ABOUT THIS SITE
In this site I intend to offer a thorough and accurate information on the football and basketball competitions of the highest level played in Europe (Spanish and European tournaments) and the world (World Cup). Since a full description of all the international competitions is out of my possibilites, I decided to concentrate my efforts on Spain (my home country), UEFA competitions and, of course, World Cup.
With that purpose, mi intention is to combine two of my passions: the compilation of sport scores and data and linguistics. During the last years I felt the need to apply my linguistic knowledge to the standardization of a sport terminology more confuse and imprecise every time, in which names of teams ad players are "localized" in the different target languages with no respect whatever for their original spelling, out of ignorance or (what's worse) sheer indifference.
But, why transcribing proper names of players and teams in their original language? That's simple, by it's own definition: proper names are not common words that can be translated from one language to another, but fixed labels attached to single individuals. In the European competitions menu I will address this subject in detail.
Therefore, I've decided to work on a large football and basketball database in which, besides collecting historical information and statistics, I'll try to use a standardized terminology (which means neutral) that can serve as a reference for any fan.
While names of players and teams will be transcribed in their original languages to the extent of my knowledge and sources (I'll appreciate your help in this), the two idioms I will use for the general composition of my files are Spanish and English, indistinctly, depending on the contents and the expected visitors. The enormous amount of information makes almost unfeasible to translate every document into two different languages. In any case, since most of the data are scores and stats, they will be easily understood.
Finally, I'd like to add that my ultimate intention is not to publish a general website of sport news, with a full coverage and updates of current competitions, like UEFA, FIBA, Euroleague, sport newspapers... I have neither the means nor the time for that. What I want is to create a historical database with a kind of information you won't usually find in general sport sites, unified and standardized from a linguistic point of view. My ultimate wish is that all this effort could serve to arouse a higher interest in accurate information and a bigger respect for the different languages, the same we want for our own.
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SPORT
CALENDAR 2008-09
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(updated
competitions are marked in white)
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30-05-2008
>>> FOOTBALL ::::: World Cup 2010 ::::: Qualifying Stage
02-06-2008 >>> FOOTBALL ::::: World Cup 2010 ::::: Qualifying
Stage
07/29-06-2008
>>> FOOTBALL ::::: European Championship 2008 ::::: Final Stage
08-06-2008
>>> FOOTBALL ::::: World Cup 2010 ::::: Qualifying Stage
15-06-2008
>>> FOOTBALL ::::: World Cup 2010 ::::: Qualifying Stage
22-06-2008
>>> FOOTBALL ::::: Intertoto Cup ::::: First Round || First
Leg
22-06-2008
>>> FOOTBALL ::::: World Cup 2010 ::::: Qualifying Stage
29-06-2008
>>> FOOTBALL ::::: Intertoto Cup ::::: First Round || Second
Leg
06-07-2008 >>> FOOTBALL ::::: Intertoto
Cup ::::: Second Round || First Leg
13-07-2008 >>> FOOTBALL ::::: Intertoto Cup ::::: Second Round
|| Second Leg
16-07-2008 >>>
FOOTBALL ::::: Champions League ::::: First Qualifying Round || First
Leg
17-07-2008 >>> FOOTBALL ::::: UEFA Cup ::::: First
Qualifying Round || First Leg
20-07-2008 >>> FOOTBALL ::::: Intertoto Cup ::::: Third
Round || First Leg
23-07-2008
>>> FOOTBALL ::::: Champions League ::::: First Qualifying
Round || Second Leg
24-07-2008 >>> FOOTBALL ::::: UEFA Cup ::::: First
Qualifying Round || Second Leg
27-07-2008 >>> FOOTBALL ::::: Intertoto Cup ::::: Third
Round || Second Leg
30-07-2008
>>> FOOTBALL ::::: Champions League ::::: Second Qualifying
Round || First Leg
31-07-2008
>>> FOOTBALL ::::: UEFA Cup ::::: First
Qualifying Round || Second Leg
06-08-2008 >>> FOOTBALL ::::: Champions League ::::: Second
Qualifying Round || Second Leg
13-08-2008 >>>
FOOTBALL ::::: Champions League ::::: Third Qualifying Round || First
Leg
14-08-2008
>>> FOOTBALL ::::: UEFA Cup ::::: Second
Qualifying Round || First Leg
20-08-2008
>>> FOOTBALL ::::: World Cup 2010 ::::: Qualifying Stage
27-08-2008
>>> FOOTBALL ::::: Champions League ::::: Third Qualifying
Round || Second Leg
28-08-2008
>>> FOOTBALL ::::: UEFA Cup ::::: Second
Qualifying Round || Second Leg
06-09-2008
>>> FOOTBALL ::::: World Cup 2010 ::::: Qualifying Stage
10-09-2008
>>> FOOTBALL ::::: World Cup 2010 ::::: Qualifying Stage
17-09-2008
>>> FOOTBALL ::::: Champions League ::::: Group
Stage || Competition Day 1
18-09-2008
>>> FOOTBALL ::::: UEFA Cup ::::: First Round || First Leg
01-10-2008
>>> FOOTBALL ::::: Champions League ::::: Group
Stage || Competition Day 2
02-10-2008
>>> FOOTBALL ::::: UEFA Cup ::::: First Round || Second Leg
11-10-2008
>>> FOOTBALL ::::: World Cup 2010 ::::: Qualifying Stage
15-10-2008
>>> FOOTBALL ::::: World Cup 2010 ::::: Qualifying Stage
22-10-2008
>>> FOOTBALL ::::: Champions League ::::: Group Stage || Competition
Day 3
23-10-2008
>>> FOOTBALL ::::: UEFA
Cup :::::
Group
Stage || Competition Day 1
05-11-2008
>>> FOOTBALL ::::: Champions League ::::: Group
Stage || Competition Day 4
06-11-2008
>>> FOOTBALL ::::: UEFA
Cup :::::
Group
Stage || Competition Day 2
19-11-2008
>>> FOOTBALL ::::: World Cup 2010 ::::: Qualifying Stage
26-11-2008
>>> FOOTBALL ::::: Champions League ::::: Group
Stage || Competition Day 5
27-11-2008
>>> FOOTBALL ::::: UEFA
Cup :::::
Group
Stage || Competition Day 3
04-12-2008
>>> FOOTBALL ::::: UEFA
Cup :::::
Group
Stage || Competition Day 4
10-12-2008
>>> FOOTBALL ::::: Champions League ::::: Group
Stage || Competition Day 6
18-12-2008
>>> FOOTBALL ::::: UEFA
Cup :::::
Group
Stage || Competition Day 5
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11-02-2009
>>> FOOTBALL ::::: World Cup 2010 ::::: Qualifying Stage
19-02-2009
>>> FOOTBALL ::::: UEFA
Cup :::::
First
Knock-Out Round
|| First Leg
25-02-2009
>>> FOOTBALL ::::: Champions
League :::::
First
Knock-Out Round
|| First Leg
26-02-2009
>>> FOOTBALL ::::: UEFA
Cup :::::
First
Knock-Out Round
|| Second Leg
11-03-2009
>>> FOOTBALL ::::: Champions
League :::::
First
Knock-Out Round
|| Second Leg
12-03-2009
>>> FOOTBALL ::::: UEFA
Cup :::::
Second
Knock-Out Round
|| First Leg
19-03-2009
>>> FOOTBALL ::::: UEFA
Cup :::::
Second
Knock-Out Round
|| Second Leg
28-03-2009
>>> FOOTBALL ::::: World Cup 2010 ::::: Qualifying Stage