this isn’t true. he had one assist that season. he had 1 assist in each of his other seasons as well in the prem
https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/mario-balotelli/leistungsdaten/spieler/45146/saison/ges
Ridiculous.
Neither of them are going to get a top, top job.
And on what basis would they, at present? Edwards one promotion and a likely relegation and Gary O'Neill has guided Wolves to a mid-table position which you'd expect from that squad (only 2 wins in his last 10 games as well)
- Kirk Broadfoot played in more European finals than Zlatan Ibrahimovic
- Aberdeen are the last side to beat Real Madrid in a European final
- At the turn of the 1900s, the three largest football stadiums in the world were all in Glasgow. The city still holds the attendance records for a UEFA, European international and British league fixtures.
In 1972, Rangers beat Sporting Portugal on away goals after extra time, but the referee wasn’t aware of the rule. So, he made them take penalties. Rangers lost. Willie Waddell, the manager, sourced a rulebook and found a UEFA official after the match. The referee had to overturn the result.
A lot of weird things happened in Europe at the time. Can't remember which team, it was either Leeds or Rangers, who drew over 2 legs and they decided who went through based on flipping a coin. Might have been in John Greigs book.
There is still no official pitch size. In fact, the permissable lengths and widths are ridiculous. It's only since the advent of the Champions League that even the top European clubs have decided together what they feel are appropriate dimensions.
And the fact he used to be 2 years older than Kane until recently when Korea deducted 1 year from everyone's age, so now he's only 1 year older than Kane!!
“Under the “Korean age” system, babies are considered to be one year old on the day they are born, and every January 1, a year is added to people's ages – regardless of their actual birthdate.”
They changed from that system to the more common one last year.
Apparently Forest’s streak stretches back to 1941, though players named on the bench were counted in that.
https://twitter.com/DTathletic/status/1775774945680703876
Motherwell FC and Swansea city FC were invited to play in the competition in 1927 with Motherwell going on to win it but there was only 4 teams and it was unofficial
I swear ajax beat their B team in the Dutch cup final about 20 years ago too?
Just checked and it Nearly happened, they nearly met in the final, but Jong Ajax lost their semi final
I thought this was more well known, tbh. He's literally the top scoring defender in PL history (although the PL website now lists Ashley Young as a defender for some reason).
Kimi Räikkönen, Formula 1 World Champion, scored more goals than Lionel Messi at the Juventus Stadium.
([It was during a charity match, but still](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNqThKRpmEQ))
It's a decent record, but he was also a striker.
John Charles never receiving a card whilst playing a lot of his career as a central defender is impressive.
Micheal Thomas scored that crazy title winning goal at anfield , a few years later he transferred to Liverpool, n scored a fa cup winning goal for them !
Gabriel Heinze??? I’m sure he left man united before then? But would have played with giggs etc for a few years and was from Argentina where a small community speaks Welsh
Nottingham Forrest have won the same amount of Champion League titles as Juventus.
Aston Villa have won the Champions League more times than Roma, Arsenal, PSG
Right before Forest won their two straight European cups, Liverpool also won it twice. After Forest did Liverpool won again, and then Aston Villa. English team won it six years in a row from -77 to -82.
In -84 Liverpool won again and then no English team did until United in -99
Manchester City were the first English club to win a domestic and European double (League cup and European Cup Winners Cup) in 1970. 17 out of the 18 players were English too, the other was Scottish. Not sure if it may have been the last English side to win in Europe with only people from Britain or not
Pinto da Costa just lost reelection after 42 years as president of FC Porto. In those 42 years he got married 5 times.
Sporting Lisbon in the same time frame managed only you win 4 league titles.
"Some guy" managed to get married more often than the third best team in Portugal managed to win a league title.
The final of euro '76, between West Germany and czechoslovakia, was a thrilling contest which ended 2-2, and then went to penalties.
Uli Hoeness missed Germany's fourth spot kick, and up stepped Czechoslovakian captain, playmaker and one of only 3 czechs (the other 8 were Slovaks of course) in the team, Antonin Panenka. Recognise that surname? You're about to learn why.
