Elite club teams, and the experiences there, can get just as much attention, depending on coverage of certain athletes.
Those boundaries were set when the original five regions were formed from Wales' leading club teams ahead of the 2003-04 season.
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As part of Johnson's new gig, he'll be calling the knockout rounds of the annual Champions League competition for European club teams.
Mr James won the award for his efforts running his local rugby club, refereeing matches and looking after the junior club teams on Sundays.
The school fields 19 intercollegiate athletic teams and various club teams, but sports and academics are hardly the only things it has to offer.
The best ones, like the players on every other top national team, were busy with their club teams in the European leagues that play through the winter.
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Where schools can succeed is worrying less about wins and losses, and about competing with club teams for elite athletes, and promoting sports as what they should be: a chance for students to proudly represent their school.
Despite this city being home to one of the best rugby league club teams in the world in the last few years, albeit with a now tarnished reputation, Melbournians are far more in love with Aussie rules than rugby league.
The key to Barca's current success is a philosophy of play which emerged as a direct descendant of Holland's Total Football of the 70's, and is implemented throughout the club's teams - from seven-year-olds right up to the first team.
"We looked at United and they just wanted to beat us, but we were all about the titles" said Steve Nicol, a stalwart of the Liverpool defense during the club's super teams of the 1980s.
North Korea and the United Arab Emirates earlier kicked off the Group D schedule with a 0-0 draw at the Qatar Sports Club in match between teams ranked 105th and 108th in the world respectively.
Two clinical finishes from Milito in the 35th and 70th minutes settled an enthralling showdown in the Santiago Bernabeu stadium in Madrid and left Mourinho as only the third coach to win Europe's top club competition with two teams.
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Run by full-time chairman Richard Tims, 43, the oldest football team in the world has gone from its humble beginnings in a Sheffield potting shed to a club of three senior teams, 13 junior teams, a women's team and one disability team.
The club is home to darts and dominoes teams and is the headquarters of the Anmer Mere Yacht Club, whose Latin motto translates as "Never make me sail".
The Llanelli club side threatened legal action against the Welsh Rugby Union, which wanted the new regional teams to be amalgamations of club sides.
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Both deals included club options that enabled the teams to delay the players' free agency even further.
Valencia are second on five points after being held 1-1 by bottom club Slavia Prague as both teams had a player sent off.
He established the North Shields hockey club, initially for a local school, and now spends hours of his own time mentoring the boys and developing the club, that has several teams.
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The adage in English soccer is that 40 points guarantees escape from relegation, but usually the EPL isn't that competitive. (Clubs get three points for a win, one for a draw, none for a loss.) Since 1995-96, when the league contracted to 20 teams, a club needed 40 or more points to guarantee an EPL spot just four times.
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Since the beginning of the 2011 season, 49 players have opted to sign extensions with their current teams that give the club control of their destiny even after they've qualified for free agency.
Still, De Bontin says Henry's offensive prowess and global appeal of Henry have enhanced the team's international standing as well as the brand of beverage maker Red Bull, which bought the club in 2006 and also owns teams in Austria, Brazil and Germany.
Tanasi, a former Paris Saint Germain player, was formerly in charge of the French club's under 13-17 teams.
Eventually the club may go further, setting up teams bearing its name in different countries, so that fans could follow the local version.
Since then, he has built Pirates into a money-spinning empire while benefiting from the sale of some of the club's star players to overseas teams.
But Rodriguez has also won two MVP awards with New York, been selected to seven All-Star teams and practically carried the club to its most recent World Series title in 2009.
Last month, both Manchester teams got bounced from the European club championship.
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"This time of the year is always a bit crazy and I had a number of other offers from other teams but there is only one club I wanted to play for, " he said.
The other two teams left in Europe's top club competition also enjoyed victories on Saturday.
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Both teams scored in bunches, and each club had a short-handed goal.
The Arsenal Supporters' Trust (AST) said the club needed to spend more to compete with the top teams.
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