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Alan Mullery: In the 1968 European Football Championships, he became the first England player to be sent off in an international. Read more
When Milan Galic (Yugoslavia) scored against Italy in the 1968 final, he was in the process of scoring in ten consecutive internationals, equalling a world record that still stands today.
Bend It Like Beckham (2002): directed by Gurinder Chadha and starring Parminder K. Nagra as Jesminder 'Jess' Bhamra and Keira Knightley as Juliette 'Jules' Paxton. Tagline: Who wants to cook Aloo Gobi when you can bend a ball like Beckham? Plot Outline: The daughter of orthodox Sikhs rebels against her parents' traditionalism by running off to Germany with a football team. Source: IMDb
5: number of European Football Championship finals that have gone to extra-time (1960, 1968, 1976, 1996 and 2000).
1: number of European Football Championship finals that have been decided on penalties - the 1976 final between West Germany and Czechoslovakia.
Football's football, if that weren't the case it wouldn't be the game that it is. (Garth Crooks)
Red Football by Sinead O'Connor
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Chicken (Portuguese = frango): a type of bird kept on a farm for its eggs or its meat, or the meat of this bird which is cooked and eaten. This is very common in Portugal, e.g. Frango na Pucara. Frango: take one goalkeeper. Take one soft shot for goal, easy to defend. The goalkeeper opens his legs and somehow the ball passes through his hands, through his legs, and ends up in the back of the net. Goal! Frango na Pucara
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Fig (Portuguese = figo): a sweet, soft, purple or green fruit with many edible seeds, or a tree on which these grow. These are very common in Portugal. Figo (Luis Filipe Madeira, better known as Luis Figo) was born in Lisbon, Portugal on 4 November 1972. His great skills and the precision of his passing make him one of the best wingers in the world. He was the European Footballer of the year in 2000 and FIFA World Player of the year in 2001.
Penalti
Open a bottle of rough red Portuguese wine. Take a large glass. Fill the glass until the top. Drink it!
Greek Stuffed Footballs
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The Swedish word PORTUGALRALLARLAGUTROP ("Portugal"=the country, "rallarlag"=a team of navies, "utrop"=exclamation, outcry) (22 letters) is listed in Guinness, Swedish 1989 edition, but is not found in dictionaries. It is a palindrome. Source: Word Oddities
The Football Poets website (‘Swapping shirts with Shakespeare’) contains over 1000 poems about football!
June 30, 1996: Germany beat the Czech Republic 2-1 at Wembley Stadium in front of 76,000 fans and became the first (and to date only) country to win the European Football Championships three times.
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