UEFA Champions League

Foer (2004) classify football globalization into three phases. In the 1950s, the internationalization of competitions signifies the first phase, with the prelude of the UEFA Champions League in 1955-1956. The second phase was the integration of human resource. From 1960s, professional clubs, with a view to lifting their supremacy, began to recruit outstanding players from other part of the world, further advancing football globalization…

player is known for his elegance, vision and technique. In his club Zidane won the LaLiga title and the Uefa champions leage with Real Madrid, two Serie league championships with Juventus. His 2001 transfer from Juventus to Real Madrid set a world record with 75 million euros. On the international side with France, Zidane won the1998 world cup, scoring twice in the final against brazil, and in Uefa euro 2000 where he was named the best player in the tournament. The World Cup triumph made him a…

The Super Bowl is the most iconic sporting venue to take place in North America every year. The Super Bowl always brings in the disgusting amount of money, and people all over the world watch the big game. Even though it’s a well-known event, there are a plenty of facts about it that aren’t known by the average citizen. Here is the 3rd part of "20 things you didn’t know about NFL and Super Bowl". Fact 10: Stock up on food Super Bowl Sundays are known for bringing food to people’s tables. A…

Kristaps Porzingis will still be a Knick, for now. The New York Knicks picked up the 2018-2019 team option on the 22-year old power forward/center from Latvia. But words are now spreading that he was almost traded by former Knicks president Phil Jackson for the No. 1 pick in the 2017 NBA draft in order to get point guard Lonzo Ball. The Knicks selected Kristaps Porzingis as their fourth overall pick in the 2015 NBA draft. Many basketball enthusiasts were in disbelief and even disagree with…

It is in the postwar time periods of the Napoleonic Wars and World War I that Europe sees a new way of addressing the underlying causes of war in the attempt to prevent another: collective security. Collective security is when a large group of nations agree to not attack each other as well as preserve the provisions of their treaties and/or agreements. It is during both these postwar time periods that collective security is practiced. However, both time periods have differences in the way…

Everyone knows about war and the many deaths caused by it. Obviously the deaths are extremely grave (no pun intended) but, there are other effects of armed conflict of which people should be more informed. WWI and WWII are both periods of conflict which both had much wider effects than merely death. Aside from the casualties, massive wars like these usually result in social, economic, and technological development or deterioration. Most people recognize WWI to have four basic igniters which can…

To many people, nationalism has a negative impact on the world. There is a lot of evidence to prove that nationalism has taken a toll on many people. During the era of the French Revolution in 1789, Europe did not favour their citizens, people were treated like slaves and there was no citizenship in the Government. Many innocent people died for no reason in that time period. During World War 1 there were over 37 million military and civilian casualties. It was war derived and fought from the…

to 1921 and was the leader of the Progressive Movement. Wilson, joined with The Inquiry, made up a list of fourteen points of peace that he recommended to other countries which in due time lead to the end of World War I and the commencement of the League of Nations. “It is that the world be made fit and safe to live in; and particularly that…

Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of the Soviet Union by Germany, was a massive undertaking by an ambitious dictator during World War Two. It was an undeclared attack, breaking a non-aggression agreement, and came as a smashing blow to the Stalin and a welcome development to the Chamberlin. It changed the course of the war, affecting foreign relations, resulting in the Axis and Allied Alliances we know today. The failure of Operation Barbarossa is commonly seen as a direct cause of Hitler’s…

Of the most prominent causes of the Second World War, the biggest was evidently Hitler’s rise to power. Though the outcomes of the Treaty of Versailles, the failure of the League of Nations and the failure brought about by appeasement played their own roles in the beginning of the war, it was Hitler’s tyrannical and assertive nature, and his motives that drove everything forward, leading the countries involved in the specific direction of World War II. Due to his efforts, and the way that he…