High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! S.S.C. Napoli had its best league season in five years, finishing third in the 1985-86 league season. Due to Roma`s collapse in the final rounds of the season, Napoli closed to within two points of second place, also having a significant margin to Torino in fourth. Diego Maradona prepared for his glorious World Cup with eleven goals and several assists.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1986 Commonwealth Games were held in Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom for the second time. The Games were held from 24 July-2 August 1986.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! S.S.C. Napoli only just failed to defend its inaugural Serie A title, finishing two points behind A.C. Milan. Napoli proved to be the most offensive team in the entire league, with Careca and Diego Maradona dominating the scoring charts. Due to Milan`s strong defence that was not enough for the title, and due to a 3-2 defeat at home to the eventual champions, the title defence got out of reach.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! S.S.C. Napoli managed to win an international trophy for the first time, defeating Stuttgart 2-1 and drawing 3-3 in the two-legged final. Napoli did not match Inter in the domestic league, but recorded a second place, its fourth consecutive podium finish in the final standings.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1991 Scott Tournament of Hearts Canadian women`s national curling championship, was played in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! S.S.C. Napoli finished a credible fourth in its first season without the club legend Diego Maradona in the squad. With the Argentinian having failed a doping test in the spring 1991, Napoli was facing an uphill battle, but coped remarkably well, actually improving on its fortunes from Maradona`s final season with the club.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! S.S.C. Napoli got extremely close to a shock relegation to Serie B, and only held on to its top-flight status by two points. This was just three years since the club led by playmaker and legend Diego Maradona won the domestic league title. It actually spent Christmas of 1992 in the relegation zone, and climbed out of it thanks to a strong January `93 run. The reason Napoli survived was the above-average offensive skills. Gianfranco Zola, Daniel Fonseca and Careca was a trio capable of leading any teams` attack, and the club looked set to suffer when Zola (Parma) and Careca (Japan) departed at the end of the season. Fonseca`s season is mostly remembered for an extremely unusual five goals in one...
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The World Trade Center bombing occurred on February 26, 1993, when a truck bomb was detonated below the North Tower of the World Trade Center in New York, NY. The 1,336 lb (606 kg) urea nitrate–hydrogen gas enhanced device was intended to knock the North Tower (Tower One) into the South Tower (Tower Two), bringing both towers down and killing thousands of people. It failed to do so, but did kill six people and injured more than a thousand. The attack was planned by a group of conspirators including Ramzi Yousef, Mahmud Abouhalima, Mohammad Salameh, Nidal A. Ayyad, Abdul Rahman Yasin and Ahmad Ajaj. They received financing from Khaled Sheikh Mohammed, Yousef`s uncle. In March 1994, four men...
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! S.S.C. Napoli once again struggled to reach the levels it had under Diego Maradona`s spell at the club, but finished a respectable sixth in Serie A, which landed Marcello Lippi the Juventus vacancy, something he put to good use. Financial woes caused Napoli to sell its two prominent foreign players, Jonas Thern and Daniel Fonseca to Roma following the season`s end. Skipper Ciro Ferrara also left, in his case for Juventus.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! S.S.C. Napoli continued its steady decline with another lacklustre season. Once more, goalscoring was at a premium, with only 28 goals being scored in the 34 league games. Coach Luigi Simoni was sacked and replaced by youth team coach Vincenzo Montefusco, who led the team to the Coppa Italia final against Vicenza, where Napoli won at home thanks to Fabio Pecchia`s goal, but lost 3-0 away from home, and therefore failed to win the trophy. The 13th place in the domestic league was the worst for 14 years, and one year on, Napoli was ultimately relegated.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! S.S.C. Napoli crashed out of Serie A following a disastrous season. It only clinched 14 points out of 34 matches, despite having the services of several experienced Serie A players. Napoli went through four coaches over the course of the season, and hardly took a point in the second half of the season. Given the disastrous form of the team, Claudio Bellucci`s ten goals were impressive, while thought top scorer Igor Protti was one of the largest disappointments of the entire series. The lack of defensive skills cost Napoli many points, and more than two goals were conceded on average. This was despite Roberto Ayala`s brilliance, which earned him a transfer to A.C. Milan.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1999 ICC Cricket World Cup, the seventh edition of the tournament, was hosted primarily by England, with some games being hosted in Ireland, Wales, Scotland and the Netherlands. The World Cup was won by Australia, who beat Pakistan by 8 wickets at Lord`s Cricket Ground in London. New Zealand and South Africa were the other semifinalists.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! 20 Exchange Place is a 59-floor Art Deco building in New York City. Formerly known as the City Bank-Farmers Trust Building, it was built between 1930–1931, for the newly merged National City Bank of New York and the Farmers` Loan and Trust Company, predecessor firms of Citigroup. It remained the company`s headquarters until 1956 and was ultimately sold in 1979.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! S.S.C. Napoli returned to Serie A, following a couple of years in Serie B, where the club had rebuilt itself following the disastrous 1997-98 season, when it scored merely 14 points from 34 games.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Bayer 04 Leverkusen had a shocking season, in which it went from being in the final of the UEFA Champions League the previous season, to finish 15th in Bundesliga, only just escaping relegation to the second tier. It also went out of the Champions League in the second group stage, not even clinching a single point.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Montreal was one of the cities in Quebec affected by the 2000–2006 municipal reorganization in Quebec. On January 1, 2002, all the municipalities on the island of Montreal were merged into a single city; however, following a change of government in the 2003 Quebec election and a 2004 referendum, some of those municipalities became independent cities again on January 1, 2006.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 2007 Cannes Film Festival, the sixtieth, ran from 16 to 27 May 2007. Wong Kar-wai`s My Blueberry Nights opened the festival, and Denys Arcand`s The Age of Ignorance closed (Wong was the 2006 Cannes Film Festival`s Jury president). The President of the Official Jury was British director Stephen Frears.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 2007 NCAA Women`s Division I Basketball Tournament began on March 17, 2007 and concluded on April 3 at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio. The Final Four consisted of Tennessee, LSU, Rutgers, and North Carolina, with Tennessee defeating Rutgers 59–46 for their seventh National Title. Tennessee`s Candace Parker was named the Most Outstanding Player of the tournament.