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Most expensive transfers in the football world
The record transfer fees have changed dramatically over recent years. Prices is before taxes and other fees🤔🤔😲😲

1. 2017 Neymar(Brasil) Barcelona to Paris Saint-Germain £198,000,000

2. 2016 Paul Pogba(France) Juventus to Manchester United £89,000,000

3. 2013 Gareth Bale(Wales) Tottenham Hotspur to Real Madrid £90,454,903

4. 2009 Kaká(Brasil) Milan to Real Madrid £68,933,036

5. 2009 Cristiano Ronaldo(Portugal) Manchester United to Real Madrid £98,475,766

6. 2001 Zinedine Zidane(France) Juventus to Real Madrid £69,816,449

7. 2000 Hernán Crespo(Argentina) Parma to Lazio £54,834,955

8. 2000 Luís Figo(Portugal) Barcelona to Real Madrid £57,151,924

9. 1999 Christian Vieri(Italy) Lazio to Internazionale £51,049,447

10. 1998 Denílson(Brasil) São Paulo to Real Betis £34,718,967

11. 1997 Ronaldo(Brasil) Barcelona to Internazionale £32,568,737

12. 1996 Ronaldo(Brasil) PSV Eindhoven to Barcelona £22,738,197

13. 1996 Alan Shearer(England) Blackburn Rovers to Newcastle United £25,838,860

14.1992 Jean-Pierre Papin(France) Marseille to Milan £18,991,397

15. 1992 Gianluca Vialli(Italy) Sampdoria to Juventus £22,789,677

16. 1990 Roberto Baggio(Italy) Fiorentina to Juventus £16,686,521

17. 1987 Ruud Gullit(Netherlands) PSV Eindhoven to Milan £15,488,011

18. 1984 Diego Maradona(Argentina) Barcelona to Napoli £14,748,314

19. 1982 Diego Maradona(Argentina) Boca Juniors to Barcelona £9,716,083

20. 1976 Paolo Rossi(Italy) Juventus to Vicenza £11,559,097

21. 1975 Giuseppe Savoldi(Italy) Bologna to Napoli £9,237,684

22. 1973 Johan Cruyff(Netherlands) Ajax to Barcelona £10,232,704

23. 1968 Pietro Anastasi(Italy) Varese to Juventus £7,957,866

24. 1967 Harald Nielsen(Denmark) Bologna to Internazionale £4,997,098

25. 1963 Angelo Sormani(Italy) Mantova to Roma £4,804,222

26. 1961 Luis Suárez(Spain) Barcelona to Internazionale £3,105,049

27. 1957 Enrique Omar Sivori(Argentina/Italy) River Plate to Juventus 32,057,699

28. 1954 Juan Schiaffino(Uruguay/Italy) Penarol to Milan £1,809.071

29. 1952 Hans Jeppson(Sweden) Atalanta to Napoli £1,373,110

30. 1951 Jackie Sewell(England/Zambia) Notts County to Sheffield Wednesday £994,474

31. 1950 Trevor Ford(Wales) Aston Villa to Sunderland £943,332

32. 1949 Johnny Morris(England) Manchester United to Derby County £778,165

33. 1949 Eddie Quigley(England) Sheffield Wednesday to Preston North End £859,224

34. 1932 Bernabe Ferreryra(Argentina) Tigre to River Plate £1,465,238

35. 1928 David Jack(England) Bolton Wanderers to Arsenal £602,148

36. 1925 Bob Kelly(England) Burnley to Sunderland £340,224

37. 1922 Syd Puddlefoot(England) West Ham United to Falkirk £250,564

38. 1922 Warney Cresswell(England) South Shields to Sunderland £275,621

39. 1920 David Jack(England) Plymouth Argyle to Bolton Wanderers £129,019

40. 1914 Perry Dawson(England) Heart of Midlothian to Blackburn Rovers £220,182

Slovenia's football it is not the best but they do have something to be proud of. Since 1991 Slovenia was separated from former Yugoslavia and started to compete in sports under their own flag. Mans national team at world ranking is only 63rd, ladies a bit higher 51st.
National team of mans competed:
2x World Cup (2002,2010 both end up at group stage}
1x Euro Cup (2000 finnished at group stage)
One of the famous football players is:
Jan Oblak/Goalkeeper (Atletico Madrid/Spain)
Samir Handanovic/Goalkeeper (Inter Milan/Italy)
Kevin Kampl/Midfielder (RP Leipzig/Germany)
Famous Slovenian football club is "NK Maribor" 8x Slovenian Champioship winner, 3x runner up, 9x Slovenian Cup winner
3x Qualified to Champions League Group Stage 1999/2000, 2014/2015, 2017/2018 but that is where they use to finnish at group stage.

