2. England's tournament was over, and so was Shearer's international career. From his 63 caps, he captained the team 34 times and scored", "id": "13592545" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nrecord return which is still unbeaten. The striker's goals at this level, coupled with his club form, meant he was soon promoted to the senior squad by coach Graham Taylor. Marking his debut in the 2–0 win against France in February 1992 with a goal, he made his only appearance for the England B team a month later. Due to replace Gary Lineker, who retired from international action after UEFA Euro 1992, in the England attack, Shearer played only intermittently in the qualifying campaign for the 1994 FIFA World Cup", "id": "13592538" }, { "contents": "1993 Trans-Tasman Test series\n\n\n's Canberra Raiders team mate and New South Wales captain Laurie Daley. The test series took place following the 1993 State of Origin series which was won by NSW. Dale Shearer's performances at fullback for Qld saw him earn a test recall in front of well performed World Cup and NSW fullback Tim Brasher (though Shearer had been selected at centre for all 3 Ashes series tests in 1992 but withdrew from all 3 with injury). Bradley Clyde, who had not played in the Origin series due to injury was also recalled to", "id": "16616631" }, { "contents": "Glenn Hoddle\n\n\nRedknapp resigned, following which Hoddle also left the club. In June 2016, after England's 2–1 loss to Iceland at Euro 2016 and manager Roy Hodgson's subsequent resignation, Harry Redknapp and Alan Shearer both put forward Hoddle as a candidate for the job before Sam Allardyce was appointed. Hoddle has done punditry work since his retirement from coaching. He has worked for ESPN, ITV Sport and BT Sport. Hoddle began working with ESPN during Euro 2012 as a pundit. Since then, he has worked with ITV for the 2014", "id": "8847620" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nhim onto the pitch following the striker's testimonial in May 2006 as he performed a lap of honour at St James' Park. On 6 December 2000, Shearer was given Honorary Freedom of the City of Newcastle upon Tyne, with the citation \"in recognition of his role as captain of Newcastle United Football Club and as former captain of England which have enhanced the reputation of the City\". Shearer was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2001 Queen's Birthday Honours and Commander of the", "id": "13592559" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nhis four years in the Southampton first team, Shearer made a total of 158 appearances in all competitions, scoring 43 goals. Despite making just one goalless appearance as England failed to progress past the Euro 1992 group stages, Shearer was soon subject to an English transfer record-breaking £3.6 million bid from Blackburn Rovers. Although there was also interest from Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson, Blackburn benefactor Jack Walker's millions were enough to prise the striker from the \"Saints\", and Shearer moved north to Ewood Park in the", "id": "13592512" }, { "contents": "Andy Cole\n\n\nof the season to help United win the Premier League title for the third time in four years. He also played in their FA Cup final victory to become part of England's first ever side to win the double twice. Before the 1996–97 season began, Cole had to deal with being offered to Blackburn Rovers as part-exchange in a £12 million deal that would have brought Alan Shearer to Old Trafford, but the offer was rejected and Shearer joined Newcastle instead. Despite Alex Ferguson's clear indication to Cole that he", "id": "9629547" }, { "contents": "Shearer's Bar\n\n\nShearer's Bar is the former name of a sports bar owned by Newcastle United and forming part of St James' Park, the team's stadium in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. It was named in honour of the club's all-time top scorer, Alan Shearer. The bar was renamed Nine in July 2013 by the club, who said that popularity of the venue had \"dwindled\". The bar was opened in December 2004 and became an important part of the features at St James' Park. It is", "id": "15298144" }, { "contents": "Kevin Keegan\n\n\nrelationship between the pair. In April 2003, it was named as Quote of the Decade in the Premier League 10 Seasons Awards and Most Memorable Quote in the 20 Seasons Awards in May 2012. It also appeared in Channel 4's \"100 Greatest Sporting Moments\". Keegan then broke the world transfer fee record by signing Blackburn Rovers and England striker Alan Shearer in July 1996. Shearer, who had been the Premier League's top scorer in the last two seasons, was born in Newcastle and had grown up as a fan", "id": "826455" }, { "contents": "England national football team\n\n\nBetween 1994 and 1996, Terry Venables managed the team. At UEFA Euro 1996, held in England, they equalled their best performance at a European Championship, reaching the semi-finals as they did in 1968, before exiting via a penalty shoot-out loss to Germany. England striker Alan Shearer was the tournament's top scorer with five goals. Venables resigned following investigations into his financial activities. Venables' successor, Glenn Hoddle, similarly left the job for non-footballing reasons after just one international tournament – the 1998", "id": "9748695" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nmiddle of 1992. His first season with Blackburn was mixed – he missed half of it through injury after snapping his right anterior cruciate ligament in a match against Leeds United in December 1992, but scored a prolific 16 goals in the 21 games in which he did feature. Shearer also became a regular in the England team this season and scored his second international goal; it came in a 4–0 1994 FIFA World Cup qualifier win over Turkey in November. The season ended sourly, however, as Shearer was forced to miss January", "id": "13592513" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nover from head coach Chris Hughton who was in temporary charge while the permanent manager Joe Kinnear recovered from heart surgery, having taken ill on 7 February. Shearer stated \"It's a club I love and I don't want them to go down. I'll do everything I can to stop that.\" Shearer was unveiled at a press conference the following day by club managing director Derek Llambias. In explaining his acceptance of a managerial role at Newcastle at this time, Shearer stated that he would not have done this for", "id": "13592552" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nwas being run in the wake of the departure of Kevin Keegan. These reports were denied by the club. Shearer features in EA Sports' \"FIFA\" video game series; he was included in the \"FIFA 15\" Ultimate Team Legends. During his playing days, Shearer had been involved with the children's charity the NSPCC, taking part in the organisation's Full Stop campaign in 1999. Since retiring from football Shearer has also done work for several charities both nationally and in the Newcastle area. In his testimonial match", "id": "13592565" }, { "contents": "2005–06 Newcastle United F.C. season\n\n\n. The fee, £17 million, surpassed Newcastle's previous record of £15 million for Alan Shearer from Blackburn in 1996. In the closing hours of the transfer window, the club re-signed Nolberto Solano from Aston Villa. Souness's decision to pair Shearer and Owen together up front proved to be lethal, but Owen broke his fourth metatarsal bone in his foot after a clash with Paul Robinson in a match against Tottenham Hotspur, keeping him out for the rest of the season. With Owen injured the team's", "id": "18086094" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\ndue to injury and the team failed to reach the competition finals. UEFA Euro 1996 was a more positive experience for both Shearer and England. With England not required to qualify as hosts, Shearer had not scored in 12 games in the 21 months prior, and even his overall goalscoring record for England did not look too impressive so far, with five goals in 23 games. However, he found the net in the 22nd minute of the first game, against Switzerland. Scoring once in the following game against Scotland and twice", "id": "13592539" }, { "contents": "Teddy Sheringham\n\n\nthe 2000 European Championships by then manager Kevin Keegan, but the retirement of Shearer (despite being four years younger than Sheringham) from international football after that tournament and the arrival of new manager Sven-Göran Eriksson in 2001 saw a return to international favour for him. He was often deployed as a tactical substitute late in games by Eriksson, valued for his ability to hold the ball up and create intelligent play. In 2001, Sheringham scored an important goal for England against Greece in a World Cup qualifying match within 15 seconds", "id": "2997070" }, { "contents": "Ruud Gullit\n\n\n, chairman Ken Bates famously said of Gullit, \"I didn't like his arrogance – in fact I never liked him.\" In August 1998, Gullit was named manager of Newcastle United two games into the new league season and reached the 1999 FA Cup Final in his first year. Fans remained supportive despite a poor run of results, although a well-publicised contretemps with the team's top scorer Alan Shearer and captain Robert Lee did not put him in a favourable light. Gullit even refused to assign Lee a squad", "id": "13592616" }, { "contents": "Scott Parker\n\n\ndefeat on 25 March 2006. Later that month he was diagnosed with glandular fever, putting an end to his season. The timing was especially unfortunate for Parker, who had been playing well for Newcastle, as it ended any hopes he may have had of forcing his way into the 2006 FIFA World Cup. In July 2006, he was named Newcastle United's new captain by manager Glenn Roeder, succeeding the retired Alan Shearer. His first goal as captain came against Wigan Athletic on 19 August 2006, in a 2–1 win", "id": "14327157" }, { "contents": "History of football in England\n\n\n. United's main challengers for the title in the Premier League's first few years were Blackburn Rovers, led by star striker Alan Shearer, also won their first league title since World War I in 1994–95, and Newcastle United, who famously conceded a 10-point lead at Christmas to lose the title to United in 1995–96. Newcastle had reached the Premiership in 1993 as Division One champions, and in their first Premiership campaign finished third to qualify for the UEFA Cup. They finished second in 1996 and again in 1997, but by", "id": "3652862" }, { "contents": "1992–93 FA Premier League\n\n\nPremier League as an attempt by the Football Association to \"hijack\" the First Division. Shortly before the season began, newly promoted Blackburn Rovers signed Southampton's 21-year-old England international striker Alan Shearer for a new British record fee variously reported as £3.3 million, £3.4 million, or £3.6 million. Several other players moved for fees of £2 million or more, including Arsenal's David Rocastle, who joined Leeds United, Dean Saunders, who moved from Liverpool to Aston Villa, and Teddy Sheringham, who", "id": "12442383" }, { "contents": "Darren Anderton\n\n\nhappy at the prospect of losing another key player as he had already lost Jürgen Klinsmann and Gheorghe Popescu that summer; and Nick Barmby was on the verge of joining Middlesbrough. Despite missing most of the 1995–96 season through injury, Anderton played an important part in the Euro 96 England team that reached the semi-finals and included players like Paul Gascoigne, Alan Shearer, Steve McManaman and Teddy Sheringham. In the semi final against Germany, the match went to golden goal extra time. Anderton came within inches of putting England into", "id": "4331581" }, { "contents": "Wallsend Boys Club\n\n\nJanuary which damaged one of the walls of the building. Professional players to have played for the club include: The club has had a representative at four of the six FIFA World Cup finals since 1986, with the two exceptions coming in 1994, when the England national football team did not qualify, and 2002. In 1986 and 1990 Peter Beardsley starred for England. In 1998 Alan Shearer was England captain. Michael Carrick made appearances for England in both the 2006 and 2010 tournaments. Fraser Forster was in the 2014 squad but", "id": "21182372" }, { "contents": "Harry Kane\n\n\n\". Clive Allen, who coached him at Tottenham, stated that \"one thing I'd say about him, which unfortunately you don't say about a lot of young footballers, is that he had a passion for the game. He loves football, he loves playing, he loves scoring goals\". His former Tottenham under-21 coach Les Ferdinand likened Kane's movement to their former forward Teddy Sheringham, and the power and accuracy of his shots to Alan Shearer. Kane's style of play has been compared to that of", "id": "1925319" }, { "contents": "Kieron Dyer\n\n\nthat he would soon rejoin for Ipswich. After representing England at Youth, Under 21 and \"B\" level, Dyer's debut for the senior team came on 4 September 1999 when he started in England's 6–0 win against Luxembourg. He was deployed out of position at right back, and was replaced by Gary Neville at half-time after injuring himself while setting up Alan Shearer's third goal of the match. The injury was not serious and he was able to make his second England appearance four days later, coming", "id": "17666181" }, { "contents": "1996–97 Blackburn Rovers F.C. season\n\n\nthe end of the season, when he handed over the reins to Roy Hodgson after Sampdoria's Sven-Göran Eriksson lied about accepting the manager's job and joined Lazio instead. Parkes steered Blackburn to safety as they finished 13th. The world record £15 million sale of striker Alan Shearer to Newcastle United was seen as the biggest factor in Blackburn's lowest top flight finish since they returned to the elite in 1992. However, his strike-partner Chris Sutton helped keep the club alive after recovering from a drastic loss of", "id": "7811146" }, { "contents": "Michael Owen\n\n\nmuch of the campaign as England struggled, with Hoddle being replaced by Kevin Keegan. On 4 September 1999, he scored his first goal at Wembley Stadium in a 6–0 win over Luxembourg. At the finals, Owen scored once in three matches, as England were knocked out at the group stage. After Alan Shearer's retirement, Owen took over as England's senior striker under new manager Sven-Göran Eriksson. He scored six times during 2002 World Cup qualifying, including a hat-trick against Germany at Munich's Olympiastadion", "id": "21886807" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nyet to start the UEFA Pro Licence course, which is required to be permitted to manage a team in the Premier League and European competition. Reflecting his desire for personal time off to \"enjoy life\", in July 2006 he turned down a coaching role with England, citing his BBC commitments and desire to be away from the pressure of a job within football. Despite this, Shearer was often linked in the media with managerial or coaching positions at his three former clubs. Shearer took a brief role in the dugout for", "id": "13592550" }, { "contents": "History of Southampton F.C.\n\n\nappearances for the England national team – he finally retired in 2002 at the age of 33. During his time with the Saints, Le Tissier was approached more than once by several bigger clubs (including Manchester United) but chose to stick with the Saints despite never winning a major trophy or experiencing European football with them. From 1989 to 1992, Le Tissier was regularly partnered up front by another notable player, Alan Shearer, who as a 17-year-old had scored a hat-trick on his Saints debut against Arsenal in", "id": "15948278" }, { "contents": "Sir Bobby Robson Trophy match\n\n\nNewcastle United, picking up on Alan Shearer's reply of \"I know as much as you do,\" to a pre-match question as to whether he would be installed as Newcastle manager for the forthcoming season beginning in 13 days, with the club being up for sale and with the first team without a manager, being in the care of coach Chris Hughton. Neither the Newcastle United owner Mike Ashley or managing director Derek Llambias were in attendance at the charity match. Having left England after Italia '90, Sir", "id": "19612022" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nChancellor Liam Donaldson stated \"Newcastle United are my team. Alan Shearer is more than just a local legend, he's probably one of the greatest footballers of all time\". On 12 September 2016, a statue of Shearer's likeness was unveiled outside St James' Park. It was sculpted by Tom Maley, and paid for by the Shepherd family. After his retirement and following guest appearances, Shearer became a regular pundit for the BBC's \"Match of the Day\". He also formed part of the team which", "id": "13592563" }, { "contents": "Gary McAllister\n\n\ntournament, scoring in a 3–0 win over the CIS. However, Scotland did not qualify from their group. Scotland failed to qualify for the 1994 FIFA World Cup but did qualify for UEFA Euro 1996 in England, with McAllister the captain of the team. Scotland's second match of the group stage was against England at Wembley Stadium. In the second half Scotland, trailing 0–1 to an Alan Shearer goal, were awarded a penalty. McAllister's kick was saved by David Seaman and Scotland lost 0–2. The team won their", "id": "19492391" }, { "contents": "David Seaman\n\n\nEngland's quarter-final against Spain ended scoreless, Seaman saved Miguel Angel Nadal's kick in the shootout to knock Spain out of the tournament. England eventually were eliminated in the semi-final by Germany on penalties,after Andreas Köpke saved the penalty taken by Gareth Southgate. Seaman was named alongside Golden Boot winner Alan Shearer and winger Steve McManaman in the UEFA \"Team of the Tournament\". Euro 96 sponsor Philips named him \"Player of the Tournament\". Seaman remained first choice under the management of Glenn Hoddle for", "id": "7321893" }, { "contents": "1998 FA Cup Final\n\n\nand so has the mixture between the foreign and English players.\" Wenger reserved praise for the goalscorers Overmars (\"a world-class player\") and Anelka (\"Nicolas is very young. But you saw in the second half today what he can do\"), and felt the turning point in the match was Shearer's shot hitting the post. He sympathised with Newcastle, as did his captain, Adams who said afterwards: \"The team and their fans did everything they could out there, but it was", "id": "10844688" }, { "contents": "David McMahon (association footballer)\n\n\nabout the role of striker from watching England international Alan Shearer in training, but likened himself more to Newcastle's Scotland international Duncan Ferguson, \"because I am taller and like to battle for things in the air.\" Brian Kerr, then manager of Ireland under-17s, described McMahon as honest and hard-working, \"not the most skilful player, but will get goals\", but Darlington manager Gary Bennett believed there was more to his game: that he and strike partner John Williams both had enough skill to play a", "id": "5423888" }, { "contents": "Andy Carroll\n\n\nUEFA Euro 2012. He opened the scoring for England with a powerful header in their second group match against Sweden, which England went on to win 3–2. Carroll has been compared to Newcastle's record goalscorer Alan Shearer, Ivory Coast striker Didier Drogba and former Italy forward Christian Vieri. He has also been referred to as a classic centre forward, owing to his strength, powerful shot and excellent heading ability. Former Newcastle manager and Liverpool player Kevin Keegan stated \"he is probably in the top three headers of a ball I", "id": "11961542" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\n-chasing Manchester United. On the opening day of the 1999–2000 season, Shearer received the first red card of his career in his 100th appearance for Newcastle. After dropping Shearer to the bench in a Tyne-Wear derby loss against Sunderland, the unpopular Gullit resigned to be replaced by the 66-year-old Bobby Robson. Despite Gullit giving Shearer the captain's armband, reports of a rift between club captain and manager were rife, Gullit's decision to drop Shearer proved deeply unpopular with fans and his departure capped a dismal start", "id": "13592525" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nAn almost injury-free season helped Shearer improve on his previous year's tally in the 1998–99 season, the striker converting 14 goals in 30 league games and replacing Rob Lee as Newcastle captain, but Newcastle finished 13th again, with Ruud Gullit having replaced Kenny Dalglish just after the season got underway. He also helped Newcastle to a second consecutive FA Cup final and qualification for the following season's UEFA Cup, scoring twice in the semi-final against Tottenham Hotspur, but they once again lost, this time 2–0 to treble", "id": "13592524" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nhis final three games under Glenn Roeder. Shearer had rejected offers of coaching or assistant roles at Newcastle under both the returning Kevin Keegan in February 2008 and Joe Kinnear in November 2008. Shearer had previously had talks about, but never been offered, a full-time manager's role at Newcastle until his appointment on 1 April 2009. In a surprise move, late on 1 April 2009, it was announced that Shearer would become the manager of his former club Newcastle United for the remaining eight games of the season, taking", "id": "13592551" }, { "contents": "Fabio Cannavaro\n\n\nnational team on 22 January 1997, in a friendly match against Northern Ireland. The same year, he earned plaudits for his handling of England striker Alan Shearer in a World Cup qualifying game at Wembley Stadium. Shearer was then considered by the partisan English crowd to be the best striker in the world, and thought he would make fun of the inexperienced Italian defender. Nevertheless, in a display ranking alongside those of the very best Italian defenders Claudio Gentile and Franco Baresi, Cannavaro managed to keep Shearer quiet for the whole game", "id": "3625067" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\n, with media sources claiming that video footage showed him intentionally kicking Neil Lennon in the head following a challenge. The referee of the game took no action against Shearer, and he was then cleared of all charges by the FA, with Lennon giving evidence in the player's defence. Former Football Association chief Graham Kelly, who brought the charges against the player, later claimed in his autobiography that Shearer had threatened to withdraw himself from the 1998 World Cup squad if the charges were upheld, a claim strenuously denied by Shearer.", "id": "13592523" }, { "contents": "History of the Romania national football team\n\n\nminnows Tunisia. Adrian Ilie scored the only goal with a fine chip in their first match against Colombia at Lyon's Stade Gerland. In Toulouse, they met an England side starting with prodigal striker Michael Owen on the bench, with Teddy Sheringham preferred alongside Alan Shearer. A mistake by Tony Adams was punished by Viorel Moldovan, who played for Coventry City, before Owen came on to claim an equalizer. But Romania won with a scrappy late goal from Dan Petrescu, also playing in England with Chelsea, fighting off his club", "id": "16435718" }, { "contents": "John Barnes (footballer)\n\n\nNewcastle United, although an approach had already been made by Harry Redknapp of West Ham; Barnes had agreed in principle to join them until at the final moment Dalglish called him and Barnes changed his mind. In the 1997–98 season Barnes played up front mostly, deputising for Alan Shearer after Shearer was injured for most of the season, and Barnes ended up Newcastle's top league scorer with six goals, which highlighted the Magpies' lack of ability to score in the absence of Shearer and Ferdinand (who had been sold along with", "id": "19616669" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\ncould not find a more iconic person than Alan, not just for what he has done in football but for all the extra work he tirelessly does for charity and communities. I am delighted he has accepted the role of Deputy Lieutenant because he is a real role model. I have promised him he is not going to have to do too much, but even if it is just one occasion a year he is the perfect choice\" On 7 December 2009, Shearer was made a Doctor of Civil Law by Newcastle University.", "id": "13592562" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nLaw of Northumbria and Newcastle Universities. Shearer was born in Gosforth, Newcastle, in 1970 to working-class parents Alan and Anne Shearer. His father, a sheet-metal worker, encouraged a keen Shearer to play football in his youth, and the young player continued with the sport as he progressed through school. He was educated at Gosforth Central Middle School and Gosforth High School. Growing up playing on the streets of his hometown, he originally played in midfield because \"it meant [he] could get more involved", "id": "13592504" }, { "contents": "Paul Kitson\n\n\n. Newcastle finished second that season after being overhauled in the second half campaign by a Manchester United side who sealed the title by a five-point margin barely four months after Newcastle had led by 10 points, but Kitson's part in Newcastle's exciting though ultimately disappointing campaign had been minimal as he had played just seven league games and scored twice. But he remained loyal to the Magpies even after another blow at the end of July 1996 – the arrival of £15 million world record signing Alan Shearer. He managed three", "id": "19054464" }, { "contents": "Ray Harford\n\n\nthe Premier League for much of the season. During the summer of 1996, Alan Shearer was sold to Newcastle United for a then world record fee of £15 million, and Harford failed to adequately replace him. Harford stated that \"I'm told we need a big name. Engelbert Humperdinck is a big name but it doesn't mean he can play football.\" The 1996–97 season also started badly for Blackburn. They failed to win any of their first ten games and were knocked out of the League Cup by Division", "id": "5365351" }, { "contents": "Patrick Kluivert\n\n\nagain featured for Barca in a legends game against Uganda all stars where he, in lobbing the ball, scored an amazing goal. Kluivert joined Newcastle United on a free transfer in July 2004. He stated that his reasons for joining Newcastle was due to the overwhelming reaction he received whilst playing for Barcelona against Newcastle during a pre season friendly as well as teaming up with Newcastle's star players such as Alan Shearer. Kluivert scored some classy and crucial goals at and away from St James's Park namely in winning strikes against both", "id": "21654890" }, { "contents": "Duncan Shearer\n\n\nbetween 1994 and 1995, scoring two goals including an important opening strike in an away win over Finland which helped the national side qualify for Euro 96, although Shearer did not make the squad for that tournament. The senior team was his first experience of international football, having never played at any age-group level. He achieved a childhood ambition when he played in the national team alongside John McGinlay, a childhood friend also from Fort William. In season 1999–00 he began to concentrate more on coaching than playing, and was", "id": "3716411" }, { "contents": "Les Ferdinand\n\n\nscored 50 goals in only 84 games at Newcastle, forming a successful partnership with Alan Shearer. He was and indeed is still very highly thought of by Newcastle United. Ferdinand received a standing ovation when he returned to St. James' Park as a Tottenham player, trying to put Alan Shearer's number 9 shirt on to complete a lap of honour, he broke down in tears and could only manage to put the shirt on inside out and back to front before being helped from the field. Ferdinand returned again, when he", "id": "2996528" }, { "contents": "David Platt (footballer)\n\n\nTurkey, San Marino, the Netherlands and Norway. The qualifiers began at home to Norway. England dominated the game and Platt carried the goal threat, with Alan Shearer and Ian Wright struggling to find form. He scored the opening goal after an hour. England dominated the remainder of the game and were unlucky to concede to a long-range shot from Kjetil Rekdal. Platt continued his drive from midfield in wins over Turkey at home (4-0) and San Marino (6-0). Platt scored four", "id": "16718350" }, { "contents": "Jason Wilcox\n\n\n-pound investments of Jack Walker. He played an important part in the title-winning Blackburn team of 1995. Playing on the left flank with attacking fullback Graeme Le Saux behind him and Stuart Ripley on the opposite flank, they forged a strong attacking line-up with Alan Shearer and Chris Sutton. International recognition was harder to come by for Wilcox and he managed only 3 international caps despite his effective partnership with Shearer, Le Saux and Tim Sherwood. Lengthy injury problems restricted his effectiveness in subsequent seasons and, after experiencing", "id": "14527253" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nclub's form, and Newcastle finished just 13th in the Premier League. However, United (now managed by Shearer's old boss at Blackburn, Kenny Dalglish) had a good run in the FA Cup; Shearer scored the winning goal in a semi-final victory over Sheffield United as the team reached the final. The team were unable to get on the scoresheet at Wembley, and lost the game 2–0 to Arsenal. An incident during a game against Leicester City in the league saw Shearer charged with misconduct by the FA", "id": "13592522" }, { "contents": "Aleksandar Mitrović (footballer)\n\n\nhim the competition's top scorer, and 28 in all competitions. On 22 March 2015, he scored the team's only goal in the 2–1 Belgian Cup Final loss to Club Brugge KV in Brussels. On 21 July 2015, Mitrović joined Newcastle United on a five-year contract for a reported £13 million, saying he hoped to be able to play like club legend Alan Shearer. He made his debut on 9 August as Newcastle began the season with a 2–2 draw against Southampton at St James' Park, playing", "id": "20923735" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nWest Bromwich Albion, Manchester City and Newcastle United, before being offered a youth contract with Southampton in April 1986. Shearer was promoted to the first team after spending two years with the youth squad. He made his professional debut for Southampton on 26 March 1988, coming on as a substitute in a First Division fixture at Chelsea, before prompting national headlines in his full debut at The Dell two weeks later. He scored a hat-trick, helping the team to a 4–2 victory against Arsenal, thus becoming the youngest player", "id": "13592506" }, { "contents": "James Milner\n\n\ndo what was \"in the club's best interest\" and in July 2004, he agreed a five-year contract with Newcastle. Milner made his first appearance for Newcastle United during their pre-season tour of Asia, scoring his first goal for the club in a 1–1 draw against Kitchee, in Hong Kong. During this tour, he took the opportunity to observe how Newcastle striker Alan Shearer dealt with attention from fans and the media. He said that his association with people like Shearer gave him a better idea of", "id": "1860603" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nretain the ball and provide opportunities for teammates. Playing as a lone striker between wide men, Rod Wallace and Matt Le Tissier, Shearer scored three goals in 26 appearances in the 1989–90 season, and in the next, four goals in 36 games. His performances in the centre of the \"Saints\" attack were soon recognised by the fans, who voted him their Player of the Year for 1991. In the middle of 1991, Shearer was a member of the England national under-21 football squad in the Toulon Tournament in Toulon", "id": "13592508" }, { "contents": "Teddy Sheringham\n\n\n, creating play and providing key passes, forming the link between Shearer and the England midfield. The pairing came to be known as 'The SAS' ('Shearer and Sheringham') and their most successful time together came in the 1996 European Championships, held in England. Their most famous contribution was in the 4–1 victory over the Netherlands, a game in the opening group stages in which they both scored twice against one of the strongest teams in the tournament. Though England were eventually knocked out in the semi-finals", "id": "2997067" }, { "contents": "History of the England national football team\n\n\ninto Euro 2000 after a 2–1 aggregate playoff win over Scotland. At the finals in Belgium and the Netherlands, a lacklustre England failed to get beyond the group stage, losing to both Portugal and Romania after leading in each game. After England's exit, Alan Shearer retired from international football, he had announced his intentions before the tournament, and no-one could persuade him to change his mind. On 7 October 2000, shortly after losing the opening World Cup qualifier to Germany in the last-ever game at Wembley", "id": "15089411" }, { "contents": "Premier League 10 Seasons Awards\n\n\nrepresented, with five players. The teams were as follows: English striker Alan Shearer was named Domestic Player of the Decade in the main 10 Seasons awards announcements, in addition to being given the Outstanding Contribution to the FA Premier League award. Two weeks later he was also named as the Overall Player of the Decade. In the first decade, Shearer played for Blackburn Rovers, and then Newcastle United. Shearer has been described as a classic English centre-forward with great shooting power, a single-minded striker who could", "id": "11856460" }, { "contents": "Wartime League\n\n\narguments debate that a player who exceeds one's record through their wartime matches should nonetheless be seen as the club's highest goal scorer or appearance having been part of the team's squad even if only for a short time. The most recent argument relates to the goal-difference between Jackie Milburn's and Alan Shearer's Newcastle United goal-scoring records. When counting Jackie's wartime matches, he scored a total of 238 professional goals for Newcastle United FC. In May 2005, Alan Shearer finished his career at 206 goals", "id": "17626256" }, { "contents": "Jon Dahl Tomasson\n\n\nas the perfect link-up player to England national team striker Alan Shearer. The partnership initially worked well, with Tomasson impressing during a pre-season friendly tournament in the Republic of Ireland. However, a career threatening injury to Shearer, combined with the controversial transfer of popular striker Les Ferdinand to Tottenham Hotspur, meant that Tomasson was moved from his traditional attacking midfield position to that of striker. He struggled to adapt to his new position on the field, and to the English game, due to his lack of physical", "id": "19324628" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\ncovered the World Cups and European Championships from 2006 onwards for the BBC. Former Newcastle chairman Freddy Shepherd announced that, after Shearer finished the 2005–06 season as Newcastle's caretaker assistant manager, he would become the club's \"Sporting Ambassador\" for the 2006–07 season. However, in September 2008, it was reported that Shearer was removed from this largely honorary position by the club's owner Mike Ashley, despite protests from players such as Steven Taylor and Damien Duff, due to Shearer's criticism of the way in which the club", "id": "13592564" }, { "contents": "1998 FA Cup Final\n\n\nthe final that Bergkamp had resumed training and \"medically he looked all right\", but the player received a further setback when he suffered a reaction to his hamstring. He ruled himself out of the match and told reporters: \"I'm very disappointed. As a little boy in Holland I always watched the FA Cup final. And I used to dream about playing in it myself one day.\" Ian Wright was listed as Bergkamp's probable replacement to partner Anelka. Newcastle had their own issues surrounding Shearer. The England", "id": "10844676" }, { "contents": "2008–09 in English football\n\n\n's surprise resignation in December; whilst their final points tally wasn't spectacular, they had the satisfaction of being the top North-East team in football after both Middlesbrough and Newcastle United were relegated, ending 11 and 16 year spells in the top flight respectively, the latter going through four managers in Kevin Keegan, Joe Kinnear, Chris Hughton and even former striker Alan Shearer during the campaign. Despite a brilliant start to the season which saw them as high as third place in October, Hull City won just 1 of their", "id": "1311754" }, { "contents": "1996 FA Charity Shield\n\n\nfrom Eric Cantona, Nicky Butt, David Beckham and Roy Keane. The game saw new signings Jordi Cruyff and Karel Poborský make their debuts for Manchester United, though neither of these players had particularly successful careers at Old Trafford and both had left the club within four years. The day before the game had seen the surprise sale of one of Manchester United's longest serving players — Lee Sharpe. The game saw Newcastle United give a debut to £15 million world record signing Alan Shearer, who would remain at the club until", "id": "2797098" }, { "contents": "UEFA Euro 2016 knockout phase\n\n\nsection begin=g6 /section end=g6 / section begin=g7 /section end=g7 / The match has been described as one of England's worst defeats ever. Former footballer and Talksport presenter Stan Collymore, who was commentating on the game, panned the England team, reserving special criticism for goalkeeper Joe Hart and captain Wayne Rooney. Former England international and BBC Sport pundit Alan Shearer described it as the worst performance he had ever seen from an England team. The defeat was called England's most shocking since losing 1–0 to", "id": "11344909" }, { "contents": "Maurice E. Shearer\n\n\nApplication at Annapolis, Maryland, with classmates Holland Smith, Ralph S. Keyser and Andrew B. Drum. In July, Shearer sailed for duty to be the commander of the 35 man Marine detachment on Midway Island. In May 1908, he was selected for promotion to first lieutenant and to the rank of captain in June 1916. During World War I, forces under Major Shearer's command made an attack on Belleau Wood, finally clearing that forest of Germans. On 26 June 1918, he sent a now famous report: \"", "id": "8315540" }, { "contents": "Newcastle upon Tyne\n\n\nF.C. became Football League members in 1893. They have won four top division titles (the first in 1905 and the most recent in 1927), six FA Cups (the first in 1910 and the most recent in 1955) and the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup in 1969. They broke the world transfer record in 1996 by paying £15 million for Blackburn Rovers and England striker Alan Shearer, one of the most prolific goalscorers of that era. In 2017 Newcastle was the venue for the 2017 Freedom City festival. The 2017", "id": "20529704" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\ngame and came off the bench to score a penalty, helping Newcastle win the game 3–2. The match was a sell-out, and saw Shearer perform a lap of honour at the end with his family, with his young son notably covering his ears due to the volume of noise produced by the crowd in tribute. Shearer's international career began in 1990 when he was handed a callup to the England under-21 squad under Dave Sexton. During his time with the squad, he scored 13 times in 11 games, a", "id": "13592537" }, { "contents": "2011–12 Cardiff City F.C. season\n\n\nserving manager in the Championship having held his post since May 2005. The club held talks with former England and Newcastle United captain Alan Shearer to replace Jones but he rejected the job despite stating that he was impressed with the \"vision, ambition and determination of the owner Dato Chan Tien Ghee and the board\". The \"Bluebirds\" instead approached Championship rivals Watford for permission to speak to their manager Malky Mackay, which was initially rejected. However, after the two clubs agreed a compensation fee, Mackay was officially appointed as", "id": "7599659" }, { "contents": "Kevin Keegan\n\n\nto Michael Owen, stating, \"He's not scared to give his opinion when he's right, and he's not scared to say what he feels. He's a tremendous professional, and he trains properly every day.\" Keegan announced on 22 January that he and Alan Shearer held talks about the two linking up with Shearer as his assistant, but decided against the idea, leaving the door open for him to take other roles he was interested in. Keegan's first eight games back at Newcastle passed without a", "id": "826473" }, { "contents": "Transfer (association football)\n\n\n£3.6 million Alan Shearer moved to Blackburn Rovers from Southampton, a decade after the world's first £3 million transfer. Lentini's transfer remained intact the world record fee for the next four years, although the national record was broken more than once in many countries including England. Shearer's £3.6million record fee was narrowly eclipsed 12 months later when Manchester United signed Roy Keane from Nottingham Forest for £3.75 million. In 1994, Blackburn Rovers paid a record £5 million for Chris Sutton from Norwich City, a decade", "id": "11200095" }, { "contents": "Roy Hodgson\n\n\nagainst Costa Rica to finish bottom of Group D. Hodgson named Rooney as the new captain of England in August 2014, following the retirement of Steven Gerrard from international football. Hodgson's first match after the World Cup was a 1–0 win against Norway in an international friendly match at Wembley on 3 September 2014. During the match, England made only two shots on target. Hodgson was infuriated when asked about this, describing the statistic as \"fucking bollocks\". Former England player, Alan Shearer, admitted that the match was so", "id": "12858624" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nto the season. The animosity between Shearer and Gullit was later confirmed by the latter, who reported telling the striker that he was \"...the most overrated player I have ever seen.\" Ironically, Robson had tried to sign Shearer for Barcelona in 1997, making a bid of £20million which would have seen Shearer break the world's transfer fee record for the second time in 12 months. However, then Newcastle manager Kenny Dalglish rejected the offer. In Robson's first match in charge, Shearer scored five goals in", "id": "13592526" }, { "contents": "Premier League 10 Seasons Awards\n\n\nin his talks with Alex Ferguson, he could not guarantee that Eric Cantona the Overseas Player of the Decade could be persuaded to let Shearer take penalty kicks. Shearer gained a second PFA Players' Player of the Year Award in April 1997, becoming just the second player to have received the PFA award twice, after Mark Hughes. After the 2000 European Championships, Shearer had retired from international football with England, having been England captain since 1998, and having made his senior début in 1992. Shearer was awarded the OBE in", "id": "11856465" }, { "contents": "Emile Heskey\n\n\nthe two matches, with former England international Alan Shearer commenting, \"Never in a million years did I expect to be discussing whether Emile Heskey should keep his place ahead of Wayne Rooney but the Wigan striker was outstanding over both matches.\" Heskey was called into manager Fabio Capello's first squad against Switzerland, but had to withdraw due to an injury. He was called into the squad for a friendly against the Czech Republic in August 2008 and came on as a 46th-minute substitute, in a match that finished 2–2", "id": "174986" }, { "contents": "Habib Beye\n\n\nUEFA Cup Final, a run which involved him putting in a star performance as a central defender against (his now former team) Newcastle United, where he was particularly effective against Newcastle's talisman striker Alan Shearer. He ended up on the losing side as Marseille lost the final to Valencia 2–0. He was also a beaten finalist in the 2006 French Cup against former club Paris Saint-Germain, a match which his team lost 2–1, and again in 2007 when his Marseille team lost on penalties to FC Sochaux. His", "id": "16217445" }, { "contents": "Stan Collymore\n\n\nseason in the Premier League, Collymore was called up to Terry Venables' England squad for the Umbro Cup in June 1995. He made his début at Wembley Stadium against Japan, partnering Alan Shearer in a 2–1 win. He won his second cap as a 90th minute substitute against Brazil. Collymore made his third and final appearance for England as a substitute in a 4–0 win over Moldova during qualification for the 1998 FIFA World Cup. Collymore contributed to his biography \"Stan: Tackling my demons\" with Oliver Holt. In 2005", "id": "3955590" }, { "contents": "Graeme Souness\n\n\nAt £8.2 million, Boumsong was his first big signing and Souness said he would replace Jonathan Woodgate in the Newcastle defence, which had conceded several leads earlier in the season. Newcastle were well aware of Boumsong prior to his move from Auxerre to Rangers on a free transfer. Robson had travelled to France to watch him, but he declined the opportunity to sign Boumsong. Liverpool were also interested in signing Boumsong. Robson's doubts were confirmed when Boumsong marked Alan Shearer in a pre-season game against Rangers. Shearer came", "id": "18029254" }, { "contents": "Saido Berahino\n\n\nrate of a goal every other match, including three to help the team qualify for the European Championship. Berahino has the all-time third-highest goal tally for the England under-21 side with 10 goals in 13 appearances, behind Francis Jeffers and Alan Shearer. On 6 November 2014, England manager Roy Hodgson – who promoted Berahino to the West Bromwich Albion first team in 2011 – named Berahino in his squad for the first time, ahead of a UEFA Euro 2016 qualifying match against Slovenia at Wembley Stadium on the 15th and", "id": "1000466" } ]

[ { "contents": "Tony Adams\n\n\n\"I have some resentment over the way Glenn Hoddle gave the captaincy to Alan Shearer instead of me but I can let that go. I reacted positively. I disagreed with him [Hoddle] and he thought Alan could get more penalties being a centre forward. People know my reaction to that\". Adams continued to play for the national side, however and he finally appeared in a World Cup finals in 1998. His international swansong was England's unsuccessful Euro 2000 campaign. With Shearer retiring from international football after the tournament", "id": "6104102" }, { "contents": "Tony Adams\n\n\nin defence, and after the retirement of Gary Lineker in 1992, Adams unofficially shared the captaincy of England with David Platt, though Adams became England captain outright before Euro 96, as Platt's place in the side became less secure. England reached the semi-finals of Euro 96, before losing on penalties to Germany. When England manager Glenn Hoddle took the Captain's armband from Adams and gave it to Alan Shearer it was a bitter pill for Adams to swallow. Speaking at a fans' forum in 2008 Adams remarked", "id": "6104101" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nThis time, Germany won from the spot; although Shearer scored, his teammate Gareth Southgate missed his kick and England were eliminated. Shearer's five goals made him the competition's top scorer, and together with teammates David Seaman and Steve McManaman, was listed in the official UEFA team of the tournament. The new England manager Glenn Hoddle appointed Shearer captain for the 1998 FIFA World Cup qualifier against Moldova on 1 September 1996, and the player held onto the captaincy after scoring once in that match and twice in the following game", "id": "13592541" }, { "contents": "Dimitar Berbatov\n\n\nhe consequently modelled himself after Marco van Basten, the Dutch forward for that team. However, the 1996 European Championship, held in England, gave Berbatov a new role model; the 15-year-old Berbatov began to look up to the English front man Alan Shearer, who played for Newcastle United. Berbatov's mother later spoke of her son's teenage dream of playing for Newcastle United, and said that his admiration for Shearer was such that, during these years, he slept in a Newcastle shirt. Berbatov began his youth", "id": "3905446" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\n's participation in what was to be Shearer's only World Cup tournament. In September 1999, Shearer scored his only England hat-trick in a UEFA Euro 2000 qualifier against Luxembourg. This helped England reach a play-off against Scotland; England won the game over two legs and in doing so qualified for the European Championships. By now, Shearer was approaching his 30th birthday, and he announced that he intended to retire from international football after the Euro 2000 tournament. Shearer did not score in England's opening 3–2 defeat", "id": "13592544" }, { "contents": "Southampton F.C.\n\n\nwas Alan Shearer, who at the age of 17 scored a hat-trick against Arsenal in a league match in April 1988. Shearer was a first team regular by 1990, and stayed with Southampton until July 1992, when he was sold to Blackburn Rovers for a national record of more than £3 million. He then became the most expensive footballer in the world when Blackburn sold him to Newcastle for £15 million in 1996. He also scored 30 times for England internationally. Southampton were founding members of the Premier League", "id": "3265953" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\ntime to play in England's UEFA European Championship campaign. After Euro 96, Manchester United again sought to sign Shearer, and attempted to enter the battle for his signature. However Manchester United chairman Martin Edwards stated that Blackburn Rovers refused to let Shearer go to Old Trafford. Ultimately Shearer joined his boyhood club: Newcastle United, Manchester United's title rivals. On 30 July 1996, for a world transfer record-breaking £15 million (equivalent to £ million today) Shearer joined his hometown club and league runners-up", "id": "13592519" }, { "contents": "History of the England national football team\n\n\nyear after his last game at club level. Hoddle selected Alan Shearer as captain, replacing Tony Adams, but also brought a number of emerging talents into the squad, including the Manchester United midfield trio of Paul Scholes, Nicky Butt and David Beckham, and central defenders Rio Ferdinand and Sol Campbell. Hoddle oversaw England's qualification for the 1998 World Cup (the first World Cup with 32 teams instead of 24) with a 0–0 draw against Italy at the Stadio Olimpico in Rome, and drew out a winning performance in the", "id": "15089406" }, { "contents": "History of the England national football team\n\n\nthe underwhelming performance at the World Cup, England suffered a poor start to the Euro 2000 qualifying tournament, and there was reported discontent between Hoddle and several senior players, most notably Shearer. Hoddle was dismissed on 2 February 1999, two days after an interview with \"The Sunday Times\" in which he spoke about his belief in reincarnation and claimed that disabled people were paying for sins in a previous life. Under considerable media and public pressure, the FA appointed former captain Kevin Keegan, who only just managed to get England", "id": "15089410" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nagainst Poland. He scored a total of five goals in England's successful qualification campaign for the World Cup, adding strikes against Georgia and away to Poland to his tally. Shearer was sidelined for much of the 1997–98 season, but recovered to play in the World Cup finals. With Michael Owen replacing Teddy Sheringham as Shearer's strike partner, Shearer's return saw him score England's first goal of the tournament, in a 2–0 win over Tunisia, his only goal in the three group matches. England faced long-time", "id": "13592542" }, { "contents": "Newcastle United F.C.\n\n\n. The attacking philosophy of Keegan led to the team being labelled \"The Entertainers\" by Sky Sports. Keegan took Newcastle to two consecutive runners-up finishes in the league in 1995–96 and 1996–97, coming very close to winning the title in the former season. This success was in part due to the talent of players like David Ginola, Les Ferdinand and Alan Shearer, who was signed on 30 July 1996 for a then world record fee of £15 million. Keegan left Newcastle in January 1997 and was replaced by Kenny", "id": "12636363" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nAlan Shearer, CBE, DL (born 13 August 1970) is an English retired footballer. He played as a striker in the top level of English league football for Southampton, Blackburn Rovers, Newcastle United and the England national team. He is Newcastle's and the Premier League's record goalscorer. He was named Football Writers' Association Player of the Year in 1994 and won the PFA Player of the Year award in 1995. In 1996, he was third in the FIFA World Player of the Year awards. In 2004", "id": "13592501" }, { "contents": "Teddy Sheringham\n\n\nmanager Terry Venables (1994–96) Sheringham came to be the preferred strike partner for Alan Shearer. During this time, England had a wealth of strikers with the likes of Andrew Cole, Ian Wright, a young Robbie Fowler and Les Ferdinand all battling to partner Shearer in the England team. The two formed a famous partnership at international level, as they complemented each other's strengths: Shearer the out-and-out goalscorer, big, strong and powerful, Sheringham just 'dropping off' his strike partner, finding spaces", "id": "2997066" }, { "contents": "History of Newcastle United F.C.\n\n\n's title chances for the 1994–95 season, in which they finished sixth. The club, however, continued to build up a reputation for playing attacking football under Keegan. In the 1995–96 season, high-profile foreign stars David Ginola and Faustino Asprilla, in addition to British players Peter Beardsley and striker Les Ferdinand, guided the team to a second-place finish. During the 1996–97 season, Keegan made one signing, securing the services of England striker Alan Shearer for a then-world record transfer fee of £15 million", "id": "6803863" }, { "contents": "1996–97 Newcastle United F.C. season\n\n\n...I think Kevin wanted it free-flowing in all departments and that doesn't necessarily happen.\" Keegan responded to the previous season's disappointment by breaking the world record transfer fee to sign centre forward Alan Shearer from Blackburn Rovers for £15 million. Shearer, whose five goals made him the top scorer in Euro 96, had supported Newcastle since childhood – he had been a ball-boy at St James' Park on the day that Keegan had left in a helicopter after his final Newcastle appearance as a player.", "id": "1207050" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nin the games.\" Shearer captained his school team and helped a Newcastle City Schools team win a seven-a-side tournament at St James' Park, before joining the amateur Wallsend Boys Club as a teenager. It was while playing for the Wallsend club that he was spotted by Southampton's scout, Jack Hixon, which resulted in Shearer spending his summers training with the club's youth team, a time he would later refer to as \"the making of me\". Shearer had successful trials for First Division clubs", "id": "13592505" }, { "contents": "Duncan Shearer\n\n\nFavourites\" during the club's centenary in 2008. However, he was unable to prevent Huddersfield's relegation to the Third Division at the end of the 1987–88 season. Weeks before this, the unrelated English striker Alan Shearer (aged 17) had scored a hat-trick in the First Division for Southampton against Arsenal, a game which Arsenal captain Tony Adams missed through injury. In his autobiography 11 years later, Adams said that he had followed the progress of the game on Ceefax and mistakingly believed that the Shearer who scored", "id": "3716405" }, { "contents": "David Hirst (footballer)\n\n\nHe came on at half-time and within three minutes of the restart he scored his first (and only) England goal. With Gary Lineker injured, he lined up with Alan Shearer against France at Wembley. Bryan Robson said that, \"It's not a question of who will replace Lineker, but who will partner David Hirst\". It became Hirst's third and final England match. Although he was selected for more England squads, injuries kept him out of the team. Manchester United boss Alex Ferguson tried six", "id": "18892949" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nthrough to May due to injury and England's World Cup qualification chances were hit by a run of poor form. Returning to fitness for the 1993–94 season, he scored 31 goals from 40 games as Blackburn finished runners-up in the Premier League. His performances for the club led to him being named the Football Writers' Association Footballer of the Year for that season. On the international scene, England had failed to qualify for the 1994 World Cup finals, but Shearer added three more goals to his international tally before embarking", "id": "13592514" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nfive points out of a possible twenty-four. Shearer did not get the manager's job on permanent basis. Chris Hughton stepped up from the coaching staff to take charge of the quest to get Newcastle back into the Premier League, which was achieved at the first attempt as Newcastle finished top of the Championship in the 2009–10 season. Shearer is married to Lainya, whom he met whilst a Southampton player. The couple lived locally with her parents during Shearer's second year at the south coast club, and were married on", "id": "13592557" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nagainst Portugal, but did so as England defeated Germany 1–0 in Charleroi, ensuring that England beat their European neighbours for the first time since the 1966 World Cup Final. To remain in the tournament, England only required a draw against Romania in the final group match, and Shearer scored a penalty as England went in at half-time 2–1 up, but Romania ultimately won 3–2. England's tournament was over, and so was Shearer's international career. From his 63 caps, he captained the team 34 times and scored", "id": "13592545" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nrecord return which is still unbeaten. The striker's goals at this level, coupled with his club form, meant he was soon promoted to the senior squad by coach Graham Taylor. Marking his debut in the 2–0 win against France in February 1992 with a goal, he made his only appearance for the England B team a month later. Due to replace Gary Lineker, who retired from international action after UEFA Euro 1992, in the England attack, Shearer played only intermittently in the qualifying campaign for the 1994 FIFA World Cup", "id": "13592538" }, { "contents": "1993 Trans-Tasman Test series\n\n\n's Canberra Raiders team mate and New South Wales captain Laurie Daley. The test series took place following the 1993 State of Origin series which was won by NSW. Dale Shearer's performances at fullback for Qld saw him earn a test recall in front of well performed World Cup and NSW fullback Tim Brasher (though Shearer had been selected at centre for all 3 Ashes series tests in 1992 but withdrew from all 3 with injury). Bradley Clyde, who had not played in the Origin series due to injury was also recalled to", "id": "16616631" }, { "contents": "Glenn Hoddle\n\n\nRedknapp resigned, following which Hoddle also left the club. In June 2016, after England's 2–1 loss to Iceland at Euro 2016 and manager Roy Hodgson's subsequent resignation, Harry Redknapp and Alan Shearer both put forward Hoddle as a candidate for the job before Sam Allardyce was appointed. Hoddle has done punditry work since his retirement from coaching. He has worked for ESPN, ITV Sport and BT Sport. Hoddle began working with ESPN during Euro 2012 as a pundit. Since then, he has worked with ITV for the 2014", "id": "8847620" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nhim onto the pitch following the striker's testimonial in May 2006 as he performed a lap of honour at St James' Park. On 6 December 2000, Shearer was given Honorary Freedom of the City of Newcastle upon Tyne, with the citation \"in recognition of his role as captain of Newcastle United Football Club and as former captain of England which have enhanced the reputation of the City\". Shearer was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2001 Queen's Birthday Honours and Commander of the", "id": "13592559" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nhis four years in the Southampton first team, Shearer made a total of 158 appearances in all competitions, scoring 43 goals. Despite making just one goalless appearance as England failed to progress past the Euro 1992 group stages, Shearer was soon subject to an English transfer record-breaking £3.6 million bid from Blackburn Rovers. Although there was also interest from Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson, Blackburn benefactor Jack Walker's millions were enough to prise the striker from the \"Saints\", and Shearer moved north to Ewood Park in the", "id": "13592512" }, { "contents": "Andy Cole\n\n\nof the season to help United win the Premier League title for the third time in four years. He also played in their FA Cup final victory to become part of England's first ever side to win the double twice. Before the 1996–97 season began, Cole had to deal with being offered to Blackburn Rovers as part-exchange in a £12 million deal that would have brought Alan Shearer to Old Trafford, but the offer was rejected and Shearer joined Newcastle instead. Despite Alex Ferguson's clear indication to Cole that he", "id": "9629547" }, { "contents": "Shearer's Bar\n\n\nShearer's Bar is the former name of a sports bar owned by Newcastle United and forming part of St James' Park, the team's stadium in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. It was named in honour of the club's all-time top scorer, Alan Shearer. The bar was renamed Nine in July 2013 by the club, who said that popularity of the venue had \"dwindled\". The bar was opened in December 2004 and became an important part of the features at St James' Park. It is", "id": "15298144" }, { "contents": "Kevin Keegan\n\n\nrelationship between the pair. In April 2003, it was named as Quote of the Decade in the Premier League 10 Seasons Awards and Most Memorable Quote in the 20 Seasons Awards in May 2012. It also appeared in Channel 4's \"100 Greatest Sporting Moments\". Keegan then broke the world transfer fee record by signing Blackburn Rovers and England striker Alan Shearer in July 1996. Shearer, who had been the Premier League's top scorer in the last two seasons, was born in Newcastle and had grown up as a fan", "id": "826455" }, { "contents": "England national football team\n\n\nBetween 1994 and 1996, Terry Venables managed the team. At UEFA Euro 1996, held in England, they equalled their best performance at a European Championship, reaching the semi-finals as they did in 1968, before exiting via a penalty shoot-out loss to Germany. England striker Alan Shearer was the tournament's top scorer with five goals. Venables resigned following investigations into his financial activities. Venables' successor, Glenn Hoddle, similarly left the job for non-footballing reasons after just one international tournament – the 1998", "id": "9748695" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nmiddle of 1992. His first season with Blackburn was mixed – he missed half of it through injury after snapping his right anterior cruciate ligament in a match against Leeds United in December 1992, but scored a prolific 16 goals in the 21 games in which he did feature. Shearer also became a regular in the England team this season and scored his second international goal; it came in a 4–0 1994 FIFA World Cup qualifier win over Turkey in November. The season ended sourly, however, as Shearer was forced to miss January", "id": "13592513" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nover from head coach Chris Hughton who was in temporary charge while the permanent manager Joe Kinnear recovered from heart surgery, having taken ill on 7 February. Shearer stated \"It's a club I love and I don't want them to go down. I'll do everything I can to stop that.\" Shearer was unveiled at a press conference the following day by club managing director Derek Llambias. In explaining his acceptance of a managerial role at Newcastle at this time, Shearer stated that he would not have done this for", "id": "13592552" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nwas being run in the wake of the departure of Kevin Keegan. These reports were denied by the club. Shearer features in EA Sports' \"FIFA\" video game series; he was included in the \"FIFA 15\" Ultimate Team Legends. During his playing days, Shearer had been involved with the children's charity the NSPCC, taking part in the organisation's Full Stop campaign in 1999. Since retiring from football Shearer has also done work for several charities both nationally and in the Newcastle area. In his testimonial match", "id": "13592565" }, { "contents": "2005–06 Newcastle United F.C. season\n\n\n. The fee, £17 million, surpassed Newcastle's previous record of £15 million for Alan Shearer from Blackburn in 1996. In the closing hours of the transfer window, the club re-signed Nolberto Solano from Aston Villa. Souness's decision to pair Shearer and Owen together up front proved to be lethal, but Owen broke his fourth metatarsal bone in his foot after a clash with Paul Robinson in a match against Tottenham Hotspur, keeping him out for the rest of the season. With Owen injured the team's", "id": "18086094" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\ndue to injury and the team failed to reach the competition finals. UEFA Euro 1996 was a more positive experience for both Shearer and England. With England not required to qualify as hosts, Shearer had not scored in 12 games in the 21 months prior, and even his overall goalscoring record for England did not look too impressive so far, with five goals in 23 games. However, he found the net in the 22nd minute of the first game, against Switzerland. Scoring once in the following game against Scotland and twice", "id": "13592539" }, { "contents": "Teddy Sheringham\n\n\nthe 2000 European Championships by then manager Kevin Keegan, but the retirement of Shearer (despite being four years younger than Sheringham) from international football after that tournament and the arrival of new manager Sven-Göran Eriksson in 2001 saw a return to international favour for him. He was often deployed as a tactical substitute late in games by Eriksson, valued for his ability to hold the ball up and create intelligent play. In 2001, Sheringham scored an important goal for England against Greece in a World Cup qualifying match within 15 seconds", "id": "2997070" }, { "contents": "Ruud Gullit\n\n\n, chairman Ken Bates famously said of Gullit, \"I didn't like his arrogance – in fact I never liked him.\" In August 1998, Gullit was named manager of Newcastle United two games into the new league season and reached the 1999 FA Cup Final in his first year. Fans remained supportive despite a poor run of results, although a well-publicised contretemps with the team's top scorer Alan Shearer and captain Robert Lee did not put him in a favourable light. Gullit even refused to assign Lee a squad", "id": "13592616" }, { "contents": "Scott Parker\n\n\ndefeat on 25 March 2006. Later that month he was diagnosed with glandular fever, putting an end to his season. The timing was especially unfortunate for Parker, who had been playing well for Newcastle, as it ended any hopes he may have had of forcing his way into the 2006 FIFA World Cup. In July 2006, he was named Newcastle United's new captain by manager Glenn Roeder, succeeding the retired Alan Shearer. His first goal as captain came against Wigan Athletic on 19 August 2006, in a 2–1 win", "id": "14327157" }, { "contents": "History of football in England\n\n\n. United's main challengers for the title in the Premier League's first few years were Blackburn Rovers, led by star striker Alan Shearer, also won their first league title since World War I in 1994–95, and Newcastle United, who famously conceded a 10-point lead at Christmas to lose the title to United in 1995–96. Newcastle had reached the Premiership in 1993 as Division One champions, and in their first Premiership campaign finished third to qualify for the UEFA Cup. They finished second in 1996 and again in 1997, but by", "id": "3652862" }, { "contents": "1992–93 FA Premier League\n\n\nPremier League as an attempt by the Football Association to \"hijack\" the First Division. Shortly before the season began, newly promoted Blackburn Rovers signed Southampton's 21-year-old England international striker Alan Shearer for a new British record fee variously reported as £3.3 million, £3.4 million, or £3.6 million. Several other players moved for fees of £2 million or more, including Arsenal's David Rocastle, who joined Leeds United, Dean Saunders, who moved from Liverpool to Aston Villa, and Teddy Sheringham, who", "id": "12442383" }, { "contents": "Darren Anderton\n\n\nhappy at the prospect of losing another key player as he had already lost Jürgen Klinsmann and Gheorghe Popescu that summer; and Nick Barmby was on the verge of joining Middlesbrough. Despite missing most of the 1995–96 season through injury, Anderton played an important part in the Euro 96 England team that reached the semi-finals and included players like Paul Gascoigne, Alan Shearer, Steve McManaman and Teddy Sheringham. In the semi final against Germany, the match went to golden goal extra time. Anderton came within inches of putting England into", "id": "4331581" }, { "contents": "Wallsend Boys Club\n\n\nJanuary which damaged one of the walls of the building. Professional players to have played for the club include: The club has had a representative at four of the six FIFA World Cup finals since 1986, with the two exceptions coming in 1994, when the England national football team did not qualify, and 2002. In 1986 and 1990 Peter Beardsley starred for England. In 1998 Alan Shearer was England captain. Michael Carrick made appearances for England in both the 2006 and 2010 tournaments. Fraser Forster was in the 2014 squad but", "id": "21182372" }, { "contents": "Harry Kane\n\n\n\". Clive Allen, who coached him at Tottenham, stated that \"one thing I'd say about him, which unfortunately you don't say about a lot of young footballers, is that he had a passion for the game. He loves football, he loves playing, he loves scoring goals\". His former Tottenham under-21 coach Les Ferdinand likened Kane's movement to their former forward Teddy Sheringham, and the power and accuracy of his shots to Alan Shearer. Kane's style of play has been compared to that of", "id": "1925319" }, { "contents": "Kieron Dyer\n\n\nthat he would soon rejoin for Ipswich. After representing England at Youth, Under 21 and \"B\" level, Dyer's debut for the senior team came on 4 September 1999 when he started in England's 6–0 win against Luxembourg. He was deployed out of position at right back, and was replaced by Gary Neville at half-time after injuring himself while setting up Alan Shearer's third goal of the match. The injury was not serious and he was able to make his second England appearance four days later, coming", "id": "17666181" }, { "contents": "1996–97 Blackburn Rovers F.C. season\n\n\nthe end of the season, when he handed over the reins to Roy Hodgson after Sampdoria's Sven-Göran Eriksson lied about accepting the manager's job and joined Lazio instead. Parkes steered Blackburn to safety as they finished 13th. The world record £15 million sale of striker Alan Shearer to Newcastle United was seen as the biggest factor in Blackburn's lowest top flight finish since they returned to the elite in 1992. However, his strike-partner Chris Sutton helped keep the club alive after recovering from a drastic loss of", "id": "7811146" }, { "contents": "Michael Owen\n\n\nmuch of the campaign as England struggled, with Hoddle being replaced by Kevin Keegan. On 4 September 1999, he scored his first goal at Wembley Stadium in a 6–0 win over Luxembourg. At the finals, Owen scored once in three matches, as England were knocked out at the group stage. After Alan Shearer's retirement, Owen took over as England's senior striker under new manager Sven-Göran Eriksson. He scored six times during 2002 World Cup qualifying, including a hat-trick against Germany at Munich's Olympiastadion", "id": "21886807" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nyet to start the UEFA Pro Licence course, which is required to be permitted to manage a team in the Premier League and European competition. Reflecting his desire for personal time off to \"enjoy life\", in July 2006 he turned down a coaching role with England, citing his BBC commitments and desire to be away from the pressure of a job within football. Despite this, Shearer was often linked in the media with managerial or coaching positions at his three former clubs. Shearer took a brief role in the dugout for", "id": "13592550" }, { "contents": "History of Southampton F.C.\n\n\nappearances for the England national team – he finally retired in 2002 at the age of 33. During his time with the Saints, Le Tissier was approached more than once by several bigger clubs (including Manchester United) but chose to stick with the Saints despite never winning a major trophy or experiencing European football with them. From 1989 to 1992, Le Tissier was regularly partnered up front by another notable player, Alan Shearer, who as a 17-year-old had scored a hat-trick on his Saints debut against Arsenal in", "id": "15948278" }, { "contents": "Sir Bobby Robson Trophy match\n\n\nNewcastle United, picking up on Alan Shearer's reply of \"I know as much as you do,\" to a pre-match question as to whether he would be installed as Newcastle manager for the forthcoming season beginning in 13 days, with the club being up for sale and with the first team without a manager, being in the care of coach Chris Hughton. Neither the Newcastle United owner Mike Ashley or managing director Derek Llambias were in attendance at the charity match. Having left England after Italia '90, Sir", "id": "19612022" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nChancellor Liam Donaldson stated \"Newcastle United are my team. Alan Shearer is more than just a local legend, he's probably one of the greatest footballers of all time\". On 12 September 2016, a statue of Shearer's likeness was unveiled outside St James' Park. It was sculpted by Tom Maley, and paid for by the Shepherd family. After his retirement and following guest appearances, Shearer became a regular pundit for the BBC's \"Match of the Day\". He also formed part of the team which", "id": "13592563" }, { "contents": "Gary McAllister\n\n\ntournament, scoring in a 3–0 win over the CIS. However, Scotland did not qualify from their group. Scotland failed to qualify for the 1994 FIFA World Cup but did qualify for UEFA Euro 1996 in England, with McAllister the captain of the team. Scotland's second match of the group stage was against England at Wembley Stadium. In the second half Scotland, trailing 0–1 to an Alan Shearer goal, were awarded a penalty. McAllister's kick was saved by David Seaman and Scotland lost 0–2. The team won their", "id": "19492391" }, { "contents": "David Seaman\n\n\nEngland's quarter-final against Spain ended scoreless, Seaman saved Miguel Angel Nadal's kick in the shootout to knock Spain out of the tournament. England eventually were eliminated in the semi-final by Germany on penalties,after Andreas Köpke saved the penalty taken by Gareth Southgate. Seaman was named alongside Golden Boot winner Alan Shearer and winger Steve McManaman in the UEFA \"Team of the Tournament\". Euro 96 sponsor Philips named him \"Player of the Tournament\". Seaman remained first choice under the management of Glenn Hoddle for", "id": "7321893" }, { "contents": "1998 FA Cup Final\n\n\nand so has the mixture between the foreign and English players.\" Wenger reserved praise for the goalscorers Overmars (\"a world-class player\") and Anelka (\"Nicolas is very young. But you saw in the second half today what he can do\"), and felt the turning point in the match was Shearer's shot hitting the post. He sympathised with Newcastle, as did his captain, Adams who said afterwards: \"The team and their fans did everything they could out there, but it was", "id": "10844688" }, { "contents": "David McMahon (association footballer)\n\n\nabout the role of striker from watching England international Alan Shearer in training, but likened himself more to Newcastle's Scotland international Duncan Ferguson, \"because I am taller and like to battle for things in the air.\" Brian Kerr, then manager of Ireland under-17s, described McMahon as honest and hard-working, \"not the most skilful player, but will get goals\", but Darlington manager Gary Bennett believed there was more to his game: that he and strike partner John Williams both had enough skill to play a", "id": "5423888" }, { "contents": "Andy Carroll\n\n\nUEFA Euro 2012. He opened the scoring for England with a powerful header in their second group match against Sweden, which England went on to win 3–2. Carroll has been compared to Newcastle's record goalscorer Alan Shearer, Ivory Coast striker Didier Drogba and former Italy forward Christian Vieri. He has also been referred to as a classic centre forward, owing to his strength, powerful shot and excellent heading ability. Former Newcastle manager and Liverpool player Kevin Keegan stated \"he is probably in the top three headers of a ball I", "id": "11961542" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\n-chasing Manchester United. On the opening day of the 1999–2000 season, Shearer received the first red card of his career in his 100th appearance for Newcastle. After dropping Shearer to the bench in a Tyne-Wear derby loss against Sunderland, the unpopular Gullit resigned to be replaced by the 66-year-old Bobby Robson. Despite Gullit giving Shearer the captain's armband, reports of a rift between club captain and manager were rife, Gullit's decision to drop Shearer proved deeply unpopular with fans and his departure capped a dismal start", "id": "13592525" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nAn almost injury-free season helped Shearer improve on his previous year's tally in the 1998–99 season, the striker converting 14 goals in 30 league games and replacing Rob Lee as Newcastle captain, but Newcastle finished 13th again, with Ruud Gullit having replaced Kenny Dalglish just after the season got underway. He also helped Newcastle to a second consecutive FA Cup final and qualification for the following season's UEFA Cup, scoring twice in the semi-final against Tottenham Hotspur, but they once again lost, this time 2–0 to treble", "id": "13592524" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nhis final three games under Glenn Roeder. Shearer had rejected offers of coaching or assistant roles at Newcastle under both the returning Kevin Keegan in February 2008 and Joe Kinnear in November 2008. Shearer had previously had talks about, but never been offered, a full-time manager's role at Newcastle until his appointment on 1 April 2009. In a surprise move, late on 1 April 2009, it was announced that Shearer would become the manager of his former club Newcastle United for the remaining eight games of the season, taking", "id": "13592551" }, { "contents": "Fabio Cannavaro\n\n\nnational team on 22 January 1997, in a friendly match against Northern Ireland. The same year, he earned plaudits for his handling of England striker Alan Shearer in a World Cup qualifying game at Wembley Stadium. Shearer was then considered by the partisan English crowd to be the best striker in the world, and thought he would make fun of the inexperienced Italian defender. Nevertheless, in a display ranking alongside those of the very best Italian defenders Claudio Gentile and Franco Baresi, Cannavaro managed to keep Shearer quiet for the whole game", "id": "3625067" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\n, with media sources claiming that video footage showed him intentionally kicking Neil Lennon in the head following a challenge. The referee of the game took no action against Shearer, and he was then cleared of all charges by the FA, with Lennon giving evidence in the player's defence. Former Football Association chief Graham Kelly, who brought the charges against the player, later claimed in his autobiography that Shearer had threatened to withdraw himself from the 1998 World Cup squad if the charges were upheld, a claim strenuously denied by Shearer.", "id": "13592523" }, { "contents": "History of the Romania national football team\n\n\nminnows Tunisia. Adrian Ilie scored the only goal with a fine chip in their first match against Colombia at Lyon's Stade Gerland. In Toulouse, they met an England side starting with prodigal striker Michael Owen on the bench, with Teddy Sheringham preferred alongside Alan Shearer. A mistake by Tony Adams was punished by Viorel Moldovan, who played for Coventry City, before Owen came on to claim an equalizer. But Romania won with a scrappy late goal from Dan Petrescu, also playing in England with Chelsea, fighting off his club", "id": "16435718" }, { "contents": "John Barnes (footballer)\n\n\nNewcastle United, although an approach had already been made by Harry Redknapp of West Ham; Barnes had agreed in principle to join them until at the final moment Dalglish called him and Barnes changed his mind. In the 1997–98 season Barnes played up front mostly, deputising for Alan Shearer after Shearer was injured for most of the season, and Barnes ended up Newcastle's top league scorer with six goals, which highlighted the Magpies' lack of ability to score in the absence of Shearer and Ferdinand (who had been sold along with", "id": "19616669" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\ncould not find a more iconic person than Alan, not just for what he has done in football but for all the extra work he tirelessly does for charity and communities. I am delighted he has accepted the role of Deputy Lieutenant because he is a real role model. I have promised him he is not going to have to do too much, but even if it is just one occasion a year he is the perfect choice\" On 7 December 2009, Shearer was made a Doctor of Civil Law by Newcastle University.", "id": "13592562" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nLaw of Northumbria and Newcastle Universities. Shearer was born in Gosforth, Newcastle, in 1970 to working-class parents Alan and Anne Shearer. His father, a sheet-metal worker, encouraged a keen Shearer to play football in his youth, and the young player continued with the sport as he progressed through school. He was educated at Gosforth Central Middle School and Gosforth High School. Growing up playing on the streets of his hometown, he originally played in midfield because \"it meant [he] could get more involved", "id": "13592504" }, { "contents": "Paul Kitson\n\n\n. Newcastle finished second that season after being overhauled in the second half campaign by a Manchester United side who sealed the title by a five-point margin barely four months after Newcastle had led by 10 points, but Kitson's part in Newcastle's exciting though ultimately disappointing campaign had been minimal as he had played just seven league games and scored twice. But he remained loyal to the Magpies even after another blow at the end of July 1996 – the arrival of £15 million world record signing Alan Shearer. He managed three", "id": "19054464" }, { "contents": "Ray Harford\n\n\nthe Premier League for much of the season. During the summer of 1996, Alan Shearer was sold to Newcastle United for a then world record fee of £15 million, and Harford failed to adequately replace him. Harford stated that \"I'm told we need a big name. Engelbert Humperdinck is a big name but it doesn't mean he can play football.\" The 1996–97 season also started badly for Blackburn. They failed to win any of their first ten games and were knocked out of the League Cup by Division", "id": "5365351" }, { "contents": "Patrick Kluivert\n\n\nagain featured for Barca in a legends game against Uganda all stars where he, in lobbing the ball, scored an amazing goal. Kluivert joined Newcastle United on a free transfer in July 2004. He stated that his reasons for joining Newcastle was due to the overwhelming reaction he received whilst playing for Barcelona against Newcastle during a pre season friendly as well as teaming up with Newcastle's star players such as Alan Shearer. Kluivert scored some classy and crucial goals at and away from St James's Park namely in winning strikes against both", "id": "21654890" }, { "contents": "Duncan Shearer\n\n\nbetween 1994 and 1995, scoring two goals including an important opening strike in an away win over Finland which helped the national side qualify for Euro 96, although Shearer did not make the squad for that tournament. The senior team was his first experience of international football, having never played at any age-group level. He achieved a childhood ambition when he played in the national team alongside John McGinlay, a childhood friend also from Fort William. In season 1999–00 he began to concentrate more on coaching than playing, and was", "id": "3716411" }, { "contents": "Les Ferdinand\n\n\nscored 50 goals in only 84 games at Newcastle, forming a successful partnership with Alan Shearer. He was and indeed is still very highly thought of by Newcastle United. Ferdinand received a standing ovation when he returned to St. James' Park as a Tottenham player, trying to put Alan Shearer's number 9 shirt on to complete a lap of honour, he broke down in tears and could only manage to put the shirt on inside out and back to front before being helped from the field. Ferdinand returned again, when he", "id": "2996528" }, { "contents": "David Platt (footballer)\n\n\nTurkey, San Marino, the Netherlands and Norway. The qualifiers began at home to Norway. England dominated the game and Platt carried the goal threat, with Alan Shearer and Ian Wright struggling to find form. He scored the opening goal after an hour. England dominated the remainder of the game and were unlucky to concede to a long-range shot from Kjetil Rekdal. Platt continued his drive from midfield in wins over Turkey at home (4-0) and San Marino (6-0). Platt scored four", "id": "16718350" }, { "contents": "Jason Wilcox\n\n\n-pound investments of Jack Walker. He played an important part in the title-winning Blackburn team of 1995. Playing on the left flank with attacking fullback Graeme Le Saux behind him and Stuart Ripley on the opposite flank, they forged a strong attacking line-up with Alan Shearer and Chris Sutton. International recognition was harder to come by for Wilcox and he managed only 3 international caps despite his effective partnership with Shearer, Le Saux and Tim Sherwood. Lengthy injury problems restricted his effectiveness in subsequent seasons and, after experiencing", "id": "14527253" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nclub's form, and Newcastle finished just 13th in the Premier League. However, United (now managed by Shearer's old boss at Blackburn, Kenny Dalglish) had a good run in the FA Cup; Shearer scored the winning goal in a semi-final victory over Sheffield United as the team reached the final. The team were unable to get on the scoresheet at Wembley, and lost the game 2–0 to Arsenal. An incident during a game against Leicester City in the league saw Shearer charged with misconduct by the FA", "id": "13592522" }, { "contents": "Aleksandar Mitrović (footballer)\n\n\nhim the competition's top scorer, and 28 in all competitions. On 22 March 2015, he scored the team's only goal in the 2–1 Belgian Cup Final loss to Club Brugge KV in Brussels. On 21 July 2015, Mitrović joined Newcastle United on a five-year contract for a reported £13 million, saying he hoped to be able to play like club legend Alan Shearer. He made his debut on 9 August as Newcastle began the season with a 2–2 draw against Southampton at St James' Park, playing", "id": "20923735" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nWest Bromwich Albion, Manchester City and Newcastle United, before being offered a youth contract with Southampton in April 1986. Shearer was promoted to the first team after spending two years with the youth squad. He made his professional debut for Southampton on 26 March 1988, coming on as a substitute in a First Division fixture at Chelsea, before prompting national headlines in his full debut at The Dell two weeks later. He scored a hat-trick, helping the team to a 4–2 victory against Arsenal, thus becoming the youngest player", "id": "13592506" }, { "contents": "James Milner\n\n\ndo what was \"in the club's best interest\" and in July 2004, he agreed a five-year contract with Newcastle. Milner made his first appearance for Newcastle United during their pre-season tour of Asia, scoring his first goal for the club in a 1–1 draw against Kitchee, in Hong Kong. During this tour, he took the opportunity to observe how Newcastle striker Alan Shearer dealt with attention from fans and the media. He said that his association with people like Shearer gave him a better idea of", "id": "1860603" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nretain the ball and provide opportunities for teammates. Playing as a lone striker between wide men, Rod Wallace and Matt Le Tissier, Shearer scored three goals in 26 appearances in the 1989–90 season, and in the next, four goals in 36 games. His performances in the centre of the \"Saints\" attack were soon recognised by the fans, who voted him their Player of the Year for 1991. In the middle of 1991, Shearer was a member of the England national under-21 football squad in the Toulon Tournament in Toulon", "id": "13592508" }, { "contents": "Teddy Sheringham\n\n\n, creating play and providing key passes, forming the link between Shearer and the England midfield. The pairing came to be known as 'The SAS' ('Shearer and Sheringham') and their most successful time together came in the 1996 European Championships, held in England. Their most famous contribution was in the 4–1 victory over the Netherlands, a game in the opening group stages in which they both scored twice against one of the strongest teams in the tournament. Though England were eventually knocked out in the semi-finals", "id": "2997067" }, { "contents": "History of the England national football team\n\n\ninto Euro 2000 after a 2–1 aggregate playoff win over Scotland. At the finals in Belgium and the Netherlands, a lacklustre England failed to get beyond the group stage, losing to both Portugal and Romania after leading in each game. After England's exit, Alan Shearer retired from international football, he had announced his intentions before the tournament, and no-one could persuade him to change his mind. On 7 October 2000, shortly after losing the opening World Cup qualifier to Germany in the last-ever game at Wembley", "id": "15089411" }, { "contents": "Premier League 10 Seasons Awards\n\n\nrepresented, with five players. The teams were as follows: English striker Alan Shearer was named Domestic Player of the Decade in the main 10 Seasons awards announcements, in addition to being given the Outstanding Contribution to the FA Premier League award. Two weeks later he was also named as the Overall Player of the Decade. In the first decade, Shearer played for Blackburn Rovers, and then Newcastle United. Shearer has been described as a classic English centre-forward with great shooting power, a single-minded striker who could", "id": "11856460" }, { "contents": "Wartime League\n\n\narguments debate that a player who exceeds one's record through their wartime matches should nonetheless be seen as the club's highest goal scorer or appearance having been part of the team's squad even if only for a short time. The most recent argument relates to the goal-difference between Jackie Milburn's and Alan Shearer's Newcastle United goal-scoring records. When counting Jackie's wartime matches, he scored a total of 238 professional goals for Newcastle United FC. In May 2005, Alan Shearer finished his career at 206 goals", "id": "17626256" }, { "contents": "Jon Dahl Tomasson\n\n\nas the perfect link-up player to England national team striker Alan Shearer. The partnership initially worked well, with Tomasson impressing during a pre-season friendly tournament in the Republic of Ireland. However, a career threatening injury to Shearer, combined with the controversial transfer of popular striker Les Ferdinand to Tottenham Hotspur, meant that Tomasson was moved from his traditional attacking midfield position to that of striker. He struggled to adapt to his new position on the field, and to the English game, due to his lack of physical", "id": "19324628" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\ncovered the World Cups and European Championships from 2006 onwards for the BBC. Former Newcastle chairman Freddy Shepherd announced that, after Shearer finished the 2005–06 season as Newcastle's caretaker assistant manager, he would become the club's \"Sporting Ambassador\" for the 2006–07 season. However, in September 2008, it was reported that Shearer was removed from this largely honorary position by the club's owner Mike Ashley, despite protests from players such as Steven Taylor and Damien Duff, due to Shearer's criticism of the way in which the club", "id": "13592564" }, { "contents": "1998 FA Cup Final\n\n\nthe final that Bergkamp had resumed training and \"medically he looked all right\", but the player received a further setback when he suffered a reaction to his hamstring. He ruled himself out of the match and told reporters: \"I'm very disappointed. As a little boy in Holland I always watched the FA Cup final. And I used to dream about playing in it myself one day.\" Ian Wright was listed as Bergkamp's probable replacement to partner Anelka. Newcastle had their own issues surrounding Shearer. The England", "id": "10844676" }, { "contents": "2008–09 in English football\n\n\n's surprise resignation in December; whilst their final points tally wasn't spectacular, they had the satisfaction of being the top North-East team in football after both Middlesbrough and Newcastle United were relegated, ending 11 and 16 year spells in the top flight respectively, the latter going through four managers in Kevin Keegan, Joe Kinnear, Chris Hughton and even former striker Alan Shearer during the campaign. Despite a brilliant start to the season which saw them as high as third place in October, Hull City won just 1 of their", "id": "1311754" }, { "contents": "1996 FA Charity Shield\n\n\nfrom Eric Cantona, Nicky Butt, David Beckham and Roy Keane. The game saw new signings Jordi Cruyff and Karel Poborský make their debuts for Manchester United, though neither of these players had particularly successful careers at Old Trafford and both had left the club within four years. The day before the game had seen the surprise sale of one of Manchester United's longest serving players — Lee Sharpe. The game saw Newcastle United give a debut to £15 million world record signing Alan Shearer, who would remain at the club until", "id": "2797098" }, { "contents": "UEFA Euro 2016 knockout phase\n\n\nsection begin=g6 /section end=g6 / section begin=g7 /section end=g7 / The match has been described as one of England's worst defeats ever. Former footballer and Talksport presenter Stan Collymore, who was commentating on the game, panned the England team, reserving special criticism for goalkeeper Joe Hart and captain Wayne Rooney. Former England international and BBC Sport pundit Alan Shearer described it as the worst performance he had ever seen from an England team. The defeat was called England's most shocking since losing 1–0 to", "id": "11344909" }, { "contents": "Maurice E. Shearer\n\n\nApplication at Annapolis, Maryland, with classmates Holland Smith, Ralph S. Keyser and Andrew B. Drum. In July, Shearer sailed for duty to be the commander of the 35 man Marine detachment on Midway Island. In May 1908, he was selected for promotion to first lieutenant and to the rank of captain in June 1916. During World War I, forces under Major Shearer's command made an attack on Belleau Wood, finally clearing that forest of Germans. On 26 June 1918, he sent a now famous report: \"", "id": "8315540" }, { "contents": "Newcastle upon Tyne\n\n\nF.C. became Football League members in 1893. They have won four top division titles (the first in 1905 and the most recent in 1927), six FA Cups (the first in 1910 and the most recent in 1955) and the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup in 1969. They broke the world transfer record in 1996 by paying £15 million for Blackburn Rovers and England striker Alan Shearer, one of the most prolific goalscorers of that era. In 2017 Newcastle was the venue for the 2017 Freedom City festival. The 2017", "id": "20529704" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\ngame and came off the bench to score a penalty, helping Newcastle win the game 3–2. The match was a sell-out, and saw Shearer perform a lap of honour at the end with his family, with his young son notably covering his ears due to the volume of noise produced by the crowd in tribute. Shearer's international career began in 1990 when he was handed a callup to the England under-21 squad under Dave Sexton. During his time with the squad, he scored 13 times in 11 games, a", "id": "13592537" }, { "contents": "2011–12 Cardiff City F.C. season\n\n\nserving manager in the Championship having held his post since May 2005. The club held talks with former England and Newcastle United captain Alan Shearer to replace Jones but he rejected the job despite stating that he was impressed with the \"vision, ambition and determination of the owner Dato Chan Tien Ghee and the board\". The \"Bluebirds\" instead approached Championship rivals Watford for permission to speak to their manager Malky Mackay, which was initially rejected. However, after the two clubs agreed a compensation fee, Mackay was officially appointed as", "id": "7599659" }, { "contents": "Kevin Keegan\n\n\nto Michael Owen, stating, \"He's not scared to give his opinion when he's right, and he's not scared to say what he feels. He's a tremendous professional, and he trains properly every day.\" Keegan announced on 22 January that he and Alan Shearer held talks about the two linking up with Shearer as his assistant, but decided against the idea, leaving the door open for him to take other roles he was interested in. Keegan's first eight games back at Newcastle passed without a", "id": "826473" }, { "contents": "Transfer (association football)\n\n\n£3.6 million Alan Shearer moved to Blackburn Rovers from Southampton, a decade after the world's first £3 million transfer. Lentini's transfer remained intact the world record fee for the next four years, although the national record was broken more than once in many countries including England. Shearer's £3.6million record fee was narrowly eclipsed 12 months later when Manchester United signed Roy Keane from Nottingham Forest for £3.75 million. In 1994, Blackburn Rovers paid a record £5 million for Chris Sutton from Norwich City, a decade", "id": "11200095" }, { "contents": "Roy Hodgson\n\n\nagainst Costa Rica to finish bottom of Group D. Hodgson named Rooney as the new captain of England in August 2014, following the retirement of Steven Gerrard from international football. Hodgson's first match after the World Cup was a 1–0 win against Norway in an international friendly match at Wembley on 3 September 2014. During the match, England made only two shots on target. Hodgson was infuriated when asked about this, describing the statistic as \"fucking bollocks\". Former England player, Alan Shearer, admitted that the match was so", "id": "12858624" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nto the season. The animosity between Shearer and Gullit was later confirmed by the latter, who reported telling the striker that he was \"...the most overrated player I have ever seen.\" Ironically, Robson had tried to sign Shearer for Barcelona in 1997, making a bid of £20million which would have seen Shearer break the world's transfer fee record for the second time in 12 months. However, then Newcastle manager Kenny Dalglish rejected the offer. In Robson's first match in charge, Shearer scored five goals in", "id": "13592526" }, { "contents": "Premier League 10 Seasons Awards\n\n\nin his talks with Alex Ferguson, he could not guarantee that Eric Cantona the Overseas Player of the Decade could be persuaded to let Shearer take penalty kicks. Shearer gained a second PFA Players' Player of the Year Award in April 1997, becoming just the second player to have received the PFA award twice, after Mark Hughes. After the 2000 European Championships, Shearer had retired from international football with England, having been England captain since 1998, and having made his senior début in 1992. Shearer was awarded the OBE in", "id": "11856465" }, { "contents": "Emile Heskey\n\n\nthe two matches, with former England international Alan Shearer commenting, \"Never in a million years did I expect to be discussing whether Emile Heskey should keep his place ahead of Wayne Rooney but the Wigan striker was outstanding over both matches.\" Heskey was called into manager Fabio Capello's first squad against Switzerland, but had to withdraw due to an injury. He was called into the squad for a friendly against the Czech Republic in August 2008 and came on as a 46th-minute substitute, in a match that finished 2–2", "id": "174986" }, { "contents": "Habib Beye\n\n\nUEFA Cup Final, a run which involved him putting in a star performance as a central defender against (his now former team) Newcastle United, where he was particularly effective against Newcastle's talisman striker Alan Shearer. He ended up on the losing side as Marseille lost the final to Valencia 2–0. He was also a beaten finalist in the 2006 French Cup against former club Paris Saint-Germain, a match which his team lost 2–1, and again in 2007 when his Marseille team lost on penalties to FC Sochaux. His", "id": "16217445" }, { "contents": "Stan Collymore\n\n\nseason in the Premier League, Collymore was called up to Terry Venables' England squad for the Umbro Cup in June 1995. He made his début at Wembley Stadium against Japan, partnering Alan Shearer in a 2–1 win. He won his second cap as a 90th minute substitute against Brazil. Collymore made his third and final appearance for England as a substitute in a 4–0 win over Moldova during qualification for the 1998 FIFA World Cup. Collymore contributed to his biography \"Stan: Tackling my demons\" with Oliver Holt. In 2005", "id": "3955590" }, { "contents": "Graeme Souness\n\n\nAt £8.2 million, Boumsong was his first big signing and Souness said he would replace Jonathan Woodgate in the Newcastle defence, which had conceded several leads earlier in the season. Newcastle were well aware of Boumsong prior to his move from Auxerre to Rangers on a free transfer. Robson had travelled to France to watch him, but he declined the opportunity to sign Boumsong. Liverpool were also interested in signing Boumsong. Robson's doubts were confirmed when Boumsong marked Alan Shearer in a pre-season game against Rangers. Shearer came", "id": "18029254" }, { "contents": "Saido Berahino\n\n\nrate of a goal every other match, including three to help the team qualify for the European Championship. Berahino has the all-time third-highest goal tally for the England under-21 side with 10 goals in 13 appearances, behind Francis Jeffers and Alan Shearer. On 6 November 2014, England manager Roy Hodgson – who promoted Berahino to the West Bromwich Albion first team in 2011 – named Berahino in his squad for the first time, ahead of a UEFA Euro 2016 qualifying match against Slovenia at Wembley Stadium on the 15th and", "id": "1000466" } ]

[ { "contents": "Tony Adams\n\n\n\"I have some resentment over the way Glenn Hoddle gave the captaincy to Alan Shearer instead of me but I can let that go. I reacted positively. I disagreed with him [Hoddle] and he thought Alan could get more penalties being a centre forward. People know my reaction to that\". Adams continued to play for the national side, however and he finally appeared in a World Cup finals in 1998. His international swansong was England's unsuccessful Euro 2000 campaign. With Shearer retiring from international football after the tournament", "id": "6104102" }, { "contents": "Tony Adams\n\n\nin defence, and after the retirement of Gary Lineker in 1992, Adams unofficially shared the captaincy of England with David Platt, though Adams became England captain outright before Euro 96, as Platt's place in the side became less secure. England reached the semi-finals of Euro 96, before losing on penalties to Germany. When England manager Glenn Hoddle took the Captain's armband from Adams and gave it to Alan Shearer it was a bitter pill for Adams to swallow. Speaking at a fans' forum in 2008 Adams remarked", "id": "6104101" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nThis time, Germany won from the spot; although Shearer scored, his teammate Gareth Southgate missed his kick and England were eliminated. Shearer's five goals made him the competition's top scorer, and together with teammates David Seaman and Steve McManaman, was listed in the official UEFA team of the tournament. The new England manager Glenn Hoddle appointed Shearer captain for the 1998 FIFA World Cup qualifier against Moldova on 1 September 1996, and the player held onto the captaincy after scoring once in that match and twice in the following game", "id": "13592541" }, { "contents": "Dimitar Berbatov\n\n\nhe consequently modelled himself after Marco van Basten, the Dutch forward for that team. However, the 1996 European Championship, held in England, gave Berbatov a new role model; the 15-year-old Berbatov began to look up to the English front man Alan Shearer, who played for Newcastle United. Berbatov's mother later spoke of her son's teenage dream of playing for Newcastle United, and said that his admiration for Shearer was such that, during these years, he slept in a Newcastle shirt. Berbatov began his youth", "id": "3905446" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\n's participation in what was to be Shearer's only World Cup tournament. In September 1999, Shearer scored his only England hat-trick in a UEFA Euro 2000 qualifier against Luxembourg. This helped England reach a play-off against Scotland; England won the game over two legs and in doing so qualified for the European Championships. By now, Shearer was approaching his 30th birthday, and he announced that he intended to retire from international football after the Euro 2000 tournament. Shearer did not score in England's opening 3–2 defeat", "id": "13592544" }, { "contents": "Southampton F.C.\n\n\nwas Alan Shearer, who at the age of 17 scored a hat-trick against Arsenal in a league match in April 1988. Shearer was a first team regular by 1990, and stayed with Southampton until July 1992, when he was sold to Blackburn Rovers for a national record of more than £3 million. He then became the most expensive footballer in the world when Blackburn sold him to Newcastle for £15 million in 1996. He also scored 30 times for England internationally. Southampton were founding members of the Premier League", "id": "3265953" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\ntime to play in England's UEFA European Championship campaign. After Euro 96, Manchester United again sought to sign Shearer, and attempted to enter the battle for his signature. However Manchester United chairman Martin Edwards stated that Blackburn Rovers refused to let Shearer go to Old Trafford. Ultimately Shearer joined his boyhood club: Newcastle United, Manchester United's title rivals. On 30 July 1996, for a world transfer record-breaking £15 million (equivalent to £ million today) Shearer joined his hometown club and league runners-up", "id": "13592519" }, { "contents": "History of the England national football team\n\n\nyear after his last game at club level. Hoddle selected Alan Shearer as captain, replacing Tony Adams, but also brought a number of emerging talents into the squad, including the Manchester United midfield trio of Paul Scholes, Nicky Butt and David Beckham, and central defenders Rio Ferdinand and Sol Campbell. Hoddle oversaw England's qualification for the 1998 World Cup (the first World Cup with 32 teams instead of 24) with a 0–0 draw against Italy at the Stadio Olimpico in Rome, and drew out a winning performance in the", "id": "15089406" }, { "contents": "History of the England national football team\n\n\nthe underwhelming performance at the World Cup, England suffered a poor start to the Euro 2000 qualifying tournament, and there was reported discontent between Hoddle and several senior players, most notably Shearer. Hoddle was dismissed on 2 February 1999, two days after an interview with \"The Sunday Times\" in which he spoke about his belief in reincarnation and claimed that disabled people were paying for sins in a previous life. Under considerable media and public pressure, the FA appointed former captain Kevin Keegan, who only just managed to get England", "id": "15089410" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nagainst Poland. He scored a total of five goals in England's successful qualification campaign for the World Cup, adding strikes against Georgia and away to Poland to his tally. Shearer was sidelined for much of the 1997–98 season, but recovered to play in the World Cup finals. With Michael Owen replacing Teddy Sheringham as Shearer's strike partner, Shearer's return saw him score England's first goal of the tournament, in a 2–0 win over Tunisia, his only goal in the three group matches. England faced long-time", "id": "13592542" }, { "contents": "Newcastle United F.C.\n\n\n. The attacking philosophy of Keegan led to the team being labelled \"The Entertainers\" by Sky Sports. Keegan took Newcastle to two consecutive runners-up finishes in the league in 1995–96 and 1996–97, coming very close to winning the title in the former season. This success was in part due to the talent of players like David Ginola, Les Ferdinand and Alan Shearer, who was signed on 30 July 1996 for a then world record fee of £15 million. Keegan left Newcastle in January 1997 and was replaced by Kenny", "id": "12636363" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nAlan Shearer, CBE, DL (born 13 August 1970) is an English retired footballer. He played as a striker in the top level of English league football for Southampton, Blackburn Rovers, Newcastle United and the England national team. He is Newcastle's and the Premier League's record goalscorer. He was named Football Writers' Association Player of the Year in 1994 and won the PFA Player of the Year award in 1995. In 1996, he was third in the FIFA World Player of the Year awards. In 2004", "id": "13592501" }, { "contents": "Teddy Sheringham\n\n\nmanager Terry Venables (1994–96) Sheringham came to be the preferred strike partner for Alan Shearer. During this time, England had a wealth of strikers with the likes of Andrew Cole, Ian Wright, a young Robbie Fowler and Les Ferdinand all battling to partner Shearer in the England team. The two formed a famous partnership at international level, as they complemented each other's strengths: Shearer the out-and-out goalscorer, big, strong and powerful, Sheringham just 'dropping off' his strike partner, finding spaces", "id": "2997066" }, { "contents": "History of Newcastle United F.C.\n\n\n's title chances for the 1994–95 season, in which they finished sixth. The club, however, continued to build up a reputation for playing attacking football under Keegan. In the 1995–96 season, high-profile foreign stars David Ginola and Faustino Asprilla, in addition to British players Peter Beardsley and striker Les Ferdinand, guided the team to a second-place finish. During the 1996–97 season, Keegan made one signing, securing the services of England striker Alan Shearer for a then-world record transfer fee of £15 million", "id": "6803863" }, { "contents": "1996–97 Newcastle United F.C. season\n\n\n...I think Kevin wanted it free-flowing in all departments and that doesn't necessarily happen.\" Keegan responded to the previous season's disappointment by breaking the world record transfer fee to sign centre forward Alan Shearer from Blackburn Rovers for £15 million. Shearer, whose five goals made him the top scorer in Euro 96, had supported Newcastle since childhood – he had been a ball-boy at St James' Park on the day that Keegan had left in a helicopter after his final Newcastle appearance as a player.", "id": "1207050" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nin the games.\" Shearer captained his school team and helped a Newcastle City Schools team win a seven-a-side tournament at St James' Park, before joining the amateur Wallsend Boys Club as a teenager. It was while playing for the Wallsend club that he was spotted by Southampton's scout, Jack Hixon, which resulted in Shearer spending his summers training with the club's youth team, a time he would later refer to as \"the making of me\". Shearer had successful trials for First Division clubs", "id": "13592505" }, { "contents": "Duncan Shearer\n\n\nFavourites\" during the club's centenary in 2008. However, he was unable to prevent Huddersfield's relegation to the Third Division at the end of the 1987–88 season. Weeks before this, the unrelated English striker Alan Shearer (aged 17) had scored a hat-trick in the First Division for Southampton against Arsenal, a game which Arsenal captain Tony Adams missed through injury. In his autobiography 11 years later, Adams said that he had followed the progress of the game on Ceefax and mistakingly believed that the Shearer who scored", "id": "3716405" }, { "contents": "David Hirst (footballer)\n\n\nHe came on at half-time and within three minutes of the restart he scored his first (and only) England goal. With Gary Lineker injured, he lined up with Alan Shearer against France at Wembley. Bryan Robson said that, \"It's not a question of who will replace Lineker, but who will partner David Hirst\". It became Hirst's third and final England match. Although he was selected for more England squads, injuries kept him out of the team. Manchester United boss Alex Ferguson tried six", "id": "18892949" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nthrough to May due to injury and England's World Cup qualification chances were hit by a run of poor form. Returning to fitness for the 1993–94 season, he scored 31 goals from 40 games as Blackburn finished runners-up in the Premier League. His performances for the club led to him being named the Football Writers' Association Footballer of the Year for that season. On the international scene, England had failed to qualify for the 1994 World Cup finals, but Shearer added three more goals to his international tally before embarking", "id": "13592514" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nfive points out of a possible twenty-four. Shearer did not get the manager's job on permanent basis. Chris Hughton stepped up from the coaching staff to take charge of the quest to get Newcastle back into the Premier League, which was achieved at the first attempt as Newcastle finished top of the Championship in the 2009–10 season. Shearer is married to Lainya, whom he met whilst a Southampton player. The couple lived locally with her parents during Shearer's second year at the south coast club, and were married on", "id": "13592557" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nagainst Portugal, but did so as England defeated Germany 1–0 in Charleroi, ensuring that England beat their European neighbours for the first time since the 1966 World Cup Final. To remain in the tournament, England only required a draw against Romania in the final group match, and Shearer scored a penalty as England went in at half-time 2–1 up, but Romania ultimately won 3–2. England's tournament was over, and so was Shearer's international career. From his 63 caps, he captained the team 34 times and scored", "id": "13592545" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nrecord return which is still unbeaten. The striker's goals at this level, coupled with his club form, meant he was soon promoted to the senior squad by coach Graham Taylor. Marking his debut in the 2–0 win against France in February 1992 with a goal, he made his only appearance for the England B team a month later. Due to replace Gary Lineker, who retired from international action after UEFA Euro 1992, in the England attack, Shearer played only intermittently in the qualifying campaign for the 1994 FIFA World Cup", "id": "13592538" }, { "contents": "1993 Trans-Tasman Test series\n\n\n's Canberra Raiders team mate and New South Wales captain Laurie Daley. The test series took place following the 1993 State of Origin series which was won by NSW. Dale Shearer's performances at fullback for Qld saw him earn a test recall in front of well performed World Cup and NSW fullback Tim Brasher (though Shearer had been selected at centre for all 3 Ashes series tests in 1992 but withdrew from all 3 with injury). Bradley Clyde, who had not played in the Origin series due to injury was also recalled to", "id": "16616631" }, { "contents": "Glenn Hoddle\n\n\nRedknapp resigned, following which Hoddle also left the club. In June 2016, after England's 2–1 loss to Iceland at Euro 2016 and manager Roy Hodgson's subsequent resignation, Harry Redknapp and Alan Shearer both put forward Hoddle as a candidate for the job before Sam Allardyce was appointed. Hoddle has done punditry work since his retirement from coaching. He has worked for ESPN, ITV Sport and BT Sport. Hoddle began working with ESPN during Euro 2012 as a pundit. Since then, he has worked with ITV for the 2014", "id": "8847620" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nhim onto the pitch following the striker's testimonial in May 2006 as he performed a lap of honour at St James' Park. On 6 December 2000, Shearer was given Honorary Freedom of the City of Newcastle upon Tyne, with the citation \"in recognition of his role as captain of Newcastle United Football Club and as former captain of England which have enhanced the reputation of the City\". Shearer was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2001 Queen's Birthday Honours and Commander of the", "id": "13592559" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nhis four years in the Southampton first team, Shearer made a total of 158 appearances in all competitions, scoring 43 goals. Despite making just one goalless appearance as England failed to progress past the Euro 1992 group stages, Shearer was soon subject to an English transfer record-breaking £3.6 million bid from Blackburn Rovers. Although there was also interest from Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson, Blackburn benefactor Jack Walker's millions were enough to prise the striker from the \"Saints\", and Shearer moved north to Ewood Park in the", "id": "13592512" }, { "contents": "Andy Cole\n\n\nof the season to help United win the Premier League title for the third time in four years. He also played in their FA Cup final victory to become part of England's first ever side to win the double twice. Before the 1996–97 season began, Cole had to deal with being offered to Blackburn Rovers as part-exchange in a £12 million deal that would have brought Alan Shearer to Old Trafford, but the offer was rejected and Shearer joined Newcastle instead. Despite Alex Ferguson's clear indication to Cole that he", "id": "9629547" }, { "contents": "Shearer's Bar\n\n\nShearer's Bar is the former name of a sports bar owned by Newcastle United and forming part of St James' Park, the team's stadium in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. It was named in honour of the club's all-time top scorer, Alan Shearer. The bar was renamed Nine in July 2013 by the club, who said that popularity of the venue had \"dwindled\". The bar was opened in December 2004 and became an important part of the features at St James' Park. It is", "id": "15298144" }, { "contents": "Kevin Keegan\n\n\nrelationship between the pair. In April 2003, it was named as Quote of the Decade in the Premier League 10 Seasons Awards and Most Memorable Quote in the 20 Seasons Awards in May 2012. It also appeared in Channel 4's \"100 Greatest Sporting Moments\". Keegan then broke the world transfer fee record by signing Blackburn Rovers and England striker Alan Shearer in July 1996. Shearer, who had been the Premier League's top scorer in the last two seasons, was born in Newcastle and had grown up as a fan", "id": "826455" }, { "contents": "England national football team\n\n\nBetween 1994 and 1996, Terry Venables managed the team. At UEFA Euro 1996, held in England, they equalled their best performance at a European Championship, reaching the semi-finals as they did in 1968, before exiting via a penalty shoot-out loss to Germany. England striker Alan Shearer was the tournament's top scorer with five goals. Venables resigned following investigations into his financial activities. Venables' successor, Glenn Hoddle, similarly left the job for non-footballing reasons after just one international tournament – the 1998", "id": "9748695" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nmiddle of 1992. His first season with Blackburn was mixed – he missed half of it through injury after snapping his right anterior cruciate ligament in a match against Leeds United in December 1992, but scored a prolific 16 goals in the 21 games in which he did feature. Shearer also became a regular in the England team this season and scored his second international goal; it came in a 4–0 1994 FIFA World Cup qualifier win over Turkey in November. The season ended sourly, however, as Shearer was forced to miss January", "id": "13592513" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nover from head coach Chris Hughton who was in temporary charge while the permanent manager Joe Kinnear recovered from heart surgery, having taken ill on 7 February. Shearer stated \"It's a club I love and I don't want them to go down. I'll do everything I can to stop that.\" Shearer was unveiled at a press conference the following day by club managing director Derek Llambias. In explaining his acceptance of a managerial role at Newcastle at this time, Shearer stated that he would not have done this for", "id": "13592552" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nwas being run in the wake of the departure of Kevin Keegan. These reports were denied by the club. Shearer features in EA Sports' \"FIFA\" video game series; he was included in the \"FIFA 15\" Ultimate Team Legends. During his playing days, Shearer had been involved with the children's charity the NSPCC, taking part in the organisation's Full Stop campaign in 1999. Since retiring from football Shearer has also done work for several charities both nationally and in the Newcastle area. In his testimonial match", "id": "13592565" }, { "contents": "2005–06 Newcastle United F.C. season\n\n\n. The fee, £17 million, surpassed Newcastle's previous record of £15 million for Alan Shearer from Blackburn in 1996. In the closing hours of the transfer window, the club re-signed Nolberto Solano from Aston Villa. Souness's decision to pair Shearer and Owen together up front proved to be lethal, but Owen broke his fourth metatarsal bone in his foot after a clash with Paul Robinson in a match against Tottenham Hotspur, keeping him out for the rest of the season. With Owen injured the team's", "id": "18086094" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\ndue to injury and the team failed to reach the competition finals. UEFA Euro 1996 was a more positive experience for both Shearer and England. With England not required to qualify as hosts, Shearer had not scored in 12 games in the 21 months prior, and even his overall goalscoring record for England did not look too impressive so far, with five goals in 23 games. However, he found the net in the 22nd minute of the first game, against Switzerland. Scoring once in the following game against Scotland and twice", "id": "13592539" }, { "contents": "Teddy Sheringham\n\n\nthe 2000 European Championships by then manager Kevin Keegan, but the retirement of Shearer (despite being four years younger than Sheringham) from international football after that tournament and the arrival of new manager Sven-Göran Eriksson in 2001 saw a return to international favour for him. He was often deployed as a tactical substitute late in games by Eriksson, valued for his ability to hold the ball up and create intelligent play. In 2001, Sheringham scored an important goal for England against Greece in a World Cup qualifying match within 15 seconds", "id": "2997070" }, { "contents": "Ruud Gullit\n\n\n, chairman Ken Bates famously said of Gullit, \"I didn't like his arrogance – in fact I never liked him.\" In August 1998, Gullit was named manager of Newcastle United two games into the new league season and reached the 1999 FA Cup Final in his first year. Fans remained supportive despite a poor run of results, although a well-publicised contretemps with the team's top scorer Alan Shearer and captain Robert Lee did not put him in a favourable light. Gullit even refused to assign Lee a squad", "id": "13592616" }, { "contents": "Scott Parker\n\n\ndefeat on 25 March 2006. Later that month he was diagnosed with glandular fever, putting an end to his season. The timing was especially unfortunate for Parker, who had been playing well for Newcastle, as it ended any hopes he may have had of forcing his way into the 2006 FIFA World Cup. In July 2006, he was named Newcastle United's new captain by manager Glenn Roeder, succeeding the retired Alan Shearer. His first goal as captain came against Wigan Athletic on 19 August 2006, in a 2–1 win", "id": "14327157" }, { "contents": "History of football in England\n\n\n. United's main challengers for the title in the Premier League's first few years were Blackburn Rovers, led by star striker Alan Shearer, also won their first league title since World War I in 1994–95, and Newcastle United, who famously conceded a 10-point lead at Christmas to lose the title to United in 1995–96. Newcastle had reached the Premiership in 1993 as Division One champions, and in their first Premiership campaign finished third to qualify for the UEFA Cup. They finished second in 1996 and again in 1997, but by", "id": "3652862" }, { "contents": "1992–93 FA Premier League\n\n\nPremier League as an attempt by the Football Association to \"hijack\" the First Division. Shortly before the season began, newly promoted Blackburn Rovers signed Southampton's 21-year-old England international striker Alan Shearer for a new British record fee variously reported as £3.3 million, £3.4 million, or £3.6 million. Several other players moved for fees of £2 million or more, including Arsenal's David Rocastle, who joined Leeds United, Dean Saunders, who moved from Liverpool to Aston Villa, and Teddy Sheringham, who", "id": "12442383" }, { "contents": "Darren Anderton\n\n\nhappy at the prospect of losing another key player as he had already lost Jürgen Klinsmann and Gheorghe Popescu that summer; and Nick Barmby was on the verge of joining Middlesbrough. Despite missing most of the 1995–96 season through injury, Anderton played an important part in the Euro 96 England team that reached the semi-finals and included players like Paul Gascoigne, Alan Shearer, Steve McManaman and Teddy Sheringham. In the semi final against Germany, the match went to golden goal extra time. Anderton came within inches of putting England into", "id": "4331581" }, { "contents": "Wallsend Boys Club\n\n\nJanuary which damaged one of the walls of the building. Professional players to have played for the club include: The club has had a representative at four of the six FIFA World Cup finals since 1986, with the two exceptions coming in 1994, when the England national football team did not qualify, and 2002. In 1986 and 1990 Peter Beardsley starred for England. In 1998 Alan Shearer was England captain. Michael Carrick made appearances for England in both the 2006 and 2010 tournaments. Fraser Forster was in the 2014 squad but", "id": "21182372" }, { "contents": "Harry Kane\n\n\n\". Clive Allen, who coached him at Tottenham, stated that \"one thing I'd say about him, which unfortunately you don't say about a lot of young footballers, is that he had a passion for the game. He loves football, he loves playing, he loves scoring goals\". His former Tottenham under-21 coach Les Ferdinand likened Kane's movement to their former forward Teddy Sheringham, and the power and accuracy of his shots to Alan Shearer. Kane's style of play has been compared to that of", "id": "1925319" }, { "contents": "Kieron Dyer\n\n\nthat he would soon rejoin for Ipswich. After representing England at Youth, Under 21 and \"B\" level, Dyer's debut for the senior team came on 4 September 1999 when he started in England's 6–0 win against Luxembourg. He was deployed out of position at right back, and was replaced by Gary Neville at half-time after injuring himself while setting up Alan Shearer's third goal of the match. The injury was not serious and he was able to make his second England appearance four days later, coming", "id": "17666181" }, { "contents": "1996–97 Blackburn Rovers F.C. season\n\n\nthe end of the season, when he handed over the reins to Roy Hodgson after Sampdoria's Sven-Göran Eriksson lied about accepting the manager's job and joined Lazio instead. Parkes steered Blackburn to safety as they finished 13th. The world record £15 million sale of striker Alan Shearer to Newcastle United was seen as the biggest factor in Blackburn's lowest top flight finish since they returned to the elite in 1992. However, his strike-partner Chris Sutton helped keep the club alive after recovering from a drastic loss of", "id": "7811146" }, { "contents": "Michael Owen\n\n\nmuch of the campaign as England struggled, with Hoddle being replaced by Kevin Keegan. On 4 September 1999, he scored his first goal at Wembley Stadium in a 6–0 win over Luxembourg. At the finals, Owen scored once in three matches, as England were knocked out at the group stage. After Alan Shearer's retirement, Owen took over as England's senior striker under new manager Sven-Göran Eriksson. He scored six times during 2002 World Cup qualifying, including a hat-trick against Germany at Munich's Olympiastadion", "id": "21886807" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nyet to start the UEFA Pro Licence course, which is required to be permitted to manage a team in the Premier League and European competition. Reflecting his desire for personal time off to \"enjoy life\", in July 2006 he turned down a coaching role with England, citing his BBC commitments and desire to be away from the pressure of a job within football. Despite this, Shearer was often linked in the media with managerial or coaching positions at his three former clubs. Shearer took a brief role in the dugout for", "id": "13592550" }, { "contents": "History of Southampton F.C.\n\n\nappearances for the England national team – he finally retired in 2002 at the age of 33. During his time with the Saints, Le Tissier was approached more than once by several bigger clubs (including Manchester United) but chose to stick with the Saints despite never winning a major trophy or experiencing European football with them. From 1989 to 1992, Le Tissier was regularly partnered up front by another notable player, Alan Shearer, who as a 17-year-old had scored a hat-trick on his Saints debut against Arsenal in", "id": "15948278" }, { "contents": "Sir Bobby Robson Trophy match\n\n\nNewcastle United, picking up on Alan Shearer's reply of \"I know as much as you do,\" to a pre-match question as to whether he would be installed as Newcastle manager for the forthcoming season beginning in 13 days, with the club being up for sale and with the first team without a manager, being in the care of coach Chris Hughton. Neither the Newcastle United owner Mike Ashley or managing director Derek Llambias were in attendance at the charity match. Having left England after Italia '90, Sir", "id": "19612022" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nChancellor Liam Donaldson stated \"Newcastle United are my team. Alan Shearer is more than just a local legend, he's probably one of the greatest footballers of all time\". On 12 September 2016, a statue of Shearer's likeness was unveiled outside St James' Park. It was sculpted by Tom Maley, and paid for by the Shepherd family. After his retirement and following guest appearances, Shearer became a regular pundit for the BBC's \"Match of the Day\". He also formed part of the team which", "id": "13592563" }, { "contents": "Gary McAllister\n\n\ntournament, scoring in a 3–0 win over the CIS. However, Scotland did not qualify from their group. Scotland failed to qualify for the 1994 FIFA World Cup but did qualify for UEFA Euro 1996 in England, with McAllister the captain of the team. Scotland's second match of the group stage was against England at Wembley Stadium. In the second half Scotland, trailing 0–1 to an Alan Shearer goal, were awarded a penalty. McAllister's kick was saved by David Seaman and Scotland lost 0–2. The team won their", "id": "19492391" }, { "contents": "David Seaman\n\n\nEngland's quarter-final against Spain ended scoreless, Seaman saved Miguel Angel Nadal's kick in the shootout to knock Spain out of the tournament. England eventually were eliminated in the semi-final by Germany on penalties,after Andreas Köpke saved the penalty taken by Gareth Southgate. Seaman was named alongside Golden Boot winner Alan Shearer and winger Steve McManaman in the UEFA \"Team of the Tournament\". Euro 96 sponsor Philips named him \"Player of the Tournament\". Seaman remained first choice under the management of Glenn Hoddle for", "id": "7321893" }, { "contents": "1998 FA Cup Final\n\n\nand so has the mixture between the foreign and English players.\" Wenger reserved praise for the goalscorers Overmars (\"a world-class player\") and Anelka (\"Nicolas is very young. But you saw in the second half today what he can do\"), and felt the turning point in the match was Shearer's shot hitting the post. He sympathised with Newcastle, as did his captain, Adams who said afterwards: \"The team and their fans did everything they could out there, but it was", "id": "10844688" }, { "contents": "David McMahon (association footballer)\n\n\nabout the role of striker from watching England international Alan Shearer in training, but likened himself more to Newcastle's Scotland international Duncan Ferguson, \"because I am taller and like to battle for things in the air.\" Brian Kerr, then manager of Ireland under-17s, described McMahon as honest and hard-working, \"not the most skilful player, but will get goals\", but Darlington manager Gary Bennett believed there was more to his game: that he and strike partner John Williams both had enough skill to play a", "id": "5423888" }, { "contents": "Andy Carroll\n\n\nUEFA Euro 2012. He opened the scoring for England with a powerful header in their second group match against Sweden, which England went on to win 3–2. Carroll has been compared to Newcastle's record goalscorer Alan Shearer, Ivory Coast striker Didier Drogba and former Italy forward Christian Vieri. He has also been referred to as a classic centre forward, owing to his strength, powerful shot and excellent heading ability. Former Newcastle manager and Liverpool player Kevin Keegan stated \"he is probably in the top three headers of a ball I", "id": "11961542" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\n-chasing Manchester United. On the opening day of the 1999–2000 season, Shearer received the first red card of his career in his 100th appearance for Newcastle. After dropping Shearer to the bench in a Tyne-Wear derby loss against Sunderland, the unpopular Gullit resigned to be replaced by the 66-year-old Bobby Robson. Despite Gullit giving Shearer the captain's armband, reports of a rift between club captain and manager were rife, Gullit's decision to drop Shearer proved deeply unpopular with fans and his departure capped a dismal start", "id": "13592525" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nAn almost injury-free season helped Shearer improve on his previous year's tally in the 1998–99 season, the striker converting 14 goals in 30 league games and replacing Rob Lee as Newcastle captain, but Newcastle finished 13th again, with Ruud Gullit having replaced Kenny Dalglish just after the season got underway. He also helped Newcastle to a second consecutive FA Cup final and qualification for the following season's UEFA Cup, scoring twice in the semi-final against Tottenham Hotspur, but they once again lost, this time 2–0 to treble", "id": "13592524" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nhis final three games under Glenn Roeder. Shearer had rejected offers of coaching or assistant roles at Newcastle under both the returning Kevin Keegan in February 2008 and Joe Kinnear in November 2008. Shearer had previously had talks about, but never been offered, a full-time manager's role at Newcastle until his appointment on 1 April 2009. In a surprise move, late on 1 April 2009, it was announced that Shearer would become the manager of his former club Newcastle United for the remaining eight games of the season, taking", "id": "13592551" }, { "contents": "Fabio Cannavaro\n\n\nnational team on 22 January 1997, in a friendly match against Northern Ireland. The same year, he earned plaudits for his handling of England striker Alan Shearer in a World Cup qualifying game at Wembley Stadium. Shearer was then considered by the partisan English crowd to be the best striker in the world, and thought he would make fun of the inexperienced Italian defender. Nevertheless, in a display ranking alongside those of the very best Italian defenders Claudio Gentile and Franco Baresi, Cannavaro managed to keep Shearer quiet for the whole game", "id": "3625067" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\n, with media sources claiming that video footage showed him intentionally kicking Neil Lennon in the head following a challenge. The referee of the game took no action against Shearer, and he was then cleared of all charges by the FA, with Lennon giving evidence in the player's defence. Former Football Association chief Graham Kelly, who brought the charges against the player, later claimed in his autobiography that Shearer had threatened to withdraw himself from the 1998 World Cup squad if the charges were upheld, a claim strenuously denied by Shearer.", "id": "13592523" }, { "contents": "History of the Romania national football team\n\n\nminnows Tunisia. Adrian Ilie scored the only goal with a fine chip in their first match against Colombia at Lyon's Stade Gerland. In Toulouse, they met an England side starting with prodigal striker Michael Owen on the bench, with Teddy Sheringham preferred alongside Alan Shearer. A mistake by Tony Adams was punished by Viorel Moldovan, who played for Coventry City, before Owen came on to claim an equalizer. But Romania won with a scrappy late goal from Dan Petrescu, also playing in England with Chelsea, fighting off his club", "id": "16435718" }, { "contents": "John Barnes (footballer)\n\n\nNewcastle United, although an approach had already been made by Harry Redknapp of West Ham; Barnes had agreed in principle to join them until at the final moment Dalglish called him and Barnes changed his mind. In the 1997–98 season Barnes played up front mostly, deputising for Alan Shearer after Shearer was injured for most of the season, and Barnes ended up Newcastle's top league scorer with six goals, which highlighted the Magpies' lack of ability to score in the absence of Shearer and Ferdinand (who had been sold along with", "id": "19616669" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\ncould not find a more iconic person than Alan, not just for what he has done in football but for all the extra work he tirelessly does for charity and communities. I am delighted he has accepted the role of Deputy Lieutenant because he is a real role model. I have promised him he is not going to have to do too much, but even if it is just one occasion a year he is the perfect choice\" On 7 December 2009, Shearer was made a Doctor of Civil Law by Newcastle University.", "id": "13592562" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nLaw of Northumbria and Newcastle Universities. Shearer was born in Gosforth, Newcastle, in 1970 to working-class parents Alan and Anne Shearer. His father, a sheet-metal worker, encouraged a keen Shearer to play football in his youth, and the young player continued with the sport as he progressed through school. He was educated at Gosforth Central Middle School and Gosforth High School. Growing up playing on the streets of his hometown, he originally played in midfield because \"it meant [he] could get more involved", "id": "13592504" }, { "contents": "Paul Kitson\n\n\n. Newcastle finished second that season after being overhauled in the second half campaign by a Manchester United side who sealed the title by a five-point margin barely four months after Newcastle had led by 10 points, but Kitson's part in Newcastle's exciting though ultimately disappointing campaign had been minimal as he had played just seven league games and scored twice. But he remained loyal to the Magpies even after another blow at the end of July 1996 – the arrival of £15 million world record signing Alan Shearer. He managed three", "id": "19054464" }, { "contents": "Ray Harford\n\n\nthe Premier League for much of the season. During the summer of 1996, Alan Shearer was sold to Newcastle United for a then world record fee of £15 million, and Harford failed to adequately replace him. Harford stated that \"I'm told we need a big name. Engelbert Humperdinck is a big name but it doesn't mean he can play football.\" The 1996–97 season also started badly for Blackburn. They failed to win any of their first ten games and were knocked out of the League Cup by Division", "id": "5365351" }, { "contents": "Patrick Kluivert\n\n\nagain featured for Barca in a legends game against Uganda all stars where he, in lobbing the ball, scored an amazing goal. Kluivert joined Newcastle United on a free transfer in July 2004. He stated that his reasons for joining Newcastle was due to the overwhelming reaction he received whilst playing for Barcelona against Newcastle during a pre season friendly as well as teaming up with Newcastle's star players such as Alan Shearer. Kluivert scored some classy and crucial goals at and away from St James's Park namely in winning strikes against both", "id": "21654890" }, { "contents": "Duncan Shearer\n\n\nbetween 1994 and 1995, scoring two goals including an important opening strike in an away win over Finland which helped the national side qualify for Euro 96, although Shearer did not make the squad for that tournament. The senior team was his first experience of international football, having never played at any age-group level. He achieved a childhood ambition when he played in the national team alongside John McGinlay, a childhood friend also from Fort William. In season 1999–00 he began to concentrate more on coaching than playing, and was", "id": "3716411" }, { "contents": "Les Ferdinand\n\n\nscored 50 goals in only 84 games at Newcastle, forming a successful partnership with Alan Shearer. He was and indeed is still very highly thought of by Newcastle United. Ferdinand received a standing ovation when he returned to St. James' Park as a Tottenham player, trying to put Alan Shearer's number 9 shirt on to complete a lap of honour, he broke down in tears and could only manage to put the shirt on inside out and back to front before being helped from the field. Ferdinand returned again, when he", "id": "2996528" }, { "contents": "David Platt (footballer)\n\n\nTurkey, San Marino, the Netherlands and Norway. The qualifiers began at home to Norway. England dominated the game and Platt carried the goal threat, with Alan Shearer and Ian Wright struggling to find form. He scored the opening goal after an hour. England dominated the remainder of the game and were unlucky to concede to a long-range shot from Kjetil Rekdal. Platt continued his drive from midfield in wins over Turkey at home (4-0) and San Marino (6-0). Platt scored four", "id": "16718350" }, { "contents": "Jason Wilcox\n\n\n-pound investments of Jack Walker. He played an important part in the title-winning Blackburn team of 1995. Playing on the left flank with attacking fullback Graeme Le Saux behind him and Stuart Ripley on the opposite flank, they forged a strong attacking line-up with Alan Shearer and Chris Sutton. International recognition was harder to come by for Wilcox and he managed only 3 international caps despite his effective partnership with Shearer, Le Saux and Tim Sherwood. Lengthy injury problems restricted his effectiveness in subsequent seasons and, after experiencing", "id": "14527253" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nclub's form, and Newcastle finished just 13th in the Premier League. However, United (now managed by Shearer's old boss at Blackburn, Kenny Dalglish) had a good run in the FA Cup; Shearer scored the winning goal in a semi-final victory over Sheffield United as the team reached the final. The team were unable to get on the scoresheet at Wembley, and lost the game 2–0 to Arsenal. An incident during a game against Leicester City in the league saw Shearer charged with misconduct by the FA", "id": "13592522" }, { "contents": "Aleksandar Mitrović (footballer)\n\n\nhim the competition's top scorer, and 28 in all competitions. On 22 March 2015, he scored the team's only goal in the 2–1 Belgian Cup Final loss to Club Brugge KV in Brussels. On 21 July 2015, Mitrović joined Newcastle United on a five-year contract for a reported £13 million, saying he hoped to be able to play like club legend Alan Shearer. He made his debut on 9 August as Newcastle began the season with a 2–2 draw against Southampton at St James' Park, playing", "id": "20923735" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nWest Bromwich Albion, Manchester City and Newcastle United, before being offered a youth contract with Southampton in April 1986. Shearer was promoted to the first team after spending two years with the youth squad. He made his professional debut for Southampton on 26 March 1988, coming on as a substitute in a First Division fixture at Chelsea, before prompting national headlines in his full debut at The Dell two weeks later. He scored a hat-trick, helping the team to a 4–2 victory against Arsenal, thus becoming the youngest player", "id": "13592506" }, { "contents": "James Milner\n\n\ndo what was \"in the club's best interest\" and in July 2004, he agreed a five-year contract with Newcastle. Milner made his first appearance for Newcastle United during their pre-season tour of Asia, scoring his first goal for the club in a 1–1 draw against Kitchee, in Hong Kong. During this tour, he took the opportunity to observe how Newcastle striker Alan Shearer dealt with attention from fans and the media. He said that his association with people like Shearer gave him a better idea of", "id": "1860603" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nretain the ball and provide opportunities for teammates. Playing as a lone striker between wide men, Rod Wallace and Matt Le Tissier, Shearer scored three goals in 26 appearances in the 1989–90 season, and in the next, four goals in 36 games. His performances in the centre of the \"Saints\" attack were soon recognised by the fans, who voted him their Player of the Year for 1991. In the middle of 1991, Shearer was a member of the England national under-21 football squad in the Toulon Tournament in Toulon", "id": "13592508" }, { "contents": "Teddy Sheringham\n\n\n, creating play and providing key passes, forming the link between Shearer and the England midfield. The pairing came to be known as 'The SAS' ('Shearer and Sheringham') and their most successful time together came in the 1996 European Championships, held in England. Their most famous contribution was in the 4–1 victory over the Netherlands, a game in the opening group stages in which they both scored twice against one of the strongest teams in the tournament. Though England were eventually knocked out in the semi-finals", "id": "2997067" }, { "contents": "History of the England national football team\n\n\ninto Euro 2000 after a 2–1 aggregate playoff win over Scotland. At the finals in Belgium and the Netherlands, a lacklustre England failed to get beyond the group stage, losing to both Portugal and Romania after leading in each game. After England's exit, Alan Shearer retired from international football, he had announced his intentions before the tournament, and no-one could persuade him to change his mind. On 7 October 2000, shortly after losing the opening World Cup qualifier to Germany in the last-ever game at Wembley", "id": "15089411" }, { "contents": "Premier League 10 Seasons Awards\n\n\nrepresented, with five players. The teams were as follows: English striker Alan Shearer was named Domestic Player of the Decade in the main 10 Seasons awards announcements, in addition to being given the Outstanding Contribution to the FA Premier League award. Two weeks later he was also named as the Overall Player of the Decade. In the first decade, Shearer played for Blackburn Rovers, and then Newcastle United. Shearer has been described as a classic English centre-forward with great shooting power, a single-minded striker who could", "id": "11856460" }, { "contents": "Wartime League\n\n\narguments debate that a player who exceeds one's record through their wartime matches should nonetheless be seen as the club's highest goal scorer or appearance having been part of the team's squad even if only for a short time. The most recent argument relates to the goal-difference between Jackie Milburn's and Alan Shearer's Newcastle United goal-scoring records. When counting Jackie's wartime matches, he scored a total of 238 professional goals for Newcastle United FC. In May 2005, Alan Shearer finished his career at 206 goals", "id": "17626256" }, { "contents": "Jon Dahl Tomasson\n\n\nas the perfect link-up player to England national team striker Alan Shearer. The partnership initially worked well, with Tomasson impressing during a pre-season friendly tournament in the Republic of Ireland. However, a career threatening injury to Shearer, combined with the controversial transfer of popular striker Les Ferdinand to Tottenham Hotspur, meant that Tomasson was moved from his traditional attacking midfield position to that of striker. He struggled to adapt to his new position on the field, and to the English game, due to his lack of physical", "id": "19324628" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\ncovered the World Cups and European Championships from 2006 onwards for the BBC. Former Newcastle chairman Freddy Shepherd announced that, after Shearer finished the 2005–06 season as Newcastle's caretaker assistant manager, he would become the club's \"Sporting Ambassador\" for the 2006–07 season. However, in September 2008, it was reported that Shearer was removed from this largely honorary position by the club's owner Mike Ashley, despite protests from players such as Steven Taylor and Damien Duff, due to Shearer's criticism of the way in which the club", "id": "13592564" }, { "contents": "1998 FA Cup Final\n\n\nthe final that Bergkamp had resumed training and \"medically he looked all right\", but the player received a further setback when he suffered a reaction to his hamstring. He ruled himself out of the match and told reporters: \"I'm very disappointed. As a little boy in Holland I always watched the FA Cup final. And I used to dream about playing in it myself one day.\" Ian Wright was listed as Bergkamp's probable replacement to partner Anelka. Newcastle had their own issues surrounding Shearer. The England", "id": "10844676" }, { "contents": "2008–09 in English football\n\n\n's surprise resignation in December; whilst their final points tally wasn't spectacular, they had the satisfaction of being the top North-East team in football after both Middlesbrough and Newcastle United were relegated, ending 11 and 16 year spells in the top flight respectively, the latter going through four managers in Kevin Keegan, Joe Kinnear, Chris Hughton and even former striker Alan Shearer during the campaign. Despite a brilliant start to the season which saw them as high as third place in October, Hull City won just 1 of their", "id": "1311754" }, { "contents": "1996 FA Charity Shield\n\n\nfrom Eric Cantona, Nicky Butt, David Beckham and Roy Keane. The game saw new signings Jordi Cruyff and Karel Poborský make their debuts for Manchester United, though neither of these players had particularly successful careers at Old Trafford and both had left the club within four years. The day before the game had seen the surprise sale of one of Manchester United's longest serving players — Lee Sharpe. The game saw Newcastle United give a debut to £15 million world record signing Alan Shearer, who would remain at the club until", "id": "2797098" }, { "contents": "UEFA Euro 2016 knockout phase\n\n\nsection begin=g6 /section end=g6 / section begin=g7 /section end=g7 / The match has been described as one of England's worst defeats ever. Former footballer and Talksport presenter Stan Collymore, who was commentating on the game, panned the England team, reserving special criticism for goalkeeper Joe Hart and captain Wayne Rooney. Former England international and BBC Sport pundit Alan Shearer described it as the worst performance he had ever seen from an England team. The defeat was called England's most shocking since losing 1–0 to", "id": "11344909" }, { "contents": "Maurice E. Shearer\n\n\nApplication at Annapolis, Maryland, with classmates Holland Smith, Ralph S. Keyser and Andrew B. Drum. In July, Shearer sailed for duty to be the commander of the 35 man Marine detachment on Midway Island. In May 1908, he was selected for promotion to first lieutenant and to the rank of captain in June 1916. During World War I, forces under Major Shearer's command made an attack on Belleau Wood, finally clearing that forest of Germans. On 26 June 1918, he sent a now famous report: \"", "id": "8315540" }, { "contents": "Newcastle upon Tyne\n\n\nF.C. became Football League members in 1893. They have won four top division titles (the first in 1905 and the most recent in 1927), six FA Cups (the first in 1910 and the most recent in 1955) and the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup in 1969. They broke the world transfer record in 1996 by paying £15 million for Blackburn Rovers and England striker Alan Shearer, one of the most prolific goalscorers of that era. In 2017 Newcastle was the venue for the 2017 Freedom City festival. The 2017", "id": "20529704" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\ngame and came off the bench to score a penalty, helping Newcastle win the game 3–2. The match was a sell-out, and saw Shearer perform a lap of honour at the end with his family, with his young son notably covering his ears due to the volume of noise produced by the crowd in tribute. Shearer's international career began in 1990 when he was handed a callup to the England under-21 squad under Dave Sexton. During his time with the squad, he scored 13 times in 11 games, a", "id": "13592537" }, { "contents": "2011–12 Cardiff City F.C. season\n\n\nserving manager in the Championship having held his post since May 2005. The club held talks with former England and Newcastle United captain Alan Shearer to replace Jones but he rejected the job despite stating that he was impressed with the \"vision, ambition and determination of the owner Dato Chan Tien Ghee and the board\". The \"Bluebirds\" instead approached Championship rivals Watford for permission to speak to their manager Malky Mackay, which was initially rejected. However, after the two clubs agreed a compensation fee, Mackay was officially appointed as", "id": "7599659" }, { "contents": "Kevin Keegan\n\n\nto Michael Owen, stating, \"He's not scared to give his opinion when he's right, and he's not scared to say what he feels. He's a tremendous professional, and he trains properly every day.\" Keegan announced on 22 January that he and Alan Shearer held talks about the two linking up with Shearer as his assistant, but decided against the idea, leaving the door open for him to take other roles he was interested in. Keegan's first eight games back at Newcastle passed without a", "id": "826473" }, { "contents": "Transfer (association football)\n\n\n£3.6 million Alan Shearer moved to Blackburn Rovers from Southampton, a decade after the world's first £3 million transfer. Lentini's transfer remained intact the world record fee for the next four years, although the national record was broken more than once in many countries including England. Shearer's £3.6million record fee was narrowly eclipsed 12 months later when Manchester United signed Roy Keane from Nottingham Forest for £3.75 million. In 1994, Blackburn Rovers paid a record £5 million for Chris Sutton from Norwich City, a decade", "id": "11200095" }, { "contents": "Roy Hodgson\n\n\nagainst Costa Rica to finish bottom of Group D. Hodgson named Rooney as the new captain of England in August 2014, following the retirement of Steven Gerrard from international football. Hodgson's first match after the World Cup was a 1–0 win against Norway in an international friendly match at Wembley on 3 September 2014. During the match, England made only two shots on target. Hodgson was infuriated when asked about this, describing the statistic as \"fucking bollocks\". Former England player, Alan Shearer, admitted that the match was so", "id": "12858624" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nto the season. The animosity between Shearer and Gullit was later confirmed by the latter, who reported telling the striker that he was \"...the most overrated player I have ever seen.\" Ironically, Robson had tried to sign Shearer for Barcelona in 1997, making a bid of £20million which would have seen Shearer break the world's transfer fee record for the second time in 12 months. However, then Newcastle manager Kenny Dalglish rejected the offer. In Robson's first match in charge, Shearer scored five goals in", "id": "13592526" }, { "contents": "Premier League 10 Seasons Awards\n\n\nin his talks with Alex Ferguson, he could not guarantee that Eric Cantona the Overseas Player of the Decade could be persuaded to let Shearer take penalty kicks. Shearer gained a second PFA Players' Player of the Year Award in April 1997, becoming just the second player to have received the PFA award twice, after Mark Hughes. After the 2000 European Championships, Shearer had retired from international football with England, having been England captain since 1998, and having made his senior début in 1992. Shearer was awarded the OBE in", "id": "11856465" }, { "contents": "Emile Heskey\n\n\nthe two matches, with former England international Alan Shearer commenting, \"Never in a million years did I expect to be discussing whether Emile Heskey should keep his place ahead of Wayne Rooney but the Wigan striker was outstanding over both matches.\" Heskey was called into manager Fabio Capello's first squad against Switzerland, but had to withdraw due to an injury. He was called into the squad for a friendly against the Czech Republic in August 2008 and came on as a 46th-minute substitute, in a match that finished 2–2", "id": "174986" }, { "contents": "Habib Beye\n\n\nUEFA Cup Final, a run which involved him putting in a star performance as a central defender against (his now former team) Newcastle United, where he was particularly effective against Newcastle's talisman striker Alan Shearer. He ended up on the losing side as Marseille lost the final to Valencia 2–0. He was also a beaten finalist in the 2006 French Cup against former club Paris Saint-Germain, a match which his team lost 2–1, and again in 2007 when his Marseille team lost on penalties to FC Sochaux. His", "id": "16217445" }, { "contents": "Stan Collymore\n\n\nseason in the Premier League, Collymore was called up to Terry Venables' England squad for the Umbro Cup in June 1995. He made his début at Wembley Stadium against Japan, partnering Alan Shearer in a 2–1 win. He won his second cap as a 90th minute substitute against Brazil. Collymore made his third and final appearance for England as a substitute in a 4–0 win over Moldova during qualification for the 1998 FIFA World Cup. Collymore contributed to his biography \"Stan: Tackling my demons\" with Oliver Holt. In 2005", "id": "3955590" }, { "contents": "Graeme Souness\n\n\nAt £8.2 million, Boumsong was his first big signing and Souness said he would replace Jonathan Woodgate in the Newcastle defence, which had conceded several leads earlier in the season. Newcastle were well aware of Boumsong prior to his move from Auxerre to Rangers on a free transfer. Robson had travelled to France to watch him, but he declined the opportunity to sign Boumsong. Liverpool were also interested in signing Boumsong. Robson's doubts were confirmed when Boumsong marked Alan Shearer in a pre-season game against Rangers. Shearer came", "id": "18029254" }, { "contents": "Saido Berahino\n\n\nrate of a goal every other match, including three to help the team qualify for the European Championship. Berahino has the all-time third-highest goal tally for the England under-21 side with 10 goals in 13 appearances, behind Francis Jeffers and Alan Shearer. On 6 November 2014, England manager Roy Hodgson – who promoted Berahino to the West Bromwich Albion first team in 2011 – named Berahino in his squad for the first time, ahead of a UEFA Euro 2016 qualifying match against Slovenia at Wembley Stadium on the 15th and", "id": "1000466" } ]

[ { "contents": "Tony Adams\n\n\n\"I have some resentment over the way Glenn Hoddle gave the captaincy to Alan Shearer instead of me but I can let that go. I reacted positively. I disagreed with him [Hoddle] and he thought Alan could get more penalties being a centre forward. People know my reaction to that\". Adams continued to play for the national side, however and he finally appeared in a World Cup finals in 1998. His international swansong was England's unsuccessful Euro 2000 campaign. With Shearer retiring from international football after the tournament", "id": "6104102" }, { "contents": "Tony Adams\n\n\nin defence, and after the retirement of Gary Lineker in 1992, Adams unofficially shared the captaincy of England with David Platt, though Adams became England captain outright before Euro 96, as Platt's place in the side became less secure. England reached the semi-finals of Euro 96, before losing on penalties to Germany. When England manager Glenn Hoddle took the Captain's armband from Adams and gave it to Alan Shearer it was a bitter pill for Adams to swallow. Speaking at a fans' forum in 2008 Adams remarked", "id": "6104101" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nThis time, Germany won from the spot; although Shearer scored, his teammate Gareth Southgate missed his kick and England were eliminated. Shearer's five goals made him the competition's top scorer, and together with teammates David Seaman and Steve McManaman, was listed in the official UEFA team of the tournament. The new England manager Glenn Hoddle appointed Shearer captain for the 1998 FIFA World Cup qualifier against Moldova on 1 September 1996, and the player held onto the captaincy after scoring once in that match and twice in the following game", "id": "13592541" }, { "contents": "Dimitar Berbatov\n\n\nhe consequently modelled himself after Marco van Basten, the Dutch forward for that team. However, the 1996 European Championship, held in England, gave Berbatov a new role model; the 15-year-old Berbatov began to look up to the English front man Alan Shearer, who played for Newcastle United. Berbatov's mother later spoke of her son's teenage dream of playing for Newcastle United, and said that his admiration for Shearer was such that, during these years, he slept in a Newcastle shirt. Berbatov began his youth", "id": "3905446" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\n's participation in what was to be Shearer's only World Cup tournament. In September 1999, Shearer scored his only England hat-trick in a UEFA Euro 2000 qualifier against Luxembourg. This helped England reach a play-off against Scotland; England won the game over two legs and in doing so qualified for the European Championships. By now, Shearer was approaching his 30th birthday, and he announced that he intended to retire from international football after the Euro 2000 tournament. Shearer did not score in England's opening 3–2 defeat", "id": "13592544" }, { "contents": "Southampton F.C.\n\n\nwas Alan Shearer, who at the age of 17 scored a hat-trick against Arsenal in a league match in April 1988. Shearer was a first team regular by 1990, and stayed with Southampton until July 1992, when he was sold to Blackburn Rovers for a national record of more than £3 million. He then became the most expensive footballer in the world when Blackburn sold him to Newcastle for £15 million in 1996. He also scored 30 times for England internationally. Southampton were founding members of the Premier League", "id": "3265953" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\ntime to play in England's UEFA European Championship campaign. After Euro 96, Manchester United again sought to sign Shearer, and attempted to enter the battle for his signature. However Manchester United chairman Martin Edwards stated that Blackburn Rovers refused to let Shearer go to Old Trafford. Ultimately Shearer joined his boyhood club: Newcastle United, Manchester United's title rivals. On 30 July 1996, for a world transfer record-breaking £15 million (equivalent to £ million today) Shearer joined his hometown club and league runners-up", "id": "13592519" }, { "contents": "History of the England national football team\n\n\nyear after his last game at club level. Hoddle selected Alan Shearer as captain, replacing Tony Adams, but also brought a number of emerging talents into the squad, including the Manchester United midfield trio of Paul Scholes, Nicky Butt and David Beckham, and central defenders Rio Ferdinand and Sol Campbell. Hoddle oversaw England's qualification for the 1998 World Cup (the first World Cup with 32 teams instead of 24) with a 0–0 draw against Italy at the Stadio Olimpico in Rome, and drew out a winning performance in the", "id": "15089406" }, { "contents": "History of the England national football team\n\n\nthe underwhelming performance at the World Cup, England suffered a poor start to the Euro 2000 qualifying tournament, and there was reported discontent between Hoddle and several senior players, most notably Shearer. Hoddle was dismissed on 2 February 1999, two days after an interview with \"The Sunday Times\" in which he spoke about his belief in reincarnation and claimed that disabled people were paying for sins in a previous life. Under considerable media and public pressure, the FA appointed former captain Kevin Keegan, who only just managed to get England", "id": "15089410" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nagainst Poland. He scored a total of five goals in England's successful qualification campaign for the World Cup, adding strikes against Georgia and away to Poland to his tally. Shearer was sidelined for much of the 1997–98 season, but recovered to play in the World Cup finals. With Michael Owen replacing Teddy Sheringham as Shearer's strike partner, Shearer's return saw him score England's first goal of the tournament, in a 2–0 win over Tunisia, his only goal in the three group matches. England faced long-time", "id": "13592542" }, { "contents": "Newcastle United F.C.\n\n\n. The attacking philosophy of Keegan led to the team being labelled \"The Entertainers\" by Sky Sports. Keegan took Newcastle to two consecutive runners-up finishes in the league in 1995–96 and 1996–97, coming very close to winning the title in the former season. This success was in part due to the talent of players like David Ginola, Les Ferdinand and Alan Shearer, who was signed on 30 July 1996 for a then world record fee of £15 million. Keegan left Newcastle in January 1997 and was replaced by Kenny", "id": "12636363" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nAlan Shearer, CBE, DL (born 13 August 1970) is an English retired footballer. He played as a striker in the top level of English league football for Southampton, Blackburn Rovers, Newcastle United and the England national team. He is Newcastle's and the Premier League's record goalscorer. He was named Football Writers' Association Player of the Year in 1994 and won the PFA Player of the Year award in 1995. In 1996, he was third in the FIFA World Player of the Year awards. In 2004", "id": "13592501" }, { "contents": "Teddy Sheringham\n\n\nmanager Terry Venables (1994–96) Sheringham came to be the preferred strike partner for Alan Shearer. During this time, England had a wealth of strikers with the likes of Andrew Cole, Ian Wright, a young Robbie Fowler and Les Ferdinand all battling to partner Shearer in the England team. The two formed a famous partnership at international level, as they complemented each other's strengths: Shearer the out-and-out goalscorer, big, strong and powerful, Sheringham just 'dropping off' his strike partner, finding spaces", "id": "2997066" }, { "contents": "History of Newcastle United F.C.\n\n\n's title chances for the 1994–95 season, in which they finished sixth. The club, however, continued to build up a reputation for playing attacking football under Keegan. In the 1995–96 season, high-profile foreign stars David Ginola and Faustino Asprilla, in addition to British players Peter Beardsley and striker Les Ferdinand, guided the team to a second-place finish. During the 1996–97 season, Keegan made one signing, securing the services of England striker Alan Shearer for a then-world record transfer fee of £15 million", "id": "6803863" }, { "contents": "1996–97 Newcastle United F.C. season\n\n\n...I think Kevin wanted it free-flowing in all departments and that doesn't necessarily happen.\" Keegan responded to the previous season's disappointment by breaking the world record transfer fee to sign centre forward Alan Shearer from Blackburn Rovers for £15 million. Shearer, whose five goals made him the top scorer in Euro 96, had supported Newcastle since childhood – he had been a ball-boy at St James' Park on the day that Keegan had left in a helicopter after his final Newcastle appearance as a player.", "id": "1207050" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nin the games.\" Shearer captained his school team and helped a Newcastle City Schools team win a seven-a-side tournament at St James' Park, before joining the amateur Wallsend Boys Club as a teenager. It was while playing for the Wallsend club that he was spotted by Southampton's scout, Jack Hixon, which resulted in Shearer spending his summers training with the club's youth team, a time he would later refer to as \"the making of me\". Shearer had successful trials for First Division clubs", "id": "13592505" }, { "contents": "Duncan Shearer\n\n\nFavourites\" during the club's centenary in 2008. However, he was unable to prevent Huddersfield's relegation to the Third Division at the end of the 1987–88 season. Weeks before this, the unrelated English striker Alan Shearer (aged 17) had scored a hat-trick in the First Division for Southampton against Arsenal, a game which Arsenal captain Tony Adams missed through injury. In his autobiography 11 years later, Adams said that he had followed the progress of the game on Ceefax and mistakingly believed that the Shearer who scored", "id": "3716405" }, { "contents": "David Hirst (footballer)\n\n\nHe came on at half-time and within three minutes of the restart he scored his first (and only) England goal. With Gary Lineker injured, he lined up with Alan Shearer against France at Wembley. Bryan Robson said that, \"It's not a question of who will replace Lineker, but who will partner David Hirst\". It became Hirst's third and final England match. Although he was selected for more England squads, injuries kept him out of the team. Manchester United boss Alex Ferguson tried six", "id": "18892949" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nthrough to May due to injury and England's World Cup qualification chances were hit by a run of poor form. Returning to fitness for the 1993–94 season, he scored 31 goals from 40 games as Blackburn finished runners-up in the Premier League. His performances for the club led to him being named the Football Writers' Association Footballer of the Year for that season. On the international scene, England had failed to qualify for the 1994 World Cup finals, but Shearer added three more goals to his international tally before embarking", "id": "13592514" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nfive points out of a possible twenty-four. Shearer did not get the manager's job on permanent basis. Chris Hughton stepped up from the coaching staff to take charge of the quest to get Newcastle back into the Premier League, which was achieved at the first attempt as Newcastle finished top of the Championship in the 2009–10 season. Shearer is married to Lainya, whom he met whilst a Southampton player. The couple lived locally with her parents during Shearer's second year at the south coast club, and were married on", "id": "13592557" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nagainst Portugal, but did so as England defeated Germany 1–0 in Charleroi, ensuring that England beat their European neighbours for the first time since the 1966 World Cup Final. To remain in the tournament, England only required a draw against Romania in the final group match, and Shearer scored a penalty as England went in at half-time 2–1 up, but Romania ultimately won 3–2. England's tournament was over, and so was Shearer's international career. From his 63 caps, he captained the team 34 times and scored", "id": "13592545" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nrecord return which is still unbeaten. The striker's goals at this level, coupled with his club form, meant he was soon promoted to the senior squad by coach Graham Taylor. Marking his debut in the 2–0 win against France in February 1992 with a goal, he made his only appearance for the England B team a month later. Due to replace Gary Lineker, who retired from international action after UEFA Euro 1992, in the England attack, Shearer played only intermittently in the qualifying campaign for the 1994 FIFA World Cup", "id": "13592538" }, { "contents": "1993 Trans-Tasman Test series\n\n\n's Canberra Raiders team mate and New South Wales captain Laurie Daley. The test series took place following the 1993 State of Origin series which was won by NSW. Dale Shearer's performances at fullback for Qld saw him earn a test recall in front of well performed World Cup and NSW fullback Tim Brasher (though Shearer had been selected at centre for all 3 Ashes series tests in 1992 but withdrew from all 3 with injury). Bradley Clyde, who had not played in the Origin series due to injury was also recalled to", "id": "16616631" }, { "contents": "Glenn Hoddle\n\n\nRedknapp resigned, following which Hoddle also left the club. In June 2016, after England's 2–1 loss to Iceland at Euro 2016 and manager Roy Hodgson's subsequent resignation, Harry Redknapp and Alan Shearer both put forward Hoddle as a candidate for the job before Sam Allardyce was appointed. Hoddle has done punditry work since his retirement from coaching. He has worked for ESPN, ITV Sport and BT Sport. Hoddle began working with ESPN during Euro 2012 as a pundit. Since then, he has worked with ITV for the 2014", "id": "8847620" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nhim onto the pitch following the striker's testimonial in May 2006 as he performed a lap of honour at St James' Park. On 6 December 2000, Shearer was given Honorary Freedom of the City of Newcastle upon Tyne, with the citation \"in recognition of his role as captain of Newcastle United Football Club and as former captain of England which have enhanced the reputation of the City\". Shearer was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2001 Queen's Birthday Honours and Commander of the", "id": "13592559" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nhis four years in the Southampton first team, Shearer made a total of 158 appearances in all competitions, scoring 43 goals. Despite making just one goalless appearance as England failed to progress past the Euro 1992 group stages, Shearer was soon subject to an English transfer record-breaking £3.6 million bid from Blackburn Rovers. Although there was also interest from Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson, Blackburn benefactor Jack Walker's millions were enough to prise the striker from the \"Saints\", and Shearer moved north to Ewood Park in the", "id": "13592512" }, { "contents": "Andy Cole\n\n\nof the season to help United win the Premier League title for the third time in four years. He also played in their FA Cup final victory to become part of England's first ever side to win the double twice. Before the 1996–97 season began, Cole had to deal with being offered to Blackburn Rovers as part-exchange in a £12 million deal that would have brought Alan Shearer to Old Trafford, but the offer was rejected and Shearer joined Newcastle instead. Despite Alex Ferguson's clear indication to Cole that he", "id": "9629547" }, { "contents": "Shearer's Bar\n\n\nShearer's Bar is the former name of a sports bar owned by Newcastle United and forming part of St James' Park, the team's stadium in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. It was named in honour of the club's all-time top scorer, Alan Shearer. The bar was renamed Nine in July 2013 by the club, who said that popularity of the venue had \"dwindled\". The bar was opened in December 2004 and became an important part of the features at St James' Park. It is", "id": "15298144" }, { "contents": "Kevin Keegan\n\n\nrelationship between the pair. In April 2003, it was named as Quote of the Decade in the Premier League 10 Seasons Awards and Most Memorable Quote in the 20 Seasons Awards in May 2012. It also appeared in Channel 4's \"100 Greatest Sporting Moments\". Keegan then broke the world transfer fee record by signing Blackburn Rovers and England striker Alan Shearer in July 1996. Shearer, who had been the Premier League's top scorer in the last two seasons, was born in Newcastle and had grown up as a fan", "id": "826455" }, { "contents": "England national football team\n\n\nBetween 1994 and 1996, Terry Venables managed the team. At UEFA Euro 1996, held in England, they equalled their best performance at a European Championship, reaching the semi-finals as they did in 1968, before exiting via a penalty shoot-out loss to Germany. England striker Alan Shearer was the tournament's top scorer with five goals. Venables resigned following investigations into his financial activities. Venables' successor, Glenn Hoddle, similarly left the job for non-footballing reasons after just one international tournament – the 1998", "id": "9748695" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nmiddle of 1992. His first season with Blackburn was mixed – he missed half of it through injury after snapping his right anterior cruciate ligament in a match against Leeds United in December 1992, but scored a prolific 16 goals in the 21 games in which he did feature. Shearer also became a regular in the England team this season and scored his second international goal; it came in a 4–0 1994 FIFA World Cup qualifier win over Turkey in November. The season ended sourly, however, as Shearer was forced to miss January", "id": "13592513" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nover from head coach Chris Hughton who was in temporary charge while the permanent manager Joe Kinnear recovered from heart surgery, having taken ill on 7 February. Shearer stated \"It's a club I love and I don't want them to go down. I'll do everything I can to stop that.\" Shearer was unveiled at a press conference the following day by club managing director Derek Llambias. In explaining his acceptance of a managerial role at Newcastle at this time, Shearer stated that he would not have done this for", "id": "13592552" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nwas being run in the wake of the departure of Kevin Keegan. These reports were denied by the club. Shearer features in EA Sports' \"FIFA\" video game series; he was included in the \"FIFA 15\" Ultimate Team Legends. During his playing days, Shearer had been involved with the children's charity the NSPCC, taking part in the organisation's Full Stop campaign in 1999. Since retiring from football Shearer has also done work for several charities both nationally and in the Newcastle area. In his testimonial match", "id": "13592565" }, { "contents": "2005–06 Newcastle United F.C. season\n\n\n. The fee, £17 million, surpassed Newcastle's previous record of £15 million for Alan Shearer from Blackburn in 1996. In the closing hours of the transfer window, the club re-signed Nolberto Solano from Aston Villa. Souness's decision to pair Shearer and Owen together up front proved to be lethal, but Owen broke his fourth metatarsal bone in his foot after a clash with Paul Robinson in a match against Tottenham Hotspur, keeping him out for the rest of the season. With Owen injured the team's", "id": "18086094" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\ndue to injury and the team failed to reach the competition finals. UEFA Euro 1996 was a more positive experience for both Shearer and England. With England not required to qualify as hosts, Shearer had not scored in 12 games in the 21 months prior, and even his overall goalscoring record for England did not look too impressive so far, with five goals in 23 games. However, he found the net in the 22nd minute of the first game, against Switzerland. Scoring once in the following game against Scotland and twice", "id": "13592539" }, { "contents": "Teddy Sheringham\n\n\nthe 2000 European Championships by then manager Kevin Keegan, but the retirement of Shearer (despite being four years younger than Sheringham) from international football after that tournament and the arrival of new manager Sven-Göran Eriksson in 2001 saw a return to international favour for him. He was often deployed as a tactical substitute late in games by Eriksson, valued for his ability to hold the ball up and create intelligent play. In 2001, Sheringham scored an important goal for England against Greece in a World Cup qualifying match within 15 seconds", "id": "2997070" }, { "contents": "Ruud Gullit\n\n\n, chairman Ken Bates famously said of Gullit, \"I didn't like his arrogance – in fact I never liked him.\" In August 1998, Gullit was named manager of Newcastle United two games into the new league season and reached the 1999 FA Cup Final in his first year. Fans remained supportive despite a poor run of results, although a well-publicised contretemps with the team's top scorer Alan Shearer and captain Robert Lee did not put him in a favourable light. Gullit even refused to assign Lee a squad", "id": "13592616" }, { "contents": "Scott Parker\n\n\ndefeat on 25 March 2006. Later that month he was diagnosed with glandular fever, putting an end to his season. The timing was especially unfortunate for Parker, who had been playing well for Newcastle, as it ended any hopes he may have had of forcing his way into the 2006 FIFA World Cup. In July 2006, he was named Newcastle United's new captain by manager Glenn Roeder, succeeding the retired Alan Shearer. His first goal as captain came against Wigan Athletic on 19 August 2006, in a 2–1 win", "id": "14327157" }, { "contents": "History of football in England\n\n\n. United's main challengers for the title in the Premier League's first few years were Blackburn Rovers, led by star striker Alan Shearer, also won their first league title since World War I in 1994–95, and Newcastle United, who famously conceded a 10-point lead at Christmas to lose the title to United in 1995–96. Newcastle had reached the Premiership in 1993 as Division One champions, and in their first Premiership campaign finished third to qualify for the UEFA Cup. They finished second in 1996 and again in 1997, but by", "id": "3652862" }, { "contents": "1992–93 FA Premier League\n\n\nPremier League as an attempt by the Football Association to \"hijack\" the First Division. Shortly before the season began, newly promoted Blackburn Rovers signed Southampton's 21-year-old England international striker Alan Shearer for a new British record fee variously reported as £3.3 million, £3.4 million, or £3.6 million. Several other players moved for fees of £2 million or more, including Arsenal's David Rocastle, who joined Leeds United, Dean Saunders, who moved from Liverpool to Aston Villa, and Teddy Sheringham, who", "id": "12442383" }, { "contents": "Darren Anderton\n\n\nhappy at the prospect of losing another key player as he had already lost Jürgen Klinsmann and Gheorghe Popescu that summer; and Nick Barmby was on the verge of joining Middlesbrough. Despite missing most of the 1995–96 season through injury, Anderton played an important part in the Euro 96 England team that reached the semi-finals and included players like Paul Gascoigne, Alan Shearer, Steve McManaman and Teddy Sheringham. In the semi final against Germany, the match went to golden goal extra time. Anderton came within inches of putting England into", "id": "4331581" }, { "contents": "Wallsend Boys Club\n\n\nJanuary which damaged one of the walls of the building. Professional players to have played for the club include: The club has had a representative at four of the six FIFA World Cup finals since 1986, with the two exceptions coming in 1994, when the England national football team did not qualify, and 2002. In 1986 and 1990 Peter Beardsley starred for England. In 1998 Alan Shearer was England captain. Michael Carrick made appearances for England in both the 2006 and 2010 tournaments. Fraser Forster was in the 2014 squad but", "id": "21182372" }, { "contents": "Harry Kane\n\n\n\". Clive Allen, who coached him at Tottenham, stated that \"one thing I'd say about him, which unfortunately you don't say about a lot of young footballers, is that he had a passion for the game. He loves football, he loves playing, he loves scoring goals\". His former Tottenham under-21 coach Les Ferdinand likened Kane's movement to their former forward Teddy Sheringham, and the power and accuracy of his shots to Alan Shearer. Kane's style of play has been compared to that of", "id": "1925319" }, { "contents": "Kieron Dyer\n\n\nthat he would soon rejoin for Ipswich. After representing England at Youth, Under 21 and \"B\" level, Dyer's debut for the senior team came on 4 September 1999 when he started in England's 6–0 win against Luxembourg. He was deployed out of position at right back, and was replaced by Gary Neville at half-time after injuring himself while setting up Alan Shearer's third goal of the match. The injury was not serious and he was able to make his second England appearance four days later, coming", "id": "17666181" }, { "contents": "1996–97 Blackburn Rovers F.C. season\n\n\nthe end of the season, when he handed over the reins to Roy Hodgson after Sampdoria's Sven-Göran Eriksson lied about accepting the manager's job and joined Lazio instead. Parkes steered Blackburn to safety as they finished 13th. The world record £15 million sale of striker Alan Shearer to Newcastle United was seen as the biggest factor in Blackburn's lowest top flight finish since they returned to the elite in 1992. However, his strike-partner Chris Sutton helped keep the club alive after recovering from a drastic loss of", "id": "7811146" }, { "contents": "Michael Owen\n\n\nmuch of the campaign as England struggled, with Hoddle being replaced by Kevin Keegan. On 4 September 1999, he scored his first goal at Wembley Stadium in a 6–0 win over Luxembourg. At the finals, Owen scored once in three matches, as England were knocked out at the group stage. After Alan Shearer's retirement, Owen took over as England's senior striker under new manager Sven-Göran Eriksson. He scored six times during 2002 World Cup qualifying, including a hat-trick against Germany at Munich's Olympiastadion", "id": "21886807" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nyet to start the UEFA Pro Licence course, which is required to be permitted to manage a team in the Premier League and European competition. Reflecting his desire for personal time off to \"enjoy life\", in July 2006 he turned down a coaching role with England, citing his BBC commitments and desire to be away from the pressure of a job within football. Despite this, Shearer was often linked in the media with managerial or coaching positions at his three former clubs. Shearer took a brief role in the dugout for", "id": "13592550" }, { "contents": "History of Southampton F.C.\n\n\nappearances for the England national team – he finally retired in 2002 at the age of 33. During his time with the Saints, Le Tissier was approached more than once by several bigger clubs (including Manchester United) but chose to stick with the Saints despite never winning a major trophy or experiencing European football with them. From 1989 to 1992, Le Tissier was regularly partnered up front by another notable player, Alan Shearer, who as a 17-year-old had scored a hat-trick on his Saints debut against Arsenal in", "id": "15948278" }, { "contents": "Sir Bobby Robson Trophy match\n\n\nNewcastle United, picking up on Alan Shearer's reply of \"I know as much as you do,\" to a pre-match question as to whether he would be installed as Newcastle manager for the forthcoming season beginning in 13 days, with the club being up for sale and with the first team without a manager, being in the care of coach Chris Hughton. Neither the Newcastle United owner Mike Ashley or managing director Derek Llambias were in attendance at the charity match. Having left England after Italia '90, Sir", "id": "19612022" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nChancellor Liam Donaldson stated \"Newcastle United are my team. Alan Shearer is more than just a local legend, he's probably one of the greatest footballers of all time\". On 12 September 2016, a statue of Shearer's likeness was unveiled outside St James' Park. It was sculpted by Tom Maley, and paid for by the Shepherd family. After his retirement and following guest appearances, Shearer became a regular pundit for the BBC's \"Match of the Day\". He also formed part of the team which", "id": "13592563" }, { "contents": "Gary McAllister\n\n\ntournament, scoring in a 3–0 win over the CIS. However, Scotland did not qualify from their group. Scotland failed to qualify for the 1994 FIFA World Cup but did qualify for UEFA Euro 1996 in England, with McAllister the captain of the team. Scotland's second match of the group stage was against England at Wembley Stadium. In the second half Scotland, trailing 0–1 to an Alan Shearer goal, were awarded a penalty. McAllister's kick was saved by David Seaman and Scotland lost 0–2. The team won their", "id": "19492391" }, { "contents": "David Seaman\n\n\nEngland's quarter-final against Spain ended scoreless, Seaman saved Miguel Angel Nadal's kick in the shootout to knock Spain out of the tournament. England eventually were eliminated in the semi-final by Germany on penalties,after Andreas Köpke saved the penalty taken by Gareth Southgate. Seaman was named alongside Golden Boot winner Alan Shearer and winger Steve McManaman in the UEFA \"Team of the Tournament\". Euro 96 sponsor Philips named him \"Player of the Tournament\". Seaman remained first choice under the management of Glenn Hoddle for", "id": "7321893" }, { "contents": "1998 FA Cup Final\n\n\nand so has the mixture between the foreign and English players.\" Wenger reserved praise for the goalscorers Overmars (\"a world-class player\") and Anelka (\"Nicolas is very young. But you saw in the second half today what he can do\"), and felt the turning point in the match was Shearer's shot hitting the post. He sympathised with Newcastle, as did his captain, Adams who said afterwards: \"The team and their fans did everything they could out there, but it was", "id": "10844688" }, { "contents": "David McMahon (association footballer)\n\n\nabout the role of striker from watching England international Alan Shearer in training, but likened himself more to Newcastle's Scotland international Duncan Ferguson, \"because I am taller and like to battle for things in the air.\" Brian Kerr, then manager of Ireland under-17s, described McMahon as honest and hard-working, \"not the most skilful player, but will get goals\", but Darlington manager Gary Bennett believed there was more to his game: that he and strike partner John Williams both had enough skill to play a", "id": "5423888" }, { "contents": "Andy Carroll\n\n\nUEFA Euro 2012. He opened the scoring for England with a powerful header in their second group match against Sweden, which England went on to win 3–2. Carroll has been compared to Newcastle's record goalscorer Alan Shearer, Ivory Coast striker Didier Drogba and former Italy forward Christian Vieri. He has also been referred to as a classic centre forward, owing to his strength, powerful shot and excellent heading ability. Former Newcastle manager and Liverpool player Kevin Keegan stated \"he is probably in the top three headers of a ball I", "id": "11961542" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\n-chasing Manchester United. On the opening day of the 1999–2000 season, Shearer received the first red card of his career in his 100th appearance for Newcastle. After dropping Shearer to the bench in a Tyne-Wear derby loss against Sunderland, the unpopular Gullit resigned to be replaced by the 66-year-old Bobby Robson. Despite Gullit giving Shearer the captain's armband, reports of a rift between club captain and manager were rife, Gullit's decision to drop Shearer proved deeply unpopular with fans and his departure capped a dismal start", "id": "13592525" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nAn almost injury-free season helped Shearer improve on his previous year's tally in the 1998–99 season, the striker converting 14 goals in 30 league games and replacing Rob Lee as Newcastle captain, but Newcastle finished 13th again, with Ruud Gullit having replaced Kenny Dalglish just after the season got underway. He also helped Newcastle to a second consecutive FA Cup final and qualification for the following season's UEFA Cup, scoring twice in the semi-final against Tottenham Hotspur, but they once again lost, this time 2–0 to treble", "id": "13592524" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nhis final three games under Glenn Roeder. Shearer had rejected offers of coaching or assistant roles at Newcastle under both the returning Kevin Keegan in February 2008 and Joe Kinnear in November 2008. Shearer had previously had talks about, but never been offered, a full-time manager's role at Newcastle until his appointment on 1 April 2009. In a surprise move, late on 1 April 2009, it was announced that Shearer would become the manager of his former club Newcastle United for the remaining eight games of the season, taking", "id": "13592551" }, { "contents": "Fabio Cannavaro\n\n\nnational team on 22 January 1997, in a friendly match against Northern Ireland. The same year, he earned plaudits for his handling of England striker Alan Shearer in a World Cup qualifying game at Wembley Stadium. Shearer was then considered by the partisan English crowd to be the best striker in the world, and thought he would make fun of the inexperienced Italian defender. Nevertheless, in a display ranking alongside those of the very best Italian defenders Claudio Gentile and Franco Baresi, Cannavaro managed to keep Shearer quiet for the whole game", "id": "3625067" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\n, with media sources claiming that video footage showed him intentionally kicking Neil Lennon in the head following a challenge. The referee of the game took no action against Shearer, and he was then cleared of all charges by the FA, with Lennon giving evidence in the player's defence. Former Football Association chief Graham Kelly, who brought the charges against the player, later claimed in his autobiography that Shearer had threatened to withdraw himself from the 1998 World Cup squad if the charges were upheld, a claim strenuously denied by Shearer.", "id": "13592523" }, { "contents": "History of the Romania national football team\n\n\nminnows Tunisia. Adrian Ilie scored the only goal with a fine chip in their first match against Colombia at Lyon's Stade Gerland. In Toulouse, they met an England side starting with prodigal striker Michael Owen on the bench, with Teddy Sheringham preferred alongside Alan Shearer. A mistake by Tony Adams was punished by Viorel Moldovan, who played for Coventry City, before Owen came on to claim an equalizer. But Romania won with a scrappy late goal from Dan Petrescu, also playing in England with Chelsea, fighting off his club", "id": "16435718" }, { "contents": "John Barnes (footballer)\n\n\nNewcastle United, although an approach had already been made by Harry Redknapp of West Ham; Barnes had agreed in principle to join them until at the final moment Dalglish called him and Barnes changed his mind. In the 1997–98 season Barnes played up front mostly, deputising for Alan Shearer after Shearer was injured for most of the season, and Barnes ended up Newcastle's top league scorer with six goals, which highlighted the Magpies' lack of ability to score in the absence of Shearer and Ferdinand (who had been sold along with", "id": "19616669" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\ncould not find a more iconic person than Alan, not just for what he has done in football but for all the extra work he tirelessly does for charity and communities. I am delighted he has accepted the role of Deputy Lieutenant because he is a real role model. I have promised him he is not going to have to do too much, but even if it is just one occasion a year he is the perfect choice\" On 7 December 2009, Shearer was made a Doctor of Civil Law by Newcastle University.", "id": "13592562" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nLaw of Northumbria and Newcastle Universities. Shearer was born in Gosforth, Newcastle, in 1970 to working-class parents Alan and Anne Shearer. His father, a sheet-metal worker, encouraged a keen Shearer to play football in his youth, and the young player continued with the sport as he progressed through school. He was educated at Gosforth Central Middle School and Gosforth High School. Growing up playing on the streets of his hometown, he originally played in midfield because \"it meant [he] could get more involved", "id": "13592504" }, { "contents": "Paul Kitson\n\n\n. Newcastle finished second that season after being overhauled in the second half campaign by a Manchester United side who sealed the title by a five-point margin barely four months after Newcastle had led by 10 points, but Kitson's part in Newcastle's exciting though ultimately disappointing campaign had been minimal as he had played just seven league games and scored twice. But he remained loyal to the Magpies even after another blow at the end of July 1996 – the arrival of £15 million world record signing Alan Shearer. He managed three", "id": "19054464" }, { "contents": "Ray Harford\n\n\nthe Premier League for much of the season. During the summer of 1996, Alan Shearer was sold to Newcastle United for a then world record fee of £15 million, and Harford failed to adequately replace him. Harford stated that \"I'm told we need a big name. Engelbert Humperdinck is a big name but it doesn't mean he can play football.\" The 1996–97 season also started badly for Blackburn. They failed to win any of their first ten games and were knocked out of the League Cup by Division", "id": "5365351" }, { "contents": "Patrick Kluivert\n\n\nagain featured for Barca in a legends game against Uganda all stars where he, in lobbing the ball, scored an amazing goal. Kluivert joined Newcastle United on a free transfer in July 2004. He stated that his reasons for joining Newcastle was due to the overwhelming reaction he received whilst playing for Barcelona against Newcastle during a pre season friendly as well as teaming up with Newcastle's star players such as Alan Shearer. Kluivert scored some classy and crucial goals at and away from St James's Park namely in winning strikes against both", "id": "21654890" }, { "contents": "Duncan Shearer\n\n\nbetween 1994 and 1995, scoring two goals including an important opening strike in an away win over Finland which helped the national side qualify for Euro 96, although Shearer did not make the squad for that tournament. The senior team was his first experience of international football, having never played at any age-group level. He achieved a childhood ambition when he played in the national team alongside John McGinlay, a childhood friend also from Fort William. In season 1999–00 he began to concentrate more on coaching than playing, and was", "id": "3716411" }, { "contents": "Les Ferdinand\n\n\nscored 50 goals in only 84 games at Newcastle, forming a successful partnership with Alan Shearer. He was and indeed is still very highly thought of by Newcastle United. Ferdinand received a standing ovation when he returned to St. James' Park as a Tottenham player, trying to put Alan Shearer's number 9 shirt on to complete a lap of honour, he broke down in tears and could only manage to put the shirt on inside out and back to front before being helped from the field. Ferdinand returned again, when he", "id": "2996528" }, { "contents": "David Platt (footballer)\n\n\nTurkey, San Marino, the Netherlands and Norway. The qualifiers began at home to Norway. England dominated the game and Platt carried the goal threat, with Alan Shearer and Ian Wright struggling to find form. He scored the opening goal after an hour. England dominated the remainder of the game and were unlucky to concede to a long-range shot from Kjetil Rekdal. Platt continued his drive from midfield in wins over Turkey at home (4-0) and San Marino (6-0). Platt scored four", "id": "16718350" }, { "contents": "Jason Wilcox\n\n\n-pound investments of Jack Walker. He played an important part in the title-winning Blackburn team of 1995. Playing on the left flank with attacking fullback Graeme Le Saux behind him and Stuart Ripley on the opposite flank, they forged a strong attacking line-up with Alan Shearer and Chris Sutton. International recognition was harder to come by for Wilcox and he managed only 3 international caps despite his effective partnership with Shearer, Le Saux and Tim Sherwood. Lengthy injury problems restricted his effectiveness in subsequent seasons and, after experiencing", "id": "14527253" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nclub's form, and Newcastle finished just 13th in the Premier League. However, United (now managed by Shearer's old boss at Blackburn, Kenny Dalglish) had a good run in the FA Cup; Shearer scored the winning goal in a semi-final victory over Sheffield United as the team reached the final. The team were unable to get on the scoresheet at Wembley, and lost the game 2–0 to Arsenal. An incident during a game against Leicester City in the league saw Shearer charged with misconduct by the FA", "id": "13592522" }, { "contents": "Aleksandar Mitrović (footballer)\n\n\nhim the competition's top scorer, and 28 in all competitions. On 22 March 2015, he scored the team's only goal in the 2–1 Belgian Cup Final loss to Club Brugge KV in Brussels. On 21 July 2015, Mitrović joined Newcastle United on a five-year contract for a reported £13 million, saying he hoped to be able to play like club legend Alan Shearer. He made his debut on 9 August as Newcastle began the season with a 2–2 draw against Southampton at St James' Park, playing", "id": "20923735" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nWest Bromwich Albion, Manchester City and Newcastle United, before being offered a youth contract with Southampton in April 1986. Shearer was promoted to the first team after spending two years with the youth squad. He made his professional debut for Southampton on 26 March 1988, coming on as a substitute in a First Division fixture at Chelsea, before prompting national headlines in his full debut at The Dell two weeks later. He scored a hat-trick, helping the team to a 4–2 victory against Arsenal, thus becoming the youngest player", "id": "13592506" }, { "contents": "James Milner\n\n\ndo what was \"in the club's best interest\" and in July 2004, he agreed a five-year contract with Newcastle. Milner made his first appearance for Newcastle United during their pre-season tour of Asia, scoring his first goal for the club in a 1–1 draw against Kitchee, in Hong Kong. During this tour, he took the opportunity to observe how Newcastle striker Alan Shearer dealt with attention from fans and the media. He said that his association with people like Shearer gave him a better idea of", "id": "1860603" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nretain the ball and provide opportunities for teammates. Playing as a lone striker between wide men, Rod Wallace and Matt Le Tissier, Shearer scored three goals in 26 appearances in the 1989–90 season, and in the next, four goals in 36 games. His performances in the centre of the \"Saints\" attack were soon recognised by the fans, who voted him their Player of the Year for 1991. In the middle of 1991, Shearer was a member of the England national under-21 football squad in the Toulon Tournament in Toulon", "id": "13592508" }, { "contents": "Teddy Sheringham\n\n\n, creating play and providing key passes, forming the link between Shearer and the England midfield. The pairing came to be known as 'The SAS' ('Shearer and Sheringham') and their most successful time together came in the 1996 European Championships, held in England. Their most famous contribution was in the 4–1 victory over the Netherlands, a game in the opening group stages in which they both scored twice against one of the strongest teams in the tournament. Though England were eventually knocked out in the semi-finals", "id": "2997067" }, { "contents": "History of the England national football team\n\n\ninto Euro 2000 after a 2–1 aggregate playoff win over Scotland. At the finals in Belgium and the Netherlands, a lacklustre England failed to get beyond the group stage, losing to both Portugal and Romania after leading in each game. After England's exit, Alan Shearer retired from international football, he had announced his intentions before the tournament, and no-one could persuade him to change his mind. On 7 October 2000, shortly after losing the opening World Cup qualifier to Germany in the last-ever game at Wembley", "id": "15089411" }, { "contents": "Premier League 10 Seasons Awards\n\n\nrepresented, with five players. The teams were as follows: English striker Alan Shearer was named Domestic Player of the Decade in the main 10 Seasons awards announcements, in addition to being given the Outstanding Contribution to the FA Premier League award. Two weeks later he was also named as the Overall Player of the Decade. In the first decade, Shearer played for Blackburn Rovers, and then Newcastle United. Shearer has been described as a classic English centre-forward with great shooting power, a single-minded striker who could", "id": "11856460" }, { "contents": "Wartime League\n\n\narguments debate that a player who exceeds one's record through their wartime matches should nonetheless be seen as the club's highest goal scorer or appearance having been part of the team's squad even if only for a short time. The most recent argument relates to the goal-difference between Jackie Milburn's and Alan Shearer's Newcastle United goal-scoring records. When counting Jackie's wartime matches, he scored a total of 238 professional goals for Newcastle United FC. In May 2005, Alan Shearer finished his career at 206 goals", "id": "17626256" }, { "contents": "Jon Dahl Tomasson\n\n\nas the perfect link-up player to England national team striker Alan Shearer. The partnership initially worked well, with Tomasson impressing during a pre-season friendly tournament in the Republic of Ireland. However, a career threatening injury to Shearer, combined with the controversial transfer of popular striker Les Ferdinand to Tottenham Hotspur, meant that Tomasson was moved from his traditional attacking midfield position to that of striker. He struggled to adapt to his new position on the field, and to the English game, due to his lack of physical", "id": "19324628" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\ncovered the World Cups and European Championships from 2006 onwards for the BBC. Former Newcastle chairman Freddy Shepherd announced that, after Shearer finished the 2005–06 season as Newcastle's caretaker assistant manager, he would become the club's \"Sporting Ambassador\" for the 2006–07 season. However, in September 2008, it was reported that Shearer was removed from this largely honorary position by the club's owner Mike Ashley, despite protests from players such as Steven Taylor and Damien Duff, due to Shearer's criticism of the way in which the club", "id": "13592564" }, { "contents": "1998 FA Cup Final\n\n\nthe final that Bergkamp had resumed training and \"medically he looked all right\", but the player received a further setback when he suffered a reaction to his hamstring. He ruled himself out of the match and told reporters: \"I'm very disappointed. As a little boy in Holland I always watched the FA Cup final. And I used to dream about playing in it myself one day.\" Ian Wright was listed as Bergkamp's probable replacement to partner Anelka. Newcastle had their own issues surrounding Shearer. The England", "id": "10844676" }, { "contents": "2008–09 in English football\n\n\n's surprise resignation in December; whilst their final points tally wasn't spectacular, they had the satisfaction of being the top North-East team in football after both Middlesbrough and Newcastle United were relegated, ending 11 and 16 year spells in the top flight respectively, the latter going through four managers in Kevin Keegan, Joe Kinnear, Chris Hughton and even former striker Alan Shearer during the campaign. Despite a brilliant start to the season which saw them as high as third place in October, Hull City won just 1 of their", "id": "1311754" }, { "contents": "1996 FA Charity Shield\n\n\nfrom Eric Cantona, Nicky Butt, David Beckham and Roy Keane. The game saw new signings Jordi Cruyff and Karel Poborský make their debuts for Manchester United, though neither of these players had particularly successful careers at Old Trafford and both had left the club within four years. The day before the game had seen the surprise sale of one of Manchester United's longest serving players — Lee Sharpe. The game saw Newcastle United give a debut to £15 million world record signing Alan Shearer, who would remain at the club until", "id": "2797098" }, { "contents": "UEFA Euro 2016 knockout phase\n\n\nsection begin=g6 /section end=g6 / section begin=g7 /section end=g7 / The match has been described as one of England's worst defeats ever. Former footballer and Talksport presenter Stan Collymore, who was commentating on the game, panned the England team, reserving special criticism for goalkeeper Joe Hart and captain Wayne Rooney. Former England international and BBC Sport pundit Alan Shearer described it as the worst performance he had ever seen from an England team. The defeat was called England's most shocking since losing 1–0 to", "id": "11344909" }, { "contents": "Maurice E. Shearer\n\n\nApplication at Annapolis, Maryland, with classmates Holland Smith, Ralph S. Keyser and Andrew B. Drum. In July, Shearer sailed for duty to be the commander of the 35 man Marine detachment on Midway Island. In May 1908, he was selected for promotion to first lieutenant and to the rank of captain in June 1916. During World War I, forces under Major Shearer's command made an attack on Belleau Wood, finally clearing that forest of Germans. On 26 June 1918, he sent a now famous report: \"", "id": "8315540" }, { "contents": "Newcastle upon Tyne\n\n\nF.C. became Football League members in 1893. They have won four top division titles (the first in 1905 and the most recent in 1927), six FA Cups (the first in 1910 and the most recent in 1955) and the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup in 1969. They broke the world transfer record in 1996 by paying £15 million for Blackburn Rovers and England striker Alan Shearer, one of the most prolific goalscorers of that era. In 2017 Newcastle was the venue for the 2017 Freedom City festival. The 2017", "id": "20529704" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\ngame and came off the bench to score a penalty, helping Newcastle win the game 3–2. The match was a sell-out, and saw Shearer perform a lap of honour at the end with his family, with his young son notably covering his ears due to the volume of noise produced by the crowd in tribute. Shearer's international career began in 1990 when he was handed a callup to the England under-21 squad under Dave Sexton. During his time with the squad, he scored 13 times in 11 games, a", "id": "13592537" }, { "contents": "2011–12 Cardiff City F.C. season\n\n\nserving manager in the Championship having held his post since May 2005. The club held talks with former England and Newcastle United captain Alan Shearer to replace Jones but he rejected the job despite stating that he was impressed with the \"vision, ambition and determination of the owner Dato Chan Tien Ghee and the board\". The \"Bluebirds\" instead approached Championship rivals Watford for permission to speak to their manager Malky Mackay, which was initially rejected. However, after the two clubs agreed a compensation fee, Mackay was officially appointed as", "id": "7599659" }, { "contents": "Kevin Keegan\n\n\nto Michael Owen, stating, \"He's not scared to give his opinion when he's right, and he's not scared to say what he feels. He's a tremendous professional, and he trains properly every day.\" Keegan announced on 22 January that he and Alan Shearer held talks about the two linking up with Shearer as his assistant, but decided against the idea, leaving the door open for him to take other roles he was interested in. Keegan's first eight games back at Newcastle passed without a", "id": "826473" }, { "contents": "Transfer (association football)\n\n\n£3.6 million Alan Shearer moved to Blackburn Rovers from Southampton, a decade after the world's first £3 million transfer. Lentini's transfer remained intact the world record fee for the next four years, although the national record was broken more than once in many countries including England. Shearer's £3.6million record fee was narrowly eclipsed 12 months later when Manchester United signed Roy Keane from Nottingham Forest for £3.75 million. In 1994, Blackburn Rovers paid a record £5 million for Chris Sutton from Norwich City, a decade", "id": "11200095" }, { "contents": "Roy Hodgson\n\n\nagainst Costa Rica to finish bottom of Group D. Hodgson named Rooney as the new captain of England in August 2014, following the retirement of Steven Gerrard from international football. Hodgson's first match after the World Cup was a 1–0 win against Norway in an international friendly match at Wembley on 3 September 2014. During the match, England made only two shots on target. Hodgson was infuriated when asked about this, describing the statistic as \"fucking bollocks\". Former England player, Alan Shearer, admitted that the match was so", "id": "12858624" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nto the season. The animosity between Shearer and Gullit was later confirmed by the latter, who reported telling the striker that he was \"...the most overrated player I have ever seen.\" Ironically, Robson had tried to sign Shearer for Barcelona in 1997, making a bid of £20million which would have seen Shearer break the world's transfer fee record for the second time in 12 months. However, then Newcastle manager Kenny Dalglish rejected the offer. In Robson's first match in charge, Shearer scored five goals in", "id": "13592526" }, { "contents": "Premier League 10 Seasons Awards\n\n\nin his talks with Alex Ferguson, he could not guarantee that Eric Cantona the Overseas Player of the Decade could be persuaded to let Shearer take penalty kicks. Shearer gained a second PFA Players' Player of the Year Award in April 1997, becoming just the second player to have received the PFA award twice, after Mark Hughes. After the 2000 European Championships, Shearer had retired from international football with England, having been England captain since 1998, and having made his senior début in 1992. Shearer was awarded the OBE in", "id": "11856465" }, { "contents": "Emile Heskey\n\n\nthe two matches, with former England international Alan Shearer commenting, \"Never in a million years did I expect to be discussing whether Emile Heskey should keep his place ahead of Wayne Rooney but the Wigan striker was outstanding over both matches.\" Heskey was called into manager Fabio Capello's first squad against Switzerland, but had to withdraw due to an injury. He was called into the squad for a friendly against the Czech Republic in August 2008 and came on as a 46th-minute substitute, in a match that finished 2–2", "id": "174986" }, { "contents": "Habib Beye\n\n\nUEFA Cup Final, a run which involved him putting in a star performance as a central defender against (his now former team) Newcastle United, where he was particularly effective against Newcastle's talisman striker Alan Shearer. He ended up on the losing side as Marseille lost the final to Valencia 2–0. He was also a beaten finalist in the 2006 French Cup against former club Paris Saint-Germain, a match which his team lost 2–1, and again in 2007 when his Marseille team lost on penalties to FC Sochaux. His", "id": "16217445" }, { "contents": "Stan Collymore\n\n\nseason in the Premier League, Collymore was called up to Terry Venables' England squad for the Umbro Cup in June 1995. He made his début at Wembley Stadium against Japan, partnering Alan Shearer in a 2–1 win. He won his second cap as a 90th minute substitute against Brazil. Collymore made his third and final appearance for England as a substitute in a 4–0 win over Moldova during qualification for the 1998 FIFA World Cup. Collymore contributed to his biography \"Stan: Tackling my demons\" with Oliver Holt. In 2005", "id": "3955590" }, { "contents": "Graeme Souness\n\n\nAt £8.2 million, Boumsong was his first big signing and Souness said he would replace Jonathan Woodgate in the Newcastle defence, which had conceded several leads earlier in the season. Newcastle were well aware of Boumsong prior to his move from Auxerre to Rangers on a free transfer. Robson had travelled to France to watch him, but he declined the opportunity to sign Boumsong. Liverpool were also interested in signing Boumsong. Robson's doubts were confirmed when Boumsong marked Alan Shearer in a pre-season game against Rangers. Shearer came", "id": "18029254" }, { "contents": "Saido Berahino\n\n\nrate of a goal every other match, including three to help the team qualify for the European Championship. Berahino has the all-time third-highest goal tally for the England under-21 side with 10 goals in 13 appearances, behind Francis Jeffers and Alan Shearer. On 6 November 2014, England manager Roy Hodgson – who promoted Berahino to the West Bromwich Albion first team in 2011 – named Berahino in his squad for the first time, ahead of a UEFA Euro 2016 qualifying match against Slovenia at Wembley Stadium on the 15th and", "id": "1000466" } ]

[ { "contents": "Tony Adams\n\n\n\"I have some resentment over the way Glenn Hoddle gave the captaincy to Alan Shearer instead of me but I can let that go. I reacted positively. I disagreed with him [Hoddle] and he thought Alan could get more penalties being a centre forward. People know my reaction to that\". Adams continued to play for the national side, however and he finally appeared in a World Cup finals in 1998. His international swansong was England's unsuccessful Euro 2000 campaign. With Shearer retiring from international football after the tournament", "id": "6104102" }, { "contents": "Tony Adams\n\n\nin defence, and after the retirement of Gary Lineker in 1992, Adams unofficially shared the captaincy of England with David Platt, though Adams became England captain outright before Euro 96, as Platt's place in the side became less secure. England reached the semi-finals of Euro 96, before losing on penalties to Germany. When England manager Glenn Hoddle took the Captain's armband from Adams and gave it to Alan Shearer it was a bitter pill for Adams to swallow. Speaking at a fans' forum in 2008 Adams remarked", "id": "6104101" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nThis time, Germany won from the spot; although Shearer scored, his teammate Gareth Southgate missed his kick and England were eliminated. Shearer's five goals made him the competition's top scorer, and together with teammates David Seaman and Steve McManaman, was listed in the official UEFA team of the tournament. The new England manager Glenn Hoddle appointed Shearer captain for the 1998 FIFA World Cup qualifier against Moldova on 1 September 1996, and the player held onto the captaincy after scoring once in that match and twice in the following game", "id": "13592541" }, { "contents": "Dimitar Berbatov\n\n\nhe consequently modelled himself after Marco van Basten, the Dutch forward for that team. However, the 1996 European Championship, held in England, gave Berbatov a new role model; the 15-year-old Berbatov began to look up to the English front man Alan Shearer, who played for Newcastle United. Berbatov's mother later spoke of her son's teenage dream of playing for Newcastle United, and said that his admiration for Shearer was such that, during these years, he slept in a Newcastle shirt. Berbatov began his youth", "id": "3905446" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\n's participation in what was to be Shearer's only World Cup tournament. In September 1999, Shearer scored his only England hat-trick in a UEFA Euro 2000 qualifier against Luxembourg. This helped England reach a play-off against Scotland; England won the game over two legs and in doing so qualified for the European Championships. By now, Shearer was approaching his 30th birthday, and he announced that he intended to retire from international football after the Euro 2000 tournament. Shearer did not score in England's opening 3–2 defeat", "id": "13592544" }, { "contents": "Southampton F.C.\n\n\nwas Alan Shearer, who at the age of 17 scored a hat-trick against Arsenal in a league match in April 1988. Shearer was a first team regular by 1990, and stayed with Southampton until July 1992, when he was sold to Blackburn Rovers for a national record of more than £3 million. He then became the most expensive footballer in the world when Blackburn sold him to Newcastle for £15 million in 1996. He also scored 30 times for England internationally. Southampton were founding members of the Premier League", "id": "3265953" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\ntime to play in England's UEFA European Championship campaign. After Euro 96, Manchester United again sought to sign Shearer, and attempted to enter the battle for his signature. However Manchester United chairman Martin Edwards stated that Blackburn Rovers refused to let Shearer go to Old Trafford. Ultimately Shearer joined his boyhood club: Newcastle United, Manchester United's title rivals. On 30 July 1996, for a world transfer record-breaking £15 million (equivalent to £ million today) Shearer joined his hometown club and league runners-up", "id": "13592519" }, { "contents": "History of the England national football team\n\n\nyear after his last game at club level. Hoddle selected Alan Shearer as captain, replacing Tony Adams, but also brought a number of emerging talents into the squad, including the Manchester United midfield trio of Paul Scholes, Nicky Butt and David Beckham, and central defenders Rio Ferdinand and Sol Campbell. Hoddle oversaw England's qualification for the 1998 World Cup (the first World Cup with 32 teams instead of 24) with a 0–0 draw against Italy at the Stadio Olimpico in Rome, and drew out a winning performance in the", "id": "15089406" }, { "contents": "History of the England national football team\n\n\nthe underwhelming performance at the World Cup, England suffered a poor start to the Euro 2000 qualifying tournament, and there was reported discontent between Hoddle and several senior players, most notably Shearer. Hoddle was dismissed on 2 February 1999, two days after an interview with \"The Sunday Times\" in which he spoke about his belief in reincarnation and claimed that disabled people were paying for sins in a previous life. Under considerable media and public pressure, the FA appointed former captain Kevin Keegan, who only just managed to get England", "id": "15089410" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nagainst Poland. He scored a total of five goals in England's successful qualification campaign for the World Cup, adding strikes against Georgia and away to Poland to his tally. Shearer was sidelined for much of the 1997–98 season, but recovered to play in the World Cup finals. With Michael Owen replacing Teddy Sheringham as Shearer's strike partner, Shearer's return saw him score England's first goal of the tournament, in a 2–0 win over Tunisia, his only goal in the three group matches. England faced long-time", "id": "13592542" }, { "contents": "Newcastle United F.C.\n\n\n. The attacking philosophy of Keegan led to the team being labelled \"The Entertainers\" by Sky Sports. Keegan took Newcastle to two consecutive runners-up finishes in the league in 1995–96 and 1996–97, coming very close to winning the title in the former season. This success was in part due to the talent of players like David Ginola, Les Ferdinand and Alan Shearer, who was signed on 30 July 1996 for a then world record fee of £15 million. Keegan left Newcastle in January 1997 and was replaced by Kenny", "id": "12636363" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nAlan Shearer, CBE, DL (born 13 August 1970) is an English retired footballer. He played as a striker in the top level of English league football for Southampton, Blackburn Rovers, Newcastle United and the England national team. He is Newcastle's and the Premier League's record goalscorer. He was named Football Writers' Association Player of the Year in 1994 and won the PFA Player of the Year award in 1995. In 1996, he was third in the FIFA World Player of the Year awards. In 2004", "id": "13592501" }, { "contents": "Teddy Sheringham\n\n\nmanager Terry Venables (1994–96) Sheringham came to be the preferred strike partner for Alan Shearer. During this time, England had a wealth of strikers with the likes of Andrew Cole, Ian Wright, a young Robbie Fowler and Les Ferdinand all battling to partner Shearer in the England team. The two formed a famous partnership at international level, as they complemented each other's strengths: Shearer the out-and-out goalscorer, big, strong and powerful, Sheringham just 'dropping off' his strike partner, finding spaces", "id": "2997066" }, { "contents": "History of Newcastle United F.C.\n\n\n's title chances for the 1994–95 season, in which they finished sixth. The club, however, continued to build up a reputation for playing attacking football under Keegan. In the 1995–96 season, high-profile foreign stars David Ginola and Faustino Asprilla, in addition to British players Peter Beardsley and striker Les Ferdinand, guided the team to a second-place finish. During the 1996–97 season, Keegan made one signing, securing the services of England striker Alan Shearer for a then-world record transfer fee of £15 million", "id": "6803863" }, { "contents": "1996–97 Newcastle United F.C. season\n\n\n...I think Kevin wanted it free-flowing in all departments and that doesn't necessarily happen.\" Keegan responded to the previous season's disappointment by breaking the world record transfer fee to sign centre forward Alan Shearer from Blackburn Rovers for £15 million. Shearer, whose five goals made him the top scorer in Euro 96, had supported Newcastle since childhood – he had been a ball-boy at St James' Park on the day that Keegan had left in a helicopter after his final Newcastle appearance as a player.", "id": "1207050" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nin the games.\" Shearer captained his school team and helped a Newcastle City Schools team win a seven-a-side tournament at St James' Park, before joining the amateur Wallsend Boys Club as a teenager. It was while playing for the Wallsend club that he was spotted by Southampton's scout, Jack Hixon, which resulted in Shearer spending his summers training with the club's youth team, a time he would later refer to as \"the making of me\". Shearer had successful trials for First Division clubs", "id": "13592505" }, { "contents": "Duncan Shearer\n\n\nFavourites\" during the club's centenary in 2008. However, he was unable to prevent Huddersfield's relegation to the Third Division at the end of the 1987–88 season. Weeks before this, the unrelated English striker Alan Shearer (aged 17) had scored a hat-trick in the First Division for Southampton against Arsenal, a game which Arsenal captain Tony Adams missed through injury. In his autobiography 11 years later, Adams said that he had followed the progress of the game on Ceefax and mistakingly believed that the Shearer who scored", "id": "3716405" }, { "contents": "David Hirst (footballer)\n\n\nHe came on at half-time and within three minutes of the restart he scored his first (and only) England goal. With Gary Lineker injured, he lined up with Alan Shearer against France at Wembley. Bryan Robson said that, \"It's not a question of who will replace Lineker, but who will partner David Hirst\". It became Hirst's third and final England match. Although he was selected for more England squads, injuries kept him out of the team. Manchester United boss Alex Ferguson tried six", "id": "18892949" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nthrough to May due to injury and England's World Cup qualification chances were hit by a run of poor form. Returning to fitness for the 1993–94 season, he scored 31 goals from 40 games as Blackburn finished runners-up in the Premier League. His performances for the club led to him being named the Football Writers' Association Footballer of the Year for that season. On the international scene, England had failed to qualify for the 1994 World Cup finals, but Shearer added three more goals to his international tally before embarking", "id": "13592514" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nfive points out of a possible twenty-four. Shearer did not get the manager's job on permanent basis. Chris Hughton stepped up from the coaching staff to take charge of the quest to get Newcastle back into the Premier League, which was achieved at the first attempt as Newcastle finished top of the Championship in the 2009–10 season. Shearer is married to Lainya, whom he met whilst a Southampton player. The couple lived locally with her parents during Shearer's second year at the south coast club, and were married on", "id": "13592557" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nagainst Portugal, but did so as England defeated Germany 1–0 in Charleroi, ensuring that England beat their European neighbours for the first time since the 1966 World Cup Final. To remain in the tournament, England only required a draw against Romania in the final group match, and Shearer scored a penalty as England went in at half-time 2–1 up, but Romania ultimately won 3–2. England's tournament was over, and so was Shearer's international career. From his 63 caps, he captained the team 34 times and scored", "id": "13592545" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nrecord return which is still unbeaten. The striker's goals at this level, coupled with his club form, meant he was soon promoted to the senior squad by coach Graham Taylor. Marking his debut in the 2–0 win against France in February 1992 with a goal, he made his only appearance for the England B team a month later. Due to replace Gary Lineker, who retired from international action after UEFA Euro 1992, in the England attack, Shearer played only intermittently in the qualifying campaign for the 1994 FIFA World Cup", "id": "13592538" }, { "contents": "1993 Trans-Tasman Test series\n\n\n's Canberra Raiders team mate and New South Wales captain Laurie Daley. The test series took place following the 1993 State of Origin series which was won by NSW. Dale Shearer's performances at fullback for Qld saw him earn a test recall in front of well performed World Cup and NSW fullback Tim Brasher (though Shearer had been selected at centre for all 3 Ashes series tests in 1992 but withdrew from all 3 with injury). Bradley Clyde, who had not played in the Origin series due to injury was also recalled to", "id": "16616631" }, { "contents": "Glenn Hoddle\n\n\nRedknapp resigned, following which Hoddle also left the club. In June 2016, after England's 2–1 loss to Iceland at Euro 2016 and manager Roy Hodgson's subsequent resignation, Harry Redknapp and Alan Shearer both put forward Hoddle as a candidate for the job before Sam Allardyce was appointed. Hoddle has done punditry work since his retirement from coaching. He has worked for ESPN, ITV Sport and BT Sport. Hoddle began working with ESPN during Euro 2012 as a pundit. Since then, he has worked with ITV for the 2014", "id": "8847620" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nhim onto the pitch following the striker's testimonial in May 2006 as he performed a lap of honour at St James' Park. On 6 December 2000, Shearer was given Honorary Freedom of the City of Newcastle upon Tyne, with the citation \"in recognition of his role as captain of Newcastle United Football Club and as former captain of England which have enhanced the reputation of the City\". Shearer was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2001 Queen's Birthday Honours and Commander of the", "id": "13592559" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nhis four years in the Southampton first team, Shearer made a total of 158 appearances in all competitions, scoring 43 goals. Despite making just one goalless appearance as England failed to progress past the Euro 1992 group stages, Shearer was soon subject to an English transfer record-breaking £3.6 million bid from Blackburn Rovers. Although there was also interest from Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson, Blackburn benefactor Jack Walker's millions were enough to prise the striker from the \"Saints\", and Shearer moved north to Ewood Park in the", "id": "13592512" }, { "contents": "Andy Cole\n\n\nof the season to help United win the Premier League title for the third time in four years. He also played in their FA Cup final victory to become part of England's first ever side to win the double twice. Before the 1996–97 season began, Cole had to deal with being offered to Blackburn Rovers as part-exchange in a £12 million deal that would have brought Alan Shearer to Old Trafford, but the offer was rejected and Shearer joined Newcastle instead. Despite Alex Ferguson's clear indication to Cole that he", "id": "9629547" }, { "contents": "Shearer's Bar\n\n\nShearer's Bar is the former name of a sports bar owned by Newcastle United and forming part of St James' Park, the team's stadium in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. It was named in honour of the club's all-time top scorer, Alan Shearer. The bar was renamed Nine in July 2013 by the club, who said that popularity of the venue had \"dwindled\". The bar was opened in December 2004 and became an important part of the features at St James' Park. It is", "id": "15298144" }, { "contents": "Kevin Keegan\n\n\nrelationship between the pair. In April 2003, it was named as Quote of the Decade in the Premier League 10 Seasons Awards and Most Memorable Quote in the 20 Seasons Awards in May 2012. It also appeared in Channel 4's \"100 Greatest Sporting Moments\". Keegan then broke the world transfer fee record by signing Blackburn Rovers and England striker Alan Shearer in July 1996. Shearer, who had been the Premier League's top scorer in the last two seasons, was born in Newcastle and had grown up as a fan", "id": "826455" }, { "contents": "England national football team\n\n\nBetween 1994 and 1996, Terry Venables managed the team. At UEFA Euro 1996, held in England, they equalled their best performance at a European Championship, reaching the semi-finals as they did in 1968, before exiting via a penalty shoot-out loss to Germany. England striker Alan Shearer was the tournament's top scorer with five goals. Venables resigned following investigations into his financial activities. Venables' successor, Glenn Hoddle, similarly left the job for non-footballing reasons after just one international tournament – the 1998", "id": "9748695" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nmiddle of 1992. His first season with Blackburn was mixed – he missed half of it through injury after snapping his right anterior cruciate ligament in a match against Leeds United in December 1992, but scored a prolific 16 goals in the 21 games in which he did feature. Shearer also became a regular in the England team this season and scored his second international goal; it came in a 4–0 1994 FIFA World Cup qualifier win over Turkey in November. The season ended sourly, however, as Shearer was forced to miss January", "id": "13592513" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nover from head coach Chris Hughton who was in temporary charge while the permanent manager Joe Kinnear recovered from heart surgery, having taken ill on 7 February. Shearer stated \"It's a club I love and I don't want them to go down. I'll do everything I can to stop that.\" Shearer was unveiled at a press conference the following day by club managing director Derek Llambias. In explaining his acceptance of a managerial role at Newcastle at this time, Shearer stated that he would not have done this for", "id": "13592552" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nwas being run in the wake of the departure of Kevin Keegan. These reports were denied by the club. Shearer features in EA Sports' \"FIFA\" video game series; he was included in the \"FIFA 15\" Ultimate Team Legends. During his playing days, Shearer had been involved with the children's charity the NSPCC, taking part in the organisation's Full Stop campaign in 1999. Since retiring from football Shearer has also done work for several charities both nationally and in the Newcastle area. In his testimonial match", "id": "13592565" }, { "contents": "2005–06 Newcastle United F.C. season\n\n\n. The fee, £17 million, surpassed Newcastle's previous record of £15 million for Alan Shearer from Blackburn in 1996. In the closing hours of the transfer window, the club re-signed Nolberto Solano from Aston Villa. Souness's decision to pair Shearer and Owen together up front proved to be lethal, but Owen broke his fourth metatarsal bone in his foot after a clash with Paul Robinson in a match against Tottenham Hotspur, keeping him out for the rest of the season. With Owen injured the team's", "id": "18086094" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\ndue to injury and the team failed to reach the competition finals. UEFA Euro 1996 was a more positive experience for both Shearer and England. With England not required to qualify as hosts, Shearer had not scored in 12 games in the 21 months prior, and even his overall goalscoring record for England did not look too impressive so far, with five goals in 23 games. However, he found the net in the 22nd minute of the first game, against Switzerland. Scoring once in the following game against Scotland and twice", "id": "13592539" }, { "contents": "Teddy Sheringham\n\n\nthe 2000 European Championships by then manager Kevin Keegan, but the retirement of Shearer (despite being four years younger than Sheringham) from international football after that tournament and the arrival of new manager Sven-Göran Eriksson in 2001 saw a return to international favour for him. He was often deployed as a tactical substitute late in games by Eriksson, valued for his ability to hold the ball up and create intelligent play. In 2001, Sheringham scored an important goal for England against Greece in a World Cup qualifying match within 15 seconds", "id": "2997070" }, { "contents": "Ruud Gullit\n\n\n, chairman Ken Bates famously said of Gullit, \"I didn't like his arrogance – in fact I never liked him.\" In August 1998, Gullit was named manager of Newcastle United two games into the new league season and reached the 1999 FA Cup Final in his first year. Fans remained supportive despite a poor run of results, although a well-publicised contretemps with the team's top scorer Alan Shearer and captain Robert Lee did not put him in a favourable light. Gullit even refused to assign Lee a squad", "id": "13592616" }, { "contents": "Scott Parker\n\n\ndefeat on 25 March 2006. Later that month he was diagnosed with glandular fever, putting an end to his season. The timing was especially unfortunate for Parker, who had been playing well for Newcastle, as it ended any hopes he may have had of forcing his way into the 2006 FIFA World Cup. In July 2006, he was named Newcastle United's new captain by manager Glenn Roeder, succeeding the retired Alan Shearer. His first goal as captain came against Wigan Athletic on 19 August 2006, in a 2–1 win", "id": "14327157" }, { "contents": "History of football in England\n\n\n. United's main challengers for the title in the Premier League's first few years were Blackburn Rovers, led by star striker Alan Shearer, also won their first league title since World War I in 1994–95, and Newcastle United, who famously conceded a 10-point lead at Christmas to lose the title to United in 1995–96. Newcastle had reached the Premiership in 1993 as Division One champions, and in their first Premiership campaign finished third to qualify for the UEFA Cup. They finished second in 1996 and again in 1997, but by", "id": "3652862" }, { "contents": "1992–93 FA Premier League\n\n\nPremier League as an attempt by the Football Association to \"hijack\" the First Division. Shortly before the season began, newly promoted Blackburn Rovers signed Southampton's 21-year-old England international striker Alan Shearer for a new British record fee variously reported as £3.3 million, £3.4 million, or £3.6 million. Several other players moved for fees of £2 million or more, including Arsenal's David Rocastle, who joined Leeds United, Dean Saunders, who moved from Liverpool to Aston Villa, and Teddy Sheringham, who", "id": "12442383" }, { "contents": "Darren Anderton\n\n\nhappy at the prospect of losing another key player as he had already lost Jürgen Klinsmann and Gheorghe Popescu that summer; and Nick Barmby was on the verge of joining Middlesbrough. Despite missing most of the 1995–96 season through injury, Anderton played an important part in the Euro 96 England team that reached the semi-finals and included players like Paul Gascoigne, Alan Shearer, Steve McManaman and Teddy Sheringham. In the semi final against Germany, the match went to golden goal extra time. Anderton came within inches of putting England into", "id": "4331581" }, { "contents": "Wallsend Boys Club\n\n\nJanuary which damaged one of the walls of the building. Professional players to have played for the club include: The club has had a representative at four of the six FIFA World Cup finals since 1986, with the two exceptions coming in 1994, when the England national football team did not qualify, and 2002. In 1986 and 1990 Peter Beardsley starred for England. In 1998 Alan Shearer was England captain. Michael Carrick made appearances for England in both the 2006 and 2010 tournaments. Fraser Forster was in the 2014 squad but", "id": "21182372" }, { "contents": "Harry Kane\n\n\n\". Clive Allen, who coached him at Tottenham, stated that \"one thing I'd say about him, which unfortunately you don't say about a lot of young footballers, is that he had a passion for the game. He loves football, he loves playing, he loves scoring goals\". His former Tottenham under-21 coach Les Ferdinand likened Kane's movement to their former forward Teddy Sheringham, and the power and accuracy of his shots to Alan Shearer. Kane's style of play has been compared to that of", "id": "1925319" }, { "contents": "Kieron Dyer\n\n\nthat he would soon rejoin for Ipswich. After representing England at Youth, Under 21 and \"B\" level, Dyer's debut for the senior team came on 4 September 1999 when he started in England's 6–0 win against Luxembourg. He was deployed out of position at right back, and was replaced by Gary Neville at half-time after injuring himself while setting up Alan Shearer's third goal of the match. The injury was not serious and he was able to make his second England appearance four days later, coming", "id": "17666181" }, { "contents": "1996–97 Blackburn Rovers F.C. season\n\n\nthe end of the season, when he handed over the reins to Roy Hodgson after Sampdoria's Sven-Göran Eriksson lied about accepting the manager's job and joined Lazio instead. Parkes steered Blackburn to safety as they finished 13th. The world record £15 million sale of striker Alan Shearer to Newcastle United was seen as the biggest factor in Blackburn's lowest top flight finish since they returned to the elite in 1992. However, his strike-partner Chris Sutton helped keep the club alive after recovering from a drastic loss of", "id": "7811146" }, { "contents": "Michael Owen\n\n\nmuch of the campaign as England struggled, with Hoddle being replaced by Kevin Keegan. On 4 September 1999, he scored his first goal at Wembley Stadium in a 6–0 win over Luxembourg. At the finals, Owen scored once in three matches, as England were knocked out at the group stage. After Alan Shearer's retirement, Owen took over as England's senior striker under new manager Sven-Göran Eriksson. He scored six times during 2002 World Cup qualifying, including a hat-trick against Germany at Munich's Olympiastadion", "id": "21886807" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nyet to start the UEFA Pro Licence course, which is required to be permitted to manage a team in the Premier League and European competition. Reflecting his desire for personal time off to \"enjoy life\", in July 2006 he turned down a coaching role with England, citing his BBC commitments and desire to be away from the pressure of a job within football. Despite this, Shearer was often linked in the media with managerial or coaching positions at his three former clubs. Shearer took a brief role in the dugout for", "id": "13592550" }, { "contents": "History of Southampton F.C.\n\n\nappearances for the England national team – he finally retired in 2002 at the age of 33. During his time with the Saints, Le Tissier was approached more than once by several bigger clubs (including Manchester United) but chose to stick with the Saints despite never winning a major trophy or experiencing European football with them. From 1989 to 1992, Le Tissier was regularly partnered up front by another notable player, Alan Shearer, who as a 17-year-old had scored a hat-trick on his Saints debut against Arsenal in", "id": "15948278" }, { "contents": "Sir Bobby Robson Trophy match\n\n\nNewcastle United, picking up on Alan Shearer's reply of \"I know as much as you do,\" to a pre-match question as to whether he would be installed as Newcastle manager for the forthcoming season beginning in 13 days, with the club being up for sale and with the first team without a manager, being in the care of coach Chris Hughton. Neither the Newcastle United owner Mike Ashley or managing director Derek Llambias were in attendance at the charity match. Having left England after Italia '90, Sir", "id": "19612022" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nChancellor Liam Donaldson stated \"Newcastle United are my team. Alan Shearer is more than just a local legend, he's probably one of the greatest footballers of all time\". On 12 September 2016, a statue of Shearer's likeness was unveiled outside St James' Park. It was sculpted by Tom Maley, and paid for by the Shepherd family. After his retirement and following guest appearances, Shearer became a regular pundit for the BBC's \"Match of the Day\". He also formed part of the team which", "id": "13592563" }, { "contents": "Gary McAllister\n\n\ntournament, scoring in a 3–0 win over the CIS. However, Scotland did not qualify from their group. Scotland failed to qualify for the 1994 FIFA World Cup but did qualify for UEFA Euro 1996 in England, with McAllister the captain of the team. Scotland's second match of the group stage was against England at Wembley Stadium. In the second half Scotland, trailing 0–1 to an Alan Shearer goal, were awarded a penalty. McAllister's kick was saved by David Seaman and Scotland lost 0–2. The team won their", "id": "19492391" }, { "contents": "David Seaman\n\n\nEngland's quarter-final against Spain ended scoreless, Seaman saved Miguel Angel Nadal's kick in the shootout to knock Spain out of the tournament. England eventually were eliminated in the semi-final by Germany on penalties,after Andreas Köpke saved the penalty taken by Gareth Southgate. Seaman was named alongside Golden Boot winner Alan Shearer and winger Steve McManaman in the UEFA \"Team of the Tournament\". Euro 96 sponsor Philips named him \"Player of the Tournament\". Seaman remained first choice under the management of Glenn Hoddle for", "id": "7321893" }, { "contents": "1998 FA Cup Final\n\n\nand so has the mixture between the foreign and English players.\" Wenger reserved praise for the goalscorers Overmars (\"a world-class player\") and Anelka (\"Nicolas is very young. But you saw in the second half today what he can do\"), and felt the turning point in the match was Shearer's shot hitting the post. He sympathised with Newcastle, as did his captain, Adams who said afterwards: \"The team and their fans did everything they could out there, but it was", "id": "10844688" }, { "contents": "David McMahon (association footballer)\n\n\nabout the role of striker from watching England international Alan Shearer in training, but likened himself more to Newcastle's Scotland international Duncan Ferguson, \"because I am taller and like to battle for things in the air.\" Brian Kerr, then manager of Ireland under-17s, described McMahon as honest and hard-working, \"not the most skilful player, but will get goals\", but Darlington manager Gary Bennett believed there was more to his game: that he and strike partner John Williams both had enough skill to play a", "id": "5423888" }, { "contents": "Andy Carroll\n\n\nUEFA Euro 2012. He opened the scoring for England with a powerful header in their second group match against Sweden, which England went on to win 3–2. Carroll has been compared to Newcastle's record goalscorer Alan Shearer, Ivory Coast striker Didier Drogba and former Italy forward Christian Vieri. He has also been referred to as a classic centre forward, owing to his strength, powerful shot and excellent heading ability. Former Newcastle manager and Liverpool player Kevin Keegan stated \"he is probably in the top three headers of a ball I", "id": "11961542" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\n-chasing Manchester United. On the opening day of the 1999–2000 season, Shearer received the first red card of his career in his 100th appearance for Newcastle. After dropping Shearer to the bench in a Tyne-Wear derby loss against Sunderland, the unpopular Gullit resigned to be replaced by the 66-year-old Bobby Robson. Despite Gullit giving Shearer the captain's armband, reports of a rift between club captain and manager were rife, Gullit's decision to drop Shearer proved deeply unpopular with fans and his departure capped a dismal start", "id": "13592525" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nAn almost injury-free season helped Shearer improve on his previous year's tally in the 1998–99 season, the striker converting 14 goals in 30 league games and replacing Rob Lee as Newcastle captain, but Newcastle finished 13th again, with Ruud Gullit having replaced Kenny Dalglish just after the season got underway. He also helped Newcastle to a second consecutive FA Cup final and qualification for the following season's UEFA Cup, scoring twice in the semi-final against Tottenham Hotspur, but they once again lost, this time 2–0 to treble", "id": "13592524" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nhis final three games under Glenn Roeder. Shearer had rejected offers of coaching or assistant roles at Newcastle under both the returning Kevin Keegan in February 2008 and Joe Kinnear in November 2008. Shearer had previously had talks about, but never been offered, a full-time manager's role at Newcastle until his appointment on 1 April 2009. In a surprise move, late on 1 April 2009, it was announced that Shearer would become the manager of his former club Newcastle United for the remaining eight games of the season, taking", "id": "13592551" }, { "contents": "Fabio Cannavaro\n\n\nnational team on 22 January 1997, in a friendly match against Northern Ireland. The same year, he earned plaudits for his handling of England striker Alan Shearer in a World Cup qualifying game at Wembley Stadium. Shearer was then considered by the partisan English crowd to be the best striker in the world, and thought he would make fun of the inexperienced Italian defender. Nevertheless, in a display ranking alongside those of the very best Italian defenders Claudio Gentile and Franco Baresi, Cannavaro managed to keep Shearer quiet for the whole game", "id": "3625067" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\n, with media sources claiming that video footage showed him intentionally kicking Neil Lennon in the head following a challenge. The referee of the game took no action against Shearer, and he was then cleared of all charges by the FA, with Lennon giving evidence in the player's defence. Former Football Association chief Graham Kelly, who brought the charges against the player, later claimed in his autobiography that Shearer had threatened to withdraw himself from the 1998 World Cup squad if the charges were upheld, a claim strenuously denied by Shearer.", "id": "13592523" }, { "contents": "History of the Romania national football team\n\n\nminnows Tunisia. Adrian Ilie scored the only goal with a fine chip in their first match against Colombia at Lyon's Stade Gerland. In Toulouse, they met an England side starting with prodigal striker Michael Owen on the bench, with Teddy Sheringham preferred alongside Alan Shearer. A mistake by Tony Adams was punished by Viorel Moldovan, who played for Coventry City, before Owen came on to claim an equalizer. But Romania won with a scrappy late goal from Dan Petrescu, also playing in England with Chelsea, fighting off his club", "id": "16435718" }, { "contents": "John Barnes (footballer)\n\n\nNewcastle United, although an approach had already been made by Harry Redknapp of West Ham; Barnes had agreed in principle to join them until at the final moment Dalglish called him and Barnes changed his mind. In the 1997–98 season Barnes played up front mostly, deputising for Alan Shearer after Shearer was injured for most of the season, and Barnes ended up Newcastle's top league scorer with six goals, which highlighted the Magpies' lack of ability to score in the absence of Shearer and Ferdinand (who had been sold along with", "id": "19616669" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\ncould not find a more iconic person than Alan, not just for what he has done in football but for all the extra work he tirelessly does for charity and communities. I am delighted he has accepted the role of Deputy Lieutenant because he is a real role model. I have promised him he is not going to have to do too much, but even if it is just one occasion a year he is the perfect choice\" On 7 December 2009, Shearer was made a Doctor of Civil Law by Newcastle University.", "id": "13592562" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nLaw of Northumbria and Newcastle Universities. Shearer was born in Gosforth, Newcastle, in 1970 to working-class parents Alan and Anne Shearer. His father, a sheet-metal worker, encouraged a keen Shearer to play football in his youth, and the young player continued with the sport as he progressed through school. He was educated at Gosforth Central Middle School and Gosforth High School. Growing up playing on the streets of his hometown, he originally played in midfield because \"it meant [he] could get more involved", "id": "13592504" }, { "contents": "Paul Kitson\n\n\n. Newcastle finished second that season after being overhauled in the second half campaign by a Manchester United side who sealed the title by a five-point margin barely four months after Newcastle had led by 10 points, but Kitson's part in Newcastle's exciting though ultimately disappointing campaign had been minimal as he had played just seven league games and scored twice. But he remained loyal to the Magpies even after another blow at the end of July 1996 – the arrival of £15 million world record signing Alan Shearer. He managed three", "id": "19054464" }, { "contents": "Ray Harford\n\n\nthe Premier League for much of the season. During the summer of 1996, Alan Shearer was sold to Newcastle United for a then world record fee of £15 million, and Harford failed to adequately replace him. Harford stated that \"I'm told we need a big name. Engelbert Humperdinck is a big name but it doesn't mean he can play football.\" The 1996–97 season also started badly for Blackburn. They failed to win any of their first ten games and were knocked out of the League Cup by Division", "id": "5365351" }, { "contents": "Patrick Kluivert\n\n\nagain featured for Barca in a legends game against Uganda all stars where he, in lobbing the ball, scored an amazing goal. Kluivert joined Newcastle United on a free transfer in July 2004. He stated that his reasons for joining Newcastle was due to the overwhelming reaction he received whilst playing for Barcelona against Newcastle during a pre season friendly as well as teaming up with Newcastle's star players such as Alan Shearer. Kluivert scored some classy and crucial goals at and away from St James's Park namely in winning strikes against both", "id": "21654890" }, { "contents": "Duncan Shearer\n\n\nbetween 1994 and 1995, scoring two goals including an important opening strike in an away win over Finland which helped the national side qualify for Euro 96, although Shearer did not make the squad for that tournament. The senior team was his first experience of international football, having never played at any age-group level. He achieved a childhood ambition when he played in the national team alongside John McGinlay, a childhood friend also from Fort William. In season 1999–00 he began to concentrate more on coaching than playing, and was", "id": "3716411" }, { "contents": "Les Ferdinand\n\n\nscored 50 goals in only 84 games at Newcastle, forming a successful partnership with Alan Shearer. He was and indeed is still very highly thought of by Newcastle United. Ferdinand received a standing ovation when he returned to St. James' Park as a Tottenham player, trying to put Alan Shearer's number 9 shirt on to complete a lap of honour, he broke down in tears and could only manage to put the shirt on inside out and back to front before being helped from the field. Ferdinand returned again, when he", "id": "2996528" }, { "contents": "David Platt (footballer)\n\n\nTurkey, San Marino, the Netherlands and Norway. The qualifiers began at home to Norway. England dominated the game and Platt carried the goal threat, with Alan Shearer and Ian Wright struggling to find form. He scored the opening goal after an hour. England dominated the remainder of the game and were unlucky to concede to a long-range shot from Kjetil Rekdal. Platt continued his drive from midfield in wins over Turkey at home (4-0) and San Marino (6-0). Platt scored four", "id": "16718350" }, { "contents": "Jason Wilcox\n\n\n-pound investments of Jack Walker. He played an important part in the title-winning Blackburn team of 1995. Playing on the left flank with attacking fullback Graeme Le Saux behind him and Stuart Ripley on the opposite flank, they forged a strong attacking line-up with Alan Shearer and Chris Sutton. International recognition was harder to come by for Wilcox and he managed only 3 international caps despite his effective partnership with Shearer, Le Saux and Tim Sherwood. Lengthy injury problems restricted his effectiveness in subsequent seasons and, after experiencing", "id": "14527253" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nclub's form, and Newcastle finished just 13th in the Premier League. However, United (now managed by Shearer's old boss at Blackburn, Kenny Dalglish) had a good run in the FA Cup; Shearer scored the winning goal in a semi-final victory over Sheffield United as the team reached the final. The team were unable to get on the scoresheet at Wembley, and lost the game 2–0 to Arsenal. An incident during a game against Leicester City in the league saw Shearer charged with misconduct by the FA", "id": "13592522" }, { "contents": "Aleksandar Mitrović (footballer)\n\n\nhim the competition's top scorer, and 28 in all competitions. On 22 March 2015, he scored the team's only goal in the 2–1 Belgian Cup Final loss to Club Brugge KV in Brussels. On 21 July 2015, Mitrović joined Newcastle United on a five-year contract for a reported £13 million, saying he hoped to be able to play like club legend Alan Shearer. He made his debut on 9 August as Newcastle began the season with a 2–2 draw against Southampton at St James' Park, playing", "id": "20923735" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nWest Bromwich Albion, Manchester City and Newcastle United, before being offered a youth contract with Southampton in April 1986. Shearer was promoted to the first team after spending two years with the youth squad. He made his professional debut for Southampton on 26 March 1988, coming on as a substitute in a First Division fixture at Chelsea, before prompting national headlines in his full debut at The Dell two weeks later. He scored a hat-trick, helping the team to a 4–2 victory against Arsenal, thus becoming the youngest player", "id": "13592506" }, { "contents": "James Milner\n\n\ndo what was \"in the club's best interest\" and in July 2004, he agreed a five-year contract with Newcastle. Milner made his first appearance for Newcastle United during their pre-season tour of Asia, scoring his first goal for the club in a 1–1 draw against Kitchee, in Hong Kong. During this tour, he took the opportunity to observe how Newcastle striker Alan Shearer dealt with attention from fans and the media. He said that his association with people like Shearer gave him a better idea of", "id": "1860603" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nretain the ball and provide opportunities for teammates. Playing as a lone striker between wide men, Rod Wallace and Matt Le Tissier, Shearer scored three goals in 26 appearances in the 1989–90 season, and in the next, four goals in 36 games. His performances in the centre of the \"Saints\" attack were soon recognised by the fans, who voted him their Player of the Year for 1991. In the middle of 1991, Shearer was a member of the England national under-21 football squad in the Toulon Tournament in Toulon", "id": "13592508" }, { "contents": "Teddy Sheringham\n\n\n, creating play and providing key passes, forming the link between Shearer and the England midfield. The pairing came to be known as 'The SAS' ('Shearer and Sheringham') and their most successful time together came in the 1996 European Championships, held in England. Their most famous contribution was in the 4–1 victory over the Netherlands, a game in the opening group stages in which they both scored twice against one of the strongest teams in the tournament. Though England were eventually knocked out in the semi-finals", "id": "2997067" }, { "contents": "History of the England national football team\n\n\ninto Euro 2000 after a 2–1 aggregate playoff win over Scotland. At the finals in Belgium and the Netherlands, a lacklustre England failed to get beyond the group stage, losing to both Portugal and Romania after leading in each game. After England's exit, Alan Shearer retired from international football, he had announced his intentions before the tournament, and no-one could persuade him to change his mind. On 7 October 2000, shortly after losing the opening World Cup qualifier to Germany in the last-ever game at Wembley", "id": "15089411" }, { "contents": "Premier League 10 Seasons Awards\n\n\nrepresented, with five players. The teams were as follows: English striker Alan Shearer was named Domestic Player of the Decade in the main 10 Seasons awards announcements, in addition to being given the Outstanding Contribution to the FA Premier League award. Two weeks later he was also named as the Overall Player of the Decade. In the first decade, Shearer played for Blackburn Rovers, and then Newcastle United. Shearer has been described as a classic English centre-forward with great shooting power, a single-minded striker who could", "id": "11856460" }, { "contents": "Wartime League\n\n\narguments debate that a player who exceeds one's record through their wartime matches should nonetheless be seen as the club's highest goal scorer or appearance having been part of the team's squad even if only for a short time. The most recent argument relates to the goal-difference between Jackie Milburn's and Alan Shearer's Newcastle United goal-scoring records. When counting Jackie's wartime matches, he scored a total of 238 professional goals for Newcastle United FC. In May 2005, Alan Shearer finished his career at 206 goals", "id": "17626256" }, { "contents": "Jon Dahl Tomasson\n\n\nas the perfect link-up player to England national team striker Alan Shearer. The partnership initially worked well, with Tomasson impressing during a pre-season friendly tournament in the Republic of Ireland. However, a career threatening injury to Shearer, combined with the controversial transfer of popular striker Les Ferdinand to Tottenham Hotspur, meant that Tomasson was moved from his traditional attacking midfield position to that of striker. He struggled to adapt to his new position on the field, and to the English game, due to his lack of physical", "id": "19324628" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\ncovered the World Cups and European Championships from 2006 onwards for the BBC. Former Newcastle chairman Freddy Shepherd announced that, after Shearer finished the 2005–06 season as Newcastle's caretaker assistant manager, he would become the club's \"Sporting Ambassador\" for the 2006–07 season. However, in September 2008, it was reported that Shearer was removed from this largely honorary position by the club's owner Mike Ashley, despite protests from players such as Steven Taylor and Damien Duff, due to Shearer's criticism of the way in which the club", "id": "13592564" }, { "contents": "1998 FA Cup Final\n\n\nthe final that Bergkamp had resumed training and \"medically he looked all right\", but the player received a further setback when he suffered a reaction to his hamstring. He ruled himself out of the match and told reporters: \"I'm very disappointed. As a little boy in Holland I always watched the FA Cup final. And I used to dream about playing in it myself one day.\" Ian Wright was listed as Bergkamp's probable replacement to partner Anelka. Newcastle had their own issues surrounding Shearer. The England", "id": "10844676" }, { "contents": "2008–09 in English football\n\n\n's surprise resignation in December; whilst their final points tally wasn't spectacular, they had the satisfaction of being the top North-East team in football after both Middlesbrough and Newcastle United were relegated, ending 11 and 16 year spells in the top flight respectively, the latter going through four managers in Kevin Keegan, Joe Kinnear, Chris Hughton and even former striker Alan Shearer during the campaign. Despite a brilliant start to the season which saw them as high as third place in October, Hull City won just 1 of their", "id": "1311754" }, { "contents": "1996 FA Charity Shield\n\n\nfrom Eric Cantona, Nicky Butt, David Beckham and Roy Keane. The game saw new signings Jordi Cruyff and Karel Poborský make their debuts for Manchester United, though neither of these players had particularly successful careers at Old Trafford and both had left the club within four years. The day before the game had seen the surprise sale of one of Manchester United's longest serving players — Lee Sharpe. The game saw Newcastle United give a debut to £15 million world record signing Alan Shearer, who would remain at the club until", "id": "2797098" }, { "contents": "UEFA Euro 2016 knockout phase\n\n\nsection begin=g6 /section end=g6 / section begin=g7 /section end=g7 / The match has been described as one of England's worst defeats ever. Former footballer and Talksport presenter Stan Collymore, who was commentating on the game, panned the England team, reserving special criticism for goalkeeper Joe Hart and captain Wayne Rooney. Former England international and BBC Sport pundit Alan Shearer described it as the worst performance he had ever seen from an England team. The defeat was called England's most shocking since losing 1–0 to", "id": "11344909" }, { "contents": "Maurice E. Shearer\n\n\nApplication at Annapolis, Maryland, with classmates Holland Smith, Ralph S. Keyser and Andrew B. Drum. In July, Shearer sailed for duty to be the commander of the 35 man Marine detachment on Midway Island. In May 1908, he was selected for promotion to first lieutenant and to the rank of captain in June 1916. During World War I, forces under Major Shearer's command made an attack on Belleau Wood, finally clearing that forest of Germans. On 26 June 1918, he sent a now famous report: \"", "id": "8315540" }, { "contents": "Newcastle upon Tyne\n\n\nF.C. became Football League members in 1893. They have won four top division titles (the first in 1905 and the most recent in 1927), six FA Cups (the first in 1910 and the most recent in 1955) and the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup in 1969. They broke the world transfer record in 1996 by paying £15 million for Blackburn Rovers and England striker Alan Shearer, one of the most prolific goalscorers of that era. In 2017 Newcastle was the venue for the 2017 Freedom City festival. The 2017", "id": "20529704" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\ngame and came off the bench to score a penalty, helping Newcastle win the game 3–2. The match was a sell-out, and saw Shearer perform a lap of honour at the end with his family, with his young son notably covering his ears due to the volume of noise produced by the crowd in tribute. Shearer's international career began in 1990 when he was handed a callup to the England under-21 squad under Dave Sexton. During his time with the squad, he scored 13 times in 11 games, a", "id": "13592537" }, { "contents": "2011–12 Cardiff City F.C. season\n\n\nserving manager in the Championship having held his post since May 2005. The club held talks with former England and Newcastle United captain Alan Shearer to replace Jones but he rejected the job despite stating that he was impressed with the \"vision, ambition and determination of the owner Dato Chan Tien Ghee and the board\". The \"Bluebirds\" instead approached Championship rivals Watford for permission to speak to their manager Malky Mackay, which was initially rejected. However, after the two clubs agreed a compensation fee, Mackay was officially appointed as", "id": "7599659" }, { "contents": "Kevin Keegan\n\n\nto Michael Owen, stating, \"He's not scared to give his opinion when he's right, and he's not scared to say what he feels. He's a tremendous professional, and he trains properly every day.\" Keegan announced on 22 January that he and Alan Shearer held talks about the two linking up with Shearer as his assistant, but decided against the idea, leaving the door open for him to take other roles he was interested in. Keegan's first eight games back at Newcastle passed without a", "id": "826473" }, { "contents": "Transfer (association football)\n\n\n£3.6 million Alan Shearer moved to Blackburn Rovers from Southampton, a decade after the world's first £3 million transfer. Lentini's transfer remained intact the world record fee for the next four years, although the national record was broken more than once in many countries including England. Shearer's £3.6million record fee was narrowly eclipsed 12 months later when Manchester United signed Roy Keane from Nottingham Forest for £3.75 million. In 1994, Blackburn Rovers paid a record £5 million for Chris Sutton from Norwich City, a decade", "id": "11200095" }, { "contents": "Roy Hodgson\n\n\nagainst Costa Rica to finish bottom of Group D. Hodgson named Rooney as the new captain of England in August 2014, following the retirement of Steven Gerrard from international football. Hodgson's first match after the World Cup was a 1–0 win against Norway in an international friendly match at Wembley on 3 September 2014. During the match, England made only two shots on target. Hodgson was infuriated when asked about this, describing the statistic as \"fucking bollocks\". Former England player, Alan Shearer, admitted that the match was so", "id": "12858624" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nto the season. The animosity between Shearer and Gullit was later confirmed by the latter, who reported telling the striker that he was \"...the most overrated player I have ever seen.\" Ironically, Robson had tried to sign Shearer for Barcelona in 1997, making a bid of £20million which would have seen Shearer break the world's transfer fee record for the second time in 12 months. However, then Newcastle manager Kenny Dalglish rejected the offer. In Robson's first match in charge, Shearer scored five goals in", "id": "13592526" }, { "contents": "Premier League 10 Seasons Awards\n\n\nin his talks with Alex Ferguson, he could not guarantee that Eric Cantona the Overseas Player of the Decade could be persuaded to let Shearer take penalty kicks. Shearer gained a second PFA Players' Player of the Year Award in April 1997, becoming just the second player to have received the PFA award twice, after Mark Hughes. After the 2000 European Championships, Shearer had retired from international football with England, having been England captain since 1998, and having made his senior début in 1992. Shearer was awarded the OBE in", "id": "11856465" }, { "contents": "Emile Heskey\n\n\nthe two matches, with former England international Alan Shearer commenting, \"Never in a million years did I expect to be discussing whether Emile Heskey should keep his place ahead of Wayne Rooney but the Wigan striker was outstanding over both matches.\" Heskey was called into manager Fabio Capello's first squad against Switzerland, but had to withdraw due to an injury. He was called into the squad for a friendly against the Czech Republic in August 2008 and came on as a 46th-minute substitute, in a match that finished 2–2", "id": "174986" }, { "contents": "Habib Beye\n\n\nUEFA Cup Final, a run which involved him putting in a star performance as a central defender against (his now former team) Newcastle United, where he was particularly effective against Newcastle's talisman striker Alan Shearer. He ended up on the losing side as Marseille lost the final to Valencia 2–0. He was also a beaten finalist in the 2006 French Cup against former club Paris Saint-Germain, a match which his team lost 2–1, and again in 2007 when his Marseille team lost on penalties to FC Sochaux. His", "id": "16217445" }, { "contents": "Stan Collymore\n\n\nseason in the Premier League, Collymore was called up to Terry Venables' England squad for the Umbro Cup in June 1995. He made his début at Wembley Stadium against Japan, partnering Alan Shearer in a 2–1 win. He won his second cap as a 90th minute substitute against Brazil. Collymore made his third and final appearance for England as a substitute in a 4–0 win over Moldova during qualification for the 1998 FIFA World Cup. Collymore contributed to his biography \"Stan: Tackling my demons\" with Oliver Holt. In 2005", "id": "3955590" }, { "contents": "Graeme Souness\n\n\nAt £8.2 million, Boumsong was his first big signing and Souness said he would replace Jonathan Woodgate in the Newcastle defence, which had conceded several leads earlier in the season. Newcastle were well aware of Boumsong prior to his move from Auxerre to Rangers on a free transfer. Robson had travelled to France to watch him, but he declined the opportunity to sign Boumsong. Liverpool were also interested in signing Boumsong. Robson's doubts were confirmed when Boumsong marked Alan Shearer in a pre-season game against Rangers. Shearer came", "id": "18029254" }, { "contents": "Saido Berahino\n\n\nrate of a goal every other match, including three to help the team qualify for the European Championship. Berahino has the all-time third-highest goal tally for the England under-21 side with 10 goals in 13 appearances, behind Francis Jeffers and Alan Shearer. On 6 November 2014, England manager Roy Hodgson – who promoted Berahino to the West Bromwich Albion first team in 2011 – named Berahino in his squad for the first time, ahead of a UEFA Euro 2016 qualifying match against Slovenia at Wembley Stadium on the 15th and", "id": "1000466" } ]

[ { "contents": "Tony Adams\n\n\n\"I have some resentment over the way Glenn Hoddle gave the captaincy to Alan Shearer instead of me but I can let that go. I reacted positively. I disagreed with him [Hoddle] and he thought Alan could get more penalties being a centre forward. People know my reaction to that\". Adams continued to play for the national side, however and he finally appeared in a World Cup finals in 1998. His international swansong was England's unsuccessful Euro 2000 campaign. With Shearer retiring from international football after the tournament", "id": "6104102" }, { "contents": "Tony Adams\n\n\nin defence, and after the retirement of Gary Lineker in 1992, Adams unofficially shared the captaincy of England with David Platt, though Adams became England captain outright before Euro 96, as Platt's place in the side became less secure. England reached the semi-finals of Euro 96, before losing on penalties to Germany. When England manager Glenn Hoddle took the Captain's armband from Adams and gave it to Alan Shearer it was a bitter pill for Adams to swallow. Speaking at a fans' forum in 2008 Adams remarked", "id": "6104101" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nThis time, Germany won from the spot; although Shearer scored, his teammate Gareth Southgate missed his kick and England were eliminated. Shearer's five goals made him the competition's top scorer, and together with teammates David Seaman and Steve McManaman, was listed in the official UEFA team of the tournament. The new England manager Glenn Hoddle appointed Shearer captain for the 1998 FIFA World Cup qualifier against Moldova on 1 September 1996, and the player held onto the captaincy after scoring once in that match and twice in the following game", "id": "13592541" }, { "contents": "Dimitar Berbatov\n\n\nhe consequently modelled himself after Marco van Basten, the Dutch forward for that team. However, the 1996 European Championship, held in England, gave Berbatov a new role model; the 15-year-old Berbatov began to look up to the English front man Alan Shearer, who played for Newcastle United. Berbatov's mother later spoke of her son's teenage dream of playing for Newcastle United, and said that his admiration for Shearer was such that, during these years, he slept in a Newcastle shirt. Berbatov began his youth", "id": "3905446" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\n's participation in what was to be Shearer's only World Cup tournament. In September 1999, Shearer scored his only England hat-trick in a UEFA Euro 2000 qualifier against Luxembourg. This helped England reach a play-off against Scotland; England won the game over two legs and in doing so qualified for the European Championships. By now, Shearer was approaching his 30th birthday, and he announced that he intended to retire from international football after the Euro 2000 tournament. Shearer did not score in England's opening 3–2 defeat", "id": "13592544" }, { "contents": "Southampton F.C.\n\n\nwas Alan Shearer, who at the age of 17 scored a hat-trick against Arsenal in a league match in April 1988. Shearer was a first team regular by 1990, and stayed with Southampton until July 1992, when he was sold to Blackburn Rovers for a national record of more than £3 million. He then became the most expensive footballer in the world when Blackburn sold him to Newcastle for £15 million in 1996. He also scored 30 times for England internationally. Southampton were founding members of the Premier League", "id": "3265953" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\ntime to play in England's UEFA European Championship campaign. After Euro 96, Manchester United again sought to sign Shearer, and attempted to enter the battle for his signature. However Manchester United chairman Martin Edwards stated that Blackburn Rovers refused to let Shearer go to Old Trafford. Ultimately Shearer joined his boyhood club: Newcastle United, Manchester United's title rivals. On 30 July 1996, for a world transfer record-breaking £15 million (equivalent to £ million today) Shearer joined his hometown club and league runners-up", "id": "13592519" }, { "contents": "History of the England national football team\n\n\nyear after his last game at club level. Hoddle selected Alan Shearer as captain, replacing Tony Adams, but also brought a number of emerging talents into the squad, including the Manchester United midfield trio of Paul Scholes, Nicky Butt and David Beckham, and central defenders Rio Ferdinand and Sol Campbell. Hoddle oversaw England's qualification for the 1998 World Cup (the first World Cup with 32 teams instead of 24) with a 0–0 draw against Italy at the Stadio Olimpico in Rome, and drew out a winning performance in the", "id": "15089406" }, { "contents": "History of the England national football team\n\n\nthe underwhelming performance at the World Cup, England suffered a poor start to the Euro 2000 qualifying tournament, and there was reported discontent between Hoddle and several senior players, most notably Shearer. Hoddle was dismissed on 2 February 1999, two days after an interview with \"The Sunday Times\" in which he spoke about his belief in reincarnation and claimed that disabled people were paying for sins in a previous life. Under considerable media and public pressure, the FA appointed former captain Kevin Keegan, who only just managed to get England", "id": "15089410" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nagainst Poland. He scored a total of five goals in England's successful qualification campaign for the World Cup, adding strikes against Georgia and away to Poland to his tally. Shearer was sidelined for much of the 1997–98 season, but recovered to play in the World Cup finals. With Michael Owen replacing Teddy Sheringham as Shearer's strike partner, Shearer's return saw him score England's first goal of the tournament, in a 2–0 win over Tunisia, his only goal in the three group matches. England faced long-time", "id": "13592542" }, { "contents": "Newcastle United F.C.\n\n\n. The attacking philosophy of Keegan led to the team being labelled \"The Entertainers\" by Sky Sports. Keegan took Newcastle to two consecutive runners-up finishes in the league in 1995–96 and 1996–97, coming very close to winning the title in the former season. This success was in part due to the talent of players like David Ginola, Les Ferdinand and Alan Shearer, who was signed on 30 July 1996 for a then world record fee of £15 million. Keegan left Newcastle in January 1997 and was replaced by Kenny", "id": "12636363" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nAlan Shearer, CBE, DL (born 13 August 1970) is an English retired footballer. He played as a striker in the top level of English league football for Southampton, Blackburn Rovers, Newcastle United and the England national team. He is Newcastle's and the Premier League's record goalscorer. He was named Football Writers' Association Player of the Year in 1994 and won the PFA Player of the Year award in 1995. In 1996, he was third in the FIFA World Player of the Year awards. In 2004", "id": "13592501" }, { "contents": "Teddy Sheringham\n\n\nmanager Terry Venables (1994–96) Sheringham came to be the preferred strike partner for Alan Shearer. During this time, England had a wealth of strikers with the likes of Andrew Cole, Ian Wright, a young Robbie Fowler and Les Ferdinand all battling to partner Shearer in the England team. The two formed a famous partnership at international level, as they complemented each other's strengths: Shearer the out-and-out goalscorer, big, strong and powerful, Sheringham just 'dropping off' his strike partner, finding spaces", "id": "2997066" }, { "contents": "History of Newcastle United F.C.\n\n\n's title chances for the 1994–95 season, in which they finished sixth. The club, however, continued to build up a reputation for playing attacking football under Keegan. In the 1995–96 season, high-profile foreign stars David Ginola and Faustino Asprilla, in addition to British players Peter Beardsley and striker Les Ferdinand, guided the team to a second-place finish. During the 1996–97 season, Keegan made one signing, securing the services of England striker Alan Shearer for a then-world record transfer fee of £15 million", "id": "6803863" }, { "contents": "1996–97 Newcastle United F.C. season\n\n\n...I think Kevin wanted it free-flowing in all departments and that doesn't necessarily happen.\" Keegan responded to the previous season's disappointment by breaking the world record transfer fee to sign centre forward Alan Shearer from Blackburn Rovers for £15 million. Shearer, whose five goals made him the top scorer in Euro 96, had supported Newcastle since childhood – he had been a ball-boy at St James' Park on the day that Keegan had left in a helicopter after his final Newcastle appearance as a player.", "id": "1207050" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nin the games.\" Shearer captained his school team and helped a Newcastle City Schools team win a seven-a-side tournament at St James' Park, before joining the amateur Wallsend Boys Club as a teenager. It was while playing for the Wallsend club that he was spotted by Southampton's scout, Jack Hixon, which resulted in Shearer spending his summers training with the club's youth team, a time he would later refer to as \"the making of me\". Shearer had successful trials for First Division clubs", "id": "13592505" }, { "contents": "Duncan Shearer\n\n\nFavourites\" during the club's centenary in 2008. However, he was unable to prevent Huddersfield's relegation to the Third Division at the end of the 1987–88 season. Weeks before this, the unrelated English striker Alan Shearer (aged 17) had scored a hat-trick in the First Division for Southampton against Arsenal, a game which Arsenal captain Tony Adams missed through injury. In his autobiography 11 years later, Adams said that he had followed the progress of the game on Ceefax and mistakingly believed that the Shearer who scored", "id": "3716405" }, { "contents": "David Hirst (footballer)\n\n\nHe came on at half-time and within three minutes of the restart he scored his first (and only) England goal. With Gary Lineker injured, he lined up with Alan Shearer against France at Wembley. Bryan Robson said that, \"It's not a question of who will replace Lineker, but who will partner David Hirst\". It became Hirst's third and final England match. Although he was selected for more England squads, injuries kept him out of the team. Manchester United boss Alex Ferguson tried six", "id": "18892949" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nthrough to May due to injury and England's World Cup qualification chances were hit by a run of poor form. Returning to fitness for the 1993–94 season, he scored 31 goals from 40 games as Blackburn finished runners-up in the Premier League. His performances for the club led to him being named the Football Writers' Association Footballer of the Year for that season. On the international scene, England had failed to qualify for the 1994 World Cup finals, but Shearer added three more goals to his international tally before embarking", "id": "13592514" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nfive points out of a possible twenty-four. Shearer did not get the manager's job on permanent basis. Chris Hughton stepped up from the coaching staff to take charge of the quest to get Newcastle back into the Premier League, which was achieved at the first attempt as Newcastle finished top of the Championship in the 2009–10 season. Shearer is married to Lainya, whom he met whilst a Southampton player. The couple lived locally with her parents during Shearer's second year at the south coast club, and were married on", "id": "13592557" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nagainst Portugal, but did so as England defeated Germany 1–0 in Charleroi, ensuring that England beat their European neighbours for the first time since the 1966 World Cup Final. To remain in the tournament, England only required a draw against Romania in the final group match, and Shearer scored a penalty as England went in at half-time 2–1 up, but Romania ultimately won 3–2. England's tournament was over, and so was Shearer's international career. From his 63 caps, he captained the team 34 times and scored", "id": "13592545" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nrecord return which is still unbeaten. The striker's goals at this level, coupled with his club form, meant he was soon promoted to the senior squad by coach Graham Taylor. Marking his debut in the 2–0 win against France in February 1992 with a goal, he made his only appearance for the England B team a month later. Due to replace Gary Lineker, who retired from international action after UEFA Euro 1992, in the England attack, Shearer played only intermittently in the qualifying campaign for the 1994 FIFA World Cup", "id": "13592538" }, { "contents": "1993 Trans-Tasman Test series\n\n\n's Canberra Raiders team mate and New South Wales captain Laurie Daley. The test series took place following the 1993 State of Origin series which was won by NSW. Dale Shearer's performances at fullback for Qld saw him earn a test recall in front of well performed World Cup and NSW fullback Tim Brasher (though Shearer had been selected at centre for all 3 Ashes series tests in 1992 but withdrew from all 3 with injury). Bradley Clyde, who had not played in the Origin series due to injury was also recalled to", "id": "16616631" }, { "contents": "Glenn Hoddle\n\n\nRedknapp resigned, following which Hoddle also left the club. In June 2016, after England's 2–1 loss to Iceland at Euro 2016 and manager Roy Hodgson's subsequent resignation, Harry Redknapp and Alan Shearer both put forward Hoddle as a candidate for the job before Sam Allardyce was appointed. Hoddle has done punditry work since his retirement from coaching. He has worked for ESPN, ITV Sport and BT Sport. Hoddle began working with ESPN during Euro 2012 as a pundit. Since then, he has worked with ITV for the 2014", "id": "8847620" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nhim onto the pitch following the striker's testimonial in May 2006 as he performed a lap of honour at St James' Park. On 6 December 2000, Shearer was given Honorary Freedom of the City of Newcastle upon Tyne, with the citation \"in recognition of his role as captain of Newcastle United Football Club and as former captain of England which have enhanced the reputation of the City\". Shearer was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2001 Queen's Birthday Honours and Commander of the", "id": "13592559" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nhis four years in the Southampton first team, Shearer made a total of 158 appearances in all competitions, scoring 43 goals. Despite making just one goalless appearance as England failed to progress past the Euro 1992 group stages, Shearer was soon subject to an English transfer record-breaking £3.6 million bid from Blackburn Rovers. Although there was also interest from Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson, Blackburn benefactor Jack Walker's millions were enough to prise the striker from the \"Saints\", and Shearer moved north to Ewood Park in the", "id": "13592512" }, { "contents": "Andy Cole\n\n\nof the season to help United win the Premier League title for the third time in four years. He also played in their FA Cup final victory to become part of England's first ever side to win the double twice. Before the 1996–97 season began, Cole had to deal with being offered to Blackburn Rovers as part-exchange in a £12 million deal that would have brought Alan Shearer to Old Trafford, but the offer was rejected and Shearer joined Newcastle instead. Despite Alex Ferguson's clear indication to Cole that he", "id": "9629547" }, { "contents": "Shearer's Bar\n\n\nShearer's Bar is the former name of a sports bar owned by Newcastle United and forming part of St James' Park, the team's stadium in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. It was named in honour of the club's all-time top scorer, Alan Shearer. The bar was renamed Nine in July 2013 by the club, who said that popularity of the venue had \"dwindled\". The bar was opened in December 2004 and became an important part of the features at St James' Park. It is", "id": "15298144" }, { "contents": "Kevin Keegan\n\n\nrelationship between the pair. In April 2003, it was named as Quote of the Decade in the Premier League 10 Seasons Awards and Most Memorable Quote in the 20 Seasons Awards in May 2012. It also appeared in Channel 4's \"100 Greatest Sporting Moments\". Keegan then broke the world transfer fee record by signing Blackburn Rovers and England striker Alan Shearer in July 1996. Shearer, who had been the Premier League's top scorer in the last two seasons, was born in Newcastle and had grown up as a fan", "id": "826455" }, { "contents": "England national football team\n\n\nBetween 1994 and 1996, Terry Venables managed the team. At UEFA Euro 1996, held in England, they equalled their best performance at a European Championship, reaching the semi-finals as they did in 1968, before exiting via a penalty shoot-out loss to Germany. England striker Alan Shearer was the tournament's top scorer with five goals. Venables resigned following investigations into his financial activities. Venables' successor, Glenn Hoddle, similarly left the job for non-footballing reasons after just one international tournament – the 1998", "id": "9748695" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nmiddle of 1992. His first season with Blackburn was mixed – he missed half of it through injury after snapping his right anterior cruciate ligament in a match against Leeds United in December 1992, but scored a prolific 16 goals in the 21 games in which he did feature. Shearer also became a regular in the England team this season and scored his second international goal; it came in a 4–0 1994 FIFA World Cup qualifier win over Turkey in November. The season ended sourly, however, as Shearer was forced to miss January", "id": "13592513" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nover from head coach Chris Hughton who was in temporary charge while the permanent manager Joe Kinnear recovered from heart surgery, having taken ill on 7 February. Shearer stated \"It's a club I love and I don't want them to go down. I'll do everything I can to stop that.\" Shearer was unveiled at a press conference the following day by club managing director Derek Llambias. In explaining his acceptance of a managerial role at Newcastle at this time, Shearer stated that he would not have done this for", "id": "13592552" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nwas being run in the wake of the departure of Kevin Keegan. These reports were denied by the club. Shearer features in EA Sports' \"FIFA\" video game series; he was included in the \"FIFA 15\" Ultimate Team Legends. During his playing days, Shearer had been involved with the children's charity the NSPCC, taking part in the organisation's Full Stop campaign in 1999. Since retiring from football Shearer has also done work for several charities both nationally and in the Newcastle area. In his testimonial match", "id": "13592565" }, { "contents": "2005–06 Newcastle United F.C. season\n\n\n. The fee, £17 million, surpassed Newcastle's previous record of £15 million for Alan Shearer from Blackburn in 1996. In the closing hours of the transfer window, the club re-signed Nolberto Solano from Aston Villa. Souness's decision to pair Shearer and Owen together up front proved to be lethal, but Owen broke his fourth metatarsal bone in his foot after a clash with Paul Robinson in a match against Tottenham Hotspur, keeping him out for the rest of the season. With Owen injured the team's", "id": "18086094" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\ndue to injury and the team failed to reach the competition finals. UEFA Euro 1996 was a more positive experience for both Shearer and England. With England not required to qualify as hosts, Shearer had not scored in 12 games in the 21 months prior, and even his overall goalscoring record for England did not look too impressive so far, with five goals in 23 games. However, he found the net in the 22nd minute of the first game, against Switzerland. Scoring once in the following game against Scotland and twice", "id": "13592539" }, { "contents": "Teddy Sheringham\n\n\nthe 2000 European Championships by then manager Kevin Keegan, but the retirement of Shearer (despite being four years younger than Sheringham) from international football after that tournament and the arrival of new manager Sven-Göran Eriksson in 2001 saw a return to international favour for him. He was often deployed as a tactical substitute late in games by Eriksson, valued for his ability to hold the ball up and create intelligent play. In 2001, Sheringham scored an important goal for England against Greece in a World Cup qualifying match within 15 seconds", "id": "2997070" }, { "contents": "Ruud Gullit\n\n\n, chairman Ken Bates famously said of Gullit, \"I didn't like his arrogance – in fact I never liked him.\" In August 1998, Gullit was named manager of Newcastle United two games into the new league season and reached the 1999 FA Cup Final in his first year. Fans remained supportive despite a poor run of results, although a well-publicised contretemps with the team's top scorer Alan Shearer and captain Robert Lee did not put him in a favourable light. Gullit even refused to assign Lee a squad", "id": "13592616" }, { "contents": "Scott Parker\n\n\ndefeat on 25 March 2006. Later that month he was diagnosed with glandular fever, putting an end to his season. The timing was especially unfortunate for Parker, who had been playing well for Newcastle, as it ended any hopes he may have had of forcing his way into the 2006 FIFA World Cup. In July 2006, he was named Newcastle United's new captain by manager Glenn Roeder, succeeding the retired Alan Shearer. His first goal as captain came against Wigan Athletic on 19 August 2006, in a 2–1 win", "id": "14327157" }, { "contents": "History of football in England\n\n\n. United's main challengers for the title in the Premier League's first few years were Blackburn Rovers, led by star striker Alan Shearer, also won their first league title since World War I in 1994–95, and Newcastle United, who famously conceded a 10-point lead at Christmas to lose the title to United in 1995–96. Newcastle had reached the Premiership in 1993 as Division One champions, and in their first Premiership campaign finished third to qualify for the UEFA Cup. They finished second in 1996 and again in 1997, but by", "id": "3652862" }, { "contents": "1992–93 FA Premier League\n\n\nPremier League as an attempt by the Football Association to \"hijack\" the First Division. Shortly before the season began, newly promoted Blackburn Rovers signed Southampton's 21-year-old England international striker Alan Shearer for a new British record fee variously reported as £3.3 million, £3.4 million, or £3.6 million. Several other players moved for fees of £2 million or more, including Arsenal's David Rocastle, who joined Leeds United, Dean Saunders, who moved from Liverpool to Aston Villa, and Teddy Sheringham, who", "id": "12442383" }, { "contents": "Darren Anderton\n\n\nhappy at the prospect of losing another key player as he had already lost Jürgen Klinsmann and Gheorghe Popescu that summer; and Nick Barmby was on the verge of joining Middlesbrough. Despite missing most of the 1995–96 season through injury, Anderton played an important part in the Euro 96 England team that reached the semi-finals and included players like Paul Gascoigne, Alan Shearer, Steve McManaman and Teddy Sheringham. In the semi final against Germany, the match went to golden goal extra time. Anderton came within inches of putting England into", "id": "4331581" }, { "contents": "Wallsend Boys Club\n\n\nJanuary which damaged one of the walls of the building. Professional players to have played for the club include: The club has had a representative at four of the six FIFA World Cup finals since 1986, with the two exceptions coming in 1994, when the England national football team did not qualify, and 2002. In 1986 and 1990 Peter Beardsley starred for England. In 1998 Alan Shearer was England captain. Michael Carrick made appearances for England in both the 2006 and 2010 tournaments. Fraser Forster was in the 2014 squad but", "id": "21182372" }, { "contents": "Harry Kane\n\n\n\". Clive Allen, who coached him at Tottenham, stated that \"one thing I'd say about him, which unfortunately you don't say about a lot of young footballers, is that he had a passion for the game. He loves football, he loves playing, he loves scoring goals\". His former Tottenham under-21 coach Les Ferdinand likened Kane's movement to their former forward Teddy Sheringham, and the power and accuracy of his shots to Alan Shearer. Kane's style of play has been compared to that of", "id": "1925319" }, { "contents": "Kieron Dyer\n\n\nthat he would soon rejoin for Ipswich. After representing England at Youth, Under 21 and \"B\" level, Dyer's debut for the senior team came on 4 September 1999 when he started in England's 6–0 win against Luxembourg. He was deployed out of position at right back, and was replaced by Gary Neville at half-time after injuring himself while setting up Alan Shearer's third goal of the match. The injury was not serious and he was able to make his second England appearance four days later, coming", "id": "17666181" }, { "contents": "1996–97 Blackburn Rovers F.C. season\n\n\nthe end of the season, when he handed over the reins to Roy Hodgson after Sampdoria's Sven-Göran Eriksson lied about accepting the manager's job and joined Lazio instead. Parkes steered Blackburn to safety as they finished 13th. The world record £15 million sale of striker Alan Shearer to Newcastle United was seen as the biggest factor in Blackburn's lowest top flight finish since they returned to the elite in 1992. However, his strike-partner Chris Sutton helped keep the club alive after recovering from a drastic loss of", "id": "7811146" }, { "contents": "Michael Owen\n\n\nmuch of the campaign as England struggled, with Hoddle being replaced by Kevin Keegan. On 4 September 1999, he scored his first goal at Wembley Stadium in a 6–0 win over Luxembourg. At the finals, Owen scored once in three matches, as England were knocked out at the group stage. After Alan Shearer's retirement, Owen took over as England's senior striker under new manager Sven-Göran Eriksson. He scored six times during 2002 World Cup qualifying, including a hat-trick against Germany at Munich's Olympiastadion", "id": "21886807" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nyet to start the UEFA Pro Licence course, which is required to be permitted to manage a team in the Premier League and European competition. Reflecting his desire for personal time off to \"enjoy life\", in July 2006 he turned down a coaching role with England, citing his BBC commitments and desire to be away from the pressure of a job within football. Despite this, Shearer was often linked in the media with managerial or coaching positions at his three former clubs. Shearer took a brief role in the dugout for", "id": "13592550" }, { "contents": "History of Southampton F.C.\n\n\nappearances for the England national team – he finally retired in 2002 at the age of 33. During his time with the Saints, Le Tissier was approached more than once by several bigger clubs (including Manchester United) but chose to stick with the Saints despite never winning a major trophy or experiencing European football with them. From 1989 to 1992, Le Tissier was regularly partnered up front by another notable player, Alan Shearer, who as a 17-year-old had scored a hat-trick on his Saints debut against Arsenal in", "id": "15948278" }, { "contents": "Sir Bobby Robson Trophy match\n\n\nNewcastle United, picking up on Alan Shearer's reply of \"I know as much as you do,\" to a pre-match question as to whether he would be installed as Newcastle manager for the forthcoming season beginning in 13 days, with the club being up for sale and with the first team without a manager, being in the care of coach Chris Hughton. Neither the Newcastle United owner Mike Ashley or managing director Derek Llambias were in attendance at the charity match. Having left England after Italia '90, Sir", "id": "19612022" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nChancellor Liam Donaldson stated \"Newcastle United are my team. Alan Shearer is more than just a local legend, he's probably one of the greatest footballers of all time\". On 12 September 2016, a statue of Shearer's likeness was unveiled outside St James' Park. It was sculpted by Tom Maley, and paid for by the Shepherd family. After his retirement and following guest appearances, Shearer became a regular pundit for the BBC's \"Match of the Day\". He also formed part of the team which", "id": "13592563" }, { "contents": "Gary McAllister\n\n\ntournament, scoring in a 3–0 win over the CIS. However, Scotland did not qualify from their group. Scotland failed to qualify for the 1994 FIFA World Cup but did qualify for UEFA Euro 1996 in England, with McAllister the captain of the team. Scotland's second match of the group stage was against England at Wembley Stadium. In the second half Scotland, trailing 0–1 to an Alan Shearer goal, were awarded a penalty. McAllister's kick was saved by David Seaman and Scotland lost 0–2. The team won their", "id": "19492391" }, { "contents": "David Seaman\n\n\nEngland's quarter-final against Spain ended scoreless, Seaman saved Miguel Angel Nadal's kick in the shootout to knock Spain out of the tournament. England eventually were eliminated in the semi-final by Germany on penalties,after Andreas Köpke saved the penalty taken by Gareth Southgate. Seaman was named alongside Golden Boot winner Alan Shearer and winger Steve McManaman in the UEFA \"Team of the Tournament\". Euro 96 sponsor Philips named him \"Player of the Tournament\". Seaman remained first choice under the management of Glenn Hoddle for", "id": "7321893" }, { "contents": "1998 FA Cup Final\n\n\nand so has the mixture between the foreign and English players.\" Wenger reserved praise for the goalscorers Overmars (\"a world-class player\") and Anelka (\"Nicolas is very young. But you saw in the second half today what he can do\"), and felt the turning point in the match was Shearer's shot hitting the post. He sympathised with Newcastle, as did his captain, Adams who said afterwards: \"The team and their fans did everything they could out there, but it was", "id": "10844688" }, { "contents": "David McMahon (association footballer)\n\n\nabout the role of striker from watching England international Alan Shearer in training, but likened himself more to Newcastle's Scotland international Duncan Ferguson, \"because I am taller and like to battle for things in the air.\" Brian Kerr, then manager of Ireland under-17s, described McMahon as honest and hard-working, \"not the most skilful player, but will get goals\", but Darlington manager Gary Bennett believed there was more to his game: that he and strike partner John Williams both had enough skill to play a", "id": "5423888" }, { "contents": "Andy Carroll\n\n\nUEFA Euro 2012. He opened the scoring for England with a powerful header in their second group match against Sweden, which England went on to win 3–2. Carroll has been compared to Newcastle's record goalscorer Alan Shearer, Ivory Coast striker Didier Drogba and former Italy forward Christian Vieri. He has also been referred to as a classic centre forward, owing to his strength, powerful shot and excellent heading ability. Former Newcastle manager and Liverpool player Kevin Keegan stated \"he is probably in the top three headers of a ball I", "id": "11961542" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\n-chasing Manchester United. On the opening day of the 1999–2000 season, Shearer received the first red card of his career in his 100th appearance for Newcastle. After dropping Shearer to the bench in a Tyne-Wear derby loss against Sunderland, the unpopular Gullit resigned to be replaced by the 66-year-old Bobby Robson. Despite Gullit giving Shearer the captain's armband, reports of a rift between club captain and manager were rife, Gullit's decision to drop Shearer proved deeply unpopular with fans and his departure capped a dismal start", "id": "13592525" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nAn almost injury-free season helped Shearer improve on his previous year's tally in the 1998–99 season, the striker converting 14 goals in 30 league games and replacing Rob Lee as Newcastle captain, but Newcastle finished 13th again, with Ruud Gullit having replaced Kenny Dalglish just after the season got underway. He also helped Newcastle to a second consecutive FA Cup final and qualification for the following season's UEFA Cup, scoring twice in the semi-final against Tottenham Hotspur, but they once again lost, this time 2–0 to treble", "id": "13592524" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nhis final three games under Glenn Roeder. Shearer had rejected offers of coaching or assistant roles at Newcastle under both the returning Kevin Keegan in February 2008 and Joe Kinnear in November 2008. Shearer had previously had talks about, but never been offered, a full-time manager's role at Newcastle until his appointment on 1 April 2009. In a surprise move, late on 1 April 2009, it was announced that Shearer would become the manager of his former club Newcastle United for the remaining eight games of the season, taking", "id": "13592551" }, { "contents": "Fabio Cannavaro\n\n\nnational team on 22 January 1997, in a friendly match against Northern Ireland. The same year, he earned plaudits for his handling of England striker Alan Shearer in a World Cup qualifying game at Wembley Stadium. Shearer was then considered by the partisan English crowd to be the best striker in the world, and thought he would make fun of the inexperienced Italian defender. Nevertheless, in a display ranking alongside those of the very best Italian defenders Claudio Gentile and Franco Baresi, Cannavaro managed to keep Shearer quiet for the whole game", "id": "3625067" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\n, with media sources claiming that video footage showed him intentionally kicking Neil Lennon in the head following a challenge. The referee of the game took no action against Shearer, and he was then cleared of all charges by the FA, with Lennon giving evidence in the player's defence. Former Football Association chief Graham Kelly, who brought the charges against the player, later claimed in his autobiography that Shearer had threatened to withdraw himself from the 1998 World Cup squad if the charges were upheld, a claim strenuously denied by Shearer.", "id": "13592523" }, { "contents": "History of the Romania national football team\n\n\nminnows Tunisia. Adrian Ilie scored the only goal with a fine chip in their first match against Colombia at Lyon's Stade Gerland. In Toulouse, they met an England side starting with prodigal striker Michael Owen on the bench, with Teddy Sheringham preferred alongside Alan Shearer. A mistake by Tony Adams was punished by Viorel Moldovan, who played for Coventry City, before Owen came on to claim an equalizer. But Romania won with a scrappy late goal from Dan Petrescu, also playing in England with Chelsea, fighting off his club", "id": "16435718" }, { "contents": "John Barnes (footballer)\n\n\nNewcastle United, although an approach had already been made by Harry Redknapp of West Ham; Barnes had agreed in principle to join them until at the final moment Dalglish called him and Barnes changed his mind. In the 1997–98 season Barnes played up front mostly, deputising for Alan Shearer after Shearer was injured for most of the season, and Barnes ended up Newcastle's top league scorer with six goals, which highlighted the Magpies' lack of ability to score in the absence of Shearer and Ferdinand (who had been sold along with", "id": "19616669" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\ncould not find a more iconic person than Alan, not just for what he has done in football but for all the extra work he tirelessly does for charity and communities. I am delighted he has accepted the role of Deputy Lieutenant because he is a real role model. I have promised him he is not going to have to do too much, but even if it is just one occasion a year he is the perfect choice\" On 7 December 2009, Shearer was made a Doctor of Civil Law by Newcastle University.", "id": "13592562" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nLaw of Northumbria and Newcastle Universities. Shearer was born in Gosforth, Newcastle, in 1970 to working-class parents Alan and Anne Shearer. His father, a sheet-metal worker, encouraged a keen Shearer to play football in his youth, and the young player continued with the sport as he progressed through school. He was educated at Gosforth Central Middle School and Gosforth High School. Growing up playing on the streets of his hometown, he originally played in midfield because \"it meant [he] could get more involved", "id": "13592504" }, { "contents": "Paul Kitson\n\n\n. Newcastle finished second that season after being overhauled in the second half campaign by a Manchester United side who sealed the title by a five-point margin barely four months after Newcastle had led by 10 points, but Kitson's part in Newcastle's exciting though ultimately disappointing campaign had been minimal as he had played just seven league games and scored twice. But he remained loyal to the Magpies even after another blow at the end of July 1996 – the arrival of £15 million world record signing Alan Shearer. He managed three", "id": "19054464" }, { "contents": "Ray Harford\n\n\nthe Premier League for much of the season. During the summer of 1996, Alan Shearer was sold to Newcastle United for a then world record fee of £15 million, and Harford failed to adequately replace him. Harford stated that \"I'm told we need a big name. Engelbert Humperdinck is a big name but it doesn't mean he can play football.\" The 1996–97 season also started badly for Blackburn. They failed to win any of their first ten games and were knocked out of the League Cup by Division", "id": "5365351" }, { "contents": "Patrick Kluivert\n\n\nagain featured for Barca in a legends game against Uganda all stars where he, in lobbing the ball, scored an amazing goal. Kluivert joined Newcastle United on a free transfer in July 2004. He stated that his reasons for joining Newcastle was due to the overwhelming reaction he received whilst playing for Barcelona against Newcastle during a pre season friendly as well as teaming up with Newcastle's star players such as Alan Shearer. Kluivert scored some classy and crucial goals at and away from St James's Park namely in winning strikes against both", "id": "21654890" }, { "contents": "Duncan Shearer\n\n\nbetween 1994 and 1995, scoring two goals including an important opening strike in an away win over Finland which helped the national side qualify for Euro 96, although Shearer did not make the squad for that tournament. The senior team was his first experience of international football, having never played at any age-group level. He achieved a childhood ambition when he played in the national team alongside John McGinlay, a childhood friend also from Fort William. In season 1999–00 he began to concentrate more on coaching than playing, and was", "id": "3716411" }, { "contents": "Les Ferdinand\n\n\nscored 50 goals in only 84 games at Newcastle, forming a successful partnership with Alan Shearer. He was and indeed is still very highly thought of by Newcastle United. Ferdinand received a standing ovation when he returned to St. James' Park as a Tottenham player, trying to put Alan Shearer's number 9 shirt on to complete a lap of honour, he broke down in tears and could only manage to put the shirt on inside out and back to front before being helped from the field. Ferdinand returned again, when he", "id": "2996528" }, { "contents": "David Platt (footballer)\n\n\nTurkey, San Marino, the Netherlands and Norway. The qualifiers began at home to Norway. England dominated the game and Platt carried the goal threat, with Alan Shearer and Ian Wright struggling to find form. He scored the opening goal after an hour. England dominated the remainder of the game and were unlucky to concede to a long-range shot from Kjetil Rekdal. Platt continued his drive from midfield in wins over Turkey at home (4-0) and San Marino (6-0). Platt scored four", "id": "16718350" }, { "contents": "Jason Wilcox\n\n\n-pound investments of Jack Walker. He played an important part in the title-winning Blackburn team of 1995. Playing on the left flank with attacking fullback Graeme Le Saux behind him and Stuart Ripley on the opposite flank, they forged a strong attacking line-up with Alan Shearer and Chris Sutton. International recognition was harder to come by for Wilcox and he managed only 3 international caps despite his effective partnership with Shearer, Le Saux and Tim Sherwood. Lengthy injury problems restricted his effectiveness in subsequent seasons and, after experiencing", "id": "14527253" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nclub's form, and Newcastle finished just 13th in the Premier League. However, United (now managed by Shearer's old boss at Blackburn, Kenny Dalglish) had a good run in the FA Cup; Shearer scored the winning goal in a semi-final victory over Sheffield United as the team reached the final. The team were unable to get on the scoresheet at Wembley, and lost the game 2–0 to Arsenal. An incident during a game against Leicester City in the league saw Shearer charged with misconduct by the FA", "id": "13592522" }, { "contents": "Aleksandar Mitrović (footballer)\n\n\nhim the competition's top scorer, and 28 in all competitions. On 22 March 2015, he scored the team's only goal in the 2–1 Belgian Cup Final loss to Club Brugge KV in Brussels. On 21 July 2015, Mitrović joined Newcastle United on a five-year contract for a reported £13 million, saying he hoped to be able to play like club legend Alan Shearer. He made his debut on 9 August as Newcastle began the season with a 2–2 draw against Southampton at St James' Park, playing", "id": "20923735" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nWest Bromwich Albion, Manchester City and Newcastle United, before being offered a youth contract with Southampton in April 1986. Shearer was promoted to the first team after spending two years with the youth squad. He made his professional debut for Southampton on 26 March 1988, coming on as a substitute in a First Division fixture at Chelsea, before prompting national headlines in his full debut at The Dell two weeks later. He scored a hat-trick, helping the team to a 4–2 victory against Arsenal, thus becoming the youngest player", "id": "13592506" }, { "contents": "James Milner\n\n\ndo what was \"in the club's best interest\" and in July 2004, he agreed a five-year contract with Newcastle. Milner made his first appearance for Newcastle United during their pre-season tour of Asia, scoring his first goal for the club in a 1–1 draw against Kitchee, in Hong Kong. During this tour, he took the opportunity to observe how Newcastle striker Alan Shearer dealt with attention from fans and the media. He said that his association with people like Shearer gave him a better idea of", "id": "1860603" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nretain the ball and provide opportunities for teammates. Playing as a lone striker between wide men, Rod Wallace and Matt Le Tissier, Shearer scored three goals in 26 appearances in the 1989–90 season, and in the next, four goals in 36 games. His performances in the centre of the \"Saints\" attack were soon recognised by the fans, who voted him their Player of the Year for 1991. In the middle of 1991, Shearer was a member of the England national under-21 football squad in the Toulon Tournament in Toulon", "id": "13592508" }, { "contents": "Teddy Sheringham\n\n\n, creating play and providing key passes, forming the link between Shearer and the England midfield. The pairing came to be known as 'The SAS' ('Shearer and Sheringham') and their most successful time together came in the 1996 European Championships, held in England. Their most famous contribution was in the 4–1 victory over the Netherlands, a game in the opening group stages in which they both scored twice against one of the strongest teams in the tournament. Though England were eventually knocked out in the semi-finals", "id": "2997067" }, { "contents": "History of the England national football team\n\n\ninto Euro 2000 after a 2–1 aggregate playoff win over Scotland. At the finals in Belgium and the Netherlands, a lacklustre England failed to get beyond the group stage, losing to both Portugal and Romania after leading in each game. After England's exit, Alan Shearer retired from international football, he had announced his intentions before the tournament, and no-one could persuade him to change his mind. On 7 October 2000, shortly after losing the opening World Cup qualifier to Germany in the last-ever game at Wembley", "id": "15089411" }, { "contents": "Premier League 10 Seasons Awards\n\n\nrepresented, with five players. The teams were as follows: English striker Alan Shearer was named Domestic Player of the Decade in the main 10 Seasons awards announcements, in addition to being given the Outstanding Contribution to the FA Premier League award. Two weeks later he was also named as the Overall Player of the Decade. In the first decade, Shearer played for Blackburn Rovers, and then Newcastle United. Shearer has been described as a classic English centre-forward with great shooting power, a single-minded striker who could", "id": "11856460" }, { "contents": "Wartime League\n\n\narguments debate that a player who exceeds one's record through their wartime matches should nonetheless be seen as the club's highest goal scorer or appearance having been part of the team's squad even if only for a short time. The most recent argument relates to the goal-difference between Jackie Milburn's and Alan Shearer's Newcastle United goal-scoring records. When counting Jackie's wartime matches, he scored a total of 238 professional goals for Newcastle United FC. In May 2005, Alan Shearer finished his career at 206 goals", "id": "17626256" }, { "contents": "Jon Dahl Tomasson\n\n\nas the perfect link-up player to England national team striker Alan Shearer. The partnership initially worked well, with Tomasson impressing during a pre-season friendly tournament in the Republic of Ireland. However, a career threatening injury to Shearer, combined with the controversial transfer of popular striker Les Ferdinand to Tottenham Hotspur, meant that Tomasson was moved from his traditional attacking midfield position to that of striker. He struggled to adapt to his new position on the field, and to the English game, due to his lack of physical", "id": "19324628" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\ncovered the World Cups and European Championships from 2006 onwards for the BBC. Former Newcastle chairman Freddy Shepherd announced that, after Shearer finished the 2005–06 season as Newcastle's caretaker assistant manager, he would become the club's \"Sporting Ambassador\" for the 2006–07 season. However, in September 2008, it was reported that Shearer was removed from this largely honorary position by the club's owner Mike Ashley, despite protests from players such as Steven Taylor and Damien Duff, due to Shearer's criticism of the way in which the club", "id": "13592564" }, { "contents": "1998 FA Cup Final\n\n\nthe final that Bergkamp had resumed training and \"medically he looked all right\", but the player received a further setback when he suffered a reaction to his hamstring. He ruled himself out of the match and told reporters: \"I'm very disappointed. As a little boy in Holland I always watched the FA Cup final. And I used to dream about playing in it myself one day.\" Ian Wright was listed as Bergkamp's probable replacement to partner Anelka. Newcastle had their own issues surrounding Shearer. The England", "id": "10844676" }, { "contents": "2008–09 in English football\n\n\n's surprise resignation in December; whilst their final points tally wasn't spectacular, they had the satisfaction of being the top North-East team in football after both Middlesbrough and Newcastle United were relegated, ending 11 and 16 year spells in the top flight respectively, the latter going through four managers in Kevin Keegan, Joe Kinnear, Chris Hughton and even former striker Alan Shearer during the campaign. Despite a brilliant start to the season which saw them as high as third place in October, Hull City won just 1 of their", "id": "1311754" }, { "contents": "1996 FA Charity Shield\n\n\nfrom Eric Cantona, Nicky Butt, David Beckham and Roy Keane. The game saw new signings Jordi Cruyff and Karel Poborský make their debuts for Manchester United, though neither of these players had particularly successful careers at Old Trafford and both had left the club within four years. The day before the game had seen the surprise sale of one of Manchester United's longest serving players — Lee Sharpe. The game saw Newcastle United give a debut to £15 million world record signing Alan Shearer, who would remain at the club until", "id": "2797098" }, { "contents": "UEFA Euro 2016 knockout phase\n\n\nsection begin=g6 /section end=g6 / section begin=g7 /section end=g7 / The match has been described as one of England's worst defeats ever. Former footballer and Talksport presenter Stan Collymore, who was commentating on the game, panned the England team, reserving special criticism for goalkeeper Joe Hart and captain Wayne Rooney. Former England international and BBC Sport pundit Alan Shearer described it as the worst performance he had ever seen from an England team. The defeat was called England's most shocking since losing 1–0 to", "id": "11344909" }, { "contents": "Maurice E. Shearer\n\n\nApplication at Annapolis, Maryland, with classmates Holland Smith, Ralph S. Keyser and Andrew B. Drum. In July, Shearer sailed for duty to be the commander of the 35 man Marine detachment on Midway Island. In May 1908, he was selected for promotion to first lieutenant and to the rank of captain in June 1916. During World War I, forces under Major Shearer's command made an attack on Belleau Wood, finally clearing that forest of Germans. On 26 June 1918, he sent a now famous report: \"", "id": "8315540" }, { "contents": "Newcastle upon Tyne\n\n\nF.C. became Football League members in 1893. They have won four top division titles (the first in 1905 and the most recent in 1927), six FA Cups (the first in 1910 and the most recent in 1955) and the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup in 1969. They broke the world transfer record in 1996 by paying £15 million for Blackburn Rovers and England striker Alan Shearer, one of the most prolific goalscorers of that era. In 2017 Newcastle was the venue for the 2017 Freedom City festival. The 2017", "id": "20529704" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\ngame and came off the bench to score a penalty, helping Newcastle win the game 3–2. The match was a sell-out, and saw Shearer perform a lap of honour at the end with his family, with his young son notably covering his ears due to the volume of noise produced by the crowd in tribute. Shearer's international career began in 1990 when he was handed a callup to the England under-21 squad under Dave Sexton. During his time with the squad, he scored 13 times in 11 games, a", "id": "13592537" }, { "contents": "2011–12 Cardiff City F.C. season\n\n\nserving manager in the Championship having held his post since May 2005. The club held talks with former England and Newcastle United captain Alan Shearer to replace Jones but he rejected the job despite stating that he was impressed with the \"vision, ambition and determination of the owner Dato Chan Tien Ghee and the board\". The \"Bluebirds\" instead approached Championship rivals Watford for permission to speak to their manager Malky Mackay, which was initially rejected. However, after the two clubs agreed a compensation fee, Mackay was officially appointed as", "id": "7599659" }, { "contents": "Kevin Keegan\n\n\nto Michael Owen, stating, \"He's not scared to give his opinion when he's right, and he's not scared to say what he feels. He's a tremendous professional, and he trains properly every day.\" Keegan announced on 22 January that he and Alan Shearer held talks about the two linking up with Shearer as his assistant, but decided against the idea, leaving the door open for him to take other roles he was interested in. Keegan's first eight games back at Newcastle passed without a", "id": "826473" }, { "contents": "Transfer (association football)\n\n\n£3.6 million Alan Shearer moved to Blackburn Rovers from Southampton, a decade after the world's first £3 million transfer. Lentini's transfer remained intact the world record fee for the next four years, although the national record was broken more than once in many countries including England. Shearer's £3.6million record fee was narrowly eclipsed 12 months later when Manchester United signed Roy Keane from Nottingham Forest for £3.75 million. In 1994, Blackburn Rovers paid a record £5 million for Chris Sutton from Norwich City, a decade", "id": "11200095" }, { "contents": "Roy Hodgson\n\n\nagainst Costa Rica to finish bottom of Group D. Hodgson named Rooney as the new captain of England in August 2014, following the retirement of Steven Gerrard from international football. Hodgson's first match after the World Cup was a 1–0 win against Norway in an international friendly match at Wembley on 3 September 2014. During the match, England made only two shots on target. Hodgson was infuriated when asked about this, describing the statistic as \"fucking bollocks\". Former England player, Alan Shearer, admitted that the match was so", "id": "12858624" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nto the season. The animosity between Shearer and Gullit was later confirmed by the latter, who reported telling the striker that he was \"...the most overrated player I have ever seen.\" Ironically, Robson had tried to sign Shearer for Barcelona in 1997, making a bid of £20million which would have seen Shearer break the world's transfer fee record for the second time in 12 months. However, then Newcastle manager Kenny Dalglish rejected the offer. In Robson's first match in charge, Shearer scored five goals in", "id": "13592526" }, { "contents": "Premier League 10 Seasons Awards\n\n\nin his talks with Alex Ferguson, he could not guarantee that Eric Cantona the Overseas Player of the Decade could be persuaded to let Shearer take penalty kicks. Shearer gained a second PFA Players' Player of the Year Award in April 1997, becoming just the second player to have received the PFA award twice, after Mark Hughes. After the 2000 European Championships, Shearer had retired from international football with England, having been England captain since 1998, and having made his senior début in 1992. Shearer was awarded the OBE in", "id": "11856465" }, { "contents": "Emile Heskey\n\n\nthe two matches, with former England international Alan Shearer commenting, \"Never in a million years did I expect to be discussing whether Emile Heskey should keep his place ahead of Wayne Rooney but the Wigan striker was outstanding over both matches.\" Heskey was called into manager Fabio Capello's first squad against Switzerland, but had to withdraw due to an injury. He was called into the squad for a friendly against the Czech Republic in August 2008 and came on as a 46th-minute substitute, in a match that finished 2–2", "id": "174986" }, { "contents": "Habib Beye\n\n\nUEFA Cup Final, a run which involved him putting in a star performance as a central defender against (his now former team) Newcastle United, where he was particularly effective against Newcastle's talisman striker Alan Shearer. He ended up on the losing side as Marseille lost the final to Valencia 2–0. He was also a beaten finalist in the 2006 French Cup against former club Paris Saint-Germain, a match which his team lost 2–1, and again in 2007 when his Marseille team lost on penalties to FC Sochaux. His", "id": "16217445" }, { "contents": "Stan Collymore\n\n\nseason in the Premier League, Collymore was called up to Terry Venables' England squad for the Umbro Cup in June 1995. He made his début at Wembley Stadium against Japan, partnering Alan Shearer in a 2–1 win. He won his second cap as a 90th minute substitute against Brazil. Collymore made his third and final appearance for England as a substitute in a 4–0 win over Moldova during qualification for the 1998 FIFA World Cup. Collymore contributed to his biography \"Stan: Tackling my demons\" with Oliver Holt. In 2005", "id": "3955590" }, { "contents": "Graeme Souness\n\n\nAt £8.2 million, Boumsong was his first big signing and Souness said he would replace Jonathan Woodgate in the Newcastle defence, which had conceded several leads earlier in the season. Newcastle were well aware of Boumsong prior to his move from Auxerre to Rangers on a free transfer. Robson had travelled to France to watch him, but he declined the opportunity to sign Boumsong. Liverpool were also interested in signing Boumsong. Robson's doubts were confirmed when Boumsong marked Alan Shearer in a pre-season game against Rangers. Shearer came", "id": "18029254" }, { "contents": "Saido Berahino\n\n\nrate of a goal every other match, including three to help the team qualify for the European Championship. Berahino has the all-time third-highest goal tally for the England under-21 side with 10 goals in 13 appearances, behind Francis Jeffers and Alan Shearer. On 6 November 2014, England manager Roy Hodgson – who promoted Berahino to the West Bromwich Albion first team in 2011 – named Berahino in his squad for the first time, ahead of a UEFA Euro 2016 qualifying match against Slovenia at Wembley Stadium on the 15th and", "id": "1000466" } ]

[ { "contents": "Tony Adams\n\n\n\"I have some resentment over the way Glenn Hoddle gave the captaincy to Alan Shearer instead of me but I can let that go. I reacted positively. I disagreed with him [Hoddle] and he thought Alan could get more penalties being a centre forward. People know my reaction to that\". Adams continued to play for the national side, however and he finally appeared in a World Cup finals in 1998. His international swansong was England's unsuccessful Euro 2000 campaign. With Shearer retiring from international football after the tournament", "id": "6104102" }, { "contents": "Tony Adams\n\n\nin defence, and after the retirement of Gary Lineker in 1992, Adams unofficially shared the captaincy of England with David Platt, though Adams became England captain outright before Euro 96, as Platt's place in the side became less secure. England reached the semi-finals of Euro 96, before losing on penalties to Germany. When England manager Glenn Hoddle took the Captain's armband from Adams and gave it to Alan Shearer it was a bitter pill for Adams to swallow. Speaking at a fans' forum in 2008 Adams remarked", "id": "6104101" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nThis time, Germany won from the spot; although Shearer scored, his teammate Gareth Southgate missed his kick and England were eliminated. Shearer's five goals made him the competition's top scorer, and together with teammates David Seaman and Steve McManaman, was listed in the official UEFA team of the tournament. The new England manager Glenn Hoddle appointed Shearer captain for the 1998 FIFA World Cup qualifier against Moldova on 1 September 1996, and the player held onto the captaincy after scoring once in that match and twice in the following game", "id": "13592541" }, { "contents": "Dimitar Berbatov\n\n\nhe consequently modelled himself after Marco van Basten, the Dutch forward for that team. However, the 1996 European Championship, held in England, gave Berbatov a new role model; the 15-year-old Berbatov began to look up to the English front man Alan Shearer, who played for Newcastle United. Berbatov's mother later spoke of her son's teenage dream of playing for Newcastle United, and said that his admiration for Shearer was such that, during these years, he slept in a Newcastle shirt. Berbatov began his youth", "id": "3905446" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\n's participation in what was to be Shearer's only World Cup tournament. In September 1999, Shearer scored his only England hat-trick in a UEFA Euro 2000 qualifier against Luxembourg. This helped England reach a play-off against Scotland; England won the game over two legs and in doing so qualified for the European Championships. By now, Shearer was approaching his 30th birthday, and he announced that he intended to retire from international football after the Euro 2000 tournament. Shearer did not score in England's opening 3–2 defeat", "id": "13592544" }, { "contents": "Southampton F.C.\n\n\nwas Alan Shearer, who at the age of 17 scored a hat-trick against Arsenal in a league match in April 1988. Shearer was a first team regular by 1990, and stayed with Southampton until July 1992, when he was sold to Blackburn Rovers for a national record of more than £3 million. He then became the most expensive footballer in the world when Blackburn sold him to Newcastle for £15 million in 1996. He also scored 30 times for England internationally. Southampton were founding members of the Premier League", "id": "3265953" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\ntime to play in England's UEFA European Championship campaign. After Euro 96, Manchester United again sought to sign Shearer, and attempted to enter the battle for his signature. However Manchester United chairman Martin Edwards stated that Blackburn Rovers refused to let Shearer go to Old Trafford. Ultimately Shearer joined his boyhood club: Newcastle United, Manchester United's title rivals. On 30 July 1996, for a world transfer record-breaking £15 million (equivalent to £ million today) Shearer joined his hometown club and league runners-up", "id": "13592519" }, { "contents": "History of the England national football team\n\n\nyear after his last game at club level. Hoddle selected Alan Shearer as captain, replacing Tony Adams, but also brought a number of emerging talents into the squad, including the Manchester United midfield trio of Paul Scholes, Nicky Butt and David Beckham, and central defenders Rio Ferdinand and Sol Campbell. Hoddle oversaw England's qualification for the 1998 World Cup (the first World Cup with 32 teams instead of 24) with a 0–0 draw against Italy at the Stadio Olimpico in Rome, and drew out a winning performance in the", "id": "15089406" }, { "contents": "History of the England national football team\n\n\nthe underwhelming performance at the World Cup, England suffered a poor start to the Euro 2000 qualifying tournament, and there was reported discontent between Hoddle and several senior players, most notably Shearer. Hoddle was dismissed on 2 February 1999, two days after an interview with \"The Sunday Times\" in which he spoke about his belief in reincarnation and claimed that disabled people were paying for sins in a previous life. Under considerable media and public pressure, the FA appointed former captain Kevin Keegan, who only just managed to get England", "id": "15089410" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nagainst Poland. He scored a total of five goals in England's successful qualification campaign for the World Cup, adding strikes against Georgia and away to Poland to his tally. Shearer was sidelined for much of the 1997–98 season, but recovered to play in the World Cup finals. With Michael Owen replacing Teddy Sheringham as Shearer's strike partner, Shearer's return saw him score England's first goal of the tournament, in a 2–0 win over Tunisia, his only goal in the three group matches. England faced long-time", "id": "13592542" }, { "contents": "Newcastle United F.C.\n\n\n. The attacking philosophy of Keegan led to the team being labelled \"The Entertainers\" by Sky Sports. Keegan took Newcastle to two consecutive runners-up finishes in the league in 1995–96 and 1996–97, coming very close to winning the title in the former season. This success was in part due to the talent of players like David Ginola, Les Ferdinand and Alan Shearer, who was signed on 30 July 1996 for a then world record fee of £15 million. Keegan left Newcastle in January 1997 and was replaced by Kenny", "id": "12636363" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nAlan Shearer, CBE, DL (born 13 August 1970) is an English retired footballer. He played as a striker in the top level of English league football for Southampton, Blackburn Rovers, Newcastle United and the England national team. He is Newcastle's and the Premier League's record goalscorer. He was named Football Writers' Association Player of the Year in 1994 and won the PFA Player of the Year award in 1995. In 1996, he was third in the FIFA World Player of the Year awards. In 2004", "id": "13592501" }, { "contents": "Teddy Sheringham\n\n\nmanager Terry Venables (1994–96) Sheringham came to be the preferred strike partner for Alan Shearer. During this time, England had a wealth of strikers with the likes of Andrew Cole, Ian Wright, a young Robbie Fowler and Les Ferdinand all battling to partner Shearer in the England team. The two formed a famous partnership at international level, as they complemented each other's strengths: Shearer the out-and-out goalscorer, big, strong and powerful, Sheringham just 'dropping off' his strike partner, finding spaces", "id": "2997066" }, { "contents": "History of Newcastle United F.C.\n\n\n's title chances for the 1994–95 season, in which they finished sixth. The club, however, continued to build up a reputation for playing attacking football under Keegan. In the 1995–96 season, high-profile foreign stars David Ginola and Faustino Asprilla, in addition to British players Peter Beardsley and striker Les Ferdinand, guided the team to a second-place finish. During the 1996–97 season, Keegan made one signing, securing the services of England striker Alan Shearer for a then-world record transfer fee of £15 million", "id": "6803863" }, { "contents": "1996–97 Newcastle United F.C. season\n\n\n...I think Kevin wanted it free-flowing in all departments and that doesn't necessarily happen.\" Keegan responded to the previous season's disappointment by breaking the world record transfer fee to sign centre forward Alan Shearer from Blackburn Rovers for £15 million. Shearer, whose five goals made him the top scorer in Euro 96, had supported Newcastle since childhood – he had been a ball-boy at St James' Park on the day that Keegan had left in a helicopter after his final Newcastle appearance as a player.", "id": "1207050" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nin the games.\" Shearer captained his school team and helped a Newcastle City Schools team win a seven-a-side tournament at St James' Park, before joining the amateur Wallsend Boys Club as a teenager. It was while playing for the Wallsend club that he was spotted by Southampton's scout, Jack Hixon, which resulted in Shearer spending his summers training with the club's youth team, a time he would later refer to as \"the making of me\". Shearer had successful trials for First Division clubs", "id": "13592505" }, { "contents": "Duncan Shearer\n\n\nFavourites\" during the club's centenary in 2008. However, he was unable to prevent Huddersfield's relegation to the Third Division at the end of the 1987–88 season. Weeks before this, the unrelated English striker Alan Shearer (aged 17) had scored a hat-trick in the First Division for Southampton against Arsenal, a game which Arsenal captain Tony Adams missed through injury. In his autobiography 11 years later, Adams said that he had followed the progress of the game on Ceefax and mistakingly believed that the Shearer who scored", "id": "3716405" }, { "contents": "David Hirst (footballer)\n\n\nHe came on at half-time and within three minutes of the restart he scored his first (and only) England goal. With Gary Lineker injured, he lined up with Alan Shearer against France at Wembley. Bryan Robson said that, \"It's not a question of who will replace Lineker, but who will partner David Hirst\". It became Hirst's third and final England match. Although he was selected for more England squads, injuries kept him out of the team. Manchester United boss Alex Ferguson tried six", "id": "18892949" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nthrough to May due to injury and England's World Cup qualification chances were hit by a run of poor form. Returning to fitness for the 1993–94 season, he scored 31 goals from 40 games as Blackburn finished runners-up in the Premier League. His performances for the club led to him being named the Football Writers' Association Footballer of the Year for that season. On the international scene, England had failed to qualify for the 1994 World Cup finals, but Shearer added three more goals to his international tally before embarking", "id": "13592514" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nfive points out of a possible twenty-four. Shearer did not get the manager's job on permanent basis. Chris Hughton stepped up from the coaching staff to take charge of the quest to get Newcastle back into the Premier League, which was achieved at the first attempt as Newcastle finished top of the Championship in the 2009–10 season. Shearer is married to Lainya, whom he met whilst a Southampton player. The couple lived locally with her parents during Shearer's second year at the south coast club, and were married on", "id": "13592557" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nagainst Portugal, but did so as England defeated Germany 1–0 in Charleroi, ensuring that England beat their European neighbours for the first time since the 1966 World Cup Final. To remain in the tournament, England only required a draw against Romania in the final group match, and Shearer scored a penalty as England went in at half-time 2–1 up, but Romania ultimately won 3–2. England's tournament was over, and so was Shearer's international career. From his 63 caps, he captained the team 34 times and scored", "id": "13592545" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nrecord return which is still unbeaten. The striker's goals at this level, coupled with his club form, meant he was soon promoted to the senior squad by coach Graham Taylor. Marking his debut in the 2–0 win against France in February 1992 with a goal, he made his only appearance for the England B team a month later. Due to replace Gary Lineker, who retired from international action after UEFA Euro 1992, in the England attack, Shearer played only intermittently in the qualifying campaign for the 1994 FIFA World Cup", "id": "13592538" }, { "contents": "1993 Trans-Tasman Test series\n\n\n's Canberra Raiders team mate and New South Wales captain Laurie Daley. The test series took place following the 1993 State of Origin series which was won by NSW. Dale Shearer's performances at fullback for Qld saw him earn a test recall in front of well performed World Cup and NSW fullback Tim Brasher (though Shearer had been selected at centre for all 3 Ashes series tests in 1992 but withdrew from all 3 with injury). Bradley Clyde, who had not played in the Origin series due to injury was also recalled to", "id": "16616631" }, { "contents": "Glenn Hoddle\n\n\nRedknapp resigned, following which Hoddle also left the club. In June 2016, after England's 2–1 loss to Iceland at Euro 2016 and manager Roy Hodgson's subsequent resignation, Harry Redknapp and Alan Shearer both put forward Hoddle as a candidate for the job before Sam Allardyce was appointed. Hoddle has done punditry work since his retirement from coaching. He has worked for ESPN, ITV Sport and BT Sport. Hoddle began working with ESPN during Euro 2012 as a pundit. Since then, he has worked with ITV for the 2014", "id": "8847620" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nhim onto the pitch following the striker's testimonial in May 2006 as he performed a lap of honour at St James' Park. On 6 December 2000, Shearer was given Honorary Freedom of the City of Newcastle upon Tyne, with the citation \"in recognition of his role as captain of Newcastle United Football Club and as former captain of England which have enhanced the reputation of the City\". Shearer was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2001 Queen's Birthday Honours and Commander of the", "id": "13592559" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nhis four years in the Southampton first team, Shearer made a total of 158 appearances in all competitions, scoring 43 goals. Despite making just one goalless appearance as England failed to progress past the Euro 1992 group stages, Shearer was soon subject to an English transfer record-breaking £3.6 million bid from Blackburn Rovers. Although there was also interest from Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson, Blackburn benefactor Jack Walker's millions were enough to prise the striker from the \"Saints\", and Shearer moved north to Ewood Park in the", "id": "13592512" }, { "contents": "Andy Cole\n\n\nof the season to help United win the Premier League title for the third time in four years. He also played in their FA Cup final victory to become part of England's first ever side to win the double twice. Before the 1996–97 season began, Cole had to deal with being offered to Blackburn Rovers as part-exchange in a £12 million deal that would have brought Alan Shearer to Old Trafford, but the offer was rejected and Shearer joined Newcastle instead. Despite Alex Ferguson's clear indication to Cole that he", "id": "9629547" }, { "contents": "Shearer's Bar\n\n\nShearer's Bar is the former name of a sports bar owned by Newcastle United and forming part of St James' Park, the team's stadium in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. It was named in honour of the club's all-time top scorer, Alan Shearer. The bar was renamed Nine in July 2013 by the club, who said that popularity of the venue had \"dwindled\". The bar was opened in December 2004 and became an important part of the features at St James' Park. It is", "id": "15298144" }, { "contents": "Kevin Keegan\n\n\nrelationship between the pair. In April 2003, it was named as Quote of the Decade in the Premier League 10 Seasons Awards and Most Memorable Quote in the 20 Seasons Awards in May 2012. It also appeared in Channel 4's \"100 Greatest Sporting Moments\". Keegan then broke the world transfer fee record by signing Blackburn Rovers and England striker Alan Shearer in July 1996. Shearer, who had been the Premier League's top scorer in the last two seasons, was born in Newcastle and had grown up as a fan", "id": "826455" }, { "contents": "England national football team\n\n\nBetween 1994 and 1996, Terry Venables managed the team. At UEFA Euro 1996, held in England, they equalled their best performance at a European Championship, reaching the semi-finals as they did in 1968, before exiting via a penalty shoot-out loss to Germany. England striker Alan Shearer was the tournament's top scorer with five goals. Venables resigned following investigations into his financial activities. Venables' successor, Glenn Hoddle, similarly left the job for non-footballing reasons after just one international tournament – the 1998", "id": "9748695" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nmiddle of 1992. His first season with Blackburn was mixed – he missed half of it through injury after snapping his right anterior cruciate ligament in a match against Leeds United in December 1992, but scored a prolific 16 goals in the 21 games in which he did feature. Shearer also became a regular in the England team this season and scored his second international goal; it came in a 4–0 1994 FIFA World Cup qualifier win over Turkey in November. The season ended sourly, however, as Shearer was forced to miss January", "id": "13592513" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nover from head coach Chris Hughton who was in temporary charge while the permanent manager Joe Kinnear recovered from heart surgery, having taken ill on 7 February. Shearer stated \"It's a club I love and I don't want them to go down. I'll do everything I can to stop that.\" Shearer was unveiled at a press conference the following day by club managing director Derek Llambias. In explaining his acceptance of a managerial role at Newcastle at this time, Shearer stated that he would not have done this for", "id": "13592552" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nwas being run in the wake of the departure of Kevin Keegan. These reports were denied by the club. Shearer features in EA Sports' \"FIFA\" video game series; he was included in the \"FIFA 15\" Ultimate Team Legends. During his playing days, Shearer had been involved with the children's charity the NSPCC, taking part in the organisation's Full Stop campaign in 1999. Since retiring from football Shearer has also done work for several charities both nationally and in the Newcastle area. In his testimonial match", "id": "13592565" }, { "contents": "2005–06 Newcastle United F.C. season\n\n\n. The fee, £17 million, surpassed Newcastle's previous record of £15 million for Alan Shearer from Blackburn in 1996. In the closing hours of the transfer window, the club re-signed Nolberto Solano from Aston Villa. Souness's decision to pair Shearer and Owen together up front proved to be lethal, but Owen broke his fourth metatarsal bone in his foot after a clash with Paul Robinson in a match against Tottenham Hotspur, keeping him out for the rest of the season. With Owen injured the team's", "id": "18086094" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\ndue to injury and the team failed to reach the competition finals. UEFA Euro 1996 was a more positive experience for both Shearer and England. With England not required to qualify as hosts, Shearer had not scored in 12 games in the 21 months prior, and even his overall goalscoring record for England did not look too impressive so far, with five goals in 23 games. However, he found the net in the 22nd minute of the first game, against Switzerland. Scoring once in the following game against Scotland and twice", "id": "13592539" }, { "contents": "Teddy Sheringham\n\n\nthe 2000 European Championships by then manager Kevin Keegan, but the retirement of Shearer (despite being four years younger than Sheringham) from international football after that tournament and the arrival of new manager Sven-Göran Eriksson in 2001 saw a return to international favour for him. He was often deployed as a tactical substitute late in games by Eriksson, valued for his ability to hold the ball up and create intelligent play. In 2001, Sheringham scored an important goal for England against Greece in a World Cup qualifying match within 15 seconds", "id": "2997070" }, { "contents": "Ruud Gullit\n\n\n, chairman Ken Bates famously said of Gullit, \"I didn't like his arrogance – in fact I never liked him.\" In August 1998, Gullit was named manager of Newcastle United two games into the new league season and reached the 1999 FA Cup Final in his first year. Fans remained supportive despite a poor run of results, although a well-publicised contretemps with the team's top scorer Alan Shearer and captain Robert Lee did not put him in a favourable light. Gullit even refused to assign Lee a squad", "id": "13592616" }, { "contents": "Scott Parker\n\n\ndefeat on 25 March 2006. Later that month he was diagnosed with glandular fever, putting an end to his season. The timing was especially unfortunate for Parker, who had been playing well for Newcastle, as it ended any hopes he may have had of forcing his way into the 2006 FIFA World Cup. In July 2006, he was named Newcastle United's new captain by manager Glenn Roeder, succeeding the retired Alan Shearer. His first goal as captain came against Wigan Athletic on 19 August 2006, in a 2–1 win", "id": "14327157" }, { "contents": "History of football in England\n\n\n. United's main challengers for the title in the Premier League's first few years were Blackburn Rovers, led by star striker Alan Shearer, also won their first league title since World War I in 1994–95, and Newcastle United, who famously conceded a 10-point lead at Christmas to lose the title to United in 1995–96. Newcastle had reached the Premiership in 1993 as Division One champions, and in their first Premiership campaign finished third to qualify for the UEFA Cup. They finished second in 1996 and again in 1997, but by", "id": "3652862" }, { "contents": "1992–93 FA Premier League\n\n\nPremier League as an attempt by the Football Association to \"hijack\" the First Division. Shortly before the season began, newly promoted Blackburn Rovers signed Southampton's 21-year-old England international striker Alan Shearer for a new British record fee variously reported as £3.3 million, £3.4 million, or £3.6 million. Several other players moved for fees of £2 million or more, including Arsenal's David Rocastle, who joined Leeds United, Dean Saunders, who moved from Liverpool to Aston Villa, and Teddy Sheringham, who", "id": "12442383" }, { "contents": "Darren Anderton\n\n\nhappy at the prospect of losing another key player as he had already lost Jürgen Klinsmann and Gheorghe Popescu that summer; and Nick Barmby was on the verge of joining Middlesbrough. Despite missing most of the 1995–96 season through injury, Anderton played an important part in the Euro 96 England team that reached the semi-finals and included players like Paul Gascoigne, Alan Shearer, Steve McManaman and Teddy Sheringham. In the semi final against Germany, the match went to golden goal extra time. Anderton came within inches of putting England into", "id": "4331581" }, { "contents": "Wallsend Boys Club\n\n\nJanuary which damaged one of the walls of the building. Professional players to have played for the club include: The club has had a representative at four of the six FIFA World Cup finals since 1986, with the two exceptions coming in 1994, when the England national football team did not qualify, and 2002. In 1986 and 1990 Peter Beardsley starred for England. In 1998 Alan Shearer was England captain. Michael Carrick made appearances for England in both the 2006 and 2010 tournaments. Fraser Forster was in the 2014 squad but", "id": "21182372" }, { "contents": "Harry Kane\n\n\n\". Clive Allen, who coached him at Tottenham, stated that \"one thing I'd say about him, which unfortunately you don't say about a lot of young footballers, is that he had a passion for the game. He loves football, he loves playing, he loves scoring goals\". His former Tottenham under-21 coach Les Ferdinand likened Kane's movement to their former forward Teddy Sheringham, and the power and accuracy of his shots to Alan Shearer. Kane's style of play has been compared to that of", "id": "1925319" }, { "contents": "Kieron Dyer\n\n\nthat he would soon rejoin for Ipswich. After representing England at Youth, Under 21 and \"B\" level, Dyer's debut for the senior team came on 4 September 1999 when he started in England's 6–0 win against Luxembourg. He was deployed out of position at right back, and was replaced by Gary Neville at half-time after injuring himself while setting up Alan Shearer's third goal of the match. The injury was not serious and he was able to make his second England appearance four days later, coming", "id": "17666181" }, { "contents": "1996–97 Blackburn Rovers F.C. season\n\n\nthe end of the season, when he handed over the reins to Roy Hodgson after Sampdoria's Sven-Göran Eriksson lied about accepting the manager's job and joined Lazio instead. Parkes steered Blackburn to safety as they finished 13th. The world record £15 million sale of striker Alan Shearer to Newcastle United was seen as the biggest factor in Blackburn's lowest top flight finish since they returned to the elite in 1992. However, his strike-partner Chris Sutton helped keep the club alive after recovering from a drastic loss of", "id": "7811146" }, { "contents": "Michael Owen\n\n\nmuch of the campaign as England struggled, with Hoddle being replaced by Kevin Keegan. On 4 September 1999, he scored his first goal at Wembley Stadium in a 6–0 win over Luxembourg. At the finals, Owen scored once in three matches, as England were knocked out at the group stage. After Alan Shearer's retirement, Owen took over as England's senior striker under new manager Sven-Göran Eriksson. He scored six times during 2002 World Cup qualifying, including a hat-trick against Germany at Munich's Olympiastadion", "id": "21886807" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nyet to start the UEFA Pro Licence course, which is required to be permitted to manage a team in the Premier League and European competition. Reflecting his desire for personal time off to \"enjoy life\", in July 2006 he turned down a coaching role with England, citing his BBC commitments and desire to be away from the pressure of a job within football. Despite this, Shearer was often linked in the media with managerial or coaching positions at his three former clubs. Shearer took a brief role in the dugout for", "id": "13592550" }, { "contents": "History of Southampton F.C.\n\n\nappearances for the England national team – he finally retired in 2002 at the age of 33. During his time with the Saints, Le Tissier was approached more than once by several bigger clubs (including Manchester United) but chose to stick with the Saints despite never winning a major trophy or experiencing European football with them. From 1989 to 1992, Le Tissier was regularly partnered up front by another notable player, Alan Shearer, who as a 17-year-old had scored a hat-trick on his Saints debut against Arsenal in", "id": "15948278" }, { "contents": "Sir Bobby Robson Trophy match\n\n\nNewcastle United, picking up on Alan Shearer's reply of \"I know as much as you do,\" to a pre-match question as to whether he would be installed as Newcastle manager for the forthcoming season beginning in 13 days, with the club being up for sale and with the first team without a manager, being in the care of coach Chris Hughton. Neither the Newcastle United owner Mike Ashley or managing director Derek Llambias were in attendance at the charity match. Having left England after Italia '90, Sir", "id": "19612022" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nChancellor Liam Donaldson stated \"Newcastle United are my team. Alan Shearer is more than just a local legend, he's probably one of the greatest footballers of all time\". On 12 September 2016, a statue of Shearer's likeness was unveiled outside St James' Park. It was sculpted by Tom Maley, and paid for by the Shepherd family. After his retirement and following guest appearances, Shearer became a regular pundit for the BBC's \"Match of the Day\". He also formed part of the team which", "id": "13592563" }, { "contents": "Gary McAllister\n\n\ntournament, scoring in a 3–0 win over the CIS. However, Scotland did not qualify from their group. Scotland failed to qualify for the 1994 FIFA World Cup but did qualify for UEFA Euro 1996 in England, with McAllister the captain of the team. Scotland's second match of the group stage was against England at Wembley Stadium. In the second half Scotland, trailing 0–1 to an Alan Shearer goal, were awarded a penalty. McAllister's kick was saved by David Seaman and Scotland lost 0–2. The team won their", "id": "19492391" }, { "contents": "David Seaman\n\n\nEngland's quarter-final against Spain ended scoreless, Seaman saved Miguel Angel Nadal's kick in the shootout to knock Spain out of the tournament. England eventually were eliminated in the semi-final by Germany on penalties,after Andreas Köpke saved the penalty taken by Gareth Southgate. Seaman was named alongside Golden Boot winner Alan Shearer and winger Steve McManaman in the UEFA \"Team of the Tournament\". Euro 96 sponsor Philips named him \"Player of the Tournament\". Seaman remained first choice under the management of Glenn Hoddle for", "id": "7321893" }, { "contents": "1998 FA Cup Final\n\n\nand so has the mixture between the foreign and English players.\" Wenger reserved praise for the goalscorers Overmars (\"a world-class player\") and Anelka (\"Nicolas is very young. But you saw in the second half today what he can do\"), and felt the turning point in the match was Shearer's shot hitting the post. He sympathised with Newcastle, as did his captain, Adams who said afterwards: \"The team and their fans did everything they could out there, but it was", "id": "10844688" }, { "contents": "David McMahon (association footballer)\n\n\nabout the role of striker from watching England international Alan Shearer in training, but likened himself more to Newcastle's Scotland international Duncan Ferguson, \"because I am taller and like to battle for things in the air.\" Brian Kerr, then manager of Ireland under-17s, described McMahon as honest and hard-working, \"not the most skilful player, but will get goals\", but Darlington manager Gary Bennett believed there was more to his game: that he and strike partner John Williams both had enough skill to play a", "id": "5423888" }, { "contents": "Andy Carroll\n\n\nUEFA Euro 2012. He opened the scoring for England with a powerful header in their second group match against Sweden, which England went on to win 3–2. Carroll has been compared to Newcastle's record goalscorer Alan Shearer, Ivory Coast striker Didier Drogba and former Italy forward Christian Vieri. He has also been referred to as a classic centre forward, owing to his strength, powerful shot and excellent heading ability. Former Newcastle manager and Liverpool player Kevin Keegan stated \"he is probably in the top three headers of a ball I", "id": "11961542" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\n-chasing Manchester United. On the opening day of the 1999–2000 season, Shearer received the first red card of his career in his 100th appearance for Newcastle. After dropping Shearer to the bench in a Tyne-Wear derby loss against Sunderland, the unpopular Gullit resigned to be replaced by the 66-year-old Bobby Robson. Despite Gullit giving Shearer the captain's armband, reports of a rift between club captain and manager were rife, Gullit's decision to drop Shearer proved deeply unpopular with fans and his departure capped a dismal start", "id": "13592525" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nAn almost injury-free season helped Shearer improve on his previous year's tally in the 1998–99 season, the striker converting 14 goals in 30 league games and replacing Rob Lee as Newcastle captain, but Newcastle finished 13th again, with Ruud Gullit having replaced Kenny Dalglish just after the season got underway. He also helped Newcastle to a second consecutive FA Cup final and qualification for the following season's UEFA Cup, scoring twice in the semi-final against Tottenham Hotspur, but they once again lost, this time 2–0 to treble", "id": "13592524" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nhis final three games under Glenn Roeder. Shearer had rejected offers of coaching or assistant roles at Newcastle under both the returning Kevin Keegan in February 2008 and Joe Kinnear in November 2008. Shearer had previously had talks about, but never been offered, a full-time manager's role at Newcastle until his appointment on 1 April 2009. In a surprise move, late on 1 April 2009, it was announced that Shearer would become the manager of his former club Newcastle United for the remaining eight games of the season, taking", "id": "13592551" }, { "contents": "Fabio Cannavaro\n\n\nnational team on 22 January 1997, in a friendly match against Northern Ireland. The same year, he earned plaudits for his handling of England striker Alan Shearer in a World Cup qualifying game at Wembley Stadium. Shearer was then considered by the partisan English crowd to be the best striker in the world, and thought he would make fun of the inexperienced Italian defender. Nevertheless, in a display ranking alongside those of the very best Italian defenders Claudio Gentile and Franco Baresi, Cannavaro managed to keep Shearer quiet for the whole game", "id": "3625067" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\n, with media sources claiming that video footage showed him intentionally kicking Neil Lennon in the head following a challenge. The referee of the game took no action against Shearer, and he was then cleared of all charges by the FA, with Lennon giving evidence in the player's defence. Former Football Association chief Graham Kelly, who brought the charges against the player, later claimed in his autobiography that Shearer had threatened to withdraw himself from the 1998 World Cup squad if the charges were upheld, a claim strenuously denied by Shearer.", "id": "13592523" }, { "contents": "History of the Romania national football team\n\n\nminnows Tunisia. Adrian Ilie scored the only goal with a fine chip in their first match against Colombia at Lyon's Stade Gerland. In Toulouse, they met an England side starting with prodigal striker Michael Owen on the bench, with Teddy Sheringham preferred alongside Alan Shearer. A mistake by Tony Adams was punished by Viorel Moldovan, who played for Coventry City, before Owen came on to claim an equalizer. But Romania won with a scrappy late goal from Dan Petrescu, also playing in England with Chelsea, fighting off his club", "id": "16435718" }, { "contents": "John Barnes (footballer)\n\n\nNewcastle United, although an approach had already been made by Harry Redknapp of West Ham; Barnes had agreed in principle to join them until at the final moment Dalglish called him and Barnes changed his mind. In the 1997–98 season Barnes played up front mostly, deputising for Alan Shearer after Shearer was injured for most of the season, and Barnes ended up Newcastle's top league scorer with six goals, which highlighted the Magpies' lack of ability to score in the absence of Shearer and Ferdinand (who had been sold along with", "id": "19616669" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\ncould not find a more iconic person than Alan, not just for what he has done in football but for all the extra work he tirelessly does for charity and communities. I am delighted he has accepted the role of Deputy Lieutenant because he is a real role model. I have promised him he is not going to have to do too much, but even if it is just one occasion a year he is the perfect choice\" On 7 December 2009, Shearer was made a Doctor of Civil Law by Newcastle University.", "id": "13592562" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nLaw of Northumbria and Newcastle Universities. Shearer was born in Gosforth, Newcastle, in 1970 to working-class parents Alan and Anne Shearer. His father, a sheet-metal worker, encouraged a keen Shearer to play football in his youth, and the young player continued with the sport as he progressed through school. He was educated at Gosforth Central Middle School and Gosforth High School. Growing up playing on the streets of his hometown, he originally played in midfield because \"it meant [he] could get more involved", "id": "13592504" }, { "contents": "Paul Kitson\n\n\n. Newcastle finished second that season after being overhauled in the second half campaign by a Manchester United side who sealed the title by a five-point margin barely four months after Newcastle had led by 10 points, but Kitson's part in Newcastle's exciting though ultimately disappointing campaign had been minimal as he had played just seven league games and scored twice. But he remained loyal to the Magpies even after another blow at the end of July 1996 – the arrival of £15 million world record signing Alan Shearer. He managed three", "id": "19054464" }, { "contents": "Ray Harford\n\n\nthe Premier League for much of the season. During the summer of 1996, Alan Shearer was sold to Newcastle United for a then world record fee of £15 million, and Harford failed to adequately replace him. Harford stated that \"I'm told we need a big name. Engelbert Humperdinck is a big name but it doesn't mean he can play football.\" The 1996–97 season also started badly for Blackburn. They failed to win any of their first ten games and were knocked out of the League Cup by Division", "id": "5365351" }, { "contents": "Patrick Kluivert\n\n\nagain featured for Barca in a legends game against Uganda all stars where he, in lobbing the ball, scored an amazing goal. Kluivert joined Newcastle United on a free transfer in July 2004. He stated that his reasons for joining Newcastle was due to the overwhelming reaction he received whilst playing for Barcelona against Newcastle during a pre season friendly as well as teaming up with Newcastle's star players such as Alan Shearer. Kluivert scored some classy and crucial goals at and away from St James's Park namely in winning strikes against both", "id": "21654890" }, { "contents": "Duncan Shearer\n\n\nbetween 1994 and 1995, scoring two goals including an important opening strike in an away win over Finland which helped the national side qualify for Euro 96, although Shearer did not make the squad for that tournament. The senior team was his first experience of international football, having never played at any age-group level. He achieved a childhood ambition when he played in the national team alongside John McGinlay, a childhood friend also from Fort William. In season 1999–00 he began to concentrate more on coaching than playing, and was", "id": "3716411" }, { "contents": "Les Ferdinand\n\n\nscored 50 goals in only 84 games at Newcastle, forming a successful partnership with Alan Shearer. He was and indeed is still very highly thought of by Newcastle United. Ferdinand received a standing ovation when he returned to St. James' Park as a Tottenham player, trying to put Alan Shearer's number 9 shirt on to complete a lap of honour, he broke down in tears and could only manage to put the shirt on inside out and back to front before being helped from the field. Ferdinand returned again, when he", "id": "2996528" }, { "contents": "David Platt (footballer)\n\n\nTurkey, San Marino, the Netherlands and Norway. The qualifiers began at home to Norway. England dominated the game and Platt carried the goal threat, with Alan Shearer and Ian Wright struggling to find form. He scored the opening goal after an hour. England dominated the remainder of the game and were unlucky to concede to a long-range shot from Kjetil Rekdal. Platt continued his drive from midfield in wins over Turkey at home (4-0) and San Marino (6-0). Platt scored four", "id": "16718350" }, { "contents": "Jason Wilcox\n\n\n-pound investments of Jack Walker. He played an important part in the title-winning Blackburn team of 1995. Playing on the left flank with attacking fullback Graeme Le Saux behind him and Stuart Ripley on the opposite flank, they forged a strong attacking line-up with Alan Shearer and Chris Sutton. International recognition was harder to come by for Wilcox and he managed only 3 international caps despite his effective partnership with Shearer, Le Saux and Tim Sherwood. Lengthy injury problems restricted his effectiveness in subsequent seasons and, after experiencing", "id": "14527253" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nclub's form, and Newcastle finished just 13th in the Premier League. However, United (now managed by Shearer's old boss at Blackburn, Kenny Dalglish) had a good run in the FA Cup; Shearer scored the winning goal in a semi-final victory over Sheffield United as the team reached the final. The team were unable to get on the scoresheet at Wembley, and lost the game 2–0 to Arsenal. An incident during a game against Leicester City in the league saw Shearer charged with misconduct by the FA", "id": "13592522" }, { "contents": "Aleksandar Mitrović (footballer)\n\n\nhim the competition's top scorer, and 28 in all competitions. On 22 March 2015, he scored the team's only goal in the 2–1 Belgian Cup Final loss to Club Brugge KV in Brussels. On 21 July 2015, Mitrović joined Newcastle United on a five-year contract for a reported £13 million, saying he hoped to be able to play like club legend Alan Shearer. He made his debut on 9 August as Newcastle began the season with a 2–2 draw against Southampton at St James' Park, playing", "id": "20923735" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nWest Bromwich Albion, Manchester City and Newcastle United, before being offered a youth contract with Southampton in April 1986. Shearer was promoted to the first team after spending two years with the youth squad. He made his professional debut for Southampton on 26 March 1988, coming on as a substitute in a First Division fixture at Chelsea, before prompting national headlines in his full debut at The Dell two weeks later. He scored a hat-trick, helping the team to a 4–2 victory against Arsenal, thus becoming the youngest player", "id": "13592506" }, { "contents": "James Milner\n\n\ndo what was \"in the club's best interest\" and in July 2004, he agreed a five-year contract with Newcastle. Milner made his first appearance for Newcastle United during their pre-season tour of Asia, scoring his first goal for the club in a 1–1 draw against Kitchee, in Hong Kong. During this tour, he took the opportunity to observe how Newcastle striker Alan Shearer dealt with attention from fans and the media. He said that his association with people like Shearer gave him a better idea of", "id": "1860603" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nretain the ball and provide opportunities for teammates. Playing as a lone striker between wide men, Rod Wallace and Matt Le Tissier, Shearer scored three goals in 26 appearances in the 1989–90 season, and in the next, four goals in 36 games. His performances in the centre of the \"Saints\" attack were soon recognised by the fans, who voted him their Player of the Year for 1991. In the middle of 1991, Shearer was a member of the England national under-21 football squad in the Toulon Tournament in Toulon", "id": "13592508" }, { "contents": "Teddy Sheringham\n\n\n, creating play and providing key passes, forming the link between Shearer and the England midfield. The pairing came to be known as 'The SAS' ('Shearer and Sheringham') and their most successful time together came in the 1996 European Championships, held in England. Their most famous contribution was in the 4–1 victory over the Netherlands, a game in the opening group stages in which they both scored twice against one of the strongest teams in the tournament. Though England were eventually knocked out in the semi-finals", "id": "2997067" }, { "contents": "History of the England national football team\n\n\ninto Euro 2000 after a 2–1 aggregate playoff win over Scotland. At the finals in Belgium and the Netherlands, a lacklustre England failed to get beyond the group stage, losing to both Portugal and Romania after leading in each game. After England's exit, Alan Shearer retired from international football, he had announced his intentions before the tournament, and no-one could persuade him to change his mind. On 7 October 2000, shortly after losing the opening World Cup qualifier to Germany in the last-ever game at Wembley", "id": "15089411" }, { "contents": "Premier League 10 Seasons Awards\n\n\nrepresented, with five players. The teams were as follows: English striker Alan Shearer was named Domestic Player of the Decade in the main 10 Seasons awards announcements, in addition to being given the Outstanding Contribution to the FA Premier League award. Two weeks later he was also named as the Overall Player of the Decade. In the first decade, Shearer played for Blackburn Rovers, and then Newcastle United. Shearer has been described as a classic English centre-forward with great shooting power, a single-minded striker who could", "id": "11856460" }, { "contents": "Wartime League\n\n\narguments debate that a player who exceeds one's record through their wartime matches should nonetheless be seen as the club's highest goal scorer or appearance having been part of the team's squad even if only for a short time. The most recent argument relates to the goal-difference between Jackie Milburn's and Alan Shearer's Newcastle United goal-scoring records. When counting Jackie's wartime matches, he scored a total of 238 professional goals for Newcastle United FC. In May 2005, Alan Shearer finished his career at 206 goals", "id": "17626256" }, { "contents": "Jon Dahl Tomasson\n\n\nas the perfect link-up player to England national team striker Alan Shearer. The partnership initially worked well, with Tomasson impressing during a pre-season friendly tournament in the Republic of Ireland. However, a career threatening injury to Shearer, combined with the controversial transfer of popular striker Les Ferdinand to Tottenham Hotspur, meant that Tomasson was moved from his traditional attacking midfield position to that of striker. He struggled to adapt to his new position on the field, and to the English game, due to his lack of physical", "id": "19324628" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\ncovered the World Cups and European Championships from 2006 onwards for the BBC. Former Newcastle chairman Freddy Shepherd announced that, after Shearer finished the 2005–06 season as Newcastle's caretaker assistant manager, he would become the club's \"Sporting Ambassador\" for the 2006–07 season. However, in September 2008, it was reported that Shearer was removed from this largely honorary position by the club's owner Mike Ashley, despite protests from players such as Steven Taylor and Damien Duff, due to Shearer's criticism of the way in which the club", "id": "13592564" }, { "contents": "1998 FA Cup Final\n\n\nthe final that Bergkamp had resumed training and \"medically he looked all right\", but the player received a further setback when he suffered a reaction to his hamstring. He ruled himself out of the match and told reporters: \"I'm very disappointed. As a little boy in Holland I always watched the FA Cup final. And I used to dream about playing in it myself one day.\" Ian Wright was listed as Bergkamp's probable replacement to partner Anelka. Newcastle had their own issues surrounding Shearer. The England", "id": "10844676" }, { "contents": "2008–09 in English football\n\n\n's surprise resignation in December; whilst their final points tally wasn't spectacular, they had the satisfaction of being the top North-East team in football after both Middlesbrough and Newcastle United were relegated, ending 11 and 16 year spells in the top flight respectively, the latter going through four managers in Kevin Keegan, Joe Kinnear, Chris Hughton and even former striker Alan Shearer during the campaign. Despite a brilliant start to the season which saw them as high as third place in October, Hull City won just 1 of their", "id": "1311754" }, { "contents": "1996 FA Charity Shield\n\n\nfrom Eric Cantona, Nicky Butt, David Beckham and Roy Keane. The game saw new signings Jordi Cruyff and Karel Poborský make their debuts for Manchester United, though neither of these players had particularly successful careers at Old Trafford and both had left the club within four years. The day before the game had seen the surprise sale of one of Manchester United's longest serving players — Lee Sharpe. The game saw Newcastle United give a debut to £15 million world record signing Alan Shearer, who would remain at the club until", "id": "2797098" }, { "contents": "UEFA Euro 2016 knockout phase\n\n\nsection begin=g6 /section end=g6 / section begin=g7 /section end=g7 / The match has been described as one of England's worst defeats ever. Former footballer and Talksport presenter Stan Collymore, who was commentating on the game, panned the England team, reserving special criticism for goalkeeper Joe Hart and captain Wayne Rooney. Former England international and BBC Sport pundit Alan Shearer described it as the worst performance he had ever seen from an England team. The defeat was called England's most shocking since losing 1–0 to", "id": "11344909" }, { "contents": "Maurice E. Shearer\n\n\nApplication at Annapolis, Maryland, with classmates Holland Smith, Ralph S. Keyser and Andrew B. Drum. In July, Shearer sailed for duty to be the commander of the 35 man Marine detachment on Midway Island. In May 1908, he was selected for promotion to first lieutenant and to the rank of captain in June 1916. During World War I, forces under Major Shearer's command made an attack on Belleau Wood, finally clearing that forest of Germans. On 26 June 1918, he sent a now famous report: \"", "id": "8315540" }, { "contents": "Newcastle upon Tyne\n\n\nF.C. became Football League members in 1893. They have won four top division titles (the first in 1905 and the most recent in 1927), six FA Cups (the first in 1910 and the most recent in 1955) and the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup in 1969. They broke the world transfer record in 1996 by paying £15 million for Blackburn Rovers and England striker Alan Shearer, one of the most prolific goalscorers of that era. In 2017 Newcastle was the venue for the 2017 Freedom City festival. The 2017", "id": "20529704" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\ngame and came off the bench to score a penalty, helping Newcastle win the game 3–2. The match was a sell-out, and saw Shearer perform a lap of honour at the end with his family, with his young son notably covering his ears due to the volume of noise produced by the crowd in tribute. Shearer's international career began in 1990 when he was handed a callup to the England under-21 squad under Dave Sexton. During his time with the squad, he scored 13 times in 11 games, a", "id": "13592537" }, { "contents": "2011–12 Cardiff City F.C. season\n\n\nserving manager in the Championship having held his post since May 2005. The club held talks with former England and Newcastle United captain Alan Shearer to replace Jones but he rejected the job despite stating that he was impressed with the \"vision, ambition and determination of the owner Dato Chan Tien Ghee and the board\". The \"Bluebirds\" instead approached Championship rivals Watford for permission to speak to their manager Malky Mackay, which was initially rejected. However, after the two clubs agreed a compensation fee, Mackay was officially appointed as", "id": "7599659" }, { "contents": "Kevin Keegan\n\n\nto Michael Owen, stating, \"He's not scared to give his opinion when he's right, and he's not scared to say what he feels. He's a tremendous professional, and he trains properly every day.\" Keegan announced on 22 January that he and Alan Shearer held talks about the two linking up with Shearer as his assistant, but decided against the idea, leaving the door open for him to take other roles he was interested in. Keegan's first eight games back at Newcastle passed without a", "id": "826473" }, { "contents": "Transfer (association football)\n\n\n£3.6 million Alan Shearer moved to Blackburn Rovers from Southampton, a decade after the world's first £3 million transfer. Lentini's transfer remained intact the world record fee for the next four years, although the national record was broken more than once in many countries including England. Shearer's £3.6million record fee was narrowly eclipsed 12 months later when Manchester United signed Roy Keane from Nottingham Forest for £3.75 million. In 1994, Blackburn Rovers paid a record £5 million for Chris Sutton from Norwich City, a decade", "id": "11200095" }, { "contents": "Roy Hodgson\n\n\nagainst Costa Rica to finish bottom of Group D. Hodgson named Rooney as the new captain of England in August 2014, following the retirement of Steven Gerrard from international football. Hodgson's first match after the World Cup was a 1–0 win against Norway in an international friendly match at Wembley on 3 September 2014. During the match, England made only two shots on target. Hodgson was infuriated when asked about this, describing the statistic as \"fucking bollocks\". Former England player, Alan Shearer, admitted that the match was so", "id": "12858624" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nto the season. The animosity between Shearer and Gullit was later confirmed by the latter, who reported telling the striker that he was \"...the most overrated player I have ever seen.\" Ironically, Robson had tried to sign Shearer for Barcelona in 1997, making a bid of £20million which would have seen Shearer break the world's transfer fee record for the second time in 12 months. However, then Newcastle manager Kenny Dalglish rejected the offer. In Robson's first match in charge, Shearer scored five goals in", "id": "13592526" }, { "contents": "Premier League 10 Seasons Awards\n\n\nin his talks with Alex Ferguson, he could not guarantee that Eric Cantona the Overseas Player of the Decade could be persuaded to let Shearer take penalty kicks. Shearer gained a second PFA Players' Player of the Year Award in April 1997, becoming just the second player to have received the PFA award twice, after Mark Hughes. After the 2000 European Championships, Shearer had retired from international football with England, having been England captain since 1998, and having made his senior début in 1992. Shearer was awarded the OBE in", "id": "11856465" }, { "contents": "Emile Heskey\n\n\nthe two matches, with former England international Alan Shearer commenting, \"Never in a million years did I expect to be discussing whether Emile Heskey should keep his place ahead of Wayne Rooney but the Wigan striker was outstanding over both matches.\" Heskey was called into manager Fabio Capello's first squad against Switzerland, but had to withdraw due to an injury. He was called into the squad for a friendly against the Czech Republic in August 2008 and came on as a 46th-minute substitute, in a match that finished 2–2", "id": "174986" }, { "contents": "Habib Beye\n\n\nUEFA Cup Final, a run which involved him putting in a star performance as a central defender against (his now former team) Newcastle United, where he was particularly effective against Newcastle's talisman striker Alan Shearer. He ended up on the losing side as Marseille lost the final to Valencia 2–0. He was also a beaten finalist in the 2006 French Cup against former club Paris Saint-Germain, a match which his team lost 2–1, and again in 2007 when his Marseille team lost on penalties to FC Sochaux. His", "id": "16217445" }, { "contents": "Stan Collymore\n\n\nseason in the Premier League, Collymore was called up to Terry Venables' England squad for the Umbro Cup in June 1995. He made his début at Wembley Stadium against Japan, partnering Alan Shearer in a 2–1 win. He won his second cap as a 90th minute substitute against Brazil. Collymore made his third and final appearance for England as a substitute in a 4–0 win over Moldova during qualification for the 1998 FIFA World Cup. Collymore contributed to his biography \"Stan: Tackling my demons\" with Oliver Holt. In 2005", "id": "3955590" }, { "contents": "Graeme Souness\n\n\nAt £8.2 million, Boumsong was his first big signing and Souness said he would replace Jonathan Woodgate in the Newcastle defence, which had conceded several leads earlier in the season. Newcastle were well aware of Boumsong prior to his move from Auxerre to Rangers on a free transfer. Robson had travelled to France to watch him, but he declined the opportunity to sign Boumsong. Liverpool were also interested in signing Boumsong. Robson's doubts were confirmed when Boumsong marked Alan Shearer in a pre-season game against Rangers. Shearer came", "id": "18029254" }, { "contents": "Saido Berahino\n\n\nrate of a goal every other match, including three to help the team qualify for the European Championship. Berahino has the all-time third-highest goal tally for the England under-21 side with 10 goals in 13 appearances, behind Francis Jeffers and Alan Shearer. On 6 November 2014, England manager Roy Hodgson – who promoted Berahino to the West Bromwich Albion first team in 2011 – named Berahino in his squad for the first time, ahead of a UEFA Euro 2016 qualifying match against Slovenia at Wembley Stadium on the 15th and", "id": "1000466" } ]

[ { "contents": "Tony Adams\n\n\n\"I have some resentment over the way Glenn Hoddle gave the captaincy to Alan Shearer instead of me but I can let that go. I reacted positively. I disagreed with him [Hoddle] and he thought Alan could get more penalties being a centre forward. People know my reaction to that\". Adams continued to play for the national side, however and he finally appeared in a World Cup finals in 1998. His international swansong was England's unsuccessful Euro 2000 campaign. With Shearer retiring from international football after the tournament", "id": "6104102" }, { "contents": "Tony Adams\n\n\nin defence, and after the retirement of Gary Lineker in 1992, Adams unofficially shared the captaincy of England with David Platt, though Adams became England captain outright before Euro 96, as Platt's place in the side became less secure. England reached the semi-finals of Euro 96, before losing on penalties to Germany. When England manager Glenn Hoddle took the Captain's armband from Adams and gave it to Alan Shearer it was a bitter pill for Adams to swallow. Speaking at a fans' forum in 2008 Adams remarked", "id": "6104101" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nThis time, Germany won from the spot; although Shearer scored, his teammate Gareth Southgate missed his kick and England were eliminated. Shearer's five goals made him the competition's top scorer, and together with teammates David Seaman and Steve McManaman, was listed in the official UEFA team of the tournament. The new England manager Glenn Hoddle appointed Shearer captain for the 1998 FIFA World Cup qualifier against Moldova on 1 September 1996, and the player held onto the captaincy after scoring once in that match and twice in the following game", "id": "13592541" }, { "contents": "Dimitar Berbatov\n\n\nhe consequently modelled himself after Marco van Basten, the Dutch forward for that team. However, the 1996 European Championship, held in England, gave Berbatov a new role model; the 15-year-old Berbatov began to look up to the English front man Alan Shearer, who played for Newcastle United. Berbatov's mother later spoke of her son's teenage dream of playing for Newcastle United, and said that his admiration for Shearer was such that, during these years, he slept in a Newcastle shirt. Berbatov began his youth", "id": "3905446" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\n's participation in what was to be Shearer's only World Cup tournament. In September 1999, Shearer scored his only England hat-trick in a UEFA Euro 2000 qualifier against Luxembourg. This helped England reach a play-off against Scotland; England won the game over two legs and in doing so qualified for the European Championships. By now, Shearer was approaching his 30th birthday, and he announced that he intended to retire from international football after the Euro 2000 tournament. Shearer did not score in England's opening 3–2 defeat", "id": "13592544" }, { "contents": "Southampton F.C.\n\n\nwas Alan Shearer, who at the age of 17 scored a hat-trick against Arsenal in a league match in April 1988. Shearer was a first team regular by 1990, and stayed with Southampton until July 1992, when he was sold to Blackburn Rovers for a national record of more than £3 million. He then became the most expensive footballer in the world when Blackburn sold him to Newcastle for £15 million in 1996. He also scored 30 times for England internationally. Southampton were founding members of the Premier League", "id": "3265953" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\ntime to play in England's UEFA European Championship campaign. After Euro 96, Manchester United again sought to sign Shearer, and attempted to enter the battle for his signature. However Manchester United chairman Martin Edwards stated that Blackburn Rovers refused to let Shearer go to Old Trafford. Ultimately Shearer joined his boyhood club: Newcastle United, Manchester United's title rivals. On 30 July 1996, for a world transfer record-breaking £15 million (equivalent to £ million today) Shearer joined his hometown club and league runners-up", "id": "13592519" }, { "contents": "History of the England national football team\n\n\nyear after his last game at club level. Hoddle selected Alan Shearer as captain, replacing Tony Adams, but also brought a number of emerging talents into the squad, including the Manchester United midfield trio of Paul Scholes, Nicky Butt and David Beckham, and central defenders Rio Ferdinand and Sol Campbell. Hoddle oversaw England's qualification for the 1998 World Cup (the first World Cup with 32 teams instead of 24) with a 0–0 draw against Italy at the Stadio Olimpico in Rome, and drew out a winning performance in the", "id": "15089406" }, { "contents": "History of the England national football team\n\n\nthe underwhelming performance at the World Cup, England suffered a poor start to the Euro 2000 qualifying tournament, and there was reported discontent between Hoddle and several senior players, most notably Shearer. Hoddle was dismissed on 2 February 1999, two days after an interview with \"The Sunday Times\" in which he spoke about his belief in reincarnation and claimed that disabled people were paying for sins in a previous life. Under considerable media and public pressure, the FA appointed former captain Kevin Keegan, who only just managed to get England", "id": "15089410" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nagainst Poland. He scored a total of five goals in England's successful qualification campaign for the World Cup, adding strikes against Georgia and away to Poland to his tally. Shearer was sidelined for much of the 1997–98 season, but recovered to play in the World Cup finals. With Michael Owen replacing Teddy Sheringham as Shearer's strike partner, Shearer's return saw him score England's first goal of the tournament, in a 2–0 win over Tunisia, his only goal in the three group matches. England faced long-time", "id": "13592542" }, { "contents": "Newcastle United F.C.\n\n\n. The attacking philosophy of Keegan led to the team being labelled \"The Entertainers\" by Sky Sports. Keegan took Newcastle to two consecutive runners-up finishes in the league in 1995–96 and 1996–97, coming very close to winning the title in the former season. This success was in part due to the talent of players like David Ginola, Les Ferdinand and Alan Shearer, who was signed on 30 July 1996 for a then world record fee of £15 million. Keegan left Newcastle in January 1997 and was replaced by Kenny", "id": "12636363" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nAlan Shearer, CBE, DL (born 13 August 1970) is an English retired footballer. He played as a striker in the top level of English league football for Southampton, Blackburn Rovers, Newcastle United and the England national team. He is Newcastle's and the Premier League's record goalscorer. He was named Football Writers' Association Player of the Year in 1994 and won the PFA Player of the Year award in 1995. In 1996, he was third in the FIFA World Player of the Year awards. In 2004", "id": "13592501" }, { "contents": "Teddy Sheringham\n\n\nmanager Terry Venables (1994–96) Sheringham came to be the preferred strike partner for Alan Shearer. During this time, England had a wealth of strikers with the likes of Andrew Cole, Ian Wright, a young Robbie Fowler and Les Ferdinand all battling to partner Shearer in the England team. The two formed a famous partnership at international level, as they complemented each other's strengths: Shearer the out-and-out goalscorer, big, strong and powerful, Sheringham just 'dropping off' his strike partner, finding spaces", "id": "2997066" }, { "contents": "History of Newcastle United F.C.\n\n\n's title chances for the 1994–95 season, in which they finished sixth. The club, however, continued to build up a reputation for playing attacking football under Keegan. In the 1995–96 season, high-profile foreign stars David Ginola and Faustino Asprilla, in addition to British players Peter Beardsley and striker Les Ferdinand, guided the team to a second-place finish. During the 1996–97 season, Keegan made one signing, securing the services of England striker Alan Shearer for a then-world record transfer fee of £15 million", "id": "6803863" }, { "contents": "1996–97 Newcastle United F.C. season\n\n\n...I think Kevin wanted it free-flowing in all departments and that doesn't necessarily happen.\" Keegan responded to the previous season's disappointment by breaking the world record transfer fee to sign centre forward Alan Shearer from Blackburn Rovers for £15 million. Shearer, whose five goals made him the top scorer in Euro 96, had supported Newcastle since childhood – he had been a ball-boy at St James' Park on the day that Keegan had left in a helicopter after his final Newcastle appearance as a player.", "id": "1207050" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nin the games.\" Shearer captained his school team and helped a Newcastle City Schools team win a seven-a-side tournament at St James' Park, before joining the amateur Wallsend Boys Club as a teenager. It was while playing for the Wallsend club that he was spotted by Southampton's scout, Jack Hixon, which resulted in Shearer spending his summers training with the club's youth team, a time he would later refer to as \"the making of me\". Shearer had successful trials for First Division clubs", "id": "13592505" }, { "contents": "Duncan Shearer\n\n\nFavourites\" during the club's centenary in 2008. However, he was unable to prevent Huddersfield's relegation to the Third Division at the end of the 1987–88 season. Weeks before this, the unrelated English striker Alan Shearer (aged 17) had scored a hat-trick in the First Division for Southampton against Arsenal, a game which Arsenal captain Tony Adams missed through injury. In his autobiography 11 years later, Adams said that he had followed the progress of the game on Ceefax and mistakingly believed that the Shearer who scored", "id": "3716405" }, { "contents": "David Hirst (footballer)\n\n\nHe came on at half-time and within three minutes of the restart he scored his first (and only) England goal. With Gary Lineker injured, he lined up with Alan Shearer against France at Wembley. Bryan Robson said that, \"It's not a question of who will replace Lineker, but who will partner David Hirst\". It became Hirst's third and final England match. Although he was selected for more England squads, injuries kept him out of the team. Manchester United boss Alex Ferguson tried six", "id": "18892949" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nthrough to May due to injury and England's World Cup qualification chances were hit by a run of poor form. Returning to fitness for the 1993–94 season, he scored 31 goals from 40 games as Blackburn finished runners-up in the Premier League. His performances for the club led to him being named the Football Writers' Association Footballer of the Year for that season. On the international scene, England had failed to qualify for the 1994 World Cup finals, but Shearer added three more goals to his international tally before embarking", "id": "13592514" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nfive points out of a possible twenty-four. Shearer did not get the manager's job on permanent basis. Chris Hughton stepped up from the coaching staff to take charge of the quest to get Newcastle back into the Premier League, which was achieved at the first attempt as Newcastle finished top of the Championship in the 2009–10 season. Shearer is married to Lainya, whom he met whilst a Southampton player. The couple lived locally with her parents during Shearer's second year at the south coast club, and were married on", "id": "13592557" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nagainst Portugal, but did so as England defeated Germany 1–0 in Charleroi, ensuring that England beat their European neighbours for the first time since the 1966 World Cup Final. To remain in the tournament, England only required a draw against Romania in the final group match, and Shearer scored a penalty as England went in at half-time 2–1 up, but Romania ultimately won 3–2. England's tournament was over, and so was Shearer's international career. From his 63 caps, he captained the team 34 times and scored", "id": "13592545" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nrecord return which is still unbeaten. The striker's goals at this level, coupled with his club form, meant he was soon promoted to the senior squad by coach Graham Taylor. Marking his debut in the 2–0 win against France in February 1992 with a goal, he made his only appearance for the England B team a month later. Due to replace Gary Lineker, who retired from international action after UEFA Euro 1992, in the England attack, Shearer played only intermittently in the qualifying campaign for the 1994 FIFA World Cup", "id": "13592538" }, { "contents": "1993 Trans-Tasman Test series\n\n\n's Canberra Raiders team mate and New South Wales captain Laurie Daley. The test series took place following the 1993 State of Origin series which was won by NSW. Dale Shearer's performances at fullback for Qld saw him earn a test recall in front of well performed World Cup and NSW fullback Tim Brasher (though Shearer had been selected at centre for all 3 Ashes series tests in 1992 but withdrew from all 3 with injury). Bradley Clyde, who had not played in the Origin series due to injury was also recalled to", "id": "16616631" }, { "contents": "Glenn Hoddle\n\n\nRedknapp resigned, following which Hoddle also left the club. In June 2016, after England's 2–1 loss to Iceland at Euro 2016 and manager Roy Hodgson's subsequent resignation, Harry Redknapp and Alan Shearer both put forward Hoddle as a candidate for the job before Sam Allardyce was appointed. Hoddle has done punditry work since his retirement from coaching. He has worked for ESPN, ITV Sport and BT Sport. Hoddle began working with ESPN during Euro 2012 as a pundit. Since then, he has worked with ITV for the 2014", "id": "8847620" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nhim onto the pitch following the striker's testimonial in May 2006 as he performed a lap of honour at St James' Park. On 6 December 2000, Shearer was given Honorary Freedom of the City of Newcastle upon Tyne, with the citation \"in recognition of his role as captain of Newcastle United Football Club and as former captain of England which have enhanced the reputation of the City\". Shearer was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2001 Queen's Birthday Honours and Commander of the", "id": "13592559" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nhis four years in the Southampton first team, Shearer made a total of 158 appearances in all competitions, scoring 43 goals. Despite making just one goalless appearance as England failed to progress past the Euro 1992 group stages, Shearer was soon subject to an English transfer record-breaking £3.6 million bid from Blackburn Rovers. Although there was also interest from Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson, Blackburn benefactor Jack Walker's millions were enough to prise the striker from the \"Saints\", and Shearer moved north to Ewood Park in the", "id": "13592512" }, { "contents": "Andy Cole\n\n\nof the season to help United win the Premier League title for the third time in four years. He also played in their FA Cup final victory to become part of England's first ever side to win the double twice. Before the 1996–97 season began, Cole had to deal with being offered to Blackburn Rovers as part-exchange in a £12 million deal that would have brought Alan Shearer to Old Trafford, but the offer was rejected and Shearer joined Newcastle instead. Despite Alex Ferguson's clear indication to Cole that he", "id": "9629547" }, { "contents": "Shearer's Bar\n\n\nShearer's Bar is the former name of a sports bar owned by Newcastle United and forming part of St James' Park, the team's stadium in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. It was named in honour of the club's all-time top scorer, Alan Shearer. The bar was renamed Nine in July 2013 by the club, who said that popularity of the venue had \"dwindled\". The bar was opened in December 2004 and became an important part of the features at St James' Park. It is", "id": "15298144" }, { "contents": "Kevin Keegan\n\n\nrelationship between the pair. In April 2003, it was named as Quote of the Decade in the Premier League 10 Seasons Awards and Most Memorable Quote in the 20 Seasons Awards in May 2012. It also appeared in Channel 4's \"100 Greatest Sporting Moments\". Keegan then broke the world transfer fee record by signing Blackburn Rovers and England striker Alan Shearer in July 1996. Shearer, who had been the Premier League's top scorer in the last two seasons, was born in Newcastle and had grown up as a fan", "id": "826455" }, { "contents": "England national football team\n\n\nBetween 1994 and 1996, Terry Venables managed the team. At UEFA Euro 1996, held in England, they equalled their best performance at a European Championship, reaching the semi-finals as they did in 1968, before exiting via a penalty shoot-out loss to Germany. England striker Alan Shearer was the tournament's top scorer with five goals. Venables resigned following investigations into his financial activities. Venables' successor, Glenn Hoddle, similarly left the job for non-footballing reasons after just one international tournament – the 1998", "id": "9748695" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nmiddle of 1992. His first season with Blackburn was mixed – he missed half of it through injury after snapping his right anterior cruciate ligament in a match against Leeds United in December 1992, but scored a prolific 16 goals in the 21 games in which he did feature. Shearer also became a regular in the England team this season and scored his second international goal; it came in a 4–0 1994 FIFA World Cup qualifier win over Turkey in November. The season ended sourly, however, as Shearer was forced to miss January", "id": "13592513" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nover from head coach Chris Hughton who was in temporary charge while the permanent manager Joe Kinnear recovered from heart surgery, having taken ill on 7 February. Shearer stated \"It's a club I love and I don't want them to go down. I'll do everything I can to stop that.\" Shearer was unveiled at a press conference the following day by club managing director Derek Llambias. In explaining his acceptance of a managerial role at Newcastle at this time, Shearer stated that he would not have done this for", "id": "13592552" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nwas being run in the wake of the departure of Kevin Keegan. These reports were denied by the club. Shearer features in EA Sports' \"FIFA\" video game series; he was included in the \"FIFA 15\" Ultimate Team Legends. During his playing days, Shearer had been involved with the children's charity the NSPCC, taking part in the organisation's Full Stop campaign in 1999. Since retiring from football Shearer has also done work for several charities both nationally and in the Newcastle area. In his testimonial match", "id": "13592565" }, { "contents": "2005–06 Newcastle United F.C. season\n\n\n. The fee, £17 million, surpassed Newcastle's previous record of £15 million for Alan Shearer from Blackburn in 1996. In the closing hours of the transfer window, the club re-signed Nolberto Solano from Aston Villa. Souness's decision to pair Shearer and Owen together up front proved to be lethal, but Owen broke his fourth metatarsal bone in his foot after a clash with Paul Robinson in a match against Tottenham Hotspur, keeping him out for the rest of the season. With Owen injured the team's", "id": "18086094" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\ndue to injury and the team failed to reach the competition finals. UEFA Euro 1996 was a more positive experience for both Shearer and England. With England not required to qualify as hosts, Shearer had not scored in 12 games in the 21 months prior, and even his overall goalscoring record for England did not look too impressive so far, with five goals in 23 games. However, he found the net in the 22nd minute of the first game, against Switzerland. Scoring once in the following game against Scotland and twice", "id": "13592539" }, { "contents": "Teddy Sheringham\n\n\nthe 2000 European Championships by then manager Kevin Keegan, but the retirement of Shearer (despite being four years younger than Sheringham) from international football after that tournament and the arrival of new manager Sven-Göran Eriksson in 2001 saw a return to international favour for him. He was often deployed as a tactical substitute late in games by Eriksson, valued for his ability to hold the ball up and create intelligent play. In 2001, Sheringham scored an important goal for England against Greece in a World Cup qualifying match within 15 seconds", "id": "2997070" }, { "contents": "Ruud Gullit\n\n\n, chairman Ken Bates famously said of Gullit, \"I didn't like his arrogance – in fact I never liked him.\" In August 1998, Gullit was named manager of Newcastle United two games into the new league season and reached the 1999 FA Cup Final in his first year. Fans remained supportive despite a poor run of results, although a well-publicised contretemps with the team's top scorer Alan Shearer and captain Robert Lee did not put him in a favourable light. Gullit even refused to assign Lee a squad", "id": "13592616" }, { "contents": "Scott Parker\n\n\ndefeat on 25 March 2006. Later that month he was diagnosed with glandular fever, putting an end to his season. The timing was especially unfortunate for Parker, who had been playing well for Newcastle, as it ended any hopes he may have had of forcing his way into the 2006 FIFA World Cup. In July 2006, he was named Newcastle United's new captain by manager Glenn Roeder, succeeding the retired Alan Shearer. His first goal as captain came against Wigan Athletic on 19 August 2006, in a 2–1 win", "id": "14327157" }, { "contents": "History of football in England\n\n\n. United's main challengers for the title in the Premier League's first few years were Blackburn Rovers, led by star striker Alan Shearer, also won their first league title since World War I in 1994–95, and Newcastle United, who famously conceded a 10-point lead at Christmas to lose the title to United in 1995–96. Newcastle had reached the Premiership in 1993 as Division One champions, and in their first Premiership campaign finished third to qualify for the UEFA Cup. They finished second in 1996 and again in 1997, but by", "id": "3652862" }, { "contents": "1992–93 FA Premier League\n\n\nPremier League as an attempt by the Football Association to \"hijack\" the First Division. Shortly before the season began, newly promoted Blackburn Rovers signed Southampton's 21-year-old England international striker Alan Shearer for a new British record fee variously reported as £3.3 million, £3.4 million, or £3.6 million. Several other players moved for fees of £2 million or more, including Arsenal's David Rocastle, who joined Leeds United, Dean Saunders, who moved from Liverpool to Aston Villa, and Teddy Sheringham, who", "id": "12442383" }, { "contents": "Darren Anderton\n\n\nhappy at the prospect of losing another key player as he had already lost Jürgen Klinsmann and Gheorghe Popescu that summer; and Nick Barmby was on the verge of joining Middlesbrough. Despite missing most of the 1995–96 season through injury, Anderton played an important part in the Euro 96 England team that reached the semi-finals and included players like Paul Gascoigne, Alan Shearer, Steve McManaman and Teddy Sheringham. In the semi final against Germany, the match went to golden goal extra time. Anderton came within inches of putting England into", "id": "4331581" }, { "contents": "Wallsend Boys Club\n\n\nJanuary which damaged one of the walls of the building. Professional players to have played for the club include: The club has had a representative at four of the six FIFA World Cup finals since 1986, with the two exceptions coming in 1994, when the England national football team did not qualify, and 2002. In 1986 and 1990 Peter Beardsley starred for England. In 1998 Alan Shearer was England captain. Michael Carrick made appearances for England in both the 2006 and 2010 tournaments. Fraser Forster was in the 2014 squad but", "id": "21182372" }, { "contents": "Harry Kane\n\n\n\". Clive Allen, who coached him at Tottenham, stated that \"one thing I'd say about him, which unfortunately you don't say about a lot of young footballers, is that he had a passion for the game. He loves football, he loves playing, he loves scoring goals\". His former Tottenham under-21 coach Les Ferdinand likened Kane's movement to their former forward Teddy Sheringham, and the power and accuracy of his shots to Alan Shearer. Kane's style of play has been compared to that of", "id": "1925319" }, { "contents": "Kieron Dyer\n\n\nthat he would soon rejoin for Ipswich. After representing England at Youth, Under 21 and \"B\" level, Dyer's debut for the senior team came on 4 September 1999 when he started in England's 6–0 win against Luxembourg. He was deployed out of position at right back, and was replaced by Gary Neville at half-time after injuring himself while setting up Alan Shearer's third goal of the match. The injury was not serious and he was able to make his second England appearance four days later, coming", "id": "17666181" }, { "contents": "1996–97 Blackburn Rovers F.C. season\n\n\nthe end of the season, when he handed over the reins to Roy Hodgson after Sampdoria's Sven-Göran Eriksson lied about accepting the manager's job and joined Lazio instead. Parkes steered Blackburn to safety as they finished 13th. The world record £15 million sale of striker Alan Shearer to Newcastle United was seen as the biggest factor in Blackburn's lowest top flight finish since they returned to the elite in 1992. However, his strike-partner Chris Sutton helped keep the club alive after recovering from a drastic loss of", "id": "7811146" }, { "contents": "Michael Owen\n\n\nmuch of the campaign as England struggled, with Hoddle being replaced by Kevin Keegan. On 4 September 1999, he scored his first goal at Wembley Stadium in a 6–0 win over Luxembourg. At the finals, Owen scored once in three matches, as England were knocked out at the group stage. After Alan Shearer's retirement, Owen took over as England's senior striker under new manager Sven-Göran Eriksson. He scored six times during 2002 World Cup qualifying, including a hat-trick against Germany at Munich's Olympiastadion", "id": "21886807" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nyet to start the UEFA Pro Licence course, which is required to be permitted to manage a team in the Premier League and European competition. Reflecting his desire for personal time off to \"enjoy life\", in July 2006 he turned down a coaching role with England, citing his BBC commitments and desire to be away from the pressure of a job within football. Despite this, Shearer was often linked in the media with managerial or coaching positions at his three former clubs. Shearer took a brief role in the dugout for", "id": "13592550" }, { "contents": "History of Southampton F.C.\n\n\nappearances for the England national team – he finally retired in 2002 at the age of 33. During his time with the Saints, Le Tissier was approached more than once by several bigger clubs (including Manchester United) but chose to stick with the Saints despite never winning a major trophy or experiencing European football with them. From 1989 to 1992, Le Tissier was regularly partnered up front by another notable player, Alan Shearer, who as a 17-year-old had scored a hat-trick on his Saints debut against Arsenal in", "id": "15948278" }, { "contents": "Sir Bobby Robson Trophy match\n\n\nNewcastle United, picking up on Alan Shearer's reply of \"I know as much as you do,\" to a pre-match question as to whether he would be installed as Newcastle manager for the forthcoming season beginning in 13 days, with the club being up for sale and with the first team without a manager, being in the care of coach Chris Hughton. Neither the Newcastle United owner Mike Ashley or managing director Derek Llambias were in attendance at the charity match. Having left England after Italia '90, Sir", "id": "19612022" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nChancellor Liam Donaldson stated \"Newcastle United are my team. Alan Shearer is more than just a local legend, he's probably one of the greatest footballers of all time\". On 12 September 2016, a statue of Shearer's likeness was unveiled outside St James' Park. It was sculpted by Tom Maley, and paid for by the Shepherd family. After his retirement and following guest appearances, Shearer became a regular pundit for the BBC's \"Match of the Day\". He also formed part of the team which", "id": "13592563" }, { "contents": "Gary McAllister\n\n\ntournament, scoring in a 3–0 win over the CIS. However, Scotland did not qualify from their group. Scotland failed to qualify for the 1994 FIFA World Cup but did qualify for UEFA Euro 1996 in England, with McAllister the captain of the team. Scotland's second match of the group stage was against England at Wembley Stadium. In the second half Scotland, trailing 0–1 to an Alan Shearer goal, were awarded a penalty. McAllister's kick was saved by David Seaman and Scotland lost 0–2. The team won their", "id": "19492391" }, { "contents": "David Seaman\n\n\nEngland's quarter-final against Spain ended scoreless, Seaman saved Miguel Angel Nadal's kick in the shootout to knock Spain out of the tournament. England eventually were eliminated in the semi-final by Germany on penalties,after Andreas Köpke saved the penalty taken by Gareth Southgate. Seaman was named alongside Golden Boot winner Alan Shearer and winger Steve McManaman in the UEFA \"Team of the Tournament\". Euro 96 sponsor Philips named him \"Player of the Tournament\". Seaman remained first choice under the management of Glenn Hoddle for", "id": "7321893" }, { "contents": "1998 FA Cup Final\n\n\nand so has the mixture between the foreign and English players.\" Wenger reserved praise for the goalscorers Overmars (\"a world-class player\") and Anelka (\"Nicolas is very young. But you saw in the second half today what he can do\"), and felt the turning point in the match was Shearer's shot hitting the post. He sympathised with Newcastle, as did his captain, Adams who said afterwards: \"The team and their fans did everything they could out there, but it was", "id": "10844688" }, { "contents": "David McMahon (association footballer)\n\n\nabout the role of striker from watching England international Alan Shearer in training, but likened himself more to Newcastle's Scotland international Duncan Ferguson, \"because I am taller and like to battle for things in the air.\" Brian Kerr, then manager of Ireland under-17s, described McMahon as honest and hard-working, \"not the most skilful player, but will get goals\", but Darlington manager Gary Bennett believed there was more to his game: that he and strike partner John Williams both had enough skill to play a", "id": "5423888" }, { "contents": "Andy Carroll\n\n\nUEFA Euro 2012. He opened the scoring for England with a powerful header in their second group match against Sweden, which England went on to win 3–2. Carroll has been compared to Newcastle's record goalscorer Alan Shearer, Ivory Coast striker Didier Drogba and former Italy forward Christian Vieri. He has also been referred to as a classic centre forward, owing to his strength, powerful shot and excellent heading ability. Former Newcastle manager and Liverpool player Kevin Keegan stated \"he is probably in the top three headers of a ball I", "id": "11961542" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\n-chasing Manchester United. On the opening day of the 1999–2000 season, Shearer received the first red card of his career in his 100th appearance for Newcastle. After dropping Shearer to the bench in a Tyne-Wear derby loss against Sunderland, the unpopular Gullit resigned to be replaced by the 66-year-old Bobby Robson. Despite Gullit giving Shearer the captain's armband, reports of a rift between club captain and manager were rife, Gullit's decision to drop Shearer proved deeply unpopular with fans and his departure capped a dismal start", "id": "13592525" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nAn almost injury-free season helped Shearer improve on his previous year's tally in the 1998–99 season, the striker converting 14 goals in 30 league games and replacing Rob Lee as Newcastle captain, but Newcastle finished 13th again, with Ruud Gullit having replaced Kenny Dalglish just after the season got underway. He also helped Newcastle to a second consecutive FA Cup final and qualification for the following season's UEFA Cup, scoring twice in the semi-final against Tottenham Hotspur, but they once again lost, this time 2–0 to treble", "id": "13592524" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nhis final three games under Glenn Roeder. Shearer had rejected offers of coaching or assistant roles at Newcastle under both the returning Kevin Keegan in February 2008 and Joe Kinnear in November 2008. Shearer had previously had talks about, but never been offered, a full-time manager's role at Newcastle until his appointment on 1 April 2009. In a surprise move, late on 1 April 2009, it was announced that Shearer would become the manager of his former club Newcastle United for the remaining eight games of the season, taking", "id": "13592551" }, { "contents": "Fabio Cannavaro\n\n\nnational team on 22 January 1997, in a friendly match against Northern Ireland. The same year, he earned plaudits for his handling of England striker Alan Shearer in a World Cup qualifying game at Wembley Stadium. Shearer was then considered by the partisan English crowd to be the best striker in the world, and thought he would make fun of the inexperienced Italian defender. Nevertheless, in a display ranking alongside those of the very best Italian defenders Claudio Gentile and Franco Baresi, Cannavaro managed to keep Shearer quiet for the whole game", "id": "3625067" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\n, with media sources claiming that video footage showed him intentionally kicking Neil Lennon in the head following a challenge. The referee of the game took no action against Shearer, and he was then cleared of all charges by the FA, with Lennon giving evidence in the player's defence. Former Football Association chief Graham Kelly, who brought the charges against the player, later claimed in his autobiography that Shearer had threatened to withdraw himself from the 1998 World Cup squad if the charges were upheld, a claim strenuously denied by Shearer.", "id": "13592523" }, { "contents": "History of the Romania national football team\n\n\nminnows Tunisia. Adrian Ilie scored the only goal with a fine chip in their first match against Colombia at Lyon's Stade Gerland. In Toulouse, they met an England side starting with prodigal striker Michael Owen on the bench, with Teddy Sheringham preferred alongside Alan Shearer. A mistake by Tony Adams was punished by Viorel Moldovan, who played for Coventry City, before Owen came on to claim an equalizer. But Romania won with a scrappy late goal from Dan Petrescu, also playing in England with Chelsea, fighting off his club", "id": "16435718" }, { "contents": "John Barnes (footballer)\n\n\nNewcastle United, although an approach had already been made by Harry Redknapp of West Ham; Barnes had agreed in principle to join them until at the final moment Dalglish called him and Barnes changed his mind. In the 1997–98 season Barnes played up front mostly, deputising for Alan Shearer after Shearer was injured for most of the season, and Barnes ended up Newcastle's top league scorer with six goals, which highlighted the Magpies' lack of ability to score in the absence of Shearer and Ferdinand (who had been sold along with", "id": "19616669" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\ncould not find a more iconic person than Alan, not just for what he has done in football but for all the extra work he tirelessly does for charity and communities. I am delighted he has accepted the role of Deputy Lieutenant because he is a real role model. I have promised him he is not going to have to do too much, but even if it is just one occasion a year he is the perfect choice\" On 7 December 2009, Shearer was made a Doctor of Civil Law by Newcastle University.", "id": "13592562" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nLaw of Northumbria and Newcastle Universities. Shearer was born in Gosforth, Newcastle, in 1970 to working-class parents Alan and Anne Shearer. His father, a sheet-metal worker, encouraged a keen Shearer to play football in his youth, and the young player continued with the sport as he progressed through school. He was educated at Gosforth Central Middle School and Gosforth High School. Growing up playing on the streets of his hometown, he originally played in midfield because \"it meant [he] could get more involved", "id": "13592504" }, { "contents": "Paul Kitson\n\n\n. Newcastle finished second that season after being overhauled in the second half campaign by a Manchester United side who sealed the title by a five-point margin barely four months after Newcastle had led by 10 points, but Kitson's part in Newcastle's exciting though ultimately disappointing campaign had been minimal as he had played just seven league games and scored twice. But he remained loyal to the Magpies even after another blow at the end of July 1996 – the arrival of £15 million world record signing Alan Shearer. He managed three", "id": "19054464" }, { "contents": "Ray Harford\n\n\nthe Premier League for much of the season. During the summer of 1996, Alan Shearer was sold to Newcastle United for a then world record fee of £15 million, and Harford failed to adequately replace him. Harford stated that \"I'm told we need a big name. Engelbert Humperdinck is a big name but it doesn't mean he can play football.\" The 1996–97 season also started badly for Blackburn. They failed to win any of their first ten games and were knocked out of the League Cup by Division", "id": "5365351" }, { "contents": "Patrick Kluivert\n\n\nagain featured for Barca in a legends game against Uganda all stars where he, in lobbing the ball, scored an amazing goal. Kluivert joined Newcastle United on a free transfer in July 2004. He stated that his reasons for joining Newcastle was due to the overwhelming reaction he received whilst playing for Barcelona against Newcastle during a pre season friendly as well as teaming up with Newcastle's star players such as Alan Shearer. Kluivert scored some classy and crucial goals at and away from St James's Park namely in winning strikes against both", "id": "21654890" }, { "contents": "Duncan Shearer\n\n\nbetween 1994 and 1995, scoring two goals including an important opening strike in an away win over Finland which helped the national side qualify for Euro 96, although Shearer did not make the squad for that tournament. The senior team was his first experience of international football, having never played at any age-group level. He achieved a childhood ambition when he played in the national team alongside John McGinlay, a childhood friend also from Fort William. In season 1999–00 he began to concentrate more on coaching than playing, and was", "id": "3716411" }, { "contents": "Les Ferdinand\n\n\nscored 50 goals in only 84 games at Newcastle, forming a successful partnership with Alan Shearer. He was and indeed is still very highly thought of by Newcastle United. Ferdinand received a standing ovation when he returned to St. James' Park as a Tottenham player, trying to put Alan Shearer's number 9 shirt on to complete a lap of honour, he broke down in tears and could only manage to put the shirt on inside out and back to front before being helped from the field. Ferdinand returned again, when he", "id": "2996528" }, { "contents": "David Platt (footballer)\n\n\nTurkey, San Marino, the Netherlands and Norway. The qualifiers began at home to Norway. England dominated the game and Platt carried the goal threat, with Alan Shearer and Ian Wright struggling to find form. He scored the opening goal after an hour. England dominated the remainder of the game and were unlucky to concede to a long-range shot from Kjetil Rekdal. Platt continued his drive from midfield in wins over Turkey at home (4-0) and San Marino (6-0). Platt scored four", "id": "16718350" }, { "contents": "Jason Wilcox\n\n\n-pound investments of Jack Walker. He played an important part in the title-winning Blackburn team of 1995. Playing on the left flank with attacking fullback Graeme Le Saux behind him and Stuart Ripley on the opposite flank, they forged a strong attacking line-up with Alan Shearer and Chris Sutton. International recognition was harder to come by for Wilcox and he managed only 3 international caps despite his effective partnership with Shearer, Le Saux and Tim Sherwood. Lengthy injury problems restricted his effectiveness in subsequent seasons and, after experiencing", "id": "14527253" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nclub's form, and Newcastle finished just 13th in the Premier League. However, United (now managed by Shearer's old boss at Blackburn, Kenny Dalglish) had a good run in the FA Cup; Shearer scored the winning goal in a semi-final victory over Sheffield United as the team reached the final. The team were unable to get on the scoresheet at Wembley, and lost the game 2–0 to Arsenal. An incident during a game against Leicester City in the league saw Shearer charged with misconduct by the FA", "id": "13592522" }, { "contents": "Aleksandar Mitrović (footballer)\n\n\nhim the competition's top scorer, and 28 in all competitions. On 22 March 2015, he scored the team's only goal in the 2–1 Belgian Cup Final loss to Club Brugge KV in Brussels. On 21 July 2015, Mitrović joined Newcastle United on a five-year contract for a reported £13 million, saying he hoped to be able to play like club legend Alan Shearer. He made his debut on 9 August as Newcastle began the season with a 2–2 draw against Southampton at St James' Park, playing", "id": "20923735" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nWest Bromwich Albion, Manchester City and Newcastle United, before being offered a youth contract with Southampton in April 1986. Shearer was promoted to the first team after spending two years with the youth squad. He made his professional debut for Southampton on 26 March 1988, coming on as a substitute in a First Division fixture at Chelsea, before prompting national headlines in his full debut at The Dell two weeks later. He scored a hat-trick, helping the team to a 4–2 victory against Arsenal, thus becoming the youngest player", "id": "13592506" }, { "contents": "James Milner\n\n\ndo what was \"in the club's best interest\" and in July 2004, he agreed a five-year contract with Newcastle. Milner made his first appearance for Newcastle United during their pre-season tour of Asia, scoring his first goal for the club in a 1–1 draw against Kitchee, in Hong Kong. During this tour, he took the opportunity to observe how Newcastle striker Alan Shearer dealt with attention from fans and the media. He said that his association with people like Shearer gave him a better idea of", "id": "1860603" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nretain the ball and provide opportunities for teammates. Playing as a lone striker between wide men, Rod Wallace and Matt Le Tissier, Shearer scored three goals in 26 appearances in the 1989–90 season, and in the next, four goals in 36 games. His performances in the centre of the \"Saints\" attack were soon recognised by the fans, who voted him their Player of the Year for 1991. In the middle of 1991, Shearer was a member of the England national under-21 football squad in the Toulon Tournament in Toulon", "id": "13592508" }, { "contents": "Teddy Sheringham\n\n\n, creating play and providing key passes, forming the link between Shearer and the England midfield. The pairing came to be known as 'The SAS' ('Shearer and Sheringham') and their most successful time together came in the 1996 European Championships, held in England. Their most famous contribution was in the 4–1 victory over the Netherlands, a game in the opening group stages in which they both scored twice against one of the strongest teams in the tournament. Though England were eventually knocked out in the semi-finals", "id": "2997067" }, { "contents": "History of the England national football team\n\n\ninto Euro 2000 after a 2–1 aggregate playoff win over Scotland. At the finals in Belgium and the Netherlands, a lacklustre England failed to get beyond the group stage, losing to both Portugal and Romania after leading in each game. After England's exit, Alan Shearer retired from international football, he had announced his intentions before the tournament, and no-one could persuade him to change his mind. On 7 October 2000, shortly after losing the opening World Cup qualifier to Germany in the last-ever game at Wembley", "id": "15089411" }, { "contents": "Premier League 10 Seasons Awards\n\n\nrepresented, with five players. The teams were as follows: English striker Alan Shearer was named Domestic Player of the Decade in the main 10 Seasons awards announcements, in addition to being given the Outstanding Contribution to the FA Premier League award. Two weeks later he was also named as the Overall Player of the Decade. In the first decade, Shearer played for Blackburn Rovers, and then Newcastle United. Shearer has been described as a classic English centre-forward with great shooting power, a single-minded striker who could", "id": "11856460" }, { "contents": "Wartime League\n\n\narguments debate that a player who exceeds one's record through their wartime matches should nonetheless be seen as the club's highest goal scorer or appearance having been part of the team's squad even if only for a short time. The most recent argument relates to the goal-difference between Jackie Milburn's and Alan Shearer's Newcastle United goal-scoring records. When counting Jackie's wartime matches, he scored a total of 238 professional goals for Newcastle United FC. In May 2005, Alan Shearer finished his career at 206 goals", "id": "17626256" }, { "contents": "Jon Dahl Tomasson\n\n\nas the perfect link-up player to England national team striker Alan Shearer. The partnership initially worked well, with Tomasson impressing during a pre-season friendly tournament in the Republic of Ireland. However, a career threatening injury to Shearer, combined with the controversial transfer of popular striker Les Ferdinand to Tottenham Hotspur, meant that Tomasson was moved from his traditional attacking midfield position to that of striker. He struggled to adapt to his new position on the field, and to the English game, due to his lack of physical", "id": "19324628" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\ncovered the World Cups and European Championships from 2006 onwards for the BBC. Former Newcastle chairman Freddy Shepherd announced that, after Shearer finished the 2005–06 season as Newcastle's caretaker assistant manager, he would become the club's \"Sporting Ambassador\" for the 2006–07 season. However, in September 2008, it was reported that Shearer was removed from this largely honorary position by the club's owner Mike Ashley, despite protests from players such as Steven Taylor and Damien Duff, due to Shearer's criticism of the way in which the club", "id": "13592564" }, { "contents": "1998 FA Cup Final\n\n\nthe final that Bergkamp had resumed training and \"medically he looked all right\", but the player received a further setback when he suffered a reaction to his hamstring. He ruled himself out of the match and told reporters: \"I'm very disappointed. As a little boy in Holland I always watched the FA Cup final. And I used to dream about playing in it myself one day.\" Ian Wright was listed as Bergkamp's probable replacement to partner Anelka. Newcastle had their own issues surrounding Shearer. The England", "id": "10844676" }, { "contents": "2008–09 in English football\n\n\n's surprise resignation in December; whilst their final points tally wasn't spectacular, they had the satisfaction of being the top North-East team in football after both Middlesbrough and Newcastle United were relegated, ending 11 and 16 year spells in the top flight respectively, the latter going through four managers in Kevin Keegan, Joe Kinnear, Chris Hughton and even former striker Alan Shearer during the campaign. Despite a brilliant start to the season which saw them as high as third place in October, Hull City won just 1 of their", "id": "1311754" }, { "contents": "1996 FA Charity Shield\n\n\nfrom Eric Cantona, Nicky Butt, David Beckham and Roy Keane. The game saw new signings Jordi Cruyff and Karel Poborský make their debuts for Manchester United, though neither of these players had particularly successful careers at Old Trafford and both had left the club within four years. The day before the game had seen the surprise sale of one of Manchester United's longest serving players — Lee Sharpe. The game saw Newcastle United give a debut to £15 million world record signing Alan Shearer, who would remain at the club until", "id": "2797098" }, { "contents": "UEFA Euro 2016 knockout phase\n\n\nsection begin=g6 /section end=g6 / section begin=g7 /section end=g7 / The match has been described as one of England's worst defeats ever. Former footballer and Talksport presenter Stan Collymore, who was commentating on the game, panned the England team, reserving special criticism for goalkeeper Joe Hart and captain Wayne Rooney. Former England international and BBC Sport pundit Alan Shearer described it as the worst performance he had ever seen from an England team. The defeat was called England's most shocking since losing 1–0 to", "id": "11344909" }, { "contents": "Maurice E. Shearer\n\n\nApplication at Annapolis, Maryland, with classmates Holland Smith, Ralph S. Keyser and Andrew B. Drum. In July, Shearer sailed for duty to be the commander of the 35 man Marine detachment on Midway Island. In May 1908, he was selected for promotion to first lieutenant and to the rank of captain in June 1916. During World War I, forces under Major Shearer's command made an attack on Belleau Wood, finally clearing that forest of Germans. On 26 June 1918, he sent a now famous report: \"", "id": "8315540" }, { "contents": "Newcastle upon Tyne\n\n\nF.C. became Football League members in 1893. They have won four top division titles (the first in 1905 and the most recent in 1927), six FA Cups (the first in 1910 and the most recent in 1955) and the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup in 1969. They broke the world transfer record in 1996 by paying £15 million for Blackburn Rovers and England striker Alan Shearer, one of the most prolific goalscorers of that era. In 2017 Newcastle was the venue for the 2017 Freedom City festival. The 2017", "id": "20529704" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\ngame and came off the bench to score a penalty, helping Newcastle win the game 3–2. The match was a sell-out, and saw Shearer perform a lap of honour at the end with his family, with his young son notably covering his ears due to the volume of noise produced by the crowd in tribute. Shearer's international career began in 1990 when he was handed a callup to the England under-21 squad under Dave Sexton. During his time with the squad, he scored 13 times in 11 games, a", "id": "13592537" }, { "contents": "2011–12 Cardiff City F.C. season\n\n\nserving manager in the Championship having held his post since May 2005. The club held talks with former England and Newcastle United captain Alan Shearer to replace Jones but he rejected the job despite stating that he was impressed with the \"vision, ambition and determination of the owner Dato Chan Tien Ghee and the board\". The \"Bluebirds\" instead approached Championship rivals Watford for permission to speak to their manager Malky Mackay, which was initially rejected. However, after the two clubs agreed a compensation fee, Mackay was officially appointed as", "id": "7599659" }, { "contents": "Kevin Keegan\n\n\nto Michael Owen, stating, \"He's not scared to give his opinion when he's right, and he's not scared to say what he feels. He's a tremendous professional, and he trains properly every day.\" Keegan announced on 22 January that he and Alan Shearer held talks about the two linking up with Shearer as his assistant, but decided against the idea, leaving the door open for him to take other roles he was interested in. Keegan's first eight games back at Newcastle passed without a", "id": "826473" }, { "contents": "Transfer (association football)\n\n\n£3.6 million Alan Shearer moved to Blackburn Rovers from Southampton, a decade after the world's first £3 million transfer. Lentini's transfer remained intact the world record fee for the next four years, although the national record was broken more than once in many countries including England. Shearer's £3.6million record fee was narrowly eclipsed 12 months later when Manchester United signed Roy Keane from Nottingham Forest for £3.75 million. In 1994, Blackburn Rovers paid a record £5 million for Chris Sutton from Norwich City, a decade", "id": "11200095" }, { "contents": "Roy Hodgson\n\n\nagainst Costa Rica to finish bottom of Group D. Hodgson named Rooney as the new captain of England in August 2014, following the retirement of Steven Gerrard from international football. Hodgson's first match after the World Cup was a 1–0 win against Norway in an international friendly match at Wembley on 3 September 2014. During the match, England made only two shots on target. Hodgson was infuriated when asked about this, describing the statistic as \"fucking bollocks\". Former England player, Alan Shearer, admitted that the match was so", "id": "12858624" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nto the season. The animosity between Shearer and Gullit was later confirmed by the latter, who reported telling the striker that he was \"...the most overrated player I have ever seen.\" Ironically, Robson had tried to sign Shearer for Barcelona in 1997, making a bid of £20million which would have seen Shearer break the world's transfer fee record for the second time in 12 months. However, then Newcastle manager Kenny Dalglish rejected the offer. In Robson's first match in charge, Shearer scored five goals in", "id": "13592526" }, { "contents": "Premier League 10 Seasons Awards\n\n\nin his talks with Alex Ferguson, he could not guarantee that Eric Cantona the Overseas Player of the Decade could be persuaded to let Shearer take penalty kicks. Shearer gained a second PFA Players' Player of the Year Award in April 1997, becoming just the second player to have received the PFA award twice, after Mark Hughes. After the 2000 European Championships, Shearer had retired from international football with England, having been England captain since 1998, and having made his senior début in 1992. Shearer was awarded the OBE in", "id": "11856465" }, { "contents": "Emile Heskey\n\n\nthe two matches, with former England international Alan Shearer commenting, \"Never in a million years did I expect to be discussing whether Emile Heskey should keep his place ahead of Wayne Rooney but the Wigan striker was outstanding over both matches.\" Heskey was called into manager Fabio Capello's first squad against Switzerland, but had to withdraw due to an injury. He was called into the squad for a friendly against the Czech Republic in August 2008 and came on as a 46th-minute substitute, in a match that finished 2–2", "id": "174986" }, { "contents": "Habib Beye\n\n\nUEFA Cup Final, a run which involved him putting in a star performance as a central defender against (his now former team) Newcastle United, where he was particularly effective against Newcastle's talisman striker Alan Shearer. He ended up on the losing side as Marseille lost the final to Valencia 2–0. He was also a beaten finalist in the 2006 French Cup against former club Paris Saint-Germain, a match which his team lost 2–1, and again in 2007 when his Marseille team lost on penalties to FC Sochaux. His", "id": "16217445" }, { "contents": "Stan Collymore\n\n\nseason in the Premier League, Collymore was called up to Terry Venables' England squad for the Umbro Cup in June 1995. He made his début at Wembley Stadium against Japan, partnering Alan Shearer in a 2–1 win. He won his second cap as a 90th minute substitute against Brazil. Collymore made his third and final appearance for England as a substitute in a 4–0 win over Moldova during qualification for the 1998 FIFA World Cup. Collymore contributed to his biography \"Stan: Tackling my demons\" with Oliver Holt. In 2005", "id": "3955590" }, { "contents": "Graeme Souness\n\n\nAt £8.2 million, Boumsong was his first big signing and Souness said he would replace Jonathan Woodgate in the Newcastle defence, which had conceded several leads earlier in the season. Newcastle were well aware of Boumsong prior to his move from Auxerre to Rangers on a free transfer. Robson had travelled to France to watch him, but he declined the opportunity to sign Boumsong. Liverpool were also interested in signing Boumsong. Robson's doubts were confirmed when Boumsong marked Alan Shearer in a pre-season game against Rangers. Shearer came", "id": "18029254" }, { "contents": "Saido Berahino\n\n\nrate of a goal every other match, including three to help the team qualify for the European Championship. Berahino has the all-time third-highest goal tally for the England under-21 side with 10 goals in 13 appearances, behind Francis Jeffers and Alan Shearer. On 6 November 2014, England manager Roy Hodgson – who promoted Berahino to the West Bromwich Albion first team in 2011 – named Berahino in his squad for the first time, ahead of a UEFA Euro 2016 qualifying match against Slovenia at Wembley Stadium on the 15th and", "id": "1000466" } ]

[ { "contents": "Tony Adams\n\n\n\"I have some resentment over the way Glenn Hoddle gave the captaincy to Alan Shearer instead of me but I can let that go. I reacted positively. I disagreed with him [Hoddle] and he thought Alan could get more penalties being a centre forward. People know my reaction to that\". Adams continued to play for the national side, however and he finally appeared in a World Cup finals in 1998. His international swansong was England's unsuccessful Euro 2000 campaign. With Shearer retiring from international football after the tournament", "id": "6104102" }, { "contents": "Tony Adams\n\n\nin defence, and after the retirement of Gary Lineker in 1992, Adams unofficially shared the captaincy of England with David Platt, though Adams became England captain outright before Euro 96, as Platt's place in the side became less secure. England reached the semi-finals of Euro 96, before losing on penalties to Germany. When England manager Glenn Hoddle took the Captain's armband from Adams and gave it to Alan Shearer it was a bitter pill for Adams to swallow. Speaking at a fans' forum in 2008 Adams remarked", "id": "6104101" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nThis time, Germany won from the spot; although Shearer scored, his teammate Gareth Southgate missed his kick and England were eliminated. Shearer's five goals made him the competition's top scorer, and together with teammates David Seaman and Steve McManaman, was listed in the official UEFA team of the tournament. The new England manager Glenn Hoddle appointed Shearer captain for the 1998 FIFA World Cup qualifier against Moldova on 1 September 1996, and the player held onto the captaincy after scoring once in that match and twice in the following game", "id": "13592541" }, { "contents": "Dimitar Berbatov\n\n\nhe consequently modelled himself after Marco van Basten, the Dutch forward for that team. However, the 1996 European Championship, held in England, gave Berbatov a new role model; the 15-year-old Berbatov began to look up to the English front man Alan Shearer, who played for Newcastle United. Berbatov's mother later spoke of her son's teenage dream of playing for Newcastle United, and said that his admiration for Shearer was such that, during these years, he slept in a Newcastle shirt. Berbatov began his youth", "id": "3905446" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\n's participation in what was to be Shearer's only World Cup tournament. In September 1999, Shearer scored his only England hat-trick in a UEFA Euro 2000 qualifier against Luxembourg. This helped England reach a play-off against Scotland; England won the game over two legs and in doing so qualified for the European Championships. By now, Shearer was approaching his 30th birthday, and he announced that he intended to retire from international football after the Euro 2000 tournament. Shearer did not score in England's opening 3–2 defeat", "id": "13592544" }, { "contents": "Southampton F.C.\n\n\nwas Alan Shearer, who at the age of 17 scored a hat-trick against Arsenal in a league match in April 1988. Shearer was a first team regular by 1990, and stayed with Southampton until July 1992, when he was sold to Blackburn Rovers for a national record of more than £3 million. He then became the most expensive footballer in the world when Blackburn sold him to Newcastle for £15 million in 1996. He also scored 30 times for England internationally. Southampton were founding members of the Premier League", "id": "3265953" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\ntime to play in England's UEFA European Championship campaign. After Euro 96, Manchester United again sought to sign Shearer, and attempted to enter the battle for his signature. However Manchester United chairman Martin Edwards stated that Blackburn Rovers refused to let Shearer go to Old Trafford. Ultimately Shearer joined his boyhood club: Newcastle United, Manchester United's title rivals. On 30 July 1996, for a world transfer record-breaking £15 million (equivalent to £ million today) Shearer joined his hometown club and league runners-up", "id": "13592519" }, { "contents": "History of the England national football team\n\n\nyear after his last game at club level. Hoddle selected Alan Shearer as captain, replacing Tony Adams, but also brought a number of emerging talents into the squad, including the Manchester United midfield trio of Paul Scholes, Nicky Butt and David Beckham, and central defenders Rio Ferdinand and Sol Campbell. Hoddle oversaw England's qualification for the 1998 World Cup (the first World Cup with 32 teams instead of 24) with a 0–0 draw against Italy at the Stadio Olimpico in Rome, and drew out a winning performance in the", "id": "15089406" }, { "contents": "History of the England national football team\n\n\nthe underwhelming performance at the World Cup, England suffered a poor start to the Euro 2000 qualifying tournament, and there was reported discontent between Hoddle and several senior players, most notably Shearer. Hoddle was dismissed on 2 February 1999, two days after an interview with \"The Sunday Times\" in which he spoke about his belief in reincarnation and claimed that disabled people were paying for sins in a previous life. Under considerable media and public pressure, the FA appointed former captain Kevin Keegan, who only just managed to get England", "id": "15089410" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nagainst Poland. He scored a total of five goals in England's successful qualification campaign for the World Cup, adding strikes against Georgia and away to Poland to his tally. Shearer was sidelined for much of the 1997–98 season, but recovered to play in the World Cup finals. With Michael Owen replacing Teddy Sheringham as Shearer's strike partner, Shearer's return saw him score England's first goal of the tournament, in a 2–0 win over Tunisia, his only goal in the three group matches. England faced long-time", "id": "13592542" }, { "contents": "Newcastle United F.C.\n\n\n. The attacking philosophy of Keegan led to the team being labelled \"The Entertainers\" by Sky Sports. Keegan took Newcastle to two consecutive runners-up finishes in the league in 1995–96 and 1996–97, coming very close to winning the title in the former season. This success was in part due to the talent of players like David Ginola, Les Ferdinand and Alan Shearer, who was signed on 30 July 1996 for a then world record fee of £15 million. Keegan left Newcastle in January 1997 and was replaced by Kenny", "id": "12636363" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nAlan Shearer, CBE, DL (born 13 August 1970) is an English retired footballer. He played as a striker in the top level of English league football for Southampton, Blackburn Rovers, Newcastle United and the England national team. He is Newcastle's and the Premier League's record goalscorer. He was named Football Writers' Association Player of the Year in 1994 and won the PFA Player of the Year award in 1995. In 1996, he was third in the FIFA World Player of the Year awards. In 2004", "id": "13592501" }, { "contents": "Teddy Sheringham\n\n\nmanager Terry Venables (1994–96) Sheringham came to be the preferred strike partner for Alan Shearer. During this time, England had a wealth of strikers with the likes of Andrew Cole, Ian Wright, a young Robbie Fowler and Les Ferdinand all battling to partner Shearer in the England team. The two formed a famous partnership at international level, as they complemented each other's strengths: Shearer the out-and-out goalscorer, big, strong and powerful, Sheringham just 'dropping off' his strike partner, finding spaces", "id": "2997066" }, { "contents": "History of Newcastle United F.C.\n\n\n's title chances for the 1994–95 season, in which they finished sixth. The club, however, continued to build up a reputation for playing attacking football under Keegan. In the 1995–96 season, high-profile foreign stars David Ginola and Faustino Asprilla, in addition to British players Peter Beardsley and striker Les Ferdinand, guided the team to a second-place finish. During the 1996–97 season, Keegan made one signing, securing the services of England striker Alan Shearer for a then-world record transfer fee of £15 million", "id": "6803863" }, { "contents": "1996–97 Newcastle United F.C. season\n\n\n...I think Kevin wanted it free-flowing in all departments and that doesn't necessarily happen.\" Keegan responded to the previous season's disappointment by breaking the world record transfer fee to sign centre forward Alan Shearer from Blackburn Rovers for £15 million. Shearer, whose five goals made him the top scorer in Euro 96, had supported Newcastle since childhood – he had been a ball-boy at St James' Park on the day that Keegan had left in a helicopter after his final Newcastle appearance as a player.", "id": "1207050" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nin the games.\" Shearer captained his school team and helped a Newcastle City Schools team win a seven-a-side tournament at St James' Park, before joining the amateur Wallsend Boys Club as a teenager. It was while playing for the Wallsend club that he was spotted by Southampton's scout, Jack Hixon, which resulted in Shearer spending his summers training with the club's youth team, a time he would later refer to as \"the making of me\". Shearer had successful trials for First Division clubs", "id": "13592505" }, { "contents": "Duncan Shearer\n\n\nFavourites\" during the club's centenary in 2008. However, he was unable to prevent Huddersfield's relegation to the Third Division at the end of the 1987–88 season. Weeks before this, the unrelated English striker Alan Shearer (aged 17) had scored a hat-trick in the First Division for Southampton against Arsenal, a game which Arsenal captain Tony Adams missed through injury. In his autobiography 11 years later, Adams said that he had followed the progress of the game on Ceefax and mistakingly believed that the Shearer who scored", "id": "3716405" }, { "contents": "David Hirst (footballer)\n\n\nHe came on at half-time and within three minutes of the restart he scored his first (and only) England goal. With Gary Lineker injured, he lined up with Alan Shearer against France at Wembley. Bryan Robson said that, \"It's not a question of who will replace Lineker, but who will partner David Hirst\". It became Hirst's third and final England match. Although he was selected for more England squads, injuries kept him out of the team. Manchester United boss Alex Ferguson tried six", "id": "18892949" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nthrough to May due to injury and England's World Cup qualification chances were hit by a run of poor form. Returning to fitness for the 1993–94 season, he scored 31 goals from 40 games as Blackburn finished runners-up in the Premier League. His performances for the club led to him being named the Football Writers' Association Footballer of the Year for that season. On the international scene, England had failed to qualify for the 1994 World Cup finals, but Shearer added three more goals to his international tally before embarking", "id": "13592514" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nfive points out of a possible twenty-four. Shearer did not get the manager's job on permanent basis. Chris Hughton stepped up from the coaching staff to take charge of the quest to get Newcastle back into the Premier League, which was achieved at the first attempt as Newcastle finished top of the Championship in the 2009–10 season. Shearer is married to Lainya, whom he met whilst a Southampton player. The couple lived locally with her parents during Shearer's second year at the south coast club, and were married on", "id": "13592557" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nagainst Portugal, but did so as England defeated Germany 1–0 in Charleroi, ensuring that England beat their European neighbours for the first time since the 1966 World Cup Final. To remain in the tournament, England only required a draw against Romania in the final group match, and Shearer scored a penalty as England went in at half-time 2–1 up, but Romania ultimately won 3–2. England's tournament was over, and so was Shearer's international career. From his 63 caps, he captained the team 34 times and scored", "id": "13592545" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nrecord return which is still unbeaten. The striker's goals at this level, coupled with his club form, meant he was soon promoted to the senior squad by coach Graham Taylor. Marking his debut in the 2–0 win against France in February 1992 with a goal, he made his only appearance for the England B team a month later. Due to replace Gary Lineker, who retired from international action after UEFA Euro 1992, in the England attack, Shearer played only intermittently in the qualifying campaign for the 1994 FIFA World Cup", "id": "13592538" }, { "contents": "1993 Trans-Tasman Test series\n\n\n's Canberra Raiders team mate and New South Wales captain Laurie Daley. The test series took place following the 1993 State of Origin series which was won by NSW. Dale Shearer's performances at fullback for Qld saw him earn a test recall in front of well performed World Cup and NSW fullback Tim Brasher (though Shearer had been selected at centre for all 3 Ashes series tests in 1992 but withdrew from all 3 with injury). Bradley Clyde, who had not played in the Origin series due to injury was also recalled to", "id": "16616631" }, { "contents": "Glenn Hoddle\n\n\nRedknapp resigned, following which Hoddle also left the club. In June 2016, after England's 2–1 loss to Iceland at Euro 2016 and manager Roy Hodgson's subsequent resignation, Harry Redknapp and Alan Shearer both put forward Hoddle as a candidate for the job before Sam Allardyce was appointed. Hoddle has done punditry work since his retirement from coaching. He has worked for ESPN, ITV Sport and BT Sport. Hoddle began working with ESPN during Euro 2012 as a pundit. Since then, he has worked with ITV for the 2014", "id": "8847620" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nhim onto the pitch following the striker's testimonial in May 2006 as he performed a lap of honour at St James' Park. On 6 December 2000, Shearer was given Honorary Freedom of the City of Newcastle upon Tyne, with the citation \"in recognition of his role as captain of Newcastle United Football Club and as former captain of England which have enhanced the reputation of the City\". Shearer was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2001 Queen's Birthday Honours and Commander of the", "id": "13592559" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nhis four years in the Southampton first team, Shearer made a total of 158 appearances in all competitions, scoring 43 goals. Despite making just one goalless appearance as England failed to progress past the Euro 1992 group stages, Shearer was soon subject to an English transfer record-breaking £3.6 million bid from Blackburn Rovers. Although there was also interest from Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson, Blackburn benefactor Jack Walker's millions were enough to prise the striker from the \"Saints\", and Shearer moved north to Ewood Park in the", "id": "13592512" }, { "contents": "Andy Cole\n\n\nof the season to help United win the Premier League title for the third time in four years. He also played in their FA Cup final victory to become part of England's first ever side to win the double twice. Before the 1996–97 season began, Cole had to deal with being offered to Blackburn Rovers as part-exchange in a £12 million deal that would have brought Alan Shearer to Old Trafford, but the offer was rejected and Shearer joined Newcastle instead. Despite Alex Ferguson's clear indication to Cole that he", "id": "9629547" }, { "contents": "Shearer's Bar\n\n\nShearer's Bar is the former name of a sports bar owned by Newcastle United and forming part of St James' Park, the team's stadium in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. It was named in honour of the club's all-time top scorer, Alan Shearer. The bar was renamed Nine in July 2013 by the club, who said that popularity of the venue had \"dwindled\". The bar was opened in December 2004 and became an important part of the features at St James' Park. It is", "id": "15298144" }, { "contents": "Kevin Keegan\n\n\nrelationship between the pair. In April 2003, it was named as Quote of the Decade in the Premier League 10 Seasons Awards and Most Memorable Quote in the 20 Seasons Awards in May 2012. It also appeared in Channel 4's \"100 Greatest Sporting Moments\". Keegan then broke the world transfer fee record by signing Blackburn Rovers and England striker Alan Shearer in July 1996. Shearer, who had been the Premier League's top scorer in the last two seasons, was born in Newcastle and had grown up as a fan", "id": "826455" }, { "contents": "England national football team\n\n\nBetween 1994 and 1996, Terry Venables managed the team. At UEFA Euro 1996, held in England, they equalled their best performance at a European Championship, reaching the semi-finals as they did in 1968, before exiting via a penalty shoot-out loss to Germany. England striker Alan Shearer was the tournament's top scorer with five goals. Venables resigned following investigations into his financial activities. Venables' successor, Glenn Hoddle, similarly left the job for non-footballing reasons after just one international tournament – the 1998", "id": "9748695" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nmiddle of 1992. His first season with Blackburn was mixed – he missed half of it through injury after snapping his right anterior cruciate ligament in a match against Leeds United in December 1992, but scored a prolific 16 goals in the 21 games in which he did feature. Shearer also became a regular in the England team this season and scored his second international goal; it came in a 4–0 1994 FIFA World Cup qualifier win over Turkey in November. The season ended sourly, however, as Shearer was forced to miss January", "id": "13592513" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nover from head coach Chris Hughton who was in temporary charge while the permanent manager Joe Kinnear recovered from heart surgery, having taken ill on 7 February. Shearer stated \"It's a club I love and I don't want them to go down. I'll do everything I can to stop that.\" Shearer was unveiled at a press conference the following day by club managing director Derek Llambias. In explaining his acceptance of a managerial role at Newcastle at this time, Shearer stated that he would not have done this for", "id": "13592552" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nwas being run in the wake of the departure of Kevin Keegan. These reports were denied by the club. Shearer features in EA Sports' \"FIFA\" video game series; he was included in the \"FIFA 15\" Ultimate Team Legends. During his playing days, Shearer had been involved with the children's charity the NSPCC, taking part in the organisation's Full Stop campaign in 1999. Since retiring from football Shearer has also done work for several charities both nationally and in the Newcastle area. In his testimonial match", "id": "13592565" }, { "contents": "2005–06 Newcastle United F.C. season\n\n\n. The fee, £17 million, surpassed Newcastle's previous record of £15 million for Alan Shearer from Blackburn in 1996. In the closing hours of the transfer window, the club re-signed Nolberto Solano from Aston Villa. Souness's decision to pair Shearer and Owen together up front proved to be lethal, but Owen broke his fourth metatarsal bone in his foot after a clash with Paul Robinson in a match against Tottenham Hotspur, keeping him out for the rest of the season. With Owen injured the team's", "id": "18086094" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\ndue to injury and the team failed to reach the competition finals. UEFA Euro 1996 was a more positive experience for both Shearer and England. With England not required to qualify as hosts, Shearer had not scored in 12 games in the 21 months prior, and even his overall goalscoring record for England did not look too impressive so far, with five goals in 23 games. However, he found the net in the 22nd minute of the first game, against Switzerland. Scoring once in the following game against Scotland and twice", "id": "13592539" }, { "contents": "Teddy Sheringham\n\n\nthe 2000 European Championships by then manager Kevin Keegan, but the retirement of Shearer (despite being four years younger than Sheringham) from international football after that tournament and the arrival of new manager Sven-Göran Eriksson in 2001 saw a return to international favour for him. He was often deployed as a tactical substitute late in games by Eriksson, valued for his ability to hold the ball up and create intelligent play. In 2001, Sheringham scored an important goal for England against Greece in a World Cup qualifying match within 15 seconds", "id": "2997070" }, { "contents": "Ruud Gullit\n\n\n, chairman Ken Bates famously said of Gullit, \"I didn't like his arrogance – in fact I never liked him.\" In August 1998, Gullit was named manager of Newcastle United two games into the new league season and reached the 1999 FA Cup Final in his first year. Fans remained supportive despite a poor run of results, although a well-publicised contretemps with the team's top scorer Alan Shearer and captain Robert Lee did not put him in a favourable light. Gullit even refused to assign Lee a squad", "id": "13592616" }, { "contents": "Scott Parker\n\n\ndefeat on 25 March 2006. Later that month he was diagnosed with glandular fever, putting an end to his season. The timing was especially unfortunate for Parker, who had been playing well for Newcastle, as it ended any hopes he may have had of forcing his way into the 2006 FIFA World Cup. In July 2006, he was named Newcastle United's new captain by manager Glenn Roeder, succeeding the retired Alan Shearer. His first goal as captain came against Wigan Athletic on 19 August 2006, in a 2–1 win", "id": "14327157" }, { "contents": "History of football in England\n\n\n. United's main challengers for the title in the Premier League's first few years were Blackburn Rovers, led by star striker Alan Shearer, also won their first league title since World War I in 1994–95, and Newcastle United, who famously conceded a 10-point lead at Christmas to lose the title to United in 1995–96. Newcastle had reached the Premiership in 1993 as Division One champions, and in their first Premiership campaign finished third to qualify for the UEFA Cup. They finished second in 1996 and again in 1997, but by", "id": "3652862" }, { "contents": "1992–93 FA Premier League\n\n\nPremier League as an attempt by the Football Association to \"hijack\" the First Division. Shortly before the season began, newly promoted Blackburn Rovers signed Southampton's 21-year-old England international striker Alan Shearer for a new British record fee variously reported as £3.3 million, £3.4 million, or £3.6 million. Several other players moved for fees of £2 million or more, including Arsenal's David Rocastle, who joined Leeds United, Dean Saunders, who moved from Liverpool to Aston Villa, and Teddy Sheringham, who", "id": "12442383" }, { "contents": "Darren Anderton\n\n\nhappy at the prospect of losing another key player as he had already lost Jürgen Klinsmann and Gheorghe Popescu that summer; and Nick Barmby was on the verge of joining Middlesbrough. Despite missing most of the 1995–96 season through injury, Anderton played an important part in the Euro 96 England team that reached the semi-finals and included players like Paul Gascoigne, Alan Shearer, Steve McManaman and Teddy Sheringham. In the semi final against Germany, the match went to golden goal extra time. Anderton came within inches of putting England into", "id": "4331581" }, { "contents": "Wallsend Boys Club\n\n\nJanuary which damaged one of the walls of the building. Professional players to have played for the club include: The club has had a representative at four of the six FIFA World Cup finals since 1986, with the two exceptions coming in 1994, when the England national football team did not qualify, and 2002. In 1986 and 1990 Peter Beardsley starred for England. In 1998 Alan Shearer was England captain. Michael Carrick made appearances for England in both the 2006 and 2010 tournaments. Fraser Forster was in the 2014 squad but", "id": "21182372" }, { "contents": "Harry Kane\n\n\n\". Clive Allen, who coached him at Tottenham, stated that \"one thing I'd say about him, which unfortunately you don't say about a lot of young footballers, is that he had a passion for the game. He loves football, he loves playing, he loves scoring goals\". His former Tottenham under-21 coach Les Ferdinand likened Kane's movement to their former forward Teddy Sheringham, and the power and accuracy of his shots to Alan Shearer. Kane's style of play has been compared to that of", "id": "1925319" }, { "contents": "Kieron Dyer\n\n\nthat he would soon rejoin for Ipswich. After representing England at Youth, Under 21 and \"B\" level, Dyer's debut for the senior team came on 4 September 1999 when he started in England's 6–0 win against Luxembourg. He was deployed out of position at right back, and was replaced by Gary Neville at half-time after injuring himself while setting up Alan Shearer's third goal of the match. The injury was not serious and he was able to make his second England appearance four days later, coming", "id": "17666181" }, { "contents": "1996–97 Blackburn Rovers F.C. season\n\n\nthe end of the season, when he handed over the reins to Roy Hodgson after Sampdoria's Sven-Göran Eriksson lied about accepting the manager's job and joined Lazio instead. Parkes steered Blackburn to safety as they finished 13th. The world record £15 million sale of striker Alan Shearer to Newcastle United was seen as the biggest factor in Blackburn's lowest top flight finish since they returned to the elite in 1992. However, his strike-partner Chris Sutton helped keep the club alive after recovering from a drastic loss of", "id": "7811146" }, { "contents": "Michael Owen\n\n\nmuch of the campaign as England struggled, with Hoddle being replaced by Kevin Keegan. On 4 September 1999, he scored his first goal at Wembley Stadium in a 6–0 win over Luxembourg. At the finals, Owen scored once in three matches, as England were knocked out at the group stage. After Alan Shearer's retirement, Owen took over as England's senior striker under new manager Sven-Göran Eriksson. He scored six times during 2002 World Cup qualifying, including a hat-trick against Germany at Munich's Olympiastadion", "id": "21886807" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nyet to start the UEFA Pro Licence course, which is required to be permitted to manage a team in the Premier League and European competition. Reflecting his desire for personal time off to \"enjoy life\", in July 2006 he turned down a coaching role with England, citing his BBC commitments and desire to be away from the pressure of a job within football. Despite this, Shearer was often linked in the media with managerial or coaching positions at his three former clubs. Shearer took a brief role in the dugout for", "id": "13592550" }, { "contents": "History of Southampton F.C.\n\n\nappearances for the England national team – he finally retired in 2002 at the age of 33. During his time with the Saints, Le Tissier was approached more than once by several bigger clubs (including Manchester United) but chose to stick with the Saints despite never winning a major trophy or experiencing European football with them. From 1989 to 1992, Le Tissier was regularly partnered up front by another notable player, Alan Shearer, who as a 17-year-old had scored a hat-trick on his Saints debut against Arsenal in", "id": "15948278" }, { "contents": "Sir Bobby Robson Trophy match\n\n\nNewcastle United, picking up on Alan Shearer's reply of \"I know as much as you do,\" to a pre-match question as to whether he would be installed as Newcastle manager for the forthcoming season beginning in 13 days, with the club being up for sale and with the first team without a manager, being in the care of coach Chris Hughton. Neither the Newcastle United owner Mike Ashley or managing director Derek Llambias were in attendance at the charity match. Having left England after Italia '90, Sir", "id": "19612022" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nChancellor Liam Donaldson stated \"Newcastle United are my team. Alan Shearer is more than just a local legend, he's probably one of the greatest footballers of all time\". On 12 September 2016, a statue of Shearer's likeness was unveiled outside St James' Park. It was sculpted by Tom Maley, and paid for by the Shepherd family. After his retirement and following guest appearances, Shearer became a regular pundit for the BBC's \"Match of the Day\". He also formed part of the team which", "id": "13592563" }, { "contents": "Gary McAllister\n\n\ntournament, scoring in a 3–0 win over the CIS. However, Scotland did not qualify from their group. Scotland failed to qualify for the 1994 FIFA World Cup but did qualify for UEFA Euro 1996 in England, with McAllister the captain of the team. Scotland's second match of the group stage was against England at Wembley Stadium. In the second half Scotland, trailing 0–1 to an Alan Shearer goal, were awarded a penalty. McAllister's kick was saved by David Seaman and Scotland lost 0–2. The team won their", "id": "19492391" }, { "contents": "David Seaman\n\n\nEngland's quarter-final against Spain ended scoreless, Seaman saved Miguel Angel Nadal's kick in the shootout to knock Spain out of the tournament. England eventually were eliminated in the semi-final by Germany on penalties,after Andreas Köpke saved the penalty taken by Gareth Southgate. Seaman was named alongside Golden Boot winner Alan Shearer and winger Steve McManaman in the UEFA \"Team of the Tournament\". Euro 96 sponsor Philips named him \"Player of the Tournament\". Seaman remained first choice under the management of Glenn Hoddle for", "id": "7321893" }, { "contents": "1998 FA Cup Final\n\n\nand so has the mixture between the foreign and English players.\" Wenger reserved praise for the goalscorers Overmars (\"a world-class player\") and Anelka (\"Nicolas is very young. But you saw in the second half today what he can do\"), and felt the turning point in the match was Shearer's shot hitting the post. He sympathised with Newcastle, as did his captain, Adams who said afterwards: \"The team and their fans did everything they could out there, but it was", "id": "10844688" }, { "contents": "David McMahon (association footballer)\n\n\nabout the role of striker from watching England international Alan Shearer in training, but likened himself more to Newcastle's Scotland international Duncan Ferguson, \"because I am taller and like to battle for things in the air.\" Brian Kerr, then manager of Ireland under-17s, described McMahon as honest and hard-working, \"not the most skilful player, but will get goals\", but Darlington manager Gary Bennett believed there was more to his game: that he and strike partner John Williams both had enough skill to play a", "id": "5423888" }, { "contents": "Andy Carroll\n\n\nUEFA Euro 2012. He opened the scoring for England with a powerful header in their second group match against Sweden, which England went on to win 3–2. Carroll has been compared to Newcastle's record goalscorer Alan Shearer, Ivory Coast striker Didier Drogba and former Italy forward Christian Vieri. He has also been referred to as a classic centre forward, owing to his strength, powerful shot and excellent heading ability. Former Newcastle manager and Liverpool player Kevin Keegan stated \"he is probably in the top three headers of a ball I", "id": "11961542" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\n-chasing Manchester United. On the opening day of the 1999–2000 season, Shearer received the first red card of his career in his 100th appearance for Newcastle. After dropping Shearer to the bench in a Tyne-Wear derby loss against Sunderland, the unpopular Gullit resigned to be replaced by the 66-year-old Bobby Robson. Despite Gullit giving Shearer the captain's armband, reports of a rift between club captain and manager were rife, Gullit's decision to drop Shearer proved deeply unpopular with fans and his departure capped a dismal start", "id": "13592525" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nAn almost injury-free season helped Shearer improve on his previous year's tally in the 1998–99 season, the striker converting 14 goals in 30 league games and replacing Rob Lee as Newcastle captain, but Newcastle finished 13th again, with Ruud Gullit having replaced Kenny Dalglish just after the season got underway. He also helped Newcastle to a second consecutive FA Cup final and qualification for the following season's UEFA Cup, scoring twice in the semi-final against Tottenham Hotspur, but they once again lost, this time 2–0 to treble", "id": "13592524" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nhis final three games under Glenn Roeder. Shearer had rejected offers of coaching or assistant roles at Newcastle under both the returning Kevin Keegan in February 2008 and Joe Kinnear in November 2008. Shearer had previously had talks about, but never been offered, a full-time manager's role at Newcastle until his appointment on 1 April 2009. In a surprise move, late on 1 April 2009, it was announced that Shearer would become the manager of his former club Newcastle United for the remaining eight games of the season, taking", "id": "13592551" }, { "contents": "Fabio Cannavaro\n\n\nnational team on 22 January 1997, in a friendly match against Northern Ireland. The same year, he earned plaudits for his handling of England striker Alan Shearer in a World Cup qualifying game at Wembley Stadium. Shearer was then considered by the partisan English crowd to be the best striker in the world, and thought he would make fun of the inexperienced Italian defender. Nevertheless, in a display ranking alongside those of the very best Italian defenders Claudio Gentile and Franco Baresi, Cannavaro managed to keep Shearer quiet for the whole game", "id": "3625067" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\n, with media sources claiming that video footage showed him intentionally kicking Neil Lennon in the head following a challenge. The referee of the game took no action against Shearer, and he was then cleared of all charges by the FA, with Lennon giving evidence in the player's defence. Former Football Association chief Graham Kelly, who brought the charges against the player, later claimed in his autobiography that Shearer had threatened to withdraw himself from the 1998 World Cup squad if the charges were upheld, a claim strenuously denied by Shearer.", "id": "13592523" }, { "contents": "History of the Romania national football team\n\n\nminnows Tunisia. Adrian Ilie scored the only goal with a fine chip in their first match against Colombia at Lyon's Stade Gerland. In Toulouse, they met an England side starting with prodigal striker Michael Owen on the bench, with Teddy Sheringham preferred alongside Alan Shearer. A mistake by Tony Adams was punished by Viorel Moldovan, who played for Coventry City, before Owen came on to claim an equalizer. But Romania won with a scrappy late goal from Dan Petrescu, also playing in England with Chelsea, fighting off his club", "id": "16435718" }, { "contents": "John Barnes (footballer)\n\n\nNewcastle United, although an approach had already been made by Harry Redknapp of West Ham; Barnes had agreed in principle to join them until at the final moment Dalglish called him and Barnes changed his mind. In the 1997–98 season Barnes played up front mostly, deputising for Alan Shearer after Shearer was injured for most of the season, and Barnes ended up Newcastle's top league scorer with six goals, which highlighted the Magpies' lack of ability to score in the absence of Shearer and Ferdinand (who had been sold along with", "id": "19616669" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\ncould not find a more iconic person than Alan, not just for what he has done in football but for all the extra work he tirelessly does for charity and communities. I am delighted he has accepted the role of Deputy Lieutenant because he is a real role model. I have promised him he is not going to have to do too much, but even if it is just one occasion a year he is the perfect choice\" On 7 December 2009, Shearer was made a Doctor of Civil Law by Newcastle University.", "id": "13592562" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nLaw of Northumbria and Newcastle Universities. Shearer was born in Gosforth, Newcastle, in 1970 to working-class parents Alan and Anne Shearer. His father, a sheet-metal worker, encouraged a keen Shearer to play football in his youth, and the young player continued with the sport as he progressed through school. He was educated at Gosforth Central Middle School and Gosforth High School. Growing up playing on the streets of his hometown, he originally played in midfield because \"it meant [he] could get more involved", "id": "13592504" }, { "contents": "Paul Kitson\n\n\n. Newcastle finished second that season after being overhauled in the second half campaign by a Manchester United side who sealed the title by a five-point margin barely four months after Newcastle had led by 10 points, but Kitson's part in Newcastle's exciting though ultimately disappointing campaign had been minimal as he had played just seven league games and scored twice. But he remained loyal to the Magpies even after another blow at the end of July 1996 – the arrival of £15 million world record signing Alan Shearer. He managed three", "id": "19054464" }, { "contents": "Ray Harford\n\n\nthe Premier League for much of the season. During the summer of 1996, Alan Shearer was sold to Newcastle United for a then world record fee of £15 million, and Harford failed to adequately replace him. Harford stated that \"I'm told we need a big name. Engelbert Humperdinck is a big name but it doesn't mean he can play football.\" The 1996–97 season also started badly for Blackburn. They failed to win any of their first ten games and were knocked out of the League Cup by Division", "id": "5365351" }, { "contents": "Patrick Kluivert\n\n\nagain featured for Barca in a legends game against Uganda all stars where he, in lobbing the ball, scored an amazing goal. Kluivert joined Newcastle United on a free transfer in July 2004. He stated that his reasons for joining Newcastle was due to the overwhelming reaction he received whilst playing for Barcelona against Newcastle during a pre season friendly as well as teaming up with Newcastle's star players such as Alan Shearer. Kluivert scored some classy and crucial goals at and away from St James's Park namely in winning strikes against both", "id": "21654890" }, { "contents": "Duncan Shearer\n\n\nbetween 1994 and 1995, scoring two goals including an important opening strike in an away win over Finland which helped the national side qualify for Euro 96, although Shearer did not make the squad for that tournament. The senior team was his first experience of international football, having never played at any age-group level. He achieved a childhood ambition when he played in the national team alongside John McGinlay, a childhood friend also from Fort William. In season 1999–00 he began to concentrate more on coaching than playing, and was", "id": "3716411" }, { "contents": "Les Ferdinand\n\n\nscored 50 goals in only 84 games at Newcastle, forming a successful partnership with Alan Shearer. He was and indeed is still very highly thought of by Newcastle United. Ferdinand received a standing ovation when he returned to St. James' Park as a Tottenham player, trying to put Alan Shearer's number 9 shirt on to complete a lap of honour, he broke down in tears and could only manage to put the shirt on inside out and back to front before being helped from the field. Ferdinand returned again, when he", "id": "2996528" }, { "contents": "David Platt (footballer)\n\n\nTurkey, San Marino, the Netherlands and Norway. The qualifiers began at home to Norway. England dominated the game and Platt carried the goal threat, with Alan Shearer and Ian Wright struggling to find form. He scored the opening goal after an hour. England dominated the remainder of the game and were unlucky to concede to a long-range shot from Kjetil Rekdal. Platt continued his drive from midfield in wins over Turkey at home (4-0) and San Marino (6-0). Platt scored four", "id": "16718350" }, { "contents": "Jason Wilcox\n\n\n-pound investments of Jack Walker. He played an important part in the title-winning Blackburn team of 1995. Playing on the left flank with attacking fullback Graeme Le Saux behind him and Stuart Ripley on the opposite flank, they forged a strong attacking line-up with Alan Shearer and Chris Sutton. International recognition was harder to come by for Wilcox and he managed only 3 international caps despite his effective partnership with Shearer, Le Saux and Tim Sherwood. Lengthy injury problems restricted his effectiveness in subsequent seasons and, after experiencing", "id": "14527253" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nclub's form, and Newcastle finished just 13th in the Premier League. However, United (now managed by Shearer's old boss at Blackburn, Kenny Dalglish) had a good run in the FA Cup; Shearer scored the winning goal in a semi-final victory over Sheffield United as the team reached the final. The team were unable to get on the scoresheet at Wembley, and lost the game 2–0 to Arsenal. An incident during a game against Leicester City in the league saw Shearer charged with misconduct by the FA", "id": "13592522" }, { "contents": "Aleksandar Mitrović (footballer)\n\n\nhim the competition's top scorer, and 28 in all competitions. On 22 March 2015, he scored the team's only goal in the 2–1 Belgian Cup Final loss to Club Brugge KV in Brussels. On 21 July 2015, Mitrović joined Newcastle United on a five-year contract for a reported £13 million, saying he hoped to be able to play like club legend Alan Shearer. He made his debut on 9 August as Newcastle began the season with a 2–2 draw against Southampton at St James' Park, playing", "id": "20923735" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nWest Bromwich Albion, Manchester City and Newcastle United, before being offered a youth contract with Southampton in April 1986. Shearer was promoted to the first team after spending two years with the youth squad. He made his professional debut for Southampton on 26 March 1988, coming on as a substitute in a First Division fixture at Chelsea, before prompting national headlines in his full debut at The Dell two weeks later. He scored a hat-trick, helping the team to a 4–2 victory against Arsenal, thus becoming the youngest player", "id": "13592506" }, { "contents": "James Milner\n\n\ndo what was \"in the club's best interest\" and in July 2004, he agreed a five-year contract with Newcastle. Milner made his first appearance for Newcastle United during their pre-season tour of Asia, scoring his first goal for the club in a 1–1 draw against Kitchee, in Hong Kong. During this tour, he took the opportunity to observe how Newcastle striker Alan Shearer dealt with attention from fans and the media. He said that his association with people like Shearer gave him a better idea of", "id": "1860603" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nretain the ball and provide opportunities for teammates. Playing as a lone striker between wide men, Rod Wallace and Matt Le Tissier, Shearer scored three goals in 26 appearances in the 1989–90 season, and in the next, four goals in 36 games. His performances in the centre of the \"Saints\" attack were soon recognised by the fans, who voted him their Player of the Year for 1991. In the middle of 1991, Shearer was a member of the England national under-21 football squad in the Toulon Tournament in Toulon", "id": "13592508" }, { "contents": "Teddy Sheringham\n\n\n, creating play and providing key passes, forming the link between Shearer and the England midfield. The pairing came to be known as 'The SAS' ('Shearer and Sheringham') and their most successful time together came in the 1996 European Championships, held in England. Their most famous contribution was in the 4–1 victory over the Netherlands, a game in the opening group stages in which they both scored twice against one of the strongest teams in the tournament. Though England were eventually knocked out in the semi-finals", "id": "2997067" }, { "contents": "History of the England national football team\n\n\ninto Euro 2000 after a 2–1 aggregate playoff win over Scotland. At the finals in Belgium and the Netherlands, a lacklustre England failed to get beyond the group stage, losing to both Portugal and Romania after leading in each game. After England's exit, Alan Shearer retired from international football, he had announced his intentions before the tournament, and no-one could persuade him to change his mind. On 7 October 2000, shortly after losing the opening World Cup qualifier to Germany in the last-ever game at Wembley", "id": "15089411" }, { "contents": "Premier League 10 Seasons Awards\n\n\nrepresented, with five players. The teams were as follows: English striker Alan Shearer was named Domestic Player of the Decade in the main 10 Seasons awards announcements, in addition to being given the Outstanding Contribution to the FA Premier League award. Two weeks later he was also named as the Overall Player of the Decade. In the first decade, Shearer played for Blackburn Rovers, and then Newcastle United. Shearer has been described as a classic English centre-forward with great shooting power, a single-minded striker who could", "id": "11856460" }, { "contents": "Wartime League\n\n\narguments debate that a player who exceeds one's record through their wartime matches should nonetheless be seen as the club's highest goal scorer or appearance having been part of the team's squad even if only for a short time. The most recent argument relates to the goal-difference between Jackie Milburn's and Alan Shearer's Newcastle United goal-scoring records. When counting Jackie's wartime matches, he scored a total of 238 professional goals for Newcastle United FC. In May 2005, Alan Shearer finished his career at 206 goals", "id": "17626256" }, { "contents": "Jon Dahl Tomasson\n\n\nas the perfect link-up player to England national team striker Alan Shearer. The partnership initially worked well, with Tomasson impressing during a pre-season friendly tournament in the Republic of Ireland. However, a career threatening injury to Shearer, combined with the controversial transfer of popular striker Les Ferdinand to Tottenham Hotspur, meant that Tomasson was moved from his traditional attacking midfield position to that of striker. He struggled to adapt to his new position on the field, and to the English game, due to his lack of physical", "id": "19324628" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\ncovered the World Cups and European Championships from 2006 onwards for the BBC. Former Newcastle chairman Freddy Shepherd announced that, after Shearer finished the 2005–06 season as Newcastle's caretaker assistant manager, he would become the club's \"Sporting Ambassador\" for the 2006–07 season. However, in September 2008, it was reported that Shearer was removed from this largely honorary position by the club's owner Mike Ashley, despite protests from players such as Steven Taylor and Damien Duff, due to Shearer's criticism of the way in which the club", "id": "13592564" }, { "contents": "1998 FA Cup Final\n\n\nthe final that Bergkamp had resumed training and \"medically he looked all right\", but the player received a further setback when he suffered a reaction to his hamstring. He ruled himself out of the match and told reporters: \"I'm very disappointed. As a little boy in Holland I always watched the FA Cup final. And I used to dream about playing in it myself one day.\" Ian Wright was listed as Bergkamp's probable replacement to partner Anelka. Newcastle had their own issues surrounding Shearer. The England", "id": "10844676" }, { "contents": "2008–09 in English football\n\n\n's surprise resignation in December; whilst their final points tally wasn't spectacular, they had the satisfaction of being the top North-East team in football after both Middlesbrough and Newcastle United were relegated, ending 11 and 16 year spells in the top flight respectively, the latter going through four managers in Kevin Keegan, Joe Kinnear, Chris Hughton and even former striker Alan Shearer during the campaign. Despite a brilliant start to the season which saw them as high as third place in October, Hull City won just 1 of their", "id": "1311754" }, { "contents": "1996 FA Charity Shield\n\n\nfrom Eric Cantona, Nicky Butt, David Beckham and Roy Keane. The game saw new signings Jordi Cruyff and Karel Poborský make their debuts for Manchester United, though neither of these players had particularly successful careers at Old Trafford and both had left the club within four years. The day before the game had seen the surprise sale of one of Manchester United's longest serving players — Lee Sharpe. The game saw Newcastle United give a debut to £15 million world record signing Alan Shearer, who would remain at the club until", "id": "2797098" }, { "contents": "UEFA Euro 2016 knockout phase\n\n\nsection begin=g6 /section end=g6 / section begin=g7 /section end=g7 / The match has been described as one of England's worst defeats ever. Former footballer and Talksport presenter Stan Collymore, who was commentating on the game, panned the England team, reserving special criticism for goalkeeper Joe Hart and captain Wayne Rooney. Former England international and BBC Sport pundit Alan Shearer described it as the worst performance he had ever seen from an England team. The defeat was called England's most shocking since losing 1–0 to", "id": "11344909" }, { "contents": "Maurice E. Shearer\n\n\nApplication at Annapolis, Maryland, with classmates Holland Smith, Ralph S. Keyser and Andrew B. Drum. In July, Shearer sailed for duty to be the commander of the 35 man Marine detachment on Midway Island. In May 1908, he was selected for promotion to first lieutenant and to the rank of captain in June 1916. During World War I, forces under Major Shearer's command made an attack on Belleau Wood, finally clearing that forest of Germans. On 26 June 1918, he sent a now famous report: \"", "id": "8315540" }, { "contents": "Newcastle upon Tyne\n\n\nF.C. became Football League members in 1893. They have won four top division titles (the first in 1905 and the most recent in 1927), six FA Cups (the first in 1910 and the most recent in 1955) and the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup in 1969. They broke the world transfer record in 1996 by paying £15 million for Blackburn Rovers and England striker Alan Shearer, one of the most prolific goalscorers of that era. In 2017 Newcastle was the venue for the 2017 Freedom City festival. The 2017", "id": "20529704" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\ngame and came off the bench to score a penalty, helping Newcastle win the game 3–2. The match was a sell-out, and saw Shearer perform a lap of honour at the end with his family, with his young son notably covering his ears due to the volume of noise produced by the crowd in tribute. Shearer's international career began in 1990 when he was handed a callup to the England under-21 squad under Dave Sexton. During his time with the squad, he scored 13 times in 11 games, a", "id": "13592537" }, { "contents": "2011–12 Cardiff City F.C. season\n\n\nserving manager in the Championship having held his post since May 2005. The club held talks with former England and Newcastle United captain Alan Shearer to replace Jones but he rejected the job despite stating that he was impressed with the \"vision, ambition and determination of the owner Dato Chan Tien Ghee and the board\". The \"Bluebirds\" instead approached Championship rivals Watford for permission to speak to their manager Malky Mackay, which was initially rejected. However, after the two clubs agreed a compensation fee, Mackay was officially appointed as", "id": "7599659" }, { "contents": "Kevin Keegan\n\n\nto Michael Owen, stating, \"He's not scared to give his opinion when he's right, and he's not scared to say what he feels. He's a tremendous professional, and he trains properly every day.\" Keegan announced on 22 January that he and Alan Shearer held talks about the two linking up with Shearer as his assistant, but decided against the idea, leaving the door open for him to take other roles he was interested in. Keegan's first eight games back at Newcastle passed without a", "id": "826473" }, { "contents": "Transfer (association football)\n\n\n£3.6 million Alan Shearer moved to Blackburn Rovers from Southampton, a decade after the world's first £3 million transfer. Lentini's transfer remained intact the world record fee for the next four years, although the national record was broken more than once in many countries including England. Shearer's £3.6million record fee was narrowly eclipsed 12 months later when Manchester United signed Roy Keane from Nottingham Forest for £3.75 million. In 1994, Blackburn Rovers paid a record £5 million for Chris Sutton from Norwich City, a decade", "id": "11200095" }, { "contents": "Roy Hodgson\n\n\nagainst Costa Rica to finish bottom of Group D. Hodgson named Rooney as the new captain of England in August 2014, following the retirement of Steven Gerrard from international football. Hodgson's first match after the World Cup was a 1–0 win against Norway in an international friendly match at Wembley on 3 September 2014. During the match, England made only two shots on target. Hodgson was infuriated when asked about this, describing the statistic as \"fucking bollocks\". Former England player, Alan Shearer, admitted that the match was so", "id": "12858624" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nto the season. The animosity between Shearer and Gullit was later confirmed by the latter, who reported telling the striker that he was \"...the most overrated player I have ever seen.\" Ironically, Robson had tried to sign Shearer for Barcelona in 1997, making a bid of £20million which would have seen Shearer break the world's transfer fee record for the second time in 12 months. However, then Newcastle manager Kenny Dalglish rejected the offer. In Robson's first match in charge, Shearer scored five goals in", "id": "13592526" }, { "contents": "Premier League 10 Seasons Awards\n\n\nin his talks with Alex Ferguson, he could not guarantee that Eric Cantona the Overseas Player of the Decade could be persuaded to let Shearer take penalty kicks. Shearer gained a second PFA Players' Player of the Year Award in April 1997, becoming just the second player to have received the PFA award twice, after Mark Hughes. After the 2000 European Championships, Shearer had retired from international football with England, having been England captain since 1998, and having made his senior début in 1992. Shearer was awarded the OBE in", "id": "11856465" }, { "contents": "Emile Heskey\n\n\nthe two matches, with former England international Alan Shearer commenting, \"Never in a million years did I expect to be discussing whether Emile Heskey should keep his place ahead of Wayne Rooney but the Wigan striker was outstanding over both matches.\" Heskey was called into manager Fabio Capello's first squad against Switzerland, but had to withdraw due to an injury. He was called into the squad for a friendly against the Czech Republic in August 2008 and came on as a 46th-minute substitute, in a match that finished 2–2", "id": "174986" }, { "contents": "Habib Beye\n\n\nUEFA Cup Final, a run which involved him putting in a star performance as a central defender against (his now former team) Newcastle United, where he was particularly effective against Newcastle's talisman striker Alan Shearer. He ended up on the losing side as Marseille lost the final to Valencia 2–0. He was also a beaten finalist in the 2006 French Cup against former club Paris Saint-Germain, a match which his team lost 2–1, and again in 2007 when his Marseille team lost on penalties to FC Sochaux. His", "id": "16217445" }, { "contents": "Stan Collymore\n\n\nseason in the Premier League, Collymore was called up to Terry Venables' England squad for the Umbro Cup in June 1995. He made his début at Wembley Stadium against Japan, partnering Alan Shearer in a 2–1 win. He won his second cap as a 90th minute substitute against Brazil. Collymore made his third and final appearance for England as a substitute in a 4–0 win over Moldova during qualification for the 1998 FIFA World Cup. Collymore contributed to his biography \"Stan: Tackling my demons\" with Oliver Holt. In 2005", "id": "3955590" }, { "contents": "Graeme Souness\n\n\nAt £8.2 million, Boumsong was his first big signing and Souness said he would replace Jonathan Woodgate in the Newcastle defence, which had conceded several leads earlier in the season. Newcastle were well aware of Boumsong prior to his move from Auxerre to Rangers on a free transfer. Robson had travelled to France to watch him, but he declined the opportunity to sign Boumsong. Liverpool were also interested in signing Boumsong. Robson's doubts were confirmed when Boumsong marked Alan Shearer in a pre-season game against Rangers. Shearer came", "id": "18029254" }, { "contents": "Saido Berahino\n\n\nrate of a goal every other match, including three to help the team qualify for the European Championship. Berahino has the all-time third-highest goal tally for the England under-21 side with 10 goals in 13 appearances, behind Francis Jeffers and Alan Shearer. On 6 November 2014, England manager Roy Hodgson – who promoted Berahino to the West Bromwich Albion first team in 2011 – named Berahino in his squad for the first time, ahead of a UEFA Euro 2016 qualifying match against Slovenia at Wembley Stadium on the 15th and", "id": "1000466" } ]

[ { "contents": "Tony Adams\n\n\n\"I have some resentment over the way Glenn Hoddle gave the captaincy to Alan Shearer instead of me but I can let that go. I reacted positively. I disagreed with him [Hoddle] and he thought Alan could get more penalties being a centre forward. People know my reaction to that\". Adams continued to play for the national side, however and he finally appeared in a World Cup finals in 1998. His international swansong was England's unsuccessful Euro 2000 campaign. With Shearer retiring from international football after the tournament", "id": "6104102" }, { "contents": "Tony Adams\n\n\nin defence, and after the retirement of Gary Lineker in 1992, Adams unofficially shared the captaincy of England with David Platt, though Adams became England captain outright before Euro 96, as Platt's place in the side became less secure. England reached the semi-finals of Euro 96, before losing on penalties to Germany. When England manager Glenn Hoddle took the Captain's armband from Adams and gave it to Alan Shearer it was a bitter pill for Adams to swallow. Speaking at a fans' forum in 2008 Adams remarked", "id": "6104101" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nThis time, Germany won from the spot; although Shearer scored, his teammate Gareth Southgate missed his kick and England were eliminated. Shearer's five goals made him the competition's top scorer, and together with teammates David Seaman and Steve McManaman, was listed in the official UEFA team of the tournament. The new England manager Glenn Hoddle appointed Shearer captain for the 1998 FIFA World Cup qualifier against Moldova on 1 September 1996, and the player held onto the captaincy after scoring once in that match and twice in the following game", "id": "13592541" }, { "contents": "Dimitar Berbatov\n\n\nhe consequently modelled himself after Marco van Basten, the Dutch forward for that team. However, the 1996 European Championship, held in England, gave Berbatov a new role model; the 15-year-old Berbatov began to look up to the English front man Alan Shearer, who played for Newcastle United. Berbatov's mother later spoke of her son's teenage dream of playing for Newcastle United, and said that his admiration for Shearer was such that, during these years, he slept in a Newcastle shirt. Berbatov began his youth", "id": "3905446" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\n's participation in what was to be Shearer's only World Cup tournament. In September 1999, Shearer scored his only England hat-trick in a UEFA Euro 2000 qualifier against Luxembourg. This helped England reach a play-off against Scotland; England won the game over two legs and in doing so qualified for the European Championships. By now, Shearer was approaching his 30th birthday, and he announced that he intended to retire from international football after the Euro 2000 tournament. Shearer did not score in England's opening 3–2 defeat", "id": "13592544" }, { "contents": "Southampton F.C.\n\n\nwas Alan Shearer, who at the age of 17 scored a hat-trick against Arsenal in a league match in April 1988. Shearer was a first team regular by 1990, and stayed with Southampton until July 1992, when he was sold to Blackburn Rovers for a national record of more than £3 million. He then became the most expensive footballer in the world when Blackburn sold him to Newcastle for £15 million in 1996. He also scored 30 times for England internationally. Southampton were founding members of the Premier League", "id": "3265953" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\ntime to play in England's UEFA European Championship campaign. After Euro 96, Manchester United again sought to sign Shearer, and attempted to enter the battle for his signature. However Manchester United chairman Martin Edwards stated that Blackburn Rovers refused to let Shearer go to Old Trafford. Ultimately Shearer joined his boyhood club: Newcastle United, Manchester United's title rivals. On 30 July 1996, for a world transfer record-breaking £15 million (equivalent to £ million today) Shearer joined his hometown club and league runners-up", "id": "13592519" }, { "contents": "History of the England national football team\n\n\nyear after his last game at club level. Hoddle selected Alan Shearer as captain, replacing Tony Adams, but also brought a number of emerging talents into the squad, including the Manchester United midfield trio of Paul Scholes, Nicky Butt and David Beckham, and central defenders Rio Ferdinand and Sol Campbell. Hoddle oversaw England's qualification for the 1998 World Cup (the first World Cup with 32 teams instead of 24) with a 0–0 draw against Italy at the Stadio Olimpico in Rome, and drew out a winning performance in the", "id": "15089406" }, { "contents": "History of the England national football team\n\n\nthe underwhelming performance at the World Cup, England suffered a poor start to the Euro 2000 qualifying tournament, and there was reported discontent between Hoddle and several senior players, most notably Shearer. Hoddle was dismissed on 2 February 1999, two days after an interview with \"The Sunday Times\" in which he spoke about his belief in reincarnation and claimed that disabled people were paying for sins in a previous life. Under considerable media and public pressure, the FA appointed former captain Kevin Keegan, who only just managed to get England", "id": "15089410" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nagainst Poland. He scored a total of five goals in England's successful qualification campaign for the World Cup, adding strikes against Georgia and away to Poland to his tally. Shearer was sidelined for much of the 1997–98 season, but recovered to play in the World Cup finals. With Michael Owen replacing Teddy Sheringham as Shearer's strike partner, Shearer's return saw him score England's first goal of the tournament, in a 2–0 win over Tunisia, his only goal in the three group matches. England faced long-time", "id": "13592542" }, { "contents": "Newcastle United F.C.\n\n\n. The attacking philosophy of Keegan led to the team being labelled \"The Entertainers\" by Sky Sports. Keegan took Newcastle to two consecutive runners-up finishes in the league in 1995–96 and 1996–97, coming very close to winning the title in the former season. This success was in part due to the talent of players like David Ginola, Les Ferdinand and Alan Shearer, who was signed on 30 July 1996 for a then world record fee of £15 million. Keegan left Newcastle in January 1997 and was replaced by Kenny", "id": "12636363" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nAlan Shearer, CBE, DL (born 13 August 1970) is an English retired footballer. He played as a striker in the top level of English league football for Southampton, Blackburn Rovers, Newcastle United and the England national team. He is Newcastle's and the Premier League's record goalscorer. He was named Football Writers' Association Player of the Year in 1994 and won the PFA Player of the Year award in 1995. In 1996, he was third in the FIFA World Player of the Year awards. In 2004", "id": "13592501" }, { "contents": "Teddy Sheringham\n\n\nmanager Terry Venables (1994–96) Sheringham came to be the preferred strike partner for Alan Shearer. During this time, England had a wealth of strikers with the likes of Andrew Cole, Ian Wright, a young Robbie Fowler and Les Ferdinand all battling to partner Shearer in the England team. The two formed a famous partnership at international level, as they complemented each other's strengths: Shearer the out-and-out goalscorer, big, strong and powerful, Sheringham just 'dropping off' his strike partner, finding spaces", "id": "2997066" }, { "contents": "History of Newcastle United F.C.\n\n\n's title chances for the 1994–95 season, in which they finished sixth. The club, however, continued to build up a reputation for playing attacking football under Keegan. In the 1995–96 season, high-profile foreign stars David Ginola and Faustino Asprilla, in addition to British players Peter Beardsley and striker Les Ferdinand, guided the team to a second-place finish. During the 1996–97 season, Keegan made one signing, securing the services of England striker Alan Shearer for a then-world record transfer fee of £15 million", "id": "6803863" }, { "contents": "1996–97 Newcastle United F.C. season\n\n\n...I think Kevin wanted it free-flowing in all departments and that doesn't necessarily happen.\" Keegan responded to the previous season's disappointment by breaking the world record transfer fee to sign centre forward Alan Shearer from Blackburn Rovers for £15 million. Shearer, whose five goals made him the top scorer in Euro 96, had supported Newcastle since childhood – he had been a ball-boy at St James' Park on the day that Keegan had left in a helicopter after his final Newcastle appearance as a player.", "id": "1207050" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nin the games.\" Shearer captained his school team and helped a Newcastle City Schools team win a seven-a-side tournament at St James' Park, before joining the amateur Wallsend Boys Club as a teenager. It was while playing for the Wallsend club that he was spotted by Southampton's scout, Jack Hixon, which resulted in Shearer spending his summers training with the club's youth team, a time he would later refer to as \"the making of me\". Shearer had successful trials for First Division clubs", "id": "13592505" }, { "contents": "Duncan Shearer\n\n\nFavourites\" during the club's centenary in 2008. However, he was unable to prevent Huddersfield's relegation to the Third Division at the end of the 1987–88 season. Weeks before this, the unrelated English striker Alan Shearer (aged 17) had scored a hat-trick in the First Division for Southampton against Arsenal, a game which Arsenal captain Tony Adams missed through injury. In his autobiography 11 years later, Adams said that he had followed the progress of the game on Ceefax and mistakingly believed that the Shearer who scored", "id": "3716405" }, { "contents": "David Hirst (footballer)\n\n\nHe came on at half-time and within three minutes of the restart he scored his first (and only) England goal. With Gary Lineker injured, he lined up with Alan Shearer against France at Wembley. Bryan Robson said that, \"It's not a question of who will replace Lineker, but who will partner David Hirst\". It became Hirst's third and final England match. Although he was selected for more England squads, injuries kept him out of the team. Manchester United boss Alex Ferguson tried six", "id": "18892949" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nthrough to May due to injury and England's World Cup qualification chances were hit by a run of poor form. Returning to fitness for the 1993–94 season, he scored 31 goals from 40 games as Blackburn finished runners-up in the Premier League. His performances for the club led to him being named the Football Writers' Association Footballer of the Year for that season. On the international scene, England had failed to qualify for the 1994 World Cup finals, but Shearer added three more goals to his international tally before embarking", "id": "13592514" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nfive points out of a possible twenty-four. Shearer did not get the manager's job on permanent basis. Chris Hughton stepped up from the coaching staff to take charge of the quest to get Newcastle back into the Premier League, which was achieved at the first attempt as Newcastle finished top of the Championship in the 2009–10 season. Shearer is married to Lainya, whom he met whilst a Southampton player. The couple lived locally with her parents during Shearer's second year at the south coast club, and were married on", "id": "13592557" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nagainst Portugal, but did so as England defeated Germany 1–0 in Charleroi, ensuring that England beat their European neighbours for the first time since the 1966 World Cup Final. To remain in the tournament, England only required a draw against Romania in the final group match, and Shearer scored a penalty as England went in at half-time 2–1 up, but Romania ultimately won 3–2. England's tournament was over, and so was Shearer's international career. From his 63 caps, he captained the team 34 times and scored", "id": "13592545" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nrecord return which is still unbeaten. The striker's goals at this level, coupled with his club form, meant he was soon promoted to the senior squad by coach Graham Taylor. Marking his debut in the 2–0 win against France in February 1992 with a goal, he made his only appearance for the England B team a month later. Due to replace Gary Lineker, who retired from international action after UEFA Euro 1992, in the England attack, Shearer played only intermittently in the qualifying campaign for the 1994 FIFA World Cup", "id": "13592538" }, { "contents": "1993 Trans-Tasman Test series\n\n\n's Canberra Raiders team mate and New South Wales captain Laurie Daley. The test series took place following the 1993 State of Origin series which was won by NSW. Dale Shearer's performances at fullback for Qld saw him earn a test recall in front of well performed World Cup and NSW fullback Tim Brasher (though Shearer had been selected at centre for all 3 Ashes series tests in 1992 but withdrew from all 3 with injury). Bradley Clyde, who had not played in the Origin series due to injury was also recalled to", "id": "16616631" }, { "contents": "Glenn Hoddle\n\n\nRedknapp resigned, following which Hoddle also left the club. In June 2016, after England's 2–1 loss to Iceland at Euro 2016 and manager Roy Hodgson's subsequent resignation, Harry Redknapp and Alan Shearer both put forward Hoddle as a candidate for the job before Sam Allardyce was appointed. Hoddle has done punditry work since his retirement from coaching. He has worked for ESPN, ITV Sport and BT Sport. Hoddle began working with ESPN during Euro 2012 as a pundit. Since then, he has worked with ITV for the 2014", "id": "8847620" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nhim onto the pitch following the striker's testimonial in May 2006 as he performed a lap of honour at St James' Park. On 6 December 2000, Shearer was given Honorary Freedom of the City of Newcastle upon Tyne, with the citation \"in recognition of his role as captain of Newcastle United Football Club and as former captain of England which have enhanced the reputation of the City\". Shearer was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2001 Queen's Birthday Honours and Commander of the", "id": "13592559" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nhis four years in the Southampton first team, Shearer made a total of 158 appearances in all competitions, scoring 43 goals. Despite making just one goalless appearance as England failed to progress past the Euro 1992 group stages, Shearer was soon subject to an English transfer record-breaking £3.6 million bid from Blackburn Rovers. Although there was also interest from Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson, Blackburn benefactor Jack Walker's millions were enough to prise the striker from the \"Saints\", and Shearer moved north to Ewood Park in the", "id": "13592512" }, { "contents": "Andy Cole\n\n\nof the season to help United win the Premier League title for the third time in four years. He also played in their FA Cup final victory to become part of England's first ever side to win the double twice. Before the 1996–97 season began, Cole had to deal with being offered to Blackburn Rovers as part-exchange in a £12 million deal that would have brought Alan Shearer to Old Trafford, but the offer was rejected and Shearer joined Newcastle instead. Despite Alex Ferguson's clear indication to Cole that he", "id": "9629547" }, { "contents": "Shearer's Bar\n\n\nShearer's Bar is the former name of a sports bar owned by Newcastle United and forming part of St James' Park, the team's stadium in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. It was named in honour of the club's all-time top scorer, Alan Shearer. The bar was renamed Nine in July 2013 by the club, who said that popularity of the venue had \"dwindled\". The bar was opened in December 2004 and became an important part of the features at St James' Park. It is", "id": "15298144" }, { "contents": "Kevin Keegan\n\n\nrelationship between the pair. In April 2003, it was named as Quote of the Decade in the Premier League 10 Seasons Awards and Most Memorable Quote in the 20 Seasons Awards in May 2012. It also appeared in Channel 4's \"100 Greatest Sporting Moments\". Keegan then broke the world transfer fee record by signing Blackburn Rovers and England striker Alan Shearer in July 1996. Shearer, who had been the Premier League's top scorer in the last two seasons, was born in Newcastle and had grown up as a fan", "id": "826455" }, { "contents": "England national football team\n\n\nBetween 1994 and 1996, Terry Venables managed the team. At UEFA Euro 1996, held in England, they equalled their best performance at a European Championship, reaching the semi-finals as they did in 1968, before exiting via a penalty shoot-out loss to Germany. England striker Alan Shearer was the tournament's top scorer with five goals. Venables resigned following investigations into his financial activities. Venables' successor, Glenn Hoddle, similarly left the job for non-footballing reasons after just one international tournament – the 1998", "id": "9748695" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nmiddle of 1992. His first season with Blackburn was mixed – he missed half of it through injury after snapping his right anterior cruciate ligament in a match against Leeds United in December 1992, but scored a prolific 16 goals in the 21 games in which he did feature. Shearer also became a regular in the England team this season and scored his second international goal; it came in a 4–0 1994 FIFA World Cup qualifier win over Turkey in November. The season ended sourly, however, as Shearer was forced to miss January", "id": "13592513" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nover from head coach Chris Hughton who was in temporary charge while the permanent manager Joe Kinnear recovered from heart surgery, having taken ill on 7 February. Shearer stated \"It's a club I love and I don't want them to go down. I'll do everything I can to stop that.\" Shearer was unveiled at a press conference the following day by club managing director Derek Llambias. In explaining his acceptance of a managerial role at Newcastle at this time, Shearer stated that he would not have done this for", "id": "13592552" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nwas being run in the wake of the departure of Kevin Keegan. These reports were denied by the club. Shearer features in EA Sports' \"FIFA\" video game series; he was included in the \"FIFA 15\" Ultimate Team Legends. During his playing days, Shearer had been involved with the children's charity the NSPCC, taking part in the organisation's Full Stop campaign in 1999. Since retiring from football Shearer has also done work for several charities both nationally and in the Newcastle area. In his testimonial match", "id": "13592565" }, { "contents": "2005–06 Newcastle United F.C. season\n\n\n. The fee, £17 million, surpassed Newcastle's previous record of £15 million for Alan Shearer from Blackburn in 1996. In the closing hours of the transfer window, the club re-signed Nolberto Solano from Aston Villa. Souness's decision to pair Shearer and Owen together up front proved to be lethal, but Owen broke his fourth metatarsal bone in his foot after a clash with Paul Robinson in a match against Tottenham Hotspur, keeping him out for the rest of the season. With Owen injured the team's", "id": "18086094" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\ndue to injury and the team failed to reach the competition finals. UEFA Euro 1996 was a more positive experience for both Shearer and England. With England not required to qualify as hosts, Shearer had not scored in 12 games in the 21 months prior, and even his overall goalscoring record for England did not look too impressive so far, with five goals in 23 games. However, he found the net in the 22nd minute of the first game, against Switzerland. Scoring once in the following game against Scotland and twice", "id": "13592539" }, { "contents": "Teddy Sheringham\n\n\nthe 2000 European Championships by then manager Kevin Keegan, but the retirement of Shearer (despite being four years younger than Sheringham) from international football after that tournament and the arrival of new manager Sven-Göran Eriksson in 2001 saw a return to international favour for him. He was often deployed as a tactical substitute late in games by Eriksson, valued for his ability to hold the ball up and create intelligent play. In 2001, Sheringham scored an important goal for England against Greece in a World Cup qualifying match within 15 seconds", "id": "2997070" }, { "contents": "Ruud Gullit\n\n\n, chairman Ken Bates famously said of Gullit, \"I didn't like his arrogance – in fact I never liked him.\" In August 1998, Gullit was named manager of Newcastle United two games into the new league season and reached the 1999 FA Cup Final in his first year. Fans remained supportive despite a poor run of results, although a well-publicised contretemps with the team's top scorer Alan Shearer and captain Robert Lee did not put him in a favourable light. Gullit even refused to assign Lee a squad", "id": "13592616" }, { "contents": "Scott Parker\n\n\ndefeat on 25 March 2006. Later that month he was diagnosed with glandular fever, putting an end to his season. The timing was especially unfortunate for Parker, who had been playing well for Newcastle, as it ended any hopes he may have had of forcing his way into the 2006 FIFA World Cup. In July 2006, he was named Newcastle United's new captain by manager Glenn Roeder, succeeding the retired Alan Shearer. His first goal as captain came against Wigan Athletic on 19 August 2006, in a 2–1 win", "id": "14327157" }, { "contents": "History of football in England\n\n\n. United's main challengers for the title in the Premier League's first few years were Blackburn Rovers, led by star striker Alan Shearer, also won their first league title since World War I in 1994–95, and Newcastle United, who famously conceded a 10-point lead at Christmas to lose the title to United in 1995–96. Newcastle had reached the Premiership in 1993 as Division One champions, and in their first Premiership campaign finished third to qualify for the UEFA Cup. They finished second in 1996 and again in 1997, but by", "id": "3652862" }, { "contents": "1992–93 FA Premier League\n\n\nPremier League as an attempt by the Football Association to \"hijack\" the First Division. Shortly before the season began, newly promoted Blackburn Rovers signed Southampton's 21-year-old England international striker Alan Shearer for a new British record fee variously reported as £3.3 million, £3.4 million, or £3.6 million. Several other players moved for fees of £2 million or more, including Arsenal's David Rocastle, who joined Leeds United, Dean Saunders, who moved from Liverpool to Aston Villa, and Teddy Sheringham, who", "id": "12442383" }, { "contents": "Darren Anderton\n\n\nhappy at the prospect of losing another key player as he had already lost Jürgen Klinsmann and Gheorghe Popescu that summer; and Nick Barmby was on the verge of joining Middlesbrough. Despite missing most of the 1995–96 season through injury, Anderton played an important part in the Euro 96 England team that reached the semi-finals and included players like Paul Gascoigne, Alan Shearer, Steve McManaman and Teddy Sheringham. In the semi final against Germany, the match went to golden goal extra time. Anderton came within inches of putting England into", "id": "4331581" }, { "contents": "Wallsend Boys Club\n\n\nJanuary which damaged one of the walls of the building. Professional players to have played for the club include: The club has had a representative at four of the six FIFA World Cup finals since 1986, with the two exceptions coming in 1994, when the England national football team did not qualify, and 2002. In 1986 and 1990 Peter Beardsley starred for England. In 1998 Alan Shearer was England captain. Michael Carrick made appearances for England in both the 2006 and 2010 tournaments. Fraser Forster was in the 2014 squad but", "id": "21182372" }, { "contents": "Harry Kane\n\n\n\". Clive Allen, who coached him at Tottenham, stated that \"one thing I'd say about him, which unfortunately you don't say about a lot of young footballers, is that he had a passion for the game. He loves football, he loves playing, he loves scoring goals\". His former Tottenham under-21 coach Les Ferdinand likened Kane's movement to their former forward Teddy Sheringham, and the power and accuracy of his shots to Alan Shearer. Kane's style of play has been compared to that of", "id": "1925319" }, { "contents": "Kieron Dyer\n\n\nthat he would soon rejoin for Ipswich. After representing England at Youth, Under 21 and \"B\" level, Dyer's debut for the senior team came on 4 September 1999 when he started in England's 6–0 win against Luxembourg. He was deployed out of position at right back, and was replaced by Gary Neville at half-time after injuring himself while setting up Alan Shearer's third goal of the match. The injury was not serious and he was able to make his second England appearance four days later, coming", "id": "17666181" }, { "contents": "1996–97 Blackburn Rovers F.C. season\n\n\nthe end of the season, when he handed over the reins to Roy Hodgson after Sampdoria's Sven-Göran Eriksson lied about accepting the manager's job and joined Lazio instead. Parkes steered Blackburn to safety as they finished 13th. The world record £15 million sale of striker Alan Shearer to Newcastle United was seen as the biggest factor in Blackburn's lowest top flight finish since they returned to the elite in 1992. However, his strike-partner Chris Sutton helped keep the club alive after recovering from a drastic loss of", "id": "7811146" }, { "contents": "Michael Owen\n\n\nmuch of the campaign as England struggled, with Hoddle being replaced by Kevin Keegan. On 4 September 1999, he scored his first goal at Wembley Stadium in a 6–0 win over Luxembourg. At the finals, Owen scored once in three matches, as England were knocked out at the group stage. After Alan Shearer's retirement, Owen took over as England's senior striker under new manager Sven-Göran Eriksson. He scored six times during 2002 World Cup qualifying, including a hat-trick against Germany at Munich's Olympiastadion", "id": "21886807" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nyet to start the UEFA Pro Licence course, which is required to be permitted to manage a team in the Premier League and European competition. Reflecting his desire for personal time off to \"enjoy life\", in July 2006 he turned down a coaching role with England, citing his BBC commitments and desire to be away from the pressure of a job within football. Despite this, Shearer was often linked in the media with managerial or coaching positions at his three former clubs. Shearer took a brief role in the dugout for", "id": "13592550" }, { "contents": "History of Southampton F.C.\n\n\nappearances for the England national team – he finally retired in 2002 at the age of 33. During his time with the Saints, Le Tissier was approached more than once by several bigger clubs (including Manchester United) but chose to stick with the Saints despite never winning a major trophy or experiencing European football with them. From 1989 to 1992, Le Tissier was regularly partnered up front by another notable player, Alan Shearer, who as a 17-year-old had scored a hat-trick on his Saints debut against Arsenal in", "id": "15948278" }, { "contents": "Sir Bobby Robson Trophy match\n\n\nNewcastle United, picking up on Alan Shearer's reply of \"I know as much as you do,\" to a pre-match question as to whether he would be installed as Newcastle manager for the forthcoming season beginning in 13 days, with the club being up for sale and with the first team without a manager, being in the care of coach Chris Hughton. Neither the Newcastle United owner Mike Ashley or managing director Derek Llambias were in attendance at the charity match. Having left England after Italia '90, Sir", "id": "19612022" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nChancellor Liam Donaldson stated \"Newcastle United are my team. Alan Shearer is more than just a local legend, he's probably one of the greatest footballers of all time\". On 12 September 2016, a statue of Shearer's likeness was unveiled outside St James' Park. It was sculpted by Tom Maley, and paid for by the Shepherd family. After his retirement and following guest appearances, Shearer became a regular pundit for the BBC's \"Match of the Day\". He also formed part of the team which", "id": "13592563" }, { "contents": "Gary McAllister\n\n\ntournament, scoring in a 3–0 win over the CIS. However, Scotland did not qualify from their group. Scotland failed to qualify for the 1994 FIFA World Cup but did qualify for UEFA Euro 1996 in England, with McAllister the captain of the team. Scotland's second match of the group stage was against England at Wembley Stadium. In the second half Scotland, trailing 0–1 to an Alan Shearer goal, were awarded a penalty. McAllister's kick was saved by David Seaman and Scotland lost 0–2. The team won their", "id": "19492391" }, { "contents": "David Seaman\n\n\nEngland's quarter-final against Spain ended scoreless, Seaman saved Miguel Angel Nadal's kick in the shootout to knock Spain out of the tournament. England eventually were eliminated in the semi-final by Germany on penalties,after Andreas Köpke saved the penalty taken by Gareth Southgate. Seaman was named alongside Golden Boot winner Alan Shearer and winger Steve McManaman in the UEFA \"Team of the Tournament\". Euro 96 sponsor Philips named him \"Player of the Tournament\". Seaman remained first choice under the management of Glenn Hoddle for", "id": "7321893" }, { "contents": "1998 FA Cup Final\n\n\nand so has the mixture between the foreign and English players.\" Wenger reserved praise for the goalscorers Overmars (\"a world-class player\") and Anelka (\"Nicolas is very young. But you saw in the second half today what he can do\"), and felt the turning point in the match was Shearer's shot hitting the post. He sympathised with Newcastle, as did his captain, Adams who said afterwards: \"The team and their fans did everything they could out there, but it was", "id": "10844688" }, { "contents": "David McMahon (association footballer)\n\n\nabout the role of striker from watching England international Alan Shearer in training, but likened himself more to Newcastle's Scotland international Duncan Ferguson, \"because I am taller and like to battle for things in the air.\" Brian Kerr, then manager of Ireland under-17s, described McMahon as honest and hard-working, \"not the most skilful player, but will get goals\", but Darlington manager Gary Bennett believed there was more to his game: that he and strike partner John Williams both had enough skill to play a", "id": "5423888" }, { "contents": "Andy Carroll\n\n\nUEFA Euro 2012. He opened the scoring for England with a powerful header in their second group match against Sweden, which England went on to win 3–2. Carroll has been compared to Newcastle's record goalscorer Alan Shearer, Ivory Coast striker Didier Drogba and former Italy forward Christian Vieri. He has also been referred to as a classic centre forward, owing to his strength, powerful shot and excellent heading ability. Former Newcastle manager and Liverpool player Kevin Keegan stated \"he is probably in the top three headers of a ball I", "id": "11961542" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\n-chasing Manchester United. On the opening day of the 1999–2000 season, Shearer received the first red card of his career in his 100th appearance for Newcastle. After dropping Shearer to the bench in a Tyne-Wear derby loss against Sunderland, the unpopular Gullit resigned to be replaced by the 66-year-old Bobby Robson. Despite Gullit giving Shearer the captain's armband, reports of a rift between club captain and manager were rife, Gullit's decision to drop Shearer proved deeply unpopular with fans and his departure capped a dismal start", "id": "13592525" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nAn almost injury-free season helped Shearer improve on his previous year's tally in the 1998–99 season, the striker converting 14 goals in 30 league games and replacing Rob Lee as Newcastle captain, but Newcastle finished 13th again, with Ruud Gullit having replaced Kenny Dalglish just after the season got underway. He also helped Newcastle to a second consecutive FA Cup final and qualification for the following season's UEFA Cup, scoring twice in the semi-final against Tottenham Hotspur, but they once again lost, this time 2–0 to treble", "id": "13592524" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nhis final three games under Glenn Roeder. Shearer had rejected offers of coaching or assistant roles at Newcastle under both the returning Kevin Keegan in February 2008 and Joe Kinnear in November 2008. Shearer had previously had talks about, but never been offered, a full-time manager's role at Newcastle until his appointment on 1 April 2009. In a surprise move, late on 1 April 2009, it was announced that Shearer would become the manager of his former club Newcastle United for the remaining eight games of the season, taking", "id": "13592551" }, { "contents": "Fabio Cannavaro\n\n\nnational team on 22 January 1997, in a friendly match against Northern Ireland. The same year, he earned plaudits for his handling of England striker Alan Shearer in a World Cup qualifying game at Wembley Stadium. Shearer was then considered by the partisan English crowd to be the best striker in the world, and thought he would make fun of the inexperienced Italian defender. Nevertheless, in a display ranking alongside those of the very best Italian defenders Claudio Gentile and Franco Baresi, Cannavaro managed to keep Shearer quiet for the whole game", "id": "3625067" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\n, with media sources claiming that video footage showed him intentionally kicking Neil Lennon in the head following a challenge. The referee of the game took no action against Shearer, and he was then cleared of all charges by the FA, with Lennon giving evidence in the player's defence. Former Football Association chief Graham Kelly, who brought the charges against the player, later claimed in his autobiography that Shearer had threatened to withdraw himself from the 1998 World Cup squad if the charges were upheld, a claim strenuously denied by Shearer.", "id": "13592523" }, { "contents": "History of the Romania national football team\n\n\nminnows Tunisia. Adrian Ilie scored the only goal with a fine chip in their first match against Colombia at Lyon's Stade Gerland. In Toulouse, they met an England side starting with prodigal striker Michael Owen on the bench, with Teddy Sheringham preferred alongside Alan Shearer. A mistake by Tony Adams was punished by Viorel Moldovan, who played for Coventry City, before Owen came on to claim an equalizer. But Romania won with a scrappy late goal from Dan Petrescu, also playing in England with Chelsea, fighting off his club", "id": "16435718" }, { "contents": "John Barnes (footballer)\n\n\nNewcastle United, although an approach had already been made by Harry Redknapp of West Ham; Barnes had agreed in principle to join them until at the final moment Dalglish called him and Barnes changed his mind. In the 1997–98 season Barnes played up front mostly, deputising for Alan Shearer after Shearer was injured for most of the season, and Barnes ended up Newcastle's top league scorer with six goals, which highlighted the Magpies' lack of ability to score in the absence of Shearer and Ferdinand (who had been sold along with", "id": "19616669" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\ncould not find a more iconic person than Alan, not just for what he has done in football but for all the extra work he tirelessly does for charity and communities. I am delighted he has accepted the role of Deputy Lieutenant because he is a real role model. I have promised him he is not going to have to do too much, but even if it is just one occasion a year he is the perfect choice\" On 7 December 2009, Shearer was made a Doctor of Civil Law by Newcastle University.", "id": "13592562" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nLaw of Northumbria and Newcastle Universities. Shearer was born in Gosforth, Newcastle, in 1970 to working-class parents Alan and Anne Shearer. His father, a sheet-metal worker, encouraged a keen Shearer to play football in his youth, and the young player continued with the sport as he progressed through school. He was educated at Gosforth Central Middle School and Gosforth High School. Growing up playing on the streets of his hometown, he originally played in midfield because \"it meant [he] could get more involved", "id": "13592504" }, { "contents": "Paul Kitson\n\n\n. Newcastle finished second that season after being overhauled in the second half campaign by a Manchester United side who sealed the title by a five-point margin barely four months after Newcastle had led by 10 points, but Kitson's part in Newcastle's exciting though ultimately disappointing campaign had been minimal as he had played just seven league games and scored twice. But he remained loyal to the Magpies even after another blow at the end of July 1996 – the arrival of £15 million world record signing Alan Shearer. He managed three", "id": "19054464" }, { "contents": "Ray Harford\n\n\nthe Premier League for much of the season. During the summer of 1996, Alan Shearer was sold to Newcastle United for a then world record fee of £15 million, and Harford failed to adequately replace him. Harford stated that \"I'm told we need a big name. Engelbert Humperdinck is a big name but it doesn't mean he can play football.\" The 1996–97 season also started badly for Blackburn. They failed to win any of their first ten games and were knocked out of the League Cup by Division", "id": "5365351" }, { "contents": "Patrick Kluivert\n\n\nagain featured for Barca in a legends game against Uganda all stars where he, in lobbing the ball, scored an amazing goal. Kluivert joined Newcastle United on a free transfer in July 2004. He stated that his reasons for joining Newcastle was due to the overwhelming reaction he received whilst playing for Barcelona against Newcastle during a pre season friendly as well as teaming up with Newcastle's star players such as Alan Shearer. Kluivert scored some classy and crucial goals at and away from St James's Park namely in winning strikes against both", "id": "21654890" }, { "contents": "Duncan Shearer\n\n\nbetween 1994 and 1995, scoring two goals including an important opening strike in an away win over Finland which helped the national side qualify for Euro 96, although Shearer did not make the squad for that tournament. The senior team was his first experience of international football, having never played at any age-group level. He achieved a childhood ambition when he played in the national team alongside John McGinlay, a childhood friend also from Fort William. In season 1999–00 he began to concentrate more on coaching than playing, and was", "id": "3716411" }, { "contents": "Les Ferdinand\n\n\nscored 50 goals in only 84 games at Newcastle, forming a successful partnership with Alan Shearer. He was and indeed is still very highly thought of by Newcastle United. Ferdinand received a standing ovation when he returned to St. James' Park as a Tottenham player, trying to put Alan Shearer's number 9 shirt on to complete a lap of honour, he broke down in tears and could only manage to put the shirt on inside out and back to front before being helped from the field. Ferdinand returned again, when he", "id": "2996528" }, { "contents": "David Platt (footballer)\n\n\nTurkey, San Marino, the Netherlands and Norway. The qualifiers began at home to Norway. England dominated the game and Platt carried the goal threat, with Alan Shearer and Ian Wright struggling to find form. He scored the opening goal after an hour. England dominated the remainder of the game and were unlucky to concede to a long-range shot from Kjetil Rekdal. Platt continued his drive from midfield in wins over Turkey at home (4-0) and San Marino (6-0). Platt scored four", "id": "16718350" }, { "contents": "Jason Wilcox\n\n\n-pound investments of Jack Walker. He played an important part in the title-winning Blackburn team of 1995. Playing on the left flank with attacking fullback Graeme Le Saux behind him and Stuart Ripley on the opposite flank, they forged a strong attacking line-up with Alan Shearer and Chris Sutton. International recognition was harder to come by for Wilcox and he managed only 3 international caps despite his effective partnership with Shearer, Le Saux and Tim Sherwood. Lengthy injury problems restricted his effectiveness in subsequent seasons and, after experiencing", "id": "14527253" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nclub's form, and Newcastle finished just 13th in the Premier League. However, United (now managed by Shearer's old boss at Blackburn, Kenny Dalglish) had a good run in the FA Cup; Shearer scored the winning goal in a semi-final victory over Sheffield United as the team reached the final. The team were unable to get on the scoresheet at Wembley, and lost the game 2–0 to Arsenal. An incident during a game against Leicester City in the league saw Shearer charged with misconduct by the FA", "id": "13592522" }, { "contents": "Aleksandar Mitrović (footballer)\n\n\nhim the competition's top scorer, and 28 in all competitions. On 22 March 2015, he scored the team's only goal in the 2–1 Belgian Cup Final loss to Club Brugge KV in Brussels. On 21 July 2015, Mitrović joined Newcastle United on a five-year contract for a reported £13 million, saying he hoped to be able to play like club legend Alan Shearer. He made his debut on 9 August as Newcastle began the season with a 2–2 draw against Southampton at St James' Park, playing", "id": "20923735" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nWest Bromwich Albion, Manchester City and Newcastle United, before being offered a youth contract with Southampton in April 1986. Shearer was promoted to the first team after spending two years with the youth squad. He made his professional debut for Southampton on 26 March 1988, coming on as a substitute in a First Division fixture at Chelsea, before prompting national headlines in his full debut at The Dell two weeks later. He scored a hat-trick, helping the team to a 4–2 victory against Arsenal, thus becoming the youngest player", "id": "13592506" }, { "contents": "James Milner\n\n\ndo what was \"in the club's best interest\" and in July 2004, he agreed a five-year contract with Newcastle. Milner made his first appearance for Newcastle United during their pre-season tour of Asia, scoring his first goal for the club in a 1–1 draw against Kitchee, in Hong Kong. During this tour, he took the opportunity to observe how Newcastle striker Alan Shearer dealt with attention from fans and the media. He said that his association with people like Shearer gave him a better idea of", "id": "1860603" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nretain the ball and provide opportunities for teammates. Playing as a lone striker between wide men, Rod Wallace and Matt Le Tissier, Shearer scored three goals in 26 appearances in the 1989–90 season, and in the next, four goals in 36 games. His performances in the centre of the \"Saints\" attack were soon recognised by the fans, who voted him their Player of the Year for 1991. In the middle of 1991, Shearer was a member of the England national under-21 football squad in the Toulon Tournament in Toulon", "id": "13592508" }, { "contents": "Teddy Sheringham\n\n\n, creating play and providing key passes, forming the link between Shearer and the England midfield. The pairing came to be known as 'The SAS' ('Shearer and Sheringham') and their most successful time together came in the 1996 European Championships, held in England. Their most famous contribution was in the 4–1 victory over the Netherlands, a game in the opening group stages in which they both scored twice against one of the strongest teams in the tournament. Though England were eventually knocked out in the semi-finals", "id": "2997067" }, { "contents": "History of the England national football team\n\n\ninto Euro 2000 after a 2–1 aggregate playoff win over Scotland. At the finals in Belgium and the Netherlands, a lacklustre England failed to get beyond the group stage, losing to both Portugal and Romania after leading in each game. After England's exit, Alan Shearer retired from international football, he had announced his intentions before the tournament, and no-one could persuade him to change his mind. On 7 October 2000, shortly after losing the opening World Cup qualifier to Germany in the last-ever game at Wembley", "id": "15089411" }, { "contents": "Premier League 10 Seasons Awards\n\n\nrepresented, with five players. The teams were as follows: English striker Alan Shearer was named Domestic Player of the Decade in the main 10 Seasons awards announcements, in addition to being given the Outstanding Contribution to the FA Premier League award. Two weeks later he was also named as the Overall Player of the Decade. In the first decade, Shearer played for Blackburn Rovers, and then Newcastle United. Shearer has been described as a classic English centre-forward with great shooting power, a single-minded striker who could", "id": "11856460" }, { "contents": "Wartime League\n\n\narguments debate that a player who exceeds one's record through their wartime matches should nonetheless be seen as the club's highest goal scorer or appearance having been part of the team's squad even if only for a short time. The most recent argument relates to the goal-difference between Jackie Milburn's and Alan Shearer's Newcastle United goal-scoring records. When counting Jackie's wartime matches, he scored a total of 238 professional goals for Newcastle United FC. In May 2005, Alan Shearer finished his career at 206 goals", "id": "17626256" }, { "contents": "Jon Dahl Tomasson\n\n\nas the perfect link-up player to England national team striker Alan Shearer. The partnership initially worked well, with Tomasson impressing during a pre-season friendly tournament in the Republic of Ireland. However, a career threatening injury to Shearer, combined with the controversial transfer of popular striker Les Ferdinand to Tottenham Hotspur, meant that Tomasson was moved from his traditional attacking midfield position to that of striker. He struggled to adapt to his new position on the field, and to the English game, due to his lack of physical", "id": "19324628" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\ncovered the World Cups and European Championships from 2006 onwards for the BBC. Former Newcastle chairman Freddy Shepherd announced that, after Shearer finished the 2005–06 season as Newcastle's caretaker assistant manager, he would become the club's \"Sporting Ambassador\" for the 2006–07 season. However, in September 2008, it was reported that Shearer was removed from this largely honorary position by the club's owner Mike Ashley, despite protests from players such as Steven Taylor and Damien Duff, due to Shearer's criticism of the way in which the club", "id": "13592564" }, { "contents": "1998 FA Cup Final\n\n\nthe final that Bergkamp had resumed training and \"medically he looked all right\", but the player received a further setback when he suffered a reaction to his hamstring. He ruled himself out of the match and told reporters: \"I'm very disappointed. As a little boy in Holland I always watched the FA Cup final. And I used to dream about playing in it myself one day.\" Ian Wright was listed as Bergkamp's probable replacement to partner Anelka. Newcastle had their own issues surrounding Shearer. The England", "id": "10844676" }, { "contents": "2008–09 in English football\n\n\n's surprise resignation in December; whilst their final points tally wasn't spectacular, they had the satisfaction of being the top North-East team in football after both Middlesbrough and Newcastle United were relegated, ending 11 and 16 year spells in the top flight respectively, the latter going through four managers in Kevin Keegan, Joe Kinnear, Chris Hughton and even former striker Alan Shearer during the campaign. Despite a brilliant start to the season which saw them as high as third place in October, Hull City won just 1 of their", "id": "1311754" }, { "contents": "1996 FA Charity Shield\n\n\nfrom Eric Cantona, Nicky Butt, David Beckham and Roy Keane. The game saw new signings Jordi Cruyff and Karel Poborský make their debuts for Manchester United, though neither of these players had particularly successful careers at Old Trafford and both had left the club within four years. The day before the game had seen the surprise sale of one of Manchester United's longest serving players — Lee Sharpe. The game saw Newcastle United give a debut to £15 million world record signing Alan Shearer, who would remain at the club until", "id": "2797098" }, { "contents": "UEFA Euro 2016 knockout phase\n\n\nsection begin=g6 /section end=g6 / section begin=g7 /section end=g7 / The match has been described as one of England's worst defeats ever. Former footballer and Talksport presenter Stan Collymore, who was commentating on the game, panned the England team, reserving special criticism for goalkeeper Joe Hart and captain Wayne Rooney. Former England international and BBC Sport pundit Alan Shearer described it as the worst performance he had ever seen from an England team. The defeat was called England's most shocking since losing 1–0 to", "id": "11344909" }, { "contents": "Maurice E. Shearer\n\n\nApplication at Annapolis, Maryland, with classmates Holland Smith, Ralph S. Keyser and Andrew B. Drum. In July, Shearer sailed for duty to be the commander of the 35 man Marine detachment on Midway Island. In May 1908, he was selected for promotion to first lieutenant and to the rank of captain in June 1916. During World War I, forces under Major Shearer's command made an attack on Belleau Wood, finally clearing that forest of Germans. On 26 June 1918, he sent a now famous report: \"", "id": "8315540" }, { "contents": "Newcastle upon Tyne\n\n\nF.C. became Football League members in 1893. They have won four top division titles (the first in 1905 and the most recent in 1927), six FA Cups (the first in 1910 and the most recent in 1955) and the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup in 1969. They broke the world transfer record in 1996 by paying £15 million for Blackburn Rovers and England striker Alan Shearer, one of the most prolific goalscorers of that era. In 2017 Newcastle was the venue for the 2017 Freedom City festival. The 2017", "id": "20529704" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\ngame and came off the bench to score a penalty, helping Newcastle win the game 3–2. The match was a sell-out, and saw Shearer perform a lap of honour at the end with his family, with his young son notably covering his ears due to the volume of noise produced by the crowd in tribute. Shearer's international career began in 1990 when he was handed a callup to the England under-21 squad under Dave Sexton. During his time with the squad, he scored 13 times in 11 games, a", "id": "13592537" }, { "contents": "2011–12 Cardiff City F.C. season\n\n\nserving manager in the Championship having held his post since May 2005. The club held talks with former England and Newcastle United captain Alan Shearer to replace Jones but he rejected the job despite stating that he was impressed with the \"vision, ambition and determination of the owner Dato Chan Tien Ghee and the board\". The \"Bluebirds\" instead approached Championship rivals Watford for permission to speak to their manager Malky Mackay, which was initially rejected. However, after the two clubs agreed a compensation fee, Mackay was officially appointed as", "id": "7599659" }, { "contents": "Kevin Keegan\n\n\nto Michael Owen, stating, \"He's not scared to give his opinion when he's right, and he's not scared to say what he feels. He's a tremendous professional, and he trains properly every day.\" Keegan announced on 22 January that he and Alan Shearer held talks about the two linking up with Shearer as his assistant, but decided against the idea, leaving the door open for him to take other roles he was interested in. Keegan's first eight games back at Newcastle passed without a", "id": "826473" }, { "contents": "Transfer (association football)\n\n\n£3.6 million Alan Shearer moved to Blackburn Rovers from Southampton, a decade after the world's first £3 million transfer. Lentini's transfer remained intact the world record fee for the next four years, although the national record was broken more than once in many countries including England. Shearer's £3.6million record fee was narrowly eclipsed 12 months later when Manchester United signed Roy Keane from Nottingham Forest for £3.75 million. In 1994, Blackburn Rovers paid a record £5 million for Chris Sutton from Norwich City, a decade", "id": "11200095" }, { "contents": "Roy Hodgson\n\n\nagainst Costa Rica to finish bottom of Group D. Hodgson named Rooney as the new captain of England in August 2014, following the retirement of Steven Gerrard from international football. Hodgson's first match after the World Cup was a 1–0 win against Norway in an international friendly match at Wembley on 3 September 2014. During the match, England made only two shots on target. Hodgson was infuriated when asked about this, describing the statistic as \"fucking bollocks\". Former England player, Alan Shearer, admitted that the match was so", "id": "12858624" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nto the season. The animosity between Shearer and Gullit was later confirmed by the latter, who reported telling the striker that he was \"...the most overrated player I have ever seen.\" Ironically, Robson had tried to sign Shearer for Barcelona in 1997, making a bid of £20million which would have seen Shearer break the world's transfer fee record for the second time in 12 months. However, then Newcastle manager Kenny Dalglish rejected the offer. In Robson's first match in charge, Shearer scored five goals in", "id": "13592526" }, { "contents": "Premier League 10 Seasons Awards\n\n\nin his talks with Alex Ferguson, he could not guarantee that Eric Cantona the Overseas Player of the Decade could be persuaded to let Shearer take penalty kicks. Shearer gained a second PFA Players' Player of the Year Award in April 1997, becoming just the second player to have received the PFA award twice, after Mark Hughes. After the 2000 European Championships, Shearer had retired from international football with England, having been England captain since 1998, and having made his senior début in 1992. Shearer was awarded the OBE in", "id": "11856465" }, { "contents": "Emile Heskey\n\n\nthe two matches, with former England international Alan Shearer commenting, \"Never in a million years did I expect to be discussing whether Emile Heskey should keep his place ahead of Wayne Rooney but the Wigan striker was outstanding over both matches.\" Heskey was called into manager Fabio Capello's first squad against Switzerland, but had to withdraw due to an injury. He was called into the squad for a friendly against the Czech Republic in August 2008 and came on as a 46th-minute substitute, in a match that finished 2–2", "id": "174986" }, { "contents": "Habib Beye\n\n\nUEFA Cup Final, a run which involved him putting in a star performance as a central defender against (his now former team) Newcastle United, where he was particularly effective against Newcastle's talisman striker Alan Shearer. He ended up on the losing side as Marseille lost the final to Valencia 2–0. He was also a beaten finalist in the 2006 French Cup against former club Paris Saint-Germain, a match which his team lost 2–1, and again in 2007 when his Marseille team lost on penalties to FC Sochaux. His", "id": "16217445" }, { "contents": "Stan Collymore\n\n\nseason in the Premier League, Collymore was called up to Terry Venables' England squad for the Umbro Cup in June 1995. He made his début at Wembley Stadium against Japan, partnering Alan Shearer in a 2–1 win. He won his second cap as a 90th minute substitute against Brazil. Collymore made his third and final appearance for England as a substitute in a 4–0 win over Moldova during qualification for the 1998 FIFA World Cup. Collymore contributed to his biography \"Stan: Tackling my demons\" with Oliver Holt. In 2005", "id": "3955590" }, { "contents": "Graeme Souness\n\n\nAt £8.2 million, Boumsong was his first big signing and Souness said he would replace Jonathan Woodgate in the Newcastle defence, which had conceded several leads earlier in the season. Newcastle were well aware of Boumsong prior to his move from Auxerre to Rangers on a free transfer. Robson had travelled to France to watch him, but he declined the opportunity to sign Boumsong. Liverpool were also interested in signing Boumsong. Robson's doubts were confirmed when Boumsong marked Alan Shearer in a pre-season game against Rangers. Shearer came", "id": "18029254" }, { "contents": "Saido Berahino\n\n\nrate of a goal every other match, including three to help the team qualify for the European Championship. Berahino has the all-time third-highest goal tally for the England under-21 side with 10 goals in 13 appearances, behind Francis Jeffers and Alan Shearer. On 6 November 2014, England manager Roy Hodgson – who promoted Berahino to the West Bromwich Albion first team in 2011 – named Berahino in his squad for the first time, ahead of a UEFA Euro 2016 qualifying match against Slovenia at Wembley Stadium on the 15th and", "id": "1000466" } ]

