Few Fun Facts About Football World Cups

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Few Fun Facts About Football World Cups
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For the first time ever, all eight group winners
have made it to the quarter finals of the same
world cup
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World Cup World Record For Saves

• Tim Howard, US Goal keeper, has set a World Cup
  World Record by making 16 saves in a knockout
  game against Belgium!
• The
• Super
• Man!

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Lost 300k Twitter Followers

• Luis Suarez, Forward from Uruguay, has lost more
  than 300k Twitter followers since biting
  Giorgio Chiellini in a match against Italy
• Bad
• Boy!

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Win all 3 Man of the Matches

• Lionel Messi, Forward from Argentina, is the
  first player ever to win all 3 Man of the Matches
  in Group Stage games in a World Cup
• The
• Legend!

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Goal Line Technology

• This is the first World Cup ever with Goal Line
  Technology. 6 cameras around the Goal track the
  ball and system software creates 3D image which
  capture the position of the ball in relation to
  the Goal line. As the ball crosses the Goal line,
  the system sends message to referee within half a
  second.

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Three Brothers Made History

• Three Brothers Jerry, Jhony and Wilson Palacios
  made history as the first three brothers ever to
  play in same squad, for Honduras

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Bears and Hot Dogs
Fans drank,
And ate
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Highest Viewership

• The World Cup screened in every single country
  and territory on Earth including Antarctica and
  the Arctic C.ircle

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The only host country
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The only World Cup Hosted by two nations
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The Fastest Goal
The fastest Goal in the World Cup history took
place in a match between Turkey and South Korea.
South Korean had the ball first and passed it
back to the defence, but the ball was stolen by
Turkey and then Hakan Sukur
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The Host Country Has Won Six time
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