1. The football chant "Ole-Ole-Ole" comes from Spain, where the word "Ole" was shouted at bullfights or flamenco dances. And there it appeared by transformation from the word “Allah”, which was uttered during prayers by the Arabs who captured Spain in the 8th century.
2. Julio Iglesias was a football goalkeeper in his youth and played for Real Madrid. However, his football career was cut short at the age of 20 when he was involved in a car accident and was hospitalized for three years. He was paralyzed, only his arms could work freely. Iglesias learned to play the guitar and subsequently became a famous musician.
3. During a football match in Brazil, the wind blew a group of paratroopers onto the football field. One of the paratroopers fell on the goalkeeper at the moment when the goalkeeper was preparing to take possession of the ball. As a result, the ball ended up in the goal and the referee, despite the protests of the injured team, counted the goal, explaining the appearance of the paratroopers as “the intervention of a higher power.”
4. Football is officially banned in six countries, including Afghanistan, Kampuchea and Greenland. Interestingly, football (soccer, that is, European football) is allowed to be played in the state of Utah, USA, only if the field is located no closer than 1.5 miles from the church. For baseball, golf and American football, the distance is 0.5 miles.
5. It is known that the British are ardent football fans who are passionate about their football clubs and are ready to do anything for their sake. But it turns out that the annual damage to private and public property caused by English football fans valued at forty million pounds.
6. On November 3, 1969, the “most undisciplined” match in football history took place in Great Britain. Tongham Youth Club (Surrey) and How-Lee (Hants) fought so hard for the local cup that the referee had to punish all 22 players, including one sent to hospital, and even the linesman.
7. Longest Soccer game played August 1-3, 1981 by two Irish teams football club"Callinafersie" in Kerry. The winner was revealed only after... 65 hours 1 minute.
8. Fog is common in the British Isles. But an unusual incident occurred in a meeting between two Scottish teams. The fog thickened so much that the players spent a long time looking for the ball, partners, and opponents. At some point, the referee thought there were too many players on the field. The first thing he did was run to the benches and saw that they were empty. The referee immediately interrupted the game. As it turned out, there were thirty players on the field at the same time.
9. The Brazilian football team "Cacova", which had good results, was unexpectedly disbanded by order of the Minister of the Interior. The fact is that the team consisted mainly of police, and during matches with its participation entire “outfits” of fans in police uniforms arrived at the stadium. An orgy of crime began in the city. But the order in the stands was exemplary.
10. A rather interesting match took place in the Polish city of Bydgoszcz, which attracted many spectators. Reporters from local newspapers met with a team entirely staffed by representatives of one family - the sons of the bricklayer Osinski. And although 11 guys aged 15 to 28 years lost, the audience warmly welcomed the “creator” of the team.
11. An experiment was once carried out at the Buenos Aires stadium, the purpose of which was to prove the superiority of single football players over married ones. Everything went calmly until the penalty against the married couple. When the penalty was taken, ... the wives jumped onto the field. They beat the judge and awarded the victory to their husbands. To avoid trouble, the bachelors did not protest. The experiment failed.
12. During a friendly football match in the Italian town of Asti, the center forward of the local team, Maschio, missed the ball and picked the ground. So much so that he seriously injured his leg. When the soil was examined, they discovered a skeleton, which turned out to be a valuable historical find. Maschio received a cash prize and a badge “for his passion for archaeological research.”
13. Brazilian football defender Pineiro was called the record holder for goals... into his own goal. In just one season he scored 10 goals against his team. Pineiro was transferred to attack. In the first match, the “record holder” again managed to hit his own goal. When the football player turned 25, his teammates presented him with a compass on which was engraved: “Remember, the enemy is on the other side.”
14. The 2005 English League Cup final set a stadium noise record. After Liverpool's Riise scored against London's Chelsea, the Merseyside fans screamed at 130.7 decibels. The achievement was included in the Guinness Book of Records. The previous record was 128.74 decibels and was set in 2000 at the Denver Broncos match.
15. A kind of record holder is defender Mazzia, who played for the Italian club Brescia in the mid-60s. In the 38th second of the meeting with the Mantova team, he scored the ball into his own goal, creating the fastest own goal.
16. There are two known cases where referees showed a red card to themselves: Andy Wayne, who refereed the Peterborough North End - Royal Mail match, and Melvin Sylvester at the Southampton Arms - Hurstbourne Tarrant British Legion match. The first one removed himself from the field during the game to avoid a conflict with the goalkeeper, and the second one for a brawl with a player.
