FIFA World Cup 2014 in Numbers
The FIFA World Cup 2014 in Brazil saw a great numbers game operating during the month-long event. Germany won their fourth title after a period of 24 years while Argentina reached the final after the same number of years. Incidentally, Brazil had also won their 1994 title after a time gap of 24 years. Italy won it after 24 years in 2006.
0 - number of goals scored after 120 minutes play in Wednesday's last four clash between Argentina and the Netherlands, the first ever goalless semi-final at a World Cup
4/6 - odds on favourites Germany justified the British bookmakers William Hill tag to win Sunday's Cup final
1 - points mustered by England after another underwhelming appearance at football's top table
4 - World Cup titles won by Germany
6 - Colombian hotshot James Rodriquez's goal tally to claim the World Cup's Golden Boot honour
8 - World Cup finals reached by Germany, a record
9 - Uzbekistan referee Ravshan Irmatov's record number of World Cup matches
10 - red cards dished out in Brazil, way down on the record 28 at Germany 2006
16 - Miroslav Klose's record World Cup goals haul
16 - saves made by Tim Howard in the USA keeper's heroic display against Belgium
24 - years since Argentina appeared in a World Cup final
30 - seconds, the time of Clint Dempsey's goal for the USA against Ghana in Natal on June 16 - the fifth fastest goal in World Cup history
32 - teeth of an average human, like Luis Suarez, banned for biting Italy's Giorgio Chiellini
171 - goals scored in Brazil, matching record set at France 1998
187 - yellow cards
179 - seconds it took for Germany to score three of their five first half goals in the 7-1 dissection of Brazil
1000/1 - the odds on Germany beating Brazil 7-1 in Tuesday's semi-final
25,800 - police, soldiers and private security guards on duty in Rio and at the Maracana stadium for Sunday's final
2000 - goals milestone reached by Germany, Thomas Mueller claiming the honour in the 7-1 Brazil rout, 106 years after Fritz Becker scored their first
580,166 - record number of tweets per minute when Germany's Sami Khedira scored the fifth of Germany's seven goals against Brazil.
2,000,000 - Germany shirts snapped up by fans of Mirolsav Klose and company
3,000,000 - US dollars in cash sent from Ghana to pay players' bonuses
35,000,000 - US dollars, the cheque Germany or Argentina will pick up for winning the title
35,600,000 - record number of tweets for a sporting event, the Germany 7-1 semi-final thrashing of Brazil (previous record was 24.9 million for 2014 SuperBowl)
11,000,000,000 - US dollars, total cost of World Cup, the most expensive in history (USA 1994 cost 30 million)