Football rightfully takes the place of the most popular team sport in the world. Football matches collect thousands of fans in stadiums, and millions gather at TV screens. This game is distinguished by the importance of not only the physical preparation of the participants, but also the need to carefully consider the strategy of matches.
A yellow and red card appeared at the football referees only in the late 1960s – the head of the judiciary was thinking about how to smooth the language barrier between referees and players when a traffic light caught sight of him. So the football judges stopped making notes in their notebooks and began to show the players cards that are understandable in any country in the world. In 2003, Inter and Milan met in the semi-finals of the Champions League, whose home arena is one stadium. It was decided that Milan would conditionally become the owner of the first meeting, and Inter would be the second. The matches ended with a score of 0: 0 and 1: 1, but in the end Milan reached the final, formally scoring more goals in a foreign field.
Intel placed its advertisements on the inside of the players of the Barcelona Club’s T-shirts – viewers should have seen the Intel Inside slogan when a jubilant player ripped off the jersey. Cristiano Ronaldo is a double name, not a first and last name. Ronald’s future great footballer’s rare name for Portugal was due to his father’s love for US President Ronald Reagan. Footballer Hisham Zeruali played for a whole year under the zero number – the fact is that football fans called the player “Zero” (“zero”), reducing his name, and the owners of the club decided to play along. The football field becomes striped, not because it is sown with grass of different varieties, but as a result of the work of lawn-mowers, they not only cut off the shoots, but also bend it in different directions, creating the illusion of stripes. This color of the field not only pleases the eye, but also helps the referees in tracking offsides.
The football team of Eritrea, one of the poorest countries in the world, is updated after each departure for international competitions. The fact is that its full players hit on the run if they cross the border of a foreign state – once they were compiled by a company and a team doctor. The defender of the national team of Colombia was brutally killed after he scored an own goal in the World Cup match. The killer accompanied each of the many shots shouting “Goal!”. On the eve of the Brazilian Cup final, a local newspaper published on the front page a big announcement of the upcoming meeting. All other materials of this issue consisted of the words bla bla bla, because who needs other news if there is football.
