why did pushkas wear differant coloured socks for hungary when they beat england 6-3 in 1953?
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Perhaps he wanted to confuse the other players.  Those British would say, "Oh, that isn't Pushkas leg because he has got the red socks on today," when there was a mob around the ball.  \n\nIt's a guess, eh.\n\nOr perhaps he simply didn't realize that he had two different colored socks.  Maybe he was nearly out of laundry, and he was desperate enough to wear two mismatching socks.
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The same thing happened in the match between England and Paraguay.  It still went in Ukraine's goal, whether it was from a Spanish or Ukrainian player.
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1966 against West Germany. The score is 4-2 AET
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Italy defeated Hungary 4-2 in the 1938 World Cup.
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the yellow & red cards were only introduced to the FIFA World Cup in 1970.\n\nonly 6 players have been sent-off during the 1962 FIFA World Cup including the two Italian players during the infamous 'Battle Of Santiago' clash between the host naton, CHILE & ITALY in Group 2.
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I have heard that the reason that Germany wear green as an away strip is as a mark of respect to Ireland.  \n\nIreland were the first non-German speaking country that would play an international against West Germany following the war (in 1950).  As the national colour for Ireland is green, Germany said that they would have their 2nd strip in this colour as a thank-you.\n\nThis year Klinsman has changed this strip to red as wearing a red strip  statistically produces better results across the sporting world.
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Talking about "home" and "away" uniforms is kind of misleading nowadays, because the teams don't wear different uniforms when they play home and away; they have a main one, which is worn almost always, and then one or two others that can be used when the opposing team wears the same colors. So yours is a very interesting question, because Italy's main uniform is, like you said, the blue one, and it has become so important in the identity of italian sport that the italian athletes are called "azzurri" and the national teams are called "squadra azzurra" (blue team).\n\nIn fact, the answer is very simple: like in the Netherlands, the blue was chosen because it was the colour of the royal house. It happened in 1911, when Italy used to play in white. There was a football match against Hungary, who also played in white, and so the italians thought that it was their duty as hosts to wear a different uniform so that the teams wouldn't play in the same colours. They chose the blue colour because it was the colour of the royal house who was ruling at the time - the house of Savoia.
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This is the only information I can find regarding the event at Barcelona 1992 that you are after:\n\nUNIFIED TEAM (EX USSR)  (Gold)\nUNITED STATES OF AMERICA  (Silver)\nGREAT BRITAIN  (Bronze)\n\nFor details, you have have to contact the Spanish Olympic Committee
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The first "foreign" team to beat England at Football in England were Hungary, who won 6-3 at Wembley in 1953. A year later the Hungarians, who included the legendary Ferenc Puskas, beat England 7-1 in Budapest.
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1966 England beat the GERMANS !!!!!!  :)
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1954 at Switzerland.\n\nGermany won 3-2 over Hungary
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England refused to take part in the three World Cup tournaments before World War Two, deeming them to be unimportant.\nThey played first in 1950 in Brazil, and all subsequent tournaments up to 1970 (1954 in Switzerland, 1958 in Sweden, 1962 in Chile and 1966 in England).\nThey then failed to qualify for two consecutive World Cups - the 1974 tournament in West Germany and the 1978 tournament in Argentina.\nThey then played in Spain in 1982, Mexico in 1986 and Italy in 1990. After a disastrous qualification campaign they failed to qualify for the USA 1994 tournament, but have qualified for each competition since (1998, 2002 and 2006).\nCompeted : 1950 - 54 - 58 - 62 - 66 - 70 - 82 - 86 - 90 - 98 - 2002 - 2006\n\nInterestingly, the 1958 tournament in Sweden was the only one to date in which all four home UK nations qualified - England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
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Spurs were the 1st team to introduce 'long shorts' in the 1991 FA cup final (Spurs won 2-1 against 'forest' ha ha ha) (and slaughtered the gonners in the semi)... the kit being made by umbro!
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Ah, there was some confusion in the translation of the memo the refs got before the WC started and it was too late to switch.\n\nThe original memo said the referees in the world cup need to dress mannequins.
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I think it was pushkus of hungary scored 83 goal from 84 matches and ran circles around Pele if it was not for the raise of communisim in hungary pele would have been in his shadow
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The answer is this, I have taken it from a previous question which was the same:\n\nThe Italian national team wear blue because it is the colour of Savoia, the ruling house of Italy from 1861 to 1946. Until the end of the second world war, the Italian flag always had the Savoy coat of arms in the centre, and it was only after the family were overthrown,and the Italian Republic established in 1946, that the plain tricolor was adopted as the national flag
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Shirt numbers appeared in club level football before the England team wore them for the first time, although the national side regularly sported shirt numbers before the Football League required them for league play.  \n\nOn 25 August 1928, Arsenal and Chelsea wore numbered shirts in their matches against The Wednesday (renamed Sheffield Wednesday soon after) and Swansea Town, respectively.  This is the earliest record of the use of shirt numbers in Football League play.  On 29 April 1933, shirt numbers were worn for the first time in the Football Association Challenge Cup final.  Everton players wore numbers 1 through  11 and Manchester City numbers 12 through 22.  The following week, on 6 May 1933, Everton wore their numbered shirts in a Football League match against Wolverhampton Wanderers at Molineux.  But at its annual general meeting in 1933, the Football League Management Committee rejected a proposal requiring shirt numbers after hearing objections that it would cost too much and spoil club colours. \n\nOn 4 December 1933, Arsenal, reigning Football League champions, wore numbers as an experiment when they beat the full Austrian national side, in the guise of F.C. of Vienna, 4-2 at Highbury.  However, the Football League Management Committee again rejected requiring shirt numbers at its 1934 annual general meeting.\n\nEngland wore numbers on the back of their shirts for the first time in the 3-1 loss to Scotland at Hampden Park in Glasgow on 17 April 1937.   For the next two decades and more,  England continued to play in the 2-3-5 formation or its variant, the W-M formation, and shirt numbers were assigned according to player position, 1 going to the goalkeeper and 2 through 11 to the outfield players beginning with the right fullback, continuing through the 2-3-5 formation from back to front and right to left and ending with the outside left.\n\nOn 5 June 1939, the Football League Management Committee finally decreed at its annual general meeting that players on each club would wear numbers 1 through 11 in league matches and that the numbers would be assigned according to position.  William Cuff, the incoming Football League president, turned aside a proposal that would have made shirt numbers optional; either all clubs would wear them or none.  The vote was 24 for numbering and 20 against.  Shirt numbers were first worn in league play during the 1939-40 season, which was abandoned after three rounds of matches on the outbreak of the Second World War.  Thus the first official season in which Football League matches featured shirt numbers was the first conducted after the war, the 1946-47 season.