Some trivia about the World Cup

Berlin: The World Cup is on its final leg with just the final two matches of the month-long tournament left. Here is a look at some facts and figures that made the month-long football fiesta memorable.

• Sweden's Markus Allback scored the 2,000th goal in FIFA World Cup history. It was Sweden's first goal in the 2-2 draw with England in a Group B match. Goal No 1,000 was scored by Rob Rensenbrink of the Netherlands in 1978.
• Ronaldo scored his 15th World Cup goal to become the tournament's all-time leading goalscorer, topping German Gerd Mueller's previous record by one goal.
• Switzerland is the first team to be eliminated from a World Cup without conceding a single goal. The Swiss lost on penalties in the second round against Ukraine.
• Portugal's Ricardo is the first goalkeeper to save three shots in a penalty shootout at a World Cup.
• Germany is the only team to have been involved in four World Cup penalty shootouts, winning every one.
• At 18 years 357 days, Lionel Messi became the fifth-youngest goalscorer in the history of the tournament when he scored Argentina's sixth goal against Serbia and Montenegro in Gelsenkirchen.
• Iran's Yahya Golohammadi became the fifth-oldest goalscorer (36 years, 84 days) in the history of the World Cup when he scored against Mexico on June 11.
• Against Ukraine, Tunisia's Ali Boumnijel became the fifth-oldest player (40 years, 71 days) to play in a World Cup game.
• Togo's Otto Pfister (68 years, 211 days) became the second-oldest and Spain's Luis Aragones (67 years 334 days) the third-oldest coaches in World Cup history.
• With four shutouts at this tournament, French goalkeeper Fabien Barthez's career total at the World Cup is 10, a record jointly held with England's Peter Shliton.
• Portugal's quarter-final draw after extra time with England ended Luis Felipe Scolari's streak of 11 consecutive World Cup wins as coach. However, his 12-match unbeaten stretch is a record.
• With four wins to start this competition, 2002 champion Brazli set a record of 11 consecutive victories at the FIFA World Cup.
• Going into the final, Italy goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon has not conceded a goal in 453 minutes. This is already the fifth longest span.

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• Horacio Elizondo is the first referee to be assigned to the opening game as well as to the final. He is the second referee after Mexico's Benito Archundia to officiate five games at a World Cup.
• Archundia became the first referee to officiate five matches in one competition.
• With 12 single cautions and four red cards, the Portugal-Netherlands game set a record for most disciplinary measures in a single World Cup game.
• Cafu became Brazli's most capped player at the World Cup with a total of 20 matches. At the same time Cafu also became the player with most World Cup wins to his name (16).
• Guus Hiddink qualified for the second stage of the competition for the third consecutive time, and with three different teams: the Netherlands in 1998, South Korea in 2002 and Australia in 2006.
• Brazli's Carlos Alberto Parreira became the first coach in World Cup history to face national teams from all six confederations.
• Parreira equalled Bora Mliutinovic's record of five World Cup participations.
• Parreira celebrated his 20th World Cup match as coach, equalling Mario Zagallo and Bora Mliutinovic. Helmut Schoen leads with 25 matches.
• The second-round match between France and Spain was the 700th World Cup match.
• The penalty shootout between Switzerland and Ukraine (won 3-0 by Ukraine) was the lowest-scoring tiebreaker in World Cup history. Switzerland became the first team not to convert a single penalty in a penalty shootout.
• Italy's 11 goals going into the final were scored by no fewer than 10 different scorers - a record now jointly held together with France (1982).
• The average attendance of roughly 52,500 is the second-highest in World Cup history. Only USA 1994 drew larger crowds.