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2004 UEFA European Under-21 Championship
The 2004 UEFA European Under-21 Championship was the 14th staging of UEFA's European Under-21 Championship. The final tournament was hosted by Germany between 27 May and 8 June 2004. Italy U-21s won the competition for the fifth time. Italy's Alberto Gilardino won the Golden Player award. The top three teams in this competition qualified for Athens 2004 Olympics, along with hosts Greece U21s. Qualification The 48 national teams were divided into ten groups (two groups of four + eight groups of 5). The records of the ten group runners-up were then compared. The top six joined the ten winners in a play-off for the eight finals spots. One of the eight qualifiers was then chosen to host the remaining fixtures. Squads Matches Group stage Group A ---- ---- Group B ---- ---- Knockout stage Semi-finals ---- Olympic play-off Final Goalscorers ;4 goals * Alberto Gilardino * Johan Elmander ;3 goals * Hugo Almeida * Markus Rosenberg ;2 goals * Benj ...
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Johan Elmander
Johan Erik Calvin Elmander (; born 27 May 1981) is a Swedish former professional footballer who played as a striker. Beginning his career with Holmalunds IF in the late 1990s, he went on to play professionally in the Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark, France, England, and Turkey before retiring at Örgryte IS in 2017. A full international between 2002 and 2015, he scored 20 goals in 85 games for the Sweden national team, and represented his country at the 2006 FIFA World Cup, UEFA Euro 2008 and UEFA Euro 2012. In 2011, his goal for Bolton Wanderers, away to Wolverhampton Wanderers during the 2010–11 season, was voted the greatest Premier League goal ever in a poll by ''The Guardian''. Club career Early career Elmander was born in Alingsås, Alingsås Municipality. He started his career as a striker for Swedish clubs but changed to a centre midfielder Holmalunds IF and Örgryte, before making the move to Dutch club Feyenoord at the age of 18, where he continued to be used as ...
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Luis Medina Cantalejo
Luis Medina Cantalejo (born 1 March 1964) is a Spanish former football referee. He was one of the few officials allowed to officiate the domestic clashes between Real Madrid and Barcelona. His first experience as an international referee came on 4 September 2004, between Turkey and Georgia, in a preliminary qualifier for the 2006 FIFA World Cup. Career On 21 August 2005, Cantalejo referred the Russian Premier League match between CSKA Moscow and Zenit St.Petersburg. He was selected to officiate the playoff between Uruguay and Australia for the final spot in the World Cup on 16 November 2005. He was promoted at the last minute to officiate matches at the finals of the 2006 FIFA World Cup after assistants of two other referees failed to meet the FIFA standards. He subsequently officiated three matches at the 2006 FIFA World Cup: Germany v. Poland, Netherlands v. Argentina, and Italy v. Australia. In the round of 16 match between Italy and Australia, he made some controver ...
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Simon Vukčević
Simon Vukčević (Serbian Cyrillic: Симон Вукчевић, ; born 29 January 1986) is a Montenegrin former footballer who played as an attacking midfielder. After starting his senior career at the age of 17 with Partizan, winning two national championships during his tenure, he went on to play professionally in Russia, Portugal – playing 135 competitive matches while scoring 28 goals for Sporting CP and conquering the 2008 Taça de Portugal – England, Ukraine, Greece and Cyprus. Internationally, Vukčević represented both Serbia and Montenegro and Montenegro. Club career Partizan Born in Titograd, Socialist Republic of Montenegro, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Vukčević started playing football at the FK Zabjelo youth academy, signing with FK Partizan at age 13. He was promoted to the first team of the latter ahead of the 2003–04 season. The 18-year-old Vukčević scored a career-best ten goals in the 2004–05 campaign, helping his team win the e ...
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Giuseppe Sculli
Giuseppe Sculli (born 23 March 1981) is a retired Italian association football, footballer who played in several positions; primarily a Forward (association football)#Striker, striker, he could play anywhere along the front-line, and also played as a winger (association football), winger, as a second striker, and even as a right midfielder, right-sided midfielder or as a Wing-back (association football), wingback on the right flank. Club career Juventus Sculli joined Juventus F.C. in 1999, although he failed to make a single appearance for the club throughout the 1999–2000 Serie A, 1999–2000 season. Crotone F.C. Crotone took Sculli on a two-year loan spell in the summer of 2000, paying Juventus €500k for the loan. In his first season at Crotone, Sculli played 23 matches and scored 3 goals, making his debut against A.C. ChievoVerona. The next season, he became even more prevalent in the first team, making 27 appearances and scoring 5 goals. Modena Giuseppe Sculli returned ...
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Czech Football Association
The Football Association of the Czech Republic ( cs, Fotbalová asociace České republiky; FAČR) or colloquially the ''Czech Football Association'' is the governing body of association football in the Czech Republic based in Prague. It organizes the lower-level league competitions in the country (the professional Czech First League and Czech Second League are organized independently) and the Czech Cup. History First predecessor were established as Bohemian Football Union on 19 October 1901 in Austro-Hungarian constituency Kingdom of Bohemia. From 1922 to 1993, during the existence of Czechoslovakia, the association was known as the Czechoslovak Football Association ( cs, Československá asociace fotbalová; ČSAF) and controlled the Czechoslovakia national football team. After the partition of Czechoslovakia the association took the name Bohemian-Moravian Football Federation (''Českomoravský fotbalový svaz''; ČMFS) until June 2011. Structure Presidents Competitions *Cze ...