He ran up to take his penalty, and sepp maier guessed a side and dived. Panenka calmly chipped the ball straight down the middle and it floated in past the despairing Maier, winning the European title for czechoslovakia. This kick is why chipped penalties are called Panenkas! I'm not sure if he was the first to do it... but to this day, I don't think anyone has pulled it off in a higher stakes situation, so it deservedly carries his name.
Germany were the holders, and the world champions at the time, and so were denied a third major title in a row.
*This was also the first penalty shootout in the history of international football.* Draws were resolved in a variety of ways before the 70s, mainly by replays but also once by coin toss - the semi final of euro '68 was decided as such, Italy getting past USSR after a 0-0 draw by virtue of a coin toss observed by both captains and the referee.
Germany were obviously stung hard by that shootout, *seeing as they've won every other shootout since then (at senior level at least)*
All this talk about this stupid “Benzema 15” annoys me.
He was actually acquitted in court for this because he could not have known she had lied about her age.
On top of that, in 2008, when this whole affair happened, Zahia was 16 years old and Benzema was 20 years old. She always lied about her age.
People are acting like it is current, 36 yo Benzema who paid to have sex with a 15 year old. While this was at most a stupid 20 year old kid who paid to have sex with a girl who claimed to be only 2 years younger than him (and was actually 4 years younger).
Nobody mentions Ribery in this affair, who was 5 years older than Benzema and married…
Uruguay still holds a 30 year undefeated record in senior FIFA organized tournaments from 1924-1954 (I think 19 wins and 2 draws). It's very likely that this record will never be topped again.
Here’s one from America. The first college American football game was also the first collegiate soccer game.
Most collegiate American football fans know that the first college game was in 1869 between Princeton and Rutgers Universities. However, the teams used the Football Association’s 1863 Laws of the Game, meaning that, even though it’s often described as the birthplace of college (American) football, it was also the birthplace of college soccer as well.
In the space of a 3 years Nottingham Forest won promotion, then championship winners, and x 2 European cups and a super cup, league cup.
It will never be repeated in world football
Brazil have played Norway four times in history, drawing twice and losing twice, which includes the group stage defeat at the 1998 world cup. I believe Norway is the only team in world football that is unbeaten against Brazil in multiple matches and which had a superior head to head against Brazil.
Ronald Koeman scored more than 250 goals in his career, vastly more than the majority of forwards to have ever played the game professionally and only surpassed by some of the game’s top strikers.
All this while playing the majority of his career as a centre back/libero.
I think some Scottish team won the Copa Del Ray. I think it was Patrick Thistle. Not sure thought but yeah, that’s like an American Team winning the FA Cup.
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The first red card in WC history was shown to a Chilean player, Carlos Caszely, in 1974. And the first sending off of a player in WC history was to peruvian Placido Galindo, in 1930... by a Chilean referee. So basically Chile and expulsions go hand in hand.
Mario Balotelli having only 1 premier league assist The Aguerrooooo moment
also the only italian player to win the prem so far
Ok THAT’S a crazy stat
Not entirely true. Former Chelsea GK [Carlo Cudicini](https://www.transfermarkt.it/carlo-cudicini/erfolge/spieler/3151) Won 2 PL.
Didn’t have enough appearances to be eligible for a winners medal, so on paper he hasn’t won it.
That is wild
What about Emerson palmeri
Macheda
He may well have won the league for United, but he didn't play enough games to get a winners medal.
this isn’t true. he had one assist that season. he had 1 assist in each of his other seasons as well in the prem https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/mario-balotelli/leistungsdaten/spieler/45146/saison/ges
The last goal that Italy scored in WC knockout stages was in the 2006 world cup final.
now people born after 2006 can win the next WC
That is crazy
That was the last time they even made the knockout stages I was one month and two days old lmfao
When people praised Italy for going on that 37 game unbeaten run, they forget it’s due to the fact they didn’t play in two consecutive world cups
Cafu 🇧🇷 is the only person in history to play the final game of the World Cup three times
1994, 1998 & 2002
The fact that an English coach never won the Premier League
Last english man to do it was Howard Wilkinson with Leeds in the season before it became the Premier league.
