hey hvað er asnalegt við körfubolta, körfubolti er agaðasta og besta og vinsælasta íþrótt í heimi

hey hvað er asnalegt við körfubolta, körfubolti er agaðasta og besta og vinsælasta íþrótt í heimi

Legend says, “I'm doing it for the love of the game.”
Jordan All But Confirmes Comeback
CHICAGO, Sept. 10 (AP) – Michael Jordan all but confirmed Monday he would return to play in the NBA and said the world will know for sure within 10 days.


Jordan looks to be back in the NBA for his third tour.
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In a 30-minute conversation with The Associated Press, reporters for the Chicago Sun-Times and cnnsi.com, Jordan said the news conference to announce his decision would be held in Washington, D.C., by the middle of next week.

Asked whether he was definitely coming back, Jordan smiled slyly. A moment later, he looked up and said, “I'm doing it for the love of the game. Nothing else. For the love of the game.”

Jordan, who led the Chicago Bulls to six championships, has worked out all summer preparing for the expected comeback with the Washington Wizards. He is president of basketball operations for the team and a part owner, meaning he has to divest his ownership under NBA rules before returning to the court.

Jordan has tested himself and his game repeatedly in scrimmages against top-caliber NBA players, with league referees officiating. The only question remaining is whether the tendinitis in his right knee would limit his effectiveness.

Jordan, however, said the knee was sound. If it remains that way over the next few days, he said, “I'll be ready to go.”

Reached by The Washington Post later Monday for comment that he has all but decided to return, Jordan said, “I didn't say that. I have not said it.”

This would be the second comeback for the 38-year-old Jordan.

He stunned the basketball world by retiring in October 1993, saying he had nothing left to prove in basketball and wanted to give baseball a try. He played a season of Double-A ball for the Chicago White Sox team in Birmingham, Ala., but returned to the Bulls in March 1995.

In the half-hour conversation on a curb outside his restaurant, Jordan dropped the conditional tense for the first time since acknowledging in April that he was serious about coming back.

“I want to play for years,” he said.

But Jordan made clear he wasn't coming back to fulfill any expectations but his own. “Winning isn't always championships. What's wrong with helping kids find their way, teaching them the game?”

Ég þoldi Jordan aldrei en viðurkenndi það þó að hann var hreinasta undur á vellinum. Án efa einn af snillingum íþróttarinnar. Að hann ætli sér að koma aftur í boltann finnst mér frekar sorglegt hinsvegar þar sem marg oft í sögu NBA hafa stjörnur þrjóskast við að halda sér í þessu þangað til líkaminn þolir þetta ekki lengur, ellimerki fara að sjást, spilamennskan í lamasessi og stjarnan sem eitt sinn var björt deyr út.

Hvað er málið fólk er að rífast um hvor er vinsælli íþrótt fótbollti eða körfubollti!!!!!!!!!
Ég meina þessi spjallvefur á að vera um hinn merka og mikla “Jordan” og endur komu hans sem mér finnst bara helvíti sniðugt hjá honum því að hann er að fara að byrja með Washington Wizards sem að hann á hlut í sjálfur en leikmenn meiga ekki spila og eiga í sama liðinu í einu þannig að hann kemur aftur og selur í leiðinni þann hlut sem hann á í félaginu á uppsprengdu verði!!
Im a Jordan´s fan but this is just for tha $!

Hehe, Lakers eiga harma að hefna frá því fyrir tíu árum! :)

Þið hafið ekkert á bak við ykkur nema ykkar eigin skoðanir, hvernig væri að kynna sér málið aðeins fyrst. Hérna læt ég fylgja frétt sem ég sá á fifa.com . Í stuttu máli sendur þarna að 1 af hverjum 25 í heiminum spilar fótbolta reglulega og gerir það fótbolta að vinsælustu íþrótt heims. Einnig kemur þarna fram mjög athyglisverður punktur. Af öllum löndum í heiminum er langhæsti iðkendafjöldi í Bandaríkjunum. Í Bandaríkjunum spila 18 milljónir manns fótbolta og næst þar á eftir eru Indónesar með 10 milljónir.


A wide-scale survey launched by FIFA last summer indicates that over 240 million people regularly play football around the world, along with almost five million referees, assistant referees and officials who are also directly involved in the game.

Apart from the revelation that there are over 240 million active footballers - one in every twenty-five of the world's population - a fact which on its own corroborates football's position as the number one sport in the world - there are several other salient facts:


in the Americas and in Europe the proportion of people who participate in football is substantially higher than in other parts of the world where are still huge resources of potential players;

without counting children and the occasional player, the records reveal that the following countries have the highest proportion of participants in the game: USA (well nigh 18 million), Indonesia (10 million), PR China (7.2 million), Mexico (7.4 million), Brazil (7 million) and Germany (6.3 million).

there are over 20 million women footballers, 80% of whom are juniors or still in their teens, which demonstrates that the growing popularity for women's football is not only the prerogative of North America.

football is played worldwide by more than 1.5 million teams and in 300,000 clubs; the majority of people, however, play outside of the officially organised sphere.
In what is colloquially known as the BIG COUNT survey, FIFA enquired among all 204 member national associations and almost 80% of them, including all the major associations, responded.

The results were attained, consolidated and completed by scientific statistical methods. Evaluations and information gleaned from other inquiries were integrated into the survey-. The complete results, as well as an English version of the original survey can be downloaded on the FIFA website www.fifa.com.

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