[ { "contents": "Tony Adams\n\n\n\"I have some resentment over the way Glenn Hoddle gave the captaincy to Alan Shearer instead of me but I can let that go. I reacted positively. I disagreed with him [Hoddle] and he thought Alan could get more penalties being a centre forward. People know my reaction to that\". Adams continued to play for the national side, however and he finally appeared in a World Cup finals in 1998. His international swansong was England's unsuccessful Euro 2000 campaign. With Shearer retiring from international football after the tournament", "id": "6104102" }, { "contents": "Tony Adams\n\n\nin defence, and after the retirement of Gary Lineker in 1992, Adams unofficially shared the captaincy of England with David Platt, though Adams became England captain outright before Euro 96, as Platt's place in the side became less secure. England reached the semi-finals of Euro 96, before losing on penalties to Germany. When England manager Glenn Hoddle took the Captain's armband from Adams and gave it to Alan Shearer it was a bitter pill for Adams to swallow. Speaking at a fans' forum in 2008 Adams remarked", "id": "6104101" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nThis time, Germany won from the spot; although Shearer scored, his teammate Gareth Southgate missed his kick and England were eliminated. Shearer's five goals made him the competition's top scorer, and together with teammates David Seaman and Steve McManaman, was listed in the official UEFA team of the tournament. The new England manager Glenn Hoddle appointed Shearer captain for the 1998 FIFA World Cup qualifier against Moldova on 1 September 1996, and the player held onto the captaincy after scoring once in that match and twice in the following game", "id": "13592541" }, { "contents": "Dimitar Berbatov\n\n\nhe consequently modelled himself after Marco van Basten, the Dutch forward for that team. However, the 1996 European Championship, held in England, gave Berbatov a new role model; the 15-year-old Berbatov began to look up to the English front man Alan Shearer, who played for Newcastle United. Berbatov's mother later spoke of her son's teenage dream of playing for Newcastle United, and said that his admiration for Shearer was such that, during these years, he slept in a Newcastle shirt. Berbatov began his youth", "id": "3905446" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\n's participation in what was to be Shearer's only World Cup tournament. In September 1999, Shearer scored his only England hat-trick in a UEFA Euro 2000 qualifier against Luxembourg. This helped England reach a play-off against Scotland; England won the game over two legs and in doing so qualified for the European Championships. By now, Shearer was approaching his 30th birthday, and he announced that he intended to retire from international football after the Euro 2000 tournament. Shearer did not score in England's opening 3–2 defeat", "id": "13592544" }, { "contents": "Southampton F.C.\n\n\nwas Alan Shearer, who at the age of 17 scored a hat-trick against Arsenal in a league match in April 1988. Shearer was a first team regular by 1990, and stayed with Southampton until July 1992, when he was sold to Blackburn Rovers for a national record of more than £3 million. He then became the most expensive footballer in the world when Blackburn sold him to Newcastle for £15 million in 1996. He also scored 30 times for England internationally. Southampton were founding members of the Premier League", "id": "3265953" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\ntime to play in England's UEFA European Championship campaign. After Euro 96, Manchester United again sought to sign Shearer, and attempted to enter the battle for his signature. However Manchester United chairman Martin Edwards stated that Blackburn Rovers refused to let Shearer go to Old Trafford. Ultimately Shearer joined his boyhood club: Newcastle United, Manchester United's title rivals. On 30 July 1996, for a world transfer record-breaking £15 million (equivalent to £ million today) Shearer joined his hometown club and league runners-up", "id": "13592519" }, { "contents": "History of the England national football team\n\n\nyear after his last game at club level. Hoddle selected Alan Shearer as captain, replacing Tony Adams, but also brought a number of emerging talents into the squad, including the Manchester United midfield trio of Paul Scholes, Nicky Butt and David Beckham, and central defenders Rio Ferdinand and Sol Campbell. Hoddle oversaw England's qualification for the 1998 World Cup (the first World Cup with 32 teams instead of 24) with a 0–0 draw against Italy at the Stadio Olimpico in Rome, and drew out a winning performance in the", "id": "15089406" }, { "contents": "History of the England national football team\n\n\nthe underwhelming performance at the World Cup, England suffered a poor start to the Euro 2000 qualifying tournament, and there was reported discontent between Hoddle and several senior players, most notably Shearer. Hoddle was dismissed on 2 February 1999, two days after an interview with \"The Sunday Times\" in which he spoke about his belief in reincarnation and claimed that disabled people were paying for sins in a previous life. Under considerable media and public pressure, the FA appointed former captain Kevin Keegan, who only just managed to get England", "id": "15089410" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nagainst Poland. He scored a total of five goals in England's successful qualification campaign for the World Cup, adding strikes against Georgia and away to Poland to his tally. Shearer was sidelined for much of the 1997–98 season, but recovered to play in the World Cup finals. With Michael Owen replacing Teddy Sheringham as Shearer's strike partner, Shearer's return saw him score England's first goal of the tournament, in a 2–0 win over Tunisia, his only goal in the three group matches. England faced long-time", "id": "13592542" }, { "contents": "Newcastle United F.C.\n\n\n. The attacking philosophy of Keegan led to the team being labelled \"The Entertainers\" by Sky Sports. Keegan took Newcastle to two consecutive runners-up finishes in the league in 1995–96 and 1996–97, coming very close to winning the title in the former season. This success was in part due to the talent of players like David Ginola, Les Ferdinand and Alan Shearer, who was signed on 30 July 1996 for a then world record fee of £15 million. Keegan left Newcastle in January 1997 and was replaced by Kenny", "id": "12636363" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nAlan Shearer, CBE, DL (born 13 August 1970) is an English retired footballer. He played as a striker in the top level of English league football for Southampton, Blackburn Rovers, Newcastle United and the England national team. He is Newcastle's and the Premier League's record goalscorer. He was named Football Writers' Association Player of the Year in 1994 and won the PFA Player of the Year award in 1995. In 1996, he was third in the FIFA World Player of the Year awards. In 2004", "id": "13592501" }, { "contents": "Teddy Sheringham\n\n\nmanager Terry Venables (1994–96) Sheringham came to be the preferred strike partner for Alan Shearer. During this time, England had a wealth of strikers with the likes of Andrew Cole, Ian Wright, a young Robbie Fowler and Les Ferdinand all battling to partner Shearer in the England team. The two formed a famous partnership at international level, as they complemented each other's strengths: Shearer the out-and-out goalscorer, big, strong and powerful, Sheringham just 'dropping off' his strike partner, finding spaces", "id": "2997066" }, { "contents": "History of Newcastle United F.C.\n\n\n's title chances for the 1994–95 season, in which they finished sixth. The club, however, continued to build up a reputation for playing attacking football under Keegan. In the 1995–96 season, high-profile foreign stars David Ginola and Faustino Asprilla, in addition to British players Peter Beardsley and striker Les Ferdinand, guided the team to a second-place finish. During the 1996–97 season, Keegan made one signing, securing the services of England striker Alan Shearer for a then-world record transfer fee of £15 million", "id": "6803863" }, { "contents": "1996–97 Newcastle United F.C. season\n\n\n...I think Kevin wanted it free-flowing in all departments and that doesn't necessarily happen.\" Keegan responded to the previous season's disappointment by breaking the world record transfer fee to sign centre forward Alan Shearer from Blackburn Rovers for £15 million. Shearer, whose five goals made him the top scorer in Euro 96, had supported Newcastle since childhood – he had been a ball-boy at St James' Park on the day that Keegan had left in a helicopter after his final Newcastle appearance as a player.", "id": "1207050" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nin the games.\" Shearer captained his school team and helped a Newcastle City Schools team win a seven-a-side tournament at St James' Park, before joining the amateur Wallsend Boys Club as a teenager. It was while playing for the Wallsend club that he was spotted by Southampton's scout, Jack Hixon, which resulted in Shearer spending his summers training with the club's youth team, a time he would later refer to as \"the making of me\". Shearer had successful trials for First Division clubs", "id": "13592505" }, { "contents": "Duncan Shearer\n\n\nFavourites\" during the club's centenary in 2008. However, he was unable to prevent Huddersfield's relegation to the Third Division at the end of the 1987–88 season. Weeks before this, the unrelated English striker Alan Shearer (aged 17) had scored a hat-trick in the First Division for Southampton against Arsenal, a game which Arsenal captain Tony Adams missed through injury. In his autobiography 11 years later, Adams said that he had followed the progress of the game on Ceefax and mistakingly believed that the Shearer who scored", "id": "3716405" }, { "contents": "David Hirst (footballer)\n\n\nHe came on at half-time and within three minutes of the restart he scored his first (and only) England goal. With Gary Lineker injured, he lined up with Alan Shearer against France at Wembley. Bryan Robson said that, \"It's not a question of who will replace Lineker, but who will partner David Hirst\". It became Hirst's third and final England match. Although he was selected for more England squads, injuries kept him out of the team. Manchester United boss Alex Ferguson tried six", "id": "18892949" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nthrough to May due to injury and England's World Cup qualification chances were hit by a run of poor form. Returning to fitness for the 1993–94 season, he scored 31 goals from 40 games as Blackburn finished runners-up in the Premier League. His performances for the club led to him being named the Football Writers' Association Footballer of the Year for that season. On the international scene, England had failed to qualify for the 1994 World Cup finals, but Shearer added three more goals to his international tally before embarking", "id": "13592514" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nfive points out of a possible twenty-four. Shearer did not get the manager's job on permanent basis. Chris Hughton stepped up from the coaching staff to take charge of the quest to get Newcastle back into the Premier League, which was achieved at the first attempt as Newcastle finished top of the Championship in the 2009–10 season. Shearer is married to Lainya, whom he met whilst a Southampton player. The couple lived locally with her parents during Shearer's second year at the south coast club, and were married on", "id": "13592557" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nagainst Portugal, but did so as England defeated Germany 1–0 in Charleroi, ensuring that England beat their European neighbours for the first time since the 1966 World Cup Final. To remain in the tournament, England only required a draw against Romania in the final group match, and Shearer scored a penalty as England went in at half-time 2–1 up, but Romania ultimately won 3–2. England's tournament was over, and so was Shearer's international career. From his 63 caps, he captained the team 34 times and scored", "id": "13592545" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nrecord return which is still unbeaten. The striker's goals at this level, coupled with his club form, meant he was soon promoted to the senior squad by coach Graham Taylor. Marking his debut in the 2–0 win against France in February 1992 with a goal, he made his only appearance for the England B team a month later. Due to replace Gary Lineker, who retired from international action after UEFA Euro 1992, in the England attack, Shearer played only intermittently in the qualifying campaign for the 1994 FIFA World Cup", "id": "13592538" }, { "contents": "1993 Trans-Tasman Test series\n\n\n's Canberra Raiders team mate and New South Wales captain Laurie Daley. The test series took place following the 1993 State of Origin series which was won by NSW. Dale Shearer's performances at fullback for Qld saw him earn a test recall in front of well performed World Cup and NSW fullback Tim Brasher (though Shearer had been selected at centre for all 3 Ashes series tests in 1992 but withdrew from all 3 with injury). Bradley Clyde, who had not played in the Origin series due to injury was also recalled to", "id": "16616631" }, { "contents": "Glenn Hoddle\n\n\nRedknapp resigned, following which Hoddle also left the club. In June 2016, after England's 2–1 loss to Iceland at Euro 2016 and manager Roy Hodgson's subsequent resignation, Harry Redknapp and Alan Shearer both put forward Hoddle as a candidate for the job before Sam Allardyce was appointed. Hoddle has done punditry work since his retirement from coaching. He has worked for ESPN, ITV Sport and BT Sport. Hoddle began working with ESPN during Euro 2012 as a pundit. Since then, he has worked with ITV for the 2014", "id": "8847620" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nhim onto the pitch following the striker's testimonial in May 2006 as he performed a lap of honour at St James' Park. On 6 December 2000, Shearer was given Honorary Freedom of the City of Newcastle upon Tyne, with the citation \"in recognition of his role as captain of Newcastle United Football Club and as former captain of England which have enhanced the reputation of the City\". Shearer was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2001 Queen's Birthday Honours and Commander of the", "id": "13592559" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nhis four years in the Southampton first team, Shearer made a total of 158 appearances in all competitions, scoring 43 goals. Despite making just one goalless appearance as England failed to progress past the Euro 1992 group stages, Shearer was soon subject to an English transfer record-breaking £3.6 million bid from Blackburn Rovers. Although there was also interest from Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson, Blackburn benefactor Jack Walker's millions were enough to prise the striker from the \"Saints\", and Shearer moved north to Ewood Park in the", "id": "13592512" }, { "contents": "Andy Cole\n\n\nof the season to help United win the Premier League title for the third time in four years. He also played in their FA Cup final victory to become part of England's first ever side to win the double twice. Before the 1996–97 season began, Cole had to deal with being offered to Blackburn Rovers as part-exchange in a £12 million deal that would have brought Alan Shearer to Old Trafford, but the offer was rejected and Shearer joined Newcastle instead. Despite Alex Ferguson's clear indication to Cole that he", "id": "9629547" }, { "contents": "Shearer's Bar\n\n\nShearer's Bar is the former name of a sports bar owned by Newcastle United and forming part of St James' Park, the team's stadium in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. It was named in honour of the club's all-time top scorer, Alan Shearer. The bar was renamed Nine in July 2013 by the club, who said that popularity of the venue had \"dwindled\". The bar was opened in December 2004 and became an important part of the features at St James' Park. It is", "id": "15298144" }, { "contents": "Kevin Keegan\n\n\nrelationship between the pair. In April 2003, it was named as Quote of the Decade in the Premier League 10 Seasons Awards and Most Memorable Quote in the 20 Seasons Awards in May 2012. It also appeared in Channel 4's \"100 Greatest Sporting Moments\". Keegan then broke the world transfer fee record by signing Blackburn Rovers and England striker Alan Shearer in July 1996. Shearer, who had been the Premier League's top scorer in the last two seasons, was born in Newcastle and had grown up as a fan", "id": "826455" }, { "contents": "England national football team\n\n\nBetween 1994 and 1996, Terry Venables managed the team. At UEFA Euro 1996, held in England, they equalled their best performance at a European Championship, reaching the semi-finals as they did in 1968, before exiting via a penalty shoot-out loss to Germany. England striker Alan Shearer was the tournament's top scorer with five goals. Venables resigned following investigations into his financial activities. Venables' successor, Glenn Hoddle, similarly left the job for non-footballing reasons after just one international tournament – the 1998", "id": "9748695" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nmiddle of 1992. His first season with Blackburn was mixed – he missed half of it through injury after snapping his right anterior cruciate ligament in a match against Leeds United in December 1992, but scored a prolific 16 goals in the 21 games in which he did feature. Shearer also became a regular in the England team this season and scored his second international goal; it came in a 4–0 1994 FIFA World Cup qualifier win over Turkey in November. The season ended sourly, however, as Shearer was forced to miss January", "id": "13592513" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nover from head coach Chris Hughton who was in temporary charge while the permanent manager Joe Kinnear recovered from heart surgery, having taken ill on 7 February. Shearer stated \"It's a club I love and I don't want them to go down. I'll do everything I can to stop that.\" Shearer was unveiled at a press conference the following day by club managing director Derek Llambias. In explaining his acceptance of a managerial role at Newcastle at this time, Shearer stated that he would not have done this for", "id": "13592552" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nwas being run in the wake of the departure of Kevin Keegan. These reports were denied by the club. Shearer features in EA Sports' \"FIFA\" video game series; he was included in the \"FIFA 15\" Ultimate Team Legends. During his playing days, Shearer had been involved with the children's charity the NSPCC, taking part in the organisation's Full Stop campaign in 1999. Since retiring from football Shearer has also done work for several charities both nationally and in the Newcastle area. In his testimonial match", "id": "13592565" }, { "contents": "2005–06 Newcastle United F.C. season\n\n\n. The fee, £17 million, surpassed Newcastle's previous record of £15 million for Alan Shearer from Blackburn in 1996. In the closing hours of the transfer window, the club re-signed Nolberto Solano from Aston Villa. Souness's decision to pair Shearer and Owen together up front proved to be lethal, but Owen broke his fourth metatarsal bone in his foot after a clash with Paul Robinson in a match against Tottenham Hotspur, keeping him out for the rest of the season. With Owen injured the team's", "id": "18086094" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\ndue to injury and the team failed to reach the competition finals. UEFA Euro 1996 was a more positive experience for both Shearer and England. With England not required to qualify as hosts, Shearer had not scored in 12 games in the 21 months prior, and even his overall goalscoring record for England did not look too impressive so far, with five goals in 23 games. However, he found the net in the 22nd minute of the first game, against Switzerland. Scoring once in the following game against Scotland and twice", "id": "13592539" }, { "contents": "Teddy Sheringham\n\n\nthe 2000 European Championships by then manager Kevin Keegan, but the retirement of Shearer (despite being four years younger than Sheringham) from international football after that tournament and the arrival of new manager Sven-Göran Eriksson in 2001 saw a return to international favour for him. He was often deployed as a tactical substitute late in games by Eriksson, valued for his ability to hold the ball up and create intelligent play. In 2001, Sheringham scored an important goal for England against Greece in a World Cup qualifying match within 15 seconds", "id": "2997070" }, { "contents": "Ruud Gullit\n\n\n, chairman Ken Bates famously said of Gullit, \"I didn't like his arrogance – in fact I never liked him.\" In August 1998, Gullit was named manager of Newcastle United two games into the new league season and reached the 1999 FA Cup Final in his first year. Fans remained supportive despite a poor run of results, although a well-publicised contretemps with the team's top scorer Alan Shearer and captain Robert Lee did not put him in a favourable light. Gullit even refused to assign Lee a squad", "id": "13592616" }, { "contents": "Scott Parker\n\n\ndefeat on 25 March 2006. Later that month he was diagnosed with glandular fever, putting an end to his season. The timing was especially unfortunate for Parker, who had been playing well for Newcastle, as it ended any hopes he may have had of forcing his way into the 2006 FIFA World Cup. In July 2006, he was named Newcastle United's new captain by manager Glenn Roeder, succeeding the retired Alan Shearer. His first goal as captain came against Wigan Athletic on 19 August 2006, in a 2–1 win", "id": "14327157" }, { "contents": "History of football in England\n\n\n. United's main challengers for the title in the Premier League's first few years were Blackburn Rovers, led by star striker Alan Shearer, also won their first league title since World War I in 1994–95, and Newcastle United, who famously conceded a 10-point lead at Christmas to lose the title to United in 1995–96. Newcastle had reached the Premiership in 1993 as Division One champions, and in their first Premiership campaign finished third to qualify for the UEFA Cup. They finished second in 1996 and again in 1997, but by", "id": "3652862" }, { "contents": "1992–93 FA Premier League\n\n\nPremier League as an attempt by the Football Association to \"hijack\" the First Division. Shortly before the season began, newly promoted Blackburn Rovers signed Southampton's 21-year-old England international striker Alan Shearer for a new British record fee variously reported as £3.3 million, £3.4 million, or £3.6 million. Several other players moved for fees of £2 million or more, including Arsenal's David Rocastle, who joined Leeds United, Dean Saunders, who moved from Liverpool to Aston Villa, and Teddy Sheringham, who", "id": "12442383" }, { "contents": "Darren Anderton\n\n\nhappy at the prospect of losing another key player as he had already lost Jürgen Klinsmann and Gheorghe Popescu that summer; and Nick Barmby was on the verge of joining Middlesbrough. Despite missing most of the 1995–96 season through injury, Anderton played an important part in the Euro 96 England team that reached the semi-finals and included players like Paul Gascoigne, Alan Shearer, Steve McManaman and Teddy Sheringham. In the semi final against Germany, the match went to golden goal extra time. Anderton came within inches of putting England into", "id": "4331581" }, { "contents": "Wallsend Boys Club\n\n\nJanuary which damaged one of the walls of the building. Professional players to have played for the club include: The club has had a representative at four of the six FIFA World Cup finals since 1986, with the two exceptions coming in 1994, when the England national football team did not qualify, and 2002. In 1986 and 1990 Peter Beardsley starred for England. In 1998 Alan Shearer was England captain. Michael Carrick made appearances for England in both the 2006 and 2010 tournaments. Fraser Forster was in the 2014 squad but", "id": "21182372" }, { "contents": "Harry Kane\n\n\n\". Clive Allen, who coached him at Tottenham, stated that \"one thing I'd say about him, which unfortunately you don't say about a lot of young footballers, is that he had a passion for the game. He loves football, he loves playing, he loves scoring goals\". His former Tottenham under-21 coach Les Ferdinand likened Kane's movement to their former forward Teddy Sheringham, and the power and accuracy of his shots to Alan Shearer. Kane's style of play has been compared to that of", "id": "1925319" }, { "contents": "Kieron Dyer\n\n\nthat he would soon rejoin for Ipswich. After representing England at Youth, Under 21 and \"B\" level, Dyer's debut for the senior team came on 4 September 1999 when he started in England's 6–0 win against Luxembourg. He was deployed out of position at right back, and was replaced by Gary Neville at half-time after injuring himself while setting up Alan Shearer's third goal of the match. The injury was not serious and he was able to make his second England appearance four days later, coming", "id": "17666181" }, { "contents": "1996–97 Blackburn Rovers F.C. season\n\n\nthe end of the season, when he handed over the reins to Roy Hodgson after Sampdoria's Sven-Göran Eriksson lied about accepting the manager's job and joined Lazio instead. Parkes steered Blackburn to safety as they finished 13th. The world record £15 million sale of striker Alan Shearer to Newcastle United was seen as the biggest factor in Blackburn's lowest top flight finish since they returned to the elite in 1992. However, his strike-partner Chris Sutton helped keep the club alive after recovering from a drastic loss of", "id": "7811146" }, { "contents": "Michael Owen\n\n\nmuch of the campaign as England struggled, with Hoddle being replaced by Kevin Keegan. On 4 September 1999, he scored his first goal at Wembley Stadium in a 6–0 win over Luxembourg. At the finals, Owen scored once in three matches, as England were knocked out at the group stage. After Alan Shearer's retirement, Owen took over as England's senior striker under new manager Sven-Göran Eriksson. He scored six times during 2002 World Cup qualifying, including a hat-trick against Germany at Munich's Olympiastadion", "id": "21886807" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nyet to start the UEFA Pro Licence course, which is required to be permitted to manage a team in the Premier League and European competition. Reflecting his desire for personal time off to \"enjoy life\", in July 2006 he turned down a coaching role with England, citing his BBC commitments and desire to be away from the pressure of a job within football. Despite this, Shearer was often linked in the media with managerial or coaching positions at his three former clubs. Shearer took a brief role in the dugout for", "id": "13592550" }, { "contents": "History of Southampton F.C.\n\n\nappearances for the England national team – he finally retired in 2002 at the age of 33. During his time with the Saints, Le Tissier was approached more than once by several bigger clubs (including Manchester United) but chose to stick with the Saints despite never winning a major trophy or experiencing European football with them. From 1989 to 1992, Le Tissier was regularly partnered up front by another notable player, Alan Shearer, who as a 17-year-old had scored a hat-trick on his Saints debut against Arsenal in", "id": "15948278" }, { "contents": "Sir Bobby Robson Trophy match\n\n\nNewcastle United, picking up on Alan Shearer's reply of \"I know as much as you do,\" to a pre-match question as to whether he would be installed as Newcastle manager for the forthcoming season beginning in 13 days, with the club being up for sale and with the first team without a manager, being in the care of coach Chris Hughton. Neither the Newcastle United owner Mike Ashley or managing director Derek Llambias were in attendance at the charity match. Having left England after Italia '90, Sir", "id": "19612022" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nChancellor Liam Donaldson stated \"Newcastle United are my team. Alan Shearer is more than just a local legend, he's probably one of the greatest footballers of all time\". On 12 September 2016, a statue of Shearer's likeness was unveiled outside St James' Park. It was sculpted by Tom Maley, and paid for by the Shepherd family. After his retirement and following guest appearances, Shearer became a regular pundit for the BBC's \"Match of the Day\". He also formed part of the team which", "id": "13592563" }, { "contents": "Gary McAllister\n\n\ntournament, scoring in a 3–0 win over the CIS. However, Scotland did not qualify from their group. Scotland failed to qualify for the 1994 FIFA World Cup but did qualify for UEFA Euro 1996 in England, with McAllister the captain of the team. Scotland's second match of the group stage was against England at Wembley Stadium. In the second half Scotland, trailing 0–1 to an Alan Shearer goal, were awarded a penalty. McAllister's kick was saved by David Seaman and Scotland lost 0–2. The team won their", "id": "19492391" }, { "contents": "David Seaman\n\n\nEngland's quarter-final against Spain ended scoreless, Seaman saved Miguel Angel Nadal's kick in the shootout to knock Spain out of the tournament. England eventually were eliminated in the semi-final by Germany on penalties,after Andreas Köpke saved the penalty taken by Gareth Southgate. Seaman was named alongside Golden Boot winner Alan Shearer and winger Steve McManaman in the UEFA \"Team of the Tournament\". Euro 96 sponsor Philips named him \"Player of the Tournament\". Seaman remained first choice under the management of Glenn Hoddle for", "id": "7321893" }, { "contents": "1998 FA Cup Final\n\n\nand so has the mixture between the foreign and English players.\" Wenger reserved praise for the goalscorers Overmars (\"a world-class player\") and Anelka (\"Nicolas is very young. But you saw in the second half today what he can do\"), and felt the turning point in the match was Shearer's shot hitting the post. He sympathised with Newcastle, as did his captain, Adams who said afterwards: \"The team and their fans did everything they could out there, but it was", "id": "10844688" }, { "contents": "David McMahon (association footballer)\n\n\nabout the role of striker from watching England international Alan Shearer in training, but likened himself more to Newcastle's Scotland international Duncan Ferguson, \"because I am taller and like to battle for things in the air.\" Brian Kerr, then manager of Ireland under-17s, described McMahon as honest and hard-working, \"not the most skilful player, but will get goals\", but Darlington manager Gary Bennett believed there was more to his game: that he and strike partner John Williams both had enough skill to play a", "id": "5423888" }, { "contents": "Andy Carroll\n\n\nUEFA Euro 2012. He opened the scoring for England with a powerful header in their second group match against Sweden, which England went on to win 3–2. Carroll has been compared to Newcastle's record goalscorer Alan Shearer, Ivory Coast striker Didier Drogba and former Italy forward Christian Vieri. He has also been referred to as a classic centre forward, owing to his strength, powerful shot and excellent heading ability. Former Newcastle manager and Liverpool player Kevin Keegan stated \"he is probably in the top three headers of a ball I", "id": "11961542" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\n-chasing Manchester United. On the opening day of the 1999–2000 season, Shearer received the first red card of his career in his 100th appearance for Newcastle. After dropping Shearer to the bench in a Tyne-Wear derby loss against Sunderland, the unpopular Gullit resigned to be replaced by the 66-year-old Bobby Robson. Despite Gullit giving Shearer the captain's armband, reports of a rift between club captain and manager were rife, Gullit's decision to drop Shearer proved deeply unpopular with fans and his departure capped a dismal start", "id": "13592525" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nAn almost injury-free season helped Shearer improve on his previous year's tally in the 1998–99 season, the striker converting 14 goals in 30 league games and replacing Rob Lee as Newcastle captain, but Newcastle finished 13th again, with Ruud Gullit having replaced Kenny Dalglish just after the season got underway. He also helped Newcastle to a second consecutive FA Cup final and qualification for the following season's UEFA Cup, scoring twice in the semi-final against Tottenham Hotspur, but they once again lost, this time 2–0 to treble", "id": "13592524" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nhis final three games under Glenn Roeder. Shearer had rejected offers of coaching or assistant roles at Newcastle under both the returning Kevin Keegan in February 2008 and Joe Kinnear in November 2008. Shearer had previously had talks about, but never been offered, a full-time manager's role at Newcastle until his appointment on 1 April 2009. In a surprise move, late on 1 April 2009, it was announced that Shearer would become the manager of his former club Newcastle United for the remaining eight games of the season, taking", "id": "13592551" }, { "contents": "Fabio Cannavaro\n\n\nnational team on 22 January 1997, in a friendly match against Northern Ireland. The same year, he earned plaudits for his handling of England striker Alan Shearer in a World Cup qualifying game at Wembley Stadium. Shearer was then considered by the partisan English crowd to be the best striker in the world, and thought he would make fun of the inexperienced Italian defender. Nevertheless, in a display ranking alongside those of the very best Italian defenders Claudio Gentile and Franco Baresi, Cannavaro managed to keep Shearer quiet for the whole game", "id": "3625067" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\n, with media sources claiming that video footage showed him intentionally kicking Neil Lennon in the head following a challenge. The referee of the game took no action against Shearer, and he was then cleared of all charges by the FA, with Lennon giving evidence in the player's defence. Former Football Association chief Graham Kelly, who brought the charges against the player, later claimed in his autobiography that Shearer had threatened to withdraw himself from the 1998 World Cup squad if the charges were upheld, a claim strenuously denied by Shearer.", "id": "13592523" }, { "contents": "History of the Romania national football team\n\n\nminnows Tunisia. Adrian Ilie scored the only goal with a fine chip in their first match against Colombia at Lyon's Stade Gerland. In Toulouse, they met an England side starting with prodigal striker Michael Owen on the bench, with Teddy Sheringham preferred alongside Alan Shearer. A mistake by Tony Adams was punished by Viorel Moldovan, who played for Coventry City, before Owen came on to claim an equalizer. But Romania won with a scrappy late goal from Dan Petrescu, also playing in England with Chelsea, fighting off his club", "id": "16435718" }, { "contents": "John Barnes (footballer)\n\n\nNewcastle United, although an approach had already been made by Harry Redknapp of West Ham; Barnes had agreed in principle to join them until at the final moment Dalglish called him and Barnes changed his mind. In the 1997–98 season Barnes played up front mostly, deputising for Alan Shearer after Shearer was injured for most of the season, and Barnes ended up Newcastle's top league scorer with six goals, which highlighted the Magpies' lack of ability to score in the absence of Shearer and Ferdinand (who had been sold along with", "id": "19616669" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\ncould not find a more iconic person than Alan, not just for what he has done in football but for all the extra work he tirelessly does for charity and communities. I am delighted he has accepted the role of Deputy Lieutenant because he is a real role model. I have promised him he is not going to have to do too much, but even if it is just one occasion a year he is the perfect choice\" On 7 December 2009, Shearer was made a Doctor of Civil Law by Newcastle University.", "id": "13592562" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nLaw of Northumbria and Newcastle Universities. Shearer was born in Gosforth, Newcastle, in 1970 to working-class parents Alan and Anne Shearer. His father, a sheet-metal worker, encouraged a keen Shearer to play football in his youth, and the young player continued with the sport as he progressed through school. He was educated at Gosforth Central Middle School and Gosforth High School. Growing up playing on the streets of his hometown, he originally played in midfield because \"it meant [he] could get more involved", "id": "13592504" }, { "contents": "Paul Kitson\n\n\n. Newcastle finished second that season after being overhauled in the second half campaign by a Manchester United side who sealed the title by a five-point margin barely four months after Newcastle had led by 10 points, but Kitson's part in Newcastle's exciting though ultimately disappointing campaign had been minimal as he had played just seven league games and scored twice. But he remained loyal to the Magpies even after another blow at the end of July 1996 – the arrival of £15 million world record signing Alan Shearer. He managed three", "id": "19054464" }, { "contents": "Ray Harford\n\n\nthe Premier League for much of the season. During the summer of 1996, Alan Shearer was sold to Newcastle United for a then world record fee of £15 million, and Harford failed to adequately replace him. Harford stated that \"I'm told we need a big name. Engelbert Humperdinck is a big name but it doesn't mean he can play football.\" The 1996–97 season also started badly for Blackburn. They failed to win any of their first ten games and were knocked out of the League Cup by Division", "id": "5365351" }, { "contents": "Patrick Kluivert\n\n\nagain featured for Barca in a legends game against Uganda all stars where he, in lobbing the ball, scored an amazing goal. Kluivert joined Newcastle United on a free transfer in July 2004. He stated that his reasons for joining Newcastle was due to the overwhelming reaction he received whilst playing for Barcelona against Newcastle during a pre season friendly as well as teaming up with Newcastle's star players such as Alan Shearer. Kluivert scored some classy and crucial goals at and away from St James's Park namely in winning strikes against both", "id": "21654890" }, { "contents": "Duncan Shearer\n\n\nbetween 1994 and 1995, scoring two goals including an important opening strike in an away win over Finland which helped the national side qualify for Euro 96, although Shearer did not make the squad for that tournament. The senior team was his first experience of international football, having never played at any age-group level. He achieved a childhood ambition when he played in the national team alongside John McGinlay, a childhood friend also from Fort William. In season 1999–00 he began to concentrate more on coaching than playing, and was", "id": "3716411" }, { "contents": "Les Ferdinand\n\n\nscored 50 goals in only 84 games at Newcastle, forming a successful partnership with Alan Shearer. He was and indeed is still very highly thought of by Newcastle United. Ferdinand received a standing ovation when he returned to St. James' Park as a Tottenham player, trying to put Alan Shearer's number 9 shirt on to complete a lap of honour, he broke down in tears and could only manage to put the shirt on inside out and back to front before being helped from the field. Ferdinand returned again, when he", "id": "2996528" }, { "contents": "David Platt (footballer)\n\n\nTurkey, San Marino, the Netherlands and Norway. The qualifiers began at home to Norway. England dominated the game and Platt carried the goal threat, with Alan Shearer and Ian Wright struggling to find form. He scored the opening goal after an hour. England dominated the remainder of the game and were unlucky to concede to a long-range shot from Kjetil Rekdal. Platt continued his drive from midfield in wins over Turkey at home (4-0) and San Marino (6-0). Platt scored four", "id": "16718350" }, { "contents": "Jason Wilcox\n\n\n-pound investments of Jack Walker. He played an important part in the title-winning Blackburn team of 1995. Playing on the left flank with attacking fullback Graeme Le Saux behind him and Stuart Ripley on the opposite flank, they forged a strong attacking line-up with Alan Shearer and Chris Sutton. International recognition was harder to come by for Wilcox and he managed only 3 international caps despite his effective partnership with Shearer, Le Saux and Tim Sherwood. Lengthy injury problems restricted his effectiveness in subsequent seasons and, after experiencing", "id": "14527253" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nclub's form, and Newcastle finished just 13th in the Premier League. However, United (now managed by Shearer's old boss at Blackburn, Kenny Dalglish) had a good run in the FA Cup; Shearer scored the winning goal in a semi-final victory over Sheffield United as the team reached the final. The team were unable to get on the scoresheet at Wembley, and lost the game 2–0 to Arsenal. An incident during a game against Leicester City in the league saw Shearer charged with misconduct by the FA", "id": "13592522" }, { "contents": "Aleksandar Mitrović (footballer)\n\n\nhim the competition's top scorer, and 28 in all competitions. On 22 March 2015, he scored the team's only goal in the 2–1 Belgian Cup Final loss to Club Brugge KV in Brussels. On 21 July 2015, Mitrović joined Newcastle United on a five-year contract for a reported £13 million, saying he hoped to be able to play like club legend Alan Shearer. He made his debut on 9 August as Newcastle began the season with a 2–2 draw against Southampton at St James' Park, playing", "id": "20923735" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nWest Bromwich Albion, Manchester City and Newcastle United, before being offered a youth contract with Southampton in April 1986. Shearer was promoted to the first team after spending two years with the youth squad. He made his professional debut for Southampton on 26 March 1988, coming on as a substitute in a First Division fixture at Chelsea, before prompting national headlines in his full debut at The Dell two weeks later. He scored a hat-trick, helping the team to a 4–2 victory against Arsenal, thus becoming the youngest player", "id": "13592506" }, { "contents": "James Milner\n\n\ndo what was \"in the club's best interest\" and in July 2004, he agreed a five-year contract with Newcastle. Milner made his first appearance for Newcastle United during their pre-season tour of Asia, scoring his first goal for the club in a 1–1 draw against Kitchee, in Hong Kong. During this tour, he took the opportunity to observe how Newcastle striker Alan Shearer dealt with attention from fans and the media. He said that his association with people like Shearer gave him a better idea of", "id": "1860603" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nretain the ball and provide opportunities for teammates. Playing as a lone striker between wide men, Rod Wallace and Matt Le Tissier, Shearer scored three goals in 26 appearances in the 1989–90 season, and in the next, four goals in 36 games. His performances in the centre of the \"Saints\" attack were soon recognised by the fans, who voted him their Player of the Year for 1991. In the middle of 1991, Shearer was a member of the England national under-21 football squad in the Toulon Tournament in Toulon", "id": "13592508" }, { "contents": "Teddy Sheringham\n\n\n, creating play and providing key passes, forming the link between Shearer and the England midfield. The pairing came to be known as 'The SAS' ('Shearer and Sheringham') and their most successful time together came in the 1996 European Championships, held in England. Their most famous contribution was in the 4–1 victory over the Netherlands, a game in the opening group stages in which they both scored twice against one of the strongest teams in the tournament. Though England were eventually knocked out in the semi-finals", "id": "2997067" }, { "contents": "History of the England national football team\n\n\ninto Euro 2000 after a 2–1 aggregate playoff win over Scotland. At the finals in Belgium and the Netherlands, a lacklustre England failed to get beyond the group stage, losing to both Portugal and Romania after leading in each game. After England's exit, Alan Shearer retired from international football, he had announced his intentions before the tournament, and no-one could persuade him to change his mind. On 7 October 2000, shortly after losing the opening World Cup qualifier to Germany in the last-ever game at Wembley", "id": "15089411" }, { "contents": "Premier League 10 Seasons Awards\n\n\nrepresented, with five players. The teams were as follows: English striker Alan Shearer was named Domestic Player of the Decade in the main 10 Seasons awards announcements, in addition to being given the Outstanding Contribution to the FA Premier League award. Two weeks later he was also named as the Overall Player of the Decade. In the first decade, Shearer played for Blackburn Rovers, and then Newcastle United. Shearer has been described as a classic English centre-forward with great shooting power, a single-minded striker who could", "id": "11856460" }, { "contents": "Wartime League\n\n\narguments debate that a player who exceeds one's record through their wartime matches should nonetheless be seen as the club's highest goal scorer or appearance having been part of the team's squad even if only for a short time. The most recent argument relates to the goal-difference between Jackie Milburn's and Alan Shearer's Newcastle United goal-scoring records. When counting Jackie's wartime matches, he scored a total of 238 professional goals for Newcastle United FC. In May 2005, Alan Shearer finished his career at 206 goals", "id": "17626256" }, { "contents": "Jon Dahl Tomasson\n\n\nas the perfect link-up player to England national team striker Alan Shearer. The partnership initially worked well, with Tomasson impressing during a pre-season friendly tournament in the Republic of Ireland. However, a career threatening injury to Shearer, combined with the controversial transfer of popular striker Les Ferdinand to Tottenham Hotspur, meant that Tomasson was moved from his traditional attacking midfield position to that of striker. He struggled to adapt to his new position on the field, and to the English game, due to his lack of physical", "id": "19324628" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\ncovered the World Cups and European Championships from 2006 onwards for the BBC. Former Newcastle chairman Freddy Shepherd announced that, after Shearer finished the 2005–06 season as Newcastle's caretaker assistant manager, he would become the club's \"Sporting Ambassador\" for the 2006–07 season. However, in September 2008, it was reported that Shearer was removed from this largely honorary position by the club's owner Mike Ashley, despite protests from players such as Steven Taylor and Damien Duff, due to Shearer's criticism of the way in which the club", "id": "13592564" }, { "contents": "1998 FA Cup Final\n\n\nthe final that Bergkamp had resumed training and \"medically he looked all right\", but the player received a further setback when he suffered a reaction to his hamstring. He ruled himself out of the match and told reporters: \"I'm very disappointed. As a little boy in Holland I always watched the FA Cup final. And I used to dream about playing in it myself one day.\" Ian Wright was listed as Bergkamp's probable replacement to partner Anelka. Newcastle had their own issues surrounding Shearer. The England", "id": "10844676" }, { "contents": "2008–09 in English football\n\n\n's surprise resignation in December; whilst their final points tally wasn't spectacular, they had the satisfaction of being the top North-East team in football after both Middlesbrough and Newcastle United were relegated, ending 11 and 16 year spells in the top flight respectively, the latter going through four managers in Kevin Keegan, Joe Kinnear, Chris Hughton and even former striker Alan Shearer during the campaign. Despite a brilliant start to the season which saw them as high as third place in October, Hull City won just 1 of their", "id": "1311754" }, { "contents": "1996 FA Charity Shield\n\n\nfrom Eric Cantona, Nicky Butt, David Beckham and Roy Keane. The game saw new signings Jordi Cruyff and Karel Poborský make their debuts for Manchester United, though neither of these players had particularly successful careers at Old Trafford and both had left the club within four years. The day before the game had seen the surprise sale of one of Manchester United's longest serving players — Lee Sharpe. The game saw Newcastle United give a debut to £15 million world record signing Alan Shearer, who would remain at the club until", "id": "2797098" }, { "contents": "UEFA Euro 2016 knockout phase\n\n\nsection begin=g6 /section end=g6 / section begin=g7 /section end=g7 / The match has been described as one of England's worst defeats ever. Former footballer and Talksport presenter Stan Collymore, who was commentating on the game, panned the England team, reserving special criticism for goalkeeper Joe Hart and captain Wayne Rooney. Former England international and BBC Sport pundit Alan Shearer described it as the worst performance he had ever seen from an England team. The defeat was called England's most shocking since losing 1–0 to", "id": "11344909" }, { "contents": "Maurice E. Shearer\n\n\nApplication at Annapolis, Maryland, with classmates Holland Smith, Ralph S. Keyser and Andrew B. Drum. In July, Shearer sailed for duty to be the commander of the 35 man Marine detachment on Midway Island. In May 1908, he was selected for promotion to first lieutenant and to the rank of captain in June 1916. During World War I, forces under Major Shearer's command made an attack on Belleau Wood, finally clearing that forest of Germans. On 26 June 1918, he sent a now famous report: \"", "id": "8315540" }, { "contents": "Newcastle upon Tyne\n\n\nF.C. became Football League members in 1893. They have won four top division titles (the first in 1905 and the most recent in 1927), six FA Cups (the first in 1910 and the most recent in 1955) and the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup in 1969. They broke the world transfer record in 1996 by paying £15 million for Blackburn Rovers and England striker Alan Shearer, one of the most prolific goalscorers of that era. In 2017 Newcastle was the venue for the 2017 Freedom City festival. The 2017", "id": "20529704" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\ngame and came off the bench to score a penalty, helping Newcastle win the game 3–2. The match was a sell-out, and saw Shearer perform a lap of honour at the end with his family, with his young son notably covering his ears due to the volume of noise produced by the crowd in tribute. Shearer's international career began in 1990 when he was handed a callup to the England under-21 squad under Dave Sexton. During his time with the squad, he scored 13 times in 11 games, a", "id": "13592537" }, { "contents": "2011–12 Cardiff City F.C. season\n\n\nserving manager in the Championship having held his post since May 2005. The club held talks with former England and Newcastle United captain Alan Shearer to replace Jones but he rejected the job despite stating that he was impressed with the \"vision, ambition and determination of the owner Dato Chan Tien Ghee and the board\". The \"Bluebirds\" instead approached Championship rivals Watford for permission to speak to their manager Malky Mackay, which was initially rejected. However, after the two clubs agreed a compensation fee, Mackay was officially appointed as", "id": "7599659" }, { "contents": "Kevin Keegan\n\n\nto Michael Owen, stating, \"He's not scared to give his opinion when he's right, and he's not scared to say what he feels. He's a tremendous professional, and he trains properly every day.\" Keegan announced on 22 January that he and Alan Shearer held talks about the two linking up with Shearer as his assistant, but decided against the idea, leaving the door open for him to take other roles he was interested in. Keegan's first eight games back at Newcastle passed without a", "id": "826473" }, { "contents": "Transfer (association football)\n\n\n£3.6 million Alan Shearer moved to Blackburn Rovers from Southampton, a decade after the world's first £3 million transfer. Lentini's transfer remained intact the world record fee for the next four years, although the national record was broken more than once in many countries including England. Shearer's £3.6million record fee was narrowly eclipsed 12 months later when Manchester United signed Roy Keane from Nottingham Forest for £3.75 million. In 1994, Blackburn Rovers paid a record £5 million for Chris Sutton from Norwich City, a decade", "id": "11200095" }, { "contents": "Roy Hodgson\n\n\nagainst Costa Rica to finish bottom of Group D. Hodgson named Rooney as the new captain of England in August 2014, following the retirement of Steven Gerrard from international football. Hodgson's first match after the World Cup was a 1–0 win against Norway in an international friendly match at Wembley on 3 September 2014. During the match, England made only two shots on target. Hodgson was infuriated when asked about this, describing the statistic as \"fucking bollocks\". Former England player, Alan Shearer, admitted that the match was so", "id": "12858624" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nto the season. The animosity between Shearer and Gullit was later confirmed by the latter, who reported telling the striker that he was \"...the most overrated player I have ever seen.\" Ironically, Robson had tried to sign Shearer for Barcelona in 1997, making a bid of £20million which would have seen Shearer break the world's transfer fee record for the second time in 12 months. However, then Newcastle manager Kenny Dalglish rejected the offer. In Robson's first match in charge, Shearer scored five goals in", "id": "13592526" }, { "contents": "Premier League 10 Seasons Awards\n\n\nin his talks with Alex Ferguson, he could not guarantee that Eric Cantona the Overseas Player of the Decade could be persuaded to let Shearer take penalty kicks. Shearer gained a second PFA Players' Player of the Year Award in April 1997, becoming just the second player to have received the PFA award twice, after Mark Hughes. After the 2000 European Championships, Shearer had retired from international football with England, having been England captain since 1998, and having made his senior début in 1992. Shearer was awarded the OBE in", "id": "11856465" }, { "contents": "Emile Heskey\n\n\nthe two matches, with former England international Alan Shearer commenting, \"Never in a million years did I expect to be discussing whether Emile Heskey should keep his place ahead of Wayne Rooney but the Wigan striker was outstanding over both matches.\" Heskey was called into manager Fabio Capello's first squad against Switzerland, but had to withdraw due to an injury. He was called into the squad for a friendly against the Czech Republic in August 2008 and came on as a 46th-minute substitute, in a match that finished 2–2", "id": "174986" }, { "contents": "Habib Beye\n\n\nUEFA Cup Final, a run which involved him putting in a star performance as a central defender against (his now former team) Newcastle United, where he was particularly effective against Newcastle's talisman striker Alan Shearer. He ended up on the losing side as Marseille lost the final to Valencia 2–0. He was also a beaten finalist in the 2006 French Cup against former club Paris Saint-Germain, a match which his team lost 2–1, and again in 2007 when his Marseille team lost on penalties to FC Sochaux. His", "id": "16217445" }, { "contents": "Stan Collymore\n\n\nseason in the Premier League, Collymore was called up to Terry Venables' England squad for the Umbro Cup in June 1995. He made his début at Wembley Stadium against Japan, partnering Alan Shearer in a 2–1 win. He won his second cap as a 90th minute substitute against Brazil. Collymore made his third and final appearance for England as a substitute in a 4–0 win over Moldova during qualification for the 1998 FIFA World Cup. Collymore contributed to his biography \"Stan: Tackling my demons\" with Oliver Holt. In 2005", "id": "3955590" }, { "contents": "Graeme Souness\n\n\nAt £8.2 million, Boumsong was his first big signing and Souness said he would replace Jonathan Woodgate in the Newcastle defence, which had conceded several leads earlier in the season. Newcastle were well aware of Boumsong prior to his move from Auxerre to Rangers on a free transfer. Robson had travelled to France to watch him, but he declined the opportunity to sign Boumsong. Liverpool were also interested in signing Boumsong. Robson's doubts were confirmed when Boumsong marked Alan Shearer in a pre-season game against Rangers. Shearer came", "id": "18029254" }, { "contents": "Saido Berahino\n\n\nrate of a goal every other match, including three to help the team qualify for the European Championship. Berahino has the all-time third-highest goal tally for the England under-21 side with 10 goals in 13 appearances, behind Francis Jeffers and Alan Shearer. On 6 November 2014, England manager Roy Hodgson – who promoted Berahino to the West Bromwich Albion first team in 2011 – named Berahino in his squad for the first time, ahead of a UEFA Euro 2016 qualifying match against Slovenia at Wembley Stadium on the 15th and", "id": "1000466" } ]

[ { "contents": "Tony Adams\n\n\n\"I have some resentment over the way Glenn Hoddle gave the captaincy to Alan Shearer instead of me but I can let that go. I reacted positively. I disagreed with him [Hoddle] and he thought Alan could get more penalties being a centre forward. People know my reaction to that\". Adams continued to play for the national side, however and he finally appeared in a World Cup finals in 1998. His international swansong was England's unsuccessful Euro 2000 campaign. With Shearer retiring from international football after the tournament", "id": "6104102" }, { "contents": "Tony Adams\n\n\nin defence, and after the retirement of Gary Lineker in 1992, Adams unofficially shared the captaincy of England with David Platt, though Adams became England captain outright before Euro 96, as Platt's place in the side became less secure. England reached the semi-finals of Euro 96, before losing on penalties to Germany. When England manager Glenn Hoddle took the Captain's armband from Adams and gave it to Alan Shearer it was a bitter pill for Adams to swallow. Speaking at a fans' forum in 2008 Adams remarked", "id": "6104101" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nThis time, Germany won from the spot; although Shearer scored, his teammate Gareth Southgate missed his kick and England were eliminated. Shearer's five goals made him the competition's top scorer, and together with teammates David Seaman and Steve McManaman, was listed in the official UEFA team of the tournament. The new England manager Glenn Hoddle appointed Shearer captain for the 1998 FIFA World Cup qualifier against Moldova on 1 September 1996, and the player held onto the captaincy after scoring once in that match and twice in the following game", "id": "13592541" }, { "contents": "Dimitar Berbatov\n\n\nhe consequently modelled himself after Marco van Basten, the Dutch forward for that team. However, the 1996 European Championship, held in England, gave Berbatov a new role model; the 15-year-old Berbatov began to look up to the English front man Alan Shearer, who played for Newcastle United. Berbatov's mother later spoke of her son's teenage dream of playing for Newcastle United, and said that his admiration for Shearer was such that, during these years, he slept in a Newcastle shirt. Berbatov began his youth", "id": "3905446" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\n's participation in what was to be Shearer's only World Cup tournament. In September 1999, Shearer scored his only England hat-trick in a UEFA Euro 2000 qualifier against Luxembourg. This helped England reach a play-off against Scotland; England won the game over two legs and in doing so qualified for the European Championships. By now, Shearer was approaching his 30th birthday, and he announced that he intended to retire from international football after the Euro 2000 tournament. Shearer did not score in England's opening 3–2 defeat", "id": "13592544" }, { "contents": "Southampton F.C.\n\n\nwas Alan Shearer, who at the age of 17 scored a hat-trick against Arsenal in a league match in April 1988. Shearer was a first team regular by 1990, and stayed with Southampton until July 1992, when he was sold to Blackburn Rovers for a national record of more than £3 million. He then became the most expensive footballer in the world when Blackburn sold him to Newcastle for £15 million in 1996. He also scored 30 times for England internationally. Southampton were founding members of the Premier League", "id": "3265953" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\ntime to play in England's UEFA European Championship campaign. After Euro 96, Manchester United again sought to sign Shearer, and attempted to enter the battle for his signature. However Manchester United chairman Martin Edwards stated that Blackburn Rovers refused to let Shearer go to Old Trafford. Ultimately Shearer joined his boyhood club: Newcastle United, Manchester United's title rivals. On 30 July 1996, for a world transfer record-breaking £15 million (equivalent to £ million today) Shearer joined his hometown club and league runners-up", "id": "13592519" }, { "contents": "History of the England national football team\n\n\nyear after his last game at club level. Hoddle selected Alan Shearer as captain, replacing Tony Adams, but also brought a number of emerging talents into the squad, including the Manchester United midfield trio of Paul Scholes, Nicky Butt and David Beckham, and central defenders Rio Ferdinand and Sol Campbell. Hoddle oversaw England's qualification for the 1998 World Cup (the first World Cup with 32 teams instead of 24) with a 0–0 draw against Italy at the Stadio Olimpico in Rome, and drew out a winning performance in the", "id": "15089406" }, { "contents": "History of the England national football team\n\n\nthe underwhelming performance at the World Cup, England suffered a poor start to the Euro 2000 qualifying tournament, and there was reported discontent between Hoddle and several senior players, most notably Shearer. Hoddle was dismissed on 2 February 1999, two days after an interview with \"The Sunday Times\" in which he spoke about his belief in reincarnation and claimed that disabled people were paying for sins in a previous life. Under considerable media and public pressure, the FA appointed former captain Kevin Keegan, who only just managed to get England", "id": "15089410" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nagainst Poland. He scored a total of five goals in England's successful qualification campaign for the World Cup, adding strikes against Georgia and away to Poland to his tally. Shearer was sidelined for much of the 1997–98 season, but recovered to play in the World Cup finals. With Michael Owen replacing Teddy Sheringham as Shearer's strike partner, Shearer's return saw him score England's first goal of the tournament, in a 2–0 win over Tunisia, his only goal in the three group matches. England faced long-time", "id": "13592542" }, { "contents": "Newcastle United F.C.\n\n\n. The attacking philosophy of Keegan led to the team being labelled \"The Entertainers\" by Sky Sports. Keegan took Newcastle to two consecutive runners-up finishes in the league in 1995–96 and 1996–97, coming very close to winning the title in the former season. This success was in part due to the talent of players like David Ginola, Les Ferdinand and Alan Shearer, who was signed on 30 July 1996 for a then world record fee of £15 million. Keegan left Newcastle in January 1997 and was replaced by Kenny", "id": "12636363" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nAlan Shearer, CBE, DL (born 13 August 1970) is an English retired footballer. He played as a striker in the top level of English league football for Southampton, Blackburn Rovers, Newcastle United and the England national team. He is Newcastle's and the Premier League's record goalscorer. He was named Football Writers' Association Player of the Year in 1994 and won the PFA Player of the Year award in 1995. In 1996, he was third in the FIFA World Player of the Year awards. In 2004", "id": "13592501" }, { "contents": "Teddy Sheringham\n\n\nmanager Terry Venables (1994–96) Sheringham came to be the preferred strike partner for Alan Shearer. During this time, England had a wealth of strikers with the likes of Andrew Cole, Ian Wright, a young Robbie Fowler and Les Ferdinand all battling to partner Shearer in the England team. The two formed a famous partnership at international level, as they complemented each other's strengths: Shearer the out-and-out goalscorer, big, strong and powerful, Sheringham just 'dropping off' his strike partner, finding spaces", "id": "2997066" }, { "contents": "History of Newcastle United F.C.\n\n\n's title chances for the 1994–95 season, in which they finished sixth. The club, however, continued to build up a reputation for playing attacking football under Keegan. In the 1995–96 season, high-profile foreign stars David Ginola and Faustino Asprilla, in addition to British players Peter Beardsley and striker Les Ferdinand, guided the team to a second-place finish. During the 1996–97 season, Keegan made one signing, securing the services of England striker Alan Shearer for a then-world record transfer fee of £15 million", "id": "6803863" }, { "contents": "1996–97 Newcastle United F.C. season\n\n\n...I think Kevin wanted it free-flowing in all departments and that doesn't necessarily happen.\" Keegan responded to the previous season's disappointment by breaking the world record transfer fee to sign centre forward Alan Shearer from Blackburn Rovers for £15 million. Shearer, whose five goals made him the top scorer in Euro 96, had supported Newcastle since childhood – he had been a ball-boy at St James' Park on the day that Keegan had left in a helicopter after his final Newcastle appearance as a player.", "id": "1207050" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nin the games.\" Shearer captained his school team and helped a Newcastle City Schools team win a seven-a-side tournament at St James' Park, before joining the amateur Wallsend Boys Club as a teenager. It was while playing for the Wallsend club that he was spotted by Southampton's scout, Jack Hixon, which resulted in Shearer spending his summers training with the club's youth team, a time he would later refer to as \"the making of me\". Shearer had successful trials for First Division clubs", "id": "13592505" }, { "contents": "Duncan Shearer\n\n\nFavourites\" during the club's centenary in 2008. However, he was unable to prevent Huddersfield's relegation to the Third Division at the end of the 1987–88 season. Weeks before this, the unrelated English striker Alan Shearer (aged 17) had scored a hat-trick in the First Division for Southampton against Arsenal, a game which Arsenal captain Tony Adams missed through injury. In his autobiography 11 years later, Adams said that he had followed the progress of the game on Ceefax and mistakingly believed that the Shearer who scored", "id": "3716405" }, { "contents": "David Hirst (footballer)\n\n\nHe came on at half-time and within three minutes of the restart he scored his first (and only) England goal. With Gary Lineker injured, he lined up with Alan Shearer against France at Wembley. Bryan Robson said that, \"It's not a question of who will replace Lineker, but who will partner David Hirst\". It became Hirst's third and final England match. Although he was selected for more England squads, injuries kept him out of the team. Manchester United boss Alex Ferguson tried six", "id": "18892949" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nthrough to May due to injury and England's World Cup qualification chances were hit by a run of poor form. Returning to fitness for the 1993–94 season, he scored 31 goals from 40 games as Blackburn finished runners-up in the Premier League. His performances for the club led to him being named the Football Writers' Association Footballer of the Year for that season. On the international scene, England had failed to qualify for the 1994 World Cup finals, but Shearer added three more goals to his international tally before embarking", "id": "13592514" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nfive points out of a possible twenty-four. Shearer did not get the manager's job on permanent basis. Chris Hughton stepped up from the coaching staff to take charge of the quest to get Newcastle back into the Premier League, which was achieved at the first attempt as Newcastle finished top of the Championship in the 2009–10 season. Shearer is married to Lainya, whom he met whilst a Southampton player. The couple lived locally with her parents during Shearer's second year at the south coast club, and were married on", "id": "13592557" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nagainst Portugal, but did so as England defeated Germany 1–0 in Charleroi, ensuring that England beat their European neighbours for the first time since the 1966 World Cup Final. To remain in the tournament, England only required a draw against Romania in the final group match, and Shearer scored a penalty as England went in at half-time 2–1 up, but Romania ultimately won 3–2. England's tournament was over, and so was Shearer's international career. From his 63 caps, he captained the team 34 times and scored", "id": "13592545" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nrecord return which is still unbeaten. The striker's goals at this level, coupled with his club form, meant he was soon promoted to the senior squad by coach Graham Taylor. Marking his debut in the 2–0 win against France in February 1992 with a goal, he made his only appearance for the England B team a month later. Due to replace Gary Lineker, who retired from international action after UEFA Euro 1992, in the England attack, Shearer played only intermittently in the qualifying campaign for the 1994 FIFA World Cup", "id": "13592538" }, { "contents": "1993 Trans-Tasman Test series\n\n\n's Canberra Raiders team mate and New South Wales captain Laurie Daley. The test series took place following the 1993 State of Origin series which was won by NSW. Dale Shearer's performances at fullback for Qld saw him earn a test recall in front of well performed World Cup and NSW fullback Tim Brasher (though Shearer had been selected at centre for all 3 Ashes series tests in 1992 but withdrew from all 3 with injury). Bradley Clyde, who had not played in the Origin series due to injury was also recalled to", "id": "16616631" }, { "contents": "Glenn Hoddle\n\n\nRedknapp resigned, following which Hoddle also left the club. In June 2016, after England's 2–1 loss to Iceland at Euro 2016 and manager Roy Hodgson's subsequent resignation, Harry Redknapp and Alan Shearer both put forward Hoddle as a candidate for the job before Sam Allardyce was appointed. Hoddle has done punditry work since his retirement from coaching. He has worked for ESPN, ITV Sport and BT Sport. Hoddle began working with ESPN during Euro 2012 as a pundit. Since then, he has worked with ITV for the 2014", "id": "8847620" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nhim onto the pitch following the striker's testimonial in May 2006 as he performed a lap of honour at St James' Park. On 6 December 2000, Shearer was given Honorary Freedom of the City of Newcastle upon Tyne, with the citation \"in recognition of his role as captain of Newcastle United Football Club and as former captain of England which have enhanced the reputation of the City\". Shearer was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2001 Queen's Birthday Honours and Commander of the", "id": "13592559" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nhis four years in the Southampton first team, Shearer made a total of 158 appearances in all competitions, scoring 43 goals. Despite making just one goalless appearance as England failed to progress past the Euro 1992 group stages, Shearer was soon subject to an English transfer record-breaking £3.6 million bid from Blackburn Rovers. Although there was also interest from Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson, Blackburn benefactor Jack Walker's millions were enough to prise the striker from the \"Saints\", and Shearer moved north to Ewood Park in the", "id": "13592512" }, { "contents": "Andy Cole\n\n\nof the season to help United win the Premier League title for the third time in four years. He also played in their FA Cup final victory to become part of England's first ever side to win the double twice. Before the 1996–97 season began, Cole had to deal with being offered to Blackburn Rovers as part-exchange in a £12 million deal that would have brought Alan Shearer to Old Trafford, but the offer was rejected and Shearer joined Newcastle instead. Despite Alex Ferguson's clear indication to Cole that he", "id": "9629547" }, { "contents": "Shearer's Bar\n\n\nShearer's Bar is the former name of a sports bar owned by Newcastle United and forming part of St James' Park, the team's stadium in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. It was named in honour of the club's all-time top scorer, Alan Shearer. The bar was renamed Nine in July 2013 by the club, who said that popularity of the venue had \"dwindled\". The bar was opened in December 2004 and became an important part of the features at St James' Park. It is", "id": "15298144" }, { "contents": "Kevin Keegan\n\n\nrelationship between the pair. In April 2003, it was named as Quote of the Decade in the Premier League 10 Seasons Awards and Most Memorable Quote in the 20 Seasons Awards in May 2012. It also appeared in Channel 4's \"100 Greatest Sporting Moments\". Keegan then broke the world transfer fee record by signing Blackburn Rovers and England striker Alan Shearer in July 1996. Shearer, who had been the Premier League's top scorer in the last two seasons, was born in Newcastle and had grown up as a fan", "id": "826455" }, { "contents": "England national football team\n\n\nBetween 1994 and 1996, Terry Venables managed the team. At UEFA Euro 1996, held in England, they equalled their best performance at a European Championship, reaching the semi-finals as they did in 1968, before exiting via a penalty shoot-out loss to Germany. England striker Alan Shearer was the tournament's top scorer with five goals. Venables resigned following investigations into his financial activities. Venables' successor, Glenn Hoddle, similarly left the job for non-footballing reasons after just one international tournament – the 1998", "id": "9748695" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nmiddle of 1992. His first season with Blackburn was mixed – he missed half of it through injury after snapping his right anterior cruciate ligament in a match against Leeds United in December 1992, but scored a prolific 16 goals in the 21 games in which he did feature. Shearer also became a regular in the England team this season and scored his second international goal; it came in a 4–0 1994 FIFA World Cup qualifier win over Turkey in November. The season ended sourly, however, as Shearer was forced to miss January", "id": "13592513" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nover from head coach Chris Hughton who was in temporary charge while the permanent manager Joe Kinnear recovered from heart surgery, having taken ill on 7 February. Shearer stated \"It's a club I love and I don't want them to go down. I'll do everything I can to stop that.\" Shearer was unveiled at a press conference the following day by club managing director Derek Llambias. In explaining his acceptance of a managerial role at Newcastle at this time, Shearer stated that he would not have done this for", "id": "13592552" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nwas being run in the wake of the departure of Kevin Keegan. These reports were denied by the club. Shearer features in EA Sports' \"FIFA\" video game series; he was included in the \"FIFA 15\" Ultimate Team Legends. During his playing days, Shearer had been involved with the children's charity the NSPCC, taking part in the organisation's Full Stop campaign in 1999. Since retiring from football Shearer has also done work for several charities both nationally and in the Newcastle area. In his testimonial match", "id": "13592565" }, { "contents": "2005–06 Newcastle United F.C. season\n\n\n. The fee, £17 million, surpassed Newcastle's previous record of £15 million for Alan Shearer from Blackburn in 1996. In the closing hours of the transfer window, the club re-signed Nolberto Solano from Aston Villa. Souness's decision to pair Shearer and Owen together up front proved to be lethal, but Owen broke his fourth metatarsal bone in his foot after a clash with Paul Robinson in a match against Tottenham Hotspur, keeping him out for the rest of the season. With Owen injured the team's", "id": "18086094" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\ndue to injury and the team failed to reach the competition finals. UEFA Euro 1996 was a more positive experience for both Shearer and England. With England not required to qualify as hosts, Shearer had not scored in 12 games in the 21 months prior, and even his overall goalscoring record for England did not look too impressive so far, with five goals in 23 games. However, he found the net in the 22nd minute of the first game, against Switzerland. Scoring once in the following game against Scotland and twice", "id": "13592539" }, { "contents": "Teddy Sheringham\n\n\nthe 2000 European Championships by then manager Kevin Keegan, but the retirement of Shearer (despite being four years younger than Sheringham) from international football after that tournament and the arrival of new manager Sven-Göran Eriksson in 2001 saw a return to international favour for him. He was often deployed as a tactical substitute late in games by Eriksson, valued for his ability to hold the ball up and create intelligent play. In 2001, Sheringham scored an important goal for England against Greece in a World Cup qualifying match within 15 seconds", "id": "2997070" }, { "contents": "Ruud Gullit\n\n\n, chairman Ken Bates famously said of Gullit, \"I didn't like his arrogance – in fact I never liked him.\" In August 1998, Gullit was named manager of Newcastle United two games into the new league season and reached the 1999 FA Cup Final in his first year. Fans remained supportive despite a poor run of results, although a well-publicised contretemps with the team's top scorer Alan Shearer and captain Robert Lee did not put him in a favourable light. Gullit even refused to assign Lee a squad", "id": "13592616" }, { "contents": "Scott Parker\n\n\ndefeat on 25 March 2006. Later that month he was diagnosed with glandular fever, putting an end to his season. The timing was especially unfortunate for Parker, who had been playing well for Newcastle, as it ended any hopes he may have had of forcing his way into the 2006 FIFA World Cup. In July 2006, he was named Newcastle United's new captain by manager Glenn Roeder, succeeding the retired Alan Shearer. His first goal as captain came against Wigan Athletic on 19 August 2006, in a 2–1 win", "id": "14327157" }, { "contents": "History of football in England\n\n\n. United's main challengers for the title in the Premier League's first few years were Blackburn Rovers, led by star striker Alan Shearer, also won their first league title since World War I in 1994–95, and Newcastle United, who famously conceded a 10-point lead at Christmas to lose the title to United in 1995–96. Newcastle had reached the Premiership in 1993 as Division One champions, and in their first Premiership campaign finished third to qualify for the UEFA Cup. They finished second in 1996 and again in 1997, but by", "id": "3652862" }, { "contents": "1992–93 FA Premier League\n\n\nPremier League as an attempt by the Football Association to \"hijack\" the First Division. Shortly before the season began, newly promoted Blackburn Rovers signed Southampton's 21-year-old England international striker Alan Shearer for a new British record fee variously reported as £3.3 million, £3.4 million, or £3.6 million. Several other players moved for fees of £2 million or more, including Arsenal's David Rocastle, who joined Leeds United, Dean Saunders, who moved from Liverpool to Aston Villa, and Teddy Sheringham, who", "id": "12442383" }, { "contents": "Darren Anderton\n\n\nhappy at the prospect of losing another key player as he had already lost Jürgen Klinsmann and Gheorghe Popescu that summer; and Nick Barmby was on the verge of joining Middlesbrough. Despite missing most of the 1995–96 season through injury, Anderton played an important part in the Euro 96 England team that reached the semi-finals and included players like Paul Gascoigne, Alan Shearer, Steve McManaman and Teddy Sheringham. In the semi final against Germany, the match went to golden goal extra time. Anderton came within inches of putting England into", "id": "4331581" }, { "contents": "Wallsend Boys Club\n\n\nJanuary which damaged one of the walls of the building. Professional players to have played for the club include: The club has had a representative at four of the six FIFA World Cup finals since 1986, with the two exceptions coming in 1994, when the England national football team did not qualify, and 2002. In 1986 and 1990 Peter Beardsley starred for England. In 1998 Alan Shearer was England captain. Michael Carrick made appearances for England in both the 2006 and 2010 tournaments. Fraser Forster was in the 2014 squad but", "id": "21182372" }, { "contents": "Harry Kane\n\n\n\". Clive Allen, who coached him at Tottenham, stated that \"one thing I'd say about him, which unfortunately you don't say about a lot of young footballers, is that he had a passion for the game. He loves football, he loves playing, he loves scoring goals\". His former Tottenham under-21 coach Les Ferdinand likened Kane's movement to their former forward Teddy Sheringham, and the power and accuracy of his shots to Alan Shearer. Kane's style of play has been compared to that of", "id": "1925319" }, { "contents": "Kieron Dyer\n\n\nthat he would soon rejoin for Ipswich. After representing England at Youth, Under 21 and \"B\" level, Dyer's debut for the senior team came on 4 September 1999 when he started in England's 6–0 win against Luxembourg. He was deployed out of position at right back, and was replaced by Gary Neville at half-time after injuring himself while setting up Alan Shearer's third goal of the match. The injury was not serious and he was able to make his second England appearance four days later, coming", "id": "17666181" }, { "contents": "1996–97 Blackburn Rovers F.C. season\n\n\nthe end of the season, when he handed over the reins to Roy Hodgson after Sampdoria's Sven-Göran Eriksson lied about accepting the manager's job and joined Lazio instead. Parkes steered Blackburn to safety as they finished 13th. The world record £15 million sale of striker Alan Shearer to Newcastle United was seen as the biggest factor in Blackburn's lowest top flight finish since they returned to the elite in 1992. However, his strike-partner Chris Sutton helped keep the club alive after recovering from a drastic loss of", "id": "7811146" }, { "contents": "Michael Owen\n\n\nmuch of the campaign as England struggled, with Hoddle being replaced by Kevin Keegan. On 4 September 1999, he scored his first goal at Wembley Stadium in a 6–0 win over Luxembourg. At the finals, Owen scored once in three matches, as England were knocked out at the group stage. After Alan Shearer's retirement, Owen took over as England's senior striker under new manager Sven-Göran Eriksson. He scored six times during 2002 World Cup qualifying, including a hat-trick against Germany at Munich's Olympiastadion", "id": "21886807" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nyet to start the UEFA Pro Licence course, which is required to be permitted to manage a team in the Premier League and European competition. Reflecting his desire for personal time off to \"enjoy life\", in July 2006 he turned down a coaching role with England, citing his BBC commitments and desire to be away from the pressure of a job within football. Despite this, Shearer was often linked in the media with managerial or coaching positions at his three former clubs. Shearer took a brief role in the dugout for", "id": "13592550" }, { "contents": "History of Southampton F.C.\n\n\nappearances for the England national team – he finally retired in 2002 at the age of 33. During his time with the Saints, Le Tissier was approached more than once by several bigger clubs (including Manchester United) but chose to stick with the Saints despite never winning a major trophy or experiencing European football with them. From 1989 to 1992, Le Tissier was regularly partnered up front by another notable player, Alan Shearer, who as a 17-year-old had scored a hat-trick on his Saints debut against Arsenal in", "id": "15948278" }, { "contents": "Sir Bobby Robson Trophy match\n\n\nNewcastle United, picking up on Alan Shearer's reply of \"I know as much as you do,\" to a pre-match question as to whether he would be installed as Newcastle manager for the forthcoming season beginning in 13 days, with the club being up for sale and with the first team without a manager, being in the care of coach Chris Hughton. Neither the Newcastle United owner Mike Ashley or managing director Derek Llambias were in attendance at the charity match. Having left England after Italia '90, Sir", "id": "19612022" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nChancellor Liam Donaldson stated \"Newcastle United are my team. Alan Shearer is more than just a local legend, he's probably one of the greatest footballers of all time\". On 12 September 2016, a statue of Shearer's likeness was unveiled outside St James' Park. It was sculpted by Tom Maley, and paid for by the Shepherd family. After his retirement and following guest appearances, Shearer became a regular pundit for the BBC's \"Match of the Day\". He also formed part of the team which", "id": "13592563" }, { "contents": "Gary McAllister\n\n\ntournament, scoring in a 3–0 win over the CIS. However, Scotland did not qualify from their group. Scotland failed to qualify for the 1994 FIFA World Cup but did qualify for UEFA Euro 1996 in England, with McAllister the captain of the team. Scotland's second match of the group stage was against England at Wembley Stadium. In the second half Scotland, trailing 0–1 to an Alan Shearer goal, were awarded a penalty. McAllister's kick was saved by David Seaman and Scotland lost 0–2. The team won their", "id": "19492391" }, { "contents": "David Seaman\n\n\nEngland's quarter-final against Spain ended scoreless, Seaman saved Miguel Angel Nadal's kick in the shootout to knock Spain out of the tournament. England eventually were eliminated in the semi-final by Germany on penalties,after Andreas Köpke saved the penalty taken by Gareth Southgate. Seaman was named alongside Golden Boot winner Alan Shearer and winger Steve McManaman in the UEFA \"Team of the Tournament\". Euro 96 sponsor Philips named him \"Player of the Tournament\". Seaman remained first choice under the management of Glenn Hoddle for", "id": "7321893" }, { "contents": "1998 FA Cup Final\n\n\nand so has the mixture between the foreign and English players.\" Wenger reserved praise for the goalscorers Overmars (\"a world-class player\") and Anelka (\"Nicolas is very young. But you saw in the second half today what he can do\"), and felt the turning point in the match was Shearer's shot hitting the post. He sympathised with Newcastle, as did his captain, Adams who said afterwards: \"The team and their fans did everything they could out there, but it was", "id": "10844688" }, { "contents": "David McMahon (association footballer)\n\n\nabout the role of striker from watching England international Alan Shearer in training, but likened himself more to Newcastle's Scotland international Duncan Ferguson, \"because I am taller and like to battle for things in the air.\" Brian Kerr, then manager of Ireland under-17s, described McMahon as honest and hard-working, \"not the most skilful player, but will get goals\", but Darlington manager Gary Bennett believed there was more to his game: that he and strike partner John Williams both had enough skill to play a", "id": "5423888" }, { "contents": "Andy Carroll\n\n\nUEFA Euro 2012. He opened the scoring for England with a powerful header in their second group match against Sweden, which England went on to win 3–2. Carroll has been compared to Newcastle's record goalscorer Alan Shearer, Ivory Coast striker Didier Drogba and former Italy forward Christian Vieri. He has also been referred to as a classic centre forward, owing to his strength, powerful shot and excellent heading ability. Former Newcastle manager and Liverpool player Kevin Keegan stated \"he is probably in the top three headers of a ball I", "id": "11961542" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\n-chasing Manchester United. On the opening day of the 1999–2000 season, Shearer received the first red card of his career in his 100th appearance for Newcastle. After dropping Shearer to the bench in a Tyne-Wear derby loss against Sunderland, the unpopular Gullit resigned to be replaced by the 66-year-old Bobby Robson. Despite Gullit giving Shearer the captain's armband, reports of a rift between club captain and manager were rife, Gullit's decision to drop Shearer proved deeply unpopular with fans and his departure capped a dismal start", "id": "13592525" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nAn almost injury-free season helped Shearer improve on his previous year's tally in the 1998–99 season, the striker converting 14 goals in 30 league games and replacing Rob Lee as Newcastle captain, but Newcastle finished 13th again, with Ruud Gullit having replaced Kenny Dalglish just after the season got underway. He also helped Newcastle to a second consecutive FA Cup final and qualification for the following season's UEFA Cup, scoring twice in the semi-final against Tottenham Hotspur, but they once again lost, this time 2–0 to treble", "id": "13592524" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nhis final three games under Glenn Roeder. Shearer had rejected offers of coaching or assistant roles at Newcastle under both the returning Kevin Keegan in February 2008 and Joe Kinnear in November 2008. Shearer had previously had talks about, but never been offered, a full-time manager's role at Newcastle until his appointment on 1 April 2009. In a surprise move, late on 1 April 2009, it was announced that Shearer would become the manager of his former club Newcastle United for the remaining eight games of the season, taking", "id": "13592551" }, { "contents": "Fabio Cannavaro\n\n\nnational team on 22 January 1997, in a friendly match against Northern Ireland. The same year, he earned plaudits for his handling of England striker Alan Shearer in a World Cup qualifying game at Wembley Stadium. Shearer was then considered by the partisan English crowd to be the best striker in the world, and thought he would make fun of the inexperienced Italian defender. Nevertheless, in a display ranking alongside those of the very best Italian defenders Claudio Gentile and Franco Baresi, Cannavaro managed to keep Shearer quiet for the whole game", "id": "3625067" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\n, with media sources claiming that video footage showed him intentionally kicking Neil Lennon in the head following a challenge. The referee of the game took no action against Shearer, and he was then cleared of all charges by the FA, with Lennon giving evidence in the player's defence. Former Football Association chief Graham Kelly, who brought the charges against the player, later claimed in his autobiography that Shearer had threatened to withdraw himself from the 1998 World Cup squad if the charges were upheld, a claim strenuously denied by Shearer.", "id": "13592523" }, { "contents": "History of the Romania national football team\n\n\nminnows Tunisia. Adrian Ilie scored the only goal with a fine chip in their first match against Colombia at Lyon's Stade Gerland. In Toulouse, they met an England side starting with prodigal striker Michael Owen on the bench, with Teddy Sheringham preferred alongside Alan Shearer. A mistake by Tony Adams was punished by Viorel Moldovan, who played for Coventry City, before Owen came on to claim an equalizer. But Romania won with a scrappy late goal from Dan Petrescu, also playing in England with Chelsea, fighting off his club", "id": "16435718" }, { "contents": "John Barnes (footballer)\n\n\nNewcastle United, although an approach had already been made by Harry Redknapp of West Ham; Barnes had agreed in principle to join them until at the final moment Dalglish called him and Barnes changed his mind. In the 1997–98 season Barnes played up front mostly, deputising for Alan Shearer after Shearer was injured for most of the season, and Barnes ended up Newcastle's top league scorer with six goals, which highlighted the Magpies' lack of ability to score in the absence of Shearer and Ferdinand (who had been sold along with", "id": "19616669" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\ncould not find a more iconic person than Alan, not just for what he has done in football but for all the extra work he tirelessly does for charity and communities. I am delighted he has accepted the role of Deputy Lieutenant because he is a real role model. I have promised him he is not going to have to do too much, but even if it is just one occasion a year he is the perfect choice\" On 7 December 2009, Shearer was made a Doctor of Civil Law by Newcastle University.", "id": "13592562" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nLaw of Northumbria and Newcastle Universities. Shearer was born in Gosforth, Newcastle, in 1970 to working-class parents Alan and Anne Shearer. His father, a sheet-metal worker, encouraged a keen Shearer to play football in his youth, and the young player continued with the sport as he progressed through school. He was educated at Gosforth Central Middle School and Gosforth High School. Growing up playing on the streets of his hometown, he originally played in midfield because \"it meant [he] could get more involved", "id": "13592504" }, { "contents": "Paul Kitson\n\n\n. Newcastle finished second that season after being overhauled in the second half campaign by a Manchester United side who sealed the title by a five-point margin barely four months after Newcastle had led by 10 points, but Kitson's part in Newcastle's exciting though ultimately disappointing campaign had been minimal as he had played just seven league games and scored twice. But he remained loyal to the Magpies even after another blow at the end of July 1996 – the arrival of £15 million world record signing Alan Shearer. He managed three", "id": "19054464" }, { "contents": "Ray Harford\n\n\nthe Premier League for much of the season. During the summer of 1996, Alan Shearer was sold to Newcastle United for a then world record fee of £15 million, and Harford failed to adequately replace him. Harford stated that \"I'm told we need a big name. Engelbert Humperdinck is a big name but it doesn't mean he can play football.\" The 1996–97 season also started badly for Blackburn. They failed to win any of their first ten games and were knocked out of the League Cup by Division", "id": "5365351" }, { "contents": "Patrick Kluivert\n\n\nagain featured for Barca in a legends game against Uganda all stars where he, in lobbing the ball, scored an amazing goal. Kluivert joined Newcastle United on a free transfer in July 2004. He stated that his reasons for joining Newcastle was due to the overwhelming reaction he received whilst playing for Barcelona against Newcastle during a pre season friendly as well as teaming up with Newcastle's star players such as Alan Shearer. Kluivert scored some classy and crucial goals at and away from St James's Park namely in winning strikes against both", "id": "21654890" }, { "contents": "Duncan Shearer\n\n\nbetween 1994 and 1995, scoring two goals including an important opening strike in an away win over Finland which helped the national side qualify for Euro 96, although Shearer did not make the squad for that tournament. The senior team was his first experience of international football, having never played at any age-group level. He achieved a childhood ambition when he played in the national team alongside John McGinlay, a childhood friend also from Fort William. In season 1999–00 he began to concentrate more on coaching than playing, and was", "id": "3716411" }, { "contents": "Les Ferdinand\n\n\nscored 50 goals in only 84 games at Newcastle, forming a successful partnership with Alan Shearer. He was and indeed is still very highly thought of by Newcastle United. Ferdinand received a standing ovation when he returned to St. James' Park as a Tottenham player, trying to put Alan Shearer's number 9 shirt on to complete a lap of honour, he broke down in tears and could only manage to put the shirt on inside out and back to front before being helped from the field. Ferdinand returned again, when he", "id": "2996528" }, { "contents": "David Platt (footballer)\n\n\nTurkey, San Marino, the Netherlands and Norway. The qualifiers began at home to Norway. England dominated the game and Platt carried the goal threat, with Alan Shearer and Ian Wright struggling to find form. He scored the opening goal after an hour. England dominated the remainder of the game and were unlucky to concede to a long-range shot from Kjetil Rekdal. Platt continued his drive from midfield in wins over Turkey at home (4-0) and San Marino (6-0). Platt scored four", "id": "16718350" }, { "contents": "Jason Wilcox\n\n\n-pound investments of Jack Walker. He played an important part in the title-winning Blackburn team of 1995. Playing on the left flank with attacking fullback Graeme Le Saux behind him and Stuart Ripley on the opposite flank, they forged a strong attacking line-up with Alan Shearer and Chris Sutton. International recognition was harder to come by for Wilcox and he managed only 3 international caps despite his effective partnership with Shearer, Le Saux and Tim Sherwood. Lengthy injury problems restricted his effectiveness in subsequent seasons and, after experiencing", "id": "14527253" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nclub's form, and Newcastle finished just 13th in the Premier League. However, United (now managed by Shearer's old boss at Blackburn, Kenny Dalglish) had a good run in the FA Cup; Shearer scored the winning goal in a semi-final victory over Sheffield United as the team reached the final. The team were unable to get on the scoresheet at Wembley, and lost the game 2–0 to Arsenal. An incident during a game against Leicester City in the league saw Shearer charged with misconduct by the FA", "id": "13592522" }, { "contents": "Aleksandar Mitrović (footballer)\n\n\nhim the competition's top scorer, and 28 in all competitions. On 22 March 2015, he scored the team's only goal in the 2–1 Belgian Cup Final loss to Club Brugge KV in Brussels. On 21 July 2015, Mitrović joined Newcastle United on a five-year contract for a reported £13 million, saying he hoped to be able to play like club legend Alan Shearer. He made his debut on 9 August as Newcastle began the season with a 2–2 draw against Southampton at St James' Park, playing", "id": "20923735" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nWest Bromwich Albion, Manchester City and Newcastle United, before being offered a youth contract with Southampton in April 1986. Shearer was promoted to the first team after spending two years with the youth squad. He made his professional debut for Southampton on 26 March 1988, coming on as a substitute in a First Division fixture at Chelsea, before prompting national headlines in his full debut at The Dell two weeks later. He scored a hat-trick, helping the team to a 4–2 victory against Arsenal, thus becoming the youngest player", "id": "13592506" }, { "contents": "James Milner\n\n\ndo what was \"in the club's best interest\" and in July 2004, he agreed a five-year contract with Newcastle. Milner made his first appearance for Newcastle United during their pre-season tour of Asia, scoring his first goal for the club in a 1–1 draw against Kitchee, in Hong Kong. During this tour, he took the opportunity to observe how Newcastle striker Alan Shearer dealt with attention from fans and the media. He said that his association with people like Shearer gave him a better idea of", "id": "1860603" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nretain the ball and provide opportunities for teammates. Playing as a lone striker between wide men, Rod Wallace and Matt Le Tissier, Shearer scored three goals in 26 appearances in the 1989–90 season, and in the next, four goals in 36 games. His performances in the centre of the \"Saints\" attack were soon recognised by the fans, who voted him their Player of the Year for 1991. In the middle of 1991, Shearer was a member of the England national under-21 football squad in the Toulon Tournament in Toulon", "id": "13592508" }, { "contents": "Teddy Sheringham\n\n\n, creating play and providing key passes, forming the link between Shearer and the England midfield. The pairing came to be known as 'The SAS' ('Shearer and Sheringham') and their most successful time together came in the 1996 European Championships, held in England. Their most famous contribution was in the 4–1 victory over the Netherlands, a game in the opening group stages in which they both scored twice against one of the strongest teams in the tournament. Though England were eventually knocked out in the semi-finals", "id": "2997067" }, { "contents": "History of the England national football team\n\n\ninto Euro 2000 after a 2–1 aggregate playoff win over Scotland. At the finals in Belgium and the Netherlands, a lacklustre England failed to get beyond the group stage, losing to both Portugal and Romania after leading in each game. After England's exit, Alan Shearer retired from international football, he had announced his intentions before the tournament, and no-one could persuade him to change his mind. On 7 October 2000, shortly after losing the opening World Cup qualifier to Germany in the last-ever game at Wembley", "id": "15089411" }, { "contents": "Premier League 10 Seasons Awards\n\n\nrepresented, with five players. The teams were as follows: English striker Alan Shearer was named Domestic Player of the Decade in the main 10 Seasons awards announcements, in addition to being given the Outstanding Contribution to the FA Premier League award. Two weeks later he was also named as the Overall Player of the Decade. In the first decade, Shearer played for Blackburn Rovers, and then Newcastle United. Shearer has been described as a classic English centre-forward with great shooting power, a single-minded striker who could", "id": "11856460" }, { "contents": "Wartime League\n\n\narguments debate that a player who exceeds one's record through their wartime matches should nonetheless be seen as the club's highest goal scorer or appearance having been part of the team's squad even if only for a short time. The most recent argument relates to the goal-difference between Jackie Milburn's and Alan Shearer's Newcastle United goal-scoring records. When counting Jackie's wartime matches, he scored a total of 238 professional goals for Newcastle United FC. In May 2005, Alan Shearer finished his career at 206 goals", "id": "17626256" }, { "contents": "Jon Dahl Tomasson\n\n\nas the perfect link-up player to England national team striker Alan Shearer. The partnership initially worked well, with Tomasson impressing during a pre-season friendly tournament in the Republic of Ireland. However, a career threatening injury to Shearer, combined with the controversial transfer of popular striker Les Ferdinand to Tottenham Hotspur, meant that Tomasson was moved from his traditional attacking midfield position to that of striker. He struggled to adapt to his new position on the field, and to the English game, due to his lack of physical", "id": "19324628" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\ncovered the World Cups and European Championships from 2006 onwards for the BBC. Former Newcastle chairman Freddy Shepherd announced that, after Shearer finished the 2005–06 season as Newcastle's caretaker assistant manager, he would become the club's \"Sporting Ambassador\" for the 2006–07 season. However, in September 2008, it was reported that Shearer was removed from this largely honorary position by the club's owner Mike Ashley, despite protests from players such as Steven Taylor and Damien Duff, due to Shearer's criticism of the way in which the club", "id": "13592564" }, { "contents": "1998 FA Cup Final\n\n\nthe final that Bergkamp had resumed training and \"medically he looked all right\", but the player received a further setback when he suffered a reaction to his hamstring. He ruled himself out of the match and told reporters: \"I'm very disappointed. As a little boy in Holland I always watched the FA Cup final. And I used to dream about playing in it myself one day.\" Ian Wright was listed as Bergkamp's probable replacement to partner Anelka. Newcastle had their own issues surrounding Shearer. The England", "id": "10844676" }, { "contents": "2008–09 in English football\n\n\n's surprise resignation in December; whilst their final points tally wasn't spectacular, they had the satisfaction of being the top North-East team in football after both Middlesbrough and Newcastle United were relegated, ending 11 and 16 year spells in the top flight respectively, the latter going through four managers in Kevin Keegan, Joe Kinnear, Chris Hughton and even former striker Alan Shearer during the campaign. Despite a brilliant start to the season which saw them as high as third place in October, Hull City won just 1 of their", "id": "1311754" }, { "contents": "1996 FA Charity Shield\n\n\nfrom Eric Cantona, Nicky Butt, David Beckham and Roy Keane. The game saw new signings Jordi Cruyff and Karel Poborský make their debuts for Manchester United, though neither of these players had particularly successful careers at Old Trafford and both had left the club within four years. The day before the game had seen the surprise sale of one of Manchester United's longest serving players — Lee Sharpe. The game saw Newcastle United give a debut to £15 million world record signing Alan Shearer, who would remain at the club until", "id": "2797098" }, { "contents": "UEFA Euro 2016 knockout phase\n\n\nsection begin=g6 /section end=g6 / section begin=g7 /section end=g7 / The match has been described as one of England's worst defeats ever. Former footballer and Talksport presenter Stan Collymore, who was commentating on the game, panned the England team, reserving special criticism for goalkeeper Joe Hart and captain Wayne Rooney. Former England international and BBC Sport pundit Alan Shearer described it as the worst performance he had ever seen from an England team. The defeat was called England's most shocking since losing 1–0 to", "id": "11344909" }, { "contents": "Maurice E. Shearer\n\n\nApplication at Annapolis, Maryland, with classmates Holland Smith, Ralph S. Keyser and Andrew B. Drum. In July, Shearer sailed for duty to be the commander of the 35 man Marine detachment on Midway Island. In May 1908, he was selected for promotion to first lieutenant and to the rank of captain in June 1916. During World War I, forces under Major Shearer's command made an attack on Belleau Wood, finally clearing that forest of Germans. On 26 June 1918, he sent a now famous report: \"", "id": "8315540" }, { "contents": "Newcastle upon Tyne\n\n\nF.C. became Football League members in 1893. They have won four top division titles (the first in 1905 and the most recent in 1927), six FA Cups (the first in 1910 and the most recent in 1955) and the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup in 1969. They broke the world transfer record in 1996 by paying £15 million for Blackburn Rovers and England striker Alan Shearer, one of the most prolific goalscorers of that era. In 2017 Newcastle was the venue for the 2017 Freedom City festival. The 2017", "id": "20529704" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\ngame and came off the bench to score a penalty, helping Newcastle win the game 3–2. The match was a sell-out, and saw Shearer perform a lap of honour at the end with his family, with his young son notably covering his ears due to the volume of noise produced by the crowd in tribute. Shearer's international career began in 1990 when he was handed a callup to the England under-21 squad under Dave Sexton. During his time with the squad, he scored 13 times in 11 games, a", "id": "13592537" }, { "contents": "2011–12 Cardiff City F.C. season\n\n\nserving manager in the Championship having held his post since May 2005. The club held talks with former England and Newcastle United captain Alan Shearer to replace Jones but he rejected the job despite stating that he was impressed with the \"vision, ambition and determination of the owner Dato Chan Tien Ghee and the board\". The \"Bluebirds\" instead approached Championship rivals Watford for permission to speak to their manager Malky Mackay, which was initially rejected. However, after the two clubs agreed a compensation fee, Mackay was officially appointed as", "id": "7599659" }, { "contents": "Kevin Keegan\n\n\nto Michael Owen, stating, \"He's not scared to give his opinion when he's right, and he's not scared to say what he feels. He's a tremendous professional, and he trains properly every day.\" Keegan announced on 22 January that he and Alan Shearer held talks about the two linking up with Shearer as his assistant, but decided against the idea, leaving the door open for him to take other roles he was interested in. Keegan's first eight games back at Newcastle passed without a", "id": "826473" }, { "contents": "Transfer (association football)\n\n\n£3.6 million Alan Shearer moved to Blackburn Rovers from Southampton, a decade after the world's first £3 million transfer. Lentini's transfer remained intact the world record fee for the next four years, although the national record was broken more than once in many countries including England. Shearer's £3.6million record fee was narrowly eclipsed 12 months later when Manchester United signed Roy Keane from Nottingham Forest for £3.75 million. In 1994, Blackburn Rovers paid a record £5 million for Chris Sutton from Norwich City, a decade", "id": "11200095" }, { "contents": "Roy Hodgson\n\n\nagainst Costa Rica to finish bottom of Group D. Hodgson named Rooney as the new captain of England in August 2014, following the retirement of Steven Gerrard from international football. Hodgson's first match after the World Cup was a 1–0 win against Norway in an international friendly match at Wembley on 3 September 2014. During the match, England made only two shots on target. Hodgson was infuriated when asked about this, describing the statistic as \"fucking bollocks\". Former England player, Alan Shearer, admitted that the match was so", "id": "12858624" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nto the season. The animosity between Shearer and Gullit was later confirmed by the latter, who reported telling the striker that he was \"...the most overrated player I have ever seen.\" Ironically, Robson had tried to sign Shearer for Barcelona in 1997, making a bid of £20million which would have seen Shearer break the world's transfer fee record for the second time in 12 months. However, then Newcastle manager Kenny Dalglish rejected the offer. In Robson's first match in charge, Shearer scored five goals in", "id": "13592526" }, { "contents": "Premier League 10 Seasons Awards\n\n\nin his talks with Alex Ferguson, he could not guarantee that Eric Cantona the Overseas Player of the Decade could be persuaded to let Shearer take penalty kicks. Shearer gained a second PFA Players' Player of the Year Award in April 1997, becoming just the second player to have received the PFA award twice, after Mark Hughes. After the 2000 European Championships, Shearer had retired from international football with England, having been England captain since 1998, and having made his senior début in 1992. Shearer was awarded the OBE in", "id": "11856465" }, { "contents": "Emile Heskey\n\n\nthe two matches, with former England international Alan Shearer commenting, \"Never in a million years did I expect to be discussing whether Emile Heskey should keep his place ahead of Wayne Rooney but the Wigan striker was outstanding over both matches.\" Heskey was called into manager Fabio Capello's first squad against Switzerland, but had to withdraw due to an injury. He was called into the squad for a friendly against the Czech Republic in August 2008 and came on as a 46th-minute substitute, in a match that finished 2–2", "id": "174986" }, { "contents": "Habib Beye\n\n\nUEFA Cup Final, a run which involved him putting in a star performance as a central defender against (his now former team) Newcastle United, where he was particularly effective against Newcastle's talisman striker Alan Shearer. He ended up on the losing side as Marseille lost the final to Valencia 2–0. He was also a beaten finalist in the 2006 French Cup against former club Paris Saint-Germain, a match which his team lost 2–1, and again in 2007 when his Marseille team lost on penalties to FC Sochaux. His", "id": "16217445" }, { "contents": "Stan Collymore\n\n\nseason in the Premier League, Collymore was called up to Terry Venables' England squad for the Umbro Cup in June 1995. He made his début at Wembley Stadium against Japan, partnering Alan Shearer in a 2–1 win. He won his second cap as a 90th minute substitute against Brazil. Collymore made his third and final appearance for England as a substitute in a 4–0 win over Moldova during qualification for the 1998 FIFA World Cup. Collymore contributed to his biography \"Stan: Tackling my demons\" with Oliver Holt. In 2005", "id": "3955590" }, { "contents": "Graeme Souness\n\n\nAt £8.2 million, Boumsong was his first big signing and Souness said he would replace Jonathan Woodgate in the Newcastle defence, which had conceded several leads earlier in the season. Newcastle were well aware of Boumsong prior to his move from Auxerre to Rangers on a free transfer. Robson had travelled to France to watch him, but he declined the opportunity to sign Boumsong. Liverpool were also interested in signing Boumsong. Robson's doubts were confirmed when Boumsong marked Alan Shearer in a pre-season game against Rangers. Shearer came", "id": "18029254" }, { "contents": "Saido Berahino\n\n\nrate of a goal every other match, including three to help the team qualify for the European Championship. Berahino has the all-time third-highest goal tally for the England under-21 side with 10 goals in 13 appearances, behind Francis Jeffers and Alan Shearer. On 6 November 2014, England manager Roy Hodgson – who promoted Berahino to the West Bromwich Albion first team in 2011 – named Berahino in his squad for the first time, ahead of a UEFA Euro 2016 qualifying match against Slovenia at Wembley Stadium on the 15th and", "id": "1000466" } ]

[ { "contents": "Tony Adams\n\n\n\"I have some resentment over the way Glenn Hoddle gave the captaincy to Alan Shearer instead of me but I can let that go. I reacted positively. I disagreed with him [Hoddle] and he thought Alan could get more penalties being a centre forward. People know my reaction to that\". Adams continued to play for the national side, however and he finally appeared in a World Cup finals in 1998. His international swansong was England's unsuccessful Euro 2000 campaign. With Shearer retiring from international football after the tournament", "id": "6104102" }, { "contents": "Tony Adams\n\n\nin defence, and after the retirement of Gary Lineker in 1992, Adams unofficially shared the captaincy of England with David Platt, though Adams became England captain outright before Euro 96, as Platt's place in the side became less secure. England reached the semi-finals of Euro 96, before losing on penalties to Germany. When England manager Glenn Hoddle took the Captain's armband from Adams and gave it to Alan Shearer it was a bitter pill for Adams to swallow. Speaking at a fans' forum in 2008 Adams remarked", "id": "6104101" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nThis time, Germany won from the spot; although Shearer scored, his teammate Gareth Southgate missed his kick and England were eliminated. Shearer's five goals made him the competition's top scorer, and together with teammates David Seaman and Steve McManaman, was listed in the official UEFA team of the tournament. The new England manager Glenn Hoddle appointed Shearer captain for the 1998 FIFA World Cup qualifier against Moldova on 1 September 1996, and the player held onto the captaincy after scoring once in that match and twice in the following game", "id": "13592541" }, { "contents": "Dimitar Berbatov\n\n\nhe consequently modelled himself after Marco van Basten, the Dutch forward for that team. However, the 1996 European Championship, held in England, gave Berbatov a new role model; the 15-year-old Berbatov began to look up to the English front man Alan Shearer, who played for Newcastle United. Berbatov's mother later spoke of her son's teenage dream of playing for Newcastle United, and said that his admiration for Shearer was such that, during these years, he slept in a Newcastle shirt. Berbatov began his youth", "id": "3905446" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\n's participation in what was to be Shearer's only World Cup tournament. In September 1999, Shearer scored his only England hat-trick in a UEFA Euro 2000 qualifier against Luxembourg. This helped England reach a play-off against Scotland; England won the game over two legs and in doing so qualified for the European Championships. By now, Shearer was approaching his 30th birthday, and he announced that he intended to retire from international football after the Euro 2000 tournament. Shearer did not score in England's opening 3–2 defeat", "id": "13592544" }, { "contents": "Southampton F.C.\n\n\nwas Alan Shearer, who at the age of 17 scored a hat-trick against Arsenal in a league match in April 1988. Shearer was a first team regular by 1990, and stayed with Southampton until July 1992, when he was sold to Blackburn Rovers for a national record of more than £3 million. He then became the most expensive footballer in the world when Blackburn sold him to Newcastle for £15 million in 1996. He also scored 30 times for England internationally. Southampton were founding members of the Premier League", "id": "3265953" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\ntime to play in England's UEFA European Championship campaign. After Euro 96, Manchester United again sought to sign Shearer, and attempted to enter the battle for his signature. However Manchester United chairman Martin Edwards stated that Blackburn Rovers refused to let Shearer go to Old Trafford. Ultimately Shearer joined his boyhood club: Newcastle United, Manchester United's title rivals. On 30 July 1996, for a world transfer record-breaking £15 million (equivalent to £ million today) Shearer joined his hometown club and league runners-up", "id": "13592519" }, { "contents": "History of the England national football team\n\n\nyear after his last game at club level. Hoddle selected Alan Shearer as captain, replacing Tony Adams, but also brought a number of emerging talents into the squad, including the Manchester United midfield trio of Paul Scholes, Nicky Butt and David Beckham, and central defenders Rio Ferdinand and Sol Campbell. Hoddle oversaw England's qualification for the 1998 World Cup (the first World Cup with 32 teams instead of 24) with a 0–0 draw against Italy at the Stadio Olimpico in Rome, and drew out a winning performance in the", "id": "15089406" }, { "contents": "History of the England national football team\n\n\nthe underwhelming performance at the World Cup, England suffered a poor start to the Euro 2000 qualifying tournament, and there was reported discontent between Hoddle and several senior players, most notably Shearer. Hoddle was dismissed on 2 February 1999, two days after an interview with \"The Sunday Times\" in which he spoke about his belief in reincarnation and claimed that disabled people were paying for sins in a previous life. Under considerable media and public pressure, the FA appointed former captain Kevin Keegan, who only just managed to get England", "id": "15089410" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nagainst Poland. He scored a total of five goals in England's successful qualification campaign for the World Cup, adding strikes against Georgia and away to Poland to his tally. Shearer was sidelined for much of the 1997–98 season, but recovered to play in the World Cup finals. With Michael Owen replacing Teddy Sheringham as Shearer's strike partner, Shearer's return saw him score England's first goal of the tournament, in a 2–0 win over Tunisia, his only goal in the three group matches. England faced long-time", "id": "13592542" }, { "contents": "Newcastle United F.C.\n\n\n. The attacking philosophy of Keegan led to the team being labelled \"The Entertainers\" by Sky Sports. Keegan took Newcastle to two consecutive runners-up finishes in the league in 1995–96 and 1996–97, coming very close to winning the title in the former season. This success was in part due to the talent of players like David Ginola, Les Ferdinand and Alan Shearer, who was signed on 30 July 1996 for a then world record fee of £15 million. Keegan left Newcastle in January 1997 and was replaced by Kenny", "id": "12636363" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nAlan Shearer, CBE, DL (born 13 August 1970) is an English retired footballer. He played as a striker in the top level of English league football for Southampton, Blackburn Rovers, Newcastle United and the England national team. He is Newcastle's and the Premier League's record goalscorer. He was named Football Writers' Association Player of the Year in 1994 and won the PFA Player of the Year award in 1995. In 1996, he was third in the FIFA World Player of the Year awards. In 2004", "id": "13592501" }, { "contents": "Teddy Sheringham\n\n\nmanager Terry Venables (1994–96) Sheringham came to be the preferred strike partner for Alan Shearer. During this time, England had a wealth of strikers with the likes of Andrew Cole, Ian Wright, a young Robbie Fowler and Les Ferdinand all battling to partner Shearer in the England team. The two formed a famous partnership at international level, as they complemented each other's strengths: Shearer the out-and-out goalscorer, big, strong and powerful, Sheringham just 'dropping off' his strike partner, finding spaces", "id": "2997066" }, { "contents": "History of Newcastle United F.C.\n\n\n's title chances for the 1994–95 season, in which they finished sixth. The club, however, continued to build up a reputation for playing attacking football under Keegan. In the 1995–96 season, high-profile foreign stars David Ginola and Faustino Asprilla, in addition to British players Peter Beardsley and striker Les Ferdinand, guided the team to a second-place finish. During the 1996–97 season, Keegan made one signing, securing the services of England striker Alan Shearer for a then-world record transfer fee of £15 million", "id": "6803863" }, { "contents": "1996–97 Newcastle United F.C. season\n\n\n...I think Kevin wanted it free-flowing in all departments and that doesn't necessarily happen.\" Keegan responded to the previous season's disappointment by breaking the world record transfer fee to sign centre forward Alan Shearer from Blackburn Rovers for £15 million. Shearer, whose five goals made him the top scorer in Euro 96, had supported Newcastle since childhood – he had been a ball-boy at St James' Park on the day that Keegan had left in a helicopter after his final Newcastle appearance as a player.", "id": "1207050" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nin the games.\" Shearer captained his school team and helped a Newcastle City Schools team win a seven-a-side tournament at St James' Park, before joining the amateur Wallsend Boys Club as a teenager. It was while playing for the Wallsend club that he was spotted by Southampton's scout, Jack Hixon, which resulted in Shearer spending his summers training with the club's youth team, a time he would later refer to as \"the making of me\". Shearer had successful trials for First Division clubs", "id": "13592505" }, { "contents": "Duncan Shearer\n\n\nFavourites\" during the club's centenary in 2008. However, he was unable to prevent Huddersfield's relegation to the Third Division at the end of the 1987–88 season. Weeks before this, the unrelated English striker Alan Shearer (aged 17) had scored a hat-trick in the First Division for Southampton against Arsenal, a game which Arsenal captain Tony Adams missed through injury. In his autobiography 11 years later, Adams said that he had followed the progress of the game on Ceefax and mistakingly believed that the Shearer who scored", "id": "3716405" }, { "contents": "David Hirst (footballer)\n\n\nHe came on at half-time and within three minutes of the restart he scored his first (and only) England goal. With Gary Lineker injured, he lined up with Alan Shearer against France at Wembley. Bryan Robson said that, \"It's not a question of who will replace Lineker, but who will partner David Hirst\". It became Hirst's third and final England match. Although he was selected for more England squads, injuries kept him out of the team. Manchester United boss Alex Ferguson tried six", "id": "18892949" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nthrough to May due to injury and England's World Cup qualification chances were hit by a run of poor form. Returning to fitness for the 1993–94 season, he scored 31 goals from 40 games as Blackburn finished runners-up in the Premier League. His performances for the club led to him being named the Football Writers' Association Footballer of the Year for that season. On the international scene, England had failed to qualify for the 1994 World Cup finals, but Shearer added three more goals to his international tally before embarking", "id": "13592514" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nfive points out of a possible twenty-four. Shearer did not get the manager's job on permanent basis. Chris Hughton stepped up from the coaching staff to take charge of the quest to get Newcastle back into the Premier League, which was achieved at the first attempt as Newcastle finished top of the Championship in the 2009–10 season. Shearer is married to Lainya, whom he met whilst a Southampton player. The couple lived locally with her parents during Shearer's second year at the south coast club, and were married on", "id": "13592557" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nagainst Portugal, but did so as England defeated Germany 1–0 in Charleroi, ensuring that England beat their European neighbours for the first time since the 1966 World Cup Final. To remain in the tournament, England only required a draw against Romania in the final group match, and Shearer scored a penalty as England went in at half-time 2–1 up, but Romania ultimately won 3–2. England's tournament was over, and so was Shearer's international career. From his 63 caps, he captained the team 34 times and scored", "id": "13592545" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nrecord return which is still unbeaten. The striker's goals at this level, coupled with his club form, meant he was soon promoted to the senior squad by coach Graham Taylor. Marking his debut in the 2–0 win against France in February 1992 with a goal, he made his only appearance for the England B team a month later. Due to replace Gary Lineker, who retired from international action after UEFA Euro 1992, in the England attack, Shearer played only intermittently in the qualifying campaign for the 1994 FIFA World Cup", "id": "13592538" }, { "contents": "1993 Trans-Tasman Test series\n\n\n's Canberra Raiders team mate and New South Wales captain Laurie Daley. The test series took place following the 1993 State of Origin series which was won by NSW. Dale Shearer's performances at fullback for Qld saw him earn a test recall in front of well performed World Cup and NSW fullback Tim Brasher (though Shearer had been selected at centre for all 3 Ashes series tests in 1992 but withdrew from all 3 with injury). Bradley Clyde, who had not played in the Origin series due to injury was also recalled to", "id": "16616631" }, { "contents": "Glenn Hoddle\n\n\nRedknapp resigned, following which Hoddle also left the club. In June 2016, after England's 2–1 loss to Iceland at Euro 2016 and manager Roy Hodgson's subsequent resignation, Harry Redknapp and Alan Shearer both put forward Hoddle as a candidate for the job before Sam Allardyce was appointed. Hoddle has done punditry work since his retirement from coaching. He has worked for ESPN, ITV Sport and BT Sport. Hoddle began working with ESPN during Euro 2012 as a pundit. Since then, he has worked with ITV for the 2014", "id": "8847620" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nhim onto the pitch following the striker's testimonial in May 2006 as he performed a lap of honour at St James' Park. On 6 December 2000, Shearer was given Honorary Freedom of the City of Newcastle upon Tyne, with the citation \"in recognition of his role as captain of Newcastle United Football Club and as former captain of England which have enhanced the reputation of the City\". Shearer was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2001 Queen's Birthday Honours and Commander of the", "id": "13592559" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nhis four years in the Southampton first team, Shearer made a total of 158 appearances in all competitions, scoring 43 goals. Despite making just one goalless appearance as England failed to progress past the Euro 1992 group stages, Shearer was soon subject to an English transfer record-breaking £3.6 million bid from Blackburn Rovers. Although there was also interest from Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson, Blackburn benefactor Jack Walker's millions were enough to prise the striker from the \"Saints\", and Shearer moved north to Ewood Park in the", "id": "13592512" }, { "contents": "Andy Cole\n\n\nof the season to help United win the Premier League title for the third time in four years. He also played in their FA Cup final victory to become part of England's first ever side to win the double twice. Before the 1996–97 season began, Cole had to deal with being offered to Blackburn Rovers as part-exchange in a £12 million deal that would have brought Alan Shearer to Old Trafford, but the offer was rejected and Shearer joined Newcastle instead. Despite Alex Ferguson's clear indication to Cole that he", "id": "9629547" }, { "contents": "Shearer's Bar\n\n\nShearer's Bar is the former name of a sports bar owned by Newcastle United and forming part of St James' Park, the team's stadium in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. It was named in honour of the club's all-time top scorer, Alan Shearer. The bar was renamed Nine in July 2013 by the club, who said that popularity of the venue had \"dwindled\". The bar was opened in December 2004 and became an important part of the features at St James' Park. It is", "id": "15298144" }, { "contents": "Kevin Keegan\n\n\nrelationship between the pair. In April 2003, it was named as Quote of the Decade in the Premier League 10 Seasons Awards and Most Memorable Quote in the 20 Seasons Awards in May 2012. It also appeared in Channel 4's \"100 Greatest Sporting Moments\". Keegan then broke the world transfer fee record by signing Blackburn Rovers and England striker Alan Shearer in July 1996. Shearer, who had been the Premier League's top scorer in the last two seasons, was born in Newcastle and had grown up as a fan", "id": "826455" }, { "contents": "England national football team\n\n\nBetween 1994 and 1996, Terry Venables managed the team. At UEFA Euro 1996, held in England, they equalled their best performance at a European Championship, reaching the semi-finals as they did in 1968, before exiting via a penalty shoot-out loss to Germany. England striker Alan Shearer was the tournament's top scorer with five goals. Venables resigned following investigations into his financial activities. Venables' successor, Glenn Hoddle, similarly left the job for non-footballing reasons after just one international tournament – the 1998", "id": "9748695" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nmiddle of 1992. His first season with Blackburn was mixed – he missed half of it through injury after snapping his right anterior cruciate ligament in a match against Leeds United in December 1992, but scored a prolific 16 goals in the 21 games in which he did feature. Shearer also became a regular in the England team this season and scored his second international goal; it came in a 4–0 1994 FIFA World Cup qualifier win over Turkey in November. The season ended sourly, however, as Shearer was forced to miss January", "id": "13592513" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nover from head coach Chris Hughton who was in temporary charge while the permanent manager Joe Kinnear recovered from heart surgery, having taken ill on 7 February. Shearer stated \"It's a club I love and I don't want them to go down. I'll do everything I can to stop that.\" Shearer was unveiled at a press conference the following day by club managing director Derek Llambias. In explaining his acceptance of a managerial role at Newcastle at this time, Shearer stated that he would not have done this for", "id": "13592552" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nwas being run in the wake of the departure of Kevin Keegan. These reports were denied by the club. Shearer features in EA Sports' \"FIFA\" video game series; he was included in the \"FIFA 15\" Ultimate Team Legends. During his playing days, Shearer had been involved with the children's charity the NSPCC, taking part in the organisation's Full Stop campaign in 1999. Since retiring from football Shearer has also done work for several charities both nationally and in the Newcastle area. In his testimonial match", "id": "13592565" }, { "contents": "2005–06 Newcastle United F.C. season\n\n\n. The fee, £17 million, surpassed Newcastle's previous record of £15 million for Alan Shearer from Blackburn in 1996. In the closing hours of the transfer window, the club re-signed Nolberto Solano from Aston Villa. Souness's decision to pair Shearer and Owen together up front proved to be lethal, but Owen broke his fourth metatarsal bone in his foot after a clash with Paul Robinson in a match against Tottenham Hotspur, keeping him out for the rest of the season. With Owen injured the team's", "id": "18086094" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\ndue to injury and the team failed to reach the competition finals. UEFA Euro 1996 was a more positive experience for both Shearer and England. With England not required to qualify as hosts, Shearer had not scored in 12 games in the 21 months prior, and even his overall goalscoring record for England did not look too impressive so far, with five goals in 23 games. However, he found the net in the 22nd minute of the first game, against Switzerland. Scoring once in the following game against Scotland and twice", "id": "13592539" }, { "contents": "Teddy Sheringham\n\n\nthe 2000 European Championships by then manager Kevin Keegan, but the retirement of Shearer (despite being four years younger than Sheringham) from international football after that tournament and the arrival of new manager Sven-Göran Eriksson in 2001 saw a return to international favour for him. He was often deployed as a tactical substitute late in games by Eriksson, valued for his ability to hold the ball up and create intelligent play. In 2001, Sheringham scored an important goal for England against Greece in a World Cup qualifying match within 15 seconds", "id": "2997070" }, { "contents": "Ruud Gullit\n\n\n, chairman Ken Bates famously said of Gullit, \"I didn't like his arrogance – in fact I never liked him.\" In August 1998, Gullit was named manager of Newcastle United two games into the new league season and reached the 1999 FA Cup Final in his first year. Fans remained supportive despite a poor run of results, although a well-publicised contretemps with the team's top scorer Alan Shearer and captain Robert Lee did not put him in a favourable light. Gullit even refused to assign Lee a squad", "id": "13592616" }, { "contents": "Scott Parker\n\n\ndefeat on 25 March 2006. Later that month he was diagnosed with glandular fever, putting an end to his season. The timing was especially unfortunate for Parker, who had been playing well for Newcastle, as it ended any hopes he may have had of forcing his way into the 2006 FIFA World Cup. In July 2006, he was named Newcastle United's new captain by manager Glenn Roeder, succeeding the retired Alan Shearer. His first goal as captain came against Wigan Athletic on 19 August 2006, in a 2–1 win", "id": "14327157" }, { "contents": "History of football in England\n\n\n. United's main challengers for the title in the Premier League's first few years were Blackburn Rovers, led by star striker Alan Shearer, also won their first league title since World War I in 1994–95, and Newcastle United, who famously conceded a 10-point lead at Christmas to lose the title to United in 1995–96. Newcastle had reached the Premiership in 1993 as Division One champions, and in their first Premiership campaign finished third to qualify for the UEFA Cup. They finished second in 1996 and again in 1997, but by", "id": "3652862" }, { "contents": "1992–93 FA Premier League\n\n\nPremier League as an attempt by the Football Association to \"hijack\" the First Division. Shortly before the season began, newly promoted Blackburn Rovers signed Southampton's 21-year-old England international striker Alan Shearer for a new British record fee variously reported as £3.3 million, £3.4 million, or £3.6 million. Several other players moved for fees of £2 million or more, including Arsenal's David Rocastle, who joined Leeds United, Dean Saunders, who moved from Liverpool to Aston Villa, and Teddy Sheringham, who", "id": "12442383" }, { "contents": "Darren Anderton\n\n\nhappy at the prospect of losing another key player as he had already lost Jürgen Klinsmann and Gheorghe Popescu that summer; and Nick Barmby was on the verge of joining Middlesbrough. Despite missing most of the 1995–96 season through injury, Anderton played an important part in the Euro 96 England team that reached the semi-finals and included players like Paul Gascoigne, Alan Shearer, Steve McManaman and Teddy Sheringham. In the semi final against Germany, the match went to golden goal extra time. Anderton came within inches of putting England into", "id": "4331581" }, { "contents": "Wallsend Boys Club\n\n\nJanuary which damaged one of the walls of the building. Professional players to have played for the club include: The club has had a representative at four of the six FIFA World Cup finals since 1986, with the two exceptions coming in 1994, when the England national football team did not qualify, and 2002. In 1986 and 1990 Peter Beardsley starred for England. In 1998 Alan Shearer was England captain. Michael Carrick made appearances for England in both the 2006 and 2010 tournaments. Fraser Forster was in the 2014 squad but", "id": "21182372" }, { "contents": "Harry Kane\n\n\n\". Clive Allen, who coached him at Tottenham, stated that \"one thing I'd say about him, which unfortunately you don't say about a lot of young footballers, is that he had a passion for the game. He loves football, he loves playing, he loves scoring goals\". His former Tottenham under-21 coach Les Ferdinand likened Kane's movement to their former forward Teddy Sheringham, and the power and accuracy of his shots to Alan Shearer. Kane's style of play has been compared to that of", "id": "1925319" }, { "contents": "Kieron Dyer\n\n\nthat he would soon rejoin for Ipswich. After representing England at Youth, Under 21 and \"B\" level, Dyer's debut for the senior team came on 4 September 1999 when he started in England's 6–0 win against Luxembourg. He was deployed out of position at right back, and was replaced by Gary Neville at half-time after injuring himself while setting up Alan Shearer's third goal of the match. The injury was not serious and he was able to make his second England appearance four days later, coming", "id": "17666181" }, { "contents": "1996–97 Blackburn Rovers F.C. season\n\n\nthe end of the season, when he handed over the reins to Roy Hodgson after Sampdoria's Sven-Göran Eriksson lied about accepting the manager's job and joined Lazio instead. Parkes steered Blackburn to safety as they finished 13th. The world record £15 million sale of striker Alan Shearer to Newcastle United was seen as the biggest factor in Blackburn's lowest top flight finish since they returned to the elite in 1992. However, his strike-partner Chris Sutton helped keep the club alive after recovering from a drastic loss of", "id": "7811146" }, { "contents": "Michael Owen\n\n\nmuch of the campaign as England struggled, with Hoddle being replaced by Kevin Keegan. On 4 September 1999, he scored his first goal at Wembley Stadium in a 6–0 win over Luxembourg. At the finals, Owen scored once in three matches, as England were knocked out at the group stage. After Alan Shearer's retirement, Owen took over as England's senior striker under new manager Sven-Göran Eriksson. He scored six times during 2002 World Cup qualifying, including a hat-trick against Germany at Munich's Olympiastadion", "id": "21886807" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nyet to start the UEFA Pro Licence course, which is required to be permitted to manage a team in the Premier League and European competition. Reflecting his desire for personal time off to \"enjoy life\", in July 2006 he turned down a coaching role with England, citing his BBC commitments and desire to be away from the pressure of a job within football. Despite this, Shearer was often linked in the media with managerial or coaching positions at his three former clubs. Shearer took a brief role in the dugout for", "id": "13592550" }, { "contents": "History of Southampton F.C.\n\n\nappearances for the England national team – he finally retired in 2002 at the age of 33. During his time with the Saints, Le Tissier was approached more than once by several bigger clubs (including Manchester United) but chose to stick with the Saints despite never winning a major trophy or experiencing European football with them. From 1989 to 1992, Le Tissier was regularly partnered up front by another notable player, Alan Shearer, who as a 17-year-old had scored a hat-trick on his Saints debut against Arsenal in", "id": "15948278" }, { "contents": "Sir Bobby Robson Trophy match\n\n\nNewcastle United, picking up on Alan Shearer's reply of \"I know as much as you do,\" to a pre-match question as to whether he would be installed as Newcastle manager for the forthcoming season beginning in 13 days, with the club being up for sale and with the first team without a manager, being in the care of coach Chris Hughton. Neither the Newcastle United owner Mike Ashley or managing director Derek Llambias were in attendance at the charity match. Having left England after Italia '90, Sir", "id": "19612022" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nChancellor Liam Donaldson stated \"Newcastle United are my team. Alan Shearer is more than just a local legend, he's probably one of the greatest footballers of all time\". On 12 September 2016, a statue of Shearer's likeness was unveiled outside St James' Park. It was sculpted by Tom Maley, and paid for by the Shepherd family. After his retirement and following guest appearances, Shearer became a regular pundit for the BBC's \"Match of the Day\". He also formed part of the team which", "id": "13592563" }, { "contents": "Gary McAllister\n\n\ntournament, scoring in a 3–0 win over the CIS. However, Scotland did not qualify from their group. Scotland failed to qualify for the 1994 FIFA World Cup but did qualify for UEFA Euro 1996 in England, with McAllister the captain of the team. Scotland's second match of the group stage was against England at Wembley Stadium. In the second half Scotland, trailing 0–1 to an Alan Shearer goal, were awarded a penalty. McAllister's kick was saved by David Seaman and Scotland lost 0–2. The team won their", "id": "19492391" }, { "contents": "David Seaman\n\n\nEngland's quarter-final against Spain ended scoreless, Seaman saved Miguel Angel Nadal's kick in the shootout to knock Spain out of the tournament. England eventually were eliminated in the semi-final by Germany on penalties,after Andreas Köpke saved the penalty taken by Gareth Southgate. Seaman was named alongside Golden Boot winner Alan Shearer and winger Steve McManaman in the UEFA \"Team of the Tournament\". Euro 96 sponsor Philips named him \"Player of the Tournament\". Seaman remained first choice under the management of Glenn Hoddle for", "id": "7321893" }, { "contents": "1998 FA Cup Final\n\n\nand so has the mixture between the foreign and English players.\" Wenger reserved praise for the goalscorers Overmars (\"a world-class player\") and Anelka (\"Nicolas is very young. But you saw in the second half today what he can do\"), and felt the turning point in the match was Shearer's shot hitting the post. He sympathised with Newcastle, as did his captain, Adams who said afterwards: \"The team and their fans did everything they could out there, but it was", "id": "10844688" }, { "contents": "David McMahon (association footballer)\n\n\nabout the role of striker from watching England international Alan Shearer in training, but likened himself more to Newcastle's Scotland international Duncan Ferguson, \"because I am taller and like to battle for things in the air.\" Brian Kerr, then manager of Ireland under-17s, described McMahon as honest and hard-working, \"not the most skilful player, but will get goals\", but Darlington manager Gary Bennett believed there was more to his game: that he and strike partner John Williams both had enough skill to play a", "id": "5423888" }, { "contents": "Andy Carroll\n\n\nUEFA Euro 2012. He opened the scoring for England with a powerful header in their second group match against Sweden, which England went on to win 3–2. Carroll has been compared to Newcastle's record goalscorer Alan Shearer, Ivory Coast striker Didier Drogba and former Italy forward Christian Vieri. He has also been referred to as a classic centre forward, owing to his strength, powerful shot and excellent heading ability. Former Newcastle manager and Liverpool player Kevin Keegan stated \"he is probably in the top three headers of a ball I", "id": "11961542" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\n-chasing Manchester United. On the opening day of the 1999–2000 season, Shearer received the first red card of his career in his 100th appearance for Newcastle. After dropping Shearer to the bench in a Tyne-Wear derby loss against Sunderland, the unpopular Gullit resigned to be replaced by the 66-year-old Bobby Robson. Despite Gullit giving Shearer the captain's armband, reports of a rift between club captain and manager were rife, Gullit's decision to drop Shearer proved deeply unpopular with fans and his departure capped a dismal start", "id": "13592525" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nAn almost injury-free season helped Shearer improve on his previous year's tally in the 1998–99 season, the striker converting 14 goals in 30 league games and replacing Rob Lee as Newcastle captain, but Newcastle finished 13th again, with Ruud Gullit having replaced Kenny Dalglish just after the season got underway. He also helped Newcastle to a second consecutive FA Cup final and qualification for the following season's UEFA Cup, scoring twice in the semi-final against Tottenham Hotspur, but they once again lost, this time 2–0 to treble", "id": "13592524" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nhis final three games under Glenn Roeder. Shearer had rejected offers of coaching or assistant roles at Newcastle under both the returning Kevin Keegan in February 2008 and Joe Kinnear in November 2008. Shearer had previously had talks about, but never been offered, a full-time manager's role at Newcastle until his appointment on 1 April 2009. In a surprise move, late on 1 April 2009, it was announced that Shearer would become the manager of his former club Newcastle United for the remaining eight games of the season, taking", "id": "13592551" }, { "contents": "Fabio Cannavaro\n\n\nnational team on 22 January 1997, in a friendly match against Northern Ireland. The same year, he earned plaudits for his handling of England striker Alan Shearer in a World Cup qualifying game at Wembley Stadium. Shearer was then considered by the partisan English crowd to be the best striker in the world, and thought he would make fun of the inexperienced Italian defender. Nevertheless, in a display ranking alongside those of the very best Italian defenders Claudio Gentile and Franco Baresi, Cannavaro managed to keep Shearer quiet for the whole game", "id": "3625067" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\n, with media sources claiming that video footage showed him intentionally kicking Neil Lennon in the head following a challenge. The referee of the game took no action against Shearer, and he was then cleared of all charges by the FA, with Lennon giving evidence in the player's defence. Former Football Association chief Graham Kelly, who brought the charges against the player, later claimed in his autobiography that Shearer had threatened to withdraw himself from the 1998 World Cup squad if the charges were upheld, a claim strenuously denied by Shearer.", "id": "13592523" }, { "contents": "History of the Romania national football team\n\n\nminnows Tunisia. Adrian Ilie scored the only goal with a fine chip in their first match against Colombia at Lyon's Stade Gerland. In Toulouse, they met an England side starting with prodigal striker Michael Owen on the bench, with Teddy Sheringham preferred alongside Alan Shearer. A mistake by Tony Adams was punished by Viorel Moldovan, who played for Coventry City, before Owen came on to claim an equalizer. But Romania won with a scrappy late goal from Dan Petrescu, also playing in England with Chelsea, fighting off his club", "id": "16435718" }, { "contents": "John Barnes (footballer)\n\n\nNewcastle United, although an approach had already been made by Harry Redknapp of West Ham; Barnes had agreed in principle to join them until at the final moment Dalglish called him and Barnes changed his mind. In the 1997–98 season Barnes played up front mostly, deputising for Alan Shearer after Shearer was injured for most of the season, and Barnes ended up Newcastle's top league scorer with six goals, which highlighted the Magpies' lack of ability to score in the absence of Shearer and Ferdinand (who had been sold along with", "id": "19616669" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\ncould not find a more iconic person than Alan, not just for what he has done in football but for all the extra work he tirelessly does for charity and communities. I am delighted he has accepted the role of Deputy Lieutenant because he is a real role model. I have promised him he is not going to have to do too much, but even if it is just one occasion a year he is the perfect choice\" On 7 December 2009, Shearer was made a Doctor of Civil Law by Newcastle University.", "id": "13592562" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nLaw of Northumbria and Newcastle Universities. Shearer was born in Gosforth, Newcastle, in 1970 to working-class parents Alan and Anne Shearer. His father, a sheet-metal worker, encouraged a keen Shearer to play football in his youth, and the young player continued with the sport as he progressed through school. He was educated at Gosforth Central Middle School and Gosforth High School. Growing up playing on the streets of his hometown, he originally played in midfield because \"it meant [he] could get more involved", "id": "13592504" }, { "contents": "Paul Kitson\n\n\n. Newcastle finished second that season after being overhauled in the second half campaign by a Manchester United side who sealed the title by a five-point margin barely four months after Newcastle had led by 10 points, but Kitson's part in Newcastle's exciting though ultimately disappointing campaign had been minimal as he had played just seven league games and scored twice. But he remained loyal to the Magpies even after another blow at the end of July 1996 – the arrival of £15 million world record signing Alan Shearer. He managed three", "id": "19054464" }, { "contents": "Ray Harford\n\n\nthe Premier League for much of the season. During the summer of 1996, Alan Shearer was sold to Newcastle United for a then world record fee of £15 million, and Harford failed to adequately replace him. Harford stated that \"I'm told we need a big name. Engelbert Humperdinck is a big name but it doesn't mean he can play football.\" The 1996–97 season also started badly for Blackburn. They failed to win any of their first ten games and were knocked out of the League Cup by Division", "id": "5365351" }, { "contents": "Patrick Kluivert\n\n\nagain featured for Barca in a legends game against Uganda all stars where he, in lobbing the ball, scored an amazing goal. Kluivert joined Newcastle United on a free transfer in July 2004. He stated that his reasons for joining Newcastle was due to the overwhelming reaction he received whilst playing for Barcelona against Newcastle during a pre season friendly as well as teaming up with Newcastle's star players such as Alan Shearer. Kluivert scored some classy and crucial goals at and away from St James's Park namely in winning strikes against both", "id": "21654890" }, { "contents": "Duncan Shearer\n\n\nbetween 1994 and 1995, scoring two goals including an important opening strike in an away win over Finland which helped the national side qualify for Euro 96, although Shearer did not make the squad for that tournament. The senior team was his first experience of international football, having never played at any age-group level. He achieved a childhood ambition when he played in the national team alongside John McGinlay, a childhood friend also from Fort William. In season 1999–00 he began to concentrate more on coaching than playing, and was", "id": "3716411" }, { "contents": "Les Ferdinand\n\n\nscored 50 goals in only 84 games at Newcastle, forming a successful partnership with Alan Shearer. He was and indeed is still very highly thought of by Newcastle United. Ferdinand received a standing ovation when he returned to St. James' Park as a Tottenham player, trying to put Alan Shearer's number 9 shirt on to complete a lap of honour, he broke down in tears and could only manage to put the shirt on inside out and back to front before being helped from the field. Ferdinand returned again, when he", "id": "2996528" }, { "contents": "David Platt (footballer)\n\n\nTurkey, San Marino, the Netherlands and Norway. The qualifiers began at home to Norway. England dominated the game and Platt carried the goal threat, with Alan Shearer and Ian Wright struggling to find form. He scored the opening goal after an hour. England dominated the remainder of the game and were unlucky to concede to a long-range shot from Kjetil Rekdal. Platt continued his drive from midfield in wins over Turkey at home (4-0) and San Marino (6-0). Platt scored four", "id": "16718350" }, { "contents": "Jason Wilcox\n\n\n-pound investments of Jack Walker. He played an important part in the title-winning Blackburn team of 1995. Playing on the left flank with attacking fullback Graeme Le Saux behind him and Stuart Ripley on the opposite flank, they forged a strong attacking line-up with Alan Shearer and Chris Sutton. International recognition was harder to come by for Wilcox and he managed only 3 international caps despite his effective partnership with Shearer, Le Saux and Tim Sherwood. Lengthy injury problems restricted his effectiveness in subsequent seasons and, after experiencing", "id": "14527253" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nclub's form, and Newcastle finished just 13th in the Premier League. However, United (now managed by Shearer's old boss at Blackburn, Kenny Dalglish) had a good run in the FA Cup; Shearer scored the winning goal in a semi-final victory over Sheffield United as the team reached the final. The team were unable to get on the scoresheet at Wembley, and lost the game 2–0 to Arsenal. An incident during a game against Leicester City in the league saw Shearer charged with misconduct by the FA", "id": "13592522" }, { "contents": "Aleksandar Mitrović (footballer)\n\n\nhim the competition's top scorer, and 28 in all competitions. On 22 March 2015, he scored the team's only goal in the 2–1 Belgian Cup Final loss to Club Brugge KV in Brussels. On 21 July 2015, Mitrović joined Newcastle United on a five-year contract for a reported £13 million, saying he hoped to be able to play like club legend Alan Shearer. He made his debut on 9 August as Newcastle began the season with a 2–2 draw against Southampton at St James' Park, playing", "id": "20923735" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nWest Bromwich Albion, Manchester City and Newcastle United, before being offered a youth contract with Southampton in April 1986. Shearer was promoted to the first team after spending two years with the youth squad. He made his professional debut for Southampton on 26 March 1988, coming on as a substitute in a First Division fixture at Chelsea, before prompting national headlines in his full debut at The Dell two weeks later. He scored a hat-trick, helping the team to a 4–2 victory against Arsenal, thus becoming the youngest player", "id": "13592506" }, { "contents": "James Milner\n\n\ndo what was \"in the club's best interest\" and in July 2004, he agreed a five-year contract with Newcastle. Milner made his first appearance for Newcastle United during their pre-season tour of Asia, scoring his first goal for the club in a 1–1 draw against Kitchee, in Hong Kong. During this tour, he took the opportunity to observe how Newcastle striker Alan Shearer dealt with attention from fans and the media. He said that his association with people like Shearer gave him a better idea of", "id": "1860603" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nretain the ball and provide opportunities for teammates. Playing as a lone striker between wide men, Rod Wallace and Matt Le Tissier, Shearer scored three goals in 26 appearances in the 1989–90 season, and in the next, four goals in 36 games. His performances in the centre of the \"Saints\" attack were soon recognised by the fans, who voted him their Player of the Year for 1991. In the middle of 1991, Shearer was a member of the England national under-21 football squad in the Toulon Tournament in Toulon", "id": "13592508" }, { "contents": "Teddy Sheringham\n\n\n, creating play and providing key passes, forming the link between Shearer and the England midfield. The pairing came to be known as 'The SAS' ('Shearer and Sheringham') and their most successful time together came in the 1996 European Championships, held in England. Their most famous contribution was in the 4–1 victory over the Netherlands, a game in the opening group stages in which they both scored twice against one of the strongest teams in the tournament. Though England were eventually knocked out in the semi-finals", "id": "2997067" }, { "contents": "History of the England national football team\n\n\ninto Euro 2000 after a 2–1 aggregate playoff win over Scotland. At the finals in Belgium and the Netherlands, a lacklustre England failed to get beyond the group stage, losing to both Portugal and Romania after leading in each game. After England's exit, Alan Shearer retired from international football, he had announced his intentions before the tournament, and no-one could persuade him to change his mind. On 7 October 2000, shortly after losing the opening World Cup qualifier to Germany in the last-ever game at Wembley", "id": "15089411" }, { "contents": "Premier League 10 Seasons Awards\n\n\nrepresented, with five players. The teams were as follows: English striker Alan Shearer was named Domestic Player of the Decade in the main 10 Seasons awards announcements, in addition to being given the Outstanding Contribution to the FA Premier League award. Two weeks later he was also named as the Overall Player of the Decade. In the first decade, Shearer played for Blackburn Rovers, and then Newcastle United. Shearer has been described as a classic English centre-forward with great shooting power, a single-minded striker who could", "id": "11856460" }, { "contents": "Wartime League\n\n\narguments debate that a player who exceeds one's record through their wartime matches should nonetheless be seen as the club's highest goal scorer or appearance having been part of the team's squad even if only for a short time. The most recent argument relates to the goal-difference between Jackie Milburn's and Alan Shearer's Newcastle United goal-scoring records. When counting Jackie's wartime matches, he scored a total of 238 professional goals for Newcastle United FC. In May 2005, Alan Shearer finished his career at 206 goals", "id": "17626256" }, { "contents": "Jon Dahl Tomasson\n\n\nas the perfect link-up player to England national team striker Alan Shearer. The partnership initially worked well, with Tomasson impressing during a pre-season friendly tournament in the Republic of Ireland. However, a career threatening injury to Shearer, combined with the controversial transfer of popular striker Les Ferdinand to Tottenham Hotspur, meant that Tomasson was moved from his traditional attacking midfield position to that of striker. He struggled to adapt to his new position on the field, and to the English game, due to his lack of physical", "id": "19324628" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\ncovered the World Cups and European Championships from 2006 onwards for the BBC. Former Newcastle chairman Freddy Shepherd announced that, after Shearer finished the 2005–06 season as Newcastle's caretaker assistant manager, he would become the club's \"Sporting Ambassador\" for the 2006–07 season. However, in September 2008, it was reported that Shearer was removed from this largely honorary position by the club's owner Mike Ashley, despite protests from players such as Steven Taylor and Damien Duff, due to Shearer's criticism of the way in which the club", "id": "13592564" }, { "contents": "1998 FA Cup Final\n\n\nthe final that Bergkamp had resumed training and \"medically he looked all right\", but the player received a further setback when he suffered a reaction to his hamstring. He ruled himself out of the match and told reporters: \"I'm very disappointed. As a little boy in Holland I always watched the FA Cup final. And I used to dream about playing in it myself one day.\" Ian Wright was listed as Bergkamp's probable replacement to partner Anelka. Newcastle had their own issues surrounding Shearer. The England", "id": "10844676" }, { "contents": "2008–09 in English football\n\n\n's surprise resignation in December; whilst their final points tally wasn't spectacular, they had the satisfaction of being the top North-East team in football after both Middlesbrough and Newcastle United were relegated, ending 11 and 16 year spells in the top flight respectively, the latter going through four managers in Kevin Keegan, Joe Kinnear, Chris Hughton and even former striker Alan Shearer during the campaign. Despite a brilliant start to the season which saw them as high as third place in October, Hull City won just 1 of their", "id": "1311754" }, { "contents": "1996 FA Charity Shield\n\n\nfrom Eric Cantona, Nicky Butt, David Beckham and Roy Keane. The game saw new signings Jordi Cruyff and Karel Poborský make their debuts for Manchester United, though neither of these players had particularly successful careers at Old Trafford and both had left the club within four years. The day before the game had seen the surprise sale of one of Manchester United's longest serving players — Lee Sharpe. The game saw Newcastle United give a debut to £15 million world record signing Alan Shearer, who would remain at the club until", "id": "2797098" }, { "contents": "UEFA Euro 2016 knockout phase\n\n\nsection begin=g6 /section end=g6 / section begin=g7 /section end=g7 / The match has been described as one of England's worst defeats ever. Former footballer and Talksport presenter Stan Collymore, who was commentating on the game, panned the England team, reserving special criticism for goalkeeper Joe Hart and captain Wayne Rooney. Former England international and BBC Sport pundit Alan Shearer described it as the worst performance he had ever seen from an England team. The defeat was called England's most shocking since losing 1–0 to", "id": "11344909" }, { "contents": "Maurice E. Shearer\n\n\nApplication at Annapolis, Maryland, with classmates Holland Smith, Ralph S. Keyser and Andrew B. Drum. In July, Shearer sailed for duty to be the commander of the 35 man Marine detachment on Midway Island. In May 1908, he was selected for promotion to first lieutenant and to the rank of captain in June 1916. During World War I, forces under Major Shearer's command made an attack on Belleau Wood, finally clearing that forest of Germans. On 26 June 1918, he sent a now famous report: \"", "id": "8315540" }, { "contents": "Newcastle upon Tyne\n\n\nF.C. became Football League members in 1893. They have won four top division titles (the first in 1905 and the most recent in 1927), six FA Cups (the first in 1910 and the most recent in 1955) and the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup in 1969. They broke the world transfer record in 1996 by paying £15 million for Blackburn Rovers and England striker Alan Shearer, one of the most prolific goalscorers of that era. In 2017 Newcastle was the venue for the 2017 Freedom City festival. The 2017", "id": "20529704" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\ngame and came off the bench to score a penalty, helping Newcastle win the game 3–2. The match was a sell-out, and saw Shearer perform a lap of honour at the end with his family, with his young son notably covering his ears due to the volume of noise produced by the crowd in tribute. Shearer's international career began in 1990 when he was handed a callup to the England under-21 squad under Dave Sexton. During his time with the squad, he scored 13 times in 11 games, a", "id": "13592537" }, { "contents": "2011–12 Cardiff City F.C. season\n\n\nserving manager in the Championship having held his post since May 2005. The club held talks with former England and Newcastle United captain Alan Shearer to replace Jones but he rejected the job despite stating that he was impressed with the \"vision, ambition and determination of the owner Dato Chan Tien Ghee and the board\". The \"Bluebirds\" instead approached Championship rivals Watford for permission to speak to their manager Malky Mackay, which was initially rejected. However, after the two clubs agreed a compensation fee, Mackay was officially appointed as", "id": "7599659" }, { "contents": "Kevin Keegan\n\n\nto Michael Owen, stating, \"He's not scared to give his opinion when he's right, and he's not scared to say what he feels. He's a tremendous professional, and he trains properly every day.\" Keegan announced on 22 January that he and Alan Shearer held talks about the two linking up with Shearer as his assistant, but decided against the idea, leaving the door open for him to take other roles he was interested in. Keegan's first eight games back at Newcastle passed without a", "id": "826473" }, { "contents": "Transfer (association football)\n\n\n£3.6 million Alan Shearer moved to Blackburn Rovers from Southampton, a decade after the world's first £3 million transfer. Lentini's transfer remained intact the world record fee for the next four years, although the national record was broken more than once in many countries including England. Shearer's £3.6million record fee was narrowly eclipsed 12 months later when Manchester United signed Roy Keane from Nottingham Forest for £3.75 million. In 1994, Blackburn Rovers paid a record £5 million for Chris Sutton from Norwich City, a decade", "id": "11200095" }, { "contents": "Roy Hodgson\n\n\nagainst Costa Rica to finish bottom of Group D. Hodgson named Rooney as the new captain of England in August 2014, following the retirement of Steven Gerrard from international football. Hodgson's first match after the World Cup was a 1–0 win against Norway in an international friendly match at Wembley on 3 September 2014. During the match, England made only two shots on target. Hodgson was infuriated when asked about this, describing the statistic as \"fucking bollocks\". Former England player, Alan Shearer, admitted that the match was so", "id": "12858624" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nto the season. The animosity between Shearer and Gullit was later confirmed by the latter, who reported telling the striker that he was \"...the most overrated player I have ever seen.\" Ironically, Robson had tried to sign Shearer for Barcelona in 1997, making a bid of £20million which would have seen Shearer break the world's transfer fee record for the second time in 12 months. However, then Newcastle manager Kenny Dalglish rejected the offer. In Robson's first match in charge, Shearer scored five goals in", "id": "13592526" }, { "contents": "Premier League 10 Seasons Awards\n\n\nin his talks with Alex Ferguson, he could not guarantee that Eric Cantona the Overseas Player of the Decade could be persuaded to let Shearer take penalty kicks. Shearer gained a second PFA Players' Player of the Year Award in April 1997, becoming just the second player to have received the PFA award twice, after Mark Hughes. After the 2000 European Championships, Shearer had retired from international football with England, having been England captain since 1998, and having made his senior début in 1992. Shearer was awarded the OBE in", "id": "11856465" }, { "contents": "Emile Heskey\n\n\nthe two matches, with former England international Alan Shearer commenting, \"Never in a million years did I expect to be discussing whether Emile Heskey should keep his place ahead of Wayne Rooney but the Wigan striker was outstanding over both matches.\" Heskey was called into manager Fabio Capello's first squad against Switzerland, but had to withdraw due to an injury. He was called into the squad for a friendly against the Czech Republic in August 2008 and came on as a 46th-minute substitute, in a match that finished 2–2", "id": "174986" }, { "contents": "Habib Beye\n\n\nUEFA Cup Final, a run which involved him putting in a star performance as a central defender against (his now former team) Newcastle United, where he was particularly effective against Newcastle's talisman striker Alan Shearer. He ended up on the losing side as Marseille lost the final to Valencia 2–0. He was also a beaten finalist in the 2006 French Cup against former club Paris Saint-Germain, a match which his team lost 2–1, and again in 2007 when his Marseille team lost on penalties to FC Sochaux. His", "id": "16217445" }, { "contents": "Stan Collymore\n\n\nseason in the Premier League, Collymore was called up to Terry Venables' England squad for the Umbro Cup in June 1995. He made his début at Wembley Stadium against Japan, partnering Alan Shearer in a 2–1 win. He won his second cap as a 90th minute substitute against Brazil. Collymore made his third and final appearance for England as a substitute in a 4–0 win over Moldova during qualification for the 1998 FIFA World Cup. Collymore contributed to his biography \"Stan: Tackling my demons\" with Oliver Holt. In 2005", "id": "3955590" }, { "contents": "Graeme Souness\n\n\nAt £8.2 million, Boumsong was his first big signing and Souness said he would replace Jonathan Woodgate in the Newcastle defence, which had conceded several leads earlier in the season. Newcastle were well aware of Boumsong prior to his move from Auxerre to Rangers on a free transfer. Robson had travelled to France to watch him, but he declined the opportunity to sign Boumsong. Liverpool were also interested in signing Boumsong. Robson's doubts were confirmed when Boumsong marked Alan Shearer in a pre-season game against Rangers. Shearer came", "id": "18029254" }, { "contents": "Saido Berahino\n\n\nrate of a goal every other match, including three to help the team qualify for the European Championship. Berahino has the all-time third-highest goal tally for the England under-21 side with 10 goals in 13 appearances, behind Francis Jeffers and Alan Shearer. On 6 November 2014, England manager Roy Hodgson – who promoted Berahino to the West Bromwich Albion first team in 2011 – named Berahino in his squad for the first time, ahead of a UEFA Euro 2016 qualifying match against Slovenia at Wembley Stadium on the 15th and", "id": "1000466" } ]

[ { "contents": "Tony Adams\n\n\n\"I have some resentment over the way Glenn Hoddle gave the captaincy to Alan Shearer instead of me but I can let that go. I reacted positively. I disagreed with him [Hoddle] and he thought Alan could get more penalties being a centre forward. People know my reaction to that\". Adams continued to play for the national side, however and he finally appeared in a World Cup finals in 1998. His international swansong was England's unsuccessful Euro 2000 campaign. With Shearer retiring from international football after the tournament", "id": "6104102" }, { "contents": "Tony Adams\n\n\nin defence, and after the retirement of Gary Lineker in 1992, Adams unofficially shared the captaincy of England with David Platt, though Adams became England captain outright before Euro 96, as Platt's place in the side became less secure. England reached the semi-finals of Euro 96, before losing on penalties to Germany. When England manager Glenn Hoddle took the Captain's armband from Adams and gave it to Alan Shearer it was a bitter pill for Adams to swallow. Speaking at a fans' forum in 2008 Adams remarked", "id": "6104101" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nThis time, Germany won from the spot; although Shearer scored, his teammate Gareth Southgate missed his kick and England were eliminated. Shearer's five goals made him the competition's top scorer, and together with teammates David Seaman and Steve McManaman, was listed in the official UEFA team of the tournament. The new England manager Glenn Hoddle appointed Shearer captain for the 1998 FIFA World Cup qualifier against Moldova on 1 September 1996, and the player held onto the captaincy after scoring once in that match and twice in the following game", "id": "13592541" }, { "contents": "Dimitar Berbatov\n\n\nhe consequently modelled himself after Marco van Basten, the Dutch forward for that team. However, the 1996 European Championship, held in England, gave Berbatov a new role model; the 15-year-old Berbatov began to look up to the English front man Alan Shearer, who played for Newcastle United. Berbatov's mother later spoke of her son's teenage dream of playing for Newcastle United, and said that his admiration for Shearer was such that, during these years, he slept in a Newcastle shirt. Berbatov began his youth", "id": "3905446" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\n's participation in what was to be Shearer's only World Cup tournament. In September 1999, Shearer scored his only England hat-trick in a UEFA Euro 2000 qualifier against Luxembourg. This helped England reach a play-off against Scotland; England won the game over two legs and in doing so qualified for the European Championships. By now, Shearer was approaching his 30th birthday, and he announced that he intended to retire from international football after the Euro 2000 tournament. Shearer did not score in England's opening 3–2 defeat", "id": "13592544" }, { "contents": "Southampton F.C.\n\n\nwas Alan Shearer, who at the age of 17 scored a hat-trick against Arsenal in a league match in April 1988. Shearer was a first team regular by 1990, and stayed with Southampton until July 1992, when he was sold to Blackburn Rovers for a national record of more than £3 million. He then became the most expensive footballer in the world when Blackburn sold him to Newcastle for £15 million in 1996. He also scored 30 times for England internationally. Southampton were founding members of the Premier League", "id": "3265953" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\ntime to play in England's UEFA European Championship campaign. After Euro 96, Manchester United again sought to sign Shearer, and attempted to enter the battle for his signature. However Manchester United chairman Martin Edwards stated that Blackburn Rovers refused to let Shearer go to Old Trafford. Ultimately Shearer joined his boyhood club: Newcastle United, Manchester United's title rivals. On 30 July 1996, for a world transfer record-breaking £15 million (equivalent to £ million today) Shearer joined his hometown club and league runners-up", "id": "13592519" }, { "contents": "History of the England national football team\n\n\nyear after his last game at club level. Hoddle selected Alan Shearer as captain, replacing Tony Adams, but also brought a number of emerging talents into the squad, including the Manchester United midfield trio of Paul Scholes, Nicky Butt and David Beckham, and central defenders Rio Ferdinand and Sol Campbell. Hoddle oversaw England's qualification for the 1998 World Cup (the first World Cup with 32 teams instead of 24) with a 0–0 draw against Italy at the Stadio Olimpico in Rome, and drew out a winning performance in the", "id": "15089406" }, { "contents": "History of the England national football team\n\n\nthe underwhelming performance at the World Cup, England suffered a poor start to the Euro 2000 qualifying tournament, and there was reported discontent between Hoddle and several senior players, most notably Shearer. Hoddle was dismissed on 2 February 1999, two days after an interview with \"The Sunday Times\" in which he spoke about his belief in reincarnation and claimed that disabled people were paying for sins in a previous life. Under considerable media and public pressure, the FA appointed former captain Kevin Keegan, who only just managed to get England", "id": "15089410" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nagainst Poland. He scored a total of five goals in England's successful qualification campaign for the World Cup, adding strikes against Georgia and away to Poland to his tally. Shearer was sidelined for much of the 1997–98 season, but recovered to play in the World Cup finals. With Michael Owen replacing Teddy Sheringham as Shearer's strike partner, Shearer's return saw him score England's first goal of the tournament, in a 2–0 win over Tunisia, his only goal in the three group matches. England faced long-time", "id": "13592542" }, { "contents": "Newcastle United F.C.\n\n\n. The attacking philosophy of Keegan led to the team being labelled \"The Entertainers\" by Sky Sports. Keegan took Newcastle to two consecutive runners-up finishes in the league in 1995–96 and 1996–97, coming very close to winning the title in the former season. This success was in part due to the talent of players like David Ginola, Les Ferdinand and Alan Shearer, who was signed on 30 July 1996 for a then world record fee of £15 million. Keegan left Newcastle in January 1997 and was replaced by Kenny", "id": "12636363" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nAlan Shearer, CBE, DL (born 13 August 1970) is an English retired footballer. He played as a striker in the top level of English league football for Southampton, Blackburn Rovers, Newcastle United and the England national team. He is Newcastle's and the Premier League's record goalscorer. He was named Football Writers' Association Player of the Year in 1994 and won the PFA Player of the Year award in 1995. In 1996, he was third in the FIFA World Player of the Year awards. In 2004", "id": "13592501" }, { "contents": "Teddy Sheringham\n\n\nmanager Terry Venables (1994–96) Sheringham came to be the preferred strike partner for Alan Shearer. During this time, England had a wealth of strikers with the likes of Andrew Cole, Ian Wright, a young Robbie Fowler and Les Ferdinand all battling to partner Shearer in the England team. The two formed a famous partnership at international level, as they complemented each other's strengths: Shearer the out-and-out goalscorer, big, strong and powerful, Sheringham just 'dropping off' his strike partner, finding spaces", "id": "2997066" }, { "contents": "History of Newcastle United F.C.\n\n\n's title chances for the 1994–95 season, in which they finished sixth. The club, however, continued to build up a reputation for playing attacking football under Keegan. In the 1995–96 season, high-profile foreign stars David Ginola and Faustino Asprilla, in addition to British players Peter Beardsley and striker Les Ferdinand, guided the team to a second-place finish. During the 1996–97 season, Keegan made one signing, securing the services of England striker Alan Shearer for a then-world record transfer fee of £15 million", "id": "6803863" }, { "contents": "1996–97 Newcastle United F.C. season\n\n\n...I think Kevin wanted it free-flowing in all departments and that doesn't necessarily happen.\" Keegan responded to the previous season's disappointment by breaking the world record transfer fee to sign centre forward Alan Shearer from Blackburn Rovers for £15 million. Shearer, whose five goals made him the top scorer in Euro 96, had supported Newcastle since childhood – he had been a ball-boy at St James' Park on the day that Keegan had left in a helicopter after his final Newcastle appearance as a player.", "id": "1207050" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nin the games.\" Shearer captained his school team and helped a Newcastle City Schools team win a seven-a-side tournament at St James' Park, before joining the amateur Wallsend Boys Club as a teenager. It was while playing for the Wallsend club that he was spotted by Southampton's scout, Jack Hixon, which resulted in Shearer spending his summers training with the club's youth team, a time he would later refer to as \"the making of me\". Shearer had successful trials for First Division clubs", "id": "13592505" }, { "contents": "Duncan Shearer\n\n\nFavourites\" during the club's centenary in 2008. However, he was unable to prevent Huddersfield's relegation to the Third Division at the end of the 1987–88 season. Weeks before this, the unrelated English striker Alan Shearer (aged 17) had scored a hat-trick in the First Division for Southampton against Arsenal, a game which Arsenal captain Tony Adams missed through injury. In his autobiography 11 years later, Adams said that he had followed the progress of the game on Ceefax and mistakingly believed that the Shearer who scored", "id": "3716405" }, { "contents": "David Hirst (footballer)\n\n\nHe came on at half-time and within three minutes of the restart he scored his first (and only) England goal. With Gary Lineker injured, he lined up with Alan Shearer against France at Wembley. Bryan Robson said that, \"It's not a question of who will replace Lineker, but who will partner David Hirst\". It became Hirst's third and final England match. Although he was selected for more England squads, injuries kept him out of the team. Manchester United boss Alex Ferguson tried six", "id": "18892949" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nthrough to May due to injury and England's World Cup qualification chances were hit by a run of poor form. Returning to fitness for the 1993–94 season, he scored 31 goals from 40 games as Blackburn finished runners-up in the Premier League. His performances for the club led to him being named the Football Writers' Association Footballer of the Year for that season. On the international scene, England had failed to qualify for the 1994 World Cup finals, but Shearer added three more goals to his international tally before embarking", "id": "13592514" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nfive points out of a possible twenty-four. Shearer did not get the manager's job on permanent basis. Chris Hughton stepped up from the coaching staff to take charge of the quest to get Newcastle back into the Premier League, which was achieved at the first attempt as Newcastle finished top of the Championship in the 2009–10 season. Shearer is married to Lainya, whom he met whilst a Southampton player. The couple lived locally with her parents during Shearer's second year at the south coast club, and were married on", "id": "13592557" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nagainst Portugal, but did so as England defeated Germany 1–0 in Charleroi, ensuring that England beat their European neighbours for the first time since the 1966 World Cup Final. To remain in the tournament, England only required a draw against Romania in the final group match, and Shearer scored a penalty as England went in at half-time 2–1 up, but Romania ultimately won 3–2. England's tournament was over, and so was Shearer's international career. From his 63 caps, he captained the team 34 times and scored", "id": "13592545" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nrecord return which is still unbeaten. The striker's goals at this level, coupled with his club form, meant he was soon promoted to the senior squad by coach Graham Taylor. Marking his debut in the 2–0 win against France in February 1992 with a goal, he made his only appearance for the England B team a month later. Due to replace Gary Lineker, who retired from international action after UEFA Euro 1992, in the England attack, Shearer played only intermittently in the qualifying campaign for the 1994 FIFA World Cup", "id": "13592538" }, { "contents": "1993 Trans-Tasman Test series\n\n\n's Canberra Raiders team mate and New South Wales captain Laurie Daley. The test series took place following the 1993 State of Origin series which was won by NSW. Dale Shearer's performances at fullback for Qld saw him earn a test recall in front of well performed World Cup and NSW fullback Tim Brasher (though Shearer had been selected at centre for all 3 Ashes series tests in 1992 but withdrew from all 3 with injury). Bradley Clyde, who had not played in the Origin series due to injury was also recalled to", "id": "16616631" }, { "contents": "Glenn Hoddle\n\n\nRedknapp resigned, following which Hoddle also left the club. In June 2016, after England's 2–1 loss to Iceland at Euro 2016 and manager Roy Hodgson's subsequent resignation, Harry Redknapp and Alan Shearer both put forward Hoddle as a candidate for the job before Sam Allardyce was appointed. Hoddle has done punditry work since his retirement from coaching. He has worked for ESPN, ITV Sport and BT Sport. Hoddle began working with ESPN during Euro 2012 as a pundit. Since then, he has worked with ITV for the 2014", "id": "8847620" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nhim onto the pitch following the striker's testimonial in May 2006 as he performed a lap of honour at St James' Park. On 6 December 2000, Shearer was given Honorary Freedom of the City of Newcastle upon Tyne, with the citation \"in recognition of his role as captain of Newcastle United Football Club and as former captain of England which have enhanced the reputation of the City\". Shearer was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2001 Queen's Birthday Honours and Commander of the", "id": "13592559" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nhis four years in the Southampton first team, Shearer made a total of 158 appearances in all competitions, scoring 43 goals. Despite making just one goalless appearance as England failed to progress past the Euro 1992 group stages, Shearer was soon subject to an English transfer record-breaking £3.6 million bid from Blackburn Rovers. Although there was also interest from Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson, Blackburn benefactor Jack Walker's millions were enough to prise the striker from the \"Saints\", and Shearer moved north to Ewood Park in the", "id": "13592512" }, { "contents": "Andy Cole\n\n\nof the season to help United win the Premier League title for the third time in four years. He also played in their FA Cup final victory to become part of England's first ever side to win the double twice. Before the 1996–97 season began, Cole had to deal with being offered to Blackburn Rovers as part-exchange in a £12 million deal that would have brought Alan Shearer to Old Trafford, but the offer was rejected and Shearer joined Newcastle instead. Despite Alex Ferguson's clear indication to Cole that he", "id": "9629547" }, { "contents": "Shearer's Bar\n\n\nShearer's Bar is the former name of a sports bar owned by Newcastle United and forming part of St James' Park, the team's stadium in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. It was named in honour of the club's all-time top scorer, Alan Shearer. The bar was renamed Nine in July 2013 by the club, who said that popularity of the venue had \"dwindled\". The bar was opened in December 2004 and became an important part of the features at St James' Park. It is", "id": "15298144" }, { "contents": "Kevin Keegan\n\n\nrelationship between the pair. In April 2003, it was named as Quote of the Decade in the Premier League 10 Seasons Awards and Most Memorable Quote in the 20 Seasons Awards in May 2012. It also appeared in Channel 4's \"100 Greatest Sporting Moments\". Keegan then broke the world transfer fee record by signing Blackburn Rovers and England striker Alan Shearer in July 1996. Shearer, who had been the Premier League's top scorer in the last two seasons, was born in Newcastle and had grown up as a fan", "id": "826455" }, { "contents": "England national football team\n\n\nBetween 1994 and 1996, Terry Venables managed the team. At UEFA Euro 1996, held in England, they equalled their best performance at a European Championship, reaching the semi-finals as they did in 1968, before exiting via a penalty shoot-out loss to Germany. England striker Alan Shearer was the tournament's top scorer with five goals. Venables resigned following investigations into his financial activities. Venables' successor, Glenn Hoddle, similarly left the job for non-footballing reasons after just one international tournament – the 1998", "id": "9748695" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nmiddle of 1992. His first season with Blackburn was mixed – he missed half of it through injury after snapping his right anterior cruciate ligament in a match against Leeds United in December 1992, but scored a prolific 16 goals in the 21 games in which he did feature. Shearer also became a regular in the England team this season and scored his second international goal; it came in a 4–0 1994 FIFA World Cup qualifier win over Turkey in November. The season ended sourly, however, as Shearer was forced to miss January", "id": "13592513" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nover from head coach Chris Hughton who was in temporary charge while the permanent manager Joe Kinnear recovered from heart surgery, having taken ill on 7 February. Shearer stated \"It's a club I love and I don't want them to go down. I'll do everything I can to stop that.\" Shearer was unveiled at a press conference the following day by club managing director Derek Llambias. In explaining his acceptance of a managerial role at Newcastle at this time, Shearer stated that he would not have done this for", "id": "13592552" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nwas being run in the wake of the departure of Kevin Keegan. These reports were denied by the club. Shearer features in EA Sports' \"FIFA\" video game series; he was included in the \"FIFA 15\" Ultimate Team Legends. During his playing days, Shearer had been involved with the children's charity the NSPCC, taking part in the organisation's Full Stop campaign in 1999. Since retiring from football Shearer has also done work for several charities both nationally and in the Newcastle area. In his testimonial match", "id": "13592565" }, { "contents": "2005–06 Newcastle United F.C. season\n\n\n. The fee, £17 million, surpassed Newcastle's previous record of £15 million for Alan Shearer from Blackburn in 1996. In the closing hours of the transfer window, the club re-signed Nolberto Solano from Aston Villa. Souness's decision to pair Shearer and Owen together up front proved to be lethal, but Owen broke his fourth metatarsal bone in his foot after a clash with Paul Robinson in a match against Tottenham Hotspur, keeping him out for the rest of the season. With Owen injured the team's", "id": "18086094" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\ndue to injury and the team failed to reach the competition finals. UEFA Euro 1996 was a more positive experience for both Shearer and England. With England not required to qualify as hosts, Shearer had not scored in 12 games in the 21 months prior, and even his overall goalscoring record for England did not look too impressive so far, with five goals in 23 games. However, he found the net in the 22nd minute of the first game, against Switzerland. Scoring once in the following game against Scotland and twice", "id": "13592539" }, { "contents": "Teddy Sheringham\n\n\nthe 2000 European Championships by then manager Kevin Keegan, but the retirement of Shearer (despite being four years younger than Sheringham) from international football after that tournament and the arrival of new manager Sven-Göran Eriksson in 2001 saw a return to international favour for him. He was often deployed as a tactical substitute late in games by Eriksson, valued for his ability to hold the ball up and create intelligent play. In 2001, Sheringham scored an important goal for England against Greece in a World Cup qualifying match within 15 seconds", "id": "2997070" }, { "contents": "Ruud Gullit\n\n\n, chairman Ken Bates famously said of Gullit, \"I didn't like his arrogance – in fact I never liked him.\" In August 1998, Gullit was named manager of Newcastle United two games into the new league season and reached the 1999 FA Cup Final in his first year. Fans remained supportive despite a poor run of results, although a well-publicised contretemps with the team's top scorer Alan Shearer and captain Robert Lee did not put him in a favourable light. Gullit even refused to assign Lee a squad", "id": "13592616" }, { "contents": "Scott Parker\n\n\ndefeat on 25 March 2006. Later that month he was diagnosed with glandular fever, putting an end to his season. The timing was especially unfortunate for Parker, who had been playing well for Newcastle, as it ended any hopes he may have had of forcing his way into the 2006 FIFA World Cup. In July 2006, he was named Newcastle United's new captain by manager Glenn Roeder, succeeding the retired Alan Shearer. His first goal as captain came against Wigan Athletic on 19 August 2006, in a 2–1 win", "id": "14327157" }, { "contents": "History of football in England\n\n\n. United's main challengers for the title in the Premier League's first few years were Blackburn Rovers, led by star striker Alan Shearer, also won their first league title since World War I in 1994–95, and Newcastle United, who famously conceded a 10-point lead at Christmas to lose the title to United in 1995–96. Newcastle had reached the Premiership in 1993 as Division One champions, and in their first Premiership campaign finished third to qualify for the UEFA Cup. They finished second in 1996 and again in 1997, but by", "id": "3652862" }, { "contents": "1992–93 FA Premier League\n\n\nPremier League as an attempt by the Football Association to \"hijack\" the First Division. Shortly before the season began, newly promoted Blackburn Rovers signed Southampton's 21-year-old England international striker Alan Shearer for a new British record fee variously reported as £3.3 million, £3.4 million, or £3.6 million. Several other players moved for fees of £2 million or more, including Arsenal's David Rocastle, who joined Leeds United, Dean Saunders, who moved from Liverpool to Aston Villa, and Teddy Sheringham, who", "id": "12442383" }, { "contents": "Darren Anderton\n\n\nhappy at the prospect of losing another key player as he had already lost Jürgen Klinsmann and Gheorghe Popescu that summer; and Nick Barmby was on the verge of joining Middlesbrough. Despite missing most of the 1995–96 season through injury, Anderton played an important part in the Euro 96 England team that reached the semi-finals and included players like Paul Gascoigne, Alan Shearer, Steve McManaman and Teddy Sheringham. In the semi final against Germany, the match went to golden goal extra time. Anderton came within inches of putting England into", "id": "4331581" }, { "contents": "Wallsend Boys Club\n\n\nJanuary which damaged one of the walls of the building. Professional players to have played for the club include: The club has had a representative at four of the six FIFA World Cup finals since 1986, with the two exceptions coming in 1994, when the England national football team did not qualify, and 2002. In 1986 and 1990 Peter Beardsley starred for England. In 1998 Alan Shearer was England captain. Michael Carrick made appearances for England in both the 2006 and 2010 tournaments. Fraser Forster was in the 2014 squad but", "id": "21182372" }, { "contents": "Harry Kane\n\n\n\". Clive Allen, who coached him at Tottenham, stated that \"one thing I'd say about him, which unfortunately you don't say about a lot of young footballers, is that he had a passion for the game. He loves football, he loves playing, he loves scoring goals\". His former Tottenham under-21 coach Les Ferdinand likened Kane's movement to their former forward Teddy Sheringham, and the power and accuracy of his shots to Alan Shearer. Kane's style of play has been compared to that of", "id": "1925319" }, { "contents": "Kieron Dyer\n\n\nthat he would soon rejoin for Ipswich. After representing England at Youth, Under 21 and \"B\" level, Dyer's debut for the senior team came on 4 September 1999 when he started in England's 6–0 win against Luxembourg. He was deployed out of position at right back, and was replaced by Gary Neville at half-time after injuring himself while setting up Alan Shearer's third goal of the match. The injury was not serious and he was able to make his second England appearance four days later, coming", "id": "17666181" }, { "contents": "1996–97 Blackburn Rovers F.C. season\n\n\nthe end of the season, when he handed over the reins to Roy Hodgson after Sampdoria's Sven-Göran Eriksson lied about accepting the manager's job and joined Lazio instead. Parkes steered Blackburn to safety as they finished 13th. The world record £15 million sale of striker Alan Shearer to Newcastle United was seen as the biggest factor in Blackburn's lowest top flight finish since they returned to the elite in 1992. However, his strike-partner Chris Sutton helped keep the club alive after recovering from a drastic loss of", "id": "7811146" }, { "contents": "Michael Owen\n\n\nmuch of the campaign as England struggled, with Hoddle being replaced by Kevin Keegan. On 4 September 1999, he scored his first goal at Wembley Stadium in a 6–0 win over Luxembourg. At the finals, Owen scored once in three matches, as England were knocked out at the group stage. After Alan Shearer's retirement, Owen took over as England's senior striker under new manager Sven-Göran Eriksson. He scored six times during 2002 World Cup qualifying, including a hat-trick against Germany at Munich's Olympiastadion", "id": "21886807" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nyet to start the UEFA Pro Licence course, which is required to be permitted to manage a team in the Premier League and European competition. Reflecting his desire for personal time off to \"enjoy life\", in July 2006 he turned down a coaching role with England, citing his BBC commitments and desire to be away from the pressure of a job within football. Despite this, Shearer was often linked in the media with managerial or coaching positions at his three former clubs. Shearer took a brief role in the dugout for", "id": "13592550" }, { "contents": "History of Southampton F.C.\n\n\nappearances for the England national team – he finally retired in 2002 at the age of 33. During his time with the Saints, Le Tissier was approached more than once by several bigger clubs (including Manchester United) but chose to stick with the Saints despite never winning a major trophy or experiencing European football with them. From 1989 to 1992, Le Tissier was regularly partnered up front by another notable player, Alan Shearer, who as a 17-year-old had scored a hat-trick on his Saints debut against Arsenal in", "id": "15948278" }, { "contents": "Sir Bobby Robson Trophy match\n\n\nNewcastle United, picking up on Alan Shearer's reply of \"I know as much as you do,\" to a pre-match question as to whether he would be installed as Newcastle manager for the forthcoming season beginning in 13 days, with the club being up for sale and with the first team without a manager, being in the care of coach Chris Hughton. Neither the Newcastle United owner Mike Ashley or managing director Derek Llambias were in attendance at the charity match. Having left England after Italia '90, Sir", "id": "19612022" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nChancellor Liam Donaldson stated \"Newcastle United are my team. Alan Shearer is more than just a local legend, he's probably one of the greatest footballers of all time\". On 12 September 2016, a statue of Shearer's likeness was unveiled outside St James' Park. It was sculpted by Tom Maley, and paid for by the Shepherd family. After his retirement and following guest appearances, Shearer became a regular pundit for the BBC's \"Match of the Day\". He also formed part of the team which", "id": "13592563" }, { "contents": "Gary McAllister\n\n\ntournament, scoring in a 3–0 win over the CIS. However, Scotland did not qualify from their group. Scotland failed to qualify for the 1994 FIFA World Cup but did qualify for UEFA Euro 1996 in England, with McAllister the captain of the team. Scotland's second match of the group stage was against England at Wembley Stadium. In the second half Scotland, trailing 0–1 to an Alan Shearer goal, were awarded a penalty. McAllister's kick was saved by David Seaman and Scotland lost 0–2. The team won their", "id": "19492391" }, { "contents": "David Seaman\n\n\nEngland's quarter-final against Spain ended scoreless, Seaman saved Miguel Angel Nadal's kick in the shootout to knock Spain out of the tournament. England eventually were eliminated in the semi-final by Germany on penalties,after Andreas Köpke saved the penalty taken by Gareth Southgate. Seaman was named alongside Golden Boot winner Alan Shearer and winger Steve McManaman in the UEFA \"Team of the Tournament\". Euro 96 sponsor Philips named him \"Player of the Tournament\". Seaman remained first choice under the management of Glenn Hoddle for", "id": "7321893" }, { "contents": "1998 FA Cup Final\n\n\nand so has the mixture between the foreign and English players.\" Wenger reserved praise for the goalscorers Overmars (\"a world-class player\") and Anelka (\"Nicolas is very young. But you saw in the second half today what he can do\"), and felt the turning point in the match was Shearer's shot hitting the post. He sympathised with Newcastle, as did his captain, Adams who said afterwards: \"The team and their fans did everything they could out there, but it was", "id": "10844688" }, { "contents": "David McMahon (association footballer)\n\n\nabout the role of striker from watching England international Alan Shearer in training, but likened himself more to Newcastle's Scotland international Duncan Ferguson, \"because I am taller and like to battle for things in the air.\" Brian Kerr, then manager of Ireland under-17s, described McMahon as honest and hard-working, \"not the most skilful player, but will get goals\", but Darlington manager Gary Bennett believed there was more to his game: that he and strike partner John Williams both had enough skill to play a", "id": "5423888" }, { "contents": "Andy Carroll\n\n\nUEFA Euro 2012. He opened the scoring for England with a powerful header in their second group match against Sweden, which England went on to win 3–2. Carroll has been compared to Newcastle's record goalscorer Alan Shearer, Ivory Coast striker Didier Drogba and former Italy forward Christian Vieri. He has also been referred to as a classic centre forward, owing to his strength, powerful shot and excellent heading ability. Former Newcastle manager and Liverpool player Kevin Keegan stated \"he is probably in the top three headers of a ball I", "id": "11961542" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\n-chasing Manchester United. On the opening day of the 1999–2000 season, Shearer received the first red card of his career in his 100th appearance for Newcastle. After dropping Shearer to the bench in a Tyne-Wear derby loss against Sunderland, the unpopular Gullit resigned to be replaced by the 66-year-old Bobby Robson. Despite Gullit giving Shearer the captain's armband, reports of a rift between club captain and manager were rife, Gullit's decision to drop Shearer proved deeply unpopular with fans and his departure capped a dismal start", "id": "13592525" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nAn almost injury-free season helped Shearer improve on his previous year's tally in the 1998–99 season, the striker converting 14 goals in 30 league games and replacing Rob Lee as Newcastle captain, but Newcastle finished 13th again, with Ruud Gullit having replaced Kenny Dalglish just after the season got underway. He also helped Newcastle to a second consecutive FA Cup final and qualification for the following season's UEFA Cup, scoring twice in the semi-final against Tottenham Hotspur, but they once again lost, this time 2–0 to treble", "id": "13592524" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nhis final three games under Glenn Roeder. Shearer had rejected offers of coaching or assistant roles at Newcastle under both the returning Kevin Keegan in February 2008 and Joe Kinnear in November 2008. Shearer had previously had talks about, but never been offered, a full-time manager's role at Newcastle until his appointment on 1 April 2009. In a surprise move, late on 1 April 2009, it was announced that Shearer would become the manager of his former club Newcastle United for the remaining eight games of the season, taking", "id": "13592551" }, { "contents": "Fabio Cannavaro\n\n\nnational team on 22 January 1997, in a friendly match against Northern Ireland. The same year, he earned plaudits for his handling of England striker Alan Shearer in a World Cup qualifying game at Wembley Stadium. Shearer was then considered by the partisan English crowd to be the best striker in the world, and thought he would make fun of the inexperienced Italian defender. Nevertheless, in a display ranking alongside those of the very best Italian defenders Claudio Gentile and Franco Baresi, Cannavaro managed to keep Shearer quiet for the whole game", "id": "3625067" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\n, with media sources claiming that video footage showed him intentionally kicking Neil Lennon in the head following a challenge. The referee of the game took no action against Shearer, and he was then cleared of all charges by the FA, with Lennon giving evidence in the player's defence. Former Football Association chief Graham Kelly, who brought the charges against the player, later claimed in his autobiography that Shearer had threatened to withdraw himself from the 1998 World Cup squad if the charges were upheld, a claim strenuously denied by Shearer.", "id": "13592523" }, { "contents": "History of the Romania national football team\n\n\nminnows Tunisia. Adrian Ilie scored the only goal with a fine chip in their first match against Colombia at Lyon's Stade Gerland. In Toulouse, they met an England side starting with prodigal striker Michael Owen on the bench, with Teddy Sheringham preferred alongside Alan Shearer. A mistake by Tony Adams was punished by Viorel Moldovan, who played for Coventry City, before Owen came on to claim an equalizer. But Romania won with a scrappy late goal from Dan Petrescu, also playing in England with Chelsea, fighting off his club", "id": "16435718" }, { "contents": "John Barnes (footballer)\n\n\nNewcastle United, although an approach had already been made by Harry Redknapp of West Ham; Barnes had agreed in principle to join them until at the final moment Dalglish called him and Barnes changed his mind. In the 1997–98 season Barnes played up front mostly, deputising for Alan Shearer after Shearer was injured for most of the season, and Barnes ended up Newcastle's top league scorer with six goals, which highlighted the Magpies' lack of ability to score in the absence of Shearer and Ferdinand (who had been sold along with", "id": "19616669" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\ncould not find a more iconic person than Alan, not just for what he has done in football but for all the extra work he tirelessly does for charity and communities. I am delighted he has accepted the role of Deputy Lieutenant because he is a real role model. I have promised him he is not going to have to do too much, but even if it is just one occasion a year he is the perfect choice\" On 7 December 2009, Shearer was made a Doctor of Civil Law by Newcastle University.", "id": "13592562" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nLaw of Northumbria and Newcastle Universities. Shearer was born in Gosforth, Newcastle, in 1970 to working-class parents Alan and Anne Shearer. His father, a sheet-metal worker, encouraged a keen Shearer to play football in his youth, and the young player continued with the sport as he progressed through school. He was educated at Gosforth Central Middle School and Gosforth High School. Growing up playing on the streets of his hometown, he originally played in midfield because \"it meant [he] could get more involved", "id": "13592504" }, { "contents": "Paul Kitson\n\n\n. Newcastle finished second that season after being overhauled in the second half campaign by a Manchester United side who sealed the title by a five-point margin barely four months after Newcastle had led by 10 points, but Kitson's part in Newcastle's exciting though ultimately disappointing campaign had been minimal as he had played just seven league games and scored twice. But he remained loyal to the Magpies even after another blow at the end of July 1996 – the arrival of £15 million world record signing Alan Shearer. He managed three", "id": "19054464" }, { "contents": "Ray Harford\n\n\nthe Premier League for much of the season. During the summer of 1996, Alan Shearer was sold to Newcastle United for a then world record fee of £15 million, and Harford failed to adequately replace him. Harford stated that \"I'm told we need a big name. Engelbert Humperdinck is a big name but it doesn't mean he can play football.\" The 1996–97 season also started badly for Blackburn. They failed to win any of their first ten games and were knocked out of the League Cup by Division", "id": "5365351" }, { "contents": "Patrick Kluivert\n\n\nagain featured for Barca in a legends game against Uganda all stars where he, in lobbing the ball, scored an amazing goal. Kluivert joined Newcastle United on a free transfer in July 2004. He stated that his reasons for joining Newcastle was due to the overwhelming reaction he received whilst playing for Barcelona against Newcastle during a pre season friendly as well as teaming up with Newcastle's star players such as Alan Shearer. Kluivert scored some classy and crucial goals at and away from St James's Park namely in winning strikes against both", "id": "21654890" }, { "contents": "Duncan Shearer\n\n\nbetween 1994 and 1995, scoring two goals including an important opening strike in an away win over Finland which helped the national side qualify for Euro 96, although Shearer did not make the squad for that tournament. The senior team was his first experience of international football, having never played at any age-group level. He achieved a childhood ambition when he played in the national team alongside John McGinlay, a childhood friend also from Fort William. In season 1999–00 he began to concentrate more on coaching than playing, and was", "id": "3716411" }, { "contents": "Les Ferdinand\n\n\nscored 50 goals in only 84 games at Newcastle, forming a successful partnership with Alan Shearer. He was and indeed is still very highly thought of by Newcastle United. Ferdinand received a standing ovation when he returned to St. James' Park as a Tottenham player, trying to put Alan Shearer's number 9 shirt on to complete a lap of honour, he broke down in tears and could only manage to put the shirt on inside out and back to front before being helped from the field. Ferdinand returned again, when he", "id": "2996528" }, { "contents": "David Platt (footballer)\n\n\nTurkey, San Marino, the Netherlands and Norway. The qualifiers began at home to Norway. England dominated the game and Platt carried the goal threat, with Alan Shearer and Ian Wright struggling to find form. He scored the opening goal after an hour. England dominated the remainder of the game and were unlucky to concede to a long-range shot from Kjetil Rekdal. Platt continued his drive from midfield in wins over Turkey at home (4-0) and San Marino (6-0). Platt scored four", "id": "16718350" }, { "contents": "Jason Wilcox\n\n\n-pound investments of Jack Walker. He played an important part in the title-winning Blackburn team of 1995. Playing on the left flank with attacking fullback Graeme Le Saux behind him and Stuart Ripley on the opposite flank, they forged a strong attacking line-up with Alan Shearer and Chris Sutton. International recognition was harder to come by for Wilcox and he managed only 3 international caps despite his effective partnership with Shearer, Le Saux and Tim Sherwood. Lengthy injury problems restricted his effectiveness in subsequent seasons and, after experiencing", "id": "14527253" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nclub's form, and Newcastle finished just 13th in the Premier League. However, United (now managed by Shearer's old boss at Blackburn, Kenny Dalglish) had a good run in the FA Cup; Shearer scored the winning goal in a semi-final victory over Sheffield United as the team reached the final. The team were unable to get on the scoresheet at Wembley, and lost the game 2–0 to Arsenal. An incident during a game against Leicester City in the league saw Shearer charged with misconduct by the FA", "id": "13592522" }, { "contents": "Aleksandar Mitrović (footballer)\n\n\nhim the competition's top scorer, and 28 in all competitions. On 22 March 2015, he scored the team's only goal in the 2–1 Belgian Cup Final loss to Club Brugge KV in Brussels. On 21 July 2015, Mitrović joined Newcastle United on a five-year contract for a reported £13 million, saying he hoped to be able to play like club legend Alan Shearer. He made his debut on 9 August as Newcastle began the season with a 2–2 draw against Southampton at St James' Park, playing", "id": "20923735" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nWest Bromwich Albion, Manchester City and Newcastle United, before being offered a youth contract with Southampton in April 1986. Shearer was promoted to the first team after spending two years with the youth squad. He made his professional debut for Southampton on 26 March 1988, coming on as a substitute in a First Division fixture at Chelsea, before prompting national headlines in his full debut at The Dell two weeks later. He scored a hat-trick, helping the team to a 4–2 victory against Arsenal, thus becoming the youngest player", "id": "13592506" }, { "contents": "James Milner\n\n\ndo what was \"in the club's best interest\" and in July 2004, he agreed a five-year contract with Newcastle. Milner made his first appearance for Newcastle United during their pre-season tour of Asia, scoring his first goal for the club in a 1–1 draw against Kitchee, in Hong Kong. During this tour, he took the opportunity to observe how Newcastle striker Alan Shearer dealt with attention from fans and the media. He said that his association with people like Shearer gave him a better idea of", "id": "1860603" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nretain the ball and provide opportunities for teammates. Playing as a lone striker between wide men, Rod Wallace and Matt Le Tissier, Shearer scored three goals in 26 appearances in the 1989–90 season, and in the next, four goals in 36 games. His performances in the centre of the \"Saints\" attack were soon recognised by the fans, who voted him their Player of the Year for 1991. In the middle of 1991, Shearer was a member of the England national under-21 football squad in the Toulon Tournament in Toulon", "id": "13592508" }, { "contents": "Teddy Sheringham\n\n\n, creating play and providing key passes, forming the link between Shearer and the England midfield. The pairing came to be known as 'The SAS' ('Shearer and Sheringham') and their most successful time together came in the 1996 European Championships, held in England. Their most famous contribution was in the 4–1 victory over the Netherlands, a game in the opening group stages in which they both scored twice against one of the strongest teams in the tournament. Though England were eventually knocked out in the semi-finals", "id": "2997067" }, { "contents": "History of the England national football team\n\n\ninto Euro 2000 after a 2–1 aggregate playoff win over Scotland. At the finals in Belgium and the Netherlands, a lacklustre England failed to get beyond the group stage, losing to both Portugal and Romania after leading in each game. After England's exit, Alan Shearer retired from international football, he had announced his intentions before the tournament, and no-one could persuade him to change his mind. On 7 October 2000, shortly after losing the opening World Cup qualifier to Germany in the last-ever game at Wembley", "id": "15089411" }, { "contents": "Premier League 10 Seasons Awards\n\n\nrepresented, with five players. The teams were as follows: English striker Alan Shearer was named Domestic Player of the Decade in the main 10 Seasons awards announcements, in addition to being given the Outstanding Contribution to the FA Premier League award. Two weeks later he was also named as the Overall Player of the Decade. In the first decade, Shearer played for Blackburn Rovers, and then Newcastle United. Shearer has been described as a classic English centre-forward with great shooting power, a single-minded striker who could", "id": "11856460" }, { "contents": "Wartime League\n\n\narguments debate that a player who exceeds one's record through their wartime matches should nonetheless be seen as the club's highest goal scorer or appearance having been part of the team's squad even if only for a short time. The most recent argument relates to the goal-difference between Jackie Milburn's and Alan Shearer's Newcastle United goal-scoring records. When counting Jackie's wartime matches, he scored a total of 238 professional goals for Newcastle United FC. In May 2005, Alan Shearer finished his career at 206 goals", "id": "17626256" }, { "contents": "Jon Dahl Tomasson\n\n\nas the perfect link-up player to England national team striker Alan Shearer. The partnership initially worked well, with Tomasson impressing during a pre-season friendly tournament in the Republic of Ireland. However, a career threatening injury to Shearer, combined with the controversial transfer of popular striker Les Ferdinand to Tottenham Hotspur, meant that Tomasson was moved from his traditional attacking midfield position to that of striker. He struggled to adapt to his new position on the field, and to the English game, due to his lack of physical", "id": "19324628" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\ncovered the World Cups and European Championships from 2006 onwards for the BBC. Former Newcastle chairman Freddy Shepherd announced that, after Shearer finished the 2005–06 season as Newcastle's caretaker assistant manager, he would become the club's \"Sporting Ambassador\" for the 2006–07 season. However, in September 2008, it was reported that Shearer was removed from this largely honorary position by the club's owner Mike Ashley, despite protests from players such as Steven Taylor and Damien Duff, due to Shearer's criticism of the way in which the club", "id": "13592564" }, { "contents": "1998 FA Cup Final\n\n\nthe final that Bergkamp had resumed training and \"medically he looked all right\", but the player received a further setback when he suffered a reaction to his hamstring. He ruled himself out of the match and told reporters: \"I'm very disappointed. As a little boy in Holland I always watched the FA Cup final. And I used to dream about playing in it myself one day.\" Ian Wright was listed as Bergkamp's probable replacement to partner Anelka. Newcastle had their own issues surrounding Shearer. The England", "id": "10844676" }, { "contents": "2008–09 in English football\n\n\n's surprise resignation in December; whilst their final points tally wasn't spectacular, they had the satisfaction of being the top North-East team in football after both Middlesbrough and Newcastle United were relegated, ending 11 and 16 year spells in the top flight respectively, the latter going through four managers in Kevin Keegan, Joe Kinnear, Chris Hughton and even former striker Alan Shearer during the campaign. Despite a brilliant start to the season which saw them as high as third place in October, Hull City won just 1 of their", "id": "1311754" }, { "contents": "1996 FA Charity Shield\n\n\nfrom Eric Cantona, Nicky Butt, David Beckham and Roy Keane. The game saw new signings Jordi Cruyff and Karel Poborský make their debuts for Manchester United, though neither of these players had particularly successful careers at Old Trafford and both had left the club within four years. The day before the game had seen the surprise sale of one of Manchester United's longest serving players — Lee Sharpe. The game saw Newcastle United give a debut to £15 million world record signing Alan Shearer, who would remain at the club until", "id": "2797098" }, { "contents": "UEFA Euro 2016 knockout phase\n\n\nsection begin=g6 /section end=g6 / section begin=g7 /section end=g7 / The match has been described as one of England's worst defeats ever. Former footballer and Talksport presenter Stan Collymore, who was commentating on the game, panned the England team, reserving special criticism for goalkeeper Joe Hart and captain Wayne Rooney. Former England international and BBC Sport pundit Alan Shearer described it as the worst performance he had ever seen from an England team. The defeat was called England's most shocking since losing 1–0 to", "id": "11344909" }, { "contents": "Maurice E. Shearer\n\n\nApplication at Annapolis, Maryland, with classmates Holland Smith, Ralph S. Keyser and Andrew B. Drum. In July, Shearer sailed for duty to be the commander of the 35 man Marine detachment on Midway Island. In May 1908, he was selected for promotion to first lieutenant and to the rank of captain in June 1916. During World War I, forces under Major Shearer's command made an attack on Belleau Wood, finally clearing that forest of Germans. On 26 June 1918, he sent a now famous report: \"", "id": "8315540" }, { "contents": "Newcastle upon Tyne\n\n\nF.C. became Football League members in 1893. They have won four top division titles (the first in 1905 and the most recent in 1927), six FA Cups (the first in 1910 and the most recent in 1955) and the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup in 1969. They broke the world transfer record in 1996 by paying £15 million for Blackburn Rovers and England striker Alan Shearer, one of the most prolific goalscorers of that era. In 2017 Newcastle was the venue for the 2017 Freedom City festival. The 2017", "id": "20529704" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\ngame and came off the bench to score a penalty, helping Newcastle win the game 3–2. The match was a sell-out, and saw Shearer perform a lap of honour at the end with his family, with his young son notably covering his ears due to the volume of noise produced by the crowd in tribute. Shearer's international career began in 1990 when he was handed a callup to the England under-21 squad under Dave Sexton. During his time with the squad, he scored 13 times in 11 games, a", "id": "13592537" }, { "contents": "2011–12 Cardiff City F.C. season\n\n\nserving manager in the Championship having held his post since May 2005. The club held talks with former England and Newcastle United captain Alan Shearer to replace Jones but he rejected the job despite stating that he was impressed with the \"vision, ambition and determination of the owner Dato Chan Tien Ghee and the board\". The \"Bluebirds\" instead approached Championship rivals Watford for permission to speak to their manager Malky Mackay, which was initially rejected. However, after the two clubs agreed a compensation fee, Mackay was officially appointed as", "id": "7599659" }, { "contents": "Kevin Keegan\n\n\nto Michael Owen, stating, \"He's not scared to give his opinion when he's right, and he's not scared to say what he feels. He's a tremendous professional, and he trains properly every day.\" Keegan announced on 22 January that he and Alan Shearer held talks about the two linking up with Shearer as his assistant, but decided against the idea, leaving the door open for him to take other roles he was interested in. Keegan's first eight games back at Newcastle passed without a", "id": "826473" }, { "contents": "Transfer (association football)\n\n\n£3.6 million Alan Shearer moved to Blackburn Rovers from Southampton, a decade after the world's first £3 million transfer. Lentini's transfer remained intact the world record fee for the next four years, although the national record was broken more than once in many countries including England. Shearer's £3.6million record fee was narrowly eclipsed 12 months later when Manchester United signed Roy Keane from Nottingham Forest for £3.75 million. In 1994, Blackburn Rovers paid a record £5 million for Chris Sutton from Norwich City, a decade", "id": "11200095" }, { "contents": "Roy Hodgson\n\n\nagainst Costa Rica to finish bottom of Group D. Hodgson named Rooney as the new captain of England in August 2014, following the retirement of Steven Gerrard from international football. Hodgson's first match after the World Cup was a 1–0 win against Norway in an international friendly match at Wembley on 3 September 2014. During the match, England made only two shots on target. Hodgson was infuriated when asked about this, describing the statistic as \"fucking bollocks\". Former England player, Alan Shearer, admitted that the match was so", "id": "12858624" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nto the season. The animosity between Shearer and Gullit was later confirmed by the latter, who reported telling the striker that he was \"...the most overrated player I have ever seen.\" Ironically, Robson had tried to sign Shearer for Barcelona in 1997, making a bid of £20million which would have seen Shearer break the world's transfer fee record for the second time in 12 months. However, then Newcastle manager Kenny Dalglish rejected the offer. In Robson's first match in charge, Shearer scored five goals in", "id": "13592526" }, { "contents": "Premier League 10 Seasons Awards\n\n\nin his talks with Alex Ferguson, he could not guarantee that Eric Cantona the Overseas Player of the Decade could be persuaded to let Shearer take penalty kicks. Shearer gained a second PFA Players' Player of the Year Award in April 1997, becoming just the second player to have received the PFA award twice, after Mark Hughes. After the 2000 European Championships, Shearer had retired from international football with England, having been England captain since 1998, and having made his senior début in 1992. Shearer was awarded the OBE in", "id": "11856465" }, { "contents": "Emile Heskey\n\n\nthe two matches, with former England international Alan Shearer commenting, \"Never in a million years did I expect to be discussing whether Emile Heskey should keep his place ahead of Wayne Rooney but the Wigan striker was outstanding over both matches.\" Heskey was called into manager Fabio Capello's first squad against Switzerland, but had to withdraw due to an injury. He was called into the squad for a friendly against the Czech Republic in August 2008 and came on as a 46th-minute substitute, in a match that finished 2–2", "id": "174986" }, { "contents": "Habib Beye\n\n\nUEFA Cup Final, a run which involved him putting in a star performance as a central defender against (his now former team) Newcastle United, where he was particularly effective against Newcastle's talisman striker Alan Shearer. He ended up on the losing side as Marseille lost the final to Valencia 2–0. He was also a beaten finalist in the 2006 French Cup against former club Paris Saint-Germain, a match which his team lost 2–1, and again in 2007 when his Marseille team lost on penalties to FC Sochaux. His", "id": "16217445" }, { "contents": "Stan Collymore\n\n\nseason in the Premier League, Collymore was called up to Terry Venables' England squad for the Umbro Cup in June 1995. He made his début at Wembley Stadium against Japan, partnering Alan Shearer in a 2–1 win. He won his second cap as a 90th minute substitute against Brazil. Collymore made his third and final appearance for England as a substitute in a 4–0 win over Moldova during qualification for the 1998 FIFA World Cup. Collymore contributed to his biography \"Stan: Tackling my demons\" with Oliver Holt. In 2005", "id": "3955590" }, { "contents": "Graeme Souness\n\n\nAt £8.2 million, Boumsong was his first big signing and Souness said he would replace Jonathan Woodgate in the Newcastle defence, which had conceded several leads earlier in the season. Newcastle were well aware of Boumsong prior to his move from Auxerre to Rangers on a free transfer. Robson had travelled to France to watch him, but he declined the opportunity to sign Boumsong. Liverpool were also interested in signing Boumsong. Robson's doubts were confirmed when Boumsong marked Alan Shearer in a pre-season game against Rangers. Shearer came", "id": "18029254" }, { "contents": "Saido Berahino\n\n\nrate of a goal every other match, including three to help the team qualify for the European Championship. Berahino has the all-time third-highest goal tally for the England under-21 side with 10 goals in 13 appearances, behind Francis Jeffers and Alan Shearer. On 6 November 2014, England manager Roy Hodgson – who promoted Berahino to the West Bromwich Albion first team in 2011 – named Berahino in his squad for the first time, ahead of a UEFA Euro 2016 qualifying match against Slovenia at Wembley Stadium on the 15th and", "id": "1000466" } ]

[ { "contents": "Tony Adams\n\n\n\"I have some resentment over the way Glenn Hoddle gave the captaincy to Alan Shearer instead of me but I can let that go. I reacted positively. I disagreed with him [Hoddle] and he thought Alan could get more penalties being a centre forward. People know my reaction to that\". Adams continued to play for the national side, however and he finally appeared in a World Cup finals in 1998. His international swansong was England's unsuccessful Euro 2000 campaign. With Shearer retiring from international football after the tournament", "id": "6104102" }, { "contents": "Tony Adams\n\n\nin defence, and after the retirement of Gary Lineker in 1992, Adams unofficially shared the captaincy of England with David Platt, though Adams became England captain outright before Euro 96, as Platt's place in the side became less secure. England reached the semi-finals of Euro 96, before losing on penalties to Germany. When England manager Glenn Hoddle took the Captain's armband from Adams and gave it to Alan Shearer it was a bitter pill for Adams to swallow. Speaking at a fans' forum in 2008 Adams remarked", "id": "6104101" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nThis time, Germany won from the spot; although Shearer scored, his teammate Gareth Southgate missed his kick and England were eliminated. Shearer's five goals made him the competition's top scorer, and together with teammates David Seaman and Steve McManaman, was listed in the official UEFA team of the tournament. The new England manager Glenn Hoddle appointed Shearer captain for the 1998 FIFA World Cup qualifier against Moldova on 1 September 1996, and the player held onto the captaincy after scoring once in that match and twice in the following game", "id": "13592541" }, { "contents": "Dimitar Berbatov\n\n\nhe consequently modelled himself after Marco van Basten, the Dutch forward for that team. However, the 1996 European Championship, held in England, gave Berbatov a new role model; the 15-year-old Berbatov began to look up to the English front man Alan Shearer, who played for Newcastle United. Berbatov's mother later spoke of her son's teenage dream of playing for Newcastle United, and said that his admiration for Shearer was such that, during these years, he slept in a Newcastle shirt. Berbatov began his youth", "id": "3905446" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\n's participation in what was to be Shearer's only World Cup tournament. In September 1999, Shearer scored his only England hat-trick in a UEFA Euro 2000 qualifier against Luxembourg. This helped England reach a play-off against Scotland; England won the game over two legs and in doing so qualified for the European Championships. By now, Shearer was approaching his 30th birthday, and he announced that he intended to retire from international football after the Euro 2000 tournament. Shearer did not score in England's opening 3–2 defeat", "id": "13592544" }, { "contents": "Southampton F.C.\n\n\nwas Alan Shearer, who at the age of 17 scored a hat-trick against Arsenal in a league match in April 1988. Shearer was a first team regular by 1990, and stayed with Southampton until July 1992, when he was sold to Blackburn Rovers for a national record of more than £3 million. He then became the most expensive footballer in the world when Blackburn sold him to Newcastle for £15 million in 1996. He also scored 30 times for England internationally. Southampton were founding members of the Premier League", "id": "3265953" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\ntime to play in England's UEFA European Championship campaign. After Euro 96, Manchester United again sought to sign Shearer, and attempted to enter the battle for his signature. However Manchester United chairman Martin Edwards stated that Blackburn Rovers refused to let Shearer go to Old Trafford. Ultimately Shearer joined his boyhood club: Newcastle United, Manchester United's title rivals. On 30 July 1996, for a world transfer record-breaking £15 million (equivalent to £ million today) Shearer joined his hometown club and league runners-up", "id": "13592519" }, { "contents": "History of the England national football team\n\n\nyear after his last game at club level. Hoddle selected Alan Shearer as captain, replacing Tony Adams, but also brought a number of emerging talents into the squad, including the Manchester United midfield trio of Paul Scholes, Nicky Butt and David Beckham, and central defenders Rio Ferdinand and Sol Campbell. Hoddle oversaw England's qualification for the 1998 World Cup (the first World Cup with 32 teams instead of 24) with a 0–0 draw against Italy at the Stadio Olimpico in Rome, and drew out a winning performance in the", "id": "15089406" }, { "contents": "History of the England national football team\n\n\nthe underwhelming performance at the World Cup, England suffered a poor start to the Euro 2000 qualifying tournament, and there was reported discontent between Hoddle and several senior players, most notably Shearer. Hoddle was dismissed on 2 February 1999, two days after an interview with \"The Sunday Times\" in which he spoke about his belief in reincarnation and claimed that disabled people were paying for sins in a previous life. Under considerable media and public pressure, the FA appointed former captain Kevin Keegan, who only just managed to get England", "id": "15089410" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nagainst Poland. He scored a total of five goals in England's successful qualification campaign for the World Cup, adding strikes against Georgia and away to Poland to his tally. Shearer was sidelined for much of the 1997–98 season, but recovered to play in the World Cup finals. With Michael Owen replacing Teddy Sheringham as Shearer's strike partner, Shearer's return saw him score England's first goal of the tournament, in a 2–0 win over Tunisia, his only goal in the three group matches. England faced long-time", "id": "13592542" }, { "contents": "Newcastle United F.C.\n\n\n. The attacking philosophy of Keegan led to the team being labelled \"The Entertainers\" by Sky Sports. Keegan took Newcastle to two consecutive runners-up finishes in the league in 1995–96 and 1996–97, coming very close to winning the title in the former season. This success was in part due to the talent of players like David Ginola, Les Ferdinand and Alan Shearer, who was signed on 30 July 1996 for a then world record fee of £15 million. Keegan left Newcastle in January 1997 and was replaced by Kenny", "id": "12636363" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nAlan Shearer, CBE, DL (born 13 August 1970) is an English retired footballer. He played as a striker in the top level of English league football for Southampton, Blackburn Rovers, Newcastle United and the England national team. He is Newcastle's and the Premier League's record goalscorer. He was named Football Writers' Association Player of the Year in 1994 and won the PFA Player of the Year award in 1995. In 1996, he was third in the FIFA World Player of the Year awards. In 2004", "id": "13592501" }, { "contents": "Teddy Sheringham\n\n\nmanager Terry Venables (1994–96) Sheringham came to be the preferred strike partner for Alan Shearer. During this time, England had a wealth of strikers with the likes of Andrew Cole, Ian Wright, a young Robbie Fowler and Les Ferdinand all battling to partner Shearer in the England team. The two formed a famous partnership at international level, as they complemented each other's strengths: Shearer the out-and-out goalscorer, big, strong and powerful, Sheringham just 'dropping off' his strike partner, finding spaces", "id": "2997066" }, { "contents": "History of Newcastle United F.C.\n\n\n's title chances for the 1994–95 season, in which they finished sixth. The club, however, continued to build up a reputation for playing attacking football under Keegan. In the 1995–96 season, high-profile foreign stars David Ginola and Faustino Asprilla, in addition to British players Peter Beardsley and striker Les Ferdinand, guided the team to a second-place finish. During the 1996–97 season, Keegan made one signing, securing the services of England striker Alan Shearer for a then-world record transfer fee of £15 million", "id": "6803863" }, { "contents": "1996–97 Newcastle United F.C. season\n\n\n...I think Kevin wanted it free-flowing in all departments and that doesn't necessarily happen.\" Keegan responded to the previous season's disappointment by breaking the world record transfer fee to sign centre forward Alan Shearer from Blackburn Rovers for £15 million. Shearer, whose five goals made him the top scorer in Euro 96, had supported Newcastle since childhood – he had been a ball-boy at St James' Park on the day that Keegan had left in a helicopter after his final Newcastle appearance as a player.", "id": "1207050" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nin the games.\" Shearer captained his school team and helped a Newcastle City Schools team win a seven-a-side tournament at St James' Park, before joining the amateur Wallsend Boys Club as a teenager. It was while playing for the Wallsend club that he was spotted by Southampton's scout, Jack Hixon, which resulted in Shearer spending his summers training with the club's youth team, a time he would later refer to as \"the making of me\". Shearer had successful trials for First Division clubs", "id": "13592505" }, { "contents": "Duncan Shearer\n\n\nFavourites\" during the club's centenary in 2008. However, he was unable to prevent Huddersfield's relegation to the Third Division at the end of the 1987–88 season. Weeks before this, the unrelated English striker Alan Shearer (aged 17) had scored a hat-trick in the First Division for Southampton against Arsenal, a game which Arsenal captain Tony Adams missed through injury. In his autobiography 11 years later, Adams said that he had followed the progress of the game on Ceefax and mistakingly believed that the Shearer who scored", "id": "3716405" }, { "contents": "David Hirst (footballer)\n\n\nHe came on at half-time and within three minutes of the restart he scored his first (and only) England goal. With Gary Lineker injured, he lined up with Alan Shearer against France at Wembley. Bryan Robson said that, \"It's not a question of who will replace Lineker, but who will partner David Hirst\". It became Hirst's third and final England match. Although he was selected for more England squads, injuries kept him out of the team. Manchester United boss Alex Ferguson tried six", "id": "18892949" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nthrough to May due to injury and England's World Cup qualification chances were hit by a run of poor form. Returning to fitness for the 1993–94 season, he scored 31 goals from 40 games as Blackburn finished runners-up in the Premier League. His performances for the club led to him being named the Football Writers' Association Footballer of the Year for that season. On the international scene, England had failed to qualify for the 1994 World Cup finals, but Shearer added three more goals to his international tally before embarking", "id": "13592514" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nfive points out of a possible twenty-four. Shearer did not get the manager's job on permanent basis. Chris Hughton stepped up from the coaching staff to take charge of the quest to get Newcastle back into the Premier League, which was achieved at the first attempt as Newcastle finished top of the Championship in the 2009–10 season. Shearer is married to Lainya, whom he met whilst a Southampton player. The couple lived locally with her parents during Shearer's second year at the south coast club, and were married on", "id": "13592557" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nagainst Portugal, but did so as England defeated Germany 1–0 in Charleroi, ensuring that England beat their European neighbours for the first time since the 1966 World Cup Final. To remain in the tournament, England only required a draw against Romania in the final group match, and Shearer scored a penalty as England went in at half-time 2–1 up, but Romania ultimately won 3–2. England's tournament was over, and so was Shearer's international career. From his 63 caps, he captained the team 34 times and scored", "id": "13592545" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nrecord return which is still unbeaten. The striker's goals at this level, coupled with his club form, meant he was soon promoted to the senior squad by coach Graham Taylor. Marking his debut in the 2–0 win against France in February 1992 with a goal, he made his only appearance for the England B team a month later. Due to replace Gary Lineker, who retired from international action after UEFA Euro 1992, in the England attack, Shearer played only intermittently in the qualifying campaign for the 1994 FIFA World Cup", "id": "13592538" }, { "contents": "1993 Trans-Tasman Test series\n\n\n's Canberra Raiders team mate and New South Wales captain Laurie Daley. The test series took place following the 1993 State of Origin series which was won by NSW. Dale Shearer's performances at fullback for Qld saw him earn a test recall in front of well performed World Cup and NSW fullback Tim Brasher (though Shearer had been selected at centre for all 3 Ashes series tests in 1992 but withdrew from all 3 with injury). Bradley Clyde, who had not played in the Origin series due to injury was also recalled to", "id": "16616631" }, { "contents": "Glenn Hoddle\n\n\nRedknapp resigned, following which Hoddle also left the club. In June 2016, after England's 2–1 loss to Iceland at Euro 2016 and manager Roy Hodgson's subsequent resignation, Harry Redknapp and Alan Shearer both put forward Hoddle as a candidate for the job before Sam Allardyce was appointed. Hoddle has done punditry work since his retirement from coaching. He has worked for ESPN, ITV Sport and BT Sport. Hoddle began working with ESPN during Euro 2012 as a pundit. Since then, he has worked with ITV for the 2014", "id": "8847620" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nhim onto the pitch following the striker's testimonial in May 2006 as he performed a lap of honour at St James' Park. On 6 December 2000, Shearer was given Honorary Freedom of the City of Newcastle upon Tyne, with the citation \"in recognition of his role as captain of Newcastle United Football Club and as former captain of England which have enhanced the reputation of the City\". Shearer was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2001 Queen's Birthday Honours and Commander of the", "id": "13592559" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nhis four years in the Southampton first team, Shearer made a total of 158 appearances in all competitions, scoring 43 goals. Despite making just one goalless appearance as England failed to progress past the Euro 1992 group stages, Shearer was soon subject to an English transfer record-breaking £3.6 million bid from Blackburn Rovers. Although there was also interest from Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson, Blackburn benefactor Jack Walker's millions were enough to prise the striker from the \"Saints\", and Shearer moved north to Ewood Park in the", "id": "13592512" }, { "contents": "Andy Cole\n\n\nof the season to help United win the Premier League title for the third time in four years. He also played in their FA Cup final victory to become part of England's first ever side to win the double twice. Before the 1996–97 season began, Cole had to deal with being offered to Blackburn Rovers as part-exchange in a £12 million deal that would have brought Alan Shearer to Old Trafford, but the offer was rejected and Shearer joined Newcastle instead. Despite Alex Ferguson's clear indication to Cole that he", "id": "9629547" }, { "contents": "Shearer's Bar\n\n\nShearer's Bar is the former name of a sports bar owned by Newcastle United and forming part of St James' Park, the team's stadium in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. It was named in honour of the club's all-time top scorer, Alan Shearer. The bar was renamed Nine in July 2013 by the club, who said that popularity of the venue had \"dwindled\". The bar was opened in December 2004 and became an important part of the features at St James' Park. It is", "id": "15298144" }, { "contents": "Kevin Keegan\n\n\nrelationship between the pair. In April 2003, it was named as Quote of the Decade in the Premier League 10 Seasons Awards and Most Memorable Quote in the 20 Seasons Awards in May 2012. It also appeared in Channel 4's \"100 Greatest Sporting Moments\". Keegan then broke the world transfer fee record by signing Blackburn Rovers and England striker Alan Shearer in July 1996. Shearer, who had been the Premier League's top scorer in the last two seasons, was born in Newcastle and had grown up as a fan", "id": "826455" }, { "contents": "England national football team\n\n\nBetween 1994 and 1996, Terry Venables managed the team. At UEFA Euro 1996, held in England, they equalled their best performance at a European Championship, reaching the semi-finals as they did in 1968, before exiting via a penalty shoot-out loss to Germany. England striker Alan Shearer was the tournament's top scorer with five goals. Venables resigned following investigations into his financial activities. Venables' successor, Glenn Hoddle, similarly left the job for non-footballing reasons after just one international tournament – the 1998", "id": "9748695" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nmiddle of 1992. His first season with Blackburn was mixed – he missed half of it through injury after snapping his right anterior cruciate ligament in a match against Leeds United in December 1992, but scored a prolific 16 goals in the 21 games in which he did feature. Shearer also became a regular in the England team this season and scored his second international goal; it came in a 4–0 1994 FIFA World Cup qualifier win over Turkey in November. The season ended sourly, however, as Shearer was forced to miss January", "id": "13592513" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nover from head coach Chris Hughton who was in temporary charge while the permanent manager Joe Kinnear recovered from heart surgery, having taken ill on 7 February. Shearer stated \"It's a club I love and I don't want them to go down. I'll do everything I can to stop that.\" Shearer was unveiled at a press conference the following day by club managing director Derek Llambias. In explaining his acceptance of a managerial role at Newcastle at this time, Shearer stated that he would not have done this for", "id": "13592552" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nwas being run in the wake of the departure of Kevin Keegan. These reports were denied by the club. Shearer features in EA Sports' \"FIFA\" video game series; he was included in the \"FIFA 15\" Ultimate Team Legends. During his playing days, Shearer had been involved with the children's charity the NSPCC, taking part in the organisation's Full Stop campaign in 1999. Since retiring from football Shearer has also done work for several charities both nationally and in the Newcastle area. In his testimonial match", "id": "13592565" }, { "contents": "2005–06 Newcastle United F.C. season\n\n\n. The fee, £17 million, surpassed Newcastle's previous record of £15 million for Alan Shearer from Blackburn in 1996. In the closing hours of the transfer window, the club re-signed Nolberto Solano from Aston Villa. Souness's decision to pair Shearer and Owen together up front proved to be lethal, but Owen broke his fourth metatarsal bone in his foot after a clash with Paul Robinson in a match against Tottenham Hotspur, keeping him out for the rest of the season. With Owen injured the team's", "id": "18086094" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\ndue to injury and the team failed to reach the competition finals. UEFA Euro 1996 was a more positive experience for both Shearer and England. With England not required to qualify as hosts, Shearer had not scored in 12 games in the 21 months prior, and even his overall goalscoring record for England did not look too impressive so far, with five goals in 23 games. However, he found the net in the 22nd minute of the first game, against Switzerland. Scoring once in the following game against Scotland and twice", "id": "13592539" }, { "contents": "Teddy Sheringham\n\n\nthe 2000 European Championships by then manager Kevin Keegan, but the retirement of Shearer (despite being four years younger than Sheringham) from international football after that tournament and the arrival of new manager Sven-Göran Eriksson in 2001 saw a return to international favour for him. He was often deployed as a tactical substitute late in games by Eriksson, valued for his ability to hold the ball up and create intelligent play. In 2001, Sheringham scored an important goal for England against Greece in a World Cup qualifying match within 15 seconds", "id": "2997070" }, { "contents": "Ruud Gullit\n\n\n, chairman Ken Bates famously said of Gullit, \"I didn't like his arrogance – in fact I never liked him.\" In August 1998, Gullit was named manager of Newcastle United two games into the new league season and reached the 1999 FA Cup Final in his first year. Fans remained supportive despite a poor run of results, although a well-publicised contretemps with the team's top scorer Alan Shearer and captain Robert Lee did not put him in a favourable light. Gullit even refused to assign Lee a squad", "id": "13592616" }, { "contents": "Scott Parker\n\n\ndefeat on 25 March 2006. Later that month he was diagnosed with glandular fever, putting an end to his season. The timing was especially unfortunate for Parker, who had been playing well for Newcastle, as it ended any hopes he may have had of forcing his way into the 2006 FIFA World Cup. In July 2006, he was named Newcastle United's new captain by manager Glenn Roeder, succeeding the retired Alan Shearer. His first goal as captain came against Wigan Athletic on 19 August 2006, in a 2–1 win", "id": "14327157" }, { "contents": "History of football in England\n\n\n. United's main challengers for the title in the Premier League's first few years were Blackburn Rovers, led by star striker Alan Shearer, also won their first league title since World War I in 1994–95, and Newcastle United, who famously conceded a 10-point lead at Christmas to lose the title to United in 1995–96. Newcastle had reached the Premiership in 1993 as Division One champions, and in their first Premiership campaign finished third to qualify for the UEFA Cup. They finished second in 1996 and again in 1997, but by", "id": "3652862" }, { "contents": "1992–93 FA Premier League\n\n\nPremier League as an attempt by the Football Association to \"hijack\" the First Division. Shortly before the season began, newly promoted Blackburn Rovers signed Southampton's 21-year-old England international striker Alan Shearer for a new British record fee variously reported as £3.3 million, £3.4 million, or £3.6 million. Several other players moved for fees of £2 million or more, including Arsenal's David Rocastle, who joined Leeds United, Dean Saunders, who moved from Liverpool to Aston Villa, and Teddy Sheringham, who", "id": "12442383" }, { "contents": "Darren Anderton\n\n\nhappy at the prospect of losing another key player as he had already lost Jürgen Klinsmann and Gheorghe Popescu that summer; and Nick Barmby was on the verge of joining Middlesbrough. Despite missing most of the 1995–96 season through injury, Anderton played an important part in the Euro 96 England team that reached the semi-finals and included players like Paul Gascoigne, Alan Shearer, Steve McManaman and Teddy Sheringham. In the semi final against Germany, the match went to golden goal extra time. Anderton came within inches of putting England into", "id": "4331581" }, { "contents": "Wallsend Boys Club\n\n\nJanuary which damaged one of the walls of the building. Professional players to have played for the club include: The club has had a representative at four of the six FIFA World Cup finals since 1986, with the two exceptions coming in 1994, when the England national football team did not qualify, and 2002. In 1986 and 1990 Peter Beardsley starred for England. In 1998 Alan Shearer was England captain. Michael Carrick made appearances for England in both the 2006 and 2010 tournaments. Fraser Forster was in the 2014 squad but", "id": "21182372" }, { "contents": "Harry Kane\n\n\n\". Clive Allen, who coached him at Tottenham, stated that \"one thing I'd say about him, which unfortunately you don't say about a lot of young footballers, is that he had a passion for the game. He loves football, he loves playing, he loves scoring goals\". His former Tottenham under-21 coach Les Ferdinand likened Kane's movement to their former forward Teddy Sheringham, and the power and accuracy of his shots to Alan Shearer. Kane's style of play has been compared to that of", "id": "1925319" }, { "contents": "Kieron Dyer\n\n\nthat he would soon rejoin for Ipswich. After representing England at Youth, Under 21 and \"B\" level, Dyer's debut for the senior team came on 4 September 1999 when he started in England's 6–0 win against Luxembourg. He was deployed out of position at right back, and was replaced by Gary Neville at half-time after injuring himself while setting up Alan Shearer's third goal of the match. The injury was not serious and he was able to make his second England appearance four days later, coming", "id": "17666181" }, { "contents": "1996–97 Blackburn Rovers F.C. season\n\n\nthe end of the season, when he handed over the reins to Roy Hodgson after Sampdoria's Sven-Göran Eriksson lied about accepting the manager's job and joined Lazio instead. Parkes steered Blackburn to safety as they finished 13th. The world record £15 million sale of striker Alan Shearer to Newcastle United was seen as the biggest factor in Blackburn's lowest top flight finish since they returned to the elite in 1992. However, his strike-partner Chris Sutton helped keep the club alive after recovering from a drastic loss of", "id": "7811146" }, { "contents": "Michael Owen\n\n\nmuch of the campaign as England struggled, with Hoddle being replaced by Kevin Keegan. On 4 September 1999, he scored his first goal at Wembley Stadium in a 6–0 win over Luxembourg. At the finals, Owen scored once in three matches, as England were knocked out at the group stage. After Alan Shearer's retirement, Owen took over as England's senior striker under new manager Sven-Göran Eriksson. He scored six times during 2002 World Cup qualifying, including a hat-trick against Germany at Munich's Olympiastadion", "id": "21886807" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nyet to start the UEFA Pro Licence course, which is required to be permitted to manage a team in the Premier League and European competition. Reflecting his desire for personal time off to \"enjoy life\", in July 2006 he turned down a coaching role with England, citing his BBC commitments and desire to be away from the pressure of a job within football. Despite this, Shearer was often linked in the media with managerial or coaching positions at his three former clubs. Shearer took a brief role in the dugout for", "id": "13592550" }, { "contents": "History of Southampton F.C.\n\n\nappearances for the England national team – he finally retired in 2002 at the age of 33. During his time with the Saints, Le Tissier was approached more than once by several bigger clubs (including Manchester United) but chose to stick with the Saints despite never winning a major trophy or experiencing European football with them. From 1989 to 1992, Le Tissier was regularly partnered up front by another notable player, Alan Shearer, who as a 17-year-old had scored a hat-trick on his Saints debut against Arsenal in", "id": "15948278" }, { "contents": "Sir Bobby Robson Trophy match\n\n\nNewcastle United, picking up on Alan Shearer's reply of \"I know as much as you do,\" to a pre-match question as to whether he would be installed as Newcastle manager for the forthcoming season beginning in 13 days, with the club being up for sale and with the first team without a manager, being in the care of coach Chris Hughton. Neither the Newcastle United owner Mike Ashley or managing director Derek Llambias were in attendance at the charity match. Having left England after Italia '90, Sir", "id": "19612022" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nChancellor Liam Donaldson stated \"Newcastle United are my team. Alan Shearer is more than just a local legend, he's probably one of the greatest footballers of all time\". On 12 September 2016, a statue of Shearer's likeness was unveiled outside St James' Park. It was sculpted by Tom Maley, and paid for by the Shepherd family. After his retirement and following guest appearances, Shearer became a regular pundit for the BBC's \"Match of the Day\". He also formed part of the team which", "id": "13592563" }, { "contents": "Gary McAllister\n\n\ntournament, scoring in a 3–0 win over the CIS. However, Scotland did not qualify from their group. Scotland failed to qualify for the 1994 FIFA World Cup but did qualify for UEFA Euro 1996 in England, with McAllister the captain of the team. Scotland's second match of the group stage was against England at Wembley Stadium. In the second half Scotland, trailing 0–1 to an Alan Shearer goal, were awarded a penalty. McAllister's kick was saved by David Seaman and Scotland lost 0–2. The team won their", "id": "19492391" }, { "contents": "David Seaman\n\n\nEngland's quarter-final against Spain ended scoreless, Seaman saved Miguel Angel Nadal's kick in the shootout to knock Spain out of the tournament. England eventually were eliminated in the semi-final by Germany on penalties,after Andreas Köpke saved the penalty taken by Gareth Southgate. Seaman was named alongside Golden Boot winner Alan Shearer and winger Steve McManaman in the UEFA \"Team of the Tournament\". Euro 96 sponsor Philips named him \"Player of the Tournament\". Seaman remained first choice under the management of Glenn Hoddle for", "id": "7321893" }, { "contents": "1998 FA Cup Final\n\n\nand so has the mixture between the foreign and English players.\" Wenger reserved praise for the goalscorers Overmars (\"a world-class player\") and Anelka (\"Nicolas is very young. But you saw in the second half today what he can do\"), and felt the turning point in the match was Shearer's shot hitting the post. He sympathised with Newcastle, as did his captain, Adams who said afterwards: \"The team and their fans did everything they could out there, but it was", "id": "10844688" }, { "contents": "David McMahon (association footballer)\n\n\nabout the role of striker from watching England international Alan Shearer in training, but likened himself more to Newcastle's Scotland international Duncan Ferguson, \"because I am taller and like to battle for things in the air.\" Brian Kerr, then manager of Ireland under-17s, described McMahon as honest and hard-working, \"not the most skilful player, but will get goals\", but Darlington manager Gary Bennett believed there was more to his game: that he and strike partner John Williams both had enough skill to play a", "id": "5423888" }, { "contents": "Andy Carroll\n\n\nUEFA Euro 2012. He opened the scoring for England with a powerful header in their second group match against Sweden, which England went on to win 3–2. Carroll has been compared to Newcastle's record goalscorer Alan Shearer, Ivory Coast striker Didier Drogba and former Italy forward Christian Vieri. He has also been referred to as a classic centre forward, owing to his strength, powerful shot and excellent heading ability. Former Newcastle manager and Liverpool player Kevin Keegan stated \"he is probably in the top three headers of a ball I", "id": "11961542" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\n-chasing Manchester United. On the opening day of the 1999–2000 season, Shearer received the first red card of his career in his 100th appearance for Newcastle. After dropping Shearer to the bench in a Tyne-Wear derby loss against Sunderland, the unpopular Gullit resigned to be replaced by the 66-year-old Bobby Robson. Despite Gullit giving Shearer the captain's armband, reports of a rift between club captain and manager were rife, Gullit's decision to drop Shearer proved deeply unpopular with fans and his departure capped a dismal start", "id": "13592525" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nAn almost injury-free season helped Shearer improve on his previous year's tally in the 1998–99 season, the striker converting 14 goals in 30 league games and replacing Rob Lee as Newcastle captain, but Newcastle finished 13th again, with Ruud Gullit having replaced Kenny Dalglish just after the season got underway. He also helped Newcastle to a second consecutive FA Cup final and qualification for the following season's UEFA Cup, scoring twice in the semi-final against Tottenham Hotspur, but they once again lost, this time 2–0 to treble", "id": "13592524" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nhis final three games under Glenn Roeder. Shearer had rejected offers of coaching or assistant roles at Newcastle under both the returning Kevin Keegan in February 2008 and Joe Kinnear in November 2008. Shearer had previously had talks about, but never been offered, a full-time manager's role at Newcastle until his appointment on 1 April 2009. In a surprise move, late on 1 April 2009, it was announced that Shearer would become the manager of his former club Newcastle United for the remaining eight games of the season, taking", "id": "13592551" }, { "contents": "Fabio Cannavaro\n\n\nnational team on 22 January 1997, in a friendly match against Northern Ireland. The same year, he earned plaudits for his handling of England striker Alan Shearer in a World Cup qualifying game at Wembley Stadium. Shearer was then considered by the partisan English crowd to be the best striker in the world, and thought he would make fun of the inexperienced Italian defender. Nevertheless, in a display ranking alongside those of the very best Italian defenders Claudio Gentile and Franco Baresi, Cannavaro managed to keep Shearer quiet for the whole game", "id": "3625067" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\n, with media sources claiming that video footage showed him intentionally kicking Neil Lennon in the head following a challenge. The referee of the game took no action against Shearer, and he was then cleared of all charges by the FA, with Lennon giving evidence in the player's defence. Former Football Association chief Graham Kelly, who brought the charges against the player, later claimed in his autobiography that Shearer had threatened to withdraw himself from the 1998 World Cup squad if the charges were upheld, a claim strenuously denied by Shearer.", "id": "13592523" }, { "contents": "History of the Romania national football team\n\n\nminnows Tunisia. Adrian Ilie scored the only goal with a fine chip in their first match against Colombia at Lyon's Stade Gerland. In Toulouse, they met an England side starting with prodigal striker Michael Owen on the bench, with Teddy Sheringham preferred alongside Alan Shearer. A mistake by Tony Adams was punished by Viorel Moldovan, who played for Coventry City, before Owen came on to claim an equalizer. But Romania won with a scrappy late goal from Dan Petrescu, also playing in England with Chelsea, fighting off his club", "id": "16435718" }, { "contents": "John Barnes (footballer)\n\n\nNewcastle United, although an approach had already been made by Harry Redknapp of West Ham; Barnes had agreed in principle to join them until at the final moment Dalglish called him and Barnes changed his mind. In the 1997–98 season Barnes played up front mostly, deputising for Alan Shearer after Shearer was injured for most of the season, and Barnes ended up Newcastle's top league scorer with six goals, which highlighted the Magpies' lack of ability to score in the absence of Shearer and Ferdinand (who had been sold along with", "id": "19616669" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\ncould not find a more iconic person than Alan, not just for what he has done in football but for all the extra work he tirelessly does for charity and communities. I am delighted he has accepted the role of Deputy Lieutenant because he is a real role model. I have promised him he is not going to have to do too much, but even if it is just one occasion a year he is the perfect choice\" On 7 December 2009, Shearer was made a Doctor of Civil Law by Newcastle University.", "id": "13592562" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nLaw of Northumbria and Newcastle Universities. Shearer was born in Gosforth, Newcastle, in 1970 to working-class parents Alan and Anne Shearer. His father, a sheet-metal worker, encouraged a keen Shearer to play football in his youth, and the young player continued with the sport as he progressed through school. He was educated at Gosforth Central Middle School and Gosforth High School. Growing up playing on the streets of his hometown, he originally played in midfield because \"it meant [he] could get more involved", "id": "13592504" }, { "contents": "Paul Kitson\n\n\n. Newcastle finished second that season after being overhauled in the second half campaign by a Manchester United side who sealed the title by a five-point margin barely four months after Newcastle had led by 10 points, but Kitson's part in Newcastle's exciting though ultimately disappointing campaign had been minimal as he had played just seven league games and scored twice. But he remained loyal to the Magpies even after another blow at the end of July 1996 – the arrival of £15 million world record signing Alan Shearer. He managed three", "id": "19054464" }, { "contents": "Ray Harford\n\n\nthe Premier League for much of the season. During the summer of 1996, Alan Shearer was sold to Newcastle United for a then world record fee of £15 million, and Harford failed to adequately replace him. Harford stated that \"I'm told we need a big name. Engelbert Humperdinck is a big name but it doesn't mean he can play football.\" The 1996–97 season also started badly for Blackburn. They failed to win any of their first ten games and were knocked out of the League Cup by Division", "id": "5365351" }, { "contents": "Patrick Kluivert\n\n\nagain featured for Barca in a legends game against Uganda all stars where he, in lobbing the ball, scored an amazing goal. Kluivert joined Newcastle United on a free transfer in July 2004. He stated that his reasons for joining Newcastle was due to the overwhelming reaction he received whilst playing for Barcelona against Newcastle during a pre season friendly as well as teaming up with Newcastle's star players such as Alan Shearer. Kluivert scored some classy and crucial goals at and away from St James's Park namely in winning strikes against both", "id": "21654890" }, { "contents": "Duncan Shearer\n\n\nbetween 1994 and 1995, scoring two goals including an important opening strike in an away win over Finland which helped the national side qualify for Euro 96, although Shearer did not make the squad for that tournament. The senior team was his first experience of international football, having never played at any age-group level. He achieved a childhood ambition when he played in the national team alongside John McGinlay, a childhood friend also from Fort William. In season 1999–00 he began to concentrate more on coaching than playing, and was", "id": "3716411" }, { "contents": "Les Ferdinand\n\n\nscored 50 goals in only 84 games at Newcastle, forming a successful partnership with Alan Shearer. He was and indeed is still very highly thought of by Newcastle United. Ferdinand received a standing ovation when he returned to St. James' Park as a Tottenham player, trying to put Alan Shearer's number 9 shirt on to complete a lap of honour, he broke down in tears and could only manage to put the shirt on inside out and back to front before being helped from the field. Ferdinand returned again, when he", "id": "2996528" }, { "contents": "David Platt (footballer)\n\n\nTurkey, San Marino, the Netherlands and Norway. The qualifiers began at home to Norway. England dominated the game and Platt carried the goal threat, with Alan Shearer and Ian Wright struggling to find form. He scored the opening goal after an hour. England dominated the remainder of the game and were unlucky to concede to a long-range shot from Kjetil Rekdal. Platt continued his drive from midfield in wins over Turkey at home (4-0) and San Marino (6-0). Platt scored four", "id": "16718350" }, { "contents": "Jason Wilcox\n\n\n-pound investments of Jack Walker. He played an important part in the title-winning Blackburn team of 1995. Playing on the left flank with attacking fullback Graeme Le Saux behind him and Stuart Ripley on the opposite flank, they forged a strong attacking line-up with Alan Shearer and Chris Sutton. International recognition was harder to come by for Wilcox and he managed only 3 international caps despite his effective partnership with Shearer, Le Saux and Tim Sherwood. Lengthy injury problems restricted his effectiveness in subsequent seasons and, after experiencing", "id": "14527253" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nclub's form, and Newcastle finished just 13th in the Premier League. However, United (now managed by Shearer's old boss at Blackburn, Kenny Dalglish) had a good run in the FA Cup; Shearer scored the winning goal in a semi-final victory over Sheffield United as the team reached the final. The team were unable to get on the scoresheet at Wembley, and lost the game 2–0 to Arsenal. An incident during a game against Leicester City in the league saw Shearer charged with misconduct by the FA", "id": "13592522" }, { "contents": "Aleksandar Mitrović (footballer)\n\n\nhim the competition's top scorer, and 28 in all competitions. On 22 March 2015, he scored the team's only goal in the 2–1 Belgian Cup Final loss to Club Brugge KV in Brussels. On 21 July 2015, Mitrović joined Newcastle United on a five-year contract for a reported £13 million, saying he hoped to be able to play like club legend Alan Shearer. He made his debut on 9 August as Newcastle began the season with a 2–2 draw against Southampton at St James' Park, playing", "id": "20923735" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nWest Bromwich Albion, Manchester City and Newcastle United, before being offered a youth contract with Southampton in April 1986. Shearer was promoted to the first team after spending two years with the youth squad. He made his professional debut for Southampton on 26 March 1988, coming on as a substitute in a First Division fixture at Chelsea, before prompting national headlines in his full debut at The Dell two weeks later. He scored a hat-trick, helping the team to a 4–2 victory against Arsenal, thus becoming the youngest player", "id": "13592506" }, { "contents": "James Milner\n\n\ndo what was \"in the club's best interest\" and in July 2004, he agreed a five-year contract with Newcastle. Milner made his first appearance for Newcastle United during their pre-season tour of Asia, scoring his first goal for the club in a 1–1 draw against Kitchee, in Hong Kong. During this tour, he took the opportunity to observe how Newcastle striker Alan Shearer dealt with attention from fans and the media. He said that his association with people like Shearer gave him a better idea of", "id": "1860603" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nretain the ball and provide opportunities for teammates. Playing as a lone striker between wide men, Rod Wallace and Matt Le Tissier, Shearer scored three goals in 26 appearances in the 1989–90 season, and in the next, four goals in 36 games. His performances in the centre of the \"Saints\" attack were soon recognised by the fans, who voted him their Player of the Year for 1991. In the middle of 1991, Shearer was a member of the England national under-21 football squad in the Toulon Tournament in Toulon", "id": "13592508" }, { "contents": "Teddy Sheringham\n\n\n, creating play and providing key passes, forming the link between Shearer and the England midfield. The pairing came to be known as 'The SAS' ('Shearer and Sheringham') and their most successful time together came in the 1996 European Championships, held in England. Their most famous contribution was in the 4–1 victory over the Netherlands, a game in the opening group stages in which they both scored twice against one of the strongest teams in the tournament. Though England were eventually knocked out in the semi-finals", "id": "2997067" }, { "contents": "History of the England national football team\n\n\ninto Euro 2000 after a 2–1 aggregate playoff win over Scotland. At the finals in Belgium and the Netherlands, a lacklustre England failed to get beyond the group stage, losing to both Portugal and Romania after leading in each game. After England's exit, Alan Shearer retired from international football, he had announced his intentions before the tournament, and no-one could persuade him to change his mind. On 7 October 2000, shortly after losing the opening World Cup qualifier to Germany in the last-ever game at Wembley", "id": "15089411" }, { "contents": "Premier League 10 Seasons Awards\n\n\nrepresented, with five players. The teams were as follows: English striker Alan Shearer was named Domestic Player of the Decade in the main 10 Seasons awards announcements, in addition to being given the Outstanding Contribution to the FA Premier League award. Two weeks later he was also named as the Overall Player of the Decade. In the first decade, Shearer played for Blackburn Rovers, and then Newcastle United. Shearer has been described as a classic English centre-forward with great shooting power, a single-minded striker who could", "id": "11856460" }, { "contents": "Wartime League\n\n\narguments debate that a player who exceeds one's record through their wartime matches should nonetheless be seen as the club's highest goal scorer or appearance having been part of the team's squad even if only for a short time. The most recent argument relates to the goal-difference between Jackie Milburn's and Alan Shearer's Newcastle United goal-scoring records. When counting Jackie's wartime matches, he scored a total of 238 professional goals for Newcastle United FC. In May 2005, Alan Shearer finished his career at 206 goals", "id": "17626256" }, { "contents": "Jon Dahl Tomasson\n\n\nas the perfect link-up player to England national team striker Alan Shearer. The partnership initially worked well, with Tomasson impressing during a pre-season friendly tournament in the Republic of Ireland. However, a career threatening injury to Shearer, combined with the controversial transfer of popular striker Les Ferdinand to Tottenham Hotspur, meant that Tomasson was moved from his traditional attacking midfield position to that of striker. He struggled to adapt to his new position on the field, and to the English game, due to his lack of physical", "id": "19324628" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\ncovered the World Cups and European Championships from 2006 onwards for the BBC. Former Newcastle chairman Freddy Shepherd announced that, after Shearer finished the 2005–06 season as Newcastle's caretaker assistant manager, he would become the club's \"Sporting Ambassador\" for the 2006–07 season. However, in September 2008, it was reported that Shearer was removed from this largely honorary position by the club's owner Mike Ashley, despite protests from players such as Steven Taylor and Damien Duff, due to Shearer's criticism of the way in which the club", "id": "13592564" }, { "contents": "1998 FA Cup Final\n\n\nthe final that Bergkamp had resumed training and \"medically he looked all right\", but the player received a further setback when he suffered a reaction to his hamstring. He ruled himself out of the match and told reporters: \"I'm very disappointed. As a little boy in Holland I always watched the FA Cup final. And I used to dream about playing in it myself one day.\" Ian Wright was listed as Bergkamp's probable replacement to partner Anelka. Newcastle had their own issues surrounding Shearer. The England", "id": "10844676" }, { "contents": "2008–09 in English football\n\n\n's surprise resignation in December; whilst their final points tally wasn't spectacular, they had the satisfaction of being the top North-East team in football after both Middlesbrough and Newcastle United were relegated, ending 11 and 16 year spells in the top flight respectively, the latter going through four managers in Kevin Keegan, Joe Kinnear, Chris Hughton and even former striker Alan Shearer during the campaign. Despite a brilliant start to the season which saw them as high as third place in October, Hull City won just 1 of their", "id": "1311754" }, { "contents": "1996 FA Charity Shield\n\n\nfrom Eric Cantona, Nicky Butt, David Beckham and Roy Keane. The game saw new signings Jordi Cruyff and Karel Poborský make their debuts for Manchester United, though neither of these players had particularly successful careers at Old Trafford and both had left the club within four years. The day before the game had seen the surprise sale of one of Manchester United's longest serving players — Lee Sharpe. The game saw Newcastle United give a debut to £15 million world record signing Alan Shearer, who would remain at the club until", "id": "2797098" }, { "contents": "UEFA Euro 2016 knockout phase\n\n\nsection begin=g6 /section end=g6 / section begin=g7 /section end=g7 / The match has been described as one of England's worst defeats ever. Former footballer and Talksport presenter Stan Collymore, who was commentating on the game, panned the England team, reserving special criticism for goalkeeper Joe Hart and captain Wayne Rooney. Former England international and BBC Sport pundit Alan Shearer described it as the worst performance he had ever seen from an England team. The defeat was called England's most shocking since losing 1–0 to", "id": "11344909" }, { "contents": "Maurice E. Shearer\n\n\nApplication at Annapolis, Maryland, with classmates Holland Smith, Ralph S. Keyser and Andrew B. Drum. In July, Shearer sailed for duty to be the commander of the 35 man Marine detachment on Midway Island. In May 1908, he was selected for promotion to first lieutenant and to the rank of captain in June 1916. During World War I, forces under Major Shearer's command made an attack on Belleau Wood, finally clearing that forest of Germans. On 26 June 1918, he sent a now famous report: \"", "id": "8315540" }, { "contents": "Newcastle upon Tyne\n\n\nF.C. became Football League members in 1893. They have won four top division titles (the first in 1905 and the most recent in 1927), six FA Cups (the first in 1910 and the most recent in 1955) and the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup in 1969. They broke the world transfer record in 1996 by paying £15 million for Blackburn Rovers and England striker Alan Shearer, one of the most prolific goalscorers of that era. In 2017 Newcastle was the venue for the 2017 Freedom City festival. The 2017", "id": "20529704" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\ngame and came off the bench to score a penalty, helping Newcastle win the game 3–2. The match was a sell-out, and saw Shearer perform a lap of honour at the end with his family, with his young son notably covering his ears due to the volume of noise produced by the crowd in tribute. Shearer's international career began in 1990 when he was handed a callup to the England under-21 squad under Dave Sexton. During his time with the squad, he scored 13 times in 11 games, a", "id": "13592537" }, { "contents": "2011–12 Cardiff City F.C. season\n\n\nserving manager in the Championship having held his post since May 2005. The club held talks with former England and Newcastle United captain Alan Shearer to replace Jones but he rejected the job despite stating that he was impressed with the \"vision, ambition and determination of the owner Dato Chan Tien Ghee and the board\". The \"Bluebirds\" instead approached Championship rivals Watford for permission to speak to their manager Malky Mackay, which was initially rejected. However, after the two clubs agreed a compensation fee, Mackay was officially appointed as", "id": "7599659" }, { "contents": "Kevin Keegan\n\n\nto Michael Owen, stating, \"He's not scared to give his opinion when he's right, and he's not scared to say what he feels. He's a tremendous professional, and he trains properly every day.\" Keegan announced on 22 January that he and Alan Shearer held talks about the two linking up with Shearer as his assistant, but decided against the idea, leaving the door open for him to take other roles he was interested in. Keegan's first eight games back at Newcastle passed without a", "id": "826473" }, { "contents": "Transfer (association football)\n\n\n£3.6 million Alan Shearer moved to Blackburn Rovers from Southampton, a decade after the world's first £3 million transfer. Lentini's transfer remained intact the world record fee for the next four years, although the national record was broken more than once in many countries including England. Shearer's £3.6million record fee was narrowly eclipsed 12 months later when Manchester United signed Roy Keane from Nottingham Forest for £3.75 million. In 1994, Blackburn Rovers paid a record £5 million for Chris Sutton from Norwich City, a decade", "id": "11200095" }, { "contents": "Roy Hodgson\n\n\nagainst Costa Rica to finish bottom of Group D. Hodgson named Rooney as the new captain of England in August 2014, following the retirement of Steven Gerrard from international football. Hodgson's first match after the World Cup was a 1–0 win against Norway in an international friendly match at Wembley on 3 September 2014. During the match, England made only two shots on target. Hodgson was infuriated when asked about this, describing the statistic as \"fucking bollocks\". Former England player, Alan Shearer, admitted that the match was so", "id": "12858624" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nto the season. The animosity between Shearer and Gullit was later confirmed by the latter, who reported telling the striker that he was \"...the most overrated player I have ever seen.\" Ironically, Robson had tried to sign Shearer for Barcelona in 1997, making a bid of £20million which would have seen Shearer break the world's transfer fee record for the second time in 12 months. However, then Newcastle manager Kenny Dalglish rejected the offer. In Robson's first match in charge, Shearer scored five goals in", "id": "13592526" }, { "contents": "Premier League 10 Seasons Awards\n\n\nin his talks with Alex Ferguson, he could not guarantee that Eric Cantona the Overseas Player of the Decade could be persuaded to let Shearer take penalty kicks. Shearer gained a second PFA Players' Player of the Year Award in April 1997, becoming just the second player to have received the PFA award twice, after Mark Hughes. After the 2000 European Championships, Shearer had retired from international football with England, having been England captain since 1998, and having made his senior début in 1992. Shearer was awarded the OBE in", "id": "11856465" }, { "contents": "Emile Heskey\n\n\nthe two matches, with former England international Alan Shearer commenting, \"Never in a million years did I expect to be discussing whether Emile Heskey should keep his place ahead of Wayne Rooney but the Wigan striker was outstanding over both matches.\" Heskey was called into manager Fabio Capello's first squad against Switzerland, but had to withdraw due to an injury. He was called into the squad for a friendly against the Czech Republic in August 2008 and came on as a 46th-minute substitute, in a match that finished 2–2", "id": "174986" }, { "contents": "Habib Beye\n\n\nUEFA Cup Final, a run which involved him putting in a star performance as a central defender against (his now former team) Newcastle United, where he was particularly effective against Newcastle's talisman striker Alan Shearer. He ended up on the losing side as Marseille lost the final to Valencia 2–0. He was also a beaten finalist in the 2006 French Cup against former club Paris Saint-Germain, a match which his team lost 2–1, and again in 2007 when his Marseille team lost on penalties to FC Sochaux. His", "id": "16217445" }, { "contents": "Stan Collymore\n\n\nseason in the Premier League, Collymore was called up to Terry Venables' England squad for the Umbro Cup in June 1995. He made his début at Wembley Stadium against Japan, partnering Alan Shearer in a 2–1 win. He won his second cap as a 90th minute substitute against Brazil. Collymore made his third and final appearance for England as a substitute in a 4–0 win over Moldova during qualification for the 1998 FIFA World Cup. Collymore contributed to his biography \"Stan: Tackling my demons\" with Oliver Holt. In 2005", "id": "3955590" }, { "contents": "Graeme Souness\n\n\nAt £8.2 million, Boumsong was his first big signing and Souness said he would replace Jonathan Woodgate in the Newcastle defence, which had conceded several leads earlier in the season. Newcastle were well aware of Boumsong prior to his move from Auxerre to Rangers on a free transfer. Robson had travelled to France to watch him, but he declined the opportunity to sign Boumsong. Liverpool were also interested in signing Boumsong. Robson's doubts were confirmed when Boumsong marked Alan Shearer in a pre-season game against Rangers. Shearer came", "id": "18029254" }, { "contents": "Saido Berahino\n\n\nrate of a goal every other match, including three to help the team qualify for the European Championship. Berahino has the all-time third-highest goal tally for the England under-21 side with 10 goals in 13 appearances, behind Francis Jeffers and Alan Shearer. On 6 November 2014, England manager Roy Hodgson – who promoted Berahino to the West Bromwich Albion first team in 2011 – named Berahino in his squad for the first time, ahead of a UEFA Euro 2016 qualifying match against Slovenia at Wembley Stadium on the 15th and", "id": "1000466" } ]

[ { "contents": "Tony Adams\n\n\n\"I have some resentment over the way Glenn Hoddle gave the captaincy to Alan Shearer instead of me but I can let that go. I reacted positively. I disagreed with him [Hoddle] and he thought Alan could get more penalties being a centre forward. People know my reaction to that\". Adams continued to play for the national side, however and he finally appeared in a World Cup finals in 1998. His international swansong was England's unsuccessful Euro 2000 campaign. With Shearer retiring from international football after the tournament", "id": "6104102" }, { "contents": "Tony Adams\n\n\nin defence, and after the retirement of Gary Lineker in 1992, Adams unofficially shared the captaincy of England with David Platt, though Adams became England captain outright before Euro 96, as Platt's place in the side became less secure. England reached the semi-finals of Euro 96, before losing on penalties to Germany. When England manager Glenn Hoddle took the Captain's armband from Adams and gave it to Alan Shearer it was a bitter pill for Adams to swallow. Speaking at a fans' forum in 2008 Adams remarked", "id": "6104101" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nThis time, Germany won from the spot; although Shearer scored, his teammate Gareth Southgate missed his kick and England were eliminated. Shearer's five goals made him the competition's top scorer, and together with teammates David Seaman and Steve McManaman, was listed in the official UEFA team of the tournament. The new England manager Glenn Hoddle appointed Shearer captain for the 1998 FIFA World Cup qualifier against Moldova on 1 September 1996, and the player held onto the captaincy after scoring once in that match and twice in the following game", "id": "13592541" }, { "contents": "Dimitar Berbatov\n\n\nhe consequently modelled himself after Marco van Basten, the Dutch forward for that team. However, the 1996 European Championship, held in England, gave Berbatov a new role model; the 15-year-old Berbatov began to look up to the English front man Alan Shearer, who played for Newcastle United. Berbatov's mother later spoke of her son's teenage dream of playing for Newcastle United, and said that his admiration for Shearer was such that, during these years, he slept in a Newcastle shirt. Berbatov began his youth", "id": "3905446" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\n's participation in what was to be Shearer's only World Cup tournament. In September 1999, Shearer scored his only England hat-trick in a UEFA Euro 2000 qualifier against Luxembourg. This helped England reach a play-off against Scotland; England won the game over two legs and in doing so qualified for the European Championships. By now, Shearer was approaching his 30th birthday, and he announced that he intended to retire from international football after the Euro 2000 tournament. Shearer did not score in England's opening 3–2 defeat", "id": "13592544" }, { "contents": "Southampton F.C.\n\n\nwas Alan Shearer, who at the age of 17 scored a hat-trick against Arsenal in a league match in April 1988. Shearer was a first team regular by 1990, and stayed with Southampton until July 1992, when he was sold to Blackburn Rovers for a national record of more than £3 million. He then became the most expensive footballer in the world when Blackburn sold him to Newcastle for £15 million in 1996. He also scored 30 times for England internationally. Southampton were founding members of the Premier League", "id": "3265953" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\ntime to play in England's UEFA European Championship campaign. After Euro 96, Manchester United again sought to sign Shearer, and attempted to enter the battle for his signature. However Manchester United chairman Martin Edwards stated that Blackburn Rovers refused to let Shearer go to Old Trafford. Ultimately Shearer joined his boyhood club: Newcastle United, Manchester United's title rivals. On 30 July 1996, for a world transfer record-breaking £15 million (equivalent to £ million today) Shearer joined his hometown club and league runners-up", "id": "13592519" }, { "contents": "History of the England national football team\n\n\nyear after his last game at club level. Hoddle selected Alan Shearer as captain, replacing Tony Adams, but also brought a number of emerging talents into the squad, including the Manchester United midfield trio of Paul Scholes, Nicky Butt and David Beckham, and central defenders Rio Ferdinand and Sol Campbell. Hoddle oversaw England's qualification for the 1998 World Cup (the first World Cup with 32 teams instead of 24) with a 0–0 draw against Italy at the Stadio Olimpico in Rome, and drew out a winning performance in the", "id": "15089406" }, { "contents": "History of the England national football team\n\n\nthe underwhelming performance at the World Cup, England suffered a poor start to the Euro 2000 qualifying tournament, and there was reported discontent between Hoddle and several senior players, most notably Shearer. Hoddle was dismissed on 2 February 1999, two days after an interview with \"The Sunday Times\" in which he spoke about his belief in reincarnation and claimed that disabled people were paying for sins in a previous life. Under considerable media and public pressure, the FA appointed former captain Kevin Keegan, who only just managed to get England", "id": "15089410" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nagainst Poland. He scored a total of five goals in England's successful qualification campaign for the World Cup, adding strikes against Georgia and away to Poland to his tally. Shearer was sidelined for much of the 1997–98 season, but recovered to play in the World Cup finals. With Michael Owen replacing Teddy Sheringham as Shearer's strike partner, Shearer's return saw him score England's first goal of the tournament, in a 2–0 win over Tunisia, his only goal in the three group matches. England faced long-time", "id": "13592542" }, { "contents": "Newcastle United F.C.\n\n\n. The attacking philosophy of Keegan led to the team being labelled \"The Entertainers\" by Sky Sports. Keegan took Newcastle to two consecutive runners-up finishes in the league in 1995–96 and 1996–97, coming very close to winning the title in the former season. This success was in part due to the talent of players like David Ginola, Les Ferdinand and Alan Shearer, who was signed on 30 July 1996 for a then world record fee of £15 million. Keegan left Newcastle in January 1997 and was replaced by Kenny", "id": "12636363" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nAlan Shearer, CBE, DL (born 13 August 1970) is an English retired footballer. He played as a striker in the top level of English league football for Southampton, Blackburn Rovers, Newcastle United and the England national team. He is Newcastle's and the Premier League's record goalscorer. He was named Football Writers' Association Player of the Year in 1994 and won the PFA Player of the Year award in 1995. In 1996, he was third in the FIFA World Player of the Year awards. In 2004", "id": "13592501" }, { "contents": "Teddy Sheringham\n\n\nmanager Terry Venables (1994–96) Sheringham came to be the preferred strike partner for Alan Shearer. During this time, England had a wealth of strikers with the likes of Andrew Cole, Ian Wright, a young Robbie Fowler and Les Ferdinand all battling to partner Shearer in the England team. The two formed a famous partnership at international level, as they complemented each other's strengths: Shearer the out-and-out goalscorer, big, strong and powerful, Sheringham just 'dropping off' his strike partner, finding spaces", "id": "2997066" }, { "contents": "History of Newcastle United F.C.\n\n\n's title chances for the 1994–95 season, in which they finished sixth. The club, however, continued to build up a reputation for playing attacking football under Keegan. In the 1995–96 season, high-profile foreign stars David Ginola and Faustino Asprilla, in addition to British players Peter Beardsley and striker Les Ferdinand, guided the team to a second-place finish. During the 1996–97 season, Keegan made one signing, securing the services of England striker Alan Shearer for a then-world record transfer fee of £15 million", "id": "6803863" }, { "contents": "1996–97 Newcastle United F.C. season\n\n\n...I think Kevin wanted it free-flowing in all departments and that doesn't necessarily happen.\" Keegan responded to the previous season's disappointment by breaking the world record transfer fee to sign centre forward Alan Shearer from Blackburn Rovers for £15 million. Shearer, whose five goals made him the top scorer in Euro 96, had supported Newcastle since childhood – he had been a ball-boy at St James' Park on the day that Keegan had left in a helicopter after his final Newcastle appearance as a player.", "id": "1207050" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nin the games.\" Shearer captained his school team and helped a Newcastle City Schools team win a seven-a-side tournament at St James' Park, before joining the amateur Wallsend Boys Club as a teenager. It was while playing for the Wallsend club that he was spotted by Southampton's scout, Jack Hixon, which resulted in Shearer spending his summers training with the club's youth team, a time he would later refer to as \"the making of me\". Shearer had successful trials for First Division clubs", "id": "13592505" }, { "contents": "Duncan Shearer\n\n\nFavourites\" during the club's centenary in 2008. However, he was unable to prevent Huddersfield's relegation to the Third Division at the end of the 1987–88 season. Weeks before this, the unrelated English striker Alan Shearer (aged 17) had scored a hat-trick in the First Division for Southampton against Arsenal, a game which Arsenal captain Tony Adams missed through injury. In his autobiography 11 years later, Adams said that he had followed the progress of the game on Ceefax and mistakingly believed that the Shearer who scored", "id": "3716405" }, { "contents": "David Hirst (footballer)\n\n\nHe came on at half-time and within three minutes of the restart he scored his first (and only) England goal. With Gary Lineker injured, he lined up with Alan Shearer against France at Wembley. Bryan Robson said that, \"It's not a question of who will replace Lineker, but who will partner David Hirst\". It became Hirst's third and final England match. Although he was selected for more England squads, injuries kept him out of the team. Manchester United boss Alex Ferguson tried six", "id": "18892949" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nthrough to May due to injury and England's World Cup qualification chances were hit by a run of poor form. Returning to fitness for the 1993–94 season, he scored 31 goals from 40 games as Blackburn finished runners-up in the Premier League. His performances for the club led to him being named the Football Writers' Association Footballer of the Year for that season. On the international scene, England had failed to qualify for the 1994 World Cup finals, but Shearer added three more goals to his international tally before embarking", "id": "13592514" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nfive points out of a possible twenty-four. Shearer did not get the manager's job on permanent basis. Chris Hughton stepped up from the coaching staff to take charge of the quest to get Newcastle back into the Premier League, which was achieved at the first attempt as Newcastle finished top of the Championship in the 2009–10 season. Shearer is married to Lainya, whom he met whilst a Southampton player. The couple lived locally with her parents during Shearer's second year at the south coast club, and were married on", "id": "13592557" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nagainst Portugal, but did so as England defeated Germany 1–0 in Charleroi, ensuring that England beat their European neighbours for the first time since the 1966 World Cup Final. To remain in the tournament, England only required a draw against Romania in the final group match, and Shearer scored a penalty as England went in at half-time 2–1 up, but Romania ultimately won 3–2. England's tournament was over, and so was Shearer's international career. From his 63 caps, he captained the team 34 times and scored", "id": "13592545" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nrecord return which is still unbeaten. The striker's goals at this level, coupled with his club form, meant he was soon promoted to the senior squad by coach Graham Taylor. Marking his debut in the 2–0 win against France in February 1992 with a goal, he made his only appearance for the England B team a month later. Due to replace Gary Lineker, who retired from international action after UEFA Euro 1992, in the England attack, Shearer played only intermittently in the qualifying campaign for the 1994 FIFA World Cup", "id": "13592538" }, { "contents": "1993 Trans-Tasman Test series\n\n\n's Canberra Raiders team mate and New South Wales captain Laurie Daley. The test series took place following the 1993 State of Origin series which was won by NSW. Dale Shearer's performances at fullback for Qld saw him earn a test recall in front of well performed World Cup and NSW fullback Tim Brasher (though Shearer had been selected at centre for all 3 Ashes series tests in 1992 but withdrew from all 3 with injury). Bradley Clyde, who had not played in the Origin series due to injury was also recalled to", "id": "16616631" }, { "contents": "Glenn Hoddle\n\n\nRedknapp resigned, following which Hoddle also left the club. In June 2016, after England's 2–1 loss to Iceland at Euro 2016 and manager Roy Hodgson's subsequent resignation, Harry Redknapp and Alan Shearer both put forward Hoddle as a candidate for the job before Sam Allardyce was appointed. Hoddle has done punditry work since his retirement from coaching. He has worked for ESPN, ITV Sport and BT Sport. Hoddle began working with ESPN during Euro 2012 as a pundit. Since then, he has worked with ITV for the 2014", "id": "8847620" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nhim onto the pitch following the striker's testimonial in May 2006 as he performed a lap of honour at St James' Park. On 6 December 2000, Shearer was given Honorary Freedom of the City of Newcastle upon Tyne, with the citation \"in recognition of his role as captain of Newcastle United Football Club and as former captain of England which have enhanced the reputation of the City\". Shearer was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2001 Queen's Birthday Honours and Commander of the", "id": "13592559" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nhis four years in the Southampton first team, Shearer made a total of 158 appearances in all competitions, scoring 43 goals. Despite making just one goalless appearance as England failed to progress past the Euro 1992 group stages, Shearer was soon subject to an English transfer record-breaking £3.6 million bid from Blackburn Rovers. Although there was also interest from Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson, Blackburn benefactor Jack Walker's millions were enough to prise the striker from the \"Saints\", and Shearer moved north to Ewood Park in the", "id": "13592512" }, { "contents": "Andy Cole\n\n\nof the season to help United win the Premier League title for the third time in four years. He also played in their FA Cup final victory to become part of England's first ever side to win the double twice. Before the 1996–97 season began, Cole had to deal with being offered to Blackburn Rovers as part-exchange in a £12 million deal that would have brought Alan Shearer to Old Trafford, but the offer was rejected and Shearer joined Newcastle instead. Despite Alex Ferguson's clear indication to Cole that he", "id": "9629547" }, { "contents": "Shearer's Bar\n\n\nShearer's Bar is the former name of a sports bar owned by Newcastle United and forming part of St James' Park, the team's stadium in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. It was named in honour of the club's all-time top scorer, Alan Shearer. The bar was renamed Nine in July 2013 by the club, who said that popularity of the venue had \"dwindled\". The bar was opened in December 2004 and became an important part of the features at St James' Park. It is", "id": "15298144" }, { "contents": "Kevin Keegan\n\n\nrelationship between the pair. In April 2003, it was named as Quote of the Decade in the Premier League 10 Seasons Awards and Most Memorable Quote in the 20 Seasons Awards in May 2012. It also appeared in Channel 4's \"100 Greatest Sporting Moments\". Keegan then broke the world transfer fee record by signing Blackburn Rovers and England striker Alan Shearer in July 1996. Shearer, who had been the Premier League's top scorer in the last two seasons, was born in Newcastle and had grown up as a fan", "id": "826455" }, { "contents": "England national football team\n\n\nBetween 1994 and 1996, Terry Venables managed the team. At UEFA Euro 1996, held in England, they equalled their best performance at a European Championship, reaching the semi-finals as they did in 1968, before exiting via a penalty shoot-out loss to Germany. England striker Alan Shearer was the tournament's top scorer with five goals. Venables resigned following investigations into his financial activities. Venables' successor, Glenn Hoddle, similarly left the job for non-footballing reasons after just one international tournament – the 1998", "id": "9748695" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nmiddle of 1992. His first season with Blackburn was mixed – he missed half of it through injury after snapping his right anterior cruciate ligament in a match against Leeds United in December 1992, but scored a prolific 16 goals in the 21 games in which he did feature. Shearer also became a regular in the England team this season and scored his second international goal; it came in a 4–0 1994 FIFA World Cup qualifier win over Turkey in November. The season ended sourly, however, as Shearer was forced to miss January", "id": "13592513" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nover from head coach Chris Hughton who was in temporary charge while the permanent manager Joe Kinnear recovered from heart surgery, having taken ill on 7 February. Shearer stated \"It's a club I love and I don't want them to go down. I'll do everything I can to stop that.\" Shearer was unveiled at a press conference the following day by club managing director Derek Llambias. In explaining his acceptance of a managerial role at Newcastle at this time, Shearer stated that he would not have done this for", "id": "13592552" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nwas being run in the wake of the departure of Kevin Keegan. These reports were denied by the club. Shearer features in EA Sports' \"FIFA\" video game series; he was included in the \"FIFA 15\" Ultimate Team Legends. During his playing days, Shearer had been involved with the children's charity the NSPCC, taking part in the organisation's Full Stop campaign in 1999. Since retiring from football Shearer has also done work for several charities both nationally and in the Newcastle area. In his testimonial match", "id": "13592565" }, { "contents": "2005–06 Newcastle United F.C. season\n\n\n. The fee, £17 million, surpassed Newcastle's previous record of £15 million for Alan Shearer from Blackburn in 1996. In the closing hours of the transfer window, the club re-signed Nolberto Solano from Aston Villa. Souness's decision to pair Shearer and Owen together up front proved to be lethal, but Owen broke his fourth metatarsal bone in his foot after a clash with Paul Robinson in a match against Tottenham Hotspur, keeping him out for the rest of the season. With Owen injured the team's", "id": "18086094" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\ndue to injury and the team failed to reach the competition finals. UEFA Euro 1996 was a more positive experience for both Shearer and England. With England not required to qualify as hosts, Shearer had not scored in 12 games in the 21 months prior, and even his overall goalscoring record for England did not look too impressive so far, with five goals in 23 games. However, he found the net in the 22nd minute of the first game, against Switzerland. Scoring once in the following game against Scotland and twice", "id": "13592539" }, { "contents": "Teddy Sheringham\n\n\nthe 2000 European Championships by then manager Kevin Keegan, but the retirement of Shearer (despite being four years younger than Sheringham) from international football after that tournament and the arrival of new manager Sven-Göran Eriksson in 2001 saw a return to international favour for him. He was often deployed as a tactical substitute late in games by Eriksson, valued for his ability to hold the ball up and create intelligent play. In 2001, Sheringham scored an important goal for England against Greece in a World Cup qualifying match within 15 seconds", "id": "2997070" }, { "contents": "Ruud Gullit\n\n\n, chairman Ken Bates famously said of Gullit, \"I didn't like his arrogance – in fact I never liked him.\" In August 1998, Gullit was named manager of Newcastle United two games into the new league season and reached the 1999 FA Cup Final in his first year. Fans remained supportive despite a poor run of results, although a well-publicised contretemps with the team's top scorer Alan Shearer and captain Robert Lee did not put him in a favourable light. Gullit even refused to assign Lee a squad", "id": "13592616" }, { "contents": "Scott Parker\n\n\ndefeat on 25 March 2006. Later that month he was diagnosed with glandular fever, putting an end to his season. The timing was especially unfortunate for Parker, who had been playing well for Newcastle, as it ended any hopes he may have had of forcing his way into the 2006 FIFA World Cup. In July 2006, he was named Newcastle United's new captain by manager Glenn Roeder, succeeding the retired Alan Shearer. His first goal as captain came against Wigan Athletic on 19 August 2006, in a 2–1 win", "id": "14327157" }, { "contents": "History of football in England\n\n\n. United's main challengers for the title in the Premier League's first few years were Blackburn Rovers, led by star striker Alan Shearer, also won their first league title since World War I in 1994–95, and Newcastle United, who famously conceded a 10-point lead at Christmas to lose the title to United in 1995–96. Newcastle had reached the Premiership in 1993 as Division One champions, and in their first Premiership campaign finished third to qualify for the UEFA Cup. They finished second in 1996 and again in 1997, but by", "id": "3652862" }, { "contents": "1992–93 FA Premier League\n\n\nPremier League as an attempt by the Football Association to \"hijack\" the First Division. Shortly before the season began, newly promoted Blackburn Rovers signed Southampton's 21-year-old England international striker Alan Shearer for a new British record fee variously reported as £3.3 million, £3.4 million, or £3.6 million. Several other players moved for fees of £2 million or more, including Arsenal's David Rocastle, who joined Leeds United, Dean Saunders, who moved from Liverpool to Aston Villa, and Teddy Sheringham, who", "id": "12442383" }, { "contents": "Darren Anderton\n\n\nhappy at the prospect of losing another key player as he had already lost Jürgen Klinsmann and Gheorghe Popescu that summer; and Nick Barmby was on the verge of joining Middlesbrough. Despite missing most of the 1995–96 season through injury, Anderton played an important part in the Euro 96 England team that reached the semi-finals and included players like Paul Gascoigne, Alan Shearer, Steve McManaman and Teddy Sheringham. In the semi final against Germany, the match went to golden goal extra time. Anderton came within inches of putting England into", "id": "4331581" }, { "contents": "Wallsend Boys Club\n\n\nJanuary which damaged one of the walls of the building. Professional players to have played for the club include: The club has had a representative at four of the six FIFA World Cup finals since 1986, with the two exceptions coming in 1994, when the England national football team did not qualify, and 2002. In 1986 and 1990 Peter Beardsley starred for England. In 1998 Alan Shearer was England captain. Michael Carrick made appearances for England in both the 2006 and 2010 tournaments. Fraser Forster was in the 2014 squad but", "id": "21182372" }, { "contents": "Harry Kane\n\n\n\". Clive Allen, who coached him at Tottenham, stated that \"one thing I'd say about him, which unfortunately you don't say about a lot of young footballers, is that he had a passion for the game. He loves football, he loves playing, he loves scoring goals\". His former Tottenham under-21 coach Les Ferdinand likened Kane's movement to their former forward Teddy Sheringham, and the power and accuracy of his shots to Alan Shearer. Kane's style of play has been compared to that of", "id": "1925319" }, { "contents": "Kieron Dyer\n\n\nthat he would soon rejoin for Ipswich. After representing England at Youth, Under 21 and \"B\" level, Dyer's debut for the senior team came on 4 September 1999 when he started in England's 6–0 win against Luxembourg. He was deployed out of position at right back, and was replaced by Gary Neville at half-time after injuring himself while setting up Alan Shearer's third goal of the match. The injury was not serious and he was able to make his second England appearance four days later, coming", "id": "17666181" }, { "contents": "1996–97 Blackburn Rovers F.C. season\n\n\nthe end of the season, when he handed over the reins to Roy Hodgson after Sampdoria's Sven-Göran Eriksson lied about accepting the manager's job and joined Lazio instead. Parkes steered Blackburn to safety as they finished 13th. The world record £15 million sale of striker Alan Shearer to Newcastle United was seen as the biggest factor in Blackburn's lowest top flight finish since they returned to the elite in 1992. However, his strike-partner Chris Sutton helped keep the club alive after recovering from a drastic loss of", "id": "7811146" }, { "contents": "Michael Owen\n\n\nmuch of the campaign as England struggled, with Hoddle being replaced by Kevin Keegan. On 4 September 1999, he scored his first goal at Wembley Stadium in a 6–0 win over Luxembourg. At the finals, Owen scored once in three matches, as England were knocked out at the group stage. After Alan Shearer's retirement, Owen took over as England's senior striker under new manager Sven-Göran Eriksson. He scored six times during 2002 World Cup qualifying, including a hat-trick against Germany at Munich's Olympiastadion", "id": "21886807" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nyet to start the UEFA Pro Licence course, which is required to be permitted to manage a team in the Premier League and European competition. Reflecting his desire for personal time off to \"enjoy life\", in July 2006 he turned down a coaching role with England, citing his BBC commitments and desire to be away from the pressure of a job within football. Despite this, Shearer was often linked in the media with managerial or coaching positions at his three former clubs. Shearer took a brief role in the dugout for", "id": "13592550" }, { "contents": "History of Southampton F.C.\n\n\nappearances for the England national team – he finally retired in 2002 at the age of 33. During his time with the Saints, Le Tissier was approached more than once by several bigger clubs (including Manchester United) but chose to stick with the Saints despite never winning a major trophy or experiencing European football with them. From 1989 to 1992, Le Tissier was regularly partnered up front by another notable player, Alan Shearer, who as a 17-year-old had scored a hat-trick on his Saints debut against Arsenal in", "id": "15948278" }, { "contents": "Sir Bobby Robson Trophy match\n\n\nNewcastle United, picking up on Alan Shearer's reply of \"I know as much as you do,\" to a pre-match question as to whether he would be installed as Newcastle manager for the forthcoming season beginning in 13 days, with the club being up for sale and with the first team without a manager, being in the care of coach Chris Hughton. Neither the Newcastle United owner Mike Ashley or managing director Derek Llambias were in attendance at the charity match. Having left England after Italia '90, Sir", "id": "19612022" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nChancellor Liam Donaldson stated \"Newcastle United are my team. Alan Shearer is more than just a local legend, he's probably one of the greatest footballers of all time\". On 12 September 2016, a statue of Shearer's likeness was unveiled outside St James' Park. It was sculpted by Tom Maley, and paid for by the Shepherd family. After his retirement and following guest appearances, Shearer became a regular pundit for the BBC's \"Match of the Day\". He also formed part of the team which", "id": "13592563" }, { "contents": "Gary McAllister\n\n\ntournament, scoring in a 3–0 win over the CIS. However, Scotland did not qualify from their group. Scotland failed to qualify for the 1994 FIFA World Cup but did qualify for UEFA Euro 1996 in England, with McAllister the captain of the team. Scotland's second match of the group stage was against England at Wembley Stadium. In the second half Scotland, trailing 0–1 to an Alan Shearer goal, were awarded a penalty. McAllister's kick was saved by David Seaman and Scotland lost 0–2. The team won their", "id": "19492391" }, { "contents": "David Seaman\n\n\nEngland's quarter-final against Spain ended scoreless, Seaman saved Miguel Angel Nadal's kick in the shootout to knock Spain out of the tournament. England eventually were eliminated in the semi-final by Germany on penalties,after Andreas Köpke saved the penalty taken by Gareth Southgate. Seaman was named alongside Golden Boot winner Alan Shearer and winger Steve McManaman in the UEFA \"Team of the Tournament\". Euro 96 sponsor Philips named him \"Player of the Tournament\". Seaman remained first choice under the management of Glenn Hoddle for", "id": "7321893" }, { "contents": "1998 FA Cup Final\n\n\nand so has the mixture between the foreign and English players.\" Wenger reserved praise for the goalscorers Overmars (\"a world-class player\") and Anelka (\"Nicolas is very young. But you saw in the second half today what he can do\"), and felt the turning point in the match was Shearer's shot hitting the post. He sympathised with Newcastle, as did his captain, Adams who said afterwards: \"The team and their fans did everything they could out there, but it was", "id": "10844688" }, { "contents": "David McMahon (association footballer)\n\n\nabout the role of striker from watching England international Alan Shearer in training, but likened himself more to Newcastle's Scotland international Duncan Ferguson, \"because I am taller and like to battle for things in the air.\" Brian Kerr, then manager of Ireland under-17s, described McMahon as honest and hard-working, \"not the most skilful player, but will get goals\", but Darlington manager Gary Bennett believed there was more to his game: that he and strike partner John Williams both had enough skill to play a", "id": "5423888" }, { "contents": "Andy Carroll\n\n\nUEFA Euro 2012. He opened the scoring for England with a powerful header in their second group match against Sweden, which England went on to win 3–2. Carroll has been compared to Newcastle's record goalscorer Alan Shearer, Ivory Coast striker Didier Drogba and former Italy forward Christian Vieri. He has also been referred to as a classic centre forward, owing to his strength, powerful shot and excellent heading ability. Former Newcastle manager and Liverpool player Kevin Keegan stated \"he is probably in the top three headers of a ball I", "id": "11961542" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\n-chasing Manchester United. On the opening day of the 1999–2000 season, Shearer received the first red card of his career in his 100th appearance for Newcastle. After dropping Shearer to the bench in a Tyne-Wear derby loss against Sunderland, the unpopular Gullit resigned to be replaced by the 66-year-old Bobby Robson. Despite Gullit giving Shearer the captain's armband, reports of a rift between club captain and manager were rife, Gullit's decision to drop Shearer proved deeply unpopular with fans and his departure capped a dismal start", "id": "13592525" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nAn almost injury-free season helped Shearer improve on his previous year's tally in the 1998–99 season, the striker converting 14 goals in 30 league games and replacing Rob Lee as Newcastle captain, but Newcastle finished 13th again, with Ruud Gullit having replaced Kenny Dalglish just after the season got underway. He also helped Newcastle to a second consecutive FA Cup final and qualification for the following season's UEFA Cup, scoring twice in the semi-final against Tottenham Hotspur, but they once again lost, this time 2–0 to treble", "id": "13592524" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nhis final three games under Glenn Roeder. Shearer had rejected offers of coaching or assistant roles at Newcastle under both the returning Kevin Keegan in February 2008 and Joe Kinnear in November 2008. Shearer had previously had talks about, but never been offered, a full-time manager's role at Newcastle until his appointment on 1 April 2009. In a surprise move, late on 1 April 2009, it was announced that Shearer would become the manager of his former club Newcastle United for the remaining eight games of the season, taking", "id": "13592551" }, { "contents": "Fabio Cannavaro\n\n\nnational team on 22 January 1997, in a friendly match against Northern Ireland. The same year, he earned plaudits for his handling of England striker Alan Shearer in a World Cup qualifying game at Wembley Stadium. Shearer was then considered by the partisan English crowd to be the best striker in the world, and thought he would make fun of the inexperienced Italian defender. Nevertheless, in a display ranking alongside those of the very best Italian defenders Claudio Gentile and Franco Baresi, Cannavaro managed to keep Shearer quiet for the whole game", "id": "3625067" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\n, with media sources claiming that video footage showed him intentionally kicking Neil Lennon in the head following a challenge. The referee of the game took no action against Shearer, and he was then cleared of all charges by the FA, with Lennon giving evidence in the player's defence. Former Football Association chief Graham Kelly, who brought the charges against the player, later claimed in his autobiography that Shearer had threatened to withdraw himself from the 1998 World Cup squad if the charges were upheld, a claim strenuously denied by Shearer.", "id": "13592523" }, { "contents": "History of the Romania national football team\n\n\nminnows Tunisia. Adrian Ilie scored the only goal with a fine chip in their first match against Colombia at Lyon's Stade Gerland. In Toulouse, they met an England side starting with prodigal striker Michael Owen on the bench, with Teddy Sheringham preferred alongside Alan Shearer. A mistake by Tony Adams was punished by Viorel Moldovan, who played for Coventry City, before Owen came on to claim an equalizer. But Romania won with a scrappy late goal from Dan Petrescu, also playing in England with Chelsea, fighting off his club", "id": "16435718" }, { "contents": "John Barnes (footballer)\n\n\nNewcastle United, although an approach had already been made by Harry Redknapp of West Ham; Barnes had agreed in principle to join them until at the final moment Dalglish called him and Barnes changed his mind. In the 1997–98 season Barnes played up front mostly, deputising for Alan Shearer after Shearer was injured for most of the season, and Barnes ended up Newcastle's top league scorer with six goals, which highlighted the Magpies' lack of ability to score in the absence of Shearer and Ferdinand (who had been sold along with", "id": "19616669" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\ncould not find a more iconic person than Alan, not just for what he has done in football but for all the extra work he tirelessly does for charity and communities. I am delighted he has accepted the role of Deputy Lieutenant because he is a real role model. I have promised him he is not going to have to do too much, but even if it is just one occasion a year he is the perfect choice\" On 7 December 2009, Shearer was made a Doctor of Civil Law by Newcastle University.", "id": "13592562" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nLaw of Northumbria and Newcastle Universities. Shearer was born in Gosforth, Newcastle, in 1970 to working-class parents Alan and Anne Shearer. His father, a sheet-metal worker, encouraged a keen Shearer to play football in his youth, and the young player continued with the sport as he progressed through school. He was educated at Gosforth Central Middle School and Gosforth High School. Growing up playing on the streets of his hometown, he originally played in midfield because \"it meant [he] could get more involved", "id": "13592504" }, { "contents": "Paul Kitson\n\n\n. Newcastle finished second that season after being overhauled in the second half campaign by a Manchester United side who sealed the title by a five-point margin barely four months after Newcastle had led by 10 points, but Kitson's part in Newcastle's exciting though ultimately disappointing campaign had been minimal as he had played just seven league games and scored twice. But he remained loyal to the Magpies even after another blow at the end of July 1996 – the arrival of £15 million world record signing Alan Shearer. He managed three", "id": "19054464" }, { "contents": "Ray Harford\n\n\nthe Premier League for much of the season. During the summer of 1996, Alan Shearer was sold to Newcastle United for a then world record fee of £15 million, and Harford failed to adequately replace him. Harford stated that \"I'm told we need a big name. Engelbert Humperdinck is a big name but it doesn't mean he can play football.\" The 1996–97 season also started badly for Blackburn. They failed to win any of their first ten games and were knocked out of the League Cup by Division", "id": "5365351" }, { "contents": "Patrick Kluivert\n\n\nagain featured for Barca in a legends game against Uganda all stars where he, in lobbing the ball, scored an amazing goal. Kluivert joined Newcastle United on a free transfer in July 2004. He stated that his reasons for joining Newcastle was due to the overwhelming reaction he received whilst playing for Barcelona against Newcastle during a pre season friendly as well as teaming up with Newcastle's star players such as Alan Shearer. Kluivert scored some classy and crucial goals at and away from St James's Park namely in winning strikes against both", "id": "21654890" }, { "contents": "Duncan Shearer\n\n\nbetween 1994 and 1995, scoring two goals including an important opening strike in an away win over Finland which helped the national side qualify for Euro 96, although Shearer did not make the squad for that tournament. The senior team was his first experience of international football, having never played at any age-group level. He achieved a childhood ambition when he played in the national team alongside John McGinlay, a childhood friend also from Fort William. In season 1999–00 he began to concentrate more on coaching than playing, and was", "id": "3716411" }, { "contents": "Les Ferdinand\n\n\nscored 50 goals in only 84 games at Newcastle, forming a successful partnership with Alan Shearer. He was and indeed is still very highly thought of by Newcastle United. Ferdinand received a standing ovation when he returned to St. James' Park as a Tottenham player, trying to put Alan Shearer's number 9 shirt on to complete a lap of honour, he broke down in tears and could only manage to put the shirt on inside out and back to front before being helped from the field. Ferdinand returned again, when he", "id": "2996528" }, { "contents": "David Platt (footballer)\n\n\nTurkey, San Marino, the Netherlands and Norway. The qualifiers began at home to Norway. England dominated the game and Platt carried the goal threat, with Alan Shearer and Ian Wright struggling to find form. He scored the opening goal after an hour. England dominated the remainder of the game and were unlucky to concede to a long-range shot from Kjetil Rekdal. Platt continued his drive from midfield in wins over Turkey at home (4-0) and San Marino (6-0). Platt scored four", "id": "16718350" }, { "contents": "Jason Wilcox\n\n\n-pound investments of Jack Walker. He played an important part in the title-winning Blackburn team of 1995. Playing on the left flank with attacking fullback Graeme Le Saux behind him and Stuart Ripley on the opposite flank, they forged a strong attacking line-up with Alan Shearer and Chris Sutton. International recognition was harder to come by for Wilcox and he managed only 3 international caps despite his effective partnership with Shearer, Le Saux and Tim Sherwood. Lengthy injury problems restricted his effectiveness in subsequent seasons and, after experiencing", "id": "14527253" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nclub's form, and Newcastle finished just 13th in the Premier League. However, United (now managed by Shearer's old boss at Blackburn, Kenny Dalglish) had a good run in the FA Cup; Shearer scored the winning goal in a semi-final victory over Sheffield United as the team reached the final. The team were unable to get on the scoresheet at Wembley, and lost the game 2–0 to Arsenal. An incident during a game against Leicester City in the league saw Shearer charged with misconduct by the FA", "id": "13592522" }, { "contents": "Aleksandar Mitrović (footballer)\n\n\nhim the competition's top scorer, and 28 in all competitions. On 22 March 2015, he scored the team's only goal in the 2–1 Belgian Cup Final loss to Club Brugge KV in Brussels. On 21 July 2015, Mitrović joined Newcastle United on a five-year contract for a reported £13 million, saying he hoped to be able to play like club legend Alan Shearer. He made his debut on 9 August as Newcastle began the season with a 2–2 draw against Southampton at St James' Park, playing", "id": "20923735" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nWest Bromwich Albion, Manchester City and Newcastle United, before being offered a youth contract with Southampton in April 1986. Shearer was promoted to the first team after spending two years with the youth squad. He made his professional debut for Southampton on 26 March 1988, coming on as a substitute in a First Division fixture at Chelsea, before prompting national headlines in his full debut at The Dell two weeks later. He scored a hat-trick, helping the team to a 4–2 victory against Arsenal, thus becoming the youngest player", "id": "13592506" }, { "contents": "James Milner\n\n\ndo what was \"in the club's best interest\" and in July 2004, he agreed a five-year contract with Newcastle. Milner made his first appearance for Newcastle United during their pre-season tour of Asia, scoring his first goal for the club in a 1–1 draw against Kitchee, in Hong Kong. During this tour, he took the opportunity to observe how Newcastle striker Alan Shearer dealt with attention from fans and the media. He said that his association with people like Shearer gave him a better idea of", "id": "1860603" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nretain the ball and provide opportunities for teammates. Playing as a lone striker between wide men, Rod Wallace and Matt Le Tissier, Shearer scored three goals in 26 appearances in the 1989–90 season, and in the next, four goals in 36 games. His performances in the centre of the \"Saints\" attack were soon recognised by the fans, who voted him their Player of the Year for 1991. In the middle of 1991, Shearer was a member of the England national under-21 football squad in the Toulon Tournament in Toulon", "id": "13592508" }, { "contents": "Teddy Sheringham\n\n\n, creating play and providing key passes, forming the link between Shearer and the England midfield. The pairing came to be known as 'The SAS' ('Shearer and Sheringham') and their most successful time together came in the 1996 European Championships, held in England. Their most famous contribution was in the 4–1 victory over the Netherlands, a game in the opening group stages in which they both scored twice against one of the strongest teams in the tournament. Though England were eventually knocked out in the semi-finals", "id": "2997067" }, { "contents": "History of the England national football team\n\n\ninto Euro 2000 after a 2–1 aggregate playoff win over Scotland. At the finals in Belgium and the Netherlands, a lacklustre England failed to get beyond the group stage, losing to both Portugal and Romania after leading in each game. After England's exit, Alan Shearer retired from international football, he had announced his intentions before the tournament, and no-one could persuade him to change his mind. On 7 October 2000, shortly after losing the opening World Cup qualifier to Germany in the last-ever game at Wembley", "id": "15089411" }, { "contents": "Premier League 10 Seasons Awards\n\n\nrepresented, with five players. The teams were as follows: English striker Alan Shearer was named Domestic Player of the Decade in the main 10 Seasons awards announcements, in addition to being given the Outstanding Contribution to the FA Premier League award. Two weeks later he was also named as the Overall Player of the Decade. In the first decade, Shearer played for Blackburn Rovers, and then Newcastle United. Shearer has been described as a classic English centre-forward with great shooting power, a single-minded striker who could", "id": "11856460" }, { "contents": "Wartime League\n\n\narguments debate that a player who exceeds one's record through their wartime matches should nonetheless be seen as the club's highest goal scorer or appearance having been part of the team's squad even if only for a short time. The most recent argument relates to the goal-difference between Jackie Milburn's and Alan Shearer's Newcastle United goal-scoring records. When counting Jackie's wartime matches, he scored a total of 238 professional goals for Newcastle United FC. In May 2005, Alan Shearer finished his career at 206 goals", "id": "17626256" }, { "contents": "Jon Dahl Tomasson\n\n\nas the perfect link-up player to England national team striker Alan Shearer. The partnership initially worked well, with Tomasson impressing during a pre-season friendly tournament in the Republic of Ireland. However, a career threatening injury to Shearer, combined with the controversial transfer of popular striker Les Ferdinand to Tottenham Hotspur, meant that Tomasson was moved from his traditional attacking midfield position to that of striker. He struggled to adapt to his new position on the field, and to the English game, due to his lack of physical", "id": "19324628" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\ncovered the World Cups and European Championships from 2006 onwards for the BBC. Former Newcastle chairman Freddy Shepherd announced that, after Shearer finished the 2005–06 season as Newcastle's caretaker assistant manager, he would become the club's \"Sporting Ambassador\" for the 2006–07 season. However, in September 2008, it was reported that Shearer was removed from this largely honorary position by the club's owner Mike Ashley, despite protests from players such as Steven Taylor and Damien Duff, due to Shearer's criticism of the way in which the club", "id": "13592564" }, { "contents": "1998 FA Cup Final\n\n\nthe final that Bergkamp had resumed training and \"medically he looked all right\", but the player received a further setback when he suffered a reaction to his hamstring. He ruled himself out of the match and told reporters: \"I'm very disappointed. As a little boy in Holland I always watched the FA Cup final. And I used to dream about playing in it myself one day.\" Ian Wright was listed as Bergkamp's probable replacement to partner Anelka. Newcastle had their own issues surrounding Shearer. The England", "id": "10844676" }, { "contents": "2008–09 in English football\n\n\n's surprise resignation in December; whilst their final points tally wasn't spectacular, they had the satisfaction of being the top North-East team in football after both Middlesbrough and Newcastle United were relegated, ending 11 and 16 year spells in the top flight respectively, the latter going through four managers in Kevin Keegan, Joe Kinnear, Chris Hughton and even former striker Alan Shearer during the campaign. Despite a brilliant start to the season which saw them as high as third place in October, Hull City won just 1 of their", "id": "1311754" }, { "contents": "1996 FA Charity Shield\n\n\nfrom Eric Cantona, Nicky Butt, David Beckham and Roy Keane. The game saw new signings Jordi Cruyff and Karel Poborský make their debuts for Manchester United, though neither of these players had particularly successful careers at Old Trafford and both had left the club within four years. The day before the game had seen the surprise sale of one of Manchester United's longest serving players — Lee Sharpe. The game saw Newcastle United give a debut to £15 million world record signing Alan Shearer, who would remain at the club until", "id": "2797098" }, { "contents": "UEFA Euro 2016 knockout phase\n\n\nsection begin=g6 /section end=g6 / section begin=g7 /section end=g7 / The match has been described as one of England's worst defeats ever. Former footballer and Talksport presenter Stan Collymore, who was commentating on the game, panned the England team, reserving special criticism for goalkeeper Joe Hart and captain Wayne Rooney. Former England international and BBC Sport pundit Alan Shearer described it as the worst performance he had ever seen from an England team. The defeat was called England's most shocking since losing 1–0 to", "id": "11344909" }, { "contents": "Maurice E. Shearer\n\n\nApplication at Annapolis, Maryland, with classmates Holland Smith, Ralph S. Keyser and Andrew B. Drum. In July, Shearer sailed for duty to be the commander of the 35 man Marine detachment on Midway Island. In May 1908, he was selected for promotion to first lieutenant and to the rank of captain in June 1916. During World War I, forces under Major Shearer's command made an attack on Belleau Wood, finally clearing that forest of Germans. On 26 June 1918, he sent a now famous report: \"", "id": "8315540" }, { "contents": "Newcastle upon Tyne\n\n\nF.C. became Football League members in 1893. They have won four top division titles (the first in 1905 and the most recent in 1927), six FA Cups (the first in 1910 and the most recent in 1955) and the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup in 1969. They broke the world transfer record in 1996 by paying £15 million for Blackburn Rovers and England striker Alan Shearer, one of the most prolific goalscorers of that era. In 2017 Newcastle was the venue for the 2017 Freedom City festival. The 2017", "id": "20529704" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\ngame and came off the bench to score a penalty, helping Newcastle win the game 3–2. The match was a sell-out, and saw Shearer perform a lap of honour at the end with his family, with his young son notably covering his ears due to the volume of noise produced by the crowd in tribute. Shearer's international career began in 1990 when he was handed a callup to the England under-21 squad under Dave Sexton. During his time with the squad, he scored 13 times in 11 games, a", "id": "13592537" }, { "contents": "2011–12 Cardiff City F.C. season\n\n\nserving manager in the Championship having held his post since May 2005. The club held talks with former England and Newcastle United captain Alan Shearer to replace Jones but he rejected the job despite stating that he was impressed with the \"vision, ambition and determination of the owner Dato Chan Tien Ghee and the board\". The \"Bluebirds\" instead approached Championship rivals Watford for permission to speak to their manager Malky Mackay, which was initially rejected. However, after the two clubs agreed a compensation fee, Mackay was officially appointed as", "id": "7599659" }, { "contents": "Kevin Keegan\n\n\nto Michael Owen, stating, \"He's not scared to give his opinion when he's right, and he's not scared to say what he feels. He's a tremendous professional, and he trains properly every day.\" Keegan announced on 22 January that he and Alan Shearer held talks about the two linking up with Shearer as his assistant, but decided against the idea, leaving the door open for him to take other roles he was interested in. Keegan's first eight games back at Newcastle passed without a", "id": "826473" }, { "contents": "Transfer (association football)\n\n\n£3.6 million Alan Shearer moved to Blackburn Rovers from Southampton, a decade after the world's first £3 million transfer. Lentini's transfer remained intact the world record fee for the next four years, although the national record was broken more than once in many countries including England. Shearer's £3.6million record fee was narrowly eclipsed 12 months later when Manchester United signed Roy Keane from Nottingham Forest for £3.75 million. In 1994, Blackburn Rovers paid a record £5 million for Chris Sutton from Norwich City, a decade", "id": "11200095" }, { "contents": "Roy Hodgson\n\n\nagainst Costa Rica to finish bottom of Group D. Hodgson named Rooney as the new captain of England in August 2014, following the retirement of Steven Gerrard from international football. Hodgson's first match after the World Cup was a 1–0 win against Norway in an international friendly match at Wembley on 3 September 2014. During the match, England made only two shots on target. Hodgson was infuriated when asked about this, describing the statistic as \"fucking bollocks\". Former England player, Alan Shearer, admitted that the match was so", "id": "12858624" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nto the season. The animosity between Shearer and Gullit was later confirmed by the latter, who reported telling the striker that he was \"...the most overrated player I have ever seen.\" Ironically, Robson had tried to sign Shearer for Barcelona in 1997, making a bid of £20million which would have seen Shearer break the world's transfer fee record for the second time in 12 months. However, then Newcastle manager Kenny Dalglish rejected the offer. In Robson's first match in charge, Shearer scored five goals in", "id": "13592526" }, { "contents": "Premier League 10 Seasons Awards\n\n\nin his talks with Alex Ferguson, he could not guarantee that Eric Cantona the Overseas Player of the Decade could be persuaded to let Shearer take penalty kicks. Shearer gained a second PFA Players' Player of the Year Award in April 1997, becoming just the second player to have received the PFA award twice, after Mark Hughes. After the 2000 European Championships, Shearer had retired from international football with England, having been England captain since 1998, and having made his senior début in 1992. Shearer was awarded the OBE in", "id": "11856465" }, { "contents": "Emile Heskey\n\n\nthe two matches, with former England international Alan Shearer commenting, \"Never in a million years did I expect to be discussing whether Emile Heskey should keep his place ahead of Wayne Rooney but the Wigan striker was outstanding over both matches.\" Heskey was called into manager Fabio Capello's first squad against Switzerland, but had to withdraw due to an injury. He was called into the squad for a friendly against the Czech Republic in August 2008 and came on as a 46th-minute substitute, in a match that finished 2–2", "id": "174986" }, { "contents": "Habib Beye\n\n\nUEFA Cup Final, a run which involved him putting in a star performance as a central defender against (his now former team) Newcastle United, where he was particularly effective against Newcastle's talisman striker Alan Shearer. He ended up on the losing side as Marseille lost the final to Valencia 2–0. He was also a beaten finalist in the 2006 French Cup against former club Paris Saint-Germain, a match which his team lost 2–1, and again in 2007 when his Marseille team lost on penalties to FC Sochaux. His", "id": "16217445" }, { "contents": "Stan Collymore\n\n\nseason in the Premier League, Collymore was called up to Terry Venables' England squad for the Umbro Cup in June 1995. He made his début at Wembley Stadium against Japan, partnering Alan Shearer in a 2–1 win. He won his second cap as a 90th minute substitute against Brazil. Collymore made his third and final appearance for England as a substitute in a 4–0 win over Moldova during qualification for the 1998 FIFA World Cup. Collymore contributed to his biography \"Stan: Tackling my demons\" with Oliver Holt. In 2005", "id": "3955590" }, { "contents": "Graeme Souness\n\n\nAt £8.2 million, Boumsong was his first big signing and Souness said he would replace Jonathan Woodgate in the Newcastle defence, which had conceded several leads earlier in the season. Newcastle were well aware of Boumsong prior to his move from Auxerre to Rangers on a free transfer. Robson had travelled to France to watch him, but he declined the opportunity to sign Boumsong. Liverpool were also interested in signing Boumsong. Robson's doubts were confirmed when Boumsong marked Alan Shearer in a pre-season game against Rangers. Shearer came", "id": "18029254" }, { "contents": "Saido Berahino\n\n\nrate of a goal every other match, including three to help the team qualify for the European Championship. Berahino has the all-time third-highest goal tally for the England under-21 side with 10 goals in 13 appearances, behind Francis Jeffers and Alan Shearer. On 6 November 2014, England manager Roy Hodgson – who promoted Berahino to the West Bromwich Albion first team in 2011 – named Berahino in his squad for the first time, ahead of a UEFA Euro 2016 qualifying match against Slovenia at Wembley Stadium on the 15th and", "id": "1000466" } ]

[ { "contents": "Tony Adams\n\n\n\"I have some resentment over the way Glenn Hoddle gave the captaincy to Alan Shearer instead of me but I can let that go. I reacted positively. I disagreed with him [Hoddle] and he thought Alan could get more penalties being a centre forward. People know my reaction to that\". Adams continued to play for the national side, however and he finally appeared in a World Cup finals in 1998. His international swansong was England's unsuccessful Euro 2000 campaign. With Shearer retiring from international football after the tournament", "id": "6104102" }, { "contents": "Tony Adams\n\n\nin defence, and after the retirement of Gary Lineker in 1992, Adams unofficially shared the captaincy of England with David Platt, though Adams became England captain outright before Euro 96, as Platt's place in the side became less secure. England reached the semi-finals of Euro 96, before losing on penalties to Germany. When England manager Glenn Hoddle took the Captain's armband from Adams and gave it to Alan Shearer it was a bitter pill for Adams to swallow. Speaking at a fans' forum in 2008 Adams remarked", "id": "6104101" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nThis time, Germany won from the spot; although Shearer scored, his teammate Gareth Southgate missed his kick and England were eliminated. Shearer's five goals made him the competition's top scorer, and together with teammates David Seaman and Steve McManaman, was listed in the official UEFA team of the tournament. The new England manager Glenn Hoddle appointed Shearer captain for the 1998 FIFA World Cup qualifier against Moldova on 1 September 1996, and the player held onto the captaincy after scoring once in that match and twice in the following game", "id": "13592541" }, { "contents": "Dimitar Berbatov\n\n\nhe consequently modelled himself after Marco van Basten, the Dutch forward for that team. However, the 1996 European Championship, held in England, gave Berbatov a new role model; the 15-year-old Berbatov began to look up to the English front man Alan Shearer, who played for Newcastle United. Berbatov's mother later spoke of her son's teenage dream of playing for Newcastle United, and said that his admiration for Shearer was such that, during these years, he slept in a Newcastle shirt. Berbatov began his youth", "id": "3905446" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\n's participation in what was to be Shearer's only World Cup tournament. In September 1999, Shearer scored his only England hat-trick in a UEFA Euro 2000 qualifier against Luxembourg. This helped England reach a play-off against Scotland; England won the game over two legs and in doing so qualified for the European Championships. By now, Shearer was approaching his 30th birthday, and he announced that he intended to retire from international football after the Euro 2000 tournament. Shearer did not score in England's opening 3–2 defeat", "id": "13592544" }, { "contents": "Southampton F.C.\n\n\nwas Alan Shearer, who at the age of 17 scored a hat-trick against Arsenal in a league match in April 1988. Shearer was a first team regular by 1990, and stayed with Southampton until July 1992, when he was sold to Blackburn Rovers for a national record of more than £3 million. He then became the most expensive footballer in the world when Blackburn sold him to Newcastle for £15 million in 1996. He also scored 30 times for England internationally. Southampton were founding members of the Premier League", "id": "3265953" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\ntime to play in England's UEFA European Championship campaign. After Euro 96, Manchester United again sought to sign Shearer, and attempted to enter the battle for his signature. However Manchester United chairman Martin Edwards stated that Blackburn Rovers refused to let Shearer go to Old Trafford. Ultimately Shearer joined his boyhood club: Newcastle United, Manchester United's title rivals. On 30 July 1996, for a world transfer record-breaking £15 million (equivalent to £ million today) Shearer joined his hometown club and league runners-up", "id": "13592519" }, { "contents": "History of the England national football team\n\n\nyear after his last game at club level. Hoddle selected Alan Shearer as captain, replacing Tony Adams, but also brought a number of emerging talents into the squad, including the Manchester United midfield trio of Paul Scholes, Nicky Butt and David Beckham, and central defenders Rio Ferdinand and Sol Campbell. Hoddle oversaw England's qualification for the 1998 World Cup (the first World Cup with 32 teams instead of 24) with a 0–0 draw against Italy at the Stadio Olimpico in Rome, and drew out a winning performance in the", "id": "15089406" }, { "contents": "History of the England national football team\n\n\nthe underwhelming performance at the World Cup, England suffered a poor start to the Euro 2000 qualifying tournament, and there was reported discontent between Hoddle and several senior players, most notably Shearer. Hoddle was dismissed on 2 February 1999, two days after an interview with \"The Sunday Times\" in which he spoke about his belief in reincarnation and claimed that disabled people were paying for sins in a previous life. Under considerable media and public pressure, the FA appointed former captain Kevin Keegan, who only just managed to get England", "id": "15089410" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nagainst Poland. He scored a total of five goals in England's successful qualification campaign for the World Cup, adding strikes against Georgia and away to Poland to his tally. Shearer was sidelined for much of the 1997–98 season, but recovered to play in the World Cup finals. With Michael Owen replacing Teddy Sheringham as Shearer's strike partner, Shearer's return saw him score England's first goal of the tournament, in a 2–0 win over Tunisia, his only goal in the three group matches. England faced long-time", "id": "13592542" }, { "contents": "Newcastle United F.C.\n\n\n. The attacking philosophy of Keegan led to the team being labelled \"The Entertainers\" by Sky Sports. Keegan took Newcastle to two consecutive runners-up finishes in the league in 1995–96 and 1996–97, coming very close to winning the title in the former season. This success was in part due to the talent of players like David Ginola, Les Ferdinand and Alan Shearer, who was signed on 30 July 1996 for a then world record fee of £15 million. Keegan left Newcastle in January 1997 and was replaced by Kenny", "id": "12636363" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nAlan Shearer, CBE, DL (born 13 August 1970) is an English retired footballer. He played as a striker in the top level of English league football for Southampton, Blackburn Rovers, Newcastle United and the England national team. He is Newcastle's and the Premier League's record goalscorer. He was named Football Writers' Association Player of the Year in 1994 and won the PFA Player of the Year award in 1995. In 1996, he was third in the FIFA World Player of the Year awards. In 2004", "id": "13592501" }, { "contents": "Teddy Sheringham\n\n\nmanager Terry Venables (1994–96) Sheringham came to be the preferred strike partner for Alan Shearer. During this time, England had a wealth of strikers with the likes of Andrew Cole, Ian Wright, a young Robbie Fowler and Les Ferdinand all battling to partner Shearer in the England team. The two formed a famous partnership at international level, as they complemented each other's strengths: Shearer the out-and-out goalscorer, big, strong and powerful, Sheringham just 'dropping off' his strike partner, finding spaces", "id": "2997066" }, { "contents": "History of Newcastle United F.C.\n\n\n's title chances for the 1994–95 season, in which they finished sixth. The club, however, continued to build up a reputation for playing attacking football under Keegan. In the 1995–96 season, high-profile foreign stars David Ginola and Faustino Asprilla, in addition to British players Peter Beardsley and striker Les Ferdinand, guided the team to a second-place finish. During the 1996–97 season, Keegan made one signing, securing the services of England striker Alan Shearer for a then-world record transfer fee of £15 million", "id": "6803863" }, { "contents": "1996–97 Newcastle United F.C. season\n\n\n...I think Kevin wanted it free-flowing in all departments and that doesn't necessarily happen.\" Keegan responded to the previous season's disappointment by breaking the world record transfer fee to sign centre forward Alan Shearer from Blackburn Rovers for £15 million. Shearer, whose five goals made him the top scorer in Euro 96, had supported Newcastle since childhood – he had been a ball-boy at St James' Park on the day that Keegan had left in a helicopter after his final Newcastle appearance as a player.", "id": "1207050" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nin the games.\" Shearer captained his school team and helped a Newcastle City Schools team win a seven-a-side tournament at St James' Park, before joining the amateur Wallsend Boys Club as a teenager. It was while playing for the Wallsend club that he was spotted by Southampton's scout, Jack Hixon, which resulted in Shearer spending his summers training with the club's youth team, a time he would later refer to as \"the making of me\". Shearer had successful trials for First Division clubs", "id": "13592505" }, { "contents": "Duncan Shearer\n\n\nFavourites\" during the club's centenary in 2008. However, he was unable to prevent Huddersfield's relegation to the Third Division at the end of the 1987–88 season. Weeks before this, the unrelated English striker Alan Shearer (aged 17) had scored a hat-trick in the First Division for Southampton against Arsenal, a game which Arsenal captain Tony Adams missed through injury. In his autobiography 11 years later, Adams said that he had followed the progress of the game on Ceefax and mistakingly believed that the Shearer who scored", "id": "3716405" }, { "contents": "David Hirst (footballer)\n\n\nHe came on at half-time and within three minutes of the restart he scored his first (and only) England goal. With Gary Lineker injured, he lined up with Alan Shearer against France at Wembley. Bryan Robson said that, \"It's not a question of who will replace Lineker, but who will partner David Hirst\". It became Hirst's third and final England match. Although he was selected for more England squads, injuries kept him out of the team. Manchester United boss Alex Ferguson tried six", "id": "18892949" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nthrough to May due to injury and England's World Cup qualification chances were hit by a run of poor form. Returning to fitness for the 1993–94 season, he scored 31 goals from 40 games as Blackburn finished runners-up in the Premier League. His performances for the club led to him being named the Football Writers' Association Footballer of the Year for that season. On the international scene, England had failed to qualify for the 1994 World Cup finals, but Shearer added three more goals to his international tally before embarking", "id": "13592514" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nfive points out of a possible twenty-four. Shearer did not get the manager's job on permanent basis. Chris Hughton stepped up from the coaching staff to take charge of the quest to get Newcastle back into the Premier League, which was achieved at the first attempt as Newcastle finished top of the Championship in the 2009–10 season. Shearer is married to Lainya, whom he met whilst a Southampton player. The couple lived locally with her parents during Shearer's second year at the south coast club, and were married on", "id": "13592557" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nagainst Portugal, but did so as England defeated Germany 1–0 in Charleroi, ensuring that England beat their European neighbours for the first time since the 1966 World Cup Final. To remain in the tournament, England only required a draw against Romania in the final group match, and Shearer scored a penalty as England went in at half-time 2–1 up, but Romania ultimately won 3–2. England's tournament was over, and so was Shearer's international career. From his 63 caps, he captained the team 34 times and scored", "id": "13592545" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nrecord return which is still unbeaten. The striker's goals at this level, coupled with his club form, meant he was soon promoted to the senior squad by coach Graham Taylor. Marking his debut in the 2–0 win against France in February 1992 with a goal, he made his only appearance for the England B team a month later. Due to replace Gary Lineker, who retired from international action after UEFA Euro 1992, in the England attack, Shearer played only intermittently in the qualifying campaign for the 1994 FIFA World Cup", "id": "13592538" }, { "contents": "1993 Trans-Tasman Test series\n\n\n's Canberra Raiders team mate and New South Wales captain Laurie Daley. The test series took place following the 1993 State of Origin series which was won by NSW. Dale Shearer's performances at fullback for Qld saw him earn a test recall in front of well performed World Cup and NSW fullback Tim Brasher (though Shearer had been selected at centre for all 3 Ashes series tests in 1992 but withdrew from all 3 with injury). Bradley Clyde, who had not played in the Origin series due to injury was also recalled to", "id": "16616631" }, { "contents": "Glenn Hoddle\n\n\nRedknapp resigned, following which Hoddle also left the club. In June 2016, after England's 2–1 loss to Iceland at Euro 2016 and manager Roy Hodgson's subsequent resignation, Harry Redknapp and Alan Shearer both put forward Hoddle as a candidate for the job before Sam Allardyce was appointed. Hoddle has done punditry work since his retirement from coaching. He has worked for ESPN, ITV Sport and BT Sport. Hoddle began working with ESPN during Euro 2012 as a pundit. Since then, he has worked with ITV for the 2014", "id": "8847620" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nhim onto the pitch following the striker's testimonial in May 2006 as he performed a lap of honour at St James' Park. On 6 December 2000, Shearer was given Honorary Freedom of the City of Newcastle upon Tyne, with the citation \"in recognition of his role as captain of Newcastle United Football Club and as former captain of England which have enhanced the reputation of the City\". Shearer was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2001 Queen's Birthday Honours and Commander of the", "id": "13592559" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nhis four years in the Southampton first team, Shearer made a total of 158 appearances in all competitions, scoring 43 goals. Despite making just one goalless appearance as England failed to progress past the Euro 1992 group stages, Shearer was soon subject to an English transfer record-breaking £3.6 million bid from Blackburn Rovers. Although there was also interest from Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson, Blackburn benefactor Jack Walker's millions were enough to prise the striker from the \"Saints\", and Shearer moved north to Ewood Park in the", "id": "13592512" }, { "contents": "Andy Cole\n\n\nof the season to help United win the Premier League title for the third time in four years. He also played in their FA Cup final victory to become part of England's first ever side to win the double twice. Before the 1996–97 season began, Cole had to deal with being offered to Blackburn Rovers as part-exchange in a £12 million deal that would have brought Alan Shearer to Old Trafford, but the offer was rejected and Shearer joined Newcastle instead. Despite Alex Ferguson's clear indication to Cole that he", "id": "9629547" }, { "contents": "Shearer's Bar\n\n\nShearer's Bar is the former name of a sports bar owned by Newcastle United and forming part of St James' Park, the team's stadium in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. It was named in honour of the club's all-time top scorer, Alan Shearer. The bar was renamed Nine in July 2013 by the club, who said that popularity of the venue had \"dwindled\". The bar was opened in December 2004 and became an important part of the features at St James' Park. It is", "id": "15298144" }, { "contents": "Kevin Keegan\n\n\nrelationship between the pair. In April 2003, it was named as Quote of the Decade in the Premier League 10 Seasons Awards and Most Memorable Quote in the 20 Seasons Awards in May 2012. It also appeared in Channel 4's \"100 Greatest Sporting Moments\". Keegan then broke the world transfer fee record by signing Blackburn Rovers and England striker Alan Shearer in July 1996. Shearer, who had been the Premier League's top scorer in the last two seasons, was born in Newcastle and had grown up as a fan", "id": "826455" }, { "contents": "England national football team\n\n\nBetween 1994 and 1996, Terry Venables managed the team. At UEFA Euro 1996, held in England, they equalled their best performance at a European Championship, reaching the semi-finals as they did in 1968, before exiting via a penalty shoot-out loss to Germany. England striker Alan Shearer was the tournament's top scorer with five goals. Venables resigned following investigations into his financial activities. Venables' successor, Glenn Hoddle, similarly left the job for non-footballing reasons after just one international tournament – the 1998", "id": "9748695" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nmiddle of 1992. His first season with Blackburn was mixed – he missed half of it through injury after snapping his right anterior cruciate ligament in a match against Leeds United in December 1992, but scored a prolific 16 goals in the 21 games in which he did feature. Shearer also became a regular in the England team this season and scored his second international goal; it came in a 4–0 1994 FIFA World Cup qualifier win over Turkey in November. The season ended sourly, however, as Shearer was forced to miss January", "id": "13592513" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nover from head coach Chris Hughton who was in temporary charge while the permanent manager Joe Kinnear recovered from heart surgery, having taken ill on 7 February. Shearer stated \"It's a club I love and I don't want them to go down. I'll do everything I can to stop that.\" Shearer was unveiled at a press conference the following day by club managing director Derek Llambias. In explaining his acceptance of a managerial role at Newcastle at this time, Shearer stated that he would not have done this for", "id": "13592552" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nwas being run in the wake of the departure of Kevin Keegan. These reports were denied by the club. Shearer features in EA Sports' \"FIFA\" video game series; he was included in the \"FIFA 15\" Ultimate Team Legends. During his playing days, Shearer had been involved with the children's charity the NSPCC, taking part in the organisation's Full Stop campaign in 1999. Since retiring from football Shearer has also done work for several charities both nationally and in the Newcastle area. In his testimonial match", "id": "13592565" }, { "contents": "2005–06 Newcastle United F.C. season\n\n\n. The fee, £17 million, surpassed Newcastle's previous record of £15 million for Alan Shearer from Blackburn in 1996. In the closing hours of the transfer window, the club re-signed Nolberto Solano from Aston Villa. Souness's decision to pair Shearer and Owen together up front proved to be lethal, but Owen broke his fourth metatarsal bone in his foot after a clash with Paul Robinson in a match against Tottenham Hotspur, keeping him out for the rest of the season. With Owen injured the team's", "id": "18086094" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\ndue to injury and the team failed to reach the competition finals. UEFA Euro 1996 was a more positive experience for both Shearer and England. With England not required to qualify as hosts, Shearer had not scored in 12 games in the 21 months prior, and even his overall goalscoring record for England did not look too impressive so far, with five goals in 23 games. However, he found the net in the 22nd minute of the first game, against Switzerland. Scoring once in the following game against Scotland and twice", "id": "13592539" }, { "contents": "Teddy Sheringham\n\n\nthe 2000 European Championships by then manager Kevin Keegan, but the retirement of Shearer (despite being four years younger than Sheringham) from international football after that tournament and the arrival of new manager Sven-Göran Eriksson in 2001 saw a return to international favour for him. He was often deployed as a tactical substitute late in games by Eriksson, valued for his ability to hold the ball up and create intelligent play. In 2001, Sheringham scored an important goal for England against Greece in a World Cup qualifying match within 15 seconds", "id": "2997070" }, { "contents": "Ruud Gullit\n\n\n, chairman Ken Bates famously said of Gullit, \"I didn't like his arrogance – in fact I never liked him.\" In August 1998, Gullit was named manager of Newcastle United two games into the new league season and reached the 1999 FA Cup Final in his first year. Fans remained supportive despite a poor run of results, although a well-publicised contretemps with the team's top scorer Alan Shearer and captain Robert Lee did not put him in a favourable light. Gullit even refused to assign Lee a squad", "id": "13592616" }, { "contents": "Scott Parker\n\n\ndefeat on 25 March 2006. Later that month he was diagnosed with glandular fever, putting an end to his season. The timing was especially unfortunate for Parker, who had been playing well for Newcastle, as it ended any hopes he may have had of forcing his way into the 2006 FIFA World Cup. In July 2006, he was named Newcastle United's new captain by manager Glenn Roeder, succeeding the retired Alan Shearer. His first goal as captain came against Wigan Athletic on 19 August 2006, in a 2–1 win", "id": "14327157" }, { "contents": "History of football in England\n\n\n. United's main challengers for the title in the Premier League's first few years were Blackburn Rovers, led by star striker Alan Shearer, also won their first league title since World War I in 1994–95, and Newcastle United, who famously conceded a 10-point lead at Christmas to lose the title to United in 1995–96. Newcastle had reached the Premiership in 1993 as Division One champions, and in their first Premiership campaign finished third to qualify for the UEFA Cup. They finished second in 1996 and again in 1997, but by", "id": "3652862" }, { "contents": "1992–93 FA Premier League\n\n\nPremier League as an attempt by the Football Association to \"hijack\" the First Division. Shortly before the season began, newly promoted Blackburn Rovers signed Southampton's 21-year-old England international striker Alan Shearer for a new British record fee variously reported as £3.3 million, £3.4 million, or £3.6 million. Several other players moved for fees of £2 million or more, including Arsenal's David Rocastle, who joined Leeds United, Dean Saunders, who moved from Liverpool to Aston Villa, and Teddy Sheringham, who", "id": "12442383" }, { "contents": "Darren Anderton\n\n\nhappy at the prospect of losing another key player as he had already lost Jürgen Klinsmann and Gheorghe Popescu that summer; and Nick Barmby was on the verge of joining Middlesbrough. Despite missing most of the 1995–96 season through injury, Anderton played an important part in the Euro 96 England team that reached the semi-finals and included players like Paul Gascoigne, Alan Shearer, Steve McManaman and Teddy Sheringham. In the semi final against Germany, the match went to golden goal extra time. Anderton came within inches of putting England into", "id": "4331581" }, { "contents": "Wallsend Boys Club\n\n\nJanuary which damaged one of the walls of the building. Professional players to have played for the club include: The club has had a representative at four of the six FIFA World Cup finals since 1986, with the two exceptions coming in 1994, when the England national football team did not qualify, and 2002. In 1986 and 1990 Peter Beardsley starred for England. In 1998 Alan Shearer was England captain. Michael Carrick made appearances for England in both the 2006 and 2010 tournaments. Fraser Forster was in the 2014 squad but", "id": "21182372" }, { "contents": "Harry Kane\n\n\n\". Clive Allen, who coached him at Tottenham, stated that \"one thing I'd say about him, which unfortunately you don't say about a lot of young footballers, is that he had a passion for the game. He loves football, he loves playing, he loves scoring goals\". His former Tottenham under-21 coach Les Ferdinand likened Kane's movement to their former forward Teddy Sheringham, and the power and accuracy of his shots to Alan Shearer. Kane's style of play has been compared to that of", "id": "1925319" }, { "contents": "Kieron Dyer\n\n\nthat he would soon rejoin for Ipswich. After representing England at Youth, Under 21 and \"B\" level, Dyer's debut for the senior team came on 4 September 1999 when he started in England's 6–0 win against Luxembourg. He was deployed out of position at right back, and was replaced by Gary Neville at half-time after injuring himself while setting up Alan Shearer's third goal of the match. The injury was not serious and he was able to make his second England appearance four days later, coming", "id": "17666181" }, { "contents": "1996–97 Blackburn Rovers F.C. season\n\n\nthe end of the season, when he handed over the reins to Roy Hodgson after Sampdoria's Sven-Göran Eriksson lied about accepting the manager's job and joined Lazio instead. Parkes steered Blackburn to safety as they finished 13th. The world record £15 million sale of striker Alan Shearer to Newcastle United was seen as the biggest factor in Blackburn's lowest top flight finish since they returned to the elite in 1992. However, his strike-partner Chris Sutton helped keep the club alive after recovering from a drastic loss of", "id": "7811146" }, { "contents": "Michael Owen\n\n\nmuch of the campaign as England struggled, with Hoddle being replaced by Kevin Keegan. On 4 September 1999, he scored his first goal at Wembley Stadium in a 6–0 win over Luxembourg. At the finals, Owen scored once in three matches, as England were knocked out at the group stage. After Alan Shearer's retirement, Owen took over as England's senior striker under new manager Sven-Göran Eriksson. He scored six times during 2002 World Cup qualifying, including a hat-trick against Germany at Munich's Olympiastadion", "id": "21886807" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nyet to start the UEFA Pro Licence course, which is required to be permitted to manage a team in the Premier League and European competition. Reflecting his desire for personal time off to \"enjoy life\", in July 2006 he turned down a coaching role with England, citing his BBC commitments and desire to be away from the pressure of a job within football. Despite this, Shearer was often linked in the media with managerial or coaching positions at his three former clubs. Shearer took a brief role in the dugout for", "id": "13592550" }, { "contents": "History of Southampton F.C.\n\n\nappearances for the England national team – he finally retired in 2002 at the age of 33. During his time with the Saints, Le Tissier was approached more than once by several bigger clubs (including Manchester United) but chose to stick with the Saints despite never winning a major trophy or experiencing European football with them. From 1989 to 1992, Le Tissier was regularly partnered up front by another notable player, Alan Shearer, who as a 17-year-old had scored a hat-trick on his Saints debut against Arsenal in", "id": "15948278" }, { "contents": "Sir Bobby Robson Trophy match\n\n\nNewcastle United, picking up on Alan Shearer's reply of \"I know as much as you do,\" to a pre-match question as to whether he would be installed as Newcastle manager for the forthcoming season beginning in 13 days, with the club being up for sale and with the first team without a manager, being in the care of coach Chris Hughton. Neither the Newcastle United owner Mike Ashley or managing director Derek Llambias were in attendance at the charity match. Having left England after Italia '90, Sir", "id": "19612022" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nChancellor Liam Donaldson stated \"Newcastle United are my team. Alan Shearer is more than just a local legend, he's probably one of the greatest footballers of all time\". On 12 September 2016, a statue of Shearer's likeness was unveiled outside St James' Park. It was sculpted by Tom Maley, and paid for by the Shepherd family. After his retirement and following guest appearances, Shearer became a regular pundit for the BBC's \"Match of the Day\". He also formed part of the team which", "id": "13592563" }, { "contents": "Gary McAllister\n\n\ntournament, scoring in a 3–0 win over the CIS. However, Scotland did not qualify from their group. Scotland failed to qualify for the 1994 FIFA World Cup but did qualify for UEFA Euro 1996 in England, with McAllister the captain of the team. Scotland's second match of the group stage was against England at Wembley Stadium. In the second half Scotland, trailing 0–1 to an Alan Shearer goal, were awarded a penalty. McAllister's kick was saved by David Seaman and Scotland lost 0–2. The team won their", "id": "19492391" }, { "contents": "David Seaman\n\n\nEngland's quarter-final against Spain ended scoreless, Seaman saved Miguel Angel Nadal's kick in the shootout to knock Spain out of the tournament. England eventually were eliminated in the semi-final by Germany on penalties,after Andreas Köpke saved the penalty taken by Gareth Southgate. Seaman was named alongside Golden Boot winner Alan Shearer and winger Steve McManaman in the UEFA \"Team of the Tournament\". Euro 96 sponsor Philips named him \"Player of the Tournament\". Seaman remained first choice under the management of Glenn Hoddle for", "id": "7321893" }, { "contents": "1998 FA Cup Final\n\n\nand so has the mixture between the foreign and English players.\" Wenger reserved praise for the goalscorers Overmars (\"a world-class player\") and Anelka (\"Nicolas is very young. But you saw in the second half today what he can do\"), and felt the turning point in the match was Shearer's shot hitting the post. He sympathised with Newcastle, as did his captain, Adams who said afterwards: \"The team and their fans did everything they could out there, but it was", "id": "10844688" }, { "contents": "David McMahon (association footballer)\n\n\nabout the role of striker from watching England international Alan Shearer in training, but likened himself more to Newcastle's Scotland international Duncan Ferguson, \"because I am taller and like to battle for things in the air.\" Brian Kerr, then manager of Ireland under-17s, described McMahon as honest and hard-working, \"not the most skilful player, but will get goals\", but Darlington manager Gary Bennett believed there was more to his game: that he and strike partner John Williams both had enough skill to play a", "id": "5423888" }, { "contents": "Andy Carroll\n\n\nUEFA Euro 2012. He opened the scoring for England with a powerful header in their second group match against Sweden, which England went on to win 3–2. Carroll has been compared to Newcastle's record goalscorer Alan Shearer, Ivory Coast striker Didier Drogba and former Italy forward Christian Vieri. He has also been referred to as a classic centre forward, owing to his strength, powerful shot and excellent heading ability. Former Newcastle manager and Liverpool player Kevin Keegan stated \"he is probably in the top three headers of a ball I", "id": "11961542" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\n-chasing Manchester United. On the opening day of the 1999–2000 season, Shearer received the first red card of his career in his 100th appearance for Newcastle. After dropping Shearer to the bench in a Tyne-Wear derby loss against Sunderland, the unpopular Gullit resigned to be replaced by the 66-year-old Bobby Robson. Despite Gullit giving Shearer the captain's armband, reports of a rift between club captain and manager were rife, Gullit's decision to drop Shearer proved deeply unpopular with fans and his departure capped a dismal start", "id": "13592525" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nAn almost injury-free season helped Shearer improve on his previous year's tally in the 1998–99 season, the striker converting 14 goals in 30 league games and replacing Rob Lee as Newcastle captain, but Newcastle finished 13th again, with Ruud Gullit having replaced Kenny Dalglish just after the season got underway. He also helped Newcastle to a second consecutive FA Cup final and qualification for the following season's UEFA Cup, scoring twice in the semi-final against Tottenham Hotspur, but they once again lost, this time 2–0 to treble", "id": "13592524" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nhis final three games under Glenn Roeder. Shearer had rejected offers of coaching or assistant roles at Newcastle under both the returning Kevin Keegan in February 2008 and Joe Kinnear in November 2008. Shearer had previously had talks about, but never been offered, a full-time manager's role at Newcastle until his appointment on 1 April 2009. In a surprise move, late on 1 April 2009, it was announced that Shearer would become the manager of his former club Newcastle United for the remaining eight games of the season, taking", "id": "13592551" }, { "contents": "Fabio Cannavaro\n\n\nnational team on 22 January 1997, in a friendly match against Northern Ireland. The same year, he earned plaudits for his handling of England striker Alan Shearer in a World Cup qualifying game at Wembley Stadium. Shearer was then considered by the partisan English crowd to be the best striker in the world, and thought he would make fun of the inexperienced Italian defender. Nevertheless, in a display ranking alongside those of the very best Italian defenders Claudio Gentile and Franco Baresi, Cannavaro managed to keep Shearer quiet for the whole game", "id": "3625067" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\n, with media sources claiming that video footage showed him intentionally kicking Neil Lennon in the head following a challenge. The referee of the game took no action against Shearer, and he was then cleared of all charges by the FA, with Lennon giving evidence in the player's defence. Former Football Association chief Graham Kelly, who brought the charges against the player, later claimed in his autobiography that Shearer had threatened to withdraw himself from the 1998 World Cup squad if the charges were upheld, a claim strenuously denied by Shearer.", "id": "13592523" }, { "contents": "History of the Romania national football team\n\n\nminnows Tunisia. Adrian Ilie scored the only goal with a fine chip in their first match against Colombia at Lyon's Stade Gerland. In Toulouse, they met an England side starting with prodigal striker Michael Owen on the bench, with Teddy Sheringham preferred alongside Alan Shearer. A mistake by Tony Adams was punished by Viorel Moldovan, who played for Coventry City, before Owen came on to claim an equalizer. But Romania won with a scrappy late goal from Dan Petrescu, also playing in England with Chelsea, fighting off his club", "id": "16435718" }, { "contents": "John Barnes (footballer)\n\n\nNewcastle United, although an approach had already been made by Harry Redknapp of West Ham; Barnes had agreed in principle to join them until at the final moment Dalglish called him and Barnes changed his mind. In the 1997–98 season Barnes played up front mostly, deputising for Alan Shearer after Shearer was injured for most of the season, and Barnes ended up Newcastle's top league scorer with six goals, which highlighted the Magpies' lack of ability to score in the absence of Shearer and Ferdinand (who had been sold along with", "id": "19616669" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\ncould not find a more iconic person than Alan, not just for what he has done in football but for all the extra work he tirelessly does for charity and communities. I am delighted he has accepted the role of Deputy Lieutenant because he is a real role model. I have promised him he is not going to have to do too much, but even if it is just one occasion a year he is the perfect choice\" On 7 December 2009, Shearer was made a Doctor of Civil Law by Newcastle University.", "id": "13592562" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nLaw of Northumbria and Newcastle Universities. Shearer was born in Gosforth, Newcastle, in 1970 to working-class parents Alan and Anne Shearer. His father, a sheet-metal worker, encouraged a keen Shearer to play football in his youth, and the young player continued with the sport as he progressed through school. He was educated at Gosforth Central Middle School and Gosforth High School. Growing up playing on the streets of his hometown, he originally played in midfield because \"it meant [he] could get more involved", "id": "13592504" }, { "contents": "Paul Kitson\n\n\n. Newcastle finished second that season after being overhauled in the second half campaign by a Manchester United side who sealed the title by a five-point margin barely four months after Newcastle had led by 10 points, but Kitson's part in Newcastle's exciting though ultimately disappointing campaign had been minimal as he had played just seven league games and scored twice. But he remained loyal to the Magpies even after another blow at the end of July 1996 – the arrival of £15 million world record signing Alan Shearer. He managed three", "id": "19054464" }, { "contents": "Ray Harford\n\n\nthe Premier League for much of the season. During the summer of 1996, Alan Shearer was sold to Newcastle United for a then world record fee of £15 million, and Harford failed to adequately replace him. Harford stated that \"I'm told we need a big name. Engelbert Humperdinck is a big name but it doesn't mean he can play football.\" The 1996–97 season also started badly for Blackburn. They failed to win any of their first ten games and were knocked out of the League Cup by Division", "id": "5365351" }, { "contents": "Patrick Kluivert\n\n\nagain featured for Barca in a legends game against Uganda all stars where he, in lobbing the ball, scored an amazing goal. Kluivert joined Newcastle United on a free transfer in July 2004. He stated that his reasons for joining Newcastle was due to the overwhelming reaction he received whilst playing for Barcelona against Newcastle during a pre season friendly as well as teaming up with Newcastle's star players such as Alan Shearer. Kluivert scored some classy and crucial goals at and away from St James's Park namely in winning strikes against both", "id": "21654890" }, { "contents": "Duncan Shearer\n\n\nbetween 1994 and 1995, scoring two goals including an important opening strike in an away win over Finland which helped the national side qualify for Euro 96, although Shearer did not make the squad for that tournament. The senior team was his first experience of international football, having never played at any age-group level. He achieved a childhood ambition when he played in the national team alongside John McGinlay, a childhood friend also from Fort William. In season 1999–00 he began to concentrate more on coaching than playing, and was", "id": "3716411" }, { "contents": "Les Ferdinand\n\n\nscored 50 goals in only 84 games at Newcastle, forming a successful partnership with Alan Shearer. He was and indeed is still very highly thought of by Newcastle United. Ferdinand received a standing ovation when he returned to St. James' Park as a Tottenham player, trying to put Alan Shearer's number 9 shirt on to complete a lap of honour, he broke down in tears and could only manage to put the shirt on inside out and back to front before being helped from the field. Ferdinand returned again, when he", "id": "2996528" }, { "contents": "David Platt (footballer)\n\n\nTurkey, San Marino, the Netherlands and Norway. The qualifiers began at home to Norway. England dominated the game and Platt carried the goal threat, with Alan Shearer and Ian Wright struggling to find form. He scored the opening goal after an hour. England dominated the remainder of the game and were unlucky to concede to a long-range shot from Kjetil Rekdal. Platt continued his drive from midfield in wins over Turkey at home (4-0) and San Marino (6-0). Platt scored four", "id": "16718350" }, { "contents": "Jason Wilcox\n\n\n-pound investments of Jack Walker. He played an important part in the title-winning Blackburn team of 1995. Playing on the left flank with attacking fullback Graeme Le Saux behind him and Stuart Ripley on the opposite flank, they forged a strong attacking line-up with Alan Shearer and Chris Sutton. International recognition was harder to come by for Wilcox and he managed only 3 international caps despite his effective partnership with Shearer, Le Saux and Tim Sherwood. Lengthy injury problems restricted his effectiveness in subsequent seasons and, after experiencing", "id": "14527253" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nclub's form, and Newcastle finished just 13th in the Premier League. However, United (now managed by Shearer's old boss at Blackburn, Kenny Dalglish) had a good run in the FA Cup; Shearer scored the winning goal in a semi-final victory over Sheffield United as the team reached the final. The team were unable to get on the scoresheet at Wembley, and lost the game 2–0 to Arsenal. An incident during a game against Leicester City in the league saw Shearer charged with misconduct by the FA", "id": "13592522" }, { "contents": "Aleksandar Mitrović (footballer)\n\n\nhim the competition's top scorer, and 28 in all competitions. On 22 March 2015, he scored the team's only goal in the 2–1 Belgian Cup Final loss to Club Brugge KV in Brussels. On 21 July 2015, Mitrović joined Newcastle United on a five-year contract for a reported £13 million, saying he hoped to be able to play like club legend Alan Shearer. He made his debut on 9 August as Newcastle began the season with a 2–2 draw against Southampton at St James' Park, playing", "id": "20923735" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nWest Bromwich Albion, Manchester City and Newcastle United, before being offered a youth contract with Southampton in April 1986. Shearer was promoted to the first team after spending two years with the youth squad. He made his professional debut for Southampton on 26 March 1988, coming on as a substitute in a First Division fixture at Chelsea, before prompting national headlines in his full debut at The Dell two weeks later. He scored a hat-trick, helping the team to a 4–2 victory against Arsenal, thus becoming the youngest player", "id": "13592506" }, { "contents": "James Milner\n\n\ndo what was \"in the club's best interest\" and in July 2004, he agreed a five-year contract with Newcastle. Milner made his first appearance for Newcastle United during their pre-season tour of Asia, scoring his first goal for the club in a 1–1 draw against Kitchee, in Hong Kong. During this tour, he took the opportunity to observe how Newcastle striker Alan Shearer dealt with attention from fans and the media. He said that his association with people like Shearer gave him a better idea of", "id": "1860603" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nretain the ball and provide opportunities for teammates. Playing as a lone striker between wide men, Rod Wallace and Matt Le Tissier, Shearer scored three goals in 26 appearances in the 1989–90 season, and in the next, four goals in 36 games. His performances in the centre of the \"Saints\" attack were soon recognised by the fans, who voted him their Player of the Year for 1991. In the middle of 1991, Shearer was a member of the England national under-21 football squad in the Toulon Tournament in Toulon", "id": "13592508" }, { "contents": "Teddy Sheringham\n\n\n, creating play and providing key passes, forming the link between Shearer and the England midfield. The pairing came to be known as 'The SAS' ('Shearer and Sheringham') and their most successful time together came in the 1996 European Championships, held in England. Their most famous contribution was in the 4–1 victory over the Netherlands, a game in the opening group stages in which they both scored twice against one of the strongest teams in the tournament. Though England were eventually knocked out in the semi-finals", "id": "2997067" }, { "contents": "History of the England national football team\n\n\ninto Euro 2000 after a 2–1 aggregate playoff win over Scotland. At the finals in Belgium and the Netherlands, a lacklustre England failed to get beyond the group stage, losing to both Portugal and Romania after leading in each game. After England's exit, Alan Shearer retired from international football, he had announced his intentions before the tournament, and no-one could persuade him to change his mind. On 7 October 2000, shortly after losing the opening World Cup qualifier to Germany in the last-ever game at Wembley", "id": "15089411" }, { "contents": "Premier League 10 Seasons Awards\n\n\nrepresented, with five players. The teams were as follows: English striker Alan Shearer was named Domestic Player of the Decade in the main 10 Seasons awards announcements, in addition to being given the Outstanding Contribution to the FA Premier League award. Two weeks later he was also named as the Overall Player of the Decade. In the first decade, Shearer played for Blackburn Rovers, and then Newcastle United. Shearer has been described as a classic English centre-forward with great shooting power, a single-minded striker who could", "id": "11856460" }, { "contents": "Wartime League\n\n\narguments debate that a player who exceeds one's record through their wartime matches should nonetheless be seen as the club's highest goal scorer or appearance having been part of the team's squad even if only for a short time. The most recent argument relates to the goal-difference between Jackie Milburn's and Alan Shearer's Newcastle United goal-scoring records. When counting Jackie's wartime matches, he scored a total of 238 professional goals for Newcastle United FC. In May 2005, Alan Shearer finished his career at 206 goals", "id": "17626256" }, { "contents": "Jon Dahl Tomasson\n\n\nas the perfect link-up player to England national team striker Alan Shearer. The partnership initially worked well, with Tomasson impressing during a pre-season friendly tournament in the Republic of Ireland. However, a career threatening injury to Shearer, combined with the controversial transfer of popular striker Les Ferdinand to Tottenham Hotspur, meant that Tomasson was moved from his traditional attacking midfield position to that of striker. He struggled to adapt to his new position on the field, and to the English game, due to his lack of physical", "id": "19324628" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\ncovered the World Cups and European Championships from 2006 onwards for the BBC. Former Newcastle chairman Freddy Shepherd announced that, after Shearer finished the 2005–06 season as Newcastle's caretaker assistant manager, he would become the club's \"Sporting Ambassador\" for the 2006–07 season. However, in September 2008, it was reported that Shearer was removed from this largely honorary position by the club's owner Mike Ashley, despite protests from players such as Steven Taylor and Damien Duff, due to Shearer's criticism of the way in which the club", "id": "13592564" }, { "contents": "1998 FA Cup Final\n\n\nthe final that Bergkamp had resumed training and \"medically he looked all right\", but the player received a further setback when he suffered a reaction to his hamstring. He ruled himself out of the match and told reporters: \"I'm very disappointed. As a little boy in Holland I always watched the FA Cup final. And I used to dream about playing in it myself one day.\" Ian Wright was listed as Bergkamp's probable replacement to partner Anelka. Newcastle had their own issues surrounding Shearer. The England", "id": "10844676" }, { "contents": "2008–09 in English football\n\n\n's surprise resignation in December; whilst their final points tally wasn't spectacular, they had the satisfaction of being the top North-East team in football after both Middlesbrough and Newcastle United were relegated, ending 11 and 16 year spells in the top flight respectively, the latter going through four managers in Kevin Keegan, Joe Kinnear, Chris Hughton and even former striker Alan Shearer during the campaign. Despite a brilliant start to the season which saw them as high as third place in October, Hull City won just 1 of their", "id": "1311754" }, { "contents": "1996 FA Charity Shield\n\n\nfrom Eric Cantona, Nicky Butt, David Beckham and Roy Keane. The game saw new signings Jordi Cruyff and Karel Poborský make their debuts for Manchester United, though neither of these players had particularly successful careers at Old Trafford and both had left the club within four years. The day before the game had seen the surprise sale of one of Manchester United's longest serving players — Lee Sharpe. The game saw Newcastle United give a debut to £15 million world record signing Alan Shearer, who would remain at the club until", "id": "2797098" }, { "contents": "UEFA Euro 2016 knockout phase\n\n\nsection begin=g6 /section end=g6 / section begin=g7 /section end=g7 / The match has been described as one of England's worst defeats ever. Former footballer and Talksport presenter Stan Collymore, who was commentating on the game, panned the England team, reserving special criticism for goalkeeper Joe Hart and captain Wayne Rooney. Former England international and BBC Sport pundit Alan Shearer described it as the worst performance he had ever seen from an England team. The defeat was called England's most shocking since losing 1–0 to", "id": "11344909" }, { "contents": "Maurice E. Shearer\n\n\nApplication at Annapolis, Maryland, with classmates Holland Smith, Ralph S. Keyser and Andrew B. Drum. In July, Shearer sailed for duty to be the commander of the 35 man Marine detachment on Midway Island. In May 1908, he was selected for promotion to first lieutenant and to the rank of captain in June 1916. During World War I, forces under Major Shearer's command made an attack on Belleau Wood, finally clearing that forest of Germans. On 26 June 1918, he sent a now famous report: \"", "id": "8315540" }, { "contents": "Newcastle upon Tyne\n\n\nF.C. became Football League members in 1893. They have won four top division titles (the first in 1905 and the most recent in 1927), six FA Cups (the first in 1910 and the most recent in 1955) and the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup in 1969. They broke the world transfer record in 1996 by paying £15 million for Blackburn Rovers and England striker Alan Shearer, one of the most prolific goalscorers of that era. In 2017 Newcastle was the venue for the 2017 Freedom City festival. The 2017", "id": "20529704" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\ngame and came off the bench to score a penalty, helping Newcastle win the game 3–2. The match was a sell-out, and saw Shearer perform a lap of honour at the end with his family, with his young son notably covering his ears due to the volume of noise produced by the crowd in tribute. Shearer's international career began in 1990 when he was handed a callup to the England under-21 squad under Dave Sexton. During his time with the squad, he scored 13 times in 11 games, a", "id": "13592537" }, { "contents": "2011–12 Cardiff City F.C. season\n\n\nserving manager in the Championship having held his post since May 2005. The club held talks with former England and Newcastle United captain Alan Shearer to replace Jones but he rejected the job despite stating that he was impressed with the \"vision, ambition and determination of the owner Dato Chan Tien Ghee and the board\". The \"Bluebirds\" instead approached Championship rivals Watford for permission to speak to their manager Malky Mackay, which was initially rejected. However, after the two clubs agreed a compensation fee, Mackay was officially appointed as", "id": "7599659" }, { "contents": "Kevin Keegan\n\n\nto Michael Owen, stating, \"He's not scared to give his opinion when he's right, and he's not scared to say what he feels. He's a tremendous professional, and he trains properly every day.\" Keegan announced on 22 January that he and Alan Shearer held talks about the two linking up with Shearer as his assistant, but decided against the idea, leaving the door open for him to take other roles he was interested in. Keegan's first eight games back at Newcastle passed without a", "id": "826473" }, { "contents": "Transfer (association football)\n\n\n£3.6 million Alan Shearer moved to Blackburn Rovers from Southampton, a decade after the world's first £3 million transfer. Lentini's transfer remained intact the world record fee for the next four years, although the national record was broken more than once in many countries including England. Shearer's £3.6million record fee was narrowly eclipsed 12 months later when Manchester United signed Roy Keane from Nottingham Forest for £3.75 million. In 1994, Blackburn Rovers paid a record £5 million for Chris Sutton from Norwich City, a decade", "id": "11200095" }, { "contents": "Roy Hodgson\n\n\nagainst Costa Rica to finish bottom of Group D. Hodgson named Rooney as the new captain of England in August 2014, following the retirement of Steven Gerrard from international football. Hodgson's first match after the World Cup was a 1–0 win against Norway in an international friendly match at Wembley on 3 September 2014. During the match, England made only two shots on target. Hodgson was infuriated when asked about this, describing the statistic as \"fucking bollocks\". Former England player, Alan Shearer, admitted that the match was so", "id": "12858624" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nto the season. The animosity between Shearer and Gullit was later confirmed by the latter, who reported telling the striker that he was \"...the most overrated player I have ever seen.\" Ironically, Robson had tried to sign Shearer for Barcelona in 1997, making a bid of £20million which would have seen Shearer break the world's transfer fee record for the second time in 12 months. However, then Newcastle manager Kenny Dalglish rejected the offer. In Robson's first match in charge, Shearer scored five goals in", "id": "13592526" }, { "contents": "Premier League 10 Seasons Awards\n\n\nin his talks with Alex Ferguson, he could not guarantee that Eric Cantona the Overseas Player of the Decade could be persuaded to let Shearer take penalty kicks. Shearer gained a second PFA Players' Player of the Year Award in April 1997, becoming just the second player to have received the PFA award twice, after Mark Hughes. After the 2000 European Championships, Shearer had retired from international football with England, having been England captain since 1998, and having made his senior début in 1992. Shearer was awarded the OBE in", "id": "11856465" }, { "contents": "Emile Heskey\n\n\nthe two matches, with former England international Alan Shearer commenting, \"Never in a million years did I expect to be discussing whether Emile Heskey should keep his place ahead of Wayne Rooney but the Wigan striker was outstanding over both matches.\" Heskey was called into manager Fabio Capello's first squad against Switzerland, but had to withdraw due to an injury. He was called into the squad for a friendly against the Czech Republic in August 2008 and came on as a 46th-minute substitute, in a match that finished 2–2", "id": "174986" }, { "contents": "Habib Beye\n\n\nUEFA Cup Final, a run which involved him putting in a star performance as a central defender against (his now former team) Newcastle United, where he was particularly effective against Newcastle's talisman striker Alan Shearer. He ended up on the losing side as Marseille lost the final to Valencia 2–0. He was also a beaten finalist in the 2006 French Cup against former club Paris Saint-Germain, a match which his team lost 2–1, and again in 2007 when his Marseille team lost on penalties to FC Sochaux. His", "id": "16217445" }, { "contents": "Stan Collymore\n\n\nseason in the Premier League, Collymore was called up to Terry Venables' England squad for the Umbro Cup in June 1995. He made his début at Wembley Stadium against Japan, partnering Alan Shearer in a 2–1 win. He won his second cap as a 90th minute substitute against Brazil. Collymore made his third and final appearance for England as a substitute in a 4–0 win over Moldova during qualification for the 1998 FIFA World Cup. Collymore contributed to his biography \"Stan: Tackling my demons\" with Oliver Holt. In 2005", "id": "3955590" }, { "contents": "Graeme Souness\n\n\nAt £8.2 million, Boumsong was his first big signing and Souness said he would replace Jonathan Woodgate in the Newcastle defence, which had conceded several leads earlier in the season. Newcastle were well aware of Boumsong prior to his move from Auxerre to Rangers on a free transfer. Robson had travelled to France to watch him, but he declined the opportunity to sign Boumsong. Liverpool were also interested in signing Boumsong. Robson's doubts were confirmed when Boumsong marked Alan Shearer in a pre-season game against Rangers. Shearer came", "id": "18029254" }, { "contents": "Saido Berahino\n\n\nrate of a goal every other match, including three to help the team qualify for the European Championship. Berahino has the all-time third-highest goal tally for the England under-21 side with 10 goals in 13 appearances, behind Francis Jeffers and Alan Shearer. On 6 November 2014, England manager Roy Hodgson – who promoted Berahino to the West Bromwich Albion first team in 2011 – named Berahino in his squad for the first time, ahead of a UEFA Euro 2016 qualifying match against Slovenia at Wembley Stadium on the 15th and", "id": "1000466" } ]

[ { "contents": "1946–47 Holy Cross Crusaders men's basketball team\n\n\nThe 1946–47 Holy Cross Crusaders men's basketball team represented The College of the Holy Cross in NCAA competition in the 1946–47 season. The Crusaders, behind coach Alvin \"Doggie\" Julian, NCAA tournament MVP George Kaftan, star Joe Mullaney and a freshman point guard named Bob Cousy, beat Oklahoma at Madison Square Garden to win the NCAA championship. The team entered the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament as the last seed in the 8-team tournament. In the first match, Holy Cross defeated the United States Naval Academy in front", "id": "16327790" }, { "contents": "History of the FIBA Basketball World Cup\n\n\nand South America) and the Eurobasket tournament. Host Argentina also was given a spot in the tournament. This tournament would be the last to feature Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union, and both made the most of it, meeting in the gold medal match. Led by Croatian Dražen Petrović and Serbian Vlade Divac, the golden generation of Yugoslav basketball played together for the last time in a major international tournament at the World Championship. The team won the gold medal, beating the Soviet Union 92–75, a fitting end for a country", "id": "16971900" }, { "contents": "2008 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament\n\n\n. Some key defensive stands and free throws by the Volunteers, however, pulled them ahead. They will play third seed Louisville, who beat sixth seed Oklahoma, 78–48. Sooner star Blake Griffin had trouble scoring against Louisville's double-teams, and Louisville's 30-point win was the school's best tournament win since 1968. Top-seeded North Carolina defeated fourth seeded Washington State 68–47. Washington State was held to 47 points, the least allowed by a Tar Heel team in the tournament since 1946. Tyler Hansbrough struggled in", "id": "257047" }, { "contents": "Stadion Maksimir\n\n\nthe UEFA Euro 1976 final tournament was held in SFR Yugoslavia, Maksimir hosted the Netherlands v. Czechoslovakia semi-final match and the Netherlands v. Yugoslavia third place match. Maksimir was the central venue for the 1987 Summer Universiade hosted by the city of Zagreb. In 1990, several events happened at Maksimir. On 13 May, the Dinamo Zagreb–Red Star Belgrade riot took place, an infamous riot involving Dinamo Zagreb and Red Star Belgrade supporters. The last match of the Yugoslavia national football team was hosted at Maksimir on 3 June", "id": "4003773" }, { "contents": "2018–19 Euroleague Basketball Next Generation Tournament\n\n\nThe 2018–19 Euroleague Basketball Next Generation Tournament, also called Adidas Next Generation Tournament by sponsorship reasons, is the 17th edition of the international junior basketball tournament organized by the Euroleague Basketball Company. As in past years, 32 teams joined the first stage, which are played in four qualifying tournaments between December 2018 and February 2019. The Valencia Tournament was played between 28 and 30 December 2018. The Munich Tournament was played between 25 and 27 January 2019. The Kaunas Tournament was played between 8 and 10 February 2019. The Belgrade Tournament", "id": "16723395" }, { "contents": "Cyprus national basketball team\n\n\nThe Cypriot national basketball team is the national basketball team of Cyprus. It is run by the Cyprus Basketball Federation. It is affiliated to FIBA, in the FIBA Europe zone. The team participates at international and European tournaments. The only international tournament it took a part of in 2005, was the World University Games, where it finished 26th out of 30 participating nations. Cyprus national basketball team was a two-time Promotion Cup finalist (1990, 1994). The team's results have improved considerably in recent years.", "id": "8796375" }, { "contents": "Major achievements in basketball by nation\n\n\nThis article contains lists of achievements in major senior-level international basketball, 3x3 basketball and wheelchair basketball tournaments according to first-place, second-place and third-place results obtained by teams representing different nations. The objective is not to create combined medal tables; the focus is on listing the best positions achieved by teams in major international tournaments, ranking the nations according to the most number of podiums accomplished by teams of these nations. For the making of these lists, results from following major international tournaments were consulted:", "id": "2567479" }, { "contents": "2012–13 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team\n\n\n's first game of the tournament, a November 12 contest against the IUPUI Jaguars, resulted in a 91–54 Michigan victory. The win also gave Michigan its first consecutive 90-point performances since the 2000–01 team recorded three consecutive 90-point games. The following night, Michigan defeated Cleveland State by a 77–47 margin, marking the first time the school opened the season with three consecutive 30-point victories. The win also marked the first time Michigan had posted three consecutive 30-point wins since the 1988–89 Wolverines team (the 1989 national champion) won five consecutive 30-point", "id": "6800052" }, { "contents": "Holy Cross Crusaders men's basketball\n\n\nMVP George Kaftan, star Joe Mullaney and freshman point guard Bob Cousy, beat Oklahoma at Madison Square Garden to win the NCAA championship. The team entered the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament as the last seed in the 8-team tournament. Along with UConn, Holy Cross is one of the two New England colleges to ever win the NCAA tournament. In the first match, Holy Cross defeated the Navy 55 to 47, in front of a sold-out crowd at Madison Square Garden. Mullaney led the team in scoring", "id": "10994201" }, { "contents": "1990 Yugoslavia v Netherlands football match\n\n\nbetween the Croatian club Dinamo Zagreb and the Serbian club Red Star Belgrade. Croatian midfielder Zvonimir Boban kicked the policeman Refik Ahmetović and as a result got suspended by the Football Association of Yugoslavia (FSJ) for six months, causing him to miss the FIFA World Cup 1990 as well as the pre-tournament preparation friendlies. The exhibition versus the Netherlands took place on June 3 and was the last exhibition before the FIFA World Cup 1990. The crowd of 20,000 booed the Yugoslav national anthem Hey, Slavs. Fans cheered for the", "id": "6847604" }, { "contents": "2010 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament\n\n\n15–12 at one time, they missed 15 of their next sixteen shots while St. John's pulled out to a sixteen-point halftime lead. The two teams played roughly evenly the second half, but the halftime lead was more than enough and the Red Storm prevailed 65–47. Fourteenth seeded Louisiana Tech (La Tech) was returning to the NCAA Tournament after a three-year absence. Under Maggie Dixon award winning new coach Teresa Weatherspoon, the Lady Techsters took on third seeded Florida State. La tech started out strong, pulling", "id": "4677425" }, { "contents": "NCAA Season 92 basketball tournaments\n\n\nThe 2016 basketball tournaments of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (Philippines), otherwise known as NCAA Season 92, officially opened on June 25, 2016 at the Mall of Asia Arena, Pasay City. The showdown between season hosts San Beda Red Lions and season 91 men's basketball champions Letran Knights will be the first game, while JRU Heavy Bombers will face Mapua Cardinals in the second game. The games of the seniors basketball will be played on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays, while the junior games will be conducted every Mondays", "id": "21935372" }, { "contents": "Basketball in Greece\n\n\ninternational club tournaments in Europe, the predecessors of the EuroLeague that were then held instead of the EuroLeague tournament. The club advanced to the final of the 1954 San Remo Tournament, which they lost 81–74 to the Italian League club Olimpia Milano. Panellinios then won the 1955 Brussels Tournament, by defeating the Yugoslav League club Crvena Zvezda (Red Star Belgrade) in the final, by a score of 91–67. Panellinios also won the 1956 San Remo Tournament, by defeating the Italian League club Virtus Bologna, by a score of 67–37", "id": "9979930" }, { "contents": "1986 Acropolis International Basketball Tournament\n\n\nThe Acropolis International Tournament 1986 was the first edition of the Acropolis International Basketball Tournament. It was held from June 18 to June 20, 1986, at the SEF arena in Piraeus, Athens, Greece. The participating teams were the hosts, Greece, as well as Italy, Yugoslavia, and the Netherlands. The tournament featured famous international basketball players such as Dražen Petrović, Fanis Christodoulou, Nikos Galis, Antonello Riva, Vlade Divac, Rik Smits, Walter Magnifico, Stojko Vranković, Pierluigi Marzorati, and Panagiotis Giannakis. First", "id": "6981420" }, { "contents": "Bogdan Bogdanović (basketball)\n\n\ninternational basketball website Eurobasket.com. Bogdanović began playing organized basketball with ŠKK Zvezdara, a club in Belgrade. In April 2008, he moved on to KK Žitko Basket (then known as Alimenti Basket), also from Belgrade. Playing with Žitko Basket under coach Dragan Jakovljević, Bogdanović was part of the team that in April 2010 earned third place in the 2009–10 Serbian junior league at the final eight tournament in Vršac, after beating Partizan juniors in the quarterfinal, losing 89-86 to Hemofarm juniors in the semifinal and beating FMP junior", "id": "10194119" }, { "contents": "UAAP Season 49 men's basketball tournament\n\n\nThe 1986 UAAP men's basketball tournament was the 49th year of the men's tournament of the University Athletic Association of the Philippines (UAAP)'s basketball championship. Hosted by National University, the UP Fighting Maroons defeated the UE Red Warriors in the finals taking their first UAAP men's basketball championship in 47 years. Prior to the start of the season, De La Salle University was admitted as the eighth member school of the league. Tournament format: Number 1 seed UE only has to win once, while number 2 seed", "id": "21089230" }, { "contents": "1946–47 Houston Cougars men's basketball team\n\n\nThe 1946–47 Houston Cougars men's basketball team represented the University of Houston in the college basketball 1946–47 season. It was their second year of season play. The head coach for the Cougars was Alden Pasche, who was serving in his 2nd year in that position. The team played its home games at Jeppesen Gymnasium on-campus in Houston and were members of the Lone Star Conference. Houston captured its second conference regular season title, and competed in the postseason in the 1947 NAIA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament where they were", "id": "15588356" }, { "contents": "Australia men's national wheelchair basketball team\n\n\nThe Australia men's national wheelchair basketball team is the men's wheelchair basketball side that represents Australia in international competitions. The team is known as the Rollers. Australia took the gold medal at the 1996 Atlanta Paralympic Games and 2008 Beijing Paralympic Games. Australia has competed at every men's wheelchair basketball tournament at the Paralympic Games except 1964. Kevin Coombs was Australia's first captain of the men's wheelchair basketball team. The Rollers qualified for the 2016 Summer Paralympics by winning the 2015 Asia Oceania Qualifying Tournament and finished sixth. Results", "id": "15021027" }, { "contents": "Basketball at the Summer Olympics\n\n\ntournaments in which they competed, including six in a row from 1996 to 2016. Besides the United States, Argentina is the only nation still in existence who has won either the men's or women's tournament. The Soviet Union, Yugoslavia and the Unified Team are the countries no longer in existence who have won the tournament. The United States are the defending champions in both men's and women's tournaments. On June 9, 2017, the Executive Board of the International Olympic Committee announced that 3x3 basketball would become an", "id": "14854512" }, { "contents": "1946–47 BAA season\n\n\nThe 1946–47 BAA season was the inaugural season of the Basketball Association of America. (Following its third, the 1948–49 season, the BAA and National Basketball League merged to create the National Basketball Association or NBA.) The league launched with 11 teams playing a 60-game schedule. The postseason tournament at its conclusion, the 1947 BAA Playoffs, ended with the Philadelphia Warriors becoming the first BAA Champion, beating the Chicago Stags 4 games to 1 in the BAA Finals. The NBA recognizes the three BAA seasons as part of its own", "id": "9531612" }, { "contents": "1942–43 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team\n\n\nfundraiser for the American Red Cross, the finalists of the NCAA Tournament and NIT took part in the Sportswriters Invitational Playoff, in which the two tournament champions, Wyoming and St. Johns, and the two runners-up, Georgetown and Toledo, played each other. The NCAA Tournament teams prevailed in both: Wyoming beat St. John's 52-47, and the Hoyas defeated Toledo 54-40 to close out the season. The Hoyas finished with a record of 22–5, the most wins in team history and the first time", "id": "20556563" }, { "contents": "1991–92 UMass Minutemen basketball team\n\n\nThe 1991–92 UMass Minutemen basketball team represented the University of Massachusetts Amherst during the 1991–92 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Minutemen, led by fourth year head coach John Calipari, played their home games at Curry Hicks Cage and were members of the Atlantic 10 Conference. They finished the season 30–5, 13–3 in A-10 play to finish in first place. The Minutemen won the A-10 Conference Tournament by beating West Virginia in the finals. They were awarded a #1 seed in the NCAA Tournament. The Minutemen advanced to the", "id": "15806672" }, { "contents": "1994 FIBA World Championship\n\n\nThe 1994 FIBA World Championship was the 12th FIBA World Championship, the international basketball world championship for men's teams. The tournament was hosted by Canada from August 4 to August 14, 1994. The tournament was held at SkyDome and Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto as well as at Copps Coliseum in Hamilton. The hosting duties were originally awarded to Belgrade, Yugoslavia, but after United Nations limited participation in sporting events in Yugoslavia, Toronto stepped in as a replacement option in 1992. The 1994 FIBA World Championship was the first time", "id": "4501033" }, { "contents": "Basketball in England\n\n\n61 points to 47 points. The standard of play in this Championship showed considerable improvement. On the day following the Championship Finals Catford Saints represented England in the first International match ever held in Britain. The game against Germany was won by England by 40 points to 35 points. On 22/23 October 1938 a composite England International Team competed in the International Basketball Tournament at the Sports Palace in Berlin. The team with Mr. W. Browning as Coach and Mr. J. Clay as Manager included three Birmingham players - F. Cole, C. Hunt and", "id": "5035239" }, { "contents": "Florida Gators men's basketball\n\n\nwon the SEC Championship with a conference record of 14–4. During the regular season, Billy Donovan notched his 400th career win as the head coach of the Gators over Missouri. After losing in the final of the 2013 SEC Men's Basketball Tournament to Mississippi, they entered the 2013 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament as the No. 3 seed in the South Region. Florida defeated the No. 14 seed Northwestern State 79–47 in the first round, and advanced to the Sweet Sixteen after soundly beating the No. 11 seed", "id": "17774979" }, { "contents": "China-ASEAN CBO Basketball Invitational Tournament\n\n\nThe China-ASEAN CBO Basketball Invitational Tournament is an international basketball tournament held in Guangxi, China between teams from ASEAN and China. The first tournament was held in Pingguo County in the city of Bose from December 17-21, 2008. The Philippines won the inaugural tournament beating Guangxi in the finals. Home United of Singapore won bronze by beating Macau. At the 2009 and 2010 edition of the tournament, the Misamis Oriental Meteors, which represented the Philippines emerged as champions by beating Guangxi in the finals for 2-consecutive times.", "id": "7852964" }, { "contents": "2012 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament\n\n\nhalftime. In the second half, the defense of Arkansas prevailing, holding the Dayton flyers to zero field goals in the last twelve minutes of the game. The Razorbacks won, 72–55. The defending national champion Aggies held only a four-point lead at halftime over Albany, playing in its first ever NCAA Tournament appearance. The Great Danes were on a ten-game winning streak, but were unable to extend the run to eleven, as Texas A&M extended the lead in the second half, and won 69–47. After", "id": "7629126" }, { "contents": "Football in Yugoslavia\n\n\nthe 1930 World Cup in Uruguay. The monarchy was replaced by a socialist country after the Second World War. Many new clubs were formed and a new federal league was established to replace the old championship. The first season was played in 1946/47, and Partizan became the first postwar champions. The Yugoslav league soon became the most popular sport league in the country with average attendances usually over 10,000 spectators. The most successful clubs were known as the big four, Dinamo Zagreb, Hajduk Split, Red Star Belgrade, and Partizan Belgrade", "id": "6818632" }, { "contents": "FIBA Basketball World Cup\n\n\nthe FIBA table as seen from the FIBA archive website, updated with results since 1998. The records of SFR Yugoslavia and FR Yugoslavia (counted together as \"Yugoslavia\") are separated from records of Serbia and Serbia and Montenegro. In the case of the Soviet Union, their records also didn't carry over to Russia. Three players – Bira Maciel and Marcel De Souza of Brazil and Phil Smyth of Australia – have appeared in five tournaments. Six different players have won medals in four tournaments. Brazilian legend Oscar Schmidt is", "id": "152312" }, { "contents": "Belgrade Trophy\n\n\nThe Belgrade Trophy (Serbian: Трофеј Београда/Trofej Beograda) is an international basketball competition between national teams, which has been held annually since 2012 and takes place in Belgrade, Serbia each summer, before the big official FIBA tournaments, such as the FIBA EuroBasket, the FIBA World Cup, and the Summer Olympic Games. The tournament is organized by the Basketball Federation of Serbia. The competition is played under FIBA rules. All five editions of the tournament held so far have been won by Serbia, which has won all", "id": "8588500" }, { "contents": "Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball\n\n\nBig East Rookie of the Year Big East Defensive Player of the Year First Team All-American Second Team All-American Third Team All-American Honorable Mention All-American National Coach of the Year Big East Coach of the Year Total Seasons: 111 Regular-Season Conference Championships: 11 Conference Tournament Championships: 10 NCAA Tournament National Invitation Tournament \"The NCAA began seeding the tournament with the 1979 edition.\" The Hoyas have made 30 appearances in the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament. They have a record of 47", "id": "7112975" }, { "contents": "Yugoslavia women's national basketball team\n\n\nThe Yugoslavia women's national basketball team () was the women's basketball side that represented Kingdom of Yugoslavia and Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia from 1943 until 1992 in the international basketball matches, controlled by the Basketball Federation of Yugoslavia (KSJ). The team's first major tournament appearance was at the 1954 European Championship, hosted by Yugoslavia, in which it finished fourth. The team's biggest success in the following decades were bronze medal at the 1980 Moscow and silver medal at the 1988 Seoul Olympic games. The team disappeared", "id": "15246808" }, { "contents": "NCAA Season 63 basketball tournaments\n\n\nbaskets from Garrido and Eugene Quilban for an 81–70 lead. Letran cut the deficit to 79–87 but the Quilban and Napoleon Hatton scored in the final two minutes to prevent the Knights from a come-from-behind victory. After taking the halftime lead 50–47, Letran and San Sebastian remained close, but Letran pulled away in the fourth quarter off team captain Fernando Libed's eight points to give Letran an 84–79 lead. The Stags rallied to tie the game 90–all after trailing by eight points: Alvarez scored on a fastbreak and two", "id": "12159387" }, { "contents": "2018 FIBA Under-17 Basketball World Cup\n\n\nThe 2018 FIBA Under-17 Basketball World Cup was an international basketball competition, held from 30 June to 8 July 2018, in Rosario and Santa Fe, Argentina. It was the fifth edition of the FIBA Under-17 Basketball World Cup. Sixteen national teams competed in the tournament. The United States won their fifth title, is as many tournaments, after defeating France in the final. The host was chosen in 2017 it was decided to be held in Argentina over Bulgaria which will host in 2020, it also beat out Israel. The", "id": "3856345" }, { "contents": "BC Almaty\n\n\n. Almaty Legion were accepted into the Russian Basketball Super League, the second division of distant neighbours Russia, to play the 2014–15 season there. They finished dead last of the 16 team league with 2 wins out of 30, though they later beat MBA Moscow in the 15th place playoffs to move up a position. In February 2015, Legion won their first trophy, the Kazakhstan Basketball Cup, beating Tobol Kostanay 90-86 in the final to win the tournament organised in Almaty. They also reached the final of the 2014–15", "id": "4077205" }, { "contents": "2019 West Coast Conference Men's Basketball Tournament\n\n\nThe 2019 West Coast Conference Men's Basketball Tournament was the postseason men's basketball tournament for the West Coast Conference during the 2018–19 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The tournament was held from March 7 through March 12, 2019 at the Orleans Arena in Paradise, Nevada. Saint Mary's upset top-seeded Gonzaga 60–47 in the championship game to win the tournament, and received the conference's automatic bid to the 2019 NCAA Tournament. It was the fourth championship for Saint Mary's, their first since 2012. All", "id": "6016721" }, { "contents": "1946–47 Texas Longhorns men's basketball team\n\n\nThe 1946–47 Texas Longhorns men's basketball team represented The University of Texas at Austin in intercollegiate basketball competition during the 1946–47 season. The Longhorns were led by eighth-year head coach and former Longhorn basketball consensus first-team All-American Jack Gray. The team finished the season with a 26–2 overall record, for the highest win percentage in all of college basketball for the season, and a 12–0 record in Southwest Conference play to win the SWC championship. Texas advanced to the NCAA Tournament for the third time, recording its", "id": "18102684" }, { "contents": "Basketball in Lithuania\n\n\nteam and exploiting stalling techniques, Lithuania trailed only 14-7 at halftime before losing 31-10. The Lithuanian press declared it a moral victory. Also in 1936, Lithuania applied to become a member of FIBA and take part in international basketball competitions, the first being EuroBasket 1937, the second European basketball tournament that the Latvia Basketball Association would organize in Riga as reigning champions. Thus while basketball would become an Olympic sport at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Lithuania decided not to take part in the tournament, instead", "id": "19607955" }, { "contents": "UCC Demons\n\n\nforerunner of the National League, which began in 1973. Blue Demons were the inaugural winners of the National League in 1973–74. With their early success, they were able to organise one of the first significant international tournaments in Ireland. The Major Extra Size International Basketball Tournament attracted teams from England, Scotland, France, Belgium, Yugoslavia, Iceland and Canada. The tournament was held in the Parochial Hall in Cork and exposed the local teams and fans to the next level of basketball. By the early 1980s, the recruitment of", "id": "14615853" }, { "contents": "Coppin State Eagles men's basketball\n\n\nThe Coppin State Eagles men's basketball team is the basketball team that represents Coppin State University in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. The school's team currently competes in the NCAA Division I in the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference. Before joining NCAA Division I, the Eagles were the 1976 NAIA National Champions. The Eagles have appeared in the NCAA Tournament four times. Their combined record is 1–4. The 1996–97 team was only the third 15 seed to beat a 2 seed in the tournament. The 2007–08 Coppin State team was", "id": "13930583" }, { "contents": "1996 World Cup of Hockey\n\n\n-2, while Canada beat Sweden 3-2 on Theoren Fleury's goal at 19:47 of the second overtime period, ending the longest game in international hockey history. The tournament did see some controversy after the Canada-Russia game in Vancouver was played when Sweden's coach Kent Forsberg said he believed \"Canada cheated its way to victory\" through help of Canadian NHL referees that saw two goals disallowed and several controversial penalties for Russia. The Russian's coach Boris Mikhailov echoed a similar sentiment after the game saying \"It was", "id": "5190765" }, { "contents": "History of Red Star Belgrade\n\n\n\"the Royals\" had only knocked Red Star out on away goals (Real won in Madrid by 2–0). Red Star continues to build its \"Dream Team\" and Dinamo was left without the most gifted player – Robert Prosinečki, who won later with the Yugoslavia the 1987 FIFA World Youth Championship, including the winning of the award as tournament's best player. It followed the new Yugoslav representative and defender Refik Šabanadžović. In 1988, Dejan Savićević and Darko Pančev, the best remaining players of the league, signed for", "id": "8645786" }, { "contents": "Streetball in Puerto Rico\n\n\nvictorious, entering the game undefeated in six years of playing globally, with Puerto Rico Streetballer's win being its first lost to an international team and fourth overall. Sprite brand held a 1-on-1 tournament on September 29–30, 2012, the \"De Tr3s Pa'l All-Star\", which rewarded the six best streetballers that enter it with participation in the 2013 All-Star Game. The overall winner of the tournament was Joel Román. Puerto Rico is a member of the Street Basketball Association's International Street Basketball Federation, which promotes", "id": "21451582" }, { "contents": "North Macedonia national basketball team\n\n\nThe North Macedonia national basketball team ( / \"Košarkaška reprezentacija na Severna Makedonija\", formerly known officially as the Macedonia national basketball team) represents North Macedonia in international basketball and is controlled by the Basketball Federation of North Macedonia, which was created in 1992. They joined FIBA in 1993, after they gained independence from Yugoslavia. That same year the national team played their first official match against Estonia. Prior to 1993, Macedonian players took part on the Yugoslavia national team. Macedonia debuted in their first international tournament at the EuroBasket", "id": "9700361" }, { "contents": "Australia women's national basketball team\n\n\nstraight international medal finish. The 2000s was a golden era for the Opals, winning at least a bronze medal at every official FIBA tournament. In 2010, the 16th edition of the World Championship was held in the Czech Republic. Pre-tournament favourites Australia, USA, and Russia, dominated play in the first two rounds. In the quarterfinals, however, Australia suffered a shock 79–68 loss to the Czech Republic. The loss meant that the Opals could not finish any higher than 5th place, its worst international result since", "id": "3258893" }, { "contents": "Spain women's national basketball team\n\n\n, 47–39. It would take six years to play another international friendly game, losing to Cuba 50–70 on 28 September 1969. Their first official games were in March 1970, trying to qualify for 1970 EuroBasket, winning their first game against Switzerland 61–44 and losing to Hungary and France. The team qualified for their first major international tournament in their next attempt, the 1974 EuroBasket. After losing their three group stage games, they won their first game in a final tournament against Denmark in the placement matches, finishing in 12th position", "id": "13054811" }, { "contents": "2017 Big West Conference Men's Basketball Tournament\n\n\nThe 2017 Big West Conference Men's Basketball Tournament was the postseason men's basketball tournament for the Big West Conference. The tournament took place March 9–11, 2017 at the Honda Center in Anaheim, California. The tournament winner, UC Davis, received the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament with a 50–47 win over UC Irvine in the final. The top eight conference teams were eligible for the tournament. Teams were seeded by record within the conference, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records. Teams", "id": "13743768" }, { "contents": "2019 MEAC Men's Basketball Tournament\n\n\nThe 2019 Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference Men's Basketball Tournament was the postseason men's basketball tournament for the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference. The tournament was held from March 11 through March 16, 2019 at the Norfolk Scope in Norfolk, Virginia. North Carolina Central defeated Norfolk State 50–47 in the championship game to win the tournament, and received the conference's automatic bid to the 2019 NCAA Tournament. It was the third consecutive championship for North Carolina Central, and fourth in the last six seasons. 11 teams were seeded by", "id": "4746141" }, { "contents": "History of Ferencvárosi TC\n\n\nwith Liverpool at Anfield, in Liverpool, England. On the return match, the result was a goalless draw which resulted the qualification of Ferencváros for the next round. In the quarter-finals, Ferencváros beat Malmö FF 3–1 in Malmö, Sweden. On the return match, Ferencváros drew with Malmö (1–1). In the semi-finals, Ferencváros beat Red Star Belgrade 2–1 at home. On the return match Ferencváros drew with Red Star Belgrade (2–2) in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. In the final Ferencváros lost 3–0", "id": "4677566" }, { "contents": "2006–07 Kansas State Wildcats men's basketball team\n\n\ncolspan=9| Phillips 66 2007 Big 12 Championship Tournament !colspan=9|2007 NIT The Wildcats went on to a 10–6 record in conference play, earning a number 4 seed in the 2007 Big 12 Men's Basketball Tournament at the Sprint Center in Kansas City, Missouri. The Wildcats faced the #5 seed Texas Tech Red Raiders and won 64-47. They went on to lose in the next round to the #1 seed and eventual champion, Kansas Jayhawks, 67-61. The Wildcats earned a berth in the 2007 National Invitation Tournament", "id": "7267433" }, { "contents": "NCAA Season 62 basketball tournaments\n\n\nThe 1986 NCAA Basketball Tournament was the 62nd season in the Philippine National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). For the fourth time in five years, the Letran Knights have crowned themselves basketball champions in the Seniors division. The Staglets of San Sebastian College beat comebacking San Beda Red Cubs, 2-1, in their own title series for the Junior division championship. Format: Taking the first round pennant was San Sebastian, losing only to Jose Rizal College, 92-93. The Letran Knights dropped two games in the first", "id": "7265697" }, { "contents": "Purdue Boilermakers men's basketball\n\n\nElite Eight appearance since 2000. The Boilermakers have appeared in the NCAA Tournament 31 times. Their combined record is 42–31; due to use of an ineligible player, Purdue vacated one win and one loss from the 1996 NCAA Tournament, resulting in an adjusted official NCAA Tournament record of 41–30. The Boilermakers have appeared in the National Invitation Tournament (NIT) eight times. Their combined record is 20–7. They were NIT champions in 1974. The Boilermakers have appeared in the College Basketball Invitational (CBI) one time. Their record", "id": "3985834" }, { "contents": "Omari Tetradze\n\n\n– Tetradze. Later he considered restoring his original surname, but decided it would cause too many problems. At club level, he played for Dinamo Tbilisi, FC Dynamo Moscow, Alania Vladikavkaz (where he won a Russian league championship medal in 1995), AS Roma, and PAOK FC (Greece). He played for Russia at international level, and appeared at World Cup 1994 and Euro 1996. At the latter tournament, he played superbly in each of Russia's three games despite the team's poor results, and", "id": "17559889" }, { "contents": "KK Sloboda Užice\n\n\nsuccess was the participation in the Yugoslav First Federal League in 1988–89 season. Playing along with the great basketball clubs such as the Partizan Belgrade, Red Star Belgrade, Jugoplastika Split, Cibona Zagreb, Olimpija Ljubljana and many, the club has achieved 11th place. Due to the dissolution of SFR Yugoslavia, the club continues to compete in the FR Yugoslavia First League. In the 1991–92 season, the club achieved 7th place, but the next season it was relegated. From 1991 to 2006 the club changed its name four times.", "id": "2123886" }, { "contents": "Einar Gausel\n\n\nEinar Johan Gausel (born 30 November 1963) is a Norwegian chess player and Norway's third International Grandmaster since 1995. Gausel has won three Norwegian chess championships, in 1992, 1996 and 2001. His Grandmaster title was gained after making good results at tournaments in Gausdal in 1990, 1992, and 1994–1995 and finally winning a Danish tournament. In 2001 he was equal first with Vladimir Chuchelov in the colossal Cappelle-la-Grande open (702 players, with 92 Grandmasters and 72 International masters). Gausel is also the", "id": "15494924" }, { "contents": "San Francisco Dons women's basketball\n\n\nThe San Francisco Dons women's basketball team represents the University of San Francisco in NCAA Division I women's college basketball. San Francisco began play in 1976. Their first postseason appearance was in the 1980 AIAW National Division I Basketball Championship, losing 92–58 to BYU in the First Round. They made appearances in the NCAA Tournament in 1995, 1996, 1997, 2016, with a Sweet Sixteen appearance in 1996. That year, USF (ranked as a 5 seed) beat Florida 68–61, and Duke 64–60 before losing to Connecticut", "id": "16725321" }, { "contents": "1991 FIBA Centennial Jubilee Basketball Tournament\n\n\nThe 1991 FIBA Centennial Jubilee Basketball Tournament was the special edition tournament of the Acropolis International Basketball Tournament that was organized jointly by FIBA Europe and the Hellenic Basketball Federation to commemorate the 100 year anniversary of the sport of basketball. The tournament was held from June 5 to June 9, 1991, at the SEF Indoor Hall in Piraeus, Greece. The tournament was won by Italy, with Greece finishing in second place. The Jubilee also included a FIBA Festival All-Star Game, which was divided up into a Balkans versus the", "id": "3734770" }, { "contents": "Murray State Racers men's basketball\n\n\nopening round of the 1996 National Invitational Tournament, and finished the season 19-10. Marcus Brown finished his college playing career at the close of the 1996 season with 2,236 career points, which is third best in Murray State history. With a November 23, 1996, victory over the Belmont Bruins, the Racers began a 47-game home winning streak that would last into the 1999–2000 season. The Racers won the 1997 OVC Tournament with an overtime win over Austin Peay and earned a spot in the NCAA Tournament. ESPN's College", "id": "19384528" }, { "contents": "2016–17 Atlantic 10 Conference men's basketball season\n\n\nThe 2016–17 Atlantic 10 Conference men's basketball season was the 41st season of Atlantic 10 Conference basketball. The 2017 Atlantic 10 Men's Basketball Tournament was held at the PPG Paints Arena in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania from March 8–12, 2017. Dayton won the regular season championship. Rhode Island won the A-10 Tournament by beating VCU in the tournament championship. As a result, Rhode Island received the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament. Three A-10 teams received bids to the NCAA Tournament: Dayton, VCU, and Rhode Island.", "id": "7289863" }, { "contents": "EuroBelgrade\n\n\nEuroBelgrade is an annual international student sports tournament that takes place in Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. It is hosted by the Faculty of Organizational Sciences from Belgrade and supported by the entire University of Belgrade. During the tournament, students have the opportunity to play futsal, volleyball, basketball, waterpolo, table tennis, compete in cheerleading, visit some of the most attractive and famous Belgrade sights and party every night. All sport events are played in a building complex in a Kosutnjak forest. This three-day tournament belongs to", "id": "4849399" }, { "contents": "Euroleague Basketball Next Generation Tournament\n\n\nthe 8 team Final Four qualification tournament. The regional tournaments are the Torneig de Bàsquet Junior Ciutat de L'Hospitalet, the Kaunas International Junior Tournament, the Belgrade International Junior Tournament, and the Torneo Costa del Sol. The winners of each of the 4 regional tournaments qualify to the Final Four qualification tournament. In addition to the 4 winners of each of the regional qualification tournaments, the reigning champion from the previous season, as well as three wild card invitees, also take part in the Final Tournament, which is played by eight", "id": "140795" }, { "contents": "1996 SEC Men's Basketball Tournament\n\n\nThe 1996 SEC Men’s Basketball Tournament took place from March 7-10, 1996, at the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana. The Mississippi State Bulldogs won the tournament title and received the SEC’s automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament by beating the Kentucky Wildcats by a score of 84-73. This was the first time the Mississippi State men’s basketball team won the SEC tournament. Jefferson Pilot Sports regionally broadcast and syndicated coverage of the first round, the quarterfinals, and the semi-finals. Play-", "id": "10800240" }, { "contents": "Texas Tech Red Raiders basketball\n\n\n#700 (SMU), #800 (at SMU), and #900 (Texas A&M). With a Texas Tech career record of 326–261, Myers has more wins with the Red Raiders than any other men's basketball coach in school history. Myers led Tech to 16 winning seasons, two Southwest Conference championships, three SWC tournament titles, and four NCAA Tournament berths. Myers served as the school's athletic director from 1996 to 2011. James Dickey replaced Myers as head coach prior to the 1991/92 season and would", "id": "15167639" }, { "contents": "1982 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship Game\n\n\nof the tournament 47-46. Georgetown then began a thirteen-game win streak, which was followed by losing three straight to three conference opponents. The Hoyas then finished the regular season with nine more wins and one loss, which was good enough to finish second in the Big East regular season standings. The Hoyas won their first two games of the Big East Tournament by a collective margin of 29 points and advanced to the championship game against the Villanova Wildcats. The two teams were tied at halftime 33-33,", "id": "13552174" }, { "contents": "2007–08 Ohio State Buckeyes men's basketball team\n\n\nThe 2007–08 Ohio State Buckeyes men's basketball finished in fifth place in the Big Ten, squarely on the NCAA tournament bubble. However, they were not selected, marking the only time in coach Thad Matta's head coaching career his team missed the NCAA tournament while being eligible. The team dominated in the 2008 National Invitation Tournament on their way to a 92-85 victory over Massachusetts in the final. The Buckeyes lost three important players from their 2006–07 NCAA Runners-up team to the NBA Draft. Greg Oden, the", "id": "20762715" }, { "contents": "India national basketball team\n\n\nAustralia for almost the whole game until it finally ceded to the Boomers 75-93 after leading at halftime 41-37. Many Indian players also made headlines while in the Soviet Union as well. Ajmer Singh gained worldwide attention as he was amongst the top 10 shooters there and became the 10th best pivot player in the tournament there. The late 90s saw the emergence of [Jaldeep Dhaliwal], the first Indian basketball player who gained considerable international attention. Jaldeep led India to a surprising victory over South Korea, one of", "id": "4414633" }, { "contents": "Randy Wittman\n\n\nalike. Wittman signed an extension to remain head coach of the Wizards on June 3, 2014. The Wizards fired Wittman on April 13, 2016 after the team missed the playoffs. His son Ryan Wittman starred for the Cornell Big Red basketball team; he helped lead the Big Red to their first NCAA Tournament appearance in 20 years during the 2007–08 season, again in 2009, and to Cornell's first-ever NCAA basketball tournament victories in 2010 over the Temple Owls and Wisconsin Badgers as the Big Red made its first-", "id": "19509307" }, { "contents": "1950 FIBA World Championship\n\n\nThe 1950 FIBA World Championship, also called the 1st World Basketball Championship – 1950, was an international basketball tournament held by the International Basketball Federation in Buenos Aires, Argentina, from October 22 to November 3, 1950. Ten nations participated in the inaugural tournament. All competition was held at the Luna Park, Buenos Aires. Argentina claimed the gold medal, by beating the United States 64–50. FIBA determined the requirements to qualify for the World Championship as follows: the three best teams in the previous Summer Olympics basketball, the", "id": "1451568" }, { "contents": "Euroleague Basketball Next Generation Tournament\n\n\nthe tournament's new sponsorship name became the Adidas Next Generation Tournament. The four regional tournaments were originally the Torneo Città di Roma, the Torneig de Bàsquet Junior Ciutat de L'Hospitalet, the Kaunas International Junior Tournament, and the Belgrade International Junior Tournament. In 2016, the Torneo Città di Roma was replaced by the Torneo Costa del Sol. In total, 34 teams compete to play for the Next Generation Tournament title, at the Next Generation Tournament Final Four. 32 teams compete in 4 regional tournaments, in order to qualify to", "id": "140794" }, { "contents": "International High School of San Francisco\n\n\n17, IHS attained the following additional results in BCL league play: first in men's and women's basketball; first in baseball; and second in badminton; third in women's volleyball; third in men's tennis. The women's varsity soccer team reached the finals of the NCS playoff tournament. The women's basketball team made it to the CIF State tournament in 2016-17. Students at International have the option of taking art - whether it be music, theater, visual arts, or film - in each", "id": "15726852" }, { "contents": "Portsmouth F.C. (basketball)\n\n\nWembley Arena on 3 April, and fell to a 106-102 defeat against a BCP side inspired by Argentinian star Julio Politi. They earned some consolation the following day by beating Manchester United 99-89 in the third place match. An 'International All Star' tournament was held at the Mountbatten Centre on 29 and 30 December, featuring Portsmouth, Solent, Sao Paulo from Brazil and the Australian Institute of Sport. Portsmouth beat the Australians 104-44 in their semi-final and then defeated Solent 103-95 in", "id": "8755534" }, { "contents": "Bulgaria national basketball team\n\n\nThe Bulgaria national basketball team () represents Bulgaria in international basketball. They are administered by the Bulgarian Basketball Federation. Bulgaria's first appearance at an international tournament came at the EuroBasket in 1935. They have reached the premier European basketball competition 24 times, with their best results coming in 1957 as the runner-up on home soil, and 1961 respectively. The national team has also qualified for the FIBA World Cup, where they finished seventh in their lone appearance in 1959. Competing at the Summer Olympics multiple times, Bulgaria", "id": "3576230" }, { "contents": "Netherlands national basketball team\n\n\nThe Netherlands national basketball team () represents the Netherlands in international basketball matches. The national team is governed by Basketball Nederland. The Dutch have reached the European Basketball Championship on 15 occasions. Their best results at the event came in 1983, where they finished in 4th place. They also qualified for the FIBA World Cup once in 1986. In recent years though, the national team has struggled with consistency to reach major international tournaments. The team represents itself as the Orange Lions. The Netherlands were one of the teams that", "id": "7536357" }, { "contents": "Georgia national basketball team\n\n\nThe Georgia national basketball team () represents the country of Georgia in international basketball matches, and is controlled by the Georgian Basketball Federation. Georgia became a member of FIBA in 1992, after they gained independence from the Soviet Union. The national team played their first official match against Poland in 1995. Georgia's accomplishments on the international stage have been making four appearances at the European Basketball Championship. Their best result came at their debut trip to the tournament in 2011. While they have qualified for the top European event, they", "id": "7712121" }, { "contents": "Latvia\n\n\nOzoliņš and more recently Zemgus Girgensons, who the Latvian people have strongly supported in international and NHL play, expressed through the dedication of using the NHL's All Star Voting to bring Zemgus to number one in voting. Dinamo Riga is the country's strongest hockey club, playing in the Kontinental Hockey League. The national tournament is the Latvian Hockey Higher League, held since 1931. The 2006 IIHF World Championship was held in Riga. The second most popular sport is basketball. Latvia has a long basketball tradition, as the Latvian", "id": "17642259" }, { "contents": "2011 Big South Conference Men's Basketball Tournament\n\n\nThe 2011 Big South Men's Basketball Tournament took place on March 1, 3, 5, 2011 at campus sites. The semifinal round was televised on ESPNU, and the finals were televised on ESPN2. The UNC Asheville Bulldogs won the tournament, defeating Charleston Southern 72–63 in the quarterfinal round, High Point 62–45 in the semifinal round, and #1 Coastal Carolina 60–47 in the championship game. The top eight eligible men's basketball teams in the Big South Conference received a berth in the conference tournament. After the 18 game", "id": "12705823" }, { "contents": "1986 Acropolis International Basketball Tournament\n\n\n, Kambouris 4, Melissinos, Stavropoulos 8, F. Christodoulou 10, Andritsos, Filippou 11, Romanidis 2, Pedoulakis 3 (1), Karatzas 8, Dimakopoulos 2. HOLLAND: Smits 20, Bottse 11, Schilp 17 (1), Ebeltjes 4, Esveldt, Heijdeman 9, van Dinten 19, de Waard, Broukman 6. br Yugoslavia - Italy 92-80 YUGOSLAVIA: D. Petrović 26 (3), A. Petrović 16 (3), Divac 7, Čutura 17, Petranović 4, Radović 5,", "id": "6981425" }, { "contents": "Basketball in New Zealand\n\n\nFIBA World Championship in Indianapolis. At the tournament they finished fourth, after beating Puerto Rico in the quarter-finals before losses to Yugoslavia and Germany. Tall Blacks captain Pero Cameron was the only non-NBA player named to the all-tournament team in Indianapolis. The Tall Blacks qualified for the 2004 Athens Olympics, but again finished with a 1–5 record and lost to Australia in the playoff for ninth place. Their most noted moment was on the 7th day of the games, when they beat Serbia and Montenegro, 90–87", "id": "5179502" }, { "contents": "2008–09 Connecticut Huskies women's basketball team\n\n\n. Kalana Greene led the Huskies with a season-high 20 points, scoring 18 points before halftime, and leading the Huskies to a 47–10 halftime lead. USF would match the UConn production in the second half, but the 37 point margin held. The final score was 79–42. The second tournament game was against Villanova, a team UConn had beaten by 27 points less than two weeks earlier. However, the game was tied at 25 apiece, with under six minutes to go in the first half. Maya Moore then", "id": "21371273" }, { "contents": "McDonald's Championship\n\n\nThe McDonald's Championship (sometimes called the \"McDonald's Open\") was an international men's professional basketball club cup competition that featured a representative of the National Basketball Association against champion club teams from Europe, Australia, and South America. The first competition was held in 1987 and continued annually after that until 1991, when the tournament switched to a biannual event. For the first two years, the men's national teams from Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union participated. The McDonald's Championship, from 1987 to 1996, was", "id": "5071363" }, { "contents": "Basketball at the Summer Olympics\n\n\n1984, against the South Koreans, amid the Soviet-led boycott. In 1988, the tournament expanded into eight teams, with the Americans beating Yugoslavia in the gold medal game. In 1992, the Unified Team, consisting of the former Soviet republics, defeated China in the gold medal game. In 1996, the tournament settled into its current 12-team format; the U.S. has swept all of the tournaments since then, winning 48 consecutive games. All venues were indoor stadiums except for the 1936 tournament which was held outdoors on", "id": "14854522" }, { "contents": "Acropolis International Basketball Tournament\n\n\nThe Acropolis International Basketball Tournament (also known as the Acropolis of Athens Basketball Tournament and the Acropolis Basketball Cup) (Greek: Τουρνουά Ακρόπολις) is an international basketball competition that is played between national teams, which has been held almost every year since 1986, and takes place in Athens, Greece, during the summer. It takes place before the big official FIBA tournaments like the EuroBasket, the FIBA World Cup, and the Summer Olympic Games. The tournament is named after the world-famous Acropolis of Athens. The competition", "id": "21469024" }, { "contents": "Belgium national basketball team\n\n\nThe Belgian national basketball team (, , ) represents Belgium in international basketball tournaments. The supervising body is Basketball Belgium. The national team has qualified for the EuroBasket 13 times, having their best result at the EuroBasket 1947 when they finished 4th. Further, they entered the Summer Olympics on three occasions, in 1936, 1948, and 1952. Their best result there was 11th place at the 1948 Olympic Games, in London. Their qualification for the EuroBasket 2011, marked their first EuroBasket appearance since 1993. Though, the", "id": "3576176" }, { "contents": "Red Star Belgrade\n\n\nYugoslav competitions, Red Star was the most successful club in Yugoslavia and finished first in the Yugoslav First League all-time table, and is the most successful club in Serbia. Since the 1991–92 season, Red Star's best results are in the UEFA Champions League group stage and UEFA Europa League knockout phase. According to 2008 polls, Red Star Belgrade is the most popular football club in Serbia, with 48.2% of the population supporting them. They have many supporters in other former Yugoslav republics and in the Serbian diaspora.", "id": "5070852" }, { "contents": "Euroleague Basketball Next Generation Tournament\n\n\nThe Euroleague Basketball Next Generation Tournament, known as the Adidas Next Generation Tournament for sponsorship reasons, and until 2014, called the Nike International Junior Tournament (NIJT) for sponsorship reasons, is an international boy's youth age basketball tournament that is contested between the best basketball clubs in Europe in the Under-18 age category. The tournament is organized by Euroleague Basketball, and is sponsored by Adidas. The tournament's Final Four takes place during the senior men's EuroLeague Final Four event. The tournaments's Final Four also features a slam", "id": "140792" }, { "contents": "Estonia national basketball team\n\n\nThe Estonia national basketball team () represents Estonia in international basketball matches. They are controlled by the Estonian Basketball Association. Estonia first competed internationally at the 1936 Summer Olympics. The national team has also made five appearances at the European Basketball Championship, with their best results coming in 1937 and 1939, where they finished in fifth place. Estonia joined FIBA on 23 November 1934. Coached by Herbert Niiler, Estonia first competed on the international stage at the 1936 Summer Olympics, held in Berlin, the first Olympic tournament to hold", "id": "3631949" }, { "contents": "Harold Johnson (basketball)\n\n\nHarold H. Johnson (January 30, 1920 – September 17, 1999) was an American professional basketball player. He played in the Basketball Association of America for the Detroit Falcons in the first year of the league's existence (1946–47) and averaged 0.6 points per game. A three-year letterman for the Indiana State Sycamores, \"Big Stoop\" led the Sycamores to the 3rd round of the 1942 NAIA Tournament. The \"Fightin' Trees' dropped a close game to the eventual champions, the Hamline Pipers. Following", "id": "19490237" }, { "contents": "Conel Hugh O'Donel Alexander\n\n\nthe English team, because of the declaration of World War II, since he was required at home for codebreaking duties. He was also the non-playing captain of England from 1964 to 1970. Alexander was awarded the International Master title in 1950 and the International Master for Correspondence Chess title in 1970. He won Hastings 1946/47 with the score 7½/9, a point ahead of Savielly Tartakower. Alexander's best tournament result may have been first equal (with David Bronstein) at Hastings 1953/54, where he went undefeated and beat Soviet", "id": "20374418" }, { "contents": "Bosnia and Herzegovina national basketball team\n\n\nThe Bosnia and Herzegovina national basketball team (Bosnian: \"Košarkaška reprezentacija Bosne i Hercegovine\" / Кошаркашка репрезентација Босне и Херцеговине) represents Bosnia and Herzegovina in international basketball competitions, and is governed by the Basketball Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Until 1992, Bosnian basketballers played for Yugoslavia. Bosnia and Herzegovina reached their first international tournament at the EuroBasket in 1993. They have competed 9 times at the event overall. The national team though have yet to qualify for the FIBA World Cup or Summer Olympics. Until 1992, Bosnia was", "id": "11792353" }, { "contents": "History of netball\n\n\n's Basketball and Netball (now the International Netball Federation). The sport was referred to as \"netball\" in most countries, although New Zealand and Australia still used the name \"women's basketball\"; both countries eventually adopted the name \"netball\" in 1970. This meeting also resulted in the creation of a world tournament to be played every four years, now called the Netball World Cup. The inaugural tournament was played in Eastbourne, England in 1963, and tournaments have since been played quadrennially. Since their inception", "id": "17980065" }, { "contents": "Republika Srpska national basketball team\n\n\nand KSHB into BiH Basketball Association. At the national level Republic of Srpska played friendly matches within a traditional manifestation called Basketball Tournament (Košarkaški sabor) where Republic of Srpska senior team played friendly matches against Serbian national team consisting of players from Serbian Top Division. During that tournament KSRS named the best male and female basketball players of the year. During the International Sport Fair in Belgrade in November 2014, the protocole of cooperation was signed by BF Serbia and BF Republic of Srpska. In 2015 the Serbian selection is going to play", "id": "13699009" }, { "contents": "Dragan Godžić\n\n\nDragan Godžić (; born April 14, 1927) was a Serbian basketball player and coach. He represented the Yugoslavia national basketball team internationally. Godžić was a member of the first managing board of the Crvena zvezda basketball club. Godžić played for a Belgrade-based team Crvena zvezda of the Yugoslav First League. During the time with Crvena zvezda he won seven Yugoslav Championships. Godžić was a member of the Yugoslavia national basketball team that participated at the 1953 European Championship in Moscow, the Soviet Union. Over two tournament games, he", "id": "5482233" }, { "contents": "Mirko Marjanović (basketball)\n\n\nMirko Marjanović (; born 2 May 1926 – \"Unknown\") was a Serbian basketball player and coach. He represented the Yugoslavia national basketball team internationally. Marjanović played for Belgrade-based teams the Yugoslav Army and Partizan of the Yugoslav First League. In the 1945 season, he won the Yugoslav Championships with the Yugoslav Army. Marjanović was a member of the Yugoslavia national basketball team at the 1947 FIBA European Championship in Prague, Czechoslovakia. Over five tournament games, he averaged 9.2 points per game. At the 1953 FIBA European", "id": "9152887" }, { "contents": "Ramsay Robertson Dalgety\n\n\n1987–90. Member of Faculty of Advocates 1972, IOD 1982–89. Councillor City of Edinburgh DC 1974–80, chairman Opera Singers' Pension Fund London 1991–92 (trustee 1983–92, deputy chairman 1987–91). Deputy traffic commissioner for Scotland 1988–92, deputy chairman Edinburgh Hibernian Shareholders' Association 1990–92. Vice-president Tonga International Game Fishing Association since 1996 (treasurer 1994–96), tournament director Tonga International Billfish Tournament 1996. He is co-chair of a Tongan Royal Commission and has been chairperson of the Tonga Electric Power Board since 2002. On 28", "id": "3903697" }, { "contents": "1946–47 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team\n\n\nbeen its home court the previous season. Ripley previously had coached Georgetown from 1927 to 1929, leaving to coach Yale for six seasons, and again from 1938 to 1943, leading the Hoyas to what at the time was their only postseason tournament apperanace in the 1943 NCAA Tournament. He then left to coach at Columbia and Notre Dame when Georgetown suspended its basketball program for two seasons during World War II. This time he would coach the Hoyas for three seasons, and the 1946-47 team was by far the most successful", "id": "20271633" }, { "contents": "Gonzaga University\n\n\nplayer and Gonzaga alum John Stockton graduated), made the regional finals of the NCAA tournament (the \"Elite Eight\") in 1999, re-appearing in the tournament every year since (). The women's basketball team made it to the \"Sweet Sixteen\" in 2010. Three of Gonzaga's most recent notable athletes are basketball players – former center Ronny Turiaf; Robert Sacre 2012 NBA Draft (selected by the Los Angeles Lakers third overall 2006 NBA Draft pick), and Red Star Belgrade Adam Morrison (who", "id": "17367600" }, { "contents": "France national basketball team\n\n\nThe France national basketball team () represents France in international basketball and is administered by the French Federation of Basketball. France has been a regular at the EuroBasket, with 37 appearances, the most for any nation all-time. Their best result at the tournament was winning a gold medal at EuroBasket 2013. They have also come away with two silver medals, in 1949 and 2011. The French squad has won two silver medals at the Summer Olympics as well, in 1948 and 2000. France's best result at the", "id": "4259326" }, { "contents": "1947 BAA playoffs\n\n\nThe 1947 BAA playoffs was the postseason tournament that followed the inaugural Basketball Association of America 1946–47 season. (After its 1948–49 season, the BAA merged with the older National Basketball League to create the National Basketball Association or NBA.) The tournament concluded with the Philadelphia Warriors defeating the Chicago Stags, 4 games to 1, in the BAA Finals. The six qualified teams all began tournament play on Wednesday, April 2, and the Finals concluded on Tuesday, April 22. Philadelphia and Chicago played 10 and 11 games in the", "id": "16249040" }, { "contents": "2017 FIBA Melanesia Basketball Cup\n\n\nThe 2017 FIBA Melanesia Basketball Cup was an international basketball tournament contested by national teams of the newly formed Melanesia sub-zone of FIBA Oceania. The inaugural edition of the tournament were hosted by Papua New Guinea from 27 to 30 September 2017. Matches were played at the Taurama Aquatic and Indoor Centre. It was officially launched on 19 May 2017. The tournament served as qualifiers for the basketball event of the 2019 Pacific Games in Samoa with three berths for Melanesia allocated for the top three teams in this tournament. Additionally the top", "id": "16680079" }, { "contents": "FIBA International Christmas Tournament\n\n\nClub World Cup), whose results were valid for the first edition of the aforementioned competition of the highest basketball organism, and whose first trophy It was the same as the one used in the FIBA International Christmas Tournament until 1980. The second edition of the Christmas Tournament was baptized at the time as Latin Cup, due to the origin of the participating teams (there was a competition called Latin Cup in 1953 that only had an edition, although the one of December 1966 counts as the second edition of the Christmas Tournament)", "id": "10828019" } ]

[ { "contents": "1946–47 Holy Cross Crusaders men's basketball team\n\n\nThe 1946–47 Holy Cross Crusaders men's basketball team represented The College of the Holy Cross in NCAA competition in the 1946–47 season. The Crusaders, behind coach Alvin \"Doggie\" Julian, NCAA tournament MVP George Kaftan, star Joe Mullaney and a freshman point guard named Bob Cousy, beat Oklahoma at Madison Square Garden to win the NCAA championship. The team entered the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament as the last seed in the 8-team tournament. In the first match, Holy Cross defeated the United States Naval Academy in front", "id": "16327790" }, { "contents": "History of the FIBA Basketball World Cup\n\n\nand South America) and the Eurobasket tournament. Host Argentina also was given a spot in the tournament. This tournament would be the last to feature Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union, and both made the most of it, meeting in the gold medal match. Led by Croatian Dražen Petrović and Serbian Vlade Divac, the golden generation of Yugoslav basketball played together for the last time in a major international tournament at the World Championship. The team won the gold medal, beating the Soviet Union 92–75, a fitting end for a country", "id": "16971900" }, { "contents": "2008 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament\n\n\n. Some key defensive stands and free throws by the Volunteers, however, pulled them ahead. They will play third seed Louisville, who beat sixth seed Oklahoma, 78–48. Sooner star Blake Griffin had trouble scoring against Louisville's double-teams, and Louisville's 30-point win was the school's best tournament win since 1968. Top-seeded North Carolina defeated fourth seeded Washington State 68–47. Washington State was held to 47 points, the least allowed by a Tar Heel team in the tournament since 1946. Tyler Hansbrough struggled in", "id": "257047" }, { "contents": "Stadion Maksimir\n\n\nthe UEFA Euro 1976 final tournament was held in SFR Yugoslavia, Maksimir hosted the Netherlands v. Czechoslovakia semi-final match and the Netherlands v. Yugoslavia third place match. Maksimir was the central venue for the 1987 Summer Universiade hosted by the city of Zagreb. In 1990, several events happened at Maksimir. On 13 May, the Dinamo Zagreb–Red Star Belgrade riot took place, an infamous riot involving Dinamo Zagreb and Red Star Belgrade supporters. The last match of the Yugoslavia national football team was hosted at Maksimir on 3 June", "id": "4003773" }, { "contents": "2018–19 Euroleague Basketball Next Generation Tournament\n\n\nThe 2018–19 Euroleague Basketball Next Generation Tournament, also called Adidas Next Generation Tournament by sponsorship reasons, is the 17th edition of the international junior basketball tournament organized by the Euroleague Basketball Company. As in past years, 32 teams joined the first stage, which are played in four qualifying tournaments between December 2018 and February 2019. The Valencia Tournament was played between 28 and 30 December 2018. The Munich Tournament was played between 25 and 27 January 2019. The Kaunas Tournament was played between 8 and 10 February 2019. The Belgrade Tournament", "id": "16723395" }, { "contents": "Cyprus national basketball team\n\n\nThe Cypriot national basketball team is the national basketball team of Cyprus. It is run by the Cyprus Basketball Federation. It is affiliated to FIBA, in the FIBA Europe zone. The team participates at international and European tournaments. The only international tournament it took a part of in 2005, was the World University Games, where it finished 26th out of 30 participating nations. Cyprus national basketball team was a two-time Promotion Cup finalist (1990, 1994). The team's results have improved considerably in recent years.", "id": "8796375" }, { "contents": "Major achievements in basketball by nation\n\n\nThis article contains lists of achievements in major senior-level international basketball, 3x3 basketball and wheelchair basketball tournaments according to first-place, second-place and third-place results obtained by teams representing different nations. The objective is not to create combined medal tables; the focus is on listing the best positions achieved by teams in major international tournaments, ranking the nations according to the most number of podiums accomplished by teams of these nations. For the making of these lists, results from following major international tournaments were consulted:", "id": "2567479" }, { "contents": "2012–13 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team\n\n\n's first game of the tournament, a November 12 contest against the IUPUI Jaguars, resulted in a 91–54 Michigan victory. The win also gave Michigan its first consecutive 90-point performances since the 2000–01 team recorded three consecutive 90-point games. The following night, Michigan defeated Cleveland State by a 77–47 margin, marking the first time the school opened the season with three consecutive 30-point victories. The win also marked the first time Michigan had posted three consecutive 30-point wins since the 1988–89 Wolverines team (the 1989 national champion) won five consecutive 30-point", "id": "6800052" }, { "contents": "Holy Cross Crusaders men's basketball\n\n\nMVP George Kaftan, star Joe Mullaney and freshman point guard Bob Cousy, beat Oklahoma at Madison Square Garden to win the NCAA championship. The team entered the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament as the last seed in the 8-team tournament. Along with UConn, Holy Cross is one of the two New England colleges to ever win the NCAA tournament. In the first match, Holy Cross defeated the Navy 55 to 47, in front of a sold-out crowd at Madison Square Garden. Mullaney led the team in scoring", "id": "10994201" }, { "contents": "1990 Yugoslavia v Netherlands football match\n\n\nbetween the Croatian club Dinamo Zagreb and the Serbian club Red Star Belgrade. Croatian midfielder Zvonimir Boban kicked the policeman Refik Ahmetović and as a result got suspended by the Football Association of Yugoslavia (FSJ) for six months, causing him to miss the FIFA World Cup 1990 as well as the pre-tournament preparation friendlies. The exhibition versus the Netherlands took place on June 3 and was the last exhibition before the FIFA World Cup 1990. The crowd of 20,000 booed the Yugoslav national anthem Hey, Slavs. Fans cheered for the", "id": "6847604" }, { "contents": "2010 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament\n\n\n15–12 at one time, they missed 15 of their next sixteen shots while St. John's pulled out to a sixteen-point halftime lead. The two teams played roughly evenly the second half, but the halftime lead was more than enough and the Red Storm prevailed 65–47. Fourteenth seeded Louisiana Tech (La Tech) was returning to the NCAA Tournament after a three-year absence. Under Maggie Dixon award winning new coach Teresa Weatherspoon, the Lady Techsters took on third seeded Florida State. La tech started out strong, pulling", "id": "4677425" }, { "contents": "NCAA Season 92 basketball tournaments\n\n\nThe 2016 basketball tournaments of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (Philippines), otherwise known as NCAA Season 92, officially opened on June 25, 2016 at the Mall of Asia Arena, Pasay City. The showdown between season hosts San Beda Red Lions and season 91 men's basketball champions Letran Knights will be the first game, while JRU Heavy Bombers will face Mapua Cardinals in the second game. The games of the seniors basketball will be played on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays, while the junior games will be conducted every Mondays", "id": "21935372" }, { "contents": "Basketball in Greece\n\n\ninternational club tournaments in Europe, the predecessors of the EuroLeague that were then held instead of the EuroLeague tournament. The club advanced to the final of the 1954 San Remo Tournament, which they lost 81–74 to the Italian League club Olimpia Milano. Panellinios then won the 1955 Brussels Tournament, by defeating the Yugoslav League club Crvena Zvezda (Red Star Belgrade) in the final, by a score of 91–67. Panellinios also won the 1956 San Remo Tournament, by defeating the Italian League club Virtus Bologna, by a score of 67–37", "id": "9979930" }, { "contents": "1986 Acropolis International Basketball Tournament\n\n\nThe Acropolis International Tournament 1986 was the first edition of the Acropolis International Basketball Tournament. It was held from June 18 to June 20, 1986, at the SEF arena in Piraeus, Athens, Greece. The participating teams were the hosts, Greece, as well as Italy, Yugoslavia, and the Netherlands. The tournament featured famous international basketball players such as Dražen Petrović, Fanis Christodoulou, Nikos Galis, Antonello Riva, Vlade Divac, Rik Smits, Walter Magnifico, Stojko Vranković, Pierluigi Marzorati, and Panagiotis Giannakis. First", "id": "6981420" }, { "contents": "Bogdan Bogdanović (basketball)\n\n\ninternational basketball website Eurobasket.com. Bogdanović began playing organized basketball with ŠKK Zvezdara, a club in Belgrade. In April 2008, he moved on to KK Žitko Basket (then known as Alimenti Basket), also from Belgrade. Playing with Žitko Basket under coach Dragan Jakovljević, Bogdanović was part of the team that in April 2010 earned third place in the 2009–10 Serbian junior league at the final eight tournament in Vršac, after beating Partizan juniors in the quarterfinal, losing 89-86 to Hemofarm juniors in the semifinal and beating FMP junior", "id": "10194119" }, { "contents": "UAAP Season 49 men's basketball tournament\n\n\nThe 1986 UAAP men's basketball tournament was the 49th year of the men's tournament of the University Athletic Association of the Philippines (UAAP)'s basketball championship. Hosted by National University, the UP Fighting Maroons defeated the UE Red Warriors in the finals taking their first UAAP men's basketball championship in 47 years. Prior to the start of the season, De La Salle University was admitted as the eighth member school of the league. Tournament format: Number 1 seed UE only has to win once, while number 2 seed", "id": "21089230" }, { "contents": "1946–47 Houston Cougars men's basketball team\n\n\nThe 1946–47 Houston Cougars men's basketball team represented the University of Houston in the college basketball 1946–47 season. It was their second year of season play. The head coach for the Cougars was Alden Pasche, who was serving in his 2nd year in that position. The team played its home games at Jeppesen Gymnasium on-campus in Houston and were members of the Lone Star Conference. Houston captured its second conference regular season title, and competed in the postseason in the 1947 NAIA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament where they were", "id": "15588356" }, { "contents": "Australia men's national wheelchair basketball team\n\n\nThe Australia men's national wheelchair basketball team is the men's wheelchair basketball side that represents Australia in international competitions. The team is known as the Rollers. Australia took the gold medal at the 1996 Atlanta Paralympic Games and 2008 Beijing Paralympic Games. Australia has competed at every men's wheelchair basketball tournament at the Paralympic Games except 1964. Kevin Coombs was Australia's first captain of the men's wheelchair basketball team. The Rollers qualified for the 2016 Summer Paralympics by winning the 2015 Asia Oceania Qualifying Tournament and finished sixth. Results", "id": "15021027" }, { "contents": "Basketball at the Summer Olympics\n\n\ntournaments in which they competed, including six in a row from 1996 to 2016. Besides the United States, Argentina is the only nation still in existence who has won either the men's or women's tournament. The Soviet Union, Yugoslavia and the Unified Team are the countries no longer in existence who have won the tournament. The United States are the defending champions in both men's and women's tournaments. On June 9, 2017, the Executive Board of the International Olympic Committee announced that 3x3 basketball would become an", "id": "14854512" }, { "contents": "1946–47 BAA season\n\n\nThe 1946–47 BAA season was the inaugural season of the Basketball Association of America. (Following its third, the 1948–49 season, the BAA and National Basketball League merged to create the National Basketball Association or NBA.) The league launched with 11 teams playing a 60-game schedule. The postseason tournament at its conclusion, the 1947 BAA Playoffs, ended with the Philadelphia Warriors becoming the first BAA Champion, beating the Chicago Stags 4 games to 1 in the BAA Finals. The NBA recognizes the three BAA seasons as part of its own", "id": "9531612" }, { "contents": "1942–43 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team\n\n\nfundraiser for the American Red Cross, the finalists of the NCAA Tournament and NIT took part in the Sportswriters Invitational Playoff, in which the two tournament champions, Wyoming and St. Johns, and the two runners-up, Georgetown and Toledo, played each other. The NCAA Tournament teams prevailed in both: Wyoming beat St. John's 52-47, and the Hoyas defeated Toledo 54-40 to close out the season. The Hoyas finished with a record of 22–5, the most wins in team history and the first time", "id": "20556563" }, { "contents": "1991–92 UMass Minutemen basketball team\n\n\nThe 1991–92 UMass Minutemen basketball team represented the University of Massachusetts Amherst during the 1991–92 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Minutemen, led by fourth year head coach John Calipari, played their home games at Curry Hicks Cage and were members of the Atlantic 10 Conference. They finished the season 30–5, 13–3 in A-10 play to finish in first place. The Minutemen won the A-10 Conference Tournament by beating West Virginia in the finals. They were awarded a #1 seed in the NCAA Tournament. The Minutemen advanced to the", "id": "15806672" }, { "contents": "1994 FIBA World Championship\n\n\nThe 1994 FIBA World Championship was the 12th FIBA World Championship, the international basketball world championship for men's teams. The tournament was hosted by Canada from August 4 to August 14, 1994. The tournament was held at SkyDome and Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto as well as at Copps Coliseum in Hamilton. The hosting duties were originally awarded to Belgrade, Yugoslavia, but after United Nations limited participation in sporting events in Yugoslavia, Toronto stepped in as a replacement option in 1992. The 1994 FIBA World Championship was the first time", "id": "4501033" }, { "contents": "Basketball in England\n\n\n61 points to 47 points. The standard of play in this Championship showed considerable improvement. On the day following the Championship Finals Catford Saints represented England in the first International match ever held in Britain. The game against Germany was won by England by 40 points to 35 points. On 22/23 October 1938 a composite England International Team competed in the International Basketball Tournament at the Sports Palace in Berlin. The team with Mr. W. Browning as Coach and Mr. J. Clay as Manager included three Birmingham players - F. Cole, C. Hunt and", "id": "5035239" }, { "contents": "Florida Gators men's basketball\n\n\nwon the SEC Championship with a conference record of 14–4. During the regular season, Billy Donovan notched his 400th career win as the head coach of the Gators over Missouri. After losing in the final of the 2013 SEC Men's Basketball Tournament to Mississippi, they entered the 2013 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament as the No. 3 seed in the South Region. Florida defeated the No. 14 seed Northwestern State 79–47 in the first round, and advanced to the Sweet Sixteen after soundly beating the No. 11 seed", "id": "17774979" }, { "contents": "China-ASEAN CBO Basketball Invitational Tournament\n\n\nThe China-ASEAN CBO Basketball Invitational Tournament is an international basketball tournament held in Guangxi, China between teams from ASEAN and China. The first tournament was held in Pingguo County in the city of Bose from December 17-21, 2008. The Philippines won the inaugural tournament beating Guangxi in the finals. Home United of Singapore won bronze by beating Macau. At the 2009 and 2010 edition of the tournament, the Misamis Oriental Meteors, which represented the Philippines emerged as champions by beating Guangxi in the finals for 2-consecutive times.", "id": "7852964" }, { "contents": "2012 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament\n\n\nhalftime. In the second half, the defense of Arkansas prevailing, holding the Dayton flyers to zero field goals in the last twelve minutes of the game. The Razorbacks won, 72–55. The defending national champion Aggies held only a four-point lead at halftime over Albany, playing in its first ever NCAA Tournament appearance. The Great Danes were on a ten-game winning streak, but were unable to extend the run to eleven, as Texas A&M extended the lead in the second half, and won 69–47. After", "id": "7629126" }, { "contents": "Football in Yugoslavia\n\n\nthe 1930 World Cup in Uruguay. The monarchy was replaced by a socialist country after the Second World War. Many new clubs were formed and a new federal league was established to replace the old championship. The first season was played in 1946/47, and Partizan became the first postwar champions. The Yugoslav league soon became the most popular sport league in the country with average attendances usually over 10,000 spectators. The most successful clubs were known as the big four, Dinamo Zagreb, Hajduk Split, Red Star Belgrade, and Partizan Belgrade", "id": "6818632" }, { "contents": "FIBA Basketball World Cup\n\n\nthe FIBA table as seen from the FIBA archive website, updated with results since 1998. The records of SFR Yugoslavia and FR Yugoslavia (counted together as \"Yugoslavia\") are separated from records of Serbia and Serbia and Montenegro. In the case of the Soviet Union, their records also didn't carry over to Russia. Three players – Bira Maciel and Marcel De Souza of Brazil and Phil Smyth of Australia – have appeared in five tournaments. Six different players have won medals in four tournaments. Brazilian legend Oscar Schmidt is", "id": "152312" }, { "contents": "Belgrade Trophy\n\n\nThe Belgrade Trophy (Serbian: Трофеј Београда/Trofej Beograda) is an international basketball competition between national teams, which has been held annually since 2012 and takes place in Belgrade, Serbia each summer, before the big official FIBA tournaments, such as the FIBA EuroBasket, the FIBA World Cup, and the Summer Olympic Games. The tournament is organized by the Basketball Federation of Serbia. The competition is played under FIBA rules. All five editions of the tournament held so far have been won by Serbia, which has won all", "id": "8588500" }, { "contents": "Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball\n\n\nBig East Rookie of the Year Big East Defensive Player of the Year First Team All-American Second Team All-American Third Team All-American Honorable Mention All-American National Coach of the Year Big East Coach of the Year Total Seasons: 111 Regular-Season Conference Championships: 11 Conference Tournament Championships: 10 NCAA Tournament National Invitation Tournament \"The NCAA began seeding the tournament with the 1979 edition.\" The Hoyas have made 30 appearances in the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament. They have a record of 47", "id": "7112975" }, { "contents": "Yugoslavia women's national basketball team\n\n\nThe Yugoslavia women's national basketball team () was the women's basketball side that represented Kingdom of Yugoslavia and Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia from 1943 until 1992 in the international basketball matches, controlled by the Basketball Federation of Yugoslavia (KSJ). The team's first major tournament appearance was at the 1954 European Championship, hosted by Yugoslavia, in which it finished fourth. The team's biggest success in the following decades were bronze medal at the 1980 Moscow and silver medal at the 1988 Seoul Olympic games. The team disappeared", "id": "15246808" }, { "contents": "NCAA Season 63 basketball tournaments\n\n\nbaskets from Garrido and Eugene Quilban for an 81–70 lead. Letran cut the deficit to 79–87 but the Quilban and Napoleon Hatton scored in the final two minutes to prevent the Knights from a come-from-behind victory. After taking the halftime lead 50–47, Letran and San Sebastian remained close, but Letran pulled away in the fourth quarter off team captain Fernando Libed's eight points to give Letran an 84–79 lead. The Stags rallied to tie the game 90–all after trailing by eight points: Alvarez scored on a fastbreak and two", "id": "12159387" }, { "contents": "2018 FIBA Under-17 Basketball World Cup\n\n\nThe 2018 FIBA Under-17 Basketball World Cup was an international basketball competition, held from 30 June to 8 July 2018, in Rosario and Santa Fe, Argentina. It was the fifth edition of the FIBA Under-17 Basketball World Cup. Sixteen national teams competed in the tournament. The United States won their fifth title, is as many tournaments, after defeating France in the final. The host was chosen in 2017 it was decided to be held in Argentina over Bulgaria which will host in 2020, it also beat out Israel. The", "id": "3856345" }, { "contents": "BC Almaty\n\n\n. Almaty Legion were accepted into the Russian Basketball Super League, the second division of distant neighbours Russia, to play the 2014–15 season there. They finished dead last of the 16 team league with 2 wins out of 30, though they later beat MBA Moscow in the 15th place playoffs to move up a position. In February 2015, Legion won their first trophy, the Kazakhstan Basketball Cup, beating Tobol Kostanay 90-86 in the final to win the tournament organised in Almaty. They also reached the final of the 2014–15", "id": "4077205" }, { "contents": "2019 West Coast Conference Men's Basketball Tournament\n\n\nThe 2019 West Coast Conference Men's Basketball Tournament was the postseason men's basketball tournament for the West Coast Conference during the 2018–19 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The tournament was held from March 7 through March 12, 2019 at the Orleans Arena in Paradise, Nevada. Saint Mary's upset top-seeded Gonzaga 60–47 in the championship game to win the tournament, and received the conference's automatic bid to the 2019 NCAA Tournament. It was the fourth championship for Saint Mary's, their first since 2012. All", "id": "6016721" }, { "contents": "1946–47 Texas Longhorns men's basketball team\n\n\nThe 1946–47 Texas Longhorns men's basketball team represented The University of Texas at Austin in intercollegiate basketball competition during the 1946–47 season. The Longhorns were led by eighth-year head coach and former Longhorn basketball consensus first-team All-American Jack Gray. The team finished the season with a 26–2 overall record, for the highest win percentage in all of college basketball for the season, and a 12–0 record in Southwest Conference play to win the SWC championship. Texas advanced to the NCAA Tournament for the third time, recording its", "id": "18102684" }, { "contents": "Basketball in Lithuania\n\n\nteam and exploiting stalling techniques, Lithuania trailed only 14-7 at halftime before losing 31-10. The Lithuanian press declared it a moral victory. Also in 1936, Lithuania applied to become a member of FIBA and take part in international basketball competitions, the first being EuroBasket 1937, the second European basketball tournament that the Latvia Basketball Association would organize in Riga as reigning champions. Thus while basketball would become an Olympic sport at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Lithuania decided not to take part in the tournament, instead", "id": "19607955" }, { "contents": "UCC Demons\n\n\nforerunner of the National League, which began in 1973. Blue Demons were the inaugural winners of the National League in 1973–74. With their early success, they were able to organise one of the first significant international tournaments in Ireland. The Major Extra Size International Basketball Tournament attracted teams from England, Scotland, France, Belgium, Yugoslavia, Iceland and Canada. The tournament was held in the Parochial Hall in Cork and exposed the local teams and fans to the next level of basketball. By the early 1980s, the recruitment of", "id": "14615853" }, { "contents": "Coppin State Eagles men's basketball\n\n\nThe Coppin State Eagles men's basketball team is the basketball team that represents Coppin State University in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. The school's team currently competes in the NCAA Division I in the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference. Before joining NCAA Division I, the Eagles were the 1976 NAIA National Champions. The Eagles have appeared in the NCAA Tournament four times. Their combined record is 1–4. The 1996–97 team was only the third 15 seed to beat a 2 seed in the tournament. The 2007–08 Coppin State team was", "id": "13930583" }, { "contents": "1996 World Cup of Hockey\n\n\n-2, while Canada beat Sweden 3-2 on Theoren Fleury's goal at 19:47 of the second overtime period, ending the longest game in international hockey history. The tournament did see some controversy after the Canada-Russia game in Vancouver was played when Sweden's coach Kent Forsberg said he believed \"Canada cheated its way to victory\" through help of Canadian NHL referees that saw two goals disallowed and several controversial penalties for Russia. The Russian's coach Boris Mikhailov echoed a similar sentiment after the game saying \"It was", "id": "5190765" }, { "contents": "History of Red Star Belgrade\n\n\n\"the Royals\" had only knocked Red Star out on away goals (Real won in Madrid by 2–0). Red Star continues to build its \"Dream Team\" and Dinamo was left without the most gifted player – Robert Prosinečki, who won later with the Yugoslavia the 1987 FIFA World Youth Championship, including the winning of the award as tournament's best player. It followed the new Yugoslav representative and defender Refik Šabanadžović. In 1988, Dejan Savićević and Darko Pančev, the best remaining players of the league, signed for", "id": "8645786" }, { "contents": "Streetball in Puerto Rico\n\n\nvictorious, entering the game undefeated in six years of playing globally, with Puerto Rico Streetballer's win being its first lost to an international team and fourth overall. Sprite brand held a 1-on-1 tournament on September 29–30, 2012, the \"De Tr3s Pa'l All-Star\", which rewarded the six best streetballers that enter it with participation in the 2013 All-Star Game. The overall winner of the tournament was Joel Román. Puerto Rico is a member of the Street Basketball Association's International Street Basketball Federation, which promotes", "id": "21451582" }, { "contents": "North Macedonia national basketball team\n\n\nThe North Macedonia national basketball team ( / \"Košarkaška reprezentacija na Severna Makedonija\", formerly known officially as the Macedonia national basketball team) represents North Macedonia in international basketball and is controlled by the Basketball Federation of North Macedonia, which was created in 1992. They joined FIBA in 1993, after they gained independence from Yugoslavia. That same year the national team played their first official match against Estonia. Prior to 1993, Macedonian players took part on the Yugoslavia national team. Macedonia debuted in their first international tournament at the EuroBasket", "id": "9700361" }, { "contents": "Australia women's national basketball team\n\n\nstraight international medal finish. The 2000s was a golden era for the Opals, winning at least a bronze medal at every official FIBA tournament. In 2010, the 16th edition of the World Championship was held in the Czech Republic. Pre-tournament favourites Australia, USA, and Russia, dominated play in the first two rounds. In the quarterfinals, however, Australia suffered a shock 79–68 loss to the Czech Republic. The loss meant that the Opals could not finish any higher than 5th place, its worst international result since", "id": "3258893" }, { "contents": "Spain women's national basketball team\n\n\n, 47–39. It would take six years to play another international friendly game, losing to Cuba 50–70 on 28 September 1969. Their first official games were in March 1970, trying to qualify for 1970 EuroBasket, winning their first game against Switzerland 61–44 and losing to Hungary and France. The team qualified for their first major international tournament in their next attempt, the 1974 EuroBasket. After losing their three group stage games, they won their first game in a final tournament against Denmark in the placement matches, finishing in 12th position", "id": "13054811" }, { "contents": "2017 Big West Conference Men's Basketball Tournament\n\n\nThe 2017 Big West Conference Men's Basketball Tournament was the postseason men's basketball tournament for the Big West Conference. The tournament took place March 9–11, 2017 at the Honda Center in Anaheim, California. The tournament winner, UC Davis, received the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament with a 50–47 win over UC Irvine in the final. The top eight conference teams were eligible for the tournament. Teams were seeded by record within the conference, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records. Teams", "id": "13743768" }, { "contents": "2019 MEAC Men's Basketball Tournament\n\n\nThe 2019 Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference Men's Basketball Tournament was the postseason men's basketball tournament for the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference. The tournament was held from March 11 through March 16, 2019 at the Norfolk Scope in Norfolk, Virginia. North Carolina Central defeated Norfolk State 50–47 in the championship game to win the tournament, and received the conference's automatic bid to the 2019 NCAA Tournament. It was the third consecutive championship for North Carolina Central, and fourth in the last six seasons. 11 teams were seeded by", "id": "4746141" }, { "contents": "History of Ferencvárosi TC\n\n\nwith Liverpool at Anfield, in Liverpool, England. On the return match, the result was a goalless draw which resulted the qualification of Ferencváros for the next round. In the quarter-finals, Ferencváros beat Malmö FF 3–1 in Malmö, Sweden. On the return match, Ferencváros drew with Malmö (1–1). In the semi-finals, Ferencváros beat Red Star Belgrade 2–1 at home. On the return match Ferencváros drew with Red Star Belgrade (2–2) in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. In the final Ferencváros lost 3–0", "id": "4677566" }, { "contents": "2006–07 Kansas State Wildcats men's basketball team\n\n\ncolspan=9| Phillips 66 2007 Big 12 Championship Tournament !colspan=9|2007 NIT The Wildcats went on to a 10–6 record in conference play, earning a number 4 seed in the 2007 Big 12 Men's Basketball Tournament at the Sprint Center in Kansas City, Missouri. The Wildcats faced the #5 seed Texas Tech Red Raiders and won 64-47. They went on to lose in the next round to the #1 seed and eventual champion, Kansas Jayhawks, 67-61. The Wildcats earned a berth in the 2007 National Invitation Tournament", "id": "7267433" }, { "contents": "NCAA Season 62 basketball tournaments\n\n\nThe 1986 NCAA Basketball Tournament was the 62nd season in the Philippine National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). For the fourth time in five years, the Letran Knights have crowned themselves basketball champions in the Seniors division. The Staglets of San Sebastian College beat comebacking San Beda Red Cubs, 2-1, in their own title series for the Junior division championship. Format: Taking the first round pennant was San Sebastian, losing only to Jose Rizal College, 92-93. The Letran Knights dropped two games in the first", "id": "7265697" }, { "contents": "Purdue Boilermakers men's basketball\n\n\nElite Eight appearance since 2000. The Boilermakers have appeared in the NCAA Tournament 31 times. Their combined record is 42–31; due to use of an ineligible player, Purdue vacated one win and one loss from the 1996 NCAA Tournament, resulting in an adjusted official NCAA Tournament record of 41–30. The Boilermakers have appeared in the National Invitation Tournament (NIT) eight times. Their combined record is 20–7. They were NIT champions in 1974. The Boilermakers have appeared in the College Basketball Invitational (CBI) one time. Their record", "id": "3985834" }, { "contents": "Omari Tetradze\n\n\n– Tetradze. Later he considered restoring his original surname, but decided it would cause too many problems. At club level, he played for Dinamo Tbilisi, FC Dynamo Moscow, Alania Vladikavkaz (where he won a Russian league championship medal in 1995), AS Roma, and PAOK FC (Greece). He played for Russia at international level, and appeared at World Cup 1994 and Euro 1996. At the latter tournament, he played superbly in each of Russia's three games despite the team's poor results, and", "id": "17559889" }, { "contents": "KK Sloboda Užice\n\n\nsuccess was the participation in the Yugoslav First Federal League in 1988–89 season. Playing along with the great basketball clubs such as the Partizan Belgrade, Red Star Belgrade, Jugoplastika Split, Cibona Zagreb, Olimpija Ljubljana and many, the club has achieved 11th place. Due to the dissolution of SFR Yugoslavia, the club continues to compete in the FR Yugoslavia First League. In the 1991–92 season, the club achieved 7th place, but the next season it was relegated. From 1991 to 2006 the club changed its name four times.", "id": "2123886" }, { "contents": "Einar Gausel\n\n\nEinar Johan Gausel (born 30 November 1963) is a Norwegian chess player and Norway's third International Grandmaster since 1995. Gausel has won three Norwegian chess championships, in 1992, 1996 and 2001. His Grandmaster title was gained after making good results at tournaments in Gausdal in 1990, 1992, and 1994–1995 and finally winning a Danish tournament. In 2001 he was equal first with Vladimir Chuchelov in the colossal Cappelle-la-Grande open (702 players, with 92 Grandmasters and 72 International masters). Gausel is also the", "id": "15494924" }, { "contents": "San Francisco Dons women's basketball\n\n\nThe San Francisco Dons women's basketball team represents the University of San Francisco in NCAA Division I women's college basketball. San Francisco began play in 1976. Their first postseason appearance was in the 1980 AIAW National Division I Basketball Championship, losing 92–58 to BYU in the First Round. They made appearances in the NCAA Tournament in 1995, 1996, 1997, 2016, with a Sweet Sixteen appearance in 1996. That year, USF (ranked as a 5 seed) beat Florida 68–61, and Duke 64–60 before losing to Connecticut", "id": "16725321" }, { "contents": "1991 FIBA Centennial Jubilee Basketball Tournament\n\n\nThe 1991 FIBA Centennial Jubilee Basketball Tournament was the special edition tournament of the Acropolis International Basketball Tournament that was organized jointly by FIBA Europe and the Hellenic Basketball Federation to commemorate the 100 year anniversary of the sport of basketball. The tournament was held from June 5 to June 9, 1991, at the SEF Indoor Hall in Piraeus, Greece. The tournament was won by Italy, with Greece finishing in second place. The Jubilee also included a FIBA Festival All-Star Game, which was divided up into a Balkans versus the", "id": "3734770" }, { "contents": "Murray State Racers men's basketball\n\n\nopening round of the 1996 National Invitational Tournament, and finished the season 19-10. Marcus Brown finished his college playing career at the close of the 1996 season with 2,236 career points, which is third best in Murray State history. With a November 23, 1996, victory over the Belmont Bruins, the Racers began a 47-game home winning streak that would last into the 1999–2000 season. The Racers won the 1997 OVC Tournament with an overtime win over Austin Peay and earned a spot in the NCAA Tournament. ESPN's College", "id": "19384528" }, { "contents": "2016–17 Atlantic 10 Conference men's basketball season\n\n\nThe 2016–17 Atlantic 10 Conference men's basketball season was the 41st season of Atlantic 10 Conference basketball. The 2017 Atlantic 10 Men's Basketball Tournament was held at the PPG Paints Arena in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania from March 8–12, 2017. Dayton won the regular season championship. Rhode Island won the A-10 Tournament by beating VCU in the tournament championship. As a result, Rhode Island received the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament. Three A-10 teams received bids to the NCAA Tournament: Dayton, VCU, and Rhode Island.", "id": "7289863" }, { "contents": "EuroBelgrade\n\n\nEuroBelgrade is an annual international student sports tournament that takes place in Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. It is hosted by the Faculty of Organizational Sciences from Belgrade and supported by the entire University of Belgrade. During the tournament, students have the opportunity to play futsal, volleyball, basketball, waterpolo, table tennis, compete in cheerleading, visit some of the most attractive and famous Belgrade sights and party every night. All sport events are played in a building complex in a Kosutnjak forest. This three-day tournament belongs to", "id": "4849399" }, { "contents": "Euroleague Basketball Next Generation Tournament\n\n\nthe 8 team Final Four qualification tournament. The regional tournaments are the Torneig de Bàsquet Junior Ciutat de L'Hospitalet, the Kaunas International Junior Tournament, the Belgrade International Junior Tournament, and the Torneo Costa del Sol. The winners of each of the 4 regional tournaments qualify to the Final Four qualification tournament. In addition to the 4 winners of each of the regional qualification tournaments, the reigning champion from the previous season, as well as three wild card invitees, also take part in the Final Tournament, which is played by eight", "id": "140795" }, { "contents": "1996 SEC Men's Basketball Tournament\n\n\nThe 1996 SEC Men’s Basketball Tournament took place from March 7-10, 1996, at the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana. The Mississippi State Bulldogs won the tournament title and received the SEC’s automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament by beating the Kentucky Wildcats by a score of 84-73. This was the first time the Mississippi State men’s basketball team won the SEC tournament. Jefferson Pilot Sports regionally broadcast and syndicated coverage of the first round, the quarterfinals, and the semi-finals. Play-", "id": "10800240" }, { "contents": "Texas Tech Red Raiders basketball\n\n\n#700 (SMU), #800 (at SMU), and #900 (Texas A&M). With a Texas Tech career record of 326–261, Myers has more wins with the Red Raiders than any other men's basketball coach in school history. Myers led Tech to 16 winning seasons, two Southwest Conference championships, three SWC tournament titles, and four NCAA Tournament berths. Myers served as the school's athletic director from 1996 to 2011. James Dickey replaced Myers as head coach prior to the 1991/92 season and would", "id": "15167639" }, { "contents": "1982 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship Game\n\n\nof the tournament 47-46. Georgetown then began a thirteen-game win streak, which was followed by losing three straight to three conference opponents. The Hoyas then finished the regular season with nine more wins and one loss, which was good enough to finish second in the Big East regular season standings. The Hoyas won their first two games of the Big East Tournament by a collective margin of 29 points and advanced to the championship game against the Villanova Wildcats. The two teams were tied at halftime 33-33,", "id": "13552174" }, { "contents": "2007–08 Ohio State Buckeyes men's basketball team\n\n\nThe 2007–08 Ohio State Buckeyes men's basketball finished in fifth place in the Big Ten, squarely on the NCAA tournament bubble. However, they were not selected, marking the only time in coach Thad Matta's head coaching career his team missed the NCAA tournament while being eligible. The team dominated in the 2008 National Invitation Tournament on their way to a 92-85 victory over Massachusetts in the final. The Buckeyes lost three important players from their 2006–07 NCAA Runners-up team to the NBA Draft. Greg Oden, the", "id": "20762715" }, { "contents": "India national basketball team\n\n\nAustralia for almost the whole game until it finally ceded to the Boomers 75-93 after leading at halftime 41-37. Many Indian players also made headlines while in the Soviet Union as well. Ajmer Singh gained worldwide attention as he was amongst the top 10 shooters there and became the 10th best pivot player in the tournament there. The late 90s saw the emergence of [Jaldeep Dhaliwal], the first Indian basketball player who gained considerable international attention. Jaldeep led India to a surprising victory over South Korea, one of", "id": "4414633" }, { "contents": "Randy Wittman\n\n\nalike. Wittman signed an extension to remain head coach of the Wizards on June 3, 2014. The Wizards fired Wittman on April 13, 2016 after the team missed the playoffs. His son Ryan Wittman starred for the Cornell Big Red basketball team; he helped lead the Big Red to their first NCAA Tournament appearance in 20 years during the 2007–08 season, again in 2009, and to Cornell's first-ever NCAA basketball tournament victories in 2010 over the Temple Owls and Wisconsin Badgers as the Big Red made its first-", "id": "19509307" }, { "contents": "1950 FIBA World Championship\n\n\nThe 1950 FIBA World Championship, also called the 1st World Basketball Championship – 1950, was an international basketball tournament held by the International Basketball Federation in Buenos Aires, Argentina, from October 22 to November 3, 1950. Ten nations participated in the inaugural tournament. All competition was held at the Luna Park, Buenos Aires. Argentina claimed the gold medal, by beating the United States 64–50. FIBA determined the requirements to qualify for the World Championship as follows: the three best teams in the previous Summer Olympics basketball, the", "id": "1451568" }, { "contents": "Euroleague Basketball Next Generation Tournament\n\n\nthe tournament's new sponsorship name became the Adidas Next Generation Tournament. The four regional tournaments were originally the Torneo Città di Roma, the Torneig de Bàsquet Junior Ciutat de L'Hospitalet, the Kaunas International Junior Tournament, and the Belgrade International Junior Tournament. In 2016, the Torneo Città di Roma was replaced by the Torneo Costa del Sol. In total, 34 teams compete to play for the Next Generation Tournament title, at the Next Generation Tournament Final Four. 32 teams compete in 4 regional tournaments, in order to qualify to", "id": "140794" }, { "contents": "International High School of San Francisco\n\n\n17, IHS attained the following additional results in BCL league play: first in men's and women's basketball; first in baseball; and second in badminton; third in women's volleyball; third in men's tennis. The women's varsity soccer team reached the finals of the NCS playoff tournament. The women's basketball team made it to the CIF State tournament in 2016-17. Students at International have the option of taking art - whether it be music, theater, visual arts, or film - in each", "id": "15726852" }, { "contents": "Portsmouth F.C. (basketball)\n\n\nWembley Arena on 3 April, and fell to a 106-102 defeat against a BCP side inspired by Argentinian star Julio Politi. They earned some consolation the following day by beating Manchester United 99-89 in the third place match. An 'International All Star' tournament was held at the Mountbatten Centre on 29 and 30 December, featuring Portsmouth, Solent, Sao Paulo from Brazil and the Australian Institute of Sport. Portsmouth beat the Australians 104-44 in their semi-final and then defeated Solent 103-95 in", "id": "8755534" }, { "contents": "Bulgaria national basketball team\n\n\nThe Bulgaria national basketball team () represents Bulgaria in international basketball. They are administered by the Bulgarian Basketball Federation. Bulgaria's first appearance at an international tournament came at the EuroBasket in 1935. They have reached the premier European basketball competition 24 times, with their best results coming in 1957 as the runner-up on home soil, and 1961 respectively. The national team has also qualified for the FIBA World Cup, where they finished seventh in their lone appearance in 1959. Competing at the Summer Olympics multiple times, Bulgaria", "id": "3576230" }, { "contents": "Netherlands national basketball team\n\n\nThe Netherlands national basketball team () represents the Netherlands in international basketball matches. The national team is governed by Basketball Nederland. The Dutch have reached the European Basketball Championship on 15 occasions. Their best results at the event came in 1983, where they finished in 4th place. They also qualified for the FIBA World Cup once in 1986. In recent years though, the national team has struggled with consistency to reach major international tournaments. The team represents itself as the Orange Lions. The Netherlands were one of the teams that", "id": "7536357" }, { "contents": "Georgia national basketball team\n\n\nThe Georgia national basketball team () represents the country of Georgia in international basketball matches, and is controlled by the Georgian Basketball Federation. Georgia became a member of FIBA in 1992, after they gained independence from the Soviet Union. The national team played their first official match against Poland in 1995. Georgia's accomplishments on the international stage have been making four appearances at the European Basketball Championship. Their best result came at their debut trip to the tournament in 2011. While they have qualified for the top European event, they", "id": "7712121" }, { "contents": "Latvia\n\n\nOzoliņš and more recently Zemgus Girgensons, who the Latvian people have strongly supported in international and NHL play, expressed through the dedication of using the NHL's All Star Voting to bring Zemgus to number one in voting. Dinamo Riga is the country's strongest hockey club, playing in the Kontinental Hockey League. The national tournament is the Latvian Hockey Higher League, held since 1931. The 2006 IIHF World Championship was held in Riga. The second most popular sport is basketball. Latvia has a long basketball tradition, as the Latvian", "id": "17642259" }, { "contents": "2011 Big South Conference Men's Basketball Tournament\n\n\nThe 2011 Big South Men's Basketball Tournament took place on March 1, 3, 5, 2011 at campus sites. The semifinal round was televised on ESPNU, and the finals were televised on ESPN2. The UNC Asheville Bulldogs won the tournament, defeating Charleston Southern 72–63 in the quarterfinal round, High Point 62–45 in the semifinal round, and #1 Coastal Carolina 60–47 in the championship game. The top eight eligible men's basketball teams in the Big South Conference received a berth in the conference tournament. After the 18 game", "id": "12705823" }, { "contents": "1986 Acropolis International Basketball Tournament\n\n\n, Kambouris 4, Melissinos, Stavropoulos 8, F. Christodoulou 10, Andritsos, Filippou 11, Romanidis 2, Pedoulakis 3 (1), Karatzas 8, Dimakopoulos 2. HOLLAND: Smits 20, Bottse 11, Schilp 17 (1), Ebeltjes 4, Esveldt, Heijdeman 9, van Dinten 19, de Waard, Broukman 6. br Yugoslavia - Italy 92-80 YUGOSLAVIA: D. Petrović 26 (3), A. Petrović 16 (3), Divac 7, Čutura 17, Petranović 4, Radović 5,", "id": "6981425" }, { "contents": "Basketball in New Zealand\n\n\nFIBA World Championship in Indianapolis. At the tournament they finished fourth, after beating Puerto Rico in the quarter-finals before losses to Yugoslavia and Germany. Tall Blacks captain Pero Cameron was the only non-NBA player named to the all-tournament team in Indianapolis. The Tall Blacks qualified for the 2004 Athens Olympics, but again finished with a 1–5 record and lost to Australia in the playoff for ninth place. Their most noted moment was on the 7th day of the games, when they beat Serbia and Montenegro, 90–87", "id": "5179502" }, { "contents": "2008–09 Connecticut Huskies women's basketball team\n\n\n. Kalana Greene led the Huskies with a season-high 20 points, scoring 18 points before halftime, and leading the Huskies to a 47–10 halftime lead. USF would match the UConn production in the second half, but the 37 point margin held. The final score was 79–42. The second tournament game was against Villanova, a team UConn had beaten by 27 points less than two weeks earlier. However, the game was tied at 25 apiece, with under six minutes to go in the first half. Maya Moore then", "id": "21371273" }, { "contents": "McDonald's Championship\n\n\nThe McDonald's Championship (sometimes called the \"McDonald's Open\") was an international men's professional basketball club cup competition that featured a representative of the National Basketball Association against champion club teams from Europe, Australia, and South America. The first competition was held in 1987 and continued annually after that until 1991, when the tournament switched to a biannual event. For the first two years, the men's national teams from Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union participated. The McDonald's Championship, from 1987 to 1996, was", "id": "5071363" }, { "contents": "Basketball at the Summer Olympics\n\n\n1984, against the South Koreans, amid the Soviet-led boycott. In 1988, the tournament expanded into eight teams, with the Americans beating Yugoslavia in the gold medal game. In 1992, the Unified Team, consisting of the former Soviet republics, defeated China in the gold medal game. In 1996, the tournament settled into its current 12-team format; the U.S. has swept all of the tournaments since then, winning 48 consecutive games. All venues were indoor stadiums except for the 1936 tournament which was held outdoors on", "id": "14854522" }, { "contents": "Acropolis International Basketball Tournament\n\n\nThe Acropolis International Basketball Tournament (also known as the Acropolis of Athens Basketball Tournament and the Acropolis Basketball Cup) (Greek: Τουρνουά Ακρόπολις) is an international basketball competition that is played between national teams, which has been held almost every year since 1986, and takes place in Athens, Greece, during the summer. It takes place before the big official FIBA tournaments like the EuroBasket, the FIBA World Cup, and the Summer Olympic Games. The tournament is named after the world-famous Acropolis of Athens. The competition", "id": "21469024" }, { "contents": "Belgium national basketball team\n\n\nThe Belgian national basketball team (, , ) represents Belgium in international basketball tournaments. The supervising body is Basketball Belgium. The national team has qualified for the EuroBasket 13 times, having their best result at the EuroBasket 1947 when they finished 4th. Further, they entered the Summer Olympics on three occasions, in 1936, 1948, and 1952. Their best result there was 11th place at the 1948 Olympic Games, in London. Their qualification for the EuroBasket 2011, marked their first EuroBasket appearance since 1993. Though, the", "id": "3576176" }, { "contents": "Red Star Belgrade\n\n\nYugoslav competitions, Red Star was the most successful club in Yugoslavia and finished first in the Yugoslav First League all-time table, and is the most successful club in Serbia. Since the 1991–92 season, Red Star's best results are in the UEFA Champions League group stage and UEFA Europa League knockout phase. According to 2008 polls, Red Star Belgrade is the most popular football club in Serbia, with 48.2% of the population supporting them. They have many supporters in other former Yugoslav republics and in the Serbian diaspora.", "id": "5070852" }, { "contents": "Euroleague Basketball Next Generation Tournament\n\n\nThe Euroleague Basketball Next Generation Tournament, known as the Adidas Next Generation Tournament for sponsorship reasons, and until 2014, called the Nike International Junior Tournament (NIJT) for sponsorship reasons, is an international boy's youth age basketball tournament that is contested between the best basketball clubs in Europe in the Under-18 age category. The tournament is organized by Euroleague Basketball, and is sponsored by Adidas. The tournament's Final Four takes place during the senior men's EuroLeague Final Four event. The tournaments's Final Four also features a slam", "id": "140792" }, { "contents": "Estonia national basketball team\n\n\nThe Estonia national basketball team () represents Estonia in international basketball matches. They are controlled by the Estonian Basketball Association. Estonia first competed internationally at the 1936 Summer Olympics. The national team has also made five appearances at the European Basketball Championship, with their best results coming in 1937 and 1939, where they finished in fifth place. Estonia joined FIBA on 23 November 1934. Coached by Herbert Niiler, Estonia first competed on the international stage at the 1936 Summer Olympics, held in Berlin, the first Olympic tournament to hold", "id": "3631949" }, { "contents": "Harold Johnson (basketball)\n\n\nHarold H. Johnson (January 30, 1920 – September 17, 1999) was an American professional basketball player. He played in the Basketball Association of America for the Detroit Falcons in the first year of the league's existence (1946–47) and averaged 0.6 points per game. A three-year letterman for the Indiana State Sycamores, \"Big Stoop\" led the Sycamores to the 3rd round of the 1942 NAIA Tournament. The \"Fightin' Trees' dropped a close game to the eventual champions, the Hamline Pipers. Following", "id": "19490237" }, { "contents": "Conel Hugh O'Donel Alexander\n\n\nthe English team, because of the declaration of World War II, since he was required at home for codebreaking duties. He was also the non-playing captain of England from 1964 to 1970. Alexander was awarded the International Master title in 1950 and the International Master for Correspondence Chess title in 1970. He won Hastings 1946/47 with the score 7½/9, a point ahead of Savielly Tartakower. Alexander's best tournament result may have been first equal (with David Bronstein) at Hastings 1953/54, where he went undefeated and beat Soviet", "id": "20374418" }, { "contents": "Bosnia and Herzegovina national basketball team\n\n\nThe Bosnia and Herzegovina national basketball team (Bosnian: \"Košarkaška reprezentacija Bosne i Hercegovine\" / Кошаркашка репрезентација Босне и Херцеговине) represents Bosnia and Herzegovina in international basketball competitions, and is governed by the Basketball Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Until 1992, Bosnian basketballers played for Yugoslavia. Bosnia and Herzegovina reached their first international tournament at the EuroBasket in 1993. They have competed 9 times at the event overall. The national team though have yet to qualify for the FIBA World Cup or Summer Olympics. Until 1992, Bosnia was", "id": "11792353" }, { "contents": "History of netball\n\n\n's Basketball and Netball (now the International Netball Federation). The sport was referred to as \"netball\" in most countries, although New Zealand and Australia still used the name \"women's basketball\"; both countries eventually adopted the name \"netball\" in 1970. This meeting also resulted in the creation of a world tournament to be played every four years, now called the Netball World Cup. The inaugural tournament was played in Eastbourne, England in 1963, and tournaments have since been played quadrennially. Since their inception", "id": "17980065" }, { "contents": "Republika Srpska national basketball team\n\n\nand KSHB into BiH Basketball Association. At the national level Republic of Srpska played friendly matches within a traditional manifestation called Basketball Tournament (Košarkaški sabor) where Republic of Srpska senior team played friendly matches against Serbian national team consisting of players from Serbian Top Division. During that tournament KSRS named the best male and female basketball players of the year. During the International Sport Fair in Belgrade in November 2014, the protocole of cooperation was signed by BF Serbia and BF Republic of Srpska. In 2015 the Serbian selection is going to play", "id": "13699009" }, { "contents": "Dragan Godžić\n\n\nDragan Godžić (; born April 14, 1927) was a Serbian basketball player and coach. He represented the Yugoslavia national basketball team internationally. Godžić was a member of the first managing board of the Crvena zvezda basketball club. Godžić played for a Belgrade-based team Crvena zvezda of the Yugoslav First League. During the time with Crvena zvezda he won seven Yugoslav Championships. Godžić was a member of the Yugoslavia national basketball team that participated at the 1953 European Championship in Moscow, the Soviet Union. Over two tournament games, he", "id": "5482233" }, { "contents": "Mirko Marjanović (basketball)\n\n\nMirko Marjanović (; born 2 May 1926 – \"Unknown\") was a Serbian basketball player and coach. He represented the Yugoslavia national basketball team internationally. Marjanović played for Belgrade-based teams the Yugoslav Army and Partizan of the Yugoslav First League. In the 1945 season, he won the Yugoslav Championships with the Yugoslav Army. Marjanović was a member of the Yugoslavia national basketball team at the 1947 FIBA European Championship in Prague, Czechoslovakia. Over five tournament games, he averaged 9.2 points per game. At the 1953 FIBA European", "id": "9152887" }, { "contents": "Ramsay Robertson Dalgety\n\n\n1987–90. Member of Faculty of Advocates 1972, IOD 1982–89. Councillor City of Edinburgh DC 1974–80, chairman Opera Singers' Pension Fund London 1991–92 (trustee 1983–92, deputy chairman 1987–91). Deputy traffic commissioner for Scotland 1988–92, deputy chairman Edinburgh Hibernian Shareholders' Association 1990–92. Vice-president Tonga International Game Fishing Association since 1996 (treasurer 1994–96), tournament director Tonga International Billfish Tournament 1996. He is co-chair of a Tongan Royal Commission and has been chairperson of the Tonga Electric Power Board since 2002. On 28", "id": "3903697" }, { "contents": "1946–47 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team\n\n\nbeen its home court the previous season. Ripley previously had coached Georgetown from 1927 to 1929, leaving to coach Yale for six seasons, and again from 1938 to 1943, leading the Hoyas to what at the time was their only postseason tournament apperanace in the 1943 NCAA Tournament. He then left to coach at Columbia and Notre Dame when Georgetown suspended its basketball program for two seasons during World War II. This time he would coach the Hoyas for three seasons, and the 1946-47 team was by far the most successful", "id": "20271633" }, { "contents": "Gonzaga University\n\n\nplayer and Gonzaga alum John Stockton graduated), made the regional finals of the NCAA tournament (the \"Elite Eight\") in 1999, re-appearing in the tournament every year since (). The women's basketball team made it to the \"Sweet Sixteen\" in 2010. Three of Gonzaga's most recent notable athletes are basketball players – former center Ronny Turiaf; Robert Sacre 2012 NBA Draft (selected by the Los Angeles Lakers third overall 2006 NBA Draft pick), and Red Star Belgrade Adam Morrison (who", "id": "17367600" }, { "contents": "France national basketball team\n\n\nThe France national basketball team () represents France in international basketball and is administered by the French Federation of Basketball. France has been a regular at the EuroBasket, with 37 appearances, the most for any nation all-time. Their best result at the tournament was winning a gold medal at EuroBasket 2013. They have also come away with two silver medals, in 1949 and 2011. The French squad has won two silver medals at the Summer Olympics as well, in 1948 and 2000. France's best result at the", "id": "4259326" }, { "contents": "1947 BAA playoffs\n\n\nThe 1947 BAA playoffs was the postseason tournament that followed the inaugural Basketball Association of America 1946–47 season. (After its 1948–49 season, the BAA merged with the older National Basketball League to create the National Basketball Association or NBA.) The tournament concluded with the Philadelphia Warriors defeating the Chicago Stags, 4 games to 1, in the BAA Finals. The six qualified teams all began tournament play on Wednesday, April 2, and the Finals concluded on Tuesday, April 22. Philadelphia and Chicago played 10 and 11 games in the", "id": "16249040" }, { "contents": "2017 FIBA Melanesia Basketball Cup\n\n\nThe 2017 FIBA Melanesia Basketball Cup was an international basketball tournament contested by national teams of the newly formed Melanesia sub-zone of FIBA Oceania. The inaugural edition of the tournament were hosted by Papua New Guinea from 27 to 30 September 2017. Matches were played at the Taurama Aquatic and Indoor Centre. It was officially launched on 19 May 2017. The tournament served as qualifiers for the basketball event of the 2019 Pacific Games in Samoa with three berths for Melanesia allocated for the top three teams in this tournament. Additionally the top", "id": "16680079" }, { "contents": "FIBA International Christmas Tournament\n\n\nClub World Cup), whose results were valid for the first edition of the aforementioned competition of the highest basketball organism, and whose first trophy It was the same as the one used in the FIBA International Christmas Tournament until 1980. The second edition of the Christmas Tournament was baptized at the time as Latin Cup, due to the origin of the participating teams (there was a competition called Latin Cup in 1953 that only had an edition, although the one of December 1966 counts as the second edition of the Christmas Tournament)", "id": "10828019" } ]

