Scorigami

SCORIGAMI: Italy 11, Egypt 3 is the first 11-3 game in Olympic Soccer (Men) history

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Final · June 9, 1928

For the first time ever, Olympic Soccer (Men) produced a 11-3 final. Italy beat Egypt on June 9, 1928, filling a cell that had stayed empty across 78 games.

Where 11-3 sits among nearby Olympic Soccer (Men) scores. Deeper blue means a score has happened more often; the outlined cell is the new one.

The league's previous scorigami was 2-2, Netherlands over Chile on June 8, 1928, 1 day earlier. This is Olympic Soccer (Men)'s 7th new final score of the 1928 season, and the grid now holds 33.8 percent of every realistic final score.

Its closest neighbors show how tight the score space had become: 12-3 had still never happened and 11-4 had still never happened. It lands on the high-scoring frontier of the grid, the sparse territory that only fills in on the rare night the points pile up.

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