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The Football World Cup, or to use it's official name, The FIFA World Cup, or Soccer World Cup is usually referred to simply as the World Cup.

It is a international soccer competition between member teams of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA). The World Cup is the biggest soccer tournament on Earth. the cup finals are held every four years in a different country. Billions of people watch the games on TV as the national teams from countries around the world play for the coveted title of World champion.

The first world cup was held in 1930 and this was the only time that qualifying rounds were not played.. The European teams that played were Yugoslavia, France, Belgium and Romania. A large number of European teams refused to travel the distance to Uruguay.

There were a total of thirteen teams in the first world cup. The remaining countries besides the host Uruguay were Chile, Paraguay, Peru, Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay, Peru, Mexico, and the United States

In 2010 South Africa will host the Fifa Football World Cup, from the 11th June 2010 to the 11th July 2010.This is the first time the world's premier sporting event will be held on African soil.

The modern history of the game of football covers a period of almost One-hundred and fifty years. It all began in 1863 in England, when rugby and association football branched off on their different courses and the world's 1st football association was born - The Football Association in England.

 

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Year Host
Country
Winner Score
1930 Uruguay Uruguay Uruguay 4-2 Argentina
1934 Italy Italy Italy 2-1 Czechoslovakia
1938 France Italy Italy 4-2 Hungary
1950 Brazil Uruguay Uruguay 2-1 Brazil
1954 Switzerland Germany Germany 3-2 Hungary
1958 Sweden Brazil Brazil 5-2 Sweden
1962 Chile Brazil Brazil 3-1 Czechoslovakia
1966 England England England 4-2 Germany
1970 Mexico Brazil Brazil 4-1 Italy
1974 Germany Germany Germany 2-1 Holland
1978 Argentina Argentina Argentina 3-1 Holland
1982 Spain Italy Italy 3-1 Germany
1986 Mexico Argentina Argentina 3-2 Germany
1990 Italy Germany Germany 1-0 Argentina
1994 US Brazil Brazil 3-2 Italy
1998 France France France 3-0 Brazil
2002 Japan/S. Korea Brazil Brazil 2-0 Germany
2006 Germany Italy Italy 1-1(5:3) France

There are many soccer camps throughout the USA that will help you improve your skills including, elite soccer clinics, soccer instruction camps, soccer showcases, college soccer camps, college soccer prospect camps.

Nobody can say with any certainty where or when soccer originated but we do know that the earlier variations of what later became known soccer were played almost three thousand years ago.

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The game of indoor soccer was devised in Montevideo, Uruguay in 1930 for use in YMCA programs. The 1st international competition took place in 1965, when Paraguay won the 1st South American Cup. 6 more South American Cup competitions were held between 1965 and 1979.

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A historical record of the development of soccer in England tells us that Eton college had the earliest known rules of the game in 1815, perhaps implying that until then, chaos was preferred over order.

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