THE FIFA WORLD CUP
I. Is exciting.

A) involved 32 different world slecciones distributed:
• 13 for Europe,
• 4 and half for South American,
• 4 and half for Asia,
• 3 and half for central America,
• 1 and half for Oceania.
- Each selection to be in the world must pass a qualifying stage.

B) Meet the world´s best
- each selection leads the best representatives from their country

C) It is played 64 games
- Crossing group
- end-stage direct confrontations.
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II. Is a tradition
A) occurs once every 4 years
- have played 18 editions
- have played in 15 different venues.

B) Tradition equipment
• Brazil
• Argentina
• Germany
• Italy



THE FIFA WORL CUP

It is the most exciting tournament in world sport that catches the attention of people of all races and cultures of the world in which 32 teams participating, representing their respective countries in which quotas are distributed as follows:
13 for Europe,
4 and half for South American,
4 and half for Asia,
3 and half for central America,
1 and half for Oceania.
These quotas will be shared and defined by direct confrontations between 2 teams from different continents involved.
For these selections quotas each country must go through a difficult qualifying stage against teams of their own continent that develops in the intervals between one world and one.
otherwise meet the best players in the world to represent their country and defend the honor them with a single objective which is to be the country winner of this prestigious tournament, over the tournament's history have stood the best world players such as Pele, Maradona, Zidane, Ronaldo, Van Basten, to name a few
64 matches are played in a month of total football where 32 teams are divided into 8 groups through a lottery, each group having 2 to pass classified round, and began a direct confrontation that could lead to game winners the quarterfinals, then semifinals and finally let the glory of the winning team from each of these crossings
The Fifa World Cup besides being the most prestigious and exciting tournament in the world is one that has more tradition carried out once every 4 years and a clear example of this are the 18 issues that have played the same and being only interrupted this interval of 4 years by the World War. Besides having played 18 editions this has been done in 15 different venues and the 19th edition which will take place this year 2010 will be held in South Africa is the seat number 16 of this prestigious tournament
Also this tournament has teams of great tradition as are the most winning of all that is Brazil with 5 editions conquered the last of them in the 2002 finals in Korea and Japan, it is worth noting that Brazil has participated in each of all 18 editions of this tournament and next will be no exception, another example of traditional teams in the world is Italy with 4 victories, Germany 3 and the eternal rival of the brazilian Argentina team with 2 victories

In conclusion we can say that FIFA World Cup is a prestigious tournament that draws the attention of millions of people with a great story full of emotions and great champions filled with tradition and is looking forward to the nineteenth edition to be played in South Africa in this 2010 hoping that this is full of strong emotions as its previous editions