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ISSUE 46, 5 SEPTEMBER 2014 ENGLISH EDITION
Fédération Internationale de Football Association – Since 1904
Algeria
SEPP BL AT TER WE MUST NOT LOOK
THE OTHER WAY
EGYPT HASSAN SHEHATA’S COACHING STYLE
PARAGUAY A STAR
IS BORN
ON THE WAY UP
T H I S W E E K I N T H E W O R L D O F F O O T B A L L
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6 Algeria: Triumph and tragedy
Algeria were the surprise package at the World Cup with high-quality play and astute tactics, but where does the national team really stand today? Mark Gleeson reports on Algerian football.
15 Italy The inaugural Interreligious Match for Peace initiated by Pope Francis and Inter Milan vice-president Javier Zanetti was an unqualified success with some 50 stars thrilling the crowd at the Olympic Stadium in Rome. The event sent out a strong message for peace and also raised funds for charity.
23 Sepp Blatter Following the tragic death of Cameroonian player Albert Ebossé, the FIFA President focuses on the imperative need for safety at football matches and calls for coordinated and forceful action.
37 Germany Jurgen Sparwasser, scorer of the only goal of the game for East Germany in their group stage meeting with West Germany at the 1974 World Cup, recalls the near-perfect strike that was to prove both a blessing and a curse.
17 Paraguay In the showdown between the champions and the team lying second in the Primera Divison, rising star Fernando Fabian Fernandez Acosta fired a hat-trick.
On the way upOur cover shows Rafik Halliche celebrating his goal during Algeria’s 4-2 group stage win over Korea Republic at the 2014 World Cup.
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16 Korea Republic Sangju Sangmu, South Korea’s official army club, comprises elite footballers performing their military service.
24 Hassan Shehata The coaching legend discusses the success of the Egyptian national team.
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Heroes’ welcome Algeria’s World Cup stars were given a rapturous reception on their return
home to Algiers after the tournament (2 July 2014).
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At the 2014 World Cup, Algeria very nearly defeated eventual champions Ger-many. The country’s fans were overjoyed and the team were given a magnif-icent reception back on the streets of Algiers after the tournament. Triumph
turned to tragedy just weeks later when a player, Albert Ebossé, died at the end of a league match after being struck on the pitch by a sharp object thrown from a section of the crowd supporting his side. On page 6, Mark Gleeson writes about Algerian football.
Reacting to Ebossé’s death in his weekly column on page 23, FIFA President Joseph S. Blatter says: “We owe it to the player to learn the lessons from this incident and to resolutely call all those involved to account.”
The Egyptian national team have also made a name for themselves over the last two decades. Under the guidance of coach Hassan Shehata, the Pharaohs won the Africa Cup of Nations on three consecutive occasions between 2006
and 2010. However, since the tragedy of Port Said in 2012 when over 70 people died, matches have been played behind closed doors in the country. Shehata reveals the secrets to his success and on Page 24 speaks about the delicate situation in his homeland. Å
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The Algerian national team proved a positive surprise in Brazil, but where does football really stand in Algeria today?
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Fans in Algiers The 2014 World Cup brought people out onto the streets.
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Germany might have had a mega party near the Brandenberg Gate in Berlin when the World Cup came back with their team from Brazil but the reception for Alge-ria, who they knocked out in the second round, was just as passion-ate and emotive, reflecting the unbridled joy of a football-mad populace. Thousands lined the streets of Algiers to greet the squad on its return as they parad-
ed through the palm-lined avenues on an open top bus. Hundreds ran after the bus and, at times, hundreds more hindered its progress as the outpouring of delight descended into joyful-ly, near-riotous scenes. Fans danced, waved flags
and screamed their joy to the players, who had taken ‘Les Fennecs’ past the first round of the World Cup for the first time and given a brave display against Germany in Porto Alegre before being eliminated in extra-time.
Algeria had not seen anything thing like it since they won the CAF Africa Cup of Nations in 1990 at the end of a golden era for the north Af-rican country’s football that is only now showing signs of being matched. The latest generation of ‘Fennecs’ has restored the once-fearsome Algeri-an reputation and made them among the early favourites for the next Nations Cup. Fortuitous-ly, the tournament in January is being played in neighbouring Morocco and offers Algeria a very real chance to win only their second-ever title, a quarter-century after the first.
Although the coach of the team has changed, with Vahid Halilhodzic departing
amid tears of joy and Frenchman Christian Gourcuff offering a more sober approach to a job notoriously weighed down by the pressure of unchecked expectation, the other elements of the squad have not. Continuity is now a key word as Algeria seeks to build on the confi-dence gained in Brazil and return to the sum-mit of the African game. “From now on we will be respected again,” said the captain Madjid Bougherra straight after the 2-1 loss at the Es-tadio Beira-Rio, and he is right.
Back for more?It is a glimpse again of better days. Qualifying for the World Cups in 1982 and 1986, and win-ning the African title on home soil in 1990 en-sured ’superpower’ status for Algeria in African competition, enhanced by their club teams also consistently winning continental titles. The era
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of Rabah Madjer, Lakhdar Belloumi, Djamel Menad and Mahmoud Guendouz proved a gold-en time for the country.
But from 1992, when their defence of their Nations Cup flopped embarrassingly in the tropical heat of Senegal, their fortunes rapidly floundered, with the country’s sudden political and social turmoil contributing significantly to the slide. From being a feared opponent, Alge-ria quickly descended onto the list of also rans as they faded from contention in all the major finals and in World Cup qualifying.
By 2008 they were at their lowest ebb, dropping out of the top 100 on the FIFA rank-ings for a brief period to register their worst ever position in world football. They missed out on both the 2006 and 2008 Nations Cup finals and had embarrassingly lost twice in vital qual-ifiers to the Gambia, whose population of just
on 1.5 million people could fit easily into the capital Algiers.
In the 2010 World Cup qualifiers, Algeria were never among the fancied contenders but benefitted from a surprisingly scatty perfor-mance from then African champions Egypt and found themselves at the end of the quali-fying campaign with an identical overall and head-to-head record. It meant the drama of a rare play-off to decide a place at the finals. Even though the game was played in neutral Sudan, Algeria were still underdogs up against an Egyptian side who had won back-to-back Na-tions Cup titles and who were soon to win a third in a row.
But, as so often with change, a single mo-ment turned their fortunes. Antar Yahia’s goal on November 19, 2009 is now the stuff of Alge-rian legend, not only for its breathtaking beau-
ty but also for the role of catalyst it has proven.The centre back ghosted into the Egyptian pen-alty area, peeling off the back of the opposing defence to make space for himself and from the tightest of angles volleyed the ball into the back of the net, not dissimilar to the effort of Marco van Basten against the Soviet Union at the 1988 European Championships.
Suddenly Algeria had been catapulted back to the top of the Africa game as one of five World Cup finalists for South Africa in 2010, a feat they repeated again for Brazil.
New reservoirsYahia is a player with a special place in FIFA history, too, as the first to be given permission to change his footballing nationality once the rules on international eligibility were changed by the FIFA Congress in Doha in 2003.
