The 5 Craziest Football Matches The 5 Craziest Football Matches
Football is themost popular sport in the
Mike Gartner Men Jersey world. Millions of fans watch games all over theworld each week, regardle s of the scoreline and results or even whose playing.Every once in awhile some crazy scores pop up, whether a huge upset, a hammering or ading-dong battle with both teams seemingly forgetting how to defend.Below are fivegames that are something special. From scorelines of 149-0 and 31-0, toChampions League finals for the ages, here are five of the craziest footballmatches in the history of the game:Australia31-0 American SamoaOn 11 April2001, Frank Farinas Australia faced the minnows of the American Samoa in aqualifier for the 2002 FIFA World Cup. Whilst the hosts at the InternationalSports Stadium on Coffs Harbour were heavy favourites to win heading into thegame, few could have predicted what was about to occur.What is stillthe largest victory in international football, Australia averaged a goal everythree minutes, which included Archie Thompson scoring a record 13 goals in asingle international match, and teammate David Zdrilic scoring eight.Two daysearlier, Australia had set the record for margin
Curtis McKenzie Men Jersey of victory with a 22-0thrashing of Tonga. However, Farinas side failed to qualify for the World Cupin South Korea and Japan the following year after against Uruguay.You can see allthe goals from Australia 31-0 American Samoa here:Liverpool3-3 AC Milan (3-2 on penalties)It was asurprise to see Liverpool make the 2004-05 UEFA Champions League final, particularlyas they would go on to finish fifth in the Premier League, 37 points behindchampions Chelsea.Rafa Benitez side that included the likes of Djimi Traore, Milan Baros and Luis Garcia, onlynarrowly scraped through the group stage before knockout victories over bothJuventus and Chelsea.AC Milan weredefending Serie A champions who topped their group that included Barcelona,with the likes of Paolo Maldini, Andrea Pirlo and Andriy Shevchenko in CarloAncelottis side.Goals fromMaldini and a Hernan Crespo brace appeared to put the tie beyond Liverpoolsreach before half-time, which saw some Liverpool fans leave the Ataturk OlympicStadium in Istanbul before the second
Julius Honka Kids Jersey half got underway.A miraculouseight-minute spell in the second half saw goals from Steven Gerrard, VladimirSmicer and Xabi Alonso make it 3-3 on the hour.With no moregoals in normal time and none in extra-time, aided by a world cla s save fromJerzy Dudek to deny Shevchenko from close range, the match went to penalties.The Polish goalkeeper would be Liverpools hero again as he denied or put off spotkicks from Serginho, Pirlo and Shevchenko to help Liverpool lift the trophy forthe fifth time.ManchesterUnited 2-1 Bayern MunichThe 1999Champions League final saw Bayern Munich control much of the game followingMario Baslers early free kick. The German side took the lead with one of the of the Champions League final beforesuccumbing to two of the latest.Mehmet Scholland Carsten Jancker would hit the frame of the goal whilst Olivier Kahn hadvery little to do at the other end during the 90 minutes. That was untilstoppage timeThomas Linkesmishit clearance was volleyed back into the penalty area by Ryan Giggs forsubstitute Teddy Sheringham to turn home an equaliser from close range in thefirst minute of stoppage time.Bayern Munich players appeared not to have recovered from the equaliser when Manchester United won another corner only for Ole Gunnar Solskjaer to pop up at the back post to poke home the winner from Sheringhams knockdown. Manchester United had completed an historic treble in dramatic circumstances.Germany 7-1BrazilBrazil were thehosts
Julius Honka Men Jersey at the 2014 World Cup when they met Germany in the semi-finals at the EstadioMineirao in Belo Horizonte. Much had been made of a European nation neverwinning the World Cup in the Americas heading into the tournament.Joachim Low side took the lead on 11 minutes through Bayern Munich hitman and 2010 WorldCup star Thomas Muller. They doubled their lead just 12 minutes later asMiroslav Klose scored a record-breaking goal in the tournament. And then thefloodgates opened.Toni Kroo scored just one minute later and again three minutes later. Sami Khedira madeit 5-0 before half hour.Germany wereable to take their foot off the pedal afterwards, not scoring their sixth untilthe final 20 minutes and their seventh ten minutes from time, both throughsubstitute Andre Schurrle.Mesut Ozil hadthe opportunity to make it 8-0 in the final minute but mi sed a one-on-one.Brazil would go up the other end and score a consolation through Oscar.Germany wouldgo on to in the final five days later.AS Adema149-0 SO lEmyrneThe final dayof the 2002 Madagascan League produced by far the in the history of profe sional football.Remarkably,none of the Adema players scored in their 149-0 win. Emyrne, the defendingnational champions, netted own goals over and over again as a form
Marc Methot Men Jersey of protest overrefereeing decisions that had gone against them during a four-team playofftournament.The aftermathsaw Emymes coach suspended for three years and four players suspended untilthe end of the season.Unfortunately,there is no video footage of this game.