Japan Nat.Team 2008 Home kit

The Japan national football team is the national football team of Japan and is controlled by the Japan Football Association. On July 21, 2006, Bosnian Ivica Osim, who previously coached Yugoslavia and most recently JEF United Ichihara Chiba, took over as manager, succeeding Zico, who had coached Japan from 2002 through the end of Japan's 2006 FIFA World Cup campaign.The team is commonly known by the fans and media as Nihon Daihyo (Japanese representatives), Daihyo (representatives). Although the team does not have an official nickname, it is often known by the name of the manager. For example, under Osim, the team is known as Osim Japan.

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One of the most famous football stadium in the world, has two different names. The home field for F.C. Inter and A.C. Milan it’s “Giuseppe Meazza” for the fans of Inter, and “San Siro” from the fans of Milan!!!!!

A.S.Roma (Italy) 2008 Away kit

Associazione Sportiva Roma is an Italian football club and one of the major teams in Rome and in central Italy. Nicknamed the giallorossi (yellow-reds), they currently play in Serie A. Roma's home uniforms are maroon red shirts with golden yellow borders, white shorts and black socks. The emblem of the team is the Capitoline she-wolf suckling twins, symbol of Rome, superimposed a bipartite golden-yellow over red shield; official colors are the same as those of the city of Rome, red for imperial dignity, and gold which represents the Pope or God in Christianity.

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British Prime minister Tony Blair is a big fan of Newcastle United!!!!!

Sporting Lisbon (Portugal) 2008 Home kit

Sporting Clube de Portugal (sometimes referred to as Sporting Lisbon) is a sports club based in Lisbon, Portugal. The club is particularly renowned for its football branch, which is Portugal's most followed sport. With about 100,000 registered club members[1], Sporting is among the most successful and popular sports clubs in Portugal, its teams, athletes and supporters being oftenly nicknamed "os Leões" - "the Lions".

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Brazil is the only team to have played in every World Cup!!!!!

PSV Eindhoven (Netherlands) 2008 Home kit

Philips Sport Vereniging (English: Philips Sports Union), widely known either as PSV or PSV Eindhoven, is a sports club from Eindhoven, the Netherlands. It is best known for its professional football section. PSV are one of the three big football clubs of the Netherlands, the other two being Ajax Amsterdam and Feyenoord Rotterdam. The club won the European Cup, the predecessor of today's Champions League, in 1988 and is a regular competitor in the current European Champions' League. They are often nicknamed Boeren (Dutch for 'peasants') in reference to their provincial city origins.

Scunthorpe Utd. (England) 2008 Home kit

Scunthorpe United F.C. are an English football team based in the town of Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire, England. Nicknamed The Iron, they currently play in Coca-Cola League One. They're renowned for being one of only two English league teams with a swear word in their name.In 1988, Scunthorpe became the first English club in more than 30 years to build a new stadium when they relocated from the Old Showground to Glanford Park. Their original ground had been home to the first cantilever stand in the country, which was built in 1958. It was demolished along with the remainder of the Old Showground after efforts to move it to the new grounds proved impractical.

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Pavlos 5 of the Champions League’s winner clubs, had play for-at list one time- in a minor national division. The teams are: Man.Utd, A.C. Milan, Juventus, Marseille, Not.Forest!!!!!

A.S.Roma (Italy) 2008 Home kit

Associazione Sportiva Roma is an Italian football club and one of the major teams in Rome and in central Italy. Nicknamed the giallorossi (yellow-reds), they currently play in Serie A. Roma's home uniforms are maroon red shirts with golden yellow borders, white shorts and black socks. The emblem of the team is the Capitoline she-wolf suckling twins, symbol of Rome, superimposed a bipartite golden-yellow over red shield; official colors are the same as those of the city of Rome, red for imperial dignity, and gold which represents the Pope or God in Christianity.

