The World Cup

The FIFA World Cup, usually referred to simply as the World Cup, is a football tournament male done every four years by the Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA).The first edition happened in 1930, in Uruguai. In 1942 and 1946 the World Cup didn`t occur because of World War II.
THE TROPHY
From 1930 to 1970 the Jules Rimet Trophy was given to the champions of each issue, but after 1970 a new cup was created called FIFA World Cup Trophy.
THE PLACES OF THE WORLD CUP
In the first editions the places where the cup happened were chosen in meetings at the FIFA congress.The choices were always polemic because of the long trip from South America to Europe or from Europe to South America. So, after the World War II, FIFA starts to vary the places between America and Europe which was used until the World Cup 1998.On 2002 the World Cup happened in Japan, the first out of the two continents. The cup of 2010 will be the first time in Africa.
BRAZIL
Brazil is the country that won the World Cup most times with five wins in seven finals, and with participation in all editions of the tournament, Brazil is the most successful team in the competition.

THE WORLD CUP 2010
The World Cup 2010 will be in South Africa. Was necessary the construction of Five soccer stadium in South Africa to preparate for the FIFA World Cup 2010.It`s the first time that the country Will have stadium specially dedicated to soccer.

Sports

We are going to talk about recently big events in the sport in 2010.
First six months of the year and we already have many great events in tennis and soccer.



Internazionale won the UEFA Champions League by beating Barcelona, the favourites, in semi-final and Bayern in Final.
Diego Milito(picture above) was the key player scoring the 2 goals of the game.



In tennis, is occurring the Gram Slam of Roland Garros (France) and the spanish player Rafael Nadal(picture) came as the firm favourite to win the title again.

















Now, lets talk about the probably biggest event of the year,the World Cup.
The most expected for fighting for the title of this competition are the 5 times winner Brazil, the 4 times winner Italy and Spain.The world cup pretend to be a great cup because puts together the aces os soccer like Lionel Messi(Argentina),the elected best player of the world, Cristiano Ronaldo(Portugal), Kaká(Brazil) and many others great players.
Lets wait and see what happens.