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The Portugal goalkeeper Ricardo entered history books as the first to save three penalties in a World Cup.

When Germany, England, Argentina, Portugal, Italy, Brazil, Ukraine and France entered the last eight, then it became the first occasion since the World Cup switched to a 32-team format in 1998 that each of the eight pools had been represented in the quarterfinal.

Argentina's captain Juan Pablo Sorin's book, `Grandes Chicos' (big boys), in its third edition, is not just a bestseller but also one that brought in enough income from its sales to rebuild two schools and a country hospital in Santiago del Estero, a province in the north East of the country.

If World cup 2006 ends without a single hat trick this will be first such occasion in the history of the tournament. Each World Cup since 1930 had recorded a hat trick with the 1954 edition in Switzerland witnessing seven. Portugal's Pauleta (in pic) was the last to score a hat trick in the World Cup 2002 in which Miroslav Klose also had the distinction.

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