Wednesday, April 30, 2008

THE FACTS ON A.C. AND INTERMILAN CLUBS.

It will suprise many football fans to know that A.C MILAN was originaly started as a cricket clubby Mr Alfred Edwards and Mr Herbert Kilpin in the year1899.Please kindly note the spelling of Milan in INTER and A C MILAN.It is spelt the enlish way and not the italian way which is MILANO.
THe club started in the year 1899. The ground is called the SAN SIRO. With a sitting capacity of 82,955,seats.
In the year1908 there was a big disagreement in the club, leading to a major split at the club,it was all over the number of foreign players allowed to play. In the end there was amager split at the club ,thus leeding for the club INTERMILAN to be come a club in Seira A in its own right.
Even though every club in Seira A have been demoted atleast once so far,the only club to stay up in all these years has been INTERMILAN. Even big clubs like JUVENTUS and A.C. MILAN have been demoted due to scandals. INTERMILAN celebrates its hundred years in2008.
A.C. Milanwas relegated in1980, after the TATONERO SCANDAL.
Inthe year1991 1992 A. C .MILAN played58 fiftyeight games without a loss , the loss came against Parma on 21 March1993 with PARMA1 A.C Milan 0.
They have won 17 league titles only JUVENTUS has won more times 27 times.
They have won the champion league trophy a total of seve3n times only REASL MADRID with 9 wins has won the trophy more times.

Tuesday, April 29, 2008

LESLIE COMPTON.

Leslie Compton and his brother Dennis Compton,were two special sportsmen. They played cricket for MIDDLESEX and both the brothers played football for Arsenal.
Leslie was a center back for Arsenal, he played for twenty two yearsfor Arsenal,which is a form of record. For todays footballers play upto a period of fifteen years and then retire. The number of matches played is 273 games for Arsenal ,you must remember one thing he missed many matches due to his comitment to cricket ,the Middlesex county.
He is the holder of a F. A. cup medal in 1949 1950. In the first leg leslie scored a equalizer in the last minute, from a corner kick by his brother Dennis
He has also played two games for England. He made his debut for England at the age of THIRTYEIGHT years andSIXTYFOUR days. At this age internatinol footballers would have retired long ago. This is postwar record.
He has also won a premiere league medal with Arsenal.
Leslie Compton died in the year 1984.

THE FAMOUS CHEATS OF FOOTBALL.

In all sports there are a few cheats here and there. This is a list of four very famous footballers.
These four are extremly talented and can turn the sore of the match single handedly. They have a bag full of tricks at theirhands ,and at times they keep the audience stuned and glued to the ball. They are also very higly paid footballers,for example ChristIANO RONALDO is paid equall to Rs 15 ,hundred thousand rupees a day.
The players I refer to cheats are as follows
1 DIEGO MARODONA.
2 LUIS FIGO.
3 CHRISTIANO RONALDO.
4 JURGEN KLINSMEN.
It is indeed sad such big stars have to stoop so low to win a free kick . But sometimes refrees continue with the game even if there is a genuine fowl comited . Something like the story of the sheperd and the wolf.

Monday, April 28, 2008

GARY NEVILLE.

Gary Neville comes from asporting family in England. He is playing football for MANCHESTER UNITED from their youth team,along with his younger brother Philip Neville.Phil Nevilles twin sister Tracey played netball for England. And his father Neville Neville played couty cricket for many years for Lancanshire.
Phil Neville and gary were what is called in the 1990s as FERGIS FLEDGLINKS, which were made of mostly footballers from Manchester United youth team , they were Ryann Giggs,David Bechem,Paul Scholes,Nicky Butt,Philip Neville and Gary Neville. The 1950 Manchester United team were called the BUSY BABES. Made out of Jack Charlton ,Bobby Charlton, John Berry, John Blanch flower,Dennis Violet,David Pegg. The manager was Matt Busyby.From whom they got their pet name.
Gay Neville became captain of Manchester United in 2005 after the departure of Roy keene.
In the year 2007 F. A. Cup final Gary and Phil Neville both played ina final ,it was the first time a pair of brothers played in the final . Itwas in 1877 since the two brothers played in a final, they were Hubert and Francis HERON ,119 years ago.
Phil and Gary Neville have played a total of 142 one hundred and fourtytwo times together for England breaking the record set by the CHARLTON brothers,Jack and SIR BOBBY CHARLTON
He has broken RAY WISONS record for the most appearences for England a number of 85 matches,without scoring a single goal. He says if he is fit he will try to play 100 matches for England.
Gary Neville has played at least one match a year for the past 13 years. Both Billy Wright and Peter Shilton have played a maatch at least for 14 years. David Seamen has played one match at least in a year for 15 years.

