Every now and then, the impossible is almost outrageously achieved in football. Whether it is an astonishing achievement such as Lionel Messi’s incoming eighth Ballon d’Or, or Chelsea conceding just 15 goals in an entire Premier League campaign.
As the saying goes on, records are meant to be broken but there are some records that are unlikely to be broken and would require some heroic efforts to break.
Football has a unique ability to shock, amaze, and amuse in equal measure, but these records are so astonishing and shocking, they might never ever be broken.
Most red cards in a match
When we think of red cards, images of Roy Keane shattering Alfe-Ing Haaland’s knee and Sergio Ramos flying through opposing players comes to mind.
However, in the deepest darkest, and most passionate footballing depths off Greater Buenos Aires, Argentina, a battle of the ages took place between Victoriano Arenas and Claypole in 2011.
An astounding 36 red cards were handed out after an all-out brawl took place. All 22 players on the pitch and 14 substitutes were given their marching orders – no match has ever come close to the number of red cards shown in this tumultuous affair.
Most goals scored by a goalkeeper – Rogerio Ceni
The goalkeeper’s primary job is to save goals not score, but with Brazilian goalkeeper, Rogerio Ceni did both. He recorded a total of 128 career goals in his career. Ceni netted a series of penalties and free-kicks into the back of the net. And in a few seasons, he became one of the leading strikers in his team. This record is very unlikely to be broken.
Most World Cup final appearances – Cafu
Twenty-one different players have won more than one World Cup, from Bellimi to Zozimo – two of the 16 Brazilians to do so, alongside Italy quartet Giovanni Ferrari, Guido Masetti, Giuseppe Meazza, Eraldo Monzeglio and Argentina legend Daniel Passarella.
Pele stands alone with three trophy wins, with his success in 1958 and 1970 supplemented by Brazilian glory in 1962, when the forward missed the Selecao’s last four games through injury.
He is one of the five players to feature in three World Cup-winning squads, a feat matched by Lothar Matthaus, Pierre Littbarski and Ronaldo. But only Cafu has played in three finals, coming on as a substitute and finishing the 1994 penalty shootout victory over Italy, losing to France in 1998 and lifting the famous trophy again against Germany in 2002.
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