Eyrifjorduric Review
2018 Eyrifjorduric Super Cup kick-off
The Eyrifjorduric Super Cup, the main annual football championship between regional teams of the Eyrifjorduric Federation, started yesterday, with Vestland team defeating Nỳttgrund 1-0. In the following match, the derby between federal cities, Midverslund and Tavík teams were unable to score, ending with a 0-0 team.
The format of the Eyrifjorduric Super Cup is simple: each team plays every other team once (making a total of 21 matches), with home ground advantage alternating from year to the next. In case two teams end with the same number of points and wins, ties in the classification are broken by considering the points difference of the teams. The current champion is Narthaurblár, the team from the Republic of Narthaur, which won the 2017 tournament with a full supercup, that is, winning every match in the championship.
Narthaurblár hopes to win their 35th Super Cup, the seventh in the last decade. They will start in the tournament against a team formed by players from Kevada and Tseemeegen ethnicity, which will participate in the tournament for first time since this championship started in 1928.
Baldur Steinnsson inauguration as President of Narthaur is calmly celebrated
Baldur Steinnsson was sworn in as 19th President of the Narthaur Republic, in historic power transfer as, for first time since the 1960s, neither the leaving president nor the president-elect are candidates from either the Federal Democratic Party or the Liberal Democratic Party, the two political parties which had dominated the politics of the Republic of Narthaur since the 1950s. Baldur succeeds President Lúdvik Gudmuntursson, who was elected in 2012 as an independent candidate. Baldur Steinnsson was elected as the official candidate of the National Democratic Party, which was founded by President Lúdvik Gudmuntursson shortly after his win in 2012 presidential election.
President Baldur Steinnsson's speech was relatively short and dry, and it is expected that he will continue many of Lúdvik Gudmuntursson's policies, as many minister under his 2012-2017 administration will remain under President Baldur Steinnsson administration. Baldur Steinnsson himself served as Speaker of the Narthaur parliament and Minister of Home Affairs during Lúdvik Gudmuntursson administration.