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Only one of the Cocom, who was in Honduras at the time, survived and later founded Tibolón. The war between Uxmal and Cocom plunged the league into chaos. There was segregation in the provinces and several uprisings broke out. By 1461, the league was completely disintegrated. After the war, Yucatan broke up into seventeen Kuchkabals.
The reason that this stadium was built was for Egypt's bid for the 2010 FIFA World Cup. The national football team of Egypt played numerous home games at the 75,000-capacity Cairo International Stadium. Egypt has hosted 5 African Cups in 1959, 1974, 1986, 2006 and 2019. The country also hosted the 1997 U-17 World Cup and the 2009 U-20 World Cup. #
A panorama of the Mayapan excavations from the top of the Castle of King Kukulcan. The ethnohistorical sources – such as Diego de Landa's Relacion de las Cosas de Yucatan, compiled from native sources in the 16th century – recount that the site was founded by Kukulcan (the Mayan name of Quetzalcoatl, the Toltec king, culture hero, and demigod) after the fall of Chichen Itza.
Little is known about the very early years of the club. According to historians, [2] [3] [4] the club was established by Belgian lawyer George Merzbach.On December 25, 1910, while attending Cairo Tramways Company's Christmas celebration, Merzbach realized that the company's guest house hosting the celebration on the Nile banks — then the Qasr El Nile casino — would be suitable as a sports ...
It was at this time that the clubs Zamalek and Al-Ahly [note 2] began their dominance, with the two clubs regularly winning the Cairo League and the Egypt Cup. [5] In 1938, the Egyptian Football Association (EFA) took control of the Cairo Zone Competition, along with the other three leagues. The Cairo Zone Competition was renamed the Cairo ...
The first Egyptian national football team was constituted in 1920, the first African football team created to compete in the Summer Olympics in Belgium. The opening match of their campaign was a loss against the Italians. Egypt national team at the 1920 Summer Olympics Egypt national football team at the 1934 FIFA World Cup in Italy
This is a list of wars involving the Arab Republic of Egypt and its predecessor states. Egyptian victory Egyptian defeat Another result * *e.g. result unknown or indecisive/inconclusive, result of internal conflict inside Egypt, status quo ante bellum, or a treaty or peace without a clear result
The largest football crowd was recorded, 149,415 people turned up at Hampden Park, Glasgow, to see Scotland play England [5] 1938 in football; In the 1938 World Cup held in France, Italy beats Hungary 4–2 in the final and becomes the first team to successfully defend the title and the first to win on foreign soil.