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| 2004: 100th Anniversary of FIFA (Designer - S á Høvdanum) |
This FDC has three anniversaries on it for not only was the it the Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) centenary it was also the centenary of two Faroe Island football teams HB and KI and their centenary badges can be seen on the cover.
The stamp on the left shows a match between the two teams. HB (in red and black stripes) based in the capital Torshavn is the most successful Faroe Island team and in blue, KI Klasvík (their women's football team is the most successful). The players are amateurs or semi professional mostly local with a smattering of other Scandinavian nationalities however one player (Aleksandar Stankov) for HB did stand out on the list with the distinctive Macedonian flag by his name. How footballers end up in far flung places in pursuit of the dream of playing football. The other stamp shows the Faroe Island national team playing Germany which I imagine took place in 2002 for the EURO 2004 qualifying matches. Like most teams playing playing Germany they lost.
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| 20014: FIFA 100 Years |
One of the founding members of FIFA was Switzerland and indeed the headquarters are there. The envelope has an embossed map of the world which I think you can just about see in this scan.
and of course the stamp is in the shape of a sports pendant. Leaving the behemoth, for good and bad, that is FIFA but still playing football here are
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| 1989: Island Games (Designer - Olivur vio Neyst) |
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3rd Island Games (a sort of Olympic Games for islands) which were held in the Faroes in July 1989 with participants from about 20 island countries. The Faroe Islands won the gold medal for the football competition and overall came 3rd in the medal tables with the Isle of Man taking the major medal haul. Although football is a popular sport the national sport of the Faroe Islands is
rowing. One would have to heave on the oars against these waves.
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| 3rd Island Games Puffin Logo |
Sunday Stamps II prompt this week is the Letter F - for Faroe Islands, Football and FIFA -
See it On A Postcard
6 comments:
Football is not my thema, but I agree it gives some interesting stamps.
I also like the football postmarks. And the triangular stamp is unusual - don't see those very often.
I almost picked a football-themed stamp, too! ;)
Splendid Faroe stamps. The nearest I got to the islands was on an offshore floating production vessel west of Shetlands.
it is always interesting to read about sports teams coming from such small countries, where it feels like half of the country's population is part of the team :) And they have created some nice stamps too!
nice to see faroe islands stamps, they are not often to be seen. and a nice triple-F score :)
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