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Tortola League
The Tortola League was a regional association football league played in Tortola, British Virgin Islands. The winner of the league was declared as the overall champion of the country. In 2009, the league disbanded after the merger with the Virgin Gorda League to create a new top league, the BVIFA National League. Previous winners *1970: The Bronze *1971–78: ''not known'' *1979: SKB Budweiser *1980: Queen City Strikers *1981: SKB Budweiser *1982: International Motors *1983: International Motors *1984: SKB Budweiser *1985: SKB Budweiser *1986: SKB Budweiser *1987: SKB Budweiser *1988: ''League abandoned'' *1989: Popeye Bombers *1990: Jolly Rogers Strikers *1991: Hiaroun *1992: Hiaroun *1993: Interfada *1994: Interfada *1995: Interfada *1996: Black Lions *1997: Interfada *1998: BDO Stingers *1999: HBA Panthers *2000: HBA Panthers *2001: Veterans A veteran () is a person who has significant experience (and is usually adept and esteemed) and expertise in a par ... [...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] |
Old Madrid
Old Madrid Football Club is a British Virgin Islands football club that competes in the BVIFA National Football League The BVIFA National Football League is the highest competitive football league in the British Virgin Islands. The league was founded in 2009 after the merger between the Tortola League and the Virgin Gorda League. In 2012 the league decided to sp .... References External links Soccerwayprofile Old Madrid {{BritishVirginIslands-footyclub-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Future Stars (BVI)
''Future Stars'' (formerly TAC Cup Future Stars) is an Australian sports television program which focuses on the TAC Cup, under-18 Australian rules football competitions and young prospects of the AFL. It premiered on Sunday, 10 May 2009 at 1:00pm on GTV-9 in Melbourne, and features game highlights, interviews and analysis of the top prospects to be nominated in the AFL draft. Originally known as ''TAC Cup Future Stars,'' Future Stars was hosted by Craig Hutchison (broadcaster), Craig Hutchison (2009-2014), whose production company, Crocmedia, is producing the show. Former player, Ben Dixon (Australian rules footballer), Ben Dixon, and AFL talent scout, Kevin Sheehan were panellists from the start, with Terry Wallace joining in 2010. In 2009, Sport 927's Angela Pippos reported from the field. In 2015, former Richmond and Western Bulldogs forward Nathan Brown (Australian footballer born 1978), Nathan Brown succeeded Hutchison as host in alignment with the rebranding to its curr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Veterans (BVI Football)
A veteran () is a person who has significant experience (and is usually adept and esteemed) and expertise in a particular occupation or field. A military veteran is a person who is no longer serving in a military. A military veteran that has served directly in combat in a war is further defined as a war veteran (although not all military conflicts, or areas in which armed combat took place, are necessarily referred to as ''wars''). Military veterans are unique as a group as their lived experience is so strongly connected to the conduct of war in general and application of professional violence in particular. Therefore, there are a large body of knowledge developed through centuries of scholarly studies that seek to describe, understand and explain their lived experience in and out of service. Griffith with colleagues provides an overview of this research field that addresses veterans general health, transition from military service to civilian life, homelessness, veteran emp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hairoun (BVI Football)
Saint Vincent is a volcanic island in the Caribbean. It is the largest island of the country Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and is located in the Caribbean Sea, between Saint Lucia and Grenada. It is composed of partially submerged volcanic mountains. Its largest volcano and the country's highest peak, La Soufrière, is active, with the latest episode of volcanic activity having begun in December 2020 and intensifying in April 2021. There were major territory wars between the indigenous population of the Black Caribs, also called the Garifuna, and Great Britain in the 18th century, before the island was ceded to the British in 1763, and again in 1783. Saint Vincent and the Grenadines gained independence from the United Kingdom on 27 October 1979, and became part of the British Commonwealth of Nations thereafter. Approximately 130,000 people currently live on the island, and the population saw significant migration to the UK in the early 1900s, and between the 1940s, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jolly Rogers Strikers
Happiness, in the context of mental or emotional states, is positive or pleasant emotions ranging from contentment to intense joy. Other forms include life satisfaction, well-being, subjective well-being, flourishing and eudaimonia. Since the 1960s, happiness research has been conducted in a wide variety of scientific disciplines, including gerontology, social psychology and positive psychology, clinical and medical research and happiness economics. Definitions "Happiness" is subject to debate on usage and meaning, and on possible differences in understanding by culture. The word is mostly used in relation to two factors: * the current experience of the feeling of an emotion (affect) such as pleasure or joy, or of a more general sense of 'emotional condition as a whole'. For instance Daniel Kahneman has defined happiness as "''what I experience here and now''". This usage is prevalent in dictionary definitions of happiness. * appraisal of life satisfaction, s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tortola
Tortola () is the largest and most populated island of the British Virgin Islands, a group of islands that form part of the archipelago of the Virgin Islands. It has a surface area of with a total population of 23,908, with 9,400 residents in Road Town. Mount Sage is its highest point at above sea level. Although the British Virgin Islands (BVI) are under the British flag, it uses the U.S. dollar as its official currency due to its proximity to and frequent trade with the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico. The island is home to many offshore company, offshore companies that do business worldwide. Offshore Financial Centre, Financial services are a major part of the country's economy. On 6 September 2017, the British Virgin Islands were extensively damaged by Effects of Hurricane Irma in the British Virgin Islands, Hurricane Irma. The most severe destruction was on Tortola. News reports over the next day or two described the situation as "devastation". History Local tra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Popeye Bombers
Popeye the Sailor Man is a fictional cartoon character created by Elzie Crisler Segar.Segar, Elzie (Crisler) – Encyclopædia Britannica Article Britannica.com. Retrieved on March 29, 2013.Goulart, Ron, "Popeye", ''St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture''. Detroit: St. James Press, 2000. (Volume 4, pp. 87-8).Walker, Brian. ''The Comics: The Complete Collection''. New York: Abrams ComicArts, 2011. (pp. 188-9,191, 238-243) The character first appeared in the daily King Features comic strip '' Thimble Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
