THE EURO 1980 CUP.

The EURO 1980 was held in ITALY . From 11 june to 22 june. For the first time there were a total of eight teams in the final tournament instead of the usual four teams taking part .
There were fourteen matches played and a total of twentyseven goals were scored in the tournament. The top scorer was the WEST GERMAN KLAUS ALLOPS, with a total of three goals. For the first time seven teams had to qualify , for the first time hosts automatically qualified.
In this EURO CUP a new breed of talent was seen the GERNANS were Hansi Muller, Bernard Schuster, Karl Heinze Rummenigge Horst Hruheesch. The BELGIANS JEAN MARIE PLAFF, ERIC GERETS and ERWIN VENDERBEGH.
The final four teams were 1 WEST GERMANY 2 BELGIUM , 3 CZECHOSLOVAKIA , and ITALY.
In the final GERMANY defeated BELGIUM with a score of 2 - 1.
In the third pace play of CZECHOSLOVAKIA played ITALY. The game ended 1 -1 after extra time. the game was decided by penalty shootout in CZECHOSLOVAKIA beat ITALY 9 - 8.

THE 1976 EURO CUP.

The 1976 EURO cup was held in the host country YUGOSLAVIA. From june 16 to june 20.
There were four teams to play in the EURO 76 for the last time. The number of goals scored in the final tournament were 19 goals only . they were scored at 4.25 per game. The top scorer in the tournament was the WEST GERMAN DIETER MULLER with a total of 4 goals.
the final position at the end of the tournament was 1 CZECHOSLAVAKIA 2 WEST GERMANY. 3 HOLLAND. and 4 YUGOSLAVIA.
For the third place HOLLAND playedYUGOSLAVIA. This game went to extra time and HOLLAND defeated YUGOSLAVIA 3- 2.
In the final match CZECHOSLAVAKIA and WEST GERMANY finished at 2 -2 after extra time.
IN penalty shootout CZECHOSLAVAKIA defeated WEST GERMANY 5 -3. This was CZECHOSLAVAKIAS first EURO CHAMIONSHIP TROPHY.

NWAANKWO KANU.

NWANKWO KANU is a very famous NIGERIAN footballer . He was born in NIGERIA on 1/ 8 1976 and is thirtyone years old. He is very talented footballer and a great poacher of the ball to score goals. He has played in HOLLAND with AJAX , and in ITALY with INTERMILAN. And in ENGLAND with ARSENAL , WEST BROM ALBION and PORTHMOUTH.
He is the only ENGLISH PREMIER footballer to win the U.E.F.A. champion league medal, a U.E.F.A medal, PREMIERSHIP medal with ARSENAL an F.A. CUP medal with ARSENAL and alsom an F.A CUP medal with PORTHSMOUTH. He has also won an olympic medal for football at the ATLANTA games for NIGERIA. He has also won the AFRICAN player of the year on two occastions. So we can say he is the most decorated footballer from NIGERIA.
He joined AJAX of AMSTERDAM for a sum of 207, 047 dollars. AJAX won the U.E.F.A. champion ship in 1995. In 1966 AJAX sold KANU to INTERMILAN for a sum of 4.7 million dollars. It was at the medical checkup at INTERMILAN that the doctors discovered that KANU did have aheart problem and that he had to replace afaulty aortic valve. while the footballing world waited and only hoped for the best.
Things did get better and in the year1996, 1997 INTERMILAN sold KANU to the English club ARSENAL for a sum of 4. 2 million pounds. They bought him to replace their striker NICHOLAS ANELKA who had been sold to REAL MADRID for 22.3 million dollars, but was bought for 50,000 dollars.
He was a instent hit with the ARSENAL fans who made a song to the chimes of westminister . Who needs Anelka when we have kanuuuuu its only you uuuuuu KANUUUUUU we ARSENAL want. HE left ARSENAL for WEST BROM ALBION on afree transfer , and then to PORTSMOUTH. where he is still playing wonderful football. There was a time when at he was at INTERMILAN the world thought he would never play again . This is the main reason he is so loved by fooball fans the world over.

NWANKWO KANU..

THE EURO 1972 CUP.

