The 2009 UEFA Champions League final drew 109 million viewers.

How about the 2009 Superbowl? 106 million. The UEFA Champions League final is now considered to be the highest rated televised annual sporting event.

The largest ever attendance for a soccer match was 199,854 people. The game?  Brazil vs. Uruguay in the 1950 World Cup at the Maracana Municipal Stadium, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

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.

It has come to my attention that a good number of Soccer is Futbol readers don’t regularly follow the sport, and some don’t even know a thing about the great game!

So, in light of this, I bring a new segment for all to enjoy: The Interesting Soccer Fact of the Week!!

Some of you may know these facts already, some may be surprised, but all will be entertained.

So without further ado:

The 2008 NFL Super Bowl was the most watched Super Bowl of all time bringing in 97.5 million viewers.

Compare that to the most recent soccer World Cup final in 2006 (played once every 4 years) which brought in a staggering 715.1 million viewers.