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The Detail History of FIFA World Cup......The FIFA History For The Football Lovers....:) <br /><br />Please Like and Subscribe to the Channel for More: <br />https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoJLo82L3LL1EHevngliIyQ/videos<br /><br />----------------------------------------­-<br /><br />The FIFA World Cup, often simply called the World Cup, is an international association football competition contested by the senior men's national teams of the members of The Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), the sport's global governing body. <br /><br />The championship has been awarded every four yearssince the inaugural tournament in 1930, except in 1942 and 1946 when it was not held because of the Second World War. The current champion is Germany, which won its fourth title at the 2014 tournament in Brazil.<br /><br />The current format of the competition involves a qualification phase, which currently takes place over the preceding three years, to determine which teams qualify for the tournament phase, which is often called the World Cup Finals. <br /><br />The 20 World Cup tournaments have been won by eight national teams. Brazil have won five times, and they are the only team to have played in every tournament. <br /><br />The other World Cup winners are Germany and Italy, with four titles each; Argentina and inaugural winner Uruguay, with two titles each; and England, France and Spain, with one title each.<br /><br />The World Cup is the most prestigious association football tournament in the world as well as the most widely viewed and followed sporting event in the world, exceeding even the Olympic Games. <br /><br />The cumulative audience of all matches of the 2006 FIFA World Cup was estimated to be 26.29 billion with an estimated 715.1 million people watching the final match, a ninth of the entire population of the planet.<br /><br />Other FIFA tournaments:-<br /><br />An equivalent tournament for women's football, the FIFA Women's World Cup, was first held in 1991 in China. The women's tournament is smaller in scale and profile than the men's, but is growing; the number of entrants for the 2007 tournament was 120, more than double that of 1991.<br /><br />Trophy:-<br /><br />From 1930 to 1970, the Jules Rimet Trophy was awarded to the World Cup winning team. It was originally simply known as the World Cup or Coupe du Monde, but in 1946 it was renamed after the FIFA president Jules Rimet who set up the first tournament.<br /><br />The new trophy is 36 cm (14.2 in) high, made of solid 18 carat (75%) gold and weighs 6.175 kg (13.6 lb). The base contains two layers of semi-precious malachite while the bottom side of the trophy bears the engraved year and name of each FIFA World Cup winner since 1974.<br /><br />-------------­---------------------<br /><br />⇢ If you like then please Share and Subscribe to the Channel<br /><br />You Can Also Check & Join us at:<br /><br />⇢ https://www.facebook.com/In4mativeVideos/<br />⇢ https://twitter.com/In4mativeVideos/<br />⇢ https://www.instagram.com/In4mativeVideos/<br />⇢ https://in4mativevideos.tumblr.com <br />⇢ https://www.pinterest.com/In4mativeVideos/pins/