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Post by paulgilb on Jul 8, 2010 23:08:59 GMT 1
All of the teams to have won multiple World Cups have clinched their first World Cup by beating a team that were yet to win the World Cup, and both the teams with exactly one World Cup win beat a team that had previously won the World Cup.
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Post by suedehead on Jul 9, 2010 7:29:13 GMT 1
If the Netherlands win without penalties they will have won all their qualifiers and all their matches in the finals. Only Brazil in 1970 have done that before.
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Post by Panda on Jul 9, 2010 10:33:52 GMT 1
No team has won the World Cup wearing their away kit since England in 1966. West Germany (1986), Argentina (1990) and France (2006) all lost in the final wearing their change colours.
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Post by Panda on Jul 9, 2010 13:11:13 GMT 1
World Cup final referees: 1930: John Langenus (Belgium) 1934: Ivan Eklind (Sweden) 1938: George Capdeville (France) 1950: George Reader (England) (final match) 1954: William Ling (England) 1958: Maurice Guigue (France) 1962: Nikolaj Latychev (USSR) 1966: Gottfried Dienst (Switzerland) 1970: Rudi Glockner (East Germany) 1974: Jack Taylor (England) 1978: Sergio Gonella (Italy) 1982: Arnaldo Cezar Coelho (Brazil) 1986: Romualdo Arppi Filho (Brazil) 1990: Edgardo Codesal (Mexico) 1994: Sandor Puhl (Hungary) 1998: Said Belqola (Morocco) 2002: Pierluigi Collina (Italy) 2006: Horacio Elizondo (Argentina) 2010: Howard Webb (England)
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Post by Maximo Mark on Jul 10, 2010 14:32:39 GMT 1
If Spain win the final without needing penalties the only team not to have been beaten in the tournament will be New Zealand.
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Post by Panda on Jul 11, 2010 22:39:14 GMT 1
Spain are the first team to win the World Cup without conceding a goal in the knockout stages.
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Post by Panda on Jul 11, 2010 22:47:13 GMT 1
If Spain win the final without needing penalties the only team not to have been beaten in the tournament will be New Zealand. So New Zealand were the only unbeaten team in the finals. However, they did lose to Fiji in the qualifiers, meaning the only team unbeaten in the entire tournament was the British Virgin Islands, who lost on away goals to the Bahamas!
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Post by paulgilb on Jul 11, 2010 23:02:45 GMT 1
Italy in 1982 remain the last European team to win a World Cup final in which no player was sent off.
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Post by paulgilb on Jul 12, 2010 18:45:42 GMT 1
Records that were beaten/equalled/extended in the 2010 World Cup (including a couple from the qualification stages):
Brazil's 19th World Cup appearance (all tournaments)
Germany's 12th semi-final appearance
Germany's 99th match
Brazil's 67th victory
Mexico's 24th defeat
Italy's 21st draw
New Zealand have played 6 matches without a win - equalling Bolivia and El Salvador
Brazil's 210th goal
Germany's 115th goal conceded
7th appearance between (West) Germany and Serbia/Yugoslavia - equalling Brazil v Sweden
Uruguay qualified after 20 matches (equalling their own record from 2002)
Spain won the tournament despite losing a game (equalling West Germany in 1954 and 1974 and Argentina in 1978). Netherlands have thus lost all 3 of their finals to teams that had lost a game earlier in the tournament.
