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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 ...
In 2006, Germany had a plethora of football stadia that satisfied FIFA's minimum capacity of 40,000 seats for World Cup matches. The outdated and still-standing Olympiastadion in Munich (69,250), the venue for the 1974 final match was not used for the tournament, even though FIFA's regulations allow one city to use two stadia.
The cumulative viewership of all matches of the 2006 World Cup was estimated to be 26.29 billion. [2] 715.1 million individuals watched the final match of the tournament, almost a ninth of the entire population of the planet. The 2006 World Cup draw, which decided the distribution of teams into groups, was watched by 300 million viewers. [96]
The worst world Cup tournament results in the modern era were group stage eliminations in 1990, 1998, and 2006, although the country failed to even qualify for the final tournament in 2018. In the Confederations Cup , the United States finished in third place in both 1992 and 1999 , and were runner-up in 2009 .
The 2006 FIFA World Cup final was the final match of the 2006 World Cup, the 18th edition of FIFA's competition for national football teams. The match was played at the Olympiastadion in Berlin , Germany, on 9 July 2006, and was contested between Italy and France .
2006 FIFA World Cup qualification [21] 6 4–0 7 18: 17 November 2004: Stade Josy Barthel, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg Luxembourg: 2–0: 5–0 2006 FIFA World Cup qualification [22] 8 22: 4 June 2005: Estádio da Luz, Lisbon, Portugal Slovakia: 2–0: 2–0 2006 FIFA World Cup qualification [23] 9 23: 8 June 2005: A. Le Coq Arena, Tallinn ...
Qatar national football team results. 4 languages. ... 31 March 2004 () 2006 FIFA World Cup qualification: Jordan ...
Fernando Torres with the 2013 FIFA Confederations Cup Golden Boot award Fernando Torres is a retired Spanish international footballer who represented his country 110 times and scored 38 goals between his international debut in 2003 and his final match in 2014. As of 2024, he is the third top scorer in the history of the national team, with only David Villa (59) and Raúl (44) having scored ...