Egypt’s fascinating fact: What a roller-coaster for Egypt’s Essam El Hadary. Egypt's 45-year-old keeper marked his first - and last World Cup - with a magnificent penalty save before being beaten by the last kick of the game. Margs
Despite reaching the semis, England have the 2nd worst shots on target per game from open play of all the 32 teams. Number 1 is Brazil with 6.4 30th Egypt 1.3 shots 31st England 0.9 32nd Iran 0.7
1 - Costa Rica didn’t bring enough uniforms to its first World Cup in 1990. During Costa Rica’s World Cup debut in Italy 1990, the team were unable to do the traditional jersey exchange with opposing players at the end of a match because they did not have enough spare uniforms.
2 - The 2018 home jersey design is inspired by birds in flight to honour the Costa Rican Hummingbirds
Random fact: Fastest yellow card after coming on as a substitute: 1st minute Vedran Ćorluka for Croatia against Argentina (introduced in the 90+3th minute)
Yellow cards: Croatia have conceded more fouls (101) and received more yellow cards (14) than any other side at this World Cup. That's 7% of all the yellow cards given out. The next nearest teams only have 11 and as France and Belgium have a mere 10 and England only 6 I'm feeling confident that one is mine!!
And I have now found a goal scorer to put me in contention - Mario Mandžukić with 34 scrabble score - although interestingly in Croatian scrabble he only scores 32 - even though you get 10 for the dž and 5 for the ć https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrabble_letter_distributions#Croatian other than that there are too many i's in Croation names!!
This is a bit of a Championship Curry one as well. Leeds have a new manager. When he was in charge of Argentina he lost to my team Columbia 3-0 in 1999 Copa America cup during which his centre half Martin Paloma had missed 3 penalties and the manager got sent off. Dave - Columbia
Egypt’s fascinating fact:
ReplyDeleteWhat a roller-coaster for Egypt’s Essam El Hadary.
Egypt's 45-year-old keeper marked his first - and last World Cup - with a magnificent penalty save before being beaten by the last kick of the game.
Margs
Australia are the world record score in an international 30 to nil - Keith
ReplyDeleteJust testing...
ReplyDeleteDespite reaching the semis, England have the 2nd worst shots on target per game from open play of all the 32 teams. Number 1 is Brazil with 6.4
ReplyDelete30th Egypt 1.3 shots
31st England 0.9
32nd Iran 0.7
I have 2 facts about Costa Rica:
ReplyDelete1 - Costa Rica didn’t bring enough uniforms to its first World Cup in 1990.
During Costa Rica’s World Cup debut in Italy 1990, the team were unable to do the traditional jersey exchange with opposing players at the end of a match because they did not have enough spare uniforms.
2 - The 2018 home jersey design is inspired by birds in flight to honour the Costa Rican Hummingbirds
Poland have only scored in two of their last eight World Cup games prior to 2018 World Cup ! - Yas
ReplyDeleteRandom fact: Fastest yellow card after coming on as a substitute: 1st minute
ReplyDeleteVedran Ćorluka for Croatia against Argentina (introduced in the 90+3th minute)
Yellow cards: Croatia have conceded more fouls (101) and received more yellow cards (14) than any other side at this World Cup. That's 7% of all the yellow cards given out. The next nearest teams only have 11 and as France and Belgium have a mere 10 and England only 6 I'm feeling confident that one is mine!!
And I have now found a goal scorer to put me in contention - Mario Mandžukić with 34 scrabble score - although interestingly in Croatian scrabble he only scores 32 - even though you get 10 for the dž and 5 for the ć https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrabble_letter_distributions#Croatian other than that there are too many i's in Croation names!!
ReplyDeleteThis is a bit of a Championship Curry one as well. Leeds have a new manager. When he was in charge of Argentina he lost to my team Columbia 3-0 in 1999 Copa America cup during which his centre half Martin Paloma had missed 3 penalties and the manager got sent off. Dave - Columbia
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