As the 2010 FIFA World Cup kicks off today, in South Africa, this list contains information I have learnt from the Reader's Digest June edition, delivered every month to my little house.I found this list fantastic, and decided to keep it here, least I forget about it in the future.

• 15,000 volunteers and 41,000 police officers will be deployed at the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
• The ten South African stadiums will seat more than 570,000 people.
• Brazilian Ronaldo Luis Nazario de Lima has scored 15 goals over three cups- more than any other player.
• In 1994, Cameroon's Roger Milla became the oldest player to compete in a World Cup: he was 42 years and 39 days old.
• The fastest World Cup goal was scored in 11 seconds by Turkey's Hakan Sukur in 2002 against Korea.
• 3 million tickets are available for the 64 matches; 480,000 of them to South African fans.
• This year's winners will take home $30 million.
• Brazil have won the World Cup a record 5 times.
• German player Lothar Matthaeus holds the record for playing in the most World Cup matches: 25 between 1982 and 1998.
• During the 1954 World Cup 140 goals were scored in 26 matches- a record average 5.4 goals per match.
• Frenchman Zinedine Zidane's two red and four yellow cards during three tournaments is a World Cup penalty record.

All credits due to Reader's Digest(Asia) June Edition