100 facts about the World Cup part 1

Tuesday marked the 100-day countdown to the World Cup. In celebration of the tournament being 100 days away, CBCSports.ca presents this special feature: 100 facts about the World Cup, each fact related to a specific number, one through 100. 1 — every match at the inaugural 1930 World Cup in Uruguay was played in one city: Montevideo. 2 — Sweden's Jan Olsson, wearing No. 2, was the defender that Dutch star Johan Cruyff famously bamboozled with...

100 facts about the World Cup part 5

81 — Yugoslavia embarrassed Zaire 9-0 at the 1974 World Cup in one of the most lopsided games in tournament history. Dusan Bajevic finished off the scoring in the 81st minute. 82 — Silvio Piola scored in the 82nd minute of the 1938 World Cup final to cap off a 4-2 win for Italy over Hungary in France. In doing so, Italy became the first team to repeat as champions. 83 — Hungary hammered El Salvador 10-1 in 1982, tying the record for the most...

100 facts about the World Cup part 4

61 — English referee Graham Poll mistakenly showed Croatian defender Josip Simunic three yellow cards during a first-round game against Australia in 2006. Poll cautioned Simunic the first time in the 61st minute. 62 — six players, including Brazil’s Garrincha, finished tied as the tournament top scorers in 1962 in Chile with four goals each. 63 — Soviet star Lev Yashin, considered the greatest goalkeeper ever to play the game, made 63 saves...

100 facts about the World Cup part 3

41 — as in 17 years and 41 days, the age of Northern Ireland’s Norman Whiteside when he became the youngest player to appear at the World Cup, in 1982. 42 — the age of Cameroon's Roger Milla when he became the oldest player to score and play at the World Cup, in 1994 in the United States. 43 — the average attendance (per game) at the World Cup: just over 43,000 fans. 44 — the gap in years between Italy's second World Cup title (in 1938) and...

100 facts about the World Cup part 2

21 — the four European teams that competed at the first World Cup (Romania, Belgium, France and Yugoslavia) set sail for Uruguay on June 21, 1930. 22 — North Korea took a shocking 3-0 lead after only 22 minutes against Portugal in the quarter-finals of the 1966 World Cup, only to see the Portuguese storm back to win the game 5-3. 23 — Uruguay's Alcides Ghiggia was 23 when he scored the winning goal against Brazil in the 1950 World Cup decider...

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