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NAME OF NATIONAL TEAM&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1 NIGERIA              &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt; SUPER EAGLES&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2 EGYPT               &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;PHAROAHS&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3 KENYA              &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt; HARAMBEE STARS&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4 CAMEROON       &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;INDOMITABLE LIONS&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5 TUNISIA               &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;THE EAGLES OF CARTHAGE&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;6 REPUBLIC OF BENIN     THE SQUIRREL&lt;br /&gt;7 TOGO                  THE SPARROW HAWKS&lt;br /&gt;8 GABON               AZINGO NATIONALE&lt;br /&gt;9 ANGOLA               PALANCAS NEGRAS&lt;br /&gt;10 COTE D’ IVOIRE       THE ELEPHANTS&lt;br /&gt;11 SENEGAL               THE LIONS OF TERANGA&lt;br /&gt;12 ZAMBIA               CHIPOLOPOLO&lt;br /&gt;13 ZIMBABWE       THE WARRIORS&lt;br /&gt;14 DR CONGO       THE LEOPARDS&lt;br /&gt;15 ALGERIA               DESERT WARRIORS&lt;br /&gt;16 LIBERIA               LONE STARS&lt;br /&gt;17 SOUTH AFRICA       BAFANA BAFANA&lt;br /&gt;18 BURKINA FASO       STALLIONS&lt;br /&gt;19 TANZANIA       TAIFA STARS&lt;br /&gt;20 GHANA               BLACK STARS&lt;br /&gt;21 LESOTHO               CROCODILES&lt;br /&gt;22 MOROCCO               ATLAS LIONS&lt;br /&gt;23 GUINEA               SYLLI NATIONALE&lt;br /&gt;24 UGANDA               CRANES&lt;br /&gt;25 GAMBIA               SCORPIONS&lt;br /&gt;26 MALAWI               THE FLAMES&lt;br /&gt;27 SIERRA LEONE       LEONE STARS&lt;br /&gt;28 BOTSWANA       THE ZEBRAS&lt;br /&gt;29 BURUNDI               THE SWALLOWS&lt;br /&gt;30 CHAD               SAO&lt;br /&gt;31 ETHIOPIA       THE WALYA ANTELOPES&lt;br /&gt;32 LIBYA               THE GREENS&lt;br /&gt;33 MADAGASCAR       BAREA&lt;br /&gt;34 MALI               THE EAGLES&lt;br /&gt;35 RWANDA               THE WASP&lt;br /&gt;36 SWAZILAND       SIHLANGU SEMNIKATI&lt;br /&gt;37 SUDAN               SOKOOR AL-JEDIANE(THE NILE CROCODILE)&lt;br /&gt;38 SOMALIA               THE OCEAN STARS&lt;br /&gt;39 NIGER               MENA&lt;br /&gt;40 NAMIBIA               BRAVE WARRIORS&lt;br /&gt;41 MAURITIUS       CLUB M, LES DODOS&lt;br /&gt;42 MAURITANIA       MOURABIT OUNES&lt;br /&gt;43 AUSTRALIA       SOCCEROOS&lt;br /&gt;44 NETHERLANDS       THE ORANGE MEN&lt;br /&gt;45 GREECE               THE PIRATE SHIP&lt;br /&gt;46 BRAZIL               THE CANARIES&lt;br /&gt;47 SPAIN               LA ROJA(THE RED ONE)&lt;br /&gt;48 CANADA               THE CANUCKS&lt;br /&gt;49 CROATIA               VATRENI(THE FIERY ONES)&lt;br /&gt;50 CHINA               TEAM CHINA&lt;br /&gt;51 GERMANY               DIE MANNSCHAFT(THE TEAM)&lt;br /&gt;52 SWITZERLAND       NATI&lt;br /&gt;53 USA               THE RED,WHITE AND BLUE YANKS&lt;br /&gt;54 BELGIUM               RED DEVILS&lt;br /&gt;55 ARGENTINA       THE GAUCHOS(WHITE AND SKY BLUE)&lt;br /&gt;56 DENMARK               DANISH DYNAMITE(THE OLSEN GANG)&lt;br /&gt;57 REPUBLIC OF IRELAND   THE BOYS IN GREEN&lt;br /&gt;58 TURKEY               CRESCENT STARS(COMEBACK KINGS)&lt;br /&gt;59 JAPAN               NIPPON DAIHYO&lt;br /&gt;60 PORTUGAL       SELECCAO DAS QUINAS&lt;br /&gt;61 ENGLAND               THE THREE LIONS&lt;br /&gt;62 MEXICO               EL TRI&lt;br /&gt;63 ITALY               AZZURRI&lt;br /&gt;64 FRANCE               LES BLEUS&lt;br /&gt;65 SOUTH KOREA       TAEGEUK HO(TIGERS)&lt;br /&gt;66 SWEDEN               THE BLUE YELLOW&lt;br /&gt;67 POLAND               