| 28/11/2022 | 39-year-old centre-back Pepe becomes the third oldest outfield player in World Cup history after he was picked to start for Portugal against Uruguay. Cameroon's Roger Milla remains the oldest outfield player to play in a World Cup at USA 1994 aged 42, while Canada's Atiba Hutchinson, playing in this tournament, is also older than Pepe by a couple of weeks |
| 28/11/2022 | Jose Brasco "Pepe" Cata, coach of the men's national water polo team in 1983-1984 leading the team to the 8th place at the Los Angeles Olympics, dies at the age of 93. In total, he coached 40 games (19 Wins, 6 Draws, 15 Losses). |
| 28/11/2021 | George Kambosos Jr. beats Teofimo Lopez in New York’s Madison Square Garden to become the unified world lightweight champion. Kambosos won 115-111, 113-114, 115-112 on the judges' cards to claim the WBA, WBO, and IBF belts in a Madison Square Garden's that was almost entirely behind home-favorite Lopez. |
| 28/11/2015 | The 2015 IPC Powerlifting European Open Championships conclude in Eger, Hungary. Pavlos Mamalos (107k.) and Dimitris Bakochristos (54k.) won the gold medal at their categories. Mamalos lifted 225 kg in the first attempt and 235 in the second and had two fails at 242.5 pounds, while trying to break the world record in his class. Bakochristos lifted 176 kg in his second attempt, while in the third attempt he tried to break his own European record (Almaty 181k.), but was not able to lift 182 pounds. Paschalis Kouloumoglou (59k.) won the silver medal with 164 kg (new national record), while Costas Dimou (107K.) with 216kg, Nikos Gkountanis (72k.) with 187kg and Anastasios Baos (97k.) with 186kg (new national record) won bronze medals. |
| 28/11/2013 | Vassilis Spanoulis of Olympiacos, the Turkish Airlines Euroleague MVP, is honored at Peace and Friendship Stadium in Piraeus with the prestigious Giuseppe Sciacca International Award for Sport. This ìnternational prize recognizes people between 18 and 35 years old who, in their lives or in their fields of activity, have distinguished themselves as commendable role models in society and provide an example for future generations. Before Olympiacos played Galatasaray, Spanoulis is presented his award by the internationally acclaimed Greek film director Giannis Smaragdis and by Vicky Bafataki, General Secretary of the awards, in the presence of the president of the International Giuseppe Sciacca Awards, Bruno Lima, and the representative of the presidency's youth section, Fabrizio Marsili. |
| 28/11/2005 | 52 sport journalists of the French magazine “France Football”, on its 50-year anniversary, choose Ronaldinho of Barcelona to receive the ''Ballon d' Or'' award with 225 votes. Ronaldinho becomes the third Brazilian to win this award, following Ronaldo (1997, 2002) and Rivaldo (1999) |
| 28/11/1999 | Jose Luis Chilavert becomes the only goalkeeper in football history to score a hat-trick (penalty kicks) as Velez Sharsfield beat Ferrocarril Oeste. In his career so far he has scored 46 goals (35 penalty kicks, 11 foul kicks) |
| 28/11/1999 | The World Weightlifting Championships close at Peace and Friendship Stadium in Peiraeus. Greece ranks first with 580 points (4 gold, 10 silver, 5 bronze). Bulgaria ranks second with 462 points (3 gold, 6 bronze) and China third with 435 points (3 gold) |
| 28/11/1992 | Brazil beat USA 4-1 at the Calcetto World Cup in Hong Kong |
| 28/11/1989 | Romanian gymnast Nadia Comaneci flees to New York |
| 28/11/1965 | Giannis Ioannidis makes his debut with the national basketball team in a friendly match against Romania in Bukurest (77-95) |
| 28/11/1964 | Scottish professional footballer Tommy Ross scores three goals within a 90-second period against Nairn County, recording the fastest hat-trick in football history. His record will not recognised until April 2004, with the official record being held by Jimmy O'Connor of Dublin side Shelbourne, for his 2m 14s treble against Bohemians on 19 November 1967 the fastest hat-trick. |
| 28/11/1948 | Greece looses to Turkey with 2-1 in Istanbul. The greek filiated Lefter Kucukandonyadis plays with the Turkish team, while goalkeeper Nikos Pentzaropoulos makes his debut with Greece replacing Mihalis Delavinias (46’). In his career, he will play 11 games with the national team and will later sign with Inter. The game is a replay match of that played in Athens on 23/4/1948, where Turkey had won with 3-1. These two matches are the first post-war football games of the greek team |
| 28/11/1939 | James Naismith, the inventor of basketball dies aged 78, three years after the recognition of basketball as olympic sport. Naismith's coaching career in Kansas was not very successful (55-60 in 9 seasons) |
| 28/11/1937 | 33-year-old Ernst Henne sets a land speed record with 279.5 km/h on a fully faired 500cc supercharged BMW motorcycle. The record is the last of 76 land speed world records and it will stand for 14 years. |
| 28/11/1912 | Eight years after the first attempt of 21/12/1904, the representatives of 10 states (Belgium, Denmark, France, Great Britain, Italy, Netherlands, USA, Germany, Austria and Switzerland) re-establish in London the International Motorcycling Federation |
| 28/11/1906 | First kick-off in Croatia, at Zagreb's square, between two local teams. Croatian Football Federation will be founded in 1912 and will be officially recognised by FIFA in 1922 |
| 28/11/1520 | Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan reaches the Pacific Ocean through the Cape of Good Hope |
