IFFHS NEWS AND STATISTICS OF THE WEEK 45
Picture : Football in the World – in Slovakia, Tatan Cierny Balog Club – the train between spectators and players on the field !
STATS AND FACTS
- Hansi Flick, the FC Bayern München Coach, has celebrated last week his first Year as Coach. In one year, he has won 44 matches, one draw and only 3 defeats ; the team scored 3,30 goals /match and took 2,77 points/match ! He won the UEFA Champions League, the UEFA Super cup, the German Bundesliga, the German DFB Cup and the German Super Cup, becoming the UEFA Coach of the Year ! All in one year !
- Andres Iniesta is the ONLY ONE PLAYER in the HISTORY of the WORLD FOOTBALL to be nominated MAN OF THE MATCH of the FIFA World Cup Final , the UEFA Euro Final and the UEFA Champions League Final ! He won 2 IFFHS Awards of THE WORLD'S BEST PLAYMAKER !
- Caroline Hansen (Norway)- picture - , Sherida Spitse (Netherlands) and Tine De Caigny (Belgium) have scored 10 goals in the European Woman Euro Qualifications and dominated the Top Goal Scorer Ranking.
- Gerd Muller has celebrated his 75th birthday last week. He is always the BOMBER of the Nation in Germany, scoring 365 goals in 427 Bundesliga matches with FC Bayern and 68 goals in 62 international caps with Germany. He scored 722 goals in 779 games in all his career !!!
- Sergio Ramos became the FIRST DEFENDER in PROFESSIONNAL FOOTBALL HISTORY to score 100 goals or more with the same club, Real Madrid.
- FC Bayern is the first club in the UEFA Champions League History to score 4 times more than 6 goals outside : 7-1 at Roma (2014/15), 7-2 at Tottenham (2019/20, 6-0 at Belgrad (2019/20), 6-2 at Salzburg (2020/21). 3 wins with new coach Hansi Flick.
- The UEFA Women’s Champions League has given the news of the edition 2019/2020, won for the fifth consecutive time by Olympique Lyon. The Best Player of the Final, Delphine Cascarino, ran fastest in the competition : 31,45 Km/h. Sara Björk Gunnarsdottir covered the furthest distance : 12,27 km.
REFRESHER
The new Cameroon Professional Football League, LFPC, season has gotten underway. But while the league scheduled the rest of the Day 1 matches for last week, the federation are stoking flames of uncertainty about the road ahead after they queried the two teams that played in last Sunday’s season launcher. It is not certain how the clubs, Coton Sport Garoua and Panthère du Nde will react to the queries that have came to undermine the new domestic football season in the country.
For last Sunday’s season launcher covered live on State-owned radio-television network, LFPC hired the services of an Equato-guinean trio after the federation had rather organized a refresher course for their referees. Some 200 fans, in keeping with protocol to fight Covid-19 spread, took to the Ahmadou Ahidjo Stadium to watch the game whose guest of honour was the Secretary General in the Ministry of Sports and Physical Education, Joseph Yerima, deputizing for the Minister, Narcisse Mouelle Kombi.
Roger Milla with IFFHS President, HE Saleh Salem Bahwini
Cameroon roving ambassador and IFFHS legend player, Albert Roger Milla took the kickoff to what was a great game in which Coton Sport defeated Panthère 2-0 with goals by Thierry Tchuente at the 39th minute, and Felix Oukine at the 81stminute. Egyptian coach for the losers, Ahmed Abdel was unable to better stand up to the ingenuity of his counterpart Souleymanou Aboubakar who was aided in the success story after their opponents lost Joel Ndzana to a red card at the 42nd minute.
The fans who were all given face masks as they made their way into the stadium were visibly satisfied with the gesture, contrasting with the theme “protect our children” in honour of seven school boys and girls gunned down by unidentified gunmen in Mother Francisca International Bilingual Secondary School in Kumba Saturday, October 31st, 2020.