MisterGoal's Football Facts No7

The world cup in Chile at 1962 was the only one whitch had 6 players as top scorers of the tournament(with 4 goals:Garirncha(BRA),Vava(BRA),SAnchez(CHL),Jerkoovic(YUG),Ivanov(USSR),and Albert(HUG)!!!

PAOK (Greece) 2008 Away kit

PAOK or Panthessalonikios Athlitikos Omilos Konstantinoupoliton also known as "Two headed eagle" (Greek: Πανθεσσαλονίκειος Αθλητικός Όμιλος Κωνσταντινουπολιτών), or the Pan-Thessalonican Athletic Organisation of (the people of) Konstantinople, is a sports club from Thessaloniki, Greece. PAOK maintains teams in many sports, including soccer, basketball, volleyball, handball, water polo, swimming, wrestling and weightlifting. PAOK was found at 1926

MisterGoal's Football Facts No6

AC Milan found the luckiest place in Europe at Greece!!!!! They played 3 finals in Greece and won all 3!!!!!( 1973 UEFA Winners cup against Leeds Utd. at Thessaloniki, 1994 UEFA Champions League against Barcelona at Athens and 2007 UEFA Champions League against Liverpool F.C. at Athens)

Racing Club de Lens (France) 2008 Away kit

Racing Club de Lens is a French football club which plays in the northern city of Lens, in the Pas-de-Calais département. Its nickname, sang et or (literally, 'blood and gold'), comes from its traditional colours of red and gold.

MisterGoal's Football Facts No5

Wembley stadium is the only stadium in the world which hosted all the big final games(Olympic games, World cup final, European cup final, Champions league final(then European Champions cup),Cup winners cup final, UEFA cup final)!!!!!!!!!!

Red Star (Serbia) 2008 Home kit

Fudbalski klub Crvena zvezda (Serbian Cyrillic: Фудбалски клуб Црвена звезда, English: Red Star Football Club) is a football club from Belgrade, the capital city of Serbia. The club is known worldwide by translations of Crvena zvezda into the local language. According to a recent poll, Red Star is the most popular football club in Serbia, with 43 percent of the population supporting the club.

MisterGoal's Football Facts No4

Brazil is the only team to appear in every World Cup (18 World Cup appearances)!!!!!!!

MisterGoal's Football Facts No3

In 1938 world cup, WILIMOWSKI Ernest(POL) became the first player ever who scored 4 goals in a single world's cup game.(Brazil-Poland:6-5)!!!!!!

Austria Nat.Team 2008 Home kit

The Austria national football team is the association football team that represents the country of Austria in international competition and is controlled by the Austrian Football Association (German: Österreichischer Fußball Bund).
Austria has qualified for seven World Cups, most recently in 1998. The country has not yet qualified for a European Championship; it will play in the tournament for the first time in 2008 when it co-hosts the event with Switzerland.

MisterGoal's Football Facts No2

Real Madrid's logo has been changed 6 times from 1902 to 2001!!!!

Manchester City (England) 2008 Home kit

Manchester City Football Club is an English professional football club based in the city of Manchester. They are currently members of the English Premier League.Originally formed in 1880 as St. Marks (West Gorton), they then became Ardwick A.F.C. in 1887 before changing their name to Manchester City F.C. in 1894. The club has won the League Championship twice, the FA Cup four times, the League Cup twice and the European Cup Winners Cup once. The club's most successful period was during the late 1960s and early 1970s, when they won several major trophies under the management team of Joe Mercer and his assistant Malcolm Allison, and with great players such as Colin Bell and Francis Lee.However, the club has not won a major honour since 1976. The club's decline led to relegation twice in three years in the 1990s, meaning they spent one year in the third tier of English football. However, the club has since regained Premier League status, putting City back in the top flight, the division in which they have spent the majority of their history.

MisterGoal's Football Facts No1

Brazil is the only world cup winner who din't win the cup on a home field tournament!!!!!!!!

