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STATISTICS
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[GOALS]
Lots of records
concerning goals and goalscorers. |
[APPEARANCES]
Most appearances
for players, teams and more. |
[DISCIPLINE]
Red cards
for players and teams. |
[PENALTIES]
Different
records in penalty shoot-outs. |
[MISCELLANEOUS]
A good mix
of everything in records and statistics. |
[CONTINENTS]
The different continents
measured up against eachother. |
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MISCELLANEOUS
BIGGEST VICTORIES
1982 - Hungary v El Salvador 10-1
1954 - Hungary v South Korea 9-0
1974 - Yugoslavia v Zaïre 9-0
1938 - Sweden v Cuba 8-0
1950 - Uruguay v Bolivia 8-0
2002 - Germany v Saudi Arabia 8-0
MOST GOALS IN ONE MATCH
12 Goals - Austria v Switzerland (1954) 7-5
11 Goals - Brazil v Poland (1938) 6-5
Hungary v West Germany (1954) 8-3
Hungary v El Salvador (1982) 10-1
10 Goals - France v Paraguay (1958) 7-3
Most
successive wins:
11 wins
- Brazil 2002-2006
Most
successive defeats:
9 defeats
- Mexico 1930 & 1950-1958
Most
successive draws:
5 draws
- Belgium 1998-2002
Most
games undefeated:
13 - Brazil
1958 - 1966 (won 11, drew 2)
Most
games without a win:
17 - Bulgaria
1962 - 1974, 1986 & 1994
| Oldest player
to have won the World Cup is Dino Zoff
of Italy. He was 40 years old when he captained Italy to victory in 1982.
Youngest player to have won the World Cup is Pelé.
He was only 17 when Brazil won the cup in Sweden in 1958.
Only man to coach five different countries in World Cup history is Yugoslavian
Bora Milutinovic (Mexico 86, Costa Rica 90, United States 94, Nigeria 98 and China 2002). It's
worth noticing that Milutinovic took all his first four teams past the first round group stage,
but failed to take China through.
Coach for four different countries in World Cup history: Brazilian
Carlos Alberto Parreira (Kuwait 82, United Arab Emirates 90, Brazil 94 [champions],
Saudi Arabia 98 and Brazil 06).
Only man to coach and captain a World Cup winning team is German Franz
Beckenbauer. As captain in 1974 and coach in 1990.
First man to win the World Cup as player and then as coach was Mario Zagallo of
Brazil, who first won as a player in 1958 and 1962 and then as a coach in 1970.
Only coach to win the World Cup twice was Vittorio Pozzo who guided
Italy to the title both in 1934 and 1938.
First penalty goal was scored by Manuel Rosas of Mexico against Argentina
in 1930. The goalkeeper who conceded it was Angelo Bossio.
First to miss a penalty was Valdemar de Brito of Brazil against Spain in 1934.
The goalkeeper who saved it was Ricardo Zamora.
Longest unbeaten goalkeeper is Italy's Walter Zenga. He closed the goal for almost
six full games, 517 minutes, until Claudio Caniggia scored for Argentina in the semifinal in
1990.
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TOTAL ATTENDANCE RECORD 1930-2006
YEAR HOST GAMES ATTENDANCE AVERAGE
1930 Uruguay 18 434,500 24,139
1934 Italy 17 395,000 23,235
1938 France 18 483,000 26,833
1950 Brazil 22 1,337,000 60,773
1954 Switzerland 26 943,000 36,269
1958 Sweden 35 868,000 24,800
1962 Chile 32 776,000 24,250
1966 England 32 1,614,677 50,459
1970 Mexico 32 1,673,975 52,312
1974 West Germany 38 1,774,022 46,685
1978 Argentina 38 1,610,215 42,374
1982 Spain 52 1,856,277 35,698
1986 Mexico 52 2,407,431 46,297
1990 Italy 52 2,517,348 48,411
1994 United States 52 3,587,538 68,991
1998 France 64 2,785,100 43,517
2002 Korea/Japan 64 2,705,197 42,269
2006 Germany 64 3,352,605 52,384
TOTAL 708 31,120,885 43,956
| Highest
attendance recorded from one match is from the World Cup final in 1950.
There are many different sources telling different number of spectators,
but the official attendance was 199.854 in the final between Brazil and
Uruguay in Rio de Janeiro in the Maracana Stadium.
Lowest attendance recorded from one match is from the very first World
Cup in Uruguay in 1930 when only 300 people turned up to see the first round match between
Romania and Peru (3-1).
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