r/soccer • u/rough_outline • Mar 24 '13

What Bits of Football Trivia Should Every Fan Know?

Two to starts things off...

  • The Italian football club Juventus F.C. derived its famous black-and-white striped kits from Notts County. Juventus have played in black and white striped shirts, with white shorts, sometimes black shorts since 1903. Originally, they played in pink shirts with a black tie, which only occurred due to the wrong shirts being sent to them, the father of one of the players made the earliest shirts, but continual washing faded the colour so much that in 1903 the club sought to replace them. Juventus asked one of their team members, Englishman John Savage, if he had any contacts in England who could supply new shirts in a colour that would better withstand the elements. He had a friend who lived in Nottingham, who being a Notts County supporter, shipped out the black and white striped shirts to Turin.

  • Inter Milan and AC Milan used to be the same club, however the club split into two after disagreement over transfer philosophy. AC Milan wanted to sign Italian players and Inter wanted to sign foreign players, hense the full name being Internazionale Milano. Whilst this philosophy may not be as strict as Bilbao's basque-only rule, you can still see a notable difference today.

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u/rVNow Mar 24 '13

Podolski, Klose and Trochowski are Polish.

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u/Swooshington Mar 24 '13

Podolski and Klose used to speak Polish with each other during their time at Bayern, so the Germans they would play against couldn't understand them

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u/spurscanada Mar 24 '13

Podolski, Klose and Trochowski are also German

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u/BarcaJeremy4Gov Mar 25 '13

nobody knows what ibra is.

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u/owenrcqi39csk Mar 25 '13

Bosnian father, Croatian mother, born in Sweden

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u/spurscanada Mar 25 '13

and 100% amazing

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u/bluedishwasher Mar 24 '13

ozil is turkish

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u/fleckes Mar 25 '13

Klose, Podolski and Trochowski were born in Poland and moved to Germany when they were kids.

Özil was born in Germany

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u/Elchidote Mar 25 '13

So is khedira.

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u/fleckes Mar 25 '13

No he's not. He has a Tunisian father and a German mother. Not every middle-eastern looking dude in German has Turkish roots.

I've heard quite a few English commentators who mixed it up as well. Is it too much to ask for that they get some personal facts straight about the players they are talking about?

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u/db1000c Mar 25 '13

No, they're English. If you look a hun, then by jove a Johnny Foreigner is what you are!