10 Amazing Facts About Football

 

In this period of Euro 2016, no need to remember that football is the most popular sport in the world. A sport that brings together billions of supporters every year, from all over the world. Football is played by 250 million players in more than 200 countries, which also makes it the most played sport. Here are some amazing facts about the sport that you probably don't know. 

1. 149-0, the highest score ever recorded in a football match. Match which took place during the Madagascar championship in 2002. It opposed AS Adema to SO Emyrne. It was in fact the SOE players who scored many goals against their own camp in order to express their dissatisfaction with the referee's decisions at the start of the match.

2. The 2022 World Cup has already cost more lives than the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States. A disastrous toll due to the horrible working conditions of migrant workers for the construction of the necessary stadiums and architectures.

3. FC Barcelona is the only team in the world to sponsor an organization by wearing the UNICEF logo on the jersey since 2006. Unlike all other football teams, it is the Catalan club that donates money (2 million euros per year) to the agency dedicated to improving and promoting the condition of children.

4. Chance is by definition impartial, but sometimes one wonders. In 1998, during a football match in the Congo, lightning killed all eleven players on the same team, leaving the other eleven players of the opposing team unscathed from the massacre.

5. In 2013, Portuguese Real Madrid player Cristiano Ronaldo opened a museum dedicated to himself.

6. The record for the fastest expulsion on a professional football field is still held by Ze Roberto, a Brazilian footballer who had received a red card after only 7 seconds of play. A nasty nudge to the defender a little too much tights.

7. The town of Lusail, which is supposed to host the 2022 World Cup final match in Qatar, does not yet exist. Fortunately there are 6 years left.

8. Andrés Escobar was a Colombian footballer who was assassinated in 1994 after scoring an own goal which resulted in his country's elimination in the 1994 FIFA World Cup.

9. The Vatican has its own international football team. Unfortunately, she cannot participate in the football world cup because she is not a member of FIFA or UEFA.

10. Bryce Brites is actually the world's youngest professional footballer at just 20 months old. So strong that this young Belgian has already signed his first license for FC Racing Boxberg, in the U5 age category. Following his very high level more than precocious, the club hastened to make him sign a first professional contract.