17. In 1959, in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, the stadium administration mistakenly scheduled handball and football matches at the same time. None of the athletes wanted to give up the right to host the game. As a result, the matches were played simultaneously and were completed, with four teams and two goals on the field.
18. The bill to allow football games on Saturdays was appealed in the Israeli parliament a record number of times - 36! Consideration of this bill has been going on for seven years.
19. The Botswana national team has not won a single international match in its twenty-eight years of existence. The team has had more than fifty head coaches, four of whom were former Soviet athletes.
20. During the game, the Italian goalkeeper Grosso advised the referee to wear glasses, for which he was sent off the field. During the investigation of this incident, it turned out that Grosso is the owner of an optical store, and the arbitrator has really poor eyesight. In this regard, the goalkeeper’s words addressed to the referee were regarded by the disciplinary commission not as an insult, but as useful and very rational advice. It ended with the goalkeeper being forgiven, and the judge buying glasses from his store.
21. At the end of the 50s in the Italian city of Siena football referees We decided to play ourselves. We made up two teams, took to the field, and the match began. Everything was going fine until a jump ball was scored against one of the teams. It was then that all 22 players, each of whom, due to their duties, knew and knew how to interpret the rules, began to prove that they were right. Word after word, things got so bad that the police had to intervene.
22. A rare incident occurred in Spain in a game between the second league teams San Isidro and Olimpico Carrante. With 3 minutes left, players from both teams, dissatisfied with the refereeing, surrounded the referee, trying to reason with him. And not only with words and gestures... In this critical situation, the referee, remaining completely calm, took out a red card and showed it to all twenty-two participants in the match!
23. In the 1978 Greek Championship game, Ethnikos hosted PAOK. Having opened the scoring, the guests ran up to the substitutes' bench and vigorously shared their joy with its inhabitants, not paying attention to the referee's offer to continue the match. Without thinking twice, the Ethnikos players, in the absence of opponents, started from the center, walked unhindered to their goal and equalized the score.
24. In 1891, Irish football rules expert John Penalty proposed the introduction of a penalty kick for foul play or handball intentionally committed by a defending team player within its penalty area. For the first time such a blow was performed in the Irish football league. Now all over the world it is called a penalty kick.
25. In the Spanish city of Fuente, the local team hosted football players from the Gonsha club. A few minutes passed, and the guests were leading 2:0. And suddenly an angry bull appears on the field, as if in a bullfighting arena, then another, then a third. Players and judges who did not have the skills of a matador rushed in all directions. The public followed suit. The referee, who barely had time to hide in the locker room, cautiously looked out the window: the bulls were still rushing across the field. The game had to be cancelled. It soon became clear that the bulls
prepared for bullfighting, were released by an avid fan of the local club in order to prevent a major loss for his team.
26. The driver of the Bucharest-Belgrade express only at the last moment managed to avoid a collision with a man sprawled on the rails. Radanovic, a football fan from Yugoslavia, turned out to be a desperate daredevil. He stopped the train so as not to be late for a football match in Belgrade.
27. The defeat of the Honduras national football team by the El Salvador national team in the playoff matches of the qualifying stage of the 1969 FIFA World Cup was the direct cause of the six-day war between these countries.
28. It is known that Lev Yashin was not only a football goalkeeper, but also a hockey goalkeeper. In 1953, he won the USSR Hockey Cup and bronze medalist at the USSR Championship. They already wanted to invite Yashin to the hockey team for the World Cup, but he decided to concentrate on football.
29. On March 20, 1976, Aston Villa player Chris Nicholl scored two goals against both Leicester City and his own goal. The match ended with the score 2:2.
30. In 1939, the Vienna club Rapid met Frankfurt in the final match of the unified German championship and scored the decisive three goals in the last 15 minutes. Since then, a tradition has been established at Rapid's home matches - during the last 15 minutes of the match, fans rhythmically and continuously applaud
Many football fans think that 90 minutes of a match is too short. The most desperate fans can play football even for more than a day. So, today the longest football match is considered to be the match that took place on April 11-12, 2009 in Great Britain between the team of the Bristol Football Academy and Leeds Badgers. This match lasted 36 hours and ended in a victory for Leeds with a score of 285–255. Leeds striker Adam McPhee especially distinguished himself - he scored 75 goals.
