Meaningful Number of the 2018 World Cup

DBasia.news – The 2018 World Cup in Russia is over, brought France as the champion. There were so many interesting, dramatic, and surprising stories becoming memories.

The underdog team, Croatia, came through the playoff door and flew to the final-round. While the giant teams like Germany and previous finalist Argentina had to leave earlier.

Along the World Cup, there were many interesting data and facts. Here are the meaningful numbers of the 2018 World Cup in Russia.

519 centimeter is the total height of Luka Modric (172 cm), Eden Hazard (173 cm), and Antoine Griezmann (174 cm). The shortest height belongs to the Golden, Silver, and Bronze Ball winner since 1990, when Toto Schilacci, Lothar Matthaus, and Diego Maradona, 512 cm in total.

135 years and 3 months are the accumulative ages of Uruguay coach Oscar Tabarez and Portugal mastermind Fernando Santos when they met during the 16-group qualification. This is the highest age accumulation of two biggest coaches in the World Cup. In 2014, Tabarez and England coach Roy Hodgson scored 134 years and 2 months.

72,5 kilometers the distance that Ivan Perisic achieved along the tournament, higher than any other player.

48 years since the last team can counter back the two goals in the qualification round and made it as a winner. Belgium did it during the match against Japan, 3-2. Previously, West Germany did the same thing beating England 3-2 in the 1970 World Cup, through an extra time.

21 hours and 10 minutes, Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi didn’t score any goal during the qualification round of the World Cup.

18 matches needed by Asian team to beat South American. Japan won the condemnation when Colombia lose 2-1.

14,3 percent is the poor ratio of David De Gea saving in the 2018 World Cup. The Manchester United goalkeeper just did one saving and couldn’t handle 6 goals from 4 matches.

12 own goals happened in Russia in 2018, twice higher than the 6 own goals during the 1998 World Cup in France.

11 kicks from England national team defender, Harry Maguire. This is more than Gabriel Jesus (10), Luka Modric (10), Raheem Sterling (10), Robert Lewandowski (9), Falcao (8), Kylian Mbappe (8), Paul Pogba (8), Sergio Aguero (6), and Dele Alli (5). Neymar is the highest one with 27 kicks.

10 Belgium players scored the goal. This was the same as France record during 1982 and Italy in 2006.

7 consecutive World Cup, Mexico just made it until the big 16

4 penalty shootout savings made Croatian goalkeeper, Daniel Subasic as the third who did that. He followed Harald Schumacher (West Germany) and Sergi Goycochea (Argentina).