Yorke, Hislop and Latapy would go on to play for Trinidad and Tobago at the 2006 FIFA World Cup.

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The England team during the 2006 FIFA World Cup.

He even attended the 1994 FIFA World Cup with long time soccer fan Henry Kissinger, although he wrote during the 2006 FIFA World Cup that soccer can be interesting to watch but is still a " boring game.

On the first day of the 2006 FIFA World Cup, the Altador Cup started as an annual international online gaming event and had 10. 4 million participants the first year.

In the lead-up to the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany, a moulded plastic version of the Pickelhaube was available as a fanware article.

Although Togo's qualification for the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany was historic, its participation was marred by incidents and headlines.

In the 2006 FIFA World Cup, after a controversial second-round match between Portugal and the Netherlands, which saw referee Valentin Ivanov issue a record 16 yellow cards and four red cards, Blatter was said to have lambasted the officiating referee, and said that Ivanov should have given himself a yellow card for his poor performance as a referee.

During the 2006 FIFA World Cup final in Germany, Blatter's absence during the prize-podium event was noted and criticized in international media.

Fabien Alain Barthez ( ; born 28 June 1971 in Lavelanet ) is a former French footballer goalkeeper who won honours with Manchester United and the French national team, with whom he won the 1998 FIFA World Cup and Euro 2000 and reached the final of the 2006 World Cup.

His place as starting goalkeeper in France's 2006 FIFA World Cup Campaign, in the face of a substantial public campaign in support of Grégory Coupet, was surprising to many, even more so given Coupet's flawless performance in the remainder of the World Cup qualifying campaign after Barthez's suspension.

* FIFA World Cup: 1998, 2006 runner-up

Under his guidance, the team were unbeaten in their World Cup qualification group and made it through the group stages at the FIFA World Cup 2006, but were eliminated in a frenzied 1 – 0 loss to Portugal in the Round of 16.

FIFA asked Gabriel and Brian Eno to organise an opening ceremony for the 2006 FIFA World Cup finals in Germany, planned to take place a couple of days before the start of the tournament ; however, the show was cancelled in January 2006 by FIFA.

At the 2006 FIFA World Cup, Bavaria Brewery got up to 1, 000 fans of the Dutch national football team to don orange overalls, called Leeuwenhosen, with the brewery's logo on them.

The 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany did not employ the golden goal in the event of a tied match during the knockout stage, but reverted to the previous rules: In the event of a tied game after the original 90 minutes, two 15-minute halves of extra time were played.

* Gennaro Gattuso ( born 1978 ), professional football player, plays for A. C. Milan winner of several Champions League trophies and also part of the Italy national football team that won the 2006 FIFA World Cup.

In the qualification playoffs for the 2006 FIFA World Cup, for example:

On 23 January, the Football Association announced that Eriksson would leave his job after the 2006 FIFA World Cup, and it was thought that the News of the World allegations played a part in this decision.

During World II the winter games were canceled but after that time the Winter Games have been held in St. Moritz ( 1948 ), Innsbruck, Austria ( 1964 and 1976 ), Grenoble, France, ( 1968 ), Albertville, France, ( 1992 ), and Torino, Italy, ( 2006 ).

* 1945 – Lee Jong-wook, Korean Director-General of the World Health Organization ( d. 2006 )

Aachen hosted the 2006 FEI World Equestrian Games and 2011 CHIO Aachen.

* Paul Lunde, The coming of the Portuguese, 2006, Saudi Aramco World

* 2006 – Construction begins on the Freedom Tower for the new World Trade Center in New York City.

In a 2006 Quinnipiac University poll asking respondents to name the best president since World War II, Clinton ranked number two behind Ronald Reagan.

He was instrumental in organizing the World Baseball Classic in 2006.

* World Baseball Classic ( 2006 )

: In the 2006 edition of The World Factbook, the entries for Baker Island, Howland Island, Jarvis Island, Kingman Reef, Johnston Atoll, Palmyra Atoll and the Midway Islands were merged into a new United States Pacific Island Wildlife Refuges entry.

Nelson's 2006 Fishes of the World arranges the class as follows:

The CIA World Factbook estimates the military budget of Chad to be 4. 2 % of GDP as of 2006 ..

* CIA World Factbook 2006

Daniel Kehlmann's 2005 novel Die Vermessung der Welt, translated into English as Measuring the World ( 2006 ), explores Gauss's life and work through a lens of historical fiction, contrasting them with those of the German explorer Alexander von Humboldt.

Lagow provided the animal to Texas Parks and Wildlife officials for identification, but Lagow reported in a September 17, 2006 phone interview with John Adolfi, founder of the Lost World Museum, that the " critter was caught on a Tuesday and thrown out in Thursday's trash.

*" Cassiopeia ," a song by Rain from his 4th album ( 2006 ) Rain's World

* CIA World Factbook, 2006

The Tigers have won four World Series championships ( 1935, 1945, 1968, and 1984 ) and have won the American League pennant 10 times ( 1907, 1908, 1909, 1934, 1935, 1940, 1945, 1968, 1984, and 2006 ).

Devo continued to tour actively in 2005 and 2006, unveiling a new stage show at shows in October 2006, and an appearance of the Jihad Jerry character performing " Beautiful World " as an encore.

# 2006 Rome: Angelo Cangelosi, Andrew D. M. Smith, Kenny Smith The Evolution of Language: Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on the Evolution of Language, World Scientific, ISBN 981-256-656-2.

Enya was awarded the World's Best-Selling Irish Act award at the World Music Awards in London on 19 November 2006.

to the quarter-finals of the 2002 World Cup and 2006 World Cup.

The Wings opened the 2006 Stanley Cup playoffs against the Edmonton Oilers with a 3 – 2 overtime victory at Joe Louis Arena.

During this time, England played at a number of different venues across the country, though by the time of the 2006 World Cup qualifiers this had largely settled down to having Manchester United's Old Trafford stadium as the primary venue, with Newcastle United's St. James ' Park used on occasions where Old Trafford was unavailable.

This is reflected, among others, in the club's contribution to the national team, uninterrupted since the second half of 1920s and recognised as one of the most influential in international football, having performed a decisive role in the World Cup triumphs ​​ of 1934, 1982 and 2006.

* Blue Valley Sports Complex ; Overland Park, Kansas ( 2001, 2004, 2006, 2011 ) 6 games in US Open Cup

The following season, Liverpool finished third in the Premier League and won the 2006 FA Cup Final, beating West Ham United in a penalty shootout after the match finished on 3 – 3.

In the 2005 – 06 season, Manchester United failed to qualify for the knockout phase of the UEFA Champions League for the first time in over a decade, but recovered to secure a second-place league finish and victory over Wigan Athletic in the 2006 Football League Cup Final.

Until 2006, Togo was very much a minor force in world football, but like fellow West African nations such as Senegal, Nigeria and Cameroon before them, the Togolese national team finally qualified for the World Cup.

In 2005, the Mud Hens won the International League Governor's Cup Championship against the Indianapolis Indians and again in 2006 against the Rochester Red Wings for their 2nd and 3rd championships.

They won back-to-back Governors ' Cup championships in 2005 and 2006.

* Beach Cup, Burla Beach Cup A large tournament, in 2006 hosted 70 teams, held every year in September in Viareggio, Tuscany, Italy.

The Rome concert of Live 8 ( July 2, 2005 ) was held there, as was the Italian World Cup 2006 victory celebration.