CONTENTS Soccer 4 Olympic Sports 6 Baseball 8 Famous Firsts 10 Tennis 12 12 Golf 14 Motorsports 10 Football 18 Flubs Fails and Major Mess Ups 20 Basketball 11 22 Hockey 24 Extreme Sports and Weird Sports 26 True or False 28 Who Knew 30 Further Information 31
SOCCER The Super Bowl is the most popular sporting event in the United States More than 111 million people watched it on TV in 2017 But worldwide it is not even close to the most popular More than one billion people watched the final game of soccer's 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil Believe it or not early soccer players used the inflated bladders of livestock as their soccer balls 4 Q The first FIFA World Cup was held in 1930 When did the first FIFA Women's World Cup take place A November 1991 61 years after the first men's FIFA World Cup teams played The FIFA Women's World Cup has been going strong every four years since that groundbreaking game in which the US team scored its way to victory
5 Mind Blown Real Madrid star Cristiano Ronaldo's legs are insured for 140 million euros That's about 148 million Can you even imagine that kind of money The lights at the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil were so bright that US astronaut Reid Wiseman was able to take some pretty clear photos of the stadiums from outer space Soccer great Pelé scored an incredible 1 281 goals in his professional career In 2000 he was named FIFA Player of the Century along with Argentina's Diego Maradona
