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A Numeracy and Literacy based workbook aimed at Upper KS2 Primary Level students.
THE EUROS The UEFA European Championships (The Euros) is the main football competition contested by national teams in Europe. It has been held every four years since 1960. The host(s) nations qualify automatically, whilst all other teams gain entry by qualifying from groups drawn before the tournament commences.
The 14 European Championships tournaments to date have been won by nine different national teams, with Germany and Spain winning three times each. France has won twice, whilst the Soviet Union, Italy, Netherlands, Denmark, Greece and Czechoslovakia have each won once.
The Henri Delaunay Trophy is awarded to the tournament winners. It is named in honour of Henri Delaunay, the first General Secretary of UEFA, who is credited with conceiving of the idea of a European championship competition. He died five years prior to the first tournament in 1960.
The most recent championship, co-hosted by Poland and Ukraine in 2012, was won by Spain, who beat Italy 4–0 at the final in Kiev. The next European Championship will be hosted in France.
Year Host Country Winner Runner-Up No. teams in tournament 1960 France Soviet Union Yugoslavia 4 1964 Spain Spain Soviet Union 4 1968 Italy Italy Yugoslavia 4 1972 Belgium West Germany Soviet Union 4 1976 Yugoslavia Czechoslovakia West Germany 4 1980 Italy West Germany Belgium 8 1984 France France Spain 8 1988 West Germany Netherlands Soviet Union 8 1992 Sweden Denmark Germany 8 1996 England Germany Czech Republic 16 2000 Belgium & France Italy 16 Netherlands 2004 Portugal Greece Portugal 16 2008 Austria & Spain Germany 16 Switzerland 2012 Poland & Spain Italy 16 Ukraine 2016 France ? ? 24
Did you know? The 1976 tournament was hosted by Yugoslavia and won by Czechoslavakia on penalties against West Germany. One fascinating historical note is that none of these three countries exist today.
Political changes in eastern Europe in the late 1980s and 1990s led to West Germany uniting with East Germany to create a single unified country called Germany. Yugoslavia was broken up into several smaller countries, including Slovenia, Serbia, Croatia and Bosnia & Herzegovina, whilst Czechoslovakia was divided into two countries: the Czech Republic and Slovakia. THE EUROS
1. How many different international teams have won the European Championships? ______
2. On how many occasions has the host nation won the tournament? ______
3. Which country was a beaten finalist on the most occasions? ______
4. List the countries that were formed after the breakup of Yugoslavia: ______
5. Why is the trophy named for Henri Delaunay? ______
6. On how many occasions have more than one country played host for a tournament? ______
7. Find words in the passage similar in meaning to:
a. Perished: ______b. intriguing: ______8. Write whether these words as used in the passage are nouns, verbs, adjectives or adverbs. They have all been underlined: a. historical: ______b. create: ______c. awarded: ______d. competition: ______d. automatically:______f. smaller: ______
9. Write down the first pronoun used in the passage: ______10. UEFA is an example of an acronym. Find and write out the meaning of these acronyms: UEFA FIFA NASA SCUBA LASER AWOL
11. Find and write out below two words from the passage which have six or more syllables: ______
IRISH TEAMS & THE EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS The Republic of Ireland have qualified for three European Championship tournaments (1988, 2012 and 2016.) The 1988 tournament was the first time the team had secured qualification for an international tournament. The team would proceed to qualify for the 1990 World Cup and 1994 World Cup, marking the most successful period in the history of the Republic of Ireland football team.
The 1988 tournament began for the Republic of Ireland team with a famous 1-0 victory over England in Gelsenkirchen, Germany. The goal was scored by Ray Houghton. The team then drew 1-1 with the Soviet Union in the next game, with Ronnie Whelan scoring a terrific goal, before narrowly losing out on a semi-final place after going down 1-0 to the Netherlands in the final group fixture. The tournament would eventually be won by the Netherlands, with the Soviet Union being the losing finalists.
