As a girl, you may hear the talkings about the World Cup recently by your male classmates, your brothers, or your father. In order not to hurt their feelings by your ignorance, here are the Top Ten List that you may want to know:
1. It's a soccer game - and some country called "football"
2. It happens every four years - like summer olympic games
3. It lasts a month - 11 June to 11 July
4. This year's host country is South Africa - of cause it's in Africa
5. There are 32 teams for the tornament - from 6 confederations
6. This is the 19th FIFA World Cup - in fact FIFA is French "Federation Internationale de Football Association"
7. FIFA has 208 men's national teams and 129 women's national teams - more member states than the United Nations
8. A match is played by two teams, each consisting eleven players, one of them is the goalkeeper
9. A match lasts two equal periods of 45 minutes each
10. You should forget all above after July 11
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