Soccer Trivia And Facts

There's nothing like a bit of info to test your knowledge of the sport of football . You could say that football is your favorite sport, but how do you really know ? Here are some facts and tidbits that you may or may not know football .

· Football origin rule in its present form in the UK.

· Senior Club in the world in 1857 is based , Sheffield FC is

· Football is the sport most played and most watched on Earth

· Soccer is called football in most countries , except in America, calling football and soccer " Gridiron . "

· Football rivalry between the Old Firm ( Scotland ) known Manchester derby London derby, Milan derby , Real Madrid vs Barcelona , and much more.

· Some famous soccer player Pele , Maradona, Charlton, Eusebio , Cruyff, Dalglish , Ronaldo, Beckham, Matthew .

These are some basic elements of football facts and figures. How do you know that ? Well, here are more facts to test your football knowledge :

· The Football Association ( often referred to simply as football or soccer ) is the most popular sports team in the world, both in the number of visitors and the number of active participants .

· The largest attendance for a football match ever was 199,854 people - Brazil v. Uruguay at the World Cup in the Maracana Stadium Municipal , Rio de Janeiro , May 1950.

· In the largest soccer tournament ever competed no less than 5098 teams in 1999 for the second Bangkok League Seven - a side game. More than 35,000 players involved !

· Most goals scored by a player in a football game was 16

- Stephan Stanis (France ) playing for Racing Club de Lens in December 1942.

· On the video evidence , was one of the fastest ever achieved in 2.8 seconds by Ricardo Olivera (Uruguay ) in December 1998.

· The International Board of soccer, the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) in Zurich , Switzerland .

· Diego Maradona was only 16 when he made ​​his debut for Argentina football .

· Football guards not to make too many of their team mates in 1913. colored shirts

· Eusebio scored 46 goals in the European Cup for Benfica .

· Chris Woods once went 1196 minutes without conceding a goal , while the Rangers , between 26 November 1986 and 31 January 1987.

· The father of Ryan Giggs is a professional rugby league player .

· In 1973, the team of Galileo spent the night in jail when her opponent during a game of the Israeli league.

Have you had enough football anecdotes and facts ? These are just some of the interesting facts about football around there .