world cup history

History of the World Cup .. The Brazilian samba on the throne with 5 titles .. Azzurri Italian and summer four .. German machines harvest the hat trick Championships .. Tango players "dancing twice on the podium

The idea of ​​the FIFA World Cup was brought back to the first FIFA meeting in Paris in 1904 in the presence of seven countries - Switzerland, Belgium, Denmark, France, Holland, Spain and Sweden - where the federation adopted the idea of ​​a world football championship. A long time to agree.

The most prominent of these difficulties was the rejection of the International Olympic Committee for the idea of ​​the tournament and fear of its impact on the Olympic Games as well as the fear of the control of the International Federation on the first popular game.

The idea was raised again in 1921 by the French lawyer Jules Rimet, who later became president of the International Federation, who struggled to do his best to launch the world's first football championship. Seven years after his appointment as president, the International Federation agreed at a historic meeting on 25 May 1928 On the adoption of the World Cup and named the Cup victory.

Uruguay has applied for the tournament and has been approved as it was the leading team at the time and the last two Olympic Games, and provided facilities for the participating teams and ensure the International Federation to pay the expenses of teams and difficult movements at the time.

Two years before the start of the first World Cup, the instructions stipulated that there should be a valuable award to the winning team of the World Championship, which led them to establish a Cup victory Jules Rimim »The tournament began for the first time in 1930 and continues every 4 years until today.

19 Championship

The tournament was held 19 times, 76 countries participated in the finals, and the number of teams has so far won eight. The Brazilian team is the most crowned champion, winning 5 times: 1958, 1962, 1970, 1994 and 2002. Followed by Italy 4 times in 1934, 1938, 1982 and 2006, and then the German team 3 times: 1954, 1974 and 1990 were all in the name of West Germany until unification in 1991 .. Then Uruguay and Argentina with two rounds .. While the teams of England and France Spain tournament once.

The Italian team is the first team to win the championship twice in 1934 and 1938. While the teams of Uruguay, England and Spain won the championship without a final loss, and the Dutch team from the most teams to reach the final without winning the tournament with 3 times.

It includes the Golden Box teams during the tournament.

Uruguay 1930

Final: 30 July 1930 at the Centenario Stadium in Montevideo

The first two games started on July 13, 1930, France beat Mexico 4-1, United States beat Belgium 3-0, and Lucien Laurent scored the first goal in the history of the World Cup.

Uruguay, the hosts and neighbors Argentina, competed in the final to beat Uruguay 4-2 after a 2-1 lead in the first half.

It was the only tournament held in one city, the capital of Montevideo.

Italy 1934

Final: 10 June 1934 at the BNF stadium in Rome

Uruguay refused to participate after feeling that the Europeans had chosen not to participate in its 1930 championship.

With the number of FIFA members increasing to more than 50 countries, qualifying qualifiers have been established.

over Mexico in Rome on May 24 before the start of the tournament with an overwhelming victory for Italy on the United States 7-1 on May 27.

Italy finally won the title amidst the joy of their fascist leader Benito Mussolini and left disappointment to Argentina and Brazil, who traveled 13,000 km each to play a single game in the first round.

Italy beat Czechoslovakia 2-1 after extra time in the final after a goal late eight minutes from the end.

France 1938

Final: 19 June 1938 at the Columbus Stadium in Paris

Italy traveled to France and won the World Cup again, but politics and the looming war loomed, leading a number of major nations to not participate.

Austria qualified but withdrew, although a number of their players represented Germany while Spain was absent because of the civil war.

Argentina and Uruguay were also absent. Brazil and Poland made one of the best matches of all time in Strasbourg and ended Brazil 6-5 with extra time thanks to four goals scored by Brazilian Leonidas, who for some time played barefoot.

In the final, Italy retained the title by beating Hungary 4-2.

Brazil 1950

Final: 16 July 1950 at the Maracana Stadium in Rio de Janeiro

After the end of the Second World War (during which FIFA president Jules Remy and the co-founder recovered the trophy from Italy and kept it under his bed) the World Cup returned and Uruguay won the title for the second time in the final.

Earlier, the United States beat England 1-0 at Belo Horizonte in one of the biggest surprises in football, and Sweden fans beat the Italian team, which was still wobbling after the Supra plane crash that ousted Italy's Torino in the previous year.

A mini-league system has been put in place to determine the hero and Italy, Brazil, Sweden, Spain and Uruguay have remained competitive in the final stage.

Brazil needed only a draw against Uruguay to win the title but lost 2-1 at Rio Maracana Stadium to an audience of about 205,000, the largest ever seen anywhere in the world.

Switzerland 1954

Final: 4 July 1954 at the Vandkorv Stadium in Berne.

Hungary were the favorites to win the title with Ferenc Puskas, Jojev Pujek, Chandor Kucić and Nandor Hidekuti, who were unbeaten in the last 30 caps.

In the six months leading up to the tournament, the Hungarian team became the first European team to beat England at Wembley with a 6-3 win before repeating a 7-1 victory in Budapest. Hungary also re-formulated football techniques by relying on the late striker and playing " Universal ball "with players moving around the stadium.

Hungary began the tournament by crushing South Korea 9-0, then West Germany 8-3 before becoming a party to the famous "Battle of Berne" against Brazil when they expelled three players and clashed the two teams in the dressing rooms. With a 4-2 win, Hungary qualified to play against champions Uruguay in the semi-finals to win 4-2 as well.

Hungary also began the final with a superb 2-0 lead over Germany eight minutes into the game before the Germans broke through in a superb way and the match ended with a 3-2 win.

The 26 matches saw 140 goals with the highest scoring record of 5.4 in the match.

Sweden 1958

Final: June 29, 1958 at the Rassunda Stadium in Stockholm

The finals were the first "modern" World Cup with the spread of television and the participation of 16 teams that were divided into four groups before the start of the stage of the knockout system.

England's hopes were high at the start of the tournament, but the crash of Manchester United in Munich in February 1958 killed Roger Berne, Tommy Taylor and Duncan Edwards.

Brazil won the title for the first time with the participation of 17-year-old Pele and in the beginning of his career to become the best player of all time. Pele shook Wales's net and then added three goals to beat Brazil 5-2 to France in the semi-final before scoring two more goals to lead his country to a 5-2 victory over Sweden, the host country in the final.

French striker Juste Fontaine scored 13 goals in the tournament, a record he held until 2006.

Chile 1962

Final: 17 June 1962 at the National Stadium in Santiago

Chile suffered massive earthquakes in 1960 causing the destruction of thousands of homes.

"We have to organize the World Cup because we have nothing else left and the tournament has already been held in Chile," said Carlos Deitburn, president of the Chilean Football Federation.

The tournament resulted in another victory for Brazil, although Pele's participation was limited to the opening game, scoring a great goal to lead Brazil to a 2-0 victory over Mexico before he was injured.

Brazil beat Czechoslovakia 3-1 in the final thanks to goals from Amarildo, Zito and Fava after Josef Mausopust, Europe's best player in 1962, put Czechoslovakia ahead.

The tournament saw a notorious match called "Battle of Santiago" between Italy and Chile, in which two Italian players were expelled and broke the last nose of a Chilean player flying in the air.

England 1966

Final: 30 July 1966 at Wembley Stadium in London

The host country nail the title again after stealing the trophy during its presentation in London.

The trophy was restored thanks to a dog named Bickles found under a cluster of trees in a park in southern London days after it was stolen.

Pele was injured again this time by the Bulgarian defense in the group stage where Brazil was