Interesting facts about the Soccer World Cups.
Taking advantage of the football climate of the 2018 World Cup in Russia, I share some information that has happened throughout the World Cups.
- The first Soccer World Cup was played in Uruguay in 1930.
- The referee of the final of the first World Cup, the Belgian Jean Lanzhenyu, was dressed in a suit, shirt, and tie.
- The first football world cup broadcast on television was that of Switzerland in 1954.
- Months before the World Cup in England began in 1966, someone stole the Jules Rimet trophy, when it was exhibited in a church in London. And the cup was found by the dog named "Pickles" in the garden of a house and the thief was never found.
- The Brazilian Edson Arantes do Nascimento, Pelé is the only one who has won three World Cups: Sweden 1958, Chile 1962 and Mexico 1970.
- The artist Joan Miró, designed the posters of the 1982 World Cup in Spain.
- At the 1982 World Cup in Spain, in the match between France and Kuwait, Sheikh Fahd Al-Ahmad Sabah, president of the Kuwaiti football federation and brother of the Kuwaiti head of state, canceled the fourth goal of the French, demanding the referee that invalidated the play, arguing that the players of his selection had let pass the opponents because they had listened to the whistle of the judge. The referee gave in to the pressure and annulled the goal, but shortly after, France scored the final 4-1.
- Dejan Stanković is the only one to have played in three different teams in three World Cups: Yugoslavia in France 1998, Serbia and Montenegro in Germany 2006 and Serbia in South Africa 2010.
- The football match in which most goals have been scored in a World Cup was the match for the quarterfinals between Austria and Switzerland in the World Cup in Switzerland 1954. The final score was 7-5 in favor of the Austrians.
- So far the German Miroslav Klose is the top scorer of the world with a total of 16 goals scored in 2002, 2006, 2010 and 2014.
- Mexico has had 16 appearances in World Cups, so it is the selection that has most times qualified and has not won any.
- Russia 2018 is already the World Cup with more penalties with 24 in total.
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