Hello football fans,here are 50 random Football Facts you probably dont know.

1. Barcelona's Xavi was 19, he almost signed for
Milan. His father gave his "yes" to him but his
mother said "if Xavi leaves Barca, I will divorce!"

2. While Zlatan Ibrahimovich's youth team was
4-0 down, he came in as a substitute and scored
8 goals.

3. Juan Mata is the first player in history
to have joined Manchester United from Chelsea.

4. Xherdan Shaqiri has so far won league titles in
every year of his professional career. except last
season with Inter(and stoke city currently)

5. Alex Song has 27 siblings -
17 sisters and 10 brothers.

6. Ryan Giggs is the
only Premier League player to score 100 goals
without scoring a hat-trick.

7. Cristiano Ronaldo
was named after former US President Ronald
Reagan.

8. Steven Gerrard has swapped his jersey
with more than a hundred players, but never with
a Man United player.

9. Ronaldinho first gained
media attention when his youth team won 23 - 0.
He scored all 23 goals.

10. Chelsea have been
relegated more times than they have won the
English league.

11. The difference in Messi's age
and Ronaldo's age is 869 days, the same
difference as between Messi's son and Ronaldo's
son.

12. Zinedine Zidane was never caught in
offside position in his whole career.

13. 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.

14. Brazilian
legend, Pele, scored 92 hat-tricks, 4 goals on 31
occasions, 5 goals on 6 occasions, and 8 goals
on an occasion.

15. When Mourinho says you
have a bright future it means he doesn't need you
in his present team.

16. Philip Lahm has never got a red card inspite of being a defender.

17. After the whistle to start the game, soccer player Lee Todd said "F*ck me, that was loud" and received thefastest red card in history: 2 seconds.

18. A 20-month-old baby became the youngest professional soccer player ever, after being signed up by a Belgian club.

19. The first soccer game televised was a friendly match between Arsenal's first and second team in 1937.

20. More than 1 in 20 soccer injuries are caused by celebrating goals on the pitch.

On average, soccer players run as far as 9.5 miles in a single match.

21. Argentina's retired soccer player Diego Maradona has his own religion made by his fans

22. The word "soccer" originated as a
slang abbreviation of the word "association"
FIFA has more member countries than the U.N.

23. The original 2014 World Cup's ball was produced in Pakistan.

24. The most goals scored in a World Cup's match was 10 by Hungary against El Salvador in 1982.

25. In 1969, El Salvador waged war on Honduras
after it lost against it in a soccer match.

26. The British coined the term "Soccer" in the late 1800s, not America.

27. German soccer player Mesut Ozil donated his €300,000 World Cup victory bonus to pay surgeries for 23 children in Brazil.

28. Soccer player Didier Drogba is credited with brokering a cease-fire in his home country of Ivory Coast that brought a five-year civil war to an end.

29.Football is the most popular sport in the world. Over one billion fans watch World Cup Football on television.

30. 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.

31. The maximum number of goals scored by one player in a single Football match was 16. It was scored by Stephan Stanis (France) playing for Racing Club de Lens in December 1942.


32. Based on video evidence, one of the fastest ever scored was in 2.8 seconds by Ricardo Olivera (Uruguay) in December 1998.

33. Football goalies didn't have to wear different coloured shirts from their teammates until 1913.

34. Football players run an average of 9.65 kms during every game.

35. The very first game of basketball was played with a soccer ball.

36. 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.

37. European Teams have reached every World Cup final, except for the finals of 1930 and 1950.

38. The highest scoring game was clocked 149-0. Stade Olympique de L’emyrne, a team from Madagascar scored their own goals. They did it as a form of protest for the unfair decision by referee in the previous game.

39. Celestine Babayaro, Nigerian born Chelsea player injured his legs while celebrating his debut goal in a pre-season match, while Luigi Riva broke a spectator’s arm with his powerful shot.

40. The first black football player was Arthur Wharton in the 1800s.

41. Pele was the first to call football “the beautiful game”.

42. Only Americans and Canadians call football “soccer”.

43. 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.

44. George Weah is the only african player to have ever won the world footballer of the year award.

45. In 1964, a referee’s call during a football match in Peru caused a riot that killed over 300 people.

46. In 1998, lightening killed an entire football team. The catastrophe occurred in Congo during a match between the villages of Bena Tshadi and nearby Basangana.

47. ASEC Abidjan of Cote d’Ivoire was unbeaten for 108 games between 1989 and 1994.

48.Worldwide, there are 27 professional football clubs that take a Beatles song as their nickname - Villarreal in Spain being the most famous (the Yellow Submarines).

49.The ball used in professional football has remained exactly the same size and shape for 120 years - 28inches in circumference.

50. Lastly, no Nigerian referee has ever officiated a world cup match.

Source: http://www.pronetotype.com/2016/06/50-random-football-facts-you-probably.html?m=1

Nice!

Hmmmm...... football is full of surprises....

Quite interesting

wooow..didn't know some of this.but the last one na for sure. ..how would a Nigerian referee officiate a world cup match.it ain't gonna happen ..Nice one op!!

Semid4lyfe and lalasticlala posts from sports hardly make front page. Consider this one o.

#50 - so disappointing.

Messi and Ronaldo's kids
Hehe

Tochex101:
#50 - so disappointing.

very expected if you ask me

CAPSLOCKED:
ZIDANE WAS NEVER OFFSIDE, HE WAS ALWAYS ON SLOW MOTION!

that one took some time to actually process. Also the Lahm's perfect disciplinary record

When Mourinho says you
have a bright future it means he doesn't need you
in his present team.. So hilarious

lalasticlala food don done...hope say you no be muslim?

For real?

Fact 10....

Hmmm chelsea fans. Una see una life?

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