I. Introduction to the FIFA World Cup
FIFA World Cup, referred to as "World Cup" for short, is the most famous and influential football match that teams from all over the world participate in, symbolizing the highest honor in football. The World Cup has more than 3.5 billion TV viewers worldwide.
The World Cup is held every four years, and any FIFA member country (region) can send teams to sign up for this event.
Second, the competition system
The World Cup schedule is divided into two stages: preliminary and final. The World Cup preliminaries are divided into six divisions, namely Europe, South America, Asia, Africa, North America and Oceania.
Each division needs to formulate the rules of the qualifiers according to the actual situation of its own division, while teams from FIFA member countries (regions) who sign up for the World Cup need to conduct qualifiers in their respective divisions to compete for the places in the World Cup finals.
There are 32 places in the final stage of the World Cup, and the host country can directly obtain the places in the final stage. Except for the host country, other places are allocated by FIFA according to the football level of each qualifying area, and different qualifying areas will have different numbers of places in the final stage.
Event influence
I. Economic benefits
The direct economic effect brought by the World Cup to the host country is even more immediate. As early as 1982, Spain's tourism income from hosting the World Cup was as high as 6.3 billion US dollars, and the direct economic income brought to Germany by the World Cup in Germany in 2006 was1/kloc-0.00 billion US dollars to/kloc-0.00 billion US dollars.
Second, the political effect.
The influence of the World Cup is also reflected in the political field of many countries. Usually, the winning team and excellent players will be regarded as national heroes by all countries. Even in the World Cup in Germany, German President Corell met the third-place team in the presidential palace even if the host team failed to win the final championship.