The 2006 WORLD CUP IN GERMANY.

The 2006 world cup was hosted by Germany.
It was held from june 9 to to july 9 2006.
There were a total of 32 teams taking part.
Italy were the champions for the fourth time. Only Brazil have won the cup five times.
France were the runner ups.
Germany came third.
And Portugal came fourth.
There were a total of 64 games played.
There were a total of 147 goals scored at 2.34 per match.
The total attendance for the tournament was 3,353,655. At 52.401 per match.
The top scorer was the Miroslav Klose of Germany with a total of 5 goals.
The best Player was Zinedine Zidane of France.
The first goal and the last goal of the 2006 world cup were scored by defenders Philipp Lahm of Germany scored the first goal and the Italian Marco Matrezzi scored the last one against France.
This was a very poor world cup as the country who scored the most goals were Germany with 14 goals.The rest of the teams played more defensive football.
The Brazilian Ronaldo scored his goal number fifteen of his world cup career so breaking the German Gert Mullers record of fourteen goals.
This time both the south American giants Brazil and Argentina were knocked out in the quarter finals.And for the first time itwas an all Europen affair.This happened earlier in 1934,1966 and 1982.
There were a total of 345 yellow cards and 28 red cards.The highest amount of cards shown in a world cup.
The English referee Graham Poll showed the Croatian footballer Josep Simunic three yellow cards and then a red card. Graham Poll announced his retirement from internatinal games .
In the quarter final Wayne Rooney of England was sent off with a red card , after Cristiano Ronaldo spoke and convinced the referee to give a red card, Ronaldo then winked to the bench in triumph.England lost to Portugal A.E.T.in a penalty shootout
it ended 1-3 in Portugals favour.
Italy 3-Ukraine -0
Brazil 0 -France.1.
Germany 1 Argentina 1 A.E.T.4-2 on penalty shootout
In the semifinals.
Germany 0- Italy 2 A.E.T.
Portugal 0- France 1.
Third place Germany 3 Portugal 1.
Final Italy 1 France 1 A.E.T. 3-2 on penalty shootout.
It must be noted that Ukraine playing in its world cup, lost its first match verses Spain by a score of 4-0. But still reached the quarter finals . This is the first time a team loosing by such a big margin have played in the quarter final.
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