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Associazione Sportiva Roma, or Roma F.C. was founded in the summer of 1927 by Italo Foschi, who initiated the merger of three older Italian Football Championship clubs from the city of Rome; Roman, Alba-Audace and Fortitudo!!!!

Rangers (Scotland) 2008 Home kit

Rangers Football Club is a football club from Glasgow, Scotland, which plays in the Scottish Premier League. Rangers are the most successful club in Scottish football, with 51 league titles[2], and have won the most trophies of any football club in the world. The club's home, the all-seated 51,082-capacity Ibrox Stadium in south-west Glasgow, has been accredited as one of UEFA's five-star stadia. Rangers players and fans today are multi-national and of various religions, although the club has traditionally been identified with the Protestant Unionist community of Scotland. For most of their history, Rangers have enjoyed a fierce rivalry with their cross-city opponents Celtic F.C. The club is nicknamed The Teddy Bears, from the rhyming slang for Gers (short for Rangers), and the fans are known to each other as 'Bluenoses'. The club's correct name is simply Rangers F.C. although it is sometimes incorrectly called Glasgow Rangers. This frequently happens with English commentators seeking to distinguish between them and other similarly-named clubs, particularly Queens Park Rangers F.C. This naming convention is also popular in Europe and further afield, where any club without its location in its name receives it as a prefix or suffix, for example Red Star Belgrade.

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The Scottish Cup final with Celtic against Aberdeen F.C. in 1937 was attended by a crowd of 146,433 at Hampden Park in Glasgow, which remains a record for a club match in European football!!!!!

AEK Athens (Greece) 2008 Home kit

AEK FC, (Greek: AEK - Αθλητική Ένωσις Κωνσταντινουπόλεως – Athlitiki Enosis Konstantinoupoleos), the Athletic Union of Constantinople, known in European competitions as AEK Athens, is a Greek association football club based in the city of Athens, Greece.
Established in Athens on 13th April 1924 by Greek refugees from Constantinople (now Istanbul) in the wake of the Greco-Turkish War, AEK has grown to become one of the most successful clubs in Greek football, winning 27 national titles (including 11 Championships, 13 Greek Cups, 1 League Cup, 2 Super Cups), providing the Greek National Football Team with many of its star players, and continuously appearing in European (UEFA Champions League and UEFA Cup) competitions.The club currently competes in the Super League Greece.

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The "Tyne-Wear derby" between the English clubs Newcastle United and Sunderland has been played since 1898!!!!!

Houston Dynamo (U.S.A.) 2008 Home kit

Houston Dynamo is a professional soccer club based in Houston, Texas that plays in Major League Soccer and are the current MLS Cup Champions, by virtue of their victory against the New England Revolution in MLS Cup 2006. The team was created on December 15, 2005 when the San Jose Earthquakes were relocated, due to owner AEG's failure to secure a soccer-specific stadium. Even though all of San Jose's players and coaches moved to Houston, the team's name, logo, history and statistics were not transferred and remain inactive in San Jose thus making the Dynamo an expansion team similar to the Baltimore Ravens in the NFL.

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Arsenal's manager Arsène Wenger,in 2004, he became the only manager in FA Premier League history to go through the entire season without a loss!!!!!

Sweden Nat.Team 2008 Home kit

The Sweden national football team is the national football team of Sweden and is controlled by the Swedish Football Association.Sweden has traditionally been a strong team in world football, with eleven World Cup appearances and three medals. The Swedish team finished second in 1958, when it was the host team, being beaten by Brazil 5-2 in the final (Brazil's first finals success). Sweden has also finished third twice, in 1950 and 1994. In 1938, they finished fourth.

