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unusual facts about exhibition match



Chris Mavinga

He made his youth international debut on 25 March 2009 in the under-18 team's friendly match against Germany in Markranstädt.

Estádio Palestra Itália

The last match played by Palmeiras on Palestra Italia was a friendly against Boca Juniors on July 9, 2010.

Fred Beell

Beell first became a professional wrestler in the late 1890s, during a time when professional wrestlers would fight numerous exhibition matches each month, keeping them on the road constantly.

Gemma Fay

Fay moved on to 141 appearances in May 2012, equalling the record held by Pauline Hamill, after playing in a 3–1 friendly win over Poland in Gdańsk.

Hamish McIntosh

Hamish's big break came in an exhibition match at UCLA in Los Angeles, California.

Krisztián Németh

On 30 July Nemeth was a second-half substitute in Liverpool's pre-season friendly against Villarreal where he almost gave Liverpool the lead but the shot went just over the crossbar.

Stadio Ennio Tardini

On 29 May 2012, the Tardini was set to host its third senior international friendly, pitting the Italians against Luxembourg, but the fixture was abandoned following a fatal 5.8-magnitude earthquake 36 miles east of Parma.


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Alastair Clarkson

Clarkson was 19 and at the end of his first season with North Melbourne when the Kangaroos met Carlton in October, 1987 in the notorious Battle Of Britain an exhibition match at The Oval in London .

Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle, Jr.

When he was ten years old, the younger Biddle was in an exhibition match with Bob Fitzsimmons, who of course knocked him into a wall with a punch traveling about two inches.

Basin Reserve

Before sailing on the 1921–22 Kangaroo tour of Great Britain, the Australian rugby league team stopped in Wellington for an exhibition match at the Basin Reserve.

Clash of Times

The Clash of Times was a tennis exhibition match between Roger Federer and Pete Sampras which took place on 22 November 2007 at Stadium Malawati, Shah Alam, in Kuala Lumpur as part of Malaysia's 50th anniversary of independence (it was a part of Inaugural Merdeka Tennis Challenge).

Cliff Lyons

Lyons also played in the 1987 game IV - that year's exhibition match in Los Angeles.

Dan Sandifer

He once played in a tennis exhibition match in Houston, Texas with future president, George H. W. Bush and professionals Tony Roche and John Newcombe.

Delorimier Stadium

Celtic played an exhibition match at Delorimier Stadium on May 20th against Fulham.

Enrique Bertolino

In 1937, he won an exhibition match against Byron Nelson in Buenos Aires, and in 1939, along with Juan Martinez, won an exhibition match in Scotland against Jimmy Adams and Jim McLean 3-0, one foursomes match and two individual matches.

Girls S-Cup

It was competed in the 51 kg weight class, also featuring a 54 kg opening match, one exhibition match between Nanae Takahashi and Fuka Kakimoto, and a 59 kg match.

Harry Sunderland

Following development work by both Sunderland (on behalf of the Australian Rugby League) and the Rugby Football League based in England, an exhibition match between Great Britain and Australia at Paris' Stade Pershing in December 1933 inspired the beginnings of rugby league in France.

Jacksonville Axemen

Rugby league was widely exposed to Jacksonville residents during the Australia Day Challenge on January 26, 2008, an exhibition match hosted by actor Russell Crowe between the South Sydney Rabbitohs (Australia) and the Leeds Rhinos (England) - the first international Rugby League match held in the United States.

Luffenham Heath Golf Club

The opening event in 1911, witnessed by over a thousand spectators, was an exhibition match between James Braid and Harry Vardon.

Matthew Petersen

In 2004, Petersen played a game for the United States against Australia in an exhibition match in Philadelphia, qualifying for the American side under the parent rule.

Murray Bernthal

The two met in 1974 when Bernthal was booking a tennis exhibition match between Jimmy Connors and Ilie Năstase.

Neil Matterson

On 22 May, at the Ned Hanlan-Elias C. Laycock exhibition match on the Nepean river, he won the All-comers' Light Skiff with 25 lb, defeating four others.

Rex Williams

In December 1966, during an exhibition match in Cape Town, he followed Joe Davis as the second man to make an accredited maximum 147 snooker break.

Scott LeDoux

LeDoux also took part in a five round exhibition match with Muhammad Ali.

Sergio Claudio dos Santos

On September 4, 2011, Serginho played for Milan Glorie (combination of former AC Milan players) in an exhibition match against Indonesia All-Star Legend (combination of former Indonesian football players) at Gelora Bung Karno Stadium where he netted four times in a 5-1 victory.

The Legend of Bagger Vance

The exhibition match was set at the Kiawah Island Golf Resort in South Carolina, United States, considered one of the toughest in the country.