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Lower leagues across the globe #8: Sweden

By on March 18, 2011 in the Category Championship, League Two, The Seventy Two with 2 Comments
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Despite an alpine outlook, football remains the most popular sport in Sweden. Most of the focus is on the Allsvenskan, the top flight which runs from Spring until late Autumn, with the winter months being dominated by coverage of the English Premier League. Stuart Fuller tells us all about life in the Swedish lower leagues. The Swedish football calendar can often lead to confusion as the Allsvenskan champions have to wait seven months to start their European campaigns, by which stage most of their decent players will have moved on into the bigger European leagues. This is demonstrated by the…

Lower leagues across the globe #7: Poland

By on February 10, 2011 in the Category Championship, League Two, The Seventy Two with No comments
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After a short hiatus, we are back on the road to learn about lower league football in another country. It is the turn of Poland to come under the microscope and Ryan Hubbard, the man behind Los Revolucionarios, is on hand to tell us all how things work in that particular corner of Eastern Europe. Over the last few years, a number of Eastern European friends have sparked my interest in their national leagues. Having always wanted to visit Poland, this was the league that stood out. However, there was one thing that wasn’t made clear. I knew of Wisla…

Lower leagues across the globe #6: Italy

By on January 11, 2011 in the Category Championship, League Two, The Seventy Two with 13 Comments
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We’ve been to Portugal, Denmark, Japan, the Netherlands and France so far in our voyage around the globe looking at lower leagues in other countries. Next stop? Italy. And there is no better candidate than the excellent Rocco Cammisola of The Football Express to offer an in-depth insight into life beneath the crema of the espresso. The poetry of the Italian football system Football in Italy is completely intertwined with everyday life, occasionally to such extremes that it has become a matter of life and death. It has been able to play an influential role in both the politics and…

Lower leagues across the globe #5: France

By on January 5, 2011 in the Category Championship, League Two, The Seventy Two with 4 Comments
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For the fifth part of The Seventy Two’s series looking at lower leagues in other countries, we make another quick dart across to the continent - this time paying a visit to the beautiful country of France. Andrew Gibney of Gib Football Show fame is your guide for a tour of life outside Ligue 1. You very often hear the term “yo-yo club” in association with the gap between a country’s top flight and its lower divisions. The step up in class can be too much and promoted teams go straight back down. In France, however, this is not usually…

Lower leagues across the globe #4: The Netherlands

By on January 2, 2011 in the Category Championship, League Two, The Seventy Two with 8 Comments
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The next instalment of The Seventy Two’s series looking at lower leagues in other countries involves a short hop over to the continent. Kevin Jones, who discovered this site via The Guardian’s recommendation of Ben Shave’s article on Portugal, delves into life outside the Dutch Eredivisie, and tells a fascinating story of money and religion. The Eerste Divisie The Dutch national team’s run to the World Cup final in the summer engendered something of a feel-good factor in the country that spawned “total football”, but this hasn’t really filtered down to the Dutch second division yet. The Eerste Divisie (or…

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