15 facts you didn't know about these footballers

  1.Here is an amazing fact Guys, the world’s most famous footballer Pele is the YOUNGEST WORLD CUP WINNER, picking up the gold at just the age of 17 years and 249 days. So what are the teenagers doing these days?

   2.    Everyone keeps fighting over Messi and Ronaldo, forget them, if you want a goalscorer look no further than Fernando Peyroteo. The Portuguese boasts the world’s greatest goal to game ratio of 1.77, having found the net 331 times in just 187 games for Sporting Lisbon between 1937 and 1949. Adding to that, he reportedly scored 4 or more goals in a game on more than 30 occasions, including a phenomenal nine in one game. Deadly, isn’t he?

3. Nemanja Vidic Former Manchester United  and currently playing for Inter Milan, was the only premier league player whose last name is completely made of roman numerals : V(5),  I (1),  D (500), I (1), C (100),  A Gladiator name which definitely suits his play.

   4.  Chelsea legend Gianfranco Zola is the only player to be sent off in the World Cup Finals... on his birthday! The Italian received a red in their second round victory against Nigeria on his 28th birthday. Well I hope the ref wrote happy birthday on the card. Well you can choose not to laugh, I know it was a bad joke ;-P

5.    In the 2009-10 season, Barcelona's Pedro became the First Man To Score In 6 Different, Official Club Competitions In One Season, scoring in La Liga, the Supercopa de España, the Copa del Rey, the Champions League, the UEFA Super Cup and the FIFA Club World Cup.However, this, since then, has been trumped by Spanish striker Fernando Torres, who scored in 7 official club competitions during the 2012-13 season. The Chelsea striker netted in the Premier League, Champions League, Euro League, FIFA Club World Cup, FA Community Shield, FA Cup and League Cup.

 6.    ‘Jari Litmanen’ is considered as Finland’s greatest ever player , He Is The Only Footballer To Have Played International Football In Four Different Decades He Made Is Finland Debut In 1989(80’s) was a regular throughout the 90’s and 00’s, before making his final appearance in 2010 (10’s) no surprise he is the Nation’s most capped player with 137 appearances.

7. Winning the Copa Libertadores with Atlétic Mineiro  has placed   Ronaldinho  into a very exclusive club, becoming one of only seven players to win both this and the UEFA Champions League, along with Cafu, Dida, Roque Júnior, Carlos Tevez, Juan Pablo Sorín and Walter Samuel.

 8.    This one is seriously amazing. Guillermo Stabile had pretty strange debut at the world cup. The Argentinian was selected for his world cup debut in 1930. After missing the first game,he was selected for his World Cup debut as a replacement and he bagged a Hatrick. He then scored 2 goals in the final group game to secure qualification to the semi-final. He scored again in the Semi-final, and also in the final were they unfortunately loose to Uruguay. After this tournament Stabile never played for Argentina again, though he had an amazing goal ratio of 2 goals per game, and also being the top scorer at the first ever fifa world cup.

9.  Ballon d'Or winner Cristiano Ronaldo has never scored in the 7th minute - the only minute he has failed to do so! Discounting injury time (where he has bagged 20 goals), Ronaldo's most prolific minutes are the 68th, when he netted for 11 times, followed by the 23rd minute, where he has 10!

 10. Amazing Contract. Stefan Schwarz arguably had the most bizarre clause to have ever been inserted into a player's contract. When signing for Sunderland in 1999, the Swede was banned from travelling into space! Like footballers go to moon for their every holiday season.

 11. Ronaldo LuisNazario De Lima(original Ronaldo) has never won the Champions League Medal, despite playing for five different clubs that have won the title. Zlatan Ibrahimovic has also never won the Champions League.

 12. On 11 November,1987,Mark Hughes the current manager of Stoke City played two competitive matches in one day: Firstly he played for Wales against Czechoslovakia in Prague in a Euro’ 88 qualifier and then he came on as a substitute for Bayern in their 2^nd round cup replay victory over Borussia Monchengladbach.

13. In 2004, James Hayter came on as an 84th minute substitute for Bournemouth against Wrexham and scored the fastest Football League hat-trick ever. It took less than 140 seconds.

 14. Rio Mavuba was born in International Waters. His birth certificate does not have a nation listed, it just says “Born at sea”.He received French nationality in September 2004.

15. Javier Zanetti didn’t get a red card in Serie A till his 548th match. Ryan Giggs has never received a red card in the EPL.