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1994 FIFA World Cup Group F
Group F of the 1994 FIFA World Cup was one of six groups of four teams competing at the 1994 World Cup in the United States. The first match was played June 19, 1994 and the final games took place simultaneously on June 29, 1994. The group consisted of Belgium, Morocco, Netherlands and Saudi Arabia. Netherlands won the group, Saudi Arabia finished second and Belgium qualified as one of the best third-placed teams. Standings Matches ''All times local ( EDT/ UTC–4, CDT/ UTC–5, PDT/ UTC–7)'' Belgium vs Morocco Netherlands vs Saudi Arabia Belgium vs Netherlands Saudi Arabia vs Morocco Belgium vs Saudi Arabia Morocco vs Netherlands References * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Group F Group F Group A group is a number of persons or things that are located, gathered, or classed together. Groups of people * Cultural group, a group whose members share the same cultural identity * Ethnic group, a group whose members share the same ethnic i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1994 FIFA World Cup
The 1994 FIFA World Cup was the 15th FIFA World Cup, the world championship for men's national soccer teams. It was hosted by the United States and took place from June 17 to July 17, 1994, at nine venues across the country. The United States was chosen as the host by FIFA on July 4, 1988. Despite soccer's relative lack of popularity in the host nation, the tournament was the most financially successful in World Cup history. It broke tournament records with overall attendance of 3,587,538 and an average of 68,991 per game, marks that stood unsurpassed as of 2022 despite the expansion of the competition from 24 to 32 teams starting with the 1998 World Cup. Brazil were crowned the winners after defeating Italy 3–2 in a penalty shoot-out at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California near Los Angeles, after the game had ended 0–0 after extra time. It was the first World Cup final to be decided on penalties. The victory made Brazil the first nation to win four World Cup titles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rudi Smidts )
Rudolf "Rudi" Smidts (born 12 August 1963 in Deurne) is a former Belgian football defender. Club career He played most of his career with FC Antwerp, the oldest club of Belgium. International career Smidts made 33 appearances for the Belgium national football team and was in the squad for the 1994 World Cup, where he played four matches. Honours Royal Antwerp * Belgian Cup: 1991–92 Belgian Cup, 1991–92 * UEFA Cup Winners' Cup: 1992–93 (runners-up A prize is an award to be given to a person or a group of people (such as sporting teams and organizations) to recognize and reward their actions and achievements. References External links *Profile - FC Antwerp [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Noureddine Naybet
Noureddine Naybet ( ar, نور الدين نيبت; born 10 February 1970) is a Moroccan former professional footballer who played as a central defender. He played in Spain (Deportivo de La Coruña) and Portugal for Sporting CP and England for Tottenham Hotspur. He is considered one of the best defenders in La Liga of his generation. Naybet spent the longest and most successful period of his career with Deportivo La Coruña in Spain's La Liga, from 1996 to 2004. He was named the 44th greatest African player of all time by the African football expert Ed Dove. Naybet played a record 115 matches for the Morocco national team scoring four goals, representing the country in two World Cups and six Africa Cup of Nations tournaments. Early life Born in Casablanca on 10 February 1970, the young toddler, addicted to football, spent much of his time teasing the ball, in the streets of Derb Chorfa. Already talented and hardworking, he was quickly spotted by the Étoile de Casablanca, where ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Smahi Triki
