• When Suarez had his first child, he scored a goal.
• When he had his second child, he scored a brace.
• When he had his third child, he scored a hat-trick. That hat-trick was against Real Madrid in El Clasico.
Scouts first noticed the Brazilian icon when he scored all of the goals in a U-13 match, in which his team won 23-0 and he scored all of the goals. This was one of the earliest glimpses of the player’s growth as a player and as an icon in the game. This is a feat that has never been duplicated in a game.
Zlatan Ibrahimović playing and scoring across 4 decades.
A playing career mainly consists of 2 decades with some going into three. That isn’t the case for Zlatan as the man started his career in 1998 and is still going strong in 2021. Playing across 4 decades is worth mentioning. But there is also the fact that he also scored goals in all the 4 decades making him the first player to do so in the history of the game. This feat only Zlatan could have achieved !.
At the age of 17, most people are planning for their higher education and looking forward to the future. However, the great Pele had other plans as he became the youngest player to ever win a FIFA World Cup and score in a World Cup final.
Fernando Torres scored in 7 competitions in a season
In 2012, Fernando Torres created history by scoring in seven different club competitions. He scored in the Premier League, Champions League, UEFA Super Cup, Europa League, Community Shield, FA Cup, and Carabao Cup, breaking Pedro’s record of six goals in the 2009/10 season.
Everyone wishes for a successful World Cup debut, and there isn’t a better way to commemorate it than on your birthday. But the situation was a little different for Zola. He came on as a substitute and was sent off after receiving two yellow cards in less than ten minutes. Worse, he received his first yellow card for a foul he didn’t commit. He did not compete in the remainder of the World Cup. Not the best way to commemorate a birthday.
It happens at times that a player dies on the football pitch and it is a saddening affair. But when a whole team dies, it is a disaster. It happened in 1998 when the whole team of Congo died when lightning struck them. It was a horrifying scene and a black day in the history of football. It is probably the biggest massacre that has ever happened on the football pitch.
Must be the most horrifying and sad incident in football history!
If nature is assumed to be impartial to life on earth, then expecting us to believe that an entire team is killed by lightning strike while the opposing team playing on the field is spared from the same lightning bolt, is just too fishy a story to be believed to be true! A rebel attack seems to be more likely than the chance of lightning strike all 11 players of only one team!
Very fine reporting in the video narrating the political instability, civil war and massacre in the region.
DID YOU KNOW: In 2010, after a training session, a young Manchester City fan asked Mario Balotelli for an autograph. Mario Balotelli asks him why he is not at school, and the child explains that his absence is due to the bullying he is subjected to by one of his comrades.
Immediately, the striker got the child into his Maserati, headed for the school. In front of the director, he mediates and lectures the agitator, making him promise not to bother his comrades anymore.