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Web Sites

• http://www.fifa.com/   (Search the FIFA Web site for World Cup updates in English; includes news articles from major news sources, such as Reuters.)

• http://www.soccerby.com/   (General, World-Wide Soccer News; in Russian, Windows 1251 encoding)
  Section about Soccer in Belarus: http://www.soccerby.com/country/belarus/index.htm

• http://www.belarusfootball.com/   (Belarusian Football Web site on Network Systems; in Russian, Windows 1251 encoding)

• The Belarusian Rating Web site lists 16 Web sites (all in Russian) about Belarusian football (soccer):
  http://br.by/catalog.cgi?00133

Other Sources

• See information about the book: A Statistical History of Football [soccer] in Belarus: 1922-1999.

Usenet Newsgroups

• alt.sports.soccer.european
  
• alt.sports.soccer.european.uk
  
• rec.sport.soccer
  • RSSSF (Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation) Archive of Football Results   (Austria)   Web site maintained by Karel Stokkermans, RISC-Linz, Schloss Hagenberg, Austria, Europa

Sports Publications

• Pressbol
  • Issued four times per week. No presence on Internet as yet.

  • E-Mail: PRESSBAL@NSYS.Minsk.BY

  
  

• Sportivnaya Panorama

  
  

• Vsye o Futbole   (Everything about Football)
  • First issue, published by the Belarusian Football Federation (BFF) in July, 1999. The BFF was one of the founders of the newspaper Futbol Belarusi (published from 1992 to 1995).
  • Editor-in-Chief: Yevgeny Vesnin
  • BFF President: Grigory Fyodorov   (also heads the State Committee on Aviation)

  
  

• Fotbol Belarusi   (Defunct)
  Had been published in Miensk, Belarus', 1992 to 1995; in Russian; weekly. The newspaper closed because of financial problems.

Some Belarusian Teams

Dinamo Mensk	Dnepr Mogilyov
MPKC Mozyr'	Dinamo Brest
Belshina Bobruisk	Neman Hrodna
Ataka Aura Mensk	Torpedo Mensk
Lokomotiv 96 Viciebsk	Shakhtyor Soligorsk
Dinamo 93 Mensk	Obuvshchik Lida
Naftan-Devon Novopolatsk	Torpedo Mogilyov
Molodechno	Vedrich Rechitsa

Some Belarusian Players

Vladimir Makovsky
Radislav Orlovsky

Belarus win tournament, Russia finish last   Tuesday May 21, 2002 12:50 p.m. ET

MOSCOW, May 19 (Reuters) - Belarus claimed a shock 2-0 upset victory over Ukraine in the final of a four-team international tournament on Sunday to win the $60,000 first prize. . . .

Follow this link for the   Current Ranking for World Cup, FIFA Web site

The following information is from:

Yahoo European (Uefa) World Cup Qualifying Standings (April 3, 1997)

GROUP 4
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                    W   L   T   GF  GA    PTS
                    -   -   -   --  --    ---
Scotland            4   0   2    7   0    14
Austria             2   1   1    3   3     7
Sweden              2   2   0    7   4     6
Estonia             1   2   1    1   3     4
Belarus             1   2   1    3   7     4
Latvia              0   3   1    3   7     1

Group 4 Results
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Sweden 5, Belarus 1
Austria 0, Scotland 0
Belarus 1, Estonia 0
Sweden 2, Latvia 1
Estonia 1, Belarus 0
Scotland 2, Latvia 0
Austria 1, Sweden 0
Belarus 1, Latvia 1
Austria 2, Latvia 1
Scotland 1, Sweden 0
Estonia 0, Scotland 0
Scotland 2, Estonia 0
Scotland 2, Austria 0


Group 4 Schedule
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April 30, 1997
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Austria vs. Estonia
Sweden vs. Scotland
Latvia vs. Belarus

May 18, 1997
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Estonia vs. Latvia

June 8, 1997
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Estonia vs. Sweden
Latvia vs. Austria
Belarus vs. Scotland

August 20, 1997
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Estonia vs. Austria
Belarus vs. Sweden

September 6, 1997
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Austria vs. Sweden
Scotland vs. Belarus
Latvia vs. Estonia

September 10, 1997
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Sweden vs. Latvia
Belarus vs. Austria

October 11, 1997
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Austria vs. Belarus
Scotland vs. Latvia
Sweden vs. Estonia


NOTE: The nine group winners and the best runner-up will qualify
for the 1998 World Cup in France.  The eight other group
runners-up will be drawn in four pairs and play qualifying home
and away matches.  The four winners will also qualify for the
World Cup.  As the host nation, France automatically qualifies
for the tournament.