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Algeria, keep to tap into the reservoir of immigrant talent in France and elsewhere in Europe that had already produced the likes of Zinedine Zidane, had been the prime movers of the rule change and jumped into action first. By Christmas of that year they had three for-mer French junior internationals committed to their cause. It was Bastia defender Yahia, who had played for France at a U-18 European Championship, who became the first to benefit from the new rule, debuting for the Algerian U-23 side in an Olympic Games qualifier against Ghana on January 2, 2004. His senior debut came two weeks later.
Since then Algeria have turned repeatedly to the Diaspora to bolster their side and been able to ensure a harmonious mix of those born and brought up in Europe, with the local play-ers. Algeria are desperate not to miss out on a Zidane again, or a Karim Benzema and Samir Nasri. They have proven very successful in re-cent years in persuading many French under-21 internationals, who qualify for dual nationality because of their Algerian heritage, to throw in their international future with the ‘Fennecs’ and resultantly had a side in Brazil that bristled with exciting talent. The 23-man squad at the World Cup finals had more players born in France than in Algeria.
The likes of Yacine Brahimi and Sofiane Feghouli caught the eye of the world with their performance in Brazil and were backed by a determination that had been missing for many years when Algeria were devoid of the neces-sary confidence to achieve. “We had moments of history in Brazil and it has given us massive confidence,” said key striker Islam Slimani this week as he joined up again with the national
“Unacceptable proportions”
Cameroon-born forward Albert Ebosse was struck on the head by an object allegedly thrown from a
section of his club JS Kabylie’s own fans as the play-ers left the field at the end of a 2-1 defeat to USM Al-ger in Tizi Ouzou two weeks ago, a match in which he had scored his side’s goal.Ebosse died of blunt object trauma after a sharp ob-ject caused internal bleeding, said preliminary autop-sy reports.
JSK have been ordered to play home games for the rest of the season outside of the Tizi Ouzou province while the stadium will be closed until an investigation into the incident is complete.
All matches in Algeria the following weekend were cancelled as a sign of respect to the player and also to protest “the irresponsible action of fanatics and
hooligans who perpetuate violence in stadiums which has reached unacceptable proportions,” said the Algerian Football Federation.
Mark Gleeson
Algerian Football Federation
Founded: 1962Joined FIFA: 1963Joined CAF: 1964Confederation: CAFPresident: Mohamed RaouraouaOfficial website: www.faf.org.dzRegistered players: 203,900Clubs: 2,090
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At the end of 2002, FIFA financed new head-quarters for the Algerian Football Associa-tion, FAF, for $2,100,000 before extending it via a further $500,000 in 2012. Between 2008 and 2012, FIFA ran courses and semi-nars including five for women in football in Algeria and organised a girls' football tour-nament at the end of 2012.
Big ambitions The Algerian women’s team have set their sights on success.
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side for the first time since the triumphant pa-rade through the Algiers streets.
“More f luidity”Gourcuff takes over a side that now sits on the cusp of being able to achieve regularly in African competition and qualifiers, and he has immedi-ately made it clear that he intends to build on the work of Halilhodzic, who enjoyed a love-hate relationship with officials and sparred acrimoni-ously with the media but was lionised by his players. The new coach debuts against Ethiopia in Addis Ababa on Saturday afternoon in the first qualifier for the 2015 Nations Cup and prom-ised “the priority for the Algerian team is having a team play well with the style of play 4-4-2”.
“I want to get the team to play with more fluidity; recover the ball quickly and display a style, but for the collective rather than the in-dividual,” explained the Breton, who last worked at Lorient in Ligue 1. The 59-year-old Gourcuff has kept almost all of the players that Halilhodzic picked for Brazil and categorically said: “I will not mess up the work that was done by my predecessor.” That is an ominous warn-ing for Ethiopia, Malawi and Mali, who share the same qualifying group. But Gourcuff’s tar-get extends beyond just the next three months of preliminary matches.
“I’m a man of challenges, I have a big project that I want to achieve. Algeria are favourites to win the Nations Cup next year and I will work for that to win every game we play.” Exciting players like Saipher Taider, Abdelmounene Dja-bou, Faouzi Ghoulam and new cap Medhi Zef-fane promise an extended run at the top. Alge-ria are now ranked in the top 25 in world football and head the list of African nations.
The new coach is also mandated to work with the country’s youth teams. But here there is much to be done as both Algeria’s under-20 side and under-17 team did not enter the qual-ifiers for next year’s U-20 World Cup in New Zealand and U-17 World Cup in Chile. Algeria had hosted the 2013 African Youth Champion-ships with high hopes of going onto the World Cup in Turkey but finished bottom of their group, precipitating a respite for the junior sides and period of reflection.
By moving to Algeria, Gourcuff will also spend much time watching domestic Ligue 1 action, seeking to unearth talent for the future. Oftentimes expatriate coaches are tempted to stay at their homes and watch only the top players performing for their clubs in the lead-ing European leagues, venturing only to Africa when the national team plays.
Algerian soul-searchingAlgerian club football has produced a consist-ently high level but is regularly marred by vio-Reaching the knockout stages Coach Vahid Halilhodzic hit his 2014 World Cup targets.
Beyond the sea Algerian fans in Marseille follow their team’s games.
A 1-1 draw with Russia Sofiane Feghouli (left) and Yacine Brahimi after the 2014 World Cup group match.
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Legend and icon Zinedine Zidane’s image adorns a billboard in Mostaganem.
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lence on the terraces and clubs are frequently punished and forced to host matches behind closed doors. The death of the 25-year-old striker Albert Ebosse from a head trauma caused by being struck by a projectile thrown from the stands last month has been a major blow to the country’s reputation and led to ex-tensive soul-searching. His club JS Kabylie have been banned from playing at home for the rest of the season and their stadium in Tizi Ou-zou closed.
It also takes the gloss off the achievement of Entente Setif, who are through to the semi-finals of the CAF Champions League and take on TP Mazembe Englebert of the Demo-cratic Republic of Congo in a two-legged tie later this month as they seek to advance to the FIFA Club World Cup at the end of the year.
Setif finished unbeaten in their group and will have realistic hopes of success. They are led
by Kheireddine Madaoui, who makes up for a lack of experience with a canny approach. The last time an Algerian club won the top club title in Africa was in 1990 when JSK needed post match penalties to edge past Zambian club Nkana Red Devils to the winners’ podium.
Setif were winners of the old style African Champions Cup in 1988 and won two of the last three Algerian league titles. But traditionally the competition is fiercely contested with little of the two or three club domination that is characteristic of many major leagues. In May USM Alger won the title for the first time in almost a decade and JSK were second. In the last 20 years, a total of nine different clubs have emerged as champions, further evidence of the competitive nature of a league that im-ports many talents from around the African continent and regularly attracts coaches from France, Belgium and elsewhere in Europe. Play-
ers see it as a stepping stone to Europe and there have been many who have transitioned through Algeria to bigger leagues in Europe.
