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Juan Mera González
Juan Mera González (born 22 November 1993) is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for I-League club Dempo. Club career Spain Born in Gijón, Asturias, he made his senior debut with Sporting de Gijón B in the 2010–11 season. Juan played his first match on 29 August 2010 against Gimnástica Torrelavega He played for Sporting B, in Segunda División B, till 2015–16 season. He scored 21 goals. In 2016–17, he was promoted to Sporting Gijón. After that he joined Celta Vigo B, Racing Ferrol, Teruel, and Leioa in Spain till 2018–19 and played in Segunda División B. India On 24 August 2019, Juan pursued a one-year deal and moved to Indian club, East Bengal FC. On 12 September, he played his first match for the club in Calcutta Football League, against Kalighat MS. He made his professional league debut on 4 December 2019 in I-League, in match against Real Kashmir FC He assisted a goal and was also named Man of the Match. In 2021, he moved t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
East Bengal Club
East Bengal Club, commonly referred to as East Bengal (), is an Indian professional multi-sports club based in Kolkata, West Bengal. It is best known for its professional men's association football, football team that competes in the Indian Super League (ISL), the top flight of the Indian football league system, Indian football. It is List of Indian football champions#Total titles won, one of the most successful football clubs in the country. The club has other departments for East Bengal Club (women), women's football, East Bengal Club (cricket), men's and women's cricket, East Bengal Club (field hockey), field hockey, Sport of athletics, athletics and Esports, eSports. East Bengal was founded on 1 August 1920. It first started with just its men's football department but soon expanded into other sports such as hockey after 1947 and cricket in the 1970s. The women's football team was started in 2001. East Bengal is one of the most widely supported sports clubs in Asia. The ... [...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] |
The Times Of India
''The Times of India'' (''TOI'') is an Indian English-language daily newspaper and digital news media owned and managed by the Times Group. It is the List of newspapers in India by circulation, third-largest newspaper in India by circulation and List of newspapers by circulation, largest selling English-language daily in the world. It is the oldest English-language newspaper in India, and the second-oldest Indian newspaper still in circulation, with its first edition published in 1838. It is nicknamed as "The Old Lady of Bori Bunder", and is a newspaper of record. Near the beginning of the 20th century, Lord Curzon, the Viceroy of India, called ''TOI'' "the leading paper in Asia". In 1991, the BBC ranked ''TOI'' among the world's six best newspapers. It is owned and published by Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd. (BCCL), which is owned by the Sahu Jain family. In the Brand Trust Report India study 2019, ''TOI'' was rated as the most trusted English newspaper in India. In a 2021 surve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
All India Football Federation
All India Football Federation (AIFF) is the governing body of football, futsal and beach soccer in India. It is a member of FIFA, and is affiliated with the Asian Football Confederation and South Asian Football Federation. It is affiliated with the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, Government of India. India men's and women's football teams are governed by the AIFF, and represent India in various international football tournaments. The AIFF manages, sanctions, conducts, schedules and runs all national level football tournaments and leagues in India, including Indian Super League, I-League, I-League 2, I-League 3, Indian Women's League, Indian Women's League 2, Santosh Trophy, Senior Women's National Football Championship, Futsal Club Championship, National Beach Soccer Championship, Super Cup, Durand Cup, Youth League and others. The federation also indirectly manages local football competitions through its member associations. History Before the formation of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Real Kashmir FC
Real Kashmir Football Club is an Indian professional football club based in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir. Incorporated in 2016, the club predominantly competes in I-League, the second tier of Indian football league system. Real Kashmir with its reserves side also participates in Jammu & Kashmir Premier Football League regionally. Nicknamed "Sheeni Seh" (), Real Kashmir is the first ever club from Jammu and Kashmir to earn promotion to compete in any top flight football league of the country. They also lifted prestigious IFA Shield title in 2022. Club's futsal section has been competing in the state league, as well as AIFF Futsal Club Championship, the highest division of futsal club competition in the country. History Foundation and early history The seeds of Real Kashmir FC were sown in 2014 after devastating floods swept through the region causing massive loss of life and property. To keep the youth, who had lost much during the floods—engaged, Shamim Mehraj, editor o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kalighat MS
Kalighat Milan Sangha Football Club (known simply as Kalighat MS, formerly Kalighat Club) is an Indian multi-sports club based in Kalighat, Kolkata, West Bengal. Its football team currently competes in the Premier Division of Calcutta Football League. Founded in 1944, the club has mostly been amateur, but in January 2012 it moved into professional football when it was included in the I-League 2nd Division, then second tier of Indian football league system. History Formation and journey Kalighat Milan Sangha was founded in 1944, in Kalighat, Kolkata, as a cultural association club and has since grown step by step from district to state and national level outfit. The club is continuation of Kalighat Club, formed long ago, that left Indian Football Association in 1939 with Mohammedan and East Bengal to form BFA, but rejoined later. In 1966, the club started its football team through competing in Allen League under license from Indian Football Association (IFA). The club qualified ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Calcutta Football League
