7 interesting facts about football

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

Football is the most popular and popular sport in the world. It brings joy to millions of fans, the revenues of football clubs compete with the budgets of some countries, and the fame of the best players overshadows the fame of politicians and TV stars. Of course, we could not pass by the World Football Day celebrated today and dedicated another selection of facts to it.

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It is difficult to trace the exact history of the origin of football, because at different times and in different countries there were quite similar ball games. However, the modern version of football dates back to the 19th century, when a game became popular among students in English colleges in which it was necessary to kick the ball into the opponent's goal with their feet or other parts of the body. Each college had its own rules, which made friendly matches very difficult. The first attempt to create uniform rules was made in 1846. A little later, in 1855, the first Sheffield football club was founded. In 1863, after long negotiations, a set of rules of the Football Association of England was adopted, which can be considered the date of birth of modern football.

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In many English-speaking countries, soccer is called soccer. This name comes from the modified phrase association football ("football according to the rules of the Association"). The very same Football Association of England, which we talked about in the previous paragraph. As a rule, the name "soccer" is popular in those countries where other types of football are also popular, such as rugby league, American football and Canadian football.

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The symbol of football is the ball. But not all fans of this sport know that 80% of professional soccer balls are produced in Pakistan. In this far from being the football country on the border with India, there is the city of Sialkot, in whose factories the best leather balls in the world are made by hand.

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The largest score in history was recorded at the Madagascar Football Championship. Club AS Adema won the decisive match against Stade Olympique l'Emyrne with a score of 149: 0. Moreover, all the goals were scored by the players in their own gates. The fact is that the players of one of the teams were offended by the referee's unfair, in their opinion, decision and in protest began to score the ball into their own net. Until the end of the match, they managed to score almost one and a half hundred, which went down in history.

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One of the strongest football teams is the Brazilian national team. It seems that she has won all possible awards and defeated all her opponents. And only the Norwegian national team was able to resist the Brazilians. Incredibly, this is the only team that has played with the Brazilian national team, which has never lost to her. In total, four meetings took place between these teams, of which the Norwegians won twice and twice brought the match to a draw.

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The popularity of football in Latin America has no limits. Once the football passions in this region were so heated that they sparked a real war between El Salvador and Honduras. Due to a series of matches for reaching the finals of the 1970 FIFA World Cup in El Salvador, Honduran football players and fans were beaten, Honduran flags were burned. Then a counter-wave of attacks on the Salvadorans, including two vice-consuls, swept across Honduras. Many people were forced to flee the country. This served as a pretext for the unfolding of a hot conflict between these countries, which lasted six days and claimed the lives of several thousand people. The peace treaty between the countries was signed only 10 years after the end of the war.

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Usually, during a football match, players play the ball on the field, and the audience watches it from the stands. However, there are some reckless characters who do not like this order, and they also run out onto the field, often in the nude. Such people are called streakers, and the most famous of them is Mark Roberts. On account of his more than 300 appearances in various sports in the nude. It remains only to wonder how this man, whose very name terrifies the security services of all the stadiums, over and over again manages to deceive them and still make his way onto the football field.