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Interesting Facts About Football (Soccer) You Didn't Know European Teams have reached every World Cup final, except for the finals of 1930 and 1950. The highest scoring game was clocked 149-0. Stade Olympique de L’emyrne, a team from Madagascar scored their own goals. They did it as a form of protest for the unfair decision by referee in the previous game. Ronaldinho came into limelight when scored 23 goals in a 23-0 game when he was only Celestine Babayaro, Nigerian born Chelsea player injured his legs while celebrating his debut goal in a pre-season match, while Luigi Riva broke a spectator’s arm with his powerful shot. The first black football player was Arthur Wharton in the 1800s. Pele was the first to call football “the beautiful game”. Only Americans and Canadians call football “soccer”. England came up with the word “soccer”. It’s a shortened version of “Association Football” that was changed to “Assoc Football”. This was changed to “Soccer”. In 19th century England, it was popular to add the “-er” sound to shortened words. In 1964, a referee’s call during a football match in Peru caused a riot that killed over 300 people. In 1998, lightening killed an entire football team. The catastrophe occurred in Congo during a match between the villages of Bena Tshadi and nearby Basangana.