Merrimac FC
Merrimac Football Club, is a football club based in Merrimac, Queensland. The club was originally founded in 1978. The club was formally known as Merrimac International Football Club, in reference to its Italian heritage. The club has not fielded a senior men's team since 2017. Merrimac F.C. is one of two Queensland soccer clubs that are Italian-Australian backed clubs, the other being Brisbane City. History Merrimac F.C. is an Australian football club from Gold Coast, Queensland Australia. It was an Italian Australian backed club which was founded in 1978. The club's home ground is Fairway Drive in the suburb of Clear Island Waters. The club used to compete in the Gold Coast Premier League where it was one of the leading sides for the past few decades. In 2020 ex-professional footballer and captain of Samoa national football team Chris Cahill took over the club. The club now specialises in 5-11yr olds, both boys and girls. Honours Seasons in bold indicate doubles with b ...
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Merrimac may refer to: Place names * Merrimac, Queensland, Australia ** Electoral district of Merrimac United States * Merrimac, California * Merrimac, Illinois * Merrimac, Kentucky * Merrimac, Massachusetts, the original town with the name "Merrimac" * Merrimac, Virginia * Merrimac, Mingo County, West Virginia * Merrimac (town), Wisconsin, a town * Merrimac, Wisconsin, a village * Merrimack River, in Massachusetts and New Hampshire, of which ''Merrimac'' is an earlier spelling Music * "Merrimac", a song by the American band Bright from their self-titled album See also * Merrimac coup * USS ''Merrimack'', several, some spelled "Merrimac" * Merrimack (other) * Meramec (other) Meramec is a name for several places in the United States: * Meramec River in Missouri * Meramec Caverns on the Meramec River * Meramec State Park in Missouri See also * Merrimac (other) * Merrimack (other) * Meramec (series) Th ...

Chris Cahill
Christopher Cahill (born 25 December 1984) is a retired footballer. Born in Australia, he represented Samoa at International level. Club career Cahill was born on Christmas Day 1984 in Sydney, Australia to a father of Irish descent and a Samoan mother. Cahill played four games for Dulwich Hill FC in 2004. He then moved to St. George Saints, where he played from 2006 to 2012. International career He played for Samoa national football team and was briefly national team captain.Tim Cahill, Football (soccer)
He played in the 2010 FIFA World Cup Qualifiers, scoring twice against American Samoa. He did not appear at the 2012 OFC Nations Cup, which was Samoa's first appearance at a major tournament.

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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 ...
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Merrimac, Queensland
Merrimac is a Suburbs and localities (Australia), suburb in the City of Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. In the , Merrimac had a population of 7,071 people. Geography Merrimac is located on the floodplains in the central region of the city. Merrimac is the site of new housing and building developments as of March 2006. The South East Queensland Infrastructure Plan and Program allows for an infill station to be constructed in Merrimac on the Gold Coast railway line, between the Nerang railway station, Queensland, Nerang and Robina railway station, Queensland, Robina railway stations. History The origin of the name of the suburb is unclear. In 1873 Thomas Blacket Stephens purchased of land; his wife Ann named the property ''Merrimac''. In 1906, it was claimed to be named by the Native Americans in the United States, American Indian word for ''swift running waters''. It has been suggested that it has been named after the Merrimack River in the New England region of the U ...
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Brisbane City FC
Brisbane City Football Club is an Australian semi-professional football club based in Newmarket, Brisbane, Queensland. Founded in 1952, the club competed in the National Soccer League until the 1986 season where they were relegated back to State League Competition. Brisbane City competed in the National Premier Leagues Queensland from 2013, until they were relegated to the lower tier Football Queensland Premier League with one match remaining in the 2020 season. Home matches are played at Spencer Park. National Soccer League In 1977 City became a foundation member of the National Soccer League. City's first match was a 0–1 defeat to Marconi at Perry Park on 3 April 1977 in front of a crowd of 5,214. Despite struggling in the first two seasons, including finishing bottom, they won the NSL Cup in those two years. In 1977 City defeated Marconi 5–3 on penalties after a 1–1 draw, and the following year they overcame Adelaide City 2–1. Both matches were played in Brisbane. C ...
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Gold Coast, Queensland
The Gold Coast is a coastal city in the state of Queensland, Australia, approximately south-southeast of the centre of the state capital Brisbane. With a population over 600,000, the Gold Coast is the sixth-largest city in Australia, the nation's largest regional city, and Queensland's second-largest city after Brisbane. The city's Central Business District is located roughly in the centre of the Gold Coast in the suburb of Southport, with the suburb holding more corporate office space than anywhere else in the city. The urban area of the Gold Coast is concentrated along the coast sprawling almost 60 kilometers, joining up with the Greater Brisbane Metropolitan Area to the north and to the state border with New South Wales to the south. Prior to European settlement the area was occupied by the Yugambeh people. The demonym for the Gold Coast is Gold Coaster. The Gold Coast is a major tourist destination with a sunny, subtropical climate and has become widely known for its ...
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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 ...
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Samoa National Football Team
The Samoa national association football team ( sm, Sāmoa soka au) represents Samoa in men's international football and it is controlled by the Football Federation Samoa, the governing body for football in Samoa. Samoa's home ground is Toleafoa J. S. Blatter Soccer Stadium in Apia. It was known as the Western Samoa national football team until 1997. History Beginnings (1979–1993) Although they had not taken part in the first five editions of the South Pacific Games, their geographical proximity to Fiji, host of 1979 South Pacific Games, allowed them to participate for the first time. They lost both group stage matches to Wallis and Futuna 3–1 and Solomon Islands 12–0. Four years later, as hosts of the 1983 edition, they beat American Samoa 3–1, drew 3–3 with Tonga and fell again to Wallis and Futuna, but the results allowed them to advance to the next round. In the quarterfinals, Tahiti eliminated them by beating them 2–0. Samoa entered qualification for the 1988 ...
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Merrimac may refer to: Place names * Merrimac, Queensland, Australia ** Electoral district of Merrimac United States * Merrimac, California * Merrimac, Illinois * Merrimac, Kentucky * Merrimac, Massachusetts, the original town with the name "Merrimac" * Merrimac, Virginia * Merrimac, Mingo County, West Virginia * Merrimac (town), Wisconsin, a town * Merrimac, Wisconsin, a village * Merrimack River, in Massachusetts and New Hampshire, of which ''Merrimac'' is an earlier spelling Music * "Merrimac", a song by the American band Bright from their self-titled album See also * Merrimac coup * USS ''Merrimack'', several, some spelled "Merrimac" * Merrimack (other) * Meramec (other) Meramec is a name for several places in the United States: * Meramec River in Missouri * Meramec Caverns on the Meramec River * Meramec State Park in Missouri See also * Merrimac (other) * Merrimack (other) * Meramec (series) Th ...