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What Football Shirt Numbers Mean: 1 to 11 Explained
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What Football Shirt Numbers Mean: 1 to 11 Explained

  The Short Version The striker wears 9, the playmaker wears 10, the goalkeeper wears 1, and none of it is an accident. Football shirt numbers began as a simple map of the pitch in 1928, and eve...