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23 Weird Facts In Football, Strange But True by Kellapaw: 2:25pm On Jul 19, 2017
Some Strange But True And Amazing Football Facts...
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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.
Re: 23 Weird Facts In Football, Strange But True by Kellapaw: 2:35pm On Jul 19, 2017
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.

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Re: 23 Weird Facts In Football, Strange But True by Kellapaw: 2:47pm On Jul 19, 2017
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.
Re: 23 Weird Facts In Football, Strange But True by Kellapaw: 2:53pm On Jul 19, 2017
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.
Re: 23 Weird Facts In Football, Strange But True by Kellapaw: 2:54pm On Jul 19, 2017
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!!!
Re: 23 Weird Facts In Football, Strange But True by hooyey(m): 3:03pm On Jul 19, 2017
Where is 23rd weird fact mayb dah wuld b much mor interesting dan all of dese
Re: 23 Weird Facts In Football, Strange But True by hero01(m): 3:30pm On Jul 19, 2017
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Re: 23 Weird Facts In Football, Strange But True by YukHub: 3:36pm On Jul 19, 2017
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Re: 23 Weird Facts In Football, Strange But True by OVA200(m): 4:48pm On Jul 19, 2017
OP copy and paste dey worry you, you copy directly and can't even read and confirm it first.

Shaqiri played for stoke last season are you telling me stoke won the premier league last season.

Heart of oak has won the league 20 times and had lost too.

So OP please don't just copy and paste for us here like we are kids.
Re: 23 Weird Facts In Football, Strange But True by onward4life(m): 10:10pm On Jul 19, 2017
Very nice master piece.

Thanks mi like it

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