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Football tournament FIFA World Cup final Founded 1930 ; 94 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 ...
In 2012, England kit manufacturer Umbro introduced a FA crest completely in red. The history of the England national football team, also known as the Three Lions, begins with the first representative international match in 1870 and the first officially-recognised match two years later.
1 February – The United Kingdom recognises the Soviet Union. [6] 5 February – The hourly Greenwich Time Signal from Royal Greenwich Observatory is broadcast for the first time. [2] 18 February – Commissioning of HMS Hermes (95), the Royal Navy's first purpose-designed aircraft carrier. 28 March – First BBC broadcast from Plymouth ...
Football at the 1924 Summer Olympics was the sixth edition of the football tournament at the Summer Olympic Games held in Paris.. The tournament expanded to 22 countries from four confederations for the first time, with African side Egypt (as was the case in the previous edition), Turkey which is partly in Asia, Uruguay representing South America and the United States representing North America.
Colombia's Marcos Coll made World Cup history when he scored a goal direct from a corner kick (called an Olympic Goal in Latin America), the only one ever made in a World Cup, past legendary Soviet goalkeeper Lev Yashin. The 1966 World Cup, hosted by England, was the first to embrace marketing, featuring a mascot and official logo for the first ...
Oldest player to feature in a World Cup qualifying match Stanley Matthews, 42 years, 103 days, 15 May 1957, 4–1 vs. Denmark [15] [18] Youngest player to feature in a World Cup qualifying match Wayne Rooney, 18 years, 351 days, 9 October 2004, 2–0 vs. Wales [citation needed] First player to debut at the World Cup finals
As of the 2022 FIFA World Cup, 80 national teams have competed at the finals of the FIFA World Cup. [1] Brazil is the only team to have appeared in all 22 tournaments to date, with Germany having participated in 20, Italy and Argentina in 18 and Mexico in 17. [2] Eight nations have won the tournament.
Estadio Centenario, the location of the first World Cup final in 1930 in Montevideo, Uruguay. The first two World Cup matches took place simultaneously on 13 July 1930, and were won by France and the United States, who defeated Mexico 4–1 and Belgium 3–0 respectively. The first goal in World Cup history was scored by Lucien Laurent of ...