March 1st and the 2nd.

On  the 1st of March 1921, Jules Rimet became FIFA's third president and he remains their longest-serving president, being in the office for 33 years. A French attorney, Rimet was involved in FIFA's founding in 1904, but the presidency first went to his countryman, Robert Guérin. Guérin served for only two years and was succeeded by Englishman Daniel Woolfall. Rimet, meanwhile became the president of the French Football Federation in 1919 and remained in that position when he took over from Woolfall two years later, holding the two positions jointly for over twenty years.

When he ascended to the FIFA presidency, the organization had only 12 members, which he raised to 85 before the end of his term. But one of his most significant contributions was the establishment of the World Cup, which he proposed in 1928 and was first played in 1930. The World Cup trophy was renamed in his honor in 1946.
Rimet resigned as the FFF president in 1942, but remained FIFA president until 1954. His 33-year tenure remains the longest in FIFA history, with João Havelange's 24-year term a distant second.

In 1956, two years after his retirement, Rimet passed away, just two days after his 83rd birthday.

On March 2nd 1888, William McGregor, a director at Aston Villa FC, wrote to the chairmen of Blackburn, Bolton, Preston and West Bromwich Albion saying; "Every year it is becoming more and more difficult for football clubs of any standing to meet their friendly engagements and to arrange friendly matches. I suggest the following action to have the ten or twelve prominent clubs in England (note all in the North and Midlands) to combine to arrange home and away fixtures each season.This combination might be called the Association Football Union. He suggested a friendly conference on Friday 23rd March 1888 , to meet at Anderton's Hotel, London. (ironic that no southern clubs were named in ther suggestion!) The meeting went ahead with Accrington, Burnley, Derby, Everton, Notts County, Stoke and Wolverhampton Wanderers also in attendance. It was decided to call the new venture the Football League, hoping that some Scottish clubs might join in. On April 17th the league was formed and McGregor's Villa racked up 5 league titles before the turn of the century.

On 2nd March 1998, 2-time winners Brazil started their third South American Women's Championship in style with a record 15-0 win over Peru.

The team had won both of the previous tournaments as hosts, in 1991 and 1995. During the latter, they set their record win, beating Bolivia 15-0 in the group stage, and were looking to repeat that success when Argentina hosted it in 1998. And repeat it they did, matching the record with a win over Peru in the opening match of their 1998 campaign.
They followed it with impressively lopsided victories over Colombia (12-1), Venezuela (14-0), and Chile (7-0) to close out the group stage with a staggering goal differential of +47.
In the knockout rounds, the margins narrowed slightly, with an 11-1 win over Ecuador in the semi-finals and a 7-1 win over hosts Argentina in the final that delivered their third consecutive trophy in the competition.

2nd March 2013

On this day in March 2013, Southampton

met Queens Park Rangers

in a Premier League match at St Mary’s. Amazingly both managers - Mauricio Pochettino of Southampton and Harry Redknapp of QPR – celebrated their birthdays that day. Result 1-2!