Football World Cup 2006 | Wikipedia audio article
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00:02:09 1 Host selection
00:02:50 1.1 Bribery and corruption allegations
00:06:49 2 Qualification
00:10:12 2.1 List of qualified teams
00:10:28 3 Venues
00:12:07 3.1 Team base camps
00:12:28 4 Match officials
00:12:37 5 Squads
00:13:03 6 Groups
00:13:12 6.1 Seeds
00:14:44 6.2 Group system
00:15:19 6.2.1 Ranking criteria
00:16:55 7 Finals tournament
00:17:29 7.1 Hosting
00:18:16 7.2 Traditional powers dominate
00:19:17 7.3 Scoring
00:21:01 7.4 Unprecedented number of cards
00:22:20 8 Results
00:22:29 8.1 Group stage
00:23:12 8.1.1 Group A
00:23:16 8.1.2 Group B
00:23:25 8.1.3 Group C
00:23:55 8.1.4 Group D
00:24:03 8.1.5 Group E
00:24:38 8.1.6 Group F
00:24:47 8.1.7 Group G
00:25:22 8.1.8 Group H
00:25:31 8.2 Knockout stage
00:26:05 8.2.1 Round of 16
00:26:13 8.2.2 Quarter-finals
00:26:54 8.2.3 Semi-finals
00:27:02 8.2.4 Third place play-off
00:27:51 8.2.5 Final
00:27:59 9 Statistics
00:28:40 9.1 Goalscorers
00:28:48 9.2 Awards
00:29:24 9.3 All-star team
00:29:34 9.4 Prize money
00:30:21 9.5 Final standings
00:32:23 10 Sponsorship
00:33:34 11 See also
00:34:30 12 References and footnotes
00:36:00 13 External links
00:38:09 Statistics
00:38:18 Goalscorers
00:39:01 Awards
00:39:34 All-star team
00:40:02 Prize money
00:41:06 Final standings
00:41:25 Sponsorship
00:41:41 See also
00:43:12 References and footnotes
00:43:22 External links
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The 2006 FIFA World Cup was the 18th FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial international football world championship tournament. It was held from 9 June to 9 July 2006 in Germany, which won the right to host the event in July 2000. Teams representing 198 national football associations from all six populated continents participated in the qualification process which began in September 2003. Thirty-one teams qualified from this process, along with the host nation, Germany, for the finals tournament. It was the second time that Germany staged the competition (the first was in 1974 as West Germany), and the tenth time that it was held in Europe.
Italy won the tournament, claiming their fourth World Cup title. They defeated France 5–3 in a penalty shoot-out in the final, after extra time had finished in a 1–1 draw. Germany defeated Portugal 3–1 to finish in third place. Angola, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Trinidad and Tobago, and Togo made their first appearances in the finals. It was also the first appearance of Serbia and Montenegro under that name; they had previously appeared in 1998 as Yugoslavia. In late May 2006, immediately prior to the tournament, Montenegro voted in a referendum to become an independent nation and dissolve the loose confederacy then existing between it and Serbia, with Serbia recognizing the results of the referendum in early June. FIFA, due to time constraints, proceeded to have Serbia and Montenegro play in the World Cup tournament as one team, marking the first occurrence since Euro 92 of multiple sovereign nations competing as one team in a major football tournament.
The 2006 World Cup stands as one of the most watched events in television history, garnering an estimated 26.29 billion times viewed, compiled over the course of the tournament. The final attracted an estimated audience of 715.1 million people.