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Damián Escudero
Damián Ariel Escudero (born 20 April 1987) is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a left midfielder. He was a well-travelled professional, playing for a number of clubs in Argentina, Spain, Mexico and Brazil after starting out at Vélez Sarsfield. Escudero was an Argentina youth international. Club career Escudero was born in Rosario, Santa Fe. A product of Club Atlético Vélez Sarsfield's youth system, he made his first-team debut in a 0–1 away defeat against Newell's Old Boys on 4 March 2006. He found himself at the centre of a controversy at the end of the year, when the club refused to release him and Mauro Zárate for the 2007 South American Youth Championship. When the 2007 edition of the Copa Libertadores started, Escudero was already a dynamic part in the team's attacking movements. He helped Vélez reach the round-of-16 in the tournament, scoring four goals. Escudero had an irregular 2007–08 season, during which his team failed to qualify f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rosario, Santa Fe
Rosario () is the largest city in the central Argentine province of Santa Fe. The city is located northwest of Buenos Aires, on the west bank of the Paraná River. Rosario is the third-most populous city in the country, and is also the most populous city in Argentina that is not a capital (provincial or national). With a growing and important metropolitan area, Greater Rosario has an estimated population of 1,750,000 . One of its main attractions includes the neoclassical, Art Nouveau, and Art Deco architecture that has been retained over the centuries in hundreds of residences, houses and public buildings. Rosario is the head city of the Rosario Department and is located at the heart of the major industrial corridor in Argentina. The city is a major railroad terminal and the shipping center for north-eastern Argentina. Ships reach the city via the Paraná River, which allows the existence of a port. The Port of Rosario is subject to silting and must be dredged periodicall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mauro Zárate
Mauro MatÃas Zárate (; born 13 March 1987) is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a forward Argentine Primera División club Club Atlético Platense Zárate started his career with Club Atlético Vélez Sarsfield, Vélez Sarsfield in his native country, playing three years for the team and winning the Argentine Primera División, Primera División title in the 2004–05 Argentine Primera División#Torneo Clausura, 2005 Clausura tournament. He later signed for Qatari side Al Sadd SC, Al-Sadd in 2007, where he played only six months before transferring on loan to Birmingham City F.C., Birmingham City in England. However, after Birmingham's Promotion and relegation, relegation, Zárate was loaned out again, this time to S.S. Lazio, Lazio in Italy, where he won the Coppa Italia. His move to Lazio was then made permanent for a fee of around €20 million, with a €60 million buy-out clause. After a loan at Inter Milan and a brief return to Vélez Sarsfield, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Liga
The Campeonato Nacional de Liga de Primera División, commonly known simply as Primera División in Spain, and as La Liga in English-speaking countries and officially as LaLiga Santander for sponsorship reasons, stylized as LaLiga, is the men's top professional football division of the Spanish football league system. Administered by the Liga Nacional de Fútbol Profesional, it is contested by 20 teams, with the three lowest-placed teams at the end of each season being relegated to the Segunda División and replaced by the top two teams and a play-off winner in that division. Since its inception, a total of 62 teams have competed in La Liga. Nine teams have been crowned champions, with Barcelona winning the inaugural La Liga and Real Madrid winning the title a record 35 times, most recently in the 2021–22 season. During the 1940s Valencia, Atlético Madrid and Barcelona emerged as the strongest clubs, winning several titles. Real Madrid and Barcelona dominated the champions ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2008–09 La Liga
The 2008–09 La Liga season (known as the ''Liga BBVA'' for sponsorship reasons) was the 78th since its establishment. Real Madrid were the defending champions, having won their 31st La Liga title in the previous season. The campaign began on 30 August 2008 and ended on 31 May 2009. A total of 20 teams contested the league, 17 of which already contested in the 2007–08 season, and three of which were promoted from the Segunda División. A new match ball – the Nike T90 Omni – served as the official ball for all matches. On 16 May 2009, after Villarreal's 3–2 victory over Real Madrid, Barcelona were declared champions, their 19th La Liga title, with three matches to play. Lionel Messi received the inaugural LaLiga Award for Best Player from the Liga Nacional de Fútbol Profesional. Promotion and relegation Real Zaragoza, Real Murcia and Levante were relegated to the 2008–09 Segunda División after finishing in the bottom three spots of the table at the end of the 200 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Apertura And Clausura
The ' and ' tournaments is a split season format for Spanish-speaking sports leagues. It is a relatively recent innovation for many Latin American football leagues in which the traditional association football season from August to May is divided in two sections per season, each with its own champion. ' and ' are the Spanish words for "opening" and "closing". In French-speaking Haiti, these are known as the ' and the ', while in English-speaking Belize, they are respectively the ''Opening'' and ''Closing'' seasons. When used in the United States and Canada, they are known as the ''Spring'' and ''Fall'' seasons. The Americas The ' is held in the first half of the calendar year in Bolivia, Colombia, Haiti, Paraguay and Uruguay while it is held in the second half of the calendar year in Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico and Nicaragua. The words ' and ' are used in most Latin American countries. Some, however, use different terminology: * Colombia: ' an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Copa Sudamericana
The CONMEBOL Sudamericana, named as ''Copa Sudamericana'' (; pt, Copa Sul-Americana ), is an annual international club football competition organized by CONMEBOL since 2002. It is the second-most prestigious club competition in South American football. CONCACAF clubs were invited between 2004 and 2008. The CONMEBOL Sudamericana began in 2002, replacing the separate competitions Copa Merconorte and Copa Mercosur (that had replaced Copa CONMEBOL) by a single competition. Since its introduction, the competition has been a pure elimination tournament with the number of rounds and teams varying from year to year. The CONMEBOL Sudamericana is considered a merger of defunct tournaments such as the Copa CONMEBOL, Copa Mercosur and Copa Merconorte. The winner of the Copa Sudamericana becomes eligible to play in the Recopa Sudamericana. They gain entry onto the next edition of the Copa Libertadores, South America's premier club competition, and also contest the J.League Cup / Copa Su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2008 Copa Sudamericana