From now on planning to introduce European countries with their famous sports, sport legends and sportsman 0f the recent year. First country randomly picked would be Slovenia🙂🇸🇮🇸🇮🇸🇮🇸🇮

Wayne Rooney, Gareth Bale and Kevin Davies are the only players to score, assist and score an own goal in a single Premier League game.🤔😆

Arthur Wharton is considered the first black professional footballer in the world🤔

The first game of Basketball was played with a football ball.🤔🤔🤔

Stanislaw Kowalski from Poland was born in 1910. He began running at the spry age of 92, and in 2014 he set the record for being the oldest person in Europe to run a 100m race, finishing in 32.79 seconds at 104 years old. Over a century old and he’s still running races.😲😲

In the 1908 London Olympics, teams from UK police forces won all the medals in the tug-of-war event.🥇🥈🥉

The top three most expensive Olympic sports in terms of training cost are shooting, sailing, and equestrian.🤔🤔

In 2002, Germany's Oliver Kahn became the first goalkeeper to win the Most Valuable Player of the World Cup.One of the legends we shall never forget🤩🤩🙂🙂

Martina Hingis from Switzerland
Born: Sept. 30, 1980
Tennis player in March 1997 at 16 years, 6 months, she became the youngest No. 1 ranked player since the ranking system began in 1975; has won Wimbledon (1997), U.S. Open (1997) and 3 Australian Opens (1997,98,99); first woman to surpass the $3 million mark in earnings for one season (1997).🙂

Octopush
This underwater hockey game was first played in South Africa in the 1960s. The players wear skin-diving equipment, such as masks, flippers, and snorkels, in a swimming pool. With miniature hockey sticks and an ice hockey puck, the players follow all the rules of ice hockey—on the floor of the pool.😆😆🙂

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Russia holds one of the most bizarre sport competition. It calls Face slapping, the rules are simple: whoever doesn't pass out first wins. In the picture below shown is 370-pound slapping champion, Vasiliy Kamotskiy, whose nickname means “Dumpling.” I don't know if i would like to get slap from that "Beast"🤔🤔😅

Rocky Marciano was an American professional boxer who competed from 1947 to 1955 is the only Heavyweight champion to have retired undefeated as champion😲😲
Total fights 49
Wins 49
Wins by KO 43
Losses 0

The six colors – blue, yellow, black, green, red, and the white background – were chosen because every nation’s flag contains at least one of them.🤔🤔🤔Have a look to your Nation flag and tell me if it is wrong👏😆

The 2012 London Games were the first Olympics in which all participating countries sent female athletes.👏👏🙂

You would think probably that the most participated sport on earth is Football but it is not, it is a Fishing.🤔🤔

At the 1920 Summer Olympics Was Included Ice Hockey which it was only one and last till it been moved to Winter Olympic games😁😁😆 Winner was Canada, Second USA and Third place went to Chechoslovakia🤔

In his time, seven-time world champion Michael Schumacher was the highest paid sportsman in the world. Schumacher earned over $650 million in his career as a F1 driver for Team Scuderia Ferrari.

Hungarian Ferenc Szisz won the first Formula One Grand Prix, in a Renault, held at Le Mans, France in 1906. The race was 1,260 km (780 miles) long😮🤔

William George Morgan of Holyoke, Massachusetts invented volleyball in 1895 originally called "Mintonette", a name derived from the game of badminton which he later agreed to change to better reflect the nature of the sport.

Golf the only sport to have ever been played on the moon – Alan Shepard hit a golf ball on 6 February 1971.🤔⛳️⛳️

Guys do you know that first-time money had changed hands between football clubs for a professional player on 1893 Jack Southworth was transferred from Blackburn Rovers to Everton for £400🤔🤔