Who's the baddest World Cup team of them all? A software company says Paraguay ranks at the bottom when it comes to misbehavior at the global soccer tournament.

Staff at the British office of Information Builders (IBI) tracked a string of alternative statistics during Germany 2006, including dives, feigned injuries, referee intimidation and tantrums -- even players who didn't sing their national anthem.

According to their findings from watching TV broadcasts of the games, Italy leads in dives (32), France in tantrums (28), Paraguay in fake injuries (12), and Serbia and Montenegro in players not singing the anthem (31).

Croatia, France, Italy and Portugal are tied in bullying the referee incidents with five, although Croatia played half the games (three) than the others did.

To create an even playing field to compare teams, Information Builders devised the "IBI Foul Play Index," which awards points for yellow and red cards, bullying the referee, dives, fake injuries and tantrums. The total is then divided by the number of games played.

Paraguay leads the tournament with a Foul Play Index of 45, followed by Italy (40) and the Netherlands, Ivory Coast and Portugal (37).

Trinidad and Tobago was the goody two-shoes of the tournament, according to Information Builders, with a Foul Play Index of just 14. Next were Brazil, Costa Rica and Sweden (all 15) and the United States (16).

Imperfect president

FIFA president Sepp Blatter has admitted diving in order to trick referees during his playing days in Switzerland.

Diving, simulating fouls, faking injuries and players pleading with referees to pull cards on rivals have become a scourge of this World Cup. Blatter, head of the sport's governing body, has been an outspoken critic of it.

But Blatter has admitted in a TV interview to be aired on CNN International that he was less than a model of sportsmanship when he played in the Swiss league.

"I was not a perfect player, I have to say, being a striker. A striker cannot be a perfect player," Blatter says in the interview. "I also argued with the referee, but I tried to argue in a polite manner.

"I tried also to get some advantages by joking with a player and then falling down by saying 'but he touched me.' And in fact it was not that. I did it."

A billion served

The World Cup final tomorrow is expected to draw a worldwide audience of more than a billion, organizers said.

"The TV rights have been sold to 200 countries," said Wolfgang Niersbach, vice president of the local organizing committee. "I think 207 contracts have been signed. That's more than the U.N. has countries."

The U.S. Census Bureau estimates the current world population at 6.5 billion. The United Nations, meanwhile, has 191 member countries.