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SPORT: INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT THE JUST CONCLUDED BRAZIL 2014 WORLD CUP

The FIFA world cup, Brazil 2014 has come and gone. But the intrigues and excitement that came with it will linger on as new amazing records and extraordinary achievements were made. Not forgetting the not too pleasant records set......a la BRAZIL AND SPAIN (laughs). Here are some of them for your reading pleasure.
Less I forget, GERMANY is the new world champion!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

GOALS
The 2014 World Cup saw a joint-high number of goals scored (171).
James Rodriguez became the first player to score in his first five career World Cup appearances since Peru’s Teofilo Cubillas (across the 1970 and 1978 tournaments).
There were more goals scored by substitutes in this World Cup than in any previous edition (32).
The only World Cup to see more own goals than this tournament (5) was the 1998 finals (6).
Tim Cahill has scored in three World Cups for Australia; no other Australian has done so in more than one tournament.
Ghana’s Asamoah Gyan (6) overtook Cameroon’s Roger Milla (5) as all-time top scoring African player at a World Cup.
Algeria became the first African team to score four goals in a World Cup game when they beat South Korea 4-2.
Keisuke Honda became the first Japanese player to score at two separate World Cups.
Switzerland’s Xherdan Shaqiri scored the first entirely left-footed hat-trick at a World Cup (1966-2014). His treble was also the 50th hat-trick in the history of the World Cup.
Faryd Mondragón became the oldest player to ever make an appearance at a World Cup finals when he came on for Colombia v Japan (43y 3d).
Algeria goalkeeper Rais M'Bolhi created two goalscoring chances for the Foxes; only three of his team-mates managed more in the tournament.
Tim Howard made 15 saves in the USA’s quarter final defeat to Belgium – no goalkeeper has ever made as many saves in a single World Cup game (1966-2014).
Three of the last four teams to win the World Cup have gone out in the following group stage (France 2002, Italy 2010, Spain 2014).
All eight group stage winners progressed to the quarter finals stage for the first time in World Cup history.
Honduras have now played nine games without a win at the World Cup (D3 L6). They have played more matches at the World Cup without winning than any other side (New Zealand, El Salvador and Bolivia – all six).
Ghana went out in the group stage for the first time ever (in their third World Cup). Now only three teams have never exited in a World Cup opening group stage: Germany, Netherlands and the Republic of Ireland.
Nigeria have lost all three of their World Cup second round ties (0-2 v France in 2014, 1-2 v Italy in 1994 and 1-4 v Denmark in 1998).
Costa Rica knocked out Italy, England, Greece and beat Uruguay, four  sides placed in the top 12 positions of the FIFA Rankings (Uruguay – 7th, Italy – 9th, England – 10th, Greece – 12th).
UEFA have won the last three World Cups, the first time a single confederation has won three in a row.
Germany have reached the World Cup final for the 8th time; more often than any other side in the history of the competition.
Germany have scored 18 goals in these finals – the last team to score as many in a World Cup tournament was Brazil (also 18) in 2002.
Miroslav Klose became the top scoring player in World Cup history with his strike against Brazil in the semi-finals (16 goals).
Germany are the first European team to win the World Cup in the Americas.
Germany’s 7-1 win was the biggest margin of victory ever seen in a World Cup semi-final and they were the first team to score this many goals in the semi-finals.
Mario Götze is the first substitute to score a winning goal in the World Cup final.
Mario Götze is the youngest scorer of a goal in a World Cup final since Wolfgang Weber in 1966 (22 years, 33 days).
Sami Khedira is the 10th player to win the European Cup/Champions League & World Cup in the same season.
With their destruction of Brazil, Germany became the top scoring nation in World Cup history (223), overtaking Brazil in the process. Germany ended the tournament with 224 goals, three ahead of Brazil.
Luke Shaw was the youngest player to play at this World Cup finals, when he played for England v Costa Rica (18y 348d).
Neymar scored the 100th goal of the 2014 World Cup in Brazil’s 100th game in World Cup finals history.
Brazil’s 7-1 defeat to Germany was the biggest losing margin by a host nation at a World Cup.

Brazil committed 31 fouls in their quarter final win over Colombia; the most fouls that they had made in a single World Cup game since records began in 1966.

Amazing right?

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