More success for Algeria is the progress of the women’s national team to the eight team African Championship in Namibia next month (October) from where the top three will go to Canada next year. Reaching the African Championship was the main goal set by coach Azzedine Chih and having achieved this they can now reset their sights as they seek to im-prove their ranking and gain much needed experience. “We’ll be facing the best of wom-en’s football in Africa with the standard at this level being very high. We are aware that mistakes at this level will be punished but we plan to be on our guard and leave nothing be-hind. We won’t have too much pressure on us and therefore we can look to do our best and see how far we go,” said Chih. Å
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Coming together for world peace
To see more pictures from the event, visit: www.tinyurl.com/k7ypcmj
The first Interreligious Match for Peace was held last Monday evening at the request of Pope Francis. For the Pontiff, this sporting event was a symbolic gesture to show that peace is possible. Around 50 football-
ing stars captivated the sizeable crowd gathered at Rome’s Stadio Olimpi-co while the Handshake for Peace, a joint campaign between FIFA and the Nobel Peace Center in Norway, was also promoted during the event. At an audience with the Pope at the Vatican, a FIFA delegation attending on behalf of the FIFA President reaffirmed the governing body’s com-mitment to using football as a way to build bridges. Football brings peo-ple together across all religious, political and social divides. Å
The evening’s stars gather for a photo. Organiser Javier Zanetti (centre) presents the winners’ trophy, a silver olive tree.
Committed and fair: Former global star Roberto Baggio (left) goes up against current Uruguayan international Diego Lugano.
FIFA pays the Pope a visit Walter De Gregorio (right; Director of Communications), Giovanni Marti (centre; Media) and Lars Sternmarker (Handshake for Peace).
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Nicola Berger is a journalist based in Zurich.
There could be tearful fare-well scenes when Sangju Sangmu travel to league
leaders Jeonbuk on Saturday, with no fewer than ten players set to take their leave of the away team after the final whistle. That they are departing in the middle of the season with just 24 of 33 Matchdays played is an unorthodox although not entirely original occurrence in one of the world’s most uncon-ventional leagues. Sangmu are the official team of the South Korean army: they do not buy or sell any players, nor do they employ foreigners. Instead, the club is made up exclusively of players from other teams who are doing their obligatory 21-month military service. The only people excused from duty are athletes who have won an Olympic medal or been successful at the Asian Games. Due to the ongoing tensions with their North Korean neighbours, exemptions are rare, as 39-year-old former professional baseball player Cho Jin-Ho found out first hand. The one-time Boston Red Sox star attempted to avoid military service in 2004 by manipulat-ing his urine test, only to be discovered and thrown in jail.
There is, then, no shortage of talent for Sangmu to choose from, even if there are very few players who readily forego two years of their careers. According to the Korean Times, Sangmu players do not receive a salary but instead are paid 82,000 Won (approximately $78 USD) as a soldier or 108,300 Won as a sergeant. Such low wages are probably behind the involvement of numerous Sangmu players in the huge betting scandal that shook South Korean football in 2011.
The side currently lie in ninth in the stand-ings with just a three-point cushion separat-ing them from bottom club Busan. The second half of the season could prove to be very tough for the promoted outfit once the players that make up the core of the team have returned to their parent clubs.
Sangmu will feel the absence of 29-year-old Lee Keun-Ho most keenly. The forward, who
was named Asian Player of the Year in 2012, opened the scoring for South Korea in their 1-1 draw with Russia at the World Cup in Brazil and celebrated his goal with a salute. He will only don Sangmu’s colours twice more before returning to Ulsan on 16 September.
And while Sangmu will therefore be focusing their efforts on avoiding the drop, at the other end of the table the title race is intensi-fying between reigning champions and three-time AFC Champions League winners Pohang Steelers, and the Hyundai-backed club Jeonbuk. Both are currently level on points at the top and meet in Pohang on 28
September. Sangmu could yet play a decisive role in the championship though, as four players, Kim Min-Seok, Lee Seung-Hyeon, Jung Hoon and Kim Dong-Chan all return to Jeonbuk next week. Å
Standing to attention Lee Keun Ho after putting South Korea 1-0 up against Russia at the World Cup in Brazil.
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Sven Goldmann is a leading football correspondent at “Tagesspiegel” newspaper in Berlin.
It was the match of the season, a duel between the
reigning champions and the league’s sec-ond-placed side. El Gumarelo, as they call Club Libertad in Paraguay, and El Aborigen, the pseudonym of local rivals Club Guarani, battled it out for bragging rights in Asun-cion. Although this meeting also provided a prime opportunity for Libertad to prepare for their second-round Copa Sudamericana game against Ecuadorian side Barcelona Sporting Club a couple of days later, their dress rehearsal did not go to plan as Guara-ni emerged 5-1 winners on the sixth match-day of the Torneo Clausura.
Antonio Bareiro put the champions ahead within the first minute of the encounter at
Estadio Rogelio Livieres before Guarani took charge of the game. Ivan Gonzalez Ferreira quickly grabbed an equaliser before adding a second a short time later, but the real star of the show was 22-year-old homegrown star Fernando Fabian Fernandez Acosta, who netted a hat-trick. Just a year after plying his trade for the club’s reserve team, Fernandez now leads the Primera Division’s top scorers’ list with five goals.
With 16 points from six matches, Guarani have taken a commanding lead in the championship. Libertad are already six points behind them in third place and must now welcome recordbreaking domestic champions Club Olimpia to the Estadio Dr Nicolas Leoz. As both sides play in black and white shirts, the fixture is known across Paraguay as the Clasico Blanco y Negro. Olimpia are the country’s most successful team of all time with 39 championships to their name, ahead of Cerro Porteno on 30, Libertad on 17 and Guarani with 10. Nevertheless, their most recent trophy is beginning to gather dust, dating from when Olimpia last won the Clausura back in 2011.
Football in Paraguay has traditionally been the preserve of Asuncion’s biggest clubs from the Las Mercedes, Mariscal Lopez, Dos Bocas or Obrero districts, who have shared the championship title between them for more than half a century now. Of the Primera Division’s 12 clubs, seven are located in the capital, occupying first to seventh place in the 2014 Torneo Apertura.
