THE BALL HAS NEVER CHANGED

Marta holds the record for being Brazil’s top international goalscorer, with 115 goals. With 17 goals, Marta also holds the record for most goals scored in the FIFA World Cup tournament (women’s or men’s). Marta Vieira da Silva is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a forward for the Orlando Pride in the National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL) and the Brazil national team. Marta is often regarded as the greatest female footballer of all time. She has been named FIFA World Player of the Year six times!

8 21,000 DOMESTIC-SIZED DOOR MATS

6 THE WOMEN’S WORLD CUP’S TOP GOALSCORER 7

W hen the game is as old as Football, things tend to change, but little did people know that the size of a football has remained exactly the same for 120 years. The ball used in professional football has remained exactly the same size and shape for 120 years – the size 5 ball which is 28 inches in circumference and tends to be about 14-16 ounces in weight.

According to FIFA, a world cup football pitch is 105m long and 68m wide. That’s a total area of 7140m 2 . A typical domestic door mat is 45x76cm, being the most appropriate size for a standardsized single entrance door. This has a surface area of 0.34m 2 — so effectively, you could get three domestic door mats into a square metre. So, you could fit 21,000 domestic-sized door mats into a world cup football pitch!