• xqz32dll@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    Ali Daei is a name I haven’t heard in a long time. I remember the big announcements in the newspapers, when Bayern signed the “WELTTORJÄGER”. Gives me flashbacks to that Bayern team with the likes of Kahn, Matthäus, Lizarazu, Effenberg, Scholl, Basler, Elber at the end of the 90s.

  • autistichomosapien95@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    Chitalu’s and Dahari’s deaths are both very sad. Chitalu died at 45 on 27th April 1993 when a plane carrying the Zambian national team crashed in the ocean, 30 people total died. Dahari was diagnosed with motor neurone disease and died 3 years later of muscular dystrophy at age 37 on 11th July 1991.

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    1 year ago

    Commenting here just to mention our nation’s hero name Mokhtar Dahari the supermokh!

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      1 year ago

      Shared a pitch with Maradona once. Pretty insane to imagine that, for us now.

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    1 year ago

    Ronaldo and Lewandowsky have like 200+ international goals each but not even two at the World Cup. Flat track merchants.

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    1 year ago

    I do think international goals hold less weight these days, due to the amount of games played. Especially European nations playing the likes of San Marino, Luxembourg, Andorra etc more often.

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    1 year ago

    205 caps is mad, that record will probably stay for a loong time. (if it is a record, im not sure but you’d think it is)

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      1 year ago

      He was going toe to toe with a player from Kuwait I think, but seems the latter slowed down.

      EDIT: his name is Bader Al-Mutawa and he has 196 caps but the last was in June 2022, probably won’t reach Ronaldo.