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3 days ago · The three winners would then face a European or South American team for entry into the World Cup. The 1962 tournament was the last one for which only nations from Europe or the Americas qualified. Two teams qualified for the first time ever: Colombia and Bulgaria. Colombia would not qualify for another World Cup until 1990.
- 89 (2.78 per match)
- 32
- Chile
- 16 (from 3 confederations)
2 days ago · The history behind the FIFA World Cup. Watch this video to learn more about the history of the FIFA World Cup. See all videos for this article. 1930 World Cup. Uruguay scoring its first goal in the World Cup final against Argentina, in Montevideo, Uruguay, July 30, 1930. (more) Explore which countries won the most men's World Cup titles over time.
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- The World Cup in football (soccer) is a quadrennial tournament of 32 men’s national teams that is organized by the Fédération Internationale de Foo...
- The World Cup happens every four years in order to have enough time for the qualification tournaments and playoffs among national teams to take pla...
- Qualifying for the World Cup is a long process during the years between each quadrennial tournament. Each of the Fédération Internationale de Footb...
- World Cup prize money comes from the earnings of the nonprofit Fédération Internationale de Football Association. FIFA’s revenue is generated by hi...
- The men’s World Cup all-time top scorer is Miroslav Klose of the German national football (soccer) team. He scored a total of 16 goals across four...
3 days ago · 2006 →. The 2002 FIFA World Cup, also branded as Korea Japan 2002, was the 17th FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial football world championship for men's national teams organized by FIFA. It was held from 31 May to 30 June 2002 at sites in South Korea and Japan, with its final match hosted by Japan at International Stadium in Yokohama.
- 161 (2.52 per match)
- 32 (from 5 confederations)
- 64
- Brazil (5th title)
11 hours ago · Pele remains one of the greatest players of all time, winning three World Cups – a milestone no one else has achieved. At just 17 years old, ‘The King’ scored two goals in the 1958 World Cup final win against Sweden. This performance helped Brazil secure their first World Cup and marked the arrival of Pele as a football icon.
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11 hours ago · Obviously, the quiz is 52 weeks a year, but in much of the sporting world (yes, I’m classing the pub quiz as a sport), May is a bit of a crescendo. In the next couple of weeks, title races will be decided, trophies will lifted and European champions will be crowned.
3 days ago · In the 7th matchday of the 2018 World Cup qualifier, Venezuela lost to Colombia 2–0 in Barranquilla, the first loss against Los Cafeteros since 2009. Later, on matchday 11, Venezuela won for the first time in the qualifier, 5–0 over Bolivia in Maturín with a hat-trick from Josef Martínez and goals from Jacobo Kouffati and Rómulo Otero .
1 day ago · Eight-time Olympic champion and cricket fan Usain Bolt is backing his home team West Indies to become the first nation to win a hat-trick of T20 World Cup titles when the tournament kicks off next month. The glory years of West Indian cricket are long gone as the team that won the first two editions of the 50-over World Cup did not even qualify ...
