Tuesday, March 29, 2011

FIFA World Cup Facts

FIFA World Cup Facts

Check out some very interesting facts and figures about FIFA world cup.

  For the 2010 FIFA World Cup more than 5, 70,000 people are expected to watch the matches live. 

  Three million tickets will be available for the 64 matches to be held in South Africa's stadiums.
  Italy won the 2006 tournament, beating France in Berlin, Germany and claiming their fourth World Cup title.
  Germany is the only country which has lost the most finals- in 1966, 1982 and 1986. Fortunately it has also won three 1954, 1974, 1990.
  Brazil, Italy, Germany, Uruguay, Argentina, England and France are the seven countries to be the proud winners of World Cup.
  Brazil has been the only country with most appearances- all 19 from 1930 to 2010 and also winning 5, making it the most wins of the World Cup.
  Bafana Bafana, the South African national football team, which means "the boys, the boys" in isiZulu, was nicknamed by the fans during the 1996 African Nations Cup. Bafana Bafana is coached by Brazilian, Joel Santana. Aaron Mokena is the Captain.
  PelĂ© from Brazil is the only player who has won the most World Cups: 1958, 1962 and 1970.
  Till date no European team has ever won a World Cup outside of Europe.
  Uruguay was host to the first World Cup and also the winner of the tournament in 1930. At that time only 13 teams participated in the event.
  Roger Milla of Cameroon has been the oldest player to have participated in the World Cup game. He was 42 years and 39 days old when he played against Russia in World Cup USA 1994.
  Erick Nilsson of Sweden and Alfred Bickel of Switzerland are the only two players who are known to have played the World Cup before and after World War II. 

Saturday, March 26, 2011

Film legend Elizabeth Taylor dies at 79 in LA

Film legend Elizabeth Taylor dies at 79 in LA

By DAVID GERMAIN and HILLEL ITALIE Associated Press The Associated Press
Wednesday, March 23, 2011 10:29 AM EDT
FILE - This Sept. 1946 file photo shows Elizabeth Taylor. Publicist Sally Morrison... (AP Photo/File)

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Elizabeth Taylor, the violet-eyed film goddess whose sultry screen persona, stormy personal life and enduring fame and glamour made her one of the last of the old-fashioned movie stars and a template for the modern celebrity, died Wednesday at age 79.
She was surrounded by her four children when she died of congestive heart failure at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, where she had been hospitalized for about six weeks, said publicist Sally Morrison.
"My Mother was an extraordinary woman who lived life to the fullest, with great passion, humor, and love," her son, Michael Wilding, said in a statement.
"We know, quite simply, that the world is a better place for Mom having lived in it. Her legacy will never fade, her spirit will always be with us, and her love will live forever in our hearts."
Taylor was the most blessed and cursed of actresses, the toughest and the most vulnerable. She had extraordinary grace, wealth and voluptuous beauty, and won three Academy Awards, including a special one for her humanitarian work. She was the most loyal of friends and a defender of gays in Hollywood when AIDS was still a stigma in the industry and beyond. But she was afflicted by ill health, failed romances (eight marriages, seven husbands) and personal tragedy.
"I think I'm becoming fatalistic," she said in 1989. "Too much has happened in my life for me not to be fatalistic."
Her more than 50 movies included unforgettable portraits of innocence and of decadence, from the children's classic "National Velvet" and the sentimental family comedy "Father of the Bride" to Oscar-winning transgressions in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" and "Butterfield 8." The historical epic "Cleopatra" is among Hollywood's greatest on-screen fiascos and a landmark of off-screen monkey business, the meeting ground of Taylor and Richard Burton, the "Brangelina" of their day.
She played enough bawdy women on film for critic Pauline Kael to deem her "Chaucerian Beverly Hills."
But her defining role, one that lasted long past her moviemaking days, was "Elizabeth Taylor," ever marrying and divorcing, in and out of hospitals, gaining and losing weight, standing by Michael Jackson, Rock Hudson and other troubled friends, acquiring a jewelry collection that seemed to rival Tiffany'

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