Football World Cup | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 16/06/2019

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIFA_World_Cup


00:02:59 1 History
00:03:09 1.1 Previous international competitions
00:06:56 1.2 World Cups before World War II
00:10:14 1.3 World Cups after World War II
00:12:25 1.4 Expansion to 32 teams
00:14:07 1.5 Expansion to 48 teams
00:16:49 1.6 2015 FIFA corruption case
00:19:45 1.7 Other FIFA tournaments
00:22:02 2 Trophy
00:25:14 3 Format
00:25:24 3.1 Qualification
00:27:21 3.2 Final tournament
00:31:57 4 Hosts
00:32:07 4.1 Selection process
00:36:50 4.2 Performances
00:38:31 5 Attendance
00:39:12 6 Broadcasting and promotion
00:42:05 7 Results
00:43:59 7.1 Teams reaching the top four
00:44:09 7.2 Best performances by continental zones
00:46:43 8 Awards
00:48:48 9 Records and statistics
00:53:14 9.1 Top goalscorers
00:53:23 9.2 All-time table for champions
00:53:34 10 See also
00:54:24 11 Notes and references
00:54:35 12 Bibliography
00:54:45 13 External links



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SUMMARY
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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 France, which won its second title at the 2018 tournament in Russia.
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. After this, 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 21 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, France and inaugural winner Uruguay, with two titles each; and England 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 viewership of all matches of the 2006 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.17 countries have hosted the World Cup. Brazil, France, Italy, Germany and Mexico have each hosted twice, while Uruguay, Switzerland, Sweden, Chile, England, Argentina, Spain, the United States, Japan and South Korea (jointly), South Africa and Russia have each hosted once. Qatar are planned as hosts of the 2022 finals, and 2026 will be jointly hosted by Canada, the United States and Mexico, which will give Mexico the distinction of being the first country to have hosted games in three finals.