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What is the traditional Chinese calendar?
Although modern-day China 🇨🇳 relies on the Gregorian calendar, the traditional Chinese calendar still governs the dates of important holidays such as the Chinese Lantern Festival, and is used to select auspicious dates for weddings, funerals, moving, and starting businesses.
This calendar’s origins can be traced as far back as the 14th century BCE.
It has 12 months of 29 or 30 days that each begin on the first day of a new moon. Leap months, rather than days, are added as needed.
Each month can be referred to by an animal name or a number within each 60-year cycle, which also correspond to particular hours of the day, as well as years in the zodiac cycle. This pattern dates back about 2000 years.
In order of occurrence, the animals are
🐀
🐂
🐅
🐇
🐉
🐍
🐎
🐑
🐒
🐓
🐕
🐖
🇰🇵🇰🇷🇻🇳🇯🇵 Variations of the traditional Chinese calendar are used in Korea, Vietnam and the Ryukyu Islands.
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Who first introduced a leap day and a 24-hour day?
🔺 Ancient Egyptians were the first to realise the need for a leap day. They discovered that the star Sirius lined up with the rising sun around the time of flooding every year and also noticed that Sirius lined up with the sun for about six hours (a ¼ a day) different every year. They inserted a leap day into their calendar for a while but then abandoned it.
🔺 They also invented the 24-hour day, divided into two cycles of 12 hours each, and helped pioneer the concept of time as an entity.
🔺 In the ancient Egyptian calendar, the year had 365 days and consisted of 3 seasons: Akhet (Flood), Peret (Emergence) and Shomu (Summer), plus an intercalary month of five epagomenal days treated as outside the year proper. Each season included 4 months of 30 days.
🔺 According to scientists, the ancient Egyptian calendar was highly accurate, a miracle of its time and contributed to the development of different ancient calendars.
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What is the most widely used civil calendar in the world?
❗️📆 The Gregorian Calendar is the most widely used calendar in the world today.
It was first introduced in 1582 by Pope Gregory XIII.
It has a 365-day common year divided into 12 months of irregular lengths.
11 of the months have either 30 or 31 days, while the second month, February, has only 28 days during the common year. However, nearly every four years is a leap year, when one extra—or intercalary—day, is added on 29 February, making the leap year in the Gregorian calendar 366 days long.
The days of the year in the Gregorian calendar are divided into 7-day weeks, and the weeks are numbered 1 to 52 or 53.
ℹ️ Although the Gregorian calendar is named after Pope Gregory XIII, it is an adaptation of a calendar designed by Luigi Lilio, also known as Aloysius Lilius (1510-1576), who was an Italian doctor, astronomer, and philosopher. He died six years before his calendar was officially introduced.
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Who used the first written calendars?
Man's interest in the sky is at the heart of three separate stories - astronomy, astrology and the calendar.
So, it’s not surprising that the Babylonians, who seemed to be the first great astronomers, began to use the first written calendars in the ancient cities between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.
Clay tablets marked by cuneiform writing indicate that those Babylonian cities would have had their own calendars with their own names for the months of the year.
All cities had a month called, “Extra,” allowing them to reset the calendar in the same way as a leap year.
Each Babylonian week lasted seven days. Each seventh day was a rest day on which officials were prohibited from engaging in certain activities that couldn’t be done on the 28th day of each month, either.
Perhaps the strangest aspect - during the lunar cycle, the Babylonian month, lasting 29 or 30 days, made it so the last week of each month lasted eight or nine days.
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What is calendar?
A calendar is a system of organizing days for social, religious, commercial, or administrative purposes.
This is done by giving names to periods of time, typically days, weeks, months, and years.
A date is the designation of a single, specific day within such a system.
Periods in a calendar are usually, though not necessarily, synchronized with the cycle of the sun or the moon.
Many civilizations have devised a calendar, usually derived from other calendars on which they model their systems, suited to their particular needs.
🗓 A calendar is also a physical device. This is the most common usage of the word.
📱💻 Other similar types of calendars can include computerized systems, which can be set to remind the user of upcoming events and appointments.
📝 A calendar can also mean a list of planned events, such as a court calendar.
