The World Cup Football

No other sporting event captures the world's imagination like the FIFA World Cup. Ever since the first tentative competition in Uruguay in 1930, FIFA's flagship has constantly grown in popularity and prestige. A group of visionary French football administrators, led in the 1920s by the innovative Jules Rimet, are credited with the original idea of bringing the world's strongest national football teams together to compete for the title of World Champions. Today, the FIFA World Cup holds the entire global public under its spell. An accumulated audience of over 37 billion people watched the France 98 tournament, including approximately 1.3 billion for the final alone, while over 2.7 million people flocked to watch the 64 matches in the French stadia.

History statistics of the World Cup shows that 75 nations have played in at least one World Cup. Of these, 11 have made it to the final match, and seven of them have won. The seven national teams that have won the World Cup have added stars to their crests, with each star representing a World Cup victory. With five titles, Brazil are the most successful World Cup team with 5 titles and also the only nation to have played in every World Cup to date. Italy (1934 and 1938) and Brazil (1958 and 1962) are the only nations to have won consecutive titles. Italy have one 4 times, following on is Germany with 3 wins, then Argentina and Uruguay with 2 wins each, and finally France and England with only 1 win.

After all these years and so many changes, however, the main focus of the FIFA World Cup remains the same - the glistening golden trophy, which is the embodiment of every footballer's ambition.

Now in 2010, again the football teams will meat each other after qualifying for the world cup in South Africa by playing the Qualifying rounds. This FIFA 2010 World Cup will be staged at 10 venues across nine South African cities: Johannesburg, Cape Town, Durban, Port Elizabeth, Nelspruit, Polokwane, Bloemfontein, Rustenburg and Pretoria.

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