"Records are intended to be broken," as the saying goes, and it certainly applies to many a football record. The careers of Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi show that in football, nearly no record is secure.
Whether it's Ronaldo's 807 career goals (and counting) or Messi's seven Ballon d'Or, both look formidable and are unlikely to be surpassed anytime soon. For a variety of reasons, certain football records are unique and likely even more difficult to break. Five of these documents will be examined in this article.
1. Richie De Laet’s double title record
Richie De Laet experienced the happiest day of his career on Saturday, May 7, 2016. With Middlesbrough, whom he had joined on loan in the January 2016 transfer window, the Belgian defender won the Championship title.
On the same day, his parent club Leicester City was celebrating their iconic Premier League title a few hundred kilometers away. After a 3-1 victory over Everton, they were presented with the trophy.
De Laet played 12 times with the Foxes before being loaned out. This meant he had met the minimum conditions for receiving an official league winner's medal. According to ESPN, after celebrating with Boro at their stadium, the defender travelled down to Leicester and joined his former club's celebrations.
As a result, he maintains the distinction of being the only player to win both the second and first division titles in the same season. To add insult to injury, he earned both medals on the same day. He is unlikely to be included in the club of players who have accomplished such a feat any time soon.
2. Chelsea’s European Double
Chelsea won the 2012 Champions League in a shock triumph, according to many. In the final, they defeated Bayern Munich 4-3 on penalties.
Their appearance in the following edition of the UCL, however, did not go as planned. After Juventus and Shakhtar Donetsk, the Blues finished third in their group.
As a result, they were relegated to the UEFA Europa League. They had a fantastic run in Europe's second level, eventually facing Benfica in the final.
The Blues defeated Benfica 2-1 in the final on May 15, 2013, after Branislav Ivanovic scored a stoppage-time header.
Chelsea were still the defending Champions League champions at the time, as the Champions League Final was still 10 days away. The Blues became the first and only side to win both the Champions League and the Europa League at the same time. Chelsea has this status for ten days.
It only came to an end when Bayern Munich won the UCL on May 25, 2013, and became Europe's new champions.
This football record may be tough to beat, as it is unheard of for a UCL champion to be relegated to the UEL.
3. Almoez Ali’s global scoring record
Almoez Ali of Qatar may not be a household name, but he possesses a football record that will almost certainly never be surpassed. He is the first and only player in intercontinental history to score in three different national competitions.
Qatar is an AFC member, and he set a new record with nine goals in the 2019 AFC Asian Cup. Qatar was also invited to compete in Argentina for the 2019 Copa America, where Ali was the only Qatari player to score in three group stage games.
Qatar has also been invited to compete in the CONCACAF Gold Cup 2021 as part of a strategic cooperation between CONCACAF and the Asian Football Confederation. Ali scored four goals as the Asian country advanced to the semi-finals.
In Qatar's first group stage game against Panama, he scored a goal that went down in history. It will be extremely difficult to match his football record.
Countries competing in two continental competitions is not uncommon, as Copa America frequently invites visiting teams. Three different continental competitions, on the other hand, appear to be out of reach for any nation in the future. It will be extremely tough for a player to replicate Ali's football record of consistency.
4. Dejan Stankovic’s World Cup football record
The former Inter Milan player has a football record that was only conceivable because of geopolitical turbulence, which is uncommon nowadays.
At the age of 20, he played for the Yugoslavia national football team in the 1998 FIFA World Cup. It was the team's final appearance at a World Cup, and they were knocked out in the Round of 16.
Years after the country's disintegration, the old Yugoslav squad ceased to exist in 2003. Many new teams emerged, including Serbia and Montenegro, and continued on.
Stankovic was the captain of the side that qualified for the 2006 World Cup. During the competition, Serbia and Montenegro were split into two independent countries.
Stankovic got on the plane to South Africa as the captain of the Serbian football team four years later. They were greeted by a group exit from the stage.
Captain Stankovic, on the other hand, etched his mark in history by appearing in three World Cups for three separate teams. He is still the only player to accomplish this feat, and it appears that he will continue to be the only one with this football record for a long time.
5. Demark’s 1992 Euro win
Denmark came in second place in their qualification group, behind Yugoslavia, and appeared to have missed out on making the tournament. However, Yugoslavia was in political instability as a civil war raged across the country, eventually resulting in the country's disintegration.
The Yugoslavian squad was disqualified from the competition, and the Danes were called up to fill in as group runners-up. They were only given ten days to organize a squad and figure out the logistics.
They had a tie and a loss to begin the tournament, and they needed to win their last group game against France. The Danes won an unexpected 2-1 victory. They then pulled off another shock by defeating the Netherlands in a penalty shootout following a 2-2 tie.
In the final, they faced a powerful Germany team. Denmark was able to stay in the game thanks to a series of saves by Peter Schmeichel. The Germans were defeated 2-0 against the Danish team.
Denmark became the first and only team in history to win a major international event without having qualified for it. This is yet another football record that will be hard to beat.
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