Football (soccer), the king of sports, is always amazing and, more than that, always fabulous for its fans, captivating them year by year.

So we gathered below some fun and impressive facts for all football enthusiasts:

Most career goals: The most goals scored in a specified period is 1,279 by Edson Arantes do Nascimento (Brazil), known as Pelé, from 1956 to 1977 in 1,363 games.

Five new sports with a raising popularity

In recent years, many new sports emerged, either derived from other conventional sports or totally new.

Their creativity and people’s curiosity and open-mindedness made these sports more and more popular, and, in the future years, they are very likely to become mainstream sports.

1. Earthingis a new sportcreated by Mark Aaron Saus, which combines running and swimming. It is not a...

The Olympic Games are the world’s oldest and most prestigious competitions, so they have attracted respect and admiration all over the world.

But there were moments in the history of these games when they included strange, unexpected, funny or even intriguing competitions, so unusual for today’s sport enthusiasts.

Here is a selection of these weird competitions...