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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 ...
16 May – Italian giants Juventus FC claims the European Cup Winners' Cup by defeating first-time European finalists FC Porto 2–1. 23 May – Tottenham Hotspur wins the UEFA Cup by defeating R.S.C. Anderlecht on penalties (4-3) after an aggregate score of 2–2 at White Hart Lane in London.
The FIFA Confederations Cup was a tournament held one year before the World Cup at the World Cup host nation(s) as a dress rehearsal for the upcoming World Cup. It is contested by the winners of each of the six FIFA confederation championships, along with the FIFA World Cup champion and the host country. [ 57 ]
March 31 – Wilfredo Gómez defeats Juan Laporte by a decision in 12 rounds to conquer the WBC's world Featherweight crown. June 15 – in the most anticipated bout of the year, Thomas Hearns, WBC world Jr. Middleweight champion, knocks out WBA world champion Roberto Durán in two rounds. The WBA elects not to sanction the bout, declaring ...
Since the 1994 FIFA World Cup, 3 points are conceded for a win and 1 point is conceded for a draw. Each group of four teams plays a round-robin schedule. As of the 1986 World Cup, all final group games must be held simultaneously, a rule instituted by FIFA to minimize collusion amongst teams requiring a certain result to advance. FIFA ...
“College football, I think, is in terrible trouble.” Andy Coats fought — and won — a 1984 Supreme Court case that gave college football television freedom. Now, it may lead to its demise.
In August 2018, Tej Narayan Tharu fell to his death while while working on a site at the Qatar World Cup.One moment, he was a 24-year-old with a family and a future.
On October 6, 1984. NBC's anthology series, SportsWorld [8] provided World Cup soccer qualifying coverage featuring the United States and the Netherlands Antilles. 1986 marked the first time that the World Cup had extensive live cable and network television coverage in the United States. ESPN carried most of the weekday matches while NBC did ...