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Switzerland Nat.team 2008 home kit

The Swiss national football team also known as the Schweizer Nati is the national football team of Switzerland and is controlled by the Swiss Football Association. Its best performances in the World Cup have been reaching the quarter-finals, in 1934, 1938 and when the country hosted the event in 1954. Switzerland also won silver at the 1924 Olympics. The 2002 U-17 European Championship was won by the Nati. In 2006, Switzerland set a FIFA World Cup record by being eliminated from the competition despite not conceding a goal in any of their four matches. In addition, Switzerland set a World Cup record by failing to score a single goal in a penalty shootout.However, the team returned to their home country to a heroes' welcome.

Bolton Wanderers (England) 2008 Home kit

Bolton Wanderers Football Club is an English professional football club based in Horwich, in the Borough of Bolton, North West England. They are currently in the Premier League.Founder embers of the Football League, Bolton were a successful cup side in the 1920s, winning the FA Cup three times. The club won the cup a fourth time in 1958 thanks to a Nat Lofthouse goal. A leaner spell followed, reaching a nadir in 1987 when the club spent a season in the Fourth Division. The club regained top-flight status in 1995 after a 15 year absence; their current spell in the top division started in 2001. In 2005–06 they participated in European competition for the first time, reaching the last 32 of the UEFA Cup. Bolton qualified for the 2007–08 tournament by finishing 7th in the 2006–07 Premier League. Bolton Wanderers moved to the Reebok Stadium in 1997. Their former home was Burnden Park

Leeds United (England) 2008 Home kit

Leeds United Association Football Club are an English professional football club based in Leeds, West Yorkshire. They currently compete in the Football League One for the 2007-08 season. The club was founded in 1919, following the demise of Leeds City. They play their home games at the Elland Road stadium.Under the management of Don Revie during the 1960s and 1970s, Leeds won a number of domestic and European trophies. After Revie's departure to manage the England team Leeds were relegated to the Second Division in 1982, not returning to the top flight until 1990, when they were managed by Howard Wilkinson. Leeds were league champions in 1992.

Panama Nat.Team 2008 Away kit

The Panama national football team is the national team of Panama and is controlled by the Federación Panameña de Fútbol. It has never qualified for the World Cup.After being considered one of the weakest teams in CONCACAF for decades, Panama is currently undergoing a resurgence. It made a surprising trip to the final round of regional qualifying for the 2006 FIFA World Cup and then shocked everyone by reaching the final game of the 2005 Gold Cup. Nowadays, under the direction of former Costa Rica head coach Alexandre Guimaraes and with some skilful players from MLS, Colombian, Mexican, Portuguese, Bulgarian and Spanish leagues, Panama is considered to be one of the best teams in CONCACAF (as of June, 2007, it is ranked 4th among CONCACAF teams according to the monthly FIFA World Rankings

Partizan(Serbia) 2008 Home kit

Fudbalski Klub Partizan (Serbian Cyrillic: ФК Партизан, English: Football Club Partizan) is a football club from Belgrade, Serbia. It is a major part of the Sports Association Partizan. The second division team FK Teleoptik is also owned by Partizan. According to UEFA, Partizan has the second-ranking youngster school in Europe, after Ajax Amsterdam. According to a recent poll, Partizan Belgrade is the second most popular football club in Serbia, with 32.2 percent of the population supporting the club.The club played in 2003/04 UEFA Champions League season, after eliminating Newcastle United in the last qualifying round. Partizan also played in a 1966 European Cup final against Real Madrid, after eliminating Manchester United in semifinals.

Arsenal Sarandi(Argentina) 2008 Home kit

Arsenal Fútbol Club, usually called Arsenal de Sarandí or simply Arsenal, is a football club from the Sarandí neighbourhood in the city of Avellaneda, Buenos Aires Province, ArgentinaThe club was founded in January 1957 by brothers Héctor and Julio Humberto Grondona, inspired by the English club Arsenal. The teams shirt colour is light blue with a diagonal red band (similar to the shirt used by River Plate). The colours were chosen as a combination of the two older clubs in Avellaneda - Racing (light blue) and Independiente (red).
Julio Grondona went on to become the president of Independiente, and then, in 1979, president of the Argentine Football Association, a post he still holds. He is also a vice-president of FIFA. Héctor Grondona, and then son Julio Ricardo, became presidents of Arsenal.

