Group 1
(1) Kericia Seagulls
(4) Sinn's Fenian Warriors
(4) Hockeynutville Nutters
(5) Omnivorous
(4) Algal States Epiphytes

Group 2
(1) Ninja Pirates
(2) Ninja-Monkeys
(3) Gluuland
(1) Boreal Tundra
(1) Durass Lancers

Group 3
(4) Ponung Büsskür B.K.
(2) New Dracora Dragons
(2) Pt Chattanooga FC
(3) NoFunNinjas
(5) canada6 Maple Jays

Schedule:
DAY 1: team #2 vs. team #5, 3 vs. 4, (team #1 gets bye)
DAY 2: 1 vs. 3, 4 vs. 5, 2-bye
DAY 3: 1 vs. 2, 3 vs. 5, 4-bye
DAY 4: 1 vs. 5, 2 vs. 4, 3-bye
DAY 5: 1 vs. 4, 2 vs. 3, 5-bye
DAYS 6-10: same as first five

Top 2 from each group qualify, plus next 2 for a single elimination tournament.

Ponung Büsskür B.K.
Some team info:
Stadium;
Gustaf Heinzemann Von Fritzenbaumer Arena
capacity; 45 000 total, 20000 standing


A football-only arena that sports a pub, two restaurants, a souvenir shop. It is notorious for its many fast food stands that sell beer, and lots of different sausages; bierwurst, bratwurst, hotdogs, chorizos... The best atmosphere can be found among the home supporters in the west stand, some say there's nothing like beans and a bratwurst in the west stand, in the midst of singing Büsskür supporters.

Bigger games can be played at the Alfonian National arena, an 80 000-capacity all-seater.

Coach:

Count Hans Johann Hünkelflieger

A 53-year old midfield legend turned coach heads the team. In his sparetime he collects zeppelins and also pilots them. He sports a large moustasche and often appears in the media dressed in a leather jacket and a pilot's scarf.

The lineup; age after name.

Goalkeepers:
1. Dan Lind, 24
31. Dan Gunnarson, 16

Defenders:
19. Rune Mossberg, 22
4. Egil Österlund, 21
5. Joakim Bengtsson, 23
28. Esiquio Morales, 24
22. Mikael Ekegren, 17

Midfielders:
27. Eduardo Bara, 24
3. Rikard Hamberg, 23
20. Aleksander Lund, 17
32. Gunnar Olsman, 16
11. Bertil Magnusson, 24

Strikers:
2. Douglas Vesterberg, 23
29. Mikael Berglund, 28 (team captain)
24. Kenneth Berg, 20
25. Håkan Åström, 20

A very young team, PB B.K's future looks bright. The team utilizes a 4-3-3 formation, with much of the play built on the strong defenders Egil Österlund and Esiquio Morales, and the excellent scoring ability of Mikael Berglund. Aleksander Lund, at a mere 17 years of age, is already a star in his own right, and works very well as an offensive midfielder, along with the excellent passer and defensive midfielder Eduardo Bara.

A team of the people and the nobility, Ponung Büsskür is the pride of the alfonian capital, Kung-Pung, and rumours say many games are visited by a disguised crown prince Alf III of Alfonia.

more info about individuals etc. to come...

Canada6 :Canada:

Allright here we go.

The canada6 Maple Jays would like to announce that the General Manager and President is none other than...

Ken Dryden.

His days of being the Canadian Minister of Social Development has let him down and he's willing to try a new sport other than hockey, hoping that it will give him a fresh new start in his career.

"I'm ready to go and eager to bring a positive never say die atitude to the tournament. The team better be prepared to roll up it's sleeves."

The Maple Jays' head coach is none other than Jose Mourinho. The greatest soccer coach on the planet.


"My team has top class players, top class fans, a top class president, a top class stadium and if you shant mind my saying so... a world class coach."

Well so much for modesty says this reporter. :o

The Maple Jays will be playing in their brand new state of the art soccer stadium that seats 65,000 fans.

Red Leaf Park.

A staff member from President and GM Ken Dryden's office has announced that the team's roster will be announced shortly.

algalstates :Canada:

Some team info-

Algal States Epiphytes

Head coach: Albert Theriault

Colours: brown and yellow

Stadium: The epiphytes play out of the old North Algal States national stadium, a 30 year old covered stadium that is supported by pylons on the edge of harvester harbour in the capital city of Letete. With seating for 30000 it was an engineering marvel in its day but has since fallen into disuse with just enough funding to keep it from falling into the harbour.The stadiums' one saving grace is that it was built to amplify any noise within its walls and as such can be a very hostile atmosphere for opposing teams. The team hopes that if it is successful in this tournament that the government will release the funds for the new 60000 seat stadium that has been in planning for 15 years.

