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Mediterranean Cup (men's Football)
The Mediterranean Cup was an association football competition contested by men's national teams and national B teams of the states bordering the Mediterranean Sea. There have been three tournaments for the Mediterranean Cup: the first one was officially called Eastern Mediterranean Friendship Cup, the second was called Eastern Mediterranean Cup and the last one was just "Mediterranean Cup". Italy, Egypt, Greece and Turkey were the four participants of the first two editions (Italy played with the national B team). Spain and France joined in the last edition (both with the national B team). The first edition, the only one with a permanent location, Athens, was played in 1949, lasted less than a month and was won by Italy B. The second edition, from 1950 to 1953, was won again by Italy B. The third and last edition, from 1953 to 1958, was won by Spain B. Due to political/social reasons (tension between Greece and Turkey, troubles in Egypt) and the introduction of the European Champ ...
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Spain National Football B Team
Spain B was a secondary football team run occasionally as support for the Spain national football team. They commonly played matches against 'B' teams from other football associations, from 1949 to 1981. Early history Spain B's first game is considered by some to be the one on 29 May 1927 at the Metropolitan Stadium in Madrid, where they beat the Portugal A team 2-0, thanks to second-half goals from Francisco Moraleda and Manuel Valderrama. The team that started that day was Guillermo Eizaguirre, Miguel Garrobé, Emilio Perelló, Ramón Polo Pardo, Manuel Valderrama, Gonzalo, Domingo Carulla, Enrique Molina, Pedro Regueiro, Emili Sagi-Barba and Óscar, and the two substitutes that came after the break were Matías Aranzábal and Francisco Moraleda, with the latter scoring the opening goal. However, the Spain B team was only officially created 22 years later, in 1949, by the hands of the then national coach, Guillermo Eizaguirre, who had been the starting goalkeeper ...
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Leoforos Alexandras Stadium
Apostolos Nikolaidis Stadium ( el, Γήπεδο Απόστολος Νικολαΐδης), commonly known as Leoforos Alexandras Stadium or Leoforos Stadium, is a football stadium and multi-sport center in Athens, Greece. It was inaugurated in 1922 and is the oldest football stadium in Greece currently active. It is the traditional athletic center of Panathinaikos A.C. and has been the home ground of Panathinaikos FC for the most part of the club's existence. The stadium is named after the historic club's president, official and athlete Apostolos Nikolaidis. It is situated in the Ambelokipi district of Athens, east of the Lycabettus Hill and on Alexandras Avenue 160, by which name it is most commonly known (''Leoforos Alexandras'' or simply ''Leoforos'', Leoforos meaning Avenue). The stadium's record attendance was recorded in 1967, when 29,665 spectators watched the Cup Winners Cup game between Panathinaikos and FC Bayern Munich. It also houses several other facilities under ...
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El-Sayed El-Dhizui
El-Sayed Mohammed Al-Tabei "El-Dhizui" (14 September 1926 – 24 December 1991) was an Egyptian footballer. He was born in Port Said. He competed for Egypt at the 1948 Summer Olympics and the 1952 Summer Olympics. Al-Tabei was given the nickname ''El-Dhizui'' for his likeness to a local-based Italian player called Desi Lucetti. He was first known in his home city of Port Said as ''Desi Al-Saghir'' or Desi Junior, which later changed to ''Deswi'' or ''El-Dhizui''. Club career El-Dhizui began his playing career at an early age with his school at the Nile Primary School and later at Port Said Secondary, where he was spotted playing in a school league by Hussein Al-Deeb, coach of the Al-Masry Club, who was astounded by the youngster's ability on the ball. The coach alerted the club's president Abdel-Rahman Lotfi Pasha and, at the age of 16, the player was signed up for the team. He quickly became a regular in the first team helping the club to win six titles in the Canal Zone Leagu ...
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Manuel Badenes
Manuel Badenes Calduch (31 October 1928 – 26 November 2007) was a Spanish footballer, who played as a forward for clubs such as FC Barcelona and Valencia CF. Club career Badenes started his career at CD Castellón. His first season at the club saw him score four goals in ten games which resulted in a move to Barcelona. He spent two season at the club, winning two La Liga titles before moving to Valencia. He scored 90 goals in 97 games at Valencia before moving to Real Valladolid, where he won the Pichichi trophy awarded to the top scorer in La Liga in 1958. International career Badenes is the all-time top goal scorer of Spain B with 8 goals, and remarkably, he managed to achieve this feat having only two appearances for the team (a ratio of four goals per game), both at the 1953–58 Mediterranean Cup, netting four past Greece and four again against Egypt, to be crowned the tournament's top goal scorer. However, despite his prolificness for the B team, he never managed to r ...
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Giuseppe Baldini
Giuseppe Baldini (; 11 March 1922 – 26 November 2009) was an Italian football player and manager. During his playing career, Baldini played at both professional and international levels as a striker, before becoming a football manager. Career Born in Russi, Baldini began his career as a youth player with Pontedera, before turning professional with Fiorentina in 1939. Baldini later played club football for Internazionale, Andrea Doria, Sampdoria, Genoa and Como, as well as making one appearance for the Italian national side in 1949. After retiring from the game he became a football manager, and managed Como, Sampdoria, Savona, Virtus Entella and Avellino Avellino () is a town and ''comune'', capital of the province of Avellino in the Campania region of southern Italy. It is situated in a plain surrounded by mountains east of Naples and is an important hub on the road from Salerno to Benevento. .... External linksGiuseppe BALDINI – INTER 1922 births 2009 deaths ...
