Wednesday, December 5, 2007

How it growth.

The problems, the start of the World Cup in tournaments, the difficulties of a trip Intercontinental, and the war. Few teams from South America were ready to go, in Europe for 1934 and 1938 tournaments, with Brazil is the only South American team to compete in the two. The 1942 and 1946 the competition was canceled because of the Second World War and its aftermath.

The 1950 World Cup was the first to the British participants. British teams are from the FIFA 1920, in part by the refusal of the country, they were still at war, and partly as a protest against a foreign influence on the football, but since 1946 after an invitation from the FIFA. The tournament also saw the return of 1930 champion Uruguay, which had boycotted the previous two for the World Cup. Uruguay won the tournament again become one of the most famous games ever later called "Maracanazo".

In the tournaments between 1934 and 1978, 16 teams have for each phase, except 1938, when Austria were eligible to Germany after the qualifying, so the tournament with 15 teams, and in 1950, when India, Scotland and Turkey joins , but the tournament with 13 teams. Most of the participants were in Europe and South America, with a small minority in North America, Africa, Asia and Oceania. These teams are usually easily defeated by the European and South American. Until 1982, the only team from outside Europe and South America in advance to the first round were: United States, semi-finalists in 1930, Cuba, finalists in the quarter-finals 1938, North Korea, quarter-finalists in 1966, and Mexico, quarter-finals in 1970.

The finalists were expanded to 24 teams in 1982 and 32 in 1998, which means that several teams from Africa, Asia and North America to participate. The only exception is, Oceania, which has never been a guarantee of place in the finals. In recent years, teams in these regions have more success, and the stage reached Qualifying: Mexico, Finale 1986 and the qualifying series in 1994, 1998, 2002 and 2006; Morocco reached KO of the series in 1986, Cameroon, quarter-finalists in 1990, Costa Rica, for the achievement of the KO series 1990, Nigeria reached the knockout round from 1994 to 1998, Saudi Arabia, for the achievement of the KO series of 1994, In the United States, for achieving the knockout round 1994 and quarter-finalists in 2002, South Korea, finished in fourth place in 2002, Senegal, quarter-finalists in 2002, Japan, reached the knockout round in 2002, and Australia and Ghana, the two to achieve the rate in 2006. But European and South American remained the strongest forces. For example, the quarter-finals in 2006 were all from Europe or South America.

198 Nations has tried to qualify for the World Cup 2006, and a record 204 attempts to qualify for the 2010 FIFA World Cup.

An equivalent tournament for women's soccer, the women of the World Cup was the first time 1991 in the People's Republic of China.

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