WHO WAS THE TEAM THAT ENDED JUVENTUS' 49 GAME UNBEATEN ITALIAN SERIE A RUN?

Inter Milan with two goals from Diego Milito and one from Rodrigo Palacio on November 3 2012 handed Juventus FC a 3-1 Italian Serie A defeat at their new Juventus Stadium to end their 49 unbeaten run which spanned 3 seasons from the back end of the 2010/2011 season, with a 2-2 draw against Napoli.

 

DO YOU KNOW THE TWO REAL MADRID MANAGERS SINCE 1989 THAT HAVE SURVIVED TWO CALENDAR YEARS?

                           

Jose Mourinho & Vicente del Bosqu

Since the year 1989, only Vicente del Bosque and Jose Mourinho have survived 2 calendar years as Real Madrid manager.


In 1999/2000, Del Bosque took over from John Toshack in November 1999 and he lasted till June 2003 when his contract was not renewed. 

Mourinho took over the Real Madrid managerial reigns from Manuel Pellegrini in July 2010 after he led Inter Milan to a treble of the Italian Serie A, Coppa Italia and the UEFA Champions League in the highly successful 2009/2010 season. He threw in the towel at the Santiago Bernabeu in May 2013.

DO YOU KNOW THE INTER MILAN LEGEND THAT HIS NUMBER 3 JERSEY WAS RETIRED FOR HIS EXEMPLARY SERVICE TO THE CLUB?

Giacinto Facchetti

Giacinto Facchetti who played his whole football career for Inter Milan as one of the first truly great attacking-full backs, and one of the best ever in his position from 1960 to 1978, played 634 official games and scored 75 goals.  

Facchetti won 4 Italian Serie A Scudetto in 1962/1963, 1964/1965, 1965/1966 and 1970/1971 seasons; one Coppa Italia in 1978; two European Cups (now UEFA Champions League) in 1963/1964 and 1964/1965; and two Intercontinental Cups in 1964 and 1965.

His number 3 jersey he wore for Inter Milan all through his career was retired posthumously in his honour after he died of pancreatic cancer in Milan on September 4, 2006 as the club President.

DO YOU KNOW WHY IVAN ZAMORANO WORE THE 1+8 SHIRT NUMBER WHILE AT INTER MILAN?

1+8 shirt man

Chilean striker Iván Zamorano wore the number 9 jersey for Inter Milan of Italy until a sponsorship deal with Nike saw Ronaldo de Lima (who was originally assigned number 10) given the traditional strikers' number. When this happened, they gave him the number 18 jersey, but Zamorano added a plus (+) sign between the two numbers (actually, 1+8=9). He was nicknamed Bam Bams (for Bamm-Bamm, a character from The Flintstones), and Iván el Terrible ("Ivan the Terrible").

DO YOU KNOW WHEN THE DEFUNCT UEFA CUP FINAL BECAME A ONE-OFF MATCH IN A NEUTRAL GROUND?

Starting with the 1997–98 season, the UEFA Cup Final became a one-off match in a neutral stadium unlike the two legged affair of both finalists when it began in the 1971/1972 season and it was an all Italian affair between Inter Milan and SS Lazio played at Parc des Princes in Paris on May 6, 1998 with the Nerazzurri from Milan coming victorious with a 3-0 win.

DO YOU KNOW THE MOST CAPPED PLAYER FOR THE ARGENTINE NATIONAL TEAM?



Zanetti Mr. Longevity

With 145 caps so far, Javier Zanetti captain of Inter Milan holds the record of the most capped player in the history of the Albaceleste, the Argentine national team. Zanetti debuted for Argentina on November 16, 1994 against Chile under coach Daniel Passarella.

                                     

DO YOU KNOW WHO COINED THE NAME "DERBY D' ITALIA" FOR THE BIANNUAL INTER MILAN VS JUVENTUS MATCHES?



Matri scores for the Old Lady against Inter

The Derby d'Italia (Italian for "Derby of Italy") was coined back in 1967 by the famous Italian sports journalist Gianni Brera as the biannual football fixture in Italian football between Inter Milan and Juventus FC of Turin. The name was also given to this fixture as Inter Milan and Juventus were the two teams with the highest number of international (the former) and national (the latter) honours.

DO YOU KNOW THE STRIKER THAT WON TOP SCORER AWARDS IN THE SPANISH PRIMERA LIGA AND THE ITALIAN SERIE A?

Christian Vieri while at Atletico Madrid

The Italian goal bomber, Christian Vieri achieved a rare feat while he was playing active football. He is arguably the only footballer to have won the Pichichi and the Capocannoniere (top scorer) titles in Spain and Italy. He scored 24 goals in 24 Spanish Primera Liga matches for Atletico Madrid to win the Pichichi award in the 1997/1998 season while he won the Capocannoniere award at Inter Milan in the 2002/2003 season with 24 goals from 23 Italian Serie A matches.

WHICH CITY HAS WON THE UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE WITH TWO DIFFERENT CLUBSIDES?

The city of Milan in Italy is the only one that have won the UEFA Champions League with two different teams: Inter Milan and AC Milan. The two clubs have won ten trophies and therefore being the most succesful in the history of the tournament. They once met in the Semi Final of the 2002/2003 season and AC Milan triumph 1-1 on away goals rule even though they both play at Stadio Giusseppe Meazza, San Siro. 

 

DID YOU KNOW THE FIRST PLAYER TO BE BOOKED IN THE FINAL OF THE UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE?

Roberto Boninsegna of Inter Milan was the first person to be yellow carded in a UEFA Champions Cup final on the 31^st May 1972. Boninsegna scored the Azzuris of Italy's only goal (though at the time it was an important equaliser) in the Mexico 1970 FIFA World Cup final against the Selecao of Brazil, which Italy ultimately lost 4–1 to arguably the Greatest Team that ever played soccer. Remarkably, Jens Lehman formerly of Arsenal FC was the first player to be sent off with a red card in the final match against Ronaldinho's FC Barcelona during the 2005 edition in Paris.