RSSSF
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| Available in | English |
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| URL | www |
| Launched | January 1994, as Northern European Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation (NERSSSF) |
| Current status | Active |
The Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation (RSSSF) is an international organization dedicated to collecting statistics about association football.[1] The foundation aims to build an exhaustive archive of football-related information from around the world.
History[edit]
This enterprise, according to its founders, was created in January 1994[2] by three regulars of the Rec.Sport.Soccer (RSS) Usenet newsgroup: Lars Aarhus, Kent Hedlundh, and Karel Stokkermans. It was originally known as the "North European Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation", but the geographical reference was dropped as its membership from other regions grew.
Today[when?] the RSSSF has members and contributors from all around the world, and has spawned seven spin-off projects to more closely follow the leagues of that project's home country. The spin-off projects are dedicated to Albania, Brazil, Denmark, Norway, Poland (90minut.pl), Romania, Uruguay, Venezuela, and Egypt.
This enterprise was for many years closely tied with the newsgroup RSS, and it still maintains an archive (last updated 15 June 2003) of what some of its contributors consider to be the best posts of RSS.
Reception[edit]
RSSSF's database has been described as the "very best" for football data.[2][3]
Spin-off projects[edit]
90minut.pl (Poland)[edit]
The 90minut.pl is a Polish internet football portal, operating since 1 January 2003. The initiators of the creation of the website were Paweł Mogielnicki and Maciej Kusina, and other people associated with the website mogiel.net, which was established at the beginning of 1996.[4][5]
The site is an archive and database of teams, footballers, referees and Polish football competitions (from the Klasa C to the Ekstraklasa), as well as international and national teams. Contains the current results. It also offers a wide range of goalscorers in matches, but it differs from the official statistics kept by Ekstraklasa (e.g. in the match on 4 February 2022 Zagłębie Lubin v. Legia Warsaw, the portal recognizes Kacper Skibicki as the goal scorer at 0–2,[6] although officially it was an own goal by Bartosz Kopacz).[7]
References[edit]
- ^ "The Introduction Page of the RSSSF -- The Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation". RSSSF. Retrieved 19 March 2021.
- ^ a b Loek Groot (25 January 2008). Economics, Uncertainty and European Football: Trends in Competitive Balance. Edward Elgar Publishing. p. 5. ISBN 978-1-78100-823-2.
- ^ Richard Witzig (2006). The Global Art of Soccer. CusiBoy Publishing. p. 418. ISBN 978-0-9776688-0-9.
- ^ "Paweł Mogielnicki, twórca 90minut.pl: Nie wierzę w internetową resocjalizację. Próba wojenki kończy się półrocznym banem". naTemat.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 8 February 2022.
- ^ "90minut.pl". www.90minut.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 8 February 2022.
- ^ "Zagłębie Lubin 1-3 Legia Warszawa". www.90minut.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 8 February 2022.
- ^ "[SKRÓT] Zagłębie 1:3 Legia: Mistrz opuszcza strefę spadkową" (in Polish). Ekstraklasa. Retrieved 8 February 2022.
Bibliography[edit]
- Finkelstein, Daniel (15 November 2003). "Weighting in vain for Fifa's ranking aficionados". The Times (London). Retrieved 19 July 2008.
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