20 Things You Didn't Know About Football

football isn't what you think it is from a secret two-point line to a billion dollar controversy these are 20 things you didn't know about football and at number 20 I bet you didn't know that football mascots make more money than doctors whether it's gunasaurus Rex man use demon or even dude dressed as a giant ball sack these aren't just sweaty grown men wearing costumes or playing with their wooden public for no reason they're entertaining fans because they make 400 500 sometimes even six hundred thousand dollars a year but even that much money will get you out of jail like the players that were illegal accessories at number 19. there's a lot of things that football players can't wear all black jerseys banned any players to wear chains get them snatched even Gucci headbands can players find every single time they wear them but no consequence is scarier than when David Beckham wore cleats designed with kangaroo leather cause where he played football in Cal California their laws say owning any products made from kangaroos could have you facing a five thousand dollar fine and six months in jail so Beckham made his cleats disappear cause even he wanted to win the most expensive trophy in sports history and number 18. see football champions are treated way more luxurious than other athletes yeah NFL Champs get the little silver trophy that's worth around 4K NBA Finals winners get some gold and it's 13k at least hockey's doing it big for their Stanley Cup winners a trophy that costs 25k but standing at 15 inches tall weighing in at 13 pounds a solid golden Rare Minerals the World Cup trophy just became the most expensive Award of any sport ever with over 20 million dollars wait a minute that's gotta be cab let me Google this holy it's really worth 20 amps now I see why players try cheating to be good enough to win it and I bet you didn't know about football's banned moves at number 17.

like you can't even give head in football whether it's the seal dribble like this or the next all like this neither are allowed there's even moves where players try looking pregnant by pulling out the shirt catch and one where players turn into animals with the donkey kick free kick but once players kept doing all those moves and started getting injured by opponents who thought they were only trying to show both football officials crack down on them and the moves were bad now at least Vehicles aren't banned from football because at number 16 I bet you didn't know that going pro gets you free cars see car companies are now sponsoring some of football's biggest clubs and dropping off custom whips for the whole Squad Audi's been delivering to Barcelona players and even let them speed the cars around a track but BMW did things even more expensive for Real Madrid because not only did each player get a car with a custom license plate they got to have photo shoots with the whips and each player got a brand new parking spot with a charging station now cars are cool and all but at number 15 I bet you didn't know that animals used to be a part of football kangaroos used to hop around in games and so did cats dogs even I mean roosters but things didn't become controversial until a football club led a grizzly bear on the field that ceremony had football beefing with Peta because they claimed having a bear performing was inhumane but it's Russia so they don't give a what anybody says they even let the bear come celebrate the team's winning traffic only in Russia man but only in football is there a curse that ruins players lives at number 14. if you ever get picked to join Chelsea do not I repeat do not pick the number nine for 20 years every single player who wore a nine has fallen off romelo Lukaku a player who just had the best seasons of his career chose the number then instantly at the worst season of his career Lukaku blocked so when Chelsea announced a new star aubameyang was filling his spot and wearing number nine all the fans freaked out in the comments even Chelsea's own manager admitted the curse was real but aubameyang admitted he only chose the number to break the curse they said the number nine shirt was Jinx I don't know you know I don't listen to this kind of things I love the number nine so I took it and I'm happy with that and hopefully our kids got more ghosts now you want to know what's crazier than some ruining players careers a controversy that cost FIFA billions at number 13. I hate to break it to you guys but the game most of us love is coming to an end speed don't cry it will be fun even though FIFA dominated Sports gaming and made over 20 billion dollars their developers EA Sports always wanted to make a bigger and better game but FIFA wouldn't allow it so EA ended their partnership with FIFA and announced they're creating their own game EA Sports FC this game's gonna be on a whole new level brand new game modes Online Career customizable characters even free roam like 2K EA's even given us ways to unlock exclusive nfts so let's just hope they don't make mbappe the cover again like really FIFA three years in a row shaking my head man but speaking of MrNinja Turtle I bet you didn't know about one of the craziest records in football history at number 12.