Club America (Mexico) 2008 Home kIt

Club America is a Mexican football club.The team has also had success in international tournaments including 5 CONCACAF Champions' cups, tying Cruz Azul for the most titles of all time, and two Copa Interamericana victories. América has also had strong showings in the Copa Libertadores, finishing as semi-finalists in Copa Libertadores 2000 and 2002.
In 2006, America qualified to the FIFA Club World Cup, in this tournament America just won its 1st match against the Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors (Korea), then America loss the next match against the FC Barcelona (Spain), America ended its participation in the tournament loosing the 3rd place match versus the Al-Ahly (Egypt). They finished 4th in the 2006 edition of the FIFA Club World Cup.

Maccabi Haifa (Israel) 2008 Home kit

Maccabi Haifa Football Club (Hebrew: מועדון הכדורגל מכבי חיפה, Moadon HaKaduregel Maccabi Haifa) is an Israeli football club and one of the leading football clubs in the country. They have won 10 championship titles, 5 State Cup titles and 3 Toto cups. The club was founded in 1913, and it is one of the country's most successful teams, being the first Israeli club to qualify for the group phase of the UEFA Champions League.

AFC Southway (England) 2008 Home kit

AFC Southway is an amateur football club based in Southway, Plymouth, Devon.They operate various teams ,and the club has been a member of the Devon Junior Minor League since 1995.

AC Bellinzona (Switzerland) Home kit

Since Bellinzona is an Italian speaking region, many Italian Serie A clubs loan youth players to Bellinzona, to get first team experience.

AC Bellinzona (Switzerland) Away kit

AC Bellinzona is a Swiss football club based in Bellinzona. It was founded in 1904, and won the Swiss league in 1948.

FC Girondins de Bordeaux (France) 2008 Home kit

Their biggest European triumph was reaching the UEFA Cup final in 1996. After qualifying for the Intertoto Cup, the Girondins won that competition to get a place in the UEFA Cup. They reached the final after victories over Vardar Skopje, Rotor Volgograd, Real Betis, a heroic quarter final win over AC Milan, and a semi-final win over Slavia Prague. In the UEFA Cup final, Bayern Munich prevented the Bordelais winning their first European Cup after a 5-1 defeat on aggregate.
Former Bordeaux midfielder Michel Pavon took charges of head coach in October 24, 2003. Because of health problems, he stood back and continued his career as scout on June 2005. Brazilian Ricardo became the new coach, until Laurent Blanc took over in 2007.

FC Girondins de Bordeaux (France) 2008 3rd kit

FC Girondins de Bordeaux is a French football team, playing in the city of Bordeaux.
The club was founded in 1881 as an omnisport club. The Girondins won the French league in 1950, 1984, 1985, 1987, and 1999. The club plays the home-matches in the Stade Chaban Delmas, named after the former mayor of Bordeaux, Jacques Chaban-Delmas. Parc Lescure was the previous name of the stadium. The club has often qualified for European football

Manchester United (England) 2008 Away kit

Manchester United Football Club is an English football club, based at the Old Trafford stadium in Trafford, Greater Manchester, and is arguably the most popular football club in the world, with over 50 million supporters worldwide;average attendances at the club have been higher than any other team in English football for all but six seasons since 1964-65.The club is also one of the most successful in English football; for over twenty years, since the 1986-87 season, they have won 18 major honours, which is more than any other Premier League club. They are the Premier League's reigning champions, and have won the Premier League/Football League 16 times. In 1968, they became the first English club to win the European Cup, beating S.L. Benfica 4–1, and they won a second European Cup in 1999. They also hold the record for the most FA Cup titles with 11.Since the late 1990s, the club has been one of the richest in the world, and until recently had the highest revenue of any football club for several years running. As of 2007, the club has the fourth largest turnover in club football,but remains the most profitable club based on operating income.Manchester United also remains the most valuable club in the world.The club is a founding member of the G-14 group of Europe's leading football clubs.Sir Alex Ferguson has been manager of the club since 6 November 1986. The captain is Gary Neville, who succeeded Roy Keane in November 2005