The EURO 1972 was held in BELGIUM . It statred on june 14 and finished on 18 june. As in those early years of the EURO tournament only four teams reached the final. So in EURO 1972 also there werefour teams.
thee final positions were first WEST GERMANY their first EURO CUP.
second U.S.S.R .
Third BELGIUM .
FOURTH HUNGARY.
There were 10 goals scored in the tournament, at 2.5 per match.
The top scorer was the WEST GERMAN GERT MULLER. With four goals.
The semifinals were held on the fourteenth. BELGIUM scored 1 and WEST GERMANY scored 2 goals.
In the second semifinal held on the same day U.S.S.R . scored 1 goal and HUNGARY scored o goals.
On the 17 june BELGIUM and HUNGRY played for the third place. BELGIUM scored 2 goals and HUNGRY scored one goal.
The final was played on the 18 june in which WEST GERMANY scored 3 goals and U.S.S.R. Failed to score a single goal so WEST GERMANY won 3 -0.
The fastest goal of the tournament was scored in 24 minutes by RAOUL LAMBERT of BELGIUM and GERT MULLER of WEST GERMANY.

THE EURO 1964 IN SPAIN.

The EURO held in the host country SPAIN . And as usual in the early EURO CUPS there were only four countries taking part in the final. As there were only four countries taking part the venues were the two famous grounds of the two SPANISH giants REAL MADRIDS ground the BERNABEU and BARCELONAS ground THE NOU CAMP , each holding 79, 000 seats.
It was held from june 17 to june21.
There were four teams in the tournament they were SPAIN, U.S.S.R,HUNGRY ,and DENMARK.
There were four matches played.
There were 13,goals scored at 2..25 per match.
The top scorers were SPAINS JESUS MARIA PEREDA. FERENC BERNE of HUNGRY. and D. NOVAK of U.S.S.R. eaach scored2 goals each.
General FRANCO allowed SPAIN to play the U.S.S.R. as SPAIN had boycotted the 1960 EURO CUP.
SPAIN beat the U.S.S.R. 2 -1 with a late goal from Marccelino.
In the semifinal U.S.S.R beat DENMARK 3-0 in BAARCELONA. In the second semifinal SPAIN beat HUNGRY 2-1 at MADRID
In the third place play of HUNGRY beat DENMARK after extra time, with a score of 3 -1.

JOSE FRANCISCO MOLINA. JIMENEZ.

This goalkeeper is known in the football world as just MOLINA. He was born on 8 / 8 / 1970 inVALENCIA SPAIN. He was goalkeeper known for staying calm when he made his trademark dashes of his line.
He made his debut for SPAIN as not as a goalkeeper but as a outfield player but as a winger against NORWAY on april 1966. He has played in the EURO 1996 , the 1998 F.I.F.A world cup and also the EURO 2000 . He played in the opener EURO 2000 against NORWAY and was later dropped some say it was due to a blunder he made on the field. He had a very good club career was very good. He played for ATLETICO MADRID with hoom he won the LA LIGA cup . And the COPA DEL REY . And with DEPORTIVA LA CARUNA with hoom he won theCOPA DEL REY and the SPANISH super cup.
The year he won the super cup ,he announced on 15 /10/ 2002 that he had cancer of the testicles and he was forced to undergo tratment for his illness. So making him miss most of 2002 and 2003 season. But he very couragesly came back from his home in VALENCIA to play the 2006 and 2007 season for LEVANTE. But he did not renew his conract.

DENNIS COMPTON.

dENNIS COMPTON was a very famous cricketer and a footballer as well. He was born on 23/5/1918 and died in the year 23/4 / 1997. Both Dennis Compton and his brother LESLIE COMPTON both played cricket for MIDDLESEX county for years. DENNIS was more of a allrounder, he was a right handed middle order batsman and a useful slow left arm chinaman bowler. DENNIS played for ENGLAND in his first test verses NEWZEALAND, on 14 / 8 /1937 and hislast match verses SOUTH AFRICA on 5 /3 /1957. He played a total of 78 matches in whichhe scored 5807 runs the average was 50 .06. He scored 17 100s and 28 50s his top score was278 runs. He bowled atotal of2710 balls and took a total of only 25 wickets.
His football was played entirely with one club only and that club was ARSENAL. f .c. His position was outside left. While LESLIE played on the right. He played 54 games for ARSENAL, and scored a total of15 goals for the club. He played from the year 1936 to 1950 for ARSENAL. We must always remember that due to his cricket with the M. C. C. He had to sacrifice his football for cricket . And in those days travel was by ship and not air so it took more time traveling.
DENNIS COMPTON won the E. P. L. gold medal with ARSENAL in the year1948 . And the F. A. Cup gold medal with ARSENAL in the year 1950 . Most likely he is the only cricketer to play for ENGLAND and even win these medals for football.
His sporting career was hampered badly when he colided with the CHARLTON ATHELATIC goalkeeper . After which he suffered from knee trouble always.

