In light of the World Cup starting this week, we thought we would embrace the excitement, so we have put together a list of a few things you may or may not know about the 2018 FIFA World Cup!
- This year’s winners will gain a record breaking £29m and overall there is a total prize money pool of almost £300m!
- The World Cup is the most expensive sports trophy, estimated to be worth almost £15m!
- Out of all of the UK’s football clubs, Manchester City have the most players going to Russia, with a total of 16 players.
- The World Cup is held every 4 years and during the last event there were approximately 3.2 billion viewers – that’s almost half of the world’s population!
- Iceland and Panama have not previously competed in a World Cup event so 2018 will be their debut.
- England’s football clubs are the most highly-represented in the 2018 World Cup as they have a total of 124 players participating across the different squads.
- Brazil are the only country to have played in every tournament, and have won the World Cup the most often with a staggering 5 wins, but they have also received the most red cards.
- Out of all of the continents, the winners have always either been from Europe or South America.
- This year’s 2018 FIFA World Cup official song is called Colours, performed by Jason Derulo.
- The youngest footballer at this year’s World Cup will be Australia’s Daniel Arzani, who is 19 years old, whereas the oldest player is Egypt’s Essam El-Hadary, who is 45.
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