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 (FIFA), 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 held because of the Second World War. The current champion is Germany, which won its fourth title at the 2014 tournament in Brazil. The current format of the competition involves a qualification phase, which currently takes place over the preceding three years, to determine which teams qualify for the tournament phase, which is often called the World Cup Finals. 32 teams, including the automatically qualifying host nation(s), compete in the tournament phase for the title at venues within the host nation(s) over a period of about a month. The 20 World Cup tournaments have been won by eight national teams. Brazil have won five times, and they are the only team to have played in every tournament. The other World Cup winners are Germany and Italy, with four titles each; Argentina and inaugural winner Uruguay, with two titles each; and England, France and Spain, with one title each. The World Cup is the most prestigious association football tournament in the world as well as the most widely viewed and followed sporting event in the world, exceeding even the Olympic Games; the cumulative audience of all matches of the 2006 FIFA World Cup was estimated to be 26.29 billion with an estimated 715.1 million people watching the final match, a ninth of the entire population of the planet. Source:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIFA_World_Cup Check out My Website: www.simple-mike.com Hello YouTube, Ayyyyeeeee...... I Am A Father/Author/Reactor/Creator On my way to 300,000 Purchase My children's Book "The Legacy of Kenzo" at www.simple-mike.com Download the Simple Mike Reaction App Google Play Store: http://goo.gl/RSajHr Follow my children's Book Page on Instagram @LegacyofKenzo My personal Page @SimpleMike85 Facebook The Legacy Of Kenzo http://goo.gl/69lZBX SimpleMike http://goo.gl/54lfUX Twitter @SimpleMike85 GoFundMe: gofund.me/2mvr3zfx Send me something in the mail 17949 Main Street #503 Dumfries, VA 22026 Thank You Everyone for the Support It means more than what words can express when I see new subscribers & comments. Let's Get it! Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use.