LONDON Cheap NFL Jerseys From China , May 30 (Xinhua) -- They packed the streets and the town's main square to hail their conquering heroes Tuesday night. Huddersfield, a Yorkshire market town nestling on the slopes of England's best known mountain range, the Pennines Cheap NFL Jerseys China , has joined the big boys of football.
In the next season Huddersfield Town will clash with Chelsea, Tottenham Hotspur and the big two Manchester clubs as the newest arrivals in the English Premier League.
A dramatic penalty shoot-out Monday propelled them to Premiership glory for the first time in the club's history.
They have played top flight football before, but that was almost half a century ago when the First Division was the top rung in English football.
So the whole town turned blue - the team's color - Tuesday when the players went on a victory parade through their town. A club known to locals as the Terriers Cheap Custom NFL Jerseys , has struck gold with their promotion.
Ironically Huddersfield, a town that grew out of the industrial revolution, is the birthplace of the mainly northern sport of Rugby League Cheap NFL Jerseys , a close cousin of Rugby Union.
Founded in 1908, Huddersfield Town plays at Kirklees Stadium, a ground with a capacity of just over 24 Cheap Jerseys China Wholesale ,000.
They left the ground in an open-topped boss, headed along crowded streets to a packed St George's Square in the town center.
The club's glory days were in the 1920s when it became the first English club to win three successive league titles, a feat which only three other clubs have matched Cheap Jerseys Shop , though none has bettered.
In the 1950s it was managed by the legendary Bill Shankly, who later earned his place as one of the icons of British football when he led Liverpool FC to multiple glories.
Over the past few decades the club has been on a roller coaster ride, playing in the divisions below the holy grail of football that is the Premier League.
Huddersfield's fortunes changed in 2015 when the club appointed as its head coach former USA international Cheap Jerseys Wholesale , German born David Wagner who became the first person ever, born outside the British Isles to manage the club.
Tens of thousands turned out to celebrate the club's success, with club captain Mark Hudson praising their manager as he told the crowds: "It's been epic Cheap Jerseys From China , he's been by far the best manager I've ever worked for."
Wagner told the fans: "It's down to the wives, children and the players too because all together they have made this fairytale have a happy end."
Promotion from the second-tier Championship league to the top flight is expected to give the club a boost worth almost 220 million U.S. dollars.
The town will also reap the benefits with local chamber of commerce spokesman Steven Leigh, saying the elevation to the top tier of football will boost the local economy by around 77 million U.S. dollars a year.
"The global exposure is a unique opportunity for the town to attract inward investment on an extraordinary scale Cheap Jerseys China ," said Leigh.
Folk in Yorkshire are known for their straight down-to-earth talking, but Tuesday night they were happy to put aside their legendary dialect to say just two words of thanks to here Wagner: danke schon.
RABAT, March 17 (Xinhua) -- Morocco believes in Africa's capacity to rise to the challenges facing it and to ensure sustainable human development for its peoples, thanks to its vast natural and human resources, King Mohammed VI said on Friday.
"Achieving the African renaissance we yearn for hinges, however, on how much belief we have in ourselves, how far we rely on our own capacities and potential, and how well we exploit them, within the framework of mutually-beneficial South-South cooperation and solidarity-based, strategic partnerships," the king said in a message addressed to the participants in the 2017 edition of the Crans Montana Forum, which kicked off in the southern city of Dakhla.
"I am sure we can rise to these challenges," he insisted, saying that Africa is governed today by a new generation of pragmatic leaders, uninhibited by outdated ideologies who are working with a high sense of patriotism and responsibility to achieve their countries' stability, political openness, economic development and social progress.
The King said that South-South cooperation, which is based on the culture of sharing and solidarity, is "the mechanism that will enable our countries to exchange their expertise directly and immediately. It will help improve our field experience, make the most of our complementarities and expand our national markets."
This cooperation "will also open up new opportunities for efficient and beneficial investment and achieve effective sustainable human development, while respecting each country's national sovereignty, as well as the principles of mutual esteem and equality," the Sovereign noted.
Crans Montana Forum is attended with the participation of more than 150 countries represented by high-level personalities.
KUNDUZ, Afghanistan, March 23 (Xinhua) -- Insider attack claimed the lives of nine police officers in the northern Kunduz province of Afghanistan on Thursday, police said.
"A personnel of local police apparently affiliated with the Taliban group brutally gunned down nine members of local police in a checkpoint in Kocha-e-Qazaq locality in the southern edge of provincial capital Kunduz city early today morning and made his good escape," a police official told Xinhua but refused to be named.
Meantime, senior police officer in Kunduz province General Shir Aziz Kamawal confirmed the bloody incident and said that "operations are underway in the area" to bring to justice those behind the deadly offensive.
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