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| July 10, 2006 | Monday | Jumadi-ul-Sani 13, 1427 |
World Cup number cruncher
BERLIN, July 9: The World Cup by numbers:
0 — appearances made by England's untested 17-year-old striker, Theo Walcott in Germany
1 — penalties converted by England in their quarter-final spot-kick shoot-out against Portugal
2 — position accorded Sweden's Markus Rosenberg in a vote on the sexiest footballer at the World Cup by Dutch gay magazine 'Gay Krant.
3 — yellow cards handed out by innumerate English referee Graham Poll to Croatia's Josip Simunic during a 2-2 Group F draw with Australia.
4 — players sent off in hot-tempered Portugal v Netherlands quarter-final
5 — number of goals from Germany's Miroslav Klose placing him atop the World Cup scoring charts going into Sunday's match for third place
7 — number of times Sven-Goran Eriksson said sorry after yet another World Cup campaign ended in an early flight home for England
10 — Zinedine Zidane's soon to be vacant shirt number
12 — Luiz Felipe Scolari's number of successive World Cup wins, a run brought to an end by France in Wednesday's semi-final
15 — all time World Cup goalscoring record set by Ronaldo
16 — Fabian Barthez' number of World Cup appearances (before the final), a French record
20 — record number of cards handed out in the infamous Portugal v Netherlands quarter-final
25 — people injured when a car drove into the crowd at the fan mile in Berlin
34 — the age of France midfield legend Zinedine Zidane
40 — cigarettes a day smoked by Mexico coach Ricardo Lavolpe
57th — minute: the time of Thierry Henry's goal which dashed Brazil's hopes of a second successive title in Frankfurt last Saturday
120 — French record number of caps won by defender Lilian Thuram
141 — goals scored at the 2006 World Cup before Sunday's final
369 — the number of minutes France went goalless at the World Cup, a run stretching back to the 1998 final and ending with Thierry Henry's first half strike against South Korea in Leipzig
1,500 — euros, the black-market price of a ticket for Sunday's final25,000 — number of fans who turned up for a Brazil training session at Offenbach
40,000 — dollars, the salary received by the trigger-happy referees at the World Cup
80,000 — pounds, amount splashed out by the WAGS (English players' wives and girlfriends) in a one hour shopping spree at Baden Baden
200,000 — pounds reportedly lost by a businessman on England winning the World Cup
50 million — pounds, the amount wagered by British punters on the England v Portugal quarter-final.—AFP
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