The team: Coach Al, as his players know him, employs a 5-4-2 formation that depends heavily on defence. His defensive line has been called "a brick wall" by the national newspapers.
The midfield is average in depth but not too spectacular and the offence is dependant on the star power of the extremely capable Amirault twins.

Roster to be announced later.

Sinn Feins Ireland (Regional Reserve Chairman)
Team Info:

Sinn's Fenian Warriors play all their home games at Lansdowne Road Stadium in Dublin, despite the imminant upgrading and modernising the pitch will soon play host to. It holds several people :) Though statistics are at this time unforthcoming at best. Given the team's newly assembled nature, and a lack of knowledge about the game, numbers have been asigned in decending order.

The Team includes:
Manager: Sinn.
Coach: Leftie -former winger '76-'83

Goal Keepers:
Paddy O'Brian 1
Johnnie O'Toole 2

Defenders:
Simon Costello 3
Michael Browne 4
Sean O'Neill 5
Jim Morris 6
Chris Riley 7

Midfielders:
Seamus Callaghan 8
Sean Flaherty 9
Patrick Brownell 10
Gerrard Humphreys 11
David O'Connell 12

Strikers:
Ted Keilty 13
Andrew Ahern 14
Ray O'Connor 15
Connor Murphy 16

Matchday 1 SCORES:

Group 1:
Sinn's Fenian Warriors - 1
Algal States Epiphytes - 1

Hockeynutville Nutters - 1
Omnivorous - 1

Standings:


Group 2:
Ninja-Monkeys (Me)- 3
Durass Lancers - 0

Gluuland - 5
Boreal Tundra - 2

Standings:


Group 3:
New Dracora Dragons - 0
canada6 Maple Jays - 3

Pt Chattanooga FC - 0
NoFunNinjas - 4

Standings:


Ponung Büsskür had a press conferance after the game:
This week has been a hectic one for the players, that returned the day before yesterday from their traning camp in the alfonian Kungur mountains.

Inujury reports; number 11, midfielder Bertil Magnusson injured his knee as he fell down the stairs when leaving the hotel at which the team was staying during the training camp earlier this week. he is expected to be back soon, but he will miss PBBK's next game. He will be replaced by Muhammad ben Mustafa, a 17-year old from the junior team, in the next game - but as Bertil's place is usually among the substitutes, this will probably not have too much of an effect on play in general.

Count Hünkelflieger has appeared a lot in the media lately, and he says that the team is prepared and willing to pick apart any resistance they might face. "Pt Chattanooga FC took a hard beating in their last game, and we are no worse than NoFunNinjas..." he said, though after a bit of silence added " ...but there are no nonsense teams in this competition and no free points. You have to fight for them all. I know this, and I am confident the players are aware of this too... they are all very eager to get this competition started; and Chattanooga is about as good as opponents in starting games gets; being from abroad and all... it will be a fun game!"

The Fritzenbaumer arena or "Fritzbury" as it is called by most ordinary people, will be crowded; Birger Ågren comments; "Some 38 000 tickets have already been sold and we are expecting 2000 more from the handicapped children's association to attend, as the emperor have granted them free tickets... usually the crowd will double in size on the last day, and looking back, it is sad that it could not be arranged that we play this game at the national arena."


Commenting on safety, police commander Heinrich Fräsiin says:

"The last week the capital has been struck by football mania, and the athmospere is already electric; there will be a major explosion of feelings tomorrow, all we can hope for is that it stays as civil and peaceful as possible. The Imperial guard along with police reserves have been called in, and it has been reported that the imperial govt. is spending some 40 million AÜP's extra only on safety around this event. Various hooligan groups have threatened to resort to violence tomorrow, but apart from some car burning in the insignificant suburb of Citronstad, no big problems have surfaced yet. After all, the inhabitants of that suburb burn cars all the time..."

More Team stats and a report from TheSensitiveNewAge, known in Canada as SensitiveMadScientists:

Offcial Team Roster
HOCKEYNUTVILLE NUTTERS:


Coach and General Manager - Harry Nutz Sr.

Goaltenders:
#30 Mario Sanchez
#34 Brian Wells

Defenders:
#3 Jack Perry
#4 Rob Obermueller
#18 Denis Lachance
#20 Kevin Weston
#41 Justin Dirk

Midfielders:
#9 Gilbert Bouchard
#10 Bruce Williams
#12 Ivan Semenov
#16 Thomas Priest
#22 Darren Hull

Strikers:
#7 Brett Muller
#19 Derek King
#25 Jeff Taylor
#33 Victor Andreas

TSNA/SMS
In the capitol city of Tyrantbane, the crowd meet outside the Magnificant's Mansion to watch the game with their Sensitive New Age Dictator. The air was joyous and so peaceful that there have been no ninja-monkey attack reports for the following two days, in fact there are rumors that the normally irrate simians have neared televisions screens showing the game. As part of the jubilation, He Who Thinks of Smashing Titles has released minor political prisoners.