United States

Today we talked about how football is lived in the US, a country that increasingly pays more attention to the most popular sport in the world.

After the Brazilian was they who bought more tickets to watch the World 196 838 according to FIFA. More than triple the Argentine and German, who bought tickets 61,477 and 58,983, respectively.

For a country with over 300 million people and a huge population of Latino and immigrant, seemed a matter of time that the US embraced once the soccer. To the extent that the audience the game against Ghana's World Cup in Brazil managed to exceed the average viewer of an NFL game in New York. Some 16 million Americans watched the match, a million more than the average of the last final of the League of Professional Baseball and more than triple the end of ice hockey.

And people start to realize how amazing which is a World Cup and is currently the fastest growing in the US, and that this has only just begun

The Major League Soccer, still a young tournament, contesting his 19th season, has to compete for support, respect, holders Press and care in a traditionally dominated by baseball, basketball and rugby country and wants to prolong the wave of support that are experiencing this summer beyond, over the coming years, when the league expands.

The Orlando City, which has joined this season, has already caused a sensation by signing Kaka, while the New York City FC, who also entered this 2015, has become in turn the services of David Villa and Frank Lampard, which has aroused great interest in a club that will not play his first match for another six months.

And with David Beckham after a club based in Miami who wants to join the league in 2017, success and support experienced by the soccer in the United States this summer 2014 could be just the tip of the iceberg.

The men's team has won 5 Gold Cups and participated 9 times in the World Cup. While the women's team is the best in the world in its category, and has won 2 World Cups and 4 gold medals at the Olympics Games.

The women´s team US

We hope you have been able to bring as living and growing the sport in the greatest world power .

Information from: futbol.as.com and es.fifa.com

Photo taken from: futbol.univision.com

Premier League

The Premier League, one of the best leagues in the world.

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Sweden

Sweden, the country of Zlatan Ibrahimović, Henrik Larsson and The Vikings.

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Ecuador

Today we will talk about an exotic South American country with a very interesting history in the field of sport and specifically on football.

The information is in a pdf. Click the link and enjoy the content.

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Argentina

The passion for football is not casual in the country of tango. Argentina was probably the foremost disciple who had the English worldwide. First, from schools, and then all over the country began to emerge youth who had a rare communion with the ball. That was how players, founded clubs and join the titles began to appear.

J. R. Riquelme with Boca Juniors C. A.

Football is the most popular sport in Argentina. Its penetration in all social strata is unmatched by any other practice in the country. In a land where people are recognized as natives of "the nation of Diego Maradona," Selection is a banner, a flag and one of the strongest forms of identification of its citizens with argentinidad. For different reasons, which included up political issues sporty and state level, the Albiceleste team was not recognized undisputed way on the planet, until obtaining the first World Championship FIFA in 1978. Eight years later, in Mexico 1986 ratified its power beyond objections that cemented with 6 crowns Youth World and Olympic gold medals in Athens 2004 and Beijing 2008. Today, the sheer quality of its players and the vision of its leaders, who understood that Selection is "No. 1 priority" of our football, Argentina is one of the most powerful nations of the world. But before this extraordinary present and obviously bright future, there is a glorious past that is worth knowing.

Argentina is a true and proud footballing invariably occupies the first place in the FIFA rankings.

It should be remembered, that Argentina was home to some of you best players ever as Maradona, Messi, Di Stefano, Kempes, Batistuta, Redondo, Riquelme and a lot more players.

Information taken of: AFA.org

Mexico

Football in Mexico came from the hand of the English and Spanish in the early twentieth century. Soon the game became popular and people started to practice. So in 1902 the Association Amateur Football League consists of five teams was: Orizaba Athetic Club, Pachuca Athletic Club, Athletic Club Reforma, Mexico Country Club and British Club. In 1930 increased the number of teams and the importance of the competition. 

At the institutional level the Football Mexican League Amateur Association (FEMEXFUT) is the governing body of football in Mexico and is the institution responsible body of the organization, validation and regulatory powers, clubs, players and referees professional and amateur football players. It was founded on August 23,1922 under the name of Mexican Federation of Football Association. It is affiliated to FIFA since 1929, to CONCACAF as a founding member since 1961 and in Mexico has been affiliated with the CODEME. It has a professional level with Premier League (18 teams),Liga de Ascenso(15 teams),the Second Division (30 teams),the Third Division (204 teams) and a Sector Amateur (700 teams),the latter being unprofessional. There is also a Women's Super League consists of 2 teams.

Besides these competitions are organized other, being the most important the Copa of Mexico (commercially known as MXCup).This competition takes place on and off since 1907 being the oldest tournament held in Mexico.

