Tuesday, June 06, 2006

World Cup Soccer

world cup soccer

FIFA World Cup soccer starts this Friday in Germany. Here are some stats on the world's favourite football - known as 'the beautiful game': FIFA counts 204 member countries; soccer is bigger than baseball, basketball and NA football combined; the first pro players were from England - in 1879; first World Cup was in Uruguay in 1930; the last World Cup was in Japan and South Korea in 2002; Frenchman Just Fontaine scored 13 goals in the 1958 World Cup; Brazil are the reigning world champions. If you want to know what game's on TV keep this site - tvsoccerschedule.com - bookmarked.
Go out and have a ball!

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