Mexico Nat.Team 2008 Home kit

The Mexico national football team – El Tri – is the national football team of Mexico, and is controlled by the Federación Mexicana de Fútbol (FEMEXFUT). Since the 1990s, Mexico has been one of the most consistent nations in the world, having qualified for four consecutive World Cups, and reaching the second round on all four occasions. They have also had strong showings in the Copa America ever since their first invitation from the CONMEBOL in 1993 (although they are under the jurisdiction of CONCACAF). The team's most recent match was a friendly against Venezuela in San Diego, California, on 28 February 2007, and the attendance set a new record for the city for any match in history. It was considered to be something of a homecoming for Mexico's head coach Hugo Sanchez, as he had played for the NASL San Diego Sockers in his early days just before his stellar career in the Spanish League. This match was to become the first he would win as head coach, with a final score of 3-1. Earlier in the same month, his debut as head coach was a 0-2 loss at the hands of the U.S.A.

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Panathinaikos FC is the first Greek club to complete 100 years of history!!!!!

Colorado Rapids (U.S.A.) 2008 Home kit

The Colorado Rapids is a professional soccer club based in Commerce City, Colorado that participates in Major League Soccer. The club was founded in 1995. The team colors are burgundy and sky blue with the home jerseys being burgundy. The away jerseys are sky blue with burgundy trim. They played their home matches at Mile High Stadium from 1996–2001 and moved into INVESCO Field at Mile High in 2002. They moved to Dick's Sporting Goods Park in the Denver suburb of Commerce City for the 2007 season.

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FC Barcelona, Real Madrid and Athletic Bilbao, are the only spanish teams that they have never been relegated from the Primera División!!!!!

Club Deportivo Chivas (USA) 2008 Home kit

Club Deportivo Chivas USA (short form: Chivas USA) is a professional association football club based in Carson, California that participates in Major League Soccer. The club, founded in 2004, plays its home games at The Home Depot Center, sharing it with the Los Angeles Galaxy. The team shares the same colors of red, white, blue, and gold as its parent Club Deportivo Guadalajara, the most popular team in Mexico.

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Michael Owen's début for the England's National team was a friendly game against Chile on February 11, 1998. Playing in this game made Owen the youngest player to represent England in the whole of the 20th century!!!!!

Boca Juniors (Argentina) 2008 Home kit

Club Atlético Boca Juniors is a popular Argentine sports club, best known for its football team. Its home base is the neighbourhood of La Boca, in Buenos Aires, and it hosts its home games at the Estadio Alberto J. Armando (La Bombonera) at 805 Brandsen Street.Boca have won a record 17 international titles, an honor they share only with AC Milan, including six Copa Libertadores and three World Club crowns (Copa Intercontinental) and one Copa Oro and Supercopa Masters. The club has also won 22 Argentine professional championships

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Against France in the semifinal of 1958's world cup, Brazil was leading 2-1 at halftime, and then Pelé scored a hat-trick, becoming the youngest player in World Cup history to do so!!!!!

Tottenham Hotspur (England) 2008 Away kit

Tottenham Hotspur Football Club are an English football club, which play in the FA Premier League. The club is also known as Tottenham and Spurs , while their own fans also refer to them as the Lilywhites because of their traditional white shirts. Their home ground is White Hart Lane, Tottenham, London. Tottenham were the first club in the twentieth century to achieve the League and FA Cup Double, winning both competitions in the 1960-61 season. In 1963, Spurs became the first British club to win a European trophy - the European Cup Winners' Cup.The club has a long-standing rivalry with near neighbours Arsenal and the series of matches between the two is known as the North London derby. The club motto is Audere est Facere (lit: "To dare is to do") and their emblem is the cockerel and ball.

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Diego Maradona made his professional debut on October 20, 1976 ten days before his sixteenth birthday, with Argentinos Juniors!!!!!

Crystal Palace (England) 2008 Home kit

Crystal Palace Football Club are a English professional football team based in SE25 in London. They currently play in the Coca-Cola Football League Championship, the second level of English football. The club celebrated its centenary in 2005. Known as the "Eagles" since 1976 when former manager Malcolm Allison changed their nickname from "the Glaziers". Over the years, Crystal Palace has adopted The Dave Clark Five's song "Glad All Over" as its anthem. It is played at the start of all home matches, when they score, and, if Palace win, at the end too.

