Time for action – reading results of football matches from files

Suppose you have collected several football results in plain files. Your files look like this:

Date;Venue;Country;Matches;Country 07/09/12 15:00;Havana;Cuba;0:3;Honduras; 07/09/12 19:00;Kingston;Jamaica;2:1;USA; 07/09/12 19:30;San Salvador;El Salvador;2:2;Guyana; 07/09/12 19:45;Toronto;Canada;1:0;Panama; 07/09/12 20:00;Guatemala City;Guatemala;3:1;Antigua and Barbuda; 07/09/12 20:05;San Jose;Costa Rica;0:2;Mexico; 11/09/12 19:00;St. John's;Antigua and Barbuda;0:1;Guatemala; 11/09/12 19:30;San Pedro Sula;Honduras;1:0;Cuba; 11/09/12 20:00;Mexico City;Mexico;1:0;Costa Rica; 11/09/12 20:00;Georgetown;Guyana;2:3;El Salvador; 11/09/12 20:05;Panama City;Panama;2:0;Canada; 11/09/12 20:11;Columbus;USA;1:0;Jamaica; ...

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