- Scouse Bobby, an emperor and CR7
- Goals galore on the Golden Slope
- A queen ant going strong in its 40s
85 years had passed since Athletic Bilbao became the last team to win four straight Copa del Rey crowns until Barcelona repeated the feat. A Barça forward also emulated a Bilbao legend in the 5-0 thrashing of Sevilla on Saturday, with Lionel Messi becoming the first player to score in five Copa del Rey finals since Telmo Zarra 68 years earlier.
59 years had passed since an Inter Milan player cleared the 25-goal barrier in a Serie A season – and despite the Capocannoniere having gone to a Nerazzurri player seven times – until Mauro Icardi repeated the feat. Another Argentinian, Antonio Angelillo, one of the ‘Angels With Dirty Faces’, hit 33 goals in black and blue stripes in 1958/59.
31 goals for (4.43 per game) and merely two against: those were the stunning statistics Brazil recorded in winning their seventh Copa America Feminina in eight attempts. In their campaign, serial record-setter Formiga , at 40 years and 35 days, became the oldest markswoman in international history, outranking Italy’s Patrizia Panico (39 years and 263 days).
22 passes is what Seattle Sounders put together in the lead up to Gustav Svensson’s bullet against Minnesota United – just two shy of what Argentina managed in the run-up to Esteban Cambiasso’s iconic goal against Serbia and Montenegro at Germany 2006.
