Football is considered one of the most famous, fast and popular sports that have been riveting players to TV screens for decades.
They play football, train, buy symbols and paraphernalia, play FIFA simulators and buy Skycoach coins in order to pull out a Cristiano Ronaldo card.
The most interesting facts about football
The birthplace of football
Despite many versions and conjectures, Italy is the birthplace of the modern and modified version of football.
The game was invented by Calcio of Florence in the 14th century for the entertainment of the local nobility, but the game was so popular with others that it was quickly picked up by other cities.
The first football was more like rugby and the ball was not only kicked, but also picked up, which in modern football is considered a gross violation of the rules.
Gradually, the development of football went in two directions – one continued the idea of rugby, which is more popular on the American continents, and classical football remained in Europe and even reached Asian countries.
Contrary to speculation, modern football has nothing to do with China – their version of the sport is not even close to football.
First sports stages
In 1863, the first football association appeared, and 15 years later, the first full-fledged league was created in England.
Football popularity
Today, football has incredible popularity around the world and 4 billion viewers around the planet – this means that at least half of the globe is interested in football in one way or another.
The oldest football club in the world
They are considered to be Sheffield United, which also includes the Sheffield Wednesday team.
The best clubs in the history of football
This rating is calculated by the number of trophies that the club has earned in the external and internal arena.
Real Madrid have won more Champions League cups and La Liga, the Spanish championship, the most times, but Barcelona have been closing the distance since Leo Messi played for the club.
During the confrontation between Messi and Ronaldo, their clubs have replenished their cupboards with new Champions League cups, leaving other teams far behind.
The third most titled club is Manchester United, which has made a number of outstanding victories and comebacks in the Champions League, has won many seasons in the Premier League in a row, all thanks to the leadership of Sir Alex Fergison.
Most titled teams
The national teams of their countries gather every four years to participate in the most prestigious tournament – the World Championship. In fact, the only format where Europe can compete with America and Brazil, Argentina and other countries of Latin America.
Brazil remains the most titled team with 5 victories, and Germany comes on their heels, which, by the way, inflicted a crushing defeat on Brazil 7:1 in the semi-finals of the tournament.
Most decorated footballer
He is considered to be the Brazilian Danny Alves, a former Barcelona player who has won more than 44 trophies of all types in all his clubs, including the Champions League.
Most Awarded Coach
Despite a long time since the end of his coaching career and retirement, Sir Alex Fergison – the former Manchester United coach holds the lead in awards with his club with 38 trophies.
Utility player
Manchester United player Ryan Giggs has made over 134 substitute appearances and has been brought in to assist the squad rather than play from the very beginning.
Multiple Champions League Cup Winner
Real Madrid holds the title of the most titled club in the Champions League with 14 cups to its credit, they even have a period of more than 3 wins in a row, but that was back in the 20th century.
Undisputed Champion
The famous world footballer Pele, who left us this year, is the most titled footballer in the world football championship – he, together with the Brazilian national team, three times became the winner of the most prestigious tournament for all the national teams of his countries – the World Cup.
The fastest removal
As you know, in football there is a rule of two cards – yellow and red. A yellow card is issued for a significant but not gross violation of the rules, and you need to get two of them to be sent off. Red is issued for the grossest violation of the rules, or a dangerous technique that can cause injury to the player.
So the fastest recorded removal by showing a red card from the referee was recorded in the match Sheffield – Reading. Gillespie’s cat, coming on as a substitute, before reaching his position on the field, hit the opponent with his elbow, for which he was immediately removed without spending even one minute on the field and thus getting into the history of football.
Why is football called soccer?
The term Soccer is used exclusively in America, England and Australia, the rest of the world uses the traditional name Football.
The most devastating result in the history of football
Such a match was recorded in the Madagascar championship and the final score was 149:0. But you shouldn’t think that the match took place in the form of beating weaker opponents – the player quarreled with the referee and deliberately scored goals against his own team, which fixed another anti-record – the largest number of auto goals in one match.
Record for goals scored in one match by one player
A more honest and correct record belongs to the Australian Archie Thompson, the player scored 13 goals for his national team, which helped ensure the team won with a score of 31:0
Interesting facts and events from the world of football
The match between the teams of the championship of Scotland was postponed 29 times due to rainy weather.
After the victory of the Leicester City team in the Premier League, not a single bookmaker accepts bets on a coefficient of 5000, and those who took a chance and believed in the Claudio Rivieri team were enriched to unthinkable amounts.
The famous musician Julio Iglesias had a successful career as a goalkeeper in his youth and could even become a football star, but a car accident interfered with these plans, severely injuring the arm of the future star. Nevertheless, this did not prevent Julio from occupying his niche and gaining world fame, albeit in the role of a musical artist.
At the most decisive moment of the Brazilian championship match, a group of paratroopers fell on the field, who were blown away by the wind and, by an absurd accident, they obstructed the goalkeeper’s view, and he missed the goal, which became decisive in this meeting. Despite the protests, the ball was counted, since this episode cannot be called intent, and the players of the enemy team did not violate the game rules in any way.
Football is officially banned by the Afghan government.