Friday, May 17, 2013

  Longest football match: UK players  smash Guinness world record

Trafford, UK -- The marathon football match organized by Nick Rose, a salesman from Stockport based Midshire Business Systems and a group of amateur players from Manchester, at Stretford High School, lasted 72 hours, the equivalent of 48 ordinary games, and finished with a score of 603 to 'the reds' Stockport Albion and 462 to 'the whites' Manchester Rovers; the match sets the new world record for the Longest football match, according to the World Record Academy: www.worldrecordacademy.com/ .

  Photo: The 72 hour football match was kicked off by ex-Manchester United player Paddy Crerand and has been organised by Nick Rose. Nick is trying to raise £25,000 for the charity Francis House. ( enlarge photo )

 The Guinness world record for the longest running football match was set in Holland in a game that lasted 64 hours.

  Guinness World Records also recognized the world record for the most people dribbling a football (soccer ball) simultaneously; it was 2,068, in an event organized by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency Gaza Field Office (Palestinian Entity, West Bank-Gaza) in Rafah, Gaza Strip.

  The world's longest football match lasted 72 hours, the equivalent of 48 ordinary games, and finished with a score of 603 to 'the reds' Stockport Albion and 462 to 'the whites' Manchester Rovers – with blister numbers keeping step with the goal tally.

  Organised by Nick Rose, a salesman from Stockport based Midshire Business Systems, the World's longest football match also raised over £25,000 for local children's hospice Francis House, according to the Meseenger Newspapers.

  This is a personal charity to Nick and his family as his sister, Taylor Rose, has many friends who go and stay at Francis House.

  The 36 players have trained for 4 months with drills and long games with the hope that they can pull this off.

   "I'm absolutely over the moon about this; it's the best thing I've taken part in, in my life," said Nick.

  "The camaraderie was amazing, there was only really one team out there, every player looked out for others on the pitch, no matter which side they were playing for."

   Related world records:
Longest Flag Football Game: Fraternity breaks Guinness world record

Largest 5-a-side football match: Qatar breaks Guinness world record

Largest soccer ball: Qatar breaks Guinness world record

Most football touches with the lips: Daniel Cutting breaks Guinness world record

Most goals scored in official matches during a year: Leo Messi breaks world record

Largest football: Oman breaks Guinness world record

Longest broadcast of a goal: Ilie Dobre breaks world record (VIDEO)

Most people dribbling a soccer ball: America SCORES sets world record (VIDEO)

Longest Paper Football Field Goal: Kelley Parker sets world record (VIDEO)

Largest soccer ball mosaic: BMO and Toronto breaks world record

Youngest Euro Player: Jetro Willems sets world record (VIDEO)

Largest flag flying in a football stadium: Barcelona fans sets world record (Video)

Longest Header Goal: Ryujiro Ueda sets world record (Video)

Longest broadcast of a goal with respiration : Ilie Dobre sets world record (Video)

Longest broadcast of a goal: Ilie Dobre (Video)

Most people dribbling a soccer ball: Soccer dribblers (Video)

Most football shirts worn at one time: Robbie Savage set world record (Video)

Longest five-a-side football match: Little League Sports sets world record (Video)

Largest stadium banner: Penarol fans (Video)

Longest game of futsal: Bethel College (HD Video)

Longest soccer game: Loughborough University players

Largest Vuvuzela: Hyundai South Africa

Largest football sculpture: Telkom

First goalkeeper who saved four consecutive penalties: Helmuth Duckadam (Video)
Largest sounding trumpet: Hyundai South Africa
Longest football throw-in: Danny Brooks
Biggest Soccer Ball: MTN
Largest football sculpture: Telkom
Longest soccer game: Bristol Academy and Leeds Badgers
Oldest Football Coach: Ivor Powell
Oldest international football ground: Wrexham Racecourse
Longest soccer marathon: Joeys Soccer Club
Longest football throw-in: Danny Brooks
Longest 5-a-side football game: Surrey County Council