The last champions from outside Asuncion were Club Sportivo Luqueno in 1953. The team from Luque play in the Primera Division to this day and won the Torneo Apertura in 2007, although this was not regarded as a championship in its own right at that point. The title that year ultimately returned to the capital once more, after Clausura champions Libertad overcame Sportivo Luqueno in the two-leg championship final. Å
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Rank Team Change in ranking Points
1 USA 0 2193
2 Germany 0 2168
3 Japan 0 2081
4 France 0 2046
5 Sweden 0 2028
6 Brazil 0 2008
7 Canada 0 1976
8 England 0 1966
9 Australia 2 1957
10 Norway 0 195511 Korea DPR -2 1954
12 Italy 0 1891
13 China PR 3 1873
14 Netherlands 0 1872
15 Denmark -2 1868
16 Spain -1 1854
17 Iceland -1 1834
18 Korea Republic 0 1828
19 Switzerland 3 1814
20 New Zealand 0 1811
21 Scotland -2 1809
22 Russia -1 1799
23 Finland 0 1780
24 Ukraine 0 1763
25 Mexico 0 1761
26 Austria 3 1691
27 Belgium -1 1685
28 Czech Republic -1 1665
29 Thailand 1 1661
30 Poland 3 1645
31 Colombia 1 1641
32 Republic of Ireland -2 1636
33 Vietnam -5 1628
34 Nigeria 0 1623
35 Argentina 0 1620
36 Romania 0 1617
37 Wales 0 1614
38 Chinese Taipei 1 1573
39 Hungary -1 1572
40 Costa Rica 0 1566
41 Portugal 2 1565
42 Chile -1 1559
43 Uzbekistan 1 1548
44 Serbia 2 1539
45 Belarus -3 1532
46 Myanmar -1 1524
47 Slovakia 0 1521
48 Ghana 2 1467
49 Cameroon 0 1457
50 India 1 1431
51 South Africa 1 1425
51 Equatorial Guinea 2 1425
53 Jordan 1 1420
54 Iran 1 1412
55 Israel 5 1399
56 Haiti 0 1398
57 Croatia 6 1396
58 Slovenia 0 1383
59 Northern Ireland -2 1382
60 Turkey 6 1379
61 Côte d'Ivoire 7 1376
62 Bulgaria -4 1366
63 Kazakhstan 3 1364
64 Panama -2 1363
65 Hong Kong -2 1361
66 Venezuela -1 1360
67 Albania -6 1347
Rank Team Change in ranking Points68 Greece 1 1344
69 Algeria 5 1334
70 Indonesia 2 1330
71 Uruguay 2 1329
71 Bosnia-Herzegovina 9 1329
73 Faroe Islands -3 1318
74 Morocco 3 1316
75 Tunisia -4 1314
76 Guatemala 0 1313
77 Estonia -2 1310
78 Philippines 1 1309
79 Bahrain -1 1302
80 Laos 1 1283
81 Egypt 1 1273
82 Malaysia 1 1269
83 Senegal 1 1257
84 Lithuania 2 1236
85 Bolivia 2 1235
86 Montenegro -1 1231
87 Cuba 1206
88 Zimbabwe 0 1193
89 Mali 0 1191
89 Palestine 2 1191
91 El Salvador 2 1184
92 Latvia -2 1182
93 Singapore -1 1177
94 Ethiopia 0 1154
95 Suriname 1152
95 Honduras 2 1152
97 Malta -2 1146
98 Luxembourg -2 1145
99 Kyrgyzstan -1 1136
100 Puerto Rico 1108
101 Nicaragua -1 1106
102 Nepal -1 1104
103 Georgia 0 1100
104 Cyprus 0 1096
105 FYR Macedonia 0 1090
106 Namibia 0 1020
107 St. Vincent and the Grenadines 1000
108 Zambia 2 987
109 Bangladesh -2 979
110 Lebanon -1 955
110 St. Kitts and Nevis 955
112 Bermuda 948
113 Maldives -2 942
114 Tanzania -1 931
115 Mozambique 0 873
116 Kuwait 0 870
117 Qatar 0 864
118 Cayman Islands 849
119 Swaziland -1 838
120 Lesotho -1 836
121 Belize -1 825
122 Antigua and Barbuda 768
123 Aruba 758
124 Botswana -2 736
United Arab Emirates ** 1665
Trinidad and Tobago ** 1509
Ecuador ** 1484
Papua New Guinea ** 1476
Peru ** 1450
Paraguay ** 1430
Azerbaijan ** 1341
Jamaica ** 1339
Tonga ** 1316
Fiji ** 1306
Guam ** 1294
Guyana ** 1256
Congo ** 1238
Tahiti ** 1238
Dominican Republic ** 1226
Solomon Islands ** 1195
New Caledonia ** 1188
Benin ** 1187
Moldova ** 1177
Cook Islands ** 1170
Rank Team Change in ranking Points Vanuatu ** 1139
Angola ** 1134
Congo DR ** 1132
Bahamas ** 1111
Samoa ** 1110
Armenia ** 1104
American Samoa ** 1075
Guinea ** 1063
St. Lucia ** 1061
Eritrea ** 1060
Gabon ** 1031
Grenada ** 1029
Uganda ** 965
Sri Lanka ** 965
Pakistan ** 937
Guinea-Bissau ** 927
Syria ** 927
Dominica ** 906
Afghanistan ** 899
Iraq ** 882
British Virgin Islands ** 867
Malawi ** 840
Curaçao ** 831
Bhutan ** 785
Sierra Leone * 1132
Burkina Faso * 1038
Barbados * 997
Rwanda * 996
Liberia * 877
US Virgin Islands * 852
Kenya * 816
Comoros * 761
Turks and Caicos Islands * 704
** Inactive for more than 18 months and therefore not ranked.
* Provisionally listed due to not having played more than five matches against officially ranked teams.
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The death of Cameroonian Albert Ebossé on 23 August 2014 in Algeria is one of the bleak-est chapters in football. There are basically
no appropriate words for this tragedy, and yet we must try and find the words, because the biggest mistake would be not to talk about it.
Time and time again, football has been shaken by appalling catastrophes: Lima 1964, Moscow 1982, Heysel 1985 and Hillsborough 1989 were black moments. Apart from the trag-edy itself, these incidents had other things in common: they were attributable to organisa-tional deficiencies and errors of judgement by security personnel. They also caused football to look itself in the mirror and triggered many far-reaching changes.
This finding is no consolation to the vic-tims and the bereaved. It might even sound cynical, and this includes the case of Albert Ebossé. But we owe it to the player to learn les-sons from this incident and to resolutely call all those involved to account.
Potential dangers must be identified not just at but in the vicinity of the stadium. If there are no rocks or iron bars lying around they will never find their way into the stands. I therefore appeal to all the authorities in-volved – the associations, clubs, spectators, security forces and police – and call for a strong and coordinated response.
However, prevention begins at an earlier stage, because football reflects society, and we can actively contribute to improving this socie-ty by not looking the other way. Instead we must set a good example and demonstrate social skills. We owe this not only to Albert Ebossé and his family, but also sport as a whole and our game of football.
We must not look the other way
A set of firm rules must always be imple-mented to protect players from reckless challenges/tackles that could endanger players’ careers. Players and coaches from the grassroots level all the way to the top must be encouraged to respect each other and respect the referees and the match officials. The rule of three substitutions per match must be re-analysed when dealing with special cases such as head injuries. Finally, the clubs and football federations must actively educate the supporters regarding the danger of throwing objects into the pitch.
SUPERKIA1459, Indonesia
Build bigger stadiums and restrict the size of the crowds.
xbeasty007, England
The rules for punishing offenders should be more flexible and punishments should be lifelong. Not only would these measures help in removing racists, neo-Nazis, homophobes, perpetrators of violence, rioters and hooli-gans, they would also scare those who intend to spoil the world’s most beautiful game. Just enjoy what’s happening on the field, guys. Of course football is fantastic, but in the end it’s just a game …
GioGyan, Laos
Linesmen should be given the power to tell the referee to give red or yellow cards for heavy tackles and misbehaviour. Before giving a card the referee should ask the opinion of the linesman and should respect and respond to what the assistant says. After the match is over, the referee and linesmen should discuss the discipline of the players and if there were any dangerous tackles, misbehaviour or racism in that match the referee and linesmen should be given the right to ban the player for at least five matches.
MOHAMEDFAIZA, India
All stadiums must pass quality controls including construction, security, crowd-control management, emergency procedures etc. Constant dialogue must be conducted regularly between the representa-tives of the football federations, the clubs and the supporters. This is important to ensure matches are safe for everybody to attend.
