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Sergi Samper
Sergi Samper Montaña (born 20 January 1995) is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for Ekstraklasa club Motor Lublin. Formed at Barcelona from the age of six, he featured mainly for the reserve team and made 13 first-team appearances, of which only one in La Liga, where he played 22 further games for Granada and Las Palmas while on loan. In 2019, he moved to Japanese club Vissel Kobe, totalling 107 matches and winning the Emperor's Cup in his first year. He also played for Andorra in the Segunda División, and Motor Lublin in the Polish Ekstraklasa. Club career Barcelona Born in Barcelona, Catalonia, Samper joined FC Barcelona's youth setup in 2001 at age 6, after a successful trial. On 9 May 2013, he signed a four-year professional contract. On 10 June 2013, Samper was promoted to the reserves who competed in the Segunda División. He made his professional debut on 17 August in a 2–1 away defeat against CD Mirandés, appearing in a furthe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
FC Barcelona (youth)
Futbol Club Barcelona Juvenil are the under-19 team of Spanish professional football club Barcelona and the final stage of progression in the club's youth academy commonly referred to as La Masia. The Juvenil team play in the Group III of the División de Honor Juvenil de Fútbol where their main rivals are Damm, Espanyol, and Mallorca. They also participate in the national Copa de Campeones Juvenil and the Copa del Rey Juvenil, qualification for which is dependent on final league group position. The team has also taken part in the continental UEFA Youth League; they won in 2014, 2018 and 2025 Juvenil A Current squad Season to season (Juvenil A) Seasons with two or more trophies shown in bold '' Superliga / Liga de Honor sub-19'' '' División de Honor Juvenil'' Honours ;Domestic competitions * Liga Nacional / Superliga / Liga de Honor sub-19: 9 ** 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1985, 1986, 1994 * Copa de Campeones: 4 ** 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catalonia National Football Team
The Catalonia national football team () is the official football team of Catalonia. It is organised by the Catalan Football Federation, founded in 1900. The team has been referred to by various names including , and the Catalan XI. As the Catalan Federation is affiliated with the Royal Spanish Football Federation as one of the several Spanish regional football federations, Catalonia cannot be affiliated with either FIFA or UEFA as a national member association and is therefore not allowed to participate in official competitions for national teams such as the FIFA World Cup or the UEFA European Championship. Other than in certain cases where other nationalities are involved, Catalan players are full Spanish citizens who are eligible to play for Spain, and often do. Since 1904, the team has played nearly 200 games against various national, regional and club teams. International friendly games have been played more regularly since 1997. Among the teams they have played are Nigeria, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
APOEL FC
APOEL FC (; short for Αθλητικός Ποδοσφαιρικός Όμιλος Ελλήνων Λευκωσίας, ''Athletikos Podosferikos Omilos Ellinon Lefkosias'', "Athletic Football Club of Greeks of Nicosia") is a Cypriot professional football club based in Nicosia, Cyprus. APOEL is the most successful football team in Cyprus with an overall tally of 29 national championships, 21 cups, and 13 super cups. APOEL's greatest moment in European competition occurred in the 2011–12 season, when they advanced out of the group stage of the UEFA Champions League (winning a group that included FC Porto, Shakhtar Donetsk, and Zenit St. Petersburg), then eliminated Olympique Lyonnais in the last 16, to become the first Cypriot team to reach the quarter-finals of the Champions League. APOEL's European competitions highlights also include appearances in the group stages of the 2009–10 and 2014–15 UEFA Champions League and the group stages of the 2013–14, 2015� ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sport (Spanish Newspaper)
