The just concluded FIFA world cup in Russia was a spectacular one though full of surprises... I personally didnt follow up all the matches to avoid hypertension.
I didnt completely miss everything tho'because l was always updated with all the happenings in Russia through Superspot,social medias,radio shows and on a discord channel.
So below is the overall break down of what went down in Russia,as well as some historic adventures of the world cup:
FULL STATS IN RUSSIA 18
Total mactches= 64
⚽⚽TOTAL GOALS SCORED - 169 (2.64 per match)
OWN GOALS SCORED - 12
PENALTIES TAKEN - 29
PENALTIES SCORED - 22
PENALTIES MISSED - 7
FREE-KICK SCORED - 7
TOTAL RED CARDS - 4
TOTAL YELLOW CARDS - 219
*TOP SCORERS:⚽⚽⚽
H. Kane (England) - 6
K. Mbappé (France) - 4
Griezmann (France) - 4
C. Ronaldo (Portugal) - 4
R. Lukaku (Belgium) - 4
D. Cheryshev (Russia) - 4
Ivan Perišić (Croatia) - 3
M. Mandžukić (Croatia) - 3
E. Hazard (Belgium) - 3
D. Costa (Spain) - 3
E. Cavani (Uruguay) - 3
A. Dzyuba (Russia) - 3
Y. Mina (Colombia) - 3
P. Coutinho (Brazil) - 2
J. Stones (England) - 2
M. Salah (Egypt) - 2
L. Suárez (Uruguay) - 2
A. Granqvist (Sweden) - 2
L. Modric (Croatia) - 2
D. Neymar Jr. (Brazil) - 2
S. Agüero (Argentina) - 2
A. Musa (Nigeria) - 2
M. Jedinak (Australia) - 2
S. Heung-min (South Korea) - 2
W. Khazri (Tunisia) - 2
T. Inui (Japan) - 2
1 GOAL - 84 players
- AWARDS:
BEST PLAYER: Luka Modric (Croatia)
BEST YOUNG PLAYER: Kylian Mbappé (France)
TOP SCORER: Harry Kane (England)
BEST GOALKEEPER: Thibaut Courtois (Belgium)
BEST FAIR PLAY TEAM: Spain
- WORLD CUP RANKINGS:
- France
- Croatia
- Belgium
- England
- Russia
- Sweden
- Brazil
- Uruguay
- Colombia
- Switzerland
- Japan
- Mexico
- Denmark
- Spain
- Portugal
- Argentina
- Senegal
- Poland
- Tunisia
- Panama
- Korea Republic
- Germany
- Serbia
- Costa Rica
- Nigeria
- Iceland
- Peru
- Australia
- Iran
- Morocco
- Saudi Arabia
- Egypt
- PRIZE MONEY DISTRIBUTION
1ST PLACE- $38m
2ND - $28m
3RD PLACE - $24m
4TH PLACE - $22m
5TH–8TH PLACE (QUARTER-FINALS) - $16m
9TH–16TH PLACE (ROUND OF 16) - $12m
17TH–32ND PLACE (GROUP STAGE) - $8M
- WORLD CUP WINNERS:
1930 - Uruguay 🇺🇾
1934 - Italy 🇮🇹
1938 - Italy 🇮🇹
1950 - Uruguay 🇺🇾
1954 - Germany 🇩🇪
1958 - Brazil 🇧🇷
1962 - Brazil 🇧🇷
1966 - England 🏴
1970 - Brazil 🇧🇷
1974 - Germany 🇩🇪
1978 - Argentina 🇦🇷
1982 - Italy 🇮🇹
1986 - Argentina 🇦🇷
1990 - Germany 🇩🇪
1994 - Brazil 🇧🇷
1998 - France 🇫🇷
2002 - Brazil 🇧🇷
2006 - Italy 🇮🇹
2010 - Spain 🇪🇸
2014 - Germany 🇩🇪
2018 - France 🇫🇷
SUMMARY
Brazil 🇧🇷 - 5
Germany 🇩🇪 - 4
Italy 🇮🇹 - 4
Argentina 🇦🇷 - 2
France 🇫🇷 - 2
Uruguay 🇺🇾 - 2
England 🏴 - 1
Spain 🇪🇸 - 1
- Only three managers have won the World Cup as both a player and a manager:
1958 & 1970: 🇧🇷 Mario Zagallo
1974 & 1990: 🇩🇪 Franz Beckenbauer
1998 & 2018: 🇫🇷 Didier Deschamps
- GOALKEEPING ERRORS THAT LED TO GOALS AT THE 2018 WORLD CUP:
🇵🇱 Wojciech Szczesny
🇩🇪 Manuel Neuer
🇦🇷 Willy Caballero
🇺🇾 Fernando Muslera
🇭🇷 Danijel Subasic
🇸🇦 Mohammed Al Owais
🇪🇸 David De Gea
🇦🇷 Franco Armani
