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Soccer is a sport that has been increasingly more popular in the whole world for past 30 years. It’s a well-known game that has been played by two different groups of players. There are eleven players in each group. Here are the facts about soccer:
• It’s been accepted that Britain started the soccer. But some said that it was started in England by mid 1800’s.
• And the oldest club that has been establishes all over the world in the year 1857 was Sheffield FC.
• It is projected that this game is the most watched and most played in various parts of the world.
• This game is practically known also as football in most of the countries excluding the America who describe soccer.
• There are well known soccer competitions such are the Manchester derby, Milan derby, Scotland, real vs. Barcelona, London derby and many more.
• In soccer, their also a well known players. They are Maradonna, Eusebio, Dalglish, Beckham, Pele, Matheus, Ronaldo, Charlton and Cruyff.
• In the largest soccer tournament ever, no less than 5,098 teams competed in 1999 for the second Bangkok League Seven-a-Side Competition. Over 35,000 players involved!
• FIFA (Federation International Football Association) is recognized as the international leading organization of soccer and its located in Switzerland.
• Soccer goalies didn’t have to wear different colored shirts from their team-mates until 1913.
• The largest attendance for a soccer match ever was 199,854 people - Brazil v. Uruguay in the World Cup at the Maracana Municipal Stadium, Rio de Janeiro, July 1950.
• Players run as many as 6 or 7 miles during the course of a game.
• The Romans played a game called “harpastum” which was probably the origin of modern soccer.
• A soccer ball measures between 27 and 28 inches in circumference.
• The World Cup is soccer’s most coveted prize.