Interesting Facts about Football: If it is the most played and most popular game in the world, it is football. Let’s know some interesting facts related to football –

Interesting Facts About Football

  1. In the 1950 World Cup, the Indian team was fired for this reason as the players did not have shoes.
  2. Football game 476 B.C. Was about to start in China. They used to call it a kuju game This is the most played and watched the game in the world.
  3. More than 80% of the world’s football is made in Pakistan alone. Here handmade football is created.
  4. Professional football started on August 31, 1895.
  5. In the single match, the highest number of goals scored by any single player is 16 goals. In December 1942, Stephen Stennis of France performed this feat by playing on behalf of Racing Club de lenses.
  6. The football game is called soccer only in America and Canada. Whereas it is called football all over the world
  7. On May 2, 1964, there was a riot in the field on the Decision of Match Referee in Peru, in which about 300 people died.
  8. The first man Neil Armstrong, who had stepped on the moon, wanted to take football with him, but NASA did not allow it.
  9. The size of a professional football is the same for the past 120 years. Its size is 28 inches perimeter and weight is around 450 grams.
  10. In 1998, 11 players of one team died due to electricity collapse in Africa, while nothing happened to the other team.
  11. The first World Cup was played in 1930, the title of the host country Uruguay made its name. This match was witnessed by around 300 people sitting in the stadium.
  12. The first live coverage of the football match was shown on television in 1937. It was a kind of practice match.
  13. Carlos Kelley of Chile was the first football player to appear in the 1974 World Cup red card.
  14. Watch the football world cup 1 billion, or more than 100 million fans on TV.
  15. From 1962 to 1996 European and South American countries did not let the World Cup title go anywhere else.
  16. Many football matches that took place during World War 2 were named ‘The Death Match’. It used to control Germany.
  17. On an average, a football player runs 9.3 miles, which is equivalent to 15 km.
  18. Cristiano Ronaldo is the first player to score in every minute of the match.
  19. Oliver Cannes is the first and only goalkeeper to win the Golden Ball in the 2002 World Cup.
  20. The record for getting the fastest card in the history of football is Lee Todd’s name. They got the red card         within2 seconds of the start of the match


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