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Magic United FC
Magic United Football Club is a semi-professional soccer club based in Carrara, Queensland, Australia. Magic United play in the Football Queensland Premier League 2, the third flight of the Football Queensland administrative division and the fourth flight of Australian soccer. The club has won both a premiership and a championship within the Gold Coast Premier League, the then top flight of the Football Queensland South Coast administrative division. The competition has since been restructured and renamed to the Football Queensland Premier League 3 − South Coast. Established in 2006, Magic United were regular contenders within the Gold Coast Premier League. The club was one of the founding members of the Football Queensland Premier League 2 when the league was established in 2021. The club is affiliated with Gold Coast Knights, together forming a 'Total Football Academy', specialising in coaching programs for children and teenagers aged 4 to 18 in partnership with schools ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adem Poric
Adem Poric (born 22 April 1973) is a soccer coach and former professional Association football, player, who is the chief executive and the head coach of Gold Coast Knights SC, as well as the president of youth academy side Magic United. As a player, he was a midfielder from 1992 to 2002 and most notably played in the Premier League for Sheffield Wednesday F.C., Sheffield Wednesday. He also spent time in England playing in the Football League with Southend United F.C., Southend United, Rotherham United F.C., Rotherham United and Notts County F.C., Notts County as well as Australian sides St George FC, St George Saints, Sydney Olympic, Northern Spirit FC and City of Gold Coast. Born in England, he was capped twice by Australia national under-20 football team, Australia U20. Club career During the 1991–92 season he had an unsuccessful trial at Arsenal F.C., Arsenal, playing in three reserve team games. Sheffield Wednesday F.C., Sheffield Wednesday signed Poric for £60,000 fro ... [...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] |
Carrara, Queensland
Carrara is a Suburbs and localities (Australia), suburb in the City of Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. In the , Carrara had a population of 12,060 people. Geography Carrara is bounded to the east by the southern bank of the Nerang River and to the west mostly by the Pacific Motorway (Brisbane–Brunswick Heads), Pacific Motorway. Carrara is built on the Guragunbah Plain () which was officially named in 2000, having previously been unofficially known as the Merrimac-Carrara Flood Plain. It is the home of Carrara Stadium (also known as Metricon Stadium), the purpose-built cricket and Australian rules football ground where the Gold Coast Suns began playing matches in 2011. History The name ''Carrara'' comes from the Aboriginal word ''Karara'' meaning ''long flat''. Carrara was first used by the Manchester Cotton Company as a cotton plantation that began in the early 1860s. Carrara Provisional School opened in February 1902 in premises lent by farmer Francis Parr until a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous List of islands of Australia, smaller islands. With an area of , Australia is the largest country by area in Oceania and the world's List of countries and dependencies by area, sixth-largest country. Australia is the oldest, flattest, and driest inhabited continent, with the least fertile soils. It is a Megadiverse countries, megadiverse country, and its size gives it a wide variety of landscapes and climates, with Deserts of Australia, deserts in the centre, tropical Forests of Australia, rainforests in the north-east, and List of mountains in Australia, mountain ranges in the south-east. The ancestors of Aboriginal Australians began arriving from south east Asia approximately Early human migrations#Nearby Oceania, 65,000 years ago, during the Last Glacial Period, last i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Football Queensland Premier League 2
The Football Queensland Premier League 2, or the FQPL 2, is a association football, football competition contested by clubs in South East Queensland, Australia. It is administered by Football Queensland and is the third tier of Football Queensland, Football in Queensland, behind the Football Queensland Premier League, from which the top team from each season are promoted. The FQPL 2 was founded in 2020, with the first season held in 2021. The league has 4 teams from Brisbane, 2 from Gold Coast, Queensland, Gold Coast and 2 from Moreton Bay. The current premiers and champions of the 2021 Football Queensland season, 2021 season are Caboolture Sports FC, Caboolture Sports and Grange Thistle SC, Grange Thistle respectively. History Following the foundation of the Football Queensland Premier League in 2017, Football Queensland sought to extend and link the Australian soccer league system, footballing pyramid in Queensland to a third tier. At the time, there was only regional league ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Football Queensland
Football Queensland is recognised by both the State and Federal Governments and Football Australia as the governing body for association football and futsal in Queensland (Australia), Queensland, Australia. Tracing its history back to the establishment of the Anglo-Queensland Football Association, in 1884, Football Queensland now has more than 250,000 participants and 308 clubs across the state. Role Football Queensland is the sole governing body for football in Queensland with nine regional offices throughout the state: *Football Queensland Central *Football Darling Downs, Football Queensland Darling Downs *Football Queensland Far North & Gulf *Football Brisbane, Football Queensland Metro (North & South) *Football Queensland North, Football Queensland Northern *Football Queensland South Coast *Sunshine Coast Football, Football Queensland Sunshine Coast *Mackay Regional Football, Football Queensland Whitsunday Coast *Football Wide Bay, Football Queensland Wide Bay These re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Soccer League System