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One of the most legentary teams in UK and Europe generally,it's Nottingham Forest, with 2 Champions League titles and one super cup!!Nottingham Forest it's the only Champions League holder club in Europe which plays right now in a minor division and especially in League one!!!!!

Newcastle Utd. (England) 2008 home kit

Newcastle United Football Club (also known as The Magpies or The Toon) are an English professional football team based in Newcastle upon Tyne. They play in the FA Premier League and are historically the seventh most successful club in English football. This takes into account all results since the beginning of English league football in 1888. The club formed in 1892 after the merger of two local clubs, Newcastle East End and Newcastle West End, and has since played at St James' Park, the old Newcastle West End ground in the city. Newcastle United supporters refer to themselves as the "Toon Army", ("toon" being the pronunciation of "town" in the local geordie dialect). Newcastle's traditional local rivals are Sunderland, with whom they have contested the Tyne-Wear derby since 1898.

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Estudiantes de La Plata, of Argentina, became the first club to win the Coppa Libertadores for three consecutive years, in 1968, 1969 and 1970. With this remarkable achievement, Estudiantes became the first club to preserve the Cup for ever!!!!!

Greece Nat.Team 2008 Home kit

The Greece national football team is the national football team of Greece and is controlled by the Hellenic Football Federation. They are the reigning European Champions. Greece's first appearance in a major tournament was Euro 80, but their first win in a major tournament did not come until the first match of Euro 2004, a 2-1 win over the hosts Portugal. The Greeks went on to win the tournament, stunning defending champions France in the quarterfinals and the heavily favored Czech Republic in the semifinals before beating Portugal a second time, 1-0, in the final. Bookmakers were giving odds of about 80-1 to 150-1 for the Greeks before the tournament

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Cameroon Nat.Team 2008 Home kit

The Cameroon national football team, nicknamed Lions Indomptables (Indomitable Lions), is the national team of Cameroon and is controlled by the Fédération Camerounaise de Football. It is one of Africa's most successful sides, as Cameroon was the first African team to reach the quarterfinals of the World Cup in 1990, losing to England in extra time. They have also won 4 African Nations Cups, as well as the gold medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics.

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Franz Beckenbauer (Germany) when he was age 8, he saw the 1954 Switzerland World Cup final match, which Germany won and became world champion, and said to his mother: "I'll be the winner of that final match when I become an adult football player." He really became a champion of 1974 World Cup after 20 years!!!!!

Olympiakos (Greece) 2008 Home kit

Olympiacos CFP (Greek:Olympiakos Syndesmos Filathlon Peiraios) is a large and the most popular Greek multisport club, based in Piraeus, Athens The club is parent to 17 different competitive departments in football (soccer), basketball (Olympiacos BC), volleyball (Olympiacos SC), water polo (Olympiacos Water polo Club) and athletics, amongst others, which have won numerous domestic, European and international titles over the club's history. Olympiacos has the record of winning the treble in two different sports (basketball and water polo) and it is the only Greek club with European titles in 3 of the 4 most popular team sports (basketball, volleyball and water polo). The total number of athletes of Olympiacos is more than 3,800, the ranks of which include Olympic winners and World Champions.

Panathinaikos A.O. (Greece) 2008 Away kit

Panathinaikos Athlitikos Omilos (Greek: Παναθηναϊκός Αθλητικός Όμιλος, widely known both as Panathinaikos or PAO, is a Greek multisport club based in Athens, Greece. Panathinaikos has been largely successful throughout its history, as its teams and individual athletes have won a total of 493 officially acknowledged titles (as of June 2007) in both national and international competitions. Furthermore, it is also one of the largest sport clubs in Greece and also on an international scale, as measured by the number of different sports departments it maintains . In English the club's name would be Pan-Athenian Athletic Club. According to the official history of the club, Panathinaikos was founded by George Kalafatis in 1908, when he and forty other athletes decided to break away from Panellinios Gymnastikos Syllogos following the club's refusal to form a football team.

