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Football At The 1993 Central American And Caribbean Games
The football competition at the 1993 Central American and Caribbean Games started on 20 November, although qualification took place beforehand. The games were played at Complejo Deportivo Max Sáchez at Arroyo, Puerto Rico. Group A ---- ---- Standings Group B ---- ---- Standings Final round Semifinals ---- Seventh Place Fifth Place Third Place Final References External linksRSSSF.com - Central American and Caribbean Games 1993 (Puerto Rico) {{Football at the Central American and Caribbean Games 1993 Central American and Caribbean Games |
Arroyo, Puerto Rico
Arroyo () is a town and municipality located along the southern coast of Puerto Rico and bordered by the Caribbean Sea, east of the municipality of Guayama and northwest of the municipality of Patillas. Arroyo is spread over 5 barrios and Arroyo barrio-pueblo (the downtown area and administrative center). It is part of the Guayama Metropolitan Statistical Area. Etymology and nicknames It is believed that the name of ''Arroyo'' (which means " creek" or "brook" in English) is derived from a small water stream where travelers stopped to freshen up before continuing on their way. According to legend, one the town's first nicknames, ''Pueblo Ingrato'' ("Ungrateful Town"), comes from the locals in the 19th century who either burned or drowned a resident who contracted either Cholera or the Bubonic plague, even if he was renown for his generosity. In the last century, however, there has been a push to change the nickname to ''Pueblo Grato'' ("Grateful Town") in order to clean the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Football At The 1990 Central American And Caribbean Games ...
The football competition at the 1990 Central American and Caribbean Games started on 21 November. Group A Standings Group B Standings Group C Standings Second round Group 1 Standings Group 2 Standings Third Place Final External links {{Football at the Central American and Caribbean Games 1990 Central American and Caribbean Games 1990 1990 in CONCACAF football 1990 File:1990 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1990 FIFA World Cup is played in Italy; The Human Genome Project is launched; Voyager I takes the famous Pale Blue Dot image- speaking on the fragility of Humankind, humanity on Earth, Astroph ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Football At The 1998 Central American And Caribbean Games
The football competition at the 1998 Central American and Caribbean Games started on 9 August, although qualification took place beforehand. Group A ---- ---- Standings * Venezuela, Trinidad and Tobago and Nicaragua qualified to Final round. Group B ---- ---- Standings * Jamaica, Costa Rica and Colombia qualified to Final round. Group C ---- ---- Standings * Mexico and El Salvador qualified to Final round. Final round Quarterfinals Semifinals Third place Final External links RSSSF.com - Central American and Caribbean Games 1998 (Maracaibo, Venezuela) {{Football at the Central American and Caribbean Games 1998 Central American and Caribbean Games 1998 CEn 1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The '' Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently ... 1998–99 in Venezuelan foot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Association Football
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is to score more goals than the opposition by moving the ball beyond the goal line into a rectangular framed goal defended by the opposing side. Traditionally, the game has been played over two 45 minute halves, for a total match time of 90 minutes. With an estimated 250 million players active in over 200 countries, it is considered the world's most popular sport. The game of association football is played in accordance with the Laws of the Game, a set of rules that has been in effect since 1863 with the International Football Association Board (IFAB) maintaining them since 1886. The game is played with a football that is in circumference. The two teams compete to get the ball into the other team's goal (between the posts and under t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1993 Central American And Caribbean Games
The 17th Central American and Caribbean Games were held in Ponce, a city in southern Puerto Rico. The Games were held 19–30 November 1993, and included 3,570 athletes from 31 nations. History of the 1993 Games Organization and planning The city of Ponce hosted the seventeenth CACG less than three years after the Sixteenth Games in Mexico City. The ODECABE staff developed a more close working relationship with the Games organizers in Puerto Rico to carry out the Games in the context of the commemorative celebrations of the discovery of Puerto Rico exactly 500 years earlier to the opening ceremony day, in 1493. The Games were due to take place in 1994, but were anticipated for 1993 to coincide with the 500th anniversary of the discovery of the Island by the Spaniards. Historic coincidence Exactly five centuries before the Ponce '93 Games, the island of Puerto Rico had been discovered by the Spaniards and in 1993 the city of Ponce became the second city in Puerto Rico to host t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico (; abbreviated PR; tnq, Boriken, ''Borinquen''), officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico ( es, link=yes, Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, lit=Free Associated State of Puerto Rico), is a Caribbean island and Unincorporated territories of the United States, unincorporated territory of the United States. It is located in the northeast Caribbean Sea, approximately southeast of Miami, Florida, between the Dominican Republic and the United States Virgin Islands, U.S. Virgin Islands, and includes the eponymous main island and several smaller islands, such as Isla de Mona, Mona, Culebra, Puerto Rico, Culebra, and Vieques, Puerto Rico, Vieques. It has roughly 3.2 million residents, and its Capital city, capital and Municipalities of Puerto Rico, most populous city is San Juan, Puerto Rico, San Juan. Spanish language, Spanish and English language, English are the official languages of the executive branch of government, though Spanish predominates. Puerto Rico ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
