FIFA World cup is a high level football tournament introduced to collect national teams around the world in a single competition. The game begins since a year of 1930 and Uruguay was first country to organize and winning the tournament.
Since than Brazil was most successful country in the tournament series. They had won the cup five times since their first victory in 1958. Their last time won the cup was in 2002 at South Korean and Japan.
The world cup played in Germany in 1974 was the first one in which teams competed for the FIFA cup instead of the Jules Rimet cup. This cup having been won by Brazil for keeps in Mexico 1970 when they beat Italy in the final by 4-1. The world cup 74 in Germany was also the first in which teams getting to the final would be required to play seven games as opposed to the six they had played in the previous world cups. All due to a system in which the 8 teams that qualified in to the quarterfinals would be put in to two groups of four where the teams to come in first from each group would go in to the finals while the teams to come in second from each group would play for third place. All of which making it necessary for 38 games to be played instead 32 as had been the case in the previous world cup.
Germany 74 was the last time Italy did not get past the first round in a world cup. As theirs was a team which was aging however other teams and events; such as the following made this tournament memorable. As for myself personally though I did not see any of the games of this world cup live I did see repeats of the games on television in the months leading up to Argentina 78.
Almost every culture around the world has some type of connection to the history of football/soccer. Such cultures as the Ancient Greeks, Persians, Vikings, The Chinese, Japanese, and much more, played a game that is much like today’s football/soccer. For instance, The Chinese played “footballer” games dating as far back as about 3000 years ago. However, it was in England that soccer / football really began to grow in popularity. After becoming popular in England, soccer became a widely loved sport throughout the world. The celebrated FIFA World cup led the way to the rise of soccer stars, and conferred world soccer records holders such as the player who has scored the most goals in world cup soccer history.
Brazilian professional footballer Ronaldo Nazario de Lima has scored the most goals in Fifa World Cup history. Ronaldo Luís Nazario de Lima, more generally known as Ronaldo, was born in September 18, 1976. In 1993, Ronaldo began his professional soccer/footballer career playing for Cruzeiro. In his single year with Cruzeiro, he accumulated 12 goals in 14 games and led the team to win their first Copa do Brasil championship. After playing with Cruzeiro, in 1994, he joined with the Dutch football team PSV. In 1996, in his final year with PSV, Ronaldo aided the team to win the Dutch Cup.
The World Cup is the premier international football championship, organized every four years by the International Federation of Association Football, or FIFA. Although FIFA was founded in Paris in 1904, the first World Cup was not held until 1930. FIFA’s first precursor to the event was an international tournament held in 1906, but at that time, FIFA’s membership was all European. It would not expand to other continents until after 1909. The First World War proved a major stumbling block to both FIFA and any efforts to organize future international football events, as most of the membership were belligerents. However, FIFA did become involved in organizing Olympic football events during this period, which greatly spurred momentum towards a non-amateur tournament.
The first World Cup was held in Uruguay, as they were the two-time champions of FIFA’s most recent efforts at international tournaments. Thirteen countries sent teams, with Uruguay defeating Argentina 4-2 in the final. The early tournaments of the 1930s were plagued by issues stemming from international travel: team from the Western Hemisphere were largely unwilling to travel to Europe for the tournament, and vice versa. Despite these difficulties, the World Cup rapidly came to overshadow Olympic football as the premier football event in international competition.