Fact #1
Diego Armando Maradona has his own religion made by his fans.
- Maradona is Argentina's retired soccer player who is basically admired to the point of being worshiped like a God by his fans. There is a Maradonian church where obviously their God is Maradona and they even have two festivities which are Maradonian Easter which falls on the 22nd of June (celebration of his true glory which sank England in the Azteca) and Christmas on the 30th of December (the date of birth of Diego Armando Maradona).
Fact #2
The word "soccer" originated as a slang abbreviation of the word "association".
- "Soccer" and "football" has the same meaning. "Soccer" originated as an Oxford "-er" slang abbreviation of "association". It is also credited to the late nineteenth century English footballer named Charles Wreford-Brown.
The Vatican has its own soccer team.
- Most of us may know about this but for those who don't, well, Vatican City is the smallest country in the world therefore, it has its own soccer team but UNFORTUNATELY, it is one of the seven national soccer teams that are not FIFA members. Why?? It is due to the fact that the only eligible people to play for the Vatican national soccer team are the Swiss Guards and the museum guards so obviously because of their responsibilities, they have very limited time for practice and they could even go for days without one too.
Ronaldinho's deal with Coca-cola ended because of Pepsi.
- Ronaldinho was dropped as an ambassador of Coca-cola and lost his £500,000 a year contract because he was caught sipping Pepsi at a press conference for his new club, Atletico Mineiro which happened to be sponsored by Pepsi.
FIFA has more member countries than the U.N.
- As we all know, there are 193 member states of the United Nations but FIFA has 209 member states which is more than the United Nations.
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