just watch this [Applause] during that goal and Bobby was clock speeding 23. 61 miles an hour as fast most of the people are legally allowed to drive around schools but comparing that to the fastest person in the world you saying Bull and Bobby's speed is actually faster than usain's average in his world record 100 meter dash so uh side by side looks like I'm boppy just officially became a record holder but that was only one Sprint I already know you've wondered how far football players run throughout an entire game or an entire career and Lionel Messi's got us covered on that at number 11. Messi installed a microchip in his cleat to track the distance he traveled during a match yeah the majority of the time he was being a lazy ass and walking but combining that with Messi's jogs runs and Sprints had him covering around eight and a half kilometers or five miles in a single match over a thousands ran over 5 000 miles these football players are built different man Jesus Christ but now that we're getting into the top 10 things you didn't know about football it's about to get crazy like what if I told you some of the biggest football clubs in the world tried ruining the sport 12 of the world's top teams Barcelona Real Madrid Liverpool the Manchester's pretty much everybody actually relevant all right did something crazy out of nowhere it was announced that all of them agreed to leave their countries and form the European Super League now at first I was like this is hype I mean all the biggest names of football are constantly playing each other and it would be extra competitive the winner of the league would earn 470 million dollars it seemed like an insane idea on paper but within hours of the announcement fans around the world caused absolute chaos [Applause] it's about time that somebody spoke up about the parasites in this club non-stop riots fans literally breaking into stadiums everybody was pissed because their favorite clubs would be playing all the way across the world and fans felt that owners only cared about money the league was gonna make and not about that but everyone wilding out actually made a huge difference because within a few days the Super League turned into a super fail and the entire move was canceled I want to apologize to all the fans supporters of Liverpool Football Club for the disruption I caused over the past 48 Hours damn the fans really overthrew the football government but that many people coming together got me wondering just how popular is football compared to other sports well at number nine take a look at this map any country that's light gray watches football over everything so unless you're from China Australia Canada or the US chances are I know what your favorite sport is but let's bring some numbers into this as we go up the list you can see the estimated fans of each sport start popping up we got baseball with about 500 million fans basketball with 700 million hell at least hockey and Cricket topped a billion but at the very top we got football with an estimated 3.

6 billion fans worldwide God damn that's nearly half the population of the planet now I see why a player like Ronaldo is the most famous person on Instagram but I bet you didn't know there's a football rule named after him at number a the Ronaldo rule ain't actually a good thing though it happened because of his return to Man United oh or even though he was expected to be a star his ego caused issues with his teammates playing like ass got him benched and Ronaldo's contract that racked in 500 000 a week a whole other level compared to his teammates and made him jealous forced the club to change their rules since that type of money held back the club and guaranteed Ronaldo Millions even though man you didn't feel like he was worth it anymore no other clubs were willing to pay money like that for it so man you let Ronaldo Go for free just so he wouldn't be a distraction anymore and they also banned all Manu players of any skill or status to make over 240 000 a week by calling it The Ronaldo rule damn Ronaldo really changed the club forever but what if I told you the MLS is about to change football forever I'm sure we've all seen crazy goals like this pinballs to Rooney Rudy sees Rowell oh oh hell but the problem is they don't happen often enough because players have no extra reasons to kick from that far away until now rumors of a two-point line which would be a similar Arc to a three-point line in basketball is now being thrown around the Spore football fans are tired of the MLS not being as entertaining as other major leagues so adding in a two-point line Not only would it encourage players to go for ridiculous highlights it would make football games more action-packed and higher scoring I'd finally buy some football tickets but something I can't buy is the most legendary piece of memorabilia and football history and number six nearly 70 years ago Pele became one of football's first ever iconic players as a teenager coaches were already predicting he'd become the greatest football player in the world so not only did Pele earn himself a spot on Brazil's national team in 1958 he officially got his own rookie car but nobody knew what this item was destined be just cause Pele exceeded all expectations and became a go his memorabilia's value skyrocketed and what seemed like just a piece of cardboard with his pick on it became the first football card ever to