Football World Cup Trophy Drawing. The fifa world cup often simply called the world cup is an international association football competition contested by the senior men s national teams of the members of the fédération internationale de football association the sport s global governing body the championship has been awarded every four years since the inaugural tournament in 1930 except in 1942 and 1946 when it was not. The frenchman was one of the key men responsible for creating a world cup tournament after he passed the vote to start a global football championship in 1929.
The trophy has the engraving fifa world cup on its base. It is likely the most popular sporting event in the world drawing billions of television viewers every tournament. The world cup in football soccer is a quadrennial tournament of 32 national teams that is organized by the fédération internationale de football association fifa.
Zidane lights the blue touch paper for france.
It determines the sport s men s world champion. The first world cup trophy was eventually named after the third fifa president jules rimet. After the 1994 fifa world cup a plate was added to the bottom side of the trophy on which the names of winning countries are. The fifa world cup often simply called the world cup is an international association football competition contested by the senior men s national teams of the members of the fédération internationale de football association the sport s global governing body the championship has been awarded every four years since the inaugural tournament in 1930 except in 1942 and 1946 when it was not.
