Mind blown football fact thread

Corner kicks have only been in use since 1988, before then, they just played on.

Steven Gerrard never won the Premier League

you will never have a gf

>>74164485

>they just played on

what does that mean tho? like the ref just fetches the ball and throws it back on the field up for grabs?

>>74164374
Harry Kane is the greatest English Striker since Jamie Vardy

>>74164526
They played on.
There was a game featuring Brazil where they got so far from the pitch they ended up in an airport

>>74164374
Romania has a winning record against England.

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>>74164558

England never won the Eu...

>mind blowing football facts

oh, well, nevermind

>Messi has only won 1 of the last 4 ballon d'ors

Liverpool have not won the title since the rule against backpasses was implemented

>>74164374
Wrong, 3 points were used in English football long before 95. Off the top of my head I'd say late 70s/early 80s

Carlos Tevez is currently the highest paid divegrass player in the world

shit thread op fuck you

>>74164982
>>74164374

Year of adoption of 3-points-for-a-win
This lists association football leagues where the standard is three points for a win in regulation time, one point for a draw, zero for a defeat. The year given is when the relevant season started.

1981: England

Until 1970 there's no red and yellow, so the players could easily get away with things like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxTrIlRJOOM

Yes, he were beaten like this almost.single.game.

source: my grandma

>>74165198
*there was no red and yellow cards

there is, there was not card at all

>>74165198
Pele rage-quit international football!
Hilarious.

>>74164505
Since Liverpool last won the league (not Premier league), Peter Schmeichel's sperm evolved into it's own self, played for lower tier clubs and finally won a league with a club that was near relegation the season before.

>No cards
>Player literally gets a card in that video

Who do you think the 800 million people that watch the world cup but not CL final think of Messi?

Belgrade has more UCL titles than Paris, Moscow, Berlin, Rome, Athens, Brussels, Istanbul and Prague combined.

>>74165306
When? 0:24 is not a card m8

"Yellow and red cards were introduced at the 1970 FIFA World Cup™ in Mexico, and have since become part and parcel of the game. But we would be doing Mr Aston a great disservice if we limited his influence on refereeing and football to his famous brainwave.

In 1966, hosts England met Argentina in the quarter-final at Wembley, and Aston, who was in charge of refereeing at the tournament, had to use all of his diplomacy and powers of persuasion to calm down the Argentine captain Rattín after his sending off, and to prevent the match being abandoned."

abandon the match, thats what the level was.

>>74165198
Also refs basically let defenders do whatever they want in certain countries well into the 1980s. The main reason Maradona left Spain was that defenders were basically trying to end his career and the refs were letting them get away with it.

Well, that and the fact he was addicted to coke. But whatever.

>>74165309
Most of us unironically don't rate Messi. Doesn't help that he choked in the Copa America Centenario either. It's part of the reason that Ronaldo is still more famous in America than he is.

>>74165338
Really? Cause its the same raised arm gesture. What is it then?

>>74165368
I know, that's why until the 90's brazilians teams didn't care for Libertadores, coz they would be beaten to death.

I didn't know that about Maradona. Nice. Or not.

>>74165381
Just a foul. He's pointing forwards, and not showing a card. See it again.

>>74165337
also same amount as London and Glasgow

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>>74165198
kek this is way better:
https://youtu.be/_Y6TMazZOgw
i don't know, at least defending was fun back then i suppose

>>74164374
people find manlets playing povertyball entertaining that's the real shock

>>74164571

savage

Soccer isn't exclusively for gays and women

>>74165955
>that was one of the neatest left hooks ive ever seen

lmao

>>74165981
This opinion was brought to you thanks to McDonalds™

>>74166024
This post brought to you by a third world subhuman. For just 10 cents a day this nigger won't starve.

>>74164984
And he just get kicked out of Asian CL by a salary-cap team

>>74166038
>>>/pol/

>>74165368
And why would you rate him? He's the best footballer, not a media celebrity.
It's not hard to realize why Beckam and Crsitiano Ronaldo are the two biggest faces of football in the United States, and that it has obviously nothing to do with how good (or not) they are.

>>74165198
This doesn't seem as bad when I compare it to this >>74165955
Also, you say their were no cards but the ref sent off 2 Italian players in that game.

>Brazil 02' WC winning squad was pretty much contested by the people and the media until the end of group stage because the team only got the spot on the last double-leg round of the CONMEBOL qualifiers and Scolari made the unpopular decision to leave Romário (BR domestic top scorer) out of the team.

Football teams only evolved to 11 a side in 1989. Before that, teams would have to play the first 70 minutes with 9 players. In the final 20 minutes, they were allowed to bring on a tenth player.

Until the Premier League reinvented football in 1992, English football used rugby style scoring with trys, converted trys, and penalties. Foreign teams were often caught out by English tackling.

>>74167725
bs

Some Scottish fitba facts:

> The Scottish club with the most European titles is neither Rangers nor Celtic but in fact Aberdeen.
> The only club in the world with a 100% record against Barcelona is Dundee United.
> St. Johnstone is the only British senior club with a 'J' in their name.
> The Icelandic 'clap' chant popularized in the European Championships was invented by Motherwell fans.

