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Football At The 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's Tournament
Women's Olympic Football tournament was held for the third time at the 2004 Summer Olympics. The tournament featured 10 women's national teams from six continental confederations. The 10 teams were drawn into two groups of three and one group of four and each group played a round-robin tournament. At the end of the group stage, the top teams from each group advanced to the knockout stage, beginning with the quarter-finals and culminating with the gold medal match at Karaiskakis Stadium on 26 August 2004. Qualification Several qualification tournaments were held to determine the participating nations. Venues The tournament was held in five venues across five cities: *Karaiskakis Stadium, Piraeus * Pankritio Stadium, Heraklion * Pampeloponnisiako Stadium, Patras * Kaftanzoglio Stadium, Thessaloniki * Panthessaliko Stadium, Volos Seeding Originally, the tournament was planned to form two groups of five teams in the group stage, then play a knockout stage by four teams (two top ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Cristiane Rozeira
Cristiane Rozeira de Souza Silva (born 15 May 1985), known as Cristiane (), is a Brazilian Association football, footballer who plays for Clube de Regatas do Flamengo (women), Flamengo and the Brazil women's national football team, Brazilian women's national team. A prolific Forward (association football), forward, she was part of Brazil's silver medal-winning teams at the Football at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament, 2004 and Football at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament, 2008 Football at the Summer Olympics, Olympic football tournaments. In total she has participated in five FIFA Women's World Cups and four Football at the Summer Olympics, Olympics. At club level, Cristiane has played Professional sports, professionally in France, Germany, Sweden, the United States, Russia and South Korea, as well as in her native Brazil. Career Early beginnings Cristiane started her career at the local football clubs São Bernardo (in São Bernardo do Campo) and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Asian Football Confederation
The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) is the governing body of association football, beach soccer, and futsal in most countries and territories in Asia. The AFC was formed in 1954. It has 47 members. The Asian Ladies Football Confederation (ALFC) was the section of AFC that managed women's association football in Asia. The group was independently founded in April 1968 in a meeting involving Taiwan, British Hong Kong, Malaysia, and Singapore. In 1986, ALFC merged with AFC. Executive Committee Members 2026 FIFA World Cup Qualification Playoffs In June 2025, the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) confirmed that Qatar and Saudi Arabia will host the Asian qualifying playoffs for the 2026 FIFA World Cup. The playoffs will feature six teams, comprising the third- and fourth-placed teams from the recent third round of Asian qualifiers. These teams will be divided into two groups of three, with the winners of each group advancing to the intercontinental playoff round. The deci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Brazilian Football Confederation
The Brazilian Football Confederation (, CBF) is the governing body of football in Brazil. It was founded on Monday, 8 June 1914, as , and renamed Confederação Brasileira de Desportos in 1916. The football confederation, as known today, separated from other sports associations on 24 September 1979. The CBF has its headquarters in Rio de Janeiro. The confederation owns a training center, named Granja Comary, located in Teresópolis. It was announced on 29 September 2007, that the CBF would launch a women's league and cup competition in October 2007 following pressure from FIFA president Sepp Blatter during the 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup in China. The confederation reported a budget of $265.6 million ( R$1.5 billion) for 2024, and a projection of $398.4 million (R$2.25 billion) for 2025. Association staff References External links Official website CBFat YouTube CBFat X CBFat Facebook CBFat Instagram CBFat Flickr Other Brazilat FIFA site {{Authority ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Silvia Regina De Oliveira
Silvia () is a female given name of Latin origin, with a male equivalent Silvio and English-language cognate Sylvia. The name originates from the Latin word for forest, ''Silva'', and its meaning is "spirit of the wood"; the mythological god of the forest was associated with the figure of Silvanus. Silvia is also a surname. In Roman mythology, Silvia is the goddess of the forest while Rhea Silvia was the mother of Romulus and Remus. Silvia is also the name of one of the female innamorati of the commedia dell'arte and is a character of the ''Aminta'' written by Torquato Tasso. People with the given name *Queen Silvia of Sweden (born 1943), spouse of King Carl XVI Gustaf * Saint Silvia, Italian saint of the 6th century *Silvia Abascal (born 1979), Spanish actress * Silvia Abril (born 1971), Spanish actress and comedian * Silvia Agüero (born 1985), Spanish Roma writer and activist * Silvia Airik-Priuhka, Estonian writer and poetry translator * Silvia Albano, Italian judge * S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
CONMEBOL
CONMEBOL ( ) or CSF (; ; ), is the continental governing body of football in South America and it is one of FIFA's six continental confederations. The oldest continental confederation in the world, its headquarters are located in Luque, Paraguay. CONMEBOL is responsible for the organization and governance of South American football's major international tournaments. With 10 member football associations, it has the fewest members of all the confederations in FIFA. CONMEBOL national teams have won ten FIFA World Cups (Brazil five, Argentina three and Uruguay two) and CONMEBOL clubs have won 22 Intercontinental Cups and four FIFA Club World Cups. Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay have won two Olympic gold medals each. The World Cup qualifiers of CONMEBOL have been described as the "toughest qualifiers in the world" for their simple round-robin system, entry of some of the top national teams in the world, leveling of the weaker national teams, climate and geographic condition ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
United States Soccer Federation
