Birth background
As a single sport, the FIFA World Cup is the largest sport in the world. The FIFA World Cup originated from the Olympic Games in the early 20th century, especially the Olympic Games held in 1920. 1920, 14 countries from South America, Asia and Africa participated in the football match of Antwerp Olympic Games, and 17 countries participated in the Amsterdam Olympic Games, but so far, there has not been a football match led by FIFA.
The World Cup was not born until1May 26th, 920, when FIFA announced that it planned to hold a football match alone. At the 1926 FIFA General Assembly, President Rimet adopted the proposal of "holding the first FIFA World Cup in which all national teams can participate".
1930 the first world cup was held in Uruguay. During the period of post-war recovery and economic depression in Europe, the competition was held two months before the opening ceremony, and no European country applied to participate. However, due to the active diplomacy of President Jules Rimet, 65,438+03 countries, including four European countries, participated in the competition. July1930-July 30, the first World Cup was held in three stadiums in Uruguay.
After that, FIFA decided to choose the middle year of the Olympic Games and hold the World Cup every four years. After the third tournament (1938) was held in France, it was interrupted by war for 12 years. With the end of the war, the fourth World Cup was held in Brazil from 65438 to 0950.
The origin of the world cup trophy
There have been two World Cup trophies in the history of the World Cup, and the first time experienced many twists and turns. After FIFA decided to hold the first World Cup in 1930, the French sculptor Abel LaFleur made a pure gold trophy and presented it to the winning team. The trophy is a sculpture of a goddess of victory. She holds an octagonal cup with her arms stretched out on a pillar inlaid with precious stones.
To commemorate the founder of the World Cup, President Jules Rimet, the trophy was named "World Cup", but it was only called the World Cup in the third competition held before the outbreak of World War II (1930, 1934, 1938). 1970, Brazil, the only triple crown country at that time, occupied this trophy forever.
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Holding time: it is held every four years (in the middle of hosting the Olympic Games), and June and July are chosen for one month each (but the opening ceremony of the 2002 World Cup in Korea and Japan was held on May 3 1 day).
World Cup venues (17): Europe 9, South America 4, Central and North America 3, Asia 1.
Host countries of the World Cup (15 countries): Uruguay, Italy (second session), France (second session), Brazil, Switzerland, Sweden, Chile, Britain, Mexico (second session), West Germany, Argentina, Spain, the United States, South Korea and Japan.