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Post by paulgilb on Jun 22, 2006 18:42:07 GMT 1
#11: Ireland reached the quarter-finals of the 1990 World Cup without winning a game. R1: England D 1-1 R1: Egypt D 0-0 R1: Holland D 1-1 R2: Romania D 0-0 (won on penalties) I think the game against Romania classes as a victory...
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Post by frag on Jun 22, 2006 19:15:11 GMT 1
Nah, it's a draw in my book...
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Post by Admin on Jun 26, 2006 12:29:00 GMT 1
Luiz Felipe Scolari has taken his perfect record at the World Cup to 11 matches. He won seven matches as coach of Brazil in 2002 and has now added four wins with Portugal. The Portuguese have reached the quarter-finals for the second time in their history and the first since 1966, and this victory means they now hold the best current unbeaten run in competitive matches by a European nation with 16. They ended the Dutch streak of 15.
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Post by Panda on Jul 3, 2006 17:38:08 GMT 1
#12.
In each of the last 5 World Cups, one of the semi-finalists has failed to qualify for the next World Cup. (Watch out Portugal!)
1986: France (failed to qualify in 1990) 1990: England (failed to qualify in 1994) 1994: Sweden (failed to qualify in 1998) 1998: Holland (failed to qualify in 2002) 2002: Turkey (failed to qualify in 2006)
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Post by paulgilb on Jul 4, 2006 12:02:28 GMT 1
#12. In each of the last 5 World Cups, one of the semi-finalists has failed to qualify for the next World Cup. (Watch out Portugal!) 1986: France (failed to qualify in 1990) 1990: England (failed to qualify in 1994) 1994: Sweden (failed to qualify in 1998) 1998: Holland (failed to qualify in 2002) 2002: Turkey (failed to qualify in 2006) Interesting! Also noticed that they alternated between 3rd place and 4th place (France, Sweden & Turkey finished 3rd, England & Holland finished 4th). Has a finalist ever failed to qualify for the next WC?
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Post by frag on Jul 4, 2006 16:23:19 GMT 1
Uruguay - won the world cup in 1930, didn't enter in 1934.
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Post by frag on Jul 4, 2006 16:28:49 GMT 1
Losing finalists who didn't qualify for the next tournament...
Hungary (1938, DNQ in 1950) Czechoslovakia (finalists 1962, DNQ 1966) Holland (finalists 1974 and 1978, DNQ 1982)
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Post by Panda on Jul 4, 2006 17:58:07 GMT 1
Losing finalists who didn't qualify for the next tournament... Hungary (1938, DNQ in 1950) Czechoslovakia (finalists 1962, DNQ 1966) Holland (finalists 1974 and 1978, DNQ 1982) Also Sweden, finalists in 1958, didn't qualify in 1962. You could also include Sweden and Spain in 1950. The final was a group of four teams, which also featured Uruguay and Brazil. Sweden and Spain both failed to qualify in 1954. Argentina are worth a mention. After reaching the final in 1990, they scraped into the 1994 finals with a play-off victory over Australia.
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Post by paulgilb on Jul 5, 2006 10:52:56 GMT 1
Another fact: Whenever the World Cup has been held outside Europe, the winners have never been European. Whenever the World Cup has been held in Europe, the winners have been European with the exception of Brazil in 1958.
And another: Out of all the nations to have won the World Cup, the only nation never to have done so on home soil are Brazil (who of course have won more often than anyone else). This will of course be spoilt if P*rt*g*l win the World Cup this year.
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Post by marcus on Jul 5, 2006 13:26:53 GMT 1
I've got one: Russia's Oleg Salenko is the only golden boot winner not to have his team feature in the knockout stages. They lost their first 2 games 2-0 and 3-1 to Brazil and Sweden respectively, and he scored 5 of their 6 goals in a 6-1 win over Cameroon. This took his tally up to 6, and shared the golden boot with Histro Stoitchkov of Bulgaria, he is also the first and only player to score 5 times in a world cup game. He retired due to health problems . In the same Cameroon game another piece of history was made when Roger Milla scored Cameroon's goal making him the oldest scorer in the tournament ever.
