Gianatla national football team (Pacifica)
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| Nickname(s) | Gelbhemden (Yellow Shirts) |
|---|---|
| Association | GIF |
| Head coach | Gianluc Treyn |
| Trigramme | GIL |
| First international | |
Template:Country data GI-Land Gianlucaland 2-4 Frost Selection  (Frost City, Frost Empire, 1 October 1897 | |
| IUFA FWC | |
| Appearances | 18 (first in 1956) |
| Best result | 1st, 2017 1st, 2018 |
This article is about the men's team. For the women's team, see GI-Land women's national football team.
The GI-Land national football team (Alman: Gianlucische Fußballnationalmannschaft) represents GI-Land in men's international football since 1897. The team's governed by the Gianlucian football association (Gianlucischer Fußballbund (GIF)) founded one year prior. Before the incorporation of Atlantis in 2011 the countries of Gianlucaland and Atlantis got both represented by their own respective national teams. The current national team has inherited all records of the former Gianlucian team, but not of the Atlantic one.
GI-Land was recently one of the more successful teams on the international stage, having won the IUFA Football World Championships two times (2017, 2018) and having been runner-up an additional two times (1996, 2016).
History
In 1896 Emperor Gianluca III passed the Gianlucian sport association law (Gianlucisches Sportbundgesetz), which founded also, along to nine more sport associations, the GIF, the Gianlucian football association. The original goals for founding these associations were on the one hand to prevent sport clubs from becoming too powerful and deciding in a monopoly position about how a sport progresses inside the Gianlucian borders, and on the other hand, to set the path for national teams. The emperor envisioned "Gianlucaland asserting dominance all over the world through sports". Therefore he wanted to create experts in different sports that would compete internationally.
On 1 October 1897 GI-Land made its first appearance on the international stage, when they played in Frost City against a selection from the Frost Empire. Their first game ended in a 2-4 defeat, much to the dismay of the Gianlucian emperor. However in the Frost Empire the game was a catalyst for the popularisation of football.
In the following years the national team played irregularly against other international teams, mostly focusing on their direct neighbours. Up until now the team they played against the most was the Snovian team, against which they played 42 games.
After the Great War, Queen Charlotte I's brother Peter was the driving force for Gianlucaland joining the IUFA and partaking in the 1956 IUFA FWC, where GI-Land got knocked out in the group stage after losing against Ryccia and Sedunn.
In the 1964 IUFA FWC Gianlucaland reached the knockout-stage for the first time. They got into the semi-final, which they lost 2-3 after extra-time against Karnetvor. On this followed a 0-6 defeat against Terra, still the highest defeat a team has ever experienced in a FWC bronze medal match.
In the 1996 IUFA FWC Gianlucaland reached the final for the first time, where they lost 0-1 after extra-time against the hosts from Omega. The team got nicknamed Silver Boys (Silberjungs) and the team, who played in the final, got honoured by Queen Charlotte I herself.
The first victory in a world cup was celebrated in the 2017 IUFA FWC. One year after once again ending up as the runner-up, they managed to get into the final another time, where they defeated the Frost Empire with 1-0. The success got repeated once again one year later at home, where they won over Bruuma in the final with a score of 5-2. The team playing both world cups got nicknamed The Lucky Charms (Die Glücksbringer) and were also honoured, this time by King and Leader Gianluca IV.
Team image
Kits
The typical home colour of the Gianlucian team is yellow. This was defined by Emperor Gianluca III in the sport association law 1896 and kept as a tradition even after the Great War. The away colours alternate and depend on the incumbent head of state. While Emperor Gianluca III preferred green and Queen Charlotte I red, King Axel I changed the colours to black. King and Leader Gianluca IV however hasn't picked a favourite colour for the away kit yet. Under his reign the team wore mostly red (2008-2017), but also black (since 2018). There are rumours about the team changing to a blue away shirt in the near future.
The shorts were in the colour of the opposite kit most of the time.
While the players had to make their clothes themselves before the Great War, this changed afterwards. Since 1956 Gianlucian fashion manufacturer Fennick is supplying the team with their kits.
Home Stadium
The Gianlucian national team's home stadium is the Altes Sportfeld (Old Sports field) stadium near the city of Gianlucastadt in the municipality of Raufstedt.
Anyhow since 2011 they also play friendlies and competitive games in the Stadion von Atlantis (Stadium of Atlantis) and the Fennick-Arena in Freudstadt, in the district of Freuen, which is named after the team's kit supplier.
Media coverage
The Law on Television in its version from 2016 deems all games of the Gianlucian national team as important enough to only be broadcast on free-TV with live coverage. Furthermore live streams of live broadcasts from games of the national team also need to be completely free to watch and may not require an account for the user.
Qualifier or friendly games are broadcast by the partly publically financed BUS TV SPORT, all competitive games are covered by the fully publically financed BUS TV. As of the 2021 IUFA WFWC in Huawan qualifier and friendly games as well as competitive games from the group stage of a tournament will be broadcast by private TV channel Dritte, all knockout-stage games will stay at BUS TV.
All broadcasts are also available as live streams on the internet.
