FAQ - Dmoz/Sports/Soccer

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Last-modified:2005-06-03 21:57:29
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Category:Sports/Soccer

Table of Contents

1  Submit Site
     1.1  Where should I submit my site?
2  Search Site
     2.1  How can I find the site I want?
3  Editor Guide
     3.1  Basic Rules
     3.2  A non-English is submitted to or found in Sports/Soccer.
     3.3  A soccer category exists outside the Sports/Soccer category (e.g. in Regional). What should I do?
     3.4  Note for Regional editors
     3.5  More Help for Newbies
4  General
     4.1  What is FIFA?
     4.2  What are UEFA, CONMEBOL, CONCACAF, CAF, AFC and OFC?
     4.3  How does the Olympic Football Tournament differ from the World Cup?
     4.4  What is the International Football Association Board? Isn't it FIFA who makes the rules?
     4.5  What are the UEFA Champions' League and the UEFA Cup?
     4.6  What is a linesman? What is a referee's assistant?

1   Submit Site
1.1   Q: Where should I submit my site?
A: 1) Is your site in English, or does it have an English version?
If both of the answers are no, then please follow the link for the appropriate language under the heading "This category in other languages".
2) Find the most appropriate category for your site. (You can also check here for description of the subcategories.)
by tschild at 2003-12-30 15:26:35
2   Search Site
2.1   Q: How can I find the site I want?
A: You can browse or search. Most of the subcategory names are self-explanatary. & if in doubt, please look at the FAQ of that category.
When searching, it is better not to restrict the search to Sports/Soccer only, because some soccer category exist outside Sports/Soccer and are only crosslinked back here.
by vplp at 1999-05-09 01:17:33
3   Editor Guide
3.1   Q: Basic Rules
A: 1) Do not use ALL CAPITAL LETTERS in your link title or description. The only exception is for acronyms (AIDS, USA, etc).
Right: Cool Site
Wrong: COOL SITE
2) Do not include the link title in the beginning of your link description.
Right: Cool Site - Contains links to other resources.
Wrong: Cool Site - Cool Site contains links to....
3) Do not put leading or trailing symbols on category names.
Right: Cool Sites
Wrong: -Cool Site-
4) Before you create a new category, check and see if an appropriate category already exists elsewhere in the Open Directory Project.
If one does, please add a crosslink to that category rather than create a redundant one.
5) Make sure you read the site description or FAQ if your category has one.
6) Spam will NOT be tolerated. Spam is defined (for the Open Directory Project) as submitting a link to a category in which it obviously does not belong.
Spammers who are editors will be warned on their first offense, and then will be asked to resign if they persist in spamming. Non-editors who spam risk being blocked from the directory.
7) Editors should not mark their own personal sites as "Cool." This is purely on the honor system, as another editor may find that your site deserves the rating and mark it as such. Cases of blatant abuse of editorship in order to promote one's own site will not be tolerated, however.
8) Questions have been raised regarding Mining Co sites. These sites are allowed to be listed seperately, so long as they follow the above guidelines.
by vplp at 1999-05-09 01:46:08
3.2   Q: A non-English is submitted to or found in Sports/Soccer.
A: Non-English sites are listed in the appropriate category under World/ (see the links "This category in other languages" on the category pages.)
by tschild at 2003-11-17 11:30:03
3.3   Q: A soccer category exists outside the Sports/Soccer category (e.g. in Regional). What should I do?
A: 1) Make a crosslink to that category from an appropriate category in Sports/Soccer.
2) Contact the editor of that category. Try to find out if it'd be better for that category to stay there or be moved under Sports/Soccer.
3) If that category has no editors, ask the upper level editors.
e.g. For Regional/Italy/Sport/Soccer, ask the editor of Regional/Italy/Sport/ or Regional/Italy/ and so on.
4) If you agree on letting the category stay out of Soccer, please stay in touch with those editors, to make sure you're notified when further subcategories are made, so that they can be better crosslinked from Sports/Soccer.
