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Estadio Municipal Germán Becker
The Estadio Municipal Bicentenario Germán Becker Baechler is a stadium located in Temuco, Chile and owned by the Temuco municipality. It is the home ground of Deportes Temuco and also, the former ground of the defunct Unión Temuco football clubs. It was designed by Enrique Esteve and inaugurated on August 13, 1965. Its dimensions are: 105 x 68 m. It has a capacity of 18,100. It was originally built for the inmates at the Temuco prison. The highest ever recorded attendance was on December 3, 1972, when 32,551 spectators saw the Primera Division match between Green Cross Temuco and Colo-Colo. In 2007 the stadium was selected as a venue for the 2008 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup, and to comply with FIFA standards, its facilities were improved, its capacity was decreased from 20,930 to 18,100; and all seats were covered by a roof (from about 80% previously). The athletics track was removed to enhance spectators' enjoyment of the on-the-pitch action. The stadium was re-inaugurated o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Temuco
Temuco () is a List of cities in Chile, city and Communes of Chile, commune, capital (political), capital of the Cautín Province and of the Araucanía Region in southern Chile. The city is located south of Santiago de Chile, Santiago. The city grew out from a fort of the same name established in 1881 during Occupation of Araucanía, Chile's invasion of Araucanía. Temuco lies in the middle of the historic Araucanía (historic region), Araucanía, a traditional land of the indigenous Mapuche. Temuco's central place in Araucanía with easy access to the Andean valleys, lakes and coastal areas makes it a hub for tourism, agricultural, livestock and forestry operations as well as a communication and trade centre for the numerous small towns of Araucanía. Temuco has recently been regarded as a university city as it houses two large universities: University of the Frontier and Temuco Catholic University. Nobel laureates Gabriela Mistral and Pablo Neruda both lived in Temuco for som ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chile National Rugby Union Team
The Chilean national rugby union team (Spanish: ''Selección de rugby de Chile'') represents the Chilean Rugby Federation () in men's international rugby union. Nicknamed Los Cóndores (''The Condors'' in English), they play in red and white jerseys. They are currently ranked 21st in the World Rugby Rankings, making them the third highest-ranked nation in South America. Chile was the second South American nation after Argentina to play international rugby union, playing their first international test against Argentina in 1936 in Santiago. Chile is one of the founding members of CONSUR (now known as Sudamérica Rugby) in 1989, alongside Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay. Chile has long been participating in the South American Rugby Championship since 1951 and has consistently been the third or even the second best team in South America. In 2016, Chile, alongside the unions of Argentina, Brazil, Canada, the United States, and Uruguay, formed the Americas Rugby Champion ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sports Venues In Temuco
Sport is a physical activity or game, often competitive and organized, that maintains or improves physical ability and skills. Sport may provide enjoyment to participants and entertainment to spectators. The number of participants in a particular sport can vary from hundreds of people to a single individual. Sport competitions may use a team or single person format, and may be open, allowing a broad range of participants, or closed, restricting participation to specific groups or those invited. Competitions may allow a "tie" or "draw", in which there is no single winner; others provide tie-breaking methods to ensure there is only one winner. They also may be arranged in a tournament format, producing a champion. Many sports leagues make an annual champion by arranging games in a regular sports season, followed in some cases by playoffs. Sport is generally recognised as system of activities based in physical athleticism or physical dexterity, with major competitions admitt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sports Venues In Araucanía Region
Sport is a physical activity or game, often Competition, competitive and organization, organized, that maintains or improves physical ability and skills. Sport may provide enjoyment to participants and entertainment to spectators. The number of participants in a particular sport can vary from hundreds of people to a single individual. Sport competitions may use a team or single person format, and may be Open (sport), open, allowing a broad range of participants, or closed, restricting participation to specific groups or those invited. Competitions may allow a "tie" or "draw", in which there is no single winner; others provide tie-breaking methods to ensure there is only one winner. They also may be arranged in a tournament format, producing a champion. Many sports leagues make an annual champion by arranging games in a regular sports season, followed in some cases by playoffs. Sport is generally recognised as system of activities based in physical athleticism or physical de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Football Venues In Chile
Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' generally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly called ''football'' include association football (known as ''soccer'' in Australia, Canada, South Africa, the United States, and sometimes in Ireland and New Zealand); Australian rules football; Gaelic football; gridiron football (specifically American football, arena football, or Canadian football); International rules football; rugby league football; and rugby union football. These various forms of football share, to varying degrees, common origins and are known as "football codes". There are a number of references to traditional, ancient, or prehistoric ball games played in many different parts of the world. Contemporary codes of football can be traced back to the codification of these games at English public schools during the 19th ce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
QTVR
