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Gorton Villa F.C.
Gorton Villa F.C. was an association football club from Manchester which was a member of one of the early football leagues, The Combination, in the 1890s. History The club was founded in 1883, and its earliest recorded match came at the end of the year, a 2–0 home win over the second XI of the Newton Heath L&YR club; the match was shortened to 40 minutes because of a late start. The club was a founder member of The Combination in 1890–91, in a major step-up, given the club's most notable achievement hitherto was reaching the quarter-final of the Manchester Senior Cup in 1886–87. When the fixtures were completed, the club was top of the table, with 24 points from 17 games, one clear of Macclesfield Macclesfield is a market town and civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire East in Cheshire, England. It is located on the River Bollin in the east of the county, on the edge of the Cheshire Plain, with Macclesfield Forest to its east ... and six clear of Bu ... [...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] |
