The UEFA Champions League is an annual club football competition organised by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) and contested by top-division European clubs, deciding the competition winners. It is one of the most prestigious tournaments in the world and the most prestigious club competition in European football, played by the national league champions of the strongest UEFA national associations.
Shaolin Soccer is a 2001 sports comedy film directed by Stephen Chow, who also stars in the lead role. A former Shaolin monk reunites his five brothers, years after their master's death, to apply their superhuman martial arts skills to play football and bring Shaolin kung fu to the masses.
Michael John Giles is an Irish former association football player and manager best remembered for his time as a midfielder with Leeds United in the 1960s and 1970s. After retiring from management in 1985, Giles served as the senior analyst on RTÉ Sport's coverage of association football from 1986 until 2016. The FAI voted Giles as the greatest Irish player of the last 50 years at the UEFA Jubilee Awards in 2004.
Manuel Francisco dos Santos, nicknamed Mané Garrincha, best known as simply Garrincha, was a Brazilian footballer who played as a right winger. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest dribblers of all time. Garrincha is also widely regarded as a legendary figure in the sport.
Timothy Daniel Considine is an American former child actor, author and photographer of the late 1950s and early 1960s. He later became a writer, photographer, and automotive historian.
Edward Joseph McIlvenny was a Scottish footballer player, who most notably captained the United States national team in their 1–0 upset of England in the 1950 FIFA World Cup.
Anton Glanzelius is a Swedish actor mainly known for My Life as a Dog (1985). For his role in My Life as a Dog he won the award for Best Actor at the 21st Guldbagge Awards.
Soccer Dog: The Movie is a 1999 American direct-to-video comedy film that follows a dog who has an uncanny ability to play soccer. The film stars James Marshall and Olivia d'Abo. It was written by Daniel Forman and co-produced and directed by Tony Giglio.
Lucky Loser is a 2006 Thai sports-comedy about a small, fictional Southeast Asian country's bid to play in the World Cup. Initially, the country depicted in the film was Laos, but because of concerns by diplomatic officials that the depiction of Lao players would be seen as offensive to Lao people, the film's release in May 2006 was cancelled. The film's production company, GMM Tai Hub, re-edited the film and reshot some scenes to remove any references to Laos. The name of the fictional country is Arvee.
Wolfgang Kleff is a former German football player whose resemblance to German actor and comedian Otto Waalkes allowed him to pick up minor roles in motion pictures and his referring nickname "Otto" as well.
ESPN Brasil is a Brazilian pay television network, launched in March 1989. ESPN Brasil was the first country-specific version of ESPN outside the United States, launched in June 1995. The channel has covered major sporting events, like the 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008 and 2016 Summer Olympics; the 1998, 2006, 2010 and 2014 FIFA World Cup and the 1999, 2003 and 2007 Pan-American Games. High ratings and prestige in the segment have been marks of the channel; it also won the APCA award twice, in 1995 for "Best Sports Programming" and in 1998 for "Best Coverage of the 1998 FIFA World Cup".
Nelson Vargas is an American soccer coach and former player who is currently the head coach of Miami FC. Vargas spent five seasons in Major League Soccer and earned four caps with the United States men's national soccer team. He was also a member of the U.S. soccer team at the 1996 Summer Olympics.
Amy Tipton is an American film and television actress. She is also a voice actress and an art coordinator.
Clifford the Big Red Dog is an American-British educational animated children's television series, based upon Norman Bridwell's children's book series of the same name. Produced by Scholastic Productions, it originally aired on PBS Kids from January 1, 2000 to December 25, 2002. The UK version originally aired on BBC Two on April 1, 2002.
Darren Reiher is an American actor. He was born in Portadown, Northern Ireland.
Detective Conan: The Eleventh Striker is the 16th film installment of the manga and anime series Detective Conan and it was released on April 14, 2012. The plot follows Conan as he deals with a serial bomber.
Forza! Hidemaru is a 26 episode anime series produced by NAS and aired on TV Tokyo. It is based on Hidemaru The Soccer Boy, a Corocoro Comic manga series by the author Makoto Mizobuchi, produced by "Sunny Side Up". Enoki Films licensed the series as Forza! Mario, and NAS refers to the series by that name on its English website. The series, about a boy who wants to play soccer, aired in 2002, the year of the FIFA World Cup in Japan and Korea.
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