Friday, April 25, 2008

100CHAMPION LEAGUE PLAYERS.

There are hundreds of footballers,who have played in club chamion league matches but it will suprise many of you to know only EIGHT footballers have played over one hundred games,according to U.E .F. A. the governing body. And it contains one goalkeeper as well. And it does not count the qualifing rounds ,it is from the group of sixteen teams.
1 RAUL GONSALVES. 116 MATCHES.
2 ROBERTO CARLOS.114. MATCHES.
3 PAULO MALDINI. 109. MATCHES.
4 OLIVER KAHN. 103. MATCHES.
5 DAVID BECHEM. 103. MATCHES.
6 CLARENCE SEEDORF.101. MATCHES.
7 LUIS FIGO. 100. MATCHES.
8 PAUL SCHOLES. 100. MATCHES.
Please kindly note PAULO MALDINI holds the record for the most matches inall champion league , which is 172 games.

Tuesday, April 22, 2008

KNOW YOUR FOOTBALLERS.

The tallest footballer in both LIVERPOOL and the ENGLAND team is Peter Crouch who stands at 6ft 7 ins. Six feet and seven inches tall.
The only two footballers in the DUTCH team ever to play for HOLLAND,without playing a single match back in Holland ,in the Dutch league are,
JODY CRUYFF . THE son of the famous footballer Johan Cruyff.
JIMMY FLOYD HASSELBAINK.
These two are the only ones to wear the famous orange jerseys of Holland.
LIVERPOOL in England and CELTIC in Scotland are two clubs who have the same club song.
Which goes like this.
YOU WILL NEVER WALK ALONE .

Monday, April 21, 2008

CHAMPION LEAGUE.

The champion league is held every year to find out which club is the strongest club in Europe.
the winner is given ahuge silver cup. The cup is called the big ears, due to the shape,which are like two big ears. The winning club can keep the cup.But must return it to the U.E. F. A. the governing body. The U.E.F.A. flag is spread out before each match.
The clubs that have won the championship thrice are entitle to keep the cup permenantly intheir showroom.
Five clubs have won it three times or more, they are as follows.
1 AJAX 1971 ,1973, and 1995.
2 REAL MADRID.1956 , 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1966, 1998, 2000, 2002.
3LIVERPOOL. 1977, 1978, 1981, 1984, 2005.
4A. C. MILAN.1987, 1988, 1989, 1993, 2001 2003, 2007.
5 BAYERN MUNICHEN.1974, 1975, and2000.
From the year 1955 the year the contest started to the 2007 finals there has only been two final matches played by two clubs from one country.
1 the final in2000 which was held betweenREAL MADRID verses VALENCIA.
2 The 2003 final match between A.C. MILAN verses JUVENTUS.
The first match was a all SPANISH match the second was a all ITALIAN match.

Saturday, April 19, 2008

NICHOLAS ANELKA.