VfL Wolfsburg (Germany) 2008 Home kit

VfL Wolfsburg is a German sports club based in Wolfsburg, Lower Saxony and is best known for its football club which currently plays in the country's first division Bundesliga.The city of Wolfsburg was founded in 1938 as Stadt des KdF-Wagen to house autoworkers building the car which would later become famous as the Volkswagen Beetle. The first football club affiliated with the autoworks was known as BSG Volkswagenwerk Stadt des KdF-Wagen. This team played in the first division Gauliga Osthannover in the 1943-44 and 1944-45 seasons.On September 12 1945, in the aftermath of World War II, a new club was formed and was known briefly as VSK Wolfsburg. This side began play in the green and white still worn by VfL today: local youth trainer Bernd Elberskirch had ten green jerseys at his disposal and white bed sheets donated by the public were sewn together by local women to make shorts.On December 15 1945, the club went through a crisis that almost ended its existence when all but one of its players left to join 1. FC Wolfsburg. The only player remaining, Josef Meyer, worked with Willi Hilbert to rebuild the side by signing new players. Within a year this new group, now playing as VfL Wolfsburg, had captured the local Gifhorn title. In late November 1946, the club played a friendly against longtime powerhouse Schalke 04 at the stadium owned by the Volkswagen, emerging as the successor to BSG as the company sponsored side.

Liverpool F.C.(England) 2008 Home kit

Liverpool have played at Anfield since they were founded in 1892. However, plans have been formed to start work on a new 60,000 all-seater stadium, which could be raised to 80,000 depending on planning permission, in the summer of 2010 near Stanley Park. The venture will be funded by Tom Hicks and George Gillett, who became the club's owners on February 6, 2007.The club's fans have been involved in two major disasters. At the Heysel Stadium 39 Juventus F.C. fans died when a wall collapsed after crowd trouble in the 1985 European Cup Final,and at Hillsborough in 1989, 96 Liverpool fans lost their lives due to overcrowding.

Middlesbrough (England) 2008 Away kit

Middlesbrough Football Club (commonly known as Boro) are an English football club based in Middlesbrough, Tees Valley, who currently play in the Premier League. Formed in 1876, they have played at the 35,100 capacity Riverside Stadium since August 1995, their third ground since turning professional in 1889. They were founding members of the Premier League in 1992. The club's main rivals are Newcastle United and Sunderland.The club's highest league finish to date was third in the 1913–14 season and have only spent two seasons outside of the Football League's top two divisions.The club came close to folding in 1986 after experiencing severe financial difficulties before the club was saved by a consortium led by then board member and current chairman Steve Gibson.[2] Middlesbrough won the League Cup in 2004, the club's first and only major trophy.The current manager is former captain Gareth Southgate who was appointed on June 7 2006.

Bayern Munich (Germany) 2008 Home kit

Bayern is one of three professional football clubs in Munich. Bayern's main local rival is TSV 1860 Munich, who were the more successful club in the 1960s, winning a cup and a championship. 1860 have since moved between the first and second divisions. 1860 are often referred to by sections of the Bayern support as "gymnasts", insinuating a lack of footballing pedigree. The rivalry has, at least from a Bayern point of view, lost importance over the last decade, reflecting the lopsided state of the achievements of the two clubs and the absence of players for whom local grudges would still matter. 1860 is considered more working-class, and therefore suffers from a diminishing fan base in a city where the manufacturing sector is declining whilst tertiary industries are booming

Bolton Wanderers (England) 2008 Away kit

Bolton Wanderers Football Club (also known as The Trotters) are an English professional football club based in Horwich, in the Borough of Bolton, Greater Manchester, North West England. They are currently in the Premier League.
Founder members of the Football League, Bolton were a successful cup side in the 1920s, winning the FA Cup three times. The club won the cup a fourth time in 1958 thanks to a Nat Lofthouse goal. A leaner spell followed, reaching a nadir in 1987 when the club spent a season in the Fourth Division. The club regained top-flight status in 1995 after a 15 year absence; their current spell in the top division started in 2001. In 2005–06 they participated in European competition for the first time, reaching the last 32 of the UEFA Cup. Bolton qualified for the 2007–08 tournament by finishing 7th in the 2006–07 Premier League. Bolton Wanderers moved to the Reebok Stadium in 1997. Their former home was Burnden Park.

UNAM Pumas (Mexico) 2008 Away kit

Club Universidad Nacional, also known as Universidad, UNAM, or Pumas, is a Mexican professional football club, one of the most popular and most important in Mexico. This team is closely related to UNAM, the largest university in Mexico; however this team has fans all over the country due to the fact that alumni of the university support the club and are spread out all around Mexico. Throughout the years Pumas has always been an important producer of young quality players that have been an integral part of Mexico's National team such as Enrique Borja, Hugo Sánchez, Claudio Suarez, Alberto Garcia Aspe, and Jorge Campos, to name a few.

