FIFA world cup trophy   

The FIFA world cup trophy was founded in 1930. The FIFA world cup trophy has been awarded to the champions since 1974 -2010 so far. The number of teams that try to qualify are 204. Only 32 teams qualify to the FIFA world cup.There have been 19 FIFA world cup tournaments. They have been played and won by eight different national teams.Brazil has won 5 times. Italy has won 4 times. Germany has won 3 times. Argentina has won 2 times. Uruguay has won 2 times. England has won once. France has won once and Spain has won once. Spain is the current world champion of the FIFA world cup from 2010. The most successful team is Brazil. They won the FIFA world cup 5 times.Did you know that FIFA stands for Federation Internation Football Association?

                  2014 FIFA World Cup

The next FIFA world cup is going to be held in 2014 in Brazil. It will be the 20th FIFA world cup in history. This will be the second time Brazil has hosted the FIFA world cup. The government of Brazil has already spent 1.8 billion euros on the world cup. The Brazilian govenment has also been working on crunstruction and remodeling for the stadiums. One of the stadiums that is going to be used is called the Maracana it is currently closed for renevations.It's location is Rio de janeiro, Brazil. The surface of it is not turf, it is grass. The capacity for the Maracana is 85,000 people.The biggest soccer stadium in the world can hold 150,000 people and is in North Korea. Some of the best players play for Brazil like Kaka, Neymar, Ronaldinho, Alexandre Pato, Robinho, Marcelo, Julio Cesar, Daniel Alves, Maican, Diego Alves, and Fernandinho. Brazil has a pretty good team.

                            How it works
         Have you ever wondered how they organise the FIFA world cup and how they pick the teams for the world cup? Well I'm going to tell you.There about 204 teams that try out for the FIFA world cup. Only 32 teams make it to the world cup.The 32 teams that make it get put into eight different groups.There is group a to group h. There are four teams in each group. Each team plays all the teams in there group
once.The top two teams in each group advance, which is called the knock out stage. If you made it past that you made it to the round of 16. They call it the round of 16 because only 16 teams make it and 16 teams don't make it.All of the winners play the runner ups of different groups.  If you beat the team you play you advance to the quarter finals. Only 8 teams make it to the quarter finals and 8 teams don't make it. There are four games being played in the quarter finals.If you win against the team you play you advance to the semi finals.Only four teams advance to the semi finals and four teams don't make it. There are two games being played in the semi finals If you beat the team you play against you make it to the finals.The two teams that lost in the semis get to play for third place This is where it is all decided.In the finals two teams make it and then they play for the world cup. In the end, one game decides it all.