![]() This is a lie, though - according to one of the players. The rumour goes that the eccentric Indians demanded to play barefoot, only for FIFA to issue the ultimatum of boots or nothing. What if they'd have entered? Even won? Where would they be now? They had a place at the 1950 World Cup and just withdrew, despite playing in a groundbreaking 4-2-4 formation, being one of the biggest teams in Asia and the popularity of the World Cup growing by the tournament. ![]() India could be a superpower of football by now. India's withdrawal from the 1950 World Cup had nothing to do with playing barefoot After struggling to find another deal in Europe, he moved to Shimizu S-Pulse - but on his terms, rather than Gaucci's. He was on loan from Busan IPark - and Perugia actually wanted to extend his loan, once the red mist had cleared over the World Cup goal.Īhn had other ideas though, not wanting to stay around and be insulted by angry Italians. Club owner Luciano Gaucci was quoted as saying, "I have no intention of paying a salary to someone who has ruined Italian football" - but according to Gaucci, it was more about "comments" that Ahn had made towards the nation of Italy and its team, rather than the goal he scored against them.īut Perugia didn't actually own Ahn. South Korea go on a madness at the 2002 World Cup: Ahn Jung-Hwan scores the winner against Italy and his club, Perugia, announce that they're going to sack the lad for his crimes against the Azzurri. Manchester United had to deny that Gabriel Heinze spoke the language at one point - perhaps out of Giggsy's embarrassment at speaking very little either. He's never so much as uttered the words "Oh, what's occurring?" on the field, to anyone's knowledge.īatistuta is not the only Argentinian to have fallen victim of a Welsh rumour. We hate to be the bearers of bad news, however, but Batigol has never confirmed whether or not he can speak Welsh. This meant that the last Welsh-speaking footballer to have ever netted at the old Wembley was Argentinian: a fascinating quirk that could potentially win you the jackpot on a gameshow. When Gabriel Batistuta scored for Fiorentina against Arsenal in 1999 in the Champions League, it was claimed that the legendary striker could speak Welsh - thanks to his Patagonian roots. That means that there are Welsh speakers in Patagonia, leading to a strange and spectacular urban legend around the fall of Wembley Stadium. Welsh settlers moved to Argentina in the 1800s. The last Wembley scorer (probably) wasn't Welsh-speaking Scholesy was more than capable of hitting that tree - but the story of him challenging Cristiano to a tree-off was a fabrication that seems to have spread across the internet, unfortunately. ![]() The closest that we have to that story from a reliable source is Rio Ferdinand claiming, "He'll do ridiculous things in training like say, 'You see that tree over there?' - it'll be 40 yards away - 'I'm going to hit it'". But Ronaldo never came out with those words. He asked me to do the same I kicked about 10 times, but still couldn't hit it, with that accuracy. ![]() "He said, 'I'm going to hit it in one shot.' He kicked and hit the tree. After I finished, Scholes took the ball and pointed to a tree which was about 50m from where we were standing. "Once I was showing my skills to Scholes. But we probably should not be surprised that Dicker came through for the Chargers in Week 9 as he has had the clutch gene from a young age."When we were in training, I used to do a lot of tricks which hardly any players at the club could do," Cristiano Ronaldo apparently once said. He appeared in only one NFL game prior to Sunday (kicking two field goals for the Philadelphia Eagles earlier this season as a one-week fill-in for Jake Elliott before getting waived). The 22-year-old Dicker is still a largely unknown name. But regardless, it ended up being a pretty darn good first week of November for him with the game-winner, one of four kicks (two field goals and two extra points) that he converted Sunday. But by Sunday, it was Dicker who was front and center at a major arena event of his own.ĭicker did not answer the important question of if he still wound up going to the Underwood concert. The Grammy-winning country singer Underwood played the Moody Center in Austin, Tex. He said he was getting ready to go to a Carrie Underwood concert when he got the call that the Chargers were signing him ( per ESPN’s Lindsey Thiry). Cameron Dicker for the win! #LACvsATL /LIzxf0B5MqĪddressing reporters afterwards, Dicker shared a hilarious story about his whirlwind week.
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