The English word calendar is derived from the Latin word ‘kalendae’, the Latin name of the first day of every month.
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What is the zodiac?
The zodiac is the line on the celestial sphere (the full pattern of stars as seen in the night sky) along which the sun seems to move during a full year. The position of the sun on any day can be discovered by observing which stars are just above the horizon at the point where the sun is about to rise or has recently set. They will be the same group of stars at the beginning or end of the same day, even though appearing in the east at dawn and in the west at dusk - for the sun's position in relation to the stars, as seen from earth, hardly changes within a day.
The concept of the zodiac was introduced by the Babylonians who realized that the zodiac can serve as a yardstick of celestial time if divided into recognizable and equal segments. They selected twelve constellations to represent these segments and gave them the names of animals.
The Greeks later provided the term for the zodiac when they describe it as the 'animal circle' (zodiakos kyklos).
In succession these constellations are ⬇️
♈️ Aries (the Ram)
♉️ Taurus (Bull)
♊️ Gemini (Twins)
♋️ Cancer (Crab)
♌️ Leo (Lion)
♍️ Virgo (Virgin)
♎️ Libra (Scales)
♏️ Scorpio (Scorpion)
♐️ Sagittarius (Archer)
♑️ Capricornus (Goat)
♒️ Aquarius (Water Carrier)
♓️ Pisces (Fishes)
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What is astronomy?
✔️ Astronomy is the study of the universe, the celestial objects that make up the universe, and the processes that govern the lifecycle of those objects.
🔭 Astronomy is largely an observational science. Astronomers use the electromagnetic radiation emitted from stars and other celestial objects, which can include visible light, UV, infrared, and X-rays. Because the light from these objects is the primary means to study them, one of the most important tools for an astronomer is the telescope.
♾ Given the size of the universe (which could be infinite), astronomy is an enormous field.
🌠🌌The celestial objects that astronomers study include stars, galaxies, nebulae, and supernova.
🔙 Because of the enormous distances between Earth and other objects, when astronomers look farther away, they are also looking back in time. This is because of the amount of time it takes the light we see to travel from the source to us here on Earth.
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What are new details of the dino-killing impact discovered in 2022?
The impact that ended the age of 🦖🦕 some 66 million years ago was the worst single day for the life on Earth.
A 6.5-mile-wide asteroid called Chicxulub slammed into the waters off what is now Mexico, triggering a mass extinction that killed off more than 75 % of Earth’s species!
📌In 2022, researchers were studying a set of fossil fish that died in the blast and concluded the asteroid struck during spring in the Northern Hemisphere.
📌They provided another glimpse of the asteroid’s devastation: Within minutes of the impact, rocks that formed in the extreme temperatures rained down more than a thousand miles from the crater’s center.
📌Scientists also announced that they had found signs of another possible undersea crater off the coast of West Africa that is about the same age as Chicxulub—perhaps evidence that a fragment of the incoming asteroid broke off and smashed into Earth separately.
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What are some record-breaking biological discoveries of 2022?
Biggest single-celled bacterium
Averaging about a centimeter long and visible to the naked eye, Thiomargarita magnifica, is a newfound bacterium, which lives in the mangrove forests of the Caribbean’s Lesser Antilles, is about 50 times larger than other species of big bacteria and about 5,000 times larger than typical bacteria. Why this species evolved into such a giant is unknown.
Largest fish colony 🐟
Deep off the coast of Antarctica, a breeding colony of some 60 million nests of Jonah’s icefish (Neopagetopsis ionah) is stretching across at least 240 square kilometers of seafloor.
The world's smallest new snail species 🐌
In Southeast Asia, scientists discovered two new snail species, smaller than any seen before. They dubbed the smallest one, measuring only 0.6 millimeters in diameter, Angustopila psammion, as “psammion” derives from the ancient Greek word for “grain of sand.”
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Why does each season start twice?
📌 Seasons are defined in two ways: astronomical seasons, which are based on Earth’s position as it rotates around the Sun, and meteorological seasons, which are based on annual temperature cycles. Both divide the year into spring, summer, autumn, and winter—yet with slightly different start and end dates for each.
