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42 Shocking Facts About Some Footballers You Never Heard by Elosky20(op): 11:35am On Sep 27, 2015
42 SHOCKING FACTS ABOUT SOME
FOOTBALLERS YOU NEVER HEARD
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(Epl era) 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.CONTINUE https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1652701481681364&id=1652672578350921&refid=17
Re: 42 Shocking Facts About Some Footballers You Never Heard by chocolateme(f): 11:37am On Sep 27, 2015
Eziokwu? What are the two facts about you op?
Re: 42 Shocking Facts About Some Footballers You Never Heard by Elosky20(op): 11:42am On Sep 27, 2015
chocolateme:
Eziokwu? What are the two facts about you op?
1. AM A NAIRALANDER
2. THIS IS MY THREAD
Re: 42 Shocking Facts About Some Footballers You Never Heard by chocolateme(f): 11:44am On Sep 27, 2015
Elosky20:
1. AM A NAIRALANDER
2. THIS IS MY THREAD
lol, cool u know you really know facts about yourself
Re: 42 Shocking Facts About Some Footballers You Never Heard by MegMich(m): 11:51am On Sep 27, 2015
Morinho has won a match in St.James Park.
Re: 42 Shocking Facts About Some Footballers You Never Heard by Kingtim(m): 12:00pm On Sep 27, 2015
Ok
Re: 42 Shocking Facts About Some Footballers You Never Heard by buzquet(m): 12:21pm On Sep 27, 2015
see me see lie o! Juan Sebastian Veron moved from man utd to Chelsea in 2003, Shaqiri didn't won anything wit inter last year
Re: 42 Shocking Facts About Some Footballers You Never Heard by Nobody: 12:53am On Sep 28, 2015
Gary lineker was never cautioned by a referee and never receive a yellow nor red card in 567 games he played throughout his career.
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