Agafur, Indonesia
Learn from England!sa’id17, Iran
Just as football is a standard-bearer of hope and transcends borders, it can also be a vehicle for violence and fanaticism. The most important thing is never to forget the boundary between the greatest game in the world and politics. Passion should never be blind and frenzied. If it is, even the safest stadium won’t help.
tablenight99, Germany
We have to be realistic and accept a football match isn’t what it once was. Organising a tournament demands new security concepts and more rigorous measures. Organisation makes the difference!
nael73, Belgium
“Punishments should be lifelong.”
“Of course football is fantastic, but in the end it's just a game.”
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Overjoyed Hassan Shehata celebrates the first of his three Africa Cup of Nations triumphs in 2006 following a 4-2 penalty shoot-out victory over Côte d'Ivoire in Cairo.
Egypt narrowly missed out on qualifying for the 2014 World Cup. Despite the national team boasting several talented players, the Pharaohs find themselves in a difficult situation. The Port Said tragedy of 2012, when 70 football fans lost
their lives, and domestic political unrest have taken their toll. We spoke to coaching legend Hassan Shehata about the Egyptian game.
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Hassan Shehata, you have won major titles both as a player and a coach. What drives you on nowadays?
Hassan Shehata: I have to work, I need it, although I sometimes have the feeling that I’ve done enough. I simply have to be out on the pitch, I can’t be without a ball.
You are still a striker.I hope so. Yes, I’m still a goalscorer. I like
to join in whenever there’s a game, whether it’s with the team I’m coaching, with my children or grandchildren. I like playing football with anyone, I love it.
But now your main role is as coach, and you have been very successful.
I’m a coach, yes. I had other offers in football but I still prefer training a team to anything else.
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Horror-struck Al-Ahly supporters outside the club grounds after 21 people were sentenced to death by an Egyptian court (9 March 2013).
At the start of the season you accepted an offer from Moroccan side El Jadida and kicked off the new campaign with a goalless draw away to Renaissance de Berkane.
At El Jadida, a city which is close to Medina, I’m trying to improve on last season’s fifth-placed finish. I want to be successful and I’m doing everything I can so that we play as a team and have good quality. There’s still a lot of work to do though. A coach is one hand, so to speak, but he needs the other hand, the team itself, in order to be successful.
The championship only began in September this year because Morocco will host the Africa Cup of Nations, a tournament you have good memories of with Egypt after winning the title in 2006, 2008 and 2010.
A lot of hard work went into that and a few intermediate targets had to be reached
first. The most important thing was that the Egyptian people got behind the team, regard-less of whether they were normally support-ers of Al-Ahli, Zamalek or Ismailija. I knew that in order to achieve anything we needed to have every Egyptian behind us, but it wasn’t easy. It was only when we started winning matches that we received the neces-sary support. People started believing in the team and that in turn gave the players a boost. There would be 100,000 fans in the stadium and they were all waving flags.
So togetherness was the key to success? People in Egypt asked themselves what I
had done to make the national team so successful. I just wanted everyone to get behind the team and their coach. That was only possible when people felt Hassan Sheha-ta was working for the team and for his K
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NameHassan ShehataDate and place of birth19 June 1949, Kafr el-Dawwar (Egypt)Position as a playerStrikerClubs played for1967–1968, 1971–1983 al Zamalek SC 1968–1971 Kazma SC (Kuwait)Selected clubs coached1983–1985, 2011–2012 al Zamalek SC 2004–2011 Egyptian national team since 2014 El Jadida (Morocco)
country, rather than just for his own benefit. The players and I tried to give our all for our country. People could sense that and they gave us tremendous support.
As a former striker do you put extra emphasis on attacking play?
You know, Egypt weren’t necessarily the best team in Africa. We had to come up with a strategy out on the pitch but to do that it wasn’t a case of me telling the side what they needed to do in our training sessions. Instead, I spoke to the players and together we came up with solutions. We debated things and wanted to find out what would work best for us. I’m no dictator; I talk to my players. I
“I’m no dictator ; I talk to my players.”
believe that is a vital component of achieving success.
Egypt missed out on qualifying for the 2014 World Cup after losing the play-offs to Ghana, who are 38th in the FIFA Rankings. When will the country manage to reach a World Cup again?
Egypt have a good team. They won all their qualifying matches and perhaps were a bit over-confident in the play-off with Ghana. We have a lot of good players but due to the political situation in the country, training and friendly matches have become harder for the national team over the last three or four years.
There was also the tragedy in 2012 when over 70 fans lost their lives in Port Said. Since then games in Egypt have been played behind closed doors, although occasionally exceptions are made for the national team, such as for the Africa Cup of Nations qualifying match against Tunisia later this month. Given that backdrop, do young people still show an interest in the game?
That’s what’s missing in Egypt. Player development isn’t coordinated closely enough. There isn’t enough cooperation between the youth teams, the Olympic side and the na-tional team. They don’t support each other. On top of that we don’t exactly have many players who are at European clubs, compared to Ghana, Cameroon and Ivory Coast for example. Those countries have almost their entire squad at European sides. So before we can even start thinking about a sophisticated playing style we need to work on our players, on honing technique.
How are young players trained in Egypt? The youth system still isn’t very good.
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Founded: 1921FIFA member since: 1923Confederation: CAFPresident: Mohamed GamalOfficial website: www.efa.com.egWorld Cup appearances: 1934, 1990African champions: 1957, 1959, 1986, 1998, 2006, 2008, 2010Registered players: 52,110Number of clubs: 608
clubs, give them a contract and train them at a better club. But there’s huge competition for places because in the top two divisions there are a lot of foreign players. However, another reason why gifted Egyptian players don’t make it to Europe is that they lack the necessary desire to go all the way.
So it all comes down to ambition?Yes, and us Egyptians also prefer to live
with our families than to live abroad by ourselves.
The same is true for the majority of players around the world.
It’s especially deep-rooted for us. That said, a few have made it, such as Hossam Hassan, Hani Ramzi, and Mohamed Zidan in the Bundesliga and Mohamed Salah, who was in Switzerland and is now at Chelsea.
During a game you once had an altercation with Mido, who used to play for Ajax, Celta Vigo, Marseille, Roma and Tottenham Hotspur before coaching top Egyptian side Zamalek for a year.
I needed to change something during the 2006 Africa Cup of Nations semi-final against Senegal. I took Mido off the pitch and seconds later his replacement Amr Zaki scored with his first touch of the ball. If he hadn’t done so I would have looked foolish but I felt it was the right thing to do, so I did it. Our success proved me right. Å
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Title hat-trick Hassan Shehata’s side following their success at the 2010 Africa Cup of Nations.
