The FIFA Womens Worldcup (A mini case study) . – By Prashanth Sentilkumar Source : Prashanth Sentilkumar Linkedin The history  – Before an official Women’s WorldCup endorsed  by FIFA took place,an unofficial tournament took place in Italy in 1970 comprising of 7 countries which Denmark won, followed by another tournament  in Mexico the next year in 1971, which had 6 countries taking part and again Denmark prevailed.Since then their was rapid progression  and marketing  to promote  the women’s format, however it took 20 years from the first unofficial tournament, for a FIFA endorsed Worldcup to take place. In 1991 the first offical tournament took place in China with 12 teams playing. The USA prevailed as the first champions and it was agreed that the tournament be held every four years. So far 9 tournaments have taken place out of which 4 have been won by the US, 2 by Germany ,1 ...

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Winner of the Templeton Freedom Award By Capt Elmo Jayawardena Dear Friends Templeton Freedom Award was won by Advocarta of Sri Lanka. The CEO is our Dhana. He was there in NY to accept the award . It is with great pride I send this message to you to celebrate our dear friend Dhananath’s leadership victory of Advocarta to win this prestigious award. The link below gives his acceptance speech. Horekale and St Sebastian’s College man has really shown class. Blue skies Capt Elmo Jayawardena It’s a big week for the worldwide freedom movement! People from Argentina to Zambia will be gathering in New York for Atlas Network‘s Liberty Forum & Freedom Dinner to celebrate the year’s greatest achievements and to share strategies for accelerating our efforts around the globe in 2023. One of the biggest highlights of #LFFD22 will be the announcement of the winner of the 2022 #TempletonFreedomAward which has six impressive nominees ...

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Ashton Agar’s Sri Lankan Lineages – By Dr Michael Roberts Source:thuppahis.com Ashton Agar may play cricket now for Western Australia, but he is the eldest of three boys schooled at the De La Salle College in Melbourne. Our investigations indicate that his father John Agar is from a cricketing family associated with the Prahran Cricket Club in Melbourne – a happy coincidence because Prahran had several Burgher migrants active within its portals—notably Owen Mottau and Dav Whatmore.[1] As vitally, his mother Sonia is a Sinhalese Sri Lankan, being the daughter of Nala Hewawisa[2] from a marriage with Sheila Plunkett,[3] who is described in one source as a “Burgher of British descent.” John & Sonia Agar and eldest son Ashton The Agar family at Lords By marvelous coincidence it appears that there were Agars too in British Ceylon – working as planters. Philip Sansoni (in Sydney now) sent me this note: “Interestingly, there is a tablet ...

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