20 facts about football around the world

1. 20 red cards in a match vs Sportivo Ameliano General Caballero (Paraguay) in 1993

2. Club ASEC Abidjan (Ivory Coast) unbeaten for 108 games of the year 1989 to 1994

3. Carlos Caszely (Chile's player) is the player who received the first red card in World Cup on 14 June 1974

4. European national teams often reached the final in each title of the World Cup, with the exception of 1930 and 1950

5.Goalkeeper Arthur Wharton was the first black professional player. He was born in Ghana and plays for English Premier League team Rotherham United in 1889

6. In 1950, India withdrew from the World Cup because they were not allowed to play barefoot

7. In 1954, Turkey lost to Spain during the World Cup qualifiers because of the straw stems. Italian Franco Gemma player closes his eyes and take the stick of straw and set as the winner

8. In 1957, only 30 minutes remaining, Charlton Athletic successfully reverse the score from 5-1 behind to win 7-6 Huddersfield Town

9. 1968, Penarol (Paraguay) only conceded 5 goals in 18 league matches and remained unbeaten throughout the season

10. In 1996, George Weah paid itself for the jersey and players's wage of Liberia national team

11.In 1997, the national player of Nigeria, Celestine Babayaro broke his leg while celebrating a goal during pre-season game debut with Chelsea

12. In 1998, referee from England, Martin Sylvester producing himself with a red card after hitting a player during the match of The Andover and District Sunday

13. In 1999, Leganes coach Enrique Martin received 10 matches ban punishment after running close to an opponent who scored

14. Most goals in the world in a national match is 31-0. Matches between Australia national team national teams against American Samoa

15. Thousands of supporters of Argentina national team failed to watch the final match in 1930, due to the ships they were traveling delays in very thick fog. Eight of the ten vessels in use can not arrive on time. Fortunately, referee  aboard with the first ship that arrived at destination on time.

16.In World Cup 1998 Romania's players have a same color and same haircut

17. After competing against Spain in the qualification in 1993, the Albanian national team prohibited to exchange jerseys by their coach, because they do not have enough money to make new jersey and would like to use it again in the next game.

18. Ronaldo has changed his hair style after Brazil beat England in the quarter-final of the 2002 World Cup to make it look different from his teammates, maybe Roberto Carlos. The problem is that Ronald, his son, kissed the TV and shouted 'Daddy!' when Roberto Carlos appeared on TV! "

19. In the play-off match for the World Cup 1950, the US national team beat England with a 1-0 win. But the British newspaper reports that England beat down the U.S. with scores 1-10, because they believe that the reporter had made a typo.

20. Italian soccer players, Raimundo Orsi return to the stadium one day after the final 1934 World Cup to show the the curve of his impressive kick, while the photographers ready to take pictures that created the winning goal in the final match. Orsi tried more than 20 times to repeat the same kick in the same place, but he failed

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