Football interesting events #1
Hi guys. Today, I have prepared for you some interesting information about curious events happened in football games.
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Like you know, the football for a long time is not just a sport but a very big business - just see transfers prices of the players, salaries etc.. and even sometimes the politics interfere.
The first interesting thing is that the famous cries - "Oleh-Oleh-Oleh!" is traditional for the Spanish-language audience. It is coming from bullfighting.
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Once, during the football game in Brazil, a group of paratroopers was taken away from a wind. One of them falls on the goalkeeper and the other team scored a goal. Although the protests from the fans and the suffering team, in the end, the goal was count.
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In the USA, and more exactly state Utah, European football is permitted only if the playground is located to a minimum 1.5 miles from the church. For other sports, likes American football the necessary distance is 0.5 miles.
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In Great Britain, annual damages from vandalism of the fans for the private and public ownership amounts to 40 million pounds.
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On 3 November 1969, in England was playing a football game in which players of both teams played so hard, that this forced the referee to punish all 22 players.
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The most prolonged football game was in 1981 between two Irish teams - 65 hours and 1 minute.
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In Buenos Aires was played an unusual football game between teams of celibatarians and marrieds. When the celibatarians scored a goad and take a lead on the scoreboard, the wives entered on the ground beaten the referee and they forced him to announce victory for the married.
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The Brazilian football player Pineiro was famous for his own goals. In one season he scored 10 own goals. On his birthday, gave it to him a compass with the following label - "The opponent's door is on the opposite side, not on your back."
Thank you for stopping by and wish you to have a great day. I hope this information to be interesting for you.
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