Last update 1 April, 2023 by Alberto Llopis
The deed of Leicester City in the Premier 2015/16 at the time it went down in the history of modern football as the greatest machada that is remembered in today's times. However, football before and not long ago, has other great deeds of teams snuck when nobody expected and got a big surprise. we tell you some of the great machadas in the history of football.
What have been the great feats in the history of football?
Uruguay, in Maracana 1950. El Mundial de Brasil 1950 It was fated to end with victory in Brazil. It was the strongest team, He had come first to the last game against Uruguay (there was no end) and only needed a draw in the Maracana that could hold 200.000 souls. He breaks everything was going nice with 1-0 in favor of white, it was like then wore the canarinha. At the end of the game, nothing seemed to the middle part. The party was over 1-2, Maracana cried inconsolably and Uruguay was world champion for the second time.
Germany, Mundial de Suiza de 1954. Hungary was an invincible team, He took more than four years without losing, more of 50 encuentros sin conocer la derrota. There were thrashed twice to England, Germany had gotten her a 8-3 in the group phase. not win, but she Is coiling and had the great opportunity to win the World Cup with the German team. 2-0 in the first minutes. It was a formality, until I was raining…and there was the great miracle of football…Hungary had lost in the Miracle of Bern.
Cagliari 1969/70: won the Serie A of that year with a phenomenal Gigi Riva as a star and top scorer. The Italian side, Today it would be unthinkable to see him win the Serie A but in the early 70 He managed to be crowned with the title.
Lazio 1973/74: the Italian box was full-fledged machada. And not because Lazio is not a historic but because that “Lazio of pistols“, killing was carried off the field. There were two bands and made life impossible. Yet they won the Scudetto that year despite wanting to kill each other. If you want to know the story of pistols, threats and soccer 70.
Nottingham Forest 1977/78: They did not one but three incredible deeds. They climbed to the second category in the 76/77, en la 77/78 They won the English league, en la 78/79 the European Cup and the 79/80 They regained the orejona going well in history. All this great hand Brian Clough.
Real society 1980/81: Real Sociedad slipped in the history of Spanish football winning the league 1980/81. Those afternoons mud, rain and struggle Atocha, they saw the best team in club history. A team that was to repeat the feat a year later.
Hellas Verona 1984/85: in the mid 80 the turn of the surprise was for Hellas Verona won the title in Italy and pointing his name in the tournament's history.
Dinamarca (Euro Cup 1992): the Danes had not even qualified for the Euro of that year but the war in the Balkans led to the square left a decomposed Yugoslavia, the occupying Danes. They were on the beach and had to go play who won a European Championship as we tell.
Blackburn Rovers 1994/95: the forerunner of Leicester and perhaps the last surprise of English football until the arrival of Ranieri box. Led by Alan Shearer, the boys of Blackburn Rovers They were made in the mid 90 with the title of the Premier.
Auxerre 1995/96: France also had its surprise and it came from the hand of Auxerre won the French Open in the mid-90s.
Kaiserlautern 1997/98: machada arrived in Germany in the late 90 when Kaiserlautern of a Michael Ballack rose title Bundesliga.
Deportivo de la Coruña 1999/2000: the last guest to the party of Spanish football. Since then only Valencia (2 times) and Atletico Madrid have managed to cough up the Madrid-Barca hegemony that have been taking turns as champions throughout the XXI century. Irureta avenged the set of the legendary Superdepor getting what he brushed his hand on 1994 y 1995, the league title.
Greece (Euro Cup 2004): the Greeks in 2004 It was also traca. He reached the Euro in Portugal without making much noise and without many expectations and party to party, Euro managed to win by a similar Danish machada in 1992.
Montpellier 2011/12: Oddly enough and a PSG who was beginning to be a millionaire team, the Montepllier managed to win the French tournament 2012.
Leicester City 2015/16: let's say it is not known. The machada of modern football, Premier League most expensive in history, one of the most modest pictures of the tournament managed to grab the title against all odds and against everyone.