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Guiness World Records (Soccer)
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Heaviest Goalkeeper (Soccer)
The biggest goalkeeper in soccer was the England international Willie Henry “ty” Foulke (1874-1916), who was 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in) and weighed 141 kg (310 lb).
Largest Football Attendance
The greatest recorded crowd at any soccer match was 199,854, for the Brazil v. Uruguay World Cup final in the Maracanã Municipal Stadium, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on July 16, 1950.
Longest Clean Sheet In Soccer
The longest any goalkeeper has succeeded in preventing goals being scored past him in top-class soccer competition is 1,275 min, a record held, as of April 1, 1991, by Abel Resino of Atlético Madrid, Spain.
Longest Unbeaten run (Soccer)
Nottingham Forest were undefeated in 42 consecutive First Division matches from Nov 20, 1977, to Dec 9, 1978. In Scottish Football, Glasgow Celtic were undefeated in 62 matches (49 won, 13 drawn), from Nov 13, 1915 until April 21, 1917.
Most Expensive Soccer Player
The highest transfer fee quoted for a player is a reported 13,033,000,000 Spanish pesetas (£47 million) for France's Zinedine Zidane from Juventus to Real Madrid on July 9th, 2001.
Most Soccer goals scored by a Goalkeeper
José Luis Chilavert, who plays for Paraguay and Vélez Sarsfield of Argentina, scored a record 54 official and international goals between July 1992 and August 2000. Chilavert often takes free kicks and penalties - he once scored a hat-trick of penalties for Vélez Sarsfield in their 6-1 defeat of Ferro Carril Oeste in the Argentine professional league. Off the field he is an outspoken and controversial figure whose comments have regularly angered both fans and officials alike.mento on
Most Goals Scored In An International Match
During the 31-0 defeat by Australia of American Samoa in a World Cup qualifying match at Coffs Harbour, New South Wales, Australia, on April 11, 2001, Archie Thompson scored an international record 13 goals.
When they went up against the Australian team, the American Samoans were ranked 203rd in the world, and are now in the bottom 3 (2001). They went into the record-breaking World Cup qualifying match with less than high hopes of winning, but lost a record 31-0!
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Soccer is probably the most popular sport in the world. The biggest soccer extravaganza is the World Cup, which attracts an audience of over one billion people. Every four years national teams made up of the top players from each country compete to win the World Cup, soccer's most coveted prize. In countries other than United States soccer is called football. The word "soccer" is a shortening and altering of "association football".
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The highest score recorded in a first-class match is 36, during in the Scottish Cup match between Arbroath and Bon Accord on September 12, 1885. Arbroath won 36-0 on their home ground. Seven further goals were disallowed for offside.
TOP FIVE STRANGE SOCCER-RELATED SHENANIGANS
1. The national championship play-off between Penarol and Nacional of Uruguay ended with the arrests of 10 players. An incident towards the end sparked a mass brawl involving players, coaching staff, and fans.
2. Joaquin Valerio, goalkeeper of Spanish Real Betis, was sent off before kick-off for talking about the referee!
3. Guam, a tiny US colony, suffered a mighty World Cup preliminary match defeat. The islanders lost 19-0 to Iran, before being knocked out of the competition 16-0 by Tajikistan.
4. Dutch fans angered by the state of the soccer pitch at Amsterdam's Arena showed what they thought of it by releasing two cows on to the turf.
5. The very young and soundly defeated American Samoan soccer team prayed, cried, and sang hymns after losing 8-0 to their archrivals. Most of the best available players for American Samoa couldn't play because they did not have American passports.
Tres Coracos, Brazil, Pelé is arguably the best soccer player ever. He scored more goals than anyone else, banging in 1,279 over a career spanning 21 years playing only for two clubs: Santos of Rio de Janeiro, and the New York Cosmos. He scored on his club debut for Santos in September 1956 aged just 16, and notched his 1,000th playing for the same outfit in November 1969.
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