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Post by marcus on Jul 5, 2006 13:35:34 GMT 1
If Klose wins the golden boot not adding to his tally, it'll be the smallest number of goals scored by a winner of the prize.
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Post by Panda on Jul 5, 2006 17:55:04 GMT 1
If Klose wins the golden boot not adding to his tally, it'll be the smallest number of goals scored by a winner of the prize. And surely the smallest number of goals scored with the boot... They should give him a golden helmet.
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Post by Panda on Jul 5, 2006 18:02:33 GMT 1
#13
Venezuela are the only South American team never to play in the finals.
They only played their first qualifying match in 1965 and have traditionally been the whipping boys of South America.
They didn't win a qualifier until 1981 and only won one more until the 2002 campaign. There, they won 5 games out of 18, finishing 9th and they matched that in 2006, only finishing 7 points off a play-off place.
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Post by Panda on Jul 5, 2006 19:04:12 GMT 1
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There have been 19 penalty shoot-outs in the history of the finals.
1982 - SF - West Germany 5-4 France (after 3-3 draw) 1986 - QF - France 4-3 Brazil (1-1) 1986 - QF - West Germany 4-1 Mexico (0-0) 1986 - QF - Belgium 5-4 Spain (1-1) 1990 - R2 - Ireland 5-4 Romania (0-0) 1990 - QF - Argentina 3-2 Yugoslavia (0-0) 1990 - SF - West Germany 4-3 England (1-1) 1990 - SF - Argentina 4-3 Italy (1-1) 1994 - R2 - Bulgaria 3-1 Mexico (1-1) 1994 - QF - Sweden 5-4 Romania (2-2) 1994 - F - Brazil 3-2 Italy (0-0) 1998 - R2 - Argentina 4-3 England (2-2) 1998 - QF - France 4-3 Italy (0-0) 1998 - SF - Brazil 4-2 Holland (1-1) 2002 - R2 - Spain 3-2 Ireland (1-1) 2002 - QF - South Korea 5-3 Spain (0-0) 2006 - R2 - Ukraine 3-0 Switzerland (0-0) 2006 - QF - Germany 4-2 Argentina (1-1) 2006 - QF - Portugal 3-1 England (0-0)
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Post by paulgilb on Jul 6, 2006 12:25:31 GMT 1
Win-lose ratio of each country in penalty shootouts: Germany 4 - 0 Argentina 3 - 1 France 2 - 1 Brazil 2 - 1 Ireland 1 - 1 Spain 1 - 2 Belgium 1 - 0 Bulgaria 1 - 0 Sweden 1 - 0 South Korea 1 - 0 Ukraine 1 - 0 Portugal 1 - 0 Yugoslavia 0 - 1 Holland 0 - 1 Switzerland 0 - 1 Mexico 0 - 2 Romania 0 - 2 England 0 - 3 Italy 0 - 3
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Post by Panda on Jul 9, 2006 14:24:24 GMT 1
#15
Number of entrants in each World Cup:
1930 - 13 1934 - 32 1938 - 37 (36 accepted, Spain not accepted) 1950 - 34 1954 - 45 (39 accepted, Iceland, Bolivia, Costa Rica, Cuba, India and Vietnam not accepted) 1958 - 55 (53 accepted, Ethiopia and South Korea not accepted) 1962 - 56 1966 - 74 (70 accepted, Guatemala, Philippines, French Congo and South Africa not accepted) 1970 - 75 (71 accepted, Albania, Cuba, Guinea and Zaire not accepted) 1974 - 99 1978 - 107 1982 - 109 1986 - 121 1990 - 116 (113 accepted, Belize, Mauritius and Mozambique not accepted) 1994 - 147 1998 - 174 2002 - 199 2006 - 199 (198 accepted, Myanmar not accepted)
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