Do you know Football was originated in Britain? Do you know that football is the most played and most watched sports on earth?
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Here are amazing fun facts about football you probably won’t know:
1) Football is called “football” in every country except America who call football as “football soccer” and “Grid iron football”.
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2) There are 1000 activity changes in every football match.
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3) Football World Cup is played in every 4 years.
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4) Football was called as “the beautiful game” by famous football player Pele.
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5) Football players run an average of 6 miles during every game.
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6) Football game dates in writing from around 476 BC, at that point of time, it was known as “cuju” and involved players kicking a leather ball through a hole in a piece of cloth.
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7) The first winner of Europe’s Football Player of the Year was England’s Sir Stanley Matthews. His nicknames were “The Wizard of the Dribble” and “The Magician ” who played in England’s top division until he was fifty years old!
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8) The first goal in the history of the Premier League was scored by Brian Deane for Sheffield United.
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9) England came up with the word soccer which is a shortened version of “Association Football” which got changed to “Assoc Football” which then got changed to “Soccer”.
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10) Only one country has had two cities with two teams reach the semi finals of the European Cup/Champions League.
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