Incredible Footy Facts

[Punkt]

Benfica is the club that lost more international finals

1961 (Peñarol) Intercontinental Cup
1962 (Santos) Intercontinental Cup
1963 (Milan) CL
1965 (Inter) CL
1968 (Man Utd) CL
1983 (Anderlecht) UEFA Cup
1988 (PSV) CL
1990 (Milan) CL

bad record


now a good one

benfica won the 1972 portuguese title without any defeat
30 games 28 wins 2 draws

 

[Digitarius]

Stan Collymore is the first player to score for five different Premiership clubs - Nottingham Forest, Liverpool, Aston Villa, Leicester City, Bradford City.

 

[wat3rf0x]

Gary Linker did had never been carded in his career.

 

[Paul]

Originally posted by Digitarius
Stan Collymore is the first player to score for five different Premiership clubs - Nottingham Forest, Liverpool, Aston Villa, Leicester City, Bradford City.

hah

Has anyone got any stats on Alan Shearer?

 

[Fernandez]

The reason arsenal wear home red and away yellow was because of their disciplinary record..... Its true....

 

[JJ]

Yawn

 

[shokz]

Originally posted by JJ
Yawn

I agree, we cant have a decent thread without a single person letting there hatred get the better of them.

Come to think of it, thats a fact.

 

[jani]

Davids, Vieira, Reizeger, Kluivert, Desailly, Maresca and Toldo have all been Milan players!

Lazio could have had a team of Crespo, Vieri, Nedved, Veron, Stam, Nesta and Stankovic if they werent so stupid..

Henry once started a game for Juve and scored a hat-trick..

Rivaldo has actually scored with his 'useless' right foot..

Ronaldo has been to 3 World Cup's despite being only 27..

Kaká was Sao Paulo's most booked player last season despite being an attacking midfielder..

'Rivaldinho' is written on Rivaldo's boots..

Alex Del Piero and Filippo Inzaghi was one of Juve's most successful strikeforce but they hated each other so much one had to be sold to Milan..

Ivan Zamorano once played with the number '1+8' on his back..

Juve wear black and white because they copy Newcastle..

 

[Fernandez]

Becks had scored with his "weak" left foot against Chelsea....

Giggs broke his EPL OT duck against Liverpool....

Arsenal could not stop Harry Kewell to score against them in 3 occasions....

PSV Eindhoven owns the player that has the longest name in world football... Jan Vennegoor Of Hesselink... compare that to Stelios Giannakopoulos or Ruud van Nistelrooy....

Deportivo had won back-to-back 'pichichis'....

"Nedved is officially better than Zidane last season," confirmed UEFA....

Bayer Leverkusen is doing better than Barcelona as these two clubs under-achieved last season....

Steven Gerrard, prior to the match was sent off in a reserve derby against Everton. The incident also included Franny Jeffers....

Becks wore an adidas sweatshirt at the Commonwealth games last year....

Lippi and Fergie are very good friends....

Liverpool have a player named Welsh, which would delight JJ.... if he's Welsh....

 

[jani]

Maldini started his career as a right back

 

[jani]

Shevchenko's first footballing recognition was a top scorer award in a youth cup and he got Ian Rush's boots.. So Ian Rush is his idol

 

[namek14]

hierro was a striker!!!!!!
Milan Stojanovski for Partizan plays every position.

 

[Andrew]

Christiano Ronaldo was named after US President Ronald Reagan

And Ronaldinho means little Ronaldo

 

[Andrew]

ROFLMAO

In 1740 a football match was held at Kettering in Northamptonshire with 500 men on each side.


geeez hard work for the ref

 

[jackie4]

Argentina striker Bertoni was wearing the number 1 in the 1978 World Cup!

 

[numer20]

Michael Laudrup of Denmark only once scored in a game Denmark didn't win in a big tournament.

Denmark became 1992 European champions though they failed to qualify. Yugoslavia wasn't alloved to enter so Denmark stepped in.

 

[jackie4]

Originally posted by fifafanv1
man u are the longest club to have not been beaten at OT in CL.... for ????

6 years? I know that Monaco won there in 1997 but that's the last one I can remember

 

[J.Karlsson]

Originally posted by Carlos*ie4
Argentina striker Bertoni was wearing the number 1 in the 1978 World Cup!

Actually he didn't. Bertoni wore number 4. Norberto Alonso wore number 1, while their goalkeeper Ubaldo Fillol wore number 5.

In the 1982 World Cup, Ossie Ardiles wore the number 1 shirt.

 

[Hendrik]

Originally posted by fifafanv1
man u are the longest club to have not been beaten at OT in CL.... for ????

03/04/2001 ManU - Bayern 0-1

 

[VanTheMin]

becks wears victoria's underpants to sum up the day at night.true!!!!!!!!!!!!!
he also uses pluckers for his head