Did you know...
| Mexico's first run out at an Olympic Games was in London 1948, where they lost in the first round (3-5) to Korea. |
| No country has ever won the FIFA World Cup with a foreign coach. |
| South Africa are a founder member of the Confederation of African Football but were suspended by Fifa in 1964 because of apartheid. |
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On this day in...
| 1974 | Damiano Tommasi is born in Negrar, Italy. |
| 1983 | Former Partizan striker Danko Lazović is born in Kragujevac, Yugoslavia, now Serbia. |
| 2002 | Ladislao Kubala dies aged 74 in Barcelona. |
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