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Association football, more commonly known as simply football or soccer, is a team sport that is played between two teams of 11 players using a spherical ball. It is played by approximately 250 million players in over 200 countries and dependencies, making it the world's most popular sport to date. The game is played on a rectangular field called a pitch with a goal at each end. The objective of the game is to score more goals than the opposition by moving the ball beyond the goal line into the opposing goal within a time frame of 90 minutes or more.
The FIFA World Cup, often simply called the World Cup, is an international association football competition contested by the senior men's national teams of the members of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), the sport's global governing body. The championship has been awarded every four years since the inaugural tournament in 1930, except in 1942 and 1946 when it was not held because of the Second World War. The current champion is France, which won its second title at the 2018 tournament in Russia.
The Tonga national football team represents Tonga in men's international football and is controlled by the Tonga Football Association, which is a part of the Oceania Football Confederation.
The FIFA Club World Cup is an international men's association football competition organised by the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), the sport's global governing body. The competition was first contested in 2000 as the FIFA Club World Championship, and returned in 2005, four years after the collapse of FIFA's marketing partner International Sport and Leisure (ISL), which became the most important factor of the cancelled tournament in 2001. Thereafter, it has been held every year, and has been hosted by Brazil, Japan, the United Arab Emirates, Morocco and Qatar. Views differ as to the cup's prestige: it struggles to attract interest in most of Europe, and is the object of heated debate in South America.
Listed below are the dates and results for the 1998 FIFA World Cup qualification rounds for the Oceanian zone (OFC). For an overview of the qualification rounds, see the article 1998 FIFA World Cup qualification.
Timote "Tim" Taliai Manoa is a former professional American football player. He played fullback for four seasons in the National Football League for the Cleveland Browns and the Indianapolis Colts. He played collegiately at Penn State and was a member of both the 1986 national championship team. Manoa was born in Tonga, but at age 10 moved to Hawaii where he discovered American football. He attended Kahuku High School from grades 7 to 9 before moving to Wexford, Pennsylvania. There he attended North Allegheny High . Manoa was named a Parade All-American and was heavily recruited by several top college football programs, including West Virginia, Pitt, Hawaii, and Ohio State, before selecting Penn State.
The OFC qualification for the 2014 FIFA World Cup saw teams of the Oceania Football Confederation competing for a place in the finals held in Brazil.
Timoto–Cuica people were an indigenous people of the Americas composed primarily of two large tribes, the Timote and the Cuica, that inhabited in the Andes region of Western Venezuela. They were closely related to the Muisca people of the Colombian Andes, who spoke Muysccubun, a version of Chibcha. The Timoto-Cuicas were not only composed of the Timote and the Cuica groups, but also of smaller tribes including the Mucuchíes, the Miguríes, the Tabayes and the Mucuñuques.
The Timotean languages were spoken in the Venezuelan Andes around what is now Mérida. It is assumed that they are extinct. However, Timote may survive in the so-far unattested Mutú (Loco) language, as this occupies a mountain village (Mutús) within the old Timote state.
Timote, also known as Cuica or Timote–Cuica, is the language of the Timote–Cuica state in the Venezuelan Andes, around the present city of Mérida and south of Lake Maracaibo.
This page provides the summaries of the Oceania Football Confederation First Round matches for 2014 FIFA World Cup qualification.
The Tonga national under-17 football team represents Tonga in international under-17 or youth football competitions and is controlled by the Tonga Football Association.
Timote Moleni is a former Tongan footballer who played as a midfielder. Moleni was appointed head coach of Tonga in 2015.
Timote Polovili is a Tongan professional footballer and football manager. He was still an active player in the Tonga national football team in 2002 and played at 2002 Oceanian Nations Cup. In 2012, he coached the club Lotoha'apai United. Since 2011 he coached the Tonga national under-17 football team.
Mahe Malafu is a Tongan footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Tongan club Veitongo and the Tonga national team.
Tevita Vakatapu is a Tongan footballer who plays as a defender for Tongan club Veitongo and the Tonga national team.
Vai Lutu is a Tongan footballer who plays as a midfielder for Tongan club Lotohaʻapai United and the Tonga national team.
Laulea Taufa is a Tongan footballer who plays as a defender or midfielder for Tongan club Navutoka and the Tonga national team.
Timote is a locality in Carlos Tejedor County, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina.
Tuia Falepapalangi is a Tongan footballer who plays as a midfielder for Tongan club Lotohaʻapai United and the Tonga national team.
