World Cup 2006

(From Faces: People, Places, and Cultures , Dec 2006 v23 i4 p26(2), available in Kids InfoBits, a Thomson Gale online resource. Full text © 2006 Cobblestone Publishing, Co.)

• 17: Age of youngest player (Theo Walcott, England)
• 32: Number of teams in the final elimination events
• 250 million: The number of soccer players worldwide
• 8: Number of teams that tried to qualify for the World Cup
• 6'6": Height of tallest player at the 2006 World Cup (Zeljko Kalac, Australia)