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[17LawsGuy @17LawsGuy]

@volante57 Norway even being the only country Brazil has never defeated!

[shahan petrossian @sp1873]

The 292nd episode of my podcast, 🎙️'Soccernostalgia Talk Podcast’ is up. I interview @roclufc, as we discuss his book ‘Sergeant Wilko’s Defending Champions: Leeds United at the Dawn of Modern Football (2026).’ @real1888letter
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[17LawsGuy @17LawsGuy]

The cruelty: Morocco won 3-0 and still went home, because in another city Norway refused to die.

It's still Norway's World Cup peak, until now: Solbakken, a player that night, takes them to 2026 with Haaland, finishing above Italy.

#OTD episode 235. Link in profile.

[17LawsGuy @17LawsGuy]

How did a team ranked 7th, full of @premierleague players, become one of football's strangest "upsets"?

#OnThisDay in 1998, @nff_landslag turned 0-1 against reigning @FIFAWorldCup champions @CBF_Futebol into a 2-1 win

And it sent @FRMFOFFICIEL home

🧵 @sp1873 @footyheritage

[17LawsGuy @17LawsGuy]

83': Tore André Flo battles Júnior Baiano, turns, finishes. 1-1.

88': Baiano grabs Flo's shirt. Penalty. The TV angle looked soft, another angle proved it right.

Kjetil Rekdal beat Taffarel from the spot. Norway 2, Brazil 1.

[Esteban Bekerman @egerbek]

El primer partido entre un equipo argentino y uno austríaco fue el que el 12 de marzo de 1931 @gelphistoria perdió 2-1 en el marco de su gira por Europa visitando en Viena al Wiener AC, ante unos 5000 espectadores. Aquí debajo, la crónica publicada al día siguiente por el diario deportivo Sport-Tagblatt, que destaca a los argentinos como "brillantes futbolistas" con una concepción del juego altamente técnica. Un pésimo clima con nieve incluida, lo fangoso y resbaladizo del campo y un penal polémico torcieron el resultado a favor de los locales, pero su público tuvo en claro que habían tenido enfrente a embajadores de una verdadera potencia del fútbol mundial. Gimnasia formó con Bottaso; Delovo y Di Giano; Ruscitti, Chalú y Belli; Sandoval, Arrillaga, Minella, Jesús Díaz y Morgada.

[shahan petrossian @sp1873]

@1980sSportsBlog @GavinBuckland1 @Panini_book @MMoftheD
@71Season @80s90sfootball @AK90s @Kilvington91 @OldBritishFoot @FootballRemind @stusfootyflash @92FootballBook @PremiershipYrs

[A Funny Old Game @sid_lambert]

40 years ago in Mexico:

Diego Maradona gets the ball in his own half, facing his own goal, with two markers on him.

The commentator can’t believe what happens next…

“GENIO! GENIO! GENIO!”

[ＬｏｆｉＶａｎ Ｇａａｌ @199Football]

Adobe ci ha insegnato, rivolere le grafiche Olivetti non è reato.

[17LawsGuy @17LawsGuy]

And that's why the two are inseparable. Only the handball, he's a cheat. Only the slalom, he's a genius.

Both, four minutes apart, and he becomes Maradona in full. Football has never known what to do with that.

#OTD episode 234. Link in profile.

[17LawsGuy @17LawsGuy]

How does one player score the most infamous goal in football history AND the greatest, four minutes apart?

#OnThisDay in 1986, Diego Maradona did exactly that against England: the Hand of God, then the Goal of the Century.

🧵 @sp1873 @footyheritage @egerbek

[17LawsGuy @17LawsGuy]

Four minutes later, the other Diego. He collected the ball in his own half, turned, and beat Beardsley, Reid, Butcher, Fenwick, Butcher again, then Shilton.

Víctor Hugo Morales screamed it into history: barrilete cósmico. Cosmic kite. What planet are you from?

[17LawsGuy @17LawsGuy]

Eight players touched it. Clodoaldo dancing through midfield, the ball going left, then across. Then Pelé, without looking, rolled it into space, and Carlos Alberto arrived like a train.

4-1. Not a goal. A thesis.

#OTD episode 233. Link in profile.

[17LawsGuy @17LawsGuy]

Which team is still the measuring stick every great side gets compared to, more than 50 years later?

#OnThisDay in 1970, Brazil beat Italy 4-1 to win a third @FIFAWorldCup , kept the trophy, and walked into mythology as maybe the greatest team ever.

🧵 @sp1873 @footyheritage

[17LawsGuy @17LawsGuy]

Boninsegna equalized. Then the second half became Brazil's argument with history: Gérson's left foot, then Jairzinho (a scorer in every match of the tournament).

Then, the 86th minute. The goal that became the team's signature.