Thứ Tư, 9 tháng 11, 2016
Football or soccer is the most popular sport in the world. Let’s test your knowledge about this sport with our list of interesting facts of football or soccer facts and history.
Football, soccer facts
Fact #1
There are various explanations for the word football. Though, it is widely supposed that this word refers to the action of the “foot” kicking a “ball”.
Fact #2
Football or soccer originated in China around 476 B.C.
Fact #3
The American Professional Football Association was formed in 1920. 2 years later, it changed its name to the National Football League (NFL), which would eventually become the major league of American football.
Fact #4
This sport is the most played as well as the most watched sport on earth.
Fact #5
Super Bowl is the most watched television show event in the U.S.
Fact #6
Today most of the balls are made from layers of synthetic leather while the bladders inside the ball are made from latex or butyl.
Fact #7
149 – 0 is the highest score ever made in a soccer match.
Fact #8
The first soccer game ever televised was a friendly football match between Arsenal’s first and second team in the year of 1937.
Fact #9
After the whistle to start a football match, Lee Todd, a soccer player, said “F*ck me, that was loud” and received the fastest red card in history, 2 seconds.
Fact #10
Qatar’s 2022 World Cup will take more lives than 9/11 because of horrible working conditions for migrant workers when building infrastructure as well as stadiums for this big event.
Fact #11
8 of the 12 host cities for the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil are among the 50 most violent cities in the world.
2014 FIFA World Cup in Brasil
Fact #12
Cristiano Ronaldo, a famous soccer player, even opened a museum dedicated to himself in 2013.
Fact #13
It is hilarious that more than 1 in 20 football injuries are caused by celebrating goals on the pitch.
Fact #14
Football players run as far as 9.5 miles in a single soccer match on average.
Fact #15
FIFA has more member countries than the United Nations.
Fact #16
The original ball for 2014 World Cup was produced in Pakistan.
Fact #17
While the U.S only poured $30 million into infrastructure improvements for the World Cup1994, Brazil spent up to $11 billion for World Cup 2014.
Fact #18
Mario Balotelli, a famous football player is an Italian. He was born to immigrants from Ghana and raised by a Jewish mother.
Fact #19
Mesut Ozil, a famous German soccer player, donated 300,000 Euro of World Cup victorybonus to pay surgeries for 23 children in Brazil. He is so kind, huh?
Mesut Ozil
Fact #20
Soccer fans in Italy are called as Tifosi which means Carriers of Typhus due to the fact that their fanatism is just like a fever.
Fact #21
Soccer matches are played on a grassy field called a pitch. The field is rectangular and must be between 100 and 130 yards long and 50 to 100 yards wide.
Fact #22
World Cup, the biggest soccer tournament in the world, is held every four years in a different country.
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