THE EURO 2000 .

The EURO 2000 was held for the first time in two host counties . The two countries so chosen were BELGIUM and THE NETHERLANDS. It was held from from june 10 to july 2 2000.
There were 16 countries taking part in the tournament. There were thirtyone matches played in all.
FRANCE played ITALY in the final match .FRANCE beat ITALY in the final match with a score of 2-1. The FRENCH footballer David Trezeguet scored the golden goal after the extra time.
There were a total of 85 goals sored at 2 .74 per match.
The attendence was a total of 1,22,833 at 36,220 per match.
the top scorers were Patrick Kluivert of HOLLAND , and SAVO MILOSEVIC of CROATIA. Each scoring 5 goals.
The best player went to ZINEDINE ZIDANE of FRANCE.
The suprise team was PORTUGAL winniing their three games including a 3 -0 win over GERMANY.
In the semifinal PORTUGAL lost to FRANCE as they conceeded a penalty for a clear handball, but the PORTUGEESE players disagreed and the refree and chalanged the decission. The game became ugly with several players from PORTUGAL pushed the refree . F.I.F.a took action against the players and banned them from all forms of football matches for upto six months. The F.I.F.A rule clearly states that a refree can not be touched at all on the pitch. ZIDANE took the penalty and knocked out PORTUGAL from the tournament.
In the semifinal ITALY verses HOLLAND FRANCESCO TOLDO made two penalty saves in the shootout and one during regulation time to make sure of knocking out the hosts HOLLAND.

HARD WORK DOESNT ALWAYS PAY.

During the 2008 EURO CUP have reached the quater finals even after running the least on the pitch while the leading country have already been knocked out in the qualifing stage. With the help of modern instruments it is now possible to find how much each footballer ran per match and how much the team ran as a whole.
1 ROMANIA 342 kilo meters.
2SWEEDEN 336 kilo meters.
3 RUSSIA 335 kilo meters.
4 HOLLAND 334 kilo meters.
5SPAIN 331 kilo meters.
6 ITALY 328 kilo meters.
7 POLAND 328 kilo meters.
8 AUSTRIA 326 kilo meters.
9CROATIA 325 kilo meters.
10SWITZERLAND 323 kilo meters.
11 CZECH REPUBLIC 322 kilo meters.
12 GERMANY 322 kilo meters.
13 TURKEY 320 kilo meers.
14 GREECE 315 kilo meters.
15 PORTUGAL 315 kilo meters.
16 FRANCE 307 kilo meters.

MOST HARD WORKING FOOTBALLER OF THE2008 EURO WAS AS FOLLOWS

PLAYER COUNTRY DISTANCE DISTANCE IN93 MINUTES

1R. COCIS. ROMANIA. 22,560 12,951 meters.
2 B NICOLITA ROMANIA 28, 260 12,635 meters.
3 C FABREGAS. SPAIN 22,895. 12,599 meters.
4 J ELMANDER SWEEDEN 26,272. 12,594 meters.
5 XAVI H. SPAIN 19,995. 12,315 meters.
6 D ANDERSSON SWEEDEN 31, 289. 12,024 meters.
7 I SHEMSHOV RUSSIA 31, 194. 11,938 meters.
8 G GATTUSO ITALY 22,316. 11, 928 meters.
LONGEST RUNNING.
1 SERGI SEMAK RUSSIA 35,043 meters.
2 DARIUSZ DUDKA POLAND 34, 291 meters.
3 MICHEL BALLACK.GERMANY. 34, 173 meters.
4KONSTANTIAN ZYRYANOV RUSSIA. 34, 147 meters.
5 ANDERS SVENSSON SWEEDEN 33,442 meters.

GEOFFERY CHARLES HURST.

