In between matches, the World Cup channel on cable would talk about trivias, like the history of the various old towns the palyers are staying or playing in. Most of the towns look like nice, quaint places to visit, and the sky is so blue and clear.

I didn't know that adidas and Puma are both from Germany, and started by two brothers who had fallen out with each other.

I didn't know that Serbia-Montenegro is the ex-Yugoslavia, and Trinidad-Tobago an ex-colony of Britain. Togo, Benin, Ivory Coast, Ghana are all on the African continent. And Persia was Iran.