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Michal Beneš
Michal Beneš (born 26 November 1967) is a former Czech professional football referee. He was a full international for FIFA since 1999. He was appointed on 2001 FIFA U-17 World Championship and refereed some UEFA Champions League The UEFA Champions League (abbreviated as UCL, or sometimes, UEFA CL) is an annual club football competition organised by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) and contested by top-division European clubs, deciding the competit ... matches. References 1967 births Living people Czech football referees {{CzechRepublic-footy-bio-stub ...
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Mario Lučić
Mario Lučić (born 24 April 1981) is a retired Croatian football defender. He was a squad member for the 2004 UEFA European Under-21 Championship The 2004 UEFA European Under-21 Championship was the 14th staging of UEFA's European Under-21 Championship. The final tournament was hosted by Germany between 27 May and 8 June 2004. Italy U-21s won the competition for the fifth time. Italy's Al .... References External links * 1981 births Living people Footballers from Vinkovci Men's association football defenders Croatian men's footballers Croatia men's under-21 international footballers HNK Cibalia players GNK Dinamo Zagreb players NK Varaždin (1931–2015) players Bnei Yehuda Tel Aviv F.C. players NK Lučko players Croatian Football League players First Football League (Croatia) players Croatian expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Israel Croatian expatriate sportspeople in Israel {{Croatia-footy-defender-stub ...
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Pavel Kirylchyk
Pavel Vasilyevich Kirylchyk (born 4 January 1981) is a Belarusian football coach and former player (midfielder). Honours Gomel *Belarusian Super Cup winner: 2012 File:2012 Events Collage V3.png, From left, clockwise: The passenger cruise ship Costa Concordia lies capsized after the Costa Concordia disaster; Damage to Casino Pier in Seaside Heights, New Jersey as a result of Hurricane Sandy; People gather ... External links * * *Stats on Odessa Football website * 1982 births Living people Footballers from Minsk Belarusian footballers Association football midfielders Belarus international footballers Belarusian expatriate footballers Expatriate footballers in Ukraine Belarusian expatriate sportspeople in Ukraine Expatriate footballers in Russia Expatriate footballers in Kazakhstan Ukrainian Premier League players FC Torpedo Minsk players FC Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk players FC Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih players FC Chornomorets Odesa players FC Karpaty Lviv players FC ...
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The Football Association
The Football Association (also known as The FA) is the Sports governing body, governing body of association football in England and the Crown Dependencies of Jersey, Bailiwick of Guernsey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man. Formed in 1863, it is the oldest football association in the world and is responsible for overseeing all aspects of the amateur and professional game in its territory. The FA facilitates all competitive football matches within its remit at national level, and indirectly at local level through the county football associations. It runs numerous competitions, the most famous of which is the FA Cup. It is also responsible for appointing the management of the English national football team, men's, England women's national football team, women's, and England national under-17 football team, youth national football teams. The FA is a member of both UEFA and FIFA and holds a permanent seat on the International Football Association Board (IFAB) which is responsible for th ...
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Bochum
Bochum ( , also , ; wep, Baukem) is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia. With a population of 364,920 (2016), is the sixth largest city (after Cologne, Düsseldorf, Dortmund, Essen and Duisburg) of the most populous Germany, German federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia and the List of cities in Germany by population, 16th largest city of Germany. On the Ruhr Heights (''Ruhrhöhen'') hill chain, between the rivers Ruhr (river), Ruhr to the south and Emscher to the north (tributaries of the Rhine), it is the second largest city of Westphalia after Dortmund, and the fourth largest city of the Ruhr after Dortmund, Essen and Duisburg. It lies at the centre of the Ruhr, Germany's largest urban area, in the Rhine-Ruhr, Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan Region, and belongs to the Arnsberg (region), region of Arnsberg. Bochum is the sixth largest and one of the southernmost cities in the Low German dialect area. There are nine institutions of higher education in the city, most notably the Ruhr Unive ...
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Ruhrstadion
Ruhrstadion (), known as Vonovia Ruhrstadion for sponsorship reasons, is a football stadium in Bochum, Germany. It is the home ground for the VfL Bochum and has a capacity of 27,599. It was known as rewirpowerSTADION (or, rarely, ) from 2006 to 2016, also for sponsorship reasons. History In 1911 the Spiel und Sport Bochum leased a meadow from a local farmer as their new home ground. The club played the first match at the new venue against the VfB Hamm in front of 500 spectators. The TuS Bochum did not build a stadium until after World War I as late as 1921. The stadium has a capacity of 27,599 people. The original capacity was over 50,000 but was decreased by numerous modifications. The stadium was expanded between March 1976 and July 1979 and the first game was between the VfL Bochum and SG Wattenscheid 09 on 21 July 1979. This expansion could technically count as a complete rebuild; legally, it is officially an expansion. David Bowie performed at the stadium during his Serio ...
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