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2002–03 FC Basel Season
The 2002–03 season was FC Basel's 110th season of competition, and the club's 9th consecutive season in the Nationalliga A, the top flight of Swiss football. Basel played their home games in the newly constructed St. Jakob-Park complex. René C. Jäggi had been the club chairman for the previous six seasons, but stood down at the AGM in October, and businessman Werner Edelmann was elected as the new chairman. The club sought to retain the Swiss Nationalliga A and Swiss Cup titles after winning the double the previous season. They also sought to compete in the Champions League for as long as possible, as well as reach its group stage. Basel ended the domestic league season as runners-up in the league and winners of the Swiss Cup. They also reached the second group stage of the Champions League. Overview Off-season and pre-season Basel started the season with high aspirations as reigning champions and cup holders. Basel and Grasshopper Club Zürich were the favourites to win ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
FC Basel
Fussball Club Basel 1893, widely known as FC Basel, FCB, or just Basel, is a Swiss football club based in Basel, in the Canton of Basel-Stadt. Formed in 1893, the club has been Swiss national champions 20 times, Swiss Cup winners 13 times, and Swiss League Cup winners once. Basel have competed in European competitions every season since 1999–2000. They have qualified for the Group stages of the Champions League more times than any other Swiss club – a total of seven times – and are the only Swiss club to have ever qualified to the Group stages directly. In 2021 they set the new record for a Swiss team with the most successful international group stage campaign by reaching 14 points in their Conference League group. Since 2001, the club has played its home games at St. Jakob-Park, built on the site of their previous home, St. Jakob Stadium. Their home colours are red and blue, leading to a nickname of "''RotBlau''". History Foundation FC Basel was started ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2002–03 UEFA Champions League Group Stage
The dash is a punctuation mark consisting of a long horizontal line. It is similar in appearance to the hyphen but is longer and sometimes higher from the baseline. The most common versions are the endash , generally longer than the hyphen but shorter than the minus sign; the emdash , longer than either the en dash or the minus sign; and the horizontalbar , whose length varies across typefaces but tends to be between those of the en and em dashes. History In the early 1600s, in Okes-printed plays of William Shakespeare, dashes are attested that indicate a thinking pause, interruption, mid-speech realization, or change of subject. The dashes are variously longer (as in King Lear reprinted 1619) or composed of hyphens (as in Othello printed 1622); moreover, the dashes are often, but not always, prefixed by a comma, colon, or semicolon. In 1733, in Jonathan Swift's ''On Poetry'', the terms ''break'' and ''dash'' are attested for and marks: Blot out, correct, insert, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julio Hernán Rossi
Julio Hernan Rossi (born 22 February 1977) is an Argentinian former football striker. Football career Early years Julio Hernán Rossi began his professional career at Argentinian club Club Atlético River Plate in July 1995, as he advanced from their youth team to their first team. During his time with River Plate he had a six month unsuccessful loan spell at J1 League side Avispa Fukuoka. Lugano At the end of his contract Rossi moved to the Swiss Super League with FC Lugano in 1998 on a free contract. He quickly became a fans' favourite because of his skill, pace and goalscoring ability. He formed an effective striking partnership with fellow Argentine Christian Giménez and the team were placed relatively high in the league. Due to financial problems Lugano were forced to sell first Giménez and one year later Rossi. Nevertheless the club was later denied the licence for the top flight due to the financial problems. Without the two million that FC Basel transferred to Lu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West Bromwich Albion F
