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Franko Andrijašević
Franko Andrijašević (; born 22 June 1991) is a Croatian professional Association football, footballer who plays as a midfielder for and Captain (association football), captains Chinese Super League club Zhejiang Professional F.C., Zhejiang FC. Club career A product of the HNK Hajduk Split, Hajduk Split academy, Andrijašević made his professional debut on 13 May 2010 in a league match against NK Croatia Sesvete, Croatia Sesvete, in Hajduk's last match of the 2009–10 Prva HNL, 2009–10 season. In August 2011, Andrijašević was loaned to second division side NK Dugopolje, Dugopolje for a period of one year. On his debut against NK Hrvatski dragovoljac, Hrvatski Dragovoljac, he scored the third goal in a 5–0 victory. On 18 June 2014, Hajduk's fierce rival GNK Dinamo Zagreb, Dinamo Zagreb signed Andrijašević. On 26 July 2016, Andrijašević signed a three-year contract with HNK Rijeka, Rijeka, as part of the transfer of Marko Lešković from Rijeka to Dinamo Zagreb. In j ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Split, Croatia
Split (, ), historically known as Spalato (; ; see #Name, other names), is the List of cities and towns in Croatia, second-largest city of Croatia after the capital Zagreb, the largest city in Dalmatia and the largest city on the Croatian coast. The Split metropolitan area is home to about 330,000 people. It lies on the eastern shore of the Adriatic Sea and is spread over a central peninsula and its surroundings. An intraregional transport hub and popular tourist destination, the city is linked to the List of islands in the Adriatic, Adriatic islands and the Apennine Peninsula. More than 1 million tourists visit it each year. The city was founded as the Greek colonisation, Greek colony of Aspálathos () in the 3rd or 2nd century BCE on the coast of the Illyrians, Illyrian Dalmatae, and in 305 CE, it became the site of Diocletian's Palace, the Palace of the Roman emperor Diocletian. It became a prominent settlement around 650 when it succeeded the ancient capital of the Roman Emp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Midfielder
In the sport of association football, a midfielder takes an Glossary of association football terms#O, outfield position primarily in the middle of the pitch. Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in that case known as defensive midfielders. As #Central midfielder, central midfielders often go across boundaries, with mobility and passing ability, they are often referred to as deep-lying midfielders, play-makers, box-to-box midfielders, or holding midfielders. There are also attacking midfielders with limited defensive assignments. The size of midfield units on a team and their assigned roles depend on which Formation (association football), formation is used; the unit of these players on the pitch is commonly referred to as the midfield. Its name derives from the fact that midfield units typically make up the in-between units to the Defender (association football), defensive units and Forward (association football), forward units of a F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stjepan Andrijašević
Stjepan "Stipe" Andrijašević (born 7 February 1967) is a Croatian former professional footballer played as a midfielder. Club career Andrijašević made his debut for local club Hajduk Split in 1983 and played in the 1994–95 UEFA Champions League knockout stage for them. International career Andrijašević made his debut for Croatia in an October 1992 friendly match against Mexico and earned a total of five caps. His final international was an August 1994 friendly away against Israel. Personal life In September 1989 Andrijašević was injured in road accident while riding his motorcycle which took him out of football for more than two years. He has two sons, Pjero (born 1988) and Franko Franko may refer to: * Franko (name), a given name and surname * Franko (bishop of Poznań) Franko was an 11th-century Polish Bishop of Poznań. He was the first bishop of Poznan after the renewal of the diocese by Bolesław the bold in 1075 ... (born 1991), and both of them are foo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Craven Cottage
Craven Cottage is a football stadium in Fulham, West London, England, which has been the home of Fulham F.C. since 1896.According to the club'official website The ground's capacity is 29,589; the record attendance is 49,335, for a game against Millwall in 1938. Next to Bishop's Park on the banks of the River Thames, it was originally a royal hunting lodge and has a history dating back over 300 years. The stadium has also been used by national teams and was formerly the home ground for rugby league club Fulham RLFC. Life Pre-Fulham The original Cottage was built in 1780, by William Craven, the sixth Baron Craven and was located close to where the Johnny Haynes Stand is now. At the time, the surrounding areas were woods which once made up part of Anne Boleyn's hunting grounds. The Cottage was lived in by Edward Bulwer-Lytton (who wrote '' The Last Days of Pompeii'') and other somewhat notable (and moneyed) persons until it was destroyed by fire in May 1888. Following ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South Korea National Football Team
