Download the new album Globalization featuring Wild Wild Love, We Are One, Fireball More on iTunes httpsmarturl. ALTERNATES/s1200/EASPORTS2014FIFAWorldCupBrazilJPG.jpg' alt='2014 Fifa World Cup' title='2014 Fifa World Cup' />FIFA World Cup Wikipedia. This article is about the mens association football tournament. For the womens tournament, see FIFA Womens World Cup. The FIFA World Cup, often simply called the World Cup, is an international association football competition contested by the senior mens national teams of the members of Fdration Internationale de Football Association FIFA, the sports global governing body. The championship has been awarded every four years since the inaugural tournament in 1. Second World War. Fifa World Cup' title='2014 Fifa World Cup' />The current champion is Germany, which won its fourth title at the 2. Brazil. The current format of the competition involves a qualification phase, which currently takes place over the preceding three years, to determine which teams qualify for the tournament phase, which is often called the World Cup Finals. The 2. 0 World Cup tournaments have been won by eight different national teams. Brazil have won five times, and they are the only team to have played in every tournament. The other World Cup winners are Germany and Italy, with four titles each Argentina and inaugural winner Uruguay, with two titles each and England, France and Spain, with one title each. The World Cup is the most prestigious association football tournament in the world as well as the most widely viewed and followed sporting event in the world, exceeding even the Olympic Games the cumulative audience of all matches of the 2. FIFA World Cup was estimated to be 2. History. Previous international competitions. The worlds first international football match was a challenge match played in Glasgow in 1. Scotland and England,5 which ended in a 00 draw. The first international tournament, the inaugural edition of the British Home Championship, took place in 1. Fifa World Cup' title='2014 Fifa World Cup' />As football grew in popularity in other parts of the world at the turn of the 2. Summer Olympics however, the IOC has retroactively upgraded their status to official events, and at the 1. Intercalated Games. After FIFA was founded in 1. Olympic framework in Switzerland in 1. These were very early days for international football, and the official history of FIFA describes the competition as having been a failure. At the 1. Summer Olympics in London, football became an official competition. Planned by The Football Association FA, Englands football governing body, the event was for amateur players only and was regarded suspiciously as a show rather than a competition. Great Britain represented by the England national amateur football team won the gold medals. They repeated the feat in 1. Stockholm. With the Olympic event continuing to be contested only between amateur teams, Sir Thomas Lipton organised the Sir Thomas Lipton Trophy tournament in Turin in 1. The Lipton tournament was a championship between individual clubs not national teams from different nations, each one of which represented an entire nation. The competition is sometimes described as The First World Cup,9 and featured the most prestigious professional club sides from Italy, Germany and Switzerland, but the FA of England refused to be associated with the competition and declined the offer to send a professional team. Lipton invited West Auckland, an amateur side from County Durham, to represent England instead. West Auckland won the tournament and returned in 1. In 1. 91. 4, FIFA agreed to recognise the Olympic tournament as a world football championship for amateurs, and took responsibility for managing the event. This paved the way for the worlds first intercontinental football competition, at the 1. Summer Olympics, contested by Egypt and 1. European teams, and won by Belgium. Uruguay won the next two Olympic football tournaments in 1. Those were also the first two open world championships, as 1. FIFAs professional era. World Cups before World War IIDue to the success of the Olympic football tournaments, FIFA, with President. Jules Rimet as the driving force, again started looking at staging its own international tournament outside of the Olympics. On 2. 8 May 1. 92. FIFA Congress in Amsterdam decided to stage a world championship itself. With Uruguay now two time official football world champions and to celebrate their centenary of independence in 1. FIFA named Uruguay as the host country of the inaugural World Cup tournament. The national associations of selected nations were invited to send a team, but the choice of Uruguay as a venue for the competition meant a long and costly trip across the Atlantic Ocean for European sides. The FIFA World Cup, often simply called the World Cup, is an international association football competition contested by the senior mens national teams of the. The 2014 FIFA World Cup was the 20th FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial world championship for mens national football teams organized by FIFA. It took place in Brazil. Indeed, no European country pledged to send a team until two months before the start of the competition. Rimet eventually persuaded teams from Belgium, France, Romania, and Yugoslavia to make the trip. In total, 1. 3 nations took part seven from South America, four from Europe and two from North America. The first two World Cup matches took place simultaneously on 1. July 1. 93. 0, and were won by France and the USA, who defeated Mexico 41 and Belgium 30 respectively. The first goal in World Cup history was scored by Lucien Laurent of France. In the final, Uruguay defeated Argentina 42 in front of a crowd of 9. Montevideo, and in doing so became the first nation to win the World Cup. After the creation of the World Cup, FIFA and the IOC disagreed over the status of amateur players, and so football was dropped from the 1. Summer Olympics. 1. Olympic football returned at the 1. Summer Olympics, but was now overshadowed by the more prestigious World Cup. The issues facing the early World Cup tournaments were the difficulties of intercontinental travel, and war. Few South American teams were willing to travel to Europe for the 1. Brazil the only South American team to compete in both. The 1. 94. 2 and 1. Nazi Germany and Brazil sought to host,1. World War II and its aftermath. World Cups after World War IIThe 1. World Cup, held in Brazil, was the first to include British participants. British teams withdrew from FIFA in 1. FIFAs invitation. The tournament also saw the return of 1. Uruguay, who had boycotted the previous two World Cups. Uruguay won the tournament again after defeating the host nation Brazil, in the match called Maracanazo Portuguese Maracanao. Follow the latest news, pictures, schedule, fixtures and build up to the Fifa World Cup 2014 in Brazil. A total of 64 games will be played to decide the winner of the FIFA World Cup. See when and where the action will be taking place. In the tournaments between 1. Austria was absorbed into Germany after qualifying, leaving the tournament with 1. India, Scotland, and Turkey withdrew, leaving the tournament with 1. Most of the participating nations were from Europe and South America, with a small minority from North America, Africa, Asia, and Oceania. These teams were usually defeated easily by the European and South American teams. FIFA World Cup Qualifier. Round 5. Estadio Olimpico. The fitting culmination to what was, in the eyes of most observers, the quintessential FIFA World Cup tournament. This match had all the ingredients of a great. ECYbv5OLTpg/U7fiR4lIuYI/AAAAAAAAAjc/BjOTnkDATzQ/s1600/2.jpg' alt='2014 Fifa World Cup' title='2014 Fifa World Cup' />Until 1. Europe and South America to advance out of the first round were USA, semi finalists in 1. Idm 6.21 With Crack Key. Cuba, quarter finalists in 1. North Korea, quarter finalists in 1. The Hype Theory Glory Days Zip. Mexico, quarter finalists in 1. Expansion to 3. 2 teams. The tournament was expanded to 2. Africa, Asia and North America to take part. Since then, teams from these regions have enjoyed more success, with several having reached the quarter finals Mexico, quarter finalists in 1. Cameroon, quarter finalists in 1. South Korea, finishing in fourth place in 2. Senegal, along with USA, both quarter finalists in 2. Ghana, quarter finalists in 2. Costa Rica, quarter finalists in 2. Nevertheless, European and South American teams continue to dominate, e. Europe or South America and so were the finalists of all tournaments so far. Two hundred teams entered the 2. FIFA World Cup qualification rounds 1.