THE EAGLES&lt;br /&gt;68 BOLIVIA               THE GREEN ONE&lt;br /&gt;69 CHILE               LA ROJA&lt;br /&gt;70 COLOMBIA       THE COFFEE MAKERS&lt;br /&gt;71 ECUADOR               TRI COLOR&lt;br /&gt;72 JAMAICA               THE REGGAE BOYS&lt;br /&gt;73 PARAGUAY       LA ALBIRROJA(WHITE AND RED)&lt;br /&gt;74 PERU               LA BLANQUIRROJA, LA ROJIBLANCA(THE WHITE AND RED)&lt;br /&gt;75 EQUITORIAL GUINEA     NZALANG NACIONAL&lt;br /&gt;76 URUGUAY               THE SKY BLUE(CHARRUAS)&lt;br /&gt;77 HUNGARY               THE MAGICAL MAGYARS&lt;br /&gt;78 IRAN               TEAM MELLI(THE NATIONAL TEAM)&lt;br /&gt;79 IRAQ               LIONS OF MESOPOTAMIA&lt;br /&gt;80 INDIA               THE WONDER BOYS&lt;br /&gt;81 SEBIA               WHITE EAGLES&lt;br /&gt;82 UKRAINE               THE YELLOW-BLUES&lt;br /&gt;83 CONGO               DIABLES ROUGES(RED DEVILS)&lt;br /&gt;84 SAUDI ARABIA       THE GREEN FALCONS&lt;br /&gt;85 EL SALVADOR       LA SELECTA&lt;br /&gt;86 JORDAN               NASHAMA&lt;br /&gt;87 VENEZUELA       LA VINOTINTO(THE BURGUNDY)&lt;br /&gt;88 ISREAL                THE BLUE &amp; WHITE&lt;br /&gt;89 ROMANIA               TRICOLORII(TRICLOURS)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3098653681897582890-8858508610859525810?l=sportsfactsunlimited.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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He was only 17years and 102 days  when he broke Pele’s record on December 13th 2006&lt;br /&gt;* The current Minister of sports and chairman of the National sports Commission(NSC) is Alhaji Abdurahaman Gimba&lt;br /&gt;* At 40 years, 266 days, Teddy Sherigham became the oldest player to score in the English Premiership. He scored for West Ham against Portsmouth on 26th December 2006&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* Tunde Kelani is the first Nigerian to cover an entire match with a film camera before the advent of E.N.G cameras&lt;br /&gt;*  Enyimba F.C of Aba is the only Nigerian club side to have won the African champions league. They won it twice(2003 and 2004)&lt;br /&gt;* Mr. Issa Hayatou is the current President of CAF&lt;br /&gt;* The First ever FIFA  world player of the year Award in 1991 was won by Lothar Matthaus of Germany&lt;br /&gt;* FIFA currently has 208 member countries that are affiliated to it&lt;br /&gt;* ASEC Mimosa of Cote d’Ivoire presently hold the world record as the only club to be unbeaten for 108 games between 1989 and 1994&lt;br /&gt;* John Langenus refereed the final match of the first ever FIFA world cup in Uruguay in 1930. He was a Belgian&lt;br /&gt;* The NFA(Nigeria Football Association) was founded in 1945&lt;br /&gt;* The game of Football was first played in England&lt;br /&gt;* The International Football Association Board(IFAB) was founded in 1896&lt;br /&gt;* Confederation of AFRICAN Football currently has 53 member countries affiliated to it&lt;br /&gt;* The game of Football is taken as a Religion in Brazil&lt;br /&gt;* Rashidi Yekini scored Nigeria’s first ever world cup goal at USA 94 against Bulgaria&lt;br /&gt;* Chief Bolaji Ojo-Oba is the current Secretary General of NFA&lt;br /&gt;* Alhaji Sanni Lulu is the current chairman of the NFA&lt;br /&gt;*  Birmingham toolmaker Joseph Hudson invented the Football referees whistle which was first used in a game held at Nottingham Forest in 1878&lt;br /&gt;* Tunisia was the first African country to win a match at the world cup. They defeated Mexico 3-1 at the 1978 world cup&lt;br /&gt;* Sheffield Football club, England, is the oldest football club in the world. They were founded in 1857&lt;br /&gt;* Chief Oyuiki Obaseki is the current chairman of Nigeria Football League&lt;br /&gt;* Nigeria Football League was founded in 2006&lt;br /&gt;* The current pillar of sports in Africa, Dr Orji Uzor Kalu was crowned Nigerian Pillar of sports on 25th April 2008&lt;br /&gt;* Nigeria scored a total of 14 goals in her three previous appearances at the world cup (USA 94, FRANCE 98 and KOREA-JAPAN 2002) and conceded 15 goals.