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The World Cup has been held since 1930 and occurs every 4 years.
32 teams battle it out for the most prestigious prize in football over a 1 month period known as the World Cup Finals as the 32 teams have to complete and be victorious in the qualification stages with take place in the three years prior to the main event.
An estimated 715.1 million people tuned into the final in 2006 in Germany were Italy were crowned World Champions. Uruguay, Argentina and France have also won the cup and also England in 1966 but unfortunately there has been little success since then.
The next World Cup is to be held in South Africa during the summer of 2010 and the 2014 World Cup will be held in Brazil. Hopefully England will be victorious in their bid to host the World Cup 2018 for the first time since 1966.
Brazil are the most successful nation in the World Cup Finals have never missed a tournament and won it an impressive 5 times over its history.
The first ever World Cup was given to Uruguay in 1930 after the tournament was founded just four years earlier after the success of the football tournament during the Olympic games it was seen as a great idea to turn it into an event of it’s own. The host nation went on to win the tournament against Argentina in the final.
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quick catch up...
6th June: England smash four goals past Kazakstan to continue their unbeaten run
23rd May: Lewis Hamilton puts his support into the England 2018 bid
19th May: Race row erupts after BNP member is invited to attended the official World Cup 2018 bid launch
18th May: England's bid to host World Cup 2018 official launches with the help of Beckham, Rooney & Gordon Brown
27th April: Premier League show their support for World Cup 2018 bid
23rd April: Tesco boss puts weight behind England 2018 bid
22th March: Michel Platini wants to see the next World Cup given to a European country
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