The Australian soccer league system is the league structure for soccer clubs in Australia. The league system in Australia since 1977 has involved one top divisional league controlled by Football Australia and many leagues run within each state below. The National Soccer League stood from 1977 to 2004 as the top nationwide tier above the current state-based league systems, in 2005, the A-League was established as its successor. The introduction of the National Premier Leagues in 2013 introduced a direct second tier of soccer in Australia, underpinning the A-League. The National Premier Leagues incorporated the existing state leagues as divisions with a nationwide end of season finals series. In 2013, the National Premier Leagues rebranded 5 of the 9 top state leagues, and the remainder – with the exception of the Northern Territory – joined in 2014. There is no promotion and relegation to and from the top-tier A-League, and promotion and relegation at other levels varies betw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Football Queensland Premier League 3 − South Coast
The Football Queensland Premier League 3 − South Coast, or the FQPL 3 − South Coast, is a men's football competition contested by clubs on the Gold Coast and surrounding areas close to the Queensland− New South Wales border. It is administered by Football Queensland South Coast and it is within the fourth tier of football in Queensland, operated by a system of promotion and relegation. The league is contested by 11 clubs each season, the team that finishes at the top of the league is crowned premiers and they qualify for the FQPL 2 play-offs, whilst the bottom three teams are relegated to the Football Queensland Premier League 4 − South Coast. The teams that finish in the top four qualify for a finals tournament, where the winners of the bracket are crowned champions. The competition was founded in 1975, with the first season held in the same year. The competition from 1975−1990 had no title and simply acted as the Gold Coast's senior men's football competition, in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Football Queensland South Coast
Football Queensland South Coast is a Football Queensland administrative zone encompassing the Gold Coast and surrounding areas in South-East Queensland and North-East New South Wales, including Kingscliff, Tweed Heads, Murwillumbah and Beaudesert. The premier men's football competition is the Football Queensland Premier League 3 − South Coast and the premier women's football competition is the Football Queensland Women's Premier League 3 − South Coast. The administrative zone also has a numerous variety of lower divisions for both men and women, as well as academy and junior competitions to develop soccer and fitness within the region. The zone is a culmination of antecedent bodies initiating in 1975 as the Gold Coast and District Soccer Association, it has been recognised under various names since. In 2021, as part of Football Queensland reforms, the zone would be known as Football Queensland South Coast. The region has a variety of clubs playing in state competitions. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gold Coast Knights SC
Gold Coast Knights Football Club is a professional soccer club based in Carrara, Queensland, Australia. The Croatian Australian backed club play in the National Premier Leagues Queensland, the top flight of the Football Queensland administrative division and the second flight of the Australian soccer league system. The club has won one National Premier Leagues Queensland championship, along with a variety of regional honours. Gold Coast Knights was established in 1978, with the first senior team fielded within the Gold Coast's second division in 1979. The club originally played at Musgrave Hill until 1982, where since the club has played at the Croatian Sports Centre in the suburb of Carrara. The club won its first major honour in 1981, where the club won the Gold Coast top division President's Cup under the former name, St. Anthony's Soccer Club. The club has been one of the most successful soccer clubs based on the Gold Coast. Gold Coast Knights soccer club has hosted the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South East Queensland
South East Queensland (SEQ) is a bio-geographical, metropolitan, political and administrative region of the state of Queensland in Australia, with a population of approximately 3.8 million people out of the state's population of 5.1 million. The area covered by South East Queensland varies, depending on the definition of the region, though it tends to include Queensland's three largest cities: the capital city Brisbane; the Gold Coast; and the Sunshine Coast. Its most common use is for political purposes, and covers and incorporates 11 local government areas, extending from Noosa in the north to the Gold Coast and New South Wales border in the south (some sources include Tweed Heads, New South Wales which is contiguous as an urban area with Brisbane/Gold Coast), and west to Toowoomba (which is simultaneously considered part of the Darling Downs region). South East Queensland was the first part of Queensland to be settled and explored by Europeans. Settlements initially aro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2006 Establishments In Australia
6 (six) is the natural number following 5 and preceding 7. It is a composite number and the smallest perfect number. In mathematics Six is the smallest positive integer which is neither a square number nor a prime number; it is the second smallest composite number, behind 4; its proper divisors are , and . Since 6 equals the sum of its proper divisors, it is a perfect number; 6 is the smallest of the perfect numbers. It is also the smallest Granville number, or \mathcal-perfect number. As a perfect number: *6 is related to the Mersenne prime 3, since . (The next perfect number is 28.) *6 is the only even perfect number that is not the sum of successive odd cubes. *6 is the root of the 6-aliquot tree, and is itself the aliquot sum of only one other number; the square number, . Six is the only number that is both the sum and the product of three consecutive positive numbers. Unrelated to 6's being a perfect number, a Golomb ruler of length 6 is a "perfect ruler". Six is a con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