NICHOLAS ANELKA is a french internatinol footballer,who is orignally from ERETERIA AFRICA. He started his football career at the Paris club called P. S. G. While he was there, he was noticed by the ARSENAL manager ARSENE WENGER. Wenger is very famous for finding bright young talent ,giving them a break in football. He purchased Anelka for sum of fifty thousand pounds,50,000 pounds. Wenger wanted Anelka to parner the DUTCH striker DENNIS BERGKEMP. Because Anelka had speed ,strength and a keen eye for scoring goals.
But Anelka has always had big problems with clubs and managers all his life. ARSENAL sold him to REAL MADRID for a total of 23.50 million dollars. With the money WENGER then brought three players who were unhappy at their earlier clubs.
1 THIERY HENRY, Who warmed the substitute bench at JUVENTUS .
2 ROBERT PIRES, From MONOCO.
3 SYLVIAN WILLTORD.
What these stars did for Arsenal is indeed in the history books now.
But from Arsenal, ANelka was sold to REAL MADRID. From MADRID back to P. S. G . Then to LIVERPOOL on a loan. Then to MANCHESTER CITY. Then to FENERBACHE, then to BOLTON WANDERERS. And finally to CHELSEA. He is now declared as the costliest footballer after all his transfers which are worth a grand total of 87, MILLION DOLLARS.Eightyseven million dollars.
He has always worn a jersey number 39.

THE EURO AND WORLD CUP WINNERS.

In all these years since the Euro cup and the world cup ,have started there has only been two times when the winner of the world cup has won the Euro cup,or the winner of the Euro cup winning the world cup.
In the first time it was the WEST GERMANY ,who won the EURO 1972, and then in 1974 won the world cup. The second time this ever happened was when FRANCE , who won the world cup in the year 1998 and won the EURO 2000 as well.

Wednesday, April 16, 2008

CHAMPION LEAGUE>

Since the CHAMPION LEAGUE started in the year1955,1956 to the year2008. There has only been a single team fom FRANCE to win the cup. The club was the french club OLYMPIQUE MARSEILLE ,which won the cup in the year 1992 1993. This is the only time a french club has won the cup.

Tuesday, April 15, 2008

WILLIAM GALLAS.

William Gallas is a French footballer who plays his club football in England with english club ARSENAL. His position is of a defender. He wears the 10 number jersey. It is quite unusual for a defender to wear the number 10,as it is worn regularly by strikers only all over the world. The number 10 was vacant after the retirement of the DUTCH striker DENNIS BERGKEMP.
Another important point is defenders rarely score goals. But WILLIAM GALLAS has scored for all the three clubshe has played for .Terry has scored also but he has been with one club only.GALLAS with OLYMPIQUE MARSEILLE 5 GOALS.
CHELSEA 12 GOALS. AND with ARSENAL 7 GOALS.
And for FRANCE he has scored 2 goals.

THE MOST GOLS SCORED BY ONE MAN.

Over the years many footballers have scored, many goals in one season.Some have scored in the the twentys repeatedly like Henry.
But the late George Best and Criistiano Ronaldo have scored thirty six and thirtyseven goals in one season,or even more as this year season is not yet over.But the record is held by
MR HECTOR SCOTTA.
COUNTRY ARGENTINA.
The YEAR 1975.
THE CLUB ST LORENZO in ARGENTINA.
The number of goals scored in one year atotal of SIXTY goals.Which is a record.

Saturday, April 12, 2008

THE EURO 1968.

EURO 1968 was held in ITALY.
There were four countries taking part in the EURO 1968.
ITALY was declared the champions.
YUGOSLAVIA was second .
ENGLAND was third.
U.S.S.R was fourth.
There werefour matches played
The top scorer was DRAGON from YUGOSLAVIA..
The final was between ITALY and YUGOSLAVIA. Which endedin a tame 1 1 draw.
Please kindly note ths is the only finalwhich ended in one one draw.It was played on the 8/6/1968.The replay was played on the 10/6/1968. which ITALY won 2YUGOSLAVIA 0.
The only time a final was replayed.
Now we have the penalty kicks to decide the game.

Friday, April 11, 2008

THE 1988 EURO CUP.

The 1988 EURO cup,washeld from JUNE 10 to JUNE 25.
The host country was GERMANY.
There were a total of eight countries who took part in the final.
HOLLAND won the tytle for the very first time.
The U.S.S.R. came second.
The top goal scorer in the EURO 1988 was the DUTCH footballer MARCO VAN BASTEN. With atotal of FIVE goals.
There were a total of FIFTEEN matches played
And a total of THIRTYFOUR goals scored in the entire toutnament.
The EURO 1988 will be remembered for one other reason which is indeed rare in football in the tournament no footballer got a red card,and so got his marching orders. We can say it was quite a clean 1988 EURO MATCH.

