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The FIFA World Cup, sometimes, the football World Cup and the FIFA World Cup, but as a general rule, as the World Cup is an international soccer by men of the national team football member countries of the Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) World, sports Body of the global society. The control has been published every four years since the first tournament in 1930, except for 1942 and 1946, due to World War II.

The tournament for the final phase, the frequency of World Cup finals, is the most widely viewed sporting events in the world, with an estimate of 715.1 million people watching the 2006 tournament final. The current format of the final thirty-two teams with competition for places of the Nation host (or countries) over a period of approximately one month. To determine preliminary participating teams are held on the last three years prior to the final.

During the eighteen tournaments, only seven countries have won the title. Brazil is the most successful World Cup team, won the competition five times. The current state of the world, Italy, follows with four titles, while Germany holds three. The others are former champions Uruguay (who won the tournament), and Argentina with two titles, and in England and France, with a single stock.

The recent World Cup Final took place between June 9 and July 9, 2006 in Germany, where Italy was crowned world champion after the victory against France in the final, and won the penalty shoot-out 5-3 after the match ended 1-1 after extra time. Germany ranked third after the victory against Portugal 3-1. The next World Cup finals will be held in 2010 in South Africa and the 2014 finals will be held in Brazil.

Since 1991, FIFA has also hosted the FIFA Women's World Cup every four years.

The form of the championship.

Qualification.

Since the second World Cup in 1934, qualified tournaments were crossed to the thin area for the finals. They are, in the six FIFA continental areas (Africa, Asia, North America and Central America and the Caribbean, South America, Oceania, Europe), monitoring, by the associations. For each tournament, FIFA decided that the number of seats for each of the continental areas, as a general rule, on the relative strength Confederations' team, but also on the lobbying confederations.

The characterization may as early as almost three years before the last tournament and, more recently, over a period of two years. Format of the qualification tournaments between the various confederations. Normally, one or two seats to be filled are winners of intercontinental dams. For example, the winner of the Oceania zone and the zone of the team fifth of the Asian Zone draws a match for a place in the 2010 World Cup. Of the 1938 World Cup, nations have a host Liegeplätzen automatic in the finals. This right has also been granted for the defense of Champions since 1938, but it was withdrawn from the 2006 FIFA World Cup, which it considers to be good, which means that Brazil has won during the year 2002, the first master of the defense, to play a qualifying match.

Final tournament.

The current final phase features 32 teams national competition more than a month in the host country (s) of the nation. There are two phases: the phase of the groups, followed by a round.

In the group, the teams are divided into eight groups of four teams. The final draw was held, six months before the tournament, in which hosts the groups. Eight teams are ensemencés (including the premises, with the other teams chosen by a formula based on the FIFA and the performance of the last World Championships), and moved into the groups. The other teams are in different "pots", in most cases, based on geographical criteria, and the teams each pot will be drawn at random for the eight groups. Since 1998, the constraints were based on the attention to ensure that a group of not more than two European teams, or a group of any other association.

Each group plays a tournament round-robin'-Manier, ensuring that each team has at least three games. The last set of each group is provided, both for the conservation of justice between the teams. The first two teams of each group will qualify for the phase round. The points are used to the teams in a group. Since 1994, three points were awarded for a victory, one for a draw and a defeat to zero (before the winners were two instead of three). If two or more teams are using the same number of points, tiebreakers are: The first is the difference in the target, and overall goals, then the results and, finally, the lot (ie say, the determination of the team at random positions). [15]

The qualification is a simple elimination tournament, in which teams play each other in One-off-Adresse same, an additional trouble shooting and used to determine whether the winner. It begins with the "Round 16" (or in the second round), in which the winner of each group plays the second against the other group. It follows the quarter-finals, semi-finals and the third (of the losers semi-finalists), and the final.

Here are the various formats used in the previous tournaments:

* 1930: A group stage, followed by a skill with 4 teams (Group Prize winner; note that no third game was held)
* 1934-1938: Single-elimination tournament that all tournaments without a group stage
* 1950: The first phase of the groups, followed by the last phase of the group with 4 teams (group of award winners), and this is the only one without an official tournament finals
* 1954-1970: a group stage, followed by a skill with 8 teams (group winners and introduces)
* 1974-1978: The first phase of the groups, followed by a second group of 8 teams (in the first round of the winners and finalists), followed by the final (second round, the winner, second round played Vice Champion in the third market)
* 1982: The first phase of the groups, followed by a second phase with 12 teams (in the first round of the winners and finalists), followed by a skill with 4 teams (winner of the second round Group)
* 1986-1994: a group stage, followed by a qualifying with 16 teams (Group of prize winners, in second place, and the four best third-place teams)
* 1998 to present: A group phase, followed by a qualifying with 16 teams (group winners and introduces).

Award.

Between 1930 and 1970, the Jules Rimet trophy went to the World Cup wins. It was originally only known as the World Cup or the World Cup, but in 1946, she was by FIFA, Jules Rimet, the first when configuring the tournament. In 1970, Brazil at the third victory in the tournament the right to keep the trophy Definitely. However, the trophy was stolen during the year 1983 and has never been restored, apparently by thieves.

In 1970, a new trophy, known as the FIFA World Cup Trophy, was designed. The experts from FIFA, which consists of seven different countries, estimated at 53 presented models, and for the work of designers Italian Silvio Gazzaniga. The new trophy is 36 cm (14.2 inches) high, solid 18 carat (75%) gold and weighs 6175 kg (13.6 kg). The base contains two layers of semi-precious malachite, while the lower part of the Cup eingraviert year and bears the name of each FIFA World Cup winners since 1974. The description of trophies Gazzaniga was: "The lines of the pen base who are in spirals that have emerged in the world. Remarkable dynamic tensions of the compact body of the sculpture, the introductions of two players in the movement time the victory.

This new trophy to the nation, to earn a sustainable, and this, no matter how many World Cup win. World Cup winners will receive the trophy for the next tournament and receive training in gold in place of the farm of origin Gold. Argentina, Germany (FRG), Italy and Brazil have all won the second trophy twice, while France Has it once. It will not be in retirement, on behalf of the commemorative plaque was duly completed with the name of the winning nations 2038.

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.

First World Cup

The Summer Olympic Games 1932, in Los Angeles, not to plan for the game as part of the program because of the low popularity of football in the United States, as American Football has been growing. FIFA and IOC also agreed on the state of football fans and gaming was withdrawn. Cup Jules Rimet for the first World Cup tournament draft be held in Uruguay in 1930. The national associations of the countries selected were invited to a team, but the choice of Uruguay as a venue for the competition meant a long and costly trip across the Atlantic to Europe. Of course, no European country pledged, please send a team two months before the start of competition. To adopt Rimet teams from Belgium, France, Romania and Yugoslavia for the trip. A total of 13 countries took part-seven from South America, four from Europe and two from North America.

The first two WM-Spiele took place at the same time, and were by France and the United States against Mexico 4-1 and Belgium 3-0,. The first goal in the history of the World Cup has been approved by Lucien Laurent of France. In the final bezwang Uruguay Argentina 4-2 before a crowd of 93000 people in Montevideo, and was the first nation and World Cup.