One of the most popular sports in the world (and the best payed!)

Some hospitals arrange football cups with their staff against other hospitals.
Please report from your experience!

see in section "Past"!

Brazil is World Champion 2006!

No? Yes! See actual article in Ärzte-Zeitung.de : http://www.aerztezeitung.de/docs/2006/06/16/109a1601.asp?cat=/magazin

http://www.aerztezeitung.de/docs/2006/06/02/101a1601.asp?cat=

In June 2006 the world championship of medical soccer teams from 4 continents with 250 to 300 players took place in Mainz/Germany
and the Brazilian team won the title!
some photos right column: courtesy of Medical Tribune "Verwendung mit freundlicher Genehmigung von Medical Tribune"

Spain fighting against England...
the german team.	The web site in english: http://www.dfae.de/wm_01.html preparing the championship in Germany.
Dr. Clemens Vogel from Mainz prepared this big event! See his homepage: http://www.tcmvogel.de	Brazil is world champion - at least at the SoccerDoc championship....

Catalania Team from Barcelona/Spain: https://www.comb.es/cat/actualitat/esdeveniments/activitats/medijocs/docs/seleccio_catalana.pdf
Dr. Ferran Morell is founder of this competition:

He participated in the board of "medi-jocs 2005" a sport congress for medicals
He is also involved in the MediJocs 2006 and you can hear him speaking online!
Go to http://www.comb.cat/cat/actualitat/articles_events/webcast.asp?Id=11 for his speech (in spanish/catalan)!

See articles: http://www.allgemeine-zeitung.de/region/objekt.php3?artikel_id=2407004

Japanese site about this event: http://www.fromdoctor.com/weekly/weekly_body.asp?num=6904&category=4

Informations:
Servei de Pneumologia
Hospital General Vall d’Hebron
Passeig Vall d’Hebron, 119–129
E-08035 Barcelona
Spain
Phone:  +34 (93) 2 74 61 57
Fax: +34 (93) 2 74 60 83
E-Mail: curneumo@hg.vhebron.es (??)

See the german original at the Deutsches Ärzteblatt

1) Massimo Peroni / Italy is SoccerDoc

he has found a soccer association with Antonio Passerini (dentist) 

I DOCENTI VFC

His personal homepage

2) Markus Merk, dentist, is the world best soccer referee!

He made it to kick out Collina who had this title for years...

download a pdf file about him (german, all courtesy of http://www.zahnheilkunde.de thank you!)

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