5) If you can't reach an agreement, take the matter to the forums.
by vplp at 1999-05-09 01:41:12
3.4   Q: Note for Regional editors
A: Please contact editors for National Teams, if you've made a category for a national team.
by vplp at 1999-05-09 02:41:14
3.5   Q: More Help for Newbies
A: 1) There's a link called Tools for Editors on the right hand side in your Editor main page. If you need to contact all the editors in a category, the Multiple Editor Feedback tool is very useful.
2. The metaeditors active in Sports/Soccer/ categories are lionheart, dannyboy, and wiggum.
by vplp at 1999-07-11 23:02:42
4   General
4.1   Q: What is FIFA?
A: FIFA (Fédération Internationale de Football Association) is the world governing body of football (soccer), and all forms of soccer, including futsal, women's football and youth football. The (men's) World Cup is its biggest event, both in terms of money and prestige.
by bluestar at 2005-06-03 21:57:29
4.2   Q: What are UEFA, CONMEBOL, CONCACAF, CAF, AFC and OFC?
A: UEFA is Union des Associations Européennes de Football, the football governing body in Europe. #Note:
(a) They are UEFA members: Israel, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Turkey. Cyprus (the Greek part) is also a member. And nations as small as Andorra, Liechtenstein, Faroe Islands, San Marino are members, but Monaco is just a football club in France, not a national team.
(b) England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland each has its own national team, but there is no FIFA-recognised Catalan or Basque national teams yet.
CONMEBOL is Confederación Sudamericana de Fútbol, the football governing body in South America. The full list of its members: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela.
CONCACAF is the Confederation of North, Central American & Caribbean Association Football. It holds the Gold Cup, something similar to a regional championship of the CONCACAF national teams. There is a Caribbean tournament which acts as qualifying tournament for the Gold Cup.
#Note. Costa Rica, Panama, Trinidad and Tobago, Suriname and Guyana belong to CONCACAF.
Besides them, there are the OFC (Oceania Football Confederation), the AFC (Asian Football Confederation) and the CAF (Confederation Africaine de Football).
#Note. Chinese Taipei, Hong Kong, Macau, Palestine, Guam , Syria, Jordan and Lebanon are all members of AFC.
The full list of OFC members: American Samoa, Australia, Cook Islands, Fiji, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Tahiti, Tonga, Vanuatu, Samoa.
by bluestar at 2005-06-03 21:55:51
4.3   Q: How does the Olympic Football Tournament differ from the World Cup?
A: In men's football, the Olympic Football Tournament is for under-23 national teams while the World Cup has no age limits. Therefore, the Olympic Football Tournament is seen as a junior tournanment only. In earlier times, the Olympic Football Tournament did not impose an age limit, but rather restricted the tournament to amateur players. As a result, socialist countries sent virtually their full-strength national sides and dominated Olympic football for some time.
In women's football, the Olympic football tournament and the World Cup are similar in prestige, because there is no age limit and the biggest teams, e.g. USA, take it seriously.
by vplp at 1999-07-12 01:47:27
4.4   Q: What is the International Football Association Board? Isn't it FIFA who makes the rules?
A: The International Football Association Board is officially the law-making body in football. It was established in Britain and is separate from FIFA. Its authority comes mainly from its long history, but increasingly it's FIFA whose calling the shots.
by vplp at 1999-07-12 02:05:25
4.5   Q: What are the UEFA Champions' League and the UEFA Cup?
A: These are international competitions organized by UEFA - please see Sports: Soccer: UEFA for details.
by stewart at 2000-09-03 00:57:08
4.6   Q: What is a linesman? What is a referee's assistant?
A: A linesman is the old way of saying a "referee's assistant". They are the 2 persons who run along the sidelines of a football pitch. They wave the flag when they see a foul.
The term "linesman" was replaced by "referee's assistant" in order to be politically correct.
by vplp at 1999-07-12 02:46:00

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