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Isat there like a drowned rat as the bucket was hoisted over my head as both of my kids – one in a Stefano Borgonovo shirt, the other wearing the name of Johan Cruyff, Stefano’s favourite player – cheered. The ‘ALS Ice Bucket Challenge’, in which a bucket full of freezing water is poured over the chal-lenger’s head, has been all the rage recently. From George Bush, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg to Mario Gotze and Cristiano Ronaldo, prominent
public figures across the globe have gone along with the trend in the hope that ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis), an incurable and largely unresearched neurodegenerative disease, can soon be tackled once and for all. Borgonovo, once a European Cup winner with AC Milan, died in 2013 after an eight-year struggle with the condition. Ex-1860 Munich striker Bernd Geesdorf passed away two years after his diagnosis, while former Rangers star Fernando Ricksen is another former footballer now battling this dreadful disease. Once diagnosed, sufferers have a life expectancy of one to three years. As a prime example of a viral Internet hit, the ‘ALS Ice Bucket Challenge’ has prompted much discussion among media experts, but for ALS patients the campaign simply offers a unique opportunity to draw attention to this terrible illness and thus increase public awareness. “I feel like a crusader for the unknown,” Borgonovo once said. “Something just has to be done. Ignorance doesn’t help, it just isolates.” That fact alone makes the cold shower worthwhile. Å
Bernd Fisa
Elton John once set a footballing trend as chairman of Watford; Robbie Williams took to the sporting stage as the main sharehold-er of Port Vale; fellow musician Fatboy Slim lent more than just his
voice to Brighton & Hove Albion, while two months ago English teen idol Louis Tomlinson bought his beloved club Doncaster Rovers. Meanwhile, SG Sonnenhof Grossaspach are also striking the right note on the continent. Tracing its roots to an amateur team founded by local hotelier Uli Ferber in 1976, this provincial club from south-west Germany has since climbed to the country’s third tier and turned professional. In sporting terms, the team with the league’s smallest budget is somewhere in the middle of the pack, but when it comes to rubbing shoulders with pop stars, Sonnenhof top the table. Ferber’s partner is German singer Andrea Berg, whose tunes explore feelings every football fan knows all too well – everything from des-perate longing and adoration to emotional highs and lows. She has taken the charts by storm and has more golden accolades to show off than all German footballers put together. When she crossed the di-vide between music and sport to give a fundraising concert at Gros-saspach’s stadium recently, the club had to increase capacity from 10,000 to 15,000 seats, and unlike in football (and real life), the spec-tators knew exactly what they were in for. After all, the sun always shines in the pop business, and a happy ending is guaranteed. Å
Thomas Renggli
The Champions League may only begin in eleven days’ time in Europe but in Asia the competition is already in the final straight. That was enough to trigger a flutter of panic among defending
champions Guangzhou ahead of the quarter-final return legs last week. The Chinese outfit have the biggest budget in the competition, boast Alberto Gilardino in attack and have Marcello Lippi as coach, but they still lost 1-0 to Western Sydney Wanderers in the first leg. According to Australian media reports, that led to a campaign being started to make life as uncomfortable as possible for the Wanderers in China prior to the return fixture. There are said to have been persistent telephone calls during the night and loud banging on the players’ bedroom doors. 30-year-old right-back Shannon Cole even claimed the team were involved in a staged traffic accident: “On the way to the stadium a car deliberately cut us off and caused a crash. Fortunately a replacement bus came within five minutes.” Despite winning the match 2-1, Guanghzou, who are backed by Chinese in-ternet giant Alibaba, crashed out of the competition to the Austral-ian underdogs on the away goals rule. World Cup winning coach Lippi had been sent to the stands for abusive language shortly be-fore the final whistle in the first leg. The Wanderers, meanwhile, have their sights set on reaching the Club World Cup in Morocco, but first face FC Seoul in the semi-finals. Å
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Teams with the most wins at the U-20
Women’s World Cup
1 29 wins Germany Matches played: 40 Goals scored: 112
2 28 wins USA Matches played: 38 Goals scored: 86
3 17 wins Korea DPR Matches played: 26 Goals scored: 64
4 14 wins Nigeria Matches played: 33 Goals scored: 57
5 13 wins Brazil Matches played: 31 Goals scored: 52
6 11 wins Canada Matches played: 23 Goals scored: 50
11 wins France Matches played: 22 Goals scored: 41
8 10 wins China PR Matches played: 21 Goals scored: 29
9 9 wins Japan Matches played: 17 Goals scored: 34
10 8 wins Korea Republic Matches played: 17 Goals scored: 25
11 4 wins Mexico Matches played: 20 Goals scored: 28
Source: FIFA (U-20 Women’s World Cup all-time ranking, 25 August 2014)
The stadium was a sell-out as Germany and Argentina took to the pitch for their match. The teams exchanged goalscoring opportu-
nities, and then Argentina scored first. Clearly we are not talking about the 2014 World Cup Final in Rio de Janeiro, when Germany netted the only goal of the match in extra time to get their hands on the World Cup Trophy. Instead, seven-and-a-half weeks later the action contin-ued in Dusseldorf where, despite having some promising chances in the early stages thanks in large part to Mario Gomez, the new world champions were forced to accept a 1-0 deficit. They then quickly conceded second and third goals – and even a fourth.
Although the overall performance could not reasonably be compared to Die Mann-schaft’s 7-1 thrashing of hosts Brazil in the World Cup semi-final, it called to mind the mo-ment in that fateful game when it appeared that the proud Brazilian team were trapped in a downward spiral while practically every move the eventual champions created ended with another goal. Eventually, an air of humility set-tled over the Germans in that match; embar-rassed by their ability to take a 5-0 lead into the half-time break, they dropped back sufficiently far in the second half to ensure that victory was never under threat while refusing to heap extra humiliation on an opponent so clearly indisposed that evening.
Humility was once again a factor in Argen-tina’s 4-2 win over Joachim Low’s side in the World Cup Final rematch in Dusseldorf, but not because La Albiceleste, playing without the re-cuperating Lionel Messi, lost the urge to push forward after scoring their fourth goal. Instead it could be argued that Germany played this rematch with the same mindset as in the latter
stages of that memorable semi-final. Having beaten Argentina in the “first half” – the World Cup Final in Rio, in this case – they limited themselves to being polite hosts in the “second half” at the Dusseldorf rematch, just as they had been polite guests in the latter stages of that 7-1 victory. After all, the fans had already given world champions Philipp Lahm, Miroslav Klose and Per Mertesacker a rousing send-off from the national team before the game, all the while applauded by the visiting South Ameri-cans. The mood was certainly one of celebra-tion as Germany played in front of a home crowd for the first time since their World Cup triumph, even though only four of the starting line-up held the Trophy aloft in Rio.
