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FORMED: 1863

CAPTAIN: Rio Ferdinand

BEST ACHIEVEMENT: Winners, 1966

GROUP: C

GROUP OPPONENTS:
USA, Algeria and Slovenia

England players donate all their pay for international matches to charity causes via the Team England Footballers Charity, which in 2009 was raising awareness about bowel cancer.
The worst ever England defeat was a 7-1 trouncing by Hungary back in 1953, it was dubbed the Match of the Century.
The first ever England player to score two goals in the World Cup was Ivor Broadis in a thrilling 4-4 draw with Belgium in 1954.
For the first 50 years of their existence, England played their home matches all around the country and settled only at Wembley during the 1950s.
They are known as The Three Lions.
England became one of the only seven countries to have won the tournament when they hosted the finals back in 1966.
Geoff Hurst is the only player in the tournament’s history to score a hat trick in the winning final, with all three goals coming in against West Germany.
They are the joint-oldest national football team in the world! The other being Scotland.
England has the worst penalty shoot-out record among the prominent footballing nations, only winning once out of six attempts in penalty shoot-outs!
In 1966, the tournament’s trophy was stolen but a dog named Pickles discovered it prior to the country’s winning final.
If chosen, David Beckham, Rio Ferdinand and Michael Owen could join Sir Bobby Chartlon as the only England players to be have been called-up for the tournament four different times.