[ { "contents": "1946–47 Holy Cross Crusaders men's basketball team\n\n\nThe 1946–47 Holy Cross Crusaders men's basketball team represented The College of the Holy Cross in NCAA competition in the 1946–47 season. The Crusaders, behind coach Alvin \"Doggie\" Julian, NCAA tournament MVP George Kaftan, star Joe Mullaney and a freshman point guard named Bob Cousy, beat Oklahoma at Madison Square Garden to win the NCAA championship. The team entered the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament as the last seed in the 8-team tournament. In the first match, Holy Cross defeated the United States Naval Academy in front", "id": "16327790" }, { "contents": "History of the FIBA Basketball World Cup\n\n\nand South America) and the Eurobasket tournament. Host Argentina also was given a spot in the tournament. This tournament would be the last to feature Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union, and both made the most of it, meeting in the gold medal match. Led by Croatian Dražen Petrović and Serbian Vlade Divac, the golden generation of Yugoslav basketball played together for the last time in a major international tournament at the World Championship. The team won the gold medal, beating the Soviet Union 92–75, a fitting end for a country", "id": "16971900" }, { "contents": "2008 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament\n\n\n. Some key defensive stands and free throws by the Volunteers, however, pulled them ahead. They will play third seed Louisville, who beat sixth seed Oklahoma, 78–48. Sooner star Blake Griffin had trouble scoring against Louisville's double-teams, and Louisville's 30-point win was the school's best tournament win since 1968. Top-seeded North Carolina defeated fourth seeded Washington State 68–47. Washington State was held to 47 points, the least allowed by a Tar Heel team in the tournament since 1946. Tyler Hansbrough struggled in", "id": "257047" }, { "contents": "Stadion Maksimir\n\n\nthe UEFA Euro 1976 final tournament was held in SFR Yugoslavia, Maksimir hosted the Netherlands v. Czechoslovakia semi-final match and the Netherlands v. Yugoslavia third place match. Maksimir was the central venue for the 1987 Summer Universiade hosted by the city of Zagreb. In 1990, several events happened at Maksimir. On 13 May, the Dinamo Zagreb–Red Star Belgrade riot took place, an infamous riot involving Dinamo Zagreb and Red Star Belgrade supporters. The last match of the Yugoslavia national football team was hosted at Maksimir on 3 June", "id": "4003773" }, { "contents": "2018–19 Euroleague Basketball Next Generation Tournament\n\n\nThe 2018–19 Euroleague Basketball Next Generation Tournament, also called Adidas Next Generation Tournament by sponsorship reasons, is the 17th edition of the international junior basketball tournament organized by the Euroleague Basketball Company. As in past years, 32 teams joined the first stage, which are played in four qualifying tournaments between December 2018 and February 2019. The Valencia Tournament was played between 28 and 30 December 2018. The Munich Tournament was played between 25 and 27 January 2019. The Kaunas Tournament was played between 8 and 10 February 2019. The Belgrade Tournament", "id": "16723395" }, { "contents": "Cyprus national basketball team\n\n\nThe Cypriot national basketball team is the national basketball team of Cyprus. It is run by the Cyprus Basketball Federation. It is affiliated to FIBA, in the FIBA Europe zone. The team participates at international and European tournaments. The only international tournament it took a part of in 2005, was the World University Games, where it finished 26th out of 30 participating nations. Cyprus national basketball team was a two-time Promotion Cup finalist (1990, 1994). The team's results have improved considerably in recent years.", "id": "8796375" }, { "contents": "Major achievements in basketball by nation\n\n\nThis article contains lists of achievements in major senior-level international basketball, 3x3 basketball and wheelchair basketball tournaments according to first-place, second-place and third-place results obtained by teams representing different nations. The objective is not to create combined medal tables; the focus is on listing the best positions achieved by teams in major international tournaments, ranking the nations according to the most number of podiums accomplished by teams of these nations. For the making of these lists, results from following major international tournaments were consulted:", "id": "2567479" }, { "contents": "2012–13 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team\n\n\n's first game of the tournament, a November 12 contest against the IUPUI Jaguars, resulted in a 91–54 Michigan victory. The win also gave Michigan its first consecutive 90-point performances since the 2000–01 team recorded three consecutive 90-point games. The following night, Michigan defeated Cleveland State by a 77–47 margin, marking the first time the school opened the season with three consecutive 30-point victories. The win also marked the first time Michigan had posted three consecutive 30-point wins since the 1988–89 Wolverines team (the 1989 national champion) won five consecutive 30-point", "id": "6800052" }, { "contents": "Holy Cross Crusaders men's basketball\n\n\nMVP George Kaftan, star Joe Mullaney and freshman point guard Bob Cousy, beat Oklahoma at Madison Square Garden to win the NCAA championship. The team entered the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament as the last seed in the 8-team tournament. Along with UConn, Holy Cross is one of the two New England colleges to ever win the NCAA tournament. In the first match, Holy Cross defeated the Navy 55 to 47, in front of a sold-out crowd at Madison Square Garden. Mullaney led the team in scoring", "id": "10994201" }, { "contents": "1990 Yugoslavia v Netherlands football match\n\n\nbetween the Croatian club Dinamo Zagreb and the Serbian club Red Star Belgrade. Croatian midfielder Zvonimir Boban kicked the policeman Refik Ahmetović and as a result got suspended by the Football Association of Yugoslavia (FSJ) for six months, causing him to miss the FIFA World Cup 1990 as well as the pre-tournament preparation friendlies. The exhibition versus the Netherlands took place on June 3 and was the last exhibition before the FIFA World Cup 1990. The crowd of 20,000 booed the Yugoslav national anthem Hey, Slavs. Fans cheered for the", "id": "6847604" }, { "contents": "2010 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament\n\n\n15–12 at one time, they missed 15 of their next sixteen shots while St. John's pulled out to a sixteen-point halftime lead. The two teams played roughly evenly the second half, but the halftime lead was more than enough and the Red Storm prevailed 65–47. Fourteenth seeded Louisiana Tech (La Tech) was returning to the NCAA Tournament after a three-year absence. Under Maggie Dixon award winning new coach Teresa Weatherspoon, the Lady Techsters took on third seeded Florida State. La tech started out strong, pulling", "id": "4677425" }, { "contents": "NCAA Season 92 basketball tournaments\n\n\nThe 2016 basketball tournaments of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (Philippines), otherwise known as NCAA Season 92, officially opened on June 25, 2016 at the Mall of Asia Arena, Pasay City. The showdown between season hosts San Beda Red Lions and season 91 men's basketball champions Letran Knights will be the first game, while JRU Heavy Bombers will face Mapua Cardinals in the second game. The games of the seniors basketball will be played on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays, while the junior games will be conducted every Mondays", "id": "21935372" }, { "contents": "Basketball in Greece\n\n\ninternational club tournaments in Europe, the predecessors of the EuroLeague that were then held instead of the EuroLeague tournament. The club advanced to the final of the 1954 San Remo Tournament, which they lost 81–74 to the Italian League club Olimpia Milano. Panellinios then won the 1955 Brussels Tournament, by defeating the Yugoslav League club Crvena Zvezda (Red Star Belgrade) in the final, by a score of 91–67. Panellinios also won the 1956 San Remo Tournament, by defeating the Italian League club Virtus Bologna, by a score of 67–37", "id": "9979930" }, { "contents": "1986 Acropolis International Basketball Tournament\n\n\nThe Acropolis International Tournament 1986 was the first edition of the Acropolis International Basketball Tournament. It was held from June 18 to June 20, 1986, at the SEF arena in Piraeus, Athens, Greece. The participating teams were the hosts, Greece, as well as Italy, Yugoslavia, and the Netherlands. The tournament featured famous international basketball players such as Dražen Petrović, Fanis Christodoulou, Nikos Galis, Antonello Riva, Vlade Divac, Rik Smits, Walter Magnifico, Stojko Vranković, Pierluigi Marzorati, and Panagiotis Giannakis. First", "id": "6981420" }, { "contents": "Bogdan Bogdanović (basketball)\n\n\ninternational basketball website Eurobasket.com. Bogdanović began playing organized basketball with ŠKK Zvezdara, a club in Belgrade. In April 2008, he moved on to KK Žitko Basket (then known as Alimenti Basket), also from Belgrade. Playing with Žitko Basket under coach Dragan Jakovljević, Bogdanović was part of the team that in April 2010 earned third place in the 2009–10 Serbian junior league at the final eight tournament in Vršac, after beating Partizan juniors in the quarterfinal, losing 89-86 to Hemofarm juniors in the semifinal and beating FMP junior", "id": "10194119" }, { "contents": "UAAP Season 49 men's basketball tournament\n\n\nThe 1986 UAAP men's basketball tournament was the 49th year of the men's tournament of the University Athletic Association of the Philippines (UAAP)'s basketball championship. Hosted by National University, the UP Fighting Maroons defeated the UE Red Warriors in the finals taking their first UAAP men's basketball championship in 47 years. Prior to the start of the season, De La Salle University was admitted as the eighth member school of the league. Tournament format: Number 1 seed UE only has to win once, while number 2 seed", "id": "21089230" }, { "contents": "1946–47 Houston Cougars men's basketball team\n\n\nThe 1946–47 Houston Cougars men's basketball team represented the University of Houston in the college basketball 1946–47 season. It was their second year of season play. The head coach for the Cougars was Alden Pasche, who was serving in his 2nd year in that position. The team played its home games at Jeppesen Gymnasium on-campus in Houston and were members of the Lone Star Conference. Houston captured its second conference regular season title, and competed in the postseason in the 1947 NAIA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament where they were", "id": "15588356" }, { "contents": "Australia men's national wheelchair basketball team\n\n\nThe Australia men's national wheelchair basketball team is the men's wheelchair basketball side that represents Australia in international competitions. The team is known as the Rollers. Australia took the gold medal at the 1996 Atlanta Paralympic Games and 2008 Beijing Paralympic Games. Australia has competed at every men's wheelchair basketball tournament at the Paralympic Games except 1964. Kevin Coombs was Australia's first captain of the men's wheelchair basketball team. The Rollers qualified for the 2016 Summer Paralympics by winning the 2015 Asia Oceania Qualifying Tournament and finished sixth. Results", "id": "15021027" }, { "contents": "Basketball at the Summer Olympics\n\n\ntournaments in which they competed, including six in a row from 1996 to 2016. Besides the United States, Argentina is the only nation still in existence who has won either the men's or women's tournament. The Soviet Union, Yugoslavia and the Unified Team are the countries no longer in existence who have won the tournament. The United States are the defending champions in both men's and women's tournaments. On June 9, 2017, the Executive Board of the International Olympic Committee announced that 3x3 basketball would become an", "id": "14854512" }, { "contents": "1946–47 BAA season\n\n\nThe 1946–47 BAA season was the inaugural season of the Basketball Association of America. (Following its third, the 1948–49 season, the BAA and National Basketball League merged to create the National Basketball Association or NBA.) The league launched with 11 teams playing a 60-game schedule. The postseason tournament at its conclusion, the 1947 BAA Playoffs, ended with the Philadelphia Warriors becoming the first BAA Champion, beating the Chicago Stags 4 games to 1 in the BAA Finals. The NBA recognizes the three BAA seasons as part of its own", "id": "9531612" }, { "contents": "1942–43 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team\n\n\nfundraiser for the American Red Cross, the finalists of the NCAA Tournament and NIT took part in the Sportswriters Invitational Playoff, in which the two tournament champions, Wyoming and St. Johns, and the two runners-up, Georgetown and Toledo, played each other. The NCAA Tournament teams prevailed in both: Wyoming beat St. John's 52-47, and the Hoyas defeated Toledo 54-40 to close out the season. The Hoyas finished with a record of 22–5, the most wins in team history and the first time", "id": "20556563" }, { "contents": "1991–92 UMass Minutemen basketball team\n\n\nThe 1991–92 UMass Minutemen basketball team represented the University of Massachusetts Amherst during the 1991–92 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Minutemen, led by fourth year head coach John Calipari, played their home games at Curry Hicks Cage and were members of the Atlantic 10 Conference. They finished the season 30–5, 13–3 in A-10 play to finish in first place. The Minutemen won the A-10 Conference Tournament by beating West Virginia in the finals. They were awarded a #1 seed in the NCAA Tournament. The Minutemen advanced to the", "id": "15806672" }, { "contents": "1994 FIBA World Championship\n\n\nThe 1994 FIBA World Championship was the 12th FIBA World Championship, the international basketball world championship for men's teams. The tournament was hosted by Canada from August 4 to August 14, 1994. The tournament was held at SkyDome and Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto as well as at Copps Coliseum in Hamilton. The hosting duties were originally awarded to Belgrade, Yugoslavia, but after United Nations limited participation in sporting events in Yugoslavia, Toronto stepped in as a replacement option in 1992. The 1994 FIBA World Championship was the first time", "id": "4501033" }, { "contents": "Basketball in England\n\n\n61 points to 47 points. The standard of play in this Championship showed considerable improvement. On the day following the Championship Finals Catford Saints represented England in the first International match ever held in Britain. The game against Germany was won by England by 40 points to 35 points. On 22/23 October 1938 a composite England International Team competed in the International Basketball Tournament at the Sports Palace in Berlin. The team with Mr. W. Browning as Coach and Mr. J. Clay as Manager included three Birmingham players - F. Cole, C. Hunt and", "id": "5035239" }, { "contents": "Florida Gators men's basketball\n\n\nwon the SEC Championship with a conference record of 14–4. During the regular season, Billy Donovan notched his 400th career win as the head coach of the Gators over Missouri. After losing in the final of the 2013 SEC Men's Basketball Tournament to Mississippi, they entered the 2013 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament as the No. 3 seed in the South Region. Florida defeated the No. 14 seed Northwestern State 79–47 in the first round, and advanced to the Sweet Sixteen after soundly beating the No. 11 seed", "id": "17774979" }, { "contents": "China-ASEAN CBO Basketball Invitational Tournament\n\n\nThe China-ASEAN CBO Basketball Invitational Tournament is an international basketball tournament held in Guangxi, China between teams from ASEAN and China. The first tournament was held in Pingguo County in the city of Bose from December 17-21, 2008. The Philippines won the inaugural tournament beating Guangxi in the finals. Home United of Singapore won bronze by beating Macau. At the 2009 and 2010 edition of the tournament, the Misamis Oriental Meteors, which represented the Philippines emerged as champions by beating Guangxi in the finals for 2-consecutive times.", "id": "7852964" }, { "contents": "2012 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament\n\n\nhalftime. In the second half, the defense of Arkansas prevailing, holding the Dayton flyers to zero field goals in the last twelve minutes of the game. The Razorbacks won, 72–55. The defending national champion Aggies held only a four-point lead at halftime over Albany, playing in its first ever NCAA Tournament appearance. The Great Danes were on a ten-game winning streak, but were unable to extend the run to eleven, as Texas A&M extended the lead in the second half, and won 69–47. After", "id": "7629126" }, { "contents": "Football in Yugoslavia\n\n\nthe 1930 World Cup in Uruguay. The monarchy was replaced by a socialist country after the Second World War. Many new clubs were formed and a new federal league was established to replace the old championship. The first season was played in 1946/47, and Partizan became the first postwar champions. The Yugoslav league soon became the most popular sport league in the country with average attendances usually over 10,000 spectators. The most successful clubs were known as the big four, Dinamo Zagreb, Hajduk Split, Red Star Belgrade, and Partizan Belgrade", "id": "6818632" }, { "contents": "FIBA Basketball World Cup\n\n\nthe FIBA table as seen from the FIBA archive website, updated with results since 1998. The records of SFR Yugoslavia and FR Yugoslavia (counted together as \"Yugoslavia\") are separated from records of Serbia and Serbia and Montenegro. In the case of the Soviet Union, their records also didn't carry over to Russia. Three players – Bira Maciel and Marcel De Souza of Brazil and Phil Smyth of Australia – have appeared in five tournaments. Six different players have won medals in four tournaments. Brazilian legend Oscar Schmidt is", "id": "152312" }, { "contents": "Belgrade Trophy\n\n\nThe Belgrade Trophy (Serbian: Трофеј Београда/Trofej Beograda) is an international basketball competition between national teams, which has been held annually since 2012 and takes place in Belgrade, Serbia each summer, before the big official FIBA tournaments, such as the FIBA EuroBasket, the FIBA World Cup, and the Summer Olympic Games. The tournament is organized by the Basketball Federation of Serbia. The competition is played under FIBA rules. All five editions of the tournament held so far have been won by Serbia, which has won all", "id": "8588500" }, { "contents": "Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball\n\n\nBig East Rookie of the Year Big East Defensive Player of the Year First Team All-American Second Team All-American Third Team All-American Honorable Mention All-American National Coach of the Year Big East Coach of the Year Total Seasons: 111 Regular-Season Conference Championships: 11 Conference Tournament Championships: 10 NCAA Tournament National Invitation Tournament \"The NCAA began seeding the tournament with the 1979 edition.\" The Hoyas have made 30 appearances in the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament. They have a record of 47", "id": "7112975" }, { "contents": "Yugoslavia women's national basketball team\n\n\nThe Yugoslavia women's national basketball team () was the women's basketball side that represented Kingdom of Yugoslavia and Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia from 1943 until 1992 in the international basketball matches, controlled by the Basketball Federation of Yugoslavia (KSJ). The team's first major tournament appearance was at the 1954 European Championship, hosted by Yugoslavia, in which it finished fourth. The team's biggest success in the following decades were bronze medal at the 1980 Moscow and silver medal at the 1988 Seoul Olympic games. The team disappeared", "id": "15246808" }, { "contents": "NCAA Season 63 basketball tournaments\n\n\nbaskets from Garrido and Eugene Quilban for an 81–70 lead. Letran cut the deficit to 79–87 but the Quilban and Napoleon Hatton scored in the final two minutes to prevent the Knights from a come-from-behind victory. After taking the halftime lead 50–47, Letran and San Sebastian remained close, but Letran pulled away in the fourth quarter off team captain Fernando Libed's eight points to give Letran an 84–79 lead. The Stags rallied to tie the game 90–all after trailing by eight points: Alvarez scored on a fastbreak and two", "id": "12159387" }, { "contents": "2018 FIBA Under-17 Basketball World Cup\n\n\nThe 2018 FIBA Under-17 Basketball World Cup was an international basketball competition, held from 30 June to 8 July 2018, in Rosario and Santa Fe, Argentina. It was the fifth edition of the FIBA Under-17 Basketball World Cup. Sixteen national teams competed in the tournament. The United States won their fifth title, is as many tournaments, after defeating France in the final. The host was chosen in 2017 it was decided to be held in Argentina over Bulgaria which will host in 2020, it also beat out Israel. The", "id": "3856345" }, { "contents": "BC Almaty\n\n\n. Almaty Legion were accepted into the Russian Basketball Super League, the second division of distant neighbours Russia, to play the 2014–15 season there. They finished dead last of the 16 team league with 2 wins out of 30, though they later beat MBA Moscow in the 15th place playoffs to move up a position. In February 2015, Legion won their first trophy, the Kazakhstan Basketball Cup, beating Tobol Kostanay 90-86 in the final to win the tournament organised in Almaty. They also reached the final of the 2014–15", "id": "4077205" }, { "contents": "2019 West Coast Conference Men's Basketball Tournament\n\n\nThe 2019 West Coast Conference Men's Basketball Tournament was the postseason men's basketball tournament for the West Coast Conference during the 2018–19 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The tournament was held from March 7 through March 12, 2019 at the Orleans Arena in Paradise, Nevada. Saint Mary's upset top-seeded Gonzaga 60–47 in the championship game to win the tournament, and received the conference's automatic bid to the 2019 NCAA Tournament. It was the fourth championship for Saint Mary's, their first since 2012. All", "id": "6016721" }, { "contents": "1946–47 Texas Longhorns men's basketball team\n\n\nThe 1946–47 Texas Longhorns men's basketball team represented The University of Texas at Austin in intercollegiate basketball competition during the 1946–47 season. The Longhorns were led by eighth-year head coach and former Longhorn basketball consensus first-team All-American Jack Gray. The team finished the season with a 26–2 overall record, for the highest win percentage in all of college basketball for the season, and a 12–0 record in Southwest Conference play to win the SWC championship. Texas advanced to the NCAA Tournament for the third time, recording its", "id": "18102684" }, { "contents": "Basketball in Lithuania\n\n\nteam and exploiting stalling techniques, Lithuania trailed only 14-7 at halftime before losing 31-10. The Lithuanian press declared it a moral victory. Also in 1936, Lithuania applied to become a member of FIBA and take part in international basketball competitions, the first being EuroBasket 1937, the second European basketball tournament that the Latvia Basketball Association would organize in Riga as reigning champions. Thus while basketball would become an Olympic sport at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Lithuania decided not to take part in the tournament, instead", "id": "19607955" }, { "contents": "UCC Demons\n\n\nforerunner of the National League, which began in 1973. Blue Demons were the inaugural winners of the National League in 1973–74. With their early success, they were able to organise one of the first significant international tournaments in Ireland. The Major Extra Size International Basketball Tournament attracted teams from England, Scotland, France, Belgium, Yugoslavia, Iceland and Canada. The tournament was held in the Parochial Hall in Cork and exposed the local teams and fans to the next level of basketball. By the early 1980s, the recruitment of", "id": "14615853" }, { "contents": "Coppin State Eagles men's basketball\n\n\nThe Coppin State Eagles men's basketball team is the basketball team that represents Coppin State University in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. The school's team currently competes in the NCAA Division I in the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference. Before joining NCAA Division I, the Eagles were the 1976 NAIA National Champions. The Eagles have appeared in the NCAA Tournament four times. Their combined record is 1–4. The 1996–97 team was only the third 15 seed to beat a 2 seed in the tournament. The 2007–08 Coppin State team was", "id": "13930583" }, { "contents": "1996 World Cup of Hockey\n\n\n-2, while Canada beat Sweden 3-2 on Theoren Fleury's goal at 19:47 of the second overtime period, ending the longest game in international hockey history. The tournament did see some controversy after the Canada-Russia game in Vancouver was played when Sweden's coach Kent Forsberg said he believed \"Canada cheated its way to victory\" through help of Canadian NHL referees that saw two goals disallowed and several controversial penalties for Russia. The Russian's coach Boris Mikhailov echoed a similar sentiment after the game saying \"It was", "id": "5190765" }, { "contents": "History of Red Star Belgrade\n\n\n\"the Royals\" had only knocked Red Star out on away goals (Real won in Madrid by 2–0). Red Star continues to build its \"Dream Team\" and Dinamo was left without the most gifted player – Robert Prosinečki, who won later with the Yugoslavia the 1987 FIFA World Youth Championship, including the winning of the award as tournament's best player. It followed the new Yugoslav representative and defender Refik Šabanadžović. In 1988, Dejan Savićević and Darko Pančev, the best remaining players of the league, signed for", "id": "8645786" }, { "contents": "Streetball in Puerto Rico\n\n\nvictorious, entering the game undefeated in six years of playing globally, with Puerto Rico Streetballer's win being its first lost to an international team and fourth overall. Sprite brand held a 1-on-1 tournament on September 29–30, 2012, the \"De Tr3s Pa'l All-Star\", which rewarded the six best streetballers that enter it with participation in the 2013 All-Star Game. The overall winner of the tournament was Joel Román. Puerto Rico is a member of the Street Basketball Association's International Street Basketball Federation, which promotes", "id": "21451582" }, { "contents": "North Macedonia national basketball team\n\n\nThe North Macedonia national basketball team ( / \"Košarkaška reprezentacija na Severna Makedonija\", formerly known officially as the Macedonia national basketball team) represents North Macedonia in international basketball and is controlled by the Basketball Federation of North Macedonia, which was created in 1992. They joined FIBA in 1993, after they gained independence from Yugoslavia. That same year the national team played their first official match against Estonia. Prior to 1993, Macedonian players took part on the Yugoslavia national team. Macedonia debuted in their first international tournament at the EuroBasket", "id": "9700361" }, { "contents": "Australia women's national basketball team\n\n\nstraight international medal finish. The 2000s was a golden era for the Opals, winning at least a bronze medal at every official FIBA tournament. In 2010, the 16th edition of the World Championship was held in the Czech Republic. Pre-tournament favourites Australia, USA, and Russia, dominated play in the first two rounds. In the quarterfinals, however, Australia suffered a shock 79–68 loss to the Czech Republic. The loss meant that the Opals could not finish any higher than 5th place, its worst international result since", "id": "3258893" }, { "contents": "Spain women's national basketball team\n\n\n, 47–39. It would take six years to play another international friendly game, losing to Cuba 50–70 on 28 September 1969. Their first official games were in March 1970, trying to qualify for 1970 EuroBasket, winning their first game against Switzerland 61–44 and losing to Hungary and France. The team qualified for their first major international tournament in their next attempt, the 1974 EuroBasket. After losing their three group stage games, they won their first game in a final tournament against Denmark in the placement matches, finishing in 12th position", "id": "13054811" }, { "contents": "2017 Big West Conference Men's Basketball Tournament\n\n\nThe 2017 Big West Conference Men's Basketball Tournament was the postseason men's basketball tournament for the Big West Conference. The tournament took place March 9–11, 2017 at the Honda Center in Anaheim, California. The tournament winner, UC Davis, received the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament with a 50–47 win over UC Irvine in the final. The top eight conference teams were eligible for the tournament. Teams were seeded by record within the conference, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records. Teams", "id": "13743768" }, { "contents": "2019 MEAC Men's Basketball Tournament\n\n\nThe 2019 Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference Men's Basketball Tournament was the postseason men's basketball tournament for the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference. The tournament was held from March 11 through March 16, 2019 at the Norfolk Scope in Norfolk, Virginia. North Carolina Central defeated Norfolk State 50–47 in the championship game to win the tournament, and received the conference's automatic bid to the 2019 NCAA Tournament. It was the third consecutive championship for North Carolina Central, and fourth in the last six seasons. 11 teams were seeded by", "id": "4746141" }, { "contents": "History of Ferencvárosi TC\n\n\nwith Liverpool at Anfield, in Liverpool, England. On the return match, the result was a goalless draw which resulted the qualification of Ferencváros for the next round. In the quarter-finals, Ferencváros beat Malmö FF 3–1 in Malmö, Sweden. On the return match, Ferencváros drew with Malmö (1–1). In the semi-finals, Ferencváros beat Red Star Belgrade 2–1 at home. On the return match Ferencváros drew with Red Star Belgrade (2–2) in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. In the final Ferencváros lost 3–0", "id": "4677566" }, { "contents": "2006–07 Kansas State Wildcats men's basketball team\n\n\ncolspan=9| Phillips 66 2007 Big 12 Championship Tournament !colspan=9|2007 NIT The Wildcats went on to a 10–6 record in conference play, earning a number 4 seed in the 2007 Big 12 Men's Basketball Tournament at the Sprint Center in Kansas City, Missouri. The Wildcats faced the #5 seed Texas Tech Red Raiders and won 64-47. They went on to lose in the next round to the #1 seed and eventual champion, Kansas Jayhawks, 67-61. The Wildcats earned a berth in the 2007 National Invitation Tournament", "id": "7267433" }, { "contents": "NCAA Season 62 basketball tournaments\n\n\nThe 1986 NCAA Basketball Tournament was the 62nd season in the Philippine National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). For the fourth time in five years, the Letran Knights have crowned themselves basketball champions in the Seniors division. The Staglets of San Sebastian College beat comebacking San Beda Red Cubs, 2-1, in their own title series for the Junior division championship. Format: Taking the first round pennant was San Sebastian, losing only to Jose Rizal College, 92-93. The Letran Knights dropped two games in the first", "id": "7265697" }, { "contents": "Purdue Boilermakers men's basketball\n\n\nElite Eight appearance since 2000. The Boilermakers have appeared in the NCAA Tournament 31 times. Their combined record is 42–31; due to use of an ineligible player, Purdue vacated one win and one loss from the 1996 NCAA Tournament, resulting in an adjusted official NCAA Tournament record of 41–30. The Boilermakers have appeared in the National Invitation Tournament (NIT) eight times. Their combined record is 20–7. They were NIT champions in 1974. The Boilermakers have appeared in the College Basketball Invitational (CBI) one time. Their record", "id": "3985834" }, { "contents": "Omari Tetradze\n\n\n– Tetradze. Later he considered restoring his original surname, but decided it would cause too many problems. At club level, he played for Dinamo Tbilisi, FC Dynamo Moscow, Alania Vladikavkaz (where he won a Russian league championship medal in 1995), AS Roma, and PAOK FC (Greece). He played for Russia at international level, and appeared at World Cup 1994 and Euro 1996. At the latter tournament, he played superbly in each of Russia's three games despite the team's poor results, and", "id": "17559889" }, { "contents": "KK Sloboda Užice\n\n\nsuccess was the participation in the Yugoslav First Federal League in 1988–89 season. Playing along with the great basketball clubs such as the Partizan Belgrade, Red Star Belgrade, Jugoplastika Split, Cibona Zagreb, Olimpija Ljubljana and many, the club has achieved 11th place. Due to the dissolution of SFR Yugoslavia, the club continues to compete in the FR Yugoslavia First League. In the 1991–92 season, the club achieved 7th place, but the next season it was relegated. From 1991 to 2006 the club changed its name four times.", "id": "2123886" }, { "contents": "Einar Gausel\n\n\nEinar Johan Gausel (born 30 November 1963) is a Norwegian chess player and Norway's third International Grandmaster since 1995. Gausel has won three Norwegian chess championships, in 1992, 1996 and 2001. His Grandmaster title was gained after making good results at tournaments in Gausdal in 1990, 1992, and 1994–1995 and finally winning a Danish tournament. In 2001 he was equal first with Vladimir Chuchelov in the colossal Cappelle-la-Grande open (702 players, with 92 Grandmasters and 72 International masters). Gausel is also the", "id": "15494924" }, { "contents": "San Francisco Dons women's basketball\n\n\nThe San Francisco Dons women's basketball team represents the University of San Francisco in NCAA Division I women's college basketball. San Francisco began play in 1976. Their first postseason appearance was in the 1980 AIAW National Division I Basketball Championship, losing 92–58 to BYU in the First Round. They made appearances in the NCAA Tournament in 1995, 1996, 1997, 2016, with a Sweet Sixteen appearance in 1996. That year, USF (ranked as a 5 seed) beat Florida 68–61, and Duke 64–60 before losing to Connecticut", "id": "16725321" }, { "contents": "1991 FIBA Centennial Jubilee Basketball Tournament\n\n\nThe 1991 FIBA Centennial Jubilee Basketball Tournament was the special edition tournament of the Acropolis International Basketball Tournament that was organized jointly by FIBA Europe and the Hellenic Basketball Federation to commemorate the 100 year anniversary of the sport of basketball. The tournament was held from June 5 to June 9, 1991, at the SEF Indoor Hall in Piraeus, Greece. The tournament was won by Italy, with Greece finishing in second place. The Jubilee also included a FIBA Festival All-Star Game, which was divided up into a Balkans versus the", "id": "3734770" }, { "contents": "Murray State Racers men's basketball\n\n\nopening round of the 1996 National Invitational Tournament, and finished the season 19-10. Marcus Brown finished his college playing career at the close of the 1996 season with 2,236 career points, which is third best in Murray State history. With a November 23, 1996, victory over the Belmont Bruins, the Racers began a 47-game home winning streak that would last into the 1999–2000 season. The Racers won the 1997 OVC Tournament with an overtime win over Austin Peay and earned a spot in the NCAA Tournament. ESPN's College", "id": "19384528" }, { "contents": "2016–17 Atlantic 10 Conference men's basketball season\n\n\nThe 2016–17 Atlantic 10 Conference men's basketball season was the 41st season of Atlantic 10 Conference basketball. The 2017 Atlantic 10 Men's Basketball Tournament was held at the PPG Paints Arena in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania from March 8–12, 2017. Dayton won the regular season championship. Rhode Island won the A-10 Tournament by beating VCU in the tournament championship. As a result, Rhode Island received the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament. Three A-10 teams received bids to the NCAA Tournament: Dayton, VCU, and Rhode Island.", "id": "7289863" }, { "contents": "EuroBelgrade\n\n\nEuroBelgrade is an annual international student sports tournament that takes place in Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. It is hosted by the Faculty of Organizational Sciences from Belgrade and supported by the entire University of Belgrade. During the tournament, students have the opportunity to play futsal, volleyball, basketball, waterpolo, table tennis, compete in cheerleading, visit some of the most attractive and famous Belgrade sights and party every night. All sport events are played in a building complex in a Kosutnjak forest. This three-day tournament belongs to", "id": "4849399" }, { "contents": "Euroleague Basketball Next Generation Tournament\n\n\nthe 8 team Final Four qualification tournament. The regional tournaments are the Torneig de Bàsquet Junior Ciutat de L'Hospitalet, the Kaunas International Junior Tournament, the Belgrade International Junior Tournament, and the Torneo Costa del Sol. The winners of each of the 4 regional tournaments qualify to the Final Four qualification tournament. In addition to the 4 winners of each of the regional qualification tournaments, the reigning champion from the previous season, as well as three wild card invitees, also take part in the Final Tournament, which is played by eight", "id": "140795" }, { "contents": "1996 SEC Men's Basketball Tournament\n\n\nThe 1996 SEC Men’s Basketball Tournament took place from March 7-10, 1996, at the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana. The Mississippi State Bulldogs won the tournament title and received the SEC’s automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament by beating the Kentucky Wildcats by a score of 84-73. This was the first time the Mississippi State men’s basketball team won the SEC tournament. Jefferson Pilot Sports regionally broadcast and syndicated coverage of the first round, the quarterfinals, and the semi-finals. Play-", "id": "10800240" }, { "contents": "Texas Tech Red Raiders basketball\n\n\n#700 (SMU), #800 (at SMU), and #900 (Texas A&M). With a Texas Tech career record of 326–261, Myers has more wins with the Red Raiders than any other men's basketball coach in school history. Myers led Tech to 16 winning seasons, two Southwest Conference championships, three SWC tournament titles, and four NCAA Tournament berths. Myers served as the school's athletic director from 1996 to 2011. James Dickey replaced Myers as head coach prior to the 1991/92 season and would", "id": "15167639" }, { "contents": "1982 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship Game\n\n\nof the tournament 47-46. Georgetown then began a thirteen-game win streak, which was followed by losing three straight to three conference opponents. The Hoyas then finished the regular season with nine more wins and one loss, which was good enough to finish second in the Big East regular season standings. The Hoyas won their first two games of the Big East Tournament by a collective margin of 29 points and advanced to the championship game against the Villanova Wildcats. The two teams were tied at halftime 33-33,", "id": "13552174" }, { "contents": "2007–08 Ohio State Buckeyes men's basketball team\n\n\nThe 2007–08 Ohio State Buckeyes men's basketball finished in fifth place in the Big Ten, squarely on the NCAA tournament bubble. However, they were not selected, marking the only time in coach Thad Matta's head coaching career his team missed the NCAA tournament while being eligible. The team dominated in the 2008 National Invitation Tournament on their way to a 92-85 victory over Massachusetts in the final. The Buckeyes lost three important players from their 2006–07 NCAA Runners-up team to the NBA Draft. Greg Oden, the", "id": "20762715" }, { "contents": "India national basketball team\n\n\nAustralia for almost the whole game until it finally ceded to the Boomers 75-93 after leading at halftime 41-37. Many Indian players also made headlines while in the Soviet Union as well. Ajmer Singh gained worldwide attention as he was amongst the top 10 shooters there and became the 10th best pivot player in the tournament there. The late 90s saw the emergence of [Jaldeep Dhaliwal], the first Indian basketball player who gained considerable international attention. Jaldeep led India to a surprising victory over South Korea, one of", "id": "4414633" }, { "contents": "Randy Wittman\n\n\nalike. Wittman signed an extension to remain head coach of the Wizards on June 3, 2014. The Wizards fired Wittman on April 13, 2016 after the team missed the playoffs. His son Ryan Wittman starred for the Cornell Big Red basketball team; he helped lead the Big Red to their first NCAA Tournament appearance in 20 years during the 2007–08 season, again in 2009, and to Cornell's first-ever NCAA basketball tournament victories in 2010 over the Temple Owls and Wisconsin Badgers as the Big Red made its first-", "id": "19509307" }, { "contents": "1950 FIBA World Championship\n\n\nThe 1950 FIBA World Championship, also called the 1st World Basketball Championship – 1950, was an international basketball tournament held by the International Basketball Federation in Buenos Aires, Argentina, from October 22 to November 3, 1950. Ten nations participated in the inaugural tournament. All competition was held at the Luna Park, Buenos Aires. Argentina claimed the gold medal, by beating the United States 64–50. FIBA determined the requirements to qualify for the World Championship as follows: the three best teams in the previous Summer Olympics basketball, the", "id": "1451568" }, { "contents": "Euroleague Basketball Next Generation Tournament\n\n\nthe tournament's new sponsorship name became the Adidas Next Generation Tournament. The four regional tournaments were originally the Torneo Città di Roma, the Torneig de Bàsquet Junior Ciutat de L'Hospitalet, the Kaunas International Junior Tournament, and the Belgrade International Junior Tournament. In 2016, the Torneo Città di Roma was replaced by the Torneo Costa del Sol. In total, 34 teams compete to play for the Next Generation Tournament title, at the Next Generation Tournament Final Four. 32 teams compete in 4 regional tournaments, in order to qualify to", "id": "140794" }, { "contents": "International High School of San Francisco\n\n\n17, IHS attained the following additional results in BCL league play: first in men's and women's basketball; first in baseball; and second in badminton; third in women's volleyball; third in men's tennis. The women's varsity soccer team reached the finals of the NCS playoff tournament. The women's basketball team made it to the CIF State tournament in 2016-17. Students at International have the option of taking art - whether it be music, theater, visual arts, or film - in each", "id": "15726852" }, { "contents": "Portsmouth F.C. (basketball)\n\n\nWembley Arena on 3 April, and fell to a 106-102 defeat against a BCP side inspired by Argentinian star Julio Politi. They earned some consolation the following day by beating Manchester United 99-89 in the third place match. An 'International All Star' tournament was held at the Mountbatten Centre on 29 and 30 December, featuring Portsmouth, Solent, Sao Paulo from Brazil and the Australian Institute of Sport. Portsmouth beat the Australians 104-44 in their semi-final and then defeated Solent 103-95 in", "id": "8755534" }, { "contents": "Bulgaria national basketball team\n\n\nThe Bulgaria national basketball team () represents Bulgaria in international basketball. They are administered by the Bulgarian Basketball Federation. Bulgaria's first appearance at an international tournament came at the EuroBasket in 1935. They have reached the premier European basketball competition 24 times, with their best results coming in 1957 as the runner-up on home soil, and 1961 respectively. The national team has also qualified for the FIBA World Cup, where they finished seventh in their lone appearance in 1959. Competing at the Summer Olympics multiple times, Bulgaria", "id": "3576230" }, { "contents": "Netherlands national basketball team\n\n\nThe Netherlands national basketball team () represents the Netherlands in international basketball matches. The national team is governed by Basketball Nederland. The Dutch have reached the European Basketball Championship on 15 occasions. Their best results at the event came in 1983, where they finished in 4th place. They also qualified for the FIBA World Cup once in 1986. In recent years though, the national team has struggled with consistency to reach major international tournaments. The team represents itself as the Orange Lions. The Netherlands were one of the teams that", "id": "7536357" }, { "contents": "Georgia national basketball team\n\n\nThe Georgia national basketball team () represents the country of Georgia in international basketball matches, and is controlled by the Georgian Basketball Federation. Georgia became a member of FIBA in 1992, after they gained independence from the Soviet Union. The national team played their first official match against Poland in 1995. Georgia's accomplishments on the international stage have been making four appearances at the European Basketball Championship. Their best result came at their debut trip to the tournament in 2011. While they have qualified for the top European event, they", "id": "7712121" }, { "contents": "Latvia\n\n\nOzoliņš and more recently Zemgus Girgensons, who the Latvian people have strongly supported in international and NHL play, expressed through the dedication of using the NHL's All Star Voting to bring Zemgus to number one in voting. Dinamo Riga is the country's strongest hockey club, playing in the Kontinental Hockey League. The national tournament is the Latvian Hockey Higher League, held since 1931. The 2006 IIHF World Championship was held in Riga. The second most popular sport is basketball. Latvia has a long basketball tradition, as the Latvian", "id": "17642259" }, { "contents": "2011 Big South Conference Men's Basketball Tournament\n\n\nThe 2011 Big South Men's Basketball Tournament took place on March 1, 3, 5, 2011 at campus sites. The semifinal round was televised on ESPNU, and the finals were televised on ESPN2. The UNC Asheville Bulldogs won the tournament, defeating Charleston Southern 72–63 in the quarterfinal round, High Point 62–45 in the semifinal round, and #1 Coastal Carolina 60–47 in the championship game. The top eight eligible men's basketball teams in the Big South Conference received a berth in the conference tournament. After the 18 game", "id": "12705823" }, { "contents": "1986 Acropolis International Basketball Tournament\n\n\n, Kambouris 4, Melissinos, Stavropoulos 8, F. Christodoulou 10, Andritsos, Filippou 11, Romanidis 2, Pedoulakis 3 (1), Karatzas 8, Dimakopoulos 2. HOLLAND: Smits 20, Bottse 11, Schilp 17 (1), Ebeltjes 4, Esveldt, Heijdeman 9, van Dinten 19, de Waard, Broukman 6. br Yugoslavia - Italy 92-80 YUGOSLAVIA: D. Petrović 26 (3), A. Petrović 16 (3), Divac 7, Čutura 17, Petranović 4, Radović 5,", "id": "6981425" }, { "contents": "Basketball in New Zealand\n\n\nFIBA World Championship in Indianapolis. At the tournament they finished fourth, after beating Puerto Rico in the quarter-finals before losses to Yugoslavia and Germany. Tall Blacks captain Pero Cameron was the only non-NBA player named to the all-tournament team in Indianapolis. The Tall Blacks qualified for the 2004 Athens Olympics, but again finished with a 1–5 record and lost to Australia in the playoff for ninth place. Their most noted moment was on the 7th day of the games, when they beat Serbia and Montenegro, 90–87", "id": "5179502" }, { "contents": "2008–09 Connecticut Huskies women's basketball team\n\n\n. Kalana Greene led the Huskies with a season-high 20 points, scoring 18 points before halftime, and leading the Huskies to a 47–10 halftime lead. USF would match the UConn production in the second half, but the 37 point margin held. The final score was 79–42. The second tournament game was against Villanova, a team UConn had beaten by 27 points less than two weeks earlier. However, the game was tied at 25 apiece, with under six minutes to go in the first half. Maya Moore then", "id": "21371273" }, { "contents": "McDonald's Championship\n\n\nThe McDonald's Championship (sometimes called the \"McDonald's Open\") was an international men's professional basketball club cup competition that featured a representative of the National Basketball Association against champion club teams from Europe, Australia, and South America. The first competition was held in 1987 and continued annually after that until 1991, when the tournament switched to a biannual event. For the first two years, the men's national teams from Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union participated. The McDonald's Championship, from 1987 to 1996, was", "id": "5071363" }, { "contents": "Basketball at the Summer Olympics\n\n\n1984, against the South Koreans, amid the Soviet-led boycott. In 1988, the tournament expanded into eight teams, with the Americans beating Yugoslavia in the gold medal game. In 1992, the Unified Team, consisting of the former Soviet republics, defeated China in the gold medal game. In 1996, the tournament settled into its current 12-team format; the U.S. has swept all of the tournaments since then, winning 48 consecutive games. All venues were indoor stadiums except for the 1936 tournament which was held outdoors on", "id": "14854522" }, { "contents": "Acropolis International Basketball Tournament\n\n\nThe Acropolis International Basketball Tournament (also known as the Acropolis of Athens Basketball Tournament and the Acropolis Basketball Cup) (Greek: Τουρνουά Ακρόπολις) is an international basketball competition that is played between national teams, which has been held almost every year since 1986, and takes place in Athens, Greece, during the summer. It takes place before the big official FIBA tournaments like the EuroBasket, the FIBA World Cup, and the Summer Olympic Games. The tournament is named after the world-famous Acropolis of Athens. The competition", "id": "21469024" }, { "contents": "Belgium national basketball team\n\n\nThe Belgian national basketball team (, , ) represents Belgium in international basketball tournaments. The supervising body is Basketball Belgium. The national team has qualified for the EuroBasket 13 times, having their best result at the EuroBasket 1947 when they finished 4th. Further, they entered the Summer Olympics on three occasions, in 1936, 1948, and 1952. Their best result there was 11th place at the 1948 Olympic Games, in London. Their qualification for the EuroBasket 2011, marked their first EuroBasket appearance since 1993. Though, the", "id": "3576176" }, { "contents": "Red Star Belgrade\n\n\nYugoslav competitions, Red Star was the most successful club in Yugoslavia and finished first in the Yugoslav First League all-time table, and is the most successful club in Serbia. Since the 1991–92 season, Red Star's best results are in the UEFA Champions League group stage and UEFA Europa League knockout phase. According to 2008 polls, Red Star Belgrade is the most popular football club in Serbia, with 48.2% of the population supporting them. They have many supporters in other former Yugoslav republics and in the Serbian diaspora.", "id": "5070852" }, { "contents": "Euroleague Basketball Next Generation Tournament\n\n\nThe Euroleague Basketball Next Generation Tournament, known as the Adidas Next Generation Tournament for sponsorship reasons, and until 2014, called the Nike International Junior Tournament (NIJT) for sponsorship reasons, is an international boy's youth age basketball tournament that is contested between the best basketball clubs in Europe in the Under-18 age category. The tournament is organized by Euroleague Basketball, and is sponsored by Adidas. The tournament's Final Four takes place during the senior men's EuroLeague Final Four event. The tournaments's Final Four also features a slam", "id": "140792" }, { "contents": "Estonia national basketball team\n\n\nThe Estonia national basketball team () represents Estonia in international basketball matches. They are controlled by the Estonian Basketball Association. Estonia first competed internationally at the 1936 Summer Olympics. The national team has also made five appearances at the European Basketball Championship, with their best results coming in 1937 and 1939, where they finished in fifth place. Estonia joined FIBA on 23 November 1934. Coached by Herbert Niiler, Estonia first competed on the international stage at the 1936 Summer Olympics, held in Berlin, the first Olympic tournament to hold", "id": "3631949" }, { "contents": "Harold Johnson (basketball)\n\n\nHarold H. Johnson (January 30, 1920 – September 17, 1999) was an American professional basketball player. He played in the Basketball Association of America for the Detroit Falcons in the first year of the league's existence (1946–47) and averaged 0.6 points per game. A three-year letterman for the Indiana State Sycamores, \"Big Stoop\" led the Sycamores to the 3rd round of the 1942 NAIA Tournament. The \"Fightin' Trees' dropped a close game to the eventual champions, the Hamline Pipers. Following", "id": "19490237" }, { "contents": "Conel Hugh O'Donel Alexander\n\n\nthe English team, because of the declaration of World War II, since he was required at home for codebreaking duties. He was also the non-playing captain of England from 1964 to 1970. Alexander was awarded the International Master title in 1950 and the International Master for Correspondence Chess title in 1970. He won Hastings 1946/47 with the score 7½/9, a point ahead of Savielly Tartakower. Alexander's best tournament result may have been first equal (with David Bronstein) at Hastings 1953/54, where he went undefeated and beat Soviet", "id": "20374418" }, { "contents": "Bosnia and Herzegovina national basketball team\n\n\nThe Bosnia and Herzegovina national basketball team (Bosnian: \"Košarkaška reprezentacija Bosne i Hercegovine\" / Кошаркашка репрезентација Босне и Херцеговине) represents Bosnia and Herzegovina in international basketball competitions, and is governed by the Basketball Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Until 1992, Bosnian basketballers played for Yugoslavia. Bosnia and Herzegovina reached their first international tournament at the EuroBasket in 1993. They have competed 9 times at the event overall. The national team though have yet to qualify for the FIBA World Cup or Summer Olympics. Until 1992, Bosnia was", "id": "11792353" }, { "contents": "History of netball\n\n\n's Basketball and Netball (now the International Netball Federation). The sport was referred to as \"netball\" in most countries, although New Zealand and Australia still used the name \"women's basketball\"; both countries eventually adopted the name \"netball\" in 1970. This meeting also resulted in the creation of a world tournament to be played every four years, now called the Netball World Cup. The inaugural tournament was played in Eastbourne, England in 1963, and tournaments have since been played quadrennially. Since their inception", "id": "17980065" }, { "contents": "Republika Srpska national basketball team\n\n\nand KSHB into BiH Basketball Association. At the national level Republic of Srpska played friendly matches within a traditional manifestation called Basketball Tournament (Košarkaški sabor) where Republic of Srpska senior team played friendly matches against Serbian national team consisting of players from Serbian Top Division. During that tournament KSRS named the best male and female basketball players of the year. During the International Sport Fair in Belgrade in November 2014, the protocole of cooperation was signed by BF Serbia and BF Republic of Srpska. In 2015 the Serbian selection is going to play", "id": "13699009" }, { "contents": "Dragan Godžić\n\n\nDragan Godžić (; born April 14, 1927) was a Serbian basketball player and coach. He represented the Yugoslavia national basketball team internationally. Godžić was a member of the first managing board of the Crvena zvezda basketball club. Godžić played for a Belgrade-based team Crvena zvezda of the Yugoslav First League. During the time with Crvena zvezda he won seven Yugoslav Championships. Godžić was a member of the Yugoslavia national basketball team that participated at the 1953 European Championship in Moscow, the Soviet Union. Over two tournament games, he", "id": "5482233" }, { "contents": "Mirko Marjanović (basketball)\n\n\nMirko Marjanović (; born 2 May 1926 – \"Unknown\") was a Serbian basketball player and coach. He represented the Yugoslavia national basketball team internationally. Marjanović played for Belgrade-based teams the Yugoslav Army and Partizan of the Yugoslav First League. In the 1945 season, he won the Yugoslav Championships with the Yugoslav Army. Marjanović was a member of the Yugoslavia national basketball team at the 1947 FIBA European Championship in Prague, Czechoslovakia. Over five tournament games, he averaged 9.2 points per game. At the 1953 FIBA European", "id": "9152887" }, { "contents": "Ramsay Robertson Dalgety\n\n\n1987–90. Member of Faculty of Advocates 1972, IOD 1982–89. Councillor City of Edinburgh DC 1974–80, chairman Opera Singers' Pension Fund London 1991–92 (trustee 1983–92, deputy chairman 1987–91). Deputy traffic commissioner for Scotland 1988–92, deputy chairman Edinburgh Hibernian Shareholders' Association 1990–92. Vice-president Tonga International Game Fishing Association since 1996 (treasurer 1994–96), tournament director Tonga International Billfish Tournament 1996. He is co-chair of a Tongan Royal Commission and has been chairperson of the Tonga Electric Power Board since 2002. On 28", "id": "3903697" }, { "contents": "1946–47 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team\n\n\nbeen its home court the previous season. Ripley previously had coached Georgetown from 1927 to 1929, leaving to coach Yale for six seasons, and again from 1938 to 1943, leading the Hoyas to what at the time was their only postseason tournament apperanace in the 1943 NCAA Tournament. He then left to coach at Columbia and Notre Dame when Georgetown suspended its basketball program for two seasons during World War II. This time he would coach the Hoyas for three seasons, and the 1946-47 team was by far the most successful", "id": "20271633" }, { "contents": "Gonzaga University\n\n\nplayer and Gonzaga alum John Stockton graduated), made the regional finals of the NCAA tournament (the \"Elite Eight\") in 1999, re-appearing in the tournament every year since (). The women's basketball team made it to the \"Sweet Sixteen\" in 2010. Three of Gonzaga's most recent notable athletes are basketball players – former center Ronny Turiaf; Robert Sacre 2012 NBA Draft (selected by the Los Angeles Lakers third overall 2006 NBA Draft pick), and Red Star Belgrade Adam Morrison (who", "id": "17367600" }, { "contents": "France national basketball team\n\n\nThe France national basketball team () represents France in international basketball and is administered by the French Federation of Basketball. France has been a regular at the EuroBasket, with 37 appearances, the most for any nation all-time. Their best result at the tournament was winning a gold medal at EuroBasket 2013. They have also come away with two silver medals, in 1949 and 2011. The French squad has won two silver medals at the Summer Olympics as well, in 1948 and 2000. France's best result at the", "id": "4259326" }, { "contents": "1947 BAA playoffs\n\n\nThe 1947 BAA playoffs was the postseason tournament that followed the inaugural Basketball Association of America 1946–47 season. (After its 1948–49 season, the BAA merged with the older National Basketball League to create the National Basketball Association or NBA.) The tournament concluded with the Philadelphia Warriors defeating the Chicago Stags, 4 games to 1, in the BAA Finals. The six qualified teams all began tournament play on Wednesday, April 2, and the Finals concluded on Tuesday, April 22. Philadelphia and Chicago played 10 and 11 games in the", "id": "16249040" }, { "contents": "2017 FIBA Melanesia Basketball Cup\n\n\nThe 2017 FIBA Melanesia Basketball Cup was an international basketball tournament contested by national teams of the newly formed Melanesia sub-zone of FIBA Oceania. The inaugural edition of the tournament were hosted by Papua New Guinea from 27 to 30 September 2017. Matches were played at the Taurama Aquatic and Indoor Centre. It was officially launched on 19 May 2017. The tournament served as qualifiers for the basketball event of the 2019 Pacific Games in Samoa with three berths for Melanesia allocated for the top three teams in this tournament. Additionally the top", "id": "16680079" }, { "contents": "FIBA International Christmas Tournament\n\n\nClub World Cup), whose results were valid for the first edition of the aforementioned competition of the highest basketball organism, and whose first trophy It was the same as the one used in the FIBA International Christmas Tournament until 1980. The second edition of the Christmas Tournament was baptized at the time as Latin Cup, due to the origin of the participating teams (there was a competition called Latin Cup in 1953 that only had an edition, although the one of December 1966 counts as the second edition of the Christmas Tournament)", "id": "10828019" } ]

[ { "contents": "1946–47 Holy Cross Crusaders men's basketball team\n\n\nThe 1946–47 Holy Cross Crusaders men's basketball team represented The College of the Holy Cross in NCAA competition in the 1946–47 season. The Crusaders, behind coach Alvin \"Doggie\" Julian, NCAA tournament MVP George Kaftan, star Joe Mullaney and a freshman point guard named Bob Cousy, beat Oklahoma at Madison Square Garden to win the NCAA championship. The team entered the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament as the last seed in the 8-team tournament. In the first match, Holy Cross defeated the United States Naval Academy in front", "id": "16327790" }, { "contents": "History of the FIBA Basketball World Cup\n\n\nand South America) and the Eurobasket tournament. Host Argentina also was given a spot in the tournament. This tournament would be the last to feature Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union, and both made the most of it, meeting in the gold medal match. Led by Croatian Dražen Petrović and Serbian Vlade Divac, the golden generation of Yugoslav basketball played together for the last time in a major international tournament at the World Championship. The team won the gold medal, beating the Soviet Union 92–75, a fitting end for a country", "id": "16971900" }, { "contents": "2008 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament\n\n\n. Some key defensive stands and free throws by the Volunteers, however, pulled them ahead. They will play third seed Louisville, who beat sixth seed Oklahoma, 78–48. Sooner star Blake Griffin had trouble scoring against Louisville's double-teams, and Louisville's 30-point win was the school's best tournament win since 1968. Top-seeded North Carolina defeated fourth seeded Washington State 68–47. Washington State was held to 47 points, the least allowed by a Tar Heel team in the tournament since 1946. Tyler Hansbrough struggled in", "id": "257047" }, { "contents": "Stadion Maksimir\n\n\nthe UEFA Euro 1976 final tournament was held in SFR Yugoslavia, Maksimir hosted the Netherlands v. Czechoslovakia semi-final match and the Netherlands v. Yugoslavia third place match. Maksimir was the central venue for the 1987 Summer Universiade hosted by the city of Zagreb. In 1990, several events happened at Maksimir. On 13 May, the Dinamo Zagreb–Red Star Belgrade riot took place, an infamous riot involving Dinamo Zagreb and Red Star Belgrade supporters. The last match of the Yugoslavia national football team was hosted at Maksimir on 3 June", "id": "4003773" }, { "contents": "2018–19 Euroleague Basketball Next Generation Tournament\n\n\nThe 2018–19 Euroleague Basketball Next Generation Tournament, also called Adidas Next Generation Tournament by sponsorship reasons, is the 17th edition of the international junior basketball tournament organized by the Euroleague Basketball Company. As in past years, 32 teams joined the first stage, which are played in four qualifying tournaments between December 2018 and February 2019. The Valencia Tournament was played between 28 and 30 December 2018. The Munich Tournament was played between 25 and 27 January 2019. The Kaunas Tournament was played between 8 and 10 February 2019. The Belgrade Tournament", "id": "16723395" }, { "contents": "Cyprus national basketball team\n\n\nThe Cypriot national basketball team is the national basketball team of Cyprus. It is run by the Cyprus Basketball Federation. It is affiliated to FIBA, in the FIBA Europe zone. The team participates at international and European tournaments. The only international tournament it took a part of in 2005, was the World University Games, where it finished 26th out of 30 participating nations. Cyprus national basketball team was a two-time Promotion Cup finalist (1990, 1994). The team's results have improved considerably in recent years.", "id": "8796375" }, { "contents": "Major achievements in basketball by nation\n\n\nThis article contains lists of achievements in major senior-level international basketball, 3x3 basketball and wheelchair basketball tournaments according to first-place, second-place and third-place results obtained by teams representing different nations. The objective is not to create combined medal tables; the focus is on listing the best positions achieved by teams in major international tournaments, ranking the nations according to the most number of podiums accomplished by teams of these nations. For the making of these lists, results from following major international tournaments were consulted:", "id": "2567479" }, { "contents": "2012–13 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team\n\n\n's first game of the tournament, a November 12 contest against the IUPUI Jaguars, resulted in a 91–54 Michigan victory. The win also gave Michigan its first consecutive 90-point performances since the 2000–01 team recorded three consecutive 90-point games. The following night, Michigan defeated Cleveland State by a 77–47 margin, marking the first time the school opened the season with three consecutive 30-point victories. The win also marked the first time Michigan had posted three consecutive 30-point wins since the 1988–89 Wolverines team (the 1989 national champion) won five consecutive 30-point", "id": "6800052" }, { "contents": "Holy Cross Crusaders men's basketball\n\n\nMVP George Kaftan, star Joe Mullaney and freshman point guard Bob Cousy, beat Oklahoma at Madison Square Garden to win the NCAA championship. The team entered the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament as the last seed in the 8-team tournament. Along with UConn, Holy Cross is one of the two New England colleges to ever win the NCAA tournament. In the first match, Holy Cross defeated the Navy 55 to 47, in front of a sold-out crowd at Madison Square Garden. Mullaney led the team in scoring", "id": "10994201" }, { "contents": "1990 Yugoslavia v Netherlands football match\n\n\nbetween the Croatian club Dinamo Zagreb and the Serbian club Red Star Belgrade. Croatian midfielder Zvonimir Boban kicked the policeman Refik Ahmetović and as a result got suspended by the Football Association of Yugoslavia (FSJ) for six months, causing him to miss the FIFA World Cup 1990 as well as the pre-tournament preparation friendlies. The exhibition versus the Netherlands took place on June 3 and was the last exhibition before the FIFA World Cup 1990. The crowd of 20,000 booed the Yugoslav national anthem Hey, Slavs. Fans cheered for the", "id": "6847604" }, { "contents": "2010 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament\n\n\n15–12 at one time, they missed 15 of their next sixteen shots while St. John's pulled out to a sixteen-point halftime lead. The two teams played roughly evenly the second half, but the halftime lead was more than enough and the Red Storm prevailed 65–47. Fourteenth seeded Louisiana Tech (La Tech) was returning to the NCAA Tournament after a three-year absence. Under Maggie Dixon award winning new coach Teresa Weatherspoon, the Lady Techsters took on third seeded Florida State. La tech started out strong, pulling", "id": "4677425" }, { "contents": "NCAA Season 92 basketball tournaments\n\n\nThe 2016 basketball tournaments of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (Philippines), otherwise known as NCAA Season 92, officially opened on June 25, 2016 at the Mall of Asia Arena, Pasay City. The showdown between season hosts San Beda Red Lions and season 91 men's basketball champions Letran Knights will be the first game, while JRU Heavy Bombers will face Mapua Cardinals in the second game. The games of the seniors basketball will be played on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays, while the junior games will be conducted every Mondays", "id": "21935372" }, { "contents": "Basketball in Greece\n\n\ninternational club tournaments in Europe, the predecessors of the EuroLeague that were then held instead of the EuroLeague tournament. The club advanced to the final of the 1954 San Remo Tournament, which they lost 81–74 to the Italian League club Olimpia Milano. Panellinios then won the 1955 Brussels Tournament, by defeating the Yugoslav League club Crvena Zvezda (Red Star Belgrade) in the final, by a score of 91–67. Panellinios also won the 1956 San Remo Tournament, by defeating the Italian League club Virtus Bologna, by a score of 67–37", "id": "9979930" }, { "contents": "1986 Acropolis International Basketball Tournament\n\n\nThe Acropolis International Tournament 1986 was the first edition of the Acropolis International Basketball Tournament. It was held from June 18 to June 20, 1986, at the SEF arena in Piraeus, Athens, Greece. The participating teams were the hosts, Greece, as well as Italy, Yugoslavia, and the Netherlands. The tournament featured famous international basketball players such as Dražen Petrović, Fanis Christodoulou, Nikos Galis, Antonello Riva, Vlade Divac, Rik Smits, Walter Magnifico, Stojko Vranković, Pierluigi Marzorati, and Panagiotis Giannakis. First", "id": "6981420" }, { "contents": "Bogdan Bogdanović (basketball)\n\n\ninternational basketball website Eurobasket.com. Bogdanović began playing organized basketball with ŠKK Zvezdara, a club in Belgrade. In April 2008, he moved on to KK Žitko Basket (then known as Alimenti Basket), also from Belgrade. Playing with Žitko Basket under coach Dragan Jakovljević, Bogdanović was part of the team that in April 2010 earned third place in the 2009–10 Serbian junior league at the final eight tournament in Vršac, after beating Partizan juniors in the quarterfinal, losing 89-86 to Hemofarm juniors in the semifinal and beating FMP junior", "id": "10194119" }, { "contents": "UAAP Season 49 men's basketball tournament\n\n\nThe 1986 UAAP men's basketball tournament was the 49th year of the men's tournament of the University Athletic Association of the Philippines (UAAP)'s basketball championship. Hosted by National University, the UP Fighting Maroons defeated the UE Red Warriors in the finals taking their first UAAP men's basketball championship in 47 years. Prior to the start of the season, De La Salle University was admitted as the eighth member school of the league. Tournament format: Number 1 seed UE only has to win once, while number 2 seed", "id": "21089230" }, { "contents": "1946–47 Houston Cougars men's basketball team\n\n\nThe 1946–47 Houston Cougars men's basketball team represented the University of Houston in the college basketball 1946–47 season. It was their second year of season play. The head coach for the Cougars was Alden Pasche, who was serving in his 2nd year in that position. The team played its home games at Jeppesen Gymnasium on-campus in Houston and were members of the Lone Star Conference. Houston captured its second conference regular season title, and competed in the postseason in the 1947 NAIA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament where they were", "id": "15588356" }, { "contents": "Australia men's national wheelchair basketball team\n\n\nThe Australia men's national wheelchair basketball team is the men's wheelchair basketball side that represents Australia in international competitions. The team is known as the Rollers. Australia took the gold medal at the 1996 Atlanta Paralympic Games and 2008 Beijing Paralympic Games. Australia has competed at every men's wheelchair basketball tournament at the Paralympic Games except 1964. Kevin Coombs was Australia's first captain of the men's wheelchair basketball team. The Rollers qualified for the 2016 Summer Paralympics by winning the 2015 Asia Oceania Qualifying Tournament and finished sixth. Results", "id": "15021027" }, { "contents": "Basketball at the Summer Olympics\n\n\ntournaments in which they competed, including six in a row from 1996 to 2016. Besides the United States, Argentina is the only nation still in existence who has won either the men's or women's tournament. The Soviet Union, Yugoslavia and the Unified Team are the countries no longer in existence who have won the tournament. The United States are the defending champions in both men's and women's tournaments. On June 9, 2017, the Executive Board of the International Olympic Committee announced that 3x3 basketball would become an", "id": "14854512" }, { "contents": "1946–47 BAA season\n\n\nThe 1946–47 BAA season was the inaugural season of the Basketball Association of America. (Following its third, the 1948–49 season, the BAA and National Basketball League merged to create the National Basketball Association or NBA.) The league launched with 11 teams playing a 60-game schedule. The postseason tournament at its conclusion, the 1947 BAA Playoffs, ended with the Philadelphia Warriors becoming the first BAA Champion, beating the Chicago Stags 4 games to 1 in the BAA Finals. The NBA recognizes the three BAA seasons as part of its own", "id": "9531612" }, { "contents": "1942–43 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team\n\n\nfundraiser for the American Red Cross, the finalists of the NCAA Tournament and NIT took part in the Sportswriters Invitational Playoff, in which the two tournament champions, Wyoming and St. Johns, and the two runners-up, Georgetown and Toledo, played each other. The NCAA Tournament teams prevailed in both: Wyoming beat St. John's 52-47, and the Hoyas defeated Toledo 54-40 to close out the season. The Hoyas finished with a record of 22–5, the most wins in team history and the first time", "id": "20556563" }, { "contents": "1991–92 UMass Minutemen basketball team\n\n\nThe 1991–92 UMass Minutemen basketball team represented the University of Massachusetts Amherst during the 1991–92 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Minutemen, led by fourth year head coach John Calipari, played their home games at Curry Hicks Cage and were members of the Atlantic 10 Conference. They finished the season 30–5, 13–3 in A-10 play to finish in first place. The Minutemen won the A-10 Conference Tournament by beating West Virginia in the finals. They were awarded a #1 seed in the NCAA Tournament. The Minutemen advanced to the", "id": "15806672" }, { "contents": "1994 FIBA World Championship\n\n\nThe 1994 FIBA World Championship was the 12th FIBA World Championship, the international basketball world championship for men's teams. The tournament was hosted by Canada from August 4 to August 14, 1994. The tournament was held at SkyDome and Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto as well as at Copps Coliseum in Hamilton. The hosting duties were originally awarded to Belgrade, Yugoslavia, but after United Nations limited participation in sporting events in Yugoslavia, Toronto stepped in as a replacement option in 1992. The 1994 FIBA World Championship was the first time", "id": "4501033" }, { "contents": "Basketball in England\n\n\n61 points to 47 points. The standard of play in this Championship showed considerable improvement. On the day following the Championship Finals Catford Saints represented England in the first International match ever held in Britain. The game against Germany was won by England by 40 points to 35 points. On 22/23 October 1938 a composite England International Team competed in the International Basketball Tournament at the Sports Palace in Berlin. The team with Mr. W. Browning as Coach and Mr. J. Clay as Manager included three Birmingham players - F. Cole, C. Hunt and", "id": "5035239" }, { "contents": "Florida Gators men's basketball\n\n\nwon the SEC Championship with a conference record of 14–4. During the regular season, Billy Donovan notched his 400th career win as the head coach of the Gators over Missouri. After losing in the final of the 2013 SEC Men's Basketball Tournament to Mississippi, they entered the 2013 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament as the No. 3 seed in the South Region. Florida defeated the No. 14 seed Northwestern State 79–47 in the first round, and advanced to the Sweet Sixteen after soundly beating the No. 11 seed", "id": "17774979" }, { "contents": "China-ASEAN CBO Basketball Invitational Tournament\n\n\nThe China-ASEAN CBO Basketball Invitational Tournament is an international basketball tournament held in Guangxi, China between teams from ASEAN and China. The first tournament was held in Pingguo County in the city of Bose from December 17-21, 2008. The Philippines won the inaugural tournament beating Guangxi in the finals. Home United of Singapore won bronze by beating Macau. At the 2009 and 2010 edition of the tournament, the Misamis Oriental Meteors, which represented the Philippines emerged as champions by beating Guangxi in the finals for 2-consecutive times.", "id": "7852964" }, { "contents": "2012 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament\n\n\nhalftime. In the second half, the defense of Arkansas prevailing, holding the Dayton flyers to zero field goals in the last twelve minutes of the game. The Razorbacks won, 72–55. The defending national champion Aggies held only a four-point lead at halftime over Albany, playing in its first ever NCAA Tournament appearance. The Great Danes were on a ten-game winning streak, but were unable to extend the run to eleven, as Texas A&M extended the lead in the second half, and won 69–47. After", "id": "7629126" }, { "contents": "Football in Yugoslavia\n\n\nthe 1930 World Cup in Uruguay. The monarchy was replaced by a socialist country after the Second World War. Many new clubs were formed and a new federal league was established to replace the old championship. The first season was played in 1946/47, and Partizan became the first postwar champions. The Yugoslav league soon became the most popular sport league in the country with average attendances usually over 10,000 spectators. The most successful clubs were known as the big four, Dinamo Zagreb, Hajduk Split, Red Star Belgrade, and Partizan Belgrade", "id": "6818632" }, { "contents": "FIBA Basketball World Cup\n\n\nthe FIBA table as seen from the FIBA archive website, updated with results since 1998. The records of SFR Yugoslavia and FR Yugoslavia (counted together as \"Yugoslavia\") are separated from records of Serbia and Serbia and Montenegro. In the case of the Soviet Union, their records also didn't carry over to Russia. Three players – Bira Maciel and Marcel De Souza of Brazil and Phil Smyth of Australia – have appeared in five tournaments. Six different players have won medals in four tournaments. Brazilian legend Oscar Schmidt is", "id": "152312" }, { "contents": "Belgrade Trophy\n\n\nThe Belgrade Trophy (Serbian: Трофеј Београда/Trofej Beograda) is an international basketball competition between national teams, which has been held annually since 2012 and takes place in Belgrade, Serbia each summer, before the big official FIBA tournaments, such as the FIBA EuroBasket, the FIBA World Cup, and the Summer Olympic Games. The tournament is organized by the Basketball Federation of Serbia. The competition is played under FIBA rules. All five editions of the tournament held so far have been won by Serbia, which has won all", "id": "8588500" }, { "contents": "Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball\n\n\nBig East Rookie of the Year Big East Defensive Player of the Year First Team All-American Second Team All-American Third Team All-American Honorable Mention All-American National Coach of the Year Big East Coach of the Year Total Seasons: 111 Regular-Season Conference Championships: 11 Conference Tournament Championships: 10 NCAA Tournament National Invitation Tournament \"The NCAA began seeding the tournament with the 1979 edition.\" The Hoyas have made 30 appearances in the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament. They have a record of 47", "id": "7112975" }, { "contents": "Yugoslavia women's national basketball team\n\n\nThe Yugoslavia women's national basketball team () was the women's basketball side that represented Kingdom of Yugoslavia and Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia from 1943 until 1992 in the international basketball matches, controlled by the Basketball Federation of Yugoslavia (KSJ). The team's first major tournament appearance was at the 1954 European Championship, hosted by Yugoslavia, in which it finished fourth. The team's biggest success in the following decades were bronze medal at the 1980 Moscow and silver medal at the 1988 Seoul Olympic games. The team disappeared", "id": "15246808" }, { "contents": "NCAA Season 63 basketball tournaments\n\n\nbaskets from Garrido and Eugene Quilban for an 81–70 lead. Letran cut the deficit to 79–87 but the Quilban and Napoleon Hatton scored in the final two minutes to prevent the Knights from a come-from-behind victory. After taking the halftime lead 50–47, Letran and San Sebastian remained close, but Letran pulled away in the fourth quarter off team captain Fernando Libed's eight points to give Letran an 84–79 lead. The Stags rallied to tie the game 90–all after trailing by eight points: Alvarez scored on a fastbreak and two", "id": "12159387" }, { "contents": "2018 FIBA Under-17 Basketball World Cup\n\n\nThe 2018 FIBA Under-17 Basketball World Cup was an international basketball competition, held from 30 June to 8 July 2018, in Rosario and Santa Fe, Argentina. It was the fifth edition of the FIBA Under-17 Basketball World Cup. Sixteen national teams competed in the tournament. The United States won their fifth title, is as many tournaments, after defeating France in the final. The host was chosen in 2017 it was decided to be held in Argentina over Bulgaria which will host in 2020, it also beat out Israel. The", "id": "3856345" }, { "contents": "BC Almaty\n\n\n. Almaty Legion were accepted into the Russian Basketball Super League, the second division of distant neighbours Russia, to play the 2014–15 season there. They finished dead last of the 16 team league with 2 wins out of 30, though they later beat MBA Moscow in the 15th place playoffs to move up a position. In February 2015, Legion won their first trophy, the Kazakhstan Basketball Cup, beating Tobol Kostanay 90-86 in the final to win the tournament organised in Almaty. They also reached the final of the 2014–15", "id": "4077205" }, { "contents": "2019 West Coast Conference Men's Basketball Tournament\n\n\nThe 2019 West Coast Conference Men's Basketball Tournament was the postseason men's basketball tournament for the West Coast Conference during the 2018–19 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The tournament was held from March 7 through March 12, 2019 at the Orleans Arena in Paradise, Nevada. Saint Mary's upset top-seeded Gonzaga 60–47 in the championship game to win the tournament, and received the conference's automatic bid to the 2019 NCAA Tournament. It was the fourth championship for Saint Mary's, their first since 2012. All", "id": "6016721" }, { "contents": "1946–47 Texas Longhorns men's basketball team\n\n\nThe 1946–47 Texas Longhorns men's basketball team represented The University of Texas at Austin in intercollegiate basketball competition during the 1946–47 season. The Longhorns were led by eighth-year head coach and former Longhorn basketball consensus first-team All-American Jack Gray. The team finished the season with a 26–2 overall record, for the highest win percentage in all of college basketball for the season, and a 12–0 record in Southwest Conference play to win the SWC championship. Texas advanced to the NCAA Tournament for the third time, recording its", "id": "18102684" }, { "contents": "Basketball in Lithuania\n\n\nteam and exploiting stalling techniques, Lithuania trailed only 14-7 at halftime before losing 31-10. The Lithuanian press declared it a moral victory. Also in 1936, Lithuania applied to become a member of FIBA and take part in international basketball competitions, the first being EuroBasket 1937, the second European basketball tournament that the Latvia Basketball Association would organize in Riga as reigning champions. Thus while basketball would become an Olympic sport at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Lithuania decided not to take part in the tournament, instead", "id": "19607955" }, { "contents": "UCC Demons\n\n\nforerunner of the National League, which began in 1973. Blue Demons were the inaugural winners of the National League in 1973–74. With their early success, they were able to organise one of the first significant international tournaments in Ireland. The Major Extra Size International Basketball Tournament attracted teams from England, Scotland, France, Belgium, Yugoslavia, Iceland and Canada. The tournament was held in the Parochial Hall in Cork and exposed the local teams and fans to the next level of basketball. By the early 1980s, the recruitment of", "id": "14615853" }, { "contents": "Coppin State Eagles men's basketball\n\n\nThe Coppin State Eagles men's basketball team is the basketball team that represents Coppin State University in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. The school's team currently competes in the NCAA Division I in the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference. Before joining NCAA Division I, the Eagles were the 1976 NAIA National Champions. The Eagles have appeared in the NCAA Tournament four times. Their combined record is 1–4. The 1996–97 team was only the third 15 seed to beat a 2 seed in the tournament. The 2007–08 Coppin State team was", "id": "13930583" }, { "contents": "1996 World Cup of Hockey\n\n\n-2, while Canada beat Sweden 3-2 on Theoren Fleury's goal at 19:47 of the second overtime period, ending the longest game in international hockey history. The tournament did see some controversy after the Canada-Russia game in Vancouver was played when Sweden's coach Kent Forsberg said he believed \"Canada cheated its way to victory\" through help of Canadian NHL referees that saw two goals disallowed and several controversial penalties for Russia. The Russian's coach Boris Mikhailov echoed a similar sentiment after the game saying \"It was", "id": "5190765" }, { "contents": "History of Red Star Belgrade\n\n\n\"the Royals\" had only knocked Red Star out on away goals (Real won in Madrid by 2–0). Red Star continues to build its \"Dream Team\" and Dinamo was left without the most gifted player – Robert Prosinečki, who won later with the Yugoslavia the 1987 FIFA World Youth Championship, including the winning of the award as tournament's best player. It followed the new Yugoslav representative and defender Refik Šabanadžović. In 1988, Dejan Savićević and Darko Pančev, the best remaining players of the league, signed for", "id": "8645786" }, { "contents": "Streetball in Puerto Rico\n\n\nvictorious, entering the game undefeated in six years of playing globally, with Puerto Rico Streetballer's win being its first lost to an international team and fourth overall. Sprite brand held a 1-on-1 tournament on September 29–30, 2012, the \"De Tr3s Pa'l All-Star\", which rewarded the six best streetballers that enter it with participation in the 2013 All-Star Game. The overall winner of the tournament was Joel Román. Puerto Rico is a member of the Street Basketball Association's International Street Basketball Federation, which promotes", "id": "21451582" }, { "contents": "North Macedonia national basketball team\n\n\nThe North Macedonia national basketball team ( / \"Košarkaška reprezentacija na Severna Makedonija\", formerly known officially as the Macedonia national basketball team) represents North Macedonia in international basketball and is controlled by the Basketball Federation of North Macedonia, which was created in 1992. They joined FIBA in 1993, after they gained independence from Yugoslavia. That same year the national team played their first official match against Estonia. Prior to 1993, Macedonian players took part on the Yugoslavia national team. Macedonia debuted in their first international tournament at the EuroBasket", "id": "9700361" }, { "contents": "Australia women's national basketball team\n\n\nstraight international medal finish. The 2000s was a golden era for the Opals, winning at least a bronze medal at every official FIBA tournament. In 2010, the 16th edition of the World Championship was held in the Czech Republic. Pre-tournament favourites Australia, USA, and Russia, dominated play in the first two rounds. In the quarterfinals, however, Australia suffered a shock 79–68 loss to the Czech Republic. The loss meant that the Opals could not finish any higher than 5th place, its worst international result since", "id": "3258893" }, { "contents": "Spain women's national basketball team\n\n\n, 47–39. It would take six years to play another international friendly game, losing to Cuba 50–70 on 28 September 1969. Their first official games were in March 1970, trying to qualify for 1970 EuroBasket, winning their first game against Switzerland 61–44 and losing to Hungary and France. The team qualified for their first major international tournament in their next attempt, the 1974 EuroBasket. After losing their three group stage games, they won their first game in a final tournament against Denmark in the placement matches, finishing in 12th position", "id": "13054811" }, { "contents": "2017 Big West Conference Men's Basketball Tournament\n\n\nThe 2017 Big West Conference Men's Basketball Tournament was the postseason men's basketball tournament for the Big West Conference. The tournament took place March 9–11, 2017 at the Honda Center in Anaheim, California. The tournament winner, UC Davis, received the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament with a 50–47 win over UC Irvine in the final. The top eight conference teams were eligible for the tournament. Teams were seeded by record within the conference, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records. Teams", "id": "13743768" }, { "contents": "2019 MEAC Men's Basketball Tournament\n\n\nThe 2019 Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference Men's Basketball Tournament was the postseason men's basketball tournament for the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference. The tournament was held from March 11 through March 16, 2019 at the Norfolk Scope in Norfolk, Virginia. North Carolina Central defeated Norfolk State 50–47 in the championship game to win the tournament, and received the conference's automatic bid to the 2019 NCAA Tournament. It was the third consecutive championship for North Carolina Central, and fourth in the last six seasons. 11 teams were seeded by", "id": "4746141" }, { "contents": "History of Ferencvárosi TC\n\n\nwith Liverpool at Anfield, in Liverpool, England. On the return match, the result was a goalless draw which resulted the qualification of Ferencváros for the next round. In the quarter-finals, Ferencváros beat Malmö FF 3–1 in Malmö, Sweden. On the return match, Ferencváros drew with Malmö (1–1). In the semi-finals, Ferencváros beat Red Star Belgrade 2–1 at home. On the return match Ferencváros drew with Red Star Belgrade (2–2) in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. In the final Ferencváros lost 3–0", "id": "4677566" }, { "contents": "2006–07 Kansas State Wildcats men's basketball team\n\n\ncolspan=9| Phillips 66 2007 Big 12 Championship Tournament !colspan=9|2007 NIT The Wildcats went on to a 10–6 record in conference play, earning a number 4 seed in the 2007 Big 12 Men's Basketball Tournament at the Sprint Center in Kansas City, Missouri. The Wildcats faced the #5 seed Texas Tech Red Raiders and won 64-47. They went on to lose in the next round to the #1 seed and eventual champion, Kansas Jayhawks, 67-61. The Wildcats earned a berth in the 2007 National Invitation Tournament", "id": "7267433" }, { "contents": "NCAA Season 62 basketball tournaments\n\n\nThe 1986 NCAA Basketball Tournament was the 62nd season in the Philippine National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). For the fourth time in five years, the Letran Knights have crowned themselves basketball champions in the Seniors division. The Staglets of San Sebastian College beat comebacking San Beda Red Cubs, 2-1, in their own title series for the Junior division championship. Format: Taking the first round pennant was San Sebastian, losing only to Jose Rizal College, 92-93. The Letran Knights dropped two games in the first", "id": "7265697" }, { "contents": "Purdue Boilermakers men's basketball\n\n\nElite Eight appearance since 2000. The Boilermakers have appeared in the NCAA Tournament 31 times. Their combined record is 42–31; due to use of an ineligible player, Purdue vacated one win and one loss from the 1996 NCAA Tournament, resulting in an adjusted official NCAA Tournament record of 41–30. The Boilermakers have appeared in the National Invitation Tournament (NIT) eight times. Their combined record is 20–7. They were NIT champions in 1974. The Boilermakers have appeared in the College Basketball Invitational (CBI) one time. Their record", "id": "3985834" }, { "contents": "Omari Tetradze\n\n\n– Tetradze. Later he considered restoring his original surname, but decided it would cause too many problems. At club level, he played for Dinamo Tbilisi, FC Dynamo Moscow, Alania Vladikavkaz (where he won a Russian league championship medal in 1995), AS Roma, and PAOK FC (Greece). He played for Russia at international level, and appeared at World Cup 1994 and Euro 1996. At the latter tournament, he played superbly in each of Russia's three games despite the team's poor results, and", "id": "17559889" }, { "contents": "KK Sloboda Užice\n\n\nsuccess was the participation in the Yugoslav First Federal League in 1988–89 season. Playing along with the great basketball clubs such as the Partizan Belgrade, Red Star Belgrade, Jugoplastika Split, Cibona Zagreb, Olimpija Ljubljana and many, the club has achieved 11th place. Due to the dissolution of SFR Yugoslavia, the club continues to compete in the FR Yugoslavia First League. In the 1991–92 season, the club achieved 7th place, but the next season it was relegated. From 1991 to 2006 the club changed its name four times.", "id": "2123886" }, { "contents": "Einar Gausel\n\n\nEinar Johan Gausel (born 30 November 1963) is a Norwegian chess player and Norway's third International Grandmaster since 1995. Gausel has won three Norwegian chess championships, in 1992, 1996 and 2001. His Grandmaster title was gained after making good results at tournaments in Gausdal in 1990, 1992, and 1994–1995 and finally winning a Danish tournament. In 2001 he was equal first with Vladimir Chuchelov in the colossal Cappelle-la-Grande open (702 players, with 92 Grandmasters and 72 International masters). Gausel is also the", "id": "15494924" }, { "contents": "San Francisco Dons women's basketball\n\n\nThe San Francisco Dons women's basketball team represents the University of San Francisco in NCAA Division I women's college basketball. San Francisco began play in 1976. Their first postseason appearance was in the 1980 AIAW National Division I Basketball Championship, losing 92–58 to BYU in the First Round. They made appearances in the NCAA Tournament in 1995, 1996, 1997, 2016, with a Sweet Sixteen appearance in 1996. That year, USF (ranked as a 5 seed) beat Florida 68–61, and Duke 64–60 before losing to Connecticut", "id": "16725321" }, { "contents": "1991 FIBA Centennial Jubilee Basketball Tournament\n\n\nThe 1991 FIBA Centennial Jubilee Basketball Tournament was the special edition tournament of the Acropolis International Basketball Tournament that was organized jointly by FIBA Europe and the Hellenic Basketball Federation to commemorate the 100 year anniversary of the sport of basketball. The tournament was held from June 5 to June 9, 1991, at the SEF Indoor Hall in Piraeus, Greece. The tournament was won by Italy, with Greece finishing in second place. The Jubilee also included a FIBA Festival All-Star Game, which was divided up into a Balkans versus the", "id": "3734770" }, { "contents": "Murray State Racers men's basketball\n\n\nopening round of the 1996 National Invitational Tournament, and finished the season 19-10. Marcus Brown finished his college playing career at the close of the 1996 season with 2,236 career points, which is third best in Murray State history. With a November 23, 1996, victory over the Belmont Bruins, the Racers began a 47-game home winning streak that would last into the 1999–2000 season. The Racers won the 1997 OVC Tournament with an overtime win over Austin Peay and earned a spot in the NCAA Tournament. ESPN's College", "id": "19384528" }, { "contents": "2016–17 Atlantic 10 Conference men's basketball season\n\n\nThe 2016–17 Atlantic 10 Conference men's basketball season was the 41st season of Atlantic 10 Conference basketball. The 2017 Atlantic 10 Men's Basketball Tournament was held at the PPG Paints Arena in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania from March 8–12, 2017. Dayton won the regular season championship. Rhode Island won the A-10 Tournament by beating VCU in the tournament championship. As a result, Rhode Island received the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament. Three A-10 teams received bids to the NCAA Tournament: Dayton, VCU, and Rhode Island.", "id": "7289863" }, { "contents": "EuroBelgrade\n\n\nEuroBelgrade is an annual international student sports tournament that takes place in Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. It is hosted by the Faculty of Organizational Sciences from Belgrade and supported by the entire University of Belgrade. During the tournament, students have the opportunity to play futsal, volleyball, basketball, waterpolo, table tennis, compete in cheerleading, visit some of the most attractive and famous Belgrade sights and party every night. All sport events are played in a building complex in a Kosutnjak forest. This three-day tournament belongs to", "id": "4849399" }, { "contents": "Euroleague Basketball Next Generation Tournament\n\n\nthe 8 team Final Four qualification tournament. The regional tournaments are the Torneig de Bàsquet Junior Ciutat de L'Hospitalet, the Kaunas International Junior Tournament, the Belgrade International Junior Tournament, and the Torneo Costa del Sol. The winners of each of the 4 regional tournaments qualify to the Final Four qualification tournament. In addition to the 4 winners of each of the regional qualification tournaments, the reigning champion from the previous season, as well as three wild card invitees, also take part in the Final Tournament, which is played by eight", "id": "140795" }, { "contents": "1996 SEC Men's Basketball Tournament\n\n\nThe 1996 SEC Men’s Basketball Tournament took place from March 7-10, 1996, at the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana. The Mississippi State Bulldogs won the tournament title and received the SEC’s automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament by beating the Kentucky Wildcats by a score of 84-73. This was the first time the Mississippi State men’s basketball team won the SEC tournament. Jefferson Pilot Sports regionally broadcast and syndicated coverage of the first round, the quarterfinals, and the semi-finals. Play-", "id": "10800240" }, { "contents": "Texas Tech Red Raiders basketball\n\n\n#700 (SMU), #800 (at SMU), and #900 (Texas A&M). With a Texas Tech career record of 326–261, Myers has more wins with the Red Raiders than any other men's basketball coach in school history. Myers led Tech to 16 winning seasons, two Southwest Conference championships, three SWC tournament titles, and four NCAA Tournament berths. Myers served as the school's athletic director from 1996 to 2011. James Dickey replaced Myers as head coach prior to the 1991/92 season and would", "id": "15167639" }, { "contents": "1982 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship Game\n\n\nof the tournament 47-46. Georgetown then began a thirteen-game win streak, which was followed by losing three straight to three conference opponents. The Hoyas then finished the regular season with nine more wins and one loss, which was good enough to finish second in the Big East regular season standings. The Hoyas won their first two games of the Big East Tournament by a collective margin of 29 points and advanced to the championship game against the Villanova Wildcats. The two teams were tied at halftime 33-33,", "id": "13552174" }, { "contents": "2007–08 Ohio State Buckeyes men's basketball team\n\n\nThe 2007–08 Ohio State Buckeyes men's basketball finished in fifth place in the Big Ten, squarely on the NCAA tournament bubble. However, they were not selected, marking the only time in coach Thad Matta's head coaching career his team missed the NCAA tournament while being eligible. The team dominated in the 2008 National Invitation Tournament on their way to a 92-85 victory over Massachusetts in the final. The Buckeyes lost three important players from their 2006–07 NCAA Runners-up team to the NBA Draft. Greg Oden, the", "id": "20762715" }, { "contents": "India national basketball team\n\n\nAustralia for almost the whole game until it finally ceded to the Boomers 75-93 after leading at halftime 41-37. Many Indian players also made headlines while in the Soviet Union as well. Ajmer Singh gained worldwide attention as he was amongst the top 10 shooters there and became the 10th best pivot player in the tournament there. The late 90s saw the emergence of [Jaldeep Dhaliwal], the first Indian basketball player who gained considerable international attention. Jaldeep led India to a surprising victory over South Korea, one of", "id": "4414633" }, { "contents": "Randy Wittman\n\n\nalike. Wittman signed an extension to remain head coach of the Wizards on June 3, 2014. The Wizards fired Wittman on April 13, 2016 after the team missed the playoffs. His son Ryan Wittman starred for the Cornell Big Red basketball team; he helped lead the Big Red to their first NCAA Tournament appearance in 20 years during the 2007–08 season, again in 2009, and to Cornell's first-ever NCAA basketball tournament victories in 2010 over the Temple Owls and Wisconsin Badgers as the Big Red made its first-", "id": "19509307" }, { "contents": "1950 FIBA World Championship\n\n\nThe 1950 FIBA World Championship, also called the 1st World Basketball Championship – 1950, was an international basketball tournament held by the International Basketball Federation in Buenos Aires, Argentina, from October 22 to November 3, 1950. Ten nations participated in the inaugural tournament. All competition was held at the Luna Park, Buenos Aires. Argentina claimed the gold medal, by beating the United States 64–50. FIBA determined the requirements to qualify for the World Championship as follows: the three best teams in the previous Summer Olympics basketball, the", "id": "1451568" }, { "contents": "Euroleague Basketball Next Generation Tournament\n\n\nthe tournament's new sponsorship name became the Adidas Next Generation Tournament. The four regional tournaments were originally the Torneo Città di Roma, the Torneig de Bàsquet Junior Ciutat de L'Hospitalet, the Kaunas International Junior Tournament, and the Belgrade International Junior Tournament. In 2016, the Torneo Città di Roma was replaced by the Torneo Costa del Sol. In total, 34 teams compete to play for the Next Generation Tournament title, at the Next Generation Tournament Final Four. 32 teams compete in 4 regional tournaments, in order to qualify to", "id": "140794" }, { "contents": "International High School of San Francisco\n\n\n17, IHS attained the following additional results in BCL league play: first in men's and women's basketball; first in baseball; and second in badminton; third in women's volleyball; third in men's tennis. The women's varsity soccer team reached the finals of the NCS playoff tournament. The women's basketball team made it to the CIF State tournament in 2016-17. Students at International have the option of taking art - whether it be music, theater, visual arts, or film - in each", "id": "15726852" }, { "contents": "Portsmouth F.C. (basketball)\n\n\nWembley Arena on 3 April, and fell to a 106-102 defeat against a BCP side inspired by Argentinian star Julio Politi. They earned some consolation the following day by beating Manchester United 99-89 in the third place match. An 'International All Star' tournament was held at the Mountbatten Centre on 29 and 30 December, featuring Portsmouth, Solent, Sao Paulo from Brazil and the Australian Institute of Sport. Portsmouth beat the Australians 104-44 in their semi-final and then defeated Solent 103-95 in", "id": "8755534" }, { "contents": "Bulgaria national basketball team\n\n\nThe Bulgaria national basketball team () represents Bulgaria in international basketball. They are administered by the Bulgarian Basketball Federation. Bulgaria's first appearance at an international tournament came at the EuroBasket in 1935. They have reached the premier European basketball competition 24 times, with their best results coming in 1957 as the runner-up on home soil, and 1961 respectively. The national team has also qualified for the FIBA World Cup, where they finished seventh in their lone appearance in 1959. Competing at the Summer Olympics multiple times, Bulgaria", "id": "3576230" }, { "contents": "Netherlands national basketball team\n\n\nThe Netherlands national basketball team () represents the Netherlands in international basketball matches. The national team is governed by Basketball Nederland. The Dutch have reached the European Basketball Championship on 15 occasions. Their best results at the event came in 1983, where they finished in 4th place. They also qualified for the FIBA World Cup once in 1986. In recent years though, the national team has struggled with consistency to reach major international tournaments. The team represents itself as the Orange Lions. The Netherlands were one of the teams that", "id": "7536357" }, { "contents": "Georgia national basketball team\n\n\nThe Georgia national basketball team () represents the country of Georgia in international basketball matches, and is controlled by the Georgian Basketball Federation. Georgia became a member of FIBA in 1992, after they gained independence from the Soviet Union. The national team played their first official match against Poland in 1995. Georgia's accomplishments on the international stage have been making four appearances at the European Basketball Championship. Their best result came at their debut trip to the tournament in 2011. While they have qualified for the top European event, they", "id": "7712121" }, { "contents": "Latvia\n\n\nOzoliņš and more recently Zemgus Girgensons, who the Latvian people have strongly supported in international and NHL play, expressed through the dedication of using the NHL's All Star Voting to bring Zemgus to number one in voting. Dinamo Riga is the country's strongest hockey club, playing in the Kontinental Hockey League. The national tournament is the Latvian Hockey Higher League, held since 1931. The 2006 IIHF World Championship was held in Riga. The second most popular sport is basketball. Latvia has a long basketball tradition, as the Latvian", "id": "17642259" }, { "contents": "2011 Big South Conference Men's Basketball Tournament\n\n\nThe 2011 Big South Men's Basketball Tournament took place on March 1, 3, 5, 2011 at campus sites. The semifinal round was televised on ESPNU, and the finals were televised on ESPN2. The UNC Asheville Bulldogs won the tournament, defeating Charleston Southern 72–63 in the quarterfinal round, High Point 62–45 in the semifinal round, and #1 Coastal Carolina 60–47 in the championship game. The top eight eligible men's basketball teams in the Big South Conference received a berth in the conference tournament. After the 18 game", "id": "12705823" }, { "contents": "1986 Acropolis International Basketball Tournament\n\n\n, Kambouris 4, Melissinos, Stavropoulos 8, F. Christodoulou 10, Andritsos, Filippou 11, Romanidis 2, Pedoulakis 3 (1), Karatzas 8, Dimakopoulos 2. HOLLAND: Smits 20, Bottse 11, Schilp 17 (1), Ebeltjes 4, Esveldt, Heijdeman 9, van Dinten 19, de Waard, Broukman 6. br Yugoslavia - Italy 92-80 YUGOSLAVIA: D. Petrović 26 (3), A. Petrović 16 (3), Divac 7, Čutura 17, Petranović 4, Radović 5,", "id": "6981425" }, { "contents": "Basketball in New Zealand\n\n\nFIBA World Championship in Indianapolis. At the tournament they finished fourth, after beating Puerto Rico in the quarter-finals before losses to Yugoslavia and Germany. Tall Blacks captain Pero Cameron was the only non-NBA player named to the all-tournament team in Indianapolis. The Tall Blacks qualified for the 2004 Athens Olympics, but again finished with a 1–5 record and lost to Australia in the playoff for ninth place. Their most noted moment was on the 7th day of the games, when they beat Serbia and Montenegro, 90–87", "id": "5179502" }, { "contents": "2008–09 Connecticut Huskies women's basketball team\n\n\n. Kalana Greene led the Huskies with a season-high 20 points, scoring 18 points before halftime, and leading the Huskies to a 47–10 halftime lead. USF would match the UConn production in the second half, but the 37 point margin held. The final score was 79–42. The second tournament game was against Villanova, a team UConn had beaten by 27 points less than two weeks earlier. However, the game was tied at 25 apiece, with under six minutes to go in the first half. Maya Moore then", "id": "21371273" }, { "contents": "McDonald's Championship\n\n\nThe McDonald's Championship (sometimes called the \"McDonald's Open\") was an international men's professional basketball club cup competition that featured a representative of the National Basketball Association against champion club teams from Europe, Australia, and South America. The first competition was held in 1987 and continued annually after that until 1991, when the tournament switched to a biannual event. For the first two years, the men's national teams from Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union participated. The McDonald's Championship, from 1987 to 1996, was", "id": "5071363" }, { "contents": "Basketball at the Summer Olympics\n\n\n1984, against the South Koreans, amid the Soviet-led boycott. In 1988, the tournament expanded into eight teams, with the Americans beating Yugoslavia in the gold medal game. In 1992, the Unified Team, consisting of the former Soviet republics, defeated China in the gold medal game. In 1996, the tournament settled into its current 12-team format; the U.S. has swept all of the tournaments since then, winning 48 consecutive games. All venues were indoor stadiums except for the 1936 tournament which was held outdoors on", "id": "14854522" }, { "contents": "Acropolis International Basketball Tournament\n\n\nThe Acropolis International Basketball Tournament (also known as the Acropolis of Athens Basketball Tournament and the Acropolis Basketball Cup) (Greek: Τουρνουά Ακρόπολις) is an international basketball competition that is played between national teams, which has been held almost every year since 1986, and takes place in Athens, Greece, during the summer. It takes place before the big official FIBA tournaments like the EuroBasket, the FIBA World Cup, and the Summer Olympic Games. The tournament is named after the world-famous Acropolis of Athens. The competition", "id": "21469024" }, { "contents": "Belgium national basketball team\n\n\nThe Belgian national basketball team (, , ) represents Belgium in international basketball tournaments. The supervising body is Basketball Belgium. The national team has qualified for the EuroBasket 13 times, having their best result at the EuroBasket 1947 when they finished 4th. Further, they entered the Summer Olympics on three occasions, in 1936, 1948, and 1952. Their best result there was 11th place at the 1948 Olympic Games, in London. Their qualification for the EuroBasket 2011, marked their first EuroBasket appearance since 1993. Though, the", "id": "3576176" }, { "contents": "Red Star Belgrade\n\n\nYugoslav competitions, Red Star was the most successful club in Yugoslavia and finished first in the Yugoslav First League all-time table, and is the most successful club in Serbia. Since the 1991–92 season, Red Star's best results are in the UEFA Champions League group stage and UEFA Europa League knockout phase. According to 2008 polls, Red Star Belgrade is the most popular football club in Serbia, with 48.2% of the population supporting them. They have many supporters in other former Yugoslav republics and in the Serbian diaspora.", "id": "5070852" }, { "contents": "Euroleague Basketball Next Generation Tournament\n\n\nThe Euroleague Basketball Next Generation Tournament, known as the Adidas Next Generation Tournament for sponsorship reasons, and until 2014, called the Nike International Junior Tournament (NIJT) for sponsorship reasons, is an international boy's youth age basketball tournament that is contested between the best basketball clubs in Europe in the Under-18 age category. The tournament is organized by Euroleague Basketball, and is sponsored by Adidas. The tournament's Final Four takes place during the senior men's EuroLeague Final Four event. The tournaments's Final Four also features a slam", "id": "140792" }, { "contents": "Estonia national basketball team\n\n\nThe Estonia national basketball team () represents Estonia in international basketball matches. They are controlled by the Estonian Basketball Association. Estonia first competed internationally at the 1936 Summer Olympics. The national team has also made five appearances at the European Basketball Championship, with their best results coming in 1937 and 1939, where they finished in fifth place. Estonia joined FIBA on 23 November 1934. Coached by Herbert Niiler, Estonia first competed on the international stage at the 1936 Summer Olympics, held in Berlin, the first Olympic tournament to hold", "id": "3631949" }, { "contents": "Harold Johnson (basketball)\n\n\nHarold H. Johnson (January 30, 1920 – September 17, 1999) was an American professional basketball player. He played in the Basketball Association of America for the Detroit Falcons in the first year of the league's existence (1946–47) and averaged 0.6 points per game. A three-year letterman for the Indiana State Sycamores, \"Big Stoop\" led the Sycamores to the 3rd round of the 1942 NAIA Tournament. The \"Fightin' Trees' dropped a close game to the eventual champions, the Hamline Pipers. Following", "id": "19490237" }, { "contents": "Conel Hugh O'Donel Alexander\n\n\nthe English team, because of the declaration of World War II, since he was required at home for codebreaking duties. He was also the non-playing captain of England from 1964 to 1970. Alexander was awarded the International Master title in 1950 and the International Master for Correspondence Chess title in 1970. He won Hastings 1946/47 with the score 7½/9, a point ahead of Savielly Tartakower. Alexander's best tournament result may have been first equal (with David Bronstein) at Hastings 1953/54, where he went undefeated and beat Soviet", "id": "20374418" }, { "contents": "Bosnia and Herzegovina national basketball team\n\n\nThe Bosnia and Herzegovina national basketball team (Bosnian: \"Košarkaška reprezentacija Bosne i Hercegovine\" / Кошаркашка репрезентација Босне и Херцеговине) represents Bosnia and Herzegovina in international basketball competitions, and is governed by the Basketball Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Until 1992, Bosnian basketballers played for Yugoslavia. Bosnia and Herzegovina reached their first international tournament at the EuroBasket in 1993. They have competed 9 times at the event overall. The national team though have yet to qualify for the FIBA World Cup or Summer Olympics. Until 1992, Bosnia was", "id": "11792353" }, { "contents": "History of netball\n\n\n's Basketball and Netball (now the International Netball Federation). The sport was referred to as \"netball\" in most countries, although New Zealand and Australia still used the name \"women's basketball\"; both countries eventually adopted the name \"netball\" in 1970. This meeting also resulted in the creation of a world tournament to be played every four years, now called the Netball World Cup. The inaugural tournament was played in Eastbourne, England in 1963, and tournaments have since been played quadrennially. Since their inception", "id": "17980065" }, { "contents": "Republika Srpska national basketball team\n\n\nand KSHB into BiH Basketball Association. At the national level Republic of Srpska played friendly matches within a traditional manifestation called Basketball Tournament (Košarkaški sabor) where Republic of Srpska senior team played friendly matches against Serbian national team consisting of players from Serbian Top Division. During that tournament KSRS named the best male and female basketball players of the year. During the International Sport Fair in Belgrade in November 2014, the protocole of cooperation was signed by BF Serbia and BF Republic of Srpska. In 2015 the Serbian selection is going to play", "id": "13699009" }, { "contents": "Dragan Godžić\n\n\nDragan Godžić (; born April 14, 1927) was a Serbian basketball player and coach. He represented the Yugoslavia national basketball team internationally. Godžić was a member of the first managing board of the Crvena zvezda basketball club. Godžić played for a Belgrade-based team Crvena zvezda of the Yugoslav First League. During the time with Crvena zvezda he won seven Yugoslav Championships. Godžić was a member of the Yugoslavia national basketball team that participated at the 1953 European Championship in Moscow, the Soviet Union. Over two tournament games, he", "id": "5482233" }, { "contents": "Mirko Marjanović (basketball)\n\n\nMirko Marjanović (; born 2 May 1926 – \"Unknown\") was a Serbian basketball player and coach. He represented the Yugoslavia national basketball team internationally. Marjanović played for Belgrade-based teams the Yugoslav Army and Partizan of the Yugoslav First League. In the 1945 season, he won the Yugoslav Championships with the Yugoslav Army. Marjanović was a member of the Yugoslavia national basketball team at the 1947 FIBA European Championship in Prague, Czechoslovakia. Over five tournament games, he averaged 9.2 points per game. At the 1953 FIBA European", "id": "9152887" }, { "contents": "Ramsay Robertson Dalgety\n\n\n1987–90. Member of Faculty of Advocates 1972, IOD 1982–89. Councillor City of Edinburgh DC 1974–80, chairman Opera Singers' Pension Fund London 1991–92 (trustee 1983–92, deputy chairman 1987–91). Deputy traffic commissioner for Scotland 1988–92, deputy chairman Edinburgh Hibernian Shareholders' Association 1990–92. Vice-president Tonga International Game Fishing Association since 1996 (treasurer 1994–96), tournament director Tonga International Billfish Tournament 1996. He is co-chair of a Tongan Royal Commission and has been chairperson of the Tonga Electric Power Board since 2002. On 28", "id": "3903697" }, { "contents": "1946–47 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team\n\n\nbeen its home court the previous season. Ripley previously had coached Georgetown from 1927 to 1929, leaving to coach Yale for six seasons, and again from 1938 to 1943, leading the Hoyas to what at the time was their only postseason tournament apperanace in the 1943 NCAA Tournament. He then left to coach at Columbia and Notre Dame when Georgetown suspended its basketball program for two seasons during World War II. This time he would coach the Hoyas for three seasons, and the 1946-47 team was by far the most successful", "id": "20271633" }, { "contents": "Gonzaga University\n\n\nplayer and Gonzaga alum John Stockton graduated), made the regional finals of the NCAA tournament (the \"Elite Eight\") in 1999, re-appearing in the tournament every year since (). The women's basketball team made it to the \"Sweet Sixteen\" in 2010. Three of Gonzaga's most recent notable athletes are basketball players – former center Ronny Turiaf; Robert Sacre 2012 NBA Draft (selected by the Los Angeles Lakers third overall 2006 NBA Draft pick), and Red Star Belgrade Adam Morrison (who", "id": "17367600" }, { "contents": "France national basketball team\n\n\nThe France national basketball team () represents France in international basketball and is administered by the French Federation of Basketball. France has been a regular at the EuroBasket, with 37 appearances, the most for any nation all-time. Their best result at the tournament was winning a gold medal at EuroBasket 2013. They have also come away with two silver medals, in 1949 and 2011. The French squad has won two silver medals at the Summer Olympics as well, in 1948 and 2000. France's best result at the", "id": "4259326" }, { "contents": "1947 BAA playoffs\n\n\nThe 1947 BAA playoffs was the postseason tournament that followed the inaugural Basketball Association of America 1946–47 season. (After its 1948–49 season, the BAA merged with the older National Basketball League to create the National Basketball Association or NBA.) The tournament concluded with the Philadelphia Warriors defeating the Chicago Stags, 4 games to 1, in the BAA Finals. The six qualified teams all began tournament play on Wednesday, April 2, and the Finals concluded on Tuesday, April 22. Philadelphia and Chicago played 10 and 11 games in the", "id": "16249040" }, { "contents": "2017 FIBA Melanesia Basketball Cup\n\n\nThe 2017 FIBA Melanesia Basketball Cup was an international basketball tournament contested by national teams of the newly formed Melanesia sub-zone of FIBA Oceania. The inaugural edition of the tournament were hosted by Papua New Guinea from 27 to 30 September 2017. Matches were played at the Taurama Aquatic and Indoor Centre. It was officially launched on 19 May 2017. The tournament served as qualifiers for the basketball event of the 2019 Pacific Games in Samoa with three berths for Melanesia allocated for the top three teams in this tournament. Additionally the top", "id": "16680079" }, { "contents": "FIBA International Christmas Tournament\n\n\nClub World Cup), whose results were valid for the first edition of the aforementioned competition of the highest basketball organism, and whose first trophy It was the same as the one used in the FIBA International Christmas Tournament until 1980. The second edition of the Christmas Tournament was baptized at the time as Latin Cup, due to the origin of the participating teams (there was a competition called Latin Cup in 1953 that only had an edition, although the one of December 1966 counts as the second edition of the Christmas Tournament)", "id": "10828019" } ]

[ { "contents": "Football in Lithuania\n\n\nFootball is popular sport in Lithuania. The former Soviet republic made their entrance as an independent football nation in 1992. In the qualification for the Euro 2004, Lithuania held Germany to a 1-1 draw in Germany and won against Scotland. In the qualification for the Euro 2008 they played away to the 2006 World Cup winners Italy and drew 1-1 as well as beating Romania 3-0 in Lithuania in another shock performance. In 1922 in Lithuania, like in Poland, soccer championships began. Then, in the", "id": "4830771" }, { "contents": "Marius Niculae\n\n\n2–0 win. Despite he scored 20 goals for Dinamo in the 1999–00 season, Niculae was not included by Emerich Ienei in the preliminary squad for UEFA Euro 2000. On 2 September, Niculae scored a brace for Romania U-21 against Lithuania in the first match from the 2002 European Championship qualifiers, counting his first goals in an official match. On 6 October, Niculae played his final match for the U-21 squad, netting Romania's only goal in the 1–1 draw against European Championship holders Italy. On 5 December, Niculae scored his", "id": "3505259" }, { "contents": "Stadionul Marin Anastasovici\n\n\nMarin Anastasovici Stadium is a multi-use stadium in Giurgiu, Romania. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home ground of Astra Giurgiu. The stadium holds 8,500 people all on seats. The first international game was played by the Romania national under-21 football team on 19 November 2013 in a match against Germany which ended 2-2. The first game for Romania at Giurgiu was a friendly match against Lithuania on 23 March 2016. The stadium host also various UEFA Europa League matches and also a match from", "id": "15891395" }, { "contents": "History of the Romania national football team\n\n\nEast Germany scoring a predictable 4-1 win in Albania, Romania were out, despite a huge 9-0 win over Finland in Bucharest. Romania continued to suffer poor form in the UEFA European Championship. In their qualifying group for the 1976 European Football Championship, they were out-qualified by Spain, despite an impressive 1-1 draw in the away match. Romania failed to win matches, drawing twice with Scotland and Spain and dropping points in Denmark with a dismal goalless draw. Romania were again beat by Spain", "id": "16435703" }, { "contents": "Faroe Islands national under-21 football team\n\n\nRussia U21, beating them 1-0 after a goal in the first minute. This was followed by a 1-1 draw against Moldova in September, but Faroe Islands lost the next match 3-1 against Latvia. Russia had their revenge in the away match and defeated Faroe Islands 2-0. They also lost both matches against Romania. In November 2009 Faroe Islands beat Latvia 1-0 and were held to a 1-1 draw against Andorra. Faroe Islands won the home match against Andorra 3-1", "id": "13865866" }, { "contents": "Carrow Road\n\n\non five occasions. The first was in 1983 in a European Under-21 Championship qualifying match against Denmark, which England won 4–1. The team played another qualifying match in the same tournament at the stadium in 1997, beating Greece 4–2. The Slovakia team featured in a friendly match at the ground in June 2007, England winning 5–0 in front of a crowd of 20,193 people. In 2010, the ground played host to a play-off against Romania, a game the home side won 2–1 in front of a then record all", "id": "8674438" }, { "contents": "Romania national football team\n\n\nGianluigi Buffon saved the subsequent Mutu penalty, leaving Romania with two points and needing a win against the Netherlands, which eliminated France 4–1 that same evening. The Netherlands beat Romania 2–0 in the final game of the group, which meant that Italy joined the Netherlands in the quarter-finals and Romania finished third, ahead of France. Romania were drawn into the UEFA qualifying round for the 2010 World Cup alongside France, Serbia, Austria, Lithuania and the Faroe Islands. Although Romania were seeded in the second pot, suggesting that", "id": "10918894" }, { "contents": "Rugby union in Romania\n\n\n, drawing two, and losing one. Later in 1955, the Romanians defeated Llanelli in Moscow, and then beat both Cardiff and Harlequins in Bucharest. Only France, who played Romania before almost 95,000 fans in Bucharest (in a preliminary match to a soccer international), could beat the Romanians, and that was only after an epic 16-15 battle. A generation of French school-trained coaches from the late 1940s and 1950s laid the foundations for national success in the 1960s, 70s and 80s. In 1974 Romania", "id": "13829979" }, { "contents": "Dennis Man\n\n\nover Rudar Velenje. Man was selected for the Romania under-21 team and scored on debut in a 3–1 away victory over Bosnia and Herzegovina, on 1 September 2017. Senior manager Cosmin Contra gave Man his first Romania call-up for the friendlies with Israel and Sweden in March 2018. He made his debut in the latter game, replacing Nicolae Stanciu in 87th minute as his side won 1–0 at the Stadionul Ion Oblemenco in Craiova. On 11 June 2019, he netted the last of his team in a 4–0 defeat of Malta", "id": "12444532" }, { "contents": "2011 Rugby World Cup qualifying\n\n\nand Romania). On a home and away basis, Romania prevailed by winning 32–12 in Bucharest, preceded by a 21–21 draw in Montevideo. It competed in Pool B. Both nations had won the repechage semi-finals. Those were conducted as single matches, with the European and African qualifiers drawn into one semi-final and the Asian and Americas qualifiers drawn into the other. Romania beat Tunisia 56–13 and Uruguay had the upper hand over Kazakhstan winning 44–7. Both matches were hosted by the team with the higher IRB World Ranking", "id": "11180430" }, { "contents": "Moshtagh Yaghoubi\n\n\nterminated by Shakhter Karagandy on 17 June 2016. On 4 November 2016, HJK Helsinki announced the signing of Yaghoubi. On 31 January 2019, Seinäjoen Jalkapallokerho announced the signing of Yaghoubi. Yaghoubi acquired Finnish nationality in 2013 and got called up for Finland national under-21 team for 2015 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship qualification match against Lithuania on 11 June 2013. Yaghoubi scored his national team debut goal when Finland beat Wales U-21 5–1 in UEFA Under-21 Championship qualification on 14 August 2013. On 31 October 2013 Yaghoubi made his debut for Finland national", "id": "15530739" }, { "contents": "Romania national football team\n\n\npoor form in the UEFA European Championship. In their qualifying group for the 1976 European Football Championship, they were out-qualified by Spain despite an impressive 1–1 draw in the away match. Romania failed to win matches, drawing twice with Scotland and Spain and dropping points in Denmark with a dismal goalless draw. Romania were again beaten by Spain for a place in the 1978 World Cup in Argentina. Despite a 1–0 win in Bucharest, Romania lost a bizarre match at home to Yugoslavia 6–4 having led 3–2 at half time.", "id": "10918865" }, { "contents": "History of the Romania national football team\n\n\nfor a place in the 1978 World Cup in Argentina. Despite a 1-0 win in Bucharest, Romania lost a bizarre match at home to Yugoslavia 6-4 having led 3-2 at half time. Spain won 1-0 in Belgrade to seal passage to South America. Romania's sole successful qualifying campaign was for the European Championships in 1984 in France. At the finals, Romania were drawn with regular rivals Spain, holders West Germany and dark horses Portugal. Under head coach Mircea Lucescu, an encouraging opening", "id": "16435704" }, { "contents": "Yann Sommer\n\n\nUnder-21 Championship, hosted by Denmark between 11 and 25 June 2011. The Swiss team reached the 2011 UEFA European Under-21 Championship Final on 25 June without conceding a goal, but lost 2–0 to Spain. This was Sommer's final match for the under-21s. Sommer made his debut for the Swiss senior side on 30 May 2012 at the Swissporarena, Lucerne, in a 0–1 defeat against Romania in a friendly match. On 13 May, he was named in Switzerland's 23-man squad for the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil. Alongside", "id": "823566" }, { "contents": "Scotland at the UEFA European Championship\n\n\nqualifying saw Scotland face Denmark, Romania and Spain. Scotland lost their opening match 2–1 to the Spaniards at Hampden, before drawing 1–1 in Valencia. Gordon McQueen scored a late equaliser to win Scotland a point away in Romania, before Joe Harper's goal saw Scotland beat Denmark 1–0 away from home. Scotland won the reverse fixture 3–1. Scotland's final match was at home to Romania, with Scotland requiring a two goal win to win the group and qualify for the play-offs. Scotland took the lead through a Bruce", "id": "1546781" }, { "contents": "Polish football in the interwar period\n\n\nyet more achievements. On October 2, a so-called double match took place (such games were popular in 1930s European Football). The reserve Poland team beat 2-1 Latvia at Warsaw, and at the same hour the first lineup faced Romania in Bucharest. Romania (with several of its starters of Hungarian nationality from Transylvania) was regarded a very strong team. The Poles, however, overwhelmed it 5-0 and this was the biggest success of Polish Football so far. This game is significant also for", "id": "21819213" }, { "contents": "History of the Romania national football team\n\n\nLithuania in Cluj-Napoca before scraping an unconvincing 1-0 win in the Faroe Islands, midfielder Răzvan Cociş scoring the goal. Their third match would be at home to France, who had also begun with a bad loss, 3-1 to Austria in Vienna. Romania raced into a 2-0 lead in Constanţa with goals from Florentin Petre and Dorin Goian but France pulled one back before half time through Franck Ribéry. A long-range strike from Yoann Gourcuff earned France a draw but both sides were left with", "id": "16435733" }, { "contents": "Nauris Bulvītis\n\n\nseason. Bulvītis has been capped internationally at under-19 and under-21 levels. In 2012 Latvia national football team coach Aleksandrs Starkovs called him up for the 2012 Baltic Cup. Nauris played 2 matches, helping Latvia win the tournament. Bulvītis scored his first international goal on 6 September 2013 in a 2–1 2014 FIFA World Cup qualification match victory over Lithuania. In May 2014 he helped Latvia win the Baltic Cup for the second time in a row, scoring the only goal in a 1–0 victory over Lithuania in the final of the tournament.", "id": "22161076" }, { "contents": "Lithuania national football team\n\n\nScotland; however, a 1–0 defeat to Scotland in the final game ended their hopes. Although finishing fifth in their 2006 World Cup qualifying group, Lithuania were nevertheless competitive. Lithuania drew with world champions Italy 1–1 in Naples in a Euro 2008 qualifying game on 2 September 2006, in the first competitive game that Italy played since the World Cup final. On 6 September 2008, Lithuania defeated Romania 3–0 in a 2010 World Cup qualifier. The victory was regarded by many as \"a historic win.\" It was followed by", "id": "6890277" }, { "contents": "Colchester Community Stadium\n\n\n2011 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship as they beat Lithuania 3–0 with two goals from Danny Welbeck and one from Marc Albrighton. A crowd of 7,240 watched the game on 7 September 2010. The England under-21s returned to Colchester for a 2013 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualifier on 11 November 2011. The Young Lions cruised to a 5–0 victory against Iceland on the night, with goals from Marvin Sordell, Martin Kelly, Craig Dawson and two scored by Gary Gardner. The attendance for the game was 10,051. England won their fourth match after", "id": "19735537" }, { "contents": "Arvydas Novikovas\n\n\na starter. During his 2 season there he has helped Jagiellonia Białystok finish 2nd twice in a row. He has scored 16 goals and provided 12 assists in the 58 games he has played for them, starting the 2018/19 season with 3 goals and 2 assists in his first 9 games. Novikovas represented the Lithuania under-21's when he was just a 16-year-old. In May 2009, he was called up to the Lithuania squad, for their FIFA World Cup qualifier with Romania. On 9 September, Novikovas scored for Lithuania", "id": "1849831" }, { "contents": "Valon Ahmedi\n\n\ndebuted for the under-21 side against Macedonia U21, playing as a starter for the entire first-half in an eventual goalless draw. He received another call up for the under-21 side by same coach Skënder Gega for the friendly match against Romania U21 on 8 October 2014. He played against Romania U21 as a starter and in the 60th minute provided the assist for the 1–1 equalising goal scored by Vedat Muriqi, which however wasn't enough as Romania U21 won 3–1. Ahmedi was called up for the first time in an official competitive", "id": "7679765" }, { "contents": "Alessandro Del Piero\n\n\nthat qualified for and later won the 1996 European Under-21 Championship, appearing in the quarter-finals. Del Piero made his senior debut under Arrigo Sacchi at the age of 20, on 25 March 1995, in a 4–1 win over Estonia in a Euro 1996 qualifying match. Del Piero scored his first goal for Italy on 15 November 1995, in a 4–0 win over Lithuania in a Euro 1996 qualifying match. His tournament debut was at UEFA Euro 1996, where he made his only appearance in the first half of the team", "id": "4132525" }, { "contents": "1998 UEFA European Under-21 Championship squads\n\n\nThe following is a list of squads for each nation competing at 1998 UEFA European Under-21 Championship in Romania. The tournament started on 23 May and the final took place in Bucharest on 31 May 1998. Players born on or after 1 January 1975 were eligible to play in the tournament. Each nation had to submit a squad of 20 players, two of which had to be goalkeepers. If a player was injured seriously enough to prevent his taking part in the tournament before his team's first match, he could be replaced by", "id": "6042468" }, { "contents": "Lithuania national under-21 football team\n\n\nThe Lithuania national under-21 football team is the national under-21 football team of Lithuania and is controlled by the Lithuanian Football Federation. Squad called up for the friendly match against on 10 November 2017 and 2019 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification match against on 14 November 2017. ! colspan=\"9\" bgcolor=\"#B0D3FB\" align=\"left\" | ! colspan=\"9\" bgcolor=\"#B0D3FB\" align=\"left\" | ! colspan=\"9\" bgcolor=\"#B0D3FB\" align=\"left\" | ! colspan=\"7\" bgcolor=\"#B0D3FB\" align=\"left\" | ! colspan=\"9\" bgcolor=\"#B0D3FB\" align=\"left\" | ! colspan=\"9\" bgcolor=\"#B0D3FB\" align=\"left\" | ! colspan=\"9\"", "id": "15919932" }, { "contents": "James Milner\n\n\nMilner competed for England at the 2007 UEFA European Under-21 Championship. He played in all four of England's matches and was booked in the semi-final against the Netherlands, which meant he would have missed the final. The match was decided by a penalty shoot-out, in which Milner scored twice and England lost 13–12. Milner was included in the under-21 squad for a friendly against Romania, which ended in a 1–1 draw. A month later, Milner set an England under-21 record by making his 30th appearance for the", "id": "1860629" }, { "contents": "Endri Çekiçi\n\n\nat Albania under-21 by coach Skënder Gega for the friendly match against Romania U21 on 8 October 2014. In that match, he came on as a substitute in the second half, and Albania lost 1–3. Çekiçi received another call up by the newly appointed coach Redi Jupi for the 2017 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualifying matches against Israel and Portugal in September 2015. He debuted against the former by coming on as a second-half substitute, netting a penalty kick in the 84th minute to rescue his side a 1–1 home draw.", "id": "8124891" }, { "contents": "Romania national football team\n\n\nWorld Cup, Romania won their first match against Peru, 3–1, with goals from Adalbert Desu, Constantin Stanciu and Nicolae Kovács and Samuel Zauber as goalkeeper, before being thrashed 4–0 by hosts and eventual winners Uruguay. Romania qualified for the next World Cup in 1934 after beating Yugoslavia 2–1 in a repeat of their first international. At the finals, Romania played only one game in a new knock-out format, losing 2–1 to Czechoslovakia in Trieste, Italy, with Ștefan Dobay scoring their only goal of the tournament. Romania", "id": "10918860" }, { "contents": "Romania national under-21 football team\n\n\nnational team until the age of 23. The best result achieved by the Romania U-21 squad is the qualification for the 1998 European Championship. Under the guidance of Victor Pițurcă and with a generation of players that included among others Bogdan Lobonț, Florentin Petre, Ionel Dănciulescu and Cătălin Munteanu, Romania U-21 finished the qualifying stage with maximum points after winning all eight games. Romania was then chosen as the host of the final stage. The squad was eliminated in the quarter-finals, being beaten by the Netherlands, 2-1", "id": "14153041" }, { "contents": "James Ward-Prowse\n\n\nhosts France 2–1. Ward-Prowse was nominated for the Vauxhall England Under-21 Player of the Year award, but eventually lost out to Southampton teammate Nathan Redmond. In June 2017, he captained the under-21s at that year's edition of the European Under-21 Championship where England reached the semi-finals, eventually losing to Germany in a penalty shoot-out. On 16 March 2017, he earned his first call-up to the senior England squad for a friendly against Germany and a World Cup qualifying match against Lithuania. Six days", "id": "1352322" }, { "contents": "History of the Romania national football team\n\n\nfirst match against Peru, 3-1, with goals from Adalbert Desu, Constantin Stanciu and Nicolae Kovács, before being thrashed 4-0 by hosts and eventual winners Uruguay. Romania qualified for the next World Cup in 1934 after beating Yugoslavia 2-1 in a repeat of their first international. At the finals, Romania played only one game in a new knock-out format, losing 2-1 to Czechoslovakia in Trieste, Italy, with Ştefan Dobay scoring their only goal of the tournament. Romania qualified by default", "id": "16435698" }, { "contents": "Muarem Muarem\n\n\nSeptember 2009 in a 2-1 loss. He went on to make nine appearances for the team, scoring his first international goal in his second under-21 appearance, a 1-1 draw with Lithuania on 9 September 2009, scoring in the first minute of the match. He scored his second goal a month later against England, netting a low free-kick that brought his team back into the game at 2-1. He also scored against Portugal and Bosnia and Herzegovina. Muarem played his final game for the under-21s", "id": "18689026" }, { "contents": "Giedrius Arlauskis\n\n\nreturn to Romania, joining CFR Cluj. The move was confirmed on 15 August 2017. In August 2008, Arlauskis' performance in Romania led him being called by the Lithuania for the first time. Arlauskis made his national team debut as a substitute against Moldova in a friendly game on 19 November 2008. He joined the game in the 46th minute and conceded a goal after 67 minutes as Lithuania drew with Moldova 1–1. After playing two more caps as a substitute, his first competitive game then came on 18 June 2010,", "id": "17863969" }, { "contents": "Romania national under-21 football team\n\n\n. The Romania under-21 team does not have a permanent home. The team plays in stadiums located all around Romania. Because of the smaller demand compared to the senior national team, smaller facilities are used. As of June 2019, the last three games have been played in Cluj-Napoca. Romania again qualified for the UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship in 2019, after topping a group that included Portugal, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Wales, Switzerland and Liechtenstein. They secured their qualification for the final tournament, by beating Liechtenstein,", "id": "14153042" }, { "contents": "Theo Wharton\n\n\nBorough in July 2018. Wharton signed for National League North club Hereford F.C. on 22 December 2018. Wharton was first selected for the Wales national under-17 team for the 2011 UEFA European Under-17 Championship qualifying round, starting two matches against Belgium and Denmark. Wharton was called up to the Wales under-21 team to play Moldova on 22 March 2013. On 9 September 2014, Wharton made his Wales under-21 debut in a 1–1 draw against Lithuania under-21s. In 2016, Wharton chose to switch allegiance to play for Saint Kitts and Nevis, the", "id": "17934659" }, { "contents": "Marius Niculae\n\n\nwas officially signed. On 26 February, he scored his first goal for Shandong in a friendly match against Chongqing F.C.. After representing Romania at the U-16 and U-18 levels, Niculae was promoted to the U-21 level. Niculae's form for Dinamo saw him selected for the Romania U-21 team to play Bulgaria U-21 on 3 March 1999, and he marked his debut with the second goal as Romania won 3–1. He played his first official match for Romania U-21 on 26 March, in a 0–1 defeat against Slovakia U-21, coming in", "id": "3505256" }, { "contents": "History of the Serbia national football team\n\n\nin 12th minute, from \"penalty spot\", like against Austria three monts before. On 10 October 2009, Serbia made a huge victory 5–0 against Romania and secured placement at 2010 FIFA World Cup. In last match of this qualifying cycle, Lithuania defeated Serbia 2–1 in Marijampolė. In November, Serbia defeat Northern Ireland and South Korea in Belfast and London, 1–0 both matches. Serbia placed into Group D with Germany, team also faced 2010 Africa Cup of Nations runners-up Ghana, and Australia. Their opening group", "id": "3691746" }, { "contents": "History of Ferencvárosi TC\n\n\n1 December 1962 Ferencváros lost 1–0 to Sampdoria in Genoa, Italy. On 12 December 1962 Ferencváros beat Sampdoria 6–0 at home. In the quarter-finals Ferencváros beat Petrolul Ploiești 2–0 at home, while lost the away match 1–0 in Ploiești, Romania. In the semi-finals, Ferencváros lost to NK Dinamo Zagreb 1–0 at home and Ferencváros lost the away match 2–1 in Zagreb, Yugoslavia. Ferencváros won the 1962–63 season of the Hungarian League. Therefore, Ferencváros entered the European Cup 1963–64 season. On 11 September 1963,", "id": "4677552" }, { "contents": "George Pușcaș\n\n\n90th minute of a 2–1 victory over Cosenza. Pușcaș scored seven times for Romania under-21 in the 2019 UEFA European Championship qualifying competition, as his side won its group and progressed to the final tournament in Italy. On 18 June 2019, he obtained the penalty from which he scored the opener in a 4–1 victory over Croatia at the San Marino Stadium. He netted again in the next group game against England, surpassing Ionuț Luțu as the highest scorer of the \"Tricolorii mici\". Pușcaș then gave Romania a half-time", "id": "18913818" }, { "contents": "Belarus women's national football team\n\n\nqualified for the promotion play-offs. In the 2001 European Championship qualifying, again in Class B, Belarus beat Estonia 4–1 and 0–7, Israel 0–5 and 1–0 and Slovakia 1–0, and tied 1–1 in Romania, but the Romanians earned the spot in the promotion play-offs after beating Belarus 0–1. With this settled Belarus lost 6–1 to Slovakia in the last match. In the 2003 World Cup qualifying, Class B, Belarus beat Bosnia 5–2 and 2–7, Turkey 4–0 and 1–5, Slovakia 3–2. They lost the remaining", "id": "21080772" }, { "contents": "Visa requirements for Turkmen citizens\n\n\nEstonia (1 July 1992), Latvia (1993), Lithuania (1 November 1993), Slovakia (6 May 1994), Bulgaria (1 January 1999), Armenia (1999), Moldova (9 June 1999), Russia (17 July 1999), Hungary (1 December 1999), Romania (1 July 2000), Belarus (21 July 2000), Czech Republic (22 October 2000), Poland (3 November 2000), Kazakhstan (1 March 2001). Also Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan,", "id": "5139311" }, { "contents": "Ovie Ejaria\n\n\nplaying the whole match. Ejaria was selected for the England under-20 team in the 2017 FIFA U-20 World Cup. He made his first start in a game in the first round match against South Korea, and came on as a substitute the quarter-final against Mexico, but was an unused substitute in the final where England beat Venezuela 1–0. He was called up for the England under-21 team in March 2018, making his debut in a friendly against Romania. He was called up again in May 2018 for the Toulon Tournament but", "id": "14618472" }, { "contents": "Franck Ribéry\n\n\nCup qualification match against Romania, scoring the team's opening goal in a 2–2 draw. On 28 March 2009, Ribéry scored the lone goal away to Lithuania. Three days later, he completed this feat again, this time at the Stade de France, netting the winner in the 75th minute following service from André-Pierre Gignac. On 11 May 2010, Ribéry was named to Domenech's 30-man preliminary squad to participate in the 2010 World Cup and his second World Cup overall. He was later named to the 23-man team", "id": "15094173" }, { "contents": "Cosmin Contra\n\n\nbeing announced as Timișoara's new player-coach six days later. Over 14 years, Contra earned 73 caps for Romania, scoring seven goals. He appeared for his country at UEFA Euro 2000 and 2008. On 1 April 2009, after a match with Austria, Contra announced his retirement from international football. On 30 August 2010, however, the 34-year-old was recalled for two Euro 2012 qualifiers against Albania and Belarus. Contra made his Timişoara debut as a manager in September 2010, with a win against FC Sportul", "id": "4642171" }, { "contents": "Victor Pițurcă\n\n\nWorld Cup (0–0 against France, 1–1 against Italy), Romania lost 0–2 to the Netherlands, finishing the group in third place and thus being eliminated from the competition. After Euro 2008, Romania showed an increasingly poor form in both friendly games and the 2010 World Cup qualifying campaign, where they had a slow start. In their first two official games after Euro 2008, Romania lost 0–3 against Lithuania at home and four days later secured a difficult 1–0 victory against the Faeroe Islands. Although many of the players which helped", "id": "13766306" }, { "contents": "Paul Papp\n\n\nin a qualification game for the 2011 European Under-21 Championship, against Latvia. He captained his side for the first time, following Torje and Găman's injuries, on 29 May 2010, in the friendly match, lost by Romania against Belarus. On 7 September, Papp was in the startup team for Romania U-21, in a 3–0 win against Russia. The win secured Romania a place in the playoff stage of the 2011 European Under-21 Championship qualifiers. However, he missed the chance to play at the 2011 European Under-21 Championship,", "id": "22044461" }, { "contents": "Ciprian Deac\n\n\nfourth national championship in its history. Deac made his debut for the Romania under-21 team against France on 1 June 2007, with the match ending 1–1. He was part of Romania's preliminary Euro 2008 squad, but missed out on the final list led by manager Victor Pițurcă. On 5 March 2010, Deac finally earned his first cap for the full side in a friendly match against Israel. In August 2017, following a six-year absence, he was selected by Christoph Daum for the 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifying matches", "id": "14907109" }, { "contents": "Radomir Antić\n\n\ninto the fire. Also surprising was leaving tall striker Nikola Žigić on the bench and starting with only on attacker, Marko Pantelić, upfront in 4–5–1 formation. And while Serbia lost 2–1 to somewhat wounded France that just days earlier shockingly lost to Austria, many positives were taken from the match at Stade de France such as a brave attacking approach with a lot of running from the wings. Next up in October was in-form Lithuania, which had recently defeated Romania and Austria without allowing a goal. Contrary to expectations,", "id": "18552988" }, { "contents": "Roy Hodgson\n\n\n, losing 1–0 in Porto. In the tournament the Swiss were drawn in Group A alongside Romania, Colombia and the hosts, United States. The opening match of the group was between Switzerland and the United States and is memorable as the first World Cup match to take place indoors, at the Pontiac Silverdome. The Swiss drew 1–1 against the United States, beat Romania 4–1 and lost 2–0 to Colombia, finishing as runners-up in their group, qualifying for the Round of 16, where they lost 3–0 to Spain.", "id": "12858556" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nagainst Portugal, but did so as England defeated Germany 1–0 in Charleroi, ensuring that England beat their European neighbours for the first time since the 1966 World Cup Final. To remain in the tournament, England only required a draw against Romania in the final group match, and Shearer scored a penalty as England went in at half-time 2–1 up, but Romania ultimately won 3–2. England's tournament was over, and so was Shearer's international career. From his 63 caps, he captained the team 34 times and scored", "id": "13592545" }, { "contents": "Florinel Coman\n\n\nEuropean goal in the UEFA Europa League 1–1 draw with Hapoel Be'er Sheva, on 2 November. Coman featured for Romania at the 2019 UEFA European Under-21 Championship, mostly as a second half substitute. In the group fixture on 21 June, he entered in the 63rd minute for Andrei Ivan, obtained a penalty and scored a double to help to a 4–2 victory against England. He then earned his first and only start in a goalless draw with France, with both teams progressing further to the semi-finals, where Romania suffered", "id": "21859353" }, { "contents": "Mitragyna speciosa\n\n\nDenmark, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania and Sweden. In the UK, since 2016, the sale, import, and export of kratom are prohibited under the Psychoactive Substances Act. In 2017, kratom was designated a Schedule 1 illegal drug (the highest level) in the Republic of Ireland, under the names 7-hydroxymitragynine and mitragynine. The use of kratom leaves, known locally as \"ketum\", is prohibited in Malaysia under Section 30 (3) Poisons Act 1952 and the user may be fined a maximum amount", "id": "16890332" }, { "contents": "Romania national rugby union team\n\n\nThey lost 36–21 to Wales A at Pontypridd and 70–21 in a test held in Wrexham. At the 1999 World Cup Romania could again only manage a single win 27–25 against the United States. In 2000, Romania won the first European Nations Cup by a large margin, recording victories in all four matches. By 2001, Romania had been caught by the likes of Georgia who defeated them to take the 2001 European Nations Cup, crowned with a decisive 31–20 win over Romania in Bucharest. The national side lost to England by 134–0", "id": "10342595" }, { "contents": "Aritz Aduriz\n\n\n. He made his debut on the 8th, replacing Llorente for the last 15 minutes of a 3–1 home win against Lithuania. Six years later, at the age of 35, Aduriz was recalled by manager Vicente del Bosque for friendlies with Italy and Romania. He started and scored in the first match, a 1–1 draw at the \"Stadio Friuli\", and was selected for UEFA Euro 2016 in France. He made two substitute appearances in the group stage, always replacing Juventus' Álvaro Morata in the second half; on", "id": "7991541" }, { "contents": "UEFA Euro 2008 Group C\n\n\nof counter-attacking football. Then, in their second game, they also beat the 2006 World Cup runners-up, France, 4–1. This left the French in a difficult position, having already played out a scoreless draw against Romania in the group's opening match. Romania also played out a draw against Italy in their second match, leaving them in second place going into the final round of group matches. Italy finished as the second quarter-finalists, after they beat France 2–0 in their final game. French", "id": "15100017" }, { "contents": "List of land borders with dates of establishment\n\n\nSan Marino \"Italy–Slovenia \"Italy–Switzerland \"Italy–Vatican City \"Ireland–UK \"Latvia–Lithuania \"Lithuania–Belarus \"Lithuania–Poland \"Lithuania–Russia \"Latvia–Russia \"Liechtenstein–Switzerland \"Republic of Macedonia–Serbia \"Moldova–Romania \"Moldova–Ukraine \"Montenegro–Serbia \"Norway–Russia \"Norway–Sweden \"Poland–Slovakia \"Poland–Russia \"Poland–Ukraine \"Portugal–Spain \"Romania–Ukraine \"Romania–Serbia \"Russia–Ukraine \"Slovakia–", "id": "21121898" }, { "contents": "Nicolaj Thomsen\n\n\nDanish national team on 18 November 2014 against Romania. Thomsen scored the only Danish goal in the 1–1 draw against Iceland which qualified Denmark U-21 for the 2015 UEFA European Under-21 Championship. He was selected for the squad for the tournament and played the entire match in the opening win against the Czech Republic. He was in the line-up in the other two group stage-matches against Germany and Serbia. Thomsen was also chosen to the line-up in the semi final, where Denmark was defeated by Sweden. AaB Copenhagen", "id": "14143520" }, { "contents": "João Cancelo\n\n\n. On 20 April 2019, Cancelo played in the \"Scudetto\"-clinching match against rivals Fiorentina, as Juventus won their eighth successive league title after a 2–1 home triumph. Cancelo represented Portugal in the 2012 UEFA European Under-19 Championship. He was also selected for the following edition, in Lithuania. With the under-20s, Cancelo appeared at the 2013 FIFA World Cup and the 2014 Toulon Tournament. He featured in two games in the former competition, with the country reaching the round-of-16. Cancelo was part of the under-21 squad that competed", "id": "15886722" }, { "contents": "Human rights violations by the CIA\n\n\nofficials. Nicaraguan Contras were taught to lead: The manual also recommended: The CIA claimed that the purpose of the manual was to \"moderate\" activities already being done by the Contras. In May 2018, The European Court of Human Rights ruled that the countries of Romania and Lithuania were involved in torture activities perpetrated by the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). The two countries were found to have run \"black site\" torture rooms and detention facilities therefore committing grave human rights abuses. In Romania, the secret", "id": "1650708" }, { "contents": "European Patent Organisation\n\n\nSerbia which did so on 1 October 2010. In addition there are \"extension states\" which are not Contracting States to the EPC but have instead signed extension agreements under which the protection conferred by European patent applications and patents is extended to the relevant country. These are Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Montenegro. Slovenia, Romania, Lithuania, Latvia, Croatia, Macedonia, Albania and Serbia were all extension states prior to joining the EPC. Furthermore, there are so-called \"validation states\" which are not Contracting States to", "id": "2996937" }, { "contents": "Montenegro national football team\n\n\nPoland, Denmark, Kazakhstan, Armenia and Romania. Poland, Denmark and Romania had been participants in the UEFA Euro 2016, but Montenegro began by drawing 1–1 away to Romania, beating Kazakhstan 5–0 at home and defeating Denmark 1–0. However, they then lost 3–2 away to Armenia despite leading 2–0, and were defeated 2–1 at home by Poland. Montenegro then rebounded, beating Armenia 4–1 and Kazakhstan 3–0. They later eliminated Romania with a 1–0 victory, but losses to the Danes and Poles ended Montenegro's chance of qualifying.", "id": "9236271" }, { "contents": "Denis Alibec\n\n\nplayed for Romania's under-17, under-19 and under-21 teams. On 11 October 2015, after being called up on several occasions in the past, Alibec gained his first cap for the full side in the last UEFA Euro 2016 qualifying match against Faroe Islands, replacing Bogdan Stancu in the 90th minute. In June 2016, he was picked by Anghel Iordănescu for his squad at the final tournament in France and appeared as a substitute in Romania's opening game, a 2–1 defeat to the host. Alibec's father, Gevrim and uncle", "id": "7828376" }, { "contents": "Lukas Spalvis\n\n\nout again on 5 July 2017, joining 2. Bundesliga side 1. FC Kaiserslautern for the 2017–18 season. On 8 May 2018, it was announced that Spalvis had joined 1. FC Kaiserslautern on a permanent deal. On 26 August, he sustained a long term injury in a match and it will leave him out for almost the remainder of the season. Spalvis played several matches for youth national teams, including Lithuania U-19 and Lithuania U-21. In March 2014 he made his debut for the senior team, in a friendly", "id": "11995894" }, { "contents": "Nathan Craze\n\n\nDiv II Group A in Bucharest, Romania, and was also named Netminder of the Tournament. He received the International Ice Hockey Federation Directorate’s Award of the tournament’s Best Netminder when GB won the gold medal in the 2004 World under-18 Championships (Div II) in Lithuania, and he equalled the feat by being voted the IIHF’s tournament Best Netminder when GB won the gold medal in the 2006 World under-20 Championships (Div II) in Romania. In 2006, Craze signed with the Bracknell Bees as their starting goalie,", "id": "21622172" }, { "contents": "Women's event at the 43rd Chess Olympiad\n\n\nbeat Georgia's second team 2½-1½, Italy beat Cuba 3-1, while Lithuania tied their match against Kazakhstan. United States, Georgia and Armenia with 11/12 match points each were on the top after six rounds. The central match of the seventh round was the clash between Armenia and United States on the first table, where Armenians snatched a minimal victory thanks to the Elina Danielian and Anna Sargsyan who scored full point as White in the games against Anna Zatonskih and Sabina-Francesca Foisor, respectively; Jennifer Yu beat Maria Kursova", "id": "7597446" }, { "contents": "Lithuania at the Olympics\n\n\nLithuania, after declaring restoration of independence in 1918, sent its athletes to the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris for the first time. At first it was considered to send 33 athletes, but then it was decided to limit the delegation to 13 soccer players and 2 cyclists. The soccer players arrived in Paris only a day before the game was scheduled. Lithuania debuted at the Olympic games on May 25, 1924 at 2:40pm (Paris time) when the match between Lithuanian and Swiss teams started. Lithuania lost 9-0 (", "id": "8795472" }, { "contents": "Romania national football team\n\n\nthey were a strong challenge for the first place in the group, they eventually finished fifth, above only the Faroe Islands. Their campaign was a disaster that began with a 3–0 home loss to Lithuania and included a 5–0 trashing in Belgrade by Serbia. Furthermore, various problems were caused during the poor campaign, such as the retirement from international football of Cosmin Contra, Mirel Rădoi and Adrian Mutu (the latter would later be recalled after a year's absence). Also, coach Victor Pițurcă resigned and was replaced by Răzvan", "id": "10918895" }, { "contents": "Sūduva Stadium\n\n\nSūduva Stadium, known as ARVI Football Arena for sponsorship reasons, is a multi-purpose stadium in Marijampolė, Lithuania. The stadium was built using funds from the European Union and opened on July 6, 2008. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of FK Sūduva. Its original capacity increased from 4,200 to 6,500 spectators after additional seats were installed in May–June 2009 before a match between Lithuania national team and Romania. Beginning from the 2011 season the stadium was named ARVI Football Arena after", "id": "10765440" }, { "contents": "Kilkim Žaibu\n\n\n, Lithuania. From 2000 to 3000 people visit the festival annually from various countries. Also, bands have performed at Kilkim Žaibu festivals from Australia, Norway, Hungary, Czech Republic, Romania, Ukraine, Russia, Sweden, Finland, Germany and neighbouring countries. The festival took place in Varniai, Lithuania on 28th - 30th June, 2018. The festival took place in Varniai, Lithuania on 29 June - 1 July 2017. The festival took place in Varniai, Lithuania on 23–25 June 2016. The festival took place in", "id": "10249217" }, { "contents": "Latvia national football team\n\n\n, the Latvian team participated in the first qualification tournament for the 1938 World Cup. Latvia were placed in Group 8, alongside Austria and Lithuania. Latvia beat Lithuania 4–2 in Riga, after a Fricis Kaņeps hat-trick and an Iļja Vestermans goal. In Kaunas, they won 5–1, after two goals each from Kaņeps, Vaclavs Borduško, and Vestermans, but lost 1–2 in the decisive away match against Austria, despite an early goal from Vestermans. In April 1938, the Austrian Anschluss relegated the Austrian team, however,", "id": "15750063" }, { "contents": "Miloš Krasić\n\n\nIn May 2006, Krasić played a leading role in the 2006 European U-21 Championship. He made his debut for the senior side later that year in a friendly against Denmark. At senior level, Krasić was an important player for Serbia in 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification. He scored one goal in the match against Lithuania, another in the game against Austria and set up three in the game against Romania, which sealed his nation's qualification to the final tournament in South Africa. Krasić is a right-sided winger, noted", "id": "19580145" }, { "contents": "Philip Billing\n\n\nunder-20 team and the Romania national under-20 football team. He earned his first cap for the U21 team in a qualifying match for the 2019 European Championship against the Faroe Islands on 31 August 2017; it ended in a 3–0 win. He again featured a week later in another qualifying match, which the team won 6–0 against Lithuania. In November 2018, Billing turned down an approach to switch his international allegiance to the Nigeria national team. In March 2019, he received his first call-up to the Denmark national team.", "id": "18184799" }, { "contents": "1934 FIFA World Cup qualification\n\n\nfollows: Key: Estonia v Lithuania was not played since neither team could qualify with a win. Sweden qualified. 11-1 on aggregate; Spain qualified. Italy qualified, as Greece declined to play the second match. Bulgaria withdrew, and the remaining matches were not played since Hungary and Austria were already assured of the top two spots. Hungary and Austria qualified. Poland were unable to travel to Prague for the second match as the Polish government denied the team visas for political reasons. Therefore, Czechoslovakia qualified. Romania", "id": "6526321" }, { "contents": "Rugby union in Romania\n\n\nwon against France 15 – 10 in Bucharest, and the FIRA – Association of European Rugby championship. In 1975 Romania went for an 8 games tour to New Zealand, tour concluded in Wellington with a 10-10 draw against Junior All Blacks. Home nation sides began to award international caps for matches against Romania from 1981. Romania won rugby internationals over Scotland in 1984 and 1991, and also over Wales in 1983 and 1988 (the latter in Cardiff). Between 1960 and 1990, Romania beat France eight times, the", "id": "13829980" }, { "contents": "European Border and Coast Guard Agency\n\n\na border security operation conducted by Frontex, the European Union's border security agency. The operation, under Italian control, began on 1 November 2014 and involves voluntary contributions from 15 other European nations (both EU member states and non-members). Current voluntary contributors to Operation Triton are Croatia, Iceland, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Germany, the Netherlands, France, Spain, Ireland, Portugal, Austria, Switzerland, Romania, Poland, Lithuania, Malta and the United Kingdom. The operation was undertaken after Italy", "id": "20620191" }, { "contents": "Albania national football team\n\n\nqualifying match, Albania made history by qualifying for the UEFA Euro 2016, its first ever appearance at a major men's football tournament. In the tournament itself, Albania lost 0–1 to Switzerland and 0–2 to hosts France. While they beat Romania 1–0 (their first win against Romania since 1947), the team finished last among the third-placed teams and didn't progress beyond the group stage. Despite the UEFA European Championship's almost successful debut, Albania suffered massive setback. In 2018 World Cup qualification, Albania had been", "id": "15457050" }, { "contents": "Dean Henderson\n\n\nmore times as an unused substitute bench that saw him missed out two matches for the side in the league. He made his under-21 debut on 24 March 2018, in a friendly at home against Romania, which England won 2–1. Henderson was named as England's number one for the 2019 UEFA European Under-21 Championship. Growing up, Henderson played county cricket as a schoolboy and was an accomplished batsman and wicket-keeper but chose football. Henderson initially started out as an outfield player before switching to his role as a goalkeeper.", "id": "6533434" }, { "contents": "Harry Maguire\n\n\n-up to either because he is such a level headed character.\" Maguire duly made his England under-21 debut as a substitute in the 60th minute, coming on for Liverpool's Andre Wisdom in a 2–0 win against Northern Ireland Under-21s at Bloomfield Road. On 24 August 2017, England manager Gareth Southgate included Maguire in his squad for the 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification matches against Malta and Slovakia. He made his debut when starting in England's 1–0 away win over Lithuania, which was the team's final match in their successful", "id": "3737243" }, { "contents": "Albania national under-21 football team\n\n\nmatch against Romania was characterized by a large Albania's win 7–1, which is the largest win ever recorded by Albania U-21. Albania Under-21s have managed to qualify only once in their history, and that came in the year of 1984 when they managed to qualify for the 1984 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship, although they were competing for the first time in such tournament. They were drawn in a very tough group which included the West Germany, Turkey and Austria. The historic event was the first time any Albanian squad qualified for", "id": "19363492" }, { "contents": "Alexandru Mitriță\n\n\nNew York City goal on the 17th the same month, in a 2–2 draw with Los Angeles FC. In March 2018, Mitriță was called up for Romania senior team's friendlies with Israel and Sweden later that month, after reportedly impressing coach Cosmin Contra. He made his debut in the former match on the 24th, and offered an assist to George Țucudean in a 2–1 win in Netanya. Mitriță is deployed as an attacking midfielder or a winger on either flank, having been noted for pace and technical ability which allow him", "id": "4318108" }, { "contents": "Claudiu Bumba\n\n\nsigned a four-year contract with Israeli club Hapoel Tel Aviv. On 2 February 2017, he signed a two and a half years contract with Dinamo Bucharest. He scored his first goal for Dinamo Bucharest on 10 April, in 2-1 league win against Astra Giurgiu. Bumba made his debut for Romania U-17 on 21 September 2010 in a game against Kazakhstan U-17. He played with the under-17 team at the 2011 UEFA European Under-17 Football Championship. On 6 October 2011, in a game against Sweden U-19, Bumba came", "id": "11657727" }, { "contents": "Dorian Dervite\n\n\nand U-21 levels. He has captained them on occasions. He was called up to the Under-21 squad to face Estonia and England. He was called for the international Toulon Tournament again with the U21, then against Poland and for the U21 European Championship qualifiers against Lithuania and Ukraine. he scored his first goal for France in a home draw with Poland U21 on 12 August 2009 with an 80th minute shot to make it 2–1 to France with the game ending 2–2, his last game for the Under-21s came in their 3–1 away win", "id": "18562600" }, { "contents": "Povilas Leimonas\n\n\nwith Jagiellonia Białystok. Povilas played for Lithuania's \"B\" team in two games in 2011, both against Lithuania U-21. The first game, played in Vilnius on 9 February, was won 2-1 by the \"B\" team, and the second match, in Marijampole on 2 March, resulted in a 3-0 win. Leimonas made his senior international debut on 7 June 2011, in a 1-0 friendly loss to Norway. He earned his second cap two months later in another friendly, the", "id": "16136896" }, { "contents": "History of the Romania national football team\n\n\nmatch in Bern, but the Netherlands were regarded as the outstanding team in the tournament, having followed their comprehensive win against Italy with an equally emphatic 4-1 win over France. A draw would also take Romania through were the other match between Italy and France to be drawn. With Italy taking a first-half lead against a France side reduced to ten men, it became apparent that Romania needed to beat the Netherlands to qualify. However, they played poorly and the Netherlands won 2-0 with second half goals", "id": "16435731" }, { "contents": "Sander Puri\n\n\nEstonia at under-17, under-19 and under-21 level. He made his debut for the senior national team on 30 May 2008 against Latvia in the 2008 Baltic Cup. He scored his first national team goal on 22 November 2008, in a 1–1 draw against Lithuania in a Mayors Cup match. A goal against Saint Kitts and Nevis saw him awarded the Estonian Silverball, for the best goal scored for Estonia in 2015. Puri is one of three triplets: his brother, Eino Puri, is also a footballer and his sister, Kadri", "id": "21342008" }, { "contents": "Eduards Višņakovs\n\n\nagainst Estonia on 5 June 2013, helping his team secure a 2–0 victory. On 10 September 2013 the U-23 team beat England 1-0, with Višņakovs scoring his second goal in two matches. Višņakovs was firstly called up to Latvia national football team for the FIFA World Cup 2014 qualifying matches against Lithuania and Slovakia on 11 and 15 October 2013. He made his debut for the national team in the match against Lithuania, coming on as a substitute in the 77th minute and replacing Māris Verpakovskis. A local scandal arose when", "id": "17206337" }, { "contents": "Romania national rugby union team\n\n\nthe Super Powers Cup. The USA beat a Romanian team stripped of their France-based players 23–16 in the third place play-off. The 2005–06 European Nations Cup also served as a qualifying group for the 2007 Rugby World Cup. Romania triumphed despite finishing level on points with Georgia. Romania qualified for the 2007 Rugby World Cup in France, finishing at the top of their pool during the Round 5 of the European qualifying tournaments. Romania won their first qualifying match on October 7, defeating Georgia in Bucharest 20–8. Their", "id": "10342600" }, { "contents": "Shlomo Lipetz\n\n\n, against Lithuania, Lipetz tossed a 10-inning, 4-hit complete game to beat Lithuania 2-1. He led that qualifier in victories and tied for second in strikeouts. During the 2012 European Baseball Championship qualifiers, in 2011, Lipetz pitched in 3 of the 5 games. Lipetz beat Georgia in the opener pitching 7 innings and striking out 9. Lipetz did not appear in the second game, against Great Britain, or in the third game against Lithuania. During the first game of the home/away finals against Great Britain", "id": "12992976" }, { "contents": "State Farm Stadium\n\n\nsoccer match attended by 62,462 fans. The United States men's national soccer team defeated Mexico, 2–0. On January 21, 2012, the U.S. played against Venezuela and won the match 1–0. On January 30, 2013, Mexico played against Denmark, a game that was broadcast on Televisa Deportes, UniMás, and TV Azteca. The match ended in a 1–1 draw. On November 19, 2015, the stadium was one of the sites selected for the 2016 Copa América Centenario. The stadium hosted three matches, including Mexico", "id": "18339554" }, { "contents": "Yacine Brahimi\n\n\npenalty in a 3–1 victory over Germany. He played with the under-16 team at the 2006 edition of the Montaigu Tournament playing in all four matches the team contested as France were crowned champions defeating Italy 2–1 in the final. With the under-17 team, Brahimi made his debut on 25 September in a qualification match for the 2007 UEFA European Under-17 Championship against Lithuania. France won the match 4–2 with Brahimi making a substitute appearance. Despite appearing in the first round of qualification, Brahimi was absent from the tournament itself, due to the", "id": "1037894" }, { "contents": "Ross McCormack\n\n\nfirst goal for the side on 11 October 2007 against Lithuania and scored again in his next appearance, a 4–0 victory over Slovenia U21s. McCormack won 10 caps for the under-21 side. He made his debut for the senior side on 30 May 2008 when he came on as a substitute during the 3–1 defeat of Czech Republic. McCormack was called up again in March 2009 for the 2010 FIFA World Cup qualifiers against Netherlands and Iceland. He started both matches, scoring his first goal for Scotland in a 2–1 win over Iceland on", "id": "8895190" }, { "contents": "Hungary national under-19 football team\n\n\n, and the atmosphere helped in times of need. The first match against Lithuania, was a 2-2 draw, but in the last 2 matches, the team could win, against Cyprus 2-1, and Portugal 1-0 and that was enough to qualify. The list below is the current list of U-19 national players according to the official Hungarian Football Federation website. Competition:2018 UEFA European Under-19 Football Championship (elite round)br Match Dates:25 March 2019br Opposition: The following players have been selected by Hungary in the past 12", "id": "4045560" }, { "contents": "X Factor (Romanian TV series)\n\n\nthe show aired starting 17 September 2011. Auditions for producers began in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, on 14 May 2011. They then took place in Constanța, on 21 May in Timișoara on 24 May 2011, on 4 June in Iași and concluded on 11 June 2011 in Bucharest. The first season ended on 1 January 2012, (16-24s) mentored by Mihai Morar was declared the first winner of The X Factor in Romania. Alin Văduva (Over 25s) was runner-up followed by Iulian Vasile (", "id": "16662967" }, { "contents": "Romania national football team\n\n\n0–5. In the next match, Romania recorded another draw (0–0), against Kazakhstan. The last match played in 2016 was a 0–3 defeat against Poland, with Robert Lewandowski scoring a double. After an uninspiring campaign, Romania ended in the fourth place in Group E with 13 points. After 8 of the 10 games, due to lackluster performances, coach Christoph Daum was fired and replaced with a promising new coach, Cosmin Contra. The Romania national team plays its home games at Arena Națională, the biggest stadium in", "id": "10918904" }, { "contents": "Chris Smalling\n\n\nfirst start for the under-21s in a 2011 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualifier against Portugal at Wembley Stadium in a 1–0 win. He scored his first goal for the under-21s on 8 October 2010, against Romania, in England's 2011 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification play-off first leg, converting from inside the area after an assist from Daniel Sturridge. The goal, scored in the 83rd minute, proved to be the winner as England won 2–1. On 13 November 2010, Smalling was called up to the England senior squad for", "id": "656401" }, { "contents": "Lithuania men's national basketball team\n\n\n. The only consolation was the remaining opportunity to qualify into the World Championship, which the Lithuanians achieved by beating Russia and Slovenia for fifth place. Lithuania won 5 of 6 games in the tournament. Consequently, the competition scheme was questioned in its reliability. The 2006 FIBA World Championship in Japan had Lithuania matching the 7th place from their 1998 debut, but many saw this performance as an under-achievement. Lithuania started the tournament with a narrow 2-point loss to Turkey, followed by an overtime defeat to eventual finalists Greece which", "id": "14520278" }, { "contents": "Shane McFaul\n\n\nCup when beating Sligo Rovers 2–1 at Tallaght Stadium. McFaul was later named Man of the Match in the F.A.I Cup Final Vs Sligo Rovers and also the honour of being named Sporting Fingal Player of the Year 2009. In the 2010 season his performances for Fingal attracted the interest of Scottish giants Celtic FC. http://www.herald.ie/sport/soccer/celtic-track-sporting-fingal-pair-27948702.html Shane made his Republic of Ireland U21 debut in a friendly game against Germany on 21 August 2007. He was also an unused sub in the UEFA European Under-21 Championship Qualifying games against Portugal and England. McFaul signed for", "id": "13006237" }, { "contents": "Connor Roberts (footballer, born 1995)\n\n\nand he returned to Swansea City. Roberts made his debut for Swansea City on 6 January 2018 in the FA Cup 3rd round against Wolverhampton Wanderers. He scored his first goal for the club on 29 September 2018 during a 3–0 win over Queens Park Rangers. Roberts has been capped at Wales under-19 level. In March 2016, Roberts received his first call-up to the Wales under-21 side for their 2017 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification matches, and made his debut as a second-half substitute in their 2–1 defeat against Romania", "id": "12721076" }, { "contents": "Roberta Anastase\n\n\nRoberta Alma Anastase (; born 27 March 1976 in Ploieşti) is a Romanian politician and former first female Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies of Romania between 19 December 2008 and 3 July 2012. She is a member of the Democratic Liberal Party, affiliated to the European People's Party–European Democrats, and became an MEP on 1 January 2007 with the accession of Romania to the European Union. She also represented Romania at the 1996 Miss Universe competition. She attended the Faculty of Sociology at the University of Bucharest in the mid-90", "id": "19157242" }, { "contents": "Kostas Mitroglou\n\n\n, he scored a goal against Germany in a 3–2 win at Vorwärts Stadium. Mitroglou finished as the top goalscorer of the competition with three goals. In 2007, Mitroglou was promoted to the Greece under-21 team. He scored two goals in a 3–1 home win against Macedonia in the UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualifiers, and later a goal in a 1–1 home draw against England and the only goal against Lithuania as the campaign continued. In 2009, Mitroglou was selected for the senior Greece side for the first time. He scored his", "id": "2125765" } ]

[ { "contents": "Football in Lithuania\n\n\nFootball is popular sport in Lithuania. The former Soviet republic made their entrance as an independent football nation in 1992. In the qualification for the Euro 2004, Lithuania held Germany to a 1-1 draw in Germany and won against Scotland. In the qualification for the Euro 2008 they played away to the 2006 World Cup winners Italy and drew 1-1 as well as beating Romania 3-0 in Lithuania in another shock performance. In 1922 in Lithuania, like in Poland, soccer championships began. Then, in the", "id": "4830771" }, { "contents": "Marius Niculae\n\n\n2–0 win. Despite he scored 20 goals for Dinamo in the 1999–00 season, Niculae was not included by Emerich Ienei in the preliminary squad for UEFA Euro 2000. On 2 September, Niculae scored a brace for Romania U-21 against Lithuania in the first match from the 2002 European Championship qualifiers, counting his first goals in an official match. On 6 October, Niculae played his final match for the U-21 squad, netting Romania's only goal in the 1–1 draw against European Championship holders Italy. On 5 December, Niculae scored his", "id": "3505259" }, { "contents": "Stadionul Marin Anastasovici\n\n\nMarin Anastasovici Stadium is a multi-use stadium in Giurgiu, Romania. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home ground of Astra Giurgiu. The stadium holds 8,500 people all on seats. The first international game was played by the Romania national under-21 football team on 19 November 2013 in a match against Germany which ended 2-2. The first game for Romania at Giurgiu was a friendly match against Lithuania on 23 March 2016. The stadium host also various UEFA Europa League matches and also a match from", "id": "15891395" }, { "contents": "History of the Romania national football team\n\n\nEast Germany scoring a predictable 4-1 win in Albania, Romania were out, despite a huge 9-0 win over Finland in Bucharest. Romania continued to suffer poor form in the UEFA European Championship. In their qualifying group for the 1976 European Football Championship, they were out-qualified by Spain, despite an impressive 1-1 draw in the away match. Romania failed to win matches, drawing twice with Scotland and Spain and dropping points in Denmark with a dismal goalless draw. Romania were again beat by Spain", "id": "16435703" }, { "contents": "Faroe Islands national under-21 football team\n\n\nRussia U21, beating them 1-0 after a goal in the first minute. This was followed by a 1-1 draw against Moldova in September, but Faroe Islands lost the next match 3-1 against Latvia. Russia had their revenge in the away match and defeated Faroe Islands 2-0. They also lost both matches against Romania. In November 2009 Faroe Islands beat Latvia 1-0 and were held to a 1-1 draw against Andorra. Faroe Islands won the home match against Andorra 3-1", "id": "13865866" }, { "contents": "Carrow Road\n\n\non five occasions. The first was in 1983 in a European Under-21 Championship qualifying match against Denmark, which England won 4–1. The team played another qualifying match in the same tournament at the stadium in 1997, beating Greece 4–2. The Slovakia team featured in a friendly match at the ground in June 2007, England winning 5–0 in front of a crowd of 20,193 people. In 2010, the ground played host to a play-off against Romania, a game the home side won 2–1 in front of a then record all", "id": "8674438" }, { "contents": "Romania national football team\n\n\nGianluigi Buffon saved the subsequent Mutu penalty, leaving Romania with two points and needing a win against the Netherlands, which eliminated France 4–1 that same evening. The Netherlands beat Romania 2–0 in the final game of the group, which meant that Italy joined the Netherlands in the quarter-finals and Romania finished third, ahead of France. Romania were drawn into the UEFA qualifying round for the 2010 World Cup alongside France, Serbia, Austria, Lithuania and the Faroe Islands. Although Romania were seeded in the second pot, suggesting that", "id": "10918894" }, { "contents": "Rugby union in Romania\n\n\n, drawing two, and losing one. Later in 1955, the Romanians defeated Llanelli in Moscow, and then beat both Cardiff and Harlequins in Bucharest. Only France, who played Romania before almost 95,000 fans in Bucharest (in a preliminary match to a soccer international), could beat the Romanians, and that was only after an epic 16-15 battle. A generation of French school-trained coaches from the late 1940s and 1950s laid the foundations for national success in the 1960s, 70s and 80s. In 1974 Romania", "id": "13829979" }, { "contents": "Dennis Man\n\n\nover Rudar Velenje. Man was selected for the Romania under-21 team and scored on debut in a 3–1 away victory over Bosnia and Herzegovina, on 1 September 2017. Senior manager Cosmin Contra gave Man his first Romania call-up for the friendlies with Israel and Sweden in March 2018. He made his debut in the latter game, replacing Nicolae Stanciu in 87th minute as his side won 1–0 at the Stadionul Ion Oblemenco in Craiova. On 11 June 2019, he netted the last of his team in a 4–0 defeat of Malta", "id": "12444532" }, { "contents": "2011 Rugby World Cup qualifying\n\n\nand Romania). On a home and away basis, Romania prevailed by winning 32–12 in Bucharest, preceded by a 21–21 draw in Montevideo. It competed in Pool B. Both nations had won the repechage semi-finals. Those were conducted as single matches, with the European and African qualifiers drawn into one semi-final and the Asian and Americas qualifiers drawn into the other. Romania beat Tunisia 56–13 and Uruguay had the upper hand over Kazakhstan winning 44–7. Both matches were hosted by the team with the higher IRB World Ranking", "id": "11180430" }, { "contents": "Moshtagh Yaghoubi\n\n\nterminated by Shakhter Karagandy on 17 June 2016. On 4 November 2016, HJK Helsinki announced the signing of Yaghoubi. On 31 January 2019, Seinäjoen Jalkapallokerho announced the signing of Yaghoubi. Yaghoubi acquired Finnish nationality in 2013 and got called up for Finland national under-21 team for 2015 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship qualification match against Lithuania on 11 June 2013. Yaghoubi scored his national team debut goal when Finland beat Wales U-21 5–1 in UEFA Under-21 Championship qualification on 14 August 2013. On 31 October 2013 Yaghoubi made his debut for Finland national", "id": "15530739" }, { "contents": "Romania national football team\n\n\npoor form in the UEFA European Championship. In their qualifying group for the 1976 European Football Championship, they were out-qualified by Spain despite an impressive 1–1 draw in the away match. Romania failed to win matches, drawing twice with Scotland and Spain and dropping points in Denmark with a dismal goalless draw. Romania were again beaten by Spain for a place in the 1978 World Cup in Argentina. Despite a 1–0 win in Bucharest, Romania lost a bizarre match at home to Yugoslavia 6–4 having led 3–2 at half time.", "id": "10918865" }, { "contents": "History of the Romania national football team\n\n\nfor a place in the 1978 World Cup in Argentina. Despite a 1-0 win in Bucharest, Romania lost a bizarre match at home to Yugoslavia 6-4 having led 3-2 at half time. Spain won 1-0 in Belgrade to seal passage to South America. Romania's sole successful qualifying campaign was for the European Championships in 1984 in France. At the finals, Romania were drawn with regular rivals Spain, holders West Germany and dark horses Portugal. Under head coach Mircea Lucescu, an encouraging opening", "id": "16435704" }, { "contents": "Yann Sommer\n\n\nUnder-21 Championship, hosted by Denmark between 11 and 25 June 2011. The Swiss team reached the 2011 UEFA European Under-21 Championship Final on 25 June without conceding a goal, but lost 2–0 to Spain. This was Sommer's final match for the under-21s. Sommer made his debut for the Swiss senior side on 30 May 2012 at the Swissporarena, Lucerne, in a 0–1 defeat against Romania in a friendly match. On 13 May, he was named in Switzerland's 23-man squad for the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil. Alongside", "id": "823566" }, { "contents": "Scotland at the UEFA European Championship\n\n\nqualifying saw Scotland face Denmark, Romania and Spain. Scotland lost their opening match 2–1 to the Spaniards at Hampden, before drawing 1–1 in Valencia. Gordon McQueen scored a late equaliser to win Scotland a point away in Romania, before Joe Harper's goal saw Scotland beat Denmark 1–0 away from home. Scotland won the reverse fixture 3–1. Scotland's final match was at home to Romania, with Scotland requiring a two goal win to win the group and qualify for the play-offs. Scotland took the lead through a Bruce", "id": "1546781" }, { "contents": "Polish football in the interwar period\n\n\nyet more achievements. On October 2, a so-called double match took place (such games were popular in 1930s European Football). The reserve Poland team beat 2-1 Latvia at Warsaw, and at the same hour the first lineup faced Romania in Bucharest. Romania (with several of its starters of Hungarian nationality from Transylvania) was regarded a very strong team. The Poles, however, overwhelmed it 5-0 and this was the biggest success of Polish Football so far. This game is significant also for", "id": "21819213" }, { "contents": "History of the Romania national football team\n\n\nLithuania in Cluj-Napoca before scraping an unconvincing 1-0 win in the Faroe Islands, midfielder Răzvan Cociş scoring the goal. Their third match would be at home to France, who had also begun with a bad loss, 3-1 to Austria in Vienna. Romania raced into a 2-0 lead in Constanţa with goals from Florentin Petre and Dorin Goian but France pulled one back before half time through Franck Ribéry. A long-range strike from Yoann Gourcuff earned France a draw but both sides were left with", "id": "16435733" }, { "contents": "Nauris Bulvītis\n\n\nseason. Bulvītis has been capped internationally at under-19 and under-21 levels. In 2012 Latvia national football team coach Aleksandrs Starkovs called him up for the 2012 Baltic Cup. Nauris played 2 matches, helping Latvia win the tournament. Bulvītis scored his first international goal on 6 September 2013 in a 2–1 2014 FIFA World Cup qualification match victory over Lithuania. In May 2014 he helped Latvia win the Baltic Cup for the second time in a row, scoring the only goal in a 1–0 victory over Lithuania in the final of the tournament.", "id": "22161076" }, { "contents": "Lithuania national football team\n\n\nScotland; however, a 1–0 defeat to Scotland in the final game ended their hopes. Although finishing fifth in their 2006 World Cup qualifying group, Lithuania were nevertheless competitive. Lithuania drew with world champions Italy 1–1 in Naples in a Euro 2008 qualifying game on 2 September 2006, in the first competitive game that Italy played since the World Cup final. On 6 September 2008, Lithuania defeated Romania 3–0 in a 2010 World Cup qualifier. The victory was regarded by many as \"a historic win.\" It was followed by", "id": "6890277" }, { "contents": "Colchester Community Stadium\n\n\n2011 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship as they beat Lithuania 3–0 with two goals from Danny Welbeck and one from Marc Albrighton. A crowd of 7,240 watched the game on 7 September 2010. The England under-21s returned to Colchester for a 2013 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualifier on 11 November 2011. The Young Lions cruised to a 5–0 victory against Iceland on the night, with goals from Marvin Sordell, Martin Kelly, Craig Dawson and two scored by Gary Gardner. The attendance for the game was 10,051. England won their fourth match after", "id": "19735537" }, { "contents": "Arvydas Novikovas\n\n\na starter. During his 2 season there he has helped Jagiellonia Białystok finish 2nd twice in a row. He has scored 16 goals and provided 12 assists in the 58 games he has played for them, starting the 2018/19 season with 3 goals and 2 assists in his first 9 games. Novikovas represented the Lithuania under-21's when he was just a 16-year-old. In May 2009, he was called up to the Lithuania squad, for their FIFA World Cup qualifier with Romania. On 9 September, Novikovas scored for Lithuania", "id": "1849831" }, { "contents": "Valon Ahmedi\n\n\ndebuted for the under-21 side against Macedonia U21, playing as a starter for the entire first-half in an eventual goalless draw. He received another call up for the under-21 side by same coach Skënder Gega for the friendly match against Romania U21 on 8 October 2014. He played against Romania U21 as a starter and in the 60th minute provided the assist for the 1–1 equalising goal scored by Vedat Muriqi, which however wasn't enough as Romania U21 won 3–1. Ahmedi was called up for the first time in an official competitive", "id": "7679765" }, { "contents": "Alessandro Del Piero\n\n\nthat qualified for and later won the 1996 European Under-21 Championship, appearing in the quarter-finals. Del Piero made his senior debut under Arrigo Sacchi at the age of 20, on 25 March 1995, in a 4–1 win over Estonia in a Euro 1996 qualifying match. Del Piero scored his first goal for Italy on 15 November 1995, in a 4–0 win over Lithuania in a Euro 1996 qualifying match. His tournament debut was at UEFA Euro 1996, where he made his only appearance in the first half of the team", "id": "4132525" }, { "contents": "1998 UEFA European Under-21 Championship squads\n\n\nThe following is a list of squads for each nation competing at 1998 UEFA European Under-21 Championship in Romania. The tournament started on 23 May and the final took place in Bucharest on 31 May 1998. Players born on or after 1 January 1975 were eligible to play in the tournament. Each nation had to submit a squad of 20 players, two of which had to be goalkeepers. If a player was injured seriously enough to prevent his taking part in the tournament before his team's first match, he could be replaced by", "id": "6042468" }, { "contents": "Lithuania national under-21 football team\n\n\nThe Lithuania national under-21 football team is the national under-21 football team of Lithuania and is controlled by the Lithuanian Football Federation. Squad called up for the friendly match against on 10 November 2017 and 2019 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification match against on 14 November 2017. ! colspan=\"9\" bgcolor=\"#B0D3FB\" align=\"left\" | ! colspan=\"9\" bgcolor=\"#B0D3FB\" align=\"left\" | ! colspan=\"9\" bgcolor=\"#B0D3FB\" align=\"left\" | ! colspan=\"7\" bgcolor=\"#B0D3FB\" align=\"left\" | ! colspan=\"9\" bgcolor=\"#B0D3FB\" align=\"left\" | ! colspan=\"9\" bgcolor=\"#B0D3FB\" align=\"left\" | ! colspan=\"9\"", "id": "15919932" }, { "contents": "James Milner\n\n\nMilner competed for England at the 2007 UEFA European Under-21 Championship. He played in all four of England's matches and was booked in the semi-final against the Netherlands, which meant he would have missed the final. The match was decided by a penalty shoot-out, in which Milner scored twice and England lost 13–12. Milner was included in the under-21 squad for a friendly against Romania, which ended in a 1–1 draw. A month later, Milner set an England under-21 record by making his 30th appearance for the", "id": "1860629" }, { "contents": "Endri Çekiçi\n\n\nat Albania under-21 by coach Skënder Gega for the friendly match against Romania U21 on 8 October 2014. In that match, he came on as a substitute in the second half, and Albania lost 1–3. Çekiçi received another call up by the newly appointed coach Redi Jupi for the 2017 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualifying matches against Israel and Portugal in September 2015. He debuted against the former by coming on as a second-half substitute, netting a penalty kick in the 84th minute to rescue his side a 1–1 home draw.", "id": "8124891" }, { "contents": "Romania national football team\n\n\nWorld Cup, Romania won their first match against Peru, 3–1, with goals from Adalbert Desu, Constantin Stanciu and Nicolae Kovács and Samuel Zauber as goalkeeper, before being thrashed 4–0 by hosts and eventual winners Uruguay. Romania qualified for the next World Cup in 1934 after beating Yugoslavia 2–1 in a repeat of their first international. At the finals, Romania played only one game in a new knock-out format, losing 2–1 to Czechoslovakia in Trieste, Italy, with Ștefan Dobay scoring their only goal of the tournament. Romania", "id": "10918860" }, { "contents": "Romania national under-21 football team\n\n\nnational team until the age of 23. The best result achieved by the Romania U-21 squad is the qualification for the 1998 European Championship. Under the guidance of Victor Pițurcă and with a generation of players that included among others Bogdan Lobonț, Florentin Petre, Ionel Dănciulescu and Cătălin Munteanu, Romania U-21 finished the qualifying stage with maximum points after winning all eight games. Romania was then chosen as the host of the final stage. The squad was eliminated in the quarter-finals, being beaten by the Netherlands, 2-1", "id": "14153041" }, { "contents": "James Ward-Prowse\n\n\nhosts France 2–1. Ward-Prowse was nominated for the Vauxhall England Under-21 Player of the Year award, but eventually lost out to Southampton teammate Nathan Redmond. In June 2017, he captained the under-21s at that year's edition of the European Under-21 Championship where England reached the semi-finals, eventually losing to Germany in a penalty shoot-out. On 16 March 2017, he earned his first call-up to the senior England squad for a friendly against Germany and a World Cup qualifying match against Lithuania. Six days", "id": "1352322" }, { "contents": "History of the Romania national football team\n\n\nfirst match against Peru, 3-1, with goals from Adalbert Desu, Constantin Stanciu and Nicolae Kovács, before being thrashed 4-0 by hosts and eventual winners Uruguay. Romania qualified for the next World Cup in 1934 after beating Yugoslavia 2-1 in a repeat of their first international. At the finals, Romania played only one game in a new knock-out format, losing 2-1 to Czechoslovakia in Trieste, Italy, with Ştefan Dobay scoring their only goal of the tournament. Romania qualified by default", "id": "16435698" }, { "contents": "Muarem Muarem\n\n\nSeptember 2009 in a 2-1 loss. He went on to make nine appearances for the team, scoring his first international goal in his second under-21 appearance, a 1-1 draw with Lithuania on 9 September 2009, scoring in the first minute of the match. He scored his second goal a month later against England, netting a low free-kick that brought his team back into the game at 2-1. He also scored against Portugal and Bosnia and Herzegovina. Muarem played his final game for the under-21s", "id": "18689026" }, { "contents": "Giedrius Arlauskis\n\n\nreturn to Romania, joining CFR Cluj. The move was confirmed on 15 August 2017. In August 2008, Arlauskis' performance in Romania led him being called by the Lithuania for the first time. Arlauskis made his national team debut as a substitute against Moldova in a friendly game on 19 November 2008. He joined the game in the 46th minute and conceded a goal after 67 minutes as Lithuania drew with Moldova 1–1. After playing two more caps as a substitute, his first competitive game then came on 18 June 2010,", "id": "17863969" }, { "contents": "Romania national under-21 football team\n\n\n. The Romania under-21 team does not have a permanent home. The team plays in stadiums located all around Romania. Because of the smaller demand compared to the senior national team, smaller facilities are used. As of June 2019, the last three games have been played in Cluj-Napoca. Romania again qualified for the UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship in 2019, after topping a group that included Portugal, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Wales, Switzerland and Liechtenstein. They secured their qualification for the final tournament, by beating Liechtenstein,", "id": "14153042" }, { "contents": "Theo Wharton\n\n\nBorough in July 2018. Wharton signed for National League North club Hereford F.C. on 22 December 2018. Wharton was first selected for the Wales national under-17 team for the 2011 UEFA European Under-17 Championship qualifying round, starting two matches against Belgium and Denmark. Wharton was called up to the Wales under-21 team to play Moldova on 22 March 2013. On 9 September 2014, Wharton made his Wales under-21 debut in a 1–1 draw against Lithuania under-21s. In 2016, Wharton chose to switch allegiance to play for Saint Kitts and Nevis, the", "id": "17934659" }, { "contents": "Marius Niculae\n\n\nwas officially signed. On 26 February, he scored his first goal for Shandong in a friendly match against Chongqing F.C.. After representing Romania at the U-16 and U-18 levels, Niculae was promoted to the U-21 level. Niculae's form for Dinamo saw him selected for the Romania U-21 team to play Bulgaria U-21 on 3 March 1999, and he marked his debut with the second goal as Romania won 3–1. He played his first official match for Romania U-21 on 26 March, in a 0–1 defeat against Slovakia U-21, coming in", "id": "3505256" }, { "contents": "History of the Serbia national football team\n\n\nin 12th minute, from \"penalty spot\", like against Austria three monts before. On 10 October 2009, Serbia made a huge victory 5–0 against Romania and secured placement at 2010 FIFA World Cup. In last match of this qualifying cycle, Lithuania defeated Serbia 2–1 in Marijampolė. In November, Serbia defeat Northern Ireland and South Korea in Belfast and London, 1–0 both matches. Serbia placed into Group D with Germany, team also faced 2010 Africa Cup of Nations runners-up Ghana, and Australia. Their opening group", "id": "3691746" }, { "contents": "History of Ferencvárosi TC\n\n\n1 December 1962 Ferencváros lost 1–0 to Sampdoria in Genoa, Italy. On 12 December 1962 Ferencváros beat Sampdoria 6–0 at home. In the quarter-finals Ferencváros beat Petrolul Ploiești 2–0 at home, while lost the away match 1–0 in Ploiești, Romania. In the semi-finals, Ferencváros lost to NK Dinamo Zagreb 1–0 at home and Ferencváros lost the away match 2–1 in Zagreb, Yugoslavia. Ferencváros won the 1962–63 season of the Hungarian League. Therefore, Ferencváros entered the European Cup 1963–64 season. On 11 September 1963,", "id": "4677552" }, { "contents": "George Pușcaș\n\n\n90th minute of a 2–1 victory over Cosenza. Pușcaș scored seven times for Romania under-21 in the 2019 UEFA European Championship qualifying competition, as his side won its group and progressed to the final tournament in Italy. On 18 June 2019, he obtained the penalty from which he scored the opener in a 4–1 victory over Croatia at the San Marino Stadium. He netted again in the next group game against England, surpassing Ionuț Luțu as the highest scorer of the \"Tricolorii mici\". Pușcaș then gave Romania a half-time", "id": "18913818" }, { "contents": "Belarus women's national football team\n\n\nqualified for the promotion play-offs. In the 2001 European Championship qualifying, again in Class B, Belarus beat Estonia 4–1 and 0–7, Israel 0–5 and 1–0 and Slovakia 1–0, and tied 1–1 in Romania, but the Romanians earned the spot in the promotion play-offs after beating Belarus 0–1. With this settled Belarus lost 6–1 to Slovakia in the last match. In the 2003 World Cup qualifying, Class B, Belarus beat Bosnia 5–2 and 2–7, Turkey 4–0 and 1–5, Slovakia 3–2. They lost the remaining", "id": "21080772" }, { "contents": "Visa requirements for Turkmen citizens\n\n\nEstonia (1 July 1992), Latvia (1993), Lithuania (1 November 1993), Slovakia (6 May 1994), Bulgaria (1 January 1999), Armenia (1999), Moldova (9 June 1999), Russia (17 July 1999), Hungary (1 December 1999), Romania (1 July 2000), Belarus (21 July 2000), Czech Republic (22 October 2000), Poland (3 November 2000), Kazakhstan (1 March 2001). Also Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan,", "id": "5139311" }, { "contents": "Ovie Ejaria\n\n\nplaying the whole match. Ejaria was selected for the England under-20 team in the 2017 FIFA U-20 World Cup. He made his first start in a game in the first round match against South Korea, and came on as a substitute the quarter-final against Mexico, but was an unused substitute in the final where England beat Venezuela 1–0. He was called up for the England under-21 team in March 2018, making his debut in a friendly against Romania. He was called up again in May 2018 for the Toulon Tournament but", "id": "14618472" }, { "contents": "Franck Ribéry\n\n\nCup qualification match against Romania, scoring the team's opening goal in a 2–2 draw. On 28 March 2009, Ribéry scored the lone goal away to Lithuania. Three days later, he completed this feat again, this time at the Stade de France, netting the winner in the 75th minute following service from André-Pierre Gignac. On 11 May 2010, Ribéry was named to Domenech's 30-man preliminary squad to participate in the 2010 World Cup and his second World Cup overall. He was later named to the 23-man team", "id": "15094173" }, { "contents": "Cosmin Contra\n\n\nbeing announced as Timișoara's new player-coach six days later. Over 14 years, Contra earned 73 caps for Romania, scoring seven goals. He appeared for his country at UEFA Euro 2000 and 2008. On 1 April 2009, after a match with Austria, Contra announced his retirement from international football. On 30 August 2010, however, the 34-year-old was recalled for two Euro 2012 qualifiers against Albania and Belarus. Contra made his Timişoara debut as a manager in September 2010, with a win against FC Sportul", "id": "4642171" }, { "contents": "Victor Pițurcă\n\n\nWorld Cup (0–0 against France, 1–1 against Italy), Romania lost 0–2 to the Netherlands, finishing the group in third place and thus being eliminated from the competition. After Euro 2008, Romania showed an increasingly poor form in both friendly games and the 2010 World Cup qualifying campaign, where they had a slow start. In their first two official games after Euro 2008, Romania lost 0–3 against Lithuania at home and four days later secured a difficult 1–0 victory against the Faeroe Islands. Although many of the players which helped", "id": "13766306" }, { "contents": "Paul Papp\n\n\nin a qualification game for the 2011 European Under-21 Championship, against Latvia. He captained his side for the first time, following Torje and Găman's injuries, on 29 May 2010, in the friendly match, lost by Romania against Belarus. On 7 September, Papp was in the startup team for Romania U-21, in a 3–0 win against Russia. The win secured Romania a place in the playoff stage of the 2011 European Under-21 Championship qualifiers. However, he missed the chance to play at the 2011 European Under-21 Championship,", "id": "22044461" }, { "contents": "Ciprian Deac\n\n\nfourth national championship in its history. Deac made his debut for the Romania under-21 team against France on 1 June 2007, with the match ending 1–1. He was part of Romania's preliminary Euro 2008 squad, but missed out on the final list led by manager Victor Pițurcă. On 5 March 2010, Deac finally earned his first cap for the full side in a friendly match against Israel. In August 2017, following a six-year absence, he was selected by Christoph Daum for the 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifying matches", "id": "14907109" }, { "contents": "Radomir Antić\n\n\ninto the fire. Also surprising was leaving tall striker Nikola Žigić on the bench and starting with only on attacker, Marko Pantelić, upfront in 4–5–1 formation. And while Serbia lost 2–1 to somewhat wounded France that just days earlier shockingly lost to Austria, many positives were taken from the match at Stade de France such as a brave attacking approach with a lot of running from the wings. Next up in October was in-form Lithuania, which had recently defeated Romania and Austria without allowing a goal. Contrary to expectations,", "id": "18552988" }, { "contents": "Roy Hodgson\n\n\n, losing 1–0 in Porto. In the tournament the Swiss were drawn in Group A alongside Romania, Colombia and the hosts, United States. The opening match of the group was between Switzerland and the United States and is memorable as the first World Cup match to take place indoors, at the Pontiac Silverdome. The Swiss drew 1–1 against the United States, beat Romania 4–1 and lost 2–0 to Colombia, finishing as runners-up in their group, qualifying for the Round of 16, where they lost 3–0 to Spain.", "id": "12858556" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nagainst Portugal, but did so as England defeated Germany 1–0 in Charleroi, ensuring that England beat their European neighbours for the first time since the 1966 World Cup Final. To remain in the tournament, England only required a draw against Romania in the final group match, and Shearer scored a penalty as England went in at half-time 2–1 up, but Romania ultimately won 3–2. England's tournament was over, and so was Shearer's international career. From his 63 caps, he captained the team 34 times and scored", "id": "13592545" }, { "contents": "Florinel Coman\n\n\nEuropean goal in the UEFA Europa League 1–1 draw with Hapoel Be'er Sheva, on 2 November. Coman featured for Romania at the 2019 UEFA European Under-21 Championship, mostly as a second half substitute. In the group fixture on 21 June, he entered in the 63rd minute for Andrei Ivan, obtained a penalty and scored a double to help to a 4–2 victory against England. He then earned his first and only start in a goalless draw with France, with both teams progressing further to the semi-finals, where Romania suffered", "id": "21859353" }, { "contents": "Mitragyna speciosa\n\n\nDenmark, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania and Sweden. In the UK, since 2016, the sale, import, and export of kratom are prohibited under the Psychoactive Substances Act. In 2017, kratom was designated a Schedule 1 illegal drug (the highest level) in the Republic of Ireland, under the names 7-hydroxymitragynine and mitragynine. The use of kratom leaves, known locally as \"ketum\", is prohibited in Malaysia under Section 30 (3) Poisons Act 1952 and the user may be fined a maximum amount", "id": "16890332" }, { "contents": "Romania national rugby union team\n\n\nThey lost 36–21 to Wales A at Pontypridd and 70–21 in a test held in Wrexham. At the 1999 World Cup Romania could again only manage a single win 27–25 against the United States. In 2000, Romania won the first European Nations Cup by a large margin, recording victories in all four matches. By 2001, Romania had been caught by the likes of Georgia who defeated them to take the 2001 European Nations Cup, crowned with a decisive 31–20 win over Romania in Bucharest. The national side lost to England by 134–0", "id": "10342595" }, { "contents": "Aritz Aduriz\n\n\n. He made his debut on the 8th, replacing Llorente for the last 15 minutes of a 3–1 home win against Lithuania. Six years later, at the age of 35, Aduriz was recalled by manager Vicente del Bosque for friendlies with Italy and Romania. He started and scored in the first match, a 1–1 draw at the \"Stadio Friuli\", and was selected for UEFA Euro 2016 in France. He made two substitute appearances in the group stage, always replacing Juventus' Álvaro Morata in the second half; on", "id": "7991541" }, { "contents": "UEFA Euro 2008 Group C\n\n\nof counter-attacking football. Then, in their second game, they also beat the 2006 World Cup runners-up, France, 4–1. This left the French in a difficult position, having already played out a scoreless draw against Romania in the group's opening match. Romania also played out a draw against Italy in their second match, leaving them in second place going into the final round of group matches. Italy finished as the second quarter-finalists, after they beat France 2–0 in their final game. French", "id": "15100017" }, { "contents": "List of land borders with dates of establishment\n\n\nSan Marino \"Italy–Slovenia \"Italy–Switzerland \"Italy–Vatican City \"Ireland–UK \"Latvia–Lithuania \"Lithuania–Belarus \"Lithuania–Poland \"Lithuania–Russia \"Latvia–Russia \"Liechtenstein–Switzerland \"Republic of Macedonia–Serbia \"Moldova–Romania \"Moldova–Ukraine \"Montenegro–Serbia \"Norway–Russia \"Norway–Sweden \"Poland–Slovakia \"Poland–Russia \"Poland–Ukraine \"Portugal–Spain \"Romania–Ukraine \"Romania–Serbia \"Russia–Ukraine \"Slovakia–", "id": "21121898" }, { "contents": "Nicolaj Thomsen\n\n\nDanish national team on 18 November 2014 against Romania. Thomsen scored the only Danish goal in the 1–1 draw against Iceland which qualified Denmark U-21 for the 2015 UEFA European Under-21 Championship. He was selected for the squad for the tournament and played the entire match in the opening win against the Czech Republic. He was in the line-up in the other two group stage-matches against Germany and Serbia. Thomsen was also chosen to the line-up in the semi final, where Denmark was defeated by Sweden. AaB Copenhagen", "id": "14143520" }, { "contents": "João Cancelo\n\n\n. On 20 April 2019, Cancelo played in the \"Scudetto\"-clinching match against rivals Fiorentina, as Juventus won their eighth successive league title after a 2–1 home triumph. Cancelo represented Portugal in the 2012 UEFA European Under-19 Championship. He was also selected for the following edition, in Lithuania. With the under-20s, Cancelo appeared at the 2013 FIFA World Cup and the 2014 Toulon Tournament. He featured in two games in the former competition, with the country reaching the round-of-16. Cancelo was part of the under-21 squad that competed", "id": "15886722" }, { "contents": "Human rights violations by the CIA\n\n\nofficials. Nicaraguan Contras were taught to lead: The manual also recommended: The CIA claimed that the purpose of the manual was to \"moderate\" activities already being done by the Contras. In May 2018, The European Court of Human Rights ruled that the countries of Romania and Lithuania were involved in torture activities perpetrated by the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). The two countries were found to have run \"black site\" torture rooms and detention facilities therefore committing grave human rights abuses. In Romania, the secret", "id": "1650708" }, { "contents": "European Patent Organisation\n\n\nSerbia which did so on 1 October 2010. In addition there are \"extension states\" which are not Contracting States to the EPC but have instead signed extension agreements under which the protection conferred by European patent applications and patents is extended to the relevant country. These are Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Montenegro. Slovenia, Romania, Lithuania, Latvia, Croatia, Macedonia, Albania and Serbia were all extension states prior to joining the EPC. Furthermore, there are so-called \"validation states\" which are not Contracting States to", "id": "2996937" }, { "contents": "Montenegro national football team\n\n\nPoland, Denmark, Kazakhstan, Armenia and Romania. Poland, Denmark and Romania had been participants in the UEFA Euro 2016, but Montenegro began by drawing 1–1 away to Romania, beating Kazakhstan 5–0 at home and defeating Denmark 1–0. However, they then lost 3–2 away to Armenia despite leading 2–0, and were defeated 2–1 at home by Poland. Montenegro then rebounded, beating Armenia 4–1 and Kazakhstan 3–0. They later eliminated Romania with a 1–0 victory, but losses to the Danes and Poles ended Montenegro's chance of qualifying.", "id": "9236271" }, { "contents": "Denis Alibec\n\n\nplayed for Romania's under-17, under-19 and under-21 teams. On 11 October 2015, after being called up on several occasions in the past, Alibec gained his first cap for the full side in the last UEFA Euro 2016 qualifying match against Faroe Islands, replacing Bogdan Stancu in the 90th minute. In June 2016, he was picked by Anghel Iordănescu for his squad at the final tournament in France and appeared as a substitute in Romania's opening game, a 2–1 defeat to the host. Alibec's father, Gevrim and uncle", "id": "7828376" }, { "contents": "Lukas Spalvis\n\n\nout again on 5 July 2017, joining 2. Bundesliga side 1. FC Kaiserslautern for the 2017–18 season. On 8 May 2018, it was announced that Spalvis had joined 1. FC Kaiserslautern on a permanent deal. On 26 August, he sustained a long term injury in a match and it will leave him out for almost the remainder of the season. Spalvis played several matches for youth national teams, including Lithuania U-19 and Lithuania U-21. In March 2014 he made his debut for the senior team, in a friendly", "id": "11995894" }, { "contents": "Nathan Craze\n\n\nDiv II Group A in Bucharest, Romania, and was also named Netminder of the Tournament. He received the International Ice Hockey Federation Directorate’s Award of the tournament’s Best Netminder when GB won the gold medal in the 2004 World under-18 Championships (Div II) in Lithuania, and he equalled the feat by being voted the IIHF’s tournament Best Netminder when GB won the gold medal in the 2006 World under-20 Championships (Div II) in Romania. In 2006, Craze signed with the Bracknell Bees as their starting goalie,", "id": "21622172" }, { "contents": "Women's event at the 43rd Chess Olympiad\n\n\nbeat Georgia's second team 2½-1½, Italy beat Cuba 3-1, while Lithuania tied their match against Kazakhstan. United States, Georgia and Armenia with 11/12 match points each were on the top after six rounds. The central match of the seventh round was the clash between Armenia and United States on the first table, where Armenians snatched a minimal victory thanks to the Elina Danielian and Anna Sargsyan who scored full point as White in the games against Anna Zatonskih and Sabina-Francesca Foisor, respectively; Jennifer Yu beat Maria Kursova", "id": "7597446" }, { "contents": "Lithuania at the Olympics\n\n\nLithuania, after declaring restoration of independence in 1918, sent its athletes to the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris for the first time. At first it was considered to send 33 athletes, but then it was decided to limit the delegation to 13 soccer players and 2 cyclists. The soccer players arrived in Paris only a day before the game was scheduled. Lithuania debuted at the Olympic games on May 25, 1924 at 2:40pm (Paris time) when the match between Lithuanian and Swiss teams started. Lithuania lost 9-0 (", "id": "8795472" }, { "contents": "Romania national football team\n\n\nthey were a strong challenge for the first place in the group, they eventually finished fifth, above only the Faroe Islands. Their campaign was a disaster that began with a 3–0 home loss to Lithuania and included a 5–0 trashing in Belgrade by Serbia. Furthermore, various problems were caused during the poor campaign, such as the retirement from international football of Cosmin Contra, Mirel Rădoi and Adrian Mutu (the latter would later be recalled after a year's absence). Also, coach Victor Pițurcă resigned and was replaced by Răzvan", "id": "10918895" }, { "contents": "Sūduva Stadium\n\n\nSūduva Stadium, known as ARVI Football Arena for sponsorship reasons, is a multi-purpose stadium in Marijampolė, Lithuania. The stadium was built using funds from the European Union and opened on July 6, 2008. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of FK Sūduva. Its original capacity increased from 4,200 to 6,500 spectators after additional seats were installed in May–June 2009 before a match between Lithuania national team and Romania. Beginning from the 2011 season the stadium was named ARVI Football Arena after", "id": "10765440" }, { "contents": "Kilkim Žaibu\n\n\n, Lithuania. From 2000 to 3000 people visit the festival annually from various countries. Also, bands have performed at Kilkim Žaibu festivals from Australia, Norway, Hungary, Czech Republic, Romania, Ukraine, Russia, Sweden, Finland, Germany and neighbouring countries. The festival took place in Varniai, Lithuania on 28th - 30th June, 2018. The festival took place in Varniai, Lithuania on 29 June - 1 July 2017. The festival took place in Varniai, Lithuania on 23–25 June 2016. The festival took place in", "id": "10249217" }, { "contents": "Latvia national football team\n\n\n, the Latvian team participated in the first qualification tournament for the 1938 World Cup. Latvia were placed in Group 8, alongside Austria and Lithuania. Latvia beat Lithuania 4–2 in Riga, after a Fricis Kaņeps hat-trick and an Iļja Vestermans goal. In Kaunas, they won 5–1, after two goals each from Kaņeps, Vaclavs Borduško, and Vestermans, but lost 1–2 in the decisive away match against Austria, despite an early goal from Vestermans. In April 1938, the Austrian Anschluss relegated the Austrian team, however,", "id": "15750063" }, { "contents": "Miloš Krasić\n\n\nIn May 2006, Krasić played a leading role in the 2006 European U-21 Championship. He made his debut for the senior side later that year in a friendly against Denmark. At senior level, Krasić was an important player for Serbia in 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification. He scored one goal in the match against Lithuania, another in the game against Austria and set up three in the game against Romania, which sealed his nation's qualification to the final tournament in South Africa. Krasić is a right-sided winger, noted", "id": "19580145" }, { "contents": "Philip Billing\n\n\nunder-20 team and the Romania national under-20 football team. He earned his first cap for the U21 team in a qualifying match for the 2019 European Championship against the Faroe Islands on 31 August 2017; it ended in a 3–0 win. He again featured a week later in another qualifying match, which the team won 6–0 against Lithuania. In November 2018, Billing turned down an approach to switch his international allegiance to the Nigeria national team. In March 2019, he received his first call-up to the Denmark national team.", "id": "18184799" }, { "contents": "1934 FIFA World Cup qualification\n\n\nfollows: Key: Estonia v Lithuania was not played since neither team could qualify with a win. Sweden qualified. 11-1 on aggregate; Spain qualified. Italy qualified, as Greece declined to play the second match. Bulgaria withdrew, and the remaining matches were not played since Hungary and Austria were already assured of the top two spots. Hungary and Austria qualified. Poland were unable to travel to Prague for the second match as the Polish government denied the team visas for political reasons. Therefore, Czechoslovakia qualified. Romania", "id": "6526321" }, { "contents": "Rugby union in Romania\n\n\nwon against France 15 – 10 in Bucharest, and the FIRA – Association of European Rugby championship. In 1975 Romania went for an 8 games tour to New Zealand, tour concluded in Wellington with a 10-10 draw against Junior All Blacks. Home nation sides began to award international caps for matches against Romania from 1981. Romania won rugby internationals over Scotland in 1984 and 1991, and also over Wales in 1983 and 1988 (the latter in Cardiff). Between 1960 and 1990, Romania beat France eight times, the", "id": "13829980" }, { "contents": "European Border and Coast Guard Agency\n\n\na border security operation conducted by Frontex, the European Union's border security agency. The operation, under Italian control, began on 1 November 2014 and involves voluntary contributions from 15 other European nations (both EU member states and non-members). Current voluntary contributors to Operation Triton are Croatia, Iceland, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Germany, the Netherlands, France, Spain, Ireland, Portugal, Austria, Switzerland, Romania, Poland, Lithuania, Malta and the United Kingdom. The operation was undertaken after Italy", "id": "20620191" }, { "contents": "Albania national football team\n\n\nqualifying match, Albania made history by qualifying for the UEFA Euro 2016, its first ever appearance at a major men's football tournament. In the tournament itself, Albania lost 0–1 to Switzerland and 0–2 to hosts France. While they beat Romania 1–0 (their first win against Romania since 1947), the team finished last among the third-placed teams and didn't progress beyond the group stage. Despite the UEFA European Championship's almost successful debut, Albania suffered massive setback. In 2018 World Cup qualification, Albania had been", "id": "15457050" }, { "contents": "Dean Henderson\n\n\nmore times as an unused substitute bench that saw him missed out two matches for the side in the league. He made his under-21 debut on 24 March 2018, in a friendly at home against Romania, which England won 2–1. Henderson was named as England's number one for the 2019 UEFA European Under-21 Championship. Growing up, Henderson played county cricket as a schoolboy and was an accomplished batsman and wicket-keeper but chose football. Henderson initially started out as an outfield player before switching to his role as a goalkeeper.", "id": "6533434" }, { "contents": "Harry Maguire\n\n\n-up to either because he is such a level headed character.\" Maguire duly made his England under-21 debut as a substitute in the 60th minute, coming on for Liverpool's Andre Wisdom in a 2–0 win against Northern Ireland Under-21s at Bloomfield Road. On 24 August 2017, England manager Gareth Southgate included Maguire in his squad for the 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification matches against Malta and Slovakia. He made his debut when starting in England's 1–0 away win over Lithuania, which was the team's final match in their successful", "id": "3737243" }, { "contents": "Albania national under-21 football team\n\n\nmatch against Romania was characterized by a large Albania's win 7–1, which is the largest win ever recorded by Albania U-21. Albania Under-21s have managed to qualify only once in their history, and that came in the year of 1984 when they managed to qualify for the 1984 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship, although they were competing for the first time in such tournament. They were drawn in a very tough group which included the West Germany, Turkey and Austria. The historic event was the first time any Albanian squad qualified for", "id": "19363492" }, { "contents": "Alexandru Mitriță\n\n\nNew York City goal on the 17th the same month, in a 2–2 draw with Los Angeles FC. In March 2018, Mitriță was called up for Romania senior team's friendlies with Israel and Sweden later that month, after reportedly impressing coach Cosmin Contra. He made his debut in the former match on the 24th, and offered an assist to George Țucudean in a 2–1 win in Netanya. Mitriță is deployed as an attacking midfielder or a winger on either flank, having been noted for pace and technical ability which allow him", "id": "4318108" }, { "contents": "Claudiu Bumba\n\n\nsigned a four-year contract with Israeli club Hapoel Tel Aviv. On 2 February 2017, he signed a two and a half years contract with Dinamo Bucharest. He scored his first goal for Dinamo Bucharest on 10 April, in 2-1 league win against Astra Giurgiu. Bumba made his debut for Romania U-17 on 21 September 2010 in a game against Kazakhstan U-17. He played with the under-17 team at the 2011 UEFA European Under-17 Football Championship. On 6 October 2011, in a game against Sweden U-19, Bumba came", "id": "11657727" }, { "contents": "Dorian Dervite\n\n\nand U-21 levels. He has captained them on occasions. He was called up to the Under-21 squad to face Estonia and England. He was called for the international Toulon Tournament again with the U21, then against Poland and for the U21 European Championship qualifiers against Lithuania and Ukraine. he scored his first goal for France in a home draw with Poland U21 on 12 August 2009 with an 80th minute shot to make it 2–1 to France with the game ending 2–2, his last game for the Under-21s came in their 3–1 away win", "id": "18562600" }, { "contents": "Povilas Leimonas\n\n\nwith Jagiellonia Białystok. Povilas played for Lithuania's \"B\" team in two games in 2011, both against Lithuania U-21. The first game, played in Vilnius on 9 February, was won 2-1 by the \"B\" team, and the second match, in Marijampole on 2 March, resulted in a 3-0 win. Leimonas made his senior international debut on 7 June 2011, in a 1-0 friendly loss to Norway. He earned his second cap two months later in another friendly, the", "id": "16136896" }, { "contents": "History of the Romania national football team\n\n\nmatch in Bern, but the Netherlands were regarded as the outstanding team in the tournament, having followed their comprehensive win against Italy with an equally emphatic 4-1 win over France. A draw would also take Romania through were the other match between Italy and France to be drawn. With Italy taking a first-half lead against a France side reduced to ten men, it became apparent that Romania needed to beat the Netherlands to qualify. However, they played poorly and the Netherlands won 2-0 with second half goals", "id": "16435731" }, { "contents": "Sander Puri\n\n\nEstonia at under-17, under-19 and under-21 level. He made his debut for the senior national team on 30 May 2008 against Latvia in the 2008 Baltic Cup. He scored his first national team goal on 22 November 2008, in a 1–1 draw against Lithuania in a Mayors Cup match. A goal against Saint Kitts and Nevis saw him awarded the Estonian Silverball, for the best goal scored for Estonia in 2015. Puri is one of three triplets: his brother, Eino Puri, is also a footballer and his sister, Kadri", "id": "21342008" }, { "contents": "Eduards Višņakovs\n\n\nagainst Estonia on 5 June 2013, helping his team secure a 2–0 victory. On 10 September 2013 the U-23 team beat England 1-0, with Višņakovs scoring his second goal in two matches. Višņakovs was firstly called up to Latvia national football team for the FIFA World Cup 2014 qualifying matches against Lithuania and Slovakia on 11 and 15 October 2013. He made his debut for the national team in the match against Lithuania, coming on as a substitute in the 77th minute and replacing Māris Verpakovskis. A local scandal arose when", "id": "17206337" }, { "contents": "Romania national rugby union team\n\n\nthe Super Powers Cup. The USA beat a Romanian team stripped of their France-based players 23–16 in the third place play-off. The 2005–06 European Nations Cup also served as a qualifying group for the 2007 Rugby World Cup. Romania triumphed despite finishing level on points with Georgia. Romania qualified for the 2007 Rugby World Cup in France, finishing at the top of their pool during the Round 5 of the European qualifying tournaments. Romania won their first qualifying match on October 7, defeating Georgia in Bucharest 20–8. Their", "id": "10342600" }, { "contents": "Shlomo Lipetz\n\n\n, against Lithuania, Lipetz tossed a 10-inning, 4-hit complete game to beat Lithuania 2-1. He led that qualifier in victories and tied for second in strikeouts. During the 2012 European Baseball Championship qualifiers, in 2011, Lipetz pitched in 3 of the 5 games. Lipetz beat Georgia in the opener pitching 7 innings and striking out 9. Lipetz did not appear in the second game, against Great Britain, or in the third game against Lithuania. During the first game of the home/away finals against Great Britain", "id": "12992976" }, { "contents": "State Farm Stadium\n\n\nsoccer match attended by 62,462 fans. The United States men's national soccer team defeated Mexico, 2–0. On January 21, 2012, the U.S. played against Venezuela and won the match 1–0. On January 30, 2013, Mexico played against Denmark, a game that was broadcast on Televisa Deportes, UniMás, and TV Azteca. The match ended in a 1–1 draw. On November 19, 2015, the stadium was one of the sites selected for the 2016 Copa América Centenario. The stadium hosted three matches, including Mexico", "id": "18339554" }, { "contents": "Yacine Brahimi\n\n\npenalty in a 3–1 victory over Germany. He played with the under-16 team at the 2006 edition of the Montaigu Tournament playing in all four matches the team contested as France were crowned champions defeating Italy 2–1 in the final. With the under-17 team, Brahimi made his debut on 25 September in a qualification match for the 2007 UEFA European Under-17 Championship against Lithuania. France won the match 4–2 with Brahimi making a substitute appearance. Despite appearing in the first round of qualification, Brahimi was absent from the tournament itself, due to the", "id": "1037894" }, { "contents": "Ross McCormack\n\n\nfirst goal for the side on 11 October 2007 against Lithuania and scored again in his next appearance, a 4–0 victory over Slovenia U21s. McCormack won 10 caps for the under-21 side. He made his debut for the senior side on 30 May 2008 when he came on as a substitute during the 3–1 defeat of Czech Republic. McCormack was called up again in March 2009 for the 2010 FIFA World Cup qualifiers against Netherlands and Iceland. He started both matches, scoring his first goal for Scotland in a 2–1 win over Iceland on", "id": "8895190" }, { "contents": "Hungary national under-19 football team\n\n\n, and the atmosphere helped in times of need. The first match against Lithuania, was a 2-2 draw, but in the last 2 matches, the team could win, against Cyprus 2-1, and Portugal 1-0 and that was enough to qualify. The list below is the current list of U-19 national players according to the official Hungarian Football Federation website. Competition:2018 UEFA European Under-19 Football Championship (elite round)br Match Dates:25 March 2019br Opposition: The following players have been selected by Hungary in the past 12", "id": "4045560" }, { "contents": "X Factor (Romanian TV series)\n\n\nthe show aired starting 17 September 2011. Auditions for producers began in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, on 14 May 2011. They then took place in Constanța, on 21 May in Timișoara on 24 May 2011, on 4 June in Iași and concluded on 11 June 2011 in Bucharest. The first season ended on 1 January 2012, (16-24s) mentored by Mihai Morar was declared the first winner of The X Factor in Romania. Alin Văduva (Over 25s) was runner-up followed by Iulian Vasile (", "id": "16662967" }, { "contents": "Romania national football team\n\n\n0–5. In the next match, Romania recorded another draw (0–0), against Kazakhstan. The last match played in 2016 was a 0–3 defeat against Poland, with Robert Lewandowski scoring a double. After an uninspiring campaign, Romania ended in the fourth place in Group E with 13 points. After 8 of the 10 games, due to lackluster performances, coach Christoph Daum was fired and replaced with a promising new coach, Cosmin Contra. The Romania national team plays its home games at Arena Națională, the biggest stadium in", "id": "10918904" }, { "contents": "Chris Smalling\n\n\nfirst start for the under-21s in a 2011 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualifier against Portugal at Wembley Stadium in a 1–0 win. He scored his first goal for the under-21s on 8 October 2010, against Romania, in England's 2011 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification play-off first leg, converting from inside the area after an assist from Daniel Sturridge. The goal, scored in the 83rd minute, proved to be the winner as England won 2–1. On 13 November 2010, Smalling was called up to the England senior squad for", "id": "656401" }, { "contents": "Lithuania men's national basketball team\n\n\n. The only consolation was the remaining opportunity to qualify into the World Championship, which the Lithuanians achieved by beating Russia and Slovenia for fifth place. Lithuania won 5 of 6 games in the tournament. Consequently, the competition scheme was questioned in its reliability. The 2006 FIBA World Championship in Japan had Lithuania matching the 7th place from their 1998 debut, but many saw this performance as an under-achievement. Lithuania started the tournament with a narrow 2-point loss to Turkey, followed by an overtime defeat to eventual finalists Greece which", "id": "14520278" }, { "contents": "Shane McFaul\n\n\nCup when beating Sligo Rovers 2–1 at Tallaght Stadium. McFaul was later named Man of the Match in the F.A.I Cup Final Vs Sligo Rovers and also the honour of being named Sporting Fingal Player of the Year 2009. In the 2010 season his performances for Fingal attracted the interest of Scottish giants Celtic FC. http://www.herald.ie/sport/soccer/celtic-track-sporting-fingal-pair-27948702.html Shane made his Republic of Ireland U21 debut in a friendly game against Germany on 21 August 2007. He was also an unused sub in the UEFA European Under-21 Championship Qualifying games against Portugal and England. McFaul signed for", "id": "13006237" }, { "contents": "Connor Roberts (footballer, born 1995)\n\n\nand he returned to Swansea City. Roberts made his debut for Swansea City on 6 January 2018 in the FA Cup 3rd round against Wolverhampton Wanderers. He scored his first goal for the club on 29 September 2018 during a 3–0 win over Queens Park Rangers. Roberts has been capped at Wales under-19 level. In March 2016, Roberts received his first call-up to the Wales under-21 side for their 2017 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification matches, and made his debut as a second-half substitute in their 2–1 defeat against Romania", "id": "12721076" }, { "contents": "Roberta Anastase\n\n\nRoberta Alma Anastase (; born 27 March 1976 in Ploieşti) is a Romanian politician and former first female Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies of Romania between 19 December 2008 and 3 July 2012. She is a member of the Democratic Liberal Party, affiliated to the European People's Party–European Democrats, and became an MEP on 1 January 2007 with the accession of Romania to the European Union. She also represented Romania at the 1996 Miss Universe competition. She attended the Faculty of Sociology at the University of Bucharest in the mid-90", "id": "19157242" }, { "contents": "Kostas Mitroglou\n\n\n, he scored a goal against Germany in a 3–2 win at Vorwärts Stadium. Mitroglou finished as the top goalscorer of the competition with three goals. In 2007, Mitroglou was promoted to the Greece under-21 team. He scored two goals in a 3–1 home win against Macedonia in the UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualifiers, and later a goal in a 1–1 home draw against England and the only goal against Lithuania as the campaign continued. In 2009, Mitroglou was selected for the senior Greece side for the first time. He scored his", "id": "2125765" } ]

[ { "contents": "Football in Lithuania\n\n\nFootball is popular sport in Lithuania. The former Soviet republic made their entrance as an independent football nation in 1992. In the qualification for the Euro 2004, Lithuania held Germany to a 1-1 draw in Germany and won against Scotland. In the qualification for the Euro 2008 they played away to the 2006 World Cup winners Italy and drew 1-1 as well as beating Romania 3-0 in Lithuania in another shock performance. In 1922 in Lithuania, like in Poland, soccer championships began. Then, in the", "id": "4830771" }, { "contents": "Marius Niculae\n\n\n2–0 win. Despite he scored 20 goals for Dinamo in the 1999–00 season, Niculae was not included by Emerich Ienei in the preliminary squad for UEFA Euro 2000. On 2 September, Niculae scored a brace for Romania U-21 against Lithuania in the first match from the 2002 European Championship qualifiers, counting his first goals in an official match. On 6 October, Niculae played his final match for the U-21 squad, netting Romania's only goal in the 1–1 draw against European Championship holders Italy. On 5 December, Niculae scored his", "id": "3505259" }, { "contents": "Stadionul Marin Anastasovici\n\n\nMarin Anastasovici Stadium is a multi-use stadium in Giurgiu, Romania. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home ground of Astra Giurgiu. The stadium holds 8,500 people all on seats. The first international game was played by the Romania national under-21 football team on 19 November 2013 in a match against Germany which ended 2-2. The first game for Romania at Giurgiu was a friendly match against Lithuania on 23 March 2016. The stadium host also various UEFA Europa League matches and also a match from", "id": "15891395" }, { "contents": "History of the Romania national football team\n\n\nEast Germany scoring a predictable 4-1 win in Albania, Romania were out, despite a huge 9-0 win over Finland in Bucharest. Romania continued to suffer poor form in the UEFA European Championship. In their qualifying group for the 1976 European Football Championship, they were out-qualified by Spain, despite an impressive 1-1 draw in the away match. Romania failed to win matches, drawing twice with Scotland and Spain and dropping points in Denmark with a dismal goalless draw. Romania were again beat by Spain", "id": "16435703" }, { "contents": "Faroe Islands national under-21 football team\n\n\nRussia U21, beating them 1-0 after a goal in the first minute. This was followed by a 1-1 draw against Moldova in September, but Faroe Islands lost the next match 3-1 against Latvia. Russia had their revenge in the away match and defeated Faroe Islands 2-0. They also lost both matches against Romania. In November 2009 Faroe Islands beat Latvia 1-0 and were held to a 1-1 draw against Andorra. Faroe Islands won the home match against Andorra 3-1", "id": "13865866" }, { "contents": "Carrow Road\n\n\non five occasions. The first was in 1983 in a European Under-21 Championship qualifying match against Denmark, which England won 4–1. The team played another qualifying match in the same tournament at the stadium in 1997, beating Greece 4–2. The Slovakia team featured in a friendly match at the ground in June 2007, England winning 5–0 in front of a crowd of 20,193 people. In 2010, the ground played host to a play-off against Romania, a game the home side won 2–1 in front of a then record all", "id": "8674438" }, { "contents": "Romania national football team\n\n\nGianluigi Buffon saved the subsequent Mutu penalty, leaving Romania with two points and needing a win against the Netherlands, which eliminated France 4–1 that same evening. The Netherlands beat Romania 2–0 in the final game of the group, which meant that Italy joined the Netherlands in the quarter-finals and Romania finished third, ahead of France. Romania were drawn into the UEFA qualifying round for the 2010 World Cup alongside France, Serbia, Austria, Lithuania and the Faroe Islands. Although Romania were seeded in the second pot, suggesting that", "id": "10918894" }, { "contents": "Rugby union in Romania\n\n\n, drawing two, and losing one. Later in 1955, the Romanians defeated Llanelli in Moscow, and then beat both Cardiff and Harlequins in Bucharest. Only France, who played Romania before almost 95,000 fans in Bucharest (in a preliminary match to a soccer international), could beat the Romanians, and that was only after an epic 16-15 battle. A generation of French school-trained coaches from the late 1940s and 1950s laid the foundations for national success in the 1960s, 70s and 80s. In 1974 Romania", "id": "13829979" }, { "contents": "Dennis Man\n\n\nover Rudar Velenje. Man was selected for the Romania under-21 team and scored on debut in a 3–1 away victory over Bosnia and Herzegovina, on 1 September 2017. Senior manager Cosmin Contra gave Man his first Romania call-up for the friendlies with Israel and Sweden in March 2018. He made his debut in the latter game, replacing Nicolae Stanciu in 87th minute as his side won 1–0 at the Stadionul Ion Oblemenco in Craiova. On 11 June 2019, he netted the last of his team in a 4–0 defeat of Malta", "id": "12444532" }, { "contents": "2011 Rugby World Cup qualifying\n\n\nand Romania). On a home and away basis, Romania prevailed by winning 32–12 in Bucharest, preceded by a 21–21 draw in Montevideo. It competed in Pool B. Both nations had won the repechage semi-finals. Those were conducted as single matches, with the European and African qualifiers drawn into one semi-final and the Asian and Americas qualifiers drawn into the other. Romania beat Tunisia 56–13 and Uruguay had the upper hand over Kazakhstan winning 44–7. Both matches were hosted by the team with the higher IRB World Ranking", "id": "11180430" }, { "contents": "Moshtagh Yaghoubi\n\n\nterminated by Shakhter Karagandy on 17 June 2016. On 4 November 2016, HJK Helsinki announced the signing of Yaghoubi. On 31 January 2019, Seinäjoen Jalkapallokerho announced the signing of Yaghoubi. Yaghoubi acquired Finnish nationality in 2013 and got called up for Finland national under-21 team for 2015 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship qualification match against Lithuania on 11 June 2013. Yaghoubi scored his national team debut goal when Finland beat Wales U-21 5–1 in UEFA Under-21 Championship qualification on 14 August 2013. On 31 October 2013 Yaghoubi made his debut for Finland national", "id": "15530739" }, { "contents": "Romania national football team\n\n\npoor form in the UEFA European Championship. In their qualifying group for the 1976 European Football Championship, they were out-qualified by Spain despite an impressive 1–1 draw in the away match. Romania failed to win matches, drawing twice with Scotland and Spain and dropping points in Denmark with a dismal goalless draw. Romania were again beaten by Spain for a place in the 1978 World Cup in Argentina. Despite a 1–0 win in Bucharest, Romania lost a bizarre match at home to Yugoslavia 6–4 having led 3–2 at half time.", "id": "10918865" }, { "contents": "History of the Romania national football team\n\n\nfor a place in the 1978 World Cup in Argentina. Despite a 1-0 win in Bucharest, Romania lost a bizarre match at home to Yugoslavia 6-4 having led 3-2 at half time. Spain won 1-0 in Belgrade to seal passage to South America. Romania's sole successful qualifying campaign was for the European Championships in 1984 in France. At the finals, Romania were drawn with regular rivals Spain, holders West Germany and dark horses Portugal. Under head coach Mircea Lucescu, an encouraging opening", "id": "16435704" }, { "contents": "Yann Sommer\n\n\nUnder-21 Championship, hosted by Denmark between 11 and 25 June 2011. The Swiss team reached the 2011 UEFA European Under-21 Championship Final on 25 June without conceding a goal, but lost 2–0 to Spain. This was Sommer's final match for the under-21s. Sommer made his debut for the Swiss senior side on 30 May 2012 at the Swissporarena, Lucerne, in a 0–1 defeat against Romania in a friendly match. On 13 May, he was named in Switzerland's 23-man squad for the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil. Alongside", "id": "823566" }, { "contents": "Scotland at the UEFA European Championship\n\n\nqualifying saw Scotland face Denmark, Romania and Spain. Scotland lost their opening match 2–1 to the Spaniards at Hampden, before drawing 1–1 in Valencia. Gordon McQueen scored a late equaliser to win Scotland a point away in Romania, before Joe Harper's goal saw Scotland beat Denmark 1–0 away from home. Scotland won the reverse fixture 3–1. Scotland's final match was at home to Romania, with Scotland requiring a two goal win to win the group and qualify for the play-offs. Scotland took the lead through a Bruce", "id": "1546781" }, { "contents": "Polish football in the interwar period\n\n\nyet more achievements. On October 2, a so-called double match took place (such games were popular in 1930s European Football). The reserve Poland team beat 2-1 Latvia at Warsaw, and at the same hour the first lineup faced Romania in Bucharest. Romania (with several of its starters of Hungarian nationality from Transylvania) was regarded a very strong team. The Poles, however, overwhelmed it 5-0 and this was the biggest success of Polish Football so far. This game is significant also for", "id": "21819213" }, { "contents": "History of the Romania national football team\n\n\nLithuania in Cluj-Napoca before scraping an unconvincing 1-0 win in the Faroe Islands, midfielder Răzvan Cociş scoring the goal. Their third match would be at home to France, who had also begun with a bad loss, 3-1 to Austria in Vienna. Romania raced into a 2-0 lead in Constanţa with goals from Florentin Petre and Dorin Goian but France pulled one back before half time through Franck Ribéry. A long-range strike from Yoann Gourcuff earned France a draw but both sides were left with", "id": "16435733" }, { "contents": "Nauris Bulvītis\n\n\nseason. Bulvītis has been capped internationally at under-19 and under-21 levels. In 2012 Latvia national football team coach Aleksandrs Starkovs called him up for the 2012 Baltic Cup. Nauris played 2 matches, helping Latvia win the tournament. Bulvītis scored his first international goal on 6 September 2013 in a 2–1 2014 FIFA World Cup qualification match victory over Lithuania. In May 2014 he helped Latvia win the Baltic Cup for the second time in a row, scoring the only goal in a 1–0 victory over Lithuania in the final of the tournament.", "id": "22161076" }, { "contents": "Lithuania national football team\n\n\nScotland; however, a 1–0 defeat to Scotland in the final game ended their hopes. Although finishing fifth in their 2006 World Cup qualifying group, Lithuania were nevertheless competitive. Lithuania drew with world champions Italy 1–1 in Naples in a Euro 2008 qualifying game on 2 September 2006, in the first competitive game that Italy played since the World Cup final. On 6 September 2008, Lithuania defeated Romania 3–0 in a 2010 World Cup qualifier. The victory was regarded by many as \"a historic win.\" It was followed by", "id": "6890277" }, { "contents": "Colchester Community Stadium\n\n\n2011 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship as they beat Lithuania 3–0 with two goals from Danny Welbeck and one from Marc Albrighton. A crowd of 7,240 watched the game on 7 September 2010. The England under-21s returned to Colchester for a 2013 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualifier on 11 November 2011. The Young Lions cruised to a 5–0 victory against Iceland on the night, with goals from Marvin Sordell, Martin Kelly, Craig Dawson and two scored by Gary Gardner. The attendance for the game was 10,051. England won their fourth match after", "id": "19735537" }, { "contents": "Arvydas Novikovas\n\n\na starter. During his 2 season there he has helped Jagiellonia Białystok finish 2nd twice in a row. He has scored 16 goals and provided 12 assists in the 58 games he has played for them, starting the 2018/19 season with 3 goals and 2 assists in his first 9 games. Novikovas represented the Lithuania under-21's when he was just a 16-year-old. In May 2009, he was called up to the Lithuania squad, for their FIFA World Cup qualifier with Romania. On 9 September, Novikovas scored for Lithuania", "id": "1849831" }, { "contents": "Valon Ahmedi\n\n\ndebuted for the under-21 side against Macedonia U21, playing as a starter for the entire first-half in an eventual goalless draw. He received another call up for the under-21 side by same coach Skënder Gega for the friendly match against Romania U21 on 8 October 2014. He played against Romania U21 as a starter and in the 60th minute provided the assist for the 1–1 equalising goal scored by Vedat Muriqi, which however wasn't enough as Romania U21 won 3–1. Ahmedi was called up for the first time in an official competitive", "id": "7679765" }, { "contents": "Alessandro Del Piero\n\n\nthat qualified for and later won the 1996 European Under-21 Championship, appearing in the quarter-finals. Del Piero made his senior debut under Arrigo Sacchi at the age of 20, on 25 March 1995, in a 4–1 win over Estonia in a Euro 1996 qualifying match. Del Piero scored his first goal for Italy on 15 November 1995, in a 4–0 win over Lithuania in a Euro 1996 qualifying match. His tournament debut was at UEFA Euro 1996, where he made his only appearance in the first half of the team", "id": "4132525" }, { "contents": "1998 UEFA European Under-21 Championship squads\n\n\nThe following is a list of squads for each nation competing at 1998 UEFA European Under-21 Championship in Romania. The tournament started on 23 May and the final took place in Bucharest on 31 May 1998. Players born on or after 1 January 1975 were eligible to play in the tournament. Each nation had to submit a squad of 20 players, two of which had to be goalkeepers. If a player was injured seriously enough to prevent his taking part in the tournament before his team's first match, he could be replaced by", "id": "6042468" }, { "contents": "Lithuania national under-21 football team\n\n\nThe Lithuania national under-21 football team is the national under-21 football team of Lithuania and is controlled by the Lithuanian Football Federation. Squad called up for the friendly match against on 10 November 2017 and 2019 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification match against on 14 November 2017. ! colspan=\"9\" bgcolor=\"#B0D3FB\" align=\"left\" | ! colspan=\"9\" bgcolor=\"#B0D3FB\" align=\"left\" | ! colspan=\"9\" bgcolor=\"#B0D3FB\" align=\"left\" | ! colspan=\"7\" bgcolor=\"#B0D3FB\" align=\"left\" | ! colspan=\"9\" bgcolor=\"#B0D3FB\" align=\"left\" | ! colspan=\"9\" bgcolor=\"#B0D3FB\" align=\"left\" | ! colspan=\"9\"", "id": "15919932" }, { "contents": "James Milner\n\n\nMilner competed for England at the 2007 UEFA European Under-21 Championship. He played in all four of England's matches and was booked in the semi-final against the Netherlands, which meant he would have missed the final. The match was decided by a penalty shoot-out, in which Milner scored twice and England lost 13–12. Milner was included in the under-21 squad for a friendly against Romania, which ended in a 1–1 draw. A month later, Milner set an England under-21 record by making his 30th appearance for the", "id": "1860629" }, { "contents": "Endri Çekiçi\n\n\nat Albania under-21 by coach Skënder Gega for the friendly match against Romania U21 on 8 October 2014. In that match, he came on as a substitute in the second half, and Albania lost 1–3. Çekiçi received another call up by the newly appointed coach Redi Jupi for the 2017 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualifying matches against Israel and Portugal in September 2015. He debuted against the former by coming on as a second-half substitute, netting a penalty kick in the 84th minute to rescue his side a 1–1 home draw.", "id": "8124891" }, { "contents": "Romania national football team\n\n\nWorld Cup, Romania won their first match against Peru, 3–1, with goals from Adalbert Desu, Constantin Stanciu and Nicolae Kovács and Samuel Zauber as goalkeeper, before being thrashed 4–0 by hosts and eventual winners Uruguay. Romania qualified for the next World Cup in 1934 after beating Yugoslavia 2–1 in a repeat of their first international. At the finals, Romania played only one game in a new knock-out format, losing 2–1 to Czechoslovakia in Trieste, Italy, with Ștefan Dobay scoring their only goal of the tournament. Romania", "id": "10918860" }, { "contents": "Romania national under-21 football team\n\n\nnational team until the age of 23. The best result achieved by the Romania U-21 squad is the qualification for the 1998 European Championship. Under the guidance of Victor Pițurcă and with a generation of players that included among others Bogdan Lobonț, Florentin Petre, Ionel Dănciulescu and Cătălin Munteanu, Romania U-21 finished the qualifying stage with maximum points after winning all eight games. Romania was then chosen as the host of the final stage. The squad was eliminated in the quarter-finals, being beaten by the Netherlands, 2-1", "id": "14153041" }, { "contents": "James Ward-Prowse\n\n\nhosts France 2–1. Ward-Prowse was nominated for the Vauxhall England Under-21 Player of the Year award, but eventually lost out to Southampton teammate Nathan Redmond. In June 2017, he captained the under-21s at that year's edition of the European Under-21 Championship where England reached the semi-finals, eventually losing to Germany in a penalty shoot-out. On 16 March 2017, he earned his first call-up to the senior England squad for a friendly against Germany and a World Cup qualifying match against Lithuania. Six days", "id": "1352322" }, { "contents": "History of the Romania national football team\n\n\nfirst match against Peru, 3-1, with goals from Adalbert Desu, Constantin Stanciu and Nicolae Kovács, before being thrashed 4-0 by hosts and eventual winners Uruguay. Romania qualified for the next World Cup in 1934 after beating Yugoslavia 2-1 in a repeat of their first international. At the finals, Romania played only one game in a new knock-out format, losing 2-1 to Czechoslovakia in Trieste, Italy, with Ştefan Dobay scoring their only goal of the tournament. Romania qualified by default", "id": "16435698" }, { "contents": "Muarem Muarem\n\n\nSeptember 2009 in a 2-1 loss. He went on to make nine appearances for the team, scoring his first international goal in his second under-21 appearance, a 1-1 draw with Lithuania on 9 September 2009, scoring in the first minute of the match. He scored his second goal a month later against England, netting a low free-kick that brought his team back into the game at 2-1. He also scored against Portugal and Bosnia and Herzegovina. Muarem played his final game for the under-21s", "id": "18689026" }, { "contents": "Giedrius Arlauskis\n\n\nreturn to Romania, joining CFR Cluj. The move was confirmed on 15 August 2017. In August 2008, Arlauskis' performance in Romania led him being called by the Lithuania for the first time. Arlauskis made his national team debut as a substitute against Moldova in a friendly game on 19 November 2008. He joined the game in the 46th minute and conceded a goal after 67 minutes as Lithuania drew with Moldova 1–1. After playing two more caps as a substitute, his first competitive game then came on 18 June 2010,", "id": "17863969" }, { "contents": "Romania national under-21 football team\n\n\n. The Romania under-21 team does not have a permanent home. The team plays in stadiums located all around Romania. Because of the smaller demand compared to the senior national team, smaller facilities are used. As of June 2019, the last three games have been played in Cluj-Napoca. Romania again qualified for the UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship in 2019, after topping a group that included Portugal, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Wales, Switzerland and Liechtenstein. They secured their qualification for the final tournament, by beating Liechtenstein,", "id": "14153042" }, { "contents": "Theo Wharton\n\n\nBorough in July 2018. Wharton signed for National League North club Hereford F.C. on 22 December 2018. Wharton was first selected for the Wales national under-17 team for the 2011 UEFA European Under-17 Championship qualifying round, starting two matches against Belgium and Denmark. Wharton was called up to the Wales under-21 team to play Moldova on 22 March 2013. On 9 September 2014, Wharton made his Wales under-21 debut in a 1–1 draw against Lithuania under-21s. In 2016, Wharton chose to switch allegiance to play for Saint Kitts and Nevis, the", "id": "17934659" }, { "contents": "Marius Niculae\n\n\nwas officially signed. On 26 February, he scored his first goal for Shandong in a friendly match against Chongqing F.C.. After representing Romania at the U-16 and U-18 levels, Niculae was promoted to the U-21 level. Niculae's form for Dinamo saw him selected for the Romania U-21 team to play Bulgaria U-21 on 3 March 1999, and he marked his debut with the second goal as Romania won 3–1. He played his first official match for Romania U-21 on 26 March, in a 0–1 defeat against Slovakia U-21, coming in", "id": "3505256" }, { "contents": "History of the Serbia national football team\n\n\nin 12th minute, from \"penalty spot\", like against Austria three monts before. On 10 October 2009, Serbia made a huge victory 5–0 against Romania and secured placement at 2010 FIFA World Cup. In last match of this qualifying cycle, Lithuania defeated Serbia 2–1 in Marijampolė. In November, Serbia defeat Northern Ireland and South Korea in Belfast and London, 1–0 both matches. Serbia placed into Group D with Germany, team also faced 2010 Africa Cup of Nations runners-up Ghana, and Australia. Their opening group", "id": "3691746" }, { "contents": "History of Ferencvárosi TC\n\n\n1 December 1962 Ferencváros lost 1–0 to Sampdoria in Genoa, Italy. On 12 December 1962 Ferencváros beat Sampdoria 6–0 at home. In the quarter-finals Ferencváros beat Petrolul Ploiești 2–0 at home, while lost the away match 1–0 in Ploiești, Romania. In the semi-finals, Ferencváros lost to NK Dinamo Zagreb 1–0 at home and Ferencváros lost the away match 2–1 in Zagreb, Yugoslavia. Ferencváros won the 1962–63 season of the Hungarian League. Therefore, Ferencváros entered the European Cup 1963–64 season. On 11 September 1963,", "id": "4677552" }, { "contents": "George Pușcaș\n\n\n90th minute of a 2–1 victory over Cosenza. Pușcaș scored seven times for Romania under-21 in the 2019 UEFA European Championship qualifying competition, as his side won its group and progressed to the final tournament in Italy. On 18 June 2019, he obtained the penalty from which he scored the opener in a 4–1 victory over Croatia at the San Marino Stadium. He netted again in the next group game against England, surpassing Ionuț Luțu as the highest scorer of the \"Tricolorii mici\". Pușcaș then gave Romania a half-time", "id": "18913818" }, { "contents": "Belarus women's national football team\n\n\nqualified for the promotion play-offs. In the 2001 European Championship qualifying, again in Class B, Belarus beat Estonia 4–1 and 0–7, Israel 0–5 and 1–0 and Slovakia 1–0, and tied 1–1 in Romania, but the Romanians earned the spot in the promotion play-offs after beating Belarus 0–1. With this settled Belarus lost 6–1 to Slovakia in the last match. In the 2003 World Cup qualifying, Class B, Belarus beat Bosnia 5–2 and 2–7, Turkey 4–0 and 1–5, Slovakia 3–2. They lost the remaining", "id": "21080772" }, { "contents": "Visa requirements for Turkmen citizens\n\n\nEstonia (1 July 1992), Latvia (1993), Lithuania (1 November 1993), Slovakia (6 May 1994), Bulgaria (1 January 1999), Armenia (1999), Moldova (9 June 1999), Russia (17 July 1999), Hungary (1 December 1999), Romania (1 July 2000), Belarus (21 July 2000), Czech Republic (22 October 2000), Poland (3 November 2000), Kazakhstan (1 March 2001). Also Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan,", "id": "5139311" }, { "contents": "Ovie Ejaria\n\n\nplaying the whole match. Ejaria was selected for the England under-20 team in the 2017 FIFA U-20 World Cup. He made his first start in a game in the first round match against South Korea, and came on as a substitute the quarter-final against Mexico, but was an unused substitute in the final where England beat Venezuela 1–0. He was called up for the England under-21 team in March 2018, making his debut in a friendly against Romania. He was called up again in May 2018 for the Toulon Tournament but", "id": "14618472" }, { "contents": "Franck Ribéry\n\n\nCup qualification match against Romania, scoring the team's opening goal in a 2–2 draw. On 28 March 2009, Ribéry scored the lone goal away to Lithuania. Three days later, he completed this feat again, this time at the Stade de France, netting the winner in the 75th minute following service from André-Pierre Gignac. On 11 May 2010, Ribéry was named to Domenech's 30-man preliminary squad to participate in the 2010 World Cup and his second World Cup overall. He was later named to the 23-man team", "id": "15094173" }, { "contents": "Cosmin Contra\n\n\nbeing announced as Timișoara's new player-coach six days later. Over 14 years, Contra earned 73 caps for Romania, scoring seven goals. He appeared for his country at UEFA Euro 2000 and 2008. On 1 April 2009, after a match with Austria, Contra announced his retirement from international football. On 30 August 2010, however, the 34-year-old was recalled for two Euro 2012 qualifiers against Albania and Belarus. Contra made his Timişoara debut as a manager in September 2010, with a win against FC Sportul", "id": "4642171" }, { "contents": "Victor Pițurcă\n\n\nWorld Cup (0–0 against France, 1–1 against Italy), Romania lost 0–2 to the Netherlands, finishing the group in third place and thus being eliminated from the competition. After Euro 2008, Romania showed an increasingly poor form in both friendly games and the 2010 World Cup qualifying campaign, where they had a slow start. In their first two official games after Euro 2008, Romania lost 0–3 against Lithuania at home and four days later secured a difficult 1–0 victory against the Faeroe Islands. Although many of the players which helped", "id": "13766306" }, { "contents": "Paul Papp\n\n\nin a qualification game for the 2011 European Under-21 Championship, against Latvia. He captained his side for the first time, following Torje and Găman's injuries, on 29 May 2010, in the friendly match, lost by Romania against Belarus. On 7 September, Papp was in the startup team for Romania U-21, in a 3–0 win against Russia. The win secured Romania a place in the playoff stage of the 2011 European Under-21 Championship qualifiers. However, he missed the chance to play at the 2011 European Under-21 Championship,", "id": "22044461" }, { "contents": "Ciprian Deac\n\n\nfourth national championship in its history. Deac made his debut for the Romania under-21 team against France on 1 June 2007, with the match ending 1–1. He was part of Romania's preliminary Euro 2008 squad, but missed out on the final list led by manager Victor Pițurcă. On 5 March 2010, Deac finally earned his first cap for the full side in a friendly match against Israel. In August 2017, following a six-year absence, he was selected by Christoph Daum for the 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifying matches", "id": "14907109" }, { "contents": "Radomir Antić\n\n\ninto the fire. Also surprising was leaving tall striker Nikola Žigić on the bench and starting with only on attacker, Marko Pantelić, upfront in 4–5–1 formation. And while Serbia lost 2–1 to somewhat wounded France that just days earlier shockingly lost to Austria, many positives were taken from the match at Stade de France such as a brave attacking approach with a lot of running from the wings. Next up in October was in-form Lithuania, which had recently defeated Romania and Austria without allowing a goal. Contrary to expectations,", "id": "18552988" }, { "contents": "Roy Hodgson\n\n\n, losing 1–0 in Porto. In the tournament the Swiss were drawn in Group A alongside Romania, Colombia and the hosts, United States. The opening match of the group was between Switzerland and the United States and is memorable as the first World Cup match to take place indoors, at the Pontiac Silverdome. The Swiss drew 1–1 against the United States, beat Romania 4–1 and lost 2–0 to Colombia, finishing as runners-up in their group, qualifying for the Round of 16, where they lost 3–0 to Spain.", "id": "12858556" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nagainst Portugal, but did so as England defeated Germany 1–0 in Charleroi, ensuring that England beat their European neighbours for the first time since the 1966 World Cup Final. To remain in the tournament, England only required a draw against Romania in the final group match, and Shearer scored a penalty as England went in at half-time 2–1 up, but Romania ultimately won 3–2. England's tournament was over, and so was Shearer's international career. From his 63 caps, he captained the team 34 times and scored", "id": "13592545" }, { "contents": "Florinel Coman\n\n\nEuropean goal in the UEFA Europa League 1–1 draw with Hapoel Be'er Sheva, on 2 November. Coman featured for Romania at the 2019 UEFA European Under-21 Championship, mostly as a second half substitute. In the group fixture on 21 June, he entered in the 63rd minute for Andrei Ivan, obtained a penalty and scored a double to help to a 4–2 victory against England. He then earned his first and only start in a goalless draw with France, with both teams progressing further to the semi-finals, where Romania suffered", "id": "21859353" }, { "contents": "Mitragyna speciosa\n\n\nDenmark, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania and Sweden. In the UK, since 2016, the sale, import, and export of kratom are prohibited under the Psychoactive Substances Act. In 2017, kratom was designated a Schedule 1 illegal drug (the highest level) in the Republic of Ireland, under the names 7-hydroxymitragynine and mitragynine. The use of kratom leaves, known locally as \"ketum\", is prohibited in Malaysia under Section 30 (3) Poisons Act 1952 and the user may be fined a maximum amount", "id": "16890332" }, { "contents": "Romania national rugby union team\n\n\nThey lost 36–21 to Wales A at Pontypridd and 70–21 in a test held in Wrexham. At the 1999 World Cup Romania could again only manage a single win 27–25 against the United States. In 2000, Romania won the first European Nations Cup by a large margin, recording victories in all four matches. By 2001, Romania had been caught by the likes of Georgia who defeated them to take the 2001 European Nations Cup, crowned with a decisive 31–20 win over Romania in Bucharest. The national side lost to England by 134–0", "id": "10342595" }, { "contents": "Aritz Aduriz\n\n\n. He made his debut on the 8th, replacing Llorente for the last 15 minutes of a 3–1 home win against Lithuania. Six years later, at the age of 35, Aduriz was recalled by manager Vicente del Bosque for friendlies with Italy and Romania. He started and scored in the first match, a 1–1 draw at the \"Stadio Friuli\", and was selected for UEFA Euro 2016 in France. He made two substitute appearances in the group stage, always replacing Juventus' Álvaro Morata in the second half; on", "id": "7991541" }, { "contents": "UEFA Euro 2008 Group C\n\n\nof counter-attacking football. Then, in their second game, they also beat the 2006 World Cup runners-up, France, 4–1. This left the French in a difficult position, having already played out a scoreless draw against Romania in the group's opening match. Romania also played out a draw against Italy in their second match, leaving them in second place going into the final round of group matches. Italy finished as the second quarter-finalists, after they beat France 2–0 in their final game. French", "id": "15100017" }, { "contents": "List of land borders with dates of establishment\n\n\nSan Marino \"Italy–Slovenia \"Italy–Switzerland \"Italy–Vatican City \"Ireland–UK \"Latvia–Lithuania \"Lithuania–Belarus \"Lithuania–Poland \"Lithuania–Russia \"Latvia–Russia \"Liechtenstein–Switzerland \"Republic of Macedonia–Serbia \"Moldova–Romania \"Moldova–Ukraine \"Montenegro–Serbia \"Norway–Russia \"Norway–Sweden \"Poland–Slovakia \"Poland–Russia \"Poland–Ukraine \"Portugal–Spain \"Romania–Ukraine \"Romania–Serbia \"Russia–Ukraine \"Slovakia–", "id": "21121898" }, { "contents": "Nicolaj Thomsen\n\n\nDanish national team on 18 November 2014 against Romania. Thomsen scored the only Danish goal in the 1–1 draw against Iceland which qualified Denmark U-21 for the 2015 UEFA European Under-21 Championship. He was selected for the squad for the tournament and played the entire match in the opening win against the Czech Republic. He was in the line-up in the other two group stage-matches against Germany and Serbia. Thomsen was also chosen to the line-up in the semi final, where Denmark was defeated by Sweden. AaB Copenhagen", "id": "14143520" }, { "contents": "João Cancelo\n\n\n. On 20 April 2019, Cancelo played in the \"Scudetto\"-clinching match against rivals Fiorentina, as Juventus won their eighth successive league title after a 2–1 home triumph. Cancelo represented Portugal in the 2012 UEFA European Under-19 Championship. He was also selected for the following edition, in Lithuania. With the under-20s, Cancelo appeared at the 2013 FIFA World Cup and the 2014 Toulon Tournament. He featured in two games in the former competition, with the country reaching the round-of-16. Cancelo was part of the under-21 squad that competed", "id": "15886722" }, { "contents": "Human rights violations by the CIA\n\n\nofficials. Nicaraguan Contras were taught to lead: The manual also recommended: The CIA claimed that the purpose of the manual was to \"moderate\" activities already being done by the Contras. In May 2018, The European Court of Human Rights ruled that the countries of Romania and Lithuania were involved in torture activities perpetrated by the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). The two countries were found to have run \"black site\" torture rooms and detention facilities therefore committing grave human rights abuses. In Romania, the secret", "id": "1650708" }, { "contents": "European Patent Organisation\n\n\nSerbia which did so on 1 October 2010. In addition there are \"extension states\" which are not Contracting States to the EPC but have instead signed extension agreements under which the protection conferred by European patent applications and patents is extended to the relevant country. These are Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Montenegro. Slovenia, Romania, Lithuania, Latvia, Croatia, Macedonia, Albania and Serbia were all extension states prior to joining the EPC. Furthermore, there are so-called \"validation states\" which are not Contracting States to", "id": "2996937" }, { "contents": "Montenegro national football team\n\n\nPoland, Denmark, Kazakhstan, Armenia and Romania. Poland, Denmark and Romania had been participants in the UEFA Euro 2016, but Montenegro began by drawing 1–1 away to Romania, beating Kazakhstan 5–0 at home and defeating Denmark 1–0. However, they then lost 3–2 away to Armenia despite leading 2–0, and were defeated 2–1 at home by Poland. Montenegro then rebounded, beating Armenia 4–1 and Kazakhstan 3–0. They later eliminated Romania with a 1–0 victory, but losses to the Danes and Poles ended Montenegro's chance of qualifying.", "id": "9236271" }, { "contents": "Denis Alibec\n\n\nplayed for Romania's under-17, under-19 and under-21 teams. On 11 October 2015, after being called up on several occasions in the past, Alibec gained his first cap for the full side in the last UEFA Euro 2016 qualifying match against Faroe Islands, replacing Bogdan Stancu in the 90th minute. In June 2016, he was picked by Anghel Iordănescu for his squad at the final tournament in France and appeared as a substitute in Romania's opening game, a 2–1 defeat to the host. Alibec's father, Gevrim and uncle", "id": "7828376" }, { "contents": "Lukas Spalvis\n\n\nout again on 5 July 2017, joining 2. Bundesliga side 1. FC Kaiserslautern for the 2017–18 season. On 8 May 2018, it was announced that Spalvis had joined 1. FC Kaiserslautern on a permanent deal. On 26 August, he sustained a long term injury in a match and it will leave him out for almost the remainder of the season. Spalvis played several matches for youth national teams, including Lithuania U-19 and Lithuania U-21. In March 2014 he made his debut for the senior team, in a friendly", "id": "11995894" }, { "contents": "Nathan Craze\n\n\nDiv II Group A in Bucharest, Romania, and was also named Netminder of the Tournament. He received the International Ice Hockey Federation Directorate’s Award of the tournament’s Best Netminder when GB won the gold medal in the 2004 World under-18 Championships (Div II) in Lithuania, and he equalled the feat by being voted the IIHF’s tournament Best Netminder when GB won the gold medal in the 2006 World under-20 Championships (Div II) in Romania. In 2006, Craze signed with the Bracknell Bees as their starting goalie,", "id": "21622172" }, { "contents": "Women's event at the 43rd Chess Olympiad\n\n\nbeat Georgia's second team 2½-1½, Italy beat Cuba 3-1, while Lithuania tied their match against Kazakhstan. United States, Georgia and Armenia with 11/12 match points each were on the top after six rounds. The central match of the seventh round was the clash between Armenia and United States on the first table, where Armenians snatched a minimal victory thanks to the Elina Danielian and Anna Sargsyan who scored full point as White in the games against Anna Zatonskih and Sabina-Francesca Foisor, respectively; Jennifer Yu beat Maria Kursova", "id": "7597446" }, { "contents": "Lithuania at the Olympics\n\n\nLithuania, after declaring restoration of independence in 1918, sent its athletes to the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris for the first time. At first it was considered to send 33 athletes, but then it was decided to limit the delegation to 13 soccer players and 2 cyclists. The soccer players arrived in Paris only a day before the game was scheduled. Lithuania debuted at the Olympic games on May 25, 1924 at 2:40pm (Paris time) when the match between Lithuanian and Swiss teams started. Lithuania lost 9-0 (", "id": "8795472" }, { "contents": "Romania national football team\n\n\nthey were a strong challenge for the first place in the group, they eventually finished fifth, above only the Faroe Islands. Their campaign was a disaster that began with a 3–0 home loss to Lithuania and included a 5–0 trashing in Belgrade by Serbia. Furthermore, various problems were caused during the poor campaign, such as the retirement from international football of Cosmin Contra, Mirel Rădoi and Adrian Mutu (the latter would later be recalled after a year's absence). Also, coach Victor Pițurcă resigned and was replaced by Răzvan", "id": "10918895" }, { "contents": "Sūduva Stadium\n\n\nSūduva Stadium, known as ARVI Football Arena for sponsorship reasons, is a multi-purpose stadium in Marijampolė, Lithuania. The stadium was built using funds from the European Union and opened on July 6, 2008. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of FK Sūduva. Its original capacity increased from 4,200 to 6,500 spectators after additional seats were installed in May–June 2009 before a match between Lithuania national team and Romania. Beginning from the 2011 season the stadium was named ARVI Football Arena after", "id": "10765440" }, { "contents": "Kilkim Žaibu\n\n\n, Lithuania. From 2000 to 3000 people visit the festival annually from various countries. Also, bands have performed at Kilkim Žaibu festivals from Australia, Norway, Hungary, Czech Republic, Romania, Ukraine, Russia, Sweden, Finland, Germany and neighbouring countries. The festival took place in Varniai, Lithuania on 28th - 30th June, 2018. The festival took place in Varniai, Lithuania on 29 June - 1 July 2017. The festival took place in Varniai, Lithuania on 23–25 June 2016. The festival took place in", "id": "10249217" }, { "contents": "Latvia national football team\n\n\n, the Latvian team participated in the first qualification tournament for the 1938 World Cup. Latvia were placed in Group 8, alongside Austria and Lithuania. Latvia beat Lithuania 4–2 in Riga, after a Fricis Kaņeps hat-trick and an Iļja Vestermans goal. In Kaunas, they won 5–1, after two goals each from Kaņeps, Vaclavs Borduško, and Vestermans, but lost 1–2 in the decisive away match against Austria, despite an early goal from Vestermans. In April 1938, the Austrian Anschluss relegated the Austrian team, however,", "id": "15750063" }, { "contents": "Miloš Krasić\n\n\nIn May 2006, Krasić played a leading role in the 2006 European U-21 Championship. He made his debut for the senior side later that year in a friendly against Denmark. At senior level, Krasić was an important player for Serbia in 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification. He scored one goal in the match against Lithuania, another in the game against Austria and set up three in the game against Romania, which sealed his nation's qualification to the final tournament in South Africa. Krasić is a right-sided winger, noted", "id": "19580145" }, { "contents": "Philip Billing\n\n\nunder-20 team and the Romania national under-20 football team. He earned his first cap for the U21 team in a qualifying match for the 2019 European Championship against the Faroe Islands on 31 August 2017; it ended in a 3–0 win. He again featured a week later in another qualifying match, which the team won 6–0 against Lithuania. In November 2018, Billing turned down an approach to switch his international allegiance to the Nigeria national team. In March 2019, he received his first call-up to the Denmark national team.", "id": "18184799" }, { "contents": "1934 FIFA World Cup qualification\n\n\nfollows: Key: Estonia v Lithuania was not played since neither team could qualify with a win. Sweden qualified. 11-1 on aggregate; Spain qualified. Italy qualified, as Greece declined to play the second match. Bulgaria withdrew, and the remaining matches were not played since Hungary and Austria were already assured of the top two spots. Hungary and Austria qualified. Poland were unable to travel to Prague for the second match as the Polish government denied the team visas for political reasons. Therefore, Czechoslovakia qualified. Romania", "id": "6526321" }, { "contents": "Rugby union in Romania\n\n\nwon against France 15 – 10 in Bucharest, and the FIRA – Association of European Rugby championship. In 1975 Romania went for an 8 games tour to New Zealand, tour concluded in Wellington with a 10-10 draw against Junior All Blacks. Home nation sides began to award international caps for matches against Romania from 1981. Romania won rugby internationals over Scotland in 1984 and 1991, and also over Wales in 1983 and 1988 (the latter in Cardiff). Between 1960 and 1990, Romania beat France eight times, the", "id": "13829980" }, { "contents": "European Border and Coast Guard Agency\n\n\na border security operation conducted by Frontex, the European Union's border security agency. The operation, under Italian control, began on 1 November 2014 and involves voluntary contributions from 15 other European nations (both EU member states and non-members). Current voluntary contributors to Operation Triton are Croatia, Iceland, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Germany, the Netherlands, France, Spain, Ireland, Portugal, Austria, Switzerland, Romania, Poland, Lithuania, Malta and the United Kingdom. The operation was undertaken after Italy", "id": "20620191" }, { "contents": "Albania national football team\n\n\nqualifying match, Albania made history by qualifying for the UEFA Euro 2016, its first ever appearance at a major men's football tournament. In the tournament itself, Albania lost 0–1 to Switzerland and 0–2 to hosts France. While they beat Romania 1–0 (their first win against Romania since 1947), the team finished last among the third-placed teams and didn't progress beyond the group stage. Despite the UEFA European Championship's almost successful debut, Albania suffered massive setback. In 2018 World Cup qualification, Albania had been", "id": "15457050" }, { "contents": "Dean Henderson\n\n\nmore times as an unused substitute bench that saw him missed out two matches for the side in the league. He made his under-21 debut on 24 March 2018, in a friendly at home against Romania, which England won 2–1. Henderson was named as England's number one for the 2019 UEFA European Under-21 Championship. Growing up, Henderson played county cricket as a schoolboy and was an accomplished batsman and wicket-keeper but chose football. Henderson initially started out as an outfield player before switching to his role as a goalkeeper.", "id": "6533434" }, { "contents": "Harry Maguire\n\n\n-up to either because he is such a level headed character.\" Maguire duly made his England under-21 debut as a substitute in the 60th minute, coming on for Liverpool's Andre Wisdom in a 2–0 win against Northern Ireland Under-21s at Bloomfield Road. On 24 August 2017, England manager Gareth Southgate included Maguire in his squad for the 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification matches against Malta and Slovakia. He made his debut when starting in England's 1–0 away win over Lithuania, which was the team's final match in their successful", "id": "3737243" }, { "contents": "Albania national under-21 football team\n\n\nmatch against Romania was characterized by a large Albania's win 7–1, which is the largest win ever recorded by Albania U-21. Albania Under-21s have managed to qualify only once in their history, and that came in the year of 1984 when they managed to qualify for the 1984 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship, although they were competing for the first time in such tournament. They were drawn in a very tough group which included the West Germany, Turkey and Austria. The historic event was the first time any Albanian squad qualified for", "id": "19363492" }, { "contents": "Alexandru Mitriță\n\n\nNew York City goal on the 17th the same month, in a 2–2 draw with Los Angeles FC. In March 2018, Mitriță was called up for Romania senior team's friendlies with Israel and Sweden later that month, after reportedly impressing coach Cosmin Contra. He made his debut in the former match on the 24th, and offered an assist to George Țucudean in a 2–1 win in Netanya. Mitriță is deployed as an attacking midfielder or a winger on either flank, having been noted for pace and technical ability which allow him", "id": "4318108" }, { "contents": "Claudiu Bumba\n\n\nsigned a four-year contract with Israeli club Hapoel Tel Aviv. On 2 February 2017, he signed a two and a half years contract with Dinamo Bucharest. He scored his first goal for Dinamo Bucharest on 10 April, in 2-1 league win against Astra Giurgiu. Bumba made his debut for Romania U-17 on 21 September 2010 in a game against Kazakhstan U-17. He played with the under-17 team at the 2011 UEFA European Under-17 Football Championship. On 6 October 2011, in a game against Sweden U-19, Bumba came", "id": "11657727" }, { "contents": "Dorian Dervite\n\n\nand U-21 levels. He has captained them on occasions. He was called up to the Under-21 squad to face Estonia and England. He was called for the international Toulon Tournament again with the U21, then against Poland and for the U21 European Championship qualifiers against Lithuania and Ukraine. he scored his first goal for France in a home draw with Poland U21 on 12 August 2009 with an 80th minute shot to make it 2–1 to France with the game ending 2–2, his last game for the Under-21s came in their 3–1 away win", "id": "18562600" }, { "contents": "Povilas Leimonas\n\n\nwith Jagiellonia Białystok. Povilas played for Lithuania's \"B\" team in two games in 2011, both against Lithuania U-21. The first game, played in Vilnius on 9 February, was won 2-1 by the \"B\" team, and the second match, in Marijampole on 2 March, resulted in a 3-0 win. Leimonas made his senior international debut on 7 June 2011, in a 1-0 friendly loss to Norway. He earned his second cap two months later in another friendly, the", "id": "16136896" }, { "contents": "History of the Romania national football team\n\n\nmatch in Bern, but the Netherlands were regarded as the outstanding team in the tournament, having followed their comprehensive win against Italy with an equally emphatic 4-1 win over France. A draw would also take Romania through were the other match between Italy and France to be drawn. With Italy taking a first-half lead against a France side reduced to ten men, it became apparent that Romania needed to beat the Netherlands to qualify. However, they played poorly and the Netherlands won 2-0 with second half goals", "id": "16435731" }, { "contents": "Sander Puri\n\n\nEstonia at under-17, under-19 and under-21 level. He made his debut for the senior national team on 30 May 2008 against Latvia in the 2008 Baltic Cup. He scored his first national team goal on 22 November 2008, in a 1–1 draw against Lithuania in a Mayors Cup match. A goal against Saint Kitts and Nevis saw him awarded the Estonian Silverball, for the best goal scored for Estonia in 2015. Puri is one of three triplets: his brother, Eino Puri, is also a footballer and his sister, Kadri", "id": "21342008" }, { "contents": "Eduards Višņakovs\n\n\nagainst Estonia on 5 June 2013, helping his team secure a 2–0 victory. On 10 September 2013 the U-23 team beat England 1-0, with Višņakovs scoring his second goal in two matches. Višņakovs was firstly called up to Latvia national football team for the FIFA World Cup 2014 qualifying matches against Lithuania and Slovakia on 11 and 15 October 2013. He made his debut for the national team in the match against Lithuania, coming on as a substitute in the 77th minute and replacing Māris Verpakovskis. A local scandal arose when", "id": "17206337" }, { "contents": "Romania national rugby union team\n\n\nthe Super Powers Cup. The USA beat a Romanian team stripped of their France-based players 23–16 in the third place play-off. The 2005–06 European Nations Cup also served as a qualifying group for the 2007 Rugby World Cup. Romania triumphed despite finishing level on points with Georgia. Romania qualified for the 2007 Rugby World Cup in France, finishing at the top of their pool during the Round 5 of the European qualifying tournaments. Romania won their first qualifying match on October 7, defeating Georgia in Bucharest 20–8. Their", "id": "10342600" }, { "contents": "Shlomo Lipetz\n\n\n, against Lithuania, Lipetz tossed a 10-inning, 4-hit complete game to beat Lithuania 2-1. He led that qualifier in victories and tied for second in strikeouts. During the 2012 European Baseball Championship qualifiers, in 2011, Lipetz pitched in 3 of the 5 games. Lipetz beat Georgia in the opener pitching 7 innings and striking out 9. Lipetz did not appear in the second game, against Great Britain, or in the third game against Lithuania. During the first game of the home/away finals against Great Britain", "id": "12992976" }, { "contents": "State Farm Stadium\n\n\nsoccer match attended by 62,462 fans. The United States men's national soccer team defeated Mexico, 2–0. On January 21, 2012, the U.S. played against Venezuela and won the match 1–0. On January 30, 2013, Mexico played against Denmark, a game that was broadcast on Televisa Deportes, UniMás, and TV Azteca. The match ended in a 1–1 draw. On November 19, 2015, the stadium was one of the sites selected for the 2016 Copa América Centenario. The stadium hosted three matches, including Mexico", "id": "18339554" }, { "contents": "Yacine Brahimi\n\n\npenalty in a 3–1 victory over Germany. He played with the under-16 team at the 2006 edition of the Montaigu Tournament playing in all four matches the team contested as France were crowned champions defeating Italy 2–1 in the final. With the under-17 team, Brahimi made his debut on 25 September in a qualification match for the 2007 UEFA European Under-17 Championship against Lithuania. France won the match 4–2 with Brahimi making a substitute appearance. Despite appearing in the first round of qualification, Brahimi was absent from the tournament itself, due to the", "id": "1037894" }, { "contents": "Ross McCormack\n\n\nfirst goal for the side on 11 October 2007 against Lithuania and scored again in his next appearance, a 4–0 victory over Slovenia U21s. McCormack won 10 caps for the under-21 side. He made his debut for the senior side on 30 May 2008 when he came on as a substitute during the 3–1 defeat of Czech Republic. McCormack was called up again in March 2009 for the 2010 FIFA World Cup qualifiers against Netherlands and Iceland. He started both matches, scoring his first goal for Scotland in a 2–1 win over Iceland on", "id": "8895190" }, { "contents": "Hungary national under-19 football team\n\n\n, and the atmosphere helped in times of need. The first match against Lithuania, was a 2-2 draw, but in the last 2 matches, the team could win, against Cyprus 2-1, and Portugal 1-0 and that was enough to qualify. The list below is the current list of U-19 national players according to the official Hungarian Football Federation website. Competition:2018 UEFA European Under-19 Football Championship (elite round)br Match Dates:25 March 2019br Opposition: The following players have been selected by Hungary in the past 12", "id": "4045560" }, { "contents": "X Factor (Romanian TV series)\n\n\nthe show aired starting 17 September 2011. Auditions for producers began in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, on 14 May 2011. They then took place in Constanța, on 21 May in Timișoara on 24 May 2011, on 4 June in Iași and concluded on 11 June 2011 in Bucharest. The first season ended on 1 January 2012, (16-24s) mentored by Mihai Morar was declared the first winner of The X Factor in Romania. Alin Văduva (Over 25s) was runner-up followed by Iulian Vasile (", "id": "16662967" }, { "contents": "Romania national football team\n\n\n0–5. In the next match, Romania recorded another draw (0–0), against Kazakhstan. The last match played in 2016 was a 0–3 defeat against Poland, with Robert Lewandowski scoring a double. After an uninspiring campaign, Romania ended in the fourth place in Group E with 13 points. After 8 of the 10 games, due to lackluster performances, coach Christoph Daum was fired and replaced with a promising new coach, Cosmin Contra. The Romania national team plays its home games at Arena Națională, the biggest stadium in", "id": "10918904" }, { "contents": "Chris Smalling\n\n\nfirst start for the under-21s in a 2011 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualifier against Portugal at Wembley Stadium in a 1–0 win. He scored his first goal for the under-21s on 8 October 2010, against Romania, in England's 2011 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification play-off first leg, converting from inside the area after an assist from Daniel Sturridge. The goal, scored in the 83rd minute, proved to be the winner as England won 2–1. On 13 November 2010, Smalling was called up to the England senior squad for", "id": "656401" }, { "contents": "Lithuania men's national basketball team\n\n\n. The only consolation was the remaining opportunity to qualify into the World Championship, which the Lithuanians achieved by beating Russia and Slovenia for fifth place. Lithuania won 5 of 6 games in the tournament. Consequently, the competition scheme was questioned in its reliability. The 2006 FIBA World Championship in Japan had Lithuania matching the 7th place from their 1998 debut, but many saw this performance as an under-achievement. Lithuania started the tournament with a narrow 2-point loss to Turkey, followed by an overtime defeat to eventual finalists Greece which", "id": "14520278" }, { "contents": "Shane McFaul\n\n\nCup when beating Sligo Rovers 2–1 at Tallaght Stadium. McFaul was later named Man of the Match in the F.A.I Cup Final Vs Sligo Rovers and also the honour of being named Sporting Fingal Player of the Year 2009. In the 2010 season his performances for Fingal attracted the interest of Scottish giants Celtic FC. http://www.herald.ie/sport/soccer/celtic-track-sporting-fingal-pair-27948702.html Shane made his Republic of Ireland U21 debut in a friendly game against Germany on 21 August 2007. He was also an unused sub in the UEFA European Under-21 Championship Qualifying games against Portugal and England. McFaul signed for", "id": "13006237" }, { "contents": "Connor Roberts (footballer, born 1995)\n\n\nand he returned to Swansea City. Roberts made his debut for Swansea City on 6 January 2018 in the FA Cup 3rd round against Wolverhampton Wanderers. He scored his first goal for the club on 29 September 2018 during a 3–0 win over Queens Park Rangers. Roberts has been capped at Wales under-19 level. In March 2016, Roberts received his first call-up to the Wales under-21 side for their 2017 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification matches, and made his debut as a second-half substitute in their 2–1 defeat against Romania", "id": "12721076" }, { "contents": "Roberta Anastase\n\n\nRoberta Alma Anastase (; born 27 March 1976 in Ploieşti) is a Romanian politician and former first female Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies of Romania between 19 December 2008 and 3 July 2012. She is a member of the Democratic Liberal Party, affiliated to the European People's Party–European Democrats, and became an MEP on 1 January 2007 with the accession of Romania to the European Union. She also represented Romania at the 1996 Miss Universe competition. She attended the Faculty of Sociology at the University of Bucharest in the mid-90", "id": "19157242" }, { "contents": "Kostas Mitroglou\n\n\n, he scored a goal against Germany in a 3–2 win at Vorwärts Stadium. Mitroglou finished as the top goalscorer of the competition with three goals. In 2007, Mitroglou was promoted to the Greece under-21 team. He scored two goals in a 3–1 home win against Macedonia in the UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualifiers, and later a goal in a 1–1 home draw against England and the only goal against Lithuania as the campaign continued. In 2009, Mitroglou was selected for the senior Greece side for the first time. He scored his", "id": "2125765" } ]

[ { "contents": "Football in Lithuania\n\n\nFootball is popular sport in Lithuania. The former Soviet republic made their entrance as an independent football nation in 1992. In the qualification for the Euro 2004, Lithuania held Germany to a 1-1 draw in Germany and won against Scotland. In the qualification for the Euro 2008 they played away to the 2006 World Cup winners Italy and drew 1-1 as well as beating Romania 3-0 in Lithuania in another shock performance. In 1922 in Lithuania, like in Poland, soccer championships began. Then, in the", "id": "4830771" }, { "contents": "Marius Niculae\n\n\n2–0 win. Despite he scored 20 goals for Dinamo in the 1999–00 season, Niculae was not included by Emerich Ienei in the preliminary squad for UEFA Euro 2000. On 2 September, Niculae scored a brace for Romania U-21 against Lithuania in the first match from the 2002 European Championship qualifiers, counting his first goals in an official match. On 6 October, Niculae played his final match for the U-21 squad, netting Romania's only goal in the 1–1 draw against European Championship holders Italy. On 5 December, Niculae scored his", "id": "3505259" }, { "contents": "Stadionul Marin Anastasovici\n\n\nMarin Anastasovici Stadium is a multi-use stadium in Giurgiu, Romania. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home ground of Astra Giurgiu. The stadium holds 8,500 people all on seats. The first international game was played by the Romania national under-21 football team on 19 November 2013 in a match against Germany which ended 2-2. The first game for Romania at Giurgiu was a friendly match against Lithuania on 23 March 2016. The stadium host also various UEFA Europa League matches and also a match from", "id": "15891395" }, { "contents": "History of the Romania national football team\n\n\nEast Germany scoring a predictable 4-1 win in Albania, Romania were out, despite a huge 9-0 win over Finland in Bucharest. Romania continued to suffer poor form in the UEFA European Championship. In their qualifying group for the 1976 European Football Championship, they were out-qualified by Spain, despite an impressive 1-1 draw in the away match. Romania failed to win matches, drawing twice with Scotland and Spain and dropping points in Denmark with a dismal goalless draw. Romania were again beat by Spain", "id": "16435703" }, { "contents": "Faroe Islands national under-21 football team\n\n\nRussia U21, beating them 1-0 after a goal in the first minute. This was followed by a 1-1 draw against Moldova in September, but Faroe Islands lost the next match 3-1 against Latvia. Russia had their revenge in the away match and defeated Faroe Islands 2-0. They also lost both matches against Romania. In November 2009 Faroe Islands beat Latvia 1-0 and were held to a 1-1 draw against Andorra. Faroe Islands won the home match against Andorra 3-1", "id": "13865866" }, { "contents": "Carrow Road\n\n\non five occasions. The first was in 1983 in a European Under-21 Championship qualifying match against Denmark, which England won 4–1. The team played another qualifying match in the same tournament at the stadium in 1997, beating Greece 4–2. The Slovakia team featured in a friendly match at the ground in June 2007, England winning 5–0 in front of a crowd of 20,193 people. In 2010, the ground played host to a play-off against Romania, a game the home side won 2–1 in front of a then record all", "id": "8674438" }, { "contents": "Romania national football team\n\n\nGianluigi Buffon saved the subsequent Mutu penalty, leaving Romania with two points and needing a win against the Netherlands, which eliminated France 4–1 that same evening. The Netherlands beat Romania 2–0 in the final game of the group, which meant that Italy joined the Netherlands in the quarter-finals and Romania finished third, ahead of France. Romania were drawn into the UEFA qualifying round for the 2010 World Cup alongside France, Serbia, Austria, Lithuania and the Faroe Islands. Although Romania were seeded in the second pot, suggesting that", "id": "10918894" }, { "contents": "Rugby union in Romania\n\n\n, drawing two, and losing one. Later in 1955, the Romanians defeated Llanelli in Moscow, and then beat both Cardiff and Harlequins in Bucharest. Only France, who played Romania before almost 95,000 fans in Bucharest (in a preliminary match to a soccer international), could beat the Romanians, and that was only after an epic 16-15 battle. A generation of French school-trained coaches from the late 1940s and 1950s laid the foundations for national success in the 1960s, 70s and 80s. In 1974 Romania", "id": "13829979" }, { "contents": "Dennis Man\n\n\nover Rudar Velenje. Man was selected for the Romania under-21 team and scored on debut in a 3–1 away victory over Bosnia and Herzegovina, on 1 September 2017. Senior manager Cosmin Contra gave Man his first Romania call-up for the friendlies with Israel and Sweden in March 2018. He made his debut in the latter game, replacing Nicolae Stanciu in 87th minute as his side won 1–0 at the Stadionul Ion Oblemenco in Craiova. On 11 June 2019, he netted the last of his team in a 4–0 defeat of Malta", "id": "12444532" }, { "contents": "2011 Rugby World Cup qualifying\n\n\nand Romania). On a home and away basis, Romania prevailed by winning 32–12 in Bucharest, preceded by a 21–21 draw in Montevideo. It competed in Pool B. Both nations had won the repechage semi-finals. Those were conducted as single matches, with the European and African qualifiers drawn into one semi-final and the Asian and Americas qualifiers drawn into the other. Romania beat Tunisia 56–13 and Uruguay had the upper hand over Kazakhstan winning 44–7. Both matches were hosted by the team with the higher IRB World Ranking", "id": "11180430" }, { "contents": "Moshtagh Yaghoubi\n\n\nterminated by Shakhter Karagandy on 17 June 2016. On 4 November 2016, HJK Helsinki announced the signing of Yaghoubi. On 31 January 2019, Seinäjoen Jalkapallokerho announced the signing of Yaghoubi. Yaghoubi acquired Finnish nationality in 2013 and got called up for Finland national under-21 team for 2015 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship qualification match against Lithuania on 11 June 2013. Yaghoubi scored his national team debut goal when Finland beat Wales U-21 5–1 in UEFA Under-21 Championship qualification on 14 August 2013. On 31 October 2013 Yaghoubi made his debut for Finland national", "id": "15530739" }, { "contents": "Romania national football team\n\n\npoor form in the UEFA European Championship. In their qualifying group for the 1976 European Football Championship, they were out-qualified by Spain despite an impressive 1–1 draw in the away match. Romania failed to win matches, drawing twice with Scotland and Spain and dropping points in Denmark with a dismal goalless draw. Romania were again beaten by Spain for a place in the 1978 World Cup in Argentina. Despite a 1–0 win in Bucharest, Romania lost a bizarre match at home to Yugoslavia 6–4 having led 3–2 at half time.", "id": "10918865" }, { "contents": "History of the Romania national football team\n\n\nfor a place in the 1978 World Cup in Argentina. Despite a 1-0 win in Bucharest, Romania lost a bizarre match at home to Yugoslavia 6-4 having led 3-2 at half time. Spain won 1-0 in Belgrade to seal passage to South America. Romania's sole successful qualifying campaign was for the European Championships in 1984 in France. At the finals, Romania were drawn with regular rivals Spain, holders West Germany and dark horses Portugal. Under head coach Mircea Lucescu, an encouraging opening", "id": "16435704" }, { "contents": "Yann Sommer\n\n\nUnder-21 Championship, hosted by Denmark between 11 and 25 June 2011. The Swiss team reached the 2011 UEFA European Under-21 Championship Final on 25 June without conceding a goal, but lost 2–0 to Spain. This was Sommer's final match for the under-21s. Sommer made his debut for the Swiss senior side on 30 May 2012 at the Swissporarena, Lucerne, in a 0–1 defeat against Romania in a friendly match. On 13 May, he was named in Switzerland's 23-man squad for the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil. Alongside", "id": "823566" }, { "contents": "Scotland at the UEFA European Championship\n\n\nqualifying saw Scotland face Denmark, Romania and Spain. Scotland lost their opening match 2–1 to the Spaniards at Hampden, before drawing 1–1 in Valencia. Gordon McQueen scored a late equaliser to win Scotland a point away in Romania, before Joe Harper's goal saw Scotland beat Denmark 1–0 away from home. Scotland won the reverse fixture 3–1. Scotland's final match was at home to Romania, with Scotland requiring a two goal win to win the group and qualify for the play-offs. Scotland took the lead through a Bruce", "id": "1546781" }, { "contents": "Polish football in the interwar period\n\n\nyet more achievements. On October 2, a so-called double match took place (such games were popular in 1930s European Football). The reserve Poland team beat 2-1 Latvia at Warsaw, and at the same hour the first lineup faced Romania in Bucharest. Romania (with several of its starters of Hungarian nationality from Transylvania) was regarded a very strong team. The Poles, however, overwhelmed it 5-0 and this was the biggest success of Polish Football so far. This game is significant also for", "id": "21819213" }, { "contents": "History of the Romania national football team\n\n\nLithuania in Cluj-Napoca before scraping an unconvincing 1-0 win in the Faroe Islands, midfielder Răzvan Cociş scoring the goal. Their third match would be at home to France, who had also begun with a bad loss, 3-1 to Austria in Vienna. Romania raced into a 2-0 lead in Constanţa with goals from Florentin Petre and Dorin Goian but France pulled one back before half time through Franck Ribéry. A long-range strike from Yoann Gourcuff earned France a draw but both sides were left with", "id": "16435733" }, { "contents": "Nauris Bulvītis\n\n\nseason. Bulvītis has been capped internationally at under-19 and under-21 levels. In 2012 Latvia national football team coach Aleksandrs Starkovs called him up for the 2012 Baltic Cup. Nauris played 2 matches, helping Latvia win the tournament. Bulvītis scored his first international goal on 6 September 2013 in a 2–1 2014 FIFA World Cup qualification match victory over Lithuania. In May 2014 he helped Latvia win the Baltic Cup for the second time in a row, scoring the only goal in a 1–0 victory over Lithuania in the final of the tournament.", "id": "22161076" }, { "contents": "Lithuania national football team\n\n\nScotland; however, a 1–0 defeat to Scotland in the final game ended their hopes. Although finishing fifth in their 2006 World Cup qualifying group, Lithuania were nevertheless competitive. Lithuania drew with world champions Italy 1–1 in Naples in a Euro 2008 qualifying game on 2 September 2006, in the first competitive game that Italy played since the World Cup final. On 6 September 2008, Lithuania defeated Romania 3–0 in a 2010 World Cup qualifier. The victory was regarded by many as \"a historic win.\" It was followed by", "id": "6890277" }, { "contents": "Colchester Community Stadium\n\n\n2011 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship as they beat Lithuania 3–0 with two goals from Danny Welbeck and one from Marc Albrighton. A crowd of 7,240 watched the game on 7 September 2010. The England under-21s returned to Colchester for a 2013 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualifier on 11 November 2011. The Young Lions cruised to a 5–0 victory against Iceland on the night, with goals from Marvin Sordell, Martin Kelly, Craig Dawson and two scored by Gary Gardner. The attendance for the game was 10,051. England won their fourth match after", "id": "19735537" }, { "contents": "Arvydas Novikovas\n\n\na starter. During his 2 season there he has helped Jagiellonia Białystok finish 2nd twice in a row. He has scored 16 goals and provided 12 assists in the 58 games he has played for them, starting the 2018/19 season with 3 goals and 2 assists in his first 9 games. Novikovas represented the Lithuania under-21's when he was just a 16-year-old. In May 2009, he was called up to the Lithuania squad, for their FIFA World Cup qualifier with Romania. On 9 September, Novikovas scored for Lithuania", "id": "1849831" }, { "contents": "Valon Ahmedi\n\n\ndebuted for the under-21 side against Macedonia U21, playing as a starter for the entire first-half in an eventual goalless draw. He received another call up for the under-21 side by same coach Skënder Gega for the friendly match against Romania U21 on 8 October 2014. He played against Romania U21 as a starter and in the 60th minute provided the assist for the 1–1 equalising goal scored by Vedat Muriqi, which however wasn't enough as Romania U21 won 3–1. Ahmedi was called up for the first time in an official competitive", "id": "7679765" }, { "contents": "Alessandro Del Piero\n\n\nthat qualified for and later won the 1996 European Under-21 Championship, appearing in the quarter-finals. Del Piero made his senior debut under Arrigo Sacchi at the age of 20, on 25 March 1995, in a 4–1 win over Estonia in a Euro 1996 qualifying match. Del Piero scored his first goal for Italy on 15 November 1995, in a 4–0 win over Lithuania in a Euro 1996 qualifying match. His tournament debut was at UEFA Euro 1996, where he made his only appearance in the first half of the team", "id": "4132525" }, { "contents": "1998 UEFA European Under-21 Championship squads\n\n\nThe following is a list of squads for each nation competing at 1998 UEFA European Under-21 Championship in Romania. The tournament started on 23 May and the final took place in Bucharest on 31 May 1998. Players born on or after 1 January 1975 were eligible to play in the tournament. Each nation had to submit a squad of 20 players, two of which had to be goalkeepers. If a player was injured seriously enough to prevent his taking part in the tournament before his team's first match, he could be replaced by", "id": "6042468" }, { "contents": "Lithuania national under-21 football team\n\n\nThe Lithuania national under-21 football team is the national under-21 football team of Lithuania and is controlled by the Lithuanian Football Federation. Squad called up for the friendly match against on 10 November 2017 and 2019 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification match against on 14 November 2017. ! colspan=\"9\" bgcolor=\"#B0D3FB\" align=\"left\" | ! colspan=\"9\" bgcolor=\"#B0D3FB\" align=\"left\" | ! colspan=\"9\" bgcolor=\"#B0D3FB\" align=\"left\" | ! colspan=\"7\" bgcolor=\"#B0D3FB\" align=\"left\" | ! colspan=\"9\" bgcolor=\"#B0D3FB\" align=\"left\" | ! colspan=\"9\" bgcolor=\"#B0D3FB\" align=\"left\" | ! colspan=\"9\"", "id": "15919932" }, { "contents": "James Milner\n\n\nMilner competed for England at the 2007 UEFA European Under-21 Championship. He played in all four of England's matches and was booked in the semi-final against the Netherlands, which meant he would have missed the final. The match was decided by a penalty shoot-out, in which Milner scored twice and England lost 13–12. Milner was included in the under-21 squad for a friendly against Romania, which ended in a 1–1 draw. A month later, Milner set an England under-21 record by making his 30th appearance for the", "id": "1860629" }, { "contents": "Endri Çekiçi\n\n\nat Albania under-21 by coach Skënder Gega for the friendly match against Romania U21 on 8 October 2014. In that match, he came on as a substitute in the second half, and Albania lost 1–3. Çekiçi received another call up by the newly appointed coach Redi Jupi for the 2017 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualifying matches against Israel and Portugal in September 2015. He debuted against the former by coming on as a second-half substitute, netting a penalty kick in the 84th minute to rescue his side a 1–1 home draw.", "id": "8124891" }, { "contents": "Romania national football team\n\n\nWorld Cup, Romania won their first match against Peru, 3–1, with goals from Adalbert Desu, Constantin Stanciu and Nicolae Kovács and Samuel Zauber as goalkeeper, before being thrashed 4–0 by hosts and eventual winners Uruguay. Romania qualified for the next World Cup in 1934 after beating Yugoslavia 2–1 in a repeat of their first international. At the finals, Romania played only one game in a new knock-out format, losing 2–1 to Czechoslovakia in Trieste, Italy, with Ștefan Dobay scoring their only goal of the tournament. Romania", "id": "10918860" }, { "contents": "Romania national under-21 football team\n\n\nnational team until the age of 23. The best result achieved by the Romania U-21 squad is the qualification for the 1998 European Championship. Under the guidance of Victor Pițurcă and with a generation of players that included among others Bogdan Lobonț, Florentin Petre, Ionel Dănciulescu and Cătălin Munteanu, Romania U-21 finished the qualifying stage with maximum points after winning all eight games. Romania was then chosen as the host of the final stage. The squad was eliminated in the quarter-finals, being beaten by the Netherlands, 2-1", "id": "14153041" }, { "contents": "James Ward-Prowse\n\n\nhosts France 2–1. Ward-Prowse was nominated for the Vauxhall England Under-21 Player of the Year award, but eventually lost out to Southampton teammate Nathan Redmond. In June 2017, he captained the under-21s at that year's edition of the European Under-21 Championship where England reached the semi-finals, eventually losing to Germany in a penalty shoot-out. On 16 March 2017, he earned his first call-up to the senior England squad for a friendly against Germany and a World Cup qualifying match against Lithuania. Six days", "id": "1352322" }, { "contents": "History of the Romania national football team\n\n\nfirst match against Peru, 3-1, with goals from Adalbert Desu, Constantin Stanciu and Nicolae Kovács, before being thrashed 4-0 by hosts and eventual winners Uruguay. Romania qualified for the next World Cup in 1934 after beating Yugoslavia 2-1 in a repeat of their first international. At the finals, Romania played only one game in a new knock-out format, losing 2-1 to Czechoslovakia in Trieste, Italy, with Ştefan Dobay scoring their only goal of the tournament. Romania qualified by default", "id": "16435698" }, { "contents": "Muarem Muarem\n\n\nSeptember 2009 in a 2-1 loss. He went on to make nine appearances for the team, scoring his first international goal in his second under-21 appearance, a 1-1 draw with Lithuania on 9 September 2009, scoring in the first minute of the match. He scored his second goal a month later against England, netting a low free-kick that brought his team back into the game at 2-1. He also scored against Portugal and Bosnia and Herzegovina. Muarem played his final game for the under-21s", "id": "18689026" }, { "contents": "Giedrius Arlauskis\n\n\nreturn to Romania, joining CFR Cluj. The move was confirmed on 15 August 2017. In August 2008, Arlauskis' performance in Romania led him being called by the Lithuania for the first time. Arlauskis made his national team debut as a substitute against Moldova in a friendly game on 19 November 2008. He joined the game in the 46th minute and conceded a goal after 67 minutes as Lithuania drew with Moldova 1–1. After playing two more caps as a substitute, his first competitive game then came on 18 June 2010,", "id": "17863969" }, { "contents": "Romania national under-21 football team\n\n\n. The Romania under-21 team does not have a permanent home. The team plays in stadiums located all around Romania. Because of the smaller demand compared to the senior national team, smaller facilities are used. As of June 2019, the last three games have been played in Cluj-Napoca. Romania again qualified for the UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship in 2019, after topping a group that included Portugal, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Wales, Switzerland and Liechtenstein. They secured their qualification for the final tournament, by beating Liechtenstein,", "id": "14153042" }, { "contents": "Theo Wharton\n\n\nBorough in July 2018. Wharton signed for National League North club Hereford F.C. on 22 December 2018. Wharton was first selected for the Wales national under-17 team for the 2011 UEFA European Under-17 Championship qualifying round, starting two matches against Belgium and Denmark. Wharton was called up to the Wales under-21 team to play Moldova on 22 March 2013. On 9 September 2014, Wharton made his Wales under-21 debut in a 1–1 draw against Lithuania under-21s. In 2016, Wharton chose to switch allegiance to play for Saint Kitts and Nevis, the", "id": "17934659" }, { "contents": "Marius Niculae\n\n\nwas officially signed. On 26 February, he scored his first goal for Shandong in a friendly match against Chongqing F.C.. After representing Romania at the U-16 and U-18 levels, Niculae was promoted to the U-21 level. Niculae's form for Dinamo saw him selected for the Romania U-21 team to play Bulgaria U-21 on 3 March 1999, and he marked his debut with the second goal as Romania won 3–1. He played his first official match for Romania U-21 on 26 March, in a 0–1 defeat against Slovakia U-21, coming in", "id": "3505256" }, { "contents": "History of the Serbia national football team\n\n\nin 12th minute, from \"penalty spot\", like against Austria three monts before. On 10 October 2009, Serbia made a huge victory 5–0 against Romania and secured placement at 2010 FIFA World Cup. In last match of this qualifying cycle, Lithuania defeated Serbia 2–1 in Marijampolė. In November, Serbia defeat Northern Ireland and South Korea in Belfast and London, 1–0 both matches. Serbia placed into Group D with Germany, team also faced 2010 Africa Cup of Nations runners-up Ghana, and Australia. Their opening group", "id": "3691746" }, { "contents": "History of Ferencvárosi TC\n\n\n1 December 1962 Ferencváros lost 1–0 to Sampdoria in Genoa, Italy. On 12 December 1962 Ferencváros beat Sampdoria 6–0 at home. In the quarter-finals Ferencváros beat Petrolul Ploiești 2–0 at home, while lost the away match 1–0 in Ploiești, Romania. In the semi-finals, Ferencváros lost to NK Dinamo Zagreb 1–0 at home and Ferencváros lost the away match 2–1 in Zagreb, Yugoslavia. Ferencváros won the 1962–63 season of the Hungarian League. Therefore, Ferencváros entered the European Cup 1963–64 season. On 11 September 1963,", "id": "4677552" }, { "contents": "George Pușcaș\n\n\n90th minute of a 2–1 victory over Cosenza. Pușcaș scored seven times for Romania under-21 in the 2019 UEFA European Championship qualifying competition, as his side won its group and progressed to the final tournament in Italy. On 18 June 2019, he obtained the penalty from which he scored the opener in a 4–1 victory over Croatia at the San Marino Stadium. He netted again in the next group game against England, surpassing Ionuț Luțu as the highest scorer of the \"Tricolorii mici\". Pușcaș then gave Romania a half-time", "id": "18913818" }, { "contents": "Belarus women's national football team\n\n\nqualified for the promotion play-offs. In the 2001 European Championship qualifying, again in Class B, Belarus beat Estonia 4–1 and 0–7, Israel 0–5 and 1–0 and Slovakia 1–0, and tied 1–1 in Romania, but the Romanians earned the spot in the promotion play-offs after beating Belarus 0–1. With this settled Belarus lost 6–1 to Slovakia in the last match. In the 2003 World Cup qualifying, Class B, Belarus beat Bosnia 5–2 and 2–7, Turkey 4–0 and 1–5, Slovakia 3–2. They lost the remaining", "id": "21080772" }, { "contents": "Visa requirements for Turkmen citizens\n\n\nEstonia (1 July 1992), Latvia (1993), Lithuania (1 November 1993), Slovakia (6 May 1994), Bulgaria (1 January 1999), Armenia (1999), Moldova (9 June 1999), Russia (17 July 1999), Hungary (1 December 1999), Romania (1 July 2000), Belarus (21 July 2000), Czech Republic (22 October 2000), Poland (3 November 2000), Kazakhstan (1 March 2001). Also Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan,", "id": "5139311" }, { "contents": "Ovie Ejaria\n\n\nplaying the whole match. Ejaria was selected for the England under-20 team in the 2017 FIFA U-20 World Cup. He made his first start in a game in the first round match against South Korea, and came on as a substitute the quarter-final against Mexico, but was an unused substitute in the final where England beat Venezuela 1–0. He was called up for the England under-21 team in March 2018, making his debut in a friendly against Romania. He was called up again in May 2018 for the Toulon Tournament but", "id": "14618472" }, { "contents": "Franck Ribéry\n\n\nCup qualification match against Romania, scoring the team's opening goal in a 2–2 draw. On 28 March 2009, Ribéry scored the lone goal away to Lithuania. Three days later, he completed this feat again, this time at the Stade de France, netting the winner in the 75th minute following service from André-Pierre Gignac. On 11 May 2010, Ribéry was named to Domenech's 30-man preliminary squad to participate in the 2010 World Cup and his second World Cup overall. He was later named to the 23-man team", "id": "15094173" }, { "contents": "Cosmin Contra\n\n\nbeing announced as Timișoara's new player-coach six days later. Over 14 years, Contra earned 73 caps for Romania, scoring seven goals. He appeared for his country at UEFA Euro 2000 and 2008. On 1 April 2009, after a match with Austria, Contra announced his retirement from international football. On 30 August 2010, however, the 34-year-old was recalled for two Euro 2012 qualifiers against Albania and Belarus. Contra made his Timişoara debut as a manager in September 2010, with a win against FC Sportul", "id": "4642171" }, { "contents": "Victor Pițurcă\n\n\nWorld Cup (0–0 against France, 1–1 against Italy), Romania lost 0–2 to the Netherlands, finishing the group in third place and thus being eliminated from the competition. After Euro 2008, Romania showed an increasingly poor form in both friendly games and the 2010 World Cup qualifying campaign, where they had a slow start. In their first two official games after Euro 2008, Romania lost 0–3 against Lithuania at home and four days later secured a difficult 1–0 victory against the Faeroe Islands. Although many of the players which helped", "id": "13766306" }, { "contents": "Paul Papp\n\n\nin a qualification game for the 2011 European Under-21 Championship, against Latvia. He captained his side for the first time, following Torje and Găman's injuries, on 29 May 2010, in the friendly match, lost by Romania against Belarus. On 7 September, Papp was in the startup team for Romania U-21, in a 3–0 win against Russia. The win secured Romania a place in the playoff stage of the 2011 European Under-21 Championship qualifiers. However, he missed the chance to play at the 2011 European Under-21 Championship,", "id": "22044461" }, { "contents": "Ciprian Deac\n\n\nfourth national championship in its history. Deac made his debut for the Romania under-21 team against France on 1 June 2007, with the match ending 1–1. He was part of Romania's preliminary Euro 2008 squad, but missed out on the final list led by manager Victor Pițurcă. On 5 March 2010, Deac finally earned his first cap for the full side in a friendly match against Israel. In August 2017, following a six-year absence, he was selected by Christoph Daum for the 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifying matches", "id": "14907109" }, { "contents": "Radomir Antić\n\n\ninto the fire. Also surprising was leaving tall striker Nikola Žigić on the bench and starting with only on attacker, Marko Pantelić, upfront in 4–5–1 formation. And while Serbia lost 2–1 to somewhat wounded France that just days earlier shockingly lost to Austria, many positives were taken from the match at Stade de France such as a brave attacking approach with a lot of running from the wings. Next up in October was in-form Lithuania, which had recently defeated Romania and Austria without allowing a goal. Contrary to expectations,", "id": "18552988" }, { "contents": "Roy Hodgson\n\n\n, losing 1–0 in Porto. In the tournament the Swiss were drawn in Group A alongside Romania, Colombia and the hosts, United States. The opening match of the group was between Switzerland and the United States and is memorable as the first World Cup match to take place indoors, at the Pontiac Silverdome. The Swiss drew 1–1 against the United States, beat Romania 4–1 and lost 2–0 to Colombia, finishing as runners-up in their group, qualifying for the Round of 16, where they lost 3–0 to Spain.", "id": "12858556" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nagainst Portugal, but did so as England defeated Germany 1–0 in Charleroi, ensuring that England beat their European neighbours for the first time since the 1966 World Cup Final. To remain in the tournament, England only required a draw against Romania in the final group match, and Shearer scored a penalty as England went in at half-time 2–1 up, but Romania ultimately won 3–2. England's tournament was over, and so was Shearer's international career. From his 63 caps, he captained the team 34 times and scored", "id": "13592545" }, { "contents": "Florinel Coman\n\n\nEuropean goal in the UEFA Europa League 1–1 draw with Hapoel Be'er Sheva, on 2 November. Coman featured for Romania at the 2019 UEFA European Under-21 Championship, mostly as a second half substitute. In the group fixture on 21 June, he entered in the 63rd minute for Andrei Ivan, obtained a penalty and scored a double to help to a 4–2 victory against England. He then earned his first and only start in a goalless draw with France, with both teams progressing further to the semi-finals, where Romania suffered", "id": "21859353" }, { "contents": "Mitragyna speciosa\n\n\nDenmark, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania and Sweden. In the UK, since 2016, the sale, import, and export of kratom are prohibited under the Psychoactive Substances Act. In 2017, kratom was designated a Schedule 1 illegal drug (the highest level) in the Republic of Ireland, under the names 7-hydroxymitragynine and mitragynine. The use of kratom leaves, known locally as \"ketum\", is prohibited in Malaysia under Section 30 (3) Poisons Act 1952 and the user may be fined a maximum amount", "id": "16890332" }, { "contents": "Romania national rugby union team\n\n\nThey lost 36–21 to Wales A at Pontypridd and 70–21 in a test held in Wrexham. At the 1999 World Cup Romania could again only manage a single win 27–25 against the United States. In 2000, Romania won the first European Nations Cup by a large margin, recording victories in all four matches. By 2001, Romania had been caught by the likes of Georgia who defeated them to take the 2001 European Nations Cup, crowned with a decisive 31–20 win over Romania in Bucharest. The national side lost to England by 134–0", "id": "10342595" }, { "contents": "Aritz Aduriz\n\n\n. He made his debut on the 8th, replacing Llorente for the last 15 minutes of a 3–1 home win against Lithuania. Six years later, at the age of 35, Aduriz was recalled by manager Vicente del Bosque for friendlies with Italy and Romania. He started and scored in the first match, a 1–1 draw at the \"Stadio Friuli\", and was selected for UEFA Euro 2016 in France. He made two substitute appearances in the group stage, always replacing Juventus' Álvaro Morata in the second half; on", "id": "7991541" }, { "contents": "UEFA Euro 2008 Group C\n\n\nof counter-attacking football. Then, in their second game, they also beat the 2006 World Cup runners-up, France, 4–1. This left the French in a difficult position, having already played out a scoreless draw against Romania in the group's opening match. Romania also played out a draw against Italy in their second match, leaving them in second place going into the final round of group matches. Italy finished as the second quarter-finalists, after they beat France 2–0 in their final game. French", "id": "15100017" }, { "contents": "List of land borders with dates of establishment\n\n\nSan Marino \"Italy–Slovenia \"Italy–Switzerland \"Italy–Vatican City \"Ireland–UK \"Latvia–Lithuania \"Lithuania–Belarus \"Lithuania–Poland \"Lithuania–Russia \"Latvia–Russia \"Liechtenstein–Switzerland \"Republic of Macedonia–Serbia \"Moldova–Romania \"Moldova–Ukraine \"Montenegro–Serbia \"Norway–Russia \"Norway–Sweden \"Poland–Slovakia \"Poland–Russia \"Poland–Ukraine \"Portugal–Spain \"Romania–Ukraine \"Romania–Serbia \"Russia–Ukraine \"Slovakia–", "id": "21121898" }, { "contents": "Nicolaj Thomsen\n\n\nDanish national team on 18 November 2014 against Romania. Thomsen scored the only Danish goal in the 1–1 draw against Iceland which qualified Denmark U-21 for the 2015 UEFA European Under-21 Championship. He was selected for the squad for the tournament and played the entire match in the opening win against the Czech Republic. He was in the line-up in the other two group stage-matches against Germany and Serbia. Thomsen was also chosen to the line-up in the semi final, where Denmark was defeated by Sweden. AaB Copenhagen", "id": "14143520" }, { "contents": "João Cancelo\n\n\n. On 20 April 2019, Cancelo played in the \"Scudetto\"-clinching match against rivals Fiorentina, as Juventus won their eighth successive league title after a 2–1 home triumph. Cancelo represented Portugal in the 2012 UEFA European Under-19 Championship. He was also selected for the following edition, in Lithuania. With the under-20s, Cancelo appeared at the 2013 FIFA World Cup and the 2014 Toulon Tournament. He featured in two games in the former competition, with the country reaching the round-of-16. Cancelo was part of the under-21 squad that competed", "id": "15886722" }, { "contents": "Human rights violations by the CIA\n\n\nofficials. Nicaraguan Contras were taught to lead: The manual also recommended: The CIA claimed that the purpose of the manual was to \"moderate\" activities already being done by the Contras. In May 2018, The European Court of Human Rights ruled that the countries of Romania and Lithuania were involved in torture activities perpetrated by the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). The two countries were found to have run \"black site\" torture rooms and detention facilities therefore committing grave human rights abuses. In Romania, the secret", "id": "1650708" }, { "contents": "European Patent Organisation\n\n\nSerbia which did so on 1 October 2010. In addition there are \"extension states\" which are not Contracting States to the EPC but have instead signed extension agreements under which the protection conferred by European patent applications and patents is extended to the relevant country. These are Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Montenegro. Slovenia, Romania, Lithuania, Latvia, Croatia, Macedonia, Albania and Serbia were all extension states prior to joining the EPC. Furthermore, there are so-called \"validation states\" which are not Contracting States to", "id": "2996937" }, { "contents": "Montenegro national football team\n\n\nPoland, Denmark, Kazakhstan, Armenia and Romania. Poland, Denmark and Romania had been participants in the UEFA Euro 2016, but Montenegro began by drawing 1–1 away to Romania, beating Kazakhstan 5–0 at home and defeating Denmark 1–0. However, they then lost 3–2 away to Armenia despite leading 2–0, and were defeated 2–1 at home by Poland. Montenegro then rebounded, beating Armenia 4–1 and Kazakhstan 3–0. They later eliminated Romania with a 1–0 victory, but losses to the Danes and Poles ended Montenegro's chance of qualifying.", "id": "9236271" }, { "contents": "Denis Alibec\n\n\nplayed for Romania's under-17, under-19 and under-21 teams. On 11 October 2015, after being called up on several occasions in the past, Alibec gained his first cap for the full side in the last UEFA Euro 2016 qualifying match against Faroe Islands, replacing Bogdan Stancu in the 90th minute. In June 2016, he was picked by Anghel Iordănescu for his squad at the final tournament in France and appeared as a substitute in Romania's opening game, a 2–1 defeat to the host. Alibec's father, Gevrim and uncle", "id": "7828376" }, { "contents": "Lukas Spalvis\n\n\nout again on 5 July 2017, joining 2. Bundesliga side 1. FC Kaiserslautern for the 2017–18 season. On 8 May 2018, it was announced that Spalvis had joined 1. FC Kaiserslautern on a permanent deal. On 26 August, he sustained a long term injury in a match and it will leave him out for almost the remainder of the season. Spalvis played several matches for youth national teams, including Lithuania U-19 and Lithuania U-21. In March 2014 he made his debut for the senior team, in a friendly", "id": "11995894" }, { "contents": "Nathan Craze\n\n\nDiv II Group A in Bucharest, Romania, and was also named Netminder of the Tournament. He received the International Ice Hockey Federation Directorate’s Award of the tournament’s Best Netminder when GB won the gold medal in the 2004 World under-18 Championships (Div II) in Lithuania, and he equalled the feat by being voted the IIHF’s tournament Best Netminder when GB won the gold medal in the 2006 World under-20 Championships (Div II) in Romania. In 2006, Craze signed with the Bracknell Bees as their starting goalie,", "id": "21622172" }, { "contents": "Women's event at the 43rd Chess Olympiad\n\n\nbeat Georgia's second team 2½-1½, Italy beat Cuba 3-1, while Lithuania tied their match against Kazakhstan. United States, Georgia and Armenia with 11/12 match points each were on the top after six rounds. The central match of the seventh round was the clash between Armenia and United States on the first table, where Armenians snatched a minimal victory thanks to the Elina Danielian and Anna Sargsyan who scored full point as White in the games against Anna Zatonskih and Sabina-Francesca Foisor, respectively; Jennifer Yu beat Maria Kursova", "id": "7597446" }, { "contents": "Lithuania at the Olympics\n\n\nLithuania, after declaring restoration of independence in 1918, sent its athletes to the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris for the first time. At first it was considered to send 33 athletes, but then it was decided to limit the delegation to 13 soccer players and 2 cyclists. The soccer players arrived in Paris only a day before the game was scheduled. Lithuania debuted at the Olympic games on May 25, 1924 at 2:40pm (Paris time) when the match between Lithuanian and Swiss teams started. Lithuania lost 9-0 (", "id": "8795472" }, { "contents": "Romania national football team\n\n\nthey were a strong challenge for the first place in the group, they eventually finished fifth, above only the Faroe Islands. Their campaign was a disaster that began with a 3–0 home loss to Lithuania and included a 5–0 trashing in Belgrade by Serbia. Furthermore, various problems were caused during the poor campaign, such as the retirement from international football of Cosmin Contra, Mirel Rădoi and Adrian Mutu (the latter would later be recalled after a year's absence). Also, coach Victor Pițurcă resigned and was replaced by Răzvan", "id": "10918895" }, { "contents": "Sūduva Stadium\n\n\nSūduva Stadium, known as ARVI Football Arena for sponsorship reasons, is a multi-purpose stadium in Marijampolė, Lithuania. The stadium was built using funds from the European Union and opened on July 6, 2008. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of FK Sūduva. Its original capacity increased from 4,200 to 6,500 spectators after additional seats were installed in May–June 2009 before a match between Lithuania national team and Romania. Beginning from the 2011 season the stadium was named ARVI Football Arena after", "id": "10765440" }, { "contents": "Kilkim Žaibu\n\n\n, Lithuania. From 2000 to 3000 people visit the festival annually from various countries. Also, bands have performed at Kilkim Žaibu festivals from Australia, Norway, Hungary, Czech Republic, Romania, Ukraine, Russia, Sweden, Finland, Germany and neighbouring countries. The festival took place in Varniai, Lithuania on 28th - 30th June, 2018. The festival took place in Varniai, Lithuania on 29 June - 1 July 2017. The festival took place in Varniai, Lithuania on 23–25 June 2016. The festival took place in", "id": "10249217" }, { "contents": "Latvia national football team\n\n\n, the Latvian team participated in the first qualification tournament for the 1938 World Cup. Latvia were placed in Group 8, alongside Austria and Lithuania. Latvia beat Lithuania 4–2 in Riga, after a Fricis Kaņeps hat-trick and an Iļja Vestermans goal. In Kaunas, they won 5–1, after two goals each from Kaņeps, Vaclavs Borduško, and Vestermans, but lost 1–2 in the decisive away match against Austria, despite an early goal from Vestermans. In April 1938, the Austrian Anschluss relegated the Austrian team, however,", "id": "15750063" }, { "contents": "Miloš Krasić\n\n\nIn May 2006, Krasić played a leading role in the 2006 European U-21 Championship. He made his debut for the senior side later that year in a friendly against Denmark. At senior level, Krasić was an important player for Serbia in 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification. He scored one goal in the match against Lithuania, another in the game against Austria and set up three in the game against Romania, which sealed his nation's qualification to the final tournament in South Africa. Krasić is a right-sided winger, noted", "id": "19580145" }, { "contents": "Philip Billing\n\n\nunder-20 team and the Romania national under-20 football team. He earned his first cap for the U21 team in a qualifying match for the 2019 European Championship against the Faroe Islands on 31 August 2017; it ended in a 3–0 win. He again featured a week later in another qualifying match, which the team won 6–0 against Lithuania. In November 2018, Billing turned down an approach to switch his international allegiance to the Nigeria national team. In March 2019, he received his first call-up to the Denmark national team.", "id": "18184799" }, { "contents": "1934 FIFA World Cup qualification\n\n\nfollows: Key: Estonia v Lithuania was not played since neither team could qualify with a win. Sweden qualified. 11-1 on aggregate; Spain qualified. Italy qualified, as Greece declined to play the second match. Bulgaria withdrew, and the remaining matches were not played since Hungary and Austria were already assured of the top two spots. Hungary and Austria qualified. Poland were unable to travel to Prague for the second match as the Polish government denied the team visas for political reasons. Therefore, Czechoslovakia qualified. Romania", "id": "6526321" }, { "contents": "Rugby union in Romania\n\n\nwon against France 15 – 10 in Bucharest, and the FIRA – Association of European Rugby championship. In 1975 Romania went for an 8 games tour to New Zealand, tour concluded in Wellington with a 10-10 draw against Junior All Blacks. Home nation sides began to award international caps for matches against Romania from 1981. Romania won rugby internationals over Scotland in 1984 and 1991, and also over Wales in 1983 and 1988 (the latter in Cardiff). Between 1960 and 1990, Romania beat France eight times, the", "id": "13829980" }, { "contents": "European Border and Coast Guard Agency\n\n\na border security operation conducted by Frontex, the European Union's border security agency. The operation, under Italian control, began on 1 November 2014 and involves voluntary contributions from 15 other European nations (both EU member states and non-members). Current voluntary contributors to Operation Triton are Croatia, Iceland, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Germany, the Netherlands, France, Spain, Ireland, Portugal, Austria, Switzerland, Romania, Poland, Lithuania, Malta and the United Kingdom. The operation was undertaken after Italy", "id": "20620191" }, { "contents": "Albania national football team\n\n\nqualifying match, Albania made history by qualifying for the UEFA Euro 2016, its first ever appearance at a major men's football tournament. In the tournament itself, Albania lost 0–1 to Switzerland and 0–2 to hosts France. While they beat Romania 1–0 (their first win against Romania since 1947), the team finished last among the third-placed teams and didn't progress beyond the group stage. Despite the UEFA European Championship's almost successful debut, Albania suffered massive setback. In 2018 World Cup qualification, Albania had been", "id": "15457050" }, { "contents": "Dean Henderson\n\n\nmore times as an unused substitute bench that saw him missed out two matches for the side in the league. He made his under-21 debut on 24 March 2018, in a friendly at home against Romania, which England won 2–1. Henderson was named as England's number one for the 2019 UEFA European Under-21 Championship. Growing up, Henderson played county cricket as a schoolboy and was an accomplished batsman and wicket-keeper but chose football. Henderson initially started out as an outfield player before switching to his role as a goalkeeper.", "id": "6533434" }, { "contents": "Harry Maguire\n\n\n-up to either because he is such a level headed character.\" Maguire duly made his England under-21 debut as a substitute in the 60th minute, coming on for Liverpool's Andre Wisdom in a 2–0 win against Northern Ireland Under-21s at Bloomfield Road. On 24 August 2017, England manager Gareth Southgate included Maguire in his squad for the 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification matches against Malta and Slovakia. He made his debut when starting in England's 1–0 away win over Lithuania, which was the team's final match in their successful", "id": "3737243" }, { "contents": "Albania national under-21 football team\n\n\nmatch against Romania was characterized by a large Albania's win 7–1, which is the largest win ever recorded by Albania U-21. Albania Under-21s have managed to qualify only once in their history, and that came in the year of 1984 when they managed to qualify for the 1984 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship, although they were competing for the first time in such tournament. They were drawn in a very tough group which included the West Germany, Turkey and Austria. The historic event was the first time any Albanian squad qualified for", "id": "19363492" }, { "contents": "Alexandru Mitriță\n\n\nNew York City goal on the 17th the same month, in a 2–2 draw with Los Angeles FC. In March 2018, Mitriță was called up for Romania senior team's friendlies with Israel and Sweden later that month, after reportedly impressing coach Cosmin Contra. He made his debut in the former match on the 24th, and offered an assist to George Țucudean in a 2–1 win in Netanya. Mitriță is deployed as an attacking midfielder or a winger on either flank, having been noted for pace and technical ability which allow him", "id": "4318108" }, { "contents": "Claudiu Bumba\n\n\nsigned a four-year contract with Israeli club Hapoel Tel Aviv. On 2 February 2017, he signed a two and a half years contract with Dinamo Bucharest. He scored his first goal for Dinamo Bucharest on 10 April, in 2-1 league win against Astra Giurgiu. Bumba made his debut for Romania U-17 on 21 September 2010 in a game against Kazakhstan U-17. He played with the under-17 team at the 2011 UEFA European Under-17 Football Championship. On 6 October 2011, in a game against Sweden U-19, Bumba came", "id": "11657727" }, { "contents": "Dorian Dervite\n\n\nand U-21 levels. He has captained them on occasions. He was called up to the Under-21 squad to face Estonia and England. He was called for the international Toulon Tournament again with the U21, then against Poland and for the U21 European Championship qualifiers against Lithuania and Ukraine. he scored his first goal for France in a home draw with Poland U21 on 12 August 2009 with an 80th minute shot to make it 2–1 to France with the game ending 2–2, his last game for the Under-21s came in their 3–1 away win", "id": "18562600" }, { "contents": "Povilas Leimonas\n\n\nwith Jagiellonia Białystok. Povilas played for Lithuania's \"B\" team in two games in 2011, both against Lithuania U-21. The first game, played in Vilnius on 9 February, was won 2-1 by the \"B\" team, and the second match, in Marijampole on 2 March, resulted in a 3-0 win. Leimonas made his senior international debut on 7 June 2011, in a 1-0 friendly loss to Norway. He earned his second cap two months later in another friendly, the", "id": "16136896" }, { "contents": "History of the Romania national football team\n\n\nmatch in Bern, but the Netherlands were regarded as the outstanding team in the tournament, having followed their comprehensive win against Italy with an equally emphatic 4-1 win over France. A draw would also take Romania through were the other match between Italy and France to be drawn. With Italy taking a first-half lead against a France side reduced to ten men, it became apparent that Romania needed to beat the Netherlands to qualify. However, they played poorly and the Netherlands won 2-0 with second half goals", "id": "16435731" }, { "contents": "Sander Puri\n\n\nEstonia at under-17, under-19 and under-21 level. He made his debut for the senior national team on 30 May 2008 against Latvia in the 2008 Baltic Cup. He scored his first national team goal on 22 November 2008, in a 1–1 draw against Lithuania in a Mayors Cup match. A goal against Saint Kitts and Nevis saw him awarded the Estonian Silverball, for the best goal scored for Estonia in 2015. Puri is one of three triplets: his brother, Eino Puri, is also a footballer and his sister, Kadri", "id": "21342008" }, { "contents": "Eduards Višņakovs\n\n\nagainst Estonia on 5 June 2013, helping his team secure a 2–0 victory. On 10 September 2013 the U-23 team beat England 1-0, with Višņakovs scoring his second goal in two matches. Višņakovs was firstly called up to Latvia national football team for the FIFA World Cup 2014 qualifying matches against Lithuania and Slovakia on 11 and 15 October 2013. He made his debut for the national team in the match against Lithuania, coming on as a substitute in the 77th minute and replacing Māris Verpakovskis. A local scandal arose when", "id": "17206337" }, { "contents": "Romania national rugby union team\n\n\nthe Super Powers Cup. The USA beat a Romanian team stripped of their France-based players 23–16 in the third place play-off. The 2005–06 European Nations Cup also served as a qualifying group for the 2007 Rugby World Cup. Romania triumphed despite finishing level on points with Georgia. Romania qualified for the 2007 Rugby World Cup in France, finishing at the top of their pool during the Round 5 of the European qualifying tournaments. Romania won their first qualifying match on October 7, defeating Georgia in Bucharest 20–8. Their", "id": "10342600" }, { "contents": "Shlomo Lipetz\n\n\n, against Lithuania, Lipetz tossed a 10-inning, 4-hit complete game to beat Lithuania 2-1. He led that qualifier in victories and tied for second in strikeouts. During the 2012 European Baseball Championship qualifiers, in 2011, Lipetz pitched in 3 of the 5 games. Lipetz beat Georgia in the opener pitching 7 innings and striking out 9. Lipetz did not appear in the second game, against Great Britain, or in the third game against Lithuania. During the first game of the home/away finals against Great Britain", "id": "12992976" }, { "contents": "State Farm Stadium\n\n\nsoccer match attended by 62,462 fans. The United States men's national soccer team defeated Mexico, 2–0. On January 21, 2012, the U.S. played against Venezuela and won the match 1–0. On January 30, 2013, Mexico played against Denmark, a game that was broadcast on Televisa Deportes, UniMás, and TV Azteca. The match ended in a 1–1 draw. On November 19, 2015, the stadium was one of the sites selected for the 2016 Copa América Centenario. The stadium hosted three matches, including Mexico", "id": "18339554" }, { "contents": "Yacine Brahimi\n\n\npenalty in a 3–1 victory over Germany. He played with the under-16 team at the 2006 edition of the Montaigu Tournament playing in all four matches the team contested as France were crowned champions defeating Italy 2–1 in the final. With the under-17 team, Brahimi made his debut on 25 September in a qualification match for the 2007 UEFA European Under-17 Championship against Lithuania. France won the match 4–2 with Brahimi making a substitute appearance. Despite appearing in the first round of qualification, Brahimi was absent from the tournament itself, due to the", "id": "1037894" }, { "contents": "Ross McCormack\n\n\nfirst goal for the side on 11 October 2007 against Lithuania and scored again in his next appearance, a 4–0 victory over Slovenia U21s. McCormack won 10 caps for the under-21 side. He made his debut for the senior side on 30 May 2008 when he came on as a substitute during the 3–1 defeat of Czech Republic. McCormack was called up again in March 2009 for the 2010 FIFA World Cup qualifiers against Netherlands and Iceland. He started both matches, scoring his first goal for Scotland in a 2–1 win over Iceland on", "id": "8895190" }, { "contents": "Hungary national under-19 football team\n\n\n, and the atmosphere helped in times of need. The first match against Lithuania, was a 2-2 draw, but in the last 2 matches, the team could win, against Cyprus 2-1, and Portugal 1-0 and that was enough to qualify. The list below is the current list of U-19 national players according to the official Hungarian Football Federation website. Competition:2018 UEFA European Under-19 Football Championship (elite round)br Match Dates:25 March 2019br Opposition: The following players have been selected by Hungary in the past 12", "id": "4045560" }, { "contents": "X Factor (Romanian TV series)\n\n\nthe show aired starting 17 September 2011. Auditions for producers began in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, on 14 May 2011. They then took place in Constanța, on 21 May in Timișoara on 24 May 2011, on 4 June in Iași and concluded on 11 June 2011 in Bucharest. The first season ended on 1 January 2012, (16-24s) mentored by Mihai Morar was declared the first winner of The X Factor in Romania. Alin Văduva (Over 25s) was runner-up followed by Iulian Vasile (", "id": "16662967" }, { "contents": "Romania national football team\n\n\n0–5. In the next match, Romania recorded another draw (0–0), against Kazakhstan. The last match played in 2016 was a 0–3 defeat against Poland, with Robert Lewandowski scoring a double. After an uninspiring campaign, Romania ended in the fourth place in Group E with 13 points. After 8 of the 10 games, due to lackluster performances, coach Christoph Daum was fired and replaced with a promising new coach, Cosmin Contra. The Romania national team plays its home games at Arena Națională, the biggest stadium in", "id": "10918904" }, { "contents": "Chris Smalling\n\n\nfirst start for the under-21s in a 2011 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualifier against Portugal at Wembley Stadium in a 1–0 win. He scored his first goal for the under-21s on 8 October 2010, against Romania, in England's 2011 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification play-off first leg, converting from inside the area after an assist from Daniel Sturridge. The goal, scored in the 83rd minute, proved to be the winner as England won 2–1. On 13 November 2010, Smalling was called up to the England senior squad for", "id": "656401" }, { "contents": "Lithuania men's national basketball team\n\n\n. The only consolation was the remaining opportunity to qualify into the World Championship, which the Lithuanians achieved by beating Russia and Slovenia for fifth place. Lithuania won 5 of 6 games in the tournament. Consequently, the competition scheme was questioned in its reliability. The 2006 FIBA World Championship in Japan had Lithuania matching the 7th place from their 1998 debut, but many saw this performance as an under-achievement. Lithuania started the tournament with a narrow 2-point loss to Turkey, followed by an overtime defeat to eventual finalists Greece which", "id": "14520278" }, { "contents": "Shane McFaul\n\n\nCup when beating Sligo Rovers 2–1 at Tallaght Stadium. McFaul was later named Man of the Match in the F.A.I Cup Final Vs Sligo Rovers and also the honour of being named Sporting Fingal Player of the Year 2009. In the 2010 season his performances for Fingal attracted the interest of Scottish giants Celtic FC. http://www.herald.ie/sport/soccer/celtic-track-sporting-fingal-pair-27948702.html Shane made his Republic of Ireland U21 debut in a friendly game against Germany on 21 August 2007. He was also an unused sub in the UEFA European Under-21 Championship Qualifying games against Portugal and England. McFaul signed for", "id": "13006237" }, { "contents": "Connor Roberts (footballer, born 1995)\n\n\nand he returned to Swansea City. Roberts made his debut for Swansea City on 6 January 2018 in the FA Cup 3rd round against Wolverhampton Wanderers. He scored his first goal for the club on 29 September 2018 during a 3–0 win over Queens Park Rangers. Roberts has been capped at Wales under-19 level. In March 2016, Roberts received his first call-up to the Wales under-21 side for their 2017 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification matches, and made his debut as a second-half substitute in their 2–1 defeat against Romania", "id": "12721076" }, { "contents": "Roberta Anastase\n\n\nRoberta Alma Anastase (; born 27 March 1976 in Ploieşti) is a Romanian politician and former first female Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies of Romania between 19 December 2008 and 3 July 2012. She is a member of the Democratic Liberal Party, affiliated to the European People's Party–European Democrats, and became an MEP on 1 January 2007 with the accession of Romania to the European Union. She also represented Romania at the 1996 Miss Universe competition. She attended the Faculty of Sociology at the University of Bucharest in the mid-90", "id": "19157242" }, { "contents": "Kostas Mitroglou\n\n\n, he scored a goal against Germany in a 3–2 win at Vorwärts Stadium. Mitroglou finished as the top goalscorer of the competition with three goals. In 2007, Mitroglou was promoted to the Greece under-21 team. He scored two goals in a 3–1 home win against Macedonia in the UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualifiers, and later a goal in a 1–1 home draw against England and the only goal against Lithuania as the campaign continued. In 2009, Mitroglou was selected for the senior Greece side for the first time. He scored his", "id": "2125765" } ]

[ { "contents": "Football in Lithuania\n\n\nFootball is popular sport in Lithuania. The former Soviet republic made their entrance as an independent football nation in 1992. In the qualification for the Euro 2004, Lithuania held Germany to a 1-1 draw in Germany and won against Scotland. In the qualification for the Euro 2008 they played away to the 2006 World Cup winners Italy and drew 1-1 as well as beating Romania 3-0 in Lithuania in another shock performance. In 1922 in Lithuania, like in Poland, soccer championships began. Then, in the", "id": "4830771" }, { "contents": "Marius Niculae\n\n\n2–0 win. Despite he scored 20 goals for Dinamo in the 1999–00 season, Niculae was not included by Emerich Ienei in the preliminary squad for UEFA Euro 2000. On 2 September, Niculae scored a brace for Romania U-21 against Lithuania in the first match from the 2002 European Championship qualifiers, counting his first goals in an official match. On 6 October, Niculae played his final match for the U-21 squad, netting Romania's only goal in the 1–1 draw against European Championship holders Italy. On 5 December, Niculae scored his", "id": "3505259" }, { "contents": "Stadionul Marin Anastasovici\n\n\nMarin Anastasovici Stadium is a multi-use stadium in Giurgiu, Romania. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home ground of Astra Giurgiu. The stadium holds 8,500 people all on seats. The first international game was played by the Romania national under-21 football team on 19 November 2013 in a match against Germany which ended 2-2. The first game for Romania at Giurgiu was a friendly match against Lithuania on 23 March 2016. The stadium host also various UEFA Europa League matches and also a match from", "id": "15891395" }, { "contents": "History of the Romania national football team\n\n\nEast Germany scoring a predictable 4-1 win in Albania, Romania were out, despite a huge 9-0 win over Finland in Bucharest. Romania continued to suffer poor form in the UEFA European Championship. In their qualifying group for the 1976 European Football Championship, they were out-qualified by Spain, despite an impressive 1-1 draw in the away match. Romania failed to win matches, drawing twice with Scotland and Spain and dropping points in Denmark with a dismal goalless draw. Romania were again beat by Spain", "id": "16435703" }, { "contents": "Faroe Islands national under-21 football team\n\n\nRussia U21, beating them 1-0 after a goal in the first minute. This was followed by a 1-1 draw against Moldova in September, but Faroe Islands lost the next match 3-1 against Latvia. Russia had their revenge in the away match and defeated Faroe Islands 2-0. They also lost both matches against Romania. In November 2009 Faroe Islands beat Latvia 1-0 and were held to a 1-1 draw against Andorra. Faroe Islands won the home match against Andorra 3-1", "id": "13865866" }, { "contents": "Carrow Road\n\n\non five occasions. The first was in 1983 in a European Under-21 Championship qualifying match against Denmark, which England won 4–1. The team played another qualifying match in the same tournament at the stadium in 1997, beating Greece 4–2. The Slovakia team featured in a friendly match at the ground in June 2007, England winning 5–0 in front of a crowd of 20,193 people. In 2010, the ground played host to a play-off against Romania, a game the home side won 2–1 in front of a then record all", "id": "8674438" }, { "contents": "Romania national football team\n\n\nGianluigi Buffon saved the subsequent Mutu penalty, leaving Romania with two points and needing a win against the Netherlands, which eliminated France 4–1 that same evening. The Netherlands beat Romania 2–0 in the final game of the group, which meant that Italy joined the Netherlands in the quarter-finals and Romania finished third, ahead of France. Romania were drawn into the UEFA qualifying round for the 2010 World Cup alongside France, Serbia, Austria, Lithuania and the Faroe Islands. Although Romania were seeded in the second pot, suggesting that", "id": "10918894" }, { "contents": "Rugby union in Romania\n\n\n, drawing two, and losing one. Later in 1955, the Romanians defeated Llanelli in Moscow, and then beat both Cardiff and Harlequins in Bucharest. Only France, who played Romania before almost 95,000 fans in Bucharest (in a preliminary match to a soccer international), could beat the Romanians, and that was only after an epic 16-15 battle. A generation of French school-trained coaches from the late 1940s and 1950s laid the foundations for national success in the 1960s, 70s and 80s. In 1974 Romania", "id": "13829979" }, { "contents": "Dennis Man\n\n\nover Rudar Velenje. Man was selected for the Romania under-21 team and scored on debut in a 3–1 away victory over Bosnia and Herzegovina, on 1 September 2017. Senior manager Cosmin Contra gave Man his first Romania call-up for the friendlies with Israel and Sweden in March 2018. He made his debut in the latter game, replacing Nicolae Stanciu in 87th minute as his side won 1–0 at the Stadionul Ion Oblemenco in Craiova. On 11 June 2019, he netted the last of his team in a 4–0 defeat of Malta", "id": "12444532" }, { "contents": "2011 Rugby World Cup qualifying\n\n\nand Romania). On a home and away basis, Romania prevailed by winning 32–12 in Bucharest, preceded by a 21–21 draw in Montevideo. It competed in Pool B. Both nations had won the repechage semi-finals. Those were conducted as single matches, with the European and African qualifiers drawn into one semi-final and the Asian and Americas qualifiers drawn into the other. Romania beat Tunisia 56–13 and Uruguay had the upper hand over Kazakhstan winning 44–7. Both matches were hosted by the team with the higher IRB World Ranking", "id": "11180430" }, { "contents": "Moshtagh Yaghoubi\n\n\nterminated by Shakhter Karagandy on 17 June 2016. On 4 November 2016, HJK Helsinki announced the signing of Yaghoubi. On 31 January 2019, Seinäjoen Jalkapallokerho announced the signing of Yaghoubi. Yaghoubi acquired Finnish nationality in 2013 and got called up for Finland national under-21 team for 2015 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship qualification match against Lithuania on 11 June 2013. Yaghoubi scored his national team debut goal when Finland beat Wales U-21 5–1 in UEFA Under-21 Championship qualification on 14 August 2013. On 31 October 2013 Yaghoubi made his debut for Finland national", "id": "15530739" }, { "contents": "Romania national football team\n\n\npoor form in the UEFA European Championship. In their qualifying group for the 1976 European Football Championship, they were out-qualified by Spain despite an impressive 1–1 draw in the away match. Romania failed to win matches, drawing twice with Scotland and Spain and dropping points in Denmark with a dismal goalless draw. Romania were again beaten by Spain for a place in the 1978 World Cup in Argentina. Despite a 1–0 win in Bucharest, Romania lost a bizarre match at home to Yugoslavia 6–4 having led 3–2 at half time.", "id": "10918865" }, { "contents": "History of the Romania national football team\n\n\nfor a place in the 1978 World Cup in Argentina. Despite a 1-0 win in Bucharest, Romania lost a bizarre match at home to Yugoslavia 6-4 having led 3-2 at half time. Spain won 1-0 in Belgrade to seal passage to South America. Romania's sole successful qualifying campaign was for the European Championships in 1984 in France. At the finals, Romania were drawn with regular rivals Spain, holders West Germany and dark horses Portugal. Under head coach Mircea Lucescu, an encouraging opening", "id": "16435704" }, { "contents": "Yann Sommer\n\n\nUnder-21 Championship, hosted by Denmark between 11 and 25 June 2011. The Swiss team reached the 2011 UEFA European Under-21 Championship Final on 25 June without conceding a goal, but lost 2–0 to Spain. This was Sommer's final match for the under-21s. Sommer made his debut for the Swiss senior side on 30 May 2012 at the Swissporarena, Lucerne, in a 0–1 defeat against Romania in a friendly match. On 13 May, he was named in Switzerland's 23-man squad for the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil. Alongside", "id": "823566" }, { "contents": "Scotland at the UEFA European Championship\n\n\nqualifying saw Scotland face Denmark, Romania and Spain. Scotland lost their opening match 2–1 to the Spaniards at Hampden, before drawing 1–1 in Valencia. Gordon McQueen scored a late equaliser to win Scotland a point away in Romania, before Joe Harper's goal saw Scotland beat Denmark 1–0 away from home. Scotland won the reverse fixture 3–1. Scotland's final match was at home to Romania, with Scotland requiring a two goal win to win the group and qualify for the play-offs. Scotland took the lead through a Bruce", "id": "1546781" }, { "contents": "Polish football in the interwar period\n\n\nyet more achievements. On October 2, a so-called double match took place (such games were popular in 1930s European Football). The reserve Poland team beat 2-1 Latvia at Warsaw, and at the same hour the first lineup faced Romania in Bucharest. Romania (with several of its starters of Hungarian nationality from Transylvania) was regarded a very strong team. The Poles, however, overwhelmed it 5-0 and this was the biggest success of Polish Football so far. This game is significant also for", "id": "21819213" }, { "contents": "History of the Romania national football team\n\n\nLithuania in Cluj-Napoca before scraping an unconvincing 1-0 win in the Faroe Islands, midfielder Răzvan Cociş scoring the goal. Their third match would be at home to France, who had also begun with a bad loss, 3-1 to Austria in Vienna. Romania raced into a 2-0 lead in Constanţa with goals from Florentin Petre and Dorin Goian but France pulled one back before half time through Franck Ribéry. A long-range strike from Yoann Gourcuff earned France a draw but both sides were left with", "id": "16435733" }, { "contents": "Nauris Bulvītis\n\n\nseason. Bulvītis has been capped internationally at under-19 and under-21 levels. In 2012 Latvia national football team coach Aleksandrs Starkovs called him up for the 2012 Baltic Cup. Nauris played 2 matches, helping Latvia win the tournament. Bulvītis scored his first international goal on 6 September 2013 in a 2–1 2014 FIFA World Cup qualification match victory over Lithuania. In May 2014 he helped Latvia win the Baltic Cup for the second time in a row, scoring the only goal in a 1–0 victory over Lithuania in the final of the tournament.", "id": "22161076" }, { "contents": "Lithuania national football team\n\n\nScotland; however, a 1–0 defeat to Scotland in the final game ended their hopes. Although finishing fifth in their 2006 World Cup qualifying group, Lithuania were nevertheless competitive. Lithuania drew with world champions Italy 1–1 in Naples in a Euro 2008 qualifying game on 2 September 2006, in the first competitive game that Italy played since the World Cup final. On 6 September 2008, Lithuania defeated Romania 3–0 in a 2010 World Cup qualifier. The victory was regarded by many as \"a historic win.\" It was followed by", "id": "6890277" }, { "contents": "Colchester Community Stadium\n\n\n2011 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship as they beat Lithuania 3–0 with two goals from Danny Welbeck and one from Marc Albrighton. A crowd of 7,240 watched the game on 7 September 2010. The England under-21s returned to Colchester for a 2013 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualifier on 11 November 2011. The Young Lions cruised to a 5–0 victory against Iceland on the night, with goals from Marvin Sordell, Martin Kelly, Craig Dawson and two scored by Gary Gardner. The attendance for the game was 10,051. England won their fourth match after", "id": "19735537" }, { "contents": "Arvydas Novikovas\n\n\na starter. During his 2 season there he has helped Jagiellonia Białystok finish 2nd twice in a row. He has scored 16 goals and provided 12 assists in the 58 games he has played for them, starting the 2018/19 season with 3 goals and 2 assists in his first 9 games. Novikovas represented the Lithuania under-21's when he was just a 16-year-old. In May 2009, he was called up to the Lithuania squad, for their FIFA World Cup qualifier with Romania. On 9 September, Novikovas scored for Lithuania", "id": "1849831" }, { "contents": "Valon Ahmedi\n\n\ndebuted for the under-21 side against Macedonia U21, playing as a starter for the entire first-half in an eventual goalless draw. He received another call up for the under-21 side by same coach Skënder Gega for the friendly match against Romania U21 on 8 October 2014. He played against Romania U21 as a starter and in the 60th minute provided the assist for the 1–1 equalising goal scored by Vedat Muriqi, which however wasn't enough as Romania U21 won 3–1. Ahmedi was called up for the first time in an official competitive", "id": "7679765" }, { "contents": "Alessandro Del Piero\n\n\nthat qualified for and later won the 1996 European Under-21 Championship, appearing in the quarter-finals. Del Piero made his senior debut under Arrigo Sacchi at the age of 20, on 25 March 1995, in a 4–1 win over Estonia in a Euro 1996 qualifying match. Del Piero scored his first goal for Italy on 15 November 1995, in a 4–0 win over Lithuania in a Euro 1996 qualifying match. His tournament debut was at UEFA Euro 1996, where he made his only appearance in the first half of the team", "id": "4132525" }, { "contents": "1998 UEFA European Under-21 Championship squads\n\n\nThe following is a list of squads for each nation competing at 1998 UEFA European Under-21 Championship in Romania. The tournament started on 23 May and the final took place in Bucharest on 31 May 1998. Players born on or after 1 January 1975 were eligible to play in the tournament. Each nation had to submit a squad of 20 players, two of which had to be goalkeepers. If a player was injured seriously enough to prevent his taking part in the tournament before his team's first match, he could be replaced by", "id": "6042468" }, { "contents": "Lithuania national under-21 football team\n\n\nThe Lithuania national under-21 football team is the national under-21 football team of Lithuania and is controlled by the Lithuanian Football Federation. Squad called up for the friendly match against on 10 November 2017 and 2019 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification match against on 14 November 2017. ! colspan=\"9\" bgcolor=\"#B0D3FB\" align=\"left\" | ! colspan=\"9\" bgcolor=\"#B0D3FB\" align=\"left\" | ! colspan=\"9\" bgcolor=\"#B0D3FB\" align=\"left\" | ! colspan=\"7\" bgcolor=\"#B0D3FB\" align=\"left\" | ! colspan=\"9\" bgcolor=\"#B0D3FB\" align=\"left\" | ! colspan=\"9\" bgcolor=\"#B0D3FB\" align=\"left\" | ! colspan=\"9\"", "id": "15919932" }, { "contents": "James Milner\n\n\nMilner competed for England at the 2007 UEFA European Under-21 Championship. He played in all four of England's matches and was booked in the semi-final against the Netherlands, which meant he would have missed the final. The match was decided by a penalty shoot-out, in which Milner scored twice and England lost 13–12. Milner was included in the under-21 squad for a friendly against Romania, which ended in a 1–1 draw. A month later, Milner set an England under-21 record by making his 30th appearance for the", "id": "1860629" }, { "contents": "Endri Çekiçi\n\n\nat Albania under-21 by coach Skënder Gega for the friendly match against Romania U21 on 8 October 2014. In that match, he came on as a substitute in the second half, and Albania lost 1–3. Çekiçi received another call up by the newly appointed coach Redi Jupi for the 2017 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualifying matches against Israel and Portugal in September 2015. He debuted against the former by coming on as a second-half substitute, netting a penalty kick in the 84th minute to rescue his side a 1–1 home draw.", "id": "8124891" }, { "contents": "Romania national football team\n\n\nWorld Cup, Romania won their first match against Peru, 3–1, with goals from Adalbert Desu, Constantin Stanciu and Nicolae Kovács and Samuel Zauber as goalkeeper, before being thrashed 4–0 by hosts and eventual winners Uruguay. Romania qualified for the next World Cup in 1934 after beating Yugoslavia 2–1 in a repeat of their first international. At the finals, Romania played only one game in a new knock-out format, losing 2–1 to Czechoslovakia in Trieste, Italy, with Ștefan Dobay scoring their only goal of the tournament. Romania", "id": "10918860" }, { "contents": "Romania national under-21 football team\n\n\nnational team until the age of 23. The best result achieved by the Romania U-21 squad is the qualification for the 1998 European Championship. Under the guidance of Victor Pițurcă and with a generation of players that included among others Bogdan Lobonț, Florentin Petre, Ionel Dănciulescu and Cătălin Munteanu, Romania U-21 finished the qualifying stage with maximum points after winning all eight games. Romania was then chosen as the host of the final stage. The squad was eliminated in the quarter-finals, being beaten by the Netherlands, 2-1", "id": "14153041" }, { "contents": "James Ward-Prowse\n\n\nhosts France 2–1. Ward-Prowse was nominated for the Vauxhall England Under-21 Player of the Year award, but eventually lost out to Southampton teammate Nathan Redmond. In June 2017, he captained the under-21s at that year's edition of the European Under-21 Championship where England reached the semi-finals, eventually losing to Germany in a penalty shoot-out. On 16 March 2017, he earned his first call-up to the senior England squad for a friendly against Germany and a World Cup qualifying match against Lithuania. Six days", "id": "1352322" }, { "contents": "History of the Romania national football team\n\n\nfirst match against Peru, 3-1, with goals from Adalbert Desu, Constantin Stanciu and Nicolae Kovács, before being thrashed 4-0 by hosts and eventual winners Uruguay. Romania qualified for the next World Cup in 1934 after beating Yugoslavia 2-1 in a repeat of their first international. At the finals, Romania played only one game in a new knock-out format, losing 2-1 to Czechoslovakia in Trieste, Italy, with Ştefan Dobay scoring their only goal of the tournament. Romania qualified by default", "id": "16435698" }, { "contents": "Muarem Muarem\n\n\nSeptember 2009 in a 2-1 loss. He went on to make nine appearances for the team, scoring his first international goal in his second under-21 appearance, a 1-1 draw with Lithuania on 9 September 2009, scoring in the first minute of the match. He scored his second goal a month later against England, netting a low free-kick that brought his team back into the game at 2-1. He also scored against Portugal and Bosnia and Herzegovina. Muarem played his final game for the under-21s", "id": "18689026" }, { "contents": "Giedrius Arlauskis\n\n\nreturn to Romania, joining CFR Cluj. The move was confirmed on 15 August 2017. In August 2008, Arlauskis' performance in Romania led him being called by the Lithuania for the first time. Arlauskis made his national team debut as a substitute against Moldova in a friendly game on 19 November 2008. He joined the game in the 46th minute and conceded a goal after 67 minutes as Lithuania drew with Moldova 1–1. After playing two more caps as a substitute, his first competitive game then came on 18 June 2010,", "id": "17863969" }, { "contents": "Romania national under-21 football team\n\n\n. The Romania under-21 team does not have a permanent home. The team plays in stadiums located all around Romania. Because of the smaller demand compared to the senior national team, smaller facilities are used. As of June 2019, the last three games have been played in Cluj-Napoca. Romania again qualified for the UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship in 2019, after topping a group that included Portugal, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Wales, Switzerland and Liechtenstein. They secured their qualification for the final tournament, by beating Liechtenstein,", "id": "14153042" }, { "contents": "Theo Wharton\n\n\nBorough in July 2018. Wharton signed for National League North club Hereford F.C. on 22 December 2018. Wharton was first selected for the Wales national under-17 team for the 2011 UEFA European Under-17 Championship qualifying round, starting two matches against Belgium and Denmark. Wharton was called up to the Wales under-21 team to play Moldova on 22 March 2013. On 9 September 2014, Wharton made his Wales under-21 debut in a 1–1 draw against Lithuania under-21s. In 2016, Wharton chose to switch allegiance to play for Saint Kitts and Nevis, the", "id": "17934659" }, { "contents": "Marius Niculae\n\n\nwas officially signed. On 26 February, he scored his first goal for Shandong in a friendly match against Chongqing F.C.. After representing Romania at the U-16 and U-18 levels, Niculae was promoted to the U-21 level. Niculae's form for Dinamo saw him selected for the Romania U-21 team to play Bulgaria U-21 on 3 March 1999, and he marked his debut with the second goal as Romania won 3–1. He played his first official match for Romania U-21 on 26 March, in a 0–1 defeat against Slovakia U-21, coming in", "id": "3505256" }, { "contents": "History of the Serbia national football team\n\n\nin 12th minute, from \"penalty spot\", like against Austria three monts before. On 10 October 2009, Serbia made a huge victory 5–0 against Romania and secured placement at 2010 FIFA World Cup. In last match of this qualifying cycle, Lithuania defeated Serbia 2–1 in Marijampolė. In November, Serbia defeat Northern Ireland and South Korea in Belfast and London, 1–0 both matches. Serbia placed into Group D with Germany, team also faced 2010 Africa Cup of Nations runners-up Ghana, and Australia. Their opening group", "id": "3691746" }, { "contents": "History of Ferencvárosi TC\n\n\n1 December 1962 Ferencváros lost 1–0 to Sampdoria in Genoa, Italy. On 12 December 1962 Ferencváros beat Sampdoria 6–0 at home. In the quarter-finals Ferencváros beat Petrolul Ploiești 2–0 at home, while lost the away match 1–0 in Ploiești, Romania. In the semi-finals, Ferencváros lost to NK Dinamo Zagreb 1–0 at home and Ferencváros lost the away match 2–1 in Zagreb, Yugoslavia. Ferencváros won the 1962–63 season of the Hungarian League. Therefore, Ferencváros entered the European Cup 1963–64 season. On 11 September 1963,", "id": "4677552" }, { "contents": "George Pușcaș\n\n\n90th minute of a 2–1 victory over Cosenza. Pușcaș scored seven times for Romania under-21 in the 2019 UEFA European Championship qualifying competition, as his side won its group and progressed to the final tournament in Italy. On 18 June 2019, he obtained the penalty from which he scored the opener in a 4–1 victory over Croatia at the San Marino Stadium. He netted again in the next group game against England, surpassing Ionuț Luțu as the highest scorer of the \"Tricolorii mici\". Pușcaș then gave Romania a half-time", "id": "18913818" }, { "contents": "Belarus women's national football team\n\n\nqualified for the promotion play-offs. In the 2001 European Championship qualifying, again in Class B, Belarus beat Estonia 4–1 and 0–7, Israel 0–5 and 1–0 and Slovakia 1–0, and tied 1–1 in Romania, but the Romanians earned the spot in the promotion play-offs after beating Belarus 0–1. With this settled Belarus lost 6–1 to Slovakia in the last match. In the 2003 World Cup qualifying, Class B, Belarus beat Bosnia 5–2 and 2–7, Turkey 4–0 and 1–5, Slovakia 3–2. They lost the remaining", "id": "21080772" }, { "contents": "Visa requirements for Turkmen citizens\n\n\nEstonia (1 July 1992), Latvia (1993), Lithuania (1 November 1993), Slovakia (6 May 1994), Bulgaria (1 January 1999), Armenia (1999), Moldova (9 June 1999), Russia (17 July 1999), Hungary (1 December 1999), Romania (1 July 2000), Belarus (21 July 2000), Czech Republic (22 October 2000), Poland (3 November 2000), Kazakhstan (1 March 2001). Also Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan,", "id": "5139311" }, { "contents": "Ovie Ejaria\n\n\nplaying the whole match. Ejaria was selected for the England under-20 team in the 2017 FIFA U-20 World Cup. He made his first start in a game in the first round match against South Korea, and came on as a substitute the quarter-final against Mexico, but was an unused substitute in the final where England beat Venezuela 1–0. He was called up for the England under-21 team in March 2018, making his debut in a friendly against Romania. He was called up again in May 2018 for the Toulon Tournament but", "id": "14618472" }, { "contents": "Franck Ribéry\n\n\nCup qualification match against Romania, scoring the team's opening goal in a 2–2 draw. On 28 March 2009, Ribéry scored the lone goal away to Lithuania. Three days later, he completed this feat again, this time at the Stade de France, netting the winner in the 75th minute following service from André-Pierre Gignac. On 11 May 2010, Ribéry was named to Domenech's 30-man preliminary squad to participate in the 2010 World Cup and his second World Cup overall. He was later named to the 23-man team", "id": "15094173" }, { "contents": "Cosmin Contra\n\n\nbeing announced as Timișoara's new player-coach six days later. Over 14 years, Contra earned 73 caps for Romania, scoring seven goals. He appeared for his country at UEFA Euro 2000 and 2008. On 1 April 2009, after a match with Austria, Contra announced his retirement from international football. On 30 August 2010, however, the 34-year-old was recalled for two Euro 2012 qualifiers against Albania and Belarus. Contra made his Timişoara debut as a manager in September 2010, with a win against FC Sportul", "id": "4642171" }, { "contents": "Victor Pițurcă\n\n\nWorld Cup (0–0 against France, 1–1 against Italy), Romania lost 0–2 to the Netherlands, finishing the group in third place and thus being eliminated from the competition. After Euro 2008, Romania showed an increasingly poor form in both friendly games and the 2010 World Cup qualifying campaign, where they had a slow start. In their first two official games after Euro 2008, Romania lost 0–3 against Lithuania at home and four days later secured a difficult 1–0 victory against the Faeroe Islands. Although many of the players which helped", "id": "13766306" }, { "contents": "Paul Papp\n\n\nin a qualification game for the 2011 European Under-21 Championship, against Latvia. He captained his side for the first time, following Torje and Găman's injuries, on 29 May 2010, in the friendly match, lost by Romania against Belarus. On 7 September, Papp was in the startup team for Romania U-21, in a 3–0 win against Russia. The win secured Romania a place in the playoff stage of the 2011 European Under-21 Championship qualifiers. However, he missed the chance to play at the 2011 European Under-21 Championship,", "id": "22044461" }, { "contents": "Ciprian Deac\n\n\nfourth national championship in its history. Deac made his debut for the Romania under-21 team against France on 1 June 2007, with the match ending 1–1. He was part of Romania's preliminary Euro 2008 squad, but missed out on the final list led by manager Victor Pițurcă. On 5 March 2010, Deac finally earned his first cap for the full side in a friendly match against Israel. In August 2017, following a six-year absence, he was selected by Christoph Daum for the 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifying matches", "id": "14907109" }, { "contents": "Radomir Antić\n\n\ninto the fire. Also surprising was leaving tall striker Nikola Žigić on the bench and starting with only on attacker, Marko Pantelić, upfront in 4–5–1 formation. And while Serbia lost 2–1 to somewhat wounded France that just days earlier shockingly lost to Austria, many positives were taken from the match at Stade de France such as a brave attacking approach with a lot of running from the wings. Next up in October was in-form Lithuania, which had recently defeated Romania and Austria without allowing a goal. Contrary to expectations,", "id": "18552988" }, { "contents": "Roy Hodgson\n\n\n, losing 1–0 in Porto. In the tournament the Swiss were drawn in Group A alongside Romania, Colombia and the hosts, United States. The opening match of the group was between Switzerland and the United States and is memorable as the first World Cup match to take place indoors, at the Pontiac Silverdome. The Swiss drew 1–1 against the United States, beat Romania 4–1 and lost 2–0 to Colombia, finishing as runners-up in their group, qualifying for the Round of 16, where they lost 3–0 to Spain.", "id": "12858556" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nagainst Portugal, but did so as England defeated Germany 1–0 in Charleroi, ensuring that England beat their European neighbours for the first time since the 1966 World Cup Final. To remain in the tournament, England only required a draw against Romania in the final group match, and Shearer scored a penalty as England went in at half-time 2–1 up, but Romania ultimately won 3–2. England's tournament was over, and so was Shearer's international career. From his 63 caps, he captained the team 34 times and scored", "id": "13592545" }, { "contents": "Florinel Coman\n\n\nEuropean goal in the UEFA Europa League 1–1 draw with Hapoel Be'er Sheva, on 2 November. Coman featured for Romania at the 2019 UEFA European Under-21 Championship, mostly as a second half substitute. In the group fixture on 21 June, he entered in the 63rd minute for Andrei Ivan, obtained a penalty and scored a double to help to a 4–2 victory against England. He then earned his first and only start in a goalless draw with France, with both teams progressing further to the semi-finals, where Romania suffered", "id": "21859353" }, { "contents": "Mitragyna speciosa\n\n\nDenmark, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania and Sweden. In the UK, since 2016, the sale, import, and export of kratom are prohibited under the Psychoactive Substances Act. In 2017, kratom was designated a Schedule 1 illegal drug (the highest level) in the Republic of Ireland, under the names 7-hydroxymitragynine and mitragynine. The use of kratom leaves, known locally as \"ketum\", is prohibited in Malaysia under Section 30 (3) Poisons Act 1952 and the user may be fined a maximum amount", "id": "16890332" }, { "contents": "Romania national rugby union team\n\n\nThey lost 36–21 to Wales A at Pontypridd and 70–21 in a test held in Wrexham. At the 1999 World Cup Romania could again only manage a single win 27–25 against the United States. In 2000, Romania won the first European Nations Cup by a large margin, recording victories in all four matches. By 2001, Romania had been caught by the likes of Georgia who defeated them to take the 2001 European Nations Cup, crowned with a decisive 31–20 win over Romania in Bucharest. The national side lost to England by 134–0", "id": "10342595" }, { "contents": "Aritz Aduriz\n\n\n. He made his debut on the 8th, replacing Llorente for the last 15 minutes of a 3–1 home win against Lithuania. Six years later, at the age of 35, Aduriz was recalled by manager Vicente del Bosque for friendlies with Italy and Romania. He started and scored in the first match, a 1–1 draw at the \"Stadio Friuli\", and was selected for UEFA Euro 2016 in France. He made two substitute appearances in the group stage, always replacing Juventus' Álvaro Morata in the second half; on", "id": "7991541" }, { "contents": "UEFA Euro 2008 Group C\n\n\nof counter-attacking football. Then, in their second game, they also beat the 2006 World Cup runners-up, France, 4–1. This left the French in a difficult position, having already played out a scoreless draw against Romania in the group's opening match. Romania also played out a draw against Italy in their second match, leaving them in second place going into the final round of group matches. Italy finished as the second quarter-finalists, after they beat France 2–0 in their final game. French", "id": "15100017" }, { "contents": "List of land borders with dates of establishment\n\n\nSan Marino \"Italy–Slovenia \"Italy–Switzerland \"Italy–Vatican City \"Ireland–UK \"Latvia–Lithuania \"Lithuania–Belarus \"Lithuania–Poland \"Lithuania–Russia \"Latvia–Russia \"Liechtenstein–Switzerland \"Republic of Macedonia–Serbia \"Moldova–Romania \"Moldova–Ukraine \"Montenegro–Serbia \"Norway–Russia \"Norway–Sweden \"Poland–Slovakia \"Poland–Russia \"Poland–Ukraine \"Portugal–Spain \"Romania–Ukraine \"Romania–Serbia \"Russia–Ukraine \"Slovakia–", "id": "21121898" }, { "contents": "Nicolaj Thomsen\n\n\nDanish national team on 18 November 2014 against Romania. Thomsen scored the only Danish goal in the 1–1 draw against Iceland which qualified Denmark U-21 for the 2015 UEFA European Under-21 Championship. He was selected for the squad for the tournament and played the entire match in the opening win against the Czech Republic. He was in the line-up in the other two group stage-matches against Germany and Serbia. Thomsen was also chosen to the line-up in the semi final, where Denmark was defeated by Sweden. AaB Copenhagen", "id": "14143520" }, { "contents": "João Cancelo\n\n\n. On 20 April 2019, Cancelo played in the \"Scudetto\"-clinching match against rivals Fiorentina, as Juventus won their eighth successive league title after a 2–1 home triumph. Cancelo represented Portugal in the 2012 UEFA European Under-19 Championship. He was also selected for the following edition, in Lithuania. With the under-20s, Cancelo appeared at the 2013 FIFA World Cup and the 2014 Toulon Tournament. He featured in two games in the former competition, with the country reaching the round-of-16. Cancelo was part of the under-21 squad that competed", "id": "15886722" }, { "contents": "Human rights violations by the CIA\n\n\nofficials. Nicaraguan Contras were taught to lead: The manual also recommended: The CIA claimed that the purpose of the manual was to \"moderate\" activities already being done by the Contras. In May 2018, The European Court of Human Rights ruled that the countries of Romania and Lithuania were involved in torture activities perpetrated by the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). The two countries were found to have run \"black site\" torture rooms and detention facilities therefore committing grave human rights abuses. In Romania, the secret", "id": "1650708" }, { "contents": "European Patent Organisation\n\n\nSerbia which did so on 1 October 2010. In addition there are \"extension states\" which are not Contracting States to the EPC but have instead signed extension agreements under which the protection conferred by European patent applications and patents is extended to the relevant country. These are Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Montenegro. Slovenia, Romania, Lithuania, Latvia, Croatia, Macedonia, Albania and Serbia were all extension states prior to joining the EPC. Furthermore, there are so-called \"validation states\" which are not Contracting States to", "id": "2996937" }, { "contents": "Montenegro national football team\n\n\nPoland, Denmark, Kazakhstan, Armenia and Romania. Poland, Denmark and Romania had been participants in the UEFA Euro 2016, but Montenegro began by drawing 1–1 away to Romania, beating Kazakhstan 5–0 at home and defeating Denmark 1–0. However, they then lost 3–2 away to Armenia despite leading 2–0, and were defeated 2–1 at home by Poland. Montenegro then rebounded, beating Armenia 4–1 and Kazakhstan 3–0. They later eliminated Romania with a 1–0 victory, but losses to the Danes and Poles ended Montenegro's chance of qualifying.", "id": "9236271" }, { "contents": "Denis Alibec\n\n\nplayed for Romania's under-17, under-19 and under-21 teams. On 11 October 2015, after being called up on several occasions in the past, Alibec gained his first cap for the full side in the last UEFA Euro 2016 qualifying match against Faroe Islands, replacing Bogdan Stancu in the 90th minute. In June 2016, he was picked by Anghel Iordănescu for his squad at the final tournament in France and appeared as a substitute in Romania's opening game, a 2–1 defeat to the host. Alibec's father, Gevrim and uncle", "id": "7828376" }, { "contents": "Lukas Spalvis\n\n\nout again on 5 July 2017, joining 2. Bundesliga side 1. FC Kaiserslautern for the 2017–18 season. On 8 May 2018, it was announced that Spalvis had joined 1. FC Kaiserslautern on a permanent deal. On 26 August, he sustained a long term injury in a match and it will leave him out for almost the remainder of the season. Spalvis played several matches for youth national teams, including Lithuania U-19 and Lithuania U-21. In March 2014 he made his debut for the senior team, in a friendly", "id": "11995894" }, { "contents": "Nathan Craze\n\n\nDiv II Group A in Bucharest, Romania, and was also named Netminder of the Tournament. He received the International Ice Hockey Federation Directorate’s Award of the tournament’s Best Netminder when GB won the gold medal in the 2004 World under-18 Championships (Div II) in Lithuania, and he equalled the feat by being voted the IIHF’s tournament Best Netminder when GB won the gold medal in the 2006 World under-20 Championships (Div II) in Romania. In 2006, Craze signed with the Bracknell Bees as their starting goalie,", "id": "21622172" }, { "contents": "Women's event at the 43rd Chess Olympiad\n\n\nbeat Georgia's second team 2½-1½, Italy beat Cuba 3-1, while Lithuania tied their match against Kazakhstan. United States, Georgia and Armenia with 11/12 match points each were on the top after six rounds. The central match of the seventh round was the clash between Armenia and United States on the first table, where Armenians snatched a minimal victory thanks to the Elina Danielian and Anna Sargsyan who scored full point as White in the games against Anna Zatonskih and Sabina-Francesca Foisor, respectively; Jennifer Yu beat Maria Kursova", "id": "7597446" }, { "contents": "Lithuania at the Olympics\n\n\nLithuania, after declaring restoration of independence in 1918, sent its athletes to the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris for the first time. At first it was considered to send 33 athletes, but then it was decided to limit the delegation to 13 soccer players and 2 cyclists. The soccer players arrived in Paris only a day before the game was scheduled. Lithuania debuted at the Olympic games on May 25, 1924 at 2:40pm (Paris time) when the match between Lithuanian and Swiss teams started. Lithuania lost 9-0 (", "id": "8795472" }, { "contents": "Romania national football team\n\n\nthey were a strong challenge for the first place in the group, they eventually finished fifth, above only the Faroe Islands. Their campaign was a disaster that began with a 3–0 home loss to Lithuania and included a 5–0 trashing in Belgrade by Serbia. Furthermore, various problems were caused during the poor campaign, such as the retirement from international football of Cosmin Contra, Mirel Rădoi and Adrian Mutu (the latter would later be recalled after a year's absence). Also, coach Victor Pițurcă resigned and was replaced by Răzvan", "id": "10918895" }, { "contents": "Sūduva Stadium\n\n\nSūduva Stadium, known as ARVI Football Arena for sponsorship reasons, is a multi-purpose stadium in Marijampolė, Lithuania. The stadium was built using funds from the European Union and opened on July 6, 2008. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of FK Sūduva. Its original capacity increased from 4,200 to 6,500 spectators after additional seats were installed in May–June 2009 before a match between Lithuania national team and Romania. Beginning from the 2011 season the stadium was named ARVI Football Arena after", "id": "10765440" }, { "contents": "Kilkim Žaibu\n\n\n, Lithuania. From 2000 to 3000 people visit the festival annually from various countries. Also, bands have performed at Kilkim Žaibu festivals from Australia, Norway, Hungary, Czech Republic, Romania, Ukraine, Russia, Sweden, Finland, Germany and neighbouring countries. The festival took place in Varniai, Lithuania on 28th - 30th June, 2018. The festival took place in Varniai, Lithuania on 29 June - 1 July 2017. The festival took place in Varniai, Lithuania on 23–25 June 2016. The festival took place in", "id": "10249217" }, { "contents": "Latvia national football team\n\n\n, the Latvian team participated in the first qualification tournament for the 1938 World Cup. Latvia were placed in Group 8, alongside Austria and Lithuania. Latvia beat Lithuania 4–2 in Riga, after a Fricis Kaņeps hat-trick and an Iļja Vestermans goal. In Kaunas, they won 5–1, after two goals each from Kaņeps, Vaclavs Borduško, and Vestermans, but lost 1–2 in the decisive away match against Austria, despite an early goal from Vestermans. In April 1938, the Austrian Anschluss relegated the Austrian team, however,", "id": "15750063" }, { "contents": "Miloš Krasić\n\n\nIn May 2006, Krasić played a leading role in the 2006 European U-21 Championship. He made his debut for the senior side later that year in a friendly against Denmark. At senior level, Krasić was an important player for Serbia in 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification. He scored one goal in the match against Lithuania, another in the game against Austria and set up three in the game against Romania, which sealed his nation's qualification to the final tournament in South Africa. Krasić is a right-sided winger, noted", "id": "19580145" }, { "contents": "Philip Billing\n\n\nunder-20 team and the Romania national under-20 football team. He earned his first cap for the U21 team in a qualifying match for the 2019 European Championship against the Faroe Islands on 31 August 2017; it ended in a 3–0 win. He again featured a week later in another qualifying match, which the team won 6–0 against Lithuania. In November 2018, Billing turned down an approach to switch his international allegiance to the Nigeria national team. In March 2019, he received his first call-up to the Denmark national team.", "id": "18184799" }, { "contents": "1934 FIFA World Cup qualification\n\n\nfollows: Key: Estonia v Lithuania was not played since neither team could qualify with a win. Sweden qualified. 11-1 on aggregate; Spain qualified. Italy qualified, as Greece declined to play the second match. Bulgaria withdrew, and the remaining matches were not played since Hungary and Austria were already assured of the top two spots. Hungary and Austria qualified. Poland were unable to travel to Prague for the second match as the Polish government denied the team visas for political reasons. Therefore, Czechoslovakia qualified. Romania", "id": "6526321" }, { "contents": "Rugby union in Romania\n\n\nwon against France 15 – 10 in Bucharest, and the FIRA – Association of European Rugby championship. In 1975 Romania went for an 8 games tour to New Zealand, tour concluded in Wellington with a 10-10 draw against Junior All Blacks. Home nation sides began to award international caps for matches against Romania from 1981. Romania won rugby internationals over Scotland in 1984 and 1991, and also over Wales in 1983 and 1988 (the latter in Cardiff). Between 1960 and 1990, Romania beat France eight times, the", "id": "13829980" }, { "contents": "European Border and Coast Guard Agency\n\n\na border security operation conducted by Frontex, the European Union's border security agency. The operation, under Italian control, began on 1 November 2014 and involves voluntary contributions from 15 other European nations (both EU member states and non-members). Current voluntary contributors to Operation Triton are Croatia, Iceland, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Germany, the Netherlands, France, Spain, Ireland, Portugal, Austria, Switzerland, Romania, Poland, Lithuania, Malta and the United Kingdom. The operation was undertaken after Italy", "id": "20620191" }, { "contents": "Albania national football team\n\n\nqualifying match, Albania made history by qualifying for the UEFA Euro 2016, its first ever appearance at a major men's football tournament. In the tournament itself, Albania lost 0–1 to Switzerland and 0–2 to hosts France. While they beat Romania 1–0 (their first win against Romania since 1947), the team finished last among the third-placed teams and didn't progress beyond the group stage. Despite the UEFA European Championship's almost successful debut, Albania suffered massive setback. In 2018 World Cup qualification, Albania had been", "id": "15457050" }, { "contents": "Dean Henderson\n\n\nmore times as an unused substitute bench that saw him missed out two matches for the side in the league. He made his under-21 debut on 24 March 2018, in a friendly at home against Romania, which England won 2–1. Henderson was named as England's number one for the 2019 UEFA European Under-21 Championship. Growing up, Henderson played county cricket as a schoolboy and was an accomplished batsman and wicket-keeper but chose football. Henderson initially started out as an outfield player before switching to his role as a goalkeeper.", "id": "6533434" }, { "contents": "Harry Maguire\n\n\n-up to either because he is such a level headed character.\" Maguire duly made his England under-21 debut as a substitute in the 60th minute, coming on for Liverpool's Andre Wisdom in a 2–0 win against Northern Ireland Under-21s at Bloomfield Road. On 24 August 2017, England manager Gareth Southgate included Maguire in his squad for the 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification matches against Malta and Slovakia. He made his debut when starting in England's 1–0 away win over Lithuania, which was the team's final match in their successful", "id": "3737243" }, { "contents": "Albania national under-21 football team\n\n\nmatch against Romania was characterized by a large Albania's win 7–1, which is the largest win ever recorded by Albania U-21. Albania Under-21s have managed to qualify only once in their history, and that came in the year of 1984 when they managed to qualify for the 1984 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship, although they were competing for the first time in such tournament. They were drawn in a very tough group which included the West Germany, Turkey and Austria. The historic event was the first time any Albanian squad qualified for", "id": "19363492" }, { "contents": "Alexandru Mitriță\n\n\nNew York City goal on the 17th the same month, in a 2–2 draw with Los Angeles FC. In March 2018, Mitriță was called up for Romania senior team's friendlies with Israel and Sweden later that month, after reportedly impressing coach Cosmin Contra. He made his debut in the former match on the 24th, and offered an assist to George Țucudean in a 2–1 win in Netanya. Mitriță is deployed as an attacking midfielder or a winger on either flank, having been noted for pace and technical ability which allow him", "id": "4318108" }, { "contents": "Claudiu Bumba\n\n\nsigned a four-year contract with Israeli club Hapoel Tel Aviv. On 2 February 2017, he signed a two and a half years contract with Dinamo Bucharest. He scored his first goal for Dinamo Bucharest on 10 April, in 2-1 league win against Astra Giurgiu. Bumba made his debut for Romania U-17 on 21 September 2010 in a game against Kazakhstan U-17. He played with the under-17 team at the 2011 UEFA European Under-17 Football Championship. On 6 October 2011, in a game against Sweden U-19, Bumba came", "id": "11657727" }, { "contents": "Dorian Dervite\n\n\nand U-21 levels. He has captained them on occasions. He was called up to the Under-21 squad to face Estonia and England. He was called for the international Toulon Tournament again with the U21, then against Poland and for the U21 European Championship qualifiers against Lithuania and Ukraine. he scored his first goal for France in a home draw with Poland U21 on 12 August 2009 with an 80th minute shot to make it 2–1 to France with the game ending 2–2, his last game for the Under-21s came in their 3–1 away win", "id": "18562600" }, { "contents": "Povilas Leimonas\n\n\nwith Jagiellonia Białystok. Povilas played for Lithuania's \"B\" team in two games in 2011, both against Lithuania U-21. The first game, played in Vilnius on 9 February, was won 2-1 by the \"B\" team, and the second match, in Marijampole on 2 March, resulted in a 3-0 win. Leimonas made his senior international debut on 7 June 2011, in a 1-0 friendly loss to Norway. He earned his second cap two months later in another friendly, the", "id": "16136896" }, { "contents": "History of the Romania national football team\n\n\nmatch in Bern, but the Netherlands were regarded as the outstanding team in the tournament, having followed their comprehensive win against Italy with an equally emphatic 4-1 win over France. A draw would also take Romania through were the other match between Italy and France to be drawn. With Italy taking a first-half lead against a France side reduced to ten men, it became apparent that Romania needed to beat the Netherlands to qualify. However, they played poorly and the Netherlands won 2-0 with second half goals", "id": "16435731" }, { "contents": "Sander Puri\n\n\nEstonia at under-17, under-19 and under-21 level. He made his debut for the senior national team on 30 May 2008 against Latvia in the 2008 Baltic Cup. He scored his first national team goal on 22 November 2008, in a 1–1 draw against Lithuania in a Mayors Cup match. A goal against Saint Kitts and Nevis saw him awarded the Estonian Silverball, for the best goal scored for Estonia in 2015. Puri is one of three triplets: his brother, Eino Puri, is also a footballer and his sister, Kadri", "id": "21342008" }, { "contents": "Eduards Višņakovs\n\n\nagainst Estonia on 5 June 2013, helping his team secure a 2–0 victory. On 10 September 2013 the U-23 team beat England 1-0, with Višņakovs scoring his second goal in two matches. Višņakovs was firstly called up to Latvia national football team for the FIFA World Cup 2014 qualifying matches against Lithuania and Slovakia on 11 and 15 October 2013. He made his debut for the national team in the match against Lithuania, coming on as a substitute in the 77th minute and replacing Māris Verpakovskis. A local scandal arose when", "id": "17206337" }, { "contents": "Romania national rugby union team\n\n\nthe Super Powers Cup. The USA beat a Romanian team stripped of their France-based players 23–16 in the third place play-off. The 2005–06 European Nations Cup also served as a qualifying group for the 2007 Rugby World Cup. Romania triumphed despite finishing level on points with Georgia. Romania qualified for the 2007 Rugby World Cup in France, finishing at the top of their pool during the Round 5 of the European qualifying tournaments. Romania won their first qualifying match on October 7, defeating Georgia in Bucharest 20–8. Their", "id": "10342600" }, { "contents": "Shlomo Lipetz\n\n\n, against Lithuania, Lipetz tossed a 10-inning, 4-hit complete game to beat Lithuania 2-1. He led that qualifier in victories and tied for second in strikeouts. During the 2012 European Baseball Championship qualifiers, in 2011, Lipetz pitched in 3 of the 5 games. Lipetz beat Georgia in the opener pitching 7 innings and striking out 9. Lipetz did not appear in the second game, against Great Britain, or in the third game against Lithuania. During the first game of the home/away finals against Great Britain", "id": "12992976" }, { "contents": "State Farm Stadium\n\n\nsoccer match attended by 62,462 fans. The United States men's national soccer team defeated Mexico, 2–0. On January 21, 2012, the U.S. played against Venezuela and won the match 1–0. On January 30, 2013, Mexico played against Denmark, a game that was broadcast on Televisa Deportes, UniMás, and TV Azteca. The match ended in a 1–1 draw. On November 19, 2015, the stadium was one of the sites selected for the 2016 Copa América Centenario. The stadium hosted three matches, including Mexico", "id": "18339554" }, { "contents": "Yacine Brahimi\n\n\npenalty in a 3–1 victory over Germany. He played with the under-16 team at the 2006 edition of the Montaigu Tournament playing in all four matches the team contested as France were crowned champions defeating Italy 2–1 in the final. With the under-17 team, Brahimi made his debut on 25 September in a qualification match for the 2007 UEFA European Under-17 Championship against Lithuania. France won the match 4–2 with Brahimi making a substitute appearance. Despite appearing in the first round of qualification, Brahimi was absent from the tournament itself, due to the", "id": "1037894" }, { "contents": "Ross McCormack\n\n\nfirst goal for the side on 11 October 2007 against Lithuania and scored again in his next appearance, a 4–0 victory over Slovenia U21s. McCormack won 10 caps for the under-21 side. He made his debut for the senior side on 30 May 2008 when he came on as a substitute during the 3–1 defeat of Czech Republic. McCormack was called up again in March 2009 for the 2010 FIFA World Cup qualifiers against Netherlands and Iceland. He started both matches, scoring his first goal for Scotland in a 2–1 win over Iceland on", "id": "8895190" }, { "contents": "Hungary national under-19 football team\n\n\n, and the atmosphere helped in times of need. The first match against Lithuania, was a 2-2 draw, but in the last 2 matches, the team could win, against Cyprus 2-1, and Portugal 1-0 and that was enough to qualify. The list below is the current list of U-19 national players according to the official Hungarian Football Federation website. Competition:2018 UEFA European Under-19 Football Championship (elite round)br Match Dates:25 March 2019br Opposition: The following players have been selected by Hungary in the past 12", "id": "4045560" }, { "contents": "X Factor (Romanian TV series)\n\n\nthe show aired starting 17 September 2011. Auditions for producers began in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, on 14 May 2011. They then took place in Constanța, on 21 May in Timișoara on 24 May 2011, on 4 June in Iași and concluded on 11 June 2011 in Bucharest. The first season ended on 1 January 2012, (16-24s) mentored by Mihai Morar was declared the first winner of The X Factor in Romania. Alin Văduva (Over 25s) was runner-up followed by Iulian Vasile (", "id": "16662967" }, { "contents": "Romania national football team\n\n\n0–5. In the next match, Romania recorded another draw (0–0), against Kazakhstan. The last match played in 2016 was a 0–3 defeat against Poland, with Robert Lewandowski scoring a double. After an uninspiring campaign, Romania ended in the fourth place in Group E with 13 points. After 8 of the 10 games, due to lackluster performances, coach Christoph Daum was fired and replaced with a promising new coach, Cosmin Contra. The Romania national team plays its home games at Arena Națională, the biggest stadium in", "id": "10918904" }, { "contents": "Chris Smalling\n\n\nfirst start for the under-21s in a 2011 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualifier against Portugal at Wembley Stadium in a 1–0 win. He scored his first goal for the under-21s on 8 October 2010, against Romania, in England's 2011 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification play-off first leg, converting from inside the area after an assist from Daniel Sturridge. The goal, scored in the 83rd minute, proved to be the winner as England won 2–1. On 13 November 2010, Smalling was called up to the England senior squad for", "id": "656401" }, { "contents": "Lithuania men's national basketball team\n\n\n. The only consolation was the remaining opportunity to qualify into the World Championship, which the Lithuanians achieved by beating Russia and Slovenia for fifth place. Lithuania won 5 of 6 games in the tournament. Consequently, the competition scheme was questioned in its reliability. The 2006 FIBA World Championship in Japan had Lithuania matching the 7th place from their 1998 debut, but many saw this performance as an under-achievement. Lithuania started the tournament with a narrow 2-point loss to Turkey, followed by an overtime defeat to eventual finalists Greece which", "id": "14520278" }, { "contents": "Shane McFaul\n\n\nCup when beating Sligo Rovers 2–1 at Tallaght Stadium. McFaul was later named Man of the Match in the F.A.I Cup Final Vs Sligo Rovers and also the honour of being named Sporting Fingal Player of the Year 2009. In the 2010 season his performances for Fingal attracted the interest of Scottish giants Celtic FC. http://www.herald.ie/sport/soccer/celtic-track-sporting-fingal-pair-27948702.html Shane made his Republic of Ireland U21 debut in a friendly game against Germany on 21 August 2007. He was also an unused sub in the UEFA European Under-21 Championship Qualifying games against Portugal and England. McFaul signed for", "id": "13006237" }, { "contents": "Connor Roberts (footballer, born 1995)\n\n\nand he returned to Swansea City. Roberts made his debut for Swansea City on 6 January 2018 in the FA Cup 3rd round against Wolverhampton Wanderers. He scored his first goal for the club on 29 September 2018 during a 3–0 win over Queens Park Rangers. Roberts has been capped at Wales under-19 level. In March 2016, Roberts received his first call-up to the Wales under-21 side for their 2017 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification matches, and made his debut as a second-half substitute in their 2–1 defeat against Romania", "id": "12721076" }, { "contents": "Roberta Anastase\n\n\nRoberta Alma Anastase (; born 27 March 1976 in Ploieşti) is a Romanian politician and former first female Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies of Romania between 19 December 2008 and 3 July 2012. She is a member of the Democratic Liberal Party, affiliated to the European People's Party–European Democrats, and became an MEP on 1 January 2007 with the accession of Romania to the European Union. She also represented Romania at the 1996 Miss Universe competition. She attended the Faculty of Sociology at the University of Bucharest in the mid-90", "id": "19157242" }, { "contents": "Kostas Mitroglou\n\n\n, he scored a goal against Germany in a 3–2 win at Vorwärts Stadium. Mitroglou finished as the top goalscorer of the competition with three goals. In 2007, Mitroglou was promoted to the Greece under-21 team. He scored two goals in a 3–1 home win against Macedonia in the UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualifiers, and later a goal in a 1–1 home draw against England and the only goal against Lithuania as the campaign continued. In 2009, Mitroglou was selected for the senior Greece side for the first time. He scored his", "id": "2125765" } ]

[ { "contents": "Football in Lithuania\n\n\nFootball is popular sport in Lithuania. The former Soviet republic made their entrance as an independent football nation in 1992. In the qualification for the Euro 2004, Lithuania held Germany to a 1-1 draw in Germany and won against Scotland. In the qualification for the Euro 2008 they played away to the 2006 World Cup winners Italy and drew 1-1 as well as beating Romania 3-0 in Lithuania in another shock performance. In 1922 in Lithuania, like in Poland, soccer championships began. Then, in the", "id": "4830771" }, { "contents": "Marius Niculae\n\n\n2–0 win. Despite he scored 20 goals for Dinamo in the 1999–00 season, Niculae was not included by Emerich Ienei in the preliminary squad for UEFA Euro 2000. On 2 September, Niculae scored a brace for Romania U-21 against Lithuania in the first match from the 2002 European Championship qualifiers, counting his first goals in an official match. On 6 October, Niculae played his final match for the U-21 squad, netting Romania's only goal in the 1–1 draw against European Championship holders Italy. On 5 December, Niculae scored his", "id": "3505259" }, { "contents": "Stadionul Marin Anastasovici\n\n\nMarin Anastasovici Stadium is a multi-use stadium in Giurgiu, Romania. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home ground of Astra Giurgiu. The stadium holds 8,500 people all on seats. The first international game was played by the Romania national under-21 football team on 19 November 2013 in a match against Germany which ended 2-2. The first game for Romania at Giurgiu was a friendly match against Lithuania on 23 March 2016. The stadium host also various UEFA Europa League matches and also a match from", "id": "15891395" }, { "contents": "History of the Romania national football team\n\n\nEast Germany scoring a predictable 4-1 win in Albania, Romania were out, despite a huge 9-0 win over Finland in Bucharest. Romania continued to suffer poor form in the UEFA European Championship. In their qualifying group for the 1976 European Football Championship, they were out-qualified by Spain, despite an impressive 1-1 draw in the away match. Romania failed to win matches, drawing twice with Scotland and Spain and dropping points in Denmark with a dismal goalless draw. Romania were again beat by Spain", "id": "16435703" }, { "contents": "Faroe Islands national under-21 football team\n\n\nRussia U21, beating them 1-0 after a goal in the first minute. This was followed by a 1-1 draw against Moldova in September, but Faroe Islands lost the next match 3-1 against Latvia. Russia had their revenge in the away match and defeated Faroe Islands 2-0. They also lost both matches against Romania. In November 2009 Faroe Islands beat Latvia 1-0 and were held to a 1-1 draw against Andorra. Faroe Islands won the home match against Andorra 3-1", "id": "13865866" }, { "contents": "Carrow Road\n\n\non five occasions. The first was in 1983 in a European Under-21 Championship qualifying match against Denmark, which England won 4–1. The team played another qualifying match in the same tournament at the stadium in 1997, beating Greece 4–2. The Slovakia team featured in a friendly match at the ground in June 2007, England winning 5–0 in front of a crowd of 20,193 people. In 2010, the ground played host to a play-off against Romania, a game the home side won 2–1 in front of a then record all", "id": "8674438" }, { "contents": "Romania national football team\n\n\nGianluigi Buffon saved the subsequent Mutu penalty, leaving Romania with two points and needing a win against the Netherlands, which eliminated France 4–1 that same evening. The Netherlands beat Romania 2–0 in the final game of the group, which meant that Italy joined the Netherlands in the quarter-finals and Romania finished third, ahead of France. Romania were drawn into the UEFA qualifying round for the 2010 World Cup alongside France, Serbia, Austria, Lithuania and the Faroe Islands. Although Romania were seeded in the second pot, suggesting that", "id": "10918894" }, { "contents": "Rugby union in Romania\n\n\n, drawing two, and losing one. Later in 1955, the Romanians defeated Llanelli in Moscow, and then beat both Cardiff and Harlequins in Bucharest. Only France, who played Romania before almost 95,000 fans in Bucharest (in a preliminary match to a soccer international), could beat the Romanians, and that was only after an epic 16-15 battle. A generation of French school-trained coaches from the late 1940s and 1950s laid the foundations for national success in the 1960s, 70s and 80s. In 1974 Romania", "id": "13829979" }, { "contents": "Dennis Man\n\n\nover Rudar Velenje. Man was selected for the Romania under-21 team and scored on debut in a 3–1 away victory over Bosnia and Herzegovina, on 1 September 2017. Senior manager Cosmin Contra gave Man his first Romania call-up for the friendlies with Israel and Sweden in March 2018. He made his debut in the latter game, replacing Nicolae Stanciu in 87th minute as his side won 1–0 at the Stadionul Ion Oblemenco in Craiova. On 11 June 2019, he netted the last of his team in a 4–0 defeat of Malta", "id": "12444532" }, { "contents": "2011 Rugby World Cup qualifying\n\n\nand Romania). On a home and away basis, Romania prevailed by winning 32–12 in Bucharest, preceded by a 21–21 draw in Montevideo. It competed in Pool B. Both nations had won the repechage semi-finals. Those were conducted as single matches, with the European and African qualifiers drawn into one semi-final and the Asian and Americas qualifiers drawn into the other. Romania beat Tunisia 56–13 and Uruguay had the upper hand over Kazakhstan winning 44–7. Both matches were hosted by the team with the higher IRB World Ranking", "id": "11180430" }, { "contents": "Moshtagh Yaghoubi\n\n\nterminated by Shakhter Karagandy on 17 June 2016. On 4 November 2016, HJK Helsinki announced the signing of Yaghoubi. On 31 January 2019, Seinäjoen Jalkapallokerho announced the signing of Yaghoubi. Yaghoubi acquired Finnish nationality in 2013 and got called up for Finland national under-21 team for 2015 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship qualification match against Lithuania on 11 June 2013. Yaghoubi scored his national team debut goal when Finland beat Wales U-21 5–1 in UEFA Under-21 Championship qualification on 14 August 2013. On 31 October 2013 Yaghoubi made his debut for Finland national", "id": "15530739" }, { "contents": "Romania national football team\n\n\npoor form in the UEFA European Championship. In their qualifying group for the 1976 European Football Championship, they were out-qualified by Spain despite an impressive 1–1 draw in the away match. Romania failed to win matches, drawing twice with Scotland and Spain and dropping points in Denmark with a dismal goalless draw. Romania were again beaten by Spain for a place in the 1978 World Cup in Argentina. Despite a 1–0 win in Bucharest, Romania lost a bizarre match at home to Yugoslavia 6–4 having led 3–2 at half time.", "id": "10918865" }, { "contents": "History of the Romania national football team\n\n\nfor a place in the 1978 World Cup in Argentina. Despite a 1-0 win in Bucharest, Romania lost a bizarre match at home to Yugoslavia 6-4 having led 3-2 at half time. Spain won 1-0 in Belgrade to seal passage to South America. Romania's sole successful qualifying campaign was for the European Championships in 1984 in France. At the finals, Romania were drawn with regular rivals Spain, holders West Germany and dark horses Portugal. Under head coach Mircea Lucescu, an encouraging opening", "id": "16435704" }, { "contents": "Yann Sommer\n\n\nUnder-21 Championship, hosted by Denmark between 11 and 25 June 2011. The Swiss team reached the 2011 UEFA European Under-21 Championship Final on 25 June without conceding a goal, but lost 2–0 to Spain. This was Sommer's final match for the under-21s. Sommer made his debut for the Swiss senior side on 30 May 2012 at the Swissporarena, Lucerne, in a 0–1 defeat against Romania in a friendly match. On 13 May, he was named in Switzerland's 23-man squad for the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil. Alongside", "id": "823566" }, { "contents": "Scotland at the UEFA European Championship\n\n\nqualifying saw Scotland face Denmark, Romania and Spain. Scotland lost their opening match 2–1 to the Spaniards at Hampden, before drawing 1–1 in Valencia. Gordon McQueen scored a late equaliser to win Scotland a point away in Romania, before Joe Harper's goal saw Scotland beat Denmark 1–0 away from home. Scotland won the reverse fixture 3–1. Scotland's final match was at home to Romania, with Scotland requiring a two goal win to win the group and qualify for the play-offs. Scotland took the lead through a Bruce", "id": "1546781" }, { "contents": "Polish football in the interwar period\n\n\nyet more achievements. On October 2, a so-called double match took place (such games were popular in 1930s European Football). The reserve Poland team beat 2-1 Latvia at Warsaw, and at the same hour the first lineup faced Romania in Bucharest. Romania (with several of its starters of Hungarian nationality from Transylvania) was regarded a very strong team. The Poles, however, overwhelmed it 5-0 and this was the biggest success of Polish Football so far. This game is significant also for", "id": "21819213" }, { "contents": "History of the Romania national football team\n\n\nLithuania in Cluj-Napoca before scraping an unconvincing 1-0 win in the Faroe Islands, midfielder Răzvan Cociş scoring the goal. Their third match would be at home to France, who had also begun with a bad loss, 3-1 to Austria in Vienna. Romania raced into a 2-0 lead in Constanţa with goals from Florentin Petre and Dorin Goian but France pulled one back before half time through Franck Ribéry. A long-range strike from Yoann Gourcuff earned France a draw but both sides were left with", "id": "16435733" }, { "contents": "Nauris Bulvītis\n\n\nseason. Bulvītis has been capped internationally at under-19 and under-21 levels. In 2012 Latvia national football team coach Aleksandrs Starkovs called him up for the 2012 Baltic Cup. Nauris played 2 matches, helping Latvia win the tournament. Bulvītis scored his first international goal on 6 September 2013 in a 2–1 2014 FIFA World Cup qualification match victory over Lithuania. In May 2014 he helped Latvia win the Baltic Cup for the second time in a row, scoring the only goal in a 1–0 victory over Lithuania in the final of the tournament.", "id": "22161076" }, { "contents": "Lithuania national football team\n\n\nScotland; however, a 1–0 defeat to Scotland in the final game ended their hopes. Although finishing fifth in their 2006 World Cup qualifying group, Lithuania were nevertheless competitive. Lithuania drew with world champions Italy 1–1 in Naples in a Euro 2008 qualifying game on 2 September 2006, in the first competitive game that Italy played since the World Cup final. On 6 September 2008, Lithuania defeated Romania 3–0 in a 2010 World Cup qualifier. The victory was regarded by many as \"a historic win.\" It was followed by", "id": "6890277" }, { "contents": "Colchester Community Stadium\n\n\n2011 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship as they beat Lithuania 3–0 with two goals from Danny Welbeck and one from Marc Albrighton. A crowd of 7,240 watched the game on 7 September 2010. The England under-21s returned to Colchester for a 2013 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualifier on 11 November 2011. The Young Lions cruised to a 5–0 victory against Iceland on the night, with goals from Marvin Sordell, Martin Kelly, Craig Dawson and two scored by Gary Gardner. The attendance for the game was 10,051. England won their fourth match after", "id": "19735537" }, { "contents": "Arvydas Novikovas\n\n\na starter. During his 2 season there he has helped Jagiellonia Białystok finish 2nd twice in a row. He has scored 16 goals and provided 12 assists in the 58 games he has played for them, starting the 2018/19 season with 3 goals and 2 assists in his first 9 games. Novikovas represented the Lithuania under-21's when he was just a 16-year-old. In May 2009, he was called up to the Lithuania squad, for their FIFA World Cup qualifier with Romania. On 9 September, Novikovas scored for Lithuania", "id": "1849831" }, { "contents": "Valon Ahmedi\n\n\ndebuted for the under-21 side against Macedonia U21, playing as a starter for the entire first-half in an eventual goalless draw. He received another call up for the under-21 side by same coach Skënder Gega for the friendly match against Romania U21 on 8 October 2014. He played against Romania U21 as a starter and in the 60th minute provided the assist for the 1–1 equalising goal scored by Vedat Muriqi, which however wasn't enough as Romania U21 won 3–1. Ahmedi was called up for the first time in an official competitive", "id": "7679765" }, { "contents": "Alessandro Del Piero\n\n\nthat qualified for and later won the 1996 European Under-21 Championship, appearing in the quarter-finals. Del Piero made his senior debut under Arrigo Sacchi at the age of 20, on 25 March 1995, in a 4–1 win over Estonia in a Euro 1996 qualifying match. Del Piero scored his first goal for Italy on 15 November 1995, in a 4–0 win over Lithuania in a Euro 1996 qualifying match. His tournament debut was at UEFA Euro 1996, where he made his only appearance in the first half of the team", "id": "4132525" }, { "contents": "1998 UEFA European Under-21 Championship squads\n\n\nThe following is a list of squads for each nation competing at 1998 UEFA European Under-21 Championship in Romania. The tournament started on 23 May and the final took place in Bucharest on 31 May 1998. Players born on or after 1 January 1975 were eligible to play in the tournament. Each nation had to submit a squad of 20 players, two of which had to be goalkeepers. If a player was injured seriously enough to prevent his taking part in the tournament before his team's first match, he could be replaced by", "id": "6042468" }, { "contents": "Lithuania national under-21 football team\n\n\nThe Lithuania national under-21 football team is the national under-21 football team of Lithuania and is controlled by the Lithuanian Football Federation. Squad called up for the friendly match against on 10 November 2017 and 2019 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification match against on 14 November 2017. ! colspan=\"9\" bgcolor=\"#B0D3FB\" align=\"left\" | ! colspan=\"9\" bgcolor=\"#B0D3FB\" align=\"left\" | ! colspan=\"9\" bgcolor=\"#B0D3FB\" align=\"left\" | ! colspan=\"7\" bgcolor=\"#B0D3FB\" align=\"left\" | ! colspan=\"9\" bgcolor=\"#B0D3FB\" align=\"left\" | ! colspan=\"9\" bgcolor=\"#B0D3FB\" align=\"left\" | ! colspan=\"9\"", "id": "15919932" }, { "contents": "James Milner\n\n\nMilner competed for England at the 2007 UEFA European Under-21 Championship. He played in all four of England's matches and was booked in the semi-final against the Netherlands, which meant he would have missed the final. The match was decided by a penalty shoot-out, in which Milner scored twice and England lost 13–12. Milner was included in the under-21 squad for a friendly against Romania, which ended in a 1–1 draw. A month later, Milner set an England under-21 record by making his 30th appearance for the", "id": "1860629" }, { "contents": "Endri Çekiçi\n\n\nat Albania under-21 by coach Skënder Gega for the friendly match against Romania U21 on 8 October 2014. In that match, he came on as a substitute in the second half, and Albania lost 1–3. Çekiçi received another call up by the newly appointed coach Redi Jupi for the 2017 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualifying matches against Israel and Portugal in September 2015. He debuted against the former by coming on as a second-half substitute, netting a penalty kick in the 84th minute to rescue his side a 1–1 home draw.", "id": "8124891" }, { "contents": "Romania national football team\n\n\nWorld Cup, Romania won their first match against Peru, 3–1, with goals from Adalbert Desu, Constantin Stanciu and Nicolae Kovács and Samuel Zauber as goalkeeper, before being thrashed 4–0 by hosts and eventual winners Uruguay. Romania qualified for the next World Cup in 1934 after beating Yugoslavia 2–1 in a repeat of their first international. At the finals, Romania played only one game in a new knock-out format, losing 2–1 to Czechoslovakia in Trieste, Italy, with Ștefan Dobay scoring their only goal of the tournament. Romania", "id": "10918860" }, { "contents": "Romania national under-21 football team\n\n\nnational team until the age of 23. The best result achieved by the Romania U-21 squad is the qualification for the 1998 European Championship. Under the guidance of Victor Pițurcă and with a generation of players that included among others Bogdan Lobonț, Florentin Petre, Ionel Dănciulescu and Cătălin Munteanu, Romania U-21 finished the qualifying stage with maximum points after winning all eight games. Romania was then chosen as the host of the final stage. The squad was eliminated in the quarter-finals, being beaten by the Netherlands, 2-1", "id": "14153041" }, { "contents": "James Ward-Prowse\n\n\nhosts France 2–1. Ward-Prowse was nominated for the Vauxhall England Under-21 Player of the Year award, but eventually lost out to Southampton teammate Nathan Redmond. In June 2017, he captained the under-21s at that year's edition of the European Under-21 Championship where England reached the semi-finals, eventually losing to Germany in a penalty shoot-out. On 16 March 2017, he earned his first call-up to the senior England squad for a friendly against Germany and a World Cup qualifying match against Lithuania. Six days", "id": "1352322" }, { "contents": "History of the Romania national football team\n\n\nfirst match against Peru, 3-1, with goals from Adalbert Desu, Constantin Stanciu and Nicolae Kovács, before being thrashed 4-0 by hosts and eventual winners Uruguay. Romania qualified for the next World Cup in 1934 after beating Yugoslavia 2-1 in a repeat of their first international. At the finals, Romania played only one game in a new knock-out format, losing 2-1 to Czechoslovakia in Trieste, Italy, with Ştefan Dobay scoring their only goal of the tournament. Romania qualified by default", "id": "16435698" }, { "contents": "Muarem Muarem\n\n\nSeptember 2009 in a 2-1 loss. He went on to make nine appearances for the team, scoring his first international goal in his second under-21 appearance, a 1-1 draw with Lithuania on 9 September 2009, scoring in the first minute of the match. He scored his second goal a month later against England, netting a low free-kick that brought his team back into the game at 2-1. He also scored against Portugal and Bosnia and Herzegovina. Muarem played his final game for the under-21s", "id": "18689026" }, { "contents": "Giedrius Arlauskis\n\n\nreturn to Romania, joining CFR Cluj. The move was confirmed on 15 August 2017. In August 2008, Arlauskis' performance in Romania led him being called by the Lithuania for the first time. Arlauskis made his national team debut as a substitute against Moldova in a friendly game on 19 November 2008. He joined the game in the 46th minute and conceded a goal after 67 minutes as Lithuania drew with Moldova 1–1. After playing two more caps as a substitute, his first competitive game then came on 18 June 2010,", "id": "17863969" }, { "contents": "Romania national under-21 football team\n\n\n. The Romania under-21 team does not have a permanent home. The team plays in stadiums located all around Romania. Because of the smaller demand compared to the senior national team, smaller facilities are used. As of June 2019, the last three games have been played in Cluj-Napoca. Romania again qualified for the UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship in 2019, after topping a group that included Portugal, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Wales, Switzerland and Liechtenstein. They secured their qualification for the final tournament, by beating Liechtenstein,", "id": "14153042" }, { "contents": "Theo Wharton\n\n\nBorough in July 2018. Wharton signed for National League North club Hereford F.C. on 22 December 2018. Wharton was first selected for the Wales national under-17 team for the 2011 UEFA European Under-17 Championship qualifying round, starting two matches against Belgium and Denmark. Wharton was called up to the Wales under-21 team to play Moldova on 22 March 2013. On 9 September 2014, Wharton made his Wales under-21 debut in a 1–1 draw against Lithuania under-21s. In 2016, Wharton chose to switch allegiance to play for Saint Kitts and Nevis, the", "id": "17934659" }, { "contents": "Marius Niculae\n\n\nwas officially signed. On 26 February, he scored his first goal for Shandong in a friendly match against Chongqing F.C.. After representing Romania at the U-16 and U-18 levels, Niculae was promoted to the U-21 level. Niculae's form for Dinamo saw him selected for the Romania U-21 team to play Bulgaria U-21 on 3 March 1999, and he marked his debut with the second goal as Romania won 3–1. He played his first official match for Romania U-21 on 26 March, in a 0–1 defeat against Slovakia U-21, coming in", "id": "3505256" }, { "contents": "History of the Serbia national football team\n\n\nin 12th minute, from \"penalty spot\", like against Austria three monts before. On 10 October 2009, Serbia made a huge victory 5–0 against Romania and secured placement at 2010 FIFA World Cup. In last match of this qualifying cycle, Lithuania defeated Serbia 2–1 in Marijampolė. In November, Serbia defeat Northern Ireland and South Korea in Belfast and London, 1–0 both matches. Serbia placed into Group D with Germany, team also faced 2010 Africa Cup of Nations runners-up Ghana, and Australia. Their opening group", "id": "3691746" }, { "contents": "History of Ferencvárosi TC\n\n\n1 December 1962 Ferencváros lost 1–0 to Sampdoria in Genoa, Italy. On 12 December 1962 Ferencváros beat Sampdoria 6–0 at home. In the quarter-finals Ferencváros beat Petrolul Ploiești 2–0 at home, while lost the away match 1–0 in Ploiești, Romania. In the semi-finals, Ferencváros lost to NK Dinamo Zagreb 1–0 at home and Ferencváros lost the away match 2–1 in Zagreb, Yugoslavia. Ferencváros won the 1962–63 season of the Hungarian League. Therefore, Ferencváros entered the European Cup 1963–64 season. On 11 September 1963,", "id": "4677552" }, { "contents": "George Pușcaș\n\n\n90th minute of a 2–1 victory over Cosenza. Pușcaș scored seven times for Romania under-21 in the 2019 UEFA European Championship qualifying competition, as his side won its group and progressed to the final tournament in Italy. On 18 June 2019, he obtained the penalty from which he scored the opener in a 4–1 victory over Croatia at the San Marino Stadium. He netted again in the next group game against England, surpassing Ionuț Luțu as the highest scorer of the \"Tricolorii mici\". Pușcaș then gave Romania a half-time", "id": "18913818" }, { "contents": "Belarus women's national football team\n\n\nqualified for the promotion play-offs. In the 2001 European Championship qualifying, again in Class B, Belarus beat Estonia 4–1 and 0–7, Israel 0–5 and 1–0 and Slovakia 1–0, and tied 1–1 in Romania, but the Romanians earned the spot in the promotion play-offs after beating Belarus 0–1. With this settled Belarus lost 6–1 to Slovakia in the last match. In the 2003 World Cup qualifying, Class B, Belarus beat Bosnia 5–2 and 2–7, Turkey 4–0 and 1–5, Slovakia 3–2. They lost the remaining", "id": "21080772" }, { "contents": "Visa requirements for Turkmen citizens\n\n\nEstonia (1 July 1992), Latvia (1993), Lithuania (1 November 1993), Slovakia (6 May 1994), Bulgaria (1 January 1999), Armenia (1999), Moldova (9 June 1999), Russia (17 July 1999), Hungary (1 December 1999), Romania (1 July 2000), Belarus (21 July 2000), Czech Republic (22 October 2000), Poland (3 November 2000), Kazakhstan (1 March 2001). Also Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan,", "id": "5139311" }, { "contents": "Ovie Ejaria\n\n\nplaying the whole match. Ejaria was selected for the England under-20 team in the 2017 FIFA U-20 World Cup. He made his first start in a game in the first round match against South Korea, and came on as a substitute the quarter-final against Mexico, but was an unused substitute in the final where England beat Venezuela 1–0. He was called up for the England under-21 team in March 2018, making his debut in a friendly against Romania. He was called up again in May 2018 for the Toulon Tournament but", "id": "14618472" }, { "contents": "Franck Ribéry\n\n\nCup qualification match against Romania, scoring the team's opening goal in a 2–2 draw. On 28 March 2009, Ribéry scored the lone goal away to Lithuania. Three days later, he completed this feat again, this time at the Stade de France, netting the winner in the 75th minute following service from André-Pierre Gignac. On 11 May 2010, Ribéry was named to Domenech's 30-man preliminary squad to participate in the 2010 World Cup and his second World Cup overall. He was later named to the 23-man team", "id": "15094173" }, { "contents": "Cosmin Contra\n\n\nbeing announced as Timișoara's new player-coach six days later. Over 14 years, Contra earned 73 caps for Romania, scoring seven goals. He appeared for his country at UEFA Euro 2000 and 2008. On 1 April 2009, after a match with Austria, Contra announced his retirement from international football. On 30 August 2010, however, the 34-year-old was recalled for two Euro 2012 qualifiers against Albania and Belarus. Contra made his Timişoara debut as a manager in September 2010, with a win against FC Sportul", "id": "4642171" }, { "contents": "Victor Pițurcă\n\n\nWorld Cup (0–0 against France, 1–1 against Italy), Romania lost 0–2 to the Netherlands, finishing the group in third place and thus being eliminated from the competition. After Euro 2008, Romania showed an increasingly poor form in both friendly games and the 2010 World Cup qualifying campaign, where they had a slow start. In their first two official games after Euro 2008, Romania lost 0–3 against Lithuania at home and four days later secured a difficult 1–0 victory against the Faeroe Islands. Although many of the players which helped", "id": "13766306" }, { "contents": "Paul Papp\n\n\nin a qualification game for the 2011 European Under-21 Championship, against Latvia. He captained his side for the first time, following Torje and Găman's injuries, on 29 May 2010, in the friendly match, lost by Romania against Belarus. On 7 September, Papp was in the startup team for Romania U-21, in a 3–0 win against Russia. The win secured Romania a place in the playoff stage of the 2011 European Under-21 Championship qualifiers. However, he missed the chance to play at the 2011 European Under-21 Championship,", "id": "22044461" }, { "contents": "Ciprian Deac\n\n\nfourth national championship in its history. Deac made his debut for the Romania under-21 team against France on 1 June 2007, with the match ending 1–1. He was part of Romania's preliminary Euro 2008 squad, but missed out on the final list led by manager Victor Pițurcă. On 5 March 2010, Deac finally earned his first cap for the full side in a friendly match against Israel. In August 2017, following a six-year absence, he was selected by Christoph Daum for the 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifying matches", "id": "14907109" }, { "contents": "Radomir Antić\n\n\ninto the fire. Also surprising was leaving tall striker Nikola Žigić on the bench and starting with only on attacker, Marko Pantelić, upfront in 4–5–1 formation. And while Serbia lost 2–1 to somewhat wounded France that just days earlier shockingly lost to Austria, many positives were taken from the match at Stade de France such as a brave attacking approach with a lot of running from the wings. Next up in October was in-form Lithuania, which had recently defeated Romania and Austria without allowing a goal. Contrary to expectations,", "id": "18552988" }, { "contents": "Roy Hodgson\n\n\n, losing 1–0 in Porto. In the tournament the Swiss were drawn in Group A alongside Romania, Colombia and the hosts, United States. The opening match of the group was between Switzerland and the United States and is memorable as the first World Cup match to take place indoors, at the Pontiac Silverdome. The Swiss drew 1–1 against the United States, beat Romania 4–1 and lost 2–0 to Colombia, finishing as runners-up in their group, qualifying for the Round of 16, where they lost 3–0 to Spain.", "id": "12858556" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nagainst Portugal, but did so as England defeated Germany 1–0 in Charleroi, ensuring that England beat their European neighbours for the first time since the 1966 World Cup Final. To remain in the tournament, England only required a draw against Romania in the final group match, and Shearer scored a penalty as England went in at half-time 2–1 up, but Romania ultimately won 3–2. England's tournament was over, and so was Shearer's international career. From his 63 caps, he captained the team 34 times and scored", "id": "13592545" }, { "contents": "Florinel Coman\n\n\nEuropean goal in the UEFA Europa League 1–1 draw with Hapoel Be'er Sheva, on 2 November. Coman featured for Romania at the 2019 UEFA European Under-21 Championship, mostly as a second half substitute. In the group fixture on 21 June, he entered in the 63rd minute for Andrei Ivan, obtained a penalty and scored a double to help to a 4–2 victory against England. He then earned his first and only start in a goalless draw with France, with both teams progressing further to the semi-finals, where Romania suffered", "id": "21859353" }, { "contents": "Mitragyna speciosa\n\n\nDenmark, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania and Sweden. In the UK, since 2016, the sale, import, and export of kratom are prohibited under the Psychoactive Substances Act. In 2017, kratom was designated a Schedule 1 illegal drug (the highest level) in the Republic of Ireland, under the names 7-hydroxymitragynine and mitragynine. The use of kratom leaves, known locally as \"ketum\", is prohibited in Malaysia under Section 30 (3) Poisons Act 1952 and the user may be fined a maximum amount", "id": "16890332" }, { "contents": "Romania national rugby union team\n\n\nThey lost 36–21 to Wales A at Pontypridd and 70–21 in a test held in Wrexham. At the 1999 World Cup Romania could again only manage a single win 27–25 against the United States. In 2000, Romania won the first European Nations Cup by a large margin, recording victories in all four matches. By 2001, Romania had been caught by the likes of Georgia who defeated them to take the 2001 European Nations Cup, crowned with a decisive 31–20 win over Romania in Bucharest. The national side lost to England by 134–0", "id": "10342595" }, { "contents": "Aritz Aduriz\n\n\n. He made his debut on the 8th, replacing Llorente for the last 15 minutes of a 3–1 home win against Lithuania. Six years later, at the age of 35, Aduriz was recalled by manager Vicente del Bosque for friendlies with Italy and Romania. He started and scored in the first match, a 1–1 draw at the \"Stadio Friuli\", and was selected for UEFA Euro 2016 in France. He made two substitute appearances in the group stage, always replacing Juventus' Álvaro Morata in the second half; on", "id": "7991541" }, { "contents": "UEFA Euro 2008 Group C\n\n\nof counter-attacking football. Then, in their second game, they also beat the 2006 World Cup runners-up, France, 4–1. This left the French in a difficult position, having already played out a scoreless draw against Romania in the group's opening match. Romania also played out a draw against Italy in their second match, leaving them in second place going into the final round of group matches. Italy finished as the second quarter-finalists, after they beat France 2–0 in their final game. French", "id": "15100017" }, { "contents": "List of land borders with dates of establishment\n\n\nSan Marino \"Italy–Slovenia \"Italy–Switzerland \"Italy–Vatican City \"Ireland–UK \"Latvia–Lithuania \"Lithuania–Belarus \"Lithuania–Poland \"Lithuania–Russia \"Latvia–Russia \"Liechtenstein–Switzerland \"Republic of Macedonia–Serbia \"Moldova–Romania \"Moldova–Ukraine \"Montenegro–Serbia \"Norway–Russia \"Norway–Sweden \"Poland–Slovakia \"Poland–Russia \"Poland–Ukraine \"Portugal–Spain \"Romania–Ukraine \"Romania–Serbia \"Russia–Ukraine \"Slovakia–", "id": "21121898" }, { "contents": "Nicolaj Thomsen\n\n\nDanish national team on 18 November 2014 against Romania. Thomsen scored the only Danish goal in the 1–1 draw against Iceland which qualified Denmark U-21 for the 2015 UEFA European Under-21 Championship. He was selected for the squad for the tournament and played the entire match in the opening win against the Czech Republic. He was in the line-up in the other two group stage-matches against Germany and Serbia. Thomsen was also chosen to the line-up in the semi final, where Denmark was defeated by Sweden. AaB Copenhagen", "id": "14143520" }, { "contents": "João Cancelo\n\n\n. On 20 April 2019, Cancelo played in the \"Scudetto\"-clinching match against rivals Fiorentina, as Juventus won their eighth successive league title after a 2–1 home triumph. Cancelo represented Portugal in the 2012 UEFA European Under-19 Championship. He was also selected for the following edition, in Lithuania. With the under-20s, Cancelo appeared at the 2013 FIFA World Cup and the 2014 Toulon Tournament. He featured in two games in the former competition, with the country reaching the round-of-16. Cancelo was part of the under-21 squad that competed", "id": "15886722" }, { "contents": "Human rights violations by the CIA\n\n\nofficials. Nicaraguan Contras were taught to lead: The manual also recommended: The CIA claimed that the purpose of the manual was to \"moderate\" activities already being done by the Contras. In May 2018, The European Court of Human Rights ruled that the countries of Romania and Lithuania were involved in torture activities perpetrated by the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). The two countries were found to have run \"black site\" torture rooms and detention facilities therefore committing grave human rights abuses. In Romania, the secret", "id": "1650708" }, { "contents": "European Patent Organisation\n\n\nSerbia which did so on 1 October 2010. In addition there are \"extension states\" which are not Contracting States to the EPC but have instead signed extension agreements under which the protection conferred by European patent applications and patents is extended to the relevant country. These are Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Montenegro. Slovenia, Romania, Lithuania, Latvia, Croatia, Macedonia, Albania and Serbia were all extension states prior to joining the EPC. Furthermore, there are so-called \"validation states\" which are not Contracting States to", "id": "2996937" }, { "contents": "Montenegro national football team\n\n\nPoland, Denmark, Kazakhstan, Armenia and Romania. Poland, Denmark and Romania had been participants in the UEFA Euro 2016, but Montenegro began by drawing 1–1 away to Romania, beating Kazakhstan 5–0 at home and defeating Denmark 1–0. However, they then lost 3–2 away to Armenia despite leading 2–0, and were defeated 2–1 at home by Poland. Montenegro then rebounded, beating Armenia 4–1 and Kazakhstan 3–0. They later eliminated Romania with a 1–0 victory, but losses to the Danes and Poles ended Montenegro's chance of qualifying.", "id": "9236271" }, { "contents": "Denis Alibec\n\n\nplayed for Romania's under-17, under-19 and under-21 teams. On 11 October 2015, after being called up on several occasions in the past, Alibec gained his first cap for the full side in the last UEFA Euro 2016 qualifying match against Faroe Islands, replacing Bogdan Stancu in the 90th minute. In June 2016, he was picked by Anghel Iordănescu for his squad at the final tournament in France and appeared as a substitute in Romania's opening game, a 2–1 defeat to the host. Alibec's father, Gevrim and uncle", "id": "7828376" }, { "contents": "Lukas Spalvis\n\n\nout again on 5 July 2017, joining 2. Bundesliga side 1. FC Kaiserslautern for the 2017–18 season. On 8 May 2018, it was announced that Spalvis had joined 1. FC Kaiserslautern on a permanent deal. On 26 August, he sustained a long term injury in a match and it will leave him out for almost the remainder of the season. Spalvis played several matches for youth national teams, including Lithuania U-19 and Lithuania U-21. In March 2014 he made his debut for the senior team, in a friendly", "id": "11995894" }, { "contents": "Nathan Craze\n\n\nDiv II Group A in Bucharest, Romania, and was also named Netminder of the Tournament. He received the International Ice Hockey Federation Directorate’s Award of the tournament’s Best Netminder when GB won the gold medal in the 2004 World under-18 Championships (Div II) in Lithuania, and he equalled the feat by being voted the IIHF’s tournament Best Netminder when GB won the gold medal in the 2006 World under-20 Championships (Div II) in Romania. In 2006, Craze signed with the Bracknell Bees as their starting goalie,", "id": "21622172" }, { "contents": "Women's event at the 43rd Chess Olympiad\n\n\nbeat Georgia's second team 2½-1½, Italy beat Cuba 3-1, while Lithuania tied their match against Kazakhstan. United States, Georgia and Armenia with 11/12 match points each were on the top after six rounds. The central match of the seventh round was the clash between Armenia and United States on the first table, where Armenians snatched a minimal victory thanks to the Elina Danielian and Anna Sargsyan who scored full point as White in the games against Anna Zatonskih and Sabina-Francesca Foisor, respectively; Jennifer Yu beat Maria Kursova", "id": "7597446" }, { "contents": "Lithuania at the Olympics\n\n\nLithuania, after declaring restoration of independence in 1918, sent its athletes to the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris for the first time. At first it was considered to send 33 athletes, but then it was decided to limit the delegation to 13 soccer players and 2 cyclists. The soccer players arrived in Paris only a day before the game was scheduled. Lithuania debuted at the Olympic games on May 25, 1924 at 2:40pm (Paris time) when the match between Lithuanian and Swiss teams started. Lithuania lost 9-0 (", "id": "8795472" }, { "contents": "Romania national football team\n\n\nthey were a strong challenge for the first place in the group, they eventually finished fifth, above only the Faroe Islands. Their campaign was a disaster that began with a 3–0 home loss to Lithuania and included a 5–0 trashing in Belgrade by Serbia. Furthermore, various problems were caused during the poor campaign, such as the retirement from international football of Cosmin Contra, Mirel Rădoi and Adrian Mutu (the latter would later be recalled after a year's absence). Also, coach Victor Pițurcă resigned and was replaced by Răzvan", "id": "10918895" }, { "contents": "Sūduva Stadium\n\n\nSūduva Stadium, known as ARVI Football Arena for sponsorship reasons, is a multi-purpose stadium in Marijampolė, Lithuania. The stadium was built using funds from the European Union and opened on July 6, 2008. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of FK Sūduva. Its original capacity increased from 4,200 to 6,500 spectators after additional seats were installed in May–June 2009 before a match between Lithuania national team and Romania. Beginning from the 2011 season the stadium was named ARVI Football Arena after", "id": "10765440" }, { "contents": "Kilkim Žaibu\n\n\n, Lithuania. From 2000 to 3000 people visit the festival annually from various countries. Also, bands have performed at Kilkim Žaibu festivals from Australia, Norway, Hungary, Czech Republic, Romania, Ukraine, Russia, Sweden, Finland, Germany and neighbouring countries. The festival took place in Varniai, Lithuania on 28th - 30th June, 2018. The festival took place in Varniai, Lithuania on 29 June - 1 July 2017. The festival took place in Varniai, Lithuania on 23–25 June 2016. The festival took place in", "id": "10249217" }, { "contents": "Latvia national football team\n\n\n, the Latvian team participated in the first qualification tournament for the 1938 World Cup. Latvia were placed in Group 8, alongside Austria and Lithuania. Latvia beat Lithuania 4–2 in Riga, after a Fricis Kaņeps hat-trick and an Iļja Vestermans goal. In Kaunas, they won 5–1, after two goals each from Kaņeps, Vaclavs Borduško, and Vestermans, but lost 1–2 in the decisive away match against Austria, despite an early goal from Vestermans. In April 1938, the Austrian Anschluss relegated the Austrian team, however,", "id": "15750063" }, { "contents": "Miloš Krasić\n\n\nIn May 2006, Krasić played a leading role in the 2006 European U-21 Championship. He made his debut for the senior side later that year in a friendly against Denmark. At senior level, Krasić was an important player for Serbia in 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification. He scored one goal in the match against Lithuania, another in the game against Austria and set up three in the game against Romania, which sealed his nation's qualification to the final tournament in South Africa. Krasić is a right-sided winger, noted", "id": "19580145" }, { "contents": "Philip Billing\n\n\nunder-20 team and the Romania national under-20 football team. He earned his first cap for the U21 team in a qualifying match for the 2019 European Championship against the Faroe Islands on 31 August 2017; it ended in a 3–0 win. He again featured a week later in another qualifying match, which the team won 6–0 against Lithuania. In November 2018, Billing turned down an approach to switch his international allegiance to the Nigeria national team. In March 2019, he received his first call-up to the Denmark national team.", "id": "18184799" }, { "contents": "1934 FIFA World Cup qualification\n\n\nfollows: Key: Estonia v Lithuania was not played since neither team could qualify with a win. Sweden qualified. 11-1 on aggregate; Spain qualified. Italy qualified, as Greece declined to play the second match. Bulgaria withdrew, and the remaining matches were not played since Hungary and Austria were already assured of the top two spots. Hungary and Austria qualified. Poland were unable to travel to Prague for the second match as the Polish government denied the team visas for political reasons. Therefore, Czechoslovakia qualified. Romania", "id": "6526321" }, { "contents": "Rugby union in Romania\n\n\nwon against France 15 – 10 in Bucharest, and the FIRA – Association of European Rugby championship. In 1975 Romania went for an 8 games tour to New Zealand, tour concluded in Wellington with a 10-10 draw against Junior All Blacks. Home nation sides began to award international caps for matches against Romania from 1981. Romania won rugby internationals over Scotland in 1984 and 1991, and also over Wales in 1983 and 1988 (the latter in Cardiff). Between 1960 and 1990, Romania beat France eight times, the", "id": "13829980" }, { "contents": "European Border and Coast Guard Agency\n\n\na border security operation conducted by Frontex, the European Union's border security agency. The operation, under Italian control, began on 1 November 2014 and involves voluntary contributions from 15 other European nations (both EU member states and non-members). Current voluntary contributors to Operation Triton are Croatia, Iceland, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Germany, the Netherlands, France, Spain, Ireland, Portugal, Austria, Switzerland, Romania, Poland, Lithuania, Malta and the United Kingdom. The operation was undertaken after Italy", "id": "20620191" }, { "contents": "Albania national football team\n\n\nqualifying match, Albania made history by qualifying for the UEFA Euro 2016, its first ever appearance at a major men's football tournament. In the tournament itself, Albania lost 0–1 to Switzerland and 0–2 to hosts France. While they beat Romania 1–0 (their first win against Romania since 1947), the team finished last among the third-placed teams and didn't progress beyond the group stage. Despite the UEFA European Championship's almost successful debut, Albania suffered massive setback. In 2018 World Cup qualification, Albania had been", "id": "15457050" }, { "contents": "Dean Henderson\n\n\nmore times as an unused substitute bench that saw him missed out two matches for the side in the league. He made his under-21 debut on 24 March 2018, in a friendly at home against Romania, which England won 2–1. Henderson was named as England's number one for the 2019 UEFA European Under-21 Championship. Growing up, Henderson played county cricket as a schoolboy and was an accomplished batsman and wicket-keeper but chose football. Henderson initially started out as an outfield player before switching to his role as a goalkeeper.", "id": "6533434" }, { "contents": "Harry Maguire\n\n\n-up to either because he is such a level headed character.\" Maguire duly made his England under-21 debut as a substitute in the 60th minute, coming on for Liverpool's Andre Wisdom in a 2–0 win against Northern Ireland Under-21s at Bloomfield Road. On 24 August 2017, England manager Gareth Southgate included Maguire in his squad for the 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification matches against Malta and Slovakia. He made his debut when starting in England's 1–0 away win over Lithuania, which was the team's final match in their successful", "id": "3737243" }, { "contents": "Albania national under-21 football team\n\n\nmatch against Romania was characterized by a large Albania's win 7–1, which is the largest win ever recorded by Albania U-21. Albania Under-21s have managed to qualify only once in their history, and that came in the year of 1984 when they managed to qualify for the 1984 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship, although they were competing for the first time in such tournament. They were drawn in a very tough group which included the West Germany, Turkey and Austria. The historic event was the first time any Albanian squad qualified for", "id": "19363492" }, { "contents": "Alexandru Mitriță\n\n\nNew York City goal on the 17th the same month, in a 2–2 draw with Los Angeles FC. In March 2018, Mitriță was called up for Romania senior team's friendlies with Israel and Sweden later that month, after reportedly impressing coach Cosmin Contra. He made his debut in the former match on the 24th, and offered an assist to George Țucudean in a 2–1 win in Netanya. Mitriță is deployed as an attacking midfielder or a winger on either flank, having been noted for pace and technical ability which allow him", "id": "4318108" }, { "contents": "Claudiu Bumba\n\n\nsigned a four-year contract with Israeli club Hapoel Tel Aviv. On 2 February 2017, he signed a two and a half years contract with Dinamo Bucharest. He scored his first goal for Dinamo Bucharest on 10 April, in 2-1 league win against Astra Giurgiu. Bumba made his debut for Romania U-17 on 21 September 2010 in a game against Kazakhstan U-17. He played with the under-17 team at the 2011 UEFA European Under-17 Football Championship. On 6 October 2011, in a game against Sweden U-19, Bumba came", "id": "11657727" }, { "contents": "Dorian Dervite\n\n\nand U-21 levels. He has captained them on occasions. He was called up to the Under-21 squad to face Estonia and England. He was called for the international Toulon Tournament again with the U21, then against Poland and for the U21 European Championship qualifiers against Lithuania and Ukraine. he scored his first goal for France in a home draw with Poland U21 on 12 August 2009 with an 80th minute shot to make it 2–1 to France with the game ending 2–2, his last game for the Under-21s came in their 3–1 away win", "id": "18562600" }, { "contents": "Povilas Leimonas\n\n\nwith Jagiellonia Białystok. Povilas played for Lithuania's \"B\" team in two games in 2011, both against Lithuania U-21. The first game, played in Vilnius on 9 February, was won 2-1 by the \"B\" team, and the second match, in Marijampole on 2 March, resulted in a 3-0 win. Leimonas made his senior international debut on 7 June 2011, in a 1-0 friendly loss to Norway. He earned his second cap two months later in another friendly, the", "id": "16136896" }, { "contents": "History of the Romania national football team\n\n\nmatch in Bern, but the Netherlands were regarded as the outstanding team in the tournament, having followed their comprehensive win against Italy with an equally emphatic 4-1 win over France. A draw would also take Romania through were the other match between Italy and France to be drawn. With Italy taking a first-half lead against a France side reduced to ten men, it became apparent that Romania needed to beat the Netherlands to qualify. However, they played poorly and the Netherlands won 2-0 with second half goals", "id": "16435731" }, { "contents": "Sander Puri\n\n\nEstonia at under-17, under-19 and under-21 level. He made his debut for the senior national team on 30 May 2008 against Latvia in the 2008 Baltic Cup. He scored his first national team goal on 22 November 2008, in a 1–1 draw against Lithuania in a Mayors Cup match. A goal against Saint Kitts and Nevis saw him awarded the Estonian Silverball, for the best goal scored for Estonia in 2015. Puri is one of three triplets: his brother, Eino Puri, is also a footballer and his sister, Kadri", "id": "21342008" }, { "contents": "Eduards Višņakovs\n\n\nagainst Estonia on 5 June 2013, helping his team secure a 2–0 victory. On 10 September 2013 the U-23 team beat England 1-0, with Višņakovs scoring his second goal in two matches. Višņakovs was firstly called up to Latvia national football team for the FIFA World Cup 2014 qualifying matches against Lithuania and Slovakia on 11 and 15 October 2013. He made his debut for the national team in the match against Lithuania, coming on as a substitute in the 77th minute and replacing Māris Verpakovskis. A local scandal arose when", "id": "17206337" }, { "contents": "Romania national rugby union team\n\n\nthe Super Powers Cup. The USA beat a Romanian team stripped of their France-based players 23–16 in the third place play-off. The 2005–06 European Nations Cup also served as a qualifying group for the 2007 Rugby World Cup. Romania triumphed despite finishing level on points with Georgia. Romania qualified for the 2007 Rugby World Cup in France, finishing at the top of their pool during the Round 5 of the European qualifying tournaments. Romania won their first qualifying match on October 7, defeating Georgia in Bucharest 20–8. Their", "id": "10342600" }, { "contents": "Shlomo Lipetz\n\n\n, against Lithuania, Lipetz tossed a 10-inning, 4-hit complete game to beat Lithuania 2-1. He led that qualifier in victories and tied for second in strikeouts. During the 2012 European Baseball Championship qualifiers, in 2011, Lipetz pitched in 3 of the 5 games. Lipetz beat Georgia in the opener pitching 7 innings and striking out 9. Lipetz did not appear in the second game, against Great Britain, or in the third game against Lithuania. During the first game of the home/away finals against Great Britain", "id": "12992976" }, { "contents": "State Farm Stadium\n\n\nsoccer match attended by 62,462 fans. The United States men's national soccer team defeated Mexico, 2–0. On January 21, 2012, the U.S. played against Venezuela and won the match 1–0. On January 30, 2013, Mexico played against Denmark, a game that was broadcast on Televisa Deportes, UniMás, and TV Azteca. The match ended in a 1–1 draw. On November 19, 2015, the stadium was one of the sites selected for the 2016 Copa América Centenario. The stadium hosted three matches, including Mexico", "id": "18339554" }, { "contents": "Yacine Brahimi\n\n\npenalty in a 3–1 victory over Germany. He played with the under-16 team at the 2006 edition of the Montaigu Tournament playing in all four matches the team contested as France were crowned champions defeating Italy 2–1 in the final. With the under-17 team, Brahimi made his debut on 25 September in a qualification match for the 2007 UEFA European Under-17 Championship against Lithuania. France won the match 4–2 with Brahimi making a substitute appearance. Despite appearing in the first round of qualification, Brahimi was absent from the tournament itself, due to the", "id": "1037894" }, { "contents": "Ross McCormack\n\n\nfirst goal for the side on 11 October 2007 against Lithuania and scored again in his next appearance, a 4–0 victory over Slovenia U21s. McCormack won 10 caps for the under-21 side. He made his debut for the senior side on 30 May 2008 when he came on as a substitute during the 3–1 defeat of Czech Republic. McCormack was called up again in March 2009 for the 2010 FIFA World Cup qualifiers against Netherlands and Iceland. He started both matches, scoring his first goal for Scotland in a 2–1 win over Iceland on", "id": "8895190" }, { "contents": "Hungary national under-19 football team\n\n\n, and the atmosphere helped in times of need. The first match against Lithuania, was a 2-2 draw, but in the last 2 matches, the team could win, against Cyprus 2-1, and Portugal 1-0 and that was enough to qualify. The list below is the current list of U-19 national players according to the official Hungarian Football Federation website. Competition:2018 UEFA European Under-19 Football Championship (elite round)br Match Dates:25 March 2019br Opposition: The following players have been selected by Hungary in the past 12", "id": "4045560" }, { "contents": "X Factor (Romanian TV series)\n\n\nthe show aired starting 17 September 2011. Auditions for producers began in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, on 14 May 2011. They then took place in Constanța, on 21 May in Timișoara on 24 May 2011, on 4 June in Iași and concluded on 11 June 2011 in Bucharest. The first season ended on 1 January 2012, (16-24s) mentored by Mihai Morar was declared the first winner of The X Factor in Romania. Alin Văduva (Over 25s) was runner-up followed by Iulian Vasile (", "id": "16662967" }, { "contents": "Romania national football team\n\n\n0–5. In the next match, Romania recorded another draw (0–0), against Kazakhstan. The last match played in 2016 was a 0–3 defeat against Poland, with Robert Lewandowski scoring a double. After an uninspiring campaign, Romania ended in the fourth place in Group E with 13 points. After 8 of the 10 games, due to lackluster performances, coach Christoph Daum was fired and replaced with a promising new coach, Cosmin Contra. The Romania national team plays its home games at Arena Națională, the biggest stadium in", "id": "10918904" }, { "contents": "Chris Smalling\n\n\nfirst start for the under-21s in a 2011 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualifier against Portugal at Wembley Stadium in a 1–0 win. He scored his first goal for the under-21s on 8 October 2010, against Romania, in England's 2011 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification play-off first leg, converting from inside the area after an assist from Daniel Sturridge. The goal, scored in the 83rd minute, proved to be the winner as England won 2–1. On 13 November 2010, Smalling was called up to the England senior squad for", "id": "656401" }, { "contents": "Lithuania men's national basketball team\n\n\n. The only consolation was the remaining opportunity to qualify into the World Championship, which the Lithuanians achieved by beating Russia and Slovenia for fifth place. Lithuania won 5 of 6 games in the tournament. Consequently, the competition scheme was questioned in its reliability. The 2006 FIBA World Championship in Japan had Lithuania matching the 7th place from their 1998 debut, but many saw this performance as an under-achievement. Lithuania started the tournament with a narrow 2-point loss to Turkey, followed by an overtime defeat to eventual finalists Greece which", "id": "14520278" }, { "contents": "Shane McFaul\n\n\nCup when beating Sligo Rovers 2–1 at Tallaght Stadium. McFaul was later named Man of the Match in the F.A.I Cup Final Vs Sligo Rovers and also the honour of being named Sporting Fingal Player of the Year 2009. In the 2010 season his performances for Fingal attracted the interest of Scottish giants Celtic FC. http://www.herald.ie/sport/soccer/celtic-track-sporting-fingal-pair-27948702.html Shane made his Republic of Ireland U21 debut in a friendly game against Germany on 21 August 2007. He was also an unused sub in the UEFA European Under-21 Championship Qualifying games against Portugal and England. McFaul signed for", "id": "13006237" }, { "contents": "Connor Roberts (footballer, born 1995)\n\n\nand he returned to Swansea City. Roberts made his debut for Swansea City on 6 January 2018 in the FA Cup 3rd round against Wolverhampton Wanderers. He scored his first goal for the club on 29 September 2018 during a 3–0 win over Queens Park Rangers. Roberts has been capped at Wales under-19 level. In March 2016, Roberts received his first call-up to the Wales under-21 side for their 2017 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification matches, and made his debut as a second-half substitute in their 2–1 defeat against Romania", "id": "12721076" }, { "contents": "Roberta Anastase\n\n\nRoberta Alma Anastase (; born 27 March 1976 in Ploieşti) is a Romanian politician and former first female Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies of Romania between 19 December 2008 and 3 July 2012. She is a member of the Democratic Liberal Party, affiliated to the European People's Party–European Democrats, and became an MEP on 1 January 2007 with the accession of Romania to the European Union. She also represented Romania at the 1996 Miss Universe competition. She attended the Faculty of Sociology at the University of Bucharest in the mid-90", "id": "19157242" }, { "contents": "Kostas Mitroglou\n\n\n, he scored a goal against Germany in a 3–2 win at Vorwärts Stadium. Mitroglou finished as the top goalscorer of the competition with three goals. In 2007, Mitroglou was promoted to the Greece under-21 team. He scored two goals in a 3–1 home win against Macedonia in the UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualifiers, and later a goal in a 1–1 home draw against England and the only goal against Lithuania as the campaign continued. In 2009, Mitroglou was selected for the senior Greece side for the first time. He scored his", "id": "2125765" } ]

[ { "contents": "Football in Lithuania\n\n\nFootball is popular sport in Lithuania. The former Soviet republic made their entrance as an independent football nation in 1992. In the qualification for the Euro 2004, Lithuania held Germany to a 1-1 draw in Germany and won against Scotland. In the qualification for the Euro 2008 they played away to the 2006 World Cup winners Italy and drew 1-1 as well as beating Romania 3-0 in Lithuania in another shock performance. In 1922 in Lithuania, like in Poland, soccer championships began. Then, in the", "id": "4830771" }, { "contents": "Marius Niculae\n\n\n2–0 win. Despite he scored 20 goals for Dinamo in the 1999–00 season, Niculae was not included by Emerich Ienei in the preliminary squad for UEFA Euro 2000. On 2 September, Niculae scored a brace for Romania U-21 against Lithuania in the first match from the 2002 European Championship qualifiers, counting his first goals in an official match. On 6 October, Niculae played his final match for the U-21 squad, netting Romania's only goal in the 1–1 draw against European Championship holders Italy. On 5 December, Niculae scored his", "id": "3505259" }, { "contents": "Stadionul Marin Anastasovici\n\n\nMarin Anastasovici Stadium is a multi-use stadium in Giurgiu, Romania. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home ground of Astra Giurgiu. The stadium holds 8,500 people all on seats. The first international game was played by the Romania national under-21 football team on 19 November 2013 in a match against Germany which ended 2-2. The first game for Romania at Giurgiu was a friendly match against Lithuania on 23 March 2016. The stadium host also various UEFA Europa League matches and also a match from", "id": "15891395" }, { "contents": "History of the Romania national football team\n\n\nEast Germany scoring a predictable 4-1 win in Albania, Romania were out, despite a huge 9-0 win over Finland in Bucharest. Romania continued to suffer poor form in the UEFA European Championship. In their qualifying group for the 1976 European Football Championship, they were out-qualified by Spain, despite an impressive 1-1 draw in the away match. Romania failed to win matches, drawing twice with Scotland and Spain and dropping points in Denmark with a dismal goalless draw. Romania were again beat by Spain", "id": "16435703" }, { "contents": "Faroe Islands national under-21 football team\n\n\nRussia U21, beating them 1-0 after a goal in the first minute. This was followed by a 1-1 draw against Moldova in September, but Faroe Islands lost the next match 3-1 against Latvia. Russia had their revenge in the away match and defeated Faroe Islands 2-0. They also lost both matches against Romania. In November 2009 Faroe Islands beat Latvia 1-0 and were held to a 1-1 draw against Andorra. Faroe Islands won the home match against Andorra 3-1", "id": "13865866" }, { "contents": "Carrow Road\n\n\non five occasions. The first was in 1983 in a European Under-21 Championship qualifying match against Denmark, which England won 4–1. The team played another qualifying match in the same tournament at the stadium in 1997, beating Greece 4–2. The Slovakia team featured in a friendly match at the ground in June 2007, England winning 5–0 in front of a crowd of 20,193 people. In 2010, the ground played host to a play-off against Romania, a game the home side won 2–1 in front of a then record all", "id": "8674438" }, { "contents": "Romania national football team\n\n\nGianluigi Buffon saved the subsequent Mutu penalty, leaving Romania with two points and needing a win against the Netherlands, which eliminated France 4–1 that same evening. The Netherlands beat Romania 2–0 in the final game of the group, which meant that Italy joined the Netherlands in the quarter-finals and Romania finished third, ahead of France. Romania were drawn into the UEFA qualifying round for the 2010 World Cup alongside France, Serbia, Austria, Lithuania and the Faroe Islands. Although Romania were seeded in the second pot, suggesting that", "id": "10918894" }, { "contents": "Rugby union in Romania\n\n\n, drawing two, and losing one. Later in 1955, the Romanians defeated Llanelli in Moscow, and then beat both Cardiff and Harlequins in Bucharest. Only France, who played Romania before almost 95,000 fans in Bucharest (in a preliminary match to a soccer international), could beat the Romanians, and that was only after an epic 16-15 battle. A generation of French school-trained coaches from the late 1940s and 1950s laid the foundations for national success in the 1960s, 70s and 80s. In 1974 Romania", "id": "13829979" }, { "contents": "Dennis Man\n\n\nover Rudar Velenje. Man was selected for the Romania under-21 team and scored on debut in a 3–1 away victory over Bosnia and Herzegovina, on 1 September 2017. Senior manager Cosmin Contra gave Man his first Romania call-up for the friendlies with Israel and Sweden in March 2018. He made his debut in the latter game, replacing Nicolae Stanciu in 87th minute as his side won 1–0 at the Stadionul Ion Oblemenco in Craiova. On 11 June 2019, he netted the last of his team in a 4–0 defeat of Malta", "id": "12444532" }, { "contents": "2011 Rugby World Cup qualifying\n\n\nand Romania). On a home and away basis, Romania prevailed by winning 32–12 in Bucharest, preceded by a 21–21 draw in Montevideo. It competed in Pool B. Both nations had won the repechage semi-finals. Those were conducted as single matches, with the European and African qualifiers drawn into one semi-final and the Asian and Americas qualifiers drawn into the other. Romania beat Tunisia 56–13 and Uruguay had the upper hand over Kazakhstan winning 44–7. Both matches were hosted by the team with the higher IRB World Ranking", "id": "11180430" }, { "contents": "Moshtagh Yaghoubi\n\n\nterminated by Shakhter Karagandy on 17 June 2016. On 4 November 2016, HJK Helsinki announced the signing of Yaghoubi. On 31 January 2019, Seinäjoen Jalkapallokerho announced the signing of Yaghoubi. Yaghoubi acquired Finnish nationality in 2013 and got called up for Finland national under-21 team for 2015 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship qualification match against Lithuania on 11 June 2013. Yaghoubi scored his national team debut goal when Finland beat Wales U-21 5–1 in UEFA Under-21 Championship qualification on 14 August 2013. On 31 October 2013 Yaghoubi made his debut for Finland national", "id": "15530739" }, { "contents": "Romania national football team\n\n\npoor form in the UEFA European Championship. In their qualifying group for the 1976 European Football Championship, they were out-qualified by Spain despite an impressive 1–1 draw in the away match. Romania failed to win matches, drawing twice with Scotland and Spain and dropping points in Denmark with a dismal goalless draw. Romania were again beaten by Spain for a place in the 1978 World Cup in Argentina. Despite a 1–0 win in Bucharest, Romania lost a bizarre match at home to Yugoslavia 6–4 having led 3–2 at half time.", "id": "10918865" }, { "contents": "History of the Romania national football team\n\n\nfor a place in the 1978 World Cup in Argentina. Despite a 1-0 win in Bucharest, Romania lost a bizarre match at home to Yugoslavia 6-4 having led 3-2 at half time. Spain won 1-0 in Belgrade to seal passage to South America. Romania's sole successful qualifying campaign was for the European Championships in 1984 in France. At the finals, Romania were drawn with regular rivals Spain, holders West Germany and dark horses Portugal. Under head coach Mircea Lucescu, an encouraging opening", "id": "16435704" }, { "contents": "Yann Sommer\n\n\nUnder-21 Championship, hosted by Denmark between 11 and 25 June 2011. The Swiss team reached the 2011 UEFA European Under-21 Championship Final on 25 June without conceding a goal, but lost 2–0 to Spain. This was Sommer's final match for the under-21s. Sommer made his debut for the Swiss senior side on 30 May 2012 at the Swissporarena, Lucerne, in a 0–1 defeat against Romania in a friendly match. On 13 May, he was named in Switzerland's 23-man squad for the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil. Alongside", "id": "823566" }, { "contents": "Scotland at the UEFA European Championship\n\n\nqualifying saw Scotland face Denmark, Romania and Spain. Scotland lost their opening match 2–1 to the Spaniards at Hampden, before drawing 1–1 in Valencia. Gordon McQueen scored a late equaliser to win Scotland a point away in Romania, before Joe Harper's goal saw Scotland beat Denmark 1–0 away from home. Scotland won the reverse fixture 3–1. Scotland's final match was at home to Romania, with Scotland requiring a two goal win to win the group and qualify for the play-offs. Scotland took the lead through a Bruce", "id": "1546781" }, { "contents": "Polish football in the interwar period\n\n\nyet more achievements. On October 2, a so-called double match took place (such games were popular in 1930s European Football). The reserve Poland team beat 2-1 Latvia at Warsaw, and at the same hour the first lineup faced Romania in Bucharest. Romania (with several of its starters of Hungarian nationality from Transylvania) was regarded a very strong team. The Poles, however, overwhelmed it 5-0 and this was the biggest success of Polish Football so far. This game is significant also for", "id": "21819213" }, { "contents": "History of the Romania national football team\n\n\nLithuania in Cluj-Napoca before scraping an unconvincing 1-0 win in the Faroe Islands, midfielder Răzvan Cociş scoring the goal. Their third match would be at home to France, who had also begun with a bad loss, 3-1 to Austria in Vienna. Romania raced into a 2-0 lead in Constanţa with goals from Florentin Petre and Dorin Goian but France pulled one back before half time through Franck Ribéry. A long-range strike from Yoann Gourcuff earned France a draw but both sides were left with", "id": "16435733" }, { "contents": "Nauris Bulvītis\n\n\nseason. Bulvītis has been capped internationally at under-19 and under-21 levels. In 2012 Latvia national football team coach Aleksandrs Starkovs called him up for the 2012 Baltic Cup. Nauris played 2 matches, helping Latvia win the tournament. Bulvītis scored his first international goal on 6 September 2013 in a 2–1 2014 FIFA World Cup qualification match victory over Lithuania. In May 2014 he helped Latvia win the Baltic Cup for the second time in a row, scoring the only goal in a 1–0 victory over Lithuania in the final of the tournament.", "id": "22161076" }, { "contents": "Lithuania national football team\n\n\nScotland; however, a 1–0 defeat to Scotland in the final game ended their hopes. Although finishing fifth in their 2006 World Cup qualifying group, Lithuania were nevertheless competitive. Lithuania drew with world champions Italy 1–1 in Naples in a Euro 2008 qualifying game on 2 September 2006, in the first competitive game that Italy played since the World Cup final. On 6 September 2008, Lithuania defeated Romania 3–0 in a 2010 World Cup qualifier. The victory was regarded by many as \"a historic win.\" It was followed by", "id": "6890277" }, { "contents": "Colchester Community Stadium\n\n\n2011 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship as they beat Lithuania 3–0 with two goals from Danny Welbeck and one from Marc Albrighton. A crowd of 7,240 watched the game on 7 September 2010. The England under-21s returned to Colchester for a 2013 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualifier on 11 November 2011. The Young Lions cruised to a 5–0 victory against Iceland on the night, with goals from Marvin Sordell, Martin Kelly, Craig Dawson and two scored by Gary Gardner. The attendance for the game was 10,051. England won their fourth match after", "id": "19735537" }, { "contents": "Arvydas Novikovas\n\n\na starter. During his 2 season there he has helped Jagiellonia Białystok finish 2nd twice in a row. He has scored 16 goals and provided 12 assists in the 58 games he has played for them, starting the 2018/19 season with 3 goals and 2 assists in his first 9 games. Novikovas represented the Lithuania under-21's when he was just a 16-year-old. In May 2009, he was called up to the Lithuania squad, for their FIFA World Cup qualifier with Romania. On 9 September, Novikovas scored for Lithuania", "id": "1849831" }, { "contents": "Valon Ahmedi\n\n\ndebuted for the under-21 side against Macedonia U21, playing as a starter for the entire first-half in an eventual goalless draw. He received another call up for the under-21 side by same coach Skënder Gega for the friendly match against Romania U21 on 8 October 2014. He played against Romania U21 as a starter and in the 60th minute provided the assist for the 1–1 equalising goal scored by Vedat Muriqi, which however wasn't enough as Romania U21 won 3–1. Ahmedi was called up for the first time in an official competitive", "id": "7679765" }, { "contents": "Alessandro Del Piero\n\n\nthat qualified for and later won the 1996 European Under-21 Championship, appearing in the quarter-finals. Del Piero made his senior debut under Arrigo Sacchi at the age of 20, on 25 March 1995, in a 4–1 win over Estonia in a Euro 1996 qualifying match. Del Piero scored his first goal for Italy on 15 November 1995, in a 4–0 win over Lithuania in a Euro 1996 qualifying match. His tournament debut was at UEFA Euro 1996, where he made his only appearance in the first half of the team", "id": "4132525" }, { "contents": "1998 UEFA European Under-21 Championship squads\n\n\nThe following is a list of squads for each nation competing at 1998 UEFA European Under-21 Championship in Romania. The tournament started on 23 May and the final took place in Bucharest on 31 May 1998. Players born on or after 1 January 1975 were eligible to play in the tournament. Each nation had to submit a squad of 20 players, two of which had to be goalkeepers. If a player was injured seriously enough to prevent his taking part in the tournament before his team's first match, he could be replaced by", "id": "6042468" }, { "contents": "Lithuania national under-21 football team\n\n\nThe Lithuania national under-21 football team is the national under-21 football team of Lithuania and is controlled by the Lithuanian Football Federation. Squad called up for the friendly match against on 10 November 2017 and 2019 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification match against on 14 November 2017. ! colspan=\"9\" bgcolor=\"#B0D3FB\" align=\"left\" | ! colspan=\"9\" bgcolor=\"#B0D3FB\" align=\"left\" | ! colspan=\"9\" bgcolor=\"#B0D3FB\" align=\"left\" | ! colspan=\"7\" bgcolor=\"#B0D3FB\" align=\"left\" | ! colspan=\"9\" bgcolor=\"#B0D3FB\" align=\"left\" | ! colspan=\"9\" bgcolor=\"#B0D3FB\" align=\"left\" | ! colspan=\"9\"", "id": "15919932" }, { "contents": "James Milner\n\n\nMilner competed for England at the 2007 UEFA European Under-21 Championship. He played in all four of England's matches and was booked in the semi-final against the Netherlands, which meant he would have missed the final. The match was decided by a penalty shoot-out, in which Milner scored twice and England lost 13–12. Milner was included in the under-21 squad for a friendly against Romania, which ended in a 1–1 draw. A month later, Milner set an England under-21 record by making his 30th appearance for the", "id": "1860629" }, { "contents": "Endri Çekiçi\n\n\nat Albania under-21 by coach Skënder Gega for the friendly match against Romania U21 on 8 October 2014. In that match, he came on as a substitute in the second half, and Albania lost 1–3. Çekiçi received another call up by the newly appointed coach Redi Jupi for the 2017 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualifying matches against Israel and Portugal in September 2015. He debuted against the former by coming on as a second-half substitute, netting a penalty kick in the 84th minute to rescue his side a 1–1 home draw.", "id": "8124891" }, { "contents": "Romania national football team\n\n\nWorld Cup, Romania won their first match against Peru, 3–1, with goals from Adalbert Desu, Constantin Stanciu and Nicolae Kovács and Samuel Zauber as goalkeeper, before being thrashed 4–0 by hosts and eventual winners Uruguay. Romania qualified for the next World Cup in 1934 after beating Yugoslavia 2–1 in a repeat of their first international. At the finals, Romania played only one game in a new knock-out format, losing 2–1 to Czechoslovakia in Trieste, Italy, with Ștefan Dobay scoring their only goal of the tournament. Romania", "id": "10918860" }, { "contents": "Romania national under-21 football team\n\n\nnational team until the age of 23. The best result achieved by the Romania U-21 squad is the qualification for the 1998 European Championship. Under the guidance of Victor Pițurcă and with a generation of players that included among others Bogdan Lobonț, Florentin Petre, Ionel Dănciulescu and Cătălin Munteanu, Romania U-21 finished the qualifying stage with maximum points after winning all eight games. Romania was then chosen as the host of the final stage. The squad was eliminated in the quarter-finals, being beaten by the Netherlands, 2-1", "id": "14153041" }, { "contents": "James Ward-Prowse\n\n\nhosts France 2–1. Ward-Prowse was nominated for the Vauxhall England Under-21 Player of the Year award, but eventually lost out to Southampton teammate Nathan Redmond. In June 2017, he captained the under-21s at that year's edition of the European Under-21 Championship where England reached the semi-finals, eventually losing to Germany in a penalty shoot-out. On 16 March 2017, he earned his first call-up to the senior England squad for a friendly against Germany and a World Cup qualifying match against Lithuania. Six days", "id": "1352322" }, { "contents": "History of the Romania national football team\n\n\nfirst match against Peru, 3-1, with goals from Adalbert Desu, Constantin Stanciu and Nicolae Kovács, before being thrashed 4-0 by hosts and eventual winners Uruguay. Romania qualified for the next World Cup in 1934 after beating Yugoslavia 2-1 in a repeat of their first international. At the finals, Romania played only one game in a new knock-out format, losing 2-1 to Czechoslovakia in Trieste, Italy, with Ştefan Dobay scoring their only goal of the tournament. Romania qualified by default", "id": "16435698" }, { "contents": "Muarem Muarem\n\n\nSeptember 2009 in a 2-1 loss. He went on to make nine appearances for the team, scoring his first international goal in his second under-21 appearance, a 1-1 draw with Lithuania on 9 September 2009, scoring in the first minute of the match. He scored his second goal a month later against England, netting a low free-kick that brought his team back into the game at 2-1. He also scored against Portugal and Bosnia and Herzegovina. Muarem played his final game for the under-21s", "id": "18689026" }, { "contents": "Giedrius Arlauskis\n\n\nreturn to Romania, joining CFR Cluj. The move was confirmed on 15 August 2017. In August 2008, Arlauskis' performance in Romania led him being called by the Lithuania for the first time. Arlauskis made his national team debut as a substitute against Moldova in a friendly game on 19 November 2008. He joined the game in the 46th minute and conceded a goal after 67 minutes as Lithuania drew with Moldova 1–1. After playing two more caps as a substitute, his first competitive game then came on 18 June 2010,", "id": "17863969" }, { "contents": "Romania national under-21 football team\n\n\n. The Romania under-21 team does not have a permanent home. The team plays in stadiums located all around Romania. Because of the smaller demand compared to the senior national team, smaller facilities are used. As of June 2019, the last three games have been played in Cluj-Napoca. Romania again qualified for the UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship in 2019, after topping a group that included Portugal, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Wales, Switzerland and Liechtenstein. They secured their qualification for the final tournament, by beating Liechtenstein,", "id": "14153042" }, { "contents": "Theo Wharton\n\n\nBorough in July 2018. Wharton signed for National League North club Hereford F.C. on 22 December 2018. Wharton was first selected for the Wales national under-17 team for the 2011 UEFA European Under-17 Championship qualifying round, starting two matches against Belgium and Denmark. Wharton was called up to the Wales under-21 team to play Moldova on 22 March 2013. On 9 September 2014, Wharton made his Wales under-21 debut in a 1–1 draw against Lithuania under-21s. In 2016, Wharton chose to switch allegiance to play for Saint Kitts and Nevis, the", "id": "17934659" }, { "contents": "Marius Niculae\n\n\nwas officially signed. On 26 February, he scored his first goal for Shandong in a friendly match against Chongqing F.C.. After representing Romania at the U-16 and U-18 levels, Niculae was promoted to the U-21 level. Niculae's form for Dinamo saw him selected for the Romania U-21 team to play Bulgaria U-21 on 3 March 1999, and he marked his debut with the second goal as Romania won 3–1. He played his first official match for Romania U-21 on 26 March, in a 0–1 defeat against Slovakia U-21, coming in", "id": "3505256" }, { "contents": "History of the Serbia national football team\n\n\nin 12th minute, from \"penalty spot\", like against Austria three monts before. On 10 October 2009, Serbia made a huge victory 5–0 against Romania and secured placement at 2010 FIFA World Cup. In last match of this qualifying cycle, Lithuania defeated Serbia 2–1 in Marijampolė. In November, Serbia defeat Northern Ireland and South Korea in Belfast and London, 1–0 both matches. Serbia placed into Group D with Germany, team also faced 2010 Africa Cup of Nations runners-up Ghana, and Australia. Their opening group", "id": "3691746" }, { "contents": "History of Ferencvárosi TC\n\n\n1 December 1962 Ferencváros lost 1–0 to Sampdoria in Genoa, Italy. On 12 December 1962 Ferencváros beat Sampdoria 6–0 at home. In the quarter-finals Ferencváros beat Petrolul Ploiești 2–0 at home, while lost the away match 1–0 in Ploiești, Romania. In the semi-finals, Ferencváros lost to NK Dinamo Zagreb 1–0 at home and Ferencváros lost the away match 2–1 in Zagreb, Yugoslavia. Ferencváros won the 1962–63 season of the Hungarian League. Therefore, Ferencváros entered the European Cup 1963–64 season. On 11 September 1963,", "id": "4677552" }, { "contents": "George Pușcaș\n\n\n90th minute of a 2–1 victory over Cosenza. Pușcaș scored seven times for Romania under-21 in the 2019 UEFA European Championship qualifying competition, as his side won its group and progressed to the final tournament in Italy. On 18 June 2019, he obtained the penalty from which he scored the opener in a 4–1 victory over Croatia at the San Marino Stadium. He netted again in the next group game against England, surpassing Ionuț Luțu as the highest scorer of the \"Tricolorii mici\". Pușcaș then gave Romania a half-time", "id": "18913818" }, { "contents": "Belarus women's national football team\n\n\nqualified for the promotion play-offs. In the 2001 European Championship qualifying, again in Class B, Belarus beat Estonia 4–1 and 0–7, Israel 0–5 and 1–0 and Slovakia 1–0, and tied 1–1 in Romania, but the Romanians earned the spot in the promotion play-offs after beating Belarus 0–1. With this settled Belarus lost 6–1 to Slovakia in the last match. In the 2003 World Cup qualifying, Class B, Belarus beat Bosnia 5–2 and 2–7, Turkey 4–0 and 1–5, Slovakia 3–2. They lost the remaining", "id": "21080772" }, { "contents": "Visa requirements for Turkmen citizens\n\n\nEstonia (1 July 1992), Latvia (1993), Lithuania (1 November 1993), Slovakia (6 May 1994), Bulgaria (1 January 1999), Armenia (1999), Moldova (9 June 1999), Russia (17 July 1999), Hungary (1 December 1999), Romania (1 July 2000), Belarus (21 July 2000), Czech Republic (22 October 2000), Poland (3 November 2000), Kazakhstan (1 March 2001). Also Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan,", "id": "5139311" }, { "contents": "Ovie Ejaria\n\n\nplaying the whole match. Ejaria was selected for the England under-20 team in the 2017 FIFA U-20 World Cup. He made his first start in a game in the first round match against South Korea, and came on as a substitute the quarter-final against Mexico, but was an unused substitute in the final where England beat Venezuela 1–0. He was called up for the England under-21 team in March 2018, making his debut in a friendly against Romania. He was called up again in May 2018 for the Toulon Tournament but", "id": "14618472" }, { "contents": "Franck Ribéry\n\n\nCup qualification match against Romania, scoring the team's opening goal in a 2–2 draw. On 28 March 2009, Ribéry scored the lone goal away to Lithuania. Three days later, he completed this feat again, this time at the Stade de France, netting the winner in the 75th minute following service from André-Pierre Gignac. On 11 May 2010, Ribéry was named to Domenech's 30-man preliminary squad to participate in the 2010 World Cup and his second World Cup overall. He was later named to the 23-man team", "id": "15094173" }, { "contents": "Cosmin Contra\n\n\nbeing announced as Timișoara's new player-coach six days later. Over 14 years, Contra earned 73 caps for Romania, scoring seven goals. He appeared for his country at UEFA Euro 2000 and 2008. On 1 April 2009, after a match with Austria, Contra announced his retirement from international football. On 30 August 2010, however, the 34-year-old was recalled for two Euro 2012 qualifiers against Albania and Belarus. Contra made his Timişoara debut as a manager in September 2010, with a win against FC Sportul", "id": "4642171" }, { "contents": "Victor Pițurcă\n\n\nWorld Cup (0–0 against France, 1–1 against Italy), Romania lost 0–2 to the Netherlands, finishing the group in third place and thus being eliminated from the competition. After Euro 2008, Romania showed an increasingly poor form in both friendly games and the 2010 World Cup qualifying campaign, where they had a slow start. In their first two official games after Euro 2008, Romania lost 0–3 against Lithuania at home and four days later secured a difficult 1–0 victory against the Faeroe Islands. Although many of the players which helped", "id": "13766306" }, { "contents": "Paul Papp\n\n\nin a qualification game for the 2011 European Under-21 Championship, against Latvia. He captained his side for the first time, following Torje and Găman's injuries, on 29 May 2010, in the friendly match, lost by Romania against Belarus. On 7 September, Papp was in the startup team for Romania U-21, in a 3–0 win against Russia. The win secured Romania a place in the playoff stage of the 2011 European Under-21 Championship qualifiers. However, he missed the chance to play at the 2011 European Under-21 Championship,", "id": "22044461" }, { "contents": "Ciprian Deac\n\n\nfourth national championship in its history. Deac made his debut for the Romania under-21 team against France on 1 June 2007, with the match ending 1–1. He was part of Romania's preliminary Euro 2008 squad, but missed out on the final list led by manager Victor Pițurcă. On 5 March 2010, Deac finally earned his first cap for the full side in a friendly match against Israel. In August 2017, following a six-year absence, he was selected by Christoph Daum for the 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifying matches", "id": "14907109" }, { "contents": "Radomir Antić\n\n\ninto the fire. Also surprising was leaving tall striker Nikola Žigić on the bench and starting with only on attacker, Marko Pantelić, upfront in 4–5–1 formation. And while Serbia lost 2–1 to somewhat wounded France that just days earlier shockingly lost to Austria, many positives were taken from the match at Stade de France such as a brave attacking approach with a lot of running from the wings. Next up in October was in-form Lithuania, which had recently defeated Romania and Austria without allowing a goal. Contrary to expectations,", "id": "18552988" }, { "contents": "Roy Hodgson\n\n\n, losing 1–0 in Porto. In the tournament the Swiss were drawn in Group A alongside Romania, Colombia and the hosts, United States. The opening match of the group was between Switzerland and the United States and is memorable as the first World Cup match to take place indoors, at the Pontiac Silverdome. The Swiss drew 1–1 against the United States, beat Romania 4–1 and lost 2–0 to Colombia, finishing as runners-up in their group, qualifying for the Round of 16, where they lost 3–0 to Spain.", "id": "12858556" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nagainst Portugal, but did so as England defeated Germany 1–0 in Charleroi, ensuring that England beat their European neighbours for the first time since the 1966 World Cup Final. To remain in the tournament, England only required a draw against Romania in the final group match, and Shearer scored a penalty as England went in at half-time 2–1 up, but Romania ultimately won 3–2. England's tournament was over, and so was Shearer's international career. From his 63 caps, he captained the team 34 times and scored", "id": "13592545" }, { "contents": "Florinel Coman\n\n\nEuropean goal in the UEFA Europa League 1–1 draw with Hapoel Be'er Sheva, on 2 November. Coman featured for Romania at the 2019 UEFA European Under-21 Championship, mostly as a second half substitute. In the group fixture on 21 June, he entered in the 63rd minute for Andrei Ivan, obtained a penalty and scored a double to help to a 4–2 victory against England. He then earned his first and only start in a goalless draw with France, with both teams progressing further to the semi-finals, where Romania suffered", "id": "21859353" }, { "contents": "Mitragyna speciosa\n\n\nDenmark, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania and Sweden. In the UK, since 2016, the sale, import, and export of kratom are prohibited under the Psychoactive Substances Act. In 2017, kratom was designated a Schedule 1 illegal drug (the highest level) in the Republic of Ireland, under the names 7-hydroxymitragynine and mitragynine. The use of kratom leaves, known locally as \"ketum\", is prohibited in Malaysia under Section 30 (3) Poisons Act 1952 and the user may be fined a maximum amount", "id": "16890332" }, { "contents": "Romania national rugby union team\n\n\nThey lost 36–21 to Wales A at Pontypridd and 70–21 in a test held in Wrexham. At the 1999 World Cup Romania could again only manage a single win 27–25 against the United States. In 2000, Romania won the first European Nations Cup by a large margin, recording victories in all four matches. By 2001, Romania had been caught by the likes of Georgia who defeated them to take the 2001 European Nations Cup, crowned with a decisive 31–20 win over Romania in Bucharest. The national side lost to England by 134–0", "id": "10342595" }, { "contents": "Aritz Aduriz\n\n\n. He made his debut on the 8th, replacing Llorente for the last 15 minutes of a 3–1 home win against Lithuania. Six years later, at the age of 35, Aduriz was recalled by manager Vicente del Bosque for friendlies with Italy and Romania. He started and scored in the first match, a 1–1 draw at the \"Stadio Friuli\", and was selected for UEFA Euro 2016 in France. He made two substitute appearances in the group stage, always replacing Juventus' Álvaro Morata in the second half; on", "id": "7991541" }, { "contents": "UEFA Euro 2008 Group C\n\n\nof counter-attacking football. Then, in their second game, they also beat the 2006 World Cup runners-up, France, 4–1. This left the French in a difficult position, having already played out a scoreless draw against Romania in the group's opening match. Romania also played out a draw against Italy in their second match, leaving them in second place going into the final round of group matches. Italy finished as the second quarter-finalists, after they beat France 2–0 in their final game. French", "id": "15100017" }, { "contents": "List of land borders with dates of establishment\n\n\nSan Marino \"Italy–Slovenia \"Italy–Switzerland \"Italy–Vatican City \"Ireland–UK \"Latvia–Lithuania \"Lithuania–Belarus \"Lithuania–Poland \"Lithuania–Russia \"Latvia–Russia \"Liechtenstein–Switzerland \"Republic of Macedonia–Serbia \"Moldova–Romania \"Moldova–Ukraine \"Montenegro–Serbia \"Norway–Russia \"Norway–Sweden \"Poland–Slovakia \"Poland–Russia \"Poland–Ukraine \"Portugal–Spain \"Romania–Ukraine \"Romania–Serbia \"Russia–Ukraine \"Slovakia–", "id": "21121898" }, { "contents": "Nicolaj Thomsen\n\n\nDanish national team on 18 November 2014 against Romania. Thomsen scored the only Danish goal in the 1–1 draw against Iceland which qualified Denmark U-21 for the 2015 UEFA European Under-21 Championship. He was selected for the squad for the tournament and played the entire match in the opening win against the Czech Republic. He was in the line-up in the other two group stage-matches against Germany and Serbia. Thomsen was also chosen to the line-up in the semi final, where Denmark was defeated by Sweden. AaB Copenhagen", "id": "14143520" }, { "contents": "João Cancelo\n\n\n. On 20 April 2019, Cancelo played in the \"Scudetto\"-clinching match against rivals Fiorentina, as Juventus won their eighth successive league title after a 2–1 home triumph. Cancelo represented Portugal in the 2012 UEFA European Under-19 Championship. He was also selected for the following edition, in Lithuania. With the under-20s, Cancelo appeared at the 2013 FIFA World Cup and the 2014 Toulon Tournament. He featured in two games in the former competition, with the country reaching the round-of-16. Cancelo was part of the under-21 squad that competed", "id": "15886722" }, { "contents": "Human rights violations by the CIA\n\n\nofficials. Nicaraguan Contras were taught to lead: The manual also recommended: The CIA claimed that the purpose of the manual was to \"moderate\" activities already being done by the Contras. In May 2018, The European Court of Human Rights ruled that the countries of Romania and Lithuania were involved in torture activities perpetrated by the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). The two countries were found to have run \"black site\" torture rooms and detention facilities therefore committing grave human rights abuses. In Romania, the secret", "id": "1650708" }, { "contents": "European Patent Organisation\n\n\nSerbia which did so on 1 October 2010. In addition there are \"extension states\" which are not Contracting States to the EPC but have instead signed extension agreements under which the protection conferred by European patent applications and patents is extended to the relevant country. These are Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Montenegro. Slovenia, Romania, Lithuania, Latvia, Croatia, Macedonia, Albania and Serbia were all extension states prior to joining the EPC. Furthermore, there are so-called \"validation states\" which are not Contracting States to", "id": "2996937" }, { "contents": "Montenegro national football team\n\n\nPoland, Denmark, Kazakhstan, Armenia and Romania. Poland, Denmark and Romania had been participants in the UEFA Euro 2016, but Montenegro began by drawing 1–1 away to Romania, beating Kazakhstan 5–0 at home and defeating Denmark 1–0. However, they then lost 3–2 away to Armenia despite leading 2–0, and were defeated 2–1 at home by Poland. Montenegro then rebounded, beating Armenia 4–1 and Kazakhstan 3–0. They later eliminated Romania with a 1–0 victory, but losses to the Danes and Poles ended Montenegro's chance of qualifying.", "id": "9236271" }, { "contents": "Denis Alibec\n\n\nplayed for Romania's under-17, under-19 and under-21 teams. On 11 October 2015, after being called up on several occasions in the past, Alibec gained his first cap for the full side in the last UEFA Euro 2016 qualifying match against Faroe Islands, replacing Bogdan Stancu in the 90th minute. In June 2016, he was picked by Anghel Iordănescu for his squad at the final tournament in France and appeared as a substitute in Romania's opening game, a 2–1 defeat to the host. Alibec's father, Gevrim and uncle", "id": "7828376" }, { "contents": "Lukas Spalvis\n\n\nout again on 5 July 2017, joining 2. Bundesliga side 1. FC Kaiserslautern for the 2017–18 season. On 8 May 2018, it was announced that Spalvis had joined 1. FC Kaiserslautern on a permanent deal. On 26 August, he sustained a long term injury in a match and it will leave him out for almost the remainder of the season. Spalvis played several matches for youth national teams, including Lithuania U-19 and Lithuania U-21. In March 2014 he made his debut for the senior team, in a friendly", "id": "11995894" }, { "contents": "Nathan Craze\n\n\nDiv II Group A in Bucharest, Romania, and was also named Netminder of the Tournament. He received the International Ice Hockey Federation Directorate’s Award of the tournament’s Best Netminder when GB won the gold medal in the 2004 World under-18 Championships (Div II) in Lithuania, and he equalled the feat by being voted the IIHF’s tournament Best Netminder when GB won the gold medal in the 2006 World under-20 Championships (Div II) in Romania. In 2006, Craze signed with the Bracknell Bees as their starting goalie,", "id": "21622172" }, { "contents": "Women's event at the 43rd Chess Olympiad\n\n\nbeat Georgia's second team 2½-1½, Italy beat Cuba 3-1, while Lithuania tied their match against Kazakhstan. United States, Georgia and Armenia with 11/12 match points each were on the top after six rounds. The central match of the seventh round was the clash between Armenia and United States on the first table, where Armenians snatched a minimal victory thanks to the Elina Danielian and Anna Sargsyan who scored full point as White in the games against Anna Zatonskih and Sabina-Francesca Foisor, respectively; Jennifer Yu beat Maria Kursova", "id": "7597446" }, { "contents": "Lithuania at the Olympics\n\n\nLithuania, after declaring restoration of independence in 1918, sent its athletes to the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris for the first time. At first it was considered to send 33 athletes, but then it was decided to limit the delegation to 13 soccer players and 2 cyclists. The soccer players arrived in Paris only a day before the game was scheduled. Lithuania debuted at the Olympic games on May 25, 1924 at 2:40pm (Paris time) when the match between Lithuanian and Swiss teams started. Lithuania lost 9-0 (", "id": "8795472" }, { "contents": "Romania national football team\n\n\nthey were a strong challenge for the first place in the group, they eventually finished fifth, above only the Faroe Islands. Their campaign was a disaster that began with a 3–0 home loss to Lithuania and included a 5–0 trashing in Belgrade by Serbia. Furthermore, various problems were caused during the poor campaign, such as the retirement from international football of Cosmin Contra, Mirel Rădoi and Adrian Mutu (the latter would later be recalled after a year's absence). Also, coach Victor Pițurcă resigned and was replaced by Răzvan", "id": "10918895" }, { "contents": "Sūduva Stadium\n\n\nSūduva Stadium, known as ARVI Football Arena for sponsorship reasons, is a multi-purpose stadium in Marijampolė, Lithuania. The stadium was built using funds from the European Union and opened on July 6, 2008. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of FK Sūduva. Its original capacity increased from 4,200 to 6,500 spectators after additional seats were installed in May–June 2009 before a match between Lithuania national team and Romania. Beginning from the 2011 season the stadium was named ARVI Football Arena after", "id": "10765440" }, { "contents": "Kilkim Žaibu\n\n\n, Lithuania. From 2000 to 3000 people visit the festival annually from various countries. Also, bands have performed at Kilkim Žaibu festivals from Australia, Norway, Hungary, Czech Republic, Romania, Ukraine, Russia, Sweden, Finland, Germany and neighbouring countries. The festival took place in Varniai, Lithuania on 28th - 30th June, 2018. The festival took place in Varniai, Lithuania on 29 June - 1 July 2017. The festival took place in Varniai, Lithuania on 23–25 June 2016. The festival took place in", "id": "10249217" }, { "contents": "Latvia national football team\n\n\n, the Latvian team participated in the first qualification tournament for the 1938 World Cup. Latvia were placed in Group 8, alongside Austria and Lithuania. Latvia beat Lithuania 4–2 in Riga, after a Fricis Kaņeps hat-trick and an Iļja Vestermans goal. In Kaunas, they won 5–1, after two goals each from Kaņeps, Vaclavs Borduško, and Vestermans, but lost 1–2 in the decisive away match against Austria, despite an early goal from Vestermans. In April 1938, the Austrian Anschluss relegated the Austrian team, however,", "id": "15750063" }, { "contents": "Miloš Krasić\n\n\nIn May 2006, Krasić played a leading role in the 2006 European U-21 Championship. He made his debut for the senior side later that year in a friendly against Denmark. At senior level, Krasić was an important player for Serbia in 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification. He scored one goal in the match against Lithuania, another in the game against Austria and set up three in the game against Romania, which sealed his nation's qualification to the final tournament in South Africa. Krasić is a right-sided winger, noted", "id": "19580145" }, { "contents": "Philip Billing\n\n\nunder-20 team and the Romania national under-20 football team. He earned his first cap for the U21 team in a qualifying match for the 2019 European Championship against the Faroe Islands on 31 August 2017; it ended in a 3–0 win. He again featured a week later in another qualifying match, which the team won 6–0 against Lithuania. In November 2018, Billing turned down an approach to switch his international allegiance to the Nigeria national team. In March 2019, he received his first call-up to the Denmark national team.", "id": "18184799" }, { "contents": "1934 FIFA World Cup qualification\n\n\nfollows: Key: Estonia v Lithuania was not played since neither team could qualify with a win. Sweden qualified. 11-1 on aggregate; Spain qualified. Italy qualified, as Greece declined to play the second match. Bulgaria withdrew, and the remaining matches were not played since Hungary and Austria were already assured of the top two spots. Hungary and Austria qualified. Poland were unable to travel to Prague for the second match as the Polish government denied the team visas for political reasons. Therefore, Czechoslovakia qualified. Romania", "id": "6526321" }, { "contents": "Rugby union in Romania\n\n\nwon against France 15 – 10 in Bucharest, and the FIRA – Association of European Rugby championship. In 1975 Romania went for an 8 games tour to New Zealand, tour concluded in Wellington with a 10-10 draw against Junior All Blacks. Home nation sides began to award international caps for matches against Romania from 1981. Romania won rugby internationals over Scotland in 1984 and 1991, and also over Wales in 1983 and 1988 (the latter in Cardiff). Between 1960 and 1990, Romania beat France eight times, the", "id": "13829980" }, { "contents": "European Border and Coast Guard Agency\n\n\na border security operation conducted by Frontex, the European Union's border security agency. The operation, under Italian control, began on 1 November 2014 and involves voluntary contributions from 15 other European nations (both EU member states and non-members). Current voluntary contributors to Operation Triton are Croatia, Iceland, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Germany, the Netherlands, France, Spain, Ireland, Portugal, Austria, Switzerland, Romania, Poland, Lithuania, Malta and the United Kingdom. The operation was undertaken after Italy", "id": "20620191" }, { "contents": "Albania national football team\n\n\nqualifying match, Albania made history by qualifying for the UEFA Euro 2016, its first ever appearance at a major men's football tournament. In the tournament itself, Albania lost 0–1 to Switzerland and 0–2 to hosts France. While they beat Romania 1–0 (their first win against Romania since 1947), the team finished last among the third-placed teams and didn't progress beyond the group stage. Despite the UEFA European Championship's almost successful debut, Albania suffered massive setback. In 2018 World Cup qualification, Albania had been", "id": "15457050" }, { "contents": "Dean Henderson\n\n\nmore times as an unused substitute bench that saw him missed out two matches for the side in the league. He made his under-21 debut on 24 March 2018, in a friendly at home against Romania, which England won 2–1. Henderson was named as England's number one for the 2019 UEFA European Under-21 Championship. Growing up, Henderson played county cricket as a schoolboy and was an accomplished batsman and wicket-keeper but chose football. Henderson initially started out as an outfield player before switching to his role as a goalkeeper.", "id": "6533434" }, { "contents": "Harry Maguire\n\n\n-up to either because he is such a level headed character.\" Maguire duly made his England under-21 debut as a substitute in the 60th minute, coming on for Liverpool's Andre Wisdom in a 2–0 win against Northern Ireland Under-21s at Bloomfield Road. On 24 August 2017, England manager Gareth Southgate included Maguire in his squad for the 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification matches against Malta and Slovakia. He made his debut when starting in England's 1–0 away win over Lithuania, which was the team's final match in their successful", "id": "3737243" }, { "contents": "Albania national under-21 football team\n\n\nmatch against Romania was characterized by a large Albania's win 7–1, which is the largest win ever recorded by Albania U-21. Albania Under-21s have managed to qualify only once in their history, and that came in the year of 1984 when they managed to qualify for the 1984 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship, although they were competing for the first time in such tournament. They were drawn in a very tough group which included the West Germany, Turkey and Austria. The historic event was the first time any Albanian squad qualified for", "id": "19363492" }, { "contents": "Alexandru Mitriță\n\n\nNew York City goal on the 17th the same month, in a 2–2 draw with Los Angeles FC. In March 2018, Mitriță was called up for Romania senior team's friendlies with Israel and Sweden later that month, after reportedly impressing coach Cosmin Contra. He made his debut in the former match on the 24th, and offered an assist to George Țucudean in a 2–1 win in Netanya. Mitriță is deployed as an attacking midfielder or a winger on either flank, having been noted for pace and technical ability which allow him", "id": "4318108" }, { "contents": "Claudiu Bumba\n\n\nsigned a four-year contract with Israeli club Hapoel Tel Aviv. On 2 February 2017, he signed a two and a half years contract with Dinamo Bucharest. He scored his first goal for Dinamo Bucharest on 10 April, in 2-1 league win against Astra Giurgiu. Bumba made his debut for Romania U-17 on 21 September 2010 in a game against Kazakhstan U-17. He played with the under-17 team at the 2011 UEFA European Under-17 Football Championship. On 6 October 2011, in a game against Sweden U-19, Bumba came", "id": "11657727" }, { "contents": "Dorian Dervite\n\n\nand U-21 levels. He has captained them on occasions. He was called up to the Under-21 squad to face Estonia and England. He was called for the international Toulon Tournament again with the U21, then against Poland and for the U21 European Championship qualifiers against Lithuania and Ukraine. he scored his first goal for France in a home draw with Poland U21 on 12 August 2009 with an 80th minute shot to make it 2–1 to France with the game ending 2–2, his last game for the Under-21s came in their 3–1 away win", "id": "18562600" }, { "contents": "Povilas Leimonas\n\n\nwith Jagiellonia Białystok. Povilas played for Lithuania's \"B\" team in two games in 2011, both against Lithuania U-21. The first game, played in Vilnius on 9 February, was won 2-1 by the \"B\" team, and the second match, in Marijampole on 2 March, resulted in a 3-0 win. Leimonas made his senior international debut on 7 June 2011, in a 1-0 friendly loss to Norway. He earned his second cap two months later in another friendly, the", "id": "16136896" }, { "contents": "History of the Romania national football team\n\n\nmatch in Bern, but the Netherlands were regarded as the outstanding team in the tournament, having followed their comprehensive win against Italy with an equally emphatic 4-1 win over France. A draw would also take Romania through were the other match between Italy and France to be drawn. With Italy taking a first-half lead against a France side reduced to ten men, it became apparent that Romania needed to beat the Netherlands to qualify. However, they played poorly and the Netherlands won 2-0 with second half goals", "id": "16435731" }, { "contents": "Sander Puri\n\n\nEstonia at under-17, under-19 and under-21 level. He made his debut for the senior national team on 30 May 2008 against Latvia in the 2008 Baltic Cup. He scored his first national team goal on 22 November 2008, in a 1–1 draw against Lithuania in a Mayors Cup match. A goal against Saint Kitts and Nevis saw him awarded the Estonian Silverball, for the best goal scored for Estonia in 2015. Puri is one of three triplets: his brother, Eino Puri, is also a footballer and his sister, Kadri", "id": "21342008" }, { "contents": "Eduards Višņakovs\n\n\nagainst Estonia on 5 June 2013, helping his team secure a 2–0 victory. On 10 September 2013 the U-23 team beat England 1-0, with Višņakovs scoring his second goal in two matches. Višņakovs was firstly called up to Latvia national football team for the FIFA World Cup 2014 qualifying matches against Lithuania and Slovakia on 11 and 15 October 2013. He made his debut for the national team in the match against Lithuania, coming on as a substitute in the 77th minute and replacing Māris Verpakovskis. A local scandal arose when", "id": "17206337" }, { "contents": "Romania national rugby union team\n\n\nthe Super Powers Cup. The USA beat a Romanian team stripped of their France-based players 23–16 in the third place play-off. The 2005–06 European Nations Cup also served as a qualifying group for the 2007 Rugby World Cup. Romania triumphed despite finishing level on points with Georgia. Romania qualified for the 2007 Rugby World Cup in France, finishing at the top of their pool during the Round 5 of the European qualifying tournaments. Romania won their first qualifying match on October 7, defeating Georgia in Bucharest 20–8. Their", "id": "10342600" }, { "contents": "Shlomo Lipetz\n\n\n, against Lithuania, Lipetz tossed a 10-inning, 4-hit complete game to beat Lithuania 2-1. He led that qualifier in victories and tied for second in strikeouts. During the 2012 European Baseball Championship qualifiers, in 2011, Lipetz pitched in 3 of the 5 games. Lipetz beat Georgia in the opener pitching 7 innings and striking out 9. Lipetz did not appear in the second game, against Great Britain, or in the third game against Lithuania. During the first game of the home/away finals against Great Britain", "id": "12992976" }, { "contents": "State Farm Stadium\n\n\nsoccer match attended by 62,462 fans. The United States men's national soccer team defeated Mexico, 2–0. On January 21, 2012, the U.S. played against Venezuela and won the match 1–0. On January 30, 2013, Mexico played against Denmark, a game that was broadcast on Televisa Deportes, UniMás, and TV Azteca. The match ended in a 1–1 draw. On November 19, 2015, the stadium was one of the sites selected for the 2016 Copa América Centenario. The stadium hosted three matches, including Mexico", "id": "18339554" }, { "contents": "Yacine Brahimi\n\n\npenalty in a 3–1 victory over Germany. He played with the under-16 team at the 2006 edition of the Montaigu Tournament playing in all four matches the team contested as France were crowned champions defeating Italy 2–1 in the final. With the under-17 team, Brahimi made his debut on 25 September in a qualification match for the 2007 UEFA European Under-17 Championship against Lithuania. France won the match 4–2 with Brahimi making a substitute appearance. Despite appearing in the first round of qualification, Brahimi was absent from the tournament itself, due to the", "id": "1037894" }, { "contents": "Ross McCormack\n\n\nfirst goal for the side on 11 October 2007 against Lithuania and scored again in his next appearance, a 4–0 victory over Slovenia U21s. McCormack won 10 caps for the under-21 side. He made his debut for the senior side on 30 May 2008 when he came on as a substitute during the 3–1 defeat of Czech Republic. McCormack was called up again in March 2009 for the 2010 FIFA World Cup qualifiers against Netherlands and Iceland. He started both matches, scoring his first goal for Scotland in a 2–1 win over Iceland on", "id": "8895190" }, { "contents": "Hungary national under-19 football team\n\n\n, and the atmosphere helped in times of need. The first match against Lithuania, was a 2-2 draw, but in the last 2 matches, the team could win, against Cyprus 2-1, and Portugal 1-0 and that was enough to qualify. The list below is the current list of U-19 national players according to the official Hungarian Football Federation website. Competition:2018 UEFA European Under-19 Football Championship (elite round)br Match Dates:25 March 2019br Opposition: The following players have been selected by Hungary in the past 12", "id": "4045560" }, { "contents": "X Factor (Romanian TV series)\n\n\nthe show aired starting 17 September 2011. Auditions for producers began in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, on 14 May 2011. They then took place in Constanța, on 21 May in Timișoara on 24 May 2011, on 4 June in Iași and concluded on 11 June 2011 in Bucharest. The first season ended on 1 January 2012, (16-24s) mentored by Mihai Morar was declared the first winner of The X Factor in Romania. Alin Văduva (Over 25s) was runner-up followed by Iulian Vasile (", "id": "16662967" }, { "contents": "Romania national football team\n\n\n0–5. In the next match, Romania recorded another draw (0–0), against Kazakhstan. The last match played in 2016 was a 0–3 defeat against Poland, with Robert Lewandowski scoring a double. After an uninspiring campaign, Romania ended in the fourth place in Group E with 13 points. After 8 of the 10 games, due to lackluster performances, coach Christoph Daum was fired and replaced with a promising new coach, Cosmin Contra. The Romania national team plays its home games at Arena Națională, the biggest stadium in", "id": "10918904" }, { "contents": "Chris Smalling\n\n\nfirst start for the under-21s in a 2011 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualifier against Portugal at Wembley Stadium in a 1–0 win. He scored his first goal for the under-21s on 8 October 2010, against Romania, in England's 2011 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification play-off first leg, converting from inside the area after an assist from Daniel Sturridge. The goal, scored in the 83rd minute, proved to be the winner as England won 2–1. On 13 November 2010, Smalling was called up to the England senior squad for", "id": "656401" }, { "contents": "Lithuania men's national basketball team\n\n\n. The only consolation was the remaining opportunity to qualify into the World Championship, which the Lithuanians achieved by beating Russia and Slovenia for fifth place. Lithuania won 5 of 6 games in the tournament. Consequently, the competition scheme was questioned in its reliability. The 2006 FIBA World Championship in Japan had Lithuania matching the 7th place from their 1998 debut, but many saw this performance as an under-achievement. Lithuania started the tournament with a narrow 2-point loss to Turkey, followed by an overtime defeat to eventual finalists Greece which", "id": "14520278" }, { "contents": "Shane McFaul\n\n\nCup when beating Sligo Rovers 2–1 at Tallaght Stadium. McFaul was later named Man of the Match in the F.A.I Cup Final Vs Sligo Rovers and also the honour of being named Sporting Fingal Player of the Year 2009. In the 2010 season his performances for Fingal attracted the interest of Scottish giants Celtic FC. http://www.herald.ie/sport/soccer/celtic-track-sporting-fingal-pair-27948702.html Shane made his Republic of Ireland U21 debut in a friendly game against Germany on 21 August 2007. He was also an unused sub in the UEFA European Under-21 Championship Qualifying games against Portugal and England. McFaul signed for", "id": "13006237" }, { "contents": "Connor Roberts (footballer, born 1995)\n\n\nand he returned to Swansea City. Roberts made his debut for Swansea City on 6 January 2018 in the FA Cup 3rd round against Wolverhampton Wanderers. He scored his first goal for the club on 29 September 2018 during a 3–0 win over Queens Park Rangers. Roberts has been capped at Wales under-19 level. In March 2016, Roberts received his first call-up to the Wales under-21 side for their 2017 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification matches, and made his debut as a second-half substitute in their 2–1 defeat against Romania", "id": "12721076" }, { "contents": "Roberta Anastase\n\n\nRoberta Alma Anastase (; born 27 March 1976 in Ploieşti) is a Romanian politician and former first female Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies of Romania between 19 December 2008 and 3 July 2012. She is a member of the Democratic Liberal Party, affiliated to the European People's Party–European Democrats, and became an MEP on 1 January 2007 with the accession of Romania to the European Union. She also represented Romania at the 1996 Miss Universe competition. She attended the Faculty of Sociology at the University of Bucharest in the mid-90", "id": "19157242" }, { "contents": "Kostas Mitroglou\n\n\n, he scored a goal against Germany in a 3–2 win at Vorwärts Stadium. Mitroglou finished as the top goalscorer of the competition with three goals. In 2007, Mitroglou was promoted to the Greece under-21 team. He scored two goals in a 3–1 home win against Macedonia in the UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualifiers, and later a goal in a 1–1 home draw against England and the only goal against Lithuania as the campaign continued. In 2009, Mitroglou was selected for the senior Greece side for the first time. He scored his", "id": "2125765" } ]

