. 1) Football originated in China around 476 B.C.
2) Football is the most played and most watched sport on earth.
3) Football is the most popular sport in the world. Over one billion fans watch World Cup Football on television.
4) 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.
5) Football goalies didn't have to wear different coloured shirts from their teammates until 1913.
6) Football players run an average of 9.65 kms during every game.
7) The very first game of basketball was played with a soccer ball.
8) 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.
9) European Teams have reached every World Cup final, except for the finals of 1930 and 1950.
10) Ronaldinho came into limelight when scored 23 goals in a 23-0 game when he was only
11) The first black football player was Arthur Wharton in the 1800s.
12) Pele was the first to call football “the beautiful game”.
13) In 1964, a referee’s call during a football match in Peru caused a riot that killed over 300 people.
14) 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.
15) The Portuguese boast of scoring the world's greatest goals to game ratio of 1.77. The team has found the net an incredible 331 times in just 187 games for Sporting Lisbon between 1937 and 1949 (compared to Messi's 0.82 for Barcelona).
16) The ball used in professional football has remained exactly the same size and shape for 120 years - 28inches in circumference.
17) More than 80% of the world’s footballs are manufactured in Pakistan.
18) The first live coverage of a football match was shown on television in 1937. It was a practice match Arsenal played at Highbury stadium.
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