📌 In the past people marked astronomical seasons with different calendars, but now, the start of each astronomical season is marked by either an equinox or a solstice.
This method of measuring the seasons, however, presents some challenges.
The solar year is approximately 365.2422 Earth days long, making it impossible for any calendar to perfectly sync with Earth’s rotation around the sun. As a result, astronomical seasons start on slightly different days and times each year—making it difficult to keep the climate statistics that are used in agriculture, commerce, and more.
📌 That’s why weather forecasters and climatologists turned to meteorological seasons instead.
Meteorological seasons are far simpler than astronomical seasons. They divide the calendar year into four seasons that each last exactly three months and are based on the annual temperature cycle. Winter takes place during the coldest three months of the year, summer in the hottest three months, and spring and fall mark the remaining transition months.
In the Northern Hemisphere, that means the start date for each season is March 1 (spring), June 1 (summer), September 1 (fall), and December 1 (winter). In the Southern Hemisphere, the seasons are reversed; spring begins in September, summer in December, fall in March, and winter in June.
The consistency of meteorological seasons allows meteorologists to make the complex statistical calculations necessary to make predictions and compare seasons to one another.
ℹ️ So the first day of each meteorological season is respectively March 1, June 1, September 1, and December 1 while each astronomical season starts respectively with the first equinox around March 21, the first solstice between June 20-22, the second equinox around September 22, and the second solstice between December 20-23.
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What is a solstice?
The solstice (combining the Latin words sol for “Sun” and sistere for “To Stand Still”) is the point where the Sun appears to reach either its highest or lowest point in the sky for the year.
On our planet, solstices are twice-yearly phenomena defined by solar declination.
During the June solstice (marked between June 20-22), solar declination is about 23.5°N (the Tropic of Cancer). It is the longest day of the year with the maximum intensity of the sun’s rays and the most hours of sunlight.|
During the December solstice (marked between December 20-23), solar declination is about 23.5°S (the Tropic of Capricorn). It is the shortest day of the year and has the fewest hours of daylight.
Solstices are marked by various celebrations that go back generations the most well known of which is the Christmas holiday celebrated a few days after the December Solstice which borrows many of its traditions from earlier pagan traditions.
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What are some amazing facts about football/soccer?
⚽️🏴 The oldest professional football club in the world still in existence today is Sheffield FC. It was founded in 1857, and they have fluctuated in different tiers of play in England.
⚽️🟨🟥 Referees were not used in official soccer matches until 1881. Up until then, people playing were responsible for making any calls.
⚽️📺 The first televised game was an Arsenal practice match at the Highbury ground in 1937.
⚽️🇧🇷🇺🇾 The most fans to attend one football match took place in 1950 in Rio de Janeiro. A total of 199,854 people watched Brazil play Uruguay in the World Cup.
⚽️🇮🇳 In 1950, India withdrew from the World Cup after FIFA refused to let their team play barefoot.
⚽️🇦🇷🇧🇷🏴🇫🇷🇩🇪🇮🇹🇪🇸🇺🇾 Only eight countries have won the World Cup: Uruguay, France, Italy, Brazil, Germany, Argentina, England, and Spain. Every winning country (and runner-up) is located in either Europe or South America.
⚽️🇪🇺 European Teams have reached the final of every World Cup tournament, except in 1930 and 1950.
⚽️🇹🇷🇪🇸 Turkey eliminated Spain from the 1954 World Cup by drawing straws. Blindfolded Italian boy Luigi Franco Gemma picked the straws to decide the winner, as there were no penalty shots back then.
⚽️🇬🇱 Greenland has never been able to have a FIFA recognized team. That is because they can’t grow grass to create fields.
⚽️🇺🇸 United States has more official soccer players than any other nation in the world - almost 18 million. Of these, 78 percent are under the age of 18. In the 1990s, soccer was recognized as the fastest-growing college and high school sport in the US.
⚽️🇳🇴 Norway might not be considered the best country for soccer success, but they are the only football team not to lose to Brazil in international competition. They have two wins and two draws against the powerhouse.
