History of The World Cup

History's most prestigious football competition in the world called the World Cup or the FIFA World Cup official name blaze in 1904 in Paris. The idea of ​​the establishment of the World Cup continued when the first Congress of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association. In 1928, results of operations and president of the union FIFA football France (FFFA), Jules Rimet and Henri Delaunay colleagues, participants of the congress in Amsterdam decided to implement the idea.

History of the World Cup a year later where FIFA blaze formally prepare a championship called the World Cup or the World Cup takes place every four years. FIFA congress on 17-18 May 1928 at the Barcelona, ​​Spain, Uruguay has the support of 23 Congress participants to host the first World Cup ambitions rid Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Spayol, and Sweden. The first World Cup was known as the Jules Rimet Cup.

Jules Rimet trophy was made by French artists, La Fleur Abel, octagonal the simbol earth held by the god named Nike Victory (ancient Greek god). This trophy is made of gold, weighing 3.8 kg and has a height of 35 cm. Then the first FIFA World Cup was held in Uruguay and lasts from 13 to 30 July 1930. 13 countries participated - six from South America, five from Europe and two from North America. Uruguay beat Argentina 4-2 in front of 93,000 spectators in Montevideo and also become the first country to win the trophy.

World Cup history had stopped in the event of World War II. Championship was halted during the previous 12 years, and started again in 1950 in Brazil. Jules Rimet trophy was stolen while on display at Stampex Exhibition at Westminster Central Hall, London when in 1966 World Cup in England, but he was found seven days later by a dog named Pickles.

While the World Cup itself is not the first international soccer championship. Amateur football became a part of the Olympic program for the first time in 1908. In 1909 in Torino organized a football tournament named Sir Thomas Lipton Cup. Italy, Germany, and Switzerland to send their most prestigious clubs to the tournament but the English Football Association (FA) rejected an offer to participate in the championship.