NEW!!! Newcastle Utd. (England) 2009 home kit

Newcastle United Football Club (also known as The Magpies or The Toon) are an English professional football team based in Newcastle upon Tyne. They play in the FA Premier League and are historically the seventh most successful club in English football. This takes into account all results since the beginning of English league football in 1888. The club formed in 1892 after the merger of two local clubs, Newcastle East End and Newcastle West End, and has since played at St James' Park, the old Newcastle West End ground in the city. Newcastle United supporters refer to themselves as the "Toon Army", ("toon" being the pronunciation of "town" in the local geordie dialect). Newcastle's traditional local rivals are Sunderland, with whom they have contested the Tyne-Wear derby since 1898.

MisterGoal's Football Facts No 169

Since their penalty shootout loss to Czechoslovakia in Euro 76, Germany has not lost a penalty shootout in major international tournaments. In fact, the last penalty missed by a German player dates back to the semi-finals of the 1982 World Cup when French goalkeeper Jean-Luc Ettori saved Uli Stielike's shot!!!!!

EURO 2008!!! Russia Nat.team 2008-09 Away kit

The Russia national football team is the national football team of Russia and is controlled by the Football Union of Russia.The team qualified for two World Cups (1994, 2002) and three European Championships (1996, 2004, 2008), but failed to get beyond the first round on either occasion.FIFA considers the Russia national team the direct descendant of the CIS and USSR national teams.

MisterGoal's Football Facts No 168

After the break up of the Soviet Union, Russia played its first international match against Mexico on August 16, 1992 winning 2-0 with a team of former USSR players from the other republics!!!!!

NEW!!! PSV Eindhoven (Netherlands) 2009 Home kit

Philips Sport Vereniging (English: Philips Sports Union), widely known either as PSV or PSV Eindhoven, is a sports club from Eindhoven, the Netherlands. It is best known for its professional football section. PSV are one of the three big football clubs of the Netherlands, the other two being Ajax Amsterdam and Feyenoord Rotterdam. The club won the European Cup, the predecessor of today's Champions League, in 1988 and is a regular competitor in the current European Champions' League. They are often nicknamed Boeren (Dutch for 'peasants') in reference to their provincial city origins.

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Spain made their international football debut in 1920 at the Olympic Games in Antwerp and won the silver medal!!!!!

NEW!!!! Chelsea FC (England) 2009 Away kit

Chelsea Football Club (also known as The Blues or previously The Pensioners) are an English professional football club based in west London. Founded in 1905, they play in the FA Premier League and have spent most of their history in the top tier in English football. They have had two broad periods of success, one during the 1960s and early 1970s, and the second from the late 1990s to the present day. Chelsea have won three league titles, three FA Cups, three League Cups and two UEFA Cup Winners' Cups. During the 2005-06 season, they became Premier League champions for the second consecutive year. Chelsea's home is the 42,055 capacity Stamford Bridge football stadium in Fulham, West London, where they have played since their foundation. Despite their name, the club are based just outside the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham.

MisterGoal's Football Facts No 166

In 1958, based on an idea of Umberto Agnelli, the honor of Golden Star for Sports Excellence ("Stella d’Oro al Merito Sportivo" in Italian) was introduced to recognize sides that have won multiple championships or other honours by the display of gold stars on their team crests and jerseys. In Italy, the practice is to award one star for ten titles. The first team to adopt a star was Juventus in Italy and Europe[8], who added a star above their crest in 1958 to represent their tenth Serie A title. In 1982, they received their second golden star for having won their 20th league title!!!!!

EURO 2008!!! Romania Nat.team 2008-09 Home kit

The Romania national football team is the national football team of Romania and is controlled by the Romanian Football Federation.
Romania is one of only four national teams, the other three being Brazil, France, and Belgium, that took part in the first three World Cups.
However, after that performance, they only qualified for 1970, 1990, 1994 and 1998 editions. Their finest hour came at the 1994 World Cup where Romania, led by Gheorghe Hagi, reached the quarterfinals, defeating Argentina in their way before losing to Sweden on penalty shootouts.
At the Euros, Romania's best performance was in 2000 when they advanced to quarterfinals from a group with Germany, Portugal and England before falling to eventual runners-up Italy.Romania also played at Euro 1984, Euro 1996 and Euro 2008. Their first game of the Euro 2008 championships was an encounter with France. A 0-0 draw with the French resulted in cheers around the stadium from the Romania supporters.

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Romania played their first international match on 8 June 1922, a 2-1 win over Yugoslavia in Belgrade!!!!!

Rochdale AFC (England) 2008 Centenary Home kit

Rochdale Association Football Club is a English professional football club based in Rochdale, Lancashire. They play their home matches at Spotland and are currently managed by Keith Hill. They have an average attendance of around 3,000.The club reached the League Cup final in 1962 - the only time a club from the bottom league division has reached the final of a major competition - where they lost to Norwich City.Rochdale play their home matches at Spotland, which has a capacity of 10,249. The stadium was built exclusively for the Dale in 1920, but since 1988 the ground has been jointly owned by the football club, Rochdale Council and Rochdale Hornets. However it is largely expected that Rochdale will buy Hornets share of the ground.

MisterGoal's Football Facts No 164

Rochdale's motto is the Latin "Crede Signo", which roughly translated means "Believe in the Sign". The football club shares the motto with that of the town itself. For the centenary year, the badge was circled with gold lettering, commemorating the 100 years that Dale have been in existence!!!!!

EURO 2008!!! Netherlands Nat.team 2008 away kit

The Netherlands national football team is the national football team of the Netherlands and is controlled by the Royal Netherlands Football Association. It won Euro 88 and reached two consecutive World Cup finals in 1974 and 1978 but lost both finals to their respective host nations, West Germany and Argentina. At the peak of its success in the 1970s, the team was famous for its mastery of Total Football and was nicknamed "Clockwork Orange" for its precision passing. In many countries the team is colloquially referred to as "Holland."

MisterGoal's Football Facts No 163

Nike is the kit provider to the Netherlands national team, a sponsorship that began in 1996 and is contracted to continue until at least 2018!!!!!

NEW!!! Werder Bremen (Germany) 2009 Home kit

Werder Bremen has long-running friendships with Rot-Weiss Essen and FC Kaiserslautern, who both currently play in the 2. Bundesliga. They hold a long-term enmity with Bayern Munich, and have developed a recent, but intense, feud with FC Schalke 04, whose title-hungry ex-manager Rudi Assauer, has lured away several of Werder's top players (including Ailton [now with MSV Duisburg], Mladen Krstajic, Frank Rost [now with Hamburger SV], Oliver Reck [now retired], and Fabian Ernst) with lucrative contracts.

MisterGoal's Football Facts No 162

In the 2006 FIFA World Cup, Portugal set a record for the number of yellow cards received by a national team in a single World Cup: 24 in total. Mainly due to the controversial match against Holland where a double figure amount of cards (yellow and red) were handed out!!!!!