The 2012 tournament was not as successful for the team. Drawn in a very difficult group, the team lost all three fixtures, losing 3-1 to Croatia in the opener (Sean St Ledger with the goal) before going down 4-0 to Spain (the eventual winners) and 2-0 to Italy (the losing finalists.)
An interesting fact from the two tournaments is that the Republic of Ireland’s group opponents have, on both occasions, included the eventual finalists. If that is to continue in 2016, it means that two teams from Italy, Sweden and Belgium will have to make it to the final!
Northern Ireland’s 2016 qualification represents the first time the team has reached the finals of a European Championship tournament, though they came agonizingly close to qualification for the 1984 tournament. In their qualifying group, they inflicted two 1-0 wins over West Germany and were only eliminated when the West German side scored with ten minutes to spare in their final group game against Albania.
Before qualification was secured for Euro 2016, arguably the greatest feat by a Northern Irish player in European Championship qualification history had been the record setting 13 goals scored by David Healy during the campaign for Euro 2008, which included two hat-tricks, one in a famous 3-2 victory over Spain.
Bingham and Charlton: Legendary Leaders Northern Ireland’s most famous manager was the legendary Billy Bingham, who served as manager for two spells, from 1967-1971 and then again from 1980-1993.
The first management spell was unremarkable, with the team failing to qualify for the 1970 World Cup. But in his second spell, Bingham would lead the team to qualification for both the 1982 and 1986 World Cups, the most successful phase in Northern Irish international football history. The only previous World Cup tournament that a Northern Irish side secured qualification for was the 1958 World Cup. Amongst the players representing the team in 1958 was Billy Bingham!
The Republic of Ireland manager during the 1988 European Championship tournament was Jack Charlton. A gifted footballer in his younger days, Charlton and his twin brother, Bobby, would win World Cup medals for the victorious England team in 1966.
Like Bingham, Charlton has become synonymous with the most successful period in the history of the Republic’s international football side, taking the team to three tournaments (1988 Euros, 1990 & 1994 World Cups) including famous victories over England and Italy, as well as a quarter-final appearance in the 1990 tournament after a nail-biting penalty shoot-out triumph over Romania. Martin and Michael: The O’Neills The two international football managers in Ireland today share a common past: both represented Northern Ireland as players, with distinguishing playing careers prior to taking up management.
Martin O’Neill had an illustrious club career with Nottingham Forest which included twice winning the European Cup (now called the Champions League.) He also played in the 1982 World Cup with Northern Ireland, winning 64 caps in total and scoring 8 international goals during his career. He moved into club management, serving as the boss of many prominent clubs including Norwich, Leicester City, Aston Villa, Sunderland and Celtic, whom he took to the final of the 2003 Europa Cup, where they agonisingly lost to a Porto side managed by Jose Mourinho.
Michael O’Neill was capped 31 times as a player for Northern Ireland, scoring 4 international goals during his career. He played for numerous clubs, including Newcastle United, Dundee United, Hibernian and Aberdeen, before eventually moving into football management. As manager of Shamrock Rovers, he won back-to-back titles in 2010 and 2011 before leading the team to the unprecedented accomplishment of becoming the first Irish club team to secure a place in the group stages of a modern European competition.
1. How many years is it since the Republic of Ireland first qualified for a European Championship tournament? ______
2. Who scored the Irish goal in the drawn encounter with the Soviet Union in 1988? ______
3. Which team lost in the final of the 2012 Euros? ______
4. What notable achievement did David Healy secure in the 2008 qualification campaign? ______True or False: 5. Northern Ireland beat East Germany twice in the 1984 qualification group: ______6. Martin O’Neill played in a World Cup finals tournament as a player: ______7. Michael O’Neill scored 31 goals during his international career: ______8. Both Jack Charlton and Billy Bingham played and managed in World Cup tournaments: ______
9. What common experience do Martin O’Neill and Michael O’Neill share? ______10. What two-word phrase was used to describe the excitement which surrounded the Republic of Ireland’s penalty shoot out victory in 1990? ______11. Underline the odd word out on each line: illustrious unremarkable distinguished accomplishment feat failing straightforward challenging difficult Ray Houghton scores the first Irish goal at a Euro Championships in 1988 2016: THE STORY OF QUALIFICATION
Qualification was guaranteed for teams finishing 1st or 2nd in their groups. As Northern Ireland topped their group, they qualified automatically. The 3rd placed teams entered a playoff round involving home and away games with one other team. This was how the Republic of Ireland qualified after winning their playoff with Bosnia 3-1 on aggregate.
