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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 ...
The Mall of Qatar is a 464,515 sqm, 3-floor shopping mall located in the Rawdat Al Jahhaniya district of Al Rayyan, Qatar. The high central glass dome is eight floors high. The Mall of Qatar is adjacent to the Ahmed bin Ali Stadium, one of the host stadiums for the 2022 FIFA World Cup. [15]
Beckham signed a ten-year deal with Qatar to be the face of the Qatar World Cup in 2022. [28] Supporters of the Qatar national team during the opening match of the 2022 FIFA World Cup. Argentina were crowned the champions after winning the final against the title holder France 4–2 on penalties following a 3–3 draw after extra time.
The defending World Cup champions were formerly granted an automatic spot in the Cup finals field. As of the 2006 tournament, this berth is no longer guaranteed. [13] However, no defending World Cup champion has yet failed to qualify. Automatic berths have never been given for defending World Cup runners-up.
The World Cup is the most prestigious association football competition in the world, as well as the most widely viewed and followed sporting event in the world. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The viewership of the 2018 World Cup was estimated to be 3.57 billion, close to half of the global population, [ 4 ] [ 5 ] while the engagement with the 2022 World Cup was ...
The first goal in World Cup history was scored by Lucien Laurent of France. Four days later, the first World Cup hat-trick was achieved by Bert Patenaude of the U.S. in the Americans' 3–0 win against Paraguay. In the final, Uruguay defeated Argentina 4–2 in front of a crowd of 93,000 people in Montevideo to become the first nation to win a ...
A worker is seen inside Qatar's Lusail Stadium, which will host the 2022 World Cup final and reportedly cost $767 million to build. (REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach) (Kai Pfaffenbach / reuters)
Qatar's national team showed some improvement in their performance since the country was awarded the tournament, including winning the 2019 AFC Asian Cup, [3] and in 2019 Copa América drew against former champions and World Cup quarter-finalists Paraguay with 2-2.