Soon psychedelic rock clubs like the UFO Club in Tottenham Court Road, Middle Earth Club in Covent Garden, The Roundhouse in Chalk Farm, the Country Club ( Swiss Cottage ) and the Art Lab ( also in Covent Garden ) were drawing capacity audiences with psychedelic rock and ground-breaking liquid light shows.

Alpine skiing began as a club sport 1861 at Kiandra in Australia and a number of similar clubs in North America and the Swiss Alps.

Vaduz also has a local professional association football club, FC Vaduz which, as the other clubs in Liechtenstein, plays in the Swiss Football League.

They are one of the most successful clubs in Swiss football, having won the Swiss Super League 15 times, the third most for any Swiss club.

Although his spells abroad were not wholly successful, he was widely regarded as one of Swiss football's finest products, frequently being linked with some of the biggest clubs in Europe.

With Welsh clubs now able to qualify for the European Cup Winners ' Cup by winning the Welsh Cup, Wrexham played their inaugural match in Europe against Swiss side FC Zurich in Switzerland on 13 September 1972, the game finishing 1 – 1.

The matches between the two clubs are the only true local derby in the Swiss Super League.

In April 2004, G-14 initiated a preliminary investigation into FIFA by the Swiss Competition Commission, when they complained of FIFA's requiring their players to be available for FIFA international competitions without compensating the clubs.

Since then, the presence of Liechtenstein clubs in the Swiss league system and of a handful of professional players ( most notably Mario Frick ) has seen the side's competitiveness improve enormously.

In 2005, a cooperation treaty between VfB and Swiss Super League side FC St. Gallen was signed, especially with regard to the youth sectors of both clubs.

YB is one of the most successful Swiss football clubs internationally, and reached the semi-finals of the European Cup in the 1958 – 59 season.

It had run debts of over 10 million Swiss francs, having not paid the players since the previous November, and consequently the club suffered an exodus of players looking for paying clubs.

The first team also known as Olympique des Alpes SA, as Swiss Football League ( the top two levels ) requires football clubs to be run as a company.

After the Norwegian 1990 season Mini was transferred from Rosenborg to the Swiss club BSC Young Boys, and during the next four years played in several different European clubs in Switzerland, Germany and Belgium.

Poom started his football career in the clubs Tallinna Lõvid (" Lions of Tallinn ") and Flora Tallinn in his home country, before a brief stint at Finnish club KuPS and Swiss club Wil.

Exercise equipment used for strength training includes weight machines, resistance bands, Swiss balls or Wobble boards, Indian clubs or weighted clothing.

On Friday 22 September 1876 members of the Glamorgan and Wanderers clubs met at the Swiss Hall in Queen Street, Cardiff and decided to make a single club, to be called Cardiff Football Club.

Some Jack Russell Terrier and Greater Swiss Mountain Dog clubs have similar requirements.

During his playing career as a midfielder, he played for Swiss clubs Schaffhausen, Zürich and Aarau before joining Lazio of Italy and Chelsea of England.

He began his career in France with RC Strasbourg ( 1998 – 1999 ), before playing for Swiss clubs Neuchâtel Xamax ( 1999 – 2000 ), and Grasshopper-Club Zürich, where he won the Swiss Championship in 2001.

Swiss importers added a little artisanal circuit, with specific IC, for France L norm, tuner became multistandard, but VCR record French broadcasts, on air, in MESECAM, the tapes are played in black and white on SECAM players, and SECAM tapes played B / W in these modified tuner VCR.

His final screen-work was playing the lead role in Dr. Fischer of Geneva ( adapted from the Graham Greene novella, 1985 ) as the eccentric wealthy businessman who played games with the Swiss upper class, such as offering gifts to his guests on the proviso they accepted some humiliating ritual activity ( such as wearing a child's bib at the dinner table ).

Other German, Swiss, and Austrian firms played an important role in the cable car business: Pohlig, PHB, Garaventa, and Mueller.

In a test in 2009, the British violinist Matthew Trusler played his 1711 Stradivarius, said to be worth two million U. S. dollars, and four modern violins made by the Swiss violin-maker Michael Rhonheimer.

He fought for Switzerland's membership of the European Economic Area and of the World Trade Organisation, and played a decisive role in shaping the new Swiss agricultural policy.

Ansermet, its initial musical director, was not pleased at being supplanted by a conductor of whom he was reportedly " ragingly jealous ", but the composer Darius Milhaud commented on how much better the orchestra played for Monteux " since Ansermet has been sent back to his Swiss pastures ".

The taxi driver was played by Swiss actor Stefan Walz.

During his childhood, Fish attended Chateau de Lancy, a Swiss school near Geneva, which his father also attended in 1860 ; there, the younger Fish learned French and played soccer.

* Frédéric-César de La Harpe ( 1754 – 1838 ) a Swiss political leader and Vaudois patriot, who played a leading role in the creation of the Helvetic Republic was born in Rolle.

He played an important role that the Swiss constitution was accepted by the Swiss population in 1848.

Eight years after the establishment of the German Football Association ( DFB ), the first official match of the Germany national football team was played on 5 April 1908, against Switzerland in Basel, with the Swiss winning 5 – 3.

Bright's Cleveland-style polka included a Swiss influence and wherever he played he promoted New Glarus.

During the 2004 – 05 NHL lockout, Heatley initially played for the Swiss team SC Bern.

The first European competition match upon the return Red Star played on August 8, 1995 against Swiss Xamax.

Favre was a Swiss jazz player who played the quena with great skill and sensitivity.

Another Swiss regiment, the Chateauvieux, played a major part in the Nancy affair ( mutiny ) of 1790 and 23 of its soldiers were executed, after trial by their own Swiss officers.

During the 2004 – 05 NHL lockout, he played for the Swiss team HC Lausanne.

During the 2004 – 05 NHL lockout, Nash played for HC Davos of the Swiss Nationalliga A ( NLA ).

He has additionally played with the Colorado Avalanche, Montreal Canadiens and Tampa Bay Lightning in the NHL and briefly for HC Lugano in the Swiss National League A in 2004.

Chapulín was a hero of undetermined geographic and temporal location: his adventures could unfold in the American Old West, in ancient China, in London, in the Swiss Alps, during the Spanish Inquisition, in pirate ships, in Nazi Germany ( an episode in which Chespirito played a double role as Chapulín and as Adolf Hitler himself, in the style of Charles Chaplin's The Great Dictator ) or outer space, and his enemies range from the Yeti to Egyptian mummies, including his interaction, in some occasions, with literary characters such as Romeo and Juliet (" Juleo y Rumieta ", or literally " Juleo and Rumiet ").

Berwick have never played in the Scottish top flight, so questions of potential competition in European tournaments have not arisen (, by contrast, regularly contends for the Republic of Ireland league title and represents the country in UEFA competitions, whereas FC Vaduz regularly represents Liechtenstein although the club plays in the Swiss Football League ).