The Premier League did not exist yet – the league was created in 1992.
Stephen Gerrad was 10, he was admitted to the Liverpool Academy.
Of the current championship, only four players were born: Lovren was 10 months old, Lallane was almost two years old, Adrian was three, Milner was four, Lonergan was six. Veynaldum was born a couple of months after the championship, Henderson – six months later.
8 heroes who made Liverpool a champion
Without them, it is impossible to imagine a team on top!
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Klopp turned 23 in the summer: he studied at the University. Goethe in Frankfurt (graduated in 1995), and in the summer it was signed by Mainz 05. There he spent 11 years as a player, and then seven more – as a coach.
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“At the training camp, I forbade the players to train. My assistant thought I was an idiot. ”
Jürgen Klopp taught his players how to survive. And he taught something more.
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The first McDonald’s was opened in Moscow
On January 31, the first fast food restaurant in the USSR was opened on Pushkin Square. They began to take turns at dawn – already then, according to the calculations of journalists, over 5 thousand people had gathered in anticipation of the work of McDonald’s. In total, about 30 thousand Muscovites and guests of the capital came for burgers in a day, which became a world record for the opening day of the restaurant.
By the way, then a hamburger cost 1.5 rubles, and a big mac 3.75, which was quite expensive: a monthly public transport ticket cost a three-ruble note.
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Fired Nelson Mandela
In 1962, he was sentenced to life imprisonment for political activity in the African National Progress Party (its main task was to unite all Africans into a single people to fight for their rights and freedoms – to give blacks the right to vote and put an end to the apartheid system), which the country’s leaders considered terrorist. The new president of South Africa Frederick de Claire in 1990 lifted the ban on the activities of the ANC, and after 27 years 6 months and 6 days, Mandela was released. He was greeted by a huge crowd of people to whom he addressed: “My goal is to abolish all the laws of apartheid and hold free elections on the principle of“ one person – one vote ”.
In the next parliamentary election, blacks received 63% of the mandate, and Mandela became the first black president of South Africa.
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Died Lev Yashin
The legendary goalkeeper died on March 20, 1990 at the age of 60 – in the last years of his life he suffered from stomach cancer. His death was a blow not only for Soviet football, but also for the world, because “it belonged to people of the whole Earth”, as the weekly Soccer wrote.
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“It will be impossible to forget Lev Ivanovich, time has no power over him. This courageous man with a big and generous heart will always remain an example for many generations, no matter how later life changes. ”
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Alex Ferguson won the first trophy with Manchester United – FA Cup. In the championship, Manchester was 13th
The season 1989/90 at Manchester United did not work out completely: by the end of 1989 the club had slid to the relegation zone. Both fans and journalists called for Ferguson’s resignation, but the club’s board of directors assured the specialist that no one was going to fire him, despite the disappointing results. Sir Alex in his biography described this period as the darkest of all time working in football.
They say that if it were not for the victory in the FA Cup (Manchester United defeated Crystal Palace), Ferguson would still be fired.
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Windows 3.0 released
May 22, Windows introduced a new generation of operating systems, which allowed it to compete on equal terms with the Macintosh. In 3.0, a window system, a control panel, and a game package appeared – Solitaire-Kerchief, Solitaire free cell, and Minesweeper. Have you found such?
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World Champion – Germany
The final of Germany is Argentina: in the 65th minute, Monson Pedro is removed, on the 85th the Germans make a penalty, on the 87th the Argentines remove another player – Desotti Gustavo, and Diego Maradona gets yellow for swearing.
The Argentines failed to score in the minority for the remaining time (3 minutes of the main and 3 added) – Germany became the three-time world champion.
Many years later, Lottar Matteus admitted that the penalty, which the judge put in the goal of Argentina, was a mistake.
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Viktor Tsoi died
The idol of the Soviet youth of the “perestroika” generation died on August 15, 1990 in a car accident in Latvia.
On the morning of this day, he went fishing on the lake, but on the way back he lost control: his dark blue Moskvich-2141 collided with Ikarus at a bend. The bus driver tried to avoid a collision, but it was too late: he was carried away into the river, and Tsoi’s car was thrown back 22 meters. When eyewitnesses arrived at the scene, the singer was already dead.
The incident on the same day was announced on the radio – Tsoi’s parents listened to the news release, from which they learned about the death of their son. The scale of the tragedy for his family and fans of his music was incredible: on the day of the funeral, about 30 thousand people visited the grave of the singer.
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Unification of Germany
In November 1989, the Berlin Wall collapsed, and a year later, on October 3, 1990, German unity was restored: the German Democratic Republic and West Berlin became part of the Federal Republic of Germany. All state institutions of the German Democratic Republic were liquidated, the fleet and army disbanded.
The country gained full sovereignty on March 15, 1991 – on the day the Final Settlement Treaty came into force with respect to Germany, also known as the “2 + 4 Agreement”. It was concluded in Moscow on September 12, 1990 between the parties of the FRG and the GDR and the four victorious powers in World War II.
The collapse of the USSR
In 1990, the Union republics began one after another to secede from the USSR: first the Lithuanian SSR, then the Latvian, Estonian and Armenian. Everyone declared sovereignty in different months.
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The sad pages of our story.
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Mikhail Gorbachev received the Nobel Peace Prize
On October 15, the USSR president received the Nobel Peace Prize for his contribution to relations between the Soviet Union and Western countries. The statement of the Nobel Committee said that Gorbachev played “a leading role in the peace process, which opens up new opportunities for the world community to solve problems.”
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Caught Chikatilo
An exemplary family man and caring grandfather for 12 years committed murders involving violence, cannibalism and necrophilia. He twice came into the attention of the investigation, but both times he was released – the blood and sperm tests did not coincide. It is not known how accurately Chikatilo killed during this time: the investigation charged him with 53 murders, but there are reports of 65 victims.
The maniac was detained on November 20, 1990: at that time he had been followed for several days, and after he tried to get acquainted with a minor boy, three law enforcement officers arrested him. Chikatilo was silent for 10 days, but after a lengthy conversation with a psychiatrist he began to confess to his deed.
For the murder of 21 boys, 14 girls and 18 girls, a 56-year-old maniac was sentenced to death and shot in 1994.
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The first part of Home Alone was released, the second – Die Hard, the third – Back to the Future and The Godfather
Great movies.
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The Golden Ball received Lothar Matteus
The German scored 137 votes, breaking away from Salvatore Skillaci by 53 points. Matteus became the fourth German footballer and the first Inter player to receive this award.
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Eurocups – without England
English clubs were suspended from European competition in 1985 for five years, Liverpool – for six. Such a harsh punishment followed a fight at the Champions Cup final match, which was committed by fans of the Liverpool club: they rushed to the sector with the Italians, one of the walls to which the frightened people left was unable to stand and collapsed – 39 people died, another 600 were seriously injured.
In 1990, becoming the champion of England, Liverpool did not gain access to the Champions Cup, since his disqualification has not yet expired.
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