VfB Stuttgart (Germany) 2008 Home kit

VfB Stuttgart is a German sports club based in Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg. With 40.000 members (July 2007), VfB is the largest sports club in the state and the fifth largest in the country. The club is best known for its football team which has participated in all but two Bundesliga seasons, and has won the national championship five times in total. They are the current Bundesliga champions.
The football team plays its home games at the Gottlieb-Daimler-Stadion, situated in the Cannstatter Wasen sports complex. Its reserve team, VfB Stuttgart II, currently plays in the Regionalliga, two divisions below Stuttgart.

Atalanta (Italy) 2008 Home kit

Atalanta Bergamasca Calcio, commonly known as just Atalanta, Atalanta Bergamo or the abbreviation Atalanta BC, is an Italian football club based in Bergamo, Lombardy. They are nicknamed the Nerazzurri and the orobici. Atalanta play in blue-and-black vertically striped shirts, black shorts and black socks.
The club stadium is the 26,638 seater Atleti Azzurri d'Italia. In Italy, Atalanta is sometimes called Regina delle provinciali (queen of the provincial clubs) to mark the fact that the club is historically one of the best among non-metropolitan ones

Anorthosis Famagusta (Cyprus) 2008 3rd kit

On 26 July 2005 they achieved one of the greatest results in Cypriot football history when they beat the Turkish team Trabzonspor 3-1 in the first leg of their second round Champions League qualifying match. They lost the second leg 1-0 in Turkey, but progressed 3-2 on aggregate. In the third-round qualifying tie against the Scottish team Rangers, Anorthosis lost the first leg 2-1, and the second leg 2-0, so dropped into the first round of the UEFA Cup. They were then defeated 6-1 on aggregate by the Italian team Palermo.

Anorthosis Famagusta (Cyprus) 2008 Away kit

Anorthosis Famagusta FC (Greek: Ανόρθωση Αμμοχώστου = Anorthosi Ammochostou) is a Cypriot football and volleyball club which comes from Famagusta, but is currently based in Larnaca.The club was founded in Famagusta in January 30 1911. After the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974, Anorthosis became a refugee team and is temporarily based in Antonis Papadopoulos Stadium in Larnaca. Anorthosis Home Stadium in occupied Famagusta is G.S.E. (Gymnastic Club Evagoras) which has been abandoned and in a bad condition since 1974. Anorthosis won 12 championship titles, their last in season 2004-2005. They have won the Cyprus Cup 10 times (1949, 1959, 1962, 1964, 1971, 1975, 1998, 2002, 2003, and 2007). Additionally, they have won the Super Cup trophy 7 times. The current president of the team is Andreas Panteli and the current coach is former Georgian International Timur Ketsbaia, who was also a player in the team

Southlands United (Fantasy Team) 2008 Home kit

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Southlands United (Fantasy Team) 2008 Away kit

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Atlético Banfield (Argentina) 2008 Away kit

Banfield have never won the Primera División, but have finished second, in 1951 and again in the 2004-05 Torneo Clausura. And in the 2003-04 season they finished third in the Torneo Apertura. Banfield have been promoted to the Primera División seven times - as Champions of Primera B Nacional six times (1939, 1946, 1962, 1973, 1992-92, 2000-001) and also in 1986-87 via the play-offs.
In the 2006-07 season, Banfield finished 15th in the Apertura and 16th in the Clausura.

Atlético Banfield (Argentina) 2008 Home kit

Club Atlético Banfield is an Argentina professional football club from Banfield, a village in Buenos Aires Province 14km south of Buenos Aires. The club was founded in 1896 and was named after Edward Banfield, a British executive of the railway company Gran Ferrocarril Sur.
The club is also referred as El Taladro (The Drill), because in 1930 the 'El Pampero' newspaper said the Banfield forwards "drilled" rival defences. Banfield is traditionally one of the best supported clubs in the south of Greater Buenos Aires metropolitan area, and the biggest club in Lomas de Zamora Partido