fun FIFA World Cup™ facts

The first player ever to be shown the red card at a World Cup match

was Chile’s player, Carlos Caszely, who was sent off in 1974.

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According to Statista, 715.1 million viewers watched the FIFA World

Cup™ final, staged in Germany in 2006.

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The youngest player ever to play in a FIFA World Cup match was

Norman Whiteside, who was 6,246 days old (17 years and 41 days) when

the tournament began.

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In 2014 the Netherlands became the first team in World Cup

history to use every one of its squad players during the

tournament: all 23 players took their turn on the pitch.

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171 goals were scored in the FIFA World Cup™ in Brazil 2014, the same

number that were scored in the World Cup in France in 1998.

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WHITESIDE

3,240 balls were used during the 2014 World Cup tournament in

Brazil: 20 for each match played.

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The oldest goal scorer at the 2014 World Cup was Honduran goal

keeper, Noel Valladares, who scored an own goal in the match against

France at the age of 37 years and 43 days (13,548 days old).

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Completing Panini’s World Cup 2018 sticker book could set you back

£773.60 according to Cardiff University maths professor Paul Harper

who calculated the likelihood of collecting a sticker for every player,

including the risk and probability of buying duplicates, within packs

of five stickers retailing at 50p to 80p per pack.

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According to Information Resources (IRI), sales of beer and cider were

boosted by £28million and snack sales increased by £3million in the first

week of the 2014 World Cup, as fans stocked up on 10 million litres of

lager and 2.5million litres of cider before sitting back to watch their

football heroes battle it out on the field.

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FIFA expects to make a profit of $1.07 billion during the 2018 World

Cup in Russia.

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