Each team had 18 players, each of whom played approximately 18 hours. It is estimated that the players ran an average of 70 kilometers during this match. Moreover, even during breaks, players were not allowed to leave the field.
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Sometimes incredible things happen in football that the world has never seen before. Some players score fantastic goals from long distances, others hit the ball with incredible force, after which it flies into the goal net with great speed, while others are distinguished by a large number of goals scored in one match or season. In general, something happens that has not happened before, that is, one or another record is set or surpassed. Exactly about the 10 most incredible records in football we'll talk today.
Farthest goal (Asmir Begovic - 91.9 m.)
In 2013, the English Premier League match between Stoke City and Southampton took place, in which the Potters’ goalkeeper Asmir Begovic scored a goal. In football, of course, there are cases when goalkeepers act as scorers, but this mainly happens when playing standard provisions in the last minutes of the match. Our case is special in that Begovic scored a goal from his own penalty area. He simply kicked the ball away, which flew to the opponent's goal and treacherously jumped over Southampton goalkeeper Artut Boruc, ending up in the net. That goal was scored from a distance of 91.9 meters.
Interesting fact. About a year earlier, before Begovic's sensational strike, Everton goalkeeper Tim Howard had also scored a goal in a similar style.
Most red cards in one match (Claypole – Victorano Arensa – 36)
The Argentine 5th Division match between Claypole and Victorano Arenasa went down in football history thanks to the huge number of red cards. The meeting started quite calmly, but after the score was 2:0, the Victoriano Arenas players were outraged by many of the referee’s decisions, and in the end, everything escalated into a fight. The main referee of the match, Damian Rubino, decided to punish the participants with a mass brawl. He issued as many as 36 red cards, sending off all 22 players from the first team, as well as many substitutes and members of the coaching staff. Rubino can be called a real daredevil, because not every modern referee can dare to send off 2-3 players in a match, but he left as many as 36 overboard.
The most expensive football player transfer (Neymar - € 222 million)
Football madness cannot be stopped. It would seem that the €94 million paid by Real Madrid to Manchester United for the transfer of Cristiano Ronaldo will remain a transfer record for a long time. However, a few years later, Gareth Bale and then Paul Pogba were sold by their clubs for even more money: € 100 and € 105 million, respectively. The madness didn't stop there. In the summer of 2017, the French Paris Saint-Germain paid the Spanish Barcelona for the Brazilian Neymar € 222 million. This is by far the most expensive player purchase in football. I wonder how long this transfer record will last?
Record for most goals scored in one calendar year (Leo Messi - 91)
This is interesting. The Zambian Football Federation does not recognize the achievement of the Argentinean Messi. In their opinion, Zambian striker Godfrey Chital scored the most goals in a year, allegedly scoring 107 times in the opponent’s goal.
Most goals by a single player at the World Cup (Juste Fontaine - 13)
At the 1958 World Cup, Frenchman Juste Fontaine scored 13 goals. Fontaine scored a hat-trick in the team's first game at the group stage, then scored a brace against Yugoslavia and scored another goal against the Scots. In the quarter-final game against Northern Ireland, Juste scored a brace, and also celebrated one goal in the semi-final of the tournament against the Brazilians, which France eventually lost with a score of 5:2. In the match for third place, Fontaine scored 4 more goals, bringing his tally in the tournament to 13 goals. By the way, .
Most goals scored by a goalkeeper (Rogerio Ceni - 135)
A goalkeeper has one most important task on the field - to defend his goal. However, for some goalkeepers, the work associated only with protecting their own goal seems boring, and they decide to test themselves as a scorer. Such keepers in football history There are only a few, but they exist. The main one of these goalkeeper-scorers is Rogerio Ceni. The Brazilian played for Sao Paulo, where he spent more than 20 years and won many titles.
Ceni also excelled as a scorer. During his career, the player scored 135 goals in all tournaments. He scored these goals from free kicks and penalties. For example, the famous English midfielder Ryan Giggs scored only 111 goals during the same playing period of his career.
5 Champions League Cups won in a row (Real Madrid 1955-1960)
From 1955 to 1960, Real Madrid destroyed all their rivals on the continent, winning 5 UEFA Champions League Cups in a row. This record still remains unbroken, and certainly, against the backdrop of a significant evolution in the teams’ tactics and the skill of the players, it is unlikely that anyone will be able to repeat such an achievement. It is worth noting that in the current realities it is not possible to win the Champions League, even twice in a row. Only in the 2015-16 and 2016-17 seasons did the same Real manage to win the tournament twice.