Thursday, April 10, 2008

THE EURO 1992 FINAL MATCH.

The EURO 1992 CHAMIONSHIP,was held in SWEEDEN .From the 10of JUNE to the 26 of JUNE.
There were a total of THIRTYTWO goals scored.
The final was between the mighty Germans and Denmark.
YUGOSLAVIA were expelled from the tournament because of the cival war and political unrest in the country.
DENMARK who was next qualifier took Yugoslavias place.
Denmark beat Germany in the final 2-0.This is the only incident when a country who did not qualify for the EURO even won the tournament.
1992 was first time ever that footballers had to wear both their number as well as their names on their jerseys.
The top scorer for EURO1992 were as follows,
1 THOMAS BROLIN. SWEEDEN. 3 goals.
2 HENRIK LARSEN . SWEEDEN.3 goals.
3 DENNIS BERGKEMP. HOLLAND. 3 goals.
4 KARL HEINZ RIEDLE. GERMANY. 3 goals.
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Tuesday, April 8, 2008

EUROPEN FOOTBALLERS OF THE YEARS.

The Europen footballer of the year is given once a year,to footballers who play their club football in Europe.
1 KEVIN KEEGAN is the only English footballer to win the trophy in two diffrent times.
2 GEORGE WEAH of war torn Liberia is the only AFRICAN player to win the trophy. he won it in 1995 with A. C. MILAN.
3 The DUTCH footballer MARCO VAN BASTEN has won it three times ,the only other player to do so is the FRENCH footballer MICHEL PLATINI.
4 MICHEL PLATINI is the only player to wwin the trophy three times in a row.
5 The ITALIAN FABIO CANNAVARO is the oldest footballer at thirtythree to win the trophy.
6 FABIO CANNAVARO is the only defender to win the trophy.
THE PLAYER AND THE YEARS.
1 STANLEY MATTHEWS. 1956
2 ALFREDO DI STEFANO. 1957
3 RAYMOND KOPA. 1958
4 ALFREDO DI STEFANO. 1959
5 LUIS SAUREZ. 1960
6 OMAR SIVORI . 1961
7 JOSEF . MASOPUST. 1962
8 LEV . YASHIN. 1963
9 DENNIS. LAW. 1964
10 EUSIBO. 1965
11 BOBBY CHARLTON. 1966
12 FLORIAN ALBERT. 1967
13 GEORGE. BEST. 1968
14GIANI . RIVERA. 1969
15 GERD MULLER. 1970
16 JOHAN CRUYFF. 1971
17 FRANZ. BECKENBAUR. 1972
18 JOHAN CRUYFF. 1973
19 JOHAN CRUYFF. 1974
20 OLEG . BLOKHIN. 1975
21FRANZ . BECKENBAUR. 1976
22ALAN . SIMONSON. 1977
23 KEVIN KEEGAN. 1978
24 KEVIN. KEEGAN. 1979
25 KARL. HEINZ. RUMMENIGGE.1980
26 KARL. HEINZ. RUMMENIGGE.1981
27 PAULO ROSSI. 1982
28 MICHEL. PLATINI. 1983
29 MICHEL . PLATINI. 1984
30MICHEL. PLATINI. 1985
31 IGOR.BELANOV. 1986
32 RUUD GULIT. 1987
33 MARCO. VAN .BASTEN. 1988
34 MARCO. VAN. BASTEN. 1989
35LOTHAR. MATHAUS. 1990
36 JEAN. PIERE.PAPIN. 1991
37 MARCO. VAN. BASTEN. 1992
38 ROBETTO. BAGGIO. 1993
39 HRISTO. STOICHKOV. 1994
40 GEORGE WEAH. 1995
41MATHIAS. SAMMER. 1996
42RONALDO. 1997
43 ZINEDINE ZIDANE. 1998
44 RIVALDO. 1999
45 LUIS FIGO. 2000
46 MICHEL. OWEN. 2001
47 RONALDO. 2002
48 PAVEL. NEDVED. 2003
49 ANDRIY. SHEVCHENKO. 2004
50RONILDHINO. 2005
51FABIO CANNAVARO. 2006
52 KAKA. 2007

MICHEL LADRUP.

