The World Cup was concluded in Berlin on Sunday and the Italians were crowned World Champions for the fourth time in history. FilGoal.com has compiled interesting facts and figures from the Germany 2006 tournament: Awards: World Cup Champions: Italy Golden Ball (best player): Zinedine Zidane (France) Golden Shoe (top scorer): Miroslav Klose (Germany) Most Entertaining Team: Portugal Best Goalkeeper: Gianluigi Buffon (Italy) Best Young Player: Lukas Podolski (Germany) Attacking Statistics: A total of 147 goals were scored in 64 games over 30 days (average of 2.29 goals per game) including two milestone goals. The first milestone reached was when Sweden's Marcus Allback headed home the World Cup's 2,000th goal in his team's 2-2 draw with England in the group stage. Brazil reached a milestone of their own when striker Adriano netted his country's 200th goal in the competition in their second round match against Ghana. Germany scored the most goals in the tournament, hitting the target 14 times in seven matches while Spain were the most efficient as they scored 9 goals in 4 games (averaging 2.2 goals per game). But in terms of achievement, no one could deny that Brazilian striker Ronaldo was the biggest winner when he scored in his country's 3-0 win over Ghana to surpass Germany's Gerd Muller's as the World Cup's leading all-time scorer with 15 goals to his name. Argentina produced the biggest win of the tournament with their 6-0 victory over Serbia and Montenegro in the first round.
Ronaldo made history The Argentineans also ruled when it came to assists, dishing out 10 of them in 5 matches, four of which were courtesy of Villarreal playmaker Juan Roman Riquelme. Trinidad and Tobago were the only team not to register a single goal in the tournament. Portugal seemed like the most dangerous team in the tournament as they made 51 attempts on goal and 44 corner-kicks to their name, while England's Frank Lampard alone had 24 shots on goal. Paraguay's Carlos Gamarra scored the first own goal in the 2006 World Cup in the 3rd minute of his team's game against England with Trinidad and Tobago's Sanchez Brent, Italy's Cristiano Zaccardo and Portugal's Petit scoring the other three own-goals of the tournament. Defense Statistics: Surprisingly, Switzerland received the honor of having the strongest defense. The Swiss were eliminated from the tournament without conceding a single goal in 4 matches. Italy's Gennaro Gattuso was uncontested in the category of tackles made with 47 to his name while France's Patrick Vieira and Australia's Mark Viduka being the most harmful after committing 16 fouls each. Germany and France committed the most fouls of the tournament with 125 for each team while Italy were on the receiving end with 152 suffered. Italian goalkeeper Buffon was named best goalkeeper after producing 27 saves for his country while Switzerland's Pascal Zuberbuehler came out with a clean sheet from 4 matches. Disciplinary Statistics: The Germany 2006 tournament saw a record-28 red cards being doled out while the total yellow cards count was 345. Saudi Arabia had the best disciplinary record with 5 yellow cards while Portugal suffered worst disciplinary record with 24 yellow and 2 red cards. Portugal's Costinha and Ghana's Gyan Asamoah both had the worst individual disciplinary record with 4 yellow cards and one red card each. Russian Referee Valentin Ivanov made history for by sending-off a record-four players in the Holland – Portugal second round game. Miscellaneous Statistics:
