Football is the most popular team game.sport in the world. He collects a huge number of people from television screens, bars and stadiums who support their favorite teams and enjoy beautiful games. At the same time in the history of the sport there are many interesting points that are worth paying attention to. In this article you will find 30 interesting facts about football. Some of them are associated with the teams, others - with the players, there are those who talk about the judges, coaches and other people associated with this sport. Interesting facts about football will allow you to look at this sport from an angle from which you have never looked at it.
Interesting facts about football should start withbasic information. Everyone knows the chandelier “Ole-ole-ole!” - it is the most common and universal among all. But how did it appear? - This is just a modified word "Allah", which was pronounced by the Arabs who seized Spain in the eighth century.
Everybody knows singer Julio Iglesias - he was one ofmost popular artists of their time. However, what have the interesting facts about football? The fact is that in his youth, Julio was a football player - he trained in the football academy of one of the strongest clubs in the world of Real Madrid. Iglesias played the role of the goalkeeper, but at the age of twenty he was involved in a car accident, which is why he had to say goodbye to his football career. But precisely because of this, Julio found himself as a musician - most of his body was paralyzed, only his hands worked, so he learned to play the guitar so as not to die from boredom.
What other interesting facts about football exist?For example, in one match in Brazil there was a curious case - a group of paratroopers accidentally landed on the football field where the match was played, one of which fell to the goalkeeper, who could not control the ball because of this, and he rolled into the net. However, the referee refused to cancel this goal, justifying his decision by the fact that higher forces intervened in the course of the match, with whom you should not argue.
Where most likely will not hear and will not readinteresting facts about football? Most likely, it will be typical for such countries as Afghanistan and Greenland - after all, in these and four more countries this sport is officially banned. And in the US state of Utah, it can only be played if the football field is located at a considerable distance from the church.
Sometimes interesting facts about football and soccer players,and also about the fans, they make you think about the impact this game has on others. Everyone knows that the English fans who can do real horrors after the match are considered the most crazy. However, you can hardly imagine the full scale - it turns out that the damage that football fans inflict on English cities is 40 million pounds a year.
The most interesting facts about football can be includedand the case in one English match, where the referee had to remove all to the last players from both sides. Moreover, the cruelty went so far that after the match one of the players and the side judge were hospitalized.
These are not all interesting facts about English football.- On the British Isles in general, various funny incidents often happened. For example, in 1981 the longest match took place there - two teams found out which of them is stronger, within 65 hours.
There are interesting facts about football for kids, but there areand those that are only suitable for adult eyes and ears. For example, the story of the most brutal match. It can not be attributed to the category "Interesting facts about football and football players for children." However, most stories are quite harmless - for example, this one. On one foggy day, two Scottish teams met each other, but the weather conditions deteriorated so much that the referee did not immediately notice that the reserve benches were empty. Only some time later, he realized that instead of 22 people on the field was already thirty.
В Бразилии некоторое время неплохие результаты showed a football club consisting of policemen. However, he was quickly disbanded - the reason was that all the police colleagues came to the stands to watch the match, and criminal chaos dominated the city for an hour and a half.
An interesting match was held in Poland - in onethe team was played by journalists and reporters, and the other was the sons of one person. The guys between the ages of 15 and 28 lost, but won the great love of the audience.
Очередной интересный факт из Бразилии – там был An experiment was conducted, during which it was checked who plays better: bachelors or married. However, the experiment failed when, after scoring a married penalty kick on the field, wives ran out and attacked the judge, awarding the victory to their husbands.
And in Italy, once during a football match wasarchaeological find found. One of the players tried to hit the ball, but did not hit and dug the ground, injuring his leg. It turned out that in that place lay the skeleton, which had great historical value. The player was awarded a cash prize and an archaeological award for this.
Бразильский защитник Пинейро – рекордсмен по Golam to own the gate. In one season, he managed to score up to ten own goals. And even when he was transferred from the defense to attack, he managed to send the ball into his own net once more.