GROUP D GROUP F Team W D L GF GA Points Team W D L GF GA Points Germany 7 1 2 24 9 22 Northern 6 3 1 16 8 21 Poland 6 3 1 33 10 21 Ireland Rep. of 5 3 2 19 7 18 Romania 5 5 0 11 2 20 Ireland Hungary 4 4 2 11 9 16 Scotland 4 3 3 22 12 15 Finland 3 3 4 9 10 12 Georgia 3 0 7 10 16 9 Faroe Islands 2 0 8 6 17 6 Gibraltar 0 0 10 2 56 0 Greece 1 3 6 7 14 6
NORTHERN IRELAND CAMPAIGN: MATCH-BY-MATCH Date Venue Score 7/9/14 Budapest Hungary 1-2 N Ireland (McGinn, Lafferty) 11/10/14 Belfast N Ireland 2-0 Faroe Islands (McAuley, Lafferty) 14/10/14 Piraeus Greece 0-2 N Ireland (Ward, Lafferty) 14/11/14 Bucharest Romania 2-0 N Ireland 29/3/15 Belfast N Ireland 2-1 Finland (Lafferty 2) 13/6/15 Belfast N Ireland 0-0 Romania 4/9/15 Torshavn Faroe Islands 1-3 N Ireland (McAuley 2, Lafferty) 7/9/15 Belfast N Ireland 1-1 Hungary (Lafferty) 8/10/15 Belfast N Ireland 3-1 Greece (Davis 2, Magennis) 11/10/15 Helsinki Finland 1-1 Ireland (Cathcart)
Kyle Lafferty’s 7 goals were the most by any player in the group and second most by any Northern Irish player during a tournament qualifying campaign.
REPUBLIC OF IRELAND CAMPAIGN: MATCH-BY-MATCH Date Venue Score 7/9/14 Tbiliski Georgia 1-2 Rep Ireland (McGeady 2) 11/10/14 Dublin Rep Ireland 7-0 Gibraltar (Keane 3, McClean 2, Hoolahan, Perez og) 14/10/14 Gelsenkirchen Germany 1-1 Rep Ireland (O’Shea) 14/11/14 Glasgow Scotland 1-0 Rep Ireland 29/3/15 Dublin Rep Ireland 1-1 Poland (Long) 13/6/15 Dublin Rep Ireland 1-1 Scotland (Walters) 4/9/15 Faro Gibraltar 0-4 Rep Ireland (Keane 2, Christie, Long) 7/9/15 Dublin Rep Ireland 1-0 Georgia (Walters) 8/10/15 Dublin Rep Ireland 1-0 Germany (Long) 11/10/15 Warsaw Poland 2-1 Rep Ireland (Walters)
13/11/15 Zenica Bosnia 1-1 Rep Ireland (Brady) 16/11/15 Dublin Rep Ireland 2-0 Bosnia (Walters 2)
The 9 different goalscorers for the Republic of Ireland was the most during a qualifying campaign for an Irish team since 11 players found the net in the 1984 Euro Championship qualifiers.
2016: THE STORY OF QUALIFICATION All questions relate to the teams competing in Group D and Group F (included at the top of the page opposite.)
1. Which was the only team to complete the qualification phase undefeated? ______
2. Which team scored the highest number of goals? ______
3. Which team conceded the fewest number of goals? ______
4. List the teams that did not draw any games during qualification: ______
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Goal difference is calculated by subtracting the goals allowed (GA) from the goals scored (GF) for any team.
