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Post by blueeyedcptcook on Apr 28, 2010 10:56:04 GMT
The first World Cup Final to go into extra time was in 1934, Italy v Czechoslovakia, Italy won.
The scorer of the fastest goal in the World Cup, David Gualtieri { San Marino}, after 28 seconds, 1993.
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Post by Lonegunmen on Apr 28, 2010 11:01:40 GMT
Turkey's Hakan Suker scored the fastest goal in World Cup History when he netted 11 seconds into the third place playoff against South Korea in 2002.
Brazil's Valdermar de Brito became the first player to miss a penalty in World Cup Finals in 1934 but later redeemed himself as the man whom discovered Pele.
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Post by eusebio13 on Apr 28, 2010 18:45:08 GMT
Ferenc Puskas (Hungary 1954 & Spain1962 ) and Robert Prosinecki (Yugoslavia 1990 & Croatia 1998) have played two different countries in the finals of a World Cup
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Post by eusebio13 on Apr 28, 2010 18:49:00 GMT
Lazslo Kiss is the only player to have scored a hatrick coming on as a sub in the World Cup finals game. He played for Hungary v El Salvador in 1982, Hungary won 10-1
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Post by eusebio13 on Apr 28, 2010 18:57:44 GMT
Erik Nilsson (Sweden) & Alfred Bickel (Switzerland) both played in World Cups before and after the 2nd World War
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Post by eusebio13 on Apr 28, 2010 19:00:36 GMT
every match at the inaugural 1930 World Cup in Uruguay was played in one city: Montevideo.
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Post by eusebio13 on Apr 28, 2010 19:02:04 GMT
Scotland has qualified for the World Cup on eight occasions. All eight times it failed to advance beyond the first round.
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Post by eusebio13 on Apr 28, 2010 19:03:29 GMT
Russian referee Valentin Ivanov brandished 16 yellow cards (tying a tournament record) in a second-round match at the 2006 World Cup in Germany between Portugal and the Netherlands.
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Post by eusebio13 on Apr 28, 2010 19:12:17 GMT
Giuseppe Meazza was set to take a penalty shot against Brazil when the elastic holding up his shorts snapped. Undaunted, Meazza held up his shorts with his left hand while scoring from the spot to give Italy a 2-0 lead. Meazza's shorts fell down around his waist after he scored.
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Post by eusebio13 on Apr 28, 2010 19:17:47 GMT
Brazil & Germany both submitted applications to host the 1942 World Cup but the tournament was cancelled before a vote was ever taken.
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Post by eusebio13 on Apr 28, 2010 19:21:37 GMT
Colombia originally won the right to host the 1986 World Cup but withdrew due to financial problems on November 5, 1982, just four years before the event was to start. Mexico eventually hosted it
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Post by eusebio13 on Apr 28, 2010 19:23:14 GMT
Uruguay's Jose Batista was red carded a mere 56 seconds into a first-round game against Scotland at the 1986 World Cup, the fastest ever.
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Post by eusebio13 on Apr 28, 2010 19:26:52 GMT
171 goals is the most amount of goals scored at a single World Cup, in 1998 in France.
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Post by eusebio13 on Apr 28, 2010 19:32:04 GMT
Bora Milutinovic is the only man to coach five different countries at the World Cup history
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Post by eusebio13 on Apr 28, 2010 19:32:59 GMT
Argentina’s Francisco Varallo is 100 and the only person who is still alive to have played in the first World Cup in 1930
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Post by Lonegunmen on Apr 29, 2010 8:55:17 GMT
Viv Richards is the only man to played in the World Cups for Cricket and Football, doing so with the West Indies and Antigua during the 1974 qualifying campaign!
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Post by Lonegunmen on Apr 29, 2010 8:57:52 GMT
One for my Aussie friend......
A witch doctor in Mozambique put a curse on the Australia Socceroos after the players reneged on a deal to pay him for cursing Rhodesia before the 1970 World Cup.
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Post by eusebio13 on Apr 29, 2010 17:27:42 GMT
The qualifying programme for the 2010 World Cup consisted of 853 games and produced 2,344 goals. A total of 268 countries were eliminated.
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Post by eusebio13 on Apr 29, 2010 17:28:25 GMT
Players first wore numbered shirts in World Cup Finals during the 1938 tournament in France.
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Post by eusebio13 on Apr 29, 2010 17:29:17 GMT
A crowd of 183,341 watched the game between Brazil and Paraguay at the Maracana Stadium in August 1969 - a record attendance for a World Cup qualifier.
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Post by eusebio13 on Apr 29, 2010 17:29:59 GMT
Of the 32 countries playing at the 2006 World Cup Finals only six (Costa Rica, Croatia, Iran, Italy, Paraguay and Saudi Arabia) didn't have a player in their squad who was contracted to an English club.
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Post by eusebio13 on Apr 29, 2010 17:30:40 GMT
South Africa's Brazilian coach, Carlos Alberto Parreira, is set to lead a team into a sixth World Cup Finals as he has previously been in charge of Brazil in 1994 and 2006, Kuwait in 1982, Saudi Arabia in 1998 and United Arab Emirates in 1990.
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Post by eusebio13 on Apr 29, 2010 17:32:28 GMT
The qualifying campaign for the 2010 World Cup began in Apia, Samoa, on 25 August 2007 - 13 time zones and more than 15,000 kilometres from Johannesburg. New Caledonia's Pierre Wajoka scored the goal in a 1-0 win against Tahiti.
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Post by eusebio13 on Apr 29, 2010 17:34:44 GMT
One of the most unusual injuries in World Cup history occurred as early as the first tournament. In one of the semi-finals in 1930 the United States trainer had to be carried off after he ran onto the pitch to attend an injured player against Argentina, dropped his medicine box and broke a bottle of chloroform. He inhaled the fumes and fell to the ground immediately. The injured player recovered without any treatment.
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Post by eusebio13 on Apr 29, 2010 17:36:10 GMT
Of the 154 players who have played for Bulgaria in the World Cup Finals, only two did not have a surname that ended in the letter 'v' (Milko Gaidarski in 1970 and Petar Mikhtarski in 1994).
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Post by londonranger on Apr 29, 2010 17:37:18 GMT
Eus where do you find this stuff. Fascinating tho and thx.
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Post by Zamoraaaah on Apr 29, 2010 17:41:24 GMT
One of the most unusual injuries in World Cup history occurred as early as the first tournament. In one of the semi-finals in 1930 the United States trainer had to be carried off after he ran onto the pitch to attend an injured player against Argentina, dropped his medicine box and broke a bottle of chloroform. He inhaled the fumes and fell to the ground immediately. The injured player recovered without any treatment. Brilliant. ;D ;D ;D |
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Post by eusebio13 on Apr 29, 2010 17:49:21 GMT
One of the most unusual injuries in World Cup history occurred as early as the first tournament. In one of the semi-finals in 1930 the United States trainer had to be carried off after he ran onto the pitch to attend an injured player against Argentina, dropped his medicine box and broke a bottle of chloroform. He inhaled the fumes and fell to the ground immediately. The injured player recovered without any treatment. Brilliant. ;D ;D ;D Personally I liked the Bulgarian fact ;D |
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Post by eusebio13 on Apr 29, 2010 17:51:45 GMT
Eus where do you find this stuff. Fascinating tho and thx. I think I may run out of them before June ;D |
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Post by eusebio13 on Apr 29, 2010 17:55:48 GMT
Castro of Uruguay played in the 1930 World Cup with only one arm
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