Thursday, December 6, 2012

  Largest football: Oman breaks Guinness world record

MUSCAT, Oman -- The Sultanate made a football which measured 10.08 meters in diameter and weighed about 750 kilograms, breaking the Guinness world record for the worlds biggest football previously held by Mexico and setting the new world record for the Largest football (Largest Soccer Ball) , according to the World Record Academy: www.worldrecordacademy.com/.

  Photo: The world's largest football, which was on display at the Lulu Hypermarket Ghubra, weighs around 750kg and officially has a diameter of 10.08m.
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The Guinness world record for the longest time heading a football without it dropping is 8 hr 32 min 3 sec by Tomas Lundman (Sweden) at the Gångsatrahallen, Lidingo, Sweden.

Guinness World Records also recognized the world record for the most consecutive football passes: 557, set by members of the McDonald'sYouth Foootball Scheme, Tsing Yi, Hong Kong, China.

   The previous Guinness world record holder was Mexico, with a football that measured 8m in diameter and before that the world record was held by Portugal, Hungary and China.

 The Golden Hornet company pioneered the mega soccer ball idea as support to the national team on the occasion of 42nd National Day of Oman. Government and private organisations have supported the endeavour.

  Zuhair al Balushi, managing director of Golden Hornet, said, "At last, our dream has come true. We brought Oman into an international record-recognising book in relevance to sports. We are proud of this achievement and we thank our sponsors for their support."

   The world's largest football will be taken by Oman Football Association to be placed at their premises till June 2013, as a monomer reminding the nation that the Sultanate made it into Book of World Records.

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