&lt;br /&gt;* The fastest red card to be issued to a substitute in a world cup match went to Bolivia’s Marco Etcheverry who was sent off after 3 minutes of play as a substitute in the match against Germany on 17/06/1994&lt;br /&gt;* Lovchev of the USSR in the 1970 world cup opening match against Mexico on 31/5/1970 became the first player to receive a yellow card&lt;br /&gt;* Sergei Gorlukovich of Russia who was booked after one minute in a world cup group match against Sweden on 24/6/94 became the first player to receive the fastest yellow card in a world cup final&lt;br /&gt;* Korea Republic’s Cha Doo-Ri holds the record of the fastest yellow card given to a substitute in a world cup tournament. He was yellow carded in a group match against Poland on 4 June 2002&lt;br /&gt;* When Italy’s Giuseppe Bergomi replaced Alessandro Nesta in the 4th minute in a first round match against Austria on 23/6/98, it became the fastest substitution in * world cup finals&lt;br /&gt;* The first substitution of a goalkeeper in a world cup finals took place when Romania’s Necula Raducanu replaced Steve Adamache in a match against Brazil on 10th of June 1970&lt;br /&gt;* The first player to take penalty shootout in a world cup finals was Alain Giresse of France, who scored the first ever penalty in a shootout where France lost 4-5 to Germany in the semi final on 8th of July 1982&lt;br /&gt;* Franco Baresi of Italy was the first player to take the penalty shootout in a world cup final match(USA 94) but he missed his penalty kick&lt;br /&gt;* The first time numbers were used on players jersey’s in a world cup was in the 1938 finals in France&lt;br /&gt;* Luis Monti was the only player to have played in world cup final for two different countries. He played for Argentina in the 1930 final and for Italy in the 1934 final.&lt;br /&gt;* The only player to have scored for two different countries in world cup tournament was Robert Prosinecki who scored for Yugoslavia in 1990 and for Croatia in 1998&lt;br /&gt;* Russia’s Oleg Salenko holds the record of the most goals scored by a player in a finals match. He scored 5 goals against Cameroon on 28/06/1994&lt;br /&gt;* The most goals scored by a player in a world cup final is 3 goals. This was achieved by Geoff Hurst of England on 30/07/1966&lt;br /&gt;* The first player to be sent off in a world cup was Peru’s captain Mario de Las Casas in a match against Romania on 14/07/1930&lt;br /&gt;* Gianluca Pagliuca of Italy became the first goalkeeper to be sent off in a world cup match against Norway on 23/06/1994&lt;br /&gt;* Rigobert Song holds the unenviable record of the only player to have been sent off in successive finals tournament. He was sent off on 24/06/1994(against Brazil) and on 23/06/1998(against Chile)&lt;br /&gt;* The first red-carded player in a world cup finals was Chile’s Carlos Caszely in a match against West Germany on 14/06/1974&lt;br /&gt;* Two non-playing reserve players to have been sent off in a world cup finals are Yugoslavia Srecko Katanec on 30/6/1990 and Argentina’s Claudio Caniggia on 12/6/2002&lt;br /&gt;* The record of the fastest sending-off in a world cup finals is held by Uruguay’s Jose Batista who was sent off in the 56th second of a group match against Scotland on 13/06/1986&lt;br /&gt;* The 1994 world cup held in the United States had the highest average attendance with over 68,990 for each match.