🇯🇵 Eiji Kawashima
🇫🇷 Hugo Llloris
- Most MAN OF THE MATCHES WON:
Griezmann (3)
Modric (3)
Hazard (3)
Kane (3)
Ronaldo (2)
Cheryshev (2)
Coutinho (2)
Mbappé (2)
Suárez (2)
- GOALS SCORED FROM OUTSIDE THE 18yard
🇵🇹 Cristiano Ronaldo (Freekick)
🇧🇷 Philippe Coutinho
🇪🇸 Nacho
🇭🇷 Luka Modrić
🇷🇺 Aleksandr Golovin (Freekick)
🇷🇸 Aleksandar Kolarov (Freekick)
🇨🇴 Juan Quintero (Freekick)
🇨🇭 Granit Xhaka
🇰🇷 Son Heung-min
🇩🇪 Toni Kroos (Freekick)
🏴 Jesse Lingard
🇺🇾 Luis Suárez (Freekick)
🇪🇬 Mohamed Salah
🇵🇹 Ricardo Quaresma
🇦🇷 Angel Di Maria
🇫🇷 Benjamin Pavard
🇷🇺 Denis Cheryshev
🏴 Kieran Trippier (Freekick)
🇫🇷 Paul Pogba
🇫🇷 Kylian Mbappé
- OWN GOALS
Aziz Behich (against France)
Fernandinho (against Belgium)
Ahmed Fathy (against Russia)
Edson Álvarez (against Sweden)
Aziz Bouhaddouz (against Iran)
Oghenekaro Etebo (against Croatia)
Thiago Cionek (against Senegal)
Denis Cheryshev (against Uruguay)
Sergei Ignashevich (against Spain)
Yann Sommer (against Costa Rica)
Yassine Meriah (against Panama)
Mario Mandžukić (against France)
- PENALTIES BREAKDOWN
☑ Griezmann (3)
☑Kane (3)
☑ Jedinak (2)
☑ Granqvist (2)
☑ Hazard
☑ Kagawa
☑ Modric
☑ Salah
☑ Sassi
☑ Ronaldo
☑ Vela
☑ Al-Faraj
☑ Ansarifard
☑ Sigurdsson
☑ Moses
☑ Dzyuba
✖ Ronaldo
✖ Sigurdsson
✖ Cueva
✖ Messi
✖ Al-Muwallad
✖ Modrić
✖ Ruiz
SCORED - 22
MISSED - 7
- FREEKICKS SCORED
🇷🇺 Aleksandr Golovin
🇵🇹 Cristiano Ronaldo
🇷🇸 Aleksandar Kolarov
🇨🇴 Juan Quintero
🇩🇪 Toni Kroos
🇺🇾 Luis Suárez
🏴 Kieran Trippier
- PLAYETS ON RETIREMENT FROM INTERNATIONAL DUTIES AFTER RUSSIA
Javier Mascherano (Argentina)
Lucas Biglia (Argentina)
Andres Iniesta (Spain)
Keisuke Honda (Japan)
Sardar Azmoun (Iran)
Sergei Ignashevich (Russia)
(only confirmed ones)
- MOST WORLD CUP APPEARANCES BY COUNTRIES:
🇧🇷 Brazil - 21
🇩🇪 Germany - 19
🇮🇹 Italy - 17
🇦🇷 Argentina - 17
🇲🇽 Mexico - 16
🇫🇷 France - 15
🇪🇸 Spain - 15
🏴 England - 15
🇧🇪 Belgium - 13
🇺🇾 Uruguay - 13
🇷🇸 Serbia - 12
🇸🇪 Sweden - 12
🇨🇭 Switzerland - 11
🇷🇺 Russia - 11
🇺🇸 USA - 10
🇳🇱 Netherlands - 10
🇰🇷 South Korea - 11
🇭🇺 Hungary - 10
🇨🇿 Czech Republic - 9
🇨🇱 Chile - 9
🏴 Scotland - 9
🇵🇱 Poland - 8
🇵🇾 Paraguay - 8
🇵🇹 Portugal - 7
🇧🇬 Bulgaria - 7
🇨🇲 Cameroon - 7
🇷🇴 Romania - 7
🇦🇹 Austria - 7
🇯🇵 Japan - 6
🇳🇬 Nigeria - 6
🇨🇴 Colombia - 5
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia - 5
🇳🇿 Australia - 5
🇭🇷 Croatia - 5
🇹🇳 Tunisia - 5
🇮🇷 Iran - 5
🇨🇷 Costa Rica - 5
🇵🇪 Peru - 5
🇲🇦 Morocco - 5
🇩🇰 Denmark - 5
🇩🇿 Algeria - 4
🇬🇭 Ghana - 3
🇮🇪 Ivory Coast - 3
- FIFA WORLD CUP ALL-TIME TOP SCORERS:
- M. Klose 🇩🇪 (16)
- Ronaldo 🇧🇷 (15)
- G. Muller 🇩🇪 (14)
- J. Fontaine 🇫🇷 (13)
- Pele 🇧🇷 (12)
- S. Kocsis (11)
- J. Klinsman 🇩🇪 (11)
- T. Muller 🇩🇪 (10)
- H. Rahn 🇩🇪 (10)
- G. Batistuta 🇦🇷 (10)
11.G. Lineker 🏴 (10)
- WORLD CUP GOALS BY CLUBS:
PSG - 12
Barcelona - 11
Tottenham - 11
Real Madrid - 10
Manchester United - 8
Atletico Madrid - 8
Manchester City - 5
Chelsea - 4
Liverpool - 4
Dortmund - 3
Inter Milan - 3
Juventus - 3
West Brom - 2
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