NEW!!! Club América (Mexico) 2009 Retro kit (3rd)

Club América, most commonly known as just América, is a professional Mexican football club playing in the Primera División. The team is one of the most popular and traditional football clubs in Mexico. América is the richest team in Mexico owned by Televisa (also owns Necaxa and San Luis) and the most successful team in CONCACAF tournaments, having won five Champion's Cups and one Giants Cup. América and Chivas share the distinction of being the most successful teams in league play - America with 10 professional championships, and Chivas with 11. The two also have a long-standing rivalry. Their meetings, which have become known as Clásicos are played at least twice a year and signal a national derby. America has won the last four Clásicos played in a row.

NEW!!! Millwall FC (England) 2009 Home kit

Millwall Football Club is an English professional football team based at The Den, in Bermondsey, South East London. They currently play in Football League One.The team nickname is The Lions, previously, The Dockers. They changed the nickname after being referred to as "Lions" for their acts of giant killing in their FA Cup run of 1900, when they reached the semi final. They adopted a lion emblem, and the motto: We Fear No Foe Where E'er We Go. The emblem, however, was not added to their shirts until 1936. They also reached the semi final in 1903, and 1937, while they went one better and reached the final in 2004, losing to Manchester United. Their 1937 appearance was notable as they became the first team in the old third division to reach the last four, knocking out three First Division sides on the way, including Derby County who were defeated in front of Millwall's official record crowd of 48,762, with hundreds more locked out. Their original now defunct nickname, "The Dockers", emanated from the occupation of the club's supporters. Millwall were the only club up to the early 1960s allowed to kick-off home games at 3.15pm, instead of 3pm, to allow the dockers and Deal porters to finish the morning shift and arrive on time. In recent years the club has started to once again recognise its unique link with London's docks by introducing 'Docker Days', and archiving the club's dock roots in the Millwall FC Museum.

NEW!!! AEK Larnaca (Cyprus) 2009 Home kit

AEK Larnaca FC (Greek: Αθλητική Έvωση Κίτιον; Athletiki Enosi Kition) is a Cypriot Sports club, based in the port of Larnaca. The club was formed in 1994 after a merger of two Larnaca clubs: EPA Larnaca and Pezoporikos. The club has football and basketball sections for men and a volleyball section for women. The colours of the club are green and yellow and their emblem is the famous Athenian general, Kimon, who died at the seafront defending the city of Citium in a major battle with the Persians of Xerxes. He told his officers to keep the news of his death secret. The quote "Και Νεκρος Ενικα" ("Even in death he was victorious") referred to Kimon. A statue of "Kimon the Athenian" stands proudly on the sea front promenade of modern Larnaca.AEK Larnaca Football Club won their first Cypriot Cup in 2004 beating AEL Limassol 2-1. They reached two more times the Cup final, but both times they were beaten by APOEL FC; in 1996, 2-0 in extra time and in 2006, 3-2. It is their only title as AEK until now. EPA and Pezoporikos have a great separate history on their own. EPA won 3 championship titles, 5 Cyprus Cup titles and 1 Super Cup. Pezoporikos won 2 championship titles and 1 Cup title.
This is a request of MisterGoal's friend Andreas!!!

NEW!!!!! Q.P.R. (England) 2009 Home kit

Queens Park Rangers Football Club is an English football club, based in Shepherds Bush in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham in West London. The club's first team currently plays in the Football League Championship. In August 2007 QPR was bought by Formula One tycoons Bernie Ecclestone and Flavio Briatore, who sold a 20% stake to the family of steel magnate Lakshmi Mittal in December of that year.
The club is commonly referred to as "QPR", "The R's" or often just "Rangers" by fans. Other nicknames include the "Hoops" or the "Superhoops" (after the team's kit of blue and white hooped shirts). QPR are not to be confused with the Scottish clubs Rangers or Queen's Park.
This is a request of MisterGoal's friend Doug!!!