&lt;br /&gt;* The 1954 world cup held in Switzerland holds the highest average for goals per game 5.38(140 goals in 26 matches)&lt;br /&gt;* Lothar Matthaus of Germany/West Germany has the most appearance by a player in the world cup with 25 appearances(1982-1998)&lt;br /&gt;* Roger Milla of Cameroon was the oldest(42 years, 39 days) player to play in a world cup(USA 94) against Russia on the 28th of June 1994&lt;br /&gt;* Hakan Sukur of Turkey scored the fastest goal in world cup history in 2002 when he scored 11 seconds into the match against South Korea&lt;br /&gt;* The lowest attendance for a match in world cup history is 300 spectators for the match between Romania and Peru in Montevideo on 14/07/1930&lt;br /&gt;* The first final decided on penalty shootout was the 1994 final in which Brazil beat Italy 3-2 on penalty shoot-out after a 0-0 tie&lt;br /&gt;* 4 red cards were given in a Round-of-16 match between Portugal (2 reds)and Netherlands(2reds) refereed by Valentin Ivanov of Russia on 25 June 2006, making it the most red cards given in a world cup finals&lt;br /&gt;*  The only defending champions to fail to score any goal in a world cup finals was France who failed to score in three matches in the 2002 Finals&lt;br /&gt;* Mexico and France were the first two countries to appear in Finals of the world cup in Montevideo, Uruguay on 13/07/1930&lt;br /&gt;* Dutch East Indies(now Indonesia) were the first Asian country to appear in a world cup finals in 1938&lt;br /&gt;* The smallest nation to reach the quarter finals of a world cup was Northern Ireland, in 1958.&lt;br /&gt;*  The 1000th goal in the world cup was scored by Holland’s Robbie Rensenbrink against Scotland on 11 June 1978 via a penalty kick&lt;br /&gt;* Fernando Clavijo of USA(34 years) was the oldest player to be sent off in a world cup tournament in the match against Brazil on 4 July 1994&lt;br /&gt;* Lefter Kucukandonyadis who played for Turkey in the 1954 world cup has the longest surname of a player in world cup history&lt;br /&gt;* The first golden goal in a world cup was scored by France’s Laurent Blanc in the 113th minute in the second round match against Paraguay on 28/6/1998&lt;br /&gt;* The first hat-trick by a substitute was score by Laszlo Kiss of Hungary in a match against El Salvador on 15/06/1982&lt;br /&gt;* The youngest player to be sent off in a world cup was Cameroon Rigobert Song who was 17 years and 358 days old when he was sent off in the match against Brazil on 24/06/1994&lt;br /&gt;* The first own goal in a world cup was scored by Ernst Loertscher of Switzerland against West Germany on 9 June 1938&lt;br /&gt;* The first extra time goal in a world cup was scored by Austria’s Anton Schall in the match against France on 27/05/1934&lt;br /&gt;* The first goal in world cup history was scored by Lucien Laurent of France against Mexico in the 19th minute in the first world cup match on 13/07/1930&lt;br /&gt;* The only player in world cup history to score a hat-trick in successive tournaments is Gabriel Batistuta of Argentina on 21/06/1994 and on 21/06/1998&lt;br /&gt;* The only two brothers to have scored in a world cup tournament are German brothers Fritz and Otmar Walter who scored two goals each I the same final against Austria on 30/06/1954&lt;br /&gt;* The only goalkeeping brothers in a world cup squad were Viktor and Vyacheslav Chanov of the USSR in the 1982 world cup&lt;br /&gt;* The only player to have scored for both teams in a world cup match was Netherland’s Ernie Brandts who scored an own goal for Italy and later a goal for his country in their 2-1 win on 21/06/1978&lt;br /&gt;* Guillermo Stabile of Argentina was the first player to score an hat-trick in a world cup tournament in their 6-3 win over Mexico on 19/07/1930&lt;br /&gt;* Mexico Juan Basaguren was the first substitute player to score a goal in a world cup tournament when he scored against El Salvador on 7 June 1970&lt;br /&gt;* The 2000th World cup goal was scored by Sweden’s Marcus Allback in a group match against England on 20 June 2006 via an header&lt;br /&gt;* The first time own goal was scored by both teams in a world cup match was on the 5th of June 2002 when Jorge Costa of Portugal and Jeff Agoos of USA both scored in a group match&lt;br /&gt;* Worst result by a host country in a world cup is held by USA (1994) and Japan(2002), both were eliminated before the quarter finals&lt;br /&gt;* Brazil has won the world cup a record five times in 1958, 1962, 1970, 1994 and 2002.