World Cup Quiz

The FIFA World Cup 2010 will be a ball! Each year, the best football teams compete from every corner of the world's greatest sporting event on earth. This year's tournament in South Africa will be held from June 11 to July 11. Here are some fascinating facts about the tournament this year and the day before:

1. The official 2010 World Cup mascot Zakumi means.

Zakumi is a humanizedLeopard with green hair. The name is an abbreviation of the International South Africa (ZA), and the mixture "kumi". In several African languages, the "kumi" translating words into English as the number ten. The mascot of the colors, yellow and green, are at the center of the flag of South Africa. Zakumi birthday is on the South African Red Letter Day: Day of Youth. Zakumi also means the date of birth (1994) South Africa the first elections at the national level were not racist.

2. Onlytwo world championships, Europe and were outside the American continent.

The exceptions were in 2002 (Korea / Japan), and 2010 (South Africa).

3. Europe and South America have dominated the event.

In fact, European countries have won the tournament nine times, while the South American countries have also won nine times. It is interesting to note that the European countries has never been a FIFA World Championship in a play outsideEurope. If you lived a rock for life must, then you are probably aware of the fact that Brazil is a world power in football. So it is not surprising that the country has won five World Cup championships record. But Italy is close behind, with four championships. Germany (West) is next, with a total of three World Cup titles. Meantime, Uruguay and Argentina, both of a pair of championships. And, finally, England and Franceeach won the tournament once.

4. The youngest and oldest players were votes to 5:42 p.m. old, respectively.

The youngest World Cup player was Norman Whiteside (Ireland), the former was only 17 years/41 days when he last played in 1982 Meanwhile, Roger Milla (Cameroon) 42 years/39 old days, when took in 1994 presented.

5. The top all-time top scorer of the World Cup was a Frenchman.

In 1958 Just Fontaine Francehas a huge 13 points during the tournament, averaging just over two points per game. The second leading scorer of all time was Sandor Kocsis from Hungary. Hungry for goals, in 1954 he scored a total of 11 points in five games during the tournament. And the third all-time top scorer Gerd Muller, the Federal Republic of Germany. In 1970, he scored 10 points in six games.

6. Two players reached the finals in four consecutive World Cup.

Interestingly, both playersmade in the same World Cup. Pele (Brazil) and Uwe Seeler (West Germany), scored both end of 1958, 1962, 1966 and 1970.

As always, the 2010 event will be an exciting tournament. In addition to watching the drama on the football field to see a blind eye to the record books, if the records are broken.

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