Torneo Estivo Del 1986
The Torneo Estivo del 1986 (''1986 Summer Tournament'') was an Italian official Association football, football competition organized by the Lega Nazionale Professionisti, Lega Calcio and contested by those Serie A teams that had been eliminated from the Coppa Italia 1985-86, Coppa Italia before the semi–finals (i.e. all sixteen teams except Calcio Como, Como, ACF Fiorentina, Fiorentina, A.S. Roma, Roma and U.C. Sampdoria, Sampdoria). Players capped by the Italy national football team, national team to take part in the upcoming 1986 FIFA World Cup, World Cup did not take part in the tournament. The final was played between U.S. Avellino 1912, Avellino and A.S. Bari, Bari at the Stadio Santa Colomba in Benevento, on 19 June. Avellino won the match 3–2 to claim the trophy. Format The 12 participants were divided into three groups of four teams with single-legged matches, with the winners and runners-up of each group qualified to the next round. The six remaining sides were divide ...
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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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