Marcelo making the 2019 FIFPro team has to be a contender, right? Another one (Internet vote though) would be Salah winning the Puskas Award last...
The 50s/60s have a huge number of player who are regulars in Top 50/Top 100 list, but aren’t really material for the top, top tier: Didi, Rivera,...
Uruguay and Germany are commonly mentioned as the most surprising WC winner, I really wanted to know how they were actually seen at the time...
The list was made by 442, picture was just published in a newspaper from Barcelona - therefore all the badges and former Barca players having...
https://ufile.io/93hs5 I put together this excel file where I listed all football newspapers (and some general newspapers with football sections)...
Let's exclude teams that got relegated due to non-sporting reasons like Juventus 05/06. I'm looking for cases were seemingly strong teams and/or...
Some Brazilian player ranking dating back to 1942 (!)[ATTACH]
The bread and butter of every football discussion and it always seems everybody (me included) has a high level of confidence in his opinion about...
Liberia: Honestly I can't even name a Liberian footballer besides Weah. After looking up names I recognized Christopher Wreh, but the gap is...
You might have noticed that Uruguay has 4 stars on their jersey - it because of their '24 and '28 Olympic titles which are officially acknowledged...
Could someone explain what caused him to win it? I'm not necessary saying he didn't deserve it, I'm just looking for possible reason which made...
Can you think of any example where a player was sold to an obscure league for being not good enough and later picked up by a top tier team?...
Who were in your opinion the best goalkeepers you've had since the ~mid 90s? I can't spot an obvious standout so I wondered how they are rated by...
With all the news about teams wanting to sign Kylian Mbappe for 120 million or similar sums the question I asked myself was "Does it make sense to...
Seen several people on the internet claim that he actually never said the "no EC for 100 years" stuff and the quote was heavily changed over time...
[MEDIA] This quote got me thinking. Several players of the EPL era instantly come to mind who might be debatable, depending which restriction are...
Chance wise winning a one month KO competition doesn't come close to what Leicester accomplished - Greece was like 100 - 150/1 IIRC (unless the...
In this timeframe there were a bunch of high quality player with Top 20 - 50 AT potential who are seperated by slim margins imo. Bobby Charlton...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/2377623/Laudrup-suffers-a-12-year-itch.html "I'd had a disagreement with the coach about how the national team...
I'm looking for players who came just short in at least two international competions in one season, plus maybe additional national ones. Most...
I'm sure most of you are aware of the story about Leonidas Da Silva being the inventor of the bicycle kick. From wikipedia: Leônidas is regarded...
I tried to determine the total potential available talent pool using the birth rate from different counties the year 1940 - 1990 for every 5 year...
After some talk about it I tried to search for all Teams that are not listeed on rsssf (1996-Feb. 2007): Sources are...
First method I used the avg. ELO of all opponents. Games which had no influence on advancement are excluded (e.g. BRA v. CRC 02, FRA vs DEN 98)...
OPTA finally released those stats on their website, so me and comme extracted them for +30 players/each WC and made an Excel spreadsheet....