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DECEMBER,2014

Injuries

• Worst injury is death

• 1-20 injuries are from celebrating goals

• Injuries can put you out for weeks or months

Equipment Need certain equipment to play

Different sizes of balls like size 1,2,3,4,5

Ball made of rubber

Oldest ball made in 1855

Teams Not all soccer teams enter World Cup

Vatican has own team

Over 1 million soccer teams world wide

Players & Referees About 265 million players

About 5 million referees

Christiano Ronaldo devoted a museum to himself

4% of worlds population is players

4% of worlds population is referees

World Cup Held every 4 years

First World Cup 1930

1999 most watched game in World Cup

Served 8 presidents

2002 World Cup held in 2 places Korea/Japan

Other Interesting Facts

Olympic sport in 1908

U.S team founded in 1913

2022 lives will be taken from building stadiums

Most goals ever scored in 1 game by a single player is 16

Work Cited Bonney , Barbara. Soccer: Rules of the Game. The

Rouke Press, Inc. 1997

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