Cricket fever is over…. Move on to FIFA…!!! FIFA World Cup is undisputed BIGGEST sports event in the world…!!! Get all the details in attached file…. its time to say…… GOOOOAAAALLLLLLLL....!!! Some Interesting Facts: · The only unbeaten team at the 1974 World Cup was Scotland, despite which, they still went out in the first round as their goal difference, from their one win and two draws, was less than both Yugoslavia and Brazil · The youngest player to appear at the World Cup was Norman Whiteside who was 17 years and 41 days old when he took the field for Northern Ireland versus Yugoslavia in 1982 · The youngest player to appear in the World Cup Final was Pele who was 17 years and 249 days old when he was part of the Brazil team who beat Sweden 5-2 in 1958 · The shortest World Cup career goes to Marcelo Trobbiani of Argentina who spent a grand total of just one minute on the pitch after coming on as a substitute in the 1986 final. It was his only ever appearance at the World Cup · England’s third goal in the 1966 final, irrespective of what some believe, did not cross the line and should not have counted as a goal · The 500th goal in the World Cup finals was scored by Bobby Collins of Scotland during their 3-2 defeat against Paraguay in 1958. · Roger Milla, of Cameroon, is the oldest player to feature at the World Cup, he was 42 years and 39 days old when he played against Russia in 1994. He also scored that day to become the oldest goal scorer. Worryingly, a member of the Cameroon delegation claimed that Milla was actually over 46 · The first example of a father selecting his son to play at the World Cup happened in 1966 when Uruguay coach Ondino Viera selected son Milton Viera · The only time that East Germany met West Germany in a game of football happened at the 1974 World Cup. East Germany ran out 1-0 victors; West Germany went on to win the World Cup that year · Belgium’s first choice goalkeeper at the 1982 World Cup was Jean-Marie Pfaff but, because of a misdemeanour, he was dropped after their third game. He was replaced by Theo Custers for the next game, but after they had lost by 3 goals to Poland he was never capped again – quite literally ‘Custers’ last stand’ · One of the big stars of the 1990 World Cup was Rene Higuita, the Colombia goalkeeper. He would have been one of the big stars of the 1994 World Cup but missed out because he was in jail on charges of kidnapping · The only player to appear at the World Cup finals whilst playing for an Irish club was Patrick Joseph ‘Felix’ Healey. He played for Northern Ireland in 1982 while employed with Irish club Coleraine · The first World Cup match to be televised was the Hungary versus Brazil match on 27th June 1954. Hungary won 4-2 · Juan Ignacio Basaguren became the first substitute to score in the World Cup finals when he put the ball in the back of the net during Mexico’s 4-0 victory against El Salvador in 1970 · During the 1990 World Cup, the Italian goalkeeper Walter Zenga went an impressive 517 minutes without conceding a goal · Bolivia had to wait a total of 64 years for their first goal at the World Cup finals. They first appeared at the World Cup in 1930 and didn’t qualify again until 1994; Erwin Sanchez scored the goal in a 3-1 loss to Spain · When Brazil took to the field against Yugoslavia at the 1930 World Cup, they did so with a total of 10 players who had never been capped before. Four years later Argentina fielded 10 new caps against Sweden · There was a grand total of 28 red cards dished out at the 2006 World Cup. On the subject of red cards, Argentina’s Claudio Caniggia was sent off at the 2002 World Cup despite not actually playing · Emerson, who was captain of Brazil, missed out on the 2002 World Cup after damaging his shoulder while ‘mucking’ about during training · Scotland have qualified for the World Cup finals on 8 occasions; they have never qualified through from the first rounds. Pretty poor showing but they did score one of the best World Cup goals ever – every cloud has a silver lining Some Statistics: · Most red cards shown in a World Cup match: 3. This has happened twice (Hungary v Brazil on 27 June 1954 and South Africa v Denmark on 18 Jun 1998) · 5 Goals scored by Russia's Oleg Salenko against Cameroon in 1994, a record for a single World Cup match · 10 is the highest number of goals scored by a team in a World Cup match (Hungary vs El Salvador 1982: 10-1) · 12 is the highest number of goals scored in a single World Cup match, by Austria and Switzerland (7-5) in 