&lt;br /&gt;* Peter Shilton of England holds the record of the most matches played by a goalkeeper without conceding a goal. He kept a clean sheet in 10 matches from 1982 to 1990&lt;br /&gt;*  Brazil is the only country to have appeared in every world cup tournament from 1930  to 2006( 18 tournaments)&lt;br /&gt;* Miroslav Klose of Germany holds the record of the player that scored the most goals in a world cup tournament via headers( 5 goals in 2002 world cup)&lt;br /&gt;* Two players hold the record of the most penalty goals scored by a player in the world cup. They are Eusebio of Portugal in 1966 and Rensenbrink of Holland in 1978( 4 goals each)&lt;br /&gt;* Brazil holds the record of the longest winning streak by a country in the world cup. 11 matches( 7 matches in 2002 and 4 matches in 2006)&lt;br /&gt;* Mexico holds the record of the longest losing streak by a country in the world cup. 9 matches from 1930 to 1958&lt;br /&gt;* The first tied match in a world cup was between Italy and Spain in Florence, Italy on 31/05/1934. It ended 1-1&lt;br /&gt;* The first match in a world cup to extend to extra time was between Austria and France on 27/05/1934&lt;br /&gt;* The first scoreless match in a world cup was between Brazil and England in Stockholm, Sweden on  the 11th of June 1958&lt;br /&gt;* The first world cup match decided by penalty shoot-out was the semi-final clash between West Germany and France on 8 July, 1982. Germany won the match 5-4  &lt;br /&gt;* The first world cup match to be played indoor was that between USA and Switzerland at Pontiac Silver dome, Detroit, USA on 18/06/1994&lt;br /&gt;* Coach Cayetano Re of Paraguay was the first coach to be sent off in a world cup match in their encounter with Belgium on 11 June 1986&lt;br /&gt;* The highest attendance in a world cup match was 199,850 spectators for the “final” match between Brazil and Uruguay in Rio de Janeiro on 16/07/1950&lt;br /&gt;* Hungary has tallied the most goals in a single world cup when they scored 27 in 1954&lt;br /&gt;* In the 1954 world cup Austria beat Switzerland 7-5 for the most goals(12) combined in a world cup match&lt;br /&gt;* Hungary beat El Salvador in 1982, 10-1 for the highest goal differential in a world cup match( Hungary is also the only team to score 10 or more goals in a world cup&lt;br /&gt;* The most yellow cards given in a world cup match is 16 yellow cards, in a group match on 11 June 2002( 8 to Germany and 8 to Cameroon) and also in a Round-of-16 match on 25 June 2006( 9 to Portugal and 7 to Netherland)&lt;br /&gt;* Fritz &amp; Otmar Walter of Walter of West Germany in 1954 and Jack &amp; Bobby Charlton of England in 1966 were the only brothers playing in a champion team in a world cup tournament&lt;br /&gt;* The only twin brothers to have scored in the same world cup tournament were Netherland’s Rene &amp; Willy Van der Kerkhof who each scored a goal in the 1978 world cup&lt;br /&gt;* The youngest player in the history of the world cup is the Brazilian player Edu  who was 16 years 11 months and 6 days when he played at the 1966 world cup in England&lt;br /&gt;*  The youngest player to score in a world cup was Pele who was 17 years &amp; 239 days old when he scored for Brazil against Wales in quarter finals on 19/6/58&lt;br /&gt;* Ronaldo of Brazil is the top scorer in world cup history with 15 goals&lt;br /&gt;v Pele is the youngest player to ever win a world cup (1958). He was  17 years &amp; 239 days hold when Brazil lifted the trophy in 1958&lt;br /&gt;* The oldest champion player is Dino Zoff, the goalkeeper and captain of Italy, who was 40 when he played in the 1982 final.