The History Of The FIFA World Cup
No other sporting event captures the world's imagination like the FIFA World Cup™. Ever since the first tentative competition in Uruguay in 1930, FIFA's flagship has constantly grown in popularity and prestige. A group of visionary French football administrators, led in the 1920s by the innovative Jules Rimet, are credited with the original idea of bringing the world's strongest national football teams together to compete for the title of World Champions. The original gold trophy bore Jules Rimet's name and was contested three times in the 1930s, before the Second World War put a 12-year stop to the competition.
I absolutely agree with the paragraph above since I have been doing a lot of research on soccer, more commonly known as football in 95-98% of the countries. After doing all that research I found out that FIFA really started to go up straightaway. There was not a single FIFA world cup that didn't entertain the fans. I have been watching soccer since the 2006 FIFA World Cup which was held in Germany. The most intriguing thing was that the first match of the tournament instantly caught my eye and since then I became a die hard fan of soccer. This passage is important since it talks about how soccer became one of the most watched sport in the world.
Since 1930, the 16 tournaments have seen only seven different winners. However, the FIFA World Cup has also been punctuated by dramatic upsets that have helped create footballing history - the United States defeating England in 1950, North Korea's defeat of Italy in 1966, Cameroon's emergence in the 1980s and their opening match defeat of the Argentinean cup-holders in 1990....
There would be no person whose a soccer fan and would not agree with the above paragraph. It would be disappointing if they won't agree with it. I mean who the hell would not agree with, people who have been watching soccer know that there have been many major upsets; some upsets ended the undefeated streak of some teams for the past 2-3 years. The paragraph is important because this tells us that higher ranked teams should never underestimate lower ranked teams because you never know when that day will come when the underdogs are victorious.
Today, the FIFA World Cup holds the entire global public under its spell. An accumulated audience of over 37 billion people watched the France 98 tournament, including approximately 1.3 billion for the final alone, while over 2.7 million people flocked to watch the 64 matches in the French stadia.
I absolutely agree with the paragraph above because since the birth of the FIFA World Cup, the graph has always been going up no matter what the conditions were. Even though after a 12 year gap due to World War people still enjoyed watching soccer. This is important because this tells us how much the fans were passionate about soccer.
Hamza, great post. I was wondering why soccer is more popular in other countries outside of the United States?
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