The Calcutta Football League (CFL) is a ladder-based football competition in the Indian state of West Bengal, organised by the Indian Football Association (WB) as part of the state leagues. It is the oldest football league in Asia. The CFL is divided into CFL Premier Division, CFL 1st Division, CFL 2nd Division, CFL 3rd Division, CFL 4th Division, CFL 5th Division A, and CFL 5th Division B with promotion and relegation between them. CFL has more than 160 mostly Kolkata-based clubs and units. Started in 1898, this league is the oldest football league in Asia and one of the oldest football competitions in the world. CFL currently consists of a seven-tier pyramid system, with more than 8,500 directly registered players of IFA participating in CFL every year, making it one of the biggest leagues in the country. History Early years (1890s–1910s) In 1898, IFA introduced a two-tiered football league in Calcutta on the lines of English Football League in England and Wale ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
East Bengal F
East is one of the four cardinal directions or points of the compass. It is the opposite direction from west and is the direction from which the Sun rises on the Earth. Etymology As in other languages, the word is formed from the fact that east is the direction where the Sun rises: ''east'' comes from Middle English ''est'', from Old English ''ēast'', which itself comes from the Proto-Germanic *''aus-to-'' or *''austra-'' "east, toward the sunrise", from Proto-Indo-European *aus- "to shine," or "dawn", cognate with Old High German ''*ōstar'' "to the east", Latin ''aurora'' 'dawn', and Greek ''ēōs'' 'dawn, east'. Examples of the same formation in other languages include Latin oriens 'east, sunrise' from orior 'to rise, to originate', Greek ανατολή anatolé 'east' from ἀνατέλλω 'to rise' and Hebrew מִזְרָח mizraḥ 'east' from זָרַח zaraḥ 'to rise, to shine'. ''Ēostre'', a Germanic goddess of dawn, might have been a personification of both da ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Segunda División B
Segunda División B (English: second division B) was the third tier of the Spanish football league system containing 102 teams divided into five groups, until it was replaced by the new structure in 2021. It was administered by the Royal Spanish Football Federation. It was below the top two professional leagues, the ''Primera División'' (also known as La Liga) and the ''Segunda División'', and above the ''Tercera División''. The Segunda División B included the reserve teams of a number of La Liga and Segunda División teams. As of the 2023–24 in Spanish football, 2023-24 season, its successors are the Primera Federación and the Segunda Federación. The league's last ever season was in 2020-21 Segunda División B, 2020-21. For the 2021–22 season, Segunda División B was replaced by Segunda División RFEF, which became the fourth tier due to the creation of a new, semi-professional third division by the Spanish federation (RFEF) called the Primera División RFEF. History ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Celta Vigo B
Real Club Celta de Vigo Fortuna or simply Celta Fortuna is a List of football clubs in Spain, Spanish football team based in Vigo, Province of Pontevedra, Pontevedra, in the autonomous community of Galicia (Spain), Galicia. Founded in 1927, it is the reserve team of RC Celta de Vigo, Celta Vigo and competes in the . They play their home games at Municipal de Barreiro, which can seat 1,024 spectators, and also at Balaídos, the home of Celta's first team, which has a capacity of 24,870. History In 1927, the ''Sport Club Turista'' was founded, which was renamed ''Club Turista'' nine years later. In 1988, a merger with Gran Peña FC was announced, but eventually Turista was taken over by RC Celta de Vigo, Celta de Vigo and renamed ''Celta Turista''. In its first season of professional football, Celta Turista played in the Divisiones Regionales de Fútbol in Galicia, Preferente Autonómica, finishing in first place with 57 points. It first reached the Segunda División B, third divis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sporting Gijón
Sporting may refer to: *Sport, recreational games and play *Sporting (neighborhood), in Alexandria, Egypt Sports clubs *Alexandria Sporting Club, a sports club from Alexandria, Egypt *BFA Sporting, a football club from Beirut, Lebanon *Real Sporting de Gijón, a football club from Gijón, Spain *Sporting Al Riyadi Beirut, a sports club from Beirut, Lebanon *Sporting BC, a Greek professional basketball team from Athens *Sporting Charleroi, a football club from Charleroi, Belgium *Sporting Clube da Brava, a football club from Cape Verde *Sporting Clube da Covilhã, a sports club from Covilhã, Portugal *Sporting Clube de Braga, a sports club from Braga, Portugal *Sporting Clube de Goa, a sports club from Goa, India *Sporting Clube de Portugal, a sports club from Lisbon, Portugal *Sporting Cristal, a football club from Lima, Peru *Sporting Kansas City, a soccer (football) club from Kansas City, Kansas, U.S. Obsolete euphemisms *Gambling *Prostitution *Red-light district See also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gimnástica De Torrelavega
Real Sociedad Gimnástica de Torrelavega is a Spanish football team based in Torrelavega, in the autonomous community of Cantabria. Founded on 28 September 1907 it is the oldest football club in the region, and currently plays in , holding home matches at '' Campos del Malecón'', with a capacity of 6,007 seats. History Gimnasticá de Torrelavega was founded in 1907. This makes the club one of the oldest football teams in Spain, as well as the oldest professional team from Cantabria. The team played mostly friendly matches before 1925, as there were not any organized football leagues in Spain prior to that. The team first played in the regional league of Cantabria for three seasons, before being accepted into Tercera Division in 1929. Gimnastica played there for two years, before switching back to the regional league of Cantabria. Their first touch of professional football came in 1939, when the team was promote for the first time to Segunda División, after league was expanded ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
