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).

MisterGoal's Football Facts No 160

Morocco were the first African team to make it to second round barely losing to eventual runner-ups West Germany 1-0 in 1986!!!!!

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

Watford Football Club is an English professional football club based in Watford, Hertfordshire. They play in the Championship.
The club was founded in 1881, first playing at Cassio Road ground, before moving to Vicarage Road in 1922, where they remain to this day. Since 1997 they have shared the ground with Saracens Rugby Club. The club has the nickame of The Hornets due to its yellow and black strip. Watford have a long-standing rivalry with nearby Luton Town.The club is best known for its two spells under the management of former England manager Graham Taylor. The first lasting from 1977 to 1987, when the club rose to the old Division One from Division Four, also reaching the FA Cup final in 1984[2] and competing in the UEFA Cup. The second lasting from 1997 to 2001, when Taylor took the club from Division Two to the Premiership in successive seasons. During both of these eras the club was owned by Elton John, who is now the club's honorary life president.

MisterGoal's Football Facts No 159

FC Ajax are one of the only two teams to win the The Treble and the Intercontinental Cup in the same season/calendar year,this was achieved in the 1971/72 season!!!!!

NEW!!! Birmingham City FC (England) 2009 Away kit

Birmingham City Football Club are an English football club based in Birmingham, in the heart of the West Midlands. They play in the English Premier League.Originally known as Small Heath Alliance, the club has had several name changes: to Small Heath in 1888, to Birmingham F.C. in 1905 and finally to Birmingham City F.C. in 1945.They were FA Cup losing finalists in 1931 and 1956. They won their only major silverware to date in 1963 when they lifted the League Cup beating local rivals Aston Villa 3-1 on aggregate. The club's darkest era came between 1986 and 2002, when the club was consistently outside the top flight of English Football and also suffered the indignity of two brief spells in the third tier of the English League during this period.The club is nicknamed Blues, due to the colour of their kit, and their fans are known as Bluenoses.

MisterGoal's Football Facts No 158

The official Portsmouth's emblem contains a gold star and crescent on a blue shield. Portsmouth's adoption of the star and crescent (usually synonymous with Islam) is said to have came from when King Richard I, granted the city "a crescent of gold on a shade of azure, with a blazing star of eight points" which he had taken from the Byzantine Emperor's standard of Governor Isaac Komnenos, after capturing Cyprus. It is one of the most recognisable football crests in English football and is nicknamed 'the smiley crest' because of its similarity to a smiling face!!!!!

NEW!!! FC Dallas (U.S.A.) 2009 Away kit

FC Dallas is a professional soccer club based in Frisco, Texas, that participates in Major League Soccer. The club was known as the Dallas Burn from 1996 to 2004. The FC in the name stands for Football Club.The team was founded as the Dallas Burn in 1996 the inaugural year of Major League Soccer. From 1996-2002 the team played in the Cotton Bowl. In an effort to save money due to the club's unfavorable lease with the Cotton Bowl, the club played its 2003 home games at Dragon Stadium, a high school stadium in Southlake, a Fort Worth suburb. After listening to its fans, the Dallas Burn, as the team was called from 1996-2004, moved back to the Cotton Bowl for the 2004 season. Another factor to the move was the money that the club was losing due to the fact that there could be no alcohol sales at a public high school.

MisterGoal's Football Facts No 157

Real Madrid is the biggest and most extensive football club in the world according to the case studies at Harvard University in 2007. It is also the richest one in terms of revenue!!!!!

NEW!!! Feyenoord FC (Holland) 2009 Third kit

Feyenoord are a professional football team located in Rotterdam. Alongside Ajax and PSV, Feyenoord are one of the "big three" clubs in the Netherlands, but have faced a steady decline in results over recent years. These three clubs have won every Dutch League Championship since 1965 – with the exception of AZ's 1981 title – and they are, the only clubs never relegated from Dutch first division football.. In domestic competition, Feyenoord have won 14 Dutch Championships, 11 Dutch Cups and 2 Dutch Supercups to go with the European Cup, 2 UEFA Cups and the Intercontinental Cup!

MisterGoal's Football Facts No 156

The supporters of Feyenoord are said to be one of the most loyal supporter groups in the world supporting the team during both good or bad times. They are nicknamed Het Legioen, Dutch for The Legion and can be found everywhere in The Netherlands and far across the Dutch borders. Squad number 12 is never given to a player, but is reserved for Het Legioen instead!!!!!

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To all MisterGoal's friends!!!!
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NEW!!! BV Borussia Dortmund (Germany) 2009 Home kit

BV Borussia Dortmund is a German football club based in Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia and one of the most successful clubs in German football. In addition to six German football championships and two DFB Pokal victories, Dortmund won the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup in 1966 (becoming the first German team to win a European title) and the UEFA Champions League in 1997.The club was founded on December 19, 1909 by a group of young men unhappy with church-sponsored Trinity Youth, where they played football under the stern and unsympathetic eye of the local parish priest. Father Dewald was blocked at the door when he tried to break up the organizing meeting being held in a room of the local pub, Zum Wildschütz. The name Borussia is Latin for Prussia and was taken from the nearby Borussia brewery. The team began play in blue and white striped shirts with a red sash, and black shorts. In 1913, they donned the black and yellow strip so familiar today

MisterGoal's Football Facts No 155

The first goal ever scored in Bundesliga play was by Dortmund's Timo Konietzka against Werder Bremen. Werder Bremen won 3-2!!!!!

