Post by sandbachhatter on Jan 15, 2017 13:52:27 GMT
Morning all
I'm starting Week F off a little early, as it promises to be another nightmare of a week at work. Besides, my office PC seems to treat Photobucket as the work of Satan.
Your host this week is our youngest Heavener to take part, Macc Jnr, who has done a fine job trawling the globe for some random F-teams. Over to the young man himself...
Fylkir are an Icelandic club from eastern Reykjavik. They were first known as Knattspyrnufélag Seláss go Árbæjar, but changed their name so that it would be easier for people to remember and say!
The club was formed on 28 May 1967, so will have its 50th birthday this year. Although it is quite young, the team has played in Iceland's Premier League since 2000 - and in the UEFA Cup, Europa League and Inter-Toto Cup.
In 1977 Fylkir got to the Third Division Final, but had to play its B-team as the first eleven had already gone on holiday with each other to Spain!
Fylkir play in orange shirts, black shorts and orange socks, but their change colours are royal blue - just like County. People can also play volleyball and handball or do gymnastics and karate at the club.
I'm starting Week F off a little early, as it promises to be another nightmare of a week at work. Besides, my office PC seems to treat Photobucket as the work of Satan.
Your host this week is our youngest Heavener to take part, Macc Jnr, who has done a fine job trawling the globe for some random F-teams. Over to the young man himself...
Fylkir
Fylkir are an Icelandic club from eastern Reykjavik. They were first known as Knattspyrnufélag Seláss go Árbæjar, but changed their name so that it would be easier for people to remember and say!
The club was formed on 28 May 1967, so will have its 50th birthday this year. Although it is quite young, the team has played in Iceland's Premier League since 2000 - and in the UEFA Cup, Europa League and Inter-Toto Cup.
In 1977 Fylkir got to the Third Division Final, but had to play its B-team as the first eleven had already gone on holiday with each other to Spain!
Fylkir play in orange shirts, black shorts and orange socks, but their change colours are royal blue - just like County. People can also play volleyball and handball or do gymnastics and karate at the club.
The club's fans meet before and after games at the Blásteinn pub, which means 'Blue Stone'. Sometimes the players go there as well. It must get very busy!
Frenz United
This is such a young club that it's even younger than me! It was only formed in 2012, and is the first professional club in Malaysia.
Rather than playing in a national league, Frenz United is an Academy like Alan Lord's that produces players of the future. They play at the Hang Tuah Stadium in Malacca City. The ground is over 60 years old, the oldest one in Malacca State.
Their colours are black with white and a bit of red, and they are nicknamed the Black Dragons. The club badge has a dragon on it, and so do all the seats on the pitch-side benches which look very scary!
My dad says the club's name reminds him of a social media website, but I've never heard of it.
Flamurtari Vlorë
I have chosen this club, as it's in Albania - and my dad is always singing an old song by the Higsons that says 'Who wants Albania? The western world wants Albania!'.
The club was formed in 1923 as Shoqeria Sportive, and has had its current name since 1946. It plays in the Albanian Superliga, and has won this once - as well as the Cup of Party of Labour of Albania and the Cup of Trade Unions of Albania.
Best of all, though, Flamurtari once beat Barcelona! They won 1-0 at home in the 1987/88 UEFA Cup in front of a record 18,500 crowd, but lost 4-1 at the Nou Camp.
They play in red and black - the same colours as the national flag - and apparently 20% of all Albanians support them. Their rivals are Tirana, because Vlorë was Albania's first capital city before Tirana replaced it.
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