Each football season brings team and individual awards, which are sometimes awarded for outstanding achievements.
Some players manage to set records that are almost impossible to beat. We’ll talk about 10 of these today.
10. The number of goals in the championship of Spain
The living legend of world football Lionel Messi for the years spent in the Barcelona T-shirt has distinguished himself more than 400 times in the domestic championship, and with every goal scored he updates his own record.
CriRo, by the way, has only 311 goals and will no longer have any more, as now he sets records in Italy. So that you understand the full scale of this figure, here's a fact for you: David Villa is the only still playing football player from the top 15 La Liga scorers, and he has only 185 goals.
9. Number of goals for one calendar year
In 2012, the Argentinean set another incredible record: he scored 91 goals in all tournaments in 12 months. Not everyone is capable of achieving such a performance even in his entire career, and Messi took only a year.
Despite the scoring indicators of other top forwards in recent years, it is unlikely that anyone will be able to get to this mark.
Even Cristiano Ronaldo, who is considered the only one who can compete with Leo, has not yet managed to get close to such a figure, and given his age, he is unlikely to ever be able to.
8. Goal from the farthest distance
The farthest productive shot on goal was struck from a distance of 91.9 meters in November 2013, and the goalkeeper of Stoke City, Asmir Begovic, delivered it at the 13th second of the confrontation with Southampton.
The Bosnian simply knocked the ball out of his box very badly and he flew to a stranger, where, after a rebound from the field, he flew over the confused Arthur Borutz.
Of course, this goal is not so much a merit of Begovic as Boruc’s mistake, but it seems impossible to score from an even greater distance at such a high level.
7. The farthest goal scored by the head
Norwegian football player Jone Samuelsen September 25, 2011 scored a head from a distance of 58.13 meters, which at first glance seems impossible.
This happened at the end of the meeting, when the goalkeeper of the rivals went into someone else's penalty area, connecting to the final assault and did not have time to return.
Samuelsen scored from his half of the field into an empty net and it is extremely difficult to repeat such an achievement.
6. The number of matches played in the Premier League
The English Premier League is considered the strongest in modern football, so it is not surprising that many players prefer to spend their entire careers there.
During this time, many take to the field hundreds of times, but hardly anyone can surpass Gareth Barry. At the end of last year, he played his 653rd match, playing at different times in the colors of Manchester City, Everton, Aston Villas and West Brom.
He managed to get around the record of Ryan Giggs - another long-lived submarine and the legend of Manchester United.
Given today's football realities, when players regularly change the championship, they will not be able to get to this couple soon.
5. Most matches in the Premier League as a coach
Playing 650+ matches as a soccer player is almost unbelievable, but spending the same amount of time on a coaching post is even more difficult, especially in one club.
Arsene Wenger led the London Arsenal for 828 matches, surpassing even the great Sir Alex Ferguson in this indicator.
Looking at the current submarine, where even top coaches can be fired without further ado after just one weak season, updating the record is not possible.
4. The fastest red card in the history of football
The player of Cross Farm Park Celtic English amateur club Lee Todd spent only 1 second on the field, after which he received a red card.
It seems fantastic, but it happens, and the situation is rather funny: the referee of that match gave the starting whistle and it turned out that he whistled right above Lee's ear.
The footballer, who was in a bad mood, freaked out and said “a couple of affectionate” to the judge, having simply cursed him.
Tom did not like it and at the second second of the match he sent Todd to the locker room, and after that he received another 35 days of disqualification for being rude to the referee.
3. The record number of deletions in one match
Damiano Rubino, who judged the match in one of the lower divisions of the championship of Argentina, showed 36 red cards.
It all started with the fact that a mass brawl was scheduled on the field, which the referee wanted to stop. As a countermeasure, he decided to show 1 mustard plaster, but from this passion was heated even faster and stronger, so he had to show them one by one to everyone in a row, fleeing angry football players.
In the conflict took part including coaches, medical staff and football players who were on the bench.
2. Most official career matches
English gate keeper Peter Shilton spent a long, eventful career, not wanting to retire on football.
In total, he spent 1,390 fights, giving football 31 years. During this time he played in many top clubs of those years, and also stood in the gate of the youth and adult teams of England.
As part of the Nottingham Forest, he became the champion of the country, and also raised the European Cup twice over his head, which would later be renamed the Champions League.
1. The fastest goal in the history of the World Cup
The legendary striker of the Turkish national team Hakan Shukur in 2002 in a match for 3rd place against the South Korean team managed to hit the opponents' goal in just 10.8 seconds.
This seems even more surprising given the fact that the South Koreans started the match in midfield, and Hakan, as a predator, rushed to put pressure on them. Perseverance and quickness were rewarded: he successfully played at the interception and brought his team forward.
Thanks to this goal, he forever inscribed his name not only in the history of the World Championships, but also entered it in the Guinness Book of Records.