In 2005, at the English League Cup match, Liverpool fans secured a place in the Guinness Book of Records. When their team scored a goal, they produced a noise of 130 decibels.
Italian defender Mazzia is a record holder who would gladly give up his record. He scored the fastest goal in history, sending the ball into the net of his goal in 38 seconds.
Referees often show red cardsplayers, but in the history of football there are two cases in which they showed it to themselves. Andy Wayne removed himself to avoid a conflict with the goalkeeper of one of the teams, and Melvin Sylvester - because he hit the player who pushed him.
In 1959 in Germany there was a curiosity -football and handball matches were scheduled for the same time. Nobody refused to play, so there were four teams and two goals on the field at the same time.
In Israel, the Sabbath is a holy day, howeverfootball players would like to play on Saturdays, and fans - to watch these games. Permits for such games have been requested from the government 36 times, but all the time the requests were rejected. At the moment, the government is considering another such request.
The national team of Botswana is also an anti-record holder. This national team for 28 years of its existence has not won a single match.
Italian goalkeeper Grosso was removed when headvised the judge to wear glasses. But, as it turned out, it was not an insult - Grosso actually owned an optics store, and the referee had vision problems. As a result, the disqualification was canceled, and the judge got points in the store Grosso.
The match of football referees in Italy was uniquean event that ended in failure. The match was quite normal, until one team scored a controversial goal. It was then that a scuffle took place, because each of the players was a professional arbiter and argued his case.
Above has been described the most brutal footballmatch in which all 22 players were removed. However, this is not the only case - in Spain there was also a match in which all players had to leave the field, but not because of cruelty, but because they were all dissatisfied with the refereeing and surrounded the arbitrator with not very good intentions.
In Greece, an interesting goal was scored.At first, one team from the game hammered into the gates of the other - the Greeks rejoiced as if they were children, running up to the bench, so that everyone could take part in the celebration. The referee repeatedly called for the players to return to the field, but they ignored him. Then he had nothing to do but to blow the whistle. The enemy team freely passed through the empty half of the field and scored a return goal.
It is interesting that in America football is calledby football, while football refers to american football. Interesting facts do not end there - it turns out that the term "soccer" was coined not by the Americans, but by the British. Then there were many similar ball games, so football was called association football, and in abbreviated form it was called soccer.
In one of the matches in Spain, the home team is already inthe very beginning of the match was inferior to the visiting team with a score of 0: 2. Suddenly, enraged bulls appeared on the field, from which both the players and the referees scattered. They were followed by fans. As a result, when everything calmed down, it became clear that one of the fans of the home team had released bulls harvested for the bullfight in order to save their favorite players from the shame of the crushing defeat.
В Югославии произошел очень необычный случай – The train driver to Belgrade was miraculously able to stop the train so as not to move the man on the tracks. He turned out to be a fan of football, who was late for the match in Belgrade and tried his best to get there.
In 1969, the national team of Honduras lost to the national team.Salvador. It would seem that nothing terrible, everyone ever loses. But not in this case, because the result of the match was the cause of the six-day armed conflict between the two countries.
Lev Yashin entered the history of football as one ofthe greatest goalkeepers of the whole world. However, few people know that at the very beginning of his career, he also played the role of goalkeeper in hockey. In 1954, 25-year-old Yashin wanted to call the USSR national hockey team, but he refused, deciding to focus exclusively on football.
В футболе часто бывает так, что все голы в матче one team scores - not only at the gates of the enemy, but also at their own. However, Chris Nicoll is the holder of a unique record. In 1976, his team played a 2-2 draw, and it was Nicoll who became the author of all four goals, both at the wrong gate and at home.
В 1939 году венский «Рапид» в финале the combined championship of Germany and Austria lost to Frankfurt. And when fifteen minutes remained before the whistle, the Austrians managed to score three decisive goals, giving their club a victory in the tournament. Since then, the last fifteen minutes of each match at the Vienna Stadium are accompanied by rhythmic applause.