West or Occident is one of the four cardinal directions or points of the compass. It is the opposite direction from east and is the direction in which the Sunset, Sun sets on the Earth. Etymology The word "west" is a Germanic languages, Germanic word passed into some Romance languages (''ouest'' in French, ''oest'' in Catalan, ''ovest'' in Italian, ''oeste'' in Spanish and Portuguese). As in other languages, the word formation stems from the fact that west is the direction of the setting sun in the evening: 'west' derives from the Indo-European root ''*wes'' reduced from ''*wes-pero'' 'evening, night', cognate with Ancient Greek ἕσπερος Hesperus, hesperos 'evening; evening star; western' and Latin vesper 'evening; west'. Examples of the same formation in other languages include Latin Occident, occidens 'west' from occidō 'to go down, to set' and Hebrew מַעֲרָב maarav 'west' from עֶרֶב erev 'evening'. Navigation To go west using a compass for navigation (in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernt Haas
Bernt Haas (born 8 April 1978) is a former Swiss football defender. Career Haas was born in Vienna, Austria. He began his career at Grasshoppers Zurich, where he played for several seasons before moving to England to join Premier League club Sunderland in August 2001. Despite making 27 appearances for the club in 2001–02, he did not play for Sunderland during the following season and was loaned out to FC Basel. Haas joined West Bromwich Albion in 2003, and was a regular at right-back as Albion were promoted back to the Premier League. He scored with a superb volley in the 2–0 League Cup win against Manchester United, having already scored in an earlier round against Brentford. He also scored once in the league against Crewe. However, he found his chances limited in the top-flight, and left the club by mutual consent on 21 January 2005. The following day he signed for SC Bastia in France, whom he played for prior to joining 1. FC Köln. After just one season at Cologne, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alessandro Iandoli
Alessandro Iandoli (born 29 April 1984) is a Swiss former footballer who played as a left back. He also holds Italian nationality. Career Born in Basel, Iandoli first played his youth football with Nordstern Basel, but after a few years he moved on to FC Basel. He advanced to Basel's first team during their 2002–03 season. Iandoli played in a four of the teams test matches that season and travelled with the team to the summer training camp in USA. Here he played in all three test games, including the match in Washington, D.C. on 15 June 2002. He scored his first goal for the club in the same game as Basel won 8–2 against Chesapeake Dragons. However he played with Basel's U-21 team that season in the third tier of Swiss football. With their U-21 team he played in 25 games scoring 11 goals. Iandoli started his professional career at Switzerland for Concordia Basel. He played 139 matches at Swiss Challenge League. In August 2008, he returned to Italy for Pescara. On 6 August, h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philippe Cravero
Philippe Cravero (born 2 September 1970) is a Swiss former professional footballer who played as a left-back. Football career Cravero began his career at Neuchâtel Xamax in 1990 where he played for four years, during which time he had a loan spell at SR Delémont, before joining Étoile Carouge FC in 1994. Cravero joined Basel's first team for their 1998–99 season under head coach Guy Mathez. After playing in three test games he played his domestic league debut for his new club in the home game in the St. Jakob Stadium on 25 July 1998 as Basel won 2–1 against Zürich. He scored his first goal for the club in the next season, on 21 July 1999 in the home game against Grasshopper Club as the two teams played a 1–1 draw. In the 2001 UEFA Intertoto Cup Cravero and his team reached the final and played against Aston Villa. However, after a draw in the first leg Villa won the return leg 4–1 and the tie 5–2 on aggregate. At the end of the 2001–02 Nationalliga A season B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
FC Zürich
Fussballclub Zürich, commonly abbreviated to FC Zürich or simply FCZ, is a Swiss football club based in Zürich. The club was founded in 1896 and has won the Swiss Super League 13 times and the Swiss Cup 10 times. The most recent titles are the 2022 Swiss Super League and the 2018 Swiss Cup. The club plays its home games at the Letzigrund, which reaches a capacity of 26,000 spectators for league games. FC Zürich is the only Swiss team to have reached the semi-finals of the European Cup more than once. This happened in 1964 and 1977, when the competition was played in its original format. The women's department features a 1st team playing in the Swiss Women's Super League, the only existing women's U21 team in Switzerland (competing in the top ranks of second tier Nationalliga B), and furthermore a U19, U17, U15 and U14 team. The U17, U15 and U14 teams compete in junior leagues against boys teams. The FC Zürich women's teams roots originate in the first Swiss ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miroslav König
