Group B - Football Association of Ireland

GROUP B
England
National
Anthem
God Save the Queen
God save our gracious Queen!
Long live our noble Queen!
God save the Queen!
Send her victorious,
Happy and glorious,
Long to reign over us,
God save the Queen.
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London
53,010,000
British Pound Sterling
130,279km2
Scafell Pike (978 metres)
River Severn (350km)
Did you
know?
There have been a
number of influential English
authors but perhaps the
most well-known is William
Shakespeare, who wrote
classics such as Romeo and
Juliet, Macbeth
and Hamlet.
Thy choicest gifts in store
On her be pleased to pour,
Long may she reign.
May she defend our laws,
And ever give us cause,
To sing with heart and voice,
God save the Queen.
There is only a 34
kilometre (21 mile) gap
between England and
France and the countries
are connected by the
Channel Tunnel which
opened in 1994.
The city of London has a
population of approximately
12 million people, making it the
largest city in all of Europe.
London is home
to several UNESCO World
Heritage Sites: The Tower of
London, Royal Botanical Kew
Gardens, Westminster Palace,
Westminster Abbey,
St. Margaret’s Church, and
Maritime Greenwich.
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English computer
scientist Tim
Berners-Lee
is credited with
inventing the Wor
ld
Wide Web.
English
football
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English
football
crest
English
football
jersey
The Three Lions
Wayne Rooney (right)
Bobby Moore
Roy Hodgson
Wembley Stadium (90,000)
Nike
Peter Shilton (125 caps)
Wayne Rooney (51 Goals)
3rd Place Euro 1968
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v Scotland (Drew 0-0, 30/11/1872)
v Northern Ireland (Won 13-0, 18/02/1882)
v Germany (Won 4-2, 30/07/1966)
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GROUP B
CURRENT SQUAD
Joe Hart
Jack Butland
Fraser Forster
Manchester City FC
Stoke City FC
Southampton FC
Nathaniel Clyne
Leighton Baines
Gary Cahill
John Stones
Chris Smalling
Phil Jagielka
Phil Jones
Kieran Gibbs
Liverpool FC
Everton FC
Chelsea FC
Everton FC
Manchester United FC
Everton FC
Manchester United FC
Arsenal FC
Dele Alli
Ross Barkley
Raheem Sterling
Adam Lallana
Jordan Henderson
James Milner
Fabian Delph
Alex OxladeChamberlain
Tottenham Hotspur FC
Everton FC
Manchester City FC
Liverpool FC
Liverpool FC
Liverpool FC
Manchester City FC
Arsenal FC
Jamie Vardy
Wayne Rooney
Harry Kane
Theo Walcott
Leicester City FC
Manchester United FC
Tottenham Hotspur FC
Arsenal FC
GROUP B
National
Anthem
Russia
Gosudarstvenny Gimn
Rossiyskoy Federatsii
Rossiya – svyashchennaya nasha derzhava,
Rossiya – lyubimaya nasha strana.
Moguchaya volya, velikaya slava –
Tvoyo dostoyanye na vse vremena!
Pripev:
Slav’sya, Otechestvo nashe svobodnoye,
Bratskih narodov soyuz vekovoy,
Predkami dannaya mudrost’ narodnaya!
Slav’sya, strana! My gordimsya toboy!
Ot yuzhnyh morey do polyarnogo kraya
Raskinulis’ nashi lesa i polya.
Odna ty na svete! Odna ty takaya –
Khranimaya Bogom rodnaya zemlya!
Pripev
Shiroky prostor dlya mechty i dlya zhizni.
Gryadushchiye nam otkryvayut goda.
Nam silu dayot nasha vernost’ Otchizne.
Tak bylo, tak yest’ i tak budet vsegda!
Pripev
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Moscow
143,975,923
Russian Ruble
17,098,242km2
Mount Elbrus (5,642 metres)
River Volga (3,692km)
Did you
know?
Russia has a wide range
of natural resources
and is one of the world’s
largest producers of oil.
The world’s
first satellite, named
Sputnik, was launched
by the Soviet Union in
1957.
Russia is located
across 11 time
zones.
