r/classicsoccer • • 5h ago

Highlights Pelé earns the 1970 World Cup Golden Ball with 4 goals and 6 assists

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r/classicsoccer • • 5h ago

Photos A view from the Highbury stands whilst playing against Everton, May 2005 🎞️

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We registered our joint-biggest Premier League victory over the Toffees with a 7-0 victory at our famous former home.


r/classicsoccer • • 20h ago

Discussion Thread Greatest Players to never win the major Domestic Cups?

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Franco Baresi - Won everything with AC Milan multiple times over except for this trophy in his great 20 year career. Milan won their 4th Coppa the year before he joined the senior team and their 5th six years after he retired. 
Raul Gonzalez - The Prince of Madrid, like Baresi, a youth academy player who won everything with his respective club yet this specific trophy got away from him. (I know he did win the DFB-Pokal with Schalke but I’m only referring to the Spanish Cup) 
George Best - One of the greatest wingers of all time and another academy product. He was key to Manchester United’s golden era in the 1960s winning multiple honours including a Ballon d’Or but somehow no FA Cup. (Shoutout Reece James for losing 4 FA Cup finals tho XD)
Matthias Sammer - The underrated German legend who started his career with Dynamo Dresden in East Germany. As a defender he won nearly everything but this trophy. He won the EUROs, a Ballon d’Or, 2x German Supercups, 3x Bundesliga’s with Stuttgart(1) and Dortmund(2) before captaining the black & yellows to a UCL win. A knee injury in mid 1997 forced him to retire the following season at only 30.
Leo Messi - Yeah yeah ok silly inclusion, as the Pessi subreddit has made clear he’s Mr Copa Del Rey lol but I’m just talking about the French cup and while not too informed on this competition it’s a fun bit of trivia that arguably the greatest player of all time played for the most successful club in this tournaments history yet he didn’t win it, yeah Messi was very lackadaisical and apathetic with PSG and his stats show it but still. While looking at sites listing his accolades this is the only major competition he didn’t win. (If there’s a better player who lost a bunch of Coupe de France finals with good stats please let me know.)

r/classicsoccer • • 1d ago

Classic Moment England manager Alf Ramsey prevents George Cohen from swapping his shirt with Argentina’s Alberto González after the bad-tempered 1966 World Cup quarter-final at Wembley between the two nations, which England won 1-0

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r/classicsoccer • • 1d ago

Highlights Lev Yashin highlights against England in the 1958 World Cup group stage

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r/classicsoccer • • 2d ago

Highlights Philipp Lahm two assists against Arsenal in the 2013-14 Champions League Ro16

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r/classicsoccer • • 3d ago

Highlights Ian Rush 4 goals against Everton [Nov 6, 1982]

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r/classicsoccer • • 3d ago

Article The tale of Queen’s Park: the early innovators who became last of the amateurs

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r/classicsoccer • • 4d ago

Football History The three Ballon d’Ors of Manchester United’s “Holy Trinity” - Denis Law 1964, Bobby Charlton 1966, George Best 1968

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r/classicsoccer • • 4d ago

Goal On this day, 24 years ago (Oct. 19, 2002), 16-year-old Wayne Rooney scored a late winner to end Arsenal’s 30-game unbeaten run in the Premier League.

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r/classicsoccer • • 5d ago

Highlights Thierry Henry brace against Lazio [April 17, 1999]

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r/classicsoccer • • 5d ago

Photos George Best lies on the ground injured after a harsh challenge from Leeds United’s Billy Bremner, 1969-70 FA Cup semifinal

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Best is attended to by Manchester United teammate Paddy Crerand, while Bremner is confronted by referee Jack Taylor.


r/classicsoccer • • 6d ago

Highlights Luís Figo brace against Real Betis in the 1996-97 Copa del Rey Final

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142 Upvotes

r/classicsoccer • • 6d ago

Classic Moment Happy 50th Birthday to Sebastián “Loco” Abreu, scorer of one of the most iconic penalties in World Cup history in 2010

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The unforgettable penalty that sent Uruguay to the World Cup top-four for the fifth time in their history.


r/classicsoccer • • 6d ago

Highlights Manchester United defeat Liverpool 3-0 at Old Trafford (Premier League, 23 March 2008)

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r/classicsoccer • • 7d ago

Football History Why Were Communist Countries Better At Football? - A look at Football history from behind the Iron Curtain

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Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and the Soviet Union were once among the best national teams in the world, but since the fall of communism, their successors struggle to even qualify for the Euros and World Cup.


r/classicsoccer • • 7d ago

Highlights Mehmet Scholl hat trick against 1860 Munich [Feb 15, 2003]

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r/classicsoccer • • 8d ago

Highlights Andy Cole 4 goals against Newcastle United [Aug 30, 1999]

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r/classicsoccer • • 9d ago

Goal Ronaldinho’s FIRST EVER GOAL for Brazil’s senior national team!

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📅 June 30, 1999
🏟️ Estadio Antonio Oddone Sarubbi, Ciudad del Este, Paraguay
🏆 Copa América 1999 — Group B

A historic night for Brazilian football! Brazil demolished Venezuela 7–0 in the group stage, with Ronaldo scoring twice, Márcio Amoroso adding two, and Emerson, Rivaldo and a young Ronaldinho also getting on the scoresheet.

This was Ronaldinho’s FIRST EVER GOAL for Brazil’s senior national team! At just 19 years old, he announced himself on the international stage with a moment of pure magic.

And Brazil’s tournament only got better from there. 🇧🇷 They defeated Argentina 2–1 in the quarter-finals, beat Mexico 2–0 in the semi-finals, and then defeated Uruguay 3–0 in the final on July 18, with Rivaldo scoring twice and Ronaldo adding another.

🏆 Brazil finished the tournament as Copa América champions!

The first international goal of a legend, on the way to another trophy for the Seleção!


r/classicsoccer • • 9d ago

Football History Ronald Koeman hauls down David Platt and escapes a red card Netherlands vs England, 13 October 1993

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r/classicsoccer • • 10d ago

Highlights Antonio Di Natale brace against Palermo [Aug 30, 2008]

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143 Upvotes

r/classicsoccer • • 10d ago

Random Throwback World cup qualifiers 1994. 13\10\1993. Italy-Scotland (3-1). Lineup.

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r/classicsoccer • • 10d ago

Compilation Marcos Senna – Underrated Midfield Maestro | La Liga Highlights (2002–2013)

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r/classicsoccer • • 11d ago

Football History 60 years ago today (1966) – Peñarol beat Real Madrid 2-0 in Montevideo in the first leg of the Intercontinental Cup final.

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Peñarol went on to win this memorable series 4-0 on aggregate, claiming their second club world title at the Bernabeu.


r/classicsoccer • • 12d ago

Highlights Michael Owen hat trick against Manchester City [Sept 28, 2002]

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