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World Cup 2010

By • On • In Netherlands, Portugal, South Africa, World Cup, World Cup 2010 • 1 min read

World Cup Competition is one of the most watched events in the whole planet. World Cup 2010 was the 19th one which has been hosted in South Africa from 11 June to 11 July 2010. South Africa has been selected by FIFA to be the first African county to host World Cup.

World Cup 2010

Ten Stadiums in nine cities hosted the whole tournament matches. The number of the participated teams in World Cup 2010 were thirty two divided into groups. Four teams in each group. The tournament system allows first two teams with highest points in each group to proceed to the next level (knock out rounds). There were few knock out rounds where the winner will proceed to the next round until reaching the final match.

Road To The Finals

The final match was between Spain and Netherlands. The road of both teams to the final were relatively similar. Netherlands finished the group stage on top of its stage with the full points 3 winning matches. Spain collects six points of its three matches and finishes also on top of its group.

Netherlands defeated Slovakia (2-1) in the round of 16 while Spain defeated Portugal (1-0). The quarter finals match of Netherlands were pretty harder when they faced Brazil; the match finished (2-1) while Spain defeated Paraguay in the same round (1-0). In the semi finals Spain won with same result (1-0) against Germany while Netherlands had a big won on Uruguay (3-2).

It was the first time for both teams in the finals of world cup ever. Spain won the match in the extra time with Andrés Iniesta’s goal in the 116th minute which gives Spain its first world cup title and at the same time it was the first time a European national team won a world cup title outside of Europe.

 

 

 

World Cup 2006
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World Cup 2006

By • On • In England, France, Germany, Italy, United Kingdom, World Cup 2006 • 1 min read

In 2000, Germany entitled to host World Cup 2006 for the second time. First time was 1974. South Africa, United Kingdom and Morocco was last candidates for hosting. In the final tournament, 31 teams participated in this process together with the host country Germany. Germany was the second time to compete (West Germany in 1974 for the first time). At the same time, it was the 10th World Cup in Europe.

Notes from World Cup 2006

World Cup 2006 it was the 18th tournament. At that time it was the most watched show in television history. FIFA and other countries decided to implement “Green Goal”, which is first time they used in World Cup. the purpose of this implement is reduce effect of carbon 100 thousand of carbon emission. Because millions of people use planes, cars and other vehicles just to see World Cup 2006. Germany, has donated one million euros to be used in environmental projects and implemented in developing countries.

On The Way To The Finals

World Cup 2006 was between 9 June – 9 July. On fourth of June semi finals game took place between Germany and Italy. Italy won the match with 2 goals and the Italian sheet stayed clean without any goal. In the fifth of June Portugal faced France and France won the match with one goal. Germany and Portugal played for last third place. Germany won the game and scored three goals while Portugal scored just one.

Final match played in 9th of July between Italy and France. At the beginning both sides played in a fast peak. They showed different kind of skills and strength in first half of the match. The first goal scored by France in the 7th minute By Zidane. After a short time Italy scored second goal by Materazzi. After that no goals have been scored the whole match from either side. Match extended by 20 minutes. But nothing has changed. Finally both teams competed in penalty shout-outs when Italy won the game 5-3.

World Cup 2002
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World Cup 2002

By • On • In Brazil, Germany, World Cup, World Cup 2002 • 1 min read

The World Cup 2002 was the first world cup of the millennium. So everyone was so excited. The wanted this time to play for friendship and peace. FIFA responsible of selecting the countries that will host the world cup so they wanted to make a little different for this time and they selected two countries to host the tournament.

World Cup 2002

South Korea and Japan were selected to host the first world cup of millennium. After last world cup in France everyone was waiting a different thing, more hope and more friendship with this tournament between all the participants and all the visitors.

It was the first world cup outside Europe and the Americas. It was also the first time to use the golden goal rule in extra times where the played game will be ended in case any of the teams scores in the extra time.

Before Final Match and More

They were two host countries. So teams and tournament were distributed over 2 the cities and stadiums in two countries. There were 8 groups in World Cup 2002. A, B, C, D matches played in South Korean E, F, G H matches played in Japan. In semi finals Germany defeated South Korea 1-0. After that Brazil defeated Turkey 1-0 also. So final match played between Germany and Brazil. And for the match of the third and fourth positions South Korea and Turkey played again. Turkey defeated 3-2.

Everyone were so excited for final match. In 30 June at 20:00 the final started. Ronaldo from Brazil showed extraordinary performance the whole tournament and finally at the final match he scored 2 goals and led his team Brazil to win 2-0. He was the scorer of World Cup 2002. And won the Golden Shoe after 8 goals. the two team have not played face to face in the final before , it was there first time and they made history. It was the first time and Brazil won the game.

 

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