Historic matches are regularly shown during the night on pay-tv sports channels of the Dome network.
Recent game results
Win Draw Loss
2017
| FWC 2017 - Final |  GI-Land | 1 - 0 | Frost Empire | Flered, Sedunn |
| Stadium: Reko Mivsbekk |
2018
| FWC 2018 - Semi Final | GI-Land | 4 - 3 (a.e.t.) | Sedunn  | Gianlucastadt, GI-Land |
| Stadium: Altes Sportfeld |
| FWC 2018 - Final | GI-Land | 5 - 2 | Bruuma  | Atlantis, GI-Land |
| Stadium: Stadion von Atlantis |
2020
IUFA FWC Record
Champion Runner-up Third place Fourth place
| Year | Round | Position | GP | W | D | L | GF | GA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1956 |
Group Stage | 11th | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 3 |
 1960 |
Group Stage | 12th | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 16 |
| 1964 | Fourth Place | 4th | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 11 | 16 |
 1968 |
Quarter Finals | 8th | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 4 |
 1972 |
Quarter Finals | 11th | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 10 |
| 1976 | Group Stage | 11th | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 10 |
| 1980 | Group Stage | 15th | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 8 |
| 1984 | Group Stage | 16th | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 17 |
 1988 |
Group Stage | 13th | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 13 |
| Template:Country data Omega 1992 | Quarter Finals | 5th | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 6 |
| Template:Country data Omega 1996 | Runner-up | 2nd | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 14 | 7 |
| Template:Country data Omega 2000 | Round of 16 | 8th | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 5 |
| 2004 | 2nd Group Stage | 6th | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 14 | 8 |
| 2008 |
Group Stage | 24th | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 7 |
| Template:Country data Kosbareland 2012 | Group Stage | 21st | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 10 |
| 2016 |
Runner-up | 2nd | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 5 |
| 2017 |
Champion | 1st | 11 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 14 | 6 |
| 2018 |
Champion | 1st | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 12 | 10 |
| 2020 |
Round of 16 | TBA | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 6 |
 2022 |
TBD | |||||||
| Average position (out of 24) Total |
12.28 | 86 | 36 | 14 | 36 | 136 | 167 | |
Team
Current team
| Pos. | No. | Name | Birth date and age | Club |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GK | 1 | Christoph Springer | 21 November 1989 | Template:Country data GI-Land 1. FC Gianlucastadt |
| GK | 12 | Furuk Ytas | 14 March 1995 | Template:Country data GI-Land SV Atlantis 1898 |
| GK | 22 | Oliver Adler | 12 May 1998 | Template:Country data GI-Land SV Südtor |
| DEF | 2 | Martin Stern | 24 July 1994 | Template:Country data GI-Land FC Freudstadt |
| DEF | 3 | Sebastian Vogel | 26 May 1992 | Template:Country data GI-Land FC Atlantis 05 |
| DEF | 4 | Jonas Nadel | 13 September 1997 | Template:Country data GI-Land FC Atlantis 05 |
| DEF | 5 | Maximilian Wirth | 18 February 1996 | Template:Country data GI-Land RB Kuckstadt |
| DEF | 14 | Tobias Busch | 15 January 1989 | Template:Country data GI-Land FC Freudstadt |
| DEF | 15 | Greg Bayer | 20 April 1991 | Template:Country data GI-Land SC Westtor |
| DEF | 21 | Tomas Giyn | 28 November 1995 | Template:Country data GI-Land FC Atlantis 05 |
| MID | 6 | Jozz Ygass | 27 June 1993 | Template:Country data GI-Land FC Atlantis 05 |
| MID | 7 | Dominik Peters | 17 August 2000 | Template:Country data GI-Land RB Kuckstadt |
| MID | 8 | Florian Ostermann | 3 May 1999 | Template:Country data GI-Land 1. FC Gianlucastadt |
| MID | 9 | Michel Meißner | 25 February 1988 | Template:Country data GI-Land SV Südtor |
| MID | 13 | Mario Hertzog | 3 August 1991 | Template:Country data GI-Land SV Südtor |
| MID | 16 | Tim Neumann | 2 April 1997 | Template:Country data GI-Land RB Kuckstadt |
| MID | 17 | Firip Ken | 23 June 1999 | Template:Country data GI-Land FC Freudstadt |
| MID | 19 | Marco Pfaff | 16 December 1993 | Template:Country data GI-Land SV Atlantis 1898 |
| MID | 23 | Julius Kristiansen | 7 January 1998 | Template:Country data GI-Land FC Neustadt |
| FWD | 10 | Gianni Berg (C) | 18 July 1994 | Template:Country data GI-Land 1. FC Gianlucastadt |
| FWD | 11 | Juliusz Szalok | 26 October 1992 | Template:Country data GI-Land FC Atlantis 05 |
| FWD | 18 | Yuta Fujimoto | 21 December 2000 | Template:Country data GI-Land SV Atlantis 1898 |
| FWD | 20 | Alexander Ranke | 8 August 1993 | Template:Country data GI-Land 1. FC Gianlucastadt |
| Coach | Gianluc Treyn | 31 May 1982 |