Do you know Football was originated in Britain? Do you know that football is the most played and most watched sports on earth?
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”.
2) There are 1000 activity changes in every football match.
3) Football World Cup is played in every 4 years.
4) Football was called as “the beautiful game” by famous football player Pele.
5) Football players run an average of 6 miles during every game.
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.
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!
8) The first goal in the history of the Premier League was scored by Brian Deane for Sheffield United.
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”.
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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