Any tangent vector field on S^2 has a singular point

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If a singular point of a tangent vector field $X$ means that $X(x)=0$, your assertion is not true. There exists parallelizable spheres, $S^1,S^3,S^7$ which are the only parallelizable spheres after results of Bott, Kervaire, Milnor.