2018 FIFA World Cup Russia

4 years have past and finally, the time has come. It’s like Christmas for football fans, because it is time for the long-awaited FIFA World Cup. Russia was drawn as the host for the biggest event of this year and the date for it is 14 June to 15 July. Start of this big football festival will be as always with 8 groups and 32 teams in total, which will try to win the tournament and the title of the best national football team in the world. Great anticipation and impatience among football fans in every corner of the planet. 

Groups



Favourites - Top 5

Unsurprisingly Germany and Brazil are considered as the top favourites of the World Cup 2018. Germany has won all 10 games in the qualifiers, followed by Brazil. Here is a top 5 list of the favourites according to the statistics:
  1. Germany 
  2. Brazil
  3. France
  4. Spain
  5. Argentina 
Who is my favourite? Of course, Denmark; though I know that the chance to be the winner of the World Cup is pretty small, I don’t give up my hopes :) When it comes out that there will be no opportunity for Denmark to win the title, then I will support England due to my life in and my love to London.


Extract of Interesting World Cup Facts

  • Though Russia hosted many important international sports events, the FIFA World Cup will be the first in the Russian history.
  • The stadiums in Russia are thousands of miles apart. The distance between Yekaterinburg and Kaliningrad is more than 2400 km, which is only about 400 km less than the distance between Moscow and London!
  • This year Italy has failed to qualify for the World Cup in Russia for the first time in 60 years. 
  • 46% of the world’s population watched at least one minute of the World Cup in 2014. This corresponds to more than 3 billion people. FIFA describes the World Cup as the “world’s most widely viewed sporting event”. Additionally, about 1 billion people watched the final match.
  • Brazil is the only country to compete in every competition and holds the most titles of the best national football team with 5 (followed by Germany and Italy with each 4 titles). This makes up 25% of the previous tournaments.
  • In the last three World Cups Germany was the country that scored the most goals with 14 in 2006, 16 in 2010 and 18 in 2014.
  • Most goals in a match in the World Cup were scored in 1954: Austria 7 - 5 Switzerland.
  • Fastest goal in the World Cup history was scored by Turkey within 11 seconds. 

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