{"id":12757,"date":"2018-03-31T09:44:37","date_gmt":"2018-03-31T07:44:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/?p=12757"},"modified":"2018-03-31T09:44:37","modified_gmt":"2018-03-31T07:44:37","slug":"the-week-in-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/?p=12757","title":{"rendered":"The Week in Numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/fvzyb4tuyjyr5uwgutnw.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12758\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/fvzyb4tuyjyr5uwgutnw.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/fvzyb4tuyjyr5uwgutnw.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/fvzyb4tuyjyr5uwgutnw-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-top-content\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div class=\"credits\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"article-body\" class=\"article-body\">\n<div id=\"article-body\" class=\"article-body article-body-frwp\">\n<article class=\"d3-o-article fi-article container-fluid \">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"d3-o-article__body fi-article__body\">\n<div class=\"col-xs-12 col-sm-10 col-md-8 col-sm-offset-1 col-md-offset-2 d3-o-article__body-part--text fi-o-article__body-part--text\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<ul>\n<li>\u200b<strong>Brazil repeat a record-rejecting feat<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Latvians get lost in a labyrinth of tunnels<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Infant Americans and inefficient Argentinians<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-xs-12 col-sm-10 col-md-8 col-sm-offset-1 col-md-offset-2 d3-o-article__body-part--text fi-o-article__body-part--text\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p><ins>102<\/ins> caps is what Branislav Ivanovic made it to go joint-second on Serbia\u2019s list of all-time leading appearances alongside Savo Milosevic. The 34-year-old defender is now only one shy of Dejan Stankovic.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-xs-12 col-sm-10 col-md-8 col-sm-offset-1 col-md-offset-2 d3-o-article__body-part--text fi-o-article__body-part--text\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p><ins>22<\/ins> matches unbeaten \u2013 one short of their all-time record, set between 1978 and \u201981 \u2013 is the Germany run that Brazil have now ended twice. A superb, last-gasp <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fifa.com\/worldcup\/news\/y=2016\/m=8\/news=o-fenomeno-in-full-flow-2824166.html\">Ronaldo<\/a> goal snatched a 2-1 win in Stuttgart in 1998, while his successor in the No9 jersey, Gabriel Jesus, got the only goal in Berlin on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p><ins>18<\/ins> years and 38 days was the age at which Tim Weah became the first player born this century to play for USA and the ninth-youngest in their history. The Paris Saint-Germain forward dazzled at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fifa.com\/u17worldcup\/index.html\">last year\u2019s FIFA U-17 World Cup<\/a>, while nine of his team-mates in the 1-0 win over Paraguay were graduates of the FIFA U-20 World Cup: Jorge Villafana, Wil Trapp, DeAndre Yedlin, Cameron Carter-Vickers, Marky Delgado, Matt Miazga, Rubio Rubin, Zack Steffen and Tyler Adams between 2009 and \u201917.<\/p>\n<p><ins>11<\/ins> successive matches \u2013 during which they had scored just three goals and conceded 52 \u2013 is what Gibraltar had registered until snatching their maiden victory since <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fifa.com\/about-fifa\/videos\/y=2016\/m=5\/video=gibraltar-voted-into-fifa-2790970.html\">admission to FIFA<\/a>. In their first appearance in Gibraltar, courtesy of the Victoria Stadium\u2019s refurbishment, Liam Walker\u2019s unanswered, 11th-hour free-kick sunk Latvia.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-xs-12 col-md-8 col-md-offset-2 d3-o-article__body-part--video fi-o-article__body-part--video \" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div class=\"fi-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/L8gEirTxVpc?enablejsapi=1&amp;autoplay=False\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-xs-12 col-sm-10 col-md-8 col-sm-offset-1 col-md-offset-2 d3-o-article__body-part--text fi-o-article__body-part--text\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">10 hours and 24 minutes \u2013 during which they had faced Germany, Brazil and the Netherlands \u2013 is what England had gone without conceding until Lorenzo Insigne grabbed a late equaliser for Italy at Wembley. It ensured England have drawn three successive home games for the first time in their 146-year history.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">10 goals in his first six starts for Morocco is, incredibly, what Ayoub El Kaabi has netted. The 24-year-old forward helped Herve Renard\u2019s side beat Serbia and Uzbekistan to make it 15 games without defeat (12 victories, three draws).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">4 times: that is, between them, all Netherlands midfielders Davy Propper, Gini Wijnaldum, Donny van de Beek lost possession on Monday \u2013 fewer than ten Portugal players individually. The trio helped the Dutch end a ten-match winless run against the Portuguese with their biggest-ever victory in the fixture (3-0).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">3 straight wins is what Kosovo made it with reverses of Madagascar and Burkina Faso \u2013 a run which began with the ending of nine consecutive defeats.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">0 saves is what Sergio Romero and Wilfredo Caballero made on Tuesday \u2013 Spain incredibly scored with each of their six shots on target to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fifa.com\/worldcup\/news\/y=2018\/m=3\/news=five-things-we-learned-from-the-march-friendlies.html\">condemn Argentina to the joint-worst defeat<\/a> of their 117-year history. Amadeo Carrizo and Angel Labruna appeared in a 6-1 loss to Czechoslovakia at Sweden 1958, while Javier Zanetti, Carlos Tevez and Lionel Messi were thrashed by the same outcome by Bolivia in a South Africa 2010 qualifier.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bBrazil repeat a record-rejecting feat Latvians get lost in a labyrinth of tunnels Infant Americans and inefficient Argentinians 102 caps is what Branislav Ivanovic made it to go joint-second on Serbia\u2019s list of all-time leading appearances alongside Savo Milosevic. The 34-year-old defender is now only one shy of Dejan Stankovic. 22 matches unbeaten \u2013 one &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12758,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[388,5],"tags":[2091,3008,3554,3910],"class_list":["post-12757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-slide","category-sport","tag-aldiplomasy","tag-fifa","tag-in-numbers","tag-the-week"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12757"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12759,"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12757\/revisions\/12759"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}