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Óscar Mejía
Oscar Abreu Mejia (born December 7, 1978) is a Dominican football goalkeeper who once played for C.D. Luis Ángel Firpo in El Salvador. Mejía has appeared for the Dominican Republic national football team in 11 qualifying matches for FIFA World Cup The FIFA World Cup, often called the World Cup, is an international association football competition among the senior List of men's national association football teams, men's national teams of the members of the FIFA, Fédération Internatio ...s. International goals References External links * 1978 births Living people Dominican Republic men's footballers Dominican Republic men's international footballers Long Island Rough Riders players C.D. Atlético Marte footballers C.D. Luis Ángel Firpo footballers Expatriate men's soccer players in the United States Expatriate men's footballers in El Salvador Men's association football goalkeepers {{DominicanRepublic-footy-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dominican Republic
The Dominican Republic is a country located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles of the Caribbean Sea in the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean. It shares a Maritime boundary, maritime border with Puerto Rico to the east and a Dominican Republic–Haiti border, land border with Haiti to the west, occupying the Geography of the Dominican Republic, eastern five-eighths of Hispaniola which, along with Saint Martin (island), Saint Martin, is one of only two islands in the Caribbean shared by two sovereign states. In the Antilles, the country is the List of Caribbean islands by area, second-largest nation by area after Cuba at and List of Caribbean countries by population, second-largest by population after Haiti with approximately 11.4 million people in 2024, of whom 3.6 million reside in the Greater Santo Domingo, metropolitan area of Santo Domingo, the capital city. The native Taíno people had inhabited Hispaniola prior to European colonization of the America ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Goalkeeper (association Football)
The goalkeeper (sometimes written as goal-keeper, abbreviated as GK, keeper, keeps, or goalie) is a association football positions, position in association football. It is the most specialised position in the sport. The goalkeeper's main role is to stop the opposing football team, team from Scoring in association football, scoring a 'Football pitch#Goals, goal' (i.e. putting the football (ball), ball over the Goal_(sports)#Association_football, goal Goal line (association football), line). This is accomplished by having the goalkeeper move into the trajectory of the ball to either catch it or direct it further from the vicinity of the goal line. Within the penalty area, goalkeepers are allowed to use their hands, giving them (outside throw-ins) the sole rights on the field to handle the ball. The goalkeeper is indicated by wearing a different coloured kit (association football), kit from their teammates and opposition. The back-pass rule is a rule that disallows handling passes b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jarabacoa FC
Jarabacoa F.C. is a football team based in Jarabacoa, Dominican Republic, currently playing in the Primera División de Republica Dominicana. Stadium The team plays at the 10,000 capacity Estadio Olímpico (La Vega) Estadio Olímpico is a multi-use stadium in Concepción de la Vega, Dominican Republic. It is currently used mostly for football (soccer), football matches and hosts the home games of Jarabacoa of the Liga Dominicana de Fútbol. The stadium hol .... External linksDon Bosco Jarabacoa FCat Soccerway Football clubs in the Dominican Republic {{DominicanRepublic-sport-team-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Long Island Rough Riders
The Long Island Rough Riders are an American soccer team based in South Huntington, New York, United States. Founded in 1994, the team plays in USL League Two, the fourth tier of the American Soccer Pyramid. The team plays its home games at Mitchel Athletic Complex. The team's colors are white and blue. The club also has a women's team, also called the Long Island Rough Riders, who play in USL W League. History Early years in the USISL The Rough Riders played their first season in 1994, led by local legend Alfonso Mondelo, fielding a team in the USISL that featured future US national team player Chris Armas, who would lead the team in scoring with eight goals and four assists. Long Island (13–5) won the Northeast Division, finishing seven points ahead of North Jersey Dragons. The Rough Riders were placed in the "Raleigh Group" of the USISL 'Sizzling Nine' Championships, and qualified along with the Minnesota Thunder to face Greensboro Dynamo in the national semifinal; t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moca FC
Moca Fútbol Club is a Dominican professional football team based in Moca, Dominican Republic, founded in 1971. Their home stadium is Estadio Complejo Deportivo Moca 86, and the team plays in the Liga Dominicana de Fútbol (LDF). History From 1971 until 2015, Moca FC was the team with the most championships in the now defunct semi-professional football league, Primera División de Republica Dominicana. With 13 titles, Moca was the most popular club in that league. Its province is the "House of the Dominican Football". In 2015, after the LDF folded, Moca joined the new professional Dominican football league in the first division, Liga Dominicana de Fútbol. Their classic rivals are Atlético San Cristóbal and Cibao FC. 2023 CONCACAF Caribbean Cup Moca FC advanced to the Semi-Finals where they defeated S.V. Robinhood in leg 1 but lost in leg 2 in penalties. This resulted in Moca FC having to fend for title of 3rd place, which would still qualify them for the CONCACAF Cha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dominican Republic National Football Team
