{"id":755,"date":"2010-06-29T18:59:33","date_gmt":"2010-06-30T02:59:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.generalknowledgetoday.com\/?p=755"},"modified":"2010-06-29T18:59:33","modified_gmt":"2010-06-30T02:59:33","slug":"fifa-world-cup-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/?p=755","title":{"rendered":"FIFA World Cup History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>FIFA  World Cup history<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>From its humble beginnings in Uruguay in 1930 to a global   phenomenon, the FIFA World Cup (WC) has grown as a passion for both   foot-ballers and fans. With Uruguay, the football champion in the 1924  and 1928  Olympics, along with celebrating 100 years of Independence in  1930, FIFA  decided to give the country the hosting rights for the first  World Cup.<\/li>\n<li>Only 13 nations participated in the first World Cup and Uruguay  won.  FIFA then asked teams to qualify for the following World Cup, held  in Italy. Uruguay did not  defend its title, miffed with the  non-appearance of European nations on its  soil. Italy  went on to win  in 1934.<\/li>\n<li>The succeeding edition saw the host nation and defending  champion  given direct entries into the finals. Italy  retained the title while  many South American nations boycotted the event  because of the finals  staying in Europe. The  next two tournaments were cancelled because of  World War II.<\/li>\n<li>The 1950 World Cup in Brazil  saw England  participating for the  first time. The competition did away with knockouts and  had two group  phases.<\/li>\n<li>A 17-year old Pele, displaying skills beyond his age,  became the  youngest player to win the WC. With the likes of Garrincha by his  side,  Pele and Selecao again won the World Cup in 1962.<\/li>\n<li>England hosted the 1966  event and won, and it would be remembered  for many things. The Jules Rimet  trophy was lost and found, South  Africa  was banned for apartheid, the first WC mascot was unveiled, and  North Korea  became the first Asian nation to enter the last eight.<\/li>\n<li>In 1970, Brazil  coasted to a dominating triumph, with Pele  becoming the first and till now only  player to win three WCs. The team,  which also had the likes of Gerson and  Tostao, is widely recognised as  the best ever football team.<\/li>\n<li>Now in its 80th year, the World Cup touches down in Africa. The  African nation, riddled with economic strife  and racial tensions, has  done all the spadework for the quadrennial event.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FIFA World Cup history From its humble beginnings in Uruguay in 1930 to a global phenomenon, the FIFA World Cup (WC) has grown as a passion for both foot-ballers and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/?p=755\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[921],"tags":[6742,8211,445],"class_list":["post-755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports-gk","tag-fifa-world-cup","tag-fifa-world-cup-history","tag-world-cup","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}