{"id":62418,"date":"2014-06-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-18T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/62418\/the-fifa-world-cup-in-numbers\/"},"modified":"2014-06-19T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-06-18T22:00:00","slug":"the-fifa-world-cup-in-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/fifa-world-cup-2014\/2014\/06\/19\/the-fifa-world-cup-in-numbers\/","title":{"rendered":"The FIFA World Cup in numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1 \u2013 Germany\u2019s iconic former goalkeeper, Oliver Khan, became the first and only \u2018keeper in the tournament\u2019s history to win the Golden Ball for best player in the 2002 finals.<\/p>\n<p>4 \u2013 The number of countries to host the tournament on more than one occasion, namely: Brazil, France, Italy and Mexico<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>5 \u2013 Brazil is the most successful team in the tournament, with five wins, having won it in 1958; 1962; 1970; 1994 and 2002.<\/p>\n<p>8 \u2013 The number of teams who\u2019ve won soccer\u2019s most prestigious trophy, namely: Brazil (5); Italy (4); Germany (3); Argentina, Uruguay (both 2); France, England and Spain (all once).<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>15 \u2013 The record for the most goals scored by an individual in the tournament\u2019s history belongs to one of, if not the finest striker in history: Luis Ronaldo.<\/p>\n<p>18 \u2013 South Africa became the 18th country to host the tournament, which came to Africa for the first time in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>20 \u2013 The Brazil 2014 FIFA World Cup is the 20t edition of sport\u2019s biggest jamboree.<\/p>\n<p>32 \u2013 Number of teams which participate in the global showpiece.<\/p>\n<p>40 \u2013 The possible number of teams in future tournaments should FIFA go ahead with its president Sepp Blatter\u2019s wish to expand the number of participating teams.<\/p>\n<p>1930 \u2013 The year in which the first ever World Cup was played. It took place in Uruguay.<\/p>\n<p>3 587 538 \u2013 The record for the total attendance in the tournament\u2019s history. It was set in the 1994 edition, which was staged in the US. &#8211; @SabeloBoksburg<\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='8d918b861f4dd418b150ed28a3d41ffb'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By the numbers:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":62420,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Sabelo Mashego","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3623],"tags":[1589,3697,1163,1119,3626],"class_list":["post-62418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fifa-world-cup-2014","tag-football","tag-sabelo-mashego","tag-soccer","tag-sport-2","tag-world-cup"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"FIFA World Cup 2014"},"tag_labels":["football","Sabelo Mashego","soccer","sport","World Cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}