Football

1. Football chants "Ole Ole Ole" comes from Spain, where the word "Ole" shouted at a bullfight or flamenco dancing. And then it came through the transformation of the word "Allah" is uttered in prayer Arabs captured Spain in the 8th century.

2. Julio Iglesias in his youth was a soccer goalkeeper and played for Madrid "Real". However, his football career was interrupted at age 20, when he got into a car accident and was in hospital for three years. He was paralyzed, only hands free to work. Iglesias learned to play the guitar and went on to become a famous musician.

3. During a football match in Brazil, the wind blew a group of paratroopers on the football field. One of parachutists fell on the ball at the moment when the goalkeeper was ready to seize the ball. As a result, the ball was in the gate, and the judge, despite the protests of the injured team, a goal is scored, explaining the appearance of parachutists "intervention of a higher power».

4. Football is officially banned in six countries, including Afghanistan, Cambodia and Greenland. Interestingly, football (soccer, ie soccer) is allowed to play in Utah, United States, only on the condition that the field is not located closer than 1.5 mile from the church. For baseball, golf and football is the distance - 0.5 miles.

5. It is well known that the British - ardent football fans, who are in awe to his football club and are ready for that much. But it turns out that in this case the annual damage to private and public property caused by British football fans is estimated at forty million pounds.

6. November 3, 1969 in the UK took place on "the most undisciplined" in the history of football match. Team "Tonghemskogo Youth Club" (Surrey) and 'How-Do "(Hunts) is so rude fought for a local cup that the referee had to punish all 22 players, including one sent to the hospital, and even the judge on the line.

7. The longest football match played 1-3 August 1981 two Irish teams of football club "Kallinafersi" in Kerry. Winner revealed only through ... 65 hours 1 minute.

8. In the British Isles the mist - a common phenomenon. But the unusual event that took place in the meeting of the two Scottish teams. The fog thickened so that a long time looking for the ball players, partners and rivals. At one point, the judge thought that the players on the field too much. First he ran to the bench and saw that they are empty. The referee immediately stopped the game. As it turned out, on the field at the same time there were thirty players.

9. Brazilian football team, "What", which had good results, was unexpectedly dismissed by order of the Interior Minister. The fact that the team consisted mainly of police, and during the matches with her participation came to the stadium the whole "dress" fans in police uniforms. The city began an orgy of crime. But in the stands of the order was exemplary.

10. In the Polish city of Bydgoszcz took a curious game, which attracted a lot of spectators. Reporters local newspapers met with the team, fully equipped members of one family - sons mason Osinskogo. Although 11 men aged 15 to 28 years lost, the audience warmly welcomed the "creator" of the team.

11. The stadium of Buenos Aires once an experiment, the purpose of which was to prove the superiority of the players over the married bachelor. All went quiet until penalty against married. When the penalty has been implemented in the field jumped ... wife. They are beaten and the judge awarded the victory to their husbands. To avoid trouble bachelors did not protest. The experiment failed.

12. During the friendly football matches in the Italian town of Asti frontline local team Maschio without hitting the ball kovyrnul ground. So much so that seriously injured his leg. When examined the ground, they found the skeleton proved valuable historical findings. Maschio received a cash prize and the icon for "craving for archaeological research».

13. Brazilian football defender Pinheiro called the record for goals scored ... in his own goal. In only one season he scored against his team's 10 goals. Pineiro moved to the attack. In the first match of the "record holder" again managed to amaze his own goal. When the football player was 25 years old, teammates gave him a compass, on which was engraved: "Remember, the enemy on the other side».

14. English League Cup final in 2005 was recorded record noise in the stadium. After the goal, the player of "Liverpool" Riise into the gates of London "Chelsea" fans made the cry mersisaydskogo capacity of 130, 7 dB. The achievement was recorded in the "Guinness Book". The previous record was 128, and 74 dB was set in 2000 at the American leg of the club "Denver Broncos».

15. An original record is played in the middle of the 60s for the Italian club, "Brescia" defender Mazza. After 38 seconds of meeting with the team "Mantova", he scored an own goal, creating the fastest own goal.

