Scotland, England, Wales and Northern Ireland have officially recognised international teams and league set ups. Scottish league teams include Aberdeen, Glasgow City and Kilwinning and national team players include Kim Little, Jennifer Beattie and Gemma Fay.
Thus, the Dubna team are officially recognised as the discoverers of nobelium, although the Berkeley may have first detected this element in 1959.
England had some fun in that last half an hour at the expense of a side that, until last November, were officially recognised as the worst international team on the planet and Rooney, one imagines, would have fancied himself against tiring opponents, just at the point of the match when San Marino were looking increasingly vulnerable.
The Dubna team are therefore officially recognised as the discoverers of nobelium although it is possible that it was detected at Berkeley in 1959.
He is in the unusual position of playing for two "national" teams: Iraq, his officially recognised nation, and Kurdistan, his semi-autonomous homeland.
The roller derby scene has been growing in the UK over the last five years and there are now almost 50 amateur leagues – teams that are officially recognised by the UK Roller Derby Association.
Although the game was not officially recognised as a full international, a number of England first-team players played in the game.
Now the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry, which decides on such important things as names and symbols, has officially recognised the discovery and has sent Sigurd Hofmann, the lead researcher of the team that made number 112, a formal letter asking him to think up a name for his new element.
A century later, this was officially recognised.
Ipso is voluntary, and not officially recognised.
Kosovo is, however, now officially recognised by 75 other nations.
