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Zvjezdan Misimović
Zvjezdan Misimović (, ; born 5 June 1982) is a Bosnian former professional footballer who most notably played for Bayern Munich, VfL Wolfsburg, Galatasaray, Dynamo Moscow, and Beijing Renhe as an attacking midfielder. Misimović is the fourth most capped player in the history of the Bosnia and Herzegovina national team, capped 84 times. His 25 international goals also makes him his country's third top-goalscorer. He represented Bosnia and Herzegovina at 2014 FIFA World Cup. Currently, Misimović is employed as an official at the Football Association of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and performs duties of the Director of the Bosnia and Herzegovina national football team. Prior to joining Dynamo Moscow, Misimović made a name for himself while playing for VfL Wolfsburg, with whom he won the Bundesliga in the 2008–09 season. In the same season, he accomplished 20 assists, which was the most in that season. Early life Misimović was born to a family of Bosnian gastarbeiters who came ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
FC Dynamo Moscow
FC Dynamo Moscow (''FC Dynamo Moskva'', russian: Дина́мо Москва́ ) is a Russian football club based in Moscow. Dynamo returned to the Russian Premier League for the 2017–18 season after one season in the second-tier Russian Football National League. Dynamo was the only club that had always played in the top tier of Soviet football (along with Dynamo Kyiv) and of Russian football from the end of the Soviet era until they were relegated in 2016. Despite this, they have never won the modern Russian Premier League title and have won Russian Cup only once, in the season of 1994–95. During the Soviet era, they were affiliated with the MVD (Ministry of Internal Affairs – The Soviet Militia) and with the KGB and was a part of Dynamo sports society. Chief of the Soviet security and secret police apparatus NKVD, Lavrentiy Beria, was a patron of the club until his downfall. From 10 April 2009 the VTB Bank has been the owner of Dynamo after acquiring a 74% share in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sporting Director
A sporting director, or director of sport, is an executive management position in a sports club. The role is well known as a manager role for European football clubs, which are sometime also "sports clubs", offering many types of sports. The sporting director is, in many cases, a member of the executive board and therefore an executive director. The sporting director is usually directly subordinate to the CEO or the chairman of the sports organization. Director of football A director of football, sometimes also called a sporting director or technical director, is a senior management figure at an 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 ... club, most commonly in Europe. Often, their key task is managing transfers of players to and from the team. However ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SV Werder Bremen
Sportverein Werder Bremen von 1899 e. V. (), commonly known as Werder Bremen (), Werder or simply Bremen, is a German professional sports club based in Bremen, Bremen (state), Free Hanseatic City of Bremen. Founded on 4 February 1899, they are best known for their professional association football team, who compete in the Bundesliga, the first tier of the German football league system. Werder share the record for most seasons played in the Bundesliga with FC Bayern Munich, Bayern Munich, and are third in the all-time Bundesliga table, behind Bayern and Borussia Dortmund. Werder have been List of German football champions, German champions four times, have won the DFB-Pokal six times, the DFL-Ligapokal once, the DFL-Supercup thrice, and the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup, European Cup Winners' Cup once. The team's first major trophy came in the 1960–61 DFB-Pokal, a competition they last won in 2008–09 DFB-Pokal, 2008–09. Their first German championship came in 1964–65 Bundesliga, 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reserve Team
In sports, a reserve team is a team composed of players under contract to a club but who do not normally play in matches for the first team. Reserve teams often include back-up players from the first team, young players who need playing time to improve their skills, as well as members of the first team recovering from injury. In some countries, reserve or development teams compete in entirely separate competitions from first teams, while some countries allow reserve teams or farm teams to compete in the same league system as their club's first team, although usually in separate divisions. In association football Reserve teams usually consist of a combination of emerging youth players and first-team squad players. These teams are distinct from a club's youth team, which usually consists of players under a certain age and plays in an age-specific league. In England, Argentina and the United States the term ''reserve'' is commonly used to describe these teams. In Germany and Austria ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SC Pfullendorf
SC Pfullendorf is a German sports club based in Pfullendorf, Baden-Württemberg. The 700-member club is best known for its football department, but also has departments for chess, table tennis and ice stock sport, a winter sport similar to curling. History The club was founded on 2 August 1919, as part of the gymnastics club ''TV Pfullendorf''. It became independent in 1921 under the name ''SC Pfullendorf'' and was officially registered as a club on 25 February 1924. After World War II was renamed ''SV Pfullendorf'' and played eight matches under this name in the 1945–46 season of the amateur Einheitsklasse Bodensee/Schwarzwald league. The club was then disbanded, but promptly reorganized as ''FC Pfullendorf'' on 21 September 1946, and re-claimed the name ''SC Pfullendorf'', on 23 June 1950. Throughout the 1950s, 60s and 70s, ''Pfullendorf'' competed as a fourth or fifth division side until breaking through to the Amateurliga Südbaden (III) in 1976 on the strength of a cham ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paolo Guerrero
