Waching daily Apr 30 2017

Welcome to Ellë Football Academy

We have been living and breathing football since we exist. It is in our blood

EFA has as its value preposition to develop players , and only the players

It's all about development and it has always been.

It's football and that's what we live for.

We love what we do and it is the kind of feeling that never gets old

and motivates us to be on the field EVERY SINGLE DAY.

At EFA, we demand that the players freely express themselves on the field as a way of creating and trying new things.

We constantly look to challenge players and test their boundaries, through ongoing assessments and evaluations.

It's where we can beautifully display areas of improvement and engage the players in this process.

It's exciting for us coaches to witness their progress.

However, they are more excited with what they get from us.

It is wonderful to develop and see players evolving each day.

It's the RESPECT, HUMILITY, AMBITION and CREATIVITY that makes players at Ellë Football Academy.

It has been a busy couple of years and we want to take little steps just to make what we do better.

This is Ellë Football Academy

and welcome to our world.

For more infomation >> Ellë Football Academy - Sydney - Australia - Duration: 1:40.

-------------------------------------------

Where is Eastern Europe today? | How to travel better - Duration: 7:06.

Hi there! I am Conor, the Language Tsar, and in this video I wanna

discuss what we mean by Eastern

Europe today because I'm often in

Eastern Europe but I think there's a lot of

confusion for ... for many viewers

about what exactly should be Eastern Europe.

So if you're thinking that countries

like the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary,

Poland lie in Eastern Europe then I got

some news for you because you're a kind of

living in circa 1999 both politically

and well geographically they're just

not in Eastern Europe. Those countries are

in Central Europe and today those

countries are politically tied definitely

with the West. There's even an argue that

makes that that's really just Western

Europe in general. See where Prague is, I

mean it's further west than Vienna

geographically, so there's just no way. That is

Central Europe, pure and pure Central Europe.

'Mitteleuropa' as they would say in

German. Another region is South-East

Europe so we talked about the Balkans,

Bulgaria, Romania. Now I think their history

and the geography there is a bit

different. So the countries in South

Eastern Europe have a history apart from

those further to the east of them, like

say Russia or Ukraine. And they don't

have much contact there, with the

exception perhaps of Serbia, Montenegro and

Bulgaria where I was able to speak a

little bit in Russian. They do though

have contact with countries further to

the north of them in Central Europe and

also in Western Europe and in fact those

countries in Southeast Europe have

either already joined the EU and NATO or

they're pushing for further integration

for the last few years. In the former

Soviet Union we have the Baltic countries

right?

Now today I see the Baltic countries

being more in Northern Europe than in

Eastern Europe that's just because

politically they're part of NATO, the

part of the European Union and also

culturally they look more to the north

and to the west. I mean they do have a

sizable russian-speaking minorities

especially in Latvia, also in the capital

of Estonia, Tallinn, the other parts of Estonia

there are sizeable ... a little lot less, so in

Lithuania than in Latvia and Estonia. So

in spite of their recent history in the

Soviet Union these countries to me feel

more like Northern Europe or the Baltics

than they do Eastern European. The South

Caucasus that's Azerbaijan, Armenia and

Georgia but those three

countries are really kind of in between

Europe and Asia. They are kind of in both to be

frank. That's kind of Eurasian.

So I wouldn't really say it's Eastern Europe

per se. So where does all this confusion

come from in fact about Central and

Eastern Europe and what constitutes both?

Well, it really comes from recent history

and at the Cold War because Europe was

divided in two, right down the middle

more or less, and that's why we have west

and east. So there is that line from

basically East Germany

all the way down, when around Austria,

kept Austria in the western side but

then kept the Czech Republic on the eastern

side and that's why still today some

people associate the Czech Republic,

Hungary, Slovakia, Poland as being in East

Europe as opposed to Central Europe. So

that's why there's still a lot of

confusion about where Central Europe

really lies. Czech Republic, Hungary,

Slovakia and Poland are definitely in

Central Europe but for a lot of people

because of this division during the Cold

War, they see them as being in Eastern

Europe. Now that those countries are not

just in European Union but also in other

organizations like NATO, they're clearly

not in that economic and political bloc

that they were during the Cold War which

was obviously the Soviet Union which was

centered around Russia, the Soviet Union itself

was constituted of such social republics

like Belarus, the three Baltic countries -

Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia - here Ukraine,

Moldova. And also the Warsaw Pact which

was the countries that were aligned or

allied to the Soviet Union which lay

further to the west. So all that was

called Eastern Europe but today that's

definitely central and we need a new

definition of what constitutes Eastern

Europe.

So today Eastern Europe lies further to the

east than it did in the 20th century. Former

Soviet Union in Europe so that's gonna

be Russia, Moldova, Ukraine, here I'm in

the capital of Ukraine, Kyiv, and Belarus.

So basically this debate about what

constitutes Western, Central or Eastern

Europe comes down more to politics than

to geography because geographically

speaking of course Europe is quite ... is a

lot bigger and extends all the way to

the Ural Mountains, so then basically

everything would be Western Europe right

up until Russia. So what we're talking about is

political. So what makes these countries -

Belarus, Russia, Ukraine and Moldova - not

in Western Europe or not in Central

Europe? And that's because they're, number

one, not in NATO and number two, not in the EU.

They share a lot of common history

and culture. They were in the Soviet

Union together. Russian is widely spoken

in the region. I know that's a bit

controversial here in Ukraine especially,

in Western Ukraine where it's not but we'll say

at least up until here in Kyiv,

it's definitely widely spoken.

It's obviously the official language of

Russia and it's widely spoken in Moldova,

here in Ukraine and also in Belarus it's

also an official language. And actually

here in Ukraine it's an official

language in certain regions which

happen to be more east of Ukraine or in

the south. So are they of one kind of polity?

No, definitely not.

Ukraine has decided that it is currently

on a path more westward since the Euro

Maidan protests and the changing

government from ... from more pro-Russian

Viktor Yanukovych

to the current president who is more

pro-European and that's Petro Poroshenko.

So definitely it's starting to change. As as

I'm making this video in April 2017

Moldova and Belarus have forged paths

that are kind of between both Russia and

the European Union.

Moldova even has an association

agreement with the EU, while Belarus has

an economic union with Russia. So maybe

one day we'll actually talk about here

in Kyiv not being in Eastern Europe,

actually being, saying, Central or even

Western Europe, so that is possible. So

perhaps in the near future the

dividing line between Eastern and Western

Europe will in fact be over here or

maybe it will go back to like it was in

1999 and be back here.

So that, I think Eastern Europe is

due to political and of course never

changing geographical

context. Tell me what you think. Do you

like my definition of Eastern Europe or you think

it should be broader, you think it should

even narrower? Write that all stuff in

the comments section below the video.

Give this video a big thumbs up if you

like this. See you in the next one!