Most finals played in - 3 Cafu (Brazil) 1994, 1998, 2002 Most appearances - 25 Lothar Matthaeus (Germany) 1982-98 Most competitions - 5 Antonio Carbajal (Mexico) 1950-66, Lothar Matthaeus (Germany) 1982-98 Youngest player - Norman Whiteside (Northern Ireland) 17 years 42 days against Yugoslavia in 1982 Oldest player - Roger Milla (Cameroon) 42 years 39 days against Russia in 1994 Youngest goalscorer - Pele (Brazil) 17 years 239 days against Wales in 1958 Oldest goalscorer - Roger Milla (Cameroon) 42 years 39 days against Russia in 1994 Youngest referee - Francisco Matteucci (Uruguay) 27 years 62 days in 1930 Oldest referee - George Reader (England) 53 years 236 days in 1950 Fastest goal - Hakan Sukur (Turkey) 11 seconds against South Korea in 2002 Most goals in a match - 5 Oleg Salenko of Russia against Cameroon in 1994 Most goals in a tournament - 13 Just Fontaine (France) 1958 Most goals in total - 14 Gerd Muller (West Germany) 1970/74 Fastest substitution - Alessandro Nesta (Italy) four minutes against Austria in 1998 Fastest caution - Sergei Gorlukovich (Russia) one minute against Sweden in 1994 Fastest sending off - Jose Batista (Uruguay) 56 seconds against Scotland in 1986 Biggest win - Hungary 10-1 El Salvador 1982 Highest scoring match - Austria 7-5 Switzerland 1954 Most matches as coach - 25 Helmut Schon (West Germany) 1966-78 Most World Cups attended - 17 Brazil Most goals overall - 191 Brazil Most goals in one tournament - 27 Hungary 1954 Smallest crowd - 300 Romania v Peru 1930 Lowest attendance at a final - 45,124 Italy v Hungary 1938
Re: Re: Did you Know the following about World Cup: Is that in chinese by any chance? because I only see weird characters!
Re: Re: Re: Did you Know the following about World Cup: Sorry. It read: I did not know the following. That"s in Japanese.
Most goals in a match - 5 Oleg Salenko of Russia against Cameroon in 1994 tied with Miroslav Klose, 5 goals against Saudi Arabia in 2002. Plus 5 headed goals has to be some kind of separate record.
One of the most overused goal celebration the "airplane" was first done by Careca in World Cup '86 for Brazil.
True: 01/06/2002, Sapporo (Japan), Sapporo Dome, 32218 World Cup GERMANY 8 (Miroslav Klose 20', 25', 70', Michael Ballack 40', Carsten Jancker 45+', Thomas Linke 73', Oliver Bierhoff 84', Bernd Schneider 90+') SAUDI ARABIA 0
Bebeto first "rocked the cradle" when he scored -v- Cameroon in the first round, right? I can put up with the 'rocking the cradle' celebration more than I can 'taking off the shirt to display a personal message' stunt. I hate that crap.
i'm pretty sure a young african player for either cameroon or nigeria was 16 in France98... how recent are those stats?
http://www.desert-voice.net/facts.htm Following is a compilation of leading statistics from the World Cup after the 2002 tournament in South Korea and Japan:
Sure sign you're geting old-remembering watching the telly when the big eejit came onto the pitch "yer man" wasn't it?
Phucking *********************. But it was oliviera indeed. the 1-0 against us. Great player btw. One of my favorites.
Re: Re: Did you Know the following about World Cup: Yes it was a Cameroon player but the stat was wrong,he is much older than that.