| 9/11/2021 | Ricardinho announces his retirement from the Portugal national futsal team. The Magician, known as “O Mágico”, 18 years after making his international debut, after 135 goals and 161 caps lifted the adidas Golden Ball as Portugal conquered the FIFA Futsal World Cup for the first time. He has also won the European Championship in 2018 and the Futsal Mundialito 2007. |
| 9/11/2019 | Apostolos Charitonidis wins the gold medal in shot put F37 with 15.43m. during the World Parathletic Championships held in Dubai, breaking the national record he had recorded on 30/8/2019 in Paris. Also, Michalis Seitis wins the silver medal in the 200m. T64 with 22.23, breaking the national record he had recorded on 11/6/2016 in Italy (22.45). The third medal, a bronze one, was won by Stratos Nikolaidis in shot put F20. Stratos broke the national record of 16.17 held by Dimitris Senikidis since 2016 in Brazil with 16.61. |
| 9/11/2014 | Kenyan marathon runner Felix Kandie wins the 32nd Classical Marathon Race, which had a record number of more than 35,000 participants, covering 42 kilometers, from Marathon to the Panathinaic Stadium, in 2:10:36, setting a new record time beating the record time of 2.10.55 of the Italian marathon olympic gold medal runner Stefano Baldini, in 2004. Greek runner Christoforos Merousis, was the first Greek to pass the finish line after 2.25.15. Naomi Maiyo from Kenya is the first woman to finish in 2.41.06, while Sofia Riga is the first Greek woman to finish in 2.45.38, for the second time in her career (2011). |
| 9/11/2004 | Former England and Liverpool captain Emlyn Hughes dies from a brain tumour at the age of 57. Nicknamed “Crazy Horse” Hughes earned 62 caps for the national team and helped Liverpool to four league titles, two European Cups, an FA Cup victory and two Uefa Cup titles |
| 9/11/1997 | Argentinian football coach Helenio Herrera dies in Venice aged 81. He introduced the ''catenazio'' in the 70s |
| 9/11/1996 | Evander Hollyfield wins the heavyweight title after knocking out Mike Tyson in round 11 in Las Vegas |
| 9/11/1990 | Vassilis Hatzipanagis announces the end of his football career at the age of 36 years. Born in Tashkent, he made his debut with Iraklis Salonica in a match against Atromitos in Veria on 7/12/1975. In his 15-year career he made 281 appearances and scored 61 goals, winning the Greek Cup in 1976. |
| 9/11/1988 | Laffit Pincay Jr becomes the second jockey in history to complete 7.000 wins |
| 9/11/1985 | Gary Kasparov becomes the youngest (22 years and 210 days old) world chess champion after defeating Anatoly Karpov in Moscow |
| 9/11/1982 | 30-year-old Sugar Ray Leonard announces his retirement after an eye surgery. He fights his last boxing match in 1984 before becoming an NBC commentator |
| 9/11/1968 | Arsenal celebrate their 50 years in England's First Division, a record in english football history. Their first match was against Newcastle (0-1) at Highbury in 1919 |
