Fans eagerly await the World Cup football festival in November. Starting in Qatar on the 20th. In this month-long series, you can enjoy watching the performance of star players including Portugal’s Cristiano Ronaldo, Argentina’s Messi and Brazil’s Neymar.
Football is the oldest sport in the world. Primitives played with skulls by rolling them with their feet. Football is said to have been born in China in the third century. Here they first played with leather balls filled with feathers called ‘siju’. Air-filled balls were introduced during the later ‘Tang’ dynasty.
Introduction of ‘FIBA’: Modern football originated in England in 1863. The competition rules were laid down. On May 21, 1904, the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) was founded in Paris.
Who is responsible: The ‘idea’ of hosting the World Cup at the international level came to the mind of the president of the French Football Association, Jules Rimmat, to get a huge response to the football competition at the Olympics. Subsequently, the first World Cup series was held in Uruguay in 1930 on behalf of ‘BIBA’.
32 Nations: 206 member nations of ‘FIBA’ competed in the qualifiers. From this 32 countries qualified for the World Cup series. The 22nd World Cup football series will be held in Qatar on Nov. Starting at 20 This is the first time this series is held in Arab countries. Its final, Dec. It is going to happen on 18th. A total of 64 matches, including 48 league and 16 ‘knock-out’, will be played over a total of 29 days.
In the coming days we will read and enjoy the delicious things that took place in the past World Cup series.
‘Extra Time’
865 matches… 2,424 goals
Qualifying for the World Cup football series is not easy. After 865 qualifying matches played in different parts of the world over two years (June 6, 2019 to June 22, 2022), 31 teams qualified for the series. Qatar qualified directly as the 32nd team to host the series. A total of 2,424 goals were scored in the qualifiers.
Five-time champion
Brazil has won the World Cup 5 times (1958, 1962, 1970, 1994, 2002). In addition, the team has played in the finals seven times and has scored 229 goals in 109 matches (73 wins, 18 draws, 18 losses) in World Cup football history.
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