World Cup - Did You Know?

 Did You Know?

• Sixty-four matches will be played in this summer's finals, whereas the first FIFA World Cup in Uruguay in 1930 featured just 18 games.
• Russia's Oleg Salenko scored the most goals in a World Cup game by a single player with five goals in a 6-1 win over the African nation of Cameroon in the 1994 World Cup held in the United States.
• Austria and Switzerland combined for 12 goals in 1954, which still stands as the highest-scoring World Cup game in history. Austria won 7-5.
• Slovakia is the only team making its World Cup debut this summer.
• The estimated number of tickets that will be sold for the FIFA World Cup 2010 games this
  summer in South Africa is 2.4 million.
• The 2010 edition will mark the 8th time U.S. has qualified for the FIFA World Cup.
• The first time the U.S. made a World Cup appearance was in 1930, when the team came in third place.