Mandatory Palestine national football team

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The Mandatory Palestine national football team, also known as the Eretz Israel national football team (Hebrew: נבחרת ארץ ישראל בכדורגל), represented the British Mandate of Palestine in international football competitions, and was managed by the Palestine Football Association. Football was introduced to Palestine by the British military during World War I and further developed by European Jewish immigrants. In 1928, Yosef Yekutieli, a leader of the Maccabi World Union, founded the Palestine Football Association. It achieved FIFA membership in 1929, despite in practice being an almost exclusively Jewish organisation at a time when Jews represented a minority of the country's population. In 1934 all Arabs involved in the organisation left due to a lack of representation and founded the "Palestinian Arab Sports Federation" later "Arab Palestine Sports Federation" (APSF). The team used to play in the Maccabiah Stadium, Maccabi Ground and Palms Ground, all three located in Tel Aviv. Mandatory...

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