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MATCH World Cup 2014 is the ultimate guide to the world's greatest sporting event, from the makers of Match magazine. * Profiles of every team * Features and posters of all the star players * The expected highs and lows of the tournament * Key groups and games to watch Plus the low-down on Brazil as the host nation and info on the venues -- all in time for kick off of the championship on 12 June 2014. With hundreds of photographs, maps, chats and puzzles, Match World Cup 2014 is almost as good as being there!
This title takes a brief look back at the history of the World Cup, then turns to focus on Brazil, the 2014 host. Packed with information about Brazil's sporting history, cities, and stadiums, as well as the teams and players to watch out for during the tournament.
Cloud Computing and Services Science by Donald Ferguson,Claus Pahl,Markus Helfert Pdf
This book constitutes extended, revised and selected papers from the 10th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science, CLOSER 2020, held in Prague, Czech Republic, in May 2020. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held in a virtual format. The 14 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 69 submissions. CLOSER 2020 focuses on the emerging area of cloud computing, inspired by some latest advances that concern the infrastructure, operations, and available servicesthrough the global network.
This book is a crucial reference source for high school and undergraduate college students interested in contemporary Brazil. While it provides a general historical and cultural background, it also focuses on issues affecting modern Brazil. In recent years, Brazil has come onto the world stage as an economic powerhouse, a leader in Latin America. This latest addition to the Understanding Modern Nations series focuses on Brazil's culture, history, and society. This volume provides readers with a wide understanding of Brazil's historical past, the foundation for its cultural traditions, and an understanding of its social structure. In addition, it provides a look into contemporary society by highlighting both national accomplishments and challenges Brazilians face in the twenty-first century. Specific chapters cover geography; history; government and politics; economy; religion; social classes and ethnicity; gender, marriage and sexuality; education; language; etiquette; literature and drama; arts and architecture; music and dance; food; leisure and sports; and media, cinema, and popular culture. Entries within each chapter look at topics such as cultural icons, economic inequalities, race and ethnicity, soccer, politics, environmental conservation, and women's rights. Ideal for high school and undergraduate students, this volume paints a panoramic overview of one of the most powerful countries in the Americas.
U.S. Men's National Soccer Team by Okyere Bonna Pdf
The U.S. men's national soccer team (USA) is looking up to 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil from June 12 to July 13, 2014. U.S. was one of the 13 nations that combined to launch the FIFA World Cup tournament in Uruguay in 1930. After placing third in the opening competition, U.S.A qualified for the 1934 World Cup and withdrew from the 1938 World Cup due to World War II. U.S.A participated in the 1950 tournament (also held in Brazil), where they upset England 1-0 in their second group match. After that memorable game, U.S.A. did not qualify for the FIFA World Cup again until 1990. In 1994 U.S.A qualified automatically as hosts in the 1994 tournament, but they lost to Brazil in the round of 16. From then on, the team has qualified for every FIFA World Cup and intends for the 2014 games to be no exception. At Germany 2006 and South Africa 2010, U.S.A bid farewell to the tournament at the Round of 16. This time in Brazil, USA will do well to carry the trophy in 2014. In June 2012 U.S.A will begin playing in Group A of Semifinal Round qualifying in CONCACAF, where they have always dominated. The opening match in group play will take place on June 8, 2012, against first-time semifinalists Antigua and Barbuda. Four days later, the U.S. will play away against Guatemala. The final two-game fixture date on October 12 will take the U.S. to Antigua and Barbudafor the first time. Four days later, U.S.A will finish the Semifinal Round with a home match on October 16 against Guatemala. The group winner and group runner-up will advance to the Final Round, which will take place in 2013 and feature a group of six teams. Qualifying for 2014 World Cup will not be enough for their new manager Klinsmann, and yet the stakes are higher than before. USA is therefore leaving no stone unturned to keep in shape.Providing an impressive supporting cast will be the likes of Maurice Edu, Carlos Bocanegra, Oguchi Onyewu, Michael Bradley, Jozy Altidore, Tim Howard and Clint Dempsey, all of whom are plying their trade on European soil at their peak. Dempsey, for example, has been in fine form in the premier league campaign at Craven Cottage. He ended the 2011-12 season as one of the top scorers in the English Premier League. No doubt Team U.S.A is ready for a blast in Brazil 2014. Get to know the American players who are dubbed to rock Brazil in 2014 in these pages. You will also find in these pages fun games and activities including crossword puzzles, wordbuilding and jeopardy to test your knowledge of the history of soccer in the United States. Answers are provided at the end of the book
They Played Rugby for Australia 2023 edition by Eric Lemon,Teejay Haar Pdf
Over 500 pages of facts, statistics, and records of every match and every player for the Australian national Rugby Union team from the first match in June 1899 up to December 2023.
