International Football (Soccer) Competitions - Unofficial Football World Championships, Homeless World Cup, Football at the Summer Universiade (Paperback)

Chapters: Unofficial Football World Championships, Homeless World Cup, Football at the Summer Universiade, List of Minor Football Tournaments, 2010 West Asian Football Federation Women's Championship. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 35. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Unofficial Football World Championships (UFWC) is a way of calculating the world's best football team, using a knock-out title system similar to that used in boxing and wrestling. The title is currently held by Netherlands, and will next be contested against Ghana in an international friendly match on 1 June 2010. The idea stemmed originally from some Scotland fans jokingly asserting that as they beat England (who had won the 1966 World Cup) in a British Home Championship match on 15 April 1967 England's first loss after their World Cup victory they were the Unofficial World Champions. Many years later, a website was created to show results of research triggered by this idea. The website received extra publicity when it was featured in football magazine FourFourTwo. The FourFourTwo feature also suggested the compilation of an unofficial clubs' world championship. The UFWC is not FIFA-sanctioned, nor does it have any sort of official backing. The first ever international match was a "rather unexciting" 00 draw between England and Scotland, on 30 November 1872 at Hamilton Crescent. The Unofficial World Championship thus remained vacant until the same two teams met again at the Kennington Oval on 8 March 1873. England won 42, and so are regarded as having become the first ever Unofficial Football World Champions. Wales entered the 'competition' in 1876, and Ireland in 1882. The Championship however, continued to swap between Scotland and England until March 1903, when Ireland beat Scotland 20. Wales won the title ...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=135960