World Cup Trivia Discussions

This is my last World Cup blog entry for a while, but Daniel helped me gather some rather cool trivia. Flags There is red in all of the flags of European World Cup winners, but in none of the flags of South American World Cup winners. Gold Medals There are now as many gold medals won by Spanish speaking countries (Uruguay '30 and '50, Argentina '78 and '86, Spain '10) as Portugese speaking countries (Brazil '58, '62, '70, '94, '02). Spain is, so far, the only football World Cup gold medalist of the 21st century not to have won gold in the 20th century too. Four countries have won gold in the World Cup before winning any other medals: Uruguay ('30 - first ever World Cup), Italy ('34), England ('66), and Spain ('10). All the three countries which have won gold but no other kind of medal...