FIFA World Cup and Beyond by Kausik Bandyopadhyay,Souvik Naha,Shakya Mitra Pdf
Soccer, the most popular mass spectator sport in the world, has long been a site which articulates the complexities and diversities of the everyday life of the nation. The imaging and prioritization of the game as a ‘national’ or an ‘international’ event in public opinion and the media also play a critical role in transforming the soccer culture of a nation. In this context, the FIFA World Cup remains the grand spectacle for asserting the identity of the nation. This book intends to offer eclectic perspectives and discourses on the FIFA World Cup, and to throw light on the changing dimensions of football and sports culture in terms of identity, race, ethnicity, gender, fandom, governance, and so on. On the one hand, it focuses on the significance of the FIFA World Cup for nations in terms of hosting, performance, playing style, and identity formation. On the other, it looks beyond the World Cup to highlight the growing importance of a host of perspectives in sport in general and football in particular with reference to art, fandom, gender, media, and governance. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Sport in Society.
Social Network Analysis Applied to Team Sports Analysis by Filipe Manuel Clemente,Fernando Manuel Lourenço Martins,Rui Sousa Mendes Pdf
Explaining how graph theory and social network analysis can be applied to team sports analysis, This book presents useful approaches, models and methods that can be used to characterise the overall properties of team networks and identify the prominence of each team player. Exploring the different possible network metrics that can be utilised in sports analysis, their possible applications and variances from situation to situation, the respective chapters present an array of illustrative case studies. Identifying the general concepts of social network analysis and network centrality metrics, readers are shown how to generate a methodological protocol for data collection. As such, the book provides a valuable resource for students of the sport sciences, sports engineering, applied computation and the social sciences.
Soccer is undeniably the most popular sport in the world. While we know much about its high-profile players and their increasing wealth and global influence, we know little about referees and the ways in which refereeing has changed throughout the history of the sport. This book provides an in-depth exploration of the evolution of the match official. It presents a comparative analysis of elite Association football referees in England, Spain and Italy, as well as offering insights into the involvement of UEFA and FIFA in referee training. Drawing on archive material, the book documents the historical development of refereeing and sheds new light on the practice of elite refereeing in the present day. Including exclusive interviews with elite and ex-elite referees, as well as with professional soccer managers and members of the broadcast media, it considers the current role of match officials and the challenges and controversies they encounter. Elite Soccer Referees: Officiating in the Premier League, La Liga and Serie A is fascinating reading for all students and scholars with an interest in soccer, sport history, sport policy, sport management and the sociology of sport.
NewsGames - Applied General Theory of Games Based News by Geraldo A. Seabra,Luciene A. Santos Pdf
This e-book is the second of four volumes of the series Theories of NewsGames authored by journalist Geraldo A. Seabra and Luciene A. Santos. The didactic title, the material was subdivided into four parts - research, narrative, mechanics and social impact. In 2012 it was released the 1st volume of research: 'The Odyssey 100 to NewsGames - A genealogy of the games as information', where the authors draw a timeline on the history of the games as information and news. As the first publication almost all the material used is based on the master's dissertation the journalist Geraldo Seabra and searches made by Luciene Santos, as well as original Blog of NewsGames material. In the 2nd volume of the series, the 3D News is presented as a narrative model of news production recommended for ludic-informational platforms - giving rise to the call NewNews. From the structure of the theoretical foundations of a new Online Journalism model, the advent of 'Drones NewsGames' anticipates the ‘Age of planetary games’ based on news.
Continuous Fuzzy Evaluation Methods: A Novel Tool for the Analysis and Decision Making in Football (or Soccer) Matches by Ranjit Biswas Pdf
This book presents a proposal for a new soft computing innovative method called by “CFE” forevaluation of the football matches of FIFA(IFAB) and UEFA to compute the true ‘Winner’. It is a research work in the area of ‘Football Science’, being proposed to FIFA (IFAB) and UEFA, Zurich, Switzerland for consideration to replace the existing obsolete and weak rules of football matches of 90 minutes to declare the final ‘Winner’. In CFE, the final decision about any football match of 90 minutes is obtained “by computation”, by execution of a software called by ‘CFE-software’ with the real time input values directly from the field on a number of highly significant parameters, some of them being continuous variables. The result of m-n goals at the end of 90 minutes play in a football match is just one of the many parameters for the computation of the ‘Winner’ in our proposed CFE method. The evaluation is mainly based upon the application of Fuzzy Logic, ‘Fuzzy Pocket Machine’, fast Computer Server, good Communication system from playing-field to the server (as used in Cricket matches) and the CFE-software at the server. The Referees need not be experts in fuzzy set theory; they can be easily trained within just 30 minutes of demonstration on : how to use the ‘fuzzy pocket machine’ for giving real time inputs to the database at the server.