Spain challenged to friendly by the 'world's worst football team'
Wednesday, June 12, 2013 @ 9:43 AM
THE 'worst football team in the world' has challenged the Spanish side to a friendly when they arrive in Brazil for the Confederations Cup.
Ibis Sport Clube, founded in 1938 when it was made up of cotton-trade workers from an inland community near Recife, in the state of Pernambuco on the north coast – between Salvador de Bahia and Fortaleza - is in fact in the Guinness Book of Records for being the most terrible team on the planet.
The second-division side has never played in a national championship match in its entire history, and it won its dubious honour 30 years ago after having gone three years and 11 months without winning a single game.
Now, Ibis has thrown down the gauntlet to what is arguably the best team in the world – 'the Reds', having won two consecutive Euro Cups and the World Cup in between these, unbeaten in the international field since 2008.
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