25 amazing facts about football.

1. Football originated in China around 476B.C.

2. Over one billion fans watch World

Cup Football on television.

3. The largest Football tournament saw no

less than 5,098 teams. They competed in

1999 for the second Bangkok League

Seven-a-Side Competition. Over 35,000

players participated.

4. The World's First Football Club was the

English Sheffield Football Club. It was

founded in 1857 by Colonel Nathaniel

Cresswick and Major William Priest, two

British Army officers.

5. European Teams have reached every

World Cup final, except for the finals of

1930 and 1950.

6. England came up with the word

“soccer”. It’s a shortened version of

“Association Football” that was changed to

“Assoc Football”. This was changed to

“Soccer”. In 19th century England, it was

popular to add the “-er” sound to

shortened words.

7. ASEC Abidjan of Cote d’Ivoire was

unbeaten for 108 games between 1989

and 1994.

8. The ball used in professional football

has remained exactly the same size and

shape for 120 years - 28inches in

circumference.

9. The first live coverage of a football

match was shown on television in 1937. It

was a practice match Arsenal played at

Highbury stadium.

10. Ryan Giggs' (of Manchester United)

dad was a professional Rugby League

player.

11. Ryan Giggs has been

substituted more times than any

other player (134) in EPL.

12. Juan Mata is the first player in history

to have joined Manchester United from

Chelsea.

13. Ryan Giggs is the

only Premier League player to score 100

goals

without scoring a hat-trick.

14. Steven Gerrard has swapped his jersey

with more than a hundred players, but

never with

a Man United player.

15. Chelsea have been

relegated more times than they have won

the

English league.

16. Only one

GOLD Premier League trophy has been

awarded

and it was to Arsenal because in

2003/2004

season, they didn't lose any match.

17. Philip Lahm has never got a red card

inspite of being a defender.

18. The last time the Netherlands played an

international match without a 'van' in their

starting XI was against France during Euro 2000

(they won 3-2).

19. Pelé is the youngest ever World

Cup winner, picking up the gold in 1958 at just 17

years and 249 days.

20. Liverpool keeper Simon Mignolet speaks 5

languages and has a degree in politics.

21. There is only one team out of the 4

divisions in England and the 4 divisions in

Scotland that have a ‘j’ in their name. It’s

Saint Johnstone.

22. There is only one case of Balotelli missing

a penalty on camera – and it’s in training

23. Javier Zanetti didn’t get a red card in Serie

A til his 548th match. Ryan Giggs has never

received a red card in the EPL .

24. Former Tottenham Hotspur captain Ledley

King holds the record for the quickest Premier

League goal. He scored 10 seconds after kick-

off in a match against Bradford in the 2000/01

season 

25. Ronaldo (the Brazilian) has never won

the Champions League despite playing

for 5 teams that did. Zlatan Ibrahimovic

has also never won the Champions

League.

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