Michel Ladrup comes from a footballing family. His father played football, and Michels younger brother Brian played for Denmark and Fiorentina and Glassgow Rangers. While Michel played for Denmark and Barcelona and Real Madrid.
It was while playing for Denmark that they won the EURO 1992 cup.
Michel while playing for Barcelona under the manager Johan Cruyff,that he won the SPANISH LA LIGAE four years in a row. He then fell out of favour with Johan Cruyff,over the three foreghn players problem as only three were allowed at atime. With Romario , Stoichkov and Ronald Koeman,who was a deffenderand Barcelonas free kick specialist,Ladrup had to sit on the bench. Which soon led to his unpopular move to Real Madrid.
It was at Real Madrid the next year after he left Barcelona. Ladrup won the Spanish title in the year 1995. This makes Ladrup the only player so far to win the Spanish title five years in a row and once with a different club.
But his welcome was very hostile when Real Madrid played Barcelona with banners like these were every where JUDAS LADRUP and TRAITOR LADRUP .

Monday, April 7, 2008

TEN FATTEST FOOTBALLERS..

There are cases of famous and very talented footballers who after a while of playing start to put on weght and loose shape. This is the list of the top ten fat footballers.
1 RONALDO. A.C. MILAN.
2 WILLIAM .FOULKE. CHELSEA.
3 MICKY QUINN . COVENTRY
4 JAN MOLBY.DENMARK. LIVERPOOL.
5 FERNEC PUSKAS. HUNGRY. REAL MADRID.
6 NEVILLE SOUTHALL.WALES . EVERTON.
7 NEIL RUDDOCK.TOTNEMHOTSPUR.
8 PAUL GASCOIGNE. TOTTNEMHOTSPUR. ENGLAND.
9THOMAS BROLIN. SWEEDEN . LEEDSUNITED.
10 JOHN HARTSON. WALES.

Sunday, April 6, 2008

MANAGERS WHO FAILED TO BUY FOOTBALLERS.

Over the years many managers have failed to buy famous footballers,for reasons best known to them.
This is about the famous young footballer named Christiano Ronaldo,from PORTUGAL.His sallary is equal to Indian Ruppees as 15,000000 ina day and his age is twentytwo years .
He was bought from SPORTING LISBON in POrtugal to Manchester United.
But people do not know the other side of the story.
The ARSENAL coach ARSENE WENGER the coach of Arsenal who believes in buying young footballers and developing them to stars ,like he did with Anelka , Henry and Cess Fabregas .had a contract all ready to be signed by Ronaldo.
But in the middle before the signing took place Mr Carlos Cruziero the assistant manager of Manchester United,visited Portugal which is Carlos Cruzieros own country convinced Ronaldo and his mother that Manchester United was better then Arsenal any day. The contract was then signed ,and the rest is hiostory.

MANAGERS WHO FAILED TO BUY FOOTBALLERS.

Over the years famous managers have failed to buy good footballers for reason known best to them. This is the case of the famous Welsh and Manchester United footballer named RYAN GIGGS.
When Ryan Giggs was a fourteen year old boy way back in Wales the English Football club from the E P.L. send their scout to try him out. He passed the test in flying colours .The scouts were from the club MANCHESTER CITY and not their old rival from the city of Manchester. When the Manchester City scouts left ,later on The Giggs family had a very famous visitor to his house in 1989 it was Sir Alex Ferguson who came all the way to convince the family that Ryan Giggs future lay at Manchester United and not at all at Manchester City.
Even thogh both the contracts were there to sin in front of Giggs . The Manchester United contract was signed, and he has been a Manchester Player allhis life. He has played over 700 games for the club,he has been tje captain and won the most trophies as player atotal of 23 medals.

Friday, April 4, 2008

MANAGERS WHO FAILED TO BUY FOOTBALLERS.

