#OnThisDay in football, 12 June
1936 - Club 12 de Junio formed 🇵🇾
1945 - Pat Jennings born ☘️
1946 - Bobby Gould born 🏴
1988 - Mauricio Island born 🇨🇱
1988 - Ireland debut at Euros, beating England 1-0 🇮🇪
1992 - Philippe Courinho born 🇧🇷
Spotted @martindacruz.bsky.social’s new book in Foyles today 🇺🇾
Can’t lie, I won’t be paying too much attention to this World Cup, but Uruguay are my second team
Roots-wise, Italy aren’t in it and I am 1/8 Scottish, so I don’t associate that much with them, so Uru it is. Love that place and people
#OnThisDay 10 June 1944 🇵🇹
Portugal’s national stadium at Jamor was opened.
It’s the traditional host of the Portuguese Cup final and still the odd international
#groundhopping
#OnThisDay in football, 10 June
1934 - Italy won its first World Cup, forever to be associated with Mussolini 🏆
1959 - Carlo Ancelotti born 🇮🇹
1984 - England beat Brazil at the Maracanã 🇧🇷🏴
2010 - South Africa hosted the continent's first World Cup, with Shakira performing 'Waka Waka' 🇿🇦
#OnThisDay in football, 11 June
1957 - Hughie Gallacher died 🏴
1958 - England and eventual champions Brazil play out the first goalless draw in World Cup history 🏆
1984 - Vágner Love born 🇧🇷
1999 - Kai Havertz born 🇩🇪
2010 - South Africa kicked off the continent's first World Cup 🇿🇦
#OnThisDay 10 June 1978
Lacking a suitable away kit v Hungary at the Argentina '78 World Cup, France borrowed local side Kimberley's green-and-white stripes.
France won 3-1, and one of those shirts is now in the FIFA Museum in Zurich...
Hmm, f@scism on the march and a heavily politicised World Cup about the kick off.
If only someone had written a book about this… 🤔
#booksky