The Dominican Republic national football team () represents the Dominican Republic in men's international Association football, football, and is governed by the Dominican Football Federation, Federación Dominicana de Fútbol (). The team is a member of the Caribbean Football Union of CONCACAF, the governing body of football in North and Central America and the Caribbean. As of June 5th 2025, the Dominican Republic is currently ranked 139th in the FIFA Men's World Rankings, FIFA World Rankings. As is the case in many other Caribbean nations, association football has not traditionally been the most popular sport in the Dominican Republic. Interest in baseball diverts away from football and contributes to the country's lack of success in any major football tournament qualification. As of 2025, the Dominican Republic has never qualified for the FIFA World Cup. In 2024, they qualified to the 2025 CONCACAF Gold Cup, the first major tournament in their history. Home Stadium The Domini ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
El Salvador
El Salvador, officially the Republic of El Salvador, is a country in Central America. It is bordered on the northeast by Honduras, on the northwest by Guatemala, and on the south by the Pacific Ocean. El Salvador's capital and largest city is San Salvador. The country's population in 2024 was estimated to be 6 million according to a government census. Among the Mesoamerican nations that historically controlled the region are the Maya peoples, Maya, and then the Cuzcatlan, Cuzcatlecs. Archaeological monuments also suggest an early Olmec presence around the first millennium BC. In the beginning of the 16th century, the Spanish conquest of El Salvador, Spanish Empire conquered the Central American territory, incorporating it into the Viceroyalty of New Spain ruled from Mexico City. However, the Viceroyalty of New Spain had little to no influence in the daily affairs of the isthmus, which was colonized in 1524. In 1609, the area was declared the Captaincy General of Guatemala by the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
FIFA World Cup
The FIFA World Cup, often called the World Cup, is an international association football competition among the senior List of men's national association football teams, men's national teams of the members of the FIFA, Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), the sport's global governing body. The tournament has been held every four years since the 1930 FIFA World Cup, inaugural tournament in 1930, with the exception of 1942 and 1946 due to the Second World War. The reigning champions are Argentina national football team, Argentina, who won their third title at the 2022 FIFA World Cup, 2022 World Cup by defeating France national football team, France. The contest starts with the FIFA World Cup qualification, qualification phase, which takes place over the preceding three years to determine which teams qualify for the tournament phase. In the tournament phase, 32 teams compete for the title at venues within the host nation(s) over the course of about a month. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2003 CONCACAF Gold Cup Qualification
CFU qualifying tournament Preliminary round ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- First round Group A ---- ---- Group B ---- ---- Group C ---- ---- Group D ---- ---- Final round Group A ---- ---- Group B ---- ---- UNCAF Qualification Tournament The UNCAF Nations Cup acted as the Gold Cup qualifying tournament for the Central American teams. The teams qualifying were Costa Rica, Guatemala and El Salvador Qualifying round ---- ---- See also External links Results and line-ups at rsssf.com {{CONCACAF Gold Cup CONCACAF Gold Cup qualification Qual Qualification Qualification may refer to: Processes * Qualifications-Based Selection (QBS), a competitive contract procurement process established by the United States Congress * Process qualification, ensures that manufacturing and production processes can ... ca:Classificació per al Campionat de la CONCACAF 1969 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1978 Births
Events January * January 1 – Air India Flight 855, a Boeing 747 passenger jet, crashes off the coast of Bombay, killing 213. * January 5 – Bülent Ecevit, of Republican People's Party, CHP, forms the new government of Turkey (42nd government). * January 6 – The Holy Crown of Hungary (also known as Stephen of Hungary Crown) is returned to Hungary from the United States, where it was held since World War II. * January 10 – Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Cardenal, a critic of the Nicaraguan government, is assassinated; riots erupt against Anastasio Somoza Debayle, Somoza's government. * January 13 – Former American Vice President Hubert Humphrey, a Democrat, dies of cancer in Waverly, Minnesota, at the age of 66. * January 18 – The European Court of Human Rights finds the British government guilty of mistreating prisoners in Northern Ireland, but not guilty of torture. * January 22 – Ethiopia declares the ambassador of West Germany ''persona non grata''. * January 24 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Dominican Republic Men's Footballers
Dominican may refer to: Religious communities * Dominican Order, a Catholic order, formally the Order of Preachers * Anglican Order of Preachers, loosely referred to as Dominicans Dominican Republic * Dominican Republic, on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles, in the Caribbean ** Dominicans ** Demographics of the Dominican Republic ** Culture of the Dominican Republic Dominica * Dominica, an island nation in the Lesser Antilles, in the Caribbean ** Demographics of Dominica ** Culture of Dominica See also * * * Dominican College (other), the name of several colleges * Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology The Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology (DSPT) is a Catholic graduate school in Berkeley, California. It is a member of the interfaith Graduate Theological Union (GTU) and an affiliate of the University of California Berkeley. DSPT ..., Berkeley, California, United States * Dominican University (other) {{disambiguatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