[ { "contents": "Football in Lithuania\n\n\nFootball is popular sport in Lithuania. The former Soviet republic made their entrance as an independent football nation in 1992. In the qualification for the Euro 2004, Lithuania held Germany to a 1-1 draw in Germany and won against Scotland. In the qualification for the Euro 2008 they played away to the 2006 World Cup winners Italy and drew 1-1 as well as beating Romania 3-0 in Lithuania in another shock performance. In 1922 in Lithuania, like in Poland, soccer championships began. Then, in the", "id": "4830771" }, { "contents": "Marius Niculae\n\n\n2–0 win. Despite he scored 20 goals for Dinamo in the 1999–00 season, Niculae was not included by Emerich Ienei in the preliminary squad for UEFA Euro 2000. On 2 September, Niculae scored a brace for Romania U-21 against Lithuania in the first match from the 2002 European Championship qualifiers, counting his first goals in an official match. On 6 October, Niculae played his final match for the U-21 squad, netting Romania's only goal in the 1–1 draw against European Championship holders Italy. On 5 December, Niculae scored his", "id": "3505259" }, { "contents": "Stadionul Marin Anastasovici\n\n\nMarin Anastasovici Stadium is a multi-use stadium in Giurgiu, Romania. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home ground of Astra Giurgiu. The stadium holds 8,500 people all on seats. The first international game was played by the Romania national under-21 football team on 19 November 2013 in a match against Germany which ended 2-2. The first game for Romania at Giurgiu was a friendly match against Lithuania on 23 March 2016. The stadium host also various UEFA Europa League matches and also a match from", "id": "15891395" }, { "contents": "History of the Romania national football team\n\n\nEast Germany scoring a predictable 4-1 win in Albania, Romania were out, despite a huge 9-0 win over Finland in Bucharest. Romania continued to suffer poor form in the UEFA European Championship. In their qualifying group for the 1976 European Football Championship, they were out-qualified by Spain, despite an impressive 1-1 draw in the away match. Romania failed to win matches, drawing twice with Scotland and Spain and dropping points in Denmark with a dismal goalless draw. Romania were again beat by Spain", "id": "16435703" }, { "contents": "Faroe Islands national under-21 football team\n\n\nRussia U21, beating them 1-0 after a goal in the first minute. This was followed by a 1-1 draw against Moldova in September, but Faroe Islands lost the next match 3-1 against Latvia. Russia had their revenge in the away match and defeated Faroe Islands 2-0. They also lost both matches against Romania. In November 2009 Faroe Islands beat Latvia 1-0 and were held to a 1-1 draw against Andorra. Faroe Islands won the home match against Andorra 3-1", "id": "13865866" }, { "contents": "Carrow Road\n\n\non five occasions. The first was in 1983 in a European Under-21 Championship qualifying match against Denmark, which England won 4–1. The team played another qualifying match in the same tournament at the stadium in 1997, beating Greece 4–2. The Slovakia team featured in a friendly match at the ground in June 2007, England winning 5–0 in front of a crowd of 20,193 people. In 2010, the ground played host to a play-off against Romania, a game the home side won 2–1 in front of a then record all", "id": "8674438" }, { "contents": "Romania national football team\n\n\nGianluigi Buffon saved the subsequent Mutu penalty, leaving Romania with two points and needing a win against the Netherlands, which eliminated France 4–1 that same evening. The Netherlands beat Romania 2–0 in the final game of the group, which meant that Italy joined the Netherlands in the quarter-finals and Romania finished third, ahead of France. Romania were drawn into the UEFA qualifying round for the 2010 World Cup alongside France, Serbia, Austria, Lithuania and the Faroe Islands. Although Romania were seeded in the second pot, suggesting that", "id": "10918894" }, { "contents": "Rugby union in Romania\n\n\n, drawing two, and losing one. Later in 1955, the Romanians defeated Llanelli in Moscow, and then beat both Cardiff and Harlequins in Bucharest. Only France, who played Romania before almost 95,000 fans in Bucharest (in a preliminary match to a soccer international), could beat the Romanians, and that was only after an epic 16-15 battle. A generation of French school-trained coaches from the late 1940s and 1950s laid the foundations for national success in the 1960s, 70s and 80s. In 1974 Romania", "id": "13829979" }, { "contents": "Dennis Man\n\n\nover Rudar Velenje. Man was selected for the Romania under-21 team and scored on debut in a 3–1 away victory over Bosnia and Herzegovina, on 1 September 2017. Senior manager Cosmin Contra gave Man his first Romania call-up for the friendlies with Israel and Sweden in March 2018. He made his debut in the latter game, replacing Nicolae Stanciu in 87th minute as his side won 1–0 at the Stadionul Ion Oblemenco in Craiova. On 11 June 2019, he netted the last of his team in a 4–0 defeat of Malta", "id": "12444532" }, { "contents": "2011 Rugby World Cup qualifying\n\n\nand Romania). On a home and away basis, Romania prevailed by winning 32–12 in Bucharest, preceded by a 21–21 draw in Montevideo. It competed in Pool B. Both nations had won the repechage semi-finals. Those were conducted as single matches, with the European and African qualifiers drawn into one semi-final and the Asian and Americas qualifiers drawn into the other. Romania beat Tunisia 56–13 and Uruguay had the upper hand over Kazakhstan winning 44–7. Both matches were hosted by the team with the higher IRB World Ranking", "id": "11180430" }, { "contents": "Moshtagh Yaghoubi\n\n\nterminated by Shakhter Karagandy on 17 June 2016. On 4 November 2016, HJK Helsinki announced the signing of Yaghoubi. On 31 January 2019, Seinäjoen Jalkapallokerho announced the signing of Yaghoubi. Yaghoubi acquired Finnish nationality in 2013 and got called up for Finland national under-21 team for 2015 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship qualification match against Lithuania on 11 June 2013. Yaghoubi scored his national team debut goal when Finland beat Wales U-21 5–1 in UEFA Under-21 Championship qualification on 14 August 2013. On 31 October 2013 Yaghoubi made his debut for Finland national", "id": "15530739" }, { "contents": "Romania national football team\n\n\npoor form in the UEFA European Championship. In their qualifying group for the 1976 European Football Championship, they were out-qualified by Spain despite an impressive 1–1 draw in the away match. Romania failed to win matches, drawing twice with Scotland and Spain and dropping points in Denmark with a dismal goalless draw. Romania were again beaten by Spain for a place in the 1978 World Cup in Argentina. Despite a 1–0 win in Bucharest, Romania lost a bizarre match at home to Yugoslavia 6–4 having led 3–2 at half time.", "id": "10918865" }, { "contents": "History of the Romania national football team\n\n\nfor a place in the 1978 World Cup in Argentina. Despite a 1-0 win in Bucharest, Romania lost a bizarre match at home to Yugoslavia 6-4 having led 3-2 at half time. Spain won 1-0 in Belgrade to seal passage to South America. Romania's sole successful qualifying campaign was for the European Championships in 1984 in France. At the finals, Romania were drawn with regular rivals Spain, holders West Germany and dark horses Portugal. Under head coach Mircea Lucescu, an encouraging opening", "id": "16435704" }, { "contents": "Yann Sommer\n\n\nUnder-21 Championship, hosted by Denmark between 11 and 25 June 2011. The Swiss team reached the 2011 UEFA European Under-21 Championship Final on 25 June without conceding a goal, but lost 2–0 to Spain. This was Sommer's final match for the under-21s. Sommer made his debut for the Swiss senior side on 30 May 2012 at the Swissporarena, Lucerne, in a 0–1 defeat against Romania in a friendly match. On 13 May, he was named in Switzerland's 23-man squad for the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil. Alongside", "id": "823566" }, { "contents": "Scotland at the UEFA European Championship\n\n\nqualifying saw Scotland face Denmark, Romania and Spain. Scotland lost their opening match 2–1 to the Spaniards at Hampden, before drawing 1–1 in Valencia. Gordon McQueen scored a late equaliser to win Scotland a point away in Romania, before Joe Harper's goal saw Scotland beat Denmark 1–0 away from home. Scotland won the reverse fixture 3–1. Scotland's final match was at home to Romania, with Scotland requiring a two goal win to win the group and qualify for the play-offs. Scotland took the lead through a Bruce", "id": "1546781" }, { "contents": "Polish football in the interwar period\n\n\nyet more achievements. On October 2, a so-called double match took place (such games were popular in 1930s European Football). The reserve Poland team beat 2-1 Latvia at Warsaw, and at the same hour the first lineup faced Romania in Bucharest. Romania (with several of its starters of Hungarian nationality from Transylvania) was regarded a very strong team. The Poles, however, overwhelmed it 5-0 and this was the biggest success of Polish Football so far. This game is significant also for", "id": "21819213" }, { "contents": "History of the Romania national football team\n\n\nLithuania in Cluj-Napoca before scraping an unconvincing 1-0 win in the Faroe Islands, midfielder Răzvan Cociş scoring the goal. Their third match would be at home to France, who had also begun with a bad loss, 3-1 to Austria in Vienna. Romania raced into a 2-0 lead in Constanţa with goals from Florentin Petre and Dorin Goian but France pulled one back before half time through Franck Ribéry. A long-range strike from Yoann Gourcuff earned France a draw but both sides were left with", "id": "16435733" }, { "contents": "Nauris Bulvītis\n\n\nseason. Bulvītis has been capped internationally at under-19 and under-21 levels. In 2012 Latvia national football team coach Aleksandrs Starkovs called him up for the 2012 Baltic Cup. Nauris played 2 matches, helping Latvia win the tournament. Bulvītis scored his first international goal on 6 September 2013 in a 2–1 2014 FIFA World Cup qualification match victory over Lithuania. In May 2014 he helped Latvia win the Baltic Cup for the second time in a row, scoring the only goal in a 1–0 victory over Lithuania in the final of the tournament.", "id": "22161076" }, { "contents": "Lithuania national football team\n\n\nScotland; however, a 1–0 defeat to Scotland in the final game ended their hopes. Although finishing fifth in their 2006 World Cup qualifying group, Lithuania were nevertheless competitive. Lithuania drew with world champions Italy 1–1 in Naples in a Euro 2008 qualifying game on 2 September 2006, in the first competitive game that Italy played since the World Cup final. On 6 September 2008, Lithuania defeated Romania 3–0 in a 2010 World Cup qualifier. The victory was regarded by many as \"a historic win.\" It was followed by", "id": "6890277" }, { "contents": "Colchester Community Stadium\n\n\n2011 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship as they beat Lithuania 3–0 with two goals from Danny Welbeck and one from Marc Albrighton. A crowd of 7,240 watched the game on 7 September 2010. The England under-21s returned to Colchester for a 2013 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualifier on 11 November 2011. The Young Lions cruised to a 5–0 victory against Iceland on the night, with goals from Marvin Sordell, Martin Kelly, Craig Dawson and two scored by Gary Gardner. The attendance for the game was 10,051. England won their fourth match after", "id": "19735537" }, { "contents": "Arvydas Novikovas\n\n\na starter. During his 2 season there he has helped Jagiellonia Białystok finish 2nd twice in a row. He has scored 16 goals and provided 12 assists in the 58 games he has played for them, starting the 2018/19 season with 3 goals and 2 assists in his first 9 games. Novikovas represented the Lithuania under-21's when he was just a 16-year-old. In May 2009, he was called up to the Lithuania squad, for their FIFA World Cup qualifier with Romania. On 9 September, Novikovas scored for Lithuania", "id": "1849831" }, { "contents": "Valon Ahmedi\n\n\ndebuted for the under-21 side against Macedonia U21, playing as a starter for the entire first-half in an eventual goalless draw. He received another call up for the under-21 side by same coach Skënder Gega for the friendly match against Romania U21 on 8 October 2014. He played against Romania U21 as a starter and in the 60th minute provided the assist for the 1–1 equalising goal scored by Vedat Muriqi, which however wasn't enough as Romania U21 won 3–1. Ahmedi was called up for the first time in an official competitive", "id": "7679765" }, { "contents": "Alessandro Del Piero\n\n\nthat qualified for and later won the 1996 European Under-21 Championship, appearing in the quarter-finals. Del Piero made his senior debut under Arrigo Sacchi at the age of 20, on 25 March 1995, in a 4–1 win over Estonia in a Euro 1996 qualifying match. Del Piero scored his first goal for Italy on 15 November 1995, in a 4–0 win over Lithuania in a Euro 1996 qualifying match. His tournament debut was at UEFA Euro 1996, where he made his only appearance in the first half of the team", "id": "4132525" }, { "contents": "1998 UEFA European Under-21 Championship squads\n\n\nThe following is a list of squads for each nation competing at 1998 UEFA European Under-21 Championship in Romania. The tournament started on 23 May and the final took place in Bucharest on 31 May 1998. Players born on or after 1 January 1975 were eligible to play in the tournament. Each nation had to submit a squad of 20 players, two of which had to be goalkeepers. If a player was injured seriously enough to prevent his taking part in the tournament before his team's first match, he could be replaced by", "id": "6042468" }, { "contents": "Lithuania national under-21 football team\n\n\nThe Lithuania national under-21 football team is the national under-21 football team of Lithuania and is controlled by the Lithuanian Football Federation. Squad called up for the friendly match against on 10 November 2017 and 2019 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification match against on 14 November 2017. ! colspan=\"9\" bgcolor=\"#B0D3FB\" align=\"left\" | ! colspan=\"9\" bgcolor=\"#B0D3FB\" align=\"left\" | ! colspan=\"9\" bgcolor=\"#B0D3FB\" align=\"left\" | ! colspan=\"7\" bgcolor=\"#B0D3FB\" align=\"left\" | ! colspan=\"9\" bgcolor=\"#B0D3FB\" align=\"left\" | ! colspan=\"9\" bgcolor=\"#B0D3FB\" align=\"left\" | ! colspan=\"9\"", "id": "15919932" }, { "contents": "James Milner\n\n\nMilner competed for England at the 2007 UEFA European Under-21 Championship. He played in all four of England's matches and was booked in the semi-final against the Netherlands, which meant he would have missed the final. The match was decided by a penalty shoot-out, in which Milner scored twice and England lost 13–12. Milner was included in the under-21 squad for a friendly against Romania, which ended in a 1–1 draw. A month later, Milner set an England under-21 record by making his 30th appearance for the", "id": "1860629" }, { "contents": "Endri Çekiçi\n\n\nat Albania under-21 by coach Skënder Gega for the friendly match against Romania U21 on 8 October 2014. In that match, he came on as a substitute in the second half, and Albania lost 1–3. Çekiçi received another call up by the newly appointed coach Redi Jupi for the 2017 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualifying matches against Israel and Portugal in September 2015. He debuted against the former by coming on as a second-half substitute, netting a penalty kick in the 84th minute to rescue his side a 1–1 home draw.", "id": "8124891" }, { "contents": "Romania national football team\n\n\nWorld Cup, Romania won their first match against Peru, 3–1, with goals from Adalbert Desu, Constantin Stanciu and Nicolae Kovács and Samuel Zauber as goalkeeper, before being thrashed 4–0 by hosts and eventual winners Uruguay. Romania qualified for the next World Cup in 1934 after beating Yugoslavia 2–1 in a repeat of their first international. At the finals, Romania played only one game in a new knock-out format, losing 2–1 to Czechoslovakia in Trieste, Italy, with Ștefan Dobay scoring their only goal of the tournament. Romania", "id": "10918860" }, { "contents": "Romania national under-21 football team\n\n\nnational team until the age of 23. The best result achieved by the Romania U-21 squad is the qualification for the 1998 European Championship. Under the guidance of Victor Pițurcă and with a generation of players that included among others Bogdan Lobonț, Florentin Petre, Ionel Dănciulescu and Cătălin Munteanu, Romania U-21 finished the qualifying stage with maximum points after winning all eight games. Romania was then chosen as the host of the final stage. The squad was eliminated in the quarter-finals, being beaten by the Netherlands, 2-1", "id": "14153041" }, { "contents": "James Ward-Prowse\n\n\nhosts France 2–1. Ward-Prowse was nominated for the Vauxhall England Under-21 Player of the Year award, but eventually lost out to Southampton teammate Nathan Redmond. In June 2017, he captained the under-21s at that year's edition of the European Under-21 Championship where England reached the semi-finals, eventually losing to Germany in a penalty shoot-out. On 16 March 2017, he earned his first call-up to the senior England squad for a friendly against Germany and a World Cup qualifying match against Lithuania. Six days", "id": "1352322" }, { "contents": "History of the Romania national football team\n\n\nfirst match against Peru, 3-1, with goals from Adalbert Desu, Constantin Stanciu and Nicolae Kovács, before being thrashed 4-0 by hosts and eventual winners Uruguay. Romania qualified for the next World Cup in 1934 after beating Yugoslavia 2-1 in a repeat of their first international. At the finals, Romania played only one game in a new knock-out format, losing 2-1 to Czechoslovakia in Trieste, Italy, with Ştefan Dobay scoring their only goal of the tournament. Romania qualified by default", "id": "16435698" }, { "contents": "Muarem Muarem\n\n\nSeptember 2009 in a 2-1 loss. He went on to make nine appearances for the team, scoring his first international goal in his second under-21 appearance, a 1-1 draw with Lithuania on 9 September 2009, scoring in the first minute of the match. He scored his second goal a month later against England, netting a low free-kick that brought his team back into the game at 2-1. He also scored against Portugal and Bosnia and Herzegovina. Muarem played his final game for the under-21s", "id": "18689026" }, { "contents": "Giedrius Arlauskis\n\n\nreturn to Romania, joining CFR Cluj. The move was confirmed on 15 August 2017. In August 2008, Arlauskis' performance in Romania led him being called by the Lithuania for the first time. Arlauskis made his national team debut as a substitute against Moldova in a friendly game on 19 November 2008. He joined the game in the 46th minute and conceded a goal after 67 minutes as Lithuania drew with Moldova 1–1. After playing two more caps as a substitute, his first competitive game then came on 18 June 2010,", "id": "17863969" }, { "contents": "Romania national under-21 football team\n\n\n. The Romania under-21 team does not have a permanent home. The team plays in stadiums located all around Romania. Because of the smaller demand compared to the senior national team, smaller facilities are used. As of June 2019, the last three games have been played in Cluj-Napoca. Romania again qualified for the UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship in 2019, after topping a group that included Portugal, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Wales, Switzerland and Liechtenstein. They secured their qualification for the final tournament, by beating Liechtenstein,", "id": "14153042" }, { "contents": "Theo Wharton\n\n\nBorough in July 2018. Wharton signed for National League North club Hereford F.C. on 22 December 2018. Wharton was first selected for the Wales national under-17 team for the 2011 UEFA European Under-17 Championship qualifying round, starting two matches against Belgium and Denmark. Wharton was called up to the Wales under-21 team to play Moldova on 22 March 2013. On 9 September 2014, Wharton made his Wales under-21 debut in a 1–1 draw against Lithuania under-21s. In 2016, Wharton chose to switch allegiance to play for Saint Kitts and Nevis, the", "id": "17934659" }, { "contents": "Marius Niculae\n\n\nwas officially signed. On 26 February, he scored his first goal for Shandong in a friendly match against Chongqing F.C.. After representing Romania at the U-16 and U-18 levels, Niculae was promoted to the U-21 level. Niculae's form for Dinamo saw him selected for the Romania U-21 team to play Bulgaria U-21 on 3 March 1999, and he marked his debut with the second goal as Romania won 3–1. He played his first official match for Romania U-21 on 26 March, in a 0–1 defeat against Slovakia U-21, coming in", "id": "3505256" }, { "contents": "History of the Serbia national football team\n\n\nin 12th minute, from \"penalty spot\", like against Austria three monts before. On 10 October 2009, Serbia made a huge victory 5–0 against Romania and secured placement at 2010 FIFA World Cup. In last match of this qualifying cycle, Lithuania defeated Serbia 2–1 in Marijampolė. In November, Serbia defeat Northern Ireland and South Korea in Belfast and London, 1–0 both matches. Serbia placed into Group D with Germany, team also faced 2010 Africa Cup of Nations runners-up Ghana, and Australia. Their opening group", "id": "3691746" }, { "contents": "History of Ferencvárosi TC\n\n\n1 December 1962 Ferencváros lost 1–0 to Sampdoria in Genoa, Italy. On 12 December 1962 Ferencváros beat Sampdoria 6–0 at home. In the quarter-finals Ferencváros beat Petrolul Ploiești 2–0 at home, while lost the away match 1–0 in Ploiești, Romania. In the semi-finals, Ferencváros lost to NK Dinamo Zagreb 1–0 at home and Ferencváros lost the away match 2–1 in Zagreb, Yugoslavia. Ferencváros won the 1962–63 season of the Hungarian League. Therefore, Ferencváros entered the European Cup 1963–64 season. On 11 September 1963,", "id": "4677552" }, { "contents": "George Pușcaș\n\n\n90th minute of a 2–1 victory over Cosenza. Pușcaș scored seven times for Romania under-21 in the 2019 UEFA European Championship qualifying competition, as his side won its group and progressed to the final tournament in Italy. On 18 June 2019, he obtained the penalty from which he scored the opener in a 4–1 victory over Croatia at the San Marino Stadium. He netted again in the next group game against England, surpassing Ionuț Luțu as the highest scorer of the \"Tricolorii mici\". Pușcaș then gave Romania a half-time", "id": "18913818" }, { "contents": "Belarus women's national football team\n\n\nqualified for the promotion play-offs. In the 2001 European Championship qualifying, again in Class B, Belarus beat Estonia 4–1 and 0–7, Israel 0–5 and 1–0 and Slovakia 1–0, and tied 1–1 in Romania, but the Romanians earned the spot in the promotion play-offs after beating Belarus 0–1. With this settled Belarus lost 6–1 to Slovakia in the last match. In the 2003 World Cup qualifying, Class B, Belarus beat Bosnia 5–2 and 2–7, Turkey 4–0 and 1–5, Slovakia 3–2. They lost the remaining", "id": "21080772" }, { "contents": "Visa requirements for Turkmen citizens\n\n\nEstonia (1 July 1992), Latvia (1993), Lithuania (1 November 1993), Slovakia (6 May 1994), Bulgaria (1 January 1999), Armenia (1999), Moldova (9 June 1999), Russia (17 July 1999), Hungary (1 December 1999), Romania (1 July 2000), Belarus (21 July 2000), Czech Republic (22 October 2000), Poland (3 November 2000), Kazakhstan (1 March 2001). Also Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan,", "id": "5139311" }, { "contents": "Ovie Ejaria\n\n\nplaying the whole match. Ejaria was selected for the England under-20 team in the 2017 FIFA U-20 World Cup. He made his first start in a game in the first round match against South Korea, and came on as a substitute the quarter-final against Mexico, but was an unused substitute in the final where England beat Venezuela 1–0. He was called up for the England under-21 team in March 2018, making his debut in a friendly against Romania. He was called up again in May 2018 for the Toulon Tournament but", "id": "14618472" }, { "contents": "Franck Ribéry\n\n\nCup qualification match against Romania, scoring the team's opening goal in a 2–2 draw. On 28 March 2009, Ribéry scored the lone goal away to Lithuania. Three days later, he completed this feat again, this time at the Stade de France, netting the winner in the 75th minute following service from André-Pierre Gignac. On 11 May 2010, Ribéry was named to Domenech's 30-man preliminary squad to participate in the 2010 World Cup and his second World Cup overall. He was later named to the 23-man team", "id": "15094173" }, { "contents": "Cosmin Contra\n\n\nbeing announced as Timișoara's new player-coach six days later. Over 14 years, Contra earned 73 caps for Romania, scoring seven goals. He appeared for his country at UEFA Euro 2000 and 2008. On 1 April 2009, after a match with Austria, Contra announced his retirement from international football. On 30 August 2010, however, the 34-year-old was recalled for two Euro 2012 qualifiers against Albania and Belarus. Contra made his Timişoara debut as a manager in September 2010, with a win against FC Sportul", "id": "4642171" }, { "contents": "Victor Pițurcă\n\n\nWorld Cup (0–0 against France, 1–1 against Italy), Romania lost 0–2 to the Netherlands, finishing the group in third place and thus being eliminated from the competition. After Euro 2008, Romania showed an increasingly poor form in both friendly games and the 2010 World Cup qualifying campaign, where they had a slow start. In their first two official games after Euro 2008, Romania lost 0–3 against Lithuania at home and four days later secured a difficult 1–0 victory against the Faeroe Islands. Although many of the players which helped", "id": "13766306" }, { "contents": "Paul Papp\n\n\nin a qualification game for the 2011 European Under-21 Championship, against Latvia. He captained his side for the first time, following Torje and Găman's injuries, on 29 May 2010, in the friendly match, lost by Romania against Belarus. On 7 September, Papp was in the startup team for Romania U-21, in a 3–0 win against Russia. The win secured Romania a place in the playoff stage of the 2011 European Under-21 Championship qualifiers. However, he missed the chance to play at the 2011 European Under-21 Championship,", "id": "22044461" }, { "contents": "Ciprian Deac\n\n\nfourth national championship in its history. Deac made his debut for the Romania under-21 team against France on 1 June 2007, with the match ending 1–1. He was part of Romania's preliminary Euro 2008 squad, but missed out on the final list led by manager Victor Pițurcă. On 5 March 2010, Deac finally earned his first cap for the full side in a friendly match against Israel. In August 2017, following a six-year absence, he was selected by Christoph Daum for the 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifying matches", "id": "14907109" }, { "contents": "Radomir Antić\n\n\ninto the fire. Also surprising was leaving tall striker Nikola Žigić on the bench and starting with only on attacker, Marko Pantelić, upfront in 4–5–1 formation. And while Serbia lost 2–1 to somewhat wounded France that just days earlier shockingly lost to Austria, many positives were taken from the match at Stade de France such as a brave attacking approach with a lot of running from the wings. Next up in October was in-form Lithuania, which had recently defeated Romania and Austria without allowing a goal. Contrary to expectations,", "id": "18552988" }, { "contents": "Roy Hodgson\n\n\n, losing 1–0 in Porto. In the tournament the Swiss were drawn in Group A alongside Romania, Colombia and the hosts, United States. The opening match of the group was between Switzerland and the United States and is memorable as the first World Cup match to take place indoors, at the Pontiac Silverdome. The Swiss drew 1–1 against the United States, beat Romania 4–1 and lost 2–0 to Colombia, finishing as runners-up in their group, qualifying for the Round of 16, where they lost 3–0 to Spain.", "id": "12858556" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nagainst Portugal, but did so as England defeated Germany 1–0 in Charleroi, ensuring that England beat their European neighbours for the first time since the 1966 World Cup Final. To remain in the tournament, England only required a draw against Romania in the final group match, and Shearer scored a penalty as England went in at half-time 2–1 up, but Romania ultimately won 3–2. England's tournament was over, and so was Shearer's international career. From his 63 caps, he captained the team 34 times and scored", "id": "13592545" }, { "contents": "Florinel Coman\n\n\nEuropean goal in the UEFA Europa League 1–1 draw with Hapoel Be'er Sheva, on 2 November. Coman featured for Romania at the 2019 UEFA European Under-21 Championship, mostly as a second half substitute. In the group fixture on 21 June, he entered in the 63rd minute for Andrei Ivan, obtained a penalty and scored a double to help to a 4–2 victory against England. He then earned his first and only start in a goalless draw with France, with both teams progressing further to the semi-finals, where Romania suffered", "id": "21859353" }, { "contents": "Mitragyna speciosa\n\n\nDenmark, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania and Sweden. In the UK, since 2016, the sale, import, and export of kratom are prohibited under the Psychoactive Substances Act. In 2017, kratom was designated a Schedule 1 illegal drug (the highest level) in the Republic of Ireland, under the names 7-hydroxymitragynine and mitragynine. The use of kratom leaves, known locally as \"ketum\", is prohibited in Malaysia under Section 30 (3) Poisons Act 1952 and the user may be fined a maximum amount", "id": "16890332" }, { "contents": "Romania national rugby union team\n\n\nThey lost 36–21 to Wales A at Pontypridd and 70–21 in a test held in Wrexham. At the 1999 World Cup Romania could again only manage a single win 27–25 against the United States. In 2000, Romania won the first European Nations Cup by a large margin, recording victories in all four matches. By 2001, Romania had been caught by the likes of Georgia who defeated them to take the 2001 European Nations Cup, crowned with a decisive 31–20 win over Romania in Bucharest. The national side lost to England by 134–0", "id": "10342595" }, { "contents": "Aritz Aduriz\n\n\n. He made his debut on the 8th, replacing Llorente for the last 15 minutes of a 3–1 home win against Lithuania. Six years later, at the age of 35, Aduriz was recalled by manager Vicente del Bosque for friendlies with Italy and Romania. He started and scored in the first match, a 1–1 draw at the \"Stadio Friuli\", and was selected for UEFA Euro 2016 in France. He made two substitute appearances in the group stage, always replacing Juventus' Álvaro Morata in the second half; on", "id": "7991541" }, { "contents": "UEFA Euro 2008 Group C\n\n\nof counter-attacking football. Then, in their second game, they also beat the 2006 World Cup runners-up, France, 4–1. This left the French in a difficult position, having already played out a scoreless draw against Romania in the group's opening match. Romania also played out a draw against Italy in their second match, leaving them in second place going into the final round of group matches. Italy finished as the second quarter-finalists, after they beat France 2–0 in their final game. French", "id": "15100017" }, { "contents": "List of land borders with dates of establishment\n\n\nSan Marino \"Italy–Slovenia \"Italy–Switzerland \"Italy–Vatican City \"Ireland–UK \"Latvia–Lithuania \"Lithuania–Belarus \"Lithuania–Poland \"Lithuania–Russia \"Latvia–Russia \"Liechtenstein–Switzerland \"Republic of Macedonia–Serbia \"Moldova–Romania \"Moldova–Ukraine \"Montenegro–Serbia \"Norway–Russia \"Norway–Sweden \"Poland–Slovakia \"Poland–Russia \"Poland–Ukraine \"Portugal–Spain \"Romania–Ukraine \"Romania–Serbia \"Russia–Ukraine \"Slovakia–", "id": "21121898" }, { "contents": "Nicolaj Thomsen\n\n\nDanish national team on 18 November 2014 against Romania. Thomsen scored the only Danish goal in the 1–1 draw against Iceland which qualified Denmark U-21 for the 2015 UEFA European Under-21 Championship. He was selected for the squad for the tournament and played the entire match in the opening win against the Czech Republic. He was in the line-up in the other two group stage-matches against Germany and Serbia. Thomsen was also chosen to the line-up in the semi final, where Denmark was defeated by Sweden. AaB Copenhagen", "id": "14143520" }, { "contents": "João Cancelo\n\n\n. On 20 April 2019, Cancelo played in the \"Scudetto\"-clinching match against rivals Fiorentina, as Juventus won their eighth successive league title after a 2–1 home triumph. Cancelo represented Portugal in the 2012 UEFA European Under-19 Championship. He was also selected for the following edition, in Lithuania. With the under-20s, Cancelo appeared at the 2013 FIFA World Cup and the 2014 Toulon Tournament. He featured in two games in the former competition, with the country reaching the round-of-16. Cancelo was part of the under-21 squad that competed", "id": "15886722" }, { "contents": "Human rights violations by the CIA\n\n\nofficials. Nicaraguan Contras were taught to lead: The manual also recommended: The CIA claimed that the purpose of the manual was to \"moderate\" activities already being done by the Contras. In May 2018, The European Court of Human Rights ruled that the countries of Romania and Lithuania were involved in torture activities perpetrated by the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). The two countries were found to have run \"black site\" torture rooms and detention facilities therefore committing grave human rights abuses. In Romania, the secret", "id": "1650708" }, { "contents": "European Patent Organisation\n\n\nSerbia which did so on 1 October 2010. In addition there are \"extension states\" which are not Contracting States to the EPC but have instead signed extension agreements under which the protection conferred by European patent applications and patents is extended to the relevant country. These are Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Montenegro. Slovenia, Romania, Lithuania, Latvia, Croatia, Macedonia, Albania and Serbia were all extension states prior to joining the EPC. Furthermore, there are so-called \"validation states\" which are not Contracting States to", "id": "2996937" }, { "contents": "Montenegro national football team\n\n\nPoland, Denmark, Kazakhstan, Armenia and Romania. Poland, Denmark and Romania had been participants in the UEFA Euro 2016, but Montenegro began by drawing 1–1 away to Romania, beating Kazakhstan 5–0 at home and defeating Denmark 1–0. However, they then lost 3–2 away to Armenia despite leading 2–0, and were defeated 2–1 at home by Poland. Montenegro then rebounded, beating Armenia 4–1 and Kazakhstan 3–0. They later eliminated Romania with a 1–0 victory, but losses to the Danes and Poles ended Montenegro's chance of qualifying.", "id": "9236271" }, { "contents": "Denis Alibec\n\n\nplayed for Romania's under-17, under-19 and under-21 teams. On 11 October 2015, after being called up on several occasions in the past, Alibec gained his first cap for the full side in the last UEFA Euro 2016 qualifying match against Faroe Islands, replacing Bogdan Stancu in the 90th minute. In June 2016, he was picked by Anghel Iordănescu for his squad at the final tournament in France and appeared as a substitute in Romania's opening game, a 2–1 defeat to the host. Alibec's father, Gevrim and uncle", "id": "7828376" }, { "contents": "Lukas Spalvis\n\n\nout again on 5 July 2017, joining 2. Bundesliga side 1. FC Kaiserslautern for the 2017–18 season. On 8 May 2018, it was announced that Spalvis had joined 1. FC Kaiserslautern on a permanent deal. On 26 August, he sustained a long term injury in a match and it will leave him out for almost the remainder of the season. Spalvis played several matches for youth national teams, including Lithuania U-19 and Lithuania U-21. In March 2014 he made his debut for the senior team, in a friendly", "id": "11995894" }, { "contents": "Nathan Craze\n\n\nDiv II Group A in Bucharest, Romania, and was also named Netminder of the Tournament. He received the International Ice Hockey Federation Directorate’s Award of the tournament’s Best Netminder when GB won the gold medal in the 2004 World under-18 Championships (Div II) in Lithuania, and he equalled the feat by being voted the IIHF’s tournament Best Netminder when GB won the gold medal in the 2006 World under-20 Championships (Div II) in Romania. In 2006, Craze signed with the Bracknell Bees as their starting goalie,", "id": "21622172" }, { "contents": "Women's event at the 43rd Chess Olympiad\n\n\nbeat Georgia's second team 2½-1½, Italy beat Cuba 3-1, while Lithuania tied their match against Kazakhstan. United States, Georgia and Armenia with 11/12 match points each were on the top after six rounds. The central match of the seventh round was the clash between Armenia and United States on the first table, where Armenians snatched a minimal victory thanks to the Elina Danielian and Anna Sargsyan who scored full point as White in the games against Anna Zatonskih and Sabina-Francesca Foisor, respectively; Jennifer Yu beat Maria Kursova", "id": "7597446" }, { "contents": "Lithuania at the Olympics\n\n\nLithuania, after declaring restoration of independence in 1918, sent its athletes to the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris for the first time. At first it was considered to send 33 athletes, but then it was decided to limit the delegation to 13 soccer players and 2 cyclists. The soccer players arrived in Paris only a day before the game was scheduled. Lithuania debuted at the Olympic games on May 25, 1924 at 2:40pm (Paris time) when the match between Lithuanian and Swiss teams started. Lithuania lost 9-0 (", "id": "8795472" }, { "contents": "Romania national football team\n\n\nthey were a strong challenge for the first place in the group, they eventually finished fifth, above only the Faroe Islands. Their campaign was a disaster that began with a 3–0 home loss to Lithuania and included a 5–0 trashing in Belgrade by Serbia. Furthermore, various problems were caused during the poor campaign, such as the retirement from international football of Cosmin Contra, Mirel Rădoi and Adrian Mutu (the latter would later be recalled after a year's absence). Also, coach Victor Pițurcă resigned and was replaced by Răzvan", "id": "10918895" }, { "contents": "Sūduva Stadium\n\n\nSūduva Stadium, known as ARVI Football Arena for sponsorship reasons, is a multi-purpose stadium in Marijampolė, Lithuania. The stadium was built using funds from the European Union and opened on July 6, 2008. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of FK Sūduva. Its original capacity increased from 4,200 to 6,500 spectators after additional seats were installed in May–June 2009 before a match between Lithuania national team and Romania. Beginning from the 2011 season the stadium was named ARVI Football Arena after", "id": "10765440" }, { "contents": "Kilkim Žaibu\n\n\n, Lithuania. From 2000 to 3000 people visit the festival annually from various countries. Also, bands have performed at Kilkim Žaibu festivals from Australia, Norway, Hungary, Czech Republic, Romania, Ukraine, Russia, Sweden, Finland, Germany and neighbouring countries. The festival took place in Varniai, Lithuania on 28th - 30th June, 2018. The festival took place in Varniai, Lithuania on 29 June - 1 July 2017. The festival took place in Varniai, Lithuania on 23–25 June 2016. The festival took place in", "id": "10249217" }, { "contents": "Latvia national football team\n\n\n, the Latvian team participated in the first qualification tournament for the 1938 World Cup. Latvia were placed in Group 8, alongside Austria and Lithuania. Latvia beat Lithuania 4–2 in Riga, after a Fricis Kaņeps hat-trick and an Iļja Vestermans goal. In Kaunas, they won 5–1, after two goals each from Kaņeps, Vaclavs Borduško, and Vestermans, but lost 1–2 in the decisive away match against Austria, despite an early goal from Vestermans. In April 1938, the Austrian Anschluss relegated the Austrian team, however,", "id": "15750063" }, { "contents": "Miloš Krasić\n\n\nIn May 2006, Krasić played a leading role in the 2006 European U-21 Championship. He made his debut for the senior side later that year in a friendly against Denmark. At senior level, Krasić was an important player for Serbia in 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification. He scored one goal in the match against Lithuania, another in the game against Austria and set up three in the game against Romania, which sealed his nation's qualification to the final tournament in South Africa. Krasić is a right-sided winger, noted", "id": "19580145" }, { "contents": "Philip Billing\n\n\nunder-20 team and the Romania national under-20 football team. He earned his first cap for the U21 team in a qualifying match for the 2019 European Championship against the Faroe Islands on 31 August 2017; it ended in a 3–0 win. He again featured a week later in another qualifying match, which the team won 6–0 against Lithuania. In November 2018, Billing turned down an approach to switch his international allegiance to the Nigeria national team. In March 2019, he received his first call-up to the Denmark national team.", "id": "18184799" }, { "contents": "1934 FIFA World Cup qualification\n\n\nfollows: Key: Estonia v Lithuania was not played since neither team could qualify with a win. Sweden qualified. 11-1 on aggregate; Spain qualified. Italy qualified, as Greece declined to play the second match. Bulgaria withdrew, and the remaining matches were not played since Hungary and Austria were already assured of the top two spots. Hungary and Austria qualified. Poland were unable to travel to Prague for the second match as the Polish government denied the team visas for political reasons. Therefore, Czechoslovakia qualified. Romania", "id": "6526321" }, { "contents": "Rugby union in Romania\n\n\nwon against France 15 – 10 in Bucharest, and the FIRA – Association of European Rugby championship. In 1975 Romania went for an 8 games tour to New Zealand, tour concluded in Wellington with a 10-10 draw against Junior All Blacks. Home nation sides began to award international caps for matches against Romania from 1981. Romania won rugby internationals over Scotland in 1984 and 1991, and also over Wales in 1983 and 1988 (the latter in Cardiff). Between 1960 and 1990, Romania beat France eight times, the", "id": "13829980" }, { "contents": "European Border and Coast Guard Agency\n\n\na border security operation conducted by Frontex, the European Union's border security agency. The operation, under Italian control, began on 1 November 2014 and involves voluntary contributions from 15 other European nations (both EU member states and non-members). Current voluntary contributors to Operation Triton are Croatia, Iceland, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Germany, the Netherlands, France, Spain, Ireland, Portugal, Austria, Switzerland, Romania, Poland, Lithuania, Malta and the United Kingdom. The operation was undertaken after Italy", "id": "20620191" }, { "contents": "Albania national football team\n\n\nqualifying match, Albania made history by qualifying for the UEFA Euro 2016, its first ever appearance at a major men's football tournament. In the tournament itself, Albania lost 0–1 to Switzerland and 0–2 to hosts France. While they beat Romania 1–0 (their first win against Romania since 1947), the team finished last among the third-placed teams and didn't progress beyond the group stage. Despite the UEFA European Championship's almost successful debut, Albania suffered massive setback. In 2018 World Cup qualification, Albania had been", "id": "15457050" }, { "contents": "Dean Henderson\n\n\nmore times as an unused substitute bench that saw him missed out two matches for the side in the league. He made his under-21 debut on 24 March 2018, in a friendly at home against Romania, which England won 2–1. Henderson was named as England's number one for the 2019 UEFA European Under-21 Championship. Growing up, Henderson played county cricket as a schoolboy and was an accomplished batsman and wicket-keeper but chose football. Henderson initially started out as an outfield player before switching to his role as a goalkeeper.", "id": "6533434" }, { "contents": "Harry Maguire\n\n\n-up to either because he is such a level headed character.\" Maguire duly made his England under-21 debut as a substitute in the 60th minute, coming on for Liverpool's Andre Wisdom in a 2–0 win against Northern Ireland Under-21s at Bloomfield Road. On 24 August 2017, England manager Gareth Southgate included Maguire in his squad for the 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification matches against Malta and Slovakia. He made his debut when starting in England's 1–0 away win over Lithuania, which was the team's final match in their successful", "id": "3737243" }, { "contents": "Albania national under-21 football team\n\n\nmatch against Romania was characterized by a large Albania's win 7–1, which is the largest win ever recorded by Albania U-21. Albania Under-21s have managed to qualify only once in their history, and that came in the year of 1984 when they managed to qualify for the 1984 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship, although they were competing for the first time in such tournament. They were drawn in a very tough group which included the West Germany, Turkey and Austria. The historic event was the first time any Albanian squad qualified for", "id": "19363492" }, { "contents": "Alexandru Mitriță\n\n\nNew York City goal on the 17th the same month, in a 2–2 draw with Los Angeles FC. In March 2018, Mitriță was called up for Romania senior team's friendlies with Israel and Sweden later that month, after reportedly impressing coach Cosmin Contra. He made his debut in the former match on the 24th, and offered an assist to George Țucudean in a 2–1 win in Netanya. Mitriță is deployed as an attacking midfielder or a winger on either flank, having been noted for pace and technical ability which allow him", "id": "4318108" }, { "contents": "Claudiu Bumba\n\n\nsigned a four-year contract with Israeli club Hapoel Tel Aviv. On 2 February 2017, he signed a two and a half years contract with Dinamo Bucharest. He scored his first goal for Dinamo Bucharest on 10 April, in 2-1 league win against Astra Giurgiu. Bumba made his debut for Romania U-17 on 21 September 2010 in a game against Kazakhstan U-17. He played with the under-17 team at the 2011 UEFA European Under-17 Football Championship. On 6 October 2011, in a game against Sweden U-19, Bumba came", "id": "11657727" }, { "contents": "Dorian Dervite\n\n\nand U-21 levels. He has captained them on occasions. He was called up to the Under-21 squad to face Estonia and England. He was called for the international Toulon Tournament again with the U21, then against Poland and for the U21 European Championship qualifiers against Lithuania and Ukraine. he scored his first goal for France in a home draw with Poland U21 on 12 August 2009 with an 80th minute shot to make it 2–1 to France with the game ending 2–2, his last game for the Under-21s came in their 3–1 away win", "id": "18562600" }, { "contents": "Povilas Leimonas\n\n\nwith Jagiellonia Białystok. Povilas played for Lithuania's \"B\" team in two games in 2011, both against Lithuania U-21. The first game, played in Vilnius on 9 February, was won 2-1 by the \"B\" team, and the second match, in Marijampole on 2 March, resulted in a 3-0 win. Leimonas made his senior international debut on 7 June 2011, in a 1-0 friendly loss to Norway. He earned his second cap two months later in another friendly, the", "id": "16136896" }, { "contents": "History of the Romania national football team\n\n\nmatch in Bern, but the Netherlands were regarded as the outstanding team in the tournament, having followed their comprehensive win against Italy with an equally emphatic 4-1 win over France. A draw would also take Romania through were the other match between Italy and France to be drawn. With Italy taking a first-half lead against a France side reduced to ten men, it became apparent that Romania needed to beat the Netherlands to qualify. However, they played poorly and the Netherlands won 2-0 with second half goals", "id": "16435731" }, { "contents": "Sander Puri\n\n\nEstonia at under-17, under-19 and under-21 level. He made his debut for the senior national team on 30 May 2008 against Latvia in the 2008 Baltic Cup. He scored his first national team goal on 22 November 2008, in a 1–1 draw against Lithuania in a Mayors Cup match. A goal against Saint Kitts and Nevis saw him awarded the Estonian Silverball, for the best goal scored for Estonia in 2015. Puri is one of three triplets: his brother, Eino Puri, is also a footballer and his sister, Kadri", "id": "21342008" }, { "contents": "Eduards Višņakovs\n\n\nagainst Estonia on 5 June 2013, helping his team secure a 2–0 victory. On 10 September 2013 the U-23 team beat England 1-0, with Višņakovs scoring his second goal in two matches. Višņakovs was firstly called up to Latvia national football team for the FIFA World Cup 2014 qualifying matches against Lithuania and Slovakia on 11 and 15 October 2013. He made his debut for the national team in the match against Lithuania, coming on as a substitute in the 77th minute and replacing Māris Verpakovskis. A local scandal arose when", "id": "17206337" }, { "contents": "Romania national rugby union team\n\n\nthe Super Powers Cup. The USA beat a Romanian team stripped of their France-based players 23–16 in the third place play-off. The 2005–06 European Nations Cup also served as a qualifying group for the 2007 Rugby World Cup. Romania triumphed despite finishing level on points with Georgia. Romania qualified for the 2007 Rugby World Cup in France, finishing at the top of their pool during the Round 5 of the European qualifying tournaments. Romania won their first qualifying match on October 7, defeating Georgia in Bucharest 20–8. Their", "id": "10342600" }, { "contents": "Shlomo Lipetz\n\n\n, against Lithuania, Lipetz tossed a 10-inning, 4-hit complete game to beat Lithuania 2-1. He led that qualifier in victories and tied for second in strikeouts. During the 2012 European Baseball Championship qualifiers, in 2011, Lipetz pitched in 3 of the 5 games. Lipetz beat Georgia in the opener pitching 7 innings and striking out 9. Lipetz did not appear in the second game, against Great Britain, or in the third game against Lithuania. During the first game of the home/away finals against Great Britain", "id": "12992976" }, { "contents": "State Farm Stadium\n\n\nsoccer match attended by 62,462 fans. The United States men's national soccer team defeated Mexico, 2–0. On January 21, 2012, the U.S. played against Venezuela and won the match 1–0. On January 30, 2013, Mexico played against Denmark, a game that was broadcast on Televisa Deportes, UniMás, and TV Azteca. The match ended in a 1–1 draw. On November 19, 2015, the stadium was one of the sites selected for the 2016 Copa América Centenario. The stadium hosted three matches, including Mexico", "id": "18339554" }, { "contents": "Yacine Brahimi\n\n\npenalty in a 3–1 victory over Germany. He played with the under-16 team at the 2006 edition of the Montaigu Tournament playing in all four matches the team contested as France were crowned champions defeating Italy 2–1 in the final. With the under-17 team, Brahimi made his debut on 25 September in a qualification match for the 2007 UEFA European Under-17 Championship against Lithuania. France won the match 4–2 with Brahimi making a substitute appearance. Despite appearing in the first round of qualification, Brahimi was absent from the tournament itself, due to the", "id": "1037894" }, { "contents": "Ross McCormack\n\n\nfirst goal for the side on 11 October 2007 against Lithuania and scored again in his next appearance, a 4–0 victory over Slovenia U21s. McCormack won 10 caps for the under-21 side. He made his debut for the senior side on 30 May 2008 when he came on as a substitute during the 3–1 defeat of Czech Republic. McCormack was called up again in March 2009 for the 2010 FIFA World Cup qualifiers against Netherlands and Iceland. He started both matches, scoring his first goal for Scotland in a 2–1 win over Iceland on", "id": "8895190" }, { "contents": "Hungary national under-19 football team\n\n\n, and the atmosphere helped in times of need. The first match against Lithuania, was a 2-2 draw, but in the last 2 matches, the team could win, against Cyprus 2-1, and Portugal 1-0 and that was enough to qualify. The list below is the current list of U-19 national players according to the official Hungarian Football Federation website. Competition:2018 UEFA European Under-19 Football Championship (elite round)br Match Dates:25 March 2019br Opposition: The following players have been selected by Hungary in the past 12", "id": "4045560" }, { "contents": "X Factor (Romanian TV series)\n\n\nthe show aired starting 17 September 2011. Auditions for producers began in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, on 14 May 2011. They then took place in Constanța, on 21 May in Timișoara on 24 May 2011, on 4 June in Iași and concluded on 11 June 2011 in Bucharest. The first season ended on 1 January 2012, (16-24s) mentored by Mihai Morar was declared the first winner of The X Factor in Romania. Alin Văduva (Over 25s) was runner-up followed by Iulian Vasile (", "id": "16662967" }, { "contents": "Romania national football team\n\n\n0–5. In the next match, Romania recorded another draw (0–0), against Kazakhstan. The last match played in 2016 was a 0–3 defeat against Poland, with Robert Lewandowski scoring a double. After an uninspiring campaign, Romania ended in the fourth place in Group E with 13 points. After 8 of the 10 games, due to lackluster performances, coach Christoph Daum was fired and replaced with a promising new coach, Cosmin Contra. The Romania national team plays its home games at Arena Națională, the biggest stadium in", "id": "10918904" }, { "contents": "Chris Smalling\n\n\nfirst start for the under-21s in a 2011 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualifier against Portugal at Wembley Stadium in a 1–0 win. He scored his first goal for the under-21s on 8 October 2010, against Romania, in England's 2011 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification play-off first leg, converting from inside the area after an assist from Daniel Sturridge. The goal, scored in the 83rd minute, proved to be the winner as England won 2–1. On 13 November 2010, Smalling was called up to the England senior squad for", "id": "656401" }, { "contents": "Lithuania men's national basketball team\n\n\n. The only consolation was the remaining opportunity to qualify into the World Championship, which the Lithuanians achieved by beating Russia and Slovenia for fifth place. Lithuania won 5 of 6 games in the tournament. Consequently, the competition scheme was questioned in its reliability. The 2006 FIBA World Championship in Japan had Lithuania matching the 7th place from their 1998 debut, but many saw this performance as an under-achievement. Lithuania started the tournament with a narrow 2-point loss to Turkey, followed by an overtime defeat to eventual finalists Greece which", "id": "14520278" }, { "contents": "Shane McFaul\n\n\nCup when beating Sligo Rovers 2–1 at Tallaght Stadium. McFaul was later named Man of the Match in the F.A.I Cup Final Vs Sligo Rovers and also the honour of being named Sporting Fingal Player of the Year 2009. In the 2010 season his performances for Fingal attracted the interest of Scottish giants Celtic FC. http://www.herald.ie/sport/soccer/celtic-track-sporting-fingal-pair-27948702.html Shane made his Republic of Ireland U21 debut in a friendly game against Germany on 21 August 2007. He was also an unused sub in the UEFA European Under-21 Championship Qualifying games against Portugal and England. McFaul signed for", "id": "13006237" }, { "contents": "Connor Roberts (footballer, born 1995)\n\n\nand he returned to Swansea City. Roberts made his debut for Swansea City on 6 January 2018 in the FA Cup 3rd round against Wolverhampton Wanderers. He scored his first goal for the club on 29 September 2018 during a 3–0 win over Queens Park Rangers. Roberts has been capped at Wales under-19 level. In March 2016, Roberts received his first call-up to the Wales under-21 side for their 2017 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification matches, and made his debut as a second-half substitute in their 2–1 defeat against Romania", "id": "12721076" }, { "contents": "Roberta Anastase\n\n\nRoberta Alma Anastase (; born 27 March 1976 in Ploieşti) is a Romanian politician and former first female Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies of Romania between 19 December 2008 and 3 July 2012. She is a member of the Democratic Liberal Party, affiliated to the European People's Party–European Democrats, and became an MEP on 1 January 2007 with the accession of Romania to the European Union. She also represented Romania at the 1996 Miss Universe competition. She attended the Faculty of Sociology at the University of Bucharest in the mid-90", "id": "19157242" }, { "contents": "Kostas Mitroglou\n\n\n, he scored a goal against Germany in a 3–2 win at Vorwärts Stadium. Mitroglou finished as the top goalscorer of the competition with three goals. In 2007, Mitroglou was promoted to the Greece under-21 team. He scored two goals in a 3–1 home win against Macedonia in the UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualifiers, and later a goal in a 1–1 home draw against England and the only goal against Lithuania as the campaign continued. In 2009, Mitroglou was selected for the senior Greece side for the first time. He scored his", "id": "2125765" } ]

[ { "contents": "Football in Lithuania\n\n\nFootball is popular sport in Lithuania. The former Soviet republic made their entrance as an independent football nation in 1992. In the qualification for the Euro 2004, Lithuania held Germany to a 1-1 draw in Germany and won against Scotland. In the qualification for the Euro 2008 they played away to the 2006 World Cup winners Italy and drew 1-1 as well as beating Romania 3-0 in Lithuania in another shock performance. In 1922 in Lithuania, like in Poland, soccer championships began. Then, in the", "id": "4830771" }, { "contents": "Marius Niculae\n\n\n2–0 win. Despite he scored 20 goals for Dinamo in the 1999–00 season, Niculae was not included by Emerich Ienei in the preliminary squad for UEFA Euro 2000. On 2 September, Niculae scored a brace for Romania U-21 against Lithuania in the first match from the 2002 European Championship qualifiers, counting his first goals in an official match. On 6 October, Niculae played his final match for the U-21 squad, netting Romania's only goal in the 1–1 draw against European Championship holders Italy. On 5 December, Niculae scored his", "id": "3505259" }, { "contents": "Stadionul Marin Anastasovici\n\n\nMarin Anastasovici Stadium is a multi-use stadium in Giurgiu, Romania. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home ground of Astra Giurgiu. The stadium holds 8,500 people all on seats. The first international game was played by the Romania national under-21 football team on 19 November 2013 in a match against Germany which ended 2-2. The first game for Romania at Giurgiu was a friendly match against Lithuania on 23 March 2016. The stadium host also various UEFA Europa League matches and also a match from", "id": "15891395" }, { "contents": "History of the Romania national football team\n\n\nEast Germany scoring a predictable 4-1 win in Albania, Romania were out, despite a huge 9-0 win over Finland in Bucharest. Romania continued to suffer poor form in the UEFA European Championship. In their qualifying group for the 1976 European Football Championship, they were out-qualified by Spain, despite an impressive 1-1 draw in the away match. Romania failed to win matches, drawing twice with Scotland and Spain and dropping points in Denmark with a dismal goalless draw. Romania were again beat by Spain", "id": "16435703" }, { "contents": "Faroe Islands national under-21 football team\n\n\nRussia U21, beating them 1-0 after a goal in the first minute. This was followed by a 1-1 draw against Moldova in September, but Faroe Islands lost the next match 3-1 against Latvia. Russia had their revenge in the away match and defeated Faroe Islands 2-0. They also lost both matches against Romania. In November 2009 Faroe Islands beat Latvia 1-0 and were held to a 1-1 draw against Andorra. Faroe Islands won the home match against Andorra 3-1", "id": "13865866" }, { "contents": "Carrow Road\n\n\non five occasions. The first was in 1983 in a European Under-21 Championship qualifying match against Denmark, which England won 4–1. The team played another qualifying match in the same tournament at the stadium in 1997, beating Greece 4–2. The Slovakia team featured in a friendly match at the ground in June 2007, England winning 5–0 in front of a crowd of 20,193 people. In 2010, the ground played host to a play-off against Romania, a game the home side won 2–1 in front of a then record all", "id": "8674438" }, { "contents": "Romania national football team\n\n\nGianluigi Buffon saved the subsequent Mutu penalty, leaving Romania with two points and needing a win against the Netherlands, which eliminated France 4–1 that same evening. The Netherlands beat Romania 2–0 in the final game of the group, which meant that Italy joined the Netherlands in the quarter-finals and Romania finished third, ahead of France. Romania were drawn into the UEFA qualifying round for the 2010 World Cup alongside France, Serbia, Austria, Lithuania and the Faroe Islands. Although Romania were seeded in the second pot, suggesting that", "id": "10918894" }, { "contents": "Rugby union in Romania\n\n\n, drawing two, and losing one. Later in 1955, the Romanians defeated Llanelli in Moscow, and then beat both Cardiff and Harlequins in Bucharest. Only France, who played Romania before almost 95,000 fans in Bucharest (in a preliminary match to a soccer international), could beat the Romanians, and that was only after an epic 16-15 battle. A generation of French school-trained coaches from the late 1940s and 1950s laid the foundations for national success in the 1960s, 70s and 80s. In 1974 Romania", "id": "13829979" }, { "contents": "Dennis Man\n\n\nover Rudar Velenje. Man was selected for the Romania under-21 team and scored on debut in a 3–1 away victory over Bosnia and Herzegovina, on 1 September 2017. Senior manager Cosmin Contra gave Man his first Romania call-up for the friendlies with Israel and Sweden in March 2018. He made his debut in the latter game, replacing Nicolae Stanciu in 87th minute as his side won 1–0 at the Stadionul Ion Oblemenco in Craiova. On 11 June 2019, he netted the last of his team in a 4–0 defeat of Malta", "id": "12444532" }, { "contents": "2011 Rugby World Cup qualifying\n\n\nand Romania). On a home and away basis, Romania prevailed by winning 32–12 in Bucharest, preceded by a 21–21 draw in Montevideo. It competed in Pool B. Both nations had won the repechage semi-finals. Those were conducted as single matches, with the European and African qualifiers drawn into one semi-final and the Asian and Americas qualifiers drawn into the other. Romania beat Tunisia 56–13 and Uruguay had the upper hand over Kazakhstan winning 44–7. Both matches were hosted by the team with the higher IRB World Ranking", "id": "11180430" }, { "contents": "Moshtagh Yaghoubi\n\n\nterminated by Shakhter Karagandy on 17 June 2016. On 4 November 2016, HJK Helsinki announced the signing of Yaghoubi. On 31 January 2019, Seinäjoen Jalkapallokerho announced the signing of Yaghoubi. Yaghoubi acquired Finnish nationality in 2013 and got called up for Finland national under-21 team for 2015 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship qualification match against Lithuania on 11 June 2013. Yaghoubi scored his national team debut goal when Finland beat Wales U-21 5–1 in UEFA Under-21 Championship qualification on 14 August 2013. On 31 October 2013 Yaghoubi made his debut for Finland national", "id": "15530739" }, { "contents": "Romania national football team\n\n\npoor form in the UEFA European Championship. In their qualifying group for the 1976 European Football Championship, they were out-qualified by Spain despite an impressive 1–1 draw in the away match. Romania failed to win matches, drawing twice with Scotland and Spain and dropping points in Denmark with a dismal goalless draw. Romania were again beaten by Spain for a place in the 1978 World Cup in Argentina. Despite a 1–0 win in Bucharest, Romania lost a bizarre match at home to Yugoslavia 6–4 having led 3–2 at half time.", "id": "10918865" }, { "contents": "History of the Romania national football team\n\n\nfor a place in the 1978 World Cup in Argentina. Despite a 1-0 win in Bucharest, Romania lost a bizarre match at home to Yugoslavia 6-4 having led 3-2 at half time. Spain won 1-0 in Belgrade to seal passage to South America. Romania's sole successful qualifying campaign was for the European Championships in 1984 in France. At the finals, Romania were drawn with regular rivals Spain, holders West Germany and dark horses Portugal. Under head coach Mircea Lucescu, an encouraging opening", "id": "16435704" }, { "contents": "Yann Sommer\n\n\nUnder-21 Championship, hosted by Denmark between 11 and 25 June 2011. The Swiss team reached the 2011 UEFA European Under-21 Championship Final on 25 June without conceding a goal, but lost 2–0 to Spain. This was Sommer's final match for the under-21s. Sommer made his debut for the Swiss senior side on 30 May 2012 at the Swissporarena, Lucerne, in a 0–1 defeat against Romania in a friendly match. On 13 May, he was named in Switzerland's 23-man squad for the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil. Alongside", "id": "823566" }, { "contents": "Scotland at the UEFA European Championship\n\n\nqualifying saw Scotland face Denmark, Romania and Spain. Scotland lost their opening match 2–1 to the Spaniards at Hampden, before drawing 1–1 in Valencia. Gordon McQueen scored a late equaliser to win Scotland a point away in Romania, before Joe Harper's goal saw Scotland beat Denmark 1–0 away from home. Scotland won the reverse fixture 3–1. Scotland's final match was at home to Romania, with Scotland requiring a two goal win to win the group and qualify for the play-offs. Scotland took the lead through a Bruce", "id": "1546781" }, { "contents": "Polish football in the interwar period\n\n\nyet more achievements. On October 2, a so-called double match took place (such games were popular in 1930s European Football). The reserve Poland team beat 2-1 Latvia at Warsaw, and at the same hour the first lineup faced Romania in Bucharest. Romania (with several of its starters of Hungarian nationality from Transylvania) was regarded a very strong team. The Poles, however, overwhelmed it 5-0 and this was the biggest success of Polish Football so far. This game is significant also for", "id": "21819213" }, { "contents": "History of the Romania national football team\n\n\nLithuania in Cluj-Napoca before scraping an unconvincing 1-0 win in the Faroe Islands, midfielder Răzvan Cociş scoring the goal. Their third match would be at home to France, who had also begun with a bad loss, 3-1 to Austria in Vienna. Romania raced into a 2-0 lead in Constanţa with goals from Florentin Petre and Dorin Goian but France pulled one back before half time through Franck Ribéry. A long-range strike from Yoann Gourcuff earned France a draw but both sides were left with", "id": "16435733" }, { "contents": "Nauris Bulvītis\n\n\nseason. Bulvītis has been capped internationally at under-19 and under-21 levels. In 2012 Latvia national football team coach Aleksandrs Starkovs called him up for the 2012 Baltic Cup. Nauris played 2 matches, helping Latvia win the tournament. Bulvītis scored his first international goal on 6 September 2013 in a 2–1 2014 FIFA World Cup qualification match victory over Lithuania. In May 2014 he helped Latvia win the Baltic Cup for the second time in a row, scoring the only goal in a 1–0 victory over Lithuania in the final of the tournament.", "id": "22161076" }, { "contents": "Lithuania national football team\n\n\nScotland; however, a 1–0 defeat to Scotland in the final game ended their hopes. Although finishing fifth in their 2006 World Cup qualifying group, Lithuania were nevertheless competitive. Lithuania drew with world champions Italy 1–1 in Naples in a Euro 2008 qualifying game on 2 September 2006, in the first competitive game that Italy played since the World Cup final. On 6 September 2008, Lithuania defeated Romania 3–0 in a 2010 World Cup qualifier. The victory was regarded by many as \"a historic win.\" It was followed by", "id": "6890277" }, { "contents": "Colchester Community Stadium\n\n\n2011 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship as they beat Lithuania 3–0 with two goals from Danny Welbeck and one from Marc Albrighton. A crowd of 7,240 watched the game on 7 September 2010. The England under-21s returned to Colchester for a 2013 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualifier on 11 November 2011. The Young Lions cruised to a 5–0 victory against Iceland on the night, with goals from Marvin Sordell, Martin Kelly, Craig Dawson and two scored by Gary Gardner. The attendance for the game was 10,051. England won their fourth match after", "id": "19735537" }, { "contents": "Arvydas Novikovas\n\n\na starter. During his 2 season there he has helped Jagiellonia Białystok finish 2nd twice in a row. He has scored 16 goals and provided 12 assists in the 58 games he has played for them, starting the 2018/19 season with 3 goals and 2 assists in his first 9 games. Novikovas represented the Lithuania under-21's when he was just a 16-year-old. In May 2009, he was called up to the Lithuania squad, for their FIFA World Cup qualifier with Romania. On 9 September, Novikovas scored for Lithuania", "id": "1849831" }, { "contents": "Valon Ahmedi\n\n\ndebuted for the under-21 side against Macedonia U21, playing as a starter for the entire first-half in an eventual goalless draw. He received another call up for the under-21 side by same coach Skënder Gega for the friendly match against Romania U21 on 8 October 2014. He played against Romania U21 as a starter and in the 60th minute provided the assist for the 1–1 equalising goal scored by Vedat Muriqi, which however wasn't enough as Romania U21 won 3–1. Ahmedi was called up for the first time in an official competitive", "id": "7679765" }, { "contents": "Alessandro Del Piero\n\n\nthat qualified for and later won the 1996 European Under-21 Championship, appearing in the quarter-finals. Del Piero made his senior debut under Arrigo Sacchi at the age of 20, on 25 March 1995, in a 4–1 win over Estonia in a Euro 1996 qualifying match. Del Piero scored his first goal for Italy on 15 November 1995, in a 4–0 win over Lithuania in a Euro 1996 qualifying match. His tournament debut was at UEFA Euro 1996, where he made his only appearance in the first half of the team", "id": "4132525" }, { "contents": "1998 UEFA European Under-21 Championship squads\n\n\nThe following is a list of squads for each nation competing at 1998 UEFA European Under-21 Championship in Romania. The tournament started on 23 May and the final took place in Bucharest on 31 May 1998. Players born on or after 1 January 1975 were eligible to play in the tournament. Each nation had to submit a squad of 20 players, two of which had to be goalkeepers. If a player was injured seriously enough to prevent his taking part in the tournament before his team's first match, he could be replaced by", "id": "6042468" }, { "contents": "Lithuania national under-21 football team\n\n\nThe Lithuania national under-21 football team is the national under-21 football team of Lithuania and is controlled by the Lithuanian Football Federation. Squad called up for the friendly match against on 10 November 2017 and 2019 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification match against on 14 November 2017. ! colspan=\"9\" bgcolor=\"#B0D3FB\" align=\"left\" | ! colspan=\"9\" bgcolor=\"#B0D3FB\" align=\"left\" | ! colspan=\"9\" bgcolor=\"#B0D3FB\" align=\"left\" | ! colspan=\"7\" bgcolor=\"#B0D3FB\" align=\"left\" | ! colspan=\"9\" bgcolor=\"#B0D3FB\" align=\"left\" | ! colspan=\"9\" bgcolor=\"#B0D3FB\" align=\"left\" | ! colspan=\"9\"", "id": "15919932" }, { "contents": "James Milner\n\n\nMilner competed for England at the 2007 UEFA European Under-21 Championship. He played in all four of England's matches and was booked in the semi-final against the Netherlands, which meant he would have missed the final. The match was decided by a penalty shoot-out, in which Milner scored twice and England lost 13–12. Milner was included in the under-21 squad for a friendly against Romania, which ended in a 1–1 draw. A month later, Milner set an England under-21 record by making his 30th appearance for the", "id": "1860629" }, { "contents": "Endri Çekiçi\n\n\nat Albania under-21 by coach Skënder Gega for the friendly match against Romania U21 on 8 October 2014. In that match, he came on as a substitute in the second half, and Albania lost 1–3. Çekiçi received another call up by the newly appointed coach Redi Jupi for the 2017 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualifying matches against Israel and Portugal in September 2015. He debuted against the former by coming on as a second-half substitute, netting a penalty kick in the 84th minute to rescue his side a 1–1 home draw.", "id": "8124891" }, { "contents": "Romania national football team\n\n\nWorld Cup, Romania won their first match against Peru, 3–1, with goals from Adalbert Desu, Constantin Stanciu and Nicolae Kovács and Samuel Zauber as goalkeeper, before being thrashed 4–0 by hosts and eventual winners Uruguay. Romania qualified for the next World Cup in 1934 after beating Yugoslavia 2–1 in a repeat of their first international. At the finals, Romania played only one game in a new knock-out format, losing 2–1 to Czechoslovakia in Trieste, Italy, with Ștefan Dobay scoring their only goal of the tournament. Romania", "id": "10918860" }, { "contents": "Romania national under-21 football team\n\n\nnational team until the age of 23. The best result achieved by the Romania U-21 squad is the qualification for the 1998 European Championship. Under the guidance of Victor Pițurcă and with a generation of players that included among others Bogdan Lobonț, Florentin Petre, Ionel Dănciulescu and Cătălin Munteanu, Romania U-21 finished the qualifying stage with maximum points after winning all eight games. Romania was then chosen as the host of the final stage. The squad was eliminated in the quarter-finals, being beaten by the Netherlands, 2-1", "id": "14153041" }, { "contents": "James Ward-Prowse\n\n\nhosts France 2–1. Ward-Prowse was nominated for the Vauxhall England Under-21 Player of the Year award, but eventually lost out to Southampton teammate Nathan Redmond. In June 2017, he captained the under-21s at that year's edition of the European Under-21 Championship where England reached the semi-finals, eventually losing to Germany in a penalty shoot-out. On 16 March 2017, he earned his first call-up to the senior England squad for a friendly against Germany and a World Cup qualifying match against Lithuania. Six days", "id": "1352322" }, { "contents": "History of the Romania national football team\n\n\nfirst match against Peru, 3-1, with goals from Adalbert Desu, Constantin Stanciu and Nicolae Kovács, before being thrashed 4-0 by hosts and eventual winners Uruguay. Romania qualified for the next World Cup in 1934 after beating Yugoslavia 2-1 in a repeat of their first international. At the finals, Romania played only one game in a new knock-out format, losing 2-1 to Czechoslovakia in Trieste, Italy, with Ştefan Dobay scoring their only goal of the tournament. Romania qualified by default", "id": "16435698" }, { "contents": "Muarem Muarem\n\n\nSeptember 2009 in a 2-1 loss. He went on to make nine appearances for the team, scoring his first international goal in his second under-21 appearance, a 1-1 draw with Lithuania on 9 September 2009, scoring in the first minute of the match. He scored his second goal a month later against England, netting a low free-kick that brought his team back into the game at 2-1. He also scored against Portugal and Bosnia and Herzegovina. Muarem played his final game for the under-21s", "id": "18689026" }, { "contents": "Giedrius Arlauskis\n\n\nreturn to Romania, joining CFR Cluj. The move was confirmed on 15 August 2017. In August 2008, Arlauskis' performance in Romania led him being called by the Lithuania for the first time. Arlauskis made his national team debut as a substitute against Moldova in a friendly game on 19 November 2008. He joined the game in the 46th minute and conceded a goal after 67 minutes as Lithuania drew with Moldova 1–1. After playing two more caps as a substitute, his first competitive game then came on 18 June 2010,", "id": "17863969" }, { "contents": "Romania national under-21 football team\n\n\n. The Romania under-21 team does not have a permanent home. The team plays in stadiums located all around Romania. Because of the smaller demand compared to the senior national team, smaller facilities are used. As of June 2019, the last three games have been played in Cluj-Napoca. Romania again qualified for the UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship in 2019, after topping a group that included Portugal, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Wales, Switzerland and Liechtenstein. They secured their qualification for the final tournament, by beating Liechtenstein,", "id": "14153042" }, { "contents": "Theo Wharton\n\n\nBorough in July 2018. Wharton signed for National League North club Hereford F.C. on 22 December 2018. Wharton was first selected for the Wales national under-17 team for the 2011 UEFA European Under-17 Championship qualifying round, starting two matches against Belgium and Denmark. Wharton was called up to the Wales under-21 team to play Moldova on 22 March 2013. On 9 September 2014, Wharton made his Wales under-21 debut in a 1–1 draw against Lithuania under-21s. In 2016, Wharton chose to switch allegiance to play for Saint Kitts and Nevis, the", "id": "17934659" }, { "contents": "Marius Niculae\n\n\nwas officially signed. On 26 February, he scored his first goal for Shandong in a friendly match against Chongqing F.C.. After representing Romania at the U-16 and U-18 levels, Niculae was promoted to the U-21 level. Niculae's form for Dinamo saw him selected for the Romania U-21 team to play Bulgaria U-21 on 3 March 1999, and he marked his debut with the second goal as Romania won 3–1. He played his first official match for Romania U-21 on 26 March, in a 0–1 defeat against Slovakia U-21, coming in", "id": "3505256" }, { "contents": "History of the Serbia national football team\n\n\nin 12th minute, from \"penalty spot\", like against Austria three monts before. On 10 October 2009, Serbia made a huge victory 5–0 against Romania and secured placement at 2010 FIFA World Cup. In last match of this qualifying cycle, Lithuania defeated Serbia 2–1 in Marijampolė. In November, Serbia defeat Northern Ireland and South Korea in Belfast and London, 1–0 both matches. Serbia placed into Group D with Germany, team also faced 2010 Africa Cup of Nations runners-up Ghana, and Australia. Their opening group", "id": "3691746" }, { "contents": "History of Ferencvárosi TC\n\n\n1 December 1962 Ferencváros lost 1–0 to Sampdoria in Genoa, Italy. On 12 December 1962 Ferencváros beat Sampdoria 6–0 at home. In the quarter-finals Ferencváros beat Petrolul Ploiești 2–0 at home, while lost the away match 1–0 in Ploiești, Romania. In the semi-finals, Ferencváros lost to NK Dinamo Zagreb 1–0 at home and Ferencváros lost the away match 2–1 in Zagreb, Yugoslavia. Ferencváros won the 1962–63 season of the Hungarian League. Therefore, Ferencváros entered the European Cup 1963–64 season. On 11 September 1963,", "id": "4677552" }, { "contents": "George Pușcaș\n\n\n90th minute of a 2–1 victory over Cosenza. Pușcaș scored seven times for Romania under-21 in the 2019 UEFA European Championship qualifying competition, as his side won its group and progressed to the final tournament in Italy. On 18 June 2019, he obtained the penalty from which he scored the opener in a 4–1 victory over Croatia at the San Marino Stadium. He netted again in the next group game against England, surpassing Ionuț Luțu as the highest scorer of the \"Tricolorii mici\". Pușcaș then gave Romania a half-time", "id": "18913818" }, { "contents": "Belarus women's national football team\n\n\nqualified for the promotion play-offs. In the 2001 European Championship qualifying, again in Class B, Belarus beat Estonia 4–1 and 0–7, Israel 0–5 and 1–0 and Slovakia 1–0, and tied 1–1 in Romania, but the Romanians earned the spot in the promotion play-offs after beating Belarus 0–1. With this settled Belarus lost 6–1 to Slovakia in the last match. In the 2003 World Cup qualifying, Class B, Belarus beat Bosnia 5–2 and 2–7, Turkey 4–0 and 1–5, Slovakia 3–2. They lost the remaining", "id": "21080772" }, { "contents": "Visa requirements for Turkmen citizens\n\n\nEstonia (1 July 1992), Latvia (1993), Lithuania (1 November 1993), Slovakia (6 May 1994), Bulgaria (1 January 1999), Armenia (1999), Moldova (9 June 1999), Russia (17 July 1999), Hungary (1 December 1999), Romania (1 July 2000), Belarus (21 July 2000), Czech Republic (22 October 2000), Poland (3 November 2000), Kazakhstan (1 March 2001). Also Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan,", "id": "5139311" }, { "contents": "Ovie Ejaria\n\n\nplaying the whole match. Ejaria was selected for the England under-20 team in the 2017 FIFA U-20 World Cup. He made his first start in a game in the first round match against South Korea, and came on as a substitute the quarter-final against Mexico, but was an unused substitute in the final where England beat Venezuela 1–0. He was called up for the England under-21 team in March 2018, making his debut in a friendly against Romania. He was called up again in May 2018 for the Toulon Tournament but", "id": "14618472" }, { "contents": "Franck Ribéry\n\n\nCup qualification match against Romania, scoring the team's opening goal in a 2–2 draw. On 28 March 2009, Ribéry scored the lone goal away to Lithuania. Three days later, he completed this feat again, this time at the Stade de France, netting the winner in the 75th minute following service from André-Pierre Gignac. On 11 May 2010, Ribéry was named to Domenech's 30-man preliminary squad to participate in the 2010 World Cup and his second World Cup overall. He was later named to the 23-man team", "id": "15094173" }, { "contents": "Cosmin Contra\n\n\nbeing announced as Timișoara's new player-coach six days later. Over 14 years, Contra earned 73 caps for Romania, scoring seven goals. He appeared for his country at UEFA Euro 2000 and 2008. On 1 April 2009, after a match with Austria, Contra announced his retirement from international football. On 30 August 2010, however, the 34-year-old was recalled for two Euro 2012 qualifiers against Albania and Belarus. Contra made his Timişoara debut as a manager in September 2010, with a win against FC Sportul", "id": "4642171" }, { "contents": "Victor Pițurcă\n\n\nWorld Cup (0–0 against France, 1–1 against Italy), Romania lost 0–2 to the Netherlands, finishing the group in third place and thus being eliminated from the competition. After Euro 2008, Romania showed an increasingly poor form in both friendly games and the 2010 World Cup qualifying campaign, where they had a slow start. In their first two official games after Euro 2008, Romania lost 0–3 against Lithuania at home and four days later secured a difficult 1–0 victory against the Faeroe Islands. Although many of the players which helped", "id": "13766306" }, { "contents": "Paul Papp\n\n\nin a qualification game for the 2011 European Under-21 Championship, against Latvia. He captained his side for the first time, following Torje and Găman's injuries, on 29 May 2010, in the friendly match, lost by Romania against Belarus. On 7 September, Papp was in the startup team for Romania U-21, in a 3–0 win against Russia. The win secured Romania a place in the playoff stage of the 2011 European Under-21 Championship qualifiers. However, he missed the chance to play at the 2011 European Under-21 Championship,", "id": "22044461" }, { "contents": "Ciprian Deac\n\n\nfourth national championship in its history. Deac made his debut for the Romania under-21 team against France on 1 June 2007, with the match ending 1–1. He was part of Romania's preliminary Euro 2008 squad, but missed out on the final list led by manager Victor Pițurcă. On 5 March 2010, Deac finally earned his first cap for the full side in a friendly match against Israel. In August 2017, following a six-year absence, he was selected by Christoph Daum for the 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifying matches", "id": "14907109" }, { "contents": "Radomir Antić\n\n\ninto the fire. Also surprising was leaving tall striker Nikola Žigić on the bench and starting with only on attacker, Marko Pantelić, upfront in 4–5–1 formation. And while Serbia lost 2–1 to somewhat wounded France that just days earlier shockingly lost to Austria, many positives were taken from the match at Stade de France such as a brave attacking approach with a lot of running from the wings. Next up in October was in-form Lithuania, which had recently defeated Romania and Austria without allowing a goal. Contrary to expectations,", "id": "18552988" }, { "contents": "Roy Hodgson\n\n\n, losing 1–0 in Porto. In the tournament the Swiss were drawn in Group A alongside Romania, Colombia and the hosts, United States. The opening match of the group was between Switzerland and the United States and is memorable as the first World Cup match to take place indoors, at the Pontiac Silverdome. The Swiss drew 1–1 against the United States, beat Romania 4–1 and lost 2–0 to Colombia, finishing as runners-up in their group, qualifying for the Round of 16, where they lost 3–0 to Spain.", "id": "12858556" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nagainst Portugal, but did so as England defeated Germany 1–0 in Charleroi, ensuring that England beat their European neighbours for the first time since the 1966 World Cup Final. To remain in the tournament, England only required a draw against Romania in the final group match, and Shearer scored a penalty as England went in at half-time 2–1 up, but Romania ultimately won 3–2. England's tournament was over, and so was Shearer's international career. From his 63 caps, he captained the team 34 times and scored", "id": "13592545" }, { "contents": "Florinel Coman\n\n\nEuropean goal in the UEFA Europa League 1–1 draw with Hapoel Be'er Sheva, on 2 November. Coman featured for Romania at the 2019 UEFA European Under-21 Championship, mostly as a second half substitute. In the group fixture on 21 June, he entered in the 63rd minute for Andrei Ivan, obtained a penalty and scored a double to help to a 4–2 victory against England. He then earned his first and only start in a goalless draw with France, with both teams progressing further to the semi-finals, where Romania suffered", "id": "21859353" }, { "contents": "Mitragyna speciosa\n\n\nDenmark, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania and Sweden. In the UK, since 2016, the sale, import, and export of kratom are prohibited under the Psychoactive Substances Act. In 2017, kratom was designated a Schedule 1 illegal drug (the highest level) in the Republic of Ireland, under the names 7-hydroxymitragynine and mitragynine. The use of kratom leaves, known locally as \"ketum\", is prohibited in Malaysia under Section 30 (3) Poisons Act 1952 and the user may be fined a maximum amount", "id": "16890332" }, { "contents": "Romania national rugby union team\n\n\nThey lost 36–21 to Wales A at Pontypridd and 70–21 in a test held in Wrexham. At the 1999 World Cup Romania could again only manage a single win 27–25 against the United States. In 2000, Romania won the first European Nations Cup by a large margin, recording victories in all four matches. By 2001, Romania had been caught by the likes of Georgia who defeated them to take the 2001 European Nations Cup, crowned with a decisive 31–20 win over Romania in Bucharest. The national side lost to England by 134–0", "id": "10342595" }, { "contents": "Aritz Aduriz\n\n\n. He made his debut on the 8th, replacing Llorente for the last 15 minutes of a 3–1 home win against Lithuania. Six years later, at the age of 35, Aduriz was recalled by manager Vicente del Bosque for friendlies with Italy and Romania. He started and scored in the first match, a 1–1 draw at the \"Stadio Friuli\", and was selected for UEFA Euro 2016 in France. He made two substitute appearances in the group stage, always replacing Juventus' Álvaro Morata in the second half; on", "id": "7991541" }, { "contents": "UEFA Euro 2008 Group C\n\n\nof counter-attacking football. Then, in their second game, they also beat the 2006 World Cup runners-up, France, 4–1. This left the French in a difficult position, having already played out a scoreless draw against Romania in the group's opening match. Romania also played out a draw against Italy in their second match, leaving them in second place going into the final round of group matches. Italy finished as the second quarter-finalists, after they beat France 2–0 in their final game. French", "id": "15100017" }, { "contents": "List of land borders with dates of establishment\n\n\nSan Marino \"Italy–Slovenia \"Italy–Switzerland \"Italy–Vatican City \"Ireland–UK \"Latvia–Lithuania \"Lithuania–Belarus \"Lithuania–Poland \"Lithuania–Russia \"Latvia–Russia \"Liechtenstein–Switzerland \"Republic of Macedonia–Serbia \"Moldova–Romania \"Moldova–Ukraine \"Montenegro–Serbia \"Norway–Russia \"Norway–Sweden \"Poland–Slovakia \"Poland–Russia \"Poland–Ukraine \"Portugal–Spain \"Romania–Ukraine \"Romania–Serbia \"Russia–Ukraine \"Slovakia–", "id": "21121898" }, { "contents": "Nicolaj Thomsen\n\n\nDanish national team on 18 November 2014 against Romania. Thomsen scored the only Danish goal in the 1–1 draw against Iceland which qualified Denmark U-21 for the 2015 UEFA European Under-21 Championship. He was selected for the squad for the tournament and played the entire match in the opening win against the Czech Republic. He was in the line-up in the other two group stage-matches against Germany and Serbia. Thomsen was also chosen to the line-up in the semi final, where Denmark was defeated by Sweden. AaB Copenhagen", "id": "14143520" }, { "contents": "João Cancelo\n\n\n. On 20 April 2019, Cancelo played in the \"Scudetto\"-clinching match against rivals Fiorentina, as Juventus won their eighth successive league title after a 2–1 home triumph. Cancelo represented Portugal in the 2012 UEFA European Under-19 Championship. He was also selected for the following edition, in Lithuania. With the under-20s, Cancelo appeared at the 2013 FIFA World Cup and the 2014 Toulon Tournament. He featured in two games in the former competition, with the country reaching the round-of-16. Cancelo was part of the under-21 squad that competed", "id": "15886722" }, { "contents": "Human rights violations by the CIA\n\n\nofficials. Nicaraguan Contras were taught to lead: The manual also recommended: The CIA claimed that the purpose of the manual was to \"moderate\" activities already being done by the Contras. In May 2018, The European Court of Human Rights ruled that the countries of Romania and Lithuania were involved in torture activities perpetrated by the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). The two countries were found to have run \"black site\" torture rooms and detention facilities therefore committing grave human rights abuses. In Romania, the secret", "id": "1650708" }, { "contents": "European Patent Organisation\n\n\nSerbia which did so on 1 October 2010. In addition there are \"extension states\" which are not Contracting States to the EPC but have instead signed extension agreements under which the protection conferred by European patent applications and patents is extended to the relevant country. These are Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Montenegro. Slovenia, Romania, Lithuania, Latvia, Croatia, Macedonia, Albania and Serbia were all extension states prior to joining the EPC. Furthermore, there are so-called \"validation states\" which are not Contracting States to", "id": "2996937" }, { "contents": "Montenegro national football team\n\n\nPoland, Denmark, Kazakhstan, Armenia and Romania. Poland, Denmark and Romania had been participants in the UEFA Euro 2016, but Montenegro began by drawing 1–1 away to Romania, beating Kazakhstan 5–0 at home and defeating Denmark 1–0. However, they then lost 3–2 away to Armenia despite leading 2–0, and were defeated 2–1 at home by Poland. Montenegro then rebounded, beating Armenia 4–1 and Kazakhstan 3–0. They later eliminated Romania with a 1–0 victory, but losses to the Danes and Poles ended Montenegro's chance of qualifying.", "id": "9236271" }, { "contents": "Denis Alibec\n\n\nplayed for Romania's under-17, under-19 and under-21 teams. On 11 October 2015, after being called up on several occasions in the past, Alibec gained his first cap for the full side in the last UEFA Euro 2016 qualifying match against Faroe Islands, replacing Bogdan Stancu in the 90th minute. In June 2016, he was picked by Anghel Iordănescu for his squad at the final tournament in France and appeared as a substitute in Romania's opening game, a 2–1 defeat to the host. Alibec's father, Gevrim and uncle", "id": "7828376" }, { "contents": "Lukas Spalvis\n\n\nout again on 5 July 2017, joining 2. Bundesliga side 1. FC Kaiserslautern for the 2017–18 season. On 8 May 2018, it was announced that Spalvis had joined 1. FC Kaiserslautern on a permanent deal. On 26 August, he sustained a long term injury in a match and it will leave him out for almost the remainder of the season. Spalvis played several matches for youth national teams, including Lithuania U-19 and Lithuania U-21. In March 2014 he made his debut for the senior team, in a friendly", "id": "11995894" }, { "contents": "Nathan Craze\n\n\nDiv II Group A in Bucharest, Romania, and was also named Netminder of the Tournament. He received the International Ice Hockey Federation Directorate’s Award of the tournament’s Best Netminder when GB won the gold medal in the 2004 World under-18 Championships (Div II) in Lithuania, and he equalled the feat by being voted the IIHF’s tournament Best Netminder when GB won the gold medal in the 2006 World under-20 Championships (Div II) in Romania. In 2006, Craze signed with the Bracknell Bees as their starting goalie,", "id": "21622172" }, { "contents": "Women's event at the 43rd Chess Olympiad\n\n\nbeat Georgia's second team 2½-1½, Italy beat Cuba 3-1, while Lithuania tied their match against Kazakhstan. United States, Georgia and Armenia with 11/12 match points each were on the top after six rounds. The central match of the seventh round was the clash between Armenia and United States on the first table, where Armenians snatched a minimal victory thanks to the Elina Danielian and Anna Sargsyan who scored full point as White in the games against Anna Zatonskih and Sabina-Francesca Foisor, respectively; Jennifer Yu beat Maria Kursova", "id": "7597446" }, { "contents": "Lithuania at the Olympics\n\n\nLithuania, after declaring restoration of independence in 1918, sent its athletes to the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris for the first time. At first it was considered to send 33 athletes, but then it was decided to limit the delegation to 13 soccer players and 2 cyclists. The soccer players arrived in Paris only a day before the game was scheduled. Lithuania debuted at the Olympic games on May 25, 1924 at 2:40pm (Paris time) when the match between Lithuanian and Swiss teams started. Lithuania lost 9-0 (", "id": "8795472" }, { "contents": "Romania national football team\n\n\nthey were a strong challenge for the first place in the group, they eventually finished fifth, above only the Faroe Islands. Their campaign was a disaster that began with a 3–0 home loss to Lithuania and included a 5–0 trashing in Belgrade by Serbia. Furthermore, various problems were caused during the poor campaign, such as the retirement from international football of Cosmin Contra, Mirel Rădoi and Adrian Mutu (the latter would later be recalled after a year's absence). Also, coach Victor Pițurcă resigned and was replaced by Răzvan", "id": "10918895" }, { "contents": "Sūduva Stadium\n\n\nSūduva Stadium, known as ARVI Football Arena for sponsorship reasons, is a multi-purpose stadium in Marijampolė, Lithuania. The stadium was built using funds from the European Union and opened on July 6, 2008. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of FK Sūduva. Its original capacity increased from 4,200 to 6,500 spectators after additional seats were installed in May–June 2009 before a match between Lithuania national team and Romania. Beginning from the 2011 season the stadium was named ARVI Football Arena after", "id": "10765440" }, { "contents": "Kilkim Žaibu\n\n\n, Lithuania. From 2000 to 3000 people visit the festival annually from various countries. Also, bands have performed at Kilkim Žaibu festivals from Australia, Norway, Hungary, Czech Republic, Romania, Ukraine, Russia, Sweden, Finland, Germany and neighbouring countries. The festival took place in Varniai, Lithuania on 28th - 30th June, 2018. The festival took place in Varniai, Lithuania on 29 June - 1 July 2017. The festival took place in Varniai, Lithuania on 23–25 June 2016. The festival took place in", "id": "10249217" }, { "contents": "Latvia national football team\n\n\n, the Latvian team participated in the first qualification tournament for the 1938 World Cup. Latvia were placed in Group 8, alongside Austria and Lithuania. Latvia beat Lithuania 4–2 in Riga, after a Fricis Kaņeps hat-trick and an Iļja Vestermans goal. In Kaunas, they won 5–1, after two goals each from Kaņeps, Vaclavs Borduško, and Vestermans, but lost 1–2 in the decisive away match against Austria, despite an early goal from Vestermans. In April 1938, the Austrian Anschluss relegated the Austrian team, however,", "id": "15750063" }, { "contents": "Miloš Krasić\n\n\nIn May 2006, Krasić played a leading role in the 2006 European U-21 Championship. He made his debut for the senior side later that year in a friendly against Denmark. At senior level, Krasić was an important player for Serbia in 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification. He scored one goal in the match against Lithuania, another in the game against Austria and set up three in the game against Romania, which sealed his nation's qualification to the final tournament in South Africa. Krasić is a right-sided winger, noted", "id": "19580145" }, { "contents": "Philip Billing\n\n\nunder-20 team and the Romania national under-20 football team. He earned his first cap for the U21 team in a qualifying match for the 2019 European Championship against the Faroe Islands on 31 August 2017; it ended in a 3–0 win. He again featured a week later in another qualifying match, which the team won 6–0 against Lithuania. In November 2018, Billing turned down an approach to switch his international allegiance to the Nigeria national team. In March 2019, he received his first call-up to the Denmark national team.", "id": "18184799" }, { "contents": "1934 FIFA World Cup qualification\n\n\nfollows: Key: Estonia v Lithuania was not played since neither team could qualify with a win. Sweden qualified. 11-1 on aggregate; Spain qualified. Italy qualified, as Greece declined to play the second match. Bulgaria withdrew, and the remaining matches were not played since Hungary and Austria were already assured of the top two spots. Hungary and Austria qualified. Poland were unable to travel to Prague for the second match as the Polish government denied the team visas for political reasons. Therefore, Czechoslovakia qualified. Romania", "id": "6526321" }, { "contents": "Rugby union in Romania\n\n\nwon against France 15 – 10 in Bucharest, and the FIRA – Association of European Rugby championship. In 1975 Romania went for an 8 games tour to New Zealand, tour concluded in Wellington with a 10-10 draw against Junior All Blacks. Home nation sides began to award international caps for matches against Romania from 1981. Romania won rugby internationals over Scotland in 1984 and 1991, and also over Wales in 1983 and 1988 (the latter in Cardiff). Between 1960 and 1990, Romania beat France eight times, the", "id": "13829980" }, { "contents": "European Border and Coast Guard Agency\n\n\na border security operation conducted by Frontex, the European Union's border security agency. The operation, under Italian control, began on 1 November 2014 and involves voluntary contributions from 15 other European nations (both EU member states and non-members). Current voluntary contributors to Operation Triton are Croatia, Iceland, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Germany, the Netherlands, France, Spain, Ireland, Portugal, Austria, Switzerland, Romania, Poland, Lithuania, Malta and the United Kingdom. The operation was undertaken after Italy", "id": "20620191" }, { "contents": "Albania national football team\n\n\nqualifying match, Albania made history by qualifying for the UEFA Euro 2016, its first ever appearance at a major men's football tournament. In the tournament itself, Albania lost 0–1 to Switzerland and 0–2 to hosts France. While they beat Romania 1–0 (their first win against Romania since 1947), the team finished last among the third-placed teams and didn't progress beyond the group stage. Despite the UEFA European Championship's almost successful debut, Albania suffered massive setback. In 2018 World Cup qualification, Albania had been", "id": "15457050" }, { "contents": "Dean Henderson\n\n\nmore times as an unused substitute bench that saw him missed out two matches for the side in the league. He made his under-21 debut on 24 March 2018, in a friendly at home against Romania, which England won 2–1. Henderson was named as England's number one for the 2019 UEFA European Under-21 Championship. Growing up, Henderson played county cricket as a schoolboy and was an accomplished batsman and wicket-keeper but chose football. Henderson initially started out as an outfield player before switching to his role as a goalkeeper.", "id": "6533434" }, { "contents": "Harry Maguire\n\n\n-up to either because he is such a level headed character.\" Maguire duly made his England under-21 debut as a substitute in the 60th minute, coming on for Liverpool's Andre Wisdom in a 2–0 win against Northern Ireland Under-21s at Bloomfield Road. On 24 August 2017, England manager Gareth Southgate included Maguire in his squad for the 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification matches against Malta and Slovakia. He made his debut when starting in England's 1–0 away win over Lithuania, which was the team's final match in their successful", "id": "3737243" }, { "contents": "Albania national under-21 football team\n\n\nmatch against Romania was characterized by a large Albania's win 7–1, which is the largest win ever recorded by Albania U-21. Albania Under-21s have managed to qualify only once in their history, and that came in the year of 1984 when they managed to qualify for the 1984 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship, although they were competing for the first time in such tournament. They were drawn in a very tough group which included the West Germany, Turkey and Austria. The historic event was the first time any Albanian squad qualified for", "id": "19363492" }, { "contents": "Alexandru Mitriță\n\n\nNew York City goal on the 17th the same month, in a 2–2 draw with Los Angeles FC. In March 2018, Mitriță was called up for Romania senior team's friendlies with Israel and Sweden later that month, after reportedly impressing coach Cosmin Contra. He made his debut in the former match on the 24th, and offered an assist to George Țucudean in a 2–1 win in Netanya. Mitriță is deployed as an attacking midfielder or a winger on either flank, having been noted for pace and technical ability which allow him", "id": "4318108" }, { "contents": "Claudiu Bumba\n\n\nsigned a four-year contract with Israeli club Hapoel Tel Aviv. On 2 February 2017, he signed a two and a half years contract with Dinamo Bucharest. He scored his first goal for Dinamo Bucharest on 10 April, in 2-1 league win against Astra Giurgiu. Bumba made his debut for Romania U-17 on 21 September 2010 in a game against Kazakhstan U-17. He played with the under-17 team at the 2011 UEFA European Under-17 Football Championship. On 6 October 2011, in a game against Sweden U-19, Bumba came", "id": "11657727" }, { "contents": "Dorian Dervite\n\n\nand U-21 levels. He has captained them on occasions. He was called up to the Under-21 squad to face Estonia and England. He was called for the international Toulon Tournament again with the U21, then against Poland and for the U21 European Championship qualifiers against Lithuania and Ukraine. he scored his first goal for France in a home draw with Poland U21 on 12 August 2009 with an 80th minute shot to make it 2–1 to France with the game ending 2–2, his last game for the Under-21s came in their 3–1 away win", "id": "18562600" }, { "contents": "Povilas Leimonas\n\n\nwith Jagiellonia Białystok. Povilas played for Lithuania's \"B\" team in two games in 2011, both against Lithuania U-21. The first game, played in Vilnius on 9 February, was won 2-1 by the \"B\" team, and the second match, in Marijampole on 2 March, resulted in a 3-0 win. Leimonas made his senior international debut on 7 June 2011, in a 1-0 friendly loss to Norway. He earned his second cap two months later in another friendly, the", "id": "16136896" }, { "contents": "History of the Romania national football team\n\n\nmatch in Bern, but the Netherlands were regarded as the outstanding team in the tournament, having followed their comprehensive win against Italy with an equally emphatic 4-1 win over France. A draw would also take Romania through were the other match between Italy and France to be drawn. With Italy taking a first-half lead against a France side reduced to ten men, it became apparent that Romania needed to beat the Netherlands to qualify. However, they played poorly and the Netherlands won 2-0 with second half goals", "id": "16435731" }, { "contents": "Sander Puri\n\n\nEstonia at under-17, under-19 and under-21 level. He made his debut for the senior national team on 30 May 2008 against Latvia in the 2008 Baltic Cup. He scored his first national team goal on 22 November 2008, in a 1–1 draw against Lithuania in a Mayors Cup match. A goal against Saint Kitts and Nevis saw him awarded the Estonian Silverball, for the best goal scored for Estonia in 2015. Puri is one of three triplets: his brother, Eino Puri, is also a footballer and his sister, Kadri", "id": "21342008" }, { "contents": "Eduards Višņakovs\n\n\nagainst Estonia on 5 June 2013, helping his team secure a 2–0 victory. On 10 September 2013 the U-23 team beat England 1-0, with Višņakovs scoring his second goal in two matches. Višņakovs was firstly called up to Latvia national football team for the FIFA World Cup 2014 qualifying matches against Lithuania and Slovakia on 11 and 15 October 2013. He made his debut for the national team in the match against Lithuania, coming on as a substitute in the 77th minute and replacing Māris Verpakovskis. A local scandal arose when", "id": "17206337" }, { "contents": "Romania national rugby union team\n\n\nthe Super Powers Cup. The USA beat a Romanian team stripped of their France-based players 23–16 in the third place play-off. The 2005–06 European Nations Cup also served as a qualifying group for the 2007 Rugby World Cup. Romania triumphed despite finishing level on points with Georgia. Romania qualified for the 2007 Rugby World Cup in France, finishing at the top of their pool during the Round 5 of the European qualifying tournaments. Romania won their first qualifying match on October 7, defeating Georgia in Bucharest 20–8. Their", "id": "10342600" }, { "contents": "Shlomo Lipetz\n\n\n, against Lithuania, Lipetz tossed a 10-inning, 4-hit complete game to beat Lithuania 2-1. He led that qualifier in victories and tied for second in strikeouts. During the 2012 European Baseball Championship qualifiers, in 2011, Lipetz pitched in 3 of the 5 games. Lipetz beat Georgia in the opener pitching 7 innings and striking out 9. Lipetz did not appear in the second game, against Great Britain, or in the third game against Lithuania. During the first game of the home/away finals against Great Britain", "id": "12992976" }, { "contents": "State Farm Stadium\n\n\nsoccer match attended by 62,462 fans. The United States men's national soccer team defeated Mexico, 2–0. On January 21, 2012, the U.S. played against Venezuela and won the match 1–0. On January 30, 2013, Mexico played against Denmark, a game that was broadcast on Televisa Deportes, UniMás, and TV Azteca. The match ended in a 1–1 draw. On November 19, 2015, the stadium was one of the sites selected for the 2016 Copa América Centenario. The stadium hosted three matches, including Mexico", "id": "18339554" }, { "contents": "Yacine Brahimi\n\n\npenalty in a 3–1 victory over Germany. He played with the under-16 team at the 2006 edition of the Montaigu Tournament playing in all four matches the team contested as France were crowned champions defeating Italy 2–1 in the final. With the under-17 team, Brahimi made his debut on 25 September in a qualification match for the 2007 UEFA European Under-17 Championship against Lithuania. France won the match 4–2 with Brahimi making a substitute appearance. Despite appearing in the first round of qualification, Brahimi was absent from the tournament itself, due to the", "id": "1037894" }, { "contents": "Ross McCormack\n\n\nfirst goal for the side on 11 October 2007 against Lithuania and scored again in his next appearance, a 4–0 victory over Slovenia U21s. McCormack won 10 caps for the under-21 side. He made his debut for the senior side on 30 May 2008 when he came on as a substitute during the 3–1 defeat of Czech Republic. McCormack was called up again in March 2009 for the 2010 FIFA World Cup qualifiers against Netherlands and Iceland. He started both matches, scoring his first goal for Scotland in a 2–1 win over Iceland on", "id": "8895190" }, { "contents": "Hungary national under-19 football team\n\n\n, and the atmosphere helped in times of need. The first match against Lithuania, was a 2-2 draw, but in the last 2 matches, the team could win, against Cyprus 2-1, and Portugal 1-0 and that was enough to qualify. The list below is the current list of U-19 national players according to the official Hungarian Football Federation website. Competition:2018 UEFA European Under-19 Football Championship (elite round)br Match Dates:25 March 2019br Opposition: The following players have been selected by Hungary in the past 12", "id": "4045560" }, { "contents": "X Factor (Romanian TV series)\n\n\nthe show aired starting 17 September 2011. Auditions for producers began in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, on 14 May 2011. They then took place in Constanța, on 21 May in Timișoara on 24 May 2011, on 4 June in Iași and concluded on 11 June 2011 in Bucharest. The first season ended on 1 January 2012, (16-24s) mentored by Mihai Morar was declared the first winner of The X Factor in Romania. Alin Văduva (Over 25s) was runner-up followed by Iulian Vasile (", "id": "16662967" }, { "contents": "Romania national football team\n\n\n0–5. In the next match, Romania recorded another draw (0–0), against Kazakhstan. The last match played in 2016 was a 0–3 defeat against Poland, with Robert Lewandowski scoring a double. After an uninspiring campaign, Romania ended in the fourth place in Group E with 13 points. After 8 of the 10 games, due to lackluster performances, coach Christoph Daum was fired and replaced with a promising new coach, Cosmin Contra. The Romania national team plays its home games at Arena Națională, the biggest stadium in", "id": "10918904" }, { "contents": "Chris Smalling\n\n\nfirst start for the under-21s in a 2011 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualifier against Portugal at Wembley Stadium in a 1–0 win. He scored his first goal for the under-21s on 8 October 2010, against Romania, in England's 2011 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification play-off first leg, converting from inside the area after an assist from Daniel Sturridge. The goal, scored in the 83rd minute, proved to be the winner as England won 2–1. On 13 November 2010, Smalling was called up to the England senior squad for", "id": "656401" }, { "contents": "Lithuania men's national basketball team\n\n\n. The only consolation was the remaining opportunity to qualify into the World Championship, which the Lithuanians achieved by beating Russia and Slovenia for fifth place. Lithuania won 5 of 6 games in the tournament. Consequently, the competition scheme was questioned in its reliability. The 2006 FIBA World Championship in Japan had Lithuania matching the 7th place from their 1998 debut, but many saw this performance as an under-achievement. Lithuania started the tournament with a narrow 2-point loss to Turkey, followed by an overtime defeat to eventual finalists Greece which", "id": "14520278" }, { "contents": "Shane McFaul\n\n\nCup when beating Sligo Rovers 2–1 at Tallaght Stadium. McFaul was later named Man of the Match in the F.A.I Cup Final Vs Sligo Rovers and also the honour of being named Sporting Fingal Player of the Year 2009. In the 2010 season his performances for Fingal attracted the interest of Scottish giants Celtic FC. http://www.herald.ie/sport/soccer/celtic-track-sporting-fingal-pair-27948702.html Shane made his Republic of Ireland U21 debut in a friendly game against Germany on 21 August 2007. He was also an unused sub in the UEFA European Under-21 Championship Qualifying games against Portugal and England. McFaul signed for", "id": "13006237" }, { "contents": "Connor Roberts (footballer, born 1995)\n\n\nand he returned to Swansea City. Roberts made his debut for Swansea City on 6 January 2018 in the FA Cup 3rd round against Wolverhampton Wanderers. He scored his first goal for the club on 29 September 2018 during a 3–0 win over Queens Park Rangers. Roberts has been capped at Wales under-19 level. In March 2016, Roberts received his first call-up to the Wales under-21 side for their 2017 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification matches, and made his debut as a second-half substitute in their 2–1 defeat against Romania", "id": "12721076" }, { "contents": "Roberta Anastase\n\n\nRoberta Alma Anastase (; born 27 March 1976 in Ploieşti) is a Romanian politician and former first female Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies of Romania between 19 December 2008 and 3 July 2012. She is a member of the Democratic Liberal Party, affiliated to the European People's Party–European Democrats, and became an MEP on 1 January 2007 with the accession of Romania to the European Union. She also represented Romania at the 1996 Miss Universe competition. She attended the Faculty of Sociology at the University of Bucharest in the mid-90", "id": "19157242" }, { "contents": "Kostas Mitroglou\n\n\n, he scored a goal against Germany in a 3–2 win at Vorwärts Stadium. Mitroglou finished as the top goalscorer of the competition with three goals. In 2007, Mitroglou was promoted to the Greece under-21 team. He scored two goals in a 3–1 home win against Macedonia in the UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualifiers, and later a goal in a 1–1 home draw against England and the only goal against Lithuania as the campaign continued. In 2009, Mitroglou was selected for the senior Greece side for the first time. He scored his", "id": "2125765" } ]

[ { "contents": "Football in Lithuania\n\n\nFootball is popular sport in Lithuania. The former Soviet republic made their entrance as an independent football nation in 1992. In the qualification for the Euro 2004, Lithuania held Germany to a 1-1 draw in Germany and won against Scotland. In the qualification for the Euro 2008 they played away to the 2006 World Cup winners Italy and drew 1-1 as well as beating Romania 3-0 in Lithuania in another shock performance. In 1922 in Lithuania, like in Poland, soccer championships began. Then, in the", "id": "4830771" }, { "contents": "Marius Niculae\n\n\n2–0 win. Despite he scored 20 goals for Dinamo in the 1999–00 season, Niculae was not included by Emerich Ienei in the preliminary squad for UEFA Euro 2000. On 2 September, Niculae scored a brace for Romania U-21 against Lithuania in the first match from the 2002 European Championship qualifiers, counting his first goals in an official match. On 6 October, Niculae played his final match for the U-21 squad, netting Romania's only goal in the 1–1 draw against European Championship holders Italy. On 5 December, Niculae scored his", "id": "3505259" }, { "contents": "Stadionul Marin Anastasovici\n\n\nMarin Anastasovici Stadium is a multi-use stadium in Giurgiu, Romania. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home ground of Astra Giurgiu. The stadium holds 8,500 people all on seats. The first international game was played by the Romania national under-21 football team on 19 November 2013 in a match against Germany which ended 2-2. The first game for Romania at Giurgiu was a friendly match against Lithuania on 23 March 2016. The stadium host also various UEFA Europa League matches and also a match from", "id": "15891395" }, { "contents": "History of the Romania national football team\n\n\nEast Germany scoring a predictable 4-1 win in Albania, Romania were out, despite a huge 9-0 win over Finland in Bucharest. Romania continued to suffer poor form in the UEFA European Championship. In their qualifying group for the 1976 European Football Championship, they were out-qualified by Spain, despite an impressive 1-1 draw in the away match. Romania failed to win matches, drawing twice with Scotland and Spain and dropping points in Denmark with a dismal goalless draw. Romania were again beat by Spain", "id": "16435703" }, { "contents": "Faroe Islands national under-21 football team\n\n\nRussia U21, beating them 1-0 after a goal in the first minute. This was followed by a 1-1 draw against Moldova in September, but Faroe Islands lost the next match 3-1 against Latvia. Russia had their revenge in the away match and defeated Faroe Islands 2-0. They also lost both matches against Romania. In November 2009 Faroe Islands beat Latvia 1-0 and were held to a 1-1 draw against Andorra. Faroe Islands won the home match against Andorra 3-1", "id": "13865866" }, { "contents": "Carrow Road\n\n\non five occasions. The first was in 1983 in a European Under-21 Championship qualifying match against Denmark, which England won 4–1. The team played another qualifying match in the same tournament at the stadium in 1997, beating Greece 4–2. The Slovakia team featured in a friendly match at the ground in June 2007, England winning 5–0 in front of a crowd of 20,193 people. In 2010, the ground played host to a play-off against Romania, a game the home side won 2–1 in front of a then record all", "id": "8674438" }, { "contents": "Romania national football team\n\n\nGianluigi Buffon saved the subsequent Mutu penalty, leaving Romania with two points and needing a win against the Netherlands, which eliminated France 4–1 that same evening. The Netherlands beat Romania 2–0 in the final game of the group, which meant that Italy joined the Netherlands in the quarter-finals and Romania finished third, ahead of France. Romania were drawn into the UEFA qualifying round for the 2010 World Cup alongside France, Serbia, Austria, Lithuania and the Faroe Islands. Although Romania were seeded in the second pot, suggesting that", "id": "10918894" }, { "contents": "Rugby union in Romania\n\n\n, drawing two, and losing one. Later in 1955, the Romanians defeated Llanelli in Moscow, and then beat both Cardiff and Harlequins in Bucharest. Only France, who played Romania before almost 95,000 fans in Bucharest (in a preliminary match to a soccer international), could beat the Romanians, and that was only after an epic 16-15 battle. A generation of French school-trained coaches from the late 1940s and 1950s laid the foundations for national success in the 1960s, 70s and 80s. In 1974 Romania", "id": "13829979" }, { "contents": "Dennis Man\n\n\nover Rudar Velenje. Man was selected for the Romania under-21 team and scored on debut in a 3–1 away victory over Bosnia and Herzegovina, on 1 September 2017. Senior manager Cosmin Contra gave Man his first Romania call-up for the friendlies with Israel and Sweden in March 2018. He made his debut in the latter game, replacing Nicolae Stanciu in 87th minute as his side won 1–0 at the Stadionul Ion Oblemenco in Craiova. On 11 June 2019, he netted the last of his team in a 4–0 defeat of Malta", "id": "12444532" }, { "contents": "2011 Rugby World Cup qualifying\n\n\nand Romania). On a home and away basis, Romania prevailed by winning 32–12 in Bucharest, preceded by a 21–21 draw in Montevideo. It competed in Pool B. Both nations had won the repechage semi-finals. Those were conducted as single matches, with the European and African qualifiers drawn into one semi-final and the Asian and Americas qualifiers drawn into the other. Romania beat Tunisia 56–13 and Uruguay had the upper hand over Kazakhstan winning 44–7. Both matches were hosted by the team with the higher IRB World Ranking", "id": "11180430" }, { "contents": "Moshtagh Yaghoubi\n\n\nterminated by Shakhter Karagandy on 17 June 2016. On 4 November 2016, HJK Helsinki announced the signing of Yaghoubi. On 31 January 2019, Seinäjoen Jalkapallokerho announced the signing of Yaghoubi. Yaghoubi acquired Finnish nationality in 2013 and got called up for Finland national under-21 team for 2015 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship qualification match against Lithuania on 11 June 2013. Yaghoubi scored his national team debut goal when Finland beat Wales U-21 5–1 in UEFA Under-21 Championship qualification on 14 August 2013. On 31 October 2013 Yaghoubi made his debut for Finland national", "id": "15530739" }, { "contents": "Romania national football team\n\n\npoor form in the UEFA European Championship. In their qualifying group for the 1976 European Football Championship, they were out-qualified by Spain despite an impressive 1–1 draw in the away match. Romania failed to win matches, drawing twice with Scotland and Spain and dropping points in Denmark with a dismal goalless draw. Romania were again beaten by Spain for a place in the 1978 World Cup in Argentina. Despite a 1–0 win in Bucharest, Romania lost a bizarre match at home to Yugoslavia 6–4 having led 3–2 at half time.", "id": "10918865" }, { "contents": "History of the Romania national football team\n\n\nfor a place in the 1978 World Cup in Argentina. Despite a 1-0 win in Bucharest, Romania lost a bizarre match at home to Yugoslavia 6-4 having led 3-2 at half time. Spain won 1-0 in Belgrade to seal passage to South America. Romania's sole successful qualifying campaign was for the European Championships in 1984 in France. At the finals, Romania were drawn with regular rivals Spain, holders West Germany and dark horses Portugal. Under head coach Mircea Lucescu, an encouraging opening", "id": "16435704" }, { "contents": "Yann Sommer\n\n\nUnder-21 Championship, hosted by Denmark between 11 and 25 June 2011. The Swiss team reached the 2011 UEFA European Under-21 Championship Final on 25 June without conceding a goal, but lost 2–0 to Spain. This was Sommer's final match for the under-21s. Sommer made his debut for the Swiss senior side on 30 May 2012 at the Swissporarena, Lucerne, in a 0–1 defeat against Romania in a friendly match. On 13 May, he was named in Switzerland's 23-man squad for the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil. Alongside", "id": "823566" }, { "contents": "Scotland at the UEFA European Championship\n\n\nqualifying saw Scotland face Denmark, Romania and Spain. Scotland lost their opening match 2–1 to the Spaniards at Hampden, before drawing 1–1 in Valencia. Gordon McQueen scored a late equaliser to win Scotland a point away in Romania, before Joe Harper's goal saw Scotland beat Denmark 1–0 away from home. Scotland won the reverse fixture 3–1. Scotland's final match was at home to Romania, with Scotland requiring a two goal win to win the group and qualify for the play-offs. Scotland took the lead through a Bruce", "id": "1546781" }, { "contents": "Polish football in the interwar period\n\n\nyet more achievements. On October 2, a so-called double match took place (such games were popular in 1930s European Football). The reserve Poland team beat 2-1 Latvia at Warsaw, and at the same hour the first lineup faced Romania in Bucharest. Romania (with several of its starters of Hungarian nationality from Transylvania) was regarded a very strong team. The Poles, however, overwhelmed it 5-0 and this was the biggest success of Polish Football so far. This game is significant also for", "id": "21819213" }, { "contents": "History of the Romania national football team\n\n\nLithuania in Cluj-Napoca before scraping an unconvincing 1-0 win in the Faroe Islands, midfielder Răzvan Cociş scoring the goal. Their third match would be at home to France, who had also begun with a bad loss, 3-1 to Austria in Vienna. Romania raced into a 2-0 lead in Constanţa with goals from Florentin Petre and Dorin Goian but France pulled one back before half time through Franck Ribéry. A long-range strike from Yoann Gourcuff earned France a draw but both sides were left with", "id": "16435733" }, { "contents": "Nauris Bulvītis\n\n\nseason. Bulvītis has been capped internationally at under-19 and under-21 levels. In 2012 Latvia national football team coach Aleksandrs Starkovs called him up for the 2012 Baltic Cup. Nauris played 2 matches, helping Latvia win the tournament. Bulvītis scored his first international goal on 6 September 2013 in a 2–1 2014 FIFA World Cup qualification match victory over Lithuania. In May 2014 he helped Latvia win the Baltic Cup for the second time in a row, scoring the only goal in a 1–0 victory over Lithuania in the final of the tournament.", "id": "22161076" }, { "contents": "Lithuania national football team\n\n\nScotland; however, a 1–0 defeat to Scotland in the final game ended their hopes. Although finishing fifth in their 2006 World Cup qualifying group, Lithuania were nevertheless competitive. Lithuania drew with world champions Italy 1–1 in Naples in a Euro 2008 qualifying game on 2 September 2006, in the first competitive game that Italy played since the World Cup final. On 6 September 2008, Lithuania defeated Romania 3–0 in a 2010 World Cup qualifier. The victory was regarded by many as \"a historic win.\" It was followed by", "id": "6890277" }, { "contents": "Colchester Community Stadium\n\n\n2011 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship as they beat Lithuania 3–0 with two goals from Danny Welbeck and one from Marc Albrighton. A crowd of 7,240 watched the game on 7 September 2010. The England under-21s returned to Colchester for a 2013 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualifier on 11 November 2011. The Young Lions cruised to a 5–0 victory against Iceland on the night, with goals from Marvin Sordell, Martin Kelly, Craig Dawson and two scored by Gary Gardner. The attendance for the game was 10,051. England won their fourth match after", "id": "19735537" }, { "contents": "Arvydas Novikovas\n\n\na starter. During his 2 season there he has helped Jagiellonia Białystok finish 2nd twice in a row. He has scored 16 goals and provided 12 assists in the 58 games he has played for them, starting the 2018/19 season with 3 goals and 2 assists in his first 9 games. Novikovas represented the Lithuania under-21's when he was just a 16-year-old. In May 2009, he was called up to the Lithuania squad, for their FIFA World Cup qualifier with Romania. On 9 September, Novikovas scored for Lithuania", "id": "1849831" }, { "contents": "Valon Ahmedi\n\n\ndebuted for the under-21 side against Macedonia U21, playing as a starter for the entire first-half in an eventual goalless draw. He received another call up for the under-21 side by same coach Skënder Gega for the friendly match against Romania U21 on 8 October 2014. He played against Romania U21 as a starter and in the 60th minute provided the assist for the 1–1 equalising goal scored by Vedat Muriqi, which however wasn't enough as Romania U21 won 3–1. Ahmedi was called up for the first time in an official competitive", "id": "7679765" }, { "contents": "Alessandro Del Piero\n\n\nthat qualified for and later won the 1996 European Under-21 Championship, appearing in the quarter-finals. Del Piero made his senior debut under Arrigo Sacchi at the age of 20, on 25 March 1995, in a 4–1 win over Estonia in a Euro 1996 qualifying match. Del Piero scored his first goal for Italy on 15 November 1995, in a 4–0 win over Lithuania in a Euro 1996 qualifying match. His tournament debut was at UEFA Euro 1996, where he made his only appearance in the first half of the team", "id": "4132525" }, { "contents": "1998 UEFA European Under-21 Championship squads\n\n\nThe following is a list of squads for each nation competing at 1998 UEFA European Under-21 Championship in Romania. The tournament started on 23 May and the final took place in Bucharest on 31 May 1998. Players born on or after 1 January 1975 were eligible to play in the tournament. Each nation had to submit a squad of 20 players, two of which had to be goalkeepers. If a player was injured seriously enough to prevent his taking part in the tournament before his team's first match, he could be replaced by", "id": "6042468" }, { "contents": "Lithuania national under-21 football team\n\n\nThe Lithuania national under-21 football team is the national under-21 football team of Lithuania and is controlled by the Lithuanian Football Federation. Squad called up for the friendly match against on 10 November 2017 and 2019 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification match against on 14 November 2017. ! colspan=\"9\" bgcolor=\"#B0D3FB\" align=\"left\" | ! colspan=\"9\" bgcolor=\"#B0D3FB\" align=\"left\" | ! colspan=\"9\" bgcolor=\"#B0D3FB\" align=\"left\" | ! colspan=\"7\" bgcolor=\"#B0D3FB\" align=\"left\" | ! colspan=\"9\" bgcolor=\"#B0D3FB\" align=\"left\" | ! colspan=\"9\" bgcolor=\"#B0D3FB\" align=\"left\" | ! colspan=\"9\"", "id": "15919932" }, { "contents": "James Milner\n\n\nMilner competed for England at the 2007 UEFA European Under-21 Championship. He played in all four of England's matches and was booked in the semi-final against the Netherlands, which meant he would have missed the final. The match was decided by a penalty shoot-out, in which Milner scored twice and England lost 13–12. Milner was included in the under-21 squad for a friendly against Romania, which ended in a 1–1 draw. A month later, Milner set an England under-21 record by making his 30th appearance for the", "id": "1860629" }, { "contents": "Endri Çekiçi\n\n\nat Albania under-21 by coach Skënder Gega for the friendly match against Romania U21 on 8 October 2014. In that match, he came on as a substitute in the second half, and Albania lost 1–3. Çekiçi received another call up by the newly appointed coach Redi Jupi for the 2017 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualifying matches against Israel and Portugal in September 2015. He debuted against the former by coming on as a second-half substitute, netting a penalty kick in the 84th minute to rescue his side a 1–1 home draw.", "id": "8124891" }, { "contents": "Romania national football team\n\n\nWorld Cup, Romania won their first match against Peru, 3–1, with goals from Adalbert Desu, Constantin Stanciu and Nicolae Kovács and Samuel Zauber as goalkeeper, before being thrashed 4–0 by hosts and eventual winners Uruguay. Romania qualified for the next World Cup in 1934 after beating Yugoslavia 2–1 in a repeat of their first international. At the finals, Romania played only one game in a new knock-out format, losing 2–1 to Czechoslovakia in Trieste, Italy, with Ștefan Dobay scoring their only goal of the tournament. Romania", "id": "10918860" }, { "contents": "Romania national under-21 football team\n\n\nnational team until the age of 23. The best result achieved by the Romania U-21 squad is the qualification for the 1998 European Championship. Under the guidance of Victor Pițurcă and with a generation of players that included among others Bogdan Lobonț, Florentin Petre, Ionel Dănciulescu and Cătălin Munteanu, Romania U-21 finished the qualifying stage with maximum points after winning all eight games. Romania was then chosen as the host of the final stage. The squad was eliminated in the quarter-finals, being beaten by the Netherlands, 2-1", "id": "14153041" }, { "contents": "James Ward-Prowse\n\n\nhosts France 2–1. Ward-Prowse was nominated for the Vauxhall England Under-21 Player of the Year award, but eventually lost out to Southampton teammate Nathan Redmond. In June 2017, he captained the under-21s at that year's edition of the European Under-21 Championship where England reached the semi-finals, eventually losing to Germany in a penalty shoot-out. On 16 March 2017, he earned his first call-up to the senior England squad for a friendly against Germany and a World Cup qualifying match against Lithuania. Six days", "id": "1352322" }, { "contents": "History of the Romania national football team\n\n\nfirst match against Peru, 3-1, with goals from Adalbert Desu, Constantin Stanciu and Nicolae Kovács, before being thrashed 4-0 by hosts and eventual winners Uruguay. Romania qualified for the next World Cup in 1934 after beating Yugoslavia 2-1 in a repeat of their first international. At the finals, Romania played only one game in a new knock-out format, losing 2-1 to Czechoslovakia in Trieste, Italy, with Ştefan Dobay scoring their only goal of the tournament. Romania qualified by default", "id": "16435698" }, { "contents": "Muarem Muarem\n\n\nSeptember 2009 in a 2-1 loss. He went on to make nine appearances for the team, scoring his first international goal in his second under-21 appearance, a 1-1 draw with Lithuania on 9 September 2009, scoring in the first minute of the match. He scored his second goal a month later against England, netting a low free-kick that brought his team back into the game at 2-1. He also scored against Portugal and Bosnia and Herzegovina. Muarem played his final game for the under-21s", "id": "18689026" }, { "contents": "Giedrius Arlauskis\n\n\nreturn to Romania, joining CFR Cluj. The move was confirmed on 15 August 2017. In August 2008, Arlauskis' performance in Romania led him being called by the Lithuania for the first time. Arlauskis made his national team debut as a substitute against Moldova in a friendly game on 19 November 2008. He joined the game in the 46th minute and conceded a goal after 67 minutes as Lithuania drew with Moldova 1–1. After playing two more caps as a substitute, his first competitive game then came on 18 June 2010,", "id": "17863969" }, { "contents": "Romania national under-21 football team\n\n\n. The Romania under-21 team does not have a permanent home. The team plays in stadiums located all around Romania. Because of the smaller demand compared to the senior national team, smaller facilities are used. As of June 2019, the last three games have been played in Cluj-Napoca. Romania again qualified for the UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship in 2019, after topping a group that included Portugal, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Wales, Switzerland and Liechtenstein. They secured their qualification for the final tournament, by beating Liechtenstein,", "id": "14153042" }, { "contents": "Theo Wharton\n\n\nBorough in July 2018. Wharton signed for National League North club Hereford F.C. on 22 December 2018. Wharton was first selected for the Wales national under-17 team for the 2011 UEFA European Under-17 Championship qualifying round, starting two matches against Belgium and Denmark. Wharton was called up to the Wales under-21 team to play Moldova on 22 March 2013. On 9 September 2014, Wharton made his Wales under-21 debut in a 1–1 draw against Lithuania under-21s. In 2016, Wharton chose to switch allegiance to play for Saint Kitts and Nevis, the", "id": "17934659" }, { "contents": "Marius Niculae\n\n\nwas officially signed. On 26 February, he scored his first goal for Shandong in a friendly match against Chongqing F.C.. After representing Romania at the U-16 and U-18 levels, Niculae was promoted to the U-21 level. Niculae's form for Dinamo saw him selected for the Romania U-21 team to play Bulgaria U-21 on 3 March 1999, and he marked his debut with the second goal as Romania won 3–1. He played his first official match for Romania U-21 on 26 March, in a 0–1 defeat against Slovakia U-21, coming in", "id": "3505256" }, { "contents": "History of the Serbia national football team\n\n\nin 12th minute, from \"penalty spot\", like against Austria three monts before. On 10 October 2009, Serbia made a huge victory 5–0 against Romania and secured placement at 2010 FIFA World Cup. In last match of this qualifying cycle, Lithuania defeated Serbia 2–1 in Marijampolė. In November, Serbia defeat Northern Ireland and South Korea in Belfast and London, 1–0 both matches. Serbia placed into Group D with Germany, team also faced 2010 Africa Cup of Nations runners-up Ghana, and Australia. Their opening group", "id": "3691746" }, { "contents": "History of Ferencvárosi TC\n\n\n1 December 1962 Ferencváros lost 1–0 to Sampdoria in Genoa, Italy. On 12 December 1962 Ferencváros beat Sampdoria 6–0 at home. In the quarter-finals Ferencváros beat Petrolul Ploiești 2–0 at home, while lost the away match 1–0 in Ploiești, Romania. In the semi-finals, Ferencváros lost to NK Dinamo Zagreb 1–0 at home and Ferencváros lost the away match 2–1 in Zagreb, Yugoslavia. Ferencváros won the 1962–63 season of the Hungarian League. Therefore, Ferencváros entered the European Cup 1963–64 season. On 11 September 1963,", "id": "4677552" }, { "contents": "George Pușcaș\n\n\n90th minute of a 2–1 victory over Cosenza. Pușcaș scored seven times for Romania under-21 in the 2019 UEFA European Championship qualifying competition, as his side won its group and progressed to the final tournament in Italy. On 18 June 2019, he obtained the penalty from which he scored the opener in a 4–1 victory over Croatia at the San Marino Stadium. He netted again in the next group game against England, surpassing Ionuț Luțu as the highest scorer of the \"Tricolorii mici\". Pușcaș then gave Romania a half-time", "id": "18913818" }, { "contents": "Belarus women's national football team\n\n\nqualified for the promotion play-offs. In the 2001 European Championship qualifying, again in Class B, Belarus beat Estonia 4–1 and 0–7, Israel 0–5 and 1–0 and Slovakia 1–0, and tied 1–1 in Romania, but the Romanians earned the spot in the promotion play-offs after beating Belarus 0–1. With this settled Belarus lost 6–1 to Slovakia in the last match. In the 2003 World Cup qualifying, Class B, Belarus beat Bosnia 5–2 and 2–7, Turkey 4–0 and 1–5, Slovakia 3–2. They lost the remaining", "id": "21080772" }, { "contents": "Visa requirements for Turkmen citizens\n\n\nEstonia (1 July 1992), Latvia (1993), Lithuania (1 November 1993), Slovakia (6 May 1994), Bulgaria (1 January 1999), Armenia (1999), Moldova (9 June 1999), Russia (17 July 1999), Hungary (1 December 1999), Romania (1 July 2000), Belarus (21 July 2000), Czech Republic (22 October 2000), Poland (3 November 2000), Kazakhstan (1 March 2001). Also Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan,", "id": "5139311" }, { "contents": "Ovie Ejaria\n\n\nplaying the whole match. Ejaria was selected for the England under-20 team in the 2017 FIFA U-20 World Cup. He made his first start in a game in the first round match against South Korea, and came on as a substitute the quarter-final against Mexico, but was an unused substitute in the final where England beat Venezuela 1–0. He was called up for the England under-21 team in March 2018, making his debut in a friendly against Romania. He was called up again in May 2018 for the Toulon Tournament but", "id": "14618472" }, { "contents": "Franck Ribéry\n\n\nCup qualification match against Romania, scoring the team's opening goal in a 2–2 draw. On 28 March 2009, Ribéry scored the lone goal away to Lithuania. Three days later, he completed this feat again, this time at the Stade de France, netting the winner in the 75th minute following service from André-Pierre Gignac. On 11 May 2010, Ribéry was named to Domenech's 30-man preliminary squad to participate in the 2010 World Cup and his second World Cup overall. He was later named to the 23-man team", "id": "15094173" }, { "contents": "Cosmin Contra\n\n\nbeing announced as Timișoara's new player-coach six days later. Over 14 years, Contra earned 73 caps for Romania, scoring seven goals. He appeared for his country at UEFA Euro 2000 and 2008. On 1 April 2009, after a match with Austria, Contra announced his retirement from international football. On 30 August 2010, however, the 34-year-old was recalled for two Euro 2012 qualifiers against Albania and Belarus. Contra made his Timişoara debut as a manager in September 2010, with a win against FC Sportul", "id": "4642171" }, { "contents": "Victor Pițurcă\n\n\nWorld Cup (0–0 against France, 1–1 against Italy), Romania lost 0–2 to the Netherlands, finishing the group in third place and thus being eliminated from the competition. After Euro 2008, Romania showed an increasingly poor form in both friendly games and the 2010 World Cup qualifying campaign, where they had a slow start. In their first two official games after Euro 2008, Romania lost 0–3 against Lithuania at home and four days later secured a difficult 1–0 victory against the Faeroe Islands. Although many of the players which helped", "id": "13766306" }, { "contents": "Paul Papp\n\n\nin a qualification game for the 2011 European Under-21 Championship, against Latvia. He captained his side for the first time, following Torje and Găman's injuries, on 29 May 2010, in the friendly match, lost by Romania against Belarus. On 7 September, Papp was in the startup team for Romania U-21, in a 3–0 win against Russia. The win secured Romania a place in the playoff stage of the 2011 European Under-21 Championship qualifiers. However, he missed the chance to play at the 2011 European Under-21 Championship,", "id": "22044461" }, { "contents": "Ciprian Deac\n\n\nfourth national championship in its history. Deac made his debut for the Romania under-21 team against France on 1 June 2007, with the match ending 1–1. He was part of Romania's preliminary Euro 2008 squad, but missed out on the final list led by manager Victor Pițurcă. On 5 March 2010, Deac finally earned his first cap for the full side in a friendly match against Israel. In August 2017, following a six-year absence, he was selected by Christoph Daum for the 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifying matches", "id": "14907109" }, { "contents": "Radomir Antić\n\n\ninto the fire. Also surprising was leaving tall striker Nikola Žigić on the bench and starting with only on attacker, Marko Pantelić, upfront in 4–5–1 formation. And while Serbia lost 2–1 to somewhat wounded France that just days earlier shockingly lost to Austria, many positives were taken from the match at Stade de France such as a brave attacking approach with a lot of running from the wings. Next up in October was in-form Lithuania, which had recently defeated Romania and Austria without allowing a goal. Contrary to expectations,", "id": "18552988" }, { "contents": "Roy Hodgson\n\n\n, losing 1–0 in Porto. In the tournament the Swiss were drawn in Group A alongside Romania, Colombia and the hosts, United States. The opening match of the group was between Switzerland and the United States and is memorable as the first World Cup match to take place indoors, at the Pontiac Silverdome. The Swiss drew 1–1 against the United States, beat Romania 4–1 and lost 2–0 to Colombia, finishing as runners-up in their group, qualifying for the Round of 16, where they lost 3–0 to Spain.", "id": "12858556" }, { "contents": "Alan Shearer\n\n\nagainst Portugal, but did so as England defeated Germany 1–0 in Charleroi, ensuring that England beat their European neighbours for the first time since the 1966 World Cup Final. To remain in the tournament, England only required a draw against Romania in the final group match, and Shearer scored a penalty as England went in at half-time 2–1 up, but Romania ultimately won 3–2. England's tournament was over, and so was Shearer's international career. From his 63 caps, he captained the team 34 times and scored", "id": "13592545" }, { "contents": "Florinel Coman\n\n\nEuropean goal in the UEFA Europa League 1–1 draw with Hapoel Be'er Sheva, on 2 November. Coman featured for Romania at the 2019 UEFA European Under-21 Championship, mostly as a second half substitute. In the group fixture on 21 June, he entered in the 63rd minute for Andrei Ivan, obtained a penalty and scored a double to help to a 4–2 victory against England. He then earned his first and only start in a goalless draw with France, with both teams progressing further to the semi-finals, where Romania suffered", "id": "21859353" }, { "contents": "Mitragyna speciosa\n\n\nDenmark, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania and Sweden. In the UK, since 2016, the sale, import, and export of kratom are prohibited under the Psychoactive Substances Act. In 2017, kratom was designated a Schedule 1 illegal drug (the highest level) in the Republic of Ireland, under the names 7-hydroxymitragynine and mitragynine. The use of kratom leaves, known locally as \"ketum\", is prohibited in Malaysia under Section 30 (3) Poisons Act 1952 and the user may be fined a maximum amount", "id": "16890332" }, { "contents": "Romania national rugby union team\n\n\nThey lost 36–21 to Wales A at Pontypridd and 70–21 in a test held in Wrexham. At the 1999 World Cup Romania could again only manage a single win 27–25 against the United States. In 2000, Romania won the first European Nations Cup by a large margin, recording victories in all four matches. By 2001, Romania had been caught by the likes of Georgia who defeated them to take the 2001 European Nations Cup, crowned with a decisive 31–20 win over Romania in Bucharest. The national side lost to England by 134–0", "id": "10342595" }, { "contents": "Aritz Aduriz\n\n\n. He made his debut on the 8th, replacing Llorente for the last 15 minutes of a 3–1 home win against Lithuania. Six years later, at the age of 35, Aduriz was recalled by manager Vicente del Bosque for friendlies with Italy and Romania. He started and scored in the first match, a 1–1 draw at the \"Stadio Friuli\", and was selected for UEFA Euro 2016 in France. He made two substitute appearances in the group stage, always replacing Juventus' Álvaro Morata in the second half; on", "id": "7991541" }, { "contents": "UEFA Euro 2008 Group C\n\n\nof counter-attacking football. Then, in their second game, they also beat the 2006 World Cup runners-up, France, 4–1. This left the French in a difficult position, having already played out a scoreless draw against Romania in the group's opening match. Romania also played out a draw against Italy in their second match, leaving them in second place going into the final round of group matches. Italy finished as the second quarter-finalists, after they beat France 2–0 in their final game. French", "id": "15100017" }, { "contents": "List of land borders with dates of establishment\n\n\nSan Marino \"Italy–Slovenia \"Italy–Switzerland \"Italy–Vatican City \"Ireland–UK \"Latvia–Lithuania \"Lithuania–Belarus \"Lithuania–Poland \"Lithuania–Russia \"Latvia–Russia \"Liechtenstein–Switzerland \"Republic of Macedonia–Serbia \"Moldova–Romania \"Moldova–Ukraine \"Montenegro–Serbia \"Norway–Russia \"Norway–Sweden \"Poland–Slovakia \"Poland–Russia \"Poland–Ukraine \"Portugal–Spain \"Romania–Ukraine \"Romania–Serbia \"Russia–Ukraine \"Slovakia–", "id": "21121898" }, { "contents": "Nicolaj Thomsen\n\n\nDanish national team on 18 November 2014 against Romania. Thomsen scored the only Danish goal in the 1–1 draw against Iceland which qualified Denmark U-21 for the 2015 UEFA European Under-21 Championship. He was selected for the squad for the tournament and played the entire match in the opening win against the Czech Republic. He was in the line-up in the other two group stage-matches against Germany and Serbia. Thomsen was also chosen to the line-up in the semi final, where Denmark was defeated by Sweden. AaB Copenhagen", "id": "14143520" }, { "contents": "João Cancelo\n\n\n. On 20 April 2019, Cancelo played in the \"Scudetto\"-clinching match against rivals Fiorentina, as Juventus won their eighth successive league title after a 2–1 home triumph. Cancelo represented Portugal in the 2012 UEFA European Under-19 Championship. He was also selected for the following edition, in Lithuania. With the under-20s, Cancelo appeared at the 2013 FIFA World Cup and the 2014 Toulon Tournament. He featured in two games in the former competition, with the country reaching the round-of-16. Cancelo was part of the under-21 squad that competed", "id": "15886722" }, { "contents": "Human rights violations by the CIA\n\n\nofficials. Nicaraguan Contras were taught to lead: The manual also recommended: The CIA claimed that the purpose of the manual was to \"moderate\" activities already being done by the Contras. In May 2018, The European Court of Human Rights ruled that the countries of Romania and Lithuania were involved in torture activities perpetrated by the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). The two countries were found to have run \"black site\" torture rooms and detention facilities therefore committing grave human rights abuses. In Romania, the secret", "id": "1650708" }, { "contents": "European Patent Organisation\n\n\nSerbia which did so on 1 October 2010. In addition there are \"extension states\" which are not Contracting States to the EPC but have instead signed extension agreements under which the protection conferred by European patent applications and patents is extended to the relevant country. These are Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Montenegro. Slovenia, Romania, Lithuania, Latvia, Croatia, Macedonia, Albania and Serbia were all extension states prior to joining the EPC. Furthermore, there are so-called \"validation states\" which are not Contracting States to", "id": "2996937" }, { "contents": "Montenegro national football team\n\n\nPoland, Denmark, Kazakhstan, Armenia and Romania. Poland, Denmark and Romania had been participants in the UEFA Euro 2016, but Montenegro began by drawing 1–1 away to Romania, beating Kazakhstan 5–0 at home and defeating Denmark 1–0. However, they then lost 3–2 away to Armenia despite leading 2–0, and were defeated 2–1 at home by Poland. Montenegro then rebounded, beating Armenia 4–1 and Kazakhstan 3–0. They later eliminated Romania with a 1–0 victory, but losses to the Danes and Poles ended Montenegro's chance of qualifying.", "id": "9236271" }, { "contents": "Denis Alibec\n\n\nplayed for Romania's under-17, under-19 and under-21 teams. On 11 October 2015, after being called up on several occasions in the past, Alibec gained his first cap for the full side in the last UEFA Euro 2016 qualifying match against Faroe Islands, replacing Bogdan Stancu in the 90th minute. In June 2016, he was picked by Anghel Iordănescu for his squad at the final tournament in France and appeared as a substitute in Romania's opening game, a 2–1 defeat to the host. Alibec's father, Gevrim and uncle", "id": "7828376" }, { "contents": "Lukas Spalvis\n\n\nout again on 5 July 2017, joining 2. Bundesliga side 1. FC Kaiserslautern for the 2017–18 season. On 8 May 2018, it was announced that Spalvis had joined 1. FC Kaiserslautern on a permanent deal. On 26 August, he sustained a long term injury in a match and it will leave him out for almost the remainder of the season. Spalvis played several matches for youth national teams, including Lithuania U-19 and Lithuania U-21. In March 2014 he made his debut for the senior team, in a friendly", "id": "11995894" }, { "contents": "Nathan Craze\n\n\nDiv II Group A in Bucharest, Romania, and was also named Netminder of the Tournament. He received the International Ice Hockey Federation Directorate’s Award of the tournament’s Best Netminder when GB won the gold medal in the 2004 World under-18 Championships (Div II) in Lithuania, and he equalled the feat by being voted the IIHF’s tournament Best Netminder when GB won the gold medal in the 2006 World under-20 Championships (Div II) in Romania. In 2006, Craze signed with the Bracknell Bees as their starting goalie,", "id": "21622172" }, { "contents": "Women's event at the 43rd Chess Olympiad\n\n\nbeat Georgia's second team 2½-1½, Italy beat Cuba 3-1, while Lithuania tied their match against Kazakhstan. United States, Georgia and Armenia with 11/12 match points each were on the top after six rounds. The central match of the seventh round was the clash between Armenia and United States on the first table, where Armenians snatched a minimal victory thanks to the Elina Danielian and Anna Sargsyan who scored full point as White in the games against Anna Zatonskih and Sabina-Francesca Foisor, respectively; Jennifer Yu beat Maria Kursova", "id": "7597446" }, { "contents": "Lithuania at the Olympics\n\n\nLithuania, after declaring restoration of independence in 1918, sent its athletes to the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris for the first time. At first it was considered to send 33 athletes, but then it was decided to limit the delegation to 13 soccer players and 2 cyclists. The soccer players arrived in Paris only a day before the game was scheduled. Lithuania debuted at the Olympic games on May 25, 1924 at 2:40pm (Paris time) when the match between Lithuanian and Swiss teams started. Lithuania lost 9-0 (", "id": "8795472" }, { "contents": "Romania national football team\n\n\nthey were a strong challenge for the first place in the group, they eventually finished fifth, above only the Faroe Islands. Their campaign was a disaster that began with a 3–0 home loss to Lithuania and included a 5–0 trashing in Belgrade by Serbia. Furthermore, various problems were caused during the poor campaign, such as the retirement from international football of Cosmin Contra, Mirel Rădoi and Adrian Mutu (the latter would later be recalled after a year's absence). Also, coach Victor Pițurcă resigned and was replaced by Răzvan", "id": "10918895" }, { "contents": "Sūduva Stadium\n\n\nSūduva Stadium, known as ARVI Football Arena for sponsorship reasons, is a multi-purpose stadium in Marijampolė, Lithuania. The stadium was built using funds from the European Union and opened on July 6, 2008. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of FK Sūduva. Its original capacity increased from 4,200 to 6,500 spectators after additional seats were installed in May–June 2009 before a match between Lithuania national team and Romania. Beginning from the 2011 season the stadium was named ARVI Football Arena after", "id": "10765440" }, { "contents": "Kilkim Žaibu\n\n\n, Lithuania. From 2000 to 3000 people visit the festival annually from various countries. Also, bands have performed at Kilkim Žaibu festivals from Australia, Norway, Hungary, Czech Republic, Romania, Ukraine, Russia, Sweden, Finland, Germany and neighbouring countries. The festival took place in Varniai, Lithuania on 28th - 30th June, 2018. The festival took place in Varniai, Lithuania on 29 June - 1 July 2017. The festival took place in Varniai, Lithuania on 23–25 June 2016. The festival took place in", "id": "10249217" }, { "contents": "Latvia national football team\n\n\n, the Latvian team participated in the first qualification tournament for the 1938 World Cup. Latvia were placed in Group 8, alongside Austria and Lithuania. Latvia beat Lithuania 4–2 in Riga, after a Fricis Kaņeps hat-trick and an Iļja Vestermans goal. In Kaunas, they won 5–1, after two goals each from Kaņeps, Vaclavs Borduško, and Vestermans, but lost 1–2 in the decisive away match against Austria, despite an early goal from Vestermans. In April 1938, the Austrian Anschluss relegated the Austrian team, however,", "id": "15750063" }, { "contents": "Miloš Krasić\n\n\nIn May 2006, Krasić played a leading role in the 2006 European U-21 Championship. He made his debut for the senior side later that year in a friendly against Denmark. At senior level, Krasić was an important player for Serbia in 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification. He scored one goal in the match against Lithuania, another in the game against Austria and set up three in the game against Romania, which sealed his nation's qualification to the final tournament in South Africa. Krasić is a right-sided winger, noted", "id": "19580145" }, { "contents": "Philip Billing\n\n\nunder-20 team and the Romania national under-20 football team. He earned his first cap for the U21 team in a qualifying match for the 2019 European Championship against the Faroe Islands on 31 August 2017; it ended in a 3–0 win. He again featured a week later in another qualifying match, which the team won 6–0 against Lithuania. In November 2018, Billing turned down an approach to switch his international allegiance to the Nigeria national team. In March 2019, he received his first call-up to the Denmark national team.", "id": "18184799" }, { "contents": "1934 FIFA World Cup qualification\n\n\nfollows: Key: Estonia v Lithuania was not played since neither team could qualify with a win. Sweden qualified. 11-1 on aggregate; Spain qualified. Italy qualified, as Greece declined to play the second match. Bulgaria withdrew, and the remaining matches were not played since Hungary and Austria were already assured of the top two spots. Hungary and Austria qualified. Poland were unable to travel to Prague for the second match as the Polish government denied the team visas for political reasons. Therefore, Czechoslovakia qualified. Romania", "id": "6526321" }, { "contents": "Rugby union in Romania\n\n\nwon against France 15 – 10 in Bucharest, and the FIRA – Association of European Rugby championship. In 1975 Romania went for an 8 games tour to New Zealand, tour concluded in Wellington with a 10-10 draw against Junior All Blacks. Home nation sides began to award international caps for matches against Romania from 1981. Romania won rugby internationals over Scotland in 1984 and 1991, and also over Wales in 1983 and 1988 (the latter in Cardiff). Between 1960 and 1990, Romania beat France eight times, the", "id": "13829980" }, { "contents": "European Border and Coast Guard Agency\n\n\na border security operation conducted by Frontex, the European Union's border security agency. The operation, under Italian control, began on 1 November 2014 and involves voluntary contributions from 15 other European nations (both EU member states and non-members). Current voluntary contributors to Operation Triton are Croatia, Iceland, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Germany, the Netherlands, France, Spain, Ireland, Portugal, Austria, Switzerland, Romania, Poland, Lithuania, Malta and the United Kingdom. The operation was undertaken after Italy", "id": "20620191" }, { "contents": "Albania national football team\n\n\nqualifying match, Albania made history by qualifying for the UEFA Euro 2016, its first ever appearance at a major men's football tournament. In the tournament itself, Albania lost 0–1 to Switzerland and 0–2 to hosts France. While they beat Romania 1–0 (their first win against Romania since 1947), the team finished last among the third-placed teams and didn't progress beyond the group stage. Despite the UEFA European Championship's almost successful debut, Albania suffered massive setback. In 2018 World Cup qualification, Albania had been", "id": "15457050" }, { "contents": "Dean Henderson\n\n\nmore times as an unused substitute bench that saw him missed out two matches for the side in the league. He made his under-21 debut on 24 March 2018, in a friendly at home against Romania, which England won 2–1. Henderson was named as England's number one for the 2019 UEFA European Under-21 Championship. Growing up, Henderson played county cricket as a schoolboy and was an accomplished batsman and wicket-keeper but chose football. Henderson initially started out as an outfield player before switching to his role as a goalkeeper.", "id": "6533434" }, { "contents": "Harry Maguire\n\n\n-up to either because he is such a level headed character.\" Maguire duly made his England under-21 debut as a substitute in the 60th minute, coming on for Liverpool's Andre Wisdom in a 2–0 win against Northern Ireland Under-21s at Bloomfield Road. On 24 August 2017, England manager Gareth Southgate included Maguire in his squad for the 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification matches against Malta and Slovakia. He made his debut when starting in England's 1–0 away win over Lithuania, which was the team's final match in their successful", "id": "3737243" }, { "contents": "Albania national under-21 football team\n\n\nmatch against Romania was characterized by a large Albania's win 7–1, which is the largest win ever recorded by Albania U-21. Albania Under-21s have managed to qualify only once in their history, and that came in the year of 1984 when they managed to qualify for the 1984 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship, although they were competing for the first time in such tournament. They were drawn in a very tough group which included the West Germany, Turkey and Austria. The historic event was the first time any Albanian squad qualified for", "id": "19363492" }, { "contents": "Alexandru Mitriță\n\n\nNew York City goal on the 17th the same month, in a 2–2 draw with Los Angeles FC. In March 2018, Mitriță was called up for Romania senior team's friendlies with Israel and Sweden later that month, after reportedly impressing coach Cosmin Contra. He made his debut in the former match on the 24th, and offered an assist to George Țucudean in a 2–1 win in Netanya. Mitriță is deployed as an attacking midfielder or a winger on either flank, having been noted for pace and technical ability which allow him", "id": "4318108" }, { "contents": "Claudiu Bumba\n\n\nsigned a four-year contract with Israeli club Hapoel Tel Aviv. On 2 February 2017, he signed a two and a half years contract with Dinamo Bucharest. He scored his first goal for Dinamo Bucharest on 10 April, in 2-1 league win against Astra Giurgiu. Bumba made his debut for Romania U-17 on 21 September 2010 in a game against Kazakhstan U-17. He played with the under-17 team at the 2011 UEFA European Under-17 Football Championship. On 6 October 2011, in a game against Sweden U-19, Bumba came", "id": "11657727" }, { "contents": "Dorian Dervite\n\n\nand U-21 levels. He has captained them on occasions. He was called up to the Under-21 squad to face Estonia and England. He was called for the international Toulon Tournament again with the U21, then against Poland and for the U21 European Championship qualifiers against Lithuania and Ukraine. he scored his first goal for France in a home draw with Poland U21 on 12 August 2009 with an 80th minute shot to make it 2–1 to France with the game ending 2–2, his last game for the Under-21s came in their 3–1 away win", "id": "18562600" }, { "contents": "Povilas Leimonas\n\n\nwith Jagiellonia Białystok. Povilas played for Lithuania's \"B\" team in two games in 2011, both against Lithuania U-21. The first game, played in Vilnius on 9 February, was won 2-1 by the \"B\" team, and the second match, in Marijampole on 2 March, resulted in a 3-0 win. Leimonas made his senior international debut on 7 June 2011, in a 1-0 friendly loss to Norway. He earned his second cap two months later in another friendly, the", "id": "16136896" }, { "contents": "History of the Romania national football team\n\n\nmatch in Bern, but the Netherlands were regarded as the outstanding team in the tournament, having followed their comprehensive win against Italy with an equally emphatic 4-1 win over France. A draw would also take Romania through were the other match between Italy and France to be drawn. With Italy taking a first-half lead against a France side reduced to ten men, it became apparent that Romania needed to beat the Netherlands to qualify. However, they played poorly and the Netherlands won 2-0 with second half goals", "id": "16435731" }, { "contents": "Sander Puri\n\n\nEstonia at under-17, under-19 and under-21 level. He made his debut for the senior national team on 30 May 2008 against Latvia in the 2008 Baltic Cup. He scored his first national team goal on 22 November 2008, in a 1–1 draw against Lithuania in a Mayors Cup match. A goal against Saint Kitts and Nevis saw him awarded the Estonian Silverball, for the best goal scored for Estonia in 2015. Puri is one of three triplets: his brother, Eino Puri, is also a footballer and his sister, Kadri", "id": "21342008" }, { "contents": "Eduards Višņakovs\n\n\nagainst Estonia on 5 June 2013, helping his team secure a 2–0 victory. On 10 September 2013 the U-23 team beat England 1-0, with Višņakovs scoring his second goal in two matches. Višņakovs was firstly called up to Latvia national football team for the FIFA World Cup 2014 qualifying matches against Lithuania and Slovakia on 11 and 15 October 2013. He made his debut for the national team in the match against Lithuania, coming on as a substitute in the 77th minute and replacing Māris Verpakovskis. A local scandal arose when", "id": "17206337" }, { "contents": "Romania national rugby union team\n\n\nthe Super Powers Cup. The USA beat a Romanian team stripped of their France-based players 23–16 in the third place play-off. The 2005–06 European Nations Cup also served as a qualifying group for the 2007 Rugby World Cup. Romania triumphed despite finishing level on points with Georgia. Romania qualified for the 2007 Rugby World Cup in France, finishing at the top of their pool during the Round 5 of the European qualifying tournaments. Romania won their first qualifying match on October 7, defeating Georgia in Bucharest 20–8. Their", "id": "10342600" }, { "contents": "Shlomo Lipetz\n\n\n, against Lithuania, Lipetz tossed a 10-inning, 4-hit complete game to beat Lithuania 2-1. He led that qualifier in victories and tied for second in strikeouts. During the 2012 European Baseball Championship qualifiers, in 2011, Lipetz pitched in 3 of the 5 games. Lipetz beat Georgia in the opener pitching 7 innings and striking out 9. Lipetz did not appear in the second game, against Great Britain, or in the third game against Lithuania. During the first game of the home/away finals against Great Britain", "id": "12992976" }, { "contents": "State Farm Stadium\n\n\nsoccer match attended by 62,462 fans. The United States men's national soccer team defeated Mexico, 2–0. On January 21, 2012, the U.S. played against Venezuela and won the match 1–0. On January 30, 2013, Mexico played against Denmark, a game that was broadcast on Televisa Deportes, UniMás, and TV Azteca. The match ended in a 1–1 draw. On November 19, 2015, the stadium was one of the sites selected for the 2016 Copa América Centenario. The stadium hosted three matches, including Mexico", "id": "18339554" }, { "contents": "Yacine Brahimi\n\n\npenalty in a 3–1 victory over Germany. He played with the under-16 team at the 2006 edition of the Montaigu Tournament playing in all four matches the team contested as France were crowned champions defeating Italy 2–1 in the final. With the under-17 team, Brahimi made his debut on 25 September in a qualification match for the 2007 UEFA European Under-17 Championship against Lithuania. France won the match 4–2 with Brahimi making a substitute appearance. Despite appearing in the first round of qualification, Brahimi was absent from the tournament itself, due to the", "id": "1037894" }, { "contents": "Ross McCormack\n\n\nfirst goal for the side on 11 October 2007 against Lithuania and scored again in his next appearance, a 4–0 victory over Slovenia U21s. McCormack won 10 caps for the under-21 side. He made his debut for the senior side on 30 May 2008 when he came on as a substitute during the 3–1 defeat of Czech Republic. McCormack was called up again in March 2009 for the 2010 FIFA World Cup qualifiers against Netherlands and Iceland. He started both matches, scoring his first goal for Scotland in a 2–1 win over Iceland on", "id": "8895190" }, { "contents": "Hungary national under-19 football team\n\n\n, and the atmosphere helped in times of need. The first match against Lithuania, was a 2-2 draw, but in the last 2 matches, the team could win, against Cyprus 2-1, and Portugal 1-0 and that was enough to qualify. The list below is the current list of U-19 national players according to the official Hungarian Football Federation website. Competition:2018 UEFA European Under-19 Football Championship (elite round)br Match Dates:25 March 2019br Opposition: The following players have been selected by Hungary in the past 12", "id": "4045560" }, { "contents": "X Factor (Romanian TV series)\n\n\nthe show aired starting 17 September 2011. Auditions for producers began in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, on 14 May 2011. They then took place in Constanța, on 21 May in Timișoara on 24 May 2011, on 4 June in Iași and concluded on 11 June 2011 in Bucharest. The first season ended on 1 January 2012, (16-24s) mentored by Mihai Morar was declared the first winner of The X Factor in Romania. Alin Văduva (Over 25s) was runner-up followed by Iulian Vasile (", "id": "16662967" }, { "contents": "Romania national football team\n\n\n0–5. In the next match, Romania recorded another draw (0–0), against Kazakhstan. The last match played in 2016 was a 0–3 defeat against Poland, with Robert Lewandowski scoring a double. After an uninspiring campaign, Romania ended in the fourth place in Group E with 13 points. After 8 of the 10 games, due to lackluster performances, coach Christoph Daum was fired and replaced with a promising new coach, Cosmin Contra. The Romania national team plays its home games at Arena Națională, the biggest stadium in", "id": "10918904" }, { "contents": "Chris Smalling\n\n\nfirst start for the under-21s in a 2011 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualifier against Portugal at Wembley Stadium in a 1–0 win. He scored his first goal for the under-21s on 8 October 2010, against Romania, in England's 2011 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification play-off first leg, converting from inside the area after an assist from Daniel Sturridge. The goal, scored in the 83rd minute, proved to be the winner as England won 2–1. On 13 November 2010, Smalling was called up to the England senior squad for", "id": "656401" }, { "contents": "Lithuania men's national basketball team\n\n\n. The only consolation was the remaining opportunity to qualify into the World Championship, which the Lithuanians achieved by beating Russia and Slovenia for fifth place. Lithuania won 5 of 6 games in the tournament. Consequently, the competition scheme was questioned in its reliability. The 2006 FIBA World Championship in Japan had Lithuania matching the 7th place from their 1998 debut, but many saw this performance as an under-achievement. Lithuania started the tournament with a narrow 2-point loss to Turkey, followed by an overtime defeat to eventual finalists Greece which", "id": "14520278" }, { "contents": "Shane McFaul\n\n\nCup when beating Sligo Rovers 2–1 at Tallaght Stadium. McFaul was later named Man of the Match in the F.A.I Cup Final Vs Sligo Rovers and also the honour of being named Sporting Fingal Player of the Year 2009. In the 2010 season his performances for Fingal attracted the interest of Scottish giants Celtic FC. http://www.herald.ie/sport/soccer/celtic-track-sporting-fingal-pair-27948702.html Shane made his Republic of Ireland U21 debut in a friendly game against Germany on 21 August 2007. He was also an unused sub in the UEFA European Under-21 Championship Qualifying games against Portugal and England. McFaul signed for", "id": "13006237" }, { "contents": "Connor Roberts (footballer, born 1995)\n\n\nand he returned to Swansea City. Roberts made his debut for Swansea City on 6 January 2018 in the FA Cup 3rd round against Wolverhampton Wanderers. He scored his first goal for the club on 29 September 2018 during a 3–0 win over Queens Park Rangers. Roberts has been capped at Wales under-19 level. In March 2016, Roberts received his first call-up to the Wales under-21 side for their 2017 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification matches, and made his debut as a second-half substitute in their 2–1 defeat against Romania", "id": "12721076" }, { "contents": "Roberta Anastase\n\n\nRoberta Alma Anastase (; born 27 March 1976 in Ploieşti) is a Romanian politician and former first female Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies of Romania between 19 December 2008 and 3 July 2012. She is a member of the Democratic Liberal Party, affiliated to the European People's Party–European Democrats, and became an MEP on 1 January 2007 with the accession of Romania to the European Union. She also represented Romania at the 1996 Miss Universe competition. She attended the Faculty of Sociology at the University of Bucharest in the mid-90", "id": "19157242" }, { "contents": "Kostas Mitroglou\n\n\n, he scored a goal against Germany in a 3–2 win at Vorwärts Stadium. Mitroglou finished as the top goalscorer of the competition with three goals. In 2007, Mitroglou was promoted to the Greece under-21 team. He scored two goals in a 3–1 home win against Macedonia in the UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualifiers, and later a goal in a 1–1 home draw against England and the only goal against Lithuania as the campaign continued. In 2009, Mitroglou was selected for the senior Greece side for the first time. He scored his", "id": "2125765" } ]

[ { "contents": "1996 in Russian football\n\n\nwas knocked out in the qualifying round. FC Lokomotiv Moscow went out in the second round. PFC CSKA Moscow, FC Dynamo Moscow and FC Torpedo-Luzhniki Moscow were eliminated in the first round after going through the qualifying round. FC Alania Vladikavkaz went out in the first round after going to the UEFA Cup after failing in the qualification for the Champions League. FC Spartak Moscow went out in the second round. Russian clubs participated in the Intertoto Cup for the first time. FC Rotor Volgograd, FC KAMAZ-Chally Naberezhnye", "id": "22219348" }, { "contents": "1995 in Russian football\n\n\nthe Russian Cup 1995–96 were played later in the year. All the Russian participants were eliminated in 1994. FC Spartak Moscow won every game in their group, qualifying for the quarterfinals. FC Dynamo Moscow advanced through the first two rounds, qualifying to play in the quarterfinals next spring. FC Spartak-Alania Vladikavkaz and FC Lokomotiv Moscow were eliminated in the first round by strong opponents (even though Lokomotiv very unexpectedly beat FC Bayern in Munich in the first game). FC Rotor Volgograd eliminated Manchester United F.C. in the first round", "id": "18335625" }, { "contents": "Maksim Nenakhov\n\n\nMaksim Maksimovich Nenakhov (; born 13 December 1998) is a Russian football player who plays for FC Rotor Volgograd. He made his debut in the Russian Professional Football League for FC Dynamo-2 Moscow on 20 July 2016 in a game against FC Tekstilshchik Ivanovo. On 19 January 2018, he was loaned to FC Tyumen until the end of the 2017–18 season. On 14 June 2018, he moved on another loan for the 2018–19 season to FC SKA-Khabarovsk. On 18 June 2019, he signed a 2-year contract with FC Rotor Volgograd", "id": "6983587" }, { "contents": "Almir Kayumov\n\n\nAlmir Izmailovich Kayumov (; 30 December 1964 – 7 August 2013) was a Russian football player and referee. Kayumov played for FC Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk, FC Lada Togliatti, Spartak Moscow, Rotor Volgograd, SKA Rostov-on-Don, in Russia, the Daewoo Royals in South Korea, and Kuopion Palloseura in Finland. He played 6 games in the UEFA Cup 1986–87 for FC Spartak Moscow. On November 9, 2009, it was reported that Kayumov attempted to commit suicide by jumping out of his apartment window. Police negotiators talked", "id": "14510549" }, { "contents": "Ruslan Ishkinin\n\n\nRuslan Kamilyevich Ishkinin (; born 14 June 1974) is a former Russian professional footballer. He made his professional debut in the Russian Second Division in 1992 for FC Dynamo-2 Moscow. The most memorable match of his career was played on 14 June 1995. His team FC Dynamo Moscow was playing FC Rotor Volgograd in the final game of the Russian Cup. Dynamo was decimated by injuries and several reserve players, including Ishkinin, were called up for the game. With 5 minutes to go in regulation and the score of 0–0, Ishkinin", "id": "2479621" }, { "contents": "1997 in Russian football\n\n\nthe year. Russian teams were eliminated in 1996. FC Spartak Moscow were eliminated in the second qualifying round and went on to the UEFA Cup. FC Lokomotiv Moscow qualified for the quarterfinals stage that was played in 1998. FC Spartak Moscow qualified for the quarterfinals stage that was played in 1998. FC Rotor Volgograd reached the second round. FC Alania Vladikavkaz went out in the first round. The goal in the stadium was measured before the game and turned out to be 2.46 meters high instead of regulation 2.44. The referee decided", "id": "20500131" }, { "contents": "2012–13 Russian Premier League\n\n\naltogether if the game is awarded to Dynamo. According to the police, the main suspect is a female fan who was arrested after the game. The criminal investigation was opened on the charge of hooliganism. On 22 November, Russian Football Union's Control-Disciplinary Committee awarded the game to Dynamo with a score of 3–0 and fined both clubs. Dynamo had to play their next home game (against Rubin Kazan) behind closed doors and Zenit had to play their next 2 home games (against CSKA Moscow and Anzhi Makhachkala)", "id": "321372" }, { "contents": "Yuriy Kalitvintsev\n\n\nfor FC Desna Chernihiv. A Russian-born Kalitvintsev chose to play for the Ukraine side after breaking through as a midfielder for Dynamo Kyiv. Until 1994 he played he spent his playing career at Russian clubs such as FC Rotor Volgograd, FC SKA Rostov-on-Don, FC Dynamo Moscow, and FC Lokomotiv Nizhny Novgorod. It wasn't until the reorganization of the soviet football when he started to play at the top level of the Russian championship starting for the Moscow's Dynamo. After being transferred to the fading club", "id": "20481933" }, { "contents": "Sergei Bogomolov\n\n\nSergei Anatolyevich Bogomolov (; born 17 August 1971) is a former Russian professional footballer. During his time with FC Dynamo Moscow he only played in a single game for the main team, but it was a very memorable one. On 14 June 1995, Dynamo was playing FC Rotor Volgograd in the final game of the 1994–95 Russian Cup. Dynamo was hurt by injuries to some first team regulars and several reserve players, including Bogomolov, were called up for the game. With the score of 0:0 and 10 minutes to go in", "id": "18632079" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\nwas one of the strongest clubs in Russia, rivalling Spartak Moscow for the championship, yet never winning it. Rotor became the league runners-up in 1993 and 1997. Rotor played five successive seasons in European competition, from 1994-95 to 1998-99. They qualified for the UEFA Cup through their league position every year except 1996-97, when they instead chose to enter the Intertoto Cup. Unfortunately for Rotor, the fall of communism had left all the former Eastern Bloc leagues badly under-resourced compared to", "id": "264673" }, { "contents": "1995 in Russian football\n\n\n1995 was the fourth season Russia held its own national football competition since the breakup of the Soviet Union. FC Spartak-Alania Vladikavkaz won the league for the first time ever. This was the first season 3 points were awarded for a win instead of two. For more details, see: The third edition of the Russian Cup, Russian Cup 1994–95 was won by FC Dynamo Moscow, who beat FC Rotor Volgograd in the finals in a shootout 8-7 after finishing extra time at 0-0. Early stages of", "id": "18335624" }, { "contents": "Maxim Chuzhkov\n\n\nMaxim Aleksandrovich Chuzhkov (; born 11 April 1987) is a Russian beach soccer player serving as goalkeeper. He is a three-time national champion for three different clubs (Rotor Volgograd, Lokomotiv Moscow, Kristall). Maxim Chuzhkov was born in Samara. He was a gymnast for six years before switching to football. Chuzhkov discovered beach soccer in 2010, and one year later he joined Krylya Sovetov from Samara. From 2012 to 2014 he played for Rotor Volgograd, winning with them the club's first and only Russian Beach Soccer", "id": "21454463" }, { "contents": "1991 Soviet Top League\n\n\nseason, while FC Rotor Volgograd and FC Tiligul Tiraspol would have been promoted to the Top League for 1992. Top six clubs of the league later entered European competitions for their respective nations. The Ukrainian clubs chose to qualify through a separate national competition. The league was expanded to 16 after the last season, during which number of clubs left the Soviet competitions (from Georgia and Baltic states). The last-placed FC Rotor Volgograd of the 1990 Soviet Top League lost promotion/relegation playoff to Lokomotiv Moscow and was relegated", "id": "831265" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor-2 Volgograd\n\n\nFC Rotor-2 Volgograd () is a Russian football team based in Volgograd. It is the farm club for FC Rotor Volgograd. It previously played professionally as FC Rotor-d Volgograd or FC Rotor-2 Volgograd in the Russian Second Division in 1992–1993, 1998–2000 and 2004 and Russian Third League in 1994-1997. They came in 3rd place in their Second Division zone in 1993. In 2001, the reserves tournament for Russian Premier League was re-established and the reserves team played there while the main team stayed in Premier League.", "id": "5758261" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\nFC Rotor Volgograd () is a Russian football (soccer) club from the large city of Volgograd, Volgograd Oblast (formerly Stalingrad). The club plays in the second-level Russian National Football League. They are the largest and best supported Volgograd club and for most of their existence have been the city's only representatives in the national league system. They played at the top level of Soviet/Russian football either side of World War II, from 1989 to 1990, and from 1991 to 2004. During the 1990s", "id": "264669" }, { "contents": "Wisdom Mumba Chansa\n\n\nand Derby Makinka, to play in the Soviet Top League when they all signed for Pomir Dushanbe in 1989 after being spotted during their 4-0 win over Italy at the 1988 Olympics. Chansa's debut came on 2 October 1989 in an away match against Torpedo Moscow, before appearing twice more, against Rotor Volgograd and Metalist Kharkiv, before leaving at the conclusion of the 1989 season. Chansa returned to Power Dynamos following his Soviet experience, and was made captain before Power Dynamos became the first Zambian club side to win a", "id": "5300924" }, { "contents": "FC Volgograd\n\n\nFC Volgograd () is a former name of the Russian football club from Volgograd, founded in late 2008, currently known as FC Rotor Volgograd. Before it was founded, it was originally supposed to be called FC Rotor-Volgograd Volgograd (to keep Rotor's name around at the time FC Rotor Volgograd was close to bankruptcy). However, FC Rotor's financial situation has improved by early 2009 and the club was registered as FC Volgograd. It played in the Russian Second Division in 2009. It took over the license", "id": "6725532" }, { "contents": "Roman Pavlyuchenko\n\n\nRoman Anatolyevich Pavlyuchenko (; born 15 December 1981) is a Russian footballer who plays as a striker for FC Znamya Noginsk. He started his career at Dynamo Stavropol, and Rotor Volgograd, before transferring to Spartak Moscow in 2003. His performances there earned him a £13.7 million transfer to Tottenham Hotspur of the English Premier League in 2008, where he spent three full seasons before returning to Russia to play for Lokomotiv Moscow. After another full 3 seasons he moved in July 2015, to Kuban Krasnodar. A full international for a", "id": "3367200" }, { "contents": "Anton Miranchuk\n\n\nAnton Andreyevich Miranchuk (; born 17 October 1995) is a Russian professional football player who plays as a centre midfielder or attacking midfielder for Lokomotiv Moscow and the Russia national team. Born in Slavyansk-na-Kubani, Miranchuk joined Spartak Moscow from his hometown football school Olymp. He was dismissed from the club because of weak physical abilities. After that, he and his twin brother Aleksei moved to Lokomotiv Moscow. On 30 October 2013, Miranchuk made his competitive debut in senior football in a Russian Cup game against Rotor Volgograd replacing", "id": "1404526" }, { "contents": "Dmitry Pletnyov (footballer)\n\n\nDmitry Andreyevich Pletnyov (; born 16 January 1998) is a Russian football player. He plays for FC Tom Tomsk in Russian Football National League. He made his debut in the Russian Football National League for FC Zenit-2 Saint Petersburg on 6 September 2017 in a game against FC Rotor Volgograd. He made his Russian Premier League debut for FC Zenit Saint Petersburg on 5 May 2018 in a game against FC Lokomotiv Moscow. He played for Russia national under-17 football team at the 2015 UEFA European Under-17 Championship and 2015 FIFA U-17 World Cup.", "id": "21412634" }, { "contents": "2004 in Russian football\n\n\nseason. Andrey Fedkov of Terek became the top goalscorer with 38 goals. The following clubs have earned promotion by winning tournaments in their respective Second Division zones: Prior to start of the 2005 season three clubs (Rotor Volgograd, Torpedo Vladimir, and Arsenal Tula) refused participation in the First Division, and two more clubs (Dynamo Stavropol and Chernomorets Novorossiysk) were denied licences. This made way for the runners-up of all five zones: The Russian Super Cup match between CSKA Moscow and Spartak Moscow was won by CSKA", "id": "6344061" }, { "contents": "Dmitry Shishin\n\n\nnational beach soccer team. That year Shishin participated at the Russian Championship as player of Samarian Sputnik and debuted for the national team at the Beach Soccer World Cup. After Sputnik, Shishin for a long time played for different Saratov clubs, such as Rosagro, Biznes-Pravo, Delta. In 2011, Shishin moved to Lokomotiv Moscow, where he won the championship trophy with his team. Together with the Lokomotives he won another national championship trophy and two Russian cups. In 2013, Shishin surprisingly switched to Rotor Volgograd, becoming", "id": "12194946" }, { "contents": "2009 Russian Second Division\n\n\nJuly 2009 Oleg Mikheyev, president of FC Rotor Volgograd, announced Rotor's resignation from the league, citing problems with authorities. They have played 18 games and were in the 13th position with 21 points. \"Source: [PFL] , Sporbox.ru \" On 11 July 2009, the management of FC Spartak Shchyolkovo announced that the club would resign from the league after the first half of the season because of economic problems. Spartak were excluded from the league on August 4, 2009. They have played 18 games and were in", "id": "21482663" }, { "contents": "FC Olimpia Volgograd\n\n\nuntil 2008, though their fortunes faded after Slutsky's players left. Before the 2009 season their professional license was taken over by the new club FC Volgograd. This was meant to allow FC to assume the name and identity of Rotor who were suffering off-field troubles, but Rotor survived and ended up playing simultaneously with the new FC in 2009, while Olimpia dropped into the Volgograd Oblast Championship. They stayed there until 2011, winning the title in 2010. With confusion ongoing over the future of the Rotor name and club", "id": "21936808" }, { "contents": "Sergei Rashevsky\n\n\nSergei Aleksandrovich Rashevsky (; born 13 June 1980) is a Russian football coach and a former player. He is an assistant coach with FC Rotor Volgograd. He made his debut in the Russian Premier League in 2001 for FC Rotor Volgograd, before moving to Ural in 2005. After several seasons playing for different clubs in Russia, Rashevsky signed with Volga in 2008. He played for the club for three years, before he returned to Ural in 2011. Since February 2014, he played for the Russian National Football League side Yenisey", "id": "8136441" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\nthe new Rotor Volgograd were promoted to the second-level Russian Football National League thanks to teams above them withdrawing. The regional Ministry of Sport invested 150 million roubles ($4.9m) in the club's playing budget for the 2010 campaign, but it ended in failure as Rotor were relegated in 17th place. Governor Brovko admitted that the transition to the higher level was made too quickly. Former club player Sergei Nechay took over management and steered the team to promotion as champions of their Second Division zone in 2011–12. This", "id": "264678" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\ntheir Western counterparts, and indeed Rotor were knocked out by all four of the French and Italian clubs they played. The exception came against England's Manchester United in 1995-96. Having drawn the home leg 0-0, Rotor raced into a 2-0 lead at Old Trafford before United scored their first goal. Rotor were seconds away from being the first European club to win at Old Trafford when United's goalkeeper Peter Schmeichel scored a famous equaliser, but the 2-2 draw meant Rotor progressed by the away", "id": "264674" }, { "contents": "Roman Pavlyuchenko\n\n\na 1-0 loss against Moscow on 5 April 1999. On 15 May 1999, Pavlyuchenko provided a double assist in a 2-1 win over Chita. In his first season, Pavlyuchenko made 31 appearance and scoring 11 goals. However, the club played was still relegated to the Second Division after the club was last place. Despite this, Pavlyuchenko was named 'Team of the top' junior division for the first version of the newspaper Sport Express. Pavlyuchenko moved to Rotor Volgograd in 2000, although the move was", "id": "3367203" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\ntheir professional licence entirely. Rotor's reserve side in the Russian Second Division, Rotor-2 Volgograd, became the club's first team and was renamed Rotor in 2006. In 2007 local businessman Oleg Mikheev acquired the club's main asset the Volgograd Central Stadium, and with it effective control over the club, but financial troubles continued and the team's performances in the Second Division declined. Matters came to a head in 2009. Russia had officially launched its bid for the FIFA World Cup 2018 and Volgograd city was in line for a", "id": "264676" }, { "contents": "1988 Soviet Cup Final\n\n\nThe 1988 Soviet Cup Final was a football match that took place at the Lenin's Central Stadium, Moscow on May 28, 1988. The match was the 47th Soviet Cup Final and it was contested by FC Metalist Kharkiv and FC Torpedo Moscow. The Soviet Cup winner Metalist qualified for the Cup Winners' Cup first round for the Soviet Union. The last year defending holders Dynamo Kyiv were eliminated in the second round of the competition by FC Rotor Volgograd (3:2, 0:2). For Metalist this was their second final total", "id": "158055" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\ngoals rule They went on to be defeated by eventual Runners-up Bordeaux in the second round. Full European results: In the 2000s, Rotor's results declined, and in 2004, the team finished last in the Russian Premier League. The club's owner Vladimir Goryunov, a member of the Duma and head of the parliamentary sports committee, explored options to save Rotor from relegation, such as expanding the Premier League to 20 teams. But in January 2005 Rotor were unable to make the required financial guarantees and so lost", "id": "264675" }, { "contents": "2018–19 Russian Football National League\n\n\n. Ararat Moscow was promoted from 2017–18 PFL, but were refused a license for the 2018–19 Russian National Football League, the club being subsequently dissolved. Zenit-2 Saint Petersburg, Rotor Volgograd, Luch Vladivostok, Tyumen and Fakel Voronezh were spared from relegation due to lack of teams enrolled for the 2018–19 season. Sakhalin Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk finished on the promotion place at the end of the 2017–18 PFL season, but refused to be promoted. Dynamo Saint Petersburg was moved from Saint Petersburg to Sochi and renamed as PFC Sochi. Olimpiyets Nizhny Novgorod", "id": "621376" }, { "contents": "Dinamo Volgograd\n\n\nDinamo Volgograd () is a Russian women's handball club from Volgograd. Founded in 1972 as Burevestnik Volgograd, it represented Rotor Volgograd following the collapse of the Soviet Union and was subsequently named Aqva before taking its current name in 2003. Dynamo is the most successful team in the Russian Super League with nine titles, and in the 2001-02 season it set an absolute record winning all the matches. It has also been fairly successful in international competitions with three titles: the 1995 Challenge Cup and Champions Trophy and the 2008", "id": "10627328" }, { "contents": "List of football clubs in Russia\n\n\nZelenodolsk — FC Prometey-Dinamo Saint Petersburg — FC Pskov — FC Pskov-2000 — FC Pskov-747 FC Radian-Baikal Irkutsk — FC Rassvet Troitskoye — FC Reformatsiya Abakan — FC Rekord Aleksandrov — FC Reutov — FC Ritm Alekseyevka — FC Ritm Belgorod — FC Roda Moscow — FC Rossia Moscow — FC Rostov — FC Rostselmash-2 Rostov-on-Don — FC Rostselmash Rostov-on-Don — FC Rotor-2 Mikhaylovka — FC Rotor-2 Volgograd — FC Rotor Volgograd — FC Rubin-2 Kazan — FC Rubin Kazan — FC Rubin-TAN Kazan — FC", "id": "14958458" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\n-autumn) Russian Amateur Football League, the fourth level overall. In the 2015 season Rotor won the Amateur League Chernozemye (South-West Region) division at the first attempt by 11 points, suffering only one defeat in 22 games. The 45,000-seater Pobeda Stadium is under construction on their old Central Stadium site, and it was reported in August 2015 that the first team are still interested in moving into the facility after the 2018 World Cup, which makes attaining a higher league status a priority. They were licensed for third", "id": "264680" }, { "contents": "2010–11 KHL season\n\n\nThe 2010–11 KHL season was the third season of the Kontinental Hockey League. It was held from 8 September 2010 and ended on 16 April 2011. The season started with the Opening Cup game between the last season's finalists, Ak Bars Kazan and UHC Dynamo, the new team that was created by merging last season's Western conference winner HC MVD with Dynamo Moscow. Salavat Yulaev Ufa won the Gagarin Cup and the Russian Championship after beating Atlant Moscow Oblast 4–1 in the play-off final series. Folding of Lada Togliatti Lada", "id": "10925021" }, { "contents": "1994 in Russian football\n\n\ntime at 2-2. Early stages of the Russian Cup 1994–95 were played later in the year. FC Spartak Moscow finished the group stage in third place, not qualifying for the semifinals. All the Russian participants were eliminated in 1993. FC Spartak Moscow qualified directly for the group stage. It did not qualify from the group, coming in third place. PFC CSKA Moscow were eliminated in the first round. FC Rotor Volgograd and FC Tekstilshchik Kamyshin were both eliminated by FC Nantes in the first and second round respectively,", "id": "17746833" }, { "contents": "Mikhail Osinov\n\n\nRussian Top Division side Rotor Volgograd. In 2001, Osinov was transferred to FC Rostov and stayed there for 9 years, suffering a relegation and helping the \"yellow-blues\" to return to the Premier League. He also holds the club record for league appearances with 239 games. In 2010, he returned to Yekaterinburg to play in the Russian First Division. In 2011, Osinov went to a lower league joining MITOS Novocherkassk of the Russian Second Division. On 11 September 2011, in a league game against Olimpia Gelendzhik Osinov", "id": "12015633" }, { "contents": "1990 Soviet Top League\n\n\non 1 March with the game between Dnipro and Rotor and lasted until 20 October 1990. The season was won by FC Dynamo Kyiv. The league was reduced to 13 after first Georgian clubs (Dinamo Tbilisi and Guria Lanchkhuti) and then Žalgiris withdrew from the Soviet Top League. Lokomotiv Moscow and the last placed Zenit Leningrad of the 1989 Soviet Top League were relegated to the 1990 Soviet First League. Lokomotiv returned to the Soviet First League after two seasons absence, while Zenit was relegated for the first time since being promoted back", "id": "831394" }, { "contents": "2010–11 KHL season\n\n\nTogliatti dropped out of the league and joined the Russian Major League instead, after failing to meet the league's financial requirements. Merger of HC MVD and Dynamo Moscow On 30 April 2010, it was announced that HC MVD would merge with Dynamo Moscow to form UHC Dynamo, which for the time being will play the majority of their games at Megasport Arena in Moscow, while also attempting to play some games in Balashikha. The current plan is to have a new, large and modernized arena constructed in Balashikha by 2012. Expansion", "id": "10925022" }, { "contents": "Dzmitry Rawneyka\n\n\nDzmitry Vasilevich Rawneyka (; ; born 13 May 1980) is a former Belarusian professional footballer. He is currently af part of the coaching staff of Belarus. Born in Grodno, Rawneyka began playing football in FC Neman Grodno's youth system. He joined the senior side and made his Belarusian Premier League debut in 1998. He had a spell in the Russian Premier League with FC Torpedo Moscow and FC Rotor Volgograd but has spent most of his playing career with Neman Grodno. Rawneyka has made eight appearances for the Belarus national football team", "id": "13999154" }, { "contents": "BC Krasny Oktyabr\n\n\nthe highest stage for Russian clubs. In the first season of Krasny Oktyabr in the VTB United League, it qualified for the playoffs by finishing in the 6th place in Group B. Also, European powerhouse CSKA Moscow was defeated by Krasny Oktyabr in the quarterfinals of the 2013–14 Russian Cup tournament. On August 30, 2016, the team was forced to leave the United League, because its home arena wasn't approved to host tournaments. The club usually played its home games at the 3,700 seat Volgograd Sports Palace of Trade Unions,", "id": "8073501" }, { "contents": "Igor Lediakhov\n\n\n-Don. In 1990, he joined FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk. After impressing with FC Rotor Volgograd, Lediakhov was bought by Soviet Union giants FC Spartak Moscow, being essential as the capital team conquered three consecutive league titles, which included the inaugural edition of the competition, as the player scored in double digits in two of the three seasons. In the 1994 summer, 26-year-old Lediakhov moved abroad, signing with Spain's Sporting de Gijón. Even though he netted nearly 50 overall goals for the club (17 in four", "id": "21673652" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\nnew stadium - provided they had a professional club to fill it after the tournament. Rotor, facing legal action and a transfer embargo due to their financial status, were not reliable candidates. The government created a new entity, FC Volgograd, intending to assume the Rotor name. In fact Rotor managed to co-exist with the new FC for the first half of the 2009 season, before Mikheev suspended operations and the government took ownership of the club and stadium from him. The two clubs were merged into one, and", "id": "264677" }, { "contents": "FC Lokomotiv Moscow\n\n\npoints after Gameweek 30. The game was played at Dynamo Stadium in front of a sold-out crowd. Lokomotiv took an early lead thanks a low drive from captain Dmitry Loskov, and eventually the goal turned out to be enough for Lokomotiv to claim the first title in the club's history. Two years later, Lokomotiv again won the Russian Premier League, edging city rivals CSKA by a single point; Lokomotiv defeated Shinnik Yaroslavl 0–2 in Yaroslavl, a week after CSKA fell to city rivals Dynamo at home. In 2005", "id": "10933606" }, { "contents": "1995–96 Manchester United F.C. season\n\n\nactually went top of the league after a goalless draw at Sheffield Wednesday towards the end of September, only for the Tynesiders to return to the top of the table soon after. Then came Cantona's comeback on 1 October, when he scored a penalty to equalise and hold Liverpool to a 2–2 draw Old Trafford. The autumn saw United suffer first-hurdle exits to York City in the League Cup and Rotor Volgograd in the UEFA Cup, although United did preserve their 39-year home unbeaten record in European competitions thanks to a late", "id": "9981632" }, { "contents": "1994–95 Russian Cup\n\n\nDynamo Moscow: Valeri Kleimyonov (GK), Yuri Kovtun (DF), Sergey Timofeev (DF), Andrei Chernyshov (DF), Aleksandr Borodkin (DF), Aleksei Filippov (DF), Vagiz Khidiyatullin (DF), Andrei Ivanov (DF), Denis Klyuyev (MF), Dmitri Cheryshev (FW), Igor Simutenkov (FW), Kirill Rybakov (FW), Yuri Tishkov (FW). FC Rotor Volgograd: Volodymyr Gerashchenko (DF), Aleksandr Yeshchenko (MF), Konstantin Kulik (", "id": "5392312" }, { "contents": "FC Olimpia Volgograd\n\n\nFC Olimpia Volgograd () is a Russian football team from the large city of Volgograd. They are the second- or third-largest club in the city after the famous Rotor Volgograd. From their founding in 1989 until 1997, the club participated in various youth leagues. Some time between 1993 and 1994 the Volgograd native Leonid Slutsky, future coach of the Russian national team, joined the training staff. Among the Olimpia youth players developed under Slutsky were Denis Kolodin, Roman Adamov, Andrei Bochkov, Maksim Burchenko and Aleksei Zhdanov,", "id": "21936806" }, { "contents": "Peter Schmeichel\n\n\na 2001 Reuters poll, he beat Lev Yashin and Gordon Banks to be named the finest keeper in football history. Despite being a goalkeeper, he would run into the attack on corner kicks if his team was behind. The sight of him going up for the corner was a great distraction to opposing defenders. He scored a goal in this fashion, for Man United, in a UEFA Cup match against Rotor Volgograd at Old Trafford in September 1995. He scored in the last minutes of the game to tie the match 2–2", "id": "19820283" }, { "contents": "Spartak Gogniyev\n\n\nSpartak Arturovich Gogniyev (, ; born 19 January 1981) is a Russian professional football coach and a former player. He is the manager of FC Alania Vladikavkaz. He made his debut in the Russian Premier League in 2000 for FC Dynamo Moscow. He played two games in the UEFA Cup 2000–01 for FC Dynamo Moscow and two games (scoring one goal) in the UEFA Champions League 2003–04 qualification round for PFC CSKA Moscow. In August 2018, it was announced that Spartak Gogniyev joined new FC Urozhay Krasnodar, but this was", "id": "7903306" }, { "contents": "Georgi Yartsev\n\n\nat the time, gave Yartsev a sabre as a birthday gift in a sideline pre-game ceremony. Yartsev got another head coach position soon enough, when he joined Rotor Volgograd in January 2000. However, he could not do much with that team either and was fired in June of same year. For the next 3 years he was the manager of the Spartak Moscow veterans team. In August 2003, Russia was very close to elimination from their Euro 2004 preliminary qualification group and the coach Valery Gazzayev, was fired.", "id": "15861320" }, { "contents": "FCSB\n\n\nUEFA ordered Steaua to play two home games of the Europa League behind closed doors due to their fans displaying racist banners in a second qualifying round match against Hungarian side Újpest. Three further incidents occurred in the 2014–15 season, with the club fined and ordered to play further games in an empty stadium after displays of racist banners in matches against Dynamo Kyiv, Ludogorets Razgrad and Strømsgodset. Steaua's most important rivalry is the one against Dinamo București. \"Eternul derby\" (\"The Eternal Derby\") has been the leading Romanian", "id": "19491084" }, { "contents": "2010 Russian First Division\n\n\n), Mordovia Saransk (Ural-Povolzhye) and Irtysh Omsk (East). Due to financial difficulties, Vityaz Podolsk who placed 11th in 2009, decided to give up their spot in the Russian First Division and participate in the Russian Second Division in 2010. Pending licensing, their place was taken by FC Volgograd who placed 3rd in the Russian Second Division (South Zone) in 2009. For the occasion the management decided to change the name of the club from FC Volgograd to Rotor Volgograd. FC Alania Vladikavkaz were promoted", "id": "7947305" }, { "contents": "Russian Women's Handball Super League\n\n\nThe Russian Women's Handball Superleague is the premier women's handball competition in Russia. Dinamo Volgograd, formerly known as Rotor and Akva, is the championship's most successful club as of 2019 with 12 titles. It also holds the record for consecutive wins, with six titles in a row. Currently eleven clubs take part in the competition, with the top eight playing the championship play-offs. The Russian Championship's leading teams have been successful in EHF's competitions. Zvezda Zvenigorod won the Champions League and the EHF Cup", "id": "8475941" }, { "contents": "Pavel Pogrebnyak\n\n\n's relegation, Pogrebnyak was linked with a move away from the club but did not leave. He scored his first goals in more than eight months after netting twice in a 3–1 win over Derby County in September 2013. On 27 August 2015 Pogrebnyak moved back to Russia, signing a three-year contract with Dynamo Moscow. Dynamo released him on 25 January 2018, citing disciplinary reasons, such as attending a Juventus - Inter Milan game in Italy on the same day Dynamo played a league game and participating in the annual exhibition", "id": "2040879" }, { "contents": "1996 in Russian football\n\n\nplayers (Stanislav Cherchesov, Viktor Onopko, Vasili Kulkov and Sergei Yuran) who played in the group stage where Spartak did not lose a single point left the club to move to Western European clubs in the winter before the quarterfinals. Nicolas Ouédec was instrumental again, after scoring 7 goals in 4 games against the Russian teams in the 1994–95 UEFA Cup, this time he scored 3 goals in two games against Spartak. FC Dynamo Moscow were eliminated in the quarterfinals. All the Russian teams were eliminated in 1995. FC Alania Vladikavkaz", "id": "22219347" }, { "contents": "Kamil Mullin\n\n\nKamil Shamilevich Mullin (, ; born 5 January 1994) is a Russian professional football player who plays for FC Rotor Volgograd. He plays as a forward. Mullin joined Lokomotiv academy at 16 years, and two years later made it to the youth squad. In total, he played 53 games for Lokomotiv U21 and scored 23 goals.br He made his debut for Lokomotiv first team in the 2012–13 Russian Cup game vs Torpedo Armavir on 26 September 2012.br In March 2013, Mullin for the first time was included into team sheet for the", "id": "2605760" }, { "contents": "FC Dynamo Moscow\n\n\nthe 2008 season, Dynamo finished third, qualifying for the 2009–10 Champions League preliminary round. On 29 July 2009, Dynamo recorded a 0–1 away win against Celtic at Celtic Park, which gave them a strong advantage going into the second leg. However, Celtic comfortably defeated Dynamo 0–2 in Moscow to progress, sending Dynamo into the Europa League play-off round where the club was eliminated by Bulgarian side CSKA Sofia after a 0–0 away draw in Sofia and a 1–2 home defeat in Moscow. In 2012, after a poor start", "id": "8644502" }, { "contents": "2013–14 Russian Premier League\n\n\n2014/15 season. The 13th and 14th Premier League teams will play the 4th and 3rd FNL teams respectively in two playoff games with the winner securing a Premier League spot for 2014/15 season. On 11 May 2014, the game between FC Zenit Saint Petersburg and FC Dynamo Moscow was interrupted in the 86th minute with Dynamo leading 4-2 when Zenit fans ran out of the stands. At first they stood behind the goal line, when the referee decided to take the teams off the field into the dressing rooms and teams began to", "id": "9911963" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\nthe third tier) in 1980 and 1981, and were successful in the promotion playoffs the second time. In 1988 Rotor finished second in the Soviet First League, earning promotion to the Soviet Top League. They finished 13th and last in the downsized 1990 competition after the Georgian and Lithuanian teams withdrew, and the decision was made to relegate them. However they bounced straight back as champions of the First League in 1991, thus becoming founder members of the new Russian Top Division after the USSR collapsed. In the mid-1990s, Rotor", "id": "264672" }, { "contents": "Bibras Natkho\n\n\n, Natkho scored two goals in the Champions League qualifier against Dynamo Kyiv and Lyon, who they eliminated Kazan out of the competitions and the club would play in the Europa League. Then in the Europa League campaign, Natkho scored twice in six matches in the Group Stage of the Europa League against Tottenham Hostpur and Shamrock Rovers. Natkho performance was praised for his role during the season and helped the club win the Russian Cup after playing a vital of assisting the winning goal, in a 1–0 win over Dynamo Moscow. Natkho would", "id": "21438585" }, { "contents": "Danil Lipovoy\n\n\nDanil Nikolayevich Lipovoy (; born 22 September 1999) is a Russian football player who plays for FC Dynamo Moscow. He made his debut in the Russian Professional Football League for FC Dynamo-2 Moscow on 2 April 2017 in a game against FC Dynamo Saint Petersburg. He made his debut for the main squad of FC Dynamo Moscow on 26 September 2018 in a Russian Cup game against FC Torpedo Moscow. He made Russian Premier League debut for Dynamo on 30 November 2018 in a game against FC Rubin Kazan, as a 64th-minute substitute", "id": "429351" }, { "contents": "FC Amkar Perm\n\n\n, having lost their Spring matches to Kuban Krasnodar (1–2) and Spartak Moscow (0–2). A series without a win followed the victory over Alania and after the Dynamo match Amkar lost to Terek Grozny (1–2) and Lokomotiv Moscow (2–4). After another devastating defeat from Kuban (0–4), followed by a victory over their direct rivals Rostov (3–2), and a goalless draw with Zenit, the club retained the right to play in the Premier League. In June 2013, the club opted not to", "id": "5030824" }, { "contents": "FC Shakhtar Donetsk\n\n\nminute Fedor Manov opened score to Donetsk team goals. Final score is 4:1 in favor of the hosts.\" Nonetheless, the selective job conducted constructively by the club's administration allowed the club to compete successfully at the top level by the end of the 1930s. During the \"war championship\" of 1941, which was interrupted unexpectedly, the club defeated Soviet champions Dynamo Moscow and after about ten games were placed in fifth in the league. In the last game of that championship, played on 24 June, two days after", "id": "14103740" }, { "contents": "Oleg Veretennikov\n\n\nOleg Aleksandrovich Veretennikov (; born 5 January 1970) is a professional Russian association football coach and a former international footballer. He manages Rotor-2 Volograd. He is the top goalscorer in the history of Russian Premier League, and holds several other goalscoring records. Most of Veretennikov's successes have come with SC Rotor Volgograd, for whom he played in 1992–1999. During that time he scored 143 goals, which makes him the best goalscorer in the Russian Premier League history (the next best goalscorer, Dmitry Loskov, has 109 goals as of", "id": "21553966" }, { "contents": "Sergei Pareiko\n\n\nSergei Pareiko (born 31 January 1977) is a retired Estonian footballer. He is currently the sporting director of Estonian football club Levadia. Pareiko played as a goalkeeper in Estonian, Russian and Polish top tiers. He made a total of 65 appearances for the Estonia national football team. In Estonia, Pareiko played for Tallinna Sadam and Levadia Maardu, before moving to Russia in 2001, when he signed with Rotor Volgograd. After Rotor were relegated, Pareiko moved to Tom Tomsk. At the end of 2009 season Pareiko was named", "id": "11658849" }, { "contents": "FC Dinamo Tbilisi\n\n\nIn this period Dinamo won the Soviet Cup for the first time in their history, convincingly defeating Armenian side Ararat Yerevan 3–0 in the final, with goals scored by David Kipiani, Piruz Kanteladze and Revaz Chelebadze. In 1978 the club won the Soviet Top League for a second time. Next year Dinamo won the Soviet Cup again by defeating Russian side Dynamo Moscow in the final. In 1979 the club played its first match in the UEFA European Cup tournament. In the first round Dinamo knocked out English side Liverpool, at the", "id": "10097459" }, { "contents": "Romelu Lukaku\n\n\nlater at home to West Ham. Lukaku scored twice in a 4–0 win, becoming the fourth Manchester United player to score two goals on his Premier League debut for the club. On 17 September, Lukaku scored United's third goal in a 4–0 win over his former club Everton, with Lukaku running over towards Everton fans and cupping his ears during his goal celebration in response to being booed throughout the game. On 27 September, Lukaku scored twice in a 4–1 UEFA Champions League win over CSKA Moscow, taking his tally to", "id": "1117930" }, { "contents": "Dynamo Dresden\n\n\none Game behind closed doors and one away game without own fan support. Virtual tickets were offered to reduce the financial loss, creating \"the first sold-out Ghost Game in history\". The 2012–13 season started poorly for Dynamo and Ralf Loose was sacked in December 2012 after a 3–0 defeat to VfL Bochum with the team in 15th place. He was replaced by Peter Pacult, returning to the club after more than six years. Dynamo's form improved after Pacult's arrival but the team still finished the league as 16th", "id": "11366777" }, { "contents": "Aleksandr Tashayev\n\n\nAleksandr Mikhailovich Tashayev (; born 23 June 1994) is a Russian professional football player who plays as a left midfielder for Spartak Moscow. He made his professional debut on 11 December 2014 for FC Dynamo Moscow in a 2014–15 UEFA Europa League group game against PSV Eindhoven. He also played in the Round of 16 away game against Napoli. On 6 July 2018, he signed a contract with the cross-city rivals FC Spartak Moscow, after buying out own contract from Dynamo and becoming a free agent. Dynamo unsuccessfully sued to deem", "id": "13552247" }, { "contents": "Dynamo Moscow Bandy Club\n\n\nthe end of the 2004–05 season, almost all players of the for a decade dominant Vodnik signed up for Dynamo Moscow, resulting in an immediate Russian League title in 2006. Dynamo Moscow won the World Cup for the first time in 2006, defeating Zorky in the final. The 2006 domestic title was followed by another four consecutive Russian championship titles and as one of the dominating teams in the following years too, until 2017, when they missed the championship play-off, only coming in at eighth place in the regular season", "id": "1825162" }, { "contents": "Handball Club Lada\n\n\nHandball Club Lada is a Russian women's handball club from Tolyatti playing in the Russian Super League. Founded in 1998, Lada soon became the leading team in the Super League winning five championships in a row between 2002 and 2006 and a sixth one in 2008. It also built itself a name in Europe winning the 2002 Cup Winners' Cup in its international debut and reaching the final of the 2007 Champions League and the next edition's semifinals. The following three seasons were less successful, with Dynamo Volgograd retrieving the leading position", "id": "9114247" }, { "contents": "Omari Tetradze\n\n\n– Tetradze. Later he considered restoring his original surname, but decided it would cause too many problems. At club level, he played for Dinamo Tbilisi, FC Dynamo Moscow, Alania Vladikavkaz (where he won a Russian league championship medal in 1995), AS Roma, and PAOK FC (Greece). He played for Russia at international level, and appeared at World Cup 1994 and Euro 1996. At the latter tournament, he played superbly in each of Russia's three games despite the team's poor results, and", "id": "17559889" }, { "contents": "FC Girondins de Bordeaux\n\n\nclub was relegated just two years thereafter. In 1992, however, \"Les Girondins\" won that year's Ligue 2 title, thus being elevated to the top tier of French football. In the emergence of young and exciting players such as playmaker Zinedine Zidane, striker Christophe Dugarry and left back Bixente Lizarazu, the club ascended even higher to win the UEFA Intertoto Cup in 1995. With this talented trio, the club defeated FC Rotor Volgograd (the 1995 King's Cup Winner), Real Betis, Milan and Slavia Prague", "id": "10933676" }, { "contents": "Yuriy Hudymenko\n\n\nYuriy Arkadiyovych Hudymenko (; born 3 October 1966) is a former Kyrgyz-born Ukrainian professional footballer. Hudymenko is a product of the main Bishkek sports school and later was accepted to the main republican club of Kyrgyzia, FC Alga Bishkek. In 1990 he made his debut in the Soviet Top League playing for FC Dnepr Dnepropetrovsk, but failed to score any goals in domestic competitions, but did score a goal against Heart of Midlothian F.C. in the 1990-91 UEFA Cup. Next year Hudymenko joined recently relegated FC Rotor Volgograd that", "id": "11637137" }, { "contents": "Valery Gazzaev\n\n\na second-place finish at the end of the season. However, Gazzaev was left behind in the first league in Spartak Ordzhonikidze, as he wasn't one of the main players of the SKA Rostov-on-Don. In the Soviet Top League, Gazzaev played in Lokomotiv Moscow, Dynamo Moscow, and Dinamo Tbilisi. Gazzaev is a Soviet Cup winner with Dynamo Moscow in 1984. During his career he scored 89 goals in 283 matches in Soviet Top League, and was the top goal scorer of the UEFA Cup", "id": "3537187" }, { "contents": "FC Amkar Perm\n\n\nAmkar was in third place in the standings, one point behind second-placed Spartak Moscow and six adrift of leaders Rubin Kazan. After the break, one of Amkar's team leaders, Vladimir Gabulov, and the captain, Aleksei Popov, left the team to join Dynamo Moscow and Rubin Kazan respectively. Two matches in a row on the \"equator\" of the Championship Amkar could have topped the league table but was unable to beat Tom Tomsk and Spartak Nalchik at home. On 16 November, after beating Tom in Tomsk", "id": "5030813" }, { "contents": "FC Rubin Kazan\n\n\nfixed after selling in Volgograd \"Rotor\" team leaders Oleg Nechaev and Rustem Khuzin (but soon returned to \"Rubin\" till the end of the season on loan). In the end the season Kazan finished on 8th place, only losing a point to Nizhnekamsk \"Neftechimik\" and dropped into the second league. The following year, 1994, coaches Zadikashvili and Semenov assemble a team literally bit by bit. Because of the continuing financial problems from the last season in the team left only 6 players: Grishin, Danilin,", "id": "19815661" }, { "contents": "Nikita Chernov\n\n\nNikita Aleksandrovich Chernov (; born 14 January 1996) is a Russian professional football player who plays as a centre-back for Krylia Sovetov Samara and Russia national football team. Born in Volzhsky, Volgograd Oblast, Chernov began his career at hometown team FC Energiya Volzhsky before joining CSKA Moscow in 2009. He made his professional debut on 24 September 2014 in a Russian Cup game against FC Khimik Dzerzhinsk. He also played in the next Russian Cup round against FC Torpedo Moscow on 29 October. On 30 July 2019, Chernov moved from", "id": "503700" }, { "contents": "KF Skënderbeu Korçë\n\n\nBeşiktaş, Lokomotiv Moscow and Sporting Clube de Portugal. In matchday 1, their first ever group stage game, the club was defeated at home 0–1 by Beşiktaş after a hard fight between the two sides. In the next matchday, they lost 0–2 to Lokomotiv Moscow in Moscow. Their worst defeat in the European competition yet came the next matchday, a storming 1–5 loss to Sporting in the away leg at Lisbon, but also had the Albanian side scoring their first goal in the UEFA Europa League group stages. In the home", "id": "1409695" }, { "contents": "FC Dynamo Kyiv\n\n\nand Maccabi Tel Aviv F.C. Dynamo finished in second place with 11 points after a spectacular performance and a memorable 0–2 in Porto. However, Dynamo was punished by UEFA for a racist incident in the home game against Chelsea where four black men were attacked in the stands by Dynamo fans. Despite this, Dynamo reached the round of 16 in the Champions League for the first time since 2000, where it was drawn with Manchester City. Dynamo was eliminated 1–3 on aggregate but managed to hold an impressive 0–0 draw in Manchester. Dynamo", "id": "18770189" }, { "contents": "Konstantin Kovalenko\n\n\nKonstantin Valeryevich Kovalenko (; ; born 2 February 1975) is a Belarusian and Russian professional footballer who plays for resurrected FC Kuban Krasnodar. He made his professional debut in the Soviet Second League in 1991 for FC Kuban Barannikovsky. He played 1 game in the 1996–97 UEFA Cup for FC Spartak Moscow. His brother Andrei Kovalenko also played football professionally. On 27 October 2008 he punched referee Sergei Timofeyev in the face in the Russian Second Division game FC Sochi-04 - FC Olimpia Volgograd. He was banned from football for a year. Spartak", "id": "1118096" }, { "contents": "Clinton N'Jie\n\n\nDimitri Payet and scored two goals in a 3–0 win. On 17 September, he scored both the goals in the away win over Amiens. On 3 May 2018, he played in the Europa League semi-finals away to FC Red Bull Salzburg as Marseille played out a 2–1 away loss but a 3–2 aggregate win to secure a place in the 2018 UEFA Europa League Final. On 25 July 2019, Njie signed a 4-year contract with Russian Premier League club Dynamo Moscow. N'Jie scored 44 minutes into his Cameroon debut against the", "id": "16847587" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\ntime they were able to consolidate in the National League, finishing 9th and then 14th. But financial troubles continued. A Ministry of Sport investigation found evidence of financial misconduct by club management along with substantial overspending, and regional Governor Andrey Bocharov announced after the 2013 season that government support for Rotor was being withdrawn. The club dropped back into the Second Division (renamed the Professional Football League) for the first half of the 2014–15 (autumn-spring) season, then withdrew in order to immediately transfer to the 2015 (spring", "id": "264679" }, { "contents": "2001 FC Anzhi Makhachkala season\n\n\nThe 2001 FC Anzhi Makhachkala season was the 2nd season that the club played in the Russian Top Division, the highest tier of football in Russia, following their promotion from the National Football League in 1999. They finished the season in 13th, were runners-up in the 2001-02 cup and reached the Sixth Round of the 2002-03 cup losing to Dynamo Moscow, and were knocked out of the UEFA Cup at the First Round stage after a 0-1 defeat to Rangers over one leg in Warsaw, Poland", "id": "4897180" }, { "contents": "FC Dynamo-2 Moscow\n\n\nFC Dynamo-2 Moscow () was a Russian football team from Moscow. It was the farm-club for FC Dynamo Moscow. In 2016, it was revived after the parent club, Dynamo, was relegated from the Russian Football Premier League (which holds its own competition for the Under-21 teams of the Premier League clubs) and licensed to play in the third-tier Russian Professional Football League for the 2016–17 season. Majority of the squad participated in the 2016–17 UEFA Youth League as well. On 17 June 2017, the parent", "id": "19064817" }, { "contents": "Mikhail Markosov\n\n\nDivision South Zone, scoring 27 goals, a feat no one in the entire Second Division surpassed. In the 2010 season, he played for FC Rotor Volgograd and came back to FC Dynamo Stavropol the next season. Scoring 10 goals in his first 10 matches for Dynamo, Markosov was transferred in the summer transfer window of the 2011-12 season to FC Ufa. From April until June 2019 Markosov played for FC Kuban Krasnodar, scored 7 goals in 11 matches. He joined the Armenia national football team in 2013. Markosov", "id": "12122198" }, { "contents": "1993 in Russian football\n\n\ntheir group campaign and finished it without much success, only gaining 2 points in 6 games, coming in last in the group and suffering a 0-6 defeat against Marseille. They could not play their home games in Moscow due to the lack of a stadium meeting the Champions League standards at the time. FC Spartak Moscow reached the semifinals, tying the best European result in club's history. FC Spartak Moscow qualified for the group stage and continued to play in the group into the 1994. FC Torpedo Moscow went out", "id": "21710373" }, { "contents": "2002 in Russian football\n\n\nrespective Second Division zones: The Russian Cup was won by CSKA Moscow, who beat Zenit Saint Petersburg 2–0 in the final at the Luzhniki Stadium. Lokomotiv Moscow participated in the third round of the UEFA Cup 2001-02, but were knocked out by Hapoel Tel Aviv FC who won 3–1 on aggregate. Krylya Sovetov Samara played in the UEFA Intertoto Cup 2002. After defeating Dinaburg FC in the second round they lost to Willem II Tilburg on away goals. Lokomotiv Moscow's victory over Grazer AK ensured there are two Russian clubs", "id": "11619883" }, { "contents": "FC Dynamo Moscow\n\n\nFC Dynamo Moscow (Dinamo Moscow, FC Dinamo Moskva, ) is a Russian football club based in Moscow. Dynamo has returned to the Russian Premier League for the 2017–18 season after one season in the second-tier Russian Football National League. Dynamo was the only club that had always played in the top tier of Soviet football (along with Dynamo Kyiv) and of Russian football from the end of the Soviet era until they were relegated in 2016. Despite this, it has never won the modern Russian Premier League title and", "id": "8644495" }, { "contents": "Nikita Lyamin\n\n\nIn 2004, he played three season in the farm team and two more seasons in the main team for Dynamo Moscow. Dynamo Moscow became champions at the 2007–08 Russian Volleyball Super League, but Lyamin due to low game practice quit the club. Lyamin moved to Nizhny Novgorod and became captain of Guberniya, which went on debuting in the B-division of the highest national league. In the two years, Guberniya could enter the Super League, and in the 2012–13 it became one of the leading clubs in Russia. Guberniya qualified", "id": "8669287" }, { "contents": "Leonid Slutsky (football coach)\n\n\nLeonid Viktorovich Slutsky (; born 4 May 1971) is a Russian professional football coach and former player who is the manager of Eredivisie club Vitesse. Previously, he has been in charge of Olimpia Volgograd, Uralan Elista, Moscow, Krylia Sovetov, CSKA Moscow, Russia and Hull City. Slutsky was born in Volgograd. Slutsky's playing career with FC Zvezda Gorodishche ended at just 19 years of age. He had to retire due to a knee injury sustained after falling out of a tree while rescuing a neighbour's cat. Slutsky", "id": "11710104" }, { "contents": "Yuri Kovtun\n\n\nduring the season so two top teams were interested in him at the same time, it's Dynamo and Spartak Moscow. In 1993, Kovtun chose Dynamo Moscow and was their key player for years, until his move to Spartak in 1999. While the only Kovtun's honour during 6 years in Dynamo was Russian Cup in 1995, he could get 3 titles in 1999, 2000 and 2001 after joining Spartak. Moreover, he took part in numerous UEFA Champions League games and found himself regular Russian national football team player. Kovtun", "id": "2071460" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\n-tier Russian Professional Football League for the 2016–17 season. They won their zone of the PFL in the 2016–17 season and were promoted to the second-level Russian National Football League for 2017–18. Despite ending the 2017–18 season in the relegation zone, the club stayed in the league for the 2018–19 season as another team that finished above them in the table failed to obtain the league license. As of 5 July 2019, according to the FNL website. Had international caps for their respective countries. Players whose name is listed in", "id": "264681" }, { "contents": "Dmitri Khokhlov\n\n\nDmitri Valeryevich Khokhlov (, born 22 December 1975) is a Russian football manager and a former player. He is the manager of FC Dynamo Moscow. He played as a holding midfielder or playmaker. He played for PFC CSKA Moscow and FC Lokomotiv Moscow in native Russia, having abroad spells with PSV Eindhoven (Netherlands) and Real Sociedad (Spain). During his time with FC Lokomotiv Moscow he participated in their memorable 2003–04 UEFA Champions League campaign, scoring third goal in the 3–0 home victory against Internazionale. He played for", "id": "19054427" }, { "contents": "Racism in association football\n\n\nagainst CSKA Moscow in Russia. The club's stadium was partially closed as punishment. Touré suggested that black players might boycott the 2018 FIFA World Cup, to be held in Russia, if racism continued in the country. In September 2014, Dynamo Moscow defender Christopher Samba was racially abused playing in the Moscow derby against Torpedo Moscow. As a result, Torpedo were forced to close part of their stadium, although Samba was also banned for two games for swearing at the racist fans. In a friendly match (Russia vrs France", "id": "21349703" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\nTraktor Stalingrad to national prominence. Traktor were champions of the new fourth-level Group G in 1937, and were then promoted straight to the highest-level Group A as it expanded from 9 clubs to 26. They remained at the top level until 1950. Rotor then spent three decades at the top regional level, although the creation of the Supreme League in 1970 pushed their league from the second level overall down to the third. They gradually improved throughout the 1970s and finally won Zone III of the Soviet Second League (", "id": "264671" }, { "contents": "WPC Dynamo Moscow\n\n\nWPC Dynamo Moscow () is a Russian men's water polo club, that is part of the traditional Moscow-based multi-sports club Dynamo. Dynamo won seven Soviet Championships between 1955 and 1962, and in 1964 it was the first team to represent the in the newly European Champions Cup, ranking second behind Partizan. In 1968 and 1969 the team won two more national championships, and it also reached the 1969 European Cup's final, lost to Mladost. For the next fifteen years Dynamo didn't win any more", "id": "18685765" }, { "contents": "Kyle Hines\n\n\ngreat Olympiacos comeback in 4th quarter, led by Vassilis Spanoulis. CSKA Moscow eventually won the EuroLeague third place game, after defeating Fenerbahçe, by a score of 86–80. In his second EuroLeague season with CSKA Moscow, Hines averaged a career-low 6.8 points and 4.3 rebounds per game, over 30 games played. CSKA Moscow finished the season by winning the VTB United League, after eliminating Khimki with a 3–0 series sweep in the League's finals series. On June 17, 2015, he signed a two-year contract", "id": "14695455" }, { "contents": "Miroslav Raičević\n\n\nfinal decisive shot in the very last seconds of the final game against Prokom Trefl Sopot. He also won the Greek Cup with Aris, in the year 2004. He has also played with Red Star Belgrade of the Adriatic League during the 2005–06 season. He won the Serbian Cup with Red Star that season. In the 2006–07 season, he played with the Russian Super League club Dynamo Moscow. During summer of 2007, he left Dynamo Moscow and joined the Italian League club Eldo Napoli. He then left Napoli and moved back", "id": "13596698" } ]

[ { "contents": "1996 in Russian football\n\n\nwas knocked out in the qualifying round. FC Lokomotiv Moscow went out in the second round. PFC CSKA Moscow, FC Dynamo Moscow and FC Torpedo-Luzhniki Moscow were eliminated in the first round after going through the qualifying round. FC Alania Vladikavkaz went out in the first round after going to the UEFA Cup after failing in the qualification for the Champions League. FC Spartak Moscow went out in the second round. Russian clubs participated in the Intertoto Cup for the first time. FC Rotor Volgograd, FC KAMAZ-Chally Naberezhnye", "id": "22219348" }, { "contents": "1995 in Russian football\n\n\nthe Russian Cup 1995–96 were played later in the year. All the Russian participants were eliminated in 1994. FC Spartak Moscow won every game in their group, qualifying for the quarterfinals. FC Dynamo Moscow advanced through the first two rounds, qualifying to play in the quarterfinals next spring. FC Spartak-Alania Vladikavkaz and FC Lokomotiv Moscow were eliminated in the first round by strong opponents (even though Lokomotiv very unexpectedly beat FC Bayern in Munich in the first game). FC Rotor Volgograd eliminated Manchester United F.C. in the first round", "id": "18335625" }, { "contents": "Maksim Nenakhov\n\n\nMaksim Maksimovich Nenakhov (; born 13 December 1998) is a Russian football player who plays for FC Rotor Volgograd. He made his debut in the Russian Professional Football League for FC Dynamo-2 Moscow on 20 July 2016 in a game against FC Tekstilshchik Ivanovo. On 19 January 2018, he was loaned to FC Tyumen until the end of the 2017–18 season. On 14 June 2018, he moved on another loan for the 2018–19 season to FC SKA-Khabarovsk. On 18 June 2019, he signed a 2-year contract with FC Rotor Volgograd", "id": "6983587" }, { "contents": "Almir Kayumov\n\n\nAlmir Izmailovich Kayumov (; 30 December 1964 – 7 August 2013) was a Russian football player and referee. Kayumov played for FC Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk, FC Lada Togliatti, Spartak Moscow, Rotor Volgograd, SKA Rostov-on-Don, in Russia, the Daewoo Royals in South Korea, and Kuopion Palloseura in Finland. He played 6 games in the UEFA Cup 1986–87 for FC Spartak Moscow. On November 9, 2009, it was reported that Kayumov attempted to commit suicide by jumping out of his apartment window. Police negotiators talked", "id": "14510549" }, { "contents": "Ruslan Ishkinin\n\n\nRuslan Kamilyevich Ishkinin (; born 14 June 1974) is a former Russian professional footballer. He made his professional debut in the Russian Second Division in 1992 for FC Dynamo-2 Moscow. The most memorable match of his career was played on 14 June 1995. His team FC Dynamo Moscow was playing FC Rotor Volgograd in the final game of the Russian Cup. Dynamo was decimated by injuries and several reserve players, including Ishkinin, were called up for the game. With 5 minutes to go in regulation and the score of 0–0, Ishkinin", "id": "2479621" }, { "contents": "1997 in Russian football\n\n\nthe year. Russian teams were eliminated in 1996. FC Spartak Moscow were eliminated in the second qualifying round and went on to the UEFA Cup. FC Lokomotiv Moscow qualified for the quarterfinals stage that was played in 1998. FC Spartak Moscow qualified for the quarterfinals stage that was played in 1998. FC Rotor Volgograd reached the second round. FC Alania Vladikavkaz went out in the first round. The goal in the stadium was measured before the game and turned out to be 2.46 meters high instead of regulation 2.44. The referee decided", "id": "20500131" }, { "contents": "2012–13 Russian Premier League\n\n\naltogether if the game is awarded to Dynamo. According to the police, the main suspect is a female fan who was arrested after the game. The criminal investigation was opened on the charge of hooliganism. On 22 November, Russian Football Union's Control-Disciplinary Committee awarded the game to Dynamo with a score of 3–0 and fined both clubs. Dynamo had to play their next home game (against Rubin Kazan) behind closed doors and Zenit had to play their next 2 home games (against CSKA Moscow and Anzhi Makhachkala)", "id": "321372" }, { "contents": "Yuriy Kalitvintsev\n\n\nfor FC Desna Chernihiv. A Russian-born Kalitvintsev chose to play for the Ukraine side after breaking through as a midfielder for Dynamo Kyiv. Until 1994 he played he spent his playing career at Russian clubs such as FC Rotor Volgograd, FC SKA Rostov-on-Don, FC Dynamo Moscow, and FC Lokomotiv Nizhny Novgorod. It wasn't until the reorganization of the soviet football when he started to play at the top level of the Russian championship starting for the Moscow's Dynamo. After being transferred to the fading club", "id": "20481933" }, { "contents": "Sergei Bogomolov\n\n\nSergei Anatolyevich Bogomolov (; born 17 August 1971) is a former Russian professional footballer. During his time with FC Dynamo Moscow he only played in a single game for the main team, but it was a very memorable one. On 14 June 1995, Dynamo was playing FC Rotor Volgograd in the final game of the 1994–95 Russian Cup. Dynamo was hurt by injuries to some first team regulars and several reserve players, including Bogomolov, were called up for the game. With the score of 0:0 and 10 minutes to go in", "id": "18632079" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\nwas one of the strongest clubs in Russia, rivalling Spartak Moscow for the championship, yet never winning it. Rotor became the league runners-up in 1993 and 1997. Rotor played five successive seasons in European competition, from 1994-95 to 1998-99. They qualified for the UEFA Cup through their league position every year except 1996-97, when they instead chose to enter the Intertoto Cup. Unfortunately for Rotor, the fall of communism had left all the former Eastern Bloc leagues badly under-resourced compared to", "id": "264673" }, { "contents": "1995 in Russian football\n\n\n1995 was the fourth season Russia held its own national football competition since the breakup of the Soviet Union. FC Spartak-Alania Vladikavkaz won the league for the first time ever. This was the first season 3 points were awarded for a win instead of two. For more details, see: The third edition of the Russian Cup, Russian Cup 1994–95 was won by FC Dynamo Moscow, who beat FC Rotor Volgograd in the finals in a shootout 8-7 after finishing extra time at 0-0. Early stages of", "id": "18335624" }, { "contents": "Maxim Chuzhkov\n\n\nMaxim Aleksandrovich Chuzhkov (; born 11 April 1987) is a Russian beach soccer player serving as goalkeeper. He is a three-time national champion for three different clubs (Rotor Volgograd, Lokomotiv Moscow, Kristall). Maxim Chuzhkov was born in Samara. He was a gymnast for six years before switching to football. Chuzhkov discovered beach soccer in 2010, and one year later he joined Krylya Sovetov from Samara. From 2012 to 2014 he played for Rotor Volgograd, winning with them the club's first and only Russian Beach Soccer", "id": "21454463" }, { "contents": "1991 Soviet Top League\n\n\nseason, while FC Rotor Volgograd and FC Tiligul Tiraspol would have been promoted to the Top League for 1992. Top six clubs of the league later entered European competitions for their respective nations. The Ukrainian clubs chose to qualify through a separate national competition. The league was expanded to 16 after the last season, during which number of clubs left the Soviet competitions (from Georgia and Baltic states). The last-placed FC Rotor Volgograd of the 1990 Soviet Top League lost promotion/relegation playoff to Lokomotiv Moscow and was relegated", "id": "831265" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor-2 Volgograd\n\n\nFC Rotor-2 Volgograd () is a Russian football team based in Volgograd. It is the farm club for FC Rotor Volgograd. It previously played professionally as FC Rotor-d Volgograd or FC Rotor-2 Volgograd in the Russian Second Division in 1992–1993, 1998–2000 and 2004 and Russian Third League in 1994-1997. They came in 3rd place in their Second Division zone in 1993. In 2001, the reserves tournament for Russian Premier League was re-established and the reserves team played there while the main team stayed in Premier League.", "id": "5758261" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\nFC Rotor Volgograd () is a Russian football (soccer) club from the large city of Volgograd, Volgograd Oblast (formerly Stalingrad). The club plays in the second-level Russian National Football League. They are the largest and best supported Volgograd club and for most of their existence have been the city's only representatives in the national league system. They played at the top level of Soviet/Russian football either side of World War II, from 1989 to 1990, and from 1991 to 2004. During the 1990s", "id": "264669" }, { "contents": "Wisdom Mumba Chansa\n\n\nand Derby Makinka, to play in the Soviet Top League when they all signed for Pomir Dushanbe in 1989 after being spotted during their 4-0 win over Italy at the 1988 Olympics. Chansa's debut came on 2 October 1989 in an away match against Torpedo Moscow, before appearing twice more, against Rotor Volgograd and Metalist Kharkiv, before leaving at the conclusion of the 1989 season. Chansa returned to Power Dynamos following his Soviet experience, and was made captain before Power Dynamos became the first Zambian club side to win a", "id": "5300924" }, { "contents": "FC Volgograd\n\n\nFC Volgograd () is a former name of the Russian football club from Volgograd, founded in late 2008, currently known as FC Rotor Volgograd. Before it was founded, it was originally supposed to be called FC Rotor-Volgograd Volgograd (to keep Rotor's name around at the time FC Rotor Volgograd was close to bankruptcy). However, FC Rotor's financial situation has improved by early 2009 and the club was registered as FC Volgograd. It played in the Russian Second Division in 2009. It took over the license", "id": "6725532" }, { "contents": "Roman Pavlyuchenko\n\n\nRoman Anatolyevich Pavlyuchenko (; born 15 December 1981) is a Russian footballer who plays as a striker for FC Znamya Noginsk. He started his career at Dynamo Stavropol, and Rotor Volgograd, before transferring to Spartak Moscow in 2003. His performances there earned him a £13.7 million transfer to Tottenham Hotspur of the English Premier League in 2008, where he spent three full seasons before returning to Russia to play for Lokomotiv Moscow. After another full 3 seasons he moved in July 2015, to Kuban Krasnodar. A full international for a", "id": "3367200" }, { "contents": "Anton Miranchuk\n\n\nAnton Andreyevich Miranchuk (; born 17 October 1995) is a Russian professional football player who plays as a centre midfielder or attacking midfielder for Lokomotiv Moscow and the Russia national team. Born in Slavyansk-na-Kubani, Miranchuk joined Spartak Moscow from his hometown football school Olymp. He was dismissed from the club because of weak physical abilities. After that, he and his twin brother Aleksei moved to Lokomotiv Moscow. On 30 October 2013, Miranchuk made his competitive debut in senior football in a Russian Cup game against Rotor Volgograd replacing", "id": "1404526" }, { "contents": "Dmitry Pletnyov (footballer)\n\n\nDmitry Andreyevich Pletnyov (; born 16 January 1998) is a Russian football player. He plays for FC Tom Tomsk in Russian Football National League. He made his debut in the Russian Football National League for FC Zenit-2 Saint Petersburg on 6 September 2017 in a game against FC Rotor Volgograd. He made his Russian Premier League debut for FC Zenit Saint Petersburg on 5 May 2018 in a game against FC Lokomotiv Moscow. He played for Russia national under-17 football team at the 2015 UEFA European Under-17 Championship and 2015 FIFA U-17 World Cup.", "id": "21412634" }, { "contents": "2004 in Russian football\n\n\nseason. Andrey Fedkov of Terek became the top goalscorer with 38 goals. The following clubs have earned promotion by winning tournaments in their respective Second Division zones: Prior to start of the 2005 season three clubs (Rotor Volgograd, Torpedo Vladimir, and Arsenal Tula) refused participation in the First Division, and two more clubs (Dynamo Stavropol and Chernomorets Novorossiysk) were denied licences. This made way for the runners-up of all five zones: The Russian Super Cup match between CSKA Moscow and Spartak Moscow was won by CSKA", "id": "6344061" }, { "contents": "Dmitry Shishin\n\n\nnational beach soccer team. That year Shishin participated at the Russian Championship as player of Samarian Sputnik and debuted for the national team at the Beach Soccer World Cup. After Sputnik, Shishin for a long time played for different Saratov clubs, such as Rosagro, Biznes-Pravo, Delta. In 2011, Shishin moved to Lokomotiv Moscow, where he won the championship trophy with his team. Together with the Lokomotives he won another national championship trophy and two Russian cups. In 2013, Shishin surprisingly switched to Rotor Volgograd, becoming", "id": "12194946" }, { "contents": "2009 Russian Second Division\n\n\nJuly 2009 Oleg Mikheyev, president of FC Rotor Volgograd, announced Rotor's resignation from the league, citing problems with authorities. They have played 18 games and were in the 13th position with 21 points. \"Source: [PFL] , Sporbox.ru \" On 11 July 2009, the management of FC Spartak Shchyolkovo announced that the club would resign from the league after the first half of the season because of economic problems. Spartak were excluded from the league on August 4, 2009. They have played 18 games and were in", "id": "21482663" }, { "contents": "FC Olimpia Volgograd\n\n\nuntil 2008, though their fortunes faded after Slutsky's players left. Before the 2009 season their professional license was taken over by the new club FC Volgograd. This was meant to allow FC to assume the name and identity of Rotor who were suffering off-field troubles, but Rotor survived and ended up playing simultaneously with the new FC in 2009, while Olimpia dropped into the Volgograd Oblast Championship. They stayed there until 2011, winning the title in 2010. With confusion ongoing over the future of the Rotor name and club", "id": "21936808" }, { "contents": "Sergei Rashevsky\n\n\nSergei Aleksandrovich Rashevsky (; born 13 June 1980) is a Russian football coach and a former player. He is an assistant coach with FC Rotor Volgograd. He made his debut in the Russian Premier League in 2001 for FC Rotor Volgograd, before moving to Ural in 2005. After several seasons playing for different clubs in Russia, Rashevsky signed with Volga in 2008. He played for the club for three years, before he returned to Ural in 2011. Since February 2014, he played for the Russian National Football League side Yenisey", "id": "8136441" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\nthe new Rotor Volgograd were promoted to the second-level Russian Football National League thanks to teams above them withdrawing. The regional Ministry of Sport invested 150 million roubles ($4.9m) in the club's playing budget for the 2010 campaign, but it ended in failure as Rotor were relegated in 17th place. Governor Brovko admitted that the transition to the higher level was made too quickly. Former club player Sergei Nechay took over management and steered the team to promotion as champions of their Second Division zone in 2011–12. This", "id": "264678" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\ntheir Western counterparts, and indeed Rotor were knocked out by all four of the French and Italian clubs they played. The exception came against England's Manchester United in 1995-96. Having drawn the home leg 0-0, Rotor raced into a 2-0 lead at Old Trafford before United scored their first goal. Rotor were seconds away from being the first European club to win at Old Trafford when United's goalkeeper Peter Schmeichel scored a famous equaliser, but the 2-2 draw meant Rotor progressed by the away", "id": "264674" }, { "contents": "Roman Pavlyuchenko\n\n\na 1-0 loss against Moscow on 5 April 1999. On 15 May 1999, Pavlyuchenko provided a double assist in a 2-1 win over Chita. In his first season, Pavlyuchenko made 31 appearance and scoring 11 goals. However, the club played was still relegated to the Second Division after the club was last place. Despite this, Pavlyuchenko was named 'Team of the top' junior division for the first version of the newspaper Sport Express. Pavlyuchenko moved to Rotor Volgograd in 2000, although the move was", "id": "3367203" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\ntheir professional licence entirely. Rotor's reserve side in the Russian Second Division, Rotor-2 Volgograd, became the club's first team and was renamed Rotor in 2006. In 2007 local businessman Oleg Mikheev acquired the club's main asset the Volgograd Central Stadium, and with it effective control over the club, but financial troubles continued and the team's performances in the Second Division declined. Matters came to a head in 2009. Russia had officially launched its bid for the FIFA World Cup 2018 and Volgograd city was in line for a", "id": "264676" }, { "contents": "1988 Soviet Cup Final\n\n\nThe 1988 Soviet Cup Final was a football match that took place at the Lenin's Central Stadium, Moscow on May 28, 1988. The match was the 47th Soviet Cup Final and it was contested by FC Metalist Kharkiv and FC Torpedo Moscow. The Soviet Cup winner Metalist qualified for the Cup Winners' Cup first round for the Soviet Union. The last year defending holders Dynamo Kyiv were eliminated in the second round of the competition by FC Rotor Volgograd (3:2, 0:2). For Metalist this was their second final total", "id": "158055" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\ngoals rule They went on to be defeated by eventual Runners-up Bordeaux in the second round. Full European results: In the 2000s, Rotor's results declined, and in 2004, the team finished last in the Russian Premier League. The club's owner Vladimir Goryunov, a member of the Duma and head of the parliamentary sports committee, explored options to save Rotor from relegation, such as expanding the Premier League to 20 teams. But in January 2005 Rotor were unable to make the required financial guarantees and so lost", "id": "264675" }, { "contents": "2018–19 Russian Football National League\n\n\n. Ararat Moscow was promoted from 2017–18 PFL, but were refused a license for the 2018–19 Russian National Football League, the club being subsequently dissolved. Zenit-2 Saint Petersburg, Rotor Volgograd, Luch Vladivostok, Tyumen and Fakel Voronezh were spared from relegation due to lack of teams enrolled for the 2018–19 season. Sakhalin Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk finished on the promotion place at the end of the 2017–18 PFL season, but refused to be promoted. Dynamo Saint Petersburg was moved from Saint Petersburg to Sochi and renamed as PFC Sochi. Olimpiyets Nizhny Novgorod", "id": "621376" }, { "contents": "Dinamo Volgograd\n\n\nDinamo Volgograd () is a Russian women's handball club from Volgograd. Founded in 1972 as Burevestnik Volgograd, it represented Rotor Volgograd following the collapse of the Soviet Union and was subsequently named Aqva before taking its current name in 2003. Dynamo is the most successful team in the Russian Super League with nine titles, and in the 2001-02 season it set an absolute record winning all the matches. It has also been fairly successful in international competitions with three titles: the 1995 Challenge Cup and Champions Trophy and the 2008", "id": "10627328" }, { "contents": "List of football clubs in Russia\n\n\nZelenodolsk — FC Prometey-Dinamo Saint Petersburg — FC Pskov — FC Pskov-2000 — FC Pskov-747 FC Radian-Baikal Irkutsk — FC Rassvet Troitskoye — FC Reformatsiya Abakan — FC Rekord Aleksandrov — FC Reutov — FC Ritm Alekseyevka — FC Ritm Belgorod — FC Roda Moscow — FC Rossia Moscow — FC Rostov — FC Rostselmash-2 Rostov-on-Don — FC Rostselmash Rostov-on-Don — FC Rotor-2 Mikhaylovka — FC Rotor-2 Volgograd — FC Rotor Volgograd — FC Rubin-2 Kazan — FC Rubin Kazan — FC Rubin-TAN Kazan — FC", "id": "14958458" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\n-autumn) Russian Amateur Football League, the fourth level overall. In the 2015 season Rotor won the Amateur League Chernozemye (South-West Region) division at the first attempt by 11 points, suffering only one defeat in 22 games. The 45,000-seater Pobeda Stadium is under construction on their old Central Stadium site, and it was reported in August 2015 that the first team are still interested in moving into the facility after the 2018 World Cup, which makes attaining a higher league status a priority. They were licensed for third", "id": "264680" }, { "contents": "2010–11 KHL season\n\n\nThe 2010–11 KHL season was the third season of the Kontinental Hockey League. It was held from 8 September 2010 and ended on 16 April 2011. The season started with the Opening Cup game between the last season's finalists, Ak Bars Kazan and UHC Dynamo, the new team that was created by merging last season's Western conference winner HC MVD with Dynamo Moscow. Salavat Yulaev Ufa won the Gagarin Cup and the Russian Championship after beating Atlant Moscow Oblast 4–1 in the play-off final series. Folding of Lada Togliatti Lada", "id": "10925021" }, { "contents": "1994 in Russian football\n\n\ntime at 2-2. Early stages of the Russian Cup 1994–95 were played later in the year. FC Spartak Moscow finished the group stage in third place, not qualifying for the semifinals. All the Russian participants were eliminated in 1993. FC Spartak Moscow qualified directly for the group stage. It did not qualify from the group, coming in third place. PFC CSKA Moscow were eliminated in the first round. FC Rotor Volgograd and FC Tekstilshchik Kamyshin were both eliminated by FC Nantes in the first and second round respectively,", "id": "17746833" }, { "contents": "Mikhail Osinov\n\n\nRussian Top Division side Rotor Volgograd. In 2001, Osinov was transferred to FC Rostov and stayed there for 9 years, suffering a relegation and helping the \"yellow-blues\" to return to the Premier League. He also holds the club record for league appearances with 239 games. In 2010, he returned to Yekaterinburg to play in the Russian First Division. In 2011, Osinov went to a lower league joining MITOS Novocherkassk of the Russian Second Division. On 11 September 2011, in a league game against Olimpia Gelendzhik Osinov", "id": "12015633" }, { "contents": "1990 Soviet Top League\n\n\non 1 March with the game between Dnipro and Rotor and lasted until 20 October 1990. The season was won by FC Dynamo Kyiv. The league was reduced to 13 after first Georgian clubs (Dinamo Tbilisi and Guria Lanchkhuti) and then Žalgiris withdrew from the Soviet Top League. Lokomotiv Moscow and the last placed Zenit Leningrad of the 1989 Soviet Top League were relegated to the 1990 Soviet First League. Lokomotiv returned to the Soviet First League after two seasons absence, while Zenit was relegated for the first time since being promoted back", "id": "831394" }, { "contents": "2010–11 KHL season\n\n\nTogliatti dropped out of the league and joined the Russian Major League instead, after failing to meet the league's financial requirements. Merger of HC MVD and Dynamo Moscow On 30 April 2010, it was announced that HC MVD would merge with Dynamo Moscow to form UHC Dynamo, which for the time being will play the majority of their games at Megasport Arena in Moscow, while also attempting to play some games in Balashikha. The current plan is to have a new, large and modernized arena constructed in Balashikha by 2012. Expansion", "id": "10925022" }, { "contents": "Dzmitry Rawneyka\n\n\nDzmitry Vasilevich Rawneyka (; ; born 13 May 1980) is a former Belarusian professional footballer. He is currently af part of the coaching staff of Belarus. Born in Grodno, Rawneyka began playing football in FC Neman Grodno's youth system. He joined the senior side and made his Belarusian Premier League debut in 1998. He had a spell in the Russian Premier League with FC Torpedo Moscow and FC Rotor Volgograd but has spent most of his playing career with Neman Grodno. Rawneyka has made eight appearances for the Belarus national football team", "id": "13999154" }, { "contents": "BC Krasny Oktyabr\n\n\nthe highest stage for Russian clubs. In the first season of Krasny Oktyabr in the VTB United League, it qualified for the playoffs by finishing in the 6th place in Group B. Also, European powerhouse CSKA Moscow was defeated by Krasny Oktyabr in the quarterfinals of the 2013–14 Russian Cup tournament. On August 30, 2016, the team was forced to leave the United League, because its home arena wasn't approved to host tournaments. The club usually played its home games at the 3,700 seat Volgograd Sports Palace of Trade Unions,", "id": "8073501" }, { "contents": "Igor Lediakhov\n\n\n-Don. In 1990, he joined FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk. After impressing with FC Rotor Volgograd, Lediakhov was bought by Soviet Union giants FC Spartak Moscow, being essential as the capital team conquered three consecutive league titles, which included the inaugural edition of the competition, as the player scored in double digits in two of the three seasons. In the 1994 summer, 26-year-old Lediakhov moved abroad, signing with Spain's Sporting de Gijón. Even though he netted nearly 50 overall goals for the club (17 in four", "id": "21673652" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\nnew stadium - provided they had a professional club to fill it after the tournament. Rotor, facing legal action and a transfer embargo due to their financial status, were not reliable candidates. The government created a new entity, FC Volgograd, intending to assume the Rotor name. In fact Rotor managed to co-exist with the new FC for the first half of the 2009 season, before Mikheev suspended operations and the government took ownership of the club and stadium from him. The two clubs were merged into one, and", "id": "264677" }, { "contents": "FC Lokomotiv Moscow\n\n\npoints after Gameweek 30. The game was played at Dynamo Stadium in front of a sold-out crowd. Lokomotiv took an early lead thanks a low drive from captain Dmitry Loskov, and eventually the goal turned out to be enough for Lokomotiv to claim the first title in the club's history. Two years later, Lokomotiv again won the Russian Premier League, edging city rivals CSKA by a single point; Lokomotiv defeated Shinnik Yaroslavl 0–2 in Yaroslavl, a week after CSKA fell to city rivals Dynamo at home. In 2005", "id": "10933606" }, { "contents": "1995–96 Manchester United F.C. season\n\n\nactually went top of the league after a goalless draw at Sheffield Wednesday towards the end of September, only for the Tynesiders to return to the top of the table soon after. Then came Cantona's comeback on 1 October, when he scored a penalty to equalise and hold Liverpool to a 2–2 draw Old Trafford. The autumn saw United suffer first-hurdle exits to York City in the League Cup and Rotor Volgograd in the UEFA Cup, although United did preserve their 39-year home unbeaten record in European competitions thanks to a late", "id": "9981632" }, { "contents": "1994–95 Russian Cup\n\n\nDynamo Moscow: Valeri Kleimyonov (GK), Yuri Kovtun (DF), Sergey Timofeev (DF), Andrei Chernyshov (DF), Aleksandr Borodkin (DF), Aleksei Filippov (DF), Vagiz Khidiyatullin (DF), Andrei Ivanov (DF), Denis Klyuyev (MF), Dmitri Cheryshev (FW), Igor Simutenkov (FW), Kirill Rybakov (FW), Yuri Tishkov (FW). FC Rotor Volgograd: Volodymyr Gerashchenko (DF), Aleksandr Yeshchenko (MF), Konstantin Kulik (", "id": "5392312" }, { "contents": "FC Olimpia Volgograd\n\n\nFC Olimpia Volgograd () is a Russian football team from the large city of Volgograd. They are the second- or third-largest club in the city after the famous Rotor Volgograd. From their founding in 1989 until 1997, the club participated in various youth leagues. Some time between 1993 and 1994 the Volgograd native Leonid Slutsky, future coach of the Russian national team, joined the training staff. Among the Olimpia youth players developed under Slutsky were Denis Kolodin, Roman Adamov, Andrei Bochkov, Maksim Burchenko and Aleksei Zhdanov,", "id": "21936806" }, { "contents": "Peter Schmeichel\n\n\na 2001 Reuters poll, he beat Lev Yashin and Gordon Banks to be named the finest keeper in football history. Despite being a goalkeeper, he would run into the attack on corner kicks if his team was behind. The sight of him going up for the corner was a great distraction to opposing defenders. He scored a goal in this fashion, for Man United, in a UEFA Cup match against Rotor Volgograd at Old Trafford in September 1995. He scored in the last minutes of the game to tie the match 2–2", "id": "19820283" }, { "contents": "Spartak Gogniyev\n\n\nSpartak Arturovich Gogniyev (, ; born 19 January 1981) is a Russian professional football coach and a former player. He is the manager of FC Alania Vladikavkaz. He made his debut in the Russian Premier League in 2000 for FC Dynamo Moscow. He played two games in the UEFA Cup 2000–01 for FC Dynamo Moscow and two games (scoring one goal) in the UEFA Champions League 2003–04 qualification round for PFC CSKA Moscow. In August 2018, it was announced that Spartak Gogniyev joined new FC Urozhay Krasnodar, but this was", "id": "7903306" }, { "contents": "Georgi Yartsev\n\n\nat the time, gave Yartsev a sabre as a birthday gift in a sideline pre-game ceremony. Yartsev got another head coach position soon enough, when he joined Rotor Volgograd in January 2000. However, he could not do much with that team either and was fired in June of same year. For the next 3 years he was the manager of the Spartak Moscow veterans team. In August 2003, Russia was very close to elimination from their Euro 2004 preliminary qualification group and the coach Valery Gazzayev, was fired.", "id": "15861320" }, { "contents": "FCSB\n\n\nUEFA ordered Steaua to play two home games of the Europa League behind closed doors due to their fans displaying racist banners in a second qualifying round match against Hungarian side Újpest. Three further incidents occurred in the 2014–15 season, with the club fined and ordered to play further games in an empty stadium after displays of racist banners in matches against Dynamo Kyiv, Ludogorets Razgrad and Strømsgodset. Steaua's most important rivalry is the one against Dinamo București. \"Eternul derby\" (\"The Eternal Derby\") has been the leading Romanian", "id": "19491084" }, { "contents": "2010 Russian First Division\n\n\n), Mordovia Saransk (Ural-Povolzhye) and Irtysh Omsk (East). Due to financial difficulties, Vityaz Podolsk who placed 11th in 2009, decided to give up their spot in the Russian First Division and participate in the Russian Second Division in 2010. Pending licensing, their place was taken by FC Volgograd who placed 3rd in the Russian Second Division (South Zone) in 2009. For the occasion the management decided to change the name of the club from FC Volgograd to Rotor Volgograd. FC Alania Vladikavkaz were promoted", "id": "7947305" }, { "contents": "Russian Women's Handball Super League\n\n\nThe Russian Women's Handball Superleague is the premier women's handball competition in Russia. Dinamo Volgograd, formerly known as Rotor and Akva, is the championship's most successful club as of 2019 with 12 titles. It also holds the record for consecutive wins, with six titles in a row. Currently eleven clubs take part in the competition, with the top eight playing the championship play-offs. The Russian Championship's leading teams have been successful in EHF's competitions. Zvezda Zvenigorod won the Champions League and the EHF Cup", "id": "8475941" }, { "contents": "Pavel Pogrebnyak\n\n\n's relegation, Pogrebnyak was linked with a move away from the club but did not leave. He scored his first goals in more than eight months after netting twice in a 3–1 win over Derby County in September 2013. On 27 August 2015 Pogrebnyak moved back to Russia, signing a three-year contract with Dynamo Moscow. Dynamo released him on 25 January 2018, citing disciplinary reasons, such as attending a Juventus - Inter Milan game in Italy on the same day Dynamo played a league game and participating in the annual exhibition", "id": "2040879" }, { "contents": "1996 in Russian football\n\n\nplayers (Stanislav Cherchesov, Viktor Onopko, Vasili Kulkov and Sergei Yuran) who played in the group stage where Spartak did not lose a single point left the club to move to Western European clubs in the winter before the quarterfinals. Nicolas Ouédec was instrumental again, after scoring 7 goals in 4 games against the Russian teams in the 1994–95 UEFA Cup, this time he scored 3 goals in two games against Spartak. FC Dynamo Moscow were eliminated in the quarterfinals. All the Russian teams were eliminated in 1995. FC Alania Vladikavkaz", "id": "22219347" }, { "contents": "Kamil Mullin\n\n\nKamil Shamilevich Mullin (, ; born 5 January 1994) is a Russian professional football player who plays for FC Rotor Volgograd. He plays as a forward. Mullin joined Lokomotiv academy at 16 years, and two years later made it to the youth squad. In total, he played 53 games for Lokomotiv U21 and scored 23 goals.br He made his debut for Lokomotiv first team in the 2012–13 Russian Cup game vs Torpedo Armavir on 26 September 2012.br In March 2013, Mullin for the first time was included into team sheet for the", "id": "2605760" }, { "contents": "FC Dynamo Moscow\n\n\nthe 2008 season, Dynamo finished third, qualifying for the 2009–10 Champions League preliminary round. On 29 July 2009, Dynamo recorded a 0–1 away win against Celtic at Celtic Park, which gave them a strong advantage going into the second leg. However, Celtic comfortably defeated Dynamo 0–2 in Moscow to progress, sending Dynamo into the Europa League play-off round where the club was eliminated by Bulgarian side CSKA Sofia after a 0–0 away draw in Sofia and a 1–2 home defeat in Moscow. In 2012, after a poor start", "id": "8644502" }, { "contents": "2013–14 Russian Premier League\n\n\n2014/15 season. The 13th and 14th Premier League teams will play the 4th and 3rd FNL teams respectively in two playoff games with the winner securing a Premier League spot for 2014/15 season. On 11 May 2014, the game between FC Zenit Saint Petersburg and FC Dynamo Moscow was interrupted in the 86th minute with Dynamo leading 4-2 when Zenit fans ran out of the stands. At first they stood behind the goal line, when the referee decided to take the teams off the field into the dressing rooms and teams began to", "id": "9911963" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\nthe third tier) in 1980 and 1981, and were successful in the promotion playoffs the second time. In 1988 Rotor finished second in the Soviet First League, earning promotion to the Soviet Top League. They finished 13th and last in the downsized 1990 competition after the Georgian and Lithuanian teams withdrew, and the decision was made to relegate them. However they bounced straight back as champions of the First League in 1991, thus becoming founder members of the new Russian Top Division after the USSR collapsed. In the mid-1990s, Rotor", "id": "264672" }, { "contents": "Bibras Natkho\n\n\n, Natkho scored two goals in the Champions League qualifier against Dynamo Kyiv and Lyon, who they eliminated Kazan out of the competitions and the club would play in the Europa League. Then in the Europa League campaign, Natkho scored twice in six matches in the Group Stage of the Europa League against Tottenham Hostpur and Shamrock Rovers. Natkho performance was praised for his role during the season and helped the club win the Russian Cup after playing a vital of assisting the winning goal, in a 1–0 win over Dynamo Moscow. Natkho would", "id": "21438585" }, { "contents": "Danil Lipovoy\n\n\nDanil Nikolayevich Lipovoy (; born 22 September 1999) is a Russian football player who plays for FC Dynamo Moscow. He made his debut in the Russian Professional Football League for FC Dynamo-2 Moscow on 2 April 2017 in a game against FC Dynamo Saint Petersburg. He made his debut for the main squad of FC Dynamo Moscow on 26 September 2018 in a Russian Cup game against FC Torpedo Moscow. He made Russian Premier League debut for Dynamo on 30 November 2018 in a game against FC Rubin Kazan, as a 64th-minute substitute", "id": "429351" }, { "contents": "FC Amkar Perm\n\n\n, having lost their Spring matches to Kuban Krasnodar (1–2) and Spartak Moscow (0–2). A series without a win followed the victory over Alania and after the Dynamo match Amkar lost to Terek Grozny (1–2) and Lokomotiv Moscow (2–4). After another devastating defeat from Kuban (0–4), followed by a victory over their direct rivals Rostov (3–2), and a goalless draw with Zenit, the club retained the right to play in the Premier League. In June 2013, the club opted not to", "id": "5030824" }, { "contents": "FC Shakhtar Donetsk\n\n\nminute Fedor Manov opened score to Donetsk team goals. Final score is 4:1 in favor of the hosts.\" Nonetheless, the selective job conducted constructively by the club's administration allowed the club to compete successfully at the top level by the end of the 1930s. During the \"war championship\" of 1941, which was interrupted unexpectedly, the club defeated Soviet champions Dynamo Moscow and after about ten games were placed in fifth in the league. In the last game of that championship, played on 24 June, two days after", "id": "14103740" }, { "contents": "Oleg Veretennikov\n\n\nOleg Aleksandrovich Veretennikov (; born 5 January 1970) is a professional Russian association football coach and a former international footballer. He manages Rotor-2 Volograd. He is the top goalscorer in the history of Russian Premier League, and holds several other goalscoring records. Most of Veretennikov's successes have come with SC Rotor Volgograd, for whom he played in 1992–1999. During that time he scored 143 goals, which makes him the best goalscorer in the Russian Premier League history (the next best goalscorer, Dmitry Loskov, has 109 goals as of", "id": "21553966" }, { "contents": "Sergei Pareiko\n\n\nSergei Pareiko (born 31 January 1977) is a retired Estonian footballer. He is currently the sporting director of Estonian football club Levadia. Pareiko played as a goalkeeper in Estonian, Russian and Polish top tiers. He made a total of 65 appearances for the Estonia national football team. In Estonia, Pareiko played for Tallinna Sadam and Levadia Maardu, before moving to Russia in 2001, when he signed with Rotor Volgograd. After Rotor were relegated, Pareiko moved to Tom Tomsk. At the end of 2009 season Pareiko was named", "id": "11658849" }, { "contents": "FC Dinamo Tbilisi\n\n\nIn this period Dinamo won the Soviet Cup for the first time in their history, convincingly defeating Armenian side Ararat Yerevan 3–0 in the final, with goals scored by David Kipiani, Piruz Kanteladze and Revaz Chelebadze. In 1978 the club won the Soviet Top League for a second time. Next year Dinamo won the Soviet Cup again by defeating Russian side Dynamo Moscow in the final. In 1979 the club played its first match in the UEFA European Cup tournament. In the first round Dinamo knocked out English side Liverpool, at the", "id": "10097459" }, { "contents": "Romelu Lukaku\n\n\nlater at home to West Ham. Lukaku scored twice in a 4–0 win, becoming the fourth Manchester United player to score two goals on his Premier League debut for the club. On 17 September, Lukaku scored United's third goal in a 4–0 win over his former club Everton, with Lukaku running over towards Everton fans and cupping his ears during his goal celebration in response to being booed throughout the game. On 27 September, Lukaku scored twice in a 4–1 UEFA Champions League win over CSKA Moscow, taking his tally to", "id": "1117930" }, { "contents": "Dynamo Dresden\n\n\none Game behind closed doors and one away game without own fan support. Virtual tickets were offered to reduce the financial loss, creating \"the first sold-out Ghost Game in history\". The 2012–13 season started poorly for Dynamo and Ralf Loose was sacked in December 2012 after a 3–0 defeat to VfL Bochum with the team in 15th place. He was replaced by Peter Pacult, returning to the club after more than six years. Dynamo's form improved after Pacult's arrival but the team still finished the league as 16th", "id": "11366777" }, { "contents": "Aleksandr Tashayev\n\n\nAleksandr Mikhailovich Tashayev (; born 23 June 1994) is a Russian professional football player who plays as a left midfielder for Spartak Moscow. He made his professional debut on 11 December 2014 for FC Dynamo Moscow in a 2014–15 UEFA Europa League group game against PSV Eindhoven. He also played in the Round of 16 away game against Napoli. On 6 July 2018, he signed a contract with the cross-city rivals FC Spartak Moscow, after buying out own contract from Dynamo and becoming a free agent. Dynamo unsuccessfully sued to deem", "id": "13552247" }, { "contents": "Dynamo Moscow Bandy Club\n\n\nthe end of the 2004–05 season, almost all players of the for a decade dominant Vodnik signed up for Dynamo Moscow, resulting in an immediate Russian League title in 2006. Dynamo Moscow won the World Cup for the first time in 2006, defeating Zorky in the final. The 2006 domestic title was followed by another four consecutive Russian championship titles and as one of the dominating teams in the following years too, until 2017, when they missed the championship play-off, only coming in at eighth place in the regular season", "id": "1825162" }, { "contents": "Handball Club Lada\n\n\nHandball Club Lada is a Russian women's handball club from Tolyatti playing in the Russian Super League. Founded in 1998, Lada soon became the leading team in the Super League winning five championships in a row between 2002 and 2006 and a sixth one in 2008. It also built itself a name in Europe winning the 2002 Cup Winners' Cup in its international debut and reaching the final of the 2007 Champions League and the next edition's semifinals. The following three seasons were less successful, with Dynamo Volgograd retrieving the leading position", "id": "9114247" }, { "contents": "Omari Tetradze\n\n\n– Tetradze. Later he considered restoring his original surname, but decided it would cause too many problems. At club level, he played for Dinamo Tbilisi, FC Dynamo Moscow, Alania Vladikavkaz (where he won a Russian league championship medal in 1995), AS Roma, and PAOK FC (Greece). He played for Russia at international level, and appeared at World Cup 1994 and Euro 1996. At the latter tournament, he played superbly in each of Russia's three games despite the team's poor results, and", "id": "17559889" }, { "contents": "FC Girondins de Bordeaux\n\n\nclub was relegated just two years thereafter. In 1992, however, \"Les Girondins\" won that year's Ligue 2 title, thus being elevated to the top tier of French football. In the emergence of young and exciting players such as playmaker Zinedine Zidane, striker Christophe Dugarry and left back Bixente Lizarazu, the club ascended even higher to win the UEFA Intertoto Cup in 1995. With this talented trio, the club defeated FC Rotor Volgograd (the 1995 King's Cup Winner), Real Betis, Milan and Slavia Prague", "id": "10933676" }, { "contents": "Yuriy Hudymenko\n\n\nYuriy Arkadiyovych Hudymenko (; born 3 October 1966) is a former Kyrgyz-born Ukrainian professional footballer. Hudymenko is a product of the main Bishkek sports school and later was accepted to the main republican club of Kyrgyzia, FC Alga Bishkek. In 1990 he made his debut in the Soviet Top League playing for FC Dnepr Dnepropetrovsk, but failed to score any goals in domestic competitions, but did score a goal against Heart of Midlothian F.C. in the 1990-91 UEFA Cup. Next year Hudymenko joined recently relegated FC Rotor Volgograd that", "id": "11637137" }, { "contents": "Valery Gazzaev\n\n\na second-place finish at the end of the season. However, Gazzaev was left behind in the first league in Spartak Ordzhonikidze, as he wasn't one of the main players of the SKA Rostov-on-Don. In the Soviet Top League, Gazzaev played in Lokomotiv Moscow, Dynamo Moscow, and Dinamo Tbilisi. Gazzaev is a Soviet Cup winner with Dynamo Moscow in 1984. During his career he scored 89 goals in 283 matches in Soviet Top League, and was the top goal scorer of the UEFA Cup", "id": "3537187" }, { "contents": "FC Amkar Perm\n\n\nAmkar was in third place in the standings, one point behind second-placed Spartak Moscow and six adrift of leaders Rubin Kazan. After the break, one of Amkar's team leaders, Vladimir Gabulov, and the captain, Aleksei Popov, left the team to join Dynamo Moscow and Rubin Kazan respectively. Two matches in a row on the \"equator\" of the Championship Amkar could have topped the league table but was unable to beat Tom Tomsk and Spartak Nalchik at home. On 16 November, after beating Tom in Tomsk", "id": "5030813" }, { "contents": "FC Rubin Kazan\n\n\nfixed after selling in Volgograd \"Rotor\" team leaders Oleg Nechaev and Rustem Khuzin (but soon returned to \"Rubin\" till the end of the season on loan). In the end the season Kazan finished on 8th place, only losing a point to Nizhnekamsk \"Neftechimik\" and dropped into the second league. The following year, 1994, coaches Zadikashvili and Semenov assemble a team literally bit by bit. Because of the continuing financial problems from the last season in the team left only 6 players: Grishin, Danilin,", "id": "19815661" }, { "contents": "Nikita Chernov\n\n\nNikita Aleksandrovich Chernov (; born 14 January 1996) is a Russian professional football player who plays as a centre-back for Krylia Sovetov Samara and Russia national football team. Born in Volzhsky, Volgograd Oblast, Chernov began his career at hometown team FC Energiya Volzhsky before joining CSKA Moscow in 2009. He made his professional debut on 24 September 2014 in a Russian Cup game against FC Khimik Dzerzhinsk. He also played in the next Russian Cup round against FC Torpedo Moscow on 29 October. On 30 July 2019, Chernov moved from", "id": "503700" }, { "contents": "KF Skënderbeu Korçë\n\n\nBeşiktaş, Lokomotiv Moscow and Sporting Clube de Portugal. In matchday 1, their first ever group stage game, the club was defeated at home 0–1 by Beşiktaş after a hard fight between the two sides. In the next matchday, they lost 0–2 to Lokomotiv Moscow in Moscow. Their worst defeat in the European competition yet came the next matchday, a storming 1–5 loss to Sporting in the away leg at Lisbon, but also had the Albanian side scoring their first goal in the UEFA Europa League group stages. In the home", "id": "1409695" }, { "contents": "FC Dynamo Kyiv\n\n\nand Maccabi Tel Aviv F.C. Dynamo finished in second place with 11 points after a spectacular performance and a memorable 0–2 in Porto. However, Dynamo was punished by UEFA for a racist incident in the home game against Chelsea where four black men were attacked in the stands by Dynamo fans. Despite this, Dynamo reached the round of 16 in the Champions League for the first time since 2000, where it was drawn with Manchester City. Dynamo was eliminated 1–3 on aggregate but managed to hold an impressive 0–0 draw in Manchester. Dynamo", "id": "18770189" }, { "contents": "Konstantin Kovalenko\n\n\nKonstantin Valeryevich Kovalenko (; ; born 2 February 1975) is a Belarusian and Russian professional footballer who plays for resurrected FC Kuban Krasnodar. He made his professional debut in the Soviet Second League in 1991 for FC Kuban Barannikovsky. He played 1 game in the 1996–97 UEFA Cup for FC Spartak Moscow. His brother Andrei Kovalenko also played football professionally. On 27 October 2008 he punched referee Sergei Timofeyev in the face in the Russian Second Division game FC Sochi-04 - FC Olimpia Volgograd. He was banned from football for a year. Spartak", "id": "1118096" }, { "contents": "Clinton N'Jie\n\n\nDimitri Payet and scored two goals in a 3–0 win. On 17 September, he scored both the goals in the away win over Amiens. On 3 May 2018, he played in the Europa League semi-finals away to FC Red Bull Salzburg as Marseille played out a 2–1 away loss but a 3–2 aggregate win to secure a place in the 2018 UEFA Europa League Final. On 25 July 2019, Njie signed a 4-year contract with Russian Premier League club Dynamo Moscow. N'Jie scored 44 minutes into his Cameroon debut against the", "id": "16847587" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\ntime they were able to consolidate in the National League, finishing 9th and then 14th. But financial troubles continued. A Ministry of Sport investigation found evidence of financial misconduct by club management along with substantial overspending, and regional Governor Andrey Bocharov announced after the 2013 season that government support for Rotor was being withdrawn. The club dropped back into the Second Division (renamed the Professional Football League) for the first half of the 2014–15 (autumn-spring) season, then withdrew in order to immediately transfer to the 2015 (spring", "id": "264679" }, { "contents": "2001 FC Anzhi Makhachkala season\n\n\nThe 2001 FC Anzhi Makhachkala season was the 2nd season that the club played in the Russian Top Division, the highest tier of football in Russia, following their promotion from the National Football League in 1999. They finished the season in 13th, were runners-up in the 2001-02 cup and reached the Sixth Round of the 2002-03 cup losing to Dynamo Moscow, and were knocked out of the UEFA Cup at the First Round stage after a 0-1 defeat to Rangers over one leg in Warsaw, Poland", "id": "4897180" }, { "contents": "FC Dynamo-2 Moscow\n\n\nFC Dynamo-2 Moscow () was a Russian football team from Moscow. It was the farm-club for FC Dynamo Moscow. In 2016, it was revived after the parent club, Dynamo, was relegated from the Russian Football Premier League (which holds its own competition for the Under-21 teams of the Premier League clubs) and licensed to play in the third-tier Russian Professional Football League for the 2016–17 season. Majority of the squad participated in the 2016–17 UEFA Youth League as well. On 17 June 2017, the parent", "id": "19064817" }, { "contents": "Mikhail Markosov\n\n\nDivision South Zone, scoring 27 goals, a feat no one in the entire Second Division surpassed. In the 2010 season, he played for FC Rotor Volgograd and came back to FC Dynamo Stavropol the next season. Scoring 10 goals in his first 10 matches for Dynamo, Markosov was transferred in the summer transfer window of the 2011-12 season to FC Ufa. From April until June 2019 Markosov played for FC Kuban Krasnodar, scored 7 goals in 11 matches. He joined the Armenia national football team in 2013. Markosov", "id": "12122198" }, { "contents": "1993 in Russian football\n\n\ntheir group campaign and finished it without much success, only gaining 2 points in 6 games, coming in last in the group and suffering a 0-6 defeat against Marseille. They could not play their home games in Moscow due to the lack of a stadium meeting the Champions League standards at the time. FC Spartak Moscow reached the semifinals, tying the best European result in club's history. FC Spartak Moscow qualified for the group stage and continued to play in the group into the 1994. FC Torpedo Moscow went out", "id": "21710373" }, { "contents": "2002 in Russian football\n\n\nrespective Second Division zones: The Russian Cup was won by CSKA Moscow, who beat Zenit Saint Petersburg 2–0 in the final at the Luzhniki Stadium. Lokomotiv Moscow participated in the third round of the UEFA Cup 2001-02, but were knocked out by Hapoel Tel Aviv FC who won 3–1 on aggregate. Krylya Sovetov Samara played in the UEFA Intertoto Cup 2002. After defeating Dinaburg FC in the second round they lost to Willem II Tilburg on away goals. Lokomotiv Moscow's victory over Grazer AK ensured there are two Russian clubs", "id": "11619883" }, { "contents": "FC Dynamo Moscow\n\n\nFC Dynamo Moscow (Dinamo Moscow, FC Dinamo Moskva, ) is a Russian football club based in Moscow. Dynamo has returned to the Russian Premier League for the 2017–18 season after one season in the second-tier Russian Football National League. Dynamo was the only club that had always played in the top tier of Soviet football (along with Dynamo Kyiv) and of Russian football from the end of the Soviet era until they were relegated in 2016. Despite this, it has never won the modern Russian Premier League title and", "id": "8644495" }, { "contents": "Nikita Lyamin\n\n\nIn 2004, he played three season in the farm team and two more seasons in the main team for Dynamo Moscow. Dynamo Moscow became champions at the 2007–08 Russian Volleyball Super League, but Lyamin due to low game practice quit the club. Lyamin moved to Nizhny Novgorod and became captain of Guberniya, which went on debuting in the B-division of the highest national league. In the two years, Guberniya could enter the Super League, and in the 2012–13 it became one of the leading clubs in Russia. Guberniya qualified", "id": "8669287" }, { "contents": "Leonid Slutsky (football coach)\n\n\nLeonid Viktorovich Slutsky (; born 4 May 1971) is a Russian professional football coach and former player who is the manager of Eredivisie club Vitesse. Previously, he has been in charge of Olimpia Volgograd, Uralan Elista, Moscow, Krylia Sovetov, CSKA Moscow, Russia and Hull City. Slutsky was born in Volgograd. Slutsky's playing career with FC Zvezda Gorodishche ended at just 19 years of age. He had to retire due to a knee injury sustained after falling out of a tree while rescuing a neighbour's cat. Slutsky", "id": "11710104" }, { "contents": "Yuri Kovtun\n\n\nduring the season so two top teams were interested in him at the same time, it's Dynamo and Spartak Moscow. In 1993, Kovtun chose Dynamo Moscow and was their key player for years, until his move to Spartak in 1999. While the only Kovtun's honour during 6 years in Dynamo was Russian Cup in 1995, he could get 3 titles in 1999, 2000 and 2001 after joining Spartak. Moreover, he took part in numerous UEFA Champions League games and found himself regular Russian national football team player. Kovtun", "id": "2071460" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\n-tier Russian Professional Football League for the 2016–17 season. They won their zone of the PFL in the 2016–17 season and were promoted to the second-level Russian National Football League for 2017–18. Despite ending the 2017–18 season in the relegation zone, the club stayed in the league for the 2018–19 season as another team that finished above them in the table failed to obtain the league license. As of 5 July 2019, according to the FNL website. Had international caps for their respective countries. Players whose name is listed in", "id": "264681" }, { "contents": "Dmitri Khokhlov\n\n\nDmitri Valeryevich Khokhlov (, born 22 December 1975) is a Russian football manager and a former player. He is the manager of FC Dynamo Moscow. He played as a holding midfielder or playmaker. He played for PFC CSKA Moscow and FC Lokomotiv Moscow in native Russia, having abroad spells with PSV Eindhoven (Netherlands) and Real Sociedad (Spain). During his time with FC Lokomotiv Moscow he participated in their memorable 2003–04 UEFA Champions League campaign, scoring third goal in the 3–0 home victory against Internazionale. He played for", "id": "19054427" }, { "contents": "Racism in association football\n\n\nagainst CSKA Moscow in Russia. The club's stadium was partially closed as punishment. Touré suggested that black players might boycott the 2018 FIFA World Cup, to be held in Russia, if racism continued in the country. In September 2014, Dynamo Moscow defender Christopher Samba was racially abused playing in the Moscow derby against Torpedo Moscow. As a result, Torpedo were forced to close part of their stadium, although Samba was also banned for two games for swearing at the racist fans. In a friendly match (Russia vrs France", "id": "21349703" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\nTraktor Stalingrad to national prominence. Traktor were champions of the new fourth-level Group G in 1937, and were then promoted straight to the highest-level Group A as it expanded from 9 clubs to 26. They remained at the top level until 1950. Rotor then spent three decades at the top regional level, although the creation of the Supreme League in 1970 pushed their league from the second level overall down to the third. They gradually improved throughout the 1970s and finally won Zone III of the Soviet Second League (", "id": "264671" }, { "contents": "WPC Dynamo Moscow\n\n\nWPC Dynamo Moscow () is a Russian men's water polo club, that is part of the traditional Moscow-based multi-sports club Dynamo. Dynamo won seven Soviet Championships between 1955 and 1962, and in 1964 it was the first team to represent the in the newly European Champions Cup, ranking second behind Partizan. In 1968 and 1969 the team won two more national championships, and it also reached the 1969 European Cup's final, lost to Mladost. For the next fifteen years Dynamo didn't win any more", "id": "18685765" }, { "contents": "Kyle Hines\n\n\ngreat Olympiacos comeback in 4th quarter, led by Vassilis Spanoulis. CSKA Moscow eventually won the EuroLeague third place game, after defeating Fenerbahçe, by a score of 86–80. In his second EuroLeague season with CSKA Moscow, Hines averaged a career-low 6.8 points and 4.3 rebounds per game, over 30 games played. CSKA Moscow finished the season by winning the VTB United League, after eliminating Khimki with a 3–0 series sweep in the League's finals series. On June 17, 2015, he signed a two-year contract", "id": "14695455" }, { "contents": "Miroslav Raičević\n\n\nfinal decisive shot in the very last seconds of the final game against Prokom Trefl Sopot. He also won the Greek Cup with Aris, in the year 2004. He has also played with Red Star Belgrade of the Adriatic League during the 2005–06 season. He won the Serbian Cup with Red Star that season. In the 2006–07 season, he played with the Russian Super League club Dynamo Moscow. During summer of 2007, he left Dynamo Moscow and joined the Italian League club Eldo Napoli. He then left Napoli and moved back", "id": "13596698" } ]

[ { "contents": "1996 in Russian football\n\n\nwas knocked out in the qualifying round. FC Lokomotiv Moscow went out in the second round. PFC CSKA Moscow, FC Dynamo Moscow and FC Torpedo-Luzhniki Moscow were eliminated in the first round after going through the qualifying round. FC Alania Vladikavkaz went out in the first round after going to the UEFA Cup after failing in the qualification for the Champions League. FC Spartak Moscow went out in the second round. Russian clubs participated in the Intertoto Cup for the first time. FC Rotor Volgograd, FC KAMAZ-Chally Naberezhnye", "id": "22219348" }, { "contents": "1995 in Russian football\n\n\nthe Russian Cup 1995–96 were played later in the year. All the Russian participants were eliminated in 1994. FC Spartak Moscow won every game in their group, qualifying for the quarterfinals. FC Dynamo Moscow advanced through the first two rounds, qualifying to play in the quarterfinals next spring. FC Spartak-Alania Vladikavkaz and FC Lokomotiv Moscow were eliminated in the first round by strong opponents (even though Lokomotiv very unexpectedly beat FC Bayern in Munich in the first game). FC Rotor Volgograd eliminated Manchester United F.C. in the first round", "id": "18335625" }, { "contents": "Maksim Nenakhov\n\n\nMaksim Maksimovich Nenakhov (; born 13 December 1998) is a Russian football player who plays for FC Rotor Volgograd. He made his debut in the Russian Professional Football League for FC Dynamo-2 Moscow on 20 July 2016 in a game against FC Tekstilshchik Ivanovo. On 19 January 2018, he was loaned to FC Tyumen until the end of the 2017–18 season. On 14 June 2018, he moved on another loan for the 2018–19 season to FC SKA-Khabarovsk. On 18 June 2019, he signed a 2-year contract with FC Rotor Volgograd", "id": "6983587" }, { "contents": "Almir Kayumov\n\n\nAlmir Izmailovich Kayumov (; 30 December 1964 – 7 August 2013) was a Russian football player and referee. Kayumov played for FC Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk, FC Lada Togliatti, Spartak Moscow, Rotor Volgograd, SKA Rostov-on-Don, in Russia, the Daewoo Royals in South Korea, and Kuopion Palloseura in Finland. He played 6 games in the UEFA Cup 1986–87 for FC Spartak Moscow. On November 9, 2009, it was reported that Kayumov attempted to commit suicide by jumping out of his apartment window. Police negotiators talked", "id": "14510549" }, { "contents": "Ruslan Ishkinin\n\n\nRuslan Kamilyevich Ishkinin (; born 14 June 1974) is a former Russian professional footballer. He made his professional debut in the Russian Second Division in 1992 for FC Dynamo-2 Moscow. The most memorable match of his career was played on 14 June 1995. His team FC Dynamo Moscow was playing FC Rotor Volgograd in the final game of the Russian Cup. Dynamo was decimated by injuries and several reserve players, including Ishkinin, were called up for the game. With 5 minutes to go in regulation and the score of 0–0, Ishkinin", "id": "2479621" }, { "contents": "1997 in Russian football\n\n\nthe year. Russian teams were eliminated in 1996. FC Spartak Moscow were eliminated in the second qualifying round and went on to the UEFA Cup. FC Lokomotiv Moscow qualified for the quarterfinals stage that was played in 1998. FC Spartak Moscow qualified for the quarterfinals stage that was played in 1998. FC Rotor Volgograd reached the second round. FC Alania Vladikavkaz went out in the first round. The goal in the stadium was measured before the game and turned out to be 2.46 meters high instead of regulation 2.44. The referee decided", "id": "20500131" }, { "contents": "2012–13 Russian Premier League\n\n\naltogether if the game is awarded to Dynamo. According to the police, the main suspect is a female fan who was arrested after the game. The criminal investigation was opened on the charge of hooliganism. On 22 November, Russian Football Union's Control-Disciplinary Committee awarded the game to Dynamo with a score of 3–0 and fined both clubs. Dynamo had to play their next home game (against Rubin Kazan) behind closed doors and Zenit had to play their next 2 home games (against CSKA Moscow and Anzhi Makhachkala)", "id": "321372" }, { "contents": "Yuriy Kalitvintsev\n\n\nfor FC Desna Chernihiv. A Russian-born Kalitvintsev chose to play for the Ukraine side after breaking through as a midfielder for Dynamo Kyiv. Until 1994 he played he spent his playing career at Russian clubs such as FC Rotor Volgograd, FC SKA Rostov-on-Don, FC Dynamo Moscow, and FC Lokomotiv Nizhny Novgorod. It wasn't until the reorganization of the soviet football when he started to play at the top level of the Russian championship starting for the Moscow's Dynamo. After being transferred to the fading club", "id": "20481933" }, { "contents": "Sergei Bogomolov\n\n\nSergei Anatolyevich Bogomolov (; born 17 August 1971) is a former Russian professional footballer. During his time with FC Dynamo Moscow he only played in a single game for the main team, but it was a very memorable one. On 14 June 1995, Dynamo was playing FC Rotor Volgograd in the final game of the 1994–95 Russian Cup. Dynamo was hurt by injuries to some first team regulars and several reserve players, including Bogomolov, were called up for the game. With the score of 0:0 and 10 minutes to go in", "id": "18632079" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\nwas one of the strongest clubs in Russia, rivalling Spartak Moscow for the championship, yet never winning it. Rotor became the league runners-up in 1993 and 1997. Rotor played five successive seasons in European competition, from 1994-95 to 1998-99. They qualified for the UEFA Cup through their league position every year except 1996-97, when they instead chose to enter the Intertoto Cup. Unfortunately for Rotor, the fall of communism had left all the former Eastern Bloc leagues badly under-resourced compared to", "id": "264673" }, { "contents": "1995 in Russian football\n\n\n1995 was the fourth season Russia held its own national football competition since the breakup of the Soviet Union. FC Spartak-Alania Vladikavkaz won the league for the first time ever. This was the first season 3 points were awarded for a win instead of two. For more details, see: The third edition of the Russian Cup, Russian Cup 1994–95 was won by FC Dynamo Moscow, who beat FC Rotor Volgograd in the finals in a shootout 8-7 after finishing extra time at 0-0. Early stages of", "id": "18335624" }, { "contents": "Maxim Chuzhkov\n\n\nMaxim Aleksandrovich Chuzhkov (; born 11 April 1987) is a Russian beach soccer player serving as goalkeeper. He is a three-time national champion for three different clubs (Rotor Volgograd, Lokomotiv Moscow, Kristall). Maxim Chuzhkov was born in Samara. He was a gymnast for six years before switching to football. Chuzhkov discovered beach soccer in 2010, and one year later he joined Krylya Sovetov from Samara. From 2012 to 2014 he played for Rotor Volgograd, winning with them the club's first and only Russian Beach Soccer", "id": "21454463" }, { "contents": "1991 Soviet Top League\n\n\nseason, while FC Rotor Volgograd and FC Tiligul Tiraspol would have been promoted to the Top League for 1992. Top six clubs of the league later entered European competitions for their respective nations. The Ukrainian clubs chose to qualify through a separate national competition. The league was expanded to 16 after the last season, during which number of clubs left the Soviet competitions (from Georgia and Baltic states). The last-placed FC Rotor Volgograd of the 1990 Soviet Top League lost promotion/relegation playoff to Lokomotiv Moscow and was relegated", "id": "831265" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor-2 Volgograd\n\n\nFC Rotor-2 Volgograd () is a Russian football team based in Volgograd. It is the farm club for FC Rotor Volgograd. It previously played professionally as FC Rotor-d Volgograd or FC Rotor-2 Volgograd in the Russian Second Division in 1992–1993, 1998–2000 and 2004 and Russian Third League in 1994-1997. They came in 3rd place in their Second Division zone in 1993. In 2001, the reserves tournament for Russian Premier League was re-established and the reserves team played there while the main team stayed in Premier League.", "id": "5758261" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\nFC Rotor Volgograd () is a Russian football (soccer) club from the large city of Volgograd, Volgograd Oblast (formerly Stalingrad). The club plays in the second-level Russian National Football League. They are the largest and best supported Volgograd club and for most of their existence have been the city's only representatives in the national league system. They played at the top level of Soviet/Russian football either side of World War II, from 1989 to 1990, and from 1991 to 2004. During the 1990s", "id": "264669" }, { "contents": "Wisdom Mumba Chansa\n\n\nand Derby Makinka, to play in the Soviet Top League when they all signed for Pomir Dushanbe in 1989 after being spotted during their 4-0 win over Italy at the 1988 Olympics. Chansa's debut came on 2 October 1989 in an away match against Torpedo Moscow, before appearing twice more, against Rotor Volgograd and Metalist Kharkiv, before leaving at the conclusion of the 1989 season. Chansa returned to Power Dynamos following his Soviet experience, and was made captain before Power Dynamos became the first Zambian club side to win a", "id": "5300924" }, { "contents": "FC Volgograd\n\n\nFC Volgograd () is a former name of the Russian football club from Volgograd, founded in late 2008, currently known as FC Rotor Volgograd. Before it was founded, it was originally supposed to be called FC Rotor-Volgograd Volgograd (to keep Rotor's name around at the time FC Rotor Volgograd was close to bankruptcy). However, FC Rotor's financial situation has improved by early 2009 and the club was registered as FC Volgograd. It played in the Russian Second Division in 2009. It took over the license", "id": "6725532" }, { "contents": "Roman Pavlyuchenko\n\n\nRoman Anatolyevich Pavlyuchenko (; born 15 December 1981) is a Russian footballer who plays as a striker for FC Znamya Noginsk. He started his career at Dynamo Stavropol, and Rotor Volgograd, before transferring to Spartak Moscow in 2003. His performances there earned him a £13.7 million transfer to Tottenham Hotspur of the English Premier League in 2008, where he spent three full seasons before returning to Russia to play for Lokomotiv Moscow. After another full 3 seasons he moved in July 2015, to Kuban Krasnodar. A full international for a", "id": "3367200" }, { "contents": "Anton Miranchuk\n\n\nAnton Andreyevich Miranchuk (; born 17 October 1995) is a Russian professional football player who plays as a centre midfielder or attacking midfielder for Lokomotiv Moscow and the Russia national team. Born in Slavyansk-na-Kubani, Miranchuk joined Spartak Moscow from his hometown football school Olymp. He was dismissed from the club because of weak physical abilities. After that, he and his twin brother Aleksei moved to Lokomotiv Moscow. On 30 October 2013, Miranchuk made his competitive debut in senior football in a Russian Cup game against Rotor Volgograd replacing", "id": "1404526" }, { "contents": "Dmitry Pletnyov (footballer)\n\n\nDmitry Andreyevich Pletnyov (; born 16 January 1998) is a Russian football player. He plays for FC Tom Tomsk in Russian Football National League. He made his debut in the Russian Football National League for FC Zenit-2 Saint Petersburg on 6 September 2017 in a game against FC Rotor Volgograd. He made his Russian Premier League debut for FC Zenit Saint Petersburg on 5 May 2018 in a game against FC Lokomotiv Moscow. He played for Russia national under-17 football team at the 2015 UEFA European Under-17 Championship and 2015 FIFA U-17 World Cup.", "id": "21412634" }, { "contents": "2004 in Russian football\n\n\nseason. Andrey Fedkov of Terek became the top goalscorer with 38 goals. The following clubs have earned promotion by winning tournaments in their respective Second Division zones: Prior to start of the 2005 season three clubs (Rotor Volgograd, Torpedo Vladimir, and Arsenal Tula) refused participation in the First Division, and two more clubs (Dynamo Stavropol and Chernomorets Novorossiysk) were denied licences. This made way for the runners-up of all five zones: The Russian Super Cup match between CSKA Moscow and Spartak Moscow was won by CSKA", "id": "6344061" }, { "contents": "Dmitry Shishin\n\n\nnational beach soccer team. That year Shishin participated at the Russian Championship as player of Samarian Sputnik and debuted for the national team at the Beach Soccer World Cup. After Sputnik, Shishin for a long time played for different Saratov clubs, such as Rosagro, Biznes-Pravo, Delta. In 2011, Shishin moved to Lokomotiv Moscow, where he won the championship trophy with his team. Together with the Lokomotives he won another national championship trophy and two Russian cups. In 2013, Shishin surprisingly switched to Rotor Volgograd, becoming", "id": "12194946" }, { "contents": "2009 Russian Second Division\n\n\nJuly 2009 Oleg Mikheyev, president of FC Rotor Volgograd, announced Rotor's resignation from the league, citing problems with authorities. They have played 18 games and were in the 13th position with 21 points. \"Source: [PFL] , Sporbox.ru \" On 11 July 2009, the management of FC Spartak Shchyolkovo announced that the club would resign from the league after the first half of the season because of economic problems. Spartak were excluded from the league on August 4, 2009. They have played 18 games and were in", "id": "21482663" }, { "contents": "FC Olimpia Volgograd\n\n\nuntil 2008, though their fortunes faded after Slutsky's players left. Before the 2009 season their professional license was taken over by the new club FC Volgograd. This was meant to allow FC to assume the name and identity of Rotor who were suffering off-field troubles, but Rotor survived and ended up playing simultaneously with the new FC in 2009, while Olimpia dropped into the Volgograd Oblast Championship. They stayed there until 2011, winning the title in 2010. With confusion ongoing over the future of the Rotor name and club", "id": "21936808" }, { "contents": "Sergei Rashevsky\n\n\nSergei Aleksandrovich Rashevsky (; born 13 June 1980) is a Russian football coach and a former player. He is an assistant coach with FC Rotor Volgograd. He made his debut in the Russian Premier League in 2001 for FC Rotor Volgograd, before moving to Ural in 2005. After several seasons playing for different clubs in Russia, Rashevsky signed with Volga in 2008. He played for the club for three years, before he returned to Ural in 2011. Since February 2014, he played for the Russian National Football League side Yenisey", "id": "8136441" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\nthe new Rotor Volgograd were promoted to the second-level Russian Football National League thanks to teams above them withdrawing. The regional Ministry of Sport invested 150 million roubles ($4.9m) in the club's playing budget for the 2010 campaign, but it ended in failure as Rotor were relegated in 17th place. Governor Brovko admitted that the transition to the higher level was made too quickly. Former club player Sergei Nechay took over management and steered the team to promotion as champions of their Second Division zone in 2011–12. This", "id": "264678" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\ntheir Western counterparts, and indeed Rotor were knocked out by all four of the French and Italian clubs they played. The exception came against England's Manchester United in 1995-96. Having drawn the home leg 0-0, Rotor raced into a 2-0 lead at Old Trafford before United scored their first goal. Rotor were seconds away from being the first European club to win at Old Trafford when United's goalkeeper Peter Schmeichel scored a famous equaliser, but the 2-2 draw meant Rotor progressed by the away", "id": "264674" }, { "contents": "Roman Pavlyuchenko\n\n\na 1-0 loss against Moscow on 5 April 1999. On 15 May 1999, Pavlyuchenko provided a double assist in a 2-1 win over Chita. In his first season, Pavlyuchenko made 31 appearance and scoring 11 goals. However, the club played was still relegated to the Second Division after the club was last place. Despite this, Pavlyuchenko was named 'Team of the top' junior division for the first version of the newspaper Sport Express. Pavlyuchenko moved to Rotor Volgograd in 2000, although the move was", "id": "3367203" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\ntheir professional licence entirely. Rotor's reserve side in the Russian Second Division, Rotor-2 Volgograd, became the club's first team and was renamed Rotor in 2006. In 2007 local businessman Oleg Mikheev acquired the club's main asset the Volgograd Central Stadium, and with it effective control over the club, but financial troubles continued and the team's performances in the Second Division declined. Matters came to a head in 2009. Russia had officially launched its bid for the FIFA World Cup 2018 and Volgograd city was in line for a", "id": "264676" }, { "contents": "1988 Soviet Cup Final\n\n\nThe 1988 Soviet Cup Final was a football match that took place at the Lenin's Central Stadium, Moscow on May 28, 1988. The match was the 47th Soviet Cup Final and it was contested by FC Metalist Kharkiv and FC Torpedo Moscow. The Soviet Cup winner Metalist qualified for the Cup Winners' Cup first round for the Soviet Union. The last year defending holders Dynamo Kyiv were eliminated in the second round of the competition by FC Rotor Volgograd (3:2, 0:2). For Metalist this was their second final total", "id": "158055" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\ngoals rule They went on to be defeated by eventual Runners-up Bordeaux in the second round. Full European results: In the 2000s, Rotor's results declined, and in 2004, the team finished last in the Russian Premier League. The club's owner Vladimir Goryunov, a member of the Duma and head of the parliamentary sports committee, explored options to save Rotor from relegation, such as expanding the Premier League to 20 teams. But in January 2005 Rotor were unable to make the required financial guarantees and so lost", "id": "264675" }, { "contents": "2018–19 Russian Football National League\n\n\n. Ararat Moscow was promoted from 2017–18 PFL, but were refused a license for the 2018–19 Russian National Football League, the club being subsequently dissolved. Zenit-2 Saint Petersburg, Rotor Volgograd, Luch Vladivostok, Tyumen and Fakel Voronezh were spared from relegation due to lack of teams enrolled for the 2018–19 season. Sakhalin Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk finished on the promotion place at the end of the 2017–18 PFL season, but refused to be promoted. Dynamo Saint Petersburg was moved from Saint Petersburg to Sochi and renamed as PFC Sochi. Olimpiyets Nizhny Novgorod", "id": "621376" }, { "contents": "Dinamo Volgograd\n\n\nDinamo Volgograd () is a Russian women's handball club from Volgograd. Founded in 1972 as Burevestnik Volgograd, it represented Rotor Volgograd following the collapse of the Soviet Union and was subsequently named Aqva before taking its current name in 2003. Dynamo is the most successful team in the Russian Super League with nine titles, and in the 2001-02 season it set an absolute record winning all the matches. It has also been fairly successful in international competitions with three titles: the 1995 Challenge Cup and Champions Trophy and the 2008", "id": "10627328" }, { "contents": "List of football clubs in Russia\n\n\nZelenodolsk — FC Prometey-Dinamo Saint Petersburg — FC Pskov — FC Pskov-2000 — FC Pskov-747 FC Radian-Baikal Irkutsk — FC Rassvet Troitskoye — FC Reformatsiya Abakan — FC Rekord Aleksandrov — FC Reutov — FC Ritm Alekseyevka — FC Ritm Belgorod — FC Roda Moscow — FC Rossia Moscow — FC Rostov — FC Rostselmash-2 Rostov-on-Don — FC Rostselmash Rostov-on-Don — FC Rotor-2 Mikhaylovka — FC Rotor-2 Volgograd — FC Rotor Volgograd — FC Rubin-2 Kazan — FC Rubin Kazan — FC Rubin-TAN Kazan — FC", "id": "14958458" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\n-autumn) Russian Amateur Football League, the fourth level overall. In the 2015 season Rotor won the Amateur League Chernozemye (South-West Region) division at the first attempt by 11 points, suffering only one defeat in 22 games. The 45,000-seater Pobeda Stadium is under construction on their old Central Stadium site, and it was reported in August 2015 that the first team are still interested in moving into the facility after the 2018 World Cup, which makes attaining a higher league status a priority. They were licensed for third", "id": "264680" }, { "contents": "2010–11 KHL season\n\n\nThe 2010–11 KHL season was the third season of the Kontinental Hockey League. It was held from 8 September 2010 and ended on 16 April 2011. The season started with the Opening Cup game between the last season's finalists, Ak Bars Kazan and UHC Dynamo, the new team that was created by merging last season's Western conference winner HC MVD with Dynamo Moscow. Salavat Yulaev Ufa won the Gagarin Cup and the Russian Championship after beating Atlant Moscow Oblast 4–1 in the play-off final series. Folding of Lada Togliatti Lada", "id": "10925021" }, { "contents": "1994 in Russian football\n\n\ntime at 2-2. Early stages of the Russian Cup 1994–95 were played later in the year. FC Spartak Moscow finished the group stage in third place, not qualifying for the semifinals. All the Russian participants were eliminated in 1993. FC Spartak Moscow qualified directly for the group stage. It did not qualify from the group, coming in third place. PFC CSKA Moscow were eliminated in the first round. FC Rotor Volgograd and FC Tekstilshchik Kamyshin were both eliminated by FC Nantes in the first and second round respectively,", "id": "17746833" }, { "contents": "Mikhail Osinov\n\n\nRussian Top Division side Rotor Volgograd. In 2001, Osinov was transferred to FC Rostov and stayed there for 9 years, suffering a relegation and helping the \"yellow-blues\" to return to the Premier League. He also holds the club record for league appearances with 239 games. In 2010, he returned to Yekaterinburg to play in the Russian First Division. In 2011, Osinov went to a lower league joining MITOS Novocherkassk of the Russian Second Division. On 11 September 2011, in a league game against Olimpia Gelendzhik Osinov", "id": "12015633" }, { "contents": "1990 Soviet Top League\n\n\non 1 March with the game between Dnipro and Rotor and lasted until 20 October 1990. The season was won by FC Dynamo Kyiv. The league was reduced to 13 after first Georgian clubs (Dinamo Tbilisi and Guria Lanchkhuti) and then Žalgiris withdrew from the Soviet Top League. Lokomotiv Moscow and the last placed Zenit Leningrad of the 1989 Soviet Top League were relegated to the 1990 Soviet First League. Lokomotiv returned to the Soviet First League after two seasons absence, while Zenit was relegated for the first time since being promoted back", "id": "831394" }, { "contents": "2010–11 KHL season\n\n\nTogliatti dropped out of the league and joined the Russian Major League instead, after failing to meet the league's financial requirements. Merger of HC MVD and Dynamo Moscow On 30 April 2010, it was announced that HC MVD would merge with Dynamo Moscow to form UHC Dynamo, which for the time being will play the majority of their games at Megasport Arena in Moscow, while also attempting to play some games in Balashikha. The current plan is to have a new, large and modernized arena constructed in Balashikha by 2012. Expansion", "id": "10925022" }, { "contents": "Dzmitry Rawneyka\n\n\nDzmitry Vasilevich Rawneyka (; ; born 13 May 1980) is a former Belarusian professional footballer. He is currently af part of the coaching staff of Belarus. Born in Grodno, Rawneyka began playing football in FC Neman Grodno's youth system. He joined the senior side and made his Belarusian Premier League debut in 1998. He had a spell in the Russian Premier League with FC Torpedo Moscow and FC Rotor Volgograd but has spent most of his playing career with Neman Grodno. Rawneyka has made eight appearances for the Belarus national football team", "id": "13999154" }, { "contents": "BC Krasny Oktyabr\n\n\nthe highest stage for Russian clubs. In the first season of Krasny Oktyabr in the VTB United League, it qualified for the playoffs by finishing in the 6th place in Group B. Also, European powerhouse CSKA Moscow was defeated by Krasny Oktyabr in the quarterfinals of the 2013–14 Russian Cup tournament. On August 30, 2016, the team was forced to leave the United League, because its home arena wasn't approved to host tournaments. The club usually played its home games at the 3,700 seat Volgograd Sports Palace of Trade Unions,", "id": "8073501" }, { "contents": "Igor Lediakhov\n\n\n-Don. In 1990, he joined FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk. After impressing with FC Rotor Volgograd, Lediakhov was bought by Soviet Union giants FC Spartak Moscow, being essential as the capital team conquered three consecutive league titles, which included the inaugural edition of the competition, as the player scored in double digits in two of the three seasons. In the 1994 summer, 26-year-old Lediakhov moved abroad, signing with Spain's Sporting de Gijón. Even though he netted nearly 50 overall goals for the club (17 in four", "id": "21673652" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\nnew stadium - provided they had a professional club to fill it after the tournament. Rotor, facing legal action and a transfer embargo due to their financial status, were not reliable candidates. The government created a new entity, FC Volgograd, intending to assume the Rotor name. In fact Rotor managed to co-exist with the new FC for the first half of the 2009 season, before Mikheev suspended operations and the government took ownership of the club and stadium from him. The two clubs were merged into one, and", "id": "264677" }, { "contents": "FC Lokomotiv Moscow\n\n\npoints after Gameweek 30. The game was played at Dynamo Stadium in front of a sold-out crowd. Lokomotiv took an early lead thanks a low drive from captain Dmitry Loskov, and eventually the goal turned out to be enough for Lokomotiv to claim the first title in the club's history. Two years later, Lokomotiv again won the Russian Premier League, edging city rivals CSKA by a single point; Lokomotiv defeated Shinnik Yaroslavl 0–2 in Yaroslavl, a week after CSKA fell to city rivals Dynamo at home. In 2005", "id": "10933606" }, { "contents": "1995–96 Manchester United F.C. season\n\n\nactually went top of the league after a goalless draw at Sheffield Wednesday towards the end of September, only for the Tynesiders to return to the top of the table soon after. Then came Cantona's comeback on 1 October, when he scored a penalty to equalise and hold Liverpool to a 2–2 draw Old Trafford. The autumn saw United suffer first-hurdle exits to York City in the League Cup and Rotor Volgograd in the UEFA Cup, although United did preserve their 39-year home unbeaten record in European competitions thanks to a late", "id": "9981632" }, { "contents": "1994–95 Russian Cup\n\n\nDynamo Moscow: Valeri Kleimyonov (GK), Yuri Kovtun (DF), Sergey Timofeev (DF), Andrei Chernyshov (DF), Aleksandr Borodkin (DF), Aleksei Filippov (DF), Vagiz Khidiyatullin (DF), Andrei Ivanov (DF), Denis Klyuyev (MF), Dmitri Cheryshev (FW), Igor Simutenkov (FW), Kirill Rybakov (FW), Yuri Tishkov (FW). FC Rotor Volgograd: Volodymyr Gerashchenko (DF), Aleksandr Yeshchenko (MF), Konstantin Kulik (", "id": "5392312" }, { "contents": "FC Olimpia Volgograd\n\n\nFC Olimpia Volgograd () is a Russian football team from the large city of Volgograd. They are the second- or third-largest club in the city after the famous Rotor Volgograd. From their founding in 1989 until 1997, the club participated in various youth leagues. Some time between 1993 and 1994 the Volgograd native Leonid Slutsky, future coach of the Russian national team, joined the training staff. Among the Olimpia youth players developed under Slutsky were Denis Kolodin, Roman Adamov, Andrei Bochkov, Maksim Burchenko and Aleksei Zhdanov,", "id": "21936806" }, { "contents": "Peter Schmeichel\n\n\na 2001 Reuters poll, he beat Lev Yashin and Gordon Banks to be named the finest keeper in football history. Despite being a goalkeeper, he would run into the attack on corner kicks if his team was behind. The sight of him going up for the corner was a great distraction to opposing defenders. He scored a goal in this fashion, for Man United, in a UEFA Cup match against Rotor Volgograd at Old Trafford in September 1995. He scored in the last minutes of the game to tie the match 2–2", "id": "19820283" }, { "contents": "Spartak Gogniyev\n\n\nSpartak Arturovich Gogniyev (, ; born 19 January 1981) is a Russian professional football coach and a former player. He is the manager of FC Alania Vladikavkaz. He made his debut in the Russian Premier League in 2000 for FC Dynamo Moscow. He played two games in the UEFA Cup 2000–01 for FC Dynamo Moscow and two games (scoring one goal) in the UEFA Champions League 2003–04 qualification round for PFC CSKA Moscow. In August 2018, it was announced that Spartak Gogniyev joined new FC Urozhay Krasnodar, but this was", "id": "7903306" }, { "contents": "Georgi Yartsev\n\n\nat the time, gave Yartsev a sabre as a birthday gift in a sideline pre-game ceremony. Yartsev got another head coach position soon enough, when he joined Rotor Volgograd in January 2000. However, he could not do much with that team either and was fired in June of same year. For the next 3 years he was the manager of the Spartak Moscow veterans team. In August 2003, Russia was very close to elimination from their Euro 2004 preliminary qualification group and the coach Valery Gazzayev, was fired.", "id": "15861320" }, { "contents": "FCSB\n\n\nUEFA ordered Steaua to play two home games of the Europa League behind closed doors due to their fans displaying racist banners in a second qualifying round match against Hungarian side Újpest. Three further incidents occurred in the 2014–15 season, with the club fined and ordered to play further games in an empty stadium after displays of racist banners in matches against Dynamo Kyiv, Ludogorets Razgrad and Strømsgodset. Steaua's most important rivalry is the one against Dinamo București. \"Eternul derby\" (\"The Eternal Derby\") has been the leading Romanian", "id": "19491084" }, { "contents": "2010 Russian First Division\n\n\n), Mordovia Saransk (Ural-Povolzhye) and Irtysh Omsk (East). Due to financial difficulties, Vityaz Podolsk who placed 11th in 2009, decided to give up their spot in the Russian First Division and participate in the Russian Second Division in 2010. Pending licensing, their place was taken by FC Volgograd who placed 3rd in the Russian Second Division (South Zone) in 2009. For the occasion the management decided to change the name of the club from FC Volgograd to Rotor Volgograd. FC Alania Vladikavkaz were promoted", "id": "7947305" }, { "contents": "Russian Women's Handball Super League\n\n\nThe Russian Women's Handball Superleague is the premier women's handball competition in Russia. Dinamo Volgograd, formerly known as Rotor and Akva, is the championship's most successful club as of 2019 with 12 titles. It also holds the record for consecutive wins, with six titles in a row. Currently eleven clubs take part in the competition, with the top eight playing the championship play-offs. The Russian Championship's leading teams have been successful in EHF's competitions. Zvezda Zvenigorod won the Champions League and the EHF Cup", "id": "8475941" }, { "contents": "Pavel Pogrebnyak\n\n\n's relegation, Pogrebnyak was linked with a move away from the club but did not leave. He scored his first goals in more than eight months after netting twice in a 3–1 win over Derby County in September 2013. On 27 August 2015 Pogrebnyak moved back to Russia, signing a three-year contract with Dynamo Moscow. Dynamo released him on 25 January 2018, citing disciplinary reasons, such as attending a Juventus - Inter Milan game in Italy on the same day Dynamo played a league game and participating in the annual exhibition", "id": "2040879" }, { "contents": "1996 in Russian football\n\n\nplayers (Stanislav Cherchesov, Viktor Onopko, Vasili Kulkov and Sergei Yuran) who played in the group stage where Spartak did not lose a single point left the club to move to Western European clubs in the winter before the quarterfinals. Nicolas Ouédec was instrumental again, after scoring 7 goals in 4 games against the Russian teams in the 1994–95 UEFA Cup, this time he scored 3 goals in two games against Spartak. FC Dynamo Moscow were eliminated in the quarterfinals. All the Russian teams were eliminated in 1995. FC Alania Vladikavkaz", "id": "22219347" }, { "contents": "Kamil Mullin\n\n\nKamil Shamilevich Mullin (, ; born 5 January 1994) is a Russian professional football player who plays for FC Rotor Volgograd. He plays as a forward. Mullin joined Lokomotiv academy at 16 years, and two years later made it to the youth squad. In total, he played 53 games for Lokomotiv U21 and scored 23 goals.br He made his debut for Lokomotiv first team in the 2012–13 Russian Cup game vs Torpedo Armavir on 26 September 2012.br In March 2013, Mullin for the first time was included into team sheet for the", "id": "2605760" }, { "contents": "FC Dynamo Moscow\n\n\nthe 2008 season, Dynamo finished third, qualifying for the 2009–10 Champions League preliminary round. On 29 July 2009, Dynamo recorded a 0–1 away win against Celtic at Celtic Park, which gave them a strong advantage going into the second leg. However, Celtic comfortably defeated Dynamo 0–2 in Moscow to progress, sending Dynamo into the Europa League play-off round where the club was eliminated by Bulgarian side CSKA Sofia after a 0–0 away draw in Sofia and a 1–2 home defeat in Moscow. In 2012, after a poor start", "id": "8644502" }, { "contents": "2013–14 Russian Premier League\n\n\n2014/15 season. The 13th and 14th Premier League teams will play the 4th and 3rd FNL teams respectively in two playoff games with the winner securing a Premier League spot for 2014/15 season. On 11 May 2014, the game between FC Zenit Saint Petersburg and FC Dynamo Moscow was interrupted in the 86th minute with Dynamo leading 4-2 when Zenit fans ran out of the stands. At first they stood behind the goal line, when the referee decided to take the teams off the field into the dressing rooms and teams began to", "id": "9911963" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\nthe third tier) in 1980 and 1981, and were successful in the promotion playoffs the second time. In 1988 Rotor finished second in the Soviet First League, earning promotion to the Soviet Top League. They finished 13th and last in the downsized 1990 competition after the Georgian and Lithuanian teams withdrew, and the decision was made to relegate them. However they bounced straight back as champions of the First League in 1991, thus becoming founder members of the new Russian Top Division after the USSR collapsed. In the mid-1990s, Rotor", "id": "264672" }, { "contents": "Bibras Natkho\n\n\n, Natkho scored two goals in the Champions League qualifier against Dynamo Kyiv and Lyon, who they eliminated Kazan out of the competitions and the club would play in the Europa League. Then in the Europa League campaign, Natkho scored twice in six matches in the Group Stage of the Europa League against Tottenham Hostpur and Shamrock Rovers. Natkho performance was praised for his role during the season and helped the club win the Russian Cup after playing a vital of assisting the winning goal, in a 1–0 win over Dynamo Moscow. Natkho would", "id": "21438585" }, { "contents": "Danil Lipovoy\n\n\nDanil Nikolayevich Lipovoy (; born 22 September 1999) is a Russian football player who plays for FC Dynamo Moscow. He made his debut in the Russian Professional Football League for FC Dynamo-2 Moscow on 2 April 2017 in a game against FC Dynamo Saint Petersburg. He made his debut for the main squad of FC Dynamo Moscow on 26 September 2018 in a Russian Cup game against FC Torpedo Moscow. He made Russian Premier League debut for Dynamo on 30 November 2018 in a game against FC Rubin Kazan, as a 64th-minute substitute", "id": "429351" }, { "contents": "FC Amkar Perm\n\n\n, having lost their Spring matches to Kuban Krasnodar (1–2) and Spartak Moscow (0–2). A series without a win followed the victory over Alania and after the Dynamo match Amkar lost to Terek Grozny (1–2) and Lokomotiv Moscow (2–4). After another devastating defeat from Kuban (0–4), followed by a victory over their direct rivals Rostov (3–2), and a goalless draw with Zenit, the club retained the right to play in the Premier League. In June 2013, the club opted not to", "id": "5030824" }, { "contents": "FC Shakhtar Donetsk\n\n\nminute Fedor Manov opened score to Donetsk team goals. Final score is 4:1 in favor of the hosts.\" Nonetheless, the selective job conducted constructively by the club's administration allowed the club to compete successfully at the top level by the end of the 1930s. During the \"war championship\" of 1941, which was interrupted unexpectedly, the club defeated Soviet champions Dynamo Moscow and after about ten games were placed in fifth in the league. In the last game of that championship, played on 24 June, two days after", "id": "14103740" }, { "contents": "Oleg Veretennikov\n\n\nOleg Aleksandrovich Veretennikov (; born 5 January 1970) is a professional Russian association football coach and a former international footballer. He manages Rotor-2 Volograd. He is the top goalscorer in the history of Russian Premier League, and holds several other goalscoring records. Most of Veretennikov's successes have come with SC Rotor Volgograd, for whom he played in 1992–1999. During that time he scored 143 goals, which makes him the best goalscorer in the Russian Premier League history (the next best goalscorer, Dmitry Loskov, has 109 goals as of", "id": "21553966" }, { "contents": "Sergei Pareiko\n\n\nSergei Pareiko (born 31 January 1977) is a retired Estonian footballer. He is currently the sporting director of Estonian football club Levadia. Pareiko played as a goalkeeper in Estonian, Russian and Polish top tiers. He made a total of 65 appearances for the Estonia national football team. In Estonia, Pareiko played for Tallinna Sadam and Levadia Maardu, before moving to Russia in 2001, when he signed with Rotor Volgograd. After Rotor were relegated, Pareiko moved to Tom Tomsk. At the end of 2009 season Pareiko was named", "id": "11658849" }, { "contents": "FC Dinamo Tbilisi\n\n\nIn this period Dinamo won the Soviet Cup for the first time in their history, convincingly defeating Armenian side Ararat Yerevan 3–0 in the final, with goals scored by David Kipiani, Piruz Kanteladze and Revaz Chelebadze. In 1978 the club won the Soviet Top League for a second time. Next year Dinamo won the Soviet Cup again by defeating Russian side Dynamo Moscow in the final. In 1979 the club played its first match in the UEFA European Cup tournament. In the first round Dinamo knocked out English side Liverpool, at the", "id": "10097459" }, { "contents": "Romelu Lukaku\n\n\nlater at home to West Ham. Lukaku scored twice in a 4–0 win, becoming the fourth Manchester United player to score two goals on his Premier League debut for the club. On 17 September, Lukaku scored United's third goal in a 4–0 win over his former club Everton, with Lukaku running over towards Everton fans and cupping his ears during his goal celebration in response to being booed throughout the game. On 27 September, Lukaku scored twice in a 4–1 UEFA Champions League win over CSKA Moscow, taking his tally to", "id": "1117930" }, { "contents": "Dynamo Dresden\n\n\none Game behind closed doors and one away game without own fan support. Virtual tickets were offered to reduce the financial loss, creating \"the first sold-out Ghost Game in history\". The 2012–13 season started poorly for Dynamo and Ralf Loose was sacked in December 2012 after a 3–0 defeat to VfL Bochum with the team in 15th place. He was replaced by Peter Pacult, returning to the club after more than six years. Dynamo's form improved after Pacult's arrival but the team still finished the league as 16th", "id": "11366777" }, { "contents": "Aleksandr Tashayev\n\n\nAleksandr Mikhailovich Tashayev (; born 23 June 1994) is a Russian professional football player who plays as a left midfielder for Spartak Moscow. He made his professional debut on 11 December 2014 for FC Dynamo Moscow in a 2014–15 UEFA Europa League group game against PSV Eindhoven. He also played in the Round of 16 away game against Napoli. On 6 July 2018, he signed a contract with the cross-city rivals FC Spartak Moscow, after buying out own contract from Dynamo and becoming a free agent. Dynamo unsuccessfully sued to deem", "id": "13552247" }, { "contents": "Dynamo Moscow Bandy Club\n\n\nthe end of the 2004–05 season, almost all players of the for a decade dominant Vodnik signed up for Dynamo Moscow, resulting in an immediate Russian League title in 2006. Dynamo Moscow won the World Cup for the first time in 2006, defeating Zorky in the final. The 2006 domestic title was followed by another four consecutive Russian championship titles and as one of the dominating teams in the following years too, until 2017, when they missed the championship play-off, only coming in at eighth place in the regular season", "id": "1825162" }, { "contents": "Handball Club Lada\n\n\nHandball Club Lada is a Russian women's handball club from Tolyatti playing in the Russian Super League. Founded in 1998, Lada soon became the leading team in the Super League winning five championships in a row between 2002 and 2006 and a sixth one in 2008. It also built itself a name in Europe winning the 2002 Cup Winners' Cup in its international debut and reaching the final of the 2007 Champions League and the next edition's semifinals. The following three seasons were less successful, with Dynamo Volgograd retrieving the leading position", "id": "9114247" }, { "contents": "Omari Tetradze\n\n\n– Tetradze. Later he considered restoring his original surname, but decided it would cause too many problems. At club level, he played for Dinamo Tbilisi, FC Dynamo Moscow, Alania Vladikavkaz (where he won a Russian league championship medal in 1995), AS Roma, and PAOK FC (Greece). He played for Russia at international level, and appeared at World Cup 1994 and Euro 1996. At the latter tournament, he played superbly in each of Russia's three games despite the team's poor results, and", "id": "17559889" }, { "contents": "FC Girondins de Bordeaux\n\n\nclub was relegated just two years thereafter. In 1992, however, \"Les Girondins\" won that year's Ligue 2 title, thus being elevated to the top tier of French football. In the emergence of young and exciting players such as playmaker Zinedine Zidane, striker Christophe Dugarry and left back Bixente Lizarazu, the club ascended even higher to win the UEFA Intertoto Cup in 1995. With this talented trio, the club defeated FC Rotor Volgograd (the 1995 King's Cup Winner), Real Betis, Milan and Slavia Prague", "id": "10933676" }, { "contents": "Yuriy Hudymenko\n\n\nYuriy Arkadiyovych Hudymenko (; born 3 October 1966) is a former Kyrgyz-born Ukrainian professional footballer. Hudymenko is a product of the main Bishkek sports school and later was accepted to the main republican club of Kyrgyzia, FC Alga Bishkek. In 1990 he made his debut in the Soviet Top League playing for FC Dnepr Dnepropetrovsk, but failed to score any goals in domestic competitions, but did score a goal against Heart of Midlothian F.C. in the 1990-91 UEFA Cup. Next year Hudymenko joined recently relegated FC Rotor Volgograd that", "id": "11637137" }, { "contents": "Valery Gazzaev\n\n\na second-place finish at the end of the season. However, Gazzaev was left behind in the first league in Spartak Ordzhonikidze, as he wasn't one of the main players of the SKA Rostov-on-Don. In the Soviet Top League, Gazzaev played in Lokomotiv Moscow, Dynamo Moscow, and Dinamo Tbilisi. Gazzaev is a Soviet Cup winner with Dynamo Moscow in 1984. During his career he scored 89 goals in 283 matches in Soviet Top League, and was the top goal scorer of the UEFA Cup", "id": "3537187" }, { "contents": "FC Amkar Perm\n\n\nAmkar was in third place in the standings, one point behind second-placed Spartak Moscow and six adrift of leaders Rubin Kazan. After the break, one of Amkar's team leaders, Vladimir Gabulov, and the captain, Aleksei Popov, left the team to join Dynamo Moscow and Rubin Kazan respectively. Two matches in a row on the \"equator\" of the Championship Amkar could have topped the league table but was unable to beat Tom Tomsk and Spartak Nalchik at home. On 16 November, after beating Tom in Tomsk", "id": "5030813" }, { "contents": "FC Rubin Kazan\n\n\nfixed after selling in Volgograd \"Rotor\" team leaders Oleg Nechaev and Rustem Khuzin (but soon returned to \"Rubin\" till the end of the season on loan). In the end the season Kazan finished on 8th place, only losing a point to Nizhnekamsk \"Neftechimik\" and dropped into the second league. The following year, 1994, coaches Zadikashvili and Semenov assemble a team literally bit by bit. Because of the continuing financial problems from the last season in the team left only 6 players: Grishin, Danilin,", "id": "19815661" }, { "contents": "Nikita Chernov\n\n\nNikita Aleksandrovich Chernov (; born 14 January 1996) is a Russian professional football player who plays as a centre-back for Krylia Sovetov Samara and Russia national football team. Born in Volzhsky, Volgograd Oblast, Chernov began his career at hometown team FC Energiya Volzhsky before joining CSKA Moscow in 2009. He made his professional debut on 24 September 2014 in a Russian Cup game against FC Khimik Dzerzhinsk. He also played in the next Russian Cup round against FC Torpedo Moscow on 29 October. On 30 July 2019, Chernov moved from", "id": "503700" }, { "contents": "KF Skënderbeu Korçë\n\n\nBeşiktaş, Lokomotiv Moscow and Sporting Clube de Portugal. In matchday 1, their first ever group stage game, the club was defeated at home 0–1 by Beşiktaş after a hard fight between the two sides. In the next matchday, they lost 0–2 to Lokomotiv Moscow in Moscow. Their worst defeat in the European competition yet came the next matchday, a storming 1–5 loss to Sporting in the away leg at Lisbon, but also had the Albanian side scoring their first goal in the UEFA Europa League group stages. In the home", "id": "1409695" }, { "contents": "FC Dynamo Kyiv\n\n\nand Maccabi Tel Aviv F.C. Dynamo finished in second place with 11 points after a spectacular performance and a memorable 0–2 in Porto. However, Dynamo was punished by UEFA for a racist incident in the home game against Chelsea where four black men were attacked in the stands by Dynamo fans. Despite this, Dynamo reached the round of 16 in the Champions League for the first time since 2000, where it was drawn with Manchester City. Dynamo was eliminated 1–3 on aggregate but managed to hold an impressive 0–0 draw in Manchester. Dynamo", "id": "18770189" }, { "contents": "Konstantin Kovalenko\n\n\nKonstantin Valeryevich Kovalenko (; ; born 2 February 1975) is a Belarusian and Russian professional footballer who plays for resurrected FC Kuban Krasnodar. He made his professional debut in the Soviet Second League in 1991 for FC Kuban Barannikovsky. He played 1 game in the 1996–97 UEFA Cup for FC Spartak Moscow. His brother Andrei Kovalenko also played football professionally. On 27 October 2008 he punched referee Sergei Timofeyev in the face in the Russian Second Division game FC Sochi-04 - FC Olimpia Volgograd. He was banned from football for a year. Spartak", "id": "1118096" }, { "contents": "Clinton N'Jie\n\n\nDimitri Payet and scored two goals in a 3–0 win. On 17 September, he scored both the goals in the away win over Amiens. On 3 May 2018, he played in the Europa League semi-finals away to FC Red Bull Salzburg as Marseille played out a 2–1 away loss but a 3–2 aggregate win to secure a place in the 2018 UEFA Europa League Final. On 25 July 2019, Njie signed a 4-year contract with Russian Premier League club Dynamo Moscow. N'Jie scored 44 minutes into his Cameroon debut against the", "id": "16847587" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\ntime they were able to consolidate in the National League, finishing 9th and then 14th. But financial troubles continued. A Ministry of Sport investigation found evidence of financial misconduct by club management along with substantial overspending, and regional Governor Andrey Bocharov announced after the 2013 season that government support for Rotor was being withdrawn. The club dropped back into the Second Division (renamed the Professional Football League) for the first half of the 2014–15 (autumn-spring) season, then withdrew in order to immediately transfer to the 2015 (spring", "id": "264679" }, { "contents": "2001 FC Anzhi Makhachkala season\n\n\nThe 2001 FC Anzhi Makhachkala season was the 2nd season that the club played in the Russian Top Division, the highest tier of football in Russia, following their promotion from the National Football League in 1999. They finished the season in 13th, were runners-up in the 2001-02 cup and reached the Sixth Round of the 2002-03 cup losing to Dynamo Moscow, and were knocked out of the UEFA Cup at the First Round stage after a 0-1 defeat to Rangers over one leg in Warsaw, Poland", "id": "4897180" }, { "contents": "FC Dynamo-2 Moscow\n\n\nFC Dynamo-2 Moscow () was a Russian football team from Moscow. It was the farm-club for FC Dynamo Moscow. In 2016, it was revived after the parent club, Dynamo, was relegated from the Russian Football Premier League (which holds its own competition for the Under-21 teams of the Premier League clubs) and licensed to play in the third-tier Russian Professional Football League for the 2016–17 season. Majority of the squad participated in the 2016–17 UEFA Youth League as well. On 17 June 2017, the parent", "id": "19064817" }, { "contents": "Mikhail Markosov\n\n\nDivision South Zone, scoring 27 goals, a feat no one in the entire Second Division surpassed. In the 2010 season, he played for FC Rotor Volgograd and came back to FC Dynamo Stavropol the next season. Scoring 10 goals in his first 10 matches for Dynamo, Markosov was transferred in the summer transfer window of the 2011-12 season to FC Ufa. From April until June 2019 Markosov played for FC Kuban Krasnodar, scored 7 goals in 11 matches. He joined the Armenia national football team in 2013. Markosov", "id": "12122198" }, { "contents": "1993 in Russian football\n\n\ntheir group campaign and finished it without much success, only gaining 2 points in 6 games, coming in last in the group and suffering a 0-6 defeat against Marseille. They could not play their home games in Moscow due to the lack of a stadium meeting the Champions League standards at the time. FC Spartak Moscow reached the semifinals, tying the best European result in club's history. FC Spartak Moscow qualified for the group stage and continued to play in the group into the 1994. FC Torpedo Moscow went out", "id": "21710373" }, { "contents": "2002 in Russian football\n\n\nrespective Second Division zones: The Russian Cup was won by CSKA Moscow, who beat Zenit Saint Petersburg 2–0 in the final at the Luzhniki Stadium. Lokomotiv Moscow participated in the third round of the UEFA Cup 2001-02, but were knocked out by Hapoel Tel Aviv FC who won 3–1 on aggregate. Krylya Sovetov Samara played in the UEFA Intertoto Cup 2002. After defeating Dinaburg FC in the second round they lost to Willem II Tilburg on away goals. Lokomotiv Moscow's victory over Grazer AK ensured there are two Russian clubs", "id": "11619883" }, { "contents": "FC Dynamo Moscow\n\n\nFC Dynamo Moscow (Dinamo Moscow, FC Dinamo Moskva, ) is a Russian football club based in Moscow. Dynamo has returned to the Russian Premier League for the 2017–18 season after one season in the second-tier Russian Football National League. Dynamo was the only club that had always played in the top tier of Soviet football (along with Dynamo Kyiv) and of Russian football from the end of the Soviet era until they were relegated in 2016. Despite this, it has never won the modern Russian Premier League title and", "id": "8644495" }, { "contents": "Nikita Lyamin\n\n\nIn 2004, he played three season in the farm team and two more seasons in the main team for Dynamo Moscow. Dynamo Moscow became champions at the 2007–08 Russian Volleyball Super League, but Lyamin due to low game practice quit the club. Lyamin moved to Nizhny Novgorod and became captain of Guberniya, which went on debuting in the B-division of the highest national league. In the two years, Guberniya could enter the Super League, and in the 2012–13 it became one of the leading clubs in Russia. Guberniya qualified", "id": "8669287" }, { "contents": "Leonid Slutsky (football coach)\n\n\nLeonid Viktorovich Slutsky (; born 4 May 1971) is a Russian professional football coach and former player who is the manager of Eredivisie club Vitesse. Previously, he has been in charge of Olimpia Volgograd, Uralan Elista, Moscow, Krylia Sovetov, CSKA Moscow, Russia and Hull City. Slutsky was born in Volgograd. Slutsky's playing career with FC Zvezda Gorodishche ended at just 19 years of age. He had to retire due to a knee injury sustained after falling out of a tree while rescuing a neighbour's cat. Slutsky", "id": "11710104" }, { "contents": "Yuri Kovtun\n\n\nduring the season so two top teams were interested in him at the same time, it's Dynamo and Spartak Moscow. In 1993, Kovtun chose Dynamo Moscow and was their key player for years, until his move to Spartak in 1999. While the only Kovtun's honour during 6 years in Dynamo was Russian Cup in 1995, he could get 3 titles in 1999, 2000 and 2001 after joining Spartak. Moreover, he took part in numerous UEFA Champions League games and found himself regular Russian national football team player. Kovtun", "id": "2071460" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\n-tier Russian Professional Football League for the 2016–17 season. They won their zone of the PFL in the 2016–17 season and were promoted to the second-level Russian National Football League for 2017–18. Despite ending the 2017–18 season in the relegation zone, the club stayed in the league for the 2018–19 season as another team that finished above them in the table failed to obtain the league license. As of 5 July 2019, according to the FNL website. Had international caps for their respective countries. Players whose name is listed in", "id": "264681" }, { "contents": "Dmitri Khokhlov\n\n\nDmitri Valeryevich Khokhlov (, born 22 December 1975) is a Russian football manager and a former player. He is the manager of FC Dynamo Moscow. He played as a holding midfielder or playmaker. He played for PFC CSKA Moscow and FC Lokomotiv Moscow in native Russia, having abroad spells with PSV Eindhoven (Netherlands) and Real Sociedad (Spain). During his time with FC Lokomotiv Moscow he participated in their memorable 2003–04 UEFA Champions League campaign, scoring third goal in the 3–0 home victory against Internazionale. He played for", "id": "19054427" }, { "contents": "Racism in association football\n\n\nagainst CSKA Moscow in Russia. The club's stadium was partially closed as punishment. Touré suggested that black players might boycott the 2018 FIFA World Cup, to be held in Russia, if racism continued in the country. In September 2014, Dynamo Moscow defender Christopher Samba was racially abused playing in the Moscow derby against Torpedo Moscow. As a result, Torpedo were forced to close part of their stadium, although Samba was also banned for two games for swearing at the racist fans. In a friendly match (Russia vrs France", "id": "21349703" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\nTraktor Stalingrad to national prominence. Traktor were champions of the new fourth-level Group G in 1937, and were then promoted straight to the highest-level Group A as it expanded from 9 clubs to 26. They remained at the top level until 1950. Rotor then spent three decades at the top regional level, although the creation of the Supreme League in 1970 pushed their league from the second level overall down to the third. They gradually improved throughout the 1970s and finally won Zone III of the Soviet Second League (", "id": "264671" }, { "contents": "WPC Dynamo Moscow\n\n\nWPC Dynamo Moscow () is a Russian men's water polo club, that is part of the traditional Moscow-based multi-sports club Dynamo. Dynamo won seven Soviet Championships between 1955 and 1962, and in 1964 it was the first team to represent the in the newly European Champions Cup, ranking second behind Partizan. In 1968 and 1969 the team won two more national championships, and it also reached the 1969 European Cup's final, lost to Mladost. For the next fifteen years Dynamo didn't win any more", "id": "18685765" }, { "contents": "Kyle Hines\n\n\ngreat Olympiacos comeback in 4th quarter, led by Vassilis Spanoulis. CSKA Moscow eventually won the EuroLeague third place game, after defeating Fenerbahçe, by a score of 86–80. In his second EuroLeague season with CSKA Moscow, Hines averaged a career-low 6.8 points and 4.3 rebounds per game, over 30 games played. CSKA Moscow finished the season by winning the VTB United League, after eliminating Khimki with a 3–0 series sweep in the League's finals series. On June 17, 2015, he signed a two-year contract", "id": "14695455" }, { "contents": "Miroslav Raičević\n\n\nfinal decisive shot in the very last seconds of the final game against Prokom Trefl Sopot. He also won the Greek Cup with Aris, in the year 2004. He has also played with Red Star Belgrade of the Adriatic League during the 2005–06 season. He won the Serbian Cup with Red Star that season. In the 2006–07 season, he played with the Russian Super League club Dynamo Moscow. During summer of 2007, he left Dynamo Moscow and joined the Italian League club Eldo Napoli. He then left Napoli and moved back", "id": "13596698" } ]

[ { "contents": "1996 in Russian football\n\n\nwas knocked out in the qualifying round. FC Lokomotiv Moscow went out in the second round. PFC CSKA Moscow, FC Dynamo Moscow and FC Torpedo-Luzhniki Moscow were eliminated in the first round after going through the qualifying round. FC Alania Vladikavkaz went out in the first round after going to the UEFA Cup after failing in the qualification for the Champions League. FC Spartak Moscow went out in the second round. Russian clubs participated in the Intertoto Cup for the first time. FC Rotor Volgograd, FC KAMAZ-Chally Naberezhnye", "id": "22219348" }, { "contents": "1995 in Russian football\n\n\nthe Russian Cup 1995–96 were played later in the year. All the Russian participants were eliminated in 1994. FC Spartak Moscow won every game in their group, qualifying for the quarterfinals. FC Dynamo Moscow advanced through the first two rounds, qualifying to play in the quarterfinals next spring. FC Spartak-Alania Vladikavkaz and FC Lokomotiv Moscow were eliminated in the first round by strong opponents (even though Lokomotiv very unexpectedly beat FC Bayern in Munich in the first game). FC Rotor Volgograd eliminated Manchester United F.C. in the first round", "id": "18335625" }, { "contents": "Maksim Nenakhov\n\n\nMaksim Maksimovich Nenakhov (; born 13 December 1998) is a Russian football player who plays for FC Rotor Volgograd. He made his debut in the Russian Professional Football League for FC Dynamo-2 Moscow on 20 July 2016 in a game against FC Tekstilshchik Ivanovo. On 19 January 2018, he was loaned to FC Tyumen until the end of the 2017–18 season. On 14 June 2018, he moved on another loan for the 2018–19 season to FC SKA-Khabarovsk. On 18 June 2019, he signed a 2-year contract with FC Rotor Volgograd", "id": "6983587" }, { "contents": "Almir Kayumov\n\n\nAlmir Izmailovich Kayumov (; 30 December 1964 – 7 August 2013) was a Russian football player and referee. Kayumov played for FC Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk, FC Lada Togliatti, Spartak Moscow, Rotor Volgograd, SKA Rostov-on-Don, in Russia, the Daewoo Royals in South Korea, and Kuopion Palloseura in Finland. He played 6 games in the UEFA Cup 1986–87 for FC Spartak Moscow. On November 9, 2009, it was reported that Kayumov attempted to commit suicide by jumping out of his apartment window. Police negotiators talked", "id": "14510549" }, { "contents": "Ruslan Ishkinin\n\n\nRuslan Kamilyevich Ishkinin (; born 14 June 1974) is a former Russian professional footballer. He made his professional debut in the Russian Second Division in 1992 for FC Dynamo-2 Moscow. The most memorable match of his career was played on 14 June 1995. His team FC Dynamo Moscow was playing FC Rotor Volgograd in the final game of the Russian Cup. Dynamo was decimated by injuries and several reserve players, including Ishkinin, were called up for the game. With 5 minutes to go in regulation and the score of 0–0, Ishkinin", "id": "2479621" }, { "contents": "1997 in Russian football\n\n\nthe year. Russian teams were eliminated in 1996. FC Spartak Moscow were eliminated in the second qualifying round and went on to the UEFA Cup. FC Lokomotiv Moscow qualified for the quarterfinals stage that was played in 1998. FC Spartak Moscow qualified for the quarterfinals stage that was played in 1998. FC Rotor Volgograd reached the second round. FC Alania Vladikavkaz went out in the first round. The goal in the stadium was measured before the game and turned out to be 2.46 meters high instead of regulation 2.44. The referee decided", "id": "20500131" }, { "contents": "2012–13 Russian Premier League\n\n\naltogether if the game is awarded to Dynamo. According to the police, the main suspect is a female fan who was arrested after the game. The criminal investigation was opened on the charge of hooliganism. On 22 November, Russian Football Union's Control-Disciplinary Committee awarded the game to Dynamo with a score of 3–0 and fined both clubs. Dynamo had to play their next home game (against Rubin Kazan) behind closed doors and Zenit had to play their next 2 home games (against CSKA Moscow and Anzhi Makhachkala)", "id": "321372" }, { "contents": "Yuriy Kalitvintsev\n\n\nfor FC Desna Chernihiv. A Russian-born Kalitvintsev chose to play for the Ukraine side after breaking through as a midfielder for Dynamo Kyiv. Until 1994 he played he spent his playing career at Russian clubs such as FC Rotor Volgograd, FC SKA Rostov-on-Don, FC Dynamo Moscow, and FC Lokomotiv Nizhny Novgorod. It wasn't until the reorganization of the soviet football when he started to play at the top level of the Russian championship starting for the Moscow's Dynamo. After being transferred to the fading club", "id": "20481933" }, { "contents": "Sergei Bogomolov\n\n\nSergei Anatolyevich Bogomolov (; born 17 August 1971) is a former Russian professional footballer. During his time with FC Dynamo Moscow he only played in a single game for the main team, but it was a very memorable one. On 14 June 1995, Dynamo was playing FC Rotor Volgograd in the final game of the 1994–95 Russian Cup. Dynamo was hurt by injuries to some first team regulars and several reserve players, including Bogomolov, were called up for the game. With the score of 0:0 and 10 minutes to go in", "id": "18632079" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\nwas one of the strongest clubs in Russia, rivalling Spartak Moscow for the championship, yet never winning it. Rotor became the league runners-up in 1993 and 1997. Rotor played five successive seasons in European competition, from 1994-95 to 1998-99. They qualified for the UEFA Cup through their league position every year except 1996-97, when they instead chose to enter the Intertoto Cup. Unfortunately for Rotor, the fall of communism had left all the former Eastern Bloc leagues badly under-resourced compared to", "id": "264673" }, { "contents": "1995 in Russian football\n\n\n1995 was the fourth season Russia held its own national football competition since the breakup of the Soviet Union. FC Spartak-Alania Vladikavkaz won the league for the first time ever. This was the first season 3 points were awarded for a win instead of two. For more details, see: The third edition of the Russian Cup, Russian Cup 1994–95 was won by FC Dynamo Moscow, who beat FC Rotor Volgograd in the finals in a shootout 8-7 after finishing extra time at 0-0. Early stages of", "id": "18335624" }, { "contents": "Maxim Chuzhkov\n\n\nMaxim Aleksandrovich Chuzhkov (; born 11 April 1987) is a Russian beach soccer player serving as goalkeeper. He is a three-time national champion for three different clubs (Rotor Volgograd, Lokomotiv Moscow, Kristall). Maxim Chuzhkov was born in Samara. He was a gymnast for six years before switching to football. Chuzhkov discovered beach soccer in 2010, and one year later he joined Krylya Sovetov from Samara. From 2012 to 2014 he played for Rotor Volgograd, winning with them the club's first and only Russian Beach Soccer", "id": "21454463" }, { "contents": "1991 Soviet Top League\n\n\nseason, while FC Rotor Volgograd and FC Tiligul Tiraspol would have been promoted to the Top League for 1992. Top six clubs of the league later entered European competitions for their respective nations. The Ukrainian clubs chose to qualify through a separate national competition. The league was expanded to 16 after the last season, during which number of clubs left the Soviet competitions (from Georgia and Baltic states). The last-placed FC Rotor Volgograd of the 1990 Soviet Top League lost promotion/relegation playoff to Lokomotiv Moscow and was relegated", "id": "831265" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor-2 Volgograd\n\n\nFC Rotor-2 Volgograd () is a Russian football team based in Volgograd. It is the farm club for FC Rotor Volgograd. It previously played professionally as FC Rotor-d Volgograd or FC Rotor-2 Volgograd in the Russian Second Division in 1992–1993, 1998–2000 and 2004 and Russian Third League in 1994-1997. They came in 3rd place in their Second Division zone in 1993. In 2001, the reserves tournament for Russian Premier League was re-established and the reserves team played there while the main team stayed in Premier League.", "id": "5758261" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\nFC Rotor Volgograd () is a Russian football (soccer) club from the large city of Volgograd, Volgograd Oblast (formerly Stalingrad). The club plays in the second-level Russian National Football League. They are the largest and best supported Volgograd club and for most of their existence have been the city's only representatives in the national league system. They played at the top level of Soviet/Russian football either side of World War II, from 1989 to 1990, and from 1991 to 2004. During the 1990s", "id": "264669" }, { "contents": "Wisdom Mumba Chansa\n\n\nand Derby Makinka, to play in the Soviet Top League when they all signed for Pomir Dushanbe in 1989 after being spotted during their 4-0 win over Italy at the 1988 Olympics. Chansa's debut came on 2 October 1989 in an away match against Torpedo Moscow, before appearing twice more, against Rotor Volgograd and Metalist Kharkiv, before leaving at the conclusion of the 1989 season. Chansa returned to Power Dynamos following his Soviet experience, and was made captain before Power Dynamos became the first Zambian club side to win a", "id": "5300924" }, { "contents": "FC Volgograd\n\n\nFC Volgograd () is a former name of the Russian football club from Volgograd, founded in late 2008, currently known as FC Rotor Volgograd. Before it was founded, it was originally supposed to be called FC Rotor-Volgograd Volgograd (to keep Rotor's name around at the time FC Rotor Volgograd was close to bankruptcy). However, FC Rotor's financial situation has improved by early 2009 and the club was registered as FC Volgograd. It played in the Russian Second Division in 2009. It took over the license", "id": "6725532" }, { "contents": "Roman Pavlyuchenko\n\n\nRoman Anatolyevich Pavlyuchenko (; born 15 December 1981) is a Russian footballer who plays as a striker for FC Znamya Noginsk. He started his career at Dynamo Stavropol, and Rotor Volgograd, before transferring to Spartak Moscow in 2003. His performances there earned him a £13.7 million transfer to Tottenham Hotspur of the English Premier League in 2008, where he spent three full seasons before returning to Russia to play for Lokomotiv Moscow. After another full 3 seasons he moved in July 2015, to Kuban Krasnodar. A full international for a", "id": "3367200" }, { "contents": "Anton Miranchuk\n\n\nAnton Andreyevich Miranchuk (; born 17 October 1995) is a Russian professional football player who plays as a centre midfielder or attacking midfielder for Lokomotiv Moscow and the Russia national team. Born in Slavyansk-na-Kubani, Miranchuk joined Spartak Moscow from his hometown football school Olymp. He was dismissed from the club because of weak physical abilities. After that, he and his twin brother Aleksei moved to Lokomotiv Moscow. On 30 October 2013, Miranchuk made his competitive debut in senior football in a Russian Cup game against Rotor Volgograd replacing", "id": "1404526" }, { "contents": "Dmitry Pletnyov (footballer)\n\n\nDmitry Andreyevich Pletnyov (; born 16 January 1998) is a Russian football player. He plays for FC Tom Tomsk in Russian Football National League. He made his debut in the Russian Football National League for FC Zenit-2 Saint Petersburg on 6 September 2017 in a game against FC Rotor Volgograd. He made his Russian Premier League debut for FC Zenit Saint Petersburg on 5 May 2018 in a game against FC Lokomotiv Moscow. He played for Russia national under-17 football team at the 2015 UEFA European Under-17 Championship and 2015 FIFA U-17 World Cup.", "id": "21412634" }, { "contents": "2004 in Russian football\n\n\nseason. Andrey Fedkov of Terek became the top goalscorer with 38 goals. The following clubs have earned promotion by winning tournaments in their respective Second Division zones: Prior to start of the 2005 season three clubs (Rotor Volgograd, Torpedo Vladimir, and Arsenal Tula) refused participation in the First Division, and two more clubs (Dynamo Stavropol and Chernomorets Novorossiysk) were denied licences. This made way for the runners-up of all five zones: The Russian Super Cup match between CSKA Moscow and Spartak Moscow was won by CSKA", "id": "6344061" }, { "contents": "Dmitry Shishin\n\n\nnational beach soccer team. That year Shishin participated at the Russian Championship as player of Samarian Sputnik and debuted for the national team at the Beach Soccer World Cup. After Sputnik, Shishin for a long time played for different Saratov clubs, such as Rosagro, Biznes-Pravo, Delta. In 2011, Shishin moved to Lokomotiv Moscow, where he won the championship trophy with his team. Together with the Lokomotives he won another national championship trophy and two Russian cups. In 2013, Shishin surprisingly switched to Rotor Volgograd, becoming", "id": "12194946" }, { "contents": "2009 Russian Second Division\n\n\nJuly 2009 Oleg Mikheyev, president of FC Rotor Volgograd, announced Rotor's resignation from the league, citing problems with authorities. They have played 18 games and were in the 13th position with 21 points. \"Source: [PFL] , Sporbox.ru \" On 11 July 2009, the management of FC Spartak Shchyolkovo announced that the club would resign from the league after the first half of the season because of economic problems. Spartak were excluded from the league on August 4, 2009. They have played 18 games and were in", "id": "21482663" }, { "contents": "FC Olimpia Volgograd\n\n\nuntil 2008, though their fortunes faded after Slutsky's players left. Before the 2009 season their professional license was taken over by the new club FC Volgograd. This was meant to allow FC to assume the name and identity of Rotor who were suffering off-field troubles, but Rotor survived and ended up playing simultaneously with the new FC in 2009, while Olimpia dropped into the Volgograd Oblast Championship. They stayed there until 2011, winning the title in 2010. With confusion ongoing over the future of the Rotor name and club", "id": "21936808" }, { "contents": "Sergei Rashevsky\n\n\nSergei Aleksandrovich Rashevsky (; born 13 June 1980) is a Russian football coach and a former player. He is an assistant coach with FC Rotor Volgograd. He made his debut in the Russian Premier League in 2001 for FC Rotor Volgograd, before moving to Ural in 2005. After several seasons playing for different clubs in Russia, Rashevsky signed with Volga in 2008. He played for the club for three years, before he returned to Ural in 2011. Since February 2014, he played for the Russian National Football League side Yenisey", "id": "8136441" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\nthe new Rotor Volgograd were promoted to the second-level Russian Football National League thanks to teams above them withdrawing. The regional Ministry of Sport invested 150 million roubles ($4.9m) in the club's playing budget for the 2010 campaign, but it ended in failure as Rotor were relegated in 17th place. Governor Brovko admitted that the transition to the higher level was made too quickly. Former club player Sergei Nechay took over management and steered the team to promotion as champions of their Second Division zone in 2011–12. This", "id": "264678" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\ntheir Western counterparts, and indeed Rotor were knocked out by all four of the French and Italian clubs they played. The exception came against England's Manchester United in 1995-96. Having drawn the home leg 0-0, Rotor raced into a 2-0 lead at Old Trafford before United scored their first goal. Rotor were seconds away from being the first European club to win at Old Trafford when United's goalkeeper Peter Schmeichel scored a famous equaliser, but the 2-2 draw meant Rotor progressed by the away", "id": "264674" }, { "contents": "Roman Pavlyuchenko\n\n\na 1-0 loss against Moscow on 5 April 1999. On 15 May 1999, Pavlyuchenko provided a double assist in a 2-1 win over Chita. In his first season, Pavlyuchenko made 31 appearance and scoring 11 goals. However, the club played was still relegated to the Second Division after the club was last place. Despite this, Pavlyuchenko was named 'Team of the top' junior division for the first version of the newspaper Sport Express. Pavlyuchenko moved to Rotor Volgograd in 2000, although the move was", "id": "3367203" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\ntheir professional licence entirely. Rotor's reserve side in the Russian Second Division, Rotor-2 Volgograd, became the club's first team and was renamed Rotor in 2006. In 2007 local businessman Oleg Mikheev acquired the club's main asset the Volgograd Central Stadium, and with it effective control over the club, but financial troubles continued and the team's performances in the Second Division declined. Matters came to a head in 2009. Russia had officially launched its bid for the FIFA World Cup 2018 and Volgograd city was in line for a", "id": "264676" }, { "contents": "1988 Soviet Cup Final\n\n\nThe 1988 Soviet Cup Final was a football match that took place at the Lenin's Central Stadium, Moscow on May 28, 1988. The match was the 47th Soviet Cup Final and it was contested by FC Metalist Kharkiv and FC Torpedo Moscow. The Soviet Cup winner Metalist qualified for the Cup Winners' Cup first round for the Soviet Union. The last year defending holders Dynamo Kyiv were eliminated in the second round of the competition by FC Rotor Volgograd (3:2, 0:2). For Metalist this was their second final total", "id": "158055" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\ngoals rule They went on to be defeated by eventual Runners-up Bordeaux in the second round. Full European results: In the 2000s, Rotor's results declined, and in 2004, the team finished last in the Russian Premier League. The club's owner Vladimir Goryunov, a member of the Duma and head of the parliamentary sports committee, explored options to save Rotor from relegation, such as expanding the Premier League to 20 teams. But in January 2005 Rotor were unable to make the required financial guarantees and so lost", "id": "264675" }, { "contents": "2018–19 Russian Football National League\n\n\n. Ararat Moscow was promoted from 2017–18 PFL, but were refused a license for the 2018–19 Russian National Football League, the club being subsequently dissolved. Zenit-2 Saint Petersburg, Rotor Volgograd, Luch Vladivostok, Tyumen and Fakel Voronezh were spared from relegation due to lack of teams enrolled for the 2018–19 season. Sakhalin Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk finished on the promotion place at the end of the 2017–18 PFL season, but refused to be promoted. Dynamo Saint Petersburg was moved from Saint Petersburg to Sochi and renamed as PFC Sochi. Olimpiyets Nizhny Novgorod", "id": "621376" }, { "contents": "Dinamo Volgograd\n\n\nDinamo Volgograd () is a Russian women's handball club from Volgograd. Founded in 1972 as Burevestnik Volgograd, it represented Rotor Volgograd following the collapse of the Soviet Union and was subsequently named Aqva before taking its current name in 2003. Dynamo is the most successful team in the Russian Super League with nine titles, and in the 2001-02 season it set an absolute record winning all the matches. It has also been fairly successful in international competitions with three titles: the 1995 Challenge Cup and Champions Trophy and the 2008", "id": "10627328" }, { "contents": "List of football clubs in Russia\n\n\nZelenodolsk — FC Prometey-Dinamo Saint Petersburg — FC Pskov — FC Pskov-2000 — FC Pskov-747 FC Radian-Baikal Irkutsk — FC Rassvet Troitskoye — FC Reformatsiya Abakan — FC Rekord Aleksandrov — FC Reutov — FC Ritm Alekseyevka — FC Ritm Belgorod — FC Roda Moscow — FC Rossia Moscow — FC Rostov — FC Rostselmash-2 Rostov-on-Don — FC Rostselmash Rostov-on-Don — FC Rotor-2 Mikhaylovka — FC Rotor-2 Volgograd — FC Rotor Volgograd — FC Rubin-2 Kazan — FC Rubin Kazan — FC Rubin-TAN Kazan — FC", "id": "14958458" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\n-autumn) Russian Amateur Football League, the fourth level overall. In the 2015 season Rotor won the Amateur League Chernozemye (South-West Region) division at the first attempt by 11 points, suffering only one defeat in 22 games. The 45,000-seater Pobeda Stadium is under construction on their old Central Stadium site, and it was reported in August 2015 that the first team are still interested in moving into the facility after the 2018 World Cup, which makes attaining a higher league status a priority. They were licensed for third", "id": "264680" }, { "contents": "2010–11 KHL season\n\n\nThe 2010–11 KHL season was the third season of the Kontinental Hockey League. It was held from 8 September 2010 and ended on 16 April 2011. The season started with the Opening Cup game between the last season's finalists, Ak Bars Kazan and UHC Dynamo, the new team that was created by merging last season's Western conference winner HC MVD with Dynamo Moscow. Salavat Yulaev Ufa won the Gagarin Cup and the Russian Championship after beating Atlant Moscow Oblast 4–1 in the play-off final series. Folding of Lada Togliatti Lada", "id": "10925021" }, { "contents": "1994 in Russian football\n\n\ntime at 2-2. Early stages of the Russian Cup 1994–95 were played later in the year. FC Spartak Moscow finished the group stage in third place, not qualifying for the semifinals. All the Russian participants were eliminated in 1993. FC Spartak Moscow qualified directly for the group stage. It did not qualify from the group, coming in third place. PFC CSKA Moscow were eliminated in the first round. FC Rotor Volgograd and FC Tekstilshchik Kamyshin were both eliminated by FC Nantes in the first and second round respectively,", "id": "17746833" }, { "contents": "Mikhail Osinov\n\n\nRussian Top Division side Rotor Volgograd. In 2001, Osinov was transferred to FC Rostov and stayed there for 9 years, suffering a relegation and helping the \"yellow-blues\" to return to the Premier League. He also holds the club record for league appearances with 239 games. In 2010, he returned to Yekaterinburg to play in the Russian First Division. In 2011, Osinov went to a lower league joining MITOS Novocherkassk of the Russian Second Division. On 11 September 2011, in a league game against Olimpia Gelendzhik Osinov", "id": "12015633" }, { "contents": "1990 Soviet Top League\n\n\non 1 March with the game between Dnipro and Rotor and lasted until 20 October 1990. The season was won by FC Dynamo Kyiv. The league was reduced to 13 after first Georgian clubs (Dinamo Tbilisi and Guria Lanchkhuti) and then Žalgiris withdrew from the Soviet Top League. Lokomotiv Moscow and the last placed Zenit Leningrad of the 1989 Soviet Top League were relegated to the 1990 Soviet First League. Lokomotiv returned to the Soviet First League after two seasons absence, while Zenit was relegated for the first time since being promoted back", "id": "831394" }, { "contents": "2010–11 KHL season\n\n\nTogliatti dropped out of the league and joined the Russian Major League instead, after failing to meet the league's financial requirements. Merger of HC MVD and Dynamo Moscow On 30 April 2010, it was announced that HC MVD would merge with Dynamo Moscow to form UHC Dynamo, which for the time being will play the majority of their games at Megasport Arena in Moscow, while also attempting to play some games in Balashikha. The current plan is to have a new, large and modernized arena constructed in Balashikha by 2012. Expansion", "id": "10925022" }, { "contents": "Dzmitry Rawneyka\n\n\nDzmitry Vasilevich Rawneyka (; ; born 13 May 1980) is a former Belarusian professional footballer. He is currently af part of the coaching staff of Belarus. Born in Grodno, Rawneyka began playing football in FC Neman Grodno's youth system. He joined the senior side and made his Belarusian Premier League debut in 1998. He had a spell in the Russian Premier League with FC Torpedo Moscow and FC Rotor Volgograd but has spent most of his playing career with Neman Grodno. Rawneyka has made eight appearances for the Belarus national football team", "id": "13999154" }, { "contents": "BC Krasny Oktyabr\n\n\nthe highest stage for Russian clubs. In the first season of Krasny Oktyabr in the VTB United League, it qualified for the playoffs by finishing in the 6th place in Group B. Also, European powerhouse CSKA Moscow was defeated by Krasny Oktyabr in the quarterfinals of the 2013–14 Russian Cup tournament. On August 30, 2016, the team was forced to leave the United League, because its home arena wasn't approved to host tournaments. The club usually played its home games at the 3,700 seat Volgograd Sports Palace of Trade Unions,", "id": "8073501" }, { "contents": "Igor Lediakhov\n\n\n-Don. In 1990, he joined FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk. After impressing with FC Rotor Volgograd, Lediakhov was bought by Soviet Union giants FC Spartak Moscow, being essential as the capital team conquered three consecutive league titles, which included the inaugural edition of the competition, as the player scored in double digits in two of the three seasons. In the 1994 summer, 26-year-old Lediakhov moved abroad, signing with Spain's Sporting de Gijón. Even though he netted nearly 50 overall goals for the club (17 in four", "id": "21673652" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\nnew stadium - provided they had a professional club to fill it after the tournament. Rotor, facing legal action and a transfer embargo due to their financial status, were not reliable candidates. The government created a new entity, FC Volgograd, intending to assume the Rotor name. In fact Rotor managed to co-exist with the new FC for the first half of the 2009 season, before Mikheev suspended operations and the government took ownership of the club and stadium from him. The two clubs were merged into one, and", "id": "264677" }, { "contents": "FC Lokomotiv Moscow\n\n\npoints after Gameweek 30. The game was played at Dynamo Stadium in front of a sold-out crowd. Lokomotiv took an early lead thanks a low drive from captain Dmitry Loskov, and eventually the goal turned out to be enough for Lokomotiv to claim the first title in the club's history. Two years later, Lokomotiv again won the Russian Premier League, edging city rivals CSKA by a single point; Lokomotiv defeated Shinnik Yaroslavl 0–2 in Yaroslavl, a week after CSKA fell to city rivals Dynamo at home. In 2005", "id": "10933606" }, { "contents": "1995–96 Manchester United F.C. season\n\n\nactually went top of the league after a goalless draw at Sheffield Wednesday towards the end of September, only for the Tynesiders to return to the top of the table soon after. Then came Cantona's comeback on 1 October, when he scored a penalty to equalise and hold Liverpool to a 2–2 draw Old Trafford. The autumn saw United suffer first-hurdle exits to York City in the League Cup and Rotor Volgograd in the UEFA Cup, although United did preserve their 39-year home unbeaten record in European competitions thanks to a late", "id": "9981632" }, { "contents": "1994–95 Russian Cup\n\n\nDynamo Moscow: Valeri Kleimyonov (GK), Yuri Kovtun (DF), Sergey Timofeev (DF), Andrei Chernyshov (DF), Aleksandr Borodkin (DF), Aleksei Filippov (DF), Vagiz Khidiyatullin (DF), Andrei Ivanov (DF), Denis Klyuyev (MF), Dmitri Cheryshev (FW), Igor Simutenkov (FW), Kirill Rybakov (FW), Yuri Tishkov (FW). FC Rotor Volgograd: Volodymyr Gerashchenko (DF), Aleksandr Yeshchenko (MF), Konstantin Kulik (", "id": "5392312" }, { "contents": "FC Olimpia Volgograd\n\n\nFC Olimpia Volgograd () is a Russian football team from the large city of Volgograd. They are the second- or third-largest club in the city after the famous Rotor Volgograd. From their founding in 1989 until 1997, the club participated in various youth leagues. Some time between 1993 and 1994 the Volgograd native Leonid Slutsky, future coach of the Russian national team, joined the training staff. Among the Olimpia youth players developed under Slutsky were Denis Kolodin, Roman Adamov, Andrei Bochkov, Maksim Burchenko and Aleksei Zhdanov,", "id": "21936806" }, { "contents": "Peter Schmeichel\n\n\na 2001 Reuters poll, he beat Lev Yashin and Gordon Banks to be named the finest keeper in football history. Despite being a goalkeeper, he would run into the attack on corner kicks if his team was behind. The sight of him going up for the corner was a great distraction to opposing defenders. He scored a goal in this fashion, for Man United, in a UEFA Cup match against Rotor Volgograd at Old Trafford in September 1995. He scored in the last minutes of the game to tie the match 2–2", "id": "19820283" }, { "contents": "Spartak Gogniyev\n\n\nSpartak Arturovich Gogniyev (, ; born 19 January 1981) is a Russian professional football coach and a former player. He is the manager of FC Alania Vladikavkaz. He made his debut in the Russian Premier League in 2000 for FC Dynamo Moscow. He played two games in the UEFA Cup 2000–01 for FC Dynamo Moscow and two games (scoring one goal) in the UEFA Champions League 2003–04 qualification round for PFC CSKA Moscow. In August 2018, it was announced that Spartak Gogniyev joined new FC Urozhay Krasnodar, but this was", "id": "7903306" }, { "contents": "Georgi Yartsev\n\n\nat the time, gave Yartsev a sabre as a birthday gift in a sideline pre-game ceremony. Yartsev got another head coach position soon enough, when he joined Rotor Volgograd in January 2000. However, he could not do much with that team either and was fired in June of same year. For the next 3 years he was the manager of the Spartak Moscow veterans team. In August 2003, Russia was very close to elimination from their Euro 2004 preliminary qualification group and the coach Valery Gazzayev, was fired.", "id": "15861320" }, { "contents": "FCSB\n\n\nUEFA ordered Steaua to play two home games of the Europa League behind closed doors due to their fans displaying racist banners in a second qualifying round match against Hungarian side Újpest. Three further incidents occurred in the 2014–15 season, with the club fined and ordered to play further games in an empty stadium after displays of racist banners in matches against Dynamo Kyiv, Ludogorets Razgrad and Strømsgodset. Steaua's most important rivalry is the one against Dinamo București. \"Eternul derby\" (\"The Eternal Derby\") has been the leading Romanian", "id": "19491084" }, { "contents": "2010 Russian First Division\n\n\n), Mordovia Saransk (Ural-Povolzhye) and Irtysh Omsk (East). Due to financial difficulties, Vityaz Podolsk who placed 11th in 2009, decided to give up their spot in the Russian First Division and participate in the Russian Second Division in 2010. Pending licensing, their place was taken by FC Volgograd who placed 3rd in the Russian Second Division (South Zone) in 2009. For the occasion the management decided to change the name of the club from FC Volgograd to Rotor Volgograd. FC Alania Vladikavkaz were promoted", "id": "7947305" }, { "contents": "Russian Women's Handball Super League\n\n\nThe Russian Women's Handball Superleague is the premier women's handball competition in Russia. Dinamo Volgograd, formerly known as Rotor and Akva, is the championship's most successful club as of 2019 with 12 titles. It also holds the record for consecutive wins, with six titles in a row. Currently eleven clubs take part in the competition, with the top eight playing the championship play-offs. The Russian Championship's leading teams have been successful in EHF's competitions. Zvezda Zvenigorod won the Champions League and the EHF Cup", "id": "8475941" }, { "contents": "Pavel Pogrebnyak\n\n\n's relegation, Pogrebnyak was linked with a move away from the club but did not leave. He scored his first goals in more than eight months after netting twice in a 3–1 win over Derby County in September 2013. On 27 August 2015 Pogrebnyak moved back to Russia, signing a three-year contract with Dynamo Moscow. Dynamo released him on 25 January 2018, citing disciplinary reasons, such as attending a Juventus - Inter Milan game in Italy on the same day Dynamo played a league game and participating in the annual exhibition", "id": "2040879" }, { "contents": "1996 in Russian football\n\n\nplayers (Stanislav Cherchesov, Viktor Onopko, Vasili Kulkov and Sergei Yuran) who played in the group stage where Spartak did not lose a single point left the club to move to Western European clubs in the winter before the quarterfinals. Nicolas Ouédec was instrumental again, after scoring 7 goals in 4 games against the Russian teams in the 1994–95 UEFA Cup, this time he scored 3 goals in two games against Spartak. FC Dynamo Moscow were eliminated in the quarterfinals. All the Russian teams were eliminated in 1995. FC Alania Vladikavkaz", "id": "22219347" }, { "contents": "Kamil Mullin\n\n\nKamil Shamilevich Mullin (, ; born 5 January 1994) is a Russian professional football player who plays for FC Rotor Volgograd. He plays as a forward. Mullin joined Lokomotiv academy at 16 years, and two years later made it to the youth squad. In total, he played 53 games for Lokomotiv U21 and scored 23 goals.br He made his debut for Lokomotiv first team in the 2012–13 Russian Cup game vs Torpedo Armavir on 26 September 2012.br In March 2013, Mullin for the first time was included into team sheet for the", "id": "2605760" }, { "contents": "FC Dynamo Moscow\n\n\nthe 2008 season, Dynamo finished third, qualifying for the 2009–10 Champions League preliminary round. On 29 July 2009, Dynamo recorded a 0–1 away win against Celtic at Celtic Park, which gave them a strong advantage going into the second leg. However, Celtic comfortably defeated Dynamo 0–2 in Moscow to progress, sending Dynamo into the Europa League play-off round where the club was eliminated by Bulgarian side CSKA Sofia after a 0–0 away draw in Sofia and a 1–2 home defeat in Moscow. In 2012, after a poor start", "id": "8644502" }, { "contents": "2013–14 Russian Premier League\n\n\n2014/15 season. The 13th and 14th Premier League teams will play the 4th and 3rd FNL teams respectively in two playoff games with the winner securing a Premier League spot for 2014/15 season. On 11 May 2014, the game between FC Zenit Saint Petersburg and FC Dynamo Moscow was interrupted in the 86th minute with Dynamo leading 4-2 when Zenit fans ran out of the stands. At first they stood behind the goal line, when the referee decided to take the teams off the field into the dressing rooms and teams began to", "id": "9911963" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\nthe third tier) in 1980 and 1981, and were successful in the promotion playoffs the second time. In 1988 Rotor finished second in the Soviet First League, earning promotion to the Soviet Top League. They finished 13th and last in the downsized 1990 competition after the Georgian and Lithuanian teams withdrew, and the decision was made to relegate them. However they bounced straight back as champions of the First League in 1991, thus becoming founder members of the new Russian Top Division after the USSR collapsed. In the mid-1990s, Rotor", "id": "264672" }, { "contents": "Bibras Natkho\n\n\n, Natkho scored two goals in the Champions League qualifier against Dynamo Kyiv and Lyon, who they eliminated Kazan out of the competitions and the club would play in the Europa League. Then in the Europa League campaign, Natkho scored twice in six matches in the Group Stage of the Europa League against Tottenham Hostpur and Shamrock Rovers. Natkho performance was praised for his role during the season and helped the club win the Russian Cup after playing a vital of assisting the winning goal, in a 1–0 win over Dynamo Moscow. Natkho would", "id": "21438585" }, { "contents": "Danil Lipovoy\n\n\nDanil Nikolayevich Lipovoy (; born 22 September 1999) is a Russian football player who plays for FC Dynamo Moscow. He made his debut in the Russian Professional Football League for FC Dynamo-2 Moscow on 2 April 2017 in a game against FC Dynamo Saint Petersburg. He made his debut for the main squad of FC Dynamo Moscow on 26 September 2018 in a Russian Cup game against FC Torpedo Moscow. He made Russian Premier League debut for Dynamo on 30 November 2018 in a game against FC Rubin Kazan, as a 64th-minute substitute", "id": "429351" }, { "contents": "FC Amkar Perm\n\n\n, having lost their Spring matches to Kuban Krasnodar (1–2) and Spartak Moscow (0–2). A series without a win followed the victory over Alania and after the Dynamo match Amkar lost to Terek Grozny (1–2) and Lokomotiv Moscow (2–4). After another devastating defeat from Kuban (0–4), followed by a victory over their direct rivals Rostov (3–2), and a goalless draw with Zenit, the club retained the right to play in the Premier League. In June 2013, the club opted not to", "id": "5030824" }, { "contents": "FC Shakhtar Donetsk\n\n\nminute Fedor Manov opened score to Donetsk team goals. Final score is 4:1 in favor of the hosts.\" Nonetheless, the selective job conducted constructively by the club's administration allowed the club to compete successfully at the top level by the end of the 1930s. During the \"war championship\" of 1941, which was interrupted unexpectedly, the club defeated Soviet champions Dynamo Moscow and after about ten games were placed in fifth in the league. In the last game of that championship, played on 24 June, two days after", "id": "14103740" }, { "contents": "Oleg Veretennikov\n\n\nOleg Aleksandrovich Veretennikov (; born 5 January 1970) is a professional Russian association football coach and a former international footballer. He manages Rotor-2 Volograd. He is the top goalscorer in the history of Russian Premier League, and holds several other goalscoring records. Most of Veretennikov's successes have come with SC Rotor Volgograd, for whom he played in 1992–1999. During that time he scored 143 goals, which makes him the best goalscorer in the Russian Premier League history (the next best goalscorer, Dmitry Loskov, has 109 goals as of", "id": "21553966" }, { "contents": "Sergei Pareiko\n\n\nSergei Pareiko (born 31 January 1977) is a retired Estonian footballer. He is currently the sporting director of Estonian football club Levadia. Pareiko played as a goalkeeper in Estonian, Russian and Polish top tiers. He made a total of 65 appearances for the Estonia national football team. In Estonia, Pareiko played for Tallinna Sadam and Levadia Maardu, before moving to Russia in 2001, when he signed with Rotor Volgograd. After Rotor were relegated, Pareiko moved to Tom Tomsk. At the end of 2009 season Pareiko was named", "id": "11658849" }, { "contents": "FC Dinamo Tbilisi\n\n\nIn this period Dinamo won the Soviet Cup for the first time in their history, convincingly defeating Armenian side Ararat Yerevan 3–0 in the final, with goals scored by David Kipiani, Piruz Kanteladze and Revaz Chelebadze. In 1978 the club won the Soviet Top League for a second time. Next year Dinamo won the Soviet Cup again by defeating Russian side Dynamo Moscow in the final. In 1979 the club played its first match in the UEFA European Cup tournament. In the first round Dinamo knocked out English side Liverpool, at the", "id": "10097459" }, { "contents": "Romelu Lukaku\n\n\nlater at home to West Ham. Lukaku scored twice in a 4–0 win, becoming the fourth Manchester United player to score two goals on his Premier League debut for the club. On 17 September, Lukaku scored United's third goal in a 4–0 win over his former club Everton, with Lukaku running over towards Everton fans and cupping his ears during his goal celebration in response to being booed throughout the game. On 27 September, Lukaku scored twice in a 4–1 UEFA Champions League win over CSKA Moscow, taking his tally to", "id": "1117930" }, { "contents": "Dynamo Dresden\n\n\none Game behind closed doors and one away game without own fan support. Virtual tickets were offered to reduce the financial loss, creating \"the first sold-out Ghost Game in history\". The 2012–13 season started poorly for Dynamo and Ralf Loose was sacked in December 2012 after a 3–0 defeat to VfL Bochum with the team in 15th place. He was replaced by Peter Pacult, returning to the club after more than six years. Dynamo's form improved after Pacult's arrival but the team still finished the league as 16th", "id": "11366777" }, { "contents": "Aleksandr Tashayev\n\n\nAleksandr Mikhailovich Tashayev (; born 23 June 1994) is a Russian professional football player who plays as a left midfielder for Spartak Moscow. He made his professional debut on 11 December 2014 for FC Dynamo Moscow in a 2014–15 UEFA Europa League group game against PSV Eindhoven. He also played in the Round of 16 away game against Napoli. On 6 July 2018, he signed a contract with the cross-city rivals FC Spartak Moscow, after buying out own contract from Dynamo and becoming a free agent. Dynamo unsuccessfully sued to deem", "id": "13552247" }, { "contents": "Dynamo Moscow Bandy Club\n\n\nthe end of the 2004–05 season, almost all players of the for a decade dominant Vodnik signed up for Dynamo Moscow, resulting in an immediate Russian League title in 2006. Dynamo Moscow won the World Cup for the first time in 2006, defeating Zorky in the final. The 2006 domestic title was followed by another four consecutive Russian championship titles and as one of the dominating teams in the following years too, until 2017, when they missed the championship play-off, only coming in at eighth place in the regular season", "id": "1825162" }, { "contents": "Handball Club Lada\n\n\nHandball Club Lada is a Russian women's handball club from Tolyatti playing in the Russian Super League. Founded in 1998, Lada soon became the leading team in the Super League winning five championships in a row between 2002 and 2006 and a sixth one in 2008. It also built itself a name in Europe winning the 2002 Cup Winners' Cup in its international debut and reaching the final of the 2007 Champions League and the next edition's semifinals. The following three seasons were less successful, with Dynamo Volgograd retrieving the leading position", "id": "9114247" }, { "contents": "Omari Tetradze\n\n\n– Tetradze. Later he considered restoring his original surname, but decided it would cause too many problems. At club level, he played for Dinamo Tbilisi, FC Dynamo Moscow, Alania Vladikavkaz (where he won a Russian league championship medal in 1995), AS Roma, and PAOK FC (Greece). He played for Russia at international level, and appeared at World Cup 1994 and Euro 1996. At the latter tournament, he played superbly in each of Russia's three games despite the team's poor results, and", "id": "17559889" }, { "contents": "FC Girondins de Bordeaux\n\n\nclub was relegated just two years thereafter. In 1992, however, \"Les Girondins\" won that year's Ligue 2 title, thus being elevated to the top tier of French football. In the emergence of young and exciting players such as playmaker Zinedine Zidane, striker Christophe Dugarry and left back Bixente Lizarazu, the club ascended even higher to win the UEFA Intertoto Cup in 1995. With this talented trio, the club defeated FC Rotor Volgograd (the 1995 King's Cup Winner), Real Betis, Milan and Slavia Prague", "id": "10933676" }, { "contents": "Yuriy Hudymenko\n\n\nYuriy Arkadiyovych Hudymenko (; born 3 October 1966) is a former Kyrgyz-born Ukrainian professional footballer. Hudymenko is a product of the main Bishkek sports school and later was accepted to the main republican club of Kyrgyzia, FC Alga Bishkek. In 1990 he made his debut in the Soviet Top League playing for FC Dnepr Dnepropetrovsk, but failed to score any goals in domestic competitions, but did score a goal against Heart of Midlothian F.C. in the 1990-91 UEFA Cup. Next year Hudymenko joined recently relegated FC Rotor Volgograd that", "id": "11637137" }, { "contents": "Valery Gazzaev\n\n\na second-place finish at the end of the season. However, Gazzaev was left behind in the first league in Spartak Ordzhonikidze, as he wasn't one of the main players of the SKA Rostov-on-Don. In the Soviet Top League, Gazzaev played in Lokomotiv Moscow, Dynamo Moscow, and Dinamo Tbilisi. Gazzaev is a Soviet Cup winner with Dynamo Moscow in 1984. During his career he scored 89 goals in 283 matches in Soviet Top League, and was the top goal scorer of the UEFA Cup", "id": "3537187" }, { "contents": "FC Amkar Perm\n\n\nAmkar was in third place in the standings, one point behind second-placed Spartak Moscow and six adrift of leaders Rubin Kazan. After the break, one of Amkar's team leaders, Vladimir Gabulov, and the captain, Aleksei Popov, left the team to join Dynamo Moscow and Rubin Kazan respectively. Two matches in a row on the \"equator\" of the Championship Amkar could have topped the league table but was unable to beat Tom Tomsk and Spartak Nalchik at home. On 16 November, after beating Tom in Tomsk", "id": "5030813" }, { "contents": "FC Rubin Kazan\n\n\nfixed after selling in Volgograd \"Rotor\" team leaders Oleg Nechaev and Rustem Khuzin (but soon returned to \"Rubin\" till the end of the season on loan). In the end the season Kazan finished on 8th place, only losing a point to Nizhnekamsk \"Neftechimik\" and dropped into the second league. The following year, 1994, coaches Zadikashvili and Semenov assemble a team literally bit by bit. Because of the continuing financial problems from the last season in the team left only 6 players: Grishin, Danilin,", "id": "19815661" }, { "contents": "Nikita Chernov\n\n\nNikita Aleksandrovich Chernov (; born 14 January 1996) is a Russian professional football player who plays as a centre-back for Krylia Sovetov Samara and Russia national football team. Born in Volzhsky, Volgograd Oblast, Chernov began his career at hometown team FC Energiya Volzhsky before joining CSKA Moscow in 2009. He made his professional debut on 24 September 2014 in a Russian Cup game against FC Khimik Dzerzhinsk. He also played in the next Russian Cup round against FC Torpedo Moscow on 29 October. On 30 July 2019, Chernov moved from", "id": "503700" }, { "contents": "KF Skënderbeu Korçë\n\n\nBeşiktaş, Lokomotiv Moscow and Sporting Clube de Portugal. In matchday 1, their first ever group stage game, the club was defeated at home 0–1 by Beşiktaş after a hard fight between the two sides. In the next matchday, they lost 0–2 to Lokomotiv Moscow in Moscow. Their worst defeat in the European competition yet came the next matchday, a storming 1–5 loss to Sporting in the away leg at Lisbon, but also had the Albanian side scoring their first goal in the UEFA Europa League group stages. In the home", "id": "1409695" }, { "contents": "FC Dynamo Kyiv\n\n\nand Maccabi Tel Aviv F.C. Dynamo finished in second place with 11 points after a spectacular performance and a memorable 0–2 in Porto. However, Dynamo was punished by UEFA for a racist incident in the home game against Chelsea where four black men were attacked in the stands by Dynamo fans. Despite this, Dynamo reached the round of 16 in the Champions League for the first time since 2000, where it was drawn with Manchester City. Dynamo was eliminated 1–3 on aggregate but managed to hold an impressive 0–0 draw in Manchester. Dynamo", "id": "18770189" }, { "contents": "Konstantin Kovalenko\n\n\nKonstantin Valeryevich Kovalenko (; ; born 2 February 1975) is a Belarusian and Russian professional footballer who plays for resurrected FC Kuban Krasnodar. He made his professional debut in the Soviet Second League in 1991 for FC Kuban Barannikovsky. He played 1 game in the 1996–97 UEFA Cup for FC Spartak Moscow. His brother Andrei Kovalenko also played football professionally. On 27 October 2008 he punched referee Sergei Timofeyev in the face in the Russian Second Division game FC Sochi-04 - FC Olimpia Volgograd. He was banned from football for a year. Spartak", "id": "1118096" }, { "contents": "Clinton N'Jie\n\n\nDimitri Payet and scored two goals in a 3–0 win. On 17 September, he scored both the goals in the away win over Amiens. On 3 May 2018, he played in the Europa League semi-finals away to FC Red Bull Salzburg as Marseille played out a 2–1 away loss but a 3–2 aggregate win to secure a place in the 2018 UEFA Europa League Final. On 25 July 2019, Njie signed a 4-year contract with Russian Premier League club Dynamo Moscow. N'Jie scored 44 minutes into his Cameroon debut against the", "id": "16847587" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\ntime they were able to consolidate in the National League, finishing 9th and then 14th. But financial troubles continued. A Ministry of Sport investigation found evidence of financial misconduct by club management along with substantial overspending, and regional Governor Andrey Bocharov announced after the 2013 season that government support for Rotor was being withdrawn. The club dropped back into the Second Division (renamed the Professional Football League) for the first half of the 2014–15 (autumn-spring) season, then withdrew in order to immediately transfer to the 2015 (spring", "id": "264679" }, { "contents": "2001 FC Anzhi Makhachkala season\n\n\nThe 2001 FC Anzhi Makhachkala season was the 2nd season that the club played in the Russian Top Division, the highest tier of football in Russia, following their promotion from the National Football League in 1999. They finished the season in 13th, were runners-up in the 2001-02 cup and reached the Sixth Round of the 2002-03 cup losing to Dynamo Moscow, and were knocked out of the UEFA Cup at the First Round stage after a 0-1 defeat to Rangers over one leg in Warsaw, Poland", "id": "4897180" }, { "contents": "FC Dynamo-2 Moscow\n\n\nFC Dynamo-2 Moscow () was a Russian football team from Moscow. It was the farm-club for FC Dynamo Moscow. In 2016, it was revived after the parent club, Dynamo, was relegated from the Russian Football Premier League (which holds its own competition for the Under-21 teams of the Premier League clubs) and licensed to play in the third-tier Russian Professional Football League for the 2016–17 season. Majority of the squad participated in the 2016–17 UEFA Youth League as well. On 17 June 2017, the parent", "id": "19064817" }, { "contents": "Mikhail Markosov\n\n\nDivision South Zone, scoring 27 goals, a feat no one in the entire Second Division surpassed. In the 2010 season, he played for FC Rotor Volgograd and came back to FC Dynamo Stavropol the next season. Scoring 10 goals in his first 10 matches for Dynamo, Markosov was transferred in the summer transfer window of the 2011-12 season to FC Ufa. From April until June 2019 Markosov played for FC Kuban Krasnodar, scored 7 goals in 11 matches. He joined the Armenia national football team in 2013. Markosov", "id": "12122198" }, { "contents": "1993 in Russian football\n\n\ntheir group campaign and finished it without much success, only gaining 2 points in 6 games, coming in last in the group and suffering a 0-6 defeat against Marseille. They could not play their home games in Moscow due to the lack of a stadium meeting the Champions League standards at the time. FC Spartak Moscow reached the semifinals, tying the best European result in club's history. FC Spartak Moscow qualified for the group stage and continued to play in the group into the 1994. FC Torpedo Moscow went out", "id": "21710373" }, { "contents": "2002 in Russian football\n\n\nrespective Second Division zones: The Russian Cup was won by CSKA Moscow, who beat Zenit Saint Petersburg 2–0 in the final at the Luzhniki Stadium. Lokomotiv Moscow participated in the third round of the UEFA Cup 2001-02, but were knocked out by Hapoel Tel Aviv FC who won 3–1 on aggregate. Krylya Sovetov Samara played in the UEFA Intertoto Cup 2002. After defeating Dinaburg FC in the second round they lost to Willem II Tilburg on away goals. Lokomotiv Moscow's victory over Grazer AK ensured there are two Russian clubs", "id": "11619883" }, { "contents": "FC Dynamo Moscow\n\n\nFC Dynamo Moscow (Dinamo Moscow, FC Dinamo Moskva, ) is a Russian football club based in Moscow. Dynamo has returned to the Russian Premier League for the 2017–18 season after one season in the second-tier Russian Football National League. Dynamo was the only club that had always played in the top tier of Soviet football (along with Dynamo Kyiv) and of Russian football from the end of the Soviet era until they were relegated in 2016. Despite this, it has never won the modern Russian Premier League title and", "id": "8644495" }, { "contents": "Nikita Lyamin\n\n\nIn 2004, he played three season in the farm team and two more seasons in the main team for Dynamo Moscow. Dynamo Moscow became champions at the 2007–08 Russian Volleyball Super League, but Lyamin due to low game practice quit the club. Lyamin moved to Nizhny Novgorod and became captain of Guberniya, which went on debuting in the B-division of the highest national league. In the two years, Guberniya could enter the Super League, and in the 2012–13 it became one of the leading clubs in Russia. Guberniya qualified", "id": "8669287" }, { "contents": "Leonid Slutsky (football coach)\n\n\nLeonid Viktorovich Slutsky (; born 4 May 1971) is a Russian professional football coach and former player who is the manager of Eredivisie club Vitesse. Previously, he has been in charge of Olimpia Volgograd, Uralan Elista, Moscow, Krylia Sovetov, CSKA Moscow, Russia and Hull City. Slutsky was born in Volgograd. Slutsky's playing career with FC Zvezda Gorodishche ended at just 19 years of age. He had to retire due to a knee injury sustained after falling out of a tree while rescuing a neighbour's cat. Slutsky", "id": "11710104" }, { "contents": "Yuri Kovtun\n\n\nduring the season so two top teams were interested in him at the same time, it's Dynamo and Spartak Moscow. In 1993, Kovtun chose Dynamo Moscow and was their key player for years, until his move to Spartak in 1999. While the only Kovtun's honour during 6 years in Dynamo was Russian Cup in 1995, he could get 3 titles in 1999, 2000 and 2001 after joining Spartak. Moreover, he took part in numerous UEFA Champions League games and found himself regular Russian national football team player. Kovtun", "id": "2071460" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\n-tier Russian Professional Football League for the 2016–17 season. They won their zone of the PFL in the 2016–17 season and were promoted to the second-level Russian National Football League for 2017–18. Despite ending the 2017–18 season in the relegation zone, the club stayed in the league for the 2018–19 season as another team that finished above them in the table failed to obtain the league license. As of 5 July 2019, according to the FNL website. Had international caps for their respective countries. Players whose name is listed in", "id": "264681" }, { "contents": "Dmitri Khokhlov\n\n\nDmitri Valeryevich Khokhlov (, born 22 December 1975) is a Russian football manager and a former player. He is the manager of FC Dynamo Moscow. He played as a holding midfielder or playmaker. He played for PFC CSKA Moscow and FC Lokomotiv Moscow in native Russia, having abroad spells with PSV Eindhoven (Netherlands) and Real Sociedad (Spain). During his time with FC Lokomotiv Moscow he participated in their memorable 2003–04 UEFA Champions League campaign, scoring third goal in the 3–0 home victory against Internazionale. He played for", "id": "19054427" }, { "contents": "Racism in association football\n\n\nagainst CSKA Moscow in Russia. The club's stadium was partially closed as punishment. Touré suggested that black players might boycott the 2018 FIFA World Cup, to be held in Russia, if racism continued in the country. In September 2014, Dynamo Moscow defender Christopher Samba was racially abused playing in the Moscow derby against Torpedo Moscow. As a result, Torpedo were forced to close part of their stadium, although Samba was also banned for two games for swearing at the racist fans. In a friendly match (Russia vrs France", "id": "21349703" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\nTraktor Stalingrad to national prominence. Traktor were champions of the new fourth-level Group G in 1937, and were then promoted straight to the highest-level Group A as it expanded from 9 clubs to 26. They remained at the top level until 1950. Rotor then spent three decades at the top regional level, although the creation of the Supreme League in 1970 pushed their league from the second level overall down to the third. They gradually improved throughout the 1970s and finally won Zone III of the Soviet Second League (", "id": "264671" }, { "contents": "WPC Dynamo Moscow\n\n\nWPC Dynamo Moscow () is a Russian men's water polo club, that is part of the traditional Moscow-based multi-sports club Dynamo. Dynamo won seven Soviet Championships between 1955 and 1962, and in 1964 it was the first team to represent the in the newly European Champions Cup, ranking second behind Partizan. In 1968 and 1969 the team won two more national championships, and it also reached the 1969 European Cup's final, lost to Mladost. For the next fifteen years Dynamo didn't win any more", "id": "18685765" }, { "contents": "Kyle Hines\n\n\ngreat Olympiacos comeback in 4th quarter, led by Vassilis Spanoulis. CSKA Moscow eventually won the EuroLeague third place game, after defeating Fenerbahçe, by a score of 86–80. In his second EuroLeague season with CSKA Moscow, Hines averaged a career-low 6.8 points and 4.3 rebounds per game, over 30 games played. CSKA Moscow finished the season by winning the VTB United League, after eliminating Khimki with a 3–0 series sweep in the League's finals series. On June 17, 2015, he signed a two-year contract", "id": "14695455" }, { "contents": "Miroslav Raičević\n\n\nfinal decisive shot in the very last seconds of the final game against Prokom Trefl Sopot. He also won the Greek Cup with Aris, in the year 2004. He has also played with Red Star Belgrade of the Adriatic League during the 2005–06 season. He won the Serbian Cup with Red Star that season. In the 2006–07 season, he played with the Russian Super League club Dynamo Moscow. During summer of 2007, he left Dynamo Moscow and joined the Italian League club Eldo Napoli. He then left Napoli and moved back", "id": "13596698" } ]

[ { "contents": "1996 in Russian football\n\n\nwas knocked out in the qualifying round. FC Lokomotiv Moscow went out in the second round. PFC CSKA Moscow, FC Dynamo Moscow and FC Torpedo-Luzhniki Moscow were eliminated in the first round after going through the qualifying round. FC Alania Vladikavkaz went out in the first round after going to the UEFA Cup after failing in the qualification for the Champions League. FC Spartak Moscow went out in the second round. Russian clubs participated in the Intertoto Cup for the first time. FC Rotor Volgograd, FC KAMAZ-Chally Naberezhnye", "id": "22219348" }, { "contents": "1995 in Russian football\n\n\nthe Russian Cup 1995–96 were played later in the year. All the Russian participants were eliminated in 1994. FC Spartak Moscow won every game in their group, qualifying for the quarterfinals. FC Dynamo Moscow advanced through the first two rounds, qualifying to play in the quarterfinals next spring. FC Spartak-Alania Vladikavkaz and FC Lokomotiv Moscow were eliminated in the first round by strong opponents (even though Lokomotiv very unexpectedly beat FC Bayern in Munich in the first game). FC Rotor Volgograd eliminated Manchester United F.C. in the first round", "id": "18335625" }, { "contents": "Maksim Nenakhov\n\n\nMaksim Maksimovich Nenakhov (; born 13 December 1998) is a Russian football player who plays for FC Rotor Volgograd. He made his debut in the Russian Professional Football League for FC Dynamo-2 Moscow on 20 July 2016 in a game against FC Tekstilshchik Ivanovo. On 19 January 2018, he was loaned to FC Tyumen until the end of the 2017–18 season. On 14 June 2018, he moved on another loan for the 2018–19 season to FC SKA-Khabarovsk. On 18 June 2019, he signed a 2-year contract with FC Rotor Volgograd", "id": "6983587" }, { "contents": "Almir Kayumov\n\n\nAlmir Izmailovich Kayumov (; 30 December 1964 – 7 August 2013) was a Russian football player and referee. Kayumov played for FC Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk, FC Lada Togliatti, Spartak Moscow, Rotor Volgograd, SKA Rostov-on-Don, in Russia, the Daewoo Royals in South Korea, and Kuopion Palloseura in Finland. He played 6 games in the UEFA Cup 1986–87 for FC Spartak Moscow. On November 9, 2009, it was reported that Kayumov attempted to commit suicide by jumping out of his apartment window. Police negotiators talked", "id": "14510549" }, { "contents": "Ruslan Ishkinin\n\n\nRuslan Kamilyevich Ishkinin (; born 14 June 1974) is a former Russian professional footballer. He made his professional debut in the Russian Second Division in 1992 for FC Dynamo-2 Moscow. The most memorable match of his career was played on 14 June 1995. His team FC Dynamo Moscow was playing FC Rotor Volgograd in the final game of the Russian Cup. Dynamo was decimated by injuries and several reserve players, including Ishkinin, were called up for the game. With 5 minutes to go in regulation and the score of 0–0, Ishkinin", "id": "2479621" }, { "contents": "1997 in Russian football\n\n\nthe year. Russian teams were eliminated in 1996. FC Spartak Moscow were eliminated in the second qualifying round and went on to the UEFA Cup. FC Lokomotiv Moscow qualified for the quarterfinals stage that was played in 1998. FC Spartak Moscow qualified for the quarterfinals stage that was played in 1998. FC Rotor Volgograd reached the second round. FC Alania Vladikavkaz went out in the first round. The goal in the stadium was measured before the game and turned out to be 2.46 meters high instead of regulation 2.44. The referee decided", "id": "20500131" }, { "contents": "2012–13 Russian Premier League\n\n\naltogether if the game is awarded to Dynamo. According to the police, the main suspect is a female fan who was arrested after the game. The criminal investigation was opened on the charge of hooliganism. On 22 November, Russian Football Union's Control-Disciplinary Committee awarded the game to Dynamo with a score of 3–0 and fined both clubs. Dynamo had to play their next home game (against Rubin Kazan) behind closed doors and Zenit had to play their next 2 home games (against CSKA Moscow and Anzhi Makhachkala)", "id": "321372" }, { "contents": "Yuriy Kalitvintsev\n\n\nfor FC Desna Chernihiv. A Russian-born Kalitvintsev chose to play for the Ukraine side after breaking through as a midfielder for Dynamo Kyiv. Until 1994 he played he spent his playing career at Russian clubs such as FC Rotor Volgograd, FC SKA Rostov-on-Don, FC Dynamo Moscow, and FC Lokomotiv Nizhny Novgorod. It wasn't until the reorganization of the soviet football when he started to play at the top level of the Russian championship starting for the Moscow's Dynamo. After being transferred to the fading club", "id": "20481933" }, { "contents": "Sergei Bogomolov\n\n\nSergei Anatolyevich Bogomolov (; born 17 August 1971) is a former Russian professional footballer. During his time with FC Dynamo Moscow he only played in a single game for the main team, but it was a very memorable one. On 14 June 1995, Dynamo was playing FC Rotor Volgograd in the final game of the 1994–95 Russian Cup. Dynamo was hurt by injuries to some first team regulars and several reserve players, including Bogomolov, were called up for the game. With the score of 0:0 and 10 minutes to go in", "id": "18632079" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\nwas one of the strongest clubs in Russia, rivalling Spartak Moscow for the championship, yet never winning it. Rotor became the league runners-up in 1993 and 1997. Rotor played five successive seasons in European competition, from 1994-95 to 1998-99. They qualified for the UEFA Cup through their league position every year except 1996-97, when they instead chose to enter the Intertoto Cup. Unfortunately for Rotor, the fall of communism had left all the former Eastern Bloc leagues badly under-resourced compared to", "id": "264673" }, { "contents": "1995 in Russian football\n\n\n1995 was the fourth season Russia held its own national football competition since the breakup of the Soviet Union. FC Spartak-Alania Vladikavkaz won the league for the first time ever. This was the first season 3 points were awarded for a win instead of two. For more details, see: The third edition of the Russian Cup, Russian Cup 1994–95 was won by FC Dynamo Moscow, who beat FC Rotor Volgograd in the finals in a shootout 8-7 after finishing extra time at 0-0. Early stages of", "id": "18335624" }, { "contents": "Maxim Chuzhkov\n\n\nMaxim Aleksandrovich Chuzhkov (; born 11 April 1987) is a Russian beach soccer player serving as goalkeeper. He is a three-time national champion for three different clubs (Rotor Volgograd, Lokomotiv Moscow, Kristall). Maxim Chuzhkov was born in Samara. He was a gymnast for six years before switching to football. Chuzhkov discovered beach soccer in 2010, and one year later he joined Krylya Sovetov from Samara. From 2012 to 2014 he played for Rotor Volgograd, winning with them the club's first and only Russian Beach Soccer", "id": "21454463" }, { "contents": "1991 Soviet Top League\n\n\nseason, while FC Rotor Volgograd and FC Tiligul Tiraspol would have been promoted to the Top League for 1992. Top six clubs of the league later entered European competitions for their respective nations. The Ukrainian clubs chose to qualify through a separate national competition. The league was expanded to 16 after the last season, during which number of clubs left the Soviet competitions (from Georgia and Baltic states). The last-placed FC Rotor Volgograd of the 1990 Soviet Top League lost promotion/relegation playoff to Lokomotiv Moscow and was relegated", "id": "831265" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor-2 Volgograd\n\n\nFC Rotor-2 Volgograd () is a Russian football team based in Volgograd. It is the farm club for FC Rotor Volgograd. It previously played professionally as FC Rotor-d Volgograd or FC Rotor-2 Volgograd in the Russian Second Division in 1992–1993, 1998–2000 and 2004 and Russian Third League in 1994-1997. They came in 3rd place in their Second Division zone in 1993. In 2001, the reserves tournament for Russian Premier League was re-established and the reserves team played there while the main team stayed in Premier League.", "id": "5758261" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\nFC Rotor Volgograd () is a Russian football (soccer) club from the large city of Volgograd, Volgograd Oblast (formerly Stalingrad). The club plays in the second-level Russian National Football League. They are the largest and best supported Volgograd club and for most of their existence have been the city's only representatives in the national league system. They played at the top level of Soviet/Russian football either side of World War II, from 1989 to 1990, and from 1991 to 2004. During the 1990s", "id": "264669" }, { "contents": "Wisdom Mumba Chansa\n\n\nand Derby Makinka, to play in the Soviet Top League when they all signed for Pomir Dushanbe in 1989 after being spotted during their 4-0 win over Italy at the 1988 Olympics. Chansa's debut came on 2 October 1989 in an away match against Torpedo Moscow, before appearing twice more, against Rotor Volgograd and Metalist Kharkiv, before leaving at the conclusion of the 1989 season. Chansa returned to Power Dynamos following his Soviet experience, and was made captain before Power Dynamos became the first Zambian club side to win a", "id": "5300924" }, { "contents": "FC Volgograd\n\n\nFC Volgograd () is a former name of the Russian football club from Volgograd, founded in late 2008, currently known as FC Rotor Volgograd. Before it was founded, it was originally supposed to be called FC Rotor-Volgograd Volgograd (to keep Rotor's name around at the time FC Rotor Volgograd was close to bankruptcy). However, FC Rotor's financial situation has improved by early 2009 and the club was registered as FC Volgograd. It played in the Russian Second Division in 2009. It took over the license", "id": "6725532" }, { "contents": "Roman Pavlyuchenko\n\n\nRoman Anatolyevich Pavlyuchenko (; born 15 December 1981) is a Russian footballer who plays as a striker for FC Znamya Noginsk. He started his career at Dynamo Stavropol, and Rotor Volgograd, before transferring to Spartak Moscow in 2003. His performances there earned him a £13.7 million transfer to Tottenham Hotspur of the English Premier League in 2008, where he spent three full seasons before returning to Russia to play for Lokomotiv Moscow. After another full 3 seasons he moved in July 2015, to Kuban Krasnodar. A full international for a", "id": "3367200" }, { "contents": "Anton Miranchuk\n\n\nAnton Andreyevich Miranchuk (; born 17 October 1995) is a Russian professional football player who plays as a centre midfielder or attacking midfielder for Lokomotiv Moscow and the Russia national team. Born in Slavyansk-na-Kubani, Miranchuk joined Spartak Moscow from his hometown football school Olymp. He was dismissed from the club because of weak physical abilities. After that, he and his twin brother Aleksei moved to Lokomotiv Moscow. On 30 October 2013, Miranchuk made his competitive debut in senior football in a Russian Cup game against Rotor Volgograd replacing", "id": "1404526" }, { "contents": "Dmitry Pletnyov (footballer)\n\n\nDmitry Andreyevich Pletnyov (; born 16 January 1998) is a Russian football player. He plays for FC Tom Tomsk in Russian Football National League. He made his debut in the Russian Football National League for FC Zenit-2 Saint Petersburg on 6 September 2017 in a game against FC Rotor Volgograd. He made his Russian Premier League debut for FC Zenit Saint Petersburg on 5 May 2018 in a game against FC Lokomotiv Moscow. He played for Russia national under-17 football team at the 2015 UEFA European Under-17 Championship and 2015 FIFA U-17 World Cup.", "id": "21412634" }, { "contents": "2004 in Russian football\n\n\nseason. Andrey Fedkov of Terek became the top goalscorer with 38 goals. The following clubs have earned promotion by winning tournaments in their respective Second Division zones: Prior to start of the 2005 season three clubs (Rotor Volgograd, Torpedo Vladimir, and Arsenal Tula) refused participation in the First Division, and two more clubs (Dynamo Stavropol and Chernomorets Novorossiysk) were denied licences. This made way for the runners-up of all five zones: The Russian Super Cup match between CSKA Moscow and Spartak Moscow was won by CSKA", "id": "6344061" }, { "contents": "Dmitry Shishin\n\n\nnational beach soccer team. That year Shishin participated at the Russian Championship as player of Samarian Sputnik and debuted for the national team at the Beach Soccer World Cup. After Sputnik, Shishin for a long time played for different Saratov clubs, such as Rosagro, Biznes-Pravo, Delta. In 2011, Shishin moved to Lokomotiv Moscow, where he won the championship trophy with his team. Together with the Lokomotives he won another national championship trophy and two Russian cups. In 2013, Shishin surprisingly switched to Rotor Volgograd, becoming", "id": "12194946" }, { "contents": "2009 Russian Second Division\n\n\nJuly 2009 Oleg Mikheyev, president of FC Rotor Volgograd, announced Rotor's resignation from the league, citing problems with authorities. They have played 18 games and were in the 13th position with 21 points. \"Source: [PFL] , Sporbox.ru \" On 11 July 2009, the management of FC Spartak Shchyolkovo announced that the club would resign from the league after the first half of the season because of economic problems. Spartak were excluded from the league on August 4, 2009. They have played 18 games and were in", "id": "21482663" }, { "contents": "FC Olimpia Volgograd\n\n\nuntil 2008, though their fortunes faded after Slutsky's players left. Before the 2009 season their professional license was taken over by the new club FC Volgograd. This was meant to allow FC to assume the name and identity of Rotor who were suffering off-field troubles, but Rotor survived and ended up playing simultaneously with the new FC in 2009, while Olimpia dropped into the Volgograd Oblast Championship. They stayed there until 2011, winning the title in 2010. With confusion ongoing over the future of the Rotor name and club", "id": "21936808" }, { "contents": "Sergei Rashevsky\n\n\nSergei Aleksandrovich Rashevsky (; born 13 June 1980) is a Russian football coach and a former player. He is an assistant coach with FC Rotor Volgograd. He made his debut in the Russian Premier League in 2001 for FC Rotor Volgograd, before moving to Ural in 2005. After several seasons playing for different clubs in Russia, Rashevsky signed with Volga in 2008. He played for the club for three years, before he returned to Ural in 2011. Since February 2014, he played for the Russian National Football League side Yenisey", "id": "8136441" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\nthe new Rotor Volgograd were promoted to the second-level Russian Football National League thanks to teams above them withdrawing. The regional Ministry of Sport invested 150 million roubles ($4.9m) in the club's playing budget for the 2010 campaign, but it ended in failure as Rotor were relegated in 17th place. Governor Brovko admitted that the transition to the higher level was made too quickly. Former club player Sergei Nechay took over management and steered the team to promotion as champions of their Second Division zone in 2011–12. This", "id": "264678" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\ntheir Western counterparts, and indeed Rotor were knocked out by all four of the French and Italian clubs they played. The exception came against England's Manchester United in 1995-96. Having drawn the home leg 0-0, Rotor raced into a 2-0 lead at Old Trafford before United scored their first goal. Rotor were seconds away from being the first European club to win at Old Trafford when United's goalkeeper Peter Schmeichel scored a famous equaliser, but the 2-2 draw meant Rotor progressed by the away", "id": "264674" }, { "contents": "Roman Pavlyuchenko\n\n\na 1-0 loss against Moscow on 5 April 1999. On 15 May 1999, Pavlyuchenko provided a double assist in a 2-1 win over Chita. In his first season, Pavlyuchenko made 31 appearance and scoring 11 goals. However, the club played was still relegated to the Second Division after the club was last place. Despite this, Pavlyuchenko was named 'Team of the top' junior division for the first version of the newspaper Sport Express. Pavlyuchenko moved to Rotor Volgograd in 2000, although the move was", "id": "3367203" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\ntheir professional licence entirely. Rotor's reserve side in the Russian Second Division, Rotor-2 Volgograd, became the club's first team and was renamed Rotor in 2006. In 2007 local businessman Oleg Mikheev acquired the club's main asset the Volgograd Central Stadium, and with it effective control over the club, but financial troubles continued and the team's performances in the Second Division declined. Matters came to a head in 2009. Russia had officially launched its bid for the FIFA World Cup 2018 and Volgograd city was in line for a", "id": "264676" }, { "contents": "1988 Soviet Cup Final\n\n\nThe 1988 Soviet Cup Final was a football match that took place at the Lenin's Central Stadium, Moscow on May 28, 1988. The match was the 47th Soviet Cup Final and it was contested by FC Metalist Kharkiv and FC Torpedo Moscow. The Soviet Cup winner Metalist qualified for the Cup Winners' Cup first round for the Soviet Union. The last year defending holders Dynamo Kyiv were eliminated in the second round of the competition by FC Rotor Volgograd (3:2, 0:2). For Metalist this was their second final total", "id": "158055" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\ngoals rule They went on to be defeated by eventual Runners-up Bordeaux in the second round. Full European results: In the 2000s, Rotor's results declined, and in 2004, the team finished last in the Russian Premier League. The club's owner Vladimir Goryunov, a member of the Duma and head of the parliamentary sports committee, explored options to save Rotor from relegation, such as expanding the Premier League to 20 teams. But in January 2005 Rotor were unable to make the required financial guarantees and so lost", "id": "264675" }, { "contents": "2018–19 Russian Football National League\n\n\n. Ararat Moscow was promoted from 2017–18 PFL, but were refused a license for the 2018–19 Russian National Football League, the club being subsequently dissolved. Zenit-2 Saint Petersburg, Rotor Volgograd, Luch Vladivostok, Tyumen and Fakel Voronezh were spared from relegation due to lack of teams enrolled for the 2018–19 season. Sakhalin Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk finished on the promotion place at the end of the 2017–18 PFL season, but refused to be promoted. Dynamo Saint Petersburg was moved from Saint Petersburg to Sochi and renamed as PFC Sochi. Olimpiyets Nizhny Novgorod", "id": "621376" }, { "contents": "Dinamo Volgograd\n\n\nDinamo Volgograd () is a Russian women's handball club from Volgograd. Founded in 1972 as Burevestnik Volgograd, it represented Rotor Volgograd following the collapse of the Soviet Union and was subsequently named Aqva before taking its current name in 2003. Dynamo is the most successful team in the Russian Super League with nine titles, and in the 2001-02 season it set an absolute record winning all the matches. It has also been fairly successful in international competitions with three titles: the 1995 Challenge Cup and Champions Trophy and the 2008", "id": "10627328" }, { "contents": "List of football clubs in Russia\n\n\nZelenodolsk — FC Prometey-Dinamo Saint Petersburg — FC Pskov — FC Pskov-2000 — FC Pskov-747 FC Radian-Baikal Irkutsk — FC Rassvet Troitskoye — FC Reformatsiya Abakan — FC Rekord Aleksandrov — FC Reutov — FC Ritm Alekseyevka — FC Ritm Belgorod — FC Roda Moscow — FC Rossia Moscow — FC Rostov — FC Rostselmash-2 Rostov-on-Don — FC Rostselmash Rostov-on-Don — FC Rotor-2 Mikhaylovka — FC Rotor-2 Volgograd — FC Rotor Volgograd — FC Rubin-2 Kazan — FC Rubin Kazan — FC Rubin-TAN Kazan — FC", "id": "14958458" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\n-autumn) Russian Amateur Football League, the fourth level overall. In the 2015 season Rotor won the Amateur League Chernozemye (South-West Region) division at the first attempt by 11 points, suffering only one defeat in 22 games. The 45,000-seater Pobeda Stadium is under construction on their old Central Stadium site, and it was reported in August 2015 that the first team are still interested in moving into the facility after the 2018 World Cup, which makes attaining a higher league status a priority. They were licensed for third", "id": "264680" }, { "contents": "2010–11 KHL season\n\n\nThe 2010–11 KHL season was the third season of the Kontinental Hockey League. It was held from 8 September 2010 and ended on 16 April 2011. The season started with the Opening Cup game between the last season's finalists, Ak Bars Kazan and UHC Dynamo, the new team that was created by merging last season's Western conference winner HC MVD with Dynamo Moscow. Salavat Yulaev Ufa won the Gagarin Cup and the Russian Championship after beating Atlant Moscow Oblast 4–1 in the play-off final series. Folding of Lada Togliatti Lada", "id": "10925021" }, { "contents": "1994 in Russian football\n\n\ntime at 2-2. Early stages of the Russian Cup 1994–95 were played later in the year. FC Spartak Moscow finished the group stage in third place, not qualifying for the semifinals. All the Russian participants were eliminated in 1993. FC Spartak Moscow qualified directly for the group stage. It did not qualify from the group, coming in third place. PFC CSKA Moscow were eliminated in the first round. FC Rotor Volgograd and FC Tekstilshchik Kamyshin were both eliminated by FC Nantes in the first and second round respectively,", "id": "17746833" }, { "contents": "Mikhail Osinov\n\n\nRussian Top Division side Rotor Volgograd. In 2001, Osinov was transferred to FC Rostov and stayed there for 9 years, suffering a relegation and helping the \"yellow-blues\" to return to the Premier League. He also holds the club record for league appearances with 239 games. In 2010, he returned to Yekaterinburg to play in the Russian First Division. In 2011, Osinov went to a lower league joining MITOS Novocherkassk of the Russian Second Division. On 11 September 2011, in a league game against Olimpia Gelendzhik Osinov", "id": "12015633" }, { "contents": "1990 Soviet Top League\n\n\non 1 March with the game between Dnipro and Rotor and lasted until 20 October 1990. The season was won by FC Dynamo Kyiv. The league was reduced to 13 after first Georgian clubs (Dinamo Tbilisi and Guria Lanchkhuti) and then Žalgiris withdrew from the Soviet Top League. Lokomotiv Moscow and the last placed Zenit Leningrad of the 1989 Soviet Top League were relegated to the 1990 Soviet First League. Lokomotiv returned to the Soviet First League after two seasons absence, while Zenit was relegated for the first time since being promoted back", "id": "831394" }, { "contents": "2010–11 KHL season\n\n\nTogliatti dropped out of the league and joined the Russian Major League instead, after failing to meet the league's financial requirements. Merger of HC MVD and Dynamo Moscow On 30 April 2010, it was announced that HC MVD would merge with Dynamo Moscow to form UHC Dynamo, which for the time being will play the majority of their games at Megasport Arena in Moscow, while also attempting to play some games in Balashikha. The current plan is to have a new, large and modernized arena constructed in Balashikha by 2012. Expansion", "id": "10925022" }, { "contents": "Dzmitry Rawneyka\n\n\nDzmitry Vasilevich Rawneyka (; ; born 13 May 1980) is a former Belarusian professional footballer. He is currently af part of the coaching staff of Belarus. Born in Grodno, Rawneyka began playing football in FC Neman Grodno's youth system. He joined the senior side and made his Belarusian Premier League debut in 1998. He had a spell in the Russian Premier League with FC Torpedo Moscow and FC Rotor Volgograd but has spent most of his playing career with Neman Grodno. Rawneyka has made eight appearances for the Belarus national football team", "id": "13999154" }, { "contents": "BC Krasny Oktyabr\n\n\nthe highest stage for Russian clubs. In the first season of Krasny Oktyabr in the VTB United League, it qualified for the playoffs by finishing in the 6th place in Group B. Also, European powerhouse CSKA Moscow was defeated by Krasny Oktyabr in the quarterfinals of the 2013–14 Russian Cup tournament. On August 30, 2016, the team was forced to leave the United League, because its home arena wasn't approved to host tournaments. The club usually played its home games at the 3,700 seat Volgograd Sports Palace of Trade Unions,", "id": "8073501" }, { "contents": "Igor Lediakhov\n\n\n-Don. In 1990, he joined FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk. After impressing with FC Rotor Volgograd, Lediakhov was bought by Soviet Union giants FC Spartak Moscow, being essential as the capital team conquered three consecutive league titles, which included the inaugural edition of the competition, as the player scored in double digits in two of the three seasons. In the 1994 summer, 26-year-old Lediakhov moved abroad, signing with Spain's Sporting de Gijón. Even though he netted nearly 50 overall goals for the club (17 in four", "id": "21673652" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\nnew stadium - provided they had a professional club to fill it after the tournament. Rotor, facing legal action and a transfer embargo due to their financial status, were not reliable candidates. The government created a new entity, FC Volgograd, intending to assume the Rotor name. In fact Rotor managed to co-exist with the new FC for the first half of the 2009 season, before Mikheev suspended operations and the government took ownership of the club and stadium from him. The two clubs were merged into one, and", "id": "264677" }, { "contents": "FC Lokomotiv Moscow\n\n\npoints after Gameweek 30. The game was played at Dynamo Stadium in front of a sold-out crowd. Lokomotiv took an early lead thanks a low drive from captain Dmitry Loskov, and eventually the goal turned out to be enough for Lokomotiv to claim the first title in the club's history. Two years later, Lokomotiv again won the Russian Premier League, edging city rivals CSKA by a single point; Lokomotiv defeated Shinnik Yaroslavl 0–2 in Yaroslavl, a week after CSKA fell to city rivals Dynamo at home. In 2005", "id": "10933606" }, { "contents": "1995–96 Manchester United F.C. season\n\n\nactually went top of the league after a goalless draw at Sheffield Wednesday towards the end of September, only for the Tynesiders to return to the top of the table soon after. Then came Cantona's comeback on 1 October, when he scored a penalty to equalise and hold Liverpool to a 2–2 draw Old Trafford. The autumn saw United suffer first-hurdle exits to York City in the League Cup and Rotor Volgograd in the UEFA Cup, although United did preserve their 39-year home unbeaten record in European competitions thanks to a late", "id": "9981632" }, { "contents": "1994–95 Russian Cup\n\n\nDynamo Moscow: Valeri Kleimyonov (GK), Yuri Kovtun (DF), Sergey Timofeev (DF), Andrei Chernyshov (DF), Aleksandr Borodkin (DF), Aleksei Filippov (DF), Vagiz Khidiyatullin (DF), Andrei Ivanov (DF), Denis Klyuyev (MF), Dmitri Cheryshev (FW), Igor Simutenkov (FW), Kirill Rybakov (FW), Yuri Tishkov (FW). FC Rotor Volgograd: Volodymyr Gerashchenko (DF), Aleksandr Yeshchenko (MF), Konstantin Kulik (", "id": "5392312" }, { "contents": "FC Olimpia Volgograd\n\n\nFC Olimpia Volgograd () is a Russian football team from the large city of Volgograd. They are the second- or third-largest club in the city after the famous Rotor Volgograd. From their founding in 1989 until 1997, the club participated in various youth leagues. Some time between 1993 and 1994 the Volgograd native Leonid Slutsky, future coach of the Russian national team, joined the training staff. Among the Olimpia youth players developed under Slutsky were Denis Kolodin, Roman Adamov, Andrei Bochkov, Maksim Burchenko and Aleksei Zhdanov,", "id": "21936806" }, { "contents": "Peter Schmeichel\n\n\na 2001 Reuters poll, he beat Lev Yashin and Gordon Banks to be named the finest keeper in football history. Despite being a goalkeeper, he would run into the attack on corner kicks if his team was behind. The sight of him going up for the corner was a great distraction to opposing defenders. He scored a goal in this fashion, for Man United, in a UEFA Cup match against Rotor Volgograd at Old Trafford in September 1995. He scored in the last minutes of the game to tie the match 2–2", "id": "19820283" }, { "contents": "Spartak Gogniyev\n\n\nSpartak Arturovich Gogniyev (, ; born 19 January 1981) is a Russian professional football coach and a former player. He is the manager of FC Alania Vladikavkaz. He made his debut in the Russian Premier League in 2000 for FC Dynamo Moscow. He played two games in the UEFA Cup 2000–01 for FC Dynamo Moscow and two games (scoring one goal) in the UEFA Champions League 2003–04 qualification round for PFC CSKA Moscow. In August 2018, it was announced that Spartak Gogniyev joined new FC Urozhay Krasnodar, but this was", "id": "7903306" }, { "contents": "Georgi Yartsev\n\n\nat the time, gave Yartsev a sabre as a birthday gift in a sideline pre-game ceremony. Yartsev got another head coach position soon enough, when he joined Rotor Volgograd in January 2000. However, he could not do much with that team either and was fired in June of same year. For the next 3 years he was the manager of the Spartak Moscow veterans team. In August 2003, Russia was very close to elimination from their Euro 2004 preliminary qualification group and the coach Valery Gazzayev, was fired.", "id": "15861320" }, { "contents": "FCSB\n\n\nUEFA ordered Steaua to play two home games of the Europa League behind closed doors due to their fans displaying racist banners in a second qualifying round match against Hungarian side Újpest. Three further incidents occurred in the 2014–15 season, with the club fined and ordered to play further games in an empty stadium after displays of racist banners in matches against Dynamo Kyiv, Ludogorets Razgrad and Strømsgodset. Steaua's most important rivalry is the one against Dinamo București. \"Eternul derby\" (\"The Eternal Derby\") has been the leading Romanian", "id": "19491084" }, { "contents": "2010 Russian First Division\n\n\n), Mordovia Saransk (Ural-Povolzhye) and Irtysh Omsk (East). Due to financial difficulties, Vityaz Podolsk who placed 11th in 2009, decided to give up their spot in the Russian First Division and participate in the Russian Second Division in 2010. Pending licensing, their place was taken by FC Volgograd who placed 3rd in the Russian Second Division (South Zone) in 2009. For the occasion the management decided to change the name of the club from FC Volgograd to Rotor Volgograd. FC Alania Vladikavkaz were promoted", "id": "7947305" }, { "contents": "Russian Women's Handball Super League\n\n\nThe Russian Women's Handball Superleague is the premier women's handball competition in Russia. Dinamo Volgograd, formerly known as Rotor and Akva, is the championship's most successful club as of 2019 with 12 titles. It also holds the record for consecutive wins, with six titles in a row. Currently eleven clubs take part in the competition, with the top eight playing the championship play-offs. The Russian Championship's leading teams have been successful in EHF's competitions. Zvezda Zvenigorod won the Champions League and the EHF Cup", "id": "8475941" }, { "contents": "Pavel Pogrebnyak\n\n\n's relegation, Pogrebnyak was linked with a move away from the club but did not leave. He scored his first goals in more than eight months after netting twice in a 3–1 win over Derby County in September 2013. On 27 August 2015 Pogrebnyak moved back to Russia, signing a three-year contract with Dynamo Moscow. Dynamo released him on 25 January 2018, citing disciplinary reasons, such as attending a Juventus - Inter Milan game in Italy on the same day Dynamo played a league game and participating in the annual exhibition", "id": "2040879" }, { "contents": "1996 in Russian football\n\n\nplayers (Stanislav Cherchesov, Viktor Onopko, Vasili Kulkov and Sergei Yuran) who played in the group stage where Spartak did not lose a single point left the club to move to Western European clubs in the winter before the quarterfinals. Nicolas Ouédec was instrumental again, after scoring 7 goals in 4 games against the Russian teams in the 1994–95 UEFA Cup, this time he scored 3 goals in two games against Spartak. FC Dynamo Moscow were eliminated in the quarterfinals. All the Russian teams were eliminated in 1995. FC Alania Vladikavkaz", "id": "22219347" }, { "contents": "Kamil Mullin\n\n\nKamil Shamilevich Mullin (, ; born 5 January 1994) is a Russian professional football player who plays for FC Rotor Volgograd. He plays as a forward. Mullin joined Lokomotiv academy at 16 years, and two years later made it to the youth squad. In total, he played 53 games for Lokomotiv U21 and scored 23 goals.br He made his debut for Lokomotiv first team in the 2012–13 Russian Cup game vs Torpedo Armavir on 26 September 2012.br In March 2013, Mullin for the first time was included into team sheet for the", "id": "2605760" }, { "contents": "FC Dynamo Moscow\n\n\nthe 2008 season, Dynamo finished third, qualifying for the 2009–10 Champions League preliminary round. On 29 July 2009, Dynamo recorded a 0–1 away win against Celtic at Celtic Park, which gave them a strong advantage going into the second leg. However, Celtic comfortably defeated Dynamo 0–2 in Moscow to progress, sending Dynamo into the Europa League play-off round where the club was eliminated by Bulgarian side CSKA Sofia after a 0–0 away draw in Sofia and a 1–2 home defeat in Moscow. In 2012, after a poor start", "id": "8644502" }, { "contents": "2013–14 Russian Premier League\n\n\n2014/15 season. The 13th and 14th Premier League teams will play the 4th and 3rd FNL teams respectively in two playoff games with the winner securing a Premier League spot for 2014/15 season. On 11 May 2014, the game between FC Zenit Saint Petersburg and FC Dynamo Moscow was interrupted in the 86th minute with Dynamo leading 4-2 when Zenit fans ran out of the stands. At first they stood behind the goal line, when the referee decided to take the teams off the field into the dressing rooms and teams began to", "id": "9911963" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\nthe third tier) in 1980 and 1981, and were successful in the promotion playoffs the second time. In 1988 Rotor finished second in the Soviet First League, earning promotion to the Soviet Top League. They finished 13th and last in the downsized 1990 competition after the Georgian and Lithuanian teams withdrew, and the decision was made to relegate them. However they bounced straight back as champions of the First League in 1991, thus becoming founder members of the new Russian Top Division after the USSR collapsed. In the mid-1990s, Rotor", "id": "264672" }, { "contents": "Bibras Natkho\n\n\n, Natkho scored two goals in the Champions League qualifier against Dynamo Kyiv and Lyon, who they eliminated Kazan out of the competitions and the club would play in the Europa League. Then in the Europa League campaign, Natkho scored twice in six matches in the Group Stage of the Europa League against Tottenham Hostpur and Shamrock Rovers. Natkho performance was praised for his role during the season and helped the club win the Russian Cup after playing a vital of assisting the winning goal, in a 1–0 win over Dynamo Moscow. Natkho would", "id": "21438585" }, { "contents": "Danil Lipovoy\n\n\nDanil Nikolayevich Lipovoy (; born 22 September 1999) is a Russian football player who plays for FC Dynamo Moscow. He made his debut in the Russian Professional Football League for FC Dynamo-2 Moscow on 2 April 2017 in a game against FC Dynamo Saint Petersburg. He made his debut for the main squad of FC Dynamo Moscow on 26 September 2018 in a Russian Cup game against FC Torpedo Moscow. He made Russian Premier League debut for Dynamo on 30 November 2018 in a game against FC Rubin Kazan, as a 64th-minute substitute", "id": "429351" }, { "contents": "FC Amkar Perm\n\n\n, having lost their Spring matches to Kuban Krasnodar (1–2) and Spartak Moscow (0–2). A series without a win followed the victory over Alania and after the Dynamo match Amkar lost to Terek Grozny (1–2) and Lokomotiv Moscow (2–4). After another devastating defeat from Kuban (0–4), followed by a victory over their direct rivals Rostov (3–2), and a goalless draw with Zenit, the club retained the right to play in the Premier League. In June 2013, the club opted not to", "id": "5030824" }, { "contents": "FC Shakhtar Donetsk\n\n\nminute Fedor Manov opened score to Donetsk team goals. Final score is 4:1 in favor of the hosts.\" Nonetheless, the selective job conducted constructively by the club's administration allowed the club to compete successfully at the top level by the end of the 1930s. During the \"war championship\" of 1941, which was interrupted unexpectedly, the club defeated Soviet champions Dynamo Moscow and after about ten games were placed in fifth in the league. In the last game of that championship, played on 24 June, two days after", "id": "14103740" }, { "contents": "Oleg Veretennikov\n\n\nOleg Aleksandrovich Veretennikov (; born 5 January 1970) is a professional Russian association football coach and a former international footballer. He manages Rotor-2 Volograd. He is the top goalscorer in the history of Russian Premier League, and holds several other goalscoring records. Most of Veretennikov's successes have come with SC Rotor Volgograd, for whom he played in 1992–1999. During that time he scored 143 goals, which makes him the best goalscorer in the Russian Premier League history (the next best goalscorer, Dmitry Loskov, has 109 goals as of", "id": "21553966" }, { "contents": "Sergei Pareiko\n\n\nSergei Pareiko (born 31 January 1977) is a retired Estonian footballer. He is currently the sporting director of Estonian football club Levadia. Pareiko played as a goalkeeper in Estonian, Russian and Polish top tiers. He made a total of 65 appearances for the Estonia national football team. In Estonia, Pareiko played for Tallinna Sadam and Levadia Maardu, before moving to Russia in 2001, when he signed with Rotor Volgograd. After Rotor were relegated, Pareiko moved to Tom Tomsk. At the end of 2009 season Pareiko was named", "id": "11658849" }, { "contents": "FC Dinamo Tbilisi\n\n\nIn this period Dinamo won the Soviet Cup for the first time in their history, convincingly defeating Armenian side Ararat Yerevan 3–0 in the final, with goals scored by David Kipiani, Piruz Kanteladze and Revaz Chelebadze. In 1978 the club won the Soviet Top League for a second time. Next year Dinamo won the Soviet Cup again by defeating Russian side Dynamo Moscow in the final. In 1979 the club played its first match in the UEFA European Cup tournament. In the first round Dinamo knocked out English side Liverpool, at the", "id": "10097459" }, { "contents": "Romelu Lukaku\n\n\nlater at home to West Ham. Lukaku scored twice in a 4–0 win, becoming the fourth Manchester United player to score two goals on his Premier League debut for the club. On 17 September, Lukaku scored United's third goal in a 4–0 win over his former club Everton, with Lukaku running over towards Everton fans and cupping his ears during his goal celebration in response to being booed throughout the game. On 27 September, Lukaku scored twice in a 4–1 UEFA Champions League win over CSKA Moscow, taking his tally to", "id": "1117930" }, { "contents": "Dynamo Dresden\n\n\none Game behind closed doors and one away game without own fan support. Virtual tickets were offered to reduce the financial loss, creating \"the first sold-out Ghost Game in history\". The 2012–13 season started poorly for Dynamo and Ralf Loose was sacked in December 2012 after a 3–0 defeat to VfL Bochum with the team in 15th place. He was replaced by Peter Pacult, returning to the club after more than six years. Dynamo's form improved after Pacult's arrival but the team still finished the league as 16th", "id": "11366777" }, { "contents": "Aleksandr Tashayev\n\n\nAleksandr Mikhailovich Tashayev (; born 23 June 1994) is a Russian professional football player who plays as a left midfielder for Spartak Moscow. He made his professional debut on 11 December 2014 for FC Dynamo Moscow in a 2014–15 UEFA Europa League group game against PSV Eindhoven. He also played in the Round of 16 away game against Napoli. On 6 July 2018, he signed a contract with the cross-city rivals FC Spartak Moscow, after buying out own contract from Dynamo and becoming a free agent. Dynamo unsuccessfully sued to deem", "id": "13552247" }, { "contents": "Dynamo Moscow Bandy Club\n\n\nthe end of the 2004–05 season, almost all players of the for a decade dominant Vodnik signed up for Dynamo Moscow, resulting in an immediate Russian League title in 2006. Dynamo Moscow won the World Cup for the first time in 2006, defeating Zorky in the final. The 2006 domestic title was followed by another four consecutive Russian championship titles and as one of the dominating teams in the following years too, until 2017, when they missed the championship play-off, only coming in at eighth place in the regular season", "id": "1825162" }, { "contents": "Handball Club Lada\n\n\nHandball Club Lada is a Russian women's handball club from Tolyatti playing in the Russian Super League. Founded in 1998, Lada soon became the leading team in the Super League winning five championships in a row between 2002 and 2006 and a sixth one in 2008. It also built itself a name in Europe winning the 2002 Cup Winners' Cup in its international debut and reaching the final of the 2007 Champions League and the next edition's semifinals. The following three seasons were less successful, with Dynamo Volgograd retrieving the leading position", "id": "9114247" }, { "contents": "Omari Tetradze\n\n\n– Tetradze. Later he considered restoring his original surname, but decided it would cause too many problems. At club level, he played for Dinamo Tbilisi, FC Dynamo Moscow, Alania Vladikavkaz (where he won a Russian league championship medal in 1995), AS Roma, and PAOK FC (Greece). He played for Russia at international level, and appeared at World Cup 1994 and Euro 1996. At the latter tournament, he played superbly in each of Russia's three games despite the team's poor results, and", "id": "17559889" }, { "contents": "FC Girondins de Bordeaux\n\n\nclub was relegated just two years thereafter. In 1992, however, \"Les Girondins\" won that year's Ligue 2 title, thus being elevated to the top tier of French football. In the emergence of young and exciting players such as playmaker Zinedine Zidane, striker Christophe Dugarry and left back Bixente Lizarazu, the club ascended even higher to win the UEFA Intertoto Cup in 1995. With this talented trio, the club defeated FC Rotor Volgograd (the 1995 King's Cup Winner), Real Betis, Milan and Slavia Prague", "id": "10933676" }, { "contents": "Yuriy Hudymenko\n\n\nYuriy Arkadiyovych Hudymenko (; born 3 October 1966) is a former Kyrgyz-born Ukrainian professional footballer. Hudymenko is a product of the main Bishkek sports school and later was accepted to the main republican club of Kyrgyzia, FC Alga Bishkek. In 1990 he made his debut in the Soviet Top League playing for FC Dnepr Dnepropetrovsk, but failed to score any goals in domestic competitions, but did score a goal against Heart of Midlothian F.C. in the 1990-91 UEFA Cup. Next year Hudymenko joined recently relegated FC Rotor Volgograd that", "id": "11637137" }, { "contents": "Valery Gazzaev\n\n\na second-place finish at the end of the season. However, Gazzaev was left behind in the first league in Spartak Ordzhonikidze, as he wasn't one of the main players of the SKA Rostov-on-Don. In the Soviet Top League, Gazzaev played in Lokomotiv Moscow, Dynamo Moscow, and Dinamo Tbilisi. Gazzaev is a Soviet Cup winner with Dynamo Moscow in 1984. During his career he scored 89 goals in 283 matches in Soviet Top League, and was the top goal scorer of the UEFA Cup", "id": "3537187" }, { "contents": "FC Amkar Perm\n\n\nAmkar was in third place in the standings, one point behind second-placed Spartak Moscow and six adrift of leaders Rubin Kazan. After the break, one of Amkar's team leaders, Vladimir Gabulov, and the captain, Aleksei Popov, left the team to join Dynamo Moscow and Rubin Kazan respectively. Two matches in a row on the \"equator\" of the Championship Amkar could have topped the league table but was unable to beat Tom Tomsk and Spartak Nalchik at home. On 16 November, after beating Tom in Tomsk", "id": "5030813" }, { "contents": "FC Rubin Kazan\n\n\nfixed after selling in Volgograd \"Rotor\" team leaders Oleg Nechaev and Rustem Khuzin (but soon returned to \"Rubin\" till the end of the season on loan). In the end the season Kazan finished on 8th place, only losing a point to Nizhnekamsk \"Neftechimik\" and dropped into the second league. The following year, 1994, coaches Zadikashvili and Semenov assemble a team literally bit by bit. Because of the continuing financial problems from the last season in the team left only 6 players: Grishin, Danilin,", "id": "19815661" }, { "contents": "Nikita Chernov\n\n\nNikita Aleksandrovich Chernov (; born 14 January 1996) is a Russian professional football player who plays as a centre-back for Krylia Sovetov Samara and Russia national football team. Born in Volzhsky, Volgograd Oblast, Chernov began his career at hometown team FC Energiya Volzhsky before joining CSKA Moscow in 2009. He made his professional debut on 24 September 2014 in a Russian Cup game against FC Khimik Dzerzhinsk. He also played in the next Russian Cup round against FC Torpedo Moscow on 29 October. On 30 July 2019, Chernov moved from", "id": "503700" }, { "contents": "KF Skënderbeu Korçë\n\n\nBeşiktaş, Lokomotiv Moscow and Sporting Clube de Portugal. In matchday 1, their first ever group stage game, the club was defeated at home 0–1 by Beşiktaş after a hard fight between the two sides. In the next matchday, they lost 0–2 to Lokomotiv Moscow in Moscow. Their worst defeat in the European competition yet came the next matchday, a storming 1–5 loss to Sporting in the away leg at Lisbon, but also had the Albanian side scoring their first goal in the UEFA Europa League group stages. In the home", "id": "1409695" }, { "contents": "FC Dynamo Kyiv\n\n\nand Maccabi Tel Aviv F.C. Dynamo finished in second place with 11 points after a spectacular performance and a memorable 0–2 in Porto. However, Dynamo was punished by UEFA for a racist incident in the home game against Chelsea where four black men were attacked in the stands by Dynamo fans. Despite this, Dynamo reached the round of 16 in the Champions League for the first time since 2000, where it was drawn with Manchester City. Dynamo was eliminated 1–3 on aggregate but managed to hold an impressive 0–0 draw in Manchester. Dynamo", "id": "18770189" }, { "contents": "Konstantin Kovalenko\n\n\nKonstantin Valeryevich Kovalenko (; ; born 2 February 1975) is a Belarusian and Russian professional footballer who plays for resurrected FC Kuban Krasnodar. He made his professional debut in the Soviet Second League in 1991 for FC Kuban Barannikovsky. He played 1 game in the 1996–97 UEFA Cup for FC Spartak Moscow. His brother Andrei Kovalenko also played football professionally. On 27 October 2008 he punched referee Sergei Timofeyev in the face in the Russian Second Division game FC Sochi-04 - FC Olimpia Volgograd. He was banned from football for a year. Spartak", "id": "1118096" }, { "contents": "Clinton N'Jie\n\n\nDimitri Payet and scored two goals in a 3–0 win. On 17 September, he scored both the goals in the away win over Amiens. On 3 May 2018, he played in the Europa League semi-finals away to FC Red Bull Salzburg as Marseille played out a 2–1 away loss but a 3–2 aggregate win to secure a place in the 2018 UEFA Europa League Final. On 25 July 2019, Njie signed a 4-year contract with Russian Premier League club Dynamo Moscow. N'Jie scored 44 minutes into his Cameroon debut against the", "id": "16847587" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\ntime they were able to consolidate in the National League, finishing 9th and then 14th. But financial troubles continued. A Ministry of Sport investigation found evidence of financial misconduct by club management along with substantial overspending, and regional Governor Andrey Bocharov announced after the 2013 season that government support for Rotor was being withdrawn. The club dropped back into the Second Division (renamed the Professional Football League) for the first half of the 2014–15 (autumn-spring) season, then withdrew in order to immediately transfer to the 2015 (spring", "id": "264679" }, { "contents": "2001 FC Anzhi Makhachkala season\n\n\nThe 2001 FC Anzhi Makhachkala season was the 2nd season that the club played in the Russian Top Division, the highest tier of football in Russia, following their promotion from the National Football League in 1999. They finished the season in 13th, were runners-up in the 2001-02 cup and reached the Sixth Round of the 2002-03 cup losing to Dynamo Moscow, and were knocked out of the UEFA Cup at the First Round stage after a 0-1 defeat to Rangers over one leg in Warsaw, Poland", "id": "4897180" }, { "contents": "FC Dynamo-2 Moscow\n\n\nFC Dynamo-2 Moscow () was a Russian football team from Moscow. It was the farm-club for FC Dynamo Moscow. In 2016, it was revived after the parent club, Dynamo, was relegated from the Russian Football Premier League (which holds its own competition for the Under-21 teams of the Premier League clubs) and licensed to play in the third-tier Russian Professional Football League for the 2016–17 season. Majority of the squad participated in the 2016–17 UEFA Youth League as well. On 17 June 2017, the parent", "id": "19064817" }, { "contents": "Mikhail Markosov\n\n\nDivision South Zone, scoring 27 goals, a feat no one in the entire Second Division surpassed. In the 2010 season, he played for FC Rotor Volgograd and came back to FC Dynamo Stavropol the next season. Scoring 10 goals in his first 10 matches for Dynamo, Markosov was transferred in the summer transfer window of the 2011-12 season to FC Ufa. From April until June 2019 Markosov played for FC Kuban Krasnodar, scored 7 goals in 11 matches. He joined the Armenia national football team in 2013. Markosov", "id": "12122198" }, { "contents": "1993 in Russian football\n\n\ntheir group campaign and finished it without much success, only gaining 2 points in 6 games, coming in last in the group and suffering a 0-6 defeat against Marseille. They could not play their home games in Moscow due to the lack of a stadium meeting the Champions League standards at the time. FC Spartak Moscow reached the semifinals, tying the best European result in club's history. FC Spartak Moscow qualified for the group stage and continued to play in the group into the 1994. FC Torpedo Moscow went out", "id": "21710373" }, { "contents": "2002 in Russian football\n\n\nrespective Second Division zones: The Russian Cup was won by CSKA Moscow, who beat Zenit Saint Petersburg 2–0 in the final at the Luzhniki Stadium. Lokomotiv Moscow participated in the third round of the UEFA Cup 2001-02, but were knocked out by Hapoel Tel Aviv FC who won 3–1 on aggregate. Krylya Sovetov Samara played in the UEFA Intertoto Cup 2002. After defeating Dinaburg FC in the second round they lost to Willem II Tilburg on away goals. Lokomotiv Moscow's victory over Grazer AK ensured there are two Russian clubs", "id": "11619883" }, { "contents": "FC Dynamo Moscow\n\n\nFC Dynamo Moscow (Dinamo Moscow, FC Dinamo Moskva, ) is a Russian football club based in Moscow. Dynamo has returned to the Russian Premier League for the 2017–18 season after one season in the second-tier Russian Football National League. Dynamo was the only club that had always played in the top tier of Soviet football (along with Dynamo Kyiv) and of Russian football from the end of the Soviet era until they were relegated in 2016. Despite this, it has never won the modern Russian Premier League title and", "id": "8644495" }, { "contents": "Nikita Lyamin\n\n\nIn 2004, he played three season in the farm team and two more seasons in the main team for Dynamo Moscow. Dynamo Moscow became champions at the 2007–08 Russian Volleyball Super League, but Lyamin due to low game practice quit the club. Lyamin moved to Nizhny Novgorod and became captain of Guberniya, which went on debuting in the B-division of the highest national league. In the two years, Guberniya could enter the Super League, and in the 2012–13 it became one of the leading clubs in Russia. Guberniya qualified", "id": "8669287" }, { "contents": "Leonid Slutsky (football coach)\n\n\nLeonid Viktorovich Slutsky (; born 4 May 1971) is a Russian professional football coach and former player who is the manager of Eredivisie club Vitesse. Previously, he has been in charge of Olimpia Volgograd, Uralan Elista, Moscow, Krylia Sovetov, CSKA Moscow, Russia and Hull City. Slutsky was born in Volgograd. Slutsky's playing career with FC Zvezda Gorodishche ended at just 19 years of age. He had to retire due to a knee injury sustained after falling out of a tree while rescuing a neighbour's cat. Slutsky", "id": "11710104" }, { "contents": "Yuri Kovtun\n\n\nduring the season so two top teams were interested in him at the same time, it's Dynamo and Spartak Moscow. In 1993, Kovtun chose Dynamo Moscow and was their key player for years, until his move to Spartak in 1999. While the only Kovtun's honour during 6 years in Dynamo was Russian Cup in 1995, he could get 3 titles in 1999, 2000 and 2001 after joining Spartak. Moreover, he took part in numerous UEFA Champions League games and found himself regular Russian national football team player. Kovtun", "id": "2071460" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\n-tier Russian Professional Football League for the 2016–17 season. They won their zone of the PFL in the 2016–17 season and were promoted to the second-level Russian National Football League for 2017–18. Despite ending the 2017–18 season in the relegation zone, the club stayed in the league for the 2018–19 season as another team that finished above them in the table failed to obtain the league license. As of 5 July 2019, according to the FNL website. Had international caps for their respective countries. Players whose name is listed in", "id": "264681" }, { "contents": "Dmitri Khokhlov\n\n\nDmitri Valeryevich Khokhlov (, born 22 December 1975) is a Russian football manager and a former player. He is the manager of FC Dynamo Moscow. He played as a holding midfielder or playmaker. He played for PFC CSKA Moscow and FC Lokomotiv Moscow in native Russia, having abroad spells with PSV Eindhoven (Netherlands) and Real Sociedad (Spain). During his time with FC Lokomotiv Moscow he participated in their memorable 2003–04 UEFA Champions League campaign, scoring third goal in the 3–0 home victory against Internazionale. He played for", "id": "19054427" }, { "contents": "Racism in association football\n\n\nagainst CSKA Moscow in Russia. The club's stadium was partially closed as punishment. Touré suggested that black players might boycott the 2018 FIFA World Cup, to be held in Russia, if racism continued in the country. In September 2014, Dynamo Moscow defender Christopher Samba was racially abused playing in the Moscow derby against Torpedo Moscow. As a result, Torpedo were forced to close part of their stadium, although Samba was also banned for two games for swearing at the racist fans. In a friendly match (Russia vrs France", "id": "21349703" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\nTraktor Stalingrad to national prominence. Traktor were champions of the new fourth-level Group G in 1937, and were then promoted straight to the highest-level Group A as it expanded from 9 clubs to 26. They remained at the top level until 1950. Rotor then spent three decades at the top regional level, although the creation of the Supreme League in 1970 pushed their league from the second level overall down to the third. They gradually improved throughout the 1970s and finally won Zone III of the Soviet Second League (", "id": "264671" }, { "contents": "WPC Dynamo Moscow\n\n\nWPC Dynamo Moscow () is a Russian men's water polo club, that is part of the traditional Moscow-based multi-sports club Dynamo. Dynamo won seven Soviet Championships between 1955 and 1962, and in 1964 it was the first team to represent the in the newly European Champions Cup, ranking second behind Partizan. In 1968 and 1969 the team won two more national championships, and it also reached the 1969 European Cup's final, lost to Mladost. For the next fifteen years Dynamo didn't win any more", "id": "18685765" }, { "contents": "Kyle Hines\n\n\ngreat Olympiacos comeback in 4th quarter, led by Vassilis Spanoulis. CSKA Moscow eventually won the EuroLeague third place game, after defeating Fenerbahçe, by a score of 86–80. In his second EuroLeague season with CSKA Moscow, Hines averaged a career-low 6.8 points and 4.3 rebounds per game, over 30 games played. CSKA Moscow finished the season by winning the VTB United League, after eliminating Khimki with a 3–0 series sweep in the League's finals series. On June 17, 2015, he signed a two-year contract", "id": "14695455" }, { "contents": "Miroslav Raičević\n\n\nfinal decisive shot in the very last seconds of the final game against Prokom Trefl Sopot. He also won the Greek Cup with Aris, in the year 2004. He has also played with Red Star Belgrade of the Adriatic League during the 2005–06 season. He won the Serbian Cup with Red Star that season. In the 2006–07 season, he played with the Russian Super League club Dynamo Moscow. During summer of 2007, he left Dynamo Moscow and joined the Italian League club Eldo Napoli. He then left Napoli and moved back", "id": "13596698" } ]

[ { "contents": "1996 in Russian football\n\n\nwas knocked out in the qualifying round. FC Lokomotiv Moscow went out in the second round. PFC CSKA Moscow, FC Dynamo Moscow and FC Torpedo-Luzhniki Moscow were eliminated in the first round after going through the qualifying round. FC Alania Vladikavkaz went out in the first round after going to the UEFA Cup after failing in the qualification for the Champions League. FC Spartak Moscow went out in the second round. Russian clubs participated in the Intertoto Cup for the first time. FC Rotor Volgograd, FC KAMAZ-Chally Naberezhnye", "id": "22219348" }, { "contents": "1995 in Russian football\n\n\nthe Russian Cup 1995–96 were played later in the year. All the Russian participants were eliminated in 1994. FC Spartak Moscow won every game in their group, qualifying for the quarterfinals. FC Dynamo Moscow advanced through the first two rounds, qualifying to play in the quarterfinals next spring. FC Spartak-Alania Vladikavkaz and FC Lokomotiv Moscow were eliminated in the first round by strong opponents (even though Lokomotiv very unexpectedly beat FC Bayern in Munich in the first game). FC Rotor Volgograd eliminated Manchester United F.C. in the first round", "id": "18335625" }, { "contents": "Maksim Nenakhov\n\n\nMaksim Maksimovich Nenakhov (; born 13 December 1998) is a Russian football player who plays for FC Rotor Volgograd. He made his debut in the Russian Professional Football League for FC Dynamo-2 Moscow on 20 July 2016 in a game against FC Tekstilshchik Ivanovo. On 19 January 2018, he was loaned to FC Tyumen until the end of the 2017–18 season. On 14 June 2018, he moved on another loan for the 2018–19 season to FC SKA-Khabarovsk. On 18 June 2019, he signed a 2-year contract with FC Rotor Volgograd", "id": "6983587" }, { "contents": "Almir Kayumov\n\n\nAlmir Izmailovich Kayumov (; 30 December 1964 – 7 August 2013) was a Russian football player and referee. Kayumov played for FC Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk, FC Lada Togliatti, Spartak Moscow, Rotor Volgograd, SKA Rostov-on-Don, in Russia, the Daewoo Royals in South Korea, and Kuopion Palloseura in Finland. He played 6 games in the UEFA Cup 1986–87 for FC Spartak Moscow. On November 9, 2009, it was reported that Kayumov attempted to commit suicide by jumping out of his apartment window. Police negotiators talked", "id": "14510549" }, { "contents": "Ruslan Ishkinin\n\n\nRuslan Kamilyevich Ishkinin (; born 14 June 1974) is a former Russian professional footballer. He made his professional debut in the Russian Second Division in 1992 for FC Dynamo-2 Moscow. The most memorable match of his career was played on 14 June 1995. His team FC Dynamo Moscow was playing FC Rotor Volgograd in the final game of the Russian Cup. Dynamo was decimated by injuries and several reserve players, including Ishkinin, were called up for the game. With 5 minutes to go in regulation and the score of 0–0, Ishkinin", "id": "2479621" }, { "contents": "1997 in Russian football\n\n\nthe year. Russian teams were eliminated in 1996. FC Spartak Moscow were eliminated in the second qualifying round and went on to the UEFA Cup. FC Lokomotiv Moscow qualified for the quarterfinals stage that was played in 1998. FC Spartak Moscow qualified for the quarterfinals stage that was played in 1998. FC Rotor Volgograd reached the second round. FC Alania Vladikavkaz went out in the first round. The goal in the stadium was measured before the game and turned out to be 2.46 meters high instead of regulation 2.44. The referee decided", "id": "20500131" }, { "contents": "2012–13 Russian Premier League\n\n\naltogether if the game is awarded to Dynamo. According to the police, the main suspect is a female fan who was arrested after the game. The criminal investigation was opened on the charge of hooliganism. On 22 November, Russian Football Union's Control-Disciplinary Committee awarded the game to Dynamo with a score of 3–0 and fined both clubs. Dynamo had to play their next home game (against Rubin Kazan) behind closed doors and Zenit had to play their next 2 home games (against CSKA Moscow and Anzhi Makhachkala)", "id": "321372" }, { "contents": "Yuriy Kalitvintsev\n\n\nfor FC Desna Chernihiv. A Russian-born Kalitvintsev chose to play for the Ukraine side after breaking through as a midfielder for Dynamo Kyiv. Until 1994 he played he spent his playing career at Russian clubs such as FC Rotor Volgograd, FC SKA Rostov-on-Don, FC Dynamo Moscow, and FC Lokomotiv Nizhny Novgorod. It wasn't until the reorganization of the soviet football when he started to play at the top level of the Russian championship starting for the Moscow's Dynamo. After being transferred to the fading club", "id": "20481933" }, { "contents": "Sergei Bogomolov\n\n\nSergei Anatolyevich Bogomolov (; born 17 August 1971) is a former Russian professional footballer. During his time with FC Dynamo Moscow he only played in a single game for the main team, but it was a very memorable one. On 14 June 1995, Dynamo was playing FC Rotor Volgograd in the final game of the 1994–95 Russian Cup. Dynamo was hurt by injuries to some first team regulars and several reserve players, including Bogomolov, were called up for the game. With the score of 0:0 and 10 minutes to go in", "id": "18632079" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\nwas one of the strongest clubs in Russia, rivalling Spartak Moscow for the championship, yet never winning it. Rotor became the league runners-up in 1993 and 1997. Rotor played five successive seasons in European competition, from 1994-95 to 1998-99. They qualified for the UEFA Cup through their league position every year except 1996-97, when they instead chose to enter the Intertoto Cup. Unfortunately for Rotor, the fall of communism had left all the former Eastern Bloc leagues badly under-resourced compared to", "id": "264673" }, { "contents": "1995 in Russian football\n\n\n1995 was the fourth season Russia held its own national football competition since the breakup of the Soviet Union. FC Spartak-Alania Vladikavkaz won the league for the first time ever. This was the first season 3 points were awarded for a win instead of two. For more details, see: The third edition of the Russian Cup, Russian Cup 1994–95 was won by FC Dynamo Moscow, who beat FC Rotor Volgograd in the finals in a shootout 8-7 after finishing extra time at 0-0. Early stages of", "id": "18335624" }, { "contents": "Maxim Chuzhkov\n\n\nMaxim Aleksandrovich Chuzhkov (; born 11 April 1987) is a Russian beach soccer player serving as goalkeeper. He is a three-time national champion for three different clubs (Rotor Volgograd, Lokomotiv Moscow, Kristall). Maxim Chuzhkov was born in Samara. He was a gymnast for six years before switching to football. Chuzhkov discovered beach soccer in 2010, and one year later he joined Krylya Sovetov from Samara. From 2012 to 2014 he played for Rotor Volgograd, winning with them the club's first and only Russian Beach Soccer", "id": "21454463" }, { "contents": "1991 Soviet Top League\n\n\nseason, while FC Rotor Volgograd and FC Tiligul Tiraspol would have been promoted to the Top League for 1992. Top six clubs of the league later entered European competitions for their respective nations. The Ukrainian clubs chose to qualify through a separate national competition. The league was expanded to 16 after the last season, during which number of clubs left the Soviet competitions (from Georgia and Baltic states). The last-placed FC Rotor Volgograd of the 1990 Soviet Top League lost promotion/relegation playoff to Lokomotiv Moscow and was relegated", "id": "831265" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor-2 Volgograd\n\n\nFC Rotor-2 Volgograd () is a Russian football team based in Volgograd. It is the farm club for FC Rotor Volgograd. It previously played professionally as FC Rotor-d Volgograd or FC Rotor-2 Volgograd in the Russian Second Division in 1992–1993, 1998–2000 and 2004 and Russian Third League in 1994-1997. They came in 3rd place in their Second Division zone in 1993. In 2001, the reserves tournament for Russian Premier League was re-established and the reserves team played there while the main team stayed in Premier League.", "id": "5758261" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\nFC Rotor Volgograd () is a Russian football (soccer) club from the large city of Volgograd, Volgograd Oblast (formerly Stalingrad). The club plays in the second-level Russian National Football League. They are the largest and best supported Volgograd club and for most of their existence have been the city's only representatives in the national league system. They played at the top level of Soviet/Russian football either side of World War II, from 1989 to 1990, and from 1991 to 2004. During the 1990s", "id": "264669" }, { "contents": "Wisdom Mumba Chansa\n\n\nand Derby Makinka, to play in the Soviet Top League when they all signed for Pomir Dushanbe in 1989 after being spotted during their 4-0 win over Italy at the 1988 Olympics. Chansa's debut came on 2 October 1989 in an away match against Torpedo Moscow, before appearing twice more, against Rotor Volgograd and Metalist Kharkiv, before leaving at the conclusion of the 1989 season. Chansa returned to Power Dynamos following his Soviet experience, and was made captain before Power Dynamos became the first Zambian club side to win a", "id": "5300924" }, { "contents": "FC Volgograd\n\n\nFC Volgograd () is a former name of the Russian football club from Volgograd, founded in late 2008, currently known as FC Rotor Volgograd. Before it was founded, it was originally supposed to be called FC Rotor-Volgograd Volgograd (to keep Rotor's name around at the time FC Rotor Volgograd was close to bankruptcy). However, FC Rotor's financial situation has improved by early 2009 and the club was registered as FC Volgograd. It played in the Russian Second Division in 2009. It took over the license", "id": "6725532" }, { "contents": "Roman Pavlyuchenko\n\n\nRoman Anatolyevich Pavlyuchenko (; born 15 December 1981) is a Russian footballer who plays as a striker for FC Znamya Noginsk. He started his career at Dynamo Stavropol, and Rotor Volgograd, before transferring to Spartak Moscow in 2003. His performances there earned him a £13.7 million transfer to Tottenham Hotspur of the English Premier League in 2008, where he spent three full seasons before returning to Russia to play for Lokomotiv Moscow. After another full 3 seasons he moved in July 2015, to Kuban Krasnodar. A full international for a", "id": "3367200" }, { "contents": "Anton Miranchuk\n\n\nAnton Andreyevich Miranchuk (; born 17 October 1995) is a Russian professional football player who plays as a centre midfielder or attacking midfielder for Lokomotiv Moscow and the Russia national team. Born in Slavyansk-na-Kubani, Miranchuk joined Spartak Moscow from his hometown football school Olymp. He was dismissed from the club because of weak physical abilities. After that, he and his twin brother Aleksei moved to Lokomotiv Moscow. On 30 October 2013, Miranchuk made his competitive debut in senior football in a Russian Cup game against Rotor Volgograd replacing", "id": "1404526" }, { "contents": "Dmitry Pletnyov (footballer)\n\n\nDmitry Andreyevich Pletnyov (; born 16 January 1998) is a Russian football player. He plays for FC Tom Tomsk in Russian Football National League. He made his debut in the Russian Football National League for FC Zenit-2 Saint Petersburg on 6 September 2017 in a game against FC Rotor Volgograd. He made his Russian Premier League debut for FC Zenit Saint Petersburg on 5 May 2018 in a game against FC Lokomotiv Moscow. He played for Russia national under-17 football team at the 2015 UEFA European Under-17 Championship and 2015 FIFA U-17 World Cup.", "id": "21412634" }, { "contents": "2004 in Russian football\n\n\nseason. Andrey Fedkov of Terek became the top goalscorer with 38 goals. The following clubs have earned promotion by winning tournaments in their respective Second Division zones: Prior to start of the 2005 season three clubs (Rotor Volgograd, Torpedo Vladimir, and Arsenal Tula) refused participation in the First Division, and two more clubs (Dynamo Stavropol and Chernomorets Novorossiysk) were denied licences. This made way for the runners-up of all five zones: The Russian Super Cup match between CSKA Moscow and Spartak Moscow was won by CSKA", "id": "6344061" }, { "contents": "Dmitry Shishin\n\n\nnational beach soccer team. That year Shishin participated at the Russian Championship as player of Samarian Sputnik and debuted for the national team at the Beach Soccer World Cup. After Sputnik, Shishin for a long time played for different Saratov clubs, such as Rosagro, Biznes-Pravo, Delta. In 2011, Shishin moved to Lokomotiv Moscow, where he won the championship trophy with his team. Together with the Lokomotives he won another national championship trophy and two Russian cups. In 2013, Shishin surprisingly switched to Rotor Volgograd, becoming", "id": "12194946" }, { "contents": "2009 Russian Second Division\n\n\nJuly 2009 Oleg Mikheyev, president of FC Rotor Volgograd, announced Rotor's resignation from the league, citing problems with authorities. They have played 18 games and were in the 13th position with 21 points. \"Source: [PFL] , Sporbox.ru \" On 11 July 2009, the management of FC Spartak Shchyolkovo announced that the club would resign from the league after the first half of the season because of economic problems. Spartak were excluded from the league on August 4, 2009. They have played 18 games and were in", "id": "21482663" }, { "contents": "FC Olimpia Volgograd\n\n\nuntil 2008, though their fortunes faded after Slutsky's players left. Before the 2009 season their professional license was taken over by the new club FC Volgograd. This was meant to allow FC to assume the name and identity of Rotor who were suffering off-field troubles, but Rotor survived and ended up playing simultaneously with the new FC in 2009, while Olimpia dropped into the Volgograd Oblast Championship. They stayed there until 2011, winning the title in 2010. With confusion ongoing over the future of the Rotor name and club", "id": "21936808" }, { "contents": "Sergei Rashevsky\n\n\nSergei Aleksandrovich Rashevsky (; born 13 June 1980) is a Russian football coach and a former player. He is an assistant coach with FC Rotor Volgograd. He made his debut in the Russian Premier League in 2001 for FC Rotor Volgograd, before moving to Ural in 2005. After several seasons playing for different clubs in Russia, Rashevsky signed with Volga in 2008. He played for the club for three years, before he returned to Ural in 2011. Since February 2014, he played for the Russian National Football League side Yenisey", "id": "8136441" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\nthe new Rotor Volgograd were promoted to the second-level Russian Football National League thanks to teams above them withdrawing. The regional Ministry of Sport invested 150 million roubles ($4.9m) in the club's playing budget for the 2010 campaign, but it ended in failure as Rotor were relegated in 17th place. Governor Brovko admitted that the transition to the higher level was made too quickly. Former club player Sergei Nechay took over management and steered the team to promotion as champions of their Second Division zone in 2011–12. This", "id": "264678" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\ntheir Western counterparts, and indeed Rotor were knocked out by all four of the French and Italian clubs they played. The exception came against England's Manchester United in 1995-96. Having drawn the home leg 0-0, Rotor raced into a 2-0 lead at Old Trafford before United scored their first goal. Rotor were seconds away from being the first European club to win at Old Trafford when United's goalkeeper Peter Schmeichel scored a famous equaliser, but the 2-2 draw meant Rotor progressed by the away", "id": "264674" }, { "contents": "Roman Pavlyuchenko\n\n\na 1-0 loss against Moscow on 5 April 1999. On 15 May 1999, Pavlyuchenko provided a double assist in a 2-1 win over Chita. In his first season, Pavlyuchenko made 31 appearance and scoring 11 goals. However, the club played was still relegated to the Second Division after the club was last place. Despite this, Pavlyuchenko was named 'Team of the top' junior division for the first version of the newspaper Sport Express. Pavlyuchenko moved to Rotor Volgograd in 2000, although the move was", "id": "3367203" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\ntheir professional licence entirely. Rotor's reserve side in the Russian Second Division, Rotor-2 Volgograd, became the club's first team and was renamed Rotor in 2006. In 2007 local businessman Oleg Mikheev acquired the club's main asset the Volgograd Central Stadium, and with it effective control over the club, but financial troubles continued and the team's performances in the Second Division declined. Matters came to a head in 2009. Russia had officially launched its bid for the FIFA World Cup 2018 and Volgograd city was in line for a", "id": "264676" }, { "contents": "1988 Soviet Cup Final\n\n\nThe 1988 Soviet Cup Final was a football match that took place at the Lenin's Central Stadium, Moscow on May 28, 1988. The match was the 47th Soviet Cup Final and it was contested by FC Metalist Kharkiv and FC Torpedo Moscow. The Soviet Cup winner Metalist qualified for the Cup Winners' Cup first round for the Soviet Union. The last year defending holders Dynamo Kyiv were eliminated in the second round of the competition by FC Rotor Volgograd (3:2, 0:2). For Metalist this was their second final total", "id": "158055" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\ngoals rule They went on to be defeated by eventual Runners-up Bordeaux in the second round. Full European results: In the 2000s, Rotor's results declined, and in 2004, the team finished last in the Russian Premier League. The club's owner Vladimir Goryunov, a member of the Duma and head of the parliamentary sports committee, explored options to save Rotor from relegation, such as expanding the Premier League to 20 teams. But in January 2005 Rotor were unable to make the required financial guarantees and so lost", "id": "264675" }, { "contents": "2018–19 Russian Football National League\n\n\n. Ararat Moscow was promoted from 2017–18 PFL, but were refused a license for the 2018–19 Russian National Football League, the club being subsequently dissolved. Zenit-2 Saint Petersburg, Rotor Volgograd, Luch Vladivostok, Tyumen and Fakel Voronezh were spared from relegation due to lack of teams enrolled for the 2018–19 season. Sakhalin Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk finished on the promotion place at the end of the 2017–18 PFL season, but refused to be promoted. Dynamo Saint Petersburg was moved from Saint Petersburg to Sochi and renamed as PFC Sochi. Olimpiyets Nizhny Novgorod", "id": "621376" }, { "contents": "Dinamo Volgograd\n\n\nDinamo Volgograd () is a Russian women's handball club from Volgograd. Founded in 1972 as Burevestnik Volgograd, it represented Rotor Volgograd following the collapse of the Soviet Union and was subsequently named Aqva before taking its current name in 2003. Dynamo is the most successful team in the Russian Super League with nine titles, and in the 2001-02 season it set an absolute record winning all the matches. It has also been fairly successful in international competitions with three titles: the 1995 Challenge Cup and Champions Trophy and the 2008", "id": "10627328" }, { "contents": "List of football clubs in Russia\n\n\nZelenodolsk — FC Prometey-Dinamo Saint Petersburg — FC Pskov — FC Pskov-2000 — FC Pskov-747 FC Radian-Baikal Irkutsk — FC Rassvet Troitskoye — FC Reformatsiya Abakan — FC Rekord Aleksandrov — FC Reutov — FC Ritm Alekseyevka — FC Ritm Belgorod — FC Roda Moscow — FC Rossia Moscow — FC Rostov — FC Rostselmash-2 Rostov-on-Don — FC Rostselmash Rostov-on-Don — FC Rotor-2 Mikhaylovka — FC Rotor-2 Volgograd — FC Rotor Volgograd — FC Rubin-2 Kazan — FC Rubin Kazan — FC Rubin-TAN Kazan — FC", "id": "14958458" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\n-autumn) Russian Amateur Football League, the fourth level overall. In the 2015 season Rotor won the Amateur League Chernozemye (South-West Region) division at the first attempt by 11 points, suffering only one defeat in 22 games. The 45,000-seater Pobeda Stadium is under construction on their old Central Stadium site, and it was reported in August 2015 that the first team are still interested in moving into the facility after the 2018 World Cup, which makes attaining a higher league status a priority. They were licensed for third", "id": "264680" }, { "contents": "2010–11 KHL season\n\n\nThe 2010–11 KHL season was the third season of the Kontinental Hockey League. It was held from 8 September 2010 and ended on 16 April 2011. The season started with the Opening Cup game between the last season's finalists, Ak Bars Kazan and UHC Dynamo, the new team that was created by merging last season's Western conference winner HC MVD with Dynamo Moscow. Salavat Yulaev Ufa won the Gagarin Cup and the Russian Championship after beating Atlant Moscow Oblast 4–1 in the play-off final series. Folding of Lada Togliatti Lada", "id": "10925021" }, { "contents": "1994 in Russian football\n\n\ntime at 2-2. Early stages of the Russian Cup 1994–95 were played later in the year. FC Spartak Moscow finished the group stage in third place, not qualifying for the semifinals. All the Russian participants were eliminated in 1993. FC Spartak Moscow qualified directly for the group stage. It did not qualify from the group, coming in third place. PFC CSKA Moscow were eliminated in the first round. FC Rotor Volgograd and FC Tekstilshchik Kamyshin were both eliminated by FC Nantes in the first and second round respectively,", "id": "17746833" }, { "contents": "Mikhail Osinov\n\n\nRussian Top Division side Rotor Volgograd. In 2001, Osinov was transferred to FC Rostov and stayed there for 9 years, suffering a relegation and helping the \"yellow-blues\" to return to the Premier League. He also holds the club record for league appearances with 239 games. In 2010, he returned to Yekaterinburg to play in the Russian First Division. In 2011, Osinov went to a lower league joining MITOS Novocherkassk of the Russian Second Division. On 11 September 2011, in a league game against Olimpia Gelendzhik Osinov", "id": "12015633" }, { "contents": "1990 Soviet Top League\n\n\non 1 March with the game between Dnipro and Rotor and lasted until 20 October 1990. The season was won by FC Dynamo Kyiv. The league was reduced to 13 after first Georgian clubs (Dinamo Tbilisi and Guria Lanchkhuti) and then Žalgiris withdrew from the Soviet Top League. Lokomotiv Moscow and the last placed Zenit Leningrad of the 1989 Soviet Top League were relegated to the 1990 Soviet First League. Lokomotiv returned to the Soviet First League after two seasons absence, while Zenit was relegated for the first time since being promoted back", "id": "831394" }, { "contents": "2010–11 KHL season\n\n\nTogliatti dropped out of the league and joined the Russian Major League instead, after failing to meet the league's financial requirements. Merger of HC MVD and Dynamo Moscow On 30 April 2010, it was announced that HC MVD would merge with Dynamo Moscow to form UHC Dynamo, which for the time being will play the majority of their games at Megasport Arena in Moscow, while also attempting to play some games in Balashikha. The current plan is to have a new, large and modernized arena constructed in Balashikha by 2012. Expansion", "id": "10925022" }, { "contents": "Dzmitry Rawneyka\n\n\nDzmitry Vasilevich Rawneyka (; ; born 13 May 1980) is a former Belarusian professional footballer. He is currently af part of the coaching staff of Belarus. Born in Grodno, Rawneyka began playing football in FC Neman Grodno's youth system. He joined the senior side and made his Belarusian Premier League debut in 1998. He had a spell in the Russian Premier League with FC Torpedo Moscow and FC Rotor Volgograd but has spent most of his playing career with Neman Grodno. Rawneyka has made eight appearances for the Belarus national football team", "id": "13999154" }, { "contents": "BC Krasny Oktyabr\n\n\nthe highest stage for Russian clubs. In the first season of Krasny Oktyabr in the VTB United League, it qualified for the playoffs by finishing in the 6th place in Group B. Also, European powerhouse CSKA Moscow was defeated by Krasny Oktyabr in the quarterfinals of the 2013–14 Russian Cup tournament. On August 30, 2016, the team was forced to leave the United League, because its home arena wasn't approved to host tournaments. The club usually played its home games at the 3,700 seat Volgograd Sports Palace of Trade Unions,", "id": "8073501" }, { "contents": "Igor Lediakhov\n\n\n-Don. In 1990, he joined FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk. After impressing with FC Rotor Volgograd, Lediakhov was bought by Soviet Union giants FC Spartak Moscow, being essential as the capital team conquered three consecutive league titles, which included the inaugural edition of the competition, as the player scored in double digits in two of the three seasons. In the 1994 summer, 26-year-old Lediakhov moved abroad, signing with Spain's Sporting de Gijón. Even though he netted nearly 50 overall goals for the club (17 in four", "id": "21673652" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\nnew stadium - provided they had a professional club to fill it after the tournament. Rotor, facing legal action and a transfer embargo due to their financial status, were not reliable candidates. The government created a new entity, FC Volgograd, intending to assume the Rotor name. In fact Rotor managed to co-exist with the new FC for the first half of the 2009 season, before Mikheev suspended operations and the government took ownership of the club and stadium from him. The two clubs were merged into one, and", "id": "264677" }, { "contents": "FC Lokomotiv Moscow\n\n\npoints after Gameweek 30. The game was played at Dynamo Stadium in front of a sold-out crowd. Lokomotiv took an early lead thanks a low drive from captain Dmitry Loskov, and eventually the goal turned out to be enough for Lokomotiv to claim the first title in the club's history. Two years later, Lokomotiv again won the Russian Premier League, edging city rivals CSKA by a single point; Lokomotiv defeated Shinnik Yaroslavl 0–2 in Yaroslavl, a week after CSKA fell to city rivals Dynamo at home. In 2005", "id": "10933606" }, { "contents": "1995–96 Manchester United F.C. season\n\n\nactually went top of the league after a goalless draw at Sheffield Wednesday towards the end of September, only for the Tynesiders to return to the top of the table soon after. Then came Cantona's comeback on 1 October, when he scored a penalty to equalise and hold Liverpool to a 2–2 draw Old Trafford. The autumn saw United suffer first-hurdle exits to York City in the League Cup and Rotor Volgograd in the UEFA Cup, although United did preserve their 39-year home unbeaten record in European competitions thanks to a late", "id": "9981632" }, { "contents": "1994–95 Russian Cup\n\n\nDynamo Moscow: Valeri Kleimyonov (GK), Yuri Kovtun (DF), Sergey Timofeev (DF), Andrei Chernyshov (DF), Aleksandr Borodkin (DF), Aleksei Filippov (DF), Vagiz Khidiyatullin (DF), Andrei Ivanov (DF), Denis Klyuyev (MF), Dmitri Cheryshev (FW), Igor Simutenkov (FW), Kirill Rybakov (FW), Yuri Tishkov (FW). FC Rotor Volgograd: Volodymyr Gerashchenko (DF), Aleksandr Yeshchenko (MF), Konstantin Kulik (", "id": "5392312" }, { "contents": "FC Olimpia Volgograd\n\n\nFC Olimpia Volgograd () is a Russian football team from the large city of Volgograd. They are the second- or third-largest club in the city after the famous Rotor Volgograd. From their founding in 1989 until 1997, the club participated in various youth leagues. Some time between 1993 and 1994 the Volgograd native Leonid Slutsky, future coach of the Russian national team, joined the training staff. Among the Olimpia youth players developed under Slutsky were Denis Kolodin, Roman Adamov, Andrei Bochkov, Maksim Burchenko and Aleksei Zhdanov,", "id": "21936806" }, { "contents": "Peter Schmeichel\n\n\na 2001 Reuters poll, he beat Lev Yashin and Gordon Banks to be named the finest keeper in football history. Despite being a goalkeeper, he would run into the attack on corner kicks if his team was behind. The sight of him going up for the corner was a great distraction to opposing defenders. He scored a goal in this fashion, for Man United, in a UEFA Cup match against Rotor Volgograd at Old Trafford in September 1995. He scored in the last minutes of the game to tie the match 2–2", "id": "19820283" }, { "contents": "Spartak Gogniyev\n\n\nSpartak Arturovich Gogniyev (, ; born 19 January 1981) is a Russian professional football coach and a former player. He is the manager of FC Alania Vladikavkaz. He made his debut in the Russian Premier League in 2000 for FC Dynamo Moscow. He played two games in the UEFA Cup 2000–01 for FC Dynamo Moscow and two games (scoring one goal) in the UEFA Champions League 2003–04 qualification round for PFC CSKA Moscow. In August 2018, it was announced that Spartak Gogniyev joined new FC Urozhay Krasnodar, but this was", "id": "7903306" }, { "contents": "Georgi Yartsev\n\n\nat the time, gave Yartsev a sabre as a birthday gift in a sideline pre-game ceremony. Yartsev got another head coach position soon enough, when he joined Rotor Volgograd in January 2000. However, he could not do much with that team either and was fired in June of same year. For the next 3 years he was the manager of the Spartak Moscow veterans team. In August 2003, Russia was very close to elimination from their Euro 2004 preliminary qualification group and the coach Valery Gazzayev, was fired.", "id": "15861320" }, { "contents": "FCSB\n\n\nUEFA ordered Steaua to play two home games of the Europa League behind closed doors due to their fans displaying racist banners in a second qualifying round match against Hungarian side Újpest. Three further incidents occurred in the 2014–15 season, with the club fined and ordered to play further games in an empty stadium after displays of racist banners in matches against Dynamo Kyiv, Ludogorets Razgrad and Strømsgodset. Steaua's most important rivalry is the one against Dinamo București. \"Eternul derby\" (\"The Eternal Derby\") has been the leading Romanian", "id": "19491084" }, { "contents": "2010 Russian First Division\n\n\n), Mordovia Saransk (Ural-Povolzhye) and Irtysh Omsk (East). Due to financial difficulties, Vityaz Podolsk who placed 11th in 2009, decided to give up their spot in the Russian First Division and participate in the Russian Second Division in 2010. Pending licensing, their place was taken by FC Volgograd who placed 3rd in the Russian Second Division (South Zone) in 2009. For the occasion the management decided to change the name of the club from FC Volgograd to Rotor Volgograd. FC Alania Vladikavkaz were promoted", "id": "7947305" }, { "contents": "Russian Women's Handball Super League\n\n\nThe Russian Women's Handball Superleague is the premier women's handball competition in Russia. Dinamo Volgograd, formerly known as Rotor and Akva, is the championship's most successful club as of 2019 with 12 titles. It also holds the record for consecutive wins, with six titles in a row. Currently eleven clubs take part in the competition, with the top eight playing the championship play-offs. The Russian Championship's leading teams have been successful in EHF's competitions. Zvezda Zvenigorod won the Champions League and the EHF Cup", "id": "8475941" }, { "contents": "Pavel Pogrebnyak\n\n\n's relegation, Pogrebnyak was linked with a move away from the club but did not leave. He scored his first goals in more than eight months after netting twice in a 3–1 win over Derby County in September 2013. On 27 August 2015 Pogrebnyak moved back to Russia, signing a three-year contract with Dynamo Moscow. Dynamo released him on 25 January 2018, citing disciplinary reasons, such as attending a Juventus - Inter Milan game in Italy on the same day Dynamo played a league game and participating in the annual exhibition", "id": "2040879" }, { "contents": "1996 in Russian football\n\n\nplayers (Stanislav Cherchesov, Viktor Onopko, Vasili Kulkov and Sergei Yuran) who played in the group stage where Spartak did not lose a single point left the club to move to Western European clubs in the winter before the quarterfinals. Nicolas Ouédec was instrumental again, after scoring 7 goals in 4 games against the Russian teams in the 1994–95 UEFA Cup, this time he scored 3 goals in two games against Spartak. FC Dynamo Moscow were eliminated in the quarterfinals. All the Russian teams were eliminated in 1995. FC Alania Vladikavkaz", "id": "22219347" }, { "contents": "Kamil Mullin\n\n\nKamil Shamilevich Mullin (, ; born 5 January 1994) is a Russian professional football player who plays for FC Rotor Volgograd. He plays as a forward. Mullin joined Lokomotiv academy at 16 years, and two years later made it to the youth squad. In total, he played 53 games for Lokomotiv U21 and scored 23 goals.br He made his debut for Lokomotiv first team in the 2012–13 Russian Cup game vs Torpedo Armavir on 26 September 2012.br In March 2013, Mullin for the first time was included into team sheet for the", "id": "2605760" }, { "contents": "FC Dynamo Moscow\n\n\nthe 2008 season, Dynamo finished third, qualifying for the 2009–10 Champions League preliminary round. On 29 July 2009, Dynamo recorded a 0–1 away win against Celtic at Celtic Park, which gave them a strong advantage going into the second leg. However, Celtic comfortably defeated Dynamo 0–2 in Moscow to progress, sending Dynamo into the Europa League play-off round where the club was eliminated by Bulgarian side CSKA Sofia after a 0–0 away draw in Sofia and a 1–2 home defeat in Moscow. In 2012, after a poor start", "id": "8644502" }, { "contents": "2013–14 Russian Premier League\n\n\n2014/15 season. The 13th and 14th Premier League teams will play the 4th and 3rd FNL teams respectively in two playoff games with the winner securing a Premier League spot for 2014/15 season. On 11 May 2014, the game between FC Zenit Saint Petersburg and FC Dynamo Moscow was interrupted in the 86th minute with Dynamo leading 4-2 when Zenit fans ran out of the stands. At first they stood behind the goal line, when the referee decided to take the teams off the field into the dressing rooms and teams began to", "id": "9911963" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\nthe third tier) in 1980 and 1981, and were successful in the promotion playoffs the second time. In 1988 Rotor finished second in the Soviet First League, earning promotion to the Soviet Top League. They finished 13th and last in the downsized 1990 competition after the Georgian and Lithuanian teams withdrew, and the decision was made to relegate them. However they bounced straight back as champions of the First League in 1991, thus becoming founder members of the new Russian Top Division after the USSR collapsed. In the mid-1990s, Rotor", "id": "264672" }, { "contents": "Bibras Natkho\n\n\n, Natkho scored two goals in the Champions League qualifier against Dynamo Kyiv and Lyon, who they eliminated Kazan out of the competitions and the club would play in the Europa League. Then in the Europa League campaign, Natkho scored twice in six matches in the Group Stage of the Europa League against Tottenham Hostpur and Shamrock Rovers. Natkho performance was praised for his role during the season and helped the club win the Russian Cup after playing a vital of assisting the winning goal, in a 1–0 win over Dynamo Moscow. Natkho would", "id": "21438585" }, { "contents": "Danil Lipovoy\n\n\nDanil Nikolayevich Lipovoy (; born 22 September 1999) is a Russian football player who plays for FC Dynamo Moscow. He made his debut in the Russian Professional Football League for FC Dynamo-2 Moscow on 2 April 2017 in a game against FC Dynamo Saint Petersburg. He made his debut for the main squad of FC Dynamo Moscow on 26 September 2018 in a Russian Cup game against FC Torpedo Moscow. He made Russian Premier League debut for Dynamo on 30 November 2018 in a game against FC Rubin Kazan, as a 64th-minute substitute", "id": "429351" }, { "contents": "FC Amkar Perm\n\n\n, having lost their Spring matches to Kuban Krasnodar (1–2) and Spartak Moscow (0–2). A series without a win followed the victory over Alania and after the Dynamo match Amkar lost to Terek Grozny (1–2) and Lokomotiv Moscow (2–4). After another devastating defeat from Kuban (0–4), followed by a victory over their direct rivals Rostov (3–2), and a goalless draw with Zenit, the club retained the right to play in the Premier League. In June 2013, the club opted not to", "id": "5030824" }, { "contents": "FC Shakhtar Donetsk\n\n\nminute Fedor Manov opened score to Donetsk team goals. Final score is 4:1 in favor of the hosts.\" Nonetheless, the selective job conducted constructively by the club's administration allowed the club to compete successfully at the top level by the end of the 1930s. During the \"war championship\" of 1941, which was interrupted unexpectedly, the club defeated Soviet champions Dynamo Moscow and after about ten games were placed in fifth in the league. In the last game of that championship, played on 24 June, two days after", "id": "14103740" }, { "contents": "Oleg Veretennikov\n\n\nOleg Aleksandrovich Veretennikov (; born 5 January 1970) is a professional Russian association football coach and a former international footballer. He manages Rotor-2 Volograd. He is the top goalscorer in the history of Russian Premier League, and holds several other goalscoring records. Most of Veretennikov's successes have come with SC Rotor Volgograd, for whom he played in 1992–1999. During that time he scored 143 goals, which makes him the best goalscorer in the Russian Premier League history (the next best goalscorer, Dmitry Loskov, has 109 goals as of", "id": "21553966" }, { "contents": "Sergei Pareiko\n\n\nSergei Pareiko (born 31 January 1977) is a retired Estonian footballer. He is currently the sporting director of Estonian football club Levadia. Pareiko played as a goalkeeper in Estonian, Russian and Polish top tiers. He made a total of 65 appearances for the Estonia national football team. In Estonia, Pareiko played for Tallinna Sadam and Levadia Maardu, before moving to Russia in 2001, when he signed with Rotor Volgograd. After Rotor were relegated, Pareiko moved to Tom Tomsk. At the end of 2009 season Pareiko was named", "id": "11658849" }, { "contents": "FC Dinamo Tbilisi\n\n\nIn this period Dinamo won the Soviet Cup for the first time in their history, convincingly defeating Armenian side Ararat Yerevan 3–0 in the final, with goals scored by David Kipiani, Piruz Kanteladze and Revaz Chelebadze. In 1978 the club won the Soviet Top League for a second time. Next year Dinamo won the Soviet Cup again by defeating Russian side Dynamo Moscow in the final. In 1979 the club played its first match in the UEFA European Cup tournament. In the first round Dinamo knocked out English side Liverpool, at the", "id": "10097459" }, { "contents": "Romelu Lukaku\n\n\nlater at home to West Ham. Lukaku scored twice in a 4–0 win, becoming the fourth Manchester United player to score two goals on his Premier League debut for the club. On 17 September, Lukaku scored United's third goal in a 4–0 win over his former club Everton, with Lukaku running over towards Everton fans and cupping his ears during his goal celebration in response to being booed throughout the game. On 27 September, Lukaku scored twice in a 4–1 UEFA Champions League win over CSKA Moscow, taking his tally to", "id": "1117930" }, { "contents": "Dynamo Dresden\n\n\none Game behind closed doors and one away game without own fan support. Virtual tickets were offered to reduce the financial loss, creating \"the first sold-out Ghost Game in history\". The 2012–13 season started poorly for Dynamo and Ralf Loose was sacked in December 2012 after a 3–0 defeat to VfL Bochum with the team in 15th place. He was replaced by Peter Pacult, returning to the club after more than six years. Dynamo's form improved after Pacult's arrival but the team still finished the league as 16th", "id": "11366777" }, { "contents": "Aleksandr Tashayev\n\n\nAleksandr Mikhailovich Tashayev (; born 23 June 1994) is a Russian professional football player who plays as a left midfielder for Spartak Moscow. He made his professional debut on 11 December 2014 for FC Dynamo Moscow in a 2014–15 UEFA Europa League group game against PSV Eindhoven. He also played in the Round of 16 away game against Napoli. On 6 July 2018, he signed a contract with the cross-city rivals FC Spartak Moscow, after buying out own contract from Dynamo and becoming a free agent. Dynamo unsuccessfully sued to deem", "id": "13552247" }, { "contents": "Dynamo Moscow Bandy Club\n\n\nthe end of the 2004–05 season, almost all players of the for a decade dominant Vodnik signed up for Dynamo Moscow, resulting in an immediate Russian League title in 2006. Dynamo Moscow won the World Cup for the first time in 2006, defeating Zorky in the final. The 2006 domestic title was followed by another four consecutive Russian championship titles and as one of the dominating teams in the following years too, until 2017, when they missed the championship play-off, only coming in at eighth place in the regular season", "id": "1825162" }, { "contents": "Handball Club Lada\n\n\nHandball Club Lada is a Russian women's handball club from Tolyatti playing in the Russian Super League. Founded in 1998, Lada soon became the leading team in the Super League winning five championships in a row between 2002 and 2006 and a sixth one in 2008. It also built itself a name in Europe winning the 2002 Cup Winners' Cup in its international debut and reaching the final of the 2007 Champions League and the next edition's semifinals. The following three seasons were less successful, with Dynamo Volgograd retrieving the leading position", "id": "9114247" }, { "contents": "Omari Tetradze\n\n\n– Tetradze. Later he considered restoring his original surname, but decided it would cause too many problems. At club level, he played for Dinamo Tbilisi, FC Dynamo Moscow, Alania Vladikavkaz (where he won a Russian league championship medal in 1995), AS Roma, and PAOK FC (Greece). He played for Russia at international level, and appeared at World Cup 1994 and Euro 1996. At the latter tournament, he played superbly in each of Russia's three games despite the team's poor results, and", "id": "17559889" }, { "contents": "FC Girondins de Bordeaux\n\n\nclub was relegated just two years thereafter. In 1992, however, \"Les Girondins\" won that year's Ligue 2 title, thus being elevated to the top tier of French football. In the emergence of young and exciting players such as playmaker Zinedine Zidane, striker Christophe Dugarry and left back Bixente Lizarazu, the club ascended even higher to win the UEFA Intertoto Cup in 1995. With this talented trio, the club defeated FC Rotor Volgograd (the 1995 King's Cup Winner), Real Betis, Milan and Slavia Prague", "id": "10933676" }, { "contents": "Yuriy Hudymenko\n\n\nYuriy Arkadiyovych Hudymenko (; born 3 October 1966) is a former Kyrgyz-born Ukrainian professional footballer. Hudymenko is a product of the main Bishkek sports school and later was accepted to the main republican club of Kyrgyzia, FC Alga Bishkek. In 1990 he made his debut in the Soviet Top League playing for FC Dnepr Dnepropetrovsk, but failed to score any goals in domestic competitions, but did score a goal against Heart of Midlothian F.C. in the 1990-91 UEFA Cup. Next year Hudymenko joined recently relegated FC Rotor Volgograd that", "id": "11637137" }, { "contents": "Valery Gazzaev\n\n\na second-place finish at the end of the season. However, Gazzaev was left behind in the first league in Spartak Ordzhonikidze, as he wasn't one of the main players of the SKA Rostov-on-Don. In the Soviet Top League, Gazzaev played in Lokomotiv Moscow, Dynamo Moscow, and Dinamo Tbilisi. Gazzaev is a Soviet Cup winner with Dynamo Moscow in 1984. During his career he scored 89 goals in 283 matches in Soviet Top League, and was the top goal scorer of the UEFA Cup", "id": "3537187" }, { "contents": "FC Amkar Perm\n\n\nAmkar was in third place in the standings, one point behind second-placed Spartak Moscow and six adrift of leaders Rubin Kazan. After the break, one of Amkar's team leaders, Vladimir Gabulov, and the captain, Aleksei Popov, left the team to join Dynamo Moscow and Rubin Kazan respectively. Two matches in a row on the \"equator\" of the Championship Amkar could have topped the league table but was unable to beat Tom Tomsk and Spartak Nalchik at home. On 16 November, after beating Tom in Tomsk", "id": "5030813" }, { "contents": "FC Rubin Kazan\n\n\nfixed after selling in Volgograd \"Rotor\" team leaders Oleg Nechaev and Rustem Khuzin (but soon returned to \"Rubin\" till the end of the season on loan). In the end the season Kazan finished on 8th place, only losing a point to Nizhnekamsk \"Neftechimik\" and dropped into the second league. The following year, 1994, coaches Zadikashvili and Semenov assemble a team literally bit by bit. Because of the continuing financial problems from the last season in the team left only 6 players: Grishin, Danilin,", "id": "19815661" }, { "contents": "Nikita Chernov\n\n\nNikita Aleksandrovich Chernov (; born 14 January 1996) is a Russian professional football player who plays as a centre-back for Krylia Sovetov Samara and Russia national football team. Born in Volzhsky, Volgograd Oblast, Chernov began his career at hometown team FC Energiya Volzhsky before joining CSKA Moscow in 2009. He made his professional debut on 24 September 2014 in a Russian Cup game against FC Khimik Dzerzhinsk. He also played in the next Russian Cup round against FC Torpedo Moscow on 29 October. On 30 July 2019, Chernov moved from", "id": "503700" }, { "contents": "KF Skënderbeu Korçë\n\n\nBeşiktaş, Lokomotiv Moscow and Sporting Clube de Portugal. In matchday 1, their first ever group stage game, the club was defeated at home 0–1 by Beşiktaş after a hard fight between the two sides. In the next matchday, they lost 0–2 to Lokomotiv Moscow in Moscow. Their worst defeat in the European competition yet came the next matchday, a storming 1–5 loss to Sporting in the away leg at Lisbon, but also had the Albanian side scoring their first goal in the UEFA Europa League group stages. In the home", "id": "1409695" }, { "contents": "FC Dynamo Kyiv\n\n\nand Maccabi Tel Aviv F.C. Dynamo finished in second place with 11 points after a spectacular performance and a memorable 0–2 in Porto. However, Dynamo was punished by UEFA for a racist incident in the home game against Chelsea where four black men were attacked in the stands by Dynamo fans. Despite this, Dynamo reached the round of 16 in the Champions League for the first time since 2000, where it was drawn with Manchester City. Dynamo was eliminated 1–3 on aggregate but managed to hold an impressive 0–0 draw in Manchester. Dynamo", "id": "18770189" }, { "contents": "Konstantin Kovalenko\n\n\nKonstantin Valeryevich Kovalenko (; ; born 2 February 1975) is a Belarusian and Russian professional footballer who plays for resurrected FC Kuban Krasnodar. He made his professional debut in the Soviet Second League in 1991 for FC Kuban Barannikovsky. He played 1 game in the 1996–97 UEFA Cup for FC Spartak Moscow. His brother Andrei Kovalenko also played football professionally. On 27 October 2008 he punched referee Sergei Timofeyev in the face in the Russian Second Division game FC Sochi-04 - FC Olimpia Volgograd. He was banned from football for a year. Spartak", "id": "1118096" }, { "contents": "Clinton N'Jie\n\n\nDimitri Payet and scored two goals in a 3–0 win. On 17 September, he scored both the goals in the away win over Amiens. On 3 May 2018, he played in the Europa League semi-finals away to FC Red Bull Salzburg as Marseille played out a 2–1 away loss but a 3–2 aggregate win to secure a place in the 2018 UEFA Europa League Final. On 25 July 2019, Njie signed a 4-year contract with Russian Premier League club Dynamo Moscow. N'Jie scored 44 minutes into his Cameroon debut against the", "id": "16847587" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\ntime they were able to consolidate in the National League, finishing 9th and then 14th. But financial troubles continued. A Ministry of Sport investigation found evidence of financial misconduct by club management along with substantial overspending, and regional Governor Andrey Bocharov announced after the 2013 season that government support for Rotor was being withdrawn. The club dropped back into the Second Division (renamed the Professional Football League) for the first half of the 2014–15 (autumn-spring) season, then withdrew in order to immediately transfer to the 2015 (spring", "id": "264679" }, { "contents": "2001 FC Anzhi Makhachkala season\n\n\nThe 2001 FC Anzhi Makhachkala season was the 2nd season that the club played in the Russian Top Division, the highest tier of football in Russia, following their promotion from the National Football League in 1999. They finished the season in 13th, were runners-up in the 2001-02 cup and reached the Sixth Round of the 2002-03 cup losing to Dynamo Moscow, and were knocked out of the UEFA Cup at the First Round stage after a 0-1 defeat to Rangers over one leg in Warsaw, Poland", "id": "4897180" }, { "contents": "FC Dynamo-2 Moscow\n\n\nFC Dynamo-2 Moscow () was a Russian football team from Moscow. It was the farm-club for FC Dynamo Moscow. In 2016, it was revived after the parent club, Dynamo, was relegated from the Russian Football Premier League (which holds its own competition for the Under-21 teams of the Premier League clubs) and licensed to play in the third-tier Russian Professional Football League for the 2016–17 season. Majority of the squad participated in the 2016–17 UEFA Youth League as well. On 17 June 2017, the parent", "id": "19064817" }, { "contents": "Mikhail Markosov\n\n\nDivision South Zone, scoring 27 goals, a feat no one in the entire Second Division surpassed. In the 2010 season, he played for FC Rotor Volgograd and came back to FC Dynamo Stavropol the next season. Scoring 10 goals in his first 10 matches for Dynamo, Markosov was transferred in the summer transfer window of the 2011-12 season to FC Ufa. From April until June 2019 Markosov played for FC Kuban Krasnodar, scored 7 goals in 11 matches. He joined the Armenia national football team in 2013. Markosov", "id": "12122198" }, { "contents": "1993 in Russian football\n\n\ntheir group campaign and finished it without much success, only gaining 2 points in 6 games, coming in last in the group and suffering a 0-6 defeat against Marseille. They could not play their home games in Moscow due to the lack of a stadium meeting the Champions League standards at the time. FC Spartak Moscow reached the semifinals, tying the best European result in club's history. FC Spartak Moscow qualified for the group stage and continued to play in the group into the 1994. FC Torpedo Moscow went out", "id": "21710373" }, { "contents": "2002 in Russian football\n\n\nrespective Second Division zones: The Russian Cup was won by CSKA Moscow, who beat Zenit Saint Petersburg 2–0 in the final at the Luzhniki Stadium. Lokomotiv Moscow participated in the third round of the UEFA Cup 2001-02, but were knocked out by Hapoel Tel Aviv FC who won 3–1 on aggregate. Krylya Sovetov Samara played in the UEFA Intertoto Cup 2002. After defeating Dinaburg FC in the second round they lost to Willem II Tilburg on away goals. Lokomotiv Moscow's victory over Grazer AK ensured there are two Russian clubs", "id": "11619883" }, { "contents": "FC Dynamo Moscow\n\n\nFC Dynamo Moscow (Dinamo Moscow, FC Dinamo Moskva, ) is a Russian football club based in Moscow. Dynamo has returned to the Russian Premier League for the 2017–18 season after one season in the second-tier Russian Football National League. Dynamo was the only club that had always played in the top tier of Soviet football (along with Dynamo Kyiv) and of Russian football from the end of the Soviet era until they were relegated in 2016. Despite this, it has never won the modern Russian Premier League title and", "id": "8644495" }, { "contents": "Nikita Lyamin\n\n\nIn 2004, he played three season in the farm team and two more seasons in the main team for Dynamo Moscow. Dynamo Moscow became champions at the 2007–08 Russian Volleyball Super League, but Lyamin due to low game practice quit the club. Lyamin moved to Nizhny Novgorod and became captain of Guberniya, which went on debuting in the B-division of the highest national league. In the two years, Guberniya could enter the Super League, and in the 2012–13 it became one of the leading clubs in Russia. Guberniya qualified", "id": "8669287" }, { "contents": "Leonid Slutsky (football coach)\n\n\nLeonid Viktorovich Slutsky (; born 4 May 1971) is a Russian professional football coach and former player who is the manager of Eredivisie club Vitesse. Previously, he has been in charge of Olimpia Volgograd, Uralan Elista, Moscow, Krylia Sovetov, CSKA Moscow, Russia and Hull City. Slutsky was born in Volgograd. Slutsky's playing career with FC Zvezda Gorodishche ended at just 19 years of age. He had to retire due to a knee injury sustained after falling out of a tree while rescuing a neighbour's cat. Slutsky", "id": "11710104" }, { "contents": "Yuri Kovtun\n\n\nduring the season so two top teams were interested in him at the same time, it's Dynamo and Spartak Moscow. In 1993, Kovtun chose Dynamo Moscow and was their key player for years, until his move to Spartak in 1999. While the only Kovtun's honour during 6 years in Dynamo was Russian Cup in 1995, he could get 3 titles in 1999, 2000 and 2001 after joining Spartak. Moreover, he took part in numerous UEFA Champions League games and found himself regular Russian national football team player. Kovtun", "id": "2071460" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\n-tier Russian Professional Football League for the 2016–17 season. They won their zone of the PFL in the 2016–17 season and were promoted to the second-level Russian National Football League for 2017–18. Despite ending the 2017–18 season in the relegation zone, the club stayed in the league for the 2018–19 season as another team that finished above them in the table failed to obtain the league license. As of 5 July 2019, according to the FNL website. Had international caps for their respective countries. Players whose name is listed in", "id": "264681" }, { "contents": "Dmitri Khokhlov\n\n\nDmitri Valeryevich Khokhlov (, born 22 December 1975) is a Russian football manager and a former player. He is the manager of FC Dynamo Moscow. He played as a holding midfielder or playmaker. He played for PFC CSKA Moscow and FC Lokomotiv Moscow in native Russia, having abroad spells with PSV Eindhoven (Netherlands) and Real Sociedad (Spain). During his time with FC Lokomotiv Moscow he participated in their memorable 2003–04 UEFA Champions League campaign, scoring third goal in the 3–0 home victory against Internazionale. He played for", "id": "19054427" }, { "contents": "Racism in association football\n\n\nagainst CSKA Moscow in Russia. The club's stadium was partially closed as punishment. Touré suggested that black players might boycott the 2018 FIFA World Cup, to be held in Russia, if racism continued in the country. In September 2014, Dynamo Moscow defender Christopher Samba was racially abused playing in the Moscow derby against Torpedo Moscow. As a result, Torpedo were forced to close part of their stadium, although Samba was also banned for two games for swearing at the racist fans. In a friendly match (Russia vrs France", "id": "21349703" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\nTraktor Stalingrad to national prominence. Traktor were champions of the new fourth-level Group G in 1937, and were then promoted straight to the highest-level Group A as it expanded from 9 clubs to 26. They remained at the top level until 1950. Rotor then spent three decades at the top regional level, although the creation of the Supreme League in 1970 pushed their league from the second level overall down to the third. They gradually improved throughout the 1970s and finally won Zone III of the Soviet Second League (", "id": "264671" }, { "contents": "WPC Dynamo Moscow\n\n\nWPC Dynamo Moscow () is a Russian men's water polo club, that is part of the traditional Moscow-based multi-sports club Dynamo. Dynamo won seven Soviet Championships between 1955 and 1962, and in 1964 it was the first team to represent the in the newly European Champions Cup, ranking second behind Partizan. In 1968 and 1969 the team won two more national championships, and it also reached the 1969 European Cup's final, lost to Mladost. For the next fifteen years Dynamo didn't win any more", "id": "18685765" }, { "contents": "Kyle Hines\n\n\ngreat Olympiacos comeback in 4th quarter, led by Vassilis Spanoulis. CSKA Moscow eventually won the EuroLeague third place game, after defeating Fenerbahçe, by a score of 86–80. In his second EuroLeague season with CSKA Moscow, Hines averaged a career-low 6.8 points and 4.3 rebounds per game, over 30 games played. CSKA Moscow finished the season by winning the VTB United League, after eliminating Khimki with a 3–0 series sweep in the League's finals series. On June 17, 2015, he signed a two-year contract", "id": "14695455" }, { "contents": "Miroslav Raičević\n\n\nfinal decisive shot in the very last seconds of the final game against Prokom Trefl Sopot. He also won the Greek Cup with Aris, in the year 2004. He has also played with Red Star Belgrade of the Adriatic League during the 2005–06 season. He won the Serbian Cup with Red Star that season. In the 2006–07 season, he played with the Russian Super League club Dynamo Moscow. During summer of 2007, he left Dynamo Moscow and joined the Italian League club Eldo Napoli. He then left Napoli and moved back", "id": "13596698" } ]