The South Korea national football team (; recognized as Korea Republic by FIFA) represents South Korea in men's international Association football, football and is governed by the Korea Football Association, a member of FIFA and the Asian Football Confederation (AFC). South Korea has emerged as a major football power in Asia since the 1980s, having participated in ten consecutive and eleven overall FIFA World Cup tournaments, the most for any Asian country. Despite initially going through five World Cup tournaments without winning a match, South Korea became the first (and so far only) Asian team to reach the semi-finals when they co-hosted the 2002 FIFA World Cup, 2002 tournament with Japan. South Korea also has won two AFC Asian Cup titles, and finished as runners-up on four occasions. Furthermore, the team won three gold medals and three silver medals at the senior Football at the Asian Games, Asian Games. The team is commonly nicknamed the "Reds" by both fans and the media ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Igor Štimac
Igor Štimac (; born 6 September 1967) is a Croatian professional football manager and former player. In his playing career, Štimac had three spells with Hajduk Split and also played for Cádiz in Spain, and for Derby County and West Ham United in England. He represented the Croatia national team 53 times, playing at Euro 1996 and at the 1998 World Cup, when Croatia finished third. He also represented Yugoslavia when they won the 1987 FIFA World Youth Championship. As a manager, Štimac was in charge of the Croatia national team from 2012 to 2013. In club football, he has had brief spells in charge of Hajduk Split, Cibalia, NK Zagreb, Zadar, Iranian club Sepahan and Qatari club Al-Shahania. On 15 May 2019, Štimac was appointed as the head coach of the India national football team on a two-year contract, where he served as the head coach until 2024. Club career At the club level Štimac played for his local Croatian club Hajduk Split and, most notably, the English ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beijing Sport University F
Beijing, Chinese postal romanization, previously romanized as Peking, is the capital city of China. With more than 22 million residents, it is the world's List of national capitals by population, most populous national capital city as well as China's List of cities in China by population, second largest city by urban area after Shanghai. It is located in North China, Northern China, and is governed as a Direct-administered municipalities of China, municipality under the direct administration of the Government of the People's Republic of China, State Council with List of administrative divisions of Beijing, 16 urban, suburban, and rural districts.Figures based on 2006 statistics published in 2007 National Statistical Yearbook of China and available online at archive. Retrieved 21 April 2009. Beijing is mostly surrounded by Hebei Province and neighbors Tianjin to the southeast; together, the three divisions form the Jing-Jin-Ji, Jing-Jin-Ji cluster. Beijing is a global city and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sportske Novosti Yellow Shirt Award
The Sportske novosti Yellow Shirt award or SN Yellow Shirt for short () is an annual football award given by the Croatian sports daily ''Sportske novosti''. It is awarded to the best football player playing in the Croatian First League at the end of every season, based on post-match ratings awarded by sports journalists over the course of a season. Established in 1953, the award was originally sponsored by the defunct Zagreb-based sports newspaper ''Narodni sport'' and its sports weekly ''Sportska panorama'', and was awarded to the Player of the Season in the Yugoslav First League. In February 1962 ''Narodni sport'' was acquired by the Vjesnik publishing company and renamed ''Sportske novosti'' (SN). Since 1991 and the breakup of Yugoslavia, the paper gives the award to the best players in the Prva HNL, Croatia's top flight. As of 2024 only eight players have won the award on more than occasion, with each of them winning two awards: *Vladica Kovačević (1963, 1965) *Rudolf Belin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marko Lešković
Marko Lešković (; born 27 April 1991) is a Croatian professional footballer who plays as a defender for SuperSport HNL club Slaven Belupo. Club career Youth and early career Osijek Lešković started his career playing at youth level for Osijek, with whom he signed a professional contract in December 2009. In the first part of the 2010–11 season he was loaned to Druga HNL side Suhopolje where he was featured in 14 games scoring four times. He returned to Osijek after the winter break and made his debut for the first team as a late substitute in the 2–1 win against Istra 1961 on 5 March 2011. He made one further appearance that season. In the 2011–12 season, Lešković was much more involved in the first team, making eight starts and eleven appearances off the bench. He scored his first goal in Prva HNL in a 2–2 draw with NK Zagreb on 20 March 2012. In the 2012–13 season, Lešković made 35 appearances for Osijek, playing in a range of positions including LB, CB an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sportnet
Sportsnet is group of Canadian regional sports networks. Sportsnet or sportnet may also refer to: Sportsnet ;Current American regional sports networks * Comcast SportsNet, the group of networks now known as NBC Sports Regional Networks * Spectrum Sports the group of networks previously known as Time Warner Cable SportsNet ** Spectrum SportsNet **Spectrum SportsNet LA * SportsNet Pittsburgh * Based in New York: ** MSG Sportsnet ** SportsNet New York ;Defunct American regional sports networks * AT&T SportsNet, the former group of networks owned AT&T * Fox Sports Net, the former group of networks owned by Fox Sports Sportnet * Sportnet or Screensport (TV channel) Screensport was a pan-European cable and satellite sports television network that was on air from 1984 until 1993 before merging with Eurosport. History 1984–1986: Early years Screensport was founded in 1981 by Bob Kennedy — who had star ..., a Europe-wide sports TV channel that existed from 1984 to 1993 a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
