...England early exit – what must hudgson do? By Ahmed Osman Sort out the defence. England's defence was earmarked as a potential weak link even before they travelled to Brazil - although it should be remembered it was Chelsea captain John Terry's decision to retire from international football and it was not up to Hodgson to plead with him. Hodgson's exclusion of Ashley Cole in preference to Southampton's Luke Shaw was open to more debate as Everton's Leighton Baines struggled. Easy to be wise after the event but was Hodgson's reluctance to have Cole even playing the role of deputy at a World Cup the one major fault in his squad selection? This is an area of the side Hodgson must now revisit while avoiding the dangers of a complete reconstruction in an area of a team that depends so much on partnerships, communication and a mutual understanding. Hudgson must have faith in youngsters. Hodgson has inherited a very talented group of young England players. He must develop with them and ensure he is relevant to them. What Hodgson said about Ross Barkley, occasionally careless in possession and immature in his decision-making, had merit but would it not have been better to encourage this outstanding young talent? It made Hodgson sound somewhat impatient with the development of youth. It is something he will have to get used to because Barkley will be central to his plans for Euro 2016, as will Raheem Sterling, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, Shaw and Stones. Arsenal's Jack Wilshere...
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...Ryan caught the football. He passed it to Ethan who ran down the field, who passed it to me, I started to sprint. It was a friday morning and me and my friends were playing flag football at big Waddell Field. We got into teams. It was me, Ethan, Ryan, Evan, and Aron. We Had been playing for less than five minutes when we made the first touchdown. Ethan and Ryan of course were the stars of the play. After that I called a group meeting. “Okay guys here the pla-” “This is what we're going to do…”! interrupted Ryan I sighed. When ever i had a plan it always got interrupted. Like that one time I was 9 me and my brother played football with the neighbor hood kids and i had a good plan but he ignored me. No one ever uses teamwork. Ten minutes had passed. We were tied 1 to 1 and it was 4th down. Nobody had clue what to do so I stepped in....
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...Have you ever wondered why football teams keep switching to turf instead of natural grass? Well, there are many good reason why they do but there are also many why they shouldn’t. Money is a huge factor of it and I think that is why teams keep switching to turf. Why are teams actually going to turf? Well, money is a big factor of it. It is almost 10,000 dollars to put in turf but after that you don’t have to use much more money. You don’t have to water it, you don’t have to replant seed every two years, and you don’t have keep cutting it like regular grass. An average turf field lasts for about five years while a grass field only lasts for two. Another big reason why people are switching to turf is because there are less injuries that occur. When it is raining and there are a lot of people running around, mud pits form. People will slip in the mud pits and pull a muscle or roll their ankle. On turf, rain doesn’t make it muddy therefore, there are less injuries. On a regular field, the grass gets hard and brittle when the temperature drops. It hurts when you fall on hard grass. (Believe me, i’ve done it.) Turf fields don’t get hard and brittle, they stay pretty soft...
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...2013 Third Year Keepers and Beyond Foot Notes. ADP is taking from http://www.fantasypros.com/nfl/adp/overall.php If the ADP of a third year keeper has already been slotted to a first or second year keeper, said player will be moved to the next round available. ADP is in italics 1st. Pattis Pulfizers(jacob) - Third Year Keepers and Beyond Average Drafted Position Larry Fitzgerald 28.3. - Third Round Maurice Jones Drew 23.5 -Fourth Round 2nd. Any D will do (Katie) - Third Year Keepers and Beyond Average Drafted Position Jamal Charles 4.5 - First Round Matt Forte 15.2 - Second Round Steven Jackson 17.5 – Third Round Vincent Jackson 37.3 – Fourth Round 3rd. Willnumbers(will) - Third Year Keepers and Beyond Average Drafted Position NONE 4th InTrestmanWeTrust (James) - Third Year Keepers and Beyond Average Drafted Position Aaron Rodgers 12.8 - Second Round 5th The Power Tower (David) - Third Year Keepers and Beyond Average Drafted Position Marshawn Lynch 5.7 - First Round Adrian Foster 3.3 -Second Round Roddy White 31.5 - Fourth Round 6th Coyotes(Justin) - Third Year Keepers and Beyond Average Drafted Position Chris Johnson 18.8 - Second Round Marques Colston 42.3 Fifth Round 7th Ketchup Bottle - Third Year Keepers and Beyond Average Drafted Position Hakeem Nicks 54.7 - Sixth Round 8th Inflatable Dates (Mike) - Third Year Keepers and Beyond Average Drafted Position Ray Rice 7.0 - First Round Peyton Manning 20- Second Round 9th Rocky’s Renegades (Marcus) - Third Year Keepers...
