The 2006 FIFA World Cup was the 18th FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial worldwide football world champion event. It was held from 9 June to 9 July 2006 in Germany, which had won the right to host the occasion in July 2000. Groups standing for 198 nationwide football associations from all six populated continents joined the certification process which began in September 2003. Thirty-one groups certified from this procedure, along with the host country, Germany, for the finals’ event. It was the 2nd time that Germany staged the competitors, the initial as a unified nation (the other remained in 1974 in West Germany), as well as the tenth time that it was kept in Europe.
Italy won the event, declaring their fourth World Cup title. They beat France 5– 3 in a penalty shoot-out in the last, after added time had actually ended up in a 1– 1 draw. Germany defeated Portugal 3– 1 to complete in 3rd location. Angola, Ghana, Cream Color Coast, Trinidad as well as Tobago, as well as Togo made their very first appearances in the finals. It was additionally the only look of Serbia as well as Montenegro under that name; they had previously appeared in 1998 as Yugoslavia. In late May 2006, immediately prior to the competition, Montenegro voted in a vote to end up being an independent nation and also dissolve the loose confederacy then existing between it and also Serbia, with Serbia acknowledging the results of the mandate in early June. As a result of time restrictions, FIFA had Serbia as well as Montenegro play on the planet Cup tournament as one group, marking the first instance of numerous sovereign countries completing as one group in a major football competition because UEFA Euro 1992.
The 2006 World Cup stands as one of the most watched events in TV background, gathering an approximated 26.29 billion times seen, assembled over the program of the tournament. The last drew in an approximated target market of 715.1 million individuals.

It’s almost a bit of crazing. Although Franziska Press shot in the World Cup sprint of Öresund just next to it, but this is a mistake was again too much. I finally want to shoot this zero, zero, that annoys me a bit, Prussian said on Thursday. Lying on a podium course, the 27-year-old biathlete risked a lot in standing shooting and conceded a penalty. The 150 extras cost the ex-relay world champion at the end of their potential second World Cup victory, but definitely the second place they missed as fifth and thus best Germans by 11.7 seconds.

Already in the preseason, the World Cup Total edges had just missed one or the other podium. But overall, I’m satisfied, that’s a good starting position for Saturday, said Prussia of the German Press Agency with a view to the first tracking race of the Olympia winter this weekend.

The strong German team result at the first win of the flawless Austrian Lisa Theresa Mauser rounded over the 7.5 kilometers Denise Herrmann (1 error / + + 43.1 seconds) as ninth and the faultless Vanessa Vogt (+ 44.4 seconds) in ten. The 24-year-old Thuringia Vogt was surprisingly early as a third German to Prussia and Herrmann already the Olympic standard for Beijing.

I had no feeling at all, because I did the first one, I did not want to go out.

Denise Herrmann

Herrmann had to fight at minus 13 degrees Celsius and light snowfall with cold hands, a taste of Beijing, where it should be bitterly cold in February. I had no feeling at all, I did not like the first, I did not want to push, Herrmann said, whose first shot was the only one wrong. Then she had to reload an extraatrace with her ice fingers. I left a lot of time. But the rest was okay, it’s right in the right direction, said the 32-year-old, which focuses on the winter games in China runners not yet on the absolute top leaving.

Vogt: The Olympia norm was not so present yet

The German top duo convinced on the heavy route. Herrmann, who had brought the first German podium last Saturday the first German podiums square last Saturday, delivered the fourth best running time, Press the seventh. Although Vogt can not keep upstairs yet, it could establish itself with other good races in the World Cup team. The Olympics norm was not so present yet. I want to show every race that I belong to the team, she said the DPA: Now you run with those who have previously cheered on TV. Not in shape are Janine Hectic (25th) and Vanessa Hind (53.).

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