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Football 5-a-side At The 2012 Summer Paralympics
Football 5-a-side at the 2012 Summer Paralympics was held in London at the Riverbank Arena, from 31 August to 8 September. Football 5-a-side is played by athletes with visual impairment, with a ball with a noise making device inside."Football 5-a-side"
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Olympic Hockey Centre (London)
The Riverbank Arena was a stadium in the Olympic Park, in Hackney Wick, London, United Kingdom, containing a water-based astroturf. History The Riverbank Arena was built with two venues for field-hockey competition at the 2012 Summer Olympics with capacities of 15,000 and 5,000, respectively, and venues for the football 7-a-side and football 5-a-side competitions at the 2012 Summer Paralympics. The budget for the stadium was £19 million. Plans were made to scale down the venue after the Olympics, converting it into a 5,000-seat arena and a training pitch in Eton Manor, a sport and leisure venue in Leyton, Waltham Forest. In January 2011, Leyton Orient F.C. expressed an interest in moving into the stadium after the games. In May 2012, it opened with a test event, a men's and women's invitational hockey tournament. Riverbank Arena was dismantled following the conclusion of the 2012 Games. The Eton Manor Lee Valley Hockey and Tennis Centre is a sports and leisure venue ...
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Argentine Football Association
The Argentine Football Association ( es, Asociación del Fútbol Argentino, ; AFA) is the governing body of football in Argentina based in Buenos Aires. It organises the main divisions of Argentine league system (from Primera División to Torneo Regional Federal and Primera D), including domestic cups: Copa Argentina, Copa de la Liga Profesional and the Trofeo de Campeones de la Liga Profesional. The body also manages all the Argentina national teams, including the Senior, U-20, U-17, U-15, Olympic and women's squads. Secondly, it also organizes the women's, children, youth, futsal, and other local leagues. The AFA also organised all the Primera División championships from 1893 to 2016–17. From the 2017–18 season the "Superliga Argentina", an entity which was administrated independently and had its own statute, took over the Primera División championships.
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Brazilian Football Confederation
The Brazilian Football Confederation ( pt, Confederação Brasileira de Futebol; CBF) is the governing body of football in Brazil Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area .... It was founded on Monday, 8 June 1914, as , and renamed Confederação Brasileira de Desportos in 1916. The football confederation, as known today, separated from other sports associations on 24 September 1979. Between 1914 and 1979 it was the governing body, or at least the international reference, for other olympic sports, such as tennis (until the Brazilian Tennis Confederation, CBT was founded in 1955), Sport of athletics, athletics (until the Brazilian Athletics Confederation, CBAt was founded in 1977), handball (until 1979), Swimming (sport), swimming and waterpolo. It currently has the most win ...
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Antonio Martín Gaitán
Antonio is a masculine given name of Etruscan origin deriving from the root name Antonius. It is a common name among Romance language-speaking populations as well as the Balkans and Lusophone Africa. It has been among the top 400 most popular male baby names in the United States since the late 19th century and has been among the top 200 since the mid 20th century. In the English language it is translated as Anthony, and has some female derivatives: Antonia, Antónia, Antonieta, Antonietta, and Antonella'. It also has some male derivatives, such as Anthonio, Antón, Antò, Antonis, Antoñito, Antonino, Antonello, Tonio, Tono, Toño, Toñín, Tonino, Nantonio, Ninni, Totò, Tó, Tonini, Tony, Toni, Toninho, Toñito, and Tõnis. The Portuguese equivalent is António (Portuguese orthography) or Antônio (Brazilian Portuguese). In old Portuguese the form Antão was also used, not just to differentiate between older and younger but also between more and less important. In Galician th ...
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David Clarke (five-a-side Footballer)
David Clarke (born 11 September 1970) is an English former footballer, went to New College Worcester - school for the blind and visually impaired, whose career spanned 17 years from 1995 to 2012 for the England and Great Britain blind football team."David Clarke v Wayne Rooney"
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Sports career

Clarke made 144 international appearances scoring 128 goals. He was part of the British team which finished fifth in the 5-a-side at the 2008 Summer Paralympics.
