DID YOU KNOW THAT… The word favourite doesn’t mean much in soccer (football) today. Paraguay won the silver medal in soccer in the 2004 Olympic Games in Greece. DID YOU KNOW THAT… In 1962 the FIFA World Championship was held in Chile for the first time. Brazil captured an unprecedented 2nd FIFA World Cup by defeating Czechoslovaquia (currently Czech Republic) on June 17, 1962, in Santiago de Chile. DID YOU KNOW THAT… The 2010 FIFA World Championship was scheduled to be held in South Africa. DID YOU KNOW THAT… Japan …

As you probably know, soccer is the most played, watched and televised sport in the history of mankind. According to FIFA (Federation Internationale de Football Association) there are currently 270 million people that are actively involved in the game of football. (That is about 4% of the world population) So why has this sport become such a grand interest for me and people alike? What is the history behind this widely spectated event? Soccer which is referred as “football association” in Wikipedia is a sport that has roots dating back …

The FIFA World Cup is very important in the world of international football, also known as soccer. The World Cup is contested by the men’s national football teams of FIFA member nations and is awarded every 4 years. There have been 17 tournaments held to date, but only 7 nations have won the World Cup Finals. The nation of Brazil holds the cup currently and have won the cup a total of 5 times making them the leading team. The next World Cup Finals will be held in Germany where …

The 2010 FIFA World Cup will be the 19th time the best soccer teams from around the globe compete head to head in a bid to be crowned kings of the soccer world. But do you know how it all got started in the first place? The first recorded instance of an official soccer match between nations was a game played between England and Scotland in 1872. At that time the sport was rarely played outside the United Kingdom so the opportunities for “international play” were limited. By the time …