Interesting Football Facts you may not know

Here are the few interesting things you may not know about Football / Soccer.

• Football / Soccer is the most popular sport in the world.
  
• Players run an average of six miles during each game.
  
• Over one billion fans watch World Cup Football 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.
  
• Only the United States and Canada actually call Football as “soccer.”
  
• U.S. Women’s Team won the World Cup in 1999 which was watched by 40 million people.
  
• The largest soccer tournament ever was help in Bangkok in 1999 where Over 35,000 fans  participated.
  
• There are 1000 activity changes in every soccer match.
  
• Football/Soccer was originated in China.
  
• 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 football “the beautiful game.”
  
• The Football World Cup is played every four years.
  
• The fewest number of fans to watch a World Cup Football game was the 300 in Uruguay in 1930.
  
• The most Football fans to watch a World Cup soccer games were 119,850 in Brazil in 1950.
  
• Football ball was used to play the first ever basketball game.
  
• Brazil has won FIFA World Cup for 5 times.