Amputee Football Championships 2006, Volgograd, Russia
From
September 24 to 30, 2006, the
Open European Amputee Football
Championships were held in the
Loginov Stadium in the city of
Volzhskiy near Volgograd,
Russia.
Teams of the following
countries took part: Iran, Russia,
Great Britain, Moldova (Group
A) and Turkey, Sierra Leone, Uzbekistan
and Ukraine (Group B) with the amputee football team
of Russia winning the final match
against Great Britain and becoming the
new European Amputee Football Champion.
For detailed results and 150 action
photos taken during the competition
- please visit the web site of
the local sports committee, which
is being maintained by Sergei
Kobylyanskii.
Use the links provided to find out more about Amputee Football,
or Amputee Soccer, as it is being
called in the U.S., and get into
soccer mood by watching a movie
(playable on iPods), which was
created for the NIKE Ginga football
homepage and also shows Brazilian
Amputee Football player Wescley
in action.
Click the image to start the video (40 MB, QUICKTIME or ITUNES needed)
For some photographs taken during the Opening of the 2003 Amputee Football season in Derby, UK - please visit our TALBRONSTEIN.NET Photo Site. Click here:
AMPUTEE FOOTBALL DERBY 2003 SET 1
AMPUTEE FOOTBALL DERBY 2003 SET 2
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