[ { "contents": "1996 in Russian football\n\n\nwas knocked out in the qualifying round. FC Lokomotiv Moscow went out in the second round. PFC CSKA Moscow, FC Dynamo Moscow and FC Torpedo-Luzhniki Moscow were eliminated in the first round after going through the qualifying round. FC Alania Vladikavkaz went out in the first round after going to the UEFA Cup after failing in the qualification for the Champions League. FC Spartak Moscow went out in the second round. Russian clubs participated in the Intertoto Cup for the first time. FC Rotor Volgograd, FC KAMAZ-Chally Naberezhnye", "id": "22219348" }, { "contents": "1995 in Russian football\n\n\nthe Russian Cup 1995–96 were played later in the year. All the Russian participants were eliminated in 1994. FC Spartak Moscow won every game in their group, qualifying for the quarterfinals. FC Dynamo Moscow advanced through the first two rounds, qualifying to play in the quarterfinals next spring. FC Spartak-Alania Vladikavkaz and FC Lokomotiv Moscow were eliminated in the first round by strong opponents (even though Lokomotiv very unexpectedly beat FC Bayern in Munich in the first game). FC Rotor Volgograd eliminated Manchester United F.C. in the first round", "id": "18335625" }, { "contents": "Maksim Nenakhov\n\n\nMaksim Maksimovich Nenakhov (; born 13 December 1998) is a Russian football player who plays for FC Rotor Volgograd. He made his debut in the Russian Professional Football League for FC Dynamo-2 Moscow on 20 July 2016 in a game against FC Tekstilshchik Ivanovo. On 19 January 2018, he was loaned to FC Tyumen until the end of the 2017–18 season. On 14 June 2018, he moved on another loan for the 2018–19 season to FC SKA-Khabarovsk. On 18 June 2019, he signed a 2-year contract with FC Rotor Volgograd", "id": "6983587" }, { "contents": "Almir Kayumov\n\n\nAlmir Izmailovich Kayumov (; 30 December 1964 – 7 August 2013) was a Russian football player and referee. Kayumov played for FC Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk, FC Lada Togliatti, Spartak Moscow, Rotor Volgograd, SKA Rostov-on-Don, in Russia, the Daewoo Royals in South Korea, and Kuopion Palloseura in Finland. He played 6 games in the UEFA Cup 1986–87 for FC Spartak Moscow. On November 9, 2009, it was reported that Kayumov attempted to commit suicide by jumping out of his apartment window. Police negotiators talked", "id": "14510549" }, { "contents": "Ruslan Ishkinin\n\n\nRuslan Kamilyevich Ishkinin (; born 14 June 1974) is a former Russian professional footballer. He made his professional debut in the Russian Second Division in 1992 for FC Dynamo-2 Moscow. The most memorable match of his career was played on 14 June 1995. His team FC Dynamo Moscow was playing FC Rotor Volgograd in the final game of the Russian Cup. Dynamo was decimated by injuries and several reserve players, including Ishkinin, were called up for the game. With 5 minutes to go in regulation and the score of 0–0, Ishkinin", "id": "2479621" }, { "contents": "1997 in Russian football\n\n\nthe year. Russian teams were eliminated in 1996. FC Spartak Moscow were eliminated in the second qualifying round and went on to the UEFA Cup. FC Lokomotiv Moscow qualified for the quarterfinals stage that was played in 1998. FC Spartak Moscow qualified for the quarterfinals stage that was played in 1998. FC Rotor Volgograd reached the second round. FC Alania Vladikavkaz went out in the first round. The goal in the stadium was measured before the game and turned out to be 2.46 meters high instead of regulation 2.44. The referee decided", "id": "20500131" }, { "contents": "2012–13 Russian Premier League\n\n\naltogether if the game is awarded to Dynamo. According to the police, the main suspect is a female fan who was arrested after the game. The criminal investigation was opened on the charge of hooliganism. On 22 November, Russian Football Union's Control-Disciplinary Committee awarded the game to Dynamo with a score of 3–0 and fined both clubs. Dynamo had to play their next home game (against Rubin Kazan) behind closed doors and Zenit had to play their next 2 home games (against CSKA Moscow and Anzhi Makhachkala)", "id": "321372" }, { "contents": "Yuriy Kalitvintsev\n\n\nfor FC Desna Chernihiv. A Russian-born Kalitvintsev chose to play for the Ukraine side after breaking through as a midfielder for Dynamo Kyiv. Until 1994 he played he spent his playing career at Russian clubs such as FC Rotor Volgograd, FC SKA Rostov-on-Don, FC Dynamo Moscow, and FC Lokomotiv Nizhny Novgorod. It wasn't until the reorganization of the soviet football when he started to play at the top level of the Russian championship starting for the Moscow's Dynamo. After being transferred to the fading club", "id": "20481933" }, { "contents": "Sergei Bogomolov\n\n\nSergei Anatolyevich Bogomolov (; born 17 August 1971) is a former Russian professional footballer. During his time with FC Dynamo Moscow he only played in a single game for the main team, but it was a very memorable one. On 14 June 1995, Dynamo was playing FC Rotor Volgograd in the final game of the 1994–95 Russian Cup. Dynamo was hurt by injuries to some first team regulars and several reserve players, including Bogomolov, were called up for the game. With the score of 0:0 and 10 minutes to go in", "id": "18632079" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\nwas one of the strongest clubs in Russia, rivalling Spartak Moscow for the championship, yet never winning it. Rotor became the league runners-up in 1993 and 1997. Rotor played five successive seasons in European competition, from 1994-95 to 1998-99. They qualified for the UEFA Cup through their league position every year except 1996-97, when they instead chose to enter the Intertoto Cup. Unfortunately for Rotor, the fall of communism had left all the former Eastern Bloc leagues badly under-resourced compared to", "id": "264673" }, { "contents": "1995 in Russian football\n\n\n1995 was the fourth season Russia held its own national football competition since the breakup of the Soviet Union. FC Spartak-Alania Vladikavkaz won the league for the first time ever. This was the first season 3 points were awarded for a win instead of two. For more details, see: The third edition of the Russian Cup, Russian Cup 1994–95 was won by FC Dynamo Moscow, who beat FC Rotor Volgograd in the finals in a shootout 8-7 after finishing extra time at 0-0. Early stages of", "id": "18335624" }, { "contents": "Maxim Chuzhkov\n\n\nMaxim Aleksandrovich Chuzhkov (; born 11 April 1987) is a Russian beach soccer player serving as goalkeeper. He is a three-time national champion for three different clubs (Rotor Volgograd, Lokomotiv Moscow, Kristall). Maxim Chuzhkov was born in Samara. He was a gymnast for six years before switching to football. Chuzhkov discovered beach soccer in 2010, and one year later he joined Krylya Sovetov from Samara. From 2012 to 2014 he played for Rotor Volgograd, winning with them the club's first and only Russian Beach Soccer", "id": "21454463" }, { "contents": "1991 Soviet Top League\n\n\nseason, while FC Rotor Volgograd and FC Tiligul Tiraspol would have been promoted to the Top League for 1992. Top six clubs of the league later entered European competitions for their respective nations. The Ukrainian clubs chose to qualify through a separate national competition. The league was expanded to 16 after the last season, during which number of clubs left the Soviet competitions (from Georgia and Baltic states). The last-placed FC Rotor Volgograd of the 1990 Soviet Top League lost promotion/relegation playoff to Lokomotiv Moscow and was relegated", "id": "831265" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor-2 Volgograd\n\n\nFC Rotor-2 Volgograd () is a Russian football team based in Volgograd. It is the farm club for FC Rotor Volgograd. It previously played professionally as FC Rotor-d Volgograd or FC Rotor-2 Volgograd in the Russian Second Division in 1992–1993, 1998–2000 and 2004 and Russian Third League in 1994-1997. They came in 3rd place in their Second Division zone in 1993. In 2001, the reserves tournament for Russian Premier League was re-established and the reserves team played there while the main team stayed in Premier League.", "id": "5758261" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\nFC Rotor Volgograd () is a Russian football (soccer) club from the large city of Volgograd, Volgograd Oblast (formerly Stalingrad). The club plays in the second-level Russian National Football League. They are the largest and best supported Volgograd club and for most of their existence have been the city's only representatives in the national league system. They played at the top level of Soviet/Russian football either side of World War II, from 1989 to 1990, and from 1991 to 2004. During the 1990s", "id": "264669" }, { "contents": "Wisdom Mumba Chansa\n\n\nand Derby Makinka, to play in the Soviet Top League when they all signed for Pomir Dushanbe in 1989 after being spotted during their 4-0 win over Italy at the 1988 Olympics. Chansa's debut came on 2 October 1989 in an away match against Torpedo Moscow, before appearing twice more, against Rotor Volgograd and Metalist Kharkiv, before leaving at the conclusion of the 1989 season. Chansa returned to Power Dynamos following his Soviet experience, and was made captain before Power Dynamos became the first Zambian club side to win a", "id": "5300924" }, { "contents": "FC Volgograd\n\n\nFC Volgograd () is a former name of the Russian football club from Volgograd, founded in late 2008, currently known as FC Rotor Volgograd. Before it was founded, it was originally supposed to be called FC Rotor-Volgograd Volgograd (to keep Rotor's name around at the time FC Rotor Volgograd was close to bankruptcy). However, FC Rotor's financial situation has improved by early 2009 and the club was registered as FC Volgograd. It played in the Russian Second Division in 2009. It took over the license", "id": "6725532" }, { "contents": "Roman Pavlyuchenko\n\n\nRoman Anatolyevich Pavlyuchenko (; born 15 December 1981) is a Russian footballer who plays as a striker for FC Znamya Noginsk. He started his career at Dynamo Stavropol, and Rotor Volgograd, before transferring to Spartak Moscow in 2003. His performances there earned him a £13.7 million transfer to Tottenham Hotspur of the English Premier League in 2008, where he spent three full seasons before returning to Russia to play for Lokomotiv Moscow. After another full 3 seasons he moved in July 2015, to Kuban Krasnodar. A full international for a", "id": "3367200" }, { "contents": "Anton Miranchuk\n\n\nAnton Andreyevich Miranchuk (; born 17 October 1995) is a Russian professional football player who plays as a centre midfielder or attacking midfielder for Lokomotiv Moscow and the Russia national team. Born in Slavyansk-na-Kubani, Miranchuk joined Spartak Moscow from his hometown football school Olymp. He was dismissed from the club because of weak physical abilities. After that, he and his twin brother Aleksei moved to Lokomotiv Moscow. On 30 October 2013, Miranchuk made his competitive debut in senior football in a Russian Cup game against Rotor Volgograd replacing", "id": "1404526" }, { "contents": "Dmitry Pletnyov (footballer)\n\n\nDmitry Andreyevich Pletnyov (; born 16 January 1998) is a Russian football player. He plays for FC Tom Tomsk in Russian Football National League. He made his debut in the Russian Football National League for FC Zenit-2 Saint Petersburg on 6 September 2017 in a game against FC Rotor Volgograd. He made his Russian Premier League debut for FC Zenit Saint Petersburg on 5 May 2018 in a game against FC Lokomotiv Moscow. He played for Russia national under-17 football team at the 2015 UEFA European Under-17 Championship and 2015 FIFA U-17 World Cup.", "id": "21412634" }, { "contents": "2004 in Russian football\n\n\nseason. Andrey Fedkov of Terek became the top goalscorer with 38 goals. The following clubs have earned promotion by winning tournaments in their respective Second Division zones: Prior to start of the 2005 season three clubs (Rotor Volgograd, Torpedo Vladimir, and Arsenal Tula) refused participation in the First Division, and two more clubs (Dynamo Stavropol and Chernomorets Novorossiysk) were denied licences. This made way for the runners-up of all five zones: The Russian Super Cup match between CSKA Moscow and Spartak Moscow was won by CSKA", "id": "6344061" }, { "contents": "Dmitry Shishin\n\n\nnational beach soccer team. That year Shishin participated at the Russian Championship as player of Samarian Sputnik and debuted for the national team at the Beach Soccer World Cup. After Sputnik, Shishin for a long time played for different Saratov clubs, such as Rosagro, Biznes-Pravo, Delta. In 2011, Shishin moved to Lokomotiv Moscow, where he won the championship trophy with his team. Together with the Lokomotives he won another national championship trophy and two Russian cups. In 2013, Shishin surprisingly switched to Rotor Volgograd, becoming", "id": "12194946" }, { "contents": "2009 Russian Second Division\n\n\nJuly 2009 Oleg Mikheyev, president of FC Rotor Volgograd, announced Rotor's resignation from the league, citing problems with authorities. They have played 18 games and were in the 13th position with 21 points. \"Source: [PFL] , Sporbox.ru \" On 11 July 2009, the management of FC Spartak Shchyolkovo announced that the club would resign from the league after the first half of the season because of economic problems. Spartak were excluded from the league on August 4, 2009. They have played 18 games and were in", "id": "21482663" }, { "contents": "FC Olimpia Volgograd\n\n\nuntil 2008, though their fortunes faded after Slutsky's players left. Before the 2009 season their professional license was taken over by the new club FC Volgograd. This was meant to allow FC to assume the name and identity of Rotor who were suffering off-field troubles, but Rotor survived and ended up playing simultaneously with the new FC in 2009, while Olimpia dropped into the Volgograd Oblast Championship. They stayed there until 2011, winning the title in 2010. With confusion ongoing over the future of the Rotor name and club", "id": "21936808" }, { "contents": "Sergei Rashevsky\n\n\nSergei Aleksandrovich Rashevsky (; born 13 June 1980) is a Russian football coach and a former player. He is an assistant coach with FC Rotor Volgograd. He made his debut in the Russian Premier League in 2001 for FC Rotor Volgograd, before moving to Ural in 2005. After several seasons playing for different clubs in Russia, Rashevsky signed with Volga in 2008. He played for the club for three years, before he returned to Ural in 2011. Since February 2014, he played for the Russian National Football League side Yenisey", "id": "8136441" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\nthe new Rotor Volgograd were promoted to the second-level Russian Football National League thanks to teams above them withdrawing. The regional Ministry of Sport invested 150 million roubles ($4.9m) in the club's playing budget for the 2010 campaign, but it ended in failure as Rotor were relegated in 17th place. Governor Brovko admitted that the transition to the higher level was made too quickly. Former club player Sergei Nechay took over management and steered the team to promotion as champions of their Second Division zone in 2011–12. This", "id": "264678" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\ntheir Western counterparts, and indeed Rotor were knocked out by all four of the French and Italian clubs they played. The exception came against England's Manchester United in 1995-96. Having drawn the home leg 0-0, Rotor raced into a 2-0 lead at Old Trafford before United scored their first goal. Rotor were seconds away from being the first European club to win at Old Trafford when United's goalkeeper Peter Schmeichel scored a famous equaliser, but the 2-2 draw meant Rotor progressed by the away", "id": "264674" }, { "contents": "Roman Pavlyuchenko\n\n\na 1-0 loss against Moscow on 5 April 1999. On 15 May 1999, Pavlyuchenko provided a double assist in a 2-1 win over Chita. In his first season, Pavlyuchenko made 31 appearance and scoring 11 goals. However, the club played was still relegated to the Second Division after the club was last place. Despite this, Pavlyuchenko was named 'Team of the top' junior division for the first version of the newspaper Sport Express. Pavlyuchenko moved to Rotor Volgograd in 2000, although the move was", "id": "3367203" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\ntheir professional licence entirely. Rotor's reserve side in the Russian Second Division, Rotor-2 Volgograd, became the club's first team and was renamed Rotor in 2006. In 2007 local businessman Oleg Mikheev acquired the club's main asset the Volgograd Central Stadium, and with it effective control over the club, but financial troubles continued and the team's performances in the Second Division declined. Matters came to a head in 2009. Russia had officially launched its bid for the FIFA World Cup 2018 and Volgograd city was in line for a", "id": "264676" }, { "contents": "1988 Soviet Cup Final\n\n\nThe 1988 Soviet Cup Final was a football match that took place at the Lenin's Central Stadium, Moscow on May 28, 1988. The match was the 47th Soviet Cup Final and it was contested by FC Metalist Kharkiv and FC Torpedo Moscow. The Soviet Cup winner Metalist qualified for the Cup Winners' Cup first round for the Soviet Union. The last year defending holders Dynamo Kyiv were eliminated in the second round of the competition by FC Rotor Volgograd (3:2, 0:2). For Metalist this was their second final total", "id": "158055" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\ngoals rule They went on to be defeated by eventual Runners-up Bordeaux in the second round. Full European results: In the 2000s, Rotor's results declined, and in 2004, the team finished last in the Russian Premier League. The club's owner Vladimir Goryunov, a member of the Duma and head of the parliamentary sports committee, explored options to save Rotor from relegation, such as expanding the Premier League to 20 teams. But in January 2005 Rotor were unable to make the required financial guarantees and so lost", "id": "264675" }, { "contents": "2018–19 Russian Football National League\n\n\n. Ararat Moscow was promoted from 2017–18 PFL, but were refused a license for the 2018–19 Russian National Football League, the club being subsequently dissolved. Zenit-2 Saint Petersburg, Rotor Volgograd, Luch Vladivostok, Tyumen and Fakel Voronezh were spared from relegation due to lack of teams enrolled for the 2018–19 season. Sakhalin Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk finished on the promotion place at the end of the 2017–18 PFL season, but refused to be promoted. Dynamo Saint Petersburg was moved from Saint Petersburg to Sochi and renamed as PFC Sochi. Olimpiyets Nizhny Novgorod", "id": "621376" }, { "contents": "Dinamo Volgograd\n\n\nDinamo Volgograd () is a Russian women's handball club from Volgograd. Founded in 1972 as Burevestnik Volgograd, it represented Rotor Volgograd following the collapse of the Soviet Union and was subsequently named Aqva before taking its current name in 2003. Dynamo is the most successful team in the Russian Super League with nine titles, and in the 2001-02 season it set an absolute record winning all the matches. It has also been fairly successful in international competitions with three titles: the 1995 Challenge Cup and Champions Trophy and the 2008", "id": "10627328" }, { "contents": "List of football clubs in Russia\n\n\nZelenodolsk — FC Prometey-Dinamo Saint Petersburg — FC Pskov — FC Pskov-2000 — FC Pskov-747 FC Radian-Baikal Irkutsk — FC Rassvet Troitskoye — FC Reformatsiya Abakan — FC Rekord Aleksandrov — FC Reutov — FC Ritm Alekseyevka — FC Ritm Belgorod — FC Roda Moscow — FC Rossia Moscow — FC Rostov — FC Rostselmash-2 Rostov-on-Don — FC Rostselmash Rostov-on-Don — FC Rotor-2 Mikhaylovka — FC Rotor-2 Volgograd — FC Rotor Volgograd — FC Rubin-2 Kazan — FC Rubin Kazan — FC Rubin-TAN Kazan — FC", "id": "14958458" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\n-autumn) Russian Amateur Football League, the fourth level overall. In the 2015 season Rotor won the Amateur League Chernozemye (South-West Region) division at the first attempt by 11 points, suffering only one defeat in 22 games. The 45,000-seater Pobeda Stadium is under construction on their old Central Stadium site, and it was reported in August 2015 that the first team are still interested in moving into the facility after the 2018 World Cup, which makes attaining a higher league status a priority. They were licensed for third", "id": "264680" }, { "contents": "2010–11 KHL season\n\n\nThe 2010–11 KHL season was the third season of the Kontinental Hockey League. It was held from 8 September 2010 and ended on 16 April 2011. The season started with the Opening Cup game between the last season's finalists, Ak Bars Kazan and UHC Dynamo, the new team that was created by merging last season's Western conference winner HC MVD with Dynamo Moscow. Salavat Yulaev Ufa won the Gagarin Cup and the Russian Championship after beating Atlant Moscow Oblast 4–1 in the play-off final series. Folding of Lada Togliatti Lada", "id": "10925021" }, { "contents": "1994 in Russian football\n\n\ntime at 2-2. Early stages of the Russian Cup 1994–95 were played later in the year. FC Spartak Moscow finished the group stage in third place, not qualifying for the semifinals. All the Russian participants were eliminated in 1993. FC Spartak Moscow qualified directly for the group stage. It did not qualify from the group, coming in third place. PFC CSKA Moscow were eliminated in the first round. FC Rotor Volgograd and FC Tekstilshchik Kamyshin were both eliminated by FC Nantes in the first and second round respectively,", "id": "17746833" }, { "contents": "Mikhail Osinov\n\n\nRussian Top Division side Rotor Volgograd. In 2001, Osinov was transferred to FC Rostov and stayed there for 9 years, suffering a relegation and helping the \"yellow-blues\" to return to the Premier League. He also holds the club record for league appearances with 239 games. In 2010, he returned to Yekaterinburg to play in the Russian First Division. In 2011, Osinov went to a lower league joining MITOS Novocherkassk of the Russian Second Division. On 11 September 2011, in a league game against Olimpia Gelendzhik Osinov", "id": "12015633" }, { "contents": "1990 Soviet Top League\n\n\non 1 March with the game between Dnipro and Rotor and lasted until 20 October 1990. The season was won by FC Dynamo Kyiv. The league was reduced to 13 after first Georgian clubs (Dinamo Tbilisi and Guria Lanchkhuti) and then Žalgiris withdrew from the Soviet Top League. Lokomotiv Moscow and the last placed Zenit Leningrad of the 1989 Soviet Top League were relegated to the 1990 Soviet First League. Lokomotiv returned to the Soviet First League after two seasons absence, while Zenit was relegated for the first time since being promoted back", "id": "831394" }, { "contents": "2010–11 KHL season\n\n\nTogliatti dropped out of the league and joined the Russian Major League instead, after failing to meet the league's financial requirements. Merger of HC MVD and Dynamo Moscow On 30 April 2010, it was announced that HC MVD would merge with Dynamo Moscow to form UHC Dynamo, which for the time being will play the majority of their games at Megasport Arena in Moscow, while also attempting to play some games in Balashikha. The current plan is to have a new, large and modernized arena constructed in Balashikha by 2012. Expansion", "id": "10925022" }, { "contents": "Dzmitry Rawneyka\n\n\nDzmitry Vasilevich Rawneyka (; ; born 13 May 1980) is a former Belarusian professional footballer. He is currently af part of the coaching staff of Belarus. Born in Grodno, Rawneyka began playing football in FC Neman Grodno's youth system. He joined the senior side and made his Belarusian Premier League debut in 1998. He had a spell in the Russian Premier League with FC Torpedo Moscow and FC Rotor Volgograd but has spent most of his playing career with Neman Grodno. Rawneyka has made eight appearances for the Belarus national football team", "id": "13999154" }, { "contents": "BC Krasny Oktyabr\n\n\nthe highest stage for Russian clubs. In the first season of Krasny Oktyabr in the VTB United League, it qualified for the playoffs by finishing in the 6th place in Group B. Also, European powerhouse CSKA Moscow was defeated by Krasny Oktyabr in the quarterfinals of the 2013–14 Russian Cup tournament. On August 30, 2016, the team was forced to leave the United League, because its home arena wasn't approved to host tournaments. The club usually played its home games at the 3,700 seat Volgograd Sports Palace of Trade Unions,", "id": "8073501" }, { "contents": "Igor Lediakhov\n\n\n-Don. In 1990, he joined FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk. After impressing with FC Rotor Volgograd, Lediakhov was bought by Soviet Union giants FC Spartak Moscow, being essential as the capital team conquered three consecutive league titles, which included the inaugural edition of the competition, as the player scored in double digits in two of the three seasons. In the 1994 summer, 26-year-old Lediakhov moved abroad, signing with Spain's Sporting de Gijón. Even though he netted nearly 50 overall goals for the club (17 in four", "id": "21673652" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\nnew stadium - provided they had a professional club to fill it after the tournament. Rotor, facing legal action and a transfer embargo due to their financial status, were not reliable candidates. The government created a new entity, FC Volgograd, intending to assume the Rotor name. In fact Rotor managed to co-exist with the new FC for the first half of the 2009 season, before Mikheev suspended operations and the government took ownership of the club and stadium from him. The two clubs were merged into one, and", "id": "264677" }, { "contents": "FC Lokomotiv Moscow\n\n\npoints after Gameweek 30. The game was played at Dynamo Stadium in front of a sold-out crowd. Lokomotiv took an early lead thanks a low drive from captain Dmitry Loskov, and eventually the goal turned out to be enough for Lokomotiv to claim the first title in the club's history. Two years later, Lokomotiv again won the Russian Premier League, edging city rivals CSKA by a single point; Lokomotiv defeated Shinnik Yaroslavl 0–2 in Yaroslavl, a week after CSKA fell to city rivals Dynamo at home. In 2005", "id": "10933606" }, { "contents": "1995–96 Manchester United F.C. season\n\n\nactually went top of the league after a goalless draw at Sheffield Wednesday towards the end of September, only for the Tynesiders to return to the top of the table soon after. Then came Cantona's comeback on 1 October, when he scored a penalty to equalise and hold Liverpool to a 2–2 draw Old Trafford. The autumn saw United suffer first-hurdle exits to York City in the League Cup and Rotor Volgograd in the UEFA Cup, although United did preserve their 39-year home unbeaten record in European competitions thanks to a late", "id": "9981632" }, { "contents": "1994–95 Russian Cup\n\n\nDynamo Moscow: Valeri Kleimyonov (GK), Yuri Kovtun (DF), Sergey Timofeev (DF), Andrei Chernyshov (DF), Aleksandr Borodkin (DF), Aleksei Filippov (DF), Vagiz Khidiyatullin (DF), Andrei Ivanov (DF), Denis Klyuyev (MF), Dmitri Cheryshev (FW), Igor Simutenkov (FW), Kirill Rybakov (FW), Yuri Tishkov (FW). FC Rotor Volgograd: Volodymyr Gerashchenko (DF), Aleksandr Yeshchenko (MF), Konstantin Kulik (", "id": "5392312" }, { "contents": "FC Olimpia Volgograd\n\n\nFC Olimpia Volgograd () is a Russian football team from the large city of Volgograd. They are the second- or third-largest club in the city after the famous Rotor Volgograd. From their founding in 1989 until 1997, the club participated in various youth leagues. Some time between 1993 and 1994 the Volgograd native Leonid Slutsky, future coach of the Russian national team, joined the training staff. Among the Olimpia youth players developed under Slutsky were Denis Kolodin, Roman Adamov, Andrei Bochkov, Maksim Burchenko and Aleksei Zhdanov,", "id": "21936806" }, { "contents": "Peter Schmeichel\n\n\na 2001 Reuters poll, he beat Lev Yashin and Gordon Banks to be named the finest keeper in football history. Despite being a goalkeeper, he would run into the attack on corner kicks if his team was behind. The sight of him going up for the corner was a great distraction to opposing defenders. He scored a goal in this fashion, for Man United, in a UEFA Cup match against Rotor Volgograd at Old Trafford in September 1995. He scored in the last minutes of the game to tie the match 2–2", "id": "19820283" }, { "contents": "Spartak Gogniyev\n\n\nSpartak Arturovich Gogniyev (, ; born 19 January 1981) is a Russian professional football coach and a former player. He is the manager of FC Alania Vladikavkaz. He made his debut in the Russian Premier League in 2000 for FC Dynamo Moscow. He played two games in the UEFA Cup 2000–01 for FC Dynamo Moscow and two games (scoring one goal) in the UEFA Champions League 2003–04 qualification round for PFC CSKA Moscow. In August 2018, it was announced that Spartak Gogniyev joined new FC Urozhay Krasnodar, but this was", "id": "7903306" }, { "contents": "Georgi Yartsev\n\n\nat the time, gave Yartsev a sabre as a birthday gift in a sideline pre-game ceremony. Yartsev got another head coach position soon enough, when he joined Rotor Volgograd in January 2000. However, he could not do much with that team either and was fired in June of same year. For the next 3 years he was the manager of the Spartak Moscow veterans team. In August 2003, Russia was very close to elimination from their Euro 2004 preliminary qualification group and the coach Valery Gazzayev, was fired.", "id": "15861320" }, { "contents": "FCSB\n\n\nUEFA ordered Steaua to play two home games of the Europa League behind closed doors due to their fans displaying racist banners in a second qualifying round match against Hungarian side Újpest. Three further incidents occurred in the 2014–15 season, with the club fined and ordered to play further games in an empty stadium after displays of racist banners in matches against Dynamo Kyiv, Ludogorets Razgrad and Strømsgodset. Steaua's most important rivalry is the one against Dinamo București. \"Eternul derby\" (\"The Eternal Derby\") has been the leading Romanian", "id": "19491084" }, { "contents": "2010 Russian First Division\n\n\n), Mordovia Saransk (Ural-Povolzhye) and Irtysh Omsk (East). Due to financial difficulties, Vityaz Podolsk who placed 11th in 2009, decided to give up their spot in the Russian First Division and participate in the Russian Second Division in 2010. Pending licensing, their place was taken by FC Volgograd who placed 3rd in the Russian Second Division (South Zone) in 2009. For the occasion the management decided to change the name of the club from FC Volgograd to Rotor Volgograd. FC Alania Vladikavkaz were promoted", "id": "7947305" }, { "contents": "Russian Women's Handball Super League\n\n\nThe Russian Women's Handball Superleague is the premier women's handball competition in Russia. Dinamo Volgograd, formerly known as Rotor and Akva, is the championship's most successful club as of 2019 with 12 titles. It also holds the record for consecutive wins, with six titles in a row. Currently eleven clubs take part in the competition, with the top eight playing the championship play-offs. The Russian Championship's leading teams have been successful in EHF's competitions. Zvezda Zvenigorod won the Champions League and the EHF Cup", "id": "8475941" }, { "contents": "Pavel Pogrebnyak\n\n\n's relegation, Pogrebnyak was linked with a move away from the club but did not leave. He scored his first goals in more than eight months after netting twice in a 3–1 win over Derby County in September 2013. On 27 August 2015 Pogrebnyak moved back to Russia, signing a three-year contract with Dynamo Moscow. Dynamo released him on 25 January 2018, citing disciplinary reasons, such as attending a Juventus - Inter Milan game in Italy on the same day Dynamo played a league game and participating in the annual exhibition", "id": "2040879" }, { "contents": "1996 in Russian football\n\n\nplayers (Stanislav Cherchesov, Viktor Onopko, Vasili Kulkov and Sergei Yuran) who played in the group stage where Spartak did not lose a single point left the club to move to Western European clubs in the winter before the quarterfinals. Nicolas Ouédec was instrumental again, after scoring 7 goals in 4 games against the Russian teams in the 1994–95 UEFA Cup, this time he scored 3 goals in two games against Spartak. FC Dynamo Moscow were eliminated in the quarterfinals. All the Russian teams were eliminated in 1995. FC Alania Vladikavkaz", "id": "22219347" }, { "contents": "Kamil Mullin\n\n\nKamil Shamilevich Mullin (, ; born 5 January 1994) is a Russian professional football player who plays for FC Rotor Volgograd. He plays as a forward. Mullin joined Lokomotiv academy at 16 years, and two years later made it to the youth squad. In total, he played 53 games for Lokomotiv U21 and scored 23 goals.br He made his debut for Lokomotiv first team in the 2012–13 Russian Cup game vs Torpedo Armavir on 26 September 2012.br In March 2013, Mullin for the first time was included into team sheet for the", "id": "2605760" }, { "contents": "FC Dynamo Moscow\n\n\nthe 2008 season, Dynamo finished third, qualifying for the 2009–10 Champions League preliminary round. On 29 July 2009, Dynamo recorded a 0–1 away win against Celtic at Celtic Park, which gave them a strong advantage going into the second leg. However, Celtic comfortably defeated Dynamo 0–2 in Moscow to progress, sending Dynamo into the Europa League play-off round where the club was eliminated by Bulgarian side CSKA Sofia after a 0–0 away draw in Sofia and a 1–2 home defeat in Moscow. In 2012, after a poor start", "id": "8644502" }, { "contents": "2013–14 Russian Premier League\n\n\n2014/15 season. The 13th and 14th Premier League teams will play the 4th and 3rd FNL teams respectively in two playoff games with the winner securing a Premier League spot for 2014/15 season. On 11 May 2014, the game between FC Zenit Saint Petersburg and FC Dynamo Moscow was interrupted in the 86th minute with Dynamo leading 4-2 when Zenit fans ran out of the stands. At first they stood behind the goal line, when the referee decided to take the teams off the field into the dressing rooms and teams began to", "id": "9911963" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\nthe third tier) in 1980 and 1981, and were successful in the promotion playoffs the second time. In 1988 Rotor finished second in the Soviet First League, earning promotion to the Soviet Top League. They finished 13th and last in the downsized 1990 competition after the Georgian and Lithuanian teams withdrew, and the decision was made to relegate them. However they bounced straight back as champions of the First League in 1991, thus becoming founder members of the new Russian Top Division after the USSR collapsed. In the mid-1990s, Rotor", "id": "264672" }, { "contents": "Bibras Natkho\n\n\n, Natkho scored two goals in the Champions League qualifier against Dynamo Kyiv and Lyon, who they eliminated Kazan out of the competitions and the club would play in the Europa League. Then in the Europa League campaign, Natkho scored twice in six matches in the Group Stage of the Europa League against Tottenham Hostpur and Shamrock Rovers. Natkho performance was praised for his role during the season and helped the club win the Russian Cup after playing a vital of assisting the winning goal, in a 1–0 win over Dynamo Moscow. Natkho would", "id": "21438585" }, { "contents": "Danil Lipovoy\n\n\nDanil Nikolayevich Lipovoy (; born 22 September 1999) is a Russian football player who plays for FC Dynamo Moscow. He made his debut in the Russian Professional Football League for FC Dynamo-2 Moscow on 2 April 2017 in a game against FC Dynamo Saint Petersburg. He made his debut for the main squad of FC Dynamo Moscow on 26 September 2018 in a Russian Cup game against FC Torpedo Moscow. He made Russian Premier League debut for Dynamo on 30 November 2018 in a game against FC Rubin Kazan, as a 64th-minute substitute", "id": "429351" }, { "contents": "FC Amkar Perm\n\n\n, having lost their Spring matches to Kuban Krasnodar (1–2) and Spartak Moscow (0–2). A series without a win followed the victory over Alania and after the Dynamo match Amkar lost to Terek Grozny (1–2) and Lokomotiv Moscow (2–4). After another devastating defeat from Kuban (0–4), followed by a victory over their direct rivals Rostov (3–2), and a goalless draw with Zenit, the club retained the right to play in the Premier League. In June 2013, the club opted not to", "id": "5030824" }, { "contents": "FC Shakhtar Donetsk\n\n\nminute Fedor Manov opened score to Donetsk team goals. Final score is 4:1 in favor of the hosts.\" Nonetheless, the selective job conducted constructively by the club's administration allowed the club to compete successfully at the top level by the end of the 1930s. During the \"war championship\" of 1941, which was interrupted unexpectedly, the club defeated Soviet champions Dynamo Moscow and after about ten games were placed in fifth in the league. In the last game of that championship, played on 24 June, two days after", "id": "14103740" }, { "contents": "Oleg Veretennikov\n\n\nOleg Aleksandrovich Veretennikov (; born 5 January 1970) is a professional Russian association football coach and a former international footballer. He manages Rotor-2 Volograd. He is the top goalscorer in the history of Russian Premier League, and holds several other goalscoring records. Most of Veretennikov's successes have come with SC Rotor Volgograd, for whom he played in 1992–1999. During that time he scored 143 goals, which makes him the best goalscorer in the Russian Premier League history (the next best goalscorer, Dmitry Loskov, has 109 goals as of", "id": "21553966" }, { "contents": "Sergei Pareiko\n\n\nSergei Pareiko (born 31 January 1977) is a retired Estonian footballer. He is currently the sporting director of Estonian football club Levadia. Pareiko played as a goalkeeper in Estonian, Russian and Polish top tiers. He made a total of 65 appearances for the Estonia national football team. In Estonia, Pareiko played for Tallinna Sadam and Levadia Maardu, before moving to Russia in 2001, when he signed with Rotor Volgograd. After Rotor were relegated, Pareiko moved to Tom Tomsk. At the end of 2009 season Pareiko was named", "id": "11658849" }, { "contents": "FC Dinamo Tbilisi\n\n\nIn this period Dinamo won the Soviet Cup for the first time in their history, convincingly defeating Armenian side Ararat Yerevan 3–0 in the final, with goals scored by David Kipiani, Piruz Kanteladze and Revaz Chelebadze. In 1978 the club won the Soviet Top League for a second time. Next year Dinamo won the Soviet Cup again by defeating Russian side Dynamo Moscow in the final. In 1979 the club played its first match in the UEFA European Cup tournament. In the first round Dinamo knocked out English side Liverpool, at the", "id": "10097459" }, { "contents": "Romelu Lukaku\n\n\nlater at home to West Ham. Lukaku scored twice in a 4–0 win, becoming the fourth Manchester United player to score two goals on his Premier League debut for the club. On 17 September, Lukaku scored United's third goal in a 4–0 win over his former club Everton, with Lukaku running over towards Everton fans and cupping his ears during his goal celebration in response to being booed throughout the game. On 27 September, Lukaku scored twice in a 4–1 UEFA Champions League win over CSKA Moscow, taking his tally to", "id": "1117930" }, { "contents": "Dynamo Dresden\n\n\none Game behind closed doors and one away game without own fan support. Virtual tickets were offered to reduce the financial loss, creating \"the first sold-out Ghost Game in history\". The 2012–13 season started poorly for Dynamo and Ralf Loose was sacked in December 2012 after a 3–0 defeat to VfL Bochum with the team in 15th place. He was replaced by Peter Pacult, returning to the club after more than six years. Dynamo's form improved after Pacult's arrival but the team still finished the league as 16th", "id": "11366777" }, { "contents": "Aleksandr Tashayev\n\n\nAleksandr Mikhailovich Tashayev (; born 23 June 1994) is a Russian professional football player who plays as a left midfielder for Spartak Moscow. He made his professional debut on 11 December 2014 for FC Dynamo Moscow in a 2014–15 UEFA Europa League group game against PSV Eindhoven. He also played in the Round of 16 away game against Napoli. On 6 July 2018, he signed a contract with the cross-city rivals FC Spartak Moscow, after buying out own contract from Dynamo and becoming a free agent. Dynamo unsuccessfully sued to deem", "id": "13552247" }, { "contents": "Dynamo Moscow Bandy Club\n\n\nthe end of the 2004–05 season, almost all players of the for a decade dominant Vodnik signed up for Dynamo Moscow, resulting in an immediate Russian League title in 2006. Dynamo Moscow won the World Cup for the first time in 2006, defeating Zorky in the final. The 2006 domestic title was followed by another four consecutive Russian championship titles and as one of the dominating teams in the following years too, until 2017, when they missed the championship play-off, only coming in at eighth place in the regular season", "id": "1825162" }, { "contents": "Handball Club Lada\n\n\nHandball Club Lada is a Russian women's handball club from Tolyatti playing in the Russian Super League. Founded in 1998, Lada soon became the leading team in the Super League winning five championships in a row between 2002 and 2006 and a sixth one in 2008. It also built itself a name in Europe winning the 2002 Cup Winners' Cup in its international debut and reaching the final of the 2007 Champions League and the next edition's semifinals. The following three seasons were less successful, with Dynamo Volgograd retrieving the leading position", "id": "9114247" }, { "contents": "Omari Tetradze\n\n\n– Tetradze. Later he considered restoring his original surname, but decided it would cause too many problems. At club level, he played for Dinamo Tbilisi, FC Dynamo Moscow, Alania Vladikavkaz (where he won a Russian league championship medal in 1995), AS Roma, and PAOK FC (Greece). He played for Russia at international level, and appeared at World Cup 1994 and Euro 1996. At the latter tournament, he played superbly in each of Russia's three games despite the team's poor results, and", "id": "17559889" }, { "contents": "FC Girondins de Bordeaux\n\n\nclub was relegated just two years thereafter. In 1992, however, \"Les Girondins\" won that year's Ligue 2 title, thus being elevated to the top tier of French football. In the emergence of young and exciting players such as playmaker Zinedine Zidane, striker Christophe Dugarry and left back Bixente Lizarazu, the club ascended even higher to win the UEFA Intertoto Cup in 1995. With this talented trio, the club defeated FC Rotor Volgograd (the 1995 King's Cup Winner), Real Betis, Milan and Slavia Prague", "id": "10933676" }, { "contents": "Yuriy Hudymenko\n\n\nYuriy Arkadiyovych Hudymenko (; born 3 October 1966) is a former Kyrgyz-born Ukrainian professional footballer. Hudymenko is a product of the main Bishkek sports school and later was accepted to the main republican club of Kyrgyzia, FC Alga Bishkek. In 1990 he made his debut in the Soviet Top League playing for FC Dnepr Dnepropetrovsk, but failed to score any goals in domestic competitions, but did score a goal against Heart of Midlothian F.C. in the 1990-91 UEFA Cup. Next year Hudymenko joined recently relegated FC Rotor Volgograd that", "id": "11637137" }, { "contents": "Valery Gazzaev\n\n\na second-place finish at the end of the season. However, Gazzaev was left behind in the first league in Spartak Ordzhonikidze, as he wasn't one of the main players of the SKA Rostov-on-Don. In the Soviet Top League, Gazzaev played in Lokomotiv Moscow, Dynamo Moscow, and Dinamo Tbilisi. Gazzaev is a Soviet Cup winner with Dynamo Moscow in 1984. During his career he scored 89 goals in 283 matches in Soviet Top League, and was the top goal scorer of the UEFA Cup", "id": "3537187" }, { "contents": "FC Amkar Perm\n\n\nAmkar was in third place in the standings, one point behind second-placed Spartak Moscow and six adrift of leaders Rubin Kazan. After the break, one of Amkar's team leaders, Vladimir Gabulov, and the captain, Aleksei Popov, left the team to join Dynamo Moscow and Rubin Kazan respectively. Two matches in a row on the \"equator\" of the Championship Amkar could have topped the league table but was unable to beat Tom Tomsk and Spartak Nalchik at home. On 16 November, after beating Tom in Tomsk", "id": "5030813" }, { "contents": "FC Rubin Kazan\n\n\nfixed after selling in Volgograd \"Rotor\" team leaders Oleg Nechaev and Rustem Khuzin (but soon returned to \"Rubin\" till the end of the season on loan). In the end the season Kazan finished on 8th place, only losing a point to Nizhnekamsk \"Neftechimik\" and dropped into the second league. The following year, 1994, coaches Zadikashvili and Semenov assemble a team literally bit by bit. Because of the continuing financial problems from the last season in the team left only 6 players: Grishin, Danilin,", "id": "19815661" }, { "contents": "Nikita Chernov\n\n\nNikita Aleksandrovich Chernov (; born 14 January 1996) is a Russian professional football player who plays as a centre-back for Krylia Sovetov Samara and Russia national football team. Born in Volzhsky, Volgograd Oblast, Chernov began his career at hometown team FC Energiya Volzhsky before joining CSKA Moscow in 2009. He made his professional debut on 24 September 2014 in a Russian Cup game against FC Khimik Dzerzhinsk. He also played in the next Russian Cup round against FC Torpedo Moscow on 29 October. On 30 July 2019, Chernov moved from", "id": "503700" }, { "contents": "KF Skënderbeu Korçë\n\n\nBeşiktaş, Lokomotiv Moscow and Sporting Clube de Portugal. In matchday 1, their first ever group stage game, the club was defeated at home 0–1 by Beşiktaş after a hard fight between the two sides. In the next matchday, they lost 0–2 to Lokomotiv Moscow in Moscow. Their worst defeat in the European competition yet came the next matchday, a storming 1–5 loss to Sporting in the away leg at Lisbon, but also had the Albanian side scoring their first goal in the UEFA Europa League group stages. In the home", "id": "1409695" }, { "contents": "FC Dynamo Kyiv\n\n\nand Maccabi Tel Aviv F.C. Dynamo finished in second place with 11 points after a spectacular performance and a memorable 0–2 in Porto. However, Dynamo was punished by UEFA for a racist incident in the home game against Chelsea where four black men were attacked in the stands by Dynamo fans. Despite this, Dynamo reached the round of 16 in the Champions League for the first time since 2000, where it was drawn with Manchester City. Dynamo was eliminated 1–3 on aggregate but managed to hold an impressive 0–0 draw in Manchester. Dynamo", "id": "18770189" }, { "contents": "Konstantin Kovalenko\n\n\nKonstantin Valeryevich Kovalenko (; ; born 2 February 1975) is a Belarusian and Russian professional footballer who plays for resurrected FC Kuban Krasnodar. He made his professional debut in the Soviet Second League in 1991 for FC Kuban Barannikovsky. He played 1 game in the 1996–97 UEFA Cup for FC Spartak Moscow. His brother Andrei Kovalenko also played football professionally. On 27 October 2008 he punched referee Sergei Timofeyev in the face in the Russian Second Division game FC Sochi-04 - FC Olimpia Volgograd. He was banned from football for a year. Spartak", "id": "1118096" }, { "contents": "Clinton N'Jie\n\n\nDimitri Payet and scored two goals in a 3–0 win. On 17 September, he scored both the goals in the away win over Amiens. On 3 May 2018, he played in the Europa League semi-finals away to FC Red Bull Salzburg as Marseille played out a 2–1 away loss but a 3–2 aggregate win to secure a place in the 2018 UEFA Europa League Final. On 25 July 2019, Njie signed a 4-year contract with Russian Premier League club Dynamo Moscow. N'Jie scored 44 minutes into his Cameroon debut against the", "id": "16847587" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\ntime they were able to consolidate in the National League, finishing 9th and then 14th. But financial troubles continued. A Ministry of Sport investigation found evidence of financial misconduct by club management along with substantial overspending, and regional Governor Andrey Bocharov announced after the 2013 season that government support for Rotor was being withdrawn. The club dropped back into the Second Division (renamed the Professional Football League) for the first half of the 2014–15 (autumn-spring) season, then withdrew in order to immediately transfer to the 2015 (spring", "id": "264679" }, { "contents": "2001 FC Anzhi Makhachkala season\n\n\nThe 2001 FC Anzhi Makhachkala season was the 2nd season that the club played in the Russian Top Division, the highest tier of football in Russia, following their promotion from the National Football League in 1999. They finished the season in 13th, were runners-up in the 2001-02 cup and reached the Sixth Round of the 2002-03 cup losing to Dynamo Moscow, and were knocked out of the UEFA Cup at the First Round stage after a 0-1 defeat to Rangers over one leg in Warsaw, Poland", "id": "4897180" }, { "contents": "FC Dynamo-2 Moscow\n\n\nFC Dynamo-2 Moscow () was a Russian football team from Moscow. It was the farm-club for FC Dynamo Moscow. In 2016, it was revived after the parent club, Dynamo, was relegated from the Russian Football Premier League (which holds its own competition for the Under-21 teams of the Premier League clubs) and licensed to play in the third-tier Russian Professional Football League for the 2016–17 season. Majority of the squad participated in the 2016–17 UEFA Youth League as well. On 17 June 2017, the parent", "id": "19064817" }, { "contents": "Mikhail Markosov\n\n\nDivision South Zone, scoring 27 goals, a feat no one in the entire Second Division surpassed. In the 2010 season, he played for FC Rotor Volgograd and came back to FC Dynamo Stavropol the next season. Scoring 10 goals in his first 10 matches for Dynamo, Markosov was transferred in the summer transfer window of the 2011-12 season to FC Ufa. From April until June 2019 Markosov played for FC Kuban Krasnodar, scored 7 goals in 11 matches. He joined the Armenia national football team in 2013. Markosov", "id": "12122198" }, { "contents": "1993 in Russian football\n\n\ntheir group campaign and finished it without much success, only gaining 2 points in 6 games, coming in last in the group and suffering a 0-6 defeat against Marseille. They could not play their home games in Moscow due to the lack of a stadium meeting the Champions League standards at the time. FC Spartak Moscow reached the semifinals, tying the best European result in club's history. FC Spartak Moscow qualified for the group stage and continued to play in the group into the 1994. FC Torpedo Moscow went out", "id": "21710373" }, { "contents": "2002 in Russian football\n\n\nrespective Second Division zones: The Russian Cup was won by CSKA Moscow, who beat Zenit Saint Petersburg 2–0 in the final at the Luzhniki Stadium. Lokomotiv Moscow participated in the third round of the UEFA Cup 2001-02, but were knocked out by Hapoel Tel Aviv FC who won 3–1 on aggregate. Krylya Sovetov Samara played in the UEFA Intertoto Cup 2002. After defeating Dinaburg FC in the second round they lost to Willem II Tilburg on away goals. Lokomotiv Moscow's victory over Grazer AK ensured there are two Russian clubs", "id": "11619883" }, { "contents": "FC Dynamo Moscow\n\n\nFC Dynamo Moscow (Dinamo Moscow, FC Dinamo Moskva, ) is a Russian football club based in Moscow. Dynamo has returned to the Russian Premier League for the 2017–18 season after one season in the second-tier Russian Football National League. Dynamo was the only club that had always played in the top tier of Soviet football (along with Dynamo Kyiv) and of Russian football from the end of the Soviet era until they were relegated in 2016. Despite this, it has never won the modern Russian Premier League title and", "id": "8644495" }, { "contents": "Nikita Lyamin\n\n\nIn 2004, he played three season in the farm team and two more seasons in the main team for Dynamo Moscow. Dynamo Moscow became champions at the 2007–08 Russian Volleyball Super League, but Lyamin due to low game practice quit the club. Lyamin moved to Nizhny Novgorod and became captain of Guberniya, which went on debuting in the B-division of the highest national league. In the two years, Guberniya could enter the Super League, and in the 2012–13 it became one of the leading clubs in Russia. Guberniya qualified", "id": "8669287" }, { "contents": "Leonid Slutsky (football coach)\n\n\nLeonid Viktorovich Slutsky (; born 4 May 1971) is a Russian professional football coach and former player who is the manager of Eredivisie club Vitesse. Previously, he has been in charge of Olimpia Volgograd, Uralan Elista, Moscow, Krylia Sovetov, CSKA Moscow, Russia and Hull City. Slutsky was born in Volgograd. Slutsky's playing career with FC Zvezda Gorodishche ended at just 19 years of age. He had to retire due to a knee injury sustained after falling out of a tree while rescuing a neighbour's cat. Slutsky", "id": "11710104" }, { "contents": "Yuri Kovtun\n\n\nduring the season so two top teams were interested in him at the same time, it's Dynamo and Spartak Moscow. In 1993, Kovtun chose Dynamo Moscow and was their key player for years, until his move to Spartak in 1999. While the only Kovtun's honour during 6 years in Dynamo was Russian Cup in 1995, he could get 3 titles in 1999, 2000 and 2001 after joining Spartak. Moreover, he took part in numerous UEFA Champions League games and found himself regular Russian national football team player. Kovtun", "id": "2071460" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\n-tier Russian Professional Football League for the 2016–17 season. They won their zone of the PFL in the 2016–17 season and were promoted to the second-level Russian National Football League for 2017–18. Despite ending the 2017–18 season in the relegation zone, the club stayed in the league for the 2018–19 season as another team that finished above them in the table failed to obtain the league license. As of 5 July 2019, according to the FNL website. Had international caps for their respective countries. Players whose name is listed in", "id": "264681" }, { "contents": "Dmitri Khokhlov\n\n\nDmitri Valeryevich Khokhlov (, born 22 December 1975) is a Russian football manager and a former player. He is the manager of FC Dynamo Moscow. He played as a holding midfielder or playmaker. He played for PFC CSKA Moscow and FC Lokomotiv Moscow in native Russia, having abroad spells with PSV Eindhoven (Netherlands) and Real Sociedad (Spain). During his time with FC Lokomotiv Moscow he participated in their memorable 2003–04 UEFA Champions League campaign, scoring third goal in the 3–0 home victory against Internazionale. He played for", "id": "19054427" }, { "contents": "Racism in association football\n\n\nagainst CSKA Moscow in Russia. The club's stadium was partially closed as punishment. Touré suggested that black players might boycott the 2018 FIFA World Cup, to be held in Russia, if racism continued in the country. In September 2014, Dynamo Moscow defender Christopher Samba was racially abused playing in the Moscow derby against Torpedo Moscow. As a result, Torpedo were forced to close part of their stadium, although Samba was also banned for two games for swearing at the racist fans. In a friendly match (Russia vrs France", "id": "21349703" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\nTraktor Stalingrad to national prominence. Traktor were champions of the new fourth-level Group G in 1937, and were then promoted straight to the highest-level Group A as it expanded from 9 clubs to 26. They remained at the top level until 1950. Rotor then spent three decades at the top regional level, although the creation of the Supreme League in 1970 pushed their league from the second level overall down to the third. They gradually improved throughout the 1970s and finally won Zone III of the Soviet Second League (", "id": "264671" }, { "contents": "WPC Dynamo Moscow\n\n\nWPC Dynamo Moscow () is a Russian men's water polo club, that is part of the traditional Moscow-based multi-sports club Dynamo. Dynamo won seven Soviet Championships between 1955 and 1962, and in 1964 it was the first team to represent the in the newly European Champions Cup, ranking second behind Partizan. In 1968 and 1969 the team won two more national championships, and it also reached the 1969 European Cup's final, lost to Mladost. For the next fifteen years Dynamo didn't win any more", "id": "18685765" }, { "contents": "Kyle Hines\n\n\ngreat Olympiacos comeback in 4th quarter, led by Vassilis Spanoulis. CSKA Moscow eventually won the EuroLeague third place game, after defeating Fenerbahçe, by a score of 86–80. In his second EuroLeague season with CSKA Moscow, Hines averaged a career-low 6.8 points and 4.3 rebounds per game, over 30 games played. CSKA Moscow finished the season by winning the VTB United League, after eliminating Khimki with a 3–0 series sweep in the League's finals series. On June 17, 2015, he signed a two-year contract", "id": "14695455" }, { "contents": "Miroslav Raičević\n\n\nfinal decisive shot in the very last seconds of the final game against Prokom Trefl Sopot. He also won the Greek Cup with Aris, in the year 2004. He has also played with Red Star Belgrade of the Adriatic League during the 2005–06 season. He won the Serbian Cup with Red Star that season. In the 2006–07 season, he played with the Russian Super League club Dynamo Moscow. During summer of 2007, he left Dynamo Moscow and joined the Italian League club Eldo Napoli. He then left Napoli and moved back", "id": "13596698" } ]

[ { "contents": "1996 in Russian football\n\n\nwas knocked out in the qualifying round. FC Lokomotiv Moscow went out in the second round. PFC CSKA Moscow, FC Dynamo Moscow and FC Torpedo-Luzhniki Moscow were eliminated in the first round after going through the qualifying round. FC Alania Vladikavkaz went out in the first round after going to the UEFA Cup after failing in the qualification for the Champions League. FC Spartak Moscow went out in the second round. Russian clubs participated in the Intertoto Cup for the first time. FC Rotor Volgograd, FC KAMAZ-Chally Naberezhnye", "id": "22219348" }, { "contents": "1995 in Russian football\n\n\nthe Russian Cup 1995–96 were played later in the year. All the Russian participants were eliminated in 1994. FC Spartak Moscow won every game in their group, qualifying for the quarterfinals. FC Dynamo Moscow advanced through the first two rounds, qualifying to play in the quarterfinals next spring. FC Spartak-Alania Vladikavkaz and FC Lokomotiv Moscow were eliminated in the first round by strong opponents (even though Lokomotiv very unexpectedly beat FC Bayern in Munich in the first game). FC Rotor Volgograd eliminated Manchester United F.C. in the first round", "id": "18335625" }, { "contents": "Maksim Nenakhov\n\n\nMaksim Maksimovich Nenakhov (; born 13 December 1998) is a Russian football player who plays for FC Rotor Volgograd. He made his debut in the Russian Professional Football League for FC Dynamo-2 Moscow on 20 July 2016 in a game against FC Tekstilshchik Ivanovo. On 19 January 2018, he was loaned to FC Tyumen until the end of the 2017–18 season. On 14 June 2018, he moved on another loan for the 2018–19 season to FC SKA-Khabarovsk. On 18 June 2019, he signed a 2-year contract with FC Rotor Volgograd", "id": "6983587" }, { "contents": "Almir Kayumov\n\n\nAlmir Izmailovich Kayumov (; 30 December 1964 – 7 August 2013) was a Russian football player and referee. Kayumov played for FC Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk, FC Lada Togliatti, Spartak Moscow, Rotor Volgograd, SKA Rostov-on-Don, in Russia, the Daewoo Royals in South Korea, and Kuopion Palloseura in Finland. He played 6 games in the UEFA Cup 1986–87 for FC Spartak Moscow. On November 9, 2009, it was reported that Kayumov attempted to commit suicide by jumping out of his apartment window. Police negotiators talked", "id": "14510549" }, { "contents": "Ruslan Ishkinin\n\n\nRuslan Kamilyevich Ishkinin (; born 14 June 1974) is a former Russian professional footballer. He made his professional debut in the Russian Second Division in 1992 for FC Dynamo-2 Moscow. The most memorable match of his career was played on 14 June 1995. His team FC Dynamo Moscow was playing FC Rotor Volgograd in the final game of the Russian Cup. Dynamo was decimated by injuries and several reserve players, including Ishkinin, were called up for the game. With 5 minutes to go in regulation and the score of 0–0, Ishkinin", "id": "2479621" }, { "contents": "1997 in Russian football\n\n\nthe year. Russian teams were eliminated in 1996. FC Spartak Moscow were eliminated in the second qualifying round and went on to the UEFA Cup. FC Lokomotiv Moscow qualified for the quarterfinals stage that was played in 1998. FC Spartak Moscow qualified for the quarterfinals stage that was played in 1998. FC Rotor Volgograd reached the second round. FC Alania Vladikavkaz went out in the first round. The goal in the stadium was measured before the game and turned out to be 2.46 meters high instead of regulation 2.44. The referee decided", "id": "20500131" }, { "contents": "2012–13 Russian Premier League\n\n\naltogether if the game is awarded to Dynamo. According to the police, the main suspect is a female fan who was arrested after the game. The criminal investigation was opened on the charge of hooliganism. On 22 November, Russian Football Union's Control-Disciplinary Committee awarded the game to Dynamo with a score of 3–0 and fined both clubs. Dynamo had to play their next home game (against Rubin Kazan) behind closed doors and Zenit had to play their next 2 home games (against CSKA Moscow and Anzhi Makhachkala)", "id": "321372" }, { "contents": "Yuriy Kalitvintsev\n\n\nfor FC Desna Chernihiv. A Russian-born Kalitvintsev chose to play for the Ukraine side after breaking through as a midfielder for Dynamo Kyiv. Until 1994 he played he spent his playing career at Russian clubs such as FC Rotor Volgograd, FC SKA Rostov-on-Don, FC Dynamo Moscow, and FC Lokomotiv Nizhny Novgorod. It wasn't until the reorganization of the soviet football when he started to play at the top level of the Russian championship starting for the Moscow's Dynamo. After being transferred to the fading club", "id": "20481933" }, { "contents": "Sergei Bogomolov\n\n\nSergei Anatolyevich Bogomolov (; born 17 August 1971) is a former Russian professional footballer. During his time with FC Dynamo Moscow he only played in a single game for the main team, but it was a very memorable one. On 14 June 1995, Dynamo was playing FC Rotor Volgograd in the final game of the 1994–95 Russian Cup. Dynamo was hurt by injuries to some first team regulars and several reserve players, including Bogomolov, were called up for the game. With the score of 0:0 and 10 minutes to go in", "id": "18632079" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\nwas one of the strongest clubs in Russia, rivalling Spartak Moscow for the championship, yet never winning it. Rotor became the league runners-up in 1993 and 1997. Rotor played five successive seasons in European competition, from 1994-95 to 1998-99. They qualified for the UEFA Cup through their league position every year except 1996-97, when they instead chose to enter the Intertoto Cup. Unfortunately for Rotor, the fall of communism had left all the former Eastern Bloc leagues badly under-resourced compared to", "id": "264673" }, { "contents": "1995 in Russian football\n\n\n1995 was the fourth season Russia held its own national football competition since the breakup of the Soviet Union. FC Spartak-Alania Vladikavkaz won the league for the first time ever. This was the first season 3 points were awarded for a win instead of two. For more details, see: The third edition of the Russian Cup, Russian Cup 1994–95 was won by FC Dynamo Moscow, who beat FC Rotor Volgograd in the finals in a shootout 8-7 after finishing extra time at 0-0. Early stages of", "id": "18335624" }, { "contents": "Maxim Chuzhkov\n\n\nMaxim Aleksandrovich Chuzhkov (; born 11 April 1987) is a Russian beach soccer player serving as goalkeeper. He is a three-time national champion for three different clubs (Rotor Volgograd, Lokomotiv Moscow, Kristall). Maxim Chuzhkov was born in Samara. He was a gymnast for six years before switching to football. Chuzhkov discovered beach soccer in 2010, and one year later he joined Krylya Sovetov from Samara. From 2012 to 2014 he played for Rotor Volgograd, winning with them the club's first and only Russian Beach Soccer", "id": "21454463" }, { "contents": "1991 Soviet Top League\n\n\nseason, while FC Rotor Volgograd and FC Tiligul Tiraspol would have been promoted to the Top League for 1992. Top six clubs of the league later entered European competitions for their respective nations. The Ukrainian clubs chose to qualify through a separate national competition. The league was expanded to 16 after the last season, during which number of clubs left the Soviet competitions (from Georgia and Baltic states). The last-placed FC Rotor Volgograd of the 1990 Soviet Top League lost promotion/relegation playoff to Lokomotiv Moscow and was relegated", "id": "831265" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor-2 Volgograd\n\n\nFC Rotor-2 Volgograd () is a Russian football team based in Volgograd. It is the farm club for FC Rotor Volgograd. It previously played professionally as FC Rotor-d Volgograd or FC Rotor-2 Volgograd in the Russian Second Division in 1992–1993, 1998–2000 and 2004 and Russian Third League in 1994-1997. They came in 3rd place in their Second Division zone in 1993. In 2001, the reserves tournament for Russian Premier League was re-established and the reserves team played there while the main team stayed in Premier League.", "id": "5758261" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\nFC Rotor Volgograd () is a Russian football (soccer) club from the large city of Volgograd, Volgograd Oblast (formerly Stalingrad). The club plays in the second-level Russian National Football League. They are the largest and best supported Volgograd club and for most of their existence have been the city's only representatives in the national league system. They played at the top level of Soviet/Russian football either side of World War II, from 1989 to 1990, and from 1991 to 2004. During the 1990s", "id": "264669" }, { "contents": "Wisdom Mumba Chansa\n\n\nand Derby Makinka, to play in the Soviet Top League when they all signed for Pomir Dushanbe in 1989 after being spotted during their 4-0 win over Italy at the 1988 Olympics. Chansa's debut came on 2 October 1989 in an away match against Torpedo Moscow, before appearing twice more, against Rotor Volgograd and Metalist Kharkiv, before leaving at the conclusion of the 1989 season. Chansa returned to Power Dynamos following his Soviet experience, and was made captain before Power Dynamos became the first Zambian club side to win a", "id": "5300924" }, { "contents": "FC Volgograd\n\n\nFC Volgograd () is a former name of the Russian football club from Volgograd, founded in late 2008, currently known as FC Rotor Volgograd. Before it was founded, it was originally supposed to be called FC Rotor-Volgograd Volgograd (to keep Rotor's name around at the time FC Rotor Volgograd was close to bankruptcy). However, FC Rotor's financial situation has improved by early 2009 and the club was registered as FC Volgograd. It played in the Russian Second Division in 2009. It took over the license", "id": "6725532" }, { "contents": "Roman Pavlyuchenko\n\n\nRoman Anatolyevich Pavlyuchenko (; born 15 December 1981) is a Russian footballer who plays as a striker for FC Znamya Noginsk. He started his career at Dynamo Stavropol, and Rotor Volgograd, before transferring to Spartak Moscow in 2003. His performances there earned him a £13.7 million transfer to Tottenham Hotspur of the English Premier League in 2008, where he spent three full seasons before returning to Russia to play for Lokomotiv Moscow. After another full 3 seasons he moved in July 2015, to Kuban Krasnodar. A full international for a", "id": "3367200" }, { "contents": "Anton Miranchuk\n\n\nAnton Andreyevich Miranchuk (; born 17 October 1995) is a Russian professional football player who plays as a centre midfielder or attacking midfielder for Lokomotiv Moscow and the Russia national team. Born in Slavyansk-na-Kubani, Miranchuk joined Spartak Moscow from his hometown football school Olymp. He was dismissed from the club because of weak physical abilities. After that, he and his twin brother Aleksei moved to Lokomotiv Moscow. On 30 October 2013, Miranchuk made his competitive debut in senior football in a Russian Cup game against Rotor Volgograd replacing", "id": "1404526" }, { "contents": "Dmitry Pletnyov (footballer)\n\n\nDmitry Andreyevich Pletnyov (; born 16 January 1998) is a Russian football player. He plays for FC Tom Tomsk in Russian Football National League. He made his debut in the Russian Football National League for FC Zenit-2 Saint Petersburg on 6 September 2017 in a game against FC Rotor Volgograd. He made his Russian Premier League debut for FC Zenit Saint Petersburg on 5 May 2018 in a game against FC Lokomotiv Moscow. He played for Russia national under-17 football team at the 2015 UEFA European Under-17 Championship and 2015 FIFA U-17 World Cup.", "id": "21412634" }, { "contents": "2004 in Russian football\n\n\nseason. Andrey Fedkov of Terek became the top goalscorer with 38 goals. The following clubs have earned promotion by winning tournaments in their respective Second Division zones: Prior to start of the 2005 season three clubs (Rotor Volgograd, Torpedo Vladimir, and Arsenal Tula) refused participation in the First Division, and two more clubs (Dynamo Stavropol and Chernomorets Novorossiysk) were denied licences. This made way for the runners-up of all five zones: The Russian Super Cup match between CSKA Moscow and Spartak Moscow was won by CSKA", "id": "6344061" }, { "contents": "Dmitry Shishin\n\n\nnational beach soccer team. That year Shishin participated at the Russian Championship as player of Samarian Sputnik and debuted for the national team at the Beach Soccer World Cup. After Sputnik, Shishin for a long time played for different Saratov clubs, such as Rosagro, Biznes-Pravo, Delta. In 2011, Shishin moved to Lokomotiv Moscow, where he won the championship trophy with his team. Together with the Lokomotives he won another national championship trophy and two Russian cups. In 2013, Shishin surprisingly switched to Rotor Volgograd, becoming", "id": "12194946" }, { "contents": "2009 Russian Second Division\n\n\nJuly 2009 Oleg Mikheyev, president of FC Rotor Volgograd, announced Rotor's resignation from the league, citing problems with authorities. They have played 18 games and were in the 13th position with 21 points. \"Source: [PFL] , Sporbox.ru \" On 11 July 2009, the management of FC Spartak Shchyolkovo announced that the club would resign from the league after the first half of the season because of economic problems. Spartak were excluded from the league on August 4, 2009. They have played 18 games and were in", "id": "21482663" }, { "contents": "FC Olimpia Volgograd\n\n\nuntil 2008, though their fortunes faded after Slutsky's players left. Before the 2009 season their professional license was taken over by the new club FC Volgograd. This was meant to allow FC to assume the name and identity of Rotor who were suffering off-field troubles, but Rotor survived and ended up playing simultaneously with the new FC in 2009, while Olimpia dropped into the Volgograd Oblast Championship. They stayed there until 2011, winning the title in 2010. With confusion ongoing over the future of the Rotor name and club", "id": "21936808" }, { "contents": "Sergei Rashevsky\n\n\nSergei Aleksandrovich Rashevsky (; born 13 June 1980) is a Russian football coach and a former player. He is an assistant coach with FC Rotor Volgograd. He made his debut in the Russian Premier League in 2001 for FC Rotor Volgograd, before moving to Ural in 2005. After several seasons playing for different clubs in Russia, Rashevsky signed with Volga in 2008. He played for the club for three years, before he returned to Ural in 2011. Since February 2014, he played for the Russian National Football League side Yenisey", "id": "8136441" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\nthe new Rotor Volgograd were promoted to the second-level Russian Football National League thanks to teams above them withdrawing. The regional Ministry of Sport invested 150 million roubles ($4.9m) in the club's playing budget for the 2010 campaign, but it ended in failure as Rotor were relegated in 17th place. Governor Brovko admitted that the transition to the higher level was made too quickly. Former club player Sergei Nechay took over management and steered the team to promotion as champions of their Second Division zone in 2011–12. This", "id": "264678" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\ntheir Western counterparts, and indeed Rotor were knocked out by all four of the French and Italian clubs they played. The exception came against England's Manchester United in 1995-96. Having drawn the home leg 0-0, Rotor raced into a 2-0 lead at Old Trafford before United scored their first goal. Rotor were seconds away from being the first European club to win at Old Trafford when United's goalkeeper Peter Schmeichel scored a famous equaliser, but the 2-2 draw meant Rotor progressed by the away", "id": "264674" }, { "contents": "Roman Pavlyuchenko\n\n\na 1-0 loss against Moscow on 5 April 1999. On 15 May 1999, Pavlyuchenko provided a double assist in a 2-1 win over Chita. In his first season, Pavlyuchenko made 31 appearance and scoring 11 goals. However, the club played was still relegated to the Second Division after the club was last place. Despite this, Pavlyuchenko was named 'Team of the top' junior division for the first version of the newspaper Sport Express. Pavlyuchenko moved to Rotor Volgograd in 2000, although the move was", "id": "3367203" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\ntheir professional licence entirely. Rotor's reserve side in the Russian Second Division, Rotor-2 Volgograd, became the club's first team and was renamed Rotor in 2006. In 2007 local businessman Oleg Mikheev acquired the club's main asset the Volgograd Central Stadium, and with it effective control over the club, but financial troubles continued and the team's performances in the Second Division declined. Matters came to a head in 2009. Russia had officially launched its bid for the FIFA World Cup 2018 and Volgograd city was in line for a", "id": "264676" }, { "contents": "1988 Soviet Cup Final\n\n\nThe 1988 Soviet Cup Final was a football match that took place at the Lenin's Central Stadium, Moscow on May 28, 1988. The match was the 47th Soviet Cup Final and it was contested by FC Metalist Kharkiv and FC Torpedo Moscow. The Soviet Cup winner Metalist qualified for the Cup Winners' Cup first round for the Soviet Union. The last year defending holders Dynamo Kyiv were eliminated in the second round of the competition by FC Rotor Volgograd (3:2, 0:2). For Metalist this was their second final total", "id": "158055" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\ngoals rule They went on to be defeated by eventual Runners-up Bordeaux in the second round. Full European results: In the 2000s, Rotor's results declined, and in 2004, the team finished last in the Russian Premier League. The club's owner Vladimir Goryunov, a member of the Duma and head of the parliamentary sports committee, explored options to save Rotor from relegation, such as expanding the Premier League to 20 teams. But in January 2005 Rotor were unable to make the required financial guarantees and so lost", "id": "264675" }, { "contents": "2018–19 Russian Football National League\n\n\n. Ararat Moscow was promoted from 2017–18 PFL, but were refused a license for the 2018–19 Russian National Football League, the club being subsequently dissolved. Zenit-2 Saint Petersburg, Rotor Volgograd, Luch Vladivostok, Tyumen and Fakel Voronezh were spared from relegation due to lack of teams enrolled for the 2018–19 season. Sakhalin Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk finished on the promotion place at the end of the 2017–18 PFL season, but refused to be promoted. Dynamo Saint Petersburg was moved from Saint Petersburg to Sochi and renamed as PFC Sochi. Olimpiyets Nizhny Novgorod", "id": "621376" }, { "contents": "Dinamo Volgograd\n\n\nDinamo Volgograd () is a Russian women's handball club from Volgograd. Founded in 1972 as Burevestnik Volgograd, it represented Rotor Volgograd following the collapse of the Soviet Union and was subsequently named Aqva before taking its current name in 2003. Dynamo is the most successful team in the Russian Super League with nine titles, and in the 2001-02 season it set an absolute record winning all the matches. It has also been fairly successful in international competitions with three titles: the 1995 Challenge Cup and Champions Trophy and the 2008", "id": "10627328" }, { "contents": "List of football clubs in Russia\n\n\nZelenodolsk — FC Prometey-Dinamo Saint Petersburg — FC Pskov — FC Pskov-2000 — FC Pskov-747 FC Radian-Baikal Irkutsk — FC Rassvet Troitskoye — FC Reformatsiya Abakan — FC Rekord Aleksandrov — FC Reutov — FC Ritm Alekseyevka — FC Ritm Belgorod — FC Roda Moscow — FC Rossia Moscow — FC Rostov — FC Rostselmash-2 Rostov-on-Don — FC Rostselmash Rostov-on-Don — FC Rotor-2 Mikhaylovka — FC Rotor-2 Volgograd — FC Rotor Volgograd — FC Rubin-2 Kazan — FC Rubin Kazan — FC Rubin-TAN Kazan — FC", "id": "14958458" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\n-autumn) Russian Amateur Football League, the fourth level overall. In the 2015 season Rotor won the Amateur League Chernozemye (South-West Region) division at the first attempt by 11 points, suffering only one defeat in 22 games. The 45,000-seater Pobeda Stadium is under construction on their old Central Stadium site, and it was reported in August 2015 that the first team are still interested in moving into the facility after the 2018 World Cup, which makes attaining a higher league status a priority. They were licensed for third", "id": "264680" }, { "contents": "2010–11 KHL season\n\n\nThe 2010–11 KHL season was the third season of the Kontinental Hockey League. It was held from 8 September 2010 and ended on 16 April 2011. The season started with the Opening Cup game between the last season's finalists, Ak Bars Kazan and UHC Dynamo, the new team that was created by merging last season's Western conference winner HC MVD with Dynamo Moscow. Salavat Yulaev Ufa won the Gagarin Cup and the Russian Championship after beating Atlant Moscow Oblast 4–1 in the play-off final series. Folding of Lada Togliatti Lada", "id": "10925021" }, { "contents": "1994 in Russian football\n\n\ntime at 2-2. Early stages of the Russian Cup 1994–95 were played later in the year. FC Spartak Moscow finished the group stage in third place, not qualifying for the semifinals. All the Russian participants were eliminated in 1993. FC Spartak Moscow qualified directly for the group stage. It did not qualify from the group, coming in third place. PFC CSKA Moscow were eliminated in the first round. FC Rotor Volgograd and FC Tekstilshchik Kamyshin were both eliminated by FC Nantes in the first and second round respectively,", "id": "17746833" }, { "contents": "Mikhail Osinov\n\n\nRussian Top Division side Rotor Volgograd. In 2001, Osinov was transferred to FC Rostov and stayed there for 9 years, suffering a relegation and helping the \"yellow-blues\" to return to the Premier League. He also holds the club record for league appearances with 239 games. In 2010, he returned to Yekaterinburg to play in the Russian First Division. In 2011, Osinov went to a lower league joining MITOS Novocherkassk of the Russian Second Division. On 11 September 2011, in a league game against Olimpia Gelendzhik Osinov", "id": "12015633" }, { "contents": "1990 Soviet Top League\n\n\non 1 March with the game between Dnipro and Rotor and lasted until 20 October 1990. The season was won by FC Dynamo Kyiv. The league was reduced to 13 after first Georgian clubs (Dinamo Tbilisi and Guria Lanchkhuti) and then Žalgiris withdrew from the Soviet Top League. Lokomotiv Moscow and the last placed Zenit Leningrad of the 1989 Soviet Top League were relegated to the 1990 Soviet First League. Lokomotiv returned to the Soviet First League after two seasons absence, while Zenit was relegated for the first time since being promoted back", "id": "831394" }, { "contents": "2010–11 KHL season\n\n\nTogliatti dropped out of the league and joined the Russian Major League instead, after failing to meet the league's financial requirements. Merger of HC MVD and Dynamo Moscow On 30 April 2010, it was announced that HC MVD would merge with Dynamo Moscow to form UHC Dynamo, which for the time being will play the majority of their games at Megasport Arena in Moscow, while also attempting to play some games in Balashikha. The current plan is to have a new, large and modernized arena constructed in Balashikha by 2012. Expansion", "id": "10925022" }, { "contents": "Dzmitry Rawneyka\n\n\nDzmitry Vasilevich Rawneyka (; ; born 13 May 1980) is a former Belarusian professional footballer. He is currently af part of the coaching staff of Belarus. Born in Grodno, Rawneyka began playing football in FC Neman Grodno's youth system. He joined the senior side and made his Belarusian Premier League debut in 1998. He had a spell in the Russian Premier League with FC Torpedo Moscow and FC Rotor Volgograd but has spent most of his playing career with Neman Grodno. Rawneyka has made eight appearances for the Belarus national football team", "id": "13999154" }, { "contents": "BC Krasny Oktyabr\n\n\nthe highest stage for Russian clubs. In the first season of Krasny Oktyabr in the VTB United League, it qualified for the playoffs by finishing in the 6th place in Group B. Also, European powerhouse CSKA Moscow was defeated by Krasny Oktyabr in the quarterfinals of the 2013–14 Russian Cup tournament. On August 30, 2016, the team was forced to leave the United League, because its home arena wasn't approved to host tournaments. The club usually played its home games at the 3,700 seat Volgograd Sports Palace of Trade Unions,", "id": "8073501" }, { "contents": "Igor Lediakhov\n\n\n-Don. In 1990, he joined FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk. After impressing with FC Rotor Volgograd, Lediakhov was bought by Soviet Union giants FC Spartak Moscow, being essential as the capital team conquered three consecutive league titles, which included the inaugural edition of the competition, as the player scored in double digits in two of the three seasons. In the 1994 summer, 26-year-old Lediakhov moved abroad, signing with Spain's Sporting de Gijón. Even though he netted nearly 50 overall goals for the club (17 in four", "id": "21673652" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\nnew stadium - provided they had a professional club to fill it after the tournament. Rotor, facing legal action and a transfer embargo due to their financial status, were not reliable candidates. The government created a new entity, FC Volgograd, intending to assume the Rotor name. In fact Rotor managed to co-exist with the new FC for the first half of the 2009 season, before Mikheev suspended operations and the government took ownership of the club and stadium from him. The two clubs were merged into one, and", "id": "264677" }, { "contents": "FC Lokomotiv Moscow\n\n\npoints after Gameweek 30. The game was played at Dynamo Stadium in front of a sold-out crowd. Lokomotiv took an early lead thanks a low drive from captain Dmitry Loskov, and eventually the goal turned out to be enough for Lokomotiv to claim the first title in the club's history. Two years later, Lokomotiv again won the Russian Premier League, edging city rivals CSKA by a single point; Lokomotiv defeated Shinnik Yaroslavl 0–2 in Yaroslavl, a week after CSKA fell to city rivals Dynamo at home. In 2005", "id": "10933606" }, { "contents": "1995–96 Manchester United F.C. season\n\n\nactually went top of the league after a goalless draw at Sheffield Wednesday towards the end of September, only for the Tynesiders to return to the top of the table soon after. Then came Cantona's comeback on 1 October, when he scored a penalty to equalise and hold Liverpool to a 2–2 draw Old Trafford. The autumn saw United suffer first-hurdle exits to York City in the League Cup and Rotor Volgograd in the UEFA Cup, although United did preserve their 39-year home unbeaten record in European competitions thanks to a late", "id": "9981632" }, { "contents": "1994–95 Russian Cup\n\n\nDynamo Moscow: Valeri Kleimyonov (GK), Yuri Kovtun (DF), Sergey Timofeev (DF), Andrei Chernyshov (DF), Aleksandr Borodkin (DF), Aleksei Filippov (DF), Vagiz Khidiyatullin (DF), Andrei Ivanov (DF), Denis Klyuyev (MF), Dmitri Cheryshev (FW), Igor Simutenkov (FW), Kirill Rybakov (FW), Yuri Tishkov (FW). FC Rotor Volgograd: Volodymyr Gerashchenko (DF), Aleksandr Yeshchenko (MF), Konstantin Kulik (", "id": "5392312" }, { "contents": "FC Olimpia Volgograd\n\n\nFC Olimpia Volgograd () is a Russian football team from the large city of Volgograd. They are the second- or third-largest club in the city after the famous Rotor Volgograd. From their founding in 1989 until 1997, the club participated in various youth leagues. Some time between 1993 and 1994 the Volgograd native Leonid Slutsky, future coach of the Russian national team, joined the training staff. Among the Olimpia youth players developed under Slutsky were Denis Kolodin, Roman Adamov, Andrei Bochkov, Maksim Burchenko and Aleksei Zhdanov,", "id": "21936806" }, { "contents": "Peter Schmeichel\n\n\na 2001 Reuters poll, he beat Lev Yashin and Gordon Banks to be named the finest keeper in football history. Despite being a goalkeeper, he would run into the attack on corner kicks if his team was behind. The sight of him going up for the corner was a great distraction to opposing defenders. He scored a goal in this fashion, for Man United, in a UEFA Cup match against Rotor Volgograd at Old Trafford in September 1995. He scored in the last minutes of the game to tie the match 2–2", "id": "19820283" }, { "contents": "Spartak Gogniyev\n\n\nSpartak Arturovich Gogniyev (, ; born 19 January 1981) is a Russian professional football coach and a former player. He is the manager of FC Alania Vladikavkaz. He made his debut in the Russian Premier League in 2000 for FC Dynamo Moscow. He played two games in the UEFA Cup 2000–01 for FC Dynamo Moscow and two games (scoring one goal) in the UEFA Champions League 2003–04 qualification round for PFC CSKA Moscow. In August 2018, it was announced that Spartak Gogniyev joined new FC Urozhay Krasnodar, but this was", "id": "7903306" }, { "contents": "Georgi Yartsev\n\n\nat the time, gave Yartsev a sabre as a birthday gift in a sideline pre-game ceremony. Yartsev got another head coach position soon enough, when he joined Rotor Volgograd in January 2000. However, he could not do much with that team either and was fired in June of same year. For the next 3 years he was the manager of the Spartak Moscow veterans team. In August 2003, Russia was very close to elimination from their Euro 2004 preliminary qualification group and the coach Valery Gazzayev, was fired.", "id": "15861320" }, { "contents": "FCSB\n\n\nUEFA ordered Steaua to play two home games of the Europa League behind closed doors due to their fans displaying racist banners in a second qualifying round match against Hungarian side Újpest. Three further incidents occurred in the 2014–15 season, with the club fined and ordered to play further games in an empty stadium after displays of racist banners in matches against Dynamo Kyiv, Ludogorets Razgrad and Strømsgodset. Steaua's most important rivalry is the one against Dinamo București. \"Eternul derby\" (\"The Eternal Derby\") has been the leading Romanian", "id": "19491084" }, { "contents": "2010 Russian First Division\n\n\n), Mordovia Saransk (Ural-Povolzhye) and Irtysh Omsk (East). Due to financial difficulties, Vityaz Podolsk who placed 11th in 2009, decided to give up their spot in the Russian First Division and participate in the Russian Second Division in 2010. Pending licensing, their place was taken by FC Volgograd who placed 3rd in the Russian Second Division (South Zone) in 2009. For the occasion the management decided to change the name of the club from FC Volgograd to Rotor Volgograd. FC Alania Vladikavkaz were promoted", "id": "7947305" }, { "contents": "Russian Women's Handball Super League\n\n\nThe Russian Women's Handball Superleague is the premier women's handball competition in Russia. Dinamo Volgograd, formerly known as Rotor and Akva, is the championship's most successful club as of 2019 with 12 titles. It also holds the record for consecutive wins, with six titles in a row. Currently eleven clubs take part in the competition, with the top eight playing the championship play-offs. The Russian Championship's leading teams have been successful in EHF's competitions. Zvezda Zvenigorod won the Champions League and the EHF Cup", "id": "8475941" }, { "contents": "Pavel Pogrebnyak\n\n\n's relegation, Pogrebnyak was linked with a move away from the club but did not leave. He scored his first goals in more than eight months after netting twice in a 3–1 win over Derby County in September 2013. On 27 August 2015 Pogrebnyak moved back to Russia, signing a three-year contract with Dynamo Moscow. Dynamo released him on 25 January 2018, citing disciplinary reasons, such as attending a Juventus - Inter Milan game in Italy on the same day Dynamo played a league game and participating in the annual exhibition", "id": "2040879" }, { "contents": "1996 in Russian football\n\n\nplayers (Stanislav Cherchesov, Viktor Onopko, Vasili Kulkov and Sergei Yuran) who played in the group stage where Spartak did not lose a single point left the club to move to Western European clubs in the winter before the quarterfinals. Nicolas Ouédec was instrumental again, after scoring 7 goals in 4 games against the Russian teams in the 1994–95 UEFA Cup, this time he scored 3 goals in two games against Spartak. FC Dynamo Moscow were eliminated in the quarterfinals. All the Russian teams were eliminated in 1995. FC Alania Vladikavkaz", "id": "22219347" }, { "contents": "Kamil Mullin\n\n\nKamil Shamilevich Mullin (, ; born 5 January 1994) is a Russian professional football player who plays for FC Rotor Volgograd. He plays as a forward. Mullin joined Lokomotiv academy at 16 years, and two years later made it to the youth squad. In total, he played 53 games for Lokomotiv U21 and scored 23 goals.br He made his debut for Lokomotiv first team in the 2012–13 Russian Cup game vs Torpedo Armavir on 26 September 2012.br In March 2013, Mullin for the first time was included into team sheet for the", "id": "2605760" }, { "contents": "FC Dynamo Moscow\n\n\nthe 2008 season, Dynamo finished third, qualifying for the 2009–10 Champions League preliminary round. On 29 July 2009, Dynamo recorded a 0–1 away win against Celtic at Celtic Park, which gave them a strong advantage going into the second leg. However, Celtic comfortably defeated Dynamo 0–2 in Moscow to progress, sending Dynamo into the Europa League play-off round where the club was eliminated by Bulgarian side CSKA Sofia after a 0–0 away draw in Sofia and a 1–2 home defeat in Moscow. In 2012, after a poor start", "id": "8644502" }, { "contents": "2013–14 Russian Premier League\n\n\n2014/15 season. The 13th and 14th Premier League teams will play the 4th and 3rd FNL teams respectively in two playoff games with the winner securing a Premier League spot for 2014/15 season. On 11 May 2014, the game between FC Zenit Saint Petersburg and FC Dynamo Moscow was interrupted in the 86th minute with Dynamo leading 4-2 when Zenit fans ran out of the stands. At first they stood behind the goal line, when the referee decided to take the teams off the field into the dressing rooms and teams began to", "id": "9911963" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\nthe third tier) in 1980 and 1981, and were successful in the promotion playoffs the second time. In 1988 Rotor finished second in the Soviet First League, earning promotion to the Soviet Top League. They finished 13th and last in the downsized 1990 competition after the Georgian and Lithuanian teams withdrew, and the decision was made to relegate them. However they bounced straight back as champions of the First League in 1991, thus becoming founder members of the new Russian Top Division after the USSR collapsed. In the mid-1990s, Rotor", "id": "264672" }, { "contents": "Bibras Natkho\n\n\n, Natkho scored two goals in the Champions League qualifier against Dynamo Kyiv and Lyon, who they eliminated Kazan out of the competitions and the club would play in the Europa League. Then in the Europa League campaign, Natkho scored twice in six matches in the Group Stage of the Europa League against Tottenham Hostpur and Shamrock Rovers. Natkho performance was praised for his role during the season and helped the club win the Russian Cup after playing a vital of assisting the winning goal, in a 1–0 win over Dynamo Moscow. Natkho would", "id": "21438585" }, { "contents": "Danil Lipovoy\n\n\nDanil Nikolayevich Lipovoy (; born 22 September 1999) is a Russian football player who plays for FC Dynamo Moscow. He made his debut in the Russian Professional Football League for FC Dynamo-2 Moscow on 2 April 2017 in a game against FC Dynamo Saint Petersburg. He made his debut for the main squad of FC Dynamo Moscow on 26 September 2018 in a Russian Cup game against FC Torpedo Moscow. He made Russian Premier League debut for Dynamo on 30 November 2018 in a game against FC Rubin Kazan, as a 64th-minute substitute", "id": "429351" }, { "contents": "FC Amkar Perm\n\n\n, having lost their Spring matches to Kuban Krasnodar (1–2) and Spartak Moscow (0–2). A series without a win followed the victory over Alania and after the Dynamo match Amkar lost to Terek Grozny (1–2) and Lokomotiv Moscow (2–4). After another devastating defeat from Kuban (0–4), followed by a victory over their direct rivals Rostov (3–2), and a goalless draw with Zenit, the club retained the right to play in the Premier League. In June 2013, the club opted not to", "id": "5030824" }, { "contents": "FC Shakhtar Donetsk\n\n\nminute Fedor Manov opened score to Donetsk team goals. Final score is 4:1 in favor of the hosts.\" Nonetheless, the selective job conducted constructively by the club's administration allowed the club to compete successfully at the top level by the end of the 1930s. During the \"war championship\" of 1941, which was interrupted unexpectedly, the club defeated Soviet champions Dynamo Moscow and after about ten games were placed in fifth in the league. In the last game of that championship, played on 24 June, two days after", "id": "14103740" }, { "contents": "Oleg Veretennikov\n\n\nOleg Aleksandrovich Veretennikov (; born 5 January 1970) is a professional Russian association football coach and a former international footballer. He manages Rotor-2 Volograd. He is the top goalscorer in the history of Russian Premier League, and holds several other goalscoring records. Most of Veretennikov's successes have come with SC Rotor Volgograd, for whom he played in 1992–1999. During that time he scored 143 goals, which makes him the best goalscorer in the Russian Premier League history (the next best goalscorer, Dmitry Loskov, has 109 goals as of", "id": "21553966" }, { "contents": "Sergei Pareiko\n\n\nSergei Pareiko (born 31 January 1977) is a retired Estonian footballer. He is currently the sporting director of Estonian football club Levadia. Pareiko played as a goalkeeper in Estonian, Russian and Polish top tiers. He made a total of 65 appearances for the Estonia national football team. In Estonia, Pareiko played for Tallinna Sadam and Levadia Maardu, before moving to Russia in 2001, when he signed with Rotor Volgograd. After Rotor were relegated, Pareiko moved to Tom Tomsk. At the end of 2009 season Pareiko was named", "id": "11658849" }, { "contents": "FC Dinamo Tbilisi\n\n\nIn this period Dinamo won the Soviet Cup for the first time in their history, convincingly defeating Armenian side Ararat Yerevan 3–0 in the final, with goals scored by David Kipiani, Piruz Kanteladze and Revaz Chelebadze. In 1978 the club won the Soviet Top League for a second time. Next year Dinamo won the Soviet Cup again by defeating Russian side Dynamo Moscow in the final. In 1979 the club played its first match in the UEFA European Cup tournament. In the first round Dinamo knocked out English side Liverpool, at the", "id": "10097459" }, { "contents": "Romelu Lukaku\n\n\nlater at home to West Ham. Lukaku scored twice in a 4–0 win, becoming the fourth Manchester United player to score two goals on his Premier League debut for the club. On 17 September, Lukaku scored United's third goal in a 4–0 win over his former club Everton, with Lukaku running over towards Everton fans and cupping his ears during his goal celebration in response to being booed throughout the game. On 27 September, Lukaku scored twice in a 4–1 UEFA Champions League win over CSKA Moscow, taking his tally to", "id": "1117930" }, { "contents": "Dynamo Dresden\n\n\none Game behind closed doors and one away game without own fan support. Virtual tickets were offered to reduce the financial loss, creating \"the first sold-out Ghost Game in history\". The 2012–13 season started poorly for Dynamo and Ralf Loose was sacked in December 2012 after a 3–0 defeat to VfL Bochum with the team in 15th place. He was replaced by Peter Pacult, returning to the club after more than six years. Dynamo's form improved after Pacult's arrival but the team still finished the league as 16th", "id": "11366777" }, { "contents": "Aleksandr Tashayev\n\n\nAleksandr Mikhailovich Tashayev (; born 23 June 1994) is a Russian professional football player who plays as a left midfielder for Spartak Moscow. He made his professional debut on 11 December 2014 for FC Dynamo Moscow in a 2014–15 UEFA Europa League group game against PSV Eindhoven. He also played in the Round of 16 away game against Napoli. On 6 July 2018, he signed a contract with the cross-city rivals FC Spartak Moscow, after buying out own contract from Dynamo and becoming a free agent. Dynamo unsuccessfully sued to deem", "id": "13552247" }, { "contents": "Dynamo Moscow Bandy Club\n\n\nthe end of the 2004–05 season, almost all players of the for a decade dominant Vodnik signed up for Dynamo Moscow, resulting in an immediate Russian League title in 2006. Dynamo Moscow won the World Cup for the first time in 2006, defeating Zorky in the final. The 2006 domestic title was followed by another four consecutive Russian championship titles and as one of the dominating teams in the following years too, until 2017, when they missed the championship play-off, only coming in at eighth place in the regular season", "id": "1825162" }, { "contents": "Handball Club Lada\n\n\nHandball Club Lada is a Russian women's handball club from Tolyatti playing in the Russian Super League. Founded in 1998, Lada soon became the leading team in the Super League winning five championships in a row between 2002 and 2006 and a sixth one in 2008. It also built itself a name in Europe winning the 2002 Cup Winners' Cup in its international debut and reaching the final of the 2007 Champions League and the next edition's semifinals. The following three seasons were less successful, with Dynamo Volgograd retrieving the leading position", "id": "9114247" }, { "contents": "Omari Tetradze\n\n\n– Tetradze. Later he considered restoring his original surname, but decided it would cause too many problems. At club level, he played for Dinamo Tbilisi, FC Dynamo Moscow, Alania Vladikavkaz (where he won a Russian league championship medal in 1995), AS Roma, and PAOK FC (Greece). He played for Russia at international level, and appeared at World Cup 1994 and Euro 1996. At the latter tournament, he played superbly in each of Russia's three games despite the team's poor results, and", "id": "17559889" }, { "contents": "FC Girondins de Bordeaux\n\n\nclub was relegated just two years thereafter. In 1992, however, \"Les Girondins\" won that year's Ligue 2 title, thus being elevated to the top tier of French football. In the emergence of young and exciting players such as playmaker Zinedine Zidane, striker Christophe Dugarry and left back Bixente Lizarazu, the club ascended even higher to win the UEFA Intertoto Cup in 1995. With this talented trio, the club defeated FC Rotor Volgograd (the 1995 King's Cup Winner), Real Betis, Milan and Slavia Prague", "id": "10933676" }, { "contents": "Yuriy Hudymenko\n\n\nYuriy Arkadiyovych Hudymenko (; born 3 October 1966) is a former Kyrgyz-born Ukrainian professional footballer. Hudymenko is a product of the main Bishkek sports school and later was accepted to the main republican club of Kyrgyzia, FC Alga Bishkek. In 1990 he made his debut in the Soviet Top League playing for FC Dnepr Dnepropetrovsk, but failed to score any goals in domestic competitions, but did score a goal against Heart of Midlothian F.C. in the 1990-91 UEFA Cup. Next year Hudymenko joined recently relegated FC Rotor Volgograd that", "id": "11637137" }, { "contents": "Valery Gazzaev\n\n\na second-place finish at the end of the season. However, Gazzaev was left behind in the first league in Spartak Ordzhonikidze, as he wasn't one of the main players of the SKA Rostov-on-Don. In the Soviet Top League, Gazzaev played in Lokomotiv Moscow, Dynamo Moscow, and Dinamo Tbilisi. Gazzaev is a Soviet Cup winner with Dynamo Moscow in 1984. During his career he scored 89 goals in 283 matches in Soviet Top League, and was the top goal scorer of the UEFA Cup", "id": "3537187" }, { "contents": "FC Amkar Perm\n\n\nAmkar was in third place in the standings, one point behind second-placed Spartak Moscow and six adrift of leaders Rubin Kazan. After the break, one of Amkar's team leaders, Vladimir Gabulov, and the captain, Aleksei Popov, left the team to join Dynamo Moscow and Rubin Kazan respectively. Two matches in a row on the \"equator\" of the Championship Amkar could have topped the league table but was unable to beat Tom Tomsk and Spartak Nalchik at home. On 16 November, after beating Tom in Tomsk", "id": "5030813" }, { "contents": "FC Rubin Kazan\n\n\nfixed after selling in Volgograd \"Rotor\" team leaders Oleg Nechaev and Rustem Khuzin (but soon returned to \"Rubin\" till the end of the season on loan). In the end the season Kazan finished on 8th place, only losing a point to Nizhnekamsk \"Neftechimik\" and dropped into the second league. The following year, 1994, coaches Zadikashvili and Semenov assemble a team literally bit by bit. Because of the continuing financial problems from the last season in the team left only 6 players: Grishin, Danilin,", "id": "19815661" }, { "contents": "Nikita Chernov\n\n\nNikita Aleksandrovich Chernov (; born 14 January 1996) is a Russian professional football player who plays as a centre-back for Krylia Sovetov Samara and Russia national football team. Born in Volzhsky, Volgograd Oblast, Chernov began his career at hometown team FC Energiya Volzhsky before joining CSKA Moscow in 2009. He made his professional debut on 24 September 2014 in a Russian Cup game against FC Khimik Dzerzhinsk. He also played in the next Russian Cup round against FC Torpedo Moscow on 29 October. On 30 July 2019, Chernov moved from", "id": "503700" }, { "contents": "KF Skënderbeu Korçë\n\n\nBeşiktaş, Lokomotiv Moscow and Sporting Clube de Portugal. In matchday 1, their first ever group stage game, the club was defeated at home 0–1 by Beşiktaş after a hard fight between the two sides. In the next matchday, they lost 0–2 to Lokomotiv Moscow in Moscow. Their worst defeat in the European competition yet came the next matchday, a storming 1–5 loss to Sporting in the away leg at Lisbon, but also had the Albanian side scoring their first goal in the UEFA Europa League group stages. In the home", "id": "1409695" }, { "contents": "FC Dynamo Kyiv\n\n\nand Maccabi Tel Aviv F.C. Dynamo finished in second place with 11 points after a spectacular performance and a memorable 0–2 in Porto. However, Dynamo was punished by UEFA for a racist incident in the home game against Chelsea where four black men were attacked in the stands by Dynamo fans. Despite this, Dynamo reached the round of 16 in the Champions League for the first time since 2000, where it was drawn with Manchester City. Dynamo was eliminated 1–3 on aggregate but managed to hold an impressive 0–0 draw in Manchester. Dynamo", "id": "18770189" }, { "contents": "Konstantin Kovalenko\n\n\nKonstantin Valeryevich Kovalenko (; ; born 2 February 1975) is a Belarusian and Russian professional footballer who plays for resurrected FC Kuban Krasnodar. He made his professional debut in the Soviet Second League in 1991 for FC Kuban Barannikovsky. He played 1 game in the 1996–97 UEFA Cup for FC Spartak Moscow. His brother Andrei Kovalenko also played football professionally. On 27 October 2008 he punched referee Sergei Timofeyev in the face in the Russian Second Division game FC Sochi-04 - FC Olimpia Volgograd. He was banned from football for a year. Spartak", "id": "1118096" }, { "contents": "Clinton N'Jie\n\n\nDimitri Payet and scored two goals in a 3–0 win. On 17 September, he scored both the goals in the away win over Amiens. On 3 May 2018, he played in the Europa League semi-finals away to FC Red Bull Salzburg as Marseille played out a 2–1 away loss but a 3–2 aggregate win to secure a place in the 2018 UEFA Europa League Final. On 25 July 2019, Njie signed a 4-year contract with Russian Premier League club Dynamo Moscow. N'Jie scored 44 minutes into his Cameroon debut against the", "id": "16847587" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\ntime they were able to consolidate in the National League, finishing 9th and then 14th. But financial troubles continued. A Ministry of Sport investigation found evidence of financial misconduct by club management along with substantial overspending, and regional Governor Andrey Bocharov announced after the 2013 season that government support for Rotor was being withdrawn. The club dropped back into the Second Division (renamed the Professional Football League) for the first half of the 2014–15 (autumn-spring) season, then withdrew in order to immediately transfer to the 2015 (spring", "id": "264679" }, { "contents": "2001 FC Anzhi Makhachkala season\n\n\nThe 2001 FC Anzhi Makhachkala season was the 2nd season that the club played in the Russian Top Division, the highest tier of football in Russia, following their promotion from the National Football League in 1999. They finished the season in 13th, were runners-up in the 2001-02 cup and reached the Sixth Round of the 2002-03 cup losing to Dynamo Moscow, and were knocked out of the UEFA Cup at the First Round stage after a 0-1 defeat to Rangers over one leg in Warsaw, Poland", "id": "4897180" }, { "contents": "FC Dynamo-2 Moscow\n\n\nFC Dynamo-2 Moscow () was a Russian football team from Moscow. It was the farm-club for FC Dynamo Moscow. In 2016, it was revived after the parent club, Dynamo, was relegated from the Russian Football Premier League (which holds its own competition for the Under-21 teams of the Premier League clubs) and licensed to play in the third-tier Russian Professional Football League for the 2016–17 season. Majority of the squad participated in the 2016–17 UEFA Youth League as well. On 17 June 2017, the parent", "id": "19064817" }, { "contents": "Mikhail Markosov\n\n\nDivision South Zone, scoring 27 goals, a feat no one in the entire Second Division surpassed. In the 2010 season, he played for FC Rotor Volgograd and came back to FC Dynamo Stavropol the next season. Scoring 10 goals in his first 10 matches for Dynamo, Markosov was transferred in the summer transfer window of the 2011-12 season to FC Ufa. From April until June 2019 Markosov played for FC Kuban Krasnodar, scored 7 goals in 11 matches. He joined the Armenia national football team in 2013. Markosov", "id": "12122198" }, { "contents": "1993 in Russian football\n\n\ntheir group campaign and finished it without much success, only gaining 2 points in 6 games, coming in last in the group and suffering a 0-6 defeat against Marseille. They could not play their home games in Moscow due to the lack of a stadium meeting the Champions League standards at the time. FC Spartak Moscow reached the semifinals, tying the best European result in club's history. FC Spartak Moscow qualified for the group stage and continued to play in the group into the 1994. FC Torpedo Moscow went out", "id": "21710373" }, { "contents": "2002 in Russian football\n\n\nrespective Second Division zones: The Russian Cup was won by CSKA Moscow, who beat Zenit Saint Petersburg 2–0 in the final at the Luzhniki Stadium. Lokomotiv Moscow participated in the third round of the UEFA Cup 2001-02, but were knocked out by Hapoel Tel Aviv FC who won 3–1 on aggregate. Krylya Sovetov Samara played in the UEFA Intertoto Cup 2002. After defeating Dinaburg FC in the second round they lost to Willem II Tilburg on away goals. Lokomotiv Moscow's victory over Grazer AK ensured there are two Russian clubs", "id": "11619883" }, { "contents": "FC Dynamo Moscow\n\n\nFC Dynamo Moscow (Dinamo Moscow, FC Dinamo Moskva, ) is a Russian football club based in Moscow. Dynamo has returned to the Russian Premier League for the 2017–18 season after one season in the second-tier Russian Football National League. Dynamo was the only club that had always played in the top tier of Soviet football (along with Dynamo Kyiv) and of Russian football from the end of the Soviet era until they were relegated in 2016. Despite this, it has never won the modern Russian Premier League title and", "id": "8644495" }, { "contents": "Nikita Lyamin\n\n\nIn 2004, he played three season in the farm team and two more seasons in the main team for Dynamo Moscow. Dynamo Moscow became champions at the 2007–08 Russian Volleyball Super League, but Lyamin due to low game practice quit the club. Lyamin moved to Nizhny Novgorod and became captain of Guberniya, which went on debuting in the B-division of the highest national league. In the two years, Guberniya could enter the Super League, and in the 2012–13 it became one of the leading clubs in Russia. Guberniya qualified", "id": "8669287" }, { "contents": "Leonid Slutsky (football coach)\n\n\nLeonid Viktorovich Slutsky (; born 4 May 1971) is a Russian professional football coach and former player who is the manager of Eredivisie club Vitesse. Previously, he has been in charge of Olimpia Volgograd, Uralan Elista, Moscow, Krylia Sovetov, CSKA Moscow, Russia and Hull City. Slutsky was born in Volgograd. Slutsky's playing career with FC Zvezda Gorodishche ended at just 19 years of age. He had to retire due to a knee injury sustained after falling out of a tree while rescuing a neighbour's cat. Slutsky", "id": "11710104" }, { "contents": "Yuri Kovtun\n\n\nduring the season so two top teams were interested in him at the same time, it's Dynamo and Spartak Moscow. In 1993, Kovtun chose Dynamo Moscow and was their key player for years, until his move to Spartak in 1999. While the only Kovtun's honour during 6 years in Dynamo was Russian Cup in 1995, he could get 3 titles in 1999, 2000 and 2001 after joining Spartak. Moreover, he took part in numerous UEFA Champions League games and found himself regular Russian national football team player. Kovtun", "id": "2071460" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\n-tier Russian Professional Football League for the 2016–17 season. They won their zone of the PFL in the 2016–17 season and were promoted to the second-level Russian National Football League for 2017–18. Despite ending the 2017–18 season in the relegation zone, the club stayed in the league for the 2018–19 season as another team that finished above them in the table failed to obtain the league license. As of 5 July 2019, according to the FNL website. Had international caps for their respective countries. Players whose name is listed in", "id": "264681" }, { "contents": "Dmitri Khokhlov\n\n\nDmitri Valeryevich Khokhlov (, born 22 December 1975) is a Russian football manager and a former player. He is the manager of FC Dynamo Moscow. He played as a holding midfielder or playmaker. He played for PFC CSKA Moscow and FC Lokomotiv Moscow in native Russia, having abroad spells with PSV Eindhoven (Netherlands) and Real Sociedad (Spain). During his time with FC Lokomotiv Moscow he participated in their memorable 2003–04 UEFA Champions League campaign, scoring third goal in the 3–0 home victory against Internazionale. He played for", "id": "19054427" }, { "contents": "Racism in association football\n\n\nagainst CSKA Moscow in Russia. The club's stadium was partially closed as punishment. Touré suggested that black players might boycott the 2018 FIFA World Cup, to be held in Russia, if racism continued in the country. In September 2014, Dynamo Moscow defender Christopher Samba was racially abused playing in the Moscow derby against Torpedo Moscow. As a result, Torpedo were forced to close part of their stadium, although Samba was also banned for two games for swearing at the racist fans. In a friendly match (Russia vrs France", "id": "21349703" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\nTraktor Stalingrad to national prominence. Traktor were champions of the new fourth-level Group G in 1937, and were then promoted straight to the highest-level Group A as it expanded from 9 clubs to 26. They remained at the top level until 1950. Rotor then spent three decades at the top regional level, although the creation of the Supreme League in 1970 pushed their league from the second level overall down to the third. They gradually improved throughout the 1970s and finally won Zone III of the Soviet Second League (", "id": "264671" }, { "contents": "WPC Dynamo Moscow\n\n\nWPC Dynamo Moscow () is a Russian men's water polo club, that is part of the traditional Moscow-based multi-sports club Dynamo. Dynamo won seven Soviet Championships between 1955 and 1962, and in 1964 it was the first team to represent the in the newly European Champions Cup, ranking second behind Partizan. In 1968 and 1969 the team won two more national championships, and it also reached the 1969 European Cup's final, lost to Mladost. For the next fifteen years Dynamo didn't win any more", "id": "18685765" }, { "contents": "Kyle Hines\n\n\ngreat Olympiacos comeback in 4th quarter, led by Vassilis Spanoulis. CSKA Moscow eventually won the EuroLeague third place game, after defeating Fenerbahçe, by a score of 86–80. In his second EuroLeague season with CSKA Moscow, Hines averaged a career-low 6.8 points and 4.3 rebounds per game, over 30 games played. CSKA Moscow finished the season by winning the VTB United League, after eliminating Khimki with a 3–0 series sweep in the League's finals series. On June 17, 2015, he signed a two-year contract", "id": "14695455" }, { "contents": "Miroslav Raičević\n\n\nfinal decisive shot in the very last seconds of the final game against Prokom Trefl Sopot. He also won the Greek Cup with Aris, in the year 2004. He has also played with Red Star Belgrade of the Adriatic League during the 2005–06 season. He won the Serbian Cup with Red Star that season. In the 2006–07 season, he played with the Russian Super League club Dynamo Moscow. During summer of 2007, he left Dynamo Moscow and joined the Italian League club Eldo Napoli. He then left Napoli and moved back", "id": "13596698" } ]

[ { "contents": "1996 in Russian football\n\n\nwas knocked out in the qualifying round. FC Lokomotiv Moscow went out in the second round. PFC CSKA Moscow, FC Dynamo Moscow and FC Torpedo-Luzhniki Moscow were eliminated in the first round after going through the qualifying round. FC Alania Vladikavkaz went out in the first round after going to the UEFA Cup after failing in the qualification for the Champions League. FC Spartak Moscow went out in the second round. Russian clubs participated in the Intertoto Cup for the first time. FC Rotor Volgograd, FC KAMAZ-Chally Naberezhnye", "id": "22219348" }, { "contents": "1995 in Russian football\n\n\nthe Russian Cup 1995–96 were played later in the year. All the Russian participants were eliminated in 1994. FC Spartak Moscow won every game in their group, qualifying for the quarterfinals. FC Dynamo Moscow advanced through the first two rounds, qualifying to play in the quarterfinals next spring. FC Spartak-Alania Vladikavkaz and FC Lokomotiv Moscow were eliminated in the first round by strong opponents (even though Lokomotiv very unexpectedly beat FC Bayern in Munich in the first game). FC Rotor Volgograd eliminated Manchester United F.C. in the first round", "id": "18335625" }, { "contents": "Maksim Nenakhov\n\n\nMaksim Maksimovich Nenakhov (; born 13 December 1998) is a Russian football player who plays for FC Rotor Volgograd. He made his debut in the Russian Professional Football League for FC Dynamo-2 Moscow on 20 July 2016 in a game against FC Tekstilshchik Ivanovo. On 19 January 2018, he was loaned to FC Tyumen until the end of the 2017–18 season. On 14 June 2018, he moved on another loan for the 2018–19 season to FC SKA-Khabarovsk. On 18 June 2019, he signed a 2-year contract with FC Rotor Volgograd", "id": "6983587" }, { "contents": "Almir Kayumov\n\n\nAlmir Izmailovich Kayumov (; 30 December 1964 – 7 August 2013) was a Russian football player and referee. Kayumov played for FC Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk, FC Lada Togliatti, Spartak Moscow, Rotor Volgograd, SKA Rostov-on-Don, in Russia, the Daewoo Royals in South Korea, and Kuopion Palloseura in Finland. He played 6 games in the UEFA Cup 1986–87 for FC Spartak Moscow. On November 9, 2009, it was reported that Kayumov attempted to commit suicide by jumping out of his apartment window. Police negotiators talked", "id": "14510549" }, { "contents": "Ruslan Ishkinin\n\n\nRuslan Kamilyevich Ishkinin (; born 14 June 1974) is a former Russian professional footballer. He made his professional debut in the Russian Second Division in 1992 for FC Dynamo-2 Moscow. The most memorable match of his career was played on 14 June 1995. His team FC Dynamo Moscow was playing FC Rotor Volgograd in the final game of the Russian Cup. Dynamo was decimated by injuries and several reserve players, including Ishkinin, were called up for the game. With 5 minutes to go in regulation and the score of 0–0, Ishkinin", "id": "2479621" }, { "contents": "1997 in Russian football\n\n\nthe year. Russian teams were eliminated in 1996. FC Spartak Moscow were eliminated in the second qualifying round and went on to the UEFA Cup. FC Lokomotiv Moscow qualified for the quarterfinals stage that was played in 1998. FC Spartak Moscow qualified for the quarterfinals stage that was played in 1998. FC Rotor Volgograd reached the second round. FC Alania Vladikavkaz went out in the first round. The goal in the stadium was measured before the game and turned out to be 2.46 meters high instead of regulation 2.44. The referee decided", "id": "20500131" }, { "contents": "2012–13 Russian Premier League\n\n\naltogether if the game is awarded to Dynamo. According to the police, the main suspect is a female fan who was arrested after the game. The criminal investigation was opened on the charge of hooliganism. On 22 November, Russian Football Union's Control-Disciplinary Committee awarded the game to Dynamo with a score of 3–0 and fined both clubs. Dynamo had to play their next home game (against Rubin Kazan) behind closed doors and Zenit had to play their next 2 home games (against CSKA Moscow and Anzhi Makhachkala)", "id": "321372" }, { "contents": "Yuriy Kalitvintsev\n\n\nfor FC Desna Chernihiv. A Russian-born Kalitvintsev chose to play for the Ukraine side after breaking through as a midfielder for Dynamo Kyiv. Until 1994 he played he spent his playing career at Russian clubs such as FC Rotor Volgograd, FC SKA Rostov-on-Don, FC Dynamo Moscow, and FC Lokomotiv Nizhny Novgorod. It wasn't until the reorganization of the soviet football when he started to play at the top level of the Russian championship starting for the Moscow's Dynamo. After being transferred to the fading club", "id": "20481933" }, { "contents": "Sergei Bogomolov\n\n\nSergei Anatolyevich Bogomolov (; born 17 August 1971) is a former Russian professional footballer. During his time with FC Dynamo Moscow he only played in a single game for the main team, but it was a very memorable one. On 14 June 1995, Dynamo was playing FC Rotor Volgograd in the final game of the 1994–95 Russian Cup. Dynamo was hurt by injuries to some first team regulars and several reserve players, including Bogomolov, were called up for the game. With the score of 0:0 and 10 minutes to go in", "id": "18632079" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\nwas one of the strongest clubs in Russia, rivalling Spartak Moscow for the championship, yet never winning it. Rotor became the league runners-up in 1993 and 1997. Rotor played five successive seasons in European competition, from 1994-95 to 1998-99. They qualified for the UEFA Cup through their league position every year except 1996-97, when they instead chose to enter the Intertoto Cup. Unfortunately for Rotor, the fall of communism had left all the former Eastern Bloc leagues badly under-resourced compared to", "id": "264673" }, { "contents": "1995 in Russian football\n\n\n1995 was the fourth season Russia held its own national football competition since the breakup of the Soviet Union. FC Spartak-Alania Vladikavkaz won the league for the first time ever. This was the first season 3 points were awarded for a win instead of two. For more details, see: The third edition of the Russian Cup, Russian Cup 1994–95 was won by FC Dynamo Moscow, who beat FC Rotor Volgograd in the finals in a shootout 8-7 after finishing extra time at 0-0. Early stages of", "id": "18335624" }, { "contents": "Maxim Chuzhkov\n\n\nMaxim Aleksandrovich Chuzhkov (; born 11 April 1987) is a Russian beach soccer player serving as goalkeeper. He is a three-time national champion for three different clubs (Rotor Volgograd, Lokomotiv Moscow, Kristall). Maxim Chuzhkov was born in Samara. He was a gymnast for six years before switching to football. Chuzhkov discovered beach soccer in 2010, and one year later he joined Krylya Sovetov from Samara. From 2012 to 2014 he played for Rotor Volgograd, winning with them the club's first and only Russian Beach Soccer", "id": "21454463" }, { "contents": "1991 Soviet Top League\n\n\nseason, while FC Rotor Volgograd and FC Tiligul Tiraspol would have been promoted to the Top League for 1992. Top six clubs of the league later entered European competitions for their respective nations. The Ukrainian clubs chose to qualify through a separate national competition. The league was expanded to 16 after the last season, during which number of clubs left the Soviet competitions (from Georgia and Baltic states). The last-placed FC Rotor Volgograd of the 1990 Soviet Top League lost promotion/relegation playoff to Lokomotiv Moscow and was relegated", "id": "831265" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor-2 Volgograd\n\n\nFC Rotor-2 Volgograd () is a Russian football team based in Volgograd. It is the farm club for FC Rotor Volgograd. It previously played professionally as FC Rotor-d Volgograd or FC Rotor-2 Volgograd in the Russian Second Division in 1992–1993, 1998–2000 and 2004 and Russian Third League in 1994-1997. They came in 3rd place in their Second Division zone in 1993. In 2001, the reserves tournament for Russian Premier League was re-established and the reserves team played there while the main team stayed in Premier League.", "id": "5758261" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\nFC Rotor Volgograd () is a Russian football (soccer) club from the large city of Volgograd, Volgograd Oblast (formerly Stalingrad). The club plays in the second-level Russian National Football League. They are the largest and best supported Volgograd club and for most of their existence have been the city's only representatives in the national league system. They played at the top level of Soviet/Russian football either side of World War II, from 1989 to 1990, and from 1991 to 2004. During the 1990s", "id": "264669" }, { "contents": "Wisdom Mumba Chansa\n\n\nand Derby Makinka, to play in the Soviet Top League when they all signed for Pomir Dushanbe in 1989 after being spotted during their 4-0 win over Italy at the 1988 Olympics. Chansa's debut came on 2 October 1989 in an away match against Torpedo Moscow, before appearing twice more, against Rotor Volgograd and Metalist Kharkiv, before leaving at the conclusion of the 1989 season. Chansa returned to Power Dynamos following his Soviet experience, and was made captain before Power Dynamos became the first Zambian club side to win a", "id": "5300924" }, { "contents": "FC Volgograd\n\n\nFC Volgograd () is a former name of the Russian football club from Volgograd, founded in late 2008, currently known as FC Rotor Volgograd. Before it was founded, it was originally supposed to be called FC Rotor-Volgograd Volgograd (to keep Rotor's name around at the time FC Rotor Volgograd was close to bankruptcy). However, FC Rotor's financial situation has improved by early 2009 and the club was registered as FC Volgograd. It played in the Russian Second Division in 2009. It took over the license", "id": "6725532" }, { "contents": "Roman Pavlyuchenko\n\n\nRoman Anatolyevich Pavlyuchenko (; born 15 December 1981) is a Russian footballer who plays as a striker for FC Znamya Noginsk. He started his career at Dynamo Stavropol, and Rotor Volgograd, before transferring to Spartak Moscow in 2003. His performances there earned him a £13.7 million transfer to Tottenham Hotspur of the English Premier League in 2008, where he spent three full seasons before returning to Russia to play for Lokomotiv Moscow. After another full 3 seasons he moved in July 2015, to Kuban Krasnodar. A full international for a", "id": "3367200" }, { "contents": "Anton Miranchuk\n\n\nAnton Andreyevich Miranchuk (; born 17 October 1995) is a Russian professional football player who plays as a centre midfielder or attacking midfielder for Lokomotiv Moscow and the Russia national team. Born in Slavyansk-na-Kubani, Miranchuk joined Spartak Moscow from his hometown football school Olymp. He was dismissed from the club because of weak physical abilities. After that, he and his twin brother Aleksei moved to Lokomotiv Moscow. On 30 October 2013, Miranchuk made his competitive debut in senior football in a Russian Cup game against Rotor Volgograd replacing", "id": "1404526" }, { "contents": "Dmitry Pletnyov (footballer)\n\n\nDmitry Andreyevich Pletnyov (; born 16 January 1998) is a Russian football player. He plays for FC Tom Tomsk in Russian Football National League. He made his debut in the Russian Football National League for FC Zenit-2 Saint Petersburg on 6 September 2017 in a game against FC Rotor Volgograd. He made his Russian Premier League debut for FC Zenit Saint Petersburg on 5 May 2018 in a game against FC Lokomotiv Moscow. He played for Russia national under-17 football team at the 2015 UEFA European Under-17 Championship and 2015 FIFA U-17 World Cup.", "id": "21412634" }, { "contents": "2004 in Russian football\n\n\nseason. Andrey Fedkov of Terek became the top goalscorer with 38 goals. The following clubs have earned promotion by winning tournaments in their respective Second Division zones: Prior to start of the 2005 season three clubs (Rotor Volgograd, Torpedo Vladimir, and Arsenal Tula) refused participation in the First Division, and two more clubs (Dynamo Stavropol and Chernomorets Novorossiysk) were denied licences. This made way for the runners-up of all five zones: The Russian Super Cup match between CSKA Moscow and Spartak Moscow was won by CSKA", "id": "6344061" }, { "contents": "Dmitry Shishin\n\n\nnational beach soccer team. That year Shishin participated at the Russian Championship as player of Samarian Sputnik and debuted for the national team at the Beach Soccer World Cup. After Sputnik, Shishin for a long time played for different Saratov clubs, such as Rosagro, Biznes-Pravo, Delta. In 2011, Shishin moved to Lokomotiv Moscow, where he won the championship trophy with his team. Together with the Lokomotives he won another national championship trophy and two Russian cups. In 2013, Shishin surprisingly switched to Rotor Volgograd, becoming", "id": "12194946" }, { "contents": "2009 Russian Second Division\n\n\nJuly 2009 Oleg Mikheyev, president of FC Rotor Volgograd, announced Rotor's resignation from the league, citing problems with authorities. They have played 18 games and were in the 13th position with 21 points. \"Source: [PFL] , Sporbox.ru \" On 11 July 2009, the management of FC Spartak Shchyolkovo announced that the club would resign from the league after the first half of the season because of economic problems. Spartak were excluded from the league on August 4, 2009. They have played 18 games and were in", "id": "21482663" }, { "contents": "FC Olimpia Volgograd\n\n\nuntil 2008, though their fortunes faded after Slutsky's players left. Before the 2009 season their professional license was taken over by the new club FC Volgograd. This was meant to allow FC to assume the name and identity of Rotor who were suffering off-field troubles, but Rotor survived and ended up playing simultaneously with the new FC in 2009, while Olimpia dropped into the Volgograd Oblast Championship. They stayed there until 2011, winning the title in 2010. With confusion ongoing over the future of the Rotor name and club", "id": "21936808" }, { "contents": "Sergei Rashevsky\n\n\nSergei Aleksandrovich Rashevsky (; born 13 June 1980) is a Russian football coach and a former player. He is an assistant coach with FC Rotor Volgograd. He made his debut in the Russian Premier League in 2001 for FC Rotor Volgograd, before moving to Ural in 2005. After several seasons playing for different clubs in Russia, Rashevsky signed with Volga in 2008. He played for the club for three years, before he returned to Ural in 2011. Since February 2014, he played for the Russian National Football League side Yenisey", "id": "8136441" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\nthe new Rotor Volgograd were promoted to the second-level Russian Football National League thanks to teams above them withdrawing. The regional Ministry of Sport invested 150 million roubles ($4.9m) in the club's playing budget for the 2010 campaign, but it ended in failure as Rotor were relegated in 17th place. Governor Brovko admitted that the transition to the higher level was made too quickly. Former club player Sergei Nechay took over management and steered the team to promotion as champions of their Second Division zone in 2011–12. This", "id": "264678" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\ntheir Western counterparts, and indeed Rotor were knocked out by all four of the French and Italian clubs they played. The exception came against England's Manchester United in 1995-96. Having drawn the home leg 0-0, Rotor raced into a 2-0 lead at Old Trafford before United scored their first goal. Rotor were seconds away from being the first European club to win at Old Trafford when United's goalkeeper Peter Schmeichel scored a famous equaliser, but the 2-2 draw meant Rotor progressed by the away", "id": "264674" }, { "contents": "Roman Pavlyuchenko\n\n\na 1-0 loss against Moscow on 5 April 1999. On 15 May 1999, Pavlyuchenko provided a double assist in a 2-1 win over Chita. In his first season, Pavlyuchenko made 31 appearance and scoring 11 goals. However, the club played was still relegated to the Second Division after the club was last place. Despite this, Pavlyuchenko was named 'Team of the top' junior division for the first version of the newspaper Sport Express. Pavlyuchenko moved to Rotor Volgograd in 2000, although the move was", "id": "3367203" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\ntheir professional licence entirely. Rotor's reserve side in the Russian Second Division, Rotor-2 Volgograd, became the club's first team and was renamed Rotor in 2006. In 2007 local businessman Oleg Mikheev acquired the club's main asset the Volgograd Central Stadium, and with it effective control over the club, but financial troubles continued and the team's performances in the Second Division declined. Matters came to a head in 2009. Russia had officially launched its bid for the FIFA World Cup 2018 and Volgograd city was in line for a", "id": "264676" }, { "contents": "1988 Soviet Cup Final\n\n\nThe 1988 Soviet Cup Final was a football match that took place at the Lenin's Central Stadium, Moscow on May 28, 1988. The match was the 47th Soviet Cup Final and it was contested by FC Metalist Kharkiv and FC Torpedo Moscow. The Soviet Cup winner Metalist qualified for the Cup Winners' Cup first round for the Soviet Union. The last year defending holders Dynamo Kyiv were eliminated in the second round of the competition by FC Rotor Volgograd (3:2, 0:2). For Metalist this was their second final total", "id": "158055" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\ngoals rule They went on to be defeated by eventual Runners-up Bordeaux in the second round. Full European results: In the 2000s, Rotor's results declined, and in 2004, the team finished last in the Russian Premier League. The club's owner Vladimir Goryunov, a member of the Duma and head of the parliamentary sports committee, explored options to save Rotor from relegation, such as expanding the Premier League to 20 teams. But in January 2005 Rotor were unable to make the required financial guarantees and so lost", "id": "264675" }, { "contents": "2018–19 Russian Football National League\n\n\n. Ararat Moscow was promoted from 2017–18 PFL, but were refused a license for the 2018–19 Russian National Football League, the club being subsequently dissolved. Zenit-2 Saint Petersburg, Rotor Volgograd, Luch Vladivostok, Tyumen and Fakel Voronezh were spared from relegation due to lack of teams enrolled for the 2018–19 season. Sakhalin Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk finished on the promotion place at the end of the 2017–18 PFL season, but refused to be promoted. Dynamo Saint Petersburg was moved from Saint Petersburg to Sochi and renamed as PFC Sochi. Olimpiyets Nizhny Novgorod", "id": "621376" }, { "contents": "Dinamo Volgograd\n\n\nDinamo Volgograd () is a Russian women's handball club from Volgograd. Founded in 1972 as Burevestnik Volgograd, it represented Rotor Volgograd following the collapse of the Soviet Union and was subsequently named Aqva before taking its current name in 2003. Dynamo is the most successful team in the Russian Super League with nine titles, and in the 2001-02 season it set an absolute record winning all the matches. It has also been fairly successful in international competitions with three titles: the 1995 Challenge Cup and Champions Trophy and the 2008", "id": "10627328" }, { "contents": "List of football clubs in Russia\n\n\nZelenodolsk — FC Prometey-Dinamo Saint Petersburg — FC Pskov — FC Pskov-2000 — FC Pskov-747 FC Radian-Baikal Irkutsk — FC Rassvet Troitskoye — FC Reformatsiya Abakan — FC Rekord Aleksandrov — FC Reutov — FC Ritm Alekseyevka — FC Ritm Belgorod — FC Roda Moscow — FC Rossia Moscow — FC Rostov — FC Rostselmash-2 Rostov-on-Don — FC Rostselmash Rostov-on-Don — FC Rotor-2 Mikhaylovka — FC Rotor-2 Volgograd — FC Rotor Volgograd — FC Rubin-2 Kazan — FC Rubin Kazan — FC Rubin-TAN Kazan — FC", "id": "14958458" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\n-autumn) Russian Amateur Football League, the fourth level overall. In the 2015 season Rotor won the Amateur League Chernozemye (South-West Region) division at the first attempt by 11 points, suffering only one defeat in 22 games. The 45,000-seater Pobeda Stadium is under construction on their old Central Stadium site, and it was reported in August 2015 that the first team are still interested in moving into the facility after the 2018 World Cup, which makes attaining a higher league status a priority. They were licensed for third", "id": "264680" }, { "contents": "2010–11 KHL season\n\n\nThe 2010–11 KHL season was the third season of the Kontinental Hockey League. It was held from 8 September 2010 and ended on 16 April 2011. The season started with the Opening Cup game between the last season's finalists, Ak Bars Kazan and UHC Dynamo, the new team that was created by merging last season's Western conference winner HC MVD with Dynamo Moscow. Salavat Yulaev Ufa won the Gagarin Cup and the Russian Championship after beating Atlant Moscow Oblast 4–1 in the play-off final series. Folding of Lada Togliatti Lada", "id": "10925021" }, { "contents": "1994 in Russian football\n\n\ntime at 2-2. Early stages of the Russian Cup 1994–95 were played later in the year. FC Spartak Moscow finished the group stage in third place, not qualifying for the semifinals. All the Russian participants were eliminated in 1993. FC Spartak Moscow qualified directly for the group stage. It did not qualify from the group, coming in third place. PFC CSKA Moscow were eliminated in the first round. FC Rotor Volgograd and FC Tekstilshchik Kamyshin were both eliminated by FC Nantes in the first and second round respectively,", "id": "17746833" }, { "contents": "Mikhail Osinov\n\n\nRussian Top Division side Rotor Volgograd. In 2001, Osinov was transferred to FC Rostov and stayed there for 9 years, suffering a relegation and helping the \"yellow-blues\" to return to the Premier League. He also holds the club record for league appearances with 239 games. In 2010, he returned to Yekaterinburg to play in the Russian First Division. In 2011, Osinov went to a lower league joining MITOS Novocherkassk of the Russian Second Division. On 11 September 2011, in a league game against Olimpia Gelendzhik Osinov", "id": "12015633" }, { "contents": "1990 Soviet Top League\n\n\non 1 March with the game between Dnipro and Rotor and lasted until 20 October 1990. The season was won by FC Dynamo Kyiv. The league was reduced to 13 after first Georgian clubs (Dinamo Tbilisi and Guria Lanchkhuti) and then Žalgiris withdrew from the Soviet Top League. Lokomotiv Moscow and the last placed Zenit Leningrad of the 1989 Soviet Top League were relegated to the 1990 Soviet First League. Lokomotiv returned to the Soviet First League after two seasons absence, while Zenit was relegated for the first time since being promoted back", "id": "831394" }, { "contents": "2010–11 KHL season\n\n\nTogliatti dropped out of the league and joined the Russian Major League instead, after failing to meet the league's financial requirements. Merger of HC MVD and Dynamo Moscow On 30 April 2010, it was announced that HC MVD would merge with Dynamo Moscow to form UHC Dynamo, which for the time being will play the majority of their games at Megasport Arena in Moscow, while also attempting to play some games in Balashikha. The current plan is to have a new, large and modernized arena constructed in Balashikha by 2012. Expansion", "id": "10925022" }, { "contents": "Dzmitry Rawneyka\n\n\nDzmitry Vasilevich Rawneyka (; ; born 13 May 1980) is a former Belarusian professional footballer. He is currently af part of the coaching staff of Belarus. Born in Grodno, Rawneyka began playing football in FC Neman Grodno's youth system. He joined the senior side and made his Belarusian Premier League debut in 1998. He had a spell in the Russian Premier League with FC Torpedo Moscow and FC Rotor Volgograd but has spent most of his playing career with Neman Grodno. Rawneyka has made eight appearances for the Belarus national football team", "id": "13999154" }, { "contents": "BC Krasny Oktyabr\n\n\nthe highest stage for Russian clubs. In the first season of Krasny Oktyabr in the VTB United League, it qualified for the playoffs by finishing in the 6th place in Group B. Also, European powerhouse CSKA Moscow was defeated by Krasny Oktyabr in the quarterfinals of the 2013–14 Russian Cup tournament. On August 30, 2016, the team was forced to leave the United League, because its home arena wasn't approved to host tournaments. The club usually played its home games at the 3,700 seat Volgograd Sports Palace of Trade Unions,", "id": "8073501" }, { "contents": "Igor Lediakhov\n\n\n-Don. In 1990, he joined FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk. After impressing with FC Rotor Volgograd, Lediakhov was bought by Soviet Union giants FC Spartak Moscow, being essential as the capital team conquered three consecutive league titles, which included the inaugural edition of the competition, as the player scored in double digits in two of the three seasons. In the 1994 summer, 26-year-old Lediakhov moved abroad, signing with Spain's Sporting de Gijón. Even though he netted nearly 50 overall goals for the club (17 in four", "id": "21673652" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\nnew stadium - provided they had a professional club to fill it after the tournament. Rotor, facing legal action and a transfer embargo due to their financial status, were not reliable candidates. The government created a new entity, FC Volgograd, intending to assume the Rotor name. In fact Rotor managed to co-exist with the new FC for the first half of the 2009 season, before Mikheev suspended operations and the government took ownership of the club and stadium from him. The two clubs were merged into one, and", "id": "264677" }, { "contents": "FC Lokomotiv Moscow\n\n\npoints after Gameweek 30. The game was played at Dynamo Stadium in front of a sold-out crowd. Lokomotiv took an early lead thanks a low drive from captain Dmitry Loskov, and eventually the goal turned out to be enough for Lokomotiv to claim the first title in the club's history. Two years later, Lokomotiv again won the Russian Premier League, edging city rivals CSKA by a single point; Lokomotiv defeated Shinnik Yaroslavl 0–2 in Yaroslavl, a week after CSKA fell to city rivals Dynamo at home. In 2005", "id": "10933606" }, { "contents": "1995–96 Manchester United F.C. season\n\n\nactually went top of the league after a goalless draw at Sheffield Wednesday towards the end of September, only for the Tynesiders to return to the top of the table soon after. Then came Cantona's comeback on 1 October, when he scored a penalty to equalise and hold Liverpool to a 2–2 draw Old Trafford. The autumn saw United suffer first-hurdle exits to York City in the League Cup and Rotor Volgograd in the UEFA Cup, although United did preserve their 39-year home unbeaten record in European competitions thanks to a late", "id": "9981632" }, { "contents": "1994–95 Russian Cup\n\n\nDynamo Moscow: Valeri Kleimyonov (GK), Yuri Kovtun (DF), Sergey Timofeev (DF), Andrei Chernyshov (DF), Aleksandr Borodkin (DF), Aleksei Filippov (DF), Vagiz Khidiyatullin (DF), Andrei Ivanov (DF), Denis Klyuyev (MF), Dmitri Cheryshev (FW), Igor Simutenkov (FW), Kirill Rybakov (FW), Yuri Tishkov (FW). FC Rotor Volgograd: Volodymyr Gerashchenko (DF), Aleksandr Yeshchenko (MF), Konstantin Kulik (", "id": "5392312" }, { "contents": "FC Olimpia Volgograd\n\n\nFC Olimpia Volgograd () is a Russian football team from the large city of Volgograd. They are the second- or third-largest club in the city after the famous Rotor Volgograd. From their founding in 1989 until 1997, the club participated in various youth leagues. Some time between 1993 and 1994 the Volgograd native Leonid Slutsky, future coach of the Russian national team, joined the training staff. Among the Olimpia youth players developed under Slutsky were Denis Kolodin, Roman Adamov, Andrei Bochkov, Maksim Burchenko and Aleksei Zhdanov,", "id": "21936806" }, { "contents": "Peter Schmeichel\n\n\na 2001 Reuters poll, he beat Lev Yashin and Gordon Banks to be named the finest keeper in football history. Despite being a goalkeeper, he would run into the attack on corner kicks if his team was behind. The sight of him going up for the corner was a great distraction to opposing defenders. He scored a goal in this fashion, for Man United, in a UEFA Cup match against Rotor Volgograd at Old Trafford in September 1995. He scored in the last minutes of the game to tie the match 2–2", "id": "19820283" }, { "contents": "Spartak Gogniyev\n\n\nSpartak Arturovich Gogniyev (, ; born 19 January 1981) is a Russian professional football coach and a former player. He is the manager of FC Alania Vladikavkaz. He made his debut in the Russian Premier League in 2000 for FC Dynamo Moscow. He played two games in the UEFA Cup 2000–01 for FC Dynamo Moscow and two games (scoring one goal) in the UEFA Champions League 2003–04 qualification round for PFC CSKA Moscow. In August 2018, it was announced that Spartak Gogniyev joined new FC Urozhay Krasnodar, but this was", "id": "7903306" }, { "contents": "Georgi Yartsev\n\n\nat the time, gave Yartsev a sabre as a birthday gift in a sideline pre-game ceremony. Yartsev got another head coach position soon enough, when he joined Rotor Volgograd in January 2000. However, he could not do much with that team either and was fired in June of same year. For the next 3 years he was the manager of the Spartak Moscow veterans team. In August 2003, Russia was very close to elimination from their Euro 2004 preliminary qualification group and the coach Valery Gazzayev, was fired.", "id": "15861320" }, { "contents": "FCSB\n\n\nUEFA ordered Steaua to play two home games of the Europa League behind closed doors due to their fans displaying racist banners in a second qualifying round match against Hungarian side Újpest. Three further incidents occurred in the 2014–15 season, with the club fined and ordered to play further games in an empty stadium after displays of racist banners in matches against Dynamo Kyiv, Ludogorets Razgrad and Strømsgodset. Steaua's most important rivalry is the one against Dinamo București. \"Eternul derby\" (\"The Eternal Derby\") has been the leading Romanian", "id": "19491084" }, { "contents": "2010 Russian First Division\n\n\n), Mordovia Saransk (Ural-Povolzhye) and Irtysh Omsk (East). Due to financial difficulties, Vityaz Podolsk who placed 11th in 2009, decided to give up their spot in the Russian First Division and participate in the Russian Second Division in 2010. Pending licensing, their place was taken by FC Volgograd who placed 3rd in the Russian Second Division (South Zone) in 2009. For the occasion the management decided to change the name of the club from FC Volgograd to Rotor Volgograd. FC Alania Vladikavkaz were promoted", "id": "7947305" }, { "contents": "Russian Women's Handball Super League\n\n\nThe Russian Women's Handball Superleague is the premier women's handball competition in Russia. Dinamo Volgograd, formerly known as Rotor and Akva, is the championship's most successful club as of 2019 with 12 titles. It also holds the record for consecutive wins, with six titles in a row. Currently eleven clubs take part in the competition, with the top eight playing the championship play-offs. The Russian Championship's leading teams have been successful in EHF's competitions. Zvezda Zvenigorod won the Champions League and the EHF Cup", "id": "8475941" }, { "contents": "Pavel Pogrebnyak\n\n\n's relegation, Pogrebnyak was linked with a move away from the club but did not leave. He scored his first goals in more than eight months after netting twice in a 3–1 win over Derby County in September 2013. On 27 August 2015 Pogrebnyak moved back to Russia, signing a three-year contract with Dynamo Moscow. Dynamo released him on 25 January 2018, citing disciplinary reasons, such as attending a Juventus - Inter Milan game in Italy on the same day Dynamo played a league game and participating in the annual exhibition", "id": "2040879" }, { "contents": "1996 in Russian football\n\n\nplayers (Stanislav Cherchesov, Viktor Onopko, Vasili Kulkov and Sergei Yuran) who played in the group stage where Spartak did not lose a single point left the club to move to Western European clubs in the winter before the quarterfinals. Nicolas Ouédec was instrumental again, after scoring 7 goals in 4 games against the Russian teams in the 1994–95 UEFA Cup, this time he scored 3 goals in two games against Spartak. FC Dynamo Moscow were eliminated in the quarterfinals. All the Russian teams were eliminated in 1995. FC Alania Vladikavkaz", "id": "22219347" }, { "contents": "Kamil Mullin\n\n\nKamil Shamilevich Mullin (, ; born 5 January 1994) is a Russian professional football player who plays for FC Rotor Volgograd. He plays as a forward. Mullin joined Lokomotiv academy at 16 years, and two years later made it to the youth squad. In total, he played 53 games for Lokomotiv U21 and scored 23 goals.br He made his debut for Lokomotiv first team in the 2012–13 Russian Cup game vs Torpedo Armavir on 26 September 2012.br In March 2013, Mullin for the first time was included into team sheet for the", "id": "2605760" }, { "contents": "FC Dynamo Moscow\n\n\nthe 2008 season, Dynamo finished third, qualifying for the 2009–10 Champions League preliminary round. On 29 July 2009, Dynamo recorded a 0–1 away win against Celtic at Celtic Park, which gave them a strong advantage going into the second leg. However, Celtic comfortably defeated Dynamo 0–2 in Moscow to progress, sending Dynamo into the Europa League play-off round where the club was eliminated by Bulgarian side CSKA Sofia after a 0–0 away draw in Sofia and a 1–2 home defeat in Moscow. In 2012, after a poor start", "id": "8644502" }, { "contents": "2013–14 Russian Premier League\n\n\n2014/15 season. The 13th and 14th Premier League teams will play the 4th and 3rd FNL teams respectively in two playoff games with the winner securing a Premier League spot for 2014/15 season. On 11 May 2014, the game between FC Zenit Saint Petersburg and FC Dynamo Moscow was interrupted in the 86th minute with Dynamo leading 4-2 when Zenit fans ran out of the stands. At first they stood behind the goal line, when the referee decided to take the teams off the field into the dressing rooms and teams began to", "id": "9911963" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\nthe third tier) in 1980 and 1981, and were successful in the promotion playoffs the second time. In 1988 Rotor finished second in the Soviet First League, earning promotion to the Soviet Top League. They finished 13th and last in the downsized 1990 competition after the Georgian and Lithuanian teams withdrew, and the decision was made to relegate them. However they bounced straight back as champions of the First League in 1991, thus becoming founder members of the new Russian Top Division after the USSR collapsed. In the mid-1990s, Rotor", "id": "264672" }, { "contents": "Bibras Natkho\n\n\n, Natkho scored two goals in the Champions League qualifier against Dynamo Kyiv and Lyon, who they eliminated Kazan out of the competitions and the club would play in the Europa League. Then in the Europa League campaign, Natkho scored twice in six matches in the Group Stage of the Europa League against Tottenham Hostpur and Shamrock Rovers. Natkho performance was praised for his role during the season and helped the club win the Russian Cup after playing a vital of assisting the winning goal, in a 1–0 win over Dynamo Moscow. Natkho would", "id": "21438585" }, { "contents": "Danil Lipovoy\n\n\nDanil Nikolayevich Lipovoy (; born 22 September 1999) is a Russian football player who plays for FC Dynamo Moscow. He made his debut in the Russian Professional Football League for FC Dynamo-2 Moscow on 2 April 2017 in a game against FC Dynamo Saint Petersburg. He made his debut for the main squad of FC Dynamo Moscow on 26 September 2018 in a Russian Cup game against FC Torpedo Moscow. He made Russian Premier League debut for Dynamo on 30 November 2018 in a game against FC Rubin Kazan, as a 64th-minute substitute", "id": "429351" }, { "contents": "FC Amkar Perm\n\n\n, having lost their Spring matches to Kuban Krasnodar (1–2) and Spartak Moscow (0–2). A series without a win followed the victory over Alania and after the Dynamo match Amkar lost to Terek Grozny (1–2) and Lokomotiv Moscow (2–4). After another devastating defeat from Kuban (0–4), followed by a victory over their direct rivals Rostov (3–2), and a goalless draw with Zenit, the club retained the right to play in the Premier League. In June 2013, the club opted not to", "id": "5030824" }, { "contents": "FC Shakhtar Donetsk\n\n\nminute Fedor Manov opened score to Donetsk team goals. Final score is 4:1 in favor of the hosts.\" Nonetheless, the selective job conducted constructively by the club's administration allowed the club to compete successfully at the top level by the end of the 1930s. During the \"war championship\" of 1941, which was interrupted unexpectedly, the club defeated Soviet champions Dynamo Moscow and after about ten games were placed in fifth in the league. In the last game of that championship, played on 24 June, two days after", "id": "14103740" }, { "contents": "Oleg Veretennikov\n\n\nOleg Aleksandrovich Veretennikov (; born 5 January 1970) is a professional Russian association football coach and a former international footballer. He manages Rotor-2 Volograd. He is the top goalscorer in the history of Russian Premier League, and holds several other goalscoring records. Most of Veretennikov's successes have come with SC Rotor Volgograd, for whom he played in 1992–1999. During that time he scored 143 goals, which makes him the best goalscorer in the Russian Premier League history (the next best goalscorer, Dmitry Loskov, has 109 goals as of", "id": "21553966" }, { "contents": "Sergei Pareiko\n\n\nSergei Pareiko (born 31 January 1977) is a retired Estonian footballer. He is currently the sporting director of Estonian football club Levadia. Pareiko played as a goalkeeper in Estonian, Russian and Polish top tiers. He made a total of 65 appearances for the Estonia national football team. In Estonia, Pareiko played for Tallinna Sadam and Levadia Maardu, before moving to Russia in 2001, when he signed with Rotor Volgograd. After Rotor were relegated, Pareiko moved to Tom Tomsk. At the end of 2009 season Pareiko was named", "id": "11658849" }, { "contents": "FC Dinamo Tbilisi\n\n\nIn this period Dinamo won the Soviet Cup for the first time in their history, convincingly defeating Armenian side Ararat Yerevan 3–0 in the final, with goals scored by David Kipiani, Piruz Kanteladze and Revaz Chelebadze. In 1978 the club won the Soviet Top League for a second time. Next year Dinamo won the Soviet Cup again by defeating Russian side Dynamo Moscow in the final. In 1979 the club played its first match in the UEFA European Cup tournament. In the first round Dinamo knocked out English side Liverpool, at the", "id": "10097459" }, { "contents": "Romelu Lukaku\n\n\nlater at home to West Ham. Lukaku scored twice in a 4–0 win, becoming the fourth Manchester United player to score two goals on his Premier League debut for the club. On 17 September, Lukaku scored United's third goal in a 4–0 win over his former club Everton, with Lukaku running over towards Everton fans and cupping his ears during his goal celebration in response to being booed throughout the game. On 27 September, Lukaku scored twice in a 4–1 UEFA Champions League win over CSKA Moscow, taking his tally to", "id": "1117930" }, { "contents": "Dynamo Dresden\n\n\none Game behind closed doors and one away game without own fan support. Virtual tickets were offered to reduce the financial loss, creating \"the first sold-out Ghost Game in history\". The 2012–13 season started poorly for Dynamo and Ralf Loose was sacked in December 2012 after a 3–0 defeat to VfL Bochum with the team in 15th place. He was replaced by Peter Pacult, returning to the club after more than six years. Dynamo's form improved after Pacult's arrival but the team still finished the league as 16th", "id": "11366777" }, { "contents": "Aleksandr Tashayev\n\n\nAleksandr Mikhailovich Tashayev (; born 23 June 1994) is a Russian professional football player who plays as a left midfielder for Spartak Moscow. He made his professional debut on 11 December 2014 for FC Dynamo Moscow in a 2014–15 UEFA Europa League group game against PSV Eindhoven. He also played in the Round of 16 away game against Napoli. On 6 July 2018, he signed a contract with the cross-city rivals FC Spartak Moscow, after buying out own contract from Dynamo and becoming a free agent. Dynamo unsuccessfully sued to deem", "id": "13552247" }, { "contents": "Dynamo Moscow Bandy Club\n\n\nthe end of the 2004–05 season, almost all players of the for a decade dominant Vodnik signed up for Dynamo Moscow, resulting in an immediate Russian League title in 2006. Dynamo Moscow won the World Cup for the first time in 2006, defeating Zorky in the final. The 2006 domestic title was followed by another four consecutive Russian championship titles and as one of the dominating teams in the following years too, until 2017, when they missed the championship play-off, only coming in at eighth place in the regular season", "id": "1825162" }, { "contents": "Handball Club Lada\n\n\nHandball Club Lada is a Russian women's handball club from Tolyatti playing in the Russian Super League. Founded in 1998, Lada soon became the leading team in the Super League winning five championships in a row between 2002 and 2006 and a sixth one in 2008. It also built itself a name in Europe winning the 2002 Cup Winners' Cup in its international debut and reaching the final of the 2007 Champions League and the next edition's semifinals. The following three seasons were less successful, with Dynamo Volgograd retrieving the leading position", "id": "9114247" }, { "contents": "Omari Tetradze\n\n\n– Tetradze. Later he considered restoring his original surname, but decided it would cause too many problems. At club level, he played for Dinamo Tbilisi, FC Dynamo Moscow, Alania Vladikavkaz (where he won a Russian league championship medal in 1995), AS Roma, and PAOK FC (Greece). He played for Russia at international level, and appeared at World Cup 1994 and Euro 1996. At the latter tournament, he played superbly in each of Russia's three games despite the team's poor results, and", "id": "17559889" }, { "contents": "FC Girondins de Bordeaux\n\n\nclub was relegated just two years thereafter. In 1992, however, \"Les Girondins\" won that year's Ligue 2 title, thus being elevated to the top tier of French football. In the emergence of young and exciting players such as playmaker Zinedine Zidane, striker Christophe Dugarry and left back Bixente Lizarazu, the club ascended even higher to win the UEFA Intertoto Cup in 1995. With this talented trio, the club defeated FC Rotor Volgograd (the 1995 King's Cup Winner), Real Betis, Milan and Slavia Prague", "id": "10933676" }, { "contents": "Yuriy Hudymenko\n\n\nYuriy Arkadiyovych Hudymenko (; born 3 October 1966) is a former Kyrgyz-born Ukrainian professional footballer. Hudymenko is a product of the main Bishkek sports school and later was accepted to the main republican club of Kyrgyzia, FC Alga Bishkek. In 1990 he made his debut in the Soviet Top League playing for FC Dnepr Dnepropetrovsk, but failed to score any goals in domestic competitions, but did score a goal against Heart of Midlothian F.C. in the 1990-91 UEFA Cup. Next year Hudymenko joined recently relegated FC Rotor Volgograd that", "id": "11637137" }, { "contents": "Valery Gazzaev\n\n\na second-place finish at the end of the season. However, Gazzaev was left behind in the first league in Spartak Ordzhonikidze, as he wasn't one of the main players of the SKA Rostov-on-Don. In the Soviet Top League, Gazzaev played in Lokomotiv Moscow, Dynamo Moscow, and Dinamo Tbilisi. Gazzaev is a Soviet Cup winner with Dynamo Moscow in 1984. During his career he scored 89 goals in 283 matches in Soviet Top League, and was the top goal scorer of the UEFA Cup", "id": "3537187" }, { "contents": "FC Amkar Perm\n\n\nAmkar was in third place in the standings, one point behind second-placed Spartak Moscow and six adrift of leaders Rubin Kazan. After the break, one of Amkar's team leaders, Vladimir Gabulov, and the captain, Aleksei Popov, left the team to join Dynamo Moscow and Rubin Kazan respectively. Two matches in a row on the \"equator\" of the Championship Amkar could have topped the league table but was unable to beat Tom Tomsk and Spartak Nalchik at home. On 16 November, after beating Tom in Tomsk", "id": "5030813" }, { "contents": "FC Rubin Kazan\n\n\nfixed after selling in Volgograd \"Rotor\" team leaders Oleg Nechaev and Rustem Khuzin (but soon returned to \"Rubin\" till the end of the season on loan). In the end the season Kazan finished on 8th place, only losing a point to Nizhnekamsk \"Neftechimik\" and dropped into the second league. The following year, 1994, coaches Zadikashvili and Semenov assemble a team literally bit by bit. Because of the continuing financial problems from the last season in the team left only 6 players: Grishin, Danilin,", "id": "19815661" }, { "contents": "Nikita Chernov\n\n\nNikita Aleksandrovich Chernov (; born 14 January 1996) is a Russian professional football player who plays as a centre-back for Krylia Sovetov Samara and Russia national football team. Born in Volzhsky, Volgograd Oblast, Chernov began his career at hometown team FC Energiya Volzhsky before joining CSKA Moscow in 2009. He made his professional debut on 24 September 2014 in a Russian Cup game against FC Khimik Dzerzhinsk. He also played in the next Russian Cup round against FC Torpedo Moscow on 29 October. On 30 July 2019, Chernov moved from", "id": "503700" }, { "contents": "KF Skënderbeu Korçë\n\n\nBeşiktaş, Lokomotiv Moscow and Sporting Clube de Portugal. In matchday 1, their first ever group stage game, the club was defeated at home 0–1 by Beşiktaş after a hard fight between the two sides. In the next matchday, they lost 0–2 to Lokomotiv Moscow in Moscow. Their worst defeat in the European competition yet came the next matchday, a storming 1–5 loss to Sporting in the away leg at Lisbon, but also had the Albanian side scoring their first goal in the UEFA Europa League group stages. In the home", "id": "1409695" }, { "contents": "FC Dynamo Kyiv\n\n\nand Maccabi Tel Aviv F.C. Dynamo finished in second place with 11 points after a spectacular performance and a memorable 0–2 in Porto. However, Dynamo was punished by UEFA for a racist incident in the home game against Chelsea where four black men were attacked in the stands by Dynamo fans. Despite this, Dynamo reached the round of 16 in the Champions League for the first time since 2000, where it was drawn with Manchester City. Dynamo was eliminated 1–3 on aggregate but managed to hold an impressive 0–0 draw in Manchester. Dynamo", "id": "18770189" }, { "contents": "Konstantin Kovalenko\n\n\nKonstantin Valeryevich Kovalenko (; ; born 2 February 1975) is a Belarusian and Russian professional footballer who plays for resurrected FC Kuban Krasnodar. He made his professional debut in the Soviet Second League in 1991 for FC Kuban Barannikovsky. He played 1 game in the 1996–97 UEFA Cup for FC Spartak Moscow. His brother Andrei Kovalenko also played football professionally. On 27 October 2008 he punched referee Sergei Timofeyev in the face in the Russian Second Division game FC Sochi-04 - FC Olimpia Volgograd. He was banned from football for a year. Spartak", "id": "1118096" }, { "contents": "Clinton N'Jie\n\n\nDimitri Payet and scored two goals in a 3–0 win. On 17 September, he scored both the goals in the away win over Amiens. On 3 May 2018, he played in the Europa League semi-finals away to FC Red Bull Salzburg as Marseille played out a 2–1 away loss but a 3–2 aggregate win to secure a place in the 2018 UEFA Europa League Final. On 25 July 2019, Njie signed a 4-year contract with Russian Premier League club Dynamo Moscow. N'Jie scored 44 minutes into his Cameroon debut against the", "id": "16847587" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\ntime they were able to consolidate in the National League, finishing 9th and then 14th. But financial troubles continued. A Ministry of Sport investigation found evidence of financial misconduct by club management along with substantial overspending, and regional Governor Andrey Bocharov announced after the 2013 season that government support for Rotor was being withdrawn. The club dropped back into the Second Division (renamed the Professional Football League) for the first half of the 2014–15 (autumn-spring) season, then withdrew in order to immediately transfer to the 2015 (spring", "id": "264679" }, { "contents": "2001 FC Anzhi Makhachkala season\n\n\nThe 2001 FC Anzhi Makhachkala season was the 2nd season that the club played in the Russian Top Division, the highest tier of football in Russia, following their promotion from the National Football League in 1999. They finished the season in 13th, were runners-up in the 2001-02 cup and reached the Sixth Round of the 2002-03 cup losing to Dynamo Moscow, and were knocked out of the UEFA Cup at the First Round stage after a 0-1 defeat to Rangers over one leg in Warsaw, Poland", "id": "4897180" }, { "contents": "FC Dynamo-2 Moscow\n\n\nFC Dynamo-2 Moscow () was a Russian football team from Moscow. It was the farm-club for FC Dynamo Moscow. In 2016, it was revived after the parent club, Dynamo, was relegated from the Russian Football Premier League (which holds its own competition for the Under-21 teams of the Premier League clubs) and licensed to play in the third-tier Russian Professional Football League for the 2016–17 season. Majority of the squad participated in the 2016–17 UEFA Youth League as well. On 17 June 2017, the parent", "id": "19064817" }, { "contents": "Mikhail Markosov\n\n\nDivision South Zone, scoring 27 goals, a feat no one in the entire Second Division surpassed. In the 2010 season, he played for FC Rotor Volgograd and came back to FC Dynamo Stavropol the next season. Scoring 10 goals in his first 10 matches for Dynamo, Markosov was transferred in the summer transfer window of the 2011-12 season to FC Ufa. From April until June 2019 Markosov played for FC Kuban Krasnodar, scored 7 goals in 11 matches. He joined the Armenia national football team in 2013. Markosov", "id": "12122198" }, { "contents": "1993 in Russian football\n\n\ntheir group campaign and finished it without much success, only gaining 2 points in 6 games, coming in last in the group and suffering a 0-6 defeat against Marseille. They could not play their home games in Moscow due to the lack of a stadium meeting the Champions League standards at the time. FC Spartak Moscow reached the semifinals, tying the best European result in club's history. FC Spartak Moscow qualified for the group stage and continued to play in the group into the 1994. FC Torpedo Moscow went out", "id": "21710373" }, { "contents": "2002 in Russian football\n\n\nrespective Second Division zones: The Russian Cup was won by CSKA Moscow, who beat Zenit Saint Petersburg 2–0 in the final at the Luzhniki Stadium. Lokomotiv Moscow participated in the third round of the UEFA Cup 2001-02, but were knocked out by Hapoel Tel Aviv FC who won 3–1 on aggregate. Krylya Sovetov Samara played in the UEFA Intertoto Cup 2002. After defeating Dinaburg FC in the second round they lost to Willem II Tilburg on away goals. Lokomotiv Moscow's victory over Grazer AK ensured there are two Russian clubs", "id": "11619883" }, { "contents": "FC Dynamo Moscow\n\n\nFC Dynamo Moscow (Dinamo Moscow, FC Dinamo Moskva, ) is a Russian football club based in Moscow. Dynamo has returned to the Russian Premier League for the 2017–18 season after one season in the second-tier Russian Football National League. Dynamo was the only club that had always played in the top tier of Soviet football (along with Dynamo Kyiv) and of Russian football from the end of the Soviet era until they were relegated in 2016. Despite this, it has never won the modern Russian Premier League title and", "id": "8644495" }, { "contents": "Nikita Lyamin\n\n\nIn 2004, he played three season in the farm team and two more seasons in the main team for Dynamo Moscow. Dynamo Moscow became champions at the 2007–08 Russian Volleyball Super League, but Lyamin due to low game practice quit the club. Lyamin moved to Nizhny Novgorod and became captain of Guberniya, which went on debuting in the B-division of the highest national league. In the two years, Guberniya could enter the Super League, and in the 2012–13 it became one of the leading clubs in Russia. Guberniya qualified", "id": "8669287" }, { "contents": "Leonid Slutsky (football coach)\n\n\nLeonid Viktorovich Slutsky (; born 4 May 1971) is a Russian professional football coach and former player who is the manager of Eredivisie club Vitesse. Previously, he has been in charge of Olimpia Volgograd, Uralan Elista, Moscow, Krylia Sovetov, CSKA Moscow, Russia and Hull City. Slutsky was born in Volgograd. Slutsky's playing career with FC Zvezda Gorodishche ended at just 19 years of age. He had to retire due to a knee injury sustained after falling out of a tree while rescuing a neighbour's cat. Slutsky", "id": "11710104" }, { "contents": "Yuri Kovtun\n\n\nduring the season so two top teams were interested in him at the same time, it's Dynamo and Spartak Moscow. In 1993, Kovtun chose Dynamo Moscow and was their key player for years, until his move to Spartak in 1999. While the only Kovtun's honour during 6 years in Dynamo was Russian Cup in 1995, he could get 3 titles in 1999, 2000 and 2001 after joining Spartak. Moreover, he took part in numerous UEFA Champions League games and found himself regular Russian national football team player. Kovtun", "id": "2071460" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\n-tier Russian Professional Football League for the 2016–17 season. They won their zone of the PFL in the 2016–17 season and were promoted to the second-level Russian National Football League for 2017–18. Despite ending the 2017–18 season in the relegation zone, the club stayed in the league for the 2018–19 season as another team that finished above them in the table failed to obtain the league license. As of 5 July 2019, according to the FNL website. Had international caps for their respective countries. Players whose name is listed in", "id": "264681" }, { "contents": "Dmitri Khokhlov\n\n\nDmitri Valeryevich Khokhlov (, born 22 December 1975) is a Russian football manager and a former player. He is the manager of FC Dynamo Moscow. He played as a holding midfielder or playmaker. He played for PFC CSKA Moscow and FC Lokomotiv Moscow in native Russia, having abroad spells with PSV Eindhoven (Netherlands) and Real Sociedad (Spain). During his time with FC Lokomotiv Moscow he participated in their memorable 2003–04 UEFA Champions League campaign, scoring third goal in the 3–0 home victory against Internazionale. He played for", "id": "19054427" }, { "contents": "Racism in association football\n\n\nagainst CSKA Moscow in Russia. The club's stadium was partially closed as punishment. Touré suggested that black players might boycott the 2018 FIFA World Cup, to be held in Russia, if racism continued in the country. In September 2014, Dynamo Moscow defender Christopher Samba was racially abused playing in the Moscow derby against Torpedo Moscow. As a result, Torpedo were forced to close part of their stadium, although Samba was also banned for two games for swearing at the racist fans. In a friendly match (Russia vrs France", "id": "21349703" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\nTraktor Stalingrad to national prominence. Traktor were champions of the new fourth-level Group G in 1937, and were then promoted straight to the highest-level Group A as it expanded from 9 clubs to 26. They remained at the top level until 1950. Rotor then spent three decades at the top regional level, although the creation of the Supreme League in 1970 pushed their league from the second level overall down to the third. They gradually improved throughout the 1970s and finally won Zone III of the Soviet Second League (", "id": "264671" }, { "contents": "WPC Dynamo Moscow\n\n\nWPC Dynamo Moscow () is a Russian men's water polo club, that is part of the traditional Moscow-based multi-sports club Dynamo. Dynamo won seven Soviet Championships between 1955 and 1962, and in 1964 it was the first team to represent the in the newly European Champions Cup, ranking second behind Partizan. In 1968 and 1969 the team won two more national championships, and it also reached the 1969 European Cup's final, lost to Mladost. For the next fifteen years Dynamo didn't win any more", "id": "18685765" }, { "contents": "Kyle Hines\n\n\ngreat Olympiacos comeback in 4th quarter, led by Vassilis Spanoulis. CSKA Moscow eventually won the EuroLeague third place game, after defeating Fenerbahçe, by a score of 86–80. In his second EuroLeague season with CSKA Moscow, Hines averaged a career-low 6.8 points and 4.3 rebounds per game, over 30 games played. CSKA Moscow finished the season by winning the VTB United League, after eliminating Khimki with a 3–0 series sweep in the League's finals series. On June 17, 2015, he signed a two-year contract", "id": "14695455" }, { "contents": "Miroslav Raičević\n\n\nfinal decisive shot in the very last seconds of the final game against Prokom Trefl Sopot. He also won the Greek Cup with Aris, in the year 2004. He has also played with Red Star Belgrade of the Adriatic League during the 2005–06 season. He won the Serbian Cup with Red Star that season. In the 2006–07 season, he played with the Russian Super League club Dynamo Moscow. During summer of 2007, he left Dynamo Moscow and joined the Italian League club Eldo Napoli. He then left Napoli and moved back", "id": "13596698" } ]

[ { "contents": "1996 in Russian football\n\n\nwas knocked out in the qualifying round. FC Lokomotiv Moscow went out in the second round. PFC CSKA Moscow, FC Dynamo Moscow and FC Torpedo-Luzhniki Moscow were eliminated in the first round after going through the qualifying round. FC Alania Vladikavkaz went out in the first round after going to the UEFA Cup after failing in the qualification for the Champions League. FC Spartak Moscow went out in the second round. Russian clubs participated in the Intertoto Cup for the first time. FC Rotor Volgograd, FC KAMAZ-Chally Naberezhnye", "id": "22219348" }, { "contents": "1995 in Russian football\n\n\nthe Russian Cup 1995–96 were played later in the year. All the Russian participants were eliminated in 1994. FC Spartak Moscow won every game in their group, qualifying for the quarterfinals. FC Dynamo Moscow advanced through the first two rounds, qualifying to play in the quarterfinals next spring. FC Spartak-Alania Vladikavkaz and FC Lokomotiv Moscow were eliminated in the first round by strong opponents (even though Lokomotiv very unexpectedly beat FC Bayern in Munich in the first game). FC Rotor Volgograd eliminated Manchester United F.C. in the first round", "id": "18335625" }, { "contents": "Maksim Nenakhov\n\n\nMaksim Maksimovich Nenakhov (; born 13 December 1998) is a Russian football player who plays for FC Rotor Volgograd. He made his debut in the Russian Professional Football League for FC Dynamo-2 Moscow on 20 July 2016 in a game against FC Tekstilshchik Ivanovo. On 19 January 2018, he was loaned to FC Tyumen until the end of the 2017–18 season. On 14 June 2018, he moved on another loan for the 2018–19 season to FC SKA-Khabarovsk. On 18 June 2019, he signed a 2-year contract with FC Rotor Volgograd", "id": "6983587" }, { "contents": "Almir Kayumov\n\n\nAlmir Izmailovich Kayumov (; 30 December 1964 – 7 August 2013) was a Russian football player and referee. Kayumov played for FC Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk, FC Lada Togliatti, Spartak Moscow, Rotor Volgograd, SKA Rostov-on-Don, in Russia, the Daewoo Royals in South Korea, and Kuopion Palloseura in Finland. He played 6 games in the UEFA Cup 1986–87 for FC Spartak Moscow. On November 9, 2009, it was reported that Kayumov attempted to commit suicide by jumping out of his apartment window. Police negotiators talked", "id": "14510549" }, { "contents": "Ruslan Ishkinin\n\n\nRuslan Kamilyevich Ishkinin (; born 14 June 1974) is a former Russian professional footballer. He made his professional debut in the Russian Second Division in 1992 for FC Dynamo-2 Moscow. The most memorable match of his career was played on 14 June 1995. His team FC Dynamo Moscow was playing FC Rotor Volgograd in the final game of the Russian Cup. Dynamo was decimated by injuries and several reserve players, including Ishkinin, were called up for the game. With 5 minutes to go in regulation and the score of 0–0, Ishkinin", "id": "2479621" }, { "contents": "1997 in Russian football\n\n\nthe year. Russian teams were eliminated in 1996. FC Spartak Moscow were eliminated in the second qualifying round and went on to the UEFA Cup. FC Lokomotiv Moscow qualified for the quarterfinals stage that was played in 1998. FC Spartak Moscow qualified for the quarterfinals stage that was played in 1998. FC Rotor Volgograd reached the second round. FC Alania Vladikavkaz went out in the first round. The goal in the stadium was measured before the game and turned out to be 2.46 meters high instead of regulation 2.44. The referee decided", "id": "20500131" }, { "contents": "2012–13 Russian Premier League\n\n\naltogether if the game is awarded to Dynamo. According to the police, the main suspect is a female fan who was arrested after the game. The criminal investigation was opened on the charge of hooliganism. On 22 November, Russian Football Union's Control-Disciplinary Committee awarded the game to Dynamo with a score of 3–0 and fined both clubs. Dynamo had to play their next home game (against Rubin Kazan) behind closed doors and Zenit had to play their next 2 home games (against CSKA Moscow and Anzhi Makhachkala)", "id": "321372" }, { "contents": "Yuriy Kalitvintsev\n\n\nfor FC Desna Chernihiv. A Russian-born Kalitvintsev chose to play for the Ukraine side after breaking through as a midfielder for Dynamo Kyiv. Until 1994 he played he spent his playing career at Russian clubs such as FC Rotor Volgograd, FC SKA Rostov-on-Don, FC Dynamo Moscow, and FC Lokomotiv Nizhny Novgorod. It wasn't until the reorganization of the soviet football when he started to play at the top level of the Russian championship starting for the Moscow's Dynamo. After being transferred to the fading club", "id": "20481933" }, { "contents": "Sergei Bogomolov\n\n\nSergei Anatolyevich Bogomolov (; born 17 August 1971) is a former Russian professional footballer. During his time with FC Dynamo Moscow he only played in a single game for the main team, but it was a very memorable one. On 14 June 1995, Dynamo was playing FC Rotor Volgograd in the final game of the 1994–95 Russian Cup. Dynamo was hurt by injuries to some first team regulars and several reserve players, including Bogomolov, were called up for the game. With the score of 0:0 and 10 minutes to go in", "id": "18632079" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\nwas one of the strongest clubs in Russia, rivalling Spartak Moscow for the championship, yet never winning it. Rotor became the league runners-up in 1993 and 1997. Rotor played five successive seasons in European competition, from 1994-95 to 1998-99. They qualified for the UEFA Cup through their league position every year except 1996-97, when they instead chose to enter the Intertoto Cup. Unfortunately for Rotor, the fall of communism had left all the former Eastern Bloc leagues badly under-resourced compared to", "id": "264673" }, { "contents": "1995 in Russian football\n\n\n1995 was the fourth season Russia held its own national football competition since the breakup of the Soviet Union. FC Spartak-Alania Vladikavkaz won the league for the first time ever. This was the first season 3 points were awarded for a win instead of two. For more details, see: The third edition of the Russian Cup, Russian Cup 1994–95 was won by FC Dynamo Moscow, who beat FC Rotor Volgograd in the finals in a shootout 8-7 after finishing extra time at 0-0. Early stages of", "id": "18335624" }, { "contents": "Maxim Chuzhkov\n\n\nMaxim Aleksandrovich Chuzhkov (; born 11 April 1987) is a Russian beach soccer player serving as goalkeeper. He is a three-time national champion for three different clubs (Rotor Volgograd, Lokomotiv Moscow, Kristall). Maxim Chuzhkov was born in Samara. He was a gymnast for six years before switching to football. Chuzhkov discovered beach soccer in 2010, and one year later he joined Krylya Sovetov from Samara. From 2012 to 2014 he played for Rotor Volgograd, winning with them the club's first and only Russian Beach Soccer", "id": "21454463" }, { "contents": "1991 Soviet Top League\n\n\nseason, while FC Rotor Volgograd and FC Tiligul Tiraspol would have been promoted to the Top League for 1992. Top six clubs of the league later entered European competitions for their respective nations. The Ukrainian clubs chose to qualify through a separate national competition. The league was expanded to 16 after the last season, during which number of clubs left the Soviet competitions (from Georgia and Baltic states). The last-placed FC Rotor Volgograd of the 1990 Soviet Top League lost promotion/relegation playoff to Lokomotiv Moscow and was relegated", "id": "831265" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor-2 Volgograd\n\n\nFC Rotor-2 Volgograd () is a Russian football team based in Volgograd. It is the farm club for FC Rotor Volgograd. It previously played professionally as FC Rotor-d Volgograd or FC Rotor-2 Volgograd in the Russian Second Division in 1992–1993, 1998–2000 and 2004 and Russian Third League in 1994-1997. They came in 3rd place in their Second Division zone in 1993. In 2001, the reserves tournament for Russian Premier League was re-established and the reserves team played there while the main team stayed in Premier League.", "id": "5758261" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\nFC Rotor Volgograd () is a Russian football (soccer) club from the large city of Volgograd, Volgograd Oblast (formerly Stalingrad). The club plays in the second-level Russian National Football League. They are the largest and best supported Volgograd club and for most of their existence have been the city's only representatives in the national league system. They played at the top level of Soviet/Russian football either side of World War II, from 1989 to 1990, and from 1991 to 2004. During the 1990s", "id": "264669" }, { "contents": "Wisdom Mumba Chansa\n\n\nand Derby Makinka, to play in the Soviet Top League when they all signed for Pomir Dushanbe in 1989 after being spotted during their 4-0 win over Italy at the 1988 Olympics. Chansa's debut came on 2 October 1989 in an away match against Torpedo Moscow, before appearing twice more, against Rotor Volgograd and Metalist Kharkiv, before leaving at the conclusion of the 1989 season. Chansa returned to Power Dynamos following his Soviet experience, and was made captain before Power Dynamos became the first Zambian club side to win a", "id": "5300924" }, { "contents": "FC Volgograd\n\n\nFC Volgograd () is a former name of the Russian football club from Volgograd, founded in late 2008, currently known as FC Rotor Volgograd. Before it was founded, it was originally supposed to be called FC Rotor-Volgograd Volgograd (to keep Rotor's name around at the time FC Rotor Volgograd was close to bankruptcy). However, FC Rotor's financial situation has improved by early 2009 and the club was registered as FC Volgograd. It played in the Russian Second Division in 2009. It took over the license", "id": "6725532" }, { "contents": "Roman Pavlyuchenko\n\n\nRoman Anatolyevich Pavlyuchenko (; born 15 December 1981) is a Russian footballer who plays as a striker for FC Znamya Noginsk. He started his career at Dynamo Stavropol, and Rotor Volgograd, before transferring to Spartak Moscow in 2003. His performances there earned him a £13.7 million transfer to Tottenham Hotspur of the English Premier League in 2008, where he spent three full seasons before returning to Russia to play for Lokomotiv Moscow. After another full 3 seasons he moved in July 2015, to Kuban Krasnodar. A full international for a", "id": "3367200" }, { "contents": "Anton Miranchuk\n\n\nAnton Andreyevich Miranchuk (; born 17 October 1995) is a Russian professional football player who plays as a centre midfielder or attacking midfielder for Lokomotiv Moscow and the Russia national team. Born in Slavyansk-na-Kubani, Miranchuk joined Spartak Moscow from his hometown football school Olymp. He was dismissed from the club because of weak physical abilities. After that, he and his twin brother Aleksei moved to Lokomotiv Moscow. On 30 October 2013, Miranchuk made his competitive debut in senior football in a Russian Cup game against Rotor Volgograd replacing", "id": "1404526" }, { "contents": "Dmitry Pletnyov (footballer)\n\n\nDmitry Andreyevich Pletnyov (; born 16 January 1998) is a Russian football player. He plays for FC Tom Tomsk in Russian Football National League. He made his debut in the Russian Football National League for FC Zenit-2 Saint Petersburg on 6 September 2017 in a game against FC Rotor Volgograd. He made his Russian Premier League debut for FC Zenit Saint Petersburg on 5 May 2018 in a game against FC Lokomotiv Moscow. He played for Russia national under-17 football team at the 2015 UEFA European Under-17 Championship and 2015 FIFA U-17 World Cup.", "id": "21412634" }, { "contents": "2004 in Russian football\n\n\nseason. Andrey Fedkov of Terek became the top goalscorer with 38 goals. The following clubs have earned promotion by winning tournaments in their respective Second Division zones: Prior to start of the 2005 season three clubs (Rotor Volgograd, Torpedo Vladimir, and Arsenal Tula) refused participation in the First Division, and two more clubs (Dynamo Stavropol and Chernomorets Novorossiysk) were denied licences. This made way for the runners-up of all five zones: The Russian Super Cup match between CSKA Moscow and Spartak Moscow was won by CSKA", "id": "6344061" }, { "contents": "Dmitry Shishin\n\n\nnational beach soccer team. That year Shishin participated at the Russian Championship as player of Samarian Sputnik and debuted for the national team at the Beach Soccer World Cup. After Sputnik, Shishin for a long time played for different Saratov clubs, such as Rosagro, Biznes-Pravo, Delta. In 2011, Shishin moved to Lokomotiv Moscow, where he won the championship trophy with his team. Together with the Lokomotives he won another national championship trophy and two Russian cups. In 2013, Shishin surprisingly switched to Rotor Volgograd, becoming", "id": "12194946" }, { "contents": "2009 Russian Second Division\n\n\nJuly 2009 Oleg Mikheyev, president of FC Rotor Volgograd, announced Rotor's resignation from the league, citing problems with authorities. They have played 18 games and were in the 13th position with 21 points. \"Source: [PFL] , Sporbox.ru \" On 11 July 2009, the management of FC Spartak Shchyolkovo announced that the club would resign from the league after the first half of the season because of economic problems. Spartak were excluded from the league on August 4, 2009. They have played 18 games and were in", "id": "21482663" }, { "contents": "FC Olimpia Volgograd\n\n\nuntil 2008, though their fortunes faded after Slutsky's players left. Before the 2009 season their professional license was taken over by the new club FC Volgograd. This was meant to allow FC to assume the name and identity of Rotor who were suffering off-field troubles, but Rotor survived and ended up playing simultaneously with the new FC in 2009, while Olimpia dropped into the Volgograd Oblast Championship. They stayed there until 2011, winning the title in 2010. With confusion ongoing over the future of the Rotor name and club", "id": "21936808" }, { "contents": "Sergei Rashevsky\n\n\nSergei Aleksandrovich Rashevsky (; born 13 June 1980) is a Russian football coach and a former player. He is an assistant coach with FC Rotor Volgograd. He made his debut in the Russian Premier League in 2001 for FC Rotor Volgograd, before moving to Ural in 2005. After several seasons playing for different clubs in Russia, Rashevsky signed with Volga in 2008. He played for the club for three years, before he returned to Ural in 2011. Since February 2014, he played for the Russian National Football League side Yenisey", "id": "8136441" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\nthe new Rotor Volgograd were promoted to the second-level Russian Football National League thanks to teams above them withdrawing. The regional Ministry of Sport invested 150 million roubles ($4.9m) in the club's playing budget for the 2010 campaign, but it ended in failure as Rotor were relegated in 17th place. Governor Brovko admitted that the transition to the higher level was made too quickly. Former club player Sergei Nechay took over management and steered the team to promotion as champions of their Second Division zone in 2011–12. This", "id": "264678" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\ntheir Western counterparts, and indeed Rotor were knocked out by all four of the French and Italian clubs they played. The exception came against England's Manchester United in 1995-96. Having drawn the home leg 0-0, Rotor raced into a 2-0 lead at Old Trafford before United scored their first goal. Rotor were seconds away from being the first European club to win at Old Trafford when United's goalkeeper Peter Schmeichel scored a famous equaliser, but the 2-2 draw meant Rotor progressed by the away", "id": "264674" }, { "contents": "Roman Pavlyuchenko\n\n\na 1-0 loss against Moscow on 5 April 1999. On 15 May 1999, Pavlyuchenko provided a double assist in a 2-1 win over Chita. In his first season, Pavlyuchenko made 31 appearance and scoring 11 goals. However, the club played was still relegated to the Second Division after the club was last place. Despite this, Pavlyuchenko was named 'Team of the top' junior division for the first version of the newspaper Sport Express. Pavlyuchenko moved to Rotor Volgograd in 2000, although the move was", "id": "3367203" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\ntheir professional licence entirely. Rotor's reserve side in the Russian Second Division, Rotor-2 Volgograd, became the club's first team and was renamed Rotor in 2006. In 2007 local businessman Oleg Mikheev acquired the club's main asset the Volgograd Central Stadium, and with it effective control over the club, but financial troubles continued and the team's performances in the Second Division declined. Matters came to a head in 2009. Russia had officially launched its bid for the FIFA World Cup 2018 and Volgograd city was in line for a", "id": "264676" }, { "contents": "1988 Soviet Cup Final\n\n\nThe 1988 Soviet Cup Final was a football match that took place at the Lenin's Central Stadium, Moscow on May 28, 1988. The match was the 47th Soviet Cup Final and it was contested by FC Metalist Kharkiv and FC Torpedo Moscow. The Soviet Cup winner Metalist qualified for the Cup Winners' Cup first round for the Soviet Union. The last year defending holders Dynamo Kyiv were eliminated in the second round of the competition by FC Rotor Volgograd (3:2, 0:2). For Metalist this was their second final total", "id": "158055" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\ngoals rule They went on to be defeated by eventual Runners-up Bordeaux in the second round. Full European results: In the 2000s, Rotor's results declined, and in 2004, the team finished last in the Russian Premier League. The club's owner Vladimir Goryunov, a member of the Duma and head of the parliamentary sports committee, explored options to save Rotor from relegation, such as expanding the Premier League to 20 teams. But in January 2005 Rotor were unable to make the required financial guarantees and so lost", "id": "264675" }, { "contents": "2018–19 Russian Football National League\n\n\n. Ararat Moscow was promoted from 2017–18 PFL, but were refused a license for the 2018–19 Russian National Football League, the club being subsequently dissolved. Zenit-2 Saint Petersburg, Rotor Volgograd, Luch Vladivostok, Tyumen and Fakel Voronezh were spared from relegation due to lack of teams enrolled for the 2018–19 season. Sakhalin Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk finished on the promotion place at the end of the 2017–18 PFL season, but refused to be promoted. Dynamo Saint Petersburg was moved from Saint Petersburg to Sochi and renamed as PFC Sochi. Olimpiyets Nizhny Novgorod", "id": "621376" }, { "contents": "Dinamo Volgograd\n\n\nDinamo Volgograd () is a Russian women's handball club from Volgograd. Founded in 1972 as Burevestnik Volgograd, it represented Rotor Volgograd following the collapse of the Soviet Union and was subsequently named Aqva before taking its current name in 2003. Dynamo is the most successful team in the Russian Super League with nine titles, and in the 2001-02 season it set an absolute record winning all the matches. It has also been fairly successful in international competitions with three titles: the 1995 Challenge Cup and Champions Trophy and the 2008", "id": "10627328" }, { "contents": "List of football clubs in Russia\n\n\nZelenodolsk — FC Prometey-Dinamo Saint Petersburg — FC Pskov — FC Pskov-2000 — FC Pskov-747 FC Radian-Baikal Irkutsk — FC Rassvet Troitskoye — FC Reformatsiya Abakan — FC Rekord Aleksandrov — FC Reutov — FC Ritm Alekseyevka — FC Ritm Belgorod — FC Roda Moscow — FC Rossia Moscow — FC Rostov — FC Rostselmash-2 Rostov-on-Don — FC Rostselmash Rostov-on-Don — FC Rotor-2 Mikhaylovka — FC Rotor-2 Volgograd — FC Rotor Volgograd — FC Rubin-2 Kazan — FC Rubin Kazan — FC Rubin-TAN Kazan — FC", "id": "14958458" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\n-autumn) Russian Amateur Football League, the fourth level overall. In the 2015 season Rotor won the Amateur League Chernozemye (South-West Region) division at the first attempt by 11 points, suffering only one defeat in 22 games. The 45,000-seater Pobeda Stadium is under construction on their old Central Stadium site, and it was reported in August 2015 that the first team are still interested in moving into the facility after the 2018 World Cup, which makes attaining a higher league status a priority. They were licensed for third", "id": "264680" }, { "contents": "2010–11 KHL season\n\n\nThe 2010–11 KHL season was the third season of the Kontinental Hockey League. It was held from 8 September 2010 and ended on 16 April 2011. The season started with the Opening Cup game between the last season's finalists, Ak Bars Kazan and UHC Dynamo, the new team that was created by merging last season's Western conference winner HC MVD with Dynamo Moscow. Salavat Yulaev Ufa won the Gagarin Cup and the Russian Championship after beating Atlant Moscow Oblast 4–1 in the play-off final series. Folding of Lada Togliatti Lada", "id": "10925021" }, { "contents": "1994 in Russian football\n\n\ntime at 2-2. Early stages of the Russian Cup 1994–95 were played later in the year. FC Spartak Moscow finished the group stage in third place, not qualifying for the semifinals. All the Russian participants were eliminated in 1993. FC Spartak Moscow qualified directly for the group stage. It did not qualify from the group, coming in third place. PFC CSKA Moscow were eliminated in the first round. FC Rotor Volgograd and FC Tekstilshchik Kamyshin were both eliminated by FC Nantes in the first and second round respectively,", "id": "17746833" }, { "contents": "Mikhail Osinov\n\n\nRussian Top Division side Rotor Volgograd. In 2001, Osinov was transferred to FC Rostov and stayed there for 9 years, suffering a relegation and helping the \"yellow-blues\" to return to the Premier League. He also holds the club record for league appearances with 239 games. In 2010, he returned to Yekaterinburg to play in the Russian First Division. In 2011, Osinov went to a lower league joining MITOS Novocherkassk of the Russian Second Division. On 11 September 2011, in a league game against Olimpia Gelendzhik Osinov", "id": "12015633" }, { "contents": "1990 Soviet Top League\n\n\non 1 March with the game between Dnipro and Rotor and lasted until 20 October 1990. The season was won by FC Dynamo Kyiv. The league was reduced to 13 after first Georgian clubs (Dinamo Tbilisi and Guria Lanchkhuti) and then Žalgiris withdrew from the Soviet Top League. Lokomotiv Moscow and the last placed Zenit Leningrad of the 1989 Soviet Top League were relegated to the 1990 Soviet First League. Lokomotiv returned to the Soviet First League after two seasons absence, while Zenit was relegated for the first time since being promoted back", "id": "831394" }, { "contents": "2010–11 KHL season\n\n\nTogliatti dropped out of the league and joined the Russian Major League instead, after failing to meet the league's financial requirements. Merger of HC MVD and Dynamo Moscow On 30 April 2010, it was announced that HC MVD would merge with Dynamo Moscow to form UHC Dynamo, which for the time being will play the majority of their games at Megasport Arena in Moscow, while also attempting to play some games in Balashikha. The current plan is to have a new, large and modernized arena constructed in Balashikha by 2012. Expansion", "id": "10925022" }, { "contents": "Dzmitry Rawneyka\n\n\nDzmitry Vasilevich Rawneyka (; ; born 13 May 1980) is a former Belarusian professional footballer. He is currently af part of the coaching staff of Belarus. Born in Grodno, Rawneyka began playing football in FC Neman Grodno's youth system. He joined the senior side and made his Belarusian Premier League debut in 1998. He had a spell in the Russian Premier League with FC Torpedo Moscow and FC Rotor Volgograd but has spent most of his playing career with Neman Grodno. Rawneyka has made eight appearances for the Belarus national football team", "id": "13999154" }, { "contents": "BC Krasny Oktyabr\n\n\nthe highest stage for Russian clubs. In the first season of Krasny Oktyabr in the VTB United League, it qualified for the playoffs by finishing in the 6th place in Group B. Also, European powerhouse CSKA Moscow was defeated by Krasny Oktyabr in the quarterfinals of the 2013–14 Russian Cup tournament. On August 30, 2016, the team was forced to leave the United League, because its home arena wasn't approved to host tournaments. The club usually played its home games at the 3,700 seat Volgograd Sports Palace of Trade Unions,", "id": "8073501" }, { "contents": "Igor Lediakhov\n\n\n-Don. In 1990, he joined FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk. After impressing with FC Rotor Volgograd, Lediakhov was bought by Soviet Union giants FC Spartak Moscow, being essential as the capital team conquered three consecutive league titles, which included the inaugural edition of the competition, as the player scored in double digits in two of the three seasons. In the 1994 summer, 26-year-old Lediakhov moved abroad, signing with Spain's Sporting de Gijón. Even though he netted nearly 50 overall goals for the club (17 in four", "id": "21673652" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\nnew stadium - provided they had a professional club to fill it after the tournament. Rotor, facing legal action and a transfer embargo due to their financial status, were not reliable candidates. The government created a new entity, FC Volgograd, intending to assume the Rotor name. In fact Rotor managed to co-exist with the new FC for the first half of the 2009 season, before Mikheev suspended operations and the government took ownership of the club and stadium from him. The two clubs were merged into one, and", "id": "264677" }, { "contents": "FC Lokomotiv Moscow\n\n\npoints after Gameweek 30. The game was played at Dynamo Stadium in front of a sold-out crowd. Lokomotiv took an early lead thanks a low drive from captain Dmitry Loskov, and eventually the goal turned out to be enough for Lokomotiv to claim the first title in the club's history. Two years later, Lokomotiv again won the Russian Premier League, edging city rivals CSKA by a single point; Lokomotiv defeated Shinnik Yaroslavl 0–2 in Yaroslavl, a week after CSKA fell to city rivals Dynamo at home. In 2005", "id": "10933606" }, { "contents": "1995–96 Manchester United F.C. season\n\n\nactually went top of the league after a goalless draw at Sheffield Wednesday towards the end of September, only for the Tynesiders to return to the top of the table soon after. Then came Cantona's comeback on 1 October, when he scored a penalty to equalise and hold Liverpool to a 2–2 draw Old Trafford. The autumn saw United suffer first-hurdle exits to York City in the League Cup and Rotor Volgograd in the UEFA Cup, although United did preserve their 39-year home unbeaten record in European competitions thanks to a late", "id": "9981632" }, { "contents": "1994–95 Russian Cup\n\n\nDynamo Moscow: Valeri Kleimyonov (GK), Yuri Kovtun (DF), Sergey Timofeev (DF), Andrei Chernyshov (DF), Aleksandr Borodkin (DF), Aleksei Filippov (DF), Vagiz Khidiyatullin (DF), Andrei Ivanov (DF), Denis Klyuyev (MF), Dmitri Cheryshev (FW), Igor Simutenkov (FW), Kirill Rybakov (FW), Yuri Tishkov (FW). FC Rotor Volgograd: Volodymyr Gerashchenko (DF), Aleksandr Yeshchenko (MF), Konstantin Kulik (", "id": "5392312" }, { "contents": "FC Olimpia Volgograd\n\n\nFC Olimpia Volgograd () is a Russian football team from the large city of Volgograd. They are the second- or third-largest club in the city after the famous Rotor Volgograd. From their founding in 1989 until 1997, the club participated in various youth leagues. Some time between 1993 and 1994 the Volgograd native Leonid Slutsky, future coach of the Russian national team, joined the training staff. Among the Olimpia youth players developed under Slutsky were Denis Kolodin, Roman Adamov, Andrei Bochkov, Maksim Burchenko and Aleksei Zhdanov,", "id": "21936806" }, { "contents": "Peter Schmeichel\n\n\na 2001 Reuters poll, he beat Lev Yashin and Gordon Banks to be named the finest keeper in football history. Despite being a goalkeeper, he would run into the attack on corner kicks if his team was behind. The sight of him going up for the corner was a great distraction to opposing defenders. He scored a goal in this fashion, for Man United, in a UEFA Cup match against Rotor Volgograd at Old Trafford in September 1995. He scored in the last minutes of the game to tie the match 2–2", "id": "19820283" }, { "contents": "Spartak Gogniyev\n\n\nSpartak Arturovich Gogniyev (, ; born 19 January 1981) is a Russian professional football coach and a former player. He is the manager of FC Alania Vladikavkaz. He made his debut in the Russian Premier League in 2000 for FC Dynamo Moscow. He played two games in the UEFA Cup 2000–01 for FC Dynamo Moscow and two games (scoring one goal) in the UEFA Champions League 2003–04 qualification round for PFC CSKA Moscow. In August 2018, it was announced that Spartak Gogniyev joined new FC Urozhay Krasnodar, but this was", "id": "7903306" }, { "contents": "Georgi Yartsev\n\n\nat the time, gave Yartsev a sabre as a birthday gift in a sideline pre-game ceremony. Yartsev got another head coach position soon enough, when he joined Rotor Volgograd in January 2000. However, he could not do much with that team either and was fired in June of same year. For the next 3 years he was the manager of the Spartak Moscow veterans team. In August 2003, Russia was very close to elimination from their Euro 2004 preliminary qualification group and the coach Valery Gazzayev, was fired.", "id": "15861320" }, { "contents": "FCSB\n\n\nUEFA ordered Steaua to play two home games of the Europa League behind closed doors due to their fans displaying racist banners in a second qualifying round match against Hungarian side Újpest. Three further incidents occurred in the 2014–15 season, with the club fined and ordered to play further games in an empty stadium after displays of racist banners in matches against Dynamo Kyiv, Ludogorets Razgrad and Strømsgodset. Steaua's most important rivalry is the one against Dinamo București. \"Eternul derby\" (\"The Eternal Derby\") has been the leading Romanian", "id": "19491084" }, { "contents": "2010 Russian First Division\n\n\n), Mordovia Saransk (Ural-Povolzhye) and Irtysh Omsk (East). Due to financial difficulties, Vityaz Podolsk who placed 11th in 2009, decided to give up their spot in the Russian First Division and participate in the Russian Second Division in 2010. Pending licensing, their place was taken by FC Volgograd who placed 3rd in the Russian Second Division (South Zone) in 2009. For the occasion the management decided to change the name of the club from FC Volgograd to Rotor Volgograd. FC Alania Vladikavkaz were promoted", "id": "7947305" }, { "contents": "Russian Women's Handball Super League\n\n\nThe Russian Women's Handball Superleague is the premier women's handball competition in Russia. Dinamo Volgograd, formerly known as Rotor and Akva, is the championship's most successful club as of 2019 with 12 titles. It also holds the record for consecutive wins, with six titles in a row. Currently eleven clubs take part in the competition, with the top eight playing the championship play-offs. The Russian Championship's leading teams have been successful in EHF's competitions. Zvezda Zvenigorod won the Champions League and the EHF Cup", "id": "8475941" }, { "contents": "Pavel Pogrebnyak\n\n\n's relegation, Pogrebnyak was linked with a move away from the club but did not leave. He scored his first goals in more than eight months after netting twice in a 3–1 win over Derby County in September 2013. On 27 August 2015 Pogrebnyak moved back to Russia, signing a three-year contract with Dynamo Moscow. Dynamo released him on 25 January 2018, citing disciplinary reasons, such as attending a Juventus - Inter Milan game in Italy on the same day Dynamo played a league game and participating in the annual exhibition", "id": "2040879" }, { "contents": "1996 in Russian football\n\n\nplayers (Stanislav Cherchesov, Viktor Onopko, Vasili Kulkov and Sergei Yuran) who played in the group stage where Spartak did not lose a single point left the club to move to Western European clubs in the winter before the quarterfinals. Nicolas Ouédec was instrumental again, after scoring 7 goals in 4 games against the Russian teams in the 1994–95 UEFA Cup, this time he scored 3 goals in two games against Spartak. FC Dynamo Moscow were eliminated in the quarterfinals. All the Russian teams were eliminated in 1995. FC Alania Vladikavkaz", "id": "22219347" }, { "contents": "Kamil Mullin\n\n\nKamil Shamilevich Mullin (, ; born 5 January 1994) is a Russian professional football player who plays for FC Rotor Volgograd. He plays as a forward. Mullin joined Lokomotiv academy at 16 years, and two years later made it to the youth squad. In total, he played 53 games for Lokomotiv U21 and scored 23 goals.br He made his debut for Lokomotiv first team in the 2012–13 Russian Cup game vs Torpedo Armavir on 26 September 2012.br In March 2013, Mullin for the first time was included into team sheet for the", "id": "2605760" }, { "contents": "FC Dynamo Moscow\n\n\nthe 2008 season, Dynamo finished third, qualifying for the 2009–10 Champions League preliminary round. On 29 July 2009, Dynamo recorded a 0–1 away win against Celtic at Celtic Park, which gave them a strong advantage going into the second leg. However, Celtic comfortably defeated Dynamo 0–2 in Moscow to progress, sending Dynamo into the Europa League play-off round where the club was eliminated by Bulgarian side CSKA Sofia after a 0–0 away draw in Sofia and a 1–2 home defeat in Moscow. In 2012, after a poor start", "id": "8644502" }, { "contents": "2013–14 Russian Premier League\n\n\n2014/15 season. The 13th and 14th Premier League teams will play the 4th and 3rd FNL teams respectively in two playoff games with the winner securing a Premier League spot for 2014/15 season. On 11 May 2014, the game between FC Zenit Saint Petersburg and FC Dynamo Moscow was interrupted in the 86th minute with Dynamo leading 4-2 when Zenit fans ran out of the stands. At first they stood behind the goal line, when the referee decided to take the teams off the field into the dressing rooms and teams began to", "id": "9911963" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\nthe third tier) in 1980 and 1981, and were successful in the promotion playoffs the second time. In 1988 Rotor finished second in the Soviet First League, earning promotion to the Soviet Top League. They finished 13th and last in the downsized 1990 competition after the Georgian and Lithuanian teams withdrew, and the decision was made to relegate them. However they bounced straight back as champions of the First League in 1991, thus becoming founder members of the new Russian Top Division after the USSR collapsed. In the mid-1990s, Rotor", "id": "264672" }, { "contents": "Bibras Natkho\n\n\n, Natkho scored two goals in the Champions League qualifier against Dynamo Kyiv and Lyon, who they eliminated Kazan out of the competitions and the club would play in the Europa League. Then in the Europa League campaign, Natkho scored twice in six matches in the Group Stage of the Europa League against Tottenham Hostpur and Shamrock Rovers. Natkho performance was praised for his role during the season and helped the club win the Russian Cup after playing a vital of assisting the winning goal, in a 1–0 win over Dynamo Moscow. Natkho would", "id": "21438585" }, { "contents": "Danil Lipovoy\n\n\nDanil Nikolayevich Lipovoy (; born 22 September 1999) is a Russian football player who plays for FC Dynamo Moscow. He made his debut in the Russian Professional Football League for FC Dynamo-2 Moscow on 2 April 2017 in a game against FC Dynamo Saint Petersburg. He made his debut for the main squad of FC Dynamo Moscow on 26 September 2018 in a Russian Cup game against FC Torpedo Moscow. He made Russian Premier League debut for Dynamo on 30 November 2018 in a game against FC Rubin Kazan, as a 64th-minute substitute", "id": "429351" }, { "contents": "FC Amkar Perm\n\n\n, having lost their Spring matches to Kuban Krasnodar (1–2) and Spartak Moscow (0–2). A series without a win followed the victory over Alania and after the Dynamo match Amkar lost to Terek Grozny (1–2) and Lokomotiv Moscow (2–4). After another devastating defeat from Kuban (0–4), followed by a victory over their direct rivals Rostov (3–2), and a goalless draw with Zenit, the club retained the right to play in the Premier League. In June 2013, the club opted not to", "id": "5030824" }, { "contents": "FC Shakhtar Donetsk\n\n\nminute Fedor Manov opened score to Donetsk team goals. Final score is 4:1 in favor of the hosts.\" Nonetheless, the selective job conducted constructively by the club's administration allowed the club to compete successfully at the top level by the end of the 1930s. During the \"war championship\" of 1941, which was interrupted unexpectedly, the club defeated Soviet champions Dynamo Moscow and after about ten games were placed in fifth in the league. In the last game of that championship, played on 24 June, two days after", "id": "14103740" }, { "contents": "Oleg Veretennikov\n\n\nOleg Aleksandrovich Veretennikov (; born 5 January 1970) is a professional Russian association football coach and a former international footballer. He manages Rotor-2 Volograd. He is the top goalscorer in the history of Russian Premier League, and holds several other goalscoring records. Most of Veretennikov's successes have come with SC Rotor Volgograd, for whom he played in 1992–1999. During that time he scored 143 goals, which makes him the best goalscorer in the Russian Premier League history (the next best goalscorer, Dmitry Loskov, has 109 goals as of", "id": "21553966" }, { "contents": "Sergei Pareiko\n\n\nSergei Pareiko (born 31 January 1977) is a retired Estonian footballer. He is currently the sporting director of Estonian football club Levadia. Pareiko played as a goalkeeper in Estonian, Russian and Polish top tiers. He made a total of 65 appearances for the Estonia national football team. In Estonia, Pareiko played for Tallinna Sadam and Levadia Maardu, before moving to Russia in 2001, when he signed with Rotor Volgograd. After Rotor were relegated, Pareiko moved to Tom Tomsk. At the end of 2009 season Pareiko was named", "id": "11658849" }, { "contents": "FC Dinamo Tbilisi\n\n\nIn this period Dinamo won the Soviet Cup for the first time in their history, convincingly defeating Armenian side Ararat Yerevan 3–0 in the final, with goals scored by David Kipiani, Piruz Kanteladze and Revaz Chelebadze. In 1978 the club won the Soviet Top League for a second time. Next year Dinamo won the Soviet Cup again by defeating Russian side Dynamo Moscow in the final. In 1979 the club played its first match in the UEFA European Cup tournament. In the first round Dinamo knocked out English side Liverpool, at the", "id": "10097459" }, { "contents": "Romelu Lukaku\n\n\nlater at home to West Ham. Lukaku scored twice in a 4–0 win, becoming the fourth Manchester United player to score two goals on his Premier League debut for the club. On 17 September, Lukaku scored United's third goal in a 4–0 win over his former club Everton, with Lukaku running over towards Everton fans and cupping his ears during his goal celebration in response to being booed throughout the game. On 27 September, Lukaku scored twice in a 4–1 UEFA Champions League win over CSKA Moscow, taking his tally to", "id": "1117930" }, { "contents": "Dynamo Dresden\n\n\none Game behind closed doors and one away game without own fan support. Virtual tickets were offered to reduce the financial loss, creating \"the first sold-out Ghost Game in history\". The 2012–13 season started poorly for Dynamo and Ralf Loose was sacked in December 2012 after a 3–0 defeat to VfL Bochum with the team in 15th place. He was replaced by Peter Pacult, returning to the club after more than six years. Dynamo's form improved after Pacult's arrival but the team still finished the league as 16th", "id": "11366777" }, { "contents": "Aleksandr Tashayev\n\n\nAleksandr Mikhailovich Tashayev (; born 23 June 1994) is a Russian professional football player who plays as a left midfielder for Spartak Moscow. He made his professional debut on 11 December 2014 for FC Dynamo Moscow in a 2014–15 UEFA Europa League group game against PSV Eindhoven. He also played in the Round of 16 away game against Napoli. On 6 July 2018, he signed a contract with the cross-city rivals FC Spartak Moscow, after buying out own contract from Dynamo and becoming a free agent. Dynamo unsuccessfully sued to deem", "id": "13552247" }, { "contents": "Dynamo Moscow Bandy Club\n\n\nthe end of the 2004–05 season, almost all players of the for a decade dominant Vodnik signed up for Dynamo Moscow, resulting in an immediate Russian League title in 2006. Dynamo Moscow won the World Cup for the first time in 2006, defeating Zorky in the final. The 2006 domestic title was followed by another four consecutive Russian championship titles and as one of the dominating teams in the following years too, until 2017, when they missed the championship play-off, only coming in at eighth place in the regular season", "id": "1825162" }, { "contents": "Handball Club Lada\n\n\nHandball Club Lada is a Russian women's handball club from Tolyatti playing in the Russian Super League. Founded in 1998, Lada soon became the leading team in the Super League winning five championships in a row between 2002 and 2006 and a sixth one in 2008. It also built itself a name in Europe winning the 2002 Cup Winners' Cup in its international debut and reaching the final of the 2007 Champions League and the next edition's semifinals. The following three seasons were less successful, with Dynamo Volgograd retrieving the leading position", "id": "9114247" }, { "contents": "Omari Tetradze\n\n\n– Tetradze. Later he considered restoring his original surname, but decided it would cause too many problems. At club level, he played for Dinamo Tbilisi, FC Dynamo Moscow, Alania Vladikavkaz (where he won a Russian league championship medal in 1995), AS Roma, and PAOK FC (Greece). He played for Russia at international level, and appeared at World Cup 1994 and Euro 1996. At the latter tournament, he played superbly in each of Russia's three games despite the team's poor results, and", "id": "17559889" }, { "contents": "FC Girondins de Bordeaux\n\n\nclub was relegated just two years thereafter. In 1992, however, \"Les Girondins\" won that year's Ligue 2 title, thus being elevated to the top tier of French football. In the emergence of young and exciting players such as playmaker Zinedine Zidane, striker Christophe Dugarry and left back Bixente Lizarazu, the club ascended even higher to win the UEFA Intertoto Cup in 1995. With this talented trio, the club defeated FC Rotor Volgograd (the 1995 King's Cup Winner), Real Betis, Milan and Slavia Prague", "id": "10933676" }, { "contents": "Yuriy Hudymenko\n\n\nYuriy Arkadiyovych Hudymenko (; born 3 October 1966) is a former Kyrgyz-born Ukrainian professional footballer. Hudymenko is a product of the main Bishkek sports school and later was accepted to the main republican club of Kyrgyzia, FC Alga Bishkek. In 1990 he made his debut in the Soviet Top League playing for FC Dnepr Dnepropetrovsk, but failed to score any goals in domestic competitions, but did score a goal against Heart of Midlothian F.C. in the 1990-91 UEFA Cup. Next year Hudymenko joined recently relegated FC Rotor Volgograd that", "id": "11637137" }, { "contents": "Valery Gazzaev\n\n\na second-place finish at the end of the season. However, Gazzaev was left behind in the first league in Spartak Ordzhonikidze, as he wasn't one of the main players of the SKA Rostov-on-Don. In the Soviet Top League, Gazzaev played in Lokomotiv Moscow, Dynamo Moscow, and Dinamo Tbilisi. Gazzaev is a Soviet Cup winner with Dynamo Moscow in 1984. During his career he scored 89 goals in 283 matches in Soviet Top League, and was the top goal scorer of the UEFA Cup", "id": "3537187" }, { "contents": "FC Amkar Perm\n\n\nAmkar was in third place in the standings, one point behind second-placed Spartak Moscow and six adrift of leaders Rubin Kazan. After the break, one of Amkar's team leaders, Vladimir Gabulov, and the captain, Aleksei Popov, left the team to join Dynamo Moscow and Rubin Kazan respectively. Two matches in a row on the \"equator\" of the Championship Amkar could have topped the league table but was unable to beat Tom Tomsk and Spartak Nalchik at home. On 16 November, after beating Tom in Tomsk", "id": "5030813" }, { "contents": "FC Rubin Kazan\n\n\nfixed after selling in Volgograd \"Rotor\" team leaders Oleg Nechaev and Rustem Khuzin (but soon returned to \"Rubin\" till the end of the season on loan). In the end the season Kazan finished on 8th place, only losing a point to Nizhnekamsk \"Neftechimik\" and dropped into the second league. The following year, 1994, coaches Zadikashvili and Semenov assemble a team literally bit by bit. Because of the continuing financial problems from the last season in the team left only 6 players: Grishin, Danilin,", "id": "19815661" }, { "contents": "Nikita Chernov\n\n\nNikita Aleksandrovich Chernov (; born 14 January 1996) is a Russian professional football player who plays as a centre-back for Krylia Sovetov Samara and Russia national football team. Born in Volzhsky, Volgograd Oblast, Chernov began his career at hometown team FC Energiya Volzhsky before joining CSKA Moscow in 2009. He made his professional debut on 24 September 2014 in a Russian Cup game against FC Khimik Dzerzhinsk. He also played in the next Russian Cup round against FC Torpedo Moscow on 29 October. On 30 July 2019, Chernov moved from", "id": "503700" }, { "contents": "KF Skënderbeu Korçë\n\n\nBeşiktaş, Lokomotiv Moscow and Sporting Clube de Portugal. In matchday 1, their first ever group stage game, the club was defeated at home 0–1 by Beşiktaş after a hard fight between the two sides. In the next matchday, they lost 0–2 to Lokomotiv Moscow in Moscow. Their worst defeat in the European competition yet came the next matchday, a storming 1–5 loss to Sporting in the away leg at Lisbon, but also had the Albanian side scoring their first goal in the UEFA Europa League group stages. In the home", "id": "1409695" }, { "contents": "FC Dynamo Kyiv\n\n\nand Maccabi Tel Aviv F.C. Dynamo finished in second place with 11 points after a spectacular performance and a memorable 0–2 in Porto. However, Dynamo was punished by UEFA for a racist incident in the home game against Chelsea where four black men were attacked in the stands by Dynamo fans. Despite this, Dynamo reached the round of 16 in the Champions League for the first time since 2000, where it was drawn with Manchester City. Dynamo was eliminated 1–3 on aggregate but managed to hold an impressive 0–0 draw in Manchester. Dynamo", "id": "18770189" }, { "contents": "Konstantin Kovalenko\n\n\nKonstantin Valeryevich Kovalenko (; ; born 2 February 1975) is a Belarusian and Russian professional footballer who plays for resurrected FC Kuban Krasnodar. He made his professional debut in the Soviet Second League in 1991 for FC Kuban Barannikovsky. He played 1 game in the 1996–97 UEFA Cup for FC Spartak Moscow. His brother Andrei Kovalenko also played football professionally. On 27 October 2008 he punched referee Sergei Timofeyev in the face in the Russian Second Division game FC Sochi-04 - FC Olimpia Volgograd. He was banned from football for a year. Spartak", "id": "1118096" }, { "contents": "Clinton N'Jie\n\n\nDimitri Payet and scored two goals in a 3–0 win. On 17 September, he scored both the goals in the away win over Amiens. On 3 May 2018, he played in the Europa League semi-finals away to FC Red Bull Salzburg as Marseille played out a 2–1 away loss but a 3–2 aggregate win to secure a place in the 2018 UEFA Europa League Final. On 25 July 2019, Njie signed a 4-year contract with Russian Premier League club Dynamo Moscow. N'Jie scored 44 minutes into his Cameroon debut against the", "id": "16847587" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\ntime they were able to consolidate in the National League, finishing 9th and then 14th. But financial troubles continued. A Ministry of Sport investigation found evidence of financial misconduct by club management along with substantial overspending, and regional Governor Andrey Bocharov announced after the 2013 season that government support for Rotor was being withdrawn. The club dropped back into the Second Division (renamed the Professional Football League) for the first half of the 2014–15 (autumn-spring) season, then withdrew in order to immediately transfer to the 2015 (spring", "id": "264679" }, { "contents": "2001 FC Anzhi Makhachkala season\n\n\nThe 2001 FC Anzhi Makhachkala season was the 2nd season that the club played in the Russian Top Division, the highest tier of football in Russia, following their promotion from the National Football League in 1999. They finished the season in 13th, were runners-up in the 2001-02 cup and reached the Sixth Round of the 2002-03 cup losing to Dynamo Moscow, and were knocked out of the UEFA Cup at the First Round stage after a 0-1 defeat to Rangers over one leg in Warsaw, Poland", "id": "4897180" }, { "contents": "FC Dynamo-2 Moscow\n\n\nFC Dynamo-2 Moscow () was a Russian football team from Moscow. It was the farm-club for FC Dynamo Moscow. In 2016, it was revived after the parent club, Dynamo, was relegated from the Russian Football Premier League (which holds its own competition for the Under-21 teams of the Premier League clubs) and licensed to play in the third-tier Russian Professional Football League for the 2016–17 season. Majority of the squad participated in the 2016–17 UEFA Youth League as well. On 17 June 2017, the parent", "id": "19064817" }, { "contents": "Mikhail Markosov\n\n\nDivision South Zone, scoring 27 goals, a feat no one in the entire Second Division surpassed. In the 2010 season, he played for FC Rotor Volgograd and came back to FC Dynamo Stavropol the next season. Scoring 10 goals in his first 10 matches for Dynamo, Markosov was transferred in the summer transfer window of the 2011-12 season to FC Ufa. From April until June 2019 Markosov played for FC Kuban Krasnodar, scored 7 goals in 11 matches. He joined the Armenia national football team in 2013. Markosov", "id": "12122198" }, { "contents": "1993 in Russian football\n\n\ntheir group campaign and finished it without much success, only gaining 2 points in 6 games, coming in last in the group and suffering a 0-6 defeat against Marseille. They could not play their home games in Moscow due to the lack of a stadium meeting the Champions League standards at the time. FC Spartak Moscow reached the semifinals, tying the best European result in club's history. FC Spartak Moscow qualified for the group stage and continued to play in the group into the 1994. FC Torpedo Moscow went out", "id": "21710373" }, { "contents": "2002 in Russian football\n\n\nrespective Second Division zones: The Russian Cup was won by CSKA Moscow, who beat Zenit Saint Petersburg 2–0 in the final at the Luzhniki Stadium. Lokomotiv Moscow participated in the third round of the UEFA Cup 2001-02, but were knocked out by Hapoel Tel Aviv FC who won 3–1 on aggregate. Krylya Sovetov Samara played in the UEFA Intertoto Cup 2002. After defeating Dinaburg FC in the second round they lost to Willem II Tilburg on away goals. Lokomotiv Moscow's victory over Grazer AK ensured there are two Russian clubs", "id": "11619883" }, { "contents": "FC Dynamo Moscow\n\n\nFC Dynamo Moscow (Dinamo Moscow, FC Dinamo Moskva, ) is a Russian football club based in Moscow. Dynamo has returned to the Russian Premier League for the 2017–18 season after one season in the second-tier Russian Football National League. Dynamo was the only club that had always played in the top tier of Soviet football (along with Dynamo Kyiv) and of Russian football from the end of the Soviet era until they were relegated in 2016. Despite this, it has never won the modern Russian Premier League title and", "id": "8644495" }, { "contents": "Nikita Lyamin\n\n\nIn 2004, he played three season in the farm team and two more seasons in the main team for Dynamo Moscow. Dynamo Moscow became champions at the 2007–08 Russian Volleyball Super League, but Lyamin due to low game practice quit the club. Lyamin moved to Nizhny Novgorod and became captain of Guberniya, which went on debuting in the B-division of the highest national league. In the two years, Guberniya could enter the Super League, and in the 2012–13 it became one of the leading clubs in Russia. Guberniya qualified", "id": "8669287" }, { "contents": "Leonid Slutsky (football coach)\n\n\nLeonid Viktorovich Slutsky (; born 4 May 1971) is a Russian professional football coach and former player who is the manager of Eredivisie club Vitesse. Previously, he has been in charge of Olimpia Volgograd, Uralan Elista, Moscow, Krylia Sovetov, CSKA Moscow, Russia and Hull City. Slutsky was born in Volgograd. Slutsky's playing career with FC Zvezda Gorodishche ended at just 19 years of age. He had to retire due to a knee injury sustained after falling out of a tree while rescuing a neighbour's cat. Slutsky", "id": "11710104" }, { "contents": "Yuri Kovtun\n\n\nduring the season so two top teams were interested in him at the same time, it's Dynamo and Spartak Moscow. In 1993, Kovtun chose Dynamo Moscow and was their key player for years, until his move to Spartak in 1999. While the only Kovtun's honour during 6 years in Dynamo was Russian Cup in 1995, he could get 3 titles in 1999, 2000 and 2001 after joining Spartak. Moreover, he took part in numerous UEFA Champions League games and found himself regular Russian national football team player. Kovtun", "id": "2071460" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\n-tier Russian Professional Football League for the 2016–17 season. They won their zone of the PFL in the 2016–17 season and were promoted to the second-level Russian National Football League for 2017–18. Despite ending the 2017–18 season in the relegation zone, the club stayed in the league for the 2018–19 season as another team that finished above them in the table failed to obtain the league license. As of 5 July 2019, according to the FNL website. Had international caps for their respective countries. Players whose name is listed in", "id": "264681" }, { "contents": "Dmitri Khokhlov\n\n\nDmitri Valeryevich Khokhlov (, born 22 December 1975) is a Russian football manager and a former player. He is the manager of FC Dynamo Moscow. He played as a holding midfielder or playmaker. He played for PFC CSKA Moscow and FC Lokomotiv Moscow in native Russia, having abroad spells with PSV Eindhoven (Netherlands) and Real Sociedad (Spain). During his time with FC Lokomotiv Moscow he participated in their memorable 2003–04 UEFA Champions League campaign, scoring third goal in the 3–0 home victory against Internazionale. He played for", "id": "19054427" }, { "contents": "Racism in association football\n\n\nagainst CSKA Moscow in Russia. The club's stadium was partially closed as punishment. Touré suggested that black players might boycott the 2018 FIFA World Cup, to be held in Russia, if racism continued in the country. In September 2014, Dynamo Moscow defender Christopher Samba was racially abused playing in the Moscow derby against Torpedo Moscow. As a result, Torpedo were forced to close part of their stadium, although Samba was also banned for two games for swearing at the racist fans. In a friendly match (Russia vrs France", "id": "21349703" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\nTraktor Stalingrad to national prominence. Traktor were champions of the new fourth-level Group G in 1937, and were then promoted straight to the highest-level Group A as it expanded from 9 clubs to 26. They remained at the top level until 1950. Rotor then spent three decades at the top regional level, although the creation of the Supreme League in 1970 pushed their league from the second level overall down to the third. They gradually improved throughout the 1970s and finally won Zone III of the Soviet Second League (", "id": "264671" }, { "contents": "WPC Dynamo Moscow\n\n\nWPC Dynamo Moscow () is a Russian men's water polo club, that is part of the traditional Moscow-based multi-sports club Dynamo. Dynamo won seven Soviet Championships between 1955 and 1962, and in 1964 it was the first team to represent the in the newly European Champions Cup, ranking second behind Partizan. In 1968 and 1969 the team won two more national championships, and it also reached the 1969 European Cup's final, lost to Mladost. For the next fifteen years Dynamo didn't win any more", "id": "18685765" }, { "contents": "Kyle Hines\n\n\ngreat Olympiacos comeback in 4th quarter, led by Vassilis Spanoulis. CSKA Moscow eventually won the EuroLeague third place game, after defeating Fenerbahçe, by a score of 86–80. In his second EuroLeague season with CSKA Moscow, Hines averaged a career-low 6.8 points and 4.3 rebounds per game, over 30 games played. CSKA Moscow finished the season by winning the VTB United League, after eliminating Khimki with a 3–0 series sweep in the League's finals series. On June 17, 2015, he signed a two-year contract", "id": "14695455" }, { "contents": "Miroslav Raičević\n\n\nfinal decisive shot in the very last seconds of the final game against Prokom Trefl Sopot. He also won the Greek Cup with Aris, in the year 2004. He has also played with Red Star Belgrade of the Adriatic League during the 2005–06 season. He won the Serbian Cup with Red Star that season. In the 2006–07 season, he played with the Russian Super League club Dynamo Moscow. During summer of 2007, he left Dynamo Moscow and joined the Italian League club Eldo Napoli. He then left Napoli and moved back", "id": "13596698" } ]

[ { "contents": "1996 in Russian football\n\n\nwas knocked out in the qualifying round. FC Lokomotiv Moscow went out in the second round. PFC CSKA Moscow, FC Dynamo Moscow and FC Torpedo-Luzhniki Moscow were eliminated in the first round after going through the qualifying round. FC Alania Vladikavkaz went out in the first round after going to the UEFA Cup after failing in the qualification for the Champions League. FC Spartak Moscow went out in the second round. Russian clubs participated in the Intertoto Cup for the first time. FC Rotor Volgograd, FC KAMAZ-Chally Naberezhnye", "id": "22219348" }, { "contents": "1995 in Russian football\n\n\nthe Russian Cup 1995–96 were played later in the year. All the Russian participants were eliminated in 1994. FC Spartak Moscow won every game in their group, qualifying for the quarterfinals. FC Dynamo Moscow advanced through the first two rounds, qualifying to play in the quarterfinals next spring. FC Spartak-Alania Vladikavkaz and FC Lokomotiv Moscow were eliminated in the first round by strong opponents (even though Lokomotiv very unexpectedly beat FC Bayern in Munich in the first game). FC Rotor Volgograd eliminated Manchester United F.C. in the first round", "id": "18335625" }, { "contents": "Maksim Nenakhov\n\n\nMaksim Maksimovich Nenakhov (; born 13 December 1998) is a Russian football player who plays for FC Rotor Volgograd. He made his debut in the Russian Professional Football League for FC Dynamo-2 Moscow on 20 July 2016 in a game against FC Tekstilshchik Ivanovo. On 19 January 2018, he was loaned to FC Tyumen until the end of the 2017–18 season. On 14 June 2018, he moved on another loan for the 2018–19 season to FC SKA-Khabarovsk. On 18 June 2019, he signed a 2-year contract with FC Rotor Volgograd", "id": "6983587" }, { "contents": "Almir Kayumov\n\n\nAlmir Izmailovich Kayumov (; 30 December 1964 – 7 August 2013) was a Russian football player and referee. Kayumov played for FC Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk, FC Lada Togliatti, Spartak Moscow, Rotor Volgograd, SKA Rostov-on-Don, in Russia, the Daewoo Royals in South Korea, and Kuopion Palloseura in Finland. He played 6 games in the UEFA Cup 1986–87 for FC Spartak Moscow. On November 9, 2009, it was reported that Kayumov attempted to commit suicide by jumping out of his apartment window. Police negotiators talked", "id": "14510549" }, { "contents": "Ruslan Ishkinin\n\n\nRuslan Kamilyevich Ishkinin (; born 14 June 1974) is a former Russian professional footballer. He made his professional debut in the Russian Second Division in 1992 for FC Dynamo-2 Moscow. The most memorable match of his career was played on 14 June 1995. His team FC Dynamo Moscow was playing FC Rotor Volgograd in the final game of the Russian Cup. Dynamo was decimated by injuries and several reserve players, including Ishkinin, were called up for the game. With 5 minutes to go in regulation and the score of 0–0, Ishkinin", "id": "2479621" }, { "contents": "1997 in Russian football\n\n\nthe year. Russian teams were eliminated in 1996. FC Spartak Moscow were eliminated in the second qualifying round and went on to the UEFA Cup. FC Lokomotiv Moscow qualified for the quarterfinals stage that was played in 1998. FC Spartak Moscow qualified for the quarterfinals stage that was played in 1998. FC Rotor Volgograd reached the second round. FC Alania Vladikavkaz went out in the first round. The goal in the stadium was measured before the game and turned out to be 2.46 meters high instead of regulation 2.44. The referee decided", "id": "20500131" }, { "contents": "2012–13 Russian Premier League\n\n\naltogether if the game is awarded to Dynamo. According to the police, the main suspect is a female fan who was arrested after the game. The criminal investigation was opened on the charge of hooliganism. On 22 November, Russian Football Union's Control-Disciplinary Committee awarded the game to Dynamo with a score of 3–0 and fined both clubs. Dynamo had to play their next home game (against Rubin Kazan) behind closed doors and Zenit had to play their next 2 home games (against CSKA Moscow and Anzhi Makhachkala)", "id": "321372" }, { "contents": "Yuriy Kalitvintsev\n\n\nfor FC Desna Chernihiv. A Russian-born Kalitvintsev chose to play for the Ukraine side after breaking through as a midfielder for Dynamo Kyiv. Until 1994 he played he spent his playing career at Russian clubs such as FC Rotor Volgograd, FC SKA Rostov-on-Don, FC Dynamo Moscow, and FC Lokomotiv Nizhny Novgorod. It wasn't until the reorganization of the soviet football when he started to play at the top level of the Russian championship starting for the Moscow's Dynamo. After being transferred to the fading club", "id": "20481933" }, { "contents": "Sergei Bogomolov\n\n\nSergei Anatolyevich Bogomolov (; born 17 August 1971) is a former Russian professional footballer. During his time with FC Dynamo Moscow he only played in a single game for the main team, but it was a very memorable one. On 14 June 1995, Dynamo was playing FC Rotor Volgograd in the final game of the 1994–95 Russian Cup. Dynamo was hurt by injuries to some first team regulars and several reserve players, including Bogomolov, were called up for the game. With the score of 0:0 and 10 minutes to go in", "id": "18632079" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\nwas one of the strongest clubs in Russia, rivalling Spartak Moscow for the championship, yet never winning it. Rotor became the league runners-up in 1993 and 1997. Rotor played five successive seasons in European competition, from 1994-95 to 1998-99. They qualified for the UEFA Cup through their league position every year except 1996-97, when they instead chose to enter the Intertoto Cup. Unfortunately for Rotor, the fall of communism had left all the former Eastern Bloc leagues badly under-resourced compared to", "id": "264673" }, { "contents": "1995 in Russian football\n\n\n1995 was the fourth season Russia held its own national football competition since the breakup of the Soviet Union. FC Spartak-Alania Vladikavkaz won the league for the first time ever. This was the first season 3 points were awarded for a win instead of two. For more details, see: The third edition of the Russian Cup, Russian Cup 1994–95 was won by FC Dynamo Moscow, who beat FC Rotor Volgograd in the finals in a shootout 8-7 after finishing extra time at 0-0. Early stages of", "id": "18335624" }, { "contents": "Maxim Chuzhkov\n\n\nMaxim Aleksandrovich Chuzhkov (; born 11 April 1987) is a Russian beach soccer player serving as goalkeeper. He is a three-time national champion for three different clubs (Rotor Volgograd, Lokomotiv Moscow, Kristall). Maxim Chuzhkov was born in Samara. He was a gymnast for six years before switching to football. Chuzhkov discovered beach soccer in 2010, and one year later he joined Krylya Sovetov from Samara. From 2012 to 2014 he played for Rotor Volgograd, winning with them the club's first and only Russian Beach Soccer", "id": "21454463" }, { "contents": "1991 Soviet Top League\n\n\nseason, while FC Rotor Volgograd and FC Tiligul Tiraspol would have been promoted to the Top League for 1992. Top six clubs of the league later entered European competitions for their respective nations. The Ukrainian clubs chose to qualify through a separate national competition. The league was expanded to 16 after the last season, during which number of clubs left the Soviet competitions (from Georgia and Baltic states). The last-placed FC Rotor Volgograd of the 1990 Soviet Top League lost promotion/relegation playoff to Lokomotiv Moscow and was relegated", "id": "831265" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor-2 Volgograd\n\n\nFC Rotor-2 Volgograd () is a Russian football team based in Volgograd. It is the farm club for FC Rotor Volgograd. It previously played professionally as FC Rotor-d Volgograd or FC Rotor-2 Volgograd in the Russian Second Division in 1992–1993, 1998–2000 and 2004 and Russian Third League in 1994-1997. They came in 3rd place in their Second Division zone in 1993. In 2001, the reserves tournament for Russian Premier League was re-established and the reserves team played there while the main team stayed in Premier League.", "id": "5758261" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\nFC Rotor Volgograd () is a Russian football (soccer) club from the large city of Volgograd, Volgograd Oblast (formerly Stalingrad). The club plays in the second-level Russian National Football League. They are the largest and best supported Volgograd club and for most of their existence have been the city's only representatives in the national league system. They played at the top level of Soviet/Russian football either side of World War II, from 1989 to 1990, and from 1991 to 2004. During the 1990s", "id": "264669" }, { "contents": "Wisdom Mumba Chansa\n\n\nand Derby Makinka, to play in the Soviet Top League when they all signed for Pomir Dushanbe in 1989 after being spotted during their 4-0 win over Italy at the 1988 Olympics. Chansa's debut came on 2 October 1989 in an away match against Torpedo Moscow, before appearing twice more, against Rotor Volgograd and Metalist Kharkiv, before leaving at the conclusion of the 1989 season. Chansa returned to Power Dynamos following his Soviet experience, and was made captain before Power Dynamos became the first Zambian club side to win a", "id": "5300924" }, { "contents": "FC Volgograd\n\n\nFC Volgograd () is a former name of the Russian football club from Volgograd, founded in late 2008, currently known as FC Rotor Volgograd. Before it was founded, it was originally supposed to be called FC Rotor-Volgograd Volgograd (to keep Rotor's name around at the time FC Rotor Volgograd was close to bankruptcy). However, FC Rotor's financial situation has improved by early 2009 and the club was registered as FC Volgograd. It played in the Russian Second Division in 2009. It took over the license", "id": "6725532" }, { "contents": "Roman Pavlyuchenko\n\n\nRoman Anatolyevich Pavlyuchenko (; born 15 December 1981) is a Russian footballer who plays as a striker for FC Znamya Noginsk. He started his career at Dynamo Stavropol, and Rotor Volgograd, before transferring to Spartak Moscow in 2003. His performances there earned him a £13.7 million transfer to Tottenham Hotspur of the English Premier League in 2008, where he spent three full seasons before returning to Russia to play for Lokomotiv Moscow. After another full 3 seasons he moved in July 2015, to Kuban Krasnodar. A full international for a", "id": "3367200" }, { "contents": "Anton Miranchuk\n\n\nAnton Andreyevich Miranchuk (; born 17 October 1995) is a Russian professional football player who plays as a centre midfielder or attacking midfielder for Lokomotiv Moscow and the Russia national team. Born in Slavyansk-na-Kubani, Miranchuk joined Spartak Moscow from his hometown football school Olymp. He was dismissed from the club because of weak physical abilities. After that, he and his twin brother Aleksei moved to Lokomotiv Moscow. On 30 October 2013, Miranchuk made his competitive debut in senior football in a Russian Cup game against Rotor Volgograd replacing", "id": "1404526" }, { "contents": "Dmitry Pletnyov (footballer)\n\n\nDmitry Andreyevich Pletnyov (; born 16 January 1998) is a Russian football player. He plays for FC Tom Tomsk in Russian Football National League. He made his debut in the Russian Football National League for FC Zenit-2 Saint Petersburg on 6 September 2017 in a game against FC Rotor Volgograd. He made his Russian Premier League debut for FC Zenit Saint Petersburg on 5 May 2018 in a game against FC Lokomotiv Moscow. He played for Russia national under-17 football team at the 2015 UEFA European Under-17 Championship and 2015 FIFA U-17 World Cup.", "id": "21412634" }, { "contents": "2004 in Russian football\n\n\nseason. Andrey Fedkov of Terek became the top goalscorer with 38 goals. The following clubs have earned promotion by winning tournaments in their respective Second Division zones: Prior to start of the 2005 season three clubs (Rotor Volgograd, Torpedo Vladimir, and Arsenal Tula) refused participation in the First Division, and two more clubs (Dynamo Stavropol and Chernomorets Novorossiysk) were denied licences. This made way for the runners-up of all five zones: The Russian Super Cup match between CSKA Moscow and Spartak Moscow was won by CSKA", "id": "6344061" }, { "contents": "Dmitry Shishin\n\n\nnational beach soccer team. That year Shishin participated at the Russian Championship as player of Samarian Sputnik and debuted for the national team at the Beach Soccer World Cup. After Sputnik, Shishin for a long time played for different Saratov clubs, such as Rosagro, Biznes-Pravo, Delta. In 2011, Shishin moved to Lokomotiv Moscow, where he won the championship trophy with his team. Together with the Lokomotives he won another national championship trophy and two Russian cups. In 2013, Shishin surprisingly switched to Rotor Volgograd, becoming", "id": "12194946" }, { "contents": "2009 Russian Second Division\n\n\nJuly 2009 Oleg Mikheyev, president of FC Rotor Volgograd, announced Rotor's resignation from the league, citing problems with authorities. They have played 18 games and were in the 13th position with 21 points. \"Source: [PFL] , Sporbox.ru \" On 11 July 2009, the management of FC Spartak Shchyolkovo announced that the club would resign from the league after the first half of the season because of economic problems. Spartak were excluded from the league on August 4, 2009. They have played 18 games and were in", "id": "21482663" }, { "contents": "FC Olimpia Volgograd\n\n\nuntil 2008, though their fortunes faded after Slutsky's players left. Before the 2009 season their professional license was taken over by the new club FC Volgograd. This was meant to allow FC to assume the name and identity of Rotor who were suffering off-field troubles, but Rotor survived and ended up playing simultaneously with the new FC in 2009, while Olimpia dropped into the Volgograd Oblast Championship. They stayed there until 2011, winning the title in 2010. With confusion ongoing over the future of the Rotor name and club", "id": "21936808" }, { "contents": "Sergei Rashevsky\n\n\nSergei Aleksandrovich Rashevsky (; born 13 June 1980) is a Russian football coach and a former player. He is an assistant coach with FC Rotor Volgograd. He made his debut in the Russian Premier League in 2001 for FC Rotor Volgograd, before moving to Ural in 2005. After several seasons playing for different clubs in Russia, Rashevsky signed with Volga in 2008. He played for the club for three years, before he returned to Ural in 2011. Since February 2014, he played for the Russian National Football League side Yenisey", "id": "8136441" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\nthe new Rotor Volgograd were promoted to the second-level Russian Football National League thanks to teams above them withdrawing. The regional Ministry of Sport invested 150 million roubles ($4.9m) in the club's playing budget for the 2010 campaign, but it ended in failure as Rotor were relegated in 17th place. Governor Brovko admitted that the transition to the higher level was made too quickly. Former club player Sergei Nechay took over management and steered the team to promotion as champions of their Second Division zone in 2011–12. This", "id": "264678" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\ntheir Western counterparts, and indeed Rotor were knocked out by all four of the French and Italian clubs they played. The exception came against England's Manchester United in 1995-96. Having drawn the home leg 0-0, Rotor raced into a 2-0 lead at Old Trafford before United scored their first goal. Rotor were seconds away from being the first European club to win at Old Trafford when United's goalkeeper Peter Schmeichel scored a famous equaliser, but the 2-2 draw meant Rotor progressed by the away", "id": "264674" }, { "contents": "Roman Pavlyuchenko\n\n\na 1-0 loss against Moscow on 5 April 1999. On 15 May 1999, Pavlyuchenko provided a double assist in a 2-1 win over Chita. In his first season, Pavlyuchenko made 31 appearance and scoring 11 goals. However, the club played was still relegated to the Second Division after the club was last place. Despite this, Pavlyuchenko was named 'Team of the top' junior division for the first version of the newspaper Sport Express. Pavlyuchenko moved to Rotor Volgograd in 2000, although the move was", "id": "3367203" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\ntheir professional licence entirely. Rotor's reserve side in the Russian Second Division, Rotor-2 Volgograd, became the club's first team and was renamed Rotor in 2006. In 2007 local businessman Oleg Mikheev acquired the club's main asset the Volgograd Central Stadium, and with it effective control over the club, but financial troubles continued and the team's performances in the Second Division declined. Matters came to a head in 2009. Russia had officially launched its bid for the FIFA World Cup 2018 and Volgograd city was in line for a", "id": "264676" }, { "contents": "1988 Soviet Cup Final\n\n\nThe 1988 Soviet Cup Final was a football match that took place at the Lenin's Central Stadium, Moscow on May 28, 1988. The match was the 47th Soviet Cup Final and it was contested by FC Metalist Kharkiv and FC Torpedo Moscow. The Soviet Cup winner Metalist qualified for the Cup Winners' Cup first round for the Soviet Union. The last year defending holders Dynamo Kyiv were eliminated in the second round of the competition by FC Rotor Volgograd (3:2, 0:2). For Metalist this was their second final total", "id": "158055" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\ngoals rule They went on to be defeated by eventual Runners-up Bordeaux in the second round. Full European results: In the 2000s, Rotor's results declined, and in 2004, the team finished last in the Russian Premier League. The club's owner Vladimir Goryunov, a member of the Duma and head of the parliamentary sports committee, explored options to save Rotor from relegation, such as expanding the Premier League to 20 teams. But in January 2005 Rotor were unable to make the required financial guarantees and so lost", "id": "264675" }, { "contents": "2018–19 Russian Football National League\n\n\n. Ararat Moscow was promoted from 2017–18 PFL, but were refused a license for the 2018–19 Russian National Football League, the club being subsequently dissolved. Zenit-2 Saint Petersburg, Rotor Volgograd, Luch Vladivostok, Tyumen and Fakel Voronezh were spared from relegation due to lack of teams enrolled for the 2018–19 season. Sakhalin Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk finished on the promotion place at the end of the 2017–18 PFL season, but refused to be promoted. Dynamo Saint Petersburg was moved from Saint Petersburg to Sochi and renamed as PFC Sochi. Olimpiyets Nizhny Novgorod", "id": "621376" }, { "contents": "Dinamo Volgograd\n\n\nDinamo Volgograd () is a Russian women's handball club from Volgograd. Founded in 1972 as Burevestnik Volgograd, it represented Rotor Volgograd following the collapse of the Soviet Union and was subsequently named Aqva before taking its current name in 2003. Dynamo is the most successful team in the Russian Super League with nine titles, and in the 2001-02 season it set an absolute record winning all the matches. It has also been fairly successful in international competitions with three titles: the 1995 Challenge Cup and Champions Trophy and the 2008", "id": "10627328" }, { "contents": "List of football clubs in Russia\n\n\nZelenodolsk — FC Prometey-Dinamo Saint Petersburg — FC Pskov — FC Pskov-2000 — FC Pskov-747 FC Radian-Baikal Irkutsk — FC Rassvet Troitskoye — FC Reformatsiya Abakan — FC Rekord Aleksandrov — FC Reutov — FC Ritm Alekseyevka — FC Ritm Belgorod — FC Roda Moscow — FC Rossia Moscow — FC Rostov — FC Rostselmash-2 Rostov-on-Don — FC Rostselmash Rostov-on-Don — FC Rotor-2 Mikhaylovka — FC Rotor-2 Volgograd — FC Rotor Volgograd — FC Rubin-2 Kazan — FC Rubin Kazan — FC Rubin-TAN Kazan — FC", "id": "14958458" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\n-autumn) Russian Amateur Football League, the fourth level overall. In the 2015 season Rotor won the Amateur League Chernozemye (South-West Region) division at the first attempt by 11 points, suffering only one defeat in 22 games. The 45,000-seater Pobeda Stadium is under construction on their old Central Stadium site, and it was reported in August 2015 that the first team are still interested in moving into the facility after the 2018 World Cup, which makes attaining a higher league status a priority. They were licensed for third", "id": "264680" }, { "contents": "2010–11 KHL season\n\n\nThe 2010–11 KHL season was the third season of the Kontinental Hockey League. It was held from 8 September 2010 and ended on 16 April 2011. The season started with the Opening Cup game between the last season's finalists, Ak Bars Kazan and UHC Dynamo, the new team that was created by merging last season's Western conference winner HC MVD with Dynamo Moscow. Salavat Yulaev Ufa won the Gagarin Cup and the Russian Championship after beating Atlant Moscow Oblast 4–1 in the play-off final series. Folding of Lada Togliatti Lada", "id": "10925021" }, { "contents": "1994 in Russian football\n\n\ntime at 2-2. Early stages of the Russian Cup 1994–95 were played later in the year. FC Spartak Moscow finished the group stage in third place, not qualifying for the semifinals. All the Russian participants were eliminated in 1993. FC Spartak Moscow qualified directly for the group stage. It did not qualify from the group, coming in third place. PFC CSKA Moscow were eliminated in the first round. FC Rotor Volgograd and FC Tekstilshchik Kamyshin were both eliminated by FC Nantes in the first and second round respectively,", "id": "17746833" }, { "contents": "Mikhail Osinov\n\n\nRussian Top Division side Rotor Volgograd. In 2001, Osinov was transferred to FC Rostov and stayed there for 9 years, suffering a relegation and helping the \"yellow-blues\" to return to the Premier League. He also holds the club record for league appearances with 239 games. In 2010, he returned to Yekaterinburg to play in the Russian First Division. In 2011, Osinov went to a lower league joining MITOS Novocherkassk of the Russian Second Division. On 11 September 2011, in a league game against Olimpia Gelendzhik Osinov", "id": "12015633" }, { "contents": "1990 Soviet Top League\n\n\non 1 March with the game between Dnipro and Rotor and lasted until 20 October 1990. The season was won by FC Dynamo Kyiv. The league was reduced to 13 after first Georgian clubs (Dinamo Tbilisi and Guria Lanchkhuti) and then Žalgiris withdrew from the Soviet Top League. Lokomotiv Moscow and the last placed Zenit Leningrad of the 1989 Soviet Top League were relegated to the 1990 Soviet First League. Lokomotiv returned to the Soviet First League after two seasons absence, while Zenit was relegated for the first time since being promoted back", "id": "831394" }, { "contents": "2010–11 KHL season\n\n\nTogliatti dropped out of the league and joined the Russian Major League instead, after failing to meet the league's financial requirements. Merger of HC MVD and Dynamo Moscow On 30 April 2010, it was announced that HC MVD would merge with Dynamo Moscow to form UHC Dynamo, which for the time being will play the majority of their games at Megasport Arena in Moscow, while also attempting to play some games in Balashikha. The current plan is to have a new, large and modernized arena constructed in Balashikha by 2012. Expansion", "id": "10925022" }, { "contents": "Dzmitry Rawneyka\n\n\nDzmitry Vasilevich Rawneyka (; ; born 13 May 1980) is a former Belarusian professional footballer. He is currently af part of the coaching staff of Belarus. Born in Grodno, Rawneyka began playing football in FC Neman Grodno's youth system. He joined the senior side and made his Belarusian Premier League debut in 1998. He had a spell in the Russian Premier League with FC Torpedo Moscow and FC Rotor Volgograd but has spent most of his playing career with Neman Grodno. Rawneyka has made eight appearances for the Belarus national football team", "id": "13999154" }, { "contents": "BC Krasny Oktyabr\n\n\nthe highest stage for Russian clubs. In the first season of Krasny Oktyabr in the VTB United League, it qualified for the playoffs by finishing in the 6th place in Group B. Also, European powerhouse CSKA Moscow was defeated by Krasny Oktyabr in the quarterfinals of the 2013–14 Russian Cup tournament. On August 30, 2016, the team was forced to leave the United League, because its home arena wasn't approved to host tournaments. The club usually played its home games at the 3,700 seat Volgograd Sports Palace of Trade Unions,", "id": "8073501" }, { "contents": "Igor Lediakhov\n\n\n-Don. In 1990, he joined FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk. After impressing with FC Rotor Volgograd, Lediakhov was bought by Soviet Union giants FC Spartak Moscow, being essential as the capital team conquered three consecutive league titles, which included the inaugural edition of the competition, as the player scored in double digits in two of the three seasons. In the 1994 summer, 26-year-old Lediakhov moved abroad, signing with Spain's Sporting de Gijón. Even though he netted nearly 50 overall goals for the club (17 in four", "id": "21673652" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\nnew stadium - provided they had a professional club to fill it after the tournament. Rotor, facing legal action and a transfer embargo due to their financial status, were not reliable candidates. The government created a new entity, FC Volgograd, intending to assume the Rotor name. In fact Rotor managed to co-exist with the new FC for the first half of the 2009 season, before Mikheev suspended operations and the government took ownership of the club and stadium from him. The two clubs were merged into one, and", "id": "264677" }, { "contents": "FC Lokomotiv Moscow\n\n\npoints after Gameweek 30. The game was played at Dynamo Stadium in front of a sold-out crowd. Lokomotiv took an early lead thanks a low drive from captain Dmitry Loskov, and eventually the goal turned out to be enough for Lokomotiv to claim the first title in the club's history. Two years later, Lokomotiv again won the Russian Premier League, edging city rivals CSKA by a single point; Lokomotiv defeated Shinnik Yaroslavl 0–2 in Yaroslavl, a week after CSKA fell to city rivals Dynamo at home. In 2005", "id": "10933606" }, { "contents": "1995–96 Manchester United F.C. season\n\n\nactually went top of the league after a goalless draw at Sheffield Wednesday towards the end of September, only for the Tynesiders to return to the top of the table soon after. Then came Cantona's comeback on 1 October, when he scored a penalty to equalise and hold Liverpool to a 2–2 draw Old Trafford. The autumn saw United suffer first-hurdle exits to York City in the League Cup and Rotor Volgograd in the UEFA Cup, although United did preserve their 39-year home unbeaten record in European competitions thanks to a late", "id": "9981632" }, { "contents": "1994–95 Russian Cup\n\n\nDynamo Moscow: Valeri Kleimyonov (GK), Yuri Kovtun (DF), Sergey Timofeev (DF), Andrei Chernyshov (DF), Aleksandr Borodkin (DF), Aleksei Filippov (DF), Vagiz Khidiyatullin (DF), Andrei Ivanov (DF), Denis Klyuyev (MF), Dmitri Cheryshev (FW), Igor Simutenkov (FW), Kirill Rybakov (FW), Yuri Tishkov (FW). FC Rotor Volgograd: Volodymyr Gerashchenko (DF), Aleksandr Yeshchenko (MF), Konstantin Kulik (", "id": "5392312" }, { "contents": "FC Olimpia Volgograd\n\n\nFC Olimpia Volgograd () is a Russian football team from the large city of Volgograd. They are the second- or third-largest club in the city after the famous Rotor Volgograd. From their founding in 1989 until 1997, the club participated in various youth leagues. Some time between 1993 and 1994 the Volgograd native Leonid Slutsky, future coach of the Russian national team, joined the training staff. Among the Olimpia youth players developed under Slutsky were Denis Kolodin, Roman Adamov, Andrei Bochkov, Maksim Burchenko and Aleksei Zhdanov,", "id": "21936806" }, { "contents": "Peter Schmeichel\n\n\na 2001 Reuters poll, he beat Lev Yashin and Gordon Banks to be named the finest keeper in football history. Despite being a goalkeeper, he would run into the attack on corner kicks if his team was behind. The sight of him going up for the corner was a great distraction to opposing defenders. He scored a goal in this fashion, for Man United, in a UEFA Cup match against Rotor Volgograd at Old Trafford in September 1995. He scored in the last minutes of the game to tie the match 2–2", "id": "19820283" }, { "contents": "Spartak Gogniyev\n\n\nSpartak Arturovich Gogniyev (, ; born 19 January 1981) is a Russian professional football coach and a former player. He is the manager of FC Alania Vladikavkaz. He made his debut in the Russian Premier League in 2000 for FC Dynamo Moscow. He played two games in the UEFA Cup 2000–01 for FC Dynamo Moscow and two games (scoring one goal) in the UEFA Champions League 2003–04 qualification round for PFC CSKA Moscow. In August 2018, it was announced that Spartak Gogniyev joined new FC Urozhay Krasnodar, but this was", "id": "7903306" }, { "contents": "Georgi Yartsev\n\n\nat the time, gave Yartsev a sabre as a birthday gift in a sideline pre-game ceremony. Yartsev got another head coach position soon enough, when he joined Rotor Volgograd in January 2000. However, he could not do much with that team either and was fired in June of same year. For the next 3 years he was the manager of the Spartak Moscow veterans team. In August 2003, Russia was very close to elimination from their Euro 2004 preliminary qualification group and the coach Valery Gazzayev, was fired.", "id": "15861320" }, { "contents": "FCSB\n\n\nUEFA ordered Steaua to play two home games of the Europa League behind closed doors due to their fans displaying racist banners in a second qualifying round match against Hungarian side Újpest. Three further incidents occurred in the 2014–15 season, with the club fined and ordered to play further games in an empty stadium after displays of racist banners in matches against Dynamo Kyiv, Ludogorets Razgrad and Strømsgodset. Steaua's most important rivalry is the one against Dinamo București. \"Eternul derby\" (\"The Eternal Derby\") has been the leading Romanian", "id": "19491084" }, { "contents": "2010 Russian First Division\n\n\n), Mordovia Saransk (Ural-Povolzhye) and Irtysh Omsk (East). Due to financial difficulties, Vityaz Podolsk who placed 11th in 2009, decided to give up their spot in the Russian First Division and participate in the Russian Second Division in 2010. Pending licensing, their place was taken by FC Volgograd who placed 3rd in the Russian Second Division (South Zone) in 2009. For the occasion the management decided to change the name of the club from FC Volgograd to Rotor Volgograd. FC Alania Vladikavkaz were promoted", "id": "7947305" }, { "contents": "Russian Women's Handball Super League\n\n\nThe Russian Women's Handball Superleague is the premier women's handball competition in Russia. Dinamo Volgograd, formerly known as Rotor and Akva, is the championship's most successful club as of 2019 with 12 titles. It also holds the record for consecutive wins, with six titles in a row. Currently eleven clubs take part in the competition, with the top eight playing the championship play-offs. The Russian Championship's leading teams have been successful in EHF's competitions. Zvezda Zvenigorod won the Champions League and the EHF Cup", "id": "8475941" }, { "contents": "Pavel Pogrebnyak\n\n\n's relegation, Pogrebnyak was linked with a move away from the club but did not leave. He scored his first goals in more than eight months after netting twice in a 3–1 win over Derby County in September 2013. On 27 August 2015 Pogrebnyak moved back to Russia, signing a three-year contract with Dynamo Moscow. Dynamo released him on 25 January 2018, citing disciplinary reasons, such as attending a Juventus - Inter Milan game in Italy on the same day Dynamo played a league game and participating in the annual exhibition", "id": "2040879" }, { "contents": "1996 in Russian football\n\n\nplayers (Stanislav Cherchesov, Viktor Onopko, Vasili Kulkov and Sergei Yuran) who played in the group stage where Spartak did not lose a single point left the club to move to Western European clubs in the winter before the quarterfinals. Nicolas Ouédec was instrumental again, after scoring 7 goals in 4 games against the Russian teams in the 1994–95 UEFA Cup, this time he scored 3 goals in two games against Spartak. FC Dynamo Moscow were eliminated in the quarterfinals. All the Russian teams were eliminated in 1995. FC Alania Vladikavkaz", "id": "22219347" }, { "contents": "Kamil Mullin\n\n\nKamil Shamilevich Mullin (, ; born 5 January 1994) is a Russian professional football player who plays for FC Rotor Volgograd. He plays as a forward. Mullin joined Lokomotiv academy at 16 years, and two years later made it to the youth squad. In total, he played 53 games for Lokomotiv U21 and scored 23 goals.br He made his debut for Lokomotiv first team in the 2012–13 Russian Cup game vs Torpedo Armavir on 26 September 2012.br In March 2013, Mullin for the first time was included into team sheet for the", "id": "2605760" }, { "contents": "FC Dynamo Moscow\n\n\nthe 2008 season, Dynamo finished third, qualifying for the 2009–10 Champions League preliminary round. On 29 July 2009, Dynamo recorded a 0–1 away win against Celtic at Celtic Park, which gave them a strong advantage going into the second leg. However, Celtic comfortably defeated Dynamo 0–2 in Moscow to progress, sending Dynamo into the Europa League play-off round where the club was eliminated by Bulgarian side CSKA Sofia after a 0–0 away draw in Sofia and a 1–2 home defeat in Moscow. In 2012, after a poor start", "id": "8644502" }, { "contents": "2013–14 Russian Premier League\n\n\n2014/15 season. The 13th and 14th Premier League teams will play the 4th and 3rd FNL teams respectively in two playoff games with the winner securing a Premier League spot for 2014/15 season. On 11 May 2014, the game between FC Zenit Saint Petersburg and FC Dynamo Moscow was interrupted in the 86th minute with Dynamo leading 4-2 when Zenit fans ran out of the stands. At first they stood behind the goal line, when the referee decided to take the teams off the field into the dressing rooms and teams began to", "id": "9911963" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\nthe third tier) in 1980 and 1981, and were successful in the promotion playoffs the second time. In 1988 Rotor finished second in the Soviet First League, earning promotion to the Soviet Top League. They finished 13th and last in the downsized 1990 competition after the Georgian and Lithuanian teams withdrew, and the decision was made to relegate them. However they bounced straight back as champions of the First League in 1991, thus becoming founder members of the new Russian Top Division after the USSR collapsed. In the mid-1990s, Rotor", "id": "264672" }, { "contents": "Bibras Natkho\n\n\n, Natkho scored two goals in the Champions League qualifier against Dynamo Kyiv and Lyon, who they eliminated Kazan out of the competitions and the club would play in the Europa League. Then in the Europa League campaign, Natkho scored twice in six matches in the Group Stage of the Europa League against Tottenham Hostpur and Shamrock Rovers. Natkho performance was praised for his role during the season and helped the club win the Russian Cup after playing a vital of assisting the winning goal, in a 1–0 win over Dynamo Moscow. Natkho would", "id": "21438585" }, { "contents": "Danil Lipovoy\n\n\nDanil Nikolayevich Lipovoy (; born 22 September 1999) is a Russian football player who plays for FC Dynamo Moscow. He made his debut in the Russian Professional Football League for FC Dynamo-2 Moscow on 2 April 2017 in a game against FC Dynamo Saint Petersburg. He made his debut for the main squad of FC Dynamo Moscow on 26 September 2018 in a Russian Cup game against FC Torpedo Moscow. He made Russian Premier League debut for Dynamo on 30 November 2018 in a game against FC Rubin Kazan, as a 64th-minute substitute", "id": "429351" }, { "contents": "FC Amkar Perm\n\n\n, having lost their Spring matches to Kuban Krasnodar (1–2) and Spartak Moscow (0–2). A series without a win followed the victory over Alania and after the Dynamo match Amkar lost to Terek Grozny (1–2) and Lokomotiv Moscow (2–4). After another devastating defeat from Kuban (0–4), followed by a victory over their direct rivals Rostov (3–2), and a goalless draw with Zenit, the club retained the right to play in the Premier League. In June 2013, the club opted not to", "id": "5030824" }, { "contents": "FC Shakhtar Donetsk\n\n\nminute Fedor Manov opened score to Donetsk team goals. Final score is 4:1 in favor of the hosts.\" Nonetheless, the selective job conducted constructively by the club's administration allowed the club to compete successfully at the top level by the end of the 1930s. During the \"war championship\" of 1941, which was interrupted unexpectedly, the club defeated Soviet champions Dynamo Moscow and after about ten games were placed in fifth in the league. In the last game of that championship, played on 24 June, two days after", "id": "14103740" }, { "contents": "Oleg Veretennikov\n\n\nOleg Aleksandrovich Veretennikov (; born 5 January 1970) is a professional Russian association football coach and a former international footballer. He manages Rotor-2 Volograd. He is the top goalscorer in the history of Russian Premier League, and holds several other goalscoring records. Most of Veretennikov's successes have come with SC Rotor Volgograd, for whom he played in 1992–1999. During that time he scored 143 goals, which makes him the best goalscorer in the Russian Premier League history (the next best goalscorer, Dmitry Loskov, has 109 goals as of", "id": "21553966" }, { "contents": "Sergei Pareiko\n\n\nSergei Pareiko (born 31 January 1977) is a retired Estonian footballer. He is currently the sporting director of Estonian football club Levadia. Pareiko played as a goalkeeper in Estonian, Russian and Polish top tiers. He made a total of 65 appearances for the Estonia national football team. In Estonia, Pareiko played for Tallinna Sadam and Levadia Maardu, before moving to Russia in 2001, when he signed with Rotor Volgograd. After Rotor were relegated, Pareiko moved to Tom Tomsk. At the end of 2009 season Pareiko was named", "id": "11658849" }, { "contents": "FC Dinamo Tbilisi\n\n\nIn this period Dinamo won the Soviet Cup for the first time in their history, convincingly defeating Armenian side Ararat Yerevan 3–0 in the final, with goals scored by David Kipiani, Piruz Kanteladze and Revaz Chelebadze. In 1978 the club won the Soviet Top League for a second time. Next year Dinamo won the Soviet Cup again by defeating Russian side Dynamo Moscow in the final. In 1979 the club played its first match in the UEFA European Cup tournament. In the first round Dinamo knocked out English side Liverpool, at the", "id": "10097459" }, { "contents": "Romelu Lukaku\n\n\nlater at home to West Ham. Lukaku scored twice in a 4–0 win, becoming the fourth Manchester United player to score two goals on his Premier League debut for the club. On 17 September, Lukaku scored United's third goal in a 4–0 win over his former club Everton, with Lukaku running over towards Everton fans and cupping his ears during his goal celebration in response to being booed throughout the game. On 27 September, Lukaku scored twice in a 4–1 UEFA Champions League win over CSKA Moscow, taking his tally to", "id": "1117930" }, { "contents": "Dynamo Dresden\n\n\none Game behind closed doors and one away game without own fan support. Virtual tickets were offered to reduce the financial loss, creating \"the first sold-out Ghost Game in history\". The 2012–13 season started poorly for Dynamo and Ralf Loose was sacked in December 2012 after a 3–0 defeat to VfL Bochum with the team in 15th place. He was replaced by Peter Pacult, returning to the club after more than six years. Dynamo's form improved after Pacult's arrival but the team still finished the league as 16th", "id": "11366777" }, { "contents": "Aleksandr Tashayev\n\n\nAleksandr Mikhailovich Tashayev (; born 23 June 1994) is a Russian professional football player who plays as a left midfielder for Spartak Moscow. He made his professional debut on 11 December 2014 for FC Dynamo Moscow in a 2014–15 UEFA Europa League group game against PSV Eindhoven. He also played in the Round of 16 away game against Napoli. On 6 July 2018, he signed a contract with the cross-city rivals FC Spartak Moscow, after buying out own contract from Dynamo and becoming a free agent. Dynamo unsuccessfully sued to deem", "id": "13552247" }, { "contents": "Dynamo Moscow Bandy Club\n\n\nthe end of the 2004–05 season, almost all players of the for a decade dominant Vodnik signed up for Dynamo Moscow, resulting in an immediate Russian League title in 2006. Dynamo Moscow won the World Cup for the first time in 2006, defeating Zorky in the final. The 2006 domestic title was followed by another four consecutive Russian championship titles and as one of the dominating teams in the following years too, until 2017, when they missed the championship play-off, only coming in at eighth place in the regular season", "id": "1825162" }, { "contents": "Handball Club Lada\n\n\nHandball Club Lada is a Russian women's handball club from Tolyatti playing in the Russian Super League. Founded in 1998, Lada soon became the leading team in the Super League winning five championships in a row between 2002 and 2006 and a sixth one in 2008. It also built itself a name in Europe winning the 2002 Cup Winners' Cup in its international debut and reaching the final of the 2007 Champions League and the next edition's semifinals. The following three seasons were less successful, with Dynamo Volgograd retrieving the leading position", "id": "9114247" }, { "contents": "Omari Tetradze\n\n\n– Tetradze. Later he considered restoring his original surname, but decided it would cause too many problems. At club level, he played for Dinamo Tbilisi, FC Dynamo Moscow, Alania Vladikavkaz (where he won a Russian league championship medal in 1995), AS Roma, and PAOK FC (Greece). He played for Russia at international level, and appeared at World Cup 1994 and Euro 1996. At the latter tournament, he played superbly in each of Russia's three games despite the team's poor results, and", "id": "17559889" }, { "contents": "FC Girondins de Bordeaux\n\n\nclub was relegated just two years thereafter. In 1992, however, \"Les Girondins\" won that year's Ligue 2 title, thus being elevated to the top tier of French football. In the emergence of young and exciting players such as playmaker Zinedine Zidane, striker Christophe Dugarry and left back Bixente Lizarazu, the club ascended even higher to win the UEFA Intertoto Cup in 1995. With this talented trio, the club defeated FC Rotor Volgograd (the 1995 King's Cup Winner), Real Betis, Milan and Slavia Prague", "id": "10933676" }, { "contents": "Yuriy Hudymenko\n\n\nYuriy Arkadiyovych Hudymenko (; born 3 October 1966) is a former Kyrgyz-born Ukrainian professional footballer. Hudymenko is a product of the main Bishkek sports school and later was accepted to the main republican club of Kyrgyzia, FC Alga Bishkek. In 1990 he made his debut in the Soviet Top League playing for FC Dnepr Dnepropetrovsk, but failed to score any goals in domestic competitions, but did score a goal against Heart of Midlothian F.C. in the 1990-91 UEFA Cup. Next year Hudymenko joined recently relegated FC Rotor Volgograd that", "id": "11637137" }, { "contents": "Valery Gazzaev\n\n\na second-place finish at the end of the season. However, Gazzaev was left behind in the first league in Spartak Ordzhonikidze, as he wasn't one of the main players of the SKA Rostov-on-Don. In the Soviet Top League, Gazzaev played in Lokomotiv Moscow, Dynamo Moscow, and Dinamo Tbilisi. Gazzaev is a Soviet Cup winner with Dynamo Moscow in 1984. During his career he scored 89 goals in 283 matches in Soviet Top League, and was the top goal scorer of the UEFA Cup", "id": "3537187" }, { "contents": "FC Amkar Perm\n\n\nAmkar was in third place in the standings, one point behind second-placed Spartak Moscow and six adrift of leaders Rubin Kazan. After the break, one of Amkar's team leaders, Vladimir Gabulov, and the captain, Aleksei Popov, left the team to join Dynamo Moscow and Rubin Kazan respectively. Two matches in a row on the \"equator\" of the Championship Amkar could have topped the league table but was unable to beat Tom Tomsk and Spartak Nalchik at home. On 16 November, after beating Tom in Tomsk", "id": "5030813" }, { "contents": "FC Rubin Kazan\n\n\nfixed after selling in Volgograd \"Rotor\" team leaders Oleg Nechaev and Rustem Khuzin (but soon returned to \"Rubin\" till the end of the season on loan). In the end the season Kazan finished on 8th place, only losing a point to Nizhnekamsk \"Neftechimik\" and dropped into the second league. The following year, 1994, coaches Zadikashvili and Semenov assemble a team literally bit by bit. Because of the continuing financial problems from the last season in the team left only 6 players: Grishin, Danilin,", "id": "19815661" }, { "contents": "Nikita Chernov\n\n\nNikita Aleksandrovich Chernov (; born 14 January 1996) is a Russian professional football player who plays as a centre-back for Krylia Sovetov Samara and Russia national football team. Born in Volzhsky, Volgograd Oblast, Chernov began his career at hometown team FC Energiya Volzhsky before joining CSKA Moscow in 2009. He made his professional debut on 24 September 2014 in a Russian Cup game against FC Khimik Dzerzhinsk. He also played in the next Russian Cup round against FC Torpedo Moscow on 29 October. On 30 July 2019, Chernov moved from", "id": "503700" }, { "contents": "KF Skënderbeu Korçë\n\n\nBeşiktaş, Lokomotiv Moscow and Sporting Clube de Portugal. In matchday 1, their first ever group stage game, the club was defeated at home 0–1 by Beşiktaş after a hard fight between the two sides. In the next matchday, they lost 0–2 to Lokomotiv Moscow in Moscow. Their worst defeat in the European competition yet came the next matchday, a storming 1–5 loss to Sporting in the away leg at Lisbon, but also had the Albanian side scoring their first goal in the UEFA Europa League group stages. In the home", "id": "1409695" }, { "contents": "FC Dynamo Kyiv\n\n\nand Maccabi Tel Aviv F.C. Dynamo finished in second place with 11 points after a spectacular performance and a memorable 0–2 in Porto. However, Dynamo was punished by UEFA for a racist incident in the home game against Chelsea where four black men were attacked in the stands by Dynamo fans. Despite this, Dynamo reached the round of 16 in the Champions League for the first time since 2000, where it was drawn with Manchester City. Dynamo was eliminated 1–3 on aggregate but managed to hold an impressive 0–0 draw in Manchester. Dynamo", "id": "18770189" }, { "contents": "Konstantin Kovalenko\n\n\nKonstantin Valeryevich Kovalenko (; ; born 2 February 1975) is a Belarusian and Russian professional footballer who plays for resurrected FC Kuban Krasnodar. He made his professional debut in the Soviet Second League in 1991 for FC Kuban Barannikovsky. He played 1 game in the 1996–97 UEFA Cup for FC Spartak Moscow. His brother Andrei Kovalenko also played football professionally. On 27 October 2008 he punched referee Sergei Timofeyev in the face in the Russian Second Division game FC Sochi-04 - FC Olimpia Volgograd. He was banned from football for a year. Spartak", "id": "1118096" }, { "contents": "Clinton N'Jie\n\n\nDimitri Payet and scored two goals in a 3–0 win. On 17 September, he scored both the goals in the away win over Amiens. On 3 May 2018, he played in the Europa League semi-finals away to FC Red Bull Salzburg as Marseille played out a 2–1 away loss but a 3–2 aggregate win to secure a place in the 2018 UEFA Europa League Final. On 25 July 2019, Njie signed a 4-year contract with Russian Premier League club Dynamo Moscow. N'Jie scored 44 minutes into his Cameroon debut against the", "id": "16847587" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\ntime they were able to consolidate in the National League, finishing 9th and then 14th. But financial troubles continued. A Ministry of Sport investigation found evidence of financial misconduct by club management along with substantial overspending, and regional Governor Andrey Bocharov announced after the 2013 season that government support for Rotor was being withdrawn. The club dropped back into the Second Division (renamed the Professional Football League) for the first half of the 2014–15 (autumn-spring) season, then withdrew in order to immediately transfer to the 2015 (spring", "id": "264679" }, { "contents": "2001 FC Anzhi Makhachkala season\n\n\nThe 2001 FC Anzhi Makhachkala season was the 2nd season that the club played in the Russian Top Division, the highest tier of football in Russia, following their promotion from the National Football League in 1999. They finished the season in 13th, were runners-up in the 2001-02 cup and reached the Sixth Round of the 2002-03 cup losing to Dynamo Moscow, and were knocked out of the UEFA Cup at the First Round stage after a 0-1 defeat to Rangers over one leg in Warsaw, Poland", "id": "4897180" }, { "contents": "FC Dynamo-2 Moscow\n\n\nFC Dynamo-2 Moscow () was a Russian football team from Moscow. It was the farm-club for FC Dynamo Moscow. In 2016, it was revived after the parent club, Dynamo, was relegated from the Russian Football Premier League (which holds its own competition for the Under-21 teams of the Premier League clubs) and licensed to play in the third-tier Russian Professional Football League for the 2016–17 season. Majority of the squad participated in the 2016–17 UEFA Youth League as well. On 17 June 2017, the parent", "id": "19064817" }, { "contents": "Mikhail Markosov\n\n\nDivision South Zone, scoring 27 goals, a feat no one in the entire Second Division surpassed. In the 2010 season, he played for FC Rotor Volgograd and came back to FC Dynamo Stavropol the next season. Scoring 10 goals in his first 10 matches for Dynamo, Markosov was transferred in the summer transfer window of the 2011-12 season to FC Ufa. From April until June 2019 Markosov played for FC Kuban Krasnodar, scored 7 goals in 11 matches. He joined the Armenia national football team in 2013. Markosov", "id": "12122198" }, { "contents": "1993 in Russian football\n\n\ntheir group campaign and finished it without much success, only gaining 2 points in 6 games, coming in last in the group and suffering a 0-6 defeat against Marseille. They could not play their home games in Moscow due to the lack of a stadium meeting the Champions League standards at the time. FC Spartak Moscow reached the semifinals, tying the best European result in club's history. FC Spartak Moscow qualified for the group stage and continued to play in the group into the 1994. FC Torpedo Moscow went out", "id": "21710373" }, { "contents": "2002 in Russian football\n\n\nrespective Second Division zones: The Russian Cup was won by CSKA Moscow, who beat Zenit Saint Petersburg 2–0 in the final at the Luzhniki Stadium. Lokomotiv Moscow participated in the third round of the UEFA Cup 2001-02, but were knocked out by Hapoel Tel Aviv FC who won 3–1 on aggregate. Krylya Sovetov Samara played in the UEFA Intertoto Cup 2002. After defeating Dinaburg FC in the second round they lost to Willem II Tilburg on away goals. Lokomotiv Moscow's victory over Grazer AK ensured there are two Russian clubs", "id": "11619883" }, { "contents": "FC Dynamo Moscow\n\n\nFC Dynamo Moscow (Dinamo Moscow, FC Dinamo Moskva, ) is a Russian football club based in Moscow. Dynamo has returned to the Russian Premier League for the 2017–18 season after one season in the second-tier Russian Football National League. Dynamo was the only club that had always played in the top tier of Soviet football (along with Dynamo Kyiv) and of Russian football from the end of the Soviet era until they were relegated in 2016. Despite this, it has never won the modern Russian Premier League title and", "id": "8644495" }, { "contents": "Nikita Lyamin\n\n\nIn 2004, he played three season in the farm team and two more seasons in the main team for Dynamo Moscow. Dynamo Moscow became champions at the 2007–08 Russian Volleyball Super League, but Lyamin due to low game practice quit the club. Lyamin moved to Nizhny Novgorod and became captain of Guberniya, which went on debuting in the B-division of the highest national league. In the two years, Guberniya could enter the Super League, and in the 2012–13 it became one of the leading clubs in Russia. Guberniya qualified", "id": "8669287" }, { "contents": "Leonid Slutsky (football coach)\n\n\nLeonid Viktorovich Slutsky (; born 4 May 1971) is a Russian professional football coach and former player who is the manager of Eredivisie club Vitesse. Previously, he has been in charge of Olimpia Volgograd, Uralan Elista, Moscow, Krylia Sovetov, CSKA Moscow, Russia and Hull City. Slutsky was born in Volgograd. Slutsky's playing career with FC Zvezda Gorodishche ended at just 19 years of age. He had to retire due to a knee injury sustained after falling out of a tree while rescuing a neighbour's cat. Slutsky", "id": "11710104" }, { "contents": "Yuri Kovtun\n\n\nduring the season so two top teams were interested in him at the same time, it's Dynamo and Spartak Moscow. In 1993, Kovtun chose Dynamo Moscow and was their key player for years, until his move to Spartak in 1999. While the only Kovtun's honour during 6 years in Dynamo was Russian Cup in 1995, he could get 3 titles in 1999, 2000 and 2001 after joining Spartak. Moreover, he took part in numerous UEFA Champions League games and found himself regular Russian national football team player. Kovtun", "id": "2071460" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\n-tier Russian Professional Football League for the 2016–17 season. They won their zone of the PFL in the 2016–17 season and were promoted to the second-level Russian National Football League for 2017–18. Despite ending the 2017–18 season in the relegation zone, the club stayed in the league for the 2018–19 season as another team that finished above them in the table failed to obtain the league license. As of 5 July 2019, according to the FNL website. Had international caps for their respective countries. Players whose name is listed in", "id": "264681" }, { "contents": "Dmitri Khokhlov\n\n\nDmitri Valeryevich Khokhlov (, born 22 December 1975) is a Russian football manager and a former player. He is the manager of FC Dynamo Moscow. He played as a holding midfielder or playmaker. He played for PFC CSKA Moscow and FC Lokomotiv Moscow in native Russia, having abroad spells with PSV Eindhoven (Netherlands) and Real Sociedad (Spain). During his time with FC Lokomotiv Moscow he participated in their memorable 2003–04 UEFA Champions League campaign, scoring third goal in the 3–0 home victory against Internazionale. He played for", "id": "19054427" }, { "contents": "Racism in association football\n\n\nagainst CSKA Moscow in Russia. The club's stadium was partially closed as punishment. Touré suggested that black players might boycott the 2018 FIFA World Cup, to be held in Russia, if racism continued in the country. In September 2014, Dynamo Moscow defender Christopher Samba was racially abused playing in the Moscow derby against Torpedo Moscow. As a result, Torpedo were forced to close part of their stadium, although Samba was also banned for two games for swearing at the racist fans. In a friendly match (Russia vrs France", "id": "21349703" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\nTraktor Stalingrad to national prominence. Traktor were champions of the new fourth-level Group G in 1937, and were then promoted straight to the highest-level Group A as it expanded from 9 clubs to 26. They remained at the top level until 1950. Rotor then spent three decades at the top regional level, although the creation of the Supreme League in 1970 pushed their league from the second level overall down to the third. They gradually improved throughout the 1970s and finally won Zone III of the Soviet Second League (", "id": "264671" }, { "contents": "WPC Dynamo Moscow\n\n\nWPC Dynamo Moscow () is a Russian men's water polo club, that is part of the traditional Moscow-based multi-sports club Dynamo. Dynamo won seven Soviet Championships between 1955 and 1962, and in 1964 it was the first team to represent the in the newly European Champions Cup, ranking second behind Partizan. In 1968 and 1969 the team won two more national championships, and it also reached the 1969 European Cup's final, lost to Mladost. For the next fifteen years Dynamo didn't win any more", "id": "18685765" }, { "contents": "Kyle Hines\n\n\ngreat Olympiacos comeback in 4th quarter, led by Vassilis Spanoulis. CSKA Moscow eventually won the EuroLeague third place game, after defeating Fenerbahçe, by a score of 86–80. In his second EuroLeague season with CSKA Moscow, Hines averaged a career-low 6.8 points and 4.3 rebounds per game, over 30 games played. CSKA Moscow finished the season by winning the VTB United League, after eliminating Khimki with a 3–0 series sweep in the League's finals series. On June 17, 2015, he signed a two-year contract", "id": "14695455" }, { "contents": "Miroslav Raičević\n\n\nfinal decisive shot in the very last seconds of the final game against Prokom Trefl Sopot. He also won the Greek Cup with Aris, in the year 2004. He has also played with Red Star Belgrade of the Adriatic League during the 2005–06 season. He won the Serbian Cup with Red Star that season. In the 2006–07 season, he played with the Russian Super League club Dynamo Moscow. During summer of 2007, he left Dynamo Moscow and joined the Italian League club Eldo Napoli. He then left Napoli and moved back", "id": "13596698" } ]

[ { "contents": "1996 in Russian football\n\n\nwas knocked out in the qualifying round. FC Lokomotiv Moscow went out in the second round. PFC CSKA Moscow, FC Dynamo Moscow and FC Torpedo-Luzhniki Moscow were eliminated in the first round after going through the qualifying round. FC Alania Vladikavkaz went out in the first round after going to the UEFA Cup after failing in the qualification for the Champions League. FC Spartak Moscow went out in the second round. Russian clubs participated in the Intertoto Cup for the first time. FC Rotor Volgograd, FC KAMAZ-Chally Naberezhnye", "id": "22219348" }, { "contents": "1995 in Russian football\n\n\nthe Russian Cup 1995–96 were played later in the year. All the Russian participants were eliminated in 1994. FC Spartak Moscow won every game in their group, qualifying for the quarterfinals. FC Dynamo Moscow advanced through the first two rounds, qualifying to play in the quarterfinals next spring. FC Spartak-Alania Vladikavkaz and FC Lokomotiv Moscow were eliminated in the first round by strong opponents (even though Lokomotiv very unexpectedly beat FC Bayern in Munich in the first game). FC Rotor Volgograd eliminated Manchester United F.C. in the first round", "id": "18335625" }, { "contents": "Maksim Nenakhov\n\n\nMaksim Maksimovich Nenakhov (; born 13 December 1998) is a Russian football player who plays for FC Rotor Volgograd. He made his debut in the Russian Professional Football League for FC Dynamo-2 Moscow on 20 July 2016 in a game against FC Tekstilshchik Ivanovo. On 19 January 2018, he was loaned to FC Tyumen until the end of the 2017–18 season. On 14 June 2018, he moved on another loan for the 2018–19 season to FC SKA-Khabarovsk. On 18 June 2019, he signed a 2-year contract with FC Rotor Volgograd", "id": "6983587" }, { "contents": "Almir Kayumov\n\n\nAlmir Izmailovich Kayumov (; 30 December 1964 – 7 August 2013) was a Russian football player and referee. Kayumov played for FC Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk, FC Lada Togliatti, Spartak Moscow, Rotor Volgograd, SKA Rostov-on-Don, in Russia, the Daewoo Royals in South Korea, and Kuopion Palloseura in Finland. He played 6 games in the UEFA Cup 1986–87 for FC Spartak Moscow. On November 9, 2009, it was reported that Kayumov attempted to commit suicide by jumping out of his apartment window. Police negotiators talked", "id": "14510549" }, { "contents": "Ruslan Ishkinin\n\n\nRuslan Kamilyevich Ishkinin (; born 14 June 1974) is a former Russian professional footballer. He made his professional debut in the Russian Second Division in 1992 for FC Dynamo-2 Moscow. The most memorable match of his career was played on 14 June 1995. His team FC Dynamo Moscow was playing FC Rotor Volgograd in the final game of the Russian Cup. Dynamo was decimated by injuries and several reserve players, including Ishkinin, were called up for the game. With 5 minutes to go in regulation and the score of 0–0, Ishkinin", "id": "2479621" }, { "contents": "1997 in Russian football\n\n\nthe year. Russian teams were eliminated in 1996. FC Spartak Moscow were eliminated in the second qualifying round and went on to the UEFA Cup. FC Lokomotiv Moscow qualified for the quarterfinals stage that was played in 1998. FC Spartak Moscow qualified for the quarterfinals stage that was played in 1998. FC Rotor Volgograd reached the second round. FC Alania Vladikavkaz went out in the first round. The goal in the stadium was measured before the game and turned out to be 2.46 meters high instead of regulation 2.44. The referee decided", "id": "20500131" }, { "contents": "2012–13 Russian Premier League\n\n\naltogether if the game is awarded to Dynamo. According to the police, the main suspect is a female fan who was arrested after the game. The criminal investigation was opened on the charge of hooliganism. On 22 November, Russian Football Union's Control-Disciplinary Committee awarded the game to Dynamo with a score of 3–0 and fined both clubs. Dynamo had to play their next home game (against Rubin Kazan) behind closed doors and Zenit had to play their next 2 home games (against CSKA Moscow and Anzhi Makhachkala)", "id": "321372" }, { "contents": "Yuriy Kalitvintsev\n\n\nfor FC Desna Chernihiv. A Russian-born Kalitvintsev chose to play for the Ukraine side after breaking through as a midfielder for Dynamo Kyiv. Until 1994 he played he spent his playing career at Russian clubs such as FC Rotor Volgograd, FC SKA Rostov-on-Don, FC Dynamo Moscow, and FC Lokomotiv Nizhny Novgorod. It wasn't until the reorganization of the soviet football when he started to play at the top level of the Russian championship starting for the Moscow's Dynamo. After being transferred to the fading club", "id": "20481933" }, { "contents": "Sergei Bogomolov\n\n\nSergei Anatolyevich Bogomolov (; born 17 August 1971) is a former Russian professional footballer. During his time with FC Dynamo Moscow he only played in a single game for the main team, but it was a very memorable one. On 14 June 1995, Dynamo was playing FC Rotor Volgograd in the final game of the 1994–95 Russian Cup. Dynamo was hurt by injuries to some first team regulars and several reserve players, including Bogomolov, were called up for the game. With the score of 0:0 and 10 minutes to go in", "id": "18632079" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\nwas one of the strongest clubs in Russia, rivalling Spartak Moscow for the championship, yet never winning it. Rotor became the league runners-up in 1993 and 1997. Rotor played five successive seasons in European competition, from 1994-95 to 1998-99. They qualified for the UEFA Cup through their league position every year except 1996-97, when they instead chose to enter the Intertoto Cup. Unfortunately for Rotor, the fall of communism had left all the former Eastern Bloc leagues badly under-resourced compared to", "id": "264673" }, { "contents": "1995 in Russian football\n\n\n1995 was the fourth season Russia held its own national football competition since the breakup of the Soviet Union. FC Spartak-Alania Vladikavkaz won the league for the first time ever. This was the first season 3 points were awarded for a win instead of two. For more details, see: The third edition of the Russian Cup, Russian Cup 1994–95 was won by FC Dynamo Moscow, who beat FC Rotor Volgograd in the finals in a shootout 8-7 after finishing extra time at 0-0. Early stages of", "id": "18335624" }, { "contents": "Maxim Chuzhkov\n\n\nMaxim Aleksandrovich Chuzhkov (; born 11 April 1987) is a Russian beach soccer player serving as goalkeeper. He is a three-time national champion for three different clubs (Rotor Volgograd, Lokomotiv Moscow, Kristall). Maxim Chuzhkov was born in Samara. He was a gymnast for six years before switching to football. Chuzhkov discovered beach soccer in 2010, and one year later he joined Krylya Sovetov from Samara. From 2012 to 2014 he played for Rotor Volgograd, winning with them the club's first and only Russian Beach Soccer", "id": "21454463" }, { "contents": "1991 Soviet Top League\n\n\nseason, while FC Rotor Volgograd and FC Tiligul Tiraspol would have been promoted to the Top League for 1992. Top six clubs of the league later entered European competitions for their respective nations. The Ukrainian clubs chose to qualify through a separate national competition. The league was expanded to 16 after the last season, during which number of clubs left the Soviet competitions (from Georgia and Baltic states). The last-placed FC Rotor Volgograd of the 1990 Soviet Top League lost promotion/relegation playoff to Lokomotiv Moscow and was relegated", "id": "831265" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor-2 Volgograd\n\n\nFC Rotor-2 Volgograd () is a Russian football team based in Volgograd. It is the farm club for FC Rotor Volgograd. It previously played professionally as FC Rotor-d Volgograd or FC Rotor-2 Volgograd in the Russian Second Division in 1992–1993, 1998–2000 and 2004 and Russian Third League in 1994-1997. They came in 3rd place in their Second Division zone in 1993. In 2001, the reserves tournament for Russian Premier League was re-established and the reserves team played there while the main team stayed in Premier League.", "id": "5758261" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\nFC Rotor Volgograd () is a Russian football (soccer) club from the large city of Volgograd, Volgograd Oblast (formerly Stalingrad). The club plays in the second-level Russian National Football League. They are the largest and best supported Volgograd club and for most of their existence have been the city's only representatives in the national league system. They played at the top level of Soviet/Russian football either side of World War II, from 1989 to 1990, and from 1991 to 2004. During the 1990s", "id": "264669" }, { "contents": "Wisdom Mumba Chansa\n\n\nand Derby Makinka, to play in the Soviet Top League when they all signed for Pomir Dushanbe in 1989 after being spotted during their 4-0 win over Italy at the 1988 Olympics. Chansa's debut came on 2 October 1989 in an away match against Torpedo Moscow, before appearing twice more, against Rotor Volgograd and Metalist Kharkiv, before leaving at the conclusion of the 1989 season. Chansa returned to Power Dynamos following his Soviet experience, and was made captain before Power Dynamos became the first Zambian club side to win a", "id": "5300924" }, { "contents": "FC Volgograd\n\n\nFC Volgograd () is a former name of the Russian football club from Volgograd, founded in late 2008, currently known as FC Rotor Volgograd. Before it was founded, it was originally supposed to be called FC Rotor-Volgograd Volgograd (to keep Rotor's name around at the time FC Rotor Volgograd was close to bankruptcy). However, FC Rotor's financial situation has improved by early 2009 and the club was registered as FC Volgograd. It played in the Russian Second Division in 2009. It took over the license", "id": "6725532" }, { "contents": "Roman Pavlyuchenko\n\n\nRoman Anatolyevich Pavlyuchenko (; born 15 December 1981) is a Russian footballer who plays as a striker for FC Znamya Noginsk. He started his career at Dynamo Stavropol, and Rotor Volgograd, before transferring to Spartak Moscow in 2003. His performances there earned him a £13.7 million transfer to Tottenham Hotspur of the English Premier League in 2008, where he spent three full seasons before returning to Russia to play for Lokomotiv Moscow. After another full 3 seasons he moved in July 2015, to Kuban Krasnodar. A full international for a", "id": "3367200" }, { "contents": "Anton Miranchuk\n\n\nAnton Andreyevich Miranchuk (; born 17 October 1995) is a Russian professional football player who plays as a centre midfielder or attacking midfielder for Lokomotiv Moscow and the Russia national team. Born in Slavyansk-na-Kubani, Miranchuk joined Spartak Moscow from his hometown football school Olymp. He was dismissed from the club because of weak physical abilities. After that, he and his twin brother Aleksei moved to Lokomotiv Moscow. On 30 October 2013, Miranchuk made his competitive debut in senior football in a Russian Cup game against Rotor Volgograd replacing", "id": "1404526" }, { "contents": "Dmitry Pletnyov (footballer)\n\n\nDmitry Andreyevich Pletnyov (; born 16 January 1998) is a Russian football player. He plays for FC Tom Tomsk in Russian Football National League. He made his debut in the Russian Football National League for FC Zenit-2 Saint Petersburg on 6 September 2017 in a game against FC Rotor Volgograd. He made his Russian Premier League debut for FC Zenit Saint Petersburg on 5 May 2018 in a game against FC Lokomotiv Moscow. He played for Russia national under-17 football team at the 2015 UEFA European Under-17 Championship and 2015 FIFA U-17 World Cup.", "id": "21412634" }, { "contents": "2004 in Russian football\n\n\nseason. Andrey Fedkov of Terek became the top goalscorer with 38 goals. The following clubs have earned promotion by winning tournaments in their respective Second Division zones: Prior to start of the 2005 season three clubs (Rotor Volgograd, Torpedo Vladimir, and Arsenal Tula) refused participation in the First Division, and two more clubs (Dynamo Stavropol and Chernomorets Novorossiysk) were denied licences. This made way for the runners-up of all five zones: The Russian Super Cup match between CSKA Moscow and Spartak Moscow was won by CSKA", "id": "6344061" }, { "contents": "Dmitry Shishin\n\n\nnational beach soccer team. That year Shishin participated at the Russian Championship as player of Samarian Sputnik and debuted for the national team at the Beach Soccer World Cup. After Sputnik, Shishin for a long time played for different Saratov clubs, such as Rosagro, Biznes-Pravo, Delta. In 2011, Shishin moved to Lokomotiv Moscow, where he won the championship trophy with his team. Together with the Lokomotives he won another national championship trophy and two Russian cups. In 2013, Shishin surprisingly switched to Rotor Volgograd, becoming", "id": "12194946" }, { "contents": "2009 Russian Second Division\n\n\nJuly 2009 Oleg Mikheyev, president of FC Rotor Volgograd, announced Rotor's resignation from the league, citing problems with authorities. They have played 18 games and were in the 13th position with 21 points. \"Source: [PFL] , Sporbox.ru \" On 11 July 2009, the management of FC Spartak Shchyolkovo announced that the club would resign from the league after the first half of the season because of economic problems. Spartak were excluded from the league on August 4, 2009. They have played 18 games and were in", "id": "21482663" }, { "contents": "FC Olimpia Volgograd\n\n\nuntil 2008, though their fortunes faded after Slutsky's players left. Before the 2009 season their professional license was taken over by the new club FC Volgograd. This was meant to allow FC to assume the name and identity of Rotor who were suffering off-field troubles, but Rotor survived and ended up playing simultaneously with the new FC in 2009, while Olimpia dropped into the Volgograd Oblast Championship. They stayed there until 2011, winning the title in 2010. With confusion ongoing over the future of the Rotor name and club", "id": "21936808" }, { "contents": "Sergei Rashevsky\n\n\nSergei Aleksandrovich Rashevsky (; born 13 June 1980) is a Russian football coach and a former player. He is an assistant coach with FC Rotor Volgograd. He made his debut in the Russian Premier League in 2001 for FC Rotor Volgograd, before moving to Ural in 2005. After several seasons playing for different clubs in Russia, Rashevsky signed with Volga in 2008. He played for the club for three years, before he returned to Ural in 2011. Since February 2014, he played for the Russian National Football League side Yenisey", "id": "8136441" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\nthe new Rotor Volgograd were promoted to the second-level Russian Football National League thanks to teams above them withdrawing. The regional Ministry of Sport invested 150 million roubles ($4.9m) in the club's playing budget for the 2010 campaign, but it ended in failure as Rotor were relegated in 17th place. Governor Brovko admitted that the transition to the higher level was made too quickly. Former club player Sergei Nechay took over management and steered the team to promotion as champions of their Second Division zone in 2011–12. This", "id": "264678" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\ntheir Western counterparts, and indeed Rotor were knocked out by all four of the French and Italian clubs they played. The exception came against England's Manchester United in 1995-96. Having drawn the home leg 0-0, Rotor raced into a 2-0 lead at Old Trafford before United scored their first goal. Rotor were seconds away from being the first European club to win at Old Trafford when United's goalkeeper Peter Schmeichel scored a famous equaliser, but the 2-2 draw meant Rotor progressed by the away", "id": "264674" }, { "contents": "Roman Pavlyuchenko\n\n\na 1-0 loss against Moscow on 5 April 1999. On 15 May 1999, Pavlyuchenko provided a double assist in a 2-1 win over Chita. In his first season, Pavlyuchenko made 31 appearance and scoring 11 goals. However, the club played was still relegated to the Second Division after the club was last place. Despite this, Pavlyuchenko was named 'Team of the top' junior division for the first version of the newspaper Sport Express. Pavlyuchenko moved to Rotor Volgograd in 2000, although the move was", "id": "3367203" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\ntheir professional licence entirely. Rotor's reserve side in the Russian Second Division, Rotor-2 Volgograd, became the club's first team and was renamed Rotor in 2006. In 2007 local businessman Oleg Mikheev acquired the club's main asset the Volgograd Central Stadium, and with it effective control over the club, but financial troubles continued and the team's performances in the Second Division declined. Matters came to a head in 2009. Russia had officially launched its bid for the FIFA World Cup 2018 and Volgograd city was in line for a", "id": "264676" }, { "contents": "1988 Soviet Cup Final\n\n\nThe 1988 Soviet Cup Final was a football match that took place at the Lenin's Central Stadium, Moscow on May 28, 1988. The match was the 47th Soviet Cup Final and it was contested by FC Metalist Kharkiv and FC Torpedo Moscow. The Soviet Cup winner Metalist qualified for the Cup Winners' Cup first round for the Soviet Union. The last year defending holders Dynamo Kyiv were eliminated in the second round of the competition by FC Rotor Volgograd (3:2, 0:2). For Metalist this was their second final total", "id": "158055" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\ngoals rule They went on to be defeated by eventual Runners-up Bordeaux in the second round. Full European results: In the 2000s, Rotor's results declined, and in 2004, the team finished last in the Russian Premier League. The club's owner Vladimir Goryunov, a member of the Duma and head of the parliamentary sports committee, explored options to save Rotor from relegation, such as expanding the Premier League to 20 teams. But in January 2005 Rotor were unable to make the required financial guarantees and so lost", "id": "264675" }, { "contents": "2018–19 Russian Football National League\n\n\n. Ararat Moscow was promoted from 2017–18 PFL, but were refused a license for the 2018–19 Russian National Football League, the club being subsequently dissolved. Zenit-2 Saint Petersburg, Rotor Volgograd, Luch Vladivostok, Tyumen and Fakel Voronezh were spared from relegation due to lack of teams enrolled for the 2018–19 season. Sakhalin Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk finished on the promotion place at the end of the 2017–18 PFL season, but refused to be promoted. Dynamo Saint Petersburg was moved from Saint Petersburg to Sochi and renamed as PFC Sochi. Olimpiyets Nizhny Novgorod", "id": "621376" }, { "contents": "Dinamo Volgograd\n\n\nDinamo Volgograd () is a Russian women's handball club from Volgograd. Founded in 1972 as Burevestnik Volgograd, it represented Rotor Volgograd following the collapse of the Soviet Union and was subsequently named Aqva before taking its current name in 2003. Dynamo is the most successful team in the Russian Super League with nine titles, and in the 2001-02 season it set an absolute record winning all the matches. It has also been fairly successful in international competitions with three titles: the 1995 Challenge Cup and Champions Trophy and the 2008", "id": "10627328" }, { "contents": "List of football clubs in Russia\n\n\nZelenodolsk — FC Prometey-Dinamo Saint Petersburg — FC Pskov — FC Pskov-2000 — FC Pskov-747 FC Radian-Baikal Irkutsk — FC Rassvet Troitskoye — FC Reformatsiya Abakan — FC Rekord Aleksandrov — FC Reutov — FC Ritm Alekseyevka — FC Ritm Belgorod — FC Roda Moscow — FC Rossia Moscow — FC Rostov — FC Rostselmash-2 Rostov-on-Don — FC Rostselmash Rostov-on-Don — FC Rotor-2 Mikhaylovka — FC Rotor-2 Volgograd — FC Rotor Volgograd — FC Rubin-2 Kazan — FC Rubin Kazan — FC Rubin-TAN Kazan — FC", "id": "14958458" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\n-autumn) Russian Amateur Football League, the fourth level overall. In the 2015 season Rotor won the Amateur League Chernozemye (South-West Region) division at the first attempt by 11 points, suffering only one defeat in 22 games. The 45,000-seater Pobeda Stadium is under construction on their old Central Stadium site, and it was reported in August 2015 that the first team are still interested in moving into the facility after the 2018 World Cup, which makes attaining a higher league status a priority. They were licensed for third", "id": "264680" }, { "contents": "2010–11 KHL season\n\n\nThe 2010–11 KHL season was the third season of the Kontinental Hockey League. It was held from 8 September 2010 and ended on 16 April 2011. The season started with the Opening Cup game between the last season's finalists, Ak Bars Kazan and UHC Dynamo, the new team that was created by merging last season's Western conference winner HC MVD with Dynamo Moscow. Salavat Yulaev Ufa won the Gagarin Cup and the Russian Championship after beating Atlant Moscow Oblast 4–1 in the play-off final series. Folding of Lada Togliatti Lada", "id": "10925021" }, { "contents": "1994 in Russian football\n\n\ntime at 2-2. Early stages of the Russian Cup 1994–95 were played later in the year. FC Spartak Moscow finished the group stage in third place, not qualifying for the semifinals. All the Russian participants were eliminated in 1993. FC Spartak Moscow qualified directly for the group stage. It did not qualify from the group, coming in third place. PFC CSKA Moscow were eliminated in the first round. FC Rotor Volgograd and FC Tekstilshchik Kamyshin were both eliminated by FC Nantes in the first and second round respectively,", "id": "17746833" }, { "contents": "Mikhail Osinov\n\n\nRussian Top Division side Rotor Volgograd. In 2001, Osinov was transferred to FC Rostov and stayed there for 9 years, suffering a relegation and helping the \"yellow-blues\" to return to the Premier League. He also holds the club record for league appearances with 239 games. In 2010, he returned to Yekaterinburg to play in the Russian First Division. In 2011, Osinov went to a lower league joining MITOS Novocherkassk of the Russian Second Division. On 11 September 2011, in a league game against Olimpia Gelendzhik Osinov", "id": "12015633" }, { "contents": "1990 Soviet Top League\n\n\non 1 March with the game between Dnipro and Rotor and lasted until 20 October 1990. The season was won by FC Dynamo Kyiv. The league was reduced to 13 after first Georgian clubs (Dinamo Tbilisi and Guria Lanchkhuti) and then Žalgiris withdrew from the Soviet Top League. Lokomotiv Moscow and the last placed Zenit Leningrad of the 1989 Soviet Top League were relegated to the 1990 Soviet First League. Lokomotiv returned to the Soviet First League after two seasons absence, while Zenit was relegated for the first time since being promoted back", "id": "831394" }, { "contents": "2010–11 KHL season\n\n\nTogliatti dropped out of the league and joined the Russian Major League instead, after failing to meet the league's financial requirements. Merger of HC MVD and Dynamo Moscow On 30 April 2010, it was announced that HC MVD would merge with Dynamo Moscow to form UHC Dynamo, which for the time being will play the majority of their games at Megasport Arena in Moscow, while also attempting to play some games in Balashikha. The current plan is to have a new, large and modernized arena constructed in Balashikha by 2012. Expansion", "id": "10925022" }, { "contents": "Dzmitry Rawneyka\n\n\nDzmitry Vasilevich Rawneyka (; ; born 13 May 1980) is a former Belarusian professional footballer. He is currently af part of the coaching staff of Belarus. Born in Grodno, Rawneyka began playing football in FC Neman Grodno's youth system. He joined the senior side and made his Belarusian Premier League debut in 1998. He had a spell in the Russian Premier League with FC Torpedo Moscow and FC Rotor Volgograd but has spent most of his playing career with Neman Grodno. Rawneyka has made eight appearances for the Belarus national football team", "id": "13999154" }, { "contents": "BC Krasny Oktyabr\n\n\nthe highest stage for Russian clubs. In the first season of Krasny Oktyabr in the VTB United League, it qualified for the playoffs by finishing in the 6th place in Group B. Also, European powerhouse CSKA Moscow was defeated by Krasny Oktyabr in the quarterfinals of the 2013–14 Russian Cup tournament. On August 30, 2016, the team was forced to leave the United League, because its home arena wasn't approved to host tournaments. The club usually played its home games at the 3,700 seat Volgograd Sports Palace of Trade Unions,", "id": "8073501" }, { "contents": "Igor Lediakhov\n\n\n-Don. In 1990, he joined FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk. After impressing with FC Rotor Volgograd, Lediakhov was bought by Soviet Union giants FC Spartak Moscow, being essential as the capital team conquered three consecutive league titles, which included the inaugural edition of the competition, as the player scored in double digits in two of the three seasons. In the 1994 summer, 26-year-old Lediakhov moved abroad, signing with Spain's Sporting de Gijón. Even though he netted nearly 50 overall goals for the club (17 in four", "id": "21673652" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\nnew stadium - provided they had a professional club to fill it after the tournament. Rotor, facing legal action and a transfer embargo due to their financial status, were not reliable candidates. The government created a new entity, FC Volgograd, intending to assume the Rotor name. In fact Rotor managed to co-exist with the new FC for the first half of the 2009 season, before Mikheev suspended operations and the government took ownership of the club and stadium from him. The two clubs were merged into one, and", "id": "264677" }, { "contents": "FC Lokomotiv Moscow\n\n\npoints after Gameweek 30. The game was played at Dynamo Stadium in front of a sold-out crowd. Lokomotiv took an early lead thanks a low drive from captain Dmitry Loskov, and eventually the goal turned out to be enough for Lokomotiv to claim the first title in the club's history. Two years later, Lokomotiv again won the Russian Premier League, edging city rivals CSKA by a single point; Lokomotiv defeated Shinnik Yaroslavl 0–2 in Yaroslavl, a week after CSKA fell to city rivals Dynamo at home. In 2005", "id": "10933606" }, { "contents": "1995–96 Manchester United F.C. season\n\n\nactually went top of the league after a goalless draw at Sheffield Wednesday towards the end of September, only for the Tynesiders to return to the top of the table soon after. Then came Cantona's comeback on 1 October, when he scored a penalty to equalise and hold Liverpool to a 2–2 draw Old Trafford. The autumn saw United suffer first-hurdle exits to York City in the League Cup and Rotor Volgograd in the UEFA Cup, although United did preserve their 39-year home unbeaten record in European competitions thanks to a late", "id": "9981632" }, { "contents": "1994–95 Russian Cup\n\n\nDynamo Moscow: Valeri Kleimyonov (GK), Yuri Kovtun (DF), Sergey Timofeev (DF), Andrei Chernyshov (DF), Aleksandr Borodkin (DF), Aleksei Filippov (DF), Vagiz Khidiyatullin (DF), Andrei Ivanov (DF), Denis Klyuyev (MF), Dmitri Cheryshev (FW), Igor Simutenkov (FW), Kirill Rybakov (FW), Yuri Tishkov (FW). FC Rotor Volgograd: Volodymyr Gerashchenko (DF), Aleksandr Yeshchenko (MF), Konstantin Kulik (", "id": "5392312" }, { "contents": "FC Olimpia Volgograd\n\n\nFC Olimpia Volgograd () is a Russian football team from the large city of Volgograd. They are the second- or third-largest club in the city after the famous Rotor Volgograd. From their founding in 1989 until 1997, the club participated in various youth leagues. Some time between 1993 and 1994 the Volgograd native Leonid Slutsky, future coach of the Russian national team, joined the training staff. Among the Olimpia youth players developed under Slutsky were Denis Kolodin, Roman Adamov, Andrei Bochkov, Maksim Burchenko and Aleksei Zhdanov,", "id": "21936806" }, { "contents": "Peter Schmeichel\n\n\na 2001 Reuters poll, he beat Lev Yashin and Gordon Banks to be named the finest keeper in football history. Despite being a goalkeeper, he would run into the attack on corner kicks if his team was behind. The sight of him going up for the corner was a great distraction to opposing defenders. He scored a goal in this fashion, for Man United, in a UEFA Cup match against Rotor Volgograd at Old Trafford in September 1995. He scored in the last minutes of the game to tie the match 2–2", "id": "19820283" }, { "contents": "Spartak Gogniyev\n\n\nSpartak Arturovich Gogniyev (, ; born 19 January 1981) is a Russian professional football coach and a former player. He is the manager of FC Alania Vladikavkaz. He made his debut in the Russian Premier League in 2000 for FC Dynamo Moscow. He played two games in the UEFA Cup 2000–01 for FC Dynamo Moscow and two games (scoring one goal) in the UEFA Champions League 2003–04 qualification round for PFC CSKA Moscow. In August 2018, it was announced that Spartak Gogniyev joined new FC Urozhay Krasnodar, but this was", "id": "7903306" }, { "contents": "Georgi Yartsev\n\n\nat the time, gave Yartsev a sabre as a birthday gift in a sideline pre-game ceremony. Yartsev got another head coach position soon enough, when he joined Rotor Volgograd in January 2000. However, he could not do much with that team either and was fired in June of same year. For the next 3 years he was the manager of the Spartak Moscow veterans team. In August 2003, Russia was very close to elimination from their Euro 2004 preliminary qualification group and the coach Valery Gazzayev, was fired.", "id": "15861320" }, { "contents": "FCSB\n\n\nUEFA ordered Steaua to play two home games of the Europa League behind closed doors due to their fans displaying racist banners in a second qualifying round match against Hungarian side Újpest. Three further incidents occurred in the 2014–15 season, with the club fined and ordered to play further games in an empty stadium after displays of racist banners in matches against Dynamo Kyiv, Ludogorets Razgrad and Strømsgodset. Steaua's most important rivalry is the one against Dinamo București. \"Eternul derby\" (\"The Eternal Derby\") has been the leading Romanian", "id": "19491084" }, { "contents": "2010 Russian First Division\n\n\n), Mordovia Saransk (Ural-Povolzhye) and Irtysh Omsk (East). Due to financial difficulties, Vityaz Podolsk who placed 11th in 2009, decided to give up their spot in the Russian First Division and participate in the Russian Second Division in 2010. Pending licensing, their place was taken by FC Volgograd who placed 3rd in the Russian Second Division (South Zone) in 2009. For the occasion the management decided to change the name of the club from FC Volgograd to Rotor Volgograd. FC Alania Vladikavkaz were promoted", "id": "7947305" }, { "contents": "Russian Women's Handball Super League\n\n\nThe Russian Women's Handball Superleague is the premier women's handball competition in Russia. Dinamo Volgograd, formerly known as Rotor and Akva, is the championship's most successful club as of 2019 with 12 titles. It also holds the record for consecutive wins, with six titles in a row. Currently eleven clubs take part in the competition, with the top eight playing the championship play-offs. The Russian Championship's leading teams have been successful in EHF's competitions. Zvezda Zvenigorod won the Champions League and the EHF Cup", "id": "8475941" }, { "contents": "Pavel Pogrebnyak\n\n\n's relegation, Pogrebnyak was linked with a move away from the club but did not leave. He scored his first goals in more than eight months after netting twice in a 3–1 win over Derby County in September 2013. On 27 August 2015 Pogrebnyak moved back to Russia, signing a three-year contract with Dynamo Moscow. Dynamo released him on 25 January 2018, citing disciplinary reasons, such as attending a Juventus - Inter Milan game in Italy on the same day Dynamo played a league game and participating in the annual exhibition", "id": "2040879" }, { "contents": "1996 in Russian football\n\n\nplayers (Stanislav Cherchesov, Viktor Onopko, Vasili Kulkov and Sergei Yuran) who played in the group stage where Spartak did not lose a single point left the club to move to Western European clubs in the winter before the quarterfinals. Nicolas Ouédec was instrumental again, after scoring 7 goals in 4 games against the Russian teams in the 1994–95 UEFA Cup, this time he scored 3 goals in two games against Spartak. FC Dynamo Moscow were eliminated in the quarterfinals. All the Russian teams were eliminated in 1995. FC Alania Vladikavkaz", "id": "22219347" }, { "contents": "Kamil Mullin\n\n\nKamil Shamilevich Mullin (, ; born 5 January 1994) is a Russian professional football player who plays for FC Rotor Volgograd. He plays as a forward. Mullin joined Lokomotiv academy at 16 years, and two years later made it to the youth squad. In total, he played 53 games for Lokomotiv U21 and scored 23 goals.br He made his debut for Lokomotiv first team in the 2012–13 Russian Cup game vs Torpedo Armavir on 26 September 2012.br In March 2013, Mullin for the first time was included into team sheet for the", "id": "2605760" }, { "contents": "FC Dynamo Moscow\n\n\nthe 2008 season, Dynamo finished third, qualifying for the 2009–10 Champions League preliminary round. On 29 July 2009, Dynamo recorded a 0–1 away win against Celtic at Celtic Park, which gave them a strong advantage going into the second leg. However, Celtic comfortably defeated Dynamo 0–2 in Moscow to progress, sending Dynamo into the Europa League play-off round where the club was eliminated by Bulgarian side CSKA Sofia after a 0–0 away draw in Sofia and a 1–2 home defeat in Moscow. In 2012, after a poor start", "id": "8644502" }, { "contents": "2013–14 Russian Premier League\n\n\n2014/15 season. The 13th and 14th Premier League teams will play the 4th and 3rd FNL teams respectively in two playoff games with the winner securing a Premier League spot for 2014/15 season. On 11 May 2014, the game between FC Zenit Saint Petersburg and FC Dynamo Moscow was interrupted in the 86th minute with Dynamo leading 4-2 when Zenit fans ran out of the stands. At first they stood behind the goal line, when the referee decided to take the teams off the field into the dressing rooms and teams began to", "id": "9911963" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\nthe third tier) in 1980 and 1981, and were successful in the promotion playoffs the second time. In 1988 Rotor finished second in the Soviet First League, earning promotion to the Soviet Top League. They finished 13th and last in the downsized 1990 competition after the Georgian and Lithuanian teams withdrew, and the decision was made to relegate them. However they bounced straight back as champions of the First League in 1991, thus becoming founder members of the new Russian Top Division after the USSR collapsed. In the mid-1990s, Rotor", "id": "264672" }, { "contents": "Bibras Natkho\n\n\n, Natkho scored two goals in the Champions League qualifier against Dynamo Kyiv and Lyon, who they eliminated Kazan out of the competitions and the club would play in the Europa League. Then in the Europa League campaign, Natkho scored twice in six matches in the Group Stage of the Europa League against Tottenham Hostpur and Shamrock Rovers. Natkho performance was praised for his role during the season and helped the club win the Russian Cup after playing a vital of assisting the winning goal, in a 1–0 win over Dynamo Moscow. Natkho would", "id": "21438585" }, { "contents": "Danil Lipovoy\n\n\nDanil Nikolayevich Lipovoy (; born 22 September 1999) is a Russian football player who plays for FC Dynamo Moscow. He made his debut in the Russian Professional Football League for FC Dynamo-2 Moscow on 2 April 2017 in a game against FC Dynamo Saint Petersburg. He made his debut for the main squad of FC Dynamo Moscow on 26 September 2018 in a Russian Cup game against FC Torpedo Moscow. He made Russian Premier League debut for Dynamo on 30 November 2018 in a game against FC Rubin Kazan, as a 64th-minute substitute", "id": "429351" }, { "contents": "FC Amkar Perm\n\n\n, having lost their Spring matches to Kuban Krasnodar (1–2) and Spartak Moscow (0–2). A series without a win followed the victory over Alania and after the Dynamo match Amkar lost to Terek Grozny (1–2) and Lokomotiv Moscow (2–4). After another devastating defeat from Kuban (0–4), followed by a victory over their direct rivals Rostov (3–2), and a goalless draw with Zenit, the club retained the right to play in the Premier League. In June 2013, the club opted not to", "id": "5030824" }, { "contents": "FC Shakhtar Donetsk\n\n\nminute Fedor Manov opened score to Donetsk team goals. Final score is 4:1 in favor of the hosts.\" Nonetheless, the selective job conducted constructively by the club's administration allowed the club to compete successfully at the top level by the end of the 1930s. During the \"war championship\" of 1941, which was interrupted unexpectedly, the club defeated Soviet champions Dynamo Moscow and after about ten games were placed in fifth in the league. In the last game of that championship, played on 24 June, two days after", "id": "14103740" }, { "contents": "Oleg Veretennikov\n\n\nOleg Aleksandrovich Veretennikov (; born 5 January 1970) is a professional Russian association football coach and a former international footballer. He manages Rotor-2 Volograd. He is the top goalscorer in the history of Russian Premier League, and holds several other goalscoring records. Most of Veretennikov's successes have come with SC Rotor Volgograd, for whom he played in 1992–1999. During that time he scored 143 goals, which makes him the best goalscorer in the Russian Premier League history (the next best goalscorer, Dmitry Loskov, has 109 goals as of", "id": "21553966" }, { "contents": "Sergei Pareiko\n\n\nSergei Pareiko (born 31 January 1977) is a retired Estonian footballer. He is currently the sporting director of Estonian football club Levadia. Pareiko played as a goalkeeper in Estonian, Russian and Polish top tiers. He made a total of 65 appearances for the Estonia national football team. In Estonia, Pareiko played for Tallinna Sadam and Levadia Maardu, before moving to Russia in 2001, when he signed with Rotor Volgograd. After Rotor were relegated, Pareiko moved to Tom Tomsk. At the end of 2009 season Pareiko was named", "id": "11658849" }, { "contents": "FC Dinamo Tbilisi\n\n\nIn this period Dinamo won the Soviet Cup for the first time in their history, convincingly defeating Armenian side Ararat Yerevan 3–0 in the final, with goals scored by David Kipiani, Piruz Kanteladze and Revaz Chelebadze. In 1978 the club won the Soviet Top League for a second time. Next year Dinamo won the Soviet Cup again by defeating Russian side Dynamo Moscow in the final. In 1979 the club played its first match in the UEFA European Cup tournament. In the first round Dinamo knocked out English side Liverpool, at the", "id": "10097459" }, { "contents": "Romelu Lukaku\n\n\nlater at home to West Ham. Lukaku scored twice in a 4–0 win, becoming the fourth Manchester United player to score two goals on his Premier League debut for the club. On 17 September, Lukaku scored United's third goal in a 4–0 win over his former club Everton, with Lukaku running over towards Everton fans and cupping his ears during his goal celebration in response to being booed throughout the game. On 27 September, Lukaku scored twice in a 4–1 UEFA Champions League win over CSKA Moscow, taking his tally to", "id": "1117930" }, { "contents": "Dynamo Dresden\n\n\none Game behind closed doors and one away game without own fan support. Virtual tickets were offered to reduce the financial loss, creating \"the first sold-out Ghost Game in history\". The 2012–13 season started poorly for Dynamo and Ralf Loose was sacked in December 2012 after a 3–0 defeat to VfL Bochum with the team in 15th place. He was replaced by Peter Pacult, returning to the club after more than six years. Dynamo's form improved after Pacult's arrival but the team still finished the league as 16th", "id": "11366777" }, { "contents": "Aleksandr Tashayev\n\n\nAleksandr Mikhailovich Tashayev (; born 23 June 1994) is a Russian professional football player who plays as a left midfielder for Spartak Moscow. He made his professional debut on 11 December 2014 for FC Dynamo Moscow in a 2014–15 UEFA Europa League group game against PSV Eindhoven. He also played in the Round of 16 away game against Napoli. On 6 July 2018, he signed a contract with the cross-city rivals FC Spartak Moscow, after buying out own contract from Dynamo and becoming a free agent. Dynamo unsuccessfully sued to deem", "id": "13552247" }, { "contents": "Dynamo Moscow Bandy Club\n\n\nthe end of the 2004–05 season, almost all players of the for a decade dominant Vodnik signed up for Dynamo Moscow, resulting in an immediate Russian League title in 2006. Dynamo Moscow won the World Cup for the first time in 2006, defeating Zorky in the final. The 2006 domestic title was followed by another four consecutive Russian championship titles and as one of the dominating teams in the following years too, until 2017, when they missed the championship play-off, only coming in at eighth place in the regular season", "id": "1825162" }, { "contents": "Handball Club Lada\n\n\nHandball Club Lada is a Russian women's handball club from Tolyatti playing in the Russian Super League. Founded in 1998, Lada soon became the leading team in the Super League winning five championships in a row between 2002 and 2006 and a sixth one in 2008. It also built itself a name in Europe winning the 2002 Cup Winners' Cup in its international debut and reaching the final of the 2007 Champions League and the next edition's semifinals. The following three seasons were less successful, with Dynamo Volgograd retrieving the leading position", "id": "9114247" }, { "contents": "Omari Tetradze\n\n\n– Tetradze. Later he considered restoring his original surname, but decided it would cause too many problems. At club level, he played for Dinamo Tbilisi, FC Dynamo Moscow, Alania Vladikavkaz (where he won a Russian league championship medal in 1995), AS Roma, and PAOK FC (Greece). He played for Russia at international level, and appeared at World Cup 1994 and Euro 1996. At the latter tournament, he played superbly in each of Russia's three games despite the team's poor results, and", "id": "17559889" }, { "contents": "FC Girondins de Bordeaux\n\n\nclub was relegated just two years thereafter. In 1992, however, \"Les Girondins\" won that year's Ligue 2 title, thus being elevated to the top tier of French football. In the emergence of young and exciting players such as playmaker Zinedine Zidane, striker Christophe Dugarry and left back Bixente Lizarazu, the club ascended even higher to win the UEFA Intertoto Cup in 1995. With this talented trio, the club defeated FC Rotor Volgograd (the 1995 King's Cup Winner), Real Betis, Milan and Slavia Prague", "id": "10933676" }, { "contents": "Yuriy Hudymenko\n\n\nYuriy Arkadiyovych Hudymenko (; born 3 October 1966) is a former Kyrgyz-born Ukrainian professional footballer. Hudymenko is a product of the main Bishkek sports school and later was accepted to the main republican club of Kyrgyzia, FC Alga Bishkek. In 1990 he made his debut in the Soviet Top League playing for FC Dnepr Dnepropetrovsk, but failed to score any goals in domestic competitions, but did score a goal against Heart of Midlothian F.C. in the 1990-91 UEFA Cup. Next year Hudymenko joined recently relegated FC Rotor Volgograd that", "id": "11637137" }, { "contents": "Valery Gazzaev\n\n\na second-place finish at the end of the season. However, Gazzaev was left behind in the first league in Spartak Ordzhonikidze, as he wasn't one of the main players of the SKA Rostov-on-Don. In the Soviet Top League, Gazzaev played in Lokomotiv Moscow, Dynamo Moscow, and Dinamo Tbilisi. Gazzaev is a Soviet Cup winner with Dynamo Moscow in 1984. During his career he scored 89 goals in 283 matches in Soviet Top League, and was the top goal scorer of the UEFA Cup", "id": "3537187" }, { "contents": "FC Amkar Perm\n\n\nAmkar was in third place in the standings, one point behind second-placed Spartak Moscow and six adrift of leaders Rubin Kazan. After the break, one of Amkar's team leaders, Vladimir Gabulov, and the captain, Aleksei Popov, left the team to join Dynamo Moscow and Rubin Kazan respectively. Two matches in a row on the \"equator\" of the Championship Amkar could have topped the league table but was unable to beat Tom Tomsk and Spartak Nalchik at home. On 16 November, after beating Tom in Tomsk", "id": "5030813" }, { "contents": "FC Rubin Kazan\n\n\nfixed after selling in Volgograd \"Rotor\" team leaders Oleg Nechaev and Rustem Khuzin (but soon returned to \"Rubin\" till the end of the season on loan). In the end the season Kazan finished on 8th place, only losing a point to Nizhnekamsk \"Neftechimik\" and dropped into the second league. The following year, 1994, coaches Zadikashvili and Semenov assemble a team literally bit by bit. Because of the continuing financial problems from the last season in the team left only 6 players: Grishin, Danilin,", "id": "19815661" }, { "contents": "Nikita Chernov\n\n\nNikita Aleksandrovich Chernov (; born 14 January 1996) is a Russian professional football player who plays as a centre-back for Krylia Sovetov Samara and Russia national football team. Born in Volzhsky, Volgograd Oblast, Chernov began his career at hometown team FC Energiya Volzhsky before joining CSKA Moscow in 2009. He made his professional debut on 24 September 2014 in a Russian Cup game against FC Khimik Dzerzhinsk. He also played in the next Russian Cup round against FC Torpedo Moscow on 29 October. On 30 July 2019, Chernov moved from", "id": "503700" }, { "contents": "KF Skënderbeu Korçë\n\n\nBeşiktaş, Lokomotiv Moscow and Sporting Clube de Portugal. In matchday 1, their first ever group stage game, the club was defeated at home 0–1 by Beşiktaş after a hard fight between the two sides. In the next matchday, they lost 0–2 to Lokomotiv Moscow in Moscow. Their worst defeat in the European competition yet came the next matchday, a storming 1–5 loss to Sporting in the away leg at Lisbon, but also had the Albanian side scoring their first goal in the UEFA Europa League group stages. In the home", "id": "1409695" }, { "contents": "FC Dynamo Kyiv\n\n\nand Maccabi Tel Aviv F.C. Dynamo finished in second place with 11 points after a spectacular performance and a memorable 0–2 in Porto. However, Dynamo was punished by UEFA for a racist incident in the home game against Chelsea where four black men were attacked in the stands by Dynamo fans. Despite this, Dynamo reached the round of 16 in the Champions League for the first time since 2000, where it was drawn with Manchester City. Dynamo was eliminated 1–3 on aggregate but managed to hold an impressive 0–0 draw in Manchester. Dynamo", "id": "18770189" }, { "contents": "Konstantin Kovalenko\n\n\nKonstantin Valeryevich Kovalenko (; ; born 2 February 1975) is a Belarusian and Russian professional footballer who plays for resurrected FC Kuban Krasnodar. He made his professional debut in the Soviet Second League in 1991 for FC Kuban Barannikovsky. He played 1 game in the 1996–97 UEFA Cup for FC Spartak Moscow. His brother Andrei Kovalenko also played football professionally. On 27 October 2008 he punched referee Sergei Timofeyev in the face in the Russian Second Division game FC Sochi-04 - FC Olimpia Volgograd. He was banned from football for a year. Spartak", "id": "1118096" }, { "contents": "Clinton N'Jie\n\n\nDimitri Payet and scored two goals in a 3–0 win. On 17 September, he scored both the goals in the away win over Amiens. On 3 May 2018, he played in the Europa League semi-finals away to FC Red Bull Salzburg as Marseille played out a 2–1 away loss but a 3–2 aggregate win to secure a place in the 2018 UEFA Europa League Final. On 25 July 2019, Njie signed a 4-year contract with Russian Premier League club Dynamo Moscow. N'Jie scored 44 minutes into his Cameroon debut against the", "id": "16847587" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\ntime they were able to consolidate in the National League, finishing 9th and then 14th. But financial troubles continued. A Ministry of Sport investigation found evidence of financial misconduct by club management along with substantial overspending, and regional Governor Andrey Bocharov announced after the 2013 season that government support for Rotor was being withdrawn. The club dropped back into the Second Division (renamed the Professional Football League) for the first half of the 2014–15 (autumn-spring) season, then withdrew in order to immediately transfer to the 2015 (spring", "id": "264679" }, { "contents": "2001 FC Anzhi Makhachkala season\n\n\nThe 2001 FC Anzhi Makhachkala season was the 2nd season that the club played in the Russian Top Division, the highest tier of football in Russia, following their promotion from the National Football League in 1999. They finished the season in 13th, were runners-up in the 2001-02 cup and reached the Sixth Round of the 2002-03 cup losing to Dynamo Moscow, and were knocked out of the UEFA Cup at the First Round stage after a 0-1 defeat to Rangers over one leg in Warsaw, Poland", "id": "4897180" }, { "contents": "FC Dynamo-2 Moscow\n\n\nFC Dynamo-2 Moscow () was a Russian football team from Moscow. It was the farm-club for FC Dynamo Moscow. In 2016, it was revived after the parent club, Dynamo, was relegated from the Russian Football Premier League (which holds its own competition for the Under-21 teams of the Premier League clubs) and licensed to play in the third-tier Russian Professional Football League for the 2016–17 season. Majority of the squad participated in the 2016–17 UEFA Youth League as well. On 17 June 2017, the parent", "id": "19064817" }, { "contents": "Mikhail Markosov\n\n\nDivision South Zone, scoring 27 goals, a feat no one in the entire Second Division surpassed. In the 2010 season, he played for FC Rotor Volgograd and came back to FC Dynamo Stavropol the next season. Scoring 10 goals in his first 10 matches for Dynamo, Markosov was transferred in the summer transfer window of the 2011-12 season to FC Ufa. From April until June 2019 Markosov played for FC Kuban Krasnodar, scored 7 goals in 11 matches. He joined the Armenia national football team in 2013. Markosov", "id": "12122198" }, { "contents": "1993 in Russian football\n\n\ntheir group campaign and finished it without much success, only gaining 2 points in 6 games, coming in last in the group and suffering a 0-6 defeat against Marseille. They could not play their home games in Moscow due to the lack of a stadium meeting the Champions League standards at the time. FC Spartak Moscow reached the semifinals, tying the best European result in club's history. FC Spartak Moscow qualified for the group stage and continued to play in the group into the 1994. FC Torpedo Moscow went out", "id": "21710373" }, { "contents": "2002 in Russian football\n\n\nrespective Second Division zones: The Russian Cup was won by CSKA Moscow, who beat Zenit Saint Petersburg 2–0 in the final at the Luzhniki Stadium. Lokomotiv Moscow participated in the third round of the UEFA Cup 2001-02, but were knocked out by Hapoel Tel Aviv FC who won 3–1 on aggregate. Krylya Sovetov Samara played in the UEFA Intertoto Cup 2002. After defeating Dinaburg FC in the second round they lost to Willem II Tilburg on away goals. Lokomotiv Moscow's victory over Grazer AK ensured there are two Russian clubs", "id": "11619883" }, { "contents": "FC Dynamo Moscow\n\n\nFC Dynamo Moscow (Dinamo Moscow, FC Dinamo Moskva, ) is a Russian football club based in Moscow. Dynamo has returned to the Russian Premier League for the 2017–18 season after one season in the second-tier Russian Football National League. Dynamo was the only club that had always played in the top tier of Soviet football (along with Dynamo Kyiv) and of Russian football from the end of the Soviet era until they were relegated in 2016. Despite this, it has never won the modern Russian Premier League title and", "id": "8644495" }, { "contents": "Nikita Lyamin\n\n\nIn 2004, he played three season in the farm team and two more seasons in the main team for Dynamo Moscow. Dynamo Moscow became champions at the 2007–08 Russian Volleyball Super League, but Lyamin due to low game practice quit the club. Lyamin moved to Nizhny Novgorod and became captain of Guberniya, which went on debuting in the B-division of the highest national league. In the two years, Guberniya could enter the Super League, and in the 2012–13 it became one of the leading clubs in Russia. Guberniya qualified", "id": "8669287" }, { "contents": "Leonid Slutsky (football coach)\n\n\nLeonid Viktorovich Slutsky (; born 4 May 1971) is a Russian professional football coach and former player who is the manager of Eredivisie club Vitesse. Previously, he has been in charge of Olimpia Volgograd, Uralan Elista, Moscow, Krylia Sovetov, CSKA Moscow, Russia and Hull City. Slutsky was born in Volgograd. Slutsky's playing career with FC Zvezda Gorodishche ended at just 19 years of age. He had to retire due to a knee injury sustained after falling out of a tree while rescuing a neighbour's cat. Slutsky", "id": "11710104" }, { "contents": "Yuri Kovtun\n\n\nduring the season so two top teams were interested in him at the same time, it's Dynamo and Spartak Moscow. In 1993, Kovtun chose Dynamo Moscow and was their key player for years, until his move to Spartak in 1999. While the only Kovtun's honour during 6 years in Dynamo was Russian Cup in 1995, he could get 3 titles in 1999, 2000 and 2001 after joining Spartak. Moreover, he took part in numerous UEFA Champions League games and found himself regular Russian national football team player. Kovtun", "id": "2071460" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\n-tier Russian Professional Football League for the 2016–17 season. They won their zone of the PFL in the 2016–17 season and were promoted to the second-level Russian National Football League for 2017–18. Despite ending the 2017–18 season in the relegation zone, the club stayed in the league for the 2018–19 season as another team that finished above them in the table failed to obtain the league license. As of 5 July 2019, according to the FNL website. Had international caps for their respective countries. Players whose name is listed in", "id": "264681" }, { "contents": "Dmitri Khokhlov\n\n\nDmitri Valeryevich Khokhlov (, born 22 December 1975) is a Russian football manager and a former player. He is the manager of FC Dynamo Moscow. He played as a holding midfielder or playmaker. He played for PFC CSKA Moscow and FC Lokomotiv Moscow in native Russia, having abroad spells with PSV Eindhoven (Netherlands) and Real Sociedad (Spain). During his time with FC Lokomotiv Moscow he participated in their memorable 2003–04 UEFA Champions League campaign, scoring third goal in the 3–0 home victory against Internazionale. He played for", "id": "19054427" }, { "contents": "Racism in association football\n\n\nagainst CSKA Moscow in Russia. The club's stadium was partially closed as punishment. Touré suggested that black players might boycott the 2018 FIFA World Cup, to be held in Russia, if racism continued in the country. In September 2014, Dynamo Moscow defender Christopher Samba was racially abused playing in the Moscow derby against Torpedo Moscow. As a result, Torpedo were forced to close part of their stadium, although Samba was also banned for two games for swearing at the racist fans. In a friendly match (Russia vrs France", "id": "21349703" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\nTraktor Stalingrad to national prominence. Traktor were champions of the new fourth-level Group G in 1937, and were then promoted straight to the highest-level Group A as it expanded from 9 clubs to 26. They remained at the top level until 1950. Rotor then spent three decades at the top regional level, although the creation of the Supreme League in 1970 pushed their league from the second level overall down to the third. They gradually improved throughout the 1970s and finally won Zone III of the Soviet Second League (", "id": "264671" }, { "contents": "WPC Dynamo Moscow\n\n\nWPC Dynamo Moscow () is a Russian men's water polo club, that is part of the traditional Moscow-based multi-sports club Dynamo. Dynamo won seven Soviet Championships between 1955 and 1962, and in 1964 it was the first team to represent the in the newly European Champions Cup, ranking second behind Partizan. In 1968 and 1969 the team won two more national championships, and it also reached the 1969 European Cup's final, lost to Mladost. For the next fifteen years Dynamo didn't win any more", "id": "18685765" }, { "contents": "Kyle Hines\n\n\ngreat Olympiacos comeback in 4th quarter, led by Vassilis Spanoulis. CSKA Moscow eventually won the EuroLeague third place game, after defeating Fenerbahçe, by a score of 86–80. In his second EuroLeague season with CSKA Moscow, Hines averaged a career-low 6.8 points and 4.3 rebounds per game, over 30 games played. CSKA Moscow finished the season by winning the VTB United League, after eliminating Khimki with a 3–0 series sweep in the League's finals series. On June 17, 2015, he signed a two-year contract", "id": "14695455" }, { "contents": "Miroslav Raičević\n\n\nfinal decisive shot in the very last seconds of the final game against Prokom Trefl Sopot. He also won the Greek Cup with Aris, in the year 2004. He has also played with Red Star Belgrade of the Adriatic League during the 2005–06 season. He won the Serbian Cup with Red Star that season. In the 2006–07 season, he played with the Russian Super League club Dynamo Moscow. During summer of 2007, he left Dynamo Moscow and joined the Italian League club Eldo Napoli. He then left Napoli and moved back", "id": "13596698" } ]

[ { "contents": "1996 in Russian football\n\n\nwas knocked out in the qualifying round. FC Lokomotiv Moscow went out in the second round. PFC CSKA Moscow, FC Dynamo Moscow and FC Torpedo-Luzhniki Moscow were eliminated in the first round after going through the qualifying round. FC Alania Vladikavkaz went out in the first round after going to the UEFA Cup after failing in the qualification for the Champions League. FC Spartak Moscow went out in the second round. Russian clubs participated in the Intertoto Cup for the first time. FC Rotor Volgograd, FC KAMAZ-Chally Naberezhnye", "id": "22219348" }, { "contents": "1995 in Russian football\n\n\nthe Russian Cup 1995–96 were played later in the year. All the Russian participants were eliminated in 1994. FC Spartak Moscow won every game in their group, qualifying for the quarterfinals. FC Dynamo Moscow advanced through the first two rounds, qualifying to play in the quarterfinals next spring. FC Spartak-Alania Vladikavkaz and FC Lokomotiv Moscow were eliminated in the first round by strong opponents (even though Lokomotiv very unexpectedly beat FC Bayern in Munich in the first game). FC Rotor Volgograd eliminated Manchester United F.C. in the first round", "id": "18335625" }, { "contents": "Maksim Nenakhov\n\n\nMaksim Maksimovich Nenakhov (; born 13 December 1998) is a Russian football player who plays for FC Rotor Volgograd. He made his debut in the Russian Professional Football League for FC Dynamo-2 Moscow on 20 July 2016 in a game against FC Tekstilshchik Ivanovo. On 19 January 2018, he was loaned to FC Tyumen until the end of the 2017–18 season. On 14 June 2018, he moved on another loan for the 2018–19 season to FC SKA-Khabarovsk. On 18 June 2019, he signed a 2-year contract with FC Rotor Volgograd", "id": "6983587" }, { "contents": "Almir Kayumov\n\n\nAlmir Izmailovich Kayumov (; 30 December 1964 – 7 August 2013) was a Russian football player and referee. Kayumov played for FC Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk, FC Lada Togliatti, Spartak Moscow, Rotor Volgograd, SKA Rostov-on-Don, in Russia, the Daewoo Royals in South Korea, and Kuopion Palloseura in Finland. He played 6 games in the UEFA Cup 1986–87 for FC Spartak Moscow. On November 9, 2009, it was reported that Kayumov attempted to commit suicide by jumping out of his apartment window. Police negotiators talked", "id": "14510549" }, { "contents": "Ruslan Ishkinin\n\n\nRuslan Kamilyevich Ishkinin (; born 14 June 1974) is a former Russian professional footballer. He made his professional debut in the Russian Second Division in 1992 for FC Dynamo-2 Moscow. The most memorable match of his career was played on 14 June 1995. His team FC Dynamo Moscow was playing FC Rotor Volgograd in the final game of the Russian Cup. Dynamo was decimated by injuries and several reserve players, including Ishkinin, were called up for the game. With 5 minutes to go in regulation and the score of 0–0, Ishkinin", "id": "2479621" }, { "contents": "1997 in Russian football\n\n\nthe year. Russian teams were eliminated in 1996. FC Spartak Moscow were eliminated in the second qualifying round and went on to the UEFA Cup. FC Lokomotiv Moscow qualified for the quarterfinals stage that was played in 1998. FC Spartak Moscow qualified for the quarterfinals stage that was played in 1998. FC Rotor Volgograd reached the second round. FC Alania Vladikavkaz went out in the first round. The goal in the stadium was measured before the game and turned out to be 2.46 meters high instead of regulation 2.44. The referee decided", "id": "20500131" }, { "contents": "2012–13 Russian Premier League\n\n\naltogether if the game is awarded to Dynamo. According to the police, the main suspect is a female fan who was arrested after the game. The criminal investigation was opened on the charge of hooliganism. On 22 November, Russian Football Union's Control-Disciplinary Committee awarded the game to Dynamo with a score of 3–0 and fined both clubs. Dynamo had to play their next home game (against Rubin Kazan) behind closed doors and Zenit had to play their next 2 home games (against CSKA Moscow and Anzhi Makhachkala)", "id": "321372" }, { "contents": "Yuriy Kalitvintsev\n\n\nfor FC Desna Chernihiv. A Russian-born Kalitvintsev chose to play for the Ukraine side after breaking through as a midfielder for Dynamo Kyiv. Until 1994 he played he spent his playing career at Russian clubs such as FC Rotor Volgograd, FC SKA Rostov-on-Don, FC Dynamo Moscow, and FC Lokomotiv Nizhny Novgorod. It wasn't until the reorganization of the soviet football when he started to play at the top level of the Russian championship starting for the Moscow's Dynamo. After being transferred to the fading club", "id": "20481933" }, { "contents": "Sergei Bogomolov\n\n\nSergei Anatolyevich Bogomolov (; born 17 August 1971) is a former Russian professional footballer. During his time with FC Dynamo Moscow he only played in a single game for the main team, but it was a very memorable one. On 14 June 1995, Dynamo was playing FC Rotor Volgograd in the final game of the 1994–95 Russian Cup. Dynamo was hurt by injuries to some first team regulars and several reserve players, including Bogomolov, were called up for the game. With the score of 0:0 and 10 minutes to go in", "id": "18632079" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\nwas one of the strongest clubs in Russia, rivalling Spartak Moscow for the championship, yet never winning it. Rotor became the league runners-up in 1993 and 1997. Rotor played five successive seasons in European competition, from 1994-95 to 1998-99. They qualified for the UEFA Cup through their league position every year except 1996-97, when they instead chose to enter the Intertoto Cup. Unfortunately for Rotor, the fall of communism had left all the former Eastern Bloc leagues badly under-resourced compared to", "id": "264673" }, { "contents": "1995 in Russian football\n\n\n1995 was the fourth season Russia held its own national football competition since the breakup of the Soviet Union. FC Spartak-Alania Vladikavkaz won the league for the first time ever. This was the first season 3 points were awarded for a win instead of two. For more details, see: The third edition of the Russian Cup, Russian Cup 1994–95 was won by FC Dynamo Moscow, who beat FC Rotor Volgograd in the finals in a shootout 8-7 after finishing extra time at 0-0. Early stages of", "id": "18335624" }, { "contents": "Maxim Chuzhkov\n\n\nMaxim Aleksandrovich Chuzhkov (; born 11 April 1987) is a Russian beach soccer player serving as goalkeeper. He is a three-time national champion for three different clubs (Rotor Volgograd, Lokomotiv Moscow, Kristall). Maxim Chuzhkov was born in Samara. He was a gymnast for six years before switching to football. Chuzhkov discovered beach soccer in 2010, and one year later he joined Krylya Sovetov from Samara. From 2012 to 2014 he played for Rotor Volgograd, winning with them the club's first and only Russian Beach Soccer", "id": "21454463" }, { "contents": "1991 Soviet Top League\n\n\nseason, while FC Rotor Volgograd and FC Tiligul Tiraspol would have been promoted to the Top League for 1992. Top six clubs of the league later entered European competitions for their respective nations. The Ukrainian clubs chose to qualify through a separate national competition. The league was expanded to 16 after the last season, during which number of clubs left the Soviet competitions (from Georgia and Baltic states). The last-placed FC Rotor Volgograd of the 1990 Soviet Top League lost promotion/relegation playoff to Lokomotiv Moscow and was relegated", "id": "831265" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor-2 Volgograd\n\n\nFC Rotor-2 Volgograd () is a Russian football team based in Volgograd. It is the farm club for FC Rotor Volgograd. It previously played professionally as FC Rotor-d Volgograd or FC Rotor-2 Volgograd in the Russian Second Division in 1992–1993, 1998–2000 and 2004 and Russian Third League in 1994-1997. They came in 3rd place in their Second Division zone in 1993. In 2001, the reserves tournament for Russian Premier League was re-established and the reserves team played there while the main team stayed in Premier League.", "id": "5758261" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\nFC Rotor Volgograd () is a Russian football (soccer) club from the large city of Volgograd, Volgograd Oblast (formerly Stalingrad). The club plays in the second-level Russian National Football League. They are the largest and best supported Volgograd club and for most of their existence have been the city's only representatives in the national league system. They played at the top level of Soviet/Russian football either side of World War II, from 1989 to 1990, and from 1991 to 2004. During the 1990s", "id": "264669" }, { "contents": "Wisdom Mumba Chansa\n\n\nand Derby Makinka, to play in the Soviet Top League when they all signed for Pomir Dushanbe in 1989 after being spotted during their 4-0 win over Italy at the 1988 Olympics. Chansa's debut came on 2 October 1989 in an away match against Torpedo Moscow, before appearing twice more, against Rotor Volgograd and Metalist Kharkiv, before leaving at the conclusion of the 1989 season. Chansa returned to Power Dynamos following his Soviet experience, and was made captain before Power Dynamos became the first Zambian club side to win a", "id": "5300924" }, { "contents": "FC Volgograd\n\n\nFC Volgograd () is a former name of the Russian football club from Volgograd, founded in late 2008, currently known as FC Rotor Volgograd. Before it was founded, it was originally supposed to be called FC Rotor-Volgograd Volgograd (to keep Rotor's name around at the time FC Rotor Volgograd was close to bankruptcy). However, FC Rotor's financial situation has improved by early 2009 and the club was registered as FC Volgograd. It played in the Russian Second Division in 2009. It took over the license", "id": "6725532" }, { "contents": "Roman Pavlyuchenko\n\n\nRoman Anatolyevich Pavlyuchenko (; born 15 December 1981) is a Russian footballer who plays as a striker for FC Znamya Noginsk. He started his career at Dynamo Stavropol, and Rotor Volgograd, before transferring to Spartak Moscow in 2003. His performances there earned him a £13.7 million transfer to Tottenham Hotspur of the English Premier League in 2008, where he spent three full seasons before returning to Russia to play for Lokomotiv Moscow. After another full 3 seasons he moved in July 2015, to Kuban Krasnodar. A full international for a", "id": "3367200" }, { "contents": "Anton Miranchuk\n\n\nAnton Andreyevich Miranchuk (; born 17 October 1995) is a Russian professional football player who plays as a centre midfielder or attacking midfielder for Lokomotiv Moscow and the Russia national team. Born in Slavyansk-na-Kubani, Miranchuk joined Spartak Moscow from his hometown football school Olymp. He was dismissed from the club because of weak physical abilities. After that, he and his twin brother Aleksei moved to Lokomotiv Moscow. On 30 October 2013, Miranchuk made his competitive debut in senior football in a Russian Cup game against Rotor Volgograd replacing", "id": "1404526" }, { "contents": "Dmitry Pletnyov (footballer)\n\n\nDmitry Andreyevich Pletnyov (; born 16 January 1998) is a Russian football player. He plays for FC Tom Tomsk in Russian Football National League. He made his debut in the Russian Football National League for FC Zenit-2 Saint Petersburg on 6 September 2017 in a game against FC Rotor Volgograd. He made his Russian Premier League debut for FC Zenit Saint Petersburg on 5 May 2018 in a game against FC Lokomotiv Moscow. He played for Russia national under-17 football team at the 2015 UEFA European Under-17 Championship and 2015 FIFA U-17 World Cup.", "id": "21412634" }, { "contents": "2004 in Russian football\n\n\nseason. Andrey Fedkov of Terek became the top goalscorer with 38 goals. The following clubs have earned promotion by winning tournaments in their respective Second Division zones: Prior to start of the 2005 season three clubs (Rotor Volgograd, Torpedo Vladimir, and Arsenal Tula) refused participation in the First Division, and two more clubs (Dynamo Stavropol and Chernomorets Novorossiysk) were denied licences. This made way for the runners-up of all five zones: The Russian Super Cup match between CSKA Moscow and Spartak Moscow was won by CSKA", "id": "6344061" }, { "contents": "Dmitry Shishin\n\n\nnational beach soccer team. That year Shishin participated at the Russian Championship as player of Samarian Sputnik and debuted for the national team at the Beach Soccer World Cup. After Sputnik, Shishin for a long time played for different Saratov clubs, such as Rosagro, Biznes-Pravo, Delta. In 2011, Shishin moved to Lokomotiv Moscow, where he won the championship trophy with his team. Together with the Lokomotives he won another national championship trophy and two Russian cups. In 2013, Shishin surprisingly switched to Rotor Volgograd, becoming", "id": "12194946" }, { "contents": "2009 Russian Second Division\n\n\nJuly 2009 Oleg Mikheyev, president of FC Rotor Volgograd, announced Rotor's resignation from the league, citing problems with authorities. They have played 18 games and were in the 13th position with 21 points. \"Source: [PFL] , Sporbox.ru \" On 11 July 2009, the management of FC Spartak Shchyolkovo announced that the club would resign from the league after the first half of the season because of economic problems. Spartak were excluded from the league on August 4, 2009. They have played 18 games and were in", "id": "21482663" }, { "contents": "FC Olimpia Volgograd\n\n\nuntil 2008, though their fortunes faded after Slutsky's players left. Before the 2009 season their professional license was taken over by the new club FC Volgograd. This was meant to allow FC to assume the name and identity of Rotor who were suffering off-field troubles, but Rotor survived and ended up playing simultaneously with the new FC in 2009, while Olimpia dropped into the Volgograd Oblast Championship. They stayed there until 2011, winning the title in 2010. With confusion ongoing over the future of the Rotor name and club", "id": "21936808" }, { "contents": "Sergei Rashevsky\n\n\nSergei Aleksandrovich Rashevsky (; born 13 June 1980) is a Russian football coach and a former player. He is an assistant coach with FC Rotor Volgograd. He made his debut in the Russian Premier League in 2001 for FC Rotor Volgograd, before moving to Ural in 2005. After several seasons playing for different clubs in Russia, Rashevsky signed with Volga in 2008. He played for the club for three years, before he returned to Ural in 2011. Since February 2014, he played for the Russian National Football League side Yenisey", "id": "8136441" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\nthe new Rotor Volgograd were promoted to the second-level Russian Football National League thanks to teams above them withdrawing. The regional Ministry of Sport invested 150 million roubles ($4.9m) in the club's playing budget for the 2010 campaign, but it ended in failure as Rotor were relegated in 17th place. Governor Brovko admitted that the transition to the higher level was made too quickly. Former club player Sergei Nechay took over management and steered the team to promotion as champions of their Second Division zone in 2011–12. This", "id": "264678" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\ntheir Western counterparts, and indeed Rotor were knocked out by all four of the French and Italian clubs they played. The exception came against England's Manchester United in 1995-96. Having drawn the home leg 0-0, Rotor raced into a 2-0 lead at Old Trafford before United scored their first goal. Rotor were seconds away from being the first European club to win at Old Trafford when United's goalkeeper Peter Schmeichel scored a famous equaliser, but the 2-2 draw meant Rotor progressed by the away", "id": "264674" }, { "contents": "Roman Pavlyuchenko\n\n\na 1-0 loss against Moscow on 5 April 1999. On 15 May 1999, Pavlyuchenko provided a double assist in a 2-1 win over Chita. In his first season, Pavlyuchenko made 31 appearance and scoring 11 goals. However, the club played was still relegated to the Second Division after the club was last place. Despite this, Pavlyuchenko was named 'Team of the top' junior division for the first version of the newspaper Sport Express. Pavlyuchenko moved to Rotor Volgograd in 2000, although the move was", "id": "3367203" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\ntheir professional licence entirely. Rotor's reserve side in the Russian Second Division, Rotor-2 Volgograd, became the club's first team and was renamed Rotor in 2006. In 2007 local businessman Oleg Mikheev acquired the club's main asset the Volgograd Central Stadium, and with it effective control over the club, but financial troubles continued and the team's performances in the Second Division declined. Matters came to a head in 2009. Russia had officially launched its bid for the FIFA World Cup 2018 and Volgograd city was in line for a", "id": "264676" }, { "contents": "1988 Soviet Cup Final\n\n\nThe 1988 Soviet Cup Final was a football match that took place at the Lenin's Central Stadium, Moscow on May 28, 1988. The match was the 47th Soviet Cup Final and it was contested by FC Metalist Kharkiv and FC Torpedo Moscow. The Soviet Cup winner Metalist qualified for the Cup Winners' Cup first round for the Soviet Union. The last year defending holders Dynamo Kyiv were eliminated in the second round of the competition by FC Rotor Volgograd (3:2, 0:2). For Metalist this was their second final total", "id": "158055" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\ngoals rule They went on to be defeated by eventual Runners-up Bordeaux in the second round. Full European results: In the 2000s, Rotor's results declined, and in 2004, the team finished last in the Russian Premier League. The club's owner Vladimir Goryunov, a member of the Duma and head of the parliamentary sports committee, explored options to save Rotor from relegation, such as expanding the Premier League to 20 teams. But in January 2005 Rotor were unable to make the required financial guarantees and so lost", "id": "264675" }, { "contents": "2018–19 Russian Football National League\n\n\n. Ararat Moscow was promoted from 2017–18 PFL, but were refused a license for the 2018–19 Russian National Football League, the club being subsequently dissolved. Zenit-2 Saint Petersburg, Rotor Volgograd, Luch Vladivostok, Tyumen and Fakel Voronezh were spared from relegation due to lack of teams enrolled for the 2018–19 season. Sakhalin Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk finished on the promotion place at the end of the 2017–18 PFL season, but refused to be promoted. Dynamo Saint Petersburg was moved from Saint Petersburg to Sochi and renamed as PFC Sochi. Olimpiyets Nizhny Novgorod", "id": "621376" }, { "contents": "Dinamo Volgograd\n\n\nDinamo Volgograd () is a Russian women's handball club from Volgograd. Founded in 1972 as Burevestnik Volgograd, it represented Rotor Volgograd following the collapse of the Soviet Union and was subsequently named Aqva before taking its current name in 2003. Dynamo is the most successful team in the Russian Super League with nine titles, and in the 2001-02 season it set an absolute record winning all the matches. It has also been fairly successful in international competitions with three titles: the 1995 Challenge Cup and Champions Trophy and the 2008", "id": "10627328" }, { "contents": "List of football clubs in Russia\n\n\nZelenodolsk — FC Prometey-Dinamo Saint Petersburg — FC Pskov — FC Pskov-2000 — FC Pskov-747 FC Radian-Baikal Irkutsk — FC Rassvet Troitskoye — FC Reformatsiya Abakan — FC Rekord Aleksandrov — FC Reutov — FC Ritm Alekseyevka — FC Ritm Belgorod — FC Roda Moscow — FC Rossia Moscow — FC Rostov — FC Rostselmash-2 Rostov-on-Don — FC Rostselmash Rostov-on-Don — FC Rotor-2 Mikhaylovka — FC Rotor-2 Volgograd — FC Rotor Volgograd — FC Rubin-2 Kazan — FC Rubin Kazan — FC Rubin-TAN Kazan — FC", "id": "14958458" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\n-autumn) Russian Amateur Football League, the fourth level overall. In the 2015 season Rotor won the Amateur League Chernozemye (South-West Region) division at the first attempt by 11 points, suffering only one defeat in 22 games. The 45,000-seater Pobeda Stadium is under construction on their old Central Stadium site, and it was reported in August 2015 that the first team are still interested in moving into the facility after the 2018 World Cup, which makes attaining a higher league status a priority. They were licensed for third", "id": "264680" }, { "contents": "2010–11 KHL season\n\n\nThe 2010–11 KHL season was the third season of the Kontinental Hockey League. It was held from 8 September 2010 and ended on 16 April 2011. The season started with the Opening Cup game between the last season's finalists, Ak Bars Kazan and UHC Dynamo, the new team that was created by merging last season's Western conference winner HC MVD with Dynamo Moscow. Salavat Yulaev Ufa won the Gagarin Cup and the Russian Championship after beating Atlant Moscow Oblast 4–1 in the play-off final series. Folding of Lada Togliatti Lada", "id": "10925021" }, { "contents": "1994 in Russian football\n\n\ntime at 2-2. Early stages of the Russian Cup 1994–95 were played later in the year. FC Spartak Moscow finished the group stage in third place, not qualifying for the semifinals. All the Russian participants were eliminated in 1993. FC Spartak Moscow qualified directly for the group stage. It did not qualify from the group, coming in third place. PFC CSKA Moscow were eliminated in the first round. FC Rotor Volgograd and FC Tekstilshchik Kamyshin were both eliminated by FC Nantes in the first and second round respectively,", "id": "17746833" }, { "contents": "Mikhail Osinov\n\n\nRussian Top Division side Rotor Volgograd. In 2001, Osinov was transferred to FC Rostov and stayed there for 9 years, suffering a relegation and helping the \"yellow-blues\" to return to the Premier League. He also holds the club record for league appearances with 239 games. In 2010, he returned to Yekaterinburg to play in the Russian First Division. In 2011, Osinov went to a lower league joining MITOS Novocherkassk of the Russian Second Division. On 11 September 2011, in a league game against Olimpia Gelendzhik Osinov", "id": "12015633" }, { "contents": "1990 Soviet Top League\n\n\non 1 March with the game between Dnipro and Rotor and lasted until 20 October 1990. The season was won by FC Dynamo Kyiv. The league was reduced to 13 after first Georgian clubs (Dinamo Tbilisi and Guria Lanchkhuti) and then Žalgiris withdrew from the Soviet Top League. Lokomotiv Moscow and the last placed Zenit Leningrad of the 1989 Soviet Top League were relegated to the 1990 Soviet First League. Lokomotiv returned to the Soviet First League after two seasons absence, while Zenit was relegated for the first time since being promoted back", "id": "831394" }, { "contents": "2010–11 KHL season\n\n\nTogliatti dropped out of the league and joined the Russian Major League instead, after failing to meet the league's financial requirements. Merger of HC MVD and Dynamo Moscow On 30 April 2010, it was announced that HC MVD would merge with Dynamo Moscow to form UHC Dynamo, which for the time being will play the majority of their games at Megasport Arena in Moscow, while also attempting to play some games in Balashikha. The current plan is to have a new, large and modernized arena constructed in Balashikha by 2012. Expansion", "id": "10925022" }, { "contents": "Dzmitry Rawneyka\n\n\nDzmitry Vasilevich Rawneyka (; ; born 13 May 1980) is a former Belarusian professional footballer. He is currently af part of the coaching staff of Belarus. Born in Grodno, Rawneyka began playing football in FC Neman Grodno's youth system. He joined the senior side and made his Belarusian Premier League debut in 1998. He had a spell in the Russian Premier League with FC Torpedo Moscow and FC Rotor Volgograd but has spent most of his playing career with Neman Grodno. Rawneyka has made eight appearances for the Belarus national football team", "id": "13999154" }, { "contents": "BC Krasny Oktyabr\n\n\nthe highest stage for Russian clubs. In the first season of Krasny Oktyabr in the VTB United League, it qualified for the playoffs by finishing in the 6th place in Group B. Also, European powerhouse CSKA Moscow was defeated by Krasny Oktyabr in the quarterfinals of the 2013–14 Russian Cup tournament. On August 30, 2016, the team was forced to leave the United League, because its home arena wasn't approved to host tournaments. The club usually played its home games at the 3,700 seat Volgograd Sports Palace of Trade Unions,", "id": "8073501" }, { "contents": "Igor Lediakhov\n\n\n-Don. In 1990, he joined FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk. After impressing with FC Rotor Volgograd, Lediakhov was bought by Soviet Union giants FC Spartak Moscow, being essential as the capital team conquered three consecutive league titles, which included the inaugural edition of the competition, as the player scored in double digits in two of the three seasons. In the 1994 summer, 26-year-old Lediakhov moved abroad, signing with Spain's Sporting de Gijón. Even though he netted nearly 50 overall goals for the club (17 in four", "id": "21673652" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\nnew stadium - provided they had a professional club to fill it after the tournament. Rotor, facing legal action and a transfer embargo due to their financial status, were not reliable candidates. The government created a new entity, FC Volgograd, intending to assume the Rotor name. In fact Rotor managed to co-exist with the new FC for the first half of the 2009 season, before Mikheev suspended operations and the government took ownership of the club and stadium from him. The two clubs were merged into one, and", "id": "264677" }, { "contents": "FC Lokomotiv Moscow\n\n\npoints after Gameweek 30. The game was played at Dynamo Stadium in front of a sold-out crowd. Lokomotiv took an early lead thanks a low drive from captain Dmitry Loskov, and eventually the goal turned out to be enough for Lokomotiv to claim the first title in the club's history. Two years later, Lokomotiv again won the Russian Premier League, edging city rivals CSKA by a single point; Lokomotiv defeated Shinnik Yaroslavl 0–2 in Yaroslavl, a week after CSKA fell to city rivals Dynamo at home. In 2005", "id": "10933606" }, { "contents": "1995–96 Manchester United F.C. season\n\n\nactually went top of the league after a goalless draw at Sheffield Wednesday towards the end of September, only for the Tynesiders to return to the top of the table soon after. Then came Cantona's comeback on 1 October, when he scored a penalty to equalise and hold Liverpool to a 2–2 draw Old Trafford. The autumn saw United suffer first-hurdle exits to York City in the League Cup and Rotor Volgograd in the UEFA Cup, although United did preserve their 39-year home unbeaten record in European competitions thanks to a late", "id": "9981632" }, { "contents": "1994–95 Russian Cup\n\n\nDynamo Moscow: Valeri Kleimyonov (GK), Yuri Kovtun (DF), Sergey Timofeev (DF), Andrei Chernyshov (DF), Aleksandr Borodkin (DF), Aleksei Filippov (DF), Vagiz Khidiyatullin (DF), Andrei Ivanov (DF), Denis Klyuyev (MF), Dmitri Cheryshev (FW), Igor Simutenkov (FW), Kirill Rybakov (FW), Yuri Tishkov (FW). FC Rotor Volgograd: Volodymyr Gerashchenko (DF), Aleksandr Yeshchenko (MF), Konstantin Kulik (", "id": "5392312" }, { "contents": "FC Olimpia Volgograd\n\n\nFC Olimpia Volgograd () is a Russian football team from the large city of Volgograd. They are the second- or third-largest club in the city after the famous Rotor Volgograd. From their founding in 1989 until 1997, the club participated in various youth leagues. Some time between 1993 and 1994 the Volgograd native Leonid Slutsky, future coach of the Russian national team, joined the training staff. Among the Olimpia youth players developed under Slutsky were Denis Kolodin, Roman Adamov, Andrei Bochkov, Maksim Burchenko and Aleksei Zhdanov,", "id": "21936806" }, { "contents": "Peter Schmeichel\n\n\na 2001 Reuters poll, he beat Lev Yashin and Gordon Banks to be named the finest keeper in football history. Despite being a goalkeeper, he would run into the attack on corner kicks if his team was behind. The sight of him going up for the corner was a great distraction to opposing defenders. He scored a goal in this fashion, for Man United, in a UEFA Cup match against Rotor Volgograd at Old Trafford in September 1995. He scored in the last minutes of the game to tie the match 2–2", "id": "19820283" }, { "contents": "Spartak Gogniyev\n\n\nSpartak Arturovich Gogniyev (, ; born 19 January 1981) is a Russian professional football coach and a former player. He is the manager of FC Alania Vladikavkaz. He made his debut in the Russian Premier League in 2000 for FC Dynamo Moscow. He played two games in the UEFA Cup 2000–01 for FC Dynamo Moscow and two games (scoring one goal) in the UEFA Champions League 2003–04 qualification round for PFC CSKA Moscow. In August 2018, it was announced that Spartak Gogniyev joined new FC Urozhay Krasnodar, but this was", "id": "7903306" }, { "contents": "Georgi Yartsev\n\n\nat the time, gave Yartsev a sabre as a birthday gift in a sideline pre-game ceremony. Yartsev got another head coach position soon enough, when he joined Rotor Volgograd in January 2000. However, he could not do much with that team either and was fired in June of same year. For the next 3 years he was the manager of the Spartak Moscow veterans team. In August 2003, Russia was very close to elimination from their Euro 2004 preliminary qualification group and the coach Valery Gazzayev, was fired.", "id": "15861320" }, { "contents": "FCSB\n\n\nUEFA ordered Steaua to play two home games of the Europa League behind closed doors due to their fans displaying racist banners in a second qualifying round match against Hungarian side Újpest. Three further incidents occurred in the 2014–15 season, with the club fined and ordered to play further games in an empty stadium after displays of racist banners in matches against Dynamo Kyiv, Ludogorets Razgrad and Strømsgodset. Steaua's most important rivalry is the one against Dinamo București. \"Eternul derby\" (\"The Eternal Derby\") has been the leading Romanian", "id": "19491084" }, { "contents": "2010 Russian First Division\n\n\n), Mordovia Saransk (Ural-Povolzhye) and Irtysh Omsk (East). Due to financial difficulties, Vityaz Podolsk who placed 11th in 2009, decided to give up their spot in the Russian First Division and participate in the Russian Second Division in 2010. Pending licensing, their place was taken by FC Volgograd who placed 3rd in the Russian Second Division (South Zone) in 2009. For the occasion the management decided to change the name of the club from FC Volgograd to Rotor Volgograd. FC Alania Vladikavkaz were promoted", "id": "7947305" }, { "contents": "Russian Women's Handball Super League\n\n\nThe Russian Women's Handball Superleague is the premier women's handball competition in Russia. Dinamo Volgograd, formerly known as Rotor and Akva, is the championship's most successful club as of 2019 with 12 titles. It also holds the record for consecutive wins, with six titles in a row. Currently eleven clubs take part in the competition, with the top eight playing the championship play-offs. The Russian Championship's leading teams have been successful in EHF's competitions. Zvezda Zvenigorod won the Champions League and the EHF Cup", "id": "8475941" }, { "contents": "Pavel Pogrebnyak\n\n\n's relegation, Pogrebnyak was linked with a move away from the club but did not leave. He scored his first goals in more than eight months after netting twice in a 3–1 win over Derby County in September 2013. On 27 August 2015 Pogrebnyak moved back to Russia, signing a three-year contract with Dynamo Moscow. Dynamo released him on 25 January 2018, citing disciplinary reasons, such as attending a Juventus - Inter Milan game in Italy on the same day Dynamo played a league game and participating in the annual exhibition", "id": "2040879" }, { "contents": "1996 in Russian football\n\n\nplayers (Stanislav Cherchesov, Viktor Onopko, Vasili Kulkov and Sergei Yuran) who played in the group stage where Spartak did not lose a single point left the club to move to Western European clubs in the winter before the quarterfinals. Nicolas Ouédec was instrumental again, after scoring 7 goals in 4 games against the Russian teams in the 1994–95 UEFA Cup, this time he scored 3 goals in two games against Spartak. FC Dynamo Moscow were eliminated in the quarterfinals. All the Russian teams were eliminated in 1995. FC Alania Vladikavkaz", "id": "22219347" }, { "contents": "Kamil Mullin\n\n\nKamil Shamilevich Mullin (, ; born 5 January 1994) is a Russian professional football player who plays for FC Rotor Volgograd. He plays as a forward. Mullin joined Lokomotiv academy at 16 years, and two years later made it to the youth squad. In total, he played 53 games for Lokomotiv U21 and scored 23 goals.br He made his debut for Lokomotiv first team in the 2012–13 Russian Cup game vs Torpedo Armavir on 26 September 2012.br In March 2013, Mullin for the first time was included into team sheet for the", "id": "2605760" }, { "contents": "FC Dynamo Moscow\n\n\nthe 2008 season, Dynamo finished third, qualifying for the 2009–10 Champions League preliminary round. On 29 July 2009, Dynamo recorded a 0–1 away win against Celtic at Celtic Park, which gave them a strong advantage going into the second leg. However, Celtic comfortably defeated Dynamo 0–2 in Moscow to progress, sending Dynamo into the Europa League play-off round where the club was eliminated by Bulgarian side CSKA Sofia after a 0–0 away draw in Sofia and a 1–2 home defeat in Moscow. In 2012, after a poor start", "id": "8644502" }, { "contents": "2013–14 Russian Premier League\n\n\n2014/15 season. The 13th and 14th Premier League teams will play the 4th and 3rd FNL teams respectively in two playoff games with the winner securing a Premier League spot for 2014/15 season. On 11 May 2014, the game between FC Zenit Saint Petersburg and FC Dynamo Moscow was interrupted in the 86th minute with Dynamo leading 4-2 when Zenit fans ran out of the stands. At first they stood behind the goal line, when the referee decided to take the teams off the field into the dressing rooms and teams began to", "id": "9911963" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\nthe third tier) in 1980 and 1981, and were successful in the promotion playoffs the second time. In 1988 Rotor finished second in the Soviet First League, earning promotion to the Soviet Top League. They finished 13th and last in the downsized 1990 competition after the Georgian and Lithuanian teams withdrew, and the decision was made to relegate them. However they bounced straight back as champions of the First League in 1991, thus becoming founder members of the new Russian Top Division after the USSR collapsed. In the mid-1990s, Rotor", "id": "264672" }, { "contents": "Bibras Natkho\n\n\n, Natkho scored two goals in the Champions League qualifier against Dynamo Kyiv and Lyon, who they eliminated Kazan out of the competitions and the club would play in the Europa League. Then in the Europa League campaign, Natkho scored twice in six matches in the Group Stage of the Europa League against Tottenham Hostpur and Shamrock Rovers. Natkho performance was praised for his role during the season and helped the club win the Russian Cup after playing a vital of assisting the winning goal, in a 1–0 win over Dynamo Moscow. Natkho would", "id": "21438585" }, { "contents": "Danil Lipovoy\n\n\nDanil Nikolayevich Lipovoy (; born 22 September 1999) is a Russian football player who plays for FC Dynamo Moscow. He made his debut in the Russian Professional Football League for FC Dynamo-2 Moscow on 2 April 2017 in a game against FC Dynamo Saint Petersburg. He made his debut for the main squad of FC Dynamo Moscow on 26 September 2018 in a Russian Cup game against FC Torpedo Moscow. He made Russian Premier League debut for Dynamo on 30 November 2018 in a game against FC Rubin Kazan, as a 64th-minute substitute", "id": "429351" }, { "contents": "FC Amkar Perm\n\n\n, having lost their Spring matches to Kuban Krasnodar (1–2) and Spartak Moscow (0–2). A series without a win followed the victory over Alania and after the Dynamo match Amkar lost to Terek Grozny (1–2) and Lokomotiv Moscow (2–4). After another devastating defeat from Kuban (0–4), followed by a victory over their direct rivals Rostov (3–2), and a goalless draw with Zenit, the club retained the right to play in the Premier League. In June 2013, the club opted not to", "id": "5030824" }, { "contents": "FC Shakhtar Donetsk\n\n\nminute Fedor Manov opened score to Donetsk team goals. Final score is 4:1 in favor of the hosts.\" Nonetheless, the selective job conducted constructively by the club's administration allowed the club to compete successfully at the top level by the end of the 1930s. During the \"war championship\" of 1941, which was interrupted unexpectedly, the club defeated Soviet champions Dynamo Moscow and after about ten games were placed in fifth in the league. In the last game of that championship, played on 24 June, two days after", "id": "14103740" }, { "contents": "Oleg Veretennikov\n\n\nOleg Aleksandrovich Veretennikov (; born 5 January 1970) is a professional Russian association football coach and a former international footballer. He manages Rotor-2 Volograd. He is the top goalscorer in the history of Russian Premier League, and holds several other goalscoring records. Most of Veretennikov's successes have come with SC Rotor Volgograd, for whom he played in 1992–1999. During that time he scored 143 goals, which makes him the best goalscorer in the Russian Premier League history (the next best goalscorer, Dmitry Loskov, has 109 goals as of", "id": "21553966" }, { "contents": "Sergei Pareiko\n\n\nSergei Pareiko (born 31 January 1977) is a retired Estonian footballer. He is currently the sporting director of Estonian football club Levadia. Pareiko played as a goalkeeper in Estonian, Russian and Polish top tiers. He made a total of 65 appearances for the Estonia national football team. In Estonia, Pareiko played for Tallinna Sadam and Levadia Maardu, before moving to Russia in 2001, when he signed with Rotor Volgograd. After Rotor were relegated, Pareiko moved to Tom Tomsk. At the end of 2009 season Pareiko was named", "id": "11658849" }, { "contents": "FC Dinamo Tbilisi\n\n\nIn this period Dinamo won the Soviet Cup for the first time in their history, convincingly defeating Armenian side Ararat Yerevan 3–0 in the final, with goals scored by David Kipiani, Piruz Kanteladze and Revaz Chelebadze. In 1978 the club won the Soviet Top League for a second time. Next year Dinamo won the Soviet Cup again by defeating Russian side Dynamo Moscow in the final. In 1979 the club played its first match in the UEFA European Cup tournament. In the first round Dinamo knocked out English side Liverpool, at the", "id": "10097459" }, { "contents": "Romelu Lukaku\n\n\nlater at home to West Ham. Lukaku scored twice in a 4–0 win, becoming the fourth Manchester United player to score two goals on his Premier League debut for the club. On 17 September, Lukaku scored United's third goal in a 4–0 win over his former club Everton, with Lukaku running over towards Everton fans and cupping his ears during his goal celebration in response to being booed throughout the game. On 27 September, Lukaku scored twice in a 4–1 UEFA Champions League win over CSKA Moscow, taking his tally to", "id": "1117930" }, { "contents": "Dynamo Dresden\n\n\none Game behind closed doors and one away game without own fan support. Virtual tickets were offered to reduce the financial loss, creating \"the first sold-out Ghost Game in history\". The 2012–13 season started poorly for Dynamo and Ralf Loose was sacked in December 2012 after a 3–0 defeat to VfL Bochum with the team in 15th place. He was replaced by Peter Pacult, returning to the club after more than six years. Dynamo's form improved after Pacult's arrival but the team still finished the league as 16th", "id": "11366777" }, { "contents": "Aleksandr Tashayev\n\n\nAleksandr Mikhailovich Tashayev (; born 23 June 1994) is a Russian professional football player who plays as a left midfielder for Spartak Moscow. He made his professional debut on 11 December 2014 for FC Dynamo Moscow in a 2014–15 UEFA Europa League group game against PSV Eindhoven. He also played in the Round of 16 away game against Napoli. On 6 July 2018, he signed a contract with the cross-city rivals FC Spartak Moscow, after buying out own contract from Dynamo and becoming a free agent. Dynamo unsuccessfully sued to deem", "id": "13552247" }, { "contents": "Dynamo Moscow Bandy Club\n\n\nthe end of the 2004–05 season, almost all players of the for a decade dominant Vodnik signed up for Dynamo Moscow, resulting in an immediate Russian League title in 2006. Dynamo Moscow won the World Cup for the first time in 2006, defeating Zorky in the final. The 2006 domestic title was followed by another four consecutive Russian championship titles and as one of the dominating teams in the following years too, until 2017, when they missed the championship play-off, only coming in at eighth place in the regular season", "id": "1825162" }, { "contents": "Handball Club Lada\n\n\nHandball Club Lada is a Russian women's handball club from Tolyatti playing in the Russian Super League. Founded in 1998, Lada soon became the leading team in the Super League winning five championships in a row between 2002 and 2006 and a sixth one in 2008. It also built itself a name in Europe winning the 2002 Cup Winners' Cup in its international debut and reaching the final of the 2007 Champions League and the next edition's semifinals. The following three seasons were less successful, with Dynamo Volgograd retrieving the leading position", "id": "9114247" }, { "contents": "Omari Tetradze\n\n\n– Tetradze. Later he considered restoring his original surname, but decided it would cause too many problems. At club level, he played for Dinamo Tbilisi, FC Dynamo Moscow, Alania Vladikavkaz (where he won a Russian league championship medal in 1995), AS Roma, and PAOK FC (Greece). He played for Russia at international level, and appeared at World Cup 1994 and Euro 1996. At the latter tournament, he played superbly in each of Russia's three games despite the team's poor results, and", "id": "17559889" }, { "contents": "FC Girondins de Bordeaux\n\n\nclub was relegated just two years thereafter. In 1992, however, \"Les Girondins\" won that year's Ligue 2 title, thus being elevated to the top tier of French football. In the emergence of young and exciting players such as playmaker Zinedine Zidane, striker Christophe Dugarry and left back Bixente Lizarazu, the club ascended even higher to win the UEFA Intertoto Cup in 1995. With this talented trio, the club defeated FC Rotor Volgograd (the 1995 King's Cup Winner), Real Betis, Milan and Slavia Prague", "id": "10933676" }, { "contents": "Yuriy Hudymenko\n\n\nYuriy Arkadiyovych Hudymenko (; born 3 October 1966) is a former Kyrgyz-born Ukrainian professional footballer. Hudymenko is a product of the main Bishkek sports school and later was accepted to the main republican club of Kyrgyzia, FC Alga Bishkek. In 1990 he made his debut in the Soviet Top League playing for FC Dnepr Dnepropetrovsk, but failed to score any goals in domestic competitions, but did score a goal against Heart of Midlothian F.C. in the 1990-91 UEFA Cup. Next year Hudymenko joined recently relegated FC Rotor Volgograd that", "id": "11637137" }, { "contents": "Valery Gazzaev\n\n\na second-place finish at the end of the season. However, Gazzaev was left behind in the first league in Spartak Ordzhonikidze, as he wasn't one of the main players of the SKA Rostov-on-Don. In the Soviet Top League, Gazzaev played in Lokomotiv Moscow, Dynamo Moscow, and Dinamo Tbilisi. Gazzaev is a Soviet Cup winner with Dynamo Moscow in 1984. During his career he scored 89 goals in 283 matches in Soviet Top League, and was the top goal scorer of the UEFA Cup", "id": "3537187" }, { "contents": "FC Amkar Perm\n\n\nAmkar was in third place in the standings, one point behind second-placed Spartak Moscow and six adrift of leaders Rubin Kazan. After the break, one of Amkar's team leaders, Vladimir Gabulov, and the captain, Aleksei Popov, left the team to join Dynamo Moscow and Rubin Kazan respectively. Two matches in a row on the \"equator\" of the Championship Amkar could have topped the league table but was unable to beat Tom Tomsk and Spartak Nalchik at home. On 16 November, after beating Tom in Tomsk", "id": "5030813" }, { "contents": "FC Rubin Kazan\n\n\nfixed after selling in Volgograd \"Rotor\" team leaders Oleg Nechaev and Rustem Khuzin (but soon returned to \"Rubin\" till the end of the season on loan). In the end the season Kazan finished on 8th place, only losing a point to Nizhnekamsk \"Neftechimik\" and dropped into the second league. The following year, 1994, coaches Zadikashvili and Semenov assemble a team literally bit by bit. Because of the continuing financial problems from the last season in the team left only 6 players: Grishin, Danilin,", "id": "19815661" }, { "contents": "Nikita Chernov\n\n\nNikita Aleksandrovich Chernov (; born 14 January 1996) is a Russian professional football player who plays as a centre-back for Krylia Sovetov Samara and Russia national football team. Born in Volzhsky, Volgograd Oblast, Chernov began his career at hometown team FC Energiya Volzhsky before joining CSKA Moscow in 2009. He made his professional debut on 24 September 2014 in a Russian Cup game against FC Khimik Dzerzhinsk. He also played in the next Russian Cup round against FC Torpedo Moscow on 29 October. On 30 July 2019, Chernov moved from", "id": "503700" }, { "contents": "KF Skënderbeu Korçë\n\n\nBeşiktaş, Lokomotiv Moscow and Sporting Clube de Portugal. In matchday 1, their first ever group stage game, the club was defeated at home 0–1 by Beşiktaş after a hard fight between the two sides. In the next matchday, they lost 0–2 to Lokomotiv Moscow in Moscow. Their worst defeat in the European competition yet came the next matchday, a storming 1–5 loss to Sporting in the away leg at Lisbon, but also had the Albanian side scoring their first goal in the UEFA Europa League group stages. In the home", "id": "1409695" }, { "contents": "FC Dynamo Kyiv\n\n\nand Maccabi Tel Aviv F.C. Dynamo finished in second place with 11 points after a spectacular performance and a memorable 0–2 in Porto. However, Dynamo was punished by UEFA for a racist incident in the home game against Chelsea where four black men were attacked in the stands by Dynamo fans. Despite this, Dynamo reached the round of 16 in the Champions League for the first time since 2000, where it was drawn with Manchester City. Dynamo was eliminated 1–3 on aggregate but managed to hold an impressive 0–0 draw in Manchester. Dynamo", "id": "18770189" }, { "contents": "Konstantin Kovalenko\n\n\nKonstantin Valeryevich Kovalenko (; ; born 2 February 1975) is a Belarusian and Russian professional footballer who plays for resurrected FC Kuban Krasnodar. He made his professional debut in the Soviet Second League in 1991 for FC Kuban Barannikovsky. He played 1 game in the 1996–97 UEFA Cup for FC Spartak Moscow. His brother Andrei Kovalenko also played football professionally. On 27 October 2008 he punched referee Sergei Timofeyev in the face in the Russian Second Division game FC Sochi-04 - FC Olimpia Volgograd. He was banned from football for a year. Spartak", "id": "1118096" }, { "contents": "Clinton N'Jie\n\n\nDimitri Payet and scored two goals in a 3–0 win. On 17 September, he scored both the goals in the away win over Amiens. On 3 May 2018, he played in the Europa League semi-finals away to FC Red Bull Salzburg as Marseille played out a 2–1 away loss but a 3–2 aggregate win to secure a place in the 2018 UEFA Europa League Final. On 25 July 2019, Njie signed a 4-year contract with Russian Premier League club Dynamo Moscow. N'Jie scored 44 minutes into his Cameroon debut against the", "id": "16847587" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\ntime they were able to consolidate in the National League, finishing 9th and then 14th. But financial troubles continued. A Ministry of Sport investigation found evidence of financial misconduct by club management along with substantial overspending, and regional Governor Andrey Bocharov announced after the 2013 season that government support for Rotor was being withdrawn. The club dropped back into the Second Division (renamed the Professional Football League) for the first half of the 2014–15 (autumn-spring) season, then withdrew in order to immediately transfer to the 2015 (spring", "id": "264679" }, { "contents": "2001 FC Anzhi Makhachkala season\n\n\nThe 2001 FC Anzhi Makhachkala season was the 2nd season that the club played in the Russian Top Division, the highest tier of football in Russia, following their promotion from the National Football League in 1999. They finished the season in 13th, were runners-up in the 2001-02 cup and reached the Sixth Round of the 2002-03 cup losing to Dynamo Moscow, and were knocked out of the UEFA Cup at the First Round stage after a 0-1 defeat to Rangers over one leg in Warsaw, Poland", "id": "4897180" }, { "contents": "FC Dynamo-2 Moscow\n\n\nFC Dynamo-2 Moscow () was a Russian football team from Moscow. It was the farm-club for FC Dynamo Moscow. In 2016, it was revived after the parent club, Dynamo, was relegated from the Russian Football Premier League (which holds its own competition for the Under-21 teams of the Premier League clubs) and licensed to play in the third-tier Russian Professional Football League for the 2016–17 season. Majority of the squad participated in the 2016–17 UEFA Youth League as well. On 17 June 2017, the parent", "id": "19064817" }, { "contents": "Mikhail Markosov\n\n\nDivision South Zone, scoring 27 goals, a feat no one in the entire Second Division surpassed. In the 2010 season, he played for FC Rotor Volgograd and came back to FC Dynamo Stavropol the next season. Scoring 10 goals in his first 10 matches for Dynamo, Markosov was transferred in the summer transfer window of the 2011-12 season to FC Ufa. From April until June 2019 Markosov played for FC Kuban Krasnodar, scored 7 goals in 11 matches. He joined the Armenia national football team in 2013. Markosov", "id": "12122198" }, { "contents": "1993 in Russian football\n\n\ntheir group campaign and finished it without much success, only gaining 2 points in 6 games, coming in last in the group and suffering a 0-6 defeat against Marseille. They could not play their home games in Moscow due to the lack of a stadium meeting the Champions League standards at the time. FC Spartak Moscow reached the semifinals, tying the best European result in club's history. FC Spartak Moscow qualified for the group stage and continued to play in the group into the 1994. FC Torpedo Moscow went out", "id": "21710373" }, { "contents": "2002 in Russian football\n\n\nrespective Second Division zones: The Russian Cup was won by CSKA Moscow, who beat Zenit Saint Petersburg 2–0 in the final at the Luzhniki Stadium. Lokomotiv Moscow participated in the third round of the UEFA Cup 2001-02, but were knocked out by Hapoel Tel Aviv FC who won 3–1 on aggregate. Krylya Sovetov Samara played in the UEFA Intertoto Cup 2002. After defeating Dinaburg FC in the second round they lost to Willem II Tilburg on away goals. Lokomotiv Moscow's victory over Grazer AK ensured there are two Russian clubs", "id": "11619883" }, { "contents": "FC Dynamo Moscow\n\n\nFC Dynamo Moscow (Dinamo Moscow, FC Dinamo Moskva, ) is a Russian football club based in Moscow. Dynamo has returned to the Russian Premier League for the 2017–18 season after one season in the second-tier Russian Football National League. Dynamo was the only club that had always played in the top tier of Soviet football (along with Dynamo Kyiv) and of Russian football from the end of the Soviet era until they were relegated in 2016. Despite this, it has never won the modern Russian Premier League title and", "id": "8644495" }, { "contents": "Nikita Lyamin\n\n\nIn 2004, he played three season in the farm team and two more seasons in the main team for Dynamo Moscow. Dynamo Moscow became champions at the 2007–08 Russian Volleyball Super League, but Lyamin due to low game practice quit the club. Lyamin moved to Nizhny Novgorod and became captain of Guberniya, which went on debuting in the B-division of the highest national league. In the two years, Guberniya could enter the Super League, and in the 2012–13 it became one of the leading clubs in Russia. Guberniya qualified", "id": "8669287" }, { "contents": "Leonid Slutsky (football coach)\n\n\nLeonid Viktorovich Slutsky (; born 4 May 1971) is a Russian professional football coach and former player who is the manager of Eredivisie club Vitesse. Previously, he has been in charge of Olimpia Volgograd, Uralan Elista, Moscow, Krylia Sovetov, CSKA Moscow, Russia and Hull City. Slutsky was born in Volgograd. Slutsky's playing career with FC Zvezda Gorodishche ended at just 19 years of age. He had to retire due to a knee injury sustained after falling out of a tree while rescuing a neighbour's cat. Slutsky", "id": "11710104" }, { "contents": "Yuri Kovtun\n\n\nduring the season so two top teams were interested in him at the same time, it's Dynamo and Spartak Moscow. In 1993, Kovtun chose Dynamo Moscow and was their key player for years, until his move to Spartak in 1999. While the only Kovtun's honour during 6 years in Dynamo was Russian Cup in 1995, he could get 3 titles in 1999, 2000 and 2001 after joining Spartak. Moreover, he took part in numerous UEFA Champions League games and found himself regular Russian national football team player. Kovtun", "id": "2071460" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\n-tier Russian Professional Football League for the 2016–17 season. They won their zone of the PFL in the 2016–17 season and were promoted to the second-level Russian National Football League for 2017–18. Despite ending the 2017–18 season in the relegation zone, the club stayed in the league for the 2018–19 season as another team that finished above them in the table failed to obtain the league license. As of 5 July 2019, according to the FNL website. Had international caps for their respective countries. Players whose name is listed in", "id": "264681" }, { "contents": "Dmitri Khokhlov\n\n\nDmitri Valeryevich Khokhlov (, born 22 December 1975) is a Russian football manager and a former player. He is the manager of FC Dynamo Moscow. He played as a holding midfielder or playmaker. He played for PFC CSKA Moscow and FC Lokomotiv Moscow in native Russia, having abroad spells with PSV Eindhoven (Netherlands) and Real Sociedad (Spain). During his time with FC Lokomotiv Moscow he participated in their memorable 2003–04 UEFA Champions League campaign, scoring third goal in the 3–0 home victory against Internazionale. He played for", "id": "19054427" }, { "contents": "Racism in association football\n\n\nagainst CSKA Moscow in Russia. The club's stadium was partially closed as punishment. Touré suggested that black players might boycott the 2018 FIFA World Cup, to be held in Russia, if racism continued in the country. In September 2014, Dynamo Moscow defender Christopher Samba was racially abused playing in the Moscow derby against Torpedo Moscow. As a result, Torpedo were forced to close part of their stadium, although Samba was also banned for two games for swearing at the racist fans. In a friendly match (Russia vrs France", "id": "21349703" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\nTraktor Stalingrad to national prominence. Traktor were champions of the new fourth-level Group G in 1937, and were then promoted straight to the highest-level Group A as it expanded from 9 clubs to 26. They remained at the top level until 1950. Rotor then spent three decades at the top regional level, although the creation of the Supreme League in 1970 pushed their league from the second level overall down to the third. They gradually improved throughout the 1970s and finally won Zone III of the Soviet Second League (", "id": "264671" }, { "contents": "WPC Dynamo Moscow\n\n\nWPC Dynamo Moscow () is a Russian men's water polo club, that is part of the traditional Moscow-based multi-sports club Dynamo. Dynamo won seven Soviet Championships between 1955 and 1962, and in 1964 it was the first team to represent the in the newly European Champions Cup, ranking second behind Partizan. In 1968 and 1969 the team won two more national championships, and it also reached the 1969 European Cup's final, lost to Mladost. For the next fifteen years Dynamo didn't win any more", "id": "18685765" }, { "contents": "Kyle Hines\n\n\ngreat Olympiacos comeback in 4th quarter, led by Vassilis Spanoulis. CSKA Moscow eventually won the EuroLeague third place game, after defeating Fenerbahçe, by a score of 86–80. In his second EuroLeague season with CSKA Moscow, Hines averaged a career-low 6.8 points and 4.3 rebounds per game, over 30 games played. CSKA Moscow finished the season by winning the VTB United League, after eliminating Khimki with a 3–0 series sweep in the League's finals series. On June 17, 2015, he signed a two-year contract", "id": "14695455" }, { "contents": "Miroslav Raičević\n\n\nfinal decisive shot in the very last seconds of the final game against Prokom Trefl Sopot. He also won the Greek Cup with Aris, in the year 2004. He has also played with Red Star Belgrade of the Adriatic League during the 2005–06 season. He won the Serbian Cup with Red Star that season. In the 2006–07 season, he played with the Russian Super League club Dynamo Moscow. During summer of 2007, he left Dynamo Moscow and joined the Italian League club Eldo Napoli. He then left Napoli and moved back", "id": "13596698" } ]

[ { "contents": "1996 in Russian football\n\n\nwas knocked out in the qualifying round. FC Lokomotiv Moscow went out in the second round. PFC CSKA Moscow, FC Dynamo Moscow and FC Torpedo-Luzhniki Moscow were eliminated in the first round after going through the qualifying round. FC Alania Vladikavkaz went out in the first round after going to the UEFA Cup after failing in the qualification for the Champions League. FC Spartak Moscow went out in the second round. Russian clubs participated in the Intertoto Cup for the first time. FC Rotor Volgograd, FC KAMAZ-Chally Naberezhnye", "id": "22219348" }, { "contents": "1995 in Russian football\n\n\nthe Russian Cup 1995–96 were played later in the year. All the Russian participants were eliminated in 1994. FC Spartak Moscow won every game in their group, qualifying for the quarterfinals. FC Dynamo Moscow advanced through the first two rounds, qualifying to play in the quarterfinals next spring. FC Spartak-Alania Vladikavkaz and FC Lokomotiv Moscow were eliminated in the first round by strong opponents (even though Lokomotiv very unexpectedly beat FC Bayern in Munich in the first game). FC Rotor Volgograd eliminated Manchester United F.C. in the first round", "id": "18335625" }, { "contents": "Maksim Nenakhov\n\n\nMaksim Maksimovich Nenakhov (; born 13 December 1998) is a Russian football player who plays for FC Rotor Volgograd. He made his debut in the Russian Professional Football League for FC Dynamo-2 Moscow on 20 July 2016 in a game against FC Tekstilshchik Ivanovo. On 19 January 2018, he was loaned to FC Tyumen until the end of the 2017–18 season. On 14 June 2018, he moved on another loan for the 2018–19 season to FC SKA-Khabarovsk. On 18 June 2019, he signed a 2-year contract with FC Rotor Volgograd", "id": "6983587" }, { "contents": "Almir Kayumov\n\n\nAlmir Izmailovich Kayumov (; 30 December 1964 – 7 August 2013) was a Russian football player and referee. Kayumov played for FC Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk, FC Lada Togliatti, Spartak Moscow, Rotor Volgograd, SKA Rostov-on-Don, in Russia, the Daewoo Royals in South Korea, and Kuopion Palloseura in Finland. He played 6 games in the UEFA Cup 1986–87 for FC Spartak Moscow. On November 9, 2009, it was reported that Kayumov attempted to commit suicide by jumping out of his apartment window. Police negotiators talked", "id": "14510549" }, { "contents": "Ruslan Ishkinin\n\n\nRuslan Kamilyevich Ishkinin (; born 14 June 1974) is a former Russian professional footballer. He made his professional debut in the Russian Second Division in 1992 for FC Dynamo-2 Moscow. The most memorable match of his career was played on 14 June 1995. His team FC Dynamo Moscow was playing FC Rotor Volgograd in the final game of the Russian Cup. Dynamo was decimated by injuries and several reserve players, including Ishkinin, were called up for the game. With 5 minutes to go in regulation and the score of 0–0, Ishkinin", "id": "2479621" }, { "contents": "1997 in Russian football\n\n\nthe year. Russian teams were eliminated in 1996. FC Spartak Moscow were eliminated in the second qualifying round and went on to the UEFA Cup. FC Lokomotiv Moscow qualified for the quarterfinals stage that was played in 1998. FC Spartak Moscow qualified for the quarterfinals stage that was played in 1998. FC Rotor Volgograd reached the second round. FC Alania Vladikavkaz went out in the first round. The goal in the stadium was measured before the game and turned out to be 2.46 meters high instead of regulation 2.44. The referee decided", "id": "20500131" }, { "contents": "2012–13 Russian Premier League\n\n\naltogether if the game is awarded to Dynamo. According to the police, the main suspect is a female fan who was arrested after the game. The criminal investigation was opened on the charge of hooliganism. On 22 November, Russian Football Union's Control-Disciplinary Committee awarded the game to Dynamo with a score of 3–0 and fined both clubs. Dynamo had to play their next home game (against Rubin Kazan) behind closed doors and Zenit had to play their next 2 home games (against CSKA Moscow and Anzhi Makhachkala)", "id": "321372" }, { "contents": "Yuriy Kalitvintsev\n\n\nfor FC Desna Chernihiv. A Russian-born Kalitvintsev chose to play for the Ukraine side after breaking through as a midfielder for Dynamo Kyiv. Until 1994 he played he spent his playing career at Russian clubs such as FC Rotor Volgograd, FC SKA Rostov-on-Don, FC Dynamo Moscow, and FC Lokomotiv Nizhny Novgorod. It wasn't until the reorganization of the soviet football when he started to play at the top level of the Russian championship starting for the Moscow's Dynamo. After being transferred to the fading club", "id": "20481933" }, { "contents": "Sergei Bogomolov\n\n\nSergei Anatolyevich Bogomolov (; born 17 August 1971) is a former Russian professional footballer. During his time with FC Dynamo Moscow he only played in a single game for the main team, but it was a very memorable one. On 14 June 1995, Dynamo was playing FC Rotor Volgograd in the final game of the 1994–95 Russian Cup. Dynamo was hurt by injuries to some first team regulars and several reserve players, including Bogomolov, were called up for the game. With the score of 0:0 and 10 minutes to go in", "id": "18632079" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\nwas one of the strongest clubs in Russia, rivalling Spartak Moscow for the championship, yet never winning it. Rotor became the league runners-up in 1993 and 1997. Rotor played five successive seasons in European competition, from 1994-95 to 1998-99. They qualified for the UEFA Cup through their league position every year except 1996-97, when they instead chose to enter the Intertoto Cup. Unfortunately for Rotor, the fall of communism had left all the former Eastern Bloc leagues badly under-resourced compared to", "id": "264673" }, { "contents": "1995 in Russian football\n\n\n1995 was the fourth season Russia held its own national football competition since the breakup of the Soviet Union. FC Spartak-Alania Vladikavkaz won the league for the first time ever. This was the first season 3 points were awarded for a win instead of two. For more details, see: The third edition of the Russian Cup, Russian Cup 1994–95 was won by FC Dynamo Moscow, who beat FC Rotor Volgograd in the finals in a shootout 8-7 after finishing extra time at 0-0. Early stages of", "id": "18335624" }, { "contents": "Maxim Chuzhkov\n\n\nMaxim Aleksandrovich Chuzhkov (; born 11 April 1987) is a Russian beach soccer player serving as goalkeeper. He is a three-time national champion for three different clubs (Rotor Volgograd, Lokomotiv Moscow, Kristall). Maxim Chuzhkov was born in Samara. He was a gymnast for six years before switching to football. Chuzhkov discovered beach soccer in 2010, and one year later he joined Krylya Sovetov from Samara. From 2012 to 2014 he played for Rotor Volgograd, winning with them the club's first and only Russian Beach Soccer", "id": "21454463" }, { "contents": "1991 Soviet Top League\n\n\nseason, while FC Rotor Volgograd and FC Tiligul Tiraspol would have been promoted to the Top League for 1992. Top six clubs of the league later entered European competitions for their respective nations. The Ukrainian clubs chose to qualify through a separate national competition. The league was expanded to 16 after the last season, during which number of clubs left the Soviet competitions (from Georgia and Baltic states). The last-placed FC Rotor Volgograd of the 1990 Soviet Top League lost promotion/relegation playoff to Lokomotiv Moscow and was relegated", "id": "831265" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor-2 Volgograd\n\n\nFC Rotor-2 Volgograd () is a Russian football team based in Volgograd. It is the farm club for FC Rotor Volgograd. It previously played professionally as FC Rotor-d Volgograd or FC Rotor-2 Volgograd in the Russian Second Division in 1992–1993, 1998–2000 and 2004 and Russian Third League in 1994-1997. They came in 3rd place in their Second Division zone in 1993. In 2001, the reserves tournament for Russian Premier League was re-established and the reserves team played there while the main team stayed in Premier League.", "id": "5758261" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\nFC Rotor Volgograd () is a Russian football (soccer) club from the large city of Volgograd, Volgograd Oblast (formerly Stalingrad). The club plays in the second-level Russian National Football League. They are the largest and best supported Volgograd club and for most of their existence have been the city's only representatives in the national league system. They played at the top level of Soviet/Russian football either side of World War II, from 1989 to 1990, and from 1991 to 2004. During the 1990s", "id": "264669" }, { "contents": "Wisdom Mumba Chansa\n\n\nand Derby Makinka, to play in the Soviet Top League when they all signed for Pomir Dushanbe in 1989 after being spotted during their 4-0 win over Italy at the 1988 Olympics. Chansa's debut came on 2 October 1989 in an away match against Torpedo Moscow, before appearing twice more, against Rotor Volgograd and Metalist Kharkiv, before leaving at the conclusion of the 1989 season. Chansa returned to Power Dynamos following his Soviet experience, and was made captain before Power Dynamos became the first Zambian club side to win a", "id": "5300924" }, { "contents": "FC Volgograd\n\n\nFC Volgograd () is a former name of the Russian football club from Volgograd, founded in late 2008, currently known as FC Rotor Volgograd. Before it was founded, it was originally supposed to be called FC Rotor-Volgograd Volgograd (to keep Rotor's name around at the time FC Rotor Volgograd was close to bankruptcy). However, FC Rotor's financial situation has improved by early 2009 and the club was registered as FC Volgograd. It played in the Russian Second Division in 2009. It took over the license", "id": "6725532" }, { "contents": "Roman Pavlyuchenko\n\n\nRoman Anatolyevich Pavlyuchenko (; born 15 December 1981) is a Russian footballer who plays as a striker for FC Znamya Noginsk. He started his career at Dynamo Stavropol, and Rotor Volgograd, before transferring to Spartak Moscow in 2003. His performances there earned him a £13.7 million transfer to Tottenham Hotspur of the English Premier League in 2008, where he spent three full seasons before returning to Russia to play for Lokomotiv Moscow. After another full 3 seasons he moved in July 2015, to Kuban Krasnodar. A full international for a", "id": "3367200" }, { "contents": "Anton Miranchuk\n\n\nAnton Andreyevich Miranchuk (; born 17 October 1995) is a Russian professional football player who plays as a centre midfielder or attacking midfielder for Lokomotiv Moscow and the Russia national team. Born in Slavyansk-na-Kubani, Miranchuk joined Spartak Moscow from his hometown football school Olymp. He was dismissed from the club because of weak physical abilities. After that, he and his twin brother Aleksei moved to Lokomotiv Moscow. On 30 October 2013, Miranchuk made his competitive debut in senior football in a Russian Cup game against Rotor Volgograd replacing", "id": "1404526" }, { "contents": "Dmitry Pletnyov (footballer)\n\n\nDmitry Andreyevich Pletnyov (; born 16 January 1998) is a Russian football player. He plays for FC Tom Tomsk in Russian Football National League. He made his debut in the Russian Football National League for FC Zenit-2 Saint Petersburg on 6 September 2017 in a game against FC Rotor Volgograd. He made his Russian Premier League debut for FC Zenit Saint Petersburg on 5 May 2018 in a game against FC Lokomotiv Moscow. He played for Russia national under-17 football team at the 2015 UEFA European Under-17 Championship and 2015 FIFA U-17 World Cup.", "id": "21412634" }, { "contents": "2004 in Russian football\n\n\nseason. Andrey Fedkov of Terek became the top goalscorer with 38 goals. The following clubs have earned promotion by winning tournaments in their respective Second Division zones: Prior to start of the 2005 season three clubs (Rotor Volgograd, Torpedo Vladimir, and Arsenal Tula) refused participation in the First Division, and two more clubs (Dynamo Stavropol and Chernomorets Novorossiysk) were denied licences. This made way for the runners-up of all five zones: The Russian Super Cup match between CSKA Moscow and Spartak Moscow was won by CSKA", "id": "6344061" }, { "contents": "Dmitry Shishin\n\n\nnational beach soccer team. That year Shishin participated at the Russian Championship as player of Samarian Sputnik and debuted for the national team at the Beach Soccer World Cup. After Sputnik, Shishin for a long time played for different Saratov clubs, such as Rosagro, Biznes-Pravo, Delta. In 2011, Shishin moved to Lokomotiv Moscow, where he won the championship trophy with his team. Together with the Lokomotives he won another national championship trophy and two Russian cups. In 2013, Shishin surprisingly switched to Rotor Volgograd, becoming", "id": "12194946" }, { "contents": "2009 Russian Second Division\n\n\nJuly 2009 Oleg Mikheyev, president of FC Rotor Volgograd, announced Rotor's resignation from the league, citing problems with authorities. They have played 18 games and were in the 13th position with 21 points. \"Source: [PFL] , Sporbox.ru \" On 11 July 2009, the management of FC Spartak Shchyolkovo announced that the club would resign from the league after the first half of the season because of economic problems. Spartak were excluded from the league on August 4, 2009. They have played 18 games and were in", "id": "21482663" }, { "contents": "FC Olimpia Volgograd\n\n\nuntil 2008, though their fortunes faded after Slutsky's players left. Before the 2009 season their professional license was taken over by the new club FC Volgograd. This was meant to allow FC to assume the name and identity of Rotor who were suffering off-field troubles, but Rotor survived and ended up playing simultaneously with the new FC in 2009, while Olimpia dropped into the Volgograd Oblast Championship. They stayed there until 2011, winning the title in 2010. With confusion ongoing over the future of the Rotor name and club", "id": "21936808" }, { "contents": "Sergei Rashevsky\n\n\nSergei Aleksandrovich Rashevsky (; born 13 June 1980) is a Russian football coach and a former player. He is an assistant coach with FC Rotor Volgograd. He made his debut in the Russian Premier League in 2001 for FC Rotor Volgograd, before moving to Ural in 2005. After several seasons playing for different clubs in Russia, Rashevsky signed with Volga in 2008. He played for the club for three years, before he returned to Ural in 2011. Since February 2014, he played for the Russian National Football League side Yenisey", "id": "8136441" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\nthe new Rotor Volgograd were promoted to the second-level Russian Football National League thanks to teams above them withdrawing. The regional Ministry of Sport invested 150 million roubles ($4.9m) in the club's playing budget for the 2010 campaign, but it ended in failure as Rotor were relegated in 17th place. Governor Brovko admitted that the transition to the higher level was made too quickly. Former club player Sergei Nechay took over management and steered the team to promotion as champions of their Second Division zone in 2011–12. This", "id": "264678" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\ntheir Western counterparts, and indeed Rotor were knocked out by all four of the French and Italian clubs they played. The exception came against England's Manchester United in 1995-96. Having drawn the home leg 0-0, Rotor raced into a 2-0 lead at Old Trafford before United scored their first goal. Rotor were seconds away from being the first European club to win at Old Trafford when United's goalkeeper Peter Schmeichel scored a famous equaliser, but the 2-2 draw meant Rotor progressed by the away", "id": "264674" }, { "contents": "Roman Pavlyuchenko\n\n\na 1-0 loss against Moscow on 5 April 1999. On 15 May 1999, Pavlyuchenko provided a double assist in a 2-1 win over Chita. In his first season, Pavlyuchenko made 31 appearance and scoring 11 goals. However, the club played was still relegated to the Second Division after the club was last place. Despite this, Pavlyuchenko was named 'Team of the top' junior division for the first version of the newspaper Sport Express. Pavlyuchenko moved to Rotor Volgograd in 2000, although the move was", "id": "3367203" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\ntheir professional licence entirely. Rotor's reserve side in the Russian Second Division, Rotor-2 Volgograd, became the club's first team and was renamed Rotor in 2006. In 2007 local businessman Oleg Mikheev acquired the club's main asset the Volgograd Central Stadium, and with it effective control over the club, but financial troubles continued and the team's performances in the Second Division declined. Matters came to a head in 2009. Russia had officially launched its bid for the FIFA World Cup 2018 and Volgograd city was in line for a", "id": "264676" }, { "contents": "1988 Soviet Cup Final\n\n\nThe 1988 Soviet Cup Final was a football match that took place at the Lenin's Central Stadium, Moscow on May 28, 1988. The match was the 47th Soviet Cup Final and it was contested by FC Metalist Kharkiv and FC Torpedo Moscow. The Soviet Cup winner Metalist qualified for the Cup Winners' Cup first round for the Soviet Union. The last year defending holders Dynamo Kyiv were eliminated in the second round of the competition by FC Rotor Volgograd (3:2, 0:2). For Metalist this was their second final total", "id": "158055" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\ngoals rule They went on to be defeated by eventual Runners-up Bordeaux in the second round. Full European results: In the 2000s, Rotor's results declined, and in 2004, the team finished last in the Russian Premier League. The club's owner Vladimir Goryunov, a member of the Duma and head of the parliamentary sports committee, explored options to save Rotor from relegation, such as expanding the Premier League to 20 teams. But in January 2005 Rotor were unable to make the required financial guarantees and so lost", "id": "264675" }, { "contents": "2018–19 Russian Football National League\n\n\n. Ararat Moscow was promoted from 2017–18 PFL, but were refused a license for the 2018–19 Russian National Football League, the club being subsequently dissolved. Zenit-2 Saint Petersburg, Rotor Volgograd, Luch Vladivostok, Tyumen and Fakel Voronezh were spared from relegation due to lack of teams enrolled for the 2018–19 season. Sakhalin Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk finished on the promotion place at the end of the 2017–18 PFL season, but refused to be promoted. Dynamo Saint Petersburg was moved from Saint Petersburg to Sochi and renamed as PFC Sochi. Olimpiyets Nizhny Novgorod", "id": "621376" }, { "contents": "Dinamo Volgograd\n\n\nDinamo Volgograd () is a Russian women's handball club from Volgograd. Founded in 1972 as Burevestnik Volgograd, it represented Rotor Volgograd following the collapse of the Soviet Union and was subsequently named Aqva before taking its current name in 2003. Dynamo is the most successful team in the Russian Super League with nine titles, and in the 2001-02 season it set an absolute record winning all the matches. It has also been fairly successful in international competitions with three titles: the 1995 Challenge Cup and Champions Trophy and the 2008", "id": "10627328" }, { "contents": "List of football clubs in Russia\n\n\nZelenodolsk — FC Prometey-Dinamo Saint Petersburg — FC Pskov — FC Pskov-2000 — FC Pskov-747 FC Radian-Baikal Irkutsk — FC Rassvet Troitskoye — FC Reformatsiya Abakan — FC Rekord Aleksandrov — FC Reutov — FC Ritm Alekseyevka — FC Ritm Belgorod — FC Roda Moscow — FC Rossia Moscow — FC Rostov — FC Rostselmash-2 Rostov-on-Don — FC Rostselmash Rostov-on-Don — FC Rotor-2 Mikhaylovka — FC Rotor-2 Volgograd — FC Rotor Volgograd — FC Rubin-2 Kazan — FC Rubin Kazan — FC Rubin-TAN Kazan — FC", "id": "14958458" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\n-autumn) Russian Amateur Football League, the fourth level overall. In the 2015 season Rotor won the Amateur League Chernozemye (South-West Region) division at the first attempt by 11 points, suffering only one defeat in 22 games. The 45,000-seater Pobeda Stadium is under construction on their old Central Stadium site, and it was reported in August 2015 that the first team are still interested in moving into the facility after the 2018 World Cup, which makes attaining a higher league status a priority. They were licensed for third", "id": "264680" }, { "contents": "2010–11 KHL season\n\n\nThe 2010–11 KHL season was the third season of the Kontinental Hockey League. It was held from 8 September 2010 and ended on 16 April 2011. The season started with the Opening Cup game between the last season's finalists, Ak Bars Kazan and UHC Dynamo, the new team that was created by merging last season's Western conference winner HC MVD with Dynamo Moscow. Salavat Yulaev Ufa won the Gagarin Cup and the Russian Championship after beating Atlant Moscow Oblast 4–1 in the play-off final series. Folding of Lada Togliatti Lada", "id": "10925021" }, { "contents": "1994 in Russian football\n\n\ntime at 2-2. Early stages of the Russian Cup 1994–95 were played later in the year. FC Spartak Moscow finished the group stage in third place, not qualifying for the semifinals. All the Russian participants were eliminated in 1993. FC Spartak Moscow qualified directly for the group stage. It did not qualify from the group, coming in third place. PFC CSKA Moscow were eliminated in the first round. FC Rotor Volgograd and FC Tekstilshchik Kamyshin were both eliminated by FC Nantes in the first and second round respectively,", "id": "17746833" }, { "contents": "Mikhail Osinov\n\n\nRussian Top Division side Rotor Volgograd. In 2001, Osinov was transferred to FC Rostov and stayed there for 9 years, suffering a relegation and helping the \"yellow-blues\" to return to the Premier League. He also holds the club record for league appearances with 239 games. In 2010, he returned to Yekaterinburg to play in the Russian First Division. In 2011, Osinov went to a lower league joining MITOS Novocherkassk of the Russian Second Division. On 11 September 2011, in a league game against Olimpia Gelendzhik Osinov", "id": "12015633" }, { "contents": "1990 Soviet Top League\n\n\non 1 March with the game between Dnipro and Rotor and lasted until 20 October 1990. The season was won by FC Dynamo Kyiv. The league was reduced to 13 after first Georgian clubs (Dinamo Tbilisi and Guria Lanchkhuti) and then Žalgiris withdrew from the Soviet Top League. Lokomotiv Moscow and the last placed Zenit Leningrad of the 1989 Soviet Top League were relegated to the 1990 Soviet First League. Lokomotiv returned to the Soviet First League after two seasons absence, while Zenit was relegated for the first time since being promoted back", "id": "831394" }, { "contents": "2010–11 KHL season\n\n\nTogliatti dropped out of the league and joined the Russian Major League instead, after failing to meet the league's financial requirements. Merger of HC MVD and Dynamo Moscow On 30 April 2010, it was announced that HC MVD would merge with Dynamo Moscow to form UHC Dynamo, which for the time being will play the majority of their games at Megasport Arena in Moscow, while also attempting to play some games in Balashikha. The current plan is to have a new, large and modernized arena constructed in Balashikha by 2012. Expansion", "id": "10925022" }, { "contents": "Dzmitry Rawneyka\n\n\nDzmitry Vasilevich Rawneyka (; ; born 13 May 1980) is a former Belarusian professional footballer. He is currently af part of the coaching staff of Belarus. Born in Grodno, Rawneyka began playing football in FC Neman Grodno's youth system. He joined the senior side and made his Belarusian Premier League debut in 1998. He had a spell in the Russian Premier League with FC Torpedo Moscow and FC Rotor Volgograd but has spent most of his playing career with Neman Grodno. Rawneyka has made eight appearances for the Belarus national football team", "id": "13999154" }, { "contents": "BC Krasny Oktyabr\n\n\nthe highest stage for Russian clubs. In the first season of Krasny Oktyabr in the VTB United League, it qualified for the playoffs by finishing in the 6th place in Group B. Also, European powerhouse CSKA Moscow was defeated by Krasny Oktyabr in the quarterfinals of the 2013–14 Russian Cup tournament. On August 30, 2016, the team was forced to leave the United League, because its home arena wasn't approved to host tournaments. The club usually played its home games at the 3,700 seat Volgograd Sports Palace of Trade Unions,", "id": "8073501" }, { "contents": "Igor Lediakhov\n\n\n-Don. In 1990, he joined FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk. After impressing with FC Rotor Volgograd, Lediakhov was bought by Soviet Union giants FC Spartak Moscow, being essential as the capital team conquered three consecutive league titles, which included the inaugural edition of the competition, as the player scored in double digits in two of the three seasons. In the 1994 summer, 26-year-old Lediakhov moved abroad, signing with Spain's Sporting de Gijón. Even though he netted nearly 50 overall goals for the club (17 in four", "id": "21673652" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\nnew stadium - provided they had a professional club to fill it after the tournament. Rotor, facing legal action and a transfer embargo due to their financial status, were not reliable candidates. The government created a new entity, FC Volgograd, intending to assume the Rotor name. In fact Rotor managed to co-exist with the new FC for the first half of the 2009 season, before Mikheev suspended operations and the government took ownership of the club and stadium from him. The two clubs were merged into one, and", "id": "264677" }, { "contents": "FC Lokomotiv Moscow\n\n\npoints after Gameweek 30. The game was played at Dynamo Stadium in front of a sold-out crowd. Lokomotiv took an early lead thanks a low drive from captain Dmitry Loskov, and eventually the goal turned out to be enough for Lokomotiv to claim the first title in the club's history. Two years later, Lokomotiv again won the Russian Premier League, edging city rivals CSKA by a single point; Lokomotiv defeated Shinnik Yaroslavl 0–2 in Yaroslavl, a week after CSKA fell to city rivals Dynamo at home. In 2005", "id": "10933606" }, { "contents": "1995–96 Manchester United F.C. season\n\n\nactually went top of the league after a goalless draw at Sheffield Wednesday towards the end of September, only for the Tynesiders to return to the top of the table soon after. Then came Cantona's comeback on 1 October, when he scored a penalty to equalise and hold Liverpool to a 2–2 draw Old Trafford. The autumn saw United suffer first-hurdle exits to York City in the League Cup and Rotor Volgograd in the UEFA Cup, although United did preserve their 39-year home unbeaten record in European competitions thanks to a late", "id": "9981632" }, { "contents": "1994–95 Russian Cup\n\n\nDynamo Moscow: Valeri Kleimyonov (GK), Yuri Kovtun (DF), Sergey Timofeev (DF), Andrei Chernyshov (DF), Aleksandr Borodkin (DF), Aleksei Filippov (DF), Vagiz Khidiyatullin (DF), Andrei Ivanov (DF), Denis Klyuyev (MF), Dmitri Cheryshev (FW), Igor Simutenkov (FW), Kirill Rybakov (FW), Yuri Tishkov (FW). FC Rotor Volgograd: Volodymyr Gerashchenko (DF), Aleksandr Yeshchenko (MF), Konstantin Kulik (", "id": "5392312" }, { "contents": "FC Olimpia Volgograd\n\n\nFC Olimpia Volgograd () is a Russian football team from the large city of Volgograd. They are the second- or third-largest club in the city after the famous Rotor Volgograd. From their founding in 1989 until 1997, the club participated in various youth leagues. Some time between 1993 and 1994 the Volgograd native Leonid Slutsky, future coach of the Russian national team, joined the training staff. Among the Olimpia youth players developed under Slutsky were Denis Kolodin, Roman Adamov, Andrei Bochkov, Maksim Burchenko and Aleksei Zhdanov,", "id": "21936806" }, { "contents": "Peter Schmeichel\n\n\na 2001 Reuters poll, he beat Lev Yashin and Gordon Banks to be named the finest keeper in football history. Despite being a goalkeeper, he would run into the attack on corner kicks if his team was behind. The sight of him going up for the corner was a great distraction to opposing defenders. He scored a goal in this fashion, for Man United, in a UEFA Cup match against Rotor Volgograd at Old Trafford in September 1995. He scored in the last minutes of the game to tie the match 2–2", "id": "19820283" }, { "contents": "Spartak Gogniyev\n\n\nSpartak Arturovich Gogniyev (, ; born 19 January 1981) is a Russian professional football coach and a former player. He is the manager of FC Alania Vladikavkaz. He made his debut in the Russian Premier League in 2000 for FC Dynamo Moscow. He played two games in the UEFA Cup 2000–01 for FC Dynamo Moscow and two games (scoring one goal) in the UEFA Champions League 2003–04 qualification round for PFC CSKA Moscow. In August 2018, it was announced that Spartak Gogniyev joined new FC Urozhay Krasnodar, but this was", "id": "7903306" }, { "contents": "Georgi Yartsev\n\n\nat the time, gave Yartsev a sabre as a birthday gift in a sideline pre-game ceremony. Yartsev got another head coach position soon enough, when he joined Rotor Volgograd in January 2000. However, he could not do much with that team either and was fired in June of same year. For the next 3 years he was the manager of the Spartak Moscow veterans team. In August 2003, Russia was very close to elimination from their Euro 2004 preliminary qualification group and the coach Valery Gazzayev, was fired.", "id": "15861320" }, { "contents": "FCSB\n\n\nUEFA ordered Steaua to play two home games of the Europa League behind closed doors due to their fans displaying racist banners in a second qualifying round match against Hungarian side Újpest. Three further incidents occurred in the 2014–15 season, with the club fined and ordered to play further games in an empty stadium after displays of racist banners in matches against Dynamo Kyiv, Ludogorets Razgrad and Strømsgodset. Steaua's most important rivalry is the one against Dinamo București. \"Eternul derby\" (\"The Eternal Derby\") has been the leading Romanian", "id": "19491084" }, { "contents": "2010 Russian First Division\n\n\n), Mordovia Saransk (Ural-Povolzhye) and Irtysh Omsk (East). Due to financial difficulties, Vityaz Podolsk who placed 11th in 2009, decided to give up their spot in the Russian First Division and participate in the Russian Second Division in 2010. Pending licensing, their place was taken by FC Volgograd who placed 3rd in the Russian Second Division (South Zone) in 2009. For the occasion the management decided to change the name of the club from FC Volgograd to Rotor Volgograd. FC Alania Vladikavkaz were promoted", "id": "7947305" }, { "contents": "Russian Women's Handball Super League\n\n\nThe Russian Women's Handball Superleague is the premier women's handball competition in Russia. Dinamo Volgograd, formerly known as Rotor and Akva, is the championship's most successful club as of 2019 with 12 titles. It also holds the record for consecutive wins, with six titles in a row. Currently eleven clubs take part in the competition, with the top eight playing the championship play-offs. The Russian Championship's leading teams have been successful in EHF's competitions. Zvezda Zvenigorod won the Champions League and the EHF Cup", "id": "8475941" }, { "contents": "Pavel Pogrebnyak\n\n\n's relegation, Pogrebnyak was linked with a move away from the club but did not leave. He scored his first goals in more than eight months after netting twice in a 3–1 win over Derby County in September 2013. On 27 August 2015 Pogrebnyak moved back to Russia, signing a three-year contract with Dynamo Moscow. Dynamo released him on 25 January 2018, citing disciplinary reasons, such as attending a Juventus - Inter Milan game in Italy on the same day Dynamo played a league game and participating in the annual exhibition", "id": "2040879" }, { "contents": "1996 in Russian football\n\n\nplayers (Stanislav Cherchesov, Viktor Onopko, Vasili Kulkov and Sergei Yuran) who played in the group stage where Spartak did not lose a single point left the club to move to Western European clubs in the winter before the quarterfinals. Nicolas Ouédec was instrumental again, after scoring 7 goals in 4 games against the Russian teams in the 1994–95 UEFA Cup, this time he scored 3 goals in two games against Spartak. FC Dynamo Moscow were eliminated in the quarterfinals. All the Russian teams were eliminated in 1995. FC Alania Vladikavkaz", "id": "22219347" }, { "contents": "Kamil Mullin\n\n\nKamil Shamilevich Mullin (, ; born 5 January 1994) is a Russian professional football player who plays for FC Rotor Volgograd. He plays as a forward. Mullin joined Lokomotiv academy at 16 years, and two years later made it to the youth squad. In total, he played 53 games for Lokomotiv U21 and scored 23 goals.br He made his debut for Lokomotiv first team in the 2012–13 Russian Cup game vs Torpedo Armavir on 26 September 2012.br In March 2013, Mullin for the first time was included into team sheet for the", "id": "2605760" }, { "contents": "FC Dynamo Moscow\n\n\nthe 2008 season, Dynamo finished third, qualifying for the 2009–10 Champions League preliminary round. On 29 July 2009, Dynamo recorded a 0–1 away win against Celtic at Celtic Park, which gave them a strong advantage going into the second leg. However, Celtic comfortably defeated Dynamo 0–2 in Moscow to progress, sending Dynamo into the Europa League play-off round where the club was eliminated by Bulgarian side CSKA Sofia after a 0–0 away draw in Sofia and a 1–2 home defeat in Moscow. In 2012, after a poor start", "id": "8644502" }, { "contents": "2013–14 Russian Premier League\n\n\n2014/15 season. The 13th and 14th Premier League teams will play the 4th and 3rd FNL teams respectively in two playoff games with the winner securing a Premier League spot for 2014/15 season. On 11 May 2014, the game between FC Zenit Saint Petersburg and FC Dynamo Moscow was interrupted in the 86th minute with Dynamo leading 4-2 when Zenit fans ran out of the stands. At first they stood behind the goal line, when the referee decided to take the teams off the field into the dressing rooms and teams began to", "id": "9911963" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\nthe third tier) in 1980 and 1981, and were successful in the promotion playoffs the second time. In 1988 Rotor finished second in the Soviet First League, earning promotion to the Soviet Top League. They finished 13th and last in the downsized 1990 competition after the Georgian and Lithuanian teams withdrew, and the decision was made to relegate them. However they bounced straight back as champions of the First League in 1991, thus becoming founder members of the new Russian Top Division after the USSR collapsed. In the mid-1990s, Rotor", "id": "264672" }, { "contents": "Bibras Natkho\n\n\n, Natkho scored two goals in the Champions League qualifier against Dynamo Kyiv and Lyon, who they eliminated Kazan out of the competitions and the club would play in the Europa League. Then in the Europa League campaign, Natkho scored twice in six matches in the Group Stage of the Europa League against Tottenham Hostpur and Shamrock Rovers. Natkho performance was praised for his role during the season and helped the club win the Russian Cup after playing a vital of assisting the winning goal, in a 1–0 win over Dynamo Moscow. Natkho would", "id": "21438585" }, { "contents": "Danil Lipovoy\n\n\nDanil Nikolayevich Lipovoy (; born 22 September 1999) is a Russian football player who plays for FC Dynamo Moscow. He made his debut in the Russian Professional Football League for FC Dynamo-2 Moscow on 2 April 2017 in a game against FC Dynamo Saint Petersburg. He made his debut for the main squad of FC Dynamo Moscow on 26 September 2018 in a Russian Cup game against FC Torpedo Moscow. He made Russian Premier League debut for Dynamo on 30 November 2018 in a game against FC Rubin Kazan, as a 64th-minute substitute", "id": "429351" }, { "contents": "FC Amkar Perm\n\n\n, having lost their Spring matches to Kuban Krasnodar (1–2) and Spartak Moscow (0–2). A series without a win followed the victory over Alania and after the Dynamo match Amkar lost to Terek Grozny (1–2) and Lokomotiv Moscow (2–4). After another devastating defeat from Kuban (0–4), followed by a victory over their direct rivals Rostov (3–2), and a goalless draw with Zenit, the club retained the right to play in the Premier League. In June 2013, the club opted not to", "id": "5030824" }, { "contents": "FC Shakhtar Donetsk\n\n\nminute Fedor Manov opened score to Donetsk team goals. Final score is 4:1 in favor of the hosts.\" Nonetheless, the selective job conducted constructively by the club's administration allowed the club to compete successfully at the top level by the end of the 1930s. During the \"war championship\" of 1941, which was interrupted unexpectedly, the club defeated Soviet champions Dynamo Moscow and after about ten games were placed in fifth in the league. In the last game of that championship, played on 24 June, two days after", "id": "14103740" }, { "contents": "Oleg Veretennikov\n\n\nOleg Aleksandrovich Veretennikov (; born 5 January 1970) is a professional Russian association football coach and a former international footballer. He manages Rotor-2 Volograd. He is the top goalscorer in the history of Russian Premier League, and holds several other goalscoring records. Most of Veretennikov's successes have come with SC Rotor Volgograd, for whom he played in 1992–1999. During that time he scored 143 goals, which makes him the best goalscorer in the Russian Premier League history (the next best goalscorer, Dmitry Loskov, has 109 goals as of", "id": "21553966" }, { "contents": "Sergei Pareiko\n\n\nSergei Pareiko (born 31 January 1977) is a retired Estonian footballer. He is currently the sporting director of Estonian football club Levadia. Pareiko played as a goalkeeper in Estonian, Russian and Polish top tiers. He made a total of 65 appearances for the Estonia national football team. In Estonia, Pareiko played for Tallinna Sadam and Levadia Maardu, before moving to Russia in 2001, when he signed with Rotor Volgograd. After Rotor were relegated, Pareiko moved to Tom Tomsk. At the end of 2009 season Pareiko was named", "id": "11658849" }, { "contents": "FC Dinamo Tbilisi\n\n\nIn this period Dinamo won the Soviet Cup for the first time in their history, convincingly defeating Armenian side Ararat Yerevan 3–0 in the final, with goals scored by David Kipiani, Piruz Kanteladze and Revaz Chelebadze. In 1978 the club won the Soviet Top League for a second time. Next year Dinamo won the Soviet Cup again by defeating Russian side Dynamo Moscow in the final. In 1979 the club played its first match in the UEFA European Cup tournament. In the first round Dinamo knocked out English side Liverpool, at the", "id": "10097459" }, { "contents": "Romelu Lukaku\n\n\nlater at home to West Ham. Lukaku scored twice in a 4–0 win, becoming the fourth Manchester United player to score two goals on his Premier League debut for the club. On 17 September, Lukaku scored United's third goal in a 4–0 win over his former club Everton, with Lukaku running over towards Everton fans and cupping his ears during his goal celebration in response to being booed throughout the game. On 27 September, Lukaku scored twice in a 4–1 UEFA Champions League win over CSKA Moscow, taking his tally to", "id": "1117930" }, { "contents": "Dynamo Dresden\n\n\none Game behind closed doors and one away game without own fan support. Virtual tickets were offered to reduce the financial loss, creating \"the first sold-out Ghost Game in history\". The 2012–13 season started poorly for Dynamo and Ralf Loose was sacked in December 2012 after a 3–0 defeat to VfL Bochum with the team in 15th place. He was replaced by Peter Pacult, returning to the club after more than six years. Dynamo's form improved after Pacult's arrival but the team still finished the league as 16th", "id": "11366777" }, { "contents": "Aleksandr Tashayev\n\n\nAleksandr Mikhailovich Tashayev (; born 23 June 1994) is a Russian professional football player who plays as a left midfielder for Spartak Moscow. He made his professional debut on 11 December 2014 for FC Dynamo Moscow in a 2014–15 UEFA Europa League group game against PSV Eindhoven. He also played in the Round of 16 away game against Napoli. On 6 July 2018, he signed a contract with the cross-city rivals FC Spartak Moscow, after buying out own contract from Dynamo and becoming a free agent. Dynamo unsuccessfully sued to deem", "id": "13552247" }, { "contents": "Dynamo Moscow Bandy Club\n\n\nthe end of the 2004–05 season, almost all players of the for a decade dominant Vodnik signed up for Dynamo Moscow, resulting in an immediate Russian League title in 2006. Dynamo Moscow won the World Cup for the first time in 2006, defeating Zorky in the final. The 2006 domestic title was followed by another four consecutive Russian championship titles and as one of the dominating teams in the following years too, until 2017, when they missed the championship play-off, only coming in at eighth place in the regular season", "id": "1825162" }, { "contents": "Handball Club Lada\n\n\nHandball Club Lada is a Russian women's handball club from Tolyatti playing in the Russian Super League. Founded in 1998, Lada soon became the leading team in the Super League winning five championships in a row between 2002 and 2006 and a sixth one in 2008. It also built itself a name in Europe winning the 2002 Cup Winners' Cup in its international debut and reaching the final of the 2007 Champions League and the next edition's semifinals. The following three seasons were less successful, with Dynamo Volgograd retrieving the leading position", "id": "9114247" }, { "contents": "Omari Tetradze\n\n\n– Tetradze. Later he considered restoring his original surname, but decided it would cause too many problems. At club level, he played for Dinamo Tbilisi, FC Dynamo Moscow, Alania Vladikavkaz (where he won a Russian league championship medal in 1995), AS Roma, and PAOK FC (Greece). He played for Russia at international level, and appeared at World Cup 1994 and Euro 1996. At the latter tournament, he played superbly in each of Russia's three games despite the team's poor results, and", "id": "17559889" }, { "contents": "FC Girondins de Bordeaux\n\n\nclub was relegated just two years thereafter. In 1992, however, \"Les Girondins\" won that year's Ligue 2 title, thus being elevated to the top tier of French football. In the emergence of young and exciting players such as playmaker Zinedine Zidane, striker Christophe Dugarry and left back Bixente Lizarazu, the club ascended even higher to win the UEFA Intertoto Cup in 1995. With this talented trio, the club defeated FC Rotor Volgograd (the 1995 King's Cup Winner), Real Betis, Milan and Slavia Prague", "id": "10933676" }, { "contents": "Yuriy Hudymenko\n\n\nYuriy Arkadiyovych Hudymenko (; born 3 October 1966) is a former Kyrgyz-born Ukrainian professional footballer. Hudymenko is a product of the main Bishkek sports school and later was accepted to the main republican club of Kyrgyzia, FC Alga Bishkek. In 1990 he made his debut in the Soviet Top League playing for FC Dnepr Dnepropetrovsk, but failed to score any goals in domestic competitions, but did score a goal against Heart of Midlothian F.C. in the 1990-91 UEFA Cup. Next year Hudymenko joined recently relegated FC Rotor Volgograd that", "id": "11637137" }, { "contents": "Valery Gazzaev\n\n\na second-place finish at the end of the season. However, Gazzaev was left behind in the first league in Spartak Ordzhonikidze, as he wasn't one of the main players of the SKA Rostov-on-Don. In the Soviet Top League, Gazzaev played in Lokomotiv Moscow, Dynamo Moscow, and Dinamo Tbilisi. Gazzaev is a Soviet Cup winner with Dynamo Moscow in 1984. During his career he scored 89 goals in 283 matches in Soviet Top League, and was the top goal scorer of the UEFA Cup", "id": "3537187" }, { "contents": "FC Amkar Perm\n\n\nAmkar was in third place in the standings, one point behind second-placed Spartak Moscow and six adrift of leaders Rubin Kazan. After the break, one of Amkar's team leaders, Vladimir Gabulov, and the captain, Aleksei Popov, left the team to join Dynamo Moscow and Rubin Kazan respectively. Two matches in a row on the \"equator\" of the Championship Amkar could have topped the league table but was unable to beat Tom Tomsk and Spartak Nalchik at home. On 16 November, after beating Tom in Tomsk", "id": "5030813" }, { "contents": "FC Rubin Kazan\n\n\nfixed after selling in Volgograd \"Rotor\" team leaders Oleg Nechaev and Rustem Khuzin (but soon returned to \"Rubin\" till the end of the season on loan). In the end the season Kazan finished on 8th place, only losing a point to Nizhnekamsk \"Neftechimik\" and dropped into the second league. The following year, 1994, coaches Zadikashvili and Semenov assemble a team literally bit by bit. Because of the continuing financial problems from the last season in the team left only 6 players: Grishin, Danilin,", "id": "19815661" }, { "contents": "Nikita Chernov\n\n\nNikita Aleksandrovich Chernov (; born 14 January 1996) is a Russian professional football player who plays as a centre-back for Krylia Sovetov Samara and Russia national football team. Born in Volzhsky, Volgograd Oblast, Chernov began his career at hometown team FC Energiya Volzhsky before joining CSKA Moscow in 2009. He made his professional debut on 24 September 2014 in a Russian Cup game against FC Khimik Dzerzhinsk. He also played in the next Russian Cup round against FC Torpedo Moscow on 29 October. On 30 July 2019, Chernov moved from", "id": "503700" }, { "contents": "KF Skënderbeu Korçë\n\n\nBeşiktaş, Lokomotiv Moscow and Sporting Clube de Portugal. In matchday 1, their first ever group stage game, the club was defeated at home 0–1 by Beşiktaş after a hard fight between the two sides. In the next matchday, they lost 0–2 to Lokomotiv Moscow in Moscow. Their worst defeat in the European competition yet came the next matchday, a storming 1–5 loss to Sporting in the away leg at Lisbon, but also had the Albanian side scoring their first goal in the UEFA Europa League group stages. In the home", "id": "1409695" }, { "contents": "FC Dynamo Kyiv\n\n\nand Maccabi Tel Aviv F.C. Dynamo finished in second place with 11 points after a spectacular performance and a memorable 0–2 in Porto. However, Dynamo was punished by UEFA for a racist incident in the home game against Chelsea where four black men were attacked in the stands by Dynamo fans. Despite this, Dynamo reached the round of 16 in the Champions League for the first time since 2000, where it was drawn with Manchester City. Dynamo was eliminated 1–3 on aggregate but managed to hold an impressive 0–0 draw in Manchester. Dynamo", "id": "18770189" }, { "contents": "Konstantin Kovalenko\n\n\nKonstantin Valeryevich Kovalenko (; ; born 2 February 1975) is a Belarusian and Russian professional footballer who plays for resurrected FC Kuban Krasnodar. He made his professional debut in the Soviet Second League in 1991 for FC Kuban Barannikovsky. He played 1 game in the 1996–97 UEFA Cup for FC Spartak Moscow. His brother Andrei Kovalenko also played football professionally. On 27 October 2008 he punched referee Sergei Timofeyev in the face in the Russian Second Division game FC Sochi-04 - FC Olimpia Volgograd. He was banned from football for a year. Spartak", "id": "1118096" }, { "contents": "Clinton N'Jie\n\n\nDimitri Payet and scored two goals in a 3–0 win. On 17 September, he scored both the goals in the away win over Amiens. On 3 May 2018, he played in the Europa League semi-finals away to FC Red Bull Salzburg as Marseille played out a 2–1 away loss but a 3–2 aggregate win to secure a place in the 2018 UEFA Europa League Final. On 25 July 2019, Njie signed a 4-year contract with Russian Premier League club Dynamo Moscow. N'Jie scored 44 minutes into his Cameroon debut against the", "id": "16847587" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\ntime they were able to consolidate in the National League, finishing 9th and then 14th. But financial troubles continued. A Ministry of Sport investigation found evidence of financial misconduct by club management along with substantial overspending, and regional Governor Andrey Bocharov announced after the 2013 season that government support for Rotor was being withdrawn. The club dropped back into the Second Division (renamed the Professional Football League) for the first half of the 2014–15 (autumn-spring) season, then withdrew in order to immediately transfer to the 2015 (spring", "id": "264679" }, { "contents": "2001 FC Anzhi Makhachkala season\n\n\nThe 2001 FC Anzhi Makhachkala season was the 2nd season that the club played in the Russian Top Division, the highest tier of football in Russia, following their promotion from the National Football League in 1999. They finished the season in 13th, were runners-up in the 2001-02 cup and reached the Sixth Round of the 2002-03 cup losing to Dynamo Moscow, and were knocked out of the UEFA Cup at the First Round stage after a 0-1 defeat to Rangers over one leg in Warsaw, Poland", "id": "4897180" }, { "contents": "FC Dynamo-2 Moscow\n\n\nFC Dynamo-2 Moscow () was a Russian football team from Moscow. It was the farm-club for FC Dynamo Moscow. In 2016, it was revived after the parent club, Dynamo, was relegated from the Russian Football Premier League (which holds its own competition for the Under-21 teams of the Premier League clubs) and licensed to play in the third-tier Russian Professional Football League for the 2016–17 season. Majority of the squad participated in the 2016–17 UEFA Youth League as well. On 17 June 2017, the parent", "id": "19064817" }, { "contents": "Mikhail Markosov\n\n\nDivision South Zone, scoring 27 goals, a feat no one in the entire Second Division surpassed. In the 2010 season, he played for FC Rotor Volgograd and came back to FC Dynamo Stavropol the next season. Scoring 10 goals in his first 10 matches for Dynamo, Markosov was transferred in the summer transfer window of the 2011-12 season to FC Ufa. From April until June 2019 Markosov played for FC Kuban Krasnodar, scored 7 goals in 11 matches. He joined the Armenia national football team in 2013. Markosov", "id": "12122198" }, { "contents": "1993 in Russian football\n\n\ntheir group campaign and finished it without much success, only gaining 2 points in 6 games, coming in last in the group and suffering a 0-6 defeat against Marseille. They could not play their home games in Moscow due to the lack of a stadium meeting the Champions League standards at the time. FC Spartak Moscow reached the semifinals, tying the best European result in club's history. FC Spartak Moscow qualified for the group stage and continued to play in the group into the 1994. FC Torpedo Moscow went out", "id": "21710373" }, { "contents": "2002 in Russian football\n\n\nrespective Second Division zones: The Russian Cup was won by CSKA Moscow, who beat Zenit Saint Petersburg 2–0 in the final at the Luzhniki Stadium. Lokomotiv Moscow participated in the third round of the UEFA Cup 2001-02, but were knocked out by Hapoel Tel Aviv FC who won 3–1 on aggregate. Krylya Sovetov Samara played in the UEFA Intertoto Cup 2002. After defeating Dinaburg FC in the second round they lost to Willem II Tilburg on away goals. Lokomotiv Moscow's victory over Grazer AK ensured there are two Russian clubs", "id": "11619883" }, { "contents": "FC Dynamo Moscow\n\n\nFC Dynamo Moscow (Dinamo Moscow, FC Dinamo Moskva, ) is a Russian football club based in Moscow. Dynamo has returned to the Russian Premier League for the 2017–18 season after one season in the second-tier Russian Football National League. Dynamo was the only club that had always played in the top tier of Soviet football (along with Dynamo Kyiv) and of Russian football from the end of the Soviet era until they were relegated in 2016. Despite this, it has never won the modern Russian Premier League title and", "id": "8644495" }, { "contents": "Nikita Lyamin\n\n\nIn 2004, he played three season in the farm team and two more seasons in the main team for Dynamo Moscow. Dynamo Moscow became champions at the 2007–08 Russian Volleyball Super League, but Lyamin due to low game practice quit the club. Lyamin moved to Nizhny Novgorod and became captain of Guberniya, which went on debuting in the B-division of the highest national league. In the two years, Guberniya could enter the Super League, and in the 2012–13 it became one of the leading clubs in Russia. Guberniya qualified", "id": "8669287" }, { "contents": "Leonid Slutsky (football coach)\n\n\nLeonid Viktorovich Slutsky (; born 4 May 1971) is a Russian professional football coach and former player who is the manager of Eredivisie club Vitesse. Previously, he has been in charge of Olimpia Volgograd, Uralan Elista, Moscow, Krylia Sovetov, CSKA Moscow, Russia and Hull City. Slutsky was born in Volgograd. Slutsky's playing career with FC Zvezda Gorodishche ended at just 19 years of age. He had to retire due to a knee injury sustained after falling out of a tree while rescuing a neighbour's cat. Slutsky", "id": "11710104" }, { "contents": "Yuri Kovtun\n\n\nduring the season so two top teams were interested in him at the same time, it's Dynamo and Spartak Moscow. In 1993, Kovtun chose Dynamo Moscow and was their key player for years, until his move to Spartak in 1999. While the only Kovtun's honour during 6 years in Dynamo was Russian Cup in 1995, he could get 3 titles in 1999, 2000 and 2001 after joining Spartak. Moreover, he took part in numerous UEFA Champions League games and found himself regular Russian national football team player. Kovtun", "id": "2071460" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\n-tier Russian Professional Football League for the 2016–17 season. They won their zone of the PFL in the 2016–17 season and were promoted to the second-level Russian National Football League for 2017–18. Despite ending the 2017–18 season in the relegation zone, the club stayed in the league for the 2018–19 season as another team that finished above them in the table failed to obtain the league license. As of 5 July 2019, according to the FNL website. Had international caps for their respective countries. Players whose name is listed in", "id": "264681" }, { "contents": "Dmitri Khokhlov\n\n\nDmitri Valeryevich Khokhlov (, born 22 December 1975) is a Russian football manager and a former player. He is the manager of FC Dynamo Moscow. He played as a holding midfielder or playmaker. He played for PFC CSKA Moscow and FC Lokomotiv Moscow in native Russia, having abroad spells with PSV Eindhoven (Netherlands) and Real Sociedad (Spain). During his time with FC Lokomotiv Moscow he participated in their memorable 2003–04 UEFA Champions League campaign, scoring third goal in the 3–0 home victory against Internazionale. He played for", "id": "19054427" }, { "contents": "Racism in association football\n\n\nagainst CSKA Moscow in Russia. The club's stadium was partially closed as punishment. Touré suggested that black players might boycott the 2018 FIFA World Cup, to be held in Russia, if racism continued in the country. In September 2014, Dynamo Moscow defender Christopher Samba was racially abused playing in the Moscow derby against Torpedo Moscow. As a result, Torpedo were forced to close part of their stadium, although Samba was also banned for two games for swearing at the racist fans. In a friendly match (Russia vrs France", "id": "21349703" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\nTraktor Stalingrad to national prominence. Traktor were champions of the new fourth-level Group G in 1937, and were then promoted straight to the highest-level Group A as it expanded from 9 clubs to 26. They remained at the top level until 1950. Rotor then spent three decades at the top regional level, although the creation of the Supreme League in 1970 pushed their league from the second level overall down to the third. They gradually improved throughout the 1970s and finally won Zone III of the Soviet Second League (", "id": "264671" }, { "contents": "WPC Dynamo Moscow\n\n\nWPC Dynamo Moscow () is a Russian men's water polo club, that is part of the traditional Moscow-based multi-sports club Dynamo. Dynamo won seven Soviet Championships between 1955 and 1962, and in 1964 it was the first team to represent the in the newly European Champions Cup, ranking second behind Partizan. In 1968 and 1969 the team won two more national championships, and it also reached the 1969 European Cup's final, lost to Mladost. For the next fifteen years Dynamo didn't win any more", "id": "18685765" }, { "contents": "Kyle Hines\n\n\ngreat Olympiacos comeback in 4th quarter, led by Vassilis Spanoulis. CSKA Moscow eventually won the EuroLeague third place game, after defeating Fenerbahçe, by a score of 86–80. In his second EuroLeague season with CSKA Moscow, Hines averaged a career-low 6.8 points and 4.3 rebounds per game, over 30 games played. CSKA Moscow finished the season by winning the VTB United League, after eliminating Khimki with a 3–0 series sweep in the League's finals series. On June 17, 2015, he signed a two-year contract", "id": "14695455" }, { "contents": "Miroslav Raičević\n\n\nfinal decisive shot in the very last seconds of the final game against Prokom Trefl Sopot. He also won the Greek Cup with Aris, in the year 2004. He has also played with Red Star Belgrade of the Adriatic League during the 2005–06 season. He won the Serbian Cup with Red Star that season. In the 2006–07 season, he played with the Russian Super League club Dynamo Moscow. During summer of 2007, he left Dynamo Moscow and joined the Italian League club Eldo Napoli. He then left Napoli and moved back", "id": "13596698" } ]

[ { "contents": "1996 in Russian football\n\n\nwas knocked out in the qualifying round. FC Lokomotiv Moscow went out in the second round. PFC CSKA Moscow, FC Dynamo Moscow and FC Torpedo-Luzhniki Moscow were eliminated in the first round after going through the qualifying round. FC Alania Vladikavkaz went out in the first round after going to the UEFA Cup after failing in the qualification for the Champions League. FC Spartak Moscow went out in the second round. Russian clubs participated in the Intertoto Cup for the first time. FC Rotor Volgograd, FC KAMAZ-Chally Naberezhnye", "id": "22219348" }, { "contents": "1995 in Russian football\n\n\nthe Russian Cup 1995–96 were played later in the year. All the Russian participants were eliminated in 1994. FC Spartak Moscow won every game in their group, qualifying for the quarterfinals. FC Dynamo Moscow advanced through the first two rounds, qualifying to play in the quarterfinals next spring. FC Spartak-Alania Vladikavkaz and FC Lokomotiv Moscow were eliminated in the first round by strong opponents (even though Lokomotiv very unexpectedly beat FC Bayern in Munich in the first game). FC Rotor Volgograd eliminated Manchester United F.C. in the first round", "id": "18335625" }, { "contents": "Maksim Nenakhov\n\n\nMaksim Maksimovich Nenakhov (; born 13 December 1998) is a Russian football player who plays for FC Rotor Volgograd. He made his debut in the Russian Professional Football League for FC Dynamo-2 Moscow on 20 July 2016 in a game against FC Tekstilshchik Ivanovo. On 19 January 2018, he was loaned to FC Tyumen until the end of the 2017–18 season. On 14 June 2018, he moved on another loan for the 2018–19 season to FC SKA-Khabarovsk. On 18 June 2019, he signed a 2-year contract with FC Rotor Volgograd", "id": "6983587" }, { "contents": "Almir Kayumov\n\n\nAlmir Izmailovich Kayumov (; 30 December 1964 – 7 August 2013) was a Russian football player and referee. Kayumov played for FC Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk, FC Lada Togliatti, Spartak Moscow, Rotor Volgograd, SKA Rostov-on-Don, in Russia, the Daewoo Royals in South Korea, and Kuopion Palloseura in Finland. He played 6 games in the UEFA Cup 1986–87 for FC Spartak Moscow. On November 9, 2009, it was reported that Kayumov attempted to commit suicide by jumping out of his apartment window. Police negotiators talked", "id": "14510549" }, { "contents": "Ruslan Ishkinin\n\n\nRuslan Kamilyevich Ishkinin (; born 14 June 1974) is a former Russian professional footballer. He made his professional debut in the Russian Second Division in 1992 for FC Dynamo-2 Moscow. The most memorable match of his career was played on 14 June 1995. His team FC Dynamo Moscow was playing FC Rotor Volgograd in the final game of the Russian Cup. Dynamo was decimated by injuries and several reserve players, including Ishkinin, were called up for the game. With 5 minutes to go in regulation and the score of 0–0, Ishkinin", "id": "2479621" }, { "contents": "1997 in Russian football\n\n\nthe year. Russian teams were eliminated in 1996. FC Spartak Moscow were eliminated in the second qualifying round and went on to the UEFA Cup. FC Lokomotiv Moscow qualified for the quarterfinals stage that was played in 1998. FC Spartak Moscow qualified for the quarterfinals stage that was played in 1998. FC Rotor Volgograd reached the second round. FC Alania Vladikavkaz went out in the first round. The goal in the stadium was measured before the game and turned out to be 2.46 meters high instead of regulation 2.44. The referee decided", "id": "20500131" }, { "contents": "2012–13 Russian Premier League\n\n\naltogether if the game is awarded to Dynamo. According to the police, the main suspect is a female fan who was arrested after the game. The criminal investigation was opened on the charge of hooliganism. On 22 November, Russian Football Union's Control-Disciplinary Committee awarded the game to Dynamo with a score of 3–0 and fined both clubs. Dynamo had to play their next home game (against Rubin Kazan) behind closed doors and Zenit had to play their next 2 home games (against CSKA Moscow and Anzhi Makhachkala)", "id": "321372" }, { "contents": "Yuriy Kalitvintsev\n\n\nfor FC Desna Chernihiv. A Russian-born Kalitvintsev chose to play for the Ukraine side after breaking through as a midfielder for Dynamo Kyiv. Until 1994 he played he spent his playing career at Russian clubs such as FC Rotor Volgograd, FC SKA Rostov-on-Don, FC Dynamo Moscow, and FC Lokomotiv Nizhny Novgorod. It wasn't until the reorganization of the soviet football when he started to play at the top level of the Russian championship starting for the Moscow's Dynamo. After being transferred to the fading club", "id": "20481933" }, { "contents": "Sergei Bogomolov\n\n\nSergei Anatolyevich Bogomolov (; born 17 August 1971) is a former Russian professional footballer. During his time with FC Dynamo Moscow he only played in a single game for the main team, but it was a very memorable one. On 14 June 1995, Dynamo was playing FC Rotor Volgograd in the final game of the 1994–95 Russian Cup. Dynamo was hurt by injuries to some first team regulars and several reserve players, including Bogomolov, were called up for the game. With the score of 0:0 and 10 minutes to go in", "id": "18632079" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\nwas one of the strongest clubs in Russia, rivalling Spartak Moscow for the championship, yet never winning it. Rotor became the league runners-up in 1993 and 1997. Rotor played five successive seasons in European competition, from 1994-95 to 1998-99. They qualified for the UEFA Cup through their league position every year except 1996-97, when they instead chose to enter the Intertoto Cup. Unfortunately for Rotor, the fall of communism had left all the former Eastern Bloc leagues badly under-resourced compared to", "id": "264673" }, { "contents": "1995 in Russian football\n\n\n1995 was the fourth season Russia held its own national football competition since the breakup of the Soviet Union. FC Spartak-Alania Vladikavkaz won the league for the first time ever. This was the first season 3 points were awarded for a win instead of two. For more details, see: The third edition of the Russian Cup, Russian Cup 1994–95 was won by FC Dynamo Moscow, who beat FC Rotor Volgograd in the finals in a shootout 8-7 after finishing extra time at 0-0. Early stages of", "id": "18335624" }, { "contents": "Maxim Chuzhkov\n\n\nMaxim Aleksandrovich Chuzhkov (; born 11 April 1987) is a Russian beach soccer player serving as goalkeeper. He is a three-time national champion for three different clubs (Rotor Volgograd, Lokomotiv Moscow, Kristall). Maxim Chuzhkov was born in Samara. He was a gymnast for six years before switching to football. Chuzhkov discovered beach soccer in 2010, and one year later he joined Krylya Sovetov from Samara. From 2012 to 2014 he played for Rotor Volgograd, winning with them the club's first and only Russian Beach Soccer", "id": "21454463" }, { "contents": "1991 Soviet Top League\n\n\nseason, while FC Rotor Volgograd and FC Tiligul Tiraspol would have been promoted to the Top League for 1992. Top six clubs of the league later entered European competitions for their respective nations. The Ukrainian clubs chose to qualify through a separate national competition. The league was expanded to 16 after the last season, during which number of clubs left the Soviet competitions (from Georgia and Baltic states). The last-placed FC Rotor Volgograd of the 1990 Soviet Top League lost promotion/relegation playoff to Lokomotiv Moscow and was relegated", "id": "831265" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor-2 Volgograd\n\n\nFC Rotor-2 Volgograd () is a Russian football team based in Volgograd. It is the farm club for FC Rotor Volgograd. It previously played professionally as FC Rotor-d Volgograd or FC Rotor-2 Volgograd in the Russian Second Division in 1992–1993, 1998–2000 and 2004 and Russian Third League in 1994-1997. They came in 3rd place in their Second Division zone in 1993. In 2001, the reserves tournament for Russian Premier League was re-established and the reserves team played there while the main team stayed in Premier League.", "id": "5758261" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\nFC Rotor Volgograd () is a Russian football (soccer) club from the large city of Volgograd, Volgograd Oblast (formerly Stalingrad). The club plays in the second-level Russian National Football League. They are the largest and best supported Volgograd club and for most of their existence have been the city's only representatives in the national league system. They played at the top level of Soviet/Russian football either side of World War II, from 1989 to 1990, and from 1991 to 2004. During the 1990s", "id": "264669" }, { "contents": "Wisdom Mumba Chansa\n\n\nand Derby Makinka, to play in the Soviet Top League when they all signed for Pomir Dushanbe in 1989 after being spotted during their 4-0 win over Italy at the 1988 Olympics. Chansa's debut came on 2 October 1989 in an away match against Torpedo Moscow, before appearing twice more, against Rotor Volgograd and Metalist Kharkiv, before leaving at the conclusion of the 1989 season. Chansa returned to Power Dynamos following his Soviet experience, and was made captain before Power Dynamos became the first Zambian club side to win a", "id": "5300924" }, { "contents": "FC Volgograd\n\n\nFC Volgograd () is a former name of the Russian football club from Volgograd, founded in late 2008, currently known as FC Rotor Volgograd. Before it was founded, it was originally supposed to be called FC Rotor-Volgograd Volgograd (to keep Rotor's name around at the time FC Rotor Volgograd was close to bankruptcy). However, FC Rotor's financial situation has improved by early 2009 and the club was registered as FC Volgograd. It played in the Russian Second Division in 2009. It took over the license", "id": "6725532" }, { "contents": "Roman Pavlyuchenko\n\n\nRoman Anatolyevich Pavlyuchenko (; born 15 December 1981) is a Russian footballer who plays as a striker for FC Znamya Noginsk. He started his career at Dynamo Stavropol, and Rotor Volgograd, before transferring to Spartak Moscow in 2003. His performances there earned him a £13.7 million transfer to Tottenham Hotspur of the English Premier League in 2008, where he spent three full seasons before returning to Russia to play for Lokomotiv Moscow. After another full 3 seasons he moved in July 2015, to Kuban Krasnodar. A full international for a", "id": "3367200" }, { "contents": "Anton Miranchuk\n\n\nAnton Andreyevich Miranchuk (; born 17 October 1995) is a Russian professional football player who plays as a centre midfielder or attacking midfielder for Lokomotiv Moscow and the Russia national team. Born in Slavyansk-na-Kubani, Miranchuk joined Spartak Moscow from his hometown football school Olymp. He was dismissed from the club because of weak physical abilities. After that, he and his twin brother Aleksei moved to Lokomotiv Moscow. On 30 October 2013, Miranchuk made his competitive debut in senior football in a Russian Cup game against Rotor Volgograd replacing", "id": "1404526" }, { "contents": "Dmitry Pletnyov (footballer)\n\n\nDmitry Andreyevich Pletnyov (; born 16 January 1998) is a Russian football player. He plays for FC Tom Tomsk in Russian Football National League. He made his debut in the Russian Football National League for FC Zenit-2 Saint Petersburg on 6 September 2017 in a game against FC Rotor Volgograd. He made his Russian Premier League debut for FC Zenit Saint Petersburg on 5 May 2018 in a game against FC Lokomotiv Moscow. He played for Russia national under-17 football team at the 2015 UEFA European Under-17 Championship and 2015 FIFA U-17 World Cup.", "id": "21412634" }, { "contents": "2004 in Russian football\n\n\nseason. Andrey Fedkov of Terek became the top goalscorer with 38 goals. The following clubs have earned promotion by winning tournaments in their respective Second Division zones: Prior to start of the 2005 season three clubs (Rotor Volgograd, Torpedo Vladimir, and Arsenal Tula) refused participation in the First Division, and two more clubs (Dynamo Stavropol and Chernomorets Novorossiysk) were denied licences. This made way for the runners-up of all five zones: The Russian Super Cup match between CSKA Moscow and Spartak Moscow was won by CSKA", "id": "6344061" }, { "contents": "Dmitry Shishin\n\n\nnational beach soccer team. That year Shishin participated at the Russian Championship as player of Samarian Sputnik and debuted for the national team at the Beach Soccer World Cup. After Sputnik, Shishin for a long time played for different Saratov clubs, such as Rosagro, Biznes-Pravo, Delta. In 2011, Shishin moved to Lokomotiv Moscow, where he won the championship trophy with his team. Together with the Lokomotives he won another national championship trophy and two Russian cups. In 2013, Shishin surprisingly switched to Rotor Volgograd, becoming", "id": "12194946" }, { "contents": "2009 Russian Second Division\n\n\nJuly 2009 Oleg Mikheyev, president of FC Rotor Volgograd, announced Rotor's resignation from the league, citing problems with authorities. They have played 18 games and were in the 13th position with 21 points. \"Source: [PFL] , Sporbox.ru \" On 11 July 2009, the management of FC Spartak Shchyolkovo announced that the club would resign from the league after the first half of the season because of economic problems. Spartak were excluded from the league on August 4, 2009. They have played 18 games and were in", "id": "21482663" }, { "contents": "FC Olimpia Volgograd\n\n\nuntil 2008, though their fortunes faded after Slutsky's players left. Before the 2009 season their professional license was taken over by the new club FC Volgograd. This was meant to allow FC to assume the name and identity of Rotor who were suffering off-field troubles, but Rotor survived and ended up playing simultaneously with the new FC in 2009, while Olimpia dropped into the Volgograd Oblast Championship. They stayed there until 2011, winning the title in 2010. With confusion ongoing over the future of the Rotor name and club", "id": "21936808" }, { "contents": "Sergei Rashevsky\n\n\nSergei Aleksandrovich Rashevsky (; born 13 June 1980) is a Russian football coach and a former player. He is an assistant coach with FC Rotor Volgograd. He made his debut in the Russian Premier League in 2001 for FC Rotor Volgograd, before moving to Ural in 2005. After several seasons playing for different clubs in Russia, Rashevsky signed with Volga in 2008. He played for the club for three years, before he returned to Ural in 2011. Since February 2014, he played for the Russian National Football League side Yenisey", "id": "8136441" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\nthe new Rotor Volgograd were promoted to the second-level Russian Football National League thanks to teams above them withdrawing. The regional Ministry of Sport invested 150 million roubles ($4.9m) in the club's playing budget for the 2010 campaign, but it ended in failure as Rotor were relegated in 17th place. Governor Brovko admitted that the transition to the higher level was made too quickly. Former club player Sergei Nechay took over management and steered the team to promotion as champions of their Second Division zone in 2011–12. This", "id": "264678" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\ntheir Western counterparts, and indeed Rotor were knocked out by all four of the French and Italian clubs they played. The exception came against England's Manchester United in 1995-96. Having drawn the home leg 0-0, Rotor raced into a 2-0 lead at Old Trafford before United scored their first goal. Rotor were seconds away from being the first European club to win at Old Trafford when United's goalkeeper Peter Schmeichel scored a famous equaliser, but the 2-2 draw meant Rotor progressed by the away", "id": "264674" }, { "contents": "Roman Pavlyuchenko\n\n\na 1-0 loss against Moscow on 5 April 1999. On 15 May 1999, Pavlyuchenko provided a double assist in a 2-1 win over Chita. In his first season, Pavlyuchenko made 31 appearance and scoring 11 goals. However, the club played was still relegated to the Second Division after the club was last place. Despite this, Pavlyuchenko was named 'Team of the top' junior division for the first version of the newspaper Sport Express. Pavlyuchenko moved to Rotor Volgograd in 2000, although the move was", "id": "3367203" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\ntheir professional licence entirely. Rotor's reserve side in the Russian Second Division, Rotor-2 Volgograd, became the club's first team and was renamed Rotor in 2006. In 2007 local businessman Oleg Mikheev acquired the club's main asset the Volgograd Central Stadium, and with it effective control over the club, but financial troubles continued and the team's performances in the Second Division declined. Matters came to a head in 2009. Russia had officially launched its bid for the FIFA World Cup 2018 and Volgograd city was in line for a", "id": "264676" }, { "contents": "1988 Soviet Cup Final\n\n\nThe 1988 Soviet Cup Final was a football match that took place at the Lenin's Central Stadium, Moscow on May 28, 1988. The match was the 47th Soviet Cup Final and it was contested by FC Metalist Kharkiv and FC Torpedo Moscow. The Soviet Cup winner Metalist qualified for the Cup Winners' Cup first round for the Soviet Union. The last year defending holders Dynamo Kyiv were eliminated in the second round of the competition by FC Rotor Volgograd (3:2, 0:2). For Metalist this was their second final total", "id": "158055" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\ngoals rule They went on to be defeated by eventual Runners-up Bordeaux in the second round. Full European results: In the 2000s, Rotor's results declined, and in 2004, the team finished last in the Russian Premier League. The club's owner Vladimir Goryunov, a member of the Duma and head of the parliamentary sports committee, explored options to save Rotor from relegation, such as expanding the Premier League to 20 teams. But in January 2005 Rotor were unable to make the required financial guarantees and so lost", "id": "264675" }, { "contents": "2018–19 Russian Football National League\n\n\n. Ararat Moscow was promoted from 2017–18 PFL, but were refused a license for the 2018–19 Russian National Football League, the club being subsequently dissolved. Zenit-2 Saint Petersburg, Rotor Volgograd, Luch Vladivostok, Tyumen and Fakel Voronezh were spared from relegation due to lack of teams enrolled for the 2018–19 season. Sakhalin Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk finished on the promotion place at the end of the 2017–18 PFL season, but refused to be promoted. Dynamo Saint Petersburg was moved from Saint Petersburg to Sochi and renamed as PFC Sochi. Olimpiyets Nizhny Novgorod", "id": "621376" }, { "contents": "Dinamo Volgograd\n\n\nDinamo Volgograd () is a Russian women's handball club from Volgograd. Founded in 1972 as Burevestnik Volgograd, it represented Rotor Volgograd following the collapse of the Soviet Union and was subsequently named Aqva before taking its current name in 2003. Dynamo is the most successful team in the Russian Super League with nine titles, and in the 2001-02 season it set an absolute record winning all the matches. It has also been fairly successful in international competitions with three titles: the 1995 Challenge Cup and Champions Trophy and the 2008", "id": "10627328" }, { "contents": "List of football clubs in Russia\n\n\nZelenodolsk — FC Prometey-Dinamo Saint Petersburg — FC Pskov — FC Pskov-2000 — FC Pskov-747 FC Radian-Baikal Irkutsk — FC Rassvet Troitskoye — FC Reformatsiya Abakan — FC Rekord Aleksandrov — FC Reutov — FC Ritm Alekseyevka — FC Ritm Belgorod — FC Roda Moscow — FC Rossia Moscow — FC Rostov — FC Rostselmash-2 Rostov-on-Don — FC Rostselmash Rostov-on-Don — FC Rotor-2 Mikhaylovka — FC Rotor-2 Volgograd — FC Rotor Volgograd — FC Rubin-2 Kazan — FC Rubin Kazan — FC Rubin-TAN Kazan — FC", "id": "14958458" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\n-autumn) Russian Amateur Football League, the fourth level overall. In the 2015 season Rotor won the Amateur League Chernozemye (South-West Region) division at the first attempt by 11 points, suffering only one defeat in 22 games. The 45,000-seater Pobeda Stadium is under construction on their old Central Stadium site, and it was reported in August 2015 that the first team are still interested in moving into the facility after the 2018 World Cup, which makes attaining a higher league status a priority. They were licensed for third", "id": "264680" }, { "contents": "2010–11 KHL season\n\n\nThe 2010–11 KHL season was the third season of the Kontinental Hockey League. It was held from 8 September 2010 and ended on 16 April 2011. The season started with the Opening Cup game between the last season's finalists, Ak Bars Kazan and UHC Dynamo, the new team that was created by merging last season's Western conference winner HC MVD with Dynamo Moscow. Salavat Yulaev Ufa won the Gagarin Cup and the Russian Championship after beating Atlant Moscow Oblast 4–1 in the play-off final series. Folding of Lada Togliatti Lada", "id": "10925021" }, { "contents": "1994 in Russian football\n\n\ntime at 2-2. Early stages of the Russian Cup 1994–95 were played later in the year. FC Spartak Moscow finished the group stage in third place, not qualifying for the semifinals. All the Russian participants were eliminated in 1993. FC Spartak Moscow qualified directly for the group stage. It did not qualify from the group, coming in third place. PFC CSKA Moscow were eliminated in the first round. FC Rotor Volgograd and FC Tekstilshchik Kamyshin were both eliminated by FC Nantes in the first and second round respectively,", "id": "17746833" }, { "contents": "Mikhail Osinov\n\n\nRussian Top Division side Rotor Volgograd. In 2001, Osinov was transferred to FC Rostov and stayed there for 9 years, suffering a relegation and helping the \"yellow-blues\" to return to the Premier League. He also holds the club record for league appearances with 239 games. In 2010, he returned to Yekaterinburg to play in the Russian First Division. In 2011, Osinov went to a lower league joining MITOS Novocherkassk of the Russian Second Division. On 11 September 2011, in a league game against Olimpia Gelendzhik Osinov", "id": "12015633" }, { "contents": "1990 Soviet Top League\n\n\non 1 March with the game between Dnipro and Rotor and lasted until 20 October 1990. The season was won by FC Dynamo Kyiv. The league was reduced to 13 after first Georgian clubs (Dinamo Tbilisi and Guria Lanchkhuti) and then Žalgiris withdrew from the Soviet Top League. Lokomotiv Moscow and the last placed Zenit Leningrad of the 1989 Soviet Top League were relegated to the 1990 Soviet First League. Lokomotiv returned to the Soviet First League after two seasons absence, while Zenit was relegated for the first time since being promoted back", "id": "831394" }, { "contents": "2010–11 KHL season\n\n\nTogliatti dropped out of the league and joined the Russian Major League instead, after failing to meet the league's financial requirements. Merger of HC MVD and Dynamo Moscow On 30 April 2010, it was announced that HC MVD would merge with Dynamo Moscow to form UHC Dynamo, which for the time being will play the majority of their games at Megasport Arena in Moscow, while also attempting to play some games in Balashikha. The current plan is to have a new, large and modernized arena constructed in Balashikha by 2012. Expansion", "id": "10925022" }, { "contents": "Dzmitry Rawneyka\n\n\nDzmitry Vasilevich Rawneyka (; ; born 13 May 1980) is a former Belarusian professional footballer. He is currently af part of the coaching staff of Belarus. Born in Grodno, Rawneyka began playing football in FC Neman Grodno's youth system. He joined the senior side and made his Belarusian Premier League debut in 1998. He had a spell in the Russian Premier League with FC Torpedo Moscow and FC Rotor Volgograd but has spent most of his playing career with Neman Grodno. Rawneyka has made eight appearances for the Belarus national football team", "id": "13999154" }, { "contents": "BC Krasny Oktyabr\n\n\nthe highest stage for Russian clubs. In the first season of Krasny Oktyabr in the VTB United League, it qualified for the playoffs by finishing in the 6th place in Group B. Also, European powerhouse CSKA Moscow was defeated by Krasny Oktyabr in the quarterfinals of the 2013–14 Russian Cup tournament. On August 30, 2016, the team was forced to leave the United League, because its home arena wasn't approved to host tournaments. The club usually played its home games at the 3,700 seat Volgograd Sports Palace of Trade Unions,", "id": "8073501" }, { "contents": "Igor Lediakhov\n\n\n-Don. In 1990, he joined FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk. After impressing with FC Rotor Volgograd, Lediakhov was bought by Soviet Union giants FC Spartak Moscow, being essential as the capital team conquered three consecutive league titles, which included the inaugural edition of the competition, as the player scored in double digits in two of the three seasons. In the 1994 summer, 26-year-old Lediakhov moved abroad, signing with Spain's Sporting de Gijón. Even though he netted nearly 50 overall goals for the club (17 in four", "id": "21673652" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\nnew stadium - provided they had a professional club to fill it after the tournament. Rotor, facing legal action and a transfer embargo due to their financial status, were not reliable candidates. The government created a new entity, FC Volgograd, intending to assume the Rotor name. In fact Rotor managed to co-exist with the new FC for the first half of the 2009 season, before Mikheev suspended operations and the government took ownership of the club and stadium from him. The two clubs were merged into one, and", "id": "264677" }, { "contents": "FC Lokomotiv Moscow\n\n\npoints after Gameweek 30. The game was played at Dynamo Stadium in front of a sold-out crowd. Lokomotiv took an early lead thanks a low drive from captain Dmitry Loskov, and eventually the goal turned out to be enough for Lokomotiv to claim the first title in the club's history. Two years later, Lokomotiv again won the Russian Premier League, edging city rivals CSKA by a single point; Lokomotiv defeated Shinnik Yaroslavl 0–2 in Yaroslavl, a week after CSKA fell to city rivals Dynamo at home. In 2005", "id": "10933606" }, { "contents": "1995–96 Manchester United F.C. season\n\n\nactually went top of the league after a goalless draw at Sheffield Wednesday towards the end of September, only for the Tynesiders to return to the top of the table soon after. Then came Cantona's comeback on 1 October, when he scored a penalty to equalise and hold Liverpool to a 2–2 draw Old Trafford. The autumn saw United suffer first-hurdle exits to York City in the League Cup and Rotor Volgograd in the UEFA Cup, although United did preserve their 39-year home unbeaten record in European competitions thanks to a late", "id": "9981632" }, { "contents": "1994–95 Russian Cup\n\n\nDynamo Moscow: Valeri Kleimyonov (GK), Yuri Kovtun (DF), Sergey Timofeev (DF), Andrei Chernyshov (DF), Aleksandr Borodkin (DF), Aleksei Filippov (DF), Vagiz Khidiyatullin (DF), Andrei Ivanov (DF), Denis Klyuyev (MF), Dmitri Cheryshev (FW), Igor Simutenkov (FW), Kirill Rybakov (FW), Yuri Tishkov (FW). FC Rotor Volgograd: Volodymyr Gerashchenko (DF), Aleksandr Yeshchenko (MF), Konstantin Kulik (", "id": "5392312" }, { "contents": "FC Olimpia Volgograd\n\n\nFC Olimpia Volgograd () is a Russian football team from the large city of Volgograd. They are the second- or third-largest club in the city after the famous Rotor Volgograd. From their founding in 1989 until 1997, the club participated in various youth leagues. Some time between 1993 and 1994 the Volgograd native Leonid Slutsky, future coach of the Russian national team, joined the training staff. Among the Olimpia youth players developed under Slutsky were Denis Kolodin, Roman Adamov, Andrei Bochkov, Maksim Burchenko and Aleksei Zhdanov,", "id": "21936806" }, { "contents": "Peter Schmeichel\n\n\na 2001 Reuters poll, he beat Lev Yashin and Gordon Banks to be named the finest keeper in football history. Despite being a goalkeeper, he would run into the attack on corner kicks if his team was behind. The sight of him going up for the corner was a great distraction to opposing defenders. He scored a goal in this fashion, for Man United, in a UEFA Cup match against Rotor Volgograd at Old Trafford in September 1995. He scored in the last minutes of the game to tie the match 2–2", "id": "19820283" }, { "contents": "Spartak Gogniyev\n\n\nSpartak Arturovich Gogniyev (, ; born 19 January 1981) is a Russian professional football coach and a former player. He is the manager of FC Alania Vladikavkaz. He made his debut in the Russian Premier League in 2000 for FC Dynamo Moscow. He played two games in the UEFA Cup 2000–01 for FC Dynamo Moscow and two games (scoring one goal) in the UEFA Champions League 2003–04 qualification round for PFC CSKA Moscow. In August 2018, it was announced that Spartak Gogniyev joined new FC Urozhay Krasnodar, but this was", "id": "7903306" }, { "contents": "Georgi Yartsev\n\n\nat the time, gave Yartsev a sabre as a birthday gift in a sideline pre-game ceremony. Yartsev got another head coach position soon enough, when he joined Rotor Volgograd in January 2000. However, he could not do much with that team either and was fired in June of same year. For the next 3 years he was the manager of the Spartak Moscow veterans team. In August 2003, Russia was very close to elimination from their Euro 2004 preliminary qualification group and the coach Valery Gazzayev, was fired.", "id": "15861320" }, { "contents": "FCSB\n\n\nUEFA ordered Steaua to play two home games of the Europa League behind closed doors due to their fans displaying racist banners in a second qualifying round match against Hungarian side Újpest. Three further incidents occurred in the 2014–15 season, with the club fined and ordered to play further games in an empty stadium after displays of racist banners in matches against Dynamo Kyiv, Ludogorets Razgrad and Strømsgodset. Steaua's most important rivalry is the one against Dinamo București. \"Eternul derby\" (\"The Eternal Derby\") has been the leading Romanian", "id": "19491084" }, { "contents": "2010 Russian First Division\n\n\n), Mordovia Saransk (Ural-Povolzhye) and Irtysh Omsk (East). Due to financial difficulties, Vityaz Podolsk who placed 11th in 2009, decided to give up their spot in the Russian First Division and participate in the Russian Second Division in 2010. Pending licensing, their place was taken by FC Volgograd who placed 3rd in the Russian Second Division (South Zone) in 2009. For the occasion the management decided to change the name of the club from FC Volgograd to Rotor Volgograd. FC Alania Vladikavkaz were promoted", "id": "7947305" }, { "contents": "Russian Women's Handball Super League\n\n\nThe Russian Women's Handball Superleague is the premier women's handball competition in Russia. Dinamo Volgograd, formerly known as Rotor and Akva, is the championship's most successful club as of 2019 with 12 titles. It also holds the record for consecutive wins, with six titles in a row. Currently eleven clubs take part in the competition, with the top eight playing the championship play-offs. The Russian Championship's leading teams have been successful in EHF's competitions. Zvezda Zvenigorod won the Champions League and the EHF Cup", "id": "8475941" }, { "contents": "Pavel Pogrebnyak\n\n\n's relegation, Pogrebnyak was linked with a move away from the club but did not leave. He scored his first goals in more than eight months after netting twice in a 3–1 win over Derby County in September 2013. On 27 August 2015 Pogrebnyak moved back to Russia, signing a three-year contract with Dynamo Moscow. Dynamo released him on 25 January 2018, citing disciplinary reasons, such as attending a Juventus - Inter Milan game in Italy on the same day Dynamo played a league game and participating in the annual exhibition", "id": "2040879" }, { "contents": "1996 in Russian football\n\n\nplayers (Stanislav Cherchesov, Viktor Onopko, Vasili Kulkov and Sergei Yuran) who played in the group stage where Spartak did not lose a single point left the club to move to Western European clubs in the winter before the quarterfinals. Nicolas Ouédec was instrumental again, after scoring 7 goals in 4 games against the Russian teams in the 1994–95 UEFA Cup, this time he scored 3 goals in two games against Spartak. FC Dynamo Moscow were eliminated in the quarterfinals. All the Russian teams were eliminated in 1995. FC Alania Vladikavkaz", "id": "22219347" }, { "contents": "Kamil Mullin\n\n\nKamil Shamilevich Mullin (, ; born 5 January 1994) is a Russian professional football player who plays for FC Rotor Volgograd. He plays as a forward. Mullin joined Lokomotiv academy at 16 years, and two years later made it to the youth squad. In total, he played 53 games for Lokomotiv U21 and scored 23 goals.br He made his debut for Lokomotiv first team in the 2012–13 Russian Cup game vs Torpedo Armavir on 26 September 2012.br In March 2013, Mullin for the first time was included into team sheet for the", "id": "2605760" }, { "contents": "FC Dynamo Moscow\n\n\nthe 2008 season, Dynamo finished third, qualifying for the 2009–10 Champions League preliminary round. On 29 July 2009, Dynamo recorded a 0–1 away win against Celtic at Celtic Park, which gave them a strong advantage going into the second leg. However, Celtic comfortably defeated Dynamo 0–2 in Moscow to progress, sending Dynamo into the Europa League play-off round where the club was eliminated by Bulgarian side CSKA Sofia after a 0–0 away draw in Sofia and a 1–2 home defeat in Moscow. In 2012, after a poor start", "id": "8644502" }, { "contents": "2013–14 Russian Premier League\n\n\n2014/15 season. The 13th and 14th Premier League teams will play the 4th and 3rd FNL teams respectively in two playoff games with the winner securing a Premier League spot for 2014/15 season. On 11 May 2014, the game between FC Zenit Saint Petersburg and FC Dynamo Moscow was interrupted in the 86th minute with Dynamo leading 4-2 when Zenit fans ran out of the stands. At first they stood behind the goal line, when the referee decided to take the teams off the field into the dressing rooms and teams began to", "id": "9911963" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\nthe third tier) in 1980 and 1981, and were successful in the promotion playoffs the second time. In 1988 Rotor finished second in the Soviet First League, earning promotion to the Soviet Top League. They finished 13th and last in the downsized 1990 competition after the Georgian and Lithuanian teams withdrew, and the decision was made to relegate them. However they bounced straight back as champions of the First League in 1991, thus becoming founder members of the new Russian Top Division after the USSR collapsed. In the mid-1990s, Rotor", "id": "264672" }, { "contents": "Bibras Natkho\n\n\n, Natkho scored two goals in the Champions League qualifier against Dynamo Kyiv and Lyon, who they eliminated Kazan out of the competitions and the club would play in the Europa League. Then in the Europa League campaign, Natkho scored twice in six matches in the Group Stage of the Europa League against Tottenham Hostpur and Shamrock Rovers. Natkho performance was praised for his role during the season and helped the club win the Russian Cup after playing a vital of assisting the winning goal, in a 1–0 win over Dynamo Moscow. Natkho would", "id": "21438585" }, { "contents": "Danil Lipovoy\n\n\nDanil Nikolayevich Lipovoy (; born 22 September 1999) is a Russian football player who plays for FC Dynamo Moscow. He made his debut in the Russian Professional Football League for FC Dynamo-2 Moscow on 2 April 2017 in a game against FC Dynamo Saint Petersburg. He made his debut for the main squad of FC Dynamo Moscow on 26 September 2018 in a Russian Cup game against FC Torpedo Moscow. He made Russian Premier League debut for Dynamo on 30 November 2018 in a game against FC Rubin Kazan, as a 64th-minute substitute", "id": "429351" }, { "contents": "FC Amkar Perm\n\n\n, having lost their Spring matches to Kuban Krasnodar (1–2) and Spartak Moscow (0–2). A series without a win followed the victory over Alania and after the Dynamo match Amkar lost to Terek Grozny (1–2) and Lokomotiv Moscow (2–4). After another devastating defeat from Kuban (0–4), followed by a victory over their direct rivals Rostov (3–2), and a goalless draw with Zenit, the club retained the right to play in the Premier League. In June 2013, the club opted not to", "id": "5030824" }, { "contents": "FC Shakhtar Donetsk\n\n\nminute Fedor Manov opened score to Donetsk team goals. Final score is 4:1 in favor of the hosts.\" Nonetheless, the selective job conducted constructively by the club's administration allowed the club to compete successfully at the top level by the end of the 1930s. During the \"war championship\" of 1941, which was interrupted unexpectedly, the club defeated Soviet champions Dynamo Moscow and after about ten games were placed in fifth in the league. In the last game of that championship, played on 24 June, two days after", "id": "14103740" }, { "contents": "Oleg Veretennikov\n\n\nOleg Aleksandrovich Veretennikov (; born 5 January 1970) is a professional Russian association football coach and a former international footballer. He manages Rotor-2 Volograd. He is the top goalscorer in the history of Russian Premier League, and holds several other goalscoring records. Most of Veretennikov's successes have come with SC Rotor Volgograd, for whom he played in 1992–1999. During that time he scored 143 goals, which makes him the best goalscorer in the Russian Premier League history (the next best goalscorer, Dmitry Loskov, has 109 goals as of", "id": "21553966" }, { "contents": "Sergei Pareiko\n\n\nSergei Pareiko (born 31 January 1977) is a retired Estonian footballer. He is currently the sporting director of Estonian football club Levadia. Pareiko played as a goalkeeper in Estonian, Russian and Polish top tiers. He made a total of 65 appearances for the Estonia national football team. In Estonia, Pareiko played for Tallinna Sadam and Levadia Maardu, before moving to Russia in 2001, when he signed with Rotor Volgograd. After Rotor were relegated, Pareiko moved to Tom Tomsk. At the end of 2009 season Pareiko was named", "id": "11658849" }, { "contents": "FC Dinamo Tbilisi\n\n\nIn this period Dinamo won the Soviet Cup for the first time in their history, convincingly defeating Armenian side Ararat Yerevan 3–0 in the final, with goals scored by David Kipiani, Piruz Kanteladze and Revaz Chelebadze. In 1978 the club won the Soviet Top League for a second time. Next year Dinamo won the Soviet Cup again by defeating Russian side Dynamo Moscow in the final. In 1979 the club played its first match in the UEFA European Cup tournament. In the first round Dinamo knocked out English side Liverpool, at the", "id": "10097459" }, { "contents": "Romelu Lukaku\n\n\nlater at home to West Ham. Lukaku scored twice in a 4–0 win, becoming the fourth Manchester United player to score two goals on his Premier League debut for the club. On 17 September, Lukaku scored United's third goal in a 4–0 win over his former club Everton, with Lukaku running over towards Everton fans and cupping his ears during his goal celebration in response to being booed throughout the game. On 27 September, Lukaku scored twice in a 4–1 UEFA Champions League win over CSKA Moscow, taking his tally to", "id": "1117930" }, { "contents": "Dynamo Dresden\n\n\none Game behind closed doors and one away game without own fan support. Virtual tickets were offered to reduce the financial loss, creating \"the first sold-out Ghost Game in history\". The 2012–13 season started poorly for Dynamo and Ralf Loose was sacked in December 2012 after a 3–0 defeat to VfL Bochum with the team in 15th place. He was replaced by Peter Pacult, returning to the club after more than six years. Dynamo's form improved after Pacult's arrival but the team still finished the league as 16th", "id": "11366777" }, { "contents": "Aleksandr Tashayev\n\n\nAleksandr Mikhailovich Tashayev (; born 23 June 1994) is a Russian professional football player who plays as a left midfielder for Spartak Moscow. He made his professional debut on 11 December 2014 for FC Dynamo Moscow in a 2014–15 UEFA Europa League group game against PSV Eindhoven. He also played in the Round of 16 away game against Napoli. On 6 July 2018, he signed a contract with the cross-city rivals FC Spartak Moscow, after buying out own contract from Dynamo and becoming a free agent. Dynamo unsuccessfully sued to deem", "id": "13552247" }, { "contents": "Dynamo Moscow Bandy Club\n\n\nthe end of the 2004–05 season, almost all players of the for a decade dominant Vodnik signed up for Dynamo Moscow, resulting in an immediate Russian League title in 2006. Dynamo Moscow won the World Cup for the first time in 2006, defeating Zorky in the final. The 2006 domestic title was followed by another four consecutive Russian championship titles and as one of the dominating teams in the following years too, until 2017, when they missed the championship play-off, only coming in at eighth place in the regular season", "id": "1825162" }, { "contents": "Handball Club Lada\n\n\nHandball Club Lada is a Russian women's handball club from Tolyatti playing in the Russian Super League. Founded in 1998, Lada soon became the leading team in the Super League winning five championships in a row between 2002 and 2006 and a sixth one in 2008. It also built itself a name in Europe winning the 2002 Cup Winners' Cup in its international debut and reaching the final of the 2007 Champions League and the next edition's semifinals. The following three seasons were less successful, with Dynamo Volgograd retrieving the leading position", "id": "9114247" }, { "contents": "Omari Tetradze\n\n\n– Tetradze. Later he considered restoring his original surname, but decided it would cause too many problems. At club level, he played for Dinamo Tbilisi, FC Dynamo Moscow, Alania Vladikavkaz (where he won a Russian league championship medal in 1995), AS Roma, and PAOK FC (Greece). He played for Russia at international level, and appeared at World Cup 1994 and Euro 1996. At the latter tournament, he played superbly in each of Russia's three games despite the team's poor results, and", "id": "17559889" }, { "contents": "FC Girondins de Bordeaux\n\n\nclub was relegated just two years thereafter. In 1992, however, \"Les Girondins\" won that year's Ligue 2 title, thus being elevated to the top tier of French football. In the emergence of young and exciting players such as playmaker Zinedine Zidane, striker Christophe Dugarry and left back Bixente Lizarazu, the club ascended even higher to win the UEFA Intertoto Cup in 1995. With this talented trio, the club defeated FC Rotor Volgograd (the 1995 King's Cup Winner), Real Betis, Milan and Slavia Prague", "id": "10933676" }, { "contents": "Yuriy Hudymenko\n\n\nYuriy Arkadiyovych Hudymenko (; born 3 October 1966) is a former Kyrgyz-born Ukrainian professional footballer. Hudymenko is a product of the main Bishkek sports school and later was accepted to the main republican club of Kyrgyzia, FC Alga Bishkek. In 1990 he made his debut in the Soviet Top League playing for FC Dnepr Dnepropetrovsk, but failed to score any goals in domestic competitions, but did score a goal against Heart of Midlothian F.C. in the 1990-91 UEFA Cup. Next year Hudymenko joined recently relegated FC Rotor Volgograd that", "id": "11637137" }, { "contents": "Valery Gazzaev\n\n\na second-place finish at the end of the season. However, Gazzaev was left behind in the first league in Spartak Ordzhonikidze, as he wasn't one of the main players of the SKA Rostov-on-Don. In the Soviet Top League, Gazzaev played in Lokomotiv Moscow, Dynamo Moscow, and Dinamo Tbilisi. Gazzaev is a Soviet Cup winner with Dynamo Moscow in 1984. During his career he scored 89 goals in 283 matches in Soviet Top League, and was the top goal scorer of the UEFA Cup", "id": "3537187" }, { "contents": "FC Amkar Perm\n\n\nAmkar was in third place in the standings, one point behind second-placed Spartak Moscow and six adrift of leaders Rubin Kazan. After the break, one of Amkar's team leaders, Vladimir Gabulov, and the captain, Aleksei Popov, left the team to join Dynamo Moscow and Rubin Kazan respectively. Two matches in a row on the \"equator\" of the Championship Amkar could have topped the league table but was unable to beat Tom Tomsk and Spartak Nalchik at home. On 16 November, after beating Tom in Tomsk", "id": "5030813" }, { "contents": "FC Rubin Kazan\n\n\nfixed after selling in Volgograd \"Rotor\" team leaders Oleg Nechaev and Rustem Khuzin (but soon returned to \"Rubin\" till the end of the season on loan). In the end the season Kazan finished on 8th place, only losing a point to Nizhnekamsk \"Neftechimik\" and dropped into the second league. The following year, 1994, coaches Zadikashvili and Semenov assemble a team literally bit by bit. Because of the continuing financial problems from the last season in the team left only 6 players: Grishin, Danilin,", "id": "19815661" }, { "contents": "Nikita Chernov\n\n\nNikita Aleksandrovich Chernov (; born 14 January 1996) is a Russian professional football player who plays as a centre-back for Krylia Sovetov Samara and Russia national football team. Born in Volzhsky, Volgograd Oblast, Chernov began his career at hometown team FC Energiya Volzhsky before joining CSKA Moscow in 2009. He made his professional debut on 24 September 2014 in a Russian Cup game against FC Khimik Dzerzhinsk. He also played in the next Russian Cup round against FC Torpedo Moscow on 29 October. On 30 July 2019, Chernov moved from", "id": "503700" }, { "contents": "KF Skënderbeu Korçë\n\n\nBeşiktaş, Lokomotiv Moscow and Sporting Clube de Portugal. In matchday 1, their first ever group stage game, the club was defeated at home 0–1 by Beşiktaş after a hard fight between the two sides. In the next matchday, they lost 0–2 to Lokomotiv Moscow in Moscow. Their worst defeat in the European competition yet came the next matchday, a storming 1–5 loss to Sporting in the away leg at Lisbon, but also had the Albanian side scoring their first goal in the UEFA Europa League group stages. In the home", "id": "1409695" }, { "contents": "FC Dynamo Kyiv\n\n\nand Maccabi Tel Aviv F.C. Dynamo finished in second place with 11 points after a spectacular performance and a memorable 0–2 in Porto. However, Dynamo was punished by UEFA for a racist incident in the home game against Chelsea where four black men were attacked in the stands by Dynamo fans. Despite this, Dynamo reached the round of 16 in the Champions League for the first time since 2000, where it was drawn with Manchester City. Dynamo was eliminated 1–3 on aggregate but managed to hold an impressive 0–0 draw in Manchester. Dynamo", "id": "18770189" }, { "contents": "Konstantin Kovalenko\n\n\nKonstantin Valeryevich Kovalenko (; ; born 2 February 1975) is a Belarusian and Russian professional footballer who plays for resurrected FC Kuban Krasnodar. He made his professional debut in the Soviet Second League in 1991 for FC Kuban Barannikovsky. He played 1 game in the 1996–97 UEFA Cup for FC Spartak Moscow. His brother Andrei Kovalenko also played football professionally. On 27 October 2008 he punched referee Sergei Timofeyev in the face in the Russian Second Division game FC Sochi-04 - FC Olimpia Volgograd. He was banned from football for a year. Spartak", "id": "1118096" }, { "contents": "Clinton N'Jie\n\n\nDimitri Payet and scored two goals in a 3–0 win. On 17 September, he scored both the goals in the away win over Amiens. On 3 May 2018, he played in the Europa League semi-finals away to FC Red Bull Salzburg as Marseille played out a 2–1 away loss but a 3–2 aggregate win to secure a place in the 2018 UEFA Europa League Final. On 25 July 2019, Njie signed a 4-year contract with Russian Premier League club Dynamo Moscow. N'Jie scored 44 minutes into his Cameroon debut against the", "id": "16847587" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\ntime they were able to consolidate in the National League, finishing 9th and then 14th. But financial troubles continued. A Ministry of Sport investigation found evidence of financial misconduct by club management along with substantial overspending, and regional Governor Andrey Bocharov announced after the 2013 season that government support for Rotor was being withdrawn. The club dropped back into the Second Division (renamed the Professional Football League) for the first half of the 2014–15 (autumn-spring) season, then withdrew in order to immediately transfer to the 2015 (spring", "id": "264679" }, { "contents": "2001 FC Anzhi Makhachkala season\n\n\nThe 2001 FC Anzhi Makhachkala season was the 2nd season that the club played in the Russian Top Division, the highest tier of football in Russia, following their promotion from the National Football League in 1999. They finished the season in 13th, were runners-up in the 2001-02 cup and reached the Sixth Round of the 2002-03 cup losing to Dynamo Moscow, and were knocked out of the UEFA Cup at the First Round stage after a 0-1 defeat to Rangers over one leg in Warsaw, Poland", "id": "4897180" }, { "contents": "FC Dynamo-2 Moscow\n\n\nFC Dynamo-2 Moscow () was a Russian football team from Moscow. It was the farm-club for FC Dynamo Moscow. In 2016, it was revived after the parent club, Dynamo, was relegated from the Russian Football Premier League (which holds its own competition for the Under-21 teams of the Premier League clubs) and licensed to play in the third-tier Russian Professional Football League for the 2016–17 season. Majority of the squad participated in the 2016–17 UEFA Youth League as well. On 17 June 2017, the parent", "id": "19064817" }, { "contents": "Mikhail Markosov\n\n\nDivision South Zone, scoring 27 goals, a feat no one in the entire Second Division surpassed. In the 2010 season, he played for FC Rotor Volgograd and came back to FC Dynamo Stavropol the next season. Scoring 10 goals in his first 10 matches for Dynamo, Markosov was transferred in the summer transfer window of the 2011-12 season to FC Ufa. From April until June 2019 Markosov played for FC Kuban Krasnodar, scored 7 goals in 11 matches. He joined the Armenia national football team in 2013. Markosov", "id": "12122198" }, { "contents": "1993 in Russian football\n\n\ntheir group campaign and finished it without much success, only gaining 2 points in 6 games, coming in last in the group and suffering a 0-6 defeat against Marseille. They could not play their home games in Moscow due to the lack of a stadium meeting the Champions League standards at the time. FC Spartak Moscow reached the semifinals, tying the best European result in club's history. FC Spartak Moscow qualified for the group stage and continued to play in the group into the 1994. FC Torpedo Moscow went out", "id": "21710373" }, { "contents": "2002 in Russian football\n\n\nrespective Second Division zones: The Russian Cup was won by CSKA Moscow, who beat Zenit Saint Petersburg 2–0 in the final at the Luzhniki Stadium. Lokomotiv Moscow participated in the third round of the UEFA Cup 2001-02, but were knocked out by Hapoel Tel Aviv FC who won 3–1 on aggregate. Krylya Sovetov Samara played in the UEFA Intertoto Cup 2002. After defeating Dinaburg FC in the second round they lost to Willem II Tilburg on away goals. Lokomotiv Moscow's victory over Grazer AK ensured there are two Russian clubs", "id": "11619883" }, { "contents": "FC Dynamo Moscow\n\n\nFC Dynamo Moscow (Dinamo Moscow, FC Dinamo Moskva, ) is a Russian football club based in Moscow. Dynamo has returned to the Russian Premier League for the 2017–18 season after one season in the second-tier Russian Football National League. Dynamo was the only club that had always played in the top tier of Soviet football (along with Dynamo Kyiv) and of Russian football from the end of the Soviet era until they were relegated in 2016. Despite this, it has never won the modern Russian Premier League title and", "id": "8644495" }, { "contents": "Nikita Lyamin\n\n\nIn 2004, he played three season in the farm team and two more seasons in the main team for Dynamo Moscow. Dynamo Moscow became champions at the 2007–08 Russian Volleyball Super League, but Lyamin due to low game practice quit the club. Lyamin moved to Nizhny Novgorod and became captain of Guberniya, which went on debuting in the B-division of the highest national league. In the two years, Guberniya could enter the Super League, and in the 2012–13 it became one of the leading clubs in Russia. Guberniya qualified", "id": "8669287" }, { "contents": "Leonid Slutsky (football coach)\n\n\nLeonid Viktorovich Slutsky (; born 4 May 1971) is a Russian professional football coach and former player who is the manager of Eredivisie club Vitesse. Previously, he has been in charge of Olimpia Volgograd, Uralan Elista, Moscow, Krylia Sovetov, CSKA Moscow, Russia and Hull City. Slutsky was born in Volgograd. Slutsky's playing career with FC Zvezda Gorodishche ended at just 19 years of age. He had to retire due to a knee injury sustained after falling out of a tree while rescuing a neighbour's cat. Slutsky", "id": "11710104" }, { "contents": "Yuri Kovtun\n\n\nduring the season so two top teams were interested in him at the same time, it's Dynamo and Spartak Moscow. In 1993, Kovtun chose Dynamo Moscow and was their key player for years, until his move to Spartak in 1999. While the only Kovtun's honour during 6 years in Dynamo was Russian Cup in 1995, he could get 3 titles in 1999, 2000 and 2001 after joining Spartak. Moreover, he took part in numerous UEFA Champions League games and found himself regular Russian national football team player. Kovtun", "id": "2071460" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\n-tier Russian Professional Football League for the 2016–17 season. They won their zone of the PFL in the 2016–17 season and were promoted to the second-level Russian National Football League for 2017–18. Despite ending the 2017–18 season in the relegation zone, the club stayed in the league for the 2018–19 season as another team that finished above them in the table failed to obtain the league license. As of 5 July 2019, according to the FNL website. Had international caps for their respective countries. Players whose name is listed in", "id": "264681" }, { "contents": "Dmitri Khokhlov\n\n\nDmitri Valeryevich Khokhlov (, born 22 December 1975) is a Russian football manager and a former player. He is the manager of FC Dynamo Moscow. He played as a holding midfielder or playmaker. He played for PFC CSKA Moscow and FC Lokomotiv Moscow in native Russia, having abroad spells with PSV Eindhoven (Netherlands) and Real Sociedad (Spain). During his time with FC Lokomotiv Moscow he participated in their memorable 2003–04 UEFA Champions League campaign, scoring third goal in the 3–0 home victory against Internazionale. He played for", "id": "19054427" }, { "contents": "Racism in association football\n\n\nagainst CSKA Moscow in Russia. The club's stadium was partially closed as punishment. Touré suggested that black players might boycott the 2018 FIFA World Cup, to be held in Russia, if racism continued in the country. In September 2014, Dynamo Moscow defender Christopher Samba was racially abused playing in the Moscow derby against Torpedo Moscow. As a result, Torpedo were forced to close part of their stadium, although Samba was also banned for two games for swearing at the racist fans. In a friendly match (Russia vrs France", "id": "21349703" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\nTraktor Stalingrad to national prominence. Traktor were champions of the new fourth-level Group G in 1937, and were then promoted straight to the highest-level Group A as it expanded from 9 clubs to 26. They remained at the top level until 1950. Rotor then spent three decades at the top regional level, although the creation of the Supreme League in 1970 pushed their league from the second level overall down to the third. They gradually improved throughout the 1970s and finally won Zone III of the Soviet Second League (", "id": "264671" }, { "contents": "WPC Dynamo Moscow\n\n\nWPC Dynamo Moscow () is a Russian men's water polo club, that is part of the traditional Moscow-based multi-sports club Dynamo. Dynamo won seven Soviet Championships between 1955 and 1962, and in 1964 it was the first team to represent the in the newly European Champions Cup, ranking second behind Partizan. In 1968 and 1969 the team won two more national championships, and it also reached the 1969 European Cup's final, lost to Mladost. For the next fifteen years Dynamo didn't win any more", "id": "18685765" }, { "contents": "Kyle Hines\n\n\ngreat Olympiacos comeback in 4th quarter, led by Vassilis Spanoulis. CSKA Moscow eventually won the EuroLeague third place game, after defeating Fenerbahçe, by a score of 86–80. In his second EuroLeague season with CSKA Moscow, Hines averaged a career-low 6.8 points and 4.3 rebounds per game, over 30 games played. CSKA Moscow finished the season by winning the VTB United League, after eliminating Khimki with a 3–0 series sweep in the League's finals series. On June 17, 2015, he signed a two-year contract", "id": "14695455" }, { "contents": "Miroslav Raičević\n\n\nfinal decisive shot in the very last seconds of the final game against Prokom Trefl Sopot. He also won the Greek Cup with Aris, in the year 2004. He has also played with Red Star Belgrade of the Adriatic League during the 2005–06 season. He won the Serbian Cup with Red Star that season. In the 2006–07 season, he played with the Russian Super League club Dynamo Moscow. During summer of 2007, he left Dynamo Moscow and joined the Italian League club Eldo Napoli. He then left Napoli and moved back", "id": "13596698" } ]