The Football Team Mexico has many important categories, not only the absolute, among them the U-20, U-17 Women and the football beach. The first meeting of the absolute selection was held in 1923 and since then has participated 15 times at the World Cup, hosting the tournament twice, in 1970 and 1986 where it reached in both tournaments sixth. His greatest achievements at international level have been the title of the FIFA Confederations Cup in 1999 tournament that they hosted, and runners-up of the Copa America in 1993 Ecuador and Colombia 2001, competition in which participates as a guest since 1993.

Mention that Mexico has hosted several international competitions, including: 

Football World Cups 1970 and 1986

Olympic Football Tournament 1968

1983 FIFA World Youth Championship

FIFA Cup 1999 Confederations

Cup 1977 CONCACAF

Gold Cup CONCACAF, 1993 and 2003

World Cup FIFA Under-17, 2011

A curious fact is that one of the legends of world football, Ronaldo de Assis Moreira, aka Ronaldinho, playing in Queretaro Football Club, a team of the Premier League.

Information extracted from: 

http://futbol.univision.com/mexico/

http://cuchurrudxts.galeon.com/

Algeria

Algeria, is a country located in the north of Africa. It is the country with the largest areas of Africa and in turn is one of the biggest footballing powers possessing in this continent. In a country where economic hardship and social problems are remarkable, football is used by citizens as a loophole to escape from the difficult situation they are. In this post we will explain the operation of Algerian football and its national team.

In Africa there is a African Football Confederation, founded in 1957 with based on 6 October City, in Egypt. This body is the confederation of national football associations in Africa, one of the six confederations belonging to FIFA. Mention that 54 national football associations belong to the CAF, where the continent is divided into six geographic zones, each one having its own confederation.

The Algerian Football Federation was founded in 1962 and belongs to FIFA and CAF since 1964. It is the body responsible for the organizing of various competitions that take place in the country, they are the Ligue Professionnelle 1, the Ligue Professionnelle 2 and the Cup of Algeria.

Algeria's football team is controlled by the Algerian Football Federation and is a member of the CAF and FIFA. In the football world cup of Spain 1982, they achieved their first qualification for a major competition, establishing a before and after in the football of this country, being his first major win the African Cup achieved in 1990, when they were the hosts of the competition. They managed to qualify for others different football world cup in 1986, 2010 and 2014, but did not carry out an important role.

At present, the team coach is the French Christian, Gourcuff. In the African Cup of Nations 2015 was eliminated against Ivory Coast, team who win the championship, but the Algeria national football team is in the first position in the FIFA ranking in CAF. Worldwide lies the number 18. The most outstanding player is Sofiane Feghouli, include a player who started his footballing adventure in various local teams in Ligue 2 and subsequently in Ligue 1. He currently plays for the Spanish team Valencia CF since 2010.

We find a country that despite not being a great football team, always looking to improve in each competition and enhance the prestige of his country.

Information extracted of:

http://el.soccerway.com/teams/algeria/algeria/78/

http://el.soccerway.com/teams/rankings/fifa/?ICID=TN_03_05_01

Portugal

Portugal is an exotic country located in the southwestern of Europe that includes the archipelagos of Madeira and the Azores in the Atlantic Ocean. In Europe, the Portuguese territory covers an area of 88,889 km2 sharing 1,215 km land border with Spain, together form the Iberian Peninsula. This country has a long history behind football and in this post we will discuss the most important aspects.

On the one hand we have the Portuguese League, better known as Primeira Liga. It is held since 1934 and has a duration of 10 months, from September to May and features a total of 18 teams, highlighting the CF Porto, SL Benfica and Sporting Lisbon. Currently these clubs are there more leagues under his belt with 33, 27 and 18 respectively, so we can say that is a unevenness league about the quality of their equipment.

Current Classification of the Primeira Liga

In addition to this competition , dispute the Portuguese Cup, the League Cup and Super Cup, so it is very similar to used in Spain system.

As best ever player in this league highlight the Portuguese Eusebio, playing a total of 17 seasons, scoring 331 goals and getting seven titles, playing in the Beira-Mar and later in the Benfica, where he won all of his tittles.

In terms of selection, this country has a team founded in 1914, joining FIFA in the year 1923, however played his first international match in 1921 with the Spanish team, losing 3-1 this meeting.

The greatest achievement by the team was second in the 2004 European losing the final against Greece, being coach Luiz Felipe Scolari. Currently and since September 2014 directs the national team Fernando Santos. As featured players during all the years of existence of this selection include Eusebio, Luis Figo and Cristiano Ronaldo .

Information taken

Http://www.resultados-futbol.com/portugal/grupo1/equipos

Australia

Australia, the continent-country, is a country with a cultural diversity, exuberant nature with a growing economy but which in turn of density it has one of the lowest levels of population per square kilometer in the world. This, in terms of sport is a big problem while organizing all competitions, now we are going to talk about it and in particular on the Australian Football League system.

