The 2012 UEFA European Football Championship, commonly
referred to as Euro 2012, will be the 14th European Championship for national football
teams organized by UEFA. The
final tournament will be hosted by Poland and Ukraine between 8 June and 1 July
2012. It is the first time that either nation has hosted the tournament. This
bid was chosen by UEFA's Executive Committee in 2007.
The final tournament features 16 nations, the last European Championship
to do so (from Euro onward, there will be 24
finalists). Qualification was contested by 51 nations between August 2010 and
November 2011 to join the two host nations in the tournament. The winner of the
tournament gains automatic entry to the Cup hosted by
Brazil.
The history of English football is a long and detailed one, as it is
not only the national sport but England was where the game was developed. The
modern global game of Football was first
codified in 1863 in London. There is evidence for refereed, team football games
being played in English schools since at least 1581. England can boast the
earliest ever documented use of the English word "football" (1409)
and the earliest reference to the sport in French (1314). The modern passing
game is believed to have been innovated in London and England is home to the oldest football clubs in
the world (dating from at least 1857), the world's oldest competition the FA
cup founded in 1871 and the first ever football league (1888). For these
reasons England is considered the home of the game of football.
England was the
first country in the world to develop football, coming about from a desire of
its various public schools to compete against each other.
Previously, each school had its own rules, which may have dated back to the
15th or 16th centuries. The first attempts to come up with single codes
probably began in the 1840s, with various meetings between school
representatives attempting to come up with a set of rules with which all would
be happy. The first attempt was The Cambridge Rules, created in 1848. These were molded into one set in 1863
when the Football Association was formed, though some clubs
continued to play under the Sheffield
Rules until 1878.
Football continued
to be played in England throughout the 19th century. In 1844 football was
evidently still popular in London. An advertisement in the Guardian newspaper
for 14 December states: "Wanted immediately a field for football in the
neighbourhood of London Road or Oxford Street". In 1845 an interesting
reference from Darwen, Lancashire shows how football was popular among
English factory workers.
England
national football team record vs Belgium
Games won: 14
Games drawn: 5
Games lost: 1
Date
|
Match
|
Result
|
Score
|
Competition
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21 May 1921
|
Belgium v England
|
W
|
0-2
|
International
|
19 Mar 1923
|
England v Belgium
|
W
|
6-1
|
International
|
01 Nov 1923
|
Belgium v England
|
D
|
2-2
|
International
|
08 Dec 1924
|
England v Belgium
|
W
|
4-0
|
International
|
24 May 1926
|
Belgium v England
|
W
|
3-5
|
International
|
11 May 1927
|
Belgium v England
|
W
|
1-9
|
International
|
19 May 1928
|
Belgium v England
|
W
|
1-3
|
International
|
11 May 1929
|
Belgium v England
|
W
|
1-5
|
International
|
16 May 1931
|
Belgium v England
|
W
|
1-4
|
International
|
09 May 1936
|
Belgium v England
|
L
|
3-2
|
International
|
21 Sep 1947
|
Belgium v England
|
W
|
2-5
|
International
|
18 May 1950
|
Belgium v England
|
W
|
1-4
|
International
|
26 Nov 1952
|
England v Belgium
|
W
|
5-0
|
International
|
17 Jun 1954
|
England v Belgium
|
D
|
4-4
|
FIFA World Cup
|
21 Oct 1964
|
England v Belgium
|
D
|
2-2
|
International
|
25 Feb 1970
|
Belgium v England
|
W
|
1-3
|
International
|
12 Jun 1980
|
Belgium v England
|
D
|
1-1
|
European Championship
|
27 Jun 1990
|
England v Belgium
|
W
|
1-0
|
FIFA World Cup
|
29 May 1998
|
Belgium v England
|
D
|
0-0
|
King Hassan II Cup
|
10 Oct 1999
|
England v Belgium
|
W
|
2-1
|
International
|
Belgian football has taken a long time to develop. With an association
formed in 1895 and the second-oldest league outside Great Britain, it was
natural for the Belgians to be a driving force behind the formation of FIFA and
one of only four European sides to go to Uruguay for the first World Cup in
1930. But the strictly amateur nature of the domestic game severely hindered
progress. Amateurism was discarded in 1972 and the national side immediately
improved. From 1972 to 1984, Belgium reached the last eight of four successive
European Championships, reaching the final in 1980 when they lost to West
Germany. The class of 1980 represented Belgium for almost a decade and
contained many of their most celebrated players, including goalkeeper
Jean-Marie Pfaff, full-back Eric Gerets and striker Jan Ceruleans. Their finest
hour came at the 1986 World Cup finals, where they reached the semi-finals.
Belgium made history as co-hosts of the 2000 European Championship but have
missed out on major events since reaching the second round of the 2002 World
Cup.
Over the next six decades, Belgium established itself as a strong
second-tier team, rarely in the running for winning a major tournament but
never easy to handle at home or abroad. A key strength of the team was its
systematic use of the offside trap,
a defensive tactic developed in the 1960s at Anderlecht under French coach.
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The time and venue of this match is given below.
Date: Saturday June 02, 2012(15:00)
Venue: Wembly Stadium, London, United Kingdom
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