The popularity of football:
You know our most popular sport is football. Football is the most popular sport in the history of modern times and the most popular sport in terms of population. The popularity of football is so high all over the world. FIFA operates in more countries than the United Nations.
The total number of UN countries is 193. The number of FIFA member countries is 211.
Our popular game today is football but it has not been so popular from the very beginning.
Even in the beginning, the Olympics did not give football the status of professional football
In today's report, we will know how the football World Cup game started in such a situation.
Start of the first FOOTBALL game:
Beginning of the first game: The world's first football game was started in 1981, inside Scotland and England.
Then, in 1884, the first international football tournament was played under the title of British Home Champion Spam. However, the game was not popular outside of Great Britain at all.
The rising popularity of football:
Towards the end of the 18th century, football began to gain popularity. As a result, football was included in the Olympics in 1900, 1904, and 1906, but no prizes were awarded.
FIFA journey begins:
After FIFA was founded in 1904, Fufa hosted a football match different from the 1906 Olympic Games.
Olympic status:
Football was first officially recognized as the Olympic football in 1908. "San Thomas Lipton" was named the Olympic amateur soccer player in 1909 in Twin, Italy. Each team could be represented separately. Many consider this to be the first World Cup.
FIFA Professional Era:
FIFA began its professional career in 1924. In 1928, FIFA decided to play its own international football separately outside the Olympics. FIFA President Julium hosted the first competition in Uruguay in 1930. A total of 13 countries took part in the game.
In the final, in the presence of 93,000 spectators, they defeated Argentina 4-2 and won the first Football World Cup title. The Football World Cup has been held every 4 years since 1930
It is good to know that the 1942 and 1946 World Cups were not held due to World War II. The world's best football was first televised in 1959.
In the present era, 6/1 of the total population watches the Football World Cup live on television.
Wait for our next report to know the details of the World Cup trophy theft
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