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2020-10-29 10:18:53 History of Yellow and Red cards

Yellow and red cards were introduced at the 1970 FIFA World Cup in Mexico
The English referee named Ken Aston was the man behind this invention, he was also the member of FIFA Referees Committee during that time

In 1966 World Cup quarter final match played between England and Argentina, Argentine captain Rattin was controversially send off the pitch by the referee and leading to the defeat of Argentina, next morning Aston came to know that two English players were also had been booked in that match, but they didn't knew about it. He realised the need of solving this problem and driving home that day when he approached the traffic lights, the yellow and red colours attracted him and eventually leading to the invention of yellow and red cards.

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2020-10-20 11:01:14 Simon Bloch Jørgensen, a 28 year old Danish Goalkeeper is considered to be the tallest football player with a height of 2.10 m (6 ft 10 1⁄2 in)

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2020-10-20 10:28:58 First ever European cup

The first UEFA Champions League was in 1955/56, called as European Cup during that time. In that season Real Madrid became the European champions defeating Stade de Reims 4-3 in the final in Paris

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2020-10-20 09:59:09 Football stadium in the middle of a rocky island

'Henningsvaer Fotballbanen' is a small amateur football stadium located in Nordland country, Norway. This stadium has gained global attention after UEFA filmed it for their promotional video. This field is currently managed by Henningsvaer IL soccer club

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2020-10-14 21:04:42 Football at heights

Football at 12000 ft
'Estadio Hernando Sile', located in La Paz, Bolivia at an altitude of 3,637 metres (11,932 feet) from sea level, is the highest altitude football stadium as well as highest altitude professional stadium in the world.
In 2007 FIFA banned World Cup Qualifiers being played here and after several protests this ban was revoked

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2020-10-14 20:46:25 Largest football stadium

'Rungrado 1st of May Stadium', based in Pyongyang, North Korea, is the largest football stadium in the world with the capacity of 1,14,000 as per numerous sources. It's a multi-purpose stadium also used for athletic events.
Camp Nou (Barcelona) is second in the list with 99,354 capacity

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2020-10-14 17:55:41 The Cules

FC Barcelona supporters are known as 'Cules', which means those who show their backsides. Reason for this was some fans used to sit on the walls surrounding the pitch back in 1920s because they didn't had a proper stadium at that time and the first view the passersby on road had was their back sides

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2020-10-08 18:30:36 Real Madrid's traditional white and white kit is very popular and they're also known as 'Los Blancos' (The Whites) because of it's colour

Corinthians FC, the legendary 19th century globetrotters of London inspired Real Madrid to wear White
Brazilian club Corinthians FC is also named after them

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2020-10-06 17:11:10 Rivals but under the same roof

AC Milan and Inter Milan maybe rivals, but both clubs share the same stadium
The Giuseppe Meazza Stadium commonly known as San Siro, is a Football stadium in the San Siro district of Milan, which is the home of both AC Milan and Internazionale

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