NEW!!! Spain Nat.team 2009 home kit

The Spanish National Football Team, commonly referred to as La Roja, is the national football team of Spain and is controlled by the Real Federación Española de Fútbol. They are the current European Champions, having won the 2008 UEFA European Championship. In July 2008, Spain rose to the #1 spot in the FIFA World Ranking for the first time in their history, becoming only the sixth nation (and the first who had never won the World Cup) to top these rankings.

NEW!!! Villarreal Club de Fútbol (Spain) 2009 Home kit

Villarreal Club de Fútbol SAD, usually abbreviated to Villarreal, is a Spanish Primera División football club based in Vila-real, a small town in the province of Castellon. The team plays at the 23,000 seater El Madrigal stadium.The club was founded in 1923 and played in regional leagues until the Spanish Civil War, during which time Spain football went on a hiatus. After the war, the club played in various regional leagues as well as the Third Division until the 1970/71 season, when Villarreal first played in the Segunda División for two consecutive seasons, at the end of which the club was relegated to the Third Division once again. After playing in the Segunda División B for a few seasons in the late 80s, Villarreal managed to solidify themselves as a Segunda División club starting with the 1992/93 season.

NEW!!!! Defensor Sporting FC (Uruguay) 2009 Home kit

Defensor Sporting Club is a sports club in Montevideo, Uruguay.Founded on March 15, 1913 as Club Atlético Defensor, the name of the club was changed in 1989 to Defensor Sporting Club after a merger with Sporting Club Uruguay. The team plays in the Luis Franzini Stadium. They are a four-time national champion in Uruguay (1976, 1987, 1991, 2007-2008).Defensor has won many qualifying tournaments (Pre-Liguilla) to the Copa Libertadores and has represented Uruguay on numerous occasions inter-nationally. Regarded as one of the teams that creates and develops the best players in Uruguay and are then transferred internationally and are world-renowned. The place of birth of numerous international players like Jorge Da Silva, Sergio Manteca Martinez, Sebastián Abreu, Andrés Fleurquin, Marcelo Tejera, Darío Silva, Gonzalo Vargas, Diego Perez, Nicolás Olivera,Martin Cáceres,Maximiliano Pereira,Alvaro Gonzalez,Tabare Viudez, and so on.Legendary coach Prof. Ricardo de León brought Defensor to the national championship in 1976 and originated a football (fútbol) school of thought, consistently criticized as ultra defensive, that is still present nowadays in several teams and coaches.Defensor's most famous supporter is singer/composer Jaime Roos

NEW!!! Uruguay Nat.team 2009 home kit

The Uruguay national football team is controlled by the Asociación Uruguaya de Fútbol. Uruguay were the first winners and hosts of the World Cup, beating Argentina 4-2 in 1930. They also won the 1950 World Cup on Brazilian soil. Uruguay failed to qualify for the 2006 World Cup in Germany after succumbing to Australia 4-2 on penalties following a 1-1 aggregate tie in an intercontinental playoff. Uruguay and Argentina hold the record for the most international matches played between two countries, there have been 161 matches played against each other since 1901. The first match against Argentina was the first official international match to be played outside Britain. (Although Canada and the United States played two internationals in 1885 and 1886, neither match is considered official; Canada did not play an official international until 1924 and the USA did not play one until 1916.) Uruguay won the Copa América fourteen times, the first coming in the inaugural tournament in 1916 and the last in 1995. Only Argentina has as many South American Championships. Uruguay won the 50th anniversary World Champions tournament that it hosted in 1980.

