April 1 every year is the traditional western "April Fool's Day". On this day, people always through all kinds of ways to cheat each other, tease and make all kinds of jokes, and of course the media will not let go of this great gimmick of heavenly opportunity. So, especially in the soccer world some April Fool's Day unique seemingly serious, but in fact ridiculous news endless. However, then again, in the soccer world some more than "April Fool's Day" more fools of the real soccer stories, said out can absolutely make you shocked.
ONE. Leicester City win the title in 2015-16
Last season in the Premier League, Ranieri's Leicester City became the biggest dark horse, which is also the first top league title in the history of Leicester City. "The Blue Foxes' victory was one of the most incredible miracles in the history of English soccer.
In the 2014-15 season, Leicester City was still at the bottom of the Premier League with nine rounds left, and then staged a "Great Escape" to relegate, making it a team that was notorious for its lack of talent. Before the start of the 2015-16 season, the team also had a "prostitution scandal" in Thailand, which directly led to the dismissal of three players, and the then manager Pearson was also fired, which made the Foxes City's index of winning the title before the start of the season was only 1 to 5000! However, under the leadership of new manager Ranieri, the Blue Foxes have been able to stabilize their position at the top of the table!
The end result was an incredible miracle.
II. Kaiserslautern's 1997-98 championship season
The Kaiserslautern myth is certainly not unfamiliar to those who are familiar with German soccer, and even if you don't care about the Bundesliga, you will have heard of it. The creator of the Kaiser myth is Lehigh, in 1997, Lehigh took over the Kaiserslautern team, which had been relegated to the second division, and led the team back to the first division in the first year, and in the second year, he even pushed this promoted horse to the throne of the Bundesliga champion, creating a myth in the world of soccer. I believe that before the miracle happened, the local media would not dare to boldly YY Kaiser to win the championship on April Fool's Day.
In China, the promotion horse has also created a miracle. 1999, the promotion horse "Liao Xiaohu" was forced to draw by Beijing Guoan in the last round, which was only one step away from creating a miracle. In 2011, Guangzhou Evergrande successfully replicated the "Kaiser Miracle".
III. Greece's Euro 2004 win
Before the start of the final round of EURO 2004, the talk was about which superstar and his team would be the final winners, and as a result, one of the most unheralded a** players blew yet another major upset in the history of the European Championships. After beating hosts Portugal 2-1 in the opening match, the defending champions couldn't beat the resolute Greeks in the quarterfinals, and it was the Czechs who fell to the Greeks in the semifinals, who were supposed to be the favorites to win the tournament in many people's minds after their stellar performances in the first few games. Czech star player, Nedved, was withdrawn due to injury in the first half and the game went to extra time, with the Greeks winning on a silver goal. The final was played in Lisbon, where Brazilian Scolari's Portugal came up against Greece again, hoping to avenge their opening match on home soil and win the title in front of their own fans. However, the Greek team relied on a corner kick strike by Charisteas to beat Portugal 1-0, creating a Greek myth that will live in infamy. It is worth mentioning that the manager who wrote the miracle and the creator of the Kaiser Miracle that year were both Otto the Great - Rehhagel.
But this is not the only European Cup than April Fool's Day fool "soccer story", as early as 1992, Ben has been eliminated from the European Cup qualifying rounds, but replaced the civil war sanctioned Yugoslavia to participate in the competition all the way up, creating a Danish fairy tale.
Four. Manchester duo turn back the clock to win the title
In the summer of 1995, Ferguson sold Paul Ince, Mark Hughes and other big names, and promoted the Neville brothers, David Beckham, Scholes and others from the "92 golden generation" to the first team. At the start of the season, Keegan led Newcastle to a 12-point lead at Christmas, and even at the end of February, Newcastle still held a nine-point advantage, but just when Magpies fans thought their team would usher in another title in 1927, Keegan, who had been a brilliant player in his playing days, paid the price of his inexperience. He lost the psychological battle with Sir Alex, and United went on to win the Premier League title, eventually overtaking Newcastle by four points. That season United made history as they became the first team in England to win the double, and Ferguson worked wonders by not having any ups and downs in his team's results when the old and the new were changing, but rather creating the best results in history. The English media after that season exclaimed, "Premier League, Ferguson's a**es are on stage!"
But unfortunately, Man U became the hero of the miraculous reversal first, and then became the backdrop. 2012-13 season, Man U won 1-0 easily against Sunderland, and watched Man City fall behind QPR for a long time at home, and in the extra time, Aguero and Dzeko scored 2 goals in a row, helping Man City to win the championship! It only took 2 minutes for City to go from hell to heaven, while United realized the saying "you have to pay back sooner or later".
