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Football At The 1952 Summer Olympics
The Football tournament at the 1952 Summer Olympics was won by Hungary. The games signalled the arrival (to Western Europeans at least) of the Hungarian national football team – the "Magical Magyars". Ferenc Puskás later said of the 1952 competition: "It was during the Olympics that our football first started to flow with real power." It was during the Games that Stanley Rous of English Football Association invited the Hungarians to play a friendly at Wembley the following year. Venues Squads Participating nations * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Final tournament Preliminary round The preliminary round saw Hungary record a narrow victory against Romania, whilst there was an 8–0 victory for Italy against the United States, and a 5–1 victory for Brazil against The Netherlands. Great Britain succumbed to Luxembourg 5–3, whilst Egypt defeated Chile 5–4. Yugoslavia were drawn against the Indians and won 10–1. ---- --- ...
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Football At The 1948 Summer Olympics
The Association football, football tournament of the 1948 Summer Olympics was won by Sweden men's national football team, Sweden. This remains Sweden's only international title at a senior male football level and was the first international appearance of the trio that would later be known as Gre-No-Li dominating the Serie A, Italian league at A.C. Milan in the 1950s. It was the first international football tournament ever to be broadcast on television, with the semi-finals, final and bronze medal play-off all being broadcast live in full on the BBC One, BBC Television Service. Venues Participating nations * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Squads Final tournament The tournament began on 26 July 1948 with a preliminary round of two matches: Luxembourg national football team, Luxembourg defeating Afghanistan national football team, Afghanistan 6–0 and the Netherlands national football team, Netherlands beating Ireland national football team (FAI), Irela ...
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Kotka
Kotka (; ) is a town in Finland, located on the southeastern coast of the country at the mouth of the Kymi River. The population of Kotka is approximately , while the Kotka-Hamina sub-region, sub-region has a population of approximately . It is the most populous Municipalities of Finland, municipality in Finland, and the 16th most populous List of urban areas in Finland by population, urban area in the country. Kotka is situated in the southern part of the Kymenlaakso province of Finland. Kotka is a major port and industrial city situated on the coast of the Gulf of Finland. Kotka is a culturally diverse city with a variety of schools. It was previously a part of the former Kymi, Finland, Kymi parish. Kymi, Haapasaari (Kotka), Haapasaari island, and Karhula, which was once a separate market town, were later incorporated into Kotka. Kotka's neighboring municipalities are Hamina, Kouvola, and Pyhtää. Kotka is situated in the Kotka-Hamina subdivision and, along with Kouvola, is one ...
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Karel Van Der Meer
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Michel Leblond
Michel Leblond (10 May 1932 – 17 December 2009) was a French football midfielder who was a member of the French squad at FIFA World Cup 1954 and a main player of great Stade de Reims in the 1950s. He also holds the honour of being the first person to score in a European Champions' Cup Final. He also played for France at the 1952 Summer Olympics. Honours * Division 1: 1953, 1955, 1958, 1960 * Coupe de France: 1958 * European Cup The UEFA Champions League (UCL) is an annual club association football competition organised by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) that is contested by top-division European clubs. The competition begins with a round robi ...: Runner-up 1956, 1960 References External links * ProfileProfile 1932 births 2009 deaths Footballers from Reims French men's footballers France men's international footballers Men's association football midfielders Stade de Reims players RC Strasbourg Alsace players Olympic footballers f ...
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Jerzy Krasówka
Jerzy Wilibald Krasówka (17 August 1924 – 11 April 2001) was a Polish footballer who played as a forward. He competed in the 1952 Summer Olympics The 1952 Summer Olympics (, ), officially known as the Games of the XV Olympiad (, ) and commonly known as Helsinki 1952, were an international multi-sport event held from 19 July to 3 August 1952 in Helsinki, Finland. After Japan declared in .... References 1924 births 2001 deaths Footballers from Gliwice Men's association football forwards Polish men's footballers Poland men's international footballers Szombierki Bytom players Ekstraklasa players Olympic footballers for Poland Footballers at the 1952 Summer Olympics Polish expatriates in Germany 20th-century Polish sportsmen {{Poland-footy-forward-1920s-stub ...
