Crowds top one million for Olympic soccer

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Sydney: The overall attendance for the Olympic soccer tournament topped one million when 98,212 attended the final between Cameroon and Spain on Saturday taking the total attendance to 1,069,250 for the whole competition.

The crowd for the final was the largest at any of the 32 matches in the men's competition.

The previous highest attendance was the 93,252 who saw Italy beat Australia 1-0 on the opening day of the competition at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on September 13.

The lowest crowd was 12,753 who saw South Korea defeat Morocco 1-0 at the Hindmarsh Stadium in Adelaide on September 17.

Every match produced a goal. In all 103 were scored in the tournament -- not including the goals scored in penalty shoot-outs between the United States and Japan and the final shootout between Cameroon and Spain.

Chile were top scorers with 14, with their Inter Milan striker Ivan Zamorano finishing as the top individual scorer with six goals.



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