''Sport'' is a Spanish daily sports newspaper based in Barcelona, Catalonia. History and profile Founded in 1979, ''Sport'' is owned by Grupo Zeta, which also publishes ''El Periódico de Catalunya''. Ideologically, ''Sport'' defines itself as the newspaper of the supporters of FC Barcelona, with its slogan being "Sempre amb el Barça" () in Catalan). It caters primarily to a Catalonia-based readership despite being written in Spanish. ''Sport'' also covers RCD Espanyol and Catalan and Spanish football in general other sports, especially basketball, motor sports, cycling, handball, and tennis Tennis is a List of racket sports, racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent (singles (tennis), singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles (tennis), doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket st .... References External linksOfficial homepage {{Spain newspapers 1979 establishments in Spain Newspapers published in Barcelona D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2013–14 Segunda División
The 2013–14 Segunda División season (known as the ''Liga Adelante'' for sponsorship reasons) was the 83rd since its establishment. The season started on 17 August 2013 and the league phase of 42 rounds ended on 8 June 2014. The entire season ended on 22 June 2014 with the promotion play-off finals. Teams Promotion and relegation (pre-season) A total of 22 teams contested the league, including 15 sides from the 2012–13 season, four promoted from the 2012–13 Segunda División B and three relegated from the 2012–13 La Liga. RCD Mallorca, Deportivo de La Coruña and Real Zaragoza were the teams relegated from La Liga the previous season. Mallorca was relegated after sixteen years in La Liga, the longest period in its history and ending their golden era, Zaragoza returned to the Segunda División after a four-year tenure in La Liga, while Deportivo de La Coruña made an immediate return to the Segunda División after being promoted the previous year. All three teams were ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marca (newspaper)
(), stylised as , is Spain's national daily tabloid sport newspaper owned by Unidad Editorial. The newspaper focuses primarily on football, in particular the day-to-day activities of Real Madrid, FC Barcelona, and Atlético Madrid. It has a daily readership of over 2.5 million, the highest in Spain for a daily newspaper, and more than half of Spain's total sports readership, as of 2007. Since February 2001, there has also been an association 24-hour/day sports radio station, Radio Marca. In 2010, the TV channel MARCA TV was launched, before being closed in 2013. History and profile was founded on 21 December 1938, at the height of the Spanish Civil War, in nationalist-held San Sebastián. Its founding editor was Manuel Fernández Cuesta, uncle of businessman Nemesio Fernández-Cuesta. On 3 September 1987 Luis Infante became the editor of the paper. Punto Editorial SA was the owner of . In 1984 Espacio Editorial, which would be later called Recoletos, acquired the paper ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CD Mirandés
Club Deportivo Mirandés is a List of football clubs in Spain, Spanish football team based in Miranda de Ebro, Province of Burgos, in the autonomous community of Castile and León. Founded on 3 May 1927, the club competes in the Segunda División and holds its home matches at Estadio Municipal de Anduva. They have never played in La Liga. History Mirandés' origins can be traced to the beginnings of the 20th century, with clubs such as ''El Deportivo Mirandés'' (1917), ''Sporting Club Mirandés'' (1919), ''Deportivo SC'' (1919), and ''Miranda Unión Club'' (1922) all being its predecessors. Club Deportivo was founded as such on 3 May 1927, playing its first game on 4 June in the Saint John of the Mountain Festival, against Arabarra, winning 1–0 courtesy of a Fidel Angulo goal; the team's first president was Arturo García del Río, with the organization's initial capital consisting of 666 shares of 15 Spanish peseta, pesetas each. From 1944 to 1977, Mirandés competed in Terc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mundo Deportivo
''Mundo Deportivo'' (; ) is a Spanish nationwide daily sports newspaper published in Barcelona. History and profile ''Mundo Deportivo'' was first published on 1 February 1906, as a weekly newspaper, and since 1929 daily. It is the oldest sports newspaper still published in Spain, and the second one in Europe, after the Italian ''La Gazzetta dello Sport'' which was founded in 1896. ''Mundo Deportivo'' is published in Barcelona by Grupo Godó. The group also owns ''La Vanguardia''. It focuses primarily on the performances of FC Barcelona, but also covers the Spanish basketball league ( ACB), Grand Prix motorcycle racing, Formula One car racing, amongst others. Both ''Mundo Deportivo'' and ''Sport'' are the predominant sources of sports news in Catalonia Catalonia is an autonomous community of Spain, designated as a ''nationalities and regions of Spain, nationality'' by its Statute of Autonomy of Catalonia of 2006, Statute of Autonomy. Most of its territory (except the Val ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catalonia
