Benzema: “Al Ittihad is a new challenge for me. It's a good league and there are many good players”. 🟡⚫️🇸🇦
“Cristiano Ronaldo is already here, he is a friend who shows that Saudi Arabia is starting to get ahead and I am here to win as I did in Europe”.
Diego Maradona, 1986 World Cup
⚽️5 goals
🅰️5 assists
🥇Best Player Award
Regarded as the greatest individual display at a World Cup Finals 👏
#FIFAWorldCup
#WorldCup
#ARG
A REMINDER:
Ronaldo was good but could he do it away in Moscow on a saturated pitch?
Yeah of course he could. His goal helped Inter reach the final, in which he destroyed Lazio with a brilliant display 🇧🇷🙌
#Greatest
Diego Maradona, 1986 World Cup
⚽️5 goals
🅰️5 assists
🥇Best Player Award
Regarded as the greatest individual display at a World Cup Finals, as Argentina lifted the trophy 🏆
A REMINDER:
This is the single most important
#WorldCup2018
tweet you’ll need.
All the groups, all the fixtures, all the TV stations and all the times.
RT and PIN - the World Cup kick off is just around the corner 👏👏👏
Philippe Albert scored one of the most iconic Premier League goals as Newcastle thumped Manchester United 5-0 in 1996 ⚫️⚪️
The reaction from Martin Tyler 😱
#NUFC
A REMINDER:
Ronaldo was good but could he do it away in Moscow on a shocking pitch?
Yeah of course he could! His goal helped Inter reach the final, in which he destroyed Lazio with a brilliant display 🇧🇷🙌
#Greatest
When Richard Keys and Andy Gray discussed Pep Guardiola and how he could improve defensively.
Keys suggesting that Sam Allardyce could come in and help… 🤣🤣
Sensible Soccer was first released in 1992. It was recognised as one of the ten most important video games by Stanford Uni.
Hands up if you played this! 🙋♂️
Fernando Torres (
@Torres
) scored this stunning goal for Liverpool against Blackburn in 2009 ⚽️👏
Jamie Carragher (
@Carra23
) put it on a plate for him!
#LFC
A REMINDER:
In the 2002 World Cup, Brazil won all of their 7 games, and are the only team to achieve this in the same finals. They didn’t even need extra time.
What a side 🇧🇷👏
DONE DEAL…
Faustino Asprilla (
@TinoasprillaH
) joined Newcastle in February 1996. The club paid Parma £6.7m. He got a warm welcome despite the cold weather ⚪️⚫️🌨
#NUFC
Happy Birthday Antonín Panenka 🎂
Panenka scored the winning penalty for Czechoslovakia against West Germany at the European Championships in 1976… and the “Panenka” penalty was born! ⚽️
Happy Birthday Chris Waddle (
@chriswaddle93
) 🎂
He won Ligue 1 three times with Marseille.
He was FWA Footballer of the Year in 1992/93 whilst playing at Sheffield Wednesday.
Capped 62 times by England 🏴
What a player! 🙌⚽️
A REMINDER:
Happy Birthday Rivaldo 🎂
A World Cup winner in 2002 he was named in the All Star team in both ‘98 and ‘02. In ‘99 he won the Ballon d’Or. A brilliant player! 🙌⚽️
🎥-
@90sfootball
AC Milan won Serie A in 1993/94 scoring just 36 goals in 34 games. Thanks to Franco Baresi and Paolo Maldini in defence they conceded just 15 goals.
They won the Champions League also conceding 2 goals in the process 🤝🏆
A REMINDER:
Happy Birthday Rivaldo 👑
A World Cup winner in 2002 he was named in the All Star team in both ‘98 and ‘02. In ‘99 he won the Ballon d’Or. A top player!
🎥-
@90sfootball
A REMINDER:
#OnThisDay
1998
Italy and Chile opened up World Cup Group B with a 2-2 draw. Italy had Maldini, Cannavaro, Costacurta and Nesta in defence!
🇮🇹Italy 2️⃣ Vieri ⚽️, Baggio ⚽️(p)
🇨🇱Chile 2️⃣ Salas ⚽️⚽️
The Baggio assist for Vieri 👏👏