Mastercard held a zero-gravity soccer match with Luis Figo and other soccer stars to help set a Guinness World Record.
The World Cup is widely known as soccer’s biggest event, but have you ever seen a soccer match that was truly out of this world?Portuguese legend Luis Figo was among eight soccer stars who set a new Guinness World Record for the “highest altitude game of football on a parabolic flight” on Aug. 20.
Figo and the other competitors boarded an aircraft and kicked off in zero-gravity conditions once they reached an altitude of 20,230 feet. The group was split into two four-person teams with players coming from the Middle East, Europe and Latin America and they played on a 75-square-meter pitch designed specifically for the aircraft.Download NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth
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