Hardy(T)'s World Soccer Diary

Here's a list of all the matches I went to on my world tour, along with significant 'groundhoppings' and other football happenings.Visit these links for match reports, stadium shots, football stories and other trivia.

 

At last, all links on this page are now complete!

4/5/96, Calgary. Canada U23 2-1 USA U23 Pre Olympic qualifying tournament friendly

2/6/97, Lansdowne Rd, Dublin. Ireland 2-2 Croatia Friendly
9/6/97, Elland Rd, Leeds. Spain 1-1 Bulgaria. Euro 96.
10/6/96, St James' Park, Newcastle. France 1-0 Romania. Euro 96.
20/6/96, Bodø, Norway. Excellent Arctic Circle groundhopping opportunity: FK Bodø-Glimt

30/6/96, Turku, Finland. More groundhopping at the Kupitaa Stadium

3/7/96, Malmö, Sweden. Even more groundhopping!

6/7/96, Aarhus, Denmark. Couldn't pass up the opportunity to check out AGF Aarhus

17/7/96, Newtown, Wales. Newtown 1-4 Skonto Riga. UEFA Cup Preliminary Round.

26/7/96, Brussels. Check out the new Heysel.

31/7/96, Berlin. Caught the HSC players in pre-season training at the Olympic Stadium

10/8/96, Bratislava, Slovakia. Inter Bratislava 3-1 FC Nitra. Ligy I

16/8/96, Prague. Purchase a Dukla Prague away shirt from the Julika Stadion!

17/8/96, Prague. AC Sparta Praha 2-2 FC Petra Drnovice Ligy I

3/9/96, Gjirokäster, Albania. Aerial view of Shqiponia's stadium from the citadel

7/9/96, Permet, Albania. Impromptu game of 5-a-side at the Stadiumi Durim Qypi!

15/9/96. Meet Pilo Andoni, ex Partizani Tirana and Albania centre-forward!

22/9/96, Napoli. Napoli 1-1 Piacenza. Serie A.

28/9/96, Munich. TSV 1860 München 2-5 VfB Stuttgart Bundesliga

1/10/96, Portsmouth. Some proper football at last! Portsmouth 2-2 Crystal Palace. Div 1

5/10/96, Cardiff. Wales 1-3 Holland. World Cup Qualifying Group 7

12/10/96, back to Fratton Park for Portsmouth 2-0 Charlton Athletic. Div 1...

15/10/96, ...and again for Portsmouth 0-2 Wolverhampton Wanderers Div 1

18/1/97, Melbourne. An Optus World Series double header: Norway 0-1 South Korea ...

...and El Tel's first game in charge of the Socceroos: Australia 1-0 New Zealand