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• Many believe that the football was first played in England.
• Sheffield Utd. is known as the oldes club in entire world, which was created in 1857 year.• It is proven that the football is the most played and watched sport in the world.• Football is known as soccer in USA, Canada and Australia.
• It is proven that there were 199.854 spectators on the match between Uruguay and Brazil in 1950 year at the Maracana stadium.
• There will be sold around 2.72 million tickets on the World Cup in 2010 year.
• The standard soccer ball is made of skin and it's about 65-71 cm in circumference.
• 78% of the footballers in USA are under 18 years old.
• Manchester Utd. is the most favourite club in England.
• Glasgow Celtic is the first club that won on the Europian Cup.
• Brazil have won in many competitions in World Cup, and took the first reward for the most wins in 1970 year.
• The worst result of Juventus as guests was against Inter 6:0, and the worst result as host is 7:1 versus Milan.
• Germany was the first country that won on the World Cup in 1954 year.
• Edson Arantes do Nascimento, a.k.a Pele, have competing in four World Cups (Sweden-1958, Chile-1962, England-1966 and Mexico-1970), and scored over 1200 goals in his career before his retirement in 1977 year.
• Most footballers during a football match run about 11 kilometers.
• 20 red cards were judged on a match between Sportivo Ameliano and Caballero in Paraguay in 1993 year.
• Luigi Riva have broken arm to a spectator by accident with his strong shot.
• Alex Ferguson was fired from the football club St. Mirren in 1978 because he abused a woman.
• Arthur Wharton was the first professional blackman goal keeper, born in Ghana and played for the England League in the team Rotherdam Utd. in 1899 year.
• About 90% of the soccer balls in entire world are made in Pakistan.
• The fastest goal that is scored on a World Cup is 11 seconds by Hakan Sukur (turkish footballer) against Korea in 2002 year.
• The World Cup is the most watched event in entire world, with over 1 billion spectators every 4-th year. FIFA works with the World Cup that started in 1928 year.
• Archie Thompson scored 13 goals on the 2002 year World Cup, and this made him a recorder with the most scored goals in one football match.
• The fastest shoot is done by David Hirst for Shieffield Utd. in 1996 year with a speed of 183 km/h, then next is David Beckham for Manchester Utd. with a speed of 157 km/h.
• South Korea was competing in the World Cup seven times (in 1954, 1986, 1990, 1994, 1998, 2002 and 2006)
• The World Cup's trophy was stolen in 1996, but later it was found by a dog.
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