You may remember a couple of posts ago I looked at the number 21 to celebrate my 21st post. Well as the train of time trundles into the station of February 2012 and Football: The Global Game celebrates reaching over one month of blogging. This is a look at the number 29 as this is my 29th post.
Turkey national football team
I'll start this one like I did the first one, the official 29th best team in the world is Turkey, a developing force in world football, the noughties was there most successful decade reaching a world cup semi-final in 2002 and a Euro semi-final in 2008. They narrowly failed to qualify for Euro 2012 but are still quite a good side. They score great goals.
Philippe Coutinho
Bill Shankly, Carlos Valderrama, Andreas Moller, Joey Barton, Gelson Fernandes and Pato
Turkey national football team
I'll start this one like I did the first one, the official 29th best team in the world is Turkey, a developing force in world football, the noughties was there most successful decade reaching a world cup semi-final in 2002 and a Euro semi-final in 2008. They narrowly failed to qualify for Euro 2012 but are still quite a good side. They score great goals.
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| Zidane, eat your heart out... |
This was difficult as not many great players have worn #29. I was considering cheating and saying El Shawaary who wears #92 (29 backwards) but then I remembered Coutinho, a quality young Brazilian who is one of the best young attacking midfielders around with pace, great control and a good pass, one of the new generation for the Selecao that features Neymar, Ganso and Lucas Piazon.
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| Born in 1992, wears #29 what is this dark magic!!! |
Hakan Sukar and the 1986 World Cup Final
29th of June featured two World Cup records. In 1986 on the 29th of June 114,600 people pored into the famous Estadio Azteca to watch Argentina vs Germany and the mercurial Diego Maradona. On the 29th of June 2002 in the third place pay-off between the two surprise packages Turkey and South Korea, it took Hakan Sukar just 10,89 seconds to score the fastest goal in world cup finals history.
Great Mariners FC
I had to search a long way for this, the only team I could find to have won 29-0 in a game against Tudu Mighty Jets. What I'd call not a good day at the office.
David di Tommaso and Miklos Feher
The only to players to have the shirt number 29 is honour of them, both posthumously. By Sedan and Lisbon giants Benfica. di Tommaso was 26, the hungarian Feher was 24. The Hungarian national football team held a minutes silence and laid a reath in honour of Feher's death.
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| My condolences... |
The best players/managers to have been born on the 2nd of September (2/9). Bill Shankly is famous for transforming Liverpool into a major force of European football. Carlos Valderrama is famous for having the greatest ever footballing afro and being in the wall when David Beckham curled in a free-kick in the 1998 World Cup. Moller is known for saving Gareth Southgate's penalty in Eur 96, Barton is famous for being about as hard as a titanium clad diamond, Fernandes scored in the shock defeat of Spain to Switzerland at World Cup 2010 and pato is just a really good player.
This was quite hard as the number 29 doesn't pop up that often. When I do another of these posts I'll make sure to choose a low number so I can have a wider variety of choice for titbits.
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