GEOFFERY HURST or as he is simply known as GEOFF HURST is a fotballer from ENGLAND , who played in the 1966 world cup, which was played in ENGLAND that year.
He will always go down in the history books as the only footballer ever to sccore a hattrick in a F.I.F.A world cup final match since it started in 1930 and world cup was held in URUGAY.
There has always been aquestion of doubt that wether one goal realy did cross the line or not.The English were sure of it but the Germans disagreed. But the linesman gave it after talking with the refree.There was one theory that the RUSSIAN linesmanwas bias as a few days earlier WEST GERMANY had beaten RUSSIA. The english said it was a clear goal, or else one english player who was standing near by would have taped the ball inthe goal and definately scored.
Years later at the OXFORD UNIVERSITY in 1995 , they used computers and the old film with the modern technology it was proved that it was not a goal and should never ever be given.
But very few know that GEOFF HURST played county cricket for ESSEX verses LANCANSHIRE. So becoming the only ever world cup gold medal winner to play cricket also. He later gave up cricket rarly to concentrate on his club football with WEST HAM.

THE EURO 1960 CUP.

The first EURO CUP ever held was held in FRANCE , from the july 6 to july 10 1960. It is similar to the COPA AMERICA. Where all the AMERICAN countries take part while in the EURO only EUROPEN countries take part.
In the 1960 EURO CUP only four countries qualified to play . They were the U.S.S.R. ,YUGOSLAVIA, CZECHOSLAVAKIA and the host country FRANCE . SPAIN refused to send their team . So it was FRANCE verses three communist countries.
There were 4 teams. There were 4 games played . There were 17 goals scored.
The top scorers were Milan Gali and DragonJerkovic of YUGASLAVIA . NALENTIN IVONOV and VIKTOR PONEDELIN of the U.S.S.R .AndFRANCOIS HEUTTA of FRANCE each scored two goals each.
The final score was U.S.S.R2- YUGOSLAVIA 1 . After extra time.
Notable absentees were W GERMANY, ENGLAND, ITALY, and SPAIN.

THE EURO 1996 IN ENGLAND.

The 1996 EURO was held in ENGLAND from the JUNE 8 to JUNE30. It was held in England and was the tenth EURO to take place.Sixteen countries took part in the tournament, and some for the first time and one country took part for the first time after it broke up into two countries.Those who took part for the firsttime were BULGARIA, CROATIA, TURKEY , SWITZERLANDand RUSSIA ans the CZECHREPUBLIC played for the first time after they broke up.
There were 1,276,000 of total attendance at41,161 per match. A total of64 goals were scored at2.06 per match .31 games were played.
The top scorer was ALAN SHEARER of ENGLAND with 5 goals in the tournament.
The fastest goal scored were by two players 1 ALAN SHEARER who scored thegoal in three minutes verses GERMANY. And the BULGARIAN STOICHKOV who scored the goal verses ROMANIA.
In the final GERMANY defeated the CZECH REPUBLIC by 2 goals to 1 after extra time. Both the goals were scored by OLIVER BIERHOFF and PATRICK BERGER scoring one goal.
THE U.E.F. A. TEAM OF THE TOURNAMENT .
goalkeepers
1 ANDREAS KOPKE. 2GERMANY. 2 DAVID SEAMEN. ENGLAND.
MIDFIELDERS
1 MANUEL RUI COSTA PORTUGAL.
2PAUL GASCOIGNE ENGLAND. 3YOURI DJORKAEFF. FRANCE 4 STEVE MACMANMAN ENGLAND. 4 KAREL PABORSKY CZECH REPUBLIC.
DEFENDERS 1 PAULO MALDINI ITALY. COLIN HENRY .SCOTLAND. MATTHIAS SAMMER. GERMANY. FERNANDO COUTO PORTUGAL.DIETER EILTS GERMANY.
ssSTRIKERS. 1JOSE LUIS CAMINERO SPAIN. ALAN SHEARER ENGLAND . DAVOR SUKER CROATIA. JURGEN KLINSMANN GERMANY.

FRANCO BARESI OR PISCININ THE LITTLE ONE.

Franco Baresi the ITALIAN footballer was born on8/5/1960. He was refered as PISCININ or the LITTLE ONE , he was one of the few footballers who have played their entire career at one club only. He played for the club A.C. MILAN from the year 1977 to1997, a preriod of twenty years.And he played for the ITALIAN team from the year 1982 to the year1994. He played 532 games forMilan and scored 16 goals. And81 times for ITALY scoring one goal.
Hewas largely kept out of the natinol team by the ITALIAN defender GAETANO SCIREA.
The four defenders of A.C. MILAN were the very best they were made up of FRANCO BARESI, PAULO MALDINI, ALESSANDRO COSTACRUTA and MARCO TOSSITI.
He wonwon six scudetto, SSIERAA TITLES.and three EUROPEN cups. He was PAULO MALDINIs Mentor . Both their carrers ran in a similar manner.
His jersey number 6 was withdrawn by A.C. MILAN withdrew the jersey in respect to BARESI. This is rarely done by ITALIAN clubs.
He played in two world cups the 1990 and 1994 world cups.
On march 4 2004 the centenery year of F.I.F.A. One hundred best footballers were chosen and FRANCO BARESI was one of the many A.C. MILAN players on the list.