The Soviet Union
(USSR) was a socialist state
that occupied much of northern
Asia and eastern Europe from
1922 until it was dissolved in
1991. Former Soviet states include
Lithuania, Georgia, Latvia, Ukraine,
Kazakhstan and others.
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Russia – our sacred homeland,
Russia – our beloved country.
A mighty will, a great glory –
These are your heritage for all time!
Chorus:
Be glorious, our free Fatherland,
Age-old union of fraternal peoples,
Ancestor-given wisdom of the people!
Be glorious, our country! We are proud of
you!
From the southern seas to the polar lands
Spread are our forests and fields.
You are unique in the world, one of a kind –
This native land protected by God!
Chorus
Wide spaces for dreams and for living
Are opened for us by the coming years
Our loyalty to the Fatherland gives us
strength.
So it was, so it is, and so it always will be!
Chorus
Russian
football
team facts
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Russian
football
crest
Russian
football
jersey
Sbornaya
Roman Shirokov
Lev Yashin
Russians drive
Leonid Slutsky
on the right
No Permanent Stadium hand side of
the road.
Adidas
Sergei Ignashevich (115)
Aleksandr Kerzhakov (30)
Champions (1960)
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v Mexico (Won 2-0, 16/08/1992)
v Liechtenstein (Won 7-0, 08/09/2015)
v Yugoslavia (Won 2-1, 10/07/1960)
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GROUP B
CURRENT SQUAD
Igor Akinfeev
Yuri Lodigin
Artyom Rebrov
CSKA Moscow
Zenit Saint Petersburg
Spartak Moscow
Sergei Ignashevich
Yuri Zhirkov
Aleksei Berezutski
Dmitri Kombarov
Roman Shishkin
Georgi Shchennikov
Oleg Kuzmin
Ivan Novoseltsev
Andrei Semyonov
CSKA Moscow
Zenit Saint Petersburg
CSKA Moscow
Spartak Moscow
Lokomotiv Moscow
CSKA Moscow
Rubin Kazan
FC Rostov
FC Terek Grozny
Igor Denisov
Roman Shirokov
Alan Dzagoev
Denis Glushakov
Aleksandr Samedov
Aleksei Ionov
Denis Cheryshev
Pavel Mamayev
Dynamo Moscow
CSKA Moscow
CSKA Moscow
Spartak Moscow
Lokomotiv Moscow
Dynamo Moscow
Valencia CF
FC Krasnodar
Aleksandr Kerzhakov FC Zürich
Artyom Dzyuba
Zenit Saint Petersburg
Fyodor Smolov
Krasnodar
GROUP B
Slovakia
National
Anthem
Nad Tatrou sa blýska
Nad Tatrou sa blýska
Hromy divo bijú
Zastavme ich, bratia
Veď sa ony stratia
Slováci ožijú
To Slovensko naše
Posiaľ tvrdo spalo
Ale blesky hromu
Vzbudzujú ho k tomu
Aby sa prebralo
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Bratislava
5,415,949
Euro
49,035km2
Mount Gerlachovsky (2,655 metres)
Vah River (403km)
Did you
know?
Traditional
meals include potato
dumplings with sheep’s
cheese and cabbage soup
with sausages.
Štefan Banič
(1870-1941)
invented the first
actively used
parachute, patenting
it in 1913.
There is lightning over the Tatras
Thunders loudly sound
Let us stop them, brothers
After all they will disappear
The Slovaks will revive
That Slovakia of ours
Had been sleeping by now
But the thunder’s lightnings
Are rousing the land
to wake it up
The oldest artefact found in
Slovakia is the Moravian Venus, a
7.6cm high statue of a woman cut
from a mammoth tusk, dating to
22,800BC.
The capital of
Slovakia, Bratislava, lies on
the borders with Austria and
Hungary. That makes the city
the only one capital in the world
that borders two independent
countries.
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The oldest maratho
n
in Europe is held
every year in Koš
ice
on the first Sunday
in October.