QuickTime VR (also known as QTVR) is an image file format developed by Apple Inc. for QuickTime, and discontinued along with QuickTime 7. It allows the creation and viewing of VR photography, photographically captured panoramas, and the viewing of objects photographed from multiple angles. It functions as plugins for the QuickTime Player and for the QuickTime Web browser plugin. History QuickTime VR was conceived in 1991 by programmers Eric Chen and Ian Small of the Human Interface Group in the Advanced Technology Group at Apple, utilizing a Cray supercomputer to process images into panoramas. It was soon made prominent within the company by Apple's board member and former astronaut Sally Ride, who was fascinated by the demonstrated possibilities of 3D computer imagery. It was publicly launched in 1995 as part of QuickTime 2, by a dedicated group including Chen, Small, senior content engineer Ted Casey, and program manager Eric Zarakov. Apple sold the content authoring tool ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2015 Copa América Knockout Stage
The knockout stage of the 2015 Copa América began on 24 June and concluded with the 2015 Copa América final, final on 4 July 2015. A total of eight teams competed in the knockout stage. Qualified teams The top two placed teams from each of the three groups, plus the two best-placed third teams, qualified for the knockout stage. Bracket In the knockout stage, the eight teams played a single-elimination tournament, with the following rules: *In the quarter-finals, teams from the same group could not play each other. *In the quarter-finals, semi-finals, and third place playoff, if tied after 90 minutes, a Penalty shoot-out (association football), penalty shoot-out was used to determine the winner (no Overtime (sports)#Association football, extra time was played). *In the final, if tied after 90 minutes, 30 minutes of extra time (association football), extra time were played. If still tied after extra time, a penalty shoot-out (association football), penalty shoot-out was used to d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2015 Copa América Group C
Group C of the 2015 Copa América was one of the three groups of competing nations in the 2015 Copa América. It consisted of Brazil national football team, Brazil, Colombia national football team, Colombia, Peru national football team, Peru, and Venezuela national football team, Venezuela. Group play began on 14 June 2015 and ended on 21 June 2015. Brazil, Peru and Colombia advanced to the quarter-finals. Teams ;Notes Standings In the 2015 Copa América knockout stage, quarter-finals: *Brazil advanced to play Paraguay national football team, Paraguay (runners-up of 2015 Copa América Group B, Group B). *Peru advanced to play Bolivia national football team, Bolivia (runners-up of 2015 Copa América Group A, Group A). *Colombia (as one of the 2015 Copa América#Ranking of third placed teams, two best third-placed teams) advanced to play Argentina national football team, Argentina (winners of 2015 Copa América Group B, Group B). Matches All times local, Time in Chile, CLT (UT ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Time In Chile
Time in Chile is divided into three time zones. Most of Continental Chile uses the time offset UTC−04:00 in winter time and UTC−03:00 in summer time, while the Aysén Region and the Magallanes and Chilean Antarctica region uses the time offset UTC−03:00 the whole year. Additionally, Easter Island uses the time offset UTC−06:00 in winter time and UTC−05:00 in summer time. Until 2015, Continental Chile used the time offset UTC−04:00 and Easter Island used UTC−06:00 for standard time, with daylight saving time roughly between October and March every year. In January 2015, the Chilean government announced that the entire country would keep the time offset used during daylight saving time permanently. However, the annual time change was reinstated in 2016 after feedback from the public about an increase in truancy during the winter months, complaints about older computers and other electronic devices not using the right time zone, and fruit growers reporting a 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Copa América
The CONMEBOL Copa América (; known until 1975 as the South American Football Championship), often simply called the Copa America, is the top men's quadrennial association football, football tournament contested among list of men's national association football teams, national teams from South America. It is the oldest still-running continental football competition. The competition determines the Continental football championships, champions of South America, minus Suriname national football team, Suriname, Guyana national football team, Guyana and French Guiana national football team, French Guiana. Since the 1990s, teams from North America and Asia have also been invited to compete. Eight of the ten CONMEBOL national teams have won the tournament at least once in its 48 stagings since the event's inauguration in 1916, with Ecuador national football team, Ecuador and Venezuela national football team, Venezuela the only teams yet to win. Argentina national football team, Argenti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brazil National Rugby Union Team
The Brazil national rugby union team, nicknamed Tupis, is controlled by the Brazilian Rugby Confederation. Brazil is one of the founding unions of Sudamérica Rugby, CONSUR (now Sudamérica Rugby) and played in the inaugural 1951 South American Rugby Championship, South American tournament. Brazil has not qualified for a Rugby World Cup, but participated in the Rugby sevens at the 2016 Summer Olympics, first edition of rugby 7s in the Olympics. Brazil currently ranks 4th in South America (behind Argentina, Uruguay and Chile) and 6th in the Americas region. Rugby union in Brazil has a long history, dating back to the late 19th century when British immigrants brought the game to Brazil's urban ports. Despite Brazil's success in Brazil national football team, association football, Brazil has historically been one of the weakest teams of the Americas, having less success than that of Argentina national rugby union team, Argentina or Uruguay national rugby union team, Uruguay. In th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2015 Rugby World Cup Qualifying
The Rugby World Cup qualification, qualification process for the 2015 Rugby World Cup began during the pool stages of the 2011 Rugby World Cup, 2011 tournament in New Zealand, during which the top three teams from each of the four pools were awarded automatic qualification for the 2015 event. A further eight teams qualified through regional tournaments and the repechage process. The tournament was held in England; it began on 18 September 2015 and finished on 31 October. Qualifiers Qualification process Qualification started in the pool stage of RWC 2011. 12 teams received an automatic qualification berth by finishing in the top 3 positions of their respective pools. A further 8 berths for the tournament were then available through regional tournaments and the repechage process. The non-automatic qualification process began on 24 March 2012, by the end of which 80 teams had competed over 184 matches. The pool draw for the 2015 Rugby World Cup took place on 3 December 2012. A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