ROBERTO BAGGIO ,OR DIVINE PONYTAIL.

Roberto Baggio or as fans lovingly called him THE DIVINE PONYTAIL, because of the ponytail he had for a long time. He was born in ITALY on18/2/1967 . He has played for many ITALIAN clubs, he started with the clubVICENZA, FIORENTINA, JUVENTUS, A.C. MILAN BOLOGNA, INTER, and BRESICIA. When he was transfered from FIORENTINA to JUVENTUS for asum of 12 MILLION DOLLARS which was a world record at that time. There was a major riot on the streets of FLORANCE in front of the FIORENTINA club leading to an out cry against the president and board of FIORENTINA well over sixty people were injured. BAGGIO did well at JUVENTUS till a youngster arrived from the youth team called ALESSANDRO DEL PIERO , the coach then decided that BAGGIO was no longer the only striker they could play with and he was sold to A.C. MILAN. Though there wasa rumour that MANCHESTER UNITED and BLACKBURN were intrested in BAGGIO. But nothing worked out.

In the year 1997 BAGGIO scored a total of 22 goals for BOLOGNA, so he got a call for the 1998 world cup in FRANCE. Which was his third world cup.

BAGGIO has scored the most goals for an ITALIAN in a world cup career which is nine goals.

In the 1990 world cup BAGGIO had always been their penalty taker, free kick specialist, and corner taker. But in the 1990 world cup he allowed SALVATORE SCHILLACHE to score agoal and so win the golden boot.

In the 1994 world cup in the U.S.A. He missed a penalty in the final.

In the 1998 world cup in FRANCE the coach CEASER MALDINI, USED del PIERO more and each time BAGGIO came on ITALY played better. In fact BAGGIO would have won the cup forITALY with a super volley but it missed going in and it would have been a golden goal.

CEASER MALDINI is still blamed for using BAGGIO less. Even after missing a penalty verses BRAZIL in the final he took the first penalty for ITALY in 1998 cup.

He is th first ITALIAN footballer to score300 goals in the last fifty years , he is the third player to score 300 goals. those other are SILVIO PIOLA 364 goals, GIUSEPPEMEZZA 338 goals

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DINO BAGGIO.

Dino baggio is a famous ITALIAN footballer. He is no relative of the other footballer ROBBETO BAGGIO. Dino Baggio was born on24/ 7/ 1971 and is thirtysix years old. He has played for many clubs in ITALY they are TORINO, JUVENTUS, PARMA,LAZIO and with the Enlish club BLACKBURN ROVERS. He won three U.E.F.A. cups two with PARMA and one with JUVENTUS.
After the 1994 world cup in the U.S. A. PARMA asked JUVETUS to transfer Dino Baggio to PARMA. PARMA was offered a young ITALIAN footballer who had come from the JUVENTUS youth club , a talented a young player called ALLESANDER DEL PIRO instead of DINO BAGGIO, but at the last minute DINO BAGGIOagreed to move the other way from JUVENTUS to PARMA. And the footballing world has seen history being made andthat boy ALLESANDRO DEL PIERO holds the record for the most goals scored by an JUVENTUS player which is 175 goals. He has been the pin up boy of the club same way as RAUL GONSALVES is the hero and popular star at REAL MADRID. What would have happenedhad DINO BAGGIO not agreed at the last minute to get transfered the record books and trophy room would be quite diffrent. He finishedhis club football in the year2005.

THE SAETA RUBIA OR THE BLOND ARROW.