⚽️🇧🇷 Brazil has hosted the world cup twice and they are the only country to have won it five times. Interestingly, they did not win the cup when they hosted it. However, they are also the only country to have attended every single cup.
⚽️🇶🇦 The FIFA World Cup in 2022 in Qatar was not only the first World Cup held in the Middle East, but it was also for the first time moved to the winter for cooler weather.
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What are the positions in soccer?
The earliest recorded use of jersey numbers in English league play was in 1928.
In 1939 soccer jersey numbers were made mandatory.
Soccer positions by number
1️⃣ Goalkeeper (GK)
2️⃣ Right Fullback (RB)
3️⃣ Left Fullback (LB)
4️⃣ Center Back (CB)
5️⃣ Center Back (CB)
6️⃣ Defending/Holding Midfielder (CDM)
7️⃣ Right Midfielder/Winger (RM/LW)
8️⃣ Central/Box-to-Box Midfielder (CM)
9️⃣ Striker (S)
1️⃣0️⃣ Attacking Midfielder/Playmaker (CAM)
1️⃣1️⃣ Left Midfielder/Wingers (LM/LW)
There are three main categories: Forwards, Midfielders, and Defenders (including Goalkeepers), each of them providing guidelines, but not restrictions.
⚽️✅ What puts soccer on a level above other sports is that the rules don’t try to limit the abilities of specific positions. Players are sorted into their positions based on their specific skill sets like shooting, passing, dribbling, and tackling rather than more arbitrary measures like their height, strength, or weight.
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What teams took part in the first FIFA World Cup and who won it?
At the FIFA Congress in Barcelona in 1929, Uruguay was officially announced as the first host country of the FIFA World Cup.
It became a 1️⃣3️⃣-team affair with Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, the USA, France, Belgium, Romania, Yugoslavia and Uruguay as hosts.
Teams were divided into four groups.
Group 1️⃣: 🇦🇷, 🇨🇱, 🇫🇷, 🇲🇽
Group 2️⃣: Yugoslavia, 🇧🇷, 🇧🇴
Group 3️⃣: 🇺🇾, 🇷🇴, 🇵🇪
Group 4️⃣: 🇺🇸, 🇵🇾, 🇧🇪
🏆🇺🇾 Uruguay, who had won Gold in the 1928 Olympics, became the first world champions⬆️. In the final in a heated contest with Argentina hosts sealed the 4-2 victory.
❗️Uruguay is the only World Cup champion not to attempt to defend their title four years later. They refused to enter the 1934 World Cup hosted in Italy. It was considered a revenge snub towards Italy, as they refused to make the trip to Uruguay four years prior.
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What is the Hindu calendar?
The Hindu calendar, also called Panchanga, was developed in ancient times on the Indian subcontinent. The earliest mentions of Hindu time reckoning can be found in the Vedas, a body of sacred texts of Hinduism, some of which date back to around 1200 BCE.
It offers a multi-dimensional method of structuring time, combining information about lunar and solar days/months, the movements of the Sun and the Moon in relation to stellar constellations, and other astronomically defined time spans.
In fact, there is not one single Hindu calendar, and there are many regional variations of it.
🇮🇳🇮🇩 The Saka Samvat is used officially in India since 1957 and by Hindus in Java and Bali. It starts from 78 AD and is based on the tropical zodiac signs rather than the sidereal year - the time it takes Earth to orbit the Sun.
🇳🇵🇮🇳 The Vikram Samvat is used in Nepal and some Indian states, starts from 57 BC and uses lunar months and the sidereal year.
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Why did the Gregorian calendar replace the Julian calendar?
The Julian calendar was the predecessor of the Gregorian calendar.
The Julian calendar was proposed by Roman consul Julius Caesar, took effect on 1 January 45 BC and was designed with the aid of Greek mathematicians and astronomers such as Sosigenes of Alexandria. It had 365 days divided into 12 months but it did not correctly reflect the actual time it takes the Earth to circle once around the Sun.
In the Julian calendar, a leap day was added every four years, which is too frequent, and progressively important religious holidays were out of sync with the fixed dates for astronomical events.
The introduction of the Gregorian calendar allowed for the realignment with events like equinoxes and solstices.