Miroslav König (born 1 June 1972) is a retired Slovak football goalkeeper of German descent, who played during the 1990s and 2000s. He played for a number of clubs in Slovakia, Switzerland, Turkey, the Czech Republic and Greece. Career König began his career with FC Nitra in 1991 but never played any games at the club and moved to FC Spartak Trnava in 1993. He impressed during his two seasons with Spartak and was noticed by ŠK Slovan Bratislava for whom he signed in 1995. He went on to play over 100 matches for Slovan over five seasons and earned his place in the Slovak national team. In January 2000, he was signed by Swiss giants Grasshopper Club Zürich under head coach Roy Hodgson as back-up goalie for Stefan Huber. König signed a two and a half-year contract. However, just six months later GC's new coach Hans-Peter Zaugg then opted for Huber and König had to look for a new club. In July 2000 FC Basel had to find a new goalkeeper in a hurry, as their first-choice ke ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Romain Crevoisier
Romain Crevoisier (born 5 August 1965) is a retired Swiss football goalkeeper who played in the late 1980s, 1990s and early 2000s. He is now a goalkeeping coach at FC Basel. Crevoisier began playing professionally in 1987 with FC La Chaux-de-Fonds. He left for SR Delémont in 1992, and played there for four years before he signed for SC Kriens in 1996. In 1997, he was elected best goalkeeper in the Swiss championship. In 2000, he signed for FC Basel but was reserve goalkeeper for most of his time there. He retired from playing in 2004 and became FC Basel's goalkeeping coach in August 2005. In January 2013 he signed at FC Sion Football Club de Sion, commonly known as simply FC Sion or Sion, is a Swiss football team from the city of Sion. The club was founded in 1909, and play their home matches at the Stade Tourbillon. They have won the Swiss Super League twice, and ... as a goalkeeping coach. External links Career Stats {{DEFAULTSORT:Crevoisier, Romain 1965 births Living ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oliver Kreuzer
Oliver Kreuzer (born 13 November 1965) is a German former professional footballer who played as a centre-back for Karlsruher SC, Bayern Munich and FC Basel. Football career Kreuzer started his career in 1985 with Karlsruher SC. He went on to make over 150 appearances for the club became something of a cult hero. In 1991, he signed for Bundesliga club FC Bayern Munich where he won the League Title in 1994 and 1997 and the UEFA Cup in 1996. He played six years in Munich, Kreuzer joined Basel's first team for their 1997–98 season under head coach Jörg Berger. After playing in five test games Kreuzer played his domestic league debut for his new club in the away game in the Olympique de la Pontaise on 9 July 1997 as Basel were defeated 0–3 by Lausanne-Sport. He scored his first goal for his club on 19 October in the home game in the St. Jakob Stadium against Zürich as the two teams drew 3–3. At the end of the FC Basel 2001–02 season, Kreuzer retired from his active foo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
UEFA Cup
A cup is an open-top used to hold hot or cold liquids for pouring or drinking; while mainly used for drinking, it also can be used to store Solid, solids for pouring (e.g., sugar, flour, grains, salt). Cups may be made of glass, metal, porcelain, china, clay, wood, stone, polystyrene, plastic, aluminium or other materials, and are usually fixed with a Stemware, stem, Handle (grip), handles, or other Adornment, adornments. Cups are used for quenching thirst across a wide range of cultures and social classes, and different styles of cups may be used for different liquids or in different situations. Cups of different styles may be used for different types of liquids or other foodstuffs (e.g. teacups and measuring cups), in different situations (e.g. at water stations or in Ceremony, ceremonies and Ritual, rituals), or for decorative arts, decoration.#R1, Rigby 2003: p. 573–574. History Cups are an improvement on using cupped hands or feet to hold liquids. They have almost certai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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