The great Argentinan footballerALBERTO DI STEFANO was lovingly called by fans as SAETA RUBIA or The blond arrow due to the clour of his hair, which was blond in colour. He is one player who played for three countries, they were ARGENTINA, SPAIN and COLUMBIA. F.I.F.A did not recognise his matches for COLUMBIA.
AT club level he played for many years for REAL MADRID. Along with PUSKAS they won many SPANISH LA LIGA titles, as well as REAL MADRID won five U.E.F.A champion league titles all in a row, which is not surpased till now. He was the top goalscorer for REAL MADRIDtill RAUL GONSALVES broke his record. And his chamion league record was broken by RUDD VAN NISTELROOY.
Please note he had taken up SPANISH citizenship . He was considered by many as the greatest player of his time, but he never played in a single world cup, either for SPAIN or ARGENTINA.
In one world cup year SPAIN failed to qualify for the cup and the next time he was injured.
He then played for theSpanish club ESPANYOL. In his latter years he worked on the board of REAL MADRID till he had a heartattack.

THEY PLAYED IN THE CHAMPION LEAGUE.

Aleksander Hlep and Harry Kewell are two footballers wh come from countries where football is a second game .
1 Aleksander Hlep played in champion league final inthe year2006. When his club Arsenal lost to Barcelona by a score of 2-1. So he became the first footballer from BELARUS to play in the final.
2 Harry Kewell became the first AUSTRALIAN to play in a champion league final. He played for LIVERPOOL verses A. C. MILAN on the 25/ 5/ 2005.The match was won by LIVERPOOL.
In BELARUS they take more part in swimming and gymnastics and less at football

FIRST TO PLAY IN CHAMPION FINAL.

These two footballers have played in the champion league final. Though they come from countries where football is a second natinol game

THE 1950 WORLD CUP.

1 In the 1950 world cup.The Urugayan footballer ALCIDES GHIGGA ,and the French footballerJUST FONTAINE scored in every game they played. Just Fontaine , went on to score 15 goals in the world cup 1950. It is a record that still stands well after fifty years.
2 In the match between URUGAY verses BRAZIL, which was an exiting match to the very end.
BRAZIL took the lead through Jairzinho and later URUGAY equaled through JUAN ALBERTO SCHIAFFINO . Ten minutes from the end ALCDES GHIGGA score the winning goal, by beating the Brazilan goalkeeper BARBOSA. This loss to URUGAY is still very fresh in the mind of the younger Brzilan football generation who still call it a masacare. And for the loss Barbosa is held eternally responsible.
Barbosa once said in an interview , with feeling he said this.( In Brazil for life imprisinment one serves only thirty years, here Iam serving over fifty years for something Idid not do. This was shortly before he died.
Alcides Ghigga recently visited Brazil and a custom officer looked at his passport and said so you are our enemy ALCIDES GHIGGA . The officer was in her mid twentys. Ghigga said but that match was over fity years ago . The officer replied maybe so but in Brazil we remember it as yesterday. That masacare in the 1950 world cup. This just shows how seriously they take their football.

FOOTBALLERS WHO PLAYED FOR 2 TEAMS.

Over the years there have been footballers who have played for two Giant clubs, in their lifetime. But there very few footballers who have played for both BARCELONA as well as REAL MADRID. Which is very difficult as both are famous and rich clubs, as wellas sworne enemies.
1 MICHEL LADRUP, from BARCELONA to REAL MADRID.
2 LUIS FIGO , FROM BARCELONA to REAL MADRID.
3 LUIS ENRIQUE FROM REAL MADRID to BARCELONA.
4 GEORGHE HAGI FROM BARCELONA to REAL MADRID.
5 JAVIER SAVIOLA. FROM BARCELONA to REAL MADRID.
These players have received hostile welcomes. Lke LUIS FIGO was welcomed by whisky bottles, mobiles and a pigs head at the NOU CAMP and was told not to take free kicks.
MICHEL LADRUP was welcomed with a banner saying JUDAS LADRUP.

EURO STASTICS.

1 Most titles won
3 GERMANS / WEST GERMANY 1972, 1980, 1996.
2 FRANCE 1984, / 2000.
MOST APPEARENCE IN THE FINALS.
10 GERMANY / WEST GERMANY.
MOST DEFEATSIN THE FINALS.
3 SOVIET UNION 1964, 1972, 1988.
MOST TOURNAMENT HOSTS.
2 BELGIUM 1972, 2000.
2 FRANCE 1960, 1984.
2 ITALY 1968, 1980.
MOST GOALS IN THE FINAL MATCH.
9 by MICHEL PLATINI. FRANCE.
7 ALAN SHEARER. ENGLAND.
6PATRICK KLUIVERT. NETHERLANDS.
MOST GOALS IN A TOURNAMENT.
9 BY MICHEL PLATINI. 1984.
LOWEST SCORING FINAL.
GREECE 1 PORTUGAL 0.
HIGHEST SCORING FINAL.
CHECHOSLAVAKIA 2 WEST GERMANY 2 1976. CHECHOSLAVAKIA won 5 -2 on penalties.
YOUNGEST PLAYER AT A EURO was EREN DERDIYOK of SWITZERLAND who was 19 years old.
THE OLDEST TO PLAY AT A EURO MATCH WAS IVICA VASTIC OF AUSTRIA , WHO WAS 38 YEARS OLD .

