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Four reasons to love Icelandic football

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No one is loving this EURO more than IcelandThere have been around 10,000 Icelanders at each of the team's last two UEFA EURO 2016 games – not a huge number but massive for a nation of just 330,000. Those 10,000 fans represent around 3% of the population; if a similar proportion of the population of round of 16 opponents England came to France, there would be 1.59 million people backing Roy Hodgson's side."It is like having your family at the game," defender Kári Árnason said after the 2-1 group-stage win against Austria. "I probably know at least 50% of the people in the crowd." ...

Football Medicine Strategies for Joint & Ligament Injuries

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© FIFA.comIsokinetic Medical Group, in partnership with FIFA, is proud to announce that the 23rd International Conference on Sports Rehabilitation and Traumatology will be held in Milan from 22-24 of March 2014.After two editions in London, the International Football Medicine Community will meet again in Italy in 2014 to share experiences about “Joint and Ligament injuries”. To be aware of the main topics, take a look at the conference trailer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBMWHWLYiiU) and at the scientific programme. (http://www.footballmedicinestrategies.com/en/programme/500/482/#day_491)The venue of the conference will be Milan, which will host the World Exposition-EXPO 2015 and whose football teams have won ten of the last 50 editions of the UEFA Champions League.In anticipation of the event in March 2014, this short video summarizes the Isokinetic Conference 2013.  (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zswxvON3_c)For more information,

Green Bay Packers Belt Buckle – NFL Sport Football Team

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Chicago Bears Large Zinc Trailer Hitch Cover – NFL Football Fan Shop Sports Team Merchandise

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Bates predicts doomsday for football finance

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By Harry Harris, Football Correspondent Leeds chairman Ken Bates has predicted a doomsday scenario for football in 2012 and thinks that banks will finally stop supporting financially-crippled clubs. GettyImagesKen Bates: Back at Leeds. Bates, 80, has owned Oldham, Wigan, Chelsea and now Leeds, as well as serving on various Football League committees and acting as a major force behind the scenes within the FA and Premier League. There have long been forecasts of doom and gloom for the financial side of the game and Bates, whose club take on Arsenal in Monday's big FA Cup tie on ESPN, is certain that it will come to a head this year. "The s**t is about to hit the proverbial fan in football this year, mark my words,''

BYU won’t join Big East for football (AP)

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Brigham Young won’t be part of the Big East’s westward expansion. Negotiations between the rebuilding conference and BYU have broken off, a person familiar with the talks told The Associated Press. The person spoke Tuesday on condition of anonymity because the conference and school have not been making their talks public. “BYU to the Big East is dead. It’s not going to happen,” the person said. BYU athletic department spokesman Brett Pyne said in an email that school officials declined a request for comment. The Big East was trying to add BYU as part of its plan to become a 12-team football league. The deal-breaker was television rights. The person says BYU wanted to retain the rights to its home football games and the league