Because of this error of the Julian calendar, a number of days had to be dropped when the Gregorian calendar was adopted ⬆️.
The gap between these two calendar systems will increase to 14 days in the year 2100.
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What is the oldest calendar still in use?
The Jewish calendar, derived from the ancient Hebrew calendar, has remained unchanged since about AD 900.
It is the official calendar of the modern state of Israel and is used by the Jewish people throughout the world as a religious calendar.
The starting point of Hebrew chronology is the year 3761 BC, the date the World was created according to the Old Testament.
The Jewish calendar is luni-solar, based on lunar months of 29 days alternating with 30 days. An extra month is intercalated every 3 years, based on a 19-year cycle.
It’s interesting to note that, while many Jews outside of Israel have adopted the Gregorian calendar, they do not generally use the abbreviations A.D. and B.C. related to Christianity. Because Jews do not believe that Jesus is Lord, dates of the Jewish calendar are designated AM (Latin anno mundi, "the year of the world"), C.E. (Common or Christian Era), and BCE (before the Common Era).
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What is the world’s oldest calendar?
🏴 In 2013, archeologists announced the discovery at Warren Field in Scotland ⬆️ of what they claim as the world’s oldest calendar – a series of 12 large pits that were designed to mimic the various phases of the moon and aligned perfectly on the midwinter solstice in a way that would have helped the Mesolithic hunter-gathers keep accurate track of the passage of the seasons and the lunar cycle.
At nearly 10,000 years old, these pits are pre-dating by several thousand years the Bronze Age monuments in Mesopotamia.
The geophysical evidence suggests the pits had been periodically reshaped until at last the calendar-monument seemed to fall out of use around 4,000 years ago.
First discovered by aerial photography in 2004, their significance was recognized only 10 years later, using the latest-generation remote-sensing technology and software that worked out the positions of sunrises and sunsets in the landscape 10,000 years ago.
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What is astrology and is it a science?
Astrology can be defined as the study of the connection between celestial activity phenomena and earthly events.
In some context astrology is also described as the primitive study of celestial bodies, which formed the basis of astronomy and began with the ancient civilizations.
Those who practice astrology are called astrologers.
Astrology maintains that each person is born under a particular sign of the zodiac.
Some divide astrology in 3️⃣ branches:
🟢 Mundane A. (predictions about national and international affairs)
🔵 Interrogatory A. (predictions about subject’s life)
🟣 Natal A. (predictions based on the date of a person’s birth)
Even though astrologers use mathematics and astronomy to make their calculations, there is no evidence that astrological predictions are accurate and thus astrology is a pseudoscience.
ℹ️ A pseudoscience is a field that pretends to use scientific methodology, but does not follow the scientific method.
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Who were the first great astronomers?
Astronomical observation begins with the early civilizations of Mesopotamia, where prominent constellations are recognized and named soon after 3000 BC.
Babylonians
The sky-watchers of Mesopotamia identify the five wandering stars, which with the sun and moon form the seven original 'planets' (Greek for 'wanderers').
Within Mesopotamia the Babylonians, flourishing from the 18th century BC, are considered to be the first great astronomers. The minutes and seconds of modern astronomical measurement derive from their number system.
Greeks
From the 6th century BC the Greeks make significant advances in astronomy: their analytical approach to the heavens leads to early insights of great brilliance.
They are first to produce an astronomical theory in which a circular earth revolves on its own axis as well as moving in an orbit. The theory derives in part from the need to locate the great fire which they believe fuels the universe.
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What are two big space breakthroughs of 2022?
Closest black hole ⚫️
By sifting through data released by the Gaia spacecraft, astrophysicists discovered in 2022 a black hole that’s just over 1,560 light-years from Earth. Dubbed Gaia BH1, it’s about twice as close as the previously nearest known black hole.
But that record may not stand, as about 100 million black holes are predicted to exist in the Milky Way and even closer black holes may turn up in the next years.
The Space Innovation of the Year 🔭
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, the giant infrared instrument now parked a million km from Earth, was named the Innovation of the Year.
Its first images were finally presented in July, revealing an unprecedentedly detailed view of the cosmos, “the deepest view of the universe ever” according to specialists.