THE GREAT EUSIBO.

Eusibo da Silva Ferreira, wasborn in Mozambique, in Somalia a former Portugeese colony.On 25 of january1942. But he lived in Portugal from his childhood.
He played for the Portugeese giants Benfica , he played for this club for a period of fifteen years. At the end of his carrer he played for a short time fot the Las VEGAS QUICKSILVER team for a short time, hekeptgetting injured there.
He was called the BLACK PANTHER, or the BLACK PEARL. Because of his speed and acurate passes. And because he was a very valuble player.
He played in the 1966 world cup, where he won the golden boot award after scoring nine goals in the tournament. Pease note fromthe 1974world cup onwards not more than six goals have been scored by a single player , now the goal posts are largerto help the strikers.
The 1966 quaterfinal between North Korea and Portugal will be remembered for a long time as NORTH KOREA were 0-3 at one time , and Eusibo hadto play at his very best to eventualy beat NORTH KOREA 5-3.
He won the EUROPEN footballer of the year in 1965.
Out of the fifteen years he played for BENFICA eleven times they were the countrys champion
He is one of thefew players in the world who have scored more goals and played less matches.
He has played 715 matches and scored 728 goals in the BENFICA jersey. Very few have done this.

THE1966 WORLD CUP.

1 The 1966 world cup which was held in England and was won by England. This was for the second time, that a host countryhad won the cup. Italy last did it in 1934.
There was a total attendence of1,635,000. A total of 89 goals were scored. The golden boot was won by Eusibo, of PORTUGAL.
The winner was England. Germany came second . And Portugal came third. And the U.S.S.R. came fourth.
2 The refrees made a lot of blunders, such as in the final match between England and Germany. the goal of GEOFF HURST, is did it cross theline? And so as the refree and the linesman agreed and the goal stood.It allowed GEOFF HURST tobe the only footballer in world cup history to score a hat trick in the final match.
3 The German refree sent out the ARGENTINAN YASIN RATTIN, with the second yellow card, followedby a red card. For saying somethng in Spanish. Please note the refree did not understand a word of spanish.He later said he did not like the way he looked.
4 Eusibo had four goals disallowed in one game.
5 Norh Korea was the suprise of the the world cup. They nokedout the mighty ITALIANS, who were world champions ,and here the Koreans were playing their first world cup. They reached the quaterfinals, and lost to PORTUGAL. EUSIBO and Torres hadto play with all their skill andtricks to win.
6 The JULES RIMMET trophy was stolen, and found by a dog called Pickles in a park all wrapped in paper in a box.

THE 1994 WORLD CUP IN THE U.S.A.

During the 1994 world cup in the U.S.A. Saw some good football and a few records fell on the way. F.I.F.A did not expect it tobe such a sucess.
1 The total attendence for the 1994 world cup in the U.S.A. was a record,a total of 3. 6 million attended the matches. With an average of 69,000 per match.
2 It was the for the first time in world cup history that one player scored five goals in one match. The player was the RUSSIAN Oleg SALENKO. Who scored all the five goals verses CAMEROON in 6-0 score.
3 The ITALIAN goalkeeper GANLALUGA PAGLALUKA, got a red card against Norway , for handling the ball outside the box. In so becoming the the first goalkeeper to be sent out in a world cup.
4 BRAZIL won its fourth world cup a record.
5 Probably for the first time thre were two pairs of twins playing in the world cup . The FLO twins and the DE Boer twins.
6 The columbian footballer Andrea ESCOBAR scored an own goal against the U.S.A. So Columbia lost the match 2-1. Andrea ESCOBAR was later shot by a lady in COLUMBIA ten days later.
7The golden boot winner was HRISTO Stoichkov and OLEG SALENKO.
8 The final between ITALY and BRAZIL ended in a draw after extra time. And was decided by a penalty shootout. Which BRAZIL won 3-2 Robetto Baggio missed his penalty.