&lt;br /&gt;* The first major tournament to be decided by the golden goal rule was the 1996 European Football Championship won by Germany over the Czech Republic. The golden goal in this final was scored by Oliver Bierhoff&lt;br /&gt;*  The most matches played by a player as a substitute in a world cup tournament is 6 matches, by Poland’s Leslaw Cmikiewiez in 1974&lt;br /&gt;* Brazil and Sweden have both met a record 7 times in the world cup in 1938, 1950, 1958, 1978, 1990 and 1994( 2 times)&lt;br /&gt;* The first world cup final to extend to extra time was that between Italy and Czechoslovakia on 10/06/1934&lt;br /&gt;* Diego Maradona of Argentina holds the record of the most matches played as  captain in the world cup( 16 matches)&lt;br /&gt;* The least number of players used by a champion team in a world cup tournament was 12 players, by Brazil in 6 matches in 1962&lt;br /&gt;* Bora Milutonovic led 5 different countries to the world cup in 1986(Mexico),1990(Costa Rica),1994(USA),1998(Nigeria) and 2002(China)&lt;br /&gt;* Brazil have won a record  64 matches in the world cup from 1930 to 2006&lt;br /&gt;* The highest number of goals conceded by a goalkeeper in a world cup tournament is 16 goals, by Korean goalkeeper Yung Hong Duk in two 1954 world cup matches&lt;br /&gt;* Just Fontaine of France holds the record of the most goals scored by a player in a world cup tournament. He scored 13 goals in 6 matches at the 1958 world cup&lt;br /&gt;* Ronaldo of Brazil scored 15 goals in all during the 1998,2002 and 2006 world cup, to emerge as the player with the most goals in world cup history&lt;br /&gt;* With a total of 201 goals scored from 1930 to 2006, Brazil is the country with the highest number of goals scored in world cup history&lt;br /&gt;* Sergio Goyochea of Argentina holds the record of the most penalty shoot-out saves by a goalkeeper( 5 saves in a quarter final match and a semi-final match at the 1990 world cup)&lt;br /&gt;* Mexico’s Manuel Rocquetas Rosas was the first player to score a penalty goal at the world cup. He scored against Argentina on 19/07/1930&lt;br /&gt;* Johan Neeskens of Holland scored the first penalty goal in the final of a world cup, when he scored against west Germany on 07/07/1974&lt;br /&gt;* Pele of Brazil is the only player to have won 3 world cups in 1958, 1962 and 1970&lt;br /&gt;* The only European player to have won the world cup twice is Italy’s Giuseppe Meazza and Giovanni Ferrari both played in the 1934 and 1938 Champion team&lt;br /&gt;* The only player to have appeared in the world cup before and after the 2nd world war is Erik Nilsson of Sweden and Alfred Bickel of Switzerland in the 1938 and 1950 world cup&lt;br /&gt;* Geoff Hurst of England holds the record of the most goals scored by a player in a world cup final. He scored 3 goals on 30/07/1966&lt;br /&gt;* Brazil have played a record 92 matches at the world cup from 1930 to 2006&lt;br /&gt;* Brazil and Germany hold the joint record of the most grand final matches played by a country in the world cup. 7 finals by Brazil(50,58,62,70,94,98,02) and Germany (54,66,74,82,86,90,02) &lt;br /&gt;* 79th on the FIFA/Coca Cola world ranking going into their qualifying campaign in June 2000, Senegal reached the last eight  at Korea/Japan 2002&lt;br /&gt;* When they met in Group F, four England squad members were older than the combined age of  Nigerians Femi Opabunmi and Bartholomew Ogbeche&lt;br /&gt;* Otherwise shaven-headed, Ronaldo left a triangular tuft of hair on his forehead during the 2002 world cup after his son mistook