NEW!!! Liverpool F.C.(England) 2009 Away kit

Liverpool Football Club are an English football club based in Liverpool. They play at Anfield but hope to start work on the new stadium approximately 200 metres away in neighbouring Stanley Park, following the take over of the club by American businessmen Tom Hicks and George Gillett They play in the FA Premier League and in terms of trophies won are the most successful club in the history of English football. Liverpool have won eighteen First Division titles, seven FA Cups, seven League Cups, five European Cups and three UEFA Cups. Liverpool are also a member of the G-14 group of leading European football clubs.Liverpool F.C. were founded by John Houlding in 1892 to play in his Anfield stadium. For the previous seven years the stadium had been used by Everton

NEW!!! Man.United (England) 2009 Home kit

Manchester United Football Club is an English football club, based at the Old Trafford stadium in Trafford, Greater Manchester, and is arguably the most popular football club in the world, with over 50 million supporters worldwide;average attendances at the club have been higher than any other team in English football for all but six seasons since 1964-65.The club is also one of the most successful in English football; for over twenty years, since the 1986-87 season, they have won 18 major honours, which is more than any other Premier League club. They are the Premier League's reigning champions, and have won the Premier League/Football League 16 times. In 1968, they became the first English club to win the European Cup, beating S.L. Benfica 4–1, and they won a second European Cup in 1999. They also hold the record for the most FA Cup titles with 11.Since the late 1990s, the club has been one of the richest in the world, and until recently had the highest revenue of any football club for several years running. As of 2007, the club has the fourth largest turnover in club football,but remains the most profitable club based on operating income.Manchester United also remains the most valuable club in the world.The club is a founding member of the G-14 group of Europe's leading football clubs.Sir Alex Ferguson has been manager of the club since 6 November 1986.

NEW!!! Atletico Madrid 2009 Home kit

Club Atlético de Madrid is a Spanish football club based in Madrid. They currently play in the Primera División of La Liga. Their home stadium is the Vicente Calderón Stadium.The club has won both La Liga and the Copa del Rey on nine occasions, including a double in 1996. They also won the European Cup Winners Cup in 1962 and were European Cup runners-up and Intercontinental Cup winners in 1974. Atlético play in red and white striped shirts and blue shorts.

NEW!!! England Nat.team 2009 Away kit

The English national football team represents England in international football and is controlled by The Football Association, the governing body for football in England. Although most national teams worldwide represent a sovereign state, the four "Home Nations" making up the United Kingdom are each represented separately in most international tournaments.England won the FIFA World Cup in 1966, when they hosted the event, and reached the semi-final in 1990. However, they are the least successful past World Champions, having only been in 2 top-four finishes - a wide margin from the other 6 champions (Brazil, Italy, Germany, Argentina, Uruguay and France have been to at least 4). England also reached the semi-final of the UEFA European Championship in 1968 and 1996 and they were the most successful of the "home nations", in the British Home Championship with 54 wins (including 20 shared wins) before the competition was discontinued in 1984.

NEW!!! Arsenal FC (England) 2009 Home kit

Arsenal Football Club (also known as Arsenal, The Arsenal or The Gunners) are an English professional football club based in Holloway, north London. They play in the FA Premier League and are one of the most successful clubs in English football. Arsenal have won thirteen First Division and Premier League titles, ten FA Cups and in 2005–06 became the first London club to reach the UEFA Champions League final.

NEW!!! Scotland Nat.team 2009 Home kit

The Scotland national football team represents Scotland in international football and is controlled by the Scottish Football Association. The team has played international football longer than any other nation in the world along with England, who they played in the world's first international football match at the West of Scotland Cricket Club, Partick, in 1872. The match ended in a goalless draw.[1]. All eleven players who represented Scotland that day played for proud Glasgow amateur club Queen's Park. Scotland has always had its own representative side that plays in all the major professional tournaments, except for the Olympic Games as the IOC only recognises the United Kingdom. Some of Scotland's most famous results include, in 1967, defeating the World Cup holders England 3-2 at Wembley Stadium and, in the 1978 World Cup, beating one of the tournament favourites, the Netherlands, 3-1 with Archie Gemmill scoring a famous goal. Some fans jovially claim the 1967 victory against England made Scotland the unofficial world champions. This joke ultimately led to the conception of the Unofficial Football World Championships. Interestingly, Scotland have won more UFWC title matches than any other side.