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>>74164523

>Despite being called the GOAT by some, Messi isn't even the best goal scorer in his own era.

>>74165477
chelsea and celtic both have won

>Ronaldo has less goals than Messi despite being two years older

SAD!

>>74167891
no he doesnt

>>74165337
Based Crvena Zvezda. Shame Eastern Europe in general will never win another title now that football is all about monstrous financial investments.

>>74167936
>Unironically wishing the Soviet Union still existed so his shit team would be relevant with State funding and near slavery playing conditions.

>>74167954
>yugoslavia
>soviets

Jesus Christ Jaroslav

>>74167936
Eastern European clubs are corrupt as fuck
fix that first

>>74164374
1981 in England

>>74167954
>crvena zvezda
>soviet union
Embarrassing. By the way, Yugoslavia was basically the only country for which comunism was working out.

>>74167971
Dont you have a red bull to prep?

Santos signed a goalkeeper 1986 who is still playing.

>>74167973
Were they part of the Eastern Bloc?
Were they controlled by the CCCP?
Don't give me any of the Tito propaganda shit.

>>74167987

>goalkeeper
>me in charge of facts

Striker.

>>74167992
I refuse to believe even Chinklatino Czechia is this stupid. America really did a number on you.

>>74167992
We were neutral during the entire Cold War, that's why we prospered. Now I see why mainland Asia dislikes you guys, you're pretty ignorant.

CR7 is not the best player in the world anymore after he dominated a decade from 2006-2016

Aston Villa once won something

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96 innocent fans died in the Hillsborough disaster of 1989.

>>74168173
There once was a man who said that it should not fucking slip.
Then he fucking slipped.

>>74164571

pretty predictable, desu

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>>74164374

Left voted for Sanders
Right voted for Hillary
Middle voted for Trump

>>74167992
>Ass: Ferdinando Marcos

Bundesliga in West Germany was created in 1963 as effect of west german fiasco at 1962 WC (eliminated by Yugoslavia in quarter finals)

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current barcelona coach was a real madrid player

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>>74164558

>>74168251
Fuck off

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>>74167878

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>>74167992
>flip
ayy

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Scholes played for England 66 times, playing at left midfield only on eight occasions.

The story goes his international career was wasted there.

>>74164374

In the same year they started to allow teams to use 3 subs.

From 1965 to 1988 you could only have 1 (one) sub and only name one guy on the bench. Before 65 there were no subs.

From 1988 to 1995 you could use 2.

>>74166583
"As for Aston, his angst at losing control of the Santiago match was later resolved. Sitting in his car at a traffic light in 1966, he realized a red and yellow card system could make player punishment clear and visible for all. The stoplight-like card concept debuted at the 1970 World Cup. Aston won after all."

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/world-cup-battle-santiago-the-3207021

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>>74168278
Why BUDESLINGA have BUNDA in the name?

>There was a green card so medics can come on the pitch for injuries until 2004

>>74165955

The game done changed... for real

Everton used to be good

>>74164971
>>74165297
Liverpool haven't won the league since Nelson Mandela's release from prison
>Really makes you think

>>74164374
Gerrard slipped in the '05 final, but he somehow managed to win

AC Milan scored 36 goals in 34 games in their title-winning 1993-94 season and still won the league.

there was a cup final decided by coin toss once

>>74169188
Perugia had an unbeaten season but only finished second in the league in 1979.

>>74169222
which? and more importantly why?

The rule book states that if the ball is out of play for longer than 25 minutes, the match must be called off.

2016 was the first time Brazil won an olympic gold medal at football.

>>74169366
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UEFA_Euro_1968

The semi between Italy and Soviet Union

When West Germany beat based Hungary in the 1954 World Cup, their country did not even have a professional league system.

Also, I can't entirely remember this fact, but it was in a book I read once so maybe someone else knows it: in the 1860s, before the rules of football had been standardised, Eton College once won a match by two goals and three touchdowns.

>>74169526
Does G*rm*ny have a single WC title that isn't an asterisk?

>>74168819
Because Germans are all assholes

>>74164558
jej

When Paolo Maldini joined AC Milan at the age of 16, they had only won 2 European Cups. When Maldini retired, aged 39, they had won 7 European Cups.

The four titans of European club football, England, Spain, France and Germany have all only won one world cup each at national level.

>>74165102
it was only widely used in 1995.

>>74164374
>Norway is the only undefeated team by Brazil

>>74165955
>>74165198
looks like on of those 4th division games

>>74164374
t. underage

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>>74169682

>>74166583
There was expulsion (for example Rattin in 1966), but not the card system

TYB ISTHMIAN LEAGUE

>>74165955
>Today the Chileans were prepared to reasonable, the Italians only used force
Based David Coleman

>>74169275
Against Milan of Rivera. Then Milan was unbeaten in 1992 and finally Juventus 5 years ago.

>>74169526
Hungary where never the same since the 60s. They where the most advanced at that point. The Nederlans took their place.

>>74168251
Kek

>>74176308
>>74176308

Seeing as there ere the best in the world around the 40s/50s, it's surprising that they've produced pretty much nothing in the last 60 years.

>>74169022
The last time Liverpool won the league, Apartheid and the GDR still existed.