Largest attendance at a football match (Brazil - Uruguay: 210,000 people)
The 1950 World Cup final with the participation of the national teams of Brazil and Uruguay, held at the Maracana stadium, was called “Maracanazo”. According to official figures, 173,850 tickets were sold for the match, but unofficial sources claim that 210,000 people were in the stadium at the time of the game. Then there was no such strict control regarding security measures at the stadium, and many fans without tickets made their way into the stands in order to watch the most interesting match.
The most productive match in history (Adema – Stade Olympique l’Emirne – 149:0)
The Madagascar championship match between Adema and Stade Olympique l'Emirne, which took place on October 31, 2002, was included in the Guinness Book of Records as the most productive in football. That game was part of a 4-team tournament. The SOE players were dissatisfied with the actions of the chief referee in the last game, who, with his decisions, deprived the team of the chance to become a champion. For the next match against Adema, the SOE players took to the field and, unexpectedly for everyone, began scoring own goals. In 90 minutes of play, they managed to score 149 times against their goalkeeper. 149:0 is the final score of the game.
Such a protest from the players did not go unpunished. The Madagascar Football Federation suspended head coach Hem from football for several years, and also banned some players from playing until the end of the season.
Fewest wins in a single season in the English Premier League (Derby County - 1)
Such a sad football record belongs to Derby County. Among all the teams participating in the 2007/08 Premier League season, Derby turned out to be the weakest. In 38 rounds, the Rams managed to win only 1 match. They lost 29 matches (another record), scored only 20 goals, and conceded 89. At the end of the season, Derby became the weakest club in the Premier League with 11 points to its credit. As a result, Derby took last place in the standings and was relegated.
Most international goals (Ali Daei - 109)
Over a 13-year career, Iranian Ali Daei managed to play 149 matches for the national team, in which he scored 109 goals. Daei is considered one of the greatest football players in Iranian history. At the club level, the striker managed to play in one of the strongest leagues in Europe - the Bundesliga. He represented Hertha and Bayern. During his time at Bayern, Ali became the first Iranian player to play in the UEFA Champions League.
The strongest kick in football (Hulk - 214 km/h)
At one time one of the most strong blows In football, Brazilian defender Roberto Carlos was in charge, but now the Hulk has the most powerful blow. The Brazilian winger demonstrated his cannon in the match against Shakhtar Donetsk, when he was still playing for Porto. Hulk took a shot from outside the penalty area, after which the ball went into the goal at crazy speed. Shakhtar goalkeeper Andriy Pyatov was powerless against such a shot. The flight speed of that ball was 214 km/h, which is an unsurpassed record today.
1. Which goalkeeper scored more than 100 goals?
Rogerio Muque Ceni is a Brazilian goalkeeper. World champion 2002 as part of the Brazilian national team. He has been playing for the Sao Paulo club since 1992. Officially recognized as the goalkeeper who scored the most goals in history (116 goals).
2. Which judge removed himself?
Referee Andy Vane sent himself off the field in the 63rd minute, showing himself a red card.
This unique event in the history of world football was preceded by the following sequence of events. In the 63rd minute, Royal Mail scored a goal against Peterborough goalkeeper Richard McGuffin, thus taking the lead 2:1. However, MacGuffin, believing that the ball was scored in violation of the rules, criticized the referee.
Wayne did not remain in debt. The 39-year-old referee ran up to MacGuffin and, using profanity liberally, told him to shut up. Then, as if having come to his senses, the referee took out a red card, but showed it not to the goalkeeper, but to himself, after which he blew the whistle to end the game and walked off the field.
3. Which club won 149:0?
In the Madagascar football championship, the Adem Club beat Olympic with a score of 149:0!
Olympic, which was playing away, did not agree with one of the decisions of the match referee, and began kicking goals into their own goal as a sign of protest. We managed to score - 149!
4. In which match were 36 players sent off?
In the Paraguayan junior league match between Teniente Farina and Libertad, the referee sent off all 36 players from both teams for fighting.
5. The longest match in football history?
The longest match lasted 36 hours! It took place on April 11-12, 2009 in England, two English teams played: Leeds Badgers and the Bristol Football Academy team.
6. In which match were 540 goals scored?
During the entire period of the above football match, 540 goals were scored! And the match itself ended with a score of 255-285.
7. Who scored 75 goals in one match?
In the same match, Adam McPhee, playing for Leeds Badgers, scored 75 goals.
