(General Knowledge) Sports & Games : World Cup Football

Sports and Games

World Cup Football

The Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) was founed in Paris by representatives of seven countries—Belgium, Denmark, France, Netherland, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland on May 21, 1904. On 28th May 1928, the FIFA decided to stage a world championship of football and Uruguay was finally chosen as the host country in 1929. The original world cup trophy bore Frenchman Jules Rimet’s name since. it was he who had proposed the tournament. The trophy was awarded to Brazil permanently in 1970, when it became the first country to win the world cup thrice. A new trophy called the ‘FIFA World Cup’ was put up for competition. Since 1930, only seven teams have been able to win the trophy. At the time of release of this look, South Africa is hosting the 2010 edition of the FIFA World Cup.

HISTORY OF WORLD CUP FOOTBALL

Year Host Winner Runner up
1930 Uruguay Uruguay Argentina
1934 Italy Italy Italy Czechoslovakia
1938 France Italy Hungary
1950 Brazil Uruguay Brazil
1954 Switzerland West Germany Hungary
1958 Sweden Brazil Sweden
1962 Chile Brazil Czechoslovakia
1966 England England West Germany
1970 Mexico Brazil Italy
1974 West Germany West Germany Netherlands
1978 Argentina Argentina Netherlands
1982 Spain Italy
1986 Mexico Argentina West Germany
1990 Italy West Germany Argentina
1994 United States Brazil Italy
1998 France France Brazil
2002 South Korea and Japan Brazil Germany
2006 Germany Italy France
2010 South Africa Spain The Netherlands

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