José Paolo Guerrero Gonzales (; born 1 January 1984), known as Paolo Guerrero, is a Peruvian professional Association football, footballer who plays as a Forward (association football)#Striker, striker for Campeonato Brasileiro Série A, Brasileirão club Avaí FC, Avaí and the Peru national football team, Peru national team. Forging his career in Germany, Guerrero started at giants FC Bayern Munich, Bayern Munich, before making his name at Hamburger SV, scoring 47 goals across eight Bundesliga seasons. His greatest successes came in Brazil, where he scored the winning goal of the 2012 FIFA Club World Cup Final for Sport Club Corinthians Paulista, Corinthians. With 38 goals in 107 matches for Peru since debuting at 20, Guerrero holds the honour of being the highest goalscorer for his national team. He has represented them at five Copa América, Copas América and one FIFA World Cup, World Cup. He led them to third place in the 2011 Copa América, 2011 and 2015 Copa América, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2003–04 Regionalliga
The 2003–04 Regionalliga season was the tenth season of the Regionalliga tier three of the German football league system. It was contested in two geographical divisions with eighteen teams each. The competition began on 1 August 2003 with the first matches of each division and ended on the 5 June 2004. Team movements Teams Promoted to 2. Bundesliga From Nord *Erzgebirge Aue *VfL Osnabrück From Süd *SpVgg Unterhaching * Jahn Regensburg Teams Relegated from 2. Bundesliga To Nord *Eintracht Braunschweig * FC St. Pauli To Süd *SSV Reutlingen * SV Waldhof Mannheim Teams Relegated to Oberliga From Nord *SC Verl *SV Babelsberg 03 * Bayer Leverkusen II *Dresdner SC From Süd *Stuttgarter Kickers *Sportfreunde Siegen * SV Darmstadt 98 *Eintracht Frankfurt II *Borussia Neunkirchen Teams promoted from Oberliga To Nord *FC Schalke 04 II(Oberliga Westfalen Champions) *Sachsen Leipzig(NOFV-Oberliga Nord Champions) To Süd *VfB Stuttgart II(Oberliga Baden-Wür ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zwetschge
The prune plum (''Prunus domestica'' subsp. ''domestica'') is a fruit-bearing tree, or its fruit. It is a subspecies of the plum ''Prunus domestica''. The freestone fruit is similar to, but distinct from, the clingstone damson (''Prunus domestica'' subsp. ''insititia'')Sorting Prunus Names: http://www.plantnames.unimelb.edu.au/Sorting/Prunus_Pt2.html and is especially popular in Central Europe. Regional names and etymology The fruit is known under various regional names, including "blue plum", "damask plum", "sugar plum", and "German prune" in English-speaking countries, and "Zwetschge" in German-speaking ones. The word ''Zwetschge'' (), plural ''Zwetschgen'', is from the German. Variants of the word include: ''Quetsch(e)'' (Lorraine, Alsace, Luxembourg, and regionally in Germany); ''Kwetsen'' (Dutch), ''Zwetschke'' (regionally in Austria); and ''Zwetsche'' (regionally in Germany). These names, like ''damson'', are thought ultimately to derive from postulated Vulgar Latin *''d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West Germany
West Germany is the colloquial term used to indicate the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG; german: Bundesrepublik Deutschland , BRD) between its formation on 23 May 1949 and the German reunification through the accession of East Germany on 3 October 1990. During the Cold War, the western portion of Germany and the associated territory of West Berlin were parts of the Western Bloc. West Germany was formed as a political entity during the Allied occupation of Germany after World War II, established from eleven states formed in the three Allied zones of occupation held by the United States, the United Kingdom, and France. The FRG's provisional capital was the city of Bonn, and the Cold War era country is retrospectively designated as the Bonn Republic. At the onset of the Cold War, Europe was divided between the Western and Eastern blocs. Germany was divided into the two countries. Initially, West Germany claimed an exclusive mandate for all of Germany, representing itself as t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gastarbeiter
(; both singular and plural; ) are foreign worker, foreign or migrant workers, particularly those who had moved to West Germany between 1955 and 1973, seeking work as part of a formal guest worker program (). As a result, guestworkers are generally considered temporary migrants because their residency in the country of immigration is not yet determined to be permanent. Other countries had similar programs: in the Netherlands and Belgium it was called the program; in Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland it was called (workforce-immigration); and in East Germany such workers were called . The term that was used during the Nazi Germany, Nazi era was (German for 'foreign worker'). However, the latter term had negative connotations, and was no longer used after World War II. The term is widely used in Russia (, ) to refer to foreign workers from Post-Soviet states, post-USSR or Third World, third-world countries. Historical background Following World War II there were severe la ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
