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2006–07 In Venezuelan Football
The following article presents a summary of the 2006-07 football season in Venezuela. Torneo Apertura ("Opening" Tournament) Top scorers Torneo Clausura ("Closing" Tournament) Top scorers "Championship" playoff Caracas F.C. and U.A. Maracaibo ended with one championship each at the end of the Apertura and Clausura. Tournament rules establish that a playoff game is required. ---- Aggregate Table Venezuela national team This section will cover Venezuela's games from August 16, 2006 until the end of the Copa América 2007. ''KEY:'' * ''F = Friendly match An exhibition game (also known as a friendly, scrimmage, demonstration, training match, pre-season game, warmup match, or preparation match, depending at least in part on the sport) is a sport, sporting event whose prize money and impact on th ...'' * ''CA07 = Copa América 2007 match'' External links Venezuelan Football Federation {{DEFAULTSORT:2006-07 in Venezuelan football Seaso ... [...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 Football player, players who almost exclusively use their feet to propel a Ball (association football), ball around a rectangular field called a Football pitch, pitch. The objective of the game is to Scoring in association football, score more goals than the opposing team by moving the ball beyond the goal line into a rectangular-framed Goal (sport), goal defended by the opposing team. 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 and territories, it is the world's most popular sport. Association football is played in accordance with the Laws of the Game (association football), Laws of the Game, a set of rules that has been in effect since 1863 and maintained by the International Football Association Board, IFAB since 1886. The game is pla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alex Sinisterra
Alex is a given name. Similar names are Alexander, Alexandra, Alexey or Alexis. People Multiple *Alex Brown (other), multiple people * Alex Cook (other), multiple people * Alex Forsyth (other), multiple people *Alexander Gardner (other), multiple people *Alex Gordon (other), multiple people *Alex Harris (other), multiple people *Alex Jones (other), multiple people *Alexander Johnson (other), multiple people * Alex Lee (other), multiple people *Alex Taylor (other), multiple people Politicians *Alex Allan (born 1951), British diplomat *Alex Attwood (born 1959), Northern Irish politician *Alex Kushnir (born 1978), Israeli politician *Alex Salmond (1954–2024), Scottish politician, former First Minister of Scotland Baseball players *Alex Avila (born 1987), American baseball player *Alex Bregman (born 1994), American baseball player *Alex Freeland (born 2001), American baseball player *Alex Gar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Copa Sudamericana 2007
The 2007 edition of the Copa Sudamericana was played by 34 teams; 30 teams from the CONMEBOL and 4 teams from the CONCACAF. CONMEBOL organized the tournament and invited three North American clubs which were the best three of the CONCACAF Champions' Cup 2007; the fourth North American club was the defending champion Pachuca. The official draw took place on May 22 in Buenos Aires. The Argentine club Arsenal de Sarandí won their first international title by defeating América in the final, winning 3-2 in the first leg and losing 2-1 in the second leg, which was the only game that they lost. Arsenal scored at least three goals in their opponents stadium in four of the five games they played. They defeated San Lorenzo, an Argentine club that recently won the 2007 Clausura, the Brazilian club Goiás, Argentine giant River Plate and the strongest rivals of Mexican football, Guadalajara and America. This is the third time a Mexican club has reached the final, and the fourth title ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Copa Libertadores 2008
The 2008 Copa Libertadores de América was the 49th edition of the Copa Libertadores, CONMEBOL's premier annual international club tournament. This marked the first year the competition was sponsored by Spanish bank Grupo Santander, Santander. As such, the competition is officially the 2008 Copa Santander Libertadores de América for sponsorship reasons. The draw took place on December 19, 2007, in Asunción. Ecuadorian club Liga Deportiva Universitaria de Quito, LDU Quito won the competition for the first time in a final decided on penalties. It is the first time a team from Ecuador has won the competition. LDU Quito earned a berth in the 2008 FIFA Club World Cup and 2009 Recopa Sudamericana. Qualified teams Thirty-eight teams qualified for the competition, with twenty-six teams directly qualifying to the Second Stage and twelve entering in the First Stage. Seven countries sent their Apertura champions and Clausura champions for their first two berths. The remaining berth, or be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caracas FC
Caracas Fútbol Club is a Venezuelan professional football team based in Caracas. The club has won twelve First Division titles making it the most successful in Venezuelan football history. They are nicknamed ''Los Rojos del Ávila'', or the "Reds from Ávila". This refers to their red jerseys as well as Cerro El Ávila, a mountain near Caracas. History Early years Caracas FC was founded in 1967 under a group of friends led by José Beracasa and Jorge Cubeddu with the name Yamaha FC. The team was entered as an amateur team to the Football Federation of the State of Miranda. The purpose of the club was to allow for Beracasa and his friends to have somewhere to enjoy their free time. As a result, Beracasa created one of the most historical and winning sports franchises in Venezuelan history. In 1984, renamed Caracas-Yamaha FC after successful seasons in the amateur league, the team was admitted into the Second Division. Their first season in the professional league they ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caracas
