Sensational Facts about Soccer 7

When the United States bid to hold the 1994 World Cup, Brazilian soccer representative Guimarães Octavio Pinto commented that holding the World Cup in the United States was like holding the World Series in Brazil.

Only 20 players have ever scored at least one goal each in three different World Cups. (Id est: of the hundreds of players to play in three different World Cups, only 20 of them have ever actually scored once or more in all three of them.

German soccer player Miroslav Klose holds the record for career World Cup goals scored, a total of 16.

Soccer fans take the game seriously. A French fan once shot a rival fan twice, once for each goal the opposing team had scored on his team.