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Lovian Football Association
Lfa logo
Date 2010-present
Nicknames Jackpines
Club colors blue, red
Sports soccer (football)
Chairman Flag of Lovia Small Elliott Nielsen (head of the LFA)
Head coach Flag of Southern Arc Islands Yevgeni Andarev
Headquarters The Soccerfield, NC and Newhaven Stadium, KI

The Lovia national football team is the official national association football team of Lovia, representing it in all international soccer matches, controlled by the Lovian Football Association. Nicknamed The Jackpines, they are currently ranked fourth in the WNFA's tell.me world rankings, ahead of such nations like Mäöres

History[]

The team was founded in 2010. There had been no national team previously, so a team was established in 2010 by Justin Abrahams. It was not officially recognized, however, until February 2012. The Jackpines' first official tournament wass the 2012 World Football Championship, where they were in a group with Mauritius, Cook Islands and highly-ranked Singapore. Lovia made it to a fourth-place finish. 

Lovia is presently in the qualifiers for WFC 2014, with Strasland, Maldives and Andorra in the group. Lovia won their first group match against Strasland at home, and with just one loss (3 wins and 2 draws) qualified first in their group to advance to the finals in Qatar. At WFC 2014 Lovia played Jamaica, Cettatie and Saint Kitts-Nevis in their group. They did make it past, but fell in the quarter-finals to Brunant 3-1.

Manager history[]

Official venues[]

The LFA currently uses two large arenas as the principal venues, the Newhaven Stadium in Newhaven, KI and The Soccerfield in Noble City. Newhaven Stadium is the principal venue, since it is the largest one in the country. The Soccerfield is also used since it is quite new and modern, and is the second largest lovian venue.

Newhaven Stadium[]

Newhaven Stadium

Newhaven Stadium

Soccerfield

The Soccerfield

The Newhaven Stadium located in Newhaven, Kings is one of the official venues. It is the largest staduim in Lovia, with a capacity of 30,154 people. It is the home to the Newhaven Rockets.

The Soccerfield[]

The Soccerfield, in Downtown, NC, Sylvania is the other official venue. It is the second largest, at a capacity of 10,000 people. It is the home to the very popular FC Caltrava football club.

The team[]

Uniform[]

The team's home uniform is a blue and red one, representing the colors of Lovia. The away uniform has blue and red, but is mostly white. A new team jersey was designed in anticipation of WFC 2014, with a more modern design.

National uniform Lovian national team jersey

Players[]

Current squad[]

The following players were called up for the friendlies against Montserrat on 5 July 2015 and Southern Arc Islands on 8 July 2015.

No. Pos. Player Date of birth Club
1 GK Timothy Mika (C) 15 May 1986 Flag of Brunant Dortmund SFC
2 DF Keith Morry 8 August 1988 Libertas FC Wikistad
3 DF Henry Steinberg 2 August 1985 Flag of Brunant Cape Cross FC
4 DF Mathias Kingsley 9 October 1984 Flag of Lovia Small FC Caltrava
7 MF Isaac Uetersen 12 February 1994 Libertas FC Warmhoven
8 MF Ivan Matteoni 20 June 1991 Flag of Lovia Small Azzuri FC
9 MF Pavel Kovalev 21 July 1991 Flag of Lovia Small Vnuki
10 FW Dimitri O. Edwards 20 May 1987 Flag of Lovia Small Bay Hawks
11 MF Wencelas Kucharski 29 March 1990 Flag of Lovia Small FC Caltrava
12 MF Mario Torres 11 February 1990 Flag of Lovia Small Azzuri FC
13 DF Peter O'Connell 4 December 1979 Flag of Lovia Small Vnuki
14 GK Adrian Ivanov 14 January 1991 Flag of Lovia Small Vnuki
15 DF Al Pennington 16 March 1980 Flag of Lovia Small Bay Hawks
16 GK Ellis Carmona 3 June 1988 Flag of Lovia Small FC Caltrava
17 FW Adam Michálek 7 October 1994 Flag of Lovia Small FC Caltrava
18 MF Leo Fuster 30 March 1993 Flag of Brunant Aurora F.C.
19 MF Charles Vrecka 15 April 1986 Flag of Lovia Small Newhaven Rockets
22 FW Walter Mohring 16 December 1992 Flag of Southern Arc Islands Arc City University FC

Recent call-ups[]

The following players have also been called up to the Lovia squad within the last twelve months.

Pos. Player Birth Club Latest call-up
FW Ross Allen 28 August 1992 Flag of Lovia Small Kinley Town v. 500px-Flag of Guyana.svg Guyana; 23 March 2015
MF Richard Wenger 15 July 1981 Flag of Lovia Small Oaks of Kinley v. 500px-Flag of Guyana.svg Guyana; 23 March 2015
DF Admir Rakić 2 March 1995 Flag of Brunant Carrington FC v. 500px-Flag of Guyana.svg Guyana; 23 March 2015
DF Daniel Arbena 6 July 1984 Flag of Brunant Charlestown FC v. Libertas Libertas; 8 June 2015
FW Henri Barras 8 October 1987 Libertas FC Skeend v. Libertas Libertas; 8 June 2015
DF Nick Davis 28 August 1991 Flag of Lovia Small Newhaven Impact v. Libertas Libertas; 8 June 2015
FW John Hustróva 10 March 1977 Flag of Lovia Small FK Swat Lews v. Libertas Libertas; 8 June 2015
MF Baptiste Niyonzima 24 January 1981 Flag of Brunant Sporting Markstad v. Libertas Libertas; 8 June 2015
FW Thomas Relove 22 April 1984 Libertas FC Olympia v. Libertas Libertas; 8 June 2015
MF Jack Summerburn 22 July 1989 Flag of Kemburg North Beach Kemburg v. Libertas Libertas; 8 June 2015
Lovia national team formation

The team's formation for WFC 2014

Assistance personnel[]

Assistant coach - Flag of Lovia Small James Masters

Assistant coach - Flag of Lovia Small Marcus Villanova

Fitness trainer- Flag of Lovia Small Taisho Kumato

Team doctor - vacant

Assistant Chairman - Flag of Lovia Small Otto Eichel

Recent and upcoming matches[]

See also: Lovia national football team results

  1. 23 March 2015: Guyana 0-2 Lovia (Barras, Relove) (friendly)
  2. 8 June 2015: Lovia (Relove) 1-3 Libertas (Maat (2x), Van Marwijk) (friendly)
  3. 5 July 2015: Lovia (Edwards (2x), Uetersen, Morry, Mohring, Newby-Harris [OG], Matteoni) 7-1 Montserrat (Taylor) (friendly)
  4. 8 July 2015: Lovia (Steinberg, Edwards) 2-3 Southern Arc Islands (Gotze, Osgas, Bishop)

Lovia U20 team[]

Lovia's U20 side was organized in 2012 and played its first match in October that year, a 1-3 loss to Brunant U20 in Newhaven.

Squad[]

David Cates - Newhaven Rockets - GK

Admir Rakić Carrington FC - DF

Adam Michálek - FC Caltrava - FW

Ross Allen - Kinley Town - FW

See Also[]

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