The FIFA
World Cup, often simply the World
Cup, is an international association football competition contested by the senior men's
national teams of the
members of Fédération
Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), the sport's global
governing body. The championship has been awarded every four years since the inaugural tournament in 1930, except in 1942
and 1946 when it was not held because of the Second World
War. The current champions are Spain, who won the 2010 tournament in South Africa.
The current format of the tournament involves 32
teams competing for the title at venues within the host nation(s) over a period
of about a month; this phase is often called the World Cup Finals. A qualification phase, which currently takes
place over the preceding three years, is used to determine which teams qualify
for the tournament together with the host nation(s).
The 19 World Cup tournaments have been won by eight
different national teams. Brazil have
won five times, and they are the only team to have played in every tournament.
The other World Cup winners are Italy, with four titles; West Germany, with three
titles;Argentina and inaugural winners Uruguay, with two titles
each; and England, France, and Spain, with one title each.
The World Cup is among the world's most widely
viewed sporting events; an estimated 715.1 million people watched the final match of the 2006 FIFA World Cup held in Germany
World's one of the biggest sporting event, FIFA
World Cup 2014 Brazil kicks off in June 12, 2014. Like previous years, the mega
tournament will start with a grand opening ceremony. The “New
Corinthians Stadium” in Sao Paulo has bee chosen to host the opening ceremony of FIFA World cup which is promising
to be one of the biggest stadiums. The biggest show will start at 3:15pm local
time at the Arena Corinthians.
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