Facts about soccer

by Richard Leigh

Soccer is an excellent sport that is played in countries all around the world. To clarify this; every four years there is a 'World Cup' held in which countries the world over fight it out in their quest to become world cha...read more

by Hamlet Pericles

[February 10, 2008] The game of soccer (known as football in every country, excluding America) is by far the most popular sport in the world. Although the act of kicking a ball was probably common ever since the incept...read more

by Can Tran

There are three prime facts about the sport of soccer. One does not have to be a soccer player or a soccer expert to know these three prime facts. The sport is known as football outside of North America. Foreign lan...read more

by John Welford

One fact about soccer is that every man understands the offside rule, but no woman does! A gross oversimplification, of course, but there might be something in it! The rule is that a player is offside if there are fewe...read more

by Barry Vale

One widely held opinion if not exactly a fact about soccer is that the English Premier League is regarded as being the most exciting in the world. Although with my taste in teams that is not always good for the old blood p...read more

by John Campbell

What is the most popular sport on earth? What game is played and watched by more people than any other? The answer is soccer, or to give it its proper name, Association Football. When the World Cup comes around, the viewi...read more

by Frankie Buda

Soccer...the MOST popular sport in the world. Over one billion people worldwide watch and enjoy the world cup each and every year. I myself am not a huge soccer fan, but I too enjoy the competition of this exciting sport. ...read more

by Gavin Smith

Played well, football (or soccer for our American cousins) is simply gorgeous. From an unseemly fracas over the movement of a pig's bladder from one end of a patch of dirt to another, it has evolved into something sublime....read more

by Nicolacho

Soccer is THE most popular sport in the world: more people watch and play it throughout the world than any other sport. 94 million people watched the super bowl... while 1.1 billion watched the World Cup. This makes it qui...read more

by Gordon Hamilton

"The Beautiful Game," was how the legendary Pele once described it. It has also - less flatteringly - been referred to as a gentleman's game played by thugs, while Rugby Union is conversely the thugs' game played by gentle...read more