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Kazimierz Trampisz
Kazimierz Jan Trampisz (10 January 1929 – 12 August 2014) was a Polish footballer who played as a striker. He spent most of his playing career at Polonia Bytom during golden era of the club's golden era. Trampisz played 10 times for Poland, scoring three goals. He participated in the 1952 Summer Olympics, scoring one goal against France. He later coached Stal Rzeszów and GKS Jastrzębie Honours Polonia Bytom * Ekstraklasa: 1954, 1962 The year saw the Cuban Missile Crisis, which is often considered the closest the world came to a Nuclear warfare, nuclear confrontation during the Cold War. Events January * January 1 – Samoa, Western Samoa becomes independent from Ne ... References External links * * 1929 births 2014 deaths Footballers from Ivano-Frankivsk People from Stanisławów Voivodeship Men's association football forwards Polish men's footballers Poland men's international footballers Footballers at the 1952 Summer Olympics Olympic footba ...
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Veritas Stadion 23
In Roman mythology, Veritas (), meaning Truth, is the Goddess of Truth, a daughter of Saturn (mythology), Saturn (called Cronus by the Greeks, the Titan (mythology), Titan of Time, perhaps first by Plutarch) and the mother of Virtus (deity), Virtus. She is also sometimes considered the daughter of Jupiter (mythology), Jupiter (called Zeus by the Greeks), or a creation of Prometheus. The elusive goddess is said to have hidden in the bottom of a holy well. She is depicted both as a virgin dressed in white and as the "naked truth" (''nuda veritas'') holding a hand mirror. The eqivalent Greek goddess is Aletheia (Ancient Greek language, Ancient Greek: ). ''Veritas'' was the Roman virtue of Honesty, truthfulness, which was considered one of the main virtues any good Roman should possess. The German philosopher Martin Heidegger argues that the truth represented by ''aletheia'' (which essentially means "unconcealment") is different from that represented by ''veritas'', which is linked ...
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Ratina Stadion
Ratina is a suburban community in the municipality of Kraljevo, Serbia. It is located 6 kilometers from the city center and has about 12,000 inhabitants. References

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Turku
Turku ( ; ; , ) is a city in Finland and the regional capital of Southwest Finland. It is located on the southwestern coast of the country at the mouth of the Aura River (Finland), River Aura. The population of Turku is approximately , while the Turku metropolitan area, metropolitan area has a population of approximately . It is the most populous Municipalities of Finland, municipality in Finland, and the third most populous List of urban areas in Finland by population, urban area in the country after Helsinki metropolitan area, Helsinki and Tampere metropolitan area, Tampere. Turku is Finland's oldest city. It is not known when Turku was granted city status. Pope Pope Gregory IX, Gregory IX first mentioned the town of ''Aboa'' in his ''Bulla'' in 1229, and this year is now used as the founding year of the city. Turku was the most important city in the eastern part of the Sweden, Kingdom of Sweden (today's Finland). After the Finnish War, Finland became an Grand Duchy of Finla ...
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Tampere
Tampere is a city in Finland and the regional capital of Pirkanmaa. It is located in the Finnish Lakeland. The population of Tampere is approximately , while the metropolitan area has a population of approximately . It is the most populous municipality in Finland, and the second most populous urban area in the country after the Helsinki metropolitan area. Tampere is the most populous inland city in the Nordic countries. The urban area has a population of approximately 340,000. Tampere is considered to be the most important urban, economic and cultural centre in the whole of inland Finland. Tampere and its surroundings are part of the historic province of Satakunta. The area belonged to the province of Häme from 1831 to 1997; over time, it has often been considered a province of Tavastia. For example, in '' Uusi tietosanakirja'', published in the 1960s, the Tampere sub-region is presented as part of the then province of Tavastia. However between 1775 and 1870 Tammerkoski rap ...
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