1 - Brazil's Pele is the only player to win three World Cups: in 1958, 1962 and 1970.
2 - Four players have recorded two hat tricks at the World Cup: Hungary's Sandor Kocsis (both in 1954), France's Just Fontaine (1958), West Germany's Gerd Muller (1970) and Gabriel Batistuta (one in 1994 and one in 1998).
3 - Russia's Oleg Salenko scored a tournament-record five goals in one game during a 6-1 win over Cameroon at the 1994 World Cup in the United States.
4 - Paolo Rossi was the top scorer at the 1982 World Cup in Spain with six goals, leading Italy to its third title.
5 - The World Cup trophy went missing for a week when it was stolen prior to the 1966 World Cup in England. A dog named Pickles, being taken out for a walk by his owner in South London, discovered the trophy wrapped in some newspapers at the bottom of some bushes a week after it was taken.
6 - There were 10 minutes left in extra time of the 2006 World Cup final when France's Zinedine Zidane head-butted Italian defender Marco Materazzi.
7 - Turkey's Hakan Sukur scored 11 seconds into the third-place game against South Korea in 2002, the quickest goal in World Cup history.
8 - Austria and Switzerland teamed up for the highest-scoring game in World Cup history in 1954 when they combined for 12 goals. Austria won 7-5.
9 - Thirteen teams that participated in the first World Cup in 1930 in Uruguay.
10 -Brazil's Ronaldo holds the record for most career World Cup goals with 15.
11 - Russian referee Valentin Ivanov brandished 16 yellow cards (tying a tournament record) in a second-round match at the 2006 World Cup in Germany between Portugal and the Netherlands.
12 -Brazil's Pele was 17 years old when he became the youngest player ever to score at the World Cup, in 1958 in Sweden.
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