Grigory Berezkin - 5 Soccer Facts you don't know

1. Brazilian soccer legend Pelé was born Edson Arantes do Nascimento. He took the nickname Pelé, a Brazilian Portuguese word meaning “six feet,” due to being born with six toes on each foot.
2. The aerosol spray used by many soccer medical staffs is simply an air freshener designed to lessen the player’s intense smell of sweat, dirt and grass so treatment can be more easily provided.
3. A professional soccer player runs 48 kilometers, or 3.9 miles, in an average soccer game. 
4. The University of North Carolina has won an incredible 16 national championships in women's soccer since the first tournament was played in 1982. 
5. Soccer developed in London’s famed Newgate Prison in the early 1800s. Prisoners who had their hands cut off for crimes of theft came up with a sport that used only the feet. The game spread from there.