In this country the most famous and most popular sports are Australian soccer, horse racing, cricket, rugby and football. Also it is important to highlight that there is a high number of people who practice other sports such as hockey, swimming or surfing. In this post we will focus on football.

The A-League or Hyundai A-League is the highest class competition of systems leagues in Australia, it accounts for 10 teams that play from spring to summer (August to April) from the 2005-2006 season. This championship was born in 2004 when the FFA (Australian Football Federation) wanted to professionalize football and replace the old National Soccer League hold since 1977.

Current Classification of the A-League

In this competition there are no divisions, no promotion or relegation, so the addition of new equipment it depends on the FFA. In addition we have to say that this league has been attached to the Asian Football Confederation since 2006. Highlight that the Sydney CF, this team was the first champion and it is currently one of the best teams with the Wellington CF or Melbourne CF.

The A-League is the only professional Australian league. In 2012 the Federation began to debate the creation of a second category and the establishment of promotions, although this idea has not been yet developed. Below we can find the state championships New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia and Australian Capital Territory.

Information extracted of:

http://www.resultados-futbol.com/australia

United States of America

In this post, we will try football in the United States, specifically the Major League Soccer.

This league started this March and ends in December. 

Initiated in 1996, after grant dispute the World Championship in 1994 in USA

It is composed of 20 teams, divided into two conferences: Eastern and Western Conference. The champion of the regular season receives the MLS Supporters' Shield.

The 12 best ranked teams qualify for the tournament direct elimination, an American style, MLS Cup Playoffs ending with the final game of the MLS Cup.

Teams in MLS - From: wvhooligan.com

Today is the 55th best league in the world according to the official ranking of the IFFHS. (http://www.iffhs.de/en/) 

Since it will escalate due to the boom that is taking today this league.

It's been football legends like Pele and Beckenbauer in the last years of his career. Later came players like Thierry Henry or David Beckham gave a boost to soccer in America. Today Spanish players like Raul, Marcos Senna and David Villa are disputing this competition. Draws attention to the case of David Villa, who last summer of 2014 was the first player in the history of his team, the New York City.

In order: Rafa Márquez, David Beckham and Thierry Henry

As for the US team highlight your game level rise in recent years, its fourth place in Sydney 2000, third in the World Cup in 1930 and runner-up in the Confederations Cup in 2009. 

His star is captain Landon Donovan, who played his last World Cup last summer in Brazil.

In this blog we believe will be a league and country will be talking about in the not too distant future.

Information extracted from: http://www.mlssoccer.com/es

Costa Rica

Today we want to approach our readers like football in a country which is 8,500 km of Spain as Costa Rica, and perhaps it may surprise. "Ticos" as it is colloquially called the team, played last June the fourth World history in Brazil, where he earned his best finish so far after finishing first in the so-called "group of death" Three former world champions (Uruguay, Italy and England). Because of its good performance, Costa Rica was ranked as the surprise of the competition, which reached the quarterfinals, adding the fact that did not lose any game in the game, and that was eliminated by penalties against the Netherlands. We recall that Spain was eliminated in first round

Picture taking before starting one of the match of the Costa Rican National team against Germany

A detailed good job done by the Central Americans was that received the distinction of FIFA's top player in each of the five games they played. The goalkeeper Keylor Navas (signed after the World Cup by Real Madrid CF) scored three, while the front Joel Campbell (currently on loan from Arsenal FC to Villarreal CF) and Bryan Ruiz won one. Furthermore, by the major parties that realized, Navas was one of three who chose to award best goalkeeper in the World Cup, Gold Glove, which eventually won Manuel Neuer.

Then we will give some information about soccer in this country :

1. They has participated in four World Cups, 1990, 2002, 2006 and 2014. In Italy 90, the selection came round. In 2002 and 2006 did not pass the first stage, and in 2014 earned his best finish being eliminated in the quarterfinals.
2. He has won 3 cups of the CONCACAF (1963, 1969 and 1989). It is the third power of the confederation after Mexico and the United States.
3. Costa Rica is no small selection. He has won a combined as Brazil, Sweden, Scotland, Mexico, United States and even tied at 2 with our Spanish selection (2011), but above all, it is evident with the position obtained in the last World Cup.
4. The League of Costa Rica is the second largest in Central and North America after Mexico's. It consists of 12 teams and is played by two events: the summer (January to May) and winter (June to December). They face all against all and the first four play a semifinal. The final was played by two winners.
5. Saprissa is the most famous and the most successful team with 29 titles, followed by Deportiva Alajuelense having 28 and Herediano. No stadium over 20,000 locations saved the Saprissa in the San José (the capital of Costa Rica.)
6. No Spanish players in the league

To finish this article, we share with you this spectacular video which summarizes the role played in the world cup of FIFA held in Brazil.

Information taken of: colgadosporelfutbol.com
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