Over the years,there are cases where the managers of famous clubs have failed to buy footballers for some reason or the other. This is the case of the DUTCH goalkeeper EDWIN VAN DERSAR. Sir Alex Ferguson openly admitted that he made a major blunder by not buying Edwin Van Dersar. Edwin was the first choice goalkeeper at Ajax Amsterdam,fromthe year1992 to 1999. He then went to Jueventus in Italy to become the first ever non Italiangoalkeeper,from the year1999 to 2001. Juventus then brought Gianlugi Buffon from PARMA,for a sum of 32.4 million dollars,making him the costliest goalkeeper in the world. It was here that Ferguson failed to buy Edwin Van Dersar. Fulham then grabed Edwin Van Dersar,who was then on afive year contractfrom,2001 to 2005.
Manchester United had to survive with Fabian Barthez,the French goalkeeper and also the American goalkeeper Tim Howard. Manchester United brought Edwin Van Dersar in the year 2005. Five years were lost. Now as he is Thirty eight years old he is more frequently injured,and misses a few games.

MANAGERS WHO FAILED TO BUY FOOTBALLERS.

There are many cases in which the managers have failed to buy good footballers.This is the first one.
THE PLAYER ZINEDINE ZIDANE.
The French footballer Eric Cantona who played his club football at Manchester United. Once told the Manchester Board ,that there was a young footballer in France who is really a geniousand a serious effort should be made to buy him. The board asked him that if he is so good as you say he surely must be playing for a club,we would like the name of the club .Eric Cantona told them that he plays for Bordeaux. Cantona and the scouts flew to Bordeaux,to watch the match. Cantona told them to watch the player with a perticular jersey number.
After the match Cantona asked the scouts their view on the player. The answer suprised Eric Cantona. The scouts told him he is not fit to wear the famous red jersey of the RED DEVILS,he would be a absolute disgrace to Manchester United.
The player I am talking about is the great Zinediine zidane. Who won F.I.F.A. footballer of the year three times aand Europen Player of the year once.
He was brought Jueventes in Italy at a record price and sold to REAL MADRIDfor price of FOURTYONE million Euros.
Avery costly miss Imust say.

Thursday, April 3, 2008

SIR LESLIE FERDINAND.

Sir Leslie Ferdinand ,better known in England as Sir Les Ferdinand. Is a retired footballer.
1 He is the cousin of Anton Ferdinand and Rio Ferdinand. Who play as defenders for their respective clubs WEST HAM UNITED and MANCHESTER UNITED.Sir Les Ferdinand was a stiker.
2 He is a licensed pilot and flies his own helicopter.
3 He is the only player to score goals in each and every club he played for . He played for six different clubs aa well as for England.
4 He was bought by NEW CASTLE UNITED for SIX MILLION POUNDS. From QUEEN PARK RANGERS,or Q.P. R.
5 AT NEW CASTLE he joined up with Alan Shearer to make a good sttriking parnership.
6 sir Les Ferdinand also scored the famous goal number 10,000 in E . P. L. It was scored on 15/12/2001. In the match between NEW CASTLE and FULHAM. The English F.A. had promised to pay an amount of 10,0000pounds to the player to score that peticular goal. That saturday as there was eight matches so any player from the sixteen teams had a chance to win it.. There was a clause put that the 10,000 pounds must be given to a charity of the players choice.
7 Sir Les Feerdinand was sold again to TOTNEM HOTSPUR for SIX MILLION POUNDS.
Here he again teamed up with JURGEN KLINSMANand did well.He also played for England between the time atNEWCASTLE and TOTNEMHOTSPUR.

Tuesday, April 1, 2008

THE TEN MOST UGLIEST FOOTBALLERS.

1 WAYNE ROONEY.
2 RONILDHINO.
3 CARLOS TEVEZ.
4 PETER CROUCH.
5 RONOLDO.
6 LUKE CHADWICK.
7 ROBBIE FOWLER.
8 DARREN FLETCHER.
9 RIO FERDINAND.
10 RUDD VAN NISTELROOY.