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French Football Federation
The French Football Federation ( FFF; french: Fédération Française de Football) is the governing body of football in France. It also includes the overseas departments ( Guadeloupe, French Guiana, Martinique, Mayotte and Réunion), the overseas collectivities ( New Caledonia, French Polynesia, Wallis and Futuna, Saint Pierre and Miquelon and Saint Barthélemy- Saint Martin), and Monaco. It was formed in 1919 and is based in the capital, Paris. The FFF was a founding member of FIFA and is responsible for overseeing all aspects of the game of football in France, both professional and amateur. The French Football Federation is a founding member of UEFA and joined FIFA in 1907 after replacing the USFSA, who were founding members. History Background Before the FFF was established, football, rugby union and others sports in France were regulated by the Union des Sociétés Françaises de Sports Athlétiques (USFSA). Founded in November 1890, the USFSA was initially headquar ...
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Silvio Velo
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David Labarre
David Labarre (born 24 May 1988) is a French politician, entrepreneur and former football 5-a-side player who played as a midfielder. He is a Paralympic silver medalist and is the founder of the Cécifoot team in Toulouse. Sporting career Labarre was inspired to play football when he watched the 1998 World Cup and he idolised Zinedine Zidane since he was ten years old. He began playing the sport when he was fourteen years old and dreamt of becoming a professional footballer, he joined an able-bodied football club and he enjoyed the training very much. Once he found his passion for sport, he experienced a major tragedy when his mother died suddenly. Labarre competed internationally for France when he was seventeen years old and has won four national championships, three IBSA World Cups and a silver medal at the 2012 Summer Paralympics. Labarre is also known as a "mountain adventurer" as he regularly goes mountain hiking in the Pyrenees, he grew up in Aspet in the Comminges In 2018 ...
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Severino Gabriel Da Silva
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Ricardo Steinmetz Alves
Ricardo is the Spanish and Portuguese cognate of the name Richard. It derived from Proto-Germanic ''*rīks'' 'king, ruler' + ''*harduz'' 'hard, brave'. It may be a given name, or a surname. People Given name *Ricardo de Araújo Pereira, Portuguese comedian *Ricardo Arjona, Guatemalan singer *Ricardo Arona, Brazilian mixed martial artist *Ricardo Ávila, Panamanian footballer *Ricardo Bralo, Argentine long-distance runner * Ricardo Bueno Fernández, Spanish politician *Ricardo Busquets, Puerto Rican swimmer * Ricardo Cardeno, Colombian triathlete *Ricardo Carvalho, Portuguese footballer *Ricardo Cortez, American actor *Ricardo Darín, Argentine actor *Ricardo (footballer, born 1980), full name Ricardo da Silva, Cape Verdean-Portuguese footballer *Ricardo Faty, Senegalese footballer *Ricardo Fischer, Brazilian basketball player *Ricardo Fortaleza, Filipino-Australian boxer *Ricardo Fuller, Jamaican football (soccer) player * Ricardo A. "Rick" Galindo, American politician *Ricardo Go ...
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Jeferson Da Conceição Gonçalves
Jeferson da Conceição Gonçalves (born 5 October 1989) is a Brazilian Paralympic and blind footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby le .... Early life Jefinho was born in 1989 in Candeias, Brazil. He became blind at the age of seven after suffering from glaucoma. Career Jefinho has been regarded as one of the best blind football players worldwide. He debuted for the Brazil national blind football team at the age of fourteen. Style of play Jefinho is known for his speed. Personal life Jefinho is nicknamed the "Paralympic Pele" after Brazil international Pele. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Jefinho 1989 births Brazilian blind people Brazilian men's footballers 5-a-side footballers at the 2023 Parapan American Games Medalists at the 2023 Parapan American Gam ...
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German Football Association
The German Football Association (german: Deutscher Fußball-Bund ; DFB ) is the governing body of football in Germany. A founding member of both FIFA and UEFA, the DFB has jurisdiction for the German football league system and is in charge of the men's and women's national teams. The DFB headquarters are in Frankfurt am Main. Sole members of the DFB are the German Football League (german: Deutsche Fußball Liga; DFL), organising the professional Bundesliga and the 2. Bundesliga, along with five regional and 21 state associations, organising the semi-professional and amateur levels. The 21 state associations of the DFB have a combined number of more than 25,000 clubs with more than 6.8 million members, making the DFB the single largest sports federation in the world. History 1875 to 1900 From 1875 to the mid-1880s, the first kind of football played in Germany was according to rugby rules. Later, association-style football teams formed separate clubs, and since 1890 ...
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