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!!!