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football
team facts
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Slovakian
football
crest
Slovakian
football
jersey
Národná reprezentácia
Martin Skrtel
Ľubomír Moravčík
Ján Kozák
Štadión pod Dubňom (11,313)
PUMA
Miroslav Karhan (107 caps)
Róbert Vittek (23 goals)
Debut at Euro 2016
32
v Germany (Won 2-0, 27/08/1939)
v San Marino (Won 7-0, 06/06/2009)
v Italy (Won 3-2, 24/06/2010)
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GROUP B
CURRENT SQUAD
Ján Mucha
Matúš Kozáčik
Ján Novota
Slovan Bratislava
Viktoria Plzeň
Rapid Wien
Martin Škrtel
Ján Ďurica
Tomáš Hubočan
Kornel Saláta
Dušan Švento
Norbert Gyömbér
Lukáš Tesák
Liverpool
Lokomotiv Moscow
Dynamo Moscow
Slovan Bratislava
1. FC Köln
Roma
FC Kairat
Marek Hamšík
Stanislav Šesták
Vladimír Weiss
Juraj Kucka
Viktor Pečovský
Róbert Mak
Ondrej Duda
Patrik Hrošovský
Erik Sabo
Napoli
Ferencváros
Al-Gharafa SC
A.C. Milan
Žilina
PAOK
Legia Warsaw
Viktoria Plzeň
PAOK
Róbert Vittek
Martin Jakubko
Michal Ďuriš
Adam Nemec
Slovan Bratislava
Ružomberok
Viktoria Plzeň
Willem II
GROUP B
Wales
National
Anthem
Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau
Mae hen wlad fy nhadau yn annwyl i mi,
Gwlad beirdd a chantorion, enwogion o fri;
Ei gwrol ryfelwyr, gwladgarwyr tra mad,
Dros ryddid collasant eu gwaed.
(Chorus)
Gwlad, gwlad, pleidiol wyf i’m gwlad.
Tra môr yn fur i’r bur hoff bau,
O bydded i’r hen iaith barhau.
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Cardiff
3,063,456
British Pound Sterling
20,779km2
Mount Snowdon (1,085 metres)
River Towy (120km)
Did you
know?
The village of
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrn
-drobwllllantysiliogogogoch (translated in
English as ‘St. Mary’s Church in the hollow
of the white hazel near a rapid whirlpool and
the church of St. Tysilio of the red cave’) is
famous for having the longest place
name in Europe (58 letters).
The land of my fathers is dear to me,
Country of poets and singers,
celebrities indeed:
Its warring defenders, so gallant and
brave,
For freedom their life’s blood they gave
Cardiff’s
Millennium Stadium
has the largest
retractable roof of
any sports stadium
in the world.
The monastery of
Bangor-on-Dee,
near Wrexham, is the
oldest in Britain. It
was founded
in 560.
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Land!, Land!, Pledge-ful I am to my
country!
While seas secure
This land so pure,
O may our old language endure.
The country of
Wales is said to
contain more
castles per square
mile than any othe
r
country in the wor
ld.
Welsh
football
team facts
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Welsh
football
crest
GROUP B
CURRENT SQUAD
Wayne Hennessey Crystal Palace FC
Owain Fôn Williams Inverness Caledonian Thistle FC
Danny Ward
Liverpool FC
Welsh
football
jersey
Y Dreigiau (The Dragons)
Ashley Williams
Ryan Giggs (right)
Chris Coleman
Millennium Stadium (74,500)
Adidas
Neville Southall (92 caps)
Ian Rush (28 goals)
Debut in Euro 2016
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v Scotland (Lost 0-4, 26/03/1876)
v Ireland (Won 11-0, 03/03/1888)
v Hungary (Won 2-1, 17/06/1958)
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Chris Gunter
Ashley Williams
James Collins
Neil Taylor
Ben Davies
James Chester
Paul Dummett
Adam Henley
Reading FC
Swansea City FC
West Ham United FC
Swansea City FC
Tottenham Hotspur FC
West Bromwich Albion FC
Newcastle United FC
Blackburn Rovers FC
Joe Ledley
David Vaughan
Andy King
David Edwards
Joe Allen
Jonathan Williams
Emyr Huws
Aaron Ramsey
Crystal Palace FC
Nottingham Forest FC
Leicester City FC
Wolverhampton Wanderers FC
Liverpool FC
Milton Keynes Dons FC
Huddersfield Town FC
Arsenal FC
Simon Church
George Williams
Tom Lawrence
Gareth Bale
Aberdeen FC
Gillingham FC
Cardiff City FC
Real Madrid CF