GenevaLunch » football http://genevalunch.com Community Newspaper Online Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:57:07 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ Copyright © GenevaLunch 2010 editor@genevalunch.com (GenevaLunch) editor@genevalunch.com (GenevaLunch) http://genevalunch.com/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpg GenevaLunch http://genevalunch.com 144 144 Community Newspaper Online GenevaLunch GenevaLunch editor@genevalunch.com no no Sports, football: Swiss player Shaqiri signs with Bayern Munich http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/02/09/sports-football-swiss-player-shaqiri-signs-with-bayern-munich/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/02/09/sports-football-swiss-player-shaqiri-signs-with-bayern-munich/#comments Thu, 09 Feb 2012 08:58:56 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=66449 GenevaLunch.com BASEL, SWITZERLAND – Months of speculation in the football world ended Thursday 9 February with the announcement by football club Bayern Munich that it has signed Swiss player Xherdan Shaqiri to a four-year contract. The transfer from FC Basel 1893 takes place 1 July 2012. Shaqiri, an international player who plays for Basel in the [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/02/09/sports-football-swiss-player-shaqiri-signs-with-bayern-munich/feed/ 0 Egyptian football fans clash – 73 reported dead http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/02/01/egyptian-football-fans-clash-73-reported-dead/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/02/01/egyptian-football-fans-clash-73-reported-dead/#comments Wed, 01 Feb 2012 21:55:07 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=66226 GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Egyptian state television is reporting that at least 73 people have died, and numbers are being revised upwards late Wednesday 1 February, after two football teams’ fans clashed in Port Said. More than 150 people are reported to be injured. Fans of Masry and al-Ahly teams, both in the top group, poured [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/02/01/egyptian-football-fans-clash-73-reported-dead/feed/ 0 Sports, football: Swiss Under-17 Veseli moves to Man United http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/02/01/sports-football-swiss-under-17-veseli-moves-to-man-united/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/02/01/sports-football-swiss-under-17-veseli-moves-to-man-united/#comments Wed, 01 Feb 2012 08:57:31 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=66172 GenevaLunch.com LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – Frederic Veseli, a Swiss Under-17 defender, says he is “very happy” to be joining Manchester United, which pinched him from rival Manchester City. He moves onto the team’s reserve side initially. Veseli, 19, went to Manchester City in 2008 from Lausanne Sport. He made his name in 2009 when he captained the [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/02/01/sports-football-swiss-under-17-veseli-moves-to-man-united/feed/ 0 Swiss football tussles off-field continue, with Xamax license loss http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/01/18/swiss-football-tussles-off-field-continue-with-xamax-license-loss/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/01/18/swiss-football-tussles-off-field-continue-with-xamax-license-loss/#comments Wed, 18 Jan 2012 22:06:02 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=65399 GenevaLunch.com ZURICH, SWITZERLAND – Xamax, the Neuchatel football team, lost its license Wednesday 18 January, the latest in a string of major distractions off the field, for the team and Swiss football fans. Controversial club owner Bulat Chagaev has five days to appeal and show that the club is financially sound. TSR, Swiss public television, Wednesday [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/01/18/swiss-football-tussles-off-field-continue-with-xamax-license-loss/feed/ 0 Football: Servette FC vs Young Boys http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/10/22/football-servette-fc-vs-young-boys/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/10/22/football-servette-fc-vs-young-boys/#comments Fri, 21 Oct 2011 22:00:00 +0000 Laila Rodriguez http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/10/22/football-servette-fc-vs-young-boys/ GenevaLunch.com Swiss first division football teams meet in Geneva.

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/10/22/football-servette-fc-vs-young-boys/feed/ 0 That’s it folks: Zurich bans hooliganism http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/10/03/thats-it-folks-zurich-bans-hooliganism/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/10/03/thats-it-folks-zurich-bans-hooliganism/#comments Mon, 03 Oct 2011 19:50:22 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=62049 GenevaLunch.com ZURICH, SWITZERLAND – Football hooligans: Zurich doesn’t want you. The city’s executive committee decided Monday to pursue a zero tolerance programme, folowing confrontations between fans of Grasshopper and FC Zurich Sunday 2 October. The winter pause will see Letzigrund stadium renovations that include separations between groups of fans and the players and referees. Any fireworks [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/10/03/thats-it-folks-zurich-bans-hooliganism/feed/ 0 Sports, football: Basel FC to top of Champions League http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/09/15/sports-football-basel-fc-to-top-of-champions-league/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/09/15/sports-football-basel-fc-to-top-of-champions-league/#comments Thu, 15 Sep 2011 13:35:01 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=61611 GenevaLunch.com BASEL, SWITZERLAND – Basel FC has moved to the top of the Champions League after defeating newcomer Otelul Galati of Romania 2-1 in Basel 14 September. Manchester United slipped after a 1-1 draw against Benfica in Lisbon, with an unimpressive opening. The favoured UK team never rose to the challenge. Uefa announced 13 September that [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/09/15/sports-football-basel-fc-to-top-of-champions-league/feed/ 0 Player gets head injuries in post-football fans’ fight http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/09/07/player-gets-head-injuries-in-post-football-fans-fight/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/09/07/player-gets-head-injuries-in-post-football-fans-fight/#comments Wed, 07 Sep 2011 13:21:07 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=61315 GenevaLunch.com LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – A 32-year-old Swiss man was treated in hospital and received 9 stitches when someone attacked him from behind and took a knife to his ear following a fourth league football match in Saint-Barthélemy, canton Vaud. Spectators at the match between FC Talent and FC Cugy began to whistle and verbally abuse each [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/09/07/player-gets-head-injuries-in-post-football-fans-fight/feed/ 0 Kudelski to supply half of 2012 Euro Football championship access http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/08/29/kudelski-to-supply-half-of-2012-euro-football-championship-access/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/08/29/kudelski-to-supply-half-of-2012-euro-football-championship-access/#comments Mon, 29 Aug 2011 17:28:22 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=61060 GenevaLunch.com LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – Skipass, a subsidiary of Kudelski, Lausanne-based world specialist in digital security, will be supplying secure access to half of the 2012 European Football championship matches, including those in Ukraine and at Poland’s largest stadium, the national stadium. The Salzburg-based company said Monday it signed a contract in July to supply ticketing and [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/08/29/kudelski-to-supply-half-of-2012-euro-football-championship-access/feed/ 0 Football passions rise in Switzerland: hooligans, protests, goals, cleaner sport http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/08/29/football-passions-rise-in-switzerland-hooligans-protests-goals-cleaner-sport/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/08/29/football-passions-rise-in-switzerland-hooligans-protests-goals-cleaner-sport/#comments Mon, 29 Aug 2011 17:17:01 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=61039 GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Football (soccer) fans in Switzerland have had a lively weekend, starting with a peaceful protest by Turkish fans Friday in Nyon and ending with Geneva Servette fans setting fire to a field, among other hooliganisms, in Sion. Turkey lays a club to rest in Nyon Canton Vaud police say a protest Saturday [...]

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