[ { "contents": "1996 in Russian football\n\n\nwas knocked out in the qualifying round. FC Lokomotiv Moscow went out in the second round. PFC CSKA Moscow, FC Dynamo Moscow and FC Torpedo-Luzhniki Moscow were eliminated in the first round after going through the qualifying round. FC Alania Vladikavkaz went out in the first round after going to the UEFA Cup after failing in the qualification for the Champions League. FC Spartak Moscow went out in the second round. Russian clubs participated in the Intertoto Cup for the first time. FC Rotor Volgograd, FC KAMAZ-Chally Naberezhnye", "id": "22219348" }, { "contents": "1995 in Russian football\n\n\nthe Russian Cup 1995–96 were played later in the year. All the Russian participants were eliminated in 1994. FC Spartak Moscow won every game in their group, qualifying for the quarterfinals. FC Dynamo Moscow advanced through the first two rounds, qualifying to play in the quarterfinals next spring. FC Spartak-Alania Vladikavkaz and FC Lokomotiv Moscow were eliminated in the first round by strong opponents (even though Lokomotiv very unexpectedly beat FC Bayern in Munich in the first game). FC Rotor Volgograd eliminated Manchester United F.C. in the first round", "id": "18335625" }, { "contents": "Maksim Nenakhov\n\n\nMaksim Maksimovich Nenakhov (; born 13 December 1998) is a Russian football player who plays for FC Rotor Volgograd. He made his debut in the Russian Professional Football League for FC Dynamo-2 Moscow on 20 July 2016 in a game against FC Tekstilshchik Ivanovo. On 19 January 2018, he was loaned to FC Tyumen until the end of the 2017–18 season. On 14 June 2018, he moved on another loan for the 2018–19 season to FC SKA-Khabarovsk. On 18 June 2019, he signed a 2-year contract with FC Rotor Volgograd", "id": "6983587" }, { "contents": "Almir Kayumov\n\n\nAlmir Izmailovich Kayumov (; 30 December 1964 – 7 August 2013) was a Russian football player and referee. Kayumov played for FC Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk, FC Lada Togliatti, Spartak Moscow, Rotor Volgograd, SKA Rostov-on-Don, in Russia, the Daewoo Royals in South Korea, and Kuopion Palloseura in Finland. He played 6 games in the UEFA Cup 1986–87 for FC Spartak Moscow. On November 9, 2009, it was reported that Kayumov attempted to commit suicide by jumping out of his apartment window. Police negotiators talked", "id": "14510549" }, { "contents": "Ruslan Ishkinin\n\n\nRuslan Kamilyevich Ishkinin (; born 14 June 1974) is a former Russian professional footballer. He made his professional debut in the Russian Second Division in 1992 for FC Dynamo-2 Moscow. The most memorable match of his career was played on 14 June 1995. His team FC Dynamo Moscow was playing FC Rotor Volgograd in the final game of the Russian Cup. Dynamo was decimated by injuries and several reserve players, including Ishkinin, were called up for the game. With 5 minutes to go in regulation and the score of 0–0, Ishkinin", "id": "2479621" }, { "contents": "1997 in Russian football\n\n\nthe year. Russian teams were eliminated in 1996. FC Spartak Moscow were eliminated in the second qualifying round and went on to the UEFA Cup. FC Lokomotiv Moscow qualified for the quarterfinals stage that was played in 1998. FC Spartak Moscow qualified for the quarterfinals stage that was played in 1998. FC Rotor Volgograd reached the second round. FC Alania Vladikavkaz went out in the first round. The goal in the stadium was measured before the game and turned out to be 2.46 meters high instead of regulation 2.44. The referee decided", "id": "20500131" }, { "contents": "2012–13 Russian Premier League\n\n\naltogether if the game is awarded to Dynamo. According to the police, the main suspect is a female fan who was arrested after the game. The criminal investigation was opened on the charge of hooliganism. On 22 November, Russian Football Union's Control-Disciplinary Committee awarded the game to Dynamo with a score of 3–0 and fined both clubs. Dynamo had to play their next home game (against Rubin Kazan) behind closed doors and Zenit had to play their next 2 home games (against CSKA Moscow and Anzhi Makhachkala)", "id": "321372" }, { "contents": "Yuriy Kalitvintsev\n\n\nfor FC Desna Chernihiv. A Russian-born Kalitvintsev chose to play for the Ukraine side after breaking through as a midfielder for Dynamo Kyiv. Until 1994 he played he spent his playing career at Russian clubs such as FC Rotor Volgograd, FC SKA Rostov-on-Don, FC Dynamo Moscow, and FC Lokomotiv Nizhny Novgorod. It wasn't until the reorganization of the soviet football when he started to play at the top level of the Russian championship starting for the Moscow's Dynamo. After being transferred to the fading club", "id": "20481933" }, { "contents": "Sergei Bogomolov\n\n\nSergei Anatolyevich Bogomolov (; born 17 August 1971) is a former Russian professional footballer. During his time with FC Dynamo Moscow he only played in a single game for the main team, but it was a very memorable one. On 14 June 1995, Dynamo was playing FC Rotor Volgograd in the final game of the 1994–95 Russian Cup. Dynamo was hurt by injuries to some first team regulars and several reserve players, including Bogomolov, were called up for the game. With the score of 0:0 and 10 minutes to go in", "id": "18632079" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\nwas one of the strongest clubs in Russia, rivalling Spartak Moscow for the championship, yet never winning it. Rotor became the league runners-up in 1993 and 1997. Rotor played five successive seasons in European competition, from 1994-95 to 1998-99. They qualified for the UEFA Cup through their league position every year except 1996-97, when they instead chose to enter the Intertoto Cup. Unfortunately for Rotor, the fall of communism had left all the former Eastern Bloc leagues badly under-resourced compared to", "id": "264673" }, { "contents": "1995 in Russian football\n\n\n1995 was the fourth season Russia held its own national football competition since the breakup of the Soviet Union. FC Spartak-Alania Vladikavkaz won the league for the first time ever. This was the first season 3 points were awarded for a win instead of two. For more details, see: The third edition of the Russian Cup, Russian Cup 1994–95 was won by FC Dynamo Moscow, who beat FC Rotor Volgograd in the finals in a shootout 8-7 after finishing extra time at 0-0. Early stages of", "id": "18335624" }, { "contents": "Maxim Chuzhkov\n\n\nMaxim Aleksandrovich Chuzhkov (; born 11 April 1987) is a Russian beach soccer player serving as goalkeeper. He is a three-time national champion for three different clubs (Rotor Volgograd, Lokomotiv Moscow, Kristall). Maxim Chuzhkov was born in Samara. He was a gymnast for six years before switching to football. Chuzhkov discovered beach soccer in 2010, and one year later he joined Krylya Sovetov from Samara. From 2012 to 2014 he played for Rotor Volgograd, winning with them the club's first and only Russian Beach Soccer", "id": "21454463" }, { "contents": "1991 Soviet Top League\n\n\nseason, while FC Rotor Volgograd and FC Tiligul Tiraspol would have been promoted to the Top League for 1992. Top six clubs of the league later entered European competitions for their respective nations. The Ukrainian clubs chose to qualify through a separate national competition. The league was expanded to 16 after the last season, during which number of clubs left the Soviet competitions (from Georgia and Baltic states). The last-placed FC Rotor Volgograd of the 1990 Soviet Top League lost promotion/relegation playoff to Lokomotiv Moscow and was relegated", "id": "831265" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor-2 Volgograd\n\n\nFC Rotor-2 Volgograd () is a Russian football team based in Volgograd. It is the farm club for FC Rotor Volgograd. It previously played professionally as FC Rotor-d Volgograd or FC Rotor-2 Volgograd in the Russian Second Division in 1992–1993, 1998–2000 and 2004 and Russian Third League in 1994-1997. They came in 3rd place in their Second Division zone in 1993. In 2001, the reserves tournament for Russian Premier League was re-established and the reserves team played there while the main team stayed in Premier League.", "id": "5758261" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\nFC Rotor Volgograd () is a Russian football (soccer) club from the large city of Volgograd, Volgograd Oblast (formerly Stalingrad). The club plays in the second-level Russian National Football League. They are the largest and best supported Volgograd club and for most of their existence have been the city's only representatives in the national league system. They played at the top level of Soviet/Russian football either side of World War II, from 1989 to 1990, and from 1991 to 2004. During the 1990s", "id": "264669" }, { "contents": "Wisdom Mumba Chansa\n\n\nand Derby Makinka, to play in the Soviet Top League when they all signed for Pomir Dushanbe in 1989 after being spotted during their 4-0 win over Italy at the 1988 Olympics. Chansa's debut came on 2 October 1989 in an away match against Torpedo Moscow, before appearing twice more, against Rotor Volgograd and Metalist Kharkiv, before leaving at the conclusion of the 1989 season. Chansa returned to Power Dynamos following his Soviet experience, and was made captain before Power Dynamos became the first Zambian club side to win a", "id": "5300924" }, { "contents": "FC Volgograd\n\n\nFC Volgograd () is a former name of the Russian football club from Volgograd, founded in late 2008, currently known as FC Rotor Volgograd. Before it was founded, it was originally supposed to be called FC Rotor-Volgograd Volgograd (to keep Rotor's name around at the time FC Rotor Volgograd was close to bankruptcy). However, FC Rotor's financial situation has improved by early 2009 and the club was registered as FC Volgograd. It played in the Russian Second Division in 2009. It took over the license", "id": "6725532" }, { "contents": "Roman Pavlyuchenko\n\n\nRoman Anatolyevich Pavlyuchenko (; born 15 December 1981) is a Russian footballer who plays as a striker for FC Znamya Noginsk. He started his career at Dynamo Stavropol, and Rotor Volgograd, before transferring to Spartak Moscow in 2003. His performances there earned him a £13.7 million transfer to Tottenham Hotspur of the English Premier League in 2008, where he spent three full seasons before returning to Russia to play for Lokomotiv Moscow. After another full 3 seasons he moved in July 2015, to Kuban Krasnodar. A full international for a", "id": "3367200" }, { "contents": "Anton Miranchuk\n\n\nAnton Andreyevich Miranchuk (; born 17 October 1995) is a Russian professional football player who plays as a centre midfielder or attacking midfielder for Lokomotiv Moscow and the Russia national team. Born in Slavyansk-na-Kubani, Miranchuk joined Spartak Moscow from his hometown football school Olymp. He was dismissed from the club because of weak physical abilities. After that, he and his twin brother Aleksei moved to Lokomotiv Moscow. On 30 October 2013, Miranchuk made his competitive debut in senior football in a Russian Cup game against Rotor Volgograd replacing", "id": "1404526" }, { "contents": "Dmitry Pletnyov (footballer)\n\n\nDmitry Andreyevich Pletnyov (; born 16 January 1998) is a Russian football player. He plays for FC Tom Tomsk in Russian Football National League. He made his debut in the Russian Football National League for FC Zenit-2 Saint Petersburg on 6 September 2017 in a game against FC Rotor Volgograd. He made his Russian Premier League debut for FC Zenit Saint Petersburg on 5 May 2018 in a game against FC Lokomotiv Moscow. He played for Russia national under-17 football team at the 2015 UEFA European Under-17 Championship and 2015 FIFA U-17 World Cup.", "id": "21412634" }, { "contents": "2004 in Russian football\n\n\nseason. Andrey Fedkov of Terek became the top goalscorer with 38 goals. The following clubs have earned promotion by winning tournaments in their respective Second Division zones: Prior to start of the 2005 season three clubs (Rotor Volgograd, Torpedo Vladimir, and Arsenal Tula) refused participation in the First Division, and two more clubs (Dynamo Stavropol and Chernomorets Novorossiysk) were denied licences. This made way for the runners-up of all five zones: The Russian Super Cup match between CSKA Moscow and Spartak Moscow was won by CSKA", "id": "6344061" }, { "contents": "Dmitry Shishin\n\n\nnational beach soccer team. That year Shishin participated at the Russian Championship as player of Samarian Sputnik and debuted for the national team at the Beach Soccer World Cup. After Sputnik, Shishin for a long time played for different Saratov clubs, such as Rosagro, Biznes-Pravo, Delta. In 2011, Shishin moved to Lokomotiv Moscow, where he won the championship trophy with his team. Together with the Lokomotives he won another national championship trophy and two Russian cups. In 2013, Shishin surprisingly switched to Rotor Volgograd, becoming", "id": "12194946" }, { "contents": "2009 Russian Second Division\n\n\nJuly 2009 Oleg Mikheyev, president of FC Rotor Volgograd, announced Rotor's resignation from the league, citing problems with authorities. They have played 18 games and were in the 13th position with 21 points. \"Source: [PFL] , Sporbox.ru \" On 11 July 2009, the management of FC Spartak Shchyolkovo announced that the club would resign from the league after the first half of the season because of economic problems. Spartak were excluded from the league on August 4, 2009. They have played 18 games and were in", "id": "21482663" }, { "contents": "FC Olimpia Volgograd\n\n\nuntil 2008, though their fortunes faded after Slutsky's players left. Before the 2009 season their professional license was taken over by the new club FC Volgograd. This was meant to allow FC to assume the name and identity of Rotor who were suffering off-field troubles, but Rotor survived and ended up playing simultaneously with the new FC in 2009, while Olimpia dropped into the Volgograd Oblast Championship. They stayed there until 2011, winning the title in 2010. With confusion ongoing over the future of the Rotor name and club", "id": "21936808" }, { "contents": "Sergei Rashevsky\n\n\nSergei Aleksandrovich Rashevsky (; born 13 June 1980) is a Russian football coach and a former player. He is an assistant coach with FC Rotor Volgograd. He made his debut in the Russian Premier League in 2001 for FC Rotor Volgograd, before moving to Ural in 2005. After several seasons playing for different clubs in Russia, Rashevsky signed with Volga in 2008. He played for the club for three years, before he returned to Ural in 2011. Since February 2014, he played for the Russian National Football League side Yenisey", "id": "8136441" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\nthe new Rotor Volgograd were promoted to the second-level Russian Football National League thanks to teams above them withdrawing. The regional Ministry of Sport invested 150 million roubles ($4.9m) in the club's playing budget for the 2010 campaign, but it ended in failure as Rotor were relegated in 17th place. Governor Brovko admitted that the transition to the higher level was made too quickly. Former club player Sergei Nechay took over management and steered the team to promotion as champions of their Second Division zone in 2011–12. This", "id": "264678" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\ntheir Western counterparts, and indeed Rotor were knocked out by all four of the French and Italian clubs they played. The exception came against England's Manchester United in 1995-96. Having drawn the home leg 0-0, Rotor raced into a 2-0 lead at Old Trafford before United scored their first goal. Rotor were seconds away from being the first European club to win at Old Trafford when United's goalkeeper Peter Schmeichel scored a famous equaliser, but the 2-2 draw meant Rotor progressed by the away", "id": "264674" }, { "contents": "Roman Pavlyuchenko\n\n\na 1-0 loss against Moscow on 5 April 1999. On 15 May 1999, Pavlyuchenko provided a double assist in a 2-1 win over Chita. In his first season, Pavlyuchenko made 31 appearance and scoring 11 goals. However, the club played was still relegated to the Second Division after the club was last place. Despite this, Pavlyuchenko was named 'Team of the top' junior division for the first version of the newspaper Sport Express. Pavlyuchenko moved to Rotor Volgograd in 2000, although the move was", "id": "3367203" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\ntheir professional licence entirely. Rotor's reserve side in the Russian Second Division, Rotor-2 Volgograd, became the club's first team and was renamed Rotor in 2006. In 2007 local businessman Oleg Mikheev acquired the club's main asset the Volgograd Central Stadium, and with it effective control over the club, but financial troubles continued and the team's performances in the Second Division declined. Matters came to a head in 2009. Russia had officially launched its bid for the FIFA World Cup 2018 and Volgograd city was in line for a", "id": "264676" }, { "contents": "1988 Soviet Cup Final\n\n\nThe 1988 Soviet Cup Final was a football match that took place at the Lenin's Central Stadium, Moscow on May 28, 1988. The match was the 47th Soviet Cup Final and it was contested by FC Metalist Kharkiv and FC Torpedo Moscow. The Soviet Cup winner Metalist qualified for the Cup Winners' Cup first round for the Soviet Union. The last year defending holders Dynamo Kyiv were eliminated in the second round of the competition by FC Rotor Volgograd (3:2, 0:2). For Metalist this was their second final total", "id": "158055" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\ngoals rule They went on to be defeated by eventual Runners-up Bordeaux in the second round. Full European results: In the 2000s, Rotor's results declined, and in 2004, the team finished last in the Russian Premier League. The club's owner Vladimir Goryunov, a member of the Duma and head of the parliamentary sports committee, explored options to save Rotor from relegation, such as expanding the Premier League to 20 teams. But in January 2005 Rotor were unable to make the required financial guarantees and so lost", "id": "264675" }, { "contents": "2018–19 Russian Football National League\n\n\n. Ararat Moscow was promoted from 2017–18 PFL, but were refused a license for the 2018–19 Russian National Football League, the club being subsequently dissolved. Zenit-2 Saint Petersburg, Rotor Volgograd, Luch Vladivostok, Tyumen and Fakel Voronezh were spared from relegation due to lack of teams enrolled for the 2018–19 season. Sakhalin Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk finished on the promotion place at the end of the 2017–18 PFL season, but refused to be promoted. Dynamo Saint Petersburg was moved from Saint Petersburg to Sochi and renamed as PFC Sochi. Olimpiyets Nizhny Novgorod", "id": "621376" }, { "contents": "Dinamo Volgograd\n\n\nDinamo Volgograd () is a Russian women's handball club from Volgograd. Founded in 1972 as Burevestnik Volgograd, it represented Rotor Volgograd following the collapse of the Soviet Union and was subsequently named Aqva before taking its current name in 2003. Dynamo is the most successful team in the Russian Super League with nine titles, and in the 2001-02 season it set an absolute record winning all the matches. It has also been fairly successful in international competitions with three titles: the 1995 Challenge Cup and Champions Trophy and the 2008", "id": "10627328" }, { "contents": "List of football clubs in Russia\n\n\nZelenodolsk — FC Prometey-Dinamo Saint Petersburg — FC Pskov — FC Pskov-2000 — FC Pskov-747 FC Radian-Baikal Irkutsk — FC Rassvet Troitskoye — FC Reformatsiya Abakan — FC Rekord Aleksandrov — FC Reutov — FC Ritm Alekseyevka — FC Ritm Belgorod — FC Roda Moscow — FC Rossia Moscow — FC Rostov — FC Rostselmash-2 Rostov-on-Don — FC Rostselmash Rostov-on-Don — FC Rotor-2 Mikhaylovka — FC Rotor-2 Volgograd — FC Rotor Volgograd — FC Rubin-2 Kazan — FC Rubin Kazan — FC Rubin-TAN Kazan — FC", "id": "14958458" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\n-autumn) Russian Amateur Football League, the fourth level overall. In the 2015 season Rotor won the Amateur League Chernozemye (South-West Region) division at the first attempt by 11 points, suffering only one defeat in 22 games. The 45,000-seater Pobeda Stadium is under construction on their old Central Stadium site, and it was reported in August 2015 that the first team are still interested in moving into the facility after the 2018 World Cup, which makes attaining a higher league status a priority. They were licensed for third", "id": "264680" }, { "contents": "2010–11 KHL season\n\n\nThe 2010–11 KHL season was the third season of the Kontinental Hockey League. It was held from 8 September 2010 and ended on 16 April 2011. The season started with the Opening Cup game between the last season's finalists, Ak Bars Kazan and UHC Dynamo, the new team that was created by merging last season's Western conference winner HC MVD with Dynamo Moscow. Salavat Yulaev Ufa won the Gagarin Cup and the Russian Championship after beating Atlant Moscow Oblast 4–1 in the play-off final series. Folding of Lada Togliatti Lada", "id": "10925021" }, { "contents": "1994 in Russian football\n\n\ntime at 2-2. Early stages of the Russian Cup 1994–95 were played later in the year. FC Spartak Moscow finished the group stage in third place, not qualifying for the semifinals. All the Russian participants were eliminated in 1993. FC Spartak Moscow qualified directly for the group stage. It did not qualify from the group, coming in third place. PFC CSKA Moscow were eliminated in the first round. FC Rotor Volgograd and FC Tekstilshchik Kamyshin were both eliminated by FC Nantes in the first and second round respectively,", "id": "17746833" }, { "contents": "Mikhail Osinov\n\n\nRussian Top Division side Rotor Volgograd. In 2001, Osinov was transferred to FC Rostov and stayed there for 9 years, suffering a relegation and helping the \"yellow-blues\" to return to the Premier League. He also holds the club record for league appearances with 239 games. In 2010, he returned to Yekaterinburg to play in the Russian First Division. In 2011, Osinov went to a lower league joining MITOS Novocherkassk of the Russian Second Division. On 11 September 2011, in a league game against Olimpia Gelendzhik Osinov", "id": "12015633" }, { "contents": "1990 Soviet Top League\n\n\non 1 March with the game between Dnipro and Rotor and lasted until 20 October 1990. The season was won by FC Dynamo Kyiv. The league was reduced to 13 after first Georgian clubs (Dinamo Tbilisi and Guria Lanchkhuti) and then Žalgiris withdrew from the Soviet Top League. Lokomotiv Moscow and the last placed Zenit Leningrad of the 1989 Soviet Top League were relegated to the 1990 Soviet First League. Lokomotiv returned to the Soviet First League after two seasons absence, while Zenit was relegated for the first time since being promoted back", "id": "831394" }, { "contents": "2010–11 KHL season\n\n\nTogliatti dropped out of the league and joined the Russian Major League instead, after failing to meet the league's financial requirements. Merger of HC MVD and Dynamo Moscow On 30 April 2010, it was announced that HC MVD would merge with Dynamo Moscow to form UHC Dynamo, which for the time being will play the majority of their games at Megasport Arena in Moscow, while also attempting to play some games in Balashikha. The current plan is to have a new, large and modernized arena constructed in Balashikha by 2012. Expansion", "id": "10925022" }, { "contents": "Dzmitry Rawneyka\n\n\nDzmitry Vasilevich Rawneyka (; ; born 13 May 1980) is a former Belarusian professional footballer. He is currently af part of the coaching staff of Belarus. Born in Grodno, Rawneyka began playing football in FC Neman Grodno's youth system. He joined the senior side and made his Belarusian Premier League debut in 1998. He had a spell in the Russian Premier League with FC Torpedo Moscow and FC Rotor Volgograd but has spent most of his playing career with Neman Grodno. Rawneyka has made eight appearances for the Belarus national football team", "id": "13999154" }, { "contents": "BC Krasny Oktyabr\n\n\nthe highest stage for Russian clubs. In the first season of Krasny Oktyabr in the VTB United League, it qualified for the playoffs by finishing in the 6th place in Group B. Also, European powerhouse CSKA Moscow was defeated by Krasny Oktyabr in the quarterfinals of the 2013–14 Russian Cup tournament. On August 30, 2016, the team was forced to leave the United League, because its home arena wasn't approved to host tournaments. The club usually played its home games at the 3,700 seat Volgograd Sports Palace of Trade Unions,", "id": "8073501" }, { "contents": "Igor Lediakhov\n\n\n-Don. In 1990, he joined FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk. After impressing with FC Rotor Volgograd, Lediakhov was bought by Soviet Union giants FC Spartak Moscow, being essential as the capital team conquered three consecutive league titles, which included the inaugural edition of the competition, as the player scored in double digits in two of the three seasons. In the 1994 summer, 26-year-old Lediakhov moved abroad, signing with Spain's Sporting de Gijón. Even though he netted nearly 50 overall goals for the club (17 in four", "id": "21673652" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\nnew stadium - provided they had a professional club to fill it after the tournament. Rotor, facing legal action and a transfer embargo due to their financial status, were not reliable candidates. The government created a new entity, FC Volgograd, intending to assume the Rotor name. In fact Rotor managed to co-exist with the new FC for the first half of the 2009 season, before Mikheev suspended operations and the government took ownership of the club and stadium from him. The two clubs were merged into one, and", "id": "264677" }, { "contents": "FC Lokomotiv Moscow\n\n\npoints after Gameweek 30. The game was played at Dynamo Stadium in front of a sold-out crowd. Lokomotiv took an early lead thanks a low drive from captain Dmitry Loskov, and eventually the goal turned out to be enough for Lokomotiv to claim the first title in the club's history. Two years later, Lokomotiv again won the Russian Premier League, edging city rivals CSKA by a single point; Lokomotiv defeated Shinnik Yaroslavl 0–2 in Yaroslavl, a week after CSKA fell to city rivals Dynamo at home. In 2005", "id": "10933606" }, { "contents": "1995–96 Manchester United F.C. season\n\n\nactually went top of the league after a goalless draw at Sheffield Wednesday towards the end of September, only for the Tynesiders to return to the top of the table soon after. Then came Cantona's comeback on 1 October, when he scored a penalty to equalise and hold Liverpool to a 2–2 draw Old Trafford. The autumn saw United suffer first-hurdle exits to York City in the League Cup and Rotor Volgograd in the UEFA Cup, although United did preserve their 39-year home unbeaten record in European competitions thanks to a late", "id": "9981632" }, { "contents": "1994–95 Russian Cup\n\n\nDynamo Moscow: Valeri Kleimyonov (GK), Yuri Kovtun (DF), Sergey Timofeev (DF), Andrei Chernyshov (DF), Aleksandr Borodkin (DF), Aleksei Filippov (DF), Vagiz Khidiyatullin (DF), Andrei Ivanov (DF), Denis Klyuyev (MF), Dmitri Cheryshev (FW), Igor Simutenkov (FW), Kirill Rybakov (FW), Yuri Tishkov (FW). FC Rotor Volgograd: Volodymyr Gerashchenko (DF), Aleksandr Yeshchenko (MF), Konstantin Kulik (", "id": "5392312" }, { "contents": "FC Olimpia Volgograd\n\n\nFC Olimpia Volgograd () is a Russian football team from the large city of Volgograd. They are the second- or third-largest club in the city after the famous Rotor Volgograd. From their founding in 1989 until 1997, the club participated in various youth leagues. Some time between 1993 and 1994 the Volgograd native Leonid Slutsky, future coach of the Russian national team, joined the training staff. Among the Olimpia youth players developed under Slutsky were Denis Kolodin, Roman Adamov, Andrei Bochkov, Maksim Burchenko and Aleksei Zhdanov,", "id": "21936806" }, { "contents": "Peter Schmeichel\n\n\na 2001 Reuters poll, he beat Lev Yashin and Gordon Banks to be named the finest keeper in football history. Despite being a goalkeeper, he would run into the attack on corner kicks if his team was behind. The sight of him going up for the corner was a great distraction to opposing defenders. He scored a goal in this fashion, for Man United, in a UEFA Cup match against Rotor Volgograd at Old Trafford in September 1995. He scored in the last minutes of the game to tie the match 2–2", "id": "19820283" }, { "contents": "Spartak Gogniyev\n\n\nSpartak Arturovich Gogniyev (, ; born 19 January 1981) is a Russian professional football coach and a former player. He is the manager of FC Alania Vladikavkaz. He made his debut in the Russian Premier League in 2000 for FC Dynamo Moscow. He played two games in the UEFA Cup 2000–01 for FC Dynamo Moscow and two games (scoring one goal) in the UEFA Champions League 2003–04 qualification round for PFC CSKA Moscow. In August 2018, it was announced that Spartak Gogniyev joined new FC Urozhay Krasnodar, but this was", "id": "7903306" }, { "contents": "Georgi Yartsev\n\n\nat the time, gave Yartsev a sabre as a birthday gift in a sideline pre-game ceremony. Yartsev got another head coach position soon enough, when he joined Rotor Volgograd in January 2000. However, he could not do much with that team either and was fired in June of same year. For the next 3 years he was the manager of the Spartak Moscow veterans team. In August 2003, Russia was very close to elimination from their Euro 2004 preliminary qualification group and the coach Valery Gazzayev, was fired.", "id": "15861320" }, { "contents": "FCSB\n\n\nUEFA ordered Steaua to play two home games of the Europa League behind closed doors due to their fans displaying racist banners in a second qualifying round match against Hungarian side Újpest. Three further incidents occurred in the 2014–15 season, with the club fined and ordered to play further games in an empty stadium after displays of racist banners in matches against Dynamo Kyiv, Ludogorets Razgrad and Strømsgodset. Steaua's most important rivalry is the one against Dinamo București. \"Eternul derby\" (\"The Eternal Derby\") has been the leading Romanian", "id": "19491084" }, { "contents": "2010 Russian First Division\n\n\n), Mordovia Saransk (Ural-Povolzhye) and Irtysh Omsk (East). Due to financial difficulties, Vityaz Podolsk who placed 11th in 2009, decided to give up their spot in the Russian First Division and participate in the Russian Second Division in 2010. Pending licensing, their place was taken by FC Volgograd who placed 3rd in the Russian Second Division (South Zone) in 2009. For the occasion the management decided to change the name of the club from FC Volgograd to Rotor Volgograd. FC Alania Vladikavkaz were promoted", "id": "7947305" }, { "contents": "Russian Women's Handball Super League\n\n\nThe Russian Women's Handball Superleague is the premier women's handball competition in Russia. Dinamo Volgograd, formerly known as Rotor and Akva, is the championship's most successful club as of 2019 with 12 titles. It also holds the record for consecutive wins, with six titles in a row. Currently eleven clubs take part in the competition, with the top eight playing the championship play-offs. The Russian Championship's leading teams have been successful in EHF's competitions. Zvezda Zvenigorod won the Champions League and the EHF Cup", "id": "8475941" }, { "contents": "Pavel Pogrebnyak\n\n\n's relegation, Pogrebnyak was linked with a move away from the club but did not leave. He scored his first goals in more than eight months after netting twice in a 3–1 win over Derby County in September 2013. On 27 August 2015 Pogrebnyak moved back to Russia, signing a three-year contract with Dynamo Moscow. Dynamo released him on 25 January 2018, citing disciplinary reasons, such as attending a Juventus - Inter Milan game in Italy on the same day Dynamo played a league game and participating in the annual exhibition", "id": "2040879" }, { "contents": "1996 in Russian football\n\n\nplayers (Stanislav Cherchesov, Viktor Onopko, Vasili Kulkov and Sergei Yuran) who played in the group stage where Spartak did not lose a single point left the club to move to Western European clubs in the winter before the quarterfinals. Nicolas Ouédec was instrumental again, after scoring 7 goals in 4 games against the Russian teams in the 1994–95 UEFA Cup, this time he scored 3 goals in two games against Spartak. FC Dynamo Moscow were eliminated in the quarterfinals. All the Russian teams were eliminated in 1995. FC Alania Vladikavkaz", "id": "22219347" }, { "contents": "Kamil Mullin\n\n\nKamil Shamilevich Mullin (, ; born 5 January 1994) is a Russian professional football player who plays for FC Rotor Volgograd. He plays as a forward. Mullin joined Lokomotiv academy at 16 years, and two years later made it to the youth squad. In total, he played 53 games for Lokomotiv U21 and scored 23 goals.br He made his debut for Lokomotiv first team in the 2012–13 Russian Cup game vs Torpedo Armavir on 26 September 2012.br In March 2013, Mullin for the first time was included into team sheet for the", "id": "2605760" }, { "contents": "FC Dynamo Moscow\n\n\nthe 2008 season, Dynamo finished third, qualifying for the 2009–10 Champions League preliminary round. On 29 July 2009, Dynamo recorded a 0–1 away win against Celtic at Celtic Park, which gave them a strong advantage going into the second leg. However, Celtic comfortably defeated Dynamo 0–2 in Moscow to progress, sending Dynamo into the Europa League play-off round where the club was eliminated by Bulgarian side CSKA Sofia after a 0–0 away draw in Sofia and a 1–2 home defeat in Moscow. In 2012, after a poor start", "id": "8644502" }, { "contents": "2013–14 Russian Premier League\n\n\n2014/15 season. The 13th and 14th Premier League teams will play the 4th and 3rd FNL teams respectively in two playoff games with the winner securing a Premier League spot for 2014/15 season. On 11 May 2014, the game between FC Zenit Saint Petersburg and FC Dynamo Moscow was interrupted in the 86th minute with Dynamo leading 4-2 when Zenit fans ran out of the stands. At first they stood behind the goal line, when the referee decided to take the teams off the field into the dressing rooms and teams began to", "id": "9911963" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\nthe third tier) in 1980 and 1981, and were successful in the promotion playoffs the second time. In 1988 Rotor finished second in the Soviet First League, earning promotion to the Soviet Top League. They finished 13th and last in the downsized 1990 competition after the Georgian and Lithuanian teams withdrew, and the decision was made to relegate them. However they bounced straight back as champions of the First League in 1991, thus becoming founder members of the new Russian Top Division after the USSR collapsed. In the mid-1990s, Rotor", "id": "264672" }, { "contents": "Bibras Natkho\n\n\n, Natkho scored two goals in the Champions League qualifier against Dynamo Kyiv and Lyon, who they eliminated Kazan out of the competitions and the club would play in the Europa League. Then in the Europa League campaign, Natkho scored twice in six matches in the Group Stage of the Europa League against Tottenham Hostpur and Shamrock Rovers. Natkho performance was praised for his role during the season and helped the club win the Russian Cup after playing a vital of assisting the winning goal, in a 1–0 win over Dynamo Moscow. Natkho would", "id": "21438585" }, { "contents": "Danil Lipovoy\n\n\nDanil Nikolayevich Lipovoy (; born 22 September 1999) is a Russian football player who plays for FC Dynamo Moscow. He made his debut in the Russian Professional Football League for FC Dynamo-2 Moscow on 2 April 2017 in a game against FC Dynamo Saint Petersburg. He made his debut for the main squad of FC Dynamo Moscow on 26 September 2018 in a Russian Cup game against FC Torpedo Moscow. He made Russian Premier League debut for Dynamo on 30 November 2018 in a game against FC Rubin Kazan, as a 64th-minute substitute", "id": "429351" }, { "contents": "FC Amkar Perm\n\n\n, having lost their Spring matches to Kuban Krasnodar (1–2) and Spartak Moscow (0–2). A series without a win followed the victory over Alania and after the Dynamo match Amkar lost to Terek Grozny (1–2) and Lokomotiv Moscow (2–4). After another devastating defeat from Kuban (0–4), followed by a victory over their direct rivals Rostov (3–2), and a goalless draw with Zenit, the club retained the right to play in the Premier League. In June 2013, the club opted not to", "id": "5030824" }, { "contents": "FC Shakhtar Donetsk\n\n\nminute Fedor Manov opened score to Donetsk team goals. Final score is 4:1 in favor of the hosts.\" Nonetheless, the selective job conducted constructively by the club's administration allowed the club to compete successfully at the top level by the end of the 1930s. During the \"war championship\" of 1941, which was interrupted unexpectedly, the club defeated Soviet champions Dynamo Moscow and after about ten games were placed in fifth in the league. In the last game of that championship, played on 24 June, two days after", "id": "14103740" }, { "contents": "Oleg Veretennikov\n\n\nOleg Aleksandrovich Veretennikov (; born 5 January 1970) is a professional Russian association football coach and a former international footballer. He manages Rotor-2 Volograd. He is the top goalscorer in the history of Russian Premier League, and holds several other goalscoring records. Most of Veretennikov's successes have come with SC Rotor Volgograd, for whom he played in 1992–1999. During that time he scored 143 goals, which makes him the best goalscorer in the Russian Premier League history (the next best goalscorer, Dmitry Loskov, has 109 goals as of", "id": "21553966" }, { "contents": "Sergei Pareiko\n\n\nSergei Pareiko (born 31 January 1977) is a retired Estonian footballer. He is currently the sporting director of Estonian football club Levadia. Pareiko played as a goalkeeper in Estonian, Russian and Polish top tiers. He made a total of 65 appearances for the Estonia national football team. In Estonia, Pareiko played for Tallinna Sadam and Levadia Maardu, before moving to Russia in 2001, when he signed with Rotor Volgograd. After Rotor were relegated, Pareiko moved to Tom Tomsk. At the end of 2009 season Pareiko was named", "id": "11658849" }, { "contents": "FC Dinamo Tbilisi\n\n\nIn this period Dinamo won the Soviet Cup for the first time in their history, convincingly defeating Armenian side Ararat Yerevan 3–0 in the final, with goals scored by David Kipiani, Piruz Kanteladze and Revaz Chelebadze. In 1978 the club won the Soviet Top League for a second time. Next year Dinamo won the Soviet Cup again by defeating Russian side Dynamo Moscow in the final. In 1979 the club played its first match in the UEFA European Cup tournament. In the first round Dinamo knocked out English side Liverpool, at the", "id": "10097459" }, { "contents": "Romelu Lukaku\n\n\nlater at home to West Ham. Lukaku scored twice in a 4–0 win, becoming the fourth Manchester United player to score two goals on his Premier League debut for the club. On 17 September, Lukaku scored United's third goal in a 4–0 win over his former club Everton, with Lukaku running over towards Everton fans and cupping his ears during his goal celebration in response to being booed throughout the game. On 27 September, Lukaku scored twice in a 4–1 UEFA Champions League win over CSKA Moscow, taking his tally to", "id": "1117930" }, { "contents": "Dynamo Dresden\n\n\none Game behind closed doors and one away game without own fan support. Virtual tickets were offered to reduce the financial loss, creating \"the first sold-out Ghost Game in history\". The 2012–13 season started poorly for Dynamo and Ralf Loose was sacked in December 2012 after a 3–0 defeat to VfL Bochum with the team in 15th place. He was replaced by Peter Pacult, returning to the club after more than six years. Dynamo's form improved after Pacult's arrival but the team still finished the league as 16th", "id": "11366777" }, { "contents": "Aleksandr Tashayev\n\n\nAleksandr Mikhailovich Tashayev (; born 23 June 1994) is a Russian professional football player who plays as a left midfielder for Spartak Moscow. He made his professional debut on 11 December 2014 for FC Dynamo Moscow in a 2014–15 UEFA Europa League group game against PSV Eindhoven. He also played in the Round of 16 away game against Napoli. On 6 July 2018, he signed a contract with the cross-city rivals FC Spartak Moscow, after buying out own contract from Dynamo and becoming a free agent. Dynamo unsuccessfully sued to deem", "id": "13552247" }, { "contents": "Dynamo Moscow Bandy Club\n\n\nthe end of the 2004–05 season, almost all players of the for a decade dominant Vodnik signed up for Dynamo Moscow, resulting in an immediate Russian League title in 2006. Dynamo Moscow won the World Cup for the first time in 2006, defeating Zorky in the final. The 2006 domestic title was followed by another four consecutive Russian championship titles and as one of the dominating teams in the following years too, until 2017, when they missed the championship play-off, only coming in at eighth place in the regular season", "id": "1825162" }, { "contents": "Handball Club Lada\n\n\nHandball Club Lada is a Russian women's handball club from Tolyatti playing in the Russian Super League. Founded in 1998, Lada soon became the leading team in the Super League winning five championships in a row between 2002 and 2006 and a sixth one in 2008. It also built itself a name in Europe winning the 2002 Cup Winners' Cup in its international debut and reaching the final of the 2007 Champions League and the next edition's semifinals. The following three seasons were less successful, with Dynamo Volgograd retrieving the leading position", "id": "9114247" }, { "contents": "Omari Tetradze\n\n\n– Tetradze. Later he considered restoring his original surname, but decided it would cause too many problems. At club level, he played for Dinamo Tbilisi, FC Dynamo Moscow, Alania Vladikavkaz (where he won a Russian league championship medal in 1995), AS Roma, and PAOK FC (Greece). He played for Russia at international level, and appeared at World Cup 1994 and Euro 1996. At the latter tournament, he played superbly in each of Russia's three games despite the team's poor results, and", "id": "17559889" }, { "contents": "FC Girondins de Bordeaux\n\n\nclub was relegated just two years thereafter. In 1992, however, \"Les Girondins\" won that year's Ligue 2 title, thus being elevated to the top tier of French football. In the emergence of young and exciting players such as playmaker Zinedine Zidane, striker Christophe Dugarry and left back Bixente Lizarazu, the club ascended even higher to win the UEFA Intertoto Cup in 1995. With this talented trio, the club defeated FC Rotor Volgograd (the 1995 King's Cup Winner), Real Betis, Milan and Slavia Prague", "id": "10933676" }, { "contents": "Yuriy Hudymenko\n\n\nYuriy Arkadiyovych Hudymenko (; born 3 October 1966) is a former Kyrgyz-born Ukrainian professional footballer. Hudymenko is a product of the main Bishkek sports school and later was accepted to the main republican club of Kyrgyzia, FC Alga Bishkek. In 1990 he made his debut in the Soviet Top League playing for FC Dnepr Dnepropetrovsk, but failed to score any goals in domestic competitions, but did score a goal against Heart of Midlothian F.C. in the 1990-91 UEFA Cup. Next year Hudymenko joined recently relegated FC Rotor Volgograd that", "id": "11637137" }, { "contents": "Valery Gazzaev\n\n\na second-place finish at the end of the season. However, Gazzaev was left behind in the first league in Spartak Ordzhonikidze, as he wasn't one of the main players of the SKA Rostov-on-Don. In the Soviet Top League, Gazzaev played in Lokomotiv Moscow, Dynamo Moscow, and Dinamo Tbilisi. Gazzaev is a Soviet Cup winner with Dynamo Moscow in 1984. During his career he scored 89 goals in 283 matches in Soviet Top League, and was the top goal scorer of the UEFA Cup", "id": "3537187" }, { "contents": "FC Amkar Perm\n\n\nAmkar was in third place in the standings, one point behind second-placed Spartak Moscow and six adrift of leaders Rubin Kazan. After the break, one of Amkar's team leaders, Vladimir Gabulov, and the captain, Aleksei Popov, left the team to join Dynamo Moscow and Rubin Kazan respectively. Two matches in a row on the \"equator\" of the Championship Amkar could have topped the league table but was unable to beat Tom Tomsk and Spartak Nalchik at home. On 16 November, after beating Tom in Tomsk", "id": "5030813" }, { "contents": "FC Rubin Kazan\n\n\nfixed after selling in Volgograd \"Rotor\" team leaders Oleg Nechaev and Rustem Khuzin (but soon returned to \"Rubin\" till the end of the season on loan). In the end the season Kazan finished on 8th place, only losing a point to Nizhnekamsk \"Neftechimik\" and dropped into the second league. The following year, 1994, coaches Zadikashvili and Semenov assemble a team literally bit by bit. Because of the continuing financial problems from the last season in the team left only 6 players: Grishin, Danilin,", "id": "19815661" }, { "contents": "Nikita Chernov\n\n\nNikita Aleksandrovich Chernov (; born 14 January 1996) is a Russian professional football player who plays as a centre-back for Krylia Sovetov Samara and Russia national football team. Born in Volzhsky, Volgograd Oblast, Chernov began his career at hometown team FC Energiya Volzhsky before joining CSKA Moscow in 2009. He made his professional debut on 24 September 2014 in a Russian Cup game against FC Khimik Dzerzhinsk. He also played in the next Russian Cup round against FC Torpedo Moscow on 29 October. On 30 July 2019, Chernov moved from", "id": "503700" }, { "contents": "KF Skënderbeu Korçë\n\n\nBeşiktaş, Lokomotiv Moscow and Sporting Clube de Portugal. In matchday 1, their first ever group stage game, the club was defeated at home 0–1 by Beşiktaş after a hard fight between the two sides. In the next matchday, they lost 0–2 to Lokomotiv Moscow in Moscow. Their worst defeat in the European competition yet came the next matchday, a storming 1–5 loss to Sporting in the away leg at Lisbon, but also had the Albanian side scoring their first goal in the UEFA Europa League group stages. In the home", "id": "1409695" }, { "contents": "FC Dynamo Kyiv\n\n\nand Maccabi Tel Aviv F.C. Dynamo finished in second place with 11 points after a spectacular performance and a memorable 0–2 in Porto. However, Dynamo was punished by UEFA for a racist incident in the home game against Chelsea where four black men were attacked in the stands by Dynamo fans. Despite this, Dynamo reached the round of 16 in the Champions League for the first time since 2000, where it was drawn with Manchester City. Dynamo was eliminated 1–3 on aggregate but managed to hold an impressive 0–0 draw in Manchester. Dynamo", "id": "18770189" }, { "contents": "Konstantin Kovalenko\n\n\nKonstantin Valeryevich Kovalenko (; ; born 2 February 1975) is a Belarusian and Russian professional footballer who plays for resurrected FC Kuban Krasnodar. He made his professional debut in the Soviet Second League in 1991 for FC Kuban Barannikovsky. He played 1 game in the 1996–97 UEFA Cup for FC Spartak Moscow. His brother Andrei Kovalenko also played football professionally. On 27 October 2008 he punched referee Sergei Timofeyev in the face in the Russian Second Division game FC Sochi-04 - FC Olimpia Volgograd. He was banned from football for a year. Spartak", "id": "1118096" }, { "contents": "Clinton N'Jie\n\n\nDimitri Payet and scored two goals in a 3–0 win. On 17 September, he scored both the goals in the away win over Amiens. On 3 May 2018, he played in the Europa League semi-finals away to FC Red Bull Salzburg as Marseille played out a 2–1 away loss but a 3–2 aggregate win to secure a place in the 2018 UEFA Europa League Final. On 25 July 2019, Njie signed a 4-year contract with Russian Premier League club Dynamo Moscow. N'Jie scored 44 minutes into his Cameroon debut against the", "id": "16847587" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\ntime they were able to consolidate in the National League, finishing 9th and then 14th. But financial troubles continued. A Ministry of Sport investigation found evidence of financial misconduct by club management along with substantial overspending, and regional Governor Andrey Bocharov announced after the 2013 season that government support for Rotor was being withdrawn. The club dropped back into the Second Division (renamed the Professional Football League) for the first half of the 2014–15 (autumn-spring) season, then withdrew in order to immediately transfer to the 2015 (spring", "id": "264679" }, { "contents": "2001 FC Anzhi Makhachkala season\n\n\nThe 2001 FC Anzhi Makhachkala season was the 2nd season that the club played in the Russian Top Division, the highest tier of football in Russia, following their promotion from the National Football League in 1999. They finished the season in 13th, were runners-up in the 2001-02 cup and reached the Sixth Round of the 2002-03 cup losing to Dynamo Moscow, and were knocked out of the UEFA Cup at the First Round stage after a 0-1 defeat to Rangers over one leg in Warsaw, Poland", "id": "4897180" }, { "contents": "FC Dynamo-2 Moscow\n\n\nFC Dynamo-2 Moscow () was a Russian football team from Moscow. It was the farm-club for FC Dynamo Moscow. In 2016, it was revived after the parent club, Dynamo, was relegated from the Russian Football Premier League (which holds its own competition for the Under-21 teams of the Premier League clubs) and licensed to play in the third-tier Russian Professional Football League for the 2016–17 season. Majority of the squad participated in the 2016–17 UEFA Youth League as well. On 17 June 2017, the parent", "id": "19064817" }, { "contents": "Mikhail Markosov\n\n\nDivision South Zone, scoring 27 goals, a feat no one in the entire Second Division surpassed. In the 2010 season, he played for FC Rotor Volgograd and came back to FC Dynamo Stavropol the next season. Scoring 10 goals in his first 10 matches for Dynamo, Markosov was transferred in the summer transfer window of the 2011-12 season to FC Ufa. From April until June 2019 Markosov played for FC Kuban Krasnodar, scored 7 goals in 11 matches. He joined the Armenia national football team in 2013. Markosov", "id": "12122198" }, { "contents": "1993 in Russian football\n\n\ntheir group campaign and finished it without much success, only gaining 2 points in 6 games, coming in last in the group and suffering a 0-6 defeat against Marseille. They could not play their home games in Moscow due to the lack of a stadium meeting the Champions League standards at the time. FC Spartak Moscow reached the semifinals, tying the best European result in club's history. FC Spartak Moscow qualified for the group stage and continued to play in the group into the 1994. FC Torpedo Moscow went out", "id": "21710373" }, { "contents": "2002 in Russian football\n\n\nrespective Second Division zones: The Russian Cup was won by CSKA Moscow, who beat Zenit Saint Petersburg 2–0 in the final at the Luzhniki Stadium. Lokomotiv Moscow participated in the third round of the UEFA Cup 2001-02, but were knocked out by Hapoel Tel Aviv FC who won 3–1 on aggregate. Krylya Sovetov Samara played in the UEFA Intertoto Cup 2002. After defeating Dinaburg FC in the second round they lost to Willem II Tilburg on away goals. Lokomotiv Moscow's victory over Grazer AK ensured there are two Russian clubs", "id": "11619883" }, { "contents": "FC Dynamo Moscow\n\n\nFC Dynamo Moscow (Dinamo Moscow, FC Dinamo Moskva, ) is a Russian football club based in Moscow. Dynamo has returned to the Russian Premier League for the 2017–18 season after one season in the second-tier Russian Football National League. Dynamo was the only club that had always played in the top tier of Soviet football (along with Dynamo Kyiv) and of Russian football from the end of the Soviet era until they were relegated in 2016. Despite this, it has never won the modern Russian Premier League title and", "id": "8644495" }, { "contents": "Nikita Lyamin\n\n\nIn 2004, he played three season in the farm team and two more seasons in the main team for Dynamo Moscow. Dynamo Moscow became champions at the 2007–08 Russian Volleyball Super League, but Lyamin due to low game practice quit the club. Lyamin moved to Nizhny Novgorod and became captain of Guberniya, which went on debuting in the B-division of the highest national league. In the two years, Guberniya could enter the Super League, and in the 2012–13 it became one of the leading clubs in Russia. Guberniya qualified", "id": "8669287" }, { "contents": "Leonid Slutsky (football coach)\n\n\nLeonid Viktorovich Slutsky (; born 4 May 1971) is a Russian professional football coach and former player who is the manager of Eredivisie club Vitesse. Previously, he has been in charge of Olimpia Volgograd, Uralan Elista, Moscow, Krylia Sovetov, CSKA Moscow, Russia and Hull City. Slutsky was born in Volgograd. Slutsky's playing career with FC Zvezda Gorodishche ended at just 19 years of age. He had to retire due to a knee injury sustained after falling out of a tree while rescuing a neighbour's cat. Slutsky", "id": "11710104" }, { "contents": "Yuri Kovtun\n\n\nduring the season so two top teams were interested in him at the same time, it's Dynamo and Spartak Moscow. In 1993, Kovtun chose Dynamo Moscow and was their key player for years, until his move to Spartak in 1999. While the only Kovtun's honour during 6 years in Dynamo was Russian Cup in 1995, he could get 3 titles in 1999, 2000 and 2001 after joining Spartak. Moreover, he took part in numerous UEFA Champions League games and found himself regular Russian national football team player. Kovtun", "id": "2071460" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\n-tier Russian Professional Football League for the 2016–17 season. They won their zone of the PFL in the 2016–17 season and were promoted to the second-level Russian National Football League for 2017–18. Despite ending the 2017–18 season in the relegation zone, the club stayed in the league for the 2018–19 season as another team that finished above them in the table failed to obtain the league license. As of 5 July 2019, according to the FNL website. Had international caps for their respective countries. Players whose name is listed in", "id": "264681" }, { "contents": "Dmitri Khokhlov\n\n\nDmitri Valeryevich Khokhlov (, born 22 December 1975) is a Russian football manager and a former player. He is the manager of FC Dynamo Moscow. He played as a holding midfielder or playmaker. He played for PFC CSKA Moscow and FC Lokomotiv Moscow in native Russia, having abroad spells with PSV Eindhoven (Netherlands) and Real Sociedad (Spain). During his time with FC Lokomotiv Moscow he participated in their memorable 2003–04 UEFA Champions League campaign, scoring third goal in the 3–0 home victory against Internazionale. He played for", "id": "19054427" }, { "contents": "Racism in association football\n\n\nagainst CSKA Moscow in Russia. The club's stadium was partially closed as punishment. Touré suggested that black players might boycott the 2018 FIFA World Cup, to be held in Russia, if racism continued in the country. In September 2014, Dynamo Moscow defender Christopher Samba was racially abused playing in the Moscow derby against Torpedo Moscow. As a result, Torpedo were forced to close part of their stadium, although Samba was also banned for two games for swearing at the racist fans. In a friendly match (Russia vrs France", "id": "21349703" }, { "contents": "FC Rotor Volgograd\n\n\nTraktor Stalingrad to national prominence. Traktor were champions of the new fourth-level Group G in 1937, and were then promoted straight to the highest-level Group A as it expanded from 9 clubs to 26. They remained at the top level until 1950. Rotor then spent three decades at the top regional level, although the creation of the Supreme League in 1970 pushed their league from the second level overall down to the third. They gradually improved throughout the 1970s and finally won Zone III of the Soviet Second League (", "id": "264671" }, { "contents": "WPC Dynamo Moscow\n\n\nWPC Dynamo Moscow () is a Russian men's water polo club, that is part of the traditional Moscow-based multi-sports club Dynamo. Dynamo won seven Soviet Championships between 1955 and 1962, and in 1964 it was the first team to represent the in the newly European Champions Cup, ranking second behind Partizan. In 1968 and 1969 the team won two more national championships, and it also reached the 1969 European Cup's final, lost to Mladost. For the next fifteen years Dynamo didn't win any more", "id": "18685765" }, { "contents": "Kyle Hines\n\n\ngreat Olympiacos comeback in 4th quarter, led by Vassilis Spanoulis. CSKA Moscow eventually won the EuroLeague third place game, after defeating Fenerbahçe, by a score of 86–80. In his second EuroLeague season with CSKA Moscow, Hines averaged a career-low 6.8 points and 4.3 rebounds per game, over 30 games played. CSKA Moscow finished the season by winning the VTB United League, after eliminating Khimki with a 3–0 series sweep in the League's finals series. On June 17, 2015, he signed a two-year contract", "id": "14695455" }, { "contents": "Miroslav Raičević\n\n\nfinal decisive shot in the very last seconds of the final game against Prokom Trefl Sopot. He also won the Greek Cup with Aris, in the year 2004. He has also played with Red Star Belgrade of the Adriatic League during the 2005–06 season. He won the Serbian Cup with Red Star that season. In the 2006–07 season, he played with the Russian Super League club Dynamo Moscow. During summer of 2007, he left Dynamo Moscow and joined the Italian League club Eldo Napoli. He then left Napoli and moved back", "id": "13596698" } ]

[ { "contents": "Ossie Duran\n\n\nOssie \"The Ghanaian Gladiator\" Duran (born 23 April 1977 in Accra) is a Ghanaian professional boxer, whose career has spanned over 3 decades (1990's/2000's/2010's). He has won the Ghanaian lightweight title, World Boxing Federation (WBF) Pan-European welterweight title, WBF European Welterweight Title, United States Boxing Association (USBA) Atlantic Coast Region middleweight title, Commonwealth welterweight title, and Commonwealth light middleweight title, drew with Eromosele Albert for the vacant International Boxing Federation (IBF) Continental Africa light middleweight title,", "id": "5080778" }, { "contents": "Tom Bogs\n\n\nwins and one draw. He suffered his first defeat against the former world welterweight and middleweight champion Emile Griffith in a non-title fight in June 1970. Bogs won the European light-heavyweight title in 1968 when he stopped German champion Lothar Stengel in the first round of the bout. He successfully defended the title against Piero Del Papa before moving down to the middleweight division for a title match against European champion Carlos Duran. Bogs defeated Duran and went on to successfully defend his middleweight title three times before losing a rematch to", "id": "19397152" }, { "contents": "Angel Robinson Garcia\n\n\nand International Boxing Hall of Fame member Roberto Duran at the Gimnasio Nuevo Panama-now Gimnasio Roberto Duran-at Panama City. Robinson Garcia gave Duran a relatively close fight but still lost by unanimous ten-round decision with scores of 99-93, 98-94 and 98-96, all in favor of the Panamanian. Robinson Garcia went 1-4 the rest of that year, facing, among others, Esteban De Jesus in San Juan, Puerto Rico, to whom he dropped a ten-round decision on", "id": "1307045" }, { "contents": "Josue Marquez\n\n\n15 round distance with Roberto Duran in a world title attempt; completing a total of 25 rounds against Duran divided in two fights without getting knocked out by the Panamanian. Viruet knocked Marquez out in round ten on April 8, 1978 at the Juan Ramon Loubriel stadium in San Juan, after which Marquez decided to retire from professional boxing. Marquez won 32, losing 12 and tying 2 of his 46 professional boxing fights, winning 7 and losing 2 of those by knockout. Marquez turned to training professional boxers for a while after", "id": "17936127" }, { "contents": "Roberto Durán\n\n\n(fighting for the minor International Boxing Council (IBC) belt). Durán fought Vinny Pazienza in 1994 and 1995 for the IBC Super Middleweight Championship and was defeated both times by unanimous decision, but many people felt Duran clearly won the first bout and he was robbed of the victory. In 1996, he was challenged by Héctor Camacho for the vacant IBC Middleweight Championship but lost by a very controversial unanimous decision. In 1997, Durán was defeated by former champion Jorge Castro. Durán fought Castro in a rematch bout and won", "id": "16507032" }, { "contents": "Hector Thompson\n\n\nHector Thompson (born 24 June 1949 in Kempsey, New South Wales) is an Indigenous Australian professional boxer who competed in four different weight divisions, Lightweight, Super lightweight, Welterweight and Junior middleweight during the 1970s and 80s. In 1973 he beat Joe Tetteh for the Commonwealth (British Empire) Super Lightweight Title, earning a shot at Roberto Duran in 1973 for the World Boxing Association World lightweight but lost by TKO. After capturing the Commonwealth title again in 1975, later that year he would go on to challenge Antonio Cervantes", "id": "5995492" }, { "contents": "José Durán (boxer)\n\n\non October 8, 1976. Duran, fighting in his home city of Madrid, was knocked down in the third round by a left hand to the jaw. Although Duran rose from the canvas, he was outworked by the faster challenger and lost his title via a split decision in a fight where both boxers finished with bloody faces. In his final fight Duran challenged the Italian-Australian champion Rocky Mattioli for the WBC Light Middleweight title. The result was never in doubt, as Mattioli knocked Duran down in the second,", "id": "13817397" }, { "contents": "Goody Petronelli\n\n\n, who had earlier won the title from Antuofermo. Hagler bloodied Minter early, winning on a third-round TKO. The Petronellis would guide Hagler through 12 successful world title defenses over 7 years, including celebrated bouts against Roberto Duran and Thomas Hearns, before he lost to Sugar Ray Leonard in another controversial judges' decision, a split verdict in Leonard's favor. It turned out to be Hagler's final fight. Petronelli trained others who would fight in world title bouts: World Boxing Organization super middleweight champion Steve Collins;", "id": "13838256" }, { "contents": "Andres Hernández\n\n\nstreak came to an end when he traveled to Panama to fight world-ranked Gilberto Illueca, and dropped a ten round unanimous decision. Hernandez then started another streak of wins, this time reaching eight consecutive victories before facing another up-and-coming Puerto Rican bantamweight, Wilfredo Gomez. The pair met on Saturday, December 20, 1975 at Roberto Clemente Coliseum in San Juan as part of a boxing program that included fights of Julian Solis, Larry Holmes and Roberto Duran defending his world Lightweight title in the main event against", "id": "7680623" }, { "contents": "Panama Joe Gans\n\n\naspects of boxing by partaking in bouts organized by his classmates. Under the guidance of H.R. Cambridge, a local Panamanian business manager, and real estate developer, Quinton adopted his ring name, and became a successful boxer in the Canal Zone where he fought his first thirty fights with considerable success. On October 10, 1915, Panama Joe first won the Lightweight Championship of Panama at only eighteen against Young Sam Langford at the Pacific Theatre in Panama City in a twenty-round points decision. He later took the Middleweight Championship of", "id": "1295301" }, { "contents": "Roberto Durán\n\n\ndecision. The bout was named the 1989 \"Fight of the Year\" by \"The Ring\". His reign was short lived once again as Duran moved up to super middleweight (although both fighters weighed in at the middleweight limit) for a third clash with Sugar Ray Leonard in December 1989 (a fight dubbed \"Uno Más\"—One More—by promoters), which Leonard won by wide unanimous decision. Durán seemed to be in decline after the fight, he attempted to win further middleweight titles in 1994, 1995 and 1996", "id": "16507031" }, { "contents": "José Durán (boxer)\n\n\nat winning the world title. He travelled to Monaco to fight Miguel de Oliveira for the vacant WBC Light Middleweight title. de Oliveira, a native of Brazil, won the title via an unanimous decision after a bloody battle which lasted the full fifteen rounds. In his next fight Duran lost his EBU title in Germany to Eckhard Dagge, a man Duran had previously beaten by a technical knockout in the eleventh round. On this occasion, however, it was Dagge who scored the knockout, with the fight being stopped in the", "id": "13817395" }, { "contents": "José Durán (boxer)\n\n\nby scoring a knockout over Ben Hamida in the third round. After winning 22 consecutive bouts Duran suffered his first defeat, losing to Jean Josselin via an eight round decision on June 22, 1970. Duran was able to avenge this defeat on May 21, 1971, once again the fight went the eight round distance although Duran won the decision on this occasion. Duran won his first championship on June 7, 1974 by beating Jacques Kechichian and thus winning the EBU title. On May 7, 1975 Duran made his first attempt", "id": "13817394" }, { "contents": "Roberto Durán\n\n\nfight (the \"No Más\" fight was officially recorded as a technical knockout, because Duran quit). Durán did not contend another title fight until 1989, but made the shot count when he won the WBC Middleweight title from Iran Barkley in February. The fight is considered one of Durán's greatest achievements, as the 37-year-old former lightweight champion took the middleweight crown, his fourth title. In a tough, back-and-forth fight, Durán knocked Barkley down in the eleventh round and won a close", "id": "16507030" }, { "contents": "José Durán (boxer)\n\n\nninth round. Duran once again challenged for the world title on May 18, 1976. On this occasion Duran travelled to Tokyo, Japan to successfully challenge Koichi Wajima for the Lineal and WBA light middleweight titles. Duran started the fight well by opening a large cut on the champion's forehead and knocking him down in the second round. Wajima was knocked down once again in the thirteenth round before the fight was finally stopped in the fourteenth. Duran lost his title in his first defence, against the Argentine challenger Miguel Angel Castellini", "id": "13817396" }, { "contents": "José Durán (boxer)\n\n\nJosé Manuel Durán Pérez, popularly known as \"Pepe Durán\" (born October 9, 1945 in Madrid, Spain) is a former Spanish professional boxer. During his eleven-year professional career Duran held the Lineal and WBA light middleweight titles. He challenged for the WBC version of the title and held the EBU title. He also competed in the men's welterweight event at the 1968 Summer Olympics. Duran made his professional debut on November 30, 1967 in Barcelona, Spain. Duran made a victorious start to his career", "id": "13817393" }, { "contents": "Edwin Rosario\n\n\nopponent had boxed 25 rounds against Roberto Duran-including a world lightweight championship bout-without being knocked out. Rosario eventually gained a record of 21–0 with 20 knockouts. This led to talks of a title fight against World Boxing Council (WBC) lightweight champion Alexis Argüello, to be held in Miami. But Argüello relinquished the title in order to move up in weight to challenge junior welterweight champion Aaron Pryor. With Arguello moving divisions, Rosario was matched with Mexico's José Luis Ramírez on May 1, 1983 for the vacant", "id": "5267805" }, { "contents": "Ken Buchanan\n\n\nwin over Chang Kil Lee on 4 December 1972. On 28 June 1972, Roberto Duran signed to defend it against Buchanan on 20 October 1972. However, Duran broke that agreement when the Panamanian Government insisted he made his first defense in Panama. He did, knocking out Jimmy Robertson on 20 January 1973. Duran also had signed a second contract with the MSG on 25 October 1972, to defend against Buchanan on or before 30 June 1973. But Duran broke that agreement again. Duran had his license suspended by the New", "id": "13762575" }, { "contents": "Koichi Wajima\n\n\nhis Lineal and WBA light middleweight titles as well. However, he regained his Lineal and WBA titles in February, 1976, with a 15th round KO over Yuh. Wajima lost to Jose Manuel Duran in his first defense, losing the world title for the third time in his career. He fought his final match In June, 1977, challenging Eddie Gazo for the WBA super welterweight title, but lost by 11th round KO. This was the last fight of his career. His record was 31-6-1 (", "id": "20508599" }, { "contents": "Wilfredo Gómez\n\n\ndirected by Mario Diaz and was filmed in New York City. Gómez has three daughters Jennifer, Gina and Liz Irina and one son Wilfredo Junior. He is good friends with Panamanian boxing legend Roberto Duran. Gómez was once married to Carolina Gamboa. On April 17, 2015, Gómez was arrested by Puerto Rican police after allegedly hitting his 59-year-old companion, a lady with whom he had been living for ten months. He was released after she refused to raise charges against him. British boxer Michael Gomez adapted his last", "id": "3553965" }, { "contents": "Caleb Truax\n\n\nRichardson, and James Crayton. His professional loss came to former undisputed middleweight world champion Jermain Taylor (Truax knocked Taylor down in the 9th round.) Truax drew Ossie Duran in a 10-round non-title bout at the Target Center in Minneapolis. The bout was part of an eight-fight card promoted by Mike Tyson's new company, Iron Mike Productions. Mike Tyson was in attendance at the event, and said of Truax, \"I hear he is exciting and he is something that we need for boxing, he", "id": "16222269" }, { "contents": "Massimiliano Duran\n\n\nMassimiliano Duran (born November 3, 1963 in Ferrara, Italy) is a former Italian professional boxer who held the Cruiser WBC title and the European championship between 1990 and 1991. He is also known for being the only fighter in boxing history to earn a shot at, win, and defend a world title with three consecutive disqualification wins. Duran was born in Ferrara. His father was the Argentine-Italian boxer Juan Carlos Duran; his brother, the Italian boxer Alessandro Duran. Duran turned pro in 1986 when he defeated", "id": "13303578" }, { "contents": "Marvelous Marvin Hagler\n\n\na staple on HBO, the Pay Per View of its time. A fight against Roberto Durán followed. Durán was the first challenger to last the distance with Hagler in a world-championship bout. Durán was the WBA Light Middleweight Champion and went up in weight to challenge for Hagler's middleweight crown. Hagler won a unanimous 15-round decision, although after 13 rounds, Duran was ahead by one point on two scorecards and even on the third. Hagler, with his left eye swollen and cut, came on strong in the", "id": "4940319" }, { "contents": "Vinny Paz\n\n\nSantana fight, Pazienza went on to defeat Brett Lally by a 6th-round TKO, and then, in another TKO, former world champion Lloyd Honeyghan in the 10th round. Pazienza went on to win the vacant IBO middleweight world title in 1993 with an 11th-round KO over Dan Sherry. Pazienza then went on to beat Roberto Duran twice, both via decision, with the IBC super middleweight title on the line both times. In June 1995, Pazienza lost his world title bid against IBF world super middleweight champion Roy", "id": "12129878" }, { "contents": "Juan Carlos Giménez Ferreyra\n\n\nJuan Carlos Giménez Ferreyra (born 20 December 1960) is a Paraguayan boxer. During his career he was WBC International light heavyweight champion and unsuccessfully fought for the World Super Middleweight title four times, first against Mauro Galvano in 1992, then against Chris Eubank the same year, against Nigel Benn in 1994 and finally against Joe Calzaghe in 1998, losing via knockout. During his career he went the distance with Nigel Benn, Chris Eubank and Roberto Duran. Gimenez last fought in 2010, winning the Paraguayan Cruiserweight title against Nicasio Moray", "id": "17951209" }, { "contents": "Massimiliano Duran\n\n\nMomo Cupelic. The win earned him the nickname \"Momo\". Duran's first defeat came by the hand of Ndomingiedi Lusikina. This would be the beginning of a long-standing rivalry, that will result in the two boxers fighting five times. In 1990 Duran won the WBC Cruiserweight Title by defeating Carlos De León, when De León was disqualified for hitting after the bell to end the 11th round. Duran was leading on the cards. His first defence was against Anaclet Wamba. Duran won by DQ after Wamba had", "id": "13303579" }, { "contents": "Héctor Camacho\n\n\namateur career, Camacho won three New York Golden Gloves tournaments, beginning with the Sub-Novice 112 lbs championship in 1978. During his professional career, Camacho had many notable fights against some of the biggest names in boxing, defeating Roberto Durán twice late in Duran's career, and knocking out Sugar Ray Leonard to send him into permanent retirement. He also fought Julio César Chávez, Félix Trinidad, and Oscar De La Hoya, among others. During his later years, Camacho expanded his popular role and appeared on a variety", "id": "5327031" }, { "contents": "Eckhard Dagge\n\n\n. He would later embark on an amateur career, in which he won 66 out of 80 bouts, before falling short of making the 1972 Olympic Team. Dagge would win the German Middleweight title, in his 6th bout. Dagge would follow up with wins over notable, but faded fighters Denny Moyer and Manuel González. In 1974, Dagge challenged Jose Manuel Duran for the European Light Middleweight title, losing by 11th-round TKO. He came back the next year however, and stopped Duran in the 9th round, to", "id": "18853804" }, { "contents": "Antonio Cervantes\n\n\nLightweight champion Roberto Durán, who was coming up in weight. Duran decided to challenge Sugar Ray Leonard instead, however, and Cervantes vs. Duran never materialized. On August 2, 1980, Cervantes dropped his next title challenger, Aaron Pryor, to the canvas in the first round. Pryor recovered, however, and beat Cervantes by a knockout in round four. This turned out to be Cervantes' last world title fight. He fought two times more for the FECARBOX WBC title, winning both fights shortly before retiring in 1980", "id": "11465736" }, { "contents": "USA Tuesday Night Fights\n\n\nfighter by fighting several four rounders on \"Tuesday Night Fights\". Roberto Duran was another fixture on \"Tuesday Night Fights\" later in his career, and his 100th professional bout was carried by USA. \"Tuesday Night Fights\" also showcased the bizarre from time to time. Among these was a fight from former pro football star Mark Gastineau's controversial boxing career which saw him lose to a journeyman fighter, Andrew Golota's infamous fight against Samson Po'uha in 1995 which saw the Polish fighter, who appeared frequently on \"Tuesday", "id": "5898536" }, { "contents": "Jacques LeBlanc\n\n\n22 wins, 4 losses and 2 draws when he fought WBC Middleweight Champion Roberto Durán on June 29, 1993. LeBlanc was billed as a severe underdog but lasted the full 10 rounds with Duran, losing on points. LeBlanc fought the undefeated Richie Woodhall in October 1994 for the Commonwealth Middleweight crown but again lost on points. He continued boxing until 1997, but winning again only once. In 2010, Jacques was inducted into the City of Moncton Wall of Fame . He currently holds the record for most matches without being knocked", "id": "3179570" }, { "contents": "Andy Lee (boxer)\n\n\nResort Casino in Mashantucket, Connecticut, and won via technical knockout at 0:56 in the 10th round. He avenged his loss to Brian Vera on 1 October 2011 by unanimous decision. On 10 March 2012, Lee Knocked out Mexico's Saul Duran in the 2nd round of a stay busy fight. On 16 June 2012, Lee challenged undefeated Titleholder Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. for the WBC World Middleweight Title in the Sun Bowl Stadium in El Paso, Texas televised on HBO World Championship Boxing. Lee got off to a good start,", "id": "15093101" }, { "contents": "Joe Cortez\n\n\ntook on the responsibility to referee some major Championship fights. During this time he was the third man in the ring in several professional Mike Tyson and Roberto Duran fights. As eminent referees Richard Steele and Mills Lane retired at the dawn of the 21st century, Cortez became one of Nevada and New York's preferred boxing referees for world title fights. He has refereed over 170 world title bouts, among which figure the first Oscar De La Hoya-Julio César Chávez meeting, Evander Holyfield and Riddick Bowe's first title fight and", "id": "18491003" }, { "contents": "Reuben Duran\n\n\nnot for the injury, he would have gotten a stoppage. Duran would support his bold statement in his next fight as he claimed a victory over Ryan Diaz via KO with only 3 seconds left in the fight. In subsequent bouts, Duran submitted both Kana Hyatt and Maurice Eazel in the first round. Duran signed with the UFC in early 2011 and made his debut at UFC on Versus 3 against Takeya Mizugaki, replacing an injured Francisco Rivera. Duran lost the fight via close split decision. Duran faced Francisco Rivera on June", "id": "15069085" }, { "contents": "Héctor Camacho\n\n\n. Before this fight, Camacho was trained by Angelo Dundee. His last two fights resulted in a draw and a loss, against Luis Ramón Campas and Saúl Duran, respectively. His last fight against Duran was on May 14, 2010. On January 6, 2005, Camacho was arrested by police in Gulfport, Mississippi on charges of trying to burgle an electronic goods store and carrying the drug ecstasy on him. In 2007, he declared himself guilty of being under the influence at the time of the burglary. He was", "id": "5327048" }, { "contents": "Jack Blackburn\n\n\nhad a slight advantage in height and reach. Blackburn fought the Barbados-born boxer Panama Joe Gans, who had boxed extensively in Panama where he lived prior to 1917. Panama Joe held the World Colored Middleweight Championship from 1920 to 1924, and held a Panamanian Lightweight Title in his youth. On July 24, 1922, Blackburn lost one of his last bouts to Gans in Indianapolis, Indiana, in a fourth-round technical knockout of a scheduled ten round bout. Panama Joe was a formidable boxer and fourteen years younger", "id": "10094030" }, { "contents": "Vinny Paz\n\n\nHector \"Macho\" Camacho and WBA World Champion Loreto Garza. In 1991, Pazienza moved into the junior middleweight division. In his first fight at junior middleweight, he won the USBA championship against Ron Amundsen in a 12-round decision. He defeated the WBA world jr. middleweight champion Gilbert Delé with a 12th-round TKO in Providence, becoming the second fighter in boxing history to win both the lightweight and junior middleweight world championships. Pazienza was forced to relinquish the title due to a serious car accident in which his neck was", "id": "12129876" }, { "contents": "Roberto Durán\n\n\nvia unanimous decision. In 1998, at the age of 47, he challenged 28-year-old WBA Middleweight Champion William Joppy. Joppy, a trim, quick-fisted fighter, battered Durán to defeat in just 3 rounds. It was Duran's most emphatic loss since the Hearns fight, over a decade earlier. Durán then announced his retirement in August 1998, but was back fighting in 1999. In June 2000, Durán avenged a previous loss to Pat Lawlor and won the NBA Super Middleweight Championship on his 49th birthday.", "id": "16507033" }, { "contents": "Roberto Vásquez\n\n\nRoberto Gaspar Vásquez Ramirez (born May 26, 1983 in Panama City) is a Panamanian professional boxer who held the WBA light flyweight title from 2005 to 2006. He also held the WBA flyweight interim title from 2006 to 2007. Vásquez lost in his professional boxing debut against Angelo Dottin on March 17, 2001. The four-round fight occurred in Dottin's hometown of Colón, Panama. Despite Vásquez's cutting Dottin's right cheek in the first round, all three judges scored the bout 39-38 for Dottin.", "id": "15594966" }, { "contents": "Roberto Durán\n\n\nwith an incredible 71–1 record. On June 20, 1980, Durán captured the WBC Welterweight title by defeating Leonard via a 15-round unanimous decision (145–144, 148–147, 146–144). The fight became known as \"The Brawl in Montreal\". After defeating Leonard in Montreal, Duran gained iconic status in his home country, Panama. Leonard initiated the rematch clause and asked for the fight to be the following November. In their second fight, Leonard successfully changed his tactics, using more footwork and movement than he had in their", "id": "16507022" }, { "contents": "Roberto Durán\n\n\nfirst fight, and Duran was unable to get Leonard against the ropes. During the seventh round, after Leonard had gained a slight lead on the scorecards, he began taunting and mocking Duran. Halfway into the eighth round, Duran suddenly stopped fighting, repeatedly saying, \"No más\" (\"no more\"). In a 2016 interview, Duran claimed that what he actually said was, \"No Sigo\" (\"I won't go on\"). He took some time to recover from that fight and", "id": "16507023" }, { "contents": "Kirkland Laing\n\n\n. Laing's boxing career was sporadic, as he often failed to deliver on his promise, appearing under-prepared against less able fighters and indulging in drink, drugs and women. In the year following his victory over Duran, Laing went missing, blowing his earnings. In that same period Duran was to fight four times, earning an estimated $6m. Laing continued to fight until he was 40, and retired after a stoppage loss to future world champion Glen Catley. After retiring, Laing continue to live in", "id": "8014673" }, { "contents": "Jimmy Batten\n\n\nThomas stopped him in the ninth round to take the title. Batten won his next five fights before losing on points in May 1981 to Chris Christian. He then travelled to the United States, where he was based in Chicago for almost two years; There he had a series of fights starting with two easy wins before he was stopped in the first round in May 1982 by Mario Maldonado. He beat Jeff Madison in September before facing Roberto Duran in November 1982 at the Miami Orange Bowl; Duran took a unanimous decision,", "id": "22189495" }, { "contents": "Ray Lampkin\n\n\nRay Lampkin (born 1948 in Portland, Oregon) is a retired professional boxer who lost the 1975 World Boxing Association (WBA) lightweight title fight against Roberto Durán in Panama. He won the North American Boxing Federation lightweight title fight but later lost it against Esteban de Jesús at the Felt Forum in New York City. He finished his career with a total of 34 wins (16 by knock out), six losses (two by knock out) and one draw. Lampkin was inducted into the Oregon Sports Hall of Fame", "id": "279465" }, { "contents": "Roberto Durán\n\n\nthe end of the seventh. Finally the fight was stopped in the eighth round as Moore was taking such a horrific beating and Durán won his third world title. After the victory, Durán was hoisted up in the air as the crowd sang \"Happy Birthday\" to a sobbing Durán. Durán later fought for the World Middleweight Championship, meeting Marvelous Marvin Hagler in Las Vegas in November 1983, during the fight Duran broke his hand and lost in a very competitive fight that went the full fifteen rounds, although after 12 rounds", "id": "16507027" }, { "contents": "Harold Reitman\n\n\nprofessional record of 7-1-1, Reitman fought a three-round charity exhibition match against the five-time world champion Roberto Duran at the Hollywood Diplomat Hotel in Miami Beach. On November 11, 1991, Reitman fought heavyweight Tim Anderson for the NBA Independent Cruiserweight title in a televised fight. Though Reitman scored two 9th round knockdowns, the fight ended in a draw. In March 1992, Reitman was the 12th ranked Heavyweight boxer in the world according to the International Boxing Council. On December 12, 1995,", "id": "9844517" }, { "contents": "Jeffrey Mathebula\n\n\nlost to Celestino Caballero. Hence, Mathebula fought against Caballero for the WBA Super World and IBF World super bantamweight title. However, he lost his first world title shot against Caballero via a split decision at the Roberto Duran Arena in Panama on 30 April 2009. After losing to Takalani Ndlovu via a split decision in an IBF junior featherweight title eliminator in Brakpan, Gauteng in September 2010, Mathebula defeated Ndlovu via a split decision in their rematch in Brakpan to be crowned the IBF junior featherweight champion. It was the SABC-", "id": "16997776" }, { "contents": "Angel Robinson Garcia\n\n\nhim fight 12 times, including a September 10 loss by ten-round decision to future WBC world Lightweight-and Spain's second-Champion Pedro Carrasco at the Basque Country and a December 30 defeat at the hands of 19-2-4 Chris Fernandez by ten-round decision also. Robinson Garcia contested 17 bouts in 1970. These included an August 21 match with Jose Duran, won by Duran by ten rounds decision at Madrid and a November 20 bout with French Roger Menetrey which Menetrey won by ten-round decision", "id": "1307042" }, { "contents": "Sugar Ray Leonard vs. Thomas Hearns\n\n\nSugar Ray Leonard and Thomas Hearns are considered to be two of the best boxers of all-time. They fought twice, with Leonard winning in 1981 and a draw in 1989. Both fights are considered to be classics. Sugar Ray Leonard won the WBC welterweight title with a fifteenth-round knockout of Wilfred Benítez in 1979. He lost it to Roberto Durán by a close decision in June 1980 and regained it five months later in the infamous No Más Fight, in which Duran quit in the eighth round. In June", "id": "20124047" }, { "contents": "Brandon Gonzáles\n\n\nOlympic Team in 2004 he withdrew to begin his professional career in 2007. While boxing as an amateur he worked as a janitor at Arco Arena.. On January 29, 2010 Gonzales won a fight against veteran Dumont Welliver by T.K.O., the fight was on the undercard of ESPN's Friday Night Fights. He maintained an unblemished streak of 17 wins until his bout with Thomas Oosthuizen that resulted in a draw. On October 28, 2011 he defeated Ossie Duran in the Main Event on Showtime's ShoBox at Bally's in Atlantic City", "id": "18287532" }, { "contents": "Miguel Ángel Castellini\n\n\nManuel Duran, in front of a sell out crowd of 12,000. Duran, who was making the first defence of his title, was knocked down in the third round by a left hand to the jaw. Although the champion rose from the canvas, he was outworked by the faster challenger and lost his title via a split decision in a fight where both boxers finished with bloody faces. Castellini's championship reign only lasted one fight as he lost it in his first defence to Eddie Gazo on March 5, 1977. Gazo", "id": "13522966" }, { "contents": "Hilario Zapata\n\n\nwas knocked out in the first round by the WBC world Jr. Bantamweight champion Sung-Kil Moon. A win against Moon would have made Zapata a member of the exclusive group of world boxing champions in three different weight categories or more. It can also be added that Zapata's first pair of boxing gloves, when he was 12, came as a present from Duran himself. Panamanian newspaper \"El Panama America\" declared on one of their editorials that Zapata, according to their opinion, should be inducted to the International Boxing", "id": "9857520" }, { "contents": "Panama Joe Gans\n\n\nPanama Joe Gans was a black boxer who held the World Colored Middleweight Championship for four years, shortly before it was discontinued. Born Cyril Quinton Jr. on November 14, 1896 in Barbados, British West Indies and raised in the Panama Canal Zone, the 5'7\" Quinton originally fought out of Panama and then New York City. He took his ringname from boxing great Joe Gans, the first black American fighter to win a world boxing title. He found his greatest fame fighting as a middleweight at between 147 and 160 lbs,", "id": "1295299" }, { "contents": "Panama Lewis\n\n\nCarlos \"Panama\" Lewis (born November 4, 1945) is an American boxing trainer. He was convicted of tampering with the gloves of Luis Resto in the Resto vs \"Irish\" Billy Collins fight of 1983, which subsequently led to the end of Collins' boxing career. Collins suffered from depression and possibly committed suicide following the tragic assault. Lewis was a disciple of trainer Chickie Ferrara. He was Roberto Durán's cornerman when Duran lost a unanimous decision against Wilfred Benitez in 1982. During the early 1980s, he", "id": "11205984" }, { "contents": "Pernell Whitaker\n\n\nfight, he basically faced no real trouble against Vásquez in route to the win. This was a history making fight for Whitaker, as he became only the fourth fighter in history - joining Thomas Hearns, Sugar Ray Leonard, and Roberto Duran - to have won a legitimate world title in four different weight classes. However, he chose to move back to welterweight. Whitaker successfully defended his WBC belt against Scotland's Gary Jacobs on August 26, 1995. In January, 1997, Whitaker put his title on the line against", "id": "20971754" }, { "contents": "Carlos Palomino\n\n\nundercard. Palomino lost to Duran by decision in ten rounds, and he announced his retirement from boxing right away. Palomino began his comeback on January 10, 1997, beating Ismaél Díaz by a knockout in round nine. He won four fights that year, including one over former world champion Rene Arredondo, but when he lost by decision in ten to former Oscar De La Hoya world title challenger Wilfredo Rivera on May 30, 1998, he decided to retire for good, and has stayed in retirement ever since. In 1978", "id": "12841764" }, { "contents": "Roberto Durán\n\n\nRoberto Durán Samaniego (born June 16, 1951) is a Panamanian former professional boxer who competed from 1968 to 2001. He held world championships in four weight classes: lightweight, welterweight, light middleweight and middleweight, as well as reigns as the undisputed and lineal lightweight champion, and the lineal welterweight champion. He is also the second boxer to have competed over a span of five decades, the first being Jack Johnson. Durán was known as a versatile, technical brawler and pressure fighter, which earned him the nickname of", "id": "16507013" }, { "contents": "Joshua Clottey\n\n\nwelterweight title in his next fight. He then rolled off a 10 fight winning streak highlighted by his first win on American soil and capture of several minor welterweight and middleweight titles. The streak culminated in an IBF intercontinental welterweight title. On December 2, 2006, Clottey earned his first shot at a world title but broke his hand in the fourth round of his fight against World Boxing Organization champion Antonio Margarito. That bout against Margarito has since come under controversial suspicion following news reports (released after Margarito's fight with Shane Mosley", "id": "11102893" }, { "contents": "Aaron Pryor\n\n\nten years in prison after he was convicted of 29 counts of fraud and embezzlement. Pryor was then offered $750,000 to fight Roberto Duran in April 1981, but Pryor turned it down because his new attorney told him not to sign anything until he worked out a new contract with manager Buddy LaRosa. By the time they worked out a new agreement, the chance to fight Duran was gone. On June 27, 1981, Pryor knocked out Lennox Blackmore in the second round. He then defended the title against undefeated Dujuan Johnson", "id": "8987862" }, { "contents": "Roberto Durán\n\n\nChorrillo in the district \"La Casa de Piedra\" (The House of Stone) Panama. He began sparring with experienced boxers at the Neco de La Guardia gymnasium when he was only eight years old. Durán competed as an amateur compiling a record of 13–3. Having 16 amateur fights under his belt, he made his professional debut in 1968 at the age of 16. Duran won his first 31 consecutive fights, and scored knockout victories over future Featherweight Champion Ernesto Marcel and former Super Featherweight Champion Hiroshi Kobayashi, culminating in his", "id": "16507016" }, { "contents": "Wilfredo Gómez\n\n\nOn May 18, 2003, Gómez returned to Panama, where he was received by Duran and Eusebio Pedroza, among others. In a message geared towards Panamanians, he expressed thanks to that country, calling it his second country and saying, among other things \"I'm very motivated now that I will return to Puerto Rico, and no one should be surprised if I buy an apartment in Panama and move my family here\". However, he bought a house in Orlando, Florida in 2006. Gómez had a record", "id": "3553963" }, { "contents": "Jacob Duran\n\n\nSandman\" Sanchez before furthering his career in professional boxing and mixed martial arts. In boxing, Duran works on the Klitschko brothers and Andre Ward. On November 23, 2014 Duran was in the corner of Chris Algieri when he took on Manny Pacquiao for the WBO welterweight title at Cotai Arena, Venetian Resort, Macao, Macao S.A.R., China. On May 29, 2015, Duran was in the corner of Chris Algieri once again when he took on Amir Khan for the WBC Silver Welterweight title at The Barclays Center, Brooklyn", "id": "2958564" }, { "contents": "Edwin Rodríguez (boxer)\n\n\nEdwin Rodríguez (born May 5, 1985) is a Dominican professional boxer who lives in Worcester, Massachusetts. Starred in the box office hit Bleed For This as Roberto Duran Rodriguez moved to Worcester at age 13 with dreams of becoming the next great Dominican ballplayer. Winters in the Bay State made for a short baseball season and two years later, he abandoned the diamond for the ring. Rodriguez had an 84–9 record and won the USA Boxing Championships 2005 and the National Golden Gloves 2006 as a middleweight (165 pounds).", "id": "15244912" }, { "contents": "Steve Smoger\n\n\n, New York. On May 27, 2017 in Atlantic City, New Jersey Smoger became the first professional boxing referee to be inducted into the newly created Atlantic City Boxing Hall of Fame, joining Don King and Michael Spinks among other inductees. Smoger's Hall of Fame resume comprises five inductions Smoger has officiated the bouts featuring such professional boxers as Mike Tyson, Lennox Lewis, Larry Holmes, Evander Holyfield, Ray Mercer, Steve Cunningham, John Ruiz, Roberto Duran, Hector Camacho, Roy Jones, Jr., James Toney,", "id": "12530988" }, { "contents": "Panama Blue\n\n\nPanama Blue is rainforest spring water and a product of Panama Springs S.A. Panama Blue is a brand of luxury rainforest spring water. Panama Blue is the number one premium bottled water brand of Panama. The brand ambassadors are boxer Roberto Duran and Carolina Dementiev, a Panamanian model and triathlete. Panama Blue is bottled at the source in the mountains of Cerro Azul, surrounded by the Chagres National Park in the Panamanian rainforest. The spring is located about 800m above sea level. Because of the soil, the volcanic rocks and the", "id": "19226350" }, { "contents": "Roberto Durán\n\n\ngained even more weight to contend for the WBC Light Middleweight title, but losing in his first attempt at a championship in that division on January 30, 1982, against Wilfred Benítez by a 15-round unanimous decision, this after having defeated Nino Gonzalez and Luigi Minchillo, two rated Light Middleweights, both by ten-round decisions in non-title bouts. Durán was also to lose his comeback fight in September 1982 in Detroit. Kirkland Laing, from London, shocked the boxing world, producing the type of display his talents promised", "id": "16507024" }, { "contents": "Richard Green (referee)\n\n\nwas Muhammad Ali's loss to Larry Holmes in 1980. Green officiated two high-profile fights in 1982. Early in the year he refereed Wilfred Benitez's fight against Roberto Duran for Benitez's super welterweight title. Later he was the referee in the Ray Mancini's first-round knockout of Arturo Frias, a win that gave Mancini the WBA lightweight championship. On November 13, 1982, Green was assigned to work Mancini's second defense of that title, a match against the Korean contender Duk Koo Kim that was televised", "id": "8256032" }, { "contents": "Nat Jacobs\n\n\nNathaniel \"Nat\" J. S. Jacobs (born 1 December 1939) is an English amateur and professional boxer of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, who won the Central (England) Area middleweight title and challenged for the British Boxing Board of Control British middleweight title. His professional fighting weight varied from , i.e. welterweight, through light middleweight and middleweight, to , i.e. light heavyweight. He was managed/trained by former boxer Stan Skinkiss. Born in Manchester, Jacobs began his professional career in November 1960 with a points victory", "id": "16077543" }, { "contents": "Light middleweight\n\n\nOctober 17, was won by Griffith via a 15-round decision. Three days later, the World Boxing Association championship was created when Denny Moyer outpointed Joey Giambra. The World Boxing Council recognized the WBA champion as the true division champion until 1975, when it stripped their current champion and sanctioned a fight between Miguel de Oliveira and Jose Duran for the vacant title. De Oliveira won the title over 15 rounds in 1975. The International Boxing Federation crowned its first champion when Mark Medal defeated Earl Hargrove in 1984. The World Boxing Organization", "id": "11957407" }, { "contents": "Héctor Camacho\n\n\nhim in his career) to defeat Craig Houk by knockout in round three. He won consecutive unanimous ten-round decisions over Clinton McNeil and Raúl Jorge Muñoz. After that, his boxing career went on hiatus, as he faced criminal charges. He pled guilty to burglary and acknowledged drug abuse, but was given probation. Camacho returned to boxing on July 18, 2008, competing against Perry Ballard for the World Boxing Empire's Middleweight Championship. The fight lasted seven rounds. Camacho won when Ballard's corner threw the towel", "id": "5327047" }, { "contents": "Panama Joe Gans\n\n\nPanama by knocking out Benny McGovern in the third of fifteen rounds on November 30, 1916 at the Santa Ana Plaza in Panama City. At the time, these titles were often described as extending to both Central and South America. In his first bout after taking the Middleweight Championship of Panama on December 12, 1916, though barely twenty-one years old, he soundly defeated Abraham Jacob Hollandersky, a former holder of the Panamanian Heavyweight Championship in 20 rounds in Panama City. In 1917, Panama Joe was brought to New", "id": "1295302" }, { "contents": "Murderers' Row (boxing)\n\n\ncounted as Burley’s conquests. He was ranked in the top 10 in the Welterweight and Middleweight divisions for most of the 1940s, without receiving a title shot. (Burley did hold the World Colored Welterweight and World Colored Middleweight Championship titles.) Near the end of his career Burley took to fighting Heavyweights in a bid to find meaningful contests, including J.D. Turner and future Heavyweight champ Ezzard Charles. Eventually, Burley would retire after winning 83 bouts, without ever being able to meet in the ring the champions of the time", "id": "6667729" }, { "contents": "Reuben Duran\n\n\nadditions of wrestling, Brazilian jiu-jitsu, and Muay Thai. Reuben began his career with multiple fights for King of the Cage, and other small promotions in California. As an amateur competitor, Duran has distinguished himself by being a six time winner of Grapplers Quest. In a memorable match, Duran fought Greg Guzman, hiding his injuries that included 2 torn ligaments in his right hand. In spite of the injuries, Duran still earned the victory. Later, in an interview, Duran voiced his confidence that were it", "id": "15069084" }, { "contents": "Boardwalk Hall\n\n\n, Oscar De La Hoya, Roberto Duran, Lennox Lewis, Roy Jones Jr., Floyd Mayweather Jr., Bernard Hopkins, Riddick Bowe, Julio César Chávez, Héctor Camacho, Micky Ward, and Arturo Gatti. In September 2007, it was the venue for the Kelly Pavlik – Jermain Taylor boxing match for the World Boxing Council, World Boxing Organization and \"The Ring\" magazine's middleweight championships. On December 12, 1965, the New York Ukrainians defeated Philadelphia Ukrainian Nationals 3-2 in the first regulation indoor soccer match", "id": "5560408" }, { "contents": "Phil Edwards (boxer)\n\n\nmember of the public who was attempting to take a kick at the new champion. Edward's very next fight after his title success was against Nigerian boxing legend Dick Tiger. Tiger was a one-time world middleweight and light-heavyweight world champion, and Edwards showed his class by lasting the full ten rounds, losing on points. After the Tiger fight, Edwards was back to winning ways, and was victorious in his first four fights of 1958, defeating Commonwealth title challenger Lew Lazar, Scotland's John Woolard, journeyman", "id": "19060017" }, { "contents": "Carl Thompson (boxer)\n\n\nin February 1993. In February 1994, Thompson traveled to Ferrara, Emilia Romagna, Italy and won the European title by defeating Massimiliano Duran by KO in eight rounds, and in his next bout knocked out France's Akim Tafer in six rounds at Epernay, Marne, France to retain his European title. After winning two mark-time fights, Thompson was matched against Ralf Rocchigiani in a bout for the vacant WBO cruiserweight title at the G-Mex Leisure Centre, Manchester in June 1995. Both fighters were knocked down in", "id": "14087508" }, { "contents": "Luis Federico Thompson\n\n\nLuis Federico Thompson (December 19, 1927 – January 8 , 2010) was a Panamanian Argentinian professional boxer. Thompson was born in Colon, Panama, later moved to Argentina, where he was nationalized and afterwards became the Argentine and South American boxing champion. Thompson debuted in 1947 with a fight against Wilfredo Brown in Panama City which ended in a draw. On October 7, 1951, he fought Wilfredo Brewster defeating him and winning the Panamanian Lightweight Title for the first time. Two months later, he fought Wilfredo Brown again", "id": "20078674" }, { "contents": "Jawaid Khaliq\n\n\nJawaid Khaliq, MBE (born 30 July 1970), is a British former professional boxer. A dual Pakistan national, he became the first British Asian boxing world champion, winning the International Boxing Organization (IBO) welterweight title and defending it for seven constructive bouts before retiring. During his boxing career he also held the Commonwealth welterweight title, World Boxing Federation Inter-Continental Light Middleweight Title, Midlands Area light middleweight title and Midlands Area welterweight title. He is the first Kashmiri world champion boxer. Khaliq took up boxing at", "id": "22058424" }, { "contents": "Omar Sheika\n\n\nOmar Sheika (born February 20, 1977) is an American former professional boxer and multiple time super middleweight world title challenger. He is of Palestinian descent. Sheika compiled a successful amateur career, capturing a National Middleweight Championship at National AAU Boxing Tournament in 1996. Sheika has enjoyed some success in his pro career. His first fight was against Billy James. Sheika won the fight by TKO on the second round. Sheika stayed undefeated for about a year. Sheika was involved in ESPN Friday Night Fights \"Fight of the Year", "id": "7826746" }, { "contents": "Roberto Durán\n\n\nchampion the moment Durán stepped into the ring to box Hearns. Durán again made history in the fight, but this time it was the wrong kind. Hearns dropped Durán twice in the first round and as he rose to his feet after the second knockdown, which ended the round, the former champion did not know where his corner was. Hearns went on to knock Duran down a third time in the second round and the fight was stopped, marking the first time in his career that Durán had been knocked out in a", "id": "16507029" }, { "contents": "Wally Swift\n\n\nJohnny Pritchett due to an eye injury. Swift beat Peter Sharpe in May 1966 in an eliminator to face Pritchett, winning on points. In February 1967 he faced Pritchett at the Nottingham Ice Stadium for the title, losing on points over fifteen rounds. In September 1967 Swift faced Sandro Mazzinghi for the European super welterweight title in Milan; The fight was stopped in the sixth round due to injuries to Swift. In March 1968 Swift challenged Juan Carlos Duran for the European middleweight title. Swift lost the fight after being disqualified in", "id": "6876166" }, { "contents": "Hands of Stone\n\n\nup in Panama, Durán is homeschooled by Chaflan, who teaches young Roberto some vital life lessons. Later, Duran joins a boxing club with Nestor \"Plomo\" Quiñones as his coach. As he reaches 20, an American legendary boxing trainer Ray Arcel, who nearly lost his life after being attacked by an unknown assailant in 1953 in New York City and is now living with his wife Stephanie, notices Roberto's raw talent and punching power and takes the young fighter under his wing, becoming his coach. Not long after", "id": "2732439" }, { "contents": "Larry Estridge\n\n\nLarry Estridge (born 17 June 1902, St. Kitts, British West Indies) was a middleweight boxer and the last holder of the World Colored Middleweight Championship. The 5'7\" middleweight fought out of New York City from 1922 to 1929, racking up a career record of 53 wins against 23 losses and two draws from 1922 to 1929. Estridge fought colored middleweight champion Panama Joe Gans for his title on July 26, 1924 at Yankee Stadium, defeating the champ via a unanimous decision in their 10-round bout. After scoring two victories", "id": "1295287" }, { "contents": "Lennox Blackmoore\n\n\nLennox Blackmoore (born July 10, 1950 in Georgetown, Guyana) is a Guyanese professional light/light welter/welter/light middle/middleweight boxer of the 1970s and '80s who won the Guyanese lightweight title, Guyanese light middleweight title, and Commonwealth lightweight title, and was a challenger for the World Boxing Association (WBA) World light welterweight title against Aaron Pryor, and World Boxing Council (WBC) FECARBOX light welterweight title against Antonio Cervantes, his professional fighting weight varied from , i.e. lightweight to , i.e. middleweight", "id": "2810858" }, { "contents": "Abraham Jacob Hollandersky\n\n\nand skill that he would act as a sparring partner to prepare Jack Dempsey for his September 1920 Heavyweight Title bout with Hall of Famer Billy Miske as well as Dempsey's earlier bout when he first took the Heavyweight Championship from Jess Willard in Toledo. The 5' 4\" welterweight Hollandersky lost to Panama Joe, the younger and stronger Panamanian Light and Middleweight champion, and the accomplished middleweight Connors of Scranton, Pennsylvania, who had a five-inch height advantage. But he gave a closer fight to the Seattle welterweight Ryan before", "id": "10244386" }, { "contents": "Tommy Freeman (boxer)\n\n\nbout was Thompson's first title defense. Freeman held the title until his rematch with Jack Thompson on April 14, 1931 again in Cleveland where he lost by TKO in the tenth of fifteen rounds. The bout was stopped due to Freeman's badly battered left eye. He had a long career as a boxer, and remained fighting as a super welterweight until around 1937. He fought for a year as a middleweight from 1937-8. Best known of his middleweight opponents was Al McCoy who he fought on July 2 and", "id": "18569618" }, { "contents": "Alex Ramos\n\n\n. Despite losing his next fight, against future world super middleweight champion Murray Sutherland by a ten-round decision, Ramos was by then held along with the highest ranked middleweights of the era, such as Mustafa Hamsho, Wilford Scypion, Juan Roldán, John Mugabi, Curtis Parker and others. After knocking out Wilbur Henderson in three rounds on February 8, 1984, in Atlantic City, Ramos challenged Parker for his first career title, the regional, United States Boxing Association Middleweight championship. He won the title by beating Parker", "id": "10746327" }, { "contents": "Ken Buchanan\n\n\nYork State Athletic Commission on 4 April 1973. The commission also warned Duran that his title recognition would be withdrawn. The New York State Athletic Commission had been attempting for two years (1972 - 1974) to get Duran to honor an agreement to fight Buchanan. But Duran refused to honor the contract to face Buchanan. In 1973, Buchanan started out by beating future world lightweight champion Jim Watt by a decision after 15 rounds, to regain the British lightweight title. Soon, he embarked on another international tour that included more", "id": "13762576" }, { "contents": "Guillermo Jones\n\n\nin Panama by first round Knockout. Now aligned with promoter Don King, Jones fought two light middleweight WBA world title bouts against Laurent Boudouani in 1998. He drew once and lost the rematch by split decision in 12 round contests. Jones fought his way through four weight classes. Later fighting as a cruiserweight in 2002, he fought Johnny Nelson for the WBO World cruiserweight title, drawing in 12 rounds in his third world title attempt. Most in attendance thought Jones had done enough to win the title from Nelson. After yet", "id": "9043210" }, { "contents": "Tony Ayala Jr.\n\n\n. The rehabilitation program kept him from having a $750,000 payday against Roberto Duran. With the Duran fight didn't happen, Ayala settled for about $150,000 to fight Argentinian Carlos Herrera. 'It doesn't bother me,' he said. 'I'm looking at it as a step closer to the world title. Davey Moore is going to have to meet me after this fight.' After defeating Carlos Herrera, November 20, 1982, he was scheduled to fight champion Davey Moore. By December 1983, Ayala", "id": "10919402" }, { "contents": "Noé González Alcoba\n\n\nNoé González Alcoba (born 12 May 1979) \"the coal-miner\" is an Uruguayan boxer and a former world title challenger. He fights in the super middleweight division, having boxed at middleweight previously. Having boxed mainly in Argentina and Uruguay for much of his early career, he managed to land a shot at the WBA World Middleweight title after only 14 fights, challenging the then world champion Felix Sturm in Germany. The German proved too classy however and won the fight by a wide points decision, earning Alcoba his", "id": "20636614" }, { "contents": "Vicente Mosquera\n\n\nVicente Eduardo Mosquera Mena (born December 9, 1979 in Panama City, Panama) is a Panamanian professional boxer. He is a former World Boxing Association (WBA) super-featherweight champion. On April 30, 2005 he defeated Yodsanan Sor Nanthachai (Yodsanan 3-K Battery) for the WBA world championship title, by a unanimous decision. The official scorers saw it 118-108, 116-111, 115-112. In the fight, Nanthachai was knocked down three times (in the first, third, and eleventh", "id": "7687336" }, { "contents": "Iran Barkley\n\n\nof the Year by \"Ring\" magazine. Following the defeat to Duran, Barkley took on undefeated Michael Nunn for the IBF and lineal middleweight titles, dropping a close majority decision. He next fought Nigel Benn in a challenge for the WBO middleweight title and was stopped on the three-knockdown rule at the end of a wild first round in which both fighters were hurt. After losing to Benn, Barkley underwent surgery for a detached retina and was inactive for a year. Barkley returned with two low-key wins at", "id": "8203381" }, { "contents": "Abraham Jacob Hollandersky\n\n\nSox Scandal, the event brought to the forefront the corruption of American sports as it approached the roaring 20's. Abe met Attell in four three round exhibition matches at Empire Theatre while Attell was giving speaking performances in New London near the end of his boxing career. Abe claimed to have fought what was likely a sparring match with Canadian Heavyweight champion Arthur Pelkey, who was a Panamanian national heavyweight title contender in February 1917 at Panama's Santa Anna Plaza against Kid Norfolk, during the same period Abe was fighting bouts at the", "id": "10244396" }, { "contents": "Shane Mosley\n\n\n23-6, 14 KOs) at the Roberto Durán Arena in Panama City, Panama for the WBA Continental super welterweight title on December 17, in a scheduled 10 round bout. Both boxers came in at around the welterweight limit, with Mosley slightly heavier and López fighting for the first time in 13 months. López was knocked down in the 2nd round following a left hook and a further three times in the last round, which put an end to the fight. Mosley improved his ledger to 49 victories, with 41", "id": "18757243" }, { "contents": "Dick Turpin (boxer)\n\n\nchampion. In his next bout, on 28 June 1948, Turpin fought Vince Hawkins for his British middleweight title. The fight was held at Villa Park, Birmingham and Turpin won on points over fifteen rounds. He now held both the British and Commonwealth middleweight titles. During late 1948 and early 1949, Turpin fought European boxers, drawing and then losing on points against Tiberio Mitri, of Italy, then being knocked out in seven rounds in a non-title fight against the then world middleweight champion, Marcel Cerdan, of", "id": "19946190" }, { "contents": "Juan Guzman (boxer)\n\n\nat San Juan, Puerto Rico, the Vargas one at Coliseo Roberto Clemente. By then he was a top-ten ranked Junior Flyweight by the World Boxing Association. WBA world Junior Flyweight champion Jaime Rios of Panama was 18–1–1 when he came to the Dominican Republic to defend his title against local Guzman during June 1976. Their fight took place on July 2, at Santo Domingo. It was a close fight through 15 rounds, not much stylistically separating champion and challenger. At the end, however, Guzman was deemed winner", "id": "7404136" }, { "contents": "BC Golden Gloves\n\n\nJuly 1975, Lampkin was the number one contender for the lightweight title held by Panama boxer Roberto Duran. The tournament took place in January 1984 in Burnaby at the Boxing BC Training centre that would also be used as a training camp for the 1984 and 1988 Canadian Olympic boxing teams At the end of the tournament the Golden Boy for 1984 was boxer Michael O'Connell and the runner-up was Joe Pendry, and the best youth boxer was Deep Butter. Bert Lowes, Fred Fuller, Rudy Bianco, Sid Knopp Vic Murdoch,", "id": "20462754" }, { "contents": "Gunnar Jackson\n\n\nGunnar Jackson (born 6 July 1986, Wainuiomata, Lower Hutt, New Zealand) is a New Zealand professional middleweight and Super Welterweight boxer. Jackson has had over thirty fights and has achieved four boxing titles, and has a highest position on the World Boxing Organisation rankings of 10th. Jackson fought the biggest fight of his career in January 2014 against four-time world champion Anthony Mundine. Jackson lost by unanimous points decision. Jackson fought Kerry Hope in June 2015. Hope was originally scheduled to fight Michael Zerafa for the Interim", "id": "1347008" }, { "contents": "Davey Moore (boxer, born 1959)\n\n\nyears in prison. Next, Moore defended against former two-division world champion Roberto Durán. Moore appeared to be overconfident against an aging 'Hands of Stone' Duran but Duran totally outclassed him and dished out vicious punishment, hammering shut one of Moore's eyes and stopping him in eight brutal rounds at Madison Square Garden. The beating was so one-sided that Moore's mother and girlfriend were both said to have fainted at ringside. Many knowledgeable observers believed that referee Ernesto Magana should have stopped the fight far earlier.", "id": "6112527" } ]

[ { "contents": "Ossie Duran\n\n\nOssie \"The Ghanaian Gladiator\" Duran (born 23 April 1977 in Accra) is a Ghanaian professional boxer, whose career has spanned over 3 decades (1990's/2000's/2010's). He has won the Ghanaian lightweight title, World Boxing Federation (WBF) Pan-European welterweight title, WBF European Welterweight Title, United States Boxing Association (USBA) Atlantic Coast Region middleweight title, Commonwealth welterweight title, and Commonwealth light middleweight title, drew with Eromosele Albert for the vacant International Boxing Federation (IBF) Continental Africa light middleweight title,", "id": "5080778" }, { "contents": "Tom Bogs\n\n\nwins and one draw. He suffered his first defeat against the former world welterweight and middleweight champion Emile Griffith in a non-title fight in June 1970. Bogs won the European light-heavyweight title in 1968 when he stopped German champion Lothar Stengel in the first round of the bout. He successfully defended the title against Piero Del Papa before moving down to the middleweight division for a title match against European champion Carlos Duran. Bogs defeated Duran and went on to successfully defend his middleweight title three times before losing a rematch to", "id": "19397152" }, { "contents": "Angel Robinson Garcia\n\n\nand International Boxing Hall of Fame member Roberto Duran at the Gimnasio Nuevo Panama-now Gimnasio Roberto Duran-at Panama City. Robinson Garcia gave Duran a relatively close fight but still lost by unanimous ten-round decision with scores of 99-93, 98-94 and 98-96, all in favor of the Panamanian. Robinson Garcia went 1-4 the rest of that year, facing, among others, Esteban De Jesus in San Juan, Puerto Rico, to whom he dropped a ten-round decision on", "id": "1307045" }, { "contents": "Josue Marquez\n\n\n15 round distance with Roberto Duran in a world title attempt; completing a total of 25 rounds against Duran divided in two fights without getting knocked out by the Panamanian. Viruet knocked Marquez out in round ten on April 8, 1978 at the Juan Ramon Loubriel stadium in San Juan, after which Marquez decided to retire from professional boxing. Marquez won 32, losing 12 and tying 2 of his 46 professional boxing fights, winning 7 and losing 2 of those by knockout. Marquez turned to training professional boxers for a while after", "id": "17936127" }, { "contents": "Roberto Durán\n\n\n(fighting for the minor International Boxing Council (IBC) belt). Durán fought Vinny Pazienza in 1994 and 1995 for the IBC Super Middleweight Championship and was defeated both times by unanimous decision, but many people felt Duran clearly won the first bout and he was robbed of the victory. In 1996, he was challenged by Héctor Camacho for the vacant IBC Middleweight Championship but lost by a very controversial unanimous decision. In 1997, Durán was defeated by former champion Jorge Castro. Durán fought Castro in a rematch bout and won", "id": "16507032" }, { "contents": "Hector Thompson\n\n\nHector Thompson (born 24 June 1949 in Kempsey, New South Wales) is an Indigenous Australian professional boxer who competed in four different weight divisions, Lightweight, Super lightweight, Welterweight and Junior middleweight during the 1970s and 80s. In 1973 he beat Joe Tetteh for the Commonwealth (British Empire) Super Lightweight Title, earning a shot at Roberto Duran in 1973 for the World Boxing Association World lightweight but lost by TKO. After capturing the Commonwealth title again in 1975, later that year he would go on to challenge Antonio Cervantes", "id": "5995492" }, { "contents": "José Durán (boxer)\n\n\non October 8, 1976. Duran, fighting in his home city of Madrid, was knocked down in the third round by a left hand to the jaw. Although Duran rose from the canvas, he was outworked by the faster challenger and lost his title via a split decision in a fight where both boxers finished with bloody faces. In his final fight Duran challenged the Italian-Australian champion Rocky Mattioli for the WBC Light Middleweight title. The result was never in doubt, as Mattioli knocked Duran down in the second,", "id": "13817397" }, { "contents": "Goody Petronelli\n\n\n, who had earlier won the title from Antuofermo. Hagler bloodied Minter early, winning on a third-round TKO. The Petronellis would guide Hagler through 12 successful world title defenses over 7 years, including celebrated bouts against Roberto Duran and Thomas Hearns, before he lost to Sugar Ray Leonard in another controversial judges' decision, a split verdict in Leonard's favor. It turned out to be Hagler's final fight. Petronelli trained others who would fight in world title bouts: World Boxing Organization super middleweight champion Steve Collins;", "id": "13838256" }, { "contents": "Andres Hernández\n\n\nstreak came to an end when he traveled to Panama to fight world-ranked Gilberto Illueca, and dropped a ten round unanimous decision. Hernandez then started another streak of wins, this time reaching eight consecutive victories before facing another up-and-coming Puerto Rican bantamweight, Wilfredo Gomez. The pair met on Saturday, December 20, 1975 at Roberto Clemente Coliseum in San Juan as part of a boxing program that included fights of Julian Solis, Larry Holmes and Roberto Duran defending his world Lightweight title in the main event against", "id": "7680623" }, { "contents": "Panama Joe Gans\n\n\naspects of boxing by partaking in bouts organized by his classmates. Under the guidance of H.R. Cambridge, a local Panamanian business manager, and real estate developer, Quinton adopted his ring name, and became a successful boxer in the Canal Zone where he fought his first thirty fights with considerable success. On October 10, 1915, Panama Joe first won the Lightweight Championship of Panama at only eighteen against Young Sam Langford at the Pacific Theatre in Panama City in a twenty-round points decision. He later took the Middleweight Championship of", "id": "1295301" }, { "contents": "Roberto Durán\n\n\ndecision. The bout was named the 1989 \"Fight of the Year\" by \"The Ring\". His reign was short lived once again as Duran moved up to super middleweight (although both fighters weighed in at the middleweight limit) for a third clash with Sugar Ray Leonard in December 1989 (a fight dubbed \"Uno Más\"—One More—by promoters), which Leonard won by wide unanimous decision. Durán seemed to be in decline after the fight, he attempted to win further middleweight titles in 1994, 1995 and 1996", "id": "16507031" }, { "contents": "José Durán (boxer)\n\n\nat winning the world title. He travelled to Monaco to fight Miguel de Oliveira for the vacant WBC Light Middleweight title. de Oliveira, a native of Brazil, won the title via an unanimous decision after a bloody battle which lasted the full fifteen rounds. In his next fight Duran lost his EBU title in Germany to Eckhard Dagge, a man Duran had previously beaten by a technical knockout in the eleventh round. On this occasion, however, it was Dagge who scored the knockout, with the fight being stopped in the", "id": "13817395" }, { "contents": "José Durán (boxer)\n\n\nby scoring a knockout over Ben Hamida in the third round. After winning 22 consecutive bouts Duran suffered his first defeat, losing to Jean Josselin via an eight round decision on June 22, 1970. Duran was able to avenge this defeat on May 21, 1971, once again the fight went the eight round distance although Duran won the decision on this occasion. Duran won his first championship on June 7, 1974 by beating Jacques Kechichian and thus winning the EBU title. On May 7, 1975 Duran made his first attempt", "id": "13817394" }, { "contents": "Roberto Durán\n\n\nfight (the \"No Más\" fight was officially recorded as a technical knockout, because Duran quit). Durán did not contend another title fight until 1989, but made the shot count when he won the WBC Middleweight title from Iran Barkley in February. The fight is considered one of Durán's greatest achievements, as the 37-year-old former lightweight champion took the middleweight crown, his fourth title. In a tough, back-and-forth fight, Durán knocked Barkley down in the eleventh round and won a close", "id": "16507030" }, { "contents": "José Durán (boxer)\n\n\nninth round. Duran once again challenged for the world title on May 18, 1976. On this occasion Duran travelled to Tokyo, Japan to successfully challenge Koichi Wajima for the Lineal and WBA light middleweight titles. Duran started the fight well by opening a large cut on the champion's forehead and knocking him down in the second round. Wajima was knocked down once again in the thirteenth round before the fight was finally stopped in the fourteenth. Duran lost his title in his first defence, against the Argentine challenger Miguel Angel Castellini", "id": "13817396" }, { "contents": "José Durán (boxer)\n\n\nJosé Manuel Durán Pérez, popularly known as \"Pepe Durán\" (born October 9, 1945 in Madrid, Spain) is a former Spanish professional boxer. During his eleven-year professional career Duran held the Lineal and WBA light middleweight titles. He challenged for the WBC version of the title and held the EBU title. He also competed in the men's welterweight event at the 1968 Summer Olympics. Duran made his professional debut on November 30, 1967 in Barcelona, Spain. Duran made a victorious start to his career", "id": "13817393" }, { "contents": "Edwin Rosario\n\n\nopponent had boxed 25 rounds against Roberto Duran-including a world lightweight championship bout-without being knocked out. Rosario eventually gained a record of 21–0 with 20 knockouts. This led to talks of a title fight against World Boxing Council (WBC) lightweight champion Alexis Argüello, to be held in Miami. But Argüello relinquished the title in order to move up in weight to challenge junior welterweight champion Aaron Pryor. With Arguello moving divisions, Rosario was matched with Mexico's José Luis Ramírez on May 1, 1983 for the vacant", "id": "5267805" }, { "contents": "Ken Buchanan\n\n\nwin over Chang Kil Lee on 4 December 1972. On 28 June 1972, Roberto Duran signed to defend it against Buchanan on 20 October 1972. However, Duran broke that agreement when the Panamanian Government insisted he made his first defense in Panama. He did, knocking out Jimmy Robertson on 20 January 1973. Duran also had signed a second contract with the MSG on 25 October 1972, to defend against Buchanan on or before 30 June 1973. But Duran broke that agreement again. Duran had his license suspended by the New", "id": "13762575" }, { "contents": "Koichi Wajima\n\n\nhis Lineal and WBA light middleweight titles as well. However, he regained his Lineal and WBA titles in February, 1976, with a 15th round KO over Yuh. Wajima lost to Jose Manuel Duran in his first defense, losing the world title for the third time in his career. He fought his final match In June, 1977, challenging Eddie Gazo for the WBA super welterweight title, but lost by 11th round KO. This was the last fight of his career. His record was 31-6-1 (", "id": "20508599" }, { "contents": "Wilfredo Gómez\n\n\ndirected by Mario Diaz and was filmed in New York City. Gómez has three daughters Jennifer, Gina and Liz Irina and one son Wilfredo Junior. He is good friends with Panamanian boxing legend Roberto Duran. Gómez was once married to Carolina Gamboa. On April 17, 2015, Gómez was arrested by Puerto Rican police after allegedly hitting his 59-year-old companion, a lady with whom he had been living for ten months. He was released after she refused to raise charges against him. British boxer Michael Gomez adapted his last", "id": "3553965" }, { "contents": "Caleb Truax\n\n\nRichardson, and James Crayton. His professional loss came to former undisputed middleweight world champion Jermain Taylor (Truax knocked Taylor down in the 9th round.) Truax drew Ossie Duran in a 10-round non-title bout at the Target Center in Minneapolis. The bout was part of an eight-fight card promoted by Mike Tyson's new company, Iron Mike Productions. Mike Tyson was in attendance at the event, and said of Truax, \"I hear he is exciting and he is something that we need for boxing, he", "id": "16222269" }, { "contents": "Massimiliano Duran\n\n\nMassimiliano Duran (born November 3, 1963 in Ferrara, Italy) is a former Italian professional boxer who held the Cruiser WBC title and the European championship between 1990 and 1991. He is also known for being the only fighter in boxing history to earn a shot at, win, and defend a world title with three consecutive disqualification wins. Duran was born in Ferrara. His father was the Argentine-Italian boxer Juan Carlos Duran; his brother, the Italian boxer Alessandro Duran. Duran turned pro in 1986 when he defeated", "id": "13303578" }, { "contents": "Marvelous Marvin Hagler\n\n\na staple on HBO, the Pay Per View of its time. A fight against Roberto Durán followed. Durán was the first challenger to last the distance with Hagler in a world-championship bout. Durán was the WBA Light Middleweight Champion and went up in weight to challenge for Hagler's middleweight crown. Hagler won a unanimous 15-round decision, although after 13 rounds, Duran was ahead by one point on two scorecards and even on the third. Hagler, with his left eye swollen and cut, came on strong in the", "id": "4940319" }, { "contents": "Vinny Paz\n\n\nSantana fight, Pazienza went on to defeat Brett Lally by a 6th-round TKO, and then, in another TKO, former world champion Lloyd Honeyghan in the 10th round. Pazienza went on to win the vacant IBO middleweight world title in 1993 with an 11th-round KO over Dan Sherry. Pazienza then went on to beat Roberto Duran twice, both via decision, with the IBC super middleweight title on the line both times. In June 1995, Pazienza lost his world title bid against IBF world super middleweight champion Roy", "id": "12129878" }, { "contents": "Juan Carlos Giménez Ferreyra\n\n\nJuan Carlos Giménez Ferreyra (born 20 December 1960) is a Paraguayan boxer. During his career he was WBC International light heavyweight champion and unsuccessfully fought for the World Super Middleweight title four times, first against Mauro Galvano in 1992, then against Chris Eubank the same year, against Nigel Benn in 1994 and finally against Joe Calzaghe in 1998, losing via knockout. During his career he went the distance with Nigel Benn, Chris Eubank and Roberto Duran. Gimenez last fought in 2010, winning the Paraguayan Cruiserweight title against Nicasio Moray", "id": "17951209" }, { "contents": "Massimiliano Duran\n\n\nMomo Cupelic. The win earned him the nickname \"Momo\". Duran's first defeat came by the hand of Ndomingiedi Lusikina. This would be the beginning of a long-standing rivalry, that will result in the two boxers fighting five times. In 1990 Duran won the WBC Cruiserweight Title by defeating Carlos De León, when De León was disqualified for hitting after the bell to end the 11th round. Duran was leading on the cards. His first defence was against Anaclet Wamba. Duran won by DQ after Wamba had", "id": "13303579" }, { "contents": "Héctor Camacho\n\n\namateur career, Camacho won three New York Golden Gloves tournaments, beginning with the Sub-Novice 112 lbs championship in 1978. During his professional career, Camacho had many notable fights against some of the biggest names in boxing, defeating Roberto Durán twice late in Duran's career, and knocking out Sugar Ray Leonard to send him into permanent retirement. He also fought Julio César Chávez, Félix Trinidad, and Oscar De La Hoya, among others. During his later years, Camacho expanded his popular role and appeared on a variety", "id": "5327031" }, { "contents": "Eckhard Dagge\n\n\n. He would later embark on an amateur career, in which he won 66 out of 80 bouts, before falling short of making the 1972 Olympic Team. Dagge would win the German Middleweight title, in his 6th bout. Dagge would follow up with wins over notable, but faded fighters Denny Moyer and Manuel González. In 1974, Dagge challenged Jose Manuel Duran for the European Light Middleweight title, losing by 11th-round TKO. He came back the next year however, and stopped Duran in the 9th round, to", "id": "18853804" }, { "contents": "Antonio Cervantes\n\n\nLightweight champion Roberto Durán, who was coming up in weight. Duran decided to challenge Sugar Ray Leonard instead, however, and Cervantes vs. Duran never materialized. On August 2, 1980, Cervantes dropped his next title challenger, Aaron Pryor, to the canvas in the first round. Pryor recovered, however, and beat Cervantes by a knockout in round four. This turned out to be Cervantes' last world title fight. He fought two times more for the FECARBOX WBC title, winning both fights shortly before retiring in 1980", "id": "11465736" }, { "contents": "USA Tuesday Night Fights\n\n\nfighter by fighting several four rounders on \"Tuesday Night Fights\". Roberto Duran was another fixture on \"Tuesday Night Fights\" later in his career, and his 100th professional bout was carried by USA. \"Tuesday Night Fights\" also showcased the bizarre from time to time. Among these was a fight from former pro football star Mark Gastineau's controversial boxing career which saw him lose to a journeyman fighter, Andrew Golota's infamous fight against Samson Po'uha in 1995 which saw the Polish fighter, who appeared frequently on \"Tuesday", "id": "5898536" }, { "contents": "Jacques LeBlanc\n\n\n22 wins, 4 losses and 2 draws when he fought WBC Middleweight Champion Roberto Durán on June 29, 1993. LeBlanc was billed as a severe underdog but lasted the full 10 rounds with Duran, losing on points. LeBlanc fought the undefeated Richie Woodhall in October 1994 for the Commonwealth Middleweight crown but again lost on points. He continued boxing until 1997, but winning again only once. In 2010, Jacques was inducted into the City of Moncton Wall of Fame . He currently holds the record for most matches without being knocked", "id": "3179570" }, { "contents": "Andy Lee (boxer)\n\n\nResort Casino in Mashantucket, Connecticut, and won via technical knockout at 0:56 in the 10th round. He avenged his loss to Brian Vera on 1 October 2011 by unanimous decision. On 10 March 2012, Lee Knocked out Mexico's Saul Duran in the 2nd round of a stay busy fight. On 16 June 2012, Lee challenged undefeated Titleholder Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. for the WBC World Middleweight Title in the Sun Bowl Stadium in El Paso, Texas televised on HBO World Championship Boxing. Lee got off to a good start,", "id": "15093101" }, { "contents": "Joe Cortez\n\n\ntook on the responsibility to referee some major Championship fights. During this time he was the third man in the ring in several professional Mike Tyson and Roberto Duran fights. As eminent referees Richard Steele and Mills Lane retired at the dawn of the 21st century, Cortez became one of Nevada and New York's preferred boxing referees for world title fights. He has refereed over 170 world title bouts, among which figure the first Oscar De La Hoya-Julio César Chávez meeting, Evander Holyfield and Riddick Bowe's first title fight and", "id": "18491003" }, { "contents": "Reuben Duran\n\n\nnot for the injury, he would have gotten a stoppage. Duran would support his bold statement in his next fight as he claimed a victory over Ryan Diaz via KO with only 3 seconds left in the fight. In subsequent bouts, Duran submitted both Kana Hyatt and Maurice Eazel in the first round. Duran signed with the UFC in early 2011 and made his debut at UFC on Versus 3 against Takeya Mizugaki, replacing an injured Francisco Rivera. Duran lost the fight via close split decision. Duran faced Francisco Rivera on June", "id": "15069085" }, { "contents": "Héctor Camacho\n\n\n. Before this fight, Camacho was trained by Angelo Dundee. His last two fights resulted in a draw and a loss, against Luis Ramón Campas and Saúl Duran, respectively. His last fight against Duran was on May 14, 2010. On January 6, 2005, Camacho was arrested by police in Gulfport, Mississippi on charges of trying to burgle an electronic goods store and carrying the drug ecstasy on him. In 2007, he declared himself guilty of being under the influence at the time of the burglary. He was", "id": "5327048" }, { "contents": "Jack Blackburn\n\n\nhad a slight advantage in height and reach. Blackburn fought the Barbados-born boxer Panama Joe Gans, who had boxed extensively in Panama where he lived prior to 1917. Panama Joe held the World Colored Middleweight Championship from 1920 to 1924, and held a Panamanian Lightweight Title in his youth. On July 24, 1922, Blackburn lost one of his last bouts to Gans in Indianapolis, Indiana, in a fourth-round technical knockout of a scheduled ten round bout. Panama Joe was a formidable boxer and fourteen years younger", "id": "10094030" }, { "contents": "Vinny Paz\n\n\nHector \"Macho\" Camacho and WBA World Champion Loreto Garza. In 1991, Pazienza moved into the junior middleweight division. In his first fight at junior middleweight, he won the USBA championship against Ron Amundsen in a 12-round decision. He defeated the WBA world jr. middleweight champion Gilbert Delé with a 12th-round TKO in Providence, becoming the second fighter in boxing history to win both the lightweight and junior middleweight world championships. Pazienza was forced to relinquish the title due to a serious car accident in which his neck was", "id": "12129876" }, { "contents": "Roberto Durán\n\n\nvia unanimous decision. In 1998, at the age of 47, he challenged 28-year-old WBA Middleweight Champion William Joppy. Joppy, a trim, quick-fisted fighter, battered Durán to defeat in just 3 rounds. It was Duran's most emphatic loss since the Hearns fight, over a decade earlier. Durán then announced his retirement in August 1998, but was back fighting in 1999. In June 2000, Durán avenged a previous loss to Pat Lawlor and won the NBA Super Middleweight Championship on his 49th birthday.", "id": "16507033" }, { "contents": "Roberto Vásquez\n\n\nRoberto Gaspar Vásquez Ramirez (born May 26, 1983 in Panama City) is a Panamanian professional boxer who held the WBA light flyweight title from 2005 to 2006. He also held the WBA flyweight interim title from 2006 to 2007. Vásquez lost in his professional boxing debut against Angelo Dottin on March 17, 2001. The four-round fight occurred in Dottin's hometown of Colón, Panama. Despite Vásquez's cutting Dottin's right cheek in the first round, all three judges scored the bout 39-38 for Dottin.", "id": "15594966" }, { "contents": "Roberto Durán\n\n\nwith an incredible 71–1 record. On June 20, 1980, Durán captured the WBC Welterweight title by defeating Leonard via a 15-round unanimous decision (145–144, 148–147, 146–144). The fight became known as \"The Brawl in Montreal\". After defeating Leonard in Montreal, Duran gained iconic status in his home country, Panama. Leonard initiated the rematch clause and asked for the fight to be the following November. In their second fight, Leonard successfully changed his tactics, using more footwork and movement than he had in their", "id": "16507022" }, { "contents": "Roberto Durán\n\n\nfirst fight, and Duran was unable to get Leonard against the ropes. During the seventh round, after Leonard had gained a slight lead on the scorecards, he began taunting and mocking Duran. Halfway into the eighth round, Duran suddenly stopped fighting, repeatedly saying, \"No más\" (\"no more\"). In a 2016 interview, Duran claimed that what he actually said was, \"No Sigo\" (\"I won't go on\"). He took some time to recover from that fight and", "id": "16507023" }, { "contents": "Kirkland Laing\n\n\n. Laing's boxing career was sporadic, as he often failed to deliver on his promise, appearing under-prepared against less able fighters and indulging in drink, drugs and women. In the year following his victory over Duran, Laing went missing, blowing his earnings. In that same period Duran was to fight four times, earning an estimated $6m. Laing continued to fight until he was 40, and retired after a stoppage loss to future world champion Glen Catley. After retiring, Laing continue to live in", "id": "8014673" }, { "contents": "Jimmy Batten\n\n\nThomas stopped him in the ninth round to take the title. Batten won his next five fights before losing on points in May 1981 to Chris Christian. He then travelled to the United States, where he was based in Chicago for almost two years; There he had a series of fights starting with two easy wins before he was stopped in the first round in May 1982 by Mario Maldonado. He beat Jeff Madison in September before facing Roberto Duran in November 1982 at the Miami Orange Bowl; Duran took a unanimous decision,", "id": "22189495" }, { "contents": "Ray Lampkin\n\n\nRay Lampkin (born 1948 in Portland, Oregon) is a retired professional boxer who lost the 1975 World Boxing Association (WBA) lightweight title fight against Roberto Durán in Panama. He won the North American Boxing Federation lightweight title fight but later lost it against Esteban de Jesús at the Felt Forum in New York City. He finished his career with a total of 34 wins (16 by knock out), six losses (two by knock out) and one draw. Lampkin was inducted into the Oregon Sports Hall of Fame", "id": "279465" }, { "contents": "Roberto Durán\n\n\nthe end of the seventh. Finally the fight was stopped in the eighth round as Moore was taking such a horrific beating and Durán won his third world title. After the victory, Durán was hoisted up in the air as the crowd sang \"Happy Birthday\" to a sobbing Durán. Durán later fought for the World Middleweight Championship, meeting Marvelous Marvin Hagler in Las Vegas in November 1983, during the fight Duran broke his hand and lost in a very competitive fight that went the full fifteen rounds, although after 12 rounds", "id": "16507027" }, { "contents": "Harold Reitman\n\n\nprofessional record of 7-1-1, Reitman fought a three-round charity exhibition match against the five-time world champion Roberto Duran at the Hollywood Diplomat Hotel in Miami Beach. On November 11, 1991, Reitman fought heavyweight Tim Anderson for the NBA Independent Cruiserweight title in a televised fight. Though Reitman scored two 9th round knockdowns, the fight ended in a draw. In March 1992, Reitman was the 12th ranked Heavyweight boxer in the world according to the International Boxing Council. On December 12, 1995,", "id": "9844517" }, { "contents": "Jeffrey Mathebula\n\n\nlost to Celestino Caballero. Hence, Mathebula fought against Caballero for the WBA Super World and IBF World super bantamweight title. However, he lost his first world title shot against Caballero via a split decision at the Roberto Duran Arena in Panama on 30 April 2009. After losing to Takalani Ndlovu via a split decision in an IBF junior featherweight title eliminator in Brakpan, Gauteng in September 2010, Mathebula defeated Ndlovu via a split decision in their rematch in Brakpan to be crowned the IBF junior featherweight champion. It was the SABC-", "id": "16997776" }, { "contents": "Angel Robinson Garcia\n\n\nhim fight 12 times, including a September 10 loss by ten-round decision to future WBC world Lightweight-and Spain's second-Champion Pedro Carrasco at the Basque Country and a December 30 defeat at the hands of 19-2-4 Chris Fernandez by ten-round decision also. Robinson Garcia contested 17 bouts in 1970. These included an August 21 match with Jose Duran, won by Duran by ten rounds decision at Madrid and a November 20 bout with French Roger Menetrey which Menetrey won by ten-round decision", "id": "1307042" }, { "contents": "Sugar Ray Leonard vs. Thomas Hearns\n\n\nSugar Ray Leonard and Thomas Hearns are considered to be two of the best boxers of all-time. They fought twice, with Leonard winning in 1981 and a draw in 1989. Both fights are considered to be classics. Sugar Ray Leonard won the WBC welterweight title with a fifteenth-round knockout of Wilfred Benítez in 1979. He lost it to Roberto Durán by a close decision in June 1980 and regained it five months later in the infamous No Más Fight, in which Duran quit in the eighth round. In June", "id": "20124047" }, { "contents": "Brandon Gonzáles\n\n\nOlympic Team in 2004 he withdrew to begin his professional career in 2007. While boxing as an amateur he worked as a janitor at Arco Arena.. On January 29, 2010 Gonzales won a fight against veteran Dumont Welliver by T.K.O., the fight was on the undercard of ESPN's Friday Night Fights. He maintained an unblemished streak of 17 wins until his bout with Thomas Oosthuizen that resulted in a draw. On October 28, 2011 he defeated Ossie Duran in the Main Event on Showtime's ShoBox at Bally's in Atlantic City", "id": "18287532" }, { "contents": "Miguel Ángel Castellini\n\n\nManuel Duran, in front of a sell out crowd of 12,000. Duran, who was making the first defence of his title, was knocked down in the third round by a left hand to the jaw. Although the champion rose from the canvas, he was outworked by the faster challenger and lost his title via a split decision in a fight where both boxers finished with bloody faces. Castellini's championship reign only lasted one fight as he lost it in his first defence to Eddie Gazo on March 5, 1977. Gazo", "id": "13522966" }, { "contents": "Hilario Zapata\n\n\nwas knocked out in the first round by the WBC world Jr. Bantamweight champion Sung-Kil Moon. A win against Moon would have made Zapata a member of the exclusive group of world boxing champions in three different weight categories or more. It can also be added that Zapata's first pair of boxing gloves, when he was 12, came as a present from Duran himself. Panamanian newspaper \"El Panama America\" declared on one of their editorials that Zapata, according to their opinion, should be inducted to the International Boxing", "id": "9857520" }, { "contents": "Panama Joe Gans\n\n\nPanama Joe Gans was a black boxer who held the World Colored Middleweight Championship for four years, shortly before it was discontinued. Born Cyril Quinton Jr. on November 14, 1896 in Barbados, British West Indies and raised in the Panama Canal Zone, the 5'7\" Quinton originally fought out of Panama and then New York City. He took his ringname from boxing great Joe Gans, the first black American fighter to win a world boxing title. He found his greatest fame fighting as a middleweight at between 147 and 160 lbs,", "id": "1295299" }, { "contents": "Panama Lewis\n\n\nCarlos \"Panama\" Lewis (born November 4, 1945) is an American boxing trainer. He was convicted of tampering with the gloves of Luis Resto in the Resto vs \"Irish\" Billy Collins fight of 1983, which subsequently led to the end of Collins' boxing career. Collins suffered from depression and possibly committed suicide following the tragic assault. Lewis was a disciple of trainer Chickie Ferrara. He was Roberto Durán's cornerman when Duran lost a unanimous decision against Wilfred Benitez in 1982. During the early 1980s, he", "id": "11205984" }, { "contents": "Pernell Whitaker\n\n\nfight, he basically faced no real trouble against Vásquez in route to the win. This was a history making fight for Whitaker, as he became only the fourth fighter in history - joining Thomas Hearns, Sugar Ray Leonard, and Roberto Duran - to have won a legitimate world title in four different weight classes. However, he chose to move back to welterweight. Whitaker successfully defended his WBC belt against Scotland's Gary Jacobs on August 26, 1995. In January, 1997, Whitaker put his title on the line against", "id": "20971754" }, { "contents": "Carlos Palomino\n\n\nundercard. Palomino lost to Duran by decision in ten rounds, and he announced his retirement from boxing right away. Palomino began his comeback on January 10, 1997, beating Ismaél Díaz by a knockout in round nine. He won four fights that year, including one over former world champion Rene Arredondo, but when he lost by decision in ten to former Oscar De La Hoya world title challenger Wilfredo Rivera on May 30, 1998, he decided to retire for good, and has stayed in retirement ever since. In 1978", "id": "12841764" }, { "contents": "Roberto Durán\n\n\nRoberto Durán Samaniego (born June 16, 1951) is a Panamanian former professional boxer who competed from 1968 to 2001. He held world championships in four weight classes: lightweight, welterweight, light middleweight and middleweight, as well as reigns as the undisputed and lineal lightweight champion, and the lineal welterweight champion. He is also the second boxer to have competed over a span of five decades, the first being Jack Johnson. Durán was known as a versatile, technical brawler and pressure fighter, which earned him the nickname of", "id": "16507013" }, { "contents": "Joshua Clottey\n\n\nwelterweight title in his next fight. He then rolled off a 10 fight winning streak highlighted by his first win on American soil and capture of several minor welterweight and middleweight titles. The streak culminated in an IBF intercontinental welterweight title. On December 2, 2006, Clottey earned his first shot at a world title but broke his hand in the fourth round of his fight against World Boxing Organization champion Antonio Margarito. That bout against Margarito has since come under controversial suspicion following news reports (released after Margarito's fight with Shane Mosley", "id": "11102893" }, { "contents": "Aaron Pryor\n\n\nten years in prison after he was convicted of 29 counts of fraud and embezzlement. Pryor was then offered $750,000 to fight Roberto Duran in April 1981, but Pryor turned it down because his new attorney told him not to sign anything until he worked out a new contract with manager Buddy LaRosa. By the time they worked out a new agreement, the chance to fight Duran was gone. On June 27, 1981, Pryor knocked out Lennox Blackmore in the second round. He then defended the title against undefeated Dujuan Johnson", "id": "8987862" }, { "contents": "Roberto Durán\n\n\nChorrillo in the district \"La Casa de Piedra\" (The House of Stone) Panama. He began sparring with experienced boxers at the Neco de La Guardia gymnasium when he was only eight years old. Durán competed as an amateur compiling a record of 13–3. Having 16 amateur fights under his belt, he made his professional debut in 1968 at the age of 16. Duran won his first 31 consecutive fights, and scored knockout victories over future Featherweight Champion Ernesto Marcel and former Super Featherweight Champion Hiroshi Kobayashi, culminating in his", "id": "16507016" }, { "contents": "Wilfredo Gómez\n\n\nOn May 18, 2003, Gómez returned to Panama, where he was received by Duran and Eusebio Pedroza, among others. In a message geared towards Panamanians, he expressed thanks to that country, calling it his second country and saying, among other things \"I'm very motivated now that I will return to Puerto Rico, and no one should be surprised if I buy an apartment in Panama and move my family here\". However, he bought a house in Orlando, Florida in 2006. Gómez had a record", "id": "3553963" }, { "contents": "Jacob Duran\n\n\nSandman\" Sanchez before furthering his career in professional boxing and mixed martial arts. In boxing, Duran works on the Klitschko brothers and Andre Ward. On November 23, 2014 Duran was in the corner of Chris Algieri when he took on Manny Pacquiao for the WBO welterweight title at Cotai Arena, Venetian Resort, Macao, Macao S.A.R., China. On May 29, 2015, Duran was in the corner of Chris Algieri once again when he took on Amir Khan for the WBC Silver Welterweight title at The Barclays Center, Brooklyn", "id": "2958564" }, { "contents": "Edwin Rodríguez (boxer)\n\n\nEdwin Rodríguez (born May 5, 1985) is a Dominican professional boxer who lives in Worcester, Massachusetts. Starred in the box office hit Bleed For This as Roberto Duran Rodriguez moved to Worcester at age 13 with dreams of becoming the next great Dominican ballplayer. Winters in the Bay State made for a short baseball season and two years later, he abandoned the diamond for the ring. Rodriguez had an 84–9 record and won the USA Boxing Championships 2005 and the National Golden Gloves 2006 as a middleweight (165 pounds).", "id": "15244912" }, { "contents": "Steve Smoger\n\n\n, New York. On May 27, 2017 in Atlantic City, New Jersey Smoger became the first professional boxing referee to be inducted into the newly created Atlantic City Boxing Hall of Fame, joining Don King and Michael Spinks among other inductees. Smoger's Hall of Fame resume comprises five inductions Smoger has officiated the bouts featuring such professional boxers as Mike Tyson, Lennox Lewis, Larry Holmes, Evander Holyfield, Ray Mercer, Steve Cunningham, John Ruiz, Roberto Duran, Hector Camacho, Roy Jones, Jr., James Toney,", "id": "12530988" }, { "contents": "Panama Blue\n\n\nPanama Blue is rainforest spring water and a product of Panama Springs S.A. Panama Blue is a brand of luxury rainforest spring water. Panama Blue is the number one premium bottled water brand of Panama. The brand ambassadors are boxer Roberto Duran and Carolina Dementiev, a Panamanian model and triathlete. Panama Blue is bottled at the source in the mountains of Cerro Azul, surrounded by the Chagres National Park in the Panamanian rainforest. The spring is located about 800m above sea level. Because of the soil, the volcanic rocks and the", "id": "19226350" }, { "contents": "Roberto Durán\n\n\ngained even more weight to contend for the WBC Light Middleweight title, but losing in his first attempt at a championship in that division on January 30, 1982, against Wilfred Benítez by a 15-round unanimous decision, this after having defeated Nino Gonzalez and Luigi Minchillo, two rated Light Middleweights, both by ten-round decisions in non-title bouts. Durán was also to lose his comeback fight in September 1982 in Detroit. Kirkland Laing, from London, shocked the boxing world, producing the type of display his talents promised", "id": "16507024" }, { "contents": "Richard Green (referee)\n\n\nwas Muhammad Ali's loss to Larry Holmes in 1980. Green officiated two high-profile fights in 1982. Early in the year he refereed Wilfred Benitez's fight against Roberto Duran for Benitez's super welterweight title. Later he was the referee in the Ray Mancini's first-round knockout of Arturo Frias, a win that gave Mancini the WBA lightweight championship. On November 13, 1982, Green was assigned to work Mancini's second defense of that title, a match against the Korean contender Duk Koo Kim that was televised", "id": "8256032" }, { "contents": "Nat Jacobs\n\n\nNathaniel \"Nat\" J. S. Jacobs (born 1 December 1939) is an English amateur and professional boxer of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, who won the Central (England) Area middleweight title and challenged for the British Boxing Board of Control British middleweight title. His professional fighting weight varied from , i.e. welterweight, through light middleweight and middleweight, to , i.e. light heavyweight. He was managed/trained by former boxer Stan Skinkiss. Born in Manchester, Jacobs began his professional career in November 1960 with a points victory", "id": "16077543" }, { "contents": "Light middleweight\n\n\nOctober 17, was won by Griffith via a 15-round decision. Three days later, the World Boxing Association championship was created when Denny Moyer outpointed Joey Giambra. The World Boxing Council recognized the WBA champion as the true division champion until 1975, when it stripped their current champion and sanctioned a fight between Miguel de Oliveira and Jose Duran for the vacant title. De Oliveira won the title over 15 rounds in 1975. The International Boxing Federation crowned its first champion when Mark Medal defeated Earl Hargrove in 1984. The World Boxing Organization", "id": "11957407" }, { "contents": "Héctor Camacho\n\n\nhim in his career) to defeat Craig Houk by knockout in round three. He won consecutive unanimous ten-round decisions over Clinton McNeil and Raúl Jorge Muñoz. After that, his boxing career went on hiatus, as he faced criminal charges. He pled guilty to burglary and acknowledged drug abuse, but was given probation. Camacho returned to boxing on July 18, 2008, competing against Perry Ballard for the World Boxing Empire's Middleweight Championship. The fight lasted seven rounds. Camacho won when Ballard's corner threw the towel", "id": "5327047" }, { "contents": "Panama Joe Gans\n\n\nPanama by knocking out Benny McGovern in the third of fifteen rounds on November 30, 1916 at the Santa Ana Plaza in Panama City. At the time, these titles were often described as extending to both Central and South America. In his first bout after taking the Middleweight Championship of Panama on December 12, 1916, though barely twenty-one years old, he soundly defeated Abraham Jacob Hollandersky, a former holder of the Panamanian Heavyweight Championship in 20 rounds in Panama City. In 1917, Panama Joe was brought to New", "id": "1295302" }, { "contents": "Murderers' Row (boxing)\n\n\ncounted as Burley’s conquests. He was ranked in the top 10 in the Welterweight and Middleweight divisions for most of the 1940s, without receiving a title shot. (Burley did hold the World Colored Welterweight and World Colored Middleweight Championship titles.) Near the end of his career Burley took to fighting Heavyweights in a bid to find meaningful contests, including J.D. Turner and future Heavyweight champ Ezzard Charles. Eventually, Burley would retire after winning 83 bouts, without ever being able to meet in the ring the champions of the time", "id": "6667729" }, { "contents": "Reuben Duran\n\n\nadditions of wrestling, Brazilian jiu-jitsu, and Muay Thai. Reuben began his career with multiple fights for King of the Cage, and other small promotions in California. As an amateur competitor, Duran has distinguished himself by being a six time winner of Grapplers Quest. In a memorable match, Duran fought Greg Guzman, hiding his injuries that included 2 torn ligaments in his right hand. In spite of the injuries, Duran still earned the victory. Later, in an interview, Duran voiced his confidence that were it", "id": "15069084" }, { "contents": "Boardwalk Hall\n\n\n, Oscar De La Hoya, Roberto Duran, Lennox Lewis, Roy Jones Jr., Floyd Mayweather Jr., Bernard Hopkins, Riddick Bowe, Julio César Chávez, Héctor Camacho, Micky Ward, and Arturo Gatti. In September 2007, it was the venue for the Kelly Pavlik – Jermain Taylor boxing match for the World Boxing Council, World Boxing Organization and \"The Ring\" magazine's middleweight championships. On December 12, 1965, the New York Ukrainians defeated Philadelphia Ukrainian Nationals 3-2 in the first regulation indoor soccer match", "id": "5560408" }, { "contents": "Phil Edwards (boxer)\n\n\nmember of the public who was attempting to take a kick at the new champion. Edward's very next fight after his title success was against Nigerian boxing legend Dick Tiger. Tiger was a one-time world middleweight and light-heavyweight world champion, and Edwards showed his class by lasting the full ten rounds, losing on points. After the Tiger fight, Edwards was back to winning ways, and was victorious in his first four fights of 1958, defeating Commonwealth title challenger Lew Lazar, Scotland's John Woolard, journeyman", "id": "19060017" }, { "contents": "Carl Thompson (boxer)\n\n\nin February 1993. In February 1994, Thompson traveled to Ferrara, Emilia Romagna, Italy and won the European title by defeating Massimiliano Duran by KO in eight rounds, and in his next bout knocked out France's Akim Tafer in six rounds at Epernay, Marne, France to retain his European title. After winning two mark-time fights, Thompson was matched against Ralf Rocchigiani in a bout for the vacant WBO cruiserweight title at the G-Mex Leisure Centre, Manchester in June 1995. Both fighters were knocked down in", "id": "14087508" }, { "contents": "Luis Federico Thompson\n\n\nLuis Federico Thompson (December 19, 1927 – January 8 , 2010) was a Panamanian Argentinian professional boxer. Thompson was born in Colon, Panama, later moved to Argentina, where he was nationalized and afterwards became the Argentine and South American boxing champion. Thompson debuted in 1947 with a fight against Wilfredo Brown in Panama City which ended in a draw. On October 7, 1951, he fought Wilfredo Brewster defeating him and winning the Panamanian Lightweight Title for the first time. Two months later, he fought Wilfredo Brown again", "id": "20078674" }, { "contents": "Jawaid Khaliq\n\n\nJawaid Khaliq, MBE (born 30 July 1970), is a British former professional boxer. A dual Pakistan national, he became the first British Asian boxing world champion, winning the International Boxing Organization (IBO) welterweight title and defending it for seven constructive bouts before retiring. During his boxing career he also held the Commonwealth welterweight title, World Boxing Federation Inter-Continental Light Middleweight Title, Midlands Area light middleweight title and Midlands Area welterweight title. He is the first Kashmiri world champion boxer. Khaliq took up boxing at", "id": "22058424" }, { "contents": "Omar Sheika\n\n\nOmar Sheika (born February 20, 1977) is an American former professional boxer and multiple time super middleweight world title challenger. He is of Palestinian descent. Sheika compiled a successful amateur career, capturing a National Middleweight Championship at National AAU Boxing Tournament in 1996. Sheika has enjoyed some success in his pro career. His first fight was against Billy James. Sheika won the fight by TKO on the second round. Sheika stayed undefeated for about a year. Sheika was involved in ESPN Friday Night Fights \"Fight of the Year", "id": "7826746" }, { "contents": "Roberto Durán\n\n\nchampion the moment Durán stepped into the ring to box Hearns. Durán again made history in the fight, but this time it was the wrong kind. Hearns dropped Durán twice in the first round and as he rose to his feet after the second knockdown, which ended the round, the former champion did not know where his corner was. Hearns went on to knock Duran down a third time in the second round and the fight was stopped, marking the first time in his career that Durán had been knocked out in a", "id": "16507029" }, { "contents": "Wally Swift\n\n\nJohnny Pritchett due to an eye injury. Swift beat Peter Sharpe in May 1966 in an eliminator to face Pritchett, winning on points. In February 1967 he faced Pritchett at the Nottingham Ice Stadium for the title, losing on points over fifteen rounds. In September 1967 Swift faced Sandro Mazzinghi for the European super welterweight title in Milan; The fight was stopped in the sixth round due to injuries to Swift. In March 1968 Swift challenged Juan Carlos Duran for the European middleweight title. Swift lost the fight after being disqualified in", "id": "6876166" }, { "contents": "Hands of Stone\n\n\nup in Panama, Durán is homeschooled by Chaflan, who teaches young Roberto some vital life lessons. Later, Duran joins a boxing club with Nestor \"Plomo\" Quiñones as his coach. As he reaches 20, an American legendary boxing trainer Ray Arcel, who nearly lost his life after being attacked by an unknown assailant in 1953 in New York City and is now living with his wife Stephanie, notices Roberto's raw talent and punching power and takes the young fighter under his wing, becoming his coach. Not long after", "id": "2732439" }, { "contents": "Larry Estridge\n\n\nLarry Estridge (born 17 June 1902, St. Kitts, British West Indies) was a middleweight boxer and the last holder of the World Colored Middleweight Championship. The 5'7\" middleweight fought out of New York City from 1922 to 1929, racking up a career record of 53 wins against 23 losses and two draws from 1922 to 1929. Estridge fought colored middleweight champion Panama Joe Gans for his title on July 26, 1924 at Yankee Stadium, defeating the champ via a unanimous decision in their 10-round bout. After scoring two victories", "id": "1295287" }, { "contents": "Lennox Blackmoore\n\n\nLennox Blackmoore (born July 10, 1950 in Georgetown, Guyana) is a Guyanese professional light/light welter/welter/light middle/middleweight boxer of the 1970s and '80s who won the Guyanese lightweight title, Guyanese light middleweight title, and Commonwealth lightweight title, and was a challenger for the World Boxing Association (WBA) World light welterweight title against Aaron Pryor, and World Boxing Council (WBC) FECARBOX light welterweight title against Antonio Cervantes, his professional fighting weight varied from , i.e. lightweight to , i.e. middleweight", "id": "2810858" }, { "contents": "Abraham Jacob Hollandersky\n\n\nand skill that he would act as a sparring partner to prepare Jack Dempsey for his September 1920 Heavyweight Title bout with Hall of Famer Billy Miske as well as Dempsey's earlier bout when he first took the Heavyweight Championship from Jess Willard in Toledo. The 5' 4\" welterweight Hollandersky lost to Panama Joe, the younger and stronger Panamanian Light and Middleweight champion, and the accomplished middleweight Connors of Scranton, Pennsylvania, who had a five-inch height advantage. But he gave a closer fight to the Seattle welterweight Ryan before", "id": "10244386" }, { "contents": "Tommy Freeman (boxer)\n\n\nbout was Thompson's first title defense. Freeman held the title until his rematch with Jack Thompson on April 14, 1931 again in Cleveland where he lost by TKO in the tenth of fifteen rounds. The bout was stopped due to Freeman's badly battered left eye. He had a long career as a boxer, and remained fighting as a super welterweight until around 1937. He fought for a year as a middleweight from 1937-8. Best known of his middleweight opponents was Al McCoy who he fought on July 2 and", "id": "18569618" }, { "contents": "Alex Ramos\n\n\n. Despite losing his next fight, against future world super middleweight champion Murray Sutherland by a ten-round decision, Ramos was by then held along with the highest ranked middleweights of the era, such as Mustafa Hamsho, Wilford Scypion, Juan Roldán, John Mugabi, Curtis Parker and others. After knocking out Wilbur Henderson in three rounds on February 8, 1984, in Atlantic City, Ramos challenged Parker for his first career title, the regional, United States Boxing Association Middleweight championship. He won the title by beating Parker", "id": "10746327" }, { "contents": "Ken Buchanan\n\n\nYork State Athletic Commission on 4 April 1973. The commission also warned Duran that his title recognition would be withdrawn. The New York State Athletic Commission had been attempting for two years (1972 - 1974) to get Duran to honor an agreement to fight Buchanan. But Duran refused to honor the contract to face Buchanan. In 1973, Buchanan started out by beating future world lightweight champion Jim Watt by a decision after 15 rounds, to regain the British lightweight title. Soon, he embarked on another international tour that included more", "id": "13762576" }, { "contents": "Guillermo Jones\n\n\nin Panama by first round Knockout. Now aligned with promoter Don King, Jones fought two light middleweight WBA world title bouts against Laurent Boudouani in 1998. He drew once and lost the rematch by split decision in 12 round contests. Jones fought his way through four weight classes. Later fighting as a cruiserweight in 2002, he fought Johnny Nelson for the WBO World cruiserweight title, drawing in 12 rounds in his third world title attempt. Most in attendance thought Jones had done enough to win the title from Nelson. After yet", "id": "9043210" }, { "contents": "Tony Ayala Jr.\n\n\n. The rehabilitation program kept him from having a $750,000 payday against Roberto Duran. With the Duran fight didn't happen, Ayala settled for about $150,000 to fight Argentinian Carlos Herrera. 'It doesn't bother me,' he said. 'I'm looking at it as a step closer to the world title. Davey Moore is going to have to meet me after this fight.' After defeating Carlos Herrera, November 20, 1982, he was scheduled to fight champion Davey Moore. By December 1983, Ayala", "id": "10919402" }, { "contents": "Noé González Alcoba\n\n\nNoé González Alcoba (born 12 May 1979) \"the coal-miner\" is an Uruguayan boxer and a former world title challenger. He fights in the super middleweight division, having boxed at middleweight previously. Having boxed mainly in Argentina and Uruguay for much of his early career, he managed to land a shot at the WBA World Middleweight title after only 14 fights, challenging the then world champion Felix Sturm in Germany. The German proved too classy however and won the fight by a wide points decision, earning Alcoba his", "id": "20636614" }, { "contents": "Vicente Mosquera\n\n\nVicente Eduardo Mosquera Mena (born December 9, 1979 in Panama City, Panama) is a Panamanian professional boxer. He is a former World Boxing Association (WBA) super-featherweight champion. On April 30, 2005 he defeated Yodsanan Sor Nanthachai (Yodsanan 3-K Battery) for the WBA world championship title, by a unanimous decision. The official scorers saw it 118-108, 116-111, 115-112. In the fight, Nanthachai was knocked down three times (in the first, third, and eleventh", "id": "7687336" }, { "contents": "Iran Barkley\n\n\nof the Year by \"Ring\" magazine. Following the defeat to Duran, Barkley took on undefeated Michael Nunn for the IBF and lineal middleweight titles, dropping a close majority decision. He next fought Nigel Benn in a challenge for the WBO middleweight title and was stopped on the three-knockdown rule at the end of a wild first round in which both fighters were hurt. After losing to Benn, Barkley underwent surgery for a detached retina and was inactive for a year. Barkley returned with two low-key wins at", "id": "8203381" }, { "contents": "Abraham Jacob Hollandersky\n\n\nSox Scandal, the event brought to the forefront the corruption of American sports as it approached the roaring 20's. Abe met Attell in four three round exhibition matches at Empire Theatre while Attell was giving speaking performances in New London near the end of his boxing career. Abe claimed to have fought what was likely a sparring match with Canadian Heavyweight champion Arthur Pelkey, who was a Panamanian national heavyweight title contender in February 1917 at Panama's Santa Anna Plaza against Kid Norfolk, during the same period Abe was fighting bouts at the", "id": "10244396" }, { "contents": "Shane Mosley\n\n\n23-6, 14 KOs) at the Roberto Durán Arena in Panama City, Panama for the WBA Continental super welterweight title on December 17, in a scheduled 10 round bout. Both boxers came in at around the welterweight limit, with Mosley slightly heavier and López fighting for the first time in 13 months. López was knocked down in the 2nd round following a left hook and a further three times in the last round, which put an end to the fight. Mosley improved his ledger to 49 victories, with 41", "id": "18757243" }, { "contents": "Dick Turpin (boxer)\n\n\nchampion. In his next bout, on 28 June 1948, Turpin fought Vince Hawkins for his British middleweight title. The fight was held at Villa Park, Birmingham and Turpin won on points over fifteen rounds. He now held both the British and Commonwealth middleweight titles. During late 1948 and early 1949, Turpin fought European boxers, drawing and then losing on points against Tiberio Mitri, of Italy, then being knocked out in seven rounds in a non-title fight against the then world middleweight champion, Marcel Cerdan, of", "id": "19946190" }, { "contents": "Juan Guzman (boxer)\n\n\nat San Juan, Puerto Rico, the Vargas one at Coliseo Roberto Clemente. By then he was a top-ten ranked Junior Flyweight by the World Boxing Association. WBA world Junior Flyweight champion Jaime Rios of Panama was 18–1–1 when he came to the Dominican Republic to defend his title against local Guzman during June 1976. Their fight took place on July 2, at Santo Domingo. It was a close fight through 15 rounds, not much stylistically separating champion and challenger. At the end, however, Guzman was deemed winner", "id": "7404136" }, { "contents": "BC Golden Gloves\n\n\nJuly 1975, Lampkin was the number one contender for the lightweight title held by Panama boxer Roberto Duran. The tournament took place in January 1984 in Burnaby at the Boxing BC Training centre that would also be used as a training camp for the 1984 and 1988 Canadian Olympic boxing teams At the end of the tournament the Golden Boy for 1984 was boxer Michael O'Connell and the runner-up was Joe Pendry, and the best youth boxer was Deep Butter. Bert Lowes, Fred Fuller, Rudy Bianco, Sid Knopp Vic Murdoch,", "id": "20462754" }, { "contents": "Gunnar Jackson\n\n\nGunnar Jackson (born 6 July 1986, Wainuiomata, Lower Hutt, New Zealand) is a New Zealand professional middleweight and Super Welterweight boxer. Jackson has had over thirty fights and has achieved four boxing titles, and has a highest position on the World Boxing Organisation rankings of 10th. Jackson fought the biggest fight of his career in January 2014 against four-time world champion Anthony Mundine. Jackson lost by unanimous points decision. Jackson fought Kerry Hope in June 2015. Hope was originally scheduled to fight Michael Zerafa for the Interim", "id": "1347008" }, { "contents": "Davey Moore (boxer, born 1959)\n\n\nyears in prison. Next, Moore defended against former two-division world champion Roberto Durán. Moore appeared to be overconfident against an aging 'Hands of Stone' Duran but Duran totally outclassed him and dished out vicious punishment, hammering shut one of Moore's eyes and stopping him in eight brutal rounds at Madison Square Garden. The beating was so one-sided that Moore's mother and girlfriend were both said to have fainted at ringside. Many knowledgeable observers believed that referee Ernesto Magana should have stopped the fight far earlier.", "id": "6112527" } ]

[ { "contents": "Ossie Duran\n\n\nOssie \"The Ghanaian Gladiator\" Duran (born 23 April 1977 in Accra) is a Ghanaian professional boxer, whose career has spanned over 3 decades (1990's/2000's/2010's). He has won the Ghanaian lightweight title, World Boxing Federation (WBF) Pan-European welterweight title, WBF European Welterweight Title, United States Boxing Association (USBA) Atlantic Coast Region middleweight title, Commonwealth welterweight title, and Commonwealth light middleweight title, drew with Eromosele Albert for the vacant International Boxing Federation (IBF) Continental Africa light middleweight title,", "id": "5080778" }, { "contents": "Tom Bogs\n\n\nwins and one draw. He suffered his first defeat against the former world welterweight and middleweight champion Emile Griffith in a non-title fight in June 1970. Bogs won the European light-heavyweight title in 1968 when he stopped German champion Lothar Stengel in the first round of the bout. He successfully defended the title against Piero Del Papa before moving down to the middleweight division for a title match against European champion Carlos Duran. Bogs defeated Duran and went on to successfully defend his middleweight title three times before losing a rematch to", "id": "19397152" }, { "contents": "Angel Robinson Garcia\n\n\nand International Boxing Hall of Fame member Roberto Duran at the Gimnasio Nuevo Panama-now Gimnasio Roberto Duran-at Panama City. Robinson Garcia gave Duran a relatively close fight but still lost by unanimous ten-round decision with scores of 99-93, 98-94 and 98-96, all in favor of the Panamanian. Robinson Garcia went 1-4 the rest of that year, facing, among others, Esteban De Jesus in San Juan, Puerto Rico, to whom he dropped a ten-round decision on", "id": "1307045" }, { "contents": "Josue Marquez\n\n\n15 round distance with Roberto Duran in a world title attempt; completing a total of 25 rounds against Duran divided in two fights without getting knocked out by the Panamanian. Viruet knocked Marquez out in round ten on April 8, 1978 at the Juan Ramon Loubriel stadium in San Juan, after which Marquez decided to retire from professional boxing. Marquez won 32, losing 12 and tying 2 of his 46 professional boxing fights, winning 7 and losing 2 of those by knockout. Marquez turned to training professional boxers for a while after", "id": "17936127" }, { "contents": "Roberto Durán\n\n\n(fighting for the minor International Boxing Council (IBC) belt). Durán fought Vinny Pazienza in 1994 and 1995 for the IBC Super Middleweight Championship and was defeated both times by unanimous decision, but many people felt Duran clearly won the first bout and he was robbed of the victory. In 1996, he was challenged by Héctor Camacho for the vacant IBC Middleweight Championship but lost by a very controversial unanimous decision. In 1997, Durán was defeated by former champion Jorge Castro. Durán fought Castro in a rematch bout and won", "id": "16507032" }, { "contents": "Hector Thompson\n\n\nHector Thompson (born 24 June 1949 in Kempsey, New South Wales) is an Indigenous Australian professional boxer who competed in four different weight divisions, Lightweight, Super lightweight, Welterweight and Junior middleweight during the 1970s and 80s. In 1973 he beat Joe Tetteh for the Commonwealth (British Empire) Super Lightweight Title, earning a shot at Roberto Duran in 1973 for the World Boxing Association World lightweight but lost by TKO. After capturing the Commonwealth title again in 1975, later that year he would go on to challenge Antonio Cervantes", "id": "5995492" }, { "contents": "José Durán (boxer)\n\n\non October 8, 1976. Duran, fighting in his home city of Madrid, was knocked down in the third round by a left hand to the jaw. Although Duran rose from the canvas, he was outworked by the faster challenger and lost his title via a split decision in a fight where both boxers finished with bloody faces. In his final fight Duran challenged the Italian-Australian champion Rocky Mattioli for the WBC Light Middleweight title. The result was never in doubt, as Mattioli knocked Duran down in the second,", "id": "13817397" }, { "contents": "Goody Petronelli\n\n\n, who had earlier won the title from Antuofermo. Hagler bloodied Minter early, winning on a third-round TKO. The Petronellis would guide Hagler through 12 successful world title defenses over 7 years, including celebrated bouts against Roberto Duran and Thomas Hearns, before he lost to Sugar Ray Leonard in another controversial judges' decision, a split verdict in Leonard's favor. It turned out to be Hagler's final fight. Petronelli trained others who would fight in world title bouts: World Boxing Organization super middleweight champion Steve Collins;", "id": "13838256" }, { "contents": "Andres Hernández\n\n\nstreak came to an end when he traveled to Panama to fight world-ranked Gilberto Illueca, and dropped a ten round unanimous decision. Hernandez then started another streak of wins, this time reaching eight consecutive victories before facing another up-and-coming Puerto Rican bantamweight, Wilfredo Gomez. The pair met on Saturday, December 20, 1975 at Roberto Clemente Coliseum in San Juan as part of a boxing program that included fights of Julian Solis, Larry Holmes and Roberto Duran defending his world Lightweight title in the main event against", "id": "7680623" }, { "contents": "Panama Joe Gans\n\n\naspects of boxing by partaking in bouts organized by his classmates. Under the guidance of H.R. Cambridge, a local Panamanian business manager, and real estate developer, Quinton adopted his ring name, and became a successful boxer in the Canal Zone where he fought his first thirty fights with considerable success. On October 10, 1915, Panama Joe first won the Lightweight Championship of Panama at only eighteen against Young Sam Langford at the Pacific Theatre in Panama City in a twenty-round points decision. He later took the Middleweight Championship of", "id": "1295301" }, { "contents": "Roberto Durán\n\n\ndecision. The bout was named the 1989 \"Fight of the Year\" by \"The Ring\". His reign was short lived once again as Duran moved up to super middleweight (although both fighters weighed in at the middleweight limit) for a third clash with Sugar Ray Leonard in December 1989 (a fight dubbed \"Uno Más\"—One More—by promoters), which Leonard won by wide unanimous decision. Durán seemed to be in decline after the fight, he attempted to win further middleweight titles in 1994, 1995 and 1996", "id": "16507031" }, { "contents": "José Durán (boxer)\n\n\nat winning the world title. He travelled to Monaco to fight Miguel de Oliveira for the vacant WBC Light Middleweight title. de Oliveira, a native of Brazil, won the title via an unanimous decision after a bloody battle which lasted the full fifteen rounds. In his next fight Duran lost his EBU title in Germany to Eckhard Dagge, a man Duran had previously beaten by a technical knockout in the eleventh round. On this occasion, however, it was Dagge who scored the knockout, with the fight being stopped in the", "id": "13817395" }, { "contents": "José Durán (boxer)\n\n\nby scoring a knockout over Ben Hamida in the third round. After winning 22 consecutive bouts Duran suffered his first defeat, losing to Jean Josselin via an eight round decision on June 22, 1970. Duran was able to avenge this defeat on May 21, 1971, once again the fight went the eight round distance although Duran won the decision on this occasion. Duran won his first championship on June 7, 1974 by beating Jacques Kechichian and thus winning the EBU title. On May 7, 1975 Duran made his first attempt", "id": "13817394" }, { "contents": "Roberto Durán\n\n\nfight (the \"No Más\" fight was officially recorded as a technical knockout, because Duran quit). Durán did not contend another title fight until 1989, but made the shot count when he won the WBC Middleweight title from Iran Barkley in February. The fight is considered one of Durán's greatest achievements, as the 37-year-old former lightweight champion took the middleweight crown, his fourth title. In a tough, back-and-forth fight, Durán knocked Barkley down in the eleventh round and won a close", "id": "16507030" }, { "contents": "José Durán (boxer)\n\n\nninth round. Duran once again challenged for the world title on May 18, 1976. On this occasion Duran travelled to Tokyo, Japan to successfully challenge Koichi Wajima for the Lineal and WBA light middleweight titles. Duran started the fight well by opening a large cut on the champion's forehead and knocking him down in the second round. Wajima was knocked down once again in the thirteenth round before the fight was finally stopped in the fourteenth. Duran lost his title in his first defence, against the Argentine challenger Miguel Angel Castellini", "id": "13817396" }, { "contents": "José Durán (boxer)\n\n\nJosé Manuel Durán Pérez, popularly known as \"Pepe Durán\" (born October 9, 1945 in Madrid, Spain) is a former Spanish professional boxer. During his eleven-year professional career Duran held the Lineal and WBA light middleweight titles. He challenged for the WBC version of the title and held the EBU title. He also competed in the men's welterweight event at the 1968 Summer Olympics. Duran made his professional debut on November 30, 1967 in Barcelona, Spain. Duran made a victorious start to his career", "id": "13817393" }, { "contents": "Edwin Rosario\n\n\nopponent had boxed 25 rounds against Roberto Duran-including a world lightweight championship bout-without being knocked out. Rosario eventually gained a record of 21–0 with 20 knockouts. This led to talks of a title fight against World Boxing Council (WBC) lightweight champion Alexis Argüello, to be held in Miami. But Argüello relinquished the title in order to move up in weight to challenge junior welterweight champion Aaron Pryor. With Arguello moving divisions, Rosario was matched with Mexico's José Luis Ramírez on May 1, 1983 for the vacant", "id": "5267805" }, { "contents": "Ken Buchanan\n\n\nwin over Chang Kil Lee on 4 December 1972. On 28 June 1972, Roberto Duran signed to defend it against Buchanan on 20 October 1972. However, Duran broke that agreement when the Panamanian Government insisted he made his first defense in Panama. He did, knocking out Jimmy Robertson on 20 January 1973. Duran also had signed a second contract with the MSG on 25 October 1972, to defend against Buchanan on or before 30 June 1973. But Duran broke that agreement again. Duran had his license suspended by the New", "id": "13762575" }, { "contents": "Koichi Wajima\n\n\nhis Lineal and WBA light middleweight titles as well. However, he regained his Lineal and WBA titles in February, 1976, with a 15th round KO over Yuh. Wajima lost to Jose Manuel Duran in his first defense, losing the world title for the third time in his career. He fought his final match In June, 1977, challenging Eddie Gazo for the WBA super welterweight title, but lost by 11th round KO. This was the last fight of his career. His record was 31-6-1 (", "id": "20508599" }, { "contents": "Wilfredo Gómez\n\n\ndirected by Mario Diaz and was filmed in New York City. Gómez has three daughters Jennifer, Gina and Liz Irina and one son Wilfredo Junior. He is good friends with Panamanian boxing legend Roberto Duran. Gómez was once married to Carolina Gamboa. On April 17, 2015, Gómez was arrested by Puerto Rican police after allegedly hitting his 59-year-old companion, a lady with whom he had been living for ten months. He was released after she refused to raise charges against him. British boxer Michael Gomez adapted his last", "id": "3553965" }, { "contents": "Caleb Truax\n\n\nRichardson, and James Crayton. His professional loss came to former undisputed middleweight world champion Jermain Taylor (Truax knocked Taylor down in the 9th round.) Truax drew Ossie Duran in a 10-round non-title bout at the Target Center in Minneapolis. The bout was part of an eight-fight card promoted by Mike Tyson's new company, Iron Mike Productions. Mike Tyson was in attendance at the event, and said of Truax, \"I hear he is exciting and he is something that we need for boxing, he", "id": "16222269" }, { "contents": "Massimiliano Duran\n\n\nMassimiliano Duran (born November 3, 1963 in Ferrara, Italy) is a former Italian professional boxer who held the Cruiser WBC title and the European championship between 1990 and 1991. He is also known for being the only fighter in boxing history to earn a shot at, win, and defend a world title with three consecutive disqualification wins. Duran was born in Ferrara. His father was the Argentine-Italian boxer Juan Carlos Duran; his brother, the Italian boxer Alessandro Duran. Duran turned pro in 1986 when he defeated", "id": "13303578" }, { "contents": "Marvelous Marvin Hagler\n\n\na staple on HBO, the Pay Per View of its time. A fight against Roberto Durán followed. Durán was the first challenger to last the distance with Hagler in a world-championship bout. Durán was the WBA Light Middleweight Champion and went up in weight to challenge for Hagler's middleweight crown. Hagler won a unanimous 15-round decision, although after 13 rounds, Duran was ahead by one point on two scorecards and even on the third. Hagler, with his left eye swollen and cut, came on strong in the", "id": "4940319" }, { "contents": "Vinny Paz\n\n\nSantana fight, Pazienza went on to defeat Brett Lally by a 6th-round TKO, and then, in another TKO, former world champion Lloyd Honeyghan in the 10th round. Pazienza went on to win the vacant IBO middleweight world title in 1993 with an 11th-round KO over Dan Sherry. Pazienza then went on to beat Roberto Duran twice, both via decision, with the IBC super middleweight title on the line both times. In June 1995, Pazienza lost his world title bid against IBF world super middleweight champion Roy", "id": "12129878" }, { "contents": "Juan Carlos Giménez Ferreyra\n\n\nJuan Carlos Giménez Ferreyra (born 20 December 1960) is a Paraguayan boxer. During his career he was WBC International light heavyweight champion and unsuccessfully fought for the World Super Middleweight title four times, first against Mauro Galvano in 1992, then against Chris Eubank the same year, against Nigel Benn in 1994 and finally against Joe Calzaghe in 1998, losing via knockout. During his career he went the distance with Nigel Benn, Chris Eubank and Roberto Duran. Gimenez last fought in 2010, winning the Paraguayan Cruiserweight title against Nicasio Moray", "id": "17951209" }, { "contents": "Massimiliano Duran\n\n\nMomo Cupelic. The win earned him the nickname \"Momo\". Duran's first defeat came by the hand of Ndomingiedi Lusikina. This would be the beginning of a long-standing rivalry, that will result in the two boxers fighting five times. In 1990 Duran won the WBC Cruiserweight Title by defeating Carlos De León, when De León was disqualified for hitting after the bell to end the 11th round. Duran was leading on the cards. His first defence was against Anaclet Wamba. Duran won by DQ after Wamba had", "id": "13303579" }, { "contents": "Héctor Camacho\n\n\namateur career, Camacho won three New York Golden Gloves tournaments, beginning with the Sub-Novice 112 lbs championship in 1978. During his professional career, Camacho had many notable fights against some of the biggest names in boxing, defeating Roberto Durán twice late in Duran's career, and knocking out Sugar Ray Leonard to send him into permanent retirement. He also fought Julio César Chávez, Félix Trinidad, and Oscar De La Hoya, among others. During his later years, Camacho expanded his popular role and appeared on a variety", "id": "5327031" }, { "contents": "Eckhard Dagge\n\n\n. He would later embark on an amateur career, in which he won 66 out of 80 bouts, before falling short of making the 1972 Olympic Team. Dagge would win the German Middleweight title, in his 6th bout. Dagge would follow up with wins over notable, but faded fighters Denny Moyer and Manuel González. In 1974, Dagge challenged Jose Manuel Duran for the European Light Middleweight title, losing by 11th-round TKO. He came back the next year however, and stopped Duran in the 9th round, to", "id": "18853804" }, { "contents": "Antonio Cervantes\n\n\nLightweight champion Roberto Durán, who was coming up in weight. Duran decided to challenge Sugar Ray Leonard instead, however, and Cervantes vs. Duran never materialized. On August 2, 1980, Cervantes dropped his next title challenger, Aaron Pryor, to the canvas in the first round. Pryor recovered, however, and beat Cervantes by a knockout in round four. This turned out to be Cervantes' last world title fight. He fought two times more for the FECARBOX WBC title, winning both fights shortly before retiring in 1980", "id": "11465736" }, { "contents": "USA Tuesday Night Fights\n\n\nfighter by fighting several four rounders on \"Tuesday Night Fights\". Roberto Duran was another fixture on \"Tuesday Night Fights\" later in his career, and his 100th professional bout was carried by USA. \"Tuesday Night Fights\" also showcased the bizarre from time to time. Among these was a fight from former pro football star Mark Gastineau's controversial boxing career which saw him lose to a journeyman fighter, Andrew Golota's infamous fight against Samson Po'uha in 1995 which saw the Polish fighter, who appeared frequently on \"Tuesday", "id": "5898536" }, { "contents": "Jacques LeBlanc\n\n\n22 wins, 4 losses and 2 draws when he fought WBC Middleweight Champion Roberto Durán on June 29, 1993. LeBlanc was billed as a severe underdog but lasted the full 10 rounds with Duran, losing on points. LeBlanc fought the undefeated Richie Woodhall in October 1994 for the Commonwealth Middleweight crown but again lost on points. He continued boxing until 1997, but winning again only once. In 2010, Jacques was inducted into the City of Moncton Wall of Fame . He currently holds the record for most matches without being knocked", "id": "3179570" }, { "contents": "Andy Lee (boxer)\n\n\nResort Casino in Mashantucket, Connecticut, and won via technical knockout at 0:56 in the 10th round. He avenged his loss to Brian Vera on 1 October 2011 by unanimous decision. On 10 March 2012, Lee Knocked out Mexico's Saul Duran in the 2nd round of a stay busy fight. On 16 June 2012, Lee challenged undefeated Titleholder Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. for the WBC World Middleweight Title in the Sun Bowl Stadium in El Paso, Texas televised on HBO World Championship Boxing. Lee got off to a good start,", "id": "15093101" }, { "contents": "Joe Cortez\n\n\ntook on the responsibility to referee some major Championship fights. During this time he was the third man in the ring in several professional Mike Tyson and Roberto Duran fights. As eminent referees Richard Steele and Mills Lane retired at the dawn of the 21st century, Cortez became one of Nevada and New York's preferred boxing referees for world title fights. He has refereed over 170 world title bouts, among which figure the first Oscar De La Hoya-Julio César Chávez meeting, Evander Holyfield and Riddick Bowe's first title fight and", "id": "18491003" }, { "contents": "Reuben Duran\n\n\nnot for the injury, he would have gotten a stoppage. Duran would support his bold statement in his next fight as he claimed a victory over Ryan Diaz via KO with only 3 seconds left in the fight. In subsequent bouts, Duran submitted both Kana Hyatt and Maurice Eazel in the first round. Duran signed with the UFC in early 2011 and made his debut at UFC on Versus 3 against Takeya Mizugaki, replacing an injured Francisco Rivera. Duran lost the fight via close split decision. Duran faced Francisco Rivera on June", "id": "15069085" }, { "contents": "Héctor Camacho\n\n\n. Before this fight, Camacho was trained by Angelo Dundee. His last two fights resulted in a draw and a loss, against Luis Ramón Campas and Saúl Duran, respectively. His last fight against Duran was on May 14, 2010. On January 6, 2005, Camacho was arrested by police in Gulfport, Mississippi on charges of trying to burgle an electronic goods store and carrying the drug ecstasy on him. In 2007, he declared himself guilty of being under the influence at the time of the burglary. He was", "id": "5327048" }, { "contents": "Jack Blackburn\n\n\nhad a slight advantage in height and reach. Blackburn fought the Barbados-born boxer Panama Joe Gans, who had boxed extensively in Panama where he lived prior to 1917. Panama Joe held the World Colored Middleweight Championship from 1920 to 1924, and held a Panamanian Lightweight Title in his youth. On July 24, 1922, Blackburn lost one of his last bouts to Gans in Indianapolis, Indiana, in a fourth-round technical knockout of a scheduled ten round bout. Panama Joe was a formidable boxer and fourteen years younger", "id": "10094030" }, { "contents": "Vinny Paz\n\n\nHector \"Macho\" Camacho and WBA World Champion Loreto Garza. In 1991, Pazienza moved into the junior middleweight division. In his first fight at junior middleweight, he won the USBA championship against Ron Amundsen in a 12-round decision. He defeated the WBA world jr. middleweight champion Gilbert Delé with a 12th-round TKO in Providence, becoming the second fighter in boxing history to win both the lightweight and junior middleweight world championships. Pazienza was forced to relinquish the title due to a serious car accident in which his neck was", "id": "12129876" }, { "contents": "Roberto Durán\n\n\nvia unanimous decision. In 1998, at the age of 47, he challenged 28-year-old WBA Middleweight Champion William Joppy. Joppy, a trim, quick-fisted fighter, battered Durán to defeat in just 3 rounds. It was Duran's most emphatic loss since the Hearns fight, over a decade earlier. Durán then announced his retirement in August 1998, but was back fighting in 1999. In June 2000, Durán avenged a previous loss to Pat Lawlor and won the NBA Super Middleweight Championship on his 49th birthday.", "id": "16507033" }, { "contents": "Roberto Vásquez\n\n\nRoberto Gaspar Vásquez Ramirez (born May 26, 1983 in Panama City) is a Panamanian professional boxer who held the WBA light flyweight title from 2005 to 2006. He also held the WBA flyweight interim title from 2006 to 2007. Vásquez lost in his professional boxing debut against Angelo Dottin on March 17, 2001. The four-round fight occurred in Dottin's hometown of Colón, Panama. Despite Vásquez's cutting Dottin's right cheek in the first round, all three judges scored the bout 39-38 for Dottin.", "id": "15594966" }, { "contents": "Roberto Durán\n\n\nwith an incredible 71–1 record. On June 20, 1980, Durán captured the WBC Welterweight title by defeating Leonard via a 15-round unanimous decision (145–144, 148–147, 146–144). The fight became known as \"The Brawl in Montreal\". After defeating Leonard in Montreal, Duran gained iconic status in his home country, Panama. Leonard initiated the rematch clause and asked for the fight to be the following November. In their second fight, Leonard successfully changed his tactics, using more footwork and movement than he had in their", "id": "16507022" }, { "contents": "Roberto Durán\n\n\nfirst fight, and Duran was unable to get Leonard against the ropes. During the seventh round, after Leonard had gained a slight lead on the scorecards, he began taunting and mocking Duran. Halfway into the eighth round, Duran suddenly stopped fighting, repeatedly saying, \"No más\" (\"no more\"). In a 2016 interview, Duran claimed that what he actually said was, \"No Sigo\" (\"I won't go on\"). He took some time to recover from that fight and", "id": "16507023" }, { "contents": "Kirkland Laing\n\n\n. Laing's boxing career was sporadic, as he often failed to deliver on his promise, appearing under-prepared against less able fighters and indulging in drink, drugs and women. In the year following his victory over Duran, Laing went missing, blowing his earnings. In that same period Duran was to fight four times, earning an estimated $6m. Laing continued to fight until he was 40, and retired after a stoppage loss to future world champion Glen Catley. After retiring, Laing continue to live in", "id": "8014673" }, { "contents": "Jimmy Batten\n\n\nThomas stopped him in the ninth round to take the title. Batten won his next five fights before losing on points in May 1981 to Chris Christian. He then travelled to the United States, where he was based in Chicago for almost two years; There he had a series of fights starting with two easy wins before he was stopped in the first round in May 1982 by Mario Maldonado. He beat Jeff Madison in September before facing Roberto Duran in November 1982 at the Miami Orange Bowl; Duran took a unanimous decision,", "id": "22189495" }, { "contents": "Ray Lampkin\n\n\nRay Lampkin (born 1948 in Portland, Oregon) is a retired professional boxer who lost the 1975 World Boxing Association (WBA) lightweight title fight against Roberto Durán in Panama. He won the North American Boxing Federation lightweight title fight but later lost it against Esteban de Jesús at the Felt Forum in New York City. He finished his career with a total of 34 wins (16 by knock out), six losses (two by knock out) and one draw. Lampkin was inducted into the Oregon Sports Hall of Fame", "id": "279465" }, { "contents": "Roberto Durán\n\n\nthe end of the seventh. Finally the fight was stopped in the eighth round as Moore was taking such a horrific beating and Durán won his third world title. After the victory, Durán was hoisted up in the air as the crowd sang \"Happy Birthday\" to a sobbing Durán. Durán later fought for the World Middleweight Championship, meeting Marvelous Marvin Hagler in Las Vegas in November 1983, during the fight Duran broke his hand and lost in a very competitive fight that went the full fifteen rounds, although after 12 rounds", "id": "16507027" }, { "contents": "Harold Reitman\n\n\nprofessional record of 7-1-1, Reitman fought a three-round charity exhibition match against the five-time world champion Roberto Duran at the Hollywood Diplomat Hotel in Miami Beach. On November 11, 1991, Reitman fought heavyweight Tim Anderson for the NBA Independent Cruiserweight title in a televised fight. Though Reitman scored two 9th round knockdowns, the fight ended in a draw. In March 1992, Reitman was the 12th ranked Heavyweight boxer in the world according to the International Boxing Council. On December 12, 1995,", "id": "9844517" }, { "contents": "Jeffrey Mathebula\n\n\nlost to Celestino Caballero. Hence, Mathebula fought against Caballero for the WBA Super World and IBF World super bantamweight title. However, he lost his first world title shot against Caballero via a split decision at the Roberto Duran Arena in Panama on 30 April 2009. After losing to Takalani Ndlovu via a split decision in an IBF junior featherweight title eliminator in Brakpan, Gauteng in September 2010, Mathebula defeated Ndlovu via a split decision in their rematch in Brakpan to be crowned the IBF junior featherweight champion. It was the SABC-", "id": "16997776" }, { "contents": "Angel Robinson Garcia\n\n\nhim fight 12 times, including a September 10 loss by ten-round decision to future WBC world Lightweight-and Spain's second-Champion Pedro Carrasco at the Basque Country and a December 30 defeat at the hands of 19-2-4 Chris Fernandez by ten-round decision also. Robinson Garcia contested 17 bouts in 1970. These included an August 21 match with Jose Duran, won by Duran by ten rounds decision at Madrid and a November 20 bout with French Roger Menetrey which Menetrey won by ten-round decision", "id": "1307042" }, { "contents": "Sugar Ray Leonard vs. Thomas Hearns\n\n\nSugar Ray Leonard and Thomas Hearns are considered to be two of the best boxers of all-time. They fought twice, with Leonard winning in 1981 and a draw in 1989. Both fights are considered to be classics. Sugar Ray Leonard won the WBC welterweight title with a fifteenth-round knockout of Wilfred Benítez in 1979. He lost it to Roberto Durán by a close decision in June 1980 and regained it five months later in the infamous No Más Fight, in which Duran quit in the eighth round. In June", "id": "20124047" }, { "contents": "Brandon Gonzáles\n\n\nOlympic Team in 2004 he withdrew to begin his professional career in 2007. While boxing as an amateur he worked as a janitor at Arco Arena.. On January 29, 2010 Gonzales won a fight against veteran Dumont Welliver by T.K.O., the fight was on the undercard of ESPN's Friday Night Fights. He maintained an unblemished streak of 17 wins until his bout with Thomas Oosthuizen that resulted in a draw. On October 28, 2011 he defeated Ossie Duran in the Main Event on Showtime's ShoBox at Bally's in Atlantic City", "id": "18287532" }, { "contents": "Miguel Ángel Castellini\n\n\nManuel Duran, in front of a sell out crowd of 12,000. Duran, who was making the first defence of his title, was knocked down in the third round by a left hand to the jaw. Although the champion rose from the canvas, he was outworked by the faster challenger and lost his title via a split decision in a fight where both boxers finished with bloody faces. Castellini's championship reign only lasted one fight as he lost it in his first defence to Eddie Gazo on March 5, 1977. Gazo", "id": "13522966" }, { "contents": "Hilario Zapata\n\n\nwas knocked out in the first round by the WBC world Jr. Bantamweight champion Sung-Kil Moon. A win against Moon would have made Zapata a member of the exclusive group of world boxing champions in three different weight categories or more. It can also be added that Zapata's first pair of boxing gloves, when he was 12, came as a present from Duran himself. Panamanian newspaper \"El Panama America\" declared on one of their editorials that Zapata, according to their opinion, should be inducted to the International Boxing", "id": "9857520" }, { "contents": "Panama Joe Gans\n\n\nPanama Joe Gans was a black boxer who held the World Colored Middleweight Championship for four years, shortly before it was discontinued. Born Cyril Quinton Jr. on November 14, 1896 in Barbados, British West Indies and raised in the Panama Canal Zone, the 5'7\" Quinton originally fought out of Panama and then New York City. He took his ringname from boxing great Joe Gans, the first black American fighter to win a world boxing title. He found his greatest fame fighting as a middleweight at between 147 and 160 lbs,", "id": "1295299" }, { "contents": "Panama Lewis\n\n\nCarlos \"Panama\" Lewis (born November 4, 1945) is an American boxing trainer. He was convicted of tampering with the gloves of Luis Resto in the Resto vs \"Irish\" Billy Collins fight of 1983, which subsequently led to the end of Collins' boxing career. Collins suffered from depression and possibly committed suicide following the tragic assault. Lewis was a disciple of trainer Chickie Ferrara. He was Roberto Durán's cornerman when Duran lost a unanimous decision against Wilfred Benitez in 1982. During the early 1980s, he", "id": "11205984" }, { "contents": "Pernell Whitaker\n\n\nfight, he basically faced no real trouble against Vásquez in route to the win. This was a history making fight for Whitaker, as he became only the fourth fighter in history - joining Thomas Hearns, Sugar Ray Leonard, and Roberto Duran - to have won a legitimate world title in four different weight classes. However, he chose to move back to welterweight. Whitaker successfully defended his WBC belt against Scotland's Gary Jacobs on August 26, 1995. In January, 1997, Whitaker put his title on the line against", "id": "20971754" }, { "contents": "Carlos Palomino\n\n\nundercard. Palomino lost to Duran by decision in ten rounds, and he announced his retirement from boxing right away. Palomino began his comeback on January 10, 1997, beating Ismaél Díaz by a knockout in round nine. He won four fights that year, including one over former world champion Rene Arredondo, but when he lost by decision in ten to former Oscar De La Hoya world title challenger Wilfredo Rivera on May 30, 1998, he decided to retire for good, and has stayed in retirement ever since. In 1978", "id": "12841764" }, { "contents": "Roberto Durán\n\n\nRoberto Durán Samaniego (born June 16, 1951) is a Panamanian former professional boxer who competed from 1968 to 2001. He held world championships in four weight classes: lightweight, welterweight, light middleweight and middleweight, as well as reigns as the undisputed and lineal lightweight champion, and the lineal welterweight champion. He is also the second boxer to have competed over a span of five decades, the first being Jack Johnson. Durán was known as a versatile, technical brawler and pressure fighter, which earned him the nickname of", "id": "16507013" }, { "contents": "Joshua Clottey\n\n\nwelterweight title in his next fight. He then rolled off a 10 fight winning streak highlighted by his first win on American soil and capture of several minor welterweight and middleweight titles. The streak culminated in an IBF intercontinental welterweight title. On December 2, 2006, Clottey earned his first shot at a world title but broke his hand in the fourth round of his fight against World Boxing Organization champion Antonio Margarito. That bout against Margarito has since come under controversial suspicion following news reports (released after Margarito's fight with Shane Mosley", "id": "11102893" }, { "contents": "Aaron Pryor\n\n\nten years in prison after he was convicted of 29 counts of fraud and embezzlement. Pryor was then offered $750,000 to fight Roberto Duran in April 1981, but Pryor turned it down because his new attorney told him not to sign anything until he worked out a new contract with manager Buddy LaRosa. By the time they worked out a new agreement, the chance to fight Duran was gone. On June 27, 1981, Pryor knocked out Lennox Blackmore in the second round. He then defended the title against undefeated Dujuan Johnson", "id": "8987862" }, { "contents": "Roberto Durán\n\n\nChorrillo in the district \"La Casa de Piedra\" (The House of Stone) Panama. He began sparring with experienced boxers at the Neco de La Guardia gymnasium when he was only eight years old. Durán competed as an amateur compiling a record of 13–3. Having 16 amateur fights under his belt, he made his professional debut in 1968 at the age of 16. Duran won his first 31 consecutive fights, and scored knockout victories over future Featherweight Champion Ernesto Marcel and former Super Featherweight Champion Hiroshi Kobayashi, culminating in his", "id": "16507016" }, { "contents": "Wilfredo Gómez\n\n\nOn May 18, 2003, Gómez returned to Panama, where he was received by Duran and Eusebio Pedroza, among others. In a message geared towards Panamanians, he expressed thanks to that country, calling it his second country and saying, among other things \"I'm very motivated now that I will return to Puerto Rico, and no one should be surprised if I buy an apartment in Panama and move my family here\". However, he bought a house in Orlando, Florida in 2006. Gómez had a record", "id": "3553963" }, { "contents": "Jacob Duran\n\n\nSandman\" Sanchez before furthering his career in professional boxing and mixed martial arts. In boxing, Duran works on the Klitschko brothers and Andre Ward. On November 23, 2014 Duran was in the corner of Chris Algieri when he took on Manny Pacquiao for the WBO welterweight title at Cotai Arena, Venetian Resort, Macao, Macao S.A.R., China. On May 29, 2015, Duran was in the corner of Chris Algieri once again when he took on Amir Khan for the WBC Silver Welterweight title at The Barclays Center, Brooklyn", "id": "2958564" }, { "contents": "Edwin Rodríguez (boxer)\n\n\nEdwin Rodríguez (born May 5, 1985) is a Dominican professional boxer who lives in Worcester, Massachusetts. Starred in the box office hit Bleed For This as Roberto Duran Rodriguez moved to Worcester at age 13 with dreams of becoming the next great Dominican ballplayer. Winters in the Bay State made for a short baseball season and two years later, he abandoned the diamond for the ring. Rodriguez had an 84–9 record and won the USA Boxing Championships 2005 and the National Golden Gloves 2006 as a middleweight (165 pounds).", "id": "15244912" }, { "contents": "Steve Smoger\n\n\n, New York. On May 27, 2017 in Atlantic City, New Jersey Smoger became the first professional boxing referee to be inducted into the newly created Atlantic City Boxing Hall of Fame, joining Don King and Michael Spinks among other inductees. Smoger's Hall of Fame resume comprises five inductions Smoger has officiated the bouts featuring such professional boxers as Mike Tyson, Lennox Lewis, Larry Holmes, Evander Holyfield, Ray Mercer, Steve Cunningham, John Ruiz, Roberto Duran, Hector Camacho, Roy Jones, Jr., James Toney,", "id": "12530988" }, { "contents": "Panama Blue\n\n\nPanama Blue is rainforest spring water and a product of Panama Springs S.A. Panama Blue is a brand of luxury rainforest spring water. Panama Blue is the number one premium bottled water brand of Panama. The brand ambassadors are boxer Roberto Duran and Carolina Dementiev, a Panamanian model and triathlete. Panama Blue is bottled at the source in the mountains of Cerro Azul, surrounded by the Chagres National Park in the Panamanian rainforest. The spring is located about 800m above sea level. Because of the soil, the volcanic rocks and the", "id": "19226350" }, { "contents": "Roberto Durán\n\n\ngained even more weight to contend for the WBC Light Middleweight title, but losing in his first attempt at a championship in that division on January 30, 1982, against Wilfred Benítez by a 15-round unanimous decision, this after having defeated Nino Gonzalez and Luigi Minchillo, two rated Light Middleweights, both by ten-round decisions in non-title bouts. Durán was also to lose his comeback fight in September 1982 in Detroit. Kirkland Laing, from London, shocked the boxing world, producing the type of display his talents promised", "id": "16507024" }, { "contents": "Richard Green (referee)\n\n\nwas Muhammad Ali's loss to Larry Holmes in 1980. Green officiated two high-profile fights in 1982. Early in the year he refereed Wilfred Benitez's fight against Roberto Duran for Benitez's super welterweight title. Later he was the referee in the Ray Mancini's first-round knockout of Arturo Frias, a win that gave Mancini the WBA lightweight championship. On November 13, 1982, Green was assigned to work Mancini's second defense of that title, a match against the Korean contender Duk Koo Kim that was televised", "id": "8256032" }, { "contents": "Nat Jacobs\n\n\nNathaniel \"Nat\" J. S. Jacobs (born 1 December 1939) is an English amateur and professional boxer of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, who won the Central (England) Area middleweight title and challenged for the British Boxing Board of Control British middleweight title. His professional fighting weight varied from , i.e. welterweight, through light middleweight and middleweight, to , i.e. light heavyweight. He was managed/trained by former boxer Stan Skinkiss. Born in Manchester, Jacobs began his professional career in November 1960 with a points victory", "id": "16077543" }, { "contents": "Light middleweight\n\n\nOctober 17, was won by Griffith via a 15-round decision. Three days later, the World Boxing Association championship was created when Denny Moyer outpointed Joey Giambra. The World Boxing Council recognized the WBA champion as the true division champion until 1975, when it stripped their current champion and sanctioned a fight between Miguel de Oliveira and Jose Duran for the vacant title. De Oliveira won the title over 15 rounds in 1975. The International Boxing Federation crowned its first champion when Mark Medal defeated Earl Hargrove in 1984. The World Boxing Organization", "id": "11957407" }, { "contents": "Héctor Camacho\n\n\nhim in his career) to defeat Craig Houk by knockout in round three. He won consecutive unanimous ten-round decisions over Clinton McNeil and Raúl Jorge Muñoz. After that, his boxing career went on hiatus, as he faced criminal charges. He pled guilty to burglary and acknowledged drug abuse, but was given probation. Camacho returned to boxing on July 18, 2008, competing against Perry Ballard for the World Boxing Empire's Middleweight Championship. The fight lasted seven rounds. Camacho won when Ballard's corner threw the towel", "id": "5327047" }, { "contents": "Panama Joe Gans\n\n\nPanama by knocking out Benny McGovern in the third of fifteen rounds on November 30, 1916 at the Santa Ana Plaza in Panama City. At the time, these titles were often described as extending to both Central and South America. In his first bout after taking the Middleweight Championship of Panama on December 12, 1916, though barely twenty-one years old, he soundly defeated Abraham Jacob Hollandersky, a former holder of the Panamanian Heavyweight Championship in 20 rounds in Panama City. In 1917, Panama Joe was brought to New", "id": "1295302" }, { "contents": "Murderers' Row (boxing)\n\n\ncounted as Burley’s conquests. He was ranked in the top 10 in the Welterweight and Middleweight divisions for most of the 1940s, without receiving a title shot. (Burley did hold the World Colored Welterweight and World Colored Middleweight Championship titles.) Near the end of his career Burley took to fighting Heavyweights in a bid to find meaningful contests, including J.D. Turner and future Heavyweight champ Ezzard Charles. Eventually, Burley would retire after winning 83 bouts, without ever being able to meet in the ring the champions of the time", "id": "6667729" }, { "contents": "Reuben Duran\n\n\nadditions of wrestling, Brazilian jiu-jitsu, and Muay Thai. Reuben began his career with multiple fights for King of the Cage, and other small promotions in California. As an amateur competitor, Duran has distinguished himself by being a six time winner of Grapplers Quest. In a memorable match, Duran fought Greg Guzman, hiding his injuries that included 2 torn ligaments in his right hand. In spite of the injuries, Duran still earned the victory. Later, in an interview, Duran voiced his confidence that were it", "id": "15069084" }, { "contents": "Boardwalk Hall\n\n\n, Oscar De La Hoya, Roberto Duran, Lennox Lewis, Roy Jones Jr., Floyd Mayweather Jr., Bernard Hopkins, Riddick Bowe, Julio César Chávez, Héctor Camacho, Micky Ward, and Arturo Gatti. In September 2007, it was the venue for the Kelly Pavlik – Jermain Taylor boxing match for the World Boxing Council, World Boxing Organization and \"The Ring\" magazine's middleweight championships. On December 12, 1965, the New York Ukrainians defeated Philadelphia Ukrainian Nationals 3-2 in the first regulation indoor soccer match", "id": "5560408" }, { "contents": "Phil Edwards (boxer)\n\n\nmember of the public who was attempting to take a kick at the new champion. Edward's very next fight after his title success was against Nigerian boxing legend Dick Tiger. Tiger was a one-time world middleweight and light-heavyweight world champion, and Edwards showed his class by lasting the full ten rounds, losing on points. After the Tiger fight, Edwards was back to winning ways, and was victorious in his first four fights of 1958, defeating Commonwealth title challenger Lew Lazar, Scotland's John Woolard, journeyman", "id": "19060017" }, { "contents": "Carl Thompson (boxer)\n\n\nin February 1993. In February 1994, Thompson traveled to Ferrara, Emilia Romagna, Italy and won the European title by defeating Massimiliano Duran by KO in eight rounds, and in his next bout knocked out France's Akim Tafer in six rounds at Epernay, Marne, France to retain his European title. After winning two mark-time fights, Thompson was matched against Ralf Rocchigiani in a bout for the vacant WBO cruiserweight title at the G-Mex Leisure Centre, Manchester in June 1995. Both fighters were knocked down in", "id": "14087508" }, { "contents": "Luis Federico Thompson\n\n\nLuis Federico Thompson (December 19, 1927 – January 8 , 2010) was a Panamanian Argentinian professional boxer. Thompson was born in Colon, Panama, later moved to Argentina, where he was nationalized and afterwards became the Argentine and South American boxing champion. Thompson debuted in 1947 with a fight against Wilfredo Brown in Panama City which ended in a draw. On October 7, 1951, he fought Wilfredo Brewster defeating him and winning the Panamanian Lightweight Title for the first time. Two months later, he fought Wilfredo Brown again", "id": "20078674" }, { "contents": "Jawaid Khaliq\n\n\nJawaid Khaliq, MBE (born 30 July 1970), is a British former professional boxer. A dual Pakistan national, he became the first British Asian boxing world champion, winning the International Boxing Organization (IBO) welterweight title and defending it for seven constructive bouts before retiring. During his boxing career he also held the Commonwealth welterweight title, World Boxing Federation Inter-Continental Light Middleweight Title, Midlands Area light middleweight title and Midlands Area welterweight title. He is the first Kashmiri world champion boxer. Khaliq took up boxing at", "id": "22058424" }, { "contents": "Omar Sheika\n\n\nOmar Sheika (born February 20, 1977) is an American former professional boxer and multiple time super middleweight world title challenger. He is of Palestinian descent. Sheika compiled a successful amateur career, capturing a National Middleweight Championship at National AAU Boxing Tournament in 1996. Sheika has enjoyed some success in his pro career. His first fight was against Billy James. Sheika won the fight by TKO on the second round. Sheika stayed undefeated for about a year. Sheika was involved in ESPN Friday Night Fights \"Fight of the Year", "id": "7826746" }, { "contents": "Roberto Durán\n\n\nchampion the moment Durán stepped into the ring to box Hearns. Durán again made history in the fight, but this time it was the wrong kind. Hearns dropped Durán twice in the first round and as he rose to his feet after the second knockdown, which ended the round, the former champion did not know where his corner was. Hearns went on to knock Duran down a third time in the second round and the fight was stopped, marking the first time in his career that Durán had been knocked out in a", "id": "16507029" }, { "contents": "Wally Swift\n\n\nJohnny Pritchett due to an eye injury. Swift beat Peter Sharpe in May 1966 in an eliminator to face Pritchett, winning on points. In February 1967 he faced Pritchett at the Nottingham Ice Stadium for the title, losing on points over fifteen rounds. In September 1967 Swift faced Sandro Mazzinghi for the European super welterweight title in Milan; The fight was stopped in the sixth round due to injuries to Swift. In March 1968 Swift challenged Juan Carlos Duran for the European middleweight title. Swift lost the fight after being disqualified in", "id": "6876166" }, { "contents": "Hands of Stone\n\n\nup in Panama, Durán is homeschooled by Chaflan, who teaches young Roberto some vital life lessons. Later, Duran joins a boxing club with Nestor \"Plomo\" Quiñones as his coach. As he reaches 20, an American legendary boxing trainer Ray Arcel, who nearly lost his life after being attacked by an unknown assailant in 1953 in New York City and is now living with his wife Stephanie, notices Roberto's raw talent and punching power and takes the young fighter under his wing, becoming his coach. Not long after", "id": "2732439" }, { "contents": "Larry Estridge\n\n\nLarry Estridge (born 17 June 1902, St. Kitts, British West Indies) was a middleweight boxer and the last holder of the World Colored Middleweight Championship. The 5'7\" middleweight fought out of New York City from 1922 to 1929, racking up a career record of 53 wins against 23 losses and two draws from 1922 to 1929. Estridge fought colored middleweight champion Panama Joe Gans for his title on July 26, 1924 at Yankee Stadium, defeating the champ via a unanimous decision in their 10-round bout. After scoring two victories", "id": "1295287" }, { "contents": "Lennox Blackmoore\n\n\nLennox Blackmoore (born July 10, 1950 in Georgetown, Guyana) is a Guyanese professional light/light welter/welter/light middle/middleweight boxer of the 1970s and '80s who won the Guyanese lightweight title, Guyanese light middleweight title, and Commonwealth lightweight title, and was a challenger for the World Boxing Association (WBA) World light welterweight title against Aaron Pryor, and World Boxing Council (WBC) FECARBOX light welterweight title against Antonio Cervantes, his professional fighting weight varied from , i.e. lightweight to , i.e. middleweight", "id": "2810858" }, { "contents": "Abraham Jacob Hollandersky\n\n\nand skill that he would act as a sparring partner to prepare Jack Dempsey for his September 1920 Heavyweight Title bout with Hall of Famer Billy Miske as well as Dempsey's earlier bout when he first took the Heavyweight Championship from Jess Willard in Toledo. The 5' 4\" welterweight Hollandersky lost to Panama Joe, the younger and stronger Panamanian Light and Middleweight champion, and the accomplished middleweight Connors of Scranton, Pennsylvania, who had a five-inch height advantage. But he gave a closer fight to the Seattle welterweight Ryan before", "id": "10244386" }, { "contents": "Tommy Freeman (boxer)\n\n\nbout was Thompson's first title defense. Freeman held the title until his rematch with Jack Thompson on April 14, 1931 again in Cleveland where he lost by TKO in the tenth of fifteen rounds. The bout was stopped due to Freeman's badly battered left eye. He had a long career as a boxer, and remained fighting as a super welterweight until around 1937. He fought for a year as a middleweight from 1937-8. Best known of his middleweight opponents was Al McCoy who he fought on July 2 and", "id": "18569618" }, { "contents": "Alex Ramos\n\n\n. Despite losing his next fight, against future world super middleweight champion Murray Sutherland by a ten-round decision, Ramos was by then held along with the highest ranked middleweights of the era, such as Mustafa Hamsho, Wilford Scypion, Juan Roldán, John Mugabi, Curtis Parker and others. After knocking out Wilbur Henderson in three rounds on February 8, 1984, in Atlantic City, Ramos challenged Parker for his first career title, the regional, United States Boxing Association Middleweight championship. He won the title by beating Parker", "id": "10746327" }, { "contents": "Ken Buchanan\n\n\nYork State Athletic Commission on 4 April 1973. The commission also warned Duran that his title recognition would be withdrawn. The New York State Athletic Commission had been attempting for two years (1972 - 1974) to get Duran to honor an agreement to fight Buchanan. But Duran refused to honor the contract to face Buchanan. In 1973, Buchanan started out by beating future world lightweight champion Jim Watt by a decision after 15 rounds, to regain the British lightweight title. Soon, he embarked on another international tour that included more", "id": "13762576" }, { "contents": "Guillermo Jones\n\n\nin Panama by first round Knockout. Now aligned with promoter Don King, Jones fought two light middleweight WBA world title bouts against Laurent Boudouani in 1998. He drew once and lost the rematch by split decision in 12 round contests. Jones fought his way through four weight classes. Later fighting as a cruiserweight in 2002, he fought Johnny Nelson for the WBO World cruiserweight title, drawing in 12 rounds in his third world title attempt. Most in attendance thought Jones had done enough to win the title from Nelson. After yet", "id": "9043210" }, { "contents": "Tony Ayala Jr.\n\n\n. The rehabilitation program kept him from having a $750,000 payday against Roberto Duran. With the Duran fight didn't happen, Ayala settled for about $150,000 to fight Argentinian Carlos Herrera. 'It doesn't bother me,' he said. 'I'm looking at it as a step closer to the world title. Davey Moore is going to have to meet me after this fight.' After defeating Carlos Herrera, November 20, 1982, he was scheduled to fight champion Davey Moore. By December 1983, Ayala", "id": "10919402" }, { "contents": "Noé González Alcoba\n\n\nNoé González Alcoba (born 12 May 1979) \"the coal-miner\" is an Uruguayan boxer and a former world title challenger. He fights in the super middleweight division, having boxed at middleweight previously. Having boxed mainly in Argentina and Uruguay for much of his early career, he managed to land a shot at the WBA World Middleweight title after only 14 fights, challenging the then world champion Felix Sturm in Germany. The German proved too classy however and won the fight by a wide points decision, earning Alcoba his", "id": "20636614" }, { "contents": "Vicente Mosquera\n\n\nVicente Eduardo Mosquera Mena (born December 9, 1979 in Panama City, Panama) is a Panamanian professional boxer. He is a former World Boxing Association (WBA) super-featherweight champion. On April 30, 2005 he defeated Yodsanan Sor Nanthachai (Yodsanan 3-K Battery) for the WBA world championship title, by a unanimous decision. The official scorers saw it 118-108, 116-111, 115-112. In the fight, Nanthachai was knocked down three times (in the first, third, and eleventh", "id": "7687336" }, { "contents": "Iran Barkley\n\n\nof the Year by \"Ring\" magazine. Following the defeat to Duran, Barkley took on undefeated Michael Nunn for the IBF and lineal middleweight titles, dropping a close majority decision. He next fought Nigel Benn in a challenge for the WBO middleweight title and was stopped on the three-knockdown rule at the end of a wild first round in which both fighters were hurt. After losing to Benn, Barkley underwent surgery for a detached retina and was inactive for a year. Barkley returned with two low-key wins at", "id": "8203381" }, { "contents": "Abraham Jacob Hollandersky\n\n\nSox Scandal, the event brought to the forefront the corruption of American sports as it approached the roaring 20's. Abe met Attell in four three round exhibition matches at Empire Theatre while Attell was giving speaking performances in New London near the end of his boxing career. Abe claimed to have fought what was likely a sparring match with Canadian Heavyweight champion Arthur Pelkey, who was a Panamanian national heavyweight title contender in February 1917 at Panama's Santa Anna Plaza against Kid Norfolk, during the same period Abe was fighting bouts at the", "id": "10244396" }, { "contents": "Shane Mosley\n\n\n23-6, 14 KOs) at the Roberto Durán Arena in Panama City, Panama for the WBA Continental super welterweight title on December 17, in a scheduled 10 round bout. Both boxers came in at around the welterweight limit, with Mosley slightly heavier and López fighting for the first time in 13 months. López was knocked down in the 2nd round following a left hook and a further three times in the last round, which put an end to the fight. Mosley improved his ledger to 49 victories, with 41", "id": "18757243" }, { "contents": "Dick Turpin (boxer)\n\n\nchampion. In his next bout, on 28 June 1948, Turpin fought Vince Hawkins for his British middleweight title. The fight was held at Villa Park, Birmingham and Turpin won on points over fifteen rounds. He now held both the British and Commonwealth middleweight titles. During late 1948 and early 1949, Turpin fought European boxers, drawing and then losing on points against Tiberio Mitri, of Italy, then being knocked out in seven rounds in a non-title fight against the then world middleweight champion, Marcel Cerdan, of", "id": "19946190" }, { "contents": "Juan Guzman (boxer)\n\n\nat San Juan, Puerto Rico, the Vargas one at Coliseo Roberto Clemente. By then he was a top-ten ranked Junior Flyweight by the World Boxing Association. WBA world Junior Flyweight champion Jaime Rios of Panama was 18–1–1 when he came to the Dominican Republic to defend his title against local Guzman during June 1976. Their fight took place on July 2, at Santo Domingo. It was a close fight through 15 rounds, not much stylistically separating champion and challenger. At the end, however, Guzman was deemed winner", "id": "7404136" }, { "contents": "BC Golden Gloves\n\n\nJuly 1975, Lampkin was the number one contender for the lightweight title held by Panama boxer Roberto Duran. The tournament took place in January 1984 in Burnaby at the Boxing BC Training centre that would also be used as a training camp for the 1984 and 1988 Canadian Olympic boxing teams At the end of the tournament the Golden Boy for 1984 was boxer Michael O'Connell and the runner-up was Joe Pendry, and the best youth boxer was Deep Butter. Bert Lowes, Fred Fuller, Rudy Bianco, Sid Knopp Vic Murdoch,", "id": "20462754" }, { "contents": "Gunnar Jackson\n\n\nGunnar Jackson (born 6 July 1986, Wainuiomata, Lower Hutt, New Zealand) is a New Zealand professional middleweight and Super Welterweight boxer. Jackson has had over thirty fights and has achieved four boxing titles, and has a highest position on the World Boxing Organisation rankings of 10th. Jackson fought the biggest fight of his career in January 2014 against four-time world champion Anthony Mundine. Jackson lost by unanimous points decision. Jackson fought Kerry Hope in June 2015. Hope was originally scheduled to fight Michael Zerafa for the Interim", "id": "1347008" }, { "contents": "Davey Moore (boxer, born 1959)\n\n\nyears in prison. Next, Moore defended against former two-division world champion Roberto Durán. Moore appeared to be overconfident against an aging 'Hands of Stone' Duran but Duran totally outclassed him and dished out vicious punishment, hammering shut one of Moore's eyes and stopping him in eight brutal rounds at Madison Square Garden. The beating was so one-sided that Moore's mother and girlfriend were both said to have fainted at ringside. Many knowledgeable observers believed that referee Ernesto Magana should have stopped the fight far earlier.", "id": "6112527" } ]

[ { "contents": "Ossie Duran\n\n\nOssie \"The Ghanaian Gladiator\" Duran (born 23 April 1977 in Accra) is a Ghanaian professional boxer, whose career has spanned over 3 decades (1990's/2000's/2010's). He has won the Ghanaian lightweight title, World Boxing Federation (WBF) Pan-European welterweight title, WBF European Welterweight Title, United States Boxing Association (USBA) Atlantic Coast Region middleweight title, Commonwealth welterweight title, and Commonwealth light middleweight title, drew with Eromosele Albert for the vacant International Boxing Federation (IBF) Continental Africa light middleweight title,", "id": "5080778" }, { "contents": "Tom Bogs\n\n\nwins and one draw. He suffered his first defeat against the former world welterweight and middleweight champion Emile Griffith in a non-title fight in June 1970. Bogs won the European light-heavyweight title in 1968 when he stopped German champion Lothar Stengel in the first round of the bout. He successfully defended the title against Piero Del Papa before moving down to the middleweight division for a title match against European champion Carlos Duran. Bogs defeated Duran and went on to successfully defend his middleweight title three times before losing a rematch to", "id": "19397152" }, { "contents": "Angel Robinson Garcia\n\n\nand International Boxing Hall of Fame member Roberto Duran at the Gimnasio Nuevo Panama-now Gimnasio Roberto Duran-at Panama City. Robinson Garcia gave Duran a relatively close fight but still lost by unanimous ten-round decision with scores of 99-93, 98-94 and 98-96, all in favor of the Panamanian. Robinson Garcia went 1-4 the rest of that year, facing, among others, Esteban De Jesus in San Juan, Puerto Rico, to whom he dropped a ten-round decision on", "id": "1307045" }, { "contents": "Josue Marquez\n\n\n15 round distance with Roberto Duran in a world title attempt; completing a total of 25 rounds against Duran divided in two fights without getting knocked out by the Panamanian. Viruet knocked Marquez out in round ten on April 8, 1978 at the Juan Ramon Loubriel stadium in San Juan, after which Marquez decided to retire from professional boxing. Marquez won 32, losing 12 and tying 2 of his 46 professional boxing fights, winning 7 and losing 2 of those by knockout. Marquez turned to training professional boxers for a while after", "id": "17936127" }, { "contents": "Roberto Durán\n\n\n(fighting for the minor International Boxing Council (IBC) belt). Durán fought Vinny Pazienza in 1994 and 1995 for the IBC Super Middleweight Championship and was defeated both times by unanimous decision, but many people felt Duran clearly won the first bout and he was robbed of the victory. In 1996, he was challenged by Héctor Camacho for the vacant IBC Middleweight Championship but lost by a very controversial unanimous decision. In 1997, Durán was defeated by former champion Jorge Castro. Durán fought Castro in a rematch bout and won", "id": "16507032" }, { "contents": "Hector Thompson\n\n\nHector Thompson (born 24 June 1949 in Kempsey, New South Wales) is an Indigenous Australian professional boxer who competed in four different weight divisions, Lightweight, Super lightweight, Welterweight and Junior middleweight during the 1970s and 80s. In 1973 he beat Joe Tetteh for the Commonwealth (British Empire) Super Lightweight Title, earning a shot at Roberto Duran in 1973 for the World Boxing Association World lightweight but lost by TKO. After capturing the Commonwealth title again in 1975, later that year he would go on to challenge Antonio Cervantes", "id": "5995492" }, { "contents": "José Durán (boxer)\n\n\non October 8, 1976. Duran, fighting in his home city of Madrid, was knocked down in the third round by a left hand to the jaw. Although Duran rose from the canvas, he was outworked by the faster challenger and lost his title via a split decision in a fight where both boxers finished with bloody faces. In his final fight Duran challenged the Italian-Australian champion Rocky Mattioli for the WBC Light Middleweight title. The result was never in doubt, as Mattioli knocked Duran down in the second,", "id": "13817397" }, { "contents": "Goody Petronelli\n\n\n, who had earlier won the title from Antuofermo. Hagler bloodied Minter early, winning on a third-round TKO. The Petronellis would guide Hagler through 12 successful world title defenses over 7 years, including celebrated bouts against Roberto Duran and Thomas Hearns, before he lost to Sugar Ray Leonard in another controversial judges' decision, a split verdict in Leonard's favor. It turned out to be Hagler's final fight. Petronelli trained others who would fight in world title bouts: World Boxing Organization super middleweight champion Steve Collins;", "id": "13838256" }, { "contents": "Andres Hernández\n\n\nstreak came to an end when he traveled to Panama to fight world-ranked Gilberto Illueca, and dropped a ten round unanimous decision. Hernandez then started another streak of wins, this time reaching eight consecutive victories before facing another up-and-coming Puerto Rican bantamweight, Wilfredo Gomez. The pair met on Saturday, December 20, 1975 at Roberto Clemente Coliseum in San Juan as part of a boxing program that included fights of Julian Solis, Larry Holmes and Roberto Duran defending his world Lightweight title in the main event against", "id": "7680623" }, { "contents": "Panama Joe Gans\n\n\naspects of boxing by partaking in bouts organized by his classmates. Under the guidance of H.R. Cambridge, a local Panamanian business manager, and real estate developer, Quinton adopted his ring name, and became a successful boxer in the Canal Zone where he fought his first thirty fights with considerable success. On October 10, 1915, Panama Joe first won the Lightweight Championship of Panama at only eighteen against Young Sam Langford at the Pacific Theatre in Panama City in a twenty-round points decision. He later took the Middleweight Championship of", "id": "1295301" }, { "contents": "Roberto Durán\n\n\ndecision. The bout was named the 1989 \"Fight of the Year\" by \"The Ring\". His reign was short lived once again as Duran moved up to super middleweight (although both fighters weighed in at the middleweight limit) for a third clash with Sugar Ray Leonard in December 1989 (a fight dubbed \"Uno Más\"—One More—by promoters), which Leonard won by wide unanimous decision. Durán seemed to be in decline after the fight, he attempted to win further middleweight titles in 1994, 1995 and 1996", "id": "16507031" }, { "contents": "José Durán (boxer)\n\n\nat winning the world title. He travelled to Monaco to fight Miguel de Oliveira for the vacant WBC Light Middleweight title. de Oliveira, a native of Brazil, won the title via an unanimous decision after a bloody battle which lasted the full fifteen rounds. In his next fight Duran lost his EBU title in Germany to Eckhard Dagge, a man Duran had previously beaten by a technical knockout in the eleventh round. On this occasion, however, it was Dagge who scored the knockout, with the fight being stopped in the", "id": "13817395" }, { "contents": "José Durán (boxer)\n\n\nby scoring a knockout over Ben Hamida in the third round. After winning 22 consecutive bouts Duran suffered his first defeat, losing to Jean Josselin via an eight round decision on June 22, 1970. Duran was able to avenge this defeat on May 21, 1971, once again the fight went the eight round distance although Duran won the decision on this occasion. Duran won his first championship on June 7, 1974 by beating Jacques Kechichian and thus winning the EBU title. On May 7, 1975 Duran made his first attempt", "id": "13817394" }, { "contents": "Roberto Durán\n\n\nfight (the \"No Más\" fight was officially recorded as a technical knockout, because Duran quit). Durán did not contend another title fight until 1989, but made the shot count when he won the WBC Middleweight title from Iran Barkley in February. The fight is considered one of Durán's greatest achievements, as the 37-year-old former lightweight champion took the middleweight crown, his fourth title. In a tough, back-and-forth fight, Durán knocked Barkley down in the eleventh round and won a close", "id": "16507030" }, { "contents": "José Durán (boxer)\n\n\nninth round. Duran once again challenged for the world title on May 18, 1976. On this occasion Duran travelled to Tokyo, Japan to successfully challenge Koichi Wajima for the Lineal and WBA light middleweight titles. Duran started the fight well by opening a large cut on the champion's forehead and knocking him down in the second round. Wajima was knocked down once again in the thirteenth round before the fight was finally stopped in the fourteenth. Duran lost his title in his first defence, against the Argentine challenger Miguel Angel Castellini", "id": "13817396" }, { "contents": "José Durán (boxer)\n\n\nJosé Manuel Durán Pérez, popularly known as \"Pepe Durán\" (born October 9, 1945 in Madrid, Spain) is a former Spanish professional boxer. During his eleven-year professional career Duran held the Lineal and WBA light middleweight titles. He challenged for the WBC version of the title and held the EBU title. He also competed in the men's welterweight event at the 1968 Summer Olympics. Duran made his professional debut on November 30, 1967 in Barcelona, Spain. Duran made a victorious start to his career", "id": "13817393" }, { "contents": "Edwin Rosario\n\n\nopponent had boxed 25 rounds against Roberto Duran-including a world lightweight championship bout-without being knocked out. Rosario eventually gained a record of 21–0 with 20 knockouts. This led to talks of a title fight against World Boxing Council (WBC) lightweight champion Alexis Argüello, to be held in Miami. But Argüello relinquished the title in order to move up in weight to challenge junior welterweight champion Aaron Pryor. With Arguello moving divisions, Rosario was matched with Mexico's José Luis Ramírez on May 1, 1983 for the vacant", "id": "5267805" }, { "contents": "Ken Buchanan\n\n\nwin over Chang Kil Lee on 4 December 1972. On 28 June 1972, Roberto Duran signed to defend it against Buchanan on 20 October 1972. However, Duran broke that agreement when the Panamanian Government insisted he made his first defense in Panama. He did, knocking out Jimmy Robertson on 20 January 1973. Duran also had signed a second contract with the MSG on 25 October 1972, to defend against Buchanan on or before 30 June 1973. But Duran broke that agreement again. Duran had his license suspended by the New", "id": "13762575" }, { "contents": "Koichi Wajima\n\n\nhis Lineal and WBA light middleweight titles as well. However, he regained his Lineal and WBA titles in February, 1976, with a 15th round KO over Yuh. Wajima lost to Jose Manuel Duran in his first defense, losing the world title for the third time in his career. He fought his final match In June, 1977, challenging Eddie Gazo for the WBA super welterweight title, but lost by 11th round KO. This was the last fight of his career. His record was 31-6-1 (", "id": "20508599" }, { "contents": "Wilfredo Gómez\n\n\ndirected by Mario Diaz and was filmed in New York City. Gómez has three daughters Jennifer, Gina and Liz Irina and one son Wilfredo Junior. He is good friends with Panamanian boxing legend Roberto Duran. Gómez was once married to Carolina Gamboa. On April 17, 2015, Gómez was arrested by Puerto Rican police after allegedly hitting his 59-year-old companion, a lady with whom he had been living for ten months. He was released after she refused to raise charges against him. British boxer Michael Gomez adapted his last", "id": "3553965" }, { "contents": "Caleb Truax\n\n\nRichardson, and James Crayton. His professional loss came to former undisputed middleweight world champion Jermain Taylor (Truax knocked Taylor down in the 9th round.) Truax drew Ossie Duran in a 10-round non-title bout at the Target Center in Minneapolis. The bout was part of an eight-fight card promoted by Mike Tyson's new company, Iron Mike Productions. Mike Tyson was in attendance at the event, and said of Truax, \"I hear he is exciting and he is something that we need for boxing, he", "id": "16222269" }, { "contents": "Massimiliano Duran\n\n\nMassimiliano Duran (born November 3, 1963 in Ferrara, Italy) is a former Italian professional boxer who held the Cruiser WBC title and the European championship between 1990 and 1991. He is also known for being the only fighter in boxing history to earn a shot at, win, and defend a world title with three consecutive disqualification wins. Duran was born in Ferrara. His father was the Argentine-Italian boxer Juan Carlos Duran; his brother, the Italian boxer Alessandro Duran. Duran turned pro in 1986 when he defeated", "id": "13303578" }, { "contents": "Marvelous Marvin Hagler\n\n\na staple on HBO, the Pay Per View of its time. A fight against Roberto Durán followed. Durán was the first challenger to last the distance with Hagler in a world-championship bout. Durán was the WBA Light Middleweight Champion and went up in weight to challenge for Hagler's middleweight crown. Hagler won a unanimous 15-round decision, although after 13 rounds, Duran was ahead by one point on two scorecards and even on the third. Hagler, with his left eye swollen and cut, came on strong in the", "id": "4940319" }, { "contents": "Vinny Paz\n\n\nSantana fight, Pazienza went on to defeat Brett Lally by a 6th-round TKO, and then, in another TKO, former world champion Lloyd Honeyghan in the 10th round. Pazienza went on to win the vacant IBO middleweight world title in 1993 with an 11th-round KO over Dan Sherry. Pazienza then went on to beat Roberto Duran twice, both via decision, with the IBC super middleweight title on the line both times. In June 1995, Pazienza lost his world title bid against IBF world super middleweight champion Roy", "id": "12129878" }, { "contents": "Juan Carlos Giménez Ferreyra\n\n\nJuan Carlos Giménez Ferreyra (born 20 December 1960) is a Paraguayan boxer. During his career he was WBC International light heavyweight champion and unsuccessfully fought for the World Super Middleweight title four times, first against Mauro Galvano in 1992, then against Chris Eubank the same year, against Nigel Benn in 1994 and finally against Joe Calzaghe in 1998, losing via knockout. During his career he went the distance with Nigel Benn, Chris Eubank and Roberto Duran. Gimenez last fought in 2010, winning the Paraguayan Cruiserweight title against Nicasio Moray", "id": "17951209" }, { "contents": "Massimiliano Duran\n\n\nMomo Cupelic. The win earned him the nickname \"Momo\". Duran's first defeat came by the hand of Ndomingiedi Lusikina. This would be the beginning of a long-standing rivalry, that will result in the two boxers fighting five times. In 1990 Duran won the WBC Cruiserweight Title by defeating Carlos De León, when De León was disqualified for hitting after the bell to end the 11th round. Duran was leading on the cards. His first defence was against Anaclet Wamba. Duran won by DQ after Wamba had", "id": "13303579" }, { "contents": "Héctor Camacho\n\n\namateur career, Camacho won three New York Golden Gloves tournaments, beginning with the Sub-Novice 112 lbs championship in 1978. During his professional career, Camacho had many notable fights against some of the biggest names in boxing, defeating Roberto Durán twice late in Duran's career, and knocking out Sugar Ray Leonard to send him into permanent retirement. He also fought Julio César Chávez, Félix Trinidad, and Oscar De La Hoya, among others. During his later years, Camacho expanded his popular role and appeared on a variety", "id": "5327031" }, { "contents": "Eckhard Dagge\n\n\n. He would later embark on an amateur career, in which he won 66 out of 80 bouts, before falling short of making the 1972 Olympic Team. Dagge would win the German Middleweight title, in his 6th bout. Dagge would follow up with wins over notable, but faded fighters Denny Moyer and Manuel González. In 1974, Dagge challenged Jose Manuel Duran for the European Light Middleweight title, losing by 11th-round TKO. He came back the next year however, and stopped Duran in the 9th round, to", "id": "18853804" }, { "contents": "Antonio Cervantes\n\n\nLightweight champion Roberto Durán, who was coming up in weight. Duran decided to challenge Sugar Ray Leonard instead, however, and Cervantes vs. Duran never materialized. On August 2, 1980, Cervantes dropped his next title challenger, Aaron Pryor, to the canvas in the first round. Pryor recovered, however, and beat Cervantes by a knockout in round four. This turned out to be Cervantes' last world title fight. He fought two times more for the FECARBOX WBC title, winning both fights shortly before retiring in 1980", "id": "11465736" }, { "contents": "USA Tuesday Night Fights\n\n\nfighter by fighting several four rounders on \"Tuesday Night Fights\". Roberto Duran was another fixture on \"Tuesday Night Fights\" later in his career, and his 100th professional bout was carried by USA. \"Tuesday Night Fights\" also showcased the bizarre from time to time. Among these was a fight from former pro football star Mark Gastineau's controversial boxing career which saw him lose to a journeyman fighter, Andrew Golota's infamous fight against Samson Po'uha in 1995 which saw the Polish fighter, who appeared frequently on \"Tuesday", "id": "5898536" }, { "contents": "Jacques LeBlanc\n\n\n22 wins, 4 losses and 2 draws when he fought WBC Middleweight Champion Roberto Durán on June 29, 1993. LeBlanc was billed as a severe underdog but lasted the full 10 rounds with Duran, losing on points. LeBlanc fought the undefeated Richie Woodhall in October 1994 for the Commonwealth Middleweight crown but again lost on points. He continued boxing until 1997, but winning again only once. In 2010, Jacques was inducted into the City of Moncton Wall of Fame . He currently holds the record for most matches without being knocked", "id": "3179570" }, { "contents": "Andy Lee (boxer)\n\n\nResort Casino in Mashantucket, Connecticut, and won via technical knockout at 0:56 in the 10th round. He avenged his loss to Brian Vera on 1 October 2011 by unanimous decision. On 10 March 2012, Lee Knocked out Mexico's Saul Duran in the 2nd round of a stay busy fight. On 16 June 2012, Lee challenged undefeated Titleholder Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. for the WBC World Middleweight Title in the Sun Bowl Stadium in El Paso, Texas televised on HBO World Championship Boxing. Lee got off to a good start,", "id": "15093101" }, { "contents": "Joe Cortez\n\n\ntook on the responsibility to referee some major Championship fights. During this time he was the third man in the ring in several professional Mike Tyson and Roberto Duran fights. As eminent referees Richard Steele and Mills Lane retired at the dawn of the 21st century, Cortez became one of Nevada and New York's preferred boxing referees for world title fights. He has refereed over 170 world title bouts, among which figure the first Oscar De La Hoya-Julio César Chávez meeting, Evander Holyfield and Riddick Bowe's first title fight and", "id": "18491003" }, { "contents": "Reuben Duran\n\n\nnot for the injury, he would have gotten a stoppage. Duran would support his bold statement in his next fight as he claimed a victory over Ryan Diaz via KO with only 3 seconds left in the fight. In subsequent bouts, Duran submitted both Kana Hyatt and Maurice Eazel in the first round. Duran signed with the UFC in early 2011 and made his debut at UFC on Versus 3 against Takeya Mizugaki, replacing an injured Francisco Rivera. Duran lost the fight via close split decision. Duran faced Francisco Rivera on June", "id": "15069085" }, { "contents": "Héctor Camacho\n\n\n. Before this fight, Camacho was trained by Angelo Dundee. His last two fights resulted in a draw and a loss, against Luis Ramón Campas and Saúl Duran, respectively. His last fight against Duran was on May 14, 2010. On January 6, 2005, Camacho was arrested by police in Gulfport, Mississippi on charges of trying to burgle an electronic goods store and carrying the drug ecstasy on him. In 2007, he declared himself guilty of being under the influence at the time of the burglary. He was", "id": "5327048" }, { "contents": "Jack Blackburn\n\n\nhad a slight advantage in height and reach. Blackburn fought the Barbados-born boxer Panama Joe Gans, who had boxed extensively in Panama where he lived prior to 1917. Panama Joe held the World Colored Middleweight Championship from 1920 to 1924, and held a Panamanian Lightweight Title in his youth. On July 24, 1922, Blackburn lost one of his last bouts to Gans in Indianapolis, Indiana, in a fourth-round technical knockout of a scheduled ten round bout. Panama Joe was a formidable boxer and fourteen years younger", "id": "10094030" }, { "contents": "Vinny Paz\n\n\nHector \"Macho\" Camacho and WBA World Champion Loreto Garza. In 1991, Pazienza moved into the junior middleweight division. In his first fight at junior middleweight, he won the USBA championship against Ron Amundsen in a 12-round decision. He defeated the WBA world jr. middleweight champion Gilbert Delé with a 12th-round TKO in Providence, becoming the second fighter in boxing history to win both the lightweight and junior middleweight world championships. Pazienza was forced to relinquish the title due to a serious car accident in which his neck was", "id": "12129876" }, { "contents": "Roberto Durán\n\n\nvia unanimous decision. In 1998, at the age of 47, he challenged 28-year-old WBA Middleweight Champion William Joppy. Joppy, a trim, quick-fisted fighter, battered Durán to defeat in just 3 rounds. It was Duran's most emphatic loss since the Hearns fight, over a decade earlier. Durán then announced his retirement in August 1998, but was back fighting in 1999. In June 2000, Durán avenged a previous loss to Pat Lawlor and won the NBA Super Middleweight Championship on his 49th birthday.", "id": "16507033" }, { "contents": "Roberto Vásquez\n\n\nRoberto Gaspar Vásquez Ramirez (born May 26, 1983 in Panama City) is a Panamanian professional boxer who held the WBA light flyweight title from 2005 to 2006. He also held the WBA flyweight interim title from 2006 to 2007. Vásquez lost in his professional boxing debut against Angelo Dottin on March 17, 2001. The four-round fight occurred in Dottin's hometown of Colón, Panama. Despite Vásquez's cutting Dottin's right cheek in the first round, all three judges scored the bout 39-38 for Dottin.", "id": "15594966" }, { "contents": "Roberto Durán\n\n\nwith an incredible 71–1 record. On June 20, 1980, Durán captured the WBC Welterweight title by defeating Leonard via a 15-round unanimous decision (145–144, 148–147, 146–144). The fight became known as \"The Brawl in Montreal\". After defeating Leonard in Montreal, Duran gained iconic status in his home country, Panama. Leonard initiated the rematch clause and asked for the fight to be the following November. In their second fight, Leonard successfully changed his tactics, using more footwork and movement than he had in their", "id": "16507022" }, { "contents": "Roberto Durán\n\n\nfirst fight, and Duran was unable to get Leonard against the ropes. During the seventh round, after Leonard had gained a slight lead on the scorecards, he began taunting and mocking Duran. Halfway into the eighth round, Duran suddenly stopped fighting, repeatedly saying, \"No más\" (\"no more\"). In a 2016 interview, Duran claimed that what he actually said was, \"No Sigo\" (\"I won't go on\"). He took some time to recover from that fight and", "id": "16507023" }, { "contents": "Kirkland Laing\n\n\n. Laing's boxing career was sporadic, as he often failed to deliver on his promise, appearing under-prepared against less able fighters and indulging in drink, drugs and women. In the year following his victory over Duran, Laing went missing, blowing his earnings. In that same period Duran was to fight four times, earning an estimated $6m. Laing continued to fight until he was 40, and retired after a stoppage loss to future world champion Glen Catley. After retiring, Laing continue to live in", "id": "8014673" }, { "contents": "Jimmy Batten\n\n\nThomas stopped him in the ninth round to take the title. Batten won his next five fights before losing on points in May 1981 to Chris Christian. He then travelled to the United States, where he was based in Chicago for almost two years; There he had a series of fights starting with two easy wins before he was stopped in the first round in May 1982 by Mario Maldonado. He beat Jeff Madison in September before facing Roberto Duran in November 1982 at the Miami Orange Bowl; Duran took a unanimous decision,", "id": "22189495" }, { "contents": "Ray Lampkin\n\n\nRay Lampkin (born 1948 in Portland, Oregon) is a retired professional boxer who lost the 1975 World Boxing Association (WBA) lightweight title fight against Roberto Durán in Panama. He won the North American Boxing Federation lightweight title fight but later lost it against Esteban de Jesús at the Felt Forum in New York City. He finished his career with a total of 34 wins (16 by knock out), six losses (two by knock out) and one draw. Lampkin was inducted into the Oregon Sports Hall of Fame", "id": "279465" }, { "contents": "Roberto Durán\n\n\nthe end of the seventh. Finally the fight was stopped in the eighth round as Moore was taking such a horrific beating and Durán won his third world title. After the victory, Durán was hoisted up in the air as the crowd sang \"Happy Birthday\" to a sobbing Durán. Durán later fought for the World Middleweight Championship, meeting Marvelous Marvin Hagler in Las Vegas in November 1983, during the fight Duran broke his hand and lost in a very competitive fight that went the full fifteen rounds, although after 12 rounds", "id": "16507027" }, { "contents": "Harold Reitman\n\n\nprofessional record of 7-1-1, Reitman fought a three-round charity exhibition match against the five-time world champion Roberto Duran at the Hollywood Diplomat Hotel in Miami Beach. On November 11, 1991, Reitman fought heavyweight Tim Anderson for the NBA Independent Cruiserweight title in a televised fight. Though Reitman scored two 9th round knockdowns, the fight ended in a draw. In March 1992, Reitman was the 12th ranked Heavyweight boxer in the world according to the International Boxing Council. On December 12, 1995,", "id": "9844517" }, { "contents": "Jeffrey Mathebula\n\n\nlost to Celestino Caballero. Hence, Mathebula fought against Caballero for the WBA Super World and IBF World super bantamweight title. However, he lost his first world title shot against Caballero via a split decision at the Roberto Duran Arena in Panama on 30 April 2009. After losing to Takalani Ndlovu via a split decision in an IBF junior featherweight title eliminator in Brakpan, Gauteng in September 2010, Mathebula defeated Ndlovu via a split decision in their rematch in Brakpan to be crowned the IBF junior featherweight champion. It was the SABC-", "id": "16997776" }, { "contents": "Angel Robinson Garcia\n\n\nhim fight 12 times, including a September 10 loss by ten-round decision to future WBC world Lightweight-and Spain's second-Champion Pedro Carrasco at the Basque Country and a December 30 defeat at the hands of 19-2-4 Chris Fernandez by ten-round decision also. Robinson Garcia contested 17 bouts in 1970. These included an August 21 match with Jose Duran, won by Duran by ten rounds decision at Madrid and a November 20 bout with French Roger Menetrey which Menetrey won by ten-round decision", "id": "1307042" }, { "contents": "Sugar Ray Leonard vs. Thomas Hearns\n\n\nSugar Ray Leonard and Thomas Hearns are considered to be two of the best boxers of all-time. They fought twice, with Leonard winning in 1981 and a draw in 1989. Both fights are considered to be classics. Sugar Ray Leonard won the WBC welterweight title with a fifteenth-round knockout of Wilfred Benítez in 1979. He lost it to Roberto Durán by a close decision in June 1980 and regained it five months later in the infamous No Más Fight, in which Duran quit in the eighth round. In June", "id": "20124047" }, { "contents": "Brandon Gonzáles\n\n\nOlympic Team in 2004 he withdrew to begin his professional career in 2007. While boxing as an amateur he worked as a janitor at Arco Arena.. On January 29, 2010 Gonzales won a fight against veteran Dumont Welliver by T.K.O., the fight was on the undercard of ESPN's Friday Night Fights. He maintained an unblemished streak of 17 wins until his bout with Thomas Oosthuizen that resulted in a draw. On October 28, 2011 he defeated Ossie Duran in the Main Event on Showtime's ShoBox at Bally's in Atlantic City", "id": "18287532" }, { "contents": "Miguel Ángel Castellini\n\n\nManuel Duran, in front of a sell out crowd of 12,000. Duran, who was making the first defence of his title, was knocked down in the third round by a left hand to the jaw. Although the champion rose from the canvas, he was outworked by the faster challenger and lost his title via a split decision in a fight where both boxers finished with bloody faces. Castellini's championship reign only lasted one fight as he lost it in his first defence to Eddie Gazo on March 5, 1977. Gazo", "id": "13522966" }, { "contents": "Hilario Zapata\n\n\nwas knocked out in the first round by the WBC world Jr. Bantamweight champion Sung-Kil Moon. A win against Moon would have made Zapata a member of the exclusive group of world boxing champions in three different weight categories or more. It can also be added that Zapata's first pair of boxing gloves, when he was 12, came as a present from Duran himself. Panamanian newspaper \"El Panama America\" declared on one of their editorials that Zapata, according to their opinion, should be inducted to the International Boxing", "id": "9857520" }, { "contents": "Panama Joe Gans\n\n\nPanama Joe Gans was a black boxer who held the World Colored Middleweight Championship for four years, shortly before it was discontinued. Born Cyril Quinton Jr. on November 14, 1896 in Barbados, British West Indies and raised in the Panama Canal Zone, the 5'7\" Quinton originally fought out of Panama and then New York City. He took his ringname from boxing great Joe Gans, the first black American fighter to win a world boxing title. He found his greatest fame fighting as a middleweight at between 147 and 160 lbs,", "id": "1295299" }, { "contents": "Panama Lewis\n\n\nCarlos \"Panama\" Lewis (born November 4, 1945) is an American boxing trainer. He was convicted of tampering with the gloves of Luis Resto in the Resto vs \"Irish\" Billy Collins fight of 1983, which subsequently led to the end of Collins' boxing career. Collins suffered from depression and possibly committed suicide following the tragic assault. Lewis was a disciple of trainer Chickie Ferrara. He was Roberto Durán's cornerman when Duran lost a unanimous decision against Wilfred Benitez in 1982. During the early 1980s, he", "id": "11205984" }, { "contents": "Pernell Whitaker\n\n\nfight, he basically faced no real trouble against Vásquez in route to the win. This was a history making fight for Whitaker, as he became only the fourth fighter in history - joining Thomas Hearns, Sugar Ray Leonard, and Roberto Duran - to have won a legitimate world title in four different weight classes. However, he chose to move back to welterweight. Whitaker successfully defended his WBC belt against Scotland's Gary Jacobs on August 26, 1995. In January, 1997, Whitaker put his title on the line against", "id": "20971754" }, { "contents": "Carlos Palomino\n\n\nundercard. Palomino lost to Duran by decision in ten rounds, and he announced his retirement from boxing right away. Palomino began his comeback on January 10, 1997, beating Ismaél Díaz by a knockout in round nine. He won four fights that year, including one over former world champion Rene Arredondo, but when he lost by decision in ten to former Oscar De La Hoya world title challenger Wilfredo Rivera on May 30, 1998, he decided to retire for good, and has stayed in retirement ever since. In 1978", "id": "12841764" }, { "contents": "Roberto Durán\n\n\nRoberto Durán Samaniego (born June 16, 1951) is a Panamanian former professional boxer who competed from 1968 to 2001. He held world championships in four weight classes: lightweight, welterweight, light middleweight and middleweight, as well as reigns as the undisputed and lineal lightweight champion, and the lineal welterweight champion. He is also the second boxer to have competed over a span of five decades, the first being Jack Johnson. Durán was known as a versatile, technical brawler and pressure fighter, which earned him the nickname of", "id": "16507013" }, { "contents": "Joshua Clottey\n\n\nwelterweight title in his next fight. He then rolled off a 10 fight winning streak highlighted by his first win on American soil and capture of several minor welterweight and middleweight titles. The streak culminated in an IBF intercontinental welterweight title. On December 2, 2006, Clottey earned his first shot at a world title but broke his hand in the fourth round of his fight against World Boxing Organization champion Antonio Margarito. That bout against Margarito has since come under controversial suspicion following news reports (released after Margarito's fight with Shane Mosley", "id": "11102893" }, { "contents": "Aaron Pryor\n\n\nten years in prison after he was convicted of 29 counts of fraud and embezzlement. Pryor was then offered $750,000 to fight Roberto Duran in April 1981, but Pryor turned it down because his new attorney told him not to sign anything until he worked out a new contract with manager Buddy LaRosa. By the time they worked out a new agreement, the chance to fight Duran was gone. On June 27, 1981, Pryor knocked out Lennox Blackmore in the second round. He then defended the title against undefeated Dujuan Johnson", "id": "8987862" }, { "contents": "Roberto Durán\n\n\nChorrillo in the district \"La Casa de Piedra\" (The House of Stone) Panama. He began sparring with experienced boxers at the Neco de La Guardia gymnasium when he was only eight years old. Durán competed as an amateur compiling a record of 13–3. Having 16 amateur fights under his belt, he made his professional debut in 1968 at the age of 16. Duran won his first 31 consecutive fights, and scored knockout victories over future Featherweight Champion Ernesto Marcel and former Super Featherweight Champion Hiroshi Kobayashi, culminating in his", "id": "16507016" }, { "contents": "Wilfredo Gómez\n\n\nOn May 18, 2003, Gómez returned to Panama, where he was received by Duran and Eusebio Pedroza, among others. In a message geared towards Panamanians, he expressed thanks to that country, calling it his second country and saying, among other things \"I'm very motivated now that I will return to Puerto Rico, and no one should be surprised if I buy an apartment in Panama and move my family here\". However, he bought a house in Orlando, Florida in 2006. Gómez had a record", "id": "3553963" }, { "contents": "Jacob Duran\n\n\nSandman\" Sanchez before furthering his career in professional boxing and mixed martial arts. In boxing, Duran works on the Klitschko brothers and Andre Ward. On November 23, 2014 Duran was in the corner of Chris Algieri when he took on Manny Pacquiao for the WBO welterweight title at Cotai Arena, Venetian Resort, Macao, Macao S.A.R., China. On May 29, 2015, Duran was in the corner of Chris Algieri once again when he took on Amir Khan for the WBC Silver Welterweight title at The Barclays Center, Brooklyn", "id": "2958564" }, { "contents": "Edwin Rodríguez (boxer)\n\n\nEdwin Rodríguez (born May 5, 1985) is a Dominican professional boxer who lives in Worcester, Massachusetts. Starred in the box office hit Bleed For This as Roberto Duran Rodriguez moved to Worcester at age 13 with dreams of becoming the next great Dominican ballplayer. Winters in the Bay State made for a short baseball season and two years later, he abandoned the diamond for the ring. Rodriguez had an 84–9 record and won the USA Boxing Championships 2005 and the National Golden Gloves 2006 as a middleweight (165 pounds).", "id": "15244912" }, { "contents": "Steve Smoger\n\n\n, New York. On May 27, 2017 in Atlantic City, New Jersey Smoger became the first professional boxing referee to be inducted into the newly created Atlantic City Boxing Hall of Fame, joining Don King and Michael Spinks among other inductees. Smoger's Hall of Fame resume comprises five inductions Smoger has officiated the bouts featuring such professional boxers as Mike Tyson, Lennox Lewis, Larry Holmes, Evander Holyfield, Ray Mercer, Steve Cunningham, John Ruiz, Roberto Duran, Hector Camacho, Roy Jones, Jr., James Toney,", "id": "12530988" }, { "contents": "Panama Blue\n\n\nPanama Blue is rainforest spring water and a product of Panama Springs S.A. Panama Blue is a brand of luxury rainforest spring water. Panama Blue is the number one premium bottled water brand of Panama. The brand ambassadors are boxer Roberto Duran and Carolina Dementiev, a Panamanian model and triathlete. Panama Blue is bottled at the source in the mountains of Cerro Azul, surrounded by the Chagres National Park in the Panamanian rainforest. The spring is located about 800m above sea level. Because of the soil, the volcanic rocks and the", "id": "19226350" }, { "contents": "Roberto Durán\n\n\ngained even more weight to contend for the WBC Light Middleweight title, but losing in his first attempt at a championship in that division on January 30, 1982, against Wilfred Benítez by a 15-round unanimous decision, this after having defeated Nino Gonzalez and Luigi Minchillo, two rated Light Middleweights, both by ten-round decisions in non-title bouts. Durán was also to lose his comeback fight in September 1982 in Detroit. Kirkland Laing, from London, shocked the boxing world, producing the type of display his talents promised", "id": "16507024" }, { "contents": "Richard Green (referee)\n\n\nwas Muhammad Ali's loss to Larry Holmes in 1980. Green officiated two high-profile fights in 1982. Early in the year he refereed Wilfred Benitez's fight against Roberto Duran for Benitez's super welterweight title. Later he was the referee in the Ray Mancini's first-round knockout of Arturo Frias, a win that gave Mancini the WBA lightweight championship. On November 13, 1982, Green was assigned to work Mancini's second defense of that title, a match against the Korean contender Duk Koo Kim that was televised", "id": "8256032" }, { "contents": "Nat Jacobs\n\n\nNathaniel \"Nat\" J. S. Jacobs (born 1 December 1939) is an English amateur and professional boxer of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, who won the Central (England) Area middleweight title and challenged for the British Boxing Board of Control British middleweight title. His professional fighting weight varied from , i.e. welterweight, through light middleweight and middleweight, to , i.e. light heavyweight. He was managed/trained by former boxer Stan Skinkiss. Born in Manchester, Jacobs began his professional career in November 1960 with a points victory", "id": "16077543" }, { "contents": "Light middleweight\n\n\nOctober 17, was won by Griffith via a 15-round decision. Three days later, the World Boxing Association championship was created when Denny Moyer outpointed Joey Giambra. The World Boxing Council recognized the WBA champion as the true division champion until 1975, when it stripped their current champion and sanctioned a fight between Miguel de Oliveira and Jose Duran for the vacant title. De Oliveira won the title over 15 rounds in 1975. The International Boxing Federation crowned its first champion when Mark Medal defeated Earl Hargrove in 1984. The World Boxing Organization", "id": "11957407" }, { "contents": "Héctor Camacho\n\n\nhim in his career) to defeat Craig Houk by knockout in round three. He won consecutive unanimous ten-round decisions over Clinton McNeil and Raúl Jorge Muñoz. After that, his boxing career went on hiatus, as he faced criminal charges. He pled guilty to burglary and acknowledged drug abuse, but was given probation. Camacho returned to boxing on July 18, 2008, competing against Perry Ballard for the World Boxing Empire's Middleweight Championship. The fight lasted seven rounds. Camacho won when Ballard's corner threw the towel", "id": "5327047" }, { "contents": "Panama Joe Gans\n\n\nPanama by knocking out Benny McGovern in the third of fifteen rounds on November 30, 1916 at the Santa Ana Plaza in Panama City. At the time, these titles were often described as extending to both Central and South America. In his first bout after taking the Middleweight Championship of Panama on December 12, 1916, though barely twenty-one years old, he soundly defeated Abraham Jacob Hollandersky, a former holder of the Panamanian Heavyweight Championship in 20 rounds in Panama City. In 1917, Panama Joe was brought to New", "id": "1295302" }, { "contents": "Murderers' Row (boxing)\n\n\ncounted as Burley’s conquests. He was ranked in the top 10 in the Welterweight and Middleweight divisions for most of the 1940s, without receiving a title shot. (Burley did hold the World Colored Welterweight and World Colored Middleweight Championship titles.) Near the end of his career Burley took to fighting Heavyweights in a bid to find meaningful contests, including J.D. Turner and future Heavyweight champ Ezzard Charles. Eventually, Burley would retire after winning 83 bouts, without ever being able to meet in the ring the champions of the time", "id": "6667729" }, { "contents": "Reuben Duran\n\n\nadditions of wrestling, Brazilian jiu-jitsu, and Muay Thai. Reuben began his career with multiple fights for King of the Cage, and other small promotions in California. As an amateur competitor, Duran has distinguished himself by being a six time winner of Grapplers Quest. In a memorable match, Duran fought Greg Guzman, hiding his injuries that included 2 torn ligaments in his right hand. In spite of the injuries, Duran still earned the victory. Later, in an interview, Duran voiced his confidence that were it", "id": "15069084" }, { "contents": "Boardwalk Hall\n\n\n, Oscar De La Hoya, Roberto Duran, Lennox Lewis, Roy Jones Jr., Floyd Mayweather Jr., Bernard Hopkins, Riddick Bowe, Julio César Chávez, Héctor Camacho, Micky Ward, and Arturo Gatti. In September 2007, it was the venue for the Kelly Pavlik – Jermain Taylor boxing match for the World Boxing Council, World Boxing Organization and \"The Ring\" magazine's middleweight championships. On December 12, 1965, the New York Ukrainians defeated Philadelphia Ukrainian Nationals 3-2 in the first regulation indoor soccer match", "id": "5560408" }, { "contents": "Phil Edwards (boxer)\n\n\nmember of the public who was attempting to take a kick at the new champion. Edward's very next fight after his title success was against Nigerian boxing legend Dick Tiger. Tiger was a one-time world middleweight and light-heavyweight world champion, and Edwards showed his class by lasting the full ten rounds, losing on points. After the Tiger fight, Edwards was back to winning ways, and was victorious in his first four fights of 1958, defeating Commonwealth title challenger Lew Lazar, Scotland's John Woolard, journeyman", "id": "19060017" }, { "contents": "Carl Thompson (boxer)\n\n\nin February 1993. In February 1994, Thompson traveled to Ferrara, Emilia Romagna, Italy and won the European title by defeating Massimiliano Duran by KO in eight rounds, and in his next bout knocked out France's Akim Tafer in six rounds at Epernay, Marne, France to retain his European title. After winning two mark-time fights, Thompson was matched against Ralf Rocchigiani in a bout for the vacant WBO cruiserweight title at the G-Mex Leisure Centre, Manchester in June 1995. Both fighters were knocked down in", "id": "14087508" }, { "contents": "Luis Federico Thompson\n\n\nLuis Federico Thompson (December 19, 1927 – January 8 , 2010) was a Panamanian Argentinian professional boxer. Thompson was born in Colon, Panama, later moved to Argentina, where he was nationalized and afterwards became the Argentine and South American boxing champion. Thompson debuted in 1947 with a fight against Wilfredo Brown in Panama City which ended in a draw. On October 7, 1951, he fought Wilfredo Brewster defeating him and winning the Panamanian Lightweight Title for the first time. Two months later, he fought Wilfredo Brown again", "id": "20078674" }, { "contents": "Jawaid Khaliq\n\n\nJawaid Khaliq, MBE (born 30 July 1970), is a British former professional boxer. A dual Pakistan national, he became the first British Asian boxing world champion, winning the International Boxing Organization (IBO) welterweight title and defending it for seven constructive bouts before retiring. During his boxing career he also held the Commonwealth welterweight title, World Boxing Federation Inter-Continental Light Middleweight Title, Midlands Area light middleweight title and Midlands Area welterweight title. He is the first Kashmiri world champion boxer. Khaliq took up boxing at", "id": "22058424" }, { "contents": "Omar Sheika\n\n\nOmar Sheika (born February 20, 1977) is an American former professional boxer and multiple time super middleweight world title challenger. He is of Palestinian descent. Sheika compiled a successful amateur career, capturing a National Middleweight Championship at National AAU Boxing Tournament in 1996. Sheika has enjoyed some success in his pro career. His first fight was against Billy James. Sheika won the fight by TKO on the second round. Sheika stayed undefeated for about a year. Sheika was involved in ESPN Friday Night Fights \"Fight of the Year", "id": "7826746" }, { "contents": "Roberto Durán\n\n\nchampion the moment Durán stepped into the ring to box Hearns. Durán again made history in the fight, but this time it was the wrong kind. Hearns dropped Durán twice in the first round and as he rose to his feet after the second knockdown, which ended the round, the former champion did not know where his corner was. Hearns went on to knock Duran down a third time in the second round and the fight was stopped, marking the first time in his career that Durán had been knocked out in a", "id": "16507029" }, { "contents": "Wally Swift\n\n\nJohnny Pritchett due to an eye injury. Swift beat Peter Sharpe in May 1966 in an eliminator to face Pritchett, winning on points. In February 1967 he faced Pritchett at the Nottingham Ice Stadium for the title, losing on points over fifteen rounds. In September 1967 Swift faced Sandro Mazzinghi for the European super welterweight title in Milan; The fight was stopped in the sixth round due to injuries to Swift. In March 1968 Swift challenged Juan Carlos Duran for the European middleweight title. Swift lost the fight after being disqualified in", "id": "6876166" }, { "contents": "Hands of Stone\n\n\nup in Panama, Durán is homeschooled by Chaflan, who teaches young Roberto some vital life lessons. Later, Duran joins a boxing club with Nestor \"Plomo\" Quiñones as his coach. As he reaches 20, an American legendary boxing trainer Ray Arcel, who nearly lost his life after being attacked by an unknown assailant in 1953 in New York City and is now living with his wife Stephanie, notices Roberto's raw talent and punching power and takes the young fighter under his wing, becoming his coach. Not long after", "id": "2732439" }, { "contents": "Larry Estridge\n\n\nLarry Estridge (born 17 June 1902, St. Kitts, British West Indies) was a middleweight boxer and the last holder of the World Colored Middleweight Championship. The 5'7\" middleweight fought out of New York City from 1922 to 1929, racking up a career record of 53 wins against 23 losses and two draws from 1922 to 1929. Estridge fought colored middleweight champion Panama Joe Gans for his title on July 26, 1924 at Yankee Stadium, defeating the champ via a unanimous decision in their 10-round bout. After scoring two victories", "id": "1295287" }, { "contents": "Lennox Blackmoore\n\n\nLennox Blackmoore (born July 10, 1950 in Georgetown, Guyana) is a Guyanese professional light/light welter/welter/light middle/middleweight boxer of the 1970s and '80s who won the Guyanese lightweight title, Guyanese light middleweight title, and Commonwealth lightweight title, and was a challenger for the World Boxing Association (WBA) World light welterweight title against Aaron Pryor, and World Boxing Council (WBC) FECARBOX light welterweight title against Antonio Cervantes, his professional fighting weight varied from , i.e. lightweight to , i.e. middleweight", "id": "2810858" }, { "contents": "Abraham Jacob Hollandersky\n\n\nand skill that he would act as a sparring partner to prepare Jack Dempsey for his September 1920 Heavyweight Title bout with Hall of Famer Billy Miske as well as Dempsey's earlier bout when he first took the Heavyweight Championship from Jess Willard in Toledo. The 5' 4\" welterweight Hollandersky lost to Panama Joe, the younger and stronger Panamanian Light and Middleweight champion, and the accomplished middleweight Connors of Scranton, Pennsylvania, who had a five-inch height advantage. But he gave a closer fight to the Seattle welterweight Ryan before", "id": "10244386" }, { "contents": "Tommy Freeman (boxer)\n\n\nbout was Thompson's first title defense. Freeman held the title until his rematch with Jack Thompson on April 14, 1931 again in Cleveland where he lost by TKO in the tenth of fifteen rounds. The bout was stopped due to Freeman's badly battered left eye. He had a long career as a boxer, and remained fighting as a super welterweight until around 1937. He fought for a year as a middleweight from 1937-8. Best known of his middleweight opponents was Al McCoy who he fought on July 2 and", "id": "18569618" }, { "contents": "Alex Ramos\n\n\n. Despite losing his next fight, against future world super middleweight champion Murray Sutherland by a ten-round decision, Ramos was by then held along with the highest ranked middleweights of the era, such as Mustafa Hamsho, Wilford Scypion, Juan Roldán, John Mugabi, Curtis Parker and others. After knocking out Wilbur Henderson in three rounds on February 8, 1984, in Atlantic City, Ramos challenged Parker for his first career title, the regional, United States Boxing Association Middleweight championship. He won the title by beating Parker", "id": "10746327" }, { "contents": "Ken Buchanan\n\n\nYork State Athletic Commission on 4 April 1973. The commission also warned Duran that his title recognition would be withdrawn. The New York State Athletic Commission had been attempting for two years (1972 - 1974) to get Duran to honor an agreement to fight Buchanan. But Duran refused to honor the contract to face Buchanan. In 1973, Buchanan started out by beating future world lightweight champion Jim Watt by a decision after 15 rounds, to regain the British lightweight title. Soon, he embarked on another international tour that included more", "id": "13762576" }, { "contents": "Guillermo Jones\n\n\nin Panama by first round Knockout. Now aligned with promoter Don King, Jones fought two light middleweight WBA world title bouts against Laurent Boudouani in 1998. He drew once and lost the rematch by split decision in 12 round contests. Jones fought his way through four weight classes. Later fighting as a cruiserweight in 2002, he fought Johnny Nelson for the WBO World cruiserweight title, drawing in 12 rounds in his third world title attempt. Most in attendance thought Jones had done enough to win the title from Nelson. After yet", "id": "9043210" }, { "contents": "Tony Ayala Jr.\n\n\n. The rehabilitation program kept him from having a $750,000 payday against Roberto Duran. With the Duran fight didn't happen, Ayala settled for about $150,000 to fight Argentinian Carlos Herrera. 'It doesn't bother me,' he said. 'I'm looking at it as a step closer to the world title. Davey Moore is going to have to meet me after this fight.' After defeating Carlos Herrera, November 20, 1982, he was scheduled to fight champion Davey Moore. By December 1983, Ayala", "id": "10919402" }, { "contents": "Noé González Alcoba\n\n\nNoé González Alcoba (born 12 May 1979) \"the coal-miner\" is an Uruguayan boxer and a former world title challenger. He fights in the super middleweight division, having boxed at middleweight previously. Having boxed mainly in Argentina and Uruguay for much of his early career, he managed to land a shot at the WBA World Middleweight title after only 14 fights, challenging the then world champion Felix Sturm in Germany. The German proved too classy however and won the fight by a wide points decision, earning Alcoba his", "id": "20636614" }, { "contents": "Vicente Mosquera\n\n\nVicente Eduardo Mosquera Mena (born December 9, 1979 in Panama City, Panama) is a Panamanian professional boxer. He is a former World Boxing Association (WBA) super-featherweight champion. On April 30, 2005 he defeated Yodsanan Sor Nanthachai (Yodsanan 3-K Battery) for the WBA world championship title, by a unanimous decision. The official scorers saw it 118-108, 116-111, 115-112. In the fight, Nanthachai was knocked down three times (in the first, third, and eleventh", "id": "7687336" }, { "contents": "Iran Barkley\n\n\nof the Year by \"Ring\" magazine. Following the defeat to Duran, Barkley took on undefeated Michael Nunn for the IBF and lineal middleweight titles, dropping a close majority decision. He next fought Nigel Benn in a challenge for the WBO middleweight title and was stopped on the three-knockdown rule at the end of a wild first round in which both fighters were hurt. After losing to Benn, Barkley underwent surgery for a detached retina and was inactive for a year. Barkley returned with two low-key wins at", "id": "8203381" }, { "contents": "Abraham Jacob Hollandersky\n\n\nSox Scandal, the event brought to the forefront the corruption of American sports as it approached the roaring 20's. Abe met Attell in four three round exhibition matches at Empire Theatre while Attell was giving speaking performances in New London near the end of his boxing career. Abe claimed to have fought what was likely a sparring match with Canadian Heavyweight champion Arthur Pelkey, who was a Panamanian national heavyweight title contender in February 1917 at Panama's Santa Anna Plaza against Kid Norfolk, during the same period Abe was fighting bouts at the", "id": "10244396" }, { "contents": "Shane Mosley\n\n\n23-6, 14 KOs) at the Roberto Durán Arena in Panama City, Panama for the WBA Continental super welterweight title on December 17, in a scheduled 10 round bout. Both boxers came in at around the welterweight limit, with Mosley slightly heavier and López fighting for the first time in 13 months. López was knocked down in the 2nd round following a left hook and a further three times in the last round, which put an end to the fight. Mosley improved his ledger to 49 victories, with 41", "id": "18757243" }, { "contents": "Dick Turpin (boxer)\n\n\nchampion. In his next bout, on 28 June 1948, Turpin fought Vince Hawkins for his British middleweight title. The fight was held at Villa Park, Birmingham and Turpin won on points over fifteen rounds. He now held both the British and Commonwealth middleweight titles. During late 1948 and early 1949, Turpin fought European boxers, drawing and then losing on points against Tiberio Mitri, of Italy, then being knocked out in seven rounds in a non-title fight against the then world middleweight champion, Marcel Cerdan, of", "id": "19946190" }, { "contents": "Juan Guzman (boxer)\n\n\nat San Juan, Puerto Rico, the Vargas one at Coliseo Roberto Clemente. By then he was a top-ten ranked Junior Flyweight by the World Boxing Association. WBA world Junior Flyweight champion Jaime Rios of Panama was 18–1–1 when he came to the Dominican Republic to defend his title against local Guzman during June 1976. Their fight took place on July 2, at Santo Domingo. It was a close fight through 15 rounds, not much stylistically separating champion and challenger. At the end, however, Guzman was deemed winner", "id": "7404136" }, { "contents": "BC Golden Gloves\n\n\nJuly 1975, Lampkin was the number one contender for the lightweight title held by Panama boxer Roberto Duran. The tournament took place in January 1984 in Burnaby at the Boxing BC Training centre that would also be used as a training camp for the 1984 and 1988 Canadian Olympic boxing teams At the end of the tournament the Golden Boy for 1984 was boxer Michael O'Connell and the runner-up was Joe Pendry, and the best youth boxer was Deep Butter. Bert Lowes, Fred Fuller, Rudy Bianco, Sid Knopp Vic Murdoch,", "id": "20462754" }, { "contents": "Gunnar Jackson\n\n\nGunnar Jackson (born 6 July 1986, Wainuiomata, Lower Hutt, New Zealand) is a New Zealand professional middleweight and Super Welterweight boxer. Jackson has had over thirty fights and has achieved four boxing titles, and has a highest position on the World Boxing Organisation rankings of 10th. Jackson fought the biggest fight of his career in January 2014 against four-time world champion Anthony Mundine. Jackson lost by unanimous points decision. Jackson fought Kerry Hope in June 2015. Hope was originally scheduled to fight Michael Zerafa for the Interim", "id": "1347008" }, { "contents": "Davey Moore (boxer, born 1959)\n\n\nyears in prison. Next, Moore defended against former two-division world champion Roberto Durán. Moore appeared to be overconfident against an aging 'Hands of Stone' Duran but Duran totally outclassed him and dished out vicious punishment, hammering shut one of Moore's eyes and stopping him in eight brutal rounds at Madison Square Garden. The beating was so one-sided that Moore's mother and girlfriend were both said to have fainted at ringside. Many knowledgeable observers believed that referee Ernesto Magana should have stopped the fight far earlier.", "id": "6112527" } ]

[ { "contents": "Ossie Duran\n\n\nOssie \"The Ghanaian Gladiator\" Duran (born 23 April 1977 in Accra) is a Ghanaian professional boxer, whose career has spanned over 3 decades (1990's/2000's/2010's). He has won the Ghanaian lightweight title, World Boxing Federation (WBF) Pan-European welterweight title, WBF European Welterweight Title, United States Boxing Association (USBA) Atlantic Coast Region middleweight title, Commonwealth welterweight title, and Commonwealth light middleweight title, drew with Eromosele Albert for the vacant International Boxing Federation (IBF) Continental Africa light middleweight title,", "id": "5080778" }, { "contents": "Tom Bogs\n\n\nwins and one draw. He suffered his first defeat against the former world welterweight and middleweight champion Emile Griffith in a non-title fight in June 1970. Bogs won the European light-heavyweight title in 1968 when he stopped German champion Lothar Stengel in the first round of the bout. He successfully defended the title against Piero Del Papa before moving down to the middleweight division for a title match against European champion Carlos Duran. Bogs defeated Duran and went on to successfully defend his middleweight title three times before losing a rematch to", "id": "19397152" }, { "contents": "Angel Robinson Garcia\n\n\nand International Boxing Hall of Fame member Roberto Duran at the Gimnasio Nuevo Panama-now Gimnasio Roberto Duran-at Panama City. Robinson Garcia gave Duran a relatively close fight but still lost by unanimous ten-round decision with scores of 99-93, 98-94 and 98-96, all in favor of the Panamanian. Robinson Garcia went 1-4 the rest of that year, facing, among others, Esteban De Jesus in San Juan, Puerto Rico, to whom he dropped a ten-round decision on", "id": "1307045" }, { "contents": "Josue Marquez\n\n\n15 round distance with Roberto Duran in a world title attempt; completing a total of 25 rounds against Duran divided in two fights without getting knocked out by the Panamanian. Viruet knocked Marquez out in round ten on April 8, 1978 at the Juan Ramon Loubriel stadium in San Juan, after which Marquez decided to retire from professional boxing. Marquez won 32, losing 12 and tying 2 of his 46 professional boxing fights, winning 7 and losing 2 of those by knockout. Marquez turned to training professional boxers for a while after", "id": "17936127" }, { "contents": "Roberto Durán\n\n\n(fighting for the minor International Boxing Council (IBC) belt). Durán fought Vinny Pazienza in 1994 and 1995 for the IBC Super Middleweight Championship and was defeated both times by unanimous decision, but many people felt Duran clearly won the first bout and he was robbed of the victory. In 1996, he was challenged by Héctor Camacho for the vacant IBC Middleweight Championship but lost by a very controversial unanimous decision. In 1997, Durán was defeated by former champion Jorge Castro. Durán fought Castro in a rematch bout and won", "id": "16507032" }, { "contents": "Hector Thompson\n\n\nHector Thompson (born 24 June 1949 in Kempsey, New South Wales) is an Indigenous Australian professional boxer who competed in four different weight divisions, Lightweight, Super lightweight, Welterweight and Junior middleweight during the 1970s and 80s. In 1973 he beat Joe Tetteh for the Commonwealth (British Empire) Super Lightweight Title, earning a shot at Roberto Duran in 1973 for the World Boxing Association World lightweight but lost by TKO. After capturing the Commonwealth title again in 1975, later that year he would go on to challenge Antonio Cervantes", "id": "5995492" }, { "contents": "José Durán (boxer)\n\n\non October 8, 1976. Duran, fighting in his home city of Madrid, was knocked down in the third round by a left hand to the jaw. Although Duran rose from the canvas, he was outworked by the faster challenger and lost his title via a split decision in a fight where both boxers finished with bloody faces. In his final fight Duran challenged the Italian-Australian champion Rocky Mattioli for the WBC Light Middleweight title. The result was never in doubt, as Mattioli knocked Duran down in the second,", "id": "13817397" }, { "contents": "Goody Petronelli\n\n\n, who had earlier won the title from Antuofermo. Hagler bloodied Minter early, winning on a third-round TKO. The Petronellis would guide Hagler through 12 successful world title defenses over 7 years, including celebrated bouts against Roberto Duran and Thomas Hearns, before he lost to Sugar Ray Leonard in another controversial judges' decision, a split verdict in Leonard's favor. It turned out to be Hagler's final fight. Petronelli trained others who would fight in world title bouts: World Boxing Organization super middleweight champion Steve Collins;", "id": "13838256" }, { "contents": "Andres Hernández\n\n\nstreak came to an end when he traveled to Panama to fight world-ranked Gilberto Illueca, and dropped a ten round unanimous decision. Hernandez then started another streak of wins, this time reaching eight consecutive victories before facing another up-and-coming Puerto Rican bantamweight, Wilfredo Gomez. The pair met on Saturday, December 20, 1975 at Roberto Clemente Coliseum in San Juan as part of a boxing program that included fights of Julian Solis, Larry Holmes and Roberto Duran defending his world Lightweight title in the main event against", "id": "7680623" }, { "contents": "Panama Joe Gans\n\n\naspects of boxing by partaking in bouts organized by his classmates. Under the guidance of H.R. Cambridge, a local Panamanian business manager, and real estate developer, Quinton adopted his ring name, and became a successful boxer in the Canal Zone where he fought his first thirty fights with considerable success. On October 10, 1915, Panama Joe first won the Lightweight Championship of Panama at only eighteen against Young Sam Langford at the Pacific Theatre in Panama City in a twenty-round points decision. He later took the Middleweight Championship of", "id": "1295301" }, { "contents": "Roberto Durán\n\n\ndecision. The bout was named the 1989 \"Fight of the Year\" by \"The Ring\". His reign was short lived once again as Duran moved up to super middleweight (although both fighters weighed in at the middleweight limit) for a third clash with Sugar Ray Leonard in December 1989 (a fight dubbed \"Uno Más\"—One More—by promoters), which Leonard won by wide unanimous decision. Durán seemed to be in decline after the fight, he attempted to win further middleweight titles in 1994, 1995 and 1996", "id": "16507031" }, { "contents": "José Durán (boxer)\n\n\nat winning the world title. He travelled to Monaco to fight Miguel de Oliveira for the vacant WBC Light Middleweight title. de Oliveira, a native of Brazil, won the title via an unanimous decision after a bloody battle which lasted the full fifteen rounds. In his next fight Duran lost his EBU title in Germany to Eckhard Dagge, a man Duran had previously beaten by a technical knockout in the eleventh round. On this occasion, however, it was Dagge who scored the knockout, with the fight being stopped in the", "id": "13817395" }, { "contents": "José Durán (boxer)\n\n\nby scoring a knockout over Ben Hamida in the third round. After winning 22 consecutive bouts Duran suffered his first defeat, losing to Jean Josselin via an eight round decision on June 22, 1970. Duran was able to avenge this defeat on May 21, 1971, once again the fight went the eight round distance although Duran won the decision on this occasion. Duran won his first championship on June 7, 1974 by beating Jacques Kechichian and thus winning the EBU title. On May 7, 1975 Duran made his first attempt", "id": "13817394" }, { "contents": "Roberto Durán\n\n\nfight (the \"No Más\" fight was officially recorded as a technical knockout, because Duran quit). Durán did not contend another title fight until 1989, but made the shot count when he won the WBC Middleweight title from Iran Barkley in February. The fight is considered one of Durán's greatest achievements, as the 37-year-old former lightweight champion took the middleweight crown, his fourth title. In a tough, back-and-forth fight, Durán knocked Barkley down in the eleventh round and won a close", "id": "16507030" }, { "contents": "José Durán (boxer)\n\n\nninth round. Duran once again challenged for the world title on May 18, 1976. On this occasion Duran travelled to Tokyo, Japan to successfully challenge Koichi Wajima for the Lineal and WBA light middleweight titles. Duran started the fight well by opening a large cut on the champion's forehead and knocking him down in the second round. Wajima was knocked down once again in the thirteenth round before the fight was finally stopped in the fourteenth. Duran lost his title in his first defence, against the Argentine challenger Miguel Angel Castellini", "id": "13817396" }, { "contents": "José Durán (boxer)\n\n\nJosé Manuel Durán Pérez, popularly known as \"Pepe Durán\" (born October 9, 1945 in Madrid, Spain) is a former Spanish professional boxer. During his eleven-year professional career Duran held the Lineal and WBA light middleweight titles. He challenged for the WBC version of the title and held the EBU title. He also competed in the men's welterweight event at the 1968 Summer Olympics. Duran made his professional debut on November 30, 1967 in Barcelona, Spain. Duran made a victorious start to his career", "id": "13817393" }, { "contents": "Edwin Rosario\n\n\nopponent had boxed 25 rounds against Roberto Duran-including a world lightweight championship bout-without being knocked out. Rosario eventually gained a record of 21–0 with 20 knockouts. This led to talks of a title fight against World Boxing Council (WBC) lightweight champion Alexis Argüello, to be held in Miami. But Argüello relinquished the title in order to move up in weight to challenge junior welterweight champion Aaron Pryor. With Arguello moving divisions, Rosario was matched with Mexico's José Luis Ramírez on May 1, 1983 for the vacant", "id": "5267805" }, { "contents": "Ken Buchanan\n\n\nwin over Chang Kil Lee on 4 December 1972. On 28 June 1972, Roberto Duran signed to defend it against Buchanan on 20 October 1972. However, Duran broke that agreement when the Panamanian Government insisted he made his first defense in Panama. He did, knocking out Jimmy Robertson on 20 January 1973. Duran also had signed a second contract with the MSG on 25 October 1972, to defend against Buchanan on or before 30 June 1973. But Duran broke that agreement again. Duran had his license suspended by the New", "id": "13762575" }, { "contents": "Koichi Wajima\n\n\nhis Lineal and WBA light middleweight titles as well. However, he regained his Lineal and WBA titles in February, 1976, with a 15th round KO over Yuh. Wajima lost to Jose Manuel Duran in his first defense, losing the world title for the third time in his career. He fought his final match In June, 1977, challenging Eddie Gazo for the WBA super welterweight title, but lost by 11th round KO. This was the last fight of his career. His record was 31-6-1 (", "id": "20508599" }, { "contents": "Wilfredo Gómez\n\n\ndirected by Mario Diaz and was filmed in New York City. Gómez has three daughters Jennifer, Gina and Liz Irina and one son Wilfredo Junior. He is good friends with Panamanian boxing legend Roberto Duran. Gómez was once married to Carolina Gamboa. On April 17, 2015, Gómez was arrested by Puerto Rican police after allegedly hitting his 59-year-old companion, a lady with whom he had been living for ten months. He was released after she refused to raise charges against him. British boxer Michael Gomez adapted his last", "id": "3553965" }, { "contents": "Caleb Truax\n\n\nRichardson, and James Crayton. His professional loss came to former undisputed middleweight world champion Jermain Taylor (Truax knocked Taylor down in the 9th round.) Truax drew Ossie Duran in a 10-round non-title bout at the Target Center in Minneapolis. The bout was part of an eight-fight card promoted by Mike Tyson's new company, Iron Mike Productions. Mike Tyson was in attendance at the event, and said of Truax, \"I hear he is exciting and he is something that we need for boxing, he", "id": "16222269" }, { "contents": "Massimiliano Duran\n\n\nMassimiliano Duran (born November 3, 1963 in Ferrara, Italy) is a former Italian professional boxer who held the Cruiser WBC title and the European championship between 1990 and 1991. He is also known for being the only fighter in boxing history to earn a shot at, win, and defend a world title with three consecutive disqualification wins. Duran was born in Ferrara. His father was the Argentine-Italian boxer Juan Carlos Duran; his brother, the Italian boxer Alessandro Duran. Duran turned pro in 1986 when he defeated", "id": "13303578" }, { "contents": "Marvelous Marvin Hagler\n\n\na staple on HBO, the Pay Per View of its time. A fight against Roberto Durán followed. Durán was the first challenger to last the distance with Hagler in a world-championship bout. Durán was the WBA Light Middleweight Champion and went up in weight to challenge for Hagler's middleweight crown. Hagler won a unanimous 15-round decision, although after 13 rounds, Duran was ahead by one point on two scorecards and even on the third. Hagler, with his left eye swollen and cut, came on strong in the", "id": "4940319" }, { "contents": "Vinny Paz\n\n\nSantana fight, Pazienza went on to defeat Brett Lally by a 6th-round TKO, and then, in another TKO, former world champion Lloyd Honeyghan in the 10th round. Pazienza went on to win the vacant IBO middleweight world title in 1993 with an 11th-round KO over Dan Sherry. Pazienza then went on to beat Roberto Duran twice, both via decision, with the IBC super middleweight title on the line both times. In June 1995, Pazienza lost his world title bid against IBF world super middleweight champion Roy", "id": "12129878" }, { "contents": "Juan Carlos Giménez Ferreyra\n\n\nJuan Carlos Giménez Ferreyra (born 20 December 1960) is a Paraguayan boxer. During his career he was WBC International light heavyweight champion and unsuccessfully fought for the World Super Middleweight title four times, first against Mauro Galvano in 1992, then against Chris Eubank the same year, against Nigel Benn in 1994 and finally against Joe Calzaghe in 1998, losing via knockout. During his career he went the distance with Nigel Benn, Chris Eubank and Roberto Duran. Gimenez last fought in 2010, winning the Paraguayan Cruiserweight title against Nicasio Moray", "id": "17951209" }, { "contents": "Massimiliano Duran\n\n\nMomo Cupelic. The win earned him the nickname \"Momo\". Duran's first defeat came by the hand of Ndomingiedi Lusikina. This would be the beginning of a long-standing rivalry, that will result in the two boxers fighting five times. In 1990 Duran won the WBC Cruiserweight Title by defeating Carlos De León, when De León was disqualified for hitting after the bell to end the 11th round. Duran was leading on the cards. His first defence was against Anaclet Wamba. Duran won by DQ after Wamba had", "id": "13303579" }, { "contents": "Héctor Camacho\n\n\namateur career, Camacho won three New York Golden Gloves tournaments, beginning with the Sub-Novice 112 lbs championship in 1978. During his professional career, Camacho had many notable fights against some of the biggest names in boxing, defeating Roberto Durán twice late in Duran's career, and knocking out Sugar Ray Leonard to send him into permanent retirement. He also fought Julio César Chávez, Félix Trinidad, and Oscar De La Hoya, among others. During his later years, Camacho expanded his popular role and appeared on a variety", "id": "5327031" }, { "contents": "Eckhard Dagge\n\n\n. He would later embark on an amateur career, in which he won 66 out of 80 bouts, before falling short of making the 1972 Olympic Team. Dagge would win the German Middleweight title, in his 6th bout. Dagge would follow up with wins over notable, but faded fighters Denny Moyer and Manuel González. In 1974, Dagge challenged Jose Manuel Duran for the European Light Middleweight title, losing by 11th-round TKO. He came back the next year however, and stopped Duran in the 9th round, to", "id": "18853804" }, { "contents": "Antonio Cervantes\n\n\nLightweight champion Roberto Durán, who was coming up in weight. Duran decided to challenge Sugar Ray Leonard instead, however, and Cervantes vs. Duran never materialized. On August 2, 1980, Cervantes dropped his next title challenger, Aaron Pryor, to the canvas in the first round. Pryor recovered, however, and beat Cervantes by a knockout in round four. This turned out to be Cervantes' last world title fight. He fought two times more for the FECARBOX WBC title, winning both fights shortly before retiring in 1980", "id": "11465736" }, { "contents": "USA Tuesday Night Fights\n\n\nfighter by fighting several four rounders on \"Tuesday Night Fights\". Roberto Duran was another fixture on \"Tuesday Night Fights\" later in his career, and his 100th professional bout was carried by USA. \"Tuesday Night Fights\" also showcased the bizarre from time to time. Among these was a fight from former pro football star Mark Gastineau's controversial boxing career which saw him lose to a journeyman fighter, Andrew Golota's infamous fight against Samson Po'uha in 1995 which saw the Polish fighter, who appeared frequently on \"Tuesday", "id": "5898536" }, { "contents": "Jacques LeBlanc\n\n\n22 wins, 4 losses and 2 draws when he fought WBC Middleweight Champion Roberto Durán on June 29, 1993. LeBlanc was billed as a severe underdog but lasted the full 10 rounds with Duran, losing on points. LeBlanc fought the undefeated Richie Woodhall in October 1994 for the Commonwealth Middleweight crown but again lost on points. He continued boxing until 1997, but winning again only once. In 2010, Jacques was inducted into the City of Moncton Wall of Fame . He currently holds the record for most matches without being knocked", "id": "3179570" }, { "contents": "Andy Lee (boxer)\n\n\nResort Casino in Mashantucket, Connecticut, and won via technical knockout at 0:56 in the 10th round. He avenged his loss to Brian Vera on 1 October 2011 by unanimous decision. On 10 March 2012, Lee Knocked out Mexico's Saul Duran in the 2nd round of a stay busy fight. On 16 June 2012, Lee challenged undefeated Titleholder Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. for the WBC World Middleweight Title in the Sun Bowl Stadium in El Paso, Texas televised on HBO World Championship Boxing. Lee got off to a good start,", "id": "15093101" }, { "contents": "Joe Cortez\n\n\ntook on the responsibility to referee some major Championship fights. During this time he was the third man in the ring in several professional Mike Tyson and Roberto Duran fights. As eminent referees Richard Steele and Mills Lane retired at the dawn of the 21st century, Cortez became one of Nevada and New York's preferred boxing referees for world title fights. He has refereed over 170 world title bouts, among which figure the first Oscar De La Hoya-Julio César Chávez meeting, Evander Holyfield and Riddick Bowe's first title fight and", "id": "18491003" }, { "contents": "Reuben Duran\n\n\nnot for the injury, he would have gotten a stoppage. Duran would support his bold statement in his next fight as he claimed a victory over Ryan Diaz via KO with only 3 seconds left in the fight. In subsequent bouts, Duran submitted both Kana Hyatt and Maurice Eazel in the first round. Duran signed with the UFC in early 2011 and made his debut at UFC on Versus 3 against Takeya Mizugaki, replacing an injured Francisco Rivera. Duran lost the fight via close split decision. Duran faced Francisco Rivera on June", "id": "15069085" }, { "contents": "Héctor Camacho\n\n\n. Before this fight, Camacho was trained by Angelo Dundee. His last two fights resulted in a draw and a loss, against Luis Ramón Campas and Saúl Duran, respectively. His last fight against Duran was on May 14, 2010. On January 6, 2005, Camacho was arrested by police in Gulfport, Mississippi on charges of trying to burgle an electronic goods store and carrying the drug ecstasy on him. In 2007, he declared himself guilty of being under the influence at the time of the burglary. He was", "id": "5327048" }, { "contents": "Jack Blackburn\n\n\nhad a slight advantage in height and reach. Blackburn fought the Barbados-born boxer Panama Joe Gans, who had boxed extensively in Panama where he lived prior to 1917. Panama Joe held the World Colored Middleweight Championship from 1920 to 1924, and held a Panamanian Lightweight Title in his youth. On July 24, 1922, Blackburn lost one of his last bouts to Gans in Indianapolis, Indiana, in a fourth-round technical knockout of a scheduled ten round bout. Panama Joe was a formidable boxer and fourteen years younger", "id": "10094030" }, { "contents": "Vinny Paz\n\n\nHector \"Macho\" Camacho and WBA World Champion Loreto Garza. In 1991, Pazienza moved into the junior middleweight division. In his first fight at junior middleweight, he won the USBA championship against Ron Amundsen in a 12-round decision. He defeated the WBA world jr. middleweight champion Gilbert Delé with a 12th-round TKO in Providence, becoming the second fighter in boxing history to win both the lightweight and junior middleweight world championships. Pazienza was forced to relinquish the title due to a serious car accident in which his neck was", "id": "12129876" }, { "contents": "Roberto Durán\n\n\nvia unanimous decision. In 1998, at the age of 47, he challenged 28-year-old WBA Middleweight Champion William Joppy. Joppy, a trim, quick-fisted fighter, battered Durán to defeat in just 3 rounds. It was Duran's most emphatic loss since the Hearns fight, over a decade earlier. Durán then announced his retirement in August 1998, but was back fighting in 1999. In June 2000, Durán avenged a previous loss to Pat Lawlor and won the NBA Super Middleweight Championship on his 49th birthday.", "id": "16507033" }, { "contents": "Roberto Vásquez\n\n\nRoberto Gaspar Vásquez Ramirez (born May 26, 1983 in Panama City) is a Panamanian professional boxer who held the WBA light flyweight title from 2005 to 2006. He also held the WBA flyweight interim title from 2006 to 2007. Vásquez lost in his professional boxing debut against Angelo Dottin on March 17, 2001. The four-round fight occurred in Dottin's hometown of Colón, Panama. Despite Vásquez's cutting Dottin's right cheek in the first round, all three judges scored the bout 39-38 for Dottin.", "id": "15594966" }, { "contents": "Roberto Durán\n\n\nwith an incredible 71–1 record. On June 20, 1980, Durán captured the WBC Welterweight title by defeating Leonard via a 15-round unanimous decision (145–144, 148–147, 146–144). The fight became known as \"The Brawl in Montreal\". After defeating Leonard in Montreal, Duran gained iconic status in his home country, Panama. Leonard initiated the rematch clause and asked for the fight to be the following November. In their second fight, Leonard successfully changed his tactics, using more footwork and movement than he had in their", "id": "16507022" }, { "contents": "Roberto Durán\n\n\nfirst fight, and Duran was unable to get Leonard against the ropes. During the seventh round, after Leonard had gained a slight lead on the scorecards, he began taunting and mocking Duran. Halfway into the eighth round, Duran suddenly stopped fighting, repeatedly saying, \"No más\" (\"no more\"). In a 2016 interview, Duran claimed that what he actually said was, \"No Sigo\" (\"I won't go on\"). He took some time to recover from that fight and", "id": "16507023" }, { "contents": "Kirkland Laing\n\n\n. Laing's boxing career was sporadic, as he often failed to deliver on his promise, appearing under-prepared against less able fighters and indulging in drink, drugs and women. In the year following his victory over Duran, Laing went missing, blowing his earnings. In that same period Duran was to fight four times, earning an estimated $6m. Laing continued to fight until he was 40, and retired after a stoppage loss to future world champion Glen Catley. After retiring, Laing continue to live in", "id": "8014673" }, { "contents": "Jimmy Batten\n\n\nThomas stopped him in the ninth round to take the title. Batten won his next five fights before losing on points in May 1981 to Chris Christian. He then travelled to the United States, where he was based in Chicago for almost two years; There he had a series of fights starting with two easy wins before he was stopped in the first round in May 1982 by Mario Maldonado. He beat Jeff Madison in September before facing Roberto Duran in November 1982 at the Miami Orange Bowl; Duran took a unanimous decision,", "id": "22189495" }, { "contents": "Ray Lampkin\n\n\nRay Lampkin (born 1948 in Portland, Oregon) is a retired professional boxer who lost the 1975 World Boxing Association (WBA) lightweight title fight against Roberto Durán in Panama. He won the North American Boxing Federation lightweight title fight but later lost it against Esteban de Jesús at the Felt Forum in New York City. He finished his career with a total of 34 wins (16 by knock out), six losses (two by knock out) and one draw. Lampkin was inducted into the Oregon Sports Hall of Fame", "id": "279465" }, { "contents": "Roberto Durán\n\n\nthe end of the seventh. Finally the fight was stopped in the eighth round as Moore was taking such a horrific beating and Durán won his third world title. After the victory, Durán was hoisted up in the air as the crowd sang \"Happy Birthday\" to a sobbing Durán. Durán later fought for the World Middleweight Championship, meeting Marvelous Marvin Hagler in Las Vegas in November 1983, during the fight Duran broke his hand and lost in a very competitive fight that went the full fifteen rounds, although after 12 rounds", "id": "16507027" }, { "contents": "Harold Reitman\n\n\nprofessional record of 7-1-1, Reitman fought a three-round charity exhibition match against the five-time world champion Roberto Duran at the Hollywood Diplomat Hotel in Miami Beach. On November 11, 1991, Reitman fought heavyweight Tim Anderson for the NBA Independent Cruiserweight title in a televised fight. Though Reitman scored two 9th round knockdowns, the fight ended in a draw. In March 1992, Reitman was the 12th ranked Heavyweight boxer in the world according to the International Boxing Council. On December 12, 1995,", "id": "9844517" }, { "contents": "Jeffrey Mathebula\n\n\nlost to Celestino Caballero. Hence, Mathebula fought against Caballero for the WBA Super World and IBF World super bantamweight title. However, he lost his first world title shot against Caballero via a split decision at the Roberto Duran Arena in Panama on 30 April 2009. After losing to Takalani Ndlovu via a split decision in an IBF junior featherweight title eliminator in Brakpan, Gauteng in September 2010, Mathebula defeated Ndlovu via a split decision in their rematch in Brakpan to be crowned the IBF junior featherweight champion. It was the SABC-", "id": "16997776" }, { "contents": "Angel Robinson Garcia\n\n\nhim fight 12 times, including a September 10 loss by ten-round decision to future WBC world Lightweight-and Spain's second-Champion Pedro Carrasco at the Basque Country and a December 30 defeat at the hands of 19-2-4 Chris Fernandez by ten-round decision also. Robinson Garcia contested 17 bouts in 1970. These included an August 21 match with Jose Duran, won by Duran by ten rounds decision at Madrid and a November 20 bout with French Roger Menetrey which Menetrey won by ten-round decision", "id": "1307042" }, { "contents": "Sugar Ray Leonard vs. Thomas Hearns\n\n\nSugar Ray Leonard and Thomas Hearns are considered to be two of the best boxers of all-time. They fought twice, with Leonard winning in 1981 and a draw in 1989. Both fights are considered to be classics. Sugar Ray Leonard won the WBC welterweight title with a fifteenth-round knockout of Wilfred Benítez in 1979. He lost it to Roberto Durán by a close decision in June 1980 and regained it five months later in the infamous No Más Fight, in which Duran quit in the eighth round. In June", "id": "20124047" }, { "contents": "Brandon Gonzáles\n\n\nOlympic Team in 2004 he withdrew to begin his professional career in 2007. While boxing as an amateur he worked as a janitor at Arco Arena.. On January 29, 2010 Gonzales won a fight against veteran Dumont Welliver by T.K.O., the fight was on the undercard of ESPN's Friday Night Fights. He maintained an unblemished streak of 17 wins until his bout with Thomas Oosthuizen that resulted in a draw. On October 28, 2011 he defeated Ossie Duran in the Main Event on Showtime's ShoBox at Bally's in Atlantic City", "id": "18287532" }, { "contents": "Miguel Ángel Castellini\n\n\nManuel Duran, in front of a sell out crowd of 12,000. Duran, who was making the first defence of his title, was knocked down in the third round by a left hand to the jaw. Although the champion rose from the canvas, he was outworked by the faster challenger and lost his title via a split decision in a fight where both boxers finished with bloody faces. Castellini's championship reign only lasted one fight as he lost it in his first defence to Eddie Gazo on March 5, 1977. Gazo", "id": "13522966" }, { "contents": "Hilario Zapata\n\n\nwas knocked out in the first round by the WBC world Jr. Bantamweight champion Sung-Kil Moon. A win against Moon would have made Zapata a member of the exclusive group of world boxing champions in three different weight categories or more. It can also be added that Zapata's first pair of boxing gloves, when he was 12, came as a present from Duran himself. Panamanian newspaper \"El Panama America\" declared on one of their editorials that Zapata, according to their opinion, should be inducted to the International Boxing", "id": "9857520" }, { "contents": "Panama Joe Gans\n\n\nPanama Joe Gans was a black boxer who held the World Colored Middleweight Championship for four years, shortly before it was discontinued. Born Cyril Quinton Jr. on November 14, 1896 in Barbados, British West Indies and raised in the Panama Canal Zone, the 5'7\" Quinton originally fought out of Panama and then New York City. He took his ringname from boxing great Joe Gans, the first black American fighter to win a world boxing title. He found his greatest fame fighting as a middleweight at between 147 and 160 lbs,", "id": "1295299" }, { "contents": "Panama Lewis\n\n\nCarlos \"Panama\" Lewis (born November 4, 1945) is an American boxing trainer. He was convicted of tampering with the gloves of Luis Resto in the Resto vs \"Irish\" Billy Collins fight of 1983, which subsequently led to the end of Collins' boxing career. Collins suffered from depression and possibly committed suicide following the tragic assault. Lewis was a disciple of trainer Chickie Ferrara. He was Roberto Durán's cornerman when Duran lost a unanimous decision against Wilfred Benitez in 1982. During the early 1980s, he", "id": "11205984" }, { "contents": "Pernell Whitaker\n\n\nfight, he basically faced no real trouble against Vásquez in route to the win. This was a history making fight for Whitaker, as he became only the fourth fighter in history - joining Thomas Hearns, Sugar Ray Leonard, and Roberto Duran - to have won a legitimate world title in four different weight classes. However, he chose to move back to welterweight. Whitaker successfully defended his WBC belt against Scotland's Gary Jacobs on August 26, 1995. In January, 1997, Whitaker put his title on the line against", "id": "20971754" }, { "contents": "Carlos Palomino\n\n\nundercard. Palomino lost to Duran by decision in ten rounds, and he announced his retirement from boxing right away. Palomino began his comeback on January 10, 1997, beating Ismaél Díaz by a knockout in round nine. He won four fights that year, including one over former world champion Rene Arredondo, but when he lost by decision in ten to former Oscar De La Hoya world title challenger Wilfredo Rivera on May 30, 1998, he decided to retire for good, and has stayed in retirement ever since. In 1978", "id": "12841764" }, { "contents": "Roberto Durán\n\n\nRoberto Durán Samaniego (born June 16, 1951) is a Panamanian former professional boxer who competed from 1968 to 2001. He held world championships in four weight classes: lightweight, welterweight, light middleweight and middleweight, as well as reigns as the undisputed and lineal lightweight champion, and the lineal welterweight champion. He is also the second boxer to have competed over a span of five decades, the first being Jack Johnson. Durán was known as a versatile, technical brawler and pressure fighter, which earned him the nickname of", "id": "16507013" }, { "contents": "Joshua Clottey\n\n\nwelterweight title in his next fight. He then rolled off a 10 fight winning streak highlighted by his first win on American soil and capture of several minor welterweight and middleweight titles. The streak culminated in an IBF intercontinental welterweight title. On December 2, 2006, Clottey earned his first shot at a world title but broke his hand in the fourth round of his fight against World Boxing Organization champion Antonio Margarito. That bout against Margarito has since come under controversial suspicion following news reports (released after Margarito's fight with Shane Mosley", "id": "11102893" }, { "contents": "Aaron Pryor\n\n\nten years in prison after he was convicted of 29 counts of fraud and embezzlement. Pryor was then offered $750,000 to fight Roberto Duran in April 1981, but Pryor turned it down because his new attorney told him not to sign anything until he worked out a new contract with manager Buddy LaRosa. By the time they worked out a new agreement, the chance to fight Duran was gone. On June 27, 1981, Pryor knocked out Lennox Blackmore in the second round. He then defended the title against undefeated Dujuan Johnson", "id": "8987862" }, { "contents": "Roberto Durán\n\n\nChorrillo in the district \"La Casa de Piedra\" (The House of Stone) Panama. He began sparring with experienced boxers at the Neco de La Guardia gymnasium when he was only eight years old. Durán competed as an amateur compiling a record of 13–3. Having 16 amateur fights under his belt, he made his professional debut in 1968 at the age of 16. Duran won his first 31 consecutive fights, and scored knockout victories over future Featherweight Champion Ernesto Marcel and former Super Featherweight Champion Hiroshi Kobayashi, culminating in his", "id": "16507016" }, { "contents": "Wilfredo Gómez\n\n\nOn May 18, 2003, Gómez returned to Panama, where he was received by Duran and Eusebio Pedroza, among others. In a message geared towards Panamanians, he expressed thanks to that country, calling it his second country and saying, among other things \"I'm very motivated now that I will return to Puerto Rico, and no one should be surprised if I buy an apartment in Panama and move my family here\". However, he bought a house in Orlando, Florida in 2006. Gómez had a record", "id": "3553963" }, { "contents": "Jacob Duran\n\n\nSandman\" Sanchez before furthering his career in professional boxing and mixed martial arts. In boxing, Duran works on the Klitschko brothers and Andre Ward. On November 23, 2014 Duran was in the corner of Chris Algieri when he took on Manny Pacquiao for the WBO welterweight title at Cotai Arena, Venetian Resort, Macao, Macao S.A.R., China. On May 29, 2015, Duran was in the corner of Chris Algieri once again when he took on Amir Khan for the WBC Silver Welterweight title at The Barclays Center, Brooklyn", "id": "2958564" }, { "contents": "Edwin Rodríguez (boxer)\n\n\nEdwin Rodríguez (born May 5, 1985) is a Dominican professional boxer who lives in Worcester, Massachusetts. Starred in the box office hit Bleed For This as Roberto Duran Rodriguez moved to Worcester at age 13 with dreams of becoming the next great Dominican ballplayer. Winters in the Bay State made for a short baseball season and two years later, he abandoned the diamond for the ring. Rodriguez had an 84–9 record and won the USA Boxing Championships 2005 and the National Golden Gloves 2006 as a middleweight (165 pounds).", "id": "15244912" }, { "contents": "Steve Smoger\n\n\n, New York. On May 27, 2017 in Atlantic City, New Jersey Smoger became the first professional boxing referee to be inducted into the newly created Atlantic City Boxing Hall of Fame, joining Don King and Michael Spinks among other inductees. Smoger's Hall of Fame resume comprises five inductions Smoger has officiated the bouts featuring such professional boxers as Mike Tyson, Lennox Lewis, Larry Holmes, Evander Holyfield, Ray Mercer, Steve Cunningham, John Ruiz, Roberto Duran, Hector Camacho, Roy Jones, Jr., James Toney,", "id": "12530988" }, { "contents": "Panama Blue\n\n\nPanama Blue is rainforest spring water and a product of Panama Springs S.A. Panama Blue is a brand of luxury rainforest spring water. Panama Blue is the number one premium bottled water brand of Panama. The brand ambassadors are boxer Roberto Duran and Carolina Dementiev, a Panamanian model and triathlete. Panama Blue is bottled at the source in the mountains of Cerro Azul, surrounded by the Chagres National Park in the Panamanian rainforest. The spring is located about 800m above sea level. Because of the soil, the volcanic rocks and the", "id": "19226350" }, { "contents": "Roberto Durán\n\n\ngained even more weight to contend for the WBC Light Middleweight title, but losing in his first attempt at a championship in that division on January 30, 1982, against Wilfred Benítez by a 15-round unanimous decision, this after having defeated Nino Gonzalez and Luigi Minchillo, two rated Light Middleweights, both by ten-round decisions in non-title bouts. Durán was also to lose his comeback fight in September 1982 in Detroit. Kirkland Laing, from London, shocked the boxing world, producing the type of display his talents promised", "id": "16507024" }, { "contents": "Richard Green (referee)\n\n\nwas Muhammad Ali's loss to Larry Holmes in 1980. Green officiated two high-profile fights in 1982. Early in the year he refereed Wilfred Benitez's fight against Roberto Duran for Benitez's super welterweight title. Later he was the referee in the Ray Mancini's first-round knockout of Arturo Frias, a win that gave Mancini the WBA lightweight championship. On November 13, 1982, Green was assigned to work Mancini's second defense of that title, a match against the Korean contender Duk Koo Kim that was televised", "id": "8256032" }, { "contents": "Nat Jacobs\n\n\nNathaniel \"Nat\" J. S. Jacobs (born 1 December 1939) is an English amateur and professional boxer of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, who won the Central (England) Area middleweight title and challenged for the British Boxing Board of Control British middleweight title. His professional fighting weight varied from , i.e. welterweight, through light middleweight and middleweight, to , i.e. light heavyweight. He was managed/trained by former boxer Stan Skinkiss. Born in Manchester, Jacobs began his professional career in November 1960 with a points victory", "id": "16077543" }, { "contents": "Light middleweight\n\n\nOctober 17, was won by Griffith via a 15-round decision. Three days later, the World Boxing Association championship was created when Denny Moyer outpointed Joey Giambra. The World Boxing Council recognized the WBA champion as the true division champion until 1975, when it stripped their current champion and sanctioned a fight between Miguel de Oliveira and Jose Duran for the vacant title. De Oliveira won the title over 15 rounds in 1975. The International Boxing Federation crowned its first champion when Mark Medal defeated Earl Hargrove in 1984. The World Boxing Organization", "id": "11957407" }, { "contents": "Héctor Camacho\n\n\nhim in his career) to defeat Craig Houk by knockout in round three. He won consecutive unanimous ten-round decisions over Clinton McNeil and Raúl Jorge Muñoz. After that, his boxing career went on hiatus, as he faced criminal charges. He pled guilty to burglary and acknowledged drug abuse, but was given probation. Camacho returned to boxing on July 18, 2008, competing against Perry Ballard for the World Boxing Empire's Middleweight Championship. The fight lasted seven rounds. Camacho won when Ballard's corner threw the towel", "id": "5327047" }, { "contents": "Panama Joe Gans\n\n\nPanama by knocking out Benny McGovern in the third of fifteen rounds on November 30, 1916 at the Santa Ana Plaza in Panama City. At the time, these titles were often described as extending to both Central and South America. In his first bout after taking the Middleweight Championship of Panama on December 12, 1916, though barely twenty-one years old, he soundly defeated Abraham Jacob Hollandersky, a former holder of the Panamanian Heavyweight Championship in 20 rounds in Panama City. In 1917, Panama Joe was brought to New", "id": "1295302" }, { "contents": "Murderers' Row (boxing)\n\n\ncounted as Burley’s conquests. He was ranked in the top 10 in the Welterweight and Middleweight divisions for most of the 1940s, without receiving a title shot. (Burley did hold the World Colored Welterweight and World Colored Middleweight Championship titles.) Near the end of his career Burley took to fighting Heavyweights in a bid to find meaningful contests, including J.D. Turner and future Heavyweight champ Ezzard Charles. Eventually, Burley would retire after winning 83 bouts, without ever being able to meet in the ring the champions of the time", "id": "6667729" }, { "contents": "Reuben Duran\n\n\nadditions of wrestling, Brazilian jiu-jitsu, and Muay Thai. Reuben began his career with multiple fights for King of the Cage, and other small promotions in California. As an amateur competitor, Duran has distinguished himself by being a six time winner of Grapplers Quest. In a memorable match, Duran fought Greg Guzman, hiding his injuries that included 2 torn ligaments in his right hand. In spite of the injuries, Duran still earned the victory. Later, in an interview, Duran voiced his confidence that were it", "id": "15069084" }, { "contents": "Boardwalk Hall\n\n\n, Oscar De La Hoya, Roberto Duran, Lennox Lewis, Roy Jones Jr., Floyd Mayweather Jr., Bernard Hopkins, Riddick Bowe, Julio César Chávez, Héctor Camacho, Micky Ward, and Arturo Gatti. In September 2007, it was the venue for the Kelly Pavlik – Jermain Taylor boxing match for the World Boxing Council, World Boxing Organization and \"The Ring\" magazine's middleweight championships. On December 12, 1965, the New York Ukrainians defeated Philadelphia Ukrainian Nationals 3-2 in the first regulation indoor soccer match", "id": "5560408" }, { "contents": "Phil Edwards (boxer)\n\n\nmember of the public who was attempting to take a kick at the new champion. Edward's very next fight after his title success was against Nigerian boxing legend Dick Tiger. Tiger was a one-time world middleweight and light-heavyweight world champion, and Edwards showed his class by lasting the full ten rounds, losing on points. After the Tiger fight, Edwards was back to winning ways, and was victorious in his first four fights of 1958, defeating Commonwealth title challenger Lew Lazar, Scotland's John Woolard, journeyman", "id": "19060017" }, { "contents": "Carl Thompson (boxer)\n\n\nin February 1993. In February 1994, Thompson traveled to Ferrara, Emilia Romagna, Italy and won the European title by defeating Massimiliano Duran by KO in eight rounds, and in his next bout knocked out France's Akim Tafer in six rounds at Epernay, Marne, France to retain his European title. After winning two mark-time fights, Thompson was matched against Ralf Rocchigiani in a bout for the vacant WBO cruiserweight title at the G-Mex Leisure Centre, Manchester in June 1995. Both fighters were knocked down in", "id": "14087508" }, { "contents": "Luis Federico Thompson\n\n\nLuis Federico Thompson (December 19, 1927 – January 8 , 2010) was a Panamanian Argentinian professional boxer. Thompson was born in Colon, Panama, later moved to Argentina, where he was nationalized and afterwards became the Argentine and South American boxing champion. Thompson debuted in 1947 with a fight against Wilfredo Brown in Panama City which ended in a draw. On October 7, 1951, he fought Wilfredo Brewster defeating him and winning the Panamanian Lightweight Title for the first time. Two months later, he fought Wilfredo Brown again", "id": "20078674" }, { "contents": "Jawaid Khaliq\n\n\nJawaid Khaliq, MBE (born 30 July 1970), is a British former professional boxer. A dual Pakistan national, he became the first British Asian boxing world champion, winning the International Boxing Organization (IBO) welterweight title and defending it for seven constructive bouts before retiring. During his boxing career he also held the Commonwealth welterweight title, World Boxing Federation Inter-Continental Light Middleweight Title, Midlands Area light middleweight title and Midlands Area welterweight title. He is the first Kashmiri world champion boxer. Khaliq took up boxing at", "id": "22058424" }, { "contents": "Omar Sheika\n\n\nOmar Sheika (born February 20, 1977) is an American former professional boxer and multiple time super middleweight world title challenger. He is of Palestinian descent. Sheika compiled a successful amateur career, capturing a National Middleweight Championship at National AAU Boxing Tournament in 1996. Sheika has enjoyed some success in his pro career. His first fight was against Billy James. Sheika won the fight by TKO on the second round. Sheika stayed undefeated for about a year. Sheika was involved in ESPN Friday Night Fights \"Fight of the Year", "id": "7826746" }, { "contents": "Roberto Durán\n\n\nchampion the moment Durán stepped into the ring to box Hearns. Durán again made history in the fight, but this time it was the wrong kind. Hearns dropped Durán twice in the first round and as he rose to his feet after the second knockdown, which ended the round, the former champion did not know where his corner was. Hearns went on to knock Duran down a third time in the second round and the fight was stopped, marking the first time in his career that Durán had been knocked out in a", "id": "16507029" }, { "contents": "Wally Swift\n\n\nJohnny Pritchett due to an eye injury. Swift beat Peter Sharpe in May 1966 in an eliminator to face Pritchett, winning on points. In February 1967 he faced Pritchett at the Nottingham Ice Stadium for the title, losing on points over fifteen rounds. In September 1967 Swift faced Sandro Mazzinghi for the European super welterweight title in Milan; The fight was stopped in the sixth round due to injuries to Swift. In March 1968 Swift challenged Juan Carlos Duran for the European middleweight title. Swift lost the fight after being disqualified in", "id": "6876166" }, { "contents": "Hands of Stone\n\n\nup in Panama, Durán is homeschooled by Chaflan, who teaches young Roberto some vital life lessons. Later, Duran joins a boxing club with Nestor \"Plomo\" Quiñones as his coach. As he reaches 20, an American legendary boxing trainer Ray Arcel, who nearly lost his life after being attacked by an unknown assailant in 1953 in New York City and is now living with his wife Stephanie, notices Roberto's raw talent and punching power and takes the young fighter under his wing, becoming his coach. Not long after", "id": "2732439" }, { "contents": "Larry Estridge\n\n\nLarry Estridge (born 17 June 1902, St. Kitts, British West Indies) was a middleweight boxer and the last holder of the World Colored Middleweight Championship. The 5'7\" middleweight fought out of New York City from 1922 to 1929, racking up a career record of 53 wins against 23 losses and two draws from 1922 to 1929. Estridge fought colored middleweight champion Panama Joe Gans for his title on July 26, 1924 at Yankee Stadium, defeating the champ via a unanimous decision in their 10-round bout. After scoring two victories", "id": "1295287" }, { "contents": "Lennox Blackmoore\n\n\nLennox Blackmoore (born July 10, 1950 in Georgetown, Guyana) is a Guyanese professional light/light welter/welter/light middle/middleweight boxer of the 1970s and '80s who won the Guyanese lightweight title, Guyanese light middleweight title, and Commonwealth lightweight title, and was a challenger for the World Boxing Association (WBA) World light welterweight title against Aaron Pryor, and World Boxing Council (WBC) FECARBOX light welterweight title against Antonio Cervantes, his professional fighting weight varied from , i.e. lightweight to , i.e. middleweight", "id": "2810858" }, { "contents": "Abraham Jacob Hollandersky\n\n\nand skill that he would act as a sparring partner to prepare Jack Dempsey for his September 1920 Heavyweight Title bout with Hall of Famer Billy Miske as well as Dempsey's earlier bout when he first took the Heavyweight Championship from Jess Willard in Toledo. The 5' 4\" welterweight Hollandersky lost to Panama Joe, the younger and stronger Panamanian Light and Middleweight champion, and the accomplished middleweight Connors of Scranton, Pennsylvania, who had a five-inch height advantage. But he gave a closer fight to the Seattle welterweight Ryan before", "id": "10244386" }, { "contents": "Tommy Freeman (boxer)\n\n\nbout was Thompson's first title defense. Freeman held the title until his rematch with Jack Thompson on April 14, 1931 again in Cleveland where he lost by TKO in the tenth of fifteen rounds. The bout was stopped due to Freeman's badly battered left eye. He had a long career as a boxer, and remained fighting as a super welterweight until around 1937. He fought for a year as a middleweight from 1937-8. Best known of his middleweight opponents was Al McCoy who he fought on July 2 and", "id": "18569618" }, { "contents": "Alex Ramos\n\n\n. Despite losing his next fight, against future world super middleweight champion Murray Sutherland by a ten-round decision, Ramos was by then held along with the highest ranked middleweights of the era, such as Mustafa Hamsho, Wilford Scypion, Juan Roldán, John Mugabi, Curtis Parker and others. After knocking out Wilbur Henderson in three rounds on February 8, 1984, in Atlantic City, Ramos challenged Parker for his first career title, the regional, United States Boxing Association Middleweight championship. He won the title by beating Parker", "id": "10746327" }, { "contents": "Ken Buchanan\n\n\nYork State Athletic Commission on 4 April 1973. The commission also warned Duran that his title recognition would be withdrawn. The New York State Athletic Commission had been attempting for two years (1972 - 1974) to get Duran to honor an agreement to fight Buchanan. But Duran refused to honor the contract to face Buchanan. In 1973, Buchanan started out by beating future world lightweight champion Jim Watt by a decision after 15 rounds, to regain the British lightweight title. Soon, he embarked on another international tour that included more", "id": "13762576" }, { "contents": "Guillermo Jones\n\n\nin Panama by first round Knockout. Now aligned with promoter Don King, Jones fought two light middleweight WBA world title bouts against Laurent Boudouani in 1998. He drew once and lost the rematch by split decision in 12 round contests. Jones fought his way through four weight classes. Later fighting as a cruiserweight in 2002, he fought Johnny Nelson for the WBO World cruiserweight title, drawing in 12 rounds in his third world title attempt. Most in attendance thought Jones had done enough to win the title from Nelson. After yet", "id": "9043210" }, { "contents": "Tony Ayala Jr.\n\n\n. The rehabilitation program kept him from having a $750,000 payday against Roberto Duran. With the Duran fight didn't happen, Ayala settled for about $150,000 to fight Argentinian Carlos Herrera. 'It doesn't bother me,' he said. 'I'm looking at it as a step closer to the world title. Davey Moore is going to have to meet me after this fight.' After defeating Carlos Herrera, November 20, 1982, he was scheduled to fight champion Davey Moore. By December 1983, Ayala", "id": "10919402" }, { "contents": "Noé González Alcoba\n\n\nNoé González Alcoba (born 12 May 1979) \"the coal-miner\" is an Uruguayan boxer and a former world title challenger. He fights in the super middleweight division, having boxed at middleweight previously. Having boxed mainly in Argentina and Uruguay for much of his early career, he managed to land a shot at the WBA World Middleweight title after only 14 fights, challenging the then world champion Felix Sturm in Germany. The German proved too classy however and won the fight by a wide points decision, earning Alcoba his", "id": "20636614" }, { "contents": "Vicente Mosquera\n\n\nVicente Eduardo Mosquera Mena (born December 9, 1979 in Panama City, Panama) is a Panamanian professional boxer. He is a former World Boxing Association (WBA) super-featherweight champion. On April 30, 2005 he defeated Yodsanan Sor Nanthachai (Yodsanan 3-K Battery) for the WBA world championship title, by a unanimous decision. The official scorers saw it 118-108, 116-111, 115-112. In the fight, Nanthachai was knocked down three times (in the first, third, and eleventh", "id": "7687336" }, { "contents": "Iran Barkley\n\n\nof the Year by \"Ring\" magazine. Following the defeat to Duran, Barkley took on undefeated Michael Nunn for the IBF and lineal middleweight titles, dropping a close majority decision. He next fought Nigel Benn in a challenge for the WBO middleweight title and was stopped on the three-knockdown rule at the end of a wild first round in which both fighters were hurt. After losing to Benn, Barkley underwent surgery for a detached retina and was inactive for a year. Barkley returned with two low-key wins at", "id": "8203381" }, { "contents": "Abraham Jacob Hollandersky\n\n\nSox Scandal, the event brought to the forefront the corruption of American sports as it approached the roaring 20's. Abe met Attell in four three round exhibition matches at Empire Theatre while Attell was giving speaking performances in New London near the end of his boxing career. Abe claimed to have fought what was likely a sparring match with Canadian Heavyweight champion Arthur Pelkey, who was a Panamanian national heavyweight title contender in February 1917 at Panama's Santa Anna Plaza against Kid Norfolk, during the same period Abe was fighting bouts at the", "id": "10244396" }, { "contents": "Shane Mosley\n\n\n23-6, 14 KOs) at the Roberto Durán Arena in Panama City, Panama for the WBA Continental super welterweight title on December 17, in a scheduled 10 round bout. Both boxers came in at around the welterweight limit, with Mosley slightly heavier and López fighting for the first time in 13 months. López was knocked down in the 2nd round following a left hook and a further three times in the last round, which put an end to the fight. Mosley improved his ledger to 49 victories, with 41", "id": "18757243" }, { "contents": "Dick Turpin (boxer)\n\n\nchampion. In his next bout, on 28 June 1948, Turpin fought Vince Hawkins for his British middleweight title. The fight was held at Villa Park, Birmingham and Turpin won on points over fifteen rounds. He now held both the British and Commonwealth middleweight titles. During late 1948 and early 1949, Turpin fought European boxers, drawing and then losing on points against Tiberio Mitri, of Italy, then being knocked out in seven rounds in a non-title fight against the then world middleweight champion, Marcel Cerdan, of", "id": "19946190" }, { "contents": "Juan Guzman (boxer)\n\n\nat San Juan, Puerto Rico, the Vargas one at Coliseo Roberto Clemente. By then he was a top-ten ranked Junior Flyweight by the World Boxing Association. WBA world Junior Flyweight champion Jaime Rios of Panama was 18–1–1 when he came to the Dominican Republic to defend his title against local Guzman during June 1976. Their fight took place on July 2, at Santo Domingo. It was a close fight through 15 rounds, not much stylistically separating champion and challenger. At the end, however, Guzman was deemed winner", "id": "7404136" }, { "contents": "BC Golden Gloves\n\n\nJuly 1975, Lampkin was the number one contender for the lightweight title held by Panama boxer Roberto Duran. The tournament took place in January 1984 in Burnaby at the Boxing BC Training centre that would also be used as a training camp for the 1984 and 1988 Canadian Olympic boxing teams At the end of the tournament the Golden Boy for 1984 was boxer Michael O'Connell and the runner-up was Joe Pendry, and the best youth boxer was Deep Butter. Bert Lowes, Fred Fuller, Rudy Bianco, Sid Knopp Vic Murdoch,", "id": "20462754" }, { "contents": "Gunnar Jackson\n\n\nGunnar Jackson (born 6 July 1986, Wainuiomata, Lower Hutt, New Zealand) is a New Zealand professional middleweight and Super Welterweight boxer. Jackson has had over thirty fights and has achieved four boxing titles, and has a highest position on the World Boxing Organisation rankings of 10th. Jackson fought the biggest fight of his career in January 2014 against four-time world champion Anthony Mundine. Jackson lost by unanimous points decision. Jackson fought Kerry Hope in June 2015. Hope was originally scheduled to fight Michael Zerafa for the Interim", "id": "1347008" }, { "contents": "Davey Moore (boxer, born 1959)\n\n\nyears in prison. Next, Moore defended against former two-division world champion Roberto Durán. Moore appeared to be overconfident against an aging 'Hands of Stone' Duran but Duran totally outclassed him and dished out vicious punishment, hammering shut one of Moore's eyes and stopping him in eight brutal rounds at Madison Square Garden. The beating was so one-sided that Moore's mother and girlfriend were both said to have fainted at ringside. Many knowledgeable observers believed that referee Ernesto Magana should have stopped the fight far earlier.", "id": "6112527" } ]

[ { "contents": "Ossie Duran\n\n\nOssie \"The Ghanaian Gladiator\" Duran (born 23 April 1977 in Accra) is a Ghanaian professional boxer, whose career has spanned over 3 decades (1990's/2000's/2010's). He has won the Ghanaian lightweight title, World Boxing Federation (WBF) Pan-European welterweight title, WBF European Welterweight Title, United States Boxing Association (USBA) Atlantic Coast Region middleweight title, Commonwealth welterweight title, and Commonwealth light middleweight title, drew with Eromosele Albert for the vacant International Boxing Federation (IBF) Continental Africa light middleweight title,", "id": "5080778" }, { "contents": "Tom Bogs\n\n\nwins and one draw. He suffered his first defeat against the former world welterweight and middleweight champion Emile Griffith in a non-title fight in June 1970. Bogs won the European light-heavyweight title in 1968 when he stopped German champion Lothar Stengel in the first round of the bout. He successfully defended the title against Piero Del Papa before moving down to the middleweight division for a title match against European champion Carlos Duran. Bogs defeated Duran and went on to successfully defend his middleweight title three times before losing a rematch to", "id": "19397152" }, { "contents": "Angel Robinson Garcia\n\n\nand International Boxing Hall of Fame member Roberto Duran at the Gimnasio Nuevo Panama-now Gimnasio Roberto Duran-at Panama City. Robinson Garcia gave Duran a relatively close fight but still lost by unanimous ten-round decision with scores of 99-93, 98-94 and 98-96, all in favor of the Panamanian. Robinson Garcia went 1-4 the rest of that year, facing, among others, Esteban De Jesus in San Juan, Puerto Rico, to whom he dropped a ten-round decision on", "id": "1307045" }, { "contents": "Josue Marquez\n\n\n15 round distance with Roberto Duran in a world title attempt; completing a total of 25 rounds against Duran divided in two fights without getting knocked out by the Panamanian. Viruet knocked Marquez out in round ten on April 8, 1978 at the Juan Ramon Loubriel stadium in San Juan, after which Marquez decided to retire from professional boxing. Marquez won 32, losing 12 and tying 2 of his 46 professional boxing fights, winning 7 and losing 2 of those by knockout. Marquez turned to training professional boxers for a while after", "id": "17936127" }, { "contents": "Roberto Durán\n\n\n(fighting for the minor International Boxing Council (IBC) belt). Durán fought Vinny Pazienza in 1994 and 1995 for the IBC Super Middleweight Championship and was defeated both times by unanimous decision, but many people felt Duran clearly won the first bout and he was robbed of the victory. In 1996, he was challenged by Héctor Camacho for the vacant IBC Middleweight Championship but lost by a very controversial unanimous decision. In 1997, Durán was defeated by former champion Jorge Castro. Durán fought Castro in a rematch bout and won", "id": "16507032" }, { "contents": "Hector Thompson\n\n\nHector Thompson (born 24 June 1949 in Kempsey, New South Wales) is an Indigenous Australian professional boxer who competed in four different weight divisions, Lightweight, Super lightweight, Welterweight and Junior middleweight during the 1970s and 80s. In 1973 he beat Joe Tetteh for the Commonwealth (British Empire) Super Lightweight Title, earning a shot at Roberto Duran in 1973 for the World Boxing Association World lightweight but lost by TKO. After capturing the Commonwealth title again in 1975, later that year he would go on to challenge Antonio Cervantes", "id": "5995492" }, { "contents": "José Durán (boxer)\n\n\non October 8, 1976. Duran, fighting in his home city of Madrid, was knocked down in the third round by a left hand to the jaw. Although Duran rose from the canvas, he was outworked by the faster challenger and lost his title via a split decision in a fight where both boxers finished with bloody faces. In his final fight Duran challenged the Italian-Australian champion Rocky Mattioli for the WBC Light Middleweight title. The result was never in doubt, as Mattioli knocked Duran down in the second,", "id": "13817397" }, { "contents": "Goody Petronelli\n\n\n, who had earlier won the title from Antuofermo. Hagler bloodied Minter early, winning on a third-round TKO. The Petronellis would guide Hagler through 12 successful world title defenses over 7 years, including celebrated bouts against Roberto Duran and Thomas Hearns, before he lost to Sugar Ray Leonard in another controversial judges' decision, a split verdict in Leonard's favor. It turned out to be Hagler's final fight. Petronelli trained others who would fight in world title bouts: World Boxing Organization super middleweight champion Steve Collins;", "id": "13838256" }, { "contents": "Andres Hernández\n\n\nstreak came to an end when he traveled to Panama to fight world-ranked Gilberto Illueca, and dropped a ten round unanimous decision. Hernandez then started another streak of wins, this time reaching eight consecutive victories before facing another up-and-coming Puerto Rican bantamweight, Wilfredo Gomez. The pair met on Saturday, December 20, 1975 at Roberto Clemente Coliseum in San Juan as part of a boxing program that included fights of Julian Solis, Larry Holmes and Roberto Duran defending his world Lightweight title in the main event against", "id": "7680623" }, { "contents": "Panama Joe Gans\n\n\naspects of boxing by partaking in bouts organized by his classmates. Under the guidance of H.R. Cambridge, a local Panamanian business manager, and real estate developer, Quinton adopted his ring name, and became a successful boxer in the Canal Zone where he fought his first thirty fights with considerable success. On October 10, 1915, Panama Joe first won the Lightweight Championship of Panama at only eighteen against Young Sam Langford at the Pacific Theatre in Panama City in a twenty-round points decision. He later took the Middleweight Championship of", "id": "1295301" }, { "contents": "Roberto Durán\n\n\ndecision. The bout was named the 1989 \"Fight of the Year\" by \"The Ring\". His reign was short lived once again as Duran moved up to super middleweight (although both fighters weighed in at the middleweight limit) for a third clash with Sugar Ray Leonard in December 1989 (a fight dubbed \"Uno Más\"—One More—by promoters), which Leonard won by wide unanimous decision. Durán seemed to be in decline after the fight, he attempted to win further middleweight titles in 1994, 1995 and 1996", "id": "16507031" }, { "contents": "José Durán (boxer)\n\n\nat winning the world title. He travelled to Monaco to fight Miguel de Oliveira for the vacant WBC Light Middleweight title. de Oliveira, a native of Brazil, won the title via an unanimous decision after a bloody battle which lasted the full fifteen rounds. In his next fight Duran lost his EBU title in Germany to Eckhard Dagge, a man Duran had previously beaten by a technical knockout in the eleventh round. On this occasion, however, it was Dagge who scored the knockout, with the fight being stopped in the", "id": "13817395" }, { "contents": "José Durán (boxer)\n\n\nby scoring a knockout over Ben Hamida in the third round. After winning 22 consecutive bouts Duran suffered his first defeat, losing to Jean Josselin via an eight round decision on June 22, 1970. Duran was able to avenge this defeat on May 21, 1971, once again the fight went the eight round distance although Duran won the decision on this occasion. Duran won his first championship on June 7, 1974 by beating Jacques Kechichian and thus winning the EBU title. On May 7, 1975 Duran made his first attempt", "id": "13817394" }, { "contents": "Roberto Durán\n\n\nfight (the \"No Más\" fight was officially recorded as a technical knockout, because Duran quit). Durán did not contend another title fight until 1989, but made the shot count when he won the WBC Middleweight title from Iran Barkley in February. The fight is considered one of Durán's greatest achievements, as the 37-year-old former lightweight champion took the middleweight crown, his fourth title. In a tough, back-and-forth fight, Durán knocked Barkley down in the eleventh round and won a close", "id": "16507030" }, { "contents": "José Durán (boxer)\n\n\nninth round. Duran once again challenged for the world title on May 18, 1976. On this occasion Duran travelled to Tokyo, Japan to successfully challenge Koichi Wajima for the Lineal and WBA light middleweight titles. Duran started the fight well by opening a large cut on the champion's forehead and knocking him down in the second round. Wajima was knocked down once again in the thirteenth round before the fight was finally stopped in the fourteenth. Duran lost his title in his first defence, against the Argentine challenger Miguel Angel Castellini", "id": "13817396" }, { "contents": "José Durán (boxer)\n\n\nJosé Manuel Durán Pérez, popularly known as \"Pepe Durán\" (born October 9, 1945 in Madrid, Spain) is a former Spanish professional boxer. During his eleven-year professional career Duran held the Lineal and WBA light middleweight titles. He challenged for the WBC version of the title and held the EBU title. He also competed in the men's welterweight event at the 1968 Summer Olympics. Duran made his professional debut on November 30, 1967 in Barcelona, Spain. Duran made a victorious start to his career", "id": "13817393" }, { "contents": "Edwin Rosario\n\n\nopponent had boxed 25 rounds against Roberto Duran-including a world lightweight championship bout-without being knocked out. Rosario eventually gained a record of 21–0 with 20 knockouts. This led to talks of a title fight against World Boxing Council (WBC) lightweight champion Alexis Argüello, to be held in Miami. But Argüello relinquished the title in order to move up in weight to challenge junior welterweight champion Aaron Pryor. With Arguello moving divisions, Rosario was matched with Mexico's José Luis Ramírez on May 1, 1983 for the vacant", "id": "5267805" }, { "contents": "Ken Buchanan\n\n\nwin over Chang Kil Lee on 4 December 1972. On 28 June 1972, Roberto Duran signed to defend it against Buchanan on 20 October 1972. However, Duran broke that agreement when the Panamanian Government insisted he made his first defense in Panama. He did, knocking out Jimmy Robertson on 20 January 1973. Duran also had signed a second contract with the MSG on 25 October 1972, to defend against Buchanan on or before 30 June 1973. But Duran broke that agreement again. Duran had his license suspended by the New", "id": "13762575" }, { "contents": "Koichi Wajima\n\n\nhis Lineal and WBA light middleweight titles as well. However, he regained his Lineal and WBA titles in February, 1976, with a 15th round KO over Yuh. Wajima lost to Jose Manuel Duran in his first defense, losing the world title for the third time in his career. He fought his final match In June, 1977, challenging Eddie Gazo for the WBA super welterweight title, but lost by 11th round KO. This was the last fight of his career. His record was 31-6-1 (", "id": "20508599" }, { "contents": "Wilfredo Gómez\n\n\ndirected by Mario Diaz and was filmed in New York City. Gómez has three daughters Jennifer, Gina and Liz Irina and one son Wilfredo Junior. He is good friends with Panamanian boxing legend Roberto Duran. Gómez was once married to Carolina Gamboa. On April 17, 2015, Gómez was arrested by Puerto Rican police after allegedly hitting his 59-year-old companion, a lady with whom he had been living for ten months. He was released after she refused to raise charges against him. British boxer Michael Gomez adapted his last", "id": "3553965" }, { "contents": "Caleb Truax\n\n\nRichardson, and James Crayton. His professional loss came to former undisputed middleweight world champion Jermain Taylor (Truax knocked Taylor down in the 9th round.) Truax drew Ossie Duran in a 10-round non-title bout at the Target Center in Minneapolis. The bout was part of an eight-fight card promoted by Mike Tyson's new company, Iron Mike Productions. Mike Tyson was in attendance at the event, and said of Truax, \"I hear he is exciting and he is something that we need for boxing, he", "id": "16222269" }, { "contents": "Massimiliano Duran\n\n\nMassimiliano Duran (born November 3, 1963 in Ferrara, Italy) is a former Italian professional boxer who held the Cruiser WBC title and the European championship between 1990 and 1991. He is also known for being the only fighter in boxing history to earn a shot at, win, and defend a world title with three consecutive disqualification wins. Duran was born in Ferrara. His father was the Argentine-Italian boxer Juan Carlos Duran; his brother, the Italian boxer Alessandro Duran. Duran turned pro in 1986 when he defeated", "id": "13303578" }, { "contents": "Marvelous Marvin Hagler\n\n\na staple on HBO, the Pay Per View of its time. A fight against Roberto Durán followed. Durán was the first challenger to last the distance with Hagler in a world-championship bout. Durán was the WBA Light Middleweight Champion and went up in weight to challenge for Hagler's middleweight crown. Hagler won a unanimous 15-round decision, although after 13 rounds, Duran was ahead by one point on two scorecards and even on the third. Hagler, with his left eye swollen and cut, came on strong in the", "id": "4940319" }, { "contents": "Vinny Paz\n\n\nSantana fight, Pazienza went on to defeat Brett Lally by a 6th-round TKO, and then, in another TKO, former world champion Lloyd Honeyghan in the 10th round. Pazienza went on to win the vacant IBO middleweight world title in 1993 with an 11th-round KO over Dan Sherry. Pazienza then went on to beat Roberto Duran twice, both via decision, with the IBC super middleweight title on the line both times. In June 1995, Pazienza lost his world title bid against IBF world super middleweight champion Roy", "id": "12129878" }, { "contents": "Juan Carlos Giménez Ferreyra\n\n\nJuan Carlos Giménez Ferreyra (born 20 December 1960) is a Paraguayan boxer. During his career he was WBC International light heavyweight champion and unsuccessfully fought for the World Super Middleweight title four times, first against Mauro Galvano in 1992, then against Chris Eubank the same year, against Nigel Benn in 1994 and finally against Joe Calzaghe in 1998, losing via knockout. During his career he went the distance with Nigel Benn, Chris Eubank and Roberto Duran. Gimenez last fought in 2010, winning the Paraguayan Cruiserweight title against Nicasio Moray", "id": "17951209" }, { "contents": "Massimiliano Duran\n\n\nMomo Cupelic. The win earned him the nickname \"Momo\". Duran's first defeat came by the hand of Ndomingiedi Lusikina. This would be the beginning of a long-standing rivalry, that will result in the two boxers fighting five times. In 1990 Duran won the WBC Cruiserweight Title by defeating Carlos De León, when De León was disqualified for hitting after the bell to end the 11th round. Duran was leading on the cards. His first defence was against Anaclet Wamba. Duran won by DQ after Wamba had", "id": "13303579" }, { "contents": "Héctor Camacho\n\n\namateur career, Camacho won three New York Golden Gloves tournaments, beginning with the Sub-Novice 112 lbs championship in 1978. During his professional career, Camacho had many notable fights against some of the biggest names in boxing, defeating Roberto Durán twice late in Duran's career, and knocking out Sugar Ray Leonard to send him into permanent retirement. He also fought Julio César Chávez, Félix Trinidad, and Oscar De La Hoya, among others. During his later years, Camacho expanded his popular role and appeared on a variety", "id": "5327031" }, { "contents": "Eckhard Dagge\n\n\n. He would later embark on an amateur career, in which he won 66 out of 80 bouts, before falling short of making the 1972 Olympic Team. Dagge would win the German Middleweight title, in his 6th bout. Dagge would follow up with wins over notable, but faded fighters Denny Moyer and Manuel González. In 1974, Dagge challenged Jose Manuel Duran for the European Light Middleweight title, losing by 11th-round TKO. He came back the next year however, and stopped Duran in the 9th round, to", "id": "18853804" }, { "contents": "Antonio Cervantes\n\n\nLightweight champion Roberto Durán, who was coming up in weight. Duran decided to challenge Sugar Ray Leonard instead, however, and Cervantes vs. Duran never materialized. On August 2, 1980, Cervantes dropped his next title challenger, Aaron Pryor, to the canvas in the first round. Pryor recovered, however, and beat Cervantes by a knockout in round four. This turned out to be Cervantes' last world title fight. He fought two times more for the FECARBOX WBC title, winning both fights shortly before retiring in 1980", "id": "11465736" }, { "contents": "USA Tuesday Night Fights\n\n\nfighter by fighting several four rounders on \"Tuesday Night Fights\". Roberto Duran was another fixture on \"Tuesday Night Fights\" later in his career, and his 100th professional bout was carried by USA. \"Tuesday Night Fights\" also showcased the bizarre from time to time. Among these was a fight from former pro football star Mark Gastineau's controversial boxing career which saw him lose to a journeyman fighter, Andrew Golota's infamous fight against Samson Po'uha in 1995 which saw the Polish fighter, who appeared frequently on \"Tuesday", "id": "5898536" }, { "contents": "Jacques LeBlanc\n\n\n22 wins, 4 losses and 2 draws when he fought WBC Middleweight Champion Roberto Durán on June 29, 1993. LeBlanc was billed as a severe underdog but lasted the full 10 rounds with Duran, losing on points. LeBlanc fought the undefeated Richie Woodhall in October 1994 for the Commonwealth Middleweight crown but again lost on points. He continued boxing until 1997, but winning again only once. In 2010, Jacques was inducted into the City of Moncton Wall of Fame . He currently holds the record for most matches without being knocked", "id": "3179570" }, { "contents": "Andy Lee (boxer)\n\n\nResort Casino in Mashantucket, Connecticut, and won via technical knockout at 0:56 in the 10th round. He avenged his loss to Brian Vera on 1 October 2011 by unanimous decision. On 10 March 2012, Lee Knocked out Mexico's Saul Duran in the 2nd round of a stay busy fight. On 16 June 2012, Lee challenged undefeated Titleholder Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. for the WBC World Middleweight Title in the Sun Bowl Stadium in El Paso, Texas televised on HBO World Championship Boxing. Lee got off to a good start,", "id": "15093101" }, { "contents": "Joe Cortez\n\n\ntook on the responsibility to referee some major Championship fights. During this time he was the third man in the ring in several professional Mike Tyson and Roberto Duran fights. As eminent referees Richard Steele and Mills Lane retired at the dawn of the 21st century, Cortez became one of Nevada and New York's preferred boxing referees for world title fights. He has refereed over 170 world title bouts, among which figure the first Oscar De La Hoya-Julio César Chávez meeting, Evander Holyfield and Riddick Bowe's first title fight and", "id": "18491003" }, { "contents": "Reuben Duran\n\n\nnot for the injury, he would have gotten a stoppage. Duran would support his bold statement in his next fight as he claimed a victory over Ryan Diaz via KO with only 3 seconds left in the fight. In subsequent bouts, Duran submitted both Kana Hyatt and Maurice Eazel in the first round. Duran signed with the UFC in early 2011 and made his debut at UFC on Versus 3 against Takeya Mizugaki, replacing an injured Francisco Rivera. Duran lost the fight via close split decision. Duran faced Francisco Rivera on June", "id": "15069085" }, { "contents": "Héctor Camacho\n\n\n. Before this fight, Camacho was trained by Angelo Dundee. His last two fights resulted in a draw and a loss, against Luis Ramón Campas and Saúl Duran, respectively. His last fight against Duran was on May 14, 2010. On January 6, 2005, Camacho was arrested by police in Gulfport, Mississippi on charges of trying to burgle an electronic goods store and carrying the drug ecstasy on him. In 2007, he declared himself guilty of being under the influence at the time of the burglary. He was", "id": "5327048" }, { "contents": "Jack Blackburn\n\n\nhad a slight advantage in height and reach. Blackburn fought the Barbados-born boxer Panama Joe Gans, who had boxed extensively in Panama where he lived prior to 1917. Panama Joe held the World Colored Middleweight Championship from 1920 to 1924, and held a Panamanian Lightweight Title in his youth. On July 24, 1922, Blackburn lost one of his last bouts to Gans in Indianapolis, Indiana, in a fourth-round technical knockout of a scheduled ten round bout. Panama Joe was a formidable boxer and fourteen years younger", "id": "10094030" }, { "contents": "Vinny Paz\n\n\nHector \"Macho\" Camacho and WBA World Champion Loreto Garza. In 1991, Pazienza moved into the junior middleweight division. In his first fight at junior middleweight, he won the USBA championship against Ron Amundsen in a 12-round decision. He defeated the WBA world jr. middleweight champion Gilbert Delé with a 12th-round TKO in Providence, becoming the second fighter in boxing history to win both the lightweight and junior middleweight world championships. Pazienza was forced to relinquish the title due to a serious car accident in which his neck was", "id": "12129876" }, { "contents": "Roberto Durán\n\n\nvia unanimous decision. In 1998, at the age of 47, he challenged 28-year-old WBA Middleweight Champion William Joppy. Joppy, a trim, quick-fisted fighter, battered Durán to defeat in just 3 rounds. It was Duran's most emphatic loss since the Hearns fight, over a decade earlier. Durán then announced his retirement in August 1998, but was back fighting in 1999. In June 2000, Durán avenged a previous loss to Pat Lawlor and won the NBA Super Middleweight Championship on his 49th birthday.", "id": "16507033" }, { "contents": "Roberto Vásquez\n\n\nRoberto Gaspar Vásquez Ramirez (born May 26, 1983 in Panama City) is a Panamanian professional boxer who held the WBA light flyweight title from 2005 to 2006. He also held the WBA flyweight interim title from 2006 to 2007. Vásquez lost in his professional boxing debut against Angelo Dottin on March 17, 2001. The four-round fight occurred in Dottin's hometown of Colón, Panama. Despite Vásquez's cutting Dottin's right cheek in the first round, all three judges scored the bout 39-38 for Dottin.", "id": "15594966" }, { "contents": "Roberto Durán\n\n\nwith an incredible 71–1 record. On June 20, 1980, Durán captured the WBC Welterweight title by defeating Leonard via a 15-round unanimous decision (145–144, 148–147, 146–144). The fight became known as \"The Brawl in Montreal\". After defeating Leonard in Montreal, Duran gained iconic status in his home country, Panama. Leonard initiated the rematch clause and asked for the fight to be the following November. In their second fight, Leonard successfully changed his tactics, using more footwork and movement than he had in their", "id": "16507022" }, { "contents": "Roberto Durán\n\n\nfirst fight, and Duran was unable to get Leonard against the ropes. During the seventh round, after Leonard had gained a slight lead on the scorecards, he began taunting and mocking Duran. Halfway into the eighth round, Duran suddenly stopped fighting, repeatedly saying, \"No más\" (\"no more\"). In a 2016 interview, Duran claimed that what he actually said was, \"No Sigo\" (\"I won't go on\"). He took some time to recover from that fight and", "id": "16507023" }, { "contents": "Kirkland Laing\n\n\n. Laing's boxing career was sporadic, as he often failed to deliver on his promise, appearing under-prepared against less able fighters and indulging in drink, drugs and women. In the year following his victory over Duran, Laing went missing, blowing his earnings. In that same period Duran was to fight four times, earning an estimated $6m. Laing continued to fight until he was 40, and retired after a stoppage loss to future world champion Glen Catley. After retiring, Laing continue to live in", "id": "8014673" }, { "contents": "Jimmy Batten\n\n\nThomas stopped him in the ninth round to take the title. Batten won his next five fights before losing on points in May 1981 to Chris Christian. He then travelled to the United States, where he was based in Chicago for almost two years; There he had a series of fights starting with two easy wins before he was stopped in the first round in May 1982 by Mario Maldonado. He beat Jeff Madison in September before facing Roberto Duran in November 1982 at the Miami Orange Bowl; Duran took a unanimous decision,", "id": "22189495" }, { "contents": "Ray Lampkin\n\n\nRay Lampkin (born 1948 in Portland, Oregon) is a retired professional boxer who lost the 1975 World Boxing Association (WBA) lightweight title fight against Roberto Durán in Panama. He won the North American Boxing Federation lightweight title fight but later lost it against Esteban de Jesús at the Felt Forum in New York City. He finished his career with a total of 34 wins (16 by knock out), six losses (two by knock out) and one draw. Lampkin was inducted into the Oregon Sports Hall of Fame", "id": "279465" }, { "contents": "Roberto Durán\n\n\nthe end of the seventh. Finally the fight was stopped in the eighth round as Moore was taking such a horrific beating and Durán won his third world title. After the victory, Durán was hoisted up in the air as the crowd sang \"Happy Birthday\" to a sobbing Durán. Durán later fought for the World Middleweight Championship, meeting Marvelous Marvin Hagler in Las Vegas in November 1983, during the fight Duran broke his hand and lost in a very competitive fight that went the full fifteen rounds, although after 12 rounds", "id": "16507027" }, { "contents": "Harold Reitman\n\n\nprofessional record of 7-1-1, Reitman fought a three-round charity exhibition match against the five-time world champion Roberto Duran at the Hollywood Diplomat Hotel in Miami Beach. On November 11, 1991, Reitman fought heavyweight Tim Anderson for the NBA Independent Cruiserweight title in a televised fight. Though Reitman scored two 9th round knockdowns, the fight ended in a draw. In March 1992, Reitman was the 12th ranked Heavyweight boxer in the world according to the International Boxing Council. On December 12, 1995,", "id": "9844517" }, { "contents": "Jeffrey Mathebula\n\n\nlost to Celestino Caballero. Hence, Mathebula fought against Caballero for the WBA Super World and IBF World super bantamweight title. However, he lost his first world title shot against Caballero via a split decision at the Roberto Duran Arena in Panama on 30 April 2009. After losing to Takalani Ndlovu via a split decision in an IBF junior featherweight title eliminator in Brakpan, Gauteng in September 2010, Mathebula defeated Ndlovu via a split decision in their rematch in Brakpan to be crowned the IBF junior featherweight champion. It was the SABC-", "id": "16997776" }, { "contents": "Angel Robinson Garcia\n\n\nhim fight 12 times, including a September 10 loss by ten-round decision to future WBC world Lightweight-and Spain's second-Champion Pedro Carrasco at the Basque Country and a December 30 defeat at the hands of 19-2-4 Chris Fernandez by ten-round decision also. Robinson Garcia contested 17 bouts in 1970. These included an August 21 match with Jose Duran, won by Duran by ten rounds decision at Madrid and a November 20 bout with French Roger Menetrey which Menetrey won by ten-round decision", "id": "1307042" }, { "contents": "Sugar Ray Leonard vs. Thomas Hearns\n\n\nSugar Ray Leonard and Thomas Hearns are considered to be two of the best boxers of all-time. They fought twice, with Leonard winning in 1981 and a draw in 1989. Both fights are considered to be classics. Sugar Ray Leonard won the WBC welterweight title with a fifteenth-round knockout of Wilfred Benítez in 1979. He lost it to Roberto Durán by a close decision in June 1980 and regained it five months later in the infamous No Más Fight, in which Duran quit in the eighth round. In June", "id": "20124047" }, { "contents": "Brandon Gonzáles\n\n\nOlympic Team in 2004 he withdrew to begin his professional career in 2007. While boxing as an amateur he worked as a janitor at Arco Arena.. On January 29, 2010 Gonzales won a fight against veteran Dumont Welliver by T.K.O., the fight was on the undercard of ESPN's Friday Night Fights. He maintained an unblemished streak of 17 wins until his bout with Thomas Oosthuizen that resulted in a draw. On October 28, 2011 he defeated Ossie Duran in the Main Event on Showtime's ShoBox at Bally's in Atlantic City", "id": "18287532" }, { "contents": "Miguel Ángel Castellini\n\n\nManuel Duran, in front of a sell out crowd of 12,000. Duran, who was making the first defence of his title, was knocked down in the third round by a left hand to the jaw. Although the champion rose from the canvas, he was outworked by the faster challenger and lost his title via a split decision in a fight where both boxers finished with bloody faces. Castellini's championship reign only lasted one fight as he lost it in his first defence to Eddie Gazo on March 5, 1977. Gazo", "id": "13522966" }, { "contents": "Hilario Zapata\n\n\nwas knocked out in the first round by the WBC world Jr. Bantamweight champion Sung-Kil Moon. A win against Moon would have made Zapata a member of the exclusive group of world boxing champions in three different weight categories or more. It can also be added that Zapata's first pair of boxing gloves, when he was 12, came as a present from Duran himself. Panamanian newspaper \"El Panama America\" declared on one of their editorials that Zapata, according to their opinion, should be inducted to the International Boxing", "id": "9857520" }, { "contents": "Panama Joe Gans\n\n\nPanama Joe Gans was a black boxer who held the World Colored Middleweight Championship for four years, shortly before it was discontinued. Born Cyril Quinton Jr. on November 14, 1896 in Barbados, British West Indies and raised in the Panama Canal Zone, the 5'7\" Quinton originally fought out of Panama and then New York City. He took his ringname from boxing great Joe Gans, the first black American fighter to win a world boxing title. He found his greatest fame fighting as a middleweight at between 147 and 160 lbs,", "id": "1295299" }, { "contents": "Panama Lewis\n\n\nCarlos \"Panama\" Lewis (born November 4, 1945) is an American boxing trainer. He was convicted of tampering with the gloves of Luis Resto in the Resto vs \"Irish\" Billy Collins fight of 1983, which subsequently led to the end of Collins' boxing career. Collins suffered from depression and possibly committed suicide following the tragic assault. Lewis was a disciple of trainer Chickie Ferrara. He was Roberto Durán's cornerman when Duran lost a unanimous decision against Wilfred Benitez in 1982. During the early 1980s, he", "id": "11205984" }, { "contents": "Pernell Whitaker\n\n\nfight, he basically faced no real trouble against Vásquez in route to the win. This was a history making fight for Whitaker, as he became only the fourth fighter in history - joining Thomas Hearns, Sugar Ray Leonard, and Roberto Duran - to have won a legitimate world title in four different weight classes. However, he chose to move back to welterweight. Whitaker successfully defended his WBC belt against Scotland's Gary Jacobs on August 26, 1995. In January, 1997, Whitaker put his title on the line against", "id": "20971754" }, { "contents": "Carlos Palomino\n\n\nundercard. Palomino lost to Duran by decision in ten rounds, and he announced his retirement from boxing right away. Palomino began his comeback on January 10, 1997, beating Ismaél Díaz by a knockout in round nine. He won four fights that year, including one over former world champion Rene Arredondo, but when he lost by decision in ten to former Oscar De La Hoya world title challenger Wilfredo Rivera on May 30, 1998, he decided to retire for good, and has stayed in retirement ever since. In 1978", "id": "12841764" }, { "contents": "Roberto Durán\n\n\nRoberto Durán Samaniego (born June 16, 1951) is a Panamanian former professional boxer who competed from 1968 to 2001. He held world championships in four weight classes: lightweight, welterweight, light middleweight and middleweight, as well as reigns as the undisputed and lineal lightweight champion, and the lineal welterweight champion. He is also the second boxer to have competed over a span of five decades, the first being Jack Johnson. Durán was known as a versatile, technical brawler and pressure fighter, which earned him the nickname of", "id": "16507013" }, { "contents": "Joshua Clottey\n\n\nwelterweight title in his next fight. He then rolled off a 10 fight winning streak highlighted by his first win on American soil and capture of several minor welterweight and middleweight titles. The streak culminated in an IBF intercontinental welterweight title. On December 2, 2006, Clottey earned his first shot at a world title but broke his hand in the fourth round of his fight against World Boxing Organization champion Antonio Margarito. That bout against Margarito has since come under controversial suspicion following news reports (released after Margarito's fight with Shane Mosley", "id": "11102893" }, { "contents": "Aaron Pryor\n\n\nten years in prison after he was convicted of 29 counts of fraud and embezzlement. Pryor was then offered $750,000 to fight Roberto Duran in April 1981, but Pryor turned it down because his new attorney told him not to sign anything until he worked out a new contract with manager Buddy LaRosa. By the time they worked out a new agreement, the chance to fight Duran was gone. On June 27, 1981, Pryor knocked out Lennox Blackmore in the second round. He then defended the title against undefeated Dujuan Johnson", "id": "8987862" }, { "contents": "Roberto Durán\n\n\nChorrillo in the district \"La Casa de Piedra\" (The House of Stone) Panama. He began sparring with experienced boxers at the Neco de La Guardia gymnasium when he was only eight years old. Durán competed as an amateur compiling a record of 13–3. Having 16 amateur fights under his belt, he made his professional debut in 1968 at the age of 16. Duran won his first 31 consecutive fights, and scored knockout victories over future Featherweight Champion Ernesto Marcel and former Super Featherweight Champion Hiroshi Kobayashi, culminating in his", "id": "16507016" }, { "contents": "Wilfredo Gómez\n\n\nOn May 18, 2003, Gómez returned to Panama, where he was received by Duran and Eusebio Pedroza, among others. In a message geared towards Panamanians, he expressed thanks to that country, calling it his second country and saying, among other things \"I'm very motivated now that I will return to Puerto Rico, and no one should be surprised if I buy an apartment in Panama and move my family here\". However, he bought a house in Orlando, Florida in 2006. Gómez had a record", "id": "3553963" }, { "contents": "Jacob Duran\n\n\nSandman\" Sanchez before furthering his career in professional boxing and mixed martial arts. In boxing, Duran works on the Klitschko brothers and Andre Ward. On November 23, 2014 Duran was in the corner of Chris Algieri when he took on Manny Pacquiao for the WBO welterweight title at Cotai Arena, Venetian Resort, Macao, Macao S.A.R., China. On May 29, 2015, Duran was in the corner of Chris Algieri once again when he took on Amir Khan for the WBC Silver Welterweight title at The Barclays Center, Brooklyn", "id": "2958564" }, { "contents": "Edwin Rodríguez (boxer)\n\n\nEdwin Rodríguez (born May 5, 1985) is a Dominican professional boxer who lives in Worcester, Massachusetts. Starred in the box office hit Bleed For This as Roberto Duran Rodriguez moved to Worcester at age 13 with dreams of becoming the next great Dominican ballplayer. Winters in the Bay State made for a short baseball season and two years later, he abandoned the diamond for the ring. Rodriguez had an 84–9 record and won the USA Boxing Championships 2005 and the National Golden Gloves 2006 as a middleweight (165 pounds).", "id": "15244912" }, { "contents": "Steve Smoger\n\n\n, New York. On May 27, 2017 in Atlantic City, New Jersey Smoger became the first professional boxing referee to be inducted into the newly created Atlantic City Boxing Hall of Fame, joining Don King and Michael Spinks among other inductees. Smoger's Hall of Fame resume comprises five inductions Smoger has officiated the bouts featuring such professional boxers as Mike Tyson, Lennox Lewis, Larry Holmes, Evander Holyfield, Ray Mercer, Steve Cunningham, John Ruiz, Roberto Duran, Hector Camacho, Roy Jones, Jr., James Toney,", "id": "12530988" }, { "contents": "Panama Blue\n\n\nPanama Blue is rainforest spring water and a product of Panama Springs S.A. Panama Blue is a brand of luxury rainforest spring water. Panama Blue is the number one premium bottled water brand of Panama. The brand ambassadors are boxer Roberto Duran and Carolina Dementiev, a Panamanian model and triathlete. Panama Blue is bottled at the source in the mountains of Cerro Azul, surrounded by the Chagres National Park in the Panamanian rainforest. The spring is located about 800m above sea level. Because of the soil, the volcanic rocks and the", "id": "19226350" }, { "contents": "Roberto Durán\n\n\ngained even more weight to contend for the WBC Light Middleweight title, but losing in his first attempt at a championship in that division on January 30, 1982, against Wilfred Benítez by a 15-round unanimous decision, this after having defeated Nino Gonzalez and Luigi Minchillo, two rated Light Middleweights, both by ten-round decisions in non-title bouts. Durán was also to lose his comeback fight in September 1982 in Detroit. Kirkland Laing, from London, shocked the boxing world, producing the type of display his talents promised", "id": "16507024" }, { "contents": "Richard Green (referee)\n\n\nwas Muhammad Ali's loss to Larry Holmes in 1980. Green officiated two high-profile fights in 1982. Early in the year he refereed Wilfred Benitez's fight against Roberto Duran for Benitez's super welterweight title. Later he was the referee in the Ray Mancini's first-round knockout of Arturo Frias, a win that gave Mancini the WBA lightweight championship. On November 13, 1982, Green was assigned to work Mancini's second defense of that title, a match against the Korean contender Duk Koo Kim that was televised", "id": "8256032" }, { "contents": "Nat Jacobs\n\n\nNathaniel \"Nat\" J. S. Jacobs (born 1 December 1939) is an English amateur and professional boxer of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, who won the Central (England) Area middleweight title and challenged for the British Boxing Board of Control British middleweight title. His professional fighting weight varied from , i.e. welterweight, through light middleweight and middleweight, to , i.e. light heavyweight. He was managed/trained by former boxer Stan Skinkiss. Born in Manchester, Jacobs began his professional career in November 1960 with a points victory", "id": "16077543" }, { "contents": "Light middleweight\n\n\nOctober 17, was won by Griffith via a 15-round decision. Three days later, the World Boxing Association championship was created when Denny Moyer outpointed Joey Giambra. The World Boxing Council recognized the WBA champion as the true division champion until 1975, when it stripped their current champion and sanctioned a fight between Miguel de Oliveira and Jose Duran for the vacant title. De Oliveira won the title over 15 rounds in 1975. The International Boxing Federation crowned its first champion when Mark Medal defeated Earl Hargrove in 1984. The World Boxing Organization", "id": "11957407" }, { "contents": "Héctor Camacho\n\n\nhim in his career) to defeat Craig Houk by knockout in round three. He won consecutive unanimous ten-round decisions over Clinton McNeil and Raúl Jorge Muñoz. After that, his boxing career went on hiatus, as he faced criminal charges. He pled guilty to burglary and acknowledged drug abuse, but was given probation. Camacho returned to boxing on July 18, 2008, competing against Perry Ballard for the World Boxing Empire's Middleweight Championship. The fight lasted seven rounds. Camacho won when Ballard's corner threw the towel", "id": "5327047" }, { "contents": "Panama Joe Gans\n\n\nPanama by knocking out Benny McGovern in the third of fifteen rounds on November 30, 1916 at the Santa Ana Plaza in Panama City. At the time, these titles were often described as extending to both Central and South America. In his first bout after taking the Middleweight Championship of Panama on December 12, 1916, though barely twenty-one years old, he soundly defeated Abraham Jacob Hollandersky, a former holder of the Panamanian Heavyweight Championship in 20 rounds in Panama City. In 1917, Panama Joe was brought to New", "id": "1295302" }, { "contents": "Murderers' Row (boxing)\n\n\ncounted as Burley’s conquests. He was ranked in the top 10 in the Welterweight and Middleweight divisions for most of the 1940s, without receiving a title shot. (Burley did hold the World Colored Welterweight and World Colored Middleweight Championship titles.) Near the end of his career Burley took to fighting Heavyweights in a bid to find meaningful contests, including J.D. Turner and future Heavyweight champ Ezzard Charles. Eventually, Burley would retire after winning 83 bouts, without ever being able to meet in the ring the champions of the time", "id": "6667729" }, { "contents": "Reuben Duran\n\n\nadditions of wrestling, Brazilian jiu-jitsu, and Muay Thai. Reuben began his career with multiple fights for King of the Cage, and other small promotions in California. As an amateur competitor, Duran has distinguished himself by being a six time winner of Grapplers Quest. In a memorable match, Duran fought Greg Guzman, hiding his injuries that included 2 torn ligaments in his right hand. In spite of the injuries, Duran still earned the victory. Later, in an interview, Duran voiced his confidence that were it", "id": "15069084" }, { "contents": "Boardwalk Hall\n\n\n, Oscar De La Hoya, Roberto Duran, Lennox Lewis, Roy Jones Jr., Floyd Mayweather Jr., Bernard Hopkins, Riddick Bowe, Julio César Chávez, Héctor Camacho, Micky Ward, and Arturo Gatti. In September 2007, it was the venue for the Kelly Pavlik – Jermain Taylor boxing match for the World Boxing Council, World Boxing Organization and \"The Ring\" magazine's middleweight championships. On December 12, 1965, the New York Ukrainians defeated Philadelphia Ukrainian Nationals 3-2 in the first regulation indoor soccer match", "id": "5560408" }, { "contents": "Phil Edwards (boxer)\n\n\nmember of the public who was attempting to take a kick at the new champion. Edward's very next fight after his title success was against Nigerian boxing legend Dick Tiger. Tiger was a one-time world middleweight and light-heavyweight world champion, and Edwards showed his class by lasting the full ten rounds, losing on points. After the Tiger fight, Edwards was back to winning ways, and was victorious in his first four fights of 1958, defeating Commonwealth title challenger Lew Lazar, Scotland's John Woolard, journeyman", "id": "19060017" }, { "contents": "Carl Thompson (boxer)\n\n\nin February 1993. In February 1994, Thompson traveled to Ferrara, Emilia Romagna, Italy and won the European title by defeating Massimiliano Duran by KO in eight rounds, and in his next bout knocked out France's Akim Tafer in six rounds at Epernay, Marne, France to retain his European title. After winning two mark-time fights, Thompson was matched against Ralf Rocchigiani in a bout for the vacant WBO cruiserweight title at the G-Mex Leisure Centre, Manchester in June 1995. Both fighters were knocked down in", "id": "14087508" }, { "contents": "Luis Federico Thompson\n\n\nLuis Federico Thompson (December 19, 1927 – January 8 , 2010) was a Panamanian Argentinian professional boxer. Thompson was born in Colon, Panama, later moved to Argentina, where he was nationalized and afterwards became the Argentine and South American boxing champion. Thompson debuted in 1947 with a fight against Wilfredo Brown in Panama City which ended in a draw. On October 7, 1951, he fought Wilfredo Brewster defeating him and winning the Panamanian Lightweight Title for the first time. Two months later, he fought Wilfredo Brown again", "id": "20078674" }, { "contents": "Jawaid Khaliq\n\n\nJawaid Khaliq, MBE (born 30 July 1970), is a British former professional boxer. A dual Pakistan national, he became the first British Asian boxing world champion, winning the International Boxing Organization (IBO) welterweight title and defending it for seven constructive bouts before retiring. During his boxing career he also held the Commonwealth welterweight title, World Boxing Federation Inter-Continental Light Middleweight Title, Midlands Area light middleweight title and Midlands Area welterweight title. He is the first Kashmiri world champion boxer. Khaliq took up boxing at", "id": "22058424" }, { "contents": "Omar Sheika\n\n\nOmar Sheika (born February 20, 1977) is an American former professional boxer and multiple time super middleweight world title challenger. He is of Palestinian descent. Sheika compiled a successful amateur career, capturing a National Middleweight Championship at National AAU Boxing Tournament in 1996. Sheika has enjoyed some success in his pro career. His first fight was against Billy James. Sheika won the fight by TKO on the second round. Sheika stayed undefeated for about a year. Sheika was involved in ESPN Friday Night Fights \"Fight of the Year", "id": "7826746" }, { "contents": "Roberto Durán\n\n\nchampion the moment Durán stepped into the ring to box Hearns. Durán again made history in the fight, but this time it was the wrong kind. Hearns dropped Durán twice in the first round and as he rose to his feet after the second knockdown, which ended the round, the former champion did not know where his corner was. Hearns went on to knock Duran down a third time in the second round and the fight was stopped, marking the first time in his career that Durán had been knocked out in a", "id": "16507029" }, { "contents": "Wally Swift\n\n\nJohnny Pritchett due to an eye injury. Swift beat Peter Sharpe in May 1966 in an eliminator to face Pritchett, winning on points. In February 1967 he faced Pritchett at the Nottingham Ice Stadium for the title, losing on points over fifteen rounds. In September 1967 Swift faced Sandro Mazzinghi for the European super welterweight title in Milan; The fight was stopped in the sixth round due to injuries to Swift. In March 1968 Swift challenged Juan Carlos Duran for the European middleweight title. Swift lost the fight after being disqualified in", "id": "6876166" }, { "contents": "Hands of Stone\n\n\nup in Panama, Durán is homeschooled by Chaflan, who teaches young Roberto some vital life lessons. Later, Duran joins a boxing club with Nestor \"Plomo\" Quiñones as his coach. As he reaches 20, an American legendary boxing trainer Ray Arcel, who nearly lost his life after being attacked by an unknown assailant in 1953 in New York City and is now living with his wife Stephanie, notices Roberto's raw talent and punching power and takes the young fighter under his wing, becoming his coach. Not long after", "id": "2732439" }, { "contents": "Larry Estridge\n\n\nLarry Estridge (born 17 June 1902, St. Kitts, British West Indies) was a middleweight boxer and the last holder of the World Colored Middleweight Championship. The 5'7\" middleweight fought out of New York City from 1922 to 1929, racking up a career record of 53 wins against 23 losses and two draws from 1922 to 1929. Estridge fought colored middleweight champion Panama Joe Gans for his title on July 26, 1924 at Yankee Stadium, defeating the champ via a unanimous decision in their 10-round bout. After scoring two victories", "id": "1295287" }, { "contents": "Lennox Blackmoore\n\n\nLennox Blackmoore (born July 10, 1950 in Georgetown, Guyana) is a Guyanese professional light/light welter/welter/light middle/middleweight boxer of the 1970s and '80s who won the Guyanese lightweight title, Guyanese light middleweight title, and Commonwealth lightweight title, and was a challenger for the World Boxing Association (WBA) World light welterweight title against Aaron Pryor, and World Boxing Council (WBC) FECARBOX light welterweight title against Antonio Cervantes, his professional fighting weight varied from , i.e. lightweight to , i.e. middleweight", "id": "2810858" }, { "contents": "Abraham Jacob Hollandersky\n\n\nand skill that he would act as a sparring partner to prepare Jack Dempsey for his September 1920 Heavyweight Title bout with Hall of Famer Billy Miske as well as Dempsey's earlier bout when he first took the Heavyweight Championship from Jess Willard in Toledo. The 5' 4\" welterweight Hollandersky lost to Panama Joe, the younger and stronger Panamanian Light and Middleweight champion, and the accomplished middleweight Connors of Scranton, Pennsylvania, who had a five-inch height advantage. But he gave a closer fight to the Seattle welterweight Ryan before", "id": "10244386" }, { "contents": "Tommy Freeman (boxer)\n\n\nbout was Thompson's first title defense. Freeman held the title until his rematch with Jack Thompson on April 14, 1931 again in Cleveland where he lost by TKO in the tenth of fifteen rounds. The bout was stopped due to Freeman's badly battered left eye. He had a long career as a boxer, and remained fighting as a super welterweight until around 1937. He fought for a year as a middleweight from 1937-8. Best known of his middleweight opponents was Al McCoy who he fought on July 2 and", "id": "18569618" }, { "contents": "Alex Ramos\n\n\n. Despite losing his next fight, against future world super middleweight champion Murray Sutherland by a ten-round decision, Ramos was by then held along with the highest ranked middleweights of the era, such as Mustafa Hamsho, Wilford Scypion, Juan Roldán, John Mugabi, Curtis Parker and others. After knocking out Wilbur Henderson in three rounds on February 8, 1984, in Atlantic City, Ramos challenged Parker for his first career title, the regional, United States Boxing Association Middleweight championship. He won the title by beating Parker", "id": "10746327" }, { "contents": "Ken Buchanan\n\n\nYork State Athletic Commission on 4 April 1973. The commission also warned Duran that his title recognition would be withdrawn. The New York State Athletic Commission had been attempting for two years (1972 - 1974) to get Duran to honor an agreement to fight Buchanan. But Duran refused to honor the contract to face Buchanan. In 1973, Buchanan started out by beating future world lightweight champion Jim Watt by a decision after 15 rounds, to regain the British lightweight title. Soon, he embarked on another international tour that included more", "id": "13762576" }, { "contents": "Guillermo Jones\n\n\nin Panama by first round Knockout. Now aligned with promoter Don King, Jones fought two light middleweight WBA world title bouts against Laurent Boudouani in 1998. He drew once and lost the rematch by split decision in 12 round contests. Jones fought his way through four weight classes. Later fighting as a cruiserweight in 2002, he fought Johnny Nelson for the WBO World cruiserweight title, drawing in 12 rounds in his third world title attempt. Most in attendance thought Jones had done enough to win the title from Nelson. After yet", "id": "9043210" }, { "contents": "Tony Ayala Jr.\n\n\n. The rehabilitation program kept him from having a $750,000 payday against Roberto Duran. With the Duran fight didn't happen, Ayala settled for about $150,000 to fight Argentinian Carlos Herrera. 'It doesn't bother me,' he said. 'I'm looking at it as a step closer to the world title. Davey Moore is going to have to meet me after this fight.' After defeating Carlos Herrera, November 20, 1982, he was scheduled to fight champion Davey Moore. By December 1983, Ayala", "id": "10919402" }, { "contents": "Noé González Alcoba\n\n\nNoé González Alcoba (born 12 May 1979) \"the coal-miner\" is an Uruguayan boxer and a former world title challenger. He fights in the super middleweight division, having boxed at middleweight previously. Having boxed mainly in Argentina and Uruguay for much of his early career, he managed to land a shot at the WBA World Middleweight title after only 14 fights, challenging the then world champion Felix Sturm in Germany. The German proved too classy however and won the fight by a wide points decision, earning Alcoba his", "id": "20636614" }, { "contents": "Vicente Mosquera\n\n\nVicente Eduardo Mosquera Mena (born December 9, 1979 in Panama City, Panama) is a Panamanian professional boxer. He is a former World Boxing Association (WBA) super-featherweight champion. On April 30, 2005 he defeated Yodsanan Sor Nanthachai (Yodsanan 3-K Battery) for the WBA world championship title, by a unanimous decision. The official scorers saw it 118-108, 116-111, 115-112. In the fight, Nanthachai was knocked down three times (in the first, third, and eleventh", "id": "7687336" }, { "contents": "Iran Barkley\n\n\nof the Year by \"Ring\" magazine. Following the defeat to Duran, Barkley took on undefeated Michael Nunn for the IBF and lineal middleweight titles, dropping a close majority decision. He next fought Nigel Benn in a challenge for the WBO middleweight title and was stopped on the three-knockdown rule at the end of a wild first round in which both fighters were hurt. After losing to Benn, Barkley underwent surgery for a detached retina and was inactive for a year. Barkley returned with two low-key wins at", "id": "8203381" }, { "contents": "Abraham Jacob Hollandersky\n\n\nSox Scandal, the event brought to the forefront the corruption of American sports as it approached the roaring 20's. Abe met Attell in four three round exhibition matches at Empire Theatre while Attell was giving speaking performances in New London near the end of his boxing career. Abe claimed to have fought what was likely a sparring match with Canadian Heavyweight champion Arthur Pelkey, who was a Panamanian national heavyweight title contender in February 1917 at Panama's Santa Anna Plaza against Kid Norfolk, during the same period Abe was fighting bouts at the", "id": "10244396" }, { "contents": "Shane Mosley\n\n\n23-6, 14 KOs) at the Roberto Durán Arena in Panama City, Panama for the WBA Continental super welterweight title on December 17, in a scheduled 10 round bout. Both boxers came in at around the welterweight limit, with Mosley slightly heavier and López fighting for the first time in 13 months. López was knocked down in the 2nd round following a left hook and a further three times in the last round, which put an end to the fight. Mosley improved his ledger to 49 victories, with 41", "id": "18757243" }, { "contents": "Dick Turpin (boxer)\n\n\nchampion. In his next bout, on 28 June 1948, Turpin fought Vince Hawkins for his British middleweight title. The fight was held at Villa Park, Birmingham and Turpin won on points over fifteen rounds. He now held both the British and Commonwealth middleweight titles. During late 1948 and early 1949, Turpin fought European boxers, drawing and then losing on points against Tiberio Mitri, of Italy, then being knocked out in seven rounds in a non-title fight against the then world middleweight champion, Marcel Cerdan, of", "id": "19946190" }, { "contents": "Juan Guzman (boxer)\n\n\nat San Juan, Puerto Rico, the Vargas one at Coliseo Roberto Clemente. By then he was a top-ten ranked Junior Flyweight by the World Boxing Association. WBA world Junior Flyweight champion Jaime Rios of Panama was 18–1–1 when he came to the Dominican Republic to defend his title against local Guzman during June 1976. Their fight took place on July 2, at Santo Domingo. It was a close fight through 15 rounds, not much stylistically separating champion and challenger. At the end, however, Guzman was deemed winner", "id": "7404136" }, { "contents": "BC Golden Gloves\n\n\nJuly 1975, Lampkin was the number one contender for the lightweight title held by Panama boxer Roberto Duran. The tournament took place in January 1984 in Burnaby at the Boxing BC Training centre that would also be used as a training camp for the 1984 and 1988 Canadian Olympic boxing teams At the end of the tournament the Golden Boy for 1984 was boxer Michael O'Connell and the runner-up was Joe Pendry, and the best youth boxer was Deep Butter. Bert Lowes, Fred Fuller, Rudy Bianco, Sid Knopp Vic Murdoch,", "id": "20462754" }, { "contents": "Gunnar Jackson\n\n\nGunnar Jackson (born 6 July 1986, Wainuiomata, Lower Hutt, New Zealand) is a New Zealand professional middleweight and Super Welterweight boxer. Jackson has had over thirty fights and has achieved four boxing titles, and has a highest position on the World Boxing Organisation rankings of 10th. Jackson fought the biggest fight of his career in January 2014 against four-time world champion Anthony Mundine. Jackson lost by unanimous points decision. Jackson fought Kerry Hope in June 2015. Hope was originally scheduled to fight Michael Zerafa for the Interim", "id": "1347008" }, { "contents": "Davey Moore (boxer, born 1959)\n\n\nyears in prison. Next, Moore defended against former two-division world champion Roberto Durán. Moore appeared to be overconfident against an aging 'Hands of Stone' Duran but Duran totally outclassed him and dished out vicious punishment, hammering shut one of Moore's eyes and stopping him in eight brutal rounds at Madison Square Garden. The beating was so one-sided that Moore's mother and girlfriend were both said to have fainted at ringside. Many knowledgeable observers believed that referee Ernesto Magana should have stopped the fight far earlier.", "id": "6112527" } ]

[ { "contents": "Ossie Duran\n\n\nOssie \"The Ghanaian Gladiator\" Duran (born 23 April 1977 in Accra) is a Ghanaian professional boxer, whose career has spanned over 3 decades (1990's/2000's/2010's). He has won the Ghanaian lightweight title, World Boxing Federation (WBF) Pan-European welterweight title, WBF European Welterweight Title, United States Boxing Association (USBA) Atlantic Coast Region middleweight title, Commonwealth welterweight title, and Commonwealth light middleweight title, drew with Eromosele Albert for the vacant International Boxing Federation (IBF) Continental Africa light middleweight title,", "id": "5080778" }, { "contents": "Tom Bogs\n\n\nwins and one draw. He suffered his first defeat against the former world welterweight and middleweight champion Emile Griffith in a non-title fight in June 1970. Bogs won the European light-heavyweight title in 1968 when he stopped German champion Lothar Stengel in the first round of the bout. He successfully defended the title against Piero Del Papa before moving down to the middleweight division for a title match against European champion Carlos Duran. Bogs defeated Duran and went on to successfully defend his middleweight title three times before losing a rematch to", "id": "19397152" }, { "contents": "Angel Robinson Garcia\n\n\nand International Boxing Hall of Fame member Roberto Duran at the Gimnasio Nuevo Panama-now Gimnasio Roberto Duran-at Panama City. Robinson Garcia gave Duran a relatively close fight but still lost by unanimous ten-round decision with scores of 99-93, 98-94 and 98-96, all in favor of the Panamanian. Robinson Garcia went 1-4 the rest of that year, facing, among others, Esteban De Jesus in San Juan, Puerto Rico, to whom he dropped a ten-round decision on", "id": "1307045" }, { "contents": "Josue Marquez\n\n\n15 round distance with Roberto Duran in a world title attempt; completing a total of 25 rounds against Duran divided in two fights without getting knocked out by the Panamanian. Viruet knocked Marquez out in round ten on April 8, 1978 at the Juan Ramon Loubriel stadium in San Juan, after which Marquez decided to retire from professional boxing. Marquez won 32, losing 12 and tying 2 of his 46 professional boxing fights, winning 7 and losing 2 of those by knockout. Marquez turned to training professional boxers for a while after", "id": "17936127" }, { "contents": "Roberto Durán\n\n\n(fighting for the minor International Boxing Council (IBC) belt). Durán fought Vinny Pazienza in 1994 and 1995 for the IBC Super Middleweight Championship and was defeated both times by unanimous decision, but many people felt Duran clearly won the first bout and he was robbed of the victory. In 1996, he was challenged by Héctor Camacho for the vacant IBC Middleweight Championship but lost by a very controversial unanimous decision. In 1997, Durán was defeated by former champion Jorge Castro. Durán fought Castro in a rematch bout and won", "id": "16507032" }, { "contents": "Hector Thompson\n\n\nHector Thompson (born 24 June 1949 in Kempsey, New South Wales) is an Indigenous Australian professional boxer who competed in four different weight divisions, Lightweight, Super lightweight, Welterweight and Junior middleweight during the 1970s and 80s. In 1973 he beat Joe Tetteh for the Commonwealth (British Empire) Super Lightweight Title, earning a shot at Roberto Duran in 1973 for the World Boxing Association World lightweight but lost by TKO. After capturing the Commonwealth title again in 1975, later that year he would go on to challenge Antonio Cervantes", "id": "5995492" }, { "contents": "José Durán (boxer)\n\n\non October 8, 1976. Duran, fighting in his home city of Madrid, was knocked down in the third round by a left hand to the jaw. Although Duran rose from the canvas, he was outworked by the faster challenger and lost his title via a split decision in a fight where both boxers finished with bloody faces. In his final fight Duran challenged the Italian-Australian champion Rocky Mattioli for the WBC Light Middleweight title. The result was never in doubt, as Mattioli knocked Duran down in the second,", "id": "13817397" }, { "contents": "Goody Petronelli\n\n\n, who had earlier won the title from Antuofermo. Hagler bloodied Minter early, winning on a third-round TKO. The Petronellis would guide Hagler through 12 successful world title defenses over 7 years, including celebrated bouts against Roberto Duran and Thomas Hearns, before he lost to Sugar Ray Leonard in another controversial judges' decision, a split verdict in Leonard's favor. It turned out to be Hagler's final fight. Petronelli trained others who would fight in world title bouts: World Boxing Organization super middleweight champion Steve Collins;", "id": "13838256" }, { "contents": "Andres Hernández\n\n\nstreak came to an end when he traveled to Panama to fight world-ranked Gilberto Illueca, and dropped a ten round unanimous decision. Hernandez then started another streak of wins, this time reaching eight consecutive victories before facing another up-and-coming Puerto Rican bantamweight, Wilfredo Gomez. The pair met on Saturday, December 20, 1975 at Roberto Clemente Coliseum in San Juan as part of a boxing program that included fights of Julian Solis, Larry Holmes and Roberto Duran defending his world Lightweight title in the main event against", "id": "7680623" }, { "contents": "Panama Joe Gans\n\n\naspects of boxing by partaking in bouts organized by his classmates. Under the guidance of H.R. Cambridge, a local Panamanian business manager, and real estate developer, Quinton adopted his ring name, and became a successful boxer in the Canal Zone where he fought his first thirty fights with considerable success. On October 10, 1915, Panama Joe first won the Lightweight Championship of Panama at only eighteen against Young Sam Langford at the Pacific Theatre in Panama City in a twenty-round points decision. He later took the Middleweight Championship of", "id": "1295301" }, { "contents": "Roberto Durán\n\n\ndecision. The bout was named the 1989 \"Fight of the Year\" by \"The Ring\". His reign was short lived once again as Duran moved up to super middleweight (although both fighters weighed in at the middleweight limit) for a third clash with Sugar Ray Leonard in December 1989 (a fight dubbed \"Uno Más\"—One More—by promoters), which Leonard won by wide unanimous decision. Durán seemed to be in decline after the fight, he attempted to win further middleweight titles in 1994, 1995 and 1996", "id": "16507031" }, { "contents": "José Durán (boxer)\n\n\nat winning the world title. He travelled to Monaco to fight Miguel de Oliveira for the vacant WBC Light Middleweight title. de Oliveira, a native of Brazil, won the title via an unanimous decision after a bloody battle which lasted the full fifteen rounds. In his next fight Duran lost his EBU title in Germany to Eckhard Dagge, a man Duran had previously beaten by a technical knockout in the eleventh round. On this occasion, however, it was Dagge who scored the knockout, with the fight being stopped in the", "id": "13817395" }, { "contents": "José Durán (boxer)\n\n\nby scoring a knockout over Ben Hamida in the third round. After winning 22 consecutive bouts Duran suffered his first defeat, losing to Jean Josselin via an eight round decision on June 22, 1970. Duran was able to avenge this defeat on May 21, 1971, once again the fight went the eight round distance although Duran won the decision on this occasion. Duran won his first championship on June 7, 1974 by beating Jacques Kechichian and thus winning the EBU title. On May 7, 1975 Duran made his first attempt", "id": "13817394" }, { "contents": "Roberto Durán\n\n\nfight (the \"No Más\" fight was officially recorded as a technical knockout, because Duran quit). Durán did not contend another title fight until 1989, but made the shot count when he won the WBC Middleweight title from Iran Barkley in February. The fight is considered one of Durán's greatest achievements, as the 37-year-old former lightweight champion took the middleweight crown, his fourth title. In a tough, back-and-forth fight, Durán knocked Barkley down in the eleventh round and won a close", "id": "16507030" }, { "contents": "José Durán (boxer)\n\n\nninth round. Duran once again challenged for the world title on May 18, 1976. On this occasion Duran travelled to Tokyo, Japan to successfully challenge Koichi Wajima for the Lineal and WBA light middleweight titles. Duran started the fight well by opening a large cut on the champion's forehead and knocking him down in the second round. Wajima was knocked down once again in the thirteenth round before the fight was finally stopped in the fourteenth. Duran lost his title in his first defence, against the Argentine challenger Miguel Angel Castellini", "id": "13817396" }, { "contents": "José Durán (boxer)\n\n\nJosé Manuel Durán Pérez, popularly known as \"Pepe Durán\" (born October 9, 1945 in Madrid, Spain) is a former Spanish professional boxer. During his eleven-year professional career Duran held the Lineal and WBA light middleweight titles. He challenged for the WBC version of the title and held the EBU title. He also competed in the men's welterweight event at the 1968 Summer Olympics. Duran made his professional debut on November 30, 1967 in Barcelona, Spain. Duran made a victorious start to his career", "id": "13817393" }, { "contents": "Edwin Rosario\n\n\nopponent had boxed 25 rounds against Roberto Duran-including a world lightweight championship bout-without being knocked out. Rosario eventually gained a record of 21–0 with 20 knockouts. This led to talks of a title fight against World Boxing Council (WBC) lightweight champion Alexis Argüello, to be held in Miami. But Argüello relinquished the title in order to move up in weight to challenge junior welterweight champion Aaron Pryor. With Arguello moving divisions, Rosario was matched with Mexico's José Luis Ramírez on May 1, 1983 for the vacant", "id": "5267805" }, { "contents": "Ken Buchanan\n\n\nwin over Chang Kil Lee on 4 December 1972. On 28 June 1972, Roberto Duran signed to defend it against Buchanan on 20 October 1972. However, Duran broke that agreement when the Panamanian Government insisted he made his first defense in Panama. He did, knocking out Jimmy Robertson on 20 January 1973. Duran also had signed a second contract with the MSG on 25 October 1972, to defend against Buchanan on or before 30 June 1973. But Duran broke that agreement again. Duran had his license suspended by the New", "id": "13762575" }, { "contents": "Koichi Wajima\n\n\nhis Lineal and WBA light middleweight titles as well. However, he regained his Lineal and WBA titles in February, 1976, with a 15th round KO over Yuh. Wajima lost to Jose Manuel Duran in his first defense, losing the world title for the third time in his career. He fought his final match In June, 1977, challenging Eddie Gazo for the WBA super welterweight title, but lost by 11th round KO. This was the last fight of his career. His record was 31-6-1 (", "id": "20508599" }, { "contents": "Wilfredo Gómez\n\n\ndirected by Mario Diaz and was filmed in New York City. Gómez has three daughters Jennifer, Gina and Liz Irina and one son Wilfredo Junior. He is good friends with Panamanian boxing legend Roberto Duran. Gómez was once married to Carolina Gamboa. On April 17, 2015, Gómez was arrested by Puerto Rican police after allegedly hitting his 59-year-old companion, a lady with whom he had been living for ten months. He was released after she refused to raise charges against him. British boxer Michael Gomez adapted his last", "id": "3553965" }, { "contents": "Caleb Truax\n\n\nRichardson, and James Crayton. His professional loss came to former undisputed middleweight world champion Jermain Taylor (Truax knocked Taylor down in the 9th round.) Truax drew Ossie Duran in a 10-round non-title bout at the Target Center in Minneapolis. The bout was part of an eight-fight card promoted by Mike Tyson's new company, Iron Mike Productions. Mike Tyson was in attendance at the event, and said of Truax, \"I hear he is exciting and he is something that we need for boxing, he", "id": "16222269" }, { "contents": "Massimiliano Duran\n\n\nMassimiliano Duran (born November 3, 1963 in Ferrara, Italy) is a former Italian professional boxer who held the Cruiser WBC title and the European championship between 1990 and 1991. He is also known for being the only fighter in boxing history to earn a shot at, win, and defend a world title with three consecutive disqualification wins. Duran was born in Ferrara. His father was the Argentine-Italian boxer Juan Carlos Duran; his brother, the Italian boxer Alessandro Duran. Duran turned pro in 1986 when he defeated", "id": "13303578" }, { "contents": "Marvelous Marvin Hagler\n\n\na staple on HBO, the Pay Per View of its time. A fight against Roberto Durán followed. Durán was the first challenger to last the distance with Hagler in a world-championship bout. Durán was the WBA Light Middleweight Champion and went up in weight to challenge for Hagler's middleweight crown. Hagler won a unanimous 15-round decision, although after 13 rounds, Duran was ahead by one point on two scorecards and even on the third. Hagler, with his left eye swollen and cut, came on strong in the", "id": "4940319" }, { "contents": "Vinny Paz\n\n\nSantana fight, Pazienza went on to defeat Brett Lally by a 6th-round TKO, and then, in another TKO, former world champion Lloyd Honeyghan in the 10th round. Pazienza went on to win the vacant IBO middleweight world title in 1993 with an 11th-round KO over Dan Sherry. Pazienza then went on to beat Roberto Duran twice, both via decision, with the IBC super middleweight title on the line both times. In June 1995, Pazienza lost his world title bid against IBF world super middleweight champion Roy", "id": "12129878" }, { "contents": "Juan Carlos Giménez Ferreyra\n\n\nJuan Carlos Giménez Ferreyra (born 20 December 1960) is a Paraguayan boxer. During his career he was WBC International light heavyweight champion and unsuccessfully fought for the World Super Middleweight title four times, first against Mauro Galvano in 1992, then against Chris Eubank the same year, against Nigel Benn in 1994 and finally against Joe Calzaghe in 1998, losing via knockout. During his career he went the distance with Nigel Benn, Chris Eubank and Roberto Duran. Gimenez last fought in 2010, winning the Paraguayan Cruiserweight title against Nicasio Moray", "id": "17951209" }, { "contents": "Massimiliano Duran\n\n\nMomo Cupelic. The win earned him the nickname \"Momo\". Duran's first defeat came by the hand of Ndomingiedi Lusikina. This would be the beginning of a long-standing rivalry, that will result in the two boxers fighting five times. In 1990 Duran won the WBC Cruiserweight Title by defeating Carlos De León, when De León was disqualified for hitting after the bell to end the 11th round. Duran was leading on the cards. His first defence was against Anaclet Wamba. Duran won by DQ after Wamba had", "id": "13303579" }, { "contents": "Héctor Camacho\n\n\namateur career, Camacho won three New York Golden Gloves tournaments, beginning with the Sub-Novice 112 lbs championship in 1978. During his professional career, Camacho had many notable fights against some of the biggest names in boxing, defeating Roberto Durán twice late in Duran's career, and knocking out Sugar Ray Leonard to send him into permanent retirement. He also fought Julio César Chávez, Félix Trinidad, and Oscar De La Hoya, among others. During his later years, Camacho expanded his popular role and appeared on a variety", "id": "5327031" }, { "contents": "Eckhard Dagge\n\n\n. He would later embark on an amateur career, in which he won 66 out of 80 bouts, before falling short of making the 1972 Olympic Team. Dagge would win the German Middleweight title, in his 6th bout. Dagge would follow up with wins over notable, but faded fighters Denny Moyer and Manuel González. In 1974, Dagge challenged Jose Manuel Duran for the European Light Middleweight title, losing by 11th-round TKO. He came back the next year however, and stopped Duran in the 9th round, to", "id": "18853804" }, { "contents": "Antonio Cervantes\n\n\nLightweight champion Roberto Durán, who was coming up in weight. Duran decided to challenge Sugar Ray Leonard instead, however, and Cervantes vs. Duran never materialized. On August 2, 1980, Cervantes dropped his next title challenger, Aaron Pryor, to the canvas in the first round. Pryor recovered, however, and beat Cervantes by a knockout in round four. This turned out to be Cervantes' last world title fight. He fought two times more for the FECARBOX WBC title, winning both fights shortly before retiring in 1980", "id": "11465736" }, { "contents": "USA Tuesday Night Fights\n\n\nfighter by fighting several four rounders on \"Tuesday Night Fights\". Roberto Duran was another fixture on \"Tuesday Night Fights\" later in his career, and his 100th professional bout was carried by USA. \"Tuesday Night Fights\" also showcased the bizarre from time to time. Among these was a fight from former pro football star Mark Gastineau's controversial boxing career which saw him lose to a journeyman fighter, Andrew Golota's infamous fight against Samson Po'uha in 1995 which saw the Polish fighter, who appeared frequently on \"Tuesday", "id": "5898536" }, { "contents": "Jacques LeBlanc\n\n\n22 wins, 4 losses and 2 draws when he fought WBC Middleweight Champion Roberto Durán on June 29, 1993. LeBlanc was billed as a severe underdog but lasted the full 10 rounds with Duran, losing on points. LeBlanc fought the undefeated Richie Woodhall in October 1994 for the Commonwealth Middleweight crown but again lost on points. He continued boxing until 1997, but winning again only once. In 2010, Jacques was inducted into the City of Moncton Wall of Fame . He currently holds the record for most matches without being knocked", "id": "3179570" }, { "contents": "Andy Lee (boxer)\n\n\nResort Casino in Mashantucket, Connecticut, and won via technical knockout at 0:56 in the 10th round. He avenged his loss to Brian Vera on 1 October 2011 by unanimous decision. On 10 March 2012, Lee Knocked out Mexico's Saul Duran in the 2nd round of a stay busy fight. On 16 June 2012, Lee challenged undefeated Titleholder Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. for the WBC World Middleweight Title in the Sun Bowl Stadium in El Paso, Texas televised on HBO World Championship Boxing. Lee got off to a good start,", "id": "15093101" }, { "contents": "Joe Cortez\n\n\ntook on the responsibility to referee some major Championship fights. During this time he was the third man in the ring in several professional Mike Tyson and Roberto Duran fights. As eminent referees Richard Steele and Mills Lane retired at the dawn of the 21st century, Cortez became one of Nevada and New York's preferred boxing referees for world title fights. He has refereed over 170 world title bouts, among which figure the first Oscar De La Hoya-Julio César Chávez meeting, Evander Holyfield and Riddick Bowe's first title fight and", "id": "18491003" }, { "contents": "Reuben Duran\n\n\nnot for the injury, he would have gotten a stoppage. Duran would support his bold statement in his next fight as he claimed a victory over Ryan Diaz via KO with only 3 seconds left in the fight. In subsequent bouts, Duran submitted both Kana Hyatt and Maurice Eazel in the first round. Duran signed with the UFC in early 2011 and made his debut at UFC on Versus 3 against Takeya Mizugaki, replacing an injured Francisco Rivera. Duran lost the fight via close split decision. Duran faced Francisco Rivera on June", "id": "15069085" }, { "contents": "Héctor Camacho\n\n\n. Before this fight, Camacho was trained by Angelo Dundee. His last two fights resulted in a draw and a loss, against Luis Ramón Campas and Saúl Duran, respectively. His last fight against Duran was on May 14, 2010. On January 6, 2005, Camacho was arrested by police in Gulfport, Mississippi on charges of trying to burgle an electronic goods store and carrying the drug ecstasy on him. In 2007, he declared himself guilty of being under the influence at the time of the burglary. He was", "id": "5327048" }, { "contents": "Jack Blackburn\n\n\nhad a slight advantage in height and reach. Blackburn fought the Barbados-born boxer Panama Joe Gans, who had boxed extensively in Panama where he lived prior to 1917. Panama Joe held the World Colored Middleweight Championship from 1920 to 1924, and held a Panamanian Lightweight Title in his youth. On July 24, 1922, Blackburn lost one of his last bouts to Gans in Indianapolis, Indiana, in a fourth-round technical knockout of a scheduled ten round bout. Panama Joe was a formidable boxer and fourteen years younger", "id": "10094030" }, { "contents": "Vinny Paz\n\n\nHector \"Macho\" Camacho and WBA World Champion Loreto Garza. In 1991, Pazienza moved into the junior middleweight division. In his first fight at junior middleweight, he won the USBA championship against Ron Amundsen in a 12-round decision. He defeated the WBA world jr. middleweight champion Gilbert Delé with a 12th-round TKO in Providence, becoming the second fighter in boxing history to win both the lightweight and junior middleweight world championships. Pazienza was forced to relinquish the title due to a serious car accident in which his neck was", "id": "12129876" }, { "contents": "Roberto Durán\n\n\nvia unanimous decision. In 1998, at the age of 47, he challenged 28-year-old WBA Middleweight Champion William Joppy. Joppy, a trim, quick-fisted fighter, battered Durán to defeat in just 3 rounds. It was Duran's most emphatic loss since the Hearns fight, over a decade earlier. Durán then announced his retirement in August 1998, but was back fighting in 1999. In June 2000, Durán avenged a previous loss to Pat Lawlor and won the NBA Super Middleweight Championship on his 49th birthday.", "id": "16507033" }, { "contents": "Roberto Vásquez\n\n\nRoberto Gaspar Vásquez Ramirez (born May 26, 1983 in Panama City) is a Panamanian professional boxer who held the WBA light flyweight title from 2005 to 2006. He also held the WBA flyweight interim title from 2006 to 2007. Vásquez lost in his professional boxing debut against Angelo Dottin on March 17, 2001. The four-round fight occurred in Dottin's hometown of Colón, Panama. Despite Vásquez's cutting Dottin's right cheek in the first round, all three judges scored the bout 39-38 for Dottin.", "id": "15594966" }, { "contents": "Roberto Durán\n\n\nwith an incredible 71–1 record. On June 20, 1980, Durán captured the WBC Welterweight title by defeating Leonard via a 15-round unanimous decision (145–144, 148–147, 146–144). The fight became known as \"The Brawl in Montreal\". After defeating Leonard in Montreal, Duran gained iconic status in his home country, Panama. Leonard initiated the rematch clause and asked for the fight to be the following November. In their second fight, Leonard successfully changed his tactics, using more footwork and movement than he had in their", "id": "16507022" }, { "contents": "Roberto Durán\n\n\nfirst fight, and Duran was unable to get Leonard against the ropes. During the seventh round, after Leonard had gained a slight lead on the scorecards, he began taunting and mocking Duran. Halfway into the eighth round, Duran suddenly stopped fighting, repeatedly saying, \"No más\" (\"no more\"). In a 2016 interview, Duran claimed that what he actually said was, \"No Sigo\" (\"I won't go on\"). He took some time to recover from that fight and", "id": "16507023" }, { "contents": "Kirkland Laing\n\n\n. Laing's boxing career was sporadic, as he often failed to deliver on his promise, appearing under-prepared against less able fighters and indulging in drink, drugs and women. In the year following his victory over Duran, Laing went missing, blowing his earnings. In that same period Duran was to fight four times, earning an estimated $6m. Laing continued to fight until he was 40, and retired after a stoppage loss to future world champion Glen Catley. After retiring, Laing continue to live in", "id": "8014673" }, { "contents": "Jimmy Batten\n\n\nThomas stopped him in the ninth round to take the title. Batten won his next five fights before losing on points in May 1981 to Chris Christian. He then travelled to the United States, where he was based in Chicago for almost two years; There he had a series of fights starting with two easy wins before he was stopped in the first round in May 1982 by Mario Maldonado. He beat Jeff Madison in September before facing Roberto Duran in November 1982 at the Miami Orange Bowl; Duran took a unanimous decision,", "id": "22189495" }, { "contents": "Ray Lampkin\n\n\nRay Lampkin (born 1948 in Portland, Oregon) is a retired professional boxer who lost the 1975 World Boxing Association (WBA) lightweight title fight against Roberto Durán in Panama. He won the North American Boxing Federation lightweight title fight but later lost it against Esteban de Jesús at the Felt Forum in New York City. He finished his career with a total of 34 wins (16 by knock out), six losses (two by knock out) and one draw. Lampkin was inducted into the Oregon Sports Hall of Fame", "id": "279465" }, { "contents": "Roberto Durán\n\n\nthe end of the seventh. Finally the fight was stopped in the eighth round as Moore was taking such a horrific beating and Durán won his third world title. After the victory, Durán was hoisted up in the air as the crowd sang \"Happy Birthday\" to a sobbing Durán. Durán later fought for the World Middleweight Championship, meeting Marvelous Marvin Hagler in Las Vegas in November 1983, during the fight Duran broke his hand and lost in a very competitive fight that went the full fifteen rounds, although after 12 rounds", "id": "16507027" }, { "contents": "Harold Reitman\n\n\nprofessional record of 7-1-1, Reitman fought a three-round charity exhibition match against the five-time world champion Roberto Duran at the Hollywood Diplomat Hotel in Miami Beach. On November 11, 1991, Reitman fought heavyweight Tim Anderson for the NBA Independent Cruiserweight title in a televised fight. Though Reitman scored two 9th round knockdowns, the fight ended in a draw. In March 1992, Reitman was the 12th ranked Heavyweight boxer in the world according to the International Boxing Council. On December 12, 1995,", "id": "9844517" }, { "contents": "Jeffrey Mathebula\n\n\nlost to Celestino Caballero. Hence, Mathebula fought against Caballero for the WBA Super World and IBF World super bantamweight title. However, he lost his first world title shot against Caballero via a split decision at the Roberto Duran Arena in Panama on 30 April 2009. After losing to Takalani Ndlovu via a split decision in an IBF junior featherweight title eliminator in Brakpan, Gauteng in September 2010, Mathebula defeated Ndlovu via a split decision in their rematch in Brakpan to be crowned the IBF junior featherweight champion. It was the SABC-", "id": "16997776" }, { "contents": "Angel Robinson Garcia\n\n\nhim fight 12 times, including a September 10 loss by ten-round decision to future WBC world Lightweight-and Spain's second-Champion Pedro Carrasco at the Basque Country and a December 30 defeat at the hands of 19-2-4 Chris Fernandez by ten-round decision also. Robinson Garcia contested 17 bouts in 1970. These included an August 21 match with Jose Duran, won by Duran by ten rounds decision at Madrid and a November 20 bout with French Roger Menetrey which Menetrey won by ten-round decision", "id": "1307042" }, { "contents": "Sugar Ray Leonard vs. Thomas Hearns\n\n\nSugar Ray Leonard and Thomas Hearns are considered to be two of the best boxers of all-time. They fought twice, with Leonard winning in 1981 and a draw in 1989. Both fights are considered to be classics. Sugar Ray Leonard won the WBC welterweight title with a fifteenth-round knockout of Wilfred Benítez in 1979. He lost it to Roberto Durán by a close decision in June 1980 and regained it five months later in the infamous No Más Fight, in which Duran quit in the eighth round. In June", "id": "20124047" }, { "contents": "Brandon Gonzáles\n\n\nOlympic Team in 2004 he withdrew to begin his professional career in 2007. While boxing as an amateur he worked as a janitor at Arco Arena.. On January 29, 2010 Gonzales won a fight against veteran Dumont Welliver by T.K.O., the fight was on the undercard of ESPN's Friday Night Fights. He maintained an unblemished streak of 17 wins until his bout with Thomas Oosthuizen that resulted in a draw. On October 28, 2011 he defeated Ossie Duran in the Main Event on Showtime's ShoBox at Bally's in Atlantic City", "id": "18287532" }, { "contents": "Miguel Ángel Castellini\n\n\nManuel Duran, in front of a sell out crowd of 12,000. Duran, who was making the first defence of his title, was knocked down in the third round by a left hand to the jaw. Although the champion rose from the canvas, he was outworked by the faster challenger and lost his title via a split decision in a fight where both boxers finished with bloody faces. Castellini's championship reign only lasted one fight as he lost it in his first defence to Eddie Gazo on March 5, 1977. Gazo", "id": "13522966" }, { "contents": "Hilario Zapata\n\n\nwas knocked out in the first round by the WBC world Jr. Bantamweight champion Sung-Kil Moon. A win against Moon would have made Zapata a member of the exclusive group of world boxing champions in three different weight categories or more. It can also be added that Zapata's first pair of boxing gloves, when he was 12, came as a present from Duran himself. Panamanian newspaper \"El Panama America\" declared on one of their editorials that Zapata, according to their opinion, should be inducted to the International Boxing", "id": "9857520" }, { "contents": "Panama Joe Gans\n\n\nPanama Joe Gans was a black boxer who held the World Colored Middleweight Championship for four years, shortly before it was discontinued. Born Cyril Quinton Jr. on November 14, 1896 in Barbados, British West Indies and raised in the Panama Canal Zone, the 5'7\" Quinton originally fought out of Panama and then New York City. He took his ringname from boxing great Joe Gans, the first black American fighter to win a world boxing title. He found his greatest fame fighting as a middleweight at between 147 and 160 lbs,", "id": "1295299" }, { "contents": "Panama Lewis\n\n\nCarlos \"Panama\" Lewis (born November 4, 1945) is an American boxing trainer. He was convicted of tampering with the gloves of Luis Resto in the Resto vs \"Irish\" Billy Collins fight of 1983, which subsequently led to the end of Collins' boxing career. Collins suffered from depression and possibly committed suicide following the tragic assault. Lewis was a disciple of trainer Chickie Ferrara. He was Roberto Durán's cornerman when Duran lost a unanimous decision against Wilfred Benitez in 1982. During the early 1980s, he", "id": "11205984" }, { "contents": "Pernell Whitaker\n\n\nfight, he basically faced no real trouble against Vásquez in route to the win. This was a history making fight for Whitaker, as he became only the fourth fighter in history - joining Thomas Hearns, Sugar Ray Leonard, and Roberto Duran - to have won a legitimate world title in four different weight classes. However, he chose to move back to welterweight. Whitaker successfully defended his WBC belt against Scotland's Gary Jacobs on August 26, 1995. In January, 1997, Whitaker put his title on the line against", "id": "20971754" }, { "contents": "Carlos Palomino\n\n\nundercard. Palomino lost to Duran by decision in ten rounds, and he announced his retirement from boxing right away. Palomino began his comeback on January 10, 1997, beating Ismaél Díaz by a knockout in round nine. He won four fights that year, including one over former world champion Rene Arredondo, but when he lost by decision in ten to former Oscar De La Hoya world title challenger Wilfredo Rivera on May 30, 1998, he decided to retire for good, and has stayed in retirement ever since. In 1978", "id": "12841764" }, { "contents": "Roberto Durán\n\n\nRoberto Durán Samaniego (born June 16, 1951) is a Panamanian former professional boxer who competed from 1968 to 2001. He held world championships in four weight classes: lightweight, welterweight, light middleweight and middleweight, as well as reigns as the undisputed and lineal lightweight champion, and the lineal welterweight champion. He is also the second boxer to have competed over a span of five decades, the first being Jack Johnson. Durán was known as a versatile, technical brawler and pressure fighter, which earned him the nickname of", "id": "16507013" }, { "contents": "Joshua Clottey\n\n\nwelterweight title in his next fight. He then rolled off a 10 fight winning streak highlighted by his first win on American soil and capture of several minor welterweight and middleweight titles. The streak culminated in an IBF intercontinental welterweight title. On December 2, 2006, Clottey earned his first shot at a world title but broke his hand in the fourth round of his fight against World Boxing Organization champion Antonio Margarito. That bout against Margarito has since come under controversial suspicion following news reports (released after Margarito's fight with Shane Mosley", "id": "11102893" }, { "contents": "Aaron Pryor\n\n\nten years in prison after he was convicted of 29 counts of fraud and embezzlement. Pryor was then offered $750,000 to fight Roberto Duran in April 1981, but Pryor turned it down because his new attorney told him not to sign anything until he worked out a new contract with manager Buddy LaRosa. By the time they worked out a new agreement, the chance to fight Duran was gone. On June 27, 1981, Pryor knocked out Lennox Blackmore in the second round. He then defended the title against undefeated Dujuan Johnson", "id": "8987862" }, { "contents": "Roberto Durán\n\n\nChorrillo in the district \"La Casa de Piedra\" (The House of Stone) Panama. He began sparring with experienced boxers at the Neco de La Guardia gymnasium when he was only eight years old. Durán competed as an amateur compiling a record of 13–3. Having 16 amateur fights under his belt, he made his professional debut in 1968 at the age of 16. Duran won his first 31 consecutive fights, and scored knockout victories over future Featherweight Champion Ernesto Marcel and former Super Featherweight Champion Hiroshi Kobayashi, culminating in his", "id": "16507016" }, { "contents": "Wilfredo Gómez\n\n\nOn May 18, 2003, Gómez returned to Panama, where he was received by Duran and Eusebio Pedroza, among others. In a message geared towards Panamanians, he expressed thanks to that country, calling it his second country and saying, among other things \"I'm very motivated now that I will return to Puerto Rico, and no one should be surprised if I buy an apartment in Panama and move my family here\". However, he bought a house in Orlando, Florida in 2006. Gómez had a record", "id": "3553963" }, { "contents": "Jacob Duran\n\n\nSandman\" Sanchez before furthering his career in professional boxing and mixed martial arts. In boxing, Duran works on the Klitschko brothers and Andre Ward. On November 23, 2014 Duran was in the corner of Chris Algieri when he took on Manny Pacquiao for the WBO welterweight title at Cotai Arena, Venetian Resort, Macao, Macao S.A.R., China. On May 29, 2015, Duran was in the corner of Chris Algieri once again when he took on Amir Khan for the WBC Silver Welterweight title at The Barclays Center, Brooklyn", "id": "2958564" }, { "contents": "Edwin Rodríguez (boxer)\n\n\nEdwin Rodríguez (born May 5, 1985) is a Dominican professional boxer who lives in Worcester, Massachusetts. Starred in the box office hit Bleed For This as Roberto Duran Rodriguez moved to Worcester at age 13 with dreams of becoming the next great Dominican ballplayer. Winters in the Bay State made for a short baseball season and two years later, he abandoned the diamond for the ring. Rodriguez had an 84–9 record and won the USA Boxing Championships 2005 and the National Golden Gloves 2006 as a middleweight (165 pounds).", "id": "15244912" }, { "contents": "Steve Smoger\n\n\n, New York. On May 27, 2017 in Atlantic City, New Jersey Smoger became the first professional boxing referee to be inducted into the newly created Atlantic City Boxing Hall of Fame, joining Don King and Michael Spinks among other inductees. Smoger's Hall of Fame resume comprises five inductions Smoger has officiated the bouts featuring such professional boxers as Mike Tyson, Lennox Lewis, Larry Holmes, Evander Holyfield, Ray Mercer, Steve Cunningham, John Ruiz, Roberto Duran, Hector Camacho, Roy Jones, Jr., James Toney,", "id": "12530988" }, { "contents": "Panama Blue\n\n\nPanama Blue is rainforest spring water and a product of Panama Springs S.A. Panama Blue is a brand of luxury rainforest spring water. Panama Blue is the number one premium bottled water brand of Panama. The brand ambassadors are boxer Roberto Duran and Carolina Dementiev, a Panamanian model and triathlete. Panama Blue is bottled at the source in the mountains of Cerro Azul, surrounded by the Chagres National Park in the Panamanian rainforest. The spring is located about 800m above sea level. Because of the soil, the volcanic rocks and the", "id": "19226350" }, { "contents": "Roberto Durán\n\n\ngained even more weight to contend for the WBC Light Middleweight title, but losing in his first attempt at a championship in that division on January 30, 1982, against Wilfred Benítez by a 15-round unanimous decision, this after having defeated Nino Gonzalez and Luigi Minchillo, two rated Light Middleweights, both by ten-round decisions in non-title bouts. Durán was also to lose his comeback fight in September 1982 in Detroit. Kirkland Laing, from London, shocked the boxing world, producing the type of display his talents promised", "id": "16507024" }, { "contents": "Richard Green (referee)\n\n\nwas Muhammad Ali's loss to Larry Holmes in 1980. Green officiated two high-profile fights in 1982. Early in the year he refereed Wilfred Benitez's fight against Roberto Duran for Benitez's super welterweight title. Later he was the referee in the Ray Mancini's first-round knockout of Arturo Frias, a win that gave Mancini the WBA lightweight championship. On November 13, 1982, Green was assigned to work Mancini's second defense of that title, a match against the Korean contender Duk Koo Kim that was televised", "id": "8256032" }, { "contents": "Nat Jacobs\n\n\nNathaniel \"Nat\" J. S. Jacobs (born 1 December 1939) is an English amateur and professional boxer of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, who won the Central (England) Area middleweight title and challenged for the British Boxing Board of Control British middleweight title. His professional fighting weight varied from , i.e. welterweight, through light middleweight and middleweight, to , i.e. light heavyweight. He was managed/trained by former boxer Stan Skinkiss. Born in Manchester, Jacobs began his professional career in November 1960 with a points victory", "id": "16077543" }, { "contents": "Light middleweight\n\n\nOctober 17, was won by Griffith via a 15-round decision. Three days later, the World Boxing Association championship was created when Denny Moyer outpointed Joey Giambra. The World Boxing Council recognized the WBA champion as the true division champion until 1975, when it stripped their current champion and sanctioned a fight between Miguel de Oliveira and Jose Duran for the vacant title. De Oliveira won the title over 15 rounds in 1975. The International Boxing Federation crowned its first champion when Mark Medal defeated Earl Hargrove in 1984. The World Boxing Organization", "id": "11957407" }, { "contents": "Héctor Camacho\n\n\nhim in his career) to defeat Craig Houk by knockout in round three. He won consecutive unanimous ten-round decisions over Clinton McNeil and Raúl Jorge Muñoz. After that, his boxing career went on hiatus, as he faced criminal charges. He pled guilty to burglary and acknowledged drug abuse, but was given probation. Camacho returned to boxing on July 18, 2008, competing against Perry Ballard for the World Boxing Empire's Middleweight Championship. The fight lasted seven rounds. Camacho won when Ballard's corner threw the towel", "id": "5327047" }, { "contents": "Panama Joe Gans\n\n\nPanama by knocking out Benny McGovern in the third of fifteen rounds on November 30, 1916 at the Santa Ana Plaza in Panama City. At the time, these titles were often described as extending to both Central and South America. In his first bout after taking the Middleweight Championship of Panama on December 12, 1916, though barely twenty-one years old, he soundly defeated Abraham Jacob Hollandersky, a former holder of the Panamanian Heavyweight Championship in 20 rounds in Panama City. In 1917, Panama Joe was brought to New", "id": "1295302" }, { "contents": "Murderers' Row (boxing)\n\n\ncounted as Burley’s conquests. He was ranked in the top 10 in the Welterweight and Middleweight divisions for most of the 1940s, without receiving a title shot. (Burley did hold the World Colored Welterweight and World Colored Middleweight Championship titles.) Near the end of his career Burley took to fighting Heavyweights in a bid to find meaningful contests, including J.D. Turner and future Heavyweight champ Ezzard Charles. Eventually, Burley would retire after winning 83 bouts, without ever being able to meet in the ring the champions of the time", "id": "6667729" }, { "contents": "Reuben Duran\n\n\nadditions of wrestling, Brazilian jiu-jitsu, and Muay Thai. Reuben began his career with multiple fights for King of the Cage, and other small promotions in California. As an amateur competitor, Duran has distinguished himself by being a six time winner of Grapplers Quest. In a memorable match, Duran fought Greg Guzman, hiding his injuries that included 2 torn ligaments in his right hand. In spite of the injuries, Duran still earned the victory. Later, in an interview, Duran voiced his confidence that were it", "id": "15069084" }, { "contents": "Boardwalk Hall\n\n\n, Oscar De La Hoya, Roberto Duran, Lennox Lewis, Roy Jones Jr., Floyd Mayweather Jr., Bernard Hopkins, Riddick Bowe, Julio César Chávez, Héctor Camacho, Micky Ward, and Arturo Gatti. In September 2007, it was the venue for the Kelly Pavlik – Jermain Taylor boxing match for the World Boxing Council, World Boxing Organization and \"The Ring\" magazine's middleweight championships. On December 12, 1965, the New York Ukrainians defeated Philadelphia Ukrainian Nationals 3-2 in the first regulation indoor soccer match", "id": "5560408" }, { "contents": "Phil Edwards (boxer)\n\n\nmember of the public who was attempting to take a kick at the new champion. Edward's very next fight after his title success was against Nigerian boxing legend Dick Tiger. Tiger was a one-time world middleweight and light-heavyweight world champion, and Edwards showed his class by lasting the full ten rounds, losing on points. After the Tiger fight, Edwards was back to winning ways, and was victorious in his first four fights of 1958, defeating Commonwealth title challenger Lew Lazar, Scotland's John Woolard, journeyman", "id": "19060017" }, { "contents": "Carl Thompson (boxer)\n\n\nin February 1993. In February 1994, Thompson traveled to Ferrara, Emilia Romagna, Italy and won the European title by defeating Massimiliano Duran by KO in eight rounds, and in his next bout knocked out France's Akim Tafer in six rounds at Epernay, Marne, France to retain his European title. After winning two mark-time fights, Thompson was matched against Ralf Rocchigiani in a bout for the vacant WBO cruiserweight title at the G-Mex Leisure Centre, Manchester in June 1995. Both fighters were knocked down in", "id": "14087508" }, { "contents": "Luis Federico Thompson\n\n\nLuis Federico Thompson (December 19, 1927 – January 8 , 2010) was a Panamanian Argentinian professional boxer. Thompson was born in Colon, Panama, later moved to Argentina, where he was nationalized and afterwards became the Argentine and South American boxing champion. Thompson debuted in 1947 with a fight against Wilfredo Brown in Panama City which ended in a draw. On October 7, 1951, he fought Wilfredo Brewster defeating him and winning the Panamanian Lightweight Title for the first time. Two months later, he fought Wilfredo Brown again", "id": "20078674" }, { "contents": "Jawaid Khaliq\n\n\nJawaid Khaliq, MBE (born 30 July 1970), is a British former professional boxer. A dual Pakistan national, he became the first British Asian boxing world champion, winning the International Boxing Organization (IBO) welterweight title and defending it for seven constructive bouts before retiring. During his boxing career he also held the Commonwealth welterweight title, World Boxing Federation Inter-Continental Light Middleweight Title, Midlands Area light middleweight title and Midlands Area welterweight title. He is the first Kashmiri world champion boxer. Khaliq took up boxing at", "id": "22058424" }, { "contents": "Omar Sheika\n\n\nOmar Sheika (born February 20, 1977) is an American former professional boxer and multiple time super middleweight world title challenger. He is of Palestinian descent. Sheika compiled a successful amateur career, capturing a National Middleweight Championship at National AAU Boxing Tournament in 1996. Sheika has enjoyed some success in his pro career. His first fight was against Billy James. Sheika won the fight by TKO on the second round. Sheika stayed undefeated for about a year. Sheika was involved in ESPN Friday Night Fights \"Fight of the Year", "id": "7826746" }, { "contents": "Roberto Durán\n\n\nchampion the moment Durán stepped into the ring to box Hearns. Durán again made history in the fight, but this time it was the wrong kind. Hearns dropped Durán twice in the first round and as he rose to his feet after the second knockdown, which ended the round, the former champion did not know where his corner was. Hearns went on to knock Duran down a third time in the second round and the fight was stopped, marking the first time in his career that Durán had been knocked out in a", "id": "16507029" }, { "contents": "Wally Swift\n\n\nJohnny Pritchett due to an eye injury. Swift beat Peter Sharpe in May 1966 in an eliminator to face Pritchett, winning on points. In February 1967 he faced Pritchett at the Nottingham Ice Stadium for the title, losing on points over fifteen rounds. In September 1967 Swift faced Sandro Mazzinghi for the European super welterweight title in Milan; The fight was stopped in the sixth round due to injuries to Swift. In March 1968 Swift challenged Juan Carlos Duran for the European middleweight title. Swift lost the fight after being disqualified in", "id": "6876166" }, { "contents": "Hands of Stone\n\n\nup in Panama, Durán is homeschooled by Chaflan, who teaches young Roberto some vital life lessons. Later, Duran joins a boxing club with Nestor \"Plomo\" Quiñones as his coach. As he reaches 20, an American legendary boxing trainer Ray Arcel, who nearly lost his life after being attacked by an unknown assailant in 1953 in New York City and is now living with his wife Stephanie, notices Roberto's raw talent and punching power and takes the young fighter under his wing, becoming his coach. Not long after", "id": "2732439" }, { "contents": "Larry Estridge\n\n\nLarry Estridge (born 17 June 1902, St. Kitts, British West Indies) was a middleweight boxer and the last holder of the World Colored Middleweight Championship. The 5'7\" middleweight fought out of New York City from 1922 to 1929, racking up a career record of 53 wins against 23 losses and two draws from 1922 to 1929. Estridge fought colored middleweight champion Panama Joe Gans for his title on July 26, 1924 at Yankee Stadium, defeating the champ via a unanimous decision in their 10-round bout. After scoring two victories", "id": "1295287" }, { "contents": "Lennox Blackmoore\n\n\nLennox Blackmoore (born July 10, 1950 in Georgetown, Guyana) is a Guyanese professional light/light welter/welter/light middle/middleweight boxer of the 1970s and '80s who won the Guyanese lightweight title, Guyanese light middleweight title, and Commonwealth lightweight title, and was a challenger for the World Boxing Association (WBA) World light welterweight title against Aaron Pryor, and World Boxing Council (WBC) FECARBOX light welterweight title against Antonio Cervantes, his professional fighting weight varied from , i.e. lightweight to , i.e. middleweight", "id": "2810858" }, { "contents": "Abraham Jacob Hollandersky\n\n\nand skill that he would act as a sparring partner to prepare Jack Dempsey for his September 1920 Heavyweight Title bout with Hall of Famer Billy Miske as well as Dempsey's earlier bout when he first took the Heavyweight Championship from Jess Willard in Toledo. The 5' 4\" welterweight Hollandersky lost to Panama Joe, the younger and stronger Panamanian Light and Middleweight champion, and the accomplished middleweight Connors of Scranton, Pennsylvania, who had a five-inch height advantage. But he gave a closer fight to the Seattle welterweight Ryan before", "id": "10244386" }, { "contents": "Tommy Freeman (boxer)\n\n\nbout was Thompson's first title defense. Freeman held the title until his rematch with Jack Thompson on April 14, 1931 again in Cleveland where he lost by TKO in the tenth of fifteen rounds. The bout was stopped due to Freeman's badly battered left eye. He had a long career as a boxer, and remained fighting as a super welterweight until around 1937. He fought for a year as a middleweight from 1937-8. Best known of his middleweight opponents was Al McCoy who he fought on July 2 and", "id": "18569618" }, { "contents": "Alex Ramos\n\n\n. Despite losing his next fight, against future world super middleweight champion Murray Sutherland by a ten-round decision, Ramos was by then held along with the highest ranked middleweights of the era, such as Mustafa Hamsho, Wilford Scypion, Juan Roldán, John Mugabi, Curtis Parker and others. After knocking out Wilbur Henderson in three rounds on February 8, 1984, in Atlantic City, Ramos challenged Parker for his first career title, the regional, United States Boxing Association Middleweight championship. He won the title by beating Parker", "id": "10746327" }, { "contents": "Ken Buchanan\n\n\nYork State Athletic Commission on 4 April 1973. The commission also warned Duran that his title recognition would be withdrawn. The New York State Athletic Commission had been attempting for two years (1972 - 1974) to get Duran to honor an agreement to fight Buchanan. But Duran refused to honor the contract to face Buchanan. In 1973, Buchanan started out by beating future world lightweight champion Jim Watt by a decision after 15 rounds, to regain the British lightweight title. Soon, he embarked on another international tour that included more", "id": "13762576" }, { "contents": "Guillermo Jones\n\n\nin Panama by first round Knockout. Now aligned with promoter Don King, Jones fought two light middleweight WBA world title bouts against Laurent Boudouani in 1998. He drew once and lost the rematch by split decision in 12 round contests. Jones fought his way through four weight classes. Later fighting as a cruiserweight in 2002, he fought Johnny Nelson for the WBO World cruiserweight title, drawing in 12 rounds in his third world title attempt. Most in attendance thought Jones had done enough to win the title from Nelson. After yet", "id": "9043210" }, { "contents": "Tony Ayala Jr.\n\n\n. The rehabilitation program kept him from having a $750,000 payday against Roberto Duran. With the Duran fight didn't happen, Ayala settled for about $150,000 to fight Argentinian Carlos Herrera. 'It doesn't bother me,' he said. 'I'm looking at it as a step closer to the world title. Davey Moore is going to have to meet me after this fight.' After defeating Carlos Herrera, November 20, 1982, he was scheduled to fight champion Davey Moore. By December 1983, Ayala", "id": "10919402" }, { "contents": "Noé González Alcoba\n\n\nNoé González Alcoba (born 12 May 1979) \"the coal-miner\" is an Uruguayan boxer and a former world title challenger. He fights in the super middleweight division, having boxed at middleweight previously. Having boxed mainly in Argentina and Uruguay for much of his early career, he managed to land a shot at the WBA World Middleweight title after only 14 fights, challenging the then world champion Felix Sturm in Germany. The German proved too classy however and won the fight by a wide points decision, earning Alcoba his", "id": "20636614" }, { "contents": "Vicente Mosquera\n\n\nVicente Eduardo Mosquera Mena (born December 9, 1979 in Panama City, Panama) is a Panamanian professional boxer. He is a former World Boxing Association (WBA) super-featherweight champion. On April 30, 2005 he defeated Yodsanan Sor Nanthachai (Yodsanan 3-K Battery) for the WBA world championship title, by a unanimous decision. The official scorers saw it 118-108, 116-111, 115-112. In the fight, Nanthachai was knocked down three times (in the first, third, and eleventh", "id": "7687336" }, { "contents": "Iran Barkley\n\n\nof the Year by \"Ring\" magazine. Following the defeat to Duran, Barkley took on undefeated Michael Nunn for the IBF and lineal middleweight titles, dropping a close majority decision. He next fought Nigel Benn in a challenge for the WBO middleweight title and was stopped on the three-knockdown rule at the end of a wild first round in which both fighters were hurt. After losing to Benn, Barkley underwent surgery for a detached retina and was inactive for a year. Barkley returned with two low-key wins at", "id": "8203381" }, { "contents": "Abraham Jacob Hollandersky\n\n\nSox Scandal, the event brought to the forefront the corruption of American sports as it approached the roaring 20's. Abe met Attell in four three round exhibition matches at Empire Theatre while Attell was giving speaking performances in New London near the end of his boxing career. Abe claimed to have fought what was likely a sparring match with Canadian Heavyweight champion Arthur Pelkey, who was a Panamanian national heavyweight title contender in February 1917 at Panama's Santa Anna Plaza against Kid Norfolk, during the same period Abe was fighting bouts at the", "id": "10244396" }, { "contents": "Shane Mosley\n\n\n23-6, 14 KOs) at the Roberto Durán Arena in Panama City, Panama for the WBA Continental super welterweight title on December 17, in a scheduled 10 round bout. Both boxers came in at around the welterweight limit, with Mosley slightly heavier and López fighting for the first time in 13 months. López was knocked down in the 2nd round following a left hook and a further three times in the last round, which put an end to the fight. Mosley improved his ledger to 49 victories, with 41", "id": "18757243" }, { "contents": "Dick Turpin (boxer)\n\n\nchampion. In his next bout, on 28 June 1948, Turpin fought Vince Hawkins for his British middleweight title. The fight was held at Villa Park, Birmingham and Turpin won on points over fifteen rounds. He now held both the British and Commonwealth middleweight titles. During late 1948 and early 1949, Turpin fought European boxers, drawing and then losing on points against Tiberio Mitri, of Italy, then being knocked out in seven rounds in a non-title fight against the then world middleweight champion, Marcel Cerdan, of", "id": "19946190" }, { "contents": "Juan Guzman (boxer)\n\n\nat San Juan, Puerto Rico, the Vargas one at Coliseo Roberto Clemente. By then he was a top-ten ranked Junior Flyweight by the World Boxing Association. WBA world Junior Flyweight champion Jaime Rios of Panama was 18–1–1 when he came to the Dominican Republic to defend his title against local Guzman during June 1976. Their fight took place on July 2, at Santo Domingo. It was a close fight through 15 rounds, not much stylistically separating champion and challenger. At the end, however, Guzman was deemed winner", "id": "7404136" }, { "contents": "BC Golden Gloves\n\n\nJuly 1975, Lampkin was the number one contender for the lightweight title held by Panama boxer Roberto Duran. The tournament took place in January 1984 in Burnaby at the Boxing BC Training centre that would also be used as a training camp for the 1984 and 1988 Canadian Olympic boxing teams At the end of the tournament the Golden Boy for 1984 was boxer Michael O'Connell and the runner-up was Joe Pendry, and the best youth boxer was Deep Butter. Bert Lowes, Fred Fuller, Rudy Bianco, Sid Knopp Vic Murdoch,", "id": "20462754" }, { "contents": "Gunnar Jackson\n\n\nGunnar Jackson (born 6 July 1986, Wainuiomata, Lower Hutt, New Zealand) is a New Zealand professional middleweight and Super Welterweight boxer. Jackson has had over thirty fights and has achieved four boxing titles, and has a highest position on the World Boxing Organisation rankings of 10th. Jackson fought the biggest fight of his career in January 2014 against four-time world champion Anthony Mundine. Jackson lost by unanimous points decision. Jackson fought Kerry Hope in June 2015. Hope was originally scheduled to fight Michael Zerafa for the Interim", "id": "1347008" }, { "contents": "Davey Moore (boxer, born 1959)\n\n\nyears in prison. Next, Moore defended against former two-division world champion Roberto Durán. Moore appeared to be overconfident against an aging 'Hands of Stone' Duran but Duran totally outclassed him and dished out vicious punishment, hammering shut one of Moore's eyes and stopping him in eight brutal rounds at Madison Square Garden. The beating was so one-sided that Moore's mother and girlfriend were both said to have fainted at ringside. Many knowledgeable observers believed that referee Ernesto Magana should have stopped the fight far earlier.", "id": "6112527" } ]

[ { "contents": "Ossie Duran\n\n\nOssie \"The Ghanaian Gladiator\" Duran (born 23 April 1977 in Accra) is a Ghanaian professional boxer, whose career has spanned over 3 decades (1990's/2000's/2010's). He has won the Ghanaian lightweight title, World Boxing Federation (WBF) Pan-European welterweight title, WBF European Welterweight Title, United States Boxing Association (USBA) Atlantic Coast Region middleweight title, Commonwealth welterweight title, and Commonwealth light middleweight title, drew with Eromosele Albert for the vacant International Boxing Federation (IBF) Continental Africa light middleweight title,", "id": "5080778" }, { "contents": "Tom Bogs\n\n\nwins and one draw. He suffered his first defeat against the former world welterweight and middleweight champion Emile Griffith in a non-title fight in June 1970. Bogs won the European light-heavyweight title in 1968 when he stopped German champion Lothar Stengel in the first round of the bout. He successfully defended the title against Piero Del Papa before moving down to the middleweight division for a title match against European champion Carlos Duran. Bogs defeated Duran and went on to successfully defend his middleweight title three times before losing a rematch to", "id": "19397152" }, { "contents": "Angel Robinson Garcia\n\n\nand International Boxing Hall of Fame member Roberto Duran at the Gimnasio Nuevo Panama-now Gimnasio Roberto Duran-at Panama City. Robinson Garcia gave Duran a relatively close fight but still lost by unanimous ten-round decision with scores of 99-93, 98-94 and 98-96, all in favor of the Panamanian. Robinson Garcia went 1-4 the rest of that year, facing, among others, Esteban De Jesus in San Juan, Puerto Rico, to whom he dropped a ten-round decision on", "id": "1307045" }, { "contents": "Josue Marquez\n\n\n15 round distance with Roberto Duran in a world title attempt; completing a total of 25 rounds against Duran divided in two fights without getting knocked out by the Panamanian. Viruet knocked Marquez out in round ten on April 8, 1978 at the Juan Ramon Loubriel stadium in San Juan, after which Marquez decided to retire from professional boxing. Marquez won 32, losing 12 and tying 2 of his 46 professional boxing fights, winning 7 and losing 2 of those by knockout. Marquez turned to training professional boxers for a while after", "id": "17936127" }, { "contents": "Roberto Durán\n\n\n(fighting for the minor International Boxing Council (IBC) belt). Durán fought Vinny Pazienza in 1994 and 1995 for the IBC Super Middleweight Championship and was defeated both times by unanimous decision, but many people felt Duran clearly won the first bout and he was robbed of the victory. In 1996, he was challenged by Héctor Camacho for the vacant IBC Middleweight Championship but lost by a very controversial unanimous decision. In 1997, Durán was defeated by former champion Jorge Castro. Durán fought Castro in a rematch bout and won", "id": "16507032" }, { "contents": "Hector Thompson\n\n\nHector Thompson (born 24 June 1949 in Kempsey, New South Wales) is an Indigenous Australian professional boxer who competed in four different weight divisions, Lightweight, Super lightweight, Welterweight and Junior middleweight during the 1970s and 80s. In 1973 he beat Joe Tetteh for the Commonwealth (British Empire) Super Lightweight Title, earning a shot at Roberto Duran in 1973 for the World Boxing Association World lightweight but lost by TKO. After capturing the Commonwealth title again in 1975, later that year he would go on to challenge Antonio Cervantes", "id": "5995492" }, { "contents": "José Durán (boxer)\n\n\non October 8, 1976. Duran, fighting in his home city of Madrid, was knocked down in the third round by a left hand to the jaw. Although Duran rose from the canvas, he was outworked by the faster challenger and lost his title via a split decision in a fight where both boxers finished with bloody faces. In his final fight Duran challenged the Italian-Australian champion Rocky Mattioli for the WBC Light Middleweight title. The result was never in doubt, as Mattioli knocked Duran down in the second,", "id": "13817397" }, { "contents": "Goody Petronelli\n\n\n, who had earlier won the title from Antuofermo. Hagler bloodied Minter early, winning on a third-round TKO. The Petronellis would guide Hagler through 12 successful world title defenses over 7 years, including celebrated bouts against Roberto Duran and Thomas Hearns, before he lost to Sugar Ray Leonard in another controversial judges' decision, a split verdict in Leonard's favor. It turned out to be Hagler's final fight. Petronelli trained others who would fight in world title bouts: World Boxing Organization super middleweight champion Steve Collins;", "id": "13838256" }, { "contents": "Andres Hernández\n\n\nstreak came to an end when he traveled to Panama to fight world-ranked Gilberto Illueca, and dropped a ten round unanimous decision. Hernandez then started another streak of wins, this time reaching eight consecutive victories before facing another up-and-coming Puerto Rican bantamweight, Wilfredo Gomez. The pair met on Saturday, December 20, 1975 at Roberto Clemente Coliseum in San Juan as part of a boxing program that included fights of Julian Solis, Larry Holmes and Roberto Duran defending his world Lightweight title in the main event against", "id": "7680623" }, { "contents": "Panama Joe Gans\n\n\naspects of boxing by partaking in bouts organized by his classmates. Under the guidance of H.R. Cambridge, a local Panamanian business manager, and real estate developer, Quinton adopted his ring name, and became a successful boxer in the Canal Zone where he fought his first thirty fights with considerable success. On October 10, 1915, Panama Joe first won the Lightweight Championship of Panama at only eighteen against Young Sam Langford at the Pacific Theatre in Panama City in a twenty-round points decision. He later took the Middleweight Championship of", "id": "1295301" }, { "contents": "Roberto Durán\n\n\ndecision. The bout was named the 1989 \"Fight of the Year\" by \"The Ring\". His reign was short lived once again as Duran moved up to super middleweight (although both fighters weighed in at the middleweight limit) for a third clash with Sugar Ray Leonard in December 1989 (a fight dubbed \"Uno Más\"—One More—by promoters), which Leonard won by wide unanimous decision. Durán seemed to be in decline after the fight, he attempted to win further middleweight titles in 1994, 1995 and 1996", "id": "16507031" }, { "contents": "José Durán (boxer)\n\n\nat winning the world title. He travelled to Monaco to fight Miguel de Oliveira for the vacant WBC Light Middleweight title. de Oliveira, a native of Brazil, won the title via an unanimous decision after a bloody battle which lasted the full fifteen rounds. In his next fight Duran lost his EBU title in Germany to Eckhard Dagge, a man Duran had previously beaten by a technical knockout in the eleventh round. On this occasion, however, it was Dagge who scored the knockout, with the fight being stopped in the", "id": "13817395" }, { "contents": "José Durán (boxer)\n\n\nby scoring a knockout over Ben Hamida in the third round. After winning 22 consecutive bouts Duran suffered his first defeat, losing to Jean Josselin via an eight round decision on June 22, 1970. Duran was able to avenge this defeat on May 21, 1971, once again the fight went the eight round distance although Duran won the decision on this occasion. Duran won his first championship on June 7, 1974 by beating Jacques Kechichian and thus winning the EBU title. On May 7, 1975 Duran made his first attempt", "id": "13817394" }, { "contents": "Roberto Durán\n\n\nfight (the \"No Más\" fight was officially recorded as a technical knockout, because Duran quit). Durán did not contend another title fight until 1989, but made the shot count when he won the WBC Middleweight title from Iran Barkley in February. The fight is considered one of Durán's greatest achievements, as the 37-year-old former lightweight champion took the middleweight crown, his fourth title. In a tough, back-and-forth fight, Durán knocked Barkley down in the eleventh round and won a close", "id": "16507030" }, { "contents": "José Durán (boxer)\n\n\nninth round. Duran once again challenged for the world title on May 18, 1976. On this occasion Duran travelled to Tokyo, Japan to successfully challenge Koichi Wajima for the Lineal and WBA light middleweight titles. Duran started the fight well by opening a large cut on the champion's forehead and knocking him down in the second round. Wajima was knocked down once again in the thirteenth round before the fight was finally stopped in the fourteenth. Duran lost his title in his first defence, against the Argentine challenger Miguel Angel Castellini", "id": "13817396" }, { "contents": "José Durán (boxer)\n\n\nJosé Manuel Durán Pérez, popularly known as \"Pepe Durán\" (born October 9, 1945 in Madrid, Spain) is a former Spanish professional boxer. During his eleven-year professional career Duran held the Lineal and WBA light middleweight titles. He challenged for the WBC version of the title and held the EBU title. He also competed in the men's welterweight event at the 1968 Summer Olympics. Duran made his professional debut on November 30, 1967 in Barcelona, Spain. Duran made a victorious start to his career", "id": "13817393" }, { "contents": "Edwin Rosario\n\n\nopponent had boxed 25 rounds against Roberto Duran-including a world lightweight championship bout-without being knocked out. Rosario eventually gained a record of 21–0 with 20 knockouts. This led to talks of a title fight against World Boxing Council (WBC) lightweight champion Alexis Argüello, to be held in Miami. But Argüello relinquished the title in order to move up in weight to challenge junior welterweight champion Aaron Pryor. With Arguello moving divisions, Rosario was matched with Mexico's José Luis Ramírez on May 1, 1983 for the vacant", "id": "5267805" }, { "contents": "Ken Buchanan\n\n\nwin over Chang Kil Lee on 4 December 1972. On 28 June 1972, Roberto Duran signed to defend it against Buchanan on 20 October 1972. However, Duran broke that agreement when the Panamanian Government insisted he made his first defense in Panama. He did, knocking out Jimmy Robertson on 20 January 1973. Duran also had signed a second contract with the MSG on 25 October 1972, to defend against Buchanan on or before 30 June 1973. But Duran broke that agreement again. Duran had his license suspended by the New", "id": "13762575" }, { "contents": "Koichi Wajima\n\n\nhis Lineal and WBA light middleweight titles as well. However, he regained his Lineal and WBA titles in February, 1976, with a 15th round KO over Yuh. Wajima lost to Jose Manuel Duran in his first defense, losing the world title for the third time in his career. He fought his final match In June, 1977, challenging Eddie Gazo for the WBA super welterweight title, but lost by 11th round KO. This was the last fight of his career. His record was 31-6-1 (", "id": "20508599" }, { "contents": "Wilfredo Gómez\n\n\ndirected by Mario Diaz and was filmed in New York City. Gómez has three daughters Jennifer, Gina and Liz Irina and one son Wilfredo Junior. He is good friends with Panamanian boxing legend Roberto Duran. Gómez was once married to Carolina Gamboa. On April 17, 2015, Gómez was arrested by Puerto Rican police after allegedly hitting his 59-year-old companion, a lady with whom he had been living for ten months. He was released after she refused to raise charges against him. British boxer Michael Gomez adapted his last", "id": "3553965" }, { "contents": "Caleb Truax\n\n\nRichardson, and James Crayton. His professional loss came to former undisputed middleweight world champion Jermain Taylor (Truax knocked Taylor down in the 9th round.) Truax drew Ossie Duran in a 10-round non-title bout at the Target Center in Minneapolis. The bout was part of an eight-fight card promoted by Mike Tyson's new company, Iron Mike Productions. Mike Tyson was in attendance at the event, and said of Truax, \"I hear he is exciting and he is something that we need for boxing, he", "id": "16222269" }, { "contents": "Massimiliano Duran\n\n\nMassimiliano Duran (born November 3, 1963 in Ferrara, Italy) is a former Italian professional boxer who held the Cruiser WBC title and the European championship between 1990 and 1991. He is also known for being the only fighter in boxing history to earn a shot at, win, and defend a world title with three consecutive disqualification wins. Duran was born in Ferrara. His father was the Argentine-Italian boxer Juan Carlos Duran; his brother, the Italian boxer Alessandro Duran. Duran turned pro in 1986 when he defeated", "id": "13303578" }, { "contents": "Marvelous Marvin Hagler\n\n\na staple on HBO, the Pay Per View of its time. A fight against Roberto Durán followed. Durán was the first challenger to last the distance with Hagler in a world-championship bout. Durán was the WBA Light Middleweight Champion and went up in weight to challenge for Hagler's middleweight crown. Hagler won a unanimous 15-round decision, although after 13 rounds, Duran was ahead by one point on two scorecards and even on the third. Hagler, with his left eye swollen and cut, came on strong in the", "id": "4940319" }, { "contents": "Vinny Paz\n\n\nSantana fight, Pazienza went on to defeat Brett Lally by a 6th-round TKO, and then, in another TKO, former world champion Lloyd Honeyghan in the 10th round. Pazienza went on to win the vacant IBO middleweight world title in 1993 with an 11th-round KO over Dan Sherry. Pazienza then went on to beat Roberto Duran twice, both via decision, with the IBC super middleweight title on the line both times. In June 1995, Pazienza lost his world title bid against IBF world super middleweight champion Roy", "id": "12129878" }, { "contents": "Juan Carlos Giménez Ferreyra\n\n\nJuan Carlos Giménez Ferreyra (born 20 December 1960) is a Paraguayan boxer. During his career he was WBC International light heavyweight champion and unsuccessfully fought for the World Super Middleweight title four times, first against Mauro Galvano in 1992, then against Chris Eubank the same year, against Nigel Benn in 1994 and finally against Joe Calzaghe in 1998, losing via knockout. During his career he went the distance with Nigel Benn, Chris Eubank and Roberto Duran. Gimenez last fought in 2010, winning the Paraguayan Cruiserweight title against Nicasio Moray", "id": "17951209" }, { "contents": "Massimiliano Duran\n\n\nMomo Cupelic. The win earned him the nickname \"Momo\". Duran's first defeat came by the hand of Ndomingiedi Lusikina. This would be the beginning of a long-standing rivalry, that will result in the two boxers fighting five times. In 1990 Duran won the WBC Cruiserweight Title by defeating Carlos De León, when De León was disqualified for hitting after the bell to end the 11th round. Duran was leading on the cards. His first defence was against Anaclet Wamba. Duran won by DQ after Wamba had", "id": "13303579" }, { "contents": "Héctor Camacho\n\n\namateur career, Camacho won three New York Golden Gloves tournaments, beginning with the Sub-Novice 112 lbs championship in 1978. During his professional career, Camacho had many notable fights against some of the biggest names in boxing, defeating Roberto Durán twice late in Duran's career, and knocking out Sugar Ray Leonard to send him into permanent retirement. He also fought Julio César Chávez, Félix Trinidad, and Oscar De La Hoya, among others. During his later years, Camacho expanded his popular role and appeared on a variety", "id": "5327031" }, { "contents": "Eckhard Dagge\n\n\n. He would later embark on an amateur career, in which he won 66 out of 80 bouts, before falling short of making the 1972 Olympic Team. Dagge would win the German Middleweight title, in his 6th bout. Dagge would follow up with wins over notable, but faded fighters Denny Moyer and Manuel González. In 1974, Dagge challenged Jose Manuel Duran for the European Light Middleweight title, losing by 11th-round TKO. He came back the next year however, and stopped Duran in the 9th round, to", "id": "18853804" }, { "contents": "Antonio Cervantes\n\n\nLightweight champion Roberto Durán, who was coming up in weight. Duran decided to challenge Sugar Ray Leonard instead, however, and Cervantes vs. Duran never materialized. On August 2, 1980, Cervantes dropped his next title challenger, Aaron Pryor, to the canvas in the first round. Pryor recovered, however, and beat Cervantes by a knockout in round four. This turned out to be Cervantes' last world title fight. He fought two times more for the FECARBOX WBC title, winning both fights shortly before retiring in 1980", "id": "11465736" }, { "contents": "USA Tuesday Night Fights\n\n\nfighter by fighting several four rounders on \"Tuesday Night Fights\". Roberto Duran was another fixture on \"Tuesday Night Fights\" later in his career, and his 100th professional bout was carried by USA. \"Tuesday Night Fights\" also showcased the bizarre from time to time. Among these was a fight from former pro football star Mark Gastineau's controversial boxing career which saw him lose to a journeyman fighter, Andrew Golota's infamous fight against Samson Po'uha in 1995 which saw the Polish fighter, who appeared frequently on \"Tuesday", "id": "5898536" }, { "contents": "Jacques LeBlanc\n\n\n22 wins, 4 losses and 2 draws when he fought WBC Middleweight Champion Roberto Durán on June 29, 1993. LeBlanc was billed as a severe underdog but lasted the full 10 rounds with Duran, losing on points. LeBlanc fought the undefeated Richie Woodhall in October 1994 for the Commonwealth Middleweight crown but again lost on points. He continued boxing until 1997, but winning again only once. In 2010, Jacques was inducted into the City of Moncton Wall of Fame . He currently holds the record for most matches without being knocked", "id": "3179570" }, { "contents": "Andy Lee (boxer)\n\n\nResort Casino in Mashantucket, Connecticut, and won via technical knockout at 0:56 in the 10th round. He avenged his loss to Brian Vera on 1 October 2011 by unanimous decision. On 10 March 2012, Lee Knocked out Mexico's Saul Duran in the 2nd round of a stay busy fight. On 16 June 2012, Lee challenged undefeated Titleholder Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. for the WBC World Middleweight Title in the Sun Bowl Stadium in El Paso, Texas televised on HBO World Championship Boxing. Lee got off to a good start,", "id": "15093101" }, { "contents": "Joe Cortez\n\n\ntook on the responsibility to referee some major Championship fights. During this time he was the third man in the ring in several professional Mike Tyson and Roberto Duran fights. As eminent referees Richard Steele and Mills Lane retired at the dawn of the 21st century, Cortez became one of Nevada and New York's preferred boxing referees for world title fights. He has refereed over 170 world title bouts, among which figure the first Oscar De La Hoya-Julio César Chávez meeting, Evander Holyfield and Riddick Bowe's first title fight and", "id": "18491003" }, { "contents": "Reuben Duran\n\n\nnot for the injury, he would have gotten a stoppage. Duran would support his bold statement in his next fight as he claimed a victory over Ryan Diaz via KO with only 3 seconds left in the fight. In subsequent bouts, Duran submitted both Kana Hyatt and Maurice Eazel in the first round. Duran signed with the UFC in early 2011 and made his debut at UFC on Versus 3 against Takeya Mizugaki, replacing an injured Francisco Rivera. Duran lost the fight via close split decision. Duran faced Francisco Rivera on June", "id": "15069085" }, { "contents": "Héctor Camacho\n\n\n. Before this fight, Camacho was trained by Angelo Dundee. His last two fights resulted in a draw and a loss, against Luis Ramón Campas and Saúl Duran, respectively. His last fight against Duran was on May 14, 2010. On January 6, 2005, Camacho was arrested by police in Gulfport, Mississippi on charges of trying to burgle an electronic goods store and carrying the drug ecstasy on him. In 2007, he declared himself guilty of being under the influence at the time of the burglary. He was", "id": "5327048" }, { "contents": "Jack Blackburn\n\n\nhad a slight advantage in height and reach. Blackburn fought the Barbados-born boxer Panama Joe Gans, who had boxed extensively in Panama where he lived prior to 1917. Panama Joe held the World Colored Middleweight Championship from 1920 to 1924, and held a Panamanian Lightweight Title in his youth. On July 24, 1922, Blackburn lost one of his last bouts to Gans in Indianapolis, Indiana, in a fourth-round technical knockout of a scheduled ten round bout. Panama Joe was a formidable boxer and fourteen years younger", "id": "10094030" }, { "contents": "Vinny Paz\n\n\nHector \"Macho\" Camacho and WBA World Champion Loreto Garza. In 1991, Pazienza moved into the junior middleweight division. In his first fight at junior middleweight, he won the USBA championship against Ron Amundsen in a 12-round decision. He defeated the WBA world jr. middleweight champion Gilbert Delé with a 12th-round TKO in Providence, becoming the second fighter in boxing history to win both the lightweight and junior middleweight world championships. Pazienza was forced to relinquish the title due to a serious car accident in which his neck was", "id": "12129876" }, { "contents": "Roberto Durán\n\n\nvia unanimous decision. In 1998, at the age of 47, he challenged 28-year-old WBA Middleweight Champion William Joppy. Joppy, a trim, quick-fisted fighter, battered Durán to defeat in just 3 rounds. It was Duran's most emphatic loss since the Hearns fight, over a decade earlier. Durán then announced his retirement in August 1998, but was back fighting in 1999. In June 2000, Durán avenged a previous loss to Pat Lawlor and won the NBA Super Middleweight Championship on his 49th birthday.", "id": "16507033" }, { "contents": "Roberto Vásquez\n\n\nRoberto Gaspar Vásquez Ramirez (born May 26, 1983 in Panama City) is a Panamanian professional boxer who held the WBA light flyweight title from 2005 to 2006. He also held the WBA flyweight interim title from 2006 to 2007. Vásquez lost in his professional boxing debut against Angelo Dottin on March 17, 2001. The four-round fight occurred in Dottin's hometown of Colón, Panama. Despite Vásquez's cutting Dottin's right cheek in the first round, all three judges scored the bout 39-38 for Dottin.", "id": "15594966" }, { "contents": "Roberto Durán\n\n\nwith an incredible 71–1 record. On June 20, 1980, Durán captured the WBC Welterweight title by defeating Leonard via a 15-round unanimous decision (145–144, 148–147, 146–144). The fight became known as \"The Brawl in Montreal\". After defeating Leonard in Montreal, Duran gained iconic status in his home country, Panama. Leonard initiated the rematch clause and asked for the fight to be the following November. In their second fight, Leonard successfully changed his tactics, using more footwork and movement than he had in their", "id": "16507022" }, { "contents": "Roberto Durán\n\n\nfirst fight, and Duran was unable to get Leonard against the ropes. During the seventh round, after Leonard had gained a slight lead on the scorecards, he began taunting and mocking Duran. Halfway into the eighth round, Duran suddenly stopped fighting, repeatedly saying, \"No más\" (\"no more\"). In a 2016 interview, Duran claimed that what he actually said was, \"No Sigo\" (\"I won't go on\"). He took some time to recover from that fight and", "id": "16507023" }, { "contents": "Kirkland Laing\n\n\n. Laing's boxing career was sporadic, as he often failed to deliver on his promise, appearing under-prepared against less able fighters and indulging in drink, drugs and women. In the year following his victory over Duran, Laing went missing, blowing his earnings. In that same period Duran was to fight four times, earning an estimated $6m. Laing continued to fight until he was 40, and retired after a stoppage loss to future world champion Glen Catley. After retiring, Laing continue to live in", "id": "8014673" }, { "contents": "Jimmy Batten\n\n\nThomas stopped him in the ninth round to take the title. Batten won his next five fights before losing on points in May 1981 to Chris Christian. He then travelled to the United States, where he was based in Chicago for almost two years; There he had a series of fights starting with two easy wins before he was stopped in the first round in May 1982 by Mario Maldonado. He beat Jeff Madison in September before facing Roberto Duran in November 1982 at the Miami Orange Bowl; Duran took a unanimous decision,", "id": "22189495" }, { "contents": "Ray Lampkin\n\n\nRay Lampkin (born 1948 in Portland, Oregon) is a retired professional boxer who lost the 1975 World Boxing Association (WBA) lightweight title fight against Roberto Durán in Panama. He won the North American Boxing Federation lightweight title fight but later lost it against Esteban de Jesús at the Felt Forum in New York City. He finished his career with a total of 34 wins (16 by knock out), six losses (two by knock out) and one draw. Lampkin was inducted into the Oregon Sports Hall of Fame", "id": "279465" }, { "contents": "Roberto Durán\n\n\nthe end of the seventh. Finally the fight was stopped in the eighth round as Moore was taking such a horrific beating and Durán won his third world title. After the victory, Durán was hoisted up in the air as the crowd sang \"Happy Birthday\" to a sobbing Durán. Durán later fought for the World Middleweight Championship, meeting Marvelous Marvin Hagler in Las Vegas in November 1983, during the fight Duran broke his hand and lost in a very competitive fight that went the full fifteen rounds, although after 12 rounds", "id": "16507027" }, { "contents": "Harold Reitman\n\n\nprofessional record of 7-1-1, Reitman fought a three-round charity exhibition match against the five-time world champion Roberto Duran at the Hollywood Diplomat Hotel in Miami Beach. On November 11, 1991, Reitman fought heavyweight Tim Anderson for the NBA Independent Cruiserweight title in a televised fight. Though Reitman scored two 9th round knockdowns, the fight ended in a draw. In March 1992, Reitman was the 12th ranked Heavyweight boxer in the world according to the International Boxing Council. On December 12, 1995,", "id": "9844517" }, { "contents": "Jeffrey Mathebula\n\n\nlost to Celestino Caballero. Hence, Mathebula fought against Caballero for the WBA Super World and IBF World super bantamweight title. However, he lost his first world title shot against Caballero via a split decision at the Roberto Duran Arena in Panama on 30 April 2009. After losing to Takalani Ndlovu via a split decision in an IBF junior featherweight title eliminator in Brakpan, Gauteng in September 2010, Mathebula defeated Ndlovu via a split decision in their rematch in Brakpan to be crowned the IBF junior featherweight champion. It was the SABC-", "id": "16997776" }, { "contents": "Angel Robinson Garcia\n\n\nhim fight 12 times, including a September 10 loss by ten-round decision to future WBC world Lightweight-and Spain's second-Champion Pedro Carrasco at the Basque Country and a December 30 defeat at the hands of 19-2-4 Chris Fernandez by ten-round decision also. Robinson Garcia contested 17 bouts in 1970. These included an August 21 match with Jose Duran, won by Duran by ten rounds decision at Madrid and a November 20 bout with French Roger Menetrey which Menetrey won by ten-round decision", "id": "1307042" }, { "contents": "Sugar Ray Leonard vs. Thomas Hearns\n\n\nSugar Ray Leonard and Thomas Hearns are considered to be two of the best boxers of all-time. They fought twice, with Leonard winning in 1981 and a draw in 1989. Both fights are considered to be classics. Sugar Ray Leonard won the WBC welterweight title with a fifteenth-round knockout of Wilfred Benítez in 1979. He lost it to Roberto Durán by a close decision in June 1980 and regained it five months later in the infamous No Más Fight, in which Duran quit in the eighth round. In June", "id": "20124047" }, { "contents": "Brandon Gonzáles\n\n\nOlympic Team in 2004 he withdrew to begin his professional career in 2007. While boxing as an amateur he worked as a janitor at Arco Arena.. On January 29, 2010 Gonzales won a fight against veteran Dumont Welliver by T.K.O., the fight was on the undercard of ESPN's Friday Night Fights. He maintained an unblemished streak of 17 wins until his bout with Thomas Oosthuizen that resulted in a draw. On October 28, 2011 he defeated Ossie Duran in the Main Event on Showtime's ShoBox at Bally's in Atlantic City", "id": "18287532" }, { "contents": "Miguel Ángel Castellini\n\n\nManuel Duran, in front of a sell out crowd of 12,000. Duran, who was making the first defence of his title, was knocked down in the third round by a left hand to the jaw. Although the champion rose from the canvas, he was outworked by the faster challenger and lost his title via a split decision in a fight where both boxers finished with bloody faces. Castellini's championship reign only lasted one fight as he lost it in his first defence to Eddie Gazo on March 5, 1977. Gazo", "id": "13522966" }, { "contents": "Hilario Zapata\n\n\nwas knocked out in the first round by the WBC world Jr. Bantamweight champion Sung-Kil Moon. A win against Moon would have made Zapata a member of the exclusive group of world boxing champions in three different weight categories or more. It can also be added that Zapata's first pair of boxing gloves, when he was 12, came as a present from Duran himself. Panamanian newspaper \"El Panama America\" declared on one of their editorials that Zapata, according to their opinion, should be inducted to the International Boxing", "id": "9857520" }, { "contents": "Panama Joe Gans\n\n\nPanama Joe Gans was a black boxer who held the World Colored Middleweight Championship for four years, shortly before it was discontinued. Born Cyril Quinton Jr. on November 14, 1896 in Barbados, British West Indies and raised in the Panama Canal Zone, the 5'7\" Quinton originally fought out of Panama and then New York City. He took his ringname from boxing great Joe Gans, the first black American fighter to win a world boxing title. He found his greatest fame fighting as a middleweight at between 147 and 160 lbs,", "id": "1295299" }, { "contents": "Panama Lewis\n\n\nCarlos \"Panama\" Lewis (born November 4, 1945) is an American boxing trainer. He was convicted of tampering with the gloves of Luis Resto in the Resto vs \"Irish\" Billy Collins fight of 1983, which subsequently led to the end of Collins' boxing career. Collins suffered from depression and possibly committed suicide following the tragic assault. Lewis was a disciple of trainer Chickie Ferrara. He was Roberto Durán's cornerman when Duran lost a unanimous decision against Wilfred Benitez in 1982. During the early 1980s, he", "id": "11205984" }, { "contents": "Pernell Whitaker\n\n\nfight, he basically faced no real trouble against Vásquez in route to the win. This was a history making fight for Whitaker, as he became only the fourth fighter in history - joining Thomas Hearns, Sugar Ray Leonard, and Roberto Duran - to have won a legitimate world title in four different weight classes. However, he chose to move back to welterweight. Whitaker successfully defended his WBC belt against Scotland's Gary Jacobs on August 26, 1995. In January, 1997, Whitaker put his title on the line against", "id": "20971754" }, { "contents": "Carlos Palomino\n\n\nundercard. Palomino lost to Duran by decision in ten rounds, and he announced his retirement from boxing right away. Palomino began his comeback on January 10, 1997, beating Ismaél Díaz by a knockout in round nine. He won four fights that year, including one over former world champion Rene Arredondo, but when he lost by decision in ten to former Oscar De La Hoya world title challenger Wilfredo Rivera on May 30, 1998, he decided to retire for good, and has stayed in retirement ever since. In 1978", "id": "12841764" }, { "contents": "Roberto Durán\n\n\nRoberto Durán Samaniego (born June 16, 1951) is a Panamanian former professional boxer who competed from 1968 to 2001. He held world championships in four weight classes: lightweight, welterweight, light middleweight and middleweight, as well as reigns as the undisputed and lineal lightweight champion, and the lineal welterweight champion. He is also the second boxer to have competed over a span of five decades, the first being Jack Johnson. Durán was known as a versatile, technical brawler and pressure fighter, which earned him the nickname of", "id": "16507013" }, { "contents": "Joshua Clottey\n\n\nwelterweight title in his next fight. He then rolled off a 10 fight winning streak highlighted by his first win on American soil and capture of several minor welterweight and middleweight titles. The streak culminated in an IBF intercontinental welterweight title. On December 2, 2006, Clottey earned his first shot at a world title but broke his hand in the fourth round of his fight against World Boxing Organization champion Antonio Margarito. That bout against Margarito has since come under controversial suspicion following news reports (released after Margarito's fight with Shane Mosley", "id": "11102893" }, { "contents": "Aaron Pryor\n\n\nten years in prison after he was convicted of 29 counts of fraud and embezzlement. Pryor was then offered $750,000 to fight Roberto Duran in April 1981, but Pryor turned it down because his new attorney told him not to sign anything until he worked out a new contract with manager Buddy LaRosa. By the time they worked out a new agreement, the chance to fight Duran was gone. On June 27, 1981, Pryor knocked out Lennox Blackmore in the second round. He then defended the title against undefeated Dujuan Johnson", "id": "8987862" }, { "contents": "Roberto Durán\n\n\nChorrillo in the district \"La Casa de Piedra\" (The House of Stone) Panama. He began sparring with experienced boxers at the Neco de La Guardia gymnasium when he was only eight years old. Durán competed as an amateur compiling a record of 13–3. Having 16 amateur fights under his belt, he made his professional debut in 1968 at the age of 16. Duran won his first 31 consecutive fights, and scored knockout victories over future Featherweight Champion Ernesto Marcel and former Super Featherweight Champion Hiroshi Kobayashi, culminating in his", "id": "16507016" }, { "contents": "Wilfredo Gómez\n\n\nOn May 18, 2003, Gómez returned to Panama, where he was received by Duran and Eusebio Pedroza, among others. In a message geared towards Panamanians, he expressed thanks to that country, calling it his second country and saying, among other things \"I'm very motivated now that I will return to Puerto Rico, and no one should be surprised if I buy an apartment in Panama and move my family here\". However, he bought a house in Orlando, Florida in 2006. Gómez had a record", "id": "3553963" }, { "contents": "Jacob Duran\n\n\nSandman\" Sanchez before furthering his career in professional boxing and mixed martial arts. In boxing, Duran works on the Klitschko brothers and Andre Ward. On November 23, 2014 Duran was in the corner of Chris Algieri when he took on Manny Pacquiao for the WBO welterweight title at Cotai Arena, Venetian Resort, Macao, Macao S.A.R., China. On May 29, 2015, Duran was in the corner of Chris Algieri once again when he took on Amir Khan for the WBC Silver Welterweight title at The Barclays Center, Brooklyn", "id": "2958564" }, { "contents": "Edwin Rodríguez (boxer)\n\n\nEdwin Rodríguez (born May 5, 1985) is a Dominican professional boxer who lives in Worcester, Massachusetts. Starred in the box office hit Bleed For This as Roberto Duran Rodriguez moved to Worcester at age 13 with dreams of becoming the next great Dominican ballplayer. Winters in the Bay State made for a short baseball season and two years later, he abandoned the diamond for the ring. Rodriguez had an 84–9 record and won the USA Boxing Championships 2005 and the National Golden Gloves 2006 as a middleweight (165 pounds).", "id": "15244912" }, { "contents": "Steve Smoger\n\n\n, New York. On May 27, 2017 in Atlantic City, New Jersey Smoger became the first professional boxing referee to be inducted into the newly created Atlantic City Boxing Hall of Fame, joining Don King and Michael Spinks among other inductees. Smoger's Hall of Fame resume comprises five inductions Smoger has officiated the bouts featuring such professional boxers as Mike Tyson, Lennox Lewis, Larry Holmes, Evander Holyfield, Ray Mercer, Steve Cunningham, John Ruiz, Roberto Duran, Hector Camacho, Roy Jones, Jr., James Toney,", "id": "12530988" }, { "contents": "Panama Blue\n\n\nPanama Blue is rainforest spring water and a product of Panama Springs S.A. Panama Blue is a brand of luxury rainforest spring water. Panama Blue is the number one premium bottled water brand of Panama. The brand ambassadors are boxer Roberto Duran and Carolina Dementiev, a Panamanian model and triathlete. Panama Blue is bottled at the source in the mountains of Cerro Azul, surrounded by the Chagres National Park in the Panamanian rainforest. The spring is located about 800m above sea level. Because of the soil, the volcanic rocks and the", "id": "19226350" }, { "contents": "Roberto Durán\n\n\ngained even more weight to contend for the WBC Light Middleweight title, but losing in his first attempt at a championship in that division on January 30, 1982, against Wilfred Benítez by a 15-round unanimous decision, this after having defeated Nino Gonzalez and Luigi Minchillo, two rated Light Middleweights, both by ten-round decisions in non-title bouts. Durán was also to lose his comeback fight in September 1982 in Detroit. Kirkland Laing, from London, shocked the boxing world, producing the type of display his talents promised", "id": "16507024" }, { "contents": "Richard Green (referee)\n\n\nwas Muhammad Ali's loss to Larry Holmes in 1980. Green officiated two high-profile fights in 1982. Early in the year he refereed Wilfred Benitez's fight against Roberto Duran for Benitez's super welterweight title. Later he was the referee in the Ray Mancini's first-round knockout of Arturo Frias, a win that gave Mancini the WBA lightweight championship. On November 13, 1982, Green was assigned to work Mancini's second defense of that title, a match against the Korean contender Duk Koo Kim that was televised", "id": "8256032" }, { "contents": "Nat Jacobs\n\n\nNathaniel \"Nat\" J. S. Jacobs (born 1 December 1939) is an English amateur and professional boxer of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, who won the Central (England) Area middleweight title and challenged for the British Boxing Board of Control British middleweight title. His professional fighting weight varied from , i.e. welterweight, through light middleweight and middleweight, to , i.e. light heavyweight. He was managed/trained by former boxer Stan Skinkiss. Born in Manchester, Jacobs began his professional career in November 1960 with a points victory", "id": "16077543" }, { "contents": "Light middleweight\n\n\nOctober 17, was won by Griffith via a 15-round decision. Three days later, the World Boxing Association championship was created when Denny Moyer outpointed Joey Giambra. The World Boxing Council recognized the WBA champion as the true division champion until 1975, when it stripped their current champion and sanctioned a fight between Miguel de Oliveira and Jose Duran for the vacant title. De Oliveira won the title over 15 rounds in 1975. The International Boxing Federation crowned its first champion when Mark Medal defeated Earl Hargrove in 1984. The World Boxing Organization", "id": "11957407" }, { "contents": "Héctor Camacho\n\n\nhim in his career) to defeat Craig Houk by knockout in round three. He won consecutive unanimous ten-round decisions over Clinton McNeil and Raúl Jorge Muñoz. After that, his boxing career went on hiatus, as he faced criminal charges. He pled guilty to burglary and acknowledged drug abuse, but was given probation. Camacho returned to boxing on July 18, 2008, competing against Perry Ballard for the World Boxing Empire's Middleweight Championship. The fight lasted seven rounds. Camacho won when Ballard's corner threw the towel", "id": "5327047" }, { "contents": "Panama Joe Gans\n\n\nPanama by knocking out Benny McGovern in the third of fifteen rounds on November 30, 1916 at the Santa Ana Plaza in Panama City. At the time, these titles were often described as extending to both Central and South America. In his first bout after taking the Middleweight Championship of Panama on December 12, 1916, though barely twenty-one years old, he soundly defeated Abraham Jacob Hollandersky, a former holder of the Panamanian Heavyweight Championship in 20 rounds in Panama City. In 1917, Panama Joe was brought to New", "id": "1295302" }, { "contents": "Murderers' Row (boxing)\n\n\ncounted as Burley’s conquests. He was ranked in the top 10 in the Welterweight and Middleweight divisions for most of the 1940s, without receiving a title shot. (Burley did hold the World Colored Welterweight and World Colored Middleweight Championship titles.) Near the end of his career Burley took to fighting Heavyweights in a bid to find meaningful contests, including J.D. Turner and future Heavyweight champ Ezzard Charles. Eventually, Burley would retire after winning 83 bouts, without ever being able to meet in the ring the champions of the time", "id": "6667729" }, { "contents": "Reuben Duran\n\n\nadditions of wrestling, Brazilian jiu-jitsu, and Muay Thai. Reuben began his career with multiple fights for King of the Cage, and other small promotions in California. As an amateur competitor, Duran has distinguished himself by being a six time winner of Grapplers Quest. In a memorable match, Duran fought Greg Guzman, hiding his injuries that included 2 torn ligaments in his right hand. In spite of the injuries, Duran still earned the victory. Later, in an interview, Duran voiced his confidence that were it", "id": "15069084" }, { "contents": "Boardwalk Hall\n\n\n, Oscar De La Hoya, Roberto Duran, Lennox Lewis, Roy Jones Jr., Floyd Mayweather Jr., Bernard Hopkins, Riddick Bowe, Julio César Chávez, Héctor Camacho, Micky Ward, and Arturo Gatti. In September 2007, it was the venue for the Kelly Pavlik – Jermain Taylor boxing match for the World Boxing Council, World Boxing Organization and \"The Ring\" magazine's middleweight championships. On December 12, 1965, the New York Ukrainians defeated Philadelphia Ukrainian Nationals 3-2 in the first regulation indoor soccer match", "id": "5560408" }, { "contents": "Phil Edwards (boxer)\n\n\nmember of the public who was attempting to take a kick at the new champion. Edward's very next fight after his title success was against Nigerian boxing legend Dick Tiger. Tiger was a one-time world middleweight and light-heavyweight world champion, and Edwards showed his class by lasting the full ten rounds, losing on points. After the Tiger fight, Edwards was back to winning ways, and was victorious in his first four fights of 1958, defeating Commonwealth title challenger Lew Lazar, Scotland's John Woolard, journeyman", "id": "19060017" }, { "contents": "Carl Thompson (boxer)\n\n\nin February 1993. In February 1994, Thompson traveled to Ferrara, Emilia Romagna, Italy and won the European title by defeating Massimiliano Duran by KO in eight rounds, and in his next bout knocked out France's Akim Tafer in six rounds at Epernay, Marne, France to retain his European title. After winning two mark-time fights, Thompson was matched against Ralf Rocchigiani in a bout for the vacant WBO cruiserweight title at the G-Mex Leisure Centre, Manchester in June 1995. Both fighters were knocked down in", "id": "14087508" }, { "contents": "Luis Federico Thompson\n\n\nLuis Federico Thompson (December 19, 1927 – January 8 , 2010) was a Panamanian Argentinian professional boxer. Thompson was born in Colon, Panama, later moved to Argentina, where he was nationalized and afterwards became the Argentine and South American boxing champion. Thompson debuted in 1947 with a fight against Wilfredo Brown in Panama City which ended in a draw. On October 7, 1951, he fought Wilfredo Brewster defeating him and winning the Panamanian Lightweight Title for the first time. Two months later, he fought Wilfredo Brown again", "id": "20078674" }, { "contents": "Jawaid Khaliq\n\n\nJawaid Khaliq, MBE (born 30 July 1970), is a British former professional boxer. A dual Pakistan national, he became the first British Asian boxing world champion, winning the International Boxing Organization (IBO) welterweight title and defending it for seven constructive bouts before retiring. During his boxing career he also held the Commonwealth welterweight title, World Boxing Federation Inter-Continental Light Middleweight Title, Midlands Area light middleweight title and Midlands Area welterweight title. He is the first Kashmiri world champion boxer. Khaliq took up boxing at", "id": "22058424" }, { "contents": "Omar Sheika\n\n\nOmar Sheika (born February 20, 1977) is an American former professional boxer and multiple time super middleweight world title challenger. He is of Palestinian descent. Sheika compiled a successful amateur career, capturing a National Middleweight Championship at National AAU Boxing Tournament in 1996. Sheika has enjoyed some success in his pro career. His first fight was against Billy James. Sheika won the fight by TKO on the second round. Sheika stayed undefeated for about a year. Sheika was involved in ESPN Friday Night Fights \"Fight of the Year", "id": "7826746" }, { "contents": "Roberto Durán\n\n\nchampion the moment Durán stepped into the ring to box Hearns. Durán again made history in the fight, but this time it was the wrong kind. Hearns dropped Durán twice in the first round and as he rose to his feet after the second knockdown, which ended the round, the former champion did not know where his corner was. Hearns went on to knock Duran down a third time in the second round and the fight was stopped, marking the first time in his career that Durán had been knocked out in a", "id": "16507029" }, { "contents": "Wally Swift\n\n\nJohnny Pritchett due to an eye injury. Swift beat Peter Sharpe in May 1966 in an eliminator to face Pritchett, winning on points. In February 1967 he faced Pritchett at the Nottingham Ice Stadium for the title, losing on points over fifteen rounds. In September 1967 Swift faced Sandro Mazzinghi for the European super welterweight title in Milan; The fight was stopped in the sixth round due to injuries to Swift. In March 1968 Swift challenged Juan Carlos Duran for the European middleweight title. Swift lost the fight after being disqualified in", "id": "6876166" }, { "contents": "Hands of Stone\n\n\nup in Panama, Durán is homeschooled by Chaflan, who teaches young Roberto some vital life lessons. Later, Duran joins a boxing club with Nestor \"Plomo\" Quiñones as his coach. As he reaches 20, an American legendary boxing trainer Ray Arcel, who nearly lost his life after being attacked by an unknown assailant in 1953 in New York City and is now living with his wife Stephanie, notices Roberto's raw talent and punching power and takes the young fighter under his wing, becoming his coach. Not long after", "id": "2732439" }, { "contents": "Larry Estridge\n\n\nLarry Estridge (born 17 June 1902, St. Kitts, British West Indies) was a middleweight boxer and the last holder of the World Colored Middleweight Championship. The 5'7\" middleweight fought out of New York City from 1922 to 1929, racking up a career record of 53 wins against 23 losses and two draws from 1922 to 1929. Estridge fought colored middleweight champion Panama Joe Gans for his title on July 26, 1924 at Yankee Stadium, defeating the champ via a unanimous decision in their 10-round bout. After scoring two victories", "id": "1295287" }, { "contents": "Lennox Blackmoore\n\n\nLennox Blackmoore (born July 10, 1950 in Georgetown, Guyana) is a Guyanese professional light/light welter/welter/light middle/middleweight boxer of the 1970s and '80s who won the Guyanese lightweight title, Guyanese light middleweight title, and Commonwealth lightweight title, and was a challenger for the World Boxing Association (WBA) World light welterweight title against Aaron Pryor, and World Boxing Council (WBC) FECARBOX light welterweight title against Antonio Cervantes, his professional fighting weight varied from , i.e. lightweight to , i.e. middleweight", "id": "2810858" }, { "contents": "Abraham Jacob Hollandersky\n\n\nand skill that he would act as a sparring partner to prepare Jack Dempsey for his September 1920 Heavyweight Title bout with Hall of Famer Billy Miske as well as Dempsey's earlier bout when he first took the Heavyweight Championship from Jess Willard in Toledo. The 5' 4\" welterweight Hollandersky lost to Panama Joe, the younger and stronger Panamanian Light and Middleweight champion, and the accomplished middleweight Connors of Scranton, Pennsylvania, who had a five-inch height advantage. But he gave a closer fight to the Seattle welterweight Ryan before", "id": "10244386" }, { "contents": "Tommy Freeman (boxer)\n\n\nbout was Thompson's first title defense. Freeman held the title until his rematch with Jack Thompson on April 14, 1931 again in Cleveland where he lost by TKO in the tenth of fifteen rounds. The bout was stopped due to Freeman's badly battered left eye. He had a long career as a boxer, and remained fighting as a super welterweight until around 1937. He fought for a year as a middleweight from 1937-8. Best known of his middleweight opponents was Al McCoy who he fought on July 2 and", "id": "18569618" }, { "contents": "Alex Ramos\n\n\n. Despite losing his next fight, against future world super middleweight champion Murray Sutherland by a ten-round decision, Ramos was by then held along with the highest ranked middleweights of the era, such as Mustafa Hamsho, Wilford Scypion, Juan Roldán, John Mugabi, Curtis Parker and others. After knocking out Wilbur Henderson in three rounds on February 8, 1984, in Atlantic City, Ramos challenged Parker for his first career title, the regional, United States Boxing Association Middleweight championship. He won the title by beating Parker", "id": "10746327" }, { "contents": "Ken Buchanan\n\n\nYork State Athletic Commission on 4 April 1973. The commission also warned Duran that his title recognition would be withdrawn. The New York State Athletic Commission had been attempting for two years (1972 - 1974) to get Duran to honor an agreement to fight Buchanan. But Duran refused to honor the contract to face Buchanan. In 1973, Buchanan started out by beating future world lightweight champion Jim Watt by a decision after 15 rounds, to regain the British lightweight title. Soon, he embarked on another international tour that included more", "id": "13762576" }, { "contents": "Guillermo Jones\n\n\nin Panama by first round Knockout. Now aligned with promoter Don King, Jones fought two light middleweight WBA world title bouts against Laurent Boudouani in 1998. He drew once and lost the rematch by split decision in 12 round contests. Jones fought his way through four weight classes. Later fighting as a cruiserweight in 2002, he fought Johnny Nelson for the WBO World cruiserweight title, drawing in 12 rounds in his third world title attempt. Most in attendance thought Jones had done enough to win the title from Nelson. After yet", "id": "9043210" }, { "contents": "Tony Ayala Jr.\n\n\n. The rehabilitation program kept him from having a $750,000 payday against Roberto Duran. With the Duran fight didn't happen, Ayala settled for about $150,000 to fight Argentinian Carlos Herrera. 'It doesn't bother me,' he said. 'I'm looking at it as a step closer to the world title. Davey Moore is going to have to meet me after this fight.' After defeating Carlos Herrera, November 20, 1982, he was scheduled to fight champion Davey Moore. By December 1983, Ayala", "id": "10919402" }, { "contents": "Noé González Alcoba\n\n\nNoé González Alcoba (born 12 May 1979) \"the coal-miner\" is an Uruguayan boxer and a former world title challenger. He fights in the super middleweight division, having boxed at middleweight previously. Having boxed mainly in Argentina and Uruguay for much of his early career, he managed to land a shot at the WBA World Middleweight title after only 14 fights, challenging the then world champion Felix Sturm in Germany. The German proved too classy however and won the fight by a wide points decision, earning Alcoba his", "id": "20636614" }, { "contents": "Vicente Mosquera\n\n\nVicente Eduardo Mosquera Mena (born December 9, 1979 in Panama City, Panama) is a Panamanian professional boxer. He is a former World Boxing Association (WBA) super-featherweight champion. On April 30, 2005 he defeated Yodsanan Sor Nanthachai (Yodsanan 3-K Battery) for the WBA world championship title, by a unanimous decision. The official scorers saw it 118-108, 116-111, 115-112. In the fight, Nanthachai was knocked down three times (in the first, third, and eleventh", "id": "7687336" }, { "contents": "Iran Barkley\n\n\nof the Year by \"Ring\" magazine. Following the defeat to Duran, Barkley took on undefeated Michael Nunn for the IBF and lineal middleweight titles, dropping a close majority decision. He next fought Nigel Benn in a challenge for the WBO middleweight title and was stopped on the three-knockdown rule at the end of a wild first round in which both fighters were hurt. After losing to Benn, Barkley underwent surgery for a detached retina and was inactive for a year. Barkley returned with two low-key wins at", "id": "8203381" }, { "contents": "Abraham Jacob Hollandersky\n\n\nSox Scandal, the event brought to the forefront the corruption of American sports as it approached the roaring 20's. Abe met Attell in four three round exhibition matches at Empire Theatre while Attell was giving speaking performances in New London near the end of his boxing career. Abe claimed to have fought what was likely a sparring match with Canadian Heavyweight champion Arthur Pelkey, who was a Panamanian national heavyweight title contender in February 1917 at Panama's Santa Anna Plaza against Kid Norfolk, during the same period Abe was fighting bouts at the", "id": "10244396" }, { "contents": "Shane Mosley\n\n\n23-6, 14 KOs) at the Roberto Durán Arena in Panama City, Panama for the WBA Continental super welterweight title on December 17, in a scheduled 10 round bout. Both boxers came in at around the welterweight limit, with Mosley slightly heavier and López fighting for the first time in 13 months. López was knocked down in the 2nd round following a left hook and a further three times in the last round, which put an end to the fight. Mosley improved his ledger to 49 victories, with 41", "id": "18757243" }, { "contents": "Dick Turpin (boxer)\n\n\nchampion. In his next bout, on 28 June 1948, Turpin fought Vince Hawkins for his British middleweight title. The fight was held at Villa Park, Birmingham and Turpin won on points over fifteen rounds. He now held both the British and Commonwealth middleweight titles. During late 1948 and early 1949, Turpin fought European boxers, drawing and then losing on points against Tiberio Mitri, of Italy, then being knocked out in seven rounds in a non-title fight against the then world middleweight champion, Marcel Cerdan, of", "id": "19946190" }, { "contents": "Juan Guzman (boxer)\n\n\nat San Juan, Puerto Rico, the Vargas one at Coliseo Roberto Clemente. By then he was a top-ten ranked Junior Flyweight by the World Boxing Association. WBA world Junior Flyweight champion Jaime Rios of Panama was 18–1–1 when he came to the Dominican Republic to defend his title against local Guzman during June 1976. Their fight took place on July 2, at Santo Domingo. It was a close fight through 15 rounds, not much stylistically separating champion and challenger. At the end, however, Guzman was deemed winner", "id": "7404136" }, { "contents": "BC Golden Gloves\n\n\nJuly 1975, Lampkin was the number one contender for the lightweight title held by Panama boxer Roberto Duran. The tournament took place in January 1984 in Burnaby at the Boxing BC Training centre that would also be used as a training camp for the 1984 and 1988 Canadian Olympic boxing teams At the end of the tournament the Golden Boy for 1984 was boxer Michael O'Connell and the runner-up was Joe Pendry, and the best youth boxer was Deep Butter. Bert Lowes, Fred Fuller, Rudy Bianco, Sid Knopp Vic Murdoch,", "id": "20462754" }, { "contents": "Gunnar Jackson\n\n\nGunnar Jackson (born 6 July 1986, Wainuiomata, Lower Hutt, New Zealand) is a New Zealand professional middleweight and Super Welterweight boxer. Jackson has had over thirty fights and has achieved four boxing titles, and has a highest position on the World Boxing Organisation rankings of 10th. Jackson fought the biggest fight of his career in January 2014 against four-time world champion Anthony Mundine. Jackson lost by unanimous points decision. Jackson fought Kerry Hope in June 2015. Hope was originally scheduled to fight Michael Zerafa for the Interim", "id": "1347008" }, { "contents": "Davey Moore (boxer, born 1959)\n\n\nyears in prison. Next, Moore defended against former two-division world champion Roberto Durán. Moore appeared to be overconfident against an aging 'Hands of Stone' Duran but Duran totally outclassed him and dished out vicious punishment, hammering shut one of Moore's eyes and stopping him in eight brutal rounds at Madison Square Garden. The beating was so one-sided that Moore's mother and girlfriend were both said to have fainted at ringside. Many knowledgeable observers believed that referee Ernesto Magana should have stopped the fight far earlier.", "id": "6112527" } ]