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

Fulham Football Club (FFC) are an English football team based in Fulham, London. Founded in 1879, they celebrated their 125th anniversary in 2004, and they are in the top tier of English football, the FA Premiership. Fulham FC are the oldest professional football team in London, usually considered to have been founded in 1879. They spent much time in the Old First Division (Premiership) through the 60s, but are yet to gain any major honours, their only FA Cup final appearance being in 1975. They did win qualification to the UEFA Cup in 2002 by winning the Intertoto Cup, beating Bologna F.C. 1909 5-3 in the final over two legs. In the UEFA Cup, they won through two rounds before being defeated by Hertha Berlin. They currently play at Craven Cottage, their home since 1896, a riverside ground on the banks of the River Thames in Fulham, having spent two years at Loftus Road while Craven Cottage was undergoing renovations to bring it up to Premier League standards. The club achieved their main aim of avoiding relegation for the 2005-06 season, eventually finishing 12th.

NEW!!! F.C. Chelsea (England) 2009 Home 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.

NEW!!!! Celtic FC (Scotland) 2009 Home kit

Celtic Football Club is a Scottish football club based in Glasgow, which competes in the Scottish Premier League, the highest form of competition in Scotland. The full name of the club is The Celtic Football Club. Until 1994, the club's full name was The Celtic Football and Athletic Company Ltd.Celtic play home games at Celtic Park commonly referred to as Parkhead, which has a capacity of 60,832, and is currently the largest football stadium in Scotland. In 2006-07, Celtic Park attracted an average attendance of 57,927,making the club second after Manchester United in average attendance for any football club in the UK.Together with their rivals, Rangers F.C., they form the Old Firm which is one of the most famous and fierce rivalries in sport. Celtic has traditionally been linked with its founding roots which stemmed from the Irish immigrant community in Glasgow.

NEW!!!Trabzonspor FC (Turkey) 2009 Away kit

Trabzonspor is a Turkish football club, from the Black Sea port city of Trabzon playing in the Turkish Premier Super League.Trabzonspor was formed in 1967 in a merger of two local clubs. Many of the players from these teams became part of the team to win promotion to the top division, and helped Trabzonspor in their early years in the top flight. Along with three other Istanbul clubs known as the'big three' (Galatasaray SK, Fenerbahçe SK, Beşiktaş J.K.), they are the only club outside of Istanbul to have won the Turkish title, earning a name as one of the "Big Four". Trabzonspor's nicknames are the "Bordeaux Blues" and the "Black Sea storm". Recently the team has created controversy on its behaviour towards its players after Mirosław Szymkowiak retired from football

MisterGoal's Football Facts No 174

Galatasaray holds the best international record by a Turkish team. They became the first Turkish club to capture a major European title, beating Arsenal of England in the UEFA Cup final during the 1999–2000 season!!!!!

O Manto Tricolor!!!!

Hello everyone!!!! This is a great web site for the history of Sao Paulo’s home shirt, from MisterGoal’s friend Thiago Pulzatto. Nice and simple!!!It’s worth it to visit!!!!!
www.bbshop.com.br/mantotricolor

NEW!!! Barca FC (Spain) 2009 Home kit

Futbol Club Barcelona, known familiarly as Barça , is a Catalan sports club based in Barcelona, Spain. It is best known for its football team. It was founded in 1899 by a group of Swiss, English, and Catalan men led by Joan Gamper. The club has become a Catalan institution, hence the motto Més que un club (More than a club). They were founding members of La Liga in 1928, and, together with Real Madrid and Athletic Bilbao, they have never been relegated from the Primera División. The club were also the first La Liga champions and they are the current champions of both Spain and Europe. The club's main stadium is the Camp Nou and the fans of FC Barcelona are known as culers or culés. In September 2006, the number of socis (club members/owners) reached 151,127, while in June 2006 the number of penyes (officially-registered supporter clubs) reached 1782 worldwide.

