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Nico Williams
Nicholas "Nico" Williams Arthuer (born 12 July 2002) is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a winger for La Liga club Athletic Bilbao and the Spain national team. Club career Born in Pamplona, Navarre, Williams joined the youth academy of Athletic Bilbao in 2013 from hometown side CA Osasuna. He began his senior career with the club's farm team, Basconia, during the 2019–20 season. On 11 May 2020, Williams was promoted to the reserve team in the Segunda División B. He made his first team – and La Liga – debut on 28 April of the following year, coming on as a second-half substitute for Jon Morcillo in a 2–2 home draw against Real Valladolid; his brother Iñaki also came off the bench ten minutes later. It was the first time two siblings had been on the pitch at the same time for the club since Julio and Patxi Salinas in 1986. Williams scored his first two goals for the ''Lions'' on 6 January 2022, in a 2–0 win over Atlético Mancha Real in the campa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
FIFA
FIFA (; stands for ''Fédération Internationale de Football Association'' ( French), meaning International Association Football Federation ) is the international governing body of association football, beach football and futsal. It was founded in 1904 to oversee international competition among the national associations of Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland. Headquartered in Zürich, Switzerland, its membership now comprises 211 national associations. These national associations must each also be members of one of the six regional confederations into which the world is divided: CAF (Africa), AFC (Asia and Australia), UEFA (Europe), CONCACAF (North & Central America and the Caribbean), OFC (Oceania) and CONMEBOL (South America). FIFA outlines a number of objectives in the organizational Statutes, including growing association football internationally, providing efforts to ensure it is accessible to everyone, and advocating for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Farm Team
In sports, a farm team, farm system, feeder team, feeder club, or nursery club is generally a team or club whose role is to provide experience and training for young players, with an agreement that any successful players can move on to a higher level at a given point, usually in an association with a major-level parent team. This system can be implemented in many ways, both formally and informally. It is not to be confused with a practice squad, which fulfills a similar developmental purpose but the players on the practice squad are members of the parent team. The term is also used as a metaphor for any organization or activity that serves as a training ground for higher-level endeavors. For instance, business schools are occasionally referred to as "farm clubs" in the world of business. Contracted farm teams Baseball In the United States and Canada, Minor League Baseball teams operate under strict franchise contracts with their major league counterparts. Although the vast majo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2021–22 Supercopa De España
The 2021–22 Supercopa de España was the 38th edition of the Supercopa de España, an annual football competition for clubs in the Spanish football league system that were successful in its major competitions in the preceding season. After last season's edition was held in Spain due to travel restrictions related the COVID-19 pandemic, this year the tournament returned to Saudi Arabia as per the deal with the Royal Spanish Football Federation. Real Madrid won the tournament for their twelfth Supercopa de España title. Qualification The tournament featured the winners and runners-up of the 2020–21 Copa del Rey and 2020–21 La Liga. Qualified teams The following four teams qualified for the tournament. Matches * Times listed are UTC+3. * All three matches were held in King Fahd International Stadium in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Atlético Madrid
Club Atlético de Madrid, Sociedad Anónima Deportiva, S.A.D. (; meaning "Athletic Club of Madrid"), known simply as Atleti in the Spanish-speaking world and commonly referred to at international level as Atlético Madrid, is a Spanish professional Association football, football club based in Madrid that plays in La Liga. The club play their home games at the Metropolitano Stadium, Metropolitano, which has a capacity of 68,456. In terms of List of Spanish football champions, league titles won, Atlético Madrid are the third most successful club in Spanish football—behind Real Madrid CF, Real Madrid and FC Barcelona, Barcelona. Atlético have won La Liga on eleven occasions, including a league and cup double in 1996; the Copa del Rey on ten occasions; two Supercopa de España, Supercopas de España, one and one Copa Eva Duarte; in UEFA competitions, Europe, they won the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup, European Cup Winners' Cup in 1962 European Cup Winners' Cup Final, 1962, were runner ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Copa Del Rey
The Campeonato de España–Copa de Su Majestad el Rey, commonly known as Copa del Rey or simply La Copa and formerly known as Copa del Presidente de la República (1932–36) and Copa del Generalísimo (1939–76), is an annual knockout football competition in Spanish football, organized by the Royal Spanish Football Federation. The competition was founded in 1903, thus making it the oldest Spanish football competition played at a national level. It is considered one of the most prestigious ''national cup'' trophies in the world. Copa del Rey winners qualify for the following season's UEFA Europa League. If they have already qualified for Europe through their league position, then the Europa League spot is given to the highest-placed team in the league who has not yet qualified (until 2014 this place was awarded to the Copa runners-up, unless they too had already qualified via the league). Barcelona is the most successful club in the competition, having won 31 Spanish Cup t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2021–22 Copa Del Rey
The 2021–22 Copa del Rey is the 120th staging of the Copa del Rey (including two seasons where two rival editions were played). The winners are assured a place in the 2022–23 UEFA Europa League#Group stage, 2022–23 UEFA Europa League group stage. Both the winners and the runners-up will qualify for the four-team 2022–23 Supercopa de España. FC Barcelona, Barcelona are the defending champions, having beaten Athletic Bilbao in the 2021 Copa del Rey Final, final of the previous edition. As across Spain, match times up to 31 October 2021 and from 27 March 2022 are Central European Summer Time, CEST (UTC+02:00, UTC+2). Times on interim ("winter") days are Central European Time, CET (UTC+01:00, UTC+1). Matches played in the Canary Islands will use the Western European Time, WET (UTC±00:00). Schedule and format In August 2021, the RFEF released the calendar of the competition and confirmed the format of the previous season would remain. ;Notes *From this season, the away goal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Atlético Mancha Real
