35 Soccer Drawings to Color - Free!

No matter how old you are, or what your gender is, if you like sports one of your favorites is surely soccer. If we asked you what soccer is, how would you answer?

Soccer is a sport played between two teams, each team of eleven players whose goal is to put the ball into the goal And without using their hands! That's why a person who wants to play soccer must train every day to gain the resistance needed to play it.

But, if you like watching soccer instead of playing it, no problem! There are also many people who love watching the matches even if they don't play, since, besides being a sport, it's also a form of entertainment.

If you're up for painting the soccer pictures to color you'll be able to learn a ton about this sport. We've added fun facts you didn't know about this topic, so that way you'll learn a ton while doing a fun activity.

1. England was the country that turned soccer into a sport. They are credited with recording the first rules, which included the prohibition of tripping opponents and touching the ball with the hands. Holy rules!
2. On October 24, 1857, Nathaniel Creswick and William Prest drafted the founding charter of the first soccer club in history. They formed the Sheffield Football Club. What a great start!
3. The first game that resembles association football in all of history is the Chinese game “cuju.” It was played in Ancient China for more than 1,500 years.
4. The first alternatives to association football balls include animal skins, skulls and pig bladders. How crazy!
5. In Greenland something very sad happens. They have never been able to have a team recognized by FIFA! This is because they have never been able to grow grass to create fields.
6. Referees weren't used in official soccer matches until 1881. Until then, the people who played were in charge of making the calls.
7. The largest stadium in the world is the Rungrado 1st of May Stadium. It is located in Pyongyang, in North Korea, and has a capacity for 114,000 spectators.
8. The soccer player with the record for the most international matches played is Cristiano Ronaldo, with more than 200 matches with the Portugal national team.
9. The World Cup was designed to showcase the best professional soccer players in the world, since at that time the Olympic Games were only open to amateur athletes.
10. The first time soccer was shown on television was in 1937, with Arsenal in England. It was a practice match in which players from the club took part. And to think that now we can watch them through any medium. How cool!
11. The largest number of fans who attended a soccer match was 199,854 people. They watched Brazil play against Uruguay in the World Cup, in the year 1950 in Rio de Janeiro.
12. Did you know that many soccer players can get injured while celebrating a goal? 1 in 20 players get injured during a celebration.
13. The 2014 Brazil World Cup took place in 8 dangerous cities, in fact, they are among the 50 most violent cities in the world. How dangerous!
14. The official match with the most goals was Australia 31 - American Samoa 0, on April 11, 2001.
15. Cristiano Ronaldo, one of the most famous soccer players in the world, has a museum dedicated to himself. What do you think? It's incredible!
16. The youngest professional player in the world is a boy 1 year and 8 months old. He's just a baby! But he was signed as a professional soccer player for a sports club in Belgium.
17. In 1998 a tragedy occurred on the field. A lightning bolt killed an entire team, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The game was taking place during a heavy storm, when a discharge struck the field and killed 11 players in an instant.
18. The title of worst national team in the world is held by San Marino, with 104 losses, out of a total of 109 official matches. Wow! That's not a good title, right?
19. David Pratt became, in 2008, the player who has gotten a red card the fastest, at three seconds for a hard tackle on a rival. He didn't last any time in the match!
20. Lev Yashin is the only goalkeeper who has won the Ballon d'Or, in 1963.
21. There are more than 5,000 teams in the English soccer system, with different levels according to the caliber of the game. That's way too many teams! Soccer is undoubtedly a very popular sport.
22. Field players end up running an estimated 6 to 12 kilometers during a match. That's a whole lot!
23. Goalkeepers started wearing jerseys of different colors in 1913. This way referees could make correct decisions during a match.
24. The oldest player in World Cup history is the Egyptian goalkeeper Essam El Hadary, who played for the Egyptian National Team at the age of 45, in the 2018 World Cup.
25. Cristiano Ronaldo has the distinction of being the only soccer player in the world to score a goal in every minute of a match. He has even scored a goal in the first minute of a match. Incredible!
26. The United States is not far behind, since the women's national team has dominated the Women's World Cup since the inaugural tournament in 1991.
27. Lionel Messi is one of the best-paid soccer players in history: he usually earns more than 100 million dollars a year. That's a whole lot of money!
28. Ricardo Olivera of Uruguay holds the record for the fastest goal in soccer history. He scored the goal just 2.8 seconds after the match started! In 1988.
29. Until 1950, the World Cup trophies were made of papier-mâché. But the heavy rains caused the need for a more durable trophy.
30. India refused to take part in the World Cup in 1950 because their players weren't allowed to play barefoot. What a way to play!
31. The Football Association drafted the first official rules in 1863, and they were called “The Laws of the Game,” formulated by representatives of eleven different clubs.
32. The most expensive player in the world, according to the CIES Football Observatory, is the Englishman Phil Foden, of Manchester City, at 190.2 million euros. He sure is costly!
33. One of the greatest tragedies in the history of soccer occurred in 1964 in Lima, when a match between Peru and Argentina was being played. Near the end, a goal disallowed for the home team triggered a full-on brawl in the stands, which resulted in more than 300 deaths.
34. The 2022 Qatar World Cup final was played at the Lusail Stadium, a specially built city, with a capacity for about 80,000 spectators.
35. At 36 years old, Charles Goodyear discovered and patented vulcanized rubber, with which he designed and manufactured the first soccer ball, in 1855.