Ismaël "Smahi" Triki (Arabic: اسماعيل سماحي تريكي; born August 1, 1967 in Zenata) is a Moroccan former professional footballer who played as a defender. He represented his country at the 1994 World Cup and the 1998 World Cup. During his career he had spells at numerous French and Swiss clubs such as FC Lorient and Lausanne Sports FC Lausanne–Sport (also referred to as LS) is a Swiss football club based in Lausanne in the canton of Vaud. Founded in 1896, Lausanne Sport played in the Swiss Super League in their most recent 2021-22 season, the highest tier of football i .... References External links * Living people 1967 births Footballers from Casablanca Association football defenders Moroccan footballers Morocco international footballers 1994 FIFA World Cup players 1998 FIFA World Cup players 1998 African Cup of Nations players FC Lausanne-Sport players SC Bastia players LB Châteauroux players FC Lorient players Al Nassr FC play ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nacer Abdellah
Nacer Abdellah (born 3 March 1966 in Sidi Slimane) is a retired Moroccan football player. Abdellah started his career in Belgium with KV Mechelen, and played most of his career for Belgian teams. He also made 24 appearances for the Morocco, and played at the 1994 FIFA World Cup in the matches against Belgium and Saudi Arabia. Just before the 1994 World Cup in the U.S., a statement of Nacer Abdellah lead to controversy. Abdellah said that his former teammate at Cercle Brugge, the Belgian Josip Weber Josip Weber, nicknamed Joske, (born Josip Veber; 16 November 1964 – 8 November 2017) was a Croatian-Belgian professional football forward. He represented Croatia and Belgium at international level. Club career Weber began his senior career ... wouldn't score during the tournament. References Cerclemuseum.be * 1966 births Living people 1994 FIFA World Cup players Belgian First Division A players CD Ourense footballers Cercle Brugge K.S.V. players Expatriate fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Khalil Azmi
Khalil Azmi (born 23 August 1964) is a retired Moroccan football goalkeeper. He played ten seasons in the Moroccan League, two in the USISL, two in the National Professional Soccer League, one in the A-League and one in Major League Soccer. Career In 1984, Azmi began his career with Wydad Casablanca in the Moroccan League. In 1992, he moved to Raja Casablanca. In 1995, he moved to the United States where he played for the New Hampshire Ramblers in the USISL. In February 1996, the Colorado Rapids selected him in the 14th round (132nd overall) of the 1996 MLS Inaugural Player Draft. He never got off the bench with the Rapids and spent part of the season on loan with the New York Fever in the A-League in 1996. In 1997, he played for the Charleston Battery in the USISL. That fall, he signed with the Baltimore Spirit of the National Professional Soccer League. He spent two winter indoor seasons with the Spirit. In 1998, he played for the Hershey Wildcats in the USIS ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Van Himst
Paul Van Himst (born 2 October 1943) is a Belgian former football player and a football manager who played as a forward, most notably for R.S.C. Anderlecht. Career Van Himst was nicknamed ''Polle Gazon'' (''Polle'' is Paul in Brussels dialect, and ''Gazon'' means lawn in Dutch and French) due to the large number of fouls committed on him. In 1964, he played in the Belgium-Netherlands match alongside 10 Anderlecht players after the substitution of goalkeeper Delhasse by Jean-Marie Trappeniers. Van Himst won the Belgian championship eight times, all of them with Anderlecht, the club for which he played his first professional season in 1959–60. With Anderlecht, he scored 233 goals in 457 matches (16 seasons). He then played for RWDM (another Brussels club) in 1975–76 and for Eendracht Aalst (then in the second division) in the following season. Between 1960 and 1974, Van Himst scored 30 goals (in 81 matches) for the Belgian national team. This performance made him Belgium' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vital Borkelmans
Vital Philomene Borkelmans (born 10 June 1963) is a Belgian football coach and a former left fullback who mainly played for Club Brugge (350 matches with that club), in the Belgian First Division. He also played for Patro Eisden, SV Waregem, Gent and Cercle Brugge. Vital played with Belgium and was in the team for the 1994 and 1998 World Cups. In January 2010, he was appointed manager of Dender EH in the Belgian Second Division, but fired following the relegation to the Belgian Third Division following the 2011–12 season. In July 2012, Vital Borkelmans was revealed as assistant manager to Marc Wilmots for the Belgium national football team. In 2018, he was appointed as the head coach of Jordan, until his resignation in June 2021. Managerial statistics Player palmares Club Brugge *Belgian First Division (4): 1989–90, 1991–92, 1995–96, 1997–98 *Belgian Cup (3): 1990–91, 1994–95, 1995–96 *Belgian Super Cup (6): 1990, 1991, 1992, 1994 File:1994 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marc Emmers