MisterGoal's Football Facts No 173

Palermo originally played with red and blue as its official colours since its foundation in 1898, but decided to switch to the current choice of pink and black on February 27, 1907, contemporaneously with the change of denomination to Palermo Foot-Ball Club.The colours' choice were suggested by count Giuseppe Airoldi, a prominent founding member of the club. In a letter Airoldi wrote on February 2, 1905 to club councillor Joseph Whitaker, he defined pink and black as "colours of the sad and the sweet", a choice he asserted to be a good fit for a team characterized by "results as up and down as a Swiss clock", noting also the fact that red and blue were a widely diffuse choice of colours at the time!!!!!

To all MisterGoal's fans!!!

Hello everybody!!!! First of all, I want to thank all of you for the support that you give to MisterGoal, and second I want to apologize to all MIsterGoal’s fans for the delay of their request!!! It was a “cocktail” of bad timing, many problems and allot of work :-( !!! But I’m coming back with great ideas and “hungry” for request!!! So please don’t hesitate and send me your request, and soon you’ll see your favorite team with your favorite mascot :-) !!!!!! They follow some request for MisterGoal’s fans!!!!

NEW!!! São Paulo (Brazil) 2009 Home kit

São Paulo Futebol Clube, usually called São Paulo FC or just São Paulo, is a traditional Brazilian football team from São Paulo, founded on January 25, 1930, and re-founded on December 16, 1935. As of November 2007, São Paulo is the current Brazilian Champion. It is the third most popular football club in Brazil, with more than 13 million supporters. The team is one of the most successful clubs in Brazil, with several titles of national and international capacity. That includes three World Club Crowns (2 as Intercontinental Cup, and 1 as FIFA Club World Championship), three Libertadores da América Cup and five Brazilian Championship. They are the club in Brazil with most titles (1992, 1993, 2005) and finals played (1974, 1992, 1993, 1994, 2005, 2006), with their attendance boosting during the championship compared to the regular season. São Paulo FC is, join to Juventus and Liverpool, the sixth club in the world -third in America- with the most international titles recognized by CONMEBOL and FIFA.This is a request for MIsterGoal's friend Thiago!!!

NEW!!! Turkey Nat.team 2008-09 home kit

The Turkey national football team is the national football team of Turkey and is controlled by the Turkish Football Federation. They are affiliated with UEFA. The team's highest achievement was reaching 3rd place at the 2002 FIFA World Cup. Turkey also reached the quarter-finals at Euro 2000 and reached 3rd place at the 2003 Confederations Cup.The rising fortunes of Turkish football over the next decade would be confirmed by third place at the 2002 World Cup. The Turkish team beat Senegal 1-0 on a golden goal to book their place in the semi-finals where a 1-0 defeat against Brazil forced them to play the third place match, and a bronze medal was the prize after a 3-2 victory over South Korea. This is a request for MisterGoal's friend Tunc!!!

NEW!!! KAA Gent (Belgium) 2009 Home kit

K.A.A. Gent is a Belgian football, athletics and hockey club, based in the Belgian city of Ghent. It was one of the founders of the Belgian Football Association. It has been in the top flight Jupiler League since 1989-90. The hockey and athletics division were founded in 1864, making it one of the oldest sporting clubs in Belgium. The club was then known under its French name La Gantoise. It changed its name to the present Dutch version in 1971. In spite of its long history the club has never been champions of Belgium.This is a request for MIsterGoal's friend Jan!!!

NEW!!! Leyton Orient (England) 2009 Home kit

Leyton Orient F.C. are an English professional football team from east London, currently playing in League One of the Football League. The team is known by its fans as Orient or simply The O's.Leyton Orient's home stadium, Brisbane Road, is situated in Leyton, in the London Borough of Waltham Forest. It is officially known as the Matchroom Stadium after chairman Barry Hearn's sports promotion company. Barry Hearn became chairman in 1995 after the club was famously put on sale for five pounds by the then-chairman, Tony Wood OBE, after his coffee-growing business in Rwanda was destroyed by that country's civil war. The period of the club's near-closure was covered by the television documentary Orient: Club for a Fiver (made by Open Media for Channel 4). The documentary is commonly but incorrectly known as Yours for a Fiver.This is a request for MisterGoal's friend Doug!!!