José Pablo Fonseca
José Pablo Fonseca Díaz (born November 25, 1973) is a retired Costa Rican footballer. Club career Fonseca had played almost his entire career for Saprissa, where he debuted at the young age of 18 years. He was also played for other Costa Rican teams such as A.D. Belén, Municipal Liberia and C.S. Cartaginés, only to return to Saprissa three years ago when asked by coach Hernan Medford. With Saprissa, Fonseca won five national championships and three CONCACAF Champions' Cup. He was also part of the squad that played the 2005 FIFA Club World Championship Toyota Cup, where Saprissa finished third behind São Paulo and Liverpool. That makes him one of the most title-winning soccer players in Costa Rica's and Saprissa's history. He retired in June 2010 when at Ramonense. International career Fonseca made his debut for Costa Rica in a November 1996 friendly match against Panama and has earned a total of 4 caps, scoring 0 goals. He has represented his country in 1 FIFA World Cu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilson Muñoz
Wilson Muñoz Brenes (born 5 February 1975) is a Costa Rican former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. Career Muñoz started his career with Costa Rican side Alajuelense, forming a midfield partnership with Costa Rica international Wílmer López Wilmer López Arguedas (born 3 August 1971) is a retired Costa Rican footballer. He played for Alajuelense and is one of the club's biggest idols of all time. Club career López made his debut in the Costa Rican Primera División on 5 Janua .... In 2000, he signed for OFI in Greece. In 2002, Muñoz signed for Saprissa, Costa Rica's most successful club, where he was known for being asked by a model to sign her buttocks. bolavip.com References External links *[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ponce, Puerto Rico
Ponce (, , , ) is both a city and a municipality on the southern coast of Puerto Rico. The city is the seat of the municipal government. Ponce, Puerto Rico's most populated city outside the San Juan metropolitan area, was founded on 12 August 1692Some publications/reporters have erroneously stated Ponce's date of founding as 12 December 1692 (see, for example, Jose Fernandez-Colon, The Associated Press, at "Noticias Online" on 24 January 2009, a''Noticias Puerto Rico.''Accessed 23 March 2019.) Another incorrect date sometimes found is 12 September 1692 (See, for example, Jorge L. Perez (El Nuevo Dia) and Jorge Figueroa (Ponce Municipal Historian), a''Historic Buildings and Structures in Ponce, Puerto Rico.'' at the text accompanying Drawing #20, titled "Tumba de los Bomberos". Puerto Rico Historic Buildings Drawings Society. 2019. Accessed 4 February 2019. See als''Mapa de Municipios y Barrios: Ponce, Memoria Numero 27.'' Gobierno del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico. Junta d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Football At The Central American And Caribbean Games
Association football is one of the sports played at the Central American and Caribbean Games, a quadrennial multi-sports event for countries in those regions. The Games can involve eligible national teams from two football confederations, CONCACAF and CONMEBOL. A men's tournament was first held in the second edition of the Games in 1930. The first women's event was held in 2010. In 2010, only a women's tournament was played, but both men's and women's events have been held in subsequent editions. The women's tournament is for senior national women's teams. The following is a summary of the football championships at the Central American and Caribbean Games. Tournament history Source Men's tournament The men's tournament has changed several times regarding player eligibility. In the first men's tournaments, full senior squads competed, but now the men's tournament is only for under-20 teams. In full: * Football at the 1930 Central American and Caribbean Games, 1930–1946: F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1993 In CONCACAF Football
File:1993 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The Oslo I Accord is signed in an attempt to resolve the Israeli–Palestinian conflict; The Russian White House is shelled during the 1993 Russian constitutional crisis; Czechoslovakia is peacefully dissolved into the Czech Republic and Slovakia; In the United States, the ATF besieges a compound belonging to David Koresh and the Branch Davidians in a search for illegal weapons, which ends in the building being set alight and killing most inside; Eritrea gains independence; A major snow storm passes over the United States and Canada, leading to over 300 fatalities; Drug lord and narcoterrorist Pablo Escobar is killed by Colombian special forces; Ramzi Yousef and other Islamic terrorists detonate a truck bomb in the subterranean garage of the North Tower of the World Trade Center in the United States., 300x300px, thumb rect 0 0 200 200 Oslo I Accord rect 200 0 400 200 1993 Russian constitutional crisis rect 400 0 600 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
