World Cup soccer is the most widely viewed
sporting event in the world, with over one billion
people watching every four years. FIFA is the
governing body of this event and World Cup soccer
was started in 1928.
There are many interesting statistics and facts
surrounding World Cup soccer. Ronaldo Luis Nazário
de Lima, simply known as Ronaldo, is a professional
Brazilian soccer player. He enjoys the recognition
of being the overall top goal scorer in World Cup
soccer history with fifteen goals.
Next in line for the top goal scorer in World Cup
soccer is Gerd “Der Bomber” Müller. His record is
fourteen World Cup soccer goals. In 1970, Gerd “Der
Bomber” Müller won the FIFA World Cup Soccer Golden
Shoe. In 2006 another German, Miroslav Klose, won
the World Cup Soccer Golden Shoe.
The fastest goal ever scored in World Cup soccer was
eleven seconds and the player was on the team from
Turkey. The player’s name was Hakan Sukur and the
game was against the Korea Republic in 2002. The
eleven second score took the record away from a
fifteen second score made in the 1962 World Cup
soccer event in Chile by a player from
Czechoslovakia in a game against the team from
Mexico.
It is interesting to note that a World Cup Soccer
milestone goal was reached at the 2006 World Cup
soccer games. Swedish player Marcus Allback scored
the 2,000th goal in World Cup soccer history in a
game against England. The game was played on June
20th, in Cologne, Germany.
The balls used in World Cup Soccer are traditionally
made by Adidas. The 2006 World Cup Soccer games was
the unveiling of a new style of ball. The Adidas
Teamgeist ball for the 2006 World Cup Soccer games
was a fourteen panel ball instead of the normal
thirty two. It is interesting to note that the first
multi-colored ball was used in the World Cup Soccer
finals in 1998.
