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The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region [1] (commonly known as the Hong Kong Government or HKSAR Government) is the executive authorities of Hong Kong. It was established on 1 July 1997, following the handover of Hong Kong .
HKSAR Reunification Cup is a cup competition for celebrating the reunification of Hong Kong to China from finishing the colonial rule by United Kingdom. The first edition of the cup was held on 3 July 1997, two days after the Day of Establishment of HKSAR. The second edition was featured by a 4-team competition held on the 5th anniversary in 2002.
The first joint bid of the World Cup was approved, edging out Mexico. Results: South Korea/ Japan (joint bid, voted by acclamation) Mexico; The 2002 FIFA World Cup was co-hosted in Asia for the first time by South Korea and Japan (the opening match was held in South Korea and the final was held in Japan).
France's bid to host the World Cup centered on a national stadium with 80,000 seats and nine other stadiums located across the country. [31] When the finals were originally awarded in July 1992, none of the regional club grounds were of a capacity meeting FIFA's requirements – namely being able to safely seat 40,000. [ 32 ]
FIFA assigns a three-letter country code (more properly termed a trigram or trigraph [1]) to each of its member and non-member countries.These are the official codes used by FIFA and its continental confederations (AFC, CAF, CONCACAF, CONMEBOL, OFC and UEFA) as name abbreviations of countries and dependent areas, in official competitions.
Stade de France, listed as a Category 4 stadium by UEFA, hosted matches at the 1998 FIFA World Cup, the UEFA Champions League finals in 2000, 2006 and 2022. It has as well hosted the 1999 , 2007 and 2023 Rugby World Cups , making it one of only two stadia in the world to have hosted both a FIFA World Cup final and a rugby union World Cup final ...
Estadio Centenario, the location of the first World Cup final in 1930 in Montevideo, Uruguay. The first two World Cup matches took place simultaneously on 13 July 1930, and were won by France and the United States, who defeated Mexico 4–1 and Belgium 3–0 respectively. The first goal in World Cup history was scored by Lucien Laurent of ...
Stade Geoffroy-Guichard (French pronunciation: [stad ʒɔfʁwa ɡiʃaʁ]) is a multi-purpose stadium in Saint-Étienne, France.It is used primarily for football matches, and tournaments such as the UEFA Euro 1984 and 2016, the 1998 FIFA World Cup and the 2003 FIFA Confederations Cup.