It was about a month ago now that I posted 40 Amazing Football Facts. If you haven’t read that yet, it’s worth a few minutes of your time. I also brought you 50 Random Yet Amazing Facts about the English Premiership, and Completely Random Yet Amazing Football Facts 2. Today, I’m doing it again, bringing you another edition of Completely Random Yet Amazing Football Facts. I’m sure you will be familiar with some of these, but I’m equally sure there will be some that are sure to surprise. So, enough of a preamble, let’s get to the list…
1. Ryan Giggs has won 12 English league titles
2. Pele won the World Cup 3 times; 58, 62 and 70
3. Dino Zoff once went 1143 minutes without conceding for Italy.
4. Ashley Cole has won the FA cup an amazing seven times (3 for Arsenal, 4 for Chelsea)
5. Peter Shilton played 1005 league games.
6. Francesco Gento won the European cup 6times (Real Madrid).
7. Paolo Maldini scored after 53sec vs. Liverpool in the 2005 European final.
8.Puskas won the European cup at the grand old age of 39 years and 39 days.
9. Leo Messi scored a staggering 5 goals vs. German side Bayer Leverkusen in 2012 Champions League game.
10. Italy Manager Vittorio Pozzo won the World cup twice in 1934 and 1938.
11. Fastest sending off in World Cup final history was Jose Batista (Uruguay vs. Scotland 1986) after just 56 seconds.
12. 199,854 is the highest attendance in World Cup history – Uruguay vs. Brazil 1950.
13. 300 is the lowest attendance in World Cup history – Peru vs. Romania 1930.
14. Germany has won most penalty shootouts in World cup history with four.
15. England/Italy both has lost 3 Penalty Shoot outs in the World Cup finals.
16. Argentina/Uruguay both have won the Copa America title, winning 14 times.
17. Biggest Copa win Argentina 12 nil vs. Ecuador 1942.
18. Brad Friedel played 310 consecutive league games between 2004 to 2012.
19. Oldest player in English football history was Sir Stanley Matthews aged 50 yrs and 5 days in 1965.
20. France’s Just Fontaine scored 13goals in the 1958 World cup.
21. Egypt’s Ahmed Hassan played a record 179 times for his country.
22. Real Madrid have won La Liga 32 times and runners up 20times.
23. Fransesco Totti has scored 226 goals for Roma in Serie A.
24. Marco Balotta played for Lazio at the grand age of 44yrs 38days.
25. AC Milan’s Sebastiano Rossi once went 929 minutes without conceding a goal – an Italian record.
26. Man Utd have won the FA cup 11 times.
27. Dixie Dean scored 60goals in the 1927/28 season for Everton.
28. Liverpool’s Ian Rush scored five FA cup final goals (2 in 86, 2 in 89 and 1 in 92).
29. The FA Cup started in the 1871/72 season.
30. Littlewoods Pools were the 1st sponsors of the FA cup in 1994.
31. Tottenham hasn’t won the English title since 1961.
32. Oleg Salenko scored five goals for Russia vs. Cameroon in 1994 World cup finals.
33. Liverpool last won the title in the 1989/1990 season.
34. Barcelona has won 26 Copa Del Rey cups.
35. Michael Owen has scored 222 goals in his career so far.
36. Bobby Moore was England captain when they won the 1966 World cup at Wembley.
37. Wayne Rooney has won four Titles with Manchester Utd.
38. Robin Van Persie has won just one FA cup (Arsenal) and one UEFA cup (Feyenoord) in his career.
39. Paul Scholes widely known as a little dirty received 120bookings and 10 Red cards in his career.
40. Thierry Henry won titles in 3 different countries – Monaco (France), Arsenal (England) and Barcelona (Spain).
