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Some Strange But True And Amazing Football Facts.
Jan 15 2017 at 05:56am
Some Strange But True And
Amazing Football Facts.
1. When Barcelona’s Xavi was 19,
he almost signed for Milan.
His father gave his “yes” to him
but his mother said “if Xavi leaves
Barca, I will divorce!”
2. While Zlatan Ibrahimovich’s
youth team was 4-0 down, he
came in as a substitute and
scored 8 goals.
3. Juan Mata is the first player in
history to have joined Manchester
United from Chelsea.
4. Xherdan Shaqiri has so far won
league titles in every year of
his professional career.
5. Alex Song has 27 siblings – 17
sisters and 10 brothers.
6. Ryan Giggs is the only Premier
League player to score 100
goals without scoring a hat- trick.
7. Cristiano Ronaldo was named
after former US President Ronald
Reagan.
8. Steven Gerrard has swapped
his jersey with more than a
hundred players, but never with
a Man United player.
9. Ronaldinho first gained media
attention when his youth team
won 23 – 0. He scored all
23 goals.
10. Chelsea have been relegated
more times than they have
won the English league.
11. The difference in Messi’s age
and Ronaldo’s age is 869 days,
the same difference as
between Messi’s son and Ronaldo’s son.
12. Zinedine Zidane was never
caught in offside position in his
whole career.
13. Only one GOLD Premier
League trophy has been awarded
and it was to Arsenal because
in 2003/2004 season, they didn’t
lose any match.
14. Brazilian legend, Pele, scored
92 hat-tricks, 4 goals on
31 occasions, 5 goals on
6 occasions, and 8 goals on an
occasion.
15. When Mourinho says you
have a bright future, it means
you can’t make his team at
the present.
16. Cristiano Ronaldo
was expelled from school at the
age of 14 after throwing a chair
at his teacher for mocking
his family’s financial status.
17. CR7 has no tattoos because he
frequently gives blood and
getting a tattoo will render
him unable to do so for
6 months.
18. Real Madrid sold 50,000
James Rodriguez jerseys in one
day. Juventus sold 0
(zero) Bendtner jersey in
one season.
19. In January 2003, Louis Van
Gaal was SACKED by Barcelona
after leaving them just 3
points above the relegation zone.
20. Louis Van Gaal and David
Moyes attended the same
Tactical Management School.
21. Arsenal bought Anelka,
Overmars, Petit, Henry, Vieira,
Fabregas, RVP, Adebayor
and Nasri all together for
£42 million. Then sold them for
£206 million.
22. Hearts of Oak never lost a
game in the Ghana Premier
League but they couldn’t
clinch the league title.
Which one of them do you find
interesting!!!