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Ilias Stafylidis
Ilias may refer to: * the ''Iliad'', an ancient Greek epos * Ilias (name), a personal name (including a list of people with the name) * ILIAS, a web-based learning management system * 6604 Ilias, an asteroid See also * Profitis Ilias (other) * Agios Ilias (other) * Ilijaš, a town and municipality in Bosnia and Herzegovina * Ilyas (other) * Elias * Illas, a municipality in Spain * Ilya (other) Ilya is a given name. Ilya or ILYA may also refer to: * 2968 Iliya, an asteroid *Ilya, Belarus, a village *Ilya (band), from Bristol, England *ILYA, British comics artist *"Ilya", a song by Martina Topley-Bird from her 2003 album ''Quixotic'' See ...
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Leandro Remondini
Leandro Remondini (; 17 November 1917 – 9 January 1979) was an Italian association football player and manager, who played as a midfielder or as a defender. Club career Born in Verona, Remondini was a defensive midfielder, who capable of covering any midfield role for his teams and who could also play as a full-back. After playing two seasons in Serie B with Verona, he debuted in Serie A at 20 years of age with Milan, in the same year that Italy won the 1938 World Cup. During the war period, he went from Modena to Casale, and back to Modena, before heading for the capital. With Lazio he played his best football, scoring 19 goals in 95 games and earning a spot on the Italian team for the 1950 World Cup. After the World Cup he went to Napoli, and then ended his Serie A career with Lucchese. International career Remondini was the oldest player selected to the Italy national team for the 1950 World Cup. His one cap for the 'Azzurri' was in the team's 2–0 win against Paraguay. ...
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Hellenic Football Federation
The Hellenic Football Federation (HFF), also known as the Greek Football Federation ( el, Ελληνική Ποδοσφαιρική Ομοσπονδία; ΕΠΟ, translit=Ellinikí Podosferikí Omospondía; EPO) is the governing body of association football, football in Greece. It contributes in the organisation of Superleague Greece and organizes the Greek Football Cup, Greek Cup and the Greece national football team, Greece national team. It is based in Athens. History The Hellenic Football Federation (HFF) was founded on 14 November 1926 by a decision of the three major Unions of the country: Athens, Piraeus and Thessalonica. Its foundation marked the organization of Greek football in compliance with international standards. Since then, the HFF has grown into the biggest sports federation in Greece, as football in the country is regarded as the "king of sports" coming first in the preferences of sports fans. The HFF is considered a private legal entity and a non-profit organ ...
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Aldo Puccinelli
Aldo Puccinelli (25 December 1920 – 11 March 1994) was an Italian 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 ... player and manager. He holds the record of league appearances with Lazio (339). References {{DEFAULTSORT:Puccinelli, Aldo 1920 births 1994 deaths Italian footballers Serie A players Serie B players S.S. Lazio players U.S. Livorno 1915 players Italian football managers U.S. Livorno 1915 managers U.S. Massese 1919 players U.S. Città di Pontedera players Association football forwards ...
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Alberto Galassi
Alberto is the Romance version of the Latinized form (''Albertus'') of Germanic ''Albert''. It is used in Italian, Portuguese and Spanish. The diminutive forms are ''Albertito'' in Spain or ''Albertico'' in some parts of Latin America, Albertino in Italian as well as ''Tuco'' as a hypocorism. It derives from the name Adalberto which in turn derives from '' Athala'' (meaning noble) and ''Berth'' (meaning bright). People * Alberto Aguilar Leiva (born 1984), Spanish footballer * Alberto Airola (born 1970), Italian politician * Alberto Ascari (1918–1955), Italian racing driver * Alberto Baldonado (born 1993), Panamanian baseball player * Alberto Bello (1897–1963), Argentine actor * Alberto Beneduce (1877–1944), Italian scientist and economist * Alberto Bustani Adem (born 1954), Mexican engineer * Alberto Callaspo (born 1983,) baseball player * Alberto Campbell-Staines (born 1993), Australian athlete with an intellectual disability * Alberto Cavalcanti (1897–1982), Braz ...
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Kamal El-Sabbagh
Kamal may refer to: * Kamal (name), a male given name and surname with multiple origins *Kamal (navigation), a navigational instrument for measuring latitude * Kamal, Jhapa, a rural municipality in Nepal * Alfa Romeo Kamal, an SUV by Alfa Romeo *Operation Kamala, name given to corrupt political practices by BJP in India See also *Kamala (other) *Kamahl Kandiah Kamalesvaran ( ta, கந்தையா கமலேஸ்வரன்; born 13 November 1934), better known by his stage name Kamahl, is a Malaysian-born Australian singer and recording artist. His highest charting Australian single, ...
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Alekos Chatzistavridis
Alekos Chatzistavridis ( el, Αλέκος Χατζησταυρίδης; 1 January 1915 – 1 January 1998) was a Greek footballer who played as a forward and a later manager. His real name was ''"Stavridis"''. Club career Chatzistavridis started football at Vyzantion Piraeus. In 1933 he joined AEK Athens and changed his name to ''"Chatzistavridis"'', because he officially belonged to his previous club. He established himself as one of the main attackers of the club. On 28 May 1939, he opened the score in the Greek Cup final, defeating PAOK by 2–1. He played with the "yellow-blacks" for a decade and won 2 consecutive Panhellenic Championships, 1 Cup and 1 Athens FCA Championship in 1940, including the first domestic double in by a Greek club in 1939. In 1944, during the period of the Occupation, when Greek football was inactive and Chatzistavridis joined Olympiacos. On 30 June 1946 he was expelled in the match against AEK alongside his former teammate Kleanthis Maropoulos. ...
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