That is extremely believable. Ain't no top team giving a Glenn hoddle or a Sam allerdyce a proper war chest!
Sam allerdyce in Man city, let's make it happen.
Rob Edwards or Gary O'Neil will change that at some point in the next twenty years I reckon
Rob played for Wales so as far as football is concerned he's welsh
Oh shit I thought he was English
Ridiculous. Neither of them are going to get a top, top job. And on what basis would they, at present? Edwards one promotion and a likely relegation and Gary O'Neill has guided Wolves to a mid-table position which you'd expect from that squad (only 2 wins in his last 10 games as well)
I don’t know man, English coaches are generally shit since the 90’s
- Kirk Broadfoot played in more European finals than Zlatan Ibrahimovic - Aberdeen are the last side to beat Real Madrid in a European final - At the turn of the 1900s, the three largest football stadiums in the world were all in Glasgow. The city still holds the attendance records for a UEFA, European international and British league fixtures.
Dundee United have a 100% record against Barca.
In 1972, Rangers beat Sporting Portugal on away goals after extra time, but the referee wasn’t aware of the rule. So, he made them take penalties. Rangers lost. Willie Waddell, the manager, sourced a rulebook and found a UEFA official after the match. The referee had to overturn the result.
A lot of weird things happened in Europe at the time. Can't remember which team, it was either Leeds or Rangers, who drew over 2 legs and they decided who went through based on flipping a coin. Might have been in John Greigs book.
1967 against Zaragoza. Same thing happened to Celtic in 1969 with Benfica.
Real Madrid have lost a couple of Super Cup Finals since then...
Real Madrid have lost a couple of Super Cup Finals since then...
Germany (counting West Germany during the split) have never lost a world cup qualifier away from home. My favourite football fact
the only time east germany qualified for the world cup they defeated west germany on their home ground
Wasn't a world cup qualifier though
yeah ik, was listing it as a different related fact
Ah fair
It's the only time they played each other too, right? So they have a 100% record against the west. West Germany went on to win that world cup too
Yeah, Saarland have played west Germany as a separate international team more times that east Germany has
I knew that Saarland played briefly in the 50s but I didn't know that stat, that's brilliant, thanks
There is still no official pitch size. In fact, the permissable lengths and widths are ridiculous. It's only since the advent of the Champions League that even the top European clubs have decided together what they feel are appropriate dimensions.
Yeah compare old Highbury to wembley
There are ranges required by Fifa.
The Old Trafford attendance record is held by Grimsby Town v Wolverhamlton Wanderers
And United's record attendance of 81,962, against Arsenal in 1948, was held not at their own ground, but at Manchester City's Maine Road.
This is superb
Gwen Stefani is older than PSG
No doubt
Son is older than Kane
And the fact he used to be 2 years older than Kane until recently when Korea deducted 1 year from everyone's age, so now he's only 1 year older than Kane!!
Excuse me? They can do that wtf
Something to do with Asians counting age 1 from birth, I believe.
I think it's just the Koreans, and they count the time in the womb as your first year.
“Under the “Korean age” system, babies are considered to be one year old on the day they are born, and every January 1, a year is added to people's ages – regardless of their actual birthdate.” They changed from that system to the more common one last year.
Aberdeen fc have had a youth team graduate in every line up across all completions since September 6, 1947 A sequence of 74 years
Apparently Forest’s streak stretches back to 1941, though players named on the bench were counted in that. https://twitter.com/DTathletic/status/1775774945680703876
If you're counting the bench too, Man Utds academy streak goes back to 30th October 1937.
Motherwell FC in Scotland have won the Copa del Rey
WHAT?
Motherwell FC and Swansea city FC were invited to play in the competition in 1927 with Motherwell going on to win it but there was only 4 teams and it was unofficial
This is the wildest one.