Spain's goal difference of +6 is the joint lowest for a champion, equalling Italy in 1982
Spain scored the fewest goals (8) of any champions, and also conceded the fewest (2), equalling France (1998) and Italy (2006)
Spain scored an average of 1.14 goals per match - the lowest of any champions
Germany's 3rd consecutive top 4 finish (3rd time they have managed this, Brazil have also managed it twice)
Germany's 15th consecutive top 8 finish
Spain's 7th consecutive successful qualification attempt (excluding teams with automatic qualification)
Luxembourg's 18th consecutive unsuccessful qualification attempt
Switzerland's 5th consecutive clean sheet (equalling Italy in 1990)
Switzerland went 559 minutes without conceding a goal (going back to 1994)
Spain broke the record for longest gap between two appearances in the last 4 (1950, 2010)
Ecuador's Ivan Hurtado has played 68 qualifying matches
David James became the oldest World Cup debutant at 39y 321d (for England v Algeria)
Rigobert Song equalled the record for longest span of World Cup finals appearances as a player (first appeared in 1994)
Miroslav Klose became the first player to score 4 goals in 3 different World Cups (Jurgen Klinsmann and Ronaldo are the only others to have scored 3 goals in 3 different tournaments)
Mexico's Cuauhtemoc Blanco equalled the record for longest span between first and last World Cup goals (he first scored in 1998)
Asamoah Gyan became the first player to miss 2 penalties in World Cup finals tournaments excluding penalty shootouts (missed v Czech Republic in 2006 and Uruguay in 2010)
Carlos Alberto Parreira became the first manager to coach in 6 tournaments (Kuwait in 1982, UAE in 1990, Brazil in 1994 and 2006, Saudi Arabia in 1998, South Africa in 2010), and the second manager (after Bora Milutinovic) to coach 5 different countries at the World Cup
Otto Rehhagel became the oldest World Cup coach (71y 317d)
Oscar Ruiz and Carlos Simon both refereed in their 3rd World Cup, equalling the record
Benito Archundia equalled Joel Quiniou's record of 8 matches refereed
Ravshan Irmatov equalled the record of 5 matches refereed in 1 tournament
Brazil received their 11th red card (since 1970)
Argentina received their 88th yellow card (since 1970)
Netherlands received 9 yellow cards in 1 match, equalling Portugal's record from 2006 (against the Netherlands!)
A record 14 cautions in the final
South Africa became the first host nation to be eliminated in the first round (although USA in 1994 had a worse record in the group stage)
Paraguay equalled the record of scoring 5 goals in one penalty shoot-out
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Post by Panda on Jul 13, 2010 9:59:05 GMT 1
South Africa became the first host nation to be eliminated in the first round (although USA in 1994 had a worse record in the group stage) They didn't have a worse record. Both teams had a record of won 1, drew 1, lost 1 in the group stage and the USA's goal difference in '94 was better than South Africa's in this World Cup. However, the USA wouldn't have qualified for the knockout stages in '94 had it only been the top 2 going through.
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Post by Panda on Jul 13, 2010 10:32:58 GMT 1
Luxembourg's 18th consecutive unsuccessful qualification attempt Other long-time unsuccessful participants: Finland (17 consecutive failures to qualify) Netherlands Antilles (14) (possibly their last World Cup as they are due to be dissolved later this year. Look out for Curacao as an entrant for 2014.) Cyprus (14 including withdrawal in 1958) Sudan (14 including five withdrawals) Wales (13) Guatemala (13) (probably would've been 14 if they'd entered in 1966) Suriname (13 including withdrawal in 1938) Venezuela (13 including two withdrawals) Indonesia (13 including three withdrawals) Syria (13 including one withdrawal) Chinese Taipei (11 including two withdrawals) Zambia (11) Guinea (11 including two withdrawals) Ethiopia (11 includign two withdrawals) Malta (10) Albania (10) Malaysia (10) Hong Kong (10) Thailand (10) Libya (10 including four withdrawals) Kenya (10)
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Post by Panda on Jul 13, 2010 10:39:18 GMT 1
Consecutive qualifications for the 2010 teams:
19 - Brazil 15 - Germany 13 - Italy 10 - Argentina 9 - Spain 7 - South Korea 6 - USA 5 - Mexico 4 - Japan, England, France, Paraguay 3 - Portugal 2 - Ghana, Ivory Coast, Australia, Holland, Serbia, Switzerland 1 - Algeria, Cameroon, Nigeria, South Africa, North Korea, Honduras, Denmark, Greece, Slovakia, Slovenia, New Zealand, Chile, Uruguay
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Post by paulgilb on Jul 13, 2010 17:13:05 GMT 1
South Africa became the first host nation to be eliminated in the first round (although USA in 1994 had a worse record in the group stage) They didn't have a worse record. Both teams had a record of won 1, drew 1, lost 1 in the group stage and the USA's goal difference in '94 was better than South Africa's in this World Cup. However, the USA wouldn't have qualified for the knockout stages in '94 had it only been the top 2 going through. Thanks for that - it seems as though whoever wrote that bit on Wikipedia was referring to the teams' overall records in the respective tournaments.
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Post by frag on Jul 20, 2010 13:07:18 GMT 1
7 - Diego Maradona has been penalised more for handball than any other player in #worldcup history. God.
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