Warm-up time: Check out 18 curious World Cup facts
1 - The first World Cup took place in 1930, in Uruguay, and it was the home owners who emerged champions of the tournament.
2 - During the 2014 World Cup, which was the 20th edition of the World Cup and was hosted here in Brazil, 3.2 billion people tuned their televisions to watch the games? That number represents almost half of the world's population!
3 - Regarding the audience that attended the games in Brazilian stadiums, the lowest number was 53, 000 people.
4 - This year we will have the 21st edition of the World Cup and this will be the first time in the history of the World Cup that Russia will host the games.
Speaking of Russia this year, the team will make its 11th appearance in World Cups. And the best position reached by the Russian team was the 4th, in the 1966 World Cup, based in England. At the time, by the way, the team was from the Soviet Union.
6 - And did you know that in 2002, it was the first in World Cup history that the World Cups occurred in two countries at the same time? The matches took place in Japan and South Korea.
7 - It is said that the Indian team gave up on participating in the 1950 World Cup, hosted here in Brazil, because of the ban on playing without soccer shoes.
8 - The team with the most ties in World Cup ties is Italy, with 21 in total.
9 - Already the team that most often ended the score 0-0 in the history of the worlds was England that, in 62 participations, finished with this result 11 times.
10 - And the team with the most defeats in the world cup is Mexico, with 25. Other numbers in the Mexican team's curriculum are 14 wins and 14 losses in world cups.
11 - The oldest player to score in World Cup goals was Cameroonian Roger Milla, who was 42 when he played for his country at the 1994 United States World Cup.
12 - At this year's World Cup, there will be 32 teams competing for the best in the world, with Panama and Iceland making their debut in the competition.
13 - The Russian Cup matches will take place in 12 stadiums in 11 different cities. Moscow, by the way, is the city with two different arenas, Luzhniki's and Spartak's.
14 - All World Cups have been won by European or South American countries, with 11 titles brought to Europe, and 9 distributed here in South America.
15 - Brazil is the country with the highest number of World Cups in the curriculum, accounting for 5 - or 25% of the total of the world championships. Germany and Italy follow us closely, with 4 titles each.
16 - Throughout the history of the World Cup, there have been only 4 occasions when one team has won every game played during a World Cup: Uruguay, with four wins in 1930, Italy, also with four in 1938, and Brazil, which won. the six matches he played in 1970, and all seven he played in 2002.
17 - The only team that managed to keep their unbeaten goal during a World Cup was Switzerland in 2006, which played in four games and did not win any jackpot.
18 - Nigeria has been the highest qualifying African Cup country since its debut in 1994: six appearances, including this year's in Russia.
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