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The football tournament at the 1960 Summer Olympics was held from 26 August to 10 September in 1960 throughout Italy. Football (soccer) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... The 1960 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XVII Olympiad, were held in 1960 in Rome, Italy. ... August 26 is the 238th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (239th in leap years). ... September 10 is the 253rd day of the year (254th in leap years). ... 1960 (MCMLX) was a leap year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1960 calendar). ...
Football is generally a free-flowing game, with play stopping only when the ball has left the field of play, or when play is stopped by the referee.
Whilst football has continued to be played in various forms throughout Britain, the English public schools (fee-paying schools) are widely credited with certain key achievements in the creation of modern football (association football and the rugby football games - rugby league and rugby union football).
By contrast, however, football is widely considered to be the final proximate cause in the Football War in June 1969 between El Salvador and Honduras.
It was the first Olympics since NBC had merged with Vivendi Universal Entertainment; the merger, along with the acquisitions of the Bravo and Telemundo networks, made it possible for the network to broadcast over 1200 hours of coverage during the games, triple what was broadcast in the U.S. four years earlier.
The main Olympic Stadium, the designated facility for the opening and closing ceremonies, was completed only two months before the games opened, with the sliding over of a futuristic glass roof designed by Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava.
The Mayor of Athens, Dora Bakoyianni, passed the Olympic Flag to the Mayor of Beijing, Wang Qishan.
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