#football-history

#football-history

Mircea Lucescu was a central figure in Romanian football, first as a player and then as a coach, winning Euro 1984 and numerous club titles.

The FIFA Museum makes its large-scale debut at Times Square, featuring The Rainbow installation of 211 member association jerseys alongside original trophies and artefacts from both the men's and women's World Cups.

The gold standard in European football. A legend of a club with great players, history, president Santiago Bernabéu - an incredible figure.

Youssef Chermiti's two for Rangers in Sunday's draw with Celtic, especially his overhead kick opener. Ultimately, the double didn't secure his team a win, despite putting the hosts into a commanding 2-0 lead by half-time. Comparisons to Scott McTominay's opener for Scotland in the World Cup-qualifying clinching 4-2 win against Denmark in November quickly followed.

"Dougan joining Kettering put us on the back pages but also the front pages with this shirt, this initiative,"

Across his 78 years on Earth, Franz Beckenbauer left one of the greatest legacies in the history of football. Nicknamed der Kaiser ("the Emperor"), Beckenbauer started out as a midfielder, but established himself as a centre-back, and he is credited as having invented the role of the modern sweeper. Beckenbauer is one of ten players to have won the FIFA World Cup, the European Cup, and the Ballon d'Or,

The term 'Olmpico' is used to describe a rare goal where a player scores directly from taking a corner without any other player getting a touch on the ball. Newcastle midfielder Bruno Guimaraes scored an Olimpico goal on Saturday during their 2-1 win over Burnley. The term comes from the first ever recorded goal of its kind, scored by Cesareo Onzari in 1924 for Argentina against Uruguay.

The FourFourTwo Ultimate Football Quiz Book is for every type of football supporter, from the armchair analyst screaming at the TV every weekend, the fan with a faded replica shirt and a well-worn opinion who goes to every game they all think they know football. They can reel o goal tallies from the '90s, recall obscure cup final scorers, and lament tactical decisions made before they were born.

When FourFourTwo launched 31 years ago, the football landscape was different. Fabrizio Romano was still in nappies, the Premier League was in its infancy and football transfers could be made all year round. Some things haven't changed though, and that includes the giddy feeling of discovering an up-and-coming player. FFT's long-running 'The Boy's A Bit Special' series has, over three decades, been a love letter to amateur and wannabe scouts among football fandom.

It's the ultimate Brighton & Hove Albion quiz how well do you know your Seagulls? Our ultimate quiz is primed with 40 questions on all things Brighton, spanning the days in the Football League to qualifying for European football, and everything in between. Just a heads-up: If you sign in to FourFourTwo, we can give you a hint for this one by taking away one of the wrong answers. Feel

Ipswich Town's number 17 shirt is owned by singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran, who purchased a 1.4% stake in the club and has been their main shirt sponsor.

In April 1991, John Sheridan scored the winner for Sheffield Wednesday against Manchester United in the League Cup final, and that 1-0 victory was an even bigger shock than you might think: to this day it's the last time a club playing outside the top division of English football won a major trophy.

When Howard Wilkinson was appointed as Leeds boss in October 1988, the Whites had been marooned in Division Two for six seasons, after a host of Revie-era players such as Allan Clarke, Eddie Gray and Billy Bremner had failed to replicate their on-the-pitch heroics in the dugout.

Fallon was the only Celtic substitute when Jock Stein's side beat Inter Milan 2-1 in the Portuguese capital to win the European Cup in 1967.

Shilton's shirt, worn during the infamous 1986 World Cup match, is expected to sell for up to 300,000 at auction, marking a significant historical artifact.

Michel Platini, a football legend, confronted a burglar at his villa in Cassis, France, as the intruder fled with various trophies and medals.