In 1964, the brothers Jos and Klaas Molenaar, former players for KFC and owners of a growing appliance store chain, sought to create a powerful football team in the Zaanstreek by merging the two local professional teams ( KFC and ZFC ).

Australian rules football, officially known as Australian football, also called football, footy or Aussie rules However, late in the century the code began to decline in New South Wales and Queensland largely due to competition with other more popular football codes, as well as interstate rivalries and the lack of strong local governing bodies.

The local football team is Aviron Bayonnais FC.

Crete has a lot of football clubs playing in the local leagues: OFI Crete, which plays at Theodoros Vardinogiannis Stadium ( Iraklion ), and Ergotelis F. C., which plays at the Pankritio Stadium ( Iraklion ) are both members of Superleague Greece.

Modern Canadian football is widely regarded as having originated with a game played in Montreal, in 1865, when British Army officers played local civilians.

In his youth, he played for local football side BCF Wolfratshausen.

Examples of other UK football fanzines include A Love Supreme, TOOFIF, 4000 Holes and War of the Monster Trucks ( a Sheffield Wednesday fanzine named after a local TV station elected not to show the final scenes of an unlikely cup victory ).

Banks played in local colliery football as a boy and was offered an apprenticeship by Chesterfield after initially going to work as a coal bagger and then as a bricklayer on leaving school.

The Gaelic games of Gaelic football, hurling, camogie and Gaelic handball are all organised locally by Na Fianna CLG, while soccer is played by local clubs Iona FC ( now defunct ), Tolka Rovers, Glasnevin FC and Glasnaion FC.

Hannover 96 ( nickname Die Roten or ' The Reds ') is the local football team that plays in the Bundesliga top division.

Rockne learned to play football in his neighborhood and later played end in a local group called the Logan Square Tigers.

The local football club AEL 1964 FC currently participates in Football League Greece.

The football world assumed that the amalgamation was the death knell of the club, but they underestimated the spirit of the “ founding fathers ” and the local community who dug deep and came up with the funds to re-establish the club under the new name of “ Hotham ” in early 1877.

While on tour with South Pacific, Connery played in a football match against a local team that Matt Busby, manager of Manchester United, happened to be scouting.

** CS Sedan Ardennes, the local French football club

County identity is heavily reinforced in the local culture by allegiances to county teams in Hurling and Gaelic football.

The local football club Willem II Tilburg was named after the king.

However, the fact that Melbourne is significantly closer than Sydney and the fact that Victorian television broadcasts in the region, resulting ( among other things ) in the predominance of Australian rules football in the local media outlets, gives Albury close cultural and psychological links to Victoria, despite its location in southern New South Wales.

While teaching he also played amateur football for local teams and was soon signed up to Manchester United as a professional, playing his first game in 1936 and being part of the team that won promotion to the First Division in 1938.

The town is also the base for the local football team Trapani Calcio.

Other sports which were once held in Staines but are no longer to be found there include: boxing ( there were weekly programmes off the High Street in the 1930s, and local hearsay suggests bare-knuckle events were held at the Crooked Billet earlier in the 20th century ); wrestling ( bouts were included in boxing programmes of the last 1930s ); motorcycle football ( a club existed in the 1960s ; and American football ( a short-lived team called Staines Removers entered the Budweiser League in 1988, but failed to start the season, although they did play some friendly matches at their base on The Lammas ).

After pitching his team to a 26 – 2 victory over a local men's amateur team ( the Mercantiles ), he was approached by another, the Forest Citys, for whom he played for two years.

Other less commonly used nicknames were the " Gridbirds " ( used only by a local newspaper columnist ) or " Cardiac Cards " ( used only to refer to the 1975 team ).

On tour, games take place against local provinces, clubs or representative sides as well as the full tests against the host's national team.

However, the most likely origin of name is from a local fishmonger, Arthur " Ikey " Bryan, who rewarded the team with meals of haddock and chips.

A cheerleading team may compete outside of sporting events ( local, regional, and national competitions ), and cheer for sporting events and encourage audience participation.

Additional teams may also be created to guard the morgue, locate supplies and food, convey messages to and from other CERT teams and local authorities, and other duties on an as-needed basis as identified by the team leader.

) and determines ways to meet those needs through team members or citizen volunteers on the scene ; collects and writes reports on the operation and victims ; and communicates and coordinates with the incident commander, local authorities, and other CERT team leaders.

Students are introduced to several concepts from the Incident Command System, and local team organization and communication is explained.

The team, now occasionally called the " Tigers ," beat a local semi-pro team, known as the Athletics, 30 – 3.

Each team had seven members – one judge, two members each from the district court and the local government election authorities and two witnesses each representing the plaintiff ( Pan-Blue Coalition ) and the defendant ( Pan-Green Coalition ).

It was held at a meeting at the home of a well-known brewery family, the McCrackens, whose Ascot Vale property hosted a team of local junior players.

This move away from Essendon, at a time when fans would walk to their local ground, did not go over well with many Essendon people ; and, as a consequence, a new team and club was formed in 1900, unconnected with the first ( although it played in the same colours ), that was based at the Essendon Cricket Ground, and playing in the Victorian Football Association.

Normally they start at a youth team ( any local team ) and from there, based on skill and talent, scouts offer contracts.

* A first-class opponent is a team recognized as first-class in its home country, and includes foreign touring Test teams ( some first-class teams are not entitled to play first-class matches in other countries ; such determinations are made by the local Board of cricket )

A team nominated by the local event organiser also gets automatic qualification, and then the last two spots are determined by qualification tournaments.

These competitions have contributed to local interest in the sport and the first professional local team, the Fuerteventura-Canarias, was formed, initially run by Óscar Guerrero, director of Kaiku, although they have not competed for the past few seasons.

His final appearance was a 2 – 3 defeat away to local rivals Tampa Bay Rowdies on 17 June 1978, in which Rodney Marsh scored all three for the home team.

The local specialty of Aachen is an originally stonehard type of sweet bread, baked in large flat loaves, called Aachener Printen.

In Danish and Norwegian books, a distinction is made between foreign and local words ; thus, for example, the German city Aachen would be listed under A, but the Danish city " Aabenraa " would be listed after Z.

Aachen finally won with a financing concept backed by the insurance company and local banks.