The World Cup is the international soccer tournament at the male teams in the world. Its official name is now World Cup in honor of the institution that organizes the event, but gets simpler names like World Cup or World, excluding the name of sport. There are also others that are also competitive football World Cups, the most notable World Cup Women's Football Soccer World Cup U-20 and World Cup U-17, three organized by FIFA. 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 stages: a qualifying process in which at present nearly 200 national teams and a final phase conducted every four years in a seat defined by the 32 participating teams during a period close to a month. The final phase of the tournament is the sporting event of a single discipline in the world (the end of the World Cup of 2002 was seen by more than 1,100 million people) [1]. The 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 been champions on one occasion. The tournament features a strong dominance of European and South American teams: each continent has won the title on 9 occasions and only two teams from other confederations have reached geographical semifinals. In addition, Brazil has been the only team that has won outside its continent (in 1958 and 2002). The last World Cup was held between June 9 and July 9, 2006 in Germany. Italy was crowned the champion by defeating France on penalty shoot 5:3 after 1:1 draw in regular time the first cup mundial.Durante conducting the Olympic Games, FIFA organized a conference where he finally decided to conduct a tournament of international football in 1930. Immediately several European countries submitted their application (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 would hold the centenary of the Constitution of the Jura. Furthermore, he believed that outside Europe could serve as a way to help the peace process after the devastating Great War that ravaged the continent. Uruguay would be finally chosen unanimously, but that did not involve the European support to the completion of the tournament outside their continent. European countries invited to the tournament declined participation, arguing that they could not afford the long journey along the Atlantic Ocean amid the economic crisis that had plagued the world in those years. While Uruguay has offered to settle the costs, only France, Belgium, Yugoslavia and Romania attended the event. After the boycott, the organizers had to reduce the number of participants in the tournament from 16 to 13. Despite initial complications, the tournament was a success. The first two matches were contested simultaneously: France defeated Mexico 4:1 to where Lucien Laurent scored the first goal in the history of the tournament, and United States defeated Belgium 3:0. With the absence of European teams, the teams of the River Plate advanced to the finals easily. Uruguay and Argentina clashed on July 30, 1930 at the newly opened Centennial Stadium. Having won the encounter by 4:2, the premises is crowned the first world champions of football.
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