2014 FIFA World Cup
Football is one of the most popular sports in the world. Nearly every country has a national football team. Owing to the huge viewership and fan following, the FIFA World Cup is the most widely viewed and followed sporting event in the world, exceeding even the Olympic Games. The Football World Cup has become an epic battle.
The FIFA World Cup, the often simply called the World Cup, is an international association football competition contested by the senior men’s national teams of the members of Federation International de Football Association (FIFA), the sport’s global governing body. The championship is awarded every four years since the inaugural tournament in 193o, except in 194z and 1946 when it was not held because of the Second World War.
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 FIFA WORLD CUP Cup Finals. 3a teams, including the automatically qualifying host nation(s), compete in the tournament phase for the title