AIK (Sweden) 2008 Away kit

Allmänna Idrottsklubben, usually called AIK, located in Solna, just north of Stockholm, is one of the oldest and largest sports associations in Sweden. Founded in 1891 at Biblioteksgatan in Stockholm by Isidor Behrens, the association has spawned numerous separate departments in different sports such as football, floorball, ice hockey, bandy, golf and handball. The club's full name roughly translates either into the Common Sports Club, referring to Allmän idrott, which, in the early 1900s, was the Swedish expression for athletics, or the Public Sports Club, as opposed to the private sports clubs which were common at the time

Angola Nat.Team 2008 Home kit

The Angola national football team, nicknamed Palancas Negras, ("The Black Antelopes") is the national team of Angola and is controlled by the Federação Angolana de Futebol. On October 8, 2005, Angola qualified for the World Cup for the first time ever. Luís Oliveira Gonçalves took over as coach of the Angola national football team in 2003, after successful appearances with the Angola Under-20 national football team. The coach is the nation's favourite and the team managed to finish in first place of Group 4 Football World Cup 2006 (qualification), ahead of traditional African football powers like Nigeria and Cameroon. Group 4 was considered one of the toughest during the Qualifiers. Captain Fabrice Akwa scored some crucial goals, including the winners against Rwanda in the last game, and in the game against Nigeria. Akwa is the fans' favourite having scored 30 goals in 67 international appearances. "This is the first time we are in the finals and we want to show off our football. We also want to show there is more to Angola than just war and oil," Akwa said. Angola's best known player is the striker Pedro Mantorras, who plays for the Portuguese team Benfica.

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Sir Alexander Ferguson the Scotish football manager of Man.United,has won more trophies than any other manager in the history of English football !!!!!

Colombia Nat.team 2008 Home kit

The Colombia National Team represents Colombia in international football competitions and is controlled by the Federación Colombiana de Fútbol. It is also a member of CONMEBOL.

Bulgaria Nat .Team 2008 Home kit

The Bulgaria national football team is the national football team of Bulgaria and is controlled by the Bulgarian Football Union. Bulgaria's best World Cup performance was in the 1994 World Cup in USA, where they beat Germany to reach the semi-finals, losing to Italy, and finishing in fourth place after a 4-0 defeat to Sweden in the third place play-off.

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The French football club of "Red Star" it's one of the most historical clubs in France, now playing in 4th division!!!! Red Star is the winner of five(5) French cups!!!!!!

Sociedade Esportiva Palmeiras (Brazil) 2008 Home kit

Sociedade Esportiva Palmeiras, usually called Palmeiras, is a Brazilian football team from São Paulo, Brazil, founded on August 26, 1914, as Societá Sportiva Palestra Italia, but changed to the current name on September 14, 1942. It is one of the most popular and traditional Brazilian clubs.

Cruz Azul (Mexico) 2008 Home kit

Club Deportivo Social y Cultural Cruz Azul, also known as Cruz Azul, is a popular Mexican professional football club. Cruz Azul plays in the Primera División de México and its home venue is the Estadio Azul, located in the Southwestern part of Mexico City in the Napoles neighborhood. The team moved in there in 1996, after playing many seasons at the Estadio Azteca. Los Cementeros are traditionally one of the biggest and most successful teams in Mexico; they have been champions 8 times, tied with Toluca, and trail only Club America with 10, and Guadalajara with 11. The club is also even with Club America for most CONCACAF Champions' Cup with 5. Cruz Azul was also the first (and still only) Mexican club to reach the final of the Copa Libertadores when they lost in penalties to Argentine giants Boca Juniors.

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F.C. Palmeiras (Brazil) have played in blue shirts twice as a tribute to the Italian National Team!!!!!