FACT FILES OF THE 2014 WORLD CUP IN BRAZIL.

1) Argentina have the oldest squad average age 28.4. 2) Ghana has the youngest average age 24.9. 3)Most Foreign based starsUruguay, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Bosnia have 22 foreign based stars. 4) Russia have the least with zero. 5) 15 percent of the 736 playersw are playing in the E.P.L. 6) Youngest player is 18 years old Fabrice Ollinga he turned 18 onMay2014.He is from Cameroon. 7)The old4est player are from Columbia Goalkeeper Faryd Mondragoan who will turn 43 years during the world cup.And their defender Mario Yepes who is 38 years old. 8) Bosnia who are making their world cup debut , have the most experinced squad with 60 caps per player. Algeria have the least experience 9) The tallest player at his world cup is Englands goalkeeper Fraser Forster, he stands 6 feet 7 inches. 10) Italys goalkeeper Gianlughi Buffon is playing his fifth world cup, only the West German Lothar Mattheus, and the Mexican Antonio Carbajal have played five world cups. 11)German Miraslov Klose has to score one more goal to equal the 15 gal record set by Ronaldo the Brazilian.

THEY PLAYED THE MOST WORLD CUPS EVER.

The Spanish goalkeeper Iker Casillas who is only 28 years old has broken the record for the most clean sheets kept by a Spanish goalkeeper for Spain. Casillas has kept a total of 57 clean sheets in a total of 98 games, he so now breaks the 56 clean sheets for Spain previously held by Andoni Zubizaretta the former Spain and Barcelona goalkeeper, who kept 56 clean sheets in 126 games for Spain.Andoni Zubizaretta played in 5 world cups from 1986 to 1998.And Iker Casillas has played in 3 world cups.And when we consider that Iker Casillas is only 28 years old he will surely play many more games.
The record for the most world aperances is jointly held by the Mexican goalkeeper Antonio Carbajal who played from 1950 to 1966 a total of 5 world cups and the German Lothar Matthaus who played from 1982 to 1998 , a total of 5 world cups or 20 years.