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Facts In the History of Soccer
After the match against Spain in the qualification round in 1993, the Albanian soccer team was restricted from exchanging their shirts with the opponent by their coach, because the Albanian soccer team does not have enough money to make new shirts for the next match, and they had to wear the shirts again to be able to participate in the next match.
The Indian soccer team withdrew from the FIFA 1950 World Cup final because they were not allowed to play barefoot. Since then, they have never had the opportunity to compete in the final match again.
Ronaldo changed his hairstyle after Brazil beat England in the quarterfinal match in the World Cup in 2002. He changed his hairstyle so he wouldn’t have the same hairstyle as his friend, Roberto Carlos. The interesting part was, even though Ronaldo had changed his hairstyle, Ronaldo’s son kissed the TV screen and yelled “Daddy!” when Roberto Carlos appeared on the TV Screen.
During the qualification match in World Cup 1950, the U.S. beat England with the score of 1 – 0, but the newspapers in Britain reported that England beat the U.S. with the score of 1 – 10, because they believe that the report had mistyped the score.
Italian soccer player, Raimundo Orci returned to the stadium a day after the 1934 World Cup final to show his spectacular banana kick. The photographer had prepared to take a picture of the shot that made Italy win the World Cup, Orsi tried more than 20 times to do the same kick in the same place, but he kept on failing.
Exchanging shirt was banned by FIFA in 1986 because the organization did not want the players to be topless in the field.
Thousands of Argentina’s supporters failed to watch the final World Cup match in 1930 because a thick fog delayed their ships. Eight out of ten ships could not arrive in time. Luckily, the match referee took the first boat that arrived at the stadium.
During the 1998 World Cup, all players in the Rumanian soccer team had the same haircut and same color of hair.
Those are the 8 Facts In The History of Soccer, we hope you enjoyed these facts.
