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>Portugal has played more World Cup Semi Finals than Spain
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>>68133596
>Spain has been eliminated more times in quarterfinals than Neverlands in the final
>Portuguese people make nice towels and their women have moustaches
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>>68133657
hue
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Great Britain has won Olympic Ice Hockey gold, while Finland has not.
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>>68133657
Spanish Women have beards(arab beards) though.
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>Denmark has the same amount of Euros as England, Portugal and the Netherlands combined

>Sweden has been in the semi-finals of a World cup just as many times as Spain and England combined.
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>>68133778
Northern Ireland has had more players(1) drafted 1st overall than Finland.
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>>68134464
>The 3 nations to tie Dan Marino are Liechtenstein, Latvia and Turkey
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>>68134464
>>68133778
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>America is #1
very intriguing
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>>68134505
How embarrassing, if I remember right the Latvia coach was sacked for that, did the same happen for the Turkish one?
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>>68134663
Yes, Sepp Piontek ass was fired straight out the door the following month
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>>68134505
You forgot Estonia
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Peru is more successful in football than Netherlands.

>Peru: 2 Copa America
>Netherlands: 1 Euro, 1 Olympic Football Consolation Tournament
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>>68135227
sure thing bud
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>>68135227
>Peru's best result at a world cup
>8th

>Netherlands best result at a world cup
>2nd
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>>68135273
>muh best result
Jej. But you're okay Netherbros.
Please win another Euro to be on the same tier with us.
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>There have been soccer games where a team scores more than 3 points.
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USA has more top 3 FIFA tournament finishes than England

England 1966 World Cup 1st
USA 1930 World Cup 3rd AND 2009 Confederations Cup 2nd
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Australia has 20 million people and it's less than 200 years old but it's still managed to win the Tour de France, every Tennis major, Hundreds of Olympic medals and a Round of 16 at the Fifa World Cup.

How's that for an interesting fact
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Great Britain won the first baseball world cup.
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The United States has more freedom than every other country combined
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>>68135975
all the competitions you listed havent been around for 200 years so your country's age doesnt matter
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Aston Villa vs Nottingham Forrest will be the first time two European Cup winning teams will meet in the 2nd division
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Tahiti has more continental titles than England
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>>68135917
Interesting
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>>68135975
yeah but..Australian convict genetics + genocide of abos
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Championship 2016/2017 will have the same number of Champions League winning managers as Premier League 2016/2017: two.
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Keke Rosberg won five Formula 1 races in his entire career and won the 1982 Formula 1 World Championship.
His son Nico has been victorious at 17 F1 meetings but has never won a title.
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>>68135975
is that supposed to be impressive?
Switzerland has that with less than half as many people and we're hardly a sports powerhouse
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>>68136204
Rafa, Mou, Pep and?
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>>68136332
Di Matteo
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>>68136360
oh wow
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>>68136270
I can name more but you could just look it up yourself.
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Case Keenum is the vurrent NCAA record holder for Career Passing Yards, Career Passing Touchdowns, and Career Completions.
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>>68136109
But you don't you fucking nig[This post has been flagged as discrimination, racism or anti-semitism and removed in accordance to the 2016 EU code of conduct.]
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Fulham FC have more players going to Euro 2016 than the mighty AC Milan.
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>>68135227
>Copa America
>relevant

>Pooru actually believe this
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stole some from the internet, but fairly lulzy.

>IF MICHAEL PHELPS WERE A COUNTRY, HE’D RANK NO. 35 ON THE ALL-TIME OLYMPIC GOLD MEDAL LIST, AHEAD OF 97 NATIONS.

>THE PHILLIPPINES HAS COMPETED IN THE MOST SUMMER OLYMPICS (20) WITHOUT WINNING A GOLD MEDAL.
m-m-most powerful race!

>THE PHRASE ABOUT WINNING SOMETHING “HANDS DOWN” ORIGINALLY REFERRED TO A JOCKEY WHO WON A RACE WITHOUT WHIPPING HIS HORSE OR PULLING BACK THE REINS

>KATIE LEDECKY’S WORLD RECORD IN THE 1,500 WOULD HAVE PLACED HER 24TH IN THE 2012 OLYMPIC MEN’S SWIMMING RACE
women
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Your parents had sex in order to create you
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>>68137495
>CHINA DID NOT WIN AN OLYMPIC MEDAL UNTIL 1984. AT THE 2008 BEIJING GAMES, THE CHINESE WON 100 MEDALS.

> ONLY 72 PLAYERS IN NBA HISTORY HAVE ATTEMPTED MORE FREE THROWS IN THEIR CAREERS THAN THE 5,317 SHAQUILLE O’NEAL MISSED.

>DURING THE 1974 WORLD CUP IN MUNICH, NATIONAL TEAMS WERE GIVEN BMW BUSES FOR TRANSPORTATION. AFTER BEING ELIMINATED, ZAIRE UNSUCCESSFULLY TRIED TO DRIVE THEIRS BACK TO AFRICA.
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>The Soviet Union was by far the greatest sporting "nation"
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>>68137636
These are fucking great
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>>68137745
GDR is, look at that medal tally
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>>68136247
top keke
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