The 1930 FIFA World Cup was the inaugural world championship for international association football teams - the FIFA World Cup. It was played in Uruguay from 13 July to 30 July. Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) selected Uruguay as host nation as the country would be celebrating the centenary of its independance, and the Uruguay national football team had succsessfully retained their football title at the 1928 Summer Olympics.All matches were played in the Uruguaying capital, Montevideo, the majority at the Estadio Centenario, which was built for the tournament.
Thirteen teams. seven from South America, four from Europe and two from North America entered the tournament. Few European teams chose to participate due to the duration and cost of travel. The teams were divided into four groups, with the winner or each group progressing to the semi-finals. The first two World Cup matches took place simultaneously, and were won by France and USA, who defeated Mexico 4-1 and Belguim 3-0, respectively. Lucien Laurent of France scored the first goal in World Cup history.
Argentina, Uruguay, the USA and Yugoslavia each won their respective groups to qualify for the semi-finals. In the final, hosts and pre-tournament favourites Uruguay defeated Argentina 4-2 in front of a crowd of 93,000 people, and became the first nation to win a World Cup.
Since 1930
Too long !
The World Cup has only ever been in Spain once, in 1982. The hosts didn't do particularly well, going out in the second round.
A FIFA World Cup field is 110 yards long and 75 yards wide.
No there is only one cup at the World Cup.
No he has not been selected.
The World Cup began in 1930 so this year it would have been going on for 80 years.
81 years. The first FIFA World Cup was in 1930.
Since 1930
the algria been in the world cup 1,000,000,000,000 time in the world A.A
Since it has been a long time since they hoisted a world cup. They did it in 1966.
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The world cup is going to be held in Germany.
SAMOAS IS GOING TO WIN the world cup
It has not been decided yet. The 2018 World Cup will be held in Russia and 2022 is going to be in Qatar. But no World Cups after that point have been decided as of yet. Also by the way there's not going to be a World Cup in 2032. There will be one in 2030 and 2034
Since 1930. Brazil is the only country that has played every single world cup.
Spain or holland are going to win the world cup 2010.