16. There are two cases where the arbitrator shows a red card to themselves: Andy Wayne, judging match "Peterborough North End" - "Royal Mail" and Melvin Sylvester to match "Southampton Arms" - "Hurstbourne Tarrant British Legion." First remove yourself from the field during the game, to avoid conflict with the goalkeeper, and the second - for a brawl with the player.

17. In 1959, the German administration of Gelsenkirchen stadium mistakenly appointed handball and football matches at the same time. None of the athletes did not want to give the right to host the game. As a result, matches held at the same time and were brought to an end, but on the field there were four teams and two goals.

18. The draft resolution on the football games on Saturdays was to appeal to the Israeli parliament, a record number of times - 36! Consideration of the bill lasts for seven years.

19. Botswana's national team has not won any international match for twenty-eight years of existence. The team replaced more than fifty head coaches, four of which were former Soviet athletes.

20. The Italian goalkeeper Grosso during the game the judge advised to wear glasses, for which he was dismissed. During the proceedings of the incident revealed that Grosso is the owner of an optical shop, and an arbitrator really bad eyesight. In this regard, the words of a shot, facing the referee, the disciplinary commission regarded not as an insult but as a very useful and efficient advice. The upshot was that the goalkeeper is simple, and the judge bought his store glasses.

21. At the end of the 50s in the Italian city of Siena football judge decided to play themselves. Made two teams took to the field, and the match began. Everything was fine as long as the gate of one of the teams is not scored a controversial goal. It was then that all 22 players, each of whom are on duty knew and knew how to interpret the rules began to prove his innocence. Word for word, and it came to a scuffle that the police had to intervene.

22. A rare event took place in Spain in the second league game, "San Isidro" and "Olimpico Karrante." 3 minutes before the end of both teams, unhappy with the refereeing, surrounded the referee, trying to reason with him. And not only words and gestures ... In this critical situation, the judge, keeping calm, took a red card and showed it to all twenty-two participants match!

23. The game Championship in Greece 1978 "Ethnikos" accepted "PAOK". By opening an account, the guests ran to the bench, violently separated from the joy of its inhabitants, paying no attention to the judge's proposal to continue the meeting. Without thinking, the players, "Ethnikos" in the absence of rivals began with the center, passed unhindered to their goal and equalized.

24. In 1891, an Irish expert on the rules of football John Penalties proposed to introduce a penalty kick for foul play, or play a hand, deliberately committed by a player of the defending team within its penalty area. The first such attack was made in the Irish Football League. Now, all over the world it is called a penalty.

25. In the Spanish town of Fuente local team has players club "Gonsha." A few minutes passed, and the guests were with the score 2: 0. And suddenly on the field, like in the arena for bullfighting, there is a bull, and then another, and another. Players and referees are not owned skills matador scattered. The audience followed the examples. The judge, barely had time to hide in the locker room, peered out the window: the bulls are still worn on the field. The game had to be canceled. It soon became clear that the bulls prepared for bullfighting, issued an avid fan of the local club, in order to prevent a large loss of their team.

26. Machinist Express Bucharest - Belgrade at the last moment managed to avoid a collision with a man sprawled on the tracks. Desperate daredevil turned football fan from Yugoslavia Radanovich. He stopped the train so as not to be late for a football match in Belgrade.

27. The defeat of the Honduras national football team from the national team of El Salvador in the play-off matches of the qualifying stage of the World Cup in 1969 was the direct cause of the six-day war between the two countries.

28. It is known that Lev Yashin was not only a football goalkeeper, and hockey. In 1953 he won the USSR Cup hockey and bronze medalist of the USSR. Yashin had wanted to call in a hockey team at the World Cup, but he decided to concentrate on football.

29. 20 March 1976 player "Aston Villa" Chris Nicholl in against the "Leicester City" scored two goals in the gates of the enemy, and into his own goal. The match ended with the score 2: 2.

30. In 1939, the Viennese club "Rapid" met in the final match of the championship with a unified Germany "Frankfurt" and scored the three goals in the last 15 minutes. Since then, home games "Rapid" established tradition - the last 15 minutes of the match the crowd applauded rhythmically and continuously.