1954 · 13 is the record number of goals in a World Cup, held by France's Juste Fontaine in 1958 · 14 Record World Cup career goals, held by West Germany's Gerd Muller · 17 is the Age of youngest player in a World Cup match (Norman Whiteside in 1982) · 20 is the most defeats suffered by one nation - Mexico - in World Cups · 25 Number of appearances by Lothar Matthaus; a World Cup record · 42 is the Age of Cameroon's Roger Milla in 1994, when he became the oldest player and oldest goal scorer in World Cup history · 48 is the Number of hat-tricks scored in World Cup history · 50 is the Number of World Cup victories by Germany, topped only by Brazil's 60 · India refused to play in the 1950 World Cup because FIFA told the players they would have to play in soccer cleats, rather than barefoot · The World Cup is the biggest soccer tournament in the world. It is held every four years in a different country. Billions of people watch the televised games as the national teams from countries around the globe battle it out for soccer supremacy · As of August 2008, Ronaldo holds 15 World Cup goals · Out of the 17 World Cups so far, 6 have been won by the host country · No European team has won a World Cup played outside of Europe · Five teams have been unbeaten but not the champions in the same finals. Those unbeaten teams are: Scotland in 1974 (1 win, 2 draws), Brazil in 1978 (4 wins, 3 draws), England in 1982 (3 wins, 2 draws), Cameroon in 1982 (3 draws), Belgium in 1998 (3 draws) · Two players have scored in four successive finals tournaments? Pele of Brazil and Uwe Seeler of West Germany · The only person to have played both World Cup Football and World Cup Cricket is Viv Richards - Antigua at football and West Indies at cricket · Shirt swapping was once officially prohibited in 1986 because FIFA did not want players to 'bare their chests' on the field · The most common surname of World Cup players is Gonzalez or Gonzales · The most common score in a World Cup finals match is 1-0 Goaaaalllll Records: · Fastest goal in a World Cup match was scored by Turkey's Hakan Sükür after only 11 seconds against South Korea in 2002 · Latest goal was scored by Alessandro Del Piero of Italy, in their semifinal match against Germany in 2006 after 121 minutes · Fastest hat-trick was made by Hungary's Laszlo Kiss against El Salvador in 1982, when he scored after 70, 74 and 77 minutes. He is infact also the only substitute to have scored a hat-trick · Oldest player to have scored a goal is Roger Milla of Cameroon when he scored against Russia in 1994. He was then 42 years and 39 days old · Youngest player to have scored a goal is Pelé of Brazil when he scored against Wales in 1958. He was then only 17 years and 239 days old · Only players to have scored in every match including the final are Jairzinho of Brazil, who did this in the 1970 World Cup and Alcide Ghiggia of Uruguay in 1950. The latter only played four games where as Jairzinho played six · Fastest goal by a substitute was made by Ebbe Sand of Denmark against Nigeria in the second round in 1998. Sand scored only 16 secs after coming on in Denmark's 4-1 win · Only players to have scored in two World Cup Final matches are Vava of Brazil in 1958 and 1962, Pelé of Brazil 1958 and 1970, Paul Breitner of West Germany in 1974 and 1982 and Zinedine Zidane of France in 1998 and 2006 · First player to score a hat-trick in a World Cup match was United States's Bert Patenaude who did this against Paraguay in the first round of the 1930 World Cup · Only player to score four goals in one match and still end up on the losing team was Poland's Ernst Willimowski against Brazil in 1938 · Only player to have scored for two countries is Robert Prosinecki who represented Yugoslavia in 1990 scoring against the United Arab Emirates, and Croatia in 1998 scoring against Jamaica · First own-goal in World Cup history was scored by Ernst Lötscher of Switzerland against Germany in a first round replay game in 1938 · Only player to have scored a goal plus an own-goal in the same match is Ernie Brandts of Holland in the second phase match against Italy in 1978. The Dutch team won 2-1 · First substitute to score a goal was Juan Basaguren when he netted the last goal against El Salvador in Mexico's 4-0 win in 1970 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BETTER PERSONALITY GROUP" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/better_personality?hl=en.
FIFA World Cup - Trivia and Excel file
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