5. Which team had the best goal difference? Write out the team’s goal difference alongside the name: ______
6. Which team had the worst goal difference? Write out the team’s goal difference alongside the name: ______
7. Work out the goal difference for each team below, using the table:
Northern Ireland: ______Scotland: ______
Georgia: ______Gibraltar: ______
Finland: ______Greece: ______
8. The figures in the GF and GA column do not include the results from the play-off games. Work out the goal difference for the Republic of Ireland after you have added the goals from their playoff fixtures with Bosnia and write the answer: ______
9. Using the internet, find out the information required to complete the table below: N.B. The population is the number of people living in a place (eg town, city or country.) Country Population Country Population
Germany Faroe Islands
Gibraltar Greece
10. Why do you think the population can help to explain why an international team performs either very well or poorly in football games? ______
11. During qualification, the Faroe Islands won two games, both against Greece. Why were these results considered to be major upsets?
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TASK: Complete the Qualification Group table from the list of results below. A win is worth three points and a draw one point. No points are awarded for a loss. In the event of two teams ending up with the same number of points, the team with a better goal difference (ie difference between goals scored and goals conceded) gets the higher place.
FINAL GROUP TABLE Position Team W D L GF GA Points
1st
2nd
3rd
4th
5th
6th
GROUP MATCHES: RESULTS
Game Result Game Result 1 N Ireland 4-1 Liechtenstein 16 Rep Ireland 1-0 Portugal 2 Latvia 0-3 Rep Ireland 17 Portugal 3-2 Latvia 3 Liechtenstein 0-4 Austria 18 Liechtenstein 0-0 Rep Ireland 4 N Ireland 1-2 Portugal 19 N Ireland 1-2 Latvia 5 Latvia 1-3 Portugal 20 Rep Ireland 1-3 Austria 6 Austria 1-2 N Ireland 21 Liechtenstein 0-7 Portugal 7 Rep Ireland 4-0 Liechtenstein 22 Latvia 3-2 Austria 8 Portugal 1-0 Austria 23 Portugal 1-1 N Ireland 9 Liechtenstein 0-1 Latvia 24 Austria 3-1 Rep Ireland 10 N Ireland 0-4 Rep Ireland 25 Latvia 1-0 Liechtenstein 11 Portugal 8-0 Liechtenstein 26 Austria 1-1 Portugal 12 Rep Ireland 1-1 N Ireland 27 Rep Ireland 2-1 Latvia 13 Austria 5-0 Latvia 28 Liechtenstein 0-4 N Ireland 14 Latvia 0-1 N Ireland 29 Portugal 3-0 Rep Ireland 15 Austria 7-0 Liechtenstein 30 N Ireland 5-3 Austria
THE PENALTY KICK
The Irish Football Association was the fourth national association to be established, after those in England, Scotland and Wales. Whilst there have been many talented players of the beautiful game to emerge from this island, one of the greatest gifts given to the game from the Emerald Isle was the invention of the penalty kick.
The passage below is taken from the ‘Home of the Penalty Kick’ website, and tells the life story of William McCrum, the Irish inventor of the penalty kick.
(Courtesy of http://www.homeofpenaltykick.com/index.php/news)
In 1932 an obituary appeared in an Armagh newspaper reflecting on the life of a highly respected local citizen and businessman. In it, a certain William McCrum of Milford was lauded as a brilliant scholar, storyteller and outstanding sportsman. Nothing unusual about that if it had not contained a reference to the fact that the deceased had been the inspiration behind one of the most momentous changes to the laws of football.
It was William McCrum who, in 1890, submitted a proposal for “a penalty kick” to the Irish Football Association. Twelve months later it was approved by the International Football Association Board and incorporated in the Laws of the Game.
