Interesting Facts About Football

in football •  7 years ago 

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  • 21 . The ball used in professional football has remained exactly the same size and shape for 120 years - 28inches in circumference.

  • 22 . Neil Armstrong originally wanted to take a football to the moon - but NASA deemed it to be un-American.

  • 23 . The Portuguese boast of scoring the world's greatest goals to game ratio of 1.77. The team has found the net an incredible 331 times in just 187 games for Sporting Lisbon between 1937 and 1949 (compared to Messi's 0.82 for Barcelona).

  • 24 . Worldwide, there are 27 professional football clubs that take a Beatles song as their nickname - Villarreal in Spain being the most famous (the Yellow Submarines).

  • 25 . ASEC Abidjan of Cote d’Ivoire was unbeaten for 108 games between 1989 and 1994.

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