Atlético Mancha Real is a List of football clubs in Spain, Spanish football team based in Mancha Real in the Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Andalusia. Founded in 1984, the club competes in Segunda Federación – Group 5, holding home games at Estadio Polideportivo Municipal de La Juventud, with a capacity of 1,500 people. History The notarial document about official foundation of Atlético Mancha Real as a sports association was signed on 4 August 1984. Atlético Mancha Real won its Tercera División group in 2009–10 Tercera División, 2009–10, losing the 2010 Tercera División play-offs, play-off to CD Badajoz. In doing so, it qualified for the Copa del Rey for the first time, losing 4–1 at AD Ceuta in the opening round. On 29 May 2016, the club promoted to Segunda División B for the first time, with a 5–1 aggregate win over Zamora CF in the 2016 Tercera División play-offs, play-off. The following season ended with relegation. Season to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patxi Salinas
Francisco 'Patxi' Salinas Fernández (born 17 November 1963) is a Spanish former footballer who played as a central defender, currently manager of Club Portugalete. He amassed La Liga totals of 432 games and 11 goals over 16 seasons, with Athletic Bilbao and Celta, winning two national championships with the former club. Subsequently, he worked as a manager. Playing career Club Born in Bilbao, Salinas emerged through Athletic Bilbao's youth ranks, and made his league debut on 10 November 1982, playing the full 90 minutes in a 1–0 away win against UD Salamanca. He appeared in 14 La Liga matches in the 1983–84 season as the team managed to conquer the double. In the following campaign he became a regular fixture with the Basques alongside another Lezama graduate, Genar Andrinúa. In summer 1992, Salinas joined RC Celta de Vigo, where he proceeded to post equally impressive numbers in his six-season spell – always in the top division – retiring from the game at almos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julio Salinas
Julio Salinas Fernández (; born 11 September 1962) is a Spanish former footballer who played during the 1980s and 1990s. A tall, lanky centre forward with skills, he was best remembered for his spell at Barcelona – having started his career with Athletic Bilbao – while he was also a prolific goalscorer for club and Spain national football team, country. Salinas earned 56 Cap (sport), caps for Spain, and represented the nation in three FIFA World Cup, World Cups and two UEFA European Championship, European Championships. Club career Athletic and Atlético Salinas was born in Bilbao, Biscay, joining Athletic Bilbao Athletic Club ( eu, Bilboko Athletic Kluba; es, Athletic Club de Bilbao), commonly known as Athletic Bilbao or just Athletic, is a professional Association football, football club based in the city of Bilbao in the Basque Country (autonomous com ...'s youth academy at the age of 11. In 1983–84 Segunda División, 1983–84 he won the Segunda División, secon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Real Valladolid
Real Valladolid Club de Fútbol, S.A.D., or simply Real Valladolid () or Valladolid, is a professional football club based in Valladolid, Castile and León, Spain that competes in La Liga, the top tier of the Spanish league system. The club colours are violet and white, used on the kit in stripes from its foundation on 20 June 1928. The team plays its home games at the Estadio José Zorrilla, which seats 27,846 spectators. Valladolid's honours include a single trophy of great relevance, the defunct Copa de la Liga 1983–84. It has been runner-up in the Copa del Rey on two occasions ( 1949–50 and 1988–89), and has participated in two editions of the UEFA Cup ( 1984–85 and 1997–98) and also one edition of the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup ( 1989–90). The team subsidiary, the Real Valladolid Promesas, currently play in the Primera División RFEF. Since its La Liga debut in the 1948–49 season (in which it became the first club from the region to play in La Liga – five oth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jon Morcillo
Jon Morcillo Conesa (born 15 September 1998) is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a left winger for Athletic Bilbao. Club career Early career Born in Amorebieta-Etxano, Biscay, Basque Country to a Basque father and a mother from Cartagena, Region of Murcia, Morcillo represented SD Amorebieta and SCD Durango as a youth. He made his senior debut with the latter's first team on 1 May 2016, in a 2–0 Tercera División away loss against CD Vitoria. Athletic Bilbao In June 2016, Morcillo joined Athletic Bilbao at the age of 17, being initially assigned to the farm team also in the regional fourth division. Promoted to the reserves in June 2018, he made his Segunda División B debut for them on 25 August of that year, playing the last four minutes of a 2–0 home win over CD Tudelano. Morcillo scored his first goal for the B side on 25 November 2018, opening the 1–1 draw at Barakaldo CF. He emerged as an important player during the 2019–20 season by contributing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Substitute (association Football)
In association football, a substitute is a player who is brought on to the pitch during a match in exchange for an existing player. Substitutions are generally made to replace a player who has become tired or injured, or who is performing poorly, or for tactical reasons (such as bringing a striker on in place of a defender). A player who has been substituted during a match takes no further part in the game, in games played under the standard International Football Association Board Laws of the Game. Substitutions were officially added to the Laws of the Game in 1958. Prior to this most games were played with no changes permitted at all, with occasional exceptions in cases of extreme injury or players not arriving to matches on time. The number of substitutes has risen over time as well as the number of reserve players allowed to be nominated. It is now common for games to allow a maximum of 5 substitutions; some competitions allow for an additional substitution when playing ext ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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