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Some Amazing Football Fact You Won’t Want To Miss by boldking(m): 9:45am 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 Fact You Won’t Want To Miss by SuperSuave(m): 9:50am On May 02, 2015
I'm seeing this for the 501st time angry
Re: Some Amazing Football Fact You Won’t Want To Miss by OteDOLLAR(m): 10:00am On May 02, 2015
Nice! Like that part of Mourinho!
Re: Some Amazing Football Fact You Won’t Want To Miss by millhouse: 10:07am On May 02, 2015
kul

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