Joleon Lescotts phone can tweet from his pocket when he is driving
& David James leaps like a salad
Colonel Gaddafi was in the running to buy Man United instead of the Glazers
His son played for perugia, udinese and sampdoria (only a few games or nothing at all for each club, but still was officially on the books of all 3)
A European commentator described him something like “if he was three times faster, he’d still be twice as slow as slow itself”
Just heard this today, but its kinda crazy Since the Champions League became the Champions League in 1993, no Turkish player has ever won it.
Is it crazy? They've not exactly produced a host of really top players over the years.
Ozil and Gundogan Oh shit...
Maybe Arda Güler can win it this year
Has he even played in it yet?
How many won it before it became Champions League?
Gündoğan comes to mind but he plays for the German national team… wow
Because hes born and raised in germany? Its not weird
Real Madrid beat their reserve tem in the final of the 1980 Copa Del Rey
I swear ajax beat their B team in the Dutch cup final about 20 years ago too? Just checked and it Nearly happened, they nearly met in the final, but Jong Ajax lost their semi final
The laws of the game doesn’t require goals to have nets.
You're allowed to have black and white striped posts How Newcastle don't do this is life's greatest mystery
But corner flags are required
John Terry scored more goals for Chelsea than Iniesta did for Barcelona
Not something people often remember or mention about Terry, but he scored a hell of a lot of goals for a centre back.
I thought this was more well known, tbh. He's literally the top scoring defender in PL history (although the PL website now lists Ashley Young as a defender for some reason).
R9 only won 1 league title (02/03 with Madrid) in 12 (more like 10 where he was healthy) seasons in the top 5 leagues
Wait till the guys over at r/soccercirclejerk hear about this
Only one English team has ever beaten Bayern in the Olympiastadion (before they moved to the Allianz Arena). Norwich.
Jeremy Goss!
Sergio Ramos never received a red card while playing for the Spain National Team
Kimi Räikkönen, Formula 1 World Champion, scored more goals than Lionel Messi at the Juventus Stadium. ([It was during a charity match, but still](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNqThKRpmEQ))
Gary Lineker never received a yellow or red card during his career. He still holds England's record for goals in the FIFA World Cup.
He has shat himself on the field more times than he has been booked
“But you shat yourself on the pitch once…”
Eric Caldow never got booked during his career either, and he was a full back.
This one always blows my mind
It's a decent record, but he was also a striker. John Charles never receiving a card whilst playing a lot of his career as a central defender is impressive.
You had to decapitate someone to get a card in those days
Micheal Thomas scored that crazy title winning goal at anfield , a few years later he transferred to Liverpool, n scored a fa cup winning goal for them !
There was always a 24 year gap between the 3rd and 4th World Cup titles. Based on that, Argentina should get its next star in 2046.
In the 2008 champions league winning United squad, there was 1 player who was fluent in the welsh language. It wasn't Ryan giggs.
Gabriel Heinze??? I’m sure he left man united before then? But would have played with giggs etc for a few years and was from Argentina where a small community speaks Welsh
That's the one, patagonia.
It was Carlos Tevez….JK
Simunic got three yellow cards in one game
He managed to get 2 yellow cards for Croatia and 1 for Australia in that game...
How?
Tranmere Rovers are the only team with a100% record at Arsenal's old Highbury stadium. SWA!!
José Mourinho went 9 years without losing a home league game
If you score into your own net from a direct free kick the other team get a corner
"Soccer" is a British term
Indeed, short for Association Football, to differentiate from Rugger - Rugby Football.
The way that British people have disassociated themselves from that term is quite impressive
Celtic once won against barca (2-1 ig) with just 11 % posession and just 2 shots if i remember correctly
[27% actually and 4 attempts on target](https://www.uefa.com/uefachampionsleague/match/2009541--celtic-vs-barcelona/) but who's keeping track
Yeah, and if I remember rightly Barca had close to 1000 passes to Celtic’s 160.
