World football has recorded many more historic milestones since Leicester City last won the right to compete in the UEFA Cup in 2000.
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| * The Leicester City - Swansea match takes place at 10:15 p.m. today, April 24. Live on VnExpress. The achievements of Claudio Ranieri's team this season are no different from a fairy tale. "The Foxes" are alone at the top of the Premier League after 34 rounds, with five points more than the second-placed team Tottenham. For the first time in the club's history, Leicester have won the right to participate in the most prestigious tournament in Europe, when competing in the Champions League in the 2016-17 season. Leicester had to wait 16 years to return to the continental arena, since they were eliminated in the first round of the UEFA Cup in the 2000-01 season (losing to Red Star Belgrade with a final result of 2-4). Below are 8 notable things that have happened in world football in the past 16 years. |
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| Asia and Africa hosted the World Cup for the first time. 2002 and 2010 are considered two of the most remarkable years in the history of world football. The Korea-Japan alliance co-hosted the first FIFA World Cup to be held outside Europe and the Americas. At that tournament, Brazil defeated Germany in the final, thereby setting a record of winning the World Cup five times. In 2010, it was South Africa's turn to become the first and so far only African nation to host a World Cup. This tournament saw Spain reach the pinnacle of world football glory for the first time. |
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| Arsenal achieved a seemingly impossible feat in the history of club football. The Gunners, under the leadership of Arsene Wenger, won the Premier League in the 2003-04 season without losing a single match: 26 wins, 12 draws, earning 90 points. |
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| Spain dominates European and world football. The Spanish team won consecutive championships at Euro 2008, Euro 2012 and the 2010 World Cup. After a successful streak of winning three major titles in just four years, Spain were surprisingly eliminated in the first round of the 2014 World Cup in Brazil. However, they are still one of the candidates to win Euro 2016 in France this summer. |
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| Chelsea and Manchester City have become the new powers. Both were once considered the underdogs in England. However, their fortunes have changed for the better since the turn of the millennium. Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich bought Chelsea in 2003, and since the 2004-05 season, trophies have been pouring in at Stamford Bridge. Chelsea have won four Premier League titles, four FA Cups, three League Cups, two Community Shields and a Champions League since 2004-05. Manchester City have also enjoyed success in recent years, after Saudi businessman Sheikh Khaldoon Al Mubarak became the club's new owner in 2008. The Blues have since won two Premier League titles, an FA Cup, two League Cups, a Community Shield, and reached the semi-finals of the Champions League for the first time in their history this season. |
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| The rival superstar pair Lionel Messi - Cristiano Ronaldo appeared. They are two iconic players and have always fiercely competed for the position of the number one star of world football in recent years. The rivalry between them began in 2009, when the Portuguese striker joined Real Madrid from Man Utd for a world record fee at that time. At that time, Lionel Messi had affirmed his name in Barcelona. Playing for two of the world's top clubs, they competed to win the FIFA Golden Ball awards over the years. Messi is still the only player in history to have won the "FIFA Golden Ball" five times, including four consecutive times. Ronaldo also has three "FIFA Golden Balls". |
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| Man Utd surpass Liverpool in the number of English football championship titles. Former manager Alex Ferguson once said that his biggest challenge was not to compete for the championship each season, but to knock Liverpool off the throne of the most titles in English football history (18). And the legend of Old Trafford did it with Man Utd in the 2010-11 season, when he set a record of 19 English football championships. The former Scottish strategist also won the Premier League with the "Red Devils" once more in the 2012-13 season before retiring. |
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| Sepp Blatter's reign at FIFA has collapsed. The 80-year-old Swiss football official was FIFA's eighth president, and the third-longest-serving leader in the organization's history. His terms ran from June 1998 to February 26, 2016. Blatter was re-elected in June 2015, but was forced to resign after a series of corruption, money laundering and financial mismanagement allegations were made against him and several senior FIFA officials. He and several others were banned from football for six years, starting in October 2015. |
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| Zinedine Zidane went from player to coach. The 43-year-old French football legend was appointed to lead Real Madrid since January 2016, after the club suddenly fired Rafa Benitez. From 2001 to 2006, Zidane was still a player, winning a La Liga title and a Champions League Cup with Real. |
According to VNE
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