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...Nike Football Team Sports La agilidad como motor del crecimiento Resumen Hoy en día, se puede decir que no hay persona que no reconozca esta marca llamada Nike, ya que es una de las marcas más conocidas a nivel mundial. Nike posee una cuota considerable del mercado mundial de material deportivo, valorado en 15.000 millones de dólares. Además, patrocina los equipos de fútbol profesional más importantes, como el FC Barcelona, el Manchester United o el Arsenal. Pero tan sólo en Europa hay unos 500.000 equipos de fútbol amateur, y todos ellos necesitan camisetas, pantalones, calcetines, calzado y demás ropa deportiva personalizada. En ese mercado aún por explotar el equipo de operaciones de Nike para Europa, Oriente Próximo y África vio un potencial enorme. El Mercado del Fútbol Amateur en Europa La historia de Nike es bien conocida. Desde sus comienzos en 1964 como importador de zapatillas de deporte japonesas, ha crecido hasta convertirse en una de las marcas –y logos– más conocidas del mundo. La empresa fabrica una amplia gama de categorías de producto, desde calzado y ropa deportivos hasta equipos de golf y aparatos electrónicos. Sus productos cubren casi todos los deportes conocidos, y su éxito es tal que Nike controla un tercio del mercado mundial de ropa deportiva de marca. En el caso del mercado del fútbol europeo, Nike ha hecho grandes progresos desde que entrara en los noventa con su sonado patrocinio del equipo nacional de Brasil. Aunque ahora patrocina a algunos de...
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...Pickens vs Pepperell The Pickens Dragons football team traveled to Berry College last Friday to take on the Pepperell Dragons for their second game of the season. Pepperell won the toss and elected to defer giving the ball to Pickens first, and they didn’t take long to turn that first drive into points. On a drive that consisted of five passes, including two long passes to Zach Goss who would catch the last one for a 27 yard touchdown and an early 7-0 lead for Pickens. Pepperell thought would answer on their first drive going on a 10 play drive that ended with a four yard touchdown run. They followed that up with a little trickery on the PAT and managed to convert for an 8-7 lead still in the first quarter. Pickens would not be deterred...
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...In this essay I will discuss the weight loss program put together for a friend to increase his or her chances of making the football team. In this program we will use operant conditioning to help the subject start to lose weight for his or her goal of making the football team. Operant conditioning is learning controlled by the consequences of the organism’s behavior. The reason operant conditioning is so effective is because of the law of effect. This states that if a stimulus followed by a behavior results in a reward, the stimulus is more likely to give rise to the behavior in the future. We will use reinforcement and a certain schedule of reinforcement to increase the behavior of eating healthy and working out to lose weight. While devising...
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...It was a freezing winter day winter day in Jackson Wyoming. The moment I got out of bed this morning, chills went down my spine but, not from just the cold, but also fear. That same morning as walked to school I saw Peter. “ hey look I found shorty!” He yelled. “No you found Toby” I muttered angrily. I wanted to run as fast as I possibly could but he would out run me he was probably the fastest runner on football team. I was only 4’ 3” and I was in 7th grade. I would have told my parents already but he threatens to beat me if I tell a single soul. you would think that he wouldn't know if I told my parents but he definitely knew. last time I said something to my mom, he slammed my fingers in my locker. Next time he said he would beat me for real....
