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Ibrahima Diallo (Paralympic Footballer)
Ibrahima Diallo (born 16 January 1993) is an English footballer. He played in the 7-a-side football event at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London. Personal life Diallo was born on 16 January 1993 in Conakry, Guinea. He moved to England at the age of ten with his parents and two siblings. In December 2011 he was diagnosed with cerebral palsy after a physiotherapist, who also worked with the British Paralympic team, noticed his unusual running style during a training session for the English College's team at Lilleshall. Diallo had previously attributed his problems when running to tight muscle groups in his thigh. Football As a teenager Diallo played for the Bristol City F.C. academy teams. Since February 2012 he has played for the Great Britain 7-a-side team for players with cerebral palsy. In 2012, he was a member of the Great Britain team that won a silver medal at the 2012 Paralympic World Cup. The British team were beaten 4-2 by Brazil, the team ranked fourth in the wor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Football 7-a-side At The 2012 Summer Paralympics
Football 7-a-side at the 2012 Summer Paralympics was held in London at the Olympic Hockey Centre, from 1 September to 9 September. Football 7-a-side is played by athletes with cerebral palsy, a condition characterized by impairment of muscular coordination. 96 footballers are expected to compete for one set of medals."Football 7-a-side" , The official site of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, accessed 20 May 2011. For these games, the men competed in an 8-team tournament. Qualifying Group stage Group A Group B Knockout stage Classification round 5th–8th place semi-finals 7th–8th place match 5th–6th place matc ...
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Clevedon Town F
Clevedon (, ) is an English seaside town and civil parish in the unitary authority of North Somerset, part of the ceremonial county of Somerset. It recorded a parish population of 21,281 in the United Kingdom Census 2011, estimated at 21,442 in 2019. It lies along the Severn Estuary, among small hills that include Church Hill, Wain's Hill (topped by the remains of an Iron Age hill fort), Dial Hill, Strawberry Hill, Castle Hill, Hangstone Hill and Court Hill, a Site of Special Scientific Interest with overlaid Pleistocene deposits. It features in the ''Domesday Book'' of 1086. Clevedon grew in the Victorian period as a seaside resort and in the 20th century as a dormitory town for Bristol. Facilities and functions The seafront has ornamental gardens, a Victorian bandstand and other attractions. Salthouse Field has a light railway running round the perimeter and is used for donkey rides in the summer. The shore consists of pebbled beaches and low rocky cliffs, with an old harbour ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paralympic 7-a-side Footballers For Great Britain
The Paralympic Games or Paralympics, also known as the ''Games of the Paralympiad'', is a periodic series of international multisport events involving athletes with a range of physical disabilities, including impaired muscle power and impaired passive range of movement, limb deficiency, leg length difference, short stature, hypertonia, ataxia, athetosis, vision impairment and intellectual impairment. There are Winter and Summer Paralympic Games, which since the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea, are held almost immediately following the respective Olympic Games. All Paralympic Games are governed by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC). The Paralympics has grown from a small gathering of British World War II veterans in Stoke Mandeville Games, 1948 to become one of the largest international sporting events by the early 21st century. The Paralympics has grown from 400 athletes with a disability from 23 countries in Rome 1960, where they were proposed by doc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
