Interesting Soccer Fact of the Week!

Greg on May 27th, 2008 in Soccer Fact of the Week

The interesting soccer fact of the week returns after it’s absence last week, so to make up for it, today we have TWO interesting soccer facts of the week!!!

1) Since FIFA (soccer’s governing body) began voting in 1991 on who is the best player in the world and awarding it’s FIFA World Player of the Year award to that player, two players have won the award a total of 3 times each. Those two players are France’s Zinedine Zidane in 1998, 2000, and 2003 and Brazil’s Ronaldo in 1996, 1997, and 2002 (not to be confused with current potential candidate Cristiano Ronaldo of Portuagal)

2) Who thinks Soccer isn’t popular in the United States? The highest attended World Cup ever was the 1994 World Cup in the U.S. Totaling 3,587,532 over 52 games for an average of 68,991, which also happens to be the highest per game attendance average ever.

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Offside
Posted on 28th May, 2008

6+5 Rule. What are your thoughts?

Greg
Posted on 28th May, 2008

Offside-

I like where your head is at! I think it’s a noble idea but doesn’t carry much weight. I’ll write an in depth post about the rule and my thoughts on it in the near future.

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