20 interesting facts about football that everyone should know.

1. In the 1950 World Cup, the Indian team was fired for this reason as the players did not have shoes.

2. Football game was originated in china around 476 B.C.. They used to call it a cuju game, this is the most played and watched game in the world.

3. More than 80% of the world's football is made in Pakistan alone. Here handmade football is created.

4. Professional football started on August 31, 1895.

5. In the single match, the highest number of goals scored by any single player is 16 goals. In December 1942, Stephen Stenis of France made this feat by playing on behalf of Racing Club de lenses.

6. The football game is called soccer only in America and Canada. Whereas it is called as football all over the world.

7. On May 2, 1964, there was a riot in the field on the Decision of Match Referee in Peru, in which about 300 people died.

8. The first man Neil Armstrong, who had stepped on the moon, wanted to take football with him, but NASA did not allow it.

9. The size of professional football is the same for the past 120 years. Its size is 28 inches perimeter and weight is around 450 grams.

10. In 1998, 11 players of one team died due to electricity collapse in Africa, while nothing happened to the other team.

11. The first World Cup was played in 1930; the title was won by the host country Uruguay. This match was witnessed by around 300 people sitting in the stadium.

12. The first live coverage of the football match was shown on television in 1937. It was a kind of practice match.

13. Carlos Carzely of Chile was the first football player to receive a red card in the 1974 World Cup.

14. On an average, a football player runs 9.3 miles, which is equivalent to 15 km.

15. Oliver Kahn is the first and only goalkeeper to win the Golden Ball in the 2002 World Cup.

16. The record for getting the fastest card in the history of football is Lee Todd's name. They got the red card within 2 seconds of the start of the match.

17. Pele is the youngest player to win the Football World Cup at the age of 17. At the same time Dane    Jouf is the oldest player to win the Football World Cup at the age of 40.

18. Brazil is the most successful team in the history of fifa world cup. They have won this title 5 times.

19.  Meroslav klose of Germany has scored the most no. of goals in the history of fifa world cup.

 20. Until 1913, goalkeepers did not wear different colors from their team.