Post by yanghongyu on Feb 22, 2011 5:36:31 GMT
The game of soccer has everything that can attract a man. It has speed, obstacles and threats in the form of opponents. The soccer player in Keith Bullock jerseys
takes the risk of losing the ball to the opponent while dribbling past him or her. Moreover, when it comes to scoring a goal, it is one man trying to score a goal against many. This thrilling game has its surprises and twists, which can turn a certain loss, for a team, into a victory by narrow margin within the time span of few minutes. Every year, many new soccer players set their foot on the soccer fields. However, only few of them reach the stardom level. Out of these only a handful are considered as the famous soccer players. The following is information on a few famous soccer players, which you may find interesting.
European soccer has a crazy following in almost all European nations, and some of the national leagues of some countries are even broadcasted for billions of people all around the world to watch. European soccer rosters with their Kerry Collins jerseys
can be viewed in two different ways - the national teams of all 50 countries in Europe, or the national leagues that operate in all these countries.
When you are learning about this particular subject, you have to take the UEFA European Football Championship into account. This is a tournament that is held every 4 years, and it is exclusive only for European nations. The last tournament was co-hosted by Austria and Switzerland in 2008, and it was won by Spain. The next tournament is going to be held in Poland and Ukraine in 2012.
The European soccer rosters that host the tournament are given automatic qualification, and the rest of the teams have to play through a series of qualifying games. These teams are divided into various groups based on a seeding system, so that each team is evenly balanced with a few strong teams in Vince women Young jerseys
and a few minnows. Each team in a particular group has to play all the other teams twice, and in order to qualify they must finish in the qualifying spots. There are two play-off spots in each group as well, and the teams that finish in these spots have to play a two-legged elimination against a randomly picked team that finished in the same spot in another group. During the qualifying process, a win earns team 3 points, a draw gets both teams 1 point each, and the loser gets 0 points. The teams with the most points are ranked higher in the group table. If two or more teams are tied with the same points, their positions are determined first by the goal difference (goals scored minus goals conceded), then only goals scored, then only goals conceded, and then their result against each other.
In the final tournament, the teams are divided into 4 seeded groups with 4 teams each. Each team plays the other teams once, and then they progress to the knockout rounds, which ultimately ends with the final, and a third place play-off. Knockout matches that end in a draw, are given 30 minutes of extra time, and then they go to penalties if the scores are still level. The coaches of each of these European soccer rosters are free to pick soccer players who are eligible to play for their countries, with a squad of 23 players allowed for the final tournament.