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Some Amazing Football Facts! by jeremiah505(m): 7:23pm On May 02, 2015
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 league.

11. The difference in Messi's age and Ronaldo's age is 869 days. The same difference between
Messi and Ronaldo's son.

12. Zinedine Zidane was never caught offside 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 one match.

14. Brazilian legend, Pele, scored 92 hat-tricks, 4goals on 31
occasions, 5 goals on 6 occasions, and 8 goals onan 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, 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 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: Some Amazing Football Facts! by luckynzo(m): 7:30pm On May 02, 2015
Cool. NO.9. The youth team Ronaldinho played against must really have been bad.

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