A one-armed player scored the winning goal in the first World Cup. Héctor Castro, who accidentally cut off his right forearm while using an electric saw as a teenager, played on the Uruguay soccer team during the first-ever World Cup in 1930. In the last game between Uruguay and Argentina, Castro scored the winning goal in the last minute of the game. The final score was 4–2, making Uruguay the first country to win the World Cup title.
100 Mind-Blowing Soccer Facts
A one-armed player scored the winning goal in the first World Cup. Héctor Castro played for the Uruguay soccer team during the first-ever 1930 World Cup. In the last round between Uruguay vs Argentina, Castro scored a last-minute goal that made Uruguay the first-ever winner of the World Cup.
The largest pair of eyes in the world belongs to the giant squid. Its eyes are the size of soccer balls and are at least 25 centimetres across. The largest fish eye is only around 9 centimetres wide which belongs to the swordfish.
Soccer balls were once used for playing basketball. The first basketballs were not produced until 1894. This means that for three years after the invention of the game, people were using non-regulated balls.
The most followed sport in the world is soccer. An estimated 4 billion fans are active in supporting the soccer community. This is more than half of the total world population.
Soccer teams that wear red tend to play better. The colour of your clothes affects how others see you and how you feel. Studies have shown that soccer teams played better in red in home matches.
RoboCup is an annual soccer game where the players are robots instead of people. The robots come from all over the world.
English soccer teams with red jerseys win more often than any other colour.
With 3.572 billion viewers, half the world’s population watched the 2018 FIFA World Cup of soccer (or football, as many international fans call it), which is held every four years. That number is on par with the 2016 Summer Olympics, but only a quarter of the world watched the less-popular Winter Olympics in 2018.
Two PlayStation 1 games, FIFA 2001 and Gran Turismo 2, have scratch & sniff discs. The FIFA 2001 smelled like a soccer field, while Gran Turismo 2 smelled like car tyres.