Caracas ( , ), officially Santiago de León de Caracas (CCS), is the capital and largest city of Venezuela, and the center of the Metropolitan Region of Caracas (or Greater Caracas). Caracas is located along the Guaire River in the northern part of the country, within the Caracas Valley of the Venezuelan coastal mountain range (Cordillera de la Costa). The valley is close to the Caribbean Sea, separated from the coast by a steep mountain range, Cerro El Ávila; to the south there are more hills and mountains. The Metropolitan Region of Caracas has an estimated population of almost 5 million inhabitants. The historic center of the city is the Cathedral, located on Bolívar Square, though some consider the center to be Plaza Venezuela, located in the Los Caobos area. Businesses in the city include service companies, banks, and malls. Caracas has a largely service-based economy, apart from some industrial activity in its metropolitan area. The Caracas Stock Exchange and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Estadio Brígido Iriarte
w:es:Estadio, es:Estadio is the spanish language word for Stadium. The term may be applied to the following: * Estadio (magazine) a sports magazine published in Chile * Specific stadiums in Spanish speaking or Portuguese speaking countriesclick here for a full search {{Disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giovanny Perluzzo
Giovanny may refer to: * Giovanny (footballer), Brazilian footballer * Giovanny Gallegos Giovanny Gallegos (; born August 14, 1991) is a Mexican professional baseball pitcher in the Los Angeles Dodgers organization. He has previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Yankees and St. Louis Cardinals. Gallegos made ... * Giovanny Hernández See also * {{Disambiguation, Geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maracaibo
Maracaibo ( , ; ) is a city and municipality in northwestern Venezuela, on the western shore of the strait that connects Lake Maracaibo to the Gulf of Venezuela. It is the largest city in Venezuela and is List of cities in Venezuela by population, the second-largest city proper in Venezuela, after the national capital, Caracas, and the capital of the state of Zulia. The population of the city is approximately 2,658,355 with the metropolitan area estimated at 5,278,448 . [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Estadio José Pachencho Romero
Estadio José Encarnación "Pachencho" Romero is a sports stadium in Maracaibo, capital of the Zulia state, in Venezuela. The stadium holds 40,800 spectators. The pitch was originally surrounded by both a running track and a scorched concrete cycling track, the latter being replaced with new stands due to the celebration of Copa América 2007. The building is regarded as national cultural heritage of the Zulia state (code IFA 063,045). And their maintenance responsibility Case runs idem, Foundation attached to the Mayoralty Maracaibo. It was built because of the Bolivarian Sports Games of 1971 and remodeled on the occasion of the Games Central American and Caribbean Maracaibo 1998 in which the national team won a gold medal at the selection of Mexico. His name is in honor of a prominent athlete Zulia dedicated to athletics. It was one of 9 locations in the Copa América Venezuela 2007 being the headquarters of the Grand Final, where they conducted a classic South American footbal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ronald Vargas
Ronald Alejandro Vargas Aranguren (; born 2 December 1986) is a Venezuelan former professional footballer who played as a forward. Club career Caracas Vargas started his career in the youth teams of Caracas. He was promoted to the first team in 2006. His debut in the Copa Libertadores came on 14 March 2006 against Cienciano. Ronald scored his first goal in the final of the 2006–07 Primera División against Unión Atlético Maracaibo, in a 0–1 victory. The 2007–08 season established him as a regular player in the starting line-up of Caracas. His first goal of the season came on 21 October 2007 in a league match against El Vigía. He ended the campaign with 29 games and 8 goals. In that season he also made his debut in Copa Venezuela and scored his first goal in Copa Libertadores. Club Brugge On 14 May 2008, Vargas signed with the Belgian team Club Brugge on a four-year deal. Caracas received €1.5 million, making this the most expensive transfer from a Venezuelan tea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel Delfino
Daniel Alejandro Delfino (born June 1, 1970, in Temperley) is a retired football striker from Argentina, who played for several clubs in South America during his career. Club career Delfino emerged from the youth ranks of Club Atlético Banfield. On October 1, 1988, he made his debut with ''El Taladro'' in a 2–0 victory over Chacarita. In 1991, he was loaned to first division club Quilmes. After six months playing for the ''cerveceros'', Delfino returned to Banfield and helped the club gain promotion to the Argentine Primera in 1992. Later, he transferred to Rosario Central where he played during 1994. The following year he made his third and last spell with Banfield, playing for the club until the Clausura '96. From there, Delfino went to spend some years in second division making appearances for San Martín de Tucumán, Atlanta and Sportivo Italiano. In 1999, he moved to Bolivia where he played for Unión Central before signing with The Strongest in 2000. With the ''atigrad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