The United States Soccer Federation (USSF), commonly referred to as U.S. Soccer, is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization and the official governing body of soccer in the United States. It is a full member of FIFA and governs American soccer at the international, professional, and amateur levels, including: the men's and women's national teams, Major League Soccer (MLS), the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL), youth organizations, as well as the beach soccer, futsal, Paralympic, and deaf national teams. U.S. Soccer sanctions referees and soccer tournaments for most soccer leagues in the United States. It also administers and operates the U.S. Open Cup and SheBelieves Cup. U.S. Soccer is headquartered in Chicago. History U.S. Soccer was originally known as the United States Football Association. It formed on April 5, 1913, at the Astor House Hotel in Lower Manhattan, and on August 15 of that year was accepted as one of the earliest member organizations of FIFA an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Kari Seitz
Kari Seitz is an American professional soccer referee and the most experienced female referee in the World (out of the male and female referees) She participated in four FIFA Women's World Cup tournaments in (1999, 2003, 2007 and 2011), as well as four Olympic soccer tournaments (2004, 2008 2008 was designated as: *International Year of Languages *International Year of Planet Earth *International Year of the Potato *International Year of Sanitation The Great Recession, a worldwide recession which began in 2007, continued throu ..., 2012 and 2016) and is the only referee — man or woman — to do so. In October 2013, she announced she would be retiring later in the month after a 28-year career. Her final assignments included the 2013 National Women's Soccer League championship match, the league's first. At the request of FIFA, in 2016 she began managing training for Women's Soccer Referees worldwide. She and her husband relocated to Switzerland in 2016 and she assum ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Guyana Football Federation
The Guyana Football Federation is the governing body of football in Guyana. It controls the Guyana national football team. The GFF has sanctioned the GFF Elite League, Elite League as the highest tier of football in the country. Staff ' References External links Guyanaat the FIFA website Guyana at CONCACAF site National members of CONCACAF Football in Guyana Association football governing bodies in South America Sports organizations established in 1902 1902 establishments in British Guiana Sports governing bodies in Guyana, Football Association football governing bodies in the Caribbean {{Guyana-sport-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Dianne Ferreira-James
Dianne may refer to: People *Dianne Alagich (born 1979), Australian soccer player * Dianne Barnes (born 1958), Australian para-equestrian * Dianne Barr (born 1972), British swimmer * Dianne Bates (born 1948), Australian writer and teacher * Dianne Beevers (born 1946), Australian sculptor and artist * Dianne Bentley, former First Lady of Alabama * Dianne Berry, British psychologist and academic * Dianne Bevelander (1959–2021), South African academic * Dianne Bos, Canadian photographer * Dianne Brill, American fashion designer *Dianne Brooks (1939–2005), American jazz musician * Dianne Brunton, New Zealand ecology researcher * Dianne Brushett (1942–2017), Canadian politician *Dianne Buckner, Canadian television journalist * Dianne Burge (1953–2024), Australian sprinter * Dianne Buswell (born 1989), Australian ballroom dancer *Dianne Byrum (born 1954), American politician *Dianne Cagen, West Indian cricketer * Dianne Chai (born 1962), American musician * Dianne Chambless (1948 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
CONCACAF
The Confederation of North, Central America and Caribbean Association Football, abbreviated as CONCACAF ( ; typeset for branding purposes since 2018 as Concacaf), is one of FIFA's six continental governing bodies for association football. Its 41 member associations represent countries and territories mainly in North America, including the Caribbean and Central America, and, for geopolitics, geopolitical reasons, 3 nations from the Guianas Subregion#South America, subregion of South America-Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana (an overseas department and region, overseas region of French Fifth Republic, France). The CONCACAF's primary functions are to organize competitions for national teams and clubs, and to conduct the FIFA World Cup, World Cup and FIFA Women's World Cup, Women's World Cup qualifying tournaments. The CONCACAF was founded in its current form on 18 September 1961 in Mexico City, Mexico, with the merger of the North American Football Confederation, NAFC and the Con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Senegalese Football Federation
The Senegalese Football Federation (; FSF) is the governing body of football in Senegal. It is based in the capital of Senegal, Dakar, and was founded in 1960. The FSF aided in the development of football in Senegal, specifically for its professional and amateur leagues, youth and women's football and academies. Currently the FSF oversees the professional leagues, run by the ''Ligue Sénégalaise de Football Professionnel'' (LSFP) and fully organises the national teams, youth, women's and amateur football and all football administration. History Pre-2000s A former colony of France, football was introduced to Senegal by French soldiers who played to remain fit and healthy.Gerard Akindes, “What Model for football club management in Africa?” in ''Africa's Elite Football: Structure, Politics and Everyday Challenges,'' ed. Chuka Onwumechili. (London: Routledge, 2020), 179. Soon after, football spread and became an important aspect of Senegalese culture, and the FSF was establ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Fatou Gaye
Fatou may refer to: People * Aminata Fatou Diallo (born 1995), French footballer * Cecilia Fatou-Berre (1901 – 1989), religious sister * Fatou Baldeh (born 1983), Gambian women's rights activist * Fatou Bensouda, Gambian lawyer and former Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court * Fatou Bintou Fall (born 1981), Senegalese athlete * Fatou Camara (journalist), Gambian journalist * Fatou Coulibaly (born 1987), Ivorian footballer * Fatou Diagne (born 1996), Senegalese basketball player * Fatou Diatta, Senegalese rapper and activist * Fatou Dieng (athlete) (born 1983), Mauritanian sprint athlete * Fatou Dieng (basketball) (born 1983), Senegalese basketball player * Fatou Diome, French-Senegalese writer * Fatou Dioup (born 1994), Mauritanian footballer * Fatou Jagne Senghore, Gambian jurist * Fatou Jallow, Gambian model * Fatou Jaw-Manneh, Gambian journalist * Fatou Kandé Senghor (born 1971), Senegalese film director * Fatou Kanteh (born 1997), Gambian football ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