The telescope is working through a long list of planned observations, exploring everything from the oldest galaxies to the atmospheres of distant exoplanets.
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What are two amazing medical discoveries of 2022?
Earliest surgery
After investigating the skeleton of a person who lived on the Indonesian island of Borneo about 31,000 years ago researchers found out that the first known surgical operation was a leg amputation ⬆️. Healed bone where the lower left leg had been removed suggests the individual survived for several years after the procedure. The discovery pushes surgery’s origin back by some 20,000 years.
Resurrecting dying organs
Yale scientists succeeded in reviving cells in the hearts, liver, kidneys, and brains of pigs that had been lying dead in a lab for an hour. The researchers used a device much like a heart-lung machine to pump a custom-made solution, dubbed OrganEx, into the pigs' bodies ⬆️. The pigs' hearts started beating. The pigs weren't revived, but the technology might be useful for human transplantation and in limiting damage to hearts from heart attacks, and to brains from strokes.
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What is an equinox?
There are only 2️⃣ times of the year when the Earth's axis is tilted neither toward nor away from the sun, resulting in a "nearly" equal amount of daylight and darkness at all latitudes.
These are Equinoxes ⬆️ (in 2013 and 2014) .
The name is derived from 2️⃣ Latin words - aequus (equal) and nox (night).
At the equator, the sun is directly overhead at noon on these events.
The "nearly" equal hours of day and night are due to refraction of sunlight or a bending of the light's rays that causes the sun to appear above the horizon when the actual position of the sun is below the horizon.
Additionally, the days become a little longer at the higher latitudes because it takes the sun longer to rise and set.
On the equinox and for several days before and after it, the length of day will range from about 12 hours and six and one-half minutes at the equator, to 12 hours and 8 minutes at 30 degrees latitude, to 12 hours and 16 minutes at 60 degrees latitude.
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What are some amazing facts about football/soccer players?
⚽️🇬🇭 Goalkeeper Arthur Wharton was the first black professional soccer player. He was born in Ghana (then Gold Coast). Arthur played his professional soccer for English team Rotherham United, in 1889.
⚽️🇷🇺 The only goalkeeper to win a ballon d’or was a Russian Lev Yashin.
Nicknamed The Black Spider, he spent his whole 20-year career plying his trade for Dynamo Moscow and representing The Soviet Union (now Russia).
He developed the role of the modern goalkeeper by guiding and controlling the game from the back and played a sweeper role by intercepting crossed and rushing opposition players at a period when goalkeepers were static between the posts.
Yashin forged his legacy in the 1958 world cup which was the first to be broadcast and showcased his brilliance to the whole world. He was honored by the prestigious Balon D’or and was inducted into the World Cup all-time team.
⚽️🇧🇷 Pele, one of many superstars with single word nicknames from Brazil, received his nickname due to having six toes on each foot when he was born. The word Pele means “six feet” in Brazilian Portuguese.
Pele is the only player to hoist the World Cup trophy three times. He won the 1958, 1962, and 1970 titles with Brazil.
⚽️🇱🇷 Ballon D’or winner George Weah became a President.
The only African player to win the prestigious Balon D’or, he earned the distinction of becoming the 25th president of Liberia. Regarded as one of the best strikers of his generation, the former PSG and AC Milan forward entered into politics first serving as a senator before campaigning for the top job. In 1996, George Weah also paid his teammates uniforms and expenses, so that Liberia could enter the African Nations Cup.
⚽️🇷🇺 Oleg Salenko of Russia holds the record for most goals scored in a single World Cup match. He was able to score 5 in Russia’s win over Cameron in 1994.
⚽️🇨🇮 Didier Drogba helped to stop a civil war in his country, Ivory Coast.
On October 8th, 2005, Ivory Coast battled to qualify for their first ever World Cup. After scoring a goal that sent Ivory Coast to the world cup for the first time, Drogba recorded a video urging the warring factions to hold their arms and make peace. The factions taking from the singing and dancing of the players in accord decided to lay down their arms silencing the civil war that had been raging.