McCrum came from a highly respected family. The only son of Robert Garmany McCrum, a linen baron who built Milford, he was a former pupil at The Royal School, Armagh and graduated from Trinity College, Dublin in 1886. Affectionately remembered in the village as ‘Master Willie,’ he was a sportsman of international recognition. He was instrumental in forming the Milford Cricket Club devoting much time and effort to coaching. Throughout his life he always maintained a keen interest in the Boy Scout Movement. He was also specifically interested in amateur dramatics and was the driving force behind The Milford Players. When the R.G. McCrum Institute – built by his father to service the recreational needs of the village – opened in 1914, he became actively involved in the running of it, encouraging all villagers to take part in some or other recreation. He was a brilliant raconteur and author of some very meritorious sketches. As one of the managing directors of his father’s linen manufacturing business, McCrum, Watson and Mercer, he represented the company’s interests in London for a number of years. He spent the best part of his life, however, in Milford.
The obituary on McCrum paints a picture of a person who was a gentleman from head to toe and who was obviously tired of seeing footballers resorting to all kinds of illegal methods. The trend became a thorn in his flesh as the years went by. In football, only the ball was intended to be kicked, not the player. Anyone who refused to respect this deserved to be threatened with a deterrent which would punish not only the offender but his whole team as well.
William McCrum was not a daydreaming zealot and advocator of old-fashioned ideals. He was a goalkeeper for Milford, a small village club that played in the Irish Championship’s first season in 1890-91. As a goalkeeper Mc Crum had every opportunity to witness the way in which the purity of sport was being corrupted by foul play. He had felt first-hand the effects of breaches of the rules and similar unsporting behaviour on the field.
The penalty kick, of course, is the kind of penalty that only a goalkeeper could have invented, a supreme moment of drama and self-sacrifice that places the goalkeeper, generally a bystander, at the centre of the stage. Yes, it stacks the odds against the goalie, but it does make him, heroically, even tragically the star of the show. McCrum’s love for the theatre and theatricals may have prompted him to come up with the idea. He also held an influential position in the Irish Football Association and had a flair for administration and politics, without which his revolutionary idea would hardly have been implemented.
FAMOUS PENALTIES
O’Leary sends the Republic of Ireland to Panenka wins the 1976 Euro Final for the World Cup quarter-finals Czechoslovakia against West Germany An otherwise forgettable 120 minutes of football Czechoslovakia upset the odds by defeating the between the Republic of Ireland and Romania highly-fancied West German team in a penalty ended with a moment of high drama, as David shoot-out after both sides had played out a 2-2 O’Leary stepped forward to kick the Irish team into draw, with the Germans scoring a last minute a World Cup quarter-final clash with hosts, Italy, in equaliser in normal time to send the game to extra the 1990 World Cup. The winning penalty was time. preceded by a wonderful save by Irish goalkeeper, The 1976 tournament was the last in which only Packie Bonner, which meant that O’Leary’s kick four teams competed at the tournament finals. All would prove decisive. four games in the 1976 tournament went to extra time, the only time that has happened in competition history.
1. Who invented the penalty kick? ______2. Use your dictionary to find and write the meaning of the following words: Obituary: ______Scholar: ______Raconteur: ______3. Which word in the first paragraph indicates that a person is dead? Underline the answer: a. citizen b. deceased c. inspiration d. lauded
4. Which word means “to prevent something by showing disapproval or creating consequences.” a. offender b. illegal c. baron d. deterrent
5. By what nickname was William McCrum known in his home village of Milford?
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6. What phrase of four or five words in the third paragraph tells the reader that William McCrum was known outside of Ireland for being very good at sports?
______
7. In which country was the 1990 World Cup played?
8. What phrase of two words informs the reader that West Germany were favourites to defeat Czechoslovakia in the 1976 final?
