Once in 2002
19 times
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The world cup soccer has been held 21 times.
The World Cup has been held in North America 3 times (Mexico twice, USA once), and South America 4 times (Uruguay, Brazil, Argentina, Chile).
Russia has qualified for two FIFA World Cups. Those years were 1994 and 2002.
The Summer Olympics have been held every Leap Year from 1900 up to 2012, except there were no Games held during the 2 World Wars, that was in 1916,1940 & 1944. 3 times altogether.
Because of World War II. The 1940 games would have been held in Sapporo, Japan and the 1944 games would have been held in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy.
Brazil has been in every 16 world cups that were held.
There wasn't a World Cup in 2004--it is held every four years and the last one was in 2006 (Germany). The one before that (2002) was held in Japan and Korea.
Just once, in 1966.
It has been held for thousands of years.
France held the world cup only once in 1998.