5 interesting facts about the football world cup

by: Javed Baloch  images via Unsplash

FIFA World Cup 2022

FIFA Football World Cup 2022 is starting on 20th November.  Here are 5 interesting facts about the FIFA World Cup.

First penalty shootout

France and West Germany played the first World Cup penalty shootout in 1982 in a Semi-final match. Germany won 5-4.

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3 yellow cards

Graham Poll, the English referee, actually booked the Croatian player Josip Simunic 3 times in 2006 World Cup. By the rules, the player is sent off after the  2nd yellow. 

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8 Teams

Teams from all around the world get to participate in the World Cup. But only 8 nations have won the FIFA World Cup in its entire history.

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most goals

Who has scored the most goals in a single World Cup edition? The answer is Just Fontaine, the French international, scored 13 goals in the 1958 World Cup. 

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Fastest goal

Turkish player, Hakan Sukur, scored the fastest goal in World Cup history as he took only 11 seconds.

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