world cup history

FIFA was established on May 21, 1904 in Paris by the football federations of Belgium, Denmark, France, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland. Organizing the first World Cup championship was granted to Uruguay to honour its achievements in sports (two Olympic gold medals in football) and a centennial of this country's constitution, falling in 1930. Only 13 national teams declared a will to participate in the tournament (top European teams such as England, Scotland, Italy, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Sweden, Czechoslovakia, Spain, Germany, Austria, Hungary didn't enter the competition), so there was no qualifiers.

The tournament was organized in two rounds: group games and play-offs. The participating teams were divided into 4 groups by geographical region. 5 teams were seeded: Uruguay (Olympic champion), Argentina (silver medallist), Brazil, USA and Bolivia. During the group games Yugoslavia did very well; so did USA and favourites from Uruguay and Argentina and these 4 teams made the semi-final. Just as expected, the favourite teams crushed their opponents (both games 6:1) and met in the final. For the players from Argentina this was supposed to be a kind of rematch for their loss with Uruguay in the Olympic final of 1928, but once again they were defeated. The first World Cup champion was the team from Uruguay. There was no 3. place game, since it was not in the regulations.

since that year, there are 7 winners of world cup tournament. they are Argentina, Italy, Germany, Uruguay, Brazil, England and France. Brazil hold the record by winning 5 times world cup

the left side picture is the first world cup trophy (the golden nike) was founded in 1930 by Frenchman Jules Rimet, the creator of the world championship games. In 1983 the Cup was stolen and it has never been found.

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Damus
UEA ambassador for Indonesia