Interesting facts about football

We present interesting, remarkable facts about the World Cup, football fans, sports fans.

Italian Dino Dzoff is the oldest football player to win the World Cup. In 1982, when Italy became world champions, the footballer was 40 years and 133 days old.
Didier Deschamps gave the French national team two books to prepare for the World Cup. One of them was the autobiography of the legendary coach Alex Ferguson.
Colombian James Rodriguez is the second youngest player in the history of the World Cup to score 6 goals.
All the goals scored by the Belgian national team in the 2014 World Cup were recorded after the 70th minute. 4 of their 7 goals were scored by substitutes.
Gonzalo Higuain was born in France. He acquired Argentine citizenship in 2007.
For the first time in history, Argentina and Brazil reached the semi-finals of the same championship.
Wesley Sneijder from the Netherlands has played more matches for the team than any other Dutchman.
The Dutch national team is the only one in the history of the World Cup to replace its goalkeeper before the penalty shootout.
Karim Benzema from France listens to the Qur’an before each match, according to him, it calms him down.

10. If the fracture of Brazilian Neymar was 2.3 cm higher. He would be confined to a wheelchair for the rest of his life.

11. Three of the countries participating in the semi-finals of Euro 2012 — Spain, Italy and Portugal — did not overcome the obstacle of the group stage of the 2014 World Cup.

12. Dirk Kite from the Netherlands played as a striker during the 2006 World Cup, in 2010 as a midfielder, and in 2014 as a left defender. Germany’s Philipp Lahm as a left-back, right-back and midfielder in this league.

13. German Mueller’s goal against Brazil was the German team’s 2000th goal.

14. The Spanish national team became world champions in 2010, scoring a total of 8 goals.

15. Germany’s Miroslav Klose scored his 16th goal at the World Cup, overtaking Ronaldo of Brazil.

16. The defeat from Germany was the biggest in the history of the Brazilian team.

17. Argentina is in the World Cup final for the first time in 24 years.

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