amazing & weird FIFA world cup facts which most people probably don't know!

in #travel6 years ago

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As we all know FIFA world cup is the world's most popular sport that has drawn billions of viewers every four year.
This year FIFA world cup is in Russia.

In this post i will tell you some weird, amazing facts about FIFA world cup which you probably didn't know about.
So let's start!

  • Did you know that?

    In 2014 FIFA world cup more than 3.2 bn people watched the world cup which is approximately half of the world's total population.

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  • The original trophy of the FIFA world cup is NO MORE!

    In 1983, some thieves managed to make off with the original world cup trophy in brazil & it was never recovered!

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  • No SEX!

Many coaches ban their players from having sex during the world cup , according to them sex distracts player from performing better.

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  • India is the only country in the world who qualified for the world cup but never played because FIFA said they couldn't play barefoot.

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  • Connection between rolls royce & football player!

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Each player who scored a goal in world cup 1990, got a rolls royce from UAE (offer limited to UAE player only)

  • World most expensive world cup

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Acc. to FIFA, to host the world cup in 2014 brazil spends approx. $11billion which is roughly equals to 61% of its education budget.

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I am watching all the world cup matches since 2010. but I don't know some of this facts. thanks for sharing this

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These Fifa World Cup facts are awesome. And Sarcastic thing is connection between football players and rolls royce. :D As you said his is limited to UAE Players only.

Yes it is limited to uae players☺️
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these are some great facts. thanks for this
hope to see you comment and upvote me too :)

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Dude the fact regarding India was not allowed to play World Cup as they wanted to play barefoot is totally false it was because the government did not send them as the world Cup was in Brazil and there were no aeroplanes in India that time so that had to travel by ship and cover such long distance from India to Brazil

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Amazing facts...NOW I WANT INDIA IN WORLD CUP :)

i was watching the reviews of last match it seems to be intresting

Yes it is!☺️

These facts r really new and unique....u really did a good work...this blog is worth earning huge amount...and it will earn huge...good post!!

Thanku Ankit☺️

Thanks for letting us know else we arent aware of this.

Never heard about them before , really informative...

Thanku Himanshu....
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great facts, I was not aware about them

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