The 2008 Copa Sudamericana de Clubes was the seventh edition of the Copa Sudamericana football tournament. The draw for the tournament took place on June 10, 2008 in Buenos Aires and the competition was played between July 30 and December 3. Arsenal de Sarandà were the defending champions, having won the trophy the previous season. Brazilian side Internacional won the 2008 tournament, becoming the first Brazilian winners of the trophy. Qualified teams A total of 34 teams are participating in the 2008 Copa Sudamericana, from 12 associations (10 from CONMEBOL and 2 from CONCACAF The Confederation of North, Central America and Caribbean Association Football,, ; french: Confédération de football d'Amérique du Nord, d'Amérique centrale et des Caraïbes, . Dutch uses the English name. abbreviated as CONCACAF ( ; typese ...). Preliminary stage The Preliminary Stage opened the Copa Sudamericana. All the second berths of 8 South American football associations contested thi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2007–08 In Argentine Football
2007–08 season of Argentine football was the 117th season of competitive football in Argentina. National leagues Primera División *Apertura champion: Lanús (1st title). **Top scorer: Germán Denis (18 goals). *Clausura champion: River Plate (33rd title). **Top scorer: DarÃo Cvitanich (13 goals). *International qualifiers: ** 2008 Copa Sudamericana: Estudiantes (LP), San Lorenzo, Argentinos Juniors, Independiente. **2009 Copa Libertadores: Lanús, River Plate. *Relegated: Olimpo, San MartÃn de San Juan. Source: RSSSF Primera B Nacional *Champion: San MartÃn de Tucumán (1st title). *Promoted: San MartÃn de Tucumán, Godoy Cruz. *Relegated: Almirante Brown, Ben Hur, Nueva Chicago. Source: RSSSF Primera B Metropolitana *Champion: All Boys (2nd title). *Promoted: All Boys, Los Andes. *Relegated: Defensores de Cambaceres. Source: RSSSF Torneo Argentino A *Champion: Atlético Tucumán (2nd title). *Promoted: Atlético Tucumán. *Relegated: La Florida, Lujà ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Correio Braziliense
The ''Correio Braziliense'' (meaning ''Brazilian Mail'' in English) is a daily newspaper in Brazil. The paper was first published on 21 April 1960. Its founder is Assis Chateaubriand. The paper has its headquarters in BrasÃlia. The name came from the historical ''Correio Braziliense'', published in London from 1808 to 1822 by Hipólito José da Costa Hipólito, Hipolito or Hypólito is a masculine given name and surname related to Hippolyte. People so named include: Given name * Hipolito Arenas (1907–1995), Negro league baseball player * Hipólito or Hippolyte Bouchard (1780–1837), French- ..., a Liberal Brazilian exile. First newspaper of Brasilia, born together with the new federal capital on April 21, 1960. The newspaper retook the name of Correio Braziliense de Hipólito José da Costa, published in London between 1808 and 1822. The inaugural edition totaled 108 pages, most of them in the notebook commemorating the inauguration of the city. In making the decision to b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Universo Online
Universo Online (Portuguese for "Online Universe") (known by the acronym UOL) is a Brazilian web content, products and services company. It belongs to Grupo Folha enterprise. In 2012, UOL was the fifth most visited website in Brazil, below only Google portals (Google Brasil, Google USA, YouTube) and Facebook. According to Ibope Nielsen Online, UOL is Brazil’s largest internet portal with more than 50 million unique visitors and 6.7 billion page views every month. Overview UOL is the world’s largest Portuguese speaking portal, which is organized in 42 thematic stations with more than 1,000 news sources and 7 million pages. The portal provides website hosting, data storage, publicity dealing, online payments and security systems. It also holds more than 300 thousand online shops, 23 million buyers and 4 million people selling goods and services in its portals UOL includes: *UOL Cliques, ads and publicity portal. *Radar de Descontos, group buying portal. *Emprego Certo, jobs p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Single-elimination Tournament
A single-elimination, knockout, or sudden death tournament is a type of elimination tournament where the loser of each match-up is immediately eliminated from the tournament. Each winner will play another in the next round, until the final match-up, whose winner becomes the tournament champion. Each match-up may be a single match or several, for example two-legged ties in European sports or best-of series in American pro sports. Defeated competitors may play no further part after losing, or may participate in "consolation" or "classification" matches against other losers to determine the lower final rankings; for example, a third place playoff between losing semi-finalists. In a shootout poker tournament, there are more than two players competing at each table, and sometimes more than one progressing to the next round. Some competitions are held with a pure single-elimination tournament system. Others have many phases, with the last being a single-elimination final stage, often c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Copa Libertadores
The CONMEBOL Libertadores, also known as the Copa Libertadores de América ( pt, Copa Libertadores da América), is an annual international club football competition organized by CONMEBOL since 1960. It is the highest level of competition in South American club football. The tournament is named after the ''Libertadores'' (Spanish and Portuguese for ''liberators''), the leaders of the Latin American wars of independence, so a literal translation of its former name into English is "''America's Liberators Cup''". The competition has had several formats over its lifetime. Initially, only the champions of the South American leagues participated. In 1966, the runners-up of the South American leagues began to join. In 1998, Mexican teams were invited to compete and contested regularly from 2000 until 2016. In 2000 the tournament was expanded from 20 to 32 teams. Today at least four clubs per country compete in the tournament, with Argentina and Brazil having the most representatives ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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