facts for football

in #sports6 years ago

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball. It is played by 250 million players in over 200 countries and dependencies, making it the world's most popular sport.

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football facts:

  1. The first game of Basketball was played with a soccer ball.

  2. 80% of the world’s footballs are manufactured in Pakistan.

  3. Pele was the first to call football “the beautiful game”

  4. Neil Armstrong wanted to take a football to the moon, but NASA refused it.

  5. Football balls are made from layers of synthetic leather while the bladders inside the ball are made from latex or butyl.

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