The World Cup is one of the most important sporting events on the planet, with billions of spectators from all over the world following it. At the World Cup, every player offers all their skills. Every four years the World Cup is the most popular event in the whole world. The first World Cup competition was held in 1930.
Background on the World Cup
The World Cup cannot be compared to anything else, where no other sporting event can compete with the World Cup in importance, where billions of viewers from all over the world watch it, when the World Cup first opened, it had a high place in the Summer Olympics, and in the 1920s, the football game was facing a transition to professionalism, so FIFA made plans to organize the World Cup, and in the 1920s, the world.
First World Cup
Olympic football competitions already existed as a quadrennial event and amid numerous and ongoing discussions between FIFA and the International Olympic Committee on amateur athletes, FIFA hosted international amateur special competitions, which in turn allowed national teams to select players from local and professional football clubs.
FIFA's first World Cup took place in 1930 in Montevideo, Uruguay, at which time the World Cup stood among 13 competing teams, and Uruguay was selected; She won Olympic football gold between 1924 and 1928. Many extravagant celebrations were planned, and despite all this, only four European countries attended. economic problems in Europe, The first World Cup match took place on 13 July between France and Mexico, France won and had a match between the United States and Belgium, the tournament ended with the skills of the 13 teams who competed in the World Cup.
This trophy was named after FIFA president Juul Remé in honor of him, and after Juul Remé retired a new trophy was used from 1974, and from that day the World Cup continued every four years to the present day, but World War II came, and World Cup competitions were discontinued as scheduled games were cancelled in 1942, and the games returned again in 1950.
The most famous World Cup awards
In the history of the World Cup, many awards have been given, and one of the most famous awards of the World Cup is the Golden Ball award. Silver and Bronze Ball that comes with the Golden Boot that is awarded to the best scorer, there is also the Golden Glove award, which is given to the best goalkeeper, and the prize money for the World Cup has increased significantly over the past years; The winners received $35 million in the 2018 World Cup.
Nations that have won the World Cup
Brazil won 5 World Cup victories.
Germany won 4 victories during World Cup history.
Italy has had 4 victories during World Cup history.
Uruguay only got two wins in the World Cup.
Argentina also only got two wins.
England got one win during World Cup history.
France only got one win.
Spain only got one win.
World Cup tournaments
The first official FIFA World Cup was held in Uruguay in 1930, and since then when the tournament was held every four years, however, there were already unofficial matches before the FIFA World Cup in the late nineteenth century, at a time when few national teams were present, and the other informal "World Cup" was organized before 1930, the Sir Thomas Lipton Trophy.
Fun facts about the World Cup
Only 13 teams competed in the first World Cup, namely Argentina, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, France, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, Romania, the United States, Uruguay and Yugoslavia.
No country outside Europe, or South America won the World Cup.
Brazil has only qualified to compete in every World Cup since the tournament began in 1930, and is the only country to have participated in the World Cup, the most successful having triumphed five times.
The tournament was provided to 16 teams, after which it was increased to 24 since 1982, up to the current level of 32 teams since 1998, and in 2017 FIFA decided to expand to the World Cup, providing teams to 48 teams, from 2026 onwards.
All previous sessions with their last touches are transmitted through the World Cup home page, which was released by some users.
England only hosted the tournament once, in 1966, and this was also the only time they won the tournament, defeating Germany in a dramatic last-minute match.
Nearly half the world's population is following the World Cup.
The fastest ever World Cup goal took place just 10.89 seconds after it was launched, scored by Turkey's Hakan Sukur against South Korea in 2002.
Austria took the highest score ever in a World Cup match as Austria beat Switzerland 7-5 at the 1954 World Cup.
In 1966, the World Cup was stolen before the tournament, and was missing for 7 days before being found.
Mexico is the team that lost 25 different games since the World Cup began.
At the beginning of World War II in 1939, the plans for the 1942 World Cup were cancelled, and the 1946 World Cup was cancelled because FIFA did not have funding for the tournament and still had to rebuild itself after the devastating conflict.