V. The referee penalizes the wrong person
The referee penalized the wrong person? Everyone thought something like this only happened on April Fool's Day. After all, even we fans don't recognize it. But it is true that the referee penalized the wrong person.
Chelsea hosted Arsenal in the 31st round of the 14-15 season. The 16th minute Chelsea front break fast attack, Aspilicueta box left knock back, the middle of the road to follow the Azhar right-footed shot, Chamberlain goalkeeper handball will be blocked out of the ball, the poet referee Mariana penalty, but will be sentenced to Gibbs, and even around the players have to go up to explain to no avail, this matter is really laughable.
You may sympathize with the plagued Arsenal, but the first team in the ** may be the national football team. In the 2005 East Asian quarterfinals, Japanese referee Yuichi Nishimura sent off Gao Lin, who had been on the pitch for just five minutes, but it was a misjudgment. According to the video replay of the match, the player who committed the foul was actually Li Weifeng. Gao Lin, who was a young player at the time, was the one who took the blame.
VI. 3 yellow card sent-offs
In the 2006 World Cup match against Australia, England whistler Graham Poll showed two yellow cards to Croatia's Simunić in the 61st and 90th minutes, but he actually forgot to eject Simunić from the match and allowed him to stay on the field and continue playing. It was only after Simunić was given another yellow card for complaining in the third minute of injury time that Poll finally remembered he had a red card in his pocket.
This serious error was recorded in the first version of the referee's report after the match, but in the subsequent public match report, this error was modified, Simunić's yellow card record became the 61st minute and the third minute of extra time, which was "harmonized" in the 90th minute. 3 yellow cards were expelled from the game, which is the first time in the history of the World Cup. This is the first time in the history of the World Cup, and the "cute" Boer is also known as the "three yellow referee", "famous" in history, after all, our game is not on April Fool's Day! After all, our game was not played on April Fool's Day.
VII. FA's poor arithmetic leads to national soccer team's exit
November 17, 2004, the Chinese team to participate in the World Cup qualifying group stage and Hong Kong, China's last match, as the highest governing body of the Chinese Football Association in the calculation of whether it is "seven goals" or "eight goals" so simple arithmetic topics When there will be a major error, resulting in the group did not get out of the line.
China won the match 7-0 against Hong Kong, China, the away team of Hong Kong, if the national football team continued to attack there is still a chance to expand the score, but the players on the field after the goal difference after the signal play is not aggressive enough, the score stays at 7-0. with China in the same group of Kuwait finally won the home 6-1 over Malaysia, with a goal advantage over China out of the lineup. The win was the result of a one-goal victory over Malaysia.
VIII. The CFA celebrates "April Fool's Day" every day.
In October 1999, the final stage of the Second Division League, after the end of the group stage, the top of the group advanced to the final eight, while Yiteng Liantie and Mianyang Fenggu tied for the second place in the group. At that time, the director of the league's competition department, Mr. Lang Xiaonong, came up with a brilliant idea to let the representatives of the two teams choose "single" and "double", and then the representatives of the two teams wrote down an Arabic numeral, such as the sum of the two numbers for the singular, Yiteng advanced; if the number is even, Mianyang advanced.
Drawing the scene is very dramatic, Lang Hao Nong asked Wang Jun on the spot the number of geometry, Wang Jun actually honestly answered "9", and at this time Mianyang team general manager Li Haisheng was also present ...... so Li Haisheng also with the speed of thunder and cover up the momentum of the theft of the bell! "I am also 9." (Mr. Li, you are so witty, do your team members know?) I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to do that.
In this way, relying on the unexplained "69 stupid" style, Mianyang team won the promotion. Afterwards, Yi Teng filed a complaint with the Football Association, which admitted that there was a loophole in the rules, but the result was ...... you know ......
Perhaps because of the previous 69 style played bad, the Football Association also know "learn from the mistakes and grow wiser". To the 2002 A League, after all the matches, ranked second and third in Shenzhen, Beijing appeared to be the same point situation. At this time, the Football Association actually decided to draw playing cards to determine the ranking. As a result, Shenzhen Ping An drew the Q of spades, which "overpowered" Beijing Guoan's J of clubs to get the runner-up of the season.
You may ask, why don't you refer to Shenzhen and Beijing's head-to-head, goal difference and even goals scored? In fact, Beijing's goal difference that year was one goal less, but the head-to-head was in Beijing's favor. It's a pity that our "foolhardy" FA didn't have a rule before the league started, so they probably spent all their time watching Wong Jing's "God of Gamblers". ......
After that, the FA also introduced the odd rules of 1 header counting for two and not being expected to lose until the end. So when the FA released the rule that there must be 1 U23 player in the starting lineup this season and the rule limiting the number of foreign aiders after teams have already gone on a rampage, we just felt that the FA hadn't fooled around enough this time around.
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