The England women's football tournament has performed well at the Women's European Championship. After an 8-0 win over norway, the former world's top three. In the third round of the group stage, they defeated Northern Ireland, also from England, 5-0. The Northern Ireland women's football team played three battles in this battle, and missed the quarterfinals of the Women's Football European Championship in advance.
The women's team missed the quarter-finals of the European Championship, and the Northern Ireland men's football team also missed the World Cup ahead of schedule. But Northern Irish football has left us with many familiar stars. For example, Manchester United stars George Best and Carroll.
Leicester City club's current head coach, Rodgers, is also from Northern Ireland.
In addition to the Northern Ireland team, there is also the Irish national team in Europe. In fact, Northern Ireland and Ireland are on one island , the island of Ireland. But they belong to different football associations.
Football Sea Country Atlas, we walked into Northern Ireland together.
The island of Ireland, where Northern Ireland and Ireland are located, is located on the Atlantic Ocean in northwestern Europe, across the Irish Sea from the British isle of Britain to the east.
The island of Ireland covers an area of about 84,000 square kilometers, about the size of the mainland Chongqing Municipality, and is the third largest island in Europe after the British Isles (209,000) and Iceland (103,000).
The inhabitants of the island of Ireland are the Celts, one of the ancient peoples of Europe. The ancestors of the Celts were the land Celts who inhabited the Rhine Valley in present-day Germany and France. In the 5th century BC, some land Celts crossed the English Channel and settled on the islands of Britain and Ireland, becoming island Celts.
In the 1st century, the Roman Empire crossed the English Channel and occupied a large area of the south-central part of the British Isles, but it was never able to occupy the northern part of the British Isle and the whole island of Ireland. This part of the area became an area settled by the Celts. The Celts of the island of Ireland are Irish.
In the 5th century AD, Christianity came to the island of Ireland. The inhabitants of the island of Ireland were deeply influenced by Catholicism and became Catholics.
In 829 AD, a group of Germanic Anglo-Saxons came to settle in the east and south of the British Isles and established the Germanic state of England on the British Isles.
From the 12th century onwards, England began a military campaign to conquer Scotland and Ireland. At this time, the contradiction between England and Ireland was mainly a national contradiction.
What really separated the island of Ireland was the Reformation movement that began in the 16th century. The then King of England, Henry VIII, announced that the property of the Holy See would be returned to the King, and the Church of England and the Holy See of England would be separated. Protestantism replaced Catholicism as the state religion of England.
The island of Ireland remains committed to the Catholic faith. The intricacies of religious contradictions and the ethnic contradictions of aggression and counter-aggression intertwine on the island of Ireland.
In 1707, England and Scotland, the two countries of the Isle of Britain, formed the United Kingdom (Great Britain). The combined United Kingdom saw Ireland as a target for annexation. In 1800, The British forced Ireland to sign the Anglo-Irish Annexation Act, and Ireland became part of the United Kingdom (Great Britain and the United Kingdom of Ireland).
After the merger of Britain and Ireland, Britain occupied Catholic land economically through economic and political superiority, and politically discriminated against Catholics. The British continued to export Protestants to the northern part of the island of Ireland. In the first half of the 19th century, protestants outnumbered Catholics in northern Ireland.
Around 1845, there was a great famine on the island of Ireland. The famine killed or lost nearly 3 million people in Ireland. Instead of helping the Irish, the British demanded that Ireland export agricultural and livestock products to Britain, which was tantamount to looting. Turning natural disasters into man-made disasters.
Since then, Ireland has begun to rebel against the British. Northern Ireland has been followed by the constant influx of Protestants from England to encourage Catholics to convert to Protestantism, and Protestants have long since replaced Catholics as the majority of the population of Northern Ireland.
The southern economy of the island of Ireland was dominated by an agrarian economy until independence. Northern Ireland has long since completed the industrialization process. The Titanic, for example, was loaded and unloaded in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
As a result, Northern Ireland was less involved in Ireland's independence movement.
In 1916, taking advantage of the fact that the British were too busy with the First World War to take care of themselves, the Irish launched the Easter Uprising, officially sounding the anti-British horn.
In 1921, the United Kingdom, tormented by the First World War, had to recognize the independence of Ireland, established Ireland as a free state, and remained in the Commonwealth (in April 1949, Ireland officially broke away from the Commonwealth).
Although the 6 counties in the north are of the same origin as the Irish, because they have long joined the Protestant camp, they did not join Ireland in the end, but stayed in Britain. Since then, the name of the country in the United Kingdom has changed from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
Northern Ireland football – surviving hardship
Friends who are familiar with English football know that there is no unified British national team in the world. Because long before Ireland became independent, four regions of the United Kingdom – England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland – had their own FA.
However, when Ireland became independent in 1921, Ireland set up its own national team, the Irish National Team, and subsequently joined FIFA and UEFA.
Northern Ireland inherited the previous position of the British Irish Football Association. Compete in the World Cup and European Cup with a separate Northern Ireland football team.
To avoid confusion, the IFA is generally referred to as Northern Ireland and the FAI as the Republic of Ireland or Ireland.
At the pre-game national anthem ceremony, Scotland and Wales have their own national anthems. Among them, Scotland's national anthem is a song with strong anti-English overtones - "Scottish Flower". The national anthem played before the competition between Northern Ireland and England is the British national anthem, "God Bless the Queen". This means that if Northern Ireland and England play, only the national anthem will be played once.
That is to say, the Women's European Championship, England vs Northern Ireland, played a national anthem before the game.
The Northern Ireland women's football team is currently ranked 47th in the world, and the Chinese women's football team is currently ranked 16th. In the men's football rankings, Northern Ireland ranked 58th, 20 positions ahead of the Chinese team. It is the lowest of the four teams in the UK (5th in England, 19th in Wales and 45th in Scotland).
Prior to the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, the Northern Ireland men's football team had competed in three World Cup tournaments. The number of participations in The British team is less than england and Scotland, and more than Wales.
Wales can match Northern Ireland if wales continue to qualify for the 2026 WORLD Cup in the united States, Canada and Mexico, and Northern Ireland is absent.
Of the three World Cups northern Ireland has competed in, the best result was the 1958 World Cup in Sweden. Northern Ireland was at the same time as the former Federal Republic of Germany (Germany), Argentina and Czechoslovakia. They overtook Argentina and Czechoslovakia to advance to the knockout rounds. However, they lost 4-0 to France in the knockout rounds.
At the 1982 World Cup in Spain, Northern Ireland was grouped with Spain, Yugoslavia and Honduras. In the final round, Northern Ireland beat host country Spain 1-0 to advance to the second round with the first place in the group. In the second round of the group stage, Northern Ireland drew 2-2 with Austria and lost 1-4 to France, missing the semi-finals.
The 1986 World Cup in Mexico was northern Ireland's last World Cup to date. They were in the same group as Spain, Brazil and Algeria. This time, they drew 1 and lost 2 in the group stage.
Euro 2016 in France was the first and only time in the history of Northern Ireland that he reached the final round of the European Championship. This European Championship, Northern Ireland is in the same group as Poland, Germany and Ukraine. A 2-0 win over Ukraine in the group stage, two 0-1 losses to Poland and Germany advanced to the round of 16 (the first European Championship expansion of 24 teams).
In the quarter-finals, they lost 0-1 to Bale-led Wales and sadly stopped in the round of 16. This is the first and only time northern Ireland has stood at the European Championship.