Posted on 24. Jun, 2010 by admin in Did you Know
• More than 11 million South African television viewers watched the Soccer World Cup opening match between South Africa and Mexico on Friday 11 June 2010.
| • 42-year-old Roger Milla in 1994 became the oldest goal scorer and the oldest player in World Cup history. He is also famous for being the first footballer to celebrate a goal by dancing: sparking a whole trend that has seen some very strange on-field gyrations. |
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| • Sir Viv Richards is the only person to have played both World Cup Football and World Cup Cricket. |
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| • Sri Lanka was the first country to withdraw from the World Cup due to the inability to pay the entrance fee for the 1978 World Cup. |
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| • Shirt swapping was once officially prohibited in 1986 because FIFA did not want players to ‘bare their chests’ on the field. |
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| • No European team has won a World Cup played outside of Europe. Sorry Netherlands and Spain. |
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| • Yugoslavia’s Rajko Mitic failed to make the kick-off of their 1950 match against hosts Brazil in Rio because he had run into an iron girder in the players’ tunnel. He emerged 20 minutes later, his head bandaged, with his team already a goal down. |
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| • The Japanese squad list goes from 3 to 5 as the number 4 is considered unlucky in the country. Four is pronounced “shi” which is the same as “death.” |
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| • A bag snatcher who stole Eva Standmann’s handbag before the Brazil-Australia game in Munich four years ago found her ticket inside and decided to attend the game with her ticket. Unfortunately, he sat in Eva’s seat right next to her husband Berndt, who had him arrested. Talk about the “hot” seat!” |
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| • The Socceroos’ nickname was coined by Sydney Daily Mirror editor Tony Horstead in 1967. These days Australians now want to ditch it and reclaim the name ‘football’. Meanwhile, Australia’s U-17 team is known as The Joeys. |
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| • During Germany’s 2009 Wembley friendly with England, Germany’s team coach Joachim Loew was caught on camera vigorously rubbing his armpit and then sniffing his hand. He was also spotted picking his nose and then chewing the bogey during the qualifier against Wales. Eek! |
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| • Shunsuke Nakamura, Japan’s midfielder has an asteroid, “Asteroid 29986 Shunsuke”, named after him. |
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