You can find many interesting soccer facts if you take a look at the game over the years. Here are a few things you may not know abo...
You can find many interesting soccer facts if you take a look at the game over the years. Here are a few things you may not know about soccer:
- Soccer players run an average of six miles during every game.
- Soccer is the most popular sport in the world.
- Over one billion fans watch World Cup Soccer on television.
- Every year except for two (1930 and 1950) European Teams have
reached every World Cup final.
- India withdrew from the World Cup in 1950 because they weren’t
allowed to play barefoot.
- Soccer facts reveal that only the United States and Canada actually
call soccer “soccer.”
- Over 40 million watched on television as the U.S. Women’s Team
won the World Cup in 1999.
- Also in 1999, Over 35,000 fans competed in the largest soccer
tournament ever in Bangkok.
- There are 1000 activity changes in every soccer match.
- The first soccer games may have originated in China.
- The first black soccer player was Arthur Wharton in the 1800s.
- Historical Soccer facts indicate The World's First Football Club was
the English Sheffield Football Club, founded in 1857 by Colonel Nathaniel
Cresswick and Major William Priest, two British Army officers.
- Pele was the first to call soccer “the beautiful game.”
- The Soccer World Cup is played every four years.
- The fewest number of fans to watch a World Cup soccer game was
the 300 in Uruguay in 1930.
- The most soccer fans to watch a World Cup soccer games were
119,850 in Brazil in 1950.
- The very first game of basketball was played with a soccer ball.
- The most World Cups have been won by Brazil--5.
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