Giuseppe Bergomi played in four World Cup tournaments for Italy but never played in any qualifiers.
Aged 18, he wa...

Laurent Blanc's a pre-match ritual of kissing goalkeeper Fabian Barthez's bald head ahead of 1998 World Cup
Prior ...

Paraguay's Jose Luis Chilavert: the first goalkeeper to score a hattrick.
After scoring three penalties in Velez S...

2010: Spain the first country to win  World Cup without conceding a goal in the knock-out stage.
They set a n...

Germany 2006 is the only edition of the FIFA World Cup where the first and last goals were both scored by defenders.