Soccer players run an average of six miles during every
game.
Soccer is the most popular sport in the world.
Over one billion fans watch World Cup Soccer on
television.
Every year except for two (1930 and 1950) European Teams
have
reached every World Cup final.
India withdrew from the World Cup in 1950 because they
weren’t
allowed to play barefoot.
Soccer facts reveal that only the United States and
Canada actually
call soccer “soccer.”
Over 40 million watched on television as the U.S. Women’s
Team
won the World Cup in 1999.
Also in 1999, Over 35,000 fans competed in the largest
soccer
tournament ever in Bangkok.
There are 1000 activity changes in every soccer match.
The first soccer games may have originated in China.
The first black soccer player was Arthur Wharton in the
1800s.
Historical Soccer facts indicate The World's First
Football Club was
the English Sheffield Football Club, founded in 1857 by
Colonel Nathaniel
Cresswick and Major William Priest, two British Army
officers.
Pele was the first to call soccer “the beautiful game.”