Football at the 1924 Summer Olympics was the sixth edition of the football tournament at the Summer Olympic Games held in Paris.
Marcel Desailly is a former professional footballer, capable of playing as both centre-back or defensive midfielder. During a successful career at club level, lasting from 1986 to 2006, Desailly won several titles, including UEFA Champions League medals with both Marseille and AC Milan, and also played for Nantes and Chelsea, among other teams. At international level, he collected 116 caps between 1993 and 2004, scoring three goals, and was a member of the France international squads that won the 1998 World Cup and Euro 2000.
Football Club de Nantes, commonly referred to as FC Nantes or simply Nantes, is a French professional football club based in Nantes in Pays de la Loire. The club was founded on 21 April 1943, during World War II, as a result of local clubs based in the city coming together to form one large club. From 1992 to 2007, the club was referred to as FC Nantes Atlantique before reverting to its current name at the start of the 2007–08 season. Nantes play in Ligue 1, the first division of Football in France. Nantes is one of the most successful clubs in French football, having won eight Ligue 1 titles, four Coupe de France wins and attained one Coupe de la Ligue victory.
The Brazil national basketball team is governed by the Brazilian Basketball Confederation, abbreviated as CBB.
They have been a member of the International Federation of Basketball (FIBA), since 1935. Brazil's national basketball team remains among the most successful in the Americas. It is the only team besides the United States, that has appeared at every FIBA Basketball World Cup, since it was first held in 1950.
Fernando Vicente Fibla is a professional tennis coach and a former player from Spain, who turned professional in 1996. He reached his career-high ATP ranking of world No. 29 in June 2000, winning three singles titles and reaching the quarterfinals of the 1998 Rome Masters and the 2000 Cincinnati Masters.
The following are the football (soccer) events of the year 1929 throughout the world.
The 1994 UEFA Champions League final was a football match between Italian club Milan and Spanish club Barcelona, played on 18 May 1994 at the Olympic Stadium in Athens, Greece.
Marcel Martin Koller is a Swiss professional football manager and former player who is the current head coach of Al Ahly in the Egyptian Premier League.
Marcel is an Occitan form of the Ancient Roman origin male given name Marcellus, which in Latin means "Belonging to Mars". The feminine counterpart of the name is Marcelle. It is used predominantly in France, Monaco, Switzerland, Spain, Italy, Belgium, Germany, Hungary, Canada and partially in Poland and Romania. Similar sounding male form "Marcel" is very distributed also in Tatarstan and Bashkiria since the middle of the 20th century. But has nothing to do with the Latin name Marcel.
Marcel Domingo Algara was a French football goalkeeper and manager of Spanish origin.
Raynald Denoueix is a French football manager and former player.
Novick is a surname originating from Belarus which translates to "a newcomer to a place". The name has Czech and Slovakian origin as well. The Novick last name is most common in the United States, Israel and Argentina.
Marcel Schmelzer is a German former professional footballer who spent his entire career for Bundesliga club Borussia Dortmund, serving as captain from 2016 to 2018. Mainly deployed as a left-back, he was capped by Germany at international level.
Juan Ignacio Brown is an Argentine professional football coach and former player who is a youth coach at Saudi Professional League club Al Shabab. He has had a short spell at Al-Hilal FC at same league in the 2017-2018 season, helping them win their 15th domestic league title. Later that summer, he left the club. On 1 July 2023, it was announced that Brown would become the caretaker manager of Al Shabab until they appointed a new manager. On 6 September 2023, Brown returned to Al-Shabab following the departure of Marcel Keizer.
Marcel Desjardins is a Canadian football executive who is currently the assistant to the general manager and player personnel for the Montreal Alouettes of the Canadian Football League (CFL). He has also served as the general manager for the Hamilton Tiger-Cats for two seasons and the Ottawa Redblacks for eight seasons. He is a four time Grey Cup champion, having won his first three with the Alouettes and his fourth with the Redblacks in 2016. Desjardins is a graduate of the Sports Administration program at Laurentian University in Sudbury, Ontario.
Marcel Keizer is a Dutch football coach and former player, he was most recently the manager of Saudi Pro League side Al Shabab.
Marcel Rapp is a German former professional footballer who played as a centre-back or as a midfielder and who is the head coach of Bundesliga club Holstein Kiel.
Marcel Pigulea is a Romanian former football player and manager.
Héctor Edgardo Novick Varela is a Uruguayan businessman and politician.
Hernán Novick is a Uruguayan footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for Danubio. His nickname is Sensei.
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