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;
-- qualifying for the finals in Brazil 2014 --
-- USA, September

You don't have one, but many files, all with the same format. You now want to unify all the information in one single file. Let's begin by reading the files:

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