⚽️🇧🇷 Rogelio Ceni is the top scoring goalkeeper with 131 goals.
Spending a bulk of his 25-year career in Sao Paulo, and earning 18 caps for Brazil Ceni, managed to reach a tally of goals some strikers dream of. The former Flamengo coach was a dead ball specialist and was his team’s official penalty and free-kick taker since 1997 until he hang up his gloves in 2015 at the age of 40. He was always comfortable with the ball at his feet and also an exceptional shot stopper which was evident in the Club World Cup Final win against Liverpool in 2005.
⚽️🇧🇳💵 The richest soccer player is Faiq Bolkiah.
While the debate will always rage on between Messi and Ronaldo in how their performances affect their income and who makes more, the richest soccer player is former Leicester City reserve player Faiq Bolkiah. Though most footballers derive their earnings from the game, the player derives his from family possessions. The player is nephew to the Sultan of Brunei and is worth an estimated 20 billion dollars.
⚽️🇧🇷💸 The most expensive transfer in soccer history came when Paris St. Germain paid FC Barcelona $263 million to obtain Neymar Jr.
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Soccer or football?
Nowadays, every country besides Australia, Canada, the United States, and Ireland, call the game football. So it is frequently expected that “soccer” is an Americanism, but the word is completely British in the cause.
By shortening "Association Football" to just "Assoc." and adding –er, the term "soccer" was born in England by 1895 and became popular in the U.S. (to differentiate the game from American football).
By the 1980s, "soccer" fell out of use in the U.K, in favor of "football."
Many languages adapted the word "football" to fit their pronunciation and rules – for example, it became futebol in Portuguese. Other languages broke the word apart, into foot and ball, and translated them separate, or did this with the words for "kick" and "ball" instead And then there's Italian, which uses a different word entirely: calcio! – from the verb calciare (to kick). You might hear football in Italy as well.
Whatever you call it, focus on enjoying the game!
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What are FIFA World Cup 1930 records?
⚽️ There were no qualifiers for the FIFA World Cup 1930 in Uruguay, making it an invitational tournament with every FIFA-affiliated country invited to play. It was the first and last time in FIFA World Cup history that no qualifiers took place.
⚽️ The first two matches at the FIFA World Cup - a Group 1 fixture between France and Mexico and a Group 4 opener between USA and Belgium - were played concurrently on July 13, 1930.
⚽️ 🇫🇷 French striker Lucien Laurent scored the first goal in FIFA World Cup history, courtesy of his 19th-minute opener against Mexico. France won that match by a 4-1 margin.
⚽️ 🇺🇸 USA’s Jimmy Douglas and Bert Patenaude became respectively the first goalkeeper to keep a clean sheet and the player to score the first hat-trick at the FIFA World Cup.
⚽️ 🇦🇷 Argentina’s Guillermo Stabile went on to top score in the tournament with eight goals.
⚽️ 🇺🇾 Alberto Horacio Suppici, who was the Uruguay coach at the time, was only 31 when he led his team to the 1930 FIFA World Cup title. To date, he holds the record for being the youngest coach ever to win a football World Cup.
⚽️ 🇦🇷 The last surviving participant of the inaugural FIFA World Cup final in 1930 was an Argentine forward Francisco “Pancho” Varallo, who died at the age of 100 in 2010.
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What is FIFA World Cup?
🏆 Since its creation in 1904, FIFA claimed rights to hold another world championship for the sport outside the Olympics.
🏆 As then only amateur players were allowed to participate at the Olympics, with the growing number of professional players such tournament was the need of the hour.
🏆 At the FIFA Congress held in Amsterdam on May 28, 1928, the federation officially decided to organize its own world championships. The day officially marked the birth of the FIFA World Cup.
🏆 The FIFA World Cup is international flagship tournament that takes place every four years, where national teams compete to determine which country has the best soccer team in the world.
🏆 Since 1930 2️⃣1️⃣ World Cups have been played, only skipping tournaments slated for 1942 and 1946 because of World War II.
📺 It's one of the most watched sports competitions globally. More than 3.5 billion viewers tuned into the 2018 World Cup in Russia 🇷🇺, and 1.12 billion watched the final.
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