Catalonia is an autonomous community of Spain, designated as a ''nationalities and regions of Spain, nationality'' by its Statute of Autonomy of Catalonia of 2006, Statute of Autonomy. Most of its territory (except the Val d'Aran) is situated on the northeast of the Iberian Peninsula, to the south of the Pyrenees mountain range. Catalonia is administratively divided into four Provinces of Spain, provinces or eight Vegueries of Catalonia, ''vegueries'' (regions), which are in turn divided into 43 Comarques of Catalonia, ''comarques''. The capital and largest city, Barcelona, is the second-most populous Municipalities in Spain, municipality in Spain and the fifth-most populous List of metropolitan areas in Europe, urban area in the European Union. > > > ''Catalonia'' theoretically derived. During the Middle Ages, Byzantine Empire, Byzantine chroniclers claimed that ''Catalania'' derives from the local medley of Goths with Alans, initially constituting a ''Goth-Alania''. Othe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Segunda División
The Campeonato Nacional de Liga de Segunda División, commonly known as Segunda División or La Liga 2, and officially known as LaLiga HyperMotion for sponsorship reasons, is the men's second professional association football division of the Spanish football league system. Administered by , it is contested by 22 teams, with the top two teams plus the winner of a La Liga play-offs, play-off Promotion and relegation, promoted to La Liga and replaced by the three lowest-placed teams in that division. History The Second Division National Championship was inaugurated concurrently with the La Liga, First Division, during the 1928-29 season. This setup comprised twenty teams divided into two groups: A and B. Group A functioned as the secondary national level, where the leading team would contest promotion to the First Division and the bottom two faced relegation to the Third Division. Conversely, Group B represented the third tier, wherein two teams were promoted to the Second Divisio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2019 Emperor's Cup
The 2019 Emperor's Cup () was the 99th edition of the annual Japanese national football cup tournament. The tournament began on 25 May and ended with the final on 1 January 2020. The final was the first event held at the National Stadium after its rebuilding. The defending champions were Urawa Red Diamonds, but they lost to Honda FC in the Round of 16. Vissel Kobe won their first trophy after winning the final. As the winners, they automatically qualified to the group stage of the 2020 AFC Champions League. Calendar First round The draw for the first three rounds was held on 4 April 2019. Second round Third round Fourth round The draw for the Fourth Round to the final was held on 16 August 2019. There was no seeding in the draw, however, the draw took into consideration the teams whose home or away in the round of 16 were predetermined: (13m43s – 16m20s) * Kashima Antlers and Urawa Red Diamonds, who we ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emperor's Cup
, commonly known as or Japan FA Cup, and rebranded as The JFA Emperor's Cup from 2024 onwards, is a Japanese annual football competition. It has the longest tradition of any football tournament in Japan, dating back to 1921, before the formation of the J.League, Japan Football League, current JFL (not former JFL) and their predecessor, Japan Soccer League. Before World War II, teams could qualify not only from Japan proper but also from Empire of Japan's colonies such as Korea under Japanese rule, Korea, Taiwan under Japanese rule, Taiwan, and sometimes Manchukuo. The winning club qualifies for the AFC Champions League and the Japanese Super Cup. The tournament's equivalent in women's football is the Empress's Cup. The current holders are Vissel Kobe, having won their second cup in the 2024 Emperor's Cup, 2024 edition, having previously won their first in 2019 Emperor's Cup, 2019. Overview As it is a competition to decide the "best soccer club in Japan", the cup is now open to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