NEW!!! Tottenham Hotspur (England) 2009 Home kit

Tottenham Hotspur Football Club are an English football club, which play in the FA Premier League. The club is also known as Tottenham and Spurs , while their own fans also refer to them as the Lilywhites because of their traditional white shirts. Their home ground is White Hart Lane, Tottenham, London. Tottenham were the first club in the twentieth century to achieve the League and FA Cup Double, winning both competitions in the 1960-61 season. In 1963, Spurs became the first British club to win a European trophy - the European Cup Winners' Cup.The club has a long-standing rivalry with near neighbours Arsenal and the series of matches between the two is known as the North London derby. The club motto is Audere est Facere (lit: "To dare is to do") and their emblem is the cockerel and ball.

MisterGoal's Football Facts No 154

From the 1898 that Italian League (Serie A) was founded,17 teams have won the “Scudetto”,(the Italian Championship), and 6 of them now they play at the lower leagues!!!!!

Toulouse FC (France) 2008 Away kit

Toulouse Football Club is a French football team playing in the city of Toulouse, Haute-Garonne. TFC is also known as le Téfécé (pronounced [tefeˈse]) or le Tef.The predecessor side to the club was founded in 1937 as Toulouse Football Club, but sold its players and its place in French Division 1 professional football to Red Star Paris in 1967. (Main article: Toulouse FC (1937))
The association was re-founded as Union Sportive Toulouse on May 25, 1970 and took on the juniors of Gascogne and ACE Mermoz-Bonnefoy in order to establish a solid player base. They began competition in Division 2 in the 1970-71 season, playing in red and white. In 1977 the club re-claimed the historical name of its predecessor and adopted new colours of purple and white

MisterGoal's Football Facts No 153

The TOULOUSE FC's logo displays the gold and blood-red Occitan cross, the symbol of Occitania, which Toulouse is a historical capital of!!!!!

NEW!!!!! Zenit,UEFA CUP Final 2008

FC Zenit Saint Petersburg (Russian: ФК "Зенит" Санкт-Петербург) is a Russian football club from Saint Petersburg. Founded in 1925 (or in 1914 according to some Russian sources), the club plays in the Russian Premier League and currently is the richest in the country, thanks to the sponsorship of Gazprom. Zenit are the 2007 champions of the Russian Premier League, and for 2008 they are on the UEFA CUP final for the first time of their history!!!!!!!

MisterGoal's Football Facts No 152

France and Argentina are the only national teams in the world which have won the four most important titles organized by FIFA: World Cup, Gold medal in football in the Olympic Games, Confederations Cup, and the Continental Cup (Copa America for Argentina, and UEFA European Football Championship for France)!!!!!

NEW!!! Rangers,UEFA Cup Final 2008

Rangers Football Club is a football club from Glasgow, Scotland, which plays in the Scottish Premier League. Rangers are the most successful club in Scottish football, with 51 league titles[2], and have won the most trophies of any football club in the world. The club's home, the all-seated 51,082-capacity Ibrox Stadium in south-west Glasgow, has been accredited as one of UEFA's five-star stadia. Rangers players and fans today are multi-national and of various religions, although the club has traditionally been identified with the Protestant Unionist community of Scotland. For most of their history, Rangers have enjoyed a fierce rivalry with their cross-city opponents Celtic F.C. The club is nicknamed The Teddy Bears, from the rhyming slang for Gers (short for Rangers), and the fans are known to each other as 'Bluenoses'. The club's correct name is simply Rangers F.C. although it is sometimes incorrectly called Glasgow Rangers. This frequently happens with English commentators seeking to distinguish between them and other similarly-named clubs, particularly Queens Park Rangers F.C. This naming convention is also popular in Europe and further afield, where any club without its location in its name receives it as a prefix or suffix, for example Red Star Belgrade.

MisterGoal's Football Facts No 151

At the end of the 1958 season, UEFA offered the FA the opportunity to submit both United and the eventual champions, Wolverhampton Wanderers, for the 1958–59 European Cup as a tribute to the victims of Man United (The Munich air disaster of 6 February 1958), but the FA declined!!!!!

NEW!!!! Man.United, Champions League Final 2008

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.

MisterGoal's Football Facts No 150

The only major honour that Manchester United F.C. has not yet won is the UEFA Cup!!!!!

NEW!!!! Chelsea, Champions League Final 2008

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 149

The Luzhniki Stadium has been chosen by UEFA to host the 2008 UEFA Champions League Final between Man.United and Chelsea FC.The Luzhniki Stadium also hosted the final game of the 1957 Ice Hockey World Championship between Sweden and the Soviet Union, attended by a crowd of 55,000 and setting a new world record at that time!!!!!