[ { "contents": "Ossie Duran\n\n\nOssie \"The Ghanaian Gladiator\" Duran (born 23 April 1977 in Accra) is a Ghanaian professional boxer, whose career has spanned over 3 decades (1990's/2000's/2010's). He has won the Ghanaian lightweight title, World Boxing Federation (WBF) Pan-European welterweight title, WBF European Welterweight Title, United States Boxing Association (USBA) Atlantic Coast Region middleweight title, Commonwealth welterweight title, and Commonwealth light middleweight title, drew with Eromosele Albert for the vacant International Boxing Federation (IBF) Continental Africa light middleweight title,", "id": "5080778" }, { "contents": "Tom Bogs\n\n\nwins and one draw. He suffered his first defeat against the former world welterweight and middleweight champion Emile Griffith in a non-title fight in June 1970. Bogs won the European light-heavyweight title in 1968 when he stopped German champion Lothar Stengel in the first round of the bout. He successfully defended the title against Piero Del Papa before moving down to the middleweight division for a title match against European champion Carlos Duran. Bogs defeated Duran and went on to successfully defend his middleweight title three times before losing a rematch to", "id": "19397152" }, { "contents": "Angel Robinson Garcia\n\n\nand International Boxing Hall of Fame member Roberto Duran at the Gimnasio Nuevo Panama-now Gimnasio Roberto Duran-at Panama City. Robinson Garcia gave Duran a relatively close fight but still lost by unanimous ten-round decision with scores of 99-93, 98-94 and 98-96, all in favor of the Panamanian. Robinson Garcia went 1-4 the rest of that year, facing, among others, Esteban De Jesus in San Juan, Puerto Rico, to whom he dropped a ten-round decision on", "id": "1307045" }, { "contents": "Josue Marquez\n\n\n15 round distance with Roberto Duran in a world title attempt; completing a total of 25 rounds against Duran divided in two fights without getting knocked out by the Panamanian. Viruet knocked Marquez out in round ten on April 8, 1978 at the Juan Ramon Loubriel stadium in San Juan, after which Marquez decided to retire from professional boxing. Marquez won 32, losing 12 and tying 2 of his 46 professional boxing fights, winning 7 and losing 2 of those by knockout. Marquez turned to training professional boxers for a while after", "id": "17936127" }, { "contents": "Roberto Durán\n\n\n(fighting for the minor International Boxing Council (IBC) belt). Durán fought Vinny Pazienza in 1994 and 1995 for the IBC Super Middleweight Championship and was defeated both times by unanimous decision, but many people felt Duran clearly won the first bout and he was robbed of the victory. In 1996, he was challenged by Héctor Camacho for the vacant IBC Middleweight Championship but lost by a very controversial unanimous decision. In 1997, Durán was defeated by former champion Jorge Castro. Durán fought Castro in a rematch bout and won", "id": "16507032" }, { "contents": "Hector Thompson\n\n\nHector Thompson (born 24 June 1949 in Kempsey, New South Wales) is an Indigenous Australian professional boxer who competed in four different weight divisions, Lightweight, Super lightweight, Welterweight and Junior middleweight during the 1970s and 80s. In 1973 he beat Joe Tetteh for the Commonwealth (British Empire) Super Lightweight Title, earning a shot at Roberto Duran in 1973 for the World Boxing Association World lightweight but lost by TKO. After capturing the Commonwealth title again in 1975, later that year he would go on to challenge Antonio Cervantes", "id": "5995492" }, { "contents": "José Durán (boxer)\n\n\non October 8, 1976. Duran, fighting in his home city of Madrid, was knocked down in the third round by a left hand to the jaw. Although Duran rose from the canvas, he was outworked by the faster challenger and lost his title via a split decision in a fight where both boxers finished with bloody faces. In his final fight Duran challenged the Italian-Australian champion Rocky Mattioli for the WBC Light Middleweight title. The result was never in doubt, as Mattioli knocked Duran down in the second,", "id": "13817397" }, { "contents": "Goody Petronelli\n\n\n, who had earlier won the title from Antuofermo. Hagler bloodied Minter early, winning on a third-round TKO. The Petronellis would guide Hagler through 12 successful world title defenses over 7 years, including celebrated bouts against Roberto Duran and Thomas Hearns, before he lost to Sugar Ray Leonard in another controversial judges' decision, a split verdict in Leonard's favor. It turned out to be Hagler's final fight. Petronelli trained others who would fight in world title bouts: World Boxing Organization super middleweight champion Steve Collins;", "id": "13838256" }, { "contents": "Andres Hernández\n\n\nstreak came to an end when he traveled to Panama to fight world-ranked Gilberto Illueca, and dropped a ten round unanimous decision. Hernandez then started another streak of wins, this time reaching eight consecutive victories before facing another up-and-coming Puerto Rican bantamweight, Wilfredo Gomez. The pair met on Saturday, December 20, 1975 at Roberto Clemente Coliseum in San Juan as part of a boxing program that included fights of Julian Solis, Larry Holmes and Roberto Duran defending his world Lightweight title in the main event against", "id": "7680623" }, { "contents": "Panama Joe Gans\n\n\naspects of boxing by partaking in bouts organized by his classmates. Under the guidance of H.R. Cambridge, a local Panamanian business manager, and real estate developer, Quinton adopted his ring name, and became a successful boxer in the Canal Zone where he fought his first thirty fights with considerable success. On October 10, 1915, Panama Joe first won the Lightweight Championship of Panama at only eighteen against Young Sam Langford at the Pacific Theatre in Panama City in a twenty-round points decision. He later took the Middleweight Championship of", "id": "1295301" }, { "contents": "Roberto Durán\n\n\ndecision. The bout was named the 1989 \"Fight of the Year\" by \"The Ring\". His reign was short lived once again as Duran moved up to super middleweight (although both fighters weighed in at the middleweight limit) for a third clash with Sugar Ray Leonard in December 1989 (a fight dubbed \"Uno Más\"—One More—by promoters), which Leonard won by wide unanimous decision. Durán seemed to be in decline after the fight, he attempted to win further middleweight titles in 1994, 1995 and 1996", "id": "16507031" }, { "contents": "José Durán (boxer)\n\n\nat winning the world title. He travelled to Monaco to fight Miguel de Oliveira for the vacant WBC Light Middleweight title. de Oliveira, a native of Brazil, won the title via an unanimous decision after a bloody battle which lasted the full fifteen rounds. In his next fight Duran lost his EBU title in Germany to Eckhard Dagge, a man Duran had previously beaten by a technical knockout in the eleventh round. On this occasion, however, it was Dagge who scored the knockout, with the fight being stopped in the", "id": "13817395" }, { "contents": "José Durán (boxer)\n\n\nby scoring a knockout over Ben Hamida in the third round. After winning 22 consecutive bouts Duran suffered his first defeat, losing to Jean Josselin via an eight round decision on June 22, 1970. Duran was able to avenge this defeat on May 21, 1971, once again the fight went the eight round distance although Duran won the decision on this occasion. Duran won his first championship on June 7, 1974 by beating Jacques Kechichian and thus winning the EBU title. On May 7, 1975 Duran made his first attempt", "id": "13817394" }, { "contents": "Roberto Durán\n\n\nfight (the \"No Más\" fight was officially recorded as a technical knockout, because Duran quit). Durán did not contend another title fight until 1989, but made the shot count when he won the WBC Middleweight title from Iran Barkley in February. The fight is considered one of Durán's greatest achievements, as the 37-year-old former lightweight champion took the middleweight crown, his fourth title. In a tough, back-and-forth fight, Durán knocked Barkley down in the eleventh round and won a close", "id": "16507030" }, { "contents": "José Durán (boxer)\n\n\nninth round. Duran once again challenged for the world title on May 18, 1976. On this occasion Duran travelled to Tokyo, Japan to successfully challenge Koichi Wajima for the Lineal and WBA light middleweight titles. Duran started the fight well by opening a large cut on the champion's forehead and knocking him down in the second round. Wajima was knocked down once again in the thirteenth round before the fight was finally stopped in the fourteenth. Duran lost his title in his first defence, against the Argentine challenger Miguel Angel Castellini", "id": "13817396" }, { "contents": "José Durán (boxer)\n\n\nJosé Manuel Durán Pérez, popularly known as \"Pepe Durán\" (born October 9, 1945 in Madrid, Spain) is a former Spanish professional boxer. During his eleven-year professional career Duran held the Lineal and WBA light middleweight titles. He challenged for the WBC version of the title and held the EBU title. He also competed in the men's welterweight event at the 1968 Summer Olympics. Duran made his professional debut on November 30, 1967 in Barcelona, Spain. Duran made a victorious start to his career", "id": "13817393" }, { "contents": "Edwin Rosario\n\n\nopponent had boxed 25 rounds against Roberto Duran-including a world lightweight championship bout-without being knocked out. Rosario eventually gained a record of 21–0 with 20 knockouts. This led to talks of a title fight against World Boxing Council (WBC) lightweight champion Alexis Argüello, to be held in Miami. But Argüello relinquished the title in order to move up in weight to challenge junior welterweight champion Aaron Pryor. With Arguello moving divisions, Rosario was matched with Mexico's José Luis Ramírez on May 1, 1983 for the vacant", "id": "5267805" }, { "contents": "Ken Buchanan\n\n\nwin over Chang Kil Lee on 4 December 1972. On 28 June 1972, Roberto Duran signed to defend it against Buchanan on 20 October 1972. However, Duran broke that agreement when the Panamanian Government insisted he made his first defense in Panama. He did, knocking out Jimmy Robertson on 20 January 1973. Duran also had signed a second contract with the MSG on 25 October 1972, to defend against Buchanan on or before 30 June 1973. But Duran broke that agreement again. Duran had his license suspended by the New", "id": "13762575" }, { "contents": "Koichi Wajima\n\n\nhis Lineal and WBA light middleweight titles as well. However, he regained his Lineal and WBA titles in February, 1976, with a 15th round KO over Yuh. Wajima lost to Jose Manuel Duran in his first defense, losing the world title for the third time in his career. He fought his final match In June, 1977, challenging Eddie Gazo for the WBA super welterweight title, but lost by 11th round KO. This was the last fight of his career. His record was 31-6-1 (", "id": "20508599" }, { "contents": "Wilfredo Gómez\n\n\ndirected by Mario Diaz and was filmed in New York City. Gómez has three daughters Jennifer, Gina and Liz Irina and one son Wilfredo Junior. He is good friends with Panamanian boxing legend Roberto Duran. Gómez was once married to Carolina Gamboa. On April 17, 2015, Gómez was arrested by Puerto Rican police after allegedly hitting his 59-year-old companion, a lady with whom he had been living for ten months. He was released after she refused to raise charges against him. British boxer Michael Gomez adapted his last", "id": "3553965" }, { "contents": "Caleb Truax\n\n\nRichardson, and James Crayton. His professional loss came to former undisputed middleweight world champion Jermain Taylor (Truax knocked Taylor down in the 9th round.) Truax drew Ossie Duran in a 10-round non-title bout at the Target Center in Minneapolis. The bout was part of an eight-fight card promoted by Mike Tyson's new company, Iron Mike Productions. Mike Tyson was in attendance at the event, and said of Truax, \"I hear he is exciting and he is something that we need for boxing, he", "id": "16222269" }, { "contents": "Massimiliano Duran\n\n\nMassimiliano Duran (born November 3, 1963 in Ferrara, Italy) is a former Italian professional boxer who held the Cruiser WBC title and the European championship between 1990 and 1991. He is also known for being the only fighter in boxing history to earn a shot at, win, and defend a world title with three consecutive disqualification wins. Duran was born in Ferrara. His father was the Argentine-Italian boxer Juan Carlos Duran; his brother, the Italian boxer Alessandro Duran. Duran turned pro in 1986 when he defeated", "id": "13303578" }, { "contents": "Marvelous Marvin Hagler\n\n\na staple on HBO, the Pay Per View of its time. A fight against Roberto Durán followed. Durán was the first challenger to last the distance with Hagler in a world-championship bout. Durán was the WBA Light Middleweight Champion and went up in weight to challenge for Hagler's middleweight crown. Hagler won a unanimous 15-round decision, although after 13 rounds, Duran was ahead by one point on two scorecards and even on the third. Hagler, with his left eye swollen and cut, came on strong in the", "id": "4940319" }, { "contents": "Vinny Paz\n\n\nSantana fight, Pazienza went on to defeat Brett Lally by a 6th-round TKO, and then, in another TKO, former world champion Lloyd Honeyghan in the 10th round. Pazienza went on to win the vacant IBO middleweight world title in 1993 with an 11th-round KO over Dan Sherry. Pazienza then went on to beat Roberto Duran twice, both via decision, with the IBC super middleweight title on the line both times. In June 1995, Pazienza lost his world title bid against IBF world super middleweight champion Roy", "id": "12129878" }, { "contents": "Juan Carlos Giménez Ferreyra\n\n\nJuan Carlos Giménez Ferreyra (born 20 December 1960) is a Paraguayan boxer. During his career he was WBC International light heavyweight champion and unsuccessfully fought for the World Super Middleweight title four times, first against Mauro Galvano in 1992, then against Chris Eubank the same year, against Nigel Benn in 1994 and finally against Joe Calzaghe in 1998, losing via knockout. During his career he went the distance with Nigel Benn, Chris Eubank and Roberto Duran. Gimenez last fought in 2010, winning the Paraguayan Cruiserweight title against Nicasio Moray", "id": "17951209" }, { "contents": "Massimiliano Duran\n\n\nMomo Cupelic. The win earned him the nickname \"Momo\". Duran's first defeat came by the hand of Ndomingiedi Lusikina. This would be the beginning of a long-standing rivalry, that will result in the two boxers fighting five times. In 1990 Duran won the WBC Cruiserweight Title by defeating Carlos De León, when De León was disqualified for hitting after the bell to end the 11th round. Duran was leading on the cards. His first defence was against Anaclet Wamba. Duran won by DQ after Wamba had", "id": "13303579" }, { "contents": "Héctor Camacho\n\n\namateur career, Camacho won three New York Golden Gloves tournaments, beginning with the Sub-Novice 112 lbs championship in 1978. During his professional career, Camacho had many notable fights against some of the biggest names in boxing, defeating Roberto Durán twice late in Duran's career, and knocking out Sugar Ray Leonard to send him into permanent retirement. He also fought Julio César Chávez, Félix Trinidad, and Oscar De La Hoya, among others. During his later years, Camacho expanded his popular role and appeared on a variety", "id": "5327031" }, { "contents": "Eckhard Dagge\n\n\n. He would later embark on an amateur career, in which he won 66 out of 80 bouts, before falling short of making the 1972 Olympic Team. Dagge would win the German Middleweight title, in his 6th bout. Dagge would follow up with wins over notable, but faded fighters Denny Moyer and Manuel González. In 1974, Dagge challenged Jose Manuel Duran for the European Light Middleweight title, losing by 11th-round TKO. He came back the next year however, and stopped Duran in the 9th round, to", "id": "18853804" }, { "contents": "Antonio Cervantes\n\n\nLightweight champion Roberto Durán, who was coming up in weight. Duran decided to challenge Sugar Ray Leonard instead, however, and Cervantes vs. Duran never materialized. On August 2, 1980, Cervantes dropped his next title challenger, Aaron Pryor, to the canvas in the first round. Pryor recovered, however, and beat Cervantes by a knockout in round four. This turned out to be Cervantes' last world title fight. He fought two times more for the FECARBOX WBC title, winning both fights shortly before retiring in 1980", "id": "11465736" }, { "contents": "USA Tuesday Night Fights\n\n\nfighter by fighting several four rounders on \"Tuesday Night Fights\". Roberto Duran was another fixture on \"Tuesday Night Fights\" later in his career, and his 100th professional bout was carried by USA. \"Tuesday Night Fights\" also showcased the bizarre from time to time. Among these was a fight from former pro football star Mark Gastineau's controversial boxing career which saw him lose to a journeyman fighter, Andrew Golota's infamous fight against Samson Po'uha in 1995 which saw the Polish fighter, who appeared frequently on \"Tuesday", "id": "5898536" }, { "contents": "Jacques LeBlanc\n\n\n22 wins, 4 losses and 2 draws when he fought WBC Middleweight Champion Roberto Durán on June 29, 1993. LeBlanc was billed as a severe underdog but lasted the full 10 rounds with Duran, losing on points. LeBlanc fought the undefeated Richie Woodhall in October 1994 for the Commonwealth Middleweight crown but again lost on points. He continued boxing until 1997, but winning again only once. In 2010, Jacques was inducted into the City of Moncton Wall of Fame . He currently holds the record for most matches without being knocked", "id": "3179570" }, { "contents": "Andy Lee (boxer)\n\n\nResort Casino in Mashantucket, Connecticut, and won via technical knockout at 0:56 in the 10th round. He avenged his loss to Brian Vera on 1 October 2011 by unanimous decision. On 10 March 2012, Lee Knocked out Mexico's Saul Duran in the 2nd round of a stay busy fight. On 16 June 2012, Lee challenged undefeated Titleholder Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. for the WBC World Middleweight Title in the Sun Bowl Stadium in El Paso, Texas televised on HBO World Championship Boxing. Lee got off to a good start,", "id": "15093101" }, { "contents": "Joe Cortez\n\n\ntook on the responsibility to referee some major Championship fights. During this time he was the third man in the ring in several professional Mike Tyson and Roberto Duran fights. As eminent referees Richard Steele and Mills Lane retired at the dawn of the 21st century, Cortez became one of Nevada and New York's preferred boxing referees for world title fights. He has refereed over 170 world title bouts, among which figure the first Oscar De La Hoya-Julio César Chávez meeting, Evander Holyfield and Riddick Bowe's first title fight and", "id": "18491003" }, { "contents": "Reuben Duran\n\n\nnot for the injury, he would have gotten a stoppage. Duran would support his bold statement in his next fight as he claimed a victory over Ryan Diaz via KO with only 3 seconds left in the fight. In subsequent bouts, Duran submitted both Kana Hyatt and Maurice Eazel in the first round. Duran signed with the UFC in early 2011 and made his debut at UFC on Versus 3 against Takeya Mizugaki, replacing an injured Francisco Rivera. Duran lost the fight via close split decision. Duran faced Francisco Rivera on June", "id": "15069085" }, { "contents": "Héctor Camacho\n\n\n. Before this fight, Camacho was trained by Angelo Dundee. His last two fights resulted in a draw and a loss, against Luis Ramón Campas and Saúl Duran, respectively. His last fight against Duran was on May 14, 2010. On January 6, 2005, Camacho was arrested by police in Gulfport, Mississippi on charges of trying to burgle an electronic goods store and carrying the drug ecstasy on him. In 2007, he declared himself guilty of being under the influence at the time of the burglary. He was", "id": "5327048" }, { "contents": "Jack Blackburn\n\n\nhad a slight advantage in height and reach. Blackburn fought the Barbados-born boxer Panama Joe Gans, who had boxed extensively in Panama where he lived prior to 1917. Panama Joe held the World Colored Middleweight Championship from 1920 to 1924, and held a Panamanian Lightweight Title in his youth. On July 24, 1922, Blackburn lost one of his last bouts to Gans in Indianapolis, Indiana, in a fourth-round technical knockout of a scheduled ten round bout. Panama Joe was a formidable boxer and fourteen years younger", "id": "10094030" }, { "contents": "Vinny Paz\n\n\nHector \"Macho\" Camacho and WBA World Champion Loreto Garza. In 1991, Pazienza moved into the junior middleweight division. In his first fight at junior middleweight, he won the USBA championship against Ron Amundsen in a 12-round decision. He defeated the WBA world jr. middleweight champion Gilbert Delé with a 12th-round TKO in Providence, becoming the second fighter in boxing history to win both the lightweight and junior middleweight world championships. Pazienza was forced to relinquish the title due to a serious car accident in which his neck was", "id": "12129876" }, { "contents": "Roberto Durán\n\n\nvia unanimous decision. In 1998, at the age of 47, he challenged 28-year-old WBA Middleweight Champion William Joppy. Joppy, a trim, quick-fisted fighter, battered Durán to defeat in just 3 rounds. It was Duran's most emphatic loss since the Hearns fight, over a decade earlier. Durán then announced his retirement in August 1998, but was back fighting in 1999. In June 2000, Durán avenged a previous loss to Pat Lawlor and won the NBA Super Middleweight Championship on his 49th birthday.", "id": "16507033" }, { "contents": "Roberto Vásquez\n\n\nRoberto Gaspar Vásquez Ramirez (born May 26, 1983 in Panama City) is a Panamanian professional boxer who held the WBA light flyweight title from 2005 to 2006. He also held the WBA flyweight interim title from 2006 to 2007. Vásquez lost in his professional boxing debut against Angelo Dottin on March 17, 2001. The four-round fight occurred in Dottin's hometown of Colón, Panama. Despite Vásquez's cutting Dottin's right cheek in the first round, all three judges scored the bout 39-38 for Dottin.", "id": "15594966" }, { "contents": "Roberto Durán\n\n\nwith an incredible 71–1 record. On June 20, 1980, Durán captured the WBC Welterweight title by defeating Leonard via a 15-round unanimous decision (145–144, 148–147, 146–144). The fight became known as \"The Brawl in Montreal\". After defeating Leonard in Montreal, Duran gained iconic status in his home country, Panama. Leonard initiated the rematch clause and asked for the fight to be the following November. In their second fight, Leonard successfully changed his tactics, using more footwork and movement than he had in their", "id": "16507022" }, { "contents": "Roberto Durán\n\n\nfirst fight, and Duran was unable to get Leonard against the ropes. During the seventh round, after Leonard had gained a slight lead on the scorecards, he began taunting and mocking Duran. Halfway into the eighth round, Duran suddenly stopped fighting, repeatedly saying, \"No más\" (\"no more\"). In a 2016 interview, Duran claimed that what he actually said was, \"No Sigo\" (\"I won't go on\"). He took some time to recover from that fight and", "id": "16507023" }, { "contents": "Kirkland Laing\n\n\n. Laing's boxing career was sporadic, as he often failed to deliver on his promise, appearing under-prepared against less able fighters and indulging in drink, drugs and women. In the year following his victory over Duran, Laing went missing, blowing his earnings. In that same period Duran was to fight four times, earning an estimated $6m. Laing continued to fight until he was 40, and retired after a stoppage loss to future world champion Glen Catley. After retiring, Laing continue to live in", "id": "8014673" }, { "contents": "Jimmy Batten\n\n\nThomas stopped him in the ninth round to take the title. Batten won his next five fights before losing on points in May 1981 to Chris Christian. He then travelled to the United States, where he was based in Chicago for almost two years; There he had a series of fights starting with two easy wins before he was stopped in the first round in May 1982 by Mario Maldonado. He beat Jeff Madison in September before facing Roberto Duran in November 1982 at the Miami Orange Bowl; Duran took a unanimous decision,", "id": "22189495" }, { "contents": "Ray Lampkin\n\n\nRay Lampkin (born 1948 in Portland, Oregon) is a retired professional boxer who lost the 1975 World Boxing Association (WBA) lightweight title fight against Roberto Durán in Panama. He won the North American Boxing Federation lightweight title fight but later lost it against Esteban de Jesús at the Felt Forum in New York City. He finished his career with a total of 34 wins (16 by knock out), six losses (two by knock out) and one draw. Lampkin was inducted into the Oregon Sports Hall of Fame", "id": "279465" }, { "contents": "Roberto Durán\n\n\nthe end of the seventh. Finally the fight was stopped in the eighth round as Moore was taking such a horrific beating and Durán won his third world title. After the victory, Durán was hoisted up in the air as the crowd sang \"Happy Birthday\" to a sobbing Durán. Durán later fought for the World Middleweight Championship, meeting Marvelous Marvin Hagler in Las Vegas in November 1983, during the fight Duran broke his hand and lost in a very competitive fight that went the full fifteen rounds, although after 12 rounds", "id": "16507027" }, { "contents": "Harold Reitman\n\n\nprofessional record of 7-1-1, Reitman fought a three-round charity exhibition match against the five-time world champion Roberto Duran at the Hollywood Diplomat Hotel in Miami Beach. On November 11, 1991, Reitman fought heavyweight Tim Anderson for the NBA Independent Cruiserweight title in a televised fight. Though Reitman scored two 9th round knockdowns, the fight ended in a draw. In March 1992, Reitman was the 12th ranked Heavyweight boxer in the world according to the International Boxing Council. On December 12, 1995,", "id": "9844517" }, { "contents": "Jeffrey Mathebula\n\n\nlost to Celestino Caballero. Hence, Mathebula fought against Caballero for the WBA Super World and IBF World super bantamweight title. However, he lost his first world title shot against Caballero via a split decision at the Roberto Duran Arena in Panama on 30 April 2009. After losing to Takalani Ndlovu via a split decision in an IBF junior featherweight title eliminator in Brakpan, Gauteng in September 2010, Mathebula defeated Ndlovu via a split decision in their rematch in Brakpan to be crowned the IBF junior featherweight champion. It was the SABC-", "id": "16997776" }, { "contents": "Angel Robinson Garcia\n\n\nhim fight 12 times, including a September 10 loss by ten-round decision to future WBC world Lightweight-and Spain's second-Champion Pedro Carrasco at the Basque Country and a December 30 defeat at the hands of 19-2-4 Chris Fernandez by ten-round decision also. Robinson Garcia contested 17 bouts in 1970. These included an August 21 match with Jose Duran, won by Duran by ten rounds decision at Madrid and a November 20 bout with French Roger Menetrey which Menetrey won by ten-round decision", "id": "1307042" }, { "contents": "Sugar Ray Leonard vs. Thomas Hearns\n\n\nSugar Ray Leonard and Thomas Hearns are considered to be two of the best boxers of all-time. They fought twice, with Leonard winning in 1981 and a draw in 1989. Both fights are considered to be classics. Sugar Ray Leonard won the WBC welterweight title with a fifteenth-round knockout of Wilfred Benítez in 1979. He lost it to Roberto Durán by a close decision in June 1980 and regained it five months later in the infamous No Más Fight, in which Duran quit in the eighth round. In June", "id": "20124047" }, { "contents": "Brandon Gonzáles\n\n\nOlympic Team in 2004 he withdrew to begin his professional career in 2007. While boxing as an amateur he worked as a janitor at Arco Arena.. On January 29, 2010 Gonzales won a fight against veteran Dumont Welliver by T.K.O., the fight was on the undercard of ESPN's Friday Night Fights. He maintained an unblemished streak of 17 wins until his bout with Thomas Oosthuizen that resulted in a draw. On October 28, 2011 he defeated Ossie Duran in the Main Event on Showtime's ShoBox at Bally's in Atlantic City", "id": "18287532" }, { "contents": "Miguel Ángel Castellini\n\n\nManuel Duran, in front of a sell out crowd of 12,000. Duran, who was making the first defence of his title, was knocked down in the third round by a left hand to the jaw. Although the champion rose from the canvas, he was outworked by the faster challenger and lost his title via a split decision in a fight where both boxers finished with bloody faces. Castellini's championship reign only lasted one fight as he lost it in his first defence to Eddie Gazo on March 5, 1977. Gazo", "id": "13522966" }, { "contents": "Hilario Zapata\n\n\nwas knocked out in the first round by the WBC world Jr. Bantamweight champion Sung-Kil Moon. A win against Moon would have made Zapata a member of the exclusive group of world boxing champions in three different weight categories or more. It can also be added that Zapata's first pair of boxing gloves, when he was 12, came as a present from Duran himself. Panamanian newspaper \"El Panama America\" declared on one of their editorials that Zapata, according to their opinion, should be inducted to the International Boxing", "id": "9857520" }, { "contents": "Panama Joe Gans\n\n\nPanama Joe Gans was a black boxer who held the World Colored Middleweight Championship for four years, shortly before it was discontinued. Born Cyril Quinton Jr. on November 14, 1896 in Barbados, British West Indies and raised in the Panama Canal Zone, the 5'7\" Quinton originally fought out of Panama and then New York City. He took his ringname from boxing great Joe Gans, the first black American fighter to win a world boxing title. He found his greatest fame fighting as a middleweight at between 147 and 160 lbs,", "id": "1295299" }, { "contents": "Panama Lewis\n\n\nCarlos \"Panama\" Lewis (born November 4, 1945) is an American boxing trainer. He was convicted of tampering with the gloves of Luis Resto in the Resto vs \"Irish\" Billy Collins fight of 1983, which subsequently led to the end of Collins' boxing career. Collins suffered from depression and possibly committed suicide following the tragic assault. Lewis was a disciple of trainer Chickie Ferrara. He was Roberto Durán's cornerman when Duran lost a unanimous decision against Wilfred Benitez in 1982. During the early 1980s, he", "id": "11205984" }, { "contents": "Pernell Whitaker\n\n\nfight, he basically faced no real trouble against Vásquez in route to the win. This was a history making fight for Whitaker, as he became only the fourth fighter in history - joining Thomas Hearns, Sugar Ray Leonard, and Roberto Duran - to have won a legitimate world title in four different weight classes. However, he chose to move back to welterweight. Whitaker successfully defended his WBC belt against Scotland's Gary Jacobs on August 26, 1995. In January, 1997, Whitaker put his title on the line against", "id": "20971754" }, { "contents": "Carlos Palomino\n\n\nundercard. Palomino lost to Duran by decision in ten rounds, and he announced his retirement from boxing right away. Palomino began his comeback on January 10, 1997, beating Ismaél Díaz by a knockout in round nine. He won four fights that year, including one over former world champion Rene Arredondo, but when he lost by decision in ten to former Oscar De La Hoya world title challenger Wilfredo Rivera on May 30, 1998, he decided to retire for good, and has stayed in retirement ever since. In 1978", "id": "12841764" }, { "contents": "Roberto Durán\n\n\nRoberto Durán Samaniego (born June 16, 1951) is a Panamanian former professional boxer who competed from 1968 to 2001. He held world championships in four weight classes: lightweight, welterweight, light middleweight and middleweight, as well as reigns as the undisputed and lineal lightweight champion, and the lineal welterweight champion. He is also the second boxer to have competed over a span of five decades, the first being Jack Johnson. Durán was known as a versatile, technical brawler and pressure fighter, which earned him the nickname of", "id": "16507013" }, { "contents": "Joshua Clottey\n\n\nwelterweight title in his next fight. He then rolled off a 10 fight winning streak highlighted by his first win on American soil and capture of several minor welterweight and middleweight titles. The streak culminated in an IBF intercontinental welterweight title. On December 2, 2006, Clottey earned his first shot at a world title but broke his hand in the fourth round of his fight against World Boxing Organization champion Antonio Margarito. That bout against Margarito has since come under controversial suspicion following news reports (released after Margarito's fight with Shane Mosley", "id": "11102893" }, { "contents": "Aaron Pryor\n\n\nten years in prison after he was convicted of 29 counts of fraud and embezzlement. Pryor was then offered $750,000 to fight Roberto Duran in April 1981, but Pryor turned it down because his new attorney told him not to sign anything until he worked out a new contract with manager Buddy LaRosa. By the time they worked out a new agreement, the chance to fight Duran was gone. On June 27, 1981, Pryor knocked out Lennox Blackmore in the second round. He then defended the title against undefeated Dujuan Johnson", "id": "8987862" }, { "contents": "Roberto Durán\n\n\nChorrillo in the district \"La Casa de Piedra\" (The House of Stone) Panama. He began sparring with experienced boxers at the Neco de La Guardia gymnasium when he was only eight years old. Durán competed as an amateur compiling a record of 13–3. Having 16 amateur fights under his belt, he made his professional debut in 1968 at the age of 16. Duran won his first 31 consecutive fights, and scored knockout victories over future Featherweight Champion Ernesto Marcel and former Super Featherweight Champion Hiroshi Kobayashi, culminating in his", "id": "16507016" }, { "contents": "Wilfredo Gómez\n\n\nOn May 18, 2003, Gómez returned to Panama, where he was received by Duran and Eusebio Pedroza, among others. In a message geared towards Panamanians, he expressed thanks to that country, calling it his second country and saying, among other things \"I'm very motivated now that I will return to Puerto Rico, and no one should be surprised if I buy an apartment in Panama and move my family here\". However, he bought a house in Orlando, Florida in 2006. Gómez had a record", "id": "3553963" }, { "contents": "Jacob Duran\n\n\nSandman\" Sanchez before furthering his career in professional boxing and mixed martial arts. In boxing, Duran works on the Klitschko brothers and Andre Ward. On November 23, 2014 Duran was in the corner of Chris Algieri when he took on Manny Pacquiao for the WBO welterweight title at Cotai Arena, Venetian Resort, Macao, Macao S.A.R., China. On May 29, 2015, Duran was in the corner of Chris Algieri once again when he took on Amir Khan for the WBC Silver Welterweight title at The Barclays Center, Brooklyn", "id": "2958564" }, { "contents": "Edwin Rodríguez (boxer)\n\n\nEdwin Rodríguez (born May 5, 1985) is a Dominican professional boxer who lives in Worcester, Massachusetts. Starred in the box office hit Bleed For This as Roberto Duran Rodriguez moved to Worcester at age 13 with dreams of becoming the next great Dominican ballplayer. Winters in the Bay State made for a short baseball season and two years later, he abandoned the diamond for the ring. Rodriguez had an 84–9 record and won the USA Boxing Championships 2005 and the National Golden Gloves 2006 as a middleweight (165 pounds).", "id": "15244912" }, { "contents": "Steve Smoger\n\n\n, New York. On May 27, 2017 in Atlantic City, New Jersey Smoger became the first professional boxing referee to be inducted into the newly created Atlantic City Boxing Hall of Fame, joining Don King and Michael Spinks among other inductees. Smoger's Hall of Fame resume comprises five inductions Smoger has officiated the bouts featuring such professional boxers as Mike Tyson, Lennox Lewis, Larry Holmes, Evander Holyfield, Ray Mercer, Steve Cunningham, John Ruiz, Roberto Duran, Hector Camacho, Roy Jones, Jr., James Toney,", "id": "12530988" }, { "contents": "Panama Blue\n\n\nPanama Blue is rainforest spring water and a product of Panama Springs S.A. Panama Blue is a brand of luxury rainforest spring water. Panama Blue is the number one premium bottled water brand of Panama. The brand ambassadors are boxer Roberto Duran and Carolina Dementiev, a Panamanian model and triathlete. Panama Blue is bottled at the source in the mountains of Cerro Azul, surrounded by the Chagres National Park in the Panamanian rainforest. The spring is located about 800m above sea level. Because of the soil, the volcanic rocks and the", "id": "19226350" }, { "contents": "Roberto Durán\n\n\ngained even more weight to contend for the WBC Light Middleweight title, but losing in his first attempt at a championship in that division on January 30, 1982, against Wilfred Benítez by a 15-round unanimous decision, this after having defeated Nino Gonzalez and Luigi Minchillo, two rated Light Middleweights, both by ten-round decisions in non-title bouts. Durán was also to lose his comeback fight in September 1982 in Detroit. Kirkland Laing, from London, shocked the boxing world, producing the type of display his talents promised", "id": "16507024" }, { "contents": "Richard Green (referee)\n\n\nwas Muhammad Ali's loss to Larry Holmes in 1980. Green officiated two high-profile fights in 1982. Early in the year he refereed Wilfred Benitez's fight against Roberto Duran for Benitez's super welterweight title. Later he was the referee in the Ray Mancini's first-round knockout of Arturo Frias, a win that gave Mancini the WBA lightweight championship. On November 13, 1982, Green was assigned to work Mancini's second defense of that title, a match against the Korean contender Duk Koo Kim that was televised", "id": "8256032" }, { "contents": "Nat Jacobs\n\n\nNathaniel \"Nat\" J. S. Jacobs (born 1 December 1939) is an English amateur and professional boxer of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, who won the Central (England) Area middleweight title and challenged for the British Boxing Board of Control British middleweight title. His professional fighting weight varied from , i.e. welterweight, through light middleweight and middleweight, to , i.e. light heavyweight. He was managed/trained by former boxer Stan Skinkiss. Born in Manchester, Jacobs began his professional career in November 1960 with a points victory", "id": "16077543" }, { "contents": "Light middleweight\n\n\nOctober 17, was won by Griffith via a 15-round decision. Three days later, the World Boxing Association championship was created when Denny Moyer outpointed Joey Giambra. The World Boxing Council recognized the WBA champion as the true division champion until 1975, when it stripped their current champion and sanctioned a fight between Miguel de Oliveira and Jose Duran for the vacant title. De Oliveira won the title over 15 rounds in 1975. The International Boxing Federation crowned its first champion when Mark Medal defeated Earl Hargrove in 1984. The World Boxing Organization", "id": "11957407" }, { "contents": "Héctor Camacho\n\n\nhim in his career) to defeat Craig Houk by knockout in round three. He won consecutive unanimous ten-round decisions over Clinton McNeil and Raúl Jorge Muñoz. After that, his boxing career went on hiatus, as he faced criminal charges. He pled guilty to burglary and acknowledged drug abuse, but was given probation. Camacho returned to boxing on July 18, 2008, competing against Perry Ballard for the World Boxing Empire's Middleweight Championship. The fight lasted seven rounds. Camacho won when Ballard's corner threw the towel", "id": "5327047" }, { "contents": "Panama Joe Gans\n\n\nPanama by knocking out Benny McGovern in the third of fifteen rounds on November 30, 1916 at the Santa Ana Plaza in Panama City. At the time, these titles were often described as extending to both Central and South America. In his first bout after taking the Middleweight Championship of Panama on December 12, 1916, though barely twenty-one years old, he soundly defeated Abraham Jacob Hollandersky, a former holder of the Panamanian Heavyweight Championship in 20 rounds in Panama City. In 1917, Panama Joe was brought to New", "id": "1295302" }, { "contents": "Murderers' Row (boxing)\n\n\ncounted as Burley’s conquests. He was ranked in the top 10 in the Welterweight and Middleweight divisions for most of the 1940s, without receiving a title shot. (Burley did hold the World Colored Welterweight and World Colored Middleweight Championship titles.) Near the end of his career Burley took to fighting Heavyweights in a bid to find meaningful contests, including J.D. Turner and future Heavyweight champ Ezzard Charles. Eventually, Burley would retire after winning 83 bouts, without ever being able to meet in the ring the champions of the time", "id": "6667729" }, { "contents": "Reuben Duran\n\n\nadditions of wrestling, Brazilian jiu-jitsu, and Muay Thai. Reuben began his career with multiple fights for King of the Cage, and other small promotions in California. As an amateur competitor, Duran has distinguished himself by being a six time winner of Grapplers Quest. In a memorable match, Duran fought Greg Guzman, hiding his injuries that included 2 torn ligaments in his right hand. In spite of the injuries, Duran still earned the victory. Later, in an interview, Duran voiced his confidence that were it", "id": "15069084" }, { "contents": "Boardwalk Hall\n\n\n, Oscar De La Hoya, Roberto Duran, Lennox Lewis, Roy Jones Jr., Floyd Mayweather Jr., Bernard Hopkins, Riddick Bowe, Julio César Chávez, Héctor Camacho, Micky Ward, and Arturo Gatti. In September 2007, it was the venue for the Kelly Pavlik – Jermain Taylor boxing match for the World Boxing Council, World Boxing Organization and \"The Ring\" magazine's middleweight championships. On December 12, 1965, the New York Ukrainians defeated Philadelphia Ukrainian Nationals 3-2 in the first regulation indoor soccer match", "id": "5560408" }, { "contents": "Phil Edwards (boxer)\n\n\nmember of the public who was attempting to take a kick at the new champion. Edward's very next fight after his title success was against Nigerian boxing legend Dick Tiger. Tiger was a one-time world middleweight and light-heavyweight world champion, and Edwards showed his class by lasting the full ten rounds, losing on points. After the Tiger fight, Edwards was back to winning ways, and was victorious in his first four fights of 1958, defeating Commonwealth title challenger Lew Lazar, Scotland's John Woolard, journeyman", "id": "19060017" }, { "contents": "Carl Thompson (boxer)\n\n\nin February 1993. In February 1994, Thompson traveled to Ferrara, Emilia Romagna, Italy and won the European title by defeating Massimiliano Duran by KO in eight rounds, and in his next bout knocked out France's Akim Tafer in six rounds at Epernay, Marne, France to retain his European title. After winning two mark-time fights, Thompson was matched against Ralf Rocchigiani in a bout for the vacant WBO cruiserweight title at the G-Mex Leisure Centre, Manchester in June 1995. Both fighters were knocked down in", "id": "14087508" }, { "contents": "Luis Federico Thompson\n\n\nLuis Federico Thompson (December 19, 1927 – January 8 , 2010) was a Panamanian Argentinian professional boxer. Thompson was born in Colon, Panama, later moved to Argentina, where he was nationalized and afterwards became the Argentine and South American boxing champion. Thompson debuted in 1947 with a fight against Wilfredo Brown in Panama City which ended in a draw. On October 7, 1951, he fought Wilfredo Brewster defeating him and winning the Panamanian Lightweight Title for the first time. Two months later, he fought Wilfredo Brown again", "id": "20078674" }, { "contents": "Jawaid Khaliq\n\n\nJawaid Khaliq, MBE (born 30 July 1970), is a British former professional boxer. A dual Pakistan national, he became the first British Asian boxing world champion, winning the International Boxing Organization (IBO) welterweight title and defending it for seven constructive bouts before retiring. During his boxing career he also held the Commonwealth welterweight title, World Boxing Federation Inter-Continental Light Middleweight Title, Midlands Area light middleweight title and Midlands Area welterweight title. He is the first Kashmiri world champion boxer. Khaliq took up boxing at", "id": "22058424" }, { "contents": "Omar Sheika\n\n\nOmar Sheika (born February 20, 1977) is an American former professional boxer and multiple time super middleweight world title challenger. He is of Palestinian descent. Sheika compiled a successful amateur career, capturing a National Middleweight Championship at National AAU Boxing Tournament in 1996. Sheika has enjoyed some success in his pro career. His first fight was against Billy James. Sheika won the fight by TKO on the second round. Sheika stayed undefeated for about a year. Sheika was involved in ESPN Friday Night Fights \"Fight of the Year", "id": "7826746" }, { "contents": "Roberto Durán\n\n\nchampion the moment Durán stepped into the ring to box Hearns. Durán again made history in the fight, but this time it was the wrong kind. Hearns dropped Durán twice in the first round and as he rose to his feet after the second knockdown, which ended the round, the former champion did not know where his corner was. Hearns went on to knock Duran down a third time in the second round and the fight was stopped, marking the first time in his career that Durán had been knocked out in a", "id": "16507029" }, { "contents": "Wally Swift\n\n\nJohnny Pritchett due to an eye injury. Swift beat Peter Sharpe in May 1966 in an eliminator to face Pritchett, winning on points. In February 1967 he faced Pritchett at the Nottingham Ice Stadium for the title, losing on points over fifteen rounds. In September 1967 Swift faced Sandro Mazzinghi for the European super welterweight title in Milan; The fight was stopped in the sixth round due to injuries to Swift. In March 1968 Swift challenged Juan Carlos Duran for the European middleweight title. Swift lost the fight after being disqualified in", "id": "6876166" }, { "contents": "Hands of Stone\n\n\nup in Panama, Durán is homeschooled by Chaflan, who teaches young Roberto some vital life lessons. Later, Duran joins a boxing club with Nestor \"Plomo\" Quiñones as his coach. As he reaches 20, an American legendary boxing trainer Ray Arcel, who nearly lost his life after being attacked by an unknown assailant in 1953 in New York City and is now living with his wife Stephanie, notices Roberto's raw talent and punching power and takes the young fighter under his wing, becoming his coach. Not long after", "id": "2732439" }, { "contents": "Larry Estridge\n\n\nLarry Estridge (born 17 June 1902, St. Kitts, British West Indies) was a middleweight boxer and the last holder of the World Colored Middleweight Championship. The 5'7\" middleweight fought out of New York City from 1922 to 1929, racking up a career record of 53 wins against 23 losses and two draws from 1922 to 1929. Estridge fought colored middleweight champion Panama Joe Gans for his title on July 26, 1924 at Yankee Stadium, defeating the champ via a unanimous decision in their 10-round bout. After scoring two victories", "id": "1295287" }, { "contents": "Lennox Blackmoore\n\n\nLennox Blackmoore (born July 10, 1950 in Georgetown, Guyana) is a Guyanese professional light/light welter/welter/light middle/middleweight boxer of the 1970s and '80s who won the Guyanese lightweight title, Guyanese light middleweight title, and Commonwealth lightweight title, and was a challenger for the World Boxing Association (WBA) World light welterweight title against Aaron Pryor, and World Boxing Council (WBC) FECARBOX light welterweight title against Antonio Cervantes, his professional fighting weight varied from , i.e. lightweight to , i.e. middleweight", "id": "2810858" }, { "contents": "Abraham Jacob Hollandersky\n\n\nand skill that he would act as a sparring partner to prepare Jack Dempsey for his September 1920 Heavyweight Title bout with Hall of Famer Billy Miske as well as Dempsey's earlier bout when he first took the Heavyweight Championship from Jess Willard in Toledo. The 5' 4\" welterweight Hollandersky lost to Panama Joe, the younger and stronger Panamanian Light and Middleweight champion, and the accomplished middleweight Connors of Scranton, Pennsylvania, who had a five-inch height advantage. But he gave a closer fight to the Seattle welterweight Ryan before", "id": "10244386" }, { "contents": "Tommy Freeman (boxer)\n\n\nbout was Thompson's first title defense. Freeman held the title until his rematch with Jack Thompson on April 14, 1931 again in Cleveland where he lost by TKO in the tenth of fifteen rounds. The bout was stopped due to Freeman's badly battered left eye. He had a long career as a boxer, and remained fighting as a super welterweight until around 1937. He fought for a year as a middleweight from 1937-8. Best known of his middleweight opponents was Al McCoy who he fought on July 2 and", "id": "18569618" }, { "contents": "Alex Ramos\n\n\n. Despite losing his next fight, against future world super middleweight champion Murray Sutherland by a ten-round decision, Ramos was by then held along with the highest ranked middleweights of the era, such as Mustafa Hamsho, Wilford Scypion, Juan Roldán, John Mugabi, Curtis Parker and others. After knocking out Wilbur Henderson in three rounds on February 8, 1984, in Atlantic City, Ramos challenged Parker for his first career title, the regional, United States Boxing Association Middleweight championship. He won the title by beating Parker", "id": "10746327" }, { "contents": "Ken Buchanan\n\n\nYork State Athletic Commission on 4 April 1973. The commission also warned Duran that his title recognition would be withdrawn. The New York State Athletic Commission had been attempting for two years (1972 - 1974) to get Duran to honor an agreement to fight Buchanan. But Duran refused to honor the contract to face Buchanan. In 1973, Buchanan started out by beating future world lightweight champion Jim Watt by a decision after 15 rounds, to regain the British lightweight title. Soon, he embarked on another international tour that included more", "id": "13762576" }, { "contents": "Guillermo Jones\n\n\nin Panama by first round Knockout. Now aligned with promoter Don King, Jones fought two light middleweight WBA world title bouts against Laurent Boudouani in 1998. He drew once and lost the rematch by split decision in 12 round contests. Jones fought his way through four weight classes. Later fighting as a cruiserweight in 2002, he fought Johnny Nelson for the WBO World cruiserweight title, drawing in 12 rounds in his third world title attempt. Most in attendance thought Jones had done enough to win the title from Nelson. After yet", "id": "9043210" }, { "contents": "Tony Ayala Jr.\n\n\n. The rehabilitation program kept him from having a $750,000 payday against Roberto Duran. With the Duran fight didn't happen, Ayala settled for about $150,000 to fight Argentinian Carlos Herrera. 'It doesn't bother me,' he said. 'I'm looking at it as a step closer to the world title. Davey Moore is going to have to meet me after this fight.' After defeating Carlos Herrera, November 20, 1982, he was scheduled to fight champion Davey Moore. By December 1983, Ayala", "id": "10919402" }, { "contents": "Noé González Alcoba\n\n\nNoé González Alcoba (born 12 May 1979) \"the coal-miner\" is an Uruguayan boxer and a former world title challenger. He fights in the super middleweight division, having boxed at middleweight previously. Having boxed mainly in Argentina and Uruguay for much of his early career, he managed to land a shot at the WBA World Middleweight title after only 14 fights, challenging the then world champion Felix Sturm in Germany. The German proved too classy however and won the fight by a wide points decision, earning Alcoba his", "id": "20636614" }, { "contents": "Vicente Mosquera\n\n\nVicente Eduardo Mosquera Mena (born December 9, 1979 in Panama City, Panama) is a Panamanian professional boxer. He is a former World Boxing Association (WBA) super-featherweight champion. On April 30, 2005 he defeated Yodsanan Sor Nanthachai (Yodsanan 3-K Battery) for the WBA world championship title, by a unanimous decision. The official scorers saw it 118-108, 116-111, 115-112. In the fight, Nanthachai was knocked down three times (in the first, third, and eleventh", "id": "7687336" }, { "contents": "Iran Barkley\n\n\nof the Year by \"Ring\" magazine. Following the defeat to Duran, Barkley took on undefeated Michael Nunn for the IBF and lineal middleweight titles, dropping a close majority decision. He next fought Nigel Benn in a challenge for the WBO middleweight title and was stopped on the three-knockdown rule at the end of a wild first round in which both fighters were hurt. After losing to Benn, Barkley underwent surgery for a detached retina and was inactive for a year. Barkley returned with two low-key wins at", "id": "8203381" }, { "contents": "Abraham Jacob Hollandersky\n\n\nSox Scandal, the event brought to the forefront the corruption of American sports as it approached the roaring 20's. Abe met Attell in four three round exhibition matches at Empire Theatre while Attell was giving speaking performances in New London near the end of his boxing career. Abe claimed to have fought what was likely a sparring match with Canadian Heavyweight champion Arthur Pelkey, who was a Panamanian national heavyweight title contender in February 1917 at Panama's Santa Anna Plaza against Kid Norfolk, during the same period Abe was fighting bouts at the", "id": "10244396" }, { "contents": "Shane Mosley\n\n\n23-6, 14 KOs) at the Roberto Durán Arena in Panama City, Panama for the WBA Continental super welterweight title on December 17, in a scheduled 10 round bout. Both boxers came in at around the welterweight limit, with Mosley slightly heavier and López fighting for the first time in 13 months. López was knocked down in the 2nd round following a left hook and a further three times in the last round, which put an end to the fight. Mosley improved his ledger to 49 victories, with 41", "id": "18757243" }, { "contents": "Dick Turpin (boxer)\n\n\nchampion. In his next bout, on 28 June 1948, Turpin fought Vince Hawkins for his British middleweight title. The fight was held at Villa Park, Birmingham and Turpin won on points over fifteen rounds. He now held both the British and Commonwealth middleweight titles. During late 1948 and early 1949, Turpin fought European boxers, drawing and then losing on points against Tiberio Mitri, of Italy, then being knocked out in seven rounds in a non-title fight against the then world middleweight champion, Marcel Cerdan, of", "id": "19946190" }, { "contents": "Juan Guzman (boxer)\n\n\nat San Juan, Puerto Rico, the Vargas one at Coliseo Roberto Clemente. By then he was a top-ten ranked Junior Flyweight by the World Boxing Association. WBA world Junior Flyweight champion Jaime Rios of Panama was 18–1–1 when he came to the Dominican Republic to defend his title against local Guzman during June 1976. Their fight took place on July 2, at Santo Domingo. It was a close fight through 15 rounds, not much stylistically separating champion and challenger. At the end, however, Guzman was deemed winner", "id": "7404136" }, { "contents": "BC Golden Gloves\n\n\nJuly 1975, Lampkin was the number one contender for the lightweight title held by Panama boxer Roberto Duran. The tournament took place in January 1984 in Burnaby at the Boxing BC Training centre that would also be used as a training camp for the 1984 and 1988 Canadian Olympic boxing teams At the end of the tournament the Golden Boy for 1984 was boxer Michael O'Connell and the runner-up was Joe Pendry, and the best youth boxer was Deep Butter. Bert Lowes, Fred Fuller, Rudy Bianco, Sid Knopp Vic Murdoch,", "id": "20462754" }, { "contents": "Gunnar Jackson\n\n\nGunnar Jackson (born 6 July 1986, Wainuiomata, Lower Hutt, New Zealand) is a New Zealand professional middleweight and Super Welterweight boxer. Jackson has had over thirty fights and has achieved four boxing titles, and has a highest position on the World Boxing Organisation rankings of 10th. Jackson fought the biggest fight of his career in January 2014 against four-time world champion Anthony Mundine. Jackson lost by unanimous points decision. Jackson fought Kerry Hope in June 2015. Hope was originally scheduled to fight Michael Zerafa for the Interim", "id": "1347008" }, { "contents": "Davey Moore (boxer, born 1959)\n\n\nyears in prison. Next, Moore defended against former two-division world champion Roberto Durán. Moore appeared to be overconfident against an aging 'Hands of Stone' Duran but Duran totally outclassed him and dished out vicious punishment, hammering shut one of Moore's eyes and stopping him in eight brutal rounds at Madison Square Garden. The beating was so one-sided that Moore's mother and girlfriend were both said to have fainted at ringside. Many knowledgeable observers believed that referee Ernesto Magana should have stopped the fight far earlier.", "id": "6112527" } ]

[ { "contents": "Ossie Duran\n\n\nOssie \"The Ghanaian Gladiator\" Duran (born 23 April 1977 in Accra) is a Ghanaian professional boxer, whose career has spanned over 3 decades (1990's/2000's/2010's). He has won the Ghanaian lightweight title, World Boxing Federation (WBF) Pan-European welterweight title, WBF European Welterweight Title, United States Boxing Association (USBA) Atlantic Coast Region middleweight title, Commonwealth welterweight title, and Commonwealth light middleweight title, drew with Eromosele Albert for the vacant International Boxing Federation (IBF) Continental Africa light middleweight title,", "id": "5080778" }, { "contents": "Tom Bogs\n\n\nwins and one draw. He suffered his first defeat against the former world welterweight and middleweight champion Emile Griffith in a non-title fight in June 1970. Bogs won the European light-heavyweight title in 1968 when he stopped German champion Lothar Stengel in the first round of the bout. He successfully defended the title against Piero Del Papa before moving down to the middleweight division for a title match against European champion Carlos Duran. Bogs defeated Duran and went on to successfully defend his middleweight title three times before losing a rematch to", "id": "19397152" }, { "contents": "Angel Robinson Garcia\n\n\nand International Boxing Hall of Fame member Roberto Duran at the Gimnasio Nuevo Panama-now Gimnasio Roberto Duran-at Panama City. Robinson Garcia gave Duran a relatively close fight but still lost by unanimous ten-round decision with scores of 99-93, 98-94 and 98-96, all in favor of the Panamanian. Robinson Garcia went 1-4 the rest of that year, facing, among others, Esteban De Jesus in San Juan, Puerto Rico, to whom he dropped a ten-round decision on", "id": "1307045" }, { "contents": "Josue Marquez\n\n\n15 round distance with Roberto Duran in a world title attempt; completing a total of 25 rounds against Duran divided in two fights without getting knocked out by the Panamanian. Viruet knocked Marquez out in round ten on April 8, 1978 at the Juan Ramon Loubriel stadium in San Juan, after which Marquez decided to retire from professional boxing. Marquez won 32, losing 12 and tying 2 of his 46 professional boxing fights, winning 7 and losing 2 of those by knockout. Marquez turned to training professional boxers for a while after", "id": "17936127" }, { "contents": "Roberto Durán\n\n\n(fighting for the minor International Boxing Council (IBC) belt). Durán fought Vinny Pazienza in 1994 and 1995 for the IBC Super Middleweight Championship and was defeated both times by unanimous decision, but many people felt Duran clearly won the first bout and he was robbed of the victory. In 1996, he was challenged by Héctor Camacho for the vacant IBC Middleweight Championship but lost by a very controversial unanimous decision. In 1997, Durán was defeated by former champion Jorge Castro. Durán fought Castro in a rematch bout and won", "id": "16507032" }, { "contents": "Hector Thompson\n\n\nHector Thompson (born 24 June 1949 in Kempsey, New South Wales) is an Indigenous Australian professional boxer who competed in four different weight divisions, Lightweight, Super lightweight, Welterweight and Junior middleweight during the 1970s and 80s. In 1973 he beat Joe Tetteh for the Commonwealth (British Empire) Super Lightweight Title, earning a shot at Roberto Duran in 1973 for the World Boxing Association World lightweight but lost by TKO. After capturing the Commonwealth title again in 1975, later that year he would go on to challenge Antonio Cervantes", "id": "5995492" }, { "contents": "José Durán (boxer)\n\n\non October 8, 1976. Duran, fighting in his home city of Madrid, was knocked down in the third round by a left hand to the jaw. Although Duran rose from the canvas, he was outworked by the faster challenger and lost his title via a split decision in a fight where both boxers finished with bloody faces. In his final fight Duran challenged the Italian-Australian champion Rocky Mattioli for the WBC Light Middleweight title. The result was never in doubt, as Mattioli knocked Duran down in the second,", "id": "13817397" }, { "contents": "Goody Petronelli\n\n\n, who had earlier won the title from Antuofermo. Hagler bloodied Minter early, winning on a third-round TKO. The Petronellis would guide Hagler through 12 successful world title defenses over 7 years, including celebrated bouts against Roberto Duran and Thomas Hearns, before he lost to Sugar Ray Leonard in another controversial judges' decision, a split verdict in Leonard's favor. It turned out to be Hagler's final fight. Petronelli trained others who would fight in world title bouts: World Boxing Organization super middleweight champion Steve Collins;", "id": "13838256" }, { "contents": "Andres Hernández\n\n\nstreak came to an end when he traveled to Panama to fight world-ranked Gilberto Illueca, and dropped a ten round unanimous decision. Hernandez then started another streak of wins, this time reaching eight consecutive victories before facing another up-and-coming Puerto Rican bantamweight, Wilfredo Gomez. The pair met on Saturday, December 20, 1975 at Roberto Clemente Coliseum in San Juan as part of a boxing program that included fights of Julian Solis, Larry Holmes and Roberto Duran defending his world Lightweight title in the main event against", "id": "7680623" }, { "contents": "Panama Joe Gans\n\n\naspects of boxing by partaking in bouts organized by his classmates. Under the guidance of H.R. Cambridge, a local Panamanian business manager, and real estate developer, Quinton adopted his ring name, and became a successful boxer in the Canal Zone where he fought his first thirty fights with considerable success. On October 10, 1915, Panama Joe first won the Lightweight Championship of Panama at only eighteen against Young Sam Langford at the Pacific Theatre in Panama City in a twenty-round points decision. He later took the Middleweight Championship of", "id": "1295301" }, { "contents": "Roberto Durán\n\n\ndecision. The bout was named the 1989 \"Fight of the Year\" by \"The Ring\". His reign was short lived once again as Duran moved up to super middleweight (although both fighters weighed in at the middleweight limit) for a third clash with Sugar Ray Leonard in December 1989 (a fight dubbed \"Uno Más\"—One More—by promoters), which Leonard won by wide unanimous decision. Durán seemed to be in decline after the fight, he attempted to win further middleweight titles in 1994, 1995 and 1996", "id": "16507031" }, { "contents": "José Durán (boxer)\n\n\nat winning the world title. He travelled to Monaco to fight Miguel de Oliveira for the vacant WBC Light Middleweight title. de Oliveira, a native of Brazil, won the title via an unanimous decision after a bloody battle which lasted the full fifteen rounds. In his next fight Duran lost his EBU title in Germany to Eckhard Dagge, a man Duran had previously beaten by a technical knockout in the eleventh round. On this occasion, however, it was Dagge who scored the knockout, with the fight being stopped in the", "id": "13817395" }, { "contents": "José Durán (boxer)\n\n\nby scoring a knockout over Ben Hamida in the third round. After winning 22 consecutive bouts Duran suffered his first defeat, losing to Jean Josselin via an eight round decision on June 22, 1970. Duran was able to avenge this defeat on May 21, 1971, once again the fight went the eight round distance although Duran won the decision on this occasion. Duran won his first championship on June 7, 1974 by beating Jacques Kechichian and thus winning the EBU title. On May 7, 1975 Duran made his first attempt", "id": "13817394" }, { "contents": "Roberto Durán\n\n\nfight (the \"No Más\" fight was officially recorded as a technical knockout, because Duran quit). Durán did not contend another title fight until 1989, but made the shot count when he won the WBC Middleweight title from Iran Barkley in February. The fight is considered one of Durán's greatest achievements, as the 37-year-old former lightweight champion took the middleweight crown, his fourth title. In a tough, back-and-forth fight, Durán knocked Barkley down in the eleventh round and won a close", "id": "16507030" }, { "contents": "José Durán (boxer)\n\n\nninth round. Duran once again challenged for the world title on May 18, 1976. On this occasion Duran travelled to Tokyo, Japan to successfully challenge Koichi Wajima for the Lineal and WBA light middleweight titles. Duran started the fight well by opening a large cut on the champion's forehead and knocking him down in the second round. Wajima was knocked down once again in the thirteenth round before the fight was finally stopped in the fourteenth. Duran lost his title in his first defence, against the Argentine challenger Miguel Angel Castellini", "id": "13817396" }, { "contents": "José Durán (boxer)\n\n\nJosé Manuel Durán Pérez, popularly known as \"Pepe Durán\" (born October 9, 1945 in Madrid, Spain) is a former Spanish professional boxer. During his eleven-year professional career Duran held the Lineal and WBA light middleweight titles. He challenged for the WBC version of the title and held the EBU title. He also competed in the men's welterweight event at the 1968 Summer Olympics. Duran made his professional debut on November 30, 1967 in Barcelona, Spain. Duran made a victorious start to his career", "id": "13817393" }, { "contents": "Edwin Rosario\n\n\nopponent had boxed 25 rounds against Roberto Duran-including a world lightweight championship bout-without being knocked out. Rosario eventually gained a record of 21–0 with 20 knockouts. This led to talks of a title fight against World Boxing Council (WBC) lightweight champion Alexis Argüello, to be held in Miami. But Argüello relinquished the title in order to move up in weight to challenge junior welterweight champion Aaron Pryor. With Arguello moving divisions, Rosario was matched with Mexico's José Luis Ramírez on May 1, 1983 for the vacant", "id": "5267805" }, { "contents": "Ken Buchanan\n\n\nwin over Chang Kil Lee on 4 December 1972. On 28 June 1972, Roberto Duran signed to defend it against Buchanan on 20 October 1972. However, Duran broke that agreement when the Panamanian Government insisted he made his first defense in Panama. He did, knocking out Jimmy Robertson on 20 January 1973. Duran also had signed a second contract with the MSG on 25 October 1972, to defend against Buchanan on or before 30 June 1973. But Duran broke that agreement again. Duran had his license suspended by the New", "id": "13762575" }, { "contents": "Koichi Wajima\n\n\nhis Lineal and WBA light middleweight titles as well. However, he regained his Lineal and WBA titles in February, 1976, with a 15th round KO over Yuh. Wajima lost to Jose Manuel Duran in his first defense, losing the world title for the third time in his career. He fought his final match In June, 1977, challenging Eddie Gazo for the WBA super welterweight title, but lost by 11th round KO. This was the last fight of his career. His record was 31-6-1 (", "id": "20508599" }, { "contents": "Wilfredo Gómez\n\n\ndirected by Mario Diaz and was filmed in New York City. Gómez has three daughters Jennifer, Gina and Liz Irina and one son Wilfredo Junior. He is good friends with Panamanian boxing legend Roberto Duran. Gómez was once married to Carolina Gamboa. On April 17, 2015, Gómez was arrested by Puerto Rican police after allegedly hitting his 59-year-old companion, a lady with whom he had been living for ten months. He was released after she refused to raise charges against him. British boxer Michael Gomez adapted his last", "id": "3553965" }, { "contents": "Caleb Truax\n\n\nRichardson, and James Crayton. His professional loss came to former undisputed middleweight world champion Jermain Taylor (Truax knocked Taylor down in the 9th round.) Truax drew Ossie Duran in a 10-round non-title bout at the Target Center in Minneapolis. The bout was part of an eight-fight card promoted by Mike Tyson's new company, Iron Mike Productions. Mike Tyson was in attendance at the event, and said of Truax, \"I hear he is exciting and he is something that we need for boxing, he", "id": "16222269" }, { "contents": "Massimiliano Duran\n\n\nMassimiliano Duran (born November 3, 1963 in Ferrara, Italy) is a former Italian professional boxer who held the Cruiser WBC title and the European championship between 1990 and 1991. He is also known for being the only fighter in boxing history to earn a shot at, win, and defend a world title with three consecutive disqualification wins. Duran was born in Ferrara. His father was the Argentine-Italian boxer Juan Carlos Duran; his brother, the Italian boxer Alessandro Duran. Duran turned pro in 1986 when he defeated", "id": "13303578" }, { "contents": "Marvelous Marvin Hagler\n\n\na staple on HBO, the Pay Per View of its time. A fight against Roberto Durán followed. Durán was the first challenger to last the distance with Hagler in a world-championship bout. Durán was the WBA Light Middleweight Champion and went up in weight to challenge for Hagler's middleweight crown. Hagler won a unanimous 15-round decision, although after 13 rounds, Duran was ahead by one point on two scorecards and even on the third. Hagler, with his left eye swollen and cut, came on strong in the", "id": "4940319" }, { "contents": "Vinny Paz\n\n\nSantana fight, Pazienza went on to defeat Brett Lally by a 6th-round TKO, and then, in another TKO, former world champion Lloyd Honeyghan in the 10th round. Pazienza went on to win the vacant IBO middleweight world title in 1993 with an 11th-round KO over Dan Sherry. Pazienza then went on to beat Roberto Duran twice, both via decision, with the IBC super middleweight title on the line both times. In June 1995, Pazienza lost his world title bid against IBF world super middleweight champion Roy", "id": "12129878" }, { "contents": "Juan Carlos Giménez Ferreyra\n\n\nJuan Carlos Giménez Ferreyra (born 20 December 1960) is a Paraguayan boxer. During his career he was WBC International light heavyweight champion and unsuccessfully fought for the World Super Middleweight title four times, first against Mauro Galvano in 1992, then against Chris Eubank the same year, against Nigel Benn in 1994 and finally against Joe Calzaghe in 1998, losing via knockout. During his career he went the distance with Nigel Benn, Chris Eubank and Roberto Duran. Gimenez last fought in 2010, winning the Paraguayan Cruiserweight title against Nicasio Moray", "id": "17951209" }, { "contents": "Massimiliano Duran\n\n\nMomo Cupelic. The win earned him the nickname \"Momo\". Duran's first defeat came by the hand of Ndomingiedi Lusikina. This would be the beginning of a long-standing rivalry, that will result in the two boxers fighting five times. In 1990 Duran won the WBC Cruiserweight Title by defeating Carlos De León, when De León was disqualified for hitting after the bell to end the 11th round. Duran was leading on the cards. His first defence was against Anaclet Wamba. Duran won by DQ after Wamba had", "id": "13303579" }, { "contents": "Héctor Camacho\n\n\namateur career, Camacho won three New York Golden Gloves tournaments, beginning with the Sub-Novice 112 lbs championship in 1978. During his professional career, Camacho had many notable fights against some of the biggest names in boxing, defeating Roberto Durán twice late in Duran's career, and knocking out Sugar Ray Leonard to send him into permanent retirement. He also fought Julio César Chávez, Félix Trinidad, and Oscar De La Hoya, among others. During his later years, Camacho expanded his popular role and appeared on a variety", "id": "5327031" }, { "contents": "Eckhard Dagge\n\n\n. He would later embark on an amateur career, in which he won 66 out of 80 bouts, before falling short of making the 1972 Olympic Team. Dagge would win the German Middleweight title, in his 6th bout. Dagge would follow up with wins over notable, but faded fighters Denny Moyer and Manuel González. In 1974, Dagge challenged Jose Manuel Duran for the European Light Middleweight title, losing by 11th-round TKO. He came back the next year however, and stopped Duran in the 9th round, to", "id": "18853804" }, { "contents": "Antonio Cervantes\n\n\nLightweight champion Roberto Durán, who was coming up in weight. Duran decided to challenge Sugar Ray Leonard instead, however, and Cervantes vs. Duran never materialized. On August 2, 1980, Cervantes dropped his next title challenger, Aaron Pryor, to the canvas in the first round. Pryor recovered, however, and beat Cervantes by a knockout in round four. This turned out to be Cervantes' last world title fight. He fought two times more for the FECARBOX WBC title, winning both fights shortly before retiring in 1980", "id": "11465736" }, { "contents": "USA Tuesday Night Fights\n\n\nfighter by fighting several four rounders on \"Tuesday Night Fights\". Roberto Duran was another fixture on \"Tuesday Night Fights\" later in his career, and his 100th professional bout was carried by USA. \"Tuesday Night Fights\" also showcased the bizarre from time to time. Among these was a fight from former pro football star Mark Gastineau's controversial boxing career which saw him lose to a journeyman fighter, Andrew Golota's infamous fight against Samson Po'uha in 1995 which saw the Polish fighter, who appeared frequently on \"Tuesday", "id": "5898536" }, { "contents": "Jacques LeBlanc\n\n\n22 wins, 4 losses and 2 draws when he fought WBC Middleweight Champion Roberto Durán on June 29, 1993. LeBlanc was billed as a severe underdog but lasted the full 10 rounds with Duran, losing on points. LeBlanc fought the undefeated Richie Woodhall in October 1994 for the Commonwealth Middleweight crown but again lost on points. He continued boxing until 1997, but winning again only once. In 2010, Jacques was inducted into the City of Moncton Wall of Fame . He currently holds the record for most matches without being knocked", "id": "3179570" }, { "contents": "Andy Lee (boxer)\n\n\nResort Casino in Mashantucket, Connecticut, and won via technical knockout at 0:56 in the 10th round. He avenged his loss to Brian Vera on 1 October 2011 by unanimous decision. On 10 March 2012, Lee Knocked out Mexico's Saul Duran in the 2nd round of a stay busy fight. On 16 June 2012, Lee challenged undefeated Titleholder Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. for the WBC World Middleweight Title in the Sun Bowl Stadium in El Paso, Texas televised on HBO World Championship Boxing. Lee got off to a good start,", "id": "15093101" }, { "contents": "Joe Cortez\n\n\ntook on the responsibility to referee some major Championship fights. During this time he was the third man in the ring in several professional Mike Tyson and Roberto Duran fights. As eminent referees Richard Steele and Mills Lane retired at the dawn of the 21st century, Cortez became one of Nevada and New York's preferred boxing referees for world title fights. He has refereed over 170 world title bouts, among which figure the first Oscar De La Hoya-Julio César Chávez meeting, Evander Holyfield and Riddick Bowe's first title fight and", "id": "18491003" }, { "contents": "Reuben Duran\n\n\nnot for the injury, he would have gotten a stoppage. Duran would support his bold statement in his next fight as he claimed a victory over Ryan Diaz via KO with only 3 seconds left in the fight. In subsequent bouts, Duran submitted both Kana Hyatt and Maurice Eazel in the first round. Duran signed with the UFC in early 2011 and made his debut at UFC on Versus 3 against Takeya Mizugaki, replacing an injured Francisco Rivera. Duran lost the fight via close split decision. Duran faced Francisco Rivera on June", "id": "15069085" }, { "contents": "Héctor Camacho\n\n\n. Before this fight, Camacho was trained by Angelo Dundee. His last two fights resulted in a draw and a loss, against Luis Ramón Campas and Saúl Duran, respectively. His last fight against Duran was on May 14, 2010. On January 6, 2005, Camacho was arrested by police in Gulfport, Mississippi on charges of trying to burgle an electronic goods store and carrying the drug ecstasy on him. In 2007, he declared himself guilty of being under the influence at the time of the burglary. He was", "id": "5327048" }, { "contents": "Jack Blackburn\n\n\nhad a slight advantage in height and reach. Blackburn fought the Barbados-born boxer Panama Joe Gans, who had boxed extensively in Panama where he lived prior to 1917. Panama Joe held the World Colored Middleweight Championship from 1920 to 1924, and held a Panamanian Lightweight Title in his youth. On July 24, 1922, Blackburn lost one of his last bouts to Gans in Indianapolis, Indiana, in a fourth-round technical knockout of a scheduled ten round bout. Panama Joe was a formidable boxer and fourteen years younger", "id": "10094030" }, { "contents": "Vinny Paz\n\n\nHector \"Macho\" Camacho and WBA World Champion Loreto Garza. In 1991, Pazienza moved into the junior middleweight division. In his first fight at junior middleweight, he won the USBA championship against Ron Amundsen in a 12-round decision. He defeated the WBA world jr. middleweight champion Gilbert Delé with a 12th-round TKO in Providence, becoming the second fighter in boxing history to win both the lightweight and junior middleweight world championships. Pazienza was forced to relinquish the title due to a serious car accident in which his neck was", "id": "12129876" }, { "contents": "Roberto Durán\n\n\nvia unanimous decision. In 1998, at the age of 47, he challenged 28-year-old WBA Middleweight Champion William Joppy. Joppy, a trim, quick-fisted fighter, battered Durán to defeat in just 3 rounds. It was Duran's most emphatic loss since the Hearns fight, over a decade earlier. Durán then announced his retirement in August 1998, but was back fighting in 1999. In June 2000, Durán avenged a previous loss to Pat Lawlor and won the NBA Super Middleweight Championship on his 49th birthday.", "id": "16507033" }, { "contents": "Roberto Vásquez\n\n\nRoberto Gaspar Vásquez Ramirez (born May 26, 1983 in Panama City) is a Panamanian professional boxer who held the WBA light flyweight title from 2005 to 2006. He also held the WBA flyweight interim title from 2006 to 2007. Vásquez lost in his professional boxing debut against Angelo Dottin on March 17, 2001. The four-round fight occurred in Dottin's hometown of Colón, Panama. Despite Vásquez's cutting Dottin's right cheek in the first round, all three judges scored the bout 39-38 for Dottin.", "id": "15594966" }, { "contents": "Roberto Durán\n\n\nwith an incredible 71–1 record. On June 20, 1980, Durán captured the WBC Welterweight title by defeating Leonard via a 15-round unanimous decision (145–144, 148–147, 146–144). The fight became known as \"The Brawl in Montreal\". After defeating Leonard in Montreal, Duran gained iconic status in his home country, Panama. Leonard initiated the rematch clause and asked for the fight to be the following November. In their second fight, Leonard successfully changed his tactics, using more footwork and movement than he had in their", "id": "16507022" }, { "contents": "Roberto Durán\n\n\nfirst fight, and Duran was unable to get Leonard against the ropes. During the seventh round, after Leonard had gained a slight lead on the scorecards, he began taunting and mocking Duran. Halfway into the eighth round, Duran suddenly stopped fighting, repeatedly saying, \"No más\" (\"no more\"). In a 2016 interview, Duran claimed that what he actually said was, \"No Sigo\" (\"I won't go on\"). He took some time to recover from that fight and", "id": "16507023" }, { "contents": "Kirkland Laing\n\n\n. Laing's boxing career was sporadic, as he often failed to deliver on his promise, appearing under-prepared against less able fighters and indulging in drink, drugs and women. In the year following his victory over Duran, Laing went missing, blowing his earnings. In that same period Duran was to fight four times, earning an estimated $6m. Laing continued to fight until he was 40, and retired after a stoppage loss to future world champion Glen Catley. After retiring, Laing continue to live in", "id": "8014673" }, { "contents": "Jimmy Batten\n\n\nThomas stopped him in the ninth round to take the title. Batten won his next five fights before losing on points in May 1981 to Chris Christian. He then travelled to the United States, where he was based in Chicago for almost two years; There he had a series of fights starting with two easy wins before he was stopped in the first round in May 1982 by Mario Maldonado. He beat Jeff Madison in September before facing Roberto Duran in November 1982 at the Miami Orange Bowl; Duran took a unanimous decision,", "id": "22189495" }, { "contents": "Ray Lampkin\n\n\nRay Lampkin (born 1948 in Portland, Oregon) is a retired professional boxer who lost the 1975 World Boxing Association (WBA) lightweight title fight against Roberto Durán in Panama. He won the North American Boxing Federation lightweight title fight but later lost it against Esteban de Jesús at the Felt Forum in New York City. He finished his career with a total of 34 wins (16 by knock out), six losses (two by knock out) and one draw. Lampkin was inducted into the Oregon Sports Hall of Fame", "id": "279465" }, { "contents": "Roberto Durán\n\n\nthe end of the seventh. Finally the fight was stopped in the eighth round as Moore was taking such a horrific beating and Durán won his third world title. After the victory, Durán was hoisted up in the air as the crowd sang \"Happy Birthday\" to a sobbing Durán. Durán later fought for the World Middleweight Championship, meeting Marvelous Marvin Hagler in Las Vegas in November 1983, during the fight Duran broke his hand and lost in a very competitive fight that went the full fifteen rounds, although after 12 rounds", "id": "16507027" }, { "contents": "Harold Reitman\n\n\nprofessional record of 7-1-1, Reitman fought a three-round charity exhibition match against the five-time world champion Roberto Duran at the Hollywood Diplomat Hotel in Miami Beach. On November 11, 1991, Reitman fought heavyweight Tim Anderson for the NBA Independent Cruiserweight title in a televised fight. Though Reitman scored two 9th round knockdowns, the fight ended in a draw. In March 1992, Reitman was the 12th ranked Heavyweight boxer in the world according to the International Boxing Council. On December 12, 1995,", "id": "9844517" }, { "contents": "Jeffrey Mathebula\n\n\nlost to Celestino Caballero. Hence, Mathebula fought against Caballero for the WBA Super World and IBF World super bantamweight title. However, he lost his first world title shot against Caballero via a split decision at the Roberto Duran Arena in Panama on 30 April 2009. After losing to Takalani Ndlovu via a split decision in an IBF junior featherweight title eliminator in Brakpan, Gauteng in September 2010, Mathebula defeated Ndlovu via a split decision in their rematch in Brakpan to be crowned the IBF junior featherweight champion. It was the SABC-", "id": "16997776" }, { "contents": "Angel Robinson Garcia\n\n\nhim fight 12 times, including a September 10 loss by ten-round decision to future WBC world Lightweight-and Spain's second-Champion Pedro Carrasco at the Basque Country and a December 30 defeat at the hands of 19-2-4 Chris Fernandez by ten-round decision also. Robinson Garcia contested 17 bouts in 1970. These included an August 21 match with Jose Duran, won by Duran by ten rounds decision at Madrid and a November 20 bout with French Roger Menetrey which Menetrey won by ten-round decision", "id": "1307042" }, { "contents": "Sugar Ray Leonard vs. Thomas Hearns\n\n\nSugar Ray Leonard and Thomas Hearns are considered to be two of the best boxers of all-time. They fought twice, with Leonard winning in 1981 and a draw in 1989. Both fights are considered to be classics. Sugar Ray Leonard won the WBC welterweight title with a fifteenth-round knockout of Wilfred Benítez in 1979. He lost it to Roberto Durán by a close decision in June 1980 and regained it five months later in the infamous No Más Fight, in which Duran quit in the eighth round. In June", "id": "20124047" }, { "contents": "Brandon Gonzáles\n\n\nOlympic Team in 2004 he withdrew to begin his professional career in 2007. While boxing as an amateur he worked as a janitor at Arco Arena.. On January 29, 2010 Gonzales won a fight against veteran Dumont Welliver by T.K.O., the fight was on the undercard of ESPN's Friday Night Fights. He maintained an unblemished streak of 17 wins until his bout with Thomas Oosthuizen that resulted in a draw. On October 28, 2011 he defeated Ossie Duran in the Main Event on Showtime's ShoBox at Bally's in Atlantic City", "id": "18287532" }, { "contents": "Miguel Ángel Castellini\n\n\nManuel Duran, in front of a sell out crowd of 12,000. Duran, who was making the first defence of his title, was knocked down in the third round by a left hand to the jaw. Although the champion rose from the canvas, he was outworked by the faster challenger and lost his title via a split decision in a fight where both boxers finished with bloody faces. Castellini's championship reign only lasted one fight as he lost it in his first defence to Eddie Gazo on March 5, 1977. Gazo", "id": "13522966" }, { "contents": "Hilario Zapata\n\n\nwas knocked out in the first round by the WBC world Jr. Bantamweight champion Sung-Kil Moon. A win against Moon would have made Zapata a member of the exclusive group of world boxing champions in three different weight categories or more. It can also be added that Zapata's first pair of boxing gloves, when he was 12, came as a present from Duran himself. Panamanian newspaper \"El Panama America\" declared on one of their editorials that Zapata, according to their opinion, should be inducted to the International Boxing", "id": "9857520" }, { "contents": "Panama Joe Gans\n\n\nPanama Joe Gans was a black boxer who held the World Colored Middleweight Championship for four years, shortly before it was discontinued. Born Cyril Quinton Jr. on November 14, 1896 in Barbados, British West Indies and raised in the Panama Canal Zone, the 5'7\" Quinton originally fought out of Panama and then New York City. He took his ringname from boxing great Joe Gans, the first black American fighter to win a world boxing title. He found his greatest fame fighting as a middleweight at between 147 and 160 lbs,", "id": "1295299" }, { "contents": "Panama Lewis\n\n\nCarlos \"Panama\" Lewis (born November 4, 1945) is an American boxing trainer. He was convicted of tampering with the gloves of Luis Resto in the Resto vs \"Irish\" Billy Collins fight of 1983, which subsequently led to the end of Collins' boxing career. Collins suffered from depression and possibly committed suicide following the tragic assault. Lewis was a disciple of trainer Chickie Ferrara. He was Roberto Durán's cornerman when Duran lost a unanimous decision against Wilfred Benitez in 1982. During the early 1980s, he", "id": "11205984" }, { "contents": "Pernell Whitaker\n\n\nfight, he basically faced no real trouble against Vásquez in route to the win. This was a history making fight for Whitaker, as he became only the fourth fighter in history - joining Thomas Hearns, Sugar Ray Leonard, and Roberto Duran - to have won a legitimate world title in four different weight classes. However, he chose to move back to welterweight. Whitaker successfully defended his WBC belt against Scotland's Gary Jacobs on August 26, 1995. In January, 1997, Whitaker put his title on the line against", "id": "20971754" }, { "contents": "Carlos Palomino\n\n\nundercard. Palomino lost to Duran by decision in ten rounds, and he announced his retirement from boxing right away. Palomino began his comeback on January 10, 1997, beating Ismaél Díaz by a knockout in round nine. He won four fights that year, including one over former world champion Rene Arredondo, but when he lost by decision in ten to former Oscar De La Hoya world title challenger Wilfredo Rivera on May 30, 1998, he decided to retire for good, and has stayed in retirement ever since. In 1978", "id": "12841764" }, { "contents": "Roberto Durán\n\n\nRoberto Durán Samaniego (born June 16, 1951) is a Panamanian former professional boxer who competed from 1968 to 2001. He held world championships in four weight classes: lightweight, welterweight, light middleweight and middleweight, as well as reigns as the undisputed and lineal lightweight champion, and the lineal welterweight champion. He is also the second boxer to have competed over a span of five decades, the first being Jack Johnson. Durán was known as a versatile, technical brawler and pressure fighter, which earned him the nickname of", "id": "16507013" }, { "contents": "Joshua Clottey\n\n\nwelterweight title in his next fight. He then rolled off a 10 fight winning streak highlighted by his first win on American soil and capture of several minor welterweight and middleweight titles. The streak culminated in an IBF intercontinental welterweight title. On December 2, 2006, Clottey earned his first shot at a world title but broke his hand in the fourth round of his fight against World Boxing Organization champion Antonio Margarito. That bout against Margarito has since come under controversial suspicion following news reports (released after Margarito's fight with Shane Mosley", "id": "11102893" }, { "contents": "Aaron Pryor\n\n\nten years in prison after he was convicted of 29 counts of fraud and embezzlement. Pryor was then offered $750,000 to fight Roberto Duran in April 1981, but Pryor turned it down because his new attorney told him not to sign anything until he worked out a new contract with manager Buddy LaRosa. By the time they worked out a new agreement, the chance to fight Duran was gone. On June 27, 1981, Pryor knocked out Lennox Blackmore in the second round. He then defended the title against undefeated Dujuan Johnson", "id": "8987862" }, { "contents": "Roberto Durán\n\n\nChorrillo in the district \"La Casa de Piedra\" (The House of Stone) Panama. He began sparring with experienced boxers at the Neco de La Guardia gymnasium when he was only eight years old. Durán competed as an amateur compiling a record of 13–3. Having 16 amateur fights under his belt, he made his professional debut in 1968 at the age of 16. Duran won his first 31 consecutive fights, and scored knockout victories over future Featherweight Champion Ernesto Marcel and former Super Featherweight Champion Hiroshi Kobayashi, culminating in his", "id": "16507016" }, { "contents": "Wilfredo Gómez\n\n\nOn May 18, 2003, Gómez returned to Panama, where he was received by Duran and Eusebio Pedroza, among others. In a message geared towards Panamanians, he expressed thanks to that country, calling it his second country and saying, among other things \"I'm very motivated now that I will return to Puerto Rico, and no one should be surprised if I buy an apartment in Panama and move my family here\". However, he bought a house in Orlando, Florida in 2006. Gómez had a record", "id": "3553963" }, { "contents": "Jacob Duran\n\n\nSandman\" Sanchez before furthering his career in professional boxing and mixed martial arts. In boxing, Duran works on the Klitschko brothers and Andre Ward. On November 23, 2014 Duran was in the corner of Chris Algieri when he took on Manny Pacquiao for the WBO welterweight title at Cotai Arena, Venetian Resort, Macao, Macao S.A.R., China. On May 29, 2015, Duran was in the corner of Chris Algieri once again when he took on Amir Khan for the WBC Silver Welterweight title at The Barclays Center, Brooklyn", "id": "2958564" }, { "contents": "Edwin Rodríguez (boxer)\n\n\nEdwin Rodríguez (born May 5, 1985) is a Dominican professional boxer who lives in Worcester, Massachusetts. Starred in the box office hit Bleed For This as Roberto Duran Rodriguez moved to Worcester at age 13 with dreams of becoming the next great Dominican ballplayer. Winters in the Bay State made for a short baseball season and two years later, he abandoned the diamond for the ring. Rodriguez had an 84–9 record and won the USA Boxing Championships 2005 and the National Golden Gloves 2006 as a middleweight (165 pounds).", "id": "15244912" }, { "contents": "Steve Smoger\n\n\n, New York. On May 27, 2017 in Atlantic City, New Jersey Smoger became the first professional boxing referee to be inducted into the newly created Atlantic City Boxing Hall of Fame, joining Don King and Michael Spinks among other inductees. Smoger's Hall of Fame resume comprises five inductions Smoger has officiated the bouts featuring such professional boxers as Mike Tyson, Lennox Lewis, Larry Holmes, Evander Holyfield, Ray Mercer, Steve Cunningham, John Ruiz, Roberto Duran, Hector Camacho, Roy Jones, Jr., James Toney,", "id": "12530988" }, { "contents": "Panama Blue\n\n\nPanama Blue is rainforest spring water and a product of Panama Springs S.A. Panama Blue is a brand of luxury rainforest spring water. Panama Blue is the number one premium bottled water brand of Panama. The brand ambassadors are boxer Roberto Duran and Carolina Dementiev, a Panamanian model and triathlete. Panama Blue is bottled at the source in the mountains of Cerro Azul, surrounded by the Chagres National Park in the Panamanian rainforest. The spring is located about 800m above sea level. Because of the soil, the volcanic rocks and the", "id": "19226350" }, { "contents": "Roberto Durán\n\n\ngained even more weight to contend for the WBC Light Middleweight title, but losing in his first attempt at a championship in that division on January 30, 1982, against Wilfred Benítez by a 15-round unanimous decision, this after having defeated Nino Gonzalez and Luigi Minchillo, two rated Light Middleweights, both by ten-round decisions in non-title bouts. Durán was also to lose his comeback fight in September 1982 in Detroit. Kirkland Laing, from London, shocked the boxing world, producing the type of display his talents promised", "id": "16507024" }, { "contents": "Richard Green (referee)\n\n\nwas Muhammad Ali's loss to Larry Holmes in 1980. Green officiated two high-profile fights in 1982. Early in the year he refereed Wilfred Benitez's fight against Roberto Duran for Benitez's super welterweight title. Later he was the referee in the Ray Mancini's first-round knockout of Arturo Frias, a win that gave Mancini the WBA lightweight championship. On November 13, 1982, Green was assigned to work Mancini's second defense of that title, a match against the Korean contender Duk Koo Kim that was televised", "id": "8256032" }, { "contents": "Nat Jacobs\n\n\nNathaniel \"Nat\" J. S. Jacobs (born 1 December 1939) is an English amateur and professional boxer of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, who won the Central (England) Area middleweight title and challenged for the British Boxing Board of Control British middleweight title. His professional fighting weight varied from , i.e. welterweight, through light middleweight and middleweight, to , i.e. light heavyweight. He was managed/trained by former boxer Stan Skinkiss. Born in Manchester, Jacobs began his professional career in November 1960 with a points victory", "id": "16077543" }, { "contents": "Light middleweight\n\n\nOctober 17, was won by Griffith via a 15-round decision. Three days later, the World Boxing Association championship was created when Denny Moyer outpointed Joey Giambra. The World Boxing Council recognized the WBA champion as the true division champion until 1975, when it stripped their current champion and sanctioned a fight between Miguel de Oliveira and Jose Duran for the vacant title. De Oliveira won the title over 15 rounds in 1975. The International Boxing Federation crowned its first champion when Mark Medal defeated Earl Hargrove in 1984. The World Boxing Organization", "id": "11957407" }, { "contents": "Héctor Camacho\n\n\nhim in his career) to defeat Craig Houk by knockout in round three. He won consecutive unanimous ten-round decisions over Clinton McNeil and Raúl Jorge Muñoz. After that, his boxing career went on hiatus, as he faced criminal charges. He pled guilty to burglary and acknowledged drug abuse, but was given probation. Camacho returned to boxing on July 18, 2008, competing against Perry Ballard for the World Boxing Empire's Middleweight Championship. The fight lasted seven rounds. Camacho won when Ballard's corner threw the towel", "id": "5327047" }, { "contents": "Panama Joe Gans\n\n\nPanama by knocking out Benny McGovern in the third of fifteen rounds on November 30, 1916 at the Santa Ana Plaza in Panama City. At the time, these titles were often described as extending to both Central and South America. In his first bout after taking the Middleweight Championship of Panama on December 12, 1916, though barely twenty-one years old, he soundly defeated Abraham Jacob Hollandersky, a former holder of the Panamanian Heavyweight Championship in 20 rounds in Panama City. In 1917, Panama Joe was brought to New", "id": "1295302" }, { "contents": "Murderers' Row (boxing)\n\n\ncounted as Burley’s conquests. He was ranked in the top 10 in the Welterweight and Middleweight divisions for most of the 1940s, without receiving a title shot. (Burley did hold the World Colored Welterweight and World Colored Middleweight Championship titles.) Near the end of his career Burley took to fighting Heavyweights in a bid to find meaningful contests, including J.D. Turner and future Heavyweight champ Ezzard Charles. Eventually, Burley would retire after winning 83 bouts, without ever being able to meet in the ring the champions of the time", "id": "6667729" }, { "contents": "Reuben Duran\n\n\nadditions of wrestling, Brazilian jiu-jitsu, and Muay Thai. Reuben began his career with multiple fights for King of the Cage, and other small promotions in California. As an amateur competitor, Duran has distinguished himself by being a six time winner of Grapplers Quest. In a memorable match, Duran fought Greg Guzman, hiding his injuries that included 2 torn ligaments in his right hand. In spite of the injuries, Duran still earned the victory. Later, in an interview, Duran voiced his confidence that were it", "id": "15069084" }, { "contents": "Boardwalk Hall\n\n\n, Oscar De La Hoya, Roberto Duran, Lennox Lewis, Roy Jones Jr., Floyd Mayweather Jr., Bernard Hopkins, Riddick Bowe, Julio César Chávez, Héctor Camacho, Micky Ward, and Arturo Gatti. In September 2007, it was the venue for the Kelly Pavlik – Jermain Taylor boxing match for the World Boxing Council, World Boxing Organization and \"The Ring\" magazine's middleweight championships. On December 12, 1965, the New York Ukrainians defeated Philadelphia Ukrainian Nationals 3-2 in the first regulation indoor soccer match", "id": "5560408" }, { "contents": "Phil Edwards (boxer)\n\n\nmember of the public who was attempting to take a kick at the new champion. Edward's very next fight after his title success was against Nigerian boxing legend Dick Tiger. Tiger was a one-time world middleweight and light-heavyweight world champion, and Edwards showed his class by lasting the full ten rounds, losing on points. After the Tiger fight, Edwards was back to winning ways, and was victorious in his first four fights of 1958, defeating Commonwealth title challenger Lew Lazar, Scotland's John Woolard, journeyman", "id": "19060017" }, { "contents": "Carl Thompson (boxer)\n\n\nin February 1993. In February 1994, Thompson traveled to Ferrara, Emilia Romagna, Italy and won the European title by defeating Massimiliano Duran by KO in eight rounds, and in his next bout knocked out France's Akim Tafer in six rounds at Epernay, Marne, France to retain his European title. After winning two mark-time fights, Thompson was matched against Ralf Rocchigiani in a bout for the vacant WBO cruiserweight title at the G-Mex Leisure Centre, Manchester in June 1995. Both fighters were knocked down in", "id": "14087508" }, { "contents": "Luis Federico Thompson\n\n\nLuis Federico Thompson (December 19, 1927 – January 8 , 2010) was a Panamanian Argentinian professional boxer. Thompson was born in Colon, Panama, later moved to Argentina, where he was nationalized and afterwards became the Argentine and South American boxing champion. Thompson debuted in 1947 with a fight against Wilfredo Brown in Panama City which ended in a draw. On October 7, 1951, he fought Wilfredo Brewster defeating him and winning the Panamanian Lightweight Title for the first time. Two months later, he fought Wilfredo Brown again", "id": "20078674" }, { "contents": "Jawaid Khaliq\n\n\nJawaid Khaliq, MBE (born 30 July 1970), is a British former professional boxer. A dual Pakistan national, he became the first British Asian boxing world champion, winning the International Boxing Organization (IBO) welterweight title and defending it for seven constructive bouts before retiring. During his boxing career he also held the Commonwealth welterweight title, World Boxing Federation Inter-Continental Light Middleweight Title, Midlands Area light middleweight title and Midlands Area welterweight title. He is the first Kashmiri world champion boxer. Khaliq took up boxing at", "id": "22058424" }, { "contents": "Omar Sheika\n\n\nOmar Sheika (born February 20, 1977) is an American former professional boxer and multiple time super middleweight world title challenger. He is of Palestinian descent. Sheika compiled a successful amateur career, capturing a National Middleweight Championship at National AAU Boxing Tournament in 1996. Sheika has enjoyed some success in his pro career. His first fight was against Billy James. Sheika won the fight by TKO on the second round. Sheika stayed undefeated for about a year. Sheika was involved in ESPN Friday Night Fights \"Fight of the Year", "id": "7826746" }, { "contents": "Roberto Durán\n\n\nchampion the moment Durán stepped into the ring to box Hearns. Durán again made history in the fight, but this time it was the wrong kind. Hearns dropped Durán twice in the first round and as he rose to his feet after the second knockdown, which ended the round, the former champion did not know where his corner was. Hearns went on to knock Duran down a third time in the second round and the fight was stopped, marking the first time in his career that Durán had been knocked out in a", "id": "16507029" }, { "contents": "Wally Swift\n\n\nJohnny Pritchett due to an eye injury. Swift beat Peter Sharpe in May 1966 in an eliminator to face Pritchett, winning on points. In February 1967 he faced Pritchett at the Nottingham Ice Stadium for the title, losing on points over fifteen rounds. In September 1967 Swift faced Sandro Mazzinghi for the European super welterweight title in Milan; The fight was stopped in the sixth round due to injuries to Swift. In March 1968 Swift challenged Juan Carlos Duran for the European middleweight title. Swift lost the fight after being disqualified in", "id": "6876166" }, { "contents": "Hands of Stone\n\n\nup in Panama, Durán is homeschooled by Chaflan, who teaches young Roberto some vital life lessons. Later, Duran joins a boxing club with Nestor \"Plomo\" Quiñones as his coach. As he reaches 20, an American legendary boxing trainer Ray Arcel, who nearly lost his life after being attacked by an unknown assailant in 1953 in New York City and is now living with his wife Stephanie, notices Roberto's raw talent and punching power and takes the young fighter under his wing, becoming his coach. Not long after", "id": "2732439" }, { "contents": "Larry Estridge\n\n\nLarry Estridge (born 17 June 1902, St. Kitts, British West Indies) was a middleweight boxer and the last holder of the World Colored Middleweight Championship. The 5'7\" middleweight fought out of New York City from 1922 to 1929, racking up a career record of 53 wins against 23 losses and two draws from 1922 to 1929. Estridge fought colored middleweight champion Panama Joe Gans for his title on July 26, 1924 at Yankee Stadium, defeating the champ via a unanimous decision in their 10-round bout. After scoring two victories", "id": "1295287" }, { "contents": "Lennox Blackmoore\n\n\nLennox Blackmoore (born July 10, 1950 in Georgetown, Guyana) is a Guyanese professional light/light welter/welter/light middle/middleweight boxer of the 1970s and '80s who won the Guyanese lightweight title, Guyanese light middleweight title, and Commonwealth lightweight title, and was a challenger for the World Boxing Association (WBA) World light welterweight title against Aaron Pryor, and World Boxing Council (WBC) FECARBOX light welterweight title against Antonio Cervantes, his professional fighting weight varied from , i.e. lightweight to , i.e. middleweight", "id": "2810858" }, { "contents": "Abraham Jacob Hollandersky\n\n\nand skill that he would act as a sparring partner to prepare Jack Dempsey for his September 1920 Heavyweight Title bout with Hall of Famer Billy Miske as well as Dempsey's earlier bout when he first took the Heavyweight Championship from Jess Willard in Toledo. The 5' 4\" welterweight Hollandersky lost to Panama Joe, the younger and stronger Panamanian Light and Middleweight champion, and the accomplished middleweight Connors of Scranton, Pennsylvania, who had a five-inch height advantage. But he gave a closer fight to the Seattle welterweight Ryan before", "id": "10244386" }, { "contents": "Tommy Freeman (boxer)\n\n\nbout was Thompson's first title defense. Freeman held the title until his rematch with Jack Thompson on April 14, 1931 again in Cleveland where he lost by TKO in the tenth of fifteen rounds. The bout was stopped due to Freeman's badly battered left eye. He had a long career as a boxer, and remained fighting as a super welterweight until around 1937. He fought for a year as a middleweight from 1937-8. Best known of his middleweight opponents was Al McCoy who he fought on July 2 and", "id": "18569618" }, { "contents": "Alex Ramos\n\n\n. Despite losing his next fight, against future world super middleweight champion Murray Sutherland by a ten-round decision, Ramos was by then held along with the highest ranked middleweights of the era, such as Mustafa Hamsho, Wilford Scypion, Juan Roldán, John Mugabi, Curtis Parker and others. After knocking out Wilbur Henderson in three rounds on February 8, 1984, in Atlantic City, Ramos challenged Parker for his first career title, the regional, United States Boxing Association Middleweight championship. He won the title by beating Parker", "id": "10746327" }, { "contents": "Ken Buchanan\n\n\nYork State Athletic Commission on 4 April 1973. The commission also warned Duran that his title recognition would be withdrawn. The New York State Athletic Commission had been attempting for two years (1972 - 1974) to get Duran to honor an agreement to fight Buchanan. But Duran refused to honor the contract to face Buchanan. In 1973, Buchanan started out by beating future world lightweight champion Jim Watt by a decision after 15 rounds, to regain the British lightweight title. Soon, he embarked on another international tour that included more", "id": "13762576" }, { "contents": "Guillermo Jones\n\n\nin Panama by first round Knockout. Now aligned with promoter Don King, Jones fought two light middleweight WBA world title bouts against Laurent Boudouani in 1998. He drew once and lost the rematch by split decision in 12 round contests. Jones fought his way through four weight classes. Later fighting as a cruiserweight in 2002, he fought Johnny Nelson for the WBO World cruiserweight title, drawing in 12 rounds in his third world title attempt. Most in attendance thought Jones had done enough to win the title from Nelson. After yet", "id": "9043210" }, { "contents": "Tony Ayala Jr.\n\n\n. The rehabilitation program kept him from having a $750,000 payday against Roberto Duran. With the Duran fight didn't happen, Ayala settled for about $150,000 to fight Argentinian Carlos Herrera. 'It doesn't bother me,' he said. 'I'm looking at it as a step closer to the world title. Davey Moore is going to have to meet me after this fight.' After defeating Carlos Herrera, November 20, 1982, he was scheduled to fight champion Davey Moore. By December 1983, Ayala", "id": "10919402" }, { "contents": "Noé González Alcoba\n\n\nNoé González Alcoba (born 12 May 1979) \"the coal-miner\" is an Uruguayan boxer and a former world title challenger. He fights in the super middleweight division, having boxed at middleweight previously. Having boxed mainly in Argentina and Uruguay for much of his early career, he managed to land a shot at the WBA World Middleweight title after only 14 fights, challenging the then world champion Felix Sturm in Germany. The German proved too classy however and won the fight by a wide points decision, earning Alcoba his", "id": "20636614" }, { "contents": "Vicente Mosquera\n\n\nVicente Eduardo Mosquera Mena (born December 9, 1979 in Panama City, Panama) is a Panamanian professional boxer. He is a former World Boxing Association (WBA) super-featherweight champion. On April 30, 2005 he defeated Yodsanan Sor Nanthachai (Yodsanan 3-K Battery) for the WBA world championship title, by a unanimous decision. The official scorers saw it 118-108, 116-111, 115-112. In the fight, Nanthachai was knocked down three times (in the first, third, and eleventh", "id": "7687336" }, { "contents": "Iran Barkley\n\n\nof the Year by \"Ring\" magazine. Following the defeat to Duran, Barkley took on undefeated Michael Nunn for the IBF and lineal middleweight titles, dropping a close majority decision. He next fought Nigel Benn in a challenge for the WBO middleweight title and was stopped on the three-knockdown rule at the end of a wild first round in which both fighters were hurt. After losing to Benn, Barkley underwent surgery for a detached retina and was inactive for a year. Barkley returned with two low-key wins at", "id": "8203381" }, { "contents": "Abraham Jacob Hollandersky\n\n\nSox Scandal, the event brought to the forefront the corruption of American sports as it approached the roaring 20's. Abe met Attell in four three round exhibition matches at Empire Theatre while Attell was giving speaking performances in New London near the end of his boxing career. Abe claimed to have fought what was likely a sparring match with Canadian Heavyweight champion Arthur Pelkey, who was a Panamanian national heavyweight title contender in February 1917 at Panama's Santa Anna Plaza against Kid Norfolk, during the same period Abe was fighting bouts at the", "id": "10244396" }, { "contents": "Shane Mosley\n\n\n23-6, 14 KOs) at the Roberto Durán Arena in Panama City, Panama for the WBA Continental super welterweight title on December 17, in a scheduled 10 round bout. Both boxers came in at around the welterweight limit, with Mosley slightly heavier and López fighting for the first time in 13 months. López was knocked down in the 2nd round following a left hook and a further three times in the last round, which put an end to the fight. Mosley improved his ledger to 49 victories, with 41", "id": "18757243" }, { "contents": "Dick Turpin (boxer)\n\n\nchampion. In his next bout, on 28 June 1948, Turpin fought Vince Hawkins for his British middleweight title. The fight was held at Villa Park, Birmingham and Turpin won on points over fifteen rounds. He now held both the British and Commonwealth middleweight titles. During late 1948 and early 1949, Turpin fought European boxers, drawing and then losing on points against Tiberio Mitri, of Italy, then being knocked out in seven rounds in a non-title fight against the then world middleweight champion, Marcel Cerdan, of", "id": "19946190" }, { "contents": "Juan Guzman (boxer)\n\n\nat San Juan, Puerto Rico, the Vargas one at Coliseo Roberto Clemente. By then he was a top-ten ranked Junior Flyweight by the World Boxing Association. WBA world Junior Flyweight champion Jaime Rios of Panama was 18–1–1 when he came to the Dominican Republic to defend his title against local Guzman during June 1976. Their fight took place on July 2, at Santo Domingo. It was a close fight through 15 rounds, not much stylistically separating champion and challenger. At the end, however, Guzman was deemed winner", "id": "7404136" }, { "contents": "BC Golden Gloves\n\n\nJuly 1975, Lampkin was the number one contender for the lightweight title held by Panama boxer Roberto Duran. The tournament took place in January 1984 in Burnaby at the Boxing BC Training centre that would also be used as a training camp for the 1984 and 1988 Canadian Olympic boxing teams At the end of the tournament the Golden Boy for 1984 was boxer Michael O'Connell and the runner-up was Joe Pendry, and the best youth boxer was Deep Butter. Bert Lowes, Fred Fuller, Rudy Bianco, Sid Knopp Vic Murdoch,", "id": "20462754" }, { "contents": "Gunnar Jackson\n\n\nGunnar Jackson (born 6 July 1986, Wainuiomata, Lower Hutt, New Zealand) is a New Zealand professional middleweight and Super Welterweight boxer. Jackson has had over thirty fights and has achieved four boxing titles, and has a highest position on the World Boxing Organisation rankings of 10th. Jackson fought the biggest fight of his career in January 2014 against four-time world champion Anthony Mundine. Jackson lost by unanimous points decision. Jackson fought Kerry Hope in June 2015. Hope was originally scheduled to fight Michael Zerafa for the Interim", "id": "1347008" }, { "contents": "Davey Moore (boxer, born 1959)\n\n\nyears in prison. Next, Moore defended against former two-division world champion Roberto Durán. Moore appeared to be overconfident against an aging 'Hands of Stone' Duran but Duran totally outclassed him and dished out vicious punishment, hammering shut one of Moore's eyes and stopping him in eight brutal rounds at Madison Square Garden. The beating was so one-sided that Moore's mother and girlfriend were both said to have fainted at ringside. Many knowledgeable observers believed that referee Ernesto Magana should have stopped the fight far earlier.", "id": "6112527" } ]

[ { "contents": "Ossie Duran\n\n\nOssie \"The Ghanaian Gladiator\" Duran (born 23 April 1977 in Accra) is a Ghanaian professional boxer, whose career has spanned over 3 decades (1990's/2000's/2010's). He has won the Ghanaian lightweight title, World Boxing Federation (WBF) Pan-European welterweight title, WBF European Welterweight Title, United States Boxing Association (USBA) Atlantic Coast Region middleweight title, Commonwealth welterweight title, and Commonwealth light middleweight title, drew with Eromosele Albert for the vacant International Boxing Federation (IBF) Continental Africa light middleweight title,", "id": "5080778" }, { "contents": "Tom Bogs\n\n\nwins and one draw. He suffered his first defeat against the former world welterweight and middleweight champion Emile Griffith in a non-title fight in June 1970. Bogs won the European light-heavyweight title in 1968 when he stopped German champion Lothar Stengel in the first round of the bout. He successfully defended the title against Piero Del Papa before moving down to the middleweight division for a title match against European champion Carlos Duran. Bogs defeated Duran and went on to successfully defend his middleweight title three times before losing a rematch to", "id": "19397152" }, { "contents": "Angel Robinson Garcia\n\n\nand International Boxing Hall of Fame member Roberto Duran at the Gimnasio Nuevo Panama-now Gimnasio Roberto Duran-at Panama City. Robinson Garcia gave Duran a relatively close fight but still lost by unanimous ten-round decision with scores of 99-93, 98-94 and 98-96, all in favor of the Panamanian. Robinson Garcia went 1-4 the rest of that year, facing, among others, Esteban De Jesus in San Juan, Puerto Rico, to whom he dropped a ten-round decision on", "id": "1307045" }, { "contents": "Josue Marquez\n\n\n15 round distance with Roberto Duran in a world title attempt; completing a total of 25 rounds against Duran divided in two fights without getting knocked out by the Panamanian. Viruet knocked Marquez out in round ten on April 8, 1978 at the Juan Ramon Loubriel stadium in San Juan, after which Marquez decided to retire from professional boxing. Marquez won 32, losing 12 and tying 2 of his 46 professional boxing fights, winning 7 and losing 2 of those by knockout. Marquez turned to training professional boxers for a while after", "id": "17936127" }, { "contents": "Roberto Durán\n\n\n(fighting for the minor International Boxing Council (IBC) belt). Durán fought Vinny Pazienza in 1994 and 1995 for the IBC Super Middleweight Championship and was defeated both times by unanimous decision, but many people felt Duran clearly won the first bout and he was robbed of the victory. In 1996, he was challenged by Héctor Camacho for the vacant IBC Middleweight Championship but lost by a very controversial unanimous decision. In 1997, Durán was defeated by former champion Jorge Castro. Durán fought Castro in a rematch bout and won", "id": "16507032" }, { "contents": "Hector Thompson\n\n\nHector Thompson (born 24 June 1949 in Kempsey, New South Wales) is an Indigenous Australian professional boxer who competed in four different weight divisions, Lightweight, Super lightweight, Welterweight and Junior middleweight during the 1970s and 80s. In 1973 he beat Joe Tetteh for the Commonwealth (British Empire) Super Lightweight Title, earning a shot at Roberto Duran in 1973 for the World Boxing Association World lightweight but lost by TKO. After capturing the Commonwealth title again in 1975, later that year he would go on to challenge Antonio Cervantes", "id": "5995492" }, { "contents": "José Durán (boxer)\n\n\non October 8, 1976. Duran, fighting in his home city of Madrid, was knocked down in the third round by a left hand to the jaw. Although Duran rose from the canvas, he was outworked by the faster challenger and lost his title via a split decision in a fight where both boxers finished with bloody faces. In his final fight Duran challenged the Italian-Australian champion Rocky Mattioli for the WBC Light Middleweight title. The result was never in doubt, as Mattioli knocked Duran down in the second,", "id": "13817397" }, { "contents": "Goody Petronelli\n\n\n, who had earlier won the title from Antuofermo. Hagler bloodied Minter early, winning on a third-round TKO. The Petronellis would guide Hagler through 12 successful world title defenses over 7 years, including celebrated bouts against Roberto Duran and Thomas Hearns, before he lost to Sugar Ray Leonard in another controversial judges' decision, a split verdict in Leonard's favor. It turned out to be Hagler's final fight. Petronelli trained others who would fight in world title bouts: World Boxing Organization super middleweight champion Steve Collins;", "id": "13838256" }, { "contents": "Andres Hernández\n\n\nstreak came to an end when he traveled to Panama to fight world-ranked Gilberto Illueca, and dropped a ten round unanimous decision. Hernandez then started another streak of wins, this time reaching eight consecutive victories before facing another up-and-coming Puerto Rican bantamweight, Wilfredo Gomez. The pair met on Saturday, December 20, 1975 at Roberto Clemente Coliseum in San Juan as part of a boxing program that included fights of Julian Solis, Larry Holmes and Roberto Duran defending his world Lightweight title in the main event against", "id": "7680623" }, { "contents": "Panama Joe Gans\n\n\naspects of boxing by partaking in bouts organized by his classmates. Under the guidance of H.R. Cambridge, a local Panamanian business manager, and real estate developer, Quinton adopted his ring name, and became a successful boxer in the Canal Zone where he fought his first thirty fights with considerable success. On October 10, 1915, Panama Joe first won the Lightweight Championship of Panama at only eighteen against Young Sam Langford at the Pacific Theatre in Panama City in a twenty-round points decision. He later took the Middleweight Championship of", "id": "1295301" }, { "contents": "Roberto Durán\n\n\ndecision. The bout was named the 1989 \"Fight of the Year\" by \"The Ring\". His reign was short lived once again as Duran moved up to super middleweight (although both fighters weighed in at the middleweight limit) for a third clash with Sugar Ray Leonard in December 1989 (a fight dubbed \"Uno Más\"—One More—by promoters), which Leonard won by wide unanimous decision. Durán seemed to be in decline after the fight, he attempted to win further middleweight titles in 1994, 1995 and 1996", "id": "16507031" }, { "contents": "José Durán (boxer)\n\n\nat winning the world title. He travelled to Monaco to fight Miguel de Oliveira for the vacant WBC Light Middleweight title. de Oliveira, a native of Brazil, won the title via an unanimous decision after a bloody battle which lasted the full fifteen rounds. In his next fight Duran lost his EBU title in Germany to Eckhard Dagge, a man Duran had previously beaten by a technical knockout in the eleventh round. On this occasion, however, it was Dagge who scored the knockout, with the fight being stopped in the", "id": "13817395" }, { "contents": "José Durán (boxer)\n\n\nby scoring a knockout over Ben Hamida in the third round. After winning 22 consecutive bouts Duran suffered his first defeat, losing to Jean Josselin via an eight round decision on June 22, 1970. Duran was able to avenge this defeat on May 21, 1971, once again the fight went the eight round distance although Duran won the decision on this occasion. Duran won his first championship on June 7, 1974 by beating Jacques Kechichian and thus winning the EBU title. On May 7, 1975 Duran made his first attempt", "id": "13817394" }, { "contents": "Roberto Durán\n\n\nfight (the \"No Más\" fight was officially recorded as a technical knockout, because Duran quit). Durán did not contend another title fight until 1989, but made the shot count when he won the WBC Middleweight title from Iran Barkley in February. The fight is considered one of Durán's greatest achievements, as the 37-year-old former lightweight champion took the middleweight crown, his fourth title. In a tough, back-and-forth fight, Durán knocked Barkley down in the eleventh round and won a close", "id": "16507030" }, { "contents": "José Durán (boxer)\n\n\nninth round. Duran once again challenged for the world title on May 18, 1976. On this occasion Duran travelled to Tokyo, Japan to successfully challenge Koichi Wajima for the Lineal and WBA light middleweight titles. Duran started the fight well by opening a large cut on the champion's forehead and knocking him down in the second round. Wajima was knocked down once again in the thirteenth round before the fight was finally stopped in the fourteenth. Duran lost his title in his first defence, against the Argentine challenger Miguel Angel Castellini", "id": "13817396" }, { "contents": "José Durán (boxer)\n\n\nJosé Manuel Durán Pérez, popularly known as \"Pepe Durán\" (born October 9, 1945 in Madrid, Spain) is a former Spanish professional boxer. During his eleven-year professional career Duran held the Lineal and WBA light middleweight titles. He challenged for the WBC version of the title and held the EBU title. He also competed in the men's welterweight event at the 1968 Summer Olympics. Duran made his professional debut on November 30, 1967 in Barcelona, Spain. Duran made a victorious start to his career", "id": "13817393" }, { "contents": "Edwin Rosario\n\n\nopponent had boxed 25 rounds against Roberto Duran-including a world lightweight championship bout-without being knocked out. Rosario eventually gained a record of 21–0 with 20 knockouts. This led to talks of a title fight against World Boxing Council (WBC) lightweight champion Alexis Argüello, to be held in Miami. But Argüello relinquished the title in order to move up in weight to challenge junior welterweight champion Aaron Pryor. With Arguello moving divisions, Rosario was matched with Mexico's José Luis Ramírez on May 1, 1983 for the vacant", "id": "5267805" }, { "contents": "Ken Buchanan\n\n\nwin over Chang Kil Lee on 4 December 1972. On 28 June 1972, Roberto Duran signed to defend it against Buchanan on 20 October 1972. However, Duran broke that agreement when the Panamanian Government insisted he made his first defense in Panama. He did, knocking out Jimmy Robertson on 20 January 1973. Duran also had signed a second contract with the MSG on 25 October 1972, to defend against Buchanan on or before 30 June 1973. But Duran broke that agreement again. Duran had his license suspended by the New", "id": "13762575" }, { "contents": "Koichi Wajima\n\n\nhis Lineal and WBA light middleweight titles as well. However, he regained his Lineal and WBA titles in February, 1976, with a 15th round KO over Yuh. Wajima lost to Jose Manuel Duran in his first defense, losing the world title for the third time in his career. He fought his final match In June, 1977, challenging Eddie Gazo for the WBA super welterweight title, but lost by 11th round KO. This was the last fight of his career. His record was 31-6-1 (", "id": "20508599" }, { "contents": "Wilfredo Gómez\n\n\ndirected by Mario Diaz and was filmed in New York City. Gómez has three daughters Jennifer, Gina and Liz Irina and one son Wilfredo Junior. He is good friends with Panamanian boxing legend Roberto Duran. Gómez was once married to Carolina Gamboa. On April 17, 2015, Gómez was arrested by Puerto Rican police after allegedly hitting his 59-year-old companion, a lady with whom he had been living for ten months. He was released after she refused to raise charges against him. British boxer Michael Gomez adapted his last", "id": "3553965" }, { "contents": "Caleb Truax\n\n\nRichardson, and James Crayton. His professional loss came to former undisputed middleweight world champion Jermain Taylor (Truax knocked Taylor down in the 9th round.) Truax drew Ossie Duran in a 10-round non-title bout at the Target Center in Minneapolis. The bout was part of an eight-fight card promoted by Mike Tyson's new company, Iron Mike Productions. Mike Tyson was in attendance at the event, and said of Truax, \"I hear he is exciting and he is something that we need for boxing, he", "id": "16222269" }, { "contents": "Massimiliano Duran\n\n\nMassimiliano Duran (born November 3, 1963 in Ferrara, Italy) is a former Italian professional boxer who held the Cruiser WBC title and the European championship between 1990 and 1991. He is also known for being the only fighter in boxing history to earn a shot at, win, and defend a world title with three consecutive disqualification wins. Duran was born in Ferrara. His father was the Argentine-Italian boxer Juan Carlos Duran; his brother, the Italian boxer Alessandro Duran. Duran turned pro in 1986 when he defeated", "id": "13303578" }, { "contents": "Marvelous Marvin Hagler\n\n\na staple on HBO, the Pay Per View of its time. A fight against Roberto Durán followed. Durán was the first challenger to last the distance with Hagler in a world-championship bout. Durán was the WBA Light Middleweight Champion and went up in weight to challenge for Hagler's middleweight crown. Hagler won a unanimous 15-round decision, although after 13 rounds, Duran was ahead by one point on two scorecards and even on the third. Hagler, with his left eye swollen and cut, came on strong in the", "id": "4940319" }, { "contents": "Vinny Paz\n\n\nSantana fight, Pazienza went on to defeat Brett Lally by a 6th-round TKO, and then, in another TKO, former world champion Lloyd Honeyghan in the 10th round. Pazienza went on to win the vacant IBO middleweight world title in 1993 with an 11th-round KO over Dan Sherry. Pazienza then went on to beat Roberto Duran twice, both via decision, with the IBC super middleweight title on the line both times. In June 1995, Pazienza lost his world title bid against IBF world super middleweight champion Roy", "id": "12129878" }, { "contents": "Juan Carlos Giménez Ferreyra\n\n\nJuan Carlos Giménez Ferreyra (born 20 December 1960) is a Paraguayan boxer. During his career he was WBC International light heavyweight champion and unsuccessfully fought for the World Super Middleweight title four times, first against Mauro Galvano in 1992, then against Chris Eubank the same year, against Nigel Benn in 1994 and finally against Joe Calzaghe in 1998, losing via knockout. During his career he went the distance with Nigel Benn, Chris Eubank and Roberto Duran. Gimenez last fought in 2010, winning the Paraguayan Cruiserweight title against Nicasio Moray", "id": "17951209" }, { "contents": "Massimiliano Duran\n\n\nMomo Cupelic. The win earned him the nickname \"Momo\". Duran's first defeat came by the hand of Ndomingiedi Lusikina. This would be the beginning of a long-standing rivalry, that will result in the two boxers fighting five times. In 1990 Duran won the WBC Cruiserweight Title by defeating Carlos De León, when De León was disqualified for hitting after the bell to end the 11th round. Duran was leading on the cards. His first defence was against Anaclet Wamba. Duran won by DQ after Wamba had", "id": "13303579" }, { "contents": "Héctor Camacho\n\n\namateur career, Camacho won three New York Golden Gloves tournaments, beginning with the Sub-Novice 112 lbs championship in 1978. During his professional career, Camacho had many notable fights against some of the biggest names in boxing, defeating Roberto Durán twice late in Duran's career, and knocking out Sugar Ray Leonard to send him into permanent retirement. He also fought Julio César Chávez, Félix Trinidad, and Oscar De La Hoya, among others. During his later years, Camacho expanded his popular role and appeared on a variety", "id": "5327031" }, { "contents": "Eckhard Dagge\n\n\n. He would later embark on an amateur career, in which he won 66 out of 80 bouts, before falling short of making the 1972 Olympic Team. Dagge would win the German Middleweight title, in his 6th bout. Dagge would follow up with wins over notable, but faded fighters Denny Moyer and Manuel González. In 1974, Dagge challenged Jose Manuel Duran for the European Light Middleweight title, losing by 11th-round TKO. He came back the next year however, and stopped Duran in the 9th round, to", "id": "18853804" }, { "contents": "Antonio Cervantes\n\n\nLightweight champion Roberto Durán, who was coming up in weight. Duran decided to challenge Sugar Ray Leonard instead, however, and Cervantes vs. Duran never materialized. On August 2, 1980, Cervantes dropped his next title challenger, Aaron Pryor, to the canvas in the first round. Pryor recovered, however, and beat Cervantes by a knockout in round four. This turned out to be Cervantes' last world title fight. He fought two times more for the FECARBOX WBC title, winning both fights shortly before retiring in 1980", "id": "11465736" }, { "contents": "USA Tuesday Night Fights\n\n\nfighter by fighting several four rounders on \"Tuesday Night Fights\". Roberto Duran was another fixture on \"Tuesday Night Fights\" later in his career, and his 100th professional bout was carried by USA. \"Tuesday Night Fights\" also showcased the bizarre from time to time. Among these was a fight from former pro football star Mark Gastineau's controversial boxing career which saw him lose to a journeyman fighter, Andrew Golota's infamous fight against Samson Po'uha in 1995 which saw the Polish fighter, who appeared frequently on \"Tuesday", "id": "5898536" }, { "contents": "Jacques LeBlanc\n\n\n22 wins, 4 losses and 2 draws when he fought WBC Middleweight Champion Roberto Durán on June 29, 1993. LeBlanc was billed as a severe underdog but lasted the full 10 rounds with Duran, losing on points. LeBlanc fought the undefeated Richie Woodhall in October 1994 for the Commonwealth Middleweight crown but again lost on points. He continued boxing until 1997, but winning again only once. In 2010, Jacques was inducted into the City of Moncton Wall of Fame . He currently holds the record for most matches without being knocked", "id": "3179570" }, { "contents": "Andy Lee (boxer)\n\n\nResort Casino in Mashantucket, Connecticut, and won via technical knockout at 0:56 in the 10th round. He avenged his loss to Brian Vera on 1 October 2011 by unanimous decision. On 10 March 2012, Lee Knocked out Mexico's Saul Duran in the 2nd round of a stay busy fight. On 16 June 2012, Lee challenged undefeated Titleholder Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. for the WBC World Middleweight Title in the Sun Bowl Stadium in El Paso, Texas televised on HBO World Championship Boxing. Lee got off to a good start,", "id": "15093101" }, { "contents": "Joe Cortez\n\n\ntook on the responsibility to referee some major Championship fights. During this time he was the third man in the ring in several professional Mike Tyson and Roberto Duran fights. As eminent referees Richard Steele and Mills Lane retired at the dawn of the 21st century, Cortez became one of Nevada and New York's preferred boxing referees for world title fights. He has refereed over 170 world title bouts, among which figure the first Oscar De La Hoya-Julio César Chávez meeting, Evander Holyfield and Riddick Bowe's first title fight and", "id": "18491003" }, { "contents": "Reuben Duran\n\n\nnot for the injury, he would have gotten a stoppage. Duran would support his bold statement in his next fight as he claimed a victory over Ryan Diaz via KO with only 3 seconds left in the fight. In subsequent bouts, Duran submitted both Kana Hyatt and Maurice Eazel in the first round. Duran signed with the UFC in early 2011 and made his debut at UFC on Versus 3 against Takeya Mizugaki, replacing an injured Francisco Rivera. Duran lost the fight via close split decision. Duran faced Francisco Rivera on June", "id": "15069085" }, { "contents": "Héctor Camacho\n\n\n. Before this fight, Camacho was trained by Angelo Dundee. His last two fights resulted in a draw and a loss, against Luis Ramón Campas and Saúl Duran, respectively. His last fight against Duran was on May 14, 2010. On January 6, 2005, Camacho was arrested by police in Gulfport, Mississippi on charges of trying to burgle an electronic goods store and carrying the drug ecstasy on him. In 2007, he declared himself guilty of being under the influence at the time of the burglary. He was", "id": "5327048" }, { "contents": "Jack Blackburn\n\n\nhad a slight advantage in height and reach. Blackburn fought the Barbados-born boxer Panama Joe Gans, who had boxed extensively in Panama where he lived prior to 1917. Panama Joe held the World Colored Middleweight Championship from 1920 to 1924, and held a Panamanian Lightweight Title in his youth. On July 24, 1922, Blackburn lost one of his last bouts to Gans in Indianapolis, Indiana, in a fourth-round technical knockout of a scheduled ten round bout. Panama Joe was a formidable boxer and fourteen years younger", "id": "10094030" }, { "contents": "Vinny Paz\n\n\nHector \"Macho\" Camacho and WBA World Champion Loreto Garza. In 1991, Pazienza moved into the junior middleweight division. In his first fight at junior middleweight, he won the USBA championship against Ron Amundsen in a 12-round decision. He defeated the WBA world jr. middleweight champion Gilbert Delé with a 12th-round TKO in Providence, becoming the second fighter in boxing history to win both the lightweight and junior middleweight world championships. Pazienza was forced to relinquish the title due to a serious car accident in which his neck was", "id": "12129876" }, { "contents": "Roberto Durán\n\n\nvia unanimous decision. In 1998, at the age of 47, he challenged 28-year-old WBA Middleweight Champion William Joppy. Joppy, a trim, quick-fisted fighter, battered Durán to defeat in just 3 rounds. It was Duran's most emphatic loss since the Hearns fight, over a decade earlier. Durán then announced his retirement in August 1998, but was back fighting in 1999. In June 2000, Durán avenged a previous loss to Pat Lawlor and won the NBA Super Middleweight Championship on his 49th birthday.", "id": "16507033" }, { "contents": "Roberto Vásquez\n\n\nRoberto Gaspar Vásquez Ramirez (born May 26, 1983 in Panama City) is a Panamanian professional boxer who held the WBA light flyweight title from 2005 to 2006. He also held the WBA flyweight interim title from 2006 to 2007. Vásquez lost in his professional boxing debut against Angelo Dottin on March 17, 2001. The four-round fight occurred in Dottin's hometown of Colón, Panama. Despite Vásquez's cutting Dottin's right cheek in the first round, all three judges scored the bout 39-38 for Dottin.", "id": "15594966" }, { "contents": "Roberto Durán\n\n\nwith an incredible 71–1 record. On June 20, 1980, Durán captured the WBC Welterweight title by defeating Leonard via a 15-round unanimous decision (145–144, 148–147, 146–144). The fight became known as \"The Brawl in Montreal\". After defeating Leonard in Montreal, Duran gained iconic status in his home country, Panama. Leonard initiated the rematch clause and asked for the fight to be the following November. In their second fight, Leonard successfully changed his tactics, using more footwork and movement than he had in their", "id": "16507022" }, { "contents": "Roberto Durán\n\n\nfirst fight, and Duran was unable to get Leonard against the ropes. During the seventh round, after Leonard had gained a slight lead on the scorecards, he began taunting and mocking Duran. Halfway into the eighth round, Duran suddenly stopped fighting, repeatedly saying, \"No más\" (\"no more\"). In a 2016 interview, Duran claimed that what he actually said was, \"No Sigo\" (\"I won't go on\"). He took some time to recover from that fight and", "id": "16507023" }, { "contents": "Kirkland Laing\n\n\n. Laing's boxing career was sporadic, as he often failed to deliver on his promise, appearing under-prepared against less able fighters and indulging in drink, drugs and women. In the year following his victory over Duran, Laing went missing, blowing his earnings. In that same period Duran was to fight four times, earning an estimated $6m. Laing continued to fight until he was 40, and retired after a stoppage loss to future world champion Glen Catley. After retiring, Laing continue to live in", "id": "8014673" }, { "contents": "Jimmy Batten\n\n\nThomas stopped him in the ninth round to take the title. Batten won his next five fights before losing on points in May 1981 to Chris Christian. He then travelled to the United States, where he was based in Chicago for almost two years; There he had a series of fights starting with two easy wins before he was stopped in the first round in May 1982 by Mario Maldonado. He beat Jeff Madison in September before facing Roberto Duran in November 1982 at the Miami Orange Bowl; Duran took a unanimous decision,", "id": "22189495" }, { "contents": "Ray Lampkin\n\n\nRay Lampkin (born 1948 in Portland, Oregon) is a retired professional boxer who lost the 1975 World Boxing Association (WBA) lightweight title fight against Roberto Durán in Panama. He won the North American Boxing Federation lightweight title fight but later lost it against Esteban de Jesús at the Felt Forum in New York City. He finished his career with a total of 34 wins (16 by knock out), six losses (two by knock out) and one draw. Lampkin was inducted into the Oregon Sports Hall of Fame", "id": "279465" }, { "contents": "Roberto Durán\n\n\nthe end of the seventh. Finally the fight was stopped in the eighth round as Moore was taking such a horrific beating and Durán won his third world title. After the victory, Durán was hoisted up in the air as the crowd sang \"Happy Birthday\" to a sobbing Durán. Durán later fought for the World Middleweight Championship, meeting Marvelous Marvin Hagler in Las Vegas in November 1983, during the fight Duran broke his hand and lost in a very competitive fight that went the full fifteen rounds, although after 12 rounds", "id": "16507027" }, { "contents": "Harold Reitman\n\n\nprofessional record of 7-1-1, Reitman fought a three-round charity exhibition match against the five-time world champion Roberto Duran at the Hollywood Diplomat Hotel in Miami Beach. On November 11, 1991, Reitman fought heavyweight Tim Anderson for the NBA Independent Cruiserweight title in a televised fight. Though Reitman scored two 9th round knockdowns, the fight ended in a draw. In March 1992, Reitman was the 12th ranked Heavyweight boxer in the world according to the International Boxing Council. On December 12, 1995,", "id": "9844517" }, { "contents": "Jeffrey Mathebula\n\n\nlost to Celestino Caballero. Hence, Mathebula fought against Caballero for the WBA Super World and IBF World super bantamweight title. However, he lost his first world title shot against Caballero via a split decision at the Roberto Duran Arena in Panama on 30 April 2009. After losing to Takalani Ndlovu via a split decision in an IBF junior featherweight title eliminator in Brakpan, Gauteng in September 2010, Mathebula defeated Ndlovu via a split decision in their rematch in Brakpan to be crowned the IBF junior featherweight champion. It was the SABC-", "id": "16997776" }, { "contents": "Angel Robinson Garcia\n\n\nhim fight 12 times, including a September 10 loss by ten-round decision to future WBC world Lightweight-and Spain's second-Champion Pedro Carrasco at the Basque Country and a December 30 defeat at the hands of 19-2-4 Chris Fernandez by ten-round decision also. Robinson Garcia contested 17 bouts in 1970. These included an August 21 match with Jose Duran, won by Duran by ten rounds decision at Madrid and a November 20 bout with French Roger Menetrey which Menetrey won by ten-round decision", "id": "1307042" }, { "contents": "Sugar Ray Leonard vs. Thomas Hearns\n\n\nSugar Ray Leonard and Thomas Hearns are considered to be two of the best boxers of all-time. They fought twice, with Leonard winning in 1981 and a draw in 1989. Both fights are considered to be classics. Sugar Ray Leonard won the WBC welterweight title with a fifteenth-round knockout of Wilfred Benítez in 1979. He lost it to Roberto Durán by a close decision in June 1980 and regained it five months later in the infamous No Más Fight, in which Duran quit in the eighth round. In June", "id": "20124047" }, { "contents": "Brandon Gonzáles\n\n\nOlympic Team in 2004 he withdrew to begin his professional career in 2007. While boxing as an amateur he worked as a janitor at Arco Arena.. On January 29, 2010 Gonzales won a fight against veteran Dumont Welliver by T.K.O., the fight was on the undercard of ESPN's Friday Night Fights. He maintained an unblemished streak of 17 wins until his bout with Thomas Oosthuizen that resulted in a draw. On October 28, 2011 he defeated Ossie Duran in the Main Event on Showtime's ShoBox at Bally's in Atlantic City", "id": "18287532" }, { "contents": "Miguel Ángel Castellini\n\n\nManuel Duran, in front of a sell out crowd of 12,000. Duran, who was making the first defence of his title, was knocked down in the third round by a left hand to the jaw. Although the champion rose from the canvas, he was outworked by the faster challenger and lost his title via a split decision in a fight where both boxers finished with bloody faces. Castellini's championship reign only lasted one fight as he lost it in his first defence to Eddie Gazo on March 5, 1977. Gazo", "id": "13522966" }, { "contents": "Hilario Zapata\n\n\nwas knocked out in the first round by the WBC world Jr. Bantamweight champion Sung-Kil Moon. A win against Moon would have made Zapata a member of the exclusive group of world boxing champions in three different weight categories or more. It can also be added that Zapata's first pair of boxing gloves, when he was 12, came as a present from Duran himself. Panamanian newspaper \"El Panama America\" declared on one of their editorials that Zapata, according to their opinion, should be inducted to the International Boxing", "id": "9857520" }, { "contents": "Panama Joe Gans\n\n\nPanama Joe Gans was a black boxer who held the World Colored Middleweight Championship for four years, shortly before it was discontinued. Born Cyril Quinton Jr. on November 14, 1896 in Barbados, British West Indies and raised in the Panama Canal Zone, the 5'7\" Quinton originally fought out of Panama and then New York City. He took his ringname from boxing great Joe Gans, the first black American fighter to win a world boxing title. He found his greatest fame fighting as a middleweight at between 147 and 160 lbs,", "id": "1295299" }, { "contents": "Panama Lewis\n\n\nCarlos \"Panama\" Lewis (born November 4, 1945) is an American boxing trainer. He was convicted of tampering with the gloves of Luis Resto in the Resto vs \"Irish\" Billy Collins fight of 1983, which subsequently led to the end of Collins' boxing career. Collins suffered from depression and possibly committed suicide following the tragic assault. Lewis was a disciple of trainer Chickie Ferrara. He was Roberto Durán's cornerman when Duran lost a unanimous decision against Wilfred Benitez in 1982. During the early 1980s, he", "id": "11205984" }, { "contents": "Pernell Whitaker\n\n\nfight, he basically faced no real trouble against Vásquez in route to the win. This was a history making fight for Whitaker, as he became only the fourth fighter in history - joining Thomas Hearns, Sugar Ray Leonard, and Roberto Duran - to have won a legitimate world title in four different weight classes. However, he chose to move back to welterweight. Whitaker successfully defended his WBC belt against Scotland's Gary Jacobs on August 26, 1995. In January, 1997, Whitaker put his title on the line against", "id": "20971754" }, { "contents": "Carlos Palomino\n\n\nundercard. Palomino lost to Duran by decision in ten rounds, and he announced his retirement from boxing right away. Palomino began his comeback on January 10, 1997, beating Ismaél Díaz by a knockout in round nine. He won four fights that year, including one over former world champion Rene Arredondo, but when he lost by decision in ten to former Oscar De La Hoya world title challenger Wilfredo Rivera on May 30, 1998, he decided to retire for good, and has stayed in retirement ever since. In 1978", "id": "12841764" }, { "contents": "Roberto Durán\n\n\nRoberto Durán Samaniego (born June 16, 1951) is a Panamanian former professional boxer who competed from 1968 to 2001. He held world championships in four weight classes: lightweight, welterweight, light middleweight and middleweight, as well as reigns as the undisputed and lineal lightweight champion, and the lineal welterweight champion. He is also the second boxer to have competed over a span of five decades, the first being Jack Johnson. Durán was known as a versatile, technical brawler and pressure fighter, which earned him the nickname of", "id": "16507013" }, { "contents": "Joshua Clottey\n\n\nwelterweight title in his next fight. He then rolled off a 10 fight winning streak highlighted by his first win on American soil and capture of several minor welterweight and middleweight titles. The streak culminated in an IBF intercontinental welterweight title. On December 2, 2006, Clottey earned his first shot at a world title but broke his hand in the fourth round of his fight against World Boxing Organization champion Antonio Margarito. That bout against Margarito has since come under controversial suspicion following news reports (released after Margarito's fight with Shane Mosley", "id": "11102893" }, { "contents": "Aaron Pryor\n\n\nten years in prison after he was convicted of 29 counts of fraud and embezzlement. Pryor was then offered $750,000 to fight Roberto Duran in April 1981, but Pryor turned it down because his new attorney told him not to sign anything until he worked out a new contract with manager Buddy LaRosa. By the time they worked out a new agreement, the chance to fight Duran was gone. On June 27, 1981, Pryor knocked out Lennox Blackmore in the second round. He then defended the title against undefeated Dujuan Johnson", "id": "8987862" }, { "contents": "Roberto Durán\n\n\nChorrillo in the district \"La Casa de Piedra\" (The House of Stone) Panama. He began sparring with experienced boxers at the Neco de La Guardia gymnasium when he was only eight years old. Durán competed as an amateur compiling a record of 13–3. Having 16 amateur fights under his belt, he made his professional debut in 1968 at the age of 16. Duran won his first 31 consecutive fights, and scored knockout victories over future Featherweight Champion Ernesto Marcel and former Super Featherweight Champion Hiroshi Kobayashi, culminating in his", "id": "16507016" }, { "contents": "Wilfredo Gómez\n\n\nOn May 18, 2003, Gómez returned to Panama, where he was received by Duran and Eusebio Pedroza, among others. In a message geared towards Panamanians, he expressed thanks to that country, calling it his second country and saying, among other things \"I'm very motivated now that I will return to Puerto Rico, and no one should be surprised if I buy an apartment in Panama and move my family here\". However, he bought a house in Orlando, Florida in 2006. Gómez had a record", "id": "3553963" }, { "contents": "Jacob Duran\n\n\nSandman\" Sanchez before furthering his career in professional boxing and mixed martial arts. In boxing, Duran works on the Klitschko brothers and Andre Ward. On November 23, 2014 Duran was in the corner of Chris Algieri when he took on Manny Pacquiao for the WBO welterweight title at Cotai Arena, Venetian Resort, Macao, Macao S.A.R., China. On May 29, 2015, Duran was in the corner of Chris Algieri once again when he took on Amir Khan for the WBC Silver Welterweight title at The Barclays Center, Brooklyn", "id": "2958564" }, { "contents": "Edwin Rodríguez (boxer)\n\n\nEdwin Rodríguez (born May 5, 1985) is a Dominican professional boxer who lives in Worcester, Massachusetts. Starred in the box office hit Bleed For This as Roberto Duran Rodriguez moved to Worcester at age 13 with dreams of becoming the next great Dominican ballplayer. Winters in the Bay State made for a short baseball season and two years later, he abandoned the diamond for the ring. Rodriguez had an 84–9 record and won the USA Boxing Championships 2005 and the National Golden Gloves 2006 as a middleweight (165 pounds).", "id": "15244912" }, { "contents": "Steve Smoger\n\n\n, New York. On May 27, 2017 in Atlantic City, New Jersey Smoger became the first professional boxing referee to be inducted into the newly created Atlantic City Boxing Hall of Fame, joining Don King and Michael Spinks among other inductees. Smoger's Hall of Fame resume comprises five inductions Smoger has officiated the bouts featuring such professional boxers as Mike Tyson, Lennox Lewis, Larry Holmes, Evander Holyfield, Ray Mercer, Steve Cunningham, John Ruiz, Roberto Duran, Hector Camacho, Roy Jones, Jr., James Toney,", "id": "12530988" }, { "contents": "Panama Blue\n\n\nPanama Blue is rainforest spring water and a product of Panama Springs S.A. Panama Blue is a brand of luxury rainforest spring water. Panama Blue is the number one premium bottled water brand of Panama. The brand ambassadors are boxer Roberto Duran and Carolina Dementiev, a Panamanian model and triathlete. Panama Blue is bottled at the source in the mountains of Cerro Azul, surrounded by the Chagres National Park in the Panamanian rainforest. The spring is located about 800m above sea level. Because of the soil, the volcanic rocks and the", "id": "19226350" }, { "contents": "Roberto Durán\n\n\ngained even more weight to contend for the WBC Light Middleweight title, but losing in his first attempt at a championship in that division on January 30, 1982, against Wilfred Benítez by a 15-round unanimous decision, this after having defeated Nino Gonzalez and Luigi Minchillo, two rated Light Middleweights, both by ten-round decisions in non-title bouts. Durán was also to lose his comeback fight in September 1982 in Detroit. Kirkland Laing, from London, shocked the boxing world, producing the type of display his talents promised", "id": "16507024" }, { "contents": "Richard Green (referee)\n\n\nwas Muhammad Ali's loss to Larry Holmes in 1980. Green officiated two high-profile fights in 1982. Early in the year he refereed Wilfred Benitez's fight against Roberto Duran for Benitez's super welterweight title. Later he was the referee in the Ray Mancini's first-round knockout of Arturo Frias, a win that gave Mancini the WBA lightweight championship. On November 13, 1982, Green was assigned to work Mancini's second defense of that title, a match against the Korean contender Duk Koo Kim that was televised", "id": "8256032" }, { "contents": "Nat Jacobs\n\n\nNathaniel \"Nat\" J. S. Jacobs (born 1 December 1939) is an English amateur and professional boxer of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, who won the Central (England) Area middleweight title and challenged for the British Boxing Board of Control British middleweight title. His professional fighting weight varied from , i.e. welterweight, through light middleweight and middleweight, to , i.e. light heavyweight. He was managed/trained by former boxer Stan Skinkiss. Born in Manchester, Jacobs began his professional career in November 1960 with a points victory", "id": "16077543" }, { "contents": "Light middleweight\n\n\nOctober 17, was won by Griffith via a 15-round decision. Three days later, the World Boxing Association championship was created when Denny Moyer outpointed Joey Giambra. The World Boxing Council recognized the WBA champion as the true division champion until 1975, when it stripped their current champion and sanctioned a fight between Miguel de Oliveira and Jose Duran for the vacant title. De Oliveira won the title over 15 rounds in 1975. The International Boxing Federation crowned its first champion when Mark Medal defeated Earl Hargrove in 1984. The World Boxing Organization", "id": "11957407" }, { "contents": "Héctor Camacho\n\n\nhim in his career) to defeat Craig Houk by knockout in round three. He won consecutive unanimous ten-round decisions over Clinton McNeil and Raúl Jorge Muñoz. After that, his boxing career went on hiatus, as he faced criminal charges. He pled guilty to burglary and acknowledged drug abuse, but was given probation. Camacho returned to boxing on July 18, 2008, competing against Perry Ballard for the World Boxing Empire's Middleweight Championship. The fight lasted seven rounds. Camacho won when Ballard's corner threw the towel", "id": "5327047" }, { "contents": "Panama Joe Gans\n\n\nPanama by knocking out Benny McGovern in the third of fifteen rounds on November 30, 1916 at the Santa Ana Plaza in Panama City. At the time, these titles were often described as extending to both Central and South America. In his first bout after taking the Middleweight Championship of Panama on December 12, 1916, though barely twenty-one years old, he soundly defeated Abraham Jacob Hollandersky, a former holder of the Panamanian Heavyweight Championship in 20 rounds in Panama City. In 1917, Panama Joe was brought to New", "id": "1295302" }, { "contents": "Murderers' Row (boxing)\n\n\ncounted as Burley’s conquests. He was ranked in the top 10 in the Welterweight and Middleweight divisions for most of the 1940s, without receiving a title shot. (Burley did hold the World Colored Welterweight and World Colored Middleweight Championship titles.) Near the end of his career Burley took to fighting Heavyweights in a bid to find meaningful contests, including J.D. Turner and future Heavyweight champ Ezzard Charles. Eventually, Burley would retire after winning 83 bouts, without ever being able to meet in the ring the champions of the time", "id": "6667729" }, { "contents": "Reuben Duran\n\n\nadditions of wrestling, Brazilian jiu-jitsu, and Muay Thai. Reuben began his career with multiple fights for King of the Cage, and other small promotions in California. As an amateur competitor, Duran has distinguished himself by being a six time winner of Grapplers Quest. In a memorable match, Duran fought Greg Guzman, hiding his injuries that included 2 torn ligaments in his right hand. In spite of the injuries, Duran still earned the victory. Later, in an interview, Duran voiced his confidence that were it", "id": "15069084" }, { "contents": "Boardwalk Hall\n\n\n, Oscar De La Hoya, Roberto Duran, Lennox Lewis, Roy Jones Jr., Floyd Mayweather Jr., Bernard Hopkins, Riddick Bowe, Julio César Chávez, Héctor Camacho, Micky Ward, and Arturo Gatti. In September 2007, it was the venue for the Kelly Pavlik – Jermain Taylor boxing match for the World Boxing Council, World Boxing Organization and \"The Ring\" magazine's middleweight championships. On December 12, 1965, the New York Ukrainians defeated Philadelphia Ukrainian Nationals 3-2 in the first regulation indoor soccer match", "id": "5560408" }, { "contents": "Phil Edwards (boxer)\n\n\nmember of the public who was attempting to take a kick at the new champion. Edward's very next fight after his title success was against Nigerian boxing legend Dick Tiger. Tiger was a one-time world middleweight and light-heavyweight world champion, and Edwards showed his class by lasting the full ten rounds, losing on points. After the Tiger fight, Edwards was back to winning ways, and was victorious in his first four fights of 1958, defeating Commonwealth title challenger Lew Lazar, Scotland's John Woolard, journeyman", "id": "19060017" }, { "contents": "Carl Thompson (boxer)\n\n\nin February 1993. In February 1994, Thompson traveled to Ferrara, Emilia Romagna, Italy and won the European title by defeating Massimiliano Duran by KO in eight rounds, and in his next bout knocked out France's Akim Tafer in six rounds at Epernay, Marne, France to retain his European title. After winning two mark-time fights, Thompson was matched against Ralf Rocchigiani in a bout for the vacant WBO cruiserweight title at the G-Mex Leisure Centre, Manchester in June 1995. Both fighters were knocked down in", "id": "14087508" }, { "contents": "Luis Federico Thompson\n\n\nLuis Federico Thompson (December 19, 1927 – January 8 , 2010) was a Panamanian Argentinian professional boxer. Thompson was born in Colon, Panama, later moved to Argentina, where he was nationalized and afterwards became the Argentine and South American boxing champion. Thompson debuted in 1947 with a fight against Wilfredo Brown in Panama City which ended in a draw. On October 7, 1951, he fought Wilfredo Brewster defeating him and winning the Panamanian Lightweight Title for the first time. Two months later, he fought Wilfredo Brown again", "id": "20078674" }, { "contents": "Jawaid Khaliq\n\n\nJawaid Khaliq, MBE (born 30 July 1970), is a British former professional boxer. A dual Pakistan national, he became the first British Asian boxing world champion, winning the International Boxing Organization (IBO) welterweight title and defending it for seven constructive bouts before retiring. During his boxing career he also held the Commonwealth welterweight title, World Boxing Federation Inter-Continental Light Middleweight Title, Midlands Area light middleweight title and Midlands Area welterweight title. He is the first Kashmiri world champion boxer. Khaliq took up boxing at", "id": "22058424" }, { "contents": "Omar Sheika\n\n\nOmar Sheika (born February 20, 1977) is an American former professional boxer and multiple time super middleweight world title challenger. He is of Palestinian descent. Sheika compiled a successful amateur career, capturing a National Middleweight Championship at National AAU Boxing Tournament in 1996. Sheika has enjoyed some success in his pro career. His first fight was against Billy James. Sheika won the fight by TKO on the second round. Sheika stayed undefeated for about a year. Sheika was involved in ESPN Friday Night Fights \"Fight of the Year", "id": "7826746" }, { "contents": "Roberto Durán\n\n\nchampion the moment Durán stepped into the ring to box Hearns. Durán again made history in the fight, but this time it was the wrong kind. Hearns dropped Durán twice in the first round and as he rose to his feet after the second knockdown, which ended the round, the former champion did not know where his corner was. Hearns went on to knock Duran down a third time in the second round and the fight was stopped, marking the first time in his career that Durán had been knocked out in a", "id": "16507029" }, { "contents": "Wally Swift\n\n\nJohnny Pritchett due to an eye injury. Swift beat Peter Sharpe in May 1966 in an eliminator to face Pritchett, winning on points. In February 1967 he faced Pritchett at the Nottingham Ice Stadium for the title, losing on points over fifteen rounds. In September 1967 Swift faced Sandro Mazzinghi for the European super welterweight title in Milan; The fight was stopped in the sixth round due to injuries to Swift. In March 1968 Swift challenged Juan Carlos Duran for the European middleweight title. Swift lost the fight after being disqualified in", "id": "6876166" }, { "contents": "Hands of Stone\n\n\nup in Panama, Durán is homeschooled by Chaflan, who teaches young Roberto some vital life lessons. Later, Duran joins a boxing club with Nestor \"Plomo\" Quiñones as his coach. As he reaches 20, an American legendary boxing trainer Ray Arcel, who nearly lost his life after being attacked by an unknown assailant in 1953 in New York City and is now living with his wife Stephanie, notices Roberto's raw talent and punching power and takes the young fighter under his wing, becoming his coach. Not long after", "id": "2732439" }, { "contents": "Larry Estridge\n\n\nLarry Estridge (born 17 June 1902, St. Kitts, British West Indies) was a middleweight boxer and the last holder of the World Colored Middleweight Championship. The 5'7\" middleweight fought out of New York City from 1922 to 1929, racking up a career record of 53 wins against 23 losses and two draws from 1922 to 1929. Estridge fought colored middleweight champion Panama Joe Gans for his title on July 26, 1924 at Yankee Stadium, defeating the champ via a unanimous decision in their 10-round bout. After scoring two victories", "id": "1295287" }, { "contents": "Lennox Blackmoore\n\n\nLennox Blackmoore (born July 10, 1950 in Georgetown, Guyana) is a Guyanese professional light/light welter/welter/light middle/middleweight boxer of the 1970s and '80s who won the Guyanese lightweight title, Guyanese light middleweight title, and Commonwealth lightweight title, and was a challenger for the World Boxing Association (WBA) World light welterweight title against Aaron Pryor, and World Boxing Council (WBC) FECARBOX light welterweight title against Antonio Cervantes, his professional fighting weight varied from , i.e. lightweight to , i.e. middleweight", "id": "2810858" }, { "contents": "Abraham Jacob Hollandersky\n\n\nand skill that he would act as a sparring partner to prepare Jack Dempsey for his September 1920 Heavyweight Title bout with Hall of Famer Billy Miske as well as Dempsey's earlier bout when he first took the Heavyweight Championship from Jess Willard in Toledo. The 5' 4\" welterweight Hollandersky lost to Panama Joe, the younger and stronger Panamanian Light and Middleweight champion, and the accomplished middleweight Connors of Scranton, Pennsylvania, who had a five-inch height advantage. But he gave a closer fight to the Seattle welterweight Ryan before", "id": "10244386" }, { "contents": "Tommy Freeman (boxer)\n\n\nbout was Thompson's first title defense. Freeman held the title until his rematch with Jack Thompson on April 14, 1931 again in Cleveland where he lost by TKO in the tenth of fifteen rounds. The bout was stopped due to Freeman's badly battered left eye. He had a long career as a boxer, and remained fighting as a super welterweight until around 1937. He fought for a year as a middleweight from 1937-8. Best known of his middleweight opponents was Al McCoy who he fought on July 2 and", "id": "18569618" }, { "contents": "Alex Ramos\n\n\n. Despite losing his next fight, against future world super middleweight champion Murray Sutherland by a ten-round decision, Ramos was by then held along with the highest ranked middleweights of the era, such as Mustafa Hamsho, Wilford Scypion, Juan Roldán, John Mugabi, Curtis Parker and others. After knocking out Wilbur Henderson in three rounds on February 8, 1984, in Atlantic City, Ramos challenged Parker for his first career title, the regional, United States Boxing Association Middleweight championship. He won the title by beating Parker", "id": "10746327" }, { "contents": "Ken Buchanan\n\n\nYork State Athletic Commission on 4 April 1973. The commission also warned Duran that his title recognition would be withdrawn. The New York State Athletic Commission had been attempting for two years (1972 - 1974) to get Duran to honor an agreement to fight Buchanan. But Duran refused to honor the contract to face Buchanan. In 1973, Buchanan started out by beating future world lightweight champion Jim Watt by a decision after 15 rounds, to regain the British lightweight title. Soon, he embarked on another international tour that included more", "id": "13762576" }, { "contents": "Guillermo Jones\n\n\nin Panama by first round Knockout. Now aligned with promoter Don King, Jones fought two light middleweight WBA world title bouts against Laurent Boudouani in 1998. He drew once and lost the rematch by split decision in 12 round contests. Jones fought his way through four weight classes. Later fighting as a cruiserweight in 2002, he fought Johnny Nelson for the WBO World cruiserweight title, drawing in 12 rounds in his third world title attempt. Most in attendance thought Jones had done enough to win the title from Nelson. After yet", "id": "9043210" }, { "contents": "Tony Ayala Jr.\n\n\n. The rehabilitation program kept him from having a $750,000 payday against Roberto Duran. With the Duran fight didn't happen, Ayala settled for about $150,000 to fight Argentinian Carlos Herrera. 'It doesn't bother me,' he said. 'I'm looking at it as a step closer to the world title. Davey Moore is going to have to meet me after this fight.' After defeating Carlos Herrera, November 20, 1982, he was scheduled to fight champion Davey Moore. By December 1983, Ayala", "id": "10919402" }, { "contents": "Noé González Alcoba\n\n\nNoé González Alcoba (born 12 May 1979) \"the coal-miner\" is an Uruguayan boxer and a former world title challenger. He fights in the super middleweight division, having boxed at middleweight previously. Having boxed mainly in Argentina and Uruguay for much of his early career, he managed to land a shot at the WBA World Middleweight title after only 14 fights, challenging the then world champion Felix Sturm in Germany. The German proved too classy however and won the fight by a wide points decision, earning Alcoba his", "id": "20636614" }, { "contents": "Vicente Mosquera\n\n\nVicente Eduardo Mosquera Mena (born December 9, 1979 in Panama City, Panama) is a Panamanian professional boxer. He is a former World Boxing Association (WBA) super-featherweight champion. On April 30, 2005 he defeated Yodsanan Sor Nanthachai (Yodsanan 3-K Battery) for the WBA world championship title, by a unanimous decision. The official scorers saw it 118-108, 116-111, 115-112. In the fight, Nanthachai was knocked down three times (in the first, third, and eleventh", "id": "7687336" }, { "contents": "Iran Barkley\n\n\nof the Year by \"Ring\" magazine. Following the defeat to Duran, Barkley took on undefeated Michael Nunn for the IBF and lineal middleweight titles, dropping a close majority decision. He next fought Nigel Benn in a challenge for the WBO middleweight title and was stopped on the three-knockdown rule at the end of a wild first round in which both fighters were hurt. After losing to Benn, Barkley underwent surgery for a detached retina and was inactive for a year. Barkley returned with two low-key wins at", "id": "8203381" }, { "contents": "Abraham Jacob Hollandersky\n\n\nSox Scandal, the event brought to the forefront the corruption of American sports as it approached the roaring 20's. Abe met Attell in four three round exhibition matches at Empire Theatre while Attell was giving speaking performances in New London near the end of his boxing career. Abe claimed to have fought what was likely a sparring match with Canadian Heavyweight champion Arthur Pelkey, who was a Panamanian national heavyweight title contender in February 1917 at Panama's Santa Anna Plaza against Kid Norfolk, during the same period Abe was fighting bouts at the", "id": "10244396" }, { "contents": "Shane Mosley\n\n\n23-6, 14 KOs) at the Roberto Durán Arena in Panama City, Panama for the WBA Continental super welterweight title on December 17, in a scheduled 10 round bout. Both boxers came in at around the welterweight limit, with Mosley slightly heavier and López fighting for the first time in 13 months. López was knocked down in the 2nd round following a left hook and a further three times in the last round, which put an end to the fight. Mosley improved his ledger to 49 victories, with 41", "id": "18757243" }, { "contents": "Dick Turpin (boxer)\n\n\nchampion. In his next bout, on 28 June 1948, Turpin fought Vince Hawkins for his British middleweight title. The fight was held at Villa Park, Birmingham and Turpin won on points over fifteen rounds. He now held both the British and Commonwealth middleweight titles. During late 1948 and early 1949, Turpin fought European boxers, drawing and then losing on points against Tiberio Mitri, of Italy, then being knocked out in seven rounds in a non-title fight against the then world middleweight champion, Marcel Cerdan, of", "id": "19946190" }, { "contents": "Juan Guzman (boxer)\n\n\nat San Juan, Puerto Rico, the Vargas one at Coliseo Roberto Clemente. By then he was a top-ten ranked Junior Flyweight by the World Boxing Association. WBA world Junior Flyweight champion Jaime Rios of Panama was 18–1–1 when he came to the Dominican Republic to defend his title against local Guzman during June 1976. Their fight took place on July 2, at Santo Domingo. It was a close fight through 15 rounds, not much stylistically separating champion and challenger. At the end, however, Guzman was deemed winner", "id": "7404136" }, { "contents": "BC Golden Gloves\n\n\nJuly 1975, Lampkin was the number one contender for the lightweight title held by Panama boxer Roberto Duran. The tournament took place in January 1984 in Burnaby at the Boxing BC Training centre that would also be used as a training camp for the 1984 and 1988 Canadian Olympic boxing teams At the end of the tournament the Golden Boy for 1984 was boxer Michael O'Connell and the runner-up was Joe Pendry, and the best youth boxer was Deep Butter. Bert Lowes, Fred Fuller, Rudy Bianco, Sid Knopp Vic Murdoch,", "id": "20462754" }, { "contents": "Gunnar Jackson\n\n\nGunnar Jackson (born 6 July 1986, Wainuiomata, Lower Hutt, New Zealand) is a New Zealand professional middleweight and Super Welterweight boxer. Jackson has had over thirty fights and has achieved four boxing titles, and has a highest position on the World Boxing Organisation rankings of 10th. Jackson fought the biggest fight of his career in January 2014 against four-time world champion Anthony Mundine. Jackson lost by unanimous points decision. Jackson fought Kerry Hope in June 2015. Hope was originally scheduled to fight Michael Zerafa for the Interim", "id": "1347008" }, { "contents": "Davey Moore (boxer, born 1959)\n\n\nyears in prison. Next, Moore defended against former two-division world champion Roberto Durán. Moore appeared to be overconfident against an aging 'Hands of Stone' Duran but Duran totally outclassed him and dished out vicious punishment, hammering shut one of Moore's eyes and stopping him in eight brutal rounds at Madison Square Garden. The beating was so one-sided that Moore's mother and girlfriend were both said to have fainted at ringside. Many knowledgeable observers believed that referee Ernesto Magana should have stopped the fight far earlier.", "id": "6112527" } ]

[ { "contents": "Ossie Duran\n\n\nOssie \"The Ghanaian Gladiator\" Duran (born 23 April 1977 in Accra) is a Ghanaian professional boxer, whose career has spanned over 3 decades (1990's/2000's/2010's). He has won the Ghanaian lightweight title, World Boxing Federation (WBF) Pan-European welterweight title, WBF European Welterweight Title, United States Boxing Association (USBA) Atlantic Coast Region middleweight title, Commonwealth welterweight title, and Commonwealth light middleweight title, drew with Eromosele Albert for the vacant International Boxing Federation (IBF) Continental Africa light middleweight title,", "id": "5080778" }, { "contents": "Tom Bogs\n\n\nwins and one draw. He suffered his first defeat against the former world welterweight and middleweight champion Emile Griffith in a non-title fight in June 1970. Bogs won the European light-heavyweight title in 1968 when he stopped German champion Lothar Stengel in the first round of the bout. He successfully defended the title against Piero Del Papa before moving down to the middleweight division for a title match against European champion Carlos Duran. Bogs defeated Duran and went on to successfully defend his middleweight title three times before losing a rematch to", "id": "19397152" }, { "contents": "Angel Robinson Garcia\n\n\nand International Boxing Hall of Fame member Roberto Duran at the Gimnasio Nuevo Panama-now Gimnasio Roberto Duran-at Panama City. Robinson Garcia gave Duran a relatively close fight but still lost by unanimous ten-round decision with scores of 99-93, 98-94 and 98-96, all in favor of the Panamanian. Robinson Garcia went 1-4 the rest of that year, facing, among others, Esteban De Jesus in San Juan, Puerto Rico, to whom he dropped a ten-round decision on", "id": "1307045" }, { "contents": "Josue Marquez\n\n\n15 round distance with Roberto Duran in a world title attempt; completing a total of 25 rounds against Duran divided in two fights without getting knocked out by the Panamanian. Viruet knocked Marquez out in round ten on April 8, 1978 at the Juan Ramon Loubriel stadium in San Juan, after which Marquez decided to retire from professional boxing. Marquez won 32, losing 12 and tying 2 of his 46 professional boxing fights, winning 7 and losing 2 of those by knockout. Marquez turned to training professional boxers for a while after", "id": "17936127" }, { "contents": "Roberto Durán\n\n\n(fighting for the minor International Boxing Council (IBC) belt). Durán fought Vinny Pazienza in 1994 and 1995 for the IBC Super Middleweight Championship and was defeated both times by unanimous decision, but many people felt Duran clearly won the first bout and he was robbed of the victory. In 1996, he was challenged by Héctor Camacho for the vacant IBC Middleweight Championship but lost by a very controversial unanimous decision. In 1997, Durán was defeated by former champion Jorge Castro. Durán fought Castro in a rematch bout and won", "id": "16507032" }, { "contents": "Hector Thompson\n\n\nHector Thompson (born 24 June 1949 in Kempsey, New South Wales) is an Indigenous Australian professional boxer who competed in four different weight divisions, Lightweight, Super lightweight, Welterweight and Junior middleweight during the 1970s and 80s. In 1973 he beat Joe Tetteh for the Commonwealth (British Empire) Super Lightweight Title, earning a shot at Roberto Duran in 1973 for the World Boxing Association World lightweight but lost by TKO. After capturing the Commonwealth title again in 1975, later that year he would go on to challenge Antonio Cervantes", "id": "5995492" }, { "contents": "José Durán (boxer)\n\n\non October 8, 1976. Duran, fighting in his home city of Madrid, was knocked down in the third round by a left hand to the jaw. Although Duran rose from the canvas, he was outworked by the faster challenger and lost his title via a split decision in a fight where both boxers finished with bloody faces. In his final fight Duran challenged the Italian-Australian champion Rocky Mattioli for the WBC Light Middleweight title. The result was never in doubt, as Mattioli knocked Duran down in the second,", "id": "13817397" }, { "contents": "Goody Petronelli\n\n\n, who had earlier won the title from Antuofermo. Hagler bloodied Minter early, winning on a third-round TKO. The Petronellis would guide Hagler through 12 successful world title defenses over 7 years, including celebrated bouts against Roberto Duran and Thomas Hearns, before he lost to Sugar Ray Leonard in another controversial judges' decision, a split verdict in Leonard's favor. It turned out to be Hagler's final fight. Petronelli trained others who would fight in world title bouts: World Boxing Organization super middleweight champion Steve Collins;", "id": "13838256" }, { "contents": "Andres Hernández\n\n\nstreak came to an end when he traveled to Panama to fight world-ranked Gilberto Illueca, and dropped a ten round unanimous decision. Hernandez then started another streak of wins, this time reaching eight consecutive victories before facing another up-and-coming Puerto Rican bantamweight, Wilfredo Gomez. The pair met on Saturday, December 20, 1975 at Roberto Clemente Coliseum in San Juan as part of a boxing program that included fights of Julian Solis, Larry Holmes and Roberto Duran defending his world Lightweight title in the main event against", "id": "7680623" }, { "contents": "Panama Joe Gans\n\n\naspects of boxing by partaking in bouts organized by his classmates. Under the guidance of H.R. Cambridge, a local Panamanian business manager, and real estate developer, Quinton adopted his ring name, and became a successful boxer in the Canal Zone where he fought his first thirty fights with considerable success. On October 10, 1915, Panama Joe first won the Lightweight Championship of Panama at only eighteen against Young Sam Langford at the Pacific Theatre in Panama City in a twenty-round points decision. He later took the Middleweight Championship of", "id": "1295301" }, { "contents": "Roberto Durán\n\n\ndecision. The bout was named the 1989 \"Fight of the Year\" by \"The Ring\". His reign was short lived once again as Duran moved up to super middleweight (although both fighters weighed in at the middleweight limit) for a third clash with Sugar Ray Leonard in December 1989 (a fight dubbed \"Uno Más\"—One More—by promoters), which Leonard won by wide unanimous decision. Durán seemed to be in decline after the fight, he attempted to win further middleweight titles in 1994, 1995 and 1996", "id": "16507031" }, { "contents": "José Durán (boxer)\n\n\nat winning the world title. He travelled to Monaco to fight Miguel de Oliveira for the vacant WBC Light Middleweight title. de Oliveira, a native of Brazil, won the title via an unanimous decision after a bloody battle which lasted the full fifteen rounds. In his next fight Duran lost his EBU title in Germany to Eckhard Dagge, a man Duran had previously beaten by a technical knockout in the eleventh round. On this occasion, however, it was Dagge who scored the knockout, with the fight being stopped in the", "id": "13817395" }, { "contents": "José Durán (boxer)\n\n\nby scoring a knockout over Ben Hamida in the third round. After winning 22 consecutive bouts Duran suffered his first defeat, losing to Jean Josselin via an eight round decision on June 22, 1970. Duran was able to avenge this defeat on May 21, 1971, once again the fight went the eight round distance although Duran won the decision on this occasion. Duran won his first championship on June 7, 1974 by beating Jacques Kechichian and thus winning the EBU title. On May 7, 1975 Duran made his first attempt", "id": "13817394" }, { "contents": "Roberto Durán\n\n\nfight (the \"No Más\" fight was officially recorded as a technical knockout, because Duran quit). Durán did not contend another title fight until 1989, but made the shot count when he won the WBC Middleweight title from Iran Barkley in February. The fight is considered one of Durán's greatest achievements, as the 37-year-old former lightweight champion took the middleweight crown, his fourth title. In a tough, back-and-forth fight, Durán knocked Barkley down in the eleventh round and won a close", "id": "16507030" }, { "contents": "José Durán (boxer)\n\n\nninth round. Duran once again challenged for the world title on May 18, 1976. On this occasion Duran travelled to Tokyo, Japan to successfully challenge Koichi Wajima for the Lineal and WBA light middleweight titles. Duran started the fight well by opening a large cut on the champion's forehead and knocking him down in the second round. Wajima was knocked down once again in the thirteenth round before the fight was finally stopped in the fourteenth. Duran lost his title in his first defence, against the Argentine challenger Miguel Angel Castellini", "id": "13817396" }, { "contents": "José Durán (boxer)\n\n\nJosé Manuel Durán Pérez, popularly known as \"Pepe Durán\" (born October 9, 1945 in Madrid, Spain) is a former Spanish professional boxer. During his eleven-year professional career Duran held the Lineal and WBA light middleweight titles. He challenged for the WBC version of the title and held the EBU title. He also competed in the men's welterweight event at the 1968 Summer Olympics. Duran made his professional debut on November 30, 1967 in Barcelona, Spain. Duran made a victorious start to his career", "id": "13817393" }, { "contents": "Edwin Rosario\n\n\nopponent had boxed 25 rounds against Roberto Duran-including a world lightweight championship bout-without being knocked out. Rosario eventually gained a record of 21–0 with 20 knockouts. This led to talks of a title fight against World Boxing Council (WBC) lightweight champion Alexis Argüello, to be held in Miami. But Argüello relinquished the title in order to move up in weight to challenge junior welterweight champion Aaron Pryor. With Arguello moving divisions, Rosario was matched with Mexico's José Luis Ramírez on May 1, 1983 for the vacant", "id": "5267805" }, { "contents": "Ken Buchanan\n\n\nwin over Chang Kil Lee on 4 December 1972. On 28 June 1972, Roberto Duran signed to defend it against Buchanan on 20 October 1972. However, Duran broke that agreement when the Panamanian Government insisted he made his first defense in Panama. He did, knocking out Jimmy Robertson on 20 January 1973. Duran also had signed a second contract with the MSG on 25 October 1972, to defend against Buchanan on or before 30 June 1973. But Duran broke that agreement again. Duran had his license suspended by the New", "id": "13762575" }, { "contents": "Koichi Wajima\n\n\nhis Lineal and WBA light middleweight titles as well. However, he regained his Lineal and WBA titles in February, 1976, with a 15th round KO over Yuh. Wajima lost to Jose Manuel Duran in his first defense, losing the world title for the third time in his career. He fought his final match In June, 1977, challenging Eddie Gazo for the WBA super welterweight title, but lost by 11th round KO. This was the last fight of his career. His record was 31-6-1 (", "id": "20508599" }, { "contents": "Wilfredo Gómez\n\n\ndirected by Mario Diaz and was filmed in New York City. Gómez has three daughters Jennifer, Gina and Liz Irina and one son Wilfredo Junior. He is good friends with Panamanian boxing legend Roberto Duran. Gómez was once married to Carolina Gamboa. On April 17, 2015, Gómez was arrested by Puerto Rican police after allegedly hitting his 59-year-old companion, a lady with whom he had been living for ten months. He was released after she refused to raise charges against him. British boxer Michael Gomez adapted his last", "id": "3553965" }, { "contents": "Caleb Truax\n\n\nRichardson, and James Crayton. His professional loss came to former undisputed middleweight world champion Jermain Taylor (Truax knocked Taylor down in the 9th round.) Truax drew Ossie Duran in a 10-round non-title bout at the Target Center in Minneapolis. The bout was part of an eight-fight card promoted by Mike Tyson's new company, Iron Mike Productions. Mike Tyson was in attendance at the event, and said of Truax, \"I hear he is exciting and he is something that we need for boxing, he", "id": "16222269" }, { "contents": "Massimiliano Duran\n\n\nMassimiliano Duran (born November 3, 1963 in Ferrara, Italy) is a former Italian professional boxer who held the Cruiser WBC title and the European championship between 1990 and 1991. He is also known for being the only fighter in boxing history to earn a shot at, win, and defend a world title with three consecutive disqualification wins. Duran was born in Ferrara. His father was the Argentine-Italian boxer Juan Carlos Duran; his brother, the Italian boxer Alessandro Duran. Duran turned pro in 1986 when he defeated", "id": "13303578" }, { "contents": "Marvelous Marvin Hagler\n\n\na staple on HBO, the Pay Per View of its time. A fight against Roberto Durán followed. Durán was the first challenger to last the distance with Hagler in a world-championship bout. Durán was the WBA Light Middleweight Champion and went up in weight to challenge for Hagler's middleweight crown. Hagler won a unanimous 15-round decision, although after 13 rounds, Duran was ahead by one point on two scorecards and even on the third. Hagler, with his left eye swollen and cut, came on strong in the", "id": "4940319" }, { "contents": "Vinny Paz\n\n\nSantana fight, Pazienza went on to defeat Brett Lally by a 6th-round TKO, and then, in another TKO, former world champion Lloyd Honeyghan in the 10th round. Pazienza went on to win the vacant IBO middleweight world title in 1993 with an 11th-round KO over Dan Sherry. Pazienza then went on to beat Roberto Duran twice, both via decision, with the IBC super middleweight title on the line both times. In June 1995, Pazienza lost his world title bid against IBF world super middleweight champion Roy", "id": "12129878" }, { "contents": "Juan Carlos Giménez Ferreyra\n\n\nJuan Carlos Giménez Ferreyra (born 20 December 1960) is a Paraguayan boxer. During his career he was WBC International light heavyweight champion and unsuccessfully fought for the World Super Middleweight title four times, first against Mauro Galvano in 1992, then against Chris Eubank the same year, against Nigel Benn in 1994 and finally against Joe Calzaghe in 1998, losing via knockout. During his career he went the distance with Nigel Benn, Chris Eubank and Roberto Duran. Gimenez last fought in 2010, winning the Paraguayan Cruiserweight title against Nicasio Moray", "id": "17951209" }, { "contents": "Massimiliano Duran\n\n\nMomo Cupelic. The win earned him the nickname \"Momo\". Duran's first defeat came by the hand of Ndomingiedi Lusikina. This would be the beginning of a long-standing rivalry, that will result in the two boxers fighting five times. In 1990 Duran won the WBC Cruiserweight Title by defeating Carlos De León, when De León was disqualified for hitting after the bell to end the 11th round. Duran was leading on the cards. His first defence was against Anaclet Wamba. Duran won by DQ after Wamba had", "id": "13303579" }, { "contents": "Héctor Camacho\n\n\namateur career, Camacho won three New York Golden Gloves tournaments, beginning with the Sub-Novice 112 lbs championship in 1978. During his professional career, Camacho had many notable fights against some of the biggest names in boxing, defeating Roberto Durán twice late in Duran's career, and knocking out Sugar Ray Leonard to send him into permanent retirement. He also fought Julio César Chávez, Félix Trinidad, and Oscar De La Hoya, among others. During his later years, Camacho expanded his popular role and appeared on a variety", "id": "5327031" }, { "contents": "Eckhard Dagge\n\n\n. He would later embark on an amateur career, in which he won 66 out of 80 bouts, before falling short of making the 1972 Olympic Team. Dagge would win the German Middleweight title, in his 6th bout. Dagge would follow up with wins over notable, but faded fighters Denny Moyer and Manuel González. In 1974, Dagge challenged Jose Manuel Duran for the European Light Middleweight title, losing by 11th-round TKO. He came back the next year however, and stopped Duran in the 9th round, to", "id": "18853804" }, { "contents": "Antonio Cervantes\n\n\nLightweight champion Roberto Durán, who was coming up in weight. Duran decided to challenge Sugar Ray Leonard instead, however, and Cervantes vs. Duran never materialized. On August 2, 1980, Cervantes dropped his next title challenger, Aaron Pryor, to the canvas in the first round. Pryor recovered, however, and beat Cervantes by a knockout in round four. This turned out to be Cervantes' last world title fight. He fought two times more for the FECARBOX WBC title, winning both fights shortly before retiring in 1980", "id": "11465736" }, { "contents": "USA Tuesday Night Fights\n\n\nfighter by fighting several four rounders on \"Tuesday Night Fights\". Roberto Duran was another fixture on \"Tuesday Night Fights\" later in his career, and his 100th professional bout was carried by USA. \"Tuesday Night Fights\" also showcased the bizarre from time to time. Among these was a fight from former pro football star Mark Gastineau's controversial boxing career which saw him lose to a journeyman fighter, Andrew Golota's infamous fight against Samson Po'uha in 1995 which saw the Polish fighter, who appeared frequently on \"Tuesday", "id": "5898536" }, { "contents": "Jacques LeBlanc\n\n\n22 wins, 4 losses and 2 draws when he fought WBC Middleweight Champion Roberto Durán on June 29, 1993. LeBlanc was billed as a severe underdog but lasted the full 10 rounds with Duran, losing on points. LeBlanc fought the undefeated Richie Woodhall in October 1994 for the Commonwealth Middleweight crown but again lost on points. He continued boxing until 1997, but winning again only once. In 2010, Jacques was inducted into the City of Moncton Wall of Fame . He currently holds the record for most matches without being knocked", "id": "3179570" }, { "contents": "Andy Lee (boxer)\n\n\nResort Casino in Mashantucket, Connecticut, and won via technical knockout at 0:56 in the 10th round. He avenged his loss to Brian Vera on 1 October 2011 by unanimous decision. On 10 March 2012, Lee Knocked out Mexico's Saul Duran in the 2nd round of a stay busy fight. On 16 June 2012, Lee challenged undefeated Titleholder Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. for the WBC World Middleweight Title in the Sun Bowl Stadium in El Paso, Texas televised on HBO World Championship Boxing. Lee got off to a good start,", "id": "15093101" }, { "contents": "Joe Cortez\n\n\ntook on the responsibility to referee some major Championship fights. During this time he was the third man in the ring in several professional Mike Tyson and Roberto Duran fights. As eminent referees Richard Steele and Mills Lane retired at the dawn of the 21st century, Cortez became one of Nevada and New York's preferred boxing referees for world title fights. He has refereed over 170 world title bouts, among which figure the first Oscar De La Hoya-Julio César Chávez meeting, Evander Holyfield and Riddick Bowe's first title fight and", "id": "18491003" }, { "contents": "Reuben Duran\n\n\nnot for the injury, he would have gotten a stoppage. Duran would support his bold statement in his next fight as he claimed a victory over Ryan Diaz via KO with only 3 seconds left in the fight. In subsequent bouts, Duran submitted both Kana Hyatt and Maurice Eazel in the first round. Duran signed with the UFC in early 2011 and made his debut at UFC on Versus 3 against Takeya Mizugaki, replacing an injured Francisco Rivera. Duran lost the fight via close split decision. Duran faced Francisco Rivera on June", "id": "15069085" }, { "contents": "Héctor Camacho\n\n\n. Before this fight, Camacho was trained by Angelo Dundee. His last two fights resulted in a draw and a loss, against Luis Ramón Campas and Saúl Duran, respectively. His last fight against Duran was on May 14, 2010. On January 6, 2005, Camacho was arrested by police in Gulfport, Mississippi on charges of trying to burgle an electronic goods store and carrying the drug ecstasy on him. In 2007, he declared himself guilty of being under the influence at the time of the burglary. He was", "id": "5327048" }, { "contents": "Jack Blackburn\n\n\nhad a slight advantage in height and reach. Blackburn fought the Barbados-born boxer Panama Joe Gans, who had boxed extensively in Panama where he lived prior to 1917. Panama Joe held the World Colored Middleweight Championship from 1920 to 1924, and held a Panamanian Lightweight Title in his youth. On July 24, 1922, Blackburn lost one of his last bouts to Gans in Indianapolis, Indiana, in a fourth-round technical knockout of a scheduled ten round bout. Panama Joe was a formidable boxer and fourteen years younger", "id": "10094030" }, { "contents": "Vinny Paz\n\n\nHector \"Macho\" Camacho and WBA World Champion Loreto Garza. In 1991, Pazienza moved into the junior middleweight division. In his first fight at junior middleweight, he won the USBA championship against Ron Amundsen in a 12-round decision. He defeated the WBA world jr. middleweight champion Gilbert Delé with a 12th-round TKO in Providence, becoming the second fighter in boxing history to win both the lightweight and junior middleweight world championships. Pazienza was forced to relinquish the title due to a serious car accident in which his neck was", "id": "12129876" }, { "contents": "Roberto Durán\n\n\nvia unanimous decision. In 1998, at the age of 47, he challenged 28-year-old WBA Middleweight Champion William Joppy. Joppy, a trim, quick-fisted fighter, battered Durán to defeat in just 3 rounds. It was Duran's most emphatic loss since the Hearns fight, over a decade earlier. Durán then announced his retirement in August 1998, but was back fighting in 1999. In June 2000, Durán avenged a previous loss to Pat Lawlor and won the NBA Super Middleweight Championship on his 49th birthday.", "id": "16507033" }, { "contents": "Roberto Vásquez\n\n\nRoberto Gaspar Vásquez Ramirez (born May 26, 1983 in Panama City) is a Panamanian professional boxer who held the WBA light flyweight title from 2005 to 2006. He also held the WBA flyweight interim title from 2006 to 2007. Vásquez lost in his professional boxing debut against Angelo Dottin on March 17, 2001. The four-round fight occurred in Dottin's hometown of Colón, Panama. Despite Vásquez's cutting Dottin's right cheek in the first round, all three judges scored the bout 39-38 for Dottin.", "id": "15594966" }, { "contents": "Roberto Durán\n\n\nwith an incredible 71–1 record. On June 20, 1980, Durán captured the WBC Welterweight title by defeating Leonard via a 15-round unanimous decision (145–144, 148–147, 146–144). The fight became known as \"The Brawl in Montreal\". After defeating Leonard in Montreal, Duran gained iconic status in his home country, Panama. Leonard initiated the rematch clause and asked for the fight to be the following November. In their second fight, Leonard successfully changed his tactics, using more footwork and movement than he had in their", "id": "16507022" }, { "contents": "Roberto Durán\n\n\nfirst fight, and Duran was unable to get Leonard against the ropes. During the seventh round, after Leonard had gained a slight lead on the scorecards, he began taunting and mocking Duran. Halfway into the eighth round, Duran suddenly stopped fighting, repeatedly saying, \"No más\" (\"no more\"). In a 2016 interview, Duran claimed that what he actually said was, \"No Sigo\" (\"I won't go on\"). He took some time to recover from that fight and", "id": "16507023" }, { "contents": "Kirkland Laing\n\n\n. Laing's boxing career was sporadic, as he often failed to deliver on his promise, appearing under-prepared against less able fighters and indulging in drink, drugs and women. In the year following his victory over Duran, Laing went missing, blowing his earnings. In that same period Duran was to fight four times, earning an estimated $6m. Laing continued to fight until he was 40, and retired after a stoppage loss to future world champion Glen Catley. After retiring, Laing continue to live in", "id": "8014673" }, { "contents": "Jimmy Batten\n\n\nThomas stopped him in the ninth round to take the title. Batten won his next five fights before losing on points in May 1981 to Chris Christian. He then travelled to the United States, where he was based in Chicago for almost two years; There he had a series of fights starting with two easy wins before he was stopped in the first round in May 1982 by Mario Maldonado. He beat Jeff Madison in September before facing Roberto Duran in November 1982 at the Miami Orange Bowl; Duran took a unanimous decision,", "id": "22189495" }, { "contents": "Ray Lampkin\n\n\nRay Lampkin (born 1948 in Portland, Oregon) is a retired professional boxer who lost the 1975 World Boxing Association (WBA) lightweight title fight against Roberto Durán in Panama. He won the North American Boxing Federation lightweight title fight but later lost it against Esteban de Jesús at the Felt Forum in New York City. He finished his career with a total of 34 wins (16 by knock out), six losses (two by knock out) and one draw. Lampkin was inducted into the Oregon Sports Hall of Fame", "id": "279465" }, { "contents": "Roberto Durán\n\n\nthe end of the seventh. Finally the fight was stopped in the eighth round as Moore was taking such a horrific beating and Durán won his third world title. After the victory, Durán was hoisted up in the air as the crowd sang \"Happy Birthday\" to a sobbing Durán. Durán later fought for the World Middleweight Championship, meeting Marvelous Marvin Hagler in Las Vegas in November 1983, during the fight Duran broke his hand and lost in a very competitive fight that went the full fifteen rounds, although after 12 rounds", "id": "16507027" }, { "contents": "Harold Reitman\n\n\nprofessional record of 7-1-1, Reitman fought a three-round charity exhibition match against the five-time world champion Roberto Duran at the Hollywood Diplomat Hotel in Miami Beach. On November 11, 1991, Reitman fought heavyweight Tim Anderson for the NBA Independent Cruiserweight title in a televised fight. Though Reitman scored two 9th round knockdowns, the fight ended in a draw. In March 1992, Reitman was the 12th ranked Heavyweight boxer in the world according to the International Boxing Council. On December 12, 1995,", "id": "9844517" }, { "contents": "Jeffrey Mathebula\n\n\nlost to Celestino Caballero. Hence, Mathebula fought against Caballero for the WBA Super World and IBF World super bantamweight title. However, he lost his first world title shot against Caballero via a split decision at the Roberto Duran Arena in Panama on 30 April 2009. After losing to Takalani Ndlovu via a split decision in an IBF junior featherweight title eliminator in Brakpan, Gauteng in September 2010, Mathebula defeated Ndlovu via a split decision in their rematch in Brakpan to be crowned the IBF junior featherweight champion. It was the SABC-", "id": "16997776" }, { "contents": "Angel Robinson Garcia\n\n\nhim fight 12 times, including a September 10 loss by ten-round decision to future WBC world Lightweight-and Spain's second-Champion Pedro Carrasco at the Basque Country and a December 30 defeat at the hands of 19-2-4 Chris Fernandez by ten-round decision also. Robinson Garcia contested 17 bouts in 1970. These included an August 21 match with Jose Duran, won by Duran by ten rounds decision at Madrid and a November 20 bout with French Roger Menetrey which Menetrey won by ten-round decision", "id": "1307042" }, { "contents": "Sugar Ray Leonard vs. Thomas Hearns\n\n\nSugar Ray Leonard and Thomas Hearns are considered to be two of the best boxers of all-time. They fought twice, with Leonard winning in 1981 and a draw in 1989. Both fights are considered to be classics. Sugar Ray Leonard won the WBC welterweight title with a fifteenth-round knockout of Wilfred Benítez in 1979. He lost it to Roberto Durán by a close decision in June 1980 and regained it five months later in the infamous No Más Fight, in which Duran quit in the eighth round. In June", "id": "20124047" }, { "contents": "Brandon Gonzáles\n\n\nOlympic Team in 2004 he withdrew to begin his professional career in 2007. While boxing as an amateur he worked as a janitor at Arco Arena.. On January 29, 2010 Gonzales won a fight against veteran Dumont Welliver by T.K.O., the fight was on the undercard of ESPN's Friday Night Fights. He maintained an unblemished streak of 17 wins until his bout with Thomas Oosthuizen that resulted in a draw. On October 28, 2011 he defeated Ossie Duran in the Main Event on Showtime's ShoBox at Bally's in Atlantic City", "id": "18287532" }, { "contents": "Miguel Ángel Castellini\n\n\nManuel Duran, in front of a sell out crowd of 12,000. Duran, who was making the first defence of his title, was knocked down in the third round by a left hand to the jaw. Although the champion rose from the canvas, he was outworked by the faster challenger and lost his title via a split decision in a fight where both boxers finished with bloody faces. Castellini's championship reign only lasted one fight as he lost it in his first defence to Eddie Gazo on March 5, 1977. Gazo", "id": "13522966" }, { "contents": "Hilario Zapata\n\n\nwas knocked out in the first round by the WBC world Jr. Bantamweight champion Sung-Kil Moon. A win against Moon would have made Zapata a member of the exclusive group of world boxing champions in three different weight categories or more. It can also be added that Zapata's first pair of boxing gloves, when he was 12, came as a present from Duran himself. Panamanian newspaper \"El Panama America\" declared on one of their editorials that Zapata, according to their opinion, should be inducted to the International Boxing", "id": "9857520" }, { "contents": "Panama Joe Gans\n\n\nPanama Joe Gans was a black boxer who held the World Colored Middleweight Championship for four years, shortly before it was discontinued. Born Cyril Quinton Jr. on November 14, 1896 in Barbados, British West Indies and raised in the Panama Canal Zone, the 5'7\" Quinton originally fought out of Panama and then New York City. He took his ringname from boxing great Joe Gans, the first black American fighter to win a world boxing title. He found his greatest fame fighting as a middleweight at between 147 and 160 lbs,", "id": "1295299" }, { "contents": "Panama Lewis\n\n\nCarlos \"Panama\" Lewis (born November 4, 1945) is an American boxing trainer. He was convicted of tampering with the gloves of Luis Resto in the Resto vs \"Irish\" Billy Collins fight of 1983, which subsequently led to the end of Collins' boxing career. Collins suffered from depression and possibly committed suicide following the tragic assault. Lewis was a disciple of trainer Chickie Ferrara. He was Roberto Durán's cornerman when Duran lost a unanimous decision against Wilfred Benitez in 1982. During the early 1980s, he", "id": "11205984" }, { "contents": "Pernell Whitaker\n\n\nfight, he basically faced no real trouble against Vásquez in route to the win. This was a history making fight for Whitaker, as he became only the fourth fighter in history - joining Thomas Hearns, Sugar Ray Leonard, and Roberto Duran - to have won a legitimate world title in four different weight classes. However, he chose to move back to welterweight. Whitaker successfully defended his WBC belt against Scotland's Gary Jacobs on August 26, 1995. In January, 1997, Whitaker put his title on the line against", "id": "20971754" }, { "contents": "Carlos Palomino\n\n\nundercard. Palomino lost to Duran by decision in ten rounds, and he announced his retirement from boxing right away. Palomino began his comeback on January 10, 1997, beating Ismaél Díaz by a knockout in round nine. He won four fights that year, including one over former world champion Rene Arredondo, but when he lost by decision in ten to former Oscar De La Hoya world title challenger Wilfredo Rivera on May 30, 1998, he decided to retire for good, and has stayed in retirement ever since. In 1978", "id": "12841764" }, { "contents": "Roberto Durán\n\n\nRoberto Durán Samaniego (born June 16, 1951) is a Panamanian former professional boxer who competed from 1968 to 2001. He held world championships in four weight classes: lightweight, welterweight, light middleweight and middleweight, as well as reigns as the undisputed and lineal lightweight champion, and the lineal welterweight champion. He is also the second boxer to have competed over a span of five decades, the first being Jack Johnson. Durán was known as a versatile, technical brawler and pressure fighter, which earned him the nickname of", "id": "16507013" }, { "contents": "Joshua Clottey\n\n\nwelterweight title in his next fight. He then rolled off a 10 fight winning streak highlighted by his first win on American soil and capture of several minor welterweight and middleweight titles. The streak culminated in an IBF intercontinental welterweight title. On December 2, 2006, Clottey earned his first shot at a world title but broke his hand in the fourth round of his fight against World Boxing Organization champion Antonio Margarito. That bout against Margarito has since come under controversial suspicion following news reports (released after Margarito's fight with Shane Mosley", "id": "11102893" }, { "contents": "Aaron Pryor\n\n\nten years in prison after he was convicted of 29 counts of fraud and embezzlement. Pryor was then offered $750,000 to fight Roberto Duran in April 1981, but Pryor turned it down because his new attorney told him not to sign anything until he worked out a new contract with manager Buddy LaRosa. By the time they worked out a new agreement, the chance to fight Duran was gone. On June 27, 1981, Pryor knocked out Lennox Blackmore in the second round. He then defended the title against undefeated Dujuan Johnson", "id": "8987862" }, { "contents": "Roberto Durán\n\n\nChorrillo in the district \"La Casa de Piedra\" (The House of Stone) Panama. He began sparring with experienced boxers at the Neco de La Guardia gymnasium when he was only eight years old. Durán competed as an amateur compiling a record of 13–3. Having 16 amateur fights under his belt, he made his professional debut in 1968 at the age of 16. Duran won his first 31 consecutive fights, and scored knockout victories over future Featherweight Champion Ernesto Marcel and former Super Featherweight Champion Hiroshi Kobayashi, culminating in his", "id": "16507016" }, { "contents": "Wilfredo Gómez\n\n\nOn May 18, 2003, Gómez returned to Panama, where he was received by Duran and Eusebio Pedroza, among others. In a message geared towards Panamanians, he expressed thanks to that country, calling it his second country and saying, among other things \"I'm very motivated now that I will return to Puerto Rico, and no one should be surprised if I buy an apartment in Panama and move my family here\". However, he bought a house in Orlando, Florida in 2006. Gómez had a record", "id": "3553963" }, { "contents": "Jacob Duran\n\n\nSandman\" Sanchez before furthering his career in professional boxing and mixed martial arts. In boxing, Duran works on the Klitschko brothers and Andre Ward. On November 23, 2014 Duran was in the corner of Chris Algieri when he took on Manny Pacquiao for the WBO welterweight title at Cotai Arena, Venetian Resort, Macao, Macao S.A.R., China. On May 29, 2015, Duran was in the corner of Chris Algieri once again when he took on Amir Khan for the WBC Silver Welterweight title at The Barclays Center, Brooklyn", "id": "2958564" }, { "contents": "Edwin Rodríguez (boxer)\n\n\nEdwin Rodríguez (born May 5, 1985) is a Dominican professional boxer who lives in Worcester, Massachusetts. Starred in the box office hit Bleed For This as Roberto Duran Rodriguez moved to Worcester at age 13 with dreams of becoming the next great Dominican ballplayer. Winters in the Bay State made for a short baseball season and two years later, he abandoned the diamond for the ring. Rodriguez had an 84–9 record and won the USA Boxing Championships 2005 and the National Golden Gloves 2006 as a middleweight (165 pounds).", "id": "15244912" }, { "contents": "Steve Smoger\n\n\n, New York. On May 27, 2017 in Atlantic City, New Jersey Smoger became the first professional boxing referee to be inducted into the newly created Atlantic City Boxing Hall of Fame, joining Don King and Michael Spinks among other inductees. Smoger's Hall of Fame resume comprises five inductions Smoger has officiated the bouts featuring such professional boxers as Mike Tyson, Lennox Lewis, Larry Holmes, Evander Holyfield, Ray Mercer, Steve Cunningham, John Ruiz, Roberto Duran, Hector Camacho, Roy Jones, Jr., James Toney,", "id": "12530988" }, { "contents": "Panama Blue\n\n\nPanama Blue is rainforest spring water and a product of Panama Springs S.A. Panama Blue is a brand of luxury rainforest spring water. Panama Blue is the number one premium bottled water brand of Panama. The brand ambassadors are boxer Roberto Duran and Carolina Dementiev, a Panamanian model and triathlete. Panama Blue is bottled at the source in the mountains of Cerro Azul, surrounded by the Chagres National Park in the Panamanian rainforest. The spring is located about 800m above sea level. Because of the soil, the volcanic rocks and the", "id": "19226350" }, { "contents": "Roberto Durán\n\n\ngained even more weight to contend for the WBC Light Middleweight title, but losing in his first attempt at a championship in that division on January 30, 1982, against Wilfred Benítez by a 15-round unanimous decision, this after having defeated Nino Gonzalez and Luigi Minchillo, two rated Light Middleweights, both by ten-round decisions in non-title bouts. Durán was also to lose his comeback fight in September 1982 in Detroit. Kirkland Laing, from London, shocked the boxing world, producing the type of display his talents promised", "id": "16507024" }, { "contents": "Richard Green (referee)\n\n\nwas Muhammad Ali's loss to Larry Holmes in 1980. Green officiated two high-profile fights in 1982. Early in the year he refereed Wilfred Benitez's fight against Roberto Duran for Benitez's super welterweight title. Later he was the referee in the Ray Mancini's first-round knockout of Arturo Frias, a win that gave Mancini the WBA lightweight championship. On November 13, 1982, Green was assigned to work Mancini's second defense of that title, a match against the Korean contender Duk Koo Kim that was televised", "id": "8256032" }, { "contents": "Nat Jacobs\n\n\nNathaniel \"Nat\" J. S. Jacobs (born 1 December 1939) is an English amateur and professional boxer of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, who won the Central (England) Area middleweight title and challenged for the British Boxing Board of Control British middleweight title. His professional fighting weight varied from , i.e. welterweight, through light middleweight and middleweight, to , i.e. light heavyweight. He was managed/trained by former boxer Stan Skinkiss. Born in Manchester, Jacobs began his professional career in November 1960 with a points victory", "id": "16077543" }, { "contents": "Light middleweight\n\n\nOctober 17, was won by Griffith via a 15-round decision. Three days later, the World Boxing Association championship was created when Denny Moyer outpointed Joey Giambra. The World Boxing Council recognized the WBA champion as the true division champion until 1975, when it stripped their current champion and sanctioned a fight between Miguel de Oliveira and Jose Duran for the vacant title. De Oliveira won the title over 15 rounds in 1975. The International Boxing Federation crowned its first champion when Mark Medal defeated Earl Hargrove in 1984. The World Boxing Organization", "id": "11957407" }, { "contents": "Héctor Camacho\n\n\nhim in his career) to defeat Craig Houk by knockout in round three. He won consecutive unanimous ten-round decisions over Clinton McNeil and Raúl Jorge Muñoz. After that, his boxing career went on hiatus, as he faced criminal charges. He pled guilty to burglary and acknowledged drug abuse, but was given probation. Camacho returned to boxing on July 18, 2008, competing against Perry Ballard for the World Boxing Empire's Middleweight Championship. The fight lasted seven rounds. Camacho won when Ballard's corner threw the towel", "id": "5327047" }, { "contents": "Panama Joe Gans\n\n\nPanama by knocking out Benny McGovern in the third of fifteen rounds on November 30, 1916 at the Santa Ana Plaza in Panama City. At the time, these titles were often described as extending to both Central and South America. In his first bout after taking the Middleweight Championship of Panama on December 12, 1916, though barely twenty-one years old, he soundly defeated Abraham Jacob Hollandersky, a former holder of the Panamanian Heavyweight Championship in 20 rounds in Panama City. In 1917, Panama Joe was brought to New", "id": "1295302" }, { "contents": "Murderers' Row (boxing)\n\n\ncounted as Burley’s conquests. He was ranked in the top 10 in the Welterweight and Middleweight divisions for most of the 1940s, without receiving a title shot. (Burley did hold the World Colored Welterweight and World Colored Middleweight Championship titles.) Near the end of his career Burley took to fighting Heavyweights in a bid to find meaningful contests, including J.D. Turner and future Heavyweight champ Ezzard Charles. Eventually, Burley would retire after winning 83 bouts, without ever being able to meet in the ring the champions of the time", "id": "6667729" }, { "contents": "Reuben Duran\n\n\nadditions of wrestling, Brazilian jiu-jitsu, and Muay Thai. Reuben began his career with multiple fights for King of the Cage, and other small promotions in California. As an amateur competitor, Duran has distinguished himself by being a six time winner of Grapplers Quest. In a memorable match, Duran fought Greg Guzman, hiding his injuries that included 2 torn ligaments in his right hand. In spite of the injuries, Duran still earned the victory. Later, in an interview, Duran voiced his confidence that were it", "id": "15069084" }, { "contents": "Boardwalk Hall\n\n\n, Oscar De La Hoya, Roberto Duran, Lennox Lewis, Roy Jones Jr., Floyd Mayweather Jr., Bernard Hopkins, Riddick Bowe, Julio César Chávez, Héctor Camacho, Micky Ward, and Arturo Gatti. In September 2007, it was the venue for the Kelly Pavlik – Jermain Taylor boxing match for the World Boxing Council, World Boxing Organization and \"The Ring\" magazine's middleweight championships. On December 12, 1965, the New York Ukrainians defeated Philadelphia Ukrainian Nationals 3-2 in the first regulation indoor soccer match", "id": "5560408" }, { "contents": "Phil Edwards (boxer)\n\n\nmember of the public who was attempting to take a kick at the new champion. Edward's very next fight after his title success was against Nigerian boxing legend Dick Tiger. Tiger was a one-time world middleweight and light-heavyweight world champion, and Edwards showed his class by lasting the full ten rounds, losing on points. After the Tiger fight, Edwards was back to winning ways, and was victorious in his first four fights of 1958, defeating Commonwealth title challenger Lew Lazar, Scotland's John Woolard, journeyman", "id": "19060017" }, { "contents": "Carl Thompson (boxer)\n\n\nin February 1993. In February 1994, Thompson traveled to Ferrara, Emilia Romagna, Italy and won the European title by defeating Massimiliano Duran by KO in eight rounds, and in his next bout knocked out France's Akim Tafer in six rounds at Epernay, Marne, France to retain his European title. After winning two mark-time fights, Thompson was matched against Ralf Rocchigiani in a bout for the vacant WBO cruiserweight title at the G-Mex Leisure Centre, Manchester in June 1995. Both fighters were knocked down in", "id": "14087508" }, { "contents": "Luis Federico Thompson\n\n\nLuis Federico Thompson (December 19, 1927 – January 8 , 2010) was a Panamanian Argentinian professional boxer. Thompson was born in Colon, Panama, later moved to Argentina, where he was nationalized and afterwards became the Argentine and South American boxing champion. Thompson debuted in 1947 with a fight against Wilfredo Brown in Panama City which ended in a draw. On October 7, 1951, he fought Wilfredo Brewster defeating him and winning the Panamanian Lightweight Title for the first time. Two months later, he fought Wilfredo Brown again", "id": "20078674" }, { "contents": "Jawaid Khaliq\n\n\nJawaid Khaliq, MBE (born 30 July 1970), is a British former professional boxer. A dual Pakistan national, he became the first British Asian boxing world champion, winning the International Boxing Organization (IBO) welterweight title and defending it for seven constructive bouts before retiring. During his boxing career he also held the Commonwealth welterweight title, World Boxing Federation Inter-Continental Light Middleweight Title, Midlands Area light middleweight title and Midlands Area welterweight title. He is the first Kashmiri world champion boxer. Khaliq took up boxing at", "id": "22058424" }, { "contents": "Omar Sheika\n\n\nOmar Sheika (born February 20, 1977) is an American former professional boxer and multiple time super middleweight world title challenger. He is of Palestinian descent. Sheika compiled a successful amateur career, capturing a National Middleweight Championship at National AAU Boxing Tournament in 1996. Sheika has enjoyed some success in his pro career. His first fight was against Billy James. Sheika won the fight by TKO on the second round. Sheika stayed undefeated for about a year. Sheika was involved in ESPN Friday Night Fights \"Fight of the Year", "id": "7826746" }, { "contents": "Roberto Durán\n\n\nchampion the moment Durán stepped into the ring to box Hearns. Durán again made history in the fight, but this time it was the wrong kind. Hearns dropped Durán twice in the first round and as he rose to his feet after the second knockdown, which ended the round, the former champion did not know where his corner was. Hearns went on to knock Duran down a third time in the second round and the fight was stopped, marking the first time in his career that Durán had been knocked out in a", "id": "16507029" }, { "contents": "Wally Swift\n\n\nJohnny Pritchett due to an eye injury. Swift beat Peter Sharpe in May 1966 in an eliminator to face Pritchett, winning on points. In February 1967 he faced Pritchett at the Nottingham Ice Stadium for the title, losing on points over fifteen rounds. In September 1967 Swift faced Sandro Mazzinghi for the European super welterweight title in Milan; The fight was stopped in the sixth round due to injuries to Swift. In March 1968 Swift challenged Juan Carlos Duran for the European middleweight title. Swift lost the fight after being disqualified in", "id": "6876166" }, { "contents": "Hands of Stone\n\n\nup in Panama, Durán is homeschooled by Chaflan, who teaches young Roberto some vital life lessons. Later, Duran joins a boxing club with Nestor \"Plomo\" Quiñones as his coach. As he reaches 20, an American legendary boxing trainer Ray Arcel, who nearly lost his life after being attacked by an unknown assailant in 1953 in New York City and is now living with his wife Stephanie, notices Roberto's raw talent and punching power and takes the young fighter under his wing, becoming his coach. Not long after", "id": "2732439" }, { "contents": "Larry Estridge\n\n\nLarry Estridge (born 17 June 1902, St. Kitts, British West Indies) was a middleweight boxer and the last holder of the World Colored Middleweight Championship. The 5'7\" middleweight fought out of New York City from 1922 to 1929, racking up a career record of 53 wins against 23 losses and two draws from 1922 to 1929. Estridge fought colored middleweight champion Panama Joe Gans for his title on July 26, 1924 at Yankee Stadium, defeating the champ via a unanimous decision in their 10-round bout. After scoring two victories", "id": "1295287" }, { "contents": "Lennox Blackmoore\n\n\nLennox Blackmoore (born July 10, 1950 in Georgetown, Guyana) is a Guyanese professional light/light welter/welter/light middle/middleweight boxer of the 1970s and '80s who won the Guyanese lightweight title, Guyanese light middleweight title, and Commonwealth lightweight title, and was a challenger for the World Boxing Association (WBA) World light welterweight title against Aaron Pryor, and World Boxing Council (WBC) FECARBOX light welterweight title against Antonio Cervantes, his professional fighting weight varied from , i.e. lightweight to , i.e. middleweight", "id": "2810858" }, { "contents": "Abraham Jacob Hollandersky\n\n\nand skill that he would act as a sparring partner to prepare Jack Dempsey for his September 1920 Heavyweight Title bout with Hall of Famer Billy Miske as well as Dempsey's earlier bout when he first took the Heavyweight Championship from Jess Willard in Toledo. The 5' 4\" welterweight Hollandersky lost to Panama Joe, the younger and stronger Panamanian Light and Middleweight champion, and the accomplished middleweight Connors of Scranton, Pennsylvania, who had a five-inch height advantage. But he gave a closer fight to the Seattle welterweight Ryan before", "id": "10244386" }, { "contents": "Tommy Freeman (boxer)\n\n\nbout was Thompson's first title defense. Freeman held the title until his rematch with Jack Thompson on April 14, 1931 again in Cleveland where he lost by TKO in the tenth of fifteen rounds. The bout was stopped due to Freeman's badly battered left eye. He had a long career as a boxer, and remained fighting as a super welterweight until around 1937. He fought for a year as a middleweight from 1937-8. Best known of his middleweight opponents was Al McCoy who he fought on July 2 and", "id": "18569618" }, { "contents": "Alex Ramos\n\n\n. Despite losing his next fight, against future world super middleweight champion Murray Sutherland by a ten-round decision, Ramos was by then held along with the highest ranked middleweights of the era, such as Mustafa Hamsho, Wilford Scypion, Juan Roldán, John Mugabi, Curtis Parker and others. After knocking out Wilbur Henderson in three rounds on February 8, 1984, in Atlantic City, Ramos challenged Parker for his first career title, the regional, United States Boxing Association Middleweight championship. He won the title by beating Parker", "id": "10746327" }, { "contents": "Ken Buchanan\n\n\nYork State Athletic Commission on 4 April 1973. The commission also warned Duran that his title recognition would be withdrawn. The New York State Athletic Commission had been attempting for two years (1972 - 1974) to get Duran to honor an agreement to fight Buchanan. But Duran refused to honor the contract to face Buchanan. In 1973, Buchanan started out by beating future world lightweight champion Jim Watt by a decision after 15 rounds, to regain the British lightweight title. Soon, he embarked on another international tour that included more", "id": "13762576" }, { "contents": "Guillermo Jones\n\n\nin Panama by first round Knockout. Now aligned with promoter Don King, Jones fought two light middleweight WBA world title bouts against Laurent Boudouani in 1998. He drew once and lost the rematch by split decision in 12 round contests. Jones fought his way through four weight classes. Later fighting as a cruiserweight in 2002, he fought Johnny Nelson for the WBO World cruiserweight title, drawing in 12 rounds in his third world title attempt. Most in attendance thought Jones had done enough to win the title from Nelson. After yet", "id": "9043210" }, { "contents": "Tony Ayala Jr.\n\n\n. The rehabilitation program kept him from having a $750,000 payday against Roberto Duran. With the Duran fight didn't happen, Ayala settled for about $150,000 to fight Argentinian Carlos Herrera. 'It doesn't bother me,' he said. 'I'm looking at it as a step closer to the world title. Davey Moore is going to have to meet me after this fight.' After defeating Carlos Herrera, November 20, 1982, he was scheduled to fight champion Davey Moore. By December 1983, Ayala", "id": "10919402" }, { "contents": "Noé González Alcoba\n\n\nNoé González Alcoba (born 12 May 1979) \"the coal-miner\" is an Uruguayan boxer and a former world title challenger. He fights in the super middleweight division, having boxed at middleweight previously. Having boxed mainly in Argentina and Uruguay for much of his early career, he managed to land a shot at the WBA World Middleweight title after only 14 fights, challenging the then world champion Felix Sturm in Germany. The German proved too classy however and won the fight by a wide points decision, earning Alcoba his", "id": "20636614" }, { "contents": "Vicente Mosquera\n\n\nVicente Eduardo Mosquera Mena (born December 9, 1979 in Panama City, Panama) is a Panamanian professional boxer. He is a former World Boxing Association (WBA) super-featherweight champion. On April 30, 2005 he defeated Yodsanan Sor Nanthachai (Yodsanan 3-K Battery) for the WBA world championship title, by a unanimous decision. The official scorers saw it 118-108, 116-111, 115-112. In the fight, Nanthachai was knocked down three times (in the first, third, and eleventh", "id": "7687336" }, { "contents": "Iran Barkley\n\n\nof the Year by \"Ring\" magazine. Following the defeat to Duran, Barkley took on undefeated Michael Nunn for the IBF and lineal middleweight titles, dropping a close majority decision. He next fought Nigel Benn in a challenge for the WBO middleweight title and was stopped on the three-knockdown rule at the end of a wild first round in which both fighters were hurt. After losing to Benn, Barkley underwent surgery for a detached retina and was inactive for a year. Barkley returned with two low-key wins at", "id": "8203381" }, { "contents": "Abraham Jacob Hollandersky\n\n\nSox Scandal, the event brought to the forefront the corruption of American sports as it approached the roaring 20's. Abe met Attell in four three round exhibition matches at Empire Theatre while Attell was giving speaking performances in New London near the end of his boxing career. Abe claimed to have fought what was likely a sparring match with Canadian Heavyweight champion Arthur Pelkey, who was a Panamanian national heavyweight title contender in February 1917 at Panama's Santa Anna Plaza against Kid Norfolk, during the same period Abe was fighting bouts at the", "id": "10244396" }, { "contents": "Shane Mosley\n\n\n23-6, 14 KOs) at the Roberto Durán Arena in Panama City, Panama for the WBA Continental super welterweight title on December 17, in a scheduled 10 round bout. Both boxers came in at around the welterweight limit, with Mosley slightly heavier and López fighting for the first time in 13 months. López was knocked down in the 2nd round following a left hook and a further three times in the last round, which put an end to the fight. Mosley improved his ledger to 49 victories, with 41", "id": "18757243" }, { "contents": "Dick Turpin (boxer)\n\n\nchampion. In his next bout, on 28 June 1948, Turpin fought Vince Hawkins for his British middleweight title. The fight was held at Villa Park, Birmingham and Turpin won on points over fifteen rounds. He now held both the British and Commonwealth middleweight titles. During late 1948 and early 1949, Turpin fought European boxers, drawing and then losing on points against Tiberio Mitri, of Italy, then being knocked out in seven rounds in a non-title fight against the then world middleweight champion, Marcel Cerdan, of", "id": "19946190" }, { "contents": "Juan Guzman (boxer)\n\n\nat San Juan, Puerto Rico, the Vargas one at Coliseo Roberto Clemente. By then he was a top-ten ranked Junior Flyweight by the World Boxing Association. WBA world Junior Flyweight champion Jaime Rios of Panama was 18–1–1 when he came to the Dominican Republic to defend his title against local Guzman during June 1976. Their fight took place on July 2, at Santo Domingo. It was a close fight through 15 rounds, not much stylistically separating champion and challenger. At the end, however, Guzman was deemed winner", "id": "7404136" }, { "contents": "BC Golden Gloves\n\n\nJuly 1975, Lampkin was the number one contender for the lightweight title held by Panama boxer Roberto Duran. The tournament took place in January 1984 in Burnaby at the Boxing BC Training centre that would also be used as a training camp for the 1984 and 1988 Canadian Olympic boxing teams At the end of the tournament the Golden Boy for 1984 was boxer Michael O'Connell and the runner-up was Joe Pendry, and the best youth boxer was Deep Butter. Bert Lowes, Fred Fuller, Rudy Bianco, Sid Knopp Vic Murdoch,", "id": "20462754" }, { "contents": "Gunnar Jackson\n\n\nGunnar Jackson (born 6 July 1986, Wainuiomata, Lower Hutt, New Zealand) is a New Zealand professional middleweight and Super Welterweight boxer. Jackson has had over thirty fights and has achieved four boxing titles, and has a highest position on the World Boxing Organisation rankings of 10th. Jackson fought the biggest fight of his career in January 2014 against four-time world champion Anthony Mundine. Jackson lost by unanimous points decision. Jackson fought Kerry Hope in June 2015. Hope was originally scheduled to fight Michael Zerafa for the Interim", "id": "1347008" }, { "contents": "Davey Moore (boxer, born 1959)\n\n\nyears in prison. Next, Moore defended against former two-division world champion Roberto Durán. Moore appeared to be overconfident against an aging 'Hands of Stone' Duran but Duran totally outclassed him and dished out vicious punishment, hammering shut one of Moore's eyes and stopping him in eight brutal rounds at Madison Square Garden. The beating was so one-sided that Moore's mother and girlfriend were both said to have fainted at ringside. Many knowledgeable observers believed that referee Ernesto Magana should have stopped the fight far earlier.", "id": "6112527" } ]

[ { "contents": "Rodney Martin (squash player)\n\n\nRodney Martin is a former professional squash player from Australia. He is best known for winning the World Open in 1991, beating the legendary Pakistani player Jahangir Khan in the final 14-17, 15-9, 15-4, 15-13 (he had previously beaten another Pakistani legend, Jansher Khan, in the quarter-finals, and his Australian compatriot Chris Dittmar in the semi-finals). Martin was also part of the Australian teams which won the World Team Squash Championships in 1989 and 1991. Martin", "id": "20966392" }, { "contents": "Amr Shabana\n\n\nbeating Thierry Lincou in the final 15–14, 9–15, 15–11, 15–7, to become Egypt's first winner of the sport's premier title. But after a disappointing following year, in which his only final appearance was in the British Open Squash Championship in England, losing to David Palmer in four games 10–11 (4–6), 11–7, 11–10 (3–1), 11–7, Shabana stormed back to the top of his game in 2005. Over a short period, he acquired a new coach, Ahmed Tahir; a new manager", "id": "522232" }, { "contents": "Comparison of codices Sinaiticus and Vaticanus\n\n\n13:39a 13:39b 13:41 13:42 13:44a 13:44b 13:48 13:50 13:54 13:55 13:57a 13:57 b 14:1 14:2 14:3 14:4a 14:4b 14:5 14:7 14:9 14:12 14:13 14:15a 14:15b 14:15c 14:16 14:17 14:19a 14:19b 14:22a 14:22b 14:22c 14:23 14:24 14:26 14:28a 14:28b 14:29 14:35 14:36 15:3 15:4 15:5 15:6 15:11a 15:11b 15:12 15:14 15:15 15:17 15:17 15:17 15:22 15:22 15:27 15:30 15:31 15:31 15:31 16:6 16:9 16:12 17:10 17:15 17:17 18:7 18:14 18:16 19:7 19:10 19:12 19:16 19:22 21:16 21:17 21:19 21:28 21:33 22:1 22:11 22:40 23:3 23:8 23:35 23:35b 23:37 24:2 24:9 24:24 24:26 24:30 24:31 24:35 24:48 25:3 25:17 25:22 26:33 26:50", "id": "1385581" }, { "contents": "John White (squash player)\n\n\nJohn White (born 15 June 1973 in Mount Isa, Australia) is a former World No. 1 squash player. White finished runner-up at both the World Open and the British Open in 2002. He won the PSA Masters title in 2003 (beating Thierry Lincou in the final 15–8, 17–15, 17–16). He also won the British National Championships in 2004 (beating Lee Beachill in the final 17–16, 17–14, 14–15, 15–8). White reached the World No. 1 ranking in March 2004. White", "id": "14402929" }, { "contents": "2011 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship\n\n\nDraw 7 21:30 Draw 9 15:00 Draw 12 08:00 Draw 13 11:00 Draw 14 14:30 Draw 17 08:00 Draw 18 11:30 Draw 20 18:00 Draw 21 21:30 Draw 2 15:00 Draw 4 08:00 Draw 6 18:00 Draw 7 21:30 Draw 8 11:30 Draw 9 15:00 Draw 10 18:00 Draw 12 08:00 Draw 14 14:30 Draw 15 18:00 Draw 16 21:30 Draw 18 11:30 Draw 19 14:30 Draw 2 15:00 Draw 3 21:30 Draw 5 14:30 Draw 6 18:00 Draw 7 21:30 Draw 8 11:30 Draw 9 15:00 Draw 11 21:30 Draw 12 08:00 Draw 15 18:00 Draw 16 21:30 Draw", "id": "12545021" }, { "contents": "2016 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship\n\n\n8 21:00 Draw 9 8:00 Draw 10 11:15 Draw 13 21:00 Draw 14 8:00 Draw 15 11:15 Draw 17 17:45 Draw 20 11:15 Draw 21 14:30 Draw 22 17:45 Draw 23 21:00 Draw 24 8:00 Draw 25 11:15 Draw 1 12:00 Draw 2 16:00 Draw 4 8:00 Draw 5 11:15 Draw 6 14:30 Draw 7 17:45 Draw 9 8:00 Draw 11 14:30 Draw 12 17:45 Draw 13 21:00 Draw 15 11:15 Draw 17 17:45 Draw 19 8:00 Draw 21 14:30 Draw 22 17:45 Draw 24 8:00 Draw 25 11:15 \"Thursday, April 21, 17:45\" \"Thursday,", "id": "1156734" }, { "contents": "Codex Dublinensis\n\n\nει. Matthew 1:17-2:6, 2:13-20, 4:4-13, 5:45-6:15, 7:16-8:6, 10:40-11:18, 12:43-13:11, 13:57-14:19, 15:13-23, 17:9-17, 17:26-18:6, 19:4-12, 21-28, 20:7-21:8, 21:23-30, 22:16-25, 22:37-23:3, 23:15-23, 24:15-25, 25:1-11, 26:21-29, 62-71. The Greek text of this codex is a representative", "id": "16200586" }, { "contents": "Frisingensia Fragmenta\n\n\n15:13; 1 Cor 1:1-27; 1:28-3:5; 6:1-7:7; 15:1-1:43; 16:12-27; 2 Cor 1:1-2:10; 3:17-5:1; 7:10-8:12; 9:10-11:21; 12:14-13:10; Gal 2:5-4:3; 6:5-17; Eph 1:1-13; 1:16-2:16; 6:24; Phil 1:1-20; 1 Tim 1:12-2:15; 5:18-6:13; Hbr 6:6-7:5; 7:8-8:1; 9:27-11:7. 1 John 3:8 - 5:9.", "id": "5758263" }, { "contents": "Minuscule 506\n\n\n-30; 17:5-8; 24:22-24; John 1:1-7:39; 8:31-9:11; 10:10-11:54; 12:36-13:27; Acts 1:1-7:49; 10:19-14:10; 15:15-16:11; 18:1-21:25; 23:18-28:31; James 1:1-3:17; 1 Corinthians 12:11-15:12; 16:13-15; 2 Corinthians 13:4. 5; Galatians [5:16-6:1]; 6:1-18; 2 Timothy 3:10. 11; Titus 3:5-7. The Greek text of the codex is a", "id": "14754278" }, { "contents": "Rocky Carson\n\n\nthe finals by defeating Anthony Herrera and David Horn in the semi-finals, 15-9, 15-3. But in the final Carson and Allen lost to Jake Bredenbeck and Jose Diaz, 15-14, 15-11. He won the 2016 USAR National Singles Championships in Highlands Ranch, Colorado, where Carson defeated [[Chris Crowther]] in the semi-finals, 13-15, 15-12, 11-7, and then beat Diaz in the final, 15-10, 15", "id": "17077704" }, { "contents": "Codex Nitriensis\n\n\nno references to the Eusebian Canons. Gospel of Luke 1:1-13, 1:69-2:4, 2:16-27, 4:38-5:5, 5:25-6:8, 6:18-36, 6:39, 6:49-7:22, 7:44, 7:46, 7:47, 7:50, 8:1-3, 8:5-15, 8:25-9:1, 9:12-43, 10:3-16, 11:5-27, 12:4-15, 12:40-52, 13:26-14:1, 14:12-15:1, 15:13-16:16, 17:21-18:10, 18:22-20:20,", "id": "14992375" }, { "contents": "Del Harris (squash player)\n\n\n16–17, 15–8. That year Harris was also part of the winning England team in the 1995 Men's World Team Squash Championships and in addition he won the Super Series Finals event, beating Brett Martin of Australia in the final 10–8, 7–9, 9–4, 6–9, 9–2. Further success came in 1997 when he was once again part of the winning England team in the 1997 Men's World Team Squash Championships. Harris won the British National Squash Championships twice, in 1987 and 1989 and reached his career-high world ranking", "id": "20966690" }, { "contents": "2012 European Mixed Curling Championship\n\n\nDraw 14 8:30 Draw 16 15:30 Draw 1 19:30 Draw 2 9:00 Draw 3 12:30 Draw 4 16:00 Draw 5 19:30 Draw 6 9:00 Draw 8 16:00 Draw 11 12:30 Draw 13 19:30 Draw 14 8:30 Draw 15 12:00 Draw 16 15:30 Draw 17 19:00 Draw 2 9:00 Draw 4 16:00 Draw 6 9:00 Draw 7 12:30 Draw 8 16:00 Draw 9 19:30 Draw 10 9:00 Draw 12 16:00 Draw 15 12:00 Draw 17 19:00 \"Friday, October 5, 9:00\" \"Friday, October 5, 21:00\" \"Saturday, October 6, 17:00\" \"", "id": "19557062" }, { "contents": "2017 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship\n\n\n10 8:00 Draw 12 14:30 Draw 13 17:45 Draw 19 21:00 Draw 21 11:15 Draw 22 14:30 Draw 24 21:00 Draw 25 8:00 Draw 27 14:30 Draw 2 11:15 Draw 4 20:00 Draw 6 11:15 Draw 7 14:30 Draw 9 21:00 Draw 11 11:15 Draw 15 8:00 Draw 17 14:30 Draw 20 8:00 Draw 23 17:45 Draw 26 11:15 Draw 27 14:30 \"Friday, April 28, 9:00\" \"Friday, April 28, 12:30\" \"Friday, April 28, 16:00\" \"Friday, April 28, 19:30\" \"Saturday, April 29,", "id": "20611919" }, { "contents": "Coby Iwaasa\n\n\nIwaasa finished 3rd by defeating Tim Landeryou, 15-11, 15-9. He won the 2nd Selection Event that season in Brossard, Québec, where he beat Pedro Castro in the final, 15-9, 6-15, 11-8. In the semi-finals, Iwaasa beat Landeryou, 12-15, 15-4, 11-7. Iwaasa played seven tournaments in the 2014-15 International Racquetball Tour season, but only made it to the quarterfinals in the second last event of the", "id": "8038015" }, { "contents": "Jack Huczek\n\n\nthe semi-finals, 15-6, 9-15, 11-4. In the 2002-03 IRT season, Huczek was in four finals, winning the final event of the season: Pro Nationals in Tempe, Arizona, where he beat Alvaro Beltran, 11-4, 11-6, 11-8, in the final after defeating Rocky Carson in the semis, 11-1, 11-6, 11-7, and Cliff Swain in the quarters, 11-6, 15-", "id": "17077735" }, { "contents": "Samuel Murray (racquetball)\n\n\nNovember 2015, in Brossard, Québec, where he beat Mike Green in the final, 15-10, 15-13. He defeated Tim Landeryou to reach the final, 15-7, 15-12. In the 2nd Selection Event that season, he lost a tie-breaker to Landeryou in the semi-finals, 10-15, 15-12, 11-9. But he did win the 3rd place match against Pedro Castro, 15-6, 15-1. Murray played at the", "id": "7910649" }, { "contents": "1995–96 Regionalliga\n\n\n! 6 ! 7 ! 8 ! 9 ! 10 ! 11 ! 12 ! 13 ! 14 ! 15 ! 16 ! 17 ! 18 The Regionalliga Nordost ! 1 ! 2 ! 3 ! 4 ! 5 ! 6 ! 7 ! 8 ! 9 ! 10 ! 11 ! 12 ! 13 ! 14 ! 15 ! 16 ! 17 ! 18 The Regionalliga West/Südwest: ! 1 ! 2 ! 3 ! 4 ! 5 ! 6 ! 7 ! 8 ! 9 ! 10 ! 11 ! 12 ! 13 ! 14 !", "id": "13380860" }, { "contents": "2014 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship\n\n\nDraw 8 17:45 Draw 11 11:15 Draw 14 21:00 Draw 16 11:15 Draw 17 14:30 Draw 20 8:00 Draw 22 14:30 Draw 24 21:00 Draw 25 8:00 Draw 26 11:15 Draw 1 8:15 Draw 2 12:00 Draw 3 15:45 Draw 5 8:00 Draw 6 11:15 Draw 7 14:30 Draw 9 21:00 Draw 10 8:00 Draw 12 14:30 Draw 13 17:45 Draw 14 21:00 Draw 15 8:00 Draw 16 11:15 Draw 17 14:30 Draw 18 17:45 Draw 20 8:00 Draw 21 11:15 Draw 23 17:45 Draw 24 21:00 Draw 3 15:45 Draw 4 19:30 Draw 7 14:30 Draw 8 17:45 Draw", "id": "15498978" }, { "contents": "Rocky Carson\n\n\nto the final with a win over Chris Crowther in the semi-finals, 15-7, 15-10. Carson’s Men’s Singles World Championship in 2008 qualified him for the 2009 World Games in Kaohsiung, Republic of China, where he captured the silver medal in Men's Singles. Carson beat Canadian Mike Green, 15-9, 15-9, in the quarterfinals, and Mexican Alvaro Beltran in the semi-finals, 9-15, 15-7, 11-8, to set up", "id": "17077685" }, { "contents": "2018 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship\n\n\nDraw 27 16:00 Draw 28 19:30 Draw 1 9:00 Draw 2 12:30 Draw 3 16:30 Draw 5 8:00 Draw 8 17:45 Draw 10 8:00 Draw 11 11:15 Draw 12 14:30 Draw 13 17:45 Draw 18 17:45 Draw 19 21:00 Draw 21 11:15 Draw 22 14:30 Draw 25 8:00 Draw 26 12:30 Draw 27 16:00 Draw 2 12:30 Draw 4 20:00 Draw 6 11:15 Draw 7 14:30 Draw 9 21:00 Draw 10 8:00 Draw 11 11:15 Draw 12 14:30 Draw 14 21:00 Draw 15 8:00 Draw 16 11:15 Draw 18 17:45 Draw 19 21:00 Draw 20 8:00 Draw 21 11:15 Draw", "id": "3983102" }, { "contents": "Rocky Carson\n\n\nIRT season. Carson won the 2001 Pan American Racquetball Championships in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, where he defeated Canadian Kane Waselenchuk in the final, 15-9, 15-13. Carson was the defending champion at the 2001 USAR National Singles Championships, and had a chance to defend the title, but lost to Jack Huczek, 15-11, 15-6. Carson beat Dan Fowler in the semi-finals, 15-8, 15-10, to reach the final. Carson took a step back", "id": "17077670" }, { "contents": "Gail Emms\n\n\nKellogg. They defeated Koon Wai Chee and Li Wing Mui of Hong Kong in the first round but were defeated by Zhao Tingting and Wei Yili of China in the second round. She also competed in mixed doubles with Robertson. They had a bye in the first round and defeated Björn Siegemund and Nicol Pitro of Germany in the second. In the quarterfinals, Emms and Robertson beat Chen Qiqiu and Zhao Tingting of China 15–8, 17–15 to advance to the semifinals. There, they beat Jonas Rasmussen and Rikke Olsen of Denmark 15–6", "id": "555457" }, { "contents": "Wellington Rugby Football Union\n\n\nNew South Wales 9–5 1896 beat Queensland 49–7 1901 beat New South Wales 17–16 1905 beat Australia 23–7 (combined team with Wairarapa and Horowhenua 1908 beat Anglo-Welsh 19–13 1921 lost to South Africa 3–8 1921 beat New South Wales 16–8 1923 beat New South Wales 29–16 (combined team with Manawatu) 1925 beat New South Wales 20–8 (combined team with Manawatu and Horowhenua) 1930 beat British Lions 12–8 1931 beat Australia 15–8 1937 lost to South Africa 0–29 1946 lost to Australia 15–16 1950 lost to British Isles 6–12 1956 lost to South Africa", "id": "5981175" }, { "contents": "Samuel Murray (racquetball)\n\n\n, 7-15, 15-3, 11-7, and then lost to Mexican Daniel De La Rosa, 15-12, 15-7. Murray won the 1st National Team Selection event of the 2016-17 season in Valleyfield, Québec, where he defeated James Landeryou, 15-4, 15-4, in the final. In the semi-finals, Murray beat Landeryou’s older brother Tim, 15-9, 15-13. At the 2nd selection event that season in Calgary,", "id": "7910652" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from South Carolina\n\n\n5 ! rowspan=4 | 6 ! rowspan=8 | 7 ! 6 ! rowspan=3 | 7 ! rowspan=3 | 8 ! rowspan=9 | 8 ! rowspan=5 | 9 ! rowspan=4 | 10 ! 9 ! rowspan=5 | 10 ! rowspan=15 | 11 ! 11 ! 12 ! rowspan=2 | 13 ! 14 ! rowspan=5 | 15 ! rowspan=6 | 12 ! 16 ! rowspan=2 | 17 ! rowspan=6 | 18 ! rowspan=3 | 13 ! rowspan=3 | 14 ! rowspan=9 | 19 ! rowspan=6 | 15 ! rowspan=3 | 16 ! rowspan=16 | 20 ! 17 ! rowspan=3 | 18 !", "id": "20744133" }, { "contents": "Alejandro Landa\n\n\n-4. Then at the end of the year, Landa beat Jaime Martell in the final of the Alamo City Open in San Antonio, beating Bredenbeck in the quarterfinals and David Horn in the semi-finals to reach the final. In 2016, Landa successfully defended his Alamo City Open title by beating Cardona in the final, 15-6, 15-10. He defeated Andree Parrilla, 15-12, 15-11, in the quarterfinals, and Jaime Martell, 15-11, 15-13,", "id": "8690377" }, { "contents": "Minuscule 172\n\n\n; 5:2-16; 6:2-7:2; 7:16-8:10; 8:38-9:13; 9:26-39; 10:9-22; 10:43-13:1; 23:32-24:24; 28:23-James 1:5; 3:6-4:16; 2 Peter 3:10-1 John 1:1; 3:13-4:2; Jude 16-25; Romans 14:23 - 15:1.4; 1 Corinthians 3:15-15:23; 2 Corinthians 10: 14-11:19; 13:5-13; Ephesians 1:1-2:14; 5:29-6:24 Colossians 1:24-26; 2:4-7; 2 Thessalonians 1:1", "id": "8396043" }, { "contents": "Jack Huczek\n\n\nseeded #1, and in the semi-finals beat Michael Bronfeld, 15-2, 15-9, to reach the final for the second consecutive year. However, Huczek lost the final to Mike Guidry, 15-10, 12-15, 11-9. In 2002, Huczek again partnered with Eric Muller at the USAR National Doubles Championships, and they reached the finals before losing to Ruben Gonzalez and Mike Guidry, 15-7, 15-10. They defeated Jason Thoerner and Mitch Williams in", "id": "17077734" }, { "contents": "2010–11 in Hong Kong football\n\n\non 8 October. However, the heavy rain flooded the field, so the ball flow on the water and could not be kick. The match was abandoned at 14th-minute. The rematch played on 9 October, Hong Kong defeated the Philippines by 4–2. The 2010 Asian Games will play between 7 November and 27 November in Guangzhou, China. Hong Kong national under-15 football team won all the group stage matches in the championship, which hold in Guam. Hong Kong beat Chinese Taipei in semi-final but lose by", "id": "3640662" }, { "contents": "2016 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship\n\n\nDraw 11 14:30 Draw 12 17:45 Draw 15 11:15 Draw 16 14:30 Draw 18 21:00 Draw 21 14:30 Draw 25 11:15 Draw 26 14:30 Draw 2 16:00 Draw 4 8:00 Draw 6 14:30 Draw 10 11:15 Draw 11 14:30 Draw 13 21:00 Draw 16 14:30 Draw 17 17:45 Draw 19 8:00 Draw 24 8:00 Draw 25 11:15 Draw 4 8:00 Draw 5 11:15 Draw 7 17:45 Draw 9 8:00 Draw 10 11:15 Draw 11 14:30 Draw 14 8:00 Draw 16 14:30 Draw 18 21:00 Draw 23 21:00 Draw 26 14:30 Draw 2 16:00 Draw 3 20:00 Draw 6 14:30 Draw", "id": "1156733" }, { "contents": "Easter Vigil\n\n\n-16; 3. Exodus 12:1-11; 4. Jonah 1:1-4:11; 5. Joshua 5:10-15; 6. Exodus 13:20-15:19; 7. Zephaniah 3:8-15; 8. 3 Kings 17:8-24; 9. Isaiah 61:10-62:5; 10. Genesis 22:1-18; 11. Isaiah 61:1-9; 12. 4 Kings 4:8-37; 13. Isaiah 63:11-64:5; 14. Jeremiah 31:31-34; 15. Daniel 3:1-68. It is during these", "id": "3156542" }, { "contents": "Jackie Paraiso\n\n\nBrodeur, 15-8, 15-6, in 2008. In between, she won three straight World Championships in 1994, 1996, and 1998. Laura Fenton was Paraiso's partner in 1994, when they beat Vicky Shanks and Debbie Ward of Canada, 15-9, 15-7. Then in 1996 and 1998, Paraiso's twin sister Joy MacKenzie was her partner, as they beat Shanks and Ward in 1996, 15-11, 15-4, and Shanks and Grand'Maître in 1998, 15-", "id": "21029455" }, { "contents": "Jahangir Khan\n\n\nover Jahangir in September 1987, beating him in straight games in the semi-finals of the Hong Kong Open. Jansher then went on to beat Jahangir in their next eight consecutive encounters and capture the 1987 World Open title. Jahangir ended Jansher's winning streak in March 1988, and went on to win 11 of their next 15 encounters. The pair met in the 1988 World Open final, with Jahangir emerging the victor. But by that point it had become clear that squash now had two dominant players. The pair would", "id": "414920" }, { "contents": "Samuel Murray (racquetball)\n\n\ncame 3rd, as they lost to Green and Trevor Webb in the semi-finals, 15-13, 4-15, 11-5, but beat Lee Connell and Nathaniel Husulak, 15-9, 16-14. Murray won the 1st National Team Selection event of the 2017-18 season, as he defeated Tim Landeryou, 15-3, 15-8, in the final. In the semi-finals, Murray beat Coby Iwaasa, 15-11, 15-8. Murray and Landeryou", "id": "7910655" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Maine\n\n\n| 4 ! rowspan=3 | 7 ! rowspan=6 | 5 ! 8 ! rowspan=6 | 9 ! rowspan=9 | 6 ! 10 ! rowspan=2 | 11 ! rowspan=7 | 12 ! 7 ! rowspan=3 | 8 ! rowspan=10 | 13 ! rowspan=4 | 9 ! rowspan=4 | 10 ! rowspan=17 | 14 ! rowspan=16 | 11 ! rowspan=7 | 15 ! 12 ! rowspan=2 | 13 ! rowspan=6 | 14 ! rowspan=14 | 16 ! rowspan=3 | 15 ! rowspan=9 | 16 ! rowspan=6 | 17 ! rowspan=13 | 17 ! rowspan=3 | 18 ! rowspan=11 | 19 ! rowspan=3", "id": "20744038" }, { "contents": "Men's Home Internationals\n\n\nafternoon. Scotland and England beat Ireland and Wales on the first two days. On the final day Scotland beat England 8–7 to win the title while Ireland beat Wales 9½–5½. The 1933 tournament was held at Royal County Down Golf Club from 14 to 16 September. The results of all six matches was the same as in 1932, Scotland beating England in the decisive match. In the 1934 tournament at Royal Porthcawl Golf Club from 15 to 17 August, Ireland beat England on the opening day. With Scotland beating England, Scotland retained", "id": "17763243" }, { "contents": "Codex Vaticanus 2061\n\n\nwas . The surviving leaves contain texts (according to Nestle-Aland 26th): Acts 26:6-27:4, 28:3-31; James 4:14-5:20; 1 Peter 1:1-12; 2 Peter 2:4-8, 2:13-3:15; 1 John 4:6-5:13, 5:17-18, 5:21; 2 John; 3 John; Romans 13:4-15:9; 1 Corinthians 2:1-3:11, 3:22, 4:4-6, 5:5-11, 6:3-11, 12:23-15:17, 15:20-27; 2 Corinthians 4:7", "id": "9378418" }, { "contents": "2012 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship\n\n\n17:45 Draw 11 21:00 Draw 12 8:00 Draw 13 11:15 Draw 14 14:30 Draw 15 17:45 Draw 16 21:00 Draw 17 8:00 Draw 18 11:15 Draw 19 14:30 Draw 20 17:45 Draw 21 21:00 Draw 23 11:15 Draw 1 18:45 Draw 3 11:15 Draw 5 17:45 Draw 6 21:00 Draw 8 11:15 Draw 10 17:45 Draw 12 8:00 Draw 13 11:15 Draw 14 14:30 Draw 15 17:45 Draw 16 21:00 Draw 18 11:15 Draw 20 17:45 Draw 22 8:00 Draw 1 18:45 Draw 2 8:00 Draw 3 11:15 Draw 4 14:30 Draw 5 17:45 Draw 6 21:00 Draw 7 8:00", "id": "8246326" }, { "contents": "2016 Bangladesh Championship League\n\n\nBank SC (15-16) 14 6 2 6 13 - 14 -1 20 4 Bangladesh Police Athletic Club (15-16) 14 4 6 4 11 - 9 2 18 5 T&T Club (15-16) 14 4 5 5 14 - 14 0 17 6 Victoria SC (15-16) 14 3 5 6 14 - 16 -2 14 7 Kawran Bazar (15-16) 14 2 8 4 7 - 12 -5 14 8 Chittagong Mohammedan (15-16) 14 2 4 8 13 -", "id": "13232613" }, { "contents": "Timeline of the 2012 Pacific hurricane season\n\n\nJune 16 June 17 July 4 July 5 July 7 July 8 July 9 July 10 July 11 July 12 July 13 July 14 July 15 July 16 July 18 August 7 August 8 August 9 August 11 August 12 August 15 August 17 August 27 August 30 August 31 September 2 September 3 September 4 September 12 September 14 September 15 September 16 September 17 September 18 September 19 September 22 September 24 September 25 September 26 September 27 September 28 September 29 October 6 October 7 October 9 October 13 October 15 October 16 October 17 October 30", "id": "21319682" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Missouri\n\n\n! rowspan=3 | 12 ! rowspan=18 | 6 ! 13 ! 14 ! rowspan=12 | 15 ! rowspan=9 | 16 ! rowspan=3 | 7 ! rowspan=15 | 8 ! 17 ! rowspan=5 | 18 ! 19 ! rowspan=4 | 20 ! rowspan=4 | 9 ! rowspan=7 | 21 ! rowspan=6 | 10 ! rowspan=4 | 22 ! 11 ! rowspan=3 | 12 ! rowspan=5 | 23 ! rowspan=15 | 13 ! rowspan=5 | 24 ! rowspan=11 | 25 ! rowspan=10 | 14 ! rowspan=13 | 26 ! rowspan=3 | 15 ! 16 ! rowspan=3 | 17 ! rowspan=6 | 18", "id": "20744052" }, { "contents": "Chris Marlowe\n\n\n15, 13-15, 15-9, 15-11, 15-12 for a 3-2 win. The win set up a championship final between San Diego State and the Bruins. In the championship match SDSU jumped out 2 games to none, and with an 8-3 lead in the third appeared ready for a three-game sweep. However the Bruins rallied back to win it, 10-15, 9-15, 15-9, 15-10, 15-7. UCLA", "id": "21040396" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Virginia\n\n\n| 4 ! 5 ! rowspan=2 | 6 ! 7 ! 5 ! rowspan=3 | 8 ! rowspan=8 | 6 ! rowspan=3 | 9 ! rowspan=14 | 10 ! 7 ! rowspan=2 | 8 ! rowspan=2 | 9 ! rowspan=2 | 10 ! rowspan=7 | 11 ! 11 ! rowspan=9 | 12 ! rowspan=2 | 12 ! rowspan=4 | 13 ! rowspan=9 | 13 ! rowspan=2 | 14 ! rowspan=3 | 15 ! rowspan=6 | 16 ! 14 ! rowspan=9 | 15 ! rowspan=8 | 17 ! 16 ! rowspan=3 | 18 ! 17 ! rowspan=4 | 18 ! rowspan=8", "id": "20744171" }, { "contents": "Jennifer Saunders (racquetball)\n\n\ntogether that year, in the final, 15-6, 8-15, 11-8. But Saunders didn’t successfully defend her Women's Singles title, although she did get to the final for a third straight year. In the semi-finals, Saunders beat Grand'Maître in the semi-finals, 15-7, 15-8, but in the final, she narrowly lost to Powell, 8-15, 15-4, 13-11. Her performances helped to earn Saunders a spot on", "id": "14324066" }, { "contents": "2018 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship\n\n\nThe 2018 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship was held from April 21 to 28 at the Östersund Arena in Östersund, Sweden. The event was held in conjunction with the 2018 World Senior Curling Championships. \"Final Round Robin Standings\" All draw times are listed in CEST (UTC+2) Draw 1 9:00 Draw 4 20:00 Draw 6 11:15 Draw 7 14:30 Draw 8 17:45 Draw 9 21:00 Draw 10 8:00 Draw 13 17:45 Draw 15 8:00 Draw 16 11:15 Draw 17 14:30 Draw 18 17:45 Draw 20 8:00 Draw 22 14:30 Draw 24 21:00 Draw 26", "id": "3983100" }, { "contents": "Carla Khan\n\n\nInternational, where she came from behind to beat Melissa Martin from Australia, 3–9, 4–9, 9–4, 9–7, 9–3. She broke into the top 30. At the Irish Open in 2004, Khan defeated Nicol David of Malaysia (who was ranked number 9 in the world at that time) on 15 April 2004, and achieved her highest ranking of 21. In 2005, Khan lost in the final of the Forbes Open to England's Alison Walters. However, she made it to the final of the 1st POF", "id": "9884495" }, { "contents": "Codex Climaci Rescriptus\n\n\n9-21; 9:30;10:3-9; 15:11-21 I Corin. 1:6-23; 4:1-15; 13: 4-11; 14:4-7; 14:8-14; 14:24-37; 15:3-10; 15:24-49; 16:16-24 II Corin. 1:23-2: 4-11; 4:18-5:6; 5:6-12; 6:3-16; 7:3-8 Galat. 1:1-23; 3:20-24; 4:2; 4:4-29; 5:1; 5:24; 6:4-12", "id": "9480761" }, { "contents": "2014 World Senior Curling Championships – Men's tournament\n\n\n7:30 Draw 6 11:00 Draw 8 18:00 Draw 9 21:30 Draw 12 15:30 Draw 13 19:00 Draw 15 11:00 Draw 16 14:30 Draw 18 21:30 Draw 20 12:00 Draw 22 19:00 Draw 23 8:30 Draw 1 8:00 Draw 4 19:30 Draw 6 11:00 Draw 7 14:30 Draw 10 8:30 Draw 11 12:00 Draw 14 7:30 Draw 15 11:00 Draw 16 14:30 Draw 17 18:00 Draw 19 08:30 Draw 21 15:30 \"Tuesday, April 29, 14:00\" \"Tuesday, April 29, 19:30\" \"Wednesday, April 30, 8:00\" \"Wednesday, April 30,", "id": "16343740" }, { "contents": "2017 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship\n\n\nThe 2017 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship was held from April 22 to 29 at the Lethbridge Curling Club in Lethbridge, Canada. The event was held in conjunction with the 2017 World Senior Curling Championships. \"Final Round Robin Standings\" All draw times are listed in MDT (UTC-6). Draw 1 8:00 Draw 7 14:30 Draw 9 21:00 Draw 10 8:00 Draw 11 11:15 Draw 13 17:45 Draw 15 8:00 Draw 17 14:30 Draw 18 17:45 Draw 21 11:15 Draw 22 14:30 Draw 24 21:00 Draw 25 8:00 Draw 3 15:00 Draw 4 8:00", "id": "20611917" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Kansas\n\n\nrowspan=2 | 3 ! rowspan=12 | 2 ! 4 ! rowspan=2 | 5 ! rowspan=8 | 6 ! rowspan=5 | 3 ! 7 ! 8 ! rowspan=3 | 9 ! rowspan=3 | 4 ! rowspan=3 | 10 ! rowspan=6 | 5 ! 11 ! rowspan=4 | 12 ! rowspan=3 | 6 ! rowspan=3 | 13 ! rowspan=7 | 7 ! rowspan=17 | 14 ! 8 ! rowspan=5 | 9 ! rowspan=6 | 10 ! rowspan=10 | 15 ! 11 ! rowspan=12 | 12 ! rowspan=9 | 16 ! rowspan=15 | 13 ! rowspan=12 | 17 ! 14 ! rowspan=8 |", "id": "20743950" }, { "contents": "1977 NCAA Division I football season\n\n\nto move to third, and the Wolverines returned to the top: 1.Michigan 2.Texas 3.Colorado 4.Alabama 5.Ohio State October 15 No. 1 Michigan beat No. 14 Wisconsin 56–0, and No. 2 Texas won at No. 7 Arkansas, 13–9. No. 3 Colorado played at Kansas, a 17–17 tie. No. 4 Alabama beat Tennessee in Birmingham, 24–10. No. 5 Ohio State beat Iowa 27–6. No. 6 USC beat Oregon 33–15 to return to the top five: 1.Michigan 2.Texas 3.Alabama 4.Ohio State 5.USC October 22", "id": "8560170" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Texas\n\n\n3 ! rowspan=6 | 6 ! rowspan=11 | 4 ! rowspan=3 | 7 ! 8 ! rowspan=4 | 9 ! rowspan=3 | 5 ! rowspan=15 | 10 ! rowspan=6 | 6 ! 7 ! rowspan=16 | 8 ! rowspan=3 | 11 ! rowspan=16 | 12 ! 9 ! rowspan=4 | 10 ! rowspan=8 | 11 ! rowspan=3 | 13 ! 14 ! rowspan=8 | 15 ! 12 ! rowspan=12 | 13 ! rowspan=12 | 16 ! rowspan=12 | 14 ! 17 ! rowspan=12 | 18 ! rowspan=10 | 15 ! rowspan=5 | 19 , there are three living former senators", "id": "20744168" }, { "contents": "Samuel Murray (racquetball)\n\n\nIwaasa, 9-15, 15-6, 11-6. He also defeated Iwaasa in the 2nd National Team Selection Event in Grande Prairie, Alberta, 15-10, 15-10. He defeated Pedro Castro in the semi-finals, 15-6, 15-9. Murray began the 2018-19 IRT season strongly, as he made his first final at the first event of the season - the 2018 MWRA Season Opener IRT Pro/Am in Laurel, Maryland, where he beat Alejandro Landa", "id": "7910660" }, { "contents": "Alejandro Landa\n\n\ntwo of them. Both wins came in Juarez, Mexico. He defeated Javier Moreno in April and then beat Jake Bredenbeck in August, 15–10, 15-10. Landa reached the semi-finals at the US Open for the first time in 2014, as he beat Jose Rojas in the Round of 16, 3-11, 11-9, 14-12, 6-11, 11-4 and Daniel De La Rosa in the quarterfinals, 11-2, 11-8, 11-6,", "id": "8690374" }, { "contents": "Hong Kong Women's Sevens\n\n\nFinals Canada 35–14 Netherlands Kazakhstan 12–7 China USA 45–0 Arabian Gulf France 15–7 Japan 9th to 12th Semi Finals Hong Kong 15–0 Singapore Papua New Guinea 0–29 Thailand Bowl (5th to 8th) Semi Finals Netherlands 5–5 China (China win on try countback) Arabian Gulf 0–10 Japan Cup Semi Finals Canada 26–0 Kazakhstan USA 5–0 France 11th Place Singapore 5–17 Papua New Guinea 9th Place Hong Kong 15–7 Thailand 7th Place Netherlands 19–0 Arabian Gulf Bowl Final China 17–7 Japan Plate Final France 24–0 Kazakhstan Cup Final USA 21–7 Canada 27 March 2009 at Hong Kong.", "id": "7314433" }, { "contents": "Badminton at the 1981 World Games\n\n\n10 4. William Gilliland/Daniel Travers (Scotland) d. Egbeyemi/Badiru (Nigeria), 15-6, 15-6 Semi-finals 1. Sun Zhian/Yao Ximing d. Kartono/Heryanto, 3-15, 15-11, 15-8 2. Kihlstrom/Karlsson d. Gilliland/Travers, 10-15, 15-0, 15-9 Final Sun Zhian/Yao Ximing d. Kihlstrom/Karlsson, 12-15, 15-4, 15-6. Bronze medals: Kartono", "id": "1386468" }, { "contents": "2018 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship\n\n\n12:30 Draw 27 16:00 Draw 1 9:00 Draw 3 16:30 Draw 5 8:00 Draw 11 11:15 Draw 12 14:30 Draw 14 21:00 Draw 15 8:00 Draw 17 14:30 Draw 18 17:45 Draw 19 21:00 Draw 20 8:00 Draw 21 11:15 Draw 22 14:30 Draw 23 17:45 Draw 24 21:00 Draw 28 19:30 Draw 2 12:30 Draw 3 16:30 Draw 4 20:00 Draw 6 11:15 Draw 7 14:30 Draw 9 21:00 Draw 11 11:15 Draw 13 17:45 Draw 14 21:00 Draw 16 11:15 Draw 17 14:30 Draw 20 8:00 Draw 22 14:30 Draw 23 17:45 Draw 25 9:00 Draw 26 12:30", "id": "3983101" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Colorado\n\n\nrowspan=5 | 5 ! rowspan=3 | 8 ! rowspan=9 | 9 ! rowspan=2 | 6 ! 7 ! rowspan=2 | 8 ! rowspan=3 | 9 ! rowspan=6 | 10 ! 10 ! 11 ! rowspan=5 | 12 ! rowspan=11 | 11 ! rowspan=8 | 13 ! rowspan=9 | 12 ! rowspan=3 | 14 ! rowspan=6 | 15 ! rowspan=3 | 13 ! rowspan=6 | 16 ! rowspan=6 | 14 ! rowspan=3 | 17 ! rowspan=4 | 15 ! rowspan=7 | 18 ! rowspan=6 | 16 ! rowspan=3 | 19 ! rowspan=4 | 17 ! rowspan=7 | 20 ! rowspan=3 |", "id": "20743826" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Arkansas\n\n\nrowspan=3 | 6 ! rowspan=5 | 6 ! rowspan=3 | 7 ! rowspan=11 | 8 ! rowspan=11 | 7 ! rowspan=10 | 9 ! rowspan=3 | 8 ! 9 ! 10 ! rowspan=17 | 11 ! rowspan=3 | 10 ! rowspan=6 | 11 ! rowspan=11 | 12 ! rowspan=3 | 12 ! 13 ! rowspan=19 | 14 ! rowspan=15 | 13 ! rowspan=14 | 14 ! 15 ! rowspan=9 | 16 ! rowspan=3 | 17 ! rowspan=6 | 15 ! rowspan=6 | 18 ! rowspan=6 | 16 ! rowspan=3 | 19 , there are five living former senators. The", "id": "20743822" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from New Hampshire\n\n\n! rowspan=3 | 9 ! rowspan=3 | 10 ! rowspan=5 | 8 ! 11 ! rowspan=3 | 12 ! rowspan=4 | 9 ! 13 ! rowspan=6 | 14 ! 10 ! 11 ! rowspan=3 | 12 ! rowspan=6 | 15 ! 13 ! 14 ! 16 ! rowspan=7 | 15 ! rowspan=2 | 17 ! rowspan=5 | 18 ! rowspan=8 | 16 ! 19 ! rowspan=3 | 20 ! rowspan=3 | 21 ! rowspan=6 | 17 ! 22 ! rowspan=12 | 23 ! rowspan=3 | 18 ! rowspan=2 | 19 ! 20 ! 21 ! rowspan=6 | 22 ! rowspan=15", "id": "20744074" }, { "contents": "Dihydroxy-E,Z,E-PUFA\n\n\nmake PDX by metabolizing DHA by double oxygenation a 15-lipoxygenase to form the 10\"R\",17\"S\"-hydroxperoxy intermediated which is reduced its 10\"R\",17\"S\"-hydroxyl product, PDX, probably by cytosolic GPX1 (i.e. glutathione peroxidase 1). Serial metabolism two different lipoxygenases or a lipoxygenase and a cytochrome P45) on PUFA possessing three double bonds in a 1\"Z\",4\"Z\",7\"Z\" configuration may also make a 1,7-dihydroxy 2\"E\",4\"Z\",6\"E\" product. Other platelet-inhibiting dihydroxy-\"E\",\"Z\",\"E\"-PUFA are: 10\"R\",17\"S\"-dihydroxy-4\"Z\",7\"Z\",11\"E\",13\"Z\",15\"E\",19\"Z\"-docosahexaenoic acid (10\"R\",17\"S\"-diHDHA); 8\"S\",15\"S\"-dihydroxy-5\"Z\",9\"E\",11\"Z\",13\"E\"-eicosatetraenoic acid (8\"S\",15\"S\"-diHETE); 9\"S\",16\"S\"-10\"E\",12\"Z\",14\"E\"-octadecatrienoic acid (linotrin-1); and 9\"R\",16\"S\"-10\"E\",12\"Z\",14\"E\"-octadecatrienoic acid (linotrin-2).", "id": "1779786" }, { "contents": "EU Cup\n\n\n8 October 2011. 18 national men's teams competed in the tournament. Final results were: 1. Ireland, 2. Croatia, 3. England, 4. Italy, 5. France, 6. Scotland, 7. Wales, 8. Spain, 9. European Crusaders, 10. Russia (1st time competitors), 11. Denmark, 12. Germany, 13. Finland, 14. Sweden, 15. Netherlands, 16. Austria, 17. Iceland, 18. Catalonia. Ireland defeated Switzerland in", "id": "2746657" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Indiana\n\n\nrowspan=13 | 5 ! rowspan=2 | 5 ! 6 ! rowspan=2 | 7 ! rowspan=3 | 8 ! rowspan=6 | 9 ! 6 ! 7 ! rowspan=3 | 8 ! rowspan=6 | 10 ! rowspan=3 | 9 ! rowspan=5 | 10 ! rowspan=10 | 11 ! rowspan=3 | 11 ! rowspan=6 | 12 ! rowspan=4 | 12 ! rowspan=6 | 13 ! rowspan=2 | 13 ! rowspan=4 | 14 ! rowspan=6 | 14 ! 15 ! rowspan=11 | 16 ! rowspan=3 | 15 ! rowspan=2 | 16 ! rowspan=5 | 17 ! rowspan=6 | 17 ! rowspan=3 | 18 !", "id": "20743924" }, { "contents": "Book of Nature\n\n\n. Pedersen (1992), 7–8. 3. Pedersen (1992), 9. 4. Dear (2009), 4. 5. Pedersen (1992), 10. 6. Pedersen (1992), 11–13. 7. Pedersen (1992), 14–15. 8. Pedersen (1992), 15. 9. Harrison (2001), 13. 10. Harrison (2001), 13. 11. Harrison (2001), 15. 12. Harrison (2001), 15. 13.", "id": "3587614" }, { "contents": "2014 World Senior Curling Championships – Women's tournament\n\n\nThe women's tournament of the 2014 World Senior Curling Championships was held from April 23 to 30 at the Dumfries Ice Bowl in Dumfries, Scotland. The teams are listed as follows: \"Final Round Robin Standings\" Draw 3 15:30 Draw 5 7:30 Draw 6 11:00 Draw 7 14:30 Draw 8 18:00 Draw 9 21:30 Draw 11 12:00 Draw 12 15:30 Draw 13 19:00 Draw 15 11:00 Draw 17 18:00 Draw 18 21:30 Draw 20 12:00 Draw 21 15:30 Draw 23 8:30 Draw 24 14:00 Draw 3 15:30 Draw 4 19:30 Draw 7 14:30 Draw 8", "id": "16343741" }, { "contents": "Alejandro Landa\n\n\nFalls, South Dakota, but he won the final by defeating Daniel De La Rosa, 15-6, 7-15, 11-10, in the final. En route to the final, Landa beat Tim Landeryou, 15-5, 3-15, 11-6, in the Round of 16, Rocky Carson in the quarterfinals, 15-14, 11-15, 11-4, and Samuel Murray, 15-11, 15-7, in the semi-finals. In the", "id": "8690386" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Florida\n\n\n| 4 ! rowspan=3 | 4 ! rowspan=3 | 5 ! rowspan=6 | 5 ! rowspan=11 | 6 ! rowspan=9 | 6 ! rowspan=8 | 7 ! rowspan=10 | 7 ! 8 ! 9 ! rowspan=16 | 10 ! rowspan=3 | 8 ! rowspan=10 | 9 ! rowspan=3 | 10 ! 11 ! rowspan=6 | 11 ! rowspan=10 | 12 ! rowspan=13 | 12 ! rowspan=9 | 13 ! rowspan=3 | 14 ! rowspan=11 | 13 ! rowspan=4 | 15 ! rowspan=4 | 16 ! rowspan=9 | 17 ! rowspan=6 | 14 ! rowspan=10 | 15 ! rowspan=3 | 18", "id": "20743883" }, { "contents": "Coby Iwaasa\n\n\nKitchener, Ontario with the same result: a win for Murray, 15-2, 15-5. Iwaasa and Murray played Men’s Doubles together at the 2018 Canadian Championships in Winnipeg, and they won the title by defeating Nicolas Bousquet and Tommy Murray in the final, 15-13, 10-15, 11-6. They beat the brother team of James Landeryou and Tim Landeryou in the semi-finals, 15-13, 15-10. In Men’s Singles, Iwaasa finished 2nd, as", "id": "8038021" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Wisconsin\n\n\n| 6 ! rowspan=3 | 7 ! rowspan=3 | 6 ! rowspan=6 | 8 ! rowspan=3 | 7 ! rowspan=15 | 8 ! rowspan=4 | 9 ! rowspan=2 | 10 ! rowspan=7 | 11 ! rowspan=11 | 9 ! rowspan=3 | 12 ! rowspan=3 | 13 ! rowspan=14 | 14 ! rowspan=6 | 10 ! rowspan=16 | 11 ! rowspan=9 | 15 ! rowspan=6 | 16 ! rowspan=12 | 12 ! rowspan=9 | 17 ! rowspan=6 | 18 ! rowspan=6 | 13 , there are three living former Senators, one from Class 1 and two from Class 3.", "id": "21329584" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Michigan\n\n\n! 12 ! rowspan=13 | 13 ! rowspan=3 | 10 ! rowspan=7 | 11 ! rowspan=8 | 14 ! rowspan=2 | 12 ! rowspan=10 | 13 ! rowspan=3 | 15 ! rowspan=15 | 16 ! rowspan=4 | 14 ! rowspan=9 | 15 ! 17 ! rowspan=4 | 18 ! rowspan=6 | 16 ! rowspan=11 | 19 ! rowspan=9 | 17 ! rowspan=10 | 20 ! rowspan=18 | 18 ! rowspan=3 | 21 ! rowspan=12 | 22 ! rowspan=3 | 19 , there are three former U.S. Senators from Michigan who are currently living, two from Class 1 and one", "id": "20744040" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Ohio\n\n\n| 6 ! rowspan=2 | 7 ! rowspan=2 | 8 ! rowspan=2 | 9 ! rowspan=3 | 10 ! rowspan=3 | 6 ! rowspan=6 | 11 ! rowspan=3 | 7 ! rowspan=3 | 8 ! rowspan=5 | 12 ! 9 ! rowspan=11 | 10 ! rowspan=3 | 13 ! 14 ! rowspan=9 | 15 ! rowspan=8 | 11 ! 16 ! rowspan=3 | 17 ! rowspan=9 | 12 ! rowspan=3 | 18 ! rowspan=3 | 19 ! rowspan=9 | 20 ! rowspan=4 | 13 ! rowspan=4 | 14 ! rowspan=3 | 21 ! rowspan=7 | 15 ! rowspan=3 | 22", "id": "20744100" }, { "contents": "2013 Canadian Mixed Doubles Curling Trials\n\n\nFriday, March 15, 11:30 am\" \"Friday, March 15, 2:00 pm\" \"Friday, March 15, 4:30 pm\" \"Friday, March 15, 7:00 pm\" \"Friday, March 15, 9:30 pm\" \"Saturday, March 16, 9:00 am\" \"Saturday, March 16, 11:30 am\" \"Saturday, March 16, 2:00 pm\" \"Saturday, March 16, 4:30 pm\" \"Saturday, March 16, 8:30 pm\" \"Sunday, March 17, 10:00 am\" \"Sunday", "id": "10697048" }, { "contents": "Lyon Villeurbanne XIII\n\n\nto AS Carcassonne 10–22, but they went one better in the league beating XIII Catalan 15–10 to lift the trophy for the first time. In 52/53 they won the cup beating US Villeneuve 9–8 in the final but couldn't complete a league and cup double as they lost the league final 12–19 to AS Carcassonne. They retained the cup when they beat XIII Catalan 17–15 and won their second league title when they triumphed 7–6 against AS Carcassonne in 1955. Relegation followed in 1957 but after winning the National League 1 title, now called", "id": "19573564" }, { "contents": "Park Sung-hwan\n\n\n. Two weeks later, Park was to be defeated again in the quarter-final matches of the Li Ning China Masters Super Series in Changzhou, China (to 4th seed badminton ace Lin Dan of China, 15-21, 21-13, 21-23), and the Japan Open Super Series (to Indonesian, Taufik Hidayat, 21-12, 26-28, 15-21). In November, Park participated in the Yonex Sunrise Hong Kong Open and lost 15-21, 16-21", "id": "6727931" }, { "contents": "2015 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship\n\n\nThe 2015 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship was held from April 18 to 25 at the Ice Cube Curling Center in Sochi, Russia. The event will be held in conjunction with the 2015 World Senior Curling Championships. The teams are listed as follows: Draw 1 9:00 Draw 2 11:15 Draw 3 21:00 Draw 4 11:15 Draw 5 8:00 Draw 6 17:45 Draw 7 19:30 Draw 8 11:15 Draw 9 17:45 Draw 1 12:30 Draw 2 19:30 Draw 3 14:30 Draw 4 9:00 Draw 5 11:15 Draw 6 21:00 Draw 7 12:30 Draw 8 8:00 Draw 9", "id": "12517555" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Rhode Island\n\n\n| 9 ! rowspan=3 | 7 ! rowspan=7 | 8 ! rowspan=2 | 9 ! rowspan=7 | 10 ! rowspan=2 | 10 ! 11 ! rowspan=3 | 12 ! rowspan=3 | 11 ! rowspan=4 | 13 ! rowspan=3 | 12 ! rowspan=3 | 14 ! rowspan=17 | 13 ! 15 ! rowspan=6 | 16 ! rowspan=4 | 17 ! rowspan=20 | 18 ! 14 ! rowspan=4 | 15 ! rowspan=3 | 16 ! rowspan=10 | 17 ! rowspan=3 | 19 ! rowspan=6 | 18 ! rowspan=8 | 20 ! rowspan=7 | 19 ! rowspan=3 | 21 ! rowspan=6 | 22", "id": "20744131" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from West Virginia\n\n\nrowspan=8 | 7 ! rowspan=2 | 4 ! rowspan=8 | 5 ! rowspan=9 | 8 ! 6 ! rowspan=2 | 7 ! rowspan=4 | 9 ! rowspan=3 | 8 ! rowspan=3 | 10 ! rowspan=3 | 9 ! rowspan=3 | 11 ! rowspan=3 | 10 ! rowspan=3 | 12 ! rowspan=7 | 11 ! rowspan=3 | 13 ! rowspan=10 | 14 ! 12 ! 13 ! rowspan=3 | 14 ! rowspan=8 | 15 ! 15 ! rowspan=5 | 16 ! 16 ! rowspan=14 | 17 ! rowspan=27 | 17 ! rowspan=18 | 18 ! 18 ! rowspan=8 | 19 !", "id": "20744177" }, { "contents": "Academy of Saint Elizabeth\n\n\nstudents often take part in mass on different occasions. Sample 'D day' Homeroom 8:10-8:15 Period 1 8:19-9:15 Period 2 9:17 - 10:13 Period 3 10:15 - 11:11 Lunch 11:13 - 11:58 Period 5 12:00 - 12:56 Period 6 12:58 - 1:54 Period 7 1:56 - 2:51 The Academy runs on a 4-day rotating schedule (A day, B day, C day, and D day). Each day, students drop a morning and afternoon class. You can find the 2018-2019 school year calendar on the Academy", "id": "13678251" }, { "contents": "2014 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship\n\n\nWorld Curling medal for Spain in the bronze medal game with a 7–4 win over defending champions Dorottya Palansca and Zsolt Kiss of Hungary. Canada, Norway, and England scored perfect ends in their games in Draws 5, 11, and 22, respectively. The teams are listed as follows: \"Final Round Robin Standings\" Draw 1 8:15 Draw 4 19:30 Draw 6 11:15 Draw 9 21:00 Draw 12 14:30 Draw 15 8:00 Draw 18 17:45 Draw 19 21:00 Draw 21 11:15 Draw 22 14:30 Draw 25 8:00 Draw 2 12:00 Draw 5 8:00", "id": "15498977" }, { "contents": "2011 World Senior Curling Championships – Men's tournament\n\n\nStandings\" All draw times are listed in Central Standard Time (UTC-06). Draw 1 08:00 Draw 3 18:00 Draw 6 14:30 Draw 8 08:00 Draw 10 18:00 Draw 13 14:30 Draw 15 21:30 Draw 17 14:30 Draw 2 11:30 Draw 4 21:30 Draw 5 11:00 Draw 8 08:00 Draw 10 18:00 Draw 13 14:30 Draw 17 14:30 Draw 19 21:30 Draw 2 11:30 Draw 4 21:30 Draw 6 14:30 Draw 8 08:00 Draw 9 11:30 Draw 10 18:00 Draw 11 21:30 Draw 12 11:00 Draw 13 14:30 Draw 15 21:30 Draw 19 21:30 \"Friday, April", "id": "16637806" }, { "contents": "Nathan Robertson\n\n\ndefeated Björn Siegemund and Nicol Pitro of Germany in the second. In the quarterfinals, Robertson and Emms beat Chen Qiqiu and Zhao Tingting of China 15-8, 17-15 to advance to the semifinals. There, they beat Jonas Rasmussen and Rikke Olsen of Denmark 15-6, 15-12. In the final, they lost to Chinese pair Zhang Jun and Gao Ling 15-1, 12-15, 15-12 to finish with the silver medal. At the 2005 World Championships, he and Emms", "id": "1371969" }, { "contents": "List of major textual variants in the New Testament\n\n\nMatthew 8:28 Matthew 11:23 Matthew 17:21 Matthew 18:11 Matthew 20:16 Matthew 20:22, 23 Matthew 23:14 Matthew 24:36 Matthew 26:28 Matthew 27:16 Mark 2:16 Mark 6:11 Mark 7:8 Mark 7:16 Mark 9:38 Mark 9:43-46 Mark 9:49 Mark 10:24 Mark 11:26 Mark 14:19 Mark 15:28 Mark 16:9-20 Luke 1:28 Luke 2:14 Luke 4:4 Luke 9:55-56 Luke 11:2-4 Luke 11:11 Luke 22:43-44 Luke 23:17 Luke 23:34 John 1:18 John 5:3-4 John 6:69 John 7:53-8:11 John 8:59 Acts 2:30 Acts 13:42 Acts 15:24 Acts 18:21 Acts 23:9 Acts 28:29", "id": "12411760" }, { "contents": "BSWW Tour\n\n\n1 2 15-19 2 4. USA 3 1 2 13-20 2 Semifinals Brazil 9-4 Argentina Third place match Final Brazil 11-3 South Korea 02/03/1996 Buenos Aires (Argentina)Argentina 5-12 Brazil Friendly Match 1996 USA 3-6 Brazil Italy 6-9 Brazil USA 4-9 Brazil Italy 2-8 Brazil Netherlands 4-13 Brazil England 1-13 Brazil Malaysia 1-14 Brazil Semifinals Brazil 15-2 Japan Third place match Final Brazil 6-4 South Korea Brazil 7-4 Argentina", "id": "17061521" }, { "contents": "1941 Eastern Suburbs season\n\n\n5, Saturday 17 May Eastern Suburbs 13 beat Canterbury Bankstown 2 at Sydney Cricket Ground. Premiership Round 6, Saturday 24 May 1941. Newtown 4 beat Eastern Suburbs 3 at Henson Park. Premiership Round 7, Saturday 31 June 1941. St George 16 beat Eastern Suburbs 10 at Sydney Sports Ground. Premiership Round 8, Saturday 21 June 1941. South Sydney 22 beat Eastern Suburbs 15 at Sydney Sports Ground. Premiership Round 9, Saturday 28 June 1941. Eastern Suburbs 15 beat Western Suburbs 3 at Pratten Park. Premiership Round", "id": "11086526" }, { "contents": "Jansher Khan\n\n\nJansher Khan (; born 15 June 1969, in Peshawar, Pakistan) is a former World No. 1 professional Pakistani squash player. During his career he won the World Open a record eight times, and the British Open six times. Jansher Khan's retirement brought an end to nearly 50 years of domination by Pakistan in the sport of squash. He won the World Junior Squash Championship title in 1986 and the senior World Open title in 1987, by beating Australia's Chris Dittmar in the final. Jansher officially announced his retirement", "id": "1599584" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Kentucky\n\n\n! 5 ! rowspan=5 | 6 ! 3 ! rowspan=2 | 4 ! rowspan=4 | 7 ! 5 ! rowspan=4 | 6 ! rowspan=5 | 8 ! 7 ! 8 ! rowspan=2 | 9 ! rowspan=7 | 9 ! rowspan=3 | 10 ! rowspan=3 | 11 ! rowspan=4 | 10 ! rowspan=6 | 12 ! rowspan=3 | 11 ! rowspan=4 | 12 ! rowspan=4 | 13 ! rowspan=8 | 13 ! 14 ! rowspan=2 | 15 ! 16 ! rowspan=2 | 17 ! rowspan=3 | 14 ! rowspan=3 | 18 ! rowspan=5 | 15 ! 19 ! rowspan=8 | 20", "id": "20743991" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Massachusetts\n\n\n| 8 ! rowspan=7 | 7 ! rowspan=2 | 9 ! rowspan=8 | 10 ! rowspan=3 | 8 ! rowspan=6 | 9 ! rowspan=9 | 11 ! rowspan=3 | 10 ! rowspan=5 | 11 ! rowspan=3 | 12 ! rowspan=5 | 13 ! rowspan=8 | 12 ! 14 ! 15 ! rowspan=16 | 16 ! 13 ! 14 ! rowspan=10 | 15 ! rowspan=4 | 16 ! 17 ! rowspan=9 | 18 ! rowspan=14 | 17 ! rowspan=18 | 19 ! rowspan=5 | 18 ! rowspan=3 | 19 ! rowspan=5 | 20 ! rowspan=2 | 20 ! rowspan=4 | 21", "id": "20744045" }, { "contents": "2017 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship\n\n\nDraw 5 8:00 Draw 11 11:15 Draw 12 14:30 Draw 14 21:00 Draw 16 11:15 Draw 18 17:45 Draw 19 21:00 Draw 20 8:00 Draw 22 14:30 Draw 23 17:45 Draw 24 21:00 Draw 26 11:15 Draw 27 14:30 Draw 3 15:00 Draw 4 20:00 Draw 6 11:15 Draw 8 17:45 Draw 9 21:00 Draw 12 14:30 Draw 13 17:45 Draw 14 21:00 Draw 16 11:15 Draw 17 14:30 Draw 20 8:00 Draw 21 11:15 Draw 22 14:30 Draw 25 8:00 Draw 26 11:15 Draw 1 8:00 Draw 2 11:15 Draw 3 15:00 Draw 5 8:00 Draw 8 17:45 Draw", "id": "20611918" }, { "contents": "Michael Cheika\n\n\nAuckland a week later. Despite having only been in charge of the Wallabies for a year, Cheika led Australia to the 2015 Rugby World Cup Final. They topped Pool A with victories over Fiji 28–13, Uruguay 65–3, England 33–13 and Wales 15–6. They narrowly beat Scotland in the quarter-final winning 35–34 after a controversial last minute penalty. They beat Argentina 29–15 in the semi-final to reach the final against the All Blacks. The Wallabies went down 16–3 at half time, but fought back in the second half", "id": "21843436" }, { "contents": "2008 South American Under-23 Championships in Athletics – Results\n\n\n5 September 17:00hbr Final – 7 September 15:00hbr Final – 6 September 11:00hbr Final – 6 September 15:40hbr Final – 6 September 9:30hbr Wind: -2.5m/s Final – 7 September 10:45hbr Final – 6 September 9:00hbr Final – 7 September 9:00hbr Final – 7 September 11:00hbr Final – 6 September 11:00hbr Final – 6 September 9:00hbr Final – 7 September 11:00hbr Final – 5 September 14:50hbr Final – 6 September 9:00hbr Final – 7 September 9:00hbr Final – 7 September 7:00hbr Final – 6 September 17:00hbr Final – 7 September 15:50hbr Final – 6 September 9:45hbr Wind: -2.5", "id": "3039640" }, { "contents": "Rhonda Rajsich\n\n\nfinished #1. At the 2011 USA National Doubles Championships, Rajsich played with Kim Russell-Waselenchuk for the first time. They lost in the semi-finals to Krystal Csuk and Cheryl Gudinas, 15-6, 2-15, 11-9, and then lost the 3rd place match to sisters Danielle and Michelle Key, 3-15, 15-10, 11-10. However, Rajsich won Women's Singles at the 2011 USA National Singles Championshps by beating Gudinas in the final, 15-2", "id": "20397807" }, { "contents": "Ra Kyung-min\n\n\n. In the quarterfinals, Ra and Lee beat Lotte Bruil and Mia Audina of the Netherlands 15-5, 15-2. They lost the semifinal to Zhang Jiewen and Yang Wei of China 15-6, 15-4 but won the bronze medal match against Zhao Tingting and Wei Yili, also of China, 10-15, 15-9, 15-7. Ra also competed in mixed doubles with partner Kim Dong-moon. They had a bye in the first round and defeated Chris Bruil and Lotte", "id": "17379284" }, { "contents": "Coby Iwaasa\n\n\nVincent Gagnon, 15-10, 15-17, 11-6, in the semi-finals, but won the 3rd place match versus Samuel Murray, 13-15, 15-6, 11-8. That summer Iwaasa played for Canada for the first time by participating in the 2014 Pan American Sports Festival in Guadalajara, Mexico, where he defeated team-mate Samuel Murray, 15-9, 10-15, 11-3, in the Round of 16, but lost to David Horn of", "id": "8038012" }, { "contents": "Raglan Chronicle\n\n\n13, 20, 27, Apr 2, 10, 17, 24, May 1, 8, 15, 22, Jun 5, 12, 19, 26, Jul 3, 10. 17, 24, 31, Aug 7, 21, 28, Sep 4, 11, 18, 25, Oct 2, 9, 16, 23, 30, Nov 6, 13, 20, 27, Dec 4, 11, 18, 23; 1959 Jan 15, 29, Feb 5, 19,", "id": "3052190" }, { "contents": "Coby Iwaasa\n\n\n4, 11-5, and 1st seed Alejandro Cardona in the final, 9-15, 15-9, 11-8. He reached the quarterfinals in the other four WRT events that year. In November 2014, Iwaasa defeated Samuel Murray, in the quarterfinals, 15-9, 15-10, of the 1st National Team Selection Event of the 2014-15 season in Kitchener, Ontario. He then lost to Mike Green, 15-6, 15-6, in the semi-finals.", "id": "8038014" }, { "contents": "2008 European Curling Championships\n\n\n, 14:00 Draw 4 Monday December 8, 08:00 Draw 5 Monday December 8, 16:00 Draw 6 Tuesday December 9, 09:00 Draw 7 Tuesday December 9, 18:30 Draw 8 Wednesday December 10, 14:00 Draw 9 Thursday December 11, 08:00 Tiebreaker Thursday December 11, 15:00 Thursday, December 11, 20:00 Thursday, December 11, 20:00 Friday, December 12, 19:00 Saturday, December 13, 15:00 \"All times local\" Draw 1 Saturday December 6, 12:00 Draw 2 Sunday December 7, 16:00 Draw 3 Sunday December 7, 20:00", "id": "11226003" }, { "contents": "Rocky Carson\n\n\nUSA Racquetball National Singles Championship for the first time. He was seeded 6th, and defeated 8th seed Doug Eagle in the final. 15-7, 15-7. To reach the final, Carson beat Brian Fredenberg in the quarterfinals, 15-7, 15-13, and Jack Huczek in the semi-finals, 15-11, 15-6. He also played in Worlds for the 2nd time in San Luis Potosi, Mexico, and came home with two silver medals. He finished 2nd in Men", "id": "17077667" }, { "contents": "1973 European Formula Two Championship\n\n\nThe 1973 European Formula Two season was contested over 17 rounds. STP March Racing Team driver Jean-Pierre Jarier clinched the championship title. Note: Race 1, 2, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 13, 15 and 17 were held in two heats, with results shown in aggregate. Race 3, 5, 9 and 12 were held with two semi-final heats and the final run, with time only shown for the final. Race 3, 4, 5 and 15 were won by", "id": "18544287" }, { "contents": "2008 in sports\n\n\nJackson vs. Griffin 7/19 – 7/19 – () 7/21 – DREAM.5 7/26 – August 8/3 – WEC 35: Condit vs. Miura 8/9 – UFC 87: Seek And Destroy 8/15 – ShoXC 7 8/24 – September 9/6 – UFC 88: Breakthrough 9/13 – 9/17 – 9/20 – 9/23 – DREAM.6 9/26 – ShoXC 8 9/28 – October 10/3 – 10/4 – 10/10 – ShoXC 9 () 10/18 – UFC 89: Bisping vs. Leben 10/25 – UFC 90: Silva vs. Côté November 11/1 – 11/5 – WEC 36: Faber vs. Brown 11/15 – UFC", "id": "5162165" } ]

[ { "contents": "Rodney Martin (squash player)\n\n\nRodney Martin is a former professional squash player from Australia. He is best known for winning the World Open in 1991, beating the legendary Pakistani player Jahangir Khan in the final 14-17, 15-9, 15-4, 15-13 (he had previously beaten another Pakistani legend, Jansher Khan, in the quarter-finals, and his Australian compatriot Chris Dittmar in the semi-finals). Martin was also part of the Australian teams which won the World Team Squash Championships in 1989 and 1991. Martin", "id": "20966392" }, { "contents": "Amr Shabana\n\n\nbeating Thierry Lincou in the final 15–14, 9–15, 15–11, 15–7, to become Egypt's first winner of the sport's premier title. But after a disappointing following year, in which his only final appearance was in the British Open Squash Championship in England, losing to David Palmer in four games 10–11 (4–6), 11–7, 11–10 (3–1), 11–7, Shabana stormed back to the top of his game in 2005. Over a short period, he acquired a new coach, Ahmed Tahir; a new manager", "id": "522232" }, { "contents": "Comparison of codices Sinaiticus and Vaticanus\n\n\n13:39a 13:39b 13:41 13:42 13:44a 13:44b 13:48 13:50 13:54 13:55 13:57a 13:57 b 14:1 14:2 14:3 14:4a 14:4b 14:5 14:7 14:9 14:12 14:13 14:15a 14:15b 14:15c 14:16 14:17 14:19a 14:19b 14:22a 14:22b 14:22c 14:23 14:24 14:26 14:28a 14:28b 14:29 14:35 14:36 15:3 15:4 15:5 15:6 15:11a 15:11b 15:12 15:14 15:15 15:17 15:17 15:17 15:22 15:22 15:27 15:30 15:31 15:31 15:31 16:6 16:9 16:12 17:10 17:15 17:17 18:7 18:14 18:16 19:7 19:10 19:12 19:16 19:22 21:16 21:17 21:19 21:28 21:33 22:1 22:11 22:40 23:3 23:8 23:35 23:35b 23:37 24:2 24:9 24:24 24:26 24:30 24:31 24:35 24:48 25:3 25:17 25:22 26:33 26:50", "id": "1385581" }, { "contents": "John White (squash player)\n\n\nJohn White (born 15 June 1973 in Mount Isa, Australia) is a former World No. 1 squash player. White finished runner-up at both the World Open and the British Open in 2002. He won the PSA Masters title in 2003 (beating Thierry Lincou in the final 15–8, 17–15, 17–16). He also won the British National Championships in 2004 (beating Lee Beachill in the final 17–16, 17–14, 14–15, 15–8). White reached the World No. 1 ranking in March 2004. White", "id": "14402929" }, { "contents": "2011 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship\n\n\nDraw 7 21:30 Draw 9 15:00 Draw 12 08:00 Draw 13 11:00 Draw 14 14:30 Draw 17 08:00 Draw 18 11:30 Draw 20 18:00 Draw 21 21:30 Draw 2 15:00 Draw 4 08:00 Draw 6 18:00 Draw 7 21:30 Draw 8 11:30 Draw 9 15:00 Draw 10 18:00 Draw 12 08:00 Draw 14 14:30 Draw 15 18:00 Draw 16 21:30 Draw 18 11:30 Draw 19 14:30 Draw 2 15:00 Draw 3 21:30 Draw 5 14:30 Draw 6 18:00 Draw 7 21:30 Draw 8 11:30 Draw 9 15:00 Draw 11 21:30 Draw 12 08:00 Draw 15 18:00 Draw 16 21:30 Draw", "id": "12545021" }, { "contents": "2016 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship\n\n\n8 21:00 Draw 9 8:00 Draw 10 11:15 Draw 13 21:00 Draw 14 8:00 Draw 15 11:15 Draw 17 17:45 Draw 20 11:15 Draw 21 14:30 Draw 22 17:45 Draw 23 21:00 Draw 24 8:00 Draw 25 11:15 Draw 1 12:00 Draw 2 16:00 Draw 4 8:00 Draw 5 11:15 Draw 6 14:30 Draw 7 17:45 Draw 9 8:00 Draw 11 14:30 Draw 12 17:45 Draw 13 21:00 Draw 15 11:15 Draw 17 17:45 Draw 19 8:00 Draw 21 14:30 Draw 22 17:45 Draw 24 8:00 Draw 25 11:15 \"Thursday, April 21, 17:45\" \"Thursday,", "id": "1156734" }, { "contents": "Codex Dublinensis\n\n\nει. Matthew 1:17-2:6, 2:13-20, 4:4-13, 5:45-6:15, 7:16-8:6, 10:40-11:18, 12:43-13:11, 13:57-14:19, 15:13-23, 17:9-17, 17:26-18:6, 19:4-12, 21-28, 20:7-21:8, 21:23-30, 22:16-25, 22:37-23:3, 23:15-23, 24:15-25, 25:1-11, 26:21-29, 62-71. The Greek text of this codex is a representative", "id": "16200586" }, { "contents": "Frisingensia Fragmenta\n\n\n15:13; 1 Cor 1:1-27; 1:28-3:5; 6:1-7:7; 15:1-1:43; 16:12-27; 2 Cor 1:1-2:10; 3:17-5:1; 7:10-8:12; 9:10-11:21; 12:14-13:10; Gal 2:5-4:3; 6:5-17; Eph 1:1-13; 1:16-2:16; 6:24; Phil 1:1-20; 1 Tim 1:12-2:15; 5:18-6:13; Hbr 6:6-7:5; 7:8-8:1; 9:27-11:7. 1 John 3:8 - 5:9.", "id": "5758263" }, { "contents": "Minuscule 506\n\n\n-30; 17:5-8; 24:22-24; John 1:1-7:39; 8:31-9:11; 10:10-11:54; 12:36-13:27; Acts 1:1-7:49; 10:19-14:10; 15:15-16:11; 18:1-21:25; 23:18-28:31; James 1:1-3:17; 1 Corinthians 12:11-15:12; 16:13-15; 2 Corinthians 13:4. 5; Galatians [5:16-6:1]; 6:1-18; 2 Timothy 3:10. 11; Titus 3:5-7. The Greek text of the codex is a", "id": "14754278" }, { "contents": "Rocky Carson\n\n\nthe finals by defeating Anthony Herrera and David Horn in the semi-finals, 15-9, 15-3. But in the final Carson and Allen lost to Jake Bredenbeck and Jose Diaz, 15-14, 15-11. He won the 2016 USAR National Singles Championships in Highlands Ranch, Colorado, where Carson defeated [[Chris Crowther]] in the semi-finals, 13-15, 15-12, 11-7, and then beat Diaz in the final, 15-10, 15", "id": "17077704" }, { "contents": "Codex Nitriensis\n\n\nno references to the Eusebian Canons. Gospel of Luke 1:1-13, 1:69-2:4, 2:16-27, 4:38-5:5, 5:25-6:8, 6:18-36, 6:39, 6:49-7:22, 7:44, 7:46, 7:47, 7:50, 8:1-3, 8:5-15, 8:25-9:1, 9:12-43, 10:3-16, 11:5-27, 12:4-15, 12:40-52, 13:26-14:1, 14:12-15:1, 15:13-16:16, 17:21-18:10, 18:22-20:20,", "id": "14992375" }, { "contents": "Del Harris (squash player)\n\n\n16–17, 15–8. That year Harris was also part of the winning England team in the 1995 Men's World Team Squash Championships and in addition he won the Super Series Finals event, beating Brett Martin of Australia in the final 10–8, 7–9, 9–4, 6–9, 9–2. Further success came in 1997 when he was once again part of the winning England team in the 1997 Men's World Team Squash Championships. Harris won the British National Squash Championships twice, in 1987 and 1989 and reached his career-high world ranking", "id": "20966690" }, { "contents": "2012 European Mixed Curling Championship\n\n\nDraw 14 8:30 Draw 16 15:30 Draw 1 19:30 Draw 2 9:00 Draw 3 12:30 Draw 4 16:00 Draw 5 19:30 Draw 6 9:00 Draw 8 16:00 Draw 11 12:30 Draw 13 19:30 Draw 14 8:30 Draw 15 12:00 Draw 16 15:30 Draw 17 19:00 Draw 2 9:00 Draw 4 16:00 Draw 6 9:00 Draw 7 12:30 Draw 8 16:00 Draw 9 19:30 Draw 10 9:00 Draw 12 16:00 Draw 15 12:00 Draw 17 19:00 \"Friday, October 5, 9:00\" \"Friday, October 5, 21:00\" \"Saturday, October 6, 17:00\" \"", "id": "19557062" }, { "contents": "2017 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship\n\n\n10 8:00 Draw 12 14:30 Draw 13 17:45 Draw 19 21:00 Draw 21 11:15 Draw 22 14:30 Draw 24 21:00 Draw 25 8:00 Draw 27 14:30 Draw 2 11:15 Draw 4 20:00 Draw 6 11:15 Draw 7 14:30 Draw 9 21:00 Draw 11 11:15 Draw 15 8:00 Draw 17 14:30 Draw 20 8:00 Draw 23 17:45 Draw 26 11:15 Draw 27 14:30 \"Friday, April 28, 9:00\" \"Friday, April 28, 12:30\" \"Friday, April 28, 16:00\" \"Friday, April 28, 19:30\" \"Saturday, April 29,", "id": "20611919" }, { "contents": "Coby Iwaasa\n\n\nIwaasa finished 3rd by defeating Tim Landeryou, 15-11, 15-9. He won the 2nd Selection Event that season in Brossard, Québec, where he beat Pedro Castro in the final, 15-9, 6-15, 11-8. In the semi-finals, Iwaasa beat Landeryou, 12-15, 15-4, 11-7. Iwaasa played seven tournaments in the 2014-15 International Racquetball Tour season, but only made it to the quarterfinals in the second last event of the", "id": "8038015" }, { "contents": "Jack Huczek\n\n\nthe semi-finals, 15-6, 9-15, 11-4. In the 2002-03 IRT season, Huczek was in four finals, winning the final event of the season: Pro Nationals in Tempe, Arizona, where he beat Alvaro Beltran, 11-4, 11-6, 11-8, in the final after defeating Rocky Carson in the semis, 11-1, 11-6, 11-7, and Cliff Swain in the quarters, 11-6, 15-", "id": "17077735" }, { "contents": "Samuel Murray (racquetball)\n\n\nNovember 2015, in Brossard, Québec, where he beat Mike Green in the final, 15-10, 15-13. He defeated Tim Landeryou to reach the final, 15-7, 15-12. In the 2nd Selection Event that season, he lost a tie-breaker to Landeryou in the semi-finals, 10-15, 15-12, 11-9. But he did win the 3rd place match against Pedro Castro, 15-6, 15-1. Murray played at the", "id": "7910649" }, { "contents": "1995–96 Regionalliga\n\n\n! 6 ! 7 ! 8 ! 9 ! 10 ! 11 ! 12 ! 13 ! 14 ! 15 ! 16 ! 17 ! 18 The Regionalliga Nordost ! 1 ! 2 ! 3 ! 4 ! 5 ! 6 ! 7 ! 8 ! 9 ! 10 ! 11 ! 12 ! 13 ! 14 ! 15 ! 16 ! 17 ! 18 The Regionalliga West/Südwest: ! 1 ! 2 ! 3 ! 4 ! 5 ! 6 ! 7 ! 8 ! 9 ! 10 ! 11 ! 12 ! 13 ! 14 !", "id": "13380860" }, { "contents": "2014 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship\n\n\nDraw 8 17:45 Draw 11 11:15 Draw 14 21:00 Draw 16 11:15 Draw 17 14:30 Draw 20 8:00 Draw 22 14:30 Draw 24 21:00 Draw 25 8:00 Draw 26 11:15 Draw 1 8:15 Draw 2 12:00 Draw 3 15:45 Draw 5 8:00 Draw 6 11:15 Draw 7 14:30 Draw 9 21:00 Draw 10 8:00 Draw 12 14:30 Draw 13 17:45 Draw 14 21:00 Draw 15 8:00 Draw 16 11:15 Draw 17 14:30 Draw 18 17:45 Draw 20 8:00 Draw 21 11:15 Draw 23 17:45 Draw 24 21:00 Draw 3 15:45 Draw 4 19:30 Draw 7 14:30 Draw 8 17:45 Draw", "id": "15498978" }, { "contents": "Rocky Carson\n\n\nto the final with a win over Chris Crowther in the semi-finals, 15-7, 15-10. Carson’s Men’s Singles World Championship in 2008 qualified him for the 2009 World Games in Kaohsiung, Republic of China, where he captured the silver medal in Men's Singles. Carson beat Canadian Mike Green, 15-9, 15-9, in the quarterfinals, and Mexican Alvaro Beltran in the semi-finals, 9-15, 15-7, 11-8, to set up", "id": "17077685" }, { "contents": "2018 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship\n\n\nDraw 27 16:00 Draw 28 19:30 Draw 1 9:00 Draw 2 12:30 Draw 3 16:30 Draw 5 8:00 Draw 8 17:45 Draw 10 8:00 Draw 11 11:15 Draw 12 14:30 Draw 13 17:45 Draw 18 17:45 Draw 19 21:00 Draw 21 11:15 Draw 22 14:30 Draw 25 8:00 Draw 26 12:30 Draw 27 16:00 Draw 2 12:30 Draw 4 20:00 Draw 6 11:15 Draw 7 14:30 Draw 9 21:00 Draw 10 8:00 Draw 11 11:15 Draw 12 14:30 Draw 14 21:00 Draw 15 8:00 Draw 16 11:15 Draw 18 17:45 Draw 19 21:00 Draw 20 8:00 Draw 21 11:15 Draw", "id": "3983102" }, { "contents": "Rocky Carson\n\n\nIRT season. Carson won the 2001 Pan American Racquetball Championships in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, where he defeated Canadian Kane Waselenchuk in the final, 15-9, 15-13. Carson was the defending champion at the 2001 USAR National Singles Championships, and had a chance to defend the title, but lost to Jack Huczek, 15-11, 15-6. Carson beat Dan Fowler in the semi-finals, 15-8, 15-10, to reach the final. Carson took a step back", "id": "17077670" }, { "contents": "Gail Emms\n\n\nKellogg. They defeated Koon Wai Chee and Li Wing Mui of Hong Kong in the first round but were defeated by Zhao Tingting and Wei Yili of China in the second round. She also competed in mixed doubles with Robertson. They had a bye in the first round and defeated Björn Siegemund and Nicol Pitro of Germany in the second. In the quarterfinals, Emms and Robertson beat Chen Qiqiu and Zhao Tingting of China 15–8, 17–15 to advance to the semifinals. There, they beat Jonas Rasmussen and Rikke Olsen of Denmark 15–6", "id": "555457" }, { "contents": "Wellington Rugby Football Union\n\n\nNew South Wales 9–5 1896 beat Queensland 49–7 1901 beat New South Wales 17–16 1905 beat Australia 23–7 (combined team with Wairarapa and Horowhenua 1908 beat Anglo-Welsh 19–13 1921 lost to South Africa 3–8 1921 beat New South Wales 16–8 1923 beat New South Wales 29–16 (combined team with Manawatu) 1925 beat New South Wales 20–8 (combined team with Manawatu and Horowhenua) 1930 beat British Lions 12–8 1931 beat Australia 15–8 1937 lost to South Africa 0–29 1946 lost to Australia 15–16 1950 lost to British Isles 6–12 1956 lost to South Africa", "id": "5981175" }, { "contents": "Samuel Murray (racquetball)\n\n\n, 7-15, 15-3, 11-7, and then lost to Mexican Daniel De La Rosa, 15-12, 15-7. Murray won the 1st National Team Selection event of the 2016-17 season in Valleyfield, Québec, where he defeated James Landeryou, 15-4, 15-4, in the final. In the semi-finals, Murray beat Landeryou’s older brother Tim, 15-9, 15-13. At the 2nd selection event that season in Calgary,", "id": "7910652" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from South Carolina\n\n\n5 ! rowspan=4 | 6 ! rowspan=8 | 7 ! 6 ! rowspan=3 | 7 ! rowspan=3 | 8 ! rowspan=9 | 8 ! rowspan=5 | 9 ! rowspan=4 | 10 ! 9 ! rowspan=5 | 10 ! rowspan=15 | 11 ! 11 ! 12 ! rowspan=2 | 13 ! 14 ! rowspan=5 | 15 ! rowspan=6 | 12 ! 16 ! rowspan=2 | 17 ! rowspan=6 | 18 ! rowspan=3 | 13 ! rowspan=3 | 14 ! rowspan=9 | 19 ! rowspan=6 | 15 ! rowspan=3 | 16 ! rowspan=16 | 20 ! 17 ! rowspan=3 | 18 !", "id": "20744133" }, { "contents": "Alejandro Landa\n\n\n-4. Then at the end of the year, Landa beat Jaime Martell in the final of the Alamo City Open in San Antonio, beating Bredenbeck in the quarterfinals and David Horn in the semi-finals to reach the final. In 2016, Landa successfully defended his Alamo City Open title by beating Cardona in the final, 15-6, 15-10. He defeated Andree Parrilla, 15-12, 15-11, in the quarterfinals, and Jaime Martell, 15-11, 15-13,", "id": "8690377" }, { "contents": "Minuscule 172\n\n\n; 5:2-16; 6:2-7:2; 7:16-8:10; 8:38-9:13; 9:26-39; 10:9-22; 10:43-13:1; 23:32-24:24; 28:23-James 1:5; 3:6-4:16; 2 Peter 3:10-1 John 1:1; 3:13-4:2; Jude 16-25; Romans 14:23 - 15:1.4; 1 Corinthians 3:15-15:23; 2 Corinthians 10: 14-11:19; 13:5-13; Ephesians 1:1-2:14; 5:29-6:24 Colossians 1:24-26; 2:4-7; 2 Thessalonians 1:1", "id": "8396043" }, { "contents": "Jack Huczek\n\n\nseeded #1, and in the semi-finals beat Michael Bronfeld, 15-2, 15-9, to reach the final for the second consecutive year. However, Huczek lost the final to Mike Guidry, 15-10, 12-15, 11-9. In 2002, Huczek again partnered with Eric Muller at the USAR National Doubles Championships, and they reached the finals before losing to Ruben Gonzalez and Mike Guidry, 15-7, 15-10. They defeated Jason Thoerner and Mitch Williams in", "id": "17077734" }, { "contents": "2010–11 in Hong Kong football\n\n\non 8 October. However, the heavy rain flooded the field, so the ball flow on the water and could not be kick. The match was abandoned at 14th-minute. The rematch played on 9 October, Hong Kong defeated the Philippines by 4–2. The 2010 Asian Games will play between 7 November and 27 November in Guangzhou, China. Hong Kong national under-15 football team won all the group stage matches in the championship, which hold in Guam. Hong Kong beat Chinese Taipei in semi-final but lose by", "id": "3640662" }, { "contents": "2016 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship\n\n\nDraw 11 14:30 Draw 12 17:45 Draw 15 11:15 Draw 16 14:30 Draw 18 21:00 Draw 21 14:30 Draw 25 11:15 Draw 26 14:30 Draw 2 16:00 Draw 4 8:00 Draw 6 14:30 Draw 10 11:15 Draw 11 14:30 Draw 13 21:00 Draw 16 14:30 Draw 17 17:45 Draw 19 8:00 Draw 24 8:00 Draw 25 11:15 Draw 4 8:00 Draw 5 11:15 Draw 7 17:45 Draw 9 8:00 Draw 10 11:15 Draw 11 14:30 Draw 14 8:00 Draw 16 14:30 Draw 18 21:00 Draw 23 21:00 Draw 26 14:30 Draw 2 16:00 Draw 3 20:00 Draw 6 14:30 Draw", "id": "1156733" }, { "contents": "Easter Vigil\n\n\n-16; 3. Exodus 12:1-11; 4. Jonah 1:1-4:11; 5. Joshua 5:10-15; 6. Exodus 13:20-15:19; 7. Zephaniah 3:8-15; 8. 3 Kings 17:8-24; 9. Isaiah 61:10-62:5; 10. Genesis 22:1-18; 11. Isaiah 61:1-9; 12. 4 Kings 4:8-37; 13. Isaiah 63:11-64:5; 14. Jeremiah 31:31-34; 15. Daniel 3:1-68. It is during these", "id": "3156542" }, { "contents": "Jackie Paraiso\n\n\nBrodeur, 15-8, 15-6, in 2008. In between, she won three straight World Championships in 1994, 1996, and 1998. Laura Fenton was Paraiso's partner in 1994, when they beat Vicky Shanks and Debbie Ward of Canada, 15-9, 15-7. Then in 1996 and 1998, Paraiso's twin sister Joy MacKenzie was her partner, as they beat Shanks and Ward in 1996, 15-11, 15-4, and Shanks and Grand'Maître in 1998, 15-", "id": "21029455" }, { "contents": "Jahangir Khan\n\n\nover Jahangir in September 1987, beating him in straight games in the semi-finals of the Hong Kong Open. Jansher then went on to beat Jahangir in their next eight consecutive encounters and capture the 1987 World Open title. Jahangir ended Jansher's winning streak in March 1988, and went on to win 11 of their next 15 encounters. The pair met in the 1988 World Open final, with Jahangir emerging the victor. But by that point it had become clear that squash now had two dominant players. The pair would", "id": "414920" }, { "contents": "Samuel Murray (racquetball)\n\n\ncame 3rd, as they lost to Green and Trevor Webb in the semi-finals, 15-13, 4-15, 11-5, but beat Lee Connell and Nathaniel Husulak, 15-9, 16-14. Murray won the 1st National Team Selection event of the 2017-18 season, as he defeated Tim Landeryou, 15-3, 15-8, in the final. In the semi-finals, Murray beat Coby Iwaasa, 15-11, 15-8. Murray and Landeryou", "id": "7910655" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Maine\n\n\n| 4 ! rowspan=3 | 7 ! rowspan=6 | 5 ! 8 ! rowspan=6 | 9 ! rowspan=9 | 6 ! 10 ! rowspan=2 | 11 ! rowspan=7 | 12 ! 7 ! rowspan=3 | 8 ! rowspan=10 | 13 ! rowspan=4 | 9 ! rowspan=4 | 10 ! rowspan=17 | 14 ! rowspan=16 | 11 ! rowspan=7 | 15 ! 12 ! rowspan=2 | 13 ! rowspan=6 | 14 ! rowspan=14 | 16 ! rowspan=3 | 15 ! rowspan=9 | 16 ! rowspan=6 | 17 ! rowspan=13 | 17 ! rowspan=3 | 18 ! rowspan=11 | 19 ! rowspan=3", "id": "20744038" }, { "contents": "Men's Home Internationals\n\n\nafternoon. Scotland and England beat Ireland and Wales on the first two days. On the final day Scotland beat England 8–7 to win the title while Ireland beat Wales 9½–5½. The 1933 tournament was held at Royal County Down Golf Club from 14 to 16 September. The results of all six matches was the same as in 1932, Scotland beating England in the decisive match. In the 1934 tournament at Royal Porthcawl Golf Club from 15 to 17 August, Ireland beat England on the opening day. With Scotland beating England, Scotland retained", "id": "17763243" }, { "contents": "Codex Vaticanus 2061\n\n\nwas . The surviving leaves contain texts (according to Nestle-Aland 26th): Acts 26:6-27:4, 28:3-31; James 4:14-5:20; 1 Peter 1:1-12; 2 Peter 2:4-8, 2:13-3:15; 1 John 4:6-5:13, 5:17-18, 5:21; 2 John; 3 John; Romans 13:4-15:9; 1 Corinthians 2:1-3:11, 3:22, 4:4-6, 5:5-11, 6:3-11, 12:23-15:17, 15:20-27; 2 Corinthians 4:7", "id": "9378418" }, { "contents": "2012 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship\n\n\n17:45 Draw 11 21:00 Draw 12 8:00 Draw 13 11:15 Draw 14 14:30 Draw 15 17:45 Draw 16 21:00 Draw 17 8:00 Draw 18 11:15 Draw 19 14:30 Draw 20 17:45 Draw 21 21:00 Draw 23 11:15 Draw 1 18:45 Draw 3 11:15 Draw 5 17:45 Draw 6 21:00 Draw 8 11:15 Draw 10 17:45 Draw 12 8:00 Draw 13 11:15 Draw 14 14:30 Draw 15 17:45 Draw 16 21:00 Draw 18 11:15 Draw 20 17:45 Draw 22 8:00 Draw 1 18:45 Draw 2 8:00 Draw 3 11:15 Draw 4 14:30 Draw 5 17:45 Draw 6 21:00 Draw 7 8:00", "id": "8246326" }, { "contents": "2016 Bangladesh Championship League\n\n\nBank SC (15-16) 14 6 2 6 13 - 14 -1 20 4 Bangladesh Police Athletic Club (15-16) 14 4 6 4 11 - 9 2 18 5 T&T Club (15-16) 14 4 5 5 14 - 14 0 17 6 Victoria SC (15-16) 14 3 5 6 14 - 16 -2 14 7 Kawran Bazar (15-16) 14 2 8 4 7 - 12 -5 14 8 Chittagong Mohammedan (15-16) 14 2 4 8 13 -", "id": "13232613" }, { "contents": "Timeline of the 2012 Pacific hurricane season\n\n\nJune 16 June 17 July 4 July 5 July 7 July 8 July 9 July 10 July 11 July 12 July 13 July 14 July 15 July 16 July 18 August 7 August 8 August 9 August 11 August 12 August 15 August 17 August 27 August 30 August 31 September 2 September 3 September 4 September 12 September 14 September 15 September 16 September 17 September 18 September 19 September 22 September 24 September 25 September 26 September 27 September 28 September 29 October 6 October 7 October 9 October 13 October 15 October 16 October 17 October 30", "id": "21319682" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Missouri\n\n\n! rowspan=3 | 12 ! rowspan=18 | 6 ! 13 ! 14 ! rowspan=12 | 15 ! rowspan=9 | 16 ! rowspan=3 | 7 ! rowspan=15 | 8 ! 17 ! rowspan=5 | 18 ! 19 ! rowspan=4 | 20 ! rowspan=4 | 9 ! rowspan=7 | 21 ! rowspan=6 | 10 ! rowspan=4 | 22 ! 11 ! rowspan=3 | 12 ! rowspan=5 | 23 ! rowspan=15 | 13 ! rowspan=5 | 24 ! rowspan=11 | 25 ! rowspan=10 | 14 ! rowspan=13 | 26 ! rowspan=3 | 15 ! 16 ! rowspan=3 | 17 ! rowspan=6 | 18", "id": "20744052" }, { "contents": "Chris Marlowe\n\n\n15, 13-15, 15-9, 15-11, 15-12 for a 3-2 win. The win set up a championship final between San Diego State and the Bruins. In the championship match SDSU jumped out 2 games to none, and with an 8-3 lead in the third appeared ready for a three-game sweep. However the Bruins rallied back to win it, 10-15, 9-15, 15-9, 15-10, 15-7. UCLA", "id": "21040396" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Virginia\n\n\n| 4 ! 5 ! rowspan=2 | 6 ! 7 ! 5 ! rowspan=3 | 8 ! rowspan=8 | 6 ! rowspan=3 | 9 ! rowspan=14 | 10 ! 7 ! rowspan=2 | 8 ! rowspan=2 | 9 ! rowspan=2 | 10 ! rowspan=7 | 11 ! 11 ! rowspan=9 | 12 ! rowspan=2 | 12 ! rowspan=4 | 13 ! rowspan=9 | 13 ! rowspan=2 | 14 ! rowspan=3 | 15 ! rowspan=6 | 16 ! 14 ! rowspan=9 | 15 ! rowspan=8 | 17 ! 16 ! rowspan=3 | 18 ! 17 ! rowspan=4 | 18 ! rowspan=8", "id": "20744171" }, { "contents": "Jennifer Saunders (racquetball)\n\n\ntogether that year, in the final, 15-6, 8-15, 11-8. But Saunders didn’t successfully defend her Women's Singles title, although she did get to the final for a third straight year. In the semi-finals, Saunders beat Grand'Maître in the semi-finals, 15-7, 15-8, but in the final, she narrowly lost to Powell, 8-15, 15-4, 13-11. Her performances helped to earn Saunders a spot on", "id": "14324066" }, { "contents": "2018 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship\n\n\nThe 2018 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship was held from April 21 to 28 at the Östersund Arena in Östersund, Sweden. The event was held in conjunction with the 2018 World Senior Curling Championships. \"Final Round Robin Standings\" All draw times are listed in CEST (UTC+2) Draw 1 9:00 Draw 4 20:00 Draw 6 11:15 Draw 7 14:30 Draw 8 17:45 Draw 9 21:00 Draw 10 8:00 Draw 13 17:45 Draw 15 8:00 Draw 16 11:15 Draw 17 14:30 Draw 18 17:45 Draw 20 8:00 Draw 22 14:30 Draw 24 21:00 Draw 26", "id": "3983100" }, { "contents": "Carla Khan\n\n\nInternational, where she came from behind to beat Melissa Martin from Australia, 3–9, 4–9, 9–4, 9–7, 9–3. She broke into the top 30. At the Irish Open in 2004, Khan defeated Nicol David of Malaysia (who was ranked number 9 in the world at that time) on 15 April 2004, and achieved her highest ranking of 21. In 2005, Khan lost in the final of the Forbes Open to England's Alison Walters. However, she made it to the final of the 1st POF", "id": "9884495" }, { "contents": "Codex Climaci Rescriptus\n\n\n9-21; 9:30;10:3-9; 15:11-21 I Corin. 1:6-23; 4:1-15; 13: 4-11; 14:4-7; 14:8-14; 14:24-37; 15:3-10; 15:24-49; 16:16-24 II Corin. 1:23-2: 4-11; 4:18-5:6; 5:6-12; 6:3-16; 7:3-8 Galat. 1:1-23; 3:20-24; 4:2; 4:4-29; 5:1; 5:24; 6:4-12", "id": "9480761" }, { "contents": "2014 World Senior Curling Championships – Men's tournament\n\n\n7:30 Draw 6 11:00 Draw 8 18:00 Draw 9 21:30 Draw 12 15:30 Draw 13 19:00 Draw 15 11:00 Draw 16 14:30 Draw 18 21:30 Draw 20 12:00 Draw 22 19:00 Draw 23 8:30 Draw 1 8:00 Draw 4 19:30 Draw 6 11:00 Draw 7 14:30 Draw 10 8:30 Draw 11 12:00 Draw 14 7:30 Draw 15 11:00 Draw 16 14:30 Draw 17 18:00 Draw 19 08:30 Draw 21 15:30 \"Tuesday, April 29, 14:00\" \"Tuesday, April 29, 19:30\" \"Wednesday, April 30, 8:00\" \"Wednesday, April 30,", "id": "16343740" }, { "contents": "2017 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship\n\n\nThe 2017 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship was held from April 22 to 29 at the Lethbridge Curling Club in Lethbridge, Canada. The event was held in conjunction with the 2017 World Senior Curling Championships. \"Final Round Robin Standings\" All draw times are listed in MDT (UTC-6). Draw 1 8:00 Draw 7 14:30 Draw 9 21:00 Draw 10 8:00 Draw 11 11:15 Draw 13 17:45 Draw 15 8:00 Draw 17 14:30 Draw 18 17:45 Draw 21 11:15 Draw 22 14:30 Draw 24 21:00 Draw 25 8:00 Draw 3 15:00 Draw 4 8:00", "id": "20611917" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Kansas\n\n\nrowspan=2 | 3 ! rowspan=12 | 2 ! 4 ! rowspan=2 | 5 ! rowspan=8 | 6 ! rowspan=5 | 3 ! 7 ! 8 ! rowspan=3 | 9 ! rowspan=3 | 4 ! rowspan=3 | 10 ! rowspan=6 | 5 ! 11 ! rowspan=4 | 12 ! rowspan=3 | 6 ! rowspan=3 | 13 ! rowspan=7 | 7 ! rowspan=17 | 14 ! 8 ! rowspan=5 | 9 ! rowspan=6 | 10 ! rowspan=10 | 15 ! 11 ! rowspan=12 | 12 ! rowspan=9 | 16 ! rowspan=15 | 13 ! rowspan=12 | 17 ! 14 ! rowspan=8 |", "id": "20743950" }, { "contents": "1977 NCAA Division I football season\n\n\nto move to third, and the Wolverines returned to the top: 1.Michigan 2.Texas 3.Colorado 4.Alabama 5.Ohio State October 15 No. 1 Michigan beat No. 14 Wisconsin 56–0, and No. 2 Texas won at No. 7 Arkansas, 13–9. No. 3 Colorado played at Kansas, a 17–17 tie. No. 4 Alabama beat Tennessee in Birmingham, 24–10. No. 5 Ohio State beat Iowa 27–6. No. 6 USC beat Oregon 33–15 to return to the top five: 1.Michigan 2.Texas 3.Alabama 4.Ohio State 5.USC October 22", "id": "8560170" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Texas\n\n\n3 ! rowspan=6 | 6 ! rowspan=11 | 4 ! rowspan=3 | 7 ! 8 ! rowspan=4 | 9 ! rowspan=3 | 5 ! rowspan=15 | 10 ! rowspan=6 | 6 ! 7 ! rowspan=16 | 8 ! rowspan=3 | 11 ! rowspan=16 | 12 ! 9 ! rowspan=4 | 10 ! rowspan=8 | 11 ! rowspan=3 | 13 ! 14 ! rowspan=8 | 15 ! 12 ! rowspan=12 | 13 ! rowspan=12 | 16 ! rowspan=12 | 14 ! 17 ! rowspan=12 | 18 ! rowspan=10 | 15 ! rowspan=5 | 19 , there are three living former senators", "id": "20744168" }, { "contents": "Samuel Murray (racquetball)\n\n\nIwaasa, 9-15, 15-6, 11-6. He also defeated Iwaasa in the 2nd National Team Selection Event in Grande Prairie, Alberta, 15-10, 15-10. He defeated Pedro Castro in the semi-finals, 15-6, 15-9. Murray began the 2018-19 IRT season strongly, as he made his first final at the first event of the season - the 2018 MWRA Season Opener IRT Pro/Am in Laurel, Maryland, where he beat Alejandro Landa", "id": "7910660" }, { "contents": "Alejandro Landa\n\n\ntwo of them. Both wins came in Juarez, Mexico. He defeated Javier Moreno in April and then beat Jake Bredenbeck in August, 15–10, 15-10. Landa reached the semi-finals at the US Open for the first time in 2014, as he beat Jose Rojas in the Round of 16, 3-11, 11-9, 14-12, 6-11, 11-4 and Daniel De La Rosa in the quarterfinals, 11-2, 11-8, 11-6,", "id": "8690374" }, { "contents": "Hong Kong Women's Sevens\n\n\nFinals Canada 35–14 Netherlands Kazakhstan 12–7 China USA 45–0 Arabian Gulf France 15–7 Japan 9th to 12th Semi Finals Hong Kong 15–0 Singapore Papua New Guinea 0–29 Thailand Bowl (5th to 8th) Semi Finals Netherlands 5–5 China (China win on try countback) Arabian Gulf 0–10 Japan Cup Semi Finals Canada 26–0 Kazakhstan USA 5–0 France 11th Place Singapore 5–17 Papua New Guinea 9th Place Hong Kong 15–7 Thailand 7th Place Netherlands 19–0 Arabian Gulf Bowl Final China 17–7 Japan Plate Final France 24–0 Kazakhstan Cup Final USA 21–7 Canada 27 March 2009 at Hong Kong.", "id": "7314433" }, { "contents": "Badminton at the 1981 World Games\n\n\n10 4. William Gilliland/Daniel Travers (Scotland) d. Egbeyemi/Badiru (Nigeria), 15-6, 15-6 Semi-finals 1. Sun Zhian/Yao Ximing d. Kartono/Heryanto, 3-15, 15-11, 15-8 2. Kihlstrom/Karlsson d. Gilliland/Travers, 10-15, 15-0, 15-9 Final Sun Zhian/Yao Ximing d. Kihlstrom/Karlsson, 12-15, 15-4, 15-6. Bronze medals: Kartono", "id": "1386468" }, { "contents": "2018 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship\n\n\n12:30 Draw 27 16:00 Draw 1 9:00 Draw 3 16:30 Draw 5 8:00 Draw 11 11:15 Draw 12 14:30 Draw 14 21:00 Draw 15 8:00 Draw 17 14:30 Draw 18 17:45 Draw 19 21:00 Draw 20 8:00 Draw 21 11:15 Draw 22 14:30 Draw 23 17:45 Draw 24 21:00 Draw 28 19:30 Draw 2 12:30 Draw 3 16:30 Draw 4 20:00 Draw 6 11:15 Draw 7 14:30 Draw 9 21:00 Draw 11 11:15 Draw 13 17:45 Draw 14 21:00 Draw 16 11:15 Draw 17 14:30 Draw 20 8:00 Draw 22 14:30 Draw 23 17:45 Draw 25 9:00 Draw 26 12:30", "id": "3983101" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Colorado\n\n\nrowspan=5 | 5 ! rowspan=3 | 8 ! rowspan=9 | 9 ! rowspan=2 | 6 ! 7 ! rowspan=2 | 8 ! rowspan=3 | 9 ! rowspan=6 | 10 ! 10 ! 11 ! rowspan=5 | 12 ! rowspan=11 | 11 ! rowspan=8 | 13 ! rowspan=9 | 12 ! rowspan=3 | 14 ! rowspan=6 | 15 ! rowspan=3 | 13 ! rowspan=6 | 16 ! rowspan=6 | 14 ! rowspan=3 | 17 ! rowspan=4 | 15 ! rowspan=7 | 18 ! rowspan=6 | 16 ! rowspan=3 | 19 ! rowspan=4 | 17 ! rowspan=7 | 20 ! rowspan=3 |", "id": "20743826" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Arkansas\n\n\nrowspan=3 | 6 ! rowspan=5 | 6 ! rowspan=3 | 7 ! rowspan=11 | 8 ! rowspan=11 | 7 ! rowspan=10 | 9 ! rowspan=3 | 8 ! 9 ! 10 ! rowspan=17 | 11 ! rowspan=3 | 10 ! rowspan=6 | 11 ! rowspan=11 | 12 ! rowspan=3 | 12 ! 13 ! rowspan=19 | 14 ! rowspan=15 | 13 ! rowspan=14 | 14 ! 15 ! rowspan=9 | 16 ! rowspan=3 | 17 ! rowspan=6 | 15 ! rowspan=6 | 18 ! rowspan=6 | 16 ! rowspan=3 | 19 , there are five living former senators. The", "id": "20743822" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from New Hampshire\n\n\n! rowspan=3 | 9 ! rowspan=3 | 10 ! rowspan=5 | 8 ! 11 ! rowspan=3 | 12 ! rowspan=4 | 9 ! 13 ! rowspan=6 | 14 ! 10 ! 11 ! rowspan=3 | 12 ! rowspan=6 | 15 ! 13 ! 14 ! 16 ! rowspan=7 | 15 ! rowspan=2 | 17 ! rowspan=5 | 18 ! rowspan=8 | 16 ! 19 ! rowspan=3 | 20 ! rowspan=3 | 21 ! rowspan=6 | 17 ! 22 ! rowspan=12 | 23 ! rowspan=3 | 18 ! rowspan=2 | 19 ! 20 ! 21 ! rowspan=6 | 22 ! rowspan=15", "id": "20744074" }, { "contents": "Dihydroxy-E,Z,E-PUFA\n\n\nmake PDX by metabolizing DHA by double oxygenation a 15-lipoxygenase to form the 10\"R\",17\"S\"-hydroxperoxy intermediated which is reduced its 10\"R\",17\"S\"-hydroxyl product, PDX, probably by cytosolic GPX1 (i.e. glutathione peroxidase 1). Serial metabolism two different lipoxygenases or a lipoxygenase and a cytochrome P45) on PUFA possessing three double bonds in a 1\"Z\",4\"Z\",7\"Z\" configuration may also make a 1,7-dihydroxy 2\"E\",4\"Z\",6\"E\" product. Other platelet-inhibiting dihydroxy-\"E\",\"Z\",\"E\"-PUFA are: 10\"R\",17\"S\"-dihydroxy-4\"Z\",7\"Z\",11\"E\",13\"Z\",15\"E\",19\"Z\"-docosahexaenoic acid (10\"R\",17\"S\"-diHDHA); 8\"S\",15\"S\"-dihydroxy-5\"Z\",9\"E\",11\"Z\",13\"E\"-eicosatetraenoic acid (8\"S\",15\"S\"-diHETE); 9\"S\",16\"S\"-10\"E\",12\"Z\",14\"E\"-octadecatrienoic acid (linotrin-1); and 9\"R\",16\"S\"-10\"E\",12\"Z\",14\"E\"-octadecatrienoic acid (linotrin-2).", "id": "1779786" }, { "contents": "EU Cup\n\n\n8 October 2011. 18 national men's teams competed in the tournament. Final results were: 1. Ireland, 2. Croatia, 3. England, 4. Italy, 5. France, 6. Scotland, 7. Wales, 8. Spain, 9. European Crusaders, 10. Russia (1st time competitors), 11. Denmark, 12. Germany, 13. Finland, 14. Sweden, 15. Netherlands, 16. Austria, 17. Iceland, 18. Catalonia. Ireland defeated Switzerland in", "id": "2746657" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Indiana\n\n\nrowspan=13 | 5 ! rowspan=2 | 5 ! 6 ! rowspan=2 | 7 ! rowspan=3 | 8 ! rowspan=6 | 9 ! 6 ! 7 ! rowspan=3 | 8 ! rowspan=6 | 10 ! rowspan=3 | 9 ! rowspan=5 | 10 ! rowspan=10 | 11 ! rowspan=3 | 11 ! rowspan=6 | 12 ! rowspan=4 | 12 ! rowspan=6 | 13 ! rowspan=2 | 13 ! rowspan=4 | 14 ! rowspan=6 | 14 ! 15 ! rowspan=11 | 16 ! rowspan=3 | 15 ! rowspan=2 | 16 ! rowspan=5 | 17 ! rowspan=6 | 17 ! rowspan=3 | 18 !", "id": "20743924" }, { "contents": "Book of Nature\n\n\n. Pedersen (1992), 7–8. 3. Pedersen (1992), 9. 4. Dear (2009), 4. 5. Pedersen (1992), 10. 6. Pedersen (1992), 11–13. 7. Pedersen (1992), 14–15. 8. Pedersen (1992), 15. 9. Harrison (2001), 13. 10. Harrison (2001), 13. 11. Harrison (2001), 15. 12. Harrison (2001), 15. 13.", "id": "3587614" }, { "contents": "2014 World Senior Curling Championships – Women's tournament\n\n\nThe women's tournament of the 2014 World Senior Curling Championships was held from April 23 to 30 at the Dumfries Ice Bowl in Dumfries, Scotland. The teams are listed as follows: \"Final Round Robin Standings\" Draw 3 15:30 Draw 5 7:30 Draw 6 11:00 Draw 7 14:30 Draw 8 18:00 Draw 9 21:30 Draw 11 12:00 Draw 12 15:30 Draw 13 19:00 Draw 15 11:00 Draw 17 18:00 Draw 18 21:30 Draw 20 12:00 Draw 21 15:30 Draw 23 8:30 Draw 24 14:00 Draw 3 15:30 Draw 4 19:30 Draw 7 14:30 Draw 8", "id": "16343741" }, { "contents": "Alejandro Landa\n\n\nFalls, South Dakota, but he won the final by defeating Daniel De La Rosa, 15-6, 7-15, 11-10, in the final. En route to the final, Landa beat Tim Landeryou, 15-5, 3-15, 11-6, in the Round of 16, Rocky Carson in the quarterfinals, 15-14, 11-15, 11-4, and Samuel Murray, 15-11, 15-7, in the semi-finals. In the", "id": "8690386" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Florida\n\n\n| 4 ! rowspan=3 | 4 ! rowspan=3 | 5 ! rowspan=6 | 5 ! rowspan=11 | 6 ! rowspan=9 | 6 ! rowspan=8 | 7 ! rowspan=10 | 7 ! 8 ! 9 ! rowspan=16 | 10 ! rowspan=3 | 8 ! rowspan=10 | 9 ! rowspan=3 | 10 ! 11 ! rowspan=6 | 11 ! rowspan=10 | 12 ! rowspan=13 | 12 ! rowspan=9 | 13 ! rowspan=3 | 14 ! rowspan=11 | 13 ! rowspan=4 | 15 ! rowspan=4 | 16 ! rowspan=9 | 17 ! rowspan=6 | 14 ! rowspan=10 | 15 ! rowspan=3 | 18", "id": "20743883" }, { "contents": "Coby Iwaasa\n\n\nKitchener, Ontario with the same result: a win for Murray, 15-2, 15-5. Iwaasa and Murray played Men’s Doubles together at the 2018 Canadian Championships in Winnipeg, and they won the title by defeating Nicolas Bousquet and Tommy Murray in the final, 15-13, 10-15, 11-6. They beat the brother team of James Landeryou and Tim Landeryou in the semi-finals, 15-13, 15-10. In Men’s Singles, Iwaasa finished 2nd, as", "id": "8038021" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Wisconsin\n\n\n| 6 ! rowspan=3 | 7 ! rowspan=3 | 6 ! rowspan=6 | 8 ! rowspan=3 | 7 ! rowspan=15 | 8 ! rowspan=4 | 9 ! rowspan=2 | 10 ! rowspan=7 | 11 ! rowspan=11 | 9 ! rowspan=3 | 12 ! rowspan=3 | 13 ! rowspan=14 | 14 ! rowspan=6 | 10 ! rowspan=16 | 11 ! rowspan=9 | 15 ! rowspan=6 | 16 ! rowspan=12 | 12 ! rowspan=9 | 17 ! rowspan=6 | 18 ! rowspan=6 | 13 , there are three living former Senators, one from Class 1 and two from Class 3.", "id": "21329584" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Michigan\n\n\n! 12 ! rowspan=13 | 13 ! rowspan=3 | 10 ! rowspan=7 | 11 ! rowspan=8 | 14 ! rowspan=2 | 12 ! rowspan=10 | 13 ! rowspan=3 | 15 ! rowspan=15 | 16 ! rowspan=4 | 14 ! rowspan=9 | 15 ! 17 ! rowspan=4 | 18 ! rowspan=6 | 16 ! rowspan=11 | 19 ! rowspan=9 | 17 ! rowspan=10 | 20 ! rowspan=18 | 18 ! rowspan=3 | 21 ! rowspan=12 | 22 ! rowspan=3 | 19 , there are three former U.S. Senators from Michigan who are currently living, two from Class 1 and one", "id": "20744040" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Ohio\n\n\n| 6 ! rowspan=2 | 7 ! rowspan=2 | 8 ! rowspan=2 | 9 ! rowspan=3 | 10 ! rowspan=3 | 6 ! rowspan=6 | 11 ! rowspan=3 | 7 ! rowspan=3 | 8 ! rowspan=5 | 12 ! 9 ! rowspan=11 | 10 ! rowspan=3 | 13 ! 14 ! rowspan=9 | 15 ! rowspan=8 | 11 ! 16 ! rowspan=3 | 17 ! rowspan=9 | 12 ! rowspan=3 | 18 ! rowspan=3 | 19 ! rowspan=9 | 20 ! rowspan=4 | 13 ! rowspan=4 | 14 ! rowspan=3 | 21 ! rowspan=7 | 15 ! rowspan=3 | 22", "id": "20744100" }, { "contents": "2013 Canadian Mixed Doubles Curling Trials\n\n\nFriday, March 15, 11:30 am\" \"Friday, March 15, 2:00 pm\" \"Friday, March 15, 4:30 pm\" \"Friday, March 15, 7:00 pm\" \"Friday, March 15, 9:30 pm\" \"Saturday, March 16, 9:00 am\" \"Saturday, March 16, 11:30 am\" \"Saturday, March 16, 2:00 pm\" \"Saturday, March 16, 4:30 pm\" \"Saturday, March 16, 8:30 pm\" \"Sunday, March 17, 10:00 am\" \"Sunday", "id": "10697048" }, { "contents": "Lyon Villeurbanne XIII\n\n\nto AS Carcassonne 10–22, but they went one better in the league beating XIII Catalan 15–10 to lift the trophy for the first time. In 52/53 they won the cup beating US Villeneuve 9–8 in the final but couldn't complete a league and cup double as they lost the league final 12–19 to AS Carcassonne. They retained the cup when they beat XIII Catalan 17–15 and won their second league title when they triumphed 7–6 against AS Carcassonne in 1955. Relegation followed in 1957 but after winning the National League 1 title, now called", "id": "19573564" }, { "contents": "Park Sung-hwan\n\n\n. Two weeks later, Park was to be defeated again in the quarter-final matches of the Li Ning China Masters Super Series in Changzhou, China (to 4th seed badminton ace Lin Dan of China, 15-21, 21-13, 21-23), and the Japan Open Super Series (to Indonesian, Taufik Hidayat, 21-12, 26-28, 15-21). In November, Park participated in the Yonex Sunrise Hong Kong Open and lost 15-21, 16-21", "id": "6727931" }, { "contents": "2015 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship\n\n\nThe 2015 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship was held from April 18 to 25 at the Ice Cube Curling Center in Sochi, Russia. The event will be held in conjunction with the 2015 World Senior Curling Championships. The teams are listed as follows: Draw 1 9:00 Draw 2 11:15 Draw 3 21:00 Draw 4 11:15 Draw 5 8:00 Draw 6 17:45 Draw 7 19:30 Draw 8 11:15 Draw 9 17:45 Draw 1 12:30 Draw 2 19:30 Draw 3 14:30 Draw 4 9:00 Draw 5 11:15 Draw 6 21:00 Draw 7 12:30 Draw 8 8:00 Draw 9", "id": "12517555" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Rhode Island\n\n\n| 9 ! rowspan=3 | 7 ! rowspan=7 | 8 ! rowspan=2 | 9 ! rowspan=7 | 10 ! rowspan=2 | 10 ! 11 ! rowspan=3 | 12 ! rowspan=3 | 11 ! rowspan=4 | 13 ! rowspan=3 | 12 ! rowspan=3 | 14 ! rowspan=17 | 13 ! 15 ! rowspan=6 | 16 ! rowspan=4 | 17 ! rowspan=20 | 18 ! 14 ! rowspan=4 | 15 ! rowspan=3 | 16 ! rowspan=10 | 17 ! rowspan=3 | 19 ! rowspan=6 | 18 ! rowspan=8 | 20 ! rowspan=7 | 19 ! rowspan=3 | 21 ! rowspan=6 | 22", "id": "20744131" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from West Virginia\n\n\nrowspan=8 | 7 ! rowspan=2 | 4 ! rowspan=8 | 5 ! rowspan=9 | 8 ! 6 ! rowspan=2 | 7 ! rowspan=4 | 9 ! rowspan=3 | 8 ! rowspan=3 | 10 ! rowspan=3 | 9 ! rowspan=3 | 11 ! rowspan=3 | 10 ! rowspan=3 | 12 ! rowspan=7 | 11 ! rowspan=3 | 13 ! rowspan=10 | 14 ! 12 ! 13 ! rowspan=3 | 14 ! rowspan=8 | 15 ! 15 ! rowspan=5 | 16 ! 16 ! rowspan=14 | 17 ! rowspan=27 | 17 ! rowspan=18 | 18 ! 18 ! rowspan=8 | 19 !", "id": "20744177" }, { "contents": "Academy of Saint Elizabeth\n\n\nstudents often take part in mass on different occasions. Sample 'D day' Homeroom 8:10-8:15 Period 1 8:19-9:15 Period 2 9:17 - 10:13 Period 3 10:15 - 11:11 Lunch 11:13 - 11:58 Period 5 12:00 - 12:56 Period 6 12:58 - 1:54 Period 7 1:56 - 2:51 The Academy runs on a 4-day rotating schedule (A day, B day, C day, and D day). Each day, students drop a morning and afternoon class. You can find the 2018-2019 school year calendar on the Academy", "id": "13678251" }, { "contents": "2014 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship\n\n\nWorld Curling medal for Spain in the bronze medal game with a 7–4 win over defending champions Dorottya Palansca and Zsolt Kiss of Hungary. Canada, Norway, and England scored perfect ends in their games in Draws 5, 11, and 22, respectively. The teams are listed as follows: \"Final Round Robin Standings\" Draw 1 8:15 Draw 4 19:30 Draw 6 11:15 Draw 9 21:00 Draw 12 14:30 Draw 15 8:00 Draw 18 17:45 Draw 19 21:00 Draw 21 11:15 Draw 22 14:30 Draw 25 8:00 Draw 2 12:00 Draw 5 8:00", "id": "15498977" }, { "contents": "2011 World Senior Curling Championships – Men's tournament\n\n\nStandings\" All draw times are listed in Central Standard Time (UTC-06). Draw 1 08:00 Draw 3 18:00 Draw 6 14:30 Draw 8 08:00 Draw 10 18:00 Draw 13 14:30 Draw 15 21:30 Draw 17 14:30 Draw 2 11:30 Draw 4 21:30 Draw 5 11:00 Draw 8 08:00 Draw 10 18:00 Draw 13 14:30 Draw 17 14:30 Draw 19 21:30 Draw 2 11:30 Draw 4 21:30 Draw 6 14:30 Draw 8 08:00 Draw 9 11:30 Draw 10 18:00 Draw 11 21:30 Draw 12 11:00 Draw 13 14:30 Draw 15 21:30 Draw 19 21:30 \"Friday, April", "id": "16637806" }, { "contents": "Nathan Robertson\n\n\ndefeated Björn Siegemund and Nicol Pitro of Germany in the second. In the quarterfinals, Robertson and Emms beat Chen Qiqiu and Zhao Tingting of China 15-8, 17-15 to advance to the semifinals. There, they beat Jonas Rasmussen and Rikke Olsen of Denmark 15-6, 15-12. In the final, they lost to Chinese pair Zhang Jun and Gao Ling 15-1, 12-15, 15-12 to finish with the silver medal. At the 2005 World Championships, he and Emms", "id": "1371969" }, { "contents": "List of major textual variants in the New Testament\n\n\nMatthew 8:28 Matthew 11:23 Matthew 17:21 Matthew 18:11 Matthew 20:16 Matthew 20:22, 23 Matthew 23:14 Matthew 24:36 Matthew 26:28 Matthew 27:16 Mark 2:16 Mark 6:11 Mark 7:8 Mark 7:16 Mark 9:38 Mark 9:43-46 Mark 9:49 Mark 10:24 Mark 11:26 Mark 14:19 Mark 15:28 Mark 16:9-20 Luke 1:28 Luke 2:14 Luke 4:4 Luke 9:55-56 Luke 11:2-4 Luke 11:11 Luke 22:43-44 Luke 23:17 Luke 23:34 John 1:18 John 5:3-4 John 6:69 John 7:53-8:11 John 8:59 Acts 2:30 Acts 13:42 Acts 15:24 Acts 18:21 Acts 23:9 Acts 28:29", "id": "12411760" }, { "contents": "BSWW Tour\n\n\n1 2 15-19 2 4. USA 3 1 2 13-20 2 Semifinals Brazil 9-4 Argentina Third place match Final Brazil 11-3 South Korea 02/03/1996 Buenos Aires (Argentina)Argentina 5-12 Brazil Friendly Match 1996 USA 3-6 Brazil Italy 6-9 Brazil USA 4-9 Brazil Italy 2-8 Brazil Netherlands 4-13 Brazil England 1-13 Brazil Malaysia 1-14 Brazil Semifinals Brazil 15-2 Japan Third place match Final Brazil 6-4 South Korea Brazil 7-4 Argentina", "id": "17061521" }, { "contents": "1941 Eastern Suburbs season\n\n\n5, Saturday 17 May Eastern Suburbs 13 beat Canterbury Bankstown 2 at Sydney Cricket Ground. Premiership Round 6, Saturday 24 May 1941. Newtown 4 beat Eastern Suburbs 3 at Henson Park. Premiership Round 7, Saturday 31 June 1941. St George 16 beat Eastern Suburbs 10 at Sydney Sports Ground. Premiership Round 8, Saturday 21 June 1941. South Sydney 22 beat Eastern Suburbs 15 at Sydney Sports Ground. Premiership Round 9, Saturday 28 June 1941. Eastern Suburbs 15 beat Western Suburbs 3 at Pratten Park. Premiership Round", "id": "11086526" }, { "contents": "Jansher Khan\n\n\nJansher Khan (; born 15 June 1969, in Peshawar, Pakistan) is a former World No. 1 professional Pakistani squash player. During his career he won the World Open a record eight times, and the British Open six times. Jansher Khan's retirement brought an end to nearly 50 years of domination by Pakistan in the sport of squash. He won the World Junior Squash Championship title in 1986 and the senior World Open title in 1987, by beating Australia's Chris Dittmar in the final. Jansher officially announced his retirement", "id": "1599584" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Kentucky\n\n\n! 5 ! rowspan=5 | 6 ! 3 ! rowspan=2 | 4 ! rowspan=4 | 7 ! 5 ! rowspan=4 | 6 ! rowspan=5 | 8 ! 7 ! 8 ! rowspan=2 | 9 ! rowspan=7 | 9 ! rowspan=3 | 10 ! rowspan=3 | 11 ! rowspan=4 | 10 ! rowspan=6 | 12 ! rowspan=3 | 11 ! rowspan=4 | 12 ! rowspan=4 | 13 ! rowspan=8 | 13 ! 14 ! rowspan=2 | 15 ! 16 ! rowspan=2 | 17 ! rowspan=3 | 14 ! rowspan=3 | 18 ! rowspan=5 | 15 ! 19 ! rowspan=8 | 20", "id": "20743991" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Massachusetts\n\n\n| 8 ! rowspan=7 | 7 ! rowspan=2 | 9 ! rowspan=8 | 10 ! rowspan=3 | 8 ! rowspan=6 | 9 ! rowspan=9 | 11 ! rowspan=3 | 10 ! rowspan=5 | 11 ! rowspan=3 | 12 ! rowspan=5 | 13 ! rowspan=8 | 12 ! 14 ! 15 ! rowspan=16 | 16 ! 13 ! 14 ! rowspan=10 | 15 ! rowspan=4 | 16 ! 17 ! rowspan=9 | 18 ! rowspan=14 | 17 ! rowspan=18 | 19 ! rowspan=5 | 18 ! rowspan=3 | 19 ! rowspan=5 | 20 ! rowspan=2 | 20 ! rowspan=4 | 21", "id": "20744045" }, { "contents": "2017 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship\n\n\nDraw 5 8:00 Draw 11 11:15 Draw 12 14:30 Draw 14 21:00 Draw 16 11:15 Draw 18 17:45 Draw 19 21:00 Draw 20 8:00 Draw 22 14:30 Draw 23 17:45 Draw 24 21:00 Draw 26 11:15 Draw 27 14:30 Draw 3 15:00 Draw 4 20:00 Draw 6 11:15 Draw 8 17:45 Draw 9 21:00 Draw 12 14:30 Draw 13 17:45 Draw 14 21:00 Draw 16 11:15 Draw 17 14:30 Draw 20 8:00 Draw 21 11:15 Draw 22 14:30 Draw 25 8:00 Draw 26 11:15 Draw 1 8:00 Draw 2 11:15 Draw 3 15:00 Draw 5 8:00 Draw 8 17:45 Draw", "id": "20611918" }, { "contents": "Michael Cheika\n\n\nAuckland a week later. Despite having only been in charge of the Wallabies for a year, Cheika led Australia to the 2015 Rugby World Cup Final. They topped Pool A with victories over Fiji 28–13, Uruguay 65–3, England 33–13 and Wales 15–6. They narrowly beat Scotland in the quarter-final winning 35–34 after a controversial last minute penalty. They beat Argentina 29–15 in the semi-final to reach the final against the All Blacks. The Wallabies went down 16–3 at half time, but fought back in the second half", "id": "21843436" }, { "contents": "2008 South American Under-23 Championships in Athletics – Results\n\n\n5 September 17:00hbr Final – 7 September 15:00hbr Final – 6 September 11:00hbr Final – 6 September 15:40hbr Final – 6 September 9:30hbr Wind: -2.5m/s Final – 7 September 10:45hbr Final – 6 September 9:00hbr Final – 7 September 9:00hbr Final – 7 September 11:00hbr Final – 6 September 11:00hbr Final – 6 September 9:00hbr Final – 7 September 11:00hbr Final – 5 September 14:50hbr Final – 6 September 9:00hbr Final – 7 September 9:00hbr Final – 7 September 7:00hbr Final – 6 September 17:00hbr Final – 7 September 15:50hbr Final – 6 September 9:45hbr Wind: -2.5", "id": "3039640" }, { "contents": "Rhonda Rajsich\n\n\nfinished #1. At the 2011 USA National Doubles Championships, Rajsich played with Kim Russell-Waselenchuk for the first time. They lost in the semi-finals to Krystal Csuk and Cheryl Gudinas, 15-6, 2-15, 11-9, and then lost the 3rd place match to sisters Danielle and Michelle Key, 3-15, 15-10, 11-10. However, Rajsich won Women's Singles at the 2011 USA National Singles Championshps by beating Gudinas in the final, 15-2", "id": "20397807" }, { "contents": "Ra Kyung-min\n\n\n. In the quarterfinals, Ra and Lee beat Lotte Bruil and Mia Audina of the Netherlands 15-5, 15-2. They lost the semifinal to Zhang Jiewen and Yang Wei of China 15-6, 15-4 but won the bronze medal match against Zhao Tingting and Wei Yili, also of China, 10-15, 15-9, 15-7. Ra also competed in mixed doubles with partner Kim Dong-moon. They had a bye in the first round and defeated Chris Bruil and Lotte", "id": "17379284" }, { "contents": "Coby Iwaasa\n\n\nVincent Gagnon, 15-10, 15-17, 11-6, in the semi-finals, but won the 3rd place match versus Samuel Murray, 13-15, 15-6, 11-8. That summer Iwaasa played for Canada for the first time by participating in the 2014 Pan American Sports Festival in Guadalajara, Mexico, where he defeated team-mate Samuel Murray, 15-9, 10-15, 11-3, in the Round of 16, but lost to David Horn of", "id": "8038012" }, { "contents": "Raglan Chronicle\n\n\n13, 20, 27, Apr 2, 10, 17, 24, May 1, 8, 15, 22, Jun 5, 12, 19, 26, Jul 3, 10. 17, 24, 31, Aug 7, 21, 28, Sep 4, 11, 18, 25, Oct 2, 9, 16, 23, 30, Nov 6, 13, 20, 27, Dec 4, 11, 18, 23; 1959 Jan 15, 29, Feb 5, 19,", "id": "3052190" }, { "contents": "Coby Iwaasa\n\n\n4, 11-5, and 1st seed Alejandro Cardona in the final, 9-15, 15-9, 11-8. He reached the quarterfinals in the other four WRT events that year. In November 2014, Iwaasa defeated Samuel Murray, in the quarterfinals, 15-9, 15-10, of the 1st National Team Selection Event of the 2014-15 season in Kitchener, Ontario. He then lost to Mike Green, 15-6, 15-6, in the semi-finals.", "id": "8038014" }, { "contents": "2008 European Curling Championships\n\n\n, 14:00 Draw 4 Monday December 8, 08:00 Draw 5 Monday December 8, 16:00 Draw 6 Tuesday December 9, 09:00 Draw 7 Tuesday December 9, 18:30 Draw 8 Wednesday December 10, 14:00 Draw 9 Thursday December 11, 08:00 Tiebreaker Thursday December 11, 15:00 Thursday, December 11, 20:00 Thursday, December 11, 20:00 Friday, December 12, 19:00 Saturday, December 13, 15:00 \"All times local\" Draw 1 Saturday December 6, 12:00 Draw 2 Sunday December 7, 16:00 Draw 3 Sunday December 7, 20:00", "id": "11226003" }, { "contents": "Rocky Carson\n\n\nUSA Racquetball National Singles Championship for the first time. He was seeded 6th, and defeated 8th seed Doug Eagle in the final. 15-7, 15-7. To reach the final, Carson beat Brian Fredenberg in the quarterfinals, 15-7, 15-13, and Jack Huczek in the semi-finals, 15-11, 15-6. He also played in Worlds for the 2nd time in San Luis Potosi, Mexico, and came home with two silver medals. He finished 2nd in Men", "id": "17077667" }, { "contents": "1973 European Formula Two Championship\n\n\nThe 1973 European Formula Two season was contested over 17 rounds. STP March Racing Team driver Jean-Pierre Jarier clinched the championship title. Note: Race 1, 2, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 13, 15 and 17 were held in two heats, with results shown in aggregate. Race 3, 5, 9 and 12 were held with two semi-final heats and the final run, with time only shown for the final. Race 3, 4, 5 and 15 were won by", "id": "18544287" }, { "contents": "2008 in sports\n\n\nJackson vs. Griffin 7/19 – 7/19 – () 7/21 – DREAM.5 7/26 – August 8/3 – WEC 35: Condit vs. Miura 8/9 – UFC 87: Seek And Destroy 8/15 – ShoXC 7 8/24 – September 9/6 – UFC 88: Breakthrough 9/13 – 9/17 – 9/20 – 9/23 – DREAM.6 9/26 – ShoXC 8 9/28 – October 10/3 – 10/4 – 10/10 – ShoXC 9 () 10/18 – UFC 89: Bisping vs. Leben 10/25 – UFC 90: Silva vs. Côté November 11/1 – 11/5 – WEC 36: Faber vs. Brown 11/15 – UFC", "id": "5162165" } ]

[ { "contents": "Rodney Martin (squash player)\n\n\nRodney Martin is a former professional squash player from Australia. He is best known for winning the World Open in 1991, beating the legendary Pakistani player Jahangir Khan in the final 14-17, 15-9, 15-4, 15-13 (he had previously beaten another Pakistani legend, Jansher Khan, in the quarter-finals, and his Australian compatriot Chris Dittmar in the semi-finals). Martin was also part of the Australian teams which won the World Team Squash Championships in 1989 and 1991. Martin", "id": "20966392" }, { "contents": "Amr Shabana\n\n\nbeating Thierry Lincou in the final 15–14, 9–15, 15–11, 15–7, to become Egypt's first winner of the sport's premier title. But after a disappointing following year, in which his only final appearance was in the British Open Squash Championship in England, losing to David Palmer in four games 10–11 (4–6), 11–7, 11–10 (3–1), 11–7, Shabana stormed back to the top of his game in 2005. Over a short period, he acquired a new coach, Ahmed Tahir; a new manager", "id": "522232" }, { "contents": "Comparison of codices Sinaiticus and Vaticanus\n\n\n13:39a 13:39b 13:41 13:42 13:44a 13:44b 13:48 13:50 13:54 13:55 13:57a 13:57 b 14:1 14:2 14:3 14:4a 14:4b 14:5 14:7 14:9 14:12 14:13 14:15a 14:15b 14:15c 14:16 14:17 14:19a 14:19b 14:22a 14:22b 14:22c 14:23 14:24 14:26 14:28a 14:28b 14:29 14:35 14:36 15:3 15:4 15:5 15:6 15:11a 15:11b 15:12 15:14 15:15 15:17 15:17 15:17 15:22 15:22 15:27 15:30 15:31 15:31 15:31 16:6 16:9 16:12 17:10 17:15 17:17 18:7 18:14 18:16 19:7 19:10 19:12 19:16 19:22 21:16 21:17 21:19 21:28 21:33 22:1 22:11 22:40 23:3 23:8 23:35 23:35b 23:37 24:2 24:9 24:24 24:26 24:30 24:31 24:35 24:48 25:3 25:17 25:22 26:33 26:50", "id": "1385581" }, { "contents": "John White (squash player)\n\n\nJohn White (born 15 June 1973 in Mount Isa, Australia) is a former World No. 1 squash player. White finished runner-up at both the World Open and the British Open in 2002. He won the PSA Masters title in 2003 (beating Thierry Lincou in the final 15–8, 17–15, 17–16). He also won the British National Championships in 2004 (beating Lee Beachill in the final 17–16, 17–14, 14–15, 15–8). White reached the World No. 1 ranking in March 2004. White", "id": "14402929" }, { "contents": "2011 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship\n\n\nDraw 7 21:30 Draw 9 15:00 Draw 12 08:00 Draw 13 11:00 Draw 14 14:30 Draw 17 08:00 Draw 18 11:30 Draw 20 18:00 Draw 21 21:30 Draw 2 15:00 Draw 4 08:00 Draw 6 18:00 Draw 7 21:30 Draw 8 11:30 Draw 9 15:00 Draw 10 18:00 Draw 12 08:00 Draw 14 14:30 Draw 15 18:00 Draw 16 21:30 Draw 18 11:30 Draw 19 14:30 Draw 2 15:00 Draw 3 21:30 Draw 5 14:30 Draw 6 18:00 Draw 7 21:30 Draw 8 11:30 Draw 9 15:00 Draw 11 21:30 Draw 12 08:00 Draw 15 18:00 Draw 16 21:30 Draw", "id": "12545021" }, { "contents": "2016 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship\n\n\n8 21:00 Draw 9 8:00 Draw 10 11:15 Draw 13 21:00 Draw 14 8:00 Draw 15 11:15 Draw 17 17:45 Draw 20 11:15 Draw 21 14:30 Draw 22 17:45 Draw 23 21:00 Draw 24 8:00 Draw 25 11:15 Draw 1 12:00 Draw 2 16:00 Draw 4 8:00 Draw 5 11:15 Draw 6 14:30 Draw 7 17:45 Draw 9 8:00 Draw 11 14:30 Draw 12 17:45 Draw 13 21:00 Draw 15 11:15 Draw 17 17:45 Draw 19 8:00 Draw 21 14:30 Draw 22 17:45 Draw 24 8:00 Draw 25 11:15 \"Thursday, April 21, 17:45\" \"Thursday,", "id": "1156734" }, { "contents": "Codex Dublinensis\n\n\nει. Matthew 1:17-2:6, 2:13-20, 4:4-13, 5:45-6:15, 7:16-8:6, 10:40-11:18, 12:43-13:11, 13:57-14:19, 15:13-23, 17:9-17, 17:26-18:6, 19:4-12, 21-28, 20:7-21:8, 21:23-30, 22:16-25, 22:37-23:3, 23:15-23, 24:15-25, 25:1-11, 26:21-29, 62-71. The Greek text of this codex is a representative", "id": "16200586" }, { "contents": "Frisingensia Fragmenta\n\n\n15:13; 1 Cor 1:1-27; 1:28-3:5; 6:1-7:7; 15:1-1:43; 16:12-27; 2 Cor 1:1-2:10; 3:17-5:1; 7:10-8:12; 9:10-11:21; 12:14-13:10; Gal 2:5-4:3; 6:5-17; Eph 1:1-13; 1:16-2:16; 6:24; Phil 1:1-20; 1 Tim 1:12-2:15; 5:18-6:13; Hbr 6:6-7:5; 7:8-8:1; 9:27-11:7. 1 John 3:8 - 5:9.", "id": "5758263" }, { "contents": "Minuscule 506\n\n\n-30; 17:5-8; 24:22-24; John 1:1-7:39; 8:31-9:11; 10:10-11:54; 12:36-13:27; Acts 1:1-7:49; 10:19-14:10; 15:15-16:11; 18:1-21:25; 23:18-28:31; James 1:1-3:17; 1 Corinthians 12:11-15:12; 16:13-15; 2 Corinthians 13:4. 5; Galatians [5:16-6:1]; 6:1-18; 2 Timothy 3:10. 11; Titus 3:5-7. The Greek text of the codex is a", "id": "14754278" }, { "contents": "Rocky Carson\n\n\nthe finals by defeating Anthony Herrera and David Horn in the semi-finals, 15-9, 15-3. But in the final Carson and Allen lost to Jake Bredenbeck and Jose Diaz, 15-14, 15-11. He won the 2016 USAR National Singles Championships in Highlands Ranch, Colorado, where Carson defeated [[Chris Crowther]] in the semi-finals, 13-15, 15-12, 11-7, and then beat Diaz in the final, 15-10, 15", "id": "17077704" }, { "contents": "Codex Nitriensis\n\n\nno references to the Eusebian Canons. Gospel of Luke 1:1-13, 1:69-2:4, 2:16-27, 4:38-5:5, 5:25-6:8, 6:18-36, 6:39, 6:49-7:22, 7:44, 7:46, 7:47, 7:50, 8:1-3, 8:5-15, 8:25-9:1, 9:12-43, 10:3-16, 11:5-27, 12:4-15, 12:40-52, 13:26-14:1, 14:12-15:1, 15:13-16:16, 17:21-18:10, 18:22-20:20,", "id": "14992375" }, { "contents": "Del Harris (squash player)\n\n\n16–17, 15–8. That year Harris was also part of the winning England team in the 1995 Men's World Team Squash Championships and in addition he won the Super Series Finals event, beating Brett Martin of Australia in the final 10–8, 7–9, 9–4, 6–9, 9–2. Further success came in 1997 when he was once again part of the winning England team in the 1997 Men's World Team Squash Championships. Harris won the British National Squash Championships twice, in 1987 and 1989 and reached his career-high world ranking", "id": "20966690" }, { "contents": "2012 European Mixed Curling Championship\n\n\nDraw 14 8:30 Draw 16 15:30 Draw 1 19:30 Draw 2 9:00 Draw 3 12:30 Draw 4 16:00 Draw 5 19:30 Draw 6 9:00 Draw 8 16:00 Draw 11 12:30 Draw 13 19:30 Draw 14 8:30 Draw 15 12:00 Draw 16 15:30 Draw 17 19:00 Draw 2 9:00 Draw 4 16:00 Draw 6 9:00 Draw 7 12:30 Draw 8 16:00 Draw 9 19:30 Draw 10 9:00 Draw 12 16:00 Draw 15 12:00 Draw 17 19:00 \"Friday, October 5, 9:00\" \"Friday, October 5, 21:00\" \"Saturday, October 6, 17:00\" \"", "id": "19557062" }, { "contents": "2017 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship\n\n\n10 8:00 Draw 12 14:30 Draw 13 17:45 Draw 19 21:00 Draw 21 11:15 Draw 22 14:30 Draw 24 21:00 Draw 25 8:00 Draw 27 14:30 Draw 2 11:15 Draw 4 20:00 Draw 6 11:15 Draw 7 14:30 Draw 9 21:00 Draw 11 11:15 Draw 15 8:00 Draw 17 14:30 Draw 20 8:00 Draw 23 17:45 Draw 26 11:15 Draw 27 14:30 \"Friday, April 28, 9:00\" \"Friday, April 28, 12:30\" \"Friday, April 28, 16:00\" \"Friday, April 28, 19:30\" \"Saturday, April 29,", "id": "20611919" }, { "contents": "Coby Iwaasa\n\n\nIwaasa finished 3rd by defeating Tim Landeryou, 15-11, 15-9. He won the 2nd Selection Event that season in Brossard, Québec, where he beat Pedro Castro in the final, 15-9, 6-15, 11-8. In the semi-finals, Iwaasa beat Landeryou, 12-15, 15-4, 11-7. Iwaasa played seven tournaments in the 2014-15 International Racquetball Tour season, but only made it to the quarterfinals in the second last event of the", "id": "8038015" }, { "contents": "Jack Huczek\n\n\nthe semi-finals, 15-6, 9-15, 11-4. In the 2002-03 IRT season, Huczek was in four finals, winning the final event of the season: Pro Nationals in Tempe, Arizona, where he beat Alvaro Beltran, 11-4, 11-6, 11-8, in the final after defeating Rocky Carson in the semis, 11-1, 11-6, 11-7, and Cliff Swain in the quarters, 11-6, 15-", "id": "17077735" }, { "contents": "Samuel Murray (racquetball)\n\n\nNovember 2015, in Brossard, Québec, where he beat Mike Green in the final, 15-10, 15-13. He defeated Tim Landeryou to reach the final, 15-7, 15-12. In the 2nd Selection Event that season, he lost a tie-breaker to Landeryou in the semi-finals, 10-15, 15-12, 11-9. But he did win the 3rd place match against Pedro Castro, 15-6, 15-1. Murray played at the", "id": "7910649" }, { "contents": "1995–96 Regionalliga\n\n\n! 6 ! 7 ! 8 ! 9 ! 10 ! 11 ! 12 ! 13 ! 14 ! 15 ! 16 ! 17 ! 18 The Regionalliga Nordost ! 1 ! 2 ! 3 ! 4 ! 5 ! 6 ! 7 ! 8 ! 9 ! 10 ! 11 ! 12 ! 13 ! 14 ! 15 ! 16 ! 17 ! 18 The Regionalliga West/Südwest: ! 1 ! 2 ! 3 ! 4 ! 5 ! 6 ! 7 ! 8 ! 9 ! 10 ! 11 ! 12 ! 13 ! 14 !", "id": "13380860" }, { "contents": "2014 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship\n\n\nDraw 8 17:45 Draw 11 11:15 Draw 14 21:00 Draw 16 11:15 Draw 17 14:30 Draw 20 8:00 Draw 22 14:30 Draw 24 21:00 Draw 25 8:00 Draw 26 11:15 Draw 1 8:15 Draw 2 12:00 Draw 3 15:45 Draw 5 8:00 Draw 6 11:15 Draw 7 14:30 Draw 9 21:00 Draw 10 8:00 Draw 12 14:30 Draw 13 17:45 Draw 14 21:00 Draw 15 8:00 Draw 16 11:15 Draw 17 14:30 Draw 18 17:45 Draw 20 8:00 Draw 21 11:15 Draw 23 17:45 Draw 24 21:00 Draw 3 15:45 Draw 4 19:30 Draw 7 14:30 Draw 8 17:45 Draw", "id": "15498978" }, { "contents": "Rocky Carson\n\n\nto the final with a win over Chris Crowther in the semi-finals, 15-7, 15-10. Carson’s Men’s Singles World Championship in 2008 qualified him for the 2009 World Games in Kaohsiung, Republic of China, where he captured the silver medal in Men's Singles. Carson beat Canadian Mike Green, 15-9, 15-9, in the quarterfinals, and Mexican Alvaro Beltran in the semi-finals, 9-15, 15-7, 11-8, to set up", "id": "17077685" }, { "contents": "2018 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship\n\n\nDraw 27 16:00 Draw 28 19:30 Draw 1 9:00 Draw 2 12:30 Draw 3 16:30 Draw 5 8:00 Draw 8 17:45 Draw 10 8:00 Draw 11 11:15 Draw 12 14:30 Draw 13 17:45 Draw 18 17:45 Draw 19 21:00 Draw 21 11:15 Draw 22 14:30 Draw 25 8:00 Draw 26 12:30 Draw 27 16:00 Draw 2 12:30 Draw 4 20:00 Draw 6 11:15 Draw 7 14:30 Draw 9 21:00 Draw 10 8:00 Draw 11 11:15 Draw 12 14:30 Draw 14 21:00 Draw 15 8:00 Draw 16 11:15 Draw 18 17:45 Draw 19 21:00 Draw 20 8:00 Draw 21 11:15 Draw", "id": "3983102" }, { "contents": "Rocky Carson\n\n\nIRT season. Carson won the 2001 Pan American Racquetball Championships in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, where he defeated Canadian Kane Waselenchuk in the final, 15-9, 15-13. Carson was the defending champion at the 2001 USAR National Singles Championships, and had a chance to defend the title, but lost to Jack Huczek, 15-11, 15-6. Carson beat Dan Fowler in the semi-finals, 15-8, 15-10, to reach the final. Carson took a step back", "id": "17077670" }, { "contents": "Gail Emms\n\n\nKellogg. They defeated Koon Wai Chee and Li Wing Mui of Hong Kong in the first round but were defeated by Zhao Tingting and Wei Yili of China in the second round. She also competed in mixed doubles with Robertson. They had a bye in the first round and defeated Björn Siegemund and Nicol Pitro of Germany in the second. In the quarterfinals, Emms and Robertson beat Chen Qiqiu and Zhao Tingting of China 15–8, 17–15 to advance to the semifinals. There, they beat Jonas Rasmussen and Rikke Olsen of Denmark 15–6", "id": "555457" }, { "contents": "Wellington Rugby Football Union\n\n\nNew South Wales 9–5 1896 beat Queensland 49–7 1901 beat New South Wales 17–16 1905 beat Australia 23–7 (combined team with Wairarapa and Horowhenua 1908 beat Anglo-Welsh 19–13 1921 lost to South Africa 3–8 1921 beat New South Wales 16–8 1923 beat New South Wales 29–16 (combined team with Manawatu) 1925 beat New South Wales 20–8 (combined team with Manawatu and Horowhenua) 1930 beat British Lions 12–8 1931 beat Australia 15–8 1937 lost to South Africa 0–29 1946 lost to Australia 15–16 1950 lost to British Isles 6–12 1956 lost to South Africa", "id": "5981175" }, { "contents": "Samuel Murray (racquetball)\n\n\n, 7-15, 15-3, 11-7, and then lost to Mexican Daniel De La Rosa, 15-12, 15-7. Murray won the 1st National Team Selection event of the 2016-17 season in Valleyfield, Québec, where he defeated James Landeryou, 15-4, 15-4, in the final. In the semi-finals, Murray beat Landeryou’s older brother Tim, 15-9, 15-13. At the 2nd selection event that season in Calgary,", "id": "7910652" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from South Carolina\n\n\n5 ! rowspan=4 | 6 ! rowspan=8 | 7 ! 6 ! rowspan=3 | 7 ! rowspan=3 | 8 ! rowspan=9 | 8 ! rowspan=5 | 9 ! rowspan=4 | 10 ! 9 ! rowspan=5 | 10 ! rowspan=15 | 11 ! 11 ! 12 ! rowspan=2 | 13 ! 14 ! rowspan=5 | 15 ! rowspan=6 | 12 ! 16 ! rowspan=2 | 17 ! rowspan=6 | 18 ! rowspan=3 | 13 ! rowspan=3 | 14 ! rowspan=9 | 19 ! rowspan=6 | 15 ! rowspan=3 | 16 ! rowspan=16 | 20 ! 17 ! rowspan=3 | 18 !", "id": "20744133" }, { "contents": "Alejandro Landa\n\n\n-4. Then at the end of the year, Landa beat Jaime Martell in the final of the Alamo City Open in San Antonio, beating Bredenbeck in the quarterfinals and David Horn in the semi-finals to reach the final. In 2016, Landa successfully defended his Alamo City Open title by beating Cardona in the final, 15-6, 15-10. He defeated Andree Parrilla, 15-12, 15-11, in the quarterfinals, and Jaime Martell, 15-11, 15-13,", "id": "8690377" }, { "contents": "Minuscule 172\n\n\n; 5:2-16; 6:2-7:2; 7:16-8:10; 8:38-9:13; 9:26-39; 10:9-22; 10:43-13:1; 23:32-24:24; 28:23-James 1:5; 3:6-4:16; 2 Peter 3:10-1 John 1:1; 3:13-4:2; Jude 16-25; Romans 14:23 - 15:1.4; 1 Corinthians 3:15-15:23; 2 Corinthians 10: 14-11:19; 13:5-13; Ephesians 1:1-2:14; 5:29-6:24 Colossians 1:24-26; 2:4-7; 2 Thessalonians 1:1", "id": "8396043" }, { "contents": "Jack Huczek\n\n\nseeded #1, and in the semi-finals beat Michael Bronfeld, 15-2, 15-9, to reach the final for the second consecutive year. However, Huczek lost the final to Mike Guidry, 15-10, 12-15, 11-9. In 2002, Huczek again partnered with Eric Muller at the USAR National Doubles Championships, and they reached the finals before losing to Ruben Gonzalez and Mike Guidry, 15-7, 15-10. They defeated Jason Thoerner and Mitch Williams in", "id": "17077734" }, { "contents": "2010–11 in Hong Kong football\n\n\non 8 October. However, the heavy rain flooded the field, so the ball flow on the water and could not be kick. The match was abandoned at 14th-minute. The rematch played on 9 October, Hong Kong defeated the Philippines by 4–2. The 2010 Asian Games will play between 7 November and 27 November in Guangzhou, China. Hong Kong national under-15 football team won all the group stage matches in the championship, which hold in Guam. Hong Kong beat Chinese Taipei in semi-final but lose by", "id": "3640662" }, { "contents": "2016 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship\n\n\nDraw 11 14:30 Draw 12 17:45 Draw 15 11:15 Draw 16 14:30 Draw 18 21:00 Draw 21 14:30 Draw 25 11:15 Draw 26 14:30 Draw 2 16:00 Draw 4 8:00 Draw 6 14:30 Draw 10 11:15 Draw 11 14:30 Draw 13 21:00 Draw 16 14:30 Draw 17 17:45 Draw 19 8:00 Draw 24 8:00 Draw 25 11:15 Draw 4 8:00 Draw 5 11:15 Draw 7 17:45 Draw 9 8:00 Draw 10 11:15 Draw 11 14:30 Draw 14 8:00 Draw 16 14:30 Draw 18 21:00 Draw 23 21:00 Draw 26 14:30 Draw 2 16:00 Draw 3 20:00 Draw 6 14:30 Draw", "id": "1156733" }, { "contents": "Easter Vigil\n\n\n-16; 3. Exodus 12:1-11; 4. Jonah 1:1-4:11; 5. Joshua 5:10-15; 6. Exodus 13:20-15:19; 7. Zephaniah 3:8-15; 8. 3 Kings 17:8-24; 9. Isaiah 61:10-62:5; 10. Genesis 22:1-18; 11. Isaiah 61:1-9; 12. 4 Kings 4:8-37; 13. Isaiah 63:11-64:5; 14. Jeremiah 31:31-34; 15. Daniel 3:1-68. It is during these", "id": "3156542" }, { "contents": "Jackie Paraiso\n\n\nBrodeur, 15-8, 15-6, in 2008. In between, she won three straight World Championships in 1994, 1996, and 1998. Laura Fenton was Paraiso's partner in 1994, when they beat Vicky Shanks and Debbie Ward of Canada, 15-9, 15-7. Then in 1996 and 1998, Paraiso's twin sister Joy MacKenzie was her partner, as they beat Shanks and Ward in 1996, 15-11, 15-4, and Shanks and Grand'Maître in 1998, 15-", "id": "21029455" }, { "contents": "Jahangir Khan\n\n\nover Jahangir in September 1987, beating him in straight games in the semi-finals of the Hong Kong Open. Jansher then went on to beat Jahangir in their next eight consecutive encounters and capture the 1987 World Open title. Jahangir ended Jansher's winning streak in March 1988, and went on to win 11 of their next 15 encounters. The pair met in the 1988 World Open final, with Jahangir emerging the victor. But by that point it had become clear that squash now had two dominant players. The pair would", "id": "414920" }, { "contents": "Samuel Murray (racquetball)\n\n\ncame 3rd, as they lost to Green and Trevor Webb in the semi-finals, 15-13, 4-15, 11-5, but beat Lee Connell and Nathaniel Husulak, 15-9, 16-14. Murray won the 1st National Team Selection event of the 2017-18 season, as he defeated Tim Landeryou, 15-3, 15-8, in the final. In the semi-finals, Murray beat Coby Iwaasa, 15-11, 15-8. Murray and Landeryou", "id": "7910655" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Maine\n\n\n| 4 ! rowspan=3 | 7 ! rowspan=6 | 5 ! 8 ! rowspan=6 | 9 ! rowspan=9 | 6 ! 10 ! rowspan=2 | 11 ! rowspan=7 | 12 ! 7 ! rowspan=3 | 8 ! rowspan=10 | 13 ! rowspan=4 | 9 ! rowspan=4 | 10 ! rowspan=17 | 14 ! rowspan=16 | 11 ! rowspan=7 | 15 ! 12 ! rowspan=2 | 13 ! rowspan=6 | 14 ! rowspan=14 | 16 ! rowspan=3 | 15 ! rowspan=9 | 16 ! rowspan=6 | 17 ! rowspan=13 | 17 ! rowspan=3 | 18 ! rowspan=11 | 19 ! rowspan=3", "id": "20744038" }, { "contents": "Men's Home Internationals\n\n\nafternoon. Scotland and England beat Ireland and Wales on the first two days. On the final day Scotland beat England 8–7 to win the title while Ireland beat Wales 9½–5½. The 1933 tournament was held at Royal County Down Golf Club from 14 to 16 September. The results of all six matches was the same as in 1932, Scotland beating England in the decisive match. In the 1934 tournament at Royal Porthcawl Golf Club from 15 to 17 August, Ireland beat England on the opening day. With Scotland beating England, Scotland retained", "id": "17763243" }, { "contents": "Codex Vaticanus 2061\n\n\nwas . The surviving leaves contain texts (according to Nestle-Aland 26th): Acts 26:6-27:4, 28:3-31; James 4:14-5:20; 1 Peter 1:1-12; 2 Peter 2:4-8, 2:13-3:15; 1 John 4:6-5:13, 5:17-18, 5:21; 2 John; 3 John; Romans 13:4-15:9; 1 Corinthians 2:1-3:11, 3:22, 4:4-6, 5:5-11, 6:3-11, 12:23-15:17, 15:20-27; 2 Corinthians 4:7", "id": "9378418" }, { "contents": "2012 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship\n\n\n17:45 Draw 11 21:00 Draw 12 8:00 Draw 13 11:15 Draw 14 14:30 Draw 15 17:45 Draw 16 21:00 Draw 17 8:00 Draw 18 11:15 Draw 19 14:30 Draw 20 17:45 Draw 21 21:00 Draw 23 11:15 Draw 1 18:45 Draw 3 11:15 Draw 5 17:45 Draw 6 21:00 Draw 8 11:15 Draw 10 17:45 Draw 12 8:00 Draw 13 11:15 Draw 14 14:30 Draw 15 17:45 Draw 16 21:00 Draw 18 11:15 Draw 20 17:45 Draw 22 8:00 Draw 1 18:45 Draw 2 8:00 Draw 3 11:15 Draw 4 14:30 Draw 5 17:45 Draw 6 21:00 Draw 7 8:00", "id": "8246326" }, { "contents": "2016 Bangladesh Championship League\n\n\nBank SC (15-16) 14 6 2 6 13 - 14 -1 20 4 Bangladesh Police Athletic Club (15-16) 14 4 6 4 11 - 9 2 18 5 T&T Club (15-16) 14 4 5 5 14 - 14 0 17 6 Victoria SC (15-16) 14 3 5 6 14 - 16 -2 14 7 Kawran Bazar (15-16) 14 2 8 4 7 - 12 -5 14 8 Chittagong Mohammedan (15-16) 14 2 4 8 13 -", "id": "13232613" }, { "contents": "Timeline of the 2012 Pacific hurricane season\n\n\nJune 16 June 17 July 4 July 5 July 7 July 8 July 9 July 10 July 11 July 12 July 13 July 14 July 15 July 16 July 18 August 7 August 8 August 9 August 11 August 12 August 15 August 17 August 27 August 30 August 31 September 2 September 3 September 4 September 12 September 14 September 15 September 16 September 17 September 18 September 19 September 22 September 24 September 25 September 26 September 27 September 28 September 29 October 6 October 7 October 9 October 13 October 15 October 16 October 17 October 30", "id": "21319682" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Missouri\n\n\n! rowspan=3 | 12 ! rowspan=18 | 6 ! 13 ! 14 ! rowspan=12 | 15 ! rowspan=9 | 16 ! rowspan=3 | 7 ! rowspan=15 | 8 ! 17 ! rowspan=5 | 18 ! 19 ! rowspan=4 | 20 ! rowspan=4 | 9 ! rowspan=7 | 21 ! rowspan=6 | 10 ! rowspan=4 | 22 ! 11 ! rowspan=3 | 12 ! rowspan=5 | 23 ! rowspan=15 | 13 ! rowspan=5 | 24 ! rowspan=11 | 25 ! rowspan=10 | 14 ! rowspan=13 | 26 ! rowspan=3 | 15 ! 16 ! rowspan=3 | 17 ! rowspan=6 | 18", "id": "20744052" }, { "contents": "Chris Marlowe\n\n\n15, 13-15, 15-9, 15-11, 15-12 for a 3-2 win. The win set up a championship final between San Diego State and the Bruins. In the championship match SDSU jumped out 2 games to none, and with an 8-3 lead in the third appeared ready for a three-game sweep. However the Bruins rallied back to win it, 10-15, 9-15, 15-9, 15-10, 15-7. UCLA", "id": "21040396" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Virginia\n\n\n| 4 ! 5 ! rowspan=2 | 6 ! 7 ! 5 ! rowspan=3 | 8 ! rowspan=8 | 6 ! rowspan=3 | 9 ! rowspan=14 | 10 ! 7 ! rowspan=2 | 8 ! rowspan=2 | 9 ! rowspan=2 | 10 ! rowspan=7 | 11 ! 11 ! rowspan=9 | 12 ! rowspan=2 | 12 ! rowspan=4 | 13 ! rowspan=9 | 13 ! rowspan=2 | 14 ! rowspan=3 | 15 ! rowspan=6 | 16 ! 14 ! rowspan=9 | 15 ! rowspan=8 | 17 ! 16 ! rowspan=3 | 18 ! 17 ! rowspan=4 | 18 ! rowspan=8", "id": "20744171" }, { "contents": "Jennifer Saunders (racquetball)\n\n\ntogether that year, in the final, 15-6, 8-15, 11-8. But Saunders didn’t successfully defend her Women's Singles title, although she did get to the final for a third straight year. In the semi-finals, Saunders beat Grand'Maître in the semi-finals, 15-7, 15-8, but in the final, she narrowly lost to Powell, 8-15, 15-4, 13-11. Her performances helped to earn Saunders a spot on", "id": "14324066" }, { "contents": "2018 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship\n\n\nThe 2018 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship was held from April 21 to 28 at the Östersund Arena in Östersund, Sweden. The event was held in conjunction with the 2018 World Senior Curling Championships. \"Final Round Robin Standings\" All draw times are listed in CEST (UTC+2) Draw 1 9:00 Draw 4 20:00 Draw 6 11:15 Draw 7 14:30 Draw 8 17:45 Draw 9 21:00 Draw 10 8:00 Draw 13 17:45 Draw 15 8:00 Draw 16 11:15 Draw 17 14:30 Draw 18 17:45 Draw 20 8:00 Draw 22 14:30 Draw 24 21:00 Draw 26", "id": "3983100" }, { "contents": "Carla Khan\n\n\nInternational, where she came from behind to beat Melissa Martin from Australia, 3–9, 4–9, 9–4, 9–7, 9–3. She broke into the top 30. At the Irish Open in 2004, Khan defeated Nicol David of Malaysia (who was ranked number 9 in the world at that time) on 15 April 2004, and achieved her highest ranking of 21. In 2005, Khan lost in the final of the Forbes Open to England's Alison Walters. However, she made it to the final of the 1st POF", "id": "9884495" }, { "contents": "Codex Climaci Rescriptus\n\n\n9-21; 9:30;10:3-9; 15:11-21 I Corin. 1:6-23; 4:1-15; 13: 4-11; 14:4-7; 14:8-14; 14:24-37; 15:3-10; 15:24-49; 16:16-24 II Corin. 1:23-2: 4-11; 4:18-5:6; 5:6-12; 6:3-16; 7:3-8 Galat. 1:1-23; 3:20-24; 4:2; 4:4-29; 5:1; 5:24; 6:4-12", "id": "9480761" }, { "contents": "2014 World Senior Curling Championships – Men's tournament\n\n\n7:30 Draw 6 11:00 Draw 8 18:00 Draw 9 21:30 Draw 12 15:30 Draw 13 19:00 Draw 15 11:00 Draw 16 14:30 Draw 18 21:30 Draw 20 12:00 Draw 22 19:00 Draw 23 8:30 Draw 1 8:00 Draw 4 19:30 Draw 6 11:00 Draw 7 14:30 Draw 10 8:30 Draw 11 12:00 Draw 14 7:30 Draw 15 11:00 Draw 16 14:30 Draw 17 18:00 Draw 19 08:30 Draw 21 15:30 \"Tuesday, April 29, 14:00\" \"Tuesday, April 29, 19:30\" \"Wednesday, April 30, 8:00\" \"Wednesday, April 30,", "id": "16343740" }, { "contents": "2017 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship\n\n\nThe 2017 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship was held from April 22 to 29 at the Lethbridge Curling Club in Lethbridge, Canada. The event was held in conjunction with the 2017 World Senior Curling Championships. \"Final Round Robin Standings\" All draw times are listed in MDT (UTC-6). Draw 1 8:00 Draw 7 14:30 Draw 9 21:00 Draw 10 8:00 Draw 11 11:15 Draw 13 17:45 Draw 15 8:00 Draw 17 14:30 Draw 18 17:45 Draw 21 11:15 Draw 22 14:30 Draw 24 21:00 Draw 25 8:00 Draw 3 15:00 Draw 4 8:00", "id": "20611917" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Kansas\n\n\nrowspan=2 | 3 ! rowspan=12 | 2 ! 4 ! rowspan=2 | 5 ! rowspan=8 | 6 ! rowspan=5 | 3 ! 7 ! 8 ! rowspan=3 | 9 ! rowspan=3 | 4 ! rowspan=3 | 10 ! rowspan=6 | 5 ! 11 ! rowspan=4 | 12 ! rowspan=3 | 6 ! rowspan=3 | 13 ! rowspan=7 | 7 ! rowspan=17 | 14 ! 8 ! rowspan=5 | 9 ! rowspan=6 | 10 ! rowspan=10 | 15 ! 11 ! rowspan=12 | 12 ! rowspan=9 | 16 ! rowspan=15 | 13 ! rowspan=12 | 17 ! 14 ! rowspan=8 |", "id": "20743950" }, { "contents": "1977 NCAA Division I football season\n\n\nto move to third, and the Wolverines returned to the top: 1.Michigan 2.Texas 3.Colorado 4.Alabama 5.Ohio State October 15 No. 1 Michigan beat No. 14 Wisconsin 56–0, and No. 2 Texas won at No. 7 Arkansas, 13–9. No. 3 Colorado played at Kansas, a 17–17 tie. No. 4 Alabama beat Tennessee in Birmingham, 24–10. No. 5 Ohio State beat Iowa 27–6. No. 6 USC beat Oregon 33–15 to return to the top five: 1.Michigan 2.Texas 3.Alabama 4.Ohio State 5.USC October 22", "id": "8560170" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Texas\n\n\n3 ! rowspan=6 | 6 ! rowspan=11 | 4 ! rowspan=3 | 7 ! 8 ! rowspan=4 | 9 ! rowspan=3 | 5 ! rowspan=15 | 10 ! rowspan=6 | 6 ! 7 ! rowspan=16 | 8 ! rowspan=3 | 11 ! rowspan=16 | 12 ! 9 ! rowspan=4 | 10 ! rowspan=8 | 11 ! rowspan=3 | 13 ! 14 ! rowspan=8 | 15 ! 12 ! rowspan=12 | 13 ! rowspan=12 | 16 ! rowspan=12 | 14 ! 17 ! rowspan=12 | 18 ! rowspan=10 | 15 ! rowspan=5 | 19 , there are three living former senators", "id": "20744168" }, { "contents": "Samuel Murray (racquetball)\n\n\nIwaasa, 9-15, 15-6, 11-6. He also defeated Iwaasa in the 2nd National Team Selection Event in Grande Prairie, Alberta, 15-10, 15-10. He defeated Pedro Castro in the semi-finals, 15-6, 15-9. Murray began the 2018-19 IRT season strongly, as he made his first final at the first event of the season - the 2018 MWRA Season Opener IRT Pro/Am in Laurel, Maryland, where he beat Alejandro Landa", "id": "7910660" }, { "contents": "Alejandro Landa\n\n\ntwo of them. Both wins came in Juarez, Mexico. He defeated Javier Moreno in April and then beat Jake Bredenbeck in August, 15–10, 15-10. Landa reached the semi-finals at the US Open for the first time in 2014, as he beat Jose Rojas in the Round of 16, 3-11, 11-9, 14-12, 6-11, 11-4 and Daniel De La Rosa in the quarterfinals, 11-2, 11-8, 11-6,", "id": "8690374" }, { "contents": "Hong Kong Women's Sevens\n\n\nFinals Canada 35–14 Netherlands Kazakhstan 12–7 China USA 45–0 Arabian Gulf France 15–7 Japan 9th to 12th Semi Finals Hong Kong 15–0 Singapore Papua New Guinea 0–29 Thailand Bowl (5th to 8th) Semi Finals Netherlands 5–5 China (China win on try countback) Arabian Gulf 0–10 Japan Cup Semi Finals Canada 26–0 Kazakhstan USA 5–0 France 11th Place Singapore 5–17 Papua New Guinea 9th Place Hong Kong 15–7 Thailand 7th Place Netherlands 19–0 Arabian Gulf Bowl Final China 17–7 Japan Plate Final France 24–0 Kazakhstan Cup Final USA 21–7 Canada 27 March 2009 at Hong Kong.", "id": "7314433" }, { "contents": "Badminton at the 1981 World Games\n\n\n10 4. William Gilliland/Daniel Travers (Scotland) d. Egbeyemi/Badiru (Nigeria), 15-6, 15-6 Semi-finals 1. Sun Zhian/Yao Ximing d. Kartono/Heryanto, 3-15, 15-11, 15-8 2. Kihlstrom/Karlsson d. Gilliland/Travers, 10-15, 15-0, 15-9 Final Sun Zhian/Yao Ximing d. Kihlstrom/Karlsson, 12-15, 15-4, 15-6. Bronze medals: Kartono", "id": "1386468" }, { "contents": "2018 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship\n\n\n12:30 Draw 27 16:00 Draw 1 9:00 Draw 3 16:30 Draw 5 8:00 Draw 11 11:15 Draw 12 14:30 Draw 14 21:00 Draw 15 8:00 Draw 17 14:30 Draw 18 17:45 Draw 19 21:00 Draw 20 8:00 Draw 21 11:15 Draw 22 14:30 Draw 23 17:45 Draw 24 21:00 Draw 28 19:30 Draw 2 12:30 Draw 3 16:30 Draw 4 20:00 Draw 6 11:15 Draw 7 14:30 Draw 9 21:00 Draw 11 11:15 Draw 13 17:45 Draw 14 21:00 Draw 16 11:15 Draw 17 14:30 Draw 20 8:00 Draw 22 14:30 Draw 23 17:45 Draw 25 9:00 Draw 26 12:30", "id": "3983101" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Colorado\n\n\nrowspan=5 | 5 ! rowspan=3 | 8 ! rowspan=9 | 9 ! rowspan=2 | 6 ! 7 ! rowspan=2 | 8 ! rowspan=3 | 9 ! rowspan=6 | 10 ! 10 ! 11 ! rowspan=5 | 12 ! rowspan=11 | 11 ! rowspan=8 | 13 ! rowspan=9 | 12 ! rowspan=3 | 14 ! rowspan=6 | 15 ! rowspan=3 | 13 ! rowspan=6 | 16 ! rowspan=6 | 14 ! rowspan=3 | 17 ! rowspan=4 | 15 ! rowspan=7 | 18 ! rowspan=6 | 16 ! rowspan=3 | 19 ! rowspan=4 | 17 ! rowspan=7 | 20 ! rowspan=3 |", "id": "20743826" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Arkansas\n\n\nrowspan=3 | 6 ! rowspan=5 | 6 ! rowspan=3 | 7 ! rowspan=11 | 8 ! rowspan=11 | 7 ! rowspan=10 | 9 ! rowspan=3 | 8 ! 9 ! 10 ! rowspan=17 | 11 ! rowspan=3 | 10 ! rowspan=6 | 11 ! rowspan=11 | 12 ! rowspan=3 | 12 ! 13 ! rowspan=19 | 14 ! rowspan=15 | 13 ! rowspan=14 | 14 ! 15 ! rowspan=9 | 16 ! rowspan=3 | 17 ! rowspan=6 | 15 ! rowspan=6 | 18 ! rowspan=6 | 16 ! rowspan=3 | 19 , there are five living former senators. The", "id": "20743822" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from New Hampshire\n\n\n! rowspan=3 | 9 ! rowspan=3 | 10 ! rowspan=5 | 8 ! 11 ! rowspan=3 | 12 ! rowspan=4 | 9 ! 13 ! rowspan=6 | 14 ! 10 ! 11 ! rowspan=3 | 12 ! rowspan=6 | 15 ! 13 ! 14 ! 16 ! rowspan=7 | 15 ! rowspan=2 | 17 ! rowspan=5 | 18 ! rowspan=8 | 16 ! 19 ! rowspan=3 | 20 ! rowspan=3 | 21 ! rowspan=6 | 17 ! 22 ! rowspan=12 | 23 ! rowspan=3 | 18 ! rowspan=2 | 19 ! 20 ! 21 ! rowspan=6 | 22 ! rowspan=15", "id": "20744074" }, { "contents": "Dihydroxy-E,Z,E-PUFA\n\n\nmake PDX by metabolizing DHA by double oxygenation a 15-lipoxygenase to form the 10\"R\",17\"S\"-hydroxperoxy intermediated which is reduced its 10\"R\",17\"S\"-hydroxyl product, PDX, probably by cytosolic GPX1 (i.e. glutathione peroxidase 1). Serial metabolism two different lipoxygenases or a lipoxygenase and a cytochrome P45) on PUFA possessing three double bonds in a 1\"Z\",4\"Z\",7\"Z\" configuration may also make a 1,7-dihydroxy 2\"E\",4\"Z\",6\"E\" product. Other platelet-inhibiting dihydroxy-\"E\",\"Z\",\"E\"-PUFA are: 10\"R\",17\"S\"-dihydroxy-4\"Z\",7\"Z\",11\"E\",13\"Z\",15\"E\",19\"Z\"-docosahexaenoic acid (10\"R\",17\"S\"-diHDHA); 8\"S\",15\"S\"-dihydroxy-5\"Z\",9\"E\",11\"Z\",13\"E\"-eicosatetraenoic acid (8\"S\",15\"S\"-diHETE); 9\"S\",16\"S\"-10\"E\",12\"Z\",14\"E\"-octadecatrienoic acid (linotrin-1); and 9\"R\",16\"S\"-10\"E\",12\"Z\",14\"E\"-octadecatrienoic acid (linotrin-2).", "id": "1779786" }, { "contents": "EU Cup\n\n\n8 October 2011. 18 national men's teams competed in the tournament. Final results were: 1. Ireland, 2. Croatia, 3. England, 4. Italy, 5. France, 6. Scotland, 7. Wales, 8. Spain, 9. European Crusaders, 10. Russia (1st time competitors), 11. Denmark, 12. Germany, 13. Finland, 14. Sweden, 15. Netherlands, 16. Austria, 17. Iceland, 18. Catalonia. Ireland defeated Switzerland in", "id": "2746657" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Indiana\n\n\nrowspan=13 | 5 ! rowspan=2 | 5 ! 6 ! rowspan=2 | 7 ! rowspan=3 | 8 ! rowspan=6 | 9 ! 6 ! 7 ! rowspan=3 | 8 ! rowspan=6 | 10 ! rowspan=3 | 9 ! rowspan=5 | 10 ! rowspan=10 | 11 ! rowspan=3 | 11 ! rowspan=6 | 12 ! rowspan=4 | 12 ! rowspan=6 | 13 ! rowspan=2 | 13 ! rowspan=4 | 14 ! rowspan=6 | 14 ! 15 ! rowspan=11 | 16 ! rowspan=3 | 15 ! rowspan=2 | 16 ! rowspan=5 | 17 ! rowspan=6 | 17 ! rowspan=3 | 18 !", "id": "20743924" }, { "contents": "Book of Nature\n\n\n. Pedersen (1992), 7–8. 3. Pedersen (1992), 9. 4. Dear (2009), 4. 5. Pedersen (1992), 10. 6. Pedersen (1992), 11–13. 7. Pedersen (1992), 14–15. 8. Pedersen (1992), 15. 9. Harrison (2001), 13. 10. Harrison (2001), 13. 11. Harrison (2001), 15. 12. Harrison (2001), 15. 13.", "id": "3587614" }, { "contents": "2014 World Senior Curling Championships – Women's tournament\n\n\nThe women's tournament of the 2014 World Senior Curling Championships was held from April 23 to 30 at the Dumfries Ice Bowl in Dumfries, Scotland. The teams are listed as follows: \"Final Round Robin Standings\" Draw 3 15:30 Draw 5 7:30 Draw 6 11:00 Draw 7 14:30 Draw 8 18:00 Draw 9 21:30 Draw 11 12:00 Draw 12 15:30 Draw 13 19:00 Draw 15 11:00 Draw 17 18:00 Draw 18 21:30 Draw 20 12:00 Draw 21 15:30 Draw 23 8:30 Draw 24 14:00 Draw 3 15:30 Draw 4 19:30 Draw 7 14:30 Draw 8", "id": "16343741" }, { "contents": "Alejandro Landa\n\n\nFalls, South Dakota, but he won the final by defeating Daniel De La Rosa, 15-6, 7-15, 11-10, in the final. En route to the final, Landa beat Tim Landeryou, 15-5, 3-15, 11-6, in the Round of 16, Rocky Carson in the quarterfinals, 15-14, 11-15, 11-4, and Samuel Murray, 15-11, 15-7, in the semi-finals. In the", "id": "8690386" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Florida\n\n\n| 4 ! rowspan=3 | 4 ! rowspan=3 | 5 ! rowspan=6 | 5 ! rowspan=11 | 6 ! rowspan=9 | 6 ! rowspan=8 | 7 ! rowspan=10 | 7 ! 8 ! 9 ! rowspan=16 | 10 ! rowspan=3 | 8 ! rowspan=10 | 9 ! rowspan=3 | 10 ! 11 ! rowspan=6 | 11 ! rowspan=10 | 12 ! rowspan=13 | 12 ! rowspan=9 | 13 ! rowspan=3 | 14 ! rowspan=11 | 13 ! rowspan=4 | 15 ! rowspan=4 | 16 ! rowspan=9 | 17 ! rowspan=6 | 14 ! rowspan=10 | 15 ! rowspan=3 | 18", "id": "20743883" }, { "contents": "Coby Iwaasa\n\n\nKitchener, Ontario with the same result: a win for Murray, 15-2, 15-5. Iwaasa and Murray played Men’s Doubles together at the 2018 Canadian Championships in Winnipeg, and they won the title by defeating Nicolas Bousquet and Tommy Murray in the final, 15-13, 10-15, 11-6. They beat the brother team of James Landeryou and Tim Landeryou in the semi-finals, 15-13, 15-10. In Men’s Singles, Iwaasa finished 2nd, as", "id": "8038021" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Wisconsin\n\n\n| 6 ! rowspan=3 | 7 ! rowspan=3 | 6 ! rowspan=6 | 8 ! rowspan=3 | 7 ! rowspan=15 | 8 ! rowspan=4 | 9 ! rowspan=2 | 10 ! rowspan=7 | 11 ! rowspan=11 | 9 ! rowspan=3 | 12 ! rowspan=3 | 13 ! rowspan=14 | 14 ! rowspan=6 | 10 ! rowspan=16 | 11 ! rowspan=9 | 15 ! rowspan=6 | 16 ! rowspan=12 | 12 ! rowspan=9 | 17 ! rowspan=6 | 18 ! rowspan=6 | 13 , there are three living former Senators, one from Class 1 and two from Class 3.", "id": "21329584" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Michigan\n\n\n! 12 ! rowspan=13 | 13 ! rowspan=3 | 10 ! rowspan=7 | 11 ! rowspan=8 | 14 ! rowspan=2 | 12 ! rowspan=10 | 13 ! rowspan=3 | 15 ! rowspan=15 | 16 ! rowspan=4 | 14 ! rowspan=9 | 15 ! 17 ! rowspan=4 | 18 ! rowspan=6 | 16 ! rowspan=11 | 19 ! rowspan=9 | 17 ! rowspan=10 | 20 ! rowspan=18 | 18 ! rowspan=3 | 21 ! rowspan=12 | 22 ! rowspan=3 | 19 , there are three former U.S. Senators from Michigan who are currently living, two from Class 1 and one", "id": "20744040" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Ohio\n\n\n| 6 ! rowspan=2 | 7 ! rowspan=2 | 8 ! rowspan=2 | 9 ! rowspan=3 | 10 ! rowspan=3 | 6 ! rowspan=6 | 11 ! rowspan=3 | 7 ! rowspan=3 | 8 ! rowspan=5 | 12 ! 9 ! rowspan=11 | 10 ! rowspan=3 | 13 ! 14 ! rowspan=9 | 15 ! rowspan=8 | 11 ! 16 ! rowspan=3 | 17 ! rowspan=9 | 12 ! rowspan=3 | 18 ! rowspan=3 | 19 ! rowspan=9 | 20 ! rowspan=4 | 13 ! rowspan=4 | 14 ! rowspan=3 | 21 ! rowspan=7 | 15 ! rowspan=3 | 22", "id": "20744100" }, { "contents": "2013 Canadian Mixed Doubles Curling Trials\n\n\nFriday, March 15, 11:30 am\" \"Friday, March 15, 2:00 pm\" \"Friday, March 15, 4:30 pm\" \"Friday, March 15, 7:00 pm\" \"Friday, March 15, 9:30 pm\" \"Saturday, March 16, 9:00 am\" \"Saturday, March 16, 11:30 am\" \"Saturday, March 16, 2:00 pm\" \"Saturday, March 16, 4:30 pm\" \"Saturday, March 16, 8:30 pm\" \"Sunday, March 17, 10:00 am\" \"Sunday", "id": "10697048" }, { "contents": "Lyon Villeurbanne XIII\n\n\nto AS Carcassonne 10–22, but they went one better in the league beating XIII Catalan 15–10 to lift the trophy for the first time. In 52/53 they won the cup beating US Villeneuve 9–8 in the final but couldn't complete a league and cup double as they lost the league final 12–19 to AS Carcassonne. They retained the cup when they beat XIII Catalan 17–15 and won their second league title when they triumphed 7–6 against AS Carcassonne in 1955. Relegation followed in 1957 but after winning the National League 1 title, now called", "id": "19573564" }, { "contents": "Park Sung-hwan\n\n\n. Two weeks later, Park was to be defeated again in the quarter-final matches of the Li Ning China Masters Super Series in Changzhou, China (to 4th seed badminton ace Lin Dan of China, 15-21, 21-13, 21-23), and the Japan Open Super Series (to Indonesian, Taufik Hidayat, 21-12, 26-28, 15-21). In November, Park participated in the Yonex Sunrise Hong Kong Open and lost 15-21, 16-21", "id": "6727931" }, { "contents": "2015 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship\n\n\nThe 2015 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship was held from April 18 to 25 at the Ice Cube Curling Center in Sochi, Russia. The event will be held in conjunction with the 2015 World Senior Curling Championships. The teams are listed as follows: Draw 1 9:00 Draw 2 11:15 Draw 3 21:00 Draw 4 11:15 Draw 5 8:00 Draw 6 17:45 Draw 7 19:30 Draw 8 11:15 Draw 9 17:45 Draw 1 12:30 Draw 2 19:30 Draw 3 14:30 Draw 4 9:00 Draw 5 11:15 Draw 6 21:00 Draw 7 12:30 Draw 8 8:00 Draw 9", "id": "12517555" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Rhode Island\n\n\n| 9 ! rowspan=3 | 7 ! rowspan=7 | 8 ! rowspan=2 | 9 ! rowspan=7 | 10 ! rowspan=2 | 10 ! 11 ! rowspan=3 | 12 ! rowspan=3 | 11 ! rowspan=4 | 13 ! rowspan=3 | 12 ! rowspan=3 | 14 ! rowspan=17 | 13 ! 15 ! rowspan=6 | 16 ! rowspan=4 | 17 ! rowspan=20 | 18 ! 14 ! rowspan=4 | 15 ! rowspan=3 | 16 ! rowspan=10 | 17 ! rowspan=3 | 19 ! rowspan=6 | 18 ! rowspan=8 | 20 ! rowspan=7 | 19 ! rowspan=3 | 21 ! rowspan=6 | 22", "id": "20744131" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from West Virginia\n\n\nrowspan=8 | 7 ! rowspan=2 | 4 ! rowspan=8 | 5 ! rowspan=9 | 8 ! 6 ! rowspan=2 | 7 ! rowspan=4 | 9 ! rowspan=3 | 8 ! rowspan=3 | 10 ! rowspan=3 | 9 ! rowspan=3 | 11 ! rowspan=3 | 10 ! rowspan=3 | 12 ! rowspan=7 | 11 ! rowspan=3 | 13 ! rowspan=10 | 14 ! 12 ! 13 ! rowspan=3 | 14 ! rowspan=8 | 15 ! 15 ! rowspan=5 | 16 ! 16 ! rowspan=14 | 17 ! rowspan=27 | 17 ! rowspan=18 | 18 ! 18 ! rowspan=8 | 19 !", "id": "20744177" }, { "contents": "Academy of Saint Elizabeth\n\n\nstudents often take part in mass on different occasions. Sample 'D day' Homeroom 8:10-8:15 Period 1 8:19-9:15 Period 2 9:17 - 10:13 Period 3 10:15 - 11:11 Lunch 11:13 - 11:58 Period 5 12:00 - 12:56 Period 6 12:58 - 1:54 Period 7 1:56 - 2:51 The Academy runs on a 4-day rotating schedule (A day, B day, C day, and D day). Each day, students drop a morning and afternoon class. You can find the 2018-2019 school year calendar on the Academy", "id": "13678251" }, { "contents": "2014 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship\n\n\nWorld Curling medal for Spain in the bronze medal game with a 7–4 win over defending champions Dorottya Palansca and Zsolt Kiss of Hungary. Canada, Norway, and England scored perfect ends in their games in Draws 5, 11, and 22, respectively. The teams are listed as follows: \"Final Round Robin Standings\" Draw 1 8:15 Draw 4 19:30 Draw 6 11:15 Draw 9 21:00 Draw 12 14:30 Draw 15 8:00 Draw 18 17:45 Draw 19 21:00 Draw 21 11:15 Draw 22 14:30 Draw 25 8:00 Draw 2 12:00 Draw 5 8:00", "id": "15498977" }, { "contents": "2011 World Senior Curling Championships – Men's tournament\n\n\nStandings\" All draw times are listed in Central Standard Time (UTC-06). Draw 1 08:00 Draw 3 18:00 Draw 6 14:30 Draw 8 08:00 Draw 10 18:00 Draw 13 14:30 Draw 15 21:30 Draw 17 14:30 Draw 2 11:30 Draw 4 21:30 Draw 5 11:00 Draw 8 08:00 Draw 10 18:00 Draw 13 14:30 Draw 17 14:30 Draw 19 21:30 Draw 2 11:30 Draw 4 21:30 Draw 6 14:30 Draw 8 08:00 Draw 9 11:30 Draw 10 18:00 Draw 11 21:30 Draw 12 11:00 Draw 13 14:30 Draw 15 21:30 Draw 19 21:30 \"Friday, April", "id": "16637806" }, { "contents": "Nathan Robertson\n\n\ndefeated Björn Siegemund and Nicol Pitro of Germany in the second. In the quarterfinals, Robertson and Emms beat Chen Qiqiu and Zhao Tingting of China 15-8, 17-15 to advance to the semifinals. There, they beat Jonas Rasmussen and Rikke Olsen of Denmark 15-6, 15-12. In the final, they lost to Chinese pair Zhang Jun and Gao Ling 15-1, 12-15, 15-12 to finish with the silver medal. At the 2005 World Championships, he and Emms", "id": "1371969" }, { "contents": "List of major textual variants in the New Testament\n\n\nMatthew 8:28 Matthew 11:23 Matthew 17:21 Matthew 18:11 Matthew 20:16 Matthew 20:22, 23 Matthew 23:14 Matthew 24:36 Matthew 26:28 Matthew 27:16 Mark 2:16 Mark 6:11 Mark 7:8 Mark 7:16 Mark 9:38 Mark 9:43-46 Mark 9:49 Mark 10:24 Mark 11:26 Mark 14:19 Mark 15:28 Mark 16:9-20 Luke 1:28 Luke 2:14 Luke 4:4 Luke 9:55-56 Luke 11:2-4 Luke 11:11 Luke 22:43-44 Luke 23:17 Luke 23:34 John 1:18 John 5:3-4 John 6:69 John 7:53-8:11 John 8:59 Acts 2:30 Acts 13:42 Acts 15:24 Acts 18:21 Acts 23:9 Acts 28:29", "id": "12411760" }, { "contents": "BSWW Tour\n\n\n1 2 15-19 2 4. USA 3 1 2 13-20 2 Semifinals Brazil 9-4 Argentina Third place match Final Brazil 11-3 South Korea 02/03/1996 Buenos Aires (Argentina)Argentina 5-12 Brazil Friendly Match 1996 USA 3-6 Brazil Italy 6-9 Brazil USA 4-9 Brazil Italy 2-8 Brazil Netherlands 4-13 Brazil England 1-13 Brazil Malaysia 1-14 Brazil Semifinals Brazil 15-2 Japan Third place match Final Brazil 6-4 South Korea Brazil 7-4 Argentina", "id": "17061521" }, { "contents": "1941 Eastern Suburbs season\n\n\n5, Saturday 17 May Eastern Suburbs 13 beat Canterbury Bankstown 2 at Sydney Cricket Ground. Premiership Round 6, Saturday 24 May 1941. Newtown 4 beat Eastern Suburbs 3 at Henson Park. Premiership Round 7, Saturday 31 June 1941. St George 16 beat Eastern Suburbs 10 at Sydney Sports Ground. Premiership Round 8, Saturday 21 June 1941. South Sydney 22 beat Eastern Suburbs 15 at Sydney Sports Ground. Premiership Round 9, Saturday 28 June 1941. Eastern Suburbs 15 beat Western Suburbs 3 at Pratten Park. Premiership Round", "id": "11086526" }, { "contents": "Jansher Khan\n\n\nJansher Khan (; born 15 June 1969, in Peshawar, Pakistan) is a former World No. 1 professional Pakistani squash player. During his career he won the World Open a record eight times, and the British Open six times. Jansher Khan's retirement brought an end to nearly 50 years of domination by Pakistan in the sport of squash. He won the World Junior Squash Championship title in 1986 and the senior World Open title in 1987, by beating Australia's Chris Dittmar in the final. Jansher officially announced his retirement", "id": "1599584" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Kentucky\n\n\n! 5 ! rowspan=5 | 6 ! 3 ! rowspan=2 | 4 ! rowspan=4 | 7 ! 5 ! rowspan=4 | 6 ! rowspan=5 | 8 ! 7 ! 8 ! rowspan=2 | 9 ! rowspan=7 | 9 ! rowspan=3 | 10 ! rowspan=3 | 11 ! rowspan=4 | 10 ! rowspan=6 | 12 ! rowspan=3 | 11 ! rowspan=4 | 12 ! rowspan=4 | 13 ! rowspan=8 | 13 ! 14 ! rowspan=2 | 15 ! 16 ! rowspan=2 | 17 ! rowspan=3 | 14 ! rowspan=3 | 18 ! rowspan=5 | 15 ! 19 ! rowspan=8 | 20", "id": "20743991" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Massachusetts\n\n\n| 8 ! rowspan=7 | 7 ! rowspan=2 | 9 ! rowspan=8 | 10 ! rowspan=3 | 8 ! rowspan=6 | 9 ! rowspan=9 | 11 ! rowspan=3 | 10 ! rowspan=5 | 11 ! rowspan=3 | 12 ! rowspan=5 | 13 ! rowspan=8 | 12 ! 14 ! 15 ! rowspan=16 | 16 ! 13 ! 14 ! rowspan=10 | 15 ! rowspan=4 | 16 ! 17 ! rowspan=9 | 18 ! rowspan=14 | 17 ! rowspan=18 | 19 ! rowspan=5 | 18 ! rowspan=3 | 19 ! rowspan=5 | 20 ! rowspan=2 | 20 ! rowspan=4 | 21", "id": "20744045" }, { "contents": "2017 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship\n\n\nDraw 5 8:00 Draw 11 11:15 Draw 12 14:30 Draw 14 21:00 Draw 16 11:15 Draw 18 17:45 Draw 19 21:00 Draw 20 8:00 Draw 22 14:30 Draw 23 17:45 Draw 24 21:00 Draw 26 11:15 Draw 27 14:30 Draw 3 15:00 Draw 4 20:00 Draw 6 11:15 Draw 8 17:45 Draw 9 21:00 Draw 12 14:30 Draw 13 17:45 Draw 14 21:00 Draw 16 11:15 Draw 17 14:30 Draw 20 8:00 Draw 21 11:15 Draw 22 14:30 Draw 25 8:00 Draw 26 11:15 Draw 1 8:00 Draw 2 11:15 Draw 3 15:00 Draw 5 8:00 Draw 8 17:45 Draw", "id": "20611918" }, { "contents": "Michael Cheika\n\n\nAuckland a week later. Despite having only been in charge of the Wallabies for a year, Cheika led Australia to the 2015 Rugby World Cup Final. They topped Pool A with victories over Fiji 28–13, Uruguay 65–3, England 33–13 and Wales 15–6. They narrowly beat Scotland in the quarter-final winning 35–34 after a controversial last minute penalty. They beat Argentina 29–15 in the semi-final to reach the final against the All Blacks. The Wallabies went down 16–3 at half time, but fought back in the second half", "id": "21843436" }, { "contents": "2008 South American Under-23 Championships in Athletics – Results\n\n\n5 September 17:00hbr Final – 7 September 15:00hbr Final – 6 September 11:00hbr Final – 6 September 15:40hbr Final – 6 September 9:30hbr Wind: -2.5m/s Final – 7 September 10:45hbr Final – 6 September 9:00hbr Final – 7 September 9:00hbr Final – 7 September 11:00hbr Final – 6 September 11:00hbr Final – 6 September 9:00hbr Final – 7 September 11:00hbr Final – 5 September 14:50hbr Final – 6 September 9:00hbr Final – 7 September 9:00hbr Final – 7 September 7:00hbr Final – 6 September 17:00hbr Final – 7 September 15:50hbr Final – 6 September 9:45hbr Wind: -2.5", "id": "3039640" }, { "contents": "Rhonda Rajsich\n\n\nfinished #1. At the 2011 USA National Doubles Championships, Rajsich played with Kim Russell-Waselenchuk for the first time. They lost in the semi-finals to Krystal Csuk and Cheryl Gudinas, 15-6, 2-15, 11-9, and then lost the 3rd place match to sisters Danielle and Michelle Key, 3-15, 15-10, 11-10. However, Rajsich won Women's Singles at the 2011 USA National Singles Championshps by beating Gudinas in the final, 15-2", "id": "20397807" }, { "contents": "Ra Kyung-min\n\n\n. In the quarterfinals, Ra and Lee beat Lotte Bruil and Mia Audina of the Netherlands 15-5, 15-2. They lost the semifinal to Zhang Jiewen and Yang Wei of China 15-6, 15-4 but won the bronze medal match against Zhao Tingting and Wei Yili, also of China, 10-15, 15-9, 15-7. Ra also competed in mixed doubles with partner Kim Dong-moon. They had a bye in the first round and defeated Chris Bruil and Lotte", "id": "17379284" }, { "contents": "Coby Iwaasa\n\n\nVincent Gagnon, 15-10, 15-17, 11-6, in the semi-finals, but won the 3rd place match versus Samuel Murray, 13-15, 15-6, 11-8. That summer Iwaasa played for Canada for the first time by participating in the 2014 Pan American Sports Festival in Guadalajara, Mexico, where he defeated team-mate Samuel Murray, 15-9, 10-15, 11-3, in the Round of 16, but lost to David Horn of", "id": "8038012" }, { "contents": "Raglan Chronicle\n\n\n13, 20, 27, Apr 2, 10, 17, 24, May 1, 8, 15, 22, Jun 5, 12, 19, 26, Jul 3, 10. 17, 24, 31, Aug 7, 21, 28, Sep 4, 11, 18, 25, Oct 2, 9, 16, 23, 30, Nov 6, 13, 20, 27, Dec 4, 11, 18, 23; 1959 Jan 15, 29, Feb 5, 19,", "id": "3052190" }, { "contents": "Coby Iwaasa\n\n\n4, 11-5, and 1st seed Alejandro Cardona in the final, 9-15, 15-9, 11-8. He reached the quarterfinals in the other four WRT events that year. In November 2014, Iwaasa defeated Samuel Murray, in the quarterfinals, 15-9, 15-10, of the 1st National Team Selection Event of the 2014-15 season in Kitchener, Ontario. He then lost to Mike Green, 15-6, 15-6, in the semi-finals.", "id": "8038014" }, { "contents": "2008 European Curling Championships\n\n\n, 14:00 Draw 4 Monday December 8, 08:00 Draw 5 Monday December 8, 16:00 Draw 6 Tuesday December 9, 09:00 Draw 7 Tuesday December 9, 18:30 Draw 8 Wednesday December 10, 14:00 Draw 9 Thursday December 11, 08:00 Tiebreaker Thursday December 11, 15:00 Thursday, December 11, 20:00 Thursday, December 11, 20:00 Friday, December 12, 19:00 Saturday, December 13, 15:00 \"All times local\" Draw 1 Saturday December 6, 12:00 Draw 2 Sunday December 7, 16:00 Draw 3 Sunday December 7, 20:00", "id": "11226003" }, { "contents": "Rocky Carson\n\n\nUSA Racquetball National Singles Championship for the first time. He was seeded 6th, and defeated 8th seed Doug Eagle in the final. 15-7, 15-7. To reach the final, Carson beat Brian Fredenberg in the quarterfinals, 15-7, 15-13, and Jack Huczek in the semi-finals, 15-11, 15-6. He also played in Worlds for the 2nd time in San Luis Potosi, Mexico, and came home with two silver medals. He finished 2nd in Men", "id": "17077667" }, { "contents": "1973 European Formula Two Championship\n\n\nThe 1973 European Formula Two season was contested over 17 rounds. STP March Racing Team driver Jean-Pierre Jarier clinched the championship title. Note: Race 1, 2, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 13, 15 and 17 were held in two heats, with results shown in aggregate. Race 3, 5, 9 and 12 were held with two semi-final heats and the final run, with time only shown for the final. Race 3, 4, 5 and 15 were won by", "id": "18544287" }, { "contents": "2008 in sports\n\n\nJackson vs. Griffin 7/19 – 7/19 – () 7/21 – DREAM.5 7/26 – August 8/3 – WEC 35: Condit vs. Miura 8/9 – UFC 87: Seek And Destroy 8/15 – ShoXC 7 8/24 – September 9/6 – UFC 88: Breakthrough 9/13 – 9/17 – 9/20 – 9/23 – DREAM.6 9/26 – ShoXC 8 9/28 – October 10/3 – 10/4 – 10/10 – ShoXC 9 () 10/18 – UFC 89: Bisping vs. Leben 10/25 – UFC 90: Silva vs. Côté November 11/1 – 11/5 – WEC 36: Faber vs. Brown 11/15 – UFC", "id": "5162165" } ]

[ { "contents": "Rodney Martin (squash player)\n\n\nRodney Martin is a former professional squash player from Australia. He is best known for winning the World Open in 1991, beating the legendary Pakistani player Jahangir Khan in the final 14-17, 15-9, 15-4, 15-13 (he had previously beaten another Pakistani legend, Jansher Khan, in the quarter-finals, and his Australian compatriot Chris Dittmar in the semi-finals). Martin was also part of the Australian teams which won the World Team Squash Championships in 1989 and 1991. Martin", "id": "20966392" }, { "contents": "Amr Shabana\n\n\nbeating Thierry Lincou in the final 15–14, 9–15, 15–11, 15–7, to become Egypt's first winner of the sport's premier title. But after a disappointing following year, in which his only final appearance was in the British Open Squash Championship in England, losing to David Palmer in four games 10–11 (4–6), 11–7, 11–10 (3–1), 11–7, Shabana stormed back to the top of his game in 2005. Over a short period, he acquired a new coach, Ahmed Tahir; a new manager", "id": "522232" }, { "contents": "Comparison of codices Sinaiticus and Vaticanus\n\n\n13:39a 13:39b 13:41 13:42 13:44a 13:44b 13:48 13:50 13:54 13:55 13:57a 13:57 b 14:1 14:2 14:3 14:4a 14:4b 14:5 14:7 14:9 14:12 14:13 14:15a 14:15b 14:15c 14:16 14:17 14:19a 14:19b 14:22a 14:22b 14:22c 14:23 14:24 14:26 14:28a 14:28b 14:29 14:35 14:36 15:3 15:4 15:5 15:6 15:11a 15:11b 15:12 15:14 15:15 15:17 15:17 15:17 15:22 15:22 15:27 15:30 15:31 15:31 15:31 16:6 16:9 16:12 17:10 17:15 17:17 18:7 18:14 18:16 19:7 19:10 19:12 19:16 19:22 21:16 21:17 21:19 21:28 21:33 22:1 22:11 22:40 23:3 23:8 23:35 23:35b 23:37 24:2 24:9 24:24 24:26 24:30 24:31 24:35 24:48 25:3 25:17 25:22 26:33 26:50", "id": "1385581" }, { "contents": "John White (squash player)\n\n\nJohn White (born 15 June 1973 in Mount Isa, Australia) is a former World No. 1 squash player. White finished runner-up at both the World Open and the British Open in 2002. He won the PSA Masters title in 2003 (beating Thierry Lincou in the final 15–8, 17–15, 17–16). He also won the British National Championships in 2004 (beating Lee Beachill in the final 17–16, 17–14, 14–15, 15–8). White reached the World No. 1 ranking in March 2004. White", "id": "14402929" }, { "contents": "2011 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship\n\n\nDraw 7 21:30 Draw 9 15:00 Draw 12 08:00 Draw 13 11:00 Draw 14 14:30 Draw 17 08:00 Draw 18 11:30 Draw 20 18:00 Draw 21 21:30 Draw 2 15:00 Draw 4 08:00 Draw 6 18:00 Draw 7 21:30 Draw 8 11:30 Draw 9 15:00 Draw 10 18:00 Draw 12 08:00 Draw 14 14:30 Draw 15 18:00 Draw 16 21:30 Draw 18 11:30 Draw 19 14:30 Draw 2 15:00 Draw 3 21:30 Draw 5 14:30 Draw 6 18:00 Draw 7 21:30 Draw 8 11:30 Draw 9 15:00 Draw 11 21:30 Draw 12 08:00 Draw 15 18:00 Draw 16 21:30 Draw", "id": "12545021" }, { "contents": "2016 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship\n\n\n8 21:00 Draw 9 8:00 Draw 10 11:15 Draw 13 21:00 Draw 14 8:00 Draw 15 11:15 Draw 17 17:45 Draw 20 11:15 Draw 21 14:30 Draw 22 17:45 Draw 23 21:00 Draw 24 8:00 Draw 25 11:15 Draw 1 12:00 Draw 2 16:00 Draw 4 8:00 Draw 5 11:15 Draw 6 14:30 Draw 7 17:45 Draw 9 8:00 Draw 11 14:30 Draw 12 17:45 Draw 13 21:00 Draw 15 11:15 Draw 17 17:45 Draw 19 8:00 Draw 21 14:30 Draw 22 17:45 Draw 24 8:00 Draw 25 11:15 \"Thursday, April 21, 17:45\" \"Thursday,", "id": "1156734" }, { "contents": "Codex Dublinensis\n\n\nει. Matthew 1:17-2:6, 2:13-20, 4:4-13, 5:45-6:15, 7:16-8:6, 10:40-11:18, 12:43-13:11, 13:57-14:19, 15:13-23, 17:9-17, 17:26-18:6, 19:4-12, 21-28, 20:7-21:8, 21:23-30, 22:16-25, 22:37-23:3, 23:15-23, 24:15-25, 25:1-11, 26:21-29, 62-71. The Greek text of this codex is a representative", "id": "16200586" }, { "contents": "Frisingensia Fragmenta\n\n\n15:13; 1 Cor 1:1-27; 1:28-3:5; 6:1-7:7; 15:1-1:43; 16:12-27; 2 Cor 1:1-2:10; 3:17-5:1; 7:10-8:12; 9:10-11:21; 12:14-13:10; Gal 2:5-4:3; 6:5-17; Eph 1:1-13; 1:16-2:16; 6:24; Phil 1:1-20; 1 Tim 1:12-2:15; 5:18-6:13; Hbr 6:6-7:5; 7:8-8:1; 9:27-11:7. 1 John 3:8 - 5:9.", "id": "5758263" }, { "contents": "Minuscule 506\n\n\n-30; 17:5-8; 24:22-24; John 1:1-7:39; 8:31-9:11; 10:10-11:54; 12:36-13:27; Acts 1:1-7:49; 10:19-14:10; 15:15-16:11; 18:1-21:25; 23:18-28:31; James 1:1-3:17; 1 Corinthians 12:11-15:12; 16:13-15; 2 Corinthians 13:4. 5; Galatians [5:16-6:1]; 6:1-18; 2 Timothy 3:10. 11; Titus 3:5-7. The Greek text of the codex is a", "id": "14754278" }, { "contents": "Rocky Carson\n\n\nthe finals by defeating Anthony Herrera and David Horn in the semi-finals, 15-9, 15-3. But in the final Carson and Allen lost to Jake Bredenbeck and Jose Diaz, 15-14, 15-11. He won the 2016 USAR National Singles Championships in Highlands Ranch, Colorado, where Carson defeated [[Chris Crowther]] in the semi-finals, 13-15, 15-12, 11-7, and then beat Diaz in the final, 15-10, 15", "id": "17077704" }, { "contents": "Codex Nitriensis\n\n\nno references to the Eusebian Canons. Gospel of Luke 1:1-13, 1:69-2:4, 2:16-27, 4:38-5:5, 5:25-6:8, 6:18-36, 6:39, 6:49-7:22, 7:44, 7:46, 7:47, 7:50, 8:1-3, 8:5-15, 8:25-9:1, 9:12-43, 10:3-16, 11:5-27, 12:4-15, 12:40-52, 13:26-14:1, 14:12-15:1, 15:13-16:16, 17:21-18:10, 18:22-20:20,", "id": "14992375" }, { "contents": "Del Harris (squash player)\n\n\n16–17, 15–8. That year Harris was also part of the winning England team in the 1995 Men's World Team Squash Championships and in addition he won the Super Series Finals event, beating Brett Martin of Australia in the final 10–8, 7–9, 9–4, 6–9, 9–2. Further success came in 1997 when he was once again part of the winning England team in the 1997 Men's World Team Squash Championships. Harris won the British National Squash Championships twice, in 1987 and 1989 and reached his career-high world ranking", "id": "20966690" }, { "contents": "2012 European Mixed Curling Championship\n\n\nDraw 14 8:30 Draw 16 15:30 Draw 1 19:30 Draw 2 9:00 Draw 3 12:30 Draw 4 16:00 Draw 5 19:30 Draw 6 9:00 Draw 8 16:00 Draw 11 12:30 Draw 13 19:30 Draw 14 8:30 Draw 15 12:00 Draw 16 15:30 Draw 17 19:00 Draw 2 9:00 Draw 4 16:00 Draw 6 9:00 Draw 7 12:30 Draw 8 16:00 Draw 9 19:30 Draw 10 9:00 Draw 12 16:00 Draw 15 12:00 Draw 17 19:00 \"Friday, October 5, 9:00\" \"Friday, October 5, 21:00\" \"Saturday, October 6, 17:00\" \"", "id": "19557062" }, { "contents": "2017 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship\n\n\n10 8:00 Draw 12 14:30 Draw 13 17:45 Draw 19 21:00 Draw 21 11:15 Draw 22 14:30 Draw 24 21:00 Draw 25 8:00 Draw 27 14:30 Draw 2 11:15 Draw 4 20:00 Draw 6 11:15 Draw 7 14:30 Draw 9 21:00 Draw 11 11:15 Draw 15 8:00 Draw 17 14:30 Draw 20 8:00 Draw 23 17:45 Draw 26 11:15 Draw 27 14:30 \"Friday, April 28, 9:00\" \"Friday, April 28, 12:30\" \"Friday, April 28, 16:00\" \"Friday, April 28, 19:30\" \"Saturday, April 29,", "id": "20611919" }, { "contents": "Coby Iwaasa\n\n\nIwaasa finished 3rd by defeating Tim Landeryou, 15-11, 15-9. He won the 2nd Selection Event that season in Brossard, Québec, where he beat Pedro Castro in the final, 15-9, 6-15, 11-8. In the semi-finals, Iwaasa beat Landeryou, 12-15, 15-4, 11-7. Iwaasa played seven tournaments in the 2014-15 International Racquetball Tour season, but only made it to the quarterfinals in the second last event of the", "id": "8038015" }, { "contents": "Jack Huczek\n\n\nthe semi-finals, 15-6, 9-15, 11-4. In the 2002-03 IRT season, Huczek was in four finals, winning the final event of the season: Pro Nationals in Tempe, Arizona, where he beat Alvaro Beltran, 11-4, 11-6, 11-8, in the final after defeating Rocky Carson in the semis, 11-1, 11-6, 11-7, and Cliff Swain in the quarters, 11-6, 15-", "id": "17077735" }, { "contents": "Samuel Murray (racquetball)\n\n\nNovember 2015, in Brossard, Québec, where he beat Mike Green in the final, 15-10, 15-13. He defeated Tim Landeryou to reach the final, 15-7, 15-12. In the 2nd Selection Event that season, he lost a tie-breaker to Landeryou in the semi-finals, 10-15, 15-12, 11-9. But he did win the 3rd place match against Pedro Castro, 15-6, 15-1. Murray played at the", "id": "7910649" }, { "contents": "1995–96 Regionalliga\n\n\n! 6 ! 7 ! 8 ! 9 ! 10 ! 11 ! 12 ! 13 ! 14 ! 15 ! 16 ! 17 ! 18 The Regionalliga Nordost ! 1 ! 2 ! 3 ! 4 ! 5 ! 6 ! 7 ! 8 ! 9 ! 10 ! 11 ! 12 ! 13 ! 14 ! 15 ! 16 ! 17 ! 18 The Regionalliga West/Südwest: ! 1 ! 2 ! 3 ! 4 ! 5 ! 6 ! 7 ! 8 ! 9 ! 10 ! 11 ! 12 ! 13 ! 14 !", "id": "13380860" }, { "contents": "2014 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship\n\n\nDraw 8 17:45 Draw 11 11:15 Draw 14 21:00 Draw 16 11:15 Draw 17 14:30 Draw 20 8:00 Draw 22 14:30 Draw 24 21:00 Draw 25 8:00 Draw 26 11:15 Draw 1 8:15 Draw 2 12:00 Draw 3 15:45 Draw 5 8:00 Draw 6 11:15 Draw 7 14:30 Draw 9 21:00 Draw 10 8:00 Draw 12 14:30 Draw 13 17:45 Draw 14 21:00 Draw 15 8:00 Draw 16 11:15 Draw 17 14:30 Draw 18 17:45 Draw 20 8:00 Draw 21 11:15 Draw 23 17:45 Draw 24 21:00 Draw 3 15:45 Draw 4 19:30 Draw 7 14:30 Draw 8 17:45 Draw", "id": "15498978" }, { "contents": "Rocky Carson\n\n\nto the final with a win over Chris Crowther in the semi-finals, 15-7, 15-10. Carson’s Men’s Singles World Championship in 2008 qualified him for the 2009 World Games in Kaohsiung, Republic of China, where he captured the silver medal in Men's Singles. Carson beat Canadian Mike Green, 15-9, 15-9, in the quarterfinals, and Mexican Alvaro Beltran in the semi-finals, 9-15, 15-7, 11-8, to set up", "id": "17077685" }, { "contents": "2018 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship\n\n\nDraw 27 16:00 Draw 28 19:30 Draw 1 9:00 Draw 2 12:30 Draw 3 16:30 Draw 5 8:00 Draw 8 17:45 Draw 10 8:00 Draw 11 11:15 Draw 12 14:30 Draw 13 17:45 Draw 18 17:45 Draw 19 21:00 Draw 21 11:15 Draw 22 14:30 Draw 25 8:00 Draw 26 12:30 Draw 27 16:00 Draw 2 12:30 Draw 4 20:00 Draw 6 11:15 Draw 7 14:30 Draw 9 21:00 Draw 10 8:00 Draw 11 11:15 Draw 12 14:30 Draw 14 21:00 Draw 15 8:00 Draw 16 11:15 Draw 18 17:45 Draw 19 21:00 Draw 20 8:00 Draw 21 11:15 Draw", "id": "3983102" }, { "contents": "Rocky Carson\n\n\nIRT season. Carson won the 2001 Pan American Racquetball Championships in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, where he defeated Canadian Kane Waselenchuk in the final, 15-9, 15-13. Carson was the defending champion at the 2001 USAR National Singles Championships, and had a chance to defend the title, but lost to Jack Huczek, 15-11, 15-6. Carson beat Dan Fowler in the semi-finals, 15-8, 15-10, to reach the final. Carson took a step back", "id": "17077670" }, { "contents": "Gail Emms\n\n\nKellogg. They defeated Koon Wai Chee and Li Wing Mui of Hong Kong in the first round but were defeated by Zhao Tingting and Wei Yili of China in the second round. She also competed in mixed doubles with Robertson. They had a bye in the first round and defeated Björn Siegemund and Nicol Pitro of Germany in the second. In the quarterfinals, Emms and Robertson beat Chen Qiqiu and Zhao Tingting of China 15–8, 17–15 to advance to the semifinals. There, they beat Jonas Rasmussen and Rikke Olsen of Denmark 15–6", "id": "555457" }, { "contents": "Wellington Rugby Football Union\n\n\nNew South Wales 9–5 1896 beat Queensland 49–7 1901 beat New South Wales 17–16 1905 beat Australia 23–7 (combined team with Wairarapa and Horowhenua 1908 beat Anglo-Welsh 19–13 1921 lost to South Africa 3–8 1921 beat New South Wales 16–8 1923 beat New South Wales 29–16 (combined team with Manawatu) 1925 beat New South Wales 20–8 (combined team with Manawatu and Horowhenua) 1930 beat British Lions 12–8 1931 beat Australia 15–8 1937 lost to South Africa 0–29 1946 lost to Australia 15–16 1950 lost to British Isles 6–12 1956 lost to South Africa", "id": "5981175" }, { "contents": "Samuel Murray (racquetball)\n\n\n, 7-15, 15-3, 11-7, and then lost to Mexican Daniel De La Rosa, 15-12, 15-7. Murray won the 1st National Team Selection event of the 2016-17 season in Valleyfield, Québec, where he defeated James Landeryou, 15-4, 15-4, in the final. In the semi-finals, Murray beat Landeryou’s older brother Tim, 15-9, 15-13. At the 2nd selection event that season in Calgary,", "id": "7910652" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from South Carolina\n\n\n5 ! rowspan=4 | 6 ! rowspan=8 | 7 ! 6 ! rowspan=3 | 7 ! rowspan=3 | 8 ! rowspan=9 | 8 ! rowspan=5 | 9 ! rowspan=4 | 10 ! 9 ! rowspan=5 | 10 ! rowspan=15 | 11 ! 11 ! 12 ! rowspan=2 | 13 ! 14 ! rowspan=5 | 15 ! rowspan=6 | 12 ! 16 ! rowspan=2 | 17 ! rowspan=6 | 18 ! rowspan=3 | 13 ! rowspan=3 | 14 ! rowspan=9 | 19 ! rowspan=6 | 15 ! rowspan=3 | 16 ! rowspan=16 | 20 ! 17 ! rowspan=3 | 18 !", "id": "20744133" }, { "contents": "Alejandro Landa\n\n\n-4. Then at the end of the year, Landa beat Jaime Martell in the final of the Alamo City Open in San Antonio, beating Bredenbeck in the quarterfinals and David Horn in the semi-finals to reach the final. In 2016, Landa successfully defended his Alamo City Open title by beating Cardona in the final, 15-6, 15-10. He defeated Andree Parrilla, 15-12, 15-11, in the quarterfinals, and Jaime Martell, 15-11, 15-13,", "id": "8690377" }, { "contents": "Minuscule 172\n\n\n; 5:2-16; 6:2-7:2; 7:16-8:10; 8:38-9:13; 9:26-39; 10:9-22; 10:43-13:1; 23:32-24:24; 28:23-James 1:5; 3:6-4:16; 2 Peter 3:10-1 John 1:1; 3:13-4:2; Jude 16-25; Romans 14:23 - 15:1.4; 1 Corinthians 3:15-15:23; 2 Corinthians 10: 14-11:19; 13:5-13; Ephesians 1:1-2:14; 5:29-6:24 Colossians 1:24-26; 2:4-7; 2 Thessalonians 1:1", "id": "8396043" }, { "contents": "Jack Huczek\n\n\nseeded #1, and in the semi-finals beat Michael Bronfeld, 15-2, 15-9, to reach the final for the second consecutive year. However, Huczek lost the final to Mike Guidry, 15-10, 12-15, 11-9. In 2002, Huczek again partnered with Eric Muller at the USAR National Doubles Championships, and they reached the finals before losing to Ruben Gonzalez and Mike Guidry, 15-7, 15-10. They defeated Jason Thoerner and Mitch Williams in", "id": "17077734" }, { "contents": "2010–11 in Hong Kong football\n\n\non 8 October. However, the heavy rain flooded the field, so the ball flow on the water and could not be kick. The match was abandoned at 14th-minute. The rematch played on 9 October, Hong Kong defeated the Philippines by 4–2. The 2010 Asian Games will play between 7 November and 27 November in Guangzhou, China. Hong Kong national under-15 football team won all the group stage matches in the championship, which hold in Guam. Hong Kong beat Chinese Taipei in semi-final but lose by", "id": "3640662" }, { "contents": "2016 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship\n\n\nDraw 11 14:30 Draw 12 17:45 Draw 15 11:15 Draw 16 14:30 Draw 18 21:00 Draw 21 14:30 Draw 25 11:15 Draw 26 14:30 Draw 2 16:00 Draw 4 8:00 Draw 6 14:30 Draw 10 11:15 Draw 11 14:30 Draw 13 21:00 Draw 16 14:30 Draw 17 17:45 Draw 19 8:00 Draw 24 8:00 Draw 25 11:15 Draw 4 8:00 Draw 5 11:15 Draw 7 17:45 Draw 9 8:00 Draw 10 11:15 Draw 11 14:30 Draw 14 8:00 Draw 16 14:30 Draw 18 21:00 Draw 23 21:00 Draw 26 14:30 Draw 2 16:00 Draw 3 20:00 Draw 6 14:30 Draw", "id": "1156733" }, { "contents": "Easter Vigil\n\n\n-16; 3. Exodus 12:1-11; 4. Jonah 1:1-4:11; 5. Joshua 5:10-15; 6. Exodus 13:20-15:19; 7. Zephaniah 3:8-15; 8. 3 Kings 17:8-24; 9. Isaiah 61:10-62:5; 10. Genesis 22:1-18; 11. Isaiah 61:1-9; 12. 4 Kings 4:8-37; 13. Isaiah 63:11-64:5; 14. Jeremiah 31:31-34; 15. Daniel 3:1-68. It is during these", "id": "3156542" }, { "contents": "Jackie Paraiso\n\n\nBrodeur, 15-8, 15-6, in 2008. In between, she won three straight World Championships in 1994, 1996, and 1998. Laura Fenton was Paraiso's partner in 1994, when they beat Vicky Shanks and Debbie Ward of Canada, 15-9, 15-7. Then in 1996 and 1998, Paraiso's twin sister Joy MacKenzie was her partner, as they beat Shanks and Ward in 1996, 15-11, 15-4, and Shanks and Grand'Maître in 1998, 15-", "id": "21029455" }, { "contents": "Jahangir Khan\n\n\nover Jahangir in September 1987, beating him in straight games in the semi-finals of the Hong Kong Open. Jansher then went on to beat Jahangir in their next eight consecutive encounters and capture the 1987 World Open title. Jahangir ended Jansher's winning streak in March 1988, and went on to win 11 of their next 15 encounters. The pair met in the 1988 World Open final, with Jahangir emerging the victor. But by that point it had become clear that squash now had two dominant players. The pair would", "id": "414920" }, { "contents": "Samuel Murray (racquetball)\n\n\ncame 3rd, as they lost to Green and Trevor Webb in the semi-finals, 15-13, 4-15, 11-5, but beat Lee Connell and Nathaniel Husulak, 15-9, 16-14. Murray won the 1st National Team Selection event of the 2017-18 season, as he defeated Tim Landeryou, 15-3, 15-8, in the final. In the semi-finals, Murray beat Coby Iwaasa, 15-11, 15-8. Murray and Landeryou", "id": "7910655" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Maine\n\n\n| 4 ! rowspan=3 | 7 ! rowspan=6 | 5 ! 8 ! rowspan=6 | 9 ! rowspan=9 | 6 ! 10 ! rowspan=2 | 11 ! rowspan=7 | 12 ! 7 ! rowspan=3 | 8 ! rowspan=10 | 13 ! rowspan=4 | 9 ! rowspan=4 | 10 ! rowspan=17 | 14 ! rowspan=16 | 11 ! rowspan=7 | 15 ! 12 ! rowspan=2 | 13 ! rowspan=6 | 14 ! rowspan=14 | 16 ! rowspan=3 | 15 ! rowspan=9 | 16 ! rowspan=6 | 17 ! rowspan=13 | 17 ! rowspan=3 | 18 ! rowspan=11 | 19 ! rowspan=3", "id": "20744038" }, { "contents": "Men's Home Internationals\n\n\nafternoon. Scotland and England beat Ireland and Wales on the first two days. On the final day Scotland beat England 8–7 to win the title while Ireland beat Wales 9½–5½. The 1933 tournament was held at Royal County Down Golf Club from 14 to 16 September. The results of all six matches was the same as in 1932, Scotland beating England in the decisive match. In the 1934 tournament at Royal Porthcawl Golf Club from 15 to 17 August, Ireland beat England on the opening day. With Scotland beating England, Scotland retained", "id": "17763243" }, { "contents": "Codex Vaticanus 2061\n\n\nwas . The surviving leaves contain texts (according to Nestle-Aland 26th): Acts 26:6-27:4, 28:3-31; James 4:14-5:20; 1 Peter 1:1-12; 2 Peter 2:4-8, 2:13-3:15; 1 John 4:6-5:13, 5:17-18, 5:21; 2 John; 3 John; Romans 13:4-15:9; 1 Corinthians 2:1-3:11, 3:22, 4:4-6, 5:5-11, 6:3-11, 12:23-15:17, 15:20-27; 2 Corinthians 4:7", "id": "9378418" }, { "contents": "2012 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship\n\n\n17:45 Draw 11 21:00 Draw 12 8:00 Draw 13 11:15 Draw 14 14:30 Draw 15 17:45 Draw 16 21:00 Draw 17 8:00 Draw 18 11:15 Draw 19 14:30 Draw 20 17:45 Draw 21 21:00 Draw 23 11:15 Draw 1 18:45 Draw 3 11:15 Draw 5 17:45 Draw 6 21:00 Draw 8 11:15 Draw 10 17:45 Draw 12 8:00 Draw 13 11:15 Draw 14 14:30 Draw 15 17:45 Draw 16 21:00 Draw 18 11:15 Draw 20 17:45 Draw 22 8:00 Draw 1 18:45 Draw 2 8:00 Draw 3 11:15 Draw 4 14:30 Draw 5 17:45 Draw 6 21:00 Draw 7 8:00", "id": "8246326" }, { "contents": "2016 Bangladesh Championship League\n\n\nBank SC (15-16) 14 6 2 6 13 - 14 -1 20 4 Bangladesh Police Athletic Club (15-16) 14 4 6 4 11 - 9 2 18 5 T&T Club (15-16) 14 4 5 5 14 - 14 0 17 6 Victoria SC (15-16) 14 3 5 6 14 - 16 -2 14 7 Kawran Bazar (15-16) 14 2 8 4 7 - 12 -5 14 8 Chittagong Mohammedan (15-16) 14 2 4 8 13 -", "id": "13232613" }, { "contents": "Timeline of the 2012 Pacific hurricane season\n\n\nJune 16 June 17 July 4 July 5 July 7 July 8 July 9 July 10 July 11 July 12 July 13 July 14 July 15 July 16 July 18 August 7 August 8 August 9 August 11 August 12 August 15 August 17 August 27 August 30 August 31 September 2 September 3 September 4 September 12 September 14 September 15 September 16 September 17 September 18 September 19 September 22 September 24 September 25 September 26 September 27 September 28 September 29 October 6 October 7 October 9 October 13 October 15 October 16 October 17 October 30", "id": "21319682" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Missouri\n\n\n! rowspan=3 | 12 ! rowspan=18 | 6 ! 13 ! 14 ! rowspan=12 | 15 ! rowspan=9 | 16 ! rowspan=3 | 7 ! rowspan=15 | 8 ! 17 ! rowspan=5 | 18 ! 19 ! rowspan=4 | 20 ! rowspan=4 | 9 ! rowspan=7 | 21 ! rowspan=6 | 10 ! rowspan=4 | 22 ! 11 ! rowspan=3 | 12 ! rowspan=5 | 23 ! rowspan=15 | 13 ! rowspan=5 | 24 ! rowspan=11 | 25 ! rowspan=10 | 14 ! rowspan=13 | 26 ! rowspan=3 | 15 ! 16 ! rowspan=3 | 17 ! rowspan=6 | 18", "id": "20744052" }, { "contents": "Chris Marlowe\n\n\n15, 13-15, 15-9, 15-11, 15-12 for a 3-2 win. The win set up a championship final between San Diego State and the Bruins. In the championship match SDSU jumped out 2 games to none, and with an 8-3 lead in the third appeared ready for a three-game sweep. However the Bruins rallied back to win it, 10-15, 9-15, 15-9, 15-10, 15-7. UCLA", "id": "21040396" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Virginia\n\n\n| 4 ! 5 ! rowspan=2 | 6 ! 7 ! 5 ! rowspan=3 | 8 ! rowspan=8 | 6 ! rowspan=3 | 9 ! rowspan=14 | 10 ! 7 ! rowspan=2 | 8 ! rowspan=2 | 9 ! rowspan=2 | 10 ! rowspan=7 | 11 ! 11 ! rowspan=9 | 12 ! rowspan=2 | 12 ! rowspan=4 | 13 ! rowspan=9 | 13 ! rowspan=2 | 14 ! rowspan=3 | 15 ! rowspan=6 | 16 ! 14 ! rowspan=9 | 15 ! rowspan=8 | 17 ! 16 ! rowspan=3 | 18 ! 17 ! rowspan=4 | 18 ! rowspan=8", "id": "20744171" }, { "contents": "Jennifer Saunders (racquetball)\n\n\ntogether that year, in the final, 15-6, 8-15, 11-8. But Saunders didn’t successfully defend her Women's Singles title, although she did get to the final for a third straight year. In the semi-finals, Saunders beat Grand'Maître in the semi-finals, 15-7, 15-8, but in the final, she narrowly lost to Powell, 8-15, 15-4, 13-11. Her performances helped to earn Saunders a spot on", "id": "14324066" }, { "contents": "2018 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship\n\n\nThe 2018 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship was held from April 21 to 28 at the Östersund Arena in Östersund, Sweden. The event was held in conjunction with the 2018 World Senior Curling Championships. \"Final Round Robin Standings\" All draw times are listed in CEST (UTC+2) Draw 1 9:00 Draw 4 20:00 Draw 6 11:15 Draw 7 14:30 Draw 8 17:45 Draw 9 21:00 Draw 10 8:00 Draw 13 17:45 Draw 15 8:00 Draw 16 11:15 Draw 17 14:30 Draw 18 17:45 Draw 20 8:00 Draw 22 14:30 Draw 24 21:00 Draw 26", "id": "3983100" }, { "contents": "Carla Khan\n\n\nInternational, where she came from behind to beat Melissa Martin from Australia, 3–9, 4–9, 9–4, 9–7, 9–3. She broke into the top 30. At the Irish Open in 2004, Khan defeated Nicol David of Malaysia (who was ranked number 9 in the world at that time) on 15 April 2004, and achieved her highest ranking of 21. In 2005, Khan lost in the final of the Forbes Open to England's Alison Walters. However, she made it to the final of the 1st POF", "id": "9884495" }, { "contents": "Codex Climaci Rescriptus\n\n\n9-21; 9:30;10:3-9; 15:11-21 I Corin. 1:6-23; 4:1-15; 13: 4-11; 14:4-7; 14:8-14; 14:24-37; 15:3-10; 15:24-49; 16:16-24 II Corin. 1:23-2: 4-11; 4:18-5:6; 5:6-12; 6:3-16; 7:3-8 Galat. 1:1-23; 3:20-24; 4:2; 4:4-29; 5:1; 5:24; 6:4-12", "id": "9480761" }, { "contents": "2014 World Senior Curling Championships – Men's tournament\n\n\n7:30 Draw 6 11:00 Draw 8 18:00 Draw 9 21:30 Draw 12 15:30 Draw 13 19:00 Draw 15 11:00 Draw 16 14:30 Draw 18 21:30 Draw 20 12:00 Draw 22 19:00 Draw 23 8:30 Draw 1 8:00 Draw 4 19:30 Draw 6 11:00 Draw 7 14:30 Draw 10 8:30 Draw 11 12:00 Draw 14 7:30 Draw 15 11:00 Draw 16 14:30 Draw 17 18:00 Draw 19 08:30 Draw 21 15:30 \"Tuesday, April 29, 14:00\" \"Tuesday, April 29, 19:30\" \"Wednesday, April 30, 8:00\" \"Wednesday, April 30,", "id": "16343740" }, { "contents": "2017 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship\n\n\nThe 2017 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship was held from April 22 to 29 at the Lethbridge Curling Club in Lethbridge, Canada. The event was held in conjunction with the 2017 World Senior Curling Championships. \"Final Round Robin Standings\" All draw times are listed in MDT (UTC-6). Draw 1 8:00 Draw 7 14:30 Draw 9 21:00 Draw 10 8:00 Draw 11 11:15 Draw 13 17:45 Draw 15 8:00 Draw 17 14:30 Draw 18 17:45 Draw 21 11:15 Draw 22 14:30 Draw 24 21:00 Draw 25 8:00 Draw 3 15:00 Draw 4 8:00", "id": "20611917" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Kansas\n\n\nrowspan=2 | 3 ! rowspan=12 | 2 ! 4 ! rowspan=2 | 5 ! rowspan=8 | 6 ! rowspan=5 | 3 ! 7 ! 8 ! rowspan=3 | 9 ! rowspan=3 | 4 ! rowspan=3 | 10 ! rowspan=6 | 5 ! 11 ! rowspan=4 | 12 ! rowspan=3 | 6 ! rowspan=3 | 13 ! rowspan=7 | 7 ! rowspan=17 | 14 ! 8 ! rowspan=5 | 9 ! rowspan=6 | 10 ! rowspan=10 | 15 ! 11 ! rowspan=12 | 12 ! rowspan=9 | 16 ! rowspan=15 | 13 ! rowspan=12 | 17 ! 14 ! rowspan=8 |", "id": "20743950" }, { "contents": "1977 NCAA Division I football season\n\n\nto move to third, and the Wolverines returned to the top: 1.Michigan 2.Texas 3.Colorado 4.Alabama 5.Ohio State October 15 No. 1 Michigan beat No. 14 Wisconsin 56–0, and No. 2 Texas won at No. 7 Arkansas, 13–9. No. 3 Colorado played at Kansas, a 17–17 tie. No. 4 Alabama beat Tennessee in Birmingham, 24–10. No. 5 Ohio State beat Iowa 27–6. No. 6 USC beat Oregon 33–15 to return to the top five: 1.Michigan 2.Texas 3.Alabama 4.Ohio State 5.USC October 22", "id": "8560170" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Texas\n\n\n3 ! rowspan=6 | 6 ! rowspan=11 | 4 ! rowspan=3 | 7 ! 8 ! rowspan=4 | 9 ! rowspan=3 | 5 ! rowspan=15 | 10 ! rowspan=6 | 6 ! 7 ! rowspan=16 | 8 ! rowspan=3 | 11 ! rowspan=16 | 12 ! 9 ! rowspan=4 | 10 ! rowspan=8 | 11 ! rowspan=3 | 13 ! 14 ! rowspan=8 | 15 ! 12 ! rowspan=12 | 13 ! rowspan=12 | 16 ! rowspan=12 | 14 ! 17 ! rowspan=12 | 18 ! rowspan=10 | 15 ! rowspan=5 | 19 , there are three living former senators", "id": "20744168" }, { "contents": "Samuel Murray (racquetball)\n\n\nIwaasa, 9-15, 15-6, 11-6. He also defeated Iwaasa in the 2nd National Team Selection Event in Grande Prairie, Alberta, 15-10, 15-10. He defeated Pedro Castro in the semi-finals, 15-6, 15-9. Murray began the 2018-19 IRT season strongly, as he made his first final at the first event of the season - the 2018 MWRA Season Opener IRT Pro/Am in Laurel, Maryland, where he beat Alejandro Landa", "id": "7910660" }, { "contents": "Alejandro Landa\n\n\ntwo of them. Both wins came in Juarez, Mexico. He defeated Javier Moreno in April and then beat Jake Bredenbeck in August, 15–10, 15-10. Landa reached the semi-finals at the US Open for the first time in 2014, as he beat Jose Rojas in the Round of 16, 3-11, 11-9, 14-12, 6-11, 11-4 and Daniel De La Rosa in the quarterfinals, 11-2, 11-8, 11-6,", "id": "8690374" }, { "contents": "Hong Kong Women's Sevens\n\n\nFinals Canada 35–14 Netherlands Kazakhstan 12–7 China USA 45–0 Arabian Gulf France 15–7 Japan 9th to 12th Semi Finals Hong Kong 15–0 Singapore Papua New Guinea 0–29 Thailand Bowl (5th to 8th) Semi Finals Netherlands 5–5 China (China win on try countback) Arabian Gulf 0–10 Japan Cup Semi Finals Canada 26–0 Kazakhstan USA 5–0 France 11th Place Singapore 5–17 Papua New Guinea 9th Place Hong Kong 15–7 Thailand 7th Place Netherlands 19–0 Arabian Gulf Bowl Final China 17–7 Japan Plate Final France 24–0 Kazakhstan Cup Final USA 21–7 Canada 27 March 2009 at Hong Kong.", "id": "7314433" }, { "contents": "Badminton at the 1981 World Games\n\n\n10 4. William Gilliland/Daniel Travers (Scotland) d. Egbeyemi/Badiru (Nigeria), 15-6, 15-6 Semi-finals 1. Sun Zhian/Yao Ximing d. Kartono/Heryanto, 3-15, 15-11, 15-8 2. Kihlstrom/Karlsson d. Gilliland/Travers, 10-15, 15-0, 15-9 Final Sun Zhian/Yao Ximing d. Kihlstrom/Karlsson, 12-15, 15-4, 15-6. Bronze medals: Kartono", "id": "1386468" }, { "contents": "2018 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship\n\n\n12:30 Draw 27 16:00 Draw 1 9:00 Draw 3 16:30 Draw 5 8:00 Draw 11 11:15 Draw 12 14:30 Draw 14 21:00 Draw 15 8:00 Draw 17 14:30 Draw 18 17:45 Draw 19 21:00 Draw 20 8:00 Draw 21 11:15 Draw 22 14:30 Draw 23 17:45 Draw 24 21:00 Draw 28 19:30 Draw 2 12:30 Draw 3 16:30 Draw 4 20:00 Draw 6 11:15 Draw 7 14:30 Draw 9 21:00 Draw 11 11:15 Draw 13 17:45 Draw 14 21:00 Draw 16 11:15 Draw 17 14:30 Draw 20 8:00 Draw 22 14:30 Draw 23 17:45 Draw 25 9:00 Draw 26 12:30", "id": "3983101" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Colorado\n\n\nrowspan=5 | 5 ! rowspan=3 | 8 ! rowspan=9 | 9 ! rowspan=2 | 6 ! 7 ! rowspan=2 | 8 ! rowspan=3 | 9 ! rowspan=6 | 10 ! 10 ! 11 ! rowspan=5 | 12 ! rowspan=11 | 11 ! rowspan=8 | 13 ! rowspan=9 | 12 ! rowspan=3 | 14 ! rowspan=6 | 15 ! rowspan=3 | 13 ! rowspan=6 | 16 ! rowspan=6 | 14 ! rowspan=3 | 17 ! rowspan=4 | 15 ! rowspan=7 | 18 ! rowspan=6 | 16 ! rowspan=3 | 19 ! rowspan=4 | 17 ! rowspan=7 | 20 ! rowspan=3 |", "id": "20743826" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Arkansas\n\n\nrowspan=3 | 6 ! rowspan=5 | 6 ! rowspan=3 | 7 ! rowspan=11 | 8 ! rowspan=11 | 7 ! rowspan=10 | 9 ! rowspan=3 | 8 ! 9 ! 10 ! rowspan=17 | 11 ! rowspan=3 | 10 ! rowspan=6 | 11 ! rowspan=11 | 12 ! rowspan=3 | 12 ! 13 ! rowspan=19 | 14 ! rowspan=15 | 13 ! rowspan=14 | 14 ! 15 ! rowspan=9 | 16 ! rowspan=3 | 17 ! rowspan=6 | 15 ! rowspan=6 | 18 ! rowspan=6 | 16 ! rowspan=3 | 19 , there are five living former senators. The", "id": "20743822" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from New Hampshire\n\n\n! rowspan=3 | 9 ! rowspan=3 | 10 ! rowspan=5 | 8 ! 11 ! rowspan=3 | 12 ! rowspan=4 | 9 ! 13 ! rowspan=6 | 14 ! 10 ! 11 ! rowspan=3 | 12 ! rowspan=6 | 15 ! 13 ! 14 ! 16 ! rowspan=7 | 15 ! rowspan=2 | 17 ! rowspan=5 | 18 ! rowspan=8 | 16 ! 19 ! rowspan=3 | 20 ! rowspan=3 | 21 ! rowspan=6 | 17 ! 22 ! rowspan=12 | 23 ! rowspan=3 | 18 ! rowspan=2 | 19 ! 20 ! 21 ! rowspan=6 | 22 ! rowspan=15", "id": "20744074" }, { "contents": "Dihydroxy-E,Z,E-PUFA\n\n\nmake PDX by metabolizing DHA by double oxygenation a 15-lipoxygenase to form the 10\"R\",17\"S\"-hydroxperoxy intermediated which is reduced its 10\"R\",17\"S\"-hydroxyl product, PDX, probably by cytosolic GPX1 (i.e. glutathione peroxidase 1). Serial metabolism two different lipoxygenases or a lipoxygenase and a cytochrome P45) on PUFA possessing three double bonds in a 1\"Z\",4\"Z\",7\"Z\" configuration may also make a 1,7-dihydroxy 2\"E\",4\"Z\",6\"E\" product. Other platelet-inhibiting dihydroxy-\"E\",\"Z\",\"E\"-PUFA are: 10\"R\",17\"S\"-dihydroxy-4\"Z\",7\"Z\",11\"E\",13\"Z\",15\"E\",19\"Z\"-docosahexaenoic acid (10\"R\",17\"S\"-diHDHA); 8\"S\",15\"S\"-dihydroxy-5\"Z\",9\"E\",11\"Z\",13\"E\"-eicosatetraenoic acid (8\"S\",15\"S\"-diHETE); 9\"S\",16\"S\"-10\"E\",12\"Z\",14\"E\"-octadecatrienoic acid (linotrin-1); and 9\"R\",16\"S\"-10\"E\",12\"Z\",14\"E\"-octadecatrienoic acid (linotrin-2).", "id": "1779786" }, { "contents": "EU Cup\n\n\n8 October 2011. 18 national men's teams competed in the tournament. Final results were: 1. Ireland, 2. Croatia, 3. England, 4. Italy, 5. France, 6. Scotland, 7. Wales, 8. Spain, 9. European Crusaders, 10. Russia (1st time competitors), 11. Denmark, 12. Germany, 13. Finland, 14. Sweden, 15. Netherlands, 16. Austria, 17. Iceland, 18. Catalonia. Ireland defeated Switzerland in", "id": "2746657" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Indiana\n\n\nrowspan=13 | 5 ! rowspan=2 | 5 ! 6 ! rowspan=2 | 7 ! rowspan=3 | 8 ! rowspan=6 | 9 ! 6 ! 7 ! rowspan=3 | 8 ! rowspan=6 | 10 ! rowspan=3 | 9 ! rowspan=5 | 10 ! rowspan=10 | 11 ! rowspan=3 | 11 ! rowspan=6 | 12 ! rowspan=4 | 12 ! rowspan=6 | 13 ! rowspan=2 | 13 ! rowspan=4 | 14 ! rowspan=6 | 14 ! 15 ! rowspan=11 | 16 ! rowspan=3 | 15 ! rowspan=2 | 16 ! rowspan=5 | 17 ! rowspan=6 | 17 ! rowspan=3 | 18 !", "id": "20743924" }, { "contents": "Book of Nature\n\n\n. Pedersen (1992), 7–8. 3. Pedersen (1992), 9. 4. Dear (2009), 4. 5. Pedersen (1992), 10. 6. Pedersen (1992), 11–13. 7. Pedersen (1992), 14–15. 8. Pedersen (1992), 15. 9. Harrison (2001), 13. 10. Harrison (2001), 13. 11. Harrison (2001), 15. 12. Harrison (2001), 15. 13.", "id": "3587614" }, { "contents": "2014 World Senior Curling Championships – Women's tournament\n\n\nThe women's tournament of the 2014 World Senior Curling Championships was held from April 23 to 30 at the Dumfries Ice Bowl in Dumfries, Scotland. The teams are listed as follows: \"Final Round Robin Standings\" Draw 3 15:30 Draw 5 7:30 Draw 6 11:00 Draw 7 14:30 Draw 8 18:00 Draw 9 21:30 Draw 11 12:00 Draw 12 15:30 Draw 13 19:00 Draw 15 11:00 Draw 17 18:00 Draw 18 21:30 Draw 20 12:00 Draw 21 15:30 Draw 23 8:30 Draw 24 14:00 Draw 3 15:30 Draw 4 19:30 Draw 7 14:30 Draw 8", "id": "16343741" }, { "contents": "Alejandro Landa\n\n\nFalls, South Dakota, but he won the final by defeating Daniel De La Rosa, 15-6, 7-15, 11-10, in the final. En route to the final, Landa beat Tim Landeryou, 15-5, 3-15, 11-6, in the Round of 16, Rocky Carson in the quarterfinals, 15-14, 11-15, 11-4, and Samuel Murray, 15-11, 15-7, in the semi-finals. In the", "id": "8690386" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Florida\n\n\n| 4 ! rowspan=3 | 4 ! rowspan=3 | 5 ! rowspan=6 | 5 ! rowspan=11 | 6 ! rowspan=9 | 6 ! rowspan=8 | 7 ! rowspan=10 | 7 ! 8 ! 9 ! rowspan=16 | 10 ! rowspan=3 | 8 ! rowspan=10 | 9 ! rowspan=3 | 10 ! 11 ! rowspan=6 | 11 ! rowspan=10 | 12 ! rowspan=13 | 12 ! rowspan=9 | 13 ! rowspan=3 | 14 ! rowspan=11 | 13 ! rowspan=4 | 15 ! rowspan=4 | 16 ! rowspan=9 | 17 ! rowspan=6 | 14 ! rowspan=10 | 15 ! rowspan=3 | 18", "id": "20743883" }, { "contents": "Coby Iwaasa\n\n\nKitchener, Ontario with the same result: a win for Murray, 15-2, 15-5. Iwaasa and Murray played Men’s Doubles together at the 2018 Canadian Championships in Winnipeg, and they won the title by defeating Nicolas Bousquet and Tommy Murray in the final, 15-13, 10-15, 11-6. They beat the brother team of James Landeryou and Tim Landeryou in the semi-finals, 15-13, 15-10. In Men’s Singles, Iwaasa finished 2nd, as", "id": "8038021" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Wisconsin\n\n\n| 6 ! rowspan=3 | 7 ! rowspan=3 | 6 ! rowspan=6 | 8 ! rowspan=3 | 7 ! rowspan=15 | 8 ! rowspan=4 | 9 ! rowspan=2 | 10 ! rowspan=7 | 11 ! rowspan=11 | 9 ! rowspan=3 | 12 ! rowspan=3 | 13 ! rowspan=14 | 14 ! rowspan=6 | 10 ! rowspan=16 | 11 ! rowspan=9 | 15 ! rowspan=6 | 16 ! rowspan=12 | 12 ! rowspan=9 | 17 ! rowspan=6 | 18 ! rowspan=6 | 13 , there are three living former Senators, one from Class 1 and two from Class 3.", "id": "21329584" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Michigan\n\n\n! 12 ! rowspan=13 | 13 ! rowspan=3 | 10 ! rowspan=7 | 11 ! rowspan=8 | 14 ! rowspan=2 | 12 ! rowspan=10 | 13 ! rowspan=3 | 15 ! rowspan=15 | 16 ! rowspan=4 | 14 ! rowspan=9 | 15 ! 17 ! rowspan=4 | 18 ! rowspan=6 | 16 ! rowspan=11 | 19 ! rowspan=9 | 17 ! rowspan=10 | 20 ! rowspan=18 | 18 ! rowspan=3 | 21 ! rowspan=12 | 22 ! rowspan=3 | 19 , there are three former U.S. Senators from Michigan who are currently living, two from Class 1 and one", "id": "20744040" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Ohio\n\n\n| 6 ! rowspan=2 | 7 ! rowspan=2 | 8 ! rowspan=2 | 9 ! rowspan=3 | 10 ! rowspan=3 | 6 ! rowspan=6 | 11 ! rowspan=3 | 7 ! rowspan=3 | 8 ! rowspan=5 | 12 ! 9 ! rowspan=11 | 10 ! rowspan=3 | 13 ! 14 ! rowspan=9 | 15 ! rowspan=8 | 11 ! 16 ! rowspan=3 | 17 ! rowspan=9 | 12 ! rowspan=3 | 18 ! rowspan=3 | 19 ! rowspan=9 | 20 ! rowspan=4 | 13 ! rowspan=4 | 14 ! rowspan=3 | 21 ! rowspan=7 | 15 ! rowspan=3 | 22", "id": "20744100" }, { "contents": "2013 Canadian Mixed Doubles Curling Trials\n\n\nFriday, March 15, 11:30 am\" \"Friday, March 15, 2:00 pm\" \"Friday, March 15, 4:30 pm\" \"Friday, March 15, 7:00 pm\" \"Friday, March 15, 9:30 pm\" \"Saturday, March 16, 9:00 am\" \"Saturday, March 16, 11:30 am\" \"Saturday, March 16, 2:00 pm\" \"Saturday, March 16, 4:30 pm\" \"Saturday, March 16, 8:30 pm\" \"Sunday, March 17, 10:00 am\" \"Sunday", "id": "10697048" }, { "contents": "Lyon Villeurbanne XIII\n\n\nto AS Carcassonne 10–22, but they went one better in the league beating XIII Catalan 15–10 to lift the trophy for the first time. In 52/53 they won the cup beating US Villeneuve 9–8 in the final but couldn't complete a league and cup double as they lost the league final 12–19 to AS Carcassonne. They retained the cup when they beat XIII Catalan 17–15 and won their second league title when they triumphed 7–6 against AS Carcassonne in 1955. Relegation followed in 1957 but after winning the National League 1 title, now called", "id": "19573564" }, { "contents": "Park Sung-hwan\n\n\n. Two weeks later, Park was to be defeated again in the quarter-final matches of the Li Ning China Masters Super Series in Changzhou, China (to 4th seed badminton ace Lin Dan of China, 15-21, 21-13, 21-23), and the Japan Open Super Series (to Indonesian, Taufik Hidayat, 21-12, 26-28, 15-21). In November, Park participated in the Yonex Sunrise Hong Kong Open and lost 15-21, 16-21", "id": "6727931" }, { "contents": "2015 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship\n\n\nThe 2015 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship was held from April 18 to 25 at the Ice Cube Curling Center in Sochi, Russia. The event will be held in conjunction with the 2015 World Senior Curling Championships. The teams are listed as follows: Draw 1 9:00 Draw 2 11:15 Draw 3 21:00 Draw 4 11:15 Draw 5 8:00 Draw 6 17:45 Draw 7 19:30 Draw 8 11:15 Draw 9 17:45 Draw 1 12:30 Draw 2 19:30 Draw 3 14:30 Draw 4 9:00 Draw 5 11:15 Draw 6 21:00 Draw 7 12:30 Draw 8 8:00 Draw 9", "id": "12517555" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Rhode Island\n\n\n| 9 ! rowspan=3 | 7 ! rowspan=7 | 8 ! rowspan=2 | 9 ! rowspan=7 | 10 ! rowspan=2 | 10 ! 11 ! rowspan=3 | 12 ! rowspan=3 | 11 ! rowspan=4 | 13 ! rowspan=3 | 12 ! rowspan=3 | 14 ! rowspan=17 | 13 ! 15 ! rowspan=6 | 16 ! rowspan=4 | 17 ! rowspan=20 | 18 ! 14 ! rowspan=4 | 15 ! rowspan=3 | 16 ! rowspan=10 | 17 ! rowspan=3 | 19 ! rowspan=6 | 18 ! rowspan=8 | 20 ! rowspan=7 | 19 ! rowspan=3 | 21 ! rowspan=6 | 22", "id": "20744131" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from West Virginia\n\n\nrowspan=8 | 7 ! rowspan=2 | 4 ! rowspan=8 | 5 ! rowspan=9 | 8 ! 6 ! rowspan=2 | 7 ! rowspan=4 | 9 ! rowspan=3 | 8 ! rowspan=3 | 10 ! rowspan=3 | 9 ! rowspan=3 | 11 ! rowspan=3 | 10 ! rowspan=3 | 12 ! rowspan=7 | 11 ! rowspan=3 | 13 ! rowspan=10 | 14 ! 12 ! 13 ! rowspan=3 | 14 ! rowspan=8 | 15 ! 15 ! rowspan=5 | 16 ! 16 ! rowspan=14 | 17 ! rowspan=27 | 17 ! rowspan=18 | 18 ! 18 ! rowspan=8 | 19 !", "id": "20744177" }, { "contents": "Academy of Saint Elizabeth\n\n\nstudents often take part in mass on different occasions. Sample 'D day' Homeroom 8:10-8:15 Period 1 8:19-9:15 Period 2 9:17 - 10:13 Period 3 10:15 - 11:11 Lunch 11:13 - 11:58 Period 5 12:00 - 12:56 Period 6 12:58 - 1:54 Period 7 1:56 - 2:51 The Academy runs on a 4-day rotating schedule (A day, B day, C day, and D day). Each day, students drop a morning and afternoon class. You can find the 2018-2019 school year calendar on the Academy", "id": "13678251" }, { "contents": "2014 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship\n\n\nWorld Curling medal for Spain in the bronze medal game with a 7–4 win over defending champions Dorottya Palansca and Zsolt Kiss of Hungary. Canada, Norway, and England scored perfect ends in their games in Draws 5, 11, and 22, respectively. The teams are listed as follows: \"Final Round Robin Standings\" Draw 1 8:15 Draw 4 19:30 Draw 6 11:15 Draw 9 21:00 Draw 12 14:30 Draw 15 8:00 Draw 18 17:45 Draw 19 21:00 Draw 21 11:15 Draw 22 14:30 Draw 25 8:00 Draw 2 12:00 Draw 5 8:00", "id": "15498977" }, { "contents": "2011 World Senior Curling Championships – Men's tournament\n\n\nStandings\" All draw times are listed in Central Standard Time (UTC-06). Draw 1 08:00 Draw 3 18:00 Draw 6 14:30 Draw 8 08:00 Draw 10 18:00 Draw 13 14:30 Draw 15 21:30 Draw 17 14:30 Draw 2 11:30 Draw 4 21:30 Draw 5 11:00 Draw 8 08:00 Draw 10 18:00 Draw 13 14:30 Draw 17 14:30 Draw 19 21:30 Draw 2 11:30 Draw 4 21:30 Draw 6 14:30 Draw 8 08:00 Draw 9 11:30 Draw 10 18:00 Draw 11 21:30 Draw 12 11:00 Draw 13 14:30 Draw 15 21:30 Draw 19 21:30 \"Friday, April", "id": "16637806" }, { "contents": "Nathan Robertson\n\n\ndefeated Björn Siegemund and Nicol Pitro of Germany in the second. In the quarterfinals, Robertson and Emms beat Chen Qiqiu and Zhao Tingting of China 15-8, 17-15 to advance to the semifinals. There, they beat Jonas Rasmussen and Rikke Olsen of Denmark 15-6, 15-12. In the final, they lost to Chinese pair Zhang Jun and Gao Ling 15-1, 12-15, 15-12 to finish with the silver medal. At the 2005 World Championships, he and Emms", "id": "1371969" }, { "contents": "List of major textual variants in the New Testament\n\n\nMatthew 8:28 Matthew 11:23 Matthew 17:21 Matthew 18:11 Matthew 20:16 Matthew 20:22, 23 Matthew 23:14 Matthew 24:36 Matthew 26:28 Matthew 27:16 Mark 2:16 Mark 6:11 Mark 7:8 Mark 7:16 Mark 9:38 Mark 9:43-46 Mark 9:49 Mark 10:24 Mark 11:26 Mark 14:19 Mark 15:28 Mark 16:9-20 Luke 1:28 Luke 2:14 Luke 4:4 Luke 9:55-56 Luke 11:2-4 Luke 11:11 Luke 22:43-44 Luke 23:17 Luke 23:34 John 1:18 John 5:3-4 John 6:69 John 7:53-8:11 John 8:59 Acts 2:30 Acts 13:42 Acts 15:24 Acts 18:21 Acts 23:9 Acts 28:29", "id": "12411760" }, { "contents": "BSWW Tour\n\n\n1 2 15-19 2 4. USA 3 1 2 13-20 2 Semifinals Brazil 9-4 Argentina Third place match Final Brazil 11-3 South Korea 02/03/1996 Buenos Aires (Argentina)Argentina 5-12 Brazil Friendly Match 1996 USA 3-6 Brazil Italy 6-9 Brazil USA 4-9 Brazil Italy 2-8 Brazil Netherlands 4-13 Brazil England 1-13 Brazil Malaysia 1-14 Brazil Semifinals Brazil 15-2 Japan Third place match Final Brazil 6-4 South Korea Brazil 7-4 Argentina", "id": "17061521" }, { "contents": "1941 Eastern Suburbs season\n\n\n5, Saturday 17 May Eastern Suburbs 13 beat Canterbury Bankstown 2 at Sydney Cricket Ground. Premiership Round 6, Saturday 24 May 1941. Newtown 4 beat Eastern Suburbs 3 at Henson Park. Premiership Round 7, Saturday 31 June 1941. St George 16 beat Eastern Suburbs 10 at Sydney Sports Ground. Premiership Round 8, Saturday 21 June 1941. South Sydney 22 beat Eastern Suburbs 15 at Sydney Sports Ground. Premiership Round 9, Saturday 28 June 1941. Eastern Suburbs 15 beat Western Suburbs 3 at Pratten Park. Premiership Round", "id": "11086526" }, { "contents": "Jansher Khan\n\n\nJansher Khan (; born 15 June 1969, in Peshawar, Pakistan) is a former World No. 1 professional Pakistani squash player. During his career he won the World Open a record eight times, and the British Open six times. Jansher Khan's retirement brought an end to nearly 50 years of domination by Pakistan in the sport of squash. He won the World Junior Squash Championship title in 1986 and the senior World Open title in 1987, by beating Australia's Chris Dittmar in the final. Jansher officially announced his retirement", "id": "1599584" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Kentucky\n\n\n! 5 ! rowspan=5 | 6 ! 3 ! rowspan=2 | 4 ! rowspan=4 | 7 ! 5 ! rowspan=4 | 6 ! rowspan=5 | 8 ! 7 ! 8 ! rowspan=2 | 9 ! rowspan=7 | 9 ! rowspan=3 | 10 ! rowspan=3 | 11 ! rowspan=4 | 10 ! rowspan=6 | 12 ! rowspan=3 | 11 ! rowspan=4 | 12 ! rowspan=4 | 13 ! rowspan=8 | 13 ! 14 ! rowspan=2 | 15 ! 16 ! rowspan=2 | 17 ! rowspan=3 | 14 ! rowspan=3 | 18 ! rowspan=5 | 15 ! 19 ! rowspan=8 | 20", "id": "20743991" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Massachusetts\n\n\n| 8 ! rowspan=7 | 7 ! rowspan=2 | 9 ! rowspan=8 | 10 ! rowspan=3 | 8 ! rowspan=6 | 9 ! rowspan=9 | 11 ! rowspan=3 | 10 ! rowspan=5 | 11 ! rowspan=3 | 12 ! rowspan=5 | 13 ! rowspan=8 | 12 ! 14 ! 15 ! rowspan=16 | 16 ! 13 ! 14 ! rowspan=10 | 15 ! rowspan=4 | 16 ! 17 ! rowspan=9 | 18 ! rowspan=14 | 17 ! rowspan=18 | 19 ! rowspan=5 | 18 ! rowspan=3 | 19 ! rowspan=5 | 20 ! rowspan=2 | 20 ! rowspan=4 | 21", "id": "20744045" }, { "contents": "2017 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship\n\n\nDraw 5 8:00 Draw 11 11:15 Draw 12 14:30 Draw 14 21:00 Draw 16 11:15 Draw 18 17:45 Draw 19 21:00 Draw 20 8:00 Draw 22 14:30 Draw 23 17:45 Draw 24 21:00 Draw 26 11:15 Draw 27 14:30 Draw 3 15:00 Draw 4 20:00 Draw 6 11:15 Draw 8 17:45 Draw 9 21:00 Draw 12 14:30 Draw 13 17:45 Draw 14 21:00 Draw 16 11:15 Draw 17 14:30 Draw 20 8:00 Draw 21 11:15 Draw 22 14:30 Draw 25 8:00 Draw 26 11:15 Draw 1 8:00 Draw 2 11:15 Draw 3 15:00 Draw 5 8:00 Draw 8 17:45 Draw", "id": "20611918" }, { "contents": "Michael Cheika\n\n\nAuckland a week later. Despite having only been in charge of the Wallabies for a year, Cheika led Australia to the 2015 Rugby World Cup Final. They topped Pool A with victories over Fiji 28–13, Uruguay 65–3, England 33–13 and Wales 15–6. They narrowly beat Scotland in the quarter-final winning 35–34 after a controversial last minute penalty. They beat Argentina 29–15 in the semi-final to reach the final against the All Blacks. The Wallabies went down 16–3 at half time, but fought back in the second half", "id": "21843436" }, { "contents": "2008 South American Under-23 Championships in Athletics – Results\n\n\n5 September 17:00hbr Final – 7 September 15:00hbr Final – 6 September 11:00hbr Final – 6 September 15:40hbr Final – 6 September 9:30hbr Wind: -2.5m/s Final – 7 September 10:45hbr Final – 6 September 9:00hbr Final – 7 September 9:00hbr Final – 7 September 11:00hbr Final – 6 September 11:00hbr Final – 6 September 9:00hbr Final – 7 September 11:00hbr Final – 5 September 14:50hbr Final – 6 September 9:00hbr Final – 7 September 9:00hbr Final – 7 September 7:00hbr Final – 6 September 17:00hbr Final – 7 September 15:50hbr Final – 6 September 9:45hbr Wind: -2.5", "id": "3039640" }, { "contents": "Rhonda Rajsich\n\n\nfinished #1. At the 2011 USA National Doubles Championships, Rajsich played with Kim Russell-Waselenchuk for the first time. They lost in the semi-finals to Krystal Csuk and Cheryl Gudinas, 15-6, 2-15, 11-9, and then lost the 3rd place match to sisters Danielle and Michelle Key, 3-15, 15-10, 11-10. However, Rajsich won Women's Singles at the 2011 USA National Singles Championshps by beating Gudinas in the final, 15-2", "id": "20397807" }, { "contents": "Ra Kyung-min\n\n\n. In the quarterfinals, Ra and Lee beat Lotte Bruil and Mia Audina of the Netherlands 15-5, 15-2. They lost the semifinal to Zhang Jiewen and Yang Wei of China 15-6, 15-4 but won the bronze medal match against Zhao Tingting and Wei Yili, also of China, 10-15, 15-9, 15-7. Ra also competed in mixed doubles with partner Kim Dong-moon. They had a bye in the first round and defeated Chris Bruil and Lotte", "id": "17379284" }, { "contents": "Coby Iwaasa\n\n\nVincent Gagnon, 15-10, 15-17, 11-6, in the semi-finals, but won the 3rd place match versus Samuel Murray, 13-15, 15-6, 11-8. That summer Iwaasa played for Canada for the first time by participating in the 2014 Pan American Sports Festival in Guadalajara, Mexico, where he defeated team-mate Samuel Murray, 15-9, 10-15, 11-3, in the Round of 16, but lost to David Horn of", "id": "8038012" }, { "contents": "Raglan Chronicle\n\n\n13, 20, 27, Apr 2, 10, 17, 24, May 1, 8, 15, 22, Jun 5, 12, 19, 26, Jul 3, 10. 17, 24, 31, Aug 7, 21, 28, Sep 4, 11, 18, 25, Oct 2, 9, 16, 23, 30, Nov 6, 13, 20, 27, Dec 4, 11, 18, 23; 1959 Jan 15, 29, Feb 5, 19,", "id": "3052190" }, { "contents": "Coby Iwaasa\n\n\n4, 11-5, and 1st seed Alejandro Cardona in the final, 9-15, 15-9, 11-8. He reached the quarterfinals in the other four WRT events that year. In November 2014, Iwaasa defeated Samuel Murray, in the quarterfinals, 15-9, 15-10, of the 1st National Team Selection Event of the 2014-15 season in Kitchener, Ontario. He then lost to Mike Green, 15-6, 15-6, in the semi-finals.", "id": "8038014" }, { "contents": "2008 European Curling Championships\n\n\n, 14:00 Draw 4 Monday December 8, 08:00 Draw 5 Monday December 8, 16:00 Draw 6 Tuesday December 9, 09:00 Draw 7 Tuesday December 9, 18:30 Draw 8 Wednesday December 10, 14:00 Draw 9 Thursday December 11, 08:00 Tiebreaker Thursday December 11, 15:00 Thursday, December 11, 20:00 Thursday, December 11, 20:00 Friday, December 12, 19:00 Saturday, December 13, 15:00 \"All times local\" Draw 1 Saturday December 6, 12:00 Draw 2 Sunday December 7, 16:00 Draw 3 Sunday December 7, 20:00", "id": "11226003" }, { "contents": "Rocky Carson\n\n\nUSA Racquetball National Singles Championship for the first time. He was seeded 6th, and defeated 8th seed Doug Eagle in the final. 15-7, 15-7. To reach the final, Carson beat Brian Fredenberg in the quarterfinals, 15-7, 15-13, and Jack Huczek in the semi-finals, 15-11, 15-6. He also played in Worlds for the 2nd time in San Luis Potosi, Mexico, and came home with two silver medals. He finished 2nd in Men", "id": "17077667" }, { "contents": "1973 European Formula Two Championship\n\n\nThe 1973 European Formula Two season was contested over 17 rounds. STP March Racing Team driver Jean-Pierre Jarier clinched the championship title. Note: Race 1, 2, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 13, 15 and 17 were held in two heats, with results shown in aggregate. Race 3, 5, 9 and 12 were held with two semi-final heats and the final run, with time only shown for the final. Race 3, 4, 5 and 15 were won by", "id": "18544287" }, { "contents": "2008 in sports\n\n\nJackson vs. Griffin 7/19 – 7/19 – () 7/21 – DREAM.5 7/26 – August 8/3 – WEC 35: Condit vs. Miura 8/9 – UFC 87: Seek And Destroy 8/15 – ShoXC 7 8/24 – September 9/6 – UFC 88: Breakthrough 9/13 – 9/17 – 9/20 – 9/23 – DREAM.6 9/26 – ShoXC 8 9/28 – October 10/3 – 10/4 – 10/10 – ShoXC 9 () 10/18 – UFC 89: Bisping vs. Leben 10/25 – UFC 90: Silva vs. Côté November 11/1 – 11/5 – WEC 36: Faber vs. Brown 11/15 – UFC", "id": "5162165" } ]