Then again, when it comes to humility, vic-tory and adopting the right mindset, perhaps coach Joachim Low and his team were simply already focused on their upcoming match against Scotland and the start of their qualify-ing campaign for EURO 2016 in France. Å
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RankingRank Team Change in ranking Points
1 Germany 0 1736
2 Argentina 0 1604
3 Netherlands 0 1507
4 Colombia 0 1495
5 Belgium 0 1407
6 Uruguay 0 1316
7 Spain 1 1241
7 Brazil 0 1241
9 Switzerland 0 1218
10 France 0 121211 Portugal 0 1152
12 Chile 0 1100
13 Greece 0 1092
14 Italy 0 1069
15 Costa Rica 1 1023
16 Croatia 1 964
17 Mexico 1 942
18 USA -3 937
19 Bosnia and Herzegovina 0 925
20 England 0 915
21 Ecuador 0 910
22 Ukraine 0 901
23 Russia 0 899
24 Algeria 0 880
25 Côte d'Ivoire 0 840
26 Denmark 0 818
27 Romania 1 740
28 Scotland -1 738
29 Venezuela 1 724
29 Sweden 0 724
31 Serbia 0 723
32 Turkey 0 711
33 Nigeria 1 673
34 Hungary 4 656
35 Czech Republic 0 650
36 Ghana 2 648
36 Armenia 5 648
38 Egypt -2 645
39 Slovenia -2 643
40 Austria 3 624
41 Wales 3 623
42 Tunisia 0 617
43 Honduras -3 596
44 Japan 1 593
45 Slovakia 1 584
46 Iceland 1 573
47 Paraguay 1 564
48 Iran 1 563
49 Montenegro 1 553
50 Sierra Leone 14 533
51 Uzbekistan 1 528
52 Peru 7 522
53 Norway 0 512
54 Cameroon -1 507
55 Finland 0 502
56 Jordan 1 500
57 Korea Republic -1 499
58 Burkina Faso 0 493
59 Senegal 3 491
60 Mali 0 488
61 Poland 0 482
62 Libya 1 475
63 Panama -30 474
64 Guinea -13 471
65 United Arab Emirates 0 464
66 Republic of Ireland 4 448
67 Oman 2 447
68 Israel -1 439
69 South Africa -3 438
70 Albania -3 437
71 Bolivia 0 434
72 Bulgaria 0 429
73 Azerbaijan 0 413
74 Cape Verde Islands 1 411
75 Angola 4 408
76 FYR Macedonia -2 407
77 Benin 14 405
78 Congo 4 395
79 Australia -3 391
80 Trinidad and Tobago 4 384
81 Morocco -2 381
81 Uganda 6 381
83 Saudi Arabia -5 377
84 Zambia -7 375
85 Jamaica -2 373
86 Botswana 13 371
87 Togo 1 365
88 Palestine -3 363
88 Belarus -7 363
90 Zimbabwe 8 358
91 Iraq -2 357
92 Qatar -6 348
93 Estonia -1 344
93 Congo DR 3 344
95 Northern Ireland -6 341
95 Georgia 1 341
97 China PR -3 334
98 New Zealand 3 330
99 Moldova 3 325
100 Latvia 3 324
101 Rwanda 8 318
102 Gabon -9 311
103 Lithuania 1 306
104 Kenya -9 305
105 Lesotho 26 302
106 Malawi 15 295
107 Bahrain -2 289
107 Mozambique 7 289
109 Luxembourg -1 288
110 Tanzania -4 285
111 Kuwait -4 280
112 Ethiopia -2 275
113 Equatorial Guinea -2 270
114 Namibia -2 269
115 Lebanon 4 263
115 Sudan 0 263
117 Haiti -4 262
118 Niger -19 261
119 Liberia -4 260
120 Tajikistan 4 252
120 Central African Republic -3 252
122 Canada -4 250
123 Guinea-Bissau 13 242
124 Cuba -4 233
124 Aruba -1 233
126 Dominican Republic -1 230
127 El Salvador -6 223
128 Philippines 0 221
129 Burundi -3 217
129 Afghanistan 0 217
131 Kazakhstan -4 213
131 Suriname 0 213
133 Mauritania 0 204
134 Guatemala 0 203
134 St Vincent and the Grenadines 1 203
136 New Caledonia 0 199
137 Turkmenistan 3 197
138 St Lucia 0 195
139 Vietnam -10 192
140 Cyprus -1 184
140 Chad 0 184
142 Grenada 0 182
143 Madagascar 0 179
144 Kyrgyzstan 0 176
145 Maldives 0 174
146 Korea DPR 1 167
147 Syria -1 161
148 Gambia 0 157
149 Antigua and Barbuda 0 156
150 India 1 143
150 Malta 0 143
152 Singapore 2 140
153 Guyana 2 136
153 Indonesia 0 136
155 Puerto Rico 1 134
155 Malaysia -4 134
157 Thailand 0 126
158 Swaziland 1 125
159 St Kitts and Nevis -1 124
160 Myanmar 0 121
161 Hong Kong 1 118
162 Belize -1 117
163 Guam 11 102
164 Pakistan 1 100
165 Montserrat 1 99
166 Nepal -2 95
167 Liechtenstein 0 94
168 Dominica -1 93
169 Barbados 0 92
170 Bangladesh -7 87
171 Tahiti 0 85
172 Laos -2 84
173 Solomon Islands 2 83
173 Bermuda 0 83
175 Nicaragua 0 78
175 Comoros -3 78
177 São Tomé e Príncipe 0 72
178 Sri Lanka 0 71
179 Chinese Taipei -1 70
180 Seychelles 2 68
181 Turks and Caicos Islands 0 66
182 Curaçao 1 63
183 Faroe Islands 1 61
184 Yemen -4 59
185 South Sudan 1 43
186 Macau 18 41
186 Vanuatu 1 41
188 Mauritius -3 37
189 Fiji -1 31
190 Mongolia -1 29
191 US Virgin Islands -1 28
191 Samoa -1 28
193 Bahamas -1 26
193 Brunei Darussalam -1 26
193 Timor-Leste -1 26
193 Tonga -1 26
197 Cayman Islands -1 21
198 American Samoa -1 18
199 Andorra -1 16
200 Papua New Guinea -1 14
201 Cambodia -1 13
201 British Virgin Islands -1 13
203 Eritrea -1 11
204 Somalia -1 8
205 Djibouti 0 6
206 Cook Islands 0 5
207 Anguilla 0 1
208 Bhutan 0 0
208 San Marino 0 0
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What have you always wanted to know about football? Ask Gunter Netzer: [email protected]
For a club to be successful, several elements have to come together. One such factor is the role of the owner. As the head of the
“organisation”, he bears the burden of re-sponsibility and lays the foundations for suc-cess. Usually, a chairman or president knows the areas he has to steer clear of. One of these is everything that falls under the remit of the coach.
In this day and age, there are plenty of owners who invest a lot of money in a football club. They want to see results and indeed are entitled to do so. But their impatience and passion can be counterproductive. You often read or hear about owners having a go at their team or even their coach following a poor re-sult. That is quite unacceptable. A coach’s
Should club owners be allowed to interfere in
coaching matters?Question from Brandon Bloom, Toronto
authority must never be undermined. It’s det-rimental to both the team and the club.
A chairman who turns up in the changing rooms when a team isn’t performing well on the pitch is overstepping the mark. On no ac-count should a coach have to tolerate such actions. They’re degrading and demeaning. In such a situation, the coach should do the hon-ourable thing and clear his desk. Å
Perikles Monioudis
Let’s lace up our boots, lads! This hearty cry sounds a trifle archaic, even if most foot-ball boots do still require laces. However,
the heavy leather clodhoppers of yesteryear have vanished for good. The latest boots weigh practically nothing and are so pliable and (as it were) cuddly, that they are virtually worn like gloves.
Nowadays, no-one would dream of taking a brightly-coloured, ultra light and highly supple football boot on and off with the help of a lac-ing tool. The example pictured above and drawn from the FIFA collection is a little over 100 years old, made of brass and decorated at the top end with a foot kicking a ball.
