Sensational Facts about soccer 2

The first World Cup was held in 1930 in Uraguay; 13 teams competed and Uruguay won.

The earliest game resembling soccer was invented by Chinese Emperor

Huang-Ti in 1697 BC. Players kicked a leather ball stuffed with cork and hair.
Certain Britons, ancient inhabitants of England, played a game resembling soccer in which the players kicked around the head of a sacrificed animal.

A British soccer legend holds that a footballer once leapt into a canoe to chase a ball that had been kicked off the soccer pitch and into a nearby river. By the time he got back to the game, the teams had found another ball, and his team had lost.