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...Samsung Galaxy 11- Football Will Save the Planet Xiaowei Lu Introduction Digital Marketing Nowadays, the first thing when you wake up in the morning, is probably to check your cellphone for texts, or to open Facebook page or other social network for new posts, or to browse internet or to turn on television for global latest news. Those online means of communication, information conveyance, and collaboration through internet connections of people, organisations, and communities supported by technological capability and mobility, are all social media (Tuten & Solomon, 2013). There are always two major different interactions in today’s social networks such as Facebook, twitter and youtube: synchronous interactions, which are interactions with immediate communications and responses such as texting live messages online with friends; asynchronous interactions, which are communications without instant replies such as posting photos and news online (Tuten & Solomon, 2013). Digital marketing focuses on generalising marketing campaigns through taking full advantage of digital social media, in other words, achieving marketing objectives by digital technologies, since in today’s society it is the most Immediate, direct and effective way of business promotion. Samsung Samsung Group is the largest multinational conglomerate company from south Korea founded in 1938, operating various subsidiaries and affiliated companies and business. One of the most remarkable subsidiaries under the Samsung...
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...apprentice in his father shipyard then in his 19, he became a labor union activist and an active member of the “Labor Party”. As far as Ferguson’s “the football player” career is concerned, actually, he did not achieve a successful career. In fact, as a player Ferguson started with a small local football team the “Queens Park and St Johnston” club. Afterward, he got the chance to join the “Glasgow Ranger” club, yet this union did not last since he resigned after being responsible for the defeat of his team against its fierce rival the “Glasgow Celtic” club. So determined, Alex Ferguson joined the “East Stirling” football club but this time as a manager rather than as a player. His first management period lasted for three seasons and then was recruited by the Scottish football team “Aberdeen”. With limited resources, Ferguson achieved the unthinkable, he won with his club the “European Winners’ Cup” during the 1982-3 season. This achievement with “Aberdeen” was a milestone in his career and made him “THE” coach that many big names in the European football scene like Real Madrid, Barcelona, Arsenal, and Tottenham, wanted to engage him. Ultimately, Ferguson chose to join Manchester United (MU). During his reign, Manchester United advanced from an ordinary local team to a top-class national team. Together they won all the British football trophies: nine Premiership League titles, five FA cups, two League cups, and seven Community Shield cups (Antony Gumi). Furthermore, Alex was successful...
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...Branding in Soccer Light and Shadow Branding in Soccer Light and Shadow Introduction “Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it's much more serious than that.” (Gloves, S. 2012) This much quoted comment of the former, British football manager Bill Shankly describes exactly my view of football. I am a big fan of the most popular sport in the world. Sure I know that this comment is exaggerated, but football becomes more and more important. Not only for the fans and the sportsmen, also for the global economy. (Hamil, S. and Chadwick, S. 2010) In professional football the success goes hand in hand with money. Today it is almost impossible to win a big trophy like the UEFA Championsleague without investing lots of money. The FC Barcelona is ranked as the best team in the world and invested in the last five years an average of 40 Million Euros per annum in new players. (Transfermarkt 2011) But where does all that money come from? According to Uli Hoeneß, the president of German football club FC Bayern Munich, only 15% of the twelve million DMs (6.1 Million Euros) revenue were out of broadcasting, marketing and sponsoring when he began in 1979 his career as a manager. (RP online 2011) His aim was to make his club independent from earnings from the spectators. As you can see in the following diagram he achieved his aim. In the year 2010 Bayern’s matchday earnings were only 21% of the total revenue. The biggest part is now coming from the commercial...
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...FUTURE OF BANGLADESH FOOTBALL Throughout history, football has been the most popular sport in Bangladesh. As a fan of football when I think about the position of our football it makes me dishearten. Because I think it should be far more better. It is the high time we should think about our football to make it up to the mark. Compared to the past, the standard of Bangladeshi football has degraded due to mismanagement, lack of support and poor investment. An interest in cricket resulting from the nation’s success in Test Cricket and participation in the Cricket World Cup overshadowed the past fame in the nation’s football. But however this did not affect football’s popularity. More football tournaments are organized in and outside Dhaka than of any other sports and football fever grips the nation during every FIFA World Cup. Federation officials and experts are still hopeful about the development of football in the country in the next ten years despite financial obstacles and lack of professionalism. HISTORY History tells us why football is still popular in the country. During the liberation war in 1971, football was the way to create international awareness about the war of independence. The Swadhin Bangla football team was established which played 16 matches in India and was officially received by the BFF in 2009 The period before the 1990s saw national soccer fever in league football, specifically in the Dhaka League, which possessed club teams which were famous both...
