7 interesting facts about football

Football - the most popular and mass sport in the world. He brings joy to millions of fans, football clubs compete with budget revenues in some countries, and it is known the best players eclipse the glory of politicians and TV stars. Of course, we could not go past the football World Day is celebrated today, and dedicated his next collection of facts.

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The exact history of the origins of football is difficult to trace, because at different times and in different countries, there were quite a similar ball games. However, the modern version of football dates back to the XIX century, when the students English colleges It has become a popular game in which it was necessary to get the ball into the opponent's gate legs or other parts of the body. Each college had its own rules, which is very complicated holding friendly matches. The first attempt to establish uniform rules was made in 1846. A little later, in 1855, it was founded the first football club "Sheffield". In 1863, after lengthy negotiations, it was adopted by a set of rules of the Football Association of England, which can be considered the date of birth of modern football.

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In many English-speaking countries, soccer is called the word "soccer» (soccer). It is derived from a modified phrase association football ( «soccer according to the rules of the Association"). The very English Football Association, of which we spoke in the preceding paragraph. As a rule, the name "soccer" is popular in countries where there are distribution and other forms of football, such as rugby league, American football and Canadian football.

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The symbol of football is the ball. But not all fans of the sport know that 80% of professional footballs are manufactured in Pakistan. This is not the football itself the country on the border with India, there is a city Sialkot, on which factories are made by hand the best leather balls in the world.

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The largest score in history was recorded on Madagascar Football Championship. Club AS Adema won in the final match of the team Stade Olympique l'Emyrne with a score of 149: 0. And all the goals were scored players in their own net. The fact that the players of one team offended by unjust, in their opinion, the decision of the arbitrator and in protest began to hammer the ball into his own net. Until the end of the match, managed to score almost one hundred and fifty, and this went down in history.

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One of the strongest football teams is the team of Brazil. It seems that she has won every possible award and defeated all of his opponents. Only the national team of Norway was able to confront the Brazilians. Incredibly, it is the only one who played with Brazil teams that never she has not lost. Just between these two teams met four times, including twice Norwegians have won twice and brought the match to a draw.

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the popularity of football in Latin America has no limits. Once football passion in this region are so strained that caused a war between El Salvador and Honduras. Due to a series of matches for reaching the final of the World Cup in 1970 in El Salvador were beaten by Honduran football players and fans, burned the Honduran flag. Honduras then swept response wave of attacks on the Salvadorans, including two vice-consuls. Many people were forced to flee the country. This led to the unfolding of a hot conflict between the two countries, which lasted six days and claimed the lives of several thousand people. The peace treaty between the two countries was signed by only 10 years after the end of the war.

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Typically, during a football match, players chase the ball on the field, and the audience watching it from the stands. However, there are some crazy characters who do not like such an order, and they also run out on the field, often in the nude. Such people are called Stricker, and the most famous of these is Mark Roberts (Mark Roberts). To his credit more than 300 appearances in various sports in the nude. One can only wonder how this man, one whose name brings to life the horror the safety of all stadiums, over and over again manages to deceive them and still making their way to the football field.

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