8. Who is the “barefoot football player”?
There are several possible answers to this question. Firstly, there is an expression in Portuguese that means "barefoot footballer", derived from this expression is the word PELE.
There was also a case in the history of football when a football player scored barefoot at the World Cup. It was Leonidas. In one of the matches, his boots became unusable, and he was forced to play barefoot for extra time.
9. Who scored 3 own goals in one match?
Belgian footballer Stan van den Buys scored 3 own goals at once in the national championship match between Germinal Eckeren and Anderlecht in the 1995-96 season, which is a record. Anderlecht won 3:2 without scoring on their own.
10. How did the referee score 2 goals in one match?
It happens! The referee scored two goals in one match. In the first case, the ball flew into the goal after a ricochet from his leg, in the second - from his head. Fortunately, both teams suffered from the judge, and therefore he did not get any nuts. Moreover, the meeting of Spanish fourth division clubs ended in a draw
Cool scorers, longest streaks
and big matches - remember the glorious ones
pages in the history of world championships
Longest winning streak
11 matches
Brazil (2002-2006)
The Canarinhas had an incredible tournament in Korea and Japan in 2002, winning all seven matches and capturing their fifth World Cup in their history. Four years later in Germany, the beginning was also a sight for sore eyes - four victories in a row, a confident exit to the quarterfinals and... defeat by the magnificent France (0:1), which was rushing at full speed to the final, but then did not yet know how tragically it would end for it and Zidane's meeting there with Italy.
Player with the most goals in the final stages
Miroslav Klose
16 goals
Germany
The German football legend Klose played in four world championships: in 2002 he lost in the final, in 2006, at the home tournament, he was limited to bronze, four years later in South Africa he again only reached third place and, finally, in Brazil 2014, at the age of 36, he raised the victorious Cup over his head, scoring two goals at the tournament and bringing his scorer tally to a record 16 goals in the final stages of the World Cup. In the victorious final against Argentina (1:0), it was Götze, the author of the “golden goal,” who took the field instead of Klose.
Most goals scored by one player in one match
5 goals
Oleg Salenko
Russia - 6:1 - Cameroon (1994)
Salenko's goal record in the last round of the group stage did not help Russia reach the 1/8 finals - our team, led by Pavel Sadyrin, remained in third place in Quartet B, behind the Brazilians and Swedes.
Largest quantity
spectators at one match
199854 people
Uruguay - Brazil
1950 World Cup final
Uruguay 2:1 Brazil
stadium "Maracana"
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Neither before nor after this legendary and dramatic match, which went down in history under the name “Maracanazo” (after the name of the stadium where it was played), did a football match attract an audience of any comparable size. Uruguay won a strong-willed victory 2:1, and this became the biggest sports tragedy in the history of Brazil.
Most gold medals
as a player
3 gold - PELE
Brazil (1958, 1962, 1970)
The King of Football holds this title for a reason - no one has won world championships as a player more often than Pele.
Most goals scored
one team
10 balls
Hungary - El Salvador
Hungary - 10:1 - El Salvador 1982 World Cup
Hungary made fun of El Salvador in its first match at the World Cup in Spain, but never made it out of the group, failing to cope with Argentina and Belgium.
Biggest score
Austria - Switzerland
World Cup 1954
The most productive match in the history of the world championships happened at the 1954 World Cup in Switzerland. The German-language press dubbed it “The Massacre in Lausanne” - by the 20th minute the Swiss were leading 3:0, after 15 minutes the score was already 5:3 in favor of the Austrians, and it all ended in the defeat of the tournament hosts 5:7.
The largest number of cards
shown in one match
16 yellow
4 red
Portugal - 1:0 - Holland
World Cup 2006
The roughest match in the history of the World Championships (at the 1/8 final stage) was judged by Russian referee Valentin Ivanov. Fans called it the “Nuremberg Massacre”: the Portuguese received seven warnings, the Dutch five, and both teams finished the match with nine players.
Longest "dry"
goalkeeper series
516 minutes
Walter Zenga
Italy, World Cup 1990
The great Italian goalkeeper, one of the best in the history of football, did not miss a goal at the home World Cup in 1990 either in the group stage or in the 1/8 and 1/4 finals; Only the Argentine Claudio Caniggia managed to hit his goal in the 66th minute of the semi-final match, which Italy eventually lost on penalties (1:1, 3:4), limiting themselves to bronze in the tournament.
