Happy birthday to Ronaldinho. 🥳
◉ 719 games
◉ 97 Brazil caps
◉ 313 goals
◉ 15 trophies
A 2x FIFA World Player of the Year and 2005 Ballon d'Or winner.
The man who made a lot of us fall in love with football. 🤩
In Andrea Pirlo's book "I THINK, THEREFORE I PLAY", he reflects on his famous photo with Fabio Cannavaro at the 2006 World Cup final in Berlin:
"In that moment, while we were facing a penalty in the final shootout of 2006, I remembered all the penalty shootouts we had lost in the past few years. I was terrified and couldn't find anyone to talk to, so I hugged Cannavaro and said, 'Fabio, I'm scared.' He didn't respond. We kept watching the penalties, and I said again, 'Fabio, I'm scared.' Still, no response. Just as I was about to say it a third time, he interrupted me and said, 'Shut up, Andrea! I'm about to lift the World Cup in a few minutes!'
Man City came to Anfield in 2018 with a record of 20 wins and 2 draws in 22 games.
Within 10 minutes, Firmino, Mané and Salah did this.
Firmino⚽️ - 59th minute
Mané⚽️ - 61st minute
Salah⚽️ - 68th minute
Samuel Eto'o:
“Sadio Mane not only contributed to winning the tournament, but he also helped save the team’s image, because leaving the field could have had very serious consequences for Senegal.
Sadio is one of the greatest heroes of our continent, and I give him special recognition for his character and leadership. It is an honor for me to consider him a friend, and his role in leading his teammates to the title was exceptional.
I hope he wins another African player of the year award, because what he did, especially his behavior yesterday was the mark of a great leader.”
Dybala is the first non Italian player to be involved in at least 200 goals in the past 20 Serie A season 🇦🇷⚽️
· 131 Goals
· 69 Assists
📊 Stat via Opta
AB DE VILLIERS CREATED HISTORY "OTD" IN 2015..!!!! 🙇♂️
- Fastest fifty in ODIs (16 balls).
- Fastest Hundred in ODIs (31 balls).
- He scored 149(44).
- Smashed 16 sixes.
- His strike rate 338.64.
THE MADNESS FROM ABRAHAM BENJAMIN DE VILLIERS. 🔥
Total 100s in ODI - 2210
100s with 100+ SR - 1116
100s with 150+ SR - 93
100s with 200+ SR - 17
100s with 250+ SR - 3
100s with 300+ SR - 𝟭 (ABD 149 off 44)
#OnThisDay in 2015
𝗔𝗕 𝗱𝗲 𝗩𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗲𝗿𝘀 walked in to bat in the 38th over and Scored 149 (44), This is Still Remains Fastest Century in ODI format.
11 years ago today, AB de Villiers did something that still makes you question physics. Fastest fifty. Fastest hundred. One run short of fastest 150. All in the same afternoon!
Scoreboard progression reads like a prank. 39 runs off 14 deliveries, which is already obscene at 278 strike rate. From there, he plundered 106 runs in his next 26 balls.(145 in 40) That is a strike rate of 407.7.
You could hit a four on every single delivery for 26 straight balls & de Villiers still outscores you. The man found a gear that mathematically should not exist...
Jason Holder obliteration tells the real story. Holder conceded 46 runs in 45 deliveries to everyone else combined. De Villiers hit 45 off him in 9. That is a personal vendetta executed with a cricket bat. People remember the 2015 World Cup carnage against Holder. This was practice...
What makes it stick is the relentless escalation. Every time you thought "this cannot get more ridiculous," he shifted gears again. Four, six, four, six, six, four. It was surgical annihilation at a speed that made the broadcast cameras struggle to keep up...
Social media has shared this innings thousand times. That does not make it any less absurd. Some performances are so outrageous that repetition cannot dull them. This is one. 11 years on, it still looks like a glitch in the matrix...
Between 1985-2004, Romário scored an incredible 41% of his teams goals in the games he played.
For context, both Messi & Cristiano Ronaldo are at under 37% in their careers.
Hashim Amla (2010-12): The Unbreakable Wall 🏰
Tamed spin:
253* Nagpur - 114 & 123* Kolkata - 80 & 118* Dubai
Laughed at English swing:
311* & 121 London
Mastered Aussie bounce:
104 GABBA - 196 WACA
All while avg 51 at home! 🇿🇦
#CricketLegends
AB DE VILLIERS - THE MOST COMPLETE BATTER IN THE HISTORY OF THE GAME.
- 43(297) in India.
- Double 💯 in Tests in India.
- 💯s in 4th innings record chase in AUS.
- 43(228) in SA.
- 33(220) in AUS.
- 149(44) in ODIs.
- 162*(66) in World Cup.
- 41(11) in IPL.
- 129*(52) in IPL.
- Only 50+ Average in both Test & ODIs.
- Batting with 360° game.
- 150+ Strike in T20 cricket.
- No.1 in both Tests & ODIs.
- Fastest 50, 100, 150 in ODIs.
AB DE VILLIERS ANNOUNCED HIS RETIREMENT "OTD" IN 2021..!!!!
- 9577 runs, 53.5 ave, 101.1 SR in ODIs.
- 8765 runs, 50.66 ave in Tests.
- 5162 runs, 151.7 SR in IPL.
- 9424 runs, 150.1 SR in T20s.
- No.1 in Tests & ODI Rankings.
- Only 50+ Ave in Tests & ODIs.
ABD, THE GOAT. 🐐
🇭🇺 Dominik Szoboszlai’s game deciding goals and assists for Hungary:
⚽️ winner vs Turkey in 2020
⚽️ winner vs Iceland in 2020
⚽️ winner vs England in 2022
🅰️ winner vs Germany in 2022
⚽️ +🅰️ to draw vs Lithuania in 2023
🅰️🅰️ to draw vs Bulgarian in 2023
⚽️⚽️ winners vs Montenegro in 2023
⚽️ winner vs Turkey in 2024
⚽️⚽️ winners vs Bosnia in 2024
⚽️ equaliser vs Germany in 2024
⚽️ winner vs Azerbaijan in 2025
🅰️ to draw vs Ireland in 2025
🅰️ +⚽️ equaliser vs Portugal in 2025
This is Gerrard esque. He’s carrying Hungary on his back.
18 of his 25 goal contributions for his country have been decisive moments.
Thanks to all of you, LiveFPL is enjoying a good start to the season 😍 We're hitting new organic search milestones (1 million monthly visits from organic search coming soon!) and thankfully being the most visited FPL tool website in September (see second picture). Hoping for more success for our lovely product that started in 2018 and paved the way for the explosion of FREE tools in the FPL market 🥳
Mobile app is the next milestone (aiming for a release in the next 2 weeks), which I can promise will be a good app, but just hope it works out financially 🙏
The king has been disrespected and is predicted to fall tonight... https://t.co/nbtNDsiHcY for predictions*
* Long calibration process is still ongoing for the model, the predictions will keep getting more realistic every half an hour. might not manage to complete whole calibration before price changes but hope it's still close enough
I've just got my beta testing version of the @LiveFPLnet app, and my word, it is phenomenal. Absolutely phenomenal. If you've ever used this website then you are going to love this app. I've looked forward to this day for so many years and I am so glad it is here.
Getting to and from the stadium is a mess but very impressed by Galatasaray fans last night. Strong pro-Palestine message, a nice tribute to Diogo Jota and genuinely the loudest fans I’ve ever experienced. Some handy players too 🇹🇷