[ { "contents": "Rodney Martin (squash player)\n\n\nRodney Martin is a former professional squash player from Australia. He is best known for winning the World Open in 1991, beating the legendary Pakistani player Jahangir Khan in the final 14-17, 15-9, 15-4, 15-13 (he had previously beaten another Pakistani legend, Jansher Khan, in the quarter-finals, and his Australian compatriot Chris Dittmar in the semi-finals). Martin was also part of the Australian teams which won the World Team Squash Championships in 1989 and 1991. Martin", "id": "20966392" }, { "contents": "Amr Shabana\n\n\nbeating Thierry Lincou in the final 15–14, 9–15, 15–11, 15–7, to become Egypt's first winner of the sport's premier title. But after a disappointing following year, in which his only final appearance was in the British Open Squash Championship in England, losing to David Palmer in four games 10–11 (4–6), 11–7, 11–10 (3–1), 11–7, Shabana stormed back to the top of his game in 2005. Over a short period, he acquired a new coach, Ahmed Tahir; a new manager", "id": "522232" }, { "contents": "Comparison of codices Sinaiticus and Vaticanus\n\n\n13:39a 13:39b 13:41 13:42 13:44a 13:44b 13:48 13:50 13:54 13:55 13:57a 13:57 b 14:1 14:2 14:3 14:4a 14:4b 14:5 14:7 14:9 14:12 14:13 14:15a 14:15b 14:15c 14:16 14:17 14:19a 14:19b 14:22a 14:22b 14:22c 14:23 14:24 14:26 14:28a 14:28b 14:29 14:35 14:36 15:3 15:4 15:5 15:6 15:11a 15:11b 15:12 15:14 15:15 15:17 15:17 15:17 15:22 15:22 15:27 15:30 15:31 15:31 15:31 16:6 16:9 16:12 17:10 17:15 17:17 18:7 18:14 18:16 19:7 19:10 19:12 19:16 19:22 21:16 21:17 21:19 21:28 21:33 22:1 22:11 22:40 23:3 23:8 23:35 23:35b 23:37 24:2 24:9 24:24 24:26 24:30 24:31 24:35 24:48 25:3 25:17 25:22 26:33 26:50", "id": "1385581" }, { "contents": "John White (squash player)\n\n\nJohn White (born 15 June 1973 in Mount Isa, Australia) is a former World No. 1 squash player. White finished runner-up at both the World Open and the British Open in 2002. He won the PSA Masters title in 2003 (beating Thierry Lincou in the final 15–8, 17–15, 17–16). He also won the British National Championships in 2004 (beating Lee Beachill in the final 17–16, 17–14, 14–15, 15–8). White reached the World No. 1 ranking in March 2004. White", "id": "14402929" }, { "contents": "2011 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship\n\n\nDraw 7 21:30 Draw 9 15:00 Draw 12 08:00 Draw 13 11:00 Draw 14 14:30 Draw 17 08:00 Draw 18 11:30 Draw 20 18:00 Draw 21 21:30 Draw 2 15:00 Draw 4 08:00 Draw 6 18:00 Draw 7 21:30 Draw 8 11:30 Draw 9 15:00 Draw 10 18:00 Draw 12 08:00 Draw 14 14:30 Draw 15 18:00 Draw 16 21:30 Draw 18 11:30 Draw 19 14:30 Draw 2 15:00 Draw 3 21:30 Draw 5 14:30 Draw 6 18:00 Draw 7 21:30 Draw 8 11:30 Draw 9 15:00 Draw 11 21:30 Draw 12 08:00 Draw 15 18:00 Draw 16 21:30 Draw", "id": "12545021" }, { "contents": "2016 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship\n\n\n8 21:00 Draw 9 8:00 Draw 10 11:15 Draw 13 21:00 Draw 14 8:00 Draw 15 11:15 Draw 17 17:45 Draw 20 11:15 Draw 21 14:30 Draw 22 17:45 Draw 23 21:00 Draw 24 8:00 Draw 25 11:15 Draw 1 12:00 Draw 2 16:00 Draw 4 8:00 Draw 5 11:15 Draw 6 14:30 Draw 7 17:45 Draw 9 8:00 Draw 11 14:30 Draw 12 17:45 Draw 13 21:00 Draw 15 11:15 Draw 17 17:45 Draw 19 8:00 Draw 21 14:30 Draw 22 17:45 Draw 24 8:00 Draw 25 11:15 \"Thursday, April 21, 17:45\" \"Thursday,", "id": "1156734" }, { "contents": "Codex Dublinensis\n\n\nει. Matthew 1:17-2:6, 2:13-20, 4:4-13, 5:45-6:15, 7:16-8:6, 10:40-11:18, 12:43-13:11, 13:57-14:19, 15:13-23, 17:9-17, 17:26-18:6, 19:4-12, 21-28, 20:7-21:8, 21:23-30, 22:16-25, 22:37-23:3, 23:15-23, 24:15-25, 25:1-11, 26:21-29, 62-71. The Greek text of this codex is a representative", "id": "16200586" }, { "contents": "Frisingensia Fragmenta\n\n\n15:13; 1 Cor 1:1-27; 1:28-3:5; 6:1-7:7; 15:1-1:43; 16:12-27; 2 Cor 1:1-2:10; 3:17-5:1; 7:10-8:12; 9:10-11:21; 12:14-13:10; Gal 2:5-4:3; 6:5-17; Eph 1:1-13; 1:16-2:16; 6:24; Phil 1:1-20; 1 Tim 1:12-2:15; 5:18-6:13; Hbr 6:6-7:5; 7:8-8:1; 9:27-11:7. 1 John 3:8 - 5:9.", "id": "5758263" }, { "contents": "Minuscule 506\n\n\n-30; 17:5-8; 24:22-24; John 1:1-7:39; 8:31-9:11; 10:10-11:54; 12:36-13:27; Acts 1:1-7:49; 10:19-14:10; 15:15-16:11; 18:1-21:25; 23:18-28:31; James 1:1-3:17; 1 Corinthians 12:11-15:12; 16:13-15; 2 Corinthians 13:4. 5; Galatians [5:16-6:1]; 6:1-18; 2 Timothy 3:10. 11; Titus 3:5-7. The Greek text of the codex is a", "id": "14754278" }, { "contents": "Rocky Carson\n\n\nthe finals by defeating Anthony Herrera and David Horn in the semi-finals, 15-9, 15-3. But in the final Carson and Allen lost to Jake Bredenbeck and Jose Diaz, 15-14, 15-11. He won the 2016 USAR National Singles Championships in Highlands Ranch, Colorado, where Carson defeated [[Chris Crowther]] in the semi-finals, 13-15, 15-12, 11-7, and then beat Diaz in the final, 15-10, 15", "id": "17077704" }, { "contents": "Codex Nitriensis\n\n\nno references to the Eusebian Canons. Gospel of Luke 1:1-13, 1:69-2:4, 2:16-27, 4:38-5:5, 5:25-6:8, 6:18-36, 6:39, 6:49-7:22, 7:44, 7:46, 7:47, 7:50, 8:1-3, 8:5-15, 8:25-9:1, 9:12-43, 10:3-16, 11:5-27, 12:4-15, 12:40-52, 13:26-14:1, 14:12-15:1, 15:13-16:16, 17:21-18:10, 18:22-20:20,", "id": "14992375" }, { "contents": "Del Harris (squash player)\n\n\n16–17, 15–8. That year Harris was also part of the winning England team in the 1995 Men's World Team Squash Championships and in addition he won the Super Series Finals event, beating Brett Martin of Australia in the final 10–8, 7–9, 9–4, 6–9, 9–2. Further success came in 1997 when he was once again part of the winning England team in the 1997 Men's World Team Squash Championships. Harris won the British National Squash Championships twice, in 1987 and 1989 and reached his career-high world ranking", "id": "20966690" }, { "contents": "2012 European Mixed Curling Championship\n\n\nDraw 14 8:30 Draw 16 15:30 Draw 1 19:30 Draw 2 9:00 Draw 3 12:30 Draw 4 16:00 Draw 5 19:30 Draw 6 9:00 Draw 8 16:00 Draw 11 12:30 Draw 13 19:30 Draw 14 8:30 Draw 15 12:00 Draw 16 15:30 Draw 17 19:00 Draw 2 9:00 Draw 4 16:00 Draw 6 9:00 Draw 7 12:30 Draw 8 16:00 Draw 9 19:30 Draw 10 9:00 Draw 12 16:00 Draw 15 12:00 Draw 17 19:00 \"Friday, October 5, 9:00\" \"Friday, October 5, 21:00\" \"Saturday, October 6, 17:00\" \"", "id": "19557062" }, { "contents": "2017 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship\n\n\n10 8:00 Draw 12 14:30 Draw 13 17:45 Draw 19 21:00 Draw 21 11:15 Draw 22 14:30 Draw 24 21:00 Draw 25 8:00 Draw 27 14:30 Draw 2 11:15 Draw 4 20:00 Draw 6 11:15 Draw 7 14:30 Draw 9 21:00 Draw 11 11:15 Draw 15 8:00 Draw 17 14:30 Draw 20 8:00 Draw 23 17:45 Draw 26 11:15 Draw 27 14:30 \"Friday, April 28, 9:00\" \"Friday, April 28, 12:30\" \"Friday, April 28, 16:00\" \"Friday, April 28, 19:30\" \"Saturday, April 29,", "id": "20611919" }, { "contents": "Coby Iwaasa\n\n\nIwaasa finished 3rd by defeating Tim Landeryou, 15-11, 15-9. He won the 2nd Selection Event that season in Brossard, Québec, where he beat Pedro Castro in the final, 15-9, 6-15, 11-8. In the semi-finals, Iwaasa beat Landeryou, 12-15, 15-4, 11-7. Iwaasa played seven tournaments in the 2014-15 International Racquetball Tour season, but only made it to the quarterfinals in the second last event of the", "id": "8038015" }, { "contents": "Jack Huczek\n\n\nthe semi-finals, 15-6, 9-15, 11-4. In the 2002-03 IRT season, Huczek was in four finals, winning the final event of the season: Pro Nationals in Tempe, Arizona, where he beat Alvaro Beltran, 11-4, 11-6, 11-8, in the final after defeating Rocky Carson in the semis, 11-1, 11-6, 11-7, and Cliff Swain in the quarters, 11-6, 15-", "id": "17077735" }, { "contents": "Samuel Murray (racquetball)\n\n\nNovember 2015, in Brossard, Québec, where he beat Mike Green in the final, 15-10, 15-13. He defeated Tim Landeryou to reach the final, 15-7, 15-12. In the 2nd Selection Event that season, he lost a tie-breaker to Landeryou in the semi-finals, 10-15, 15-12, 11-9. But he did win the 3rd place match against Pedro Castro, 15-6, 15-1. Murray played at the", "id": "7910649" }, { "contents": "1995–96 Regionalliga\n\n\n! 6 ! 7 ! 8 ! 9 ! 10 ! 11 ! 12 ! 13 ! 14 ! 15 ! 16 ! 17 ! 18 The Regionalliga Nordost ! 1 ! 2 ! 3 ! 4 ! 5 ! 6 ! 7 ! 8 ! 9 ! 10 ! 11 ! 12 ! 13 ! 14 ! 15 ! 16 ! 17 ! 18 The Regionalliga West/Südwest: ! 1 ! 2 ! 3 ! 4 ! 5 ! 6 ! 7 ! 8 ! 9 ! 10 ! 11 ! 12 ! 13 ! 14 !", "id": "13380860" }, { "contents": "2014 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship\n\n\nDraw 8 17:45 Draw 11 11:15 Draw 14 21:00 Draw 16 11:15 Draw 17 14:30 Draw 20 8:00 Draw 22 14:30 Draw 24 21:00 Draw 25 8:00 Draw 26 11:15 Draw 1 8:15 Draw 2 12:00 Draw 3 15:45 Draw 5 8:00 Draw 6 11:15 Draw 7 14:30 Draw 9 21:00 Draw 10 8:00 Draw 12 14:30 Draw 13 17:45 Draw 14 21:00 Draw 15 8:00 Draw 16 11:15 Draw 17 14:30 Draw 18 17:45 Draw 20 8:00 Draw 21 11:15 Draw 23 17:45 Draw 24 21:00 Draw 3 15:45 Draw 4 19:30 Draw 7 14:30 Draw 8 17:45 Draw", "id": "15498978" }, { "contents": "Rocky Carson\n\n\nto the final with a win over Chris Crowther in the semi-finals, 15-7, 15-10. Carson’s Men’s Singles World Championship in 2008 qualified him for the 2009 World Games in Kaohsiung, Republic of China, where he captured the silver medal in Men's Singles. Carson beat Canadian Mike Green, 15-9, 15-9, in the quarterfinals, and Mexican Alvaro Beltran in the semi-finals, 9-15, 15-7, 11-8, to set up", "id": "17077685" }, { "contents": "2018 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship\n\n\nDraw 27 16:00 Draw 28 19:30 Draw 1 9:00 Draw 2 12:30 Draw 3 16:30 Draw 5 8:00 Draw 8 17:45 Draw 10 8:00 Draw 11 11:15 Draw 12 14:30 Draw 13 17:45 Draw 18 17:45 Draw 19 21:00 Draw 21 11:15 Draw 22 14:30 Draw 25 8:00 Draw 26 12:30 Draw 27 16:00 Draw 2 12:30 Draw 4 20:00 Draw 6 11:15 Draw 7 14:30 Draw 9 21:00 Draw 10 8:00 Draw 11 11:15 Draw 12 14:30 Draw 14 21:00 Draw 15 8:00 Draw 16 11:15 Draw 18 17:45 Draw 19 21:00 Draw 20 8:00 Draw 21 11:15 Draw", "id": "3983102" }, { "contents": "Rocky Carson\n\n\nIRT season. Carson won the 2001 Pan American Racquetball Championships in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, where he defeated Canadian Kane Waselenchuk in the final, 15-9, 15-13. Carson was the defending champion at the 2001 USAR National Singles Championships, and had a chance to defend the title, but lost to Jack Huczek, 15-11, 15-6. Carson beat Dan Fowler in the semi-finals, 15-8, 15-10, to reach the final. Carson took a step back", "id": "17077670" }, { "contents": "Gail Emms\n\n\nKellogg. They defeated Koon Wai Chee and Li Wing Mui of Hong Kong in the first round but were defeated by Zhao Tingting and Wei Yili of China in the second round. She also competed in mixed doubles with Robertson. They had a bye in the first round and defeated Björn Siegemund and Nicol Pitro of Germany in the second. In the quarterfinals, Emms and Robertson beat Chen Qiqiu and Zhao Tingting of China 15–8, 17–15 to advance to the semifinals. There, they beat Jonas Rasmussen and Rikke Olsen of Denmark 15–6", "id": "555457" }, { "contents": "Wellington Rugby Football Union\n\n\nNew South Wales 9–5 1896 beat Queensland 49–7 1901 beat New South Wales 17–16 1905 beat Australia 23–7 (combined team with Wairarapa and Horowhenua 1908 beat Anglo-Welsh 19–13 1921 lost to South Africa 3–8 1921 beat New South Wales 16–8 1923 beat New South Wales 29–16 (combined team with Manawatu) 1925 beat New South Wales 20–8 (combined team with Manawatu and Horowhenua) 1930 beat British Lions 12–8 1931 beat Australia 15–8 1937 lost to South Africa 0–29 1946 lost to Australia 15–16 1950 lost to British Isles 6–12 1956 lost to South Africa", "id": "5981175" }, { "contents": "Samuel Murray (racquetball)\n\n\n, 7-15, 15-3, 11-7, and then lost to Mexican Daniel De La Rosa, 15-12, 15-7. Murray won the 1st National Team Selection event of the 2016-17 season in Valleyfield, Québec, where he defeated James Landeryou, 15-4, 15-4, in the final. In the semi-finals, Murray beat Landeryou’s older brother Tim, 15-9, 15-13. At the 2nd selection event that season in Calgary,", "id": "7910652" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from South Carolina\n\n\n5 ! rowspan=4 | 6 ! rowspan=8 | 7 ! 6 ! rowspan=3 | 7 ! rowspan=3 | 8 ! rowspan=9 | 8 ! rowspan=5 | 9 ! rowspan=4 | 10 ! 9 ! rowspan=5 | 10 ! rowspan=15 | 11 ! 11 ! 12 ! rowspan=2 | 13 ! 14 ! rowspan=5 | 15 ! rowspan=6 | 12 ! 16 ! rowspan=2 | 17 ! rowspan=6 | 18 ! rowspan=3 | 13 ! rowspan=3 | 14 ! rowspan=9 | 19 ! rowspan=6 | 15 ! rowspan=3 | 16 ! rowspan=16 | 20 ! 17 ! rowspan=3 | 18 !", "id": "20744133" }, { "contents": "Alejandro Landa\n\n\n-4. Then at the end of the year, Landa beat Jaime Martell in the final of the Alamo City Open in San Antonio, beating Bredenbeck in the quarterfinals and David Horn in the semi-finals to reach the final. In 2016, Landa successfully defended his Alamo City Open title by beating Cardona in the final, 15-6, 15-10. He defeated Andree Parrilla, 15-12, 15-11, in the quarterfinals, and Jaime Martell, 15-11, 15-13,", "id": "8690377" }, { "contents": "Minuscule 172\n\n\n; 5:2-16; 6:2-7:2; 7:16-8:10; 8:38-9:13; 9:26-39; 10:9-22; 10:43-13:1; 23:32-24:24; 28:23-James 1:5; 3:6-4:16; 2 Peter 3:10-1 John 1:1; 3:13-4:2; Jude 16-25; Romans 14:23 - 15:1.4; 1 Corinthians 3:15-15:23; 2 Corinthians 10: 14-11:19; 13:5-13; Ephesians 1:1-2:14; 5:29-6:24 Colossians 1:24-26; 2:4-7; 2 Thessalonians 1:1", "id": "8396043" }, { "contents": "Jack Huczek\n\n\nseeded #1, and in the semi-finals beat Michael Bronfeld, 15-2, 15-9, to reach the final for the second consecutive year. However, Huczek lost the final to Mike Guidry, 15-10, 12-15, 11-9. In 2002, Huczek again partnered with Eric Muller at the USAR National Doubles Championships, and they reached the finals before losing to Ruben Gonzalez and Mike Guidry, 15-7, 15-10. They defeated Jason Thoerner and Mitch Williams in", "id": "17077734" }, { "contents": "2010–11 in Hong Kong football\n\n\non 8 October. However, the heavy rain flooded the field, so the ball flow on the water and could not be kick. The match was abandoned at 14th-minute. The rematch played on 9 October, Hong Kong defeated the Philippines by 4–2. The 2010 Asian Games will play between 7 November and 27 November in Guangzhou, China. Hong Kong national under-15 football team won all the group stage matches in the championship, which hold in Guam. Hong Kong beat Chinese Taipei in semi-final but lose by", "id": "3640662" }, { "contents": "2016 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship\n\n\nDraw 11 14:30 Draw 12 17:45 Draw 15 11:15 Draw 16 14:30 Draw 18 21:00 Draw 21 14:30 Draw 25 11:15 Draw 26 14:30 Draw 2 16:00 Draw 4 8:00 Draw 6 14:30 Draw 10 11:15 Draw 11 14:30 Draw 13 21:00 Draw 16 14:30 Draw 17 17:45 Draw 19 8:00 Draw 24 8:00 Draw 25 11:15 Draw 4 8:00 Draw 5 11:15 Draw 7 17:45 Draw 9 8:00 Draw 10 11:15 Draw 11 14:30 Draw 14 8:00 Draw 16 14:30 Draw 18 21:00 Draw 23 21:00 Draw 26 14:30 Draw 2 16:00 Draw 3 20:00 Draw 6 14:30 Draw", "id": "1156733" }, { "contents": "Easter Vigil\n\n\n-16; 3. Exodus 12:1-11; 4. Jonah 1:1-4:11; 5. Joshua 5:10-15; 6. Exodus 13:20-15:19; 7. Zephaniah 3:8-15; 8. 3 Kings 17:8-24; 9. Isaiah 61:10-62:5; 10. Genesis 22:1-18; 11. Isaiah 61:1-9; 12. 4 Kings 4:8-37; 13. Isaiah 63:11-64:5; 14. Jeremiah 31:31-34; 15. Daniel 3:1-68. It is during these", "id": "3156542" }, { "contents": "Jackie Paraiso\n\n\nBrodeur, 15-8, 15-6, in 2008. In between, she won three straight World Championships in 1994, 1996, and 1998. Laura Fenton was Paraiso's partner in 1994, when they beat Vicky Shanks and Debbie Ward of Canada, 15-9, 15-7. Then in 1996 and 1998, Paraiso's twin sister Joy MacKenzie was her partner, as they beat Shanks and Ward in 1996, 15-11, 15-4, and Shanks and Grand'Maître in 1998, 15-", "id": "21029455" }, { "contents": "Jahangir Khan\n\n\nover Jahangir in September 1987, beating him in straight games in the semi-finals of the Hong Kong Open. Jansher then went on to beat Jahangir in their next eight consecutive encounters and capture the 1987 World Open title. Jahangir ended Jansher's winning streak in March 1988, and went on to win 11 of their next 15 encounters. The pair met in the 1988 World Open final, with Jahangir emerging the victor. But by that point it had become clear that squash now had two dominant players. The pair would", "id": "414920" }, { "contents": "Samuel Murray (racquetball)\n\n\ncame 3rd, as they lost to Green and Trevor Webb in the semi-finals, 15-13, 4-15, 11-5, but beat Lee Connell and Nathaniel Husulak, 15-9, 16-14. Murray won the 1st National Team Selection event of the 2017-18 season, as he defeated Tim Landeryou, 15-3, 15-8, in the final. In the semi-finals, Murray beat Coby Iwaasa, 15-11, 15-8. Murray and Landeryou", "id": "7910655" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Maine\n\n\n| 4 ! rowspan=3 | 7 ! rowspan=6 | 5 ! 8 ! rowspan=6 | 9 ! rowspan=9 | 6 ! 10 ! rowspan=2 | 11 ! rowspan=7 | 12 ! 7 ! rowspan=3 | 8 ! rowspan=10 | 13 ! rowspan=4 | 9 ! rowspan=4 | 10 ! rowspan=17 | 14 ! rowspan=16 | 11 ! rowspan=7 | 15 ! 12 ! rowspan=2 | 13 ! rowspan=6 | 14 ! rowspan=14 | 16 ! rowspan=3 | 15 ! rowspan=9 | 16 ! rowspan=6 | 17 ! rowspan=13 | 17 ! rowspan=3 | 18 ! rowspan=11 | 19 ! rowspan=3", "id": "20744038" }, { "contents": "Men's Home Internationals\n\n\nafternoon. Scotland and England beat Ireland and Wales on the first two days. On the final day Scotland beat England 8–7 to win the title while Ireland beat Wales 9½–5½. The 1933 tournament was held at Royal County Down Golf Club from 14 to 16 September. The results of all six matches was the same as in 1932, Scotland beating England in the decisive match. In the 1934 tournament at Royal Porthcawl Golf Club from 15 to 17 August, Ireland beat England on the opening day. With Scotland beating England, Scotland retained", "id": "17763243" }, { "contents": "Codex Vaticanus 2061\n\n\nwas . The surviving leaves contain texts (according to Nestle-Aland 26th): Acts 26:6-27:4, 28:3-31; James 4:14-5:20; 1 Peter 1:1-12; 2 Peter 2:4-8, 2:13-3:15; 1 John 4:6-5:13, 5:17-18, 5:21; 2 John; 3 John; Romans 13:4-15:9; 1 Corinthians 2:1-3:11, 3:22, 4:4-6, 5:5-11, 6:3-11, 12:23-15:17, 15:20-27; 2 Corinthians 4:7", "id": "9378418" }, { "contents": "2012 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship\n\n\n17:45 Draw 11 21:00 Draw 12 8:00 Draw 13 11:15 Draw 14 14:30 Draw 15 17:45 Draw 16 21:00 Draw 17 8:00 Draw 18 11:15 Draw 19 14:30 Draw 20 17:45 Draw 21 21:00 Draw 23 11:15 Draw 1 18:45 Draw 3 11:15 Draw 5 17:45 Draw 6 21:00 Draw 8 11:15 Draw 10 17:45 Draw 12 8:00 Draw 13 11:15 Draw 14 14:30 Draw 15 17:45 Draw 16 21:00 Draw 18 11:15 Draw 20 17:45 Draw 22 8:00 Draw 1 18:45 Draw 2 8:00 Draw 3 11:15 Draw 4 14:30 Draw 5 17:45 Draw 6 21:00 Draw 7 8:00", "id": "8246326" }, { "contents": "2016 Bangladesh Championship League\n\n\nBank SC (15-16) 14 6 2 6 13 - 14 -1 20 4 Bangladesh Police Athletic Club (15-16) 14 4 6 4 11 - 9 2 18 5 T&T Club (15-16) 14 4 5 5 14 - 14 0 17 6 Victoria SC (15-16) 14 3 5 6 14 - 16 -2 14 7 Kawran Bazar (15-16) 14 2 8 4 7 - 12 -5 14 8 Chittagong Mohammedan (15-16) 14 2 4 8 13 -", "id": "13232613" }, { "contents": "Timeline of the 2012 Pacific hurricane season\n\n\nJune 16 June 17 July 4 July 5 July 7 July 8 July 9 July 10 July 11 July 12 July 13 July 14 July 15 July 16 July 18 August 7 August 8 August 9 August 11 August 12 August 15 August 17 August 27 August 30 August 31 September 2 September 3 September 4 September 12 September 14 September 15 September 16 September 17 September 18 September 19 September 22 September 24 September 25 September 26 September 27 September 28 September 29 October 6 October 7 October 9 October 13 October 15 October 16 October 17 October 30", "id": "21319682" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Missouri\n\n\n! rowspan=3 | 12 ! rowspan=18 | 6 ! 13 ! 14 ! rowspan=12 | 15 ! rowspan=9 | 16 ! rowspan=3 | 7 ! rowspan=15 | 8 ! 17 ! rowspan=5 | 18 ! 19 ! rowspan=4 | 20 ! rowspan=4 | 9 ! rowspan=7 | 21 ! rowspan=6 | 10 ! rowspan=4 | 22 ! 11 ! rowspan=3 | 12 ! rowspan=5 | 23 ! rowspan=15 | 13 ! rowspan=5 | 24 ! rowspan=11 | 25 ! rowspan=10 | 14 ! rowspan=13 | 26 ! rowspan=3 | 15 ! 16 ! rowspan=3 | 17 ! rowspan=6 | 18", "id": "20744052" }, { "contents": "Chris Marlowe\n\n\n15, 13-15, 15-9, 15-11, 15-12 for a 3-2 win. The win set up a championship final between San Diego State and the Bruins. In the championship match SDSU jumped out 2 games to none, and with an 8-3 lead in the third appeared ready for a three-game sweep. However the Bruins rallied back to win it, 10-15, 9-15, 15-9, 15-10, 15-7. UCLA", "id": "21040396" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Virginia\n\n\n| 4 ! 5 ! rowspan=2 | 6 ! 7 ! 5 ! rowspan=3 | 8 ! rowspan=8 | 6 ! rowspan=3 | 9 ! rowspan=14 | 10 ! 7 ! rowspan=2 | 8 ! rowspan=2 | 9 ! rowspan=2 | 10 ! rowspan=7 | 11 ! 11 ! rowspan=9 | 12 ! rowspan=2 | 12 ! rowspan=4 | 13 ! rowspan=9 | 13 ! rowspan=2 | 14 ! rowspan=3 | 15 ! rowspan=6 | 16 ! 14 ! rowspan=9 | 15 ! rowspan=8 | 17 ! 16 ! rowspan=3 | 18 ! 17 ! rowspan=4 | 18 ! rowspan=8", "id": "20744171" }, { "contents": "Jennifer Saunders (racquetball)\n\n\ntogether that year, in the final, 15-6, 8-15, 11-8. But Saunders didn’t successfully defend her Women's Singles title, although she did get to the final for a third straight year. In the semi-finals, Saunders beat Grand'Maître in the semi-finals, 15-7, 15-8, but in the final, she narrowly lost to Powell, 8-15, 15-4, 13-11. Her performances helped to earn Saunders a spot on", "id": "14324066" }, { "contents": "2018 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship\n\n\nThe 2018 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship was held from April 21 to 28 at the Östersund Arena in Östersund, Sweden. The event was held in conjunction with the 2018 World Senior Curling Championships. \"Final Round Robin Standings\" All draw times are listed in CEST (UTC+2) Draw 1 9:00 Draw 4 20:00 Draw 6 11:15 Draw 7 14:30 Draw 8 17:45 Draw 9 21:00 Draw 10 8:00 Draw 13 17:45 Draw 15 8:00 Draw 16 11:15 Draw 17 14:30 Draw 18 17:45 Draw 20 8:00 Draw 22 14:30 Draw 24 21:00 Draw 26", "id": "3983100" }, { "contents": "Carla Khan\n\n\nInternational, where she came from behind to beat Melissa Martin from Australia, 3–9, 4–9, 9–4, 9–7, 9–3. She broke into the top 30. At the Irish Open in 2004, Khan defeated Nicol David of Malaysia (who was ranked number 9 in the world at that time) on 15 April 2004, and achieved her highest ranking of 21. In 2005, Khan lost in the final of the Forbes Open to England's Alison Walters. However, she made it to the final of the 1st POF", "id": "9884495" }, { "contents": "Codex Climaci Rescriptus\n\n\n9-21; 9:30;10:3-9; 15:11-21 I Corin. 1:6-23; 4:1-15; 13: 4-11; 14:4-7; 14:8-14; 14:24-37; 15:3-10; 15:24-49; 16:16-24 II Corin. 1:23-2: 4-11; 4:18-5:6; 5:6-12; 6:3-16; 7:3-8 Galat. 1:1-23; 3:20-24; 4:2; 4:4-29; 5:1; 5:24; 6:4-12", "id": "9480761" }, { "contents": "2014 World Senior Curling Championships – Men's tournament\n\n\n7:30 Draw 6 11:00 Draw 8 18:00 Draw 9 21:30 Draw 12 15:30 Draw 13 19:00 Draw 15 11:00 Draw 16 14:30 Draw 18 21:30 Draw 20 12:00 Draw 22 19:00 Draw 23 8:30 Draw 1 8:00 Draw 4 19:30 Draw 6 11:00 Draw 7 14:30 Draw 10 8:30 Draw 11 12:00 Draw 14 7:30 Draw 15 11:00 Draw 16 14:30 Draw 17 18:00 Draw 19 08:30 Draw 21 15:30 \"Tuesday, April 29, 14:00\" \"Tuesday, April 29, 19:30\" \"Wednesday, April 30, 8:00\" \"Wednesday, April 30,", "id": "16343740" }, { "contents": "2017 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship\n\n\nThe 2017 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship was held from April 22 to 29 at the Lethbridge Curling Club in Lethbridge, Canada. The event was held in conjunction with the 2017 World Senior Curling Championships. \"Final Round Robin Standings\" All draw times are listed in MDT (UTC-6). Draw 1 8:00 Draw 7 14:30 Draw 9 21:00 Draw 10 8:00 Draw 11 11:15 Draw 13 17:45 Draw 15 8:00 Draw 17 14:30 Draw 18 17:45 Draw 21 11:15 Draw 22 14:30 Draw 24 21:00 Draw 25 8:00 Draw 3 15:00 Draw 4 8:00", "id": "20611917" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Kansas\n\n\nrowspan=2 | 3 ! rowspan=12 | 2 ! 4 ! rowspan=2 | 5 ! rowspan=8 | 6 ! rowspan=5 | 3 ! 7 ! 8 ! rowspan=3 | 9 ! rowspan=3 | 4 ! rowspan=3 | 10 ! rowspan=6 | 5 ! 11 ! rowspan=4 | 12 ! rowspan=3 | 6 ! rowspan=3 | 13 ! rowspan=7 | 7 ! rowspan=17 | 14 ! 8 ! rowspan=5 | 9 ! rowspan=6 | 10 ! rowspan=10 | 15 ! 11 ! rowspan=12 | 12 ! rowspan=9 | 16 ! rowspan=15 | 13 ! rowspan=12 | 17 ! 14 ! rowspan=8 |", "id": "20743950" }, { "contents": "1977 NCAA Division I football season\n\n\nto move to third, and the Wolverines returned to the top: 1.Michigan 2.Texas 3.Colorado 4.Alabama 5.Ohio State October 15 No. 1 Michigan beat No. 14 Wisconsin 56–0, and No. 2 Texas won at No. 7 Arkansas, 13–9. No. 3 Colorado played at Kansas, a 17–17 tie. No. 4 Alabama beat Tennessee in Birmingham, 24–10. No. 5 Ohio State beat Iowa 27–6. No. 6 USC beat Oregon 33–15 to return to the top five: 1.Michigan 2.Texas 3.Alabama 4.Ohio State 5.USC October 22", "id": "8560170" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Texas\n\n\n3 ! rowspan=6 | 6 ! rowspan=11 | 4 ! rowspan=3 | 7 ! 8 ! rowspan=4 | 9 ! rowspan=3 | 5 ! rowspan=15 | 10 ! rowspan=6 | 6 ! 7 ! rowspan=16 | 8 ! rowspan=3 | 11 ! rowspan=16 | 12 ! 9 ! rowspan=4 | 10 ! rowspan=8 | 11 ! rowspan=3 | 13 ! 14 ! rowspan=8 | 15 ! 12 ! rowspan=12 | 13 ! rowspan=12 | 16 ! rowspan=12 | 14 ! 17 ! rowspan=12 | 18 ! rowspan=10 | 15 ! rowspan=5 | 19 , there are three living former senators", "id": "20744168" }, { "contents": "Samuel Murray (racquetball)\n\n\nIwaasa, 9-15, 15-6, 11-6. He also defeated Iwaasa in the 2nd National Team Selection Event in Grande Prairie, Alberta, 15-10, 15-10. He defeated Pedro Castro in the semi-finals, 15-6, 15-9. Murray began the 2018-19 IRT season strongly, as he made his first final at the first event of the season - the 2018 MWRA Season Opener IRT Pro/Am in Laurel, Maryland, where he beat Alejandro Landa", "id": "7910660" }, { "contents": "Alejandro Landa\n\n\ntwo of them. Both wins came in Juarez, Mexico. He defeated Javier Moreno in April and then beat Jake Bredenbeck in August, 15–10, 15-10. Landa reached the semi-finals at the US Open for the first time in 2014, as he beat Jose Rojas in the Round of 16, 3-11, 11-9, 14-12, 6-11, 11-4 and Daniel De La Rosa in the quarterfinals, 11-2, 11-8, 11-6,", "id": "8690374" }, { "contents": "Hong Kong Women's Sevens\n\n\nFinals Canada 35–14 Netherlands Kazakhstan 12–7 China USA 45–0 Arabian Gulf France 15–7 Japan 9th to 12th Semi Finals Hong Kong 15–0 Singapore Papua New Guinea 0–29 Thailand Bowl (5th to 8th) Semi Finals Netherlands 5–5 China (China win on try countback) Arabian Gulf 0–10 Japan Cup Semi Finals Canada 26–0 Kazakhstan USA 5–0 France 11th Place Singapore 5–17 Papua New Guinea 9th Place Hong Kong 15–7 Thailand 7th Place Netherlands 19–0 Arabian Gulf Bowl Final China 17–7 Japan Plate Final France 24–0 Kazakhstan Cup Final USA 21–7 Canada 27 March 2009 at Hong Kong.", "id": "7314433" }, { "contents": "Badminton at the 1981 World Games\n\n\n10 4. William Gilliland/Daniel Travers (Scotland) d. Egbeyemi/Badiru (Nigeria), 15-6, 15-6 Semi-finals 1. Sun Zhian/Yao Ximing d. Kartono/Heryanto, 3-15, 15-11, 15-8 2. Kihlstrom/Karlsson d. Gilliland/Travers, 10-15, 15-0, 15-9 Final Sun Zhian/Yao Ximing d. Kihlstrom/Karlsson, 12-15, 15-4, 15-6. Bronze medals: Kartono", "id": "1386468" }, { "contents": "2018 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship\n\n\n12:30 Draw 27 16:00 Draw 1 9:00 Draw 3 16:30 Draw 5 8:00 Draw 11 11:15 Draw 12 14:30 Draw 14 21:00 Draw 15 8:00 Draw 17 14:30 Draw 18 17:45 Draw 19 21:00 Draw 20 8:00 Draw 21 11:15 Draw 22 14:30 Draw 23 17:45 Draw 24 21:00 Draw 28 19:30 Draw 2 12:30 Draw 3 16:30 Draw 4 20:00 Draw 6 11:15 Draw 7 14:30 Draw 9 21:00 Draw 11 11:15 Draw 13 17:45 Draw 14 21:00 Draw 16 11:15 Draw 17 14:30 Draw 20 8:00 Draw 22 14:30 Draw 23 17:45 Draw 25 9:00 Draw 26 12:30", "id": "3983101" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Colorado\n\n\nrowspan=5 | 5 ! rowspan=3 | 8 ! rowspan=9 | 9 ! rowspan=2 | 6 ! 7 ! rowspan=2 | 8 ! rowspan=3 | 9 ! rowspan=6 | 10 ! 10 ! 11 ! rowspan=5 | 12 ! rowspan=11 | 11 ! rowspan=8 | 13 ! rowspan=9 | 12 ! rowspan=3 | 14 ! rowspan=6 | 15 ! rowspan=3 | 13 ! rowspan=6 | 16 ! rowspan=6 | 14 ! rowspan=3 | 17 ! rowspan=4 | 15 ! rowspan=7 | 18 ! rowspan=6 | 16 ! rowspan=3 | 19 ! rowspan=4 | 17 ! rowspan=7 | 20 ! rowspan=3 |", "id": "20743826" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Arkansas\n\n\nrowspan=3 | 6 ! rowspan=5 | 6 ! rowspan=3 | 7 ! rowspan=11 | 8 ! rowspan=11 | 7 ! rowspan=10 | 9 ! rowspan=3 | 8 ! 9 ! 10 ! rowspan=17 | 11 ! rowspan=3 | 10 ! rowspan=6 | 11 ! rowspan=11 | 12 ! rowspan=3 | 12 ! 13 ! rowspan=19 | 14 ! rowspan=15 | 13 ! rowspan=14 | 14 ! 15 ! rowspan=9 | 16 ! rowspan=3 | 17 ! rowspan=6 | 15 ! rowspan=6 | 18 ! rowspan=6 | 16 ! rowspan=3 | 19 , there are five living former senators. The", "id": "20743822" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from New Hampshire\n\n\n! rowspan=3 | 9 ! rowspan=3 | 10 ! rowspan=5 | 8 ! 11 ! rowspan=3 | 12 ! rowspan=4 | 9 ! 13 ! rowspan=6 | 14 ! 10 ! 11 ! rowspan=3 | 12 ! rowspan=6 | 15 ! 13 ! 14 ! 16 ! rowspan=7 | 15 ! rowspan=2 | 17 ! rowspan=5 | 18 ! rowspan=8 | 16 ! 19 ! rowspan=3 | 20 ! rowspan=3 | 21 ! rowspan=6 | 17 ! 22 ! rowspan=12 | 23 ! rowspan=3 | 18 ! rowspan=2 | 19 ! 20 ! 21 ! rowspan=6 | 22 ! rowspan=15", "id": "20744074" }, { "contents": "Dihydroxy-E,Z,E-PUFA\n\n\nmake PDX by metabolizing DHA by double oxygenation a 15-lipoxygenase to form the 10\"R\",17\"S\"-hydroxperoxy intermediated which is reduced its 10\"R\",17\"S\"-hydroxyl product, PDX, probably by cytosolic GPX1 (i.e. glutathione peroxidase 1). Serial metabolism two different lipoxygenases or a lipoxygenase and a cytochrome P45) on PUFA possessing three double bonds in a 1\"Z\",4\"Z\",7\"Z\" configuration may also make a 1,7-dihydroxy 2\"E\",4\"Z\",6\"E\" product. Other platelet-inhibiting dihydroxy-\"E\",\"Z\",\"E\"-PUFA are: 10\"R\",17\"S\"-dihydroxy-4\"Z\",7\"Z\",11\"E\",13\"Z\",15\"E\",19\"Z\"-docosahexaenoic acid (10\"R\",17\"S\"-diHDHA); 8\"S\",15\"S\"-dihydroxy-5\"Z\",9\"E\",11\"Z\",13\"E\"-eicosatetraenoic acid (8\"S\",15\"S\"-diHETE); 9\"S\",16\"S\"-10\"E\",12\"Z\",14\"E\"-octadecatrienoic acid (linotrin-1); and 9\"R\",16\"S\"-10\"E\",12\"Z\",14\"E\"-octadecatrienoic acid (linotrin-2).", "id": "1779786" }, { "contents": "EU Cup\n\n\n8 October 2011. 18 national men's teams competed in the tournament. Final results were: 1. Ireland, 2. Croatia, 3. England, 4. Italy, 5. France, 6. Scotland, 7. Wales, 8. Spain, 9. European Crusaders, 10. Russia (1st time competitors), 11. Denmark, 12. Germany, 13. Finland, 14. Sweden, 15. Netherlands, 16. Austria, 17. Iceland, 18. Catalonia. Ireland defeated Switzerland in", "id": "2746657" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Indiana\n\n\nrowspan=13 | 5 ! rowspan=2 | 5 ! 6 ! rowspan=2 | 7 ! rowspan=3 | 8 ! rowspan=6 | 9 ! 6 ! 7 ! rowspan=3 | 8 ! rowspan=6 | 10 ! rowspan=3 | 9 ! rowspan=5 | 10 ! rowspan=10 | 11 ! rowspan=3 | 11 ! rowspan=6 | 12 ! rowspan=4 | 12 ! rowspan=6 | 13 ! rowspan=2 | 13 ! rowspan=4 | 14 ! rowspan=6 | 14 ! 15 ! rowspan=11 | 16 ! rowspan=3 | 15 ! rowspan=2 | 16 ! rowspan=5 | 17 ! rowspan=6 | 17 ! rowspan=3 | 18 !", "id": "20743924" }, { "contents": "Book of Nature\n\n\n. Pedersen (1992), 7–8. 3. Pedersen (1992), 9. 4. Dear (2009), 4. 5. Pedersen (1992), 10. 6. Pedersen (1992), 11–13. 7. Pedersen (1992), 14–15. 8. Pedersen (1992), 15. 9. Harrison (2001), 13. 10. Harrison (2001), 13. 11. Harrison (2001), 15. 12. Harrison (2001), 15. 13.", "id": "3587614" }, { "contents": "2014 World Senior Curling Championships – Women's tournament\n\n\nThe women's tournament of the 2014 World Senior Curling Championships was held from April 23 to 30 at the Dumfries Ice Bowl in Dumfries, Scotland. The teams are listed as follows: \"Final Round Robin Standings\" Draw 3 15:30 Draw 5 7:30 Draw 6 11:00 Draw 7 14:30 Draw 8 18:00 Draw 9 21:30 Draw 11 12:00 Draw 12 15:30 Draw 13 19:00 Draw 15 11:00 Draw 17 18:00 Draw 18 21:30 Draw 20 12:00 Draw 21 15:30 Draw 23 8:30 Draw 24 14:00 Draw 3 15:30 Draw 4 19:30 Draw 7 14:30 Draw 8", "id": "16343741" }, { "contents": "Alejandro Landa\n\n\nFalls, South Dakota, but he won the final by defeating Daniel De La Rosa, 15-6, 7-15, 11-10, in the final. En route to the final, Landa beat Tim Landeryou, 15-5, 3-15, 11-6, in the Round of 16, Rocky Carson in the quarterfinals, 15-14, 11-15, 11-4, and Samuel Murray, 15-11, 15-7, in the semi-finals. In the", "id": "8690386" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Florida\n\n\n| 4 ! rowspan=3 | 4 ! rowspan=3 | 5 ! rowspan=6 | 5 ! rowspan=11 | 6 ! rowspan=9 | 6 ! rowspan=8 | 7 ! rowspan=10 | 7 ! 8 ! 9 ! rowspan=16 | 10 ! rowspan=3 | 8 ! rowspan=10 | 9 ! rowspan=3 | 10 ! 11 ! rowspan=6 | 11 ! rowspan=10 | 12 ! rowspan=13 | 12 ! rowspan=9 | 13 ! rowspan=3 | 14 ! rowspan=11 | 13 ! rowspan=4 | 15 ! rowspan=4 | 16 ! rowspan=9 | 17 ! rowspan=6 | 14 ! rowspan=10 | 15 ! rowspan=3 | 18", "id": "20743883" }, { "contents": "Coby Iwaasa\n\n\nKitchener, Ontario with the same result: a win for Murray, 15-2, 15-5. Iwaasa and Murray played Men’s Doubles together at the 2018 Canadian Championships in Winnipeg, and they won the title by defeating Nicolas Bousquet and Tommy Murray in the final, 15-13, 10-15, 11-6. They beat the brother team of James Landeryou and Tim Landeryou in the semi-finals, 15-13, 15-10. In Men’s Singles, Iwaasa finished 2nd, as", "id": "8038021" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Wisconsin\n\n\n| 6 ! rowspan=3 | 7 ! rowspan=3 | 6 ! rowspan=6 | 8 ! rowspan=3 | 7 ! rowspan=15 | 8 ! rowspan=4 | 9 ! rowspan=2 | 10 ! rowspan=7 | 11 ! rowspan=11 | 9 ! rowspan=3 | 12 ! rowspan=3 | 13 ! rowspan=14 | 14 ! rowspan=6 | 10 ! rowspan=16 | 11 ! rowspan=9 | 15 ! rowspan=6 | 16 ! rowspan=12 | 12 ! rowspan=9 | 17 ! rowspan=6 | 18 ! rowspan=6 | 13 , there are three living former Senators, one from Class 1 and two from Class 3.", "id": "21329584" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Michigan\n\n\n! 12 ! rowspan=13 | 13 ! rowspan=3 | 10 ! rowspan=7 | 11 ! rowspan=8 | 14 ! rowspan=2 | 12 ! rowspan=10 | 13 ! rowspan=3 | 15 ! rowspan=15 | 16 ! rowspan=4 | 14 ! rowspan=9 | 15 ! 17 ! rowspan=4 | 18 ! rowspan=6 | 16 ! rowspan=11 | 19 ! rowspan=9 | 17 ! rowspan=10 | 20 ! rowspan=18 | 18 ! rowspan=3 | 21 ! rowspan=12 | 22 ! rowspan=3 | 19 , there are three former U.S. Senators from Michigan who are currently living, two from Class 1 and one", "id": "20744040" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Ohio\n\n\n| 6 ! rowspan=2 | 7 ! rowspan=2 | 8 ! rowspan=2 | 9 ! rowspan=3 | 10 ! rowspan=3 | 6 ! rowspan=6 | 11 ! rowspan=3 | 7 ! rowspan=3 | 8 ! rowspan=5 | 12 ! 9 ! rowspan=11 | 10 ! rowspan=3 | 13 ! 14 ! rowspan=9 | 15 ! rowspan=8 | 11 ! 16 ! rowspan=3 | 17 ! rowspan=9 | 12 ! rowspan=3 | 18 ! rowspan=3 | 19 ! rowspan=9 | 20 ! rowspan=4 | 13 ! rowspan=4 | 14 ! rowspan=3 | 21 ! rowspan=7 | 15 ! rowspan=3 | 22", "id": "20744100" }, { "contents": "2013 Canadian Mixed Doubles Curling Trials\n\n\nFriday, March 15, 11:30 am\" \"Friday, March 15, 2:00 pm\" \"Friday, March 15, 4:30 pm\" \"Friday, March 15, 7:00 pm\" \"Friday, March 15, 9:30 pm\" \"Saturday, March 16, 9:00 am\" \"Saturday, March 16, 11:30 am\" \"Saturday, March 16, 2:00 pm\" \"Saturday, March 16, 4:30 pm\" \"Saturday, March 16, 8:30 pm\" \"Sunday, March 17, 10:00 am\" \"Sunday", "id": "10697048" }, { "contents": "Lyon Villeurbanne XIII\n\n\nto AS Carcassonne 10–22, but they went one better in the league beating XIII Catalan 15–10 to lift the trophy for the first time. In 52/53 they won the cup beating US Villeneuve 9–8 in the final but couldn't complete a league and cup double as they lost the league final 12–19 to AS Carcassonne. They retained the cup when they beat XIII Catalan 17–15 and won their second league title when they triumphed 7–6 against AS Carcassonne in 1955. Relegation followed in 1957 but after winning the National League 1 title, now called", "id": "19573564" }, { "contents": "Park Sung-hwan\n\n\n. Two weeks later, Park was to be defeated again in the quarter-final matches of the Li Ning China Masters Super Series in Changzhou, China (to 4th seed badminton ace Lin Dan of China, 15-21, 21-13, 21-23), and the Japan Open Super Series (to Indonesian, Taufik Hidayat, 21-12, 26-28, 15-21). In November, Park participated in the Yonex Sunrise Hong Kong Open and lost 15-21, 16-21", "id": "6727931" }, { "contents": "2015 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship\n\n\nThe 2015 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship was held from April 18 to 25 at the Ice Cube Curling Center in Sochi, Russia. The event will be held in conjunction with the 2015 World Senior Curling Championships. The teams are listed as follows: Draw 1 9:00 Draw 2 11:15 Draw 3 21:00 Draw 4 11:15 Draw 5 8:00 Draw 6 17:45 Draw 7 19:30 Draw 8 11:15 Draw 9 17:45 Draw 1 12:30 Draw 2 19:30 Draw 3 14:30 Draw 4 9:00 Draw 5 11:15 Draw 6 21:00 Draw 7 12:30 Draw 8 8:00 Draw 9", "id": "12517555" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Rhode Island\n\n\n| 9 ! rowspan=3 | 7 ! rowspan=7 | 8 ! rowspan=2 | 9 ! rowspan=7 | 10 ! rowspan=2 | 10 ! 11 ! rowspan=3 | 12 ! rowspan=3 | 11 ! rowspan=4 | 13 ! rowspan=3 | 12 ! rowspan=3 | 14 ! rowspan=17 | 13 ! 15 ! rowspan=6 | 16 ! rowspan=4 | 17 ! rowspan=20 | 18 ! 14 ! rowspan=4 | 15 ! rowspan=3 | 16 ! rowspan=10 | 17 ! rowspan=3 | 19 ! rowspan=6 | 18 ! rowspan=8 | 20 ! rowspan=7 | 19 ! rowspan=3 | 21 ! rowspan=6 | 22", "id": "20744131" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from West Virginia\n\n\nrowspan=8 | 7 ! rowspan=2 | 4 ! rowspan=8 | 5 ! rowspan=9 | 8 ! 6 ! rowspan=2 | 7 ! rowspan=4 | 9 ! rowspan=3 | 8 ! rowspan=3 | 10 ! rowspan=3 | 9 ! rowspan=3 | 11 ! rowspan=3 | 10 ! rowspan=3 | 12 ! rowspan=7 | 11 ! rowspan=3 | 13 ! rowspan=10 | 14 ! 12 ! 13 ! rowspan=3 | 14 ! rowspan=8 | 15 ! 15 ! rowspan=5 | 16 ! 16 ! rowspan=14 | 17 ! rowspan=27 | 17 ! rowspan=18 | 18 ! 18 ! rowspan=8 | 19 !", "id": "20744177" }, { "contents": "Academy of Saint Elizabeth\n\n\nstudents often take part in mass on different occasions. Sample 'D day' Homeroom 8:10-8:15 Period 1 8:19-9:15 Period 2 9:17 - 10:13 Period 3 10:15 - 11:11 Lunch 11:13 - 11:58 Period 5 12:00 - 12:56 Period 6 12:58 - 1:54 Period 7 1:56 - 2:51 The Academy runs on a 4-day rotating schedule (A day, B day, C day, and D day). Each day, students drop a morning and afternoon class. You can find the 2018-2019 school year calendar on the Academy", "id": "13678251" }, { "contents": "2014 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship\n\n\nWorld Curling medal for Spain in the bronze medal game with a 7–4 win over defending champions Dorottya Palansca and Zsolt Kiss of Hungary. Canada, Norway, and England scored perfect ends in their games in Draws 5, 11, and 22, respectively. The teams are listed as follows: \"Final Round Robin Standings\" Draw 1 8:15 Draw 4 19:30 Draw 6 11:15 Draw 9 21:00 Draw 12 14:30 Draw 15 8:00 Draw 18 17:45 Draw 19 21:00 Draw 21 11:15 Draw 22 14:30 Draw 25 8:00 Draw 2 12:00 Draw 5 8:00", "id": "15498977" }, { "contents": "2011 World Senior Curling Championships – Men's tournament\n\n\nStandings\" All draw times are listed in Central Standard Time (UTC-06). Draw 1 08:00 Draw 3 18:00 Draw 6 14:30 Draw 8 08:00 Draw 10 18:00 Draw 13 14:30 Draw 15 21:30 Draw 17 14:30 Draw 2 11:30 Draw 4 21:30 Draw 5 11:00 Draw 8 08:00 Draw 10 18:00 Draw 13 14:30 Draw 17 14:30 Draw 19 21:30 Draw 2 11:30 Draw 4 21:30 Draw 6 14:30 Draw 8 08:00 Draw 9 11:30 Draw 10 18:00 Draw 11 21:30 Draw 12 11:00 Draw 13 14:30 Draw 15 21:30 Draw 19 21:30 \"Friday, April", "id": "16637806" }, { "contents": "Nathan Robertson\n\n\ndefeated Björn Siegemund and Nicol Pitro of Germany in the second. In the quarterfinals, Robertson and Emms beat Chen Qiqiu and Zhao Tingting of China 15-8, 17-15 to advance to the semifinals. There, they beat Jonas Rasmussen and Rikke Olsen of Denmark 15-6, 15-12. In the final, they lost to Chinese pair Zhang Jun and Gao Ling 15-1, 12-15, 15-12 to finish with the silver medal. At the 2005 World Championships, he and Emms", "id": "1371969" }, { "contents": "List of major textual variants in the New Testament\n\n\nMatthew 8:28 Matthew 11:23 Matthew 17:21 Matthew 18:11 Matthew 20:16 Matthew 20:22, 23 Matthew 23:14 Matthew 24:36 Matthew 26:28 Matthew 27:16 Mark 2:16 Mark 6:11 Mark 7:8 Mark 7:16 Mark 9:38 Mark 9:43-46 Mark 9:49 Mark 10:24 Mark 11:26 Mark 14:19 Mark 15:28 Mark 16:9-20 Luke 1:28 Luke 2:14 Luke 4:4 Luke 9:55-56 Luke 11:2-4 Luke 11:11 Luke 22:43-44 Luke 23:17 Luke 23:34 John 1:18 John 5:3-4 John 6:69 John 7:53-8:11 John 8:59 Acts 2:30 Acts 13:42 Acts 15:24 Acts 18:21 Acts 23:9 Acts 28:29", "id": "12411760" }, { "contents": "BSWW Tour\n\n\n1 2 15-19 2 4. USA 3 1 2 13-20 2 Semifinals Brazil 9-4 Argentina Third place match Final Brazil 11-3 South Korea 02/03/1996 Buenos Aires (Argentina)Argentina 5-12 Brazil Friendly Match 1996 USA 3-6 Brazil Italy 6-9 Brazil USA 4-9 Brazil Italy 2-8 Brazil Netherlands 4-13 Brazil England 1-13 Brazil Malaysia 1-14 Brazil Semifinals Brazil 15-2 Japan Third place match Final Brazil 6-4 South Korea Brazil 7-4 Argentina", "id": "17061521" }, { "contents": "1941 Eastern Suburbs season\n\n\n5, Saturday 17 May Eastern Suburbs 13 beat Canterbury Bankstown 2 at Sydney Cricket Ground. Premiership Round 6, Saturday 24 May 1941. Newtown 4 beat Eastern Suburbs 3 at Henson Park. Premiership Round 7, Saturday 31 June 1941. St George 16 beat Eastern Suburbs 10 at Sydney Sports Ground. Premiership Round 8, Saturday 21 June 1941. South Sydney 22 beat Eastern Suburbs 15 at Sydney Sports Ground. Premiership Round 9, Saturday 28 June 1941. Eastern Suburbs 15 beat Western Suburbs 3 at Pratten Park. Premiership Round", "id": "11086526" }, { "contents": "Jansher Khan\n\n\nJansher Khan (; born 15 June 1969, in Peshawar, Pakistan) is a former World No. 1 professional Pakistani squash player. During his career he won the World Open a record eight times, and the British Open six times. Jansher Khan's retirement brought an end to nearly 50 years of domination by Pakistan in the sport of squash. He won the World Junior Squash Championship title in 1986 and the senior World Open title in 1987, by beating Australia's Chris Dittmar in the final. Jansher officially announced his retirement", "id": "1599584" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Kentucky\n\n\n! 5 ! rowspan=5 | 6 ! 3 ! rowspan=2 | 4 ! rowspan=4 | 7 ! 5 ! rowspan=4 | 6 ! rowspan=5 | 8 ! 7 ! 8 ! rowspan=2 | 9 ! rowspan=7 | 9 ! rowspan=3 | 10 ! rowspan=3 | 11 ! rowspan=4 | 10 ! rowspan=6 | 12 ! rowspan=3 | 11 ! rowspan=4 | 12 ! rowspan=4 | 13 ! rowspan=8 | 13 ! 14 ! rowspan=2 | 15 ! 16 ! rowspan=2 | 17 ! rowspan=3 | 14 ! rowspan=3 | 18 ! rowspan=5 | 15 ! 19 ! rowspan=8 | 20", "id": "20743991" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Massachusetts\n\n\n| 8 ! rowspan=7 | 7 ! rowspan=2 | 9 ! rowspan=8 | 10 ! rowspan=3 | 8 ! rowspan=6 | 9 ! rowspan=9 | 11 ! rowspan=3 | 10 ! rowspan=5 | 11 ! rowspan=3 | 12 ! rowspan=5 | 13 ! rowspan=8 | 12 ! 14 ! 15 ! rowspan=16 | 16 ! 13 ! 14 ! rowspan=10 | 15 ! rowspan=4 | 16 ! 17 ! rowspan=9 | 18 ! rowspan=14 | 17 ! rowspan=18 | 19 ! rowspan=5 | 18 ! rowspan=3 | 19 ! rowspan=5 | 20 ! rowspan=2 | 20 ! rowspan=4 | 21", "id": "20744045" }, { "contents": "2017 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship\n\n\nDraw 5 8:00 Draw 11 11:15 Draw 12 14:30 Draw 14 21:00 Draw 16 11:15 Draw 18 17:45 Draw 19 21:00 Draw 20 8:00 Draw 22 14:30 Draw 23 17:45 Draw 24 21:00 Draw 26 11:15 Draw 27 14:30 Draw 3 15:00 Draw 4 20:00 Draw 6 11:15 Draw 8 17:45 Draw 9 21:00 Draw 12 14:30 Draw 13 17:45 Draw 14 21:00 Draw 16 11:15 Draw 17 14:30 Draw 20 8:00 Draw 21 11:15 Draw 22 14:30 Draw 25 8:00 Draw 26 11:15 Draw 1 8:00 Draw 2 11:15 Draw 3 15:00 Draw 5 8:00 Draw 8 17:45 Draw", "id": "20611918" }, { "contents": "Michael Cheika\n\n\nAuckland a week later. Despite having only been in charge of the Wallabies for a year, Cheika led Australia to the 2015 Rugby World Cup Final. They topped Pool A with victories over Fiji 28–13, Uruguay 65–3, England 33–13 and Wales 15–6. They narrowly beat Scotland in the quarter-final winning 35–34 after a controversial last minute penalty. They beat Argentina 29–15 in the semi-final to reach the final against the All Blacks. The Wallabies went down 16–3 at half time, but fought back in the second half", "id": "21843436" }, { "contents": "2008 South American Under-23 Championships in Athletics – Results\n\n\n5 September 17:00hbr Final – 7 September 15:00hbr Final – 6 September 11:00hbr Final – 6 September 15:40hbr Final – 6 September 9:30hbr Wind: -2.5m/s Final – 7 September 10:45hbr Final – 6 September 9:00hbr Final – 7 September 9:00hbr Final – 7 September 11:00hbr Final – 6 September 11:00hbr Final – 6 September 9:00hbr Final – 7 September 11:00hbr Final – 5 September 14:50hbr Final – 6 September 9:00hbr Final – 7 September 9:00hbr Final – 7 September 7:00hbr Final – 6 September 17:00hbr Final – 7 September 15:50hbr Final – 6 September 9:45hbr Wind: -2.5", "id": "3039640" }, { "contents": "Rhonda Rajsich\n\n\nfinished #1. At the 2011 USA National Doubles Championships, Rajsich played with Kim Russell-Waselenchuk for the first time. They lost in the semi-finals to Krystal Csuk and Cheryl Gudinas, 15-6, 2-15, 11-9, and then lost the 3rd place match to sisters Danielle and Michelle Key, 3-15, 15-10, 11-10. However, Rajsich won Women's Singles at the 2011 USA National Singles Championshps by beating Gudinas in the final, 15-2", "id": "20397807" }, { "contents": "Ra Kyung-min\n\n\n. In the quarterfinals, Ra and Lee beat Lotte Bruil and Mia Audina of the Netherlands 15-5, 15-2. They lost the semifinal to Zhang Jiewen and Yang Wei of China 15-6, 15-4 but won the bronze medal match against Zhao Tingting and Wei Yili, also of China, 10-15, 15-9, 15-7. Ra also competed in mixed doubles with partner Kim Dong-moon. They had a bye in the first round and defeated Chris Bruil and Lotte", "id": "17379284" }, { "contents": "Coby Iwaasa\n\n\nVincent Gagnon, 15-10, 15-17, 11-6, in the semi-finals, but won the 3rd place match versus Samuel Murray, 13-15, 15-6, 11-8. That summer Iwaasa played for Canada for the first time by participating in the 2014 Pan American Sports Festival in Guadalajara, Mexico, where he defeated team-mate Samuel Murray, 15-9, 10-15, 11-3, in the Round of 16, but lost to David Horn of", "id": "8038012" }, { "contents": "Raglan Chronicle\n\n\n13, 20, 27, Apr 2, 10, 17, 24, May 1, 8, 15, 22, Jun 5, 12, 19, 26, Jul 3, 10. 17, 24, 31, Aug 7, 21, 28, Sep 4, 11, 18, 25, Oct 2, 9, 16, 23, 30, Nov 6, 13, 20, 27, Dec 4, 11, 18, 23; 1959 Jan 15, 29, Feb 5, 19,", "id": "3052190" }, { "contents": "Coby Iwaasa\n\n\n4, 11-5, and 1st seed Alejandro Cardona in the final, 9-15, 15-9, 11-8. He reached the quarterfinals in the other four WRT events that year. In November 2014, Iwaasa defeated Samuel Murray, in the quarterfinals, 15-9, 15-10, of the 1st National Team Selection Event of the 2014-15 season in Kitchener, Ontario. He then lost to Mike Green, 15-6, 15-6, in the semi-finals.", "id": "8038014" }, { "contents": "2008 European Curling Championships\n\n\n, 14:00 Draw 4 Monday December 8, 08:00 Draw 5 Monday December 8, 16:00 Draw 6 Tuesday December 9, 09:00 Draw 7 Tuesday December 9, 18:30 Draw 8 Wednesday December 10, 14:00 Draw 9 Thursday December 11, 08:00 Tiebreaker Thursday December 11, 15:00 Thursday, December 11, 20:00 Thursday, December 11, 20:00 Friday, December 12, 19:00 Saturday, December 13, 15:00 \"All times local\" Draw 1 Saturday December 6, 12:00 Draw 2 Sunday December 7, 16:00 Draw 3 Sunday December 7, 20:00", "id": "11226003" }, { "contents": "Rocky Carson\n\n\nUSA Racquetball National Singles Championship for the first time. He was seeded 6th, and defeated 8th seed Doug Eagle in the final. 15-7, 15-7. To reach the final, Carson beat Brian Fredenberg in the quarterfinals, 15-7, 15-13, and Jack Huczek in the semi-finals, 15-11, 15-6. He also played in Worlds for the 2nd time in San Luis Potosi, Mexico, and came home with two silver medals. He finished 2nd in Men", "id": "17077667" }, { "contents": "1973 European Formula Two Championship\n\n\nThe 1973 European Formula Two season was contested over 17 rounds. STP March Racing Team driver Jean-Pierre Jarier clinched the championship title. Note: Race 1, 2, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 13, 15 and 17 were held in two heats, with results shown in aggregate. Race 3, 5, 9 and 12 were held with two semi-final heats and the final run, with time only shown for the final. Race 3, 4, 5 and 15 were won by", "id": "18544287" }, { "contents": "2008 in sports\n\n\nJackson vs. Griffin 7/19 – 7/19 – () 7/21 – DREAM.5 7/26 – August 8/3 – WEC 35: Condit vs. Miura 8/9 – UFC 87: Seek And Destroy 8/15 – ShoXC 7 8/24 – September 9/6 – UFC 88: Breakthrough 9/13 – 9/17 – 9/20 – 9/23 – DREAM.6 9/26 – ShoXC 8 9/28 – October 10/3 – 10/4 – 10/10 – ShoXC 9 () 10/18 – UFC 89: Bisping vs. Leben 10/25 – UFC 90: Silva vs. Côté November 11/1 – 11/5 – WEC 36: Faber vs. Brown 11/15 – UFC", "id": "5162165" } ]

[ { "contents": "Rodney Martin (squash player)\n\n\nRodney Martin is a former professional squash player from Australia. He is best known for winning the World Open in 1991, beating the legendary Pakistani player Jahangir Khan in the final 14-17, 15-9, 15-4, 15-13 (he had previously beaten another Pakistani legend, Jansher Khan, in the quarter-finals, and his Australian compatriot Chris Dittmar in the semi-finals). Martin was also part of the Australian teams which won the World Team Squash Championships in 1989 and 1991. Martin", "id": "20966392" }, { "contents": "Amr Shabana\n\n\nbeating Thierry Lincou in the final 15–14, 9–15, 15–11, 15–7, to become Egypt's first winner of the sport's premier title. But after a disappointing following year, in which his only final appearance was in the British Open Squash Championship in England, losing to David Palmer in four games 10–11 (4–6), 11–7, 11–10 (3–1), 11–7, Shabana stormed back to the top of his game in 2005. Over a short period, he acquired a new coach, Ahmed Tahir; a new manager", "id": "522232" }, { "contents": "Comparison of codices Sinaiticus and Vaticanus\n\n\n13:39a 13:39b 13:41 13:42 13:44a 13:44b 13:48 13:50 13:54 13:55 13:57a 13:57 b 14:1 14:2 14:3 14:4a 14:4b 14:5 14:7 14:9 14:12 14:13 14:15a 14:15b 14:15c 14:16 14:17 14:19a 14:19b 14:22a 14:22b 14:22c 14:23 14:24 14:26 14:28a 14:28b 14:29 14:35 14:36 15:3 15:4 15:5 15:6 15:11a 15:11b 15:12 15:14 15:15 15:17 15:17 15:17 15:22 15:22 15:27 15:30 15:31 15:31 15:31 16:6 16:9 16:12 17:10 17:15 17:17 18:7 18:14 18:16 19:7 19:10 19:12 19:16 19:22 21:16 21:17 21:19 21:28 21:33 22:1 22:11 22:40 23:3 23:8 23:35 23:35b 23:37 24:2 24:9 24:24 24:26 24:30 24:31 24:35 24:48 25:3 25:17 25:22 26:33 26:50", "id": "1385581" }, { "contents": "John White (squash player)\n\n\nJohn White (born 15 June 1973 in Mount Isa, Australia) is a former World No. 1 squash player. White finished runner-up at both the World Open and the British Open in 2002. He won the PSA Masters title in 2003 (beating Thierry Lincou in the final 15–8, 17–15, 17–16). He also won the British National Championships in 2004 (beating Lee Beachill in the final 17–16, 17–14, 14–15, 15–8). White reached the World No. 1 ranking in March 2004. White", "id": "14402929" }, { "contents": "2011 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship\n\n\nDraw 7 21:30 Draw 9 15:00 Draw 12 08:00 Draw 13 11:00 Draw 14 14:30 Draw 17 08:00 Draw 18 11:30 Draw 20 18:00 Draw 21 21:30 Draw 2 15:00 Draw 4 08:00 Draw 6 18:00 Draw 7 21:30 Draw 8 11:30 Draw 9 15:00 Draw 10 18:00 Draw 12 08:00 Draw 14 14:30 Draw 15 18:00 Draw 16 21:30 Draw 18 11:30 Draw 19 14:30 Draw 2 15:00 Draw 3 21:30 Draw 5 14:30 Draw 6 18:00 Draw 7 21:30 Draw 8 11:30 Draw 9 15:00 Draw 11 21:30 Draw 12 08:00 Draw 15 18:00 Draw 16 21:30 Draw", "id": "12545021" }, { "contents": "2016 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship\n\n\n8 21:00 Draw 9 8:00 Draw 10 11:15 Draw 13 21:00 Draw 14 8:00 Draw 15 11:15 Draw 17 17:45 Draw 20 11:15 Draw 21 14:30 Draw 22 17:45 Draw 23 21:00 Draw 24 8:00 Draw 25 11:15 Draw 1 12:00 Draw 2 16:00 Draw 4 8:00 Draw 5 11:15 Draw 6 14:30 Draw 7 17:45 Draw 9 8:00 Draw 11 14:30 Draw 12 17:45 Draw 13 21:00 Draw 15 11:15 Draw 17 17:45 Draw 19 8:00 Draw 21 14:30 Draw 22 17:45 Draw 24 8:00 Draw 25 11:15 \"Thursday, April 21, 17:45\" \"Thursday,", "id": "1156734" }, { "contents": "Codex Dublinensis\n\n\nει. Matthew 1:17-2:6, 2:13-20, 4:4-13, 5:45-6:15, 7:16-8:6, 10:40-11:18, 12:43-13:11, 13:57-14:19, 15:13-23, 17:9-17, 17:26-18:6, 19:4-12, 21-28, 20:7-21:8, 21:23-30, 22:16-25, 22:37-23:3, 23:15-23, 24:15-25, 25:1-11, 26:21-29, 62-71. The Greek text of this codex is a representative", "id": "16200586" }, { "contents": "Frisingensia Fragmenta\n\n\n15:13; 1 Cor 1:1-27; 1:28-3:5; 6:1-7:7; 15:1-1:43; 16:12-27; 2 Cor 1:1-2:10; 3:17-5:1; 7:10-8:12; 9:10-11:21; 12:14-13:10; Gal 2:5-4:3; 6:5-17; Eph 1:1-13; 1:16-2:16; 6:24; Phil 1:1-20; 1 Tim 1:12-2:15; 5:18-6:13; Hbr 6:6-7:5; 7:8-8:1; 9:27-11:7. 1 John 3:8 - 5:9.", "id": "5758263" }, { "contents": "Minuscule 506\n\n\n-30; 17:5-8; 24:22-24; John 1:1-7:39; 8:31-9:11; 10:10-11:54; 12:36-13:27; Acts 1:1-7:49; 10:19-14:10; 15:15-16:11; 18:1-21:25; 23:18-28:31; James 1:1-3:17; 1 Corinthians 12:11-15:12; 16:13-15; 2 Corinthians 13:4. 5; Galatians [5:16-6:1]; 6:1-18; 2 Timothy 3:10. 11; Titus 3:5-7. The Greek text of the codex is a", "id": "14754278" }, { "contents": "Rocky Carson\n\n\nthe finals by defeating Anthony Herrera and David Horn in the semi-finals, 15-9, 15-3. But in the final Carson and Allen lost to Jake Bredenbeck and Jose Diaz, 15-14, 15-11. He won the 2016 USAR National Singles Championships in Highlands Ranch, Colorado, where Carson defeated [[Chris Crowther]] in the semi-finals, 13-15, 15-12, 11-7, and then beat Diaz in the final, 15-10, 15", "id": "17077704" }, { "contents": "Codex Nitriensis\n\n\nno references to the Eusebian Canons. Gospel of Luke 1:1-13, 1:69-2:4, 2:16-27, 4:38-5:5, 5:25-6:8, 6:18-36, 6:39, 6:49-7:22, 7:44, 7:46, 7:47, 7:50, 8:1-3, 8:5-15, 8:25-9:1, 9:12-43, 10:3-16, 11:5-27, 12:4-15, 12:40-52, 13:26-14:1, 14:12-15:1, 15:13-16:16, 17:21-18:10, 18:22-20:20,", "id": "14992375" }, { "contents": "Del Harris (squash player)\n\n\n16–17, 15–8. That year Harris was also part of the winning England team in the 1995 Men's World Team Squash Championships and in addition he won the Super Series Finals event, beating Brett Martin of Australia in the final 10–8, 7–9, 9–4, 6–9, 9–2. Further success came in 1997 when he was once again part of the winning England team in the 1997 Men's World Team Squash Championships. Harris won the British National Squash Championships twice, in 1987 and 1989 and reached his career-high world ranking", "id": "20966690" }, { "contents": "2012 European Mixed Curling Championship\n\n\nDraw 14 8:30 Draw 16 15:30 Draw 1 19:30 Draw 2 9:00 Draw 3 12:30 Draw 4 16:00 Draw 5 19:30 Draw 6 9:00 Draw 8 16:00 Draw 11 12:30 Draw 13 19:30 Draw 14 8:30 Draw 15 12:00 Draw 16 15:30 Draw 17 19:00 Draw 2 9:00 Draw 4 16:00 Draw 6 9:00 Draw 7 12:30 Draw 8 16:00 Draw 9 19:30 Draw 10 9:00 Draw 12 16:00 Draw 15 12:00 Draw 17 19:00 \"Friday, October 5, 9:00\" \"Friday, October 5, 21:00\" \"Saturday, October 6, 17:00\" \"", "id": "19557062" }, { "contents": "2017 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship\n\n\n10 8:00 Draw 12 14:30 Draw 13 17:45 Draw 19 21:00 Draw 21 11:15 Draw 22 14:30 Draw 24 21:00 Draw 25 8:00 Draw 27 14:30 Draw 2 11:15 Draw 4 20:00 Draw 6 11:15 Draw 7 14:30 Draw 9 21:00 Draw 11 11:15 Draw 15 8:00 Draw 17 14:30 Draw 20 8:00 Draw 23 17:45 Draw 26 11:15 Draw 27 14:30 \"Friday, April 28, 9:00\" \"Friday, April 28, 12:30\" \"Friday, April 28, 16:00\" \"Friday, April 28, 19:30\" \"Saturday, April 29,", "id": "20611919" }, { "contents": "Coby Iwaasa\n\n\nIwaasa finished 3rd by defeating Tim Landeryou, 15-11, 15-9. He won the 2nd Selection Event that season in Brossard, Québec, where he beat Pedro Castro in the final, 15-9, 6-15, 11-8. In the semi-finals, Iwaasa beat Landeryou, 12-15, 15-4, 11-7. Iwaasa played seven tournaments in the 2014-15 International Racquetball Tour season, but only made it to the quarterfinals in the second last event of the", "id": "8038015" }, { "contents": "Jack Huczek\n\n\nthe semi-finals, 15-6, 9-15, 11-4. In the 2002-03 IRT season, Huczek was in four finals, winning the final event of the season: Pro Nationals in Tempe, Arizona, where he beat Alvaro Beltran, 11-4, 11-6, 11-8, in the final after defeating Rocky Carson in the semis, 11-1, 11-6, 11-7, and Cliff Swain in the quarters, 11-6, 15-", "id": "17077735" }, { "contents": "Samuel Murray (racquetball)\n\n\nNovember 2015, in Brossard, Québec, where he beat Mike Green in the final, 15-10, 15-13. He defeated Tim Landeryou to reach the final, 15-7, 15-12. In the 2nd Selection Event that season, he lost a tie-breaker to Landeryou in the semi-finals, 10-15, 15-12, 11-9. But he did win the 3rd place match against Pedro Castro, 15-6, 15-1. Murray played at the", "id": "7910649" }, { "contents": "1995–96 Regionalliga\n\n\n! 6 ! 7 ! 8 ! 9 ! 10 ! 11 ! 12 ! 13 ! 14 ! 15 ! 16 ! 17 ! 18 The Regionalliga Nordost ! 1 ! 2 ! 3 ! 4 ! 5 ! 6 ! 7 ! 8 ! 9 ! 10 ! 11 ! 12 ! 13 ! 14 ! 15 ! 16 ! 17 ! 18 The Regionalliga West/Südwest: ! 1 ! 2 ! 3 ! 4 ! 5 ! 6 ! 7 ! 8 ! 9 ! 10 ! 11 ! 12 ! 13 ! 14 !", "id": "13380860" }, { "contents": "2014 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship\n\n\nDraw 8 17:45 Draw 11 11:15 Draw 14 21:00 Draw 16 11:15 Draw 17 14:30 Draw 20 8:00 Draw 22 14:30 Draw 24 21:00 Draw 25 8:00 Draw 26 11:15 Draw 1 8:15 Draw 2 12:00 Draw 3 15:45 Draw 5 8:00 Draw 6 11:15 Draw 7 14:30 Draw 9 21:00 Draw 10 8:00 Draw 12 14:30 Draw 13 17:45 Draw 14 21:00 Draw 15 8:00 Draw 16 11:15 Draw 17 14:30 Draw 18 17:45 Draw 20 8:00 Draw 21 11:15 Draw 23 17:45 Draw 24 21:00 Draw 3 15:45 Draw 4 19:30 Draw 7 14:30 Draw 8 17:45 Draw", "id": "15498978" }, { "contents": "Rocky Carson\n\n\nto the final with a win over Chris Crowther in the semi-finals, 15-7, 15-10. Carson’s Men’s Singles World Championship in 2008 qualified him for the 2009 World Games in Kaohsiung, Republic of China, where he captured the silver medal in Men's Singles. Carson beat Canadian Mike Green, 15-9, 15-9, in the quarterfinals, and Mexican Alvaro Beltran in the semi-finals, 9-15, 15-7, 11-8, to set up", "id": "17077685" }, { "contents": "2018 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship\n\n\nDraw 27 16:00 Draw 28 19:30 Draw 1 9:00 Draw 2 12:30 Draw 3 16:30 Draw 5 8:00 Draw 8 17:45 Draw 10 8:00 Draw 11 11:15 Draw 12 14:30 Draw 13 17:45 Draw 18 17:45 Draw 19 21:00 Draw 21 11:15 Draw 22 14:30 Draw 25 8:00 Draw 26 12:30 Draw 27 16:00 Draw 2 12:30 Draw 4 20:00 Draw 6 11:15 Draw 7 14:30 Draw 9 21:00 Draw 10 8:00 Draw 11 11:15 Draw 12 14:30 Draw 14 21:00 Draw 15 8:00 Draw 16 11:15 Draw 18 17:45 Draw 19 21:00 Draw 20 8:00 Draw 21 11:15 Draw", "id": "3983102" }, { "contents": "Rocky Carson\n\n\nIRT season. Carson won the 2001 Pan American Racquetball Championships in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, where he defeated Canadian Kane Waselenchuk in the final, 15-9, 15-13. Carson was the defending champion at the 2001 USAR National Singles Championships, and had a chance to defend the title, but lost to Jack Huczek, 15-11, 15-6. Carson beat Dan Fowler in the semi-finals, 15-8, 15-10, to reach the final. Carson took a step back", "id": "17077670" }, { "contents": "Gail Emms\n\n\nKellogg. They defeated Koon Wai Chee and Li Wing Mui of Hong Kong in the first round but were defeated by Zhao Tingting and Wei Yili of China in the second round. She also competed in mixed doubles with Robertson. They had a bye in the first round and defeated Björn Siegemund and Nicol Pitro of Germany in the second. In the quarterfinals, Emms and Robertson beat Chen Qiqiu and Zhao Tingting of China 15–8, 17–15 to advance to the semifinals. There, they beat Jonas Rasmussen and Rikke Olsen of Denmark 15–6", "id": "555457" }, { "contents": "Wellington Rugby Football Union\n\n\nNew South Wales 9–5 1896 beat Queensland 49–7 1901 beat New South Wales 17–16 1905 beat Australia 23–7 (combined team with Wairarapa and Horowhenua 1908 beat Anglo-Welsh 19–13 1921 lost to South Africa 3–8 1921 beat New South Wales 16–8 1923 beat New South Wales 29–16 (combined team with Manawatu) 1925 beat New South Wales 20–8 (combined team with Manawatu and Horowhenua) 1930 beat British Lions 12–8 1931 beat Australia 15–8 1937 lost to South Africa 0–29 1946 lost to Australia 15–16 1950 lost to British Isles 6–12 1956 lost to South Africa", "id": "5981175" }, { "contents": "Samuel Murray (racquetball)\n\n\n, 7-15, 15-3, 11-7, and then lost to Mexican Daniel De La Rosa, 15-12, 15-7. Murray won the 1st National Team Selection event of the 2016-17 season in Valleyfield, Québec, where he defeated James Landeryou, 15-4, 15-4, in the final. In the semi-finals, Murray beat Landeryou’s older brother Tim, 15-9, 15-13. At the 2nd selection event that season in Calgary,", "id": "7910652" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from South Carolina\n\n\n5 ! rowspan=4 | 6 ! rowspan=8 | 7 ! 6 ! rowspan=3 | 7 ! rowspan=3 | 8 ! rowspan=9 | 8 ! rowspan=5 | 9 ! rowspan=4 | 10 ! 9 ! rowspan=5 | 10 ! rowspan=15 | 11 ! 11 ! 12 ! rowspan=2 | 13 ! 14 ! rowspan=5 | 15 ! rowspan=6 | 12 ! 16 ! rowspan=2 | 17 ! rowspan=6 | 18 ! rowspan=3 | 13 ! rowspan=3 | 14 ! rowspan=9 | 19 ! rowspan=6 | 15 ! rowspan=3 | 16 ! rowspan=16 | 20 ! 17 ! rowspan=3 | 18 !", "id": "20744133" }, { "contents": "Alejandro Landa\n\n\n-4. Then at the end of the year, Landa beat Jaime Martell in the final of the Alamo City Open in San Antonio, beating Bredenbeck in the quarterfinals and David Horn in the semi-finals to reach the final. In 2016, Landa successfully defended his Alamo City Open title by beating Cardona in the final, 15-6, 15-10. He defeated Andree Parrilla, 15-12, 15-11, in the quarterfinals, and Jaime Martell, 15-11, 15-13,", "id": "8690377" }, { "contents": "Minuscule 172\n\n\n; 5:2-16; 6:2-7:2; 7:16-8:10; 8:38-9:13; 9:26-39; 10:9-22; 10:43-13:1; 23:32-24:24; 28:23-James 1:5; 3:6-4:16; 2 Peter 3:10-1 John 1:1; 3:13-4:2; Jude 16-25; Romans 14:23 - 15:1.4; 1 Corinthians 3:15-15:23; 2 Corinthians 10: 14-11:19; 13:5-13; Ephesians 1:1-2:14; 5:29-6:24 Colossians 1:24-26; 2:4-7; 2 Thessalonians 1:1", "id": "8396043" }, { "contents": "Jack Huczek\n\n\nseeded #1, and in the semi-finals beat Michael Bronfeld, 15-2, 15-9, to reach the final for the second consecutive year. However, Huczek lost the final to Mike Guidry, 15-10, 12-15, 11-9. In 2002, Huczek again partnered with Eric Muller at the USAR National Doubles Championships, and they reached the finals before losing to Ruben Gonzalez and Mike Guidry, 15-7, 15-10. They defeated Jason Thoerner and Mitch Williams in", "id": "17077734" }, { "contents": "2010–11 in Hong Kong football\n\n\non 8 October. However, the heavy rain flooded the field, so the ball flow on the water and could not be kick. The match was abandoned at 14th-minute. The rematch played on 9 October, Hong Kong defeated the Philippines by 4–2. The 2010 Asian Games will play between 7 November and 27 November in Guangzhou, China. Hong Kong national under-15 football team won all the group stage matches in the championship, which hold in Guam. Hong Kong beat Chinese Taipei in semi-final but lose by", "id": "3640662" }, { "contents": "2016 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship\n\n\nDraw 11 14:30 Draw 12 17:45 Draw 15 11:15 Draw 16 14:30 Draw 18 21:00 Draw 21 14:30 Draw 25 11:15 Draw 26 14:30 Draw 2 16:00 Draw 4 8:00 Draw 6 14:30 Draw 10 11:15 Draw 11 14:30 Draw 13 21:00 Draw 16 14:30 Draw 17 17:45 Draw 19 8:00 Draw 24 8:00 Draw 25 11:15 Draw 4 8:00 Draw 5 11:15 Draw 7 17:45 Draw 9 8:00 Draw 10 11:15 Draw 11 14:30 Draw 14 8:00 Draw 16 14:30 Draw 18 21:00 Draw 23 21:00 Draw 26 14:30 Draw 2 16:00 Draw 3 20:00 Draw 6 14:30 Draw", "id": "1156733" }, { "contents": "Easter Vigil\n\n\n-16; 3. Exodus 12:1-11; 4. Jonah 1:1-4:11; 5. Joshua 5:10-15; 6. Exodus 13:20-15:19; 7. Zephaniah 3:8-15; 8. 3 Kings 17:8-24; 9. Isaiah 61:10-62:5; 10. Genesis 22:1-18; 11. Isaiah 61:1-9; 12. 4 Kings 4:8-37; 13. Isaiah 63:11-64:5; 14. Jeremiah 31:31-34; 15. Daniel 3:1-68. It is during these", "id": "3156542" }, { "contents": "Jackie Paraiso\n\n\nBrodeur, 15-8, 15-6, in 2008. In between, she won three straight World Championships in 1994, 1996, and 1998. Laura Fenton was Paraiso's partner in 1994, when they beat Vicky Shanks and Debbie Ward of Canada, 15-9, 15-7. Then in 1996 and 1998, Paraiso's twin sister Joy MacKenzie was her partner, as they beat Shanks and Ward in 1996, 15-11, 15-4, and Shanks and Grand'Maître in 1998, 15-", "id": "21029455" }, { "contents": "Jahangir Khan\n\n\nover Jahangir in September 1987, beating him in straight games in the semi-finals of the Hong Kong Open. Jansher then went on to beat Jahangir in their next eight consecutive encounters and capture the 1987 World Open title. Jahangir ended Jansher's winning streak in March 1988, and went on to win 11 of their next 15 encounters. The pair met in the 1988 World Open final, with Jahangir emerging the victor. But by that point it had become clear that squash now had two dominant players. The pair would", "id": "414920" }, { "contents": "Samuel Murray (racquetball)\n\n\ncame 3rd, as they lost to Green and Trevor Webb in the semi-finals, 15-13, 4-15, 11-5, but beat Lee Connell and Nathaniel Husulak, 15-9, 16-14. Murray won the 1st National Team Selection event of the 2017-18 season, as he defeated Tim Landeryou, 15-3, 15-8, in the final. In the semi-finals, Murray beat Coby Iwaasa, 15-11, 15-8. Murray and Landeryou", "id": "7910655" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Maine\n\n\n| 4 ! rowspan=3 | 7 ! rowspan=6 | 5 ! 8 ! rowspan=6 | 9 ! rowspan=9 | 6 ! 10 ! rowspan=2 | 11 ! rowspan=7 | 12 ! 7 ! rowspan=3 | 8 ! rowspan=10 | 13 ! rowspan=4 | 9 ! rowspan=4 | 10 ! rowspan=17 | 14 ! rowspan=16 | 11 ! rowspan=7 | 15 ! 12 ! rowspan=2 | 13 ! rowspan=6 | 14 ! rowspan=14 | 16 ! rowspan=3 | 15 ! rowspan=9 | 16 ! rowspan=6 | 17 ! rowspan=13 | 17 ! rowspan=3 | 18 ! rowspan=11 | 19 ! rowspan=3", "id": "20744038" }, { "contents": "Men's Home Internationals\n\n\nafternoon. Scotland and England beat Ireland and Wales on the first two days. On the final day Scotland beat England 8–7 to win the title while Ireland beat Wales 9½–5½. The 1933 tournament was held at Royal County Down Golf Club from 14 to 16 September. The results of all six matches was the same as in 1932, Scotland beating England in the decisive match. In the 1934 tournament at Royal Porthcawl Golf Club from 15 to 17 August, Ireland beat England on the opening day. With Scotland beating England, Scotland retained", "id": "17763243" }, { "contents": "Codex Vaticanus 2061\n\n\nwas . The surviving leaves contain texts (according to Nestle-Aland 26th): Acts 26:6-27:4, 28:3-31; James 4:14-5:20; 1 Peter 1:1-12; 2 Peter 2:4-8, 2:13-3:15; 1 John 4:6-5:13, 5:17-18, 5:21; 2 John; 3 John; Romans 13:4-15:9; 1 Corinthians 2:1-3:11, 3:22, 4:4-6, 5:5-11, 6:3-11, 12:23-15:17, 15:20-27; 2 Corinthians 4:7", "id": "9378418" }, { "contents": "2012 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship\n\n\n17:45 Draw 11 21:00 Draw 12 8:00 Draw 13 11:15 Draw 14 14:30 Draw 15 17:45 Draw 16 21:00 Draw 17 8:00 Draw 18 11:15 Draw 19 14:30 Draw 20 17:45 Draw 21 21:00 Draw 23 11:15 Draw 1 18:45 Draw 3 11:15 Draw 5 17:45 Draw 6 21:00 Draw 8 11:15 Draw 10 17:45 Draw 12 8:00 Draw 13 11:15 Draw 14 14:30 Draw 15 17:45 Draw 16 21:00 Draw 18 11:15 Draw 20 17:45 Draw 22 8:00 Draw 1 18:45 Draw 2 8:00 Draw 3 11:15 Draw 4 14:30 Draw 5 17:45 Draw 6 21:00 Draw 7 8:00", "id": "8246326" }, { "contents": "2016 Bangladesh Championship League\n\n\nBank SC (15-16) 14 6 2 6 13 - 14 -1 20 4 Bangladesh Police Athletic Club (15-16) 14 4 6 4 11 - 9 2 18 5 T&T Club (15-16) 14 4 5 5 14 - 14 0 17 6 Victoria SC (15-16) 14 3 5 6 14 - 16 -2 14 7 Kawran Bazar (15-16) 14 2 8 4 7 - 12 -5 14 8 Chittagong Mohammedan (15-16) 14 2 4 8 13 -", "id": "13232613" }, { "contents": "Timeline of the 2012 Pacific hurricane season\n\n\nJune 16 June 17 July 4 July 5 July 7 July 8 July 9 July 10 July 11 July 12 July 13 July 14 July 15 July 16 July 18 August 7 August 8 August 9 August 11 August 12 August 15 August 17 August 27 August 30 August 31 September 2 September 3 September 4 September 12 September 14 September 15 September 16 September 17 September 18 September 19 September 22 September 24 September 25 September 26 September 27 September 28 September 29 October 6 October 7 October 9 October 13 October 15 October 16 October 17 October 30", "id": "21319682" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Missouri\n\n\n! rowspan=3 | 12 ! rowspan=18 | 6 ! 13 ! 14 ! rowspan=12 | 15 ! rowspan=9 | 16 ! rowspan=3 | 7 ! rowspan=15 | 8 ! 17 ! rowspan=5 | 18 ! 19 ! rowspan=4 | 20 ! rowspan=4 | 9 ! rowspan=7 | 21 ! rowspan=6 | 10 ! rowspan=4 | 22 ! 11 ! rowspan=3 | 12 ! rowspan=5 | 23 ! rowspan=15 | 13 ! rowspan=5 | 24 ! rowspan=11 | 25 ! rowspan=10 | 14 ! rowspan=13 | 26 ! rowspan=3 | 15 ! 16 ! rowspan=3 | 17 ! rowspan=6 | 18", "id": "20744052" }, { "contents": "Chris Marlowe\n\n\n15, 13-15, 15-9, 15-11, 15-12 for a 3-2 win. The win set up a championship final between San Diego State and the Bruins. In the championship match SDSU jumped out 2 games to none, and with an 8-3 lead in the third appeared ready for a three-game sweep. However the Bruins rallied back to win it, 10-15, 9-15, 15-9, 15-10, 15-7. UCLA", "id": "21040396" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Virginia\n\n\n| 4 ! 5 ! rowspan=2 | 6 ! 7 ! 5 ! rowspan=3 | 8 ! rowspan=8 | 6 ! rowspan=3 | 9 ! rowspan=14 | 10 ! 7 ! rowspan=2 | 8 ! rowspan=2 | 9 ! rowspan=2 | 10 ! rowspan=7 | 11 ! 11 ! rowspan=9 | 12 ! rowspan=2 | 12 ! rowspan=4 | 13 ! rowspan=9 | 13 ! rowspan=2 | 14 ! rowspan=3 | 15 ! rowspan=6 | 16 ! 14 ! rowspan=9 | 15 ! rowspan=8 | 17 ! 16 ! rowspan=3 | 18 ! 17 ! rowspan=4 | 18 ! rowspan=8", "id": "20744171" }, { "contents": "Jennifer Saunders (racquetball)\n\n\ntogether that year, in the final, 15-6, 8-15, 11-8. But Saunders didn’t successfully defend her Women's Singles title, although she did get to the final for a third straight year. In the semi-finals, Saunders beat Grand'Maître in the semi-finals, 15-7, 15-8, but in the final, she narrowly lost to Powell, 8-15, 15-4, 13-11. Her performances helped to earn Saunders a spot on", "id": "14324066" }, { "contents": "2018 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship\n\n\nThe 2018 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship was held from April 21 to 28 at the Östersund Arena in Östersund, Sweden. The event was held in conjunction with the 2018 World Senior Curling Championships. \"Final Round Robin Standings\" All draw times are listed in CEST (UTC+2) Draw 1 9:00 Draw 4 20:00 Draw 6 11:15 Draw 7 14:30 Draw 8 17:45 Draw 9 21:00 Draw 10 8:00 Draw 13 17:45 Draw 15 8:00 Draw 16 11:15 Draw 17 14:30 Draw 18 17:45 Draw 20 8:00 Draw 22 14:30 Draw 24 21:00 Draw 26", "id": "3983100" }, { "contents": "Carla Khan\n\n\nInternational, where she came from behind to beat Melissa Martin from Australia, 3–9, 4–9, 9–4, 9–7, 9–3. She broke into the top 30. At the Irish Open in 2004, Khan defeated Nicol David of Malaysia (who was ranked number 9 in the world at that time) on 15 April 2004, and achieved her highest ranking of 21. In 2005, Khan lost in the final of the Forbes Open to England's Alison Walters. However, she made it to the final of the 1st POF", "id": "9884495" }, { "contents": "Codex Climaci Rescriptus\n\n\n9-21; 9:30;10:3-9; 15:11-21 I Corin. 1:6-23; 4:1-15; 13: 4-11; 14:4-7; 14:8-14; 14:24-37; 15:3-10; 15:24-49; 16:16-24 II Corin. 1:23-2: 4-11; 4:18-5:6; 5:6-12; 6:3-16; 7:3-8 Galat. 1:1-23; 3:20-24; 4:2; 4:4-29; 5:1; 5:24; 6:4-12", "id": "9480761" }, { "contents": "2014 World Senior Curling Championships – Men's tournament\n\n\n7:30 Draw 6 11:00 Draw 8 18:00 Draw 9 21:30 Draw 12 15:30 Draw 13 19:00 Draw 15 11:00 Draw 16 14:30 Draw 18 21:30 Draw 20 12:00 Draw 22 19:00 Draw 23 8:30 Draw 1 8:00 Draw 4 19:30 Draw 6 11:00 Draw 7 14:30 Draw 10 8:30 Draw 11 12:00 Draw 14 7:30 Draw 15 11:00 Draw 16 14:30 Draw 17 18:00 Draw 19 08:30 Draw 21 15:30 \"Tuesday, April 29, 14:00\" \"Tuesday, April 29, 19:30\" \"Wednesday, April 30, 8:00\" \"Wednesday, April 30,", "id": "16343740" }, { "contents": "2017 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship\n\n\nThe 2017 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship was held from April 22 to 29 at the Lethbridge Curling Club in Lethbridge, Canada. The event was held in conjunction with the 2017 World Senior Curling Championships. \"Final Round Robin Standings\" All draw times are listed in MDT (UTC-6). Draw 1 8:00 Draw 7 14:30 Draw 9 21:00 Draw 10 8:00 Draw 11 11:15 Draw 13 17:45 Draw 15 8:00 Draw 17 14:30 Draw 18 17:45 Draw 21 11:15 Draw 22 14:30 Draw 24 21:00 Draw 25 8:00 Draw 3 15:00 Draw 4 8:00", "id": "20611917" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Kansas\n\n\nrowspan=2 | 3 ! rowspan=12 | 2 ! 4 ! rowspan=2 | 5 ! rowspan=8 | 6 ! rowspan=5 | 3 ! 7 ! 8 ! rowspan=3 | 9 ! rowspan=3 | 4 ! rowspan=3 | 10 ! rowspan=6 | 5 ! 11 ! rowspan=4 | 12 ! rowspan=3 | 6 ! rowspan=3 | 13 ! rowspan=7 | 7 ! rowspan=17 | 14 ! 8 ! rowspan=5 | 9 ! rowspan=6 | 10 ! rowspan=10 | 15 ! 11 ! rowspan=12 | 12 ! rowspan=9 | 16 ! rowspan=15 | 13 ! rowspan=12 | 17 ! 14 ! rowspan=8 |", "id": "20743950" }, { "contents": "1977 NCAA Division I football season\n\n\nto move to third, and the Wolverines returned to the top: 1.Michigan 2.Texas 3.Colorado 4.Alabama 5.Ohio State October 15 No. 1 Michigan beat No. 14 Wisconsin 56–0, and No. 2 Texas won at No. 7 Arkansas, 13–9. No. 3 Colorado played at Kansas, a 17–17 tie. No. 4 Alabama beat Tennessee in Birmingham, 24–10. No. 5 Ohio State beat Iowa 27–6. No. 6 USC beat Oregon 33–15 to return to the top five: 1.Michigan 2.Texas 3.Alabama 4.Ohio State 5.USC October 22", "id": "8560170" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Texas\n\n\n3 ! rowspan=6 | 6 ! rowspan=11 | 4 ! rowspan=3 | 7 ! 8 ! rowspan=4 | 9 ! rowspan=3 | 5 ! rowspan=15 | 10 ! rowspan=6 | 6 ! 7 ! rowspan=16 | 8 ! rowspan=3 | 11 ! rowspan=16 | 12 ! 9 ! rowspan=4 | 10 ! rowspan=8 | 11 ! rowspan=3 | 13 ! 14 ! rowspan=8 | 15 ! 12 ! rowspan=12 | 13 ! rowspan=12 | 16 ! rowspan=12 | 14 ! 17 ! rowspan=12 | 18 ! rowspan=10 | 15 ! rowspan=5 | 19 , there are three living former senators", "id": "20744168" }, { "contents": "Samuel Murray (racquetball)\n\n\nIwaasa, 9-15, 15-6, 11-6. He also defeated Iwaasa in the 2nd National Team Selection Event in Grande Prairie, Alberta, 15-10, 15-10. He defeated Pedro Castro in the semi-finals, 15-6, 15-9. Murray began the 2018-19 IRT season strongly, as he made his first final at the first event of the season - the 2018 MWRA Season Opener IRT Pro/Am in Laurel, Maryland, where he beat Alejandro Landa", "id": "7910660" }, { "contents": "Alejandro Landa\n\n\ntwo of them. Both wins came in Juarez, Mexico. He defeated Javier Moreno in April and then beat Jake Bredenbeck in August, 15–10, 15-10. Landa reached the semi-finals at the US Open for the first time in 2014, as he beat Jose Rojas in the Round of 16, 3-11, 11-9, 14-12, 6-11, 11-4 and Daniel De La Rosa in the quarterfinals, 11-2, 11-8, 11-6,", "id": "8690374" }, { "contents": "Hong Kong Women's Sevens\n\n\nFinals Canada 35–14 Netherlands Kazakhstan 12–7 China USA 45–0 Arabian Gulf France 15–7 Japan 9th to 12th Semi Finals Hong Kong 15–0 Singapore Papua New Guinea 0–29 Thailand Bowl (5th to 8th) Semi Finals Netherlands 5–5 China (China win on try countback) Arabian Gulf 0–10 Japan Cup Semi Finals Canada 26–0 Kazakhstan USA 5–0 France 11th Place Singapore 5–17 Papua New Guinea 9th Place Hong Kong 15–7 Thailand 7th Place Netherlands 19–0 Arabian Gulf Bowl Final China 17–7 Japan Plate Final France 24–0 Kazakhstan Cup Final USA 21–7 Canada 27 March 2009 at Hong Kong.", "id": "7314433" }, { "contents": "Badminton at the 1981 World Games\n\n\n10 4. William Gilliland/Daniel Travers (Scotland) d. Egbeyemi/Badiru (Nigeria), 15-6, 15-6 Semi-finals 1. Sun Zhian/Yao Ximing d. Kartono/Heryanto, 3-15, 15-11, 15-8 2. Kihlstrom/Karlsson d. Gilliland/Travers, 10-15, 15-0, 15-9 Final Sun Zhian/Yao Ximing d. Kihlstrom/Karlsson, 12-15, 15-4, 15-6. Bronze medals: Kartono", "id": "1386468" }, { "contents": "2018 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship\n\n\n12:30 Draw 27 16:00 Draw 1 9:00 Draw 3 16:30 Draw 5 8:00 Draw 11 11:15 Draw 12 14:30 Draw 14 21:00 Draw 15 8:00 Draw 17 14:30 Draw 18 17:45 Draw 19 21:00 Draw 20 8:00 Draw 21 11:15 Draw 22 14:30 Draw 23 17:45 Draw 24 21:00 Draw 28 19:30 Draw 2 12:30 Draw 3 16:30 Draw 4 20:00 Draw 6 11:15 Draw 7 14:30 Draw 9 21:00 Draw 11 11:15 Draw 13 17:45 Draw 14 21:00 Draw 16 11:15 Draw 17 14:30 Draw 20 8:00 Draw 22 14:30 Draw 23 17:45 Draw 25 9:00 Draw 26 12:30", "id": "3983101" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Colorado\n\n\nrowspan=5 | 5 ! rowspan=3 | 8 ! rowspan=9 | 9 ! rowspan=2 | 6 ! 7 ! rowspan=2 | 8 ! rowspan=3 | 9 ! rowspan=6 | 10 ! 10 ! 11 ! rowspan=5 | 12 ! rowspan=11 | 11 ! rowspan=8 | 13 ! rowspan=9 | 12 ! rowspan=3 | 14 ! rowspan=6 | 15 ! rowspan=3 | 13 ! rowspan=6 | 16 ! rowspan=6 | 14 ! rowspan=3 | 17 ! rowspan=4 | 15 ! rowspan=7 | 18 ! rowspan=6 | 16 ! rowspan=3 | 19 ! rowspan=4 | 17 ! rowspan=7 | 20 ! rowspan=3 |", "id": "20743826" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Arkansas\n\n\nrowspan=3 | 6 ! rowspan=5 | 6 ! rowspan=3 | 7 ! rowspan=11 | 8 ! rowspan=11 | 7 ! rowspan=10 | 9 ! rowspan=3 | 8 ! 9 ! 10 ! rowspan=17 | 11 ! rowspan=3 | 10 ! rowspan=6 | 11 ! rowspan=11 | 12 ! rowspan=3 | 12 ! 13 ! rowspan=19 | 14 ! rowspan=15 | 13 ! rowspan=14 | 14 ! 15 ! rowspan=9 | 16 ! rowspan=3 | 17 ! rowspan=6 | 15 ! rowspan=6 | 18 ! rowspan=6 | 16 ! rowspan=3 | 19 , there are five living former senators. The", "id": "20743822" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from New Hampshire\n\n\n! rowspan=3 | 9 ! rowspan=3 | 10 ! rowspan=5 | 8 ! 11 ! rowspan=3 | 12 ! rowspan=4 | 9 ! 13 ! rowspan=6 | 14 ! 10 ! 11 ! rowspan=3 | 12 ! rowspan=6 | 15 ! 13 ! 14 ! 16 ! rowspan=7 | 15 ! rowspan=2 | 17 ! rowspan=5 | 18 ! rowspan=8 | 16 ! 19 ! rowspan=3 | 20 ! rowspan=3 | 21 ! rowspan=6 | 17 ! 22 ! rowspan=12 | 23 ! rowspan=3 | 18 ! rowspan=2 | 19 ! 20 ! 21 ! rowspan=6 | 22 ! rowspan=15", "id": "20744074" }, { "contents": "Dihydroxy-E,Z,E-PUFA\n\n\nmake PDX by metabolizing DHA by double oxygenation a 15-lipoxygenase to form the 10\"R\",17\"S\"-hydroxperoxy intermediated which is reduced its 10\"R\",17\"S\"-hydroxyl product, PDX, probably by cytosolic GPX1 (i.e. glutathione peroxidase 1). Serial metabolism two different lipoxygenases or a lipoxygenase and a cytochrome P45) on PUFA possessing three double bonds in a 1\"Z\",4\"Z\",7\"Z\" configuration may also make a 1,7-dihydroxy 2\"E\",4\"Z\",6\"E\" product. Other platelet-inhibiting dihydroxy-\"E\",\"Z\",\"E\"-PUFA are: 10\"R\",17\"S\"-dihydroxy-4\"Z\",7\"Z\",11\"E\",13\"Z\",15\"E\",19\"Z\"-docosahexaenoic acid (10\"R\",17\"S\"-diHDHA); 8\"S\",15\"S\"-dihydroxy-5\"Z\",9\"E\",11\"Z\",13\"E\"-eicosatetraenoic acid (8\"S\",15\"S\"-diHETE); 9\"S\",16\"S\"-10\"E\",12\"Z\",14\"E\"-octadecatrienoic acid (linotrin-1); and 9\"R\",16\"S\"-10\"E\",12\"Z\",14\"E\"-octadecatrienoic acid (linotrin-2).", "id": "1779786" }, { "contents": "EU Cup\n\n\n8 October 2011. 18 national men's teams competed in the tournament. Final results were: 1. Ireland, 2. Croatia, 3. England, 4. Italy, 5. France, 6. Scotland, 7. Wales, 8. Spain, 9. European Crusaders, 10. Russia (1st time competitors), 11. Denmark, 12. Germany, 13. Finland, 14. Sweden, 15. Netherlands, 16. Austria, 17. Iceland, 18. Catalonia. Ireland defeated Switzerland in", "id": "2746657" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Indiana\n\n\nrowspan=13 | 5 ! rowspan=2 | 5 ! 6 ! rowspan=2 | 7 ! rowspan=3 | 8 ! rowspan=6 | 9 ! 6 ! 7 ! rowspan=3 | 8 ! rowspan=6 | 10 ! rowspan=3 | 9 ! rowspan=5 | 10 ! rowspan=10 | 11 ! rowspan=3 | 11 ! rowspan=6 | 12 ! rowspan=4 | 12 ! rowspan=6 | 13 ! rowspan=2 | 13 ! rowspan=4 | 14 ! rowspan=6 | 14 ! 15 ! rowspan=11 | 16 ! rowspan=3 | 15 ! rowspan=2 | 16 ! rowspan=5 | 17 ! rowspan=6 | 17 ! rowspan=3 | 18 !", "id": "20743924" }, { "contents": "Book of Nature\n\n\n. Pedersen (1992), 7–8. 3. Pedersen (1992), 9. 4. Dear (2009), 4. 5. Pedersen (1992), 10. 6. Pedersen (1992), 11–13. 7. Pedersen (1992), 14–15. 8. Pedersen (1992), 15. 9. Harrison (2001), 13. 10. Harrison (2001), 13. 11. Harrison (2001), 15. 12. Harrison (2001), 15. 13.", "id": "3587614" }, { "contents": "2014 World Senior Curling Championships – Women's tournament\n\n\nThe women's tournament of the 2014 World Senior Curling Championships was held from April 23 to 30 at the Dumfries Ice Bowl in Dumfries, Scotland. The teams are listed as follows: \"Final Round Robin Standings\" Draw 3 15:30 Draw 5 7:30 Draw 6 11:00 Draw 7 14:30 Draw 8 18:00 Draw 9 21:30 Draw 11 12:00 Draw 12 15:30 Draw 13 19:00 Draw 15 11:00 Draw 17 18:00 Draw 18 21:30 Draw 20 12:00 Draw 21 15:30 Draw 23 8:30 Draw 24 14:00 Draw 3 15:30 Draw 4 19:30 Draw 7 14:30 Draw 8", "id": "16343741" }, { "contents": "Alejandro Landa\n\n\nFalls, South Dakota, but he won the final by defeating Daniel De La Rosa, 15-6, 7-15, 11-10, in the final. En route to the final, Landa beat Tim Landeryou, 15-5, 3-15, 11-6, in the Round of 16, Rocky Carson in the quarterfinals, 15-14, 11-15, 11-4, and Samuel Murray, 15-11, 15-7, in the semi-finals. In the", "id": "8690386" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Florida\n\n\n| 4 ! rowspan=3 | 4 ! rowspan=3 | 5 ! rowspan=6 | 5 ! rowspan=11 | 6 ! rowspan=9 | 6 ! rowspan=8 | 7 ! rowspan=10 | 7 ! 8 ! 9 ! rowspan=16 | 10 ! rowspan=3 | 8 ! rowspan=10 | 9 ! rowspan=3 | 10 ! 11 ! rowspan=6 | 11 ! rowspan=10 | 12 ! rowspan=13 | 12 ! rowspan=9 | 13 ! rowspan=3 | 14 ! rowspan=11 | 13 ! rowspan=4 | 15 ! rowspan=4 | 16 ! rowspan=9 | 17 ! rowspan=6 | 14 ! rowspan=10 | 15 ! rowspan=3 | 18", "id": "20743883" }, { "contents": "Coby Iwaasa\n\n\nKitchener, Ontario with the same result: a win for Murray, 15-2, 15-5. Iwaasa and Murray played Men’s Doubles together at the 2018 Canadian Championships in Winnipeg, and they won the title by defeating Nicolas Bousquet and Tommy Murray in the final, 15-13, 10-15, 11-6. They beat the brother team of James Landeryou and Tim Landeryou in the semi-finals, 15-13, 15-10. In Men’s Singles, Iwaasa finished 2nd, as", "id": "8038021" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Wisconsin\n\n\n| 6 ! rowspan=3 | 7 ! rowspan=3 | 6 ! rowspan=6 | 8 ! rowspan=3 | 7 ! rowspan=15 | 8 ! rowspan=4 | 9 ! rowspan=2 | 10 ! rowspan=7 | 11 ! rowspan=11 | 9 ! rowspan=3 | 12 ! rowspan=3 | 13 ! rowspan=14 | 14 ! rowspan=6 | 10 ! rowspan=16 | 11 ! rowspan=9 | 15 ! rowspan=6 | 16 ! rowspan=12 | 12 ! rowspan=9 | 17 ! rowspan=6 | 18 ! rowspan=6 | 13 , there are three living former Senators, one from Class 1 and two from Class 3.", "id": "21329584" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Michigan\n\n\n! 12 ! rowspan=13 | 13 ! rowspan=3 | 10 ! rowspan=7 | 11 ! rowspan=8 | 14 ! rowspan=2 | 12 ! rowspan=10 | 13 ! rowspan=3 | 15 ! rowspan=15 | 16 ! rowspan=4 | 14 ! rowspan=9 | 15 ! 17 ! rowspan=4 | 18 ! rowspan=6 | 16 ! rowspan=11 | 19 ! rowspan=9 | 17 ! rowspan=10 | 20 ! rowspan=18 | 18 ! rowspan=3 | 21 ! rowspan=12 | 22 ! rowspan=3 | 19 , there are three former U.S. Senators from Michigan who are currently living, two from Class 1 and one", "id": "20744040" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Ohio\n\n\n| 6 ! rowspan=2 | 7 ! rowspan=2 | 8 ! rowspan=2 | 9 ! rowspan=3 | 10 ! rowspan=3 | 6 ! rowspan=6 | 11 ! rowspan=3 | 7 ! rowspan=3 | 8 ! rowspan=5 | 12 ! 9 ! rowspan=11 | 10 ! rowspan=3 | 13 ! 14 ! rowspan=9 | 15 ! rowspan=8 | 11 ! 16 ! rowspan=3 | 17 ! rowspan=9 | 12 ! rowspan=3 | 18 ! rowspan=3 | 19 ! rowspan=9 | 20 ! rowspan=4 | 13 ! rowspan=4 | 14 ! rowspan=3 | 21 ! rowspan=7 | 15 ! rowspan=3 | 22", "id": "20744100" }, { "contents": "2013 Canadian Mixed Doubles Curling Trials\n\n\nFriday, March 15, 11:30 am\" \"Friday, March 15, 2:00 pm\" \"Friday, March 15, 4:30 pm\" \"Friday, March 15, 7:00 pm\" \"Friday, March 15, 9:30 pm\" \"Saturday, March 16, 9:00 am\" \"Saturday, March 16, 11:30 am\" \"Saturday, March 16, 2:00 pm\" \"Saturday, March 16, 4:30 pm\" \"Saturday, March 16, 8:30 pm\" \"Sunday, March 17, 10:00 am\" \"Sunday", "id": "10697048" }, { "contents": "Lyon Villeurbanne XIII\n\n\nto AS Carcassonne 10–22, but they went one better in the league beating XIII Catalan 15–10 to lift the trophy for the first time. In 52/53 they won the cup beating US Villeneuve 9–8 in the final but couldn't complete a league and cup double as they lost the league final 12–19 to AS Carcassonne. They retained the cup when they beat XIII Catalan 17–15 and won their second league title when they triumphed 7–6 against AS Carcassonne in 1955. Relegation followed in 1957 but after winning the National League 1 title, now called", "id": "19573564" }, { "contents": "Park Sung-hwan\n\n\n. Two weeks later, Park was to be defeated again in the quarter-final matches of the Li Ning China Masters Super Series in Changzhou, China (to 4th seed badminton ace Lin Dan of China, 15-21, 21-13, 21-23), and the Japan Open Super Series (to Indonesian, Taufik Hidayat, 21-12, 26-28, 15-21). In November, Park participated in the Yonex Sunrise Hong Kong Open and lost 15-21, 16-21", "id": "6727931" }, { "contents": "2015 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship\n\n\nThe 2015 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship was held from April 18 to 25 at the Ice Cube Curling Center in Sochi, Russia. The event will be held in conjunction with the 2015 World Senior Curling Championships. The teams are listed as follows: Draw 1 9:00 Draw 2 11:15 Draw 3 21:00 Draw 4 11:15 Draw 5 8:00 Draw 6 17:45 Draw 7 19:30 Draw 8 11:15 Draw 9 17:45 Draw 1 12:30 Draw 2 19:30 Draw 3 14:30 Draw 4 9:00 Draw 5 11:15 Draw 6 21:00 Draw 7 12:30 Draw 8 8:00 Draw 9", "id": "12517555" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Rhode Island\n\n\n| 9 ! rowspan=3 | 7 ! rowspan=7 | 8 ! rowspan=2 | 9 ! rowspan=7 | 10 ! rowspan=2 | 10 ! 11 ! rowspan=3 | 12 ! rowspan=3 | 11 ! rowspan=4 | 13 ! rowspan=3 | 12 ! rowspan=3 | 14 ! rowspan=17 | 13 ! 15 ! rowspan=6 | 16 ! rowspan=4 | 17 ! rowspan=20 | 18 ! 14 ! rowspan=4 | 15 ! rowspan=3 | 16 ! rowspan=10 | 17 ! rowspan=3 | 19 ! rowspan=6 | 18 ! rowspan=8 | 20 ! rowspan=7 | 19 ! rowspan=3 | 21 ! rowspan=6 | 22", "id": "20744131" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from West Virginia\n\n\nrowspan=8 | 7 ! rowspan=2 | 4 ! rowspan=8 | 5 ! rowspan=9 | 8 ! 6 ! rowspan=2 | 7 ! rowspan=4 | 9 ! rowspan=3 | 8 ! rowspan=3 | 10 ! rowspan=3 | 9 ! rowspan=3 | 11 ! rowspan=3 | 10 ! rowspan=3 | 12 ! rowspan=7 | 11 ! rowspan=3 | 13 ! rowspan=10 | 14 ! 12 ! 13 ! rowspan=3 | 14 ! rowspan=8 | 15 ! 15 ! rowspan=5 | 16 ! 16 ! rowspan=14 | 17 ! rowspan=27 | 17 ! rowspan=18 | 18 ! 18 ! rowspan=8 | 19 !", "id": "20744177" }, { "contents": "Academy of Saint Elizabeth\n\n\nstudents often take part in mass on different occasions. Sample 'D day' Homeroom 8:10-8:15 Period 1 8:19-9:15 Period 2 9:17 - 10:13 Period 3 10:15 - 11:11 Lunch 11:13 - 11:58 Period 5 12:00 - 12:56 Period 6 12:58 - 1:54 Period 7 1:56 - 2:51 The Academy runs on a 4-day rotating schedule (A day, B day, C day, and D day). Each day, students drop a morning and afternoon class. You can find the 2018-2019 school year calendar on the Academy", "id": "13678251" }, { "contents": "2014 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship\n\n\nWorld Curling medal for Spain in the bronze medal game with a 7–4 win over defending champions Dorottya Palansca and Zsolt Kiss of Hungary. Canada, Norway, and England scored perfect ends in their games in Draws 5, 11, and 22, respectively. The teams are listed as follows: \"Final Round Robin Standings\" Draw 1 8:15 Draw 4 19:30 Draw 6 11:15 Draw 9 21:00 Draw 12 14:30 Draw 15 8:00 Draw 18 17:45 Draw 19 21:00 Draw 21 11:15 Draw 22 14:30 Draw 25 8:00 Draw 2 12:00 Draw 5 8:00", "id": "15498977" }, { "contents": "2011 World Senior Curling Championships – Men's tournament\n\n\nStandings\" All draw times are listed in Central Standard Time (UTC-06). Draw 1 08:00 Draw 3 18:00 Draw 6 14:30 Draw 8 08:00 Draw 10 18:00 Draw 13 14:30 Draw 15 21:30 Draw 17 14:30 Draw 2 11:30 Draw 4 21:30 Draw 5 11:00 Draw 8 08:00 Draw 10 18:00 Draw 13 14:30 Draw 17 14:30 Draw 19 21:30 Draw 2 11:30 Draw 4 21:30 Draw 6 14:30 Draw 8 08:00 Draw 9 11:30 Draw 10 18:00 Draw 11 21:30 Draw 12 11:00 Draw 13 14:30 Draw 15 21:30 Draw 19 21:30 \"Friday, April", "id": "16637806" }, { "contents": "Nathan Robertson\n\n\ndefeated Björn Siegemund and Nicol Pitro of Germany in the second. In the quarterfinals, Robertson and Emms beat Chen Qiqiu and Zhao Tingting of China 15-8, 17-15 to advance to the semifinals. There, they beat Jonas Rasmussen and Rikke Olsen of Denmark 15-6, 15-12. In the final, they lost to Chinese pair Zhang Jun and Gao Ling 15-1, 12-15, 15-12 to finish with the silver medal. At the 2005 World Championships, he and Emms", "id": "1371969" }, { "contents": "List of major textual variants in the New Testament\n\n\nMatthew 8:28 Matthew 11:23 Matthew 17:21 Matthew 18:11 Matthew 20:16 Matthew 20:22, 23 Matthew 23:14 Matthew 24:36 Matthew 26:28 Matthew 27:16 Mark 2:16 Mark 6:11 Mark 7:8 Mark 7:16 Mark 9:38 Mark 9:43-46 Mark 9:49 Mark 10:24 Mark 11:26 Mark 14:19 Mark 15:28 Mark 16:9-20 Luke 1:28 Luke 2:14 Luke 4:4 Luke 9:55-56 Luke 11:2-4 Luke 11:11 Luke 22:43-44 Luke 23:17 Luke 23:34 John 1:18 John 5:3-4 John 6:69 John 7:53-8:11 John 8:59 Acts 2:30 Acts 13:42 Acts 15:24 Acts 18:21 Acts 23:9 Acts 28:29", "id": "12411760" }, { "contents": "BSWW Tour\n\n\n1 2 15-19 2 4. USA 3 1 2 13-20 2 Semifinals Brazil 9-4 Argentina Third place match Final Brazil 11-3 South Korea 02/03/1996 Buenos Aires (Argentina)Argentina 5-12 Brazil Friendly Match 1996 USA 3-6 Brazil Italy 6-9 Brazil USA 4-9 Brazil Italy 2-8 Brazil Netherlands 4-13 Brazil England 1-13 Brazil Malaysia 1-14 Brazil Semifinals Brazil 15-2 Japan Third place match Final Brazil 6-4 South Korea Brazil 7-4 Argentina", "id": "17061521" }, { "contents": "1941 Eastern Suburbs season\n\n\n5, Saturday 17 May Eastern Suburbs 13 beat Canterbury Bankstown 2 at Sydney Cricket Ground. Premiership Round 6, Saturday 24 May 1941. Newtown 4 beat Eastern Suburbs 3 at Henson Park. Premiership Round 7, Saturday 31 June 1941. St George 16 beat Eastern Suburbs 10 at Sydney Sports Ground. Premiership Round 8, Saturday 21 June 1941. South Sydney 22 beat Eastern Suburbs 15 at Sydney Sports Ground. Premiership Round 9, Saturday 28 June 1941. Eastern Suburbs 15 beat Western Suburbs 3 at Pratten Park. Premiership Round", "id": "11086526" }, { "contents": "Jansher Khan\n\n\nJansher Khan (; born 15 June 1969, in Peshawar, Pakistan) is a former World No. 1 professional Pakistani squash player. During his career he won the World Open a record eight times, and the British Open six times. Jansher Khan's retirement brought an end to nearly 50 years of domination by Pakistan in the sport of squash. He won the World Junior Squash Championship title in 1986 and the senior World Open title in 1987, by beating Australia's Chris Dittmar in the final. Jansher officially announced his retirement", "id": "1599584" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Kentucky\n\n\n! 5 ! rowspan=5 | 6 ! 3 ! rowspan=2 | 4 ! rowspan=4 | 7 ! 5 ! rowspan=4 | 6 ! rowspan=5 | 8 ! 7 ! 8 ! rowspan=2 | 9 ! rowspan=7 | 9 ! rowspan=3 | 10 ! rowspan=3 | 11 ! rowspan=4 | 10 ! rowspan=6 | 12 ! rowspan=3 | 11 ! rowspan=4 | 12 ! rowspan=4 | 13 ! rowspan=8 | 13 ! 14 ! rowspan=2 | 15 ! 16 ! rowspan=2 | 17 ! rowspan=3 | 14 ! rowspan=3 | 18 ! rowspan=5 | 15 ! 19 ! rowspan=8 | 20", "id": "20743991" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Massachusetts\n\n\n| 8 ! rowspan=7 | 7 ! rowspan=2 | 9 ! rowspan=8 | 10 ! rowspan=3 | 8 ! rowspan=6 | 9 ! rowspan=9 | 11 ! rowspan=3 | 10 ! rowspan=5 | 11 ! rowspan=3 | 12 ! rowspan=5 | 13 ! rowspan=8 | 12 ! 14 ! 15 ! rowspan=16 | 16 ! 13 ! 14 ! rowspan=10 | 15 ! rowspan=4 | 16 ! 17 ! rowspan=9 | 18 ! rowspan=14 | 17 ! rowspan=18 | 19 ! rowspan=5 | 18 ! rowspan=3 | 19 ! rowspan=5 | 20 ! rowspan=2 | 20 ! rowspan=4 | 21", "id": "20744045" }, { "contents": "2017 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship\n\n\nDraw 5 8:00 Draw 11 11:15 Draw 12 14:30 Draw 14 21:00 Draw 16 11:15 Draw 18 17:45 Draw 19 21:00 Draw 20 8:00 Draw 22 14:30 Draw 23 17:45 Draw 24 21:00 Draw 26 11:15 Draw 27 14:30 Draw 3 15:00 Draw 4 20:00 Draw 6 11:15 Draw 8 17:45 Draw 9 21:00 Draw 12 14:30 Draw 13 17:45 Draw 14 21:00 Draw 16 11:15 Draw 17 14:30 Draw 20 8:00 Draw 21 11:15 Draw 22 14:30 Draw 25 8:00 Draw 26 11:15 Draw 1 8:00 Draw 2 11:15 Draw 3 15:00 Draw 5 8:00 Draw 8 17:45 Draw", "id": "20611918" }, { "contents": "Michael Cheika\n\n\nAuckland a week later. Despite having only been in charge of the Wallabies for a year, Cheika led Australia to the 2015 Rugby World Cup Final. They topped Pool A with victories over Fiji 28–13, Uruguay 65–3, England 33–13 and Wales 15–6. They narrowly beat Scotland in the quarter-final winning 35–34 after a controversial last minute penalty. They beat Argentina 29–15 in the semi-final to reach the final against the All Blacks. The Wallabies went down 16–3 at half time, but fought back in the second half", "id": "21843436" }, { "contents": "2008 South American Under-23 Championships in Athletics – Results\n\n\n5 September 17:00hbr Final – 7 September 15:00hbr Final – 6 September 11:00hbr Final – 6 September 15:40hbr Final – 6 September 9:30hbr Wind: -2.5m/s Final – 7 September 10:45hbr Final – 6 September 9:00hbr Final – 7 September 9:00hbr Final – 7 September 11:00hbr Final – 6 September 11:00hbr Final – 6 September 9:00hbr Final – 7 September 11:00hbr Final – 5 September 14:50hbr Final – 6 September 9:00hbr Final – 7 September 9:00hbr Final – 7 September 7:00hbr Final – 6 September 17:00hbr Final – 7 September 15:50hbr Final – 6 September 9:45hbr Wind: -2.5", "id": "3039640" }, { "contents": "Rhonda Rajsich\n\n\nfinished #1. At the 2011 USA National Doubles Championships, Rajsich played with Kim Russell-Waselenchuk for the first time. They lost in the semi-finals to Krystal Csuk and Cheryl Gudinas, 15-6, 2-15, 11-9, and then lost the 3rd place match to sisters Danielle and Michelle Key, 3-15, 15-10, 11-10. However, Rajsich won Women's Singles at the 2011 USA National Singles Championshps by beating Gudinas in the final, 15-2", "id": "20397807" }, { "contents": "Ra Kyung-min\n\n\n. In the quarterfinals, Ra and Lee beat Lotte Bruil and Mia Audina of the Netherlands 15-5, 15-2. They lost the semifinal to Zhang Jiewen and Yang Wei of China 15-6, 15-4 but won the bronze medal match against Zhao Tingting and Wei Yili, also of China, 10-15, 15-9, 15-7. Ra also competed in mixed doubles with partner Kim Dong-moon. They had a bye in the first round and defeated Chris Bruil and Lotte", "id": "17379284" }, { "contents": "Coby Iwaasa\n\n\nVincent Gagnon, 15-10, 15-17, 11-6, in the semi-finals, but won the 3rd place match versus Samuel Murray, 13-15, 15-6, 11-8. That summer Iwaasa played for Canada for the first time by participating in the 2014 Pan American Sports Festival in Guadalajara, Mexico, where he defeated team-mate Samuel Murray, 15-9, 10-15, 11-3, in the Round of 16, but lost to David Horn of", "id": "8038012" }, { "contents": "Raglan Chronicle\n\n\n13, 20, 27, Apr 2, 10, 17, 24, May 1, 8, 15, 22, Jun 5, 12, 19, 26, Jul 3, 10. 17, 24, 31, Aug 7, 21, 28, Sep 4, 11, 18, 25, Oct 2, 9, 16, 23, 30, Nov 6, 13, 20, 27, Dec 4, 11, 18, 23; 1959 Jan 15, 29, Feb 5, 19,", "id": "3052190" }, { "contents": "Coby Iwaasa\n\n\n4, 11-5, and 1st seed Alejandro Cardona in the final, 9-15, 15-9, 11-8. He reached the quarterfinals in the other four WRT events that year. In November 2014, Iwaasa defeated Samuel Murray, in the quarterfinals, 15-9, 15-10, of the 1st National Team Selection Event of the 2014-15 season in Kitchener, Ontario. He then lost to Mike Green, 15-6, 15-6, in the semi-finals.", "id": "8038014" }, { "contents": "2008 European Curling Championships\n\n\n, 14:00 Draw 4 Monday December 8, 08:00 Draw 5 Monday December 8, 16:00 Draw 6 Tuesday December 9, 09:00 Draw 7 Tuesday December 9, 18:30 Draw 8 Wednesday December 10, 14:00 Draw 9 Thursday December 11, 08:00 Tiebreaker Thursday December 11, 15:00 Thursday, December 11, 20:00 Thursday, December 11, 20:00 Friday, December 12, 19:00 Saturday, December 13, 15:00 \"All times local\" Draw 1 Saturday December 6, 12:00 Draw 2 Sunday December 7, 16:00 Draw 3 Sunday December 7, 20:00", "id": "11226003" }, { "contents": "Rocky Carson\n\n\nUSA Racquetball National Singles Championship for the first time. He was seeded 6th, and defeated 8th seed Doug Eagle in the final. 15-7, 15-7. To reach the final, Carson beat Brian Fredenberg in the quarterfinals, 15-7, 15-13, and Jack Huczek in the semi-finals, 15-11, 15-6. He also played in Worlds for the 2nd time in San Luis Potosi, Mexico, and came home with two silver medals. He finished 2nd in Men", "id": "17077667" }, { "contents": "1973 European Formula Two Championship\n\n\nThe 1973 European Formula Two season was contested over 17 rounds. STP March Racing Team driver Jean-Pierre Jarier clinched the championship title. Note: Race 1, 2, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 13, 15 and 17 were held in two heats, with results shown in aggregate. Race 3, 5, 9 and 12 were held with two semi-final heats and the final run, with time only shown for the final. Race 3, 4, 5 and 15 were won by", "id": "18544287" }, { "contents": "2008 in sports\n\n\nJackson vs. Griffin 7/19 – 7/19 – () 7/21 – DREAM.5 7/26 – August 8/3 – WEC 35: Condit vs. Miura 8/9 – UFC 87: Seek And Destroy 8/15 – ShoXC 7 8/24 – September 9/6 – UFC 88: Breakthrough 9/13 – 9/17 – 9/20 – 9/23 – DREAM.6 9/26 – ShoXC 8 9/28 – October 10/3 – 10/4 – 10/10 – ShoXC 9 () 10/18 – UFC 89: Bisping vs. Leben 10/25 – UFC 90: Silva vs. Côté November 11/1 – 11/5 – WEC 36: Faber vs. Brown 11/15 – UFC", "id": "5162165" } ]

[ { "contents": "Rodney Martin (squash player)\n\n\nRodney Martin is a former professional squash player from Australia. He is best known for winning the World Open in 1991, beating the legendary Pakistani player Jahangir Khan in the final 14-17, 15-9, 15-4, 15-13 (he had previously beaten another Pakistani legend, Jansher Khan, in the quarter-finals, and his Australian compatriot Chris Dittmar in the semi-finals). Martin was also part of the Australian teams which won the World Team Squash Championships in 1989 and 1991. Martin", "id": "20966392" }, { "contents": "Amr Shabana\n\n\nbeating Thierry Lincou in the final 15–14, 9–15, 15–11, 15–7, to become Egypt's first winner of the sport's premier title. But after a disappointing following year, in which his only final appearance was in the British Open Squash Championship in England, losing to David Palmer in four games 10–11 (4–6), 11–7, 11–10 (3–1), 11–7, Shabana stormed back to the top of his game in 2005. Over a short period, he acquired a new coach, Ahmed Tahir; a new manager", "id": "522232" }, { "contents": "Comparison of codices Sinaiticus and Vaticanus\n\n\n13:39a 13:39b 13:41 13:42 13:44a 13:44b 13:48 13:50 13:54 13:55 13:57a 13:57 b 14:1 14:2 14:3 14:4a 14:4b 14:5 14:7 14:9 14:12 14:13 14:15a 14:15b 14:15c 14:16 14:17 14:19a 14:19b 14:22a 14:22b 14:22c 14:23 14:24 14:26 14:28a 14:28b 14:29 14:35 14:36 15:3 15:4 15:5 15:6 15:11a 15:11b 15:12 15:14 15:15 15:17 15:17 15:17 15:22 15:22 15:27 15:30 15:31 15:31 15:31 16:6 16:9 16:12 17:10 17:15 17:17 18:7 18:14 18:16 19:7 19:10 19:12 19:16 19:22 21:16 21:17 21:19 21:28 21:33 22:1 22:11 22:40 23:3 23:8 23:35 23:35b 23:37 24:2 24:9 24:24 24:26 24:30 24:31 24:35 24:48 25:3 25:17 25:22 26:33 26:50", "id": "1385581" }, { "contents": "John White (squash player)\n\n\nJohn White (born 15 June 1973 in Mount Isa, Australia) is a former World No. 1 squash player. White finished runner-up at both the World Open and the British Open in 2002. He won the PSA Masters title in 2003 (beating Thierry Lincou in the final 15–8, 17–15, 17–16). He also won the British National Championships in 2004 (beating Lee Beachill in the final 17–16, 17–14, 14–15, 15–8). White reached the World No. 1 ranking in March 2004. White", "id": "14402929" }, { "contents": "2011 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship\n\n\nDraw 7 21:30 Draw 9 15:00 Draw 12 08:00 Draw 13 11:00 Draw 14 14:30 Draw 17 08:00 Draw 18 11:30 Draw 20 18:00 Draw 21 21:30 Draw 2 15:00 Draw 4 08:00 Draw 6 18:00 Draw 7 21:30 Draw 8 11:30 Draw 9 15:00 Draw 10 18:00 Draw 12 08:00 Draw 14 14:30 Draw 15 18:00 Draw 16 21:30 Draw 18 11:30 Draw 19 14:30 Draw 2 15:00 Draw 3 21:30 Draw 5 14:30 Draw 6 18:00 Draw 7 21:30 Draw 8 11:30 Draw 9 15:00 Draw 11 21:30 Draw 12 08:00 Draw 15 18:00 Draw 16 21:30 Draw", "id": "12545021" }, { "contents": "2016 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship\n\n\n8 21:00 Draw 9 8:00 Draw 10 11:15 Draw 13 21:00 Draw 14 8:00 Draw 15 11:15 Draw 17 17:45 Draw 20 11:15 Draw 21 14:30 Draw 22 17:45 Draw 23 21:00 Draw 24 8:00 Draw 25 11:15 Draw 1 12:00 Draw 2 16:00 Draw 4 8:00 Draw 5 11:15 Draw 6 14:30 Draw 7 17:45 Draw 9 8:00 Draw 11 14:30 Draw 12 17:45 Draw 13 21:00 Draw 15 11:15 Draw 17 17:45 Draw 19 8:00 Draw 21 14:30 Draw 22 17:45 Draw 24 8:00 Draw 25 11:15 \"Thursday, April 21, 17:45\" \"Thursday,", "id": "1156734" }, { "contents": "Codex Dublinensis\n\n\nει. Matthew 1:17-2:6, 2:13-20, 4:4-13, 5:45-6:15, 7:16-8:6, 10:40-11:18, 12:43-13:11, 13:57-14:19, 15:13-23, 17:9-17, 17:26-18:6, 19:4-12, 21-28, 20:7-21:8, 21:23-30, 22:16-25, 22:37-23:3, 23:15-23, 24:15-25, 25:1-11, 26:21-29, 62-71. The Greek text of this codex is a representative", "id": "16200586" }, { "contents": "Frisingensia Fragmenta\n\n\n15:13; 1 Cor 1:1-27; 1:28-3:5; 6:1-7:7; 15:1-1:43; 16:12-27; 2 Cor 1:1-2:10; 3:17-5:1; 7:10-8:12; 9:10-11:21; 12:14-13:10; Gal 2:5-4:3; 6:5-17; Eph 1:1-13; 1:16-2:16; 6:24; Phil 1:1-20; 1 Tim 1:12-2:15; 5:18-6:13; Hbr 6:6-7:5; 7:8-8:1; 9:27-11:7. 1 John 3:8 - 5:9.", "id": "5758263" }, { "contents": "Minuscule 506\n\n\n-30; 17:5-8; 24:22-24; John 1:1-7:39; 8:31-9:11; 10:10-11:54; 12:36-13:27; Acts 1:1-7:49; 10:19-14:10; 15:15-16:11; 18:1-21:25; 23:18-28:31; James 1:1-3:17; 1 Corinthians 12:11-15:12; 16:13-15; 2 Corinthians 13:4. 5; Galatians [5:16-6:1]; 6:1-18; 2 Timothy 3:10. 11; Titus 3:5-7. The Greek text of the codex is a", "id": "14754278" }, { "contents": "Rocky Carson\n\n\nthe finals by defeating Anthony Herrera and David Horn in the semi-finals, 15-9, 15-3. But in the final Carson and Allen lost to Jake Bredenbeck and Jose Diaz, 15-14, 15-11. He won the 2016 USAR National Singles Championships in Highlands Ranch, Colorado, where Carson defeated [[Chris Crowther]] in the semi-finals, 13-15, 15-12, 11-7, and then beat Diaz in the final, 15-10, 15", "id": "17077704" }, { "contents": "Codex Nitriensis\n\n\nno references to the Eusebian Canons. Gospel of Luke 1:1-13, 1:69-2:4, 2:16-27, 4:38-5:5, 5:25-6:8, 6:18-36, 6:39, 6:49-7:22, 7:44, 7:46, 7:47, 7:50, 8:1-3, 8:5-15, 8:25-9:1, 9:12-43, 10:3-16, 11:5-27, 12:4-15, 12:40-52, 13:26-14:1, 14:12-15:1, 15:13-16:16, 17:21-18:10, 18:22-20:20,", "id": "14992375" }, { "contents": "Del Harris (squash player)\n\n\n16–17, 15–8. That year Harris was also part of the winning England team in the 1995 Men's World Team Squash Championships and in addition he won the Super Series Finals event, beating Brett Martin of Australia in the final 10–8, 7–9, 9–4, 6–9, 9–2. Further success came in 1997 when he was once again part of the winning England team in the 1997 Men's World Team Squash Championships. Harris won the British National Squash Championships twice, in 1987 and 1989 and reached his career-high world ranking", "id": "20966690" }, { "contents": "2012 European Mixed Curling Championship\n\n\nDraw 14 8:30 Draw 16 15:30 Draw 1 19:30 Draw 2 9:00 Draw 3 12:30 Draw 4 16:00 Draw 5 19:30 Draw 6 9:00 Draw 8 16:00 Draw 11 12:30 Draw 13 19:30 Draw 14 8:30 Draw 15 12:00 Draw 16 15:30 Draw 17 19:00 Draw 2 9:00 Draw 4 16:00 Draw 6 9:00 Draw 7 12:30 Draw 8 16:00 Draw 9 19:30 Draw 10 9:00 Draw 12 16:00 Draw 15 12:00 Draw 17 19:00 \"Friday, October 5, 9:00\" \"Friday, October 5, 21:00\" \"Saturday, October 6, 17:00\" \"", "id": "19557062" }, { "contents": "2017 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship\n\n\n10 8:00 Draw 12 14:30 Draw 13 17:45 Draw 19 21:00 Draw 21 11:15 Draw 22 14:30 Draw 24 21:00 Draw 25 8:00 Draw 27 14:30 Draw 2 11:15 Draw 4 20:00 Draw 6 11:15 Draw 7 14:30 Draw 9 21:00 Draw 11 11:15 Draw 15 8:00 Draw 17 14:30 Draw 20 8:00 Draw 23 17:45 Draw 26 11:15 Draw 27 14:30 \"Friday, April 28, 9:00\" \"Friday, April 28, 12:30\" \"Friday, April 28, 16:00\" \"Friday, April 28, 19:30\" \"Saturday, April 29,", "id": "20611919" }, { "contents": "Coby Iwaasa\n\n\nIwaasa finished 3rd by defeating Tim Landeryou, 15-11, 15-9. He won the 2nd Selection Event that season in Brossard, Québec, where he beat Pedro Castro in the final, 15-9, 6-15, 11-8. In the semi-finals, Iwaasa beat Landeryou, 12-15, 15-4, 11-7. Iwaasa played seven tournaments in the 2014-15 International Racquetball Tour season, but only made it to the quarterfinals in the second last event of the", "id": "8038015" }, { "contents": "Jack Huczek\n\n\nthe semi-finals, 15-6, 9-15, 11-4. In the 2002-03 IRT season, Huczek was in four finals, winning the final event of the season: Pro Nationals in Tempe, Arizona, where he beat Alvaro Beltran, 11-4, 11-6, 11-8, in the final after defeating Rocky Carson in the semis, 11-1, 11-6, 11-7, and Cliff Swain in the quarters, 11-6, 15-", "id": "17077735" }, { "contents": "Samuel Murray (racquetball)\n\n\nNovember 2015, in Brossard, Québec, where he beat Mike Green in the final, 15-10, 15-13. He defeated Tim Landeryou to reach the final, 15-7, 15-12. In the 2nd Selection Event that season, he lost a tie-breaker to Landeryou in the semi-finals, 10-15, 15-12, 11-9. But he did win the 3rd place match against Pedro Castro, 15-6, 15-1. Murray played at the", "id": "7910649" }, { "contents": "1995–96 Regionalliga\n\n\n! 6 ! 7 ! 8 ! 9 ! 10 ! 11 ! 12 ! 13 ! 14 ! 15 ! 16 ! 17 ! 18 The Regionalliga Nordost ! 1 ! 2 ! 3 ! 4 ! 5 ! 6 ! 7 ! 8 ! 9 ! 10 ! 11 ! 12 ! 13 ! 14 ! 15 ! 16 ! 17 ! 18 The Regionalliga West/Südwest: ! 1 ! 2 ! 3 ! 4 ! 5 ! 6 ! 7 ! 8 ! 9 ! 10 ! 11 ! 12 ! 13 ! 14 !", "id": "13380860" }, { "contents": "2014 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship\n\n\nDraw 8 17:45 Draw 11 11:15 Draw 14 21:00 Draw 16 11:15 Draw 17 14:30 Draw 20 8:00 Draw 22 14:30 Draw 24 21:00 Draw 25 8:00 Draw 26 11:15 Draw 1 8:15 Draw 2 12:00 Draw 3 15:45 Draw 5 8:00 Draw 6 11:15 Draw 7 14:30 Draw 9 21:00 Draw 10 8:00 Draw 12 14:30 Draw 13 17:45 Draw 14 21:00 Draw 15 8:00 Draw 16 11:15 Draw 17 14:30 Draw 18 17:45 Draw 20 8:00 Draw 21 11:15 Draw 23 17:45 Draw 24 21:00 Draw 3 15:45 Draw 4 19:30 Draw 7 14:30 Draw 8 17:45 Draw", "id": "15498978" }, { "contents": "Rocky Carson\n\n\nto the final with a win over Chris Crowther in the semi-finals, 15-7, 15-10. Carson’s Men’s Singles World Championship in 2008 qualified him for the 2009 World Games in Kaohsiung, Republic of China, where he captured the silver medal in Men's Singles. Carson beat Canadian Mike Green, 15-9, 15-9, in the quarterfinals, and Mexican Alvaro Beltran in the semi-finals, 9-15, 15-7, 11-8, to set up", "id": "17077685" }, { "contents": "2018 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship\n\n\nDraw 27 16:00 Draw 28 19:30 Draw 1 9:00 Draw 2 12:30 Draw 3 16:30 Draw 5 8:00 Draw 8 17:45 Draw 10 8:00 Draw 11 11:15 Draw 12 14:30 Draw 13 17:45 Draw 18 17:45 Draw 19 21:00 Draw 21 11:15 Draw 22 14:30 Draw 25 8:00 Draw 26 12:30 Draw 27 16:00 Draw 2 12:30 Draw 4 20:00 Draw 6 11:15 Draw 7 14:30 Draw 9 21:00 Draw 10 8:00 Draw 11 11:15 Draw 12 14:30 Draw 14 21:00 Draw 15 8:00 Draw 16 11:15 Draw 18 17:45 Draw 19 21:00 Draw 20 8:00 Draw 21 11:15 Draw", "id": "3983102" }, { "contents": "Rocky Carson\n\n\nIRT season. Carson won the 2001 Pan American Racquetball Championships in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, where he defeated Canadian Kane Waselenchuk in the final, 15-9, 15-13. Carson was the defending champion at the 2001 USAR National Singles Championships, and had a chance to defend the title, but lost to Jack Huczek, 15-11, 15-6. Carson beat Dan Fowler in the semi-finals, 15-8, 15-10, to reach the final. Carson took a step back", "id": "17077670" }, { "contents": "Gail Emms\n\n\nKellogg. They defeated Koon Wai Chee and Li Wing Mui of Hong Kong in the first round but were defeated by Zhao Tingting and Wei Yili of China in the second round. She also competed in mixed doubles with Robertson. They had a bye in the first round and defeated Björn Siegemund and Nicol Pitro of Germany in the second. In the quarterfinals, Emms and Robertson beat Chen Qiqiu and Zhao Tingting of China 15–8, 17–15 to advance to the semifinals. There, they beat Jonas Rasmussen and Rikke Olsen of Denmark 15–6", "id": "555457" }, { "contents": "Wellington Rugby Football Union\n\n\nNew South Wales 9–5 1896 beat Queensland 49–7 1901 beat New South Wales 17–16 1905 beat Australia 23–7 (combined team with Wairarapa and Horowhenua 1908 beat Anglo-Welsh 19–13 1921 lost to South Africa 3–8 1921 beat New South Wales 16–8 1923 beat New South Wales 29–16 (combined team with Manawatu) 1925 beat New South Wales 20–8 (combined team with Manawatu and Horowhenua) 1930 beat British Lions 12–8 1931 beat Australia 15–8 1937 lost to South Africa 0–29 1946 lost to Australia 15–16 1950 lost to British Isles 6–12 1956 lost to South Africa", "id": "5981175" }, { "contents": "Samuel Murray (racquetball)\n\n\n, 7-15, 15-3, 11-7, and then lost to Mexican Daniel De La Rosa, 15-12, 15-7. Murray won the 1st National Team Selection event of the 2016-17 season in Valleyfield, Québec, where he defeated James Landeryou, 15-4, 15-4, in the final. In the semi-finals, Murray beat Landeryou’s older brother Tim, 15-9, 15-13. At the 2nd selection event that season in Calgary,", "id": "7910652" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from South Carolina\n\n\n5 ! rowspan=4 | 6 ! rowspan=8 | 7 ! 6 ! rowspan=3 | 7 ! rowspan=3 | 8 ! rowspan=9 | 8 ! rowspan=5 | 9 ! rowspan=4 | 10 ! 9 ! rowspan=5 | 10 ! rowspan=15 | 11 ! 11 ! 12 ! rowspan=2 | 13 ! 14 ! rowspan=5 | 15 ! rowspan=6 | 12 ! 16 ! rowspan=2 | 17 ! rowspan=6 | 18 ! rowspan=3 | 13 ! rowspan=3 | 14 ! rowspan=9 | 19 ! rowspan=6 | 15 ! rowspan=3 | 16 ! rowspan=16 | 20 ! 17 ! rowspan=3 | 18 !", "id": "20744133" }, { "contents": "Alejandro Landa\n\n\n-4. Then at the end of the year, Landa beat Jaime Martell in the final of the Alamo City Open in San Antonio, beating Bredenbeck in the quarterfinals and David Horn in the semi-finals to reach the final. In 2016, Landa successfully defended his Alamo City Open title by beating Cardona in the final, 15-6, 15-10. He defeated Andree Parrilla, 15-12, 15-11, in the quarterfinals, and Jaime Martell, 15-11, 15-13,", "id": "8690377" }, { "contents": "Minuscule 172\n\n\n; 5:2-16; 6:2-7:2; 7:16-8:10; 8:38-9:13; 9:26-39; 10:9-22; 10:43-13:1; 23:32-24:24; 28:23-James 1:5; 3:6-4:16; 2 Peter 3:10-1 John 1:1; 3:13-4:2; Jude 16-25; Romans 14:23 - 15:1.4; 1 Corinthians 3:15-15:23; 2 Corinthians 10: 14-11:19; 13:5-13; Ephesians 1:1-2:14; 5:29-6:24 Colossians 1:24-26; 2:4-7; 2 Thessalonians 1:1", "id": "8396043" }, { "contents": "Jack Huczek\n\n\nseeded #1, and in the semi-finals beat Michael Bronfeld, 15-2, 15-9, to reach the final for the second consecutive year. However, Huczek lost the final to Mike Guidry, 15-10, 12-15, 11-9. In 2002, Huczek again partnered with Eric Muller at the USAR National Doubles Championships, and they reached the finals before losing to Ruben Gonzalez and Mike Guidry, 15-7, 15-10. They defeated Jason Thoerner and Mitch Williams in", "id": "17077734" }, { "contents": "2010–11 in Hong Kong football\n\n\non 8 October. However, the heavy rain flooded the field, so the ball flow on the water and could not be kick. The match was abandoned at 14th-minute. The rematch played on 9 October, Hong Kong defeated the Philippines by 4–2. The 2010 Asian Games will play between 7 November and 27 November in Guangzhou, China. Hong Kong national under-15 football team won all the group stage matches in the championship, which hold in Guam. Hong Kong beat Chinese Taipei in semi-final but lose by", "id": "3640662" }, { "contents": "2016 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship\n\n\nDraw 11 14:30 Draw 12 17:45 Draw 15 11:15 Draw 16 14:30 Draw 18 21:00 Draw 21 14:30 Draw 25 11:15 Draw 26 14:30 Draw 2 16:00 Draw 4 8:00 Draw 6 14:30 Draw 10 11:15 Draw 11 14:30 Draw 13 21:00 Draw 16 14:30 Draw 17 17:45 Draw 19 8:00 Draw 24 8:00 Draw 25 11:15 Draw 4 8:00 Draw 5 11:15 Draw 7 17:45 Draw 9 8:00 Draw 10 11:15 Draw 11 14:30 Draw 14 8:00 Draw 16 14:30 Draw 18 21:00 Draw 23 21:00 Draw 26 14:30 Draw 2 16:00 Draw 3 20:00 Draw 6 14:30 Draw", "id": "1156733" }, { "contents": "Easter Vigil\n\n\n-16; 3. Exodus 12:1-11; 4. Jonah 1:1-4:11; 5. Joshua 5:10-15; 6. Exodus 13:20-15:19; 7. Zephaniah 3:8-15; 8. 3 Kings 17:8-24; 9. Isaiah 61:10-62:5; 10. Genesis 22:1-18; 11. Isaiah 61:1-9; 12. 4 Kings 4:8-37; 13. Isaiah 63:11-64:5; 14. Jeremiah 31:31-34; 15. Daniel 3:1-68. It is during these", "id": "3156542" }, { "contents": "Jackie Paraiso\n\n\nBrodeur, 15-8, 15-6, in 2008. In between, she won three straight World Championships in 1994, 1996, and 1998. Laura Fenton was Paraiso's partner in 1994, when they beat Vicky Shanks and Debbie Ward of Canada, 15-9, 15-7. Then in 1996 and 1998, Paraiso's twin sister Joy MacKenzie was her partner, as they beat Shanks and Ward in 1996, 15-11, 15-4, and Shanks and Grand'Maître in 1998, 15-", "id": "21029455" }, { "contents": "Jahangir Khan\n\n\nover Jahangir in September 1987, beating him in straight games in the semi-finals of the Hong Kong Open. Jansher then went on to beat Jahangir in their next eight consecutive encounters and capture the 1987 World Open title. Jahangir ended Jansher's winning streak in March 1988, and went on to win 11 of their next 15 encounters. The pair met in the 1988 World Open final, with Jahangir emerging the victor. But by that point it had become clear that squash now had two dominant players. The pair would", "id": "414920" }, { "contents": "Samuel Murray (racquetball)\n\n\ncame 3rd, as they lost to Green and Trevor Webb in the semi-finals, 15-13, 4-15, 11-5, but beat Lee Connell and Nathaniel Husulak, 15-9, 16-14. Murray won the 1st National Team Selection event of the 2017-18 season, as he defeated Tim Landeryou, 15-3, 15-8, in the final. In the semi-finals, Murray beat Coby Iwaasa, 15-11, 15-8. Murray and Landeryou", "id": "7910655" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Maine\n\n\n| 4 ! rowspan=3 | 7 ! rowspan=6 | 5 ! 8 ! rowspan=6 | 9 ! rowspan=9 | 6 ! 10 ! rowspan=2 | 11 ! rowspan=7 | 12 ! 7 ! rowspan=3 | 8 ! rowspan=10 | 13 ! rowspan=4 | 9 ! rowspan=4 | 10 ! rowspan=17 | 14 ! rowspan=16 | 11 ! rowspan=7 | 15 ! 12 ! rowspan=2 | 13 ! rowspan=6 | 14 ! rowspan=14 | 16 ! rowspan=3 | 15 ! rowspan=9 | 16 ! rowspan=6 | 17 ! rowspan=13 | 17 ! rowspan=3 | 18 ! rowspan=11 | 19 ! rowspan=3", "id": "20744038" }, { "contents": "Men's Home Internationals\n\n\nafternoon. Scotland and England beat Ireland and Wales on the first two days. On the final day Scotland beat England 8–7 to win the title while Ireland beat Wales 9½–5½. The 1933 tournament was held at Royal County Down Golf Club from 14 to 16 September. The results of all six matches was the same as in 1932, Scotland beating England in the decisive match. In the 1934 tournament at Royal Porthcawl Golf Club from 15 to 17 August, Ireland beat England on the opening day. With Scotland beating England, Scotland retained", "id": "17763243" }, { "contents": "Codex Vaticanus 2061\n\n\nwas . The surviving leaves contain texts (according to Nestle-Aland 26th): Acts 26:6-27:4, 28:3-31; James 4:14-5:20; 1 Peter 1:1-12; 2 Peter 2:4-8, 2:13-3:15; 1 John 4:6-5:13, 5:17-18, 5:21; 2 John; 3 John; Romans 13:4-15:9; 1 Corinthians 2:1-3:11, 3:22, 4:4-6, 5:5-11, 6:3-11, 12:23-15:17, 15:20-27; 2 Corinthians 4:7", "id": "9378418" }, { "contents": "2012 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship\n\n\n17:45 Draw 11 21:00 Draw 12 8:00 Draw 13 11:15 Draw 14 14:30 Draw 15 17:45 Draw 16 21:00 Draw 17 8:00 Draw 18 11:15 Draw 19 14:30 Draw 20 17:45 Draw 21 21:00 Draw 23 11:15 Draw 1 18:45 Draw 3 11:15 Draw 5 17:45 Draw 6 21:00 Draw 8 11:15 Draw 10 17:45 Draw 12 8:00 Draw 13 11:15 Draw 14 14:30 Draw 15 17:45 Draw 16 21:00 Draw 18 11:15 Draw 20 17:45 Draw 22 8:00 Draw 1 18:45 Draw 2 8:00 Draw 3 11:15 Draw 4 14:30 Draw 5 17:45 Draw 6 21:00 Draw 7 8:00", "id": "8246326" }, { "contents": "2016 Bangladesh Championship League\n\n\nBank SC (15-16) 14 6 2 6 13 - 14 -1 20 4 Bangladesh Police Athletic Club (15-16) 14 4 6 4 11 - 9 2 18 5 T&T Club (15-16) 14 4 5 5 14 - 14 0 17 6 Victoria SC (15-16) 14 3 5 6 14 - 16 -2 14 7 Kawran Bazar (15-16) 14 2 8 4 7 - 12 -5 14 8 Chittagong Mohammedan (15-16) 14 2 4 8 13 -", "id": "13232613" }, { "contents": "Timeline of the 2012 Pacific hurricane season\n\n\nJune 16 June 17 July 4 July 5 July 7 July 8 July 9 July 10 July 11 July 12 July 13 July 14 July 15 July 16 July 18 August 7 August 8 August 9 August 11 August 12 August 15 August 17 August 27 August 30 August 31 September 2 September 3 September 4 September 12 September 14 September 15 September 16 September 17 September 18 September 19 September 22 September 24 September 25 September 26 September 27 September 28 September 29 October 6 October 7 October 9 October 13 October 15 October 16 October 17 October 30", "id": "21319682" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Missouri\n\n\n! rowspan=3 | 12 ! rowspan=18 | 6 ! 13 ! 14 ! rowspan=12 | 15 ! rowspan=9 | 16 ! rowspan=3 | 7 ! rowspan=15 | 8 ! 17 ! rowspan=5 | 18 ! 19 ! rowspan=4 | 20 ! rowspan=4 | 9 ! rowspan=7 | 21 ! rowspan=6 | 10 ! rowspan=4 | 22 ! 11 ! rowspan=3 | 12 ! rowspan=5 | 23 ! rowspan=15 | 13 ! rowspan=5 | 24 ! rowspan=11 | 25 ! rowspan=10 | 14 ! rowspan=13 | 26 ! rowspan=3 | 15 ! 16 ! rowspan=3 | 17 ! rowspan=6 | 18", "id": "20744052" }, { "contents": "Chris Marlowe\n\n\n15, 13-15, 15-9, 15-11, 15-12 for a 3-2 win. The win set up a championship final between San Diego State and the Bruins. In the championship match SDSU jumped out 2 games to none, and with an 8-3 lead in the third appeared ready for a three-game sweep. However the Bruins rallied back to win it, 10-15, 9-15, 15-9, 15-10, 15-7. UCLA", "id": "21040396" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Virginia\n\n\n| 4 ! 5 ! rowspan=2 | 6 ! 7 ! 5 ! rowspan=3 | 8 ! rowspan=8 | 6 ! rowspan=3 | 9 ! rowspan=14 | 10 ! 7 ! rowspan=2 | 8 ! rowspan=2 | 9 ! rowspan=2 | 10 ! rowspan=7 | 11 ! 11 ! rowspan=9 | 12 ! rowspan=2 | 12 ! rowspan=4 | 13 ! rowspan=9 | 13 ! rowspan=2 | 14 ! rowspan=3 | 15 ! rowspan=6 | 16 ! 14 ! rowspan=9 | 15 ! rowspan=8 | 17 ! 16 ! rowspan=3 | 18 ! 17 ! rowspan=4 | 18 ! rowspan=8", "id": "20744171" }, { "contents": "Jennifer Saunders (racquetball)\n\n\ntogether that year, in the final, 15-6, 8-15, 11-8. But Saunders didn’t successfully defend her Women's Singles title, although she did get to the final for a third straight year. In the semi-finals, Saunders beat Grand'Maître in the semi-finals, 15-7, 15-8, but in the final, she narrowly lost to Powell, 8-15, 15-4, 13-11. Her performances helped to earn Saunders a spot on", "id": "14324066" }, { "contents": "2018 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship\n\n\nThe 2018 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship was held from April 21 to 28 at the Östersund Arena in Östersund, Sweden. The event was held in conjunction with the 2018 World Senior Curling Championships. \"Final Round Robin Standings\" All draw times are listed in CEST (UTC+2) Draw 1 9:00 Draw 4 20:00 Draw 6 11:15 Draw 7 14:30 Draw 8 17:45 Draw 9 21:00 Draw 10 8:00 Draw 13 17:45 Draw 15 8:00 Draw 16 11:15 Draw 17 14:30 Draw 18 17:45 Draw 20 8:00 Draw 22 14:30 Draw 24 21:00 Draw 26", "id": "3983100" }, { "contents": "Carla Khan\n\n\nInternational, where she came from behind to beat Melissa Martin from Australia, 3–9, 4–9, 9–4, 9–7, 9–3. She broke into the top 30. At the Irish Open in 2004, Khan defeated Nicol David of Malaysia (who was ranked number 9 in the world at that time) on 15 April 2004, and achieved her highest ranking of 21. In 2005, Khan lost in the final of the Forbes Open to England's Alison Walters. However, she made it to the final of the 1st POF", "id": "9884495" }, { "contents": "Codex Climaci Rescriptus\n\n\n9-21; 9:30;10:3-9; 15:11-21 I Corin. 1:6-23; 4:1-15; 13: 4-11; 14:4-7; 14:8-14; 14:24-37; 15:3-10; 15:24-49; 16:16-24 II Corin. 1:23-2: 4-11; 4:18-5:6; 5:6-12; 6:3-16; 7:3-8 Galat. 1:1-23; 3:20-24; 4:2; 4:4-29; 5:1; 5:24; 6:4-12", "id": "9480761" }, { "contents": "2014 World Senior Curling Championships – Men's tournament\n\n\n7:30 Draw 6 11:00 Draw 8 18:00 Draw 9 21:30 Draw 12 15:30 Draw 13 19:00 Draw 15 11:00 Draw 16 14:30 Draw 18 21:30 Draw 20 12:00 Draw 22 19:00 Draw 23 8:30 Draw 1 8:00 Draw 4 19:30 Draw 6 11:00 Draw 7 14:30 Draw 10 8:30 Draw 11 12:00 Draw 14 7:30 Draw 15 11:00 Draw 16 14:30 Draw 17 18:00 Draw 19 08:30 Draw 21 15:30 \"Tuesday, April 29, 14:00\" \"Tuesday, April 29, 19:30\" \"Wednesday, April 30, 8:00\" \"Wednesday, April 30,", "id": "16343740" }, { "contents": "2017 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship\n\n\nThe 2017 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship was held from April 22 to 29 at the Lethbridge Curling Club in Lethbridge, Canada. The event was held in conjunction with the 2017 World Senior Curling Championships. \"Final Round Robin Standings\" All draw times are listed in MDT (UTC-6). Draw 1 8:00 Draw 7 14:30 Draw 9 21:00 Draw 10 8:00 Draw 11 11:15 Draw 13 17:45 Draw 15 8:00 Draw 17 14:30 Draw 18 17:45 Draw 21 11:15 Draw 22 14:30 Draw 24 21:00 Draw 25 8:00 Draw 3 15:00 Draw 4 8:00", "id": "20611917" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Kansas\n\n\nrowspan=2 | 3 ! rowspan=12 | 2 ! 4 ! rowspan=2 | 5 ! rowspan=8 | 6 ! rowspan=5 | 3 ! 7 ! 8 ! rowspan=3 | 9 ! rowspan=3 | 4 ! rowspan=3 | 10 ! rowspan=6 | 5 ! 11 ! rowspan=4 | 12 ! rowspan=3 | 6 ! rowspan=3 | 13 ! rowspan=7 | 7 ! rowspan=17 | 14 ! 8 ! rowspan=5 | 9 ! rowspan=6 | 10 ! rowspan=10 | 15 ! 11 ! rowspan=12 | 12 ! rowspan=9 | 16 ! rowspan=15 | 13 ! rowspan=12 | 17 ! 14 ! rowspan=8 |", "id": "20743950" }, { "contents": "1977 NCAA Division I football season\n\n\nto move to third, and the Wolverines returned to the top: 1.Michigan 2.Texas 3.Colorado 4.Alabama 5.Ohio State October 15 No. 1 Michigan beat No. 14 Wisconsin 56–0, and No. 2 Texas won at No. 7 Arkansas, 13–9. No. 3 Colorado played at Kansas, a 17–17 tie. No. 4 Alabama beat Tennessee in Birmingham, 24–10. No. 5 Ohio State beat Iowa 27–6. No. 6 USC beat Oregon 33–15 to return to the top five: 1.Michigan 2.Texas 3.Alabama 4.Ohio State 5.USC October 22", "id": "8560170" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Texas\n\n\n3 ! rowspan=6 | 6 ! rowspan=11 | 4 ! rowspan=3 | 7 ! 8 ! rowspan=4 | 9 ! rowspan=3 | 5 ! rowspan=15 | 10 ! rowspan=6 | 6 ! 7 ! rowspan=16 | 8 ! rowspan=3 | 11 ! rowspan=16 | 12 ! 9 ! rowspan=4 | 10 ! rowspan=8 | 11 ! rowspan=3 | 13 ! 14 ! rowspan=8 | 15 ! 12 ! rowspan=12 | 13 ! rowspan=12 | 16 ! rowspan=12 | 14 ! 17 ! rowspan=12 | 18 ! rowspan=10 | 15 ! rowspan=5 | 19 , there are three living former senators", "id": "20744168" }, { "contents": "Samuel Murray (racquetball)\n\n\nIwaasa, 9-15, 15-6, 11-6. He also defeated Iwaasa in the 2nd National Team Selection Event in Grande Prairie, Alberta, 15-10, 15-10. He defeated Pedro Castro in the semi-finals, 15-6, 15-9. Murray began the 2018-19 IRT season strongly, as he made his first final at the first event of the season - the 2018 MWRA Season Opener IRT Pro/Am in Laurel, Maryland, where he beat Alejandro Landa", "id": "7910660" }, { "contents": "Alejandro Landa\n\n\ntwo of them. Both wins came in Juarez, Mexico. He defeated Javier Moreno in April and then beat Jake Bredenbeck in August, 15–10, 15-10. Landa reached the semi-finals at the US Open for the first time in 2014, as he beat Jose Rojas in the Round of 16, 3-11, 11-9, 14-12, 6-11, 11-4 and Daniel De La Rosa in the quarterfinals, 11-2, 11-8, 11-6,", "id": "8690374" }, { "contents": "Hong Kong Women's Sevens\n\n\nFinals Canada 35–14 Netherlands Kazakhstan 12–7 China USA 45–0 Arabian Gulf France 15–7 Japan 9th to 12th Semi Finals Hong Kong 15–0 Singapore Papua New Guinea 0–29 Thailand Bowl (5th to 8th) Semi Finals Netherlands 5–5 China (China win on try countback) Arabian Gulf 0–10 Japan Cup Semi Finals Canada 26–0 Kazakhstan USA 5–0 France 11th Place Singapore 5–17 Papua New Guinea 9th Place Hong Kong 15–7 Thailand 7th Place Netherlands 19–0 Arabian Gulf Bowl Final China 17–7 Japan Plate Final France 24–0 Kazakhstan Cup Final USA 21–7 Canada 27 March 2009 at Hong Kong.", "id": "7314433" }, { "contents": "Badminton at the 1981 World Games\n\n\n10 4. William Gilliland/Daniel Travers (Scotland) d. Egbeyemi/Badiru (Nigeria), 15-6, 15-6 Semi-finals 1. Sun Zhian/Yao Ximing d. Kartono/Heryanto, 3-15, 15-11, 15-8 2. Kihlstrom/Karlsson d. Gilliland/Travers, 10-15, 15-0, 15-9 Final Sun Zhian/Yao Ximing d. Kihlstrom/Karlsson, 12-15, 15-4, 15-6. Bronze medals: Kartono", "id": "1386468" }, { "contents": "2018 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship\n\n\n12:30 Draw 27 16:00 Draw 1 9:00 Draw 3 16:30 Draw 5 8:00 Draw 11 11:15 Draw 12 14:30 Draw 14 21:00 Draw 15 8:00 Draw 17 14:30 Draw 18 17:45 Draw 19 21:00 Draw 20 8:00 Draw 21 11:15 Draw 22 14:30 Draw 23 17:45 Draw 24 21:00 Draw 28 19:30 Draw 2 12:30 Draw 3 16:30 Draw 4 20:00 Draw 6 11:15 Draw 7 14:30 Draw 9 21:00 Draw 11 11:15 Draw 13 17:45 Draw 14 21:00 Draw 16 11:15 Draw 17 14:30 Draw 20 8:00 Draw 22 14:30 Draw 23 17:45 Draw 25 9:00 Draw 26 12:30", "id": "3983101" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Colorado\n\n\nrowspan=5 | 5 ! rowspan=3 | 8 ! rowspan=9 | 9 ! rowspan=2 | 6 ! 7 ! rowspan=2 | 8 ! rowspan=3 | 9 ! rowspan=6 | 10 ! 10 ! 11 ! rowspan=5 | 12 ! rowspan=11 | 11 ! rowspan=8 | 13 ! rowspan=9 | 12 ! rowspan=3 | 14 ! rowspan=6 | 15 ! rowspan=3 | 13 ! rowspan=6 | 16 ! rowspan=6 | 14 ! rowspan=3 | 17 ! rowspan=4 | 15 ! rowspan=7 | 18 ! rowspan=6 | 16 ! rowspan=3 | 19 ! rowspan=4 | 17 ! rowspan=7 | 20 ! rowspan=3 |", "id": "20743826" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Arkansas\n\n\nrowspan=3 | 6 ! rowspan=5 | 6 ! rowspan=3 | 7 ! rowspan=11 | 8 ! rowspan=11 | 7 ! rowspan=10 | 9 ! rowspan=3 | 8 ! 9 ! 10 ! rowspan=17 | 11 ! rowspan=3 | 10 ! rowspan=6 | 11 ! rowspan=11 | 12 ! rowspan=3 | 12 ! 13 ! rowspan=19 | 14 ! rowspan=15 | 13 ! rowspan=14 | 14 ! 15 ! rowspan=9 | 16 ! rowspan=3 | 17 ! rowspan=6 | 15 ! rowspan=6 | 18 ! rowspan=6 | 16 ! rowspan=3 | 19 , there are five living former senators. The", "id": "20743822" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from New Hampshire\n\n\n! rowspan=3 | 9 ! rowspan=3 | 10 ! rowspan=5 | 8 ! 11 ! rowspan=3 | 12 ! rowspan=4 | 9 ! 13 ! rowspan=6 | 14 ! 10 ! 11 ! rowspan=3 | 12 ! rowspan=6 | 15 ! 13 ! 14 ! 16 ! rowspan=7 | 15 ! rowspan=2 | 17 ! rowspan=5 | 18 ! rowspan=8 | 16 ! 19 ! rowspan=3 | 20 ! rowspan=3 | 21 ! rowspan=6 | 17 ! 22 ! rowspan=12 | 23 ! rowspan=3 | 18 ! rowspan=2 | 19 ! 20 ! 21 ! rowspan=6 | 22 ! rowspan=15", "id": "20744074" }, { "contents": "Dihydroxy-E,Z,E-PUFA\n\n\nmake PDX by metabolizing DHA by double oxygenation a 15-lipoxygenase to form the 10\"R\",17\"S\"-hydroxperoxy intermediated which is reduced its 10\"R\",17\"S\"-hydroxyl product, PDX, probably by cytosolic GPX1 (i.e. glutathione peroxidase 1). Serial metabolism two different lipoxygenases or a lipoxygenase and a cytochrome P45) on PUFA possessing three double bonds in a 1\"Z\",4\"Z\",7\"Z\" configuration may also make a 1,7-dihydroxy 2\"E\",4\"Z\",6\"E\" product. Other platelet-inhibiting dihydroxy-\"E\",\"Z\",\"E\"-PUFA are: 10\"R\",17\"S\"-dihydroxy-4\"Z\",7\"Z\",11\"E\",13\"Z\",15\"E\",19\"Z\"-docosahexaenoic acid (10\"R\",17\"S\"-diHDHA); 8\"S\",15\"S\"-dihydroxy-5\"Z\",9\"E\",11\"Z\",13\"E\"-eicosatetraenoic acid (8\"S\",15\"S\"-diHETE); 9\"S\",16\"S\"-10\"E\",12\"Z\",14\"E\"-octadecatrienoic acid (linotrin-1); and 9\"R\",16\"S\"-10\"E\",12\"Z\",14\"E\"-octadecatrienoic acid (linotrin-2).", "id": "1779786" }, { "contents": "EU Cup\n\n\n8 October 2011. 18 national men's teams competed in the tournament. Final results were: 1. Ireland, 2. Croatia, 3. England, 4. Italy, 5. France, 6. Scotland, 7. Wales, 8. Spain, 9. European Crusaders, 10. Russia (1st time competitors), 11. Denmark, 12. Germany, 13. Finland, 14. Sweden, 15. Netherlands, 16. Austria, 17. Iceland, 18. Catalonia. Ireland defeated Switzerland in", "id": "2746657" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Indiana\n\n\nrowspan=13 | 5 ! rowspan=2 | 5 ! 6 ! rowspan=2 | 7 ! rowspan=3 | 8 ! rowspan=6 | 9 ! 6 ! 7 ! rowspan=3 | 8 ! rowspan=6 | 10 ! rowspan=3 | 9 ! rowspan=5 | 10 ! rowspan=10 | 11 ! rowspan=3 | 11 ! rowspan=6 | 12 ! rowspan=4 | 12 ! rowspan=6 | 13 ! rowspan=2 | 13 ! rowspan=4 | 14 ! rowspan=6 | 14 ! 15 ! rowspan=11 | 16 ! rowspan=3 | 15 ! rowspan=2 | 16 ! rowspan=5 | 17 ! rowspan=6 | 17 ! rowspan=3 | 18 !", "id": "20743924" }, { "contents": "Book of Nature\n\n\n. Pedersen (1992), 7–8. 3. Pedersen (1992), 9. 4. Dear (2009), 4. 5. Pedersen (1992), 10. 6. Pedersen (1992), 11–13. 7. Pedersen (1992), 14–15. 8. Pedersen (1992), 15. 9. Harrison (2001), 13. 10. Harrison (2001), 13. 11. Harrison (2001), 15. 12. Harrison (2001), 15. 13.", "id": "3587614" }, { "contents": "2014 World Senior Curling Championships – Women's tournament\n\n\nThe women's tournament of the 2014 World Senior Curling Championships was held from April 23 to 30 at the Dumfries Ice Bowl in Dumfries, Scotland. The teams are listed as follows: \"Final Round Robin Standings\" Draw 3 15:30 Draw 5 7:30 Draw 6 11:00 Draw 7 14:30 Draw 8 18:00 Draw 9 21:30 Draw 11 12:00 Draw 12 15:30 Draw 13 19:00 Draw 15 11:00 Draw 17 18:00 Draw 18 21:30 Draw 20 12:00 Draw 21 15:30 Draw 23 8:30 Draw 24 14:00 Draw 3 15:30 Draw 4 19:30 Draw 7 14:30 Draw 8", "id": "16343741" }, { "contents": "Alejandro Landa\n\n\nFalls, South Dakota, but he won the final by defeating Daniel De La Rosa, 15-6, 7-15, 11-10, in the final. En route to the final, Landa beat Tim Landeryou, 15-5, 3-15, 11-6, in the Round of 16, Rocky Carson in the quarterfinals, 15-14, 11-15, 11-4, and Samuel Murray, 15-11, 15-7, in the semi-finals. In the", "id": "8690386" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Florida\n\n\n| 4 ! rowspan=3 | 4 ! rowspan=3 | 5 ! rowspan=6 | 5 ! rowspan=11 | 6 ! rowspan=9 | 6 ! rowspan=8 | 7 ! rowspan=10 | 7 ! 8 ! 9 ! rowspan=16 | 10 ! rowspan=3 | 8 ! rowspan=10 | 9 ! rowspan=3 | 10 ! 11 ! rowspan=6 | 11 ! rowspan=10 | 12 ! rowspan=13 | 12 ! rowspan=9 | 13 ! rowspan=3 | 14 ! rowspan=11 | 13 ! rowspan=4 | 15 ! rowspan=4 | 16 ! rowspan=9 | 17 ! rowspan=6 | 14 ! rowspan=10 | 15 ! rowspan=3 | 18", "id": "20743883" }, { "contents": "Coby Iwaasa\n\n\nKitchener, Ontario with the same result: a win for Murray, 15-2, 15-5. Iwaasa and Murray played Men’s Doubles together at the 2018 Canadian Championships in Winnipeg, and they won the title by defeating Nicolas Bousquet and Tommy Murray in the final, 15-13, 10-15, 11-6. They beat the brother team of James Landeryou and Tim Landeryou in the semi-finals, 15-13, 15-10. In Men’s Singles, Iwaasa finished 2nd, as", "id": "8038021" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Wisconsin\n\n\n| 6 ! rowspan=3 | 7 ! rowspan=3 | 6 ! rowspan=6 | 8 ! rowspan=3 | 7 ! rowspan=15 | 8 ! rowspan=4 | 9 ! rowspan=2 | 10 ! rowspan=7 | 11 ! rowspan=11 | 9 ! rowspan=3 | 12 ! rowspan=3 | 13 ! rowspan=14 | 14 ! rowspan=6 | 10 ! rowspan=16 | 11 ! rowspan=9 | 15 ! rowspan=6 | 16 ! rowspan=12 | 12 ! rowspan=9 | 17 ! rowspan=6 | 18 ! rowspan=6 | 13 , there are three living former Senators, one from Class 1 and two from Class 3.", "id": "21329584" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Michigan\n\n\n! 12 ! rowspan=13 | 13 ! rowspan=3 | 10 ! rowspan=7 | 11 ! rowspan=8 | 14 ! rowspan=2 | 12 ! rowspan=10 | 13 ! rowspan=3 | 15 ! rowspan=15 | 16 ! rowspan=4 | 14 ! rowspan=9 | 15 ! 17 ! rowspan=4 | 18 ! rowspan=6 | 16 ! rowspan=11 | 19 ! rowspan=9 | 17 ! rowspan=10 | 20 ! rowspan=18 | 18 ! rowspan=3 | 21 ! rowspan=12 | 22 ! rowspan=3 | 19 , there are three former U.S. Senators from Michigan who are currently living, two from Class 1 and one", "id": "20744040" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Ohio\n\n\n| 6 ! rowspan=2 | 7 ! rowspan=2 | 8 ! rowspan=2 | 9 ! rowspan=3 | 10 ! rowspan=3 | 6 ! rowspan=6 | 11 ! rowspan=3 | 7 ! rowspan=3 | 8 ! rowspan=5 | 12 ! 9 ! rowspan=11 | 10 ! rowspan=3 | 13 ! 14 ! rowspan=9 | 15 ! rowspan=8 | 11 ! 16 ! rowspan=3 | 17 ! rowspan=9 | 12 ! rowspan=3 | 18 ! rowspan=3 | 19 ! rowspan=9 | 20 ! rowspan=4 | 13 ! rowspan=4 | 14 ! rowspan=3 | 21 ! rowspan=7 | 15 ! rowspan=3 | 22", "id": "20744100" }, { "contents": "2013 Canadian Mixed Doubles Curling Trials\n\n\nFriday, March 15, 11:30 am\" \"Friday, March 15, 2:00 pm\" \"Friday, March 15, 4:30 pm\" \"Friday, March 15, 7:00 pm\" \"Friday, March 15, 9:30 pm\" \"Saturday, March 16, 9:00 am\" \"Saturday, March 16, 11:30 am\" \"Saturday, March 16, 2:00 pm\" \"Saturday, March 16, 4:30 pm\" \"Saturday, March 16, 8:30 pm\" \"Sunday, March 17, 10:00 am\" \"Sunday", "id": "10697048" }, { "contents": "Lyon Villeurbanne XIII\n\n\nto AS Carcassonne 10–22, but they went one better in the league beating XIII Catalan 15–10 to lift the trophy for the first time. In 52/53 they won the cup beating US Villeneuve 9–8 in the final but couldn't complete a league and cup double as they lost the league final 12–19 to AS Carcassonne. They retained the cup when they beat XIII Catalan 17–15 and won their second league title when they triumphed 7–6 against AS Carcassonne in 1955. Relegation followed in 1957 but after winning the National League 1 title, now called", "id": "19573564" }, { "contents": "Park Sung-hwan\n\n\n. Two weeks later, Park was to be defeated again in the quarter-final matches of the Li Ning China Masters Super Series in Changzhou, China (to 4th seed badminton ace Lin Dan of China, 15-21, 21-13, 21-23), and the Japan Open Super Series (to Indonesian, Taufik Hidayat, 21-12, 26-28, 15-21). In November, Park participated in the Yonex Sunrise Hong Kong Open and lost 15-21, 16-21", "id": "6727931" }, { "contents": "2015 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship\n\n\nThe 2015 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship was held from April 18 to 25 at the Ice Cube Curling Center in Sochi, Russia. The event will be held in conjunction with the 2015 World Senior Curling Championships. The teams are listed as follows: Draw 1 9:00 Draw 2 11:15 Draw 3 21:00 Draw 4 11:15 Draw 5 8:00 Draw 6 17:45 Draw 7 19:30 Draw 8 11:15 Draw 9 17:45 Draw 1 12:30 Draw 2 19:30 Draw 3 14:30 Draw 4 9:00 Draw 5 11:15 Draw 6 21:00 Draw 7 12:30 Draw 8 8:00 Draw 9", "id": "12517555" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Rhode Island\n\n\n| 9 ! rowspan=3 | 7 ! rowspan=7 | 8 ! rowspan=2 | 9 ! rowspan=7 | 10 ! rowspan=2 | 10 ! 11 ! rowspan=3 | 12 ! rowspan=3 | 11 ! rowspan=4 | 13 ! rowspan=3 | 12 ! rowspan=3 | 14 ! rowspan=17 | 13 ! 15 ! rowspan=6 | 16 ! rowspan=4 | 17 ! rowspan=20 | 18 ! 14 ! rowspan=4 | 15 ! rowspan=3 | 16 ! rowspan=10 | 17 ! rowspan=3 | 19 ! rowspan=6 | 18 ! rowspan=8 | 20 ! rowspan=7 | 19 ! rowspan=3 | 21 ! rowspan=6 | 22", "id": "20744131" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from West Virginia\n\n\nrowspan=8 | 7 ! rowspan=2 | 4 ! rowspan=8 | 5 ! rowspan=9 | 8 ! 6 ! rowspan=2 | 7 ! rowspan=4 | 9 ! rowspan=3 | 8 ! rowspan=3 | 10 ! rowspan=3 | 9 ! rowspan=3 | 11 ! rowspan=3 | 10 ! rowspan=3 | 12 ! rowspan=7 | 11 ! rowspan=3 | 13 ! rowspan=10 | 14 ! 12 ! 13 ! rowspan=3 | 14 ! rowspan=8 | 15 ! 15 ! rowspan=5 | 16 ! 16 ! rowspan=14 | 17 ! rowspan=27 | 17 ! rowspan=18 | 18 ! 18 ! rowspan=8 | 19 !", "id": "20744177" }, { "contents": "Academy of Saint Elizabeth\n\n\nstudents often take part in mass on different occasions. Sample 'D day' Homeroom 8:10-8:15 Period 1 8:19-9:15 Period 2 9:17 - 10:13 Period 3 10:15 - 11:11 Lunch 11:13 - 11:58 Period 5 12:00 - 12:56 Period 6 12:58 - 1:54 Period 7 1:56 - 2:51 The Academy runs on a 4-day rotating schedule (A day, B day, C day, and D day). Each day, students drop a morning and afternoon class. You can find the 2018-2019 school year calendar on the Academy", "id": "13678251" }, { "contents": "2014 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship\n\n\nWorld Curling medal for Spain in the bronze medal game with a 7–4 win over defending champions Dorottya Palansca and Zsolt Kiss of Hungary. Canada, Norway, and England scored perfect ends in their games in Draws 5, 11, and 22, respectively. The teams are listed as follows: \"Final Round Robin Standings\" Draw 1 8:15 Draw 4 19:30 Draw 6 11:15 Draw 9 21:00 Draw 12 14:30 Draw 15 8:00 Draw 18 17:45 Draw 19 21:00 Draw 21 11:15 Draw 22 14:30 Draw 25 8:00 Draw 2 12:00 Draw 5 8:00", "id": "15498977" }, { "contents": "2011 World Senior Curling Championships – Men's tournament\n\n\nStandings\" All draw times are listed in Central Standard Time (UTC-06). Draw 1 08:00 Draw 3 18:00 Draw 6 14:30 Draw 8 08:00 Draw 10 18:00 Draw 13 14:30 Draw 15 21:30 Draw 17 14:30 Draw 2 11:30 Draw 4 21:30 Draw 5 11:00 Draw 8 08:00 Draw 10 18:00 Draw 13 14:30 Draw 17 14:30 Draw 19 21:30 Draw 2 11:30 Draw 4 21:30 Draw 6 14:30 Draw 8 08:00 Draw 9 11:30 Draw 10 18:00 Draw 11 21:30 Draw 12 11:00 Draw 13 14:30 Draw 15 21:30 Draw 19 21:30 \"Friday, April", "id": "16637806" }, { "contents": "Nathan Robertson\n\n\ndefeated Björn Siegemund and Nicol Pitro of Germany in the second. In the quarterfinals, Robertson and Emms beat Chen Qiqiu and Zhao Tingting of China 15-8, 17-15 to advance to the semifinals. There, they beat Jonas Rasmussen and Rikke Olsen of Denmark 15-6, 15-12. In the final, they lost to Chinese pair Zhang Jun and Gao Ling 15-1, 12-15, 15-12 to finish with the silver medal. At the 2005 World Championships, he and Emms", "id": "1371969" }, { "contents": "List of major textual variants in the New Testament\n\n\nMatthew 8:28 Matthew 11:23 Matthew 17:21 Matthew 18:11 Matthew 20:16 Matthew 20:22, 23 Matthew 23:14 Matthew 24:36 Matthew 26:28 Matthew 27:16 Mark 2:16 Mark 6:11 Mark 7:8 Mark 7:16 Mark 9:38 Mark 9:43-46 Mark 9:49 Mark 10:24 Mark 11:26 Mark 14:19 Mark 15:28 Mark 16:9-20 Luke 1:28 Luke 2:14 Luke 4:4 Luke 9:55-56 Luke 11:2-4 Luke 11:11 Luke 22:43-44 Luke 23:17 Luke 23:34 John 1:18 John 5:3-4 John 6:69 John 7:53-8:11 John 8:59 Acts 2:30 Acts 13:42 Acts 15:24 Acts 18:21 Acts 23:9 Acts 28:29", "id": "12411760" }, { "contents": "BSWW Tour\n\n\n1 2 15-19 2 4. USA 3 1 2 13-20 2 Semifinals Brazil 9-4 Argentina Third place match Final Brazil 11-3 South Korea 02/03/1996 Buenos Aires (Argentina)Argentina 5-12 Brazil Friendly Match 1996 USA 3-6 Brazil Italy 6-9 Brazil USA 4-9 Brazil Italy 2-8 Brazil Netherlands 4-13 Brazil England 1-13 Brazil Malaysia 1-14 Brazil Semifinals Brazil 15-2 Japan Third place match Final Brazil 6-4 South Korea Brazil 7-4 Argentina", "id": "17061521" }, { "contents": "1941 Eastern Suburbs season\n\n\n5, Saturday 17 May Eastern Suburbs 13 beat Canterbury Bankstown 2 at Sydney Cricket Ground. Premiership Round 6, Saturday 24 May 1941. Newtown 4 beat Eastern Suburbs 3 at Henson Park. Premiership Round 7, Saturday 31 June 1941. St George 16 beat Eastern Suburbs 10 at Sydney Sports Ground. Premiership Round 8, Saturday 21 June 1941. South Sydney 22 beat Eastern Suburbs 15 at Sydney Sports Ground. Premiership Round 9, Saturday 28 June 1941. Eastern Suburbs 15 beat Western Suburbs 3 at Pratten Park. Premiership Round", "id": "11086526" }, { "contents": "Jansher Khan\n\n\nJansher Khan (; born 15 June 1969, in Peshawar, Pakistan) is a former World No. 1 professional Pakistani squash player. During his career he won the World Open a record eight times, and the British Open six times. Jansher Khan's retirement brought an end to nearly 50 years of domination by Pakistan in the sport of squash. He won the World Junior Squash Championship title in 1986 and the senior World Open title in 1987, by beating Australia's Chris Dittmar in the final. Jansher officially announced his retirement", "id": "1599584" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Kentucky\n\n\n! 5 ! rowspan=5 | 6 ! 3 ! rowspan=2 | 4 ! rowspan=4 | 7 ! 5 ! rowspan=4 | 6 ! rowspan=5 | 8 ! 7 ! 8 ! rowspan=2 | 9 ! rowspan=7 | 9 ! rowspan=3 | 10 ! rowspan=3 | 11 ! rowspan=4 | 10 ! rowspan=6 | 12 ! rowspan=3 | 11 ! rowspan=4 | 12 ! rowspan=4 | 13 ! rowspan=8 | 13 ! 14 ! rowspan=2 | 15 ! 16 ! rowspan=2 | 17 ! rowspan=3 | 14 ! rowspan=3 | 18 ! rowspan=5 | 15 ! 19 ! rowspan=8 | 20", "id": "20743991" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Massachusetts\n\n\n| 8 ! rowspan=7 | 7 ! rowspan=2 | 9 ! rowspan=8 | 10 ! rowspan=3 | 8 ! rowspan=6 | 9 ! rowspan=9 | 11 ! rowspan=3 | 10 ! rowspan=5 | 11 ! rowspan=3 | 12 ! rowspan=5 | 13 ! rowspan=8 | 12 ! 14 ! 15 ! rowspan=16 | 16 ! 13 ! 14 ! rowspan=10 | 15 ! rowspan=4 | 16 ! 17 ! rowspan=9 | 18 ! rowspan=14 | 17 ! rowspan=18 | 19 ! rowspan=5 | 18 ! rowspan=3 | 19 ! rowspan=5 | 20 ! rowspan=2 | 20 ! rowspan=4 | 21", "id": "20744045" }, { "contents": "2017 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship\n\n\nDraw 5 8:00 Draw 11 11:15 Draw 12 14:30 Draw 14 21:00 Draw 16 11:15 Draw 18 17:45 Draw 19 21:00 Draw 20 8:00 Draw 22 14:30 Draw 23 17:45 Draw 24 21:00 Draw 26 11:15 Draw 27 14:30 Draw 3 15:00 Draw 4 20:00 Draw 6 11:15 Draw 8 17:45 Draw 9 21:00 Draw 12 14:30 Draw 13 17:45 Draw 14 21:00 Draw 16 11:15 Draw 17 14:30 Draw 20 8:00 Draw 21 11:15 Draw 22 14:30 Draw 25 8:00 Draw 26 11:15 Draw 1 8:00 Draw 2 11:15 Draw 3 15:00 Draw 5 8:00 Draw 8 17:45 Draw", "id": "20611918" }, { "contents": "Michael Cheika\n\n\nAuckland a week later. Despite having only been in charge of the Wallabies for a year, Cheika led Australia to the 2015 Rugby World Cup Final. They topped Pool A with victories over Fiji 28–13, Uruguay 65–3, England 33–13 and Wales 15–6. They narrowly beat Scotland in the quarter-final winning 35–34 after a controversial last minute penalty. They beat Argentina 29–15 in the semi-final to reach the final against the All Blacks. The Wallabies went down 16–3 at half time, but fought back in the second half", "id": "21843436" }, { "contents": "2008 South American Under-23 Championships in Athletics – Results\n\n\n5 September 17:00hbr Final – 7 September 15:00hbr Final – 6 September 11:00hbr Final – 6 September 15:40hbr Final – 6 September 9:30hbr Wind: -2.5m/s Final – 7 September 10:45hbr Final – 6 September 9:00hbr Final – 7 September 9:00hbr Final – 7 September 11:00hbr Final – 6 September 11:00hbr Final – 6 September 9:00hbr Final – 7 September 11:00hbr Final – 5 September 14:50hbr Final – 6 September 9:00hbr Final – 7 September 9:00hbr Final – 7 September 7:00hbr Final – 6 September 17:00hbr Final – 7 September 15:50hbr Final – 6 September 9:45hbr Wind: -2.5", "id": "3039640" }, { "contents": "Rhonda Rajsich\n\n\nfinished #1. At the 2011 USA National Doubles Championships, Rajsich played with Kim Russell-Waselenchuk for the first time. They lost in the semi-finals to Krystal Csuk and Cheryl Gudinas, 15-6, 2-15, 11-9, and then lost the 3rd place match to sisters Danielle and Michelle Key, 3-15, 15-10, 11-10. However, Rajsich won Women's Singles at the 2011 USA National Singles Championshps by beating Gudinas in the final, 15-2", "id": "20397807" }, { "contents": "Ra Kyung-min\n\n\n. In the quarterfinals, Ra and Lee beat Lotte Bruil and Mia Audina of the Netherlands 15-5, 15-2. They lost the semifinal to Zhang Jiewen and Yang Wei of China 15-6, 15-4 but won the bronze medal match against Zhao Tingting and Wei Yili, also of China, 10-15, 15-9, 15-7. Ra also competed in mixed doubles with partner Kim Dong-moon. They had a bye in the first round and defeated Chris Bruil and Lotte", "id": "17379284" }, { "contents": "Coby Iwaasa\n\n\nVincent Gagnon, 15-10, 15-17, 11-6, in the semi-finals, but won the 3rd place match versus Samuel Murray, 13-15, 15-6, 11-8. That summer Iwaasa played for Canada for the first time by participating in the 2014 Pan American Sports Festival in Guadalajara, Mexico, where he defeated team-mate Samuel Murray, 15-9, 10-15, 11-3, in the Round of 16, but lost to David Horn of", "id": "8038012" }, { "contents": "Raglan Chronicle\n\n\n13, 20, 27, Apr 2, 10, 17, 24, May 1, 8, 15, 22, Jun 5, 12, 19, 26, Jul 3, 10. 17, 24, 31, Aug 7, 21, 28, Sep 4, 11, 18, 25, Oct 2, 9, 16, 23, 30, Nov 6, 13, 20, 27, Dec 4, 11, 18, 23; 1959 Jan 15, 29, Feb 5, 19,", "id": "3052190" }, { "contents": "Coby Iwaasa\n\n\n4, 11-5, and 1st seed Alejandro Cardona in the final, 9-15, 15-9, 11-8. He reached the quarterfinals in the other four WRT events that year. In November 2014, Iwaasa defeated Samuel Murray, in the quarterfinals, 15-9, 15-10, of the 1st National Team Selection Event of the 2014-15 season in Kitchener, Ontario. He then lost to Mike Green, 15-6, 15-6, in the semi-finals.", "id": "8038014" }, { "contents": "2008 European Curling Championships\n\n\n, 14:00 Draw 4 Monday December 8, 08:00 Draw 5 Monday December 8, 16:00 Draw 6 Tuesday December 9, 09:00 Draw 7 Tuesday December 9, 18:30 Draw 8 Wednesday December 10, 14:00 Draw 9 Thursday December 11, 08:00 Tiebreaker Thursday December 11, 15:00 Thursday, December 11, 20:00 Thursday, December 11, 20:00 Friday, December 12, 19:00 Saturday, December 13, 15:00 \"All times local\" Draw 1 Saturday December 6, 12:00 Draw 2 Sunday December 7, 16:00 Draw 3 Sunday December 7, 20:00", "id": "11226003" }, { "contents": "Rocky Carson\n\n\nUSA Racquetball National Singles Championship for the first time. He was seeded 6th, and defeated 8th seed Doug Eagle in the final. 15-7, 15-7. To reach the final, Carson beat Brian Fredenberg in the quarterfinals, 15-7, 15-13, and Jack Huczek in the semi-finals, 15-11, 15-6. He also played in Worlds for the 2nd time in San Luis Potosi, Mexico, and came home with two silver medals. He finished 2nd in Men", "id": "17077667" }, { "contents": "1973 European Formula Two Championship\n\n\nThe 1973 European Formula Two season was contested over 17 rounds. STP March Racing Team driver Jean-Pierre Jarier clinched the championship title. Note: Race 1, 2, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 13, 15 and 17 were held in two heats, with results shown in aggregate. Race 3, 5, 9 and 12 were held with two semi-final heats and the final run, with time only shown for the final. Race 3, 4, 5 and 15 were won by", "id": "18544287" }, { "contents": "2008 in sports\n\n\nJackson vs. Griffin 7/19 – 7/19 – () 7/21 – DREAM.5 7/26 – August 8/3 – WEC 35: Condit vs. Miura 8/9 – UFC 87: Seek And Destroy 8/15 – ShoXC 7 8/24 – September 9/6 – UFC 88: Breakthrough 9/13 – 9/17 – 9/20 – 9/23 – DREAM.6 9/26 – ShoXC 8 9/28 – October 10/3 – 10/4 – 10/10 – ShoXC 9 () 10/18 – UFC 89: Bisping vs. Leben 10/25 – UFC 90: Silva vs. Côté November 11/1 – 11/5 – WEC 36: Faber vs. Brown 11/15 – UFC", "id": "5162165" } ]

[ { "contents": "Rodney Martin (squash player)\n\n\nRodney Martin is a former professional squash player from Australia. He is best known for winning the World Open in 1991, beating the legendary Pakistani player Jahangir Khan in the final 14-17, 15-9, 15-4, 15-13 (he had previously beaten another Pakistani legend, Jansher Khan, in the quarter-finals, and his Australian compatriot Chris Dittmar in the semi-finals). Martin was also part of the Australian teams which won the World Team Squash Championships in 1989 and 1991. Martin", "id": "20966392" }, { "contents": "Amr Shabana\n\n\nbeating Thierry Lincou in the final 15–14, 9–15, 15–11, 15–7, to become Egypt's first winner of the sport's premier title. But after a disappointing following year, in which his only final appearance was in the British Open Squash Championship in England, losing to David Palmer in four games 10–11 (4–6), 11–7, 11–10 (3–1), 11–7, Shabana stormed back to the top of his game in 2005. Over a short period, he acquired a new coach, Ahmed Tahir; a new manager", "id": "522232" }, { "contents": "Comparison of codices Sinaiticus and Vaticanus\n\n\n13:39a 13:39b 13:41 13:42 13:44a 13:44b 13:48 13:50 13:54 13:55 13:57a 13:57 b 14:1 14:2 14:3 14:4a 14:4b 14:5 14:7 14:9 14:12 14:13 14:15a 14:15b 14:15c 14:16 14:17 14:19a 14:19b 14:22a 14:22b 14:22c 14:23 14:24 14:26 14:28a 14:28b 14:29 14:35 14:36 15:3 15:4 15:5 15:6 15:11a 15:11b 15:12 15:14 15:15 15:17 15:17 15:17 15:22 15:22 15:27 15:30 15:31 15:31 15:31 16:6 16:9 16:12 17:10 17:15 17:17 18:7 18:14 18:16 19:7 19:10 19:12 19:16 19:22 21:16 21:17 21:19 21:28 21:33 22:1 22:11 22:40 23:3 23:8 23:35 23:35b 23:37 24:2 24:9 24:24 24:26 24:30 24:31 24:35 24:48 25:3 25:17 25:22 26:33 26:50", "id": "1385581" }, { "contents": "John White (squash player)\n\n\nJohn White (born 15 June 1973 in Mount Isa, Australia) is a former World No. 1 squash player. White finished runner-up at both the World Open and the British Open in 2002. He won the PSA Masters title in 2003 (beating Thierry Lincou in the final 15–8, 17–15, 17–16). He also won the British National Championships in 2004 (beating Lee Beachill in the final 17–16, 17–14, 14–15, 15–8). White reached the World No. 1 ranking in March 2004. White", "id": "14402929" }, { "contents": "2011 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship\n\n\nDraw 7 21:30 Draw 9 15:00 Draw 12 08:00 Draw 13 11:00 Draw 14 14:30 Draw 17 08:00 Draw 18 11:30 Draw 20 18:00 Draw 21 21:30 Draw 2 15:00 Draw 4 08:00 Draw 6 18:00 Draw 7 21:30 Draw 8 11:30 Draw 9 15:00 Draw 10 18:00 Draw 12 08:00 Draw 14 14:30 Draw 15 18:00 Draw 16 21:30 Draw 18 11:30 Draw 19 14:30 Draw 2 15:00 Draw 3 21:30 Draw 5 14:30 Draw 6 18:00 Draw 7 21:30 Draw 8 11:30 Draw 9 15:00 Draw 11 21:30 Draw 12 08:00 Draw 15 18:00 Draw 16 21:30 Draw", "id": "12545021" }, { "contents": "2016 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship\n\n\n8 21:00 Draw 9 8:00 Draw 10 11:15 Draw 13 21:00 Draw 14 8:00 Draw 15 11:15 Draw 17 17:45 Draw 20 11:15 Draw 21 14:30 Draw 22 17:45 Draw 23 21:00 Draw 24 8:00 Draw 25 11:15 Draw 1 12:00 Draw 2 16:00 Draw 4 8:00 Draw 5 11:15 Draw 6 14:30 Draw 7 17:45 Draw 9 8:00 Draw 11 14:30 Draw 12 17:45 Draw 13 21:00 Draw 15 11:15 Draw 17 17:45 Draw 19 8:00 Draw 21 14:30 Draw 22 17:45 Draw 24 8:00 Draw 25 11:15 \"Thursday, April 21, 17:45\" \"Thursday,", "id": "1156734" }, { "contents": "Codex Dublinensis\n\n\nει. Matthew 1:17-2:6, 2:13-20, 4:4-13, 5:45-6:15, 7:16-8:6, 10:40-11:18, 12:43-13:11, 13:57-14:19, 15:13-23, 17:9-17, 17:26-18:6, 19:4-12, 21-28, 20:7-21:8, 21:23-30, 22:16-25, 22:37-23:3, 23:15-23, 24:15-25, 25:1-11, 26:21-29, 62-71. The Greek text of this codex is a representative", "id": "16200586" }, { "contents": "Frisingensia Fragmenta\n\n\n15:13; 1 Cor 1:1-27; 1:28-3:5; 6:1-7:7; 15:1-1:43; 16:12-27; 2 Cor 1:1-2:10; 3:17-5:1; 7:10-8:12; 9:10-11:21; 12:14-13:10; Gal 2:5-4:3; 6:5-17; Eph 1:1-13; 1:16-2:16; 6:24; Phil 1:1-20; 1 Tim 1:12-2:15; 5:18-6:13; Hbr 6:6-7:5; 7:8-8:1; 9:27-11:7. 1 John 3:8 - 5:9.", "id": "5758263" }, { "contents": "Minuscule 506\n\n\n-30; 17:5-8; 24:22-24; John 1:1-7:39; 8:31-9:11; 10:10-11:54; 12:36-13:27; Acts 1:1-7:49; 10:19-14:10; 15:15-16:11; 18:1-21:25; 23:18-28:31; James 1:1-3:17; 1 Corinthians 12:11-15:12; 16:13-15; 2 Corinthians 13:4. 5; Galatians [5:16-6:1]; 6:1-18; 2 Timothy 3:10. 11; Titus 3:5-7. The Greek text of the codex is a", "id": "14754278" }, { "contents": "Rocky Carson\n\n\nthe finals by defeating Anthony Herrera and David Horn in the semi-finals, 15-9, 15-3. But in the final Carson and Allen lost to Jake Bredenbeck and Jose Diaz, 15-14, 15-11. He won the 2016 USAR National Singles Championships in Highlands Ranch, Colorado, where Carson defeated [[Chris Crowther]] in the semi-finals, 13-15, 15-12, 11-7, and then beat Diaz in the final, 15-10, 15", "id": "17077704" }, { "contents": "Codex Nitriensis\n\n\nno references to the Eusebian Canons. Gospel of Luke 1:1-13, 1:69-2:4, 2:16-27, 4:38-5:5, 5:25-6:8, 6:18-36, 6:39, 6:49-7:22, 7:44, 7:46, 7:47, 7:50, 8:1-3, 8:5-15, 8:25-9:1, 9:12-43, 10:3-16, 11:5-27, 12:4-15, 12:40-52, 13:26-14:1, 14:12-15:1, 15:13-16:16, 17:21-18:10, 18:22-20:20,", "id": "14992375" }, { "contents": "Del Harris (squash player)\n\n\n16–17, 15–8. That year Harris was also part of the winning England team in the 1995 Men's World Team Squash Championships and in addition he won the Super Series Finals event, beating Brett Martin of Australia in the final 10–8, 7–9, 9–4, 6–9, 9–2. Further success came in 1997 when he was once again part of the winning England team in the 1997 Men's World Team Squash Championships. Harris won the British National Squash Championships twice, in 1987 and 1989 and reached his career-high world ranking", "id": "20966690" }, { "contents": "2012 European Mixed Curling Championship\n\n\nDraw 14 8:30 Draw 16 15:30 Draw 1 19:30 Draw 2 9:00 Draw 3 12:30 Draw 4 16:00 Draw 5 19:30 Draw 6 9:00 Draw 8 16:00 Draw 11 12:30 Draw 13 19:30 Draw 14 8:30 Draw 15 12:00 Draw 16 15:30 Draw 17 19:00 Draw 2 9:00 Draw 4 16:00 Draw 6 9:00 Draw 7 12:30 Draw 8 16:00 Draw 9 19:30 Draw 10 9:00 Draw 12 16:00 Draw 15 12:00 Draw 17 19:00 \"Friday, October 5, 9:00\" \"Friday, October 5, 21:00\" \"Saturday, October 6, 17:00\" \"", "id": "19557062" }, { "contents": "2017 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship\n\n\n10 8:00 Draw 12 14:30 Draw 13 17:45 Draw 19 21:00 Draw 21 11:15 Draw 22 14:30 Draw 24 21:00 Draw 25 8:00 Draw 27 14:30 Draw 2 11:15 Draw 4 20:00 Draw 6 11:15 Draw 7 14:30 Draw 9 21:00 Draw 11 11:15 Draw 15 8:00 Draw 17 14:30 Draw 20 8:00 Draw 23 17:45 Draw 26 11:15 Draw 27 14:30 \"Friday, April 28, 9:00\" \"Friday, April 28, 12:30\" \"Friday, April 28, 16:00\" \"Friday, April 28, 19:30\" \"Saturday, April 29,", "id": "20611919" }, { "contents": "Coby Iwaasa\n\n\nIwaasa finished 3rd by defeating Tim Landeryou, 15-11, 15-9. He won the 2nd Selection Event that season in Brossard, Québec, where he beat Pedro Castro in the final, 15-9, 6-15, 11-8. In the semi-finals, Iwaasa beat Landeryou, 12-15, 15-4, 11-7. Iwaasa played seven tournaments in the 2014-15 International Racquetball Tour season, but only made it to the quarterfinals in the second last event of the", "id": "8038015" }, { "contents": "Jack Huczek\n\n\nthe semi-finals, 15-6, 9-15, 11-4. In the 2002-03 IRT season, Huczek was in four finals, winning the final event of the season: Pro Nationals in Tempe, Arizona, where he beat Alvaro Beltran, 11-4, 11-6, 11-8, in the final after defeating Rocky Carson in the semis, 11-1, 11-6, 11-7, and Cliff Swain in the quarters, 11-6, 15-", "id": "17077735" }, { "contents": "Samuel Murray (racquetball)\n\n\nNovember 2015, in Brossard, Québec, where he beat Mike Green in the final, 15-10, 15-13. He defeated Tim Landeryou to reach the final, 15-7, 15-12. In the 2nd Selection Event that season, he lost a tie-breaker to Landeryou in the semi-finals, 10-15, 15-12, 11-9. But he did win the 3rd place match against Pedro Castro, 15-6, 15-1. Murray played at the", "id": "7910649" }, { "contents": "1995–96 Regionalliga\n\n\n! 6 ! 7 ! 8 ! 9 ! 10 ! 11 ! 12 ! 13 ! 14 ! 15 ! 16 ! 17 ! 18 The Regionalliga Nordost ! 1 ! 2 ! 3 ! 4 ! 5 ! 6 ! 7 ! 8 ! 9 ! 10 ! 11 ! 12 ! 13 ! 14 ! 15 ! 16 ! 17 ! 18 The Regionalliga West/Südwest: ! 1 ! 2 ! 3 ! 4 ! 5 ! 6 ! 7 ! 8 ! 9 ! 10 ! 11 ! 12 ! 13 ! 14 !", "id": "13380860" }, { "contents": "2014 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship\n\n\nDraw 8 17:45 Draw 11 11:15 Draw 14 21:00 Draw 16 11:15 Draw 17 14:30 Draw 20 8:00 Draw 22 14:30 Draw 24 21:00 Draw 25 8:00 Draw 26 11:15 Draw 1 8:15 Draw 2 12:00 Draw 3 15:45 Draw 5 8:00 Draw 6 11:15 Draw 7 14:30 Draw 9 21:00 Draw 10 8:00 Draw 12 14:30 Draw 13 17:45 Draw 14 21:00 Draw 15 8:00 Draw 16 11:15 Draw 17 14:30 Draw 18 17:45 Draw 20 8:00 Draw 21 11:15 Draw 23 17:45 Draw 24 21:00 Draw 3 15:45 Draw 4 19:30 Draw 7 14:30 Draw 8 17:45 Draw", "id": "15498978" }, { "contents": "Rocky Carson\n\n\nto the final with a win over Chris Crowther in the semi-finals, 15-7, 15-10. Carson’s Men’s Singles World Championship in 2008 qualified him for the 2009 World Games in Kaohsiung, Republic of China, where he captured the silver medal in Men's Singles. Carson beat Canadian Mike Green, 15-9, 15-9, in the quarterfinals, and Mexican Alvaro Beltran in the semi-finals, 9-15, 15-7, 11-8, to set up", "id": "17077685" }, { "contents": "2018 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship\n\n\nDraw 27 16:00 Draw 28 19:30 Draw 1 9:00 Draw 2 12:30 Draw 3 16:30 Draw 5 8:00 Draw 8 17:45 Draw 10 8:00 Draw 11 11:15 Draw 12 14:30 Draw 13 17:45 Draw 18 17:45 Draw 19 21:00 Draw 21 11:15 Draw 22 14:30 Draw 25 8:00 Draw 26 12:30 Draw 27 16:00 Draw 2 12:30 Draw 4 20:00 Draw 6 11:15 Draw 7 14:30 Draw 9 21:00 Draw 10 8:00 Draw 11 11:15 Draw 12 14:30 Draw 14 21:00 Draw 15 8:00 Draw 16 11:15 Draw 18 17:45 Draw 19 21:00 Draw 20 8:00 Draw 21 11:15 Draw", "id": "3983102" }, { "contents": "Rocky Carson\n\n\nIRT season. Carson won the 2001 Pan American Racquetball Championships in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, where he defeated Canadian Kane Waselenchuk in the final, 15-9, 15-13. Carson was the defending champion at the 2001 USAR National Singles Championships, and had a chance to defend the title, but lost to Jack Huczek, 15-11, 15-6. Carson beat Dan Fowler in the semi-finals, 15-8, 15-10, to reach the final. Carson took a step back", "id": "17077670" }, { "contents": "Gail Emms\n\n\nKellogg. They defeated Koon Wai Chee and Li Wing Mui of Hong Kong in the first round but were defeated by Zhao Tingting and Wei Yili of China in the second round. She also competed in mixed doubles with Robertson. They had a bye in the first round and defeated Björn Siegemund and Nicol Pitro of Germany in the second. In the quarterfinals, Emms and Robertson beat Chen Qiqiu and Zhao Tingting of China 15–8, 17–15 to advance to the semifinals. There, they beat Jonas Rasmussen and Rikke Olsen of Denmark 15–6", "id": "555457" }, { "contents": "Wellington Rugby Football Union\n\n\nNew South Wales 9–5 1896 beat Queensland 49–7 1901 beat New South Wales 17–16 1905 beat Australia 23–7 (combined team with Wairarapa and Horowhenua 1908 beat Anglo-Welsh 19–13 1921 lost to South Africa 3–8 1921 beat New South Wales 16–8 1923 beat New South Wales 29–16 (combined team with Manawatu) 1925 beat New South Wales 20–8 (combined team with Manawatu and Horowhenua) 1930 beat British Lions 12–8 1931 beat Australia 15–8 1937 lost to South Africa 0–29 1946 lost to Australia 15–16 1950 lost to British Isles 6–12 1956 lost to South Africa", "id": "5981175" }, { "contents": "Samuel Murray (racquetball)\n\n\n, 7-15, 15-3, 11-7, and then lost to Mexican Daniel De La Rosa, 15-12, 15-7. Murray won the 1st National Team Selection event of the 2016-17 season in Valleyfield, Québec, where he defeated James Landeryou, 15-4, 15-4, in the final. In the semi-finals, Murray beat Landeryou’s older brother Tim, 15-9, 15-13. At the 2nd selection event that season in Calgary,", "id": "7910652" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from South Carolina\n\n\n5 ! rowspan=4 | 6 ! rowspan=8 | 7 ! 6 ! rowspan=3 | 7 ! rowspan=3 | 8 ! rowspan=9 | 8 ! rowspan=5 | 9 ! rowspan=4 | 10 ! 9 ! rowspan=5 | 10 ! rowspan=15 | 11 ! 11 ! 12 ! rowspan=2 | 13 ! 14 ! rowspan=5 | 15 ! rowspan=6 | 12 ! 16 ! rowspan=2 | 17 ! rowspan=6 | 18 ! rowspan=3 | 13 ! rowspan=3 | 14 ! rowspan=9 | 19 ! rowspan=6 | 15 ! rowspan=3 | 16 ! rowspan=16 | 20 ! 17 ! rowspan=3 | 18 !", "id": "20744133" }, { "contents": "Alejandro Landa\n\n\n-4. Then at the end of the year, Landa beat Jaime Martell in the final of the Alamo City Open in San Antonio, beating Bredenbeck in the quarterfinals and David Horn in the semi-finals to reach the final. In 2016, Landa successfully defended his Alamo City Open title by beating Cardona in the final, 15-6, 15-10. He defeated Andree Parrilla, 15-12, 15-11, in the quarterfinals, and Jaime Martell, 15-11, 15-13,", "id": "8690377" }, { "contents": "Minuscule 172\n\n\n; 5:2-16; 6:2-7:2; 7:16-8:10; 8:38-9:13; 9:26-39; 10:9-22; 10:43-13:1; 23:32-24:24; 28:23-James 1:5; 3:6-4:16; 2 Peter 3:10-1 John 1:1; 3:13-4:2; Jude 16-25; Romans 14:23 - 15:1.4; 1 Corinthians 3:15-15:23; 2 Corinthians 10: 14-11:19; 13:5-13; Ephesians 1:1-2:14; 5:29-6:24 Colossians 1:24-26; 2:4-7; 2 Thessalonians 1:1", "id": "8396043" }, { "contents": "Jack Huczek\n\n\nseeded #1, and in the semi-finals beat Michael Bronfeld, 15-2, 15-9, to reach the final for the second consecutive year. However, Huczek lost the final to Mike Guidry, 15-10, 12-15, 11-9. In 2002, Huczek again partnered with Eric Muller at the USAR National Doubles Championships, and they reached the finals before losing to Ruben Gonzalez and Mike Guidry, 15-7, 15-10. They defeated Jason Thoerner and Mitch Williams in", "id": "17077734" }, { "contents": "2010–11 in Hong Kong football\n\n\non 8 October. However, the heavy rain flooded the field, so the ball flow on the water and could not be kick. The match was abandoned at 14th-minute. The rematch played on 9 October, Hong Kong defeated the Philippines by 4–2. The 2010 Asian Games will play between 7 November and 27 November in Guangzhou, China. Hong Kong national under-15 football team won all the group stage matches in the championship, which hold in Guam. Hong Kong beat Chinese Taipei in semi-final but lose by", "id": "3640662" }, { "contents": "2016 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship\n\n\nDraw 11 14:30 Draw 12 17:45 Draw 15 11:15 Draw 16 14:30 Draw 18 21:00 Draw 21 14:30 Draw 25 11:15 Draw 26 14:30 Draw 2 16:00 Draw 4 8:00 Draw 6 14:30 Draw 10 11:15 Draw 11 14:30 Draw 13 21:00 Draw 16 14:30 Draw 17 17:45 Draw 19 8:00 Draw 24 8:00 Draw 25 11:15 Draw 4 8:00 Draw 5 11:15 Draw 7 17:45 Draw 9 8:00 Draw 10 11:15 Draw 11 14:30 Draw 14 8:00 Draw 16 14:30 Draw 18 21:00 Draw 23 21:00 Draw 26 14:30 Draw 2 16:00 Draw 3 20:00 Draw 6 14:30 Draw", "id": "1156733" }, { "contents": "Easter Vigil\n\n\n-16; 3. Exodus 12:1-11; 4. Jonah 1:1-4:11; 5. Joshua 5:10-15; 6. Exodus 13:20-15:19; 7. Zephaniah 3:8-15; 8. 3 Kings 17:8-24; 9. Isaiah 61:10-62:5; 10. Genesis 22:1-18; 11. Isaiah 61:1-9; 12. 4 Kings 4:8-37; 13. Isaiah 63:11-64:5; 14. Jeremiah 31:31-34; 15. Daniel 3:1-68. It is during these", "id": "3156542" }, { "contents": "Jackie Paraiso\n\n\nBrodeur, 15-8, 15-6, in 2008. In between, she won three straight World Championships in 1994, 1996, and 1998. Laura Fenton was Paraiso's partner in 1994, when they beat Vicky Shanks and Debbie Ward of Canada, 15-9, 15-7. Then in 1996 and 1998, Paraiso's twin sister Joy MacKenzie was her partner, as they beat Shanks and Ward in 1996, 15-11, 15-4, and Shanks and Grand'Maître in 1998, 15-", "id": "21029455" }, { "contents": "Jahangir Khan\n\n\nover Jahangir in September 1987, beating him in straight games in the semi-finals of the Hong Kong Open. Jansher then went on to beat Jahangir in their next eight consecutive encounters and capture the 1987 World Open title. Jahangir ended Jansher's winning streak in March 1988, and went on to win 11 of their next 15 encounters. The pair met in the 1988 World Open final, with Jahangir emerging the victor. But by that point it had become clear that squash now had two dominant players. The pair would", "id": "414920" }, { "contents": "Samuel Murray (racquetball)\n\n\ncame 3rd, as they lost to Green and Trevor Webb in the semi-finals, 15-13, 4-15, 11-5, but beat Lee Connell and Nathaniel Husulak, 15-9, 16-14. Murray won the 1st National Team Selection event of the 2017-18 season, as he defeated Tim Landeryou, 15-3, 15-8, in the final. In the semi-finals, Murray beat Coby Iwaasa, 15-11, 15-8. Murray and Landeryou", "id": "7910655" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Maine\n\n\n| 4 ! rowspan=3 | 7 ! rowspan=6 | 5 ! 8 ! rowspan=6 | 9 ! rowspan=9 | 6 ! 10 ! rowspan=2 | 11 ! rowspan=7 | 12 ! 7 ! rowspan=3 | 8 ! rowspan=10 | 13 ! rowspan=4 | 9 ! rowspan=4 | 10 ! rowspan=17 | 14 ! rowspan=16 | 11 ! rowspan=7 | 15 ! 12 ! rowspan=2 | 13 ! rowspan=6 | 14 ! rowspan=14 | 16 ! rowspan=3 | 15 ! rowspan=9 | 16 ! rowspan=6 | 17 ! rowspan=13 | 17 ! rowspan=3 | 18 ! rowspan=11 | 19 ! rowspan=3", "id": "20744038" }, { "contents": "Men's Home Internationals\n\n\nafternoon. Scotland and England beat Ireland and Wales on the first two days. On the final day Scotland beat England 8–7 to win the title while Ireland beat Wales 9½–5½. The 1933 tournament was held at Royal County Down Golf Club from 14 to 16 September. The results of all six matches was the same as in 1932, Scotland beating England in the decisive match. In the 1934 tournament at Royal Porthcawl Golf Club from 15 to 17 August, Ireland beat England on the opening day. With Scotland beating England, Scotland retained", "id": "17763243" }, { "contents": "Codex Vaticanus 2061\n\n\nwas . The surviving leaves contain texts (according to Nestle-Aland 26th): Acts 26:6-27:4, 28:3-31; James 4:14-5:20; 1 Peter 1:1-12; 2 Peter 2:4-8, 2:13-3:15; 1 John 4:6-5:13, 5:17-18, 5:21; 2 John; 3 John; Romans 13:4-15:9; 1 Corinthians 2:1-3:11, 3:22, 4:4-6, 5:5-11, 6:3-11, 12:23-15:17, 15:20-27; 2 Corinthians 4:7", "id": "9378418" }, { "contents": "2012 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship\n\n\n17:45 Draw 11 21:00 Draw 12 8:00 Draw 13 11:15 Draw 14 14:30 Draw 15 17:45 Draw 16 21:00 Draw 17 8:00 Draw 18 11:15 Draw 19 14:30 Draw 20 17:45 Draw 21 21:00 Draw 23 11:15 Draw 1 18:45 Draw 3 11:15 Draw 5 17:45 Draw 6 21:00 Draw 8 11:15 Draw 10 17:45 Draw 12 8:00 Draw 13 11:15 Draw 14 14:30 Draw 15 17:45 Draw 16 21:00 Draw 18 11:15 Draw 20 17:45 Draw 22 8:00 Draw 1 18:45 Draw 2 8:00 Draw 3 11:15 Draw 4 14:30 Draw 5 17:45 Draw 6 21:00 Draw 7 8:00", "id": "8246326" }, { "contents": "2016 Bangladesh Championship League\n\n\nBank SC (15-16) 14 6 2 6 13 - 14 -1 20 4 Bangladesh Police Athletic Club (15-16) 14 4 6 4 11 - 9 2 18 5 T&T Club (15-16) 14 4 5 5 14 - 14 0 17 6 Victoria SC (15-16) 14 3 5 6 14 - 16 -2 14 7 Kawran Bazar (15-16) 14 2 8 4 7 - 12 -5 14 8 Chittagong Mohammedan (15-16) 14 2 4 8 13 -", "id": "13232613" }, { "contents": "Timeline of the 2012 Pacific hurricane season\n\n\nJune 16 June 17 July 4 July 5 July 7 July 8 July 9 July 10 July 11 July 12 July 13 July 14 July 15 July 16 July 18 August 7 August 8 August 9 August 11 August 12 August 15 August 17 August 27 August 30 August 31 September 2 September 3 September 4 September 12 September 14 September 15 September 16 September 17 September 18 September 19 September 22 September 24 September 25 September 26 September 27 September 28 September 29 October 6 October 7 October 9 October 13 October 15 October 16 October 17 October 30", "id": "21319682" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Missouri\n\n\n! rowspan=3 | 12 ! rowspan=18 | 6 ! 13 ! 14 ! rowspan=12 | 15 ! rowspan=9 | 16 ! rowspan=3 | 7 ! rowspan=15 | 8 ! 17 ! rowspan=5 | 18 ! 19 ! rowspan=4 | 20 ! rowspan=4 | 9 ! rowspan=7 | 21 ! rowspan=6 | 10 ! rowspan=4 | 22 ! 11 ! rowspan=3 | 12 ! rowspan=5 | 23 ! rowspan=15 | 13 ! rowspan=5 | 24 ! rowspan=11 | 25 ! rowspan=10 | 14 ! rowspan=13 | 26 ! rowspan=3 | 15 ! 16 ! rowspan=3 | 17 ! rowspan=6 | 18", "id": "20744052" }, { "contents": "Chris Marlowe\n\n\n15, 13-15, 15-9, 15-11, 15-12 for a 3-2 win. The win set up a championship final between San Diego State and the Bruins. In the championship match SDSU jumped out 2 games to none, and with an 8-3 lead in the third appeared ready for a three-game sweep. However the Bruins rallied back to win it, 10-15, 9-15, 15-9, 15-10, 15-7. UCLA", "id": "21040396" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Virginia\n\n\n| 4 ! 5 ! rowspan=2 | 6 ! 7 ! 5 ! rowspan=3 | 8 ! rowspan=8 | 6 ! rowspan=3 | 9 ! rowspan=14 | 10 ! 7 ! rowspan=2 | 8 ! rowspan=2 | 9 ! rowspan=2 | 10 ! rowspan=7 | 11 ! 11 ! rowspan=9 | 12 ! rowspan=2 | 12 ! rowspan=4 | 13 ! rowspan=9 | 13 ! rowspan=2 | 14 ! rowspan=3 | 15 ! rowspan=6 | 16 ! 14 ! rowspan=9 | 15 ! rowspan=8 | 17 ! 16 ! rowspan=3 | 18 ! 17 ! rowspan=4 | 18 ! rowspan=8", "id": "20744171" }, { "contents": "Jennifer Saunders (racquetball)\n\n\ntogether that year, in the final, 15-6, 8-15, 11-8. But Saunders didn’t successfully defend her Women's Singles title, although she did get to the final for a third straight year. In the semi-finals, Saunders beat Grand'Maître in the semi-finals, 15-7, 15-8, but in the final, she narrowly lost to Powell, 8-15, 15-4, 13-11. Her performances helped to earn Saunders a spot on", "id": "14324066" }, { "contents": "2018 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship\n\n\nThe 2018 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship was held from April 21 to 28 at the Östersund Arena in Östersund, Sweden. The event was held in conjunction with the 2018 World Senior Curling Championships. \"Final Round Robin Standings\" All draw times are listed in CEST (UTC+2) Draw 1 9:00 Draw 4 20:00 Draw 6 11:15 Draw 7 14:30 Draw 8 17:45 Draw 9 21:00 Draw 10 8:00 Draw 13 17:45 Draw 15 8:00 Draw 16 11:15 Draw 17 14:30 Draw 18 17:45 Draw 20 8:00 Draw 22 14:30 Draw 24 21:00 Draw 26", "id": "3983100" }, { "contents": "Carla Khan\n\n\nInternational, where she came from behind to beat Melissa Martin from Australia, 3–9, 4–9, 9–4, 9–7, 9–3. She broke into the top 30. At the Irish Open in 2004, Khan defeated Nicol David of Malaysia (who was ranked number 9 in the world at that time) on 15 April 2004, and achieved her highest ranking of 21. In 2005, Khan lost in the final of the Forbes Open to England's Alison Walters. However, she made it to the final of the 1st POF", "id": "9884495" }, { "contents": "Codex Climaci Rescriptus\n\n\n9-21; 9:30;10:3-9; 15:11-21 I Corin. 1:6-23; 4:1-15; 13: 4-11; 14:4-7; 14:8-14; 14:24-37; 15:3-10; 15:24-49; 16:16-24 II Corin. 1:23-2: 4-11; 4:18-5:6; 5:6-12; 6:3-16; 7:3-8 Galat. 1:1-23; 3:20-24; 4:2; 4:4-29; 5:1; 5:24; 6:4-12", "id": "9480761" }, { "contents": "2014 World Senior Curling Championships – Men's tournament\n\n\n7:30 Draw 6 11:00 Draw 8 18:00 Draw 9 21:30 Draw 12 15:30 Draw 13 19:00 Draw 15 11:00 Draw 16 14:30 Draw 18 21:30 Draw 20 12:00 Draw 22 19:00 Draw 23 8:30 Draw 1 8:00 Draw 4 19:30 Draw 6 11:00 Draw 7 14:30 Draw 10 8:30 Draw 11 12:00 Draw 14 7:30 Draw 15 11:00 Draw 16 14:30 Draw 17 18:00 Draw 19 08:30 Draw 21 15:30 \"Tuesday, April 29, 14:00\" \"Tuesday, April 29, 19:30\" \"Wednesday, April 30, 8:00\" \"Wednesday, April 30,", "id": "16343740" }, { "contents": "2017 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship\n\n\nThe 2017 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship was held from April 22 to 29 at the Lethbridge Curling Club in Lethbridge, Canada. The event was held in conjunction with the 2017 World Senior Curling Championships. \"Final Round Robin Standings\" All draw times are listed in MDT (UTC-6). Draw 1 8:00 Draw 7 14:30 Draw 9 21:00 Draw 10 8:00 Draw 11 11:15 Draw 13 17:45 Draw 15 8:00 Draw 17 14:30 Draw 18 17:45 Draw 21 11:15 Draw 22 14:30 Draw 24 21:00 Draw 25 8:00 Draw 3 15:00 Draw 4 8:00", "id": "20611917" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Kansas\n\n\nrowspan=2 | 3 ! rowspan=12 | 2 ! 4 ! rowspan=2 | 5 ! rowspan=8 | 6 ! rowspan=5 | 3 ! 7 ! 8 ! rowspan=3 | 9 ! rowspan=3 | 4 ! rowspan=3 | 10 ! rowspan=6 | 5 ! 11 ! rowspan=4 | 12 ! rowspan=3 | 6 ! rowspan=3 | 13 ! rowspan=7 | 7 ! rowspan=17 | 14 ! 8 ! rowspan=5 | 9 ! rowspan=6 | 10 ! rowspan=10 | 15 ! 11 ! rowspan=12 | 12 ! rowspan=9 | 16 ! rowspan=15 | 13 ! rowspan=12 | 17 ! 14 ! rowspan=8 |", "id": "20743950" }, { "contents": "1977 NCAA Division I football season\n\n\nto move to third, and the Wolverines returned to the top: 1.Michigan 2.Texas 3.Colorado 4.Alabama 5.Ohio State October 15 No. 1 Michigan beat No. 14 Wisconsin 56–0, and No. 2 Texas won at No. 7 Arkansas, 13–9. No. 3 Colorado played at Kansas, a 17–17 tie. No. 4 Alabama beat Tennessee in Birmingham, 24–10. No. 5 Ohio State beat Iowa 27–6. No. 6 USC beat Oregon 33–15 to return to the top five: 1.Michigan 2.Texas 3.Alabama 4.Ohio State 5.USC October 22", "id": "8560170" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Texas\n\n\n3 ! rowspan=6 | 6 ! rowspan=11 | 4 ! rowspan=3 | 7 ! 8 ! rowspan=4 | 9 ! rowspan=3 | 5 ! rowspan=15 | 10 ! rowspan=6 | 6 ! 7 ! rowspan=16 | 8 ! rowspan=3 | 11 ! rowspan=16 | 12 ! 9 ! rowspan=4 | 10 ! rowspan=8 | 11 ! rowspan=3 | 13 ! 14 ! rowspan=8 | 15 ! 12 ! rowspan=12 | 13 ! rowspan=12 | 16 ! rowspan=12 | 14 ! 17 ! rowspan=12 | 18 ! rowspan=10 | 15 ! rowspan=5 | 19 , there are three living former senators", "id": "20744168" }, { "contents": "Samuel Murray (racquetball)\n\n\nIwaasa, 9-15, 15-6, 11-6. He also defeated Iwaasa in the 2nd National Team Selection Event in Grande Prairie, Alberta, 15-10, 15-10. He defeated Pedro Castro in the semi-finals, 15-6, 15-9. Murray began the 2018-19 IRT season strongly, as he made his first final at the first event of the season - the 2018 MWRA Season Opener IRT Pro/Am in Laurel, Maryland, where he beat Alejandro Landa", "id": "7910660" }, { "contents": "Alejandro Landa\n\n\ntwo of them. Both wins came in Juarez, Mexico. He defeated Javier Moreno in April and then beat Jake Bredenbeck in August, 15–10, 15-10. Landa reached the semi-finals at the US Open for the first time in 2014, as he beat Jose Rojas in the Round of 16, 3-11, 11-9, 14-12, 6-11, 11-4 and Daniel De La Rosa in the quarterfinals, 11-2, 11-8, 11-6,", "id": "8690374" }, { "contents": "Hong Kong Women's Sevens\n\n\nFinals Canada 35–14 Netherlands Kazakhstan 12–7 China USA 45–0 Arabian Gulf France 15–7 Japan 9th to 12th Semi Finals Hong Kong 15–0 Singapore Papua New Guinea 0–29 Thailand Bowl (5th to 8th) Semi Finals Netherlands 5–5 China (China win on try countback) Arabian Gulf 0–10 Japan Cup Semi Finals Canada 26–0 Kazakhstan USA 5–0 France 11th Place Singapore 5–17 Papua New Guinea 9th Place Hong Kong 15–7 Thailand 7th Place Netherlands 19–0 Arabian Gulf Bowl Final China 17–7 Japan Plate Final France 24–0 Kazakhstan Cup Final USA 21–7 Canada 27 March 2009 at Hong Kong.", "id": "7314433" }, { "contents": "Badminton at the 1981 World Games\n\n\n10 4. William Gilliland/Daniel Travers (Scotland) d. Egbeyemi/Badiru (Nigeria), 15-6, 15-6 Semi-finals 1. Sun Zhian/Yao Ximing d. Kartono/Heryanto, 3-15, 15-11, 15-8 2. Kihlstrom/Karlsson d. Gilliland/Travers, 10-15, 15-0, 15-9 Final Sun Zhian/Yao Ximing d. Kihlstrom/Karlsson, 12-15, 15-4, 15-6. Bronze medals: Kartono", "id": "1386468" }, { "contents": "2018 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship\n\n\n12:30 Draw 27 16:00 Draw 1 9:00 Draw 3 16:30 Draw 5 8:00 Draw 11 11:15 Draw 12 14:30 Draw 14 21:00 Draw 15 8:00 Draw 17 14:30 Draw 18 17:45 Draw 19 21:00 Draw 20 8:00 Draw 21 11:15 Draw 22 14:30 Draw 23 17:45 Draw 24 21:00 Draw 28 19:30 Draw 2 12:30 Draw 3 16:30 Draw 4 20:00 Draw 6 11:15 Draw 7 14:30 Draw 9 21:00 Draw 11 11:15 Draw 13 17:45 Draw 14 21:00 Draw 16 11:15 Draw 17 14:30 Draw 20 8:00 Draw 22 14:30 Draw 23 17:45 Draw 25 9:00 Draw 26 12:30", "id": "3983101" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Colorado\n\n\nrowspan=5 | 5 ! rowspan=3 | 8 ! rowspan=9 | 9 ! rowspan=2 | 6 ! 7 ! rowspan=2 | 8 ! rowspan=3 | 9 ! rowspan=6 | 10 ! 10 ! 11 ! rowspan=5 | 12 ! rowspan=11 | 11 ! rowspan=8 | 13 ! rowspan=9 | 12 ! rowspan=3 | 14 ! rowspan=6 | 15 ! rowspan=3 | 13 ! rowspan=6 | 16 ! rowspan=6 | 14 ! rowspan=3 | 17 ! rowspan=4 | 15 ! rowspan=7 | 18 ! rowspan=6 | 16 ! rowspan=3 | 19 ! rowspan=4 | 17 ! rowspan=7 | 20 ! rowspan=3 |", "id": "20743826" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Arkansas\n\n\nrowspan=3 | 6 ! rowspan=5 | 6 ! rowspan=3 | 7 ! rowspan=11 | 8 ! rowspan=11 | 7 ! rowspan=10 | 9 ! rowspan=3 | 8 ! 9 ! 10 ! rowspan=17 | 11 ! rowspan=3 | 10 ! rowspan=6 | 11 ! rowspan=11 | 12 ! rowspan=3 | 12 ! 13 ! rowspan=19 | 14 ! rowspan=15 | 13 ! rowspan=14 | 14 ! 15 ! rowspan=9 | 16 ! rowspan=3 | 17 ! rowspan=6 | 15 ! rowspan=6 | 18 ! rowspan=6 | 16 ! rowspan=3 | 19 , there are five living former senators. The", "id": "20743822" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from New Hampshire\n\n\n! rowspan=3 | 9 ! rowspan=3 | 10 ! rowspan=5 | 8 ! 11 ! rowspan=3 | 12 ! rowspan=4 | 9 ! 13 ! rowspan=6 | 14 ! 10 ! 11 ! rowspan=3 | 12 ! rowspan=6 | 15 ! 13 ! 14 ! 16 ! rowspan=7 | 15 ! rowspan=2 | 17 ! rowspan=5 | 18 ! rowspan=8 | 16 ! 19 ! rowspan=3 | 20 ! rowspan=3 | 21 ! rowspan=6 | 17 ! 22 ! rowspan=12 | 23 ! rowspan=3 | 18 ! rowspan=2 | 19 ! 20 ! 21 ! rowspan=6 | 22 ! rowspan=15", "id": "20744074" }, { "contents": "Dihydroxy-E,Z,E-PUFA\n\n\nmake PDX by metabolizing DHA by double oxygenation a 15-lipoxygenase to form the 10\"R\",17\"S\"-hydroxperoxy intermediated which is reduced its 10\"R\",17\"S\"-hydroxyl product, PDX, probably by cytosolic GPX1 (i.e. glutathione peroxidase 1). Serial metabolism two different lipoxygenases or a lipoxygenase and a cytochrome P45) on PUFA possessing three double bonds in a 1\"Z\",4\"Z\",7\"Z\" configuration may also make a 1,7-dihydroxy 2\"E\",4\"Z\",6\"E\" product. Other platelet-inhibiting dihydroxy-\"E\",\"Z\",\"E\"-PUFA are: 10\"R\",17\"S\"-dihydroxy-4\"Z\",7\"Z\",11\"E\",13\"Z\",15\"E\",19\"Z\"-docosahexaenoic acid (10\"R\",17\"S\"-diHDHA); 8\"S\",15\"S\"-dihydroxy-5\"Z\",9\"E\",11\"Z\",13\"E\"-eicosatetraenoic acid (8\"S\",15\"S\"-diHETE); 9\"S\",16\"S\"-10\"E\",12\"Z\",14\"E\"-octadecatrienoic acid (linotrin-1); and 9\"R\",16\"S\"-10\"E\",12\"Z\",14\"E\"-octadecatrienoic acid (linotrin-2).", "id": "1779786" }, { "contents": "EU Cup\n\n\n8 October 2011. 18 national men's teams competed in the tournament. Final results were: 1. Ireland, 2. Croatia, 3. England, 4. Italy, 5. France, 6. Scotland, 7. Wales, 8. Spain, 9. European Crusaders, 10. Russia (1st time competitors), 11. Denmark, 12. Germany, 13. Finland, 14. Sweden, 15. Netherlands, 16. Austria, 17. Iceland, 18. Catalonia. Ireland defeated Switzerland in", "id": "2746657" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Indiana\n\n\nrowspan=13 | 5 ! rowspan=2 | 5 ! 6 ! rowspan=2 | 7 ! rowspan=3 | 8 ! rowspan=6 | 9 ! 6 ! 7 ! rowspan=3 | 8 ! rowspan=6 | 10 ! rowspan=3 | 9 ! rowspan=5 | 10 ! rowspan=10 | 11 ! rowspan=3 | 11 ! rowspan=6 | 12 ! rowspan=4 | 12 ! rowspan=6 | 13 ! rowspan=2 | 13 ! rowspan=4 | 14 ! rowspan=6 | 14 ! 15 ! rowspan=11 | 16 ! rowspan=3 | 15 ! rowspan=2 | 16 ! rowspan=5 | 17 ! rowspan=6 | 17 ! rowspan=3 | 18 !", "id": "20743924" }, { "contents": "Book of Nature\n\n\n. Pedersen (1992), 7–8. 3. Pedersen (1992), 9. 4. Dear (2009), 4. 5. Pedersen (1992), 10. 6. Pedersen (1992), 11–13. 7. Pedersen (1992), 14–15. 8. Pedersen (1992), 15. 9. Harrison (2001), 13. 10. Harrison (2001), 13. 11. Harrison (2001), 15. 12. Harrison (2001), 15. 13.", "id": "3587614" }, { "contents": "2014 World Senior Curling Championships – Women's tournament\n\n\nThe women's tournament of the 2014 World Senior Curling Championships was held from April 23 to 30 at the Dumfries Ice Bowl in Dumfries, Scotland. The teams are listed as follows: \"Final Round Robin Standings\" Draw 3 15:30 Draw 5 7:30 Draw 6 11:00 Draw 7 14:30 Draw 8 18:00 Draw 9 21:30 Draw 11 12:00 Draw 12 15:30 Draw 13 19:00 Draw 15 11:00 Draw 17 18:00 Draw 18 21:30 Draw 20 12:00 Draw 21 15:30 Draw 23 8:30 Draw 24 14:00 Draw 3 15:30 Draw 4 19:30 Draw 7 14:30 Draw 8", "id": "16343741" }, { "contents": "Alejandro Landa\n\n\nFalls, South Dakota, but he won the final by defeating Daniel De La Rosa, 15-6, 7-15, 11-10, in the final. En route to the final, Landa beat Tim Landeryou, 15-5, 3-15, 11-6, in the Round of 16, Rocky Carson in the quarterfinals, 15-14, 11-15, 11-4, and Samuel Murray, 15-11, 15-7, in the semi-finals. In the", "id": "8690386" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Florida\n\n\n| 4 ! rowspan=3 | 4 ! rowspan=3 | 5 ! rowspan=6 | 5 ! rowspan=11 | 6 ! rowspan=9 | 6 ! rowspan=8 | 7 ! rowspan=10 | 7 ! 8 ! 9 ! rowspan=16 | 10 ! rowspan=3 | 8 ! rowspan=10 | 9 ! rowspan=3 | 10 ! 11 ! rowspan=6 | 11 ! rowspan=10 | 12 ! rowspan=13 | 12 ! rowspan=9 | 13 ! rowspan=3 | 14 ! rowspan=11 | 13 ! rowspan=4 | 15 ! rowspan=4 | 16 ! rowspan=9 | 17 ! rowspan=6 | 14 ! rowspan=10 | 15 ! rowspan=3 | 18", "id": "20743883" }, { "contents": "Coby Iwaasa\n\n\nKitchener, Ontario with the same result: a win for Murray, 15-2, 15-5. Iwaasa and Murray played Men’s Doubles together at the 2018 Canadian Championships in Winnipeg, and they won the title by defeating Nicolas Bousquet and Tommy Murray in the final, 15-13, 10-15, 11-6. They beat the brother team of James Landeryou and Tim Landeryou in the semi-finals, 15-13, 15-10. In Men’s Singles, Iwaasa finished 2nd, as", "id": "8038021" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Wisconsin\n\n\n| 6 ! rowspan=3 | 7 ! rowspan=3 | 6 ! rowspan=6 | 8 ! rowspan=3 | 7 ! rowspan=15 | 8 ! rowspan=4 | 9 ! rowspan=2 | 10 ! rowspan=7 | 11 ! rowspan=11 | 9 ! rowspan=3 | 12 ! rowspan=3 | 13 ! rowspan=14 | 14 ! rowspan=6 | 10 ! rowspan=16 | 11 ! rowspan=9 | 15 ! rowspan=6 | 16 ! rowspan=12 | 12 ! rowspan=9 | 17 ! rowspan=6 | 18 ! rowspan=6 | 13 , there are three living former Senators, one from Class 1 and two from Class 3.", "id": "21329584" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Michigan\n\n\n! 12 ! rowspan=13 | 13 ! rowspan=3 | 10 ! rowspan=7 | 11 ! rowspan=8 | 14 ! rowspan=2 | 12 ! rowspan=10 | 13 ! rowspan=3 | 15 ! rowspan=15 | 16 ! rowspan=4 | 14 ! rowspan=9 | 15 ! 17 ! rowspan=4 | 18 ! rowspan=6 | 16 ! rowspan=11 | 19 ! rowspan=9 | 17 ! rowspan=10 | 20 ! rowspan=18 | 18 ! rowspan=3 | 21 ! rowspan=12 | 22 ! rowspan=3 | 19 , there are three former U.S. Senators from Michigan who are currently living, two from Class 1 and one", "id": "20744040" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Ohio\n\n\n| 6 ! rowspan=2 | 7 ! rowspan=2 | 8 ! rowspan=2 | 9 ! rowspan=3 | 10 ! rowspan=3 | 6 ! rowspan=6 | 11 ! rowspan=3 | 7 ! rowspan=3 | 8 ! rowspan=5 | 12 ! 9 ! rowspan=11 | 10 ! rowspan=3 | 13 ! 14 ! rowspan=9 | 15 ! rowspan=8 | 11 ! 16 ! rowspan=3 | 17 ! rowspan=9 | 12 ! rowspan=3 | 18 ! rowspan=3 | 19 ! rowspan=9 | 20 ! rowspan=4 | 13 ! rowspan=4 | 14 ! rowspan=3 | 21 ! rowspan=7 | 15 ! rowspan=3 | 22", "id": "20744100" }, { "contents": "2013 Canadian Mixed Doubles Curling Trials\n\n\nFriday, March 15, 11:30 am\" \"Friday, March 15, 2:00 pm\" \"Friday, March 15, 4:30 pm\" \"Friday, March 15, 7:00 pm\" \"Friday, March 15, 9:30 pm\" \"Saturday, March 16, 9:00 am\" \"Saturday, March 16, 11:30 am\" \"Saturday, March 16, 2:00 pm\" \"Saturday, March 16, 4:30 pm\" \"Saturday, March 16, 8:30 pm\" \"Sunday, March 17, 10:00 am\" \"Sunday", "id": "10697048" }, { "contents": "Lyon Villeurbanne XIII\n\n\nto AS Carcassonne 10–22, but they went one better in the league beating XIII Catalan 15–10 to lift the trophy for the first time. In 52/53 they won the cup beating US Villeneuve 9–8 in the final but couldn't complete a league and cup double as they lost the league final 12–19 to AS Carcassonne. They retained the cup when they beat XIII Catalan 17–15 and won their second league title when they triumphed 7–6 against AS Carcassonne in 1955. Relegation followed in 1957 but after winning the National League 1 title, now called", "id": "19573564" }, { "contents": "Park Sung-hwan\n\n\n. Two weeks later, Park was to be defeated again in the quarter-final matches of the Li Ning China Masters Super Series in Changzhou, China (to 4th seed badminton ace Lin Dan of China, 15-21, 21-13, 21-23), and the Japan Open Super Series (to Indonesian, Taufik Hidayat, 21-12, 26-28, 15-21). In November, Park participated in the Yonex Sunrise Hong Kong Open and lost 15-21, 16-21", "id": "6727931" }, { "contents": "2015 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship\n\n\nThe 2015 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship was held from April 18 to 25 at the Ice Cube Curling Center in Sochi, Russia. The event will be held in conjunction with the 2015 World Senior Curling Championships. The teams are listed as follows: Draw 1 9:00 Draw 2 11:15 Draw 3 21:00 Draw 4 11:15 Draw 5 8:00 Draw 6 17:45 Draw 7 19:30 Draw 8 11:15 Draw 9 17:45 Draw 1 12:30 Draw 2 19:30 Draw 3 14:30 Draw 4 9:00 Draw 5 11:15 Draw 6 21:00 Draw 7 12:30 Draw 8 8:00 Draw 9", "id": "12517555" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Rhode Island\n\n\n| 9 ! rowspan=3 | 7 ! rowspan=7 | 8 ! rowspan=2 | 9 ! rowspan=7 | 10 ! rowspan=2 | 10 ! 11 ! rowspan=3 | 12 ! rowspan=3 | 11 ! rowspan=4 | 13 ! rowspan=3 | 12 ! rowspan=3 | 14 ! rowspan=17 | 13 ! 15 ! rowspan=6 | 16 ! rowspan=4 | 17 ! rowspan=20 | 18 ! 14 ! rowspan=4 | 15 ! rowspan=3 | 16 ! rowspan=10 | 17 ! rowspan=3 | 19 ! rowspan=6 | 18 ! rowspan=8 | 20 ! rowspan=7 | 19 ! rowspan=3 | 21 ! rowspan=6 | 22", "id": "20744131" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from West Virginia\n\n\nrowspan=8 | 7 ! rowspan=2 | 4 ! rowspan=8 | 5 ! rowspan=9 | 8 ! 6 ! rowspan=2 | 7 ! rowspan=4 | 9 ! rowspan=3 | 8 ! rowspan=3 | 10 ! rowspan=3 | 9 ! rowspan=3 | 11 ! rowspan=3 | 10 ! rowspan=3 | 12 ! rowspan=7 | 11 ! rowspan=3 | 13 ! rowspan=10 | 14 ! 12 ! 13 ! rowspan=3 | 14 ! rowspan=8 | 15 ! 15 ! rowspan=5 | 16 ! 16 ! rowspan=14 | 17 ! rowspan=27 | 17 ! rowspan=18 | 18 ! 18 ! rowspan=8 | 19 !", "id": "20744177" }, { "contents": "Academy of Saint Elizabeth\n\n\nstudents often take part in mass on different occasions. Sample 'D day' Homeroom 8:10-8:15 Period 1 8:19-9:15 Period 2 9:17 - 10:13 Period 3 10:15 - 11:11 Lunch 11:13 - 11:58 Period 5 12:00 - 12:56 Period 6 12:58 - 1:54 Period 7 1:56 - 2:51 The Academy runs on a 4-day rotating schedule (A day, B day, C day, and D day). Each day, students drop a morning and afternoon class. You can find the 2018-2019 school year calendar on the Academy", "id": "13678251" }, { "contents": "2014 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship\n\n\nWorld Curling medal for Spain in the bronze medal game with a 7–4 win over defending champions Dorottya Palansca and Zsolt Kiss of Hungary. Canada, Norway, and England scored perfect ends in their games in Draws 5, 11, and 22, respectively. The teams are listed as follows: \"Final Round Robin Standings\" Draw 1 8:15 Draw 4 19:30 Draw 6 11:15 Draw 9 21:00 Draw 12 14:30 Draw 15 8:00 Draw 18 17:45 Draw 19 21:00 Draw 21 11:15 Draw 22 14:30 Draw 25 8:00 Draw 2 12:00 Draw 5 8:00", "id": "15498977" }, { "contents": "2011 World Senior Curling Championships – Men's tournament\n\n\nStandings\" All draw times are listed in Central Standard Time (UTC-06). Draw 1 08:00 Draw 3 18:00 Draw 6 14:30 Draw 8 08:00 Draw 10 18:00 Draw 13 14:30 Draw 15 21:30 Draw 17 14:30 Draw 2 11:30 Draw 4 21:30 Draw 5 11:00 Draw 8 08:00 Draw 10 18:00 Draw 13 14:30 Draw 17 14:30 Draw 19 21:30 Draw 2 11:30 Draw 4 21:30 Draw 6 14:30 Draw 8 08:00 Draw 9 11:30 Draw 10 18:00 Draw 11 21:30 Draw 12 11:00 Draw 13 14:30 Draw 15 21:30 Draw 19 21:30 \"Friday, April", "id": "16637806" }, { "contents": "Nathan Robertson\n\n\ndefeated Björn Siegemund and Nicol Pitro of Germany in the second. In the quarterfinals, Robertson and Emms beat Chen Qiqiu and Zhao Tingting of China 15-8, 17-15 to advance to the semifinals. There, they beat Jonas Rasmussen and Rikke Olsen of Denmark 15-6, 15-12. In the final, they lost to Chinese pair Zhang Jun and Gao Ling 15-1, 12-15, 15-12 to finish with the silver medal. At the 2005 World Championships, he and Emms", "id": "1371969" }, { "contents": "List of major textual variants in the New Testament\n\n\nMatthew 8:28 Matthew 11:23 Matthew 17:21 Matthew 18:11 Matthew 20:16 Matthew 20:22, 23 Matthew 23:14 Matthew 24:36 Matthew 26:28 Matthew 27:16 Mark 2:16 Mark 6:11 Mark 7:8 Mark 7:16 Mark 9:38 Mark 9:43-46 Mark 9:49 Mark 10:24 Mark 11:26 Mark 14:19 Mark 15:28 Mark 16:9-20 Luke 1:28 Luke 2:14 Luke 4:4 Luke 9:55-56 Luke 11:2-4 Luke 11:11 Luke 22:43-44 Luke 23:17 Luke 23:34 John 1:18 John 5:3-4 John 6:69 John 7:53-8:11 John 8:59 Acts 2:30 Acts 13:42 Acts 15:24 Acts 18:21 Acts 23:9 Acts 28:29", "id": "12411760" }, { "contents": "BSWW Tour\n\n\n1 2 15-19 2 4. USA 3 1 2 13-20 2 Semifinals Brazil 9-4 Argentina Third place match Final Brazil 11-3 South Korea 02/03/1996 Buenos Aires (Argentina)Argentina 5-12 Brazil Friendly Match 1996 USA 3-6 Brazil Italy 6-9 Brazil USA 4-9 Brazil Italy 2-8 Brazil Netherlands 4-13 Brazil England 1-13 Brazil Malaysia 1-14 Brazil Semifinals Brazil 15-2 Japan Third place match Final Brazil 6-4 South Korea Brazil 7-4 Argentina", "id": "17061521" }, { "contents": "1941 Eastern Suburbs season\n\n\n5, Saturday 17 May Eastern Suburbs 13 beat Canterbury Bankstown 2 at Sydney Cricket Ground. Premiership Round 6, Saturday 24 May 1941. Newtown 4 beat Eastern Suburbs 3 at Henson Park. Premiership Round 7, Saturday 31 June 1941. St George 16 beat Eastern Suburbs 10 at Sydney Sports Ground. Premiership Round 8, Saturday 21 June 1941. South Sydney 22 beat Eastern Suburbs 15 at Sydney Sports Ground. Premiership Round 9, Saturday 28 June 1941. Eastern Suburbs 15 beat Western Suburbs 3 at Pratten Park. Premiership Round", "id": "11086526" }, { "contents": "Jansher Khan\n\n\nJansher Khan (; born 15 June 1969, in Peshawar, Pakistan) is a former World No. 1 professional Pakistani squash player. During his career he won the World Open a record eight times, and the British Open six times. Jansher Khan's retirement brought an end to nearly 50 years of domination by Pakistan in the sport of squash. He won the World Junior Squash Championship title in 1986 and the senior World Open title in 1987, by beating Australia's Chris Dittmar in the final. Jansher officially announced his retirement", "id": "1599584" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Kentucky\n\n\n! 5 ! rowspan=5 | 6 ! 3 ! rowspan=2 | 4 ! rowspan=4 | 7 ! 5 ! rowspan=4 | 6 ! rowspan=5 | 8 ! 7 ! 8 ! rowspan=2 | 9 ! rowspan=7 | 9 ! rowspan=3 | 10 ! rowspan=3 | 11 ! rowspan=4 | 10 ! rowspan=6 | 12 ! rowspan=3 | 11 ! rowspan=4 | 12 ! rowspan=4 | 13 ! rowspan=8 | 13 ! 14 ! rowspan=2 | 15 ! 16 ! rowspan=2 | 17 ! rowspan=3 | 14 ! rowspan=3 | 18 ! rowspan=5 | 15 ! 19 ! rowspan=8 | 20", "id": "20743991" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Massachusetts\n\n\n| 8 ! rowspan=7 | 7 ! rowspan=2 | 9 ! rowspan=8 | 10 ! rowspan=3 | 8 ! rowspan=6 | 9 ! rowspan=9 | 11 ! rowspan=3 | 10 ! rowspan=5 | 11 ! rowspan=3 | 12 ! rowspan=5 | 13 ! rowspan=8 | 12 ! 14 ! 15 ! rowspan=16 | 16 ! 13 ! 14 ! rowspan=10 | 15 ! rowspan=4 | 16 ! 17 ! rowspan=9 | 18 ! rowspan=14 | 17 ! rowspan=18 | 19 ! rowspan=5 | 18 ! rowspan=3 | 19 ! rowspan=5 | 20 ! rowspan=2 | 20 ! rowspan=4 | 21", "id": "20744045" }, { "contents": "2017 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship\n\n\nDraw 5 8:00 Draw 11 11:15 Draw 12 14:30 Draw 14 21:00 Draw 16 11:15 Draw 18 17:45 Draw 19 21:00 Draw 20 8:00 Draw 22 14:30 Draw 23 17:45 Draw 24 21:00 Draw 26 11:15 Draw 27 14:30 Draw 3 15:00 Draw 4 20:00 Draw 6 11:15 Draw 8 17:45 Draw 9 21:00 Draw 12 14:30 Draw 13 17:45 Draw 14 21:00 Draw 16 11:15 Draw 17 14:30 Draw 20 8:00 Draw 21 11:15 Draw 22 14:30 Draw 25 8:00 Draw 26 11:15 Draw 1 8:00 Draw 2 11:15 Draw 3 15:00 Draw 5 8:00 Draw 8 17:45 Draw", "id": "20611918" }, { "contents": "Michael Cheika\n\n\nAuckland a week later. Despite having only been in charge of the Wallabies for a year, Cheika led Australia to the 2015 Rugby World Cup Final. They topped Pool A with victories over Fiji 28–13, Uruguay 65–3, England 33–13 and Wales 15–6. They narrowly beat Scotland in the quarter-final winning 35–34 after a controversial last minute penalty. They beat Argentina 29–15 in the semi-final to reach the final against the All Blacks. The Wallabies went down 16–3 at half time, but fought back in the second half", "id": "21843436" }, { "contents": "2008 South American Under-23 Championships in Athletics – Results\n\n\n5 September 17:00hbr Final – 7 September 15:00hbr Final – 6 September 11:00hbr Final – 6 September 15:40hbr Final – 6 September 9:30hbr Wind: -2.5m/s Final – 7 September 10:45hbr Final – 6 September 9:00hbr Final – 7 September 9:00hbr Final – 7 September 11:00hbr Final – 6 September 11:00hbr Final – 6 September 9:00hbr Final – 7 September 11:00hbr Final – 5 September 14:50hbr Final – 6 September 9:00hbr Final – 7 September 9:00hbr Final – 7 September 7:00hbr Final – 6 September 17:00hbr Final – 7 September 15:50hbr Final – 6 September 9:45hbr Wind: -2.5", "id": "3039640" }, { "contents": "Rhonda Rajsich\n\n\nfinished #1. At the 2011 USA National Doubles Championships, Rajsich played with Kim Russell-Waselenchuk for the first time. They lost in the semi-finals to Krystal Csuk and Cheryl Gudinas, 15-6, 2-15, 11-9, and then lost the 3rd place match to sisters Danielle and Michelle Key, 3-15, 15-10, 11-10. However, Rajsich won Women's Singles at the 2011 USA National Singles Championshps by beating Gudinas in the final, 15-2", "id": "20397807" }, { "contents": "Ra Kyung-min\n\n\n. In the quarterfinals, Ra and Lee beat Lotte Bruil and Mia Audina of the Netherlands 15-5, 15-2. They lost the semifinal to Zhang Jiewen and Yang Wei of China 15-6, 15-4 but won the bronze medal match against Zhao Tingting and Wei Yili, also of China, 10-15, 15-9, 15-7. Ra also competed in mixed doubles with partner Kim Dong-moon. They had a bye in the first round and defeated Chris Bruil and Lotte", "id": "17379284" }, { "contents": "Coby Iwaasa\n\n\nVincent Gagnon, 15-10, 15-17, 11-6, in the semi-finals, but won the 3rd place match versus Samuel Murray, 13-15, 15-6, 11-8. That summer Iwaasa played for Canada for the first time by participating in the 2014 Pan American Sports Festival in Guadalajara, Mexico, where he defeated team-mate Samuel Murray, 15-9, 10-15, 11-3, in the Round of 16, but lost to David Horn of", "id": "8038012" }, { "contents": "Raglan Chronicle\n\n\n13, 20, 27, Apr 2, 10, 17, 24, May 1, 8, 15, 22, Jun 5, 12, 19, 26, Jul 3, 10. 17, 24, 31, Aug 7, 21, 28, Sep 4, 11, 18, 25, Oct 2, 9, 16, 23, 30, Nov 6, 13, 20, 27, Dec 4, 11, 18, 23; 1959 Jan 15, 29, Feb 5, 19,", "id": "3052190" }, { "contents": "Coby Iwaasa\n\n\n4, 11-5, and 1st seed Alejandro Cardona in the final, 9-15, 15-9, 11-8. He reached the quarterfinals in the other four WRT events that year. In November 2014, Iwaasa defeated Samuel Murray, in the quarterfinals, 15-9, 15-10, of the 1st National Team Selection Event of the 2014-15 season in Kitchener, Ontario. He then lost to Mike Green, 15-6, 15-6, in the semi-finals.", "id": "8038014" }, { "contents": "2008 European Curling Championships\n\n\n, 14:00 Draw 4 Monday December 8, 08:00 Draw 5 Monday December 8, 16:00 Draw 6 Tuesday December 9, 09:00 Draw 7 Tuesday December 9, 18:30 Draw 8 Wednesday December 10, 14:00 Draw 9 Thursday December 11, 08:00 Tiebreaker Thursday December 11, 15:00 Thursday, December 11, 20:00 Thursday, December 11, 20:00 Friday, December 12, 19:00 Saturday, December 13, 15:00 \"All times local\" Draw 1 Saturday December 6, 12:00 Draw 2 Sunday December 7, 16:00 Draw 3 Sunday December 7, 20:00", "id": "11226003" }, { "contents": "Rocky Carson\n\n\nUSA Racquetball National Singles Championship for the first time. He was seeded 6th, and defeated 8th seed Doug Eagle in the final. 15-7, 15-7. To reach the final, Carson beat Brian Fredenberg in the quarterfinals, 15-7, 15-13, and Jack Huczek in the semi-finals, 15-11, 15-6. He also played in Worlds for the 2nd time in San Luis Potosi, Mexico, and came home with two silver medals. He finished 2nd in Men", "id": "17077667" }, { "contents": "1973 European Formula Two Championship\n\n\nThe 1973 European Formula Two season was contested over 17 rounds. STP March Racing Team driver Jean-Pierre Jarier clinched the championship title. Note: Race 1, 2, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 13, 15 and 17 were held in two heats, with results shown in aggregate. Race 3, 5, 9 and 12 were held with two semi-final heats and the final run, with time only shown for the final. Race 3, 4, 5 and 15 were won by", "id": "18544287" }, { "contents": "2008 in sports\n\n\nJackson vs. Griffin 7/19 – 7/19 – () 7/21 – DREAM.5 7/26 – August 8/3 – WEC 35: Condit vs. Miura 8/9 – UFC 87: Seek And Destroy 8/15 – ShoXC 7 8/24 – September 9/6 – UFC 88: Breakthrough 9/13 – 9/17 – 9/20 – 9/23 – DREAM.6 9/26 – ShoXC 8 9/28 – October 10/3 – 10/4 – 10/10 – ShoXC 9 () 10/18 – UFC 89: Bisping vs. Leben 10/25 – UFC 90: Silva vs. Côté November 11/1 – 11/5 – WEC 36: Faber vs. Brown 11/15 – UFC", "id": "5162165" } ]

[ { "contents": "Rodney Martin (squash player)\n\n\nRodney Martin is a former professional squash player from Australia. He is best known for winning the World Open in 1991, beating the legendary Pakistani player Jahangir Khan in the final 14-17, 15-9, 15-4, 15-13 (he had previously beaten another Pakistani legend, Jansher Khan, in the quarter-finals, and his Australian compatriot Chris Dittmar in the semi-finals). Martin was also part of the Australian teams which won the World Team Squash Championships in 1989 and 1991. Martin", "id": "20966392" }, { "contents": "Amr Shabana\n\n\nbeating Thierry Lincou in the final 15–14, 9–15, 15–11, 15–7, to become Egypt's first winner of the sport's premier title. But after a disappointing following year, in which his only final appearance was in the British Open Squash Championship in England, losing to David Palmer in four games 10–11 (4–6), 11–7, 11–10 (3–1), 11–7, Shabana stormed back to the top of his game in 2005. Over a short period, he acquired a new coach, Ahmed Tahir; a new manager", "id": "522232" }, { "contents": "Comparison of codices Sinaiticus and Vaticanus\n\n\n13:39a 13:39b 13:41 13:42 13:44a 13:44b 13:48 13:50 13:54 13:55 13:57a 13:57 b 14:1 14:2 14:3 14:4a 14:4b 14:5 14:7 14:9 14:12 14:13 14:15a 14:15b 14:15c 14:16 14:17 14:19a 14:19b 14:22a 14:22b 14:22c 14:23 14:24 14:26 14:28a 14:28b 14:29 14:35 14:36 15:3 15:4 15:5 15:6 15:11a 15:11b 15:12 15:14 15:15 15:17 15:17 15:17 15:22 15:22 15:27 15:30 15:31 15:31 15:31 16:6 16:9 16:12 17:10 17:15 17:17 18:7 18:14 18:16 19:7 19:10 19:12 19:16 19:22 21:16 21:17 21:19 21:28 21:33 22:1 22:11 22:40 23:3 23:8 23:35 23:35b 23:37 24:2 24:9 24:24 24:26 24:30 24:31 24:35 24:48 25:3 25:17 25:22 26:33 26:50", "id": "1385581" }, { "contents": "John White (squash player)\n\n\nJohn White (born 15 June 1973 in Mount Isa, Australia) is a former World No. 1 squash player. White finished runner-up at both the World Open and the British Open in 2002. He won the PSA Masters title in 2003 (beating Thierry Lincou in the final 15–8, 17–15, 17–16). He also won the British National Championships in 2004 (beating Lee Beachill in the final 17–16, 17–14, 14–15, 15–8). White reached the World No. 1 ranking in March 2004. White", "id": "14402929" }, { "contents": "2011 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship\n\n\nDraw 7 21:30 Draw 9 15:00 Draw 12 08:00 Draw 13 11:00 Draw 14 14:30 Draw 17 08:00 Draw 18 11:30 Draw 20 18:00 Draw 21 21:30 Draw 2 15:00 Draw 4 08:00 Draw 6 18:00 Draw 7 21:30 Draw 8 11:30 Draw 9 15:00 Draw 10 18:00 Draw 12 08:00 Draw 14 14:30 Draw 15 18:00 Draw 16 21:30 Draw 18 11:30 Draw 19 14:30 Draw 2 15:00 Draw 3 21:30 Draw 5 14:30 Draw 6 18:00 Draw 7 21:30 Draw 8 11:30 Draw 9 15:00 Draw 11 21:30 Draw 12 08:00 Draw 15 18:00 Draw 16 21:30 Draw", "id": "12545021" }, { "contents": "2016 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship\n\n\n8 21:00 Draw 9 8:00 Draw 10 11:15 Draw 13 21:00 Draw 14 8:00 Draw 15 11:15 Draw 17 17:45 Draw 20 11:15 Draw 21 14:30 Draw 22 17:45 Draw 23 21:00 Draw 24 8:00 Draw 25 11:15 Draw 1 12:00 Draw 2 16:00 Draw 4 8:00 Draw 5 11:15 Draw 6 14:30 Draw 7 17:45 Draw 9 8:00 Draw 11 14:30 Draw 12 17:45 Draw 13 21:00 Draw 15 11:15 Draw 17 17:45 Draw 19 8:00 Draw 21 14:30 Draw 22 17:45 Draw 24 8:00 Draw 25 11:15 \"Thursday, April 21, 17:45\" \"Thursday,", "id": "1156734" }, { "contents": "Codex Dublinensis\n\n\nει. Matthew 1:17-2:6, 2:13-20, 4:4-13, 5:45-6:15, 7:16-8:6, 10:40-11:18, 12:43-13:11, 13:57-14:19, 15:13-23, 17:9-17, 17:26-18:6, 19:4-12, 21-28, 20:7-21:8, 21:23-30, 22:16-25, 22:37-23:3, 23:15-23, 24:15-25, 25:1-11, 26:21-29, 62-71. The Greek text of this codex is a representative", "id": "16200586" }, { "contents": "Frisingensia Fragmenta\n\n\n15:13; 1 Cor 1:1-27; 1:28-3:5; 6:1-7:7; 15:1-1:43; 16:12-27; 2 Cor 1:1-2:10; 3:17-5:1; 7:10-8:12; 9:10-11:21; 12:14-13:10; Gal 2:5-4:3; 6:5-17; Eph 1:1-13; 1:16-2:16; 6:24; Phil 1:1-20; 1 Tim 1:12-2:15; 5:18-6:13; Hbr 6:6-7:5; 7:8-8:1; 9:27-11:7. 1 John 3:8 - 5:9.", "id": "5758263" }, { "contents": "Minuscule 506\n\n\n-30; 17:5-8; 24:22-24; John 1:1-7:39; 8:31-9:11; 10:10-11:54; 12:36-13:27; Acts 1:1-7:49; 10:19-14:10; 15:15-16:11; 18:1-21:25; 23:18-28:31; James 1:1-3:17; 1 Corinthians 12:11-15:12; 16:13-15; 2 Corinthians 13:4. 5; Galatians [5:16-6:1]; 6:1-18; 2 Timothy 3:10. 11; Titus 3:5-7. The Greek text of the codex is a", "id": "14754278" }, { "contents": "Rocky Carson\n\n\nthe finals by defeating Anthony Herrera and David Horn in the semi-finals, 15-9, 15-3. But in the final Carson and Allen lost to Jake Bredenbeck and Jose Diaz, 15-14, 15-11. He won the 2016 USAR National Singles Championships in Highlands Ranch, Colorado, where Carson defeated [[Chris Crowther]] in the semi-finals, 13-15, 15-12, 11-7, and then beat Diaz in the final, 15-10, 15", "id": "17077704" }, { "contents": "Codex Nitriensis\n\n\nno references to the Eusebian Canons. Gospel of Luke 1:1-13, 1:69-2:4, 2:16-27, 4:38-5:5, 5:25-6:8, 6:18-36, 6:39, 6:49-7:22, 7:44, 7:46, 7:47, 7:50, 8:1-3, 8:5-15, 8:25-9:1, 9:12-43, 10:3-16, 11:5-27, 12:4-15, 12:40-52, 13:26-14:1, 14:12-15:1, 15:13-16:16, 17:21-18:10, 18:22-20:20,", "id": "14992375" }, { "contents": "Del Harris (squash player)\n\n\n16–17, 15–8. That year Harris was also part of the winning England team in the 1995 Men's World Team Squash Championships and in addition he won the Super Series Finals event, beating Brett Martin of Australia in the final 10–8, 7–9, 9–4, 6–9, 9–2. Further success came in 1997 when he was once again part of the winning England team in the 1997 Men's World Team Squash Championships. Harris won the British National Squash Championships twice, in 1987 and 1989 and reached his career-high world ranking", "id": "20966690" }, { "contents": "2012 European Mixed Curling Championship\n\n\nDraw 14 8:30 Draw 16 15:30 Draw 1 19:30 Draw 2 9:00 Draw 3 12:30 Draw 4 16:00 Draw 5 19:30 Draw 6 9:00 Draw 8 16:00 Draw 11 12:30 Draw 13 19:30 Draw 14 8:30 Draw 15 12:00 Draw 16 15:30 Draw 17 19:00 Draw 2 9:00 Draw 4 16:00 Draw 6 9:00 Draw 7 12:30 Draw 8 16:00 Draw 9 19:30 Draw 10 9:00 Draw 12 16:00 Draw 15 12:00 Draw 17 19:00 \"Friday, October 5, 9:00\" \"Friday, October 5, 21:00\" \"Saturday, October 6, 17:00\" \"", "id": "19557062" }, { "contents": "2017 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship\n\n\n10 8:00 Draw 12 14:30 Draw 13 17:45 Draw 19 21:00 Draw 21 11:15 Draw 22 14:30 Draw 24 21:00 Draw 25 8:00 Draw 27 14:30 Draw 2 11:15 Draw 4 20:00 Draw 6 11:15 Draw 7 14:30 Draw 9 21:00 Draw 11 11:15 Draw 15 8:00 Draw 17 14:30 Draw 20 8:00 Draw 23 17:45 Draw 26 11:15 Draw 27 14:30 \"Friday, April 28, 9:00\" \"Friday, April 28, 12:30\" \"Friday, April 28, 16:00\" \"Friday, April 28, 19:30\" \"Saturday, April 29,", "id": "20611919" }, { "contents": "Coby Iwaasa\n\n\nIwaasa finished 3rd by defeating Tim Landeryou, 15-11, 15-9. He won the 2nd Selection Event that season in Brossard, Québec, where he beat Pedro Castro in the final, 15-9, 6-15, 11-8. In the semi-finals, Iwaasa beat Landeryou, 12-15, 15-4, 11-7. Iwaasa played seven tournaments in the 2014-15 International Racquetball Tour season, but only made it to the quarterfinals in the second last event of the", "id": "8038015" }, { "contents": "Jack Huczek\n\n\nthe semi-finals, 15-6, 9-15, 11-4. In the 2002-03 IRT season, Huczek was in four finals, winning the final event of the season: Pro Nationals in Tempe, Arizona, where he beat Alvaro Beltran, 11-4, 11-6, 11-8, in the final after defeating Rocky Carson in the semis, 11-1, 11-6, 11-7, and Cliff Swain in the quarters, 11-6, 15-", "id": "17077735" }, { "contents": "Samuel Murray (racquetball)\n\n\nNovember 2015, in Brossard, Québec, where he beat Mike Green in the final, 15-10, 15-13. He defeated Tim Landeryou to reach the final, 15-7, 15-12. In the 2nd Selection Event that season, he lost a tie-breaker to Landeryou in the semi-finals, 10-15, 15-12, 11-9. But he did win the 3rd place match against Pedro Castro, 15-6, 15-1. Murray played at the", "id": "7910649" }, { "contents": "1995–96 Regionalliga\n\n\n! 6 ! 7 ! 8 ! 9 ! 10 ! 11 ! 12 ! 13 ! 14 ! 15 ! 16 ! 17 ! 18 The Regionalliga Nordost ! 1 ! 2 ! 3 ! 4 ! 5 ! 6 ! 7 ! 8 ! 9 ! 10 ! 11 ! 12 ! 13 ! 14 ! 15 ! 16 ! 17 ! 18 The Regionalliga West/Südwest: ! 1 ! 2 ! 3 ! 4 ! 5 ! 6 ! 7 ! 8 ! 9 ! 10 ! 11 ! 12 ! 13 ! 14 !", "id": "13380860" }, { "contents": "2014 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship\n\n\nDraw 8 17:45 Draw 11 11:15 Draw 14 21:00 Draw 16 11:15 Draw 17 14:30 Draw 20 8:00 Draw 22 14:30 Draw 24 21:00 Draw 25 8:00 Draw 26 11:15 Draw 1 8:15 Draw 2 12:00 Draw 3 15:45 Draw 5 8:00 Draw 6 11:15 Draw 7 14:30 Draw 9 21:00 Draw 10 8:00 Draw 12 14:30 Draw 13 17:45 Draw 14 21:00 Draw 15 8:00 Draw 16 11:15 Draw 17 14:30 Draw 18 17:45 Draw 20 8:00 Draw 21 11:15 Draw 23 17:45 Draw 24 21:00 Draw 3 15:45 Draw 4 19:30 Draw 7 14:30 Draw 8 17:45 Draw", "id": "15498978" }, { "contents": "Rocky Carson\n\n\nto the final with a win over Chris Crowther in the semi-finals, 15-7, 15-10. Carson’s Men’s Singles World Championship in 2008 qualified him for the 2009 World Games in Kaohsiung, Republic of China, where he captured the silver medal in Men's Singles. Carson beat Canadian Mike Green, 15-9, 15-9, in the quarterfinals, and Mexican Alvaro Beltran in the semi-finals, 9-15, 15-7, 11-8, to set up", "id": "17077685" }, { "contents": "2018 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship\n\n\nDraw 27 16:00 Draw 28 19:30 Draw 1 9:00 Draw 2 12:30 Draw 3 16:30 Draw 5 8:00 Draw 8 17:45 Draw 10 8:00 Draw 11 11:15 Draw 12 14:30 Draw 13 17:45 Draw 18 17:45 Draw 19 21:00 Draw 21 11:15 Draw 22 14:30 Draw 25 8:00 Draw 26 12:30 Draw 27 16:00 Draw 2 12:30 Draw 4 20:00 Draw 6 11:15 Draw 7 14:30 Draw 9 21:00 Draw 10 8:00 Draw 11 11:15 Draw 12 14:30 Draw 14 21:00 Draw 15 8:00 Draw 16 11:15 Draw 18 17:45 Draw 19 21:00 Draw 20 8:00 Draw 21 11:15 Draw", "id": "3983102" }, { "contents": "Rocky Carson\n\n\nIRT season. Carson won the 2001 Pan American Racquetball Championships in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, where he defeated Canadian Kane Waselenchuk in the final, 15-9, 15-13. Carson was the defending champion at the 2001 USAR National Singles Championships, and had a chance to defend the title, but lost to Jack Huczek, 15-11, 15-6. Carson beat Dan Fowler in the semi-finals, 15-8, 15-10, to reach the final. Carson took a step back", "id": "17077670" }, { "contents": "Gail Emms\n\n\nKellogg. They defeated Koon Wai Chee and Li Wing Mui of Hong Kong in the first round but were defeated by Zhao Tingting and Wei Yili of China in the second round. She also competed in mixed doubles with Robertson. They had a bye in the first round and defeated Björn Siegemund and Nicol Pitro of Germany in the second. In the quarterfinals, Emms and Robertson beat Chen Qiqiu and Zhao Tingting of China 15–8, 17–15 to advance to the semifinals. There, they beat Jonas Rasmussen and Rikke Olsen of Denmark 15–6", "id": "555457" }, { "contents": "Wellington Rugby Football Union\n\n\nNew South Wales 9–5 1896 beat Queensland 49–7 1901 beat New South Wales 17–16 1905 beat Australia 23–7 (combined team with Wairarapa and Horowhenua 1908 beat Anglo-Welsh 19–13 1921 lost to South Africa 3–8 1921 beat New South Wales 16–8 1923 beat New South Wales 29–16 (combined team with Manawatu) 1925 beat New South Wales 20–8 (combined team with Manawatu and Horowhenua) 1930 beat British Lions 12–8 1931 beat Australia 15–8 1937 lost to South Africa 0–29 1946 lost to Australia 15–16 1950 lost to British Isles 6–12 1956 lost to South Africa", "id": "5981175" }, { "contents": "Samuel Murray (racquetball)\n\n\n, 7-15, 15-3, 11-7, and then lost to Mexican Daniel De La Rosa, 15-12, 15-7. Murray won the 1st National Team Selection event of the 2016-17 season in Valleyfield, Québec, where he defeated James Landeryou, 15-4, 15-4, in the final. In the semi-finals, Murray beat Landeryou’s older brother Tim, 15-9, 15-13. At the 2nd selection event that season in Calgary,", "id": "7910652" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from South Carolina\n\n\n5 ! rowspan=4 | 6 ! rowspan=8 | 7 ! 6 ! rowspan=3 | 7 ! rowspan=3 | 8 ! rowspan=9 | 8 ! rowspan=5 | 9 ! rowspan=4 | 10 ! 9 ! rowspan=5 | 10 ! rowspan=15 | 11 ! 11 ! 12 ! rowspan=2 | 13 ! 14 ! rowspan=5 | 15 ! rowspan=6 | 12 ! 16 ! rowspan=2 | 17 ! rowspan=6 | 18 ! rowspan=3 | 13 ! rowspan=3 | 14 ! rowspan=9 | 19 ! rowspan=6 | 15 ! rowspan=3 | 16 ! rowspan=16 | 20 ! 17 ! rowspan=3 | 18 !", "id": "20744133" }, { "contents": "Alejandro Landa\n\n\n-4. Then at the end of the year, Landa beat Jaime Martell in the final of the Alamo City Open in San Antonio, beating Bredenbeck in the quarterfinals and David Horn in the semi-finals to reach the final. In 2016, Landa successfully defended his Alamo City Open title by beating Cardona in the final, 15-6, 15-10. He defeated Andree Parrilla, 15-12, 15-11, in the quarterfinals, and Jaime Martell, 15-11, 15-13,", "id": "8690377" }, { "contents": "Minuscule 172\n\n\n; 5:2-16; 6:2-7:2; 7:16-8:10; 8:38-9:13; 9:26-39; 10:9-22; 10:43-13:1; 23:32-24:24; 28:23-James 1:5; 3:6-4:16; 2 Peter 3:10-1 John 1:1; 3:13-4:2; Jude 16-25; Romans 14:23 - 15:1.4; 1 Corinthians 3:15-15:23; 2 Corinthians 10: 14-11:19; 13:5-13; Ephesians 1:1-2:14; 5:29-6:24 Colossians 1:24-26; 2:4-7; 2 Thessalonians 1:1", "id": "8396043" }, { "contents": "Jack Huczek\n\n\nseeded #1, and in the semi-finals beat Michael Bronfeld, 15-2, 15-9, to reach the final for the second consecutive year. However, Huczek lost the final to Mike Guidry, 15-10, 12-15, 11-9. In 2002, Huczek again partnered with Eric Muller at the USAR National Doubles Championships, and they reached the finals before losing to Ruben Gonzalez and Mike Guidry, 15-7, 15-10. They defeated Jason Thoerner and Mitch Williams in", "id": "17077734" }, { "contents": "2010–11 in Hong Kong football\n\n\non 8 October. However, the heavy rain flooded the field, so the ball flow on the water and could not be kick. The match was abandoned at 14th-minute. The rematch played on 9 October, Hong Kong defeated the Philippines by 4–2. The 2010 Asian Games will play between 7 November and 27 November in Guangzhou, China. Hong Kong national under-15 football team won all the group stage matches in the championship, which hold in Guam. Hong Kong beat Chinese Taipei in semi-final but lose by", "id": "3640662" }, { "contents": "2016 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship\n\n\nDraw 11 14:30 Draw 12 17:45 Draw 15 11:15 Draw 16 14:30 Draw 18 21:00 Draw 21 14:30 Draw 25 11:15 Draw 26 14:30 Draw 2 16:00 Draw 4 8:00 Draw 6 14:30 Draw 10 11:15 Draw 11 14:30 Draw 13 21:00 Draw 16 14:30 Draw 17 17:45 Draw 19 8:00 Draw 24 8:00 Draw 25 11:15 Draw 4 8:00 Draw 5 11:15 Draw 7 17:45 Draw 9 8:00 Draw 10 11:15 Draw 11 14:30 Draw 14 8:00 Draw 16 14:30 Draw 18 21:00 Draw 23 21:00 Draw 26 14:30 Draw 2 16:00 Draw 3 20:00 Draw 6 14:30 Draw", "id": "1156733" }, { "contents": "Easter Vigil\n\n\n-16; 3. Exodus 12:1-11; 4. Jonah 1:1-4:11; 5. Joshua 5:10-15; 6. Exodus 13:20-15:19; 7. Zephaniah 3:8-15; 8. 3 Kings 17:8-24; 9. Isaiah 61:10-62:5; 10. Genesis 22:1-18; 11. Isaiah 61:1-9; 12. 4 Kings 4:8-37; 13. Isaiah 63:11-64:5; 14. Jeremiah 31:31-34; 15. Daniel 3:1-68. It is during these", "id": "3156542" }, { "contents": "Jackie Paraiso\n\n\nBrodeur, 15-8, 15-6, in 2008. In between, she won three straight World Championships in 1994, 1996, and 1998. Laura Fenton was Paraiso's partner in 1994, when they beat Vicky Shanks and Debbie Ward of Canada, 15-9, 15-7. Then in 1996 and 1998, Paraiso's twin sister Joy MacKenzie was her partner, as they beat Shanks and Ward in 1996, 15-11, 15-4, and Shanks and Grand'Maître in 1998, 15-", "id": "21029455" }, { "contents": "Jahangir Khan\n\n\nover Jahangir in September 1987, beating him in straight games in the semi-finals of the Hong Kong Open. Jansher then went on to beat Jahangir in their next eight consecutive encounters and capture the 1987 World Open title. Jahangir ended Jansher's winning streak in March 1988, and went on to win 11 of their next 15 encounters. The pair met in the 1988 World Open final, with Jahangir emerging the victor. But by that point it had become clear that squash now had two dominant players. The pair would", "id": "414920" }, { "contents": "Samuel Murray (racquetball)\n\n\ncame 3rd, as they lost to Green and Trevor Webb in the semi-finals, 15-13, 4-15, 11-5, but beat Lee Connell and Nathaniel Husulak, 15-9, 16-14. Murray won the 1st National Team Selection event of the 2017-18 season, as he defeated Tim Landeryou, 15-3, 15-8, in the final. In the semi-finals, Murray beat Coby Iwaasa, 15-11, 15-8. Murray and Landeryou", "id": "7910655" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Maine\n\n\n| 4 ! rowspan=3 | 7 ! rowspan=6 | 5 ! 8 ! rowspan=6 | 9 ! rowspan=9 | 6 ! 10 ! rowspan=2 | 11 ! rowspan=7 | 12 ! 7 ! rowspan=3 | 8 ! rowspan=10 | 13 ! rowspan=4 | 9 ! rowspan=4 | 10 ! rowspan=17 | 14 ! rowspan=16 | 11 ! rowspan=7 | 15 ! 12 ! rowspan=2 | 13 ! rowspan=6 | 14 ! rowspan=14 | 16 ! rowspan=3 | 15 ! rowspan=9 | 16 ! rowspan=6 | 17 ! rowspan=13 | 17 ! rowspan=3 | 18 ! rowspan=11 | 19 ! rowspan=3", "id": "20744038" }, { "contents": "Men's Home Internationals\n\n\nafternoon. Scotland and England beat Ireland and Wales on the first two days. On the final day Scotland beat England 8–7 to win the title while Ireland beat Wales 9½–5½. The 1933 tournament was held at Royal County Down Golf Club from 14 to 16 September. The results of all six matches was the same as in 1932, Scotland beating England in the decisive match. In the 1934 tournament at Royal Porthcawl Golf Club from 15 to 17 August, Ireland beat England on the opening day. With Scotland beating England, Scotland retained", "id": "17763243" }, { "contents": "Codex Vaticanus 2061\n\n\nwas . The surviving leaves contain texts (according to Nestle-Aland 26th): Acts 26:6-27:4, 28:3-31; James 4:14-5:20; 1 Peter 1:1-12; 2 Peter 2:4-8, 2:13-3:15; 1 John 4:6-5:13, 5:17-18, 5:21; 2 John; 3 John; Romans 13:4-15:9; 1 Corinthians 2:1-3:11, 3:22, 4:4-6, 5:5-11, 6:3-11, 12:23-15:17, 15:20-27; 2 Corinthians 4:7", "id": "9378418" }, { "contents": "2012 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship\n\n\n17:45 Draw 11 21:00 Draw 12 8:00 Draw 13 11:15 Draw 14 14:30 Draw 15 17:45 Draw 16 21:00 Draw 17 8:00 Draw 18 11:15 Draw 19 14:30 Draw 20 17:45 Draw 21 21:00 Draw 23 11:15 Draw 1 18:45 Draw 3 11:15 Draw 5 17:45 Draw 6 21:00 Draw 8 11:15 Draw 10 17:45 Draw 12 8:00 Draw 13 11:15 Draw 14 14:30 Draw 15 17:45 Draw 16 21:00 Draw 18 11:15 Draw 20 17:45 Draw 22 8:00 Draw 1 18:45 Draw 2 8:00 Draw 3 11:15 Draw 4 14:30 Draw 5 17:45 Draw 6 21:00 Draw 7 8:00", "id": "8246326" }, { "contents": "2016 Bangladesh Championship League\n\n\nBank SC (15-16) 14 6 2 6 13 - 14 -1 20 4 Bangladesh Police Athletic Club (15-16) 14 4 6 4 11 - 9 2 18 5 T&T Club (15-16) 14 4 5 5 14 - 14 0 17 6 Victoria SC (15-16) 14 3 5 6 14 - 16 -2 14 7 Kawran Bazar (15-16) 14 2 8 4 7 - 12 -5 14 8 Chittagong Mohammedan (15-16) 14 2 4 8 13 -", "id": "13232613" }, { "contents": "Timeline of the 2012 Pacific hurricane season\n\n\nJune 16 June 17 July 4 July 5 July 7 July 8 July 9 July 10 July 11 July 12 July 13 July 14 July 15 July 16 July 18 August 7 August 8 August 9 August 11 August 12 August 15 August 17 August 27 August 30 August 31 September 2 September 3 September 4 September 12 September 14 September 15 September 16 September 17 September 18 September 19 September 22 September 24 September 25 September 26 September 27 September 28 September 29 October 6 October 7 October 9 October 13 October 15 October 16 October 17 October 30", "id": "21319682" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Missouri\n\n\n! rowspan=3 | 12 ! rowspan=18 | 6 ! 13 ! 14 ! rowspan=12 | 15 ! rowspan=9 | 16 ! rowspan=3 | 7 ! rowspan=15 | 8 ! 17 ! rowspan=5 | 18 ! 19 ! rowspan=4 | 20 ! rowspan=4 | 9 ! rowspan=7 | 21 ! rowspan=6 | 10 ! rowspan=4 | 22 ! 11 ! rowspan=3 | 12 ! rowspan=5 | 23 ! rowspan=15 | 13 ! rowspan=5 | 24 ! rowspan=11 | 25 ! rowspan=10 | 14 ! rowspan=13 | 26 ! rowspan=3 | 15 ! 16 ! rowspan=3 | 17 ! rowspan=6 | 18", "id": "20744052" }, { "contents": "Chris Marlowe\n\n\n15, 13-15, 15-9, 15-11, 15-12 for a 3-2 win. The win set up a championship final between San Diego State and the Bruins. In the championship match SDSU jumped out 2 games to none, and with an 8-3 lead in the third appeared ready for a three-game sweep. However the Bruins rallied back to win it, 10-15, 9-15, 15-9, 15-10, 15-7. UCLA", "id": "21040396" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Virginia\n\n\n| 4 ! 5 ! rowspan=2 | 6 ! 7 ! 5 ! rowspan=3 | 8 ! rowspan=8 | 6 ! rowspan=3 | 9 ! rowspan=14 | 10 ! 7 ! rowspan=2 | 8 ! rowspan=2 | 9 ! rowspan=2 | 10 ! rowspan=7 | 11 ! 11 ! rowspan=9 | 12 ! rowspan=2 | 12 ! rowspan=4 | 13 ! rowspan=9 | 13 ! rowspan=2 | 14 ! rowspan=3 | 15 ! rowspan=6 | 16 ! 14 ! rowspan=9 | 15 ! rowspan=8 | 17 ! 16 ! rowspan=3 | 18 ! 17 ! rowspan=4 | 18 ! rowspan=8", "id": "20744171" }, { "contents": "Jennifer Saunders (racquetball)\n\n\ntogether that year, in the final, 15-6, 8-15, 11-8. But Saunders didn’t successfully defend her Women's Singles title, although she did get to the final for a third straight year. In the semi-finals, Saunders beat Grand'Maître in the semi-finals, 15-7, 15-8, but in the final, she narrowly lost to Powell, 8-15, 15-4, 13-11. Her performances helped to earn Saunders a spot on", "id": "14324066" }, { "contents": "2018 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship\n\n\nThe 2018 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship was held from April 21 to 28 at the Östersund Arena in Östersund, Sweden. The event was held in conjunction with the 2018 World Senior Curling Championships. \"Final Round Robin Standings\" All draw times are listed in CEST (UTC+2) Draw 1 9:00 Draw 4 20:00 Draw 6 11:15 Draw 7 14:30 Draw 8 17:45 Draw 9 21:00 Draw 10 8:00 Draw 13 17:45 Draw 15 8:00 Draw 16 11:15 Draw 17 14:30 Draw 18 17:45 Draw 20 8:00 Draw 22 14:30 Draw 24 21:00 Draw 26", "id": "3983100" }, { "contents": "Carla Khan\n\n\nInternational, where she came from behind to beat Melissa Martin from Australia, 3–9, 4–9, 9–4, 9–7, 9–3. She broke into the top 30. At the Irish Open in 2004, Khan defeated Nicol David of Malaysia (who was ranked number 9 in the world at that time) on 15 April 2004, and achieved her highest ranking of 21. In 2005, Khan lost in the final of the Forbes Open to England's Alison Walters. However, she made it to the final of the 1st POF", "id": "9884495" }, { "contents": "Codex Climaci Rescriptus\n\n\n9-21; 9:30;10:3-9; 15:11-21 I Corin. 1:6-23; 4:1-15; 13: 4-11; 14:4-7; 14:8-14; 14:24-37; 15:3-10; 15:24-49; 16:16-24 II Corin. 1:23-2: 4-11; 4:18-5:6; 5:6-12; 6:3-16; 7:3-8 Galat. 1:1-23; 3:20-24; 4:2; 4:4-29; 5:1; 5:24; 6:4-12", "id": "9480761" }, { "contents": "2014 World Senior Curling Championships – Men's tournament\n\n\n7:30 Draw 6 11:00 Draw 8 18:00 Draw 9 21:30 Draw 12 15:30 Draw 13 19:00 Draw 15 11:00 Draw 16 14:30 Draw 18 21:30 Draw 20 12:00 Draw 22 19:00 Draw 23 8:30 Draw 1 8:00 Draw 4 19:30 Draw 6 11:00 Draw 7 14:30 Draw 10 8:30 Draw 11 12:00 Draw 14 7:30 Draw 15 11:00 Draw 16 14:30 Draw 17 18:00 Draw 19 08:30 Draw 21 15:30 \"Tuesday, April 29, 14:00\" \"Tuesday, April 29, 19:30\" \"Wednesday, April 30, 8:00\" \"Wednesday, April 30,", "id": "16343740" }, { "contents": "2017 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship\n\n\nThe 2017 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship was held from April 22 to 29 at the Lethbridge Curling Club in Lethbridge, Canada. The event was held in conjunction with the 2017 World Senior Curling Championships. \"Final Round Robin Standings\" All draw times are listed in MDT (UTC-6). Draw 1 8:00 Draw 7 14:30 Draw 9 21:00 Draw 10 8:00 Draw 11 11:15 Draw 13 17:45 Draw 15 8:00 Draw 17 14:30 Draw 18 17:45 Draw 21 11:15 Draw 22 14:30 Draw 24 21:00 Draw 25 8:00 Draw 3 15:00 Draw 4 8:00", "id": "20611917" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Kansas\n\n\nrowspan=2 | 3 ! rowspan=12 | 2 ! 4 ! rowspan=2 | 5 ! rowspan=8 | 6 ! rowspan=5 | 3 ! 7 ! 8 ! rowspan=3 | 9 ! rowspan=3 | 4 ! rowspan=3 | 10 ! rowspan=6 | 5 ! 11 ! rowspan=4 | 12 ! rowspan=3 | 6 ! rowspan=3 | 13 ! rowspan=7 | 7 ! rowspan=17 | 14 ! 8 ! rowspan=5 | 9 ! rowspan=6 | 10 ! rowspan=10 | 15 ! 11 ! rowspan=12 | 12 ! rowspan=9 | 16 ! rowspan=15 | 13 ! rowspan=12 | 17 ! 14 ! rowspan=8 |", "id": "20743950" }, { "contents": "1977 NCAA Division I football season\n\n\nto move to third, and the Wolverines returned to the top: 1.Michigan 2.Texas 3.Colorado 4.Alabama 5.Ohio State October 15 No. 1 Michigan beat No. 14 Wisconsin 56–0, and No. 2 Texas won at No. 7 Arkansas, 13–9. No. 3 Colorado played at Kansas, a 17–17 tie. No. 4 Alabama beat Tennessee in Birmingham, 24–10. No. 5 Ohio State beat Iowa 27–6. No. 6 USC beat Oregon 33–15 to return to the top five: 1.Michigan 2.Texas 3.Alabama 4.Ohio State 5.USC October 22", "id": "8560170" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Texas\n\n\n3 ! rowspan=6 | 6 ! rowspan=11 | 4 ! rowspan=3 | 7 ! 8 ! rowspan=4 | 9 ! rowspan=3 | 5 ! rowspan=15 | 10 ! rowspan=6 | 6 ! 7 ! rowspan=16 | 8 ! rowspan=3 | 11 ! rowspan=16 | 12 ! 9 ! rowspan=4 | 10 ! rowspan=8 | 11 ! rowspan=3 | 13 ! 14 ! rowspan=8 | 15 ! 12 ! rowspan=12 | 13 ! rowspan=12 | 16 ! rowspan=12 | 14 ! 17 ! rowspan=12 | 18 ! rowspan=10 | 15 ! rowspan=5 | 19 , there are three living former senators", "id": "20744168" }, { "contents": "Samuel Murray (racquetball)\n\n\nIwaasa, 9-15, 15-6, 11-6. He also defeated Iwaasa in the 2nd National Team Selection Event in Grande Prairie, Alberta, 15-10, 15-10. He defeated Pedro Castro in the semi-finals, 15-6, 15-9. Murray began the 2018-19 IRT season strongly, as he made his first final at the first event of the season - the 2018 MWRA Season Opener IRT Pro/Am in Laurel, Maryland, where he beat Alejandro Landa", "id": "7910660" }, { "contents": "Alejandro Landa\n\n\ntwo of them. Both wins came in Juarez, Mexico. He defeated Javier Moreno in April and then beat Jake Bredenbeck in August, 15–10, 15-10. Landa reached the semi-finals at the US Open for the first time in 2014, as he beat Jose Rojas in the Round of 16, 3-11, 11-9, 14-12, 6-11, 11-4 and Daniel De La Rosa in the quarterfinals, 11-2, 11-8, 11-6,", "id": "8690374" }, { "contents": "Hong Kong Women's Sevens\n\n\nFinals Canada 35–14 Netherlands Kazakhstan 12–7 China USA 45–0 Arabian Gulf France 15–7 Japan 9th to 12th Semi Finals Hong Kong 15–0 Singapore Papua New Guinea 0–29 Thailand Bowl (5th to 8th) Semi Finals Netherlands 5–5 China (China win on try countback) Arabian Gulf 0–10 Japan Cup Semi Finals Canada 26–0 Kazakhstan USA 5–0 France 11th Place Singapore 5–17 Papua New Guinea 9th Place Hong Kong 15–7 Thailand 7th Place Netherlands 19–0 Arabian Gulf Bowl Final China 17–7 Japan Plate Final France 24–0 Kazakhstan Cup Final USA 21–7 Canada 27 March 2009 at Hong Kong.", "id": "7314433" }, { "contents": "Badminton at the 1981 World Games\n\n\n10 4. William Gilliland/Daniel Travers (Scotland) d. Egbeyemi/Badiru (Nigeria), 15-6, 15-6 Semi-finals 1. Sun Zhian/Yao Ximing d. Kartono/Heryanto, 3-15, 15-11, 15-8 2. Kihlstrom/Karlsson d. Gilliland/Travers, 10-15, 15-0, 15-9 Final Sun Zhian/Yao Ximing d. Kihlstrom/Karlsson, 12-15, 15-4, 15-6. Bronze medals: Kartono", "id": "1386468" }, { "contents": "2018 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship\n\n\n12:30 Draw 27 16:00 Draw 1 9:00 Draw 3 16:30 Draw 5 8:00 Draw 11 11:15 Draw 12 14:30 Draw 14 21:00 Draw 15 8:00 Draw 17 14:30 Draw 18 17:45 Draw 19 21:00 Draw 20 8:00 Draw 21 11:15 Draw 22 14:30 Draw 23 17:45 Draw 24 21:00 Draw 28 19:30 Draw 2 12:30 Draw 3 16:30 Draw 4 20:00 Draw 6 11:15 Draw 7 14:30 Draw 9 21:00 Draw 11 11:15 Draw 13 17:45 Draw 14 21:00 Draw 16 11:15 Draw 17 14:30 Draw 20 8:00 Draw 22 14:30 Draw 23 17:45 Draw 25 9:00 Draw 26 12:30", "id": "3983101" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Colorado\n\n\nrowspan=5 | 5 ! rowspan=3 | 8 ! rowspan=9 | 9 ! rowspan=2 | 6 ! 7 ! rowspan=2 | 8 ! rowspan=3 | 9 ! rowspan=6 | 10 ! 10 ! 11 ! rowspan=5 | 12 ! rowspan=11 | 11 ! rowspan=8 | 13 ! rowspan=9 | 12 ! rowspan=3 | 14 ! rowspan=6 | 15 ! rowspan=3 | 13 ! rowspan=6 | 16 ! rowspan=6 | 14 ! rowspan=3 | 17 ! rowspan=4 | 15 ! rowspan=7 | 18 ! rowspan=6 | 16 ! rowspan=3 | 19 ! rowspan=4 | 17 ! rowspan=7 | 20 ! rowspan=3 |", "id": "20743826" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Arkansas\n\n\nrowspan=3 | 6 ! rowspan=5 | 6 ! rowspan=3 | 7 ! rowspan=11 | 8 ! rowspan=11 | 7 ! rowspan=10 | 9 ! rowspan=3 | 8 ! 9 ! 10 ! rowspan=17 | 11 ! rowspan=3 | 10 ! rowspan=6 | 11 ! rowspan=11 | 12 ! rowspan=3 | 12 ! 13 ! rowspan=19 | 14 ! rowspan=15 | 13 ! rowspan=14 | 14 ! 15 ! rowspan=9 | 16 ! rowspan=3 | 17 ! rowspan=6 | 15 ! rowspan=6 | 18 ! rowspan=6 | 16 ! rowspan=3 | 19 , there are five living former senators. The", "id": "20743822" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from New Hampshire\n\n\n! rowspan=3 | 9 ! rowspan=3 | 10 ! rowspan=5 | 8 ! 11 ! rowspan=3 | 12 ! rowspan=4 | 9 ! 13 ! rowspan=6 | 14 ! 10 ! 11 ! rowspan=3 | 12 ! rowspan=6 | 15 ! 13 ! 14 ! 16 ! rowspan=7 | 15 ! rowspan=2 | 17 ! rowspan=5 | 18 ! rowspan=8 | 16 ! 19 ! rowspan=3 | 20 ! rowspan=3 | 21 ! rowspan=6 | 17 ! 22 ! rowspan=12 | 23 ! rowspan=3 | 18 ! rowspan=2 | 19 ! 20 ! 21 ! rowspan=6 | 22 ! rowspan=15", "id": "20744074" }, { "contents": "Dihydroxy-E,Z,E-PUFA\n\n\nmake PDX by metabolizing DHA by double oxygenation a 15-lipoxygenase to form the 10\"R\",17\"S\"-hydroxperoxy intermediated which is reduced its 10\"R\",17\"S\"-hydroxyl product, PDX, probably by cytosolic GPX1 (i.e. glutathione peroxidase 1). Serial metabolism two different lipoxygenases or a lipoxygenase and a cytochrome P45) on PUFA possessing three double bonds in a 1\"Z\",4\"Z\",7\"Z\" configuration may also make a 1,7-dihydroxy 2\"E\",4\"Z\",6\"E\" product. Other platelet-inhibiting dihydroxy-\"E\",\"Z\",\"E\"-PUFA are: 10\"R\",17\"S\"-dihydroxy-4\"Z\",7\"Z\",11\"E\",13\"Z\",15\"E\",19\"Z\"-docosahexaenoic acid (10\"R\",17\"S\"-diHDHA); 8\"S\",15\"S\"-dihydroxy-5\"Z\",9\"E\",11\"Z\",13\"E\"-eicosatetraenoic acid (8\"S\",15\"S\"-diHETE); 9\"S\",16\"S\"-10\"E\",12\"Z\",14\"E\"-octadecatrienoic acid (linotrin-1); and 9\"R\",16\"S\"-10\"E\",12\"Z\",14\"E\"-octadecatrienoic acid (linotrin-2).", "id": "1779786" }, { "contents": "EU Cup\n\n\n8 October 2011. 18 national men's teams competed in the tournament. Final results were: 1. Ireland, 2. Croatia, 3. England, 4. Italy, 5. France, 6. Scotland, 7. Wales, 8. Spain, 9. European Crusaders, 10. Russia (1st time competitors), 11. Denmark, 12. Germany, 13. Finland, 14. Sweden, 15. Netherlands, 16. Austria, 17. Iceland, 18. Catalonia. Ireland defeated Switzerland in", "id": "2746657" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Indiana\n\n\nrowspan=13 | 5 ! rowspan=2 | 5 ! 6 ! rowspan=2 | 7 ! rowspan=3 | 8 ! rowspan=6 | 9 ! 6 ! 7 ! rowspan=3 | 8 ! rowspan=6 | 10 ! rowspan=3 | 9 ! rowspan=5 | 10 ! rowspan=10 | 11 ! rowspan=3 | 11 ! rowspan=6 | 12 ! rowspan=4 | 12 ! rowspan=6 | 13 ! rowspan=2 | 13 ! rowspan=4 | 14 ! rowspan=6 | 14 ! 15 ! rowspan=11 | 16 ! rowspan=3 | 15 ! rowspan=2 | 16 ! rowspan=5 | 17 ! rowspan=6 | 17 ! rowspan=3 | 18 !", "id": "20743924" }, { "contents": "Book of Nature\n\n\n. Pedersen (1992), 7–8. 3. Pedersen (1992), 9. 4. Dear (2009), 4. 5. Pedersen (1992), 10. 6. Pedersen (1992), 11–13. 7. Pedersen (1992), 14–15. 8. Pedersen (1992), 15. 9. Harrison (2001), 13. 10. Harrison (2001), 13. 11. Harrison (2001), 15. 12. Harrison (2001), 15. 13.", "id": "3587614" }, { "contents": "2014 World Senior Curling Championships – Women's tournament\n\n\nThe women's tournament of the 2014 World Senior Curling Championships was held from April 23 to 30 at the Dumfries Ice Bowl in Dumfries, Scotland. The teams are listed as follows: \"Final Round Robin Standings\" Draw 3 15:30 Draw 5 7:30 Draw 6 11:00 Draw 7 14:30 Draw 8 18:00 Draw 9 21:30 Draw 11 12:00 Draw 12 15:30 Draw 13 19:00 Draw 15 11:00 Draw 17 18:00 Draw 18 21:30 Draw 20 12:00 Draw 21 15:30 Draw 23 8:30 Draw 24 14:00 Draw 3 15:30 Draw 4 19:30 Draw 7 14:30 Draw 8", "id": "16343741" }, { "contents": "Alejandro Landa\n\n\nFalls, South Dakota, but he won the final by defeating Daniel De La Rosa, 15-6, 7-15, 11-10, in the final. En route to the final, Landa beat Tim Landeryou, 15-5, 3-15, 11-6, in the Round of 16, Rocky Carson in the quarterfinals, 15-14, 11-15, 11-4, and Samuel Murray, 15-11, 15-7, in the semi-finals. In the", "id": "8690386" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Florida\n\n\n| 4 ! rowspan=3 | 4 ! rowspan=3 | 5 ! rowspan=6 | 5 ! rowspan=11 | 6 ! rowspan=9 | 6 ! rowspan=8 | 7 ! rowspan=10 | 7 ! 8 ! 9 ! rowspan=16 | 10 ! rowspan=3 | 8 ! rowspan=10 | 9 ! rowspan=3 | 10 ! 11 ! rowspan=6 | 11 ! rowspan=10 | 12 ! rowspan=13 | 12 ! rowspan=9 | 13 ! rowspan=3 | 14 ! rowspan=11 | 13 ! rowspan=4 | 15 ! rowspan=4 | 16 ! rowspan=9 | 17 ! rowspan=6 | 14 ! rowspan=10 | 15 ! rowspan=3 | 18", "id": "20743883" }, { "contents": "Coby Iwaasa\n\n\nKitchener, Ontario with the same result: a win for Murray, 15-2, 15-5. Iwaasa and Murray played Men’s Doubles together at the 2018 Canadian Championships in Winnipeg, and they won the title by defeating Nicolas Bousquet and Tommy Murray in the final, 15-13, 10-15, 11-6. They beat the brother team of James Landeryou and Tim Landeryou in the semi-finals, 15-13, 15-10. In Men’s Singles, Iwaasa finished 2nd, as", "id": "8038021" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Wisconsin\n\n\n| 6 ! rowspan=3 | 7 ! rowspan=3 | 6 ! rowspan=6 | 8 ! rowspan=3 | 7 ! rowspan=15 | 8 ! rowspan=4 | 9 ! rowspan=2 | 10 ! rowspan=7 | 11 ! rowspan=11 | 9 ! rowspan=3 | 12 ! rowspan=3 | 13 ! rowspan=14 | 14 ! rowspan=6 | 10 ! rowspan=16 | 11 ! rowspan=9 | 15 ! rowspan=6 | 16 ! rowspan=12 | 12 ! rowspan=9 | 17 ! rowspan=6 | 18 ! rowspan=6 | 13 , there are three living former Senators, one from Class 1 and two from Class 3.", "id": "21329584" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Michigan\n\n\n! 12 ! rowspan=13 | 13 ! rowspan=3 | 10 ! rowspan=7 | 11 ! rowspan=8 | 14 ! rowspan=2 | 12 ! rowspan=10 | 13 ! rowspan=3 | 15 ! rowspan=15 | 16 ! rowspan=4 | 14 ! rowspan=9 | 15 ! 17 ! rowspan=4 | 18 ! rowspan=6 | 16 ! rowspan=11 | 19 ! rowspan=9 | 17 ! rowspan=10 | 20 ! rowspan=18 | 18 ! rowspan=3 | 21 ! rowspan=12 | 22 ! rowspan=3 | 19 , there are three former U.S. Senators from Michigan who are currently living, two from Class 1 and one", "id": "20744040" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Ohio\n\n\n| 6 ! rowspan=2 | 7 ! rowspan=2 | 8 ! rowspan=2 | 9 ! rowspan=3 | 10 ! rowspan=3 | 6 ! rowspan=6 | 11 ! rowspan=3 | 7 ! rowspan=3 | 8 ! rowspan=5 | 12 ! 9 ! rowspan=11 | 10 ! rowspan=3 | 13 ! 14 ! rowspan=9 | 15 ! rowspan=8 | 11 ! 16 ! rowspan=3 | 17 ! rowspan=9 | 12 ! rowspan=3 | 18 ! rowspan=3 | 19 ! rowspan=9 | 20 ! rowspan=4 | 13 ! rowspan=4 | 14 ! rowspan=3 | 21 ! rowspan=7 | 15 ! rowspan=3 | 22", "id": "20744100" }, { "contents": "2013 Canadian Mixed Doubles Curling Trials\n\n\nFriday, March 15, 11:30 am\" \"Friday, March 15, 2:00 pm\" \"Friday, March 15, 4:30 pm\" \"Friday, March 15, 7:00 pm\" \"Friday, March 15, 9:30 pm\" \"Saturday, March 16, 9:00 am\" \"Saturday, March 16, 11:30 am\" \"Saturday, March 16, 2:00 pm\" \"Saturday, March 16, 4:30 pm\" \"Saturday, March 16, 8:30 pm\" \"Sunday, March 17, 10:00 am\" \"Sunday", "id": "10697048" }, { "contents": "Lyon Villeurbanne XIII\n\n\nto AS Carcassonne 10–22, but they went one better in the league beating XIII Catalan 15–10 to lift the trophy for the first time. In 52/53 they won the cup beating US Villeneuve 9–8 in the final but couldn't complete a league and cup double as they lost the league final 12–19 to AS Carcassonne. They retained the cup when they beat XIII Catalan 17–15 and won their second league title when they triumphed 7–6 against AS Carcassonne in 1955. Relegation followed in 1957 but after winning the National League 1 title, now called", "id": "19573564" }, { "contents": "Park Sung-hwan\n\n\n. Two weeks later, Park was to be defeated again in the quarter-final matches of the Li Ning China Masters Super Series in Changzhou, China (to 4th seed badminton ace Lin Dan of China, 15-21, 21-13, 21-23), and the Japan Open Super Series (to Indonesian, Taufik Hidayat, 21-12, 26-28, 15-21). In November, Park participated in the Yonex Sunrise Hong Kong Open and lost 15-21, 16-21", "id": "6727931" }, { "contents": "2015 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship\n\n\nThe 2015 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship was held from April 18 to 25 at the Ice Cube Curling Center in Sochi, Russia. The event will be held in conjunction with the 2015 World Senior Curling Championships. The teams are listed as follows: Draw 1 9:00 Draw 2 11:15 Draw 3 21:00 Draw 4 11:15 Draw 5 8:00 Draw 6 17:45 Draw 7 19:30 Draw 8 11:15 Draw 9 17:45 Draw 1 12:30 Draw 2 19:30 Draw 3 14:30 Draw 4 9:00 Draw 5 11:15 Draw 6 21:00 Draw 7 12:30 Draw 8 8:00 Draw 9", "id": "12517555" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Rhode Island\n\n\n| 9 ! rowspan=3 | 7 ! rowspan=7 | 8 ! rowspan=2 | 9 ! rowspan=7 | 10 ! rowspan=2 | 10 ! 11 ! rowspan=3 | 12 ! rowspan=3 | 11 ! rowspan=4 | 13 ! rowspan=3 | 12 ! rowspan=3 | 14 ! rowspan=17 | 13 ! 15 ! rowspan=6 | 16 ! rowspan=4 | 17 ! rowspan=20 | 18 ! 14 ! rowspan=4 | 15 ! rowspan=3 | 16 ! rowspan=10 | 17 ! rowspan=3 | 19 ! rowspan=6 | 18 ! rowspan=8 | 20 ! rowspan=7 | 19 ! rowspan=3 | 21 ! rowspan=6 | 22", "id": "20744131" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from West Virginia\n\n\nrowspan=8 | 7 ! rowspan=2 | 4 ! rowspan=8 | 5 ! rowspan=9 | 8 ! 6 ! rowspan=2 | 7 ! rowspan=4 | 9 ! rowspan=3 | 8 ! rowspan=3 | 10 ! rowspan=3 | 9 ! rowspan=3 | 11 ! rowspan=3 | 10 ! rowspan=3 | 12 ! rowspan=7 | 11 ! rowspan=3 | 13 ! rowspan=10 | 14 ! 12 ! 13 ! rowspan=3 | 14 ! rowspan=8 | 15 ! 15 ! rowspan=5 | 16 ! 16 ! rowspan=14 | 17 ! rowspan=27 | 17 ! rowspan=18 | 18 ! 18 ! rowspan=8 | 19 !", "id": "20744177" }, { "contents": "Academy of Saint Elizabeth\n\n\nstudents often take part in mass on different occasions. Sample 'D day' Homeroom 8:10-8:15 Period 1 8:19-9:15 Period 2 9:17 - 10:13 Period 3 10:15 - 11:11 Lunch 11:13 - 11:58 Period 5 12:00 - 12:56 Period 6 12:58 - 1:54 Period 7 1:56 - 2:51 The Academy runs on a 4-day rotating schedule (A day, B day, C day, and D day). Each day, students drop a morning and afternoon class. You can find the 2018-2019 school year calendar on the Academy", "id": "13678251" }, { "contents": "2014 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship\n\n\nWorld Curling medal for Spain in the bronze medal game with a 7–4 win over defending champions Dorottya Palansca and Zsolt Kiss of Hungary. Canada, Norway, and England scored perfect ends in their games in Draws 5, 11, and 22, respectively. The teams are listed as follows: \"Final Round Robin Standings\" Draw 1 8:15 Draw 4 19:30 Draw 6 11:15 Draw 9 21:00 Draw 12 14:30 Draw 15 8:00 Draw 18 17:45 Draw 19 21:00 Draw 21 11:15 Draw 22 14:30 Draw 25 8:00 Draw 2 12:00 Draw 5 8:00", "id": "15498977" }, { "contents": "2011 World Senior Curling Championships – Men's tournament\n\n\nStandings\" All draw times are listed in Central Standard Time (UTC-06). Draw 1 08:00 Draw 3 18:00 Draw 6 14:30 Draw 8 08:00 Draw 10 18:00 Draw 13 14:30 Draw 15 21:30 Draw 17 14:30 Draw 2 11:30 Draw 4 21:30 Draw 5 11:00 Draw 8 08:00 Draw 10 18:00 Draw 13 14:30 Draw 17 14:30 Draw 19 21:30 Draw 2 11:30 Draw 4 21:30 Draw 6 14:30 Draw 8 08:00 Draw 9 11:30 Draw 10 18:00 Draw 11 21:30 Draw 12 11:00 Draw 13 14:30 Draw 15 21:30 Draw 19 21:30 \"Friday, April", "id": "16637806" }, { "contents": "Nathan Robertson\n\n\ndefeated Björn Siegemund and Nicol Pitro of Germany in the second. In the quarterfinals, Robertson and Emms beat Chen Qiqiu and Zhao Tingting of China 15-8, 17-15 to advance to the semifinals. There, they beat Jonas Rasmussen and Rikke Olsen of Denmark 15-6, 15-12. In the final, they lost to Chinese pair Zhang Jun and Gao Ling 15-1, 12-15, 15-12 to finish with the silver medal. At the 2005 World Championships, he and Emms", "id": "1371969" }, { "contents": "List of major textual variants in the New Testament\n\n\nMatthew 8:28 Matthew 11:23 Matthew 17:21 Matthew 18:11 Matthew 20:16 Matthew 20:22, 23 Matthew 23:14 Matthew 24:36 Matthew 26:28 Matthew 27:16 Mark 2:16 Mark 6:11 Mark 7:8 Mark 7:16 Mark 9:38 Mark 9:43-46 Mark 9:49 Mark 10:24 Mark 11:26 Mark 14:19 Mark 15:28 Mark 16:9-20 Luke 1:28 Luke 2:14 Luke 4:4 Luke 9:55-56 Luke 11:2-4 Luke 11:11 Luke 22:43-44 Luke 23:17 Luke 23:34 John 1:18 John 5:3-4 John 6:69 John 7:53-8:11 John 8:59 Acts 2:30 Acts 13:42 Acts 15:24 Acts 18:21 Acts 23:9 Acts 28:29", "id": "12411760" }, { "contents": "BSWW Tour\n\n\n1 2 15-19 2 4. USA 3 1 2 13-20 2 Semifinals Brazil 9-4 Argentina Third place match Final Brazil 11-3 South Korea 02/03/1996 Buenos Aires (Argentina)Argentina 5-12 Brazil Friendly Match 1996 USA 3-6 Brazil Italy 6-9 Brazil USA 4-9 Brazil Italy 2-8 Brazil Netherlands 4-13 Brazil England 1-13 Brazil Malaysia 1-14 Brazil Semifinals Brazil 15-2 Japan Third place match Final Brazil 6-4 South Korea Brazil 7-4 Argentina", "id": "17061521" }, { "contents": "1941 Eastern Suburbs season\n\n\n5, Saturday 17 May Eastern Suburbs 13 beat Canterbury Bankstown 2 at Sydney Cricket Ground. Premiership Round 6, Saturday 24 May 1941. Newtown 4 beat Eastern Suburbs 3 at Henson Park. Premiership Round 7, Saturday 31 June 1941. St George 16 beat Eastern Suburbs 10 at Sydney Sports Ground. Premiership Round 8, Saturday 21 June 1941. South Sydney 22 beat Eastern Suburbs 15 at Sydney Sports Ground. Premiership Round 9, Saturday 28 June 1941. Eastern Suburbs 15 beat Western Suburbs 3 at Pratten Park. Premiership Round", "id": "11086526" }, { "contents": "Jansher Khan\n\n\nJansher Khan (; born 15 June 1969, in Peshawar, Pakistan) is a former World No. 1 professional Pakistani squash player. During his career he won the World Open a record eight times, and the British Open six times. Jansher Khan's retirement brought an end to nearly 50 years of domination by Pakistan in the sport of squash. He won the World Junior Squash Championship title in 1986 and the senior World Open title in 1987, by beating Australia's Chris Dittmar in the final. Jansher officially announced his retirement", "id": "1599584" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Kentucky\n\n\n! 5 ! rowspan=5 | 6 ! 3 ! rowspan=2 | 4 ! rowspan=4 | 7 ! 5 ! rowspan=4 | 6 ! rowspan=5 | 8 ! 7 ! 8 ! rowspan=2 | 9 ! rowspan=7 | 9 ! rowspan=3 | 10 ! rowspan=3 | 11 ! rowspan=4 | 10 ! rowspan=6 | 12 ! rowspan=3 | 11 ! rowspan=4 | 12 ! rowspan=4 | 13 ! rowspan=8 | 13 ! 14 ! rowspan=2 | 15 ! 16 ! rowspan=2 | 17 ! rowspan=3 | 14 ! rowspan=3 | 18 ! rowspan=5 | 15 ! 19 ! rowspan=8 | 20", "id": "20743991" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Massachusetts\n\n\n| 8 ! rowspan=7 | 7 ! rowspan=2 | 9 ! rowspan=8 | 10 ! rowspan=3 | 8 ! rowspan=6 | 9 ! rowspan=9 | 11 ! rowspan=3 | 10 ! rowspan=5 | 11 ! rowspan=3 | 12 ! rowspan=5 | 13 ! rowspan=8 | 12 ! 14 ! 15 ! rowspan=16 | 16 ! 13 ! 14 ! rowspan=10 | 15 ! rowspan=4 | 16 ! 17 ! rowspan=9 | 18 ! rowspan=14 | 17 ! rowspan=18 | 19 ! rowspan=5 | 18 ! rowspan=3 | 19 ! rowspan=5 | 20 ! rowspan=2 | 20 ! rowspan=4 | 21", "id": "20744045" }, { "contents": "2017 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship\n\n\nDraw 5 8:00 Draw 11 11:15 Draw 12 14:30 Draw 14 21:00 Draw 16 11:15 Draw 18 17:45 Draw 19 21:00 Draw 20 8:00 Draw 22 14:30 Draw 23 17:45 Draw 24 21:00 Draw 26 11:15 Draw 27 14:30 Draw 3 15:00 Draw 4 20:00 Draw 6 11:15 Draw 8 17:45 Draw 9 21:00 Draw 12 14:30 Draw 13 17:45 Draw 14 21:00 Draw 16 11:15 Draw 17 14:30 Draw 20 8:00 Draw 21 11:15 Draw 22 14:30 Draw 25 8:00 Draw 26 11:15 Draw 1 8:00 Draw 2 11:15 Draw 3 15:00 Draw 5 8:00 Draw 8 17:45 Draw", "id": "20611918" }, { "contents": "Michael Cheika\n\n\nAuckland a week later. Despite having only been in charge of the Wallabies for a year, Cheika led Australia to the 2015 Rugby World Cup Final. They topped Pool A with victories over Fiji 28–13, Uruguay 65–3, England 33–13 and Wales 15–6. They narrowly beat Scotland in the quarter-final winning 35–34 after a controversial last minute penalty. They beat Argentina 29–15 in the semi-final to reach the final against the All Blacks. The Wallabies went down 16–3 at half time, but fought back in the second half", "id": "21843436" }, { "contents": "2008 South American Under-23 Championships in Athletics – Results\n\n\n5 September 17:00hbr Final – 7 September 15:00hbr Final – 6 September 11:00hbr Final – 6 September 15:40hbr Final – 6 September 9:30hbr Wind: -2.5m/s Final – 7 September 10:45hbr Final – 6 September 9:00hbr Final – 7 September 9:00hbr Final – 7 September 11:00hbr Final – 6 September 11:00hbr Final – 6 September 9:00hbr Final – 7 September 11:00hbr Final – 5 September 14:50hbr Final – 6 September 9:00hbr Final – 7 September 9:00hbr Final – 7 September 7:00hbr Final – 6 September 17:00hbr Final – 7 September 15:50hbr Final – 6 September 9:45hbr Wind: -2.5", "id": "3039640" }, { "contents": "Rhonda Rajsich\n\n\nfinished #1. At the 2011 USA National Doubles Championships, Rajsich played with Kim Russell-Waselenchuk for the first time. They lost in the semi-finals to Krystal Csuk and Cheryl Gudinas, 15-6, 2-15, 11-9, and then lost the 3rd place match to sisters Danielle and Michelle Key, 3-15, 15-10, 11-10. However, Rajsich won Women's Singles at the 2011 USA National Singles Championshps by beating Gudinas in the final, 15-2", "id": "20397807" }, { "contents": "Ra Kyung-min\n\n\n. In the quarterfinals, Ra and Lee beat Lotte Bruil and Mia Audina of the Netherlands 15-5, 15-2. They lost the semifinal to Zhang Jiewen and Yang Wei of China 15-6, 15-4 but won the bronze medal match against Zhao Tingting and Wei Yili, also of China, 10-15, 15-9, 15-7. Ra also competed in mixed doubles with partner Kim Dong-moon. They had a bye in the first round and defeated Chris Bruil and Lotte", "id": "17379284" }, { "contents": "Coby Iwaasa\n\n\nVincent Gagnon, 15-10, 15-17, 11-6, in the semi-finals, but won the 3rd place match versus Samuel Murray, 13-15, 15-6, 11-8. That summer Iwaasa played for Canada for the first time by participating in the 2014 Pan American Sports Festival in Guadalajara, Mexico, where he defeated team-mate Samuel Murray, 15-9, 10-15, 11-3, in the Round of 16, but lost to David Horn of", "id": "8038012" }, { "contents": "Raglan Chronicle\n\n\n13, 20, 27, Apr 2, 10, 17, 24, May 1, 8, 15, 22, Jun 5, 12, 19, 26, Jul 3, 10. 17, 24, 31, Aug 7, 21, 28, Sep 4, 11, 18, 25, Oct 2, 9, 16, 23, 30, Nov 6, 13, 20, 27, Dec 4, 11, 18, 23; 1959 Jan 15, 29, Feb 5, 19,", "id": "3052190" }, { "contents": "Coby Iwaasa\n\n\n4, 11-5, and 1st seed Alejandro Cardona in the final, 9-15, 15-9, 11-8. He reached the quarterfinals in the other four WRT events that year. In November 2014, Iwaasa defeated Samuel Murray, in the quarterfinals, 15-9, 15-10, of the 1st National Team Selection Event of the 2014-15 season in Kitchener, Ontario. He then lost to Mike Green, 15-6, 15-6, in the semi-finals.", "id": "8038014" }, { "contents": "2008 European Curling Championships\n\n\n, 14:00 Draw 4 Monday December 8, 08:00 Draw 5 Monday December 8, 16:00 Draw 6 Tuesday December 9, 09:00 Draw 7 Tuesday December 9, 18:30 Draw 8 Wednesday December 10, 14:00 Draw 9 Thursday December 11, 08:00 Tiebreaker Thursday December 11, 15:00 Thursday, December 11, 20:00 Thursday, December 11, 20:00 Friday, December 12, 19:00 Saturday, December 13, 15:00 \"All times local\" Draw 1 Saturday December 6, 12:00 Draw 2 Sunday December 7, 16:00 Draw 3 Sunday December 7, 20:00", "id": "11226003" }, { "contents": "Rocky Carson\n\n\nUSA Racquetball National Singles Championship for the first time. He was seeded 6th, and defeated 8th seed Doug Eagle in the final. 15-7, 15-7. To reach the final, Carson beat Brian Fredenberg in the quarterfinals, 15-7, 15-13, and Jack Huczek in the semi-finals, 15-11, 15-6. He also played in Worlds for the 2nd time in San Luis Potosi, Mexico, and came home with two silver medals. He finished 2nd in Men", "id": "17077667" }, { "contents": "1973 European Formula Two Championship\n\n\nThe 1973 European Formula Two season was contested over 17 rounds. STP March Racing Team driver Jean-Pierre Jarier clinched the championship title. Note: Race 1, 2, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 13, 15 and 17 were held in two heats, with results shown in aggregate. Race 3, 5, 9 and 12 were held with two semi-final heats and the final run, with time only shown for the final. Race 3, 4, 5 and 15 were won by", "id": "18544287" }, { "contents": "2008 in sports\n\n\nJackson vs. Griffin 7/19 – 7/19 – () 7/21 – DREAM.5 7/26 – August 8/3 – WEC 35: Condit vs. Miura 8/9 – UFC 87: Seek And Destroy 8/15 – ShoXC 7 8/24 – September 9/6 – UFC 88: Breakthrough 9/13 – 9/17 – 9/20 – 9/23 – DREAM.6 9/26 – ShoXC 8 9/28 – October 10/3 – 10/4 – 10/10 – ShoXC 9 () 10/18 – UFC 89: Bisping vs. Leben 10/25 – UFC 90: Silva vs. Côté November 11/1 – 11/5 – WEC 36: Faber vs. Brown 11/15 – UFC", "id": "5162165" } ]

[ { "contents": "Rodney Martin (squash player)\n\n\nRodney Martin is a former professional squash player from Australia. He is best known for winning the World Open in 1991, beating the legendary Pakistani player Jahangir Khan in the final 14-17, 15-9, 15-4, 15-13 (he had previously beaten another Pakistani legend, Jansher Khan, in the quarter-finals, and his Australian compatriot Chris Dittmar in the semi-finals). Martin was also part of the Australian teams which won the World Team Squash Championships in 1989 and 1991. Martin", "id": "20966392" }, { "contents": "Amr Shabana\n\n\nbeating Thierry Lincou in the final 15–14, 9–15, 15–11, 15–7, to become Egypt's first winner of the sport's premier title. But after a disappointing following year, in which his only final appearance was in the British Open Squash Championship in England, losing to David Palmer in four games 10–11 (4–6), 11–7, 11–10 (3–1), 11–7, Shabana stormed back to the top of his game in 2005. Over a short period, he acquired a new coach, Ahmed Tahir; a new manager", "id": "522232" }, { "contents": "Comparison of codices Sinaiticus and Vaticanus\n\n\n13:39a 13:39b 13:41 13:42 13:44a 13:44b 13:48 13:50 13:54 13:55 13:57a 13:57 b 14:1 14:2 14:3 14:4a 14:4b 14:5 14:7 14:9 14:12 14:13 14:15a 14:15b 14:15c 14:16 14:17 14:19a 14:19b 14:22a 14:22b 14:22c 14:23 14:24 14:26 14:28a 14:28b 14:29 14:35 14:36 15:3 15:4 15:5 15:6 15:11a 15:11b 15:12 15:14 15:15 15:17 15:17 15:17 15:22 15:22 15:27 15:30 15:31 15:31 15:31 16:6 16:9 16:12 17:10 17:15 17:17 18:7 18:14 18:16 19:7 19:10 19:12 19:16 19:22 21:16 21:17 21:19 21:28 21:33 22:1 22:11 22:40 23:3 23:8 23:35 23:35b 23:37 24:2 24:9 24:24 24:26 24:30 24:31 24:35 24:48 25:3 25:17 25:22 26:33 26:50", "id": "1385581" }, { "contents": "John White (squash player)\n\n\nJohn White (born 15 June 1973 in Mount Isa, Australia) is a former World No. 1 squash player. White finished runner-up at both the World Open and the British Open in 2002. He won the PSA Masters title in 2003 (beating Thierry Lincou in the final 15–8, 17–15, 17–16). He also won the British National Championships in 2004 (beating Lee Beachill in the final 17–16, 17–14, 14–15, 15–8). White reached the World No. 1 ranking in March 2004. White", "id": "14402929" }, { "contents": "2011 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship\n\n\nDraw 7 21:30 Draw 9 15:00 Draw 12 08:00 Draw 13 11:00 Draw 14 14:30 Draw 17 08:00 Draw 18 11:30 Draw 20 18:00 Draw 21 21:30 Draw 2 15:00 Draw 4 08:00 Draw 6 18:00 Draw 7 21:30 Draw 8 11:30 Draw 9 15:00 Draw 10 18:00 Draw 12 08:00 Draw 14 14:30 Draw 15 18:00 Draw 16 21:30 Draw 18 11:30 Draw 19 14:30 Draw 2 15:00 Draw 3 21:30 Draw 5 14:30 Draw 6 18:00 Draw 7 21:30 Draw 8 11:30 Draw 9 15:00 Draw 11 21:30 Draw 12 08:00 Draw 15 18:00 Draw 16 21:30 Draw", "id": "12545021" }, { "contents": "2016 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship\n\n\n8 21:00 Draw 9 8:00 Draw 10 11:15 Draw 13 21:00 Draw 14 8:00 Draw 15 11:15 Draw 17 17:45 Draw 20 11:15 Draw 21 14:30 Draw 22 17:45 Draw 23 21:00 Draw 24 8:00 Draw 25 11:15 Draw 1 12:00 Draw 2 16:00 Draw 4 8:00 Draw 5 11:15 Draw 6 14:30 Draw 7 17:45 Draw 9 8:00 Draw 11 14:30 Draw 12 17:45 Draw 13 21:00 Draw 15 11:15 Draw 17 17:45 Draw 19 8:00 Draw 21 14:30 Draw 22 17:45 Draw 24 8:00 Draw 25 11:15 \"Thursday, April 21, 17:45\" \"Thursday,", "id": "1156734" }, { "contents": "Codex Dublinensis\n\n\nει. Matthew 1:17-2:6, 2:13-20, 4:4-13, 5:45-6:15, 7:16-8:6, 10:40-11:18, 12:43-13:11, 13:57-14:19, 15:13-23, 17:9-17, 17:26-18:6, 19:4-12, 21-28, 20:7-21:8, 21:23-30, 22:16-25, 22:37-23:3, 23:15-23, 24:15-25, 25:1-11, 26:21-29, 62-71. The Greek text of this codex is a representative", "id": "16200586" }, { "contents": "Frisingensia Fragmenta\n\n\n15:13; 1 Cor 1:1-27; 1:28-3:5; 6:1-7:7; 15:1-1:43; 16:12-27; 2 Cor 1:1-2:10; 3:17-5:1; 7:10-8:12; 9:10-11:21; 12:14-13:10; Gal 2:5-4:3; 6:5-17; Eph 1:1-13; 1:16-2:16; 6:24; Phil 1:1-20; 1 Tim 1:12-2:15; 5:18-6:13; Hbr 6:6-7:5; 7:8-8:1; 9:27-11:7. 1 John 3:8 - 5:9.", "id": "5758263" }, { "contents": "Minuscule 506\n\n\n-30; 17:5-8; 24:22-24; John 1:1-7:39; 8:31-9:11; 10:10-11:54; 12:36-13:27; Acts 1:1-7:49; 10:19-14:10; 15:15-16:11; 18:1-21:25; 23:18-28:31; James 1:1-3:17; 1 Corinthians 12:11-15:12; 16:13-15; 2 Corinthians 13:4. 5; Galatians [5:16-6:1]; 6:1-18; 2 Timothy 3:10. 11; Titus 3:5-7. The Greek text of the codex is a", "id": "14754278" }, { "contents": "Rocky Carson\n\n\nthe finals by defeating Anthony Herrera and David Horn in the semi-finals, 15-9, 15-3. But in the final Carson and Allen lost to Jake Bredenbeck and Jose Diaz, 15-14, 15-11. He won the 2016 USAR National Singles Championships in Highlands Ranch, Colorado, where Carson defeated [[Chris Crowther]] in the semi-finals, 13-15, 15-12, 11-7, and then beat Diaz in the final, 15-10, 15", "id": "17077704" }, { "contents": "Codex Nitriensis\n\n\nno references to the Eusebian Canons. Gospel of Luke 1:1-13, 1:69-2:4, 2:16-27, 4:38-5:5, 5:25-6:8, 6:18-36, 6:39, 6:49-7:22, 7:44, 7:46, 7:47, 7:50, 8:1-3, 8:5-15, 8:25-9:1, 9:12-43, 10:3-16, 11:5-27, 12:4-15, 12:40-52, 13:26-14:1, 14:12-15:1, 15:13-16:16, 17:21-18:10, 18:22-20:20,", "id": "14992375" }, { "contents": "Del Harris (squash player)\n\n\n16–17, 15–8. That year Harris was also part of the winning England team in the 1995 Men's World Team Squash Championships and in addition he won the Super Series Finals event, beating Brett Martin of Australia in the final 10–8, 7–9, 9–4, 6–9, 9–2. Further success came in 1997 when he was once again part of the winning England team in the 1997 Men's World Team Squash Championships. Harris won the British National Squash Championships twice, in 1987 and 1989 and reached his career-high world ranking", "id": "20966690" }, { "contents": "2012 European Mixed Curling Championship\n\n\nDraw 14 8:30 Draw 16 15:30 Draw 1 19:30 Draw 2 9:00 Draw 3 12:30 Draw 4 16:00 Draw 5 19:30 Draw 6 9:00 Draw 8 16:00 Draw 11 12:30 Draw 13 19:30 Draw 14 8:30 Draw 15 12:00 Draw 16 15:30 Draw 17 19:00 Draw 2 9:00 Draw 4 16:00 Draw 6 9:00 Draw 7 12:30 Draw 8 16:00 Draw 9 19:30 Draw 10 9:00 Draw 12 16:00 Draw 15 12:00 Draw 17 19:00 \"Friday, October 5, 9:00\" \"Friday, October 5, 21:00\" \"Saturday, October 6, 17:00\" \"", "id": "19557062" }, { "contents": "2017 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship\n\n\n10 8:00 Draw 12 14:30 Draw 13 17:45 Draw 19 21:00 Draw 21 11:15 Draw 22 14:30 Draw 24 21:00 Draw 25 8:00 Draw 27 14:30 Draw 2 11:15 Draw 4 20:00 Draw 6 11:15 Draw 7 14:30 Draw 9 21:00 Draw 11 11:15 Draw 15 8:00 Draw 17 14:30 Draw 20 8:00 Draw 23 17:45 Draw 26 11:15 Draw 27 14:30 \"Friday, April 28, 9:00\" \"Friday, April 28, 12:30\" \"Friday, April 28, 16:00\" \"Friday, April 28, 19:30\" \"Saturday, April 29,", "id": "20611919" }, { "contents": "Coby Iwaasa\n\n\nIwaasa finished 3rd by defeating Tim Landeryou, 15-11, 15-9. He won the 2nd Selection Event that season in Brossard, Québec, where he beat Pedro Castro in the final, 15-9, 6-15, 11-8. In the semi-finals, Iwaasa beat Landeryou, 12-15, 15-4, 11-7. Iwaasa played seven tournaments in the 2014-15 International Racquetball Tour season, but only made it to the quarterfinals in the second last event of the", "id": "8038015" }, { "contents": "Jack Huczek\n\n\nthe semi-finals, 15-6, 9-15, 11-4. In the 2002-03 IRT season, Huczek was in four finals, winning the final event of the season: Pro Nationals in Tempe, Arizona, where he beat Alvaro Beltran, 11-4, 11-6, 11-8, in the final after defeating Rocky Carson in the semis, 11-1, 11-6, 11-7, and Cliff Swain in the quarters, 11-6, 15-", "id": "17077735" }, { "contents": "Samuel Murray (racquetball)\n\n\nNovember 2015, in Brossard, Québec, where he beat Mike Green in the final, 15-10, 15-13. He defeated Tim Landeryou to reach the final, 15-7, 15-12. In the 2nd Selection Event that season, he lost a tie-breaker to Landeryou in the semi-finals, 10-15, 15-12, 11-9. But he did win the 3rd place match against Pedro Castro, 15-6, 15-1. Murray played at the", "id": "7910649" }, { "contents": "1995–96 Regionalliga\n\n\n! 6 ! 7 ! 8 ! 9 ! 10 ! 11 ! 12 ! 13 ! 14 ! 15 ! 16 ! 17 ! 18 The Regionalliga Nordost ! 1 ! 2 ! 3 ! 4 ! 5 ! 6 ! 7 ! 8 ! 9 ! 10 ! 11 ! 12 ! 13 ! 14 ! 15 ! 16 ! 17 ! 18 The Regionalliga West/Südwest: ! 1 ! 2 ! 3 ! 4 ! 5 ! 6 ! 7 ! 8 ! 9 ! 10 ! 11 ! 12 ! 13 ! 14 !", "id": "13380860" }, { "contents": "2014 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship\n\n\nDraw 8 17:45 Draw 11 11:15 Draw 14 21:00 Draw 16 11:15 Draw 17 14:30 Draw 20 8:00 Draw 22 14:30 Draw 24 21:00 Draw 25 8:00 Draw 26 11:15 Draw 1 8:15 Draw 2 12:00 Draw 3 15:45 Draw 5 8:00 Draw 6 11:15 Draw 7 14:30 Draw 9 21:00 Draw 10 8:00 Draw 12 14:30 Draw 13 17:45 Draw 14 21:00 Draw 15 8:00 Draw 16 11:15 Draw 17 14:30 Draw 18 17:45 Draw 20 8:00 Draw 21 11:15 Draw 23 17:45 Draw 24 21:00 Draw 3 15:45 Draw 4 19:30 Draw 7 14:30 Draw 8 17:45 Draw", "id": "15498978" }, { "contents": "Rocky Carson\n\n\nto the final with a win over Chris Crowther in the semi-finals, 15-7, 15-10. Carson’s Men’s Singles World Championship in 2008 qualified him for the 2009 World Games in Kaohsiung, Republic of China, where he captured the silver medal in Men's Singles. Carson beat Canadian Mike Green, 15-9, 15-9, in the quarterfinals, and Mexican Alvaro Beltran in the semi-finals, 9-15, 15-7, 11-8, to set up", "id": "17077685" }, { "contents": "2018 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship\n\n\nDraw 27 16:00 Draw 28 19:30 Draw 1 9:00 Draw 2 12:30 Draw 3 16:30 Draw 5 8:00 Draw 8 17:45 Draw 10 8:00 Draw 11 11:15 Draw 12 14:30 Draw 13 17:45 Draw 18 17:45 Draw 19 21:00 Draw 21 11:15 Draw 22 14:30 Draw 25 8:00 Draw 26 12:30 Draw 27 16:00 Draw 2 12:30 Draw 4 20:00 Draw 6 11:15 Draw 7 14:30 Draw 9 21:00 Draw 10 8:00 Draw 11 11:15 Draw 12 14:30 Draw 14 21:00 Draw 15 8:00 Draw 16 11:15 Draw 18 17:45 Draw 19 21:00 Draw 20 8:00 Draw 21 11:15 Draw", "id": "3983102" }, { "contents": "Rocky Carson\n\n\nIRT season. Carson won the 2001 Pan American Racquetball Championships in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, where he defeated Canadian Kane Waselenchuk in the final, 15-9, 15-13. Carson was the defending champion at the 2001 USAR National Singles Championships, and had a chance to defend the title, but lost to Jack Huczek, 15-11, 15-6. Carson beat Dan Fowler in the semi-finals, 15-8, 15-10, to reach the final. Carson took a step back", "id": "17077670" }, { "contents": "Gail Emms\n\n\nKellogg. They defeated Koon Wai Chee and Li Wing Mui of Hong Kong in the first round but were defeated by Zhao Tingting and Wei Yili of China in the second round. She also competed in mixed doubles with Robertson. They had a bye in the first round and defeated Björn Siegemund and Nicol Pitro of Germany in the second. In the quarterfinals, Emms and Robertson beat Chen Qiqiu and Zhao Tingting of China 15–8, 17–15 to advance to the semifinals. There, they beat Jonas Rasmussen and Rikke Olsen of Denmark 15–6", "id": "555457" }, { "contents": "Wellington Rugby Football Union\n\n\nNew South Wales 9–5 1896 beat Queensland 49–7 1901 beat New South Wales 17–16 1905 beat Australia 23–7 (combined team with Wairarapa and Horowhenua 1908 beat Anglo-Welsh 19–13 1921 lost to South Africa 3–8 1921 beat New South Wales 16–8 1923 beat New South Wales 29–16 (combined team with Manawatu) 1925 beat New South Wales 20–8 (combined team with Manawatu and Horowhenua) 1930 beat British Lions 12–8 1931 beat Australia 15–8 1937 lost to South Africa 0–29 1946 lost to Australia 15–16 1950 lost to British Isles 6–12 1956 lost to South Africa", "id": "5981175" }, { "contents": "Samuel Murray (racquetball)\n\n\n, 7-15, 15-3, 11-7, and then lost to Mexican Daniel De La Rosa, 15-12, 15-7. Murray won the 1st National Team Selection event of the 2016-17 season in Valleyfield, Québec, where he defeated James Landeryou, 15-4, 15-4, in the final. In the semi-finals, Murray beat Landeryou’s older brother Tim, 15-9, 15-13. At the 2nd selection event that season in Calgary,", "id": "7910652" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from South Carolina\n\n\n5 ! rowspan=4 | 6 ! rowspan=8 | 7 ! 6 ! rowspan=3 | 7 ! rowspan=3 | 8 ! rowspan=9 | 8 ! rowspan=5 | 9 ! rowspan=4 | 10 ! 9 ! rowspan=5 | 10 ! rowspan=15 | 11 ! 11 ! 12 ! rowspan=2 | 13 ! 14 ! rowspan=5 | 15 ! rowspan=6 | 12 ! 16 ! rowspan=2 | 17 ! rowspan=6 | 18 ! rowspan=3 | 13 ! rowspan=3 | 14 ! rowspan=9 | 19 ! rowspan=6 | 15 ! rowspan=3 | 16 ! rowspan=16 | 20 ! 17 ! rowspan=3 | 18 !", "id": "20744133" }, { "contents": "Alejandro Landa\n\n\n-4. Then at the end of the year, Landa beat Jaime Martell in the final of the Alamo City Open in San Antonio, beating Bredenbeck in the quarterfinals and David Horn in the semi-finals to reach the final. In 2016, Landa successfully defended his Alamo City Open title by beating Cardona in the final, 15-6, 15-10. He defeated Andree Parrilla, 15-12, 15-11, in the quarterfinals, and Jaime Martell, 15-11, 15-13,", "id": "8690377" }, { "contents": "Minuscule 172\n\n\n; 5:2-16; 6:2-7:2; 7:16-8:10; 8:38-9:13; 9:26-39; 10:9-22; 10:43-13:1; 23:32-24:24; 28:23-James 1:5; 3:6-4:16; 2 Peter 3:10-1 John 1:1; 3:13-4:2; Jude 16-25; Romans 14:23 - 15:1.4; 1 Corinthians 3:15-15:23; 2 Corinthians 10: 14-11:19; 13:5-13; Ephesians 1:1-2:14; 5:29-6:24 Colossians 1:24-26; 2:4-7; 2 Thessalonians 1:1", "id": "8396043" }, { "contents": "Jack Huczek\n\n\nseeded #1, and in the semi-finals beat Michael Bronfeld, 15-2, 15-9, to reach the final for the second consecutive year. However, Huczek lost the final to Mike Guidry, 15-10, 12-15, 11-9. In 2002, Huczek again partnered with Eric Muller at the USAR National Doubles Championships, and they reached the finals before losing to Ruben Gonzalez and Mike Guidry, 15-7, 15-10. They defeated Jason Thoerner and Mitch Williams in", "id": "17077734" }, { "contents": "2010–11 in Hong Kong football\n\n\non 8 October. However, the heavy rain flooded the field, so the ball flow on the water and could not be kick. The match was abandoned at 14th-minute. The rematch played on 9 October, Hong Kong defeated the Philippines by 4–2. The 2010 Asian Games will play between 7 November and 27 November in Guangzhou, China. Hong Kong national under-15 football team won all the group stage matches in the championship, which hold in Guam. Hong Kong beat Chinese Taipei in semi-final but lose by", "id": "3640662" }, { "contents": "2016 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship\n\n\nDraw 11 14:30 Draw 12 17:45 Draw 15 11:15 Draw 16 14:30 Draw 18 21:00 Draw 21 14:30 Draw 25 11:15 Draw 26 14:30 Draw 2 16:00 Draw 4 8:00 Draw 6 14:30 Draw 10 11:15 Draw 11 14:30 Draw 13 21:00 Draw 16 14:30 Draw 17 17:45 Draw 19 8:00 Draw 24 8:00 Draw 25 11:15 Draw 4 8:00 Draw 5 11:15 Draw 7 17:45 Draw 9 8:00 Draw 10 11:15 Draw 11 14:30 Draw 14 8:00 Draw 16 14:30 Draw 18 21:00 Draw 23 21:00 Draw 26 14:30 Draw 2 16:00 Draw 3 20:00 Draw 6 14:30 Draw", "id": "1156733" }, { "contents": "Easter Vigil\n\n\n-16; 3. Exodus 12:1-11; 4. Jonah 1:1-4:11; 5. Joshua 5:10-15; 6. Exodus 13:20-15:19; 7. Zephaniah 3:8-15; 8. 3 Kings 17:8-24; 9. Isaiah 61:10-62:5; 10. Genesis 22:1-18; 11. Isaiah 61:1-9; 12. 4 Kings 4:8-37; 13. Isaiah 63:11-64:5; 14. Jeremiah 31:31-34; 15. Daniel 3:1-68. It is during these", "id": "3156542" }, { "contents": "Jackie Paraiso\n\n\nBrodeur, 15-8, 15-6, in 2008. In between, she won three straight World Championships in 1994, 1996, and 1998. Laura Fenton was Paraiso's partner in 1994, when they beat Vicky Shanks and Debbie Ward of Canada, 15-9, 15-7. Then in 1996 and 1998, Paraiso's twin sister Joy MacKenzie was her partner, as they beat Shanks and Ward in 1996, 15-11, 15-4, and Shanks and Grand'Maître in 1998, 15-", "id": "21029455" }, { "contents": "Jahangir Khan\n\n\nover Jahangir in September 1987, beating him in straight games in the semi-finals of the Hong Kong Open. Jansher then went on to beat Jahangir in their next eight consecutive encounters and capture the 1987 World Open title. Jahangir ended Jansher's winning streak in March 1988, and went on to win 11 of their next 15 encounters. The pair met in the 1988 World Open final, with Jahangir emerging the victor. But by that point it had become clear that squash now had two dominant players. The pair would", "id": "414920" }, { "contents": "Samuel Murray (racquetball)\n\n\ncame 3rd, as they lost to Green and Trevor Webb in the semi-finals, 15-13, 4-15, 11-5, but beat Lee Connell and Nathaniel Husulak, 15-9, 16-14. Murray won the 1st National Team Selection event of the 2017-18 season, as he defeated Tim Landeryou, 15-3, 15-8, in the final. In the semi-finals, Murray beat Coby Iwaasa, 15-11, 15-8. Murray and Landeryou", "id": "7910655" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Maine\n\n\n| 4 ! rowspan=3 | 7 ! rowspan=6 | 5 ! 8 ! rowspan=6 | 9 ! rowspan=9 | 6 ! 10 ! rowspan=2 | 11 ! rowspan=7 | 12 ! 7 ! rowspan=3 | 8 ! rowspan=10 | 13 ! rowspan=4 | 9 ! rowspan=4 | 10 ! rowspan=17 | 14 ! rowspan=16 | 11 ! rowspan=7 | 15 ! 12 ! rowspan=2 | 13 ! rowspan=6 | 14 ! rowspan=14 | 16 ! rowspan=3 | 15 ! rowspan=9 | 16 ! rowspan=6 | 17 ! rowspan=13 | 17 ! rowspan=3 | 18 ! rowspan=11 | 19 ! rowspan=3", "id": "20744038" }, { "contents": "Men's Home Internationals\n\n\nafternoon. Scotland and England beat Ireland and Wales on the first two days. On the final day Scotland beat England 8–7 to win the title while Ireland beat Wales 9½–5½. The 1933 tournament was held at Royal County Down Golf Club from 14 to 16 September. The results of all six matches was the same as in 1932, Scotland beating England in the decisive match. In the 1934 tournament at Royal Porthcawl Golf Club from 15 to 17 August, Ireland beat England on the opening day. With Scotland beating England, Scotland retained", "id": "17763243" }, { "contents": "Codex Vaticanus 2061\n\n\nwas . The surviving leaves contain texts (according to Nestle-Aland 26th): Acts 26:6-27:4, 28:3-31; James 4:14-5:20; 1 Peter 1:1-12; 2 Peter 2:4-8, 2:13-3:15; 1 John 4:6-5:13, 5:17-18, 5:21; 2 John; 3 John; Romans 13:4-15:9; 1 Corinthians 2:1-3:11, 3:22, 4:4-6, 5:5-11, 6:3-11, 12:23-15:17, 15:20-27; 2 Corinthians 4:7", "id": "9378418" }, { "contents": "2012 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship\n\n\n17:45 Draw 11 21:00 Draw 12 8:00 Draw 13 11:15 Draw 14 14:30 Draw 15 17:45 Draw 16 21:00 Draw 17 8:00 Draw 18 11:15 Draw 19 14:30 Draw 20 17:45 Draw 21 21:00 Draw 23 11:15 Draw 1 18:45 Draw 3 11:15 Draw 5 17:45 Draw 6 21:00 Draw 8 11:15 Draw 10 17:45 Draw 12 8:00 Draw 13 11:15 Draw 14 14:30 Draw 15 17:45 Draw 16 21:00 Draw 18 11:15 Draw 20 17:45 Draw 22 8:00 Draw 1 18:45 Draw 2 8:00 Draw 3 11:15 Draw 4 14:30 Draw 5 17:45 Draw 6 21:00 Draw 7 8:00", "id": "8246326" }, { "contents": "2016 Bangladesh Championship League\n\n\nBank SC (15-16) 14 6 2 6 13 - 14 -1 20 4 Bangladesh Police Athletic Club (15-16) 14 4 6 4 11 - 9 2 18 5 T&T Club (15-16) 14 4 5 5 14 - 14 0 17 6 Victoria SC (15-16) 14 3 5 6 14 - 16 -2 14 7 Kawran Bazar (15-16) 14 2 8 4 7 - 12 -5 14 8 Chittagong Mohammedan (15-16) 14 2 4 8 13 -", "id": "13232613" }, { "contents": "Timeline of the 2012 Pacific hurricane season\n\n\nJune 16 June 17 July 4 July 5 July 7 July 8 July 9 July 10 July 11 July 12 July 13 July 14 July 15 July 16 July 18 August 7 August 8 August 9 August 11 August 12 August 15 August 17 August 27 August 30 August 31 September 2 September 3 September 4 September 12 September 14 September 15 September 16 September 17 September 18 September 19 September 22 September 24 September 25 September 26 September 27 September 28 September 29 October 6 October 7 October 9 October 13 October 15 October 16 October 17 October 30", "id": "21319682" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Missouri\n\n\n! rowspan=3 | 12 ! rowspan=18 | 6 ! 13 ! 14 ! rowspan=12 | 15 ! rowspan=9 | 16 ! rowspan=3 | 7 ! rowspan=15 | 8 ! 17 ! rowspan=5 | 18 ! 19 ! rowspan=4 | 20 ! rowspan=4 | 9 ! rowspan=7 | 21 ! rowspan=6 | 10 ! rowspan=4 | 22 ! 11 ! rowspan=3 | 12 ! rowspan=5 | 23 ! rowspan=15 | 13 ! rowspan=5 | 24 ! rowspan=11 | 25 ! rowspan=10 | 14 ! rowspan=13 | 26 ! rowspan=3 | 15 ! 16 ! rowspan=3 | 17 ! rowspan=6 | 18", "id": "20744052" }, { "contents": "Chris Marlowe\n\n\n15, 13-15, 15-9, 15-11, 15-12 for a 3-2 win. The win set up a championship final between San Diego State and the Bruins. In the championship match SDSU jumped out 2 games to none, and with an 8-3 lead in the third appeared ready for a three-game sweep. However the Bruins rallied back to win it, 10-15, 9-15, 15-9, 15-10, 15-7. UCLA", "id": "21040396" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Virginia\n\n\n| 4 ! 5 ! rowspan=2 | 6 ! 7 ! 5 ! rowspan=3 | 8 ! rowspan=8 | 6 ! rowspan=3 | 9 ! rowspan=14 | 10 ! 7 ! rowspan=2 | 8 ! rowspan=2 | 9 ! rowspan=2 | 10 ! rowspan=7 | 11 ! 11 ! rowspan=9 | 12 ! rowspan=2 | 12 ! rowspan=4 | 13 ! rowspan=9 | 13 ! rowspan=2 | 14 ! rowspan=3 | 15 ! rowspan=6 | 16 ! 14 ! rowspan=9 | 15 ! rowspan=8 | 17 ! 16 ! rowspan=3 | 18 ! 17 ! rowspan=4 | 18 ! rowspan=8", "id": "20744171" }, { "contents": "Jennifer Saunders (racquetball)\n\n\ntogether that year, in the final, 15-6, 8-15, 11-8. But Saunders didn’t successfully defend her Women's Singles title, although she did get to the final for a third straight year. In the semi-finals, Saunders beat Grand'Maître in the semi-finals, 15-7, 15-8, but in the final, she narrowly lost to Powell, 8-15, 15-4, 13-11. Her performances helped to earn Saunders a spot on", "id": "14324066" }, { "contents": "2018 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship\n\n\nThe 2018 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship was held from April 21 to 28 at the Östersund Arena in Östersund, Sweden. The event was held in conjunction with the 2018 World Senior Curling Championships. \"Final Round Robin Standings\" All draw times are listed in CEST (UTC+2) Draw 1 9:00 Draw 4 20:00 Draw 6 11:15 Draw 7 14:30 Draw 8 17:45 Draw 9 21:00 Draw 10 8:00 Draw 13 17:45 Draw 15 8:00 Draw 16 11:15 Draw 17 14:30 Draw 18 17:45 Draw 20 8:00 Draw 22 14:30 Draw 24 21:00 Draw 26", "id": "3983100" }, { "contents": "Carla Khan\n\n\nInternational, where she came from behind to beat Melissa Martin from Australia, 3–9, 4–9, 9–4, 9–7, 9–3. She broke into the top 30. At the Irish Open in 2004, Khan defeated Nicol David of Malaysia (who was ranked number 9 in the world at that time) on 15 April 2004, and achieved her highest ranking of 21. In 2005, Khan lost in the final of the Forbes Open to England's Alison Walters. However, she made it to the final of the 1st POF", "id": "9884495" }, { "contents": "Codex Climaci Rescriptus\n\n\n9-21; 9:30;10:3-9; 15:11-21 I Corin. 1:6-23; 4:1-15; 13: 4-11; 14:4-7; 14:8-14; 14:24-37; 15:3-10; 15:24-49; 16:16-24 II Corin. 1:23-2: 4-11; 4:18-5:6; 5:6-12; 6:3-16; 7:3-8 Galat. 1:1-23; 3:20-24; 4:2; 4:4-29; 5:1; 5:24; 6:4-12", "id": "9480761" }, { "contents": "2014 World Senior Curling Championships – Men's tournament\n\n\n7:30 Draw 6 11:00 Draw 8 18:00 Draw 9 21:30 Draw 12 15:30 Draw 13 19:00 Draw 15 11:00 Draw 16 14:30 Draw 18 21:30 Draw 20 12:00 Draw 22 19:00 Draw 23 8:30 Draw 1 8:00 Draw 4 19:30 Draw 6 11:00 Draw 7 14:30 Draw 10 8:30 Draw 11 12:00 Draw 14 7:30 Draw 15 11:00 Draw 16 14:30 Draw 17 18:00 Draw 19 08:30 Draw 21 15:30 \"Tuesday, April 29, 14:00\" \"Tuesday, April 29, 19:30\" \"Wednesday, April 30, 8:00\" \"Wednesday, April 30,", "id": "16343740" }, { "contents": "2017 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship\n\n\nThe 2017 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship was held from April 22 to 29 at the Lethbridge Curling Club in Lethbridge, Canada. The event was held in conjunction with the 2017 World Senior Curling Championships. \"Final Round Robin Standings\" All draw times are listed in MDT (UTC-6). Draw 1 8:00 Draw 7 14:30 Draw 9 21:00 Draw 10 8:00 Draw 11 11:15 Draw 13 17:45 Draw 15 8:00 Draw 17 14:30 Draw 18 17:45 Draw 21 11:15 Draw 22 14:30 Draw 24 21:00 Draw 25 8:00 Draw 3 15:00 Draw 4 8:00", "id": "20611917" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Kansas\n\n\nrowspan=2 | 3 ! rowspan=12 | 2 ! 4 ! rowspan=2 | 5 ! rowspan=8 | 6 ! rowspan=5 | 3 ! 7 ! 8 ! rowspan=3 | 9 ! rowspan=3 | 4 ! rowspan=3 | 10 ! rowspan=6 | 5 ! 11 ! rowspan=4 | 12 ! rowspan=3 | 6 ! rowspan=3 | 13 ! rowspan=7 | 7 ! rowspan=17 | 14 ! 8 ! rowspan=5 | 9 ! rowspan=6 | 10 ! rowspan=10 | 15 ! 11 ! rowspan=12 | 12 ! rowspan=9 | 16 ! rowspan=15 | 13 ! rowspan=12 | 17 ! 14 ! rowspan=8 |", "id": "20743950" }, { "contents": "1977 NCAA Division I football season\n\n\nto move to third, and the Wolverines returned to the top: 1.Michigan 2.Texas 3.Colorado 4.Alabama 5.Ohio State October 15 No. 1 Michigan beat No. 14 Wisconsin 56–0, and No. 2 Texas won at No. 7 Arkansas, 13–9. No. 3 Colorado played at Kansas, a 17–17 tie. No. 4 Alabama beat Tennessee in Birmingham, 24–10. No. 5 Ohio State beat Iowa 27–6. No. 6 USC beat Oregon 33–15 to return to the top five: 1.Michigan 2.Texas 3.Alabama 4.Ohio State 5.USC October 22", "id": "8560170" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Texas\n\n\n3 ! rowspan=6 | 6 ! rowspan=11 | 4 ! rowspan=3 | 7 ! 8 ! rowspan=4 | 9 ! rowspan=3 | 5 ! rowspan=15 | 10 ! rowspan=6 | 6 ! 7 ! rowspan=16 | 8 ! rowspan=3 | 11 ! rowspan=16 | 12 ! 9 ! rowspan=4 | 10 ! rowspan=8 | 11 ! rowspan=3 | 13 ! 14 ! rowspan=8 | 15 ! 12 ! rowspan=12 | 13 ! rowspan=12 | 16 ! rowspan=12 | 14 ! 17 ! rowspan=12 | 18 ! rowspan=10 | 15 ! rowspan=5 | 19 , there are three living former senators", "id": "20744168" }, { "contents": "Samuel Murray (racquetball)\n\n\nIwaasa, 9-15, 15-6, 11-6. He also defeated Iwaasa in the 2nd National Team Selection Event in Grande Prairie, Alberta, 15-10, 15-10. He defeated Pedro Castro in the semi-finals, 15-6, 15-9. Murray began the 2018-19 IRT season strongly, as he made his first final at the first event of the season - the 2018 MWRA Season Opener IRT Pro/Am in Laurel, Maryland, where he beat Alejandro Landa", "id": "7910660" }, { "contents": "Alejandro Landa\n\n\ntwo of them. Both wins came in Juarez, Mexico. He defeated Javier Moreno in April and then beat Jake Bredenbeck in August, 15–10, 15-10. Landa reached the semi-finals at the US Open for the first time in 2014, as he beat Jose Rojas in the Round of 16, 3-11, 11-9, 14-12, 6-11, 11-4 and Daniel De La Rosa in the quarterfinals, 11-2, 11-8, 11-6,", "id": "8690374" }, { "contents": "Hong Kong Women's Sevens\n\n\nFinals Canada 35–14 Netherlands Kazakhstan 12–7 China USA 45–0 Arabian Gulf France 15–7 Japan 9th to 12th Semi Finals Hong Kong 15–0 Singapore Papua New Guinea 0–29 Thailand Bowl (5th to 8th) Semi Finals Netherlands 5–5 China (China win on try countback) Arabian Gulf 0–10 Japan Cup Semi Finals Canada 26–0 Kazakhstan USA 5–0 France 11th Place Singapore 5–17 Papua New Guinea 9th Place Hong Kong 15–7 Thailand 7th Place Netherlands 19–0 Arabian Gulf Bowl Final China 17–7 Japan Plate Final France 24–0 Kazakhstan Cup Final USA 21–7 Canada 27 March 2009 at Hong Kong.", "id": "7314433" }, { "contents": "Badminton at the 1981 World Games\n\n\n10 4. William Gilliland/Daniel Travers (Scotland) d. Egbeyemi/Badiru (Nigeria), 15-6, 15-6 Semi-finals 1. Sun Zhian/Yao Ximing d. Kartono/Heryanto, 3-15, 15-11, 15-8 2. Kihlstrom/Karlsson d. Gilliland/Travers, 10-15, 15-0, 15-9 Final Sun Zhian/Yao Ximing d. Kihlstrom/Karlsson, 12-15, 15-4, 15-6. Bronze medals: Kartono", "id": "1386468" }, { "contents": "2018 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship\n\n\n12:30 Draw 27 16:00 Draw 1 9:00 Draw 3 16:30 Draw 5 8:00 Draw 11 11:15 Draw 12 14:30 Draw 14 21:00 Draw 15 8:00 Draw 17 14:30 Draw 18 17:45 Draw 19 21:00 Draw 20 8:00 Draw 21 11:15 Draw 22 14:30 Draw 23 17:45 Draw 24 21:00 Draw 28 19:30 Draw 2 12:30 Draw 3 16:30 Draw 4 20:00 Draw 6 11:15 Draw 7 14:30 Draw 9 21:00 Draw 11 11:15 Draw 13 17:45 Draw 14 21:00 Draw 16 11:15 Draw 17 14:30 Draw 20 8:00 Draw 22 14:30 Draw 23 17:45 Draw 25 9:00 Draw 26 12:30", "id": "3983101" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Colorado\n\n\nrowspan=5 | 5 ! rowspan=3 | 8 ! rowspan=9 | 9 ! rowspan=2 | 6 ! 7 ! rowspan=2 | 8 ! rowspan=3 | 9 ! rowspan=6 | 10 ! 10 ! 11 ! rowspan=5 | 12 ! rowspan=11 | 11 ! rowspan=8 | 13 ! rowspan=9 | 12 ! rowspan=3 | 14 ! rowspan=6 | 15 ! rowspan=3 | 13 ! rowspan=6 | 16 ! rowspan=6 | 14 ! rowspan=3 | 17 ! rowspan=4 | 15 ! rowspan=7 | 18 ! rowspan=6 | 16 ! rowspan=3 | 19 ! rowspan=4 | 17 ! rowspan=7 | 20 ! rowspan=3 |", "id": "20743826" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Arkansas\n\n\nrowspan=3 | 6 ! rowspan=5 | 6 ! rowspan=3 | 7 ! rowspan=11 | 8 ! rowspan=11 | 7 ! rowspan=10 | 9 ! rowspan=3 | 8 ! 9 ! 10 ! rowspan=17 | 11 ! rowspan=3 | 10 ! rowspan=6 | 11 ! rowspan=11 | 12 ! rowspan=3 | 12 ! 13 ! rowspan=19 | 14 ! rowspan=15 | 13 ! rowspan=14 | 14 ! 15 ! rowspan=9 | 16 ! rowspan=3 | 17 ! rowspan=6 | 15 ! rowspan=6 | 18 ! rowspan=6 | 16 ! rowspan=3 | 19 , there are five living former senators. The", "id": "20743822" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from New Hampshire\n\n\n! rowspan=3 | 9 ! rowspan=3 | 10 ! rowspan=5 | 8 ! 11 ! rowspan=3 | 12 ! rowspan=4 | 9 ! 13 ! rowspan=6 | 14 ! 10 ! 11 ! rowspan=3 | 12 ! rowspan=6 | 15 ! 13 ! 14 ! 16 ! rowspan=7 | 15 ! rowspan=2 | 17 ! rowspan=5 | 18 ! rowspan=8 | 16 ! 19 ! rowspan=3 | 20 ! rowspan=3 | 21 ! rowspan=6 | 17 ! 22 ! rowspan=12 | 23 ! rowspan=3 | 18 ! rowspan=2 | 19 ! 20 ! 21 ! rowspan=6 | 22 ! rowspan=15", "id": "20744074" }, { "contents": "Dihydroxy-E,Z,E-PUFA\n\n\nmake PDX by metabolizing DHA by double oxygenation a 15-lipoxygenase to form the 10\"R\",17\"S\"-hydroxperoxy intermediated which is reduced its 10\"R\",17\"S\"-hydroxyl product, PDX, probably by cytosolic GPX1 (i.e. glutathione peroxidase 1). Serial metabolism two different lipoxygenases or a lipoxygenase and a cytochrome P45) on PUFA possessing three double bonds in a 1\"Z\",4\"Z\",7\"Z\" configuration may also make a 1,7-dihydroxy 2\"E\",4\"Z\",6\"E\" product. Other platelet-inhibiting dihydroxy-\"E\",\"Z\",\"E\"-PUFA are: 10\"R\",17\"S\"-dihydroxy-4\"Z\",7\"Z\",11\"E\",13\"Z\",15\"E\",19\"Z\"-docosahexaenoic acid (10\"R\",17\"S\"-diHDHA); 8\"S\",15\"S\"-dihydroxy-5\"Z\",9\"E\",11\"Z\",13\"E\"-eicosatetraenoic acid (8\"S\",15\"S\"-diHETE); 9\"S\",16\"S\"-10\"E\",12\"Z\",14\"E\"-octadecatrienoic acid (linotrin-1); and 9\"R\",16\"S\"-10\"E\",12\"Z\",14\"E\"-octadecatrienoic acid (linotrin-2).", "id": "1779786" }, { "contents": "EU Cup\n\n\n8 October 2011. 18 national men's teams competed in the tournament. Final results were: 1. Ireland, 2. Croatia, 3. England, 4. Italy, 5. France, 6. Scotland, 7. Wales, 8. Spain, 9. European Crusaders, 10. Russia (1st time competitors), 11. Denmark, 12. Germany, 13. Finland, 14. Sweden, 15. Netherlands, 16. Austria, 17. Iceland, 18. Catalonia. Ireland defeated Switzerland in", "id": "2746657" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Indiana\n\n\nrowspan=13 | 5 ! rowspan=2 | 5 ! 6 ! rowspan=2 | 7 ! rowspan=3 | 8 ! rowspan=6 | 9 ! 6 ! 7 ! rowspan=3 | 8 ! rowspan=6 | 10 ! rowspan=3 | 9 ! rowspan=5 | 10 ! rowspan=10 | 11 ! rowspan=3 | 11 ! rowspan=6 | 12 ! rowspan=4 | 12 ! rowspan=6 | 13 ! rowspan=2 | 13 ! rowspan=4 | 14 ! rowspan=6 | 14 ! 15 ! rowspan=11 | 16 ! rowspan=3 | 15 ! rowspan=2 | 16 ! rowspan=5 | 17 ! rowspan=6 | 17 ! rowspan=3 | 18 !", "id": "20743924" }, { "contents": "Book of Nature\n\n\n. Pedersen (1992), 7–8. 3. Pedersen (1992), 9. 4. Dear (2009), 4. 5. Pedersen (1992), 10. 6. Pedersen (1992), 11–13. 7. Pedersen (1992), 14–15. 8. Pedersen (1992), 15. 9. Harrison (2001), 13. 10. Harrison (2001), 13. 11. Harrison (2001), 15. 12. Harrison (2001), 15. 13.", "id": "3587614" }, { "contents": "2014 World Senior Curling Championships – Women's tournament\n\n\nThe women's tournament of the 2014 World Senior Curling Championships was held from April 23 to 30 at the Dumfries Ice Bowl in Dumfries, Scotland. The teams are listed as follows: \"Final Round Robin Standings\" Draw 3 15:30 Draw 5 7:30 Draw 6 11:00 Draw 7 14:30 Draw 8 18:00 Draw 9 21:30 Draw 11 12:00 Draw 12 15:30 Draw 13 19:00 Draw 15 11:00 Draw 17 18:00 Draw 18 21:30 Draw 20 12:00 Draw 21 15:30 Draw 23 8:30 Draw 24 14:00 Draw 3 15:30 Draw 4 19:30 Draw 7 14:30 Draw 8", "id": "16343741" }, { "contents": "Alejandro Landa\n\n\nFalls, South Dakota, but he won the final by defeating Daniel De La Rosa, 15-6, 7-15, 11-10, in the final. En route to the final, Landa beat Tim Landeryou, 15-5, 3-15, 11-6, in the Round of 16, Rocky Carson in the quarterfinals, 15-14, 11-15, 11-4, and Samuel Murray, 15-11, 15-7, in the semi-finals. In the", "id": "8690386" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Florida\n\n\n| 4 ! rowspan=3 | 4 ! rowspan=3 | 5 ! rowspan=6 | 5 ! rowspan=11 | 6 ! rowspan=9 | 6 ! rowspan=8 | 7 ! rowspan=10 | 7 ! 8 ! 9 ! rowspan=16 | 10 ! rowspan=3 | 8 ! rowspan=10 | 9 ! rowspan=3 | 10 ! 11 ! rowspan=6 | 11 ! rowspan=10 | 12 ! rowspan=13 | 12 ! rowspan=9 | 13 ! rowspan=3 | 14 ! rowspan=11 | 13 ! rowspan=4 | 15 ! rowspan=4 | 16 ! rowspan=9 | 17 ! rowspan=6 | 14 ! rowspan=10 | 15 ! rowspan=3 | 18", "id": "20743883" }, { "contents": "Coby Iwaasa\n\n\nKitchener, Ontario with the same result: a win for Murray, 15-2, 15-5. Iwaasa and Murray played Men’s Doubles together at the 2018 Canadian Championships in Winnipeg, and they won the title by defeating Nicolas Bousquet and Tommy Murray in the final, 15-13, 10-15, 11-6. They beat the brother team of James Landeryou and Tim Landeryou in the semi-finals, 15-13, 15-10. In Men’s Singles, Iwaasa finished 2nd, as", "id": "8038021" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Wisconsin\n\n\n| 6 ! rowspan=3 | 7 ! rowspan=3 | 6 ! rowspan=6 | 8 ! rowspan=3 | 7 ! rowspan=15 | 8 ! rowspan=4 | 9 ! rowspan=2 | 10 ! rowspan=7 | 11 ! rowspan=11 | 9 ! rowspan=3 | 12 ! rowspan=3 | 13 ! rowspan=14 | 14 ! rowspan=6 | 10 ! rowspan=16 | 11 ! rowspan=9 | 15 ! rowspan=6 | 16 ! rowspan=12 | 12 ! rowspan=9 | 17 ! rowspan=6 | 18 ! rowspan=6 | 13 , there are three living former Senators, one from Class 1 and two from Class 3.", "id": "21329584" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Michigan\n\n\n! 12 ! rowspan=13 | 13 ! rowspan=3 | 10 ! rowspan=7 | 11 ! rowspan=8 | 14 ! rowspan=2 | 12 ! rowspan=10 | 13 ! rowspan=3 | 15 ! rowspan=15 | 16 ! rowspan=4 | 14 ! rowspan=9 | 15 ! 17 ! rowspan=4 | 18 ! rowspan=6 | 16 ! rowspan=11 | 19 ! rowspan=9 | 17 ! rowspan=10 | 20 ! rowspan=18 | 18 ! rowspan=3 | 21 ! rowspan=12 | 22 ! rowspan=3 | 19 , there are three former U.S. Senators from Michigan who are currently living, two from Class 1 and one", "id": "20744040" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Ohio\n\n\n| 6 ! rowspan=2 | 7 ! rowspan=2 | 8 ! rowspan=2 | 9 ! rowspan=3 | 10 ! rowspan=3 | 6 ! rowspan=6 | 11 ! rowspan=3 | 7 ! rowspan=3 | 8 ! rowspan=5 | 12 ! 9 ! rowspan=11 | 10 ! rowspan=3 | 13 ! 14 ! rowspan=9 | 15 ! rowspan=8 | 11 ! 16 ! rowspan=3 | 17 ! rowspan=9 | 12 ! rowspan=3 | 18 ! rowspan=3 | 19 ! rowspan=9 | 20 ! rowspan=4 | 13 ! rowspan=4 | 14 ! rowspan=3 | 21 ! rowspan=7 | 15 ! rowspan=3 | 22", "id": "20744100" }, { "contents": "2013 Canadian Mixed Doubles Curling Trials\n\n\nFriday, March 15, 11:30 am\" \"Friday, March 15, 2:00 pm\" \"Friday, March 15, 4:30 pm\" \"Friday, March 15, 7:00 pm\" \"Friday, March 15, 9:30 pm\" \"Saturday, March 16, 9:00 am\" \"Saturday, March 16, 11:30 am\" \"Saturday, March 16, 2:00 pm\" \"Saturday, March 16, 4:30 pm\" \"Saturday, March 16, 8:30 pm\" \"Sunday, March 17, 10:00 am\" \"Sunday", "id": "10697048" }, { "contents": "Lyon Villeurbanne XIII\n\n\nto AS Carcassonne 10–22, but they went one better in the league beating XIII Catalan 15–10 to lift the trophy for the first time. In 52/53 they won the cup beating US Villeneuve 9–8 in the final but couldn't complete a league and cup double as they lost the league final 12–19 to AS Carcassonne. They retained the cup when they beat XIII Catalan 17–15 and won their second league title when they triumphed 7–6 against AS Carcassonne in 1955. Relegation followed in 1957 but after winning the National League 1 title, now called", "id": "19573564" }, { "contents": "Park Sung-hwan\n\n\n. Two weeks later, Park was to be defeated again in the quarter-final matches of the Li Ning China Masters Super Series in Changzhou, China (to 4th seed badminton ace Lin Dan of China, 15-21, 21-13, 21-23), and the Japan Open Super Series (to Indonesian, Taufik Hidayat, 21-12, 26-28, 15-21). In November, Park participated in the Yonex Sunrise Hong Kong Open and lost 15-21, 16-21", "id": "6727931" }, { "contents": "2015 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship\n\n\nThe 2015 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship was held from April 18 to 25 at the Ice Cube Curling Center in Sochi, Russia. The event will be held in conjunction with the 2015 World Senior Curling Championships. The teams are listed as follows: Draw 1 9:00 Draw 2 11:15 Draw 3 21:00 Draw 4 11:15 Draw 5 8:00 Draw 6 17:45 Draw 7 19:30 Draw 8 11:15 Draw 9 17:45 Draw 1 12:30 Draw 2 19:30 Draw 3 14:30 Draw 4 9:00 Draw 5 11:15 Draw 6 21:00 Draw 7 12:30 Draw 8 8:00 Draw 9", "id": "12517555" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Rhode Island\n\n\n| 9 ! rowspan=3 | 7 ! rowspan=7 | 8 ! rowspan=2 | 9 ! rowspan=7 | 10 ! rowspan=2 | 10 ! 11 ! rowspan=3 | 12 ! rowspan=3 | 11 ! rowspan=4 | 13 ! rowspan=3 | 12 ! rowspan=3 | 14 ! rowspan=17 | 13 ! 15 ! rowspan=6 | 16 ! rowspan=4 | 17 ! rowspan=20 | 18 ! 14 ! rowspan=4 | 15 ! rowspan=3 | 16 ! rowspan=10 | 17 ! rowspan=3 | 19 ! rowspan=6 | 18 ! rowspan=8 | 20 ! rowspan=7 | 19 ! rowspan=3 | 21 ! rowspan=6 | 22", "id": "20744131" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from West Virginia\n\n\nrowspan=8 | 7 ! rowspan=2 | 4 ! rowspan=8 | 5 ! rowspan=9 | 8 ! 6 ! rowspan=2 | 7 ! rowspan=4 | 9 ! rowspan=3 | 8 ! rowspan=3 | 10 ! rowspan=3 | 9 ! rowspan=3 | 11 ! rowspan=3 | 10 ! rowspan=3 | 12 ! rowspan=7 | 11 ! rowspan=3 | 13 ! rowspan=10 | 14 ! 12 ! 13 ! rowspan=3 | 14 ! rowspan=8 | 15 ! 15 ! rowspan=5 | 16 ! 16 ! rowspan=14 | 17 ! rowspan=27 | 17 ! rowspan=18 | 18 ! 18 ! rowspan=8 | 19 !", "id": "20744177" }, { "contents": "Academy of Saint Elizabeth\n\n\nstudents often take part in mass on different occasions. Sample 'D day' Homeroom 8:10-8:15 Period 1 8:19-9:15 Period 2 9:17 - 10:13 Period 3 10:15 - 11:11 Lunch 11:13 - 11:58 Period 5 12:00 - 12:56 Period 6 12:58 - 1:54 Period 7 1:56 - 2:51 The Academy runs on a 4-day rotating schedule (A day, B day, C day, and D day). Each day, students drop a morning and afternoon class. You can find the 2018-2019 school year calendar on the Academy", "id": "13678251" }, { "contents": "2014 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship\n\n\nWorld Curling medal for Spain in the bronze medal game with a 7–4 win over defending champions Dorottya Palansca and Zsolt Kiss of Hungary. Canada, Norway, and England scored perfect ends in their games in Draws 5, 11, and 22, respectively. The teams are listed as follows: \"Final Round Robin Standings\" Draw 1 8:15 Draw 4 19:30 Draw 6 11:15 Draw 9 21:00 Draw 12 14:30 Draw 15 8:00 Draw 18 17:45 Draw 19 21:00 Draw 21 11:15 Draw 22 14:30 Draw 25 8:00 Draw 2 12:00 Draw 5 8:00", "id": "15498977" }, { "contents": "2011 World Senior Curling Championships – Men's tournament\n\n\nStandings\" All draw times are listed in Central Standard Time (UTC-06). Draw 1 08:00 Draw 3 18:00 Draw 6 14:30 Draw 8 08:00 Draw 10 18:00 Draw 13 14:30 Draw 15 21:30 Draw 17 14:30 Draw 2 11:30 Draw 4 21:30 Draw 5 11:00 Draw 8 08:00 Draw 10 18:00 Draw 13 14:30 Draw 17 14:30 Draw 19 21:30 Draw 2 11:30 Draw 4 21:30 Draw 6 14:30 Draw 8 08:00 Draw 9 11:30 Draw 10 18:00 Draw 11 21:30 Draw 12 11:00 Draw 13 14:30 Draw 15 21:30 Draw 19 21:30 \"Friday, April", "id": "16637806" }, { "contents": "Nathan Robertson\n\n\ndefeated Björn Siegemund and Nicol Pitro of Germany in the second. In the quarterfinals, Robertson and Emms beat Chen Qiqiu and Zhao Tingting of China 15-8, 17-15 to advance to the semifinals. There, they beat Jonas Rasmussen and Rikke Olsen of Denmark 15-6, 15-12. In the final, they lost to Chinese pair Zhang Jun and Gao Ling 15-1, 12-15, 15-12 to finish with the silver medal. At the 2005 World Championships, he and Emms", "id": "1371969" }, { "contents": "List of major textual variants in the New Testament\n\n\nMatthew 8:28 Matthew 11:23 Matthew 17:21 Matthew 18:11 Matthew 20:16 Matthew 20:22, 23 Matthew 23:14 Matthew 24:36 Matthew 26:28 Matthew 27:16 Mark 2:16 Mark 6:11 Mark 7:8 Mark 7:16 Mark 9:38 Mark 9:43-46 Mark 9:49 Mark 10:24 Mark 11:26 Mark 14:19 Mark 15:28 Mark 16:9-20 Luke 1:28 Luke 2:14 Luke 4:4 Luke 9:55-56 Luke 11:2-4 Luke 11:11 Luke 22:43-44 Luke 23:17 Luke 23:34 John 1:18 John 5:3-4 John 6:69 John 7:53-8:11 John 8:59 Acts 2:30 Acts 13:42 Acts 15:24 Acts 18:21 Acts 23:9 Acts 28:29", "id": "12411760" }, { "contents": "BSWW Tour\n\n\n1 2 15-19 2 4. USA 3 1 2 13-20 2 Semifinals Brazil 9-4 Argentina Third place match Final Brazil 11-3 South Korea 02/03/1996 Buenos Aires (Argentina)Argentina 5-12 Brazil Friendly Match 1996 USA 3-6 Brazil Italy 6-9 Brazil USA 4-9 Brazil Italy 2-8 Brazil Netherlands 4-13 Brazil England 1-13 Brazil Malaysia 1-14 Brazil Semifinals Brazil 15-2 Japan Third place match Final Brazil 6-4 South Korea Brazil 7-4 Argentina", "id": "17061521" }, { "contents": "1941 Eastern Suburbs season\n\n\n5, Saturday 17 May Eastern Suburbs 13 beat Canterbury Bankstown 2 at Sydney Cricket Ground. Premiership Round 6, Saturday 24 May 1941. Newtown 4 beat Eastern Suburbs 3 at Henson Park. Premiership Round 7, Saturday 31 June 1941. St George 16 beat Eastern Suburbs 10 at Sydney Sports Ground. Premiership Round 8, Saturday 21 June 1941. South Sydney 22 beat Eastern Suburbs 15 at Sydney Sports Ground. Premiership Round 9, Saturday 28 June 1941. Eastern Suburbs 15 beat Western Suburbs 3 at Pratten Park. Premiership Round", "id": "11086526" }, { "contents": "Jansher Khan\n\n\nJansher Khan (; born 15 June 1969, in Peshawar, Pakistan) is a former World No. 1 professional Pakistani squash player. During his career he won the World Open a record eight times, and the British Open six times. Jansher Khan's retirement brought an end to nearly 50 years of domination by Pakistan in the sport of squash. He won the World Junior Squash Championship title in 1986 and the senior World Open title in 1987, by beating Australia's Chris Dittmar in the final. Jansher officially announced his retirement", "id": "1599584" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Kentucky\n\n\n! 5 ! rowspan=5 | 6 ! 3 ! rowspan=2 | 4 ! rowspan=4 | 7 ! 5 ! rowspan=4 | 6 ! rowspan=5 | 8 ! 7 ! 8 ! rowspan=2 | 9 ! rowspan=7 | 9 ! rowspan=3 | 10 ! rowspan=3 | 11 ! rowspan=4 | 10 ! rowspan=6 | 12 ! rowspan=3 | 11 ! rowspan=4 | 12 ! rowspan=4 | 13 ! rowspan=8 | 13 ! 14 ! rowspan=2 | 15 ! 16 ! rowspan=2 | 17 ! rowspan=3 | 14 ! rowspan=3 | 18 ! rowspan=5 | 15 ! 19 ! rowspan=8 | 20", "id": "20743991" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Massachusetts\n\n\n| 8 ! rowspan=7 | 7 ! rowspan=2 | 9 ! rowspan=8 | 10 ! rowspan=3 | 8 ! rowspan=6 | 9 ! rowspan=9 | 11 ! rowspan=3 | 10 ! rowspan=5 | 11 ! rowspan=3 | 12 ! rowspan=5 | 13 ! rowspan=8 | 12 ! 14 ! 15 ! rowspan=16 | 16 ! 13 ! 14 ! rowspan=10 | 15 ! rowspan=4 | 16 ! 17 ! rowspan=9 | 18 ! rowspan=14 | 17 ! rowspan=18 | 19 ! rowspan=5 | 18 ! rowspan=3 | 19 ! rowspan=5 | 20 ! rowspan=2 | 20 ! rowspan=4 | 21", "id": "20744045" }, { "contents": "2017 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship\n\n\nDraw 5 8:00 Draw 11 11:15 Draw 12 14:30 Draw 14 21:00 Draw 16 11:15 Draw 18 17:45 Draw 19 21:00 Draw 20 8:00 Draw 22 14:30 Draw 23 17:45 Draw 24 21:00 Draw 26 11:15 Draw 27 14:30 Draw 3 15:00 Draw 4 20:00 Draw 6 11:15 Draw 8 17:45 Draw 9 21:00 Draw 12 14:30 Draw 13 17:45 Draw 14 21:00 Draw 16 11:15 Draw 17 14:30 Draw 20 8:00 Draw 21 11:15 Draw 22 14:30 Draw 25 8:00 Draw 26 11:15 Draw 1 8:00 Draw 2 11:15 Draw 3 15:00 Draw 5 8:00 Draw 8 17:45 Draw", "id": "20611918" }, { "contents": "Michael Cheika\n\n\nAuckland a week later. Despite having only been in charge of the Wallabies for a year, Cheika led Australia to the 2015 Rugby World Cup Final. They topped Pool A with victories over Fiji 28–13, Uruguay 65–3, England 33–13 and Wales 15–6. They narrowly beat Scotland in the quarter-final winning 35–34 after a controversial last minute penalty. They beat Argentina 29–15 in the semi-final to reach the final against the All Blacks. The Wallabies went down 16–3 at half time, but fought back in the second half", "id": "21843436" }, { "contents": "2008 South American Under-23 Championships in Athletics – Results\n\n\n5 September 17:00hbr Final – 7 September 15:00hbr Final – 6 September 11:00hbr Final – 6 September 15:40hbr Final – 6 September 9:30hbr Wind: -2.5m/s Final – 7 September 10:45hbr Final – 6 September 9:00hbr Final – 7 September 9:00hbr Final – 7 September 11:00hbr Final – 6 September 11:00hbr Final – 6 September 9:00hbr Final – 7 September 11:00hbr Final – 5 September 14:50hbr Final – 6 September 9:00hbr Final – 7 September 9:00hbr Final – 7 September 7:00hbr Final – 6 September 17:00hbr Final – 7 September 15:50hbr Final – 6 September 9:45hbr Wind: -2.5", "id": "3039640" }, { "contents": "Rhonda Rajsich\n\n\nfinished #1. At the 2011 USA National Doubles Championships, Rajsich played with Kim Russell-Waselenchuk for the first time. They lost in the semi-finals to Krystal Csuk and Cheryl Gudinas, 15-6, 2-15, 11-9, and then lost the 3rd place match to sisters Danielle and Michelle Key, 3-15, 15-10, 11-10. However, Rajsich won Women's Singles at the 2011 USA National Singles Championshps by beating Gudinas in the final, 15-2", "id": "20397807" }, { "contents": "Ra Kyung-min\n\n\n. In the quarterfinals, Ra and Lee beat Lotte Bruil and Mia Audina of the Netherlands 15-5, 15-2. They lost the semifinal to Zhang Jiewen and Yang Wei of China 15-6, 15-4 but won the bronze medal match against Zhao Tingting and Wei Yili, also of China, 10-15, 15-9, 15-7. Ra also competed in mixed doubles with partner Kim Dong-moon. They had a bye in the first round and defeated Chris Bruil and Lotte", "id": "17379284" }, { "contents": "Coby Iwaasa\n\n\nVincent Gagnon, 15-10, 15-17, 11-6, in the semi-finals, but won the 3rd place match versus Samuel Murray, 13-15, 15-6, 11-8. That summer Iwaasa played for Canada for the first time by participating in the 2014 Pan American Sports Festival in Guadalajara, Mexico, where he defeated team-mate Samuel Murray, 15-9, 10-15, 11-3, in the Round of 16, but lost to David Horn of", "id": "8038012" }, { "contents": "Raglan Chronicle\n\n\n13, 20, 27, Apr 2, 10, 17, 24, May 1, 8, 15, 22, Jun 5, 12, 19, 26, Jul 3, 10. 17, 24, 31, Aug 7, 21, 28, Sep 4, 11, 18, 25, Oct 2, 9, 16, 23, 30, Nov 6, 13, 20, 27, Dec 4, 11, 18, 23; 1959 Jan 15, 29, Feb 5, 19,", "id": "3052190" }, { "contents": "Coby Iwaasa\n\n\n4, 11-5, and 1st seed Alejandro Cardona in the final, 9-15, 15-9, 11-8. He reached the quarterfinals in the other four WRT events that year. In November 2014, Iwaasa defeated Samuel Murray, in the quarterfinals, 15-9, 15-10, of the 1st National Team Selection Event of the 2014-15 season in Kitchener, Ontario. He then lost to Mike Green, 15-6, 15-6, in the semi-finals.", "id": "8038014" }, { "contents": "2008 European Curling Championships\n\n\n, 14:00 Draw 4 Monday December 8, 08:00 Draw 5 Monday December 8, 16:00 Draw 6 Tuesday December 9, 09:00 Draw 7 Tuesday December 9, 18:30 Draw 8 Wednesday December 10, 14:00 Draw 9 Thursday December 11, 08:00 Tiebreaker Thursday December 11, 15:00 Thursday, December 11, 20:00 Thursday, December 11, 20:00 Friday, December 12, 19:00 Saturday, December 13, 15:00 \"All times local\" Draw 1 Saturday December 6, 12:00 Draw 2 Sunday December 7, 16:00 Draw 3 Sunday December 7, 20:00", "id": "11226003" }, { "contents": "Rocky Carson\n\n\nUSA Racquetball National Singles Championship for the first time. He was seeded 6th, and defeated 8th seed Doug Eagle in the final. 15-7, 15-7. To reach the final, Carson beat Brian Fredenberg in the quarterfinals, 15-7, 15-13, and Jack Huczek in the semi-finals, 15-11, 15-6. He also played in Worlds for the 2nd time in San Luis Potosi, Mexico, and came home with two silver medals. He finished 2nd in Men", "id": "17077667" }, { "contents": "1973 European Formula Two Championship\n\n\nThe 1973 European Formula Two season was contested over 17 rounds. STP March Racing Team driver Jean-Pierre Jarier clinched the championship title. Note: Race 1, 2, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 13, 15 and 17 were held in two heats, with results shown in aggregate. Race 3, 5, 9 and 12 were held with two semi-final heats and the final run, with time only shown for the final. Race 3, 4, 5 and 15 were won by", "id": "18544287" }, { "contents": "2008 in sports\n\n\nJackson vs. Griffin 7/19 – 7/19 – () 7/21 – DREAM.5 7/26 – August 8/3 – WEC 35: Condit vs. Miura 8/9 – UFC 87: Seek And Destroy 8/15 – ShoXC 7 8/24 – September 9/6 – UFC 88: Breakthrough 9/13 – 9/17 – 9/20 – 9/23 – DREAM.6 9/26 – ShoXC 8 9/28 – October 10/3 – 10/4 – 10/10 – ShoXC 9 () 10/18 – UFC 89: Bisping vs. Leben 10/25 – UFC 90: Silva vs. Côté November 11/1 – 11/5 – WEC 36: Faber vs. Brown 11/15 – UFC", "id": "5162165" } ]

[ { "contents": "Rodney Martin (squash player)\n\n\nRodney Martin is a former professional squash player from Australia. He is best known for winning the World Open in 1991, beating the legendary Pakistani player Jahangir Khan in the final 14-17, 15-9, 15-4, 15-13 (he had previously beaten another Pakistani legend, Jansher Khan, in the quarter-finals, and his Australian compatriot Chris Dittmar in the semi-finals). Martin was also part of the Australian teams which won the World Team Squash Championships in 1989 and 1991. Martin", "id": "20966392" }, { "contents": "Amr Shabana\n\n\nbeating Thierry Lincou in the final 15–14, 9–15, 15–11, 15–7, to become Egypt's first winner of the sport's premier title. But after a disappointing following year, in which his only final appearance was in the British Open Squash Championship in England, losing to David Palmer in four games 10–11 (4–6), 11–7, 11–10 (3–1), 11–7, Shabana stormed back to the top of his game in 2005. Over a short period, he acquired a new coach, Ahmed Tahir; a new manager", "id": "522232" }, { "contents": "Comparison of codices Sinaiticus and Vaticanus\n\n\n13:39a 13:39b 13:41 13:42 13:44a 13:44b 13:48 13:50 13:54 13:55 13:57a 13:57 b 14:1 14:2 14:3 14:4a 14:4b 14:5 14:7 14:9 14:12 14:13 14:15a 14:15b 14:15c 14:16 14:17 14:19a 14:19b 14:22a 14:22b 14:22c 14:23 14:24 14:26 14:28a 14:28b 14:29 14:35 14:36 15:3 15:4 15:5 15:6 15:11a 15:11b 15:12 15:14 15:15 15:17 15:17 15:17 15:22 15:22 15:27 15:30 15:31 15:31 15:31 16:6 16:9 16:12 17:10 17:15 17:17 18:7 18:14 18:16 19:7 19:10 19:12 19:16 19:22 21:16 21:17 21:19 21:28 21:33 22:1 22:11 22:40 23:3 23:8 23:35 23:35b 23:37 24:2 24:9 24:24 24:26 24:30 24:31 24:35 24:48 25:3 25:17 25:22 26:33 26:50", "id": "1385581" }, { "contents": "John White (squash player)\n\n\nJohn White (born 15 June 1973 in Mount Isa, Australia) is a former World No. 1 squash player. White finished runner-up at both the World Open and the British Open in 2002. He won the PSA Masters title in 2003 (beating Thierry Lincou in the final 15–8, 17–15, 17–16). He also won the British National Championships in 2004 (beating Lee Beachill in the final 17–16, 17–14, 14–15, 15–8). White reached the World No. 1 ranking in March 2004. White", "id": "14402929" }, { "contents": "2011 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship\n\n\nDraw 7 21:30 Draw 9 15:00 Draw 12 08:00 Draw 13 11:00 Draw 14 14:30 Draw 17 08:00 Draw 18 11:30 Draw 20 18:00 Draw 21 21:30 Draw 2 15:00 Draw 4 08:00 Draw 6 18:00 Draw 7 21:30 Draw 8 11:30 Draw 9 15:00 Draw 10 18:00 Draw 12 08:00 Draw 14 14:30 Draw 15 18:00 Draw 16 21:30 Draw 18 11:30 Draw 19 14:30 Draw 2 15:00 Draw 3 21:30 Draw 5 14:30 Draw 6 18:00 Draw 7 21:30 Draw 8 11:30 Draw 9 15:00 Draw 11 21:30 Draw 12 08:00 Draw 15 18:00 Draw 16 21:30 Draw", "id": "12545021" }, { "contents": "2016 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship\n\n\n8 21:00 Draw 9 8:00 Draw 10 11:15 Draw 13 21:00 Draw 14 8:00 Draw 15 11:15 Draw 17 17:45 Draw 20 11:15 Draw 21 14:30 Draw 22 17:45 Draw 23 21:00 Draw 24 8:00 Draw 25 11:15 Draw 1 12:00 Draw 2 16:00 Draw 4 8:00 Draw 5 11:15 Draw 6 14:30 Draw 7 17:45 Draw 9 8:00 Draw 11 14:30 Draw 12 17:45 Draw 13 21:00 Draw 15 11:15 Draw 17 17:45 Draw 19 8:00 Draw 21 14:30 Draw 22 17:45 Draw 24 8:00 Draw 25 11:15 \"Thursday, April 21, 17:45\" \"Thursday,", "id": "1156734" }, { "contents": "Codex Dublinensis\n\n\nει. Matthew 1:17-2:6, 2:13-20, 4:4-13, 5:45-6:15, 7:16-8:6, 10:40-11:18, 12:43-13:11, 13:57-14:19, 15:13-23, 17:9-17, 17:26-18:6, 19:4-12, 21-28, 20:7-21:8, 21:23-30, 22:16-25, 22:37-23:3, 23:15-23, 24:15-25, 25:1-11, 26:21-29, 62-71. The Greek text of this codex is a representative", "id": "16200586" }, { "contents": "Frisingensia Fragmenta\n\n\n15:13; 1 Cor 1:1-27; 1:28-3:5; 6:1-7:7; 15:1-1:43; 16:12-27; 2 Cor 1:1-2:10; 3:17-5:1; 7:10-8:12; 9:10-11:21; 12:14-13:10; Gal 2:5-4:3; 6:5-17; Eph 1:1-13; 1:16-2:16; 6:24; Phil 1:1-20; 1 Tim 1:12-2:15; 5:18-6:13; Hbr 6:6-7:5; 7:8-8:1; 9:27-11:7. 1 John 3:8 - 5:9.", "id": "5758263" }, { "contents": "Minuscule 506\n\n\n-30; 17:5-8; 24:22-24; John 1:1-7:39; 8:31-9:11; 10:10-11:54; 12:36-13:27; Acts 1:1-7:49; 10:19-14:10; 15:15-16:11; 18:1-21:25; 23:18-28:31; James 1:1-3:17; 1 Corinthians 12:11-15:12; 16:13-15; 2 Corinthians 13:4. 5; Galatians [5:16-6:1]; 6:1-18; 2 Timothy 3:10. 11; Titus 3:5-7. The Greek text of the codex is a", "id": "14754278" }, { "contents": "Rocky Carson\n\n\nthe finals by defeating Anthony Herrera and David Horn in the semi-finals, 15-9, 15-3. But in the final Carson and Allen lost to Jake Bredenbeck and Jose Diaz, 15-14, 15-11. He won the 2016 USAR National Singles Championships in Highlands Ranch, Colorado, where Carson defeated [[Chris Crowther]] in the semi-finals, 13-15, 15-12, 11-7, and then beat Diaz in the final, 15-10, 15", "id": "17077704" }, { "contents": "Codex Nitriensis\n\n\nno references to the Eusebian Canons. Gospel of Luke 1:1-13, 1:69-2:4, 2:16-27, 4:38-5:5, 5:25-6:8, 6:18-36, 6:39, 6:49-7:22, 7:44, 7:46, 7:47, 7:50, 8:1-3, 8:5-15, 8:25-9:1, 9:12-43, 10:3-16, 11:5-27, 12:4-15, 12:40-52, 13:26-14:1, 14:12-15:1, 15:13-16:16, 17:21-18:10, 18:22-20:20,", "id": "14992375" }, { "contents": "Del Harris (squash player)\n\n\n16–17, 15–8. That year Harris was also part of the winning England team in the 1995 Men's World Team Squash Championships and in addition he won the Super Series Finals event, beating Brett Martin of Australia in the final 10–8, 7–9, 9–4, 6–9, 9–2. Further success came in 1997 when he was once again part of the winning England team in the 1997 Men's World Team Squash Championships. Harris won the British National Squash Championships twice, in 1987 and 1989 and reached his career-high world ranking", "id": "20966690" }, { "contents": "2012 European Mixed Curling Championship\n\n\nDraw 14 8:30 Draw 16 15:30 Draw 1 19:30 Draw 2 9:00 Draw 3 12:30 Draw 4 16:00 Draw 5 19:30 Draw 6 9:00 Draw 8 16:00 Draw 11 12:30 Draw 13 19:30 Draw 14 8:30 Draw 15 12:00 Draw 16 15:30 Draw 17 19:00 Draw 2 9:00 Draw 4 16:00 Draw 6 9:00 Draw 7 12:30 Draw 8 16:00 Draw 9 19:30 Draw 10 9:00 Draw 12 16:00 Draw 15 12:00 Draw 17 19:00 \"Friday, October 5, 9:00\" \"Friday, October 5, 21:00\" \"Saturday, October 6, 17:00\" \"", "id": "19557062" }, { "contents": "2017 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship\n\n\n10 8:00 Draw 12 14:30 Draw 13 17:45 Draw 19 21:00 Draw 21 11:15 Draw 22 14:30 Draw 24 21:00 Draw 25 8:00 Draw 27 14:30 Draw 2 11:15 Draw 4 20:00 Draw 6 11:15 Draw 7 14:30 Draw 9 21:00 Draw 11 11:15 Draw 15 8:00 Draw 17 14:30 Draw 20 8:00 Draw 23 17:45 Draw 26 11:15 Draw 27 14:30 \"Friday, April 28, 9:00\" \"Friday, April 28, 12:30\" \"Friday, April 28, 16:00\" \"Friday, April 28, 19:30\" \"Saturday, April 29,", "id": "20611919" }, { "contents": "Coby Iwaasa\n\n\nIwaasa finished 3rd by defeating Tim Landeryou, 15-11, 15-9. He won the 2nd Selection Event that season in Brossard, Québec, where he beat Pedro Castro in the final, 15-9, 6-15, 11-8. In the semi-finals, Iwaasa beat Landeryou, 12-15, 15-4, 11-7. Iwaasa played seven tournaments in the 2014-15 International Racquetball Tour season, but only made it to the quarterfinals in the second last event of the", "id": "8038015" }, { "contents": "Jack Huczek\n\n\nthe semi-finals, 15-6, 9-15, 11-4. In the 2002-03 IRT season, Huczek was in four finals, winning the final event of the season: Pro Nationals in Tempe, Arizona, where he beat Alvaro Beltran, 11-4, 11-6, 11-8, in the final after defeating Rocky Carson in the semis, 11-1, 11-6, 11-7, and Cliff Swain in the quarters, 11-6, 15-", "id": "17077735" }, { "contents": "Samuel Murray (racquetball)\n\n\nNovember 2015, in Brossard, Québec, where he beat Mike Green in the final, 15-10, 15-13. He defeated Tim Landeryou to reach the final, 15-7, 15-12. In the 2nd Selection Event that season, he lost a tie-breaker to Landeryou in the semi-finals, 10-15, 15-12, 11-9. But he did win the 3rd place match against Pedro Castro, 15-6, 15-1. Murray played at the", "id": "7910649" }, { "contents": "1995–96 Regionalliga\n\n\n! 6 ! 7 ! 8 ! 9 ! 10 ! 11 ! 12 ! 13 ! 14 ! 15 ! 16 ! 17 ! 18 The Regionalliga Nordost ! 1 ! 2 ! 3 ! 4 ! 5 ! 6 ! 7 ! 8 ! 9 ! 10 ! 11 ! 12 ! 13 ! 14 ! 15 ! 16 ! 17 ! 18 The Regionalliga West/Südwest: ! 1 ! 2 ! 3 ! 4 ! 5 ! 6 ! 7 ! 8 ! 9 ! 10 ! 11 ! 12 ! 13 ! 14 !", "id": "13380860" }, { "contents": "2014 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship\n\n\nDraw 8 17:45 Draw 11 11:15 Draw 14 21:00 Draw 16 11:15 Draw 17 14:30 Draw 20 8:00 Draw 22 14:30 Draw 24 21:00 Draw 25 8:00 Draw 26 11:15 Draw 1 8:15 Draw 2 12:00 Draw 3 15:45 Draw 5 8:00 Draw 6 11:15 Draw 7 14:30 Draw 9 21:00 Draw 10 8:00 Draw 12 14:30 Draw 13 17:45 Draw 14 21:00 Draw 15 8:00 Draw 16 11:15 Draw 17 14:30 Draw 18 17:45 Draw 20 8:00 Draw 21 11:15 Draw 23 17:45 Draw 24 21:00 Draw 3 15:45 Draw 4 19:30 Draw 7 14:30 Draw 8 17:45 Draw", "id": "15498978" }, { "contents": "Rocky Carson\n\n\nto the final with a win over Chris Crowther in the semi-finals, 15-7, 15-10. Carson’s Men’s Singles World Championship in 2008 qualified him for the 2009 World Games in Kaohsiung, Republic of China, where he captured the silver medal in Men's Singles. Carson beat Canadian Mike Green, 15-9, 15-9, in the quarterfinals, and Mexican Alvaro Beltran in the semi-finals, 9-15, 15-7, 11-8, to set up", "id": "17077685" }, { "contents": "2018 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship\n\n\nDraw 27 16:00 Draw 28 19:30 Draw 1 9:00 Draw 2 12:30 Draw 3 16:30 Draw 5 8:00 Draw 8 17:45 Draw 10 8:00 Draw 11 11:15 Draw 12 14:30 Draw 13 17:45 Draw 18 17:45 Draw 19 21:00 Draw 21 11:15 Draw 22 14:30 Draw 25 8:00 Draw 26 12:30 Draw 27 16:00 Draw 2 12:30 Draw 4 20:00 Draw 6 11:15 Draw 7 14:30 Draw 9 21:00 Draw 10 8:00 Draw 11 11:15 Draw 12 14:30 Draw 14 21:00 Draw 15 8:00 Draw 16 11:15 Draw 18 17:45 Draw 19 21:00 Draw 20 8:00 Draw 21 11:15 Draw", "id": "3983102" }, { "contents": "Rocky Carson\n\n\nIRT season. Carson won the 2001 Pan American Racquetball Championships in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, where he defeated Canadian Kane Waselenchuk in the final, 15-9, 15-13. Carson was the defending champion at the 2001 USAR National Singles Championships, and had a chance to defend the title, but lost to Jack Huczek, 15-11, 15-6. Carson beat Dan Fowler in the semi-finals, 15-8, 15-10, to reach the final. Carson took a step back", "id": "17077670" }, { "contents": "Gail Emms\n\n\nKellogg. They defeated Koon Wai Chee and Li Wing Mui of Hong Kong in the first round but were defeated by Zhao Tingting and Wei Yili of China in the second round. She also competed in mixed doubles with Robertson. They had a bye in the first round and defeated Björn Siegemund and Nicol Pitro of Germany in the second. In the quarterfinals, Emms and Robertson beat Chen Qiqiu and Zhao Tingting of China 15–8, 17–15 to advance to the semifinals. There, they beat Jonas Rasmussen and Rikke Olsen of Denmark 15–6", "id": "555457" }, { "contents": "Wellington Rugby Football Union\n\n\nNew South Wales 9–5 1896 beat Queensland 49–7 1901 beat New South Wales 17–16 1905 beat Australia 23–7 (combined team with Wairarapa and Horowhenua 1908 beat Anglo-Welsh 19–13 1921 lost to South Africa 3–8 1921 beat New South Wales 16–8 1923 beat New South Wales 29–16 (combined team with Manawatu) 1925 beat New South Wales 20–8 (combined team with Manawatu and Horowhenua) 1930 beat British Lions 12–8 1931 beat Australia 15–8 1937 lost to South Africa 0–29 1946 lost to Australia 15–16 1950 lost to British Isles 6–12 1956 lost to South Africa", "id": "5981175" }, { "contents": "Samuel Murray (racquetball)\n\n\n, 7-15, 15-3, 11-7, and then lost to Mexican Daniel De La Rosa, 15-12, 15-7. Murray won the 1st National Team Selection event of the 2016-17 season in Valleyfield, Québec, where he defeated James Landeryou, 15-4, 15-4, in the final. In the semi-finals, Murray beat Landeryou’s older brother Tim, 15-9, 15-13. At the 2nd selection event that season in Calgary,", "id": "7910652" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from South Carolina\n\n\n5 ! rowspan=4 | 6 ! rowspan=8 | 7 ! 6 ! rowspan=3 | 7 ! rowspan=3 | 8 ! rowspan=9 | 8 ! rowspan=5 | 9 ! rowspan=4 | 10 ! 9 ! rowspan=5 | 10 ! rowspan=15 | 11 ! 11 ! 12 ! rowspan=2 | 13 ! 14 ! rowspan=5 | 15 ! rowspan=6 | 12 ! 16 ! rowspan=2 | 17 ! rowspan=6 | 18 ! rowspan=3 | 13 ! rowspan=3 | 14 ! rowspan=9 | 19 ! rowspan=6 | 15 ! rowspan=3 | 16 ! rowspan=16 | 20 ! 17 ! rowspan=3 | 18 !", "id": "20744133" }, { "contents": "Alejandro Landa\n\n\n-4. Then at the end of the year, Landa beat Jaime Martell in the final of the Alamo City Open in San Antonio, beating Bredenbeck in the quarterfinals and David Horn in the semi-finals to reach the final. In 2016, Landa successfully defended his Alamo City Open title by beating Cardona in the final, 15-6, 15-10. He defeated Andree Parrilla, 15-12, 15-11, in the quarterfinals, and Jaime Martell, 15-11, 15-13,", "id": "8690377" }, { "contents": "Minuscule 172\n\n\n; 5:2-16; 6:2-7:2; 7:16-8:10; 8:38-9:13; 9:26-39; 10:9-22; 10:43-13:1; 23:32-24:24; 28:23-James 1:5; 3:6-4:16; 2 Peter 3:10-1 John 1:1; 3:13-4:2; Jude 16-25; Romans 14:23 - 15:1.4; 1 Corinthians 3:15-15:23; 2 Corinthians 10: 14-11:19; 13:5-13; Ephesians 1:1-2:14; 5:29-6:24 Colossians 1:24-26; 2:4-7; 2 Thessalonians 1:1", "id": "8396043" }, { "contents": "Jack Huczek\n\n\nseeded #1, and in the semi-finals beat Michael Bronfeld, 15-2, 15-9, to reach the final for the second consecutive year. However, Huczek lost the final to Mike Guidry, 15-10, 12-15, 11-9. In 2002, Huczek again partnered with Eric Muller at the USAR National Doubles Championships, and they reached the finals before losing to Ruben Gonzalez and Mike Guidry, 15-7, 15-10. They defeated Jason Thoerner and Mitch Williams in", "id": "17077734" }, { "contents": "2010–11 in Hong Kong football\n\n\non 8 October. However, the heavy rain flooded the field, so the ball flow on the water and could not be kick. The match was abandoned at 14th-minute. The rematch played on 9 October, Hong Kong defeated the Philippines by 4–2. The 2010 Asian Games will play between 7 November and 27 November in Guangzhou, China. Hong Kong national under-15 football team won all the group stage matches in the championship, which hold in Guam. Hong Kong beat Chinese Taipei in semi-final but lose by", "id": "3640662" }, { "contents": "2016 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship\n\n\nDraw 11 14:30 Draw 12 17:45 Draw 15 11:15 Draw 16 14:30 Draw 18 21:00 Draw 21 14:30 Draw 25 11:15 Draw 26 14:30 Draw 2 16:00 Draw 4 8:00 Draw 6 14:30 Draw 10 11:15 Draw 11 14:30 Draw 13 21:00 Draw 16 14:30 Draw 17 17:45 Draw 19 8:00 Draw 24 8:00 Draw 25 11:15 Draw 4 8:00 Draw 5 11:15 Draw 7 17:45 Draw 9 8:00 Draw 10 11:15 Draw 11 14:30 Draw 14 8:00 Draw 16 14:30 Draw 18 21:00 Draw 23 21:00 Draw 26 14:30 Draw 2 16:00 Draw 3 20:00 Draw 6 14:30 Draw", "id": "1156733" }, { "contents": "Easter Vigil\n\n\n-16; 3. Exodus 12:1-11; 4. Jonah 1:1-4:11; 5. Joshua 5:10-15; 6. Exodus 13:20-15:19; 7. Zephaniah 3:8-15; 8. 3 Kings 17:8-24; 9. Isaiah 61:10-62:5; 10. Genesis 22:1-18; 11. Isaiah 61:1-9; 12. 4 Kings 4:8-37; 13. Isaiah 63:11-64:5; 14. Jeremiah 31:31-34; 15. Daniel 3:1-68. It is during these", "id": "3156542" }, { "contents": "Jackie Paraiso\n\n\nBrodeur, 15-8, 15-6, in 2008. In between, she won three straight World Championships in 1994, 1996, and 1998. Laura Fenton was Paraiso's partner in 1994, when they beat Vicky Shanks and Debbie Ward of Canada, 15-9, 15-7. Then in 1996 and 1998, Paraiso's twin sister Joy MacKenzie was her partner, as they beat Shanks and Ward in 1996, 15-11, 15-4, and Shanks and Grand'Maître in 1998, 15-", "id": "21029455" }, { "contents": "Jahangir Khan\n\n\nover Jahangir in September 1987, beating him in straight games in the semi-finals of the Hong Kong Open. Jansher then went on to beat Jahangir in their next eight consecutive encounters and capture the 1987 World Open title. Jahangir ended Jansher's winning streak in March 1988, and went on to win 11 of their next 15 encounters. The pair met in the 1988 World Open final, with Jahangir emerging the victor. But by that point it had become clear that squash now had two dominant players. The pair would", "id": "414920" }, { "contents": "Samuel Murray (racquetball)\n\n\ncame 3rd, as they lost to Green and Trevor Webb in the semi-finals, 15-13, 4-15, 11-5, but beat Lee Connell and Nathaniel Husulak, 15-9, 16-14. Murray won the 1st National Team Selection event of the 2017-18 season, as he defeated Tim Landeryou, 15-3, 15-8, in the final. In the semi-finals, Murray beat Coby Iwaasa, 15-11, 15-8. Murray and Landeryou", "id": "7910655" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Maine\n\n\n| 4 ! rowspan=3 | 7 ! rowspan=6 | 5 ! 8 ! rowspan=6 | 9 ! rowspan=9 | 6 ! 10 ! rowspan=2 | 11 ! rowspan=7 | 12 ! 7 ! rowspan=3 | 8 ! rowspan=10 | 13 ! rowspan=4 | 9 ! rowspan=4 | 10 ! rowspan=17 | 14 ! rowspan=16 | 11 ! rowspan=7 | 15 ! 12 ! rowspan=2 | 13 ! rowspan=6 | 14 ! rowspan=14 | 16 ! rowspan=3 | 15 ! rowspan=9 | 16 ! rowspan=6 | 17 ! rowspan=13 | 17 ! rowspan=3 | 18 ! rowspan=11 | 19 ! rowspan=3", "id": "20744038" }, { "contents": "Men's Home Internationals\n\n\nafternoon. Scotland and England beat Ireland and Wales on the first two days. On the final day Scotland beat England 8–7 to win the title while Ireland beat Wales 9½–5½. The 1933 tournament was held at Royal County Down Golf Club from 14 to 16 September. The results of all six matches was the same as in 1932, Scotland beating England in the decisive match. In the 1934 tournament at Royal Porthcawl Golf Club from 15 to 17 August, Ireland beat England on the opening day. With Scotland beating England, Scotland retained", "id": "17763243" }, { "contents": "Codex Vaticanus 2061\n\n\nwas . The surviving leaves contain texts (according to Nestle-Aland 26th): Acts 26:6-27:4, 28:3-31; James 4:14-5:20; 1 Peter 1:1-12; 2 Peter 2:4-8, 2:13-3:15; 1 John 4:6-5:13, 5:17-18, 5:21; 2 John; 3 John; Romans 13:4-15:9; 1 Corinthians 2:1-3:11, 3:22, 4:4-6, 5:5-11, 6:3-11, 12:23-15:17, 15:20-27; 2 Corinthians 4:7", "id": "9378418" }, { "contents": "2012 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship\n\n\n17:45 Draw 11 21:00 Draw 12 8:00 Draw 13 11:15 Draw 14 14:30 Draw 15 17:45 Draw 16 21:00 Draw 17 8:00 Draw 18 11:15 Draw 19 14:30 Draw 20 17:45 Draw 21 21:00 Draw 23 11:15 Draw 1 18:45 Draw 3 11:15 Draw 5 17:45 Draw 6 21:00 Draw 8 11:15 Draw 10 17:45 Draw 12 8:00 Draw 13 11:15 Draw 14 14:30 Draw 15 17:45 Draw 16 21:00 Draw 18 11:15 Draw 20 17:45 Draw 22 8:00 Draw 1 18:45 Draw 2 8:00 Draw 3 11:15 Draw 4 14:30 Draw 5 17:45 Draw 6 21:00 Draw 7 8:00", "id": "8246326" }, { "contents": "2016 Bangladesh Championship League\n\n\nBank SC (15-16) 14 6 2 6 13 - 14 -1 20 4 Bangladesh Police Athletic Club (15-16) 14 4 6 4 11 - 9 2 18 5 T&T Club (15-16) 14 4 5 5 14 - 14 0 17 6 Victoria SC (15-16) 14 3 5 6 14 - 16 -2 14 7 Kawran Bazar (15-16) 14 2 8 4 7 - 12 -5 14 8 Chittagong Mohammedan (15-16) 14 2 4 8 13 -", "id": "13232613" }, { "contents": "Timeline of the 2012 Pacific hurricane season\n\n\nJune 16 June 17 July 4 July 5 July 7 July 8 July 9 July 10 July 11 July 12 July 13 July 14 July 15 July 16 July 18 August 7 August 8 August 9 August 11 August 12 August 15 August 17 August 27 August 30 August 31 September 2 September 3 September 4 September 12 September 14 September 15 September 16 September 17 September 18 September 19 September 22 September 24 September 25 September 26 September 27 September 28 September 29 October 6 October 7 October 9 October 13 October 15 October 16 October 17 October 30", "id": "21319682" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Missouri\n\n\n! rowspan=3 | 12 ! rowspan=18 | 6 ! 13 ! 14 ! rowspan=12 | 15 ! rowspan=9 | 16 ! rowspan=3 | 7 ! rowspan=15 | 8 ! 17 ! rowspan=5 | 18 ! 19 ! rowspan=4 | 20 ! rowspan=4 | 9 ! rowspan=7 | 21 ! rowspan=6 | 10 ! rowspan=4 | 22 ! 11 ! rowspan=3 | 12 ! rowspan=5 | 23 ! rowspan=15 | 13 ! rowspan=5 | 24 ! rowspan=11 | 25 ! rowspan=10 | 14 ! rowspan=13 | 26 ! rowspan=3 | 15 ! 16 ! rowspan=3 | 17 ! rowspan=6 | 18", "id": "20744052" }, { "contents": "Chris Marlowe\n\n\n15, 13-15, 15-9, 15-11, 15-12 for a 3-2 win. The win set up a championship final between San Diego State and the Bruins. In the championship match SDSU jumped out 2 games to none, and with an 8-3 lead in the third appeared ready for a three-game sweep. However the Bruins rallied back to win it, 10-15, 9-15, 15-9, 15-10, 15-7. UCLA", "id": "21040396" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Virginia\n\n\n| 4 ! 5 ! rowspan=2 | 6 ! 7 ! 5 ! rowspan=3 | 8 ! rowspan=8 | 6 ! rowspan=3 | 9 ! rowspan=14 | 10 ! 7 ! rowspan=2 | 8 ! rowspan=2 | 9 ! rowspan=2 | 10 ! rowspan=7 | 11 ! 11 ! rowspan=9 | 12 ! rowspan=2 | 12 ! rowspan=4 | 13 ! rowspan=9 | 13 ! rowspan=2 | 14 ! rowspan=3 | 15 ! rowspan=6 | 16 ! 14 ! rowspan=9 | 15 ! rowspan=8 | 17 ! 16 ! rowspan=3 | 18 ! 17 ! rowspan=4 | 18 ! rowspan=8", "id": "20744171" }, { "contents": "Jennifer Saunders (racquetball)\n\n\ntogether that year, in the final, 15-6, 8-15, 11-8. But Saunders didn’t successfully defend her Women's Singles title, although she did get to the final for a third straight year. In the semi-finals, Saunders beat Grand'Maître in the semi-finals, 15-7, 15-8, but in the final, she narrowly lost to Powell, 8-15, 15-4, 13-11. Her performances helped to earn Saunders a spot on", "id": "14324066" }, { "contents": "2018 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship\n\n\nThe 2018 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship was held from April 21 to 28 at the Östersund Arena in Östersund, Sweden. The event was held in conjunction with the 2018 World Senior Curling Championships. \"Final Round Robin Standings\" All draw times are listed in CEST (UTC+2) Draw 1 9:00 Draw 4 20:00 Draw 6 11:15 Draw 7 14:30 Draw 8 17:45 Draw 9 21:00 Draw 10 8:00 Draw 13 17:45 Draw 15 8:00 Draw 16 11:15 Draw 17 14:30 Draw 18 17:45 Draw 20 8:00 Draw 22 14:30 Draw 24 21:00 Draw 26", "id": "3983100" }, { "contents": "Carla Khan\n\n\nInternational, where she came from behind to beat Melissa Martin from Australia, 3–9, 4–9, 9–4, 9–7, 9–3. She broke into the top 30. At the Irish Open in 2004, Khan defeated Nicol David of Malaysia (who was ranked number 9 in the world at that time) on 15 April 2004, and achieved her highest ranking of 21. In 2005, Khan lost in the final of the Forbes Open to England's Alison Walters. However, she made it to the final of the 1st POF", "id": "9884495" }, { "contents": "Codex Climaci Rescriptus\n\n\n9-21; 9:30;10:3-9; 15:11-21 I Corin. 1:6-23; 4:1-15; 13: 4-11; 14:4-7; 14:8-14; 14:24-37; 15:3-10; 15:24-49; 16:16-24 II Corin. 1:23-2: 4-11; 4:18-5:6; 5:6-12; 6:3-16; 7:3-8 Galat. 1:1-23; 3:20-24; 4:2; 4:4-29; 5:1; 5:24; 6:4-12", "id": "9480761" }, { "contents": "2014 World Senior Curling Championships – Men's tournament\n\n\n7:30 Draw 6 11:00 Draw 8 18:00 Draw 9 21:30 Draw 12 15:30 Draw 13 19:00 Draw 15 11:00 Draw 16 14:30 Draw 18 21:30 Draw 20 12:00 Draw 22 19:00 Draw 23 8:30 Draw 1 8:00 Draw 4 19:30 Draw 6 11:00 Draw 7 14:30 Draw 10 8:30 Draw 11 12:00 Draw 14 7:30 Draw 15 11:00 Draw 16 14:30 Draw 17 18:00 Draw 19 08:30 Draw 21 15:30 \"Tuesday, April 29, 14:00\" \"Tuesday, April 29, 19:30\" \"Wednesday, April 30, 8:00\" \"Wednesday, April 30,", "id": "16343740" }, { "contents": "2017 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship\n\n\nThe 2017 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship was held from April 22 to 29 at the Lethbridge Curling Club in Lethbridge, Canada. The event was held in conjunction with the 2017 World Senior Curling Championships. \"Final Round Robin Standings\" All draw times are listed in MDT (UTC-6). Draw 1 8:00 Draw 7 14:30 Draw 9 21:00 Draw 10 8:00 Draw 11 11:15 Draw 13 17:45 Draw 15 8:00 Draw 17 14:30 Draw 18 17:45 Draw 21 11:15 Draw 22 14:30 Draw 24 21:00 Draw 25 8:00 Draw 3 15:00 Draw 4 8:00", "id": "20611917" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Kansas\n\n\nrowspan=2 | 3 ! rowspan=12 | 2 ! 4 ! rowspan=2 | 5 ! rowspan=8 | 6 ! rowspan=5 | 3 ! 7 ! 8 ! rowspan=3 | 9 ! rowspan=3 | 4 ! rowspan=3 | 10 ! rowspan=6 | 5 ! 11 ! rowspan=4 | 12 ! rowspan=3 | 6 ! rowspan=3 | 13 ! rowspan=7 | 7 ! rowspan=17 | 14 ! 8 ! rowspan=5 | 9 ! rowspan=6 | 10 ! rowspan=10 | 15 ! 11 ! rowspan=12 | 12 ! rowspan=9 | 16 ! rowspan=15 | 13 ! rowspan=12 | 17 ! 14 ! rowspan=8 |", "id": "20743950" }, { "contents": "1977 NCAA Division I football season\n\n\nto move to third, and the Wolverines returned to the top: 1.Michigan 2.Texas 3.Colorado 4.Alabama 5.Ohio State October 15 No. 1 Michigan beat No. 14 Wisconsin 56–0, and No. 2 Texas won at No. 7 Arkansas, 13–9. No. 3 Colorado played at Kansas, a 17–17 tie. No. 4 Alabama beat Tennessee in Birmingham, 24–10. No. 5 Ohio State beat Iowa 27–6. No. 6 USC beat Oregon 33–15 to return to the top five: 1.Michigan 2.Texas 3.Alabama 4.Ohio State 5.USC October 22", "id": "8560170" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Texas\n\n\n3 ! rowspan=6 | 6 ! rowspan=11 | 4 ! rowspan=3 | 7 ! 8 ! rowspan=4 | 9 ! rowspan=3 | 5 ! rowspan=15 | 10 ! rowspan=6 | 6 ! 7 ! rowspan=16 | 8 ! rowspan=3 | 11 ! rowspan=16 | 12 ! 9 ! rowspan=4 | 10 ! rowspan=8 | 11 ! rowspan=3 | 13 ! 14 ! rowspan=8 | 15 ! 12 ! rowspan=12 | 13 ! rowspan=12 | 16 ! rowspan=12 | 14 ! 17 ! rowspan=12 | 18 ! rowspan=10 | 15 ! rowspan=5 | 19 , there are three living former senators", "id": "20744168" }, { "contents": "Samuel Murray (racquetball)\n\n\nIwaasa, 9-15, 15-6, 11-6. He also defeated Iwaasa in the 2nd National Team Selection Event in Grande Prairie, Alberta, 15-10, 15-10. He defeated Pedro Castro in the semi-finals, 15-6, 15-9. Murray began the 2018-19 IRT season strongly, as he made his first final at the first event of the season - the 2018 MWRA Season Opener IRT Pro/Am in Laurel, Maryland, where he beat Alejandro Landa", "id": "7910660" }, { "contents": "Alejandro Landa\n\n\ntwo of them. Both wins came in Juarez, Mexico. He defeated Javier Moreno in April and then beat Jake Bredenbeck in August, 15–10, 15-10. Landa reached the semi-finals at the US Open for the first time in 2014, as he beat Jose Rojas in the Round of 16, 3-11, 11-9, 14-12, 6-11, 11-4 and Daniel De La Rosa in the quarterfinals, 11-2, 11-8, 11-6,", "id": "8690374" }, { "contents": "Hong Kong Women's Sevens\n\n\nFinals Canada 35–14 Netherlands Kazakhstan 12–7 China USA 45–0 Arabian Gulf France 15–7 Japan 9th to 12th Semi Finals Hong Kong 15–0 Singapore Papua New Guinea 0–29 Thailand Bowl (5th to 8th) Semi Finals Netherlands 5–5 China (China win on try countback) Arabian Gulf 0–10 Japan Cup Semi Finals Canada 26–0 Kazakhstan USA 5–0 France 11th Place Singapore 5–17 Papua New Guinea 9th Place Hong Kong 15–7 Thailand 7th Place Netherlands 19–0 Arabian Gulf Bowl Final China 17–7 Japan Plate Final France 24–0 Kazakhstan Cup Final USA 21–7 Canada 27 March 2009 at Hong Kong.", "id": "7314433" }, { "contents": "Badminton at the 1981 World Games\n\n\n10 4. William Gilliland/Daniel Travers (Scotland) d. Egbeyemi/Badiru (Nigeria), 15-6, 15-6 Semi-finals 1. Sun Zhian/Yao Ximing d. Kartono/Heryanto, 3-15, 15-11, 15-8 2. Kihlstrom/Karlsson d. Gilliland/Travers, 10-15, 15-0, 15-9 Final Sun Zhian/Yao Ximing d. Kihlstrom/Karlsson, 12-15, 15-4, 15-6. Bronze medals: Kartono", "id": "1386468" }, { "contents": "2018 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship\n\n\n12:30 Draw 27 16:00 Draw 1 9:00 Draw 3 16:30 Draw 5 8:00 Draw 11 11:15 Draw 12 14:30 Draw 14 21:00 Draw 15 8:00 Draw 17 14:30 Draw 18 17:45 Draw 19 21:00 Draw 20 8:00 Draw 21 11:15 Draw 22 14:30 Draw 23 17:45 Draw 24 21:00 Draw 28 19:30 Draw 2 12:30 Draw 3 16:30 Draw 4 20:00 Draw 6 11:15 Draw 7 14:30 Draw 9 21:00 Draw 11 11:15 Draw 13 17:45 Draw 14 21:00 Draw 16 11:15 Draw 17 14:30 Draw 20 8:00 Draw 22 14:30 Draw 23 17:45 Draw 25 9:00 Draw 26 12:30", "id": "3983101" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Colorado\n\n\nrowspan=5 | 5 ! rowspan=3 | 8 ! rowspan=9 | 9 ! rowspan=2 | 6 ! 7 ! rowspan=2 | 8 ! rowspan=3 | 9 ! rowspan=6 | 10 ! 10 ! 11 ! rowspan=5 | 12 ! rowspan=11 | 11 ! rowspan=8 | 13 ! rowspan=9 | 12 ! rowspan=3 | 14 ! rowspan=6 | 15 ! rowspan=3 | 13 ! rowspan=6 | 16 ! rowspan=6 | 14 ! rowspan=3 | 17 ! rowspan=4 | 15 ! rowspan=7 | 18 ! rowspan=6 | 16 ! rowspan=3 | 19 ! rowspan=4 | 17 ! rowspan=7 | 20 ! rowspan=3 |", "id": "20743826" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Arkansas\n\n\nrowspan=3 | 6 ! rowspan=5 | 6 ! rowspan=3 | 7 ! rowspan=11 | 8 ! rowspan=11 | 7 ! rowspan=10 | 9 ! rowspan=3 | 8 ! 9 ! 10 ! rowspan=17 | 11 ! rowspan=3 | 10 ! rowspan=6 | 11 ! rowspan=11 | 12 ! rowspan=3 | 12 ! 13 ! rowspan=19 | 14 ! rowspan=15 | 13 ! rowspan=14 | 14 ! 15 ! rowspan=9 | 16 ! rowspan=3 | 17 ! rowspan=6 | 15 ! rowspan=6 | 18 ! rowspan=6 | 16 ! rowspan=3 | 19 , there are five living former senators. The", "id": "20743822" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from New Hampshire\n\n\n! rowspan=3 | 9 ! rowspan=3 | 10 ! rowspan=5 | 8 ! 11 ! rowspan=3 | 12 ! rowspan=4 | 9 ! 13 ! rowspan=6 | 14 ! 10 ! 11 ! rowspan=3 | 12 ! rowspan=6 | 15 ! 13 ! 14 ! 16 ! rowspan=7 | 15 ! rowspan=2 | 17 ! rowspan=5 | 18 ! rowspan=8 | 16 ! 19 ! rowspan=3 | 20 ! rowspan=3 | 21 ! rowspan=6 | 17 ! 22 ! rowspan=12 | 23 ! rowspan=3 | 18 ! rowspan=2 | 19 ! 20 ! 21 ! rowspan=6 | 22 ! rowspan=15", "id": "20744074" }, { "contents": "Dihydroxy-E,Z,E-PUFA\n\n\nmake PDX by metabolizing DHA by double oxygenation a 15-lipoxygenase to form the 10\"R\",17\"S\"-hydroxperoxy intermediated which is reduced its 10\"R\",17\"S\"-hydroxyl product, PDX, probably by cytosolic GPX1 (i.e. glutathione peroxidase 1). Serial metabolism two different lipoxygenases or a lipoxygenase and a cytochrome P45) on PUFA possessing three double bonds in a 1\"Z\",4\"Z\",7\"Z\" configuration may also make a 1,7-dihydroxy 2\"E\",4\"Z\",6\"E\" product. Other platelet-inhibiting dihydroxy-\"E\",\"Z\",\"E\"-PUFA are: 10\"R\",17\"S\"-dihydroxy-4\"Z\",7\"Z\",11\"E\",13\"Z\",15\"E\",19\"Z\"-docosahexaenoic acid (10\"R\",17\"S\"-diHDHA); 8\"S\",15\"S\"-dihydroxy-5\"Z\",9\"E\",11\"Z\",13\"E\"-eicosatetraenoic acid (8\"S\",15\"S\"-diHETE); 9\"S\",16\"S\"-10\"E\",12\"Z\",14\"E\"-octadecatrienoic acid (linotrin-1); and 9\"R\",16\"S\"-10\"E\",12\"Z\",14\"E\"-octadecatrienoic acid (linotrin-2).", "id": "1779786" }, { "contents": "EU Cup\n\n\n8 October 2011. 18 national men's teams competed in the tournament. Final results were: 1. Ireland, 2. Croatia, 3. England, 4. Italy, 5. France, 6. Scotland, 7. Wales, 8. Spain, 9. European Crusaders, 10. Russia (1st time competitors), 11. Denmark, 12. Germany, 13. Finland, 14. Sweden, 15. Netherlands, 16. Austria, 17. Iceland, 18. Catalonia. Ireland defeated Switzerland in", "id": "2746657" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Indiana\n\n\nrowspan=13 | 5 ! rowspan=2 | 5 ! 6 ! rowspan=2 | 7 ! rowspan=3 | 8 ! rowspan=6 | 9 ! 6 ! 7 ! rowspan=3 | 8 ! rowspan=6 | 10 ! rowspan=3 | 9 ! rowspan=5 | 10 ! rowspan=10 | 11 ! rowspan=3 | 11 ! rowspan=6 | 12 ! rowspan=4 | 12 ! rowspan=6 | 13 ! rowspan=2 | 13 ! rowspan=4 | 14 ! rowspan=6 | 14 ! 15 ! rowspan=11 | 16 ! rowspan=3 | 15 ! rowspan=2 | 16 ! rowspan=5 | 17 ! rowspan=6 | 17 ! rowspan=3 | 18 !", "id": "20743924" }, { "contents": "Book of Nature\n\n\n. Pedersen (1992), 7–8. 3. Pedersen (1992), 9. 4. Dear (2009), 4. 5. Pedersen (1992), 10. 6. Pedersen (1992), 11–13. 7. Pedersen (1992), 14–15. 8. Pedersen (1992), 15. 9. Harrison (2001), 13. 10. Harrison (2001), 13. 11. Harrison (2001), 15. 12. Harrison (2001), 15. 13.", "id": "3587614" }, { "contents": "2014 World Senior Curling Championships – Women's tournament\n\n\nThe women's tournament of the 2014 World Senior Curling Championships was held from April 23 to 30 at the Dumfries Ice Bowl in Dumfries, Scotland. The teams are listed as follows: \"Final Round Robin Standings\" Draw 3 15:30 Draw 5 7:30 Draw 6 11:00 Draw 7 14:30 Draw 8 18:00 Draw 9 21:30 Draw 11 12:00 Draw 12 15:30 Draw 13 19:00 Draw 15 11:00 Draw 17 18:00 Draw 18 21:30 Draw 20 12:00 Draw 21 15:30 Draw 23 8:30 Draw 24 14:00 Draw 3 15:30 Draw 4 19:30 Draw 7 14:30 Draw 8", "id": "16343741" }, { "contents": "Alejandro Landa\n\n\nFalls, South Dakota, but he won the final by defeating Daniel De La Rosa, 15-6, 7-15, 11-10, in the final. En route to the final, Landa beat Tim Landeryou, 15-5, 3-15, 11-6, in the Round of 16, Rocky Carson in the quarterfinals, 15-14, 11-15, 11-4, and Samuel Murray, 15-11, 15-7, in the semi-finals. In the", "id": "8690386" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Florida\n\n\n| 4 ! rowspan=3 | 4 ! rowspan=3 | 5 ! rowspan=6 | 5 ! rowspan=11 | 6 ! rowspan=9 | 6 ! rowspan=8 | 7 ! rowspan=10 | 7 ! 8 ! 9 ! rowspan=16 | 10 ! rowspan=3 | 8 ! rowspan=10 | 9 ! rowspan=3 | 10 ! 11 ! rowspan=6 | 11 ! rowspan=10 | 12 ! rowspan=13 | 12 ! rowspan=9 | 13 ! rowspan=3 | 14 ! rowspan=11 | 13 ! rowspan=4 | 15 ! rowspan=4 | 16 ! rowspan=9 | 17 ! rowspan=6 | 14 ! rowspan=10 | 15 ! rowspan=3 | 18", "id": "20743883" }, { "contents": "Coby Iwaasa\n\n\nKitchener, Ontario with the same result: a win for Murray, 15-2, 15-5. Iwaasa and Murray played Men’s Doubles together at the 2018 Canadian Championships in Winnipeg, and they won the title by defeating Nicolas Bousquet and Tommy Murray in the final, 15-13, 10-15, 11-6. They beat the brother team of James Landeryou and Tim Landeryou in the semi-finals, 15-13, 15-10. In Men’s Singles, Iwaasa finished 2nd, as", "id": "8038021" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Wisconsin\n\n\n| 6 ! rowspan=3 | 7 ! rowspan=3 | 6 ! rowspan=6 | 8 ! rowspan=3 | 7 ! rowspan=15 | 8 ! rowspan=4 | 9 ! rowspan=2 | 10 ! rowspan=7 | 11 ! rowspan=11 | 9 ! rowspan=3 | 12 ! rowspan=3 | 13 ! rowspan=14 | 14 ! rowspan=6 | 10 ! rowspan=16 | 11 ! rowspan=9 | 15 ! rowspan=6 | 16 ! rowspan=12 | 12 ! rowspan=9 | 17 ! rowspan=6 | 18 ! rowspan=6 | 13 , there are three living former Senators, one from Class 1 and two from Class 3.", "id": "21329584" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Michigan\n\n\n! 12 ! rowspan=13 | 13 ! rowspan=3 | 10 ! rowspan=7 | 11 ! rowspan=8 | 14 ! rowspan=2 | 12 ! rowspan=10 | 13 ! rowspan=3 | 15 ! rowspan=15 | 16 ! rowspan=4 | 14 ! rowspan=9 | 15 ! 17 ! rowspan=4 | 18 ! rowspan=6 | 16 ! rowspan=11 | 19 ! rowspan=9 | 17 ! rowspan=10 | 20 ! rowspan=18 | 18 ! rowspan=3 | 21 ! rowspan=12 | 22 ! rowspan=3 | 19 , there are three former U.S. Senators from Michigan who are currently living, two from Class 1 and one", "id": "20744040" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Ohio\n\n\n| 6 ! rowspan=2 | 7 ! rowspan=2 | 8 ! rowspan=2 | 9 ! rowspan=3 | 10 ! rowspan=3 | 6 ! rowspan=6 | 11 ! rowspan=3 | 7 ! rowspan=3 | 8 ! rowspan=5 | 12 ! 9 ! rowspan=11 | 10 ! rowspan=3 | 13 ! 14 ! rowspan=9 | 15 ! rowspan=8 | 11 ! 16 ! rowspan=3 | 17 ! rowspan=9 | 12 ! rowspan=3 | 18 ! rowspan=3 | 19 ! rowspan=9 | 20 ! rowspan=4 | 13 ! rowspan=4 | 14 ! rowspan=3 | 21 ! rowspan=7 | 15 ! rowspan=3 | 22", "id": "20744100" }, { "contents": "2013 Canadian Mixed Doubles Curling Trials\n\n\nFriday, March 15, 11:30 am\" \"Friday, March 15, 2:00 pm\" \"Friday, March 15, 4:30 pm\" \"Friday, March 15, 7:00 pm\" \"Friday, March 15, 9:30 pm\" \"Saturday, March 16, 9:00 am\" \"Saturday, March 16, 11:30 am\" \"Saturday, March 16, 2:00 pm\" \"Saturday, March 16, 4:30 pm\" \"Saturday, March 16, 8:30 pm\" \"Sunday, March 17, 10:00 am\" \"Sunday", "id": "10697048" }, { "contents": "Lyon Villeurbanne XIII\n\n\nto AS Carcassonne 10–22, but they went one better in the league beating XIII Catalan 15–10 to lift the trophy for the first time. In 52/53 they won the cup beating US Villeneuve 9–8 in the final but couldn't complete a league and cup double as they lost the league final 12–19 to AS Carcassonne. They retained the cup when they beat XIII Catalan 17–15 and won their second league title when they triumphed 7–6 against AS Carcassonne in 1955. Relegation followed in 1957 but after winning the National League 1 title, now called", "id": "19573564" }, { "contents": "Park Sung-hwan\n\n\n. Two weeks later, Park was to be defeated again in the quarter-final matches of the Li Ning China Masters Super Series in Changzhou, China (to 4th seed badminton ace Lin Dan of China, 15-21, 21-13, 21-23), and the Japan Open Super Series (to Indonesian, Taufik Hidayat, 21-12, 26-28, 15-21). In November, Park participated in the Yonex Sunrise Hong Kong Open and lost 15-21, 16-21", "id": "6727931" }, { "contents": "2015 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship\n\n\nThe 2015 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship was held from April 18 to 25 at the Ice Cube Curling Center in Sochi, Russia. The event will be held in conjunction with the 2015 World Senior Curling Championships. The teams are listed as follows: Draw 1 9:00 Draw 2 11:15 Draw 3 21:00 Draw 4 11:15 Draw 5 8:00 Draw 6 17:45 Draw 7 19:30 Draw 8 11:15 Draw 9 17:45 Draw 1 12:30 Draw 2 19:30 Draw 3 14:30 Draw 4 9:00 Draw 5 11:15 Draw 6 21:00 Draw 7 12:30 Draw 8 8:00 Draw 9", "id": "12517555" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Rhode Island\n\n\n| 9 ! rowspan=3 | 7 ! rowspan=7 | 8 ! rowspan=2 | 9 ! rowspan=7 | 10 ! rowspan=2 | 10 ! 11 ! rowspan=3 | 12 ! rowspan=3 | 11 ! rowspan=4 | 13 ! rowspan=3 | 12 ! rowspan=3 | 14 ! rowspan=17 | 13 ! 15 ! rowspan=6 | 16 ! rowspan=4 | 17 ! rowspan=20 | 18 ! 14 ! rowspan=4 | 15 ! rowspan=3 | 16 ! rowspan=10 | 17 ! rowspan=3 | 19 ! rowspan=6 | 18 ! rowspan=8 | 20 ! rowspan=7 | 19 ! rowspan=3 | 21 ! rowspan=6 | 22", "id": "20744131" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from West Virginia\n\n\nrowspan=8 | 7 ! rowspan=2 | 4 ! rowspan=8 | 5 ! rowspan=9 | 8 ! 6 ! rowspan=2 | 7 ! rowspan=4 | 9 ! rowspan=3 | 8 ! rowspan=3 | 10 ! rowspan=3 | 9 ! rowspan=3 | 11 ! rowspan=3 | 10 ! rowspan=3 | 12 ! rowspan=7 | 11 ! rowspan=3 | 13 ! rowspan=10 | 14 ! 12 ! 13 ! rowspan=3 | 14 ! rowspan=8 | 15 ! 15 ! rowspan=5 | 16 ! 16 ! rowspan=14 | 17 ! rowspan=27 | 17 ! rowspan=18 | 18 ! 18 ! rowspan=8 | 19 !", "id": "20744177" }, { "contents": "Academy of Saint Elizabeth\n\n\nstudents often take part in mass on different occasions. Sample 'D day' Homeroom 8:10-8:15 Period 1 8:19-9:15 Period 2 9:17 - 10:13 Period 3 10:15 - 11:11 Lunch 11:13 - 11:58 Period 5 12:00 - 12:56 Period 6 12:58 - 1:54 Period 7 1:56 - 2:51 The Academy runs on a 4-day rotating schedule (A day, B day, C day, and D day). Each day, students drop a morning and afternoon class. You can find the 2018-2019 school year calendar on the Academy", "id": "13678251" }, { "contents": "2014 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship\n\n\nWorld Curling medal for Spain in the bronze medal game with a 7–4 win over defending champions Dorottya Palansca and Zsolt Kiss of Hungary. Canada, Norway, and England scored perfect ends in their games in Draws 5, 11, and 22, respectively. The teams are listed as follows: \"Final Round Robin Standings\" Draw 1 8:15 Draw 4 19:30 Draw 6 11:15 Draw 9 21:00 Draw 12 14:30 Draw 15 8:00 Draw 18 17:45 Draw 19 21:00 Draw 21 11:15 Draw 22 14:30 Draw 25 8:00 Draw 2 12:00 Draw 5 8:00", "id": "15498977" }, { "contents": "2011 World Senior Curling Championships – Men's tournament\n\n\nStandings\" All draw times are listed in Central Standard Time (UTC-06). Draw 1 08:00 Draw 3 18:00 Draw 6 14:30 Draw 8 08:00 Draw 10 18:00 Draw 13 14:30 Draw 15 21:30 Draw 17 14:30 Draw 2 11:30 Draw 4 21:30 Draw 5 11:00 Draw 8 08:00 Draw 10 18:00 Draw 13 14:30 Draw 17 14:30 Draw 19 21:30 Draw 2 11:30 Draw 4 21:30 Draw 6 14:30 Draw 8 08:00 Draw 9 11:30 Draw 10 18:00 Draw 11 21:30 Draw 12 11:00 Draw 13 14:30 Draw 15 21:30 Draw 19 21:30 \"Friday, April", "id": "16637806" }, { "contents": "Nathan Robertson\n\n\ndefeated Björn Siegemund and Nicol Pitro of Germany in the second. In the quarterfinals, Robertson and Emms beat Chen Qiqiu and Zhao Tingting of China 15-8, 17-15 to advance to the semifinals. There, they beat Jonas Rasmussen and Rikke Olsen of Denmark 15-6, 15-12. In the final, they lost to Chinese pair Zhang Jun and Gao Ling 15-1, 12-15, 15-12 to finish with the silver medal. At the 2005 World Championships, he and Emms", "id": "1371969" }, { "contents": "List of major textual variants in the New Testament\n\n\nMatthew 8:28 Matthew 11:23 Matthew 17:21 Matthew 18:11 Matthew 20:16 Matthew 20:22, 23 Matthew 23:14 Matthew 24:36 Matthew 26:28 Matthew 27:16 Mark 2:16 Mark 6:11 Mark 7:8 Mark 7:16 Mark 9:38 Mark 9:43-46 Mark 9:49 Mark 10:24 Mark 11:26 Mark 14:19 Mark 15:28 Mark 16:9-20 Luke 1:28 Luke 2:14 Luke 4:4 Luke 9:55-56 Luke 11:2-4 Luke 11:11 Luke 22:43-44 Luke 23:17 Luke 23:34 John 1:18 John 5:3-4 John 6:69 John 7:53-8:11 John 8:59 Acts 2:30 Acts 13:42 Acts 15:24 Acts 18:21 Acts 23:9 Acts 28:29", "id": "12411760" }, { "contents": "BSWW Tour\n\n\n1 2 15-19 2 4. USA 3 1 2 13-20 2 Semifinals Brazil 9-4 Argentina Third place match Final Brazil 11-3 South Korea 02/03/1996 Buenos Aires (Argentina)Argentina 5-12 Brazil Friendly Match 1996 USA 3-6 Brazil Italy 6-9 Brazil USA 4-9 Brazil Italy 2-8 Brazil Netherlands 4-13 Brazil England 1-13 Brazil Malaysia 1-14 Brazil Semifinals Brazil 15-2 Japan Third place match Final Brazil 6-4 South Korea Brazil 7-4 Argentina", "id": "17061521" }, { "contents": "1941 Eastern Suburbs season\n\n\n5, Saturday 17 May Eastern Suburbs 13 beat Canterbury Bankstown 2 at Sydney Cricket Ground. Premiership Round 6, Saturday 24 May 1941. Newtown 4 beat Eastern Suburbs 3 at Henson Park. Premiership Round 7, Saturday 31 June 1941. St George 16 beat Eastern Suburbs 10 at Sydney Sports Ground. Premiership Round 8, Saturday 21 June 1941. South Sydney 22 beat Eastern Suburbs 15 at Sydney Sports Ground. Premiership Round 9, Saturday 28 June 1941. Eastern Suburbs 15 beat Western Suburbs 3 at Pratten Park. Premiership Round", "id": "11086526" }, { "contents": "Jansher Khan\n\n\nJansher Khan (; born 15 June 1969, in Peshawar, Pakistan) is a former World No. 1 professional Pakistani squash player. During his career he won the World Open a record eight times, and the British Open six times. Jansher Khan's retirement brought an end to nearly 50 years of domination by Pakistan in the sport of squash. He won the World Junior Squash Championship title in 1986 and the senior World Open title in 1987, by beating Australia's Chris Dittmar in the final. Jansher officially announced his retirement", "id": "1599584" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Kentucky\n\n\n! 5 ! rowspan=5 | 6 ! 3 ! rowspan=2 | 4 ! rowspan=4 | 7 ! 5 ! rowspan=4 | 6 ! rowspan=5 | 8 ! 7 ! 8 ! rowspan=2 | 9 ! rowspan=7 | 9 ! rowspan=3 | 10 ! rowspan=3 | 11 ! rowspan=4 | 10 ! rowspan=6 | 12 ! rowspan=3 | 11 ! rowspan=4 | 12 ! rowspan=4 | 13 ! rowspan=8 | 13 ! 14 ! rowspan=2 | 15 ! 16 ! rowspan=2 | 17 ! rowspan=3 | 14 ! rowspan=3 | 18 ! rowspan=5 | 15 ! 19 ! rowspan=8 | 20", "id": "20743991" }, { "contents": "List of United States Senators from Massachusetts\n\n\n| 8 ! rowspan=7 | 7 ! rowspan=2 | 9 ! rowspan=8 | 10 ! rowspan=3 | 8 ! rowspan=6 | 9 ! rowspan=9 | 11 ! rowspan=3 | 10 ! rowspan=5 | 11 ! rowspan=3 | 12 ! rowspan=5 | 13 ! rowspan=8 | 12 ! 14 ! 15 ! rowspan=16 | 16 ! 13 ! 14 ! rowspan=10 | 15 ! rowspan=4 | 16 ! 17 ! rowspan=9 | 18 ! rowspan=14 | 17 ! rowspan=18 | 19 ! rowspan=5 | 18 ! rowspan=3 | 19 ! rowspan=5 | 20 ! rowspan=2 | 20 ! rowspan=4 | 21", "id": "20744045" }, { "contents": "2017 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship\n\n\nDraw 5 8:00 Draw 11 11:15 Draw 12 14:30 Draw 14 21:00 Draw 16 11:15 Draw 18 17:45 Draw 19 21:00 Draw 20 8:00 Draw 22 14:30 Draw 23 17:45 Draw 24 21:00 Draw 26 11:15 Draw 27 14:30 Draw 3 15:00 Draw 4 20:00 Draw 6 11:15 Draw 8 17:45 Draw 9 21:00 Draw 12 14:30 Draw 13 17:45 Draw 14 21:00 Draw 16 11:15 Draw 17 14:30 Draw 20 8:00 Draw 21 11:15 Draw 22 14:30 Draw 25 8:00 Draw 26 11:15 Draw 1 8:00 Draw 2 11:15 Draw 3 15:00 Draw 5 8:00 Draw 8 17:45 Draw", "id": "20611918" }, { "contents": "Michael Cheika\n\n\nAuckland a week later. Despite having only been in charge of the Wallabies for a year, Cheika led Australia to the 2015 Rugby World Cup Final. They topped Pool A with victories over Fiji 28–13, Uruguay 65–3, England 33–13 and Wales 15–6. They narrowly beat Scotland in the quarter-final winning 35–34 after a controversial last minute penalty. They beat Argentina 29–15 in the semi-final to reach the final against the All Blacks. The Wallabies went down 16–3 at half time, but fought back in the second half", "id": "21843436" }, { "contents": "2008 South American Under-23 Championships in Athletics – Results\n\n\n5 September 17:00hbr Final – 7 September 15:00hbr Final – 6 September 11:00hbr Final – 6 September 15:40hbr Final – 6 September 9:30hbr Wind: -2.5m/s Final – 7 September 10:45hbr Final – 6 September 9:00hbr Final – 7 September 9:00hbr Final – 7 September 11:00hbr Final – 6 September 11:00hbr Final – 6 September 9:00hbr Final – 7 September 11:00hbr Final – 5 September 14:50hbr Final – 6 September 9:00hbr Final – 7 September 9:00hbr Final – 7 September 7:00hbr Final – 6 September 17:00hbr Final – 7 September 15:50hbr Final – 6 September 9:45hbr Wind: -2.5", "id": "3039640" }, { "contents": "Rhonda Rajsich\n\n\nfinished #1. At the 2011 USA National Doubles Championships, Rajsich played with Kim Russell-Waselenchuk for the first time. They lost in the semi-finals to Krystal Csuk and Cheryl Gudinas, 15-6, 2-15, 11-9, and then lost the 3rd place match to sisters Danielle and Michelle Key, 3-15, 15-10, 11-10. However, Rajsich won Women's Singles at the 2011 USA National Singles Championshps by beating Gudinas in the final, 15-2", "id": "20397807" }, { "contents": "Ra Kyung-min\n\n\n. In the quarterfinals, Ra and Lee beat Lotte Bruil and Mia Audina of the Netherlands 15-5, 15-2. They lost the semifinal to Zhang Jiewen and Yang Wei of China 15-6, 15-4 but won the bronze medal match against Zhao Tingting and Wei Yili, also of China, 10-15, 15-9, 15-7. Ra also competed in mixed doubles with partner Kim Dong-moon. They had a bye in the first round and defeated Chris Bruil and Lotte", "id": "17379284" }, { "contents": "Coby Iwaasa\n\n\nVincent Gagnon, 15-10, 15-17, 11-6, in the semi-finals, but won the 3rd place match versus Samuel Murray, 13-15, 15-6, 11-8. That summer Iwaasa played for Canada for the first time by participating in the 2014 Pan American Sports Festival in Guadalajara, Mexico, where he defeated team-mate Samuel Murray, 15-9, 10-15, 11-3, in the Round of 16, but lost to David Horn of", "id": "8038012" }, { "contents": "Raglan Chronicle\n\n\n13, 20, 27, Apr 2, 10, 17, 24, May 1, 8, 15, 22, Jun 5, 12, 19, 26, Jul 3, 10. 17, 24, 31, Aug 7, 21, 28, Sep 4, 11, 18, 25, Oct 2, 9, 16, 23, 30, Nov 6, 13, 20, 27, Dec 4, 11, 18, 23; 1959 Jan 15, 29, Feb 5, 19,", "id": "3052190" }, { "contents": "Coby Iwaasa\n\n\n4, 11-5, and 1st seed Alejandro Cardona in the final, 9-15, 15-9, 11-8. He reached the quarterfinals in the other four WRT events that year. In November 2014, Iwaasa defeated Samuel Murray, in the quarterfinals, 15-9, 15-10, of the 1st National Team Selection Event of the 2014-15 season in Kitchener, Ontario. He then lost to Mike Green, 15-6, 15-6, in the semi-finals.", "id": "8038014" }, { "contents": "2008 European Curling Championships\n\n\n, 14:00 Draw 4 Monday December 8, 08:00 Draw 5 Monday December 8, 16:00 Draw 6 Tuesday December 9, 09:00 Draw 7 Tuesday December 9, 18:30 Draw 8 Wednesday December 10, 14:00 Draw 9 Thursday December 11, 08:00 Tiebreaker Thursday December 11, 15:00 Thursday, December 11, 20:00 Thursday, December 11, 20:00 Friday, December 12, 19:00 Saturday, December 13, 15:00 \"All times local\" Draw 1 Saturday December 6, 12:00 Draw 2 Sunday December 7, 16:00 Draw 3 Sunday December 7, 20:00", "id": "11226003" }, { "contents": "Rocky Carson\n\n\nUSA Racquetball National Singles Championship for the first time. He was seeded 6th, and defeated 8th seed Doug Eagle in the final. 15-7, 15-7. To reach the final, Carson beat Brian Fredenberg in the quarterfinals, 15-7, 15-13, and Jack Huczek in the semi-finals, 15-11, 15-6. 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