Mundial History

The World Cup is the international tournament in men's soccer national team at the world's largest. Its official name now is the FIFA World Cup in honor of the institution that organizes the event, though it receives the simpler names World Cup or World Cup, not including the name of sport. This sporting event is held every four years since 1930, with the exception of the years 1942 and 1946, which was suspended due to World War II. It has two main steps: a process involving qualifying now nearly 200 national teams and a final phase takes place every four years in a defined headquarters involving 32 teams during a period close to a month. The NCAA Tournament is the one sporting event in the world discipline (the final of the FIFA World Cup 2002 was watched by over 1,100 million people). The FIFA World Cup has been held 18 times, in which seven countries have lifted the cup: Brazil is the most successful team with five victories, Italy, the current champion, followed with four trophies, while Germany has three, Uruguay and Argentina have won twice, while England and France have called a one-time champions. Beginning The first international meeting of this sport goes back to the match played between England and Scotland on 30 November 1872. Football debuted as a demonstration sport at the 1900 Olympics, experience repeated in 1904 and 1906 Intercalated Games in Athens. On May 21, 1904 was founded the International Federation of Football Association to organize the development of sport. Among his original ideas arose the possibility of an international tournament in 1906 in Switzerland, but eventually the bill failed. However, the idea would remain and would live when London hosted the Fourth Olympiad in 1908 and declared the football as an official Olympic sport. In charge of the Football Association (not affiliated to FIFA yet, but with whom he maintained a close relationship), the first tournament would be won by the United Kingdom, followed by Denmark and the Netherlands. After the First World War would take place the first intercontinental tournament in the 1920 Summer Olympics, which involved 13 European teams selected next to Egypt. During the performance of the Olympics, FIFA organized a conference where it was finally decided the implementation of a tournament-class professional football in 1930. Immediately several European countries submitted their applications (Italy, Hungary, the Netherlands, Spain and Sweden) together with that of Uruguay. Jules Rimet, the FIFA president during those years, was in favor of the realization in the South American country, both for its sporting successes and the fact that the country will celebrate the centenary of the Constitution Day. Besides, he thought to take place outside of Europe could serve as a way to help the peace process after the devastating Great War that devastated the continent.