[MoHA] Round-up (World Cup Special)
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World Cup 2010 week \o/
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* The World Cup of football has been played 18 times overall.
It has been won 5 times by Brazil, 4 times by Italy, thrice by West Germany,
twice by Argentina and Uruguay, and once by England and France.
NNA roundup under the new media team :
Horice
Robalbinio
IndieKid
Joachim von Bremen
Tomaz
John Bartlett
(Thanks to Dodgy Dude for his great work last month o/ )
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* With the Jules Rimet Cup now in the permanent possession of
Brazil after their third World Cup triumph in Mexico City in 1970,
FIFA commissioned a new trophy for the tenth World Cup.
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Winner -TBA
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Winner -TBA
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Winner -TBA
Winners later this evening(after the match)
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* The new trophy is 36 cm high, made of solid 18-carat gold and weighs 6175 grammes.
The base contains two layers of semi-precious malachite while the bottom side of the
Trophy bears the engraved year and name of each FIFA World Cup winner since 1974.
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* The name "Zakumi" is a composition of "ZA"
(South Africa's international country code)
and "kumi", a ki-Swahili word that means 10.
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* Nelson Mandela will be 91 when the 2010 World Cup kicks off June 11 in South Africa.
Mandela played a pivotal role in bringing the World Cup to Africa for the first time in the tournament’s history.
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* South Africa are nicknamed Bafana Bafana - The Boys The Boys
but expectations are so low heading into the tournament that some
fans are calling them Buffoona Buffoona.
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* Fifteen men have occupied the post of England manager since its inception;
three of those were in short-term caretaker manager roles.
Come on regions lets get some articles written
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* England have won seven of their nine meetings with USA.
However their only competitive meeting ended in a 1-0 win for
the Americans at the 1950 World Cup.
The new MoHA entertainment team will be running
fun and game on the forums again this month so
get yourselves over there and join in the FUN !
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* Geoff Hurst is the only player in World Cup history to net a hat trick in the final,
the first of his three goals against West Germany in 1966 coming in the 18th minute.
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* England have lost only one of their last eight opening matches at World Cups.
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* The Americans have lost five of their last seven opening games
at the finals, conceding an average of 3.3 goals in these games.
LexLuthor1 recieves the..
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That's all the news we've got.
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* Scotland is the most heartbreaking of all nations,
failing to make it out of the first round 8 times,LOL!
Horice and the team
🙂
And finally just for fun....
World Cup quiz:
1. How many teams played in the first World Cup?
a: 13
b: 24
c: 32
2. Who has scored the most goals in a single World Cup tournament?
3. Which was the first country to host the World Cup twice?
4. Who scored the quickest goal ever by an England player in a World Cup match?
5. Who scored two goals in the 1998 World Cup final?
6. How many games were played at the World Cup 2006?
7. How many different countries have won the World Cup prior to 2010?
8. Who are the only team to have played in every World Cup?
9. What was the name of the original World Cup trophy?
a: The Jules Rimet Trophy
b: The Fifa Trophy
c: The Coupe de Monde
10. How many games will the winning team have to play?
11. Which city comes next in this list: Munich, Buenos Aires, Madrid, Mexico City, Rome, Pasadena, Paris...?
12. Who scored Germany's winner against Argentina in the 1990 World Cup Final?
13. Name the defender shot dead after scoring an own goal during the 1994 World Cup.
14. Poland beat Brazil to finish third at the 1974 World Cup. True or false?
15. When Brazil's team-sheet was first issued for the 1998 World Cup final, the name of Ronaldo was absent. Minutes later, a second, definitive teamsheet was issued that included Ronaldo. But who was the player originally named as Ronaldo's replacement?
16. Which debutants gave Scotland a 1-0 thrashing at the 1990 World Cup?
17. Who were the only European debutants at the last World Cup?
18. Hungary's Laszloz of Hungary still holds the record for what feat achieved in seven minutes against El Salvador in 1982?
19. Name the four African countries who will be making their World Cup debut in Germany
20. The European Player of the Year for 2004 made his debut at an international tournament in 2005. Name him
21. Uruguay won the first World Cup in 1930 ? but in which country was that competition held?
22. How many times have Italy won the World Cup?
23. Why were the England team grateful to Tovik Bakhramov in 1966?
Answers below.
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ANSWERS
1. 13
2. Just Fontaine
3. Mexico
4. Bryan Robson
5. Zinedine Zidane
6. 64
7. Seven
8. Brazil
9. The Jules Rimet Trophy
10. Seven
11. Yokohama - The venue of the previous world cup final matches
12. Andreas Brehme
13. Andres Escobar
14. True
15. Edmundo
16. Costa Rica
17. Slovenia
18. Fastest Hat-Trick
19. Angola, Ivory Coast, Ghana andTogo
20. Andriy Shevchenko
21. Uruguay
22. 4 (so far) 1934, 1938,1982 & 2006
23. He was the linesman who allowed Geoff Hurst?s 2nd Goal
How did you do ?
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