2014 FIFA World Cup - Records

 

1)A record 16.4 million tweets were sent during Brazil's victory on penalties over Chile, including 388,985 tweets during the final moments of the dramatic penalty shoot-out when Chile's Gonzalo Jara missed the decisive spot-kick - making it the most tweeted-about event in the history of social media.
That number broke the record set during the 2014 Super Bowl when 382,000 tweets were sent per minute and also topped US election night 2012 - 327,452 tweets

2)Goals scored upto the knockout stage -146 Goals which is one more than the total scored during the whole tournament in South Africa in 2010

3)Colombia have the oldest player in World Cup history in their ranks, after 43-year-old goalkeeper Faryd Mondragon beat Roger Milla's record set in the 1994 tournament, when the Cameroonian striker was 42.

4)Asamoah Gyan(Ghana)become the first African to score in three World Cup finals after he netted against Germany in Ghana's previous Group G Fixture and his sixth goal saw him overtake the previous African record of five, set by Milla - making it a bad World Cup for the Cameroonian all round.