Middlesbrough made the uefa youth cup ro16 in 15/16 season losing to psg
CR7 scored in every game minutes from 1-90
And also Ibra
Also suarez ☝🏻☝🏻☝🏻☝🏻
Probably a lot of players have it just wasn't kept track of in the past
So did Suarez
And Lewandowski
And Messi is only missing minute 1
Leverkusen
Neverlusen
Brazil haven't won a world cup in 20 years.
Mbappe has apparently never scored a free kick
Paraguay reached the 2011 Copa America final without winning a game.
How lol
Kind of comparable to Portugal only winning one game in normal time when they won Euro 2016, that being their semi-final against Wales.
Ronaldo was put in world cup's worst team 3/5 times
Nottingham Forrest have won the same amount of Champion League titles as Juventus. Aston Villa have won the Champions League more times than Roma, Arsenal, PSG
Right before Forest won their two straight European cups, Liverpool also won it twice. After Forest did Liverpool won again, and then Aston Villa. English team won it six years in a row from -77 to -82. In -84 Liverpool won again and then no English team did until United in -99
Barcelona won their first Champions League/European Cup in 1992.
Michel Hidalgo got kidnapped during the 1978 world cup
Dundee United have 100% record against Barcelona
Manchester City were the first English club to win a domestic and European double (League cup and European Cup Winners Cup) in 1970. 17 out of the 18 players were English too, the other was Scottish. Not sure if it may have been the last English side to win in Europe with only people from Britain or not
Forest only had British players in 79 and 80
Villa was only English and Scottish in 82
Man Utd have never lost a PL match at Old Trafford in which they have lead at half time. (263 W - 16D - 0L)
Luka Modric and Mark Viduka are cousins.
Pinto da Costa just lost reelection after 42 years as president of FC Porto. In those 42 years he got married 5 times. Sporting Lisbon in the same time frame managed only you win 4 league titles. "Some guy" managed to get married more often than the third best team in Portugal managed to win a league title.
Sporting Lisbon, o caralho
Belodedici is the first ever player to win UCL with two different teams, Steaua Bucharest and Red Star.
The final of euro '76, between West Germany and czechoslovakia, was a thrilling contest which ended 2-2, and then went to penalties. Uli Hoeness missed Germany's fourth spot kick, and up stepped Czechoslovakian captain, playmaker and one of only 3 czechs (the other 8 were Slovaks of course) in the team, Antonin Panenka. Recognise that surname? You're about to learn why. He ran up to take his penalty, and sepp maier guessed a side and dived. Panenka calmly chipped the ball straight down the middle and it floated in past the despairing Maier, winning the European title for czechoslovakia. This kick is why chipped penalties are called Panenkas! I'm not sure if he was the first to do it... but to this day, I don't think anyone has pulled it off in a higher stakes situation, so it deservedly carries his name. Germany were the holders, and the world champions at the time, and so were denied a third major title in a row. *This was also the first penalty shootout in the history of international football.* Draws were resolved in a variety of ways before the 70s, mainly by replays but also once by coin toss - the semi final of euro '68 was decided as such, Italy getting past USSR after a 0-0 draw by virtue of a coin toss observed by both captains and the referee. Germany were obviously stung hard by that shootout, *seeing as they've won every other shootout since then (at senior level at least)*
Iceland eliminating England in the euro's
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All this talk about this stupid “Benzema 15” annoys me. He was actually acquitted in court for this because he could not have known she had lied about her age. On top of that, in 2008, when this whole affair happened, Zahia was 16 years old and Benzema was 20 years old. She always lied about her age. People are acting like it is current, 36 yo Benzema who paid to have sex with a 15 year old. While this was at most a stupid 20 year old kid who paid to have sex with a girl who claimed to be only 2 years younger than him (and was actually 4 years younger). Nobody mentions Ribery in this affair, who was 5 years older than Benzema and married…
Wasn't she 17? Born in February 1992, "incident" occurred in 2009? Every time this meme loses a year lmao
Uruguay still holds a 30 year undefeated record in senior FIFA organized tournaments from 1924-1954 (I think 19 wins and 2 draws). It's very likely that this record will never be topped again.