sell for over a million dollars now that's definitely a lot of money but at number five what if I told you a football player accidentally made a fan worth 40 million dollars this is Charlie Morgan AKA swansea's ball boy and his journey towards becoming a millionaire started with this play well that's inexcusable and all cause there little ass boy got his ass beat not only did Chelsea's star Eden Hazard get kicked out of the game the situation went so viral Charlie went from only a couple hundred followers to a hundred thousand overnight so he began using his new fame to promote his brand and it quickly became the fastest growing and most popular alcohol in all of the UK Ayu vodka its luxurious look and colorful flavors made all celebrities want to put it in their mouth football icon Ronaldinho loves the drink Jake Paul even got the Vodka tatted and with this vodka selling thousands of bottles per day Charlie's estimated net worth is now over 48 million dollars all cause he got his ass whooped damn who would have thought getting jumped would make someone rich but I guess a better question is who's this man's barber what the this is football's ugliest haircut of all time but the story behind it is even more ridiculous than it looks and number four this Ronaldo's from Brazil and dominated football in the 90s but as he became an all-time gray the expectations reached New Heights and the pressure eventually forced him into the hospital out of nowhere Ronaldo started suffering from seizures as well as devastating injuries but doctors couldn't explain why so they cleared his return to football because the 2002 World Cup was right around the corner and all Ronaldo wanted to focus on was winning his country the goal but all anybody else could talk about were his health concerns so he came up with the perfect distraction I remember I had that little injury and everybody was stuck about that injury so I came to training with that hair everybody was talk about the hair and forgot about the injuries so that helped me a lot in that time and even though this haircut seemed like he was just trying to become a man which it did it made everybody including Ronaldo forget about his health issues and instead clone his hair so he was able to play the game with no pressure and carried his team to Victory while looking like a famous cartoon you know why I called it I called it the Illuminati haircut yeah think there was some sort of secret power as to how you won dude really said that the haircut was weird but it definitely ain't as weird as what footballs used to be and number three today I'm sure you think it's normal to be kicking this around and what if I told you nearly 200 years ago they used heavier leather balls like this I mean it doesn't seem too odd right well the sport goes way further back and what they use during ancient times is scary it's said that during Aztec football games the competitions would get brutal cause each team's lives were on the line literally and if your team lost well it has been suggested that the losing team sacrificed skulls or whole heads were used as balls if true it would have likely served a ritualistic purpose uh and just like that I ain't ever asking anybody to give me head again but for real footballs did kind of improve after that when kids began pulling animal bladders up like balloons and kicking that all right man now I've seen it all like I never thought I'd be so thankful for balls man at least for the last World Cup the most technologically advanced footballs in history were created they had motion sensors offside detections stat tracking like balls were so Advanced they'd send data 500 times a second to a room full of refs who could make calls without even being on the field but would the tournament have even happened if they knew the event would kill thousands of people at number two see World Cup 2022 wasn't what you thought it was the tournament was being planned 13 years ago to become the biggest football event of all time and even though many wondered why a small country like Qatar became the lucky ones to host it's all cause they promised to build the craziest stadium in football history now don't get me wrong this place looked insane cause it needed to be the expected number of fans showing up was predicted to be 1. 5 million people more than half a guitar's entire population so just to accommodate that many more bodies the entire area also needed to be revamped with Villas hotels and even cruise ships but the hard labor that workers were forced to do was inhumane and made headlines everywhere allegations of Human Rights abuses are also part of the story surrounding this multi-billion dollar sporting event labor Advocates say migrant workers who built the massive soccer stadiums endured unsanitary conditions in extreme heat injuries and deaths have been reported apparently migrants were forced to complete tasks in 122 degrees where there was barely any water or food and workers not only couldn't take breaks officials even held their passports and made it impossible for them to leave the country before the job was done things were kept quiet because only 37 deaths got reported as related to building the stadium but then the number got bumped up a bit what is the honest realistic total do you think of Migrant workers have died from as a result of what they're doing for the World Cup in totality the estimate is around 400.