The bottom end is bent into a hook for ma-noeuvring the bootlace between the holes and allowing the laces to be loosened or tightened. A lacing tool like this would surely have been a de rigueur personal accessory for anyone who fancied himself a bit as a player. We can easily imagine the received wisdom at the time: a per-fectly laced-up boot made the wearer a better and more capable player.
At the very least the player could no longer roll out the excuse that his footwear had let him down at the critical moment, when poised to shoot for example. The player had only him-self to blame if he wasn’t good enough, because it could not have been the fault of his boots.
For its part, this fact might have led to the player genuinely getting better, presumably afraid that his personal failings were now clearly demonstrable. A lacing tool for today’s game? Bring it on! Å
Günter Netzer in training ahead of a friendly in January 1973.
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Years of phenomenal growthFIFA decided to stage the first FIFA Women’s World Cup™ in 1991 (China PR) to give the best female players in world football the opportunity to play on a world stage, thus marking a milestone for the growth of women’s football all around the globe. Around half a million spectators attended the matches. Since then, the women’s game has taken huge strides forward in every aspect, whether in terms of the players’ technique, physical fitness and tactics, or the media coverage, TV viewers and sponsorship interest.
One of the pillars of FIFA’s mission is to touch the world through our tourna-ments. We take great pride in staging these entertaining and unique festivals of football across the globe.The FIFA Women’s World Cup™ is a shining example of our commitment to ensuring that women’s football goes from strength to strength in the future.
In Turning Point, personalities reflect on a decisive moment in their lives.
T U R N I N G P O I N T
NameJurgen SparwasserDate and place of birth4 June 1948, HalberstadtPositionStrikerClubs played forSC Aufbau Magdeburg / 1. FC Magdeburg 1966–1979East Germany (DDR) national team53 caps, 15 goals
East Germany’s only World Cup appear-ance came in 1974, where we were drawn against West Germany, of all teams, in the first group stage. It was a fantastic draw that we needed a while to digest. The West Germans had a score to settle
with us after the 1972 Summer Olympics in Mu-nich, when they lost 3-2 to us in the second round despite Ottmar Hitzfeld’s headed goal.
I was on an emotional high going into the 1974 World Cup, having just won the East German championship with 1. FC Magdeburg before beating AC Milan in the UEFA Cup Winners’ Cup. We faced Helmut Schon’s side in Hamburg in our third and final World Cup group match. We weren’t put under any pressure by the DDR regime before the game and all the talk about a Bruder-kampf with East and West fighting for their nation’s honour was total rubbish.
The longer the score stayed at 0-0, the more restless the Hamburg crowd became. In the 78th minute, my team-mate Erich Hamann knocked a long diagonal pass in my direction, with the West German defensive bastion of
Berti Vogts, Bernd Cullmann, Horst-Dieter Hottges and goalkeeper Sepp Maier lying in wait ahead of me. Despite their numerical advantage, I threw myself into the throng with the intention of bringing the ball down on my chest, but instead I caught it on my nose. Although I was briefly startled, I benefited from the ball’s unexpected change of direction and suddenly found myself with only Maier to beat. I feinted a shot, paused, waited until he hit the deck and then chipped the ball over him and into the net. That goal proved to be the difference in our match against the eventual world champions. For helping us qualify for the next round, I received a bonus of 2,500 West German marks. I later learned this was the smallest amount any of our players received, something that galls me to this day.
The goal was both a blessing and a curse for me and changed my life forever. It made me famous and anointed me a national hero in the DDR. It was one of the best goals I ever scored; even Franz Beckenbauer said it was a textbook strike. I received offers from some of the Bundes liga’s top clubs, not including Bayern Munich, but I did not want to leave my wife and daughter behind in East Germany under any circumstances. Yet the goal was also the trigger for our eventual escape. After my playing career ended in 1979, I turned my attention to academic pursuits at Magdeburg’s teacher training college and planned to submit a doctoral thesis relating to football. On several occasions during that period, party officials tried to force me to become the coach of
1. FC Magdeburg, thinking that I was the right person for the job because of my goal against West Germany, but I always turned it down for family reasons. As a result, I was abruptly excluded from a research project at the univer-sity, while doctoral seminars I was meant to be involved with were cancelled without com-ment. I could forget any hopes I had of submit-ting my dissertation. At 40, I could no longer see any future in East Germany.
Amazingly, a lack of vigilance from the authorities meant my wife and I were able to travel to the West at the same time in January 1988. I played for Magdeburg’s veterans’ team in Saarbrücken and then defected. We didn’t want to go back after reunification, and I even-tually found fulfilment by working in youth football in Frankfurt am Main. My brief spell in charge of second-tier side Darmstadt 98 in the early 1990s showed that I was not suited to coaching a top-flight professional team. My health suffered considerably, though luckily with no lasting effects. Å
As told to Peter Eggenberger
Jurgen Sparwasser scored the only goal of the game in East Germany’s victory over their western neighbours at the 1974 World Cup, ultimately prompt-ing his defection to the West.
“My World Cup goal was both a blessing and a curse”
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Whose headquarters are named after a date?
A handful of outstanding sporting personalities have acquired the label “supremo”, but who is the original “supremo”?
Clubs who don’t mention their home and the original “supremo” – test your knowledge!
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In the Champions League play-offs, defender Cosmin Moti ended the match in goal for Ludogorets Razgrad, but has a goalkeeper ever taken over from an outfield player during a match?Samuel Lehmann, Lemington
Yes, although only very rarely. In the first-ever recorded interna-tional fixture between Scotland and England in 1872, keeper Robert Barker and striker Wil-liam Maynard swapped positions in the second half. Barker had only been named keeper due to his huge frame and his back-ground as a rugby player. Some 133 years later, something similar happened in the Premier League when Manchester City played Middlesbrough: for the last few minutes, City midfielder Claudio Reyna was replaced by backup keeper Nicky Weaver, and first-choice keeper David James was ordered up front. It was all in vain as City failed to snatch a winning goal. “I confused every-one – our opponents, and us as well,” commented City boss Stuart Pearce. (thr)
Who will win the AFC Champions League in 2014?
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5% � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � Al-Ain, United Arab Emirates
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league goals was the career landmark reached by Zlatan Ibrahimovic on Sunday. The Paris Saint-Germain star arrived at this milestone after scoring a hat-trick – his sixth for the French club – in a thumping 5-0 victory over Saint-Etienne. The win was PSG’s tenth in 11 home Ligue 1 matches this year.
goal and one own goal contri- buted by teenager Tin Jedvaj to Bayer Leverkusen’s match with Hertha Berlin on Saturday. Fortunately for the Croatian
youngster, his strike at the right end helped Leverkusen to a
4-2 win and consigned Hertha to their 400th Bundesliga defeat in the process.
1 250 2goals up was the position from which Real Madrid crashed to a 4-2 defeat at Real Sociedad on Sunday. It was the first time in over eight years – since a 4-3 defeat at Sevilla in May 2006 – that the Spanish giants had gone on to lose after being two up.
Which of these previous winners was drawn into the most difficult 2014/15 UEFA Champions League group?
Make your choice from the following:· Bayern Munich· Benfica· Porto· Juventus· Chelsea· Borussia Dortmund
Cast your votes at:www.fifa.com/newscentre
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