Football

Cal Hubbard is the only member of the football and basketball hall of fame.

Football is a word which could mean one of several sports.

The best-known type of football is association football.

This is called "soccer" in North America, South Africa, and Australia to avoid confusion with other types of football that are commonly played there.

The first football game played in 1869 when McGill University played Yale.

The name football comes from the two words 'foot' and 'ball'.

It is named football because the players of the game walk and often run (on their feet) while playing, as opposed to (for example) polo where the players ride horses.

Football is played using a ball, also called a 'football', that is usually shaped like a sphere or an ellipsoid.

Football balls are made from layers of synthetic leather while the bladders inside the ball are made from latex or butyl.

The ball is often kicked with the foot, but depending on the game, it can also be hit using other parts of the body (in association football) and handling the ball is a part of some other sports known as 'football'.

The total length of the football field is 100 yards.

The maximum number of players on a football team is 11.

During every game, football players run an average of 9.65 km.

Some elements of football have been seen in many countries, dating back to the second and third century AD in China.

The modern games of both rugby football and association football comes from 19th-century England.

Association football spread to many other parts of Europe, and was brought to the rest of the world with colonization.

An international football game is 90 minutes long and those 90 minutes are distributed in two 45 minute halves.

The North Korean Rungrado May Day Stadium is the largest football stadium in the world.

Greenland cannot join the FIFA because not enough grass grows for a football field.

In 1937, the first live coverage of a football match was shown on television.

Barcelona is home to football team FC Barcelona.

Hong Kong International Airport is the size of 20 football fields combined.

The top five most followed brands on Instagram, in order of popularity, are National Geographic, Nike, Victoria's Secret, 9GAG, and Nike Football.

Adidas is currently the number one brand in the soccer world with over $2.7 billion in football revenue in 2014.