FIFA World Cup 2006 - Germany

[Cheese]

For newcomers to the game, World Cup all-time stats:

Year  Host         Winner     Score  Runner Up     
1930  Uruguay      Uruguay    4-2    Argentina
1934  Italy        Italy      2-1    Czechoslovakia
1938  France       Italy      4-2    Hungary
1950  Brazil       Uruguay    2-1    Brazil
1954  Switzerland  W.Germany  3-2    Hungary
1958  Sweden       Brazil     5-2    Sweden     
1962  Chile        Brazil     3-1    Czechoslovakia
1966  England      England    4-2    W.Germany
1970  Mexico       Brazil     4-1    Italy
1974  W.Germany    W.Germany  2-1    Netherlands
1978  Argentina    Argentina  3-1    Netherlands
1982  Spain        Italy      3-1    W.Germany
1986  Mexico       Argentina  3-2    W.Germany
1990  Italy        W.Germany  1-0    Argentina
1994  USA          Brazil     0-0    Italy          (Brazil won 3-2 on pens)
1998  France       France     3-0    Brazil
2002  Korea/Japan  Brazil     2-0    Germany
2006  Germany      Italy      1-1    France         (Italy won 4-3 on pens)

Total Number of Wins:

BRAZIL : 5
ITALY : 4
GERMANY : 3
URUGUAY : 2
ARGENTINA : 2
ENGLAND : 1
FRANCE : 1

By Continent:

EUROPE : 9
SOUTH AMERICA : 9

(Note that Germany have only ever won it when they were known as West Germany)

Brazil are the only winners of the world cup to (a.) win outside of their continent (Well, apart for Argentina winning in 1986 in Mexico), and (b.) not to win the world cup as hosts.

Cheers Statto.

[Formula1]

No European nation has ever won the world cup outside of their continent.

[Barbarossa]

Yeah, I covered that

[DanB]

[Guillaume]

http://www.gougoule.com/zidane/

[BawA]

page doesnt show up Gillaume

[DanB]

works for me

[Sextent]

http://www.gougoule.com/zidane/

Genious.

[Adster]

we can now say we were knocked out by the world champions int eh last 10 seconds due to a dubious call

well then it makes us feel a lot better now the wold champs had to dive to beat us!!

thank fuck the world cup is over I was getting tired of it it got ery boring with all the stupid diving if not for the aussies making it id say worst world cup ever

EPL cant wait for games are much better and free flowing

I guess we can look at it like this. We were beaten by the best, meaning we possibly could have been ranked 2nd. Considerring they had to cheat to beat us, we are infact Number 1, Number 1, Number 1!!!

USA drew with Italy so that means they are in fact better than Australia, so the World ranking should look like this:

1. USA
2. Australia
3. Italy


I bet they use your type of logic to work out the FIFA rankings...

you do know I was joking around and want serious

[Barbarossa]

http://www.gougoule.com/zidane/