MisterGoal's Football Facts No 172

The nickname of the KAA Gent is Buffalo, a term coined after a visit of the original Buffalo Bill and his Wild West circus to the city in the early 1900s!!!!!

NEW!!!! Celtic FC (Scotland) 2009 Home kit

Celtic Football Club is a Scottish football club based in Glasgow, which competes in the Scottish Premier League, the highest form of competition in Scotland. The full name of the club is The Celtic Football Club. Until 1994, the club's full name was The Celtic Football and Athletic Company Ltd.Celtic play home games at Celtic Park commonly referred to as Parkhead, which has a capacity of 60,832, and is currently the largest football stadium in Scotland. In 2006-07, Celtic Park attracted an average attendance of 57,927,making the club second after Manchester United in average attendance for any football club in the UK.Together with their rivals, Rangers F.C., they form the Old Firm which is one of the most famous and fierce rivalries in sport. Celtic has traditionally been linked with its founding roots which stemmed from the Irish immigrant community in Glasgow.

MisterGoal's Football Facts No 171

In July 2008, Spain rose to the #1 spot in the FIFA World Ranking for the first time in their history, becoming only the sixth nation (and the first who had never won the World Cup) to top these rankings!!!!!

NEW!!! Aston Villa FC (England) 2009 Away kit

Aston Villa Football Club (also known as The Villa and The Villans) is an English professional football club based in Aston, Birmingham, who currently play in the Premier League. The club was founded in 1874 and have played at their current home ground, Villa Park, since 1897. Aston Villa were founding members of the Football League in 1888 and the Premier League in 1992. The club was floated by the previous owner and chairman Doug Ellis, but in 2006 full control of the club was acquired by Randy Lerner.They are one of the oldest and most successful football clubs in England, having won the First Division Championship seven times and the FA Cup seven times. Villa are also one of only four English clubs to win the European Cup, which they did in 1982. Aston Villa is the fourth most successful club in English football history, having won 21 major honours, although most of these were won before the Second World War and the most recent was in 1996

MisterGoal's Football Facts No 170

Ethnikos Achna (Greek: Εθνικός Άχνας) is the only Cypriot team to qualify for the UEFA Cup via the Intertoto Cup!!!!!

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.

MisterGoal's Football Facts No 167

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.

MisterGoal's Football Facts No 165

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!!!!!

NEW!!! Olympique Marseille (France) 2009 Away kit

Olympique de (also known as l'OM or Marseille) is a football team that plays in Ligue 1, the top level of the French Football League, based in Marseille. Founded in 1899, Marseille is the largest and most successful club in France. They are so far the only French team to have won the UEFA Champions League (in 1993), which rounded off their dominant run of four consecutive Ligue 1 titles. However, having suffered from scandalous financial irregularities in 1994 and the resulting relegation, the club has not won a major trophy in over a decade.

MisterGoal's Football Facts No 161

Nine clubs have been crowned Campeones de Liga. Since the 1950s, Real Madrid and FC Barcelona have dominated the competition. The former have been champions 31 times while the latter have won it on 18 occasions.Other winners include Valencia, Atletico Madrid, Sevilla, Deportivo de La Coruña, Athletic Bilbao, Real Sociedad and Real Betis!!!!!

NEW!!! FC Schalke 04 (Germany) 2009 Home kit

FC Schalke 04 is a German football club originally from the Schalke district of Gelsenkirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia. Schalke has long been one of the most popular football teams in Germany, even though major successes have been rare since the club's heyday in the 1930s and early 1940s. The football team is part of a larger sports club which has close to 59,000 members (January 2007).