10 amazing football facts that will blow your mind

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#2 Fernando Torres is the only player to have scored in 7 different competitions in one season

Beat that haters!

Fernando Torres was the ‘The Prodigy of Atletico Madrid’, ‘The hero of Liverpool’ and later, the ‘The flop of Chelsea’. But in the 2012/13 season, that ‘flop’ set a record that no one else has been able to match.

Torres scored at least one goal in the FA Community Shield, Premier League, UEFA Champions League, FIFA Club World Cup, Capital One Cup, FA Cup and the UEFA Europa League. The only competition in which he played for Chelsea that season and didn’t score was the UEFA Super Cup.

The previous record holder was Torres’ compatriot Pedro, who scored in six different competitions during the 2009/10 season.

It is highly unlikely that the record set by Torres will be broken by another player, as the club needs to achieve a very difficult combination as mentioned below.

The club should win the League or League Cup in the previous season to qualify for the League’s Super Cup.

The club should win the UEFA Champions League in the previous season so as to qualify for the UEFA Super Cup and the FIFA Club World Cup.

The club should be in a league with two different cup competitions (like in England).

The club should exit the Champions League in the group stage by finishing third and then play in the UEFA Europa League.

If the above-mentioned criteria are met, then the player still has to score in seven different competitions, of which two competitions have only one game each for the player to complete the feat in.

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