Marc Jozef Emmers (born 25 February 1966 in Hamont-Achel) is a retired Belgian footballer. His former clubs include KV Mechelen, R.S.C. Anderlecht and AC Lugano. With K.V. Mechelen, he won the Belgian Cup in 1987, the European Cup Winner's Cup and the European Super Cup in 1988 and the Belgian First Division title in 1989. After his transfer to the great R.S.C. Anderlecht of the mid-1990s, he won the Belgian First Division title three times from 1994 to 97. Emmers was a versatile player who was mainly played out as a midfielder. Through his career, he played at the position of libero, defensive midfielder, attacking midfielder and right-back. International career Emmers also played for Belgium and was in the squad for two World Cups. At the 1990 World Cup, he played all three group stage matches, and in 1994, he participated in another three games. Personal life Emmers is the father of the Belgian footballer Xian Emmers. Honours Player KV Mechelen * Belgian First ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josip Weber
Josip Weber, nicknamed Joske, (born Josip Veber; 16 November 1964 – 8 November 2017) was a Croatian-Belgian professional football forward. He represented Croatia and Belgium at international level. Club career Weber began his senior career in Yugoslavia with lower league side NK Borac Podvinje. He then joined BSK Slavonski Brod where he played 3 seasons before moving to HNK Hajduk Split of the Yugoslav First League in 1985. He spent 2 seasons in Split, winning the 1987 Yugoslav Cup. He also played for Yugoslav side NK Dinamo Vinkovci. He then moved to Belgium where he played several seasons for Cercle Brugge. There he proved to be a prolific goalscorer, becoming Belgium's top scorer several years in a row without any contention despite Cercle Brugge only being an average team in the league at the time. Eventually he did join RSC Anderlecht (which was Belgium's top team at the time) and looked like he was headed for a brilliant few years. Unfortunately he got sidelined by a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luc Nilis
Luc Gilbert Cyrille Nilis (born 25 May 1967) is a Belgian professional football manager and former player who is the head coach of Belgian Division 2 club Belisia Bilzen. He enjoyed a successful career in his native Belgium and, in particular, in the Netherlands with PSV. His playing days came to an end in the 2000–01 season after breaking his leg in a match with his club Aston Villa following a clash with Ipswich Town goalkeeper Richard Wright. Club career His former clubs include K.F.C. Winterslag, R.S.C. Anderlecht, PSV and Aston Villa. Having left Anderlecht for Eindhoven in 1994, Nilis topped the Dutch scoring charts in the 1995–96 season, plundering 21 goals. He continued that form into 1996–97 – leading the pack by December 1996 with 13 – before matching his previous total, in a season that ended with PSV winning the league title for the first time in five years. In late 1997, Nilis scored thrice in three games over a fifteen-day period, all against Shay ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Danny Boffin
Daniel Edouward Boffin (born 10 July 1965) is a Belgian former professional footballer who played as a left winger and current football coach. During his professional career, which spanned nearly two decades, he played for four clubs in his country – most notably Anderlecht – and one in France, appearing in nearly 600 official games as a professional. Boffin represented Belgium in three World Cups, the last of which occurred when he was 37. Club career Born in Sint-Truiden, Boffin began playing professionally for local Sint-Truidense VV, in the Belgian Second Division. After two solid years he moved to the Pro League with RFC Liège, appearing in European competition with the club and also being instrumental as it won its first-ever domestic cup, in 1990. At the age of 26, after more than 150 official games for Liège, Boffin signed with national giants R.S.C. Anderlecht, continuing to be an undisputed starter in his career: in his first two seasons combined he score ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
