1 official ball
32 teams
736 players
12 venues
64 matches
played over 32 days
25
officiating teams
20 official
sponsors
3.3 million tickets to be sold
3.3 million tickets to be sold
Add to that
list
One official
mascot and one official song One
World (Ole Ola) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9W3sWiZ-iO8&index=2&list=PLCGIzmTE4d0jH6o_hGC1Rsv1-QgS2jnoC
45 million
or more who will view the games on television
Even before
the first match on June 12, the World Cup 2014 experience begins – shared
around the world. According to an
article in the Wall Street Journal for people in more than 100 countries the games
begin with the effort to fill the Panini World Cup sticker album. Sharing, talking, trading.
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304422704579572040518126308
We could fill pages with lists of World Cup statistics. Costs and protests. Hot dogs and beer consumed. Flights taken. Hotels booked. Souvenirs acquired. Yellow cards. Red cards. Goals scored and missed. But for a moment, let’s stop counting. Texting. Tweeting.
For a few
minutes, days, weeks, let’s recognize that around the world, wherever we
are , we'll be linked by a shared focus. In person, on line, watching, talking,
arguing, rooting for and against the same teams. We will be, as the official song says, One World
(Ole Ola)