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9. Which 2 separate words tell the reader that the penalty scored by David O’Leary clinched victory? ______
Distance Between French Cities (in Kms)
Paris/ Lille Lens Lyon St- Nice Marseille Toulouse Bordeaux St-Denis Etienne
Paris/ St-Denis - 204 178 392 410 686 661 589 521 Lille 204 - 39 557 586 833 835 791 700 Lens 178 39 - 540 567 820 817 767 673 Lyon 392 557 540 - 50 298 278 360 436 St-Etienne 410 586 567 50 - 298 251 310 396 Nice 686 833 820 298 298 - 160 469 637 Marseille 661 835 817 278 251 160 - 319 506 Toulouse 589 791 767 360 310 469 319 - 212 Bordeaux 521 700 673 436 396 637 506 212 -
Travelling Around France
Complete the statements by underlining the appropriate answers, using the cities in the map and the 8-point compass directions:
Marseille 1. Which city is to the south-west of St Etienne? Toulouse Nice
North east 2. Which direction would you travel in to get to Nice from Toulouse? East West
North west 3. From Lyon, travel South east to get to Nice. South west
North west 3. South of Toulouse is the city of Bordeaux. East
Lens 4. The city of Lyon is to the north of St Denis. Marseille North east 5. From the city of Lille, first travel West to reach Paris and then South
Lyon.
south-east to arrive in Lens. Toulouse.
6. Work out the distance between:
Lille – Nice: ______St Etienne- Toulouse : ______Lens – Marseilles: ______
7. Switzerland play their first game in Lens. If the team is staying in a hotel in Paris, how far must
they travel to get to the stadium? ______
8. France’s first game is in Paris, but their second game is in Marseille. How far of a journey must
they endure to get to Marseille? ______
9. Vaclav is a Czech Republic fan from Prague. He wants to attend his country’s game against
Croatia in St Etienne. Should he fly into Paris or Lyon? Give a reason for your answer.
______10. Simon and Barry are Republic of Ireland fans. They’ve rented a car in Lyon and are travelling to Paris for the first game, then on to Bordeaux for the 2nd game and finally on to Lille for the last match. How far will they have driven in total by the time the 3 group games have ended?
______A. Complete sentences appropriately using correct verbs B. Write homophones for these words (Homophones are words that sound the same) 1. The player had ______three penalties already this season. (taken, took) side - ______sight - ______2. The defender ______when confronted by the flue - ______wood - ______wizardry of the Irish winger. (froze, frozen) 3. The match was cancelled after it was discovered that the wine - ______tyre -______pitch had ______. (froze, frozen) pear - ______great- ______4. The goalkeeper knew he was ______when the striker delicately chipped the ball beyond his bear - ______blue - ______outstretched hands. (beat, beaten)
C. Insert the correct Proper Adjectives D. Convert nouns to verbs
1. The legendary ______footballer, Michel fascination - ______Platini, holds the record for most goals scored (nine) at Euro Championship tournaments. determination - ______(France) 2. The ______striker, Fernando Torres, competition - ______scored the winning goal in the final of the 2008 Euro Championships. (Spain) dedication - ______3. Sixty-five different ______players have scored goals at Euro Championship tournaments hesitation - ______since 1960. (Germany) 4. The ______player, Marco van Basten, scored 5 goals for his country in the 1988 Euro expectation - ______Championships and would later manage his country to the 2008 tournament. (Netherlands) accomplishment- ______
Jamie Vardy recently broke a Premier League record by scoring in 11 consecutive games. But the record for most goals scored in consecutive games at the highest level of English football continues to belong to an Irishman, Jimmy Dunne.
The Dubliner set the record in the 1031/32 season, when he famously scored 18 goals in 12 successive games for
Sheffield United. In the previous season, Dunne was even more prolific, finding the back of the net 50 times, including 41 goals in the league.
He left Sheffield United to join Arsenal, winning a league medal with the north London side in 1933/34.
Jimmy Dunne is one of only a few Irishmen to have played for both Irish international sides, scoring 22 goals across both teams during his time representing the teams that would go on to be known today as the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.
His career in football management included two stints at Shamrock Rovers, as well as a spell as Bohemians manager. He died of a heart attack in 1949 at the tender young age of 44.
Write whether the words below as used in the passage are nouns, verbs, adjectives or adverbs: recently prolific few
consecutive management stints
belong famously season