10 Mind-Blowing Facts About Football

10 MIND-BLOWING FACTS ABOUT FOOTBALL In 2002 China banned SEGA game FOOTBALL MANAGER because it treated Tibet as a sovereign nation. Chelsea legend DIDIER DROGBA helped end a 5 year CIVIL WAR in his home country, the Ivory Coast. 3 Brazil's RONALDINHO first achieved fame at aged 13 for scoring 23 GOALS in a 23-0 match. In 1998 LIGHTNING KILLED an entire football team from the Democratic Republic of Congo. A group of kids in THAILAND had to buildA FLOATING FOOTBALL PITCH so they could play. A football player can run up to 10 KM during a football match as proved by AC Milan's Gennaro Gattuso in 2007. t Some Columbian football fans brought their DEAD friend to a match in his COFFIN. 8 AUSTRALIA beat American Samoa 32-0 in 2002, the largest victory in an international football match ever. THE WORLD CUP was stolen in 1966 and found shortly before the tournament by A DOG. 10 AMERICAN FOOTBALL and football derive from the same games played at English public schools. Lion Trading GB Ltd www.lion-trading.co.uk Source: hitp://www.omgfacts.com/lists/321/15-Mind-Blowing-Facts-About-Soccer/