Football is full of mind-blowing moments, but some stats and records are so crazy that they sound completely made up. Except that they're 100% true. Buckle up, because this video is going to leave you scratching your head and saying, no way! Let's start with the German legend Philipp Lahm. This man went 13 months, yes, over a year without committing a single foul in the Bundesliga.
No handball, no professional fouls, nothing. Imagine defending at the highest level without stepping out of line once. Absolute quality.
Another clean record is Gary Lineker's going his entire career without seeing a yellow or red card. He's the ultimate nice guy on the field. On the flip side, Sergio Ramos, known for his red cards at the club level, never got sent off while playing for Spain. That's some serious self-control for someone with his reputation.
Did you know that Zlatan Ibrahimović and Cristiano Ronaldo share a record? They have scored in every single minute of a football game, from the first whistle to the last. They've done it all.
In 2016, Cristiano Ronaldo managed something truly wild. He ended the year with more trophies than games lost. Just Ronaldo doing Ronaldo things, right? Even more impressive, Jose Mourinho had a home record that hasn't been replicated since. From 2002 to 2011, across four clubs, he didn't lose a single home game.
That's 150 games of total dominance. Imagine that. Nine years of dominance. But here's a stat that will really blow your mind. If Bayern Munich had conceded every single shot on target that they faced in the 2013-14 Bundesliga season, they still would have won the league.
Absolute madness. Switching gears to goal-scoring records. And no, we won't talk about Messi scoring 91 goals.
Did you know that John Terry scored more Premier League goals for Chelsea? 68? than Andres Iniesta managed in La Liga for Barcelona? Iniesta only got 35 goals in 16 years.
Meanwhile, Hugo Sanchez scored 38 goals in only the 1989-90 season, but that's not even the record. He scored all these goals with only first-touch finishes, the definition of clinical. Now, here's a rather random one. Did you know that Theo Walcott has got more Champions League goals than the likes of Ronaldo Nazário, Zinedine Zidane, and Alexis Sanchez? Crazy stuff.
Now let's talk about Neymar. He did the impossible when he reached the Ballon d'Or top 10 without even playing in Europe. He also won a La Liga Player of the Month way before Messi won it.
Neymar won it in 2013, with Messi winning in January 2016. Oh, and here's another weird one for Spain fans. Remember their dominant 2010 World Cup win? Well, they only scored 8 goals in the whole tournament.
That's 8 goals in 7 matches. No wasted energy, just pure results. Here's something even wilder.
Real Madrid once played their own B team in the Copa del Rey final. In 1980, their reserves made it all the way to the final and they faced the first team. Spoiler alert, the first team won, but hey, at least Madrid was guaranteed the trophy either way. Now let's look at some facts about English football. Did you know that Chelsea have been relegated more times, six, than they've won Premier League titles, five?
Ouch. At United, a defender became top scorer. That was Steve Bruce in 1990-91.
The guy bagged 19 goals that season. Yep, you heard right. A centre-back outscoring all their strikers.
Madness. Finally, let's end with a laugh. Sunderland once included a no space travel clause in Stefan Schwarz's contract. Apparently, there were genuine concerns he might try to leave planet Earth.
Now that is football logic at its very best. Well, this is all we have for today. Tell us in the comments if we missed any wild facts and let us know which one of them was your favorite.
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