Friday 17 June 2011



East Bengal Club were established in 1920. The club was named so because the founders of the club hailed from the eastern region of Bengal.
East Bengal were the first Indian club to win the IFA Shield for three consecutive years(1949-'51).
East Bengal club were regarded as "The Best Club of India" by the Football Association of England in 1951.
East Bengal have a record of winning the Calcutta football league for 6 years in a row between 1970 and 1975.
The club have a record of winning 23 trophies from Indian capital New Delhi which includes sixteen Durand Cup and seven DCM Trophy titles.
East Bengal also have a multi-collaborative tie-in with Leicester City FC for an exchange program of junior footballers, in respect to coaching techniques, sports science and other developmental programs.
In 1970, East Bengal created history by defeating Pas Club of Iran by a margin of 1-0 in the IFA Shield final. It was the first victory of an Indian club over foreign team since the independence. East Bengal have a glorious past record against the foreign clubs. They are the only club in India to participate in Asian Club Championship/AFC Cup 10 times.
In 1998, the name of the club was changed from East Bengal Club to Kingfisher East Bengal Football Club after the producers of Kingfisher beer, the United Breweries Group became 50% stakeholder and the main sponsor of the club.
In 2003 July,East Bengal became the first Indian club to win a continental competition of repute, when they won LG Asean Cup held at Jakarta beating BEC Tero Sasana in the final.
They became the first club in India to win back to back National Football League titles in 2003 & 2004.

Futbol Club Barcelona (also known as Barcelona and familiarly as Barça) is a Spanish professional football club, based in BarcelonaSpain. They play in La Liga, and is one of the only three clubs to have never been relegated, along with Athletic Bilbao and rival Real Madrid. They are the current Spanish and European football champions.
Founded as Foot-Ball Club Barcelona in 1899 by a group of SwissEnglish and Spanish footballers led by Joan Gamper, the club has become a symbol of Catalan culture and Catalanism, hence the motto "Més que un club"(English: More than a club). The official Barça anthem is the "Cant del Barça" written by Jaume Picas and Josep Maria Espinàs. Unlike many other football clubs, the supporters own and operate Barcelona. It is the world's second richest football club in terms of revenue, with an annual turn-over of €398 million. The club holds a long-standing rivalry withReal Madrid, and matches between the two teams are referred to as "El Clásico".
FC Barcelona is the second most successful club in Spanish football in terms of overall trophies, having won 21 La Liga titles, a record 25 Spanish Cups, nine Spanish Super Cups and two League Cups. It is also one of most successful clubs in European football, having won 11 UEFA competitions.[2] It is the only European club to have played continental football every season since 1955. In 2009, Barcelona became the first club in Spain to win the trebleconsisting of La LigaCopa del Rey, and the Champions League. That same year, it also became the first football club ever to win six out of six competitions in a single year, thus completing the sextuple, comprising the aforementioned treble and the Spanish Super CupUEFA Super Cup and FIFA Club World Cup.

Liverpool Football Club is an English professional football club from Liverpool, England, and plays in the Premier League. Liverpool has played at Anfield since the club's foundation in 1892 and was admitted to the Football League a year later.
The second most successful club in the history of English football, Liverpool have won 18 league titles, seven FA Cups and a record seven League Cups. Liverpool is the most successful English club in European competition, having won five European Cups, the last in 2005, three UEFA Cups and threeUEFA Super Cups. The club currently rank fourth in Europe and seventh in the world with the mostinternational titles won.[2]
The club's supporters have been involved in two major tragedies. The first was the Heysel Stadium disaster in 1985, where charging Liverpool fans caused a wall to collapse, resulting in the death of 39Juventus supporters. In the 1989 Hillsborough Disaster, 96 Liverpool supporters lost their lives in a crush against perimeter fencing.
Liverpool has long-standing rivalries with neighbours Everton and with Manchester United. The team's home colours have been entirely red since 1964 when manager Bill Shankly changed them from a red shirt and white shorts. The club's anthem is "You'll Never Walk Alone".

India (Listeni /ˈɪndiə/), officially the Republic of India (Hindiभारत गणराज्य Bhārat Gaṇarājya; see also official names of India), is a state located in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, thesecond-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the southwest, and the Bay of Bengal on the southeast, it shares land borders with Pakistan to the west; Bhutan, the People's Republic of China and Nepal to the northeast; and Bangladesh and Burma to the east. In the Indian Ocean, India is in the vicinity of Sri Lanka and the Maldives; in addition, India's Andaman and Nicobar Islands share a maritime border with Thailand andIndonesia.
Home to the ancient Indus Valley Civilization and a region of historic trade routes and vast empires, the Indian subcontinent was identified with its commercial and cultural wealth for much of its long history.[13] Four of the world's major religions—HinduismBuddhismJainism and Sikhism—originated here, while Zoroastrianism,Christianity and Islam arrived in the first millennium CE and shaped the region's diverse culture.[14] Graduallyannexed by the British East India Company from the early 18th century and colonised by the United Kingdom from the mid-19th century, India became an independent nation in 1947 after a struggle for independence which was marked by non-violent resistance and led by Mahatma Gandhi.
The Indian economy is the world's tenth largest economy by nominal GDP and fourth largest economy bypurchasing power parity. Following market-based economic reforms in 1991, India has become one of the fastest growing major economies, and is considered a newly industrialized country; however, it continues to face the challenges of povertyilliteracycorruption and inadequate public health. A nuclear weapons state and a regional power, it has the third-largest standing army in the world and ranks tenth in military expenditure among nations.
India is a federal constitutional republic with a parliamentary democracy consisting of 28 states and 7 union territories. It is one of the 5 BRICS nations. India is a pluralisticmultilingual, and multiethnic society. It is also home to a diversity of wildlife in a variety of protected habitats.
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