IFFHS NEWS OF THE WEEK 11

Posted on Mar 22, 2021 | IFFHS News Category

RECORDS – RECORDS

- Erling Haaland, the Norwegian young star of Borussia Dortmund, is the first player ever in the History to need only 14 matches to score 20 goals in the UEFA Champions League. He is only 20 years old … Lionel Messi needed 46 matches and Cristiano Ronaldo 56 !

- 3 clubs in Europe have scored 1000 or more goals in the UEFA Champions League : Real Madrid 1169, FC Barcelona 1138 and FC Bayern München 1000 .

- For the first time in the History of the UEFA Champions League, 4 coaches of the 8 best European clubs come from the same country ! Hansi Flick (Bayern), Jürgen Klopp (Liverpol), Thomas Tuchel (Chelsea) and Edin Terzic (Dortmund) are all German.

- Oscar and Ariadna Mingueza , brother and sister, have played with the A Team of FC Barcelona ! For Oscar he has his first match in 2020, for Ariadna on March 6, 2021. A great family success !

- Hansi Flick, the German coach of FC Bayern, is the first manager in the History to win his first 7 knockout Champions League games. He is unbeaten in Champions League (15 wins, 1 draw). In 75 games all competitions included with Fc Bayern, he won 63 games with 3,04 goals per game.

- For the sixth consecutive season, Robert Lewandowski has scored 40+ goals :

2015/16 : 42 in 51 games ;

2016/17 : 43 in 47 games ;

2017/18 : 41 in 48 games ;

2018/19 : 40 in 47 games ;

2019/20 : 55 in 47 games ;

2020/21 : already 42 in 36 games !

- Lindsay Calima (Brazil) is the first female coach to win the Copa Libertadores 2020 last week in Argentina. At the head of Ferroviaria, she won the final against Colombia’s America Cali.