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Sky News at 9 is a daily hour long news programme on Sky News, airing between 9:00 pm and 10:00 pm. It is a round-up of the day's top stories with analysis from Sky's correspondents. The show is presented by Anna Botting from Monday to Thursday and Gillian Joseph on Friday to Sunday.
Football tournament FIFA World Cup final Founded 1930 ; 95 years ago (1930) Current champions Argentina (3rd title) Most successful team(s) Brazil (5 titles) The FIFA World Cup is an international association football competition contested by the senior men's national teams of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), the sport's global governing body. The championship ...
A total of 471 players have been in the winning team in the World Cup. Brazil's Pelé is the only one to have won three times, while another 20 have won twice. Only players from Brazil and Italy, and one player from Argentina, have won the World Cup more than once. No player has won two World Cups both as captain.
Beckenbauer appeared in his first World Cup in 1966, playing every match. In his first World Cup match, against Switzerland, he scored twice in a 5–0 win. [27] West Germany won their group, and then beat Uruguay 4–0 in quarter-finals, with Beckenbauer scoring the second goal in the 70th minute. [27]
The base contains two layers of semi-precious malachite while the bottom side of the trophy bears the engraved year and name of each FIFA World Cup winner since 1974. [62] The description of the trophy by Gazzaniga was: "The lines spring out from the base, rising in spirals, stretching out to receive the world.
Some sports governing bodies prefer the title "world championship" or a related term; some even organize both a world cup and a world championship with different rules.. Usually, such competitions take one of two forms: a short periodic competition or a year-long series of meetings, but more frequently many sports have both a World Cup (usually consisting of multiple events in a season), and a ...
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[9] [10] Schön, who led West Germany to victory in the 1974 World Cup, has managed the most matches in the tournament at 25, [11] and won a record 16 matches during his spell as West Germany manager from 1966 to the 1978 FIFA World Cup. [12] Suppici is the youngest manager to win the World Cup, being 31 in 1930. [13]