Golaço Stories

       Did you know Colo-Colo is the first ever professional soccer club to play an official match on Easter Island? In 2009, following a shocking draw against Rapa Nui in the Chilean Cup the countries largest club would have to make the 6 hour plane trip to Easter Island. The occasion was full of festivities to showcase the culture of the small island in the days before the match.Rapa Nui haphazardly put together a team full of amateurs to face Chile’s most powerful club. Wildly enough 3,000 fans flocked to see this historic occasion. An estimated 500 Colo-Colo...

       March 29th 1986 marked the day Maradona played for the first and only time against his club Napoli. The Argentinian National Team scheduled a friendly match in Naples in preparation for the World Cup in Mexico, just 3 months away. We all know Argentina would end up lifting the trophy, and Maradona would have a historic performance, but at the time of this friendly the Seleccion was highly criticized by the Argentinian press, who wanted the coach Bilardo sacked before the tournament. 40 thousand Napoli fans witnessed a 2-1 win for the Albiceleste. Diego Maradona had an...

       Now a days it's tough to find a statistic that doesn't favor Bayern Munich, especially in their domestic league. However, by 1983 the Bavarian club had gone 8 years winless in their away matches against Kaiserslautern. This 6 loss and 2 draw record included a devastating 5-0 and a heartbreaking 7-4 after being up 1-4.In the 1982/83 season, after yet another defeat, team captain Paul Breitner said they "might as well just send the points there" rather than traveling for the match. Nonetheless, in the following season coach Udo Lattek had something different in mind. He would...

       We live in a time where soccer clubs come out with an unnecessary amount of kits, in the 2021/22 season Napoli alone came out with 13 different jerseys, and that doesn't even include goalkeeper or training/warm-up kits.In complete contrast of this trend we have São Cristovão, a tiny team from Rio de Janeiro that, besides having Ronaldo play in their youth academy, is famous for being the only team in the world with only 1 uniform, all white.The tradition began out of lack of necessity, by coincidence none of São Cristovão's early opponents wore white, so there was...

       2023 marks the 100th year anniversary of the "Camisas Negras" (Black Shirts), the most important Vasco da Gama squad of all time. Vasco had been promoted for the first time to the Rio de Janeiro State Championship first division in 1923, and was crowned champion that same year.What was notable about that team was that it was composed predominantly of black and working-class citizens, who split their time between being athletes and construction workers. This bothered the city's elites who controlled the federation as well as many of Vasco's rival clubs, to the point where Vasco was...