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Bosnia and Herzegovina Asmir Begović represented Canada at youth level playing for them at the 2007 FIFA U-20 World Cup.

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Peter Ofori-Quaye of Ghana is the youngest goalscorer in the UCL.In 97/98 he scored for Olympiacos of Greece at 17 years and 195 days old.

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At the 1974 FIFA World Cup by Germany,Ernest Jean Joseph of Haiti had dubious honor of being the 1st player to be banned from the World Cup.

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Muda Lawal of Nigeria is the only player in the history of African Cup of Nations to have opened scoring and closed the score chart in 1980.

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On 27th September 1977,the United Nations Organization gave Pelé a certificate declaring him ‘A Citizen of the World’.

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Edson Arantes do Nascimento,popularly known as Pelé is a descendant of Africans brought over as slaves to Brazil.

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The world's 1st official football match was a friendly match played in Glasgow in 1872 btw Scotland and England which ended in a 0–0 draw.

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Joao Havelange was a swimmer @ the 1936 Olympics in Berlin.He was also part of the Brazilian water polo team @ the 1952 Olympics in Helsinki

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In 2008,Joao Havelange claimed that the 1966 and 1974 World Cups were fixed so that England and Germany would win respectively.

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During his time at Barcelona,Johan Cruyff scored one of his most famous goals,The 'Phantom' Goal in a game against Atlético Madrid.

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Gary Lineker was never cautioned by a referee for foul play and never received a yellow or red card in a senior career spanning 16 years.

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Yellow card and red card were first introduced at the 1970 FIFA World Cup in Mexico.

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Andrei Kanchelskis scored on November 1991 in Cyprus,the last goal in Soviet national team history.

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The last football match played by the Soviet Union before dissolution in Dec1991 was against Cyprus on 13th Nov 1991.The Soviets won by 3-0.

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The 1st football match played by Germany after her reunification was against Switzerland on Dec 19th 1990.The Germans won by 4 goals to nil.

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In 2007 Keith Gillespie of Sheffield United against Reading was sent off after 0 second,becoming the fastest red card in Premier League.

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On this day,exactly 35 years ago(March 22nd 1980),Nigeria won her first African Cup of Nations title.

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In August 1963,a guerrilla group kidnapped Alfredo Di Stéfano from an Hotel while his team,Real Madrid were on a pre-season tour of South A

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The 2008 Africa Cup of Nations held in Ghana was the highest-scoring Africa Cup of Nations ever with 99 goals.

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FIFA has more membership than the United Nations. At the last count, against the UN’s membership of 193 countries, FIFA boasts of 209!