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What is FIFA world cup?
The FIFA Club World Cup, commonly referred to as the Club World Cup, is an international men's association football competition organised by the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), the sport's global governing body. The championship was first contested as the 2000 FIFA Club World Championship. It was not held between 2001 to 2004 due to a combination of factors, most importantly the collapse of FIFA's marketing partner International Sport and Leisure. Since 2005, the competition has been held every year, hosted so far by Brazil, Japan, the United Arab Emirates and Morocco.
The first FIFA Club World Championship took place in Brazil in January 2000. It ran in parallel with the Intercontinental Cup, a non-FIFA affiliated competition first disputed in 1960 by the winners of the European Champions' Cup and the Copa de Campeones de América. Initially created as Intercontinental Champions Clubs' Cup, since the 1980 season the competition was renamed the European/South American Cup and also knowns as the Toyota Cup following a change in format which saw Toyota become the main sponsor of the competition until it was discontinued in 2004. In 2005, the FIFA Club World Championship absorbed the Toyota Cup and the competition's pilot edition and in 2006 took its current name.
The current format of the tournament involves seven teams competing for the FIFA Club World Cup at venues within the host nation over a period of about two weeks; the winners of that year's AFC Champions League (Asia), CAF Champions League (Africa), CONCACAF Champions League (North America), Copa Libertadores (South America), OFC Champions League (Oceania) and UEFA Champions League (Europe), along with the host nation's national champions, participate in a straight knock-out tournament. The host nation's national champions dispute a play-off against the Oceania champions, from which the winner joins the champions of Asia, Africa and North America at the quarter-finals. The quarter-final winners go on to face the European and South American champions, who enter at the semi-final stage, for a place in the final.
FIFA world cup - video
FIFA world cup - what is it?
Football's best tournament, the World cup is held 4 years after the previous, the 1st World cup was in 1930 in Uruguay, which Uruguay won against Argentina 4-2 at Centenario, Montevideo on July 30th.
The Teams that qualified and put into groups are:
Group A:
Germany Hosts (Pressure is on)
Poland (The Exile Eleven)
Costa Rica (Bouncebackability)
Ecuador (On a high)
Group B:
England (Sven's Moment of Truth
Paraguay (Hard to Beat)
Trinidad & Tobago (A touch of sunshine)
Sweden (Hail the new breed)
Group C:
Argentina (A question of confidence)
Ivory Coast (Great expectations)
Serbia & Montenegro (Kings of the clean sheet)
Holland (Brilliant orange)
Mexico (Going up in the world)
Iran (3rd Time lucky)
Angola (Out of the shadows)
Portugal (Hungry for success)
Italy (Rebirth of the blues)
Ghana (Rising stars)
USA (Quest for world domination)
Czech Republic (Europe's Dark Horses)
Brazil (Team of all talent) Previous Winners
Croatia (Warriors with a chequered past)
Australia (Hiddink's magic touch)
Japan (Hard work begins) Previous Hosts
France (Search for lost glory)
Switzerland (Back in the frame)
South Korea (Onwards and upwards) Previous Hosts
Togo (West Africa's high flyers)
Spain (Must do better)
Ukraine (Yellow revolution)
Tunisia (Men with a mission)
Saudi Arabia (The blip factor)
The Final was between Italy and France, Italy have done well in their groups, France just managed to escape a 2002 repeat, this was at the Olympic Stadium. The match kicked of and the score was 1-1 with Zidane scoring a penalty and Materazzi scoring the next, then extra time came and Zidane headbutts Materazzi and gets a red, dosen't matter really since Zidane retired, then had to work 3 days at FIFA, unlucky Zidane.
Back to the game and it came down to Penalties, Italy lost 3 penalty shootouts and France have won 2 and lost 1, the score was 5-3 to Italy. so now Italy have won 1 penalty shootouts and France have lost 2 penalty shootouts.
FIFA World Cup 2006 is also a game where you can play as a national team and take them to glory, even some teams that don't get very far like Russia or USA and feel to actually winning the real World Cup for your country.
You can also play previous World Cups like England vs Germany or France vs Brazil. View the Stadiums, listen to the songs in the game and lots more.
"What you doing when you get back?"
"Watch the game between England vs Sweden on TV."
"Then what you going to do?"
"Play on FIFA World Cup 2006 on PS2."
"Cool!"
What does "FIFA world cup" mean?
FIFA = Freakishly Inept Football Accuracy. The FIFA World Cup is the most overrated, piece of shit sporting event which is held once EVERY FOUR FUCKING YEARS, just to see either Brazil or Italy win it all. The FIFA World Cup produces the most incompetent, mentally impaired refs for the games. The 2010 World Cup is the biggest example. England v Germany, an English player's shot hit the top of the post and was PAST THE LINE as it went it, and the goalie got the ball AFTER it went in and the goal didn't count. It would have tied the game up at 2, which would have given England a chance to win the game. U.S. v England, the U.S. scores a goal that should not have counted. Ghana v U.S., Donovan gets a penalty kick after a Ghanaian player (apparently) tripped up Clint Dempsey, even though the player was AHEAD of Dempsey and Dempsey tripped himself! In the same game, Jozy "the joke" Altidore tripped himself by accidentally kicking his leg, and the defender was called for a foul. Mexico v Argentina, Argentina scored their first goal, even though they were COMPLETELY OFFSIDE when Carlos Tevez headed in the goal.
In short, the FIFA World Cup is held for 1 month every 48 months and is absolutely fucking pathetic. It's a disgrace to every other sporting event, and other than Brazil, Argentina, Italy and France, NO ONE ELSE has a chance of winning. Pathetic, just fucking pathetic. And people get hyped us for this...PFFT!
Free your minds and come into the 21st century.
FIFA World Cup fanatic: MEXICO SUCKS!
Me: No, Argentina sucks. They scored an offside goal, and they bitched about it to the refs when the Mexican players were trying to explain to the incompetent refs that it was fucking offside. Pathetic WC fanatics...
FIFA world cup - what does it mean?
The only time of year everyone watches soccer/football. The world championship of soccer/football, held every 4 years and lasts about a month.
In 2006, the Fifa World Cup Final will be Italy vs. France.
The 2006 world cup was held in Germany this year.