Amazing football Facts

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Dario Conca

Dario Conca  earns more than Messi & Ronaldo! He plies his trade in China with Guangzhou, and earns €10.6 million. This is higher than the €10.5 million Lionel Messi receives and the €10 million that Cristiano Ronaldo earns. 
 

Top of the high earners list is
Samuel Eto’o who earns a whooping €20 million (double of C. Ronaldo's) at Russian club Anzhi.
An English Manager has never won the Premier League.
 
The first winner of Europe’s Football Player of the Year was England’s Sir Stanley Matthews. His nicknames were “The Wizard of the Dribble” and “The Magician.” He played in England’s top division until he was fifty years old!
 

Ryan Giggs is the only player to score in every Premier League season.
The first televised football match featured Arsenal vs. Arsenal Reserves.
The Championship is the 5^th most Lucrative league in Europe. Behind the Premier League, Spanish, German & Italian.
 
In 1954 Turkey knocked out Spain during a World Cup qualifier by drawing straws. Blindfolded Italian Luigi Franco Gemma picked the straws to decide the winner.
 
Ireland was the only team in Euro 2012 that didn't have any players from their country’s leagues. England was the only team whose entire squad was filled with players entirely from its own local leagues.
 
In 1994, Oleg Salenko of Russia scored 5 goals versus Cameroon to set the World Cup record for highest number of goals scored by a single player in a game.
 
The first goal in the history of the Premier League was scored by Brian Deane for Sheffield United.
 

Estádio do Maracanã

The largest attendance for a Football match ever was 199,854 people - Brazil v. Uruguay in the World Cup at the Maracana Municipal Stadium, Rio de Janeiro, July 1950.
 
In the largest Football tournament ever, no less than 5,098 teams competed in 1999 for the second Bangkok League Seven-a-Side Competition. Over 35,000 players involved!
 

Stephan Stanis

The most goals scored by one player in a single Football match was 16 by Stephan Stanis (France) playing for Racing Club de Lens in December 1942.
Football goalies didn't have to wear different coloured shirts from their teammates until 1913.

Every year except for two (1930 and 1950) European Teams have reached every World Cup final.
 
India withdrew from the World Cup in 1950 because they weren’t allowed to play barefoot.
 
The fewest number of fans to watch a World Cup Football game was the 300 in Uruguay in 1930. 



There has only ever been one golden premier league trophy awarded. Does anyone know why?