WORLD CUP: THE MOST

ANTICIPATED COMPETITION
BY: NGO THE TRUONG GIANG
WHAT IS THE WORLD CUP??

 The FIFA World Cup, often simply called the World Cup, is an
international association football competition between the senior
men's national teams of the members of the Fédération Internationale
de Football Association (FIFA), the sport's global governing body. The
tournament has been held every four years since the
inaugural tournament in 1930, with the exception of 1942 and 1946 due
to the Second World War. The reigning champions are Argentina, who
won their third title at the 2022 tournament
WHO IS THE CREATOR??

 The FIFA World Cup was first held in 1930, when FIFA, the world's
football governing body, decided to stage an international men's football
tournament under the era of FIFA president Jules Rimet who put this
idea into place. Jules Rimet was the president of FIFA from 1921 to 1954.
Rimet was appreciated so much for bringing the idea of FIFA to life that
1946 the trophy was named the Jules Rimet Cup instead of the World
Cup Trophy.[1] The inaugural edition, held in 1930, was contested as a
final tournament of only thirteen teams invited by the organization.
Since then, the World Cup has experienced successive expansions and
format remodeling, with its current 48-team final tournament preceded
by a two-year qualifying process, involving over 200 teams from around
the world.
THE BEGINNING

 In 1930, FIFA made the decision to stage their own international tournament.
The 1932 Summer Olympics, held in Los Angeles, did not plan to include football
as part of the programme because the sport was not popular in the United States
. FIFA and the IOC also disagreed over the status of amateur players, and so
football was dropped from the Games.[15] FIFA president Jules Rimet thus set
about organizing the inaugural World Cup tournament. With Uruguay now a two-
time official world champion and due to celebrate its centenary of independence
in 1930, FIFA named Uruguay as the host country. 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 the European sides at the time of the Great Depression. No European country
pledged to send a team until two months before the start of the competition. [16]
Rimet eventually persuaded teams from Belgium, France, Romania, Hungary
and Yugoslavia to make the trip.[17] In total, 13 nations took part – seven from
South America, four from Europe, and two from North America.
Hiatus due to World War II

 The FIFA World Cup was planned to take place in 1942. Germany officially applied
to host the 1942 FIFA World Cup at the 23rd FIFA Congress on 13 August 1936 in
Berlin. In June 1939, Brazil also applied to host the tournament. The beginning of
European hostilities in September 1939 prompted further plans for the 1942 World
Cup to be cancelled, before a host country was selected. The FIFA tournament did
not take place.
 During World War II, FIFA struggled to keep itself afloat, and it had no financial or
personnel resources with which to plan a peacetime tournament for when
hostilities ended.[19] When the war ended in 1945, it was clear that FIFA would
have no hope in a single year of planning and scheduling a 1946 World Cup. In
fact, FIFA's first meeting was on 1 July 1946 – around the time the 1946 World Cup
would ordinarily have been played – and when it planned the next World Cup for
1949 no country would host it. [20] The only major international tournament in 1946
was the 1946 South American Championship in which Argentina beat Brazil 2–0 on
10 February 1946.
TODAY’S WORLD CUP

 The 2022 World Cup, hosted by Qatar, was the first tournament to not
be held in summer time in which it is usually held, and the first to be
held in the Middle East. The cup was won by Argentina, who prevailed
over defending champions France 4–2 in the penalty shootout, after the
final was drawn 3–3 after extra time, despite France's Kylian Mbappé
netting a hat-trick, becoming only the second player to do so in a World
Cup Final. Previous tournament runners-up Croatia won the bronze
medal match, beating Morocco 2–1, whose fourth-place finish was the
furthest of any African nation at the World Cup. It is also the last to
feature 32 teams, as the next edition is scheduled to expand to 48
teams.
THE BIGGEST PLAYERSIN TODAY’S
WORLD CUP
 There had been many legends in the past who
had played in the tornament but in today’s
world the big stars are:
 Cristiano Ronaldo
 Lionel Messi
 Killian Mbappe
 Karim Benzema
 Luka Modric
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