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The Championship League

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The Football Championship League which is often called ‘The Championship’ for short, is sponsored by Coca-Cola which means that it’s official name is the Coca-Cola Football League Championship. It is the Highest Division in the Football League and the second highest overall in the English football league system. The highest being the Premier League. The Football League Championship came into being for the 2004-2005 season having been known prior to that as the Football League First Division. The league is made up of 24 teams who each play a total …

Hull City Football Club – How to Rile Leeds United Even More!

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Have you ever wondered how easy it is to wind up Leeds United and their fans even more? Please allow me to share with you the latest snippet of transfer speculation coming out of Hull City Football Club. Ah yes, the power of the internet and publication. Don’t you just love it? This would be funny if it was in fact deemed to be true. Indeed, at this stage it hasn’t been confirmed or denied as such by any party, so we can take the latest rumour being punted around …

College Football – Coaching Musical Chairs

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The film world was saddened this holiday season with news of the passing of Ann Savage – perhaps the original Femme Fatale. ‘Femme Fatale’ roughly interpreted, stands for ‘Fatal Woman.’ Get too close and you lose your good judgment, get whacked or at least seriously embarrassed. Using the universal laws of attraction, the standard methodology includes luring unsuspecting folks to listen to seductive language and in the end, cause some really poor decisions. As college football heads into the annual period of depression known as winter, some programs will be …

2009 National Football League – 90th Season

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On August 9, 2009, the season will start with the Pro Football Hall of Fame Game and on February 7, 2010 the season will end with Super Bowl XLIV championship game. The event will be held at Dolphin Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida. This season also marks the 50th Season of the original eight charter member of the American Football League. Its owners are called the Foolish Club. The 5th league to use the American Football League moniker began play in 1960 and become the American Football Conference (AFC) when …

Age Differences When Coaching Youth Football

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Coaching Considerations for Various Age Groups in Youth Football In previous posts, I have given numerous tips for working with younger aged youth football players. As mentioned in the book and in these posts, the 6-8 year old kids are very visual and we showed you many tricks on how use that to your advantage. How do the other youth football age groups vary from each other? These are generalizations that I have found have held true with my own teams as well as from what I have seen doing …

2010 FIFA World Cup Teams – Uruguay

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Uruguay will be playing in its 11th FIFA World Cup in 2010 in South Africa. Uruguay hosted and won the first FIFA World Cup tournament in 1930. Uruguay also won the 1950 FIFA World Cup in Brazil (beating the hosts by 2 goals to 1 in the final). Uruguay also played in the 1997 FIFA Confederations Cup tournament in Saudi Arabia and finished in 4th place. Uruguay is currently ranked at number 19 on the FIFA rankings. Uruguay have played in 40 Copa America tournaments. They competed in the competition …

The World Cup 2010 South Africa Predictions

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The World Cup 2010 is some time off yet, the qualifying campaigns have not started, but is now as good a time as any to get the ball rolling and start predicting the eventual winner in South Africa? For the first time ever, the worlds premier sporting event will be hosted on the African continent. This will bring a different culture to the forefront of everyone’s consciousness even though the tournament itself will take place in Africa’s richest economy. Is there a home advantage? Does this mean that the emerging …