World Cup Soccer Interesting Facts

World Cup Soccer Interesting Facts

World Cup soccer is the most widely viewed sporting event in the world, with over one billion people watching every four years. FIFA is the governing body of this event and World Cup soccer was started in 1928.

There are many interesting statistics and facts surrounnding World Cup soccer. Ronaldo Luis Naz?rio de Lima, simply known as Ronaldo, is a professional Brazilian soccer player. He enjoys the recognition of being the overall top goalscorer in World Cup soccer history with fifteen goals.

Next in line for the top goal scorer in World Cup soccer is Gerd ?Der Bomber? M?ller. His record is fourteen World Cup soccer goals. In 1970, Gerd ?Der Bomber? M?ller won the FIFA World Cup Soccer Golden Shoe. In 2006 another German, Miroslav Klose, won the World Cup Soccer Golden Shoe.

The fastest goal ever scored in World Cup soccer was eleven seconds and the player was on the team from Turkey. The player?s name was Hakan Sukur and the game was against the Korea Republic in 2002. The eleven second score took the record away from a fifteen second score made in the 1962 World Cup soccer event in Chile by a player from Czechoslovakia in a game against the team from Mexico.

It is interesting to note that a World Cup Soccer milestone goal was reached at the 2006 World Cup soccer games. Swedish player Marcus Allback scored the 2,000th goal in World Cup soccer history in a game against England. The game was played on June 20th, in Cologne, Germany.

The balls used in World Cup Soccer are traditionally made by Adidas. The 2006 World Cup Soccer games was the unveiling of a new style of ball. The Adidas Teamgeist ball for the 2006 World Cup Soccer games was a fourteen panel ball instead of the normal thirty two. It is interesting to note that the first multi-colored ball was used in the World Cup Soccer finals in 1998.

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