The world cup starts in June and ends in july.
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11 JUNE 2010
When they loose, a team at the World Cup is out of the tournament. It is a single-elimination tournament. The only exception is in the semi-final round where the loosing teams play each other for third place.
The FIFA World Cup is an international football or soccer competition. The tournament involves 32 teams competing for the title within the host nation. They have gone through qualifying groups from their own regions in the world in an attempt to get to the finals. The finals tournament takes about a month and it happens every four years. Qualifying groups start almost two years before the finals tournament. The most recent FIFA World Cup was held in South Africa in 2010 between June and July and the FIFA World Cup 2014 is going to be held in Brazil.
There was no World Cup of soccer ( football ) in 1969.England won the tournament in 1966, that was held in England.Brazil won the tournament in 1970, that was held in Mexico.