Football started from a two-point line to a billion-dollar controversy. Do you think you know football inside out? Think again because you might be wrong! From secret tactics to shocking player revelations, tactics of legendary coaches to the hidden factors influencing referee decisions. We’ll expose the surprising truths that will change the way you watch the game forever. We’re about to blow your mind on the sport’s best-kept secrets.
Things You Didn’t Know About Football
8) Football Mascots and how Much They Make
At number 8, I bet you didn’t know that football mascots make more money than doctors. Whether it’s Gunnersaurus Rex, Man U’s Demon, or even dude dressed as a giant ball sack, these aren’t just sweaty grown men wearing costumes or playing in public for no reason.
They’re entertaining fans because they make $400,000, $500,000, sometimes even $600,000 a year. That’s much more money than what some players who play week in week out earn in a year. Would you consider taking a mascot job? Let us know in the comments below.
7) Banned Accessories In Football
There’s a lot of things that football players can’t wear. All-black jerseys? Ban. Any players who wear chains? It can get snatched. Although, no consequence is scarier than when David Beckham wore cleats designed with kangaroo leather and where he played football in California, their laws say owning any products made from kangaroos could have you facing a $5,000 fine and six months in jail.
To avoid getting punished, Beckham made his cleats disappear because even he wanted to win the most expensive trophy in sports history.
7) The Cost of Football Trophies
See, football champions are treated way more luxurious than other athletes. Yes, NFL champs get the little silver trophy that’s worth around $4K. NBA finals winners get something golden that’s $13K. At least hockey’s doing it big for their Stanley Cup winners with their trophy that costs $25K.
The biggest of them all, standing at 15 inches tall, weighing in at 13 pounds of solid golden rare minerals, the World Cup trophy just became the most expensive award of any sport ever.
The World Cup is worth over $20 million. Now I see why players try cheating to be good enough to win it.
6) Banned Football Skills
I bet you didn’t know about football’s banned moves. Like, you can’t even give head in football. Whether it’s the seal dribble, the neck stall, the moves where players try looking pregnant by pulling out the shirt catch or the one where players turn into animals with the donkey kick free kick.
Once players kept doing all those moves and started getting injured by opponents who thought they were only trying to showboat, football officials cracked down on them and the moves were banned.
5) Football Players Get Free Cars
Now at least vehicles aren’t banned from football because you didn’t know that going pro gets you free cars. 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.
BMW did things even more expensive for Real Madrid because not only did each player get a car with a custom license plate, they also got to have photo shoots with the whips and each player got a brand new parking spot with a charging station
4) Animals Were Part Of Football
Cars are cool and all that but did you know that animals used to be a part of football? Kangaroos used to hop around in games and so did cats, dogs, even cocks. I mean, roosters.
Things didn’t become controversial until a football club let 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 shit what anybody says. They even let the bear come celebrate the team’s win in traffic.
Only in Russia football is there a curse that ruins players’ lives.
3) The Cursed Jersey Number
At number six, if you ever get a transfer to join Chelsea, do not, I repeat, do not pick the number nine (9). For 20 years, every single player who wore a nine has fallen off.
Romelu Lukaku, a player who just had the best seasons of his career, chose the number, then instantly had the worst season of his career.
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.
He said “They said the number nine shirt was Jinx. I don’t know, you know, I don’t listen to these kind of things. I love the number 9 shirt, so I took it and I’m happy with that and hopefully I can score more goals this year”.
2) The Reason FIFA and EA Parted Ways
Now, do you want to know what’s crazier than something ruining players’ careers? A controversy that costs FIFA billions.
It might not be what you want to hear, but the game most of us love is coming to an end. Don’t cry. It’ll be fine.
Even though FIFA dominated sports gaming and made over $20 billion, 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 and would be called – 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.
1) How Football Clubs Are Ruining The Game
What if you heard that 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 Manchesters, pretty much everybody actually relevant, alright, 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 in football constantly playing each other, and it would be extra competitive?
The winner of the league would earn $470 million!
It seemed like an insane idea on paper, but within hours of the announcement, fans around the world caused absolute chaos. 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 going to make and not about them.
All these chaos brought good outcomes because within a few days, the Super League turned into a super fail as the entire move was cancelled.
“I want to apologize to all the fans, supporters of Liverpool Football Club for the disruption I caused over the past 48 hours” – Liverpool CEO Said. Damn, the fans really overthrew the football government. It’s about time that somebody spoke up about the parasites in this club.