Lincoln captain Roy Chipolina last night said he and his team were relishing the “surreal” prospect of facing Scottish champions Celtic on home ground at the Victoria Stadium this evening. Chipolina remained optimistic yet realistic about his club’s prospects, even as he described the challenges of combining fulltime employment and European-level football. “Football miracles happen”
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The Gibraltar Sports and Leisure Authority launched this year’s Summer Sports and Leisure Programme with a particular focus on table tennis ahead of the 2019 Island Games. The programme aims to be bigger than ever with over a thousand children estimated to participate in over 30 different activities. The programme was launched by GSLA Chief
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The Gibraltar FA is “pushing very hard” for a special exemption that will allow it to play World Cup qualifiers in the Victoria Stadium. A delegation from UEFA was in Gibraltar this week visiting local facilities, the first step in the process. When Gibraltar was admitted into FIFA last month, UEFA was tasked to define
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Leon de Roeck, Gibraltar’s young power lifter, has again smashed a number of world records in his first European Powerlifting Championships. Organised under the guidelines of the World Powerlifting Congress, Leon weighing in at 110.2kg Leon was entered in the T2 – 16-17 years -125kg class. With six world records under his belt he now
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The FIFA flag was hoisted over the Victoria Stadium for the first time during the youth league award presentation yesterday. The flag was paraded along with the UEFA and Gibraltar flags on the pitch as youth players lined up across Victoria Stadium in celebration of the end of season. Pic: S.I.
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220 Gibraltar school children participated in the 2016 Strait Games which were held on Saturday in San Roque. Over 1,200 children participated in the many sporting events with children from: La Linea, Algecrias, Tarifa, Los Barrios and Ceuta. Gibraltar took part in Athletics, Basketball, Swimming, 5 a side football, 7 a side football, Beach Volleyball,
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