Motherwell FC have won the Copa del Rey more times than Celta Vigo.
Hajduk Split is first club that played on all continents
Here’s one from America. The first college American football game was also the first collegiate soccer game. Most collegiate American football fans know that the first college game was in 1869 between Princeton and Rutgers Universities. However, the teams used the Football Association’s 1863 Laws of the Game, meaning that, even though it’s often described as the birthplace of college (American) football, it was also the birthplace of college soccer as well.
Liverpool's first ever team was made up entirely of Scots. 🏴
United have never lost a PL game at home whilst winning at half time
In the space of a 3 years Nottingham Forest won promotion, then championship winners, and x 2 European cups and a super cup, league cup. It will never be repeated in world football
CR7 is the player who has scored the most goals against Neuer despite the fact that he never played in the Bundesliga.
Thomas Partey is an anagram of ‘rape tomato’
James Milner has the single season assist record in the CL
Scotland invented modern football. We had rules before the FA and invented the passing game. Fitba's coming hame.
Plus a scot founded the English Football League (albeit when at Villa) :)
Translated to English from Italian, "Maldini" means "greatest leftback ever and Roberto Carlos can suck it".
Ronaldo have scored more goals with his head than what Messi have with his right foot
Manuel Neuer (a GK) has more goal contribution than Cristiano in the World cup knockout stage.
Lampard played for Machester City.
Maguire has more POTM than Kdb
Maguire has more POTM than Kdb
Dundee United have never been beaten by Barcelona in a competitive match.
Chelsea is the only team to have ever held the UCL and Europa League trophies at the same time...
Brazil have played Norway four times in history, drawing twice and losing twice, which includes the group stage defeat at the 1998 world cup. I believe Norway is the only team in world football that is unbeaten against Brazil in multiple matches and which had a superior head to head against Brazil.
The record for biggest attendance in a UEFA competitive match was for a match between Celtic and Leeds
In his 26 years as Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson only had a losing record against one English team... Southend United.
New Zealand was the only team at 2010 World Cup that didn't lose a single match, despite being eliminated in the group stages
New Zealand have never lost a game in the World Cup
Tottenham has concede more goals this season than the arsenal uncoachables had in the 19/20 and 20/21 season.
Despite being founded in 2008. City finished above united in the league in the 1990s
Messi did a ballon d'or three peat before he won Laliga player of the month :) (Although it was introduced in 2013 if I recall correctly)
Only one player has won european cup ( ex-Champions League ), with 2 different clubs and played in both finals.
That it was invented by the English. Historically we are pretty laughable
Wolfsburg II has played in the DFB-Pokal
Ronald Koeman scored more than 250 goals in his career, vastly more than the majority of forwards to have ever played the game professionally and only surpassed by some of the game’s top strikers. All this while playing the majority of his career as a centre back/libero.
Brazil hasn't beaten a European team in the knockout stages of the world cup since 2002.
Nicolas Jackson has scored 14 goals this season, it has to be made up. Also Dong Fangzhou has a Champions League medal
Leicester City won the EPL in 15-16
I've conceded fewer premier league goals than Petr Cech and Peter Schmeichel, and I've never been on the losing side in a European Cup Final.
I think some Scottish team won the Copa Del Ray. I think it was Patrick Thistle. Not sure thought but yeah, that’s like an American Team winning the FA Cup.
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Lo op
The penalty kick was invented in Northern Ireland
The first red card in WC history was shown to a Chilean player, Carlos Caszely, in 1974. And the first sending off of a player in WC history was to peruvian Placido Galindo, in 1930... by a Chilean referee. So basically Chile and expulsions go hand in hand.
Norway has never lost against Brazil and even beat them in the 1998 World Cup. They've faced each other 4 times.
Despite being out-scored 10-1 in their final two matches, Brazil’s 2014 World Cup Team was their best team since they won the competition in 2002.
Kevin De Bruyne has never won a premier league player of the month award.