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...Nike Presentation of Facts Surrounding Case Background on Football and the FIFA World Cup: Football (Commonly known as Soccer in the U.S.) was and still is the most popular sport in regards to viewership worldwide. In 2006 it was estimated that the sport of football was played by more than 265 million people, and continuing to grow (These estimates were up from 2000, estimated 42 million). Profession leagues exist throughout the world and the most popular teams were in Western Europe. The history of modern day soccer dates back to 1863, although there was early evidence of soccer being played as a sport in China between the 2nd and 3rd centuries BC. In China, it was mentioned that people dribbled leather balls by kicking it into a small net. Recorded facts also support the fact that Romans and Greeks used to play ball for fun and leisure. (Jetzen, 2013). Background of Nike: Co-founded by Phil Knight (former University of Oregon Track Athlete) and Bill Bowers, initially under the name Blue-Ribbon sports in 1962. After a business relationship ended with their overseas manufacturer, they changed the name in 1972 to what is now known as Nike. In 1975 Nike signed its “first” of many big name athletes in Steve Prefontaine. A local University of Oregon track athlete who at the time who held every known track record from the 2k to 10k meters. (Please note that ultimately, Steve Prefontaine was #1 in his sport as this has meaning throughout the case to Nike’s overall strategy). By...
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...The England national football team is the joint oldest in the world; it was formed at the same time as Scotland. A representative match between England and Scotland was played on 5 March 1870, having been organised by the Football Association. A return fixture was organised by representatives of Scottish football teams on 30 November 1872. This match, played at Hamilton Crescent in Scotland, is viewed as the first official international football match because the two teams were independently selected and operated, rather than being the work of a single football association.[3] Over the next forty years, England played exclusively with the other three Home Nations—Scotland, Wales and Ireland—in the British Home Championship. To begin with, England had no permanent home stadium. They joined FIFA in 1906 and played their first ever games against countries other than the Home Nations on a tour of Central Europe in 1908. Wembley Stadium was opened in 1923 and became their home ground. The relationship between England and FIFA became strained and this resulted in their departure from FIFA in 1928, before rejoining in 1946. As a result, they did not compete in a World Cup until 1950, in which they were beaten in a 1–0 defeat by the United States, failing to get past the first round in one of the most embarrassing defeats in team history.[4] Their first ever defeat on home soil to a non-UK team was a 0–2 loss to the Republic of Ireland on 21 September 1949 at Goodison Park. A 6–3...
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...Introduction to FC Bayern Munich FC Bayern Munich, a German sports club that is based in Munich, Bavaria, Germany, was formed in 1900. It has gained its recognition through its professional football team by dominating in the ‘Bundesliga’, a German football league, and is currently one of the world’s most successful clubs and biggest sporting brand (M., 2016). It has won a record of 25 league titles, 17 German cups and 5 times European champion (UEFA, 2015). FC Bayern Munich has been sticking to its guiding principles alongside with all necessary trainings and developments designed to help them achieve the highest performance in football (Global Premier Soccer, 2015). Bayern Munich’s success is mainly ascribed to its capacity to maintain its performances with the presence of quality players. Additionally, Bayern Munich has a competitive edge through its low-ticket prices as well as high brand value in which they exist in the minds of customers (Krishnan, 2014). 2. The Value Chain 2.1 Technology Systems, Applications & Products in Data Processing (SAP), a multinational software corporation, has been FC Bayern Munich’s official partner in the area of sport analytics and enterprise software (SAP News Center, 2014). With Bayern Munich having the most loyal and passionate set of football fans who have been supporting them throughout, it places an emphasis on the club to strengthen the relationship between them. For instance, the club had come out with its free official...
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