10 things that you did not know about World Cup

The season of ‘oral soccer’ has ushered in after a long last. During the World Cup season, fans naturally enjoy not only chicken, but discuss in details over common sense regarding soccer. Here are ten ‘bates’ hidden in the history of the World Cup. Even certain maniacs of soccer could also get confused, and please use this knowledge to ‘brag about you’ until the end of the World Cup.

① The U.S. garnered the first win in the history of the World Cup. The U.S. team defeated Belgium 3-0 at the first World Cup event held in Uruguay in 1930. It ranked third overall. Who can dare to disregard American soccer?

② Mariu Zagalu (Brazil) and Franz Anton Beckenbauer (former West Germany), are the only two men who won World Cup titles as both player and coach. Vittorio Pozzo (Italy) is the only coach who enabled his team to win the World Cup twice.

③ There is no third place in the ranking of goals scored by players. Miroslav Josef Klose (Germany) ties his team’s senior player Gerd Müller by scoring 14 goals each to tie the competition at the second place. At an exhibition game versus Armenia on June 6, Klose scored his 69th goal of this season, and broke the record in most goals of the German team in the friendly match on Friday last week, and broke the record of most goals for the Germany Team.

④ Only 24 countries in the world, those that have ever reached semifinals at least once through the 2010 event in South Africa. Of these, countries that don’t belong to Europe or Latin America are the U.S. (1930) and the Republic of Korea (2002). Seventy-seven percent countries have the experience of moving into the country.

⑤ Brazil acquired the World Cup title five times. Brazil secured its 68th win, as it defeated by Croatia on Friday. Of course, this is a record on the number of wins of the World Cup.

⑥ The Netherlands failed to win the championships even after winning six wins at the final round of the 2010 event. The Netherlands is the only country in Europe that failed to become the champion even after winning much.

⑦ The country that needs biggest luck in this year’s World Cup is Brazil. Mexico is a team that has had most losses (24 losses), and that disqualified most (12 losses) frequently at the round of 12 teams and failed to secure even a single win.

⑧ While Spain clinched the title in 2010, the number of countries that had won at least one World Cup trophy increased to eight. Brazil (5 times), Italy (4 times), Germany (3 times), Argentina and Uruguay (2 each), England and France (1 time) have also joined the foray.

⑨ This is the ninth occasion wherein Korea is advancing to the World Cup finals. Korea is the country that allowed ‘hat tricks’ the most to a player of the rival team. Including former West Germany, Germany also had four hat tricks.

⑩ Of the global population, about 1 billion people watch the soccer festival by black and white image. For this reason, when the color of uniforms in duel is similar, the home team wears white uniform. This year, Spain will only wear white uniform during its matches versus the Netherland again this year.