him for Roberto Carlos on television&lt;br /&gt;* Twelve years and 16 days after his first world cup goal, Danish star Michael Laudrup was on target for the second and last time in their 2-1 loss to France at the 1998 world cup&lt;br /&gt;* Denmark’s Ebbe Sand scored the fastest ever FIFA world cup finals goal by a substitute in a 4-1 win over Nigeria, 16 seconds after his introduction&lt;br /&gt;* Following 17 winless matches in FIFA world cup tournaments, Bulgaria notched their first world cup victory in style, beating Greece 4-0 at USA 94&lt;br /&gt;* Oleg Salenko, the only Golden shoe recipient to have played less than four matches, scored five of his six goals in an hour against Cameroon at USA 94&lt;br /&gt;* In Their Group B clash with Brazil, a 24 year 42 day age gap existed between Cameroonian vetran Roger Milla and his team-mate Rigobert Song&lt;br /&gt;*   Entering their Group D clash, Iranian striker Ali Daei had scored 109 international goals, 40 more than the combined total of Angola’s entire squad&lt;br /&gt;* At Italia 90 world cup, Cameroon became the only side in history to top their group with a negative goal difference, two 1-0 wins preceding a 4-0 loss to Soviet Union&lt;br /&gt;* Nobody has played less finals minutes than Argentina’s Marcelo Trobbiani, whose only run out came after an 88th minute introduction at the 1986 world cup final&lt;br /&gt;* An England substitution in their game against Morocco at the 1986 world cup presented commentators with a problem- It left them with two Gary Stevens on the pitch!&lt;br /&gt;* France’s 16 goals during the 1982 world cup in Spain, were scored by ten players, a new world cup record&lt;br /&gt;*  Norberto Alonso, an attacking midfielder wore the No 1 jersey for Champions Argentina after their squad number were determined alphabetically at the 1978 world cup&lt;br /&gt;* There was no sending off recorded at the 1970 world cup held in Mexico&lt;br /&gt;* Martin and Jose Vantolra are the only father and son to play for different nation at the world cup, Spain in 1934 and Mexico in 1970 respectively&lt;br /&gt;* English F.A Cup champions(Portsmouth F.C ) walloped Nigeria’s Globacom Premier League champion(Kano Pillars) 5-0 at the Abuja National stadium on the 26th of July 2008 during the Tinapa invitational tournament&lt;br /&gt;* The Nigeria Football Association(NFA) changed its name to Nigeria Football Federation(NFF) on the 24th of July 2008 during her Annual General meeting held in Markudi, Benue State&lt;br /&gt;* The highest position ever reached by the Super Eagles of Nigeria on FIFA ranking was 5th in April 1994, few weeks before the start of the USA 94 World cup&lt;br /&gt;* History was made on Sunday 27th of July 2008, when the English FA cup champions (Portsmouth F.C) played against the English Premier League Champions (Manchester United F.C) at the Abuja National stadium, Nigeria during the Tinapa invitational tournament. The game ended 2-1 in favor of Manchester United&lt;br /&gt;*   The 1954 World cup had the highest goal-scoring rate of 5.38 per match. The 1990 world cup held in Italy had the lowest, just 2.21 goals per match. The 1998 world cup had the highest goal total of 171&lt;br /&gt;* Till date, there are only two British players who have scored in 3 World cup, these being Joe Jordan(West Germany 1974, Argentina 1978 and Spain 1982) and David Beckham(France 1998, Korea-Japan 2002 and Germany 2006)&lt;br /&gt;*  Super Eagles left back Taye Taiwo packs one of the most powerful free kicks in the game, with one effort clocked at 130 kilometers per hour in a French cup semi-final&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3098653681897582890-2037510344855296269?l=sportsfactsunlimited.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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