2006 Fifa World Cup Final

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Main article: Previous international competitionsThe world's first international football match was a challenge match played in in 1872 between and, which ended in a 0–0 draw. The first international tournament, the inaugural, took place in 1884. As football grew in popularity in other parts of the world at the start of the 20th century, it was held as a with no medals awarded at the and (however, the has retroactively upgraded their status to official events), and at the.After was founded in 1904, it tried to arrange an international football tournament between nations outside the Olympic framework in Switzerland in 1906. These were very early days for international football, and the official history of FIFA describes the competition as having been a failure.At the in, football became an official competition. Planned by (FA), England's football governing body, the event was for players only and was regarded suspiciously as a show rather than a competition. Great Britain (represented by the ) won the.

They repeated the feat at the in.With the Olympic event continuing to be contested only between amateur teams, organised the tournament in in 1909. The Lipton tournament was a championship between individual clubs (not national teams) from different nations, each one of which represented an entire nation. The competition is sometimes described as The First World Cup, and featured the most prestigious professional club sides from Italy, Germany and Switzerland, but the FA of England refused to be associated with the competition and declined the offer to send a professional team. Lipton invited, an amateur side from, to represent England instead.

West Auckland won the tournament and returned in 1911 to successfully defend their title.In 1914, FIFA agreed to recognise the as a 'world football championship for amateurs', and took responsibility for managing the event. This paved the way for the world's first intercontinental football competition, at the, contested by and 13 European teams, and won.

Won the next two Olympic football tournaments in. Those were also the first two open world championships, as 1924 was the start of FIFA's professional era.World Cups before World War II. FIFA president convinced the to promote an international football tournament.Due to the success of the Olympic football tournaments, FIFA, with as the driving force, again started looking at staging its own international tournament outside of the Olympics.

On 28 May 1928, the FIFA Congress in decided to stage a world championship itself. With Uruguay now two-time official football world champions and to celebrate their of in 1930, FIFA named as the host country of the.The national associations of selected nations were invited to send a team, but the choice of Uruguay as a venue for the competition meant a long and costly trip across the Atlantic Ocean for European sides. Indeed, no European country pledged to send a team until two months before the start of the competition. Rimet eventually persuaded teams from, and to make the trip. In total, 13 nations took part: seven from South America, four from Europe, and two from North America.

The location of the first World Cup final in 1930 in,The first two World Cup matches took place simultaneously on 13 July 1930, and were won by and the, who defeated 4–1 and 3–0 respectively. The first goal in World Cup history was scored by of France. In the, defeated 4–2 in front of 93,000 people in, and became the first nation to win the World Cup. After the creation of the World Cup, FIFA and the disagreed over the status of amateur players, and so football was dropped from the.

Olympic football returned at the, but was now overshadowed by the more prestigious World Cup.The issues facing the early World Cup tournaments were the difficulties of intercontinental travel, and war. Few South American teams were willing to travel to Europe for the and all North and South American nations except and boycotted the tournament.

Brazil was the only South American team to compete in both. The 1942 and 1946 competitions, which and sought to host, were cancelled due to and its aftermath.World Cups after World War II. Interior view of the in, South Africa, during a match at theThe tournament was expanded to 24 teams in, and then to 32 in, also allowing more teams from Africa, Asia and North America to take part. Since then, teams from these regions have enjoyed more success, with several having reached the quarter-finals:, quarter-finalists in;, quarter-finalists in;, finishing in fourth place in;, along with, both quarter-finalists in 2002;, quarter-finalists in 2010; and, quarter-finalists in 2014.

Nevertheless, European and South American teams continue to dominate, e.g., the quarter-finalists in 1994, 1998, 2006 and 2018 were all from Europe or South America and so were the finalists of all tournaments so far.Two hundred teams entered the qualification rounds; 198 nations attempted to qualify for the, while a record 204 countries entered qualification for the. Expansion to 48 teamsIn October 2013, Sepp Blatter spoke of guaranteeing the 's region a position in the World Cup. In the edition of 25 October 2013 of the FIFA Weekly Blatter wrote that: 'From a purely sporting perspective, I would like to see globalisation finally taken seriously, and the African and Asian national associations accorded the status they deserve at the FIFA World Cup. It cannot be that the European and South American confederations lay claim to the majority of the berths at the World Cup.' Those two remarks suggested to commentators that Blatter could be putting himself forward for re-election to the FIFA Presidency.Following the magazine's publication, Blatter's would-be opponent for the FIFA Presidency, President, responded that he intended to extend the World Cup to 40 national associations, increasing the number of participants by eight.

Platini said that he would allocate an additional berth to, two each to the and the, two shared between and, and a guaranteed place for the. Platini was clear about why he wanted to expand the World Cup. He said: 'The World Cup is not based on the quality of the teams because you don't have the best 32 at the World Cup. But it's a good compromise. It's a political matter so why not have more Africans? The competition is to bring all the people of all the world. If you don't give the possibility to participate, they don't improve.'

In October 2016, FIFA president stated his support for a 48-team World Cup in 2026. On 10 January 2017, FIFA confirmed the 2026 World Cup will have 48 finalist teams. 2015 FIFA corruption case.

Main article:By May 2015, the games were under a particularly dark cloud because of the 2015 FIFA corruption case, allegations and criminal charges of bribery, fraud and money laundering to corrupt the issuing of media and marketing rights (rigged bids) for FIFA games, with FIFA officials accused of taking bribes totaling more than $150 million over 24 years. In late May, the US Department of Justice announced a 47-count indictment with charges of racketeering, wire fraud and money laundering conspiracy against 14 people. Arrests of over a dozen FIFA officials were made since that time, particularly on 29 May and 3 December. By the end of May 2015, a total of nine FIFA officials and five executives of sports and broadcasting markets had already been charged on corruption. At the time, FIFA president Sepp Blatter announced he would relinquish his position in February 2016.On 4 June 2015 while co-operating with the and the Swiss authorities admitted that he and the other members of FIFA's then-executive committee were bribed in order to promote the 1998 and 2010 World Cups. On 10 June 2015 Swiss authorities seized computer data from the offices of. The same day, FIFA postponed the bidding process for the in light of the in the awarding of the 2018 and 2022 tournaments.

Then-secretary general stated, 'Due to the situation, I think it's nonsense to start any bidding process for the time being.' On 28 October 2015, Blatter and FIFA VP Michel Platini, a potential candidate for presidency, were suspended for 90 days; both maintained their innocence in statements made to the news media.On 3 December 2015 two FIFA vice-presidents were arrested on suspicion of bribery in the same Zurich hotel where seven FIFA officials had been arrested in May. An additional 16 indictments by the US Department of Justice were announced on the same day. Other FIFA tournaments. The in hosting a matchAn equivalent tournament for, the, was first held in in.

The women's tournament is smaller in scale and profile than the men's, but is growing; the number of entrants for the 2007 tournament was 120, more than double that of 1991.Men's football has been included in every except 1896 and 1932. Unlike many other sports, the men's is not a top-level tournament, and since 1992, an under-23 tournament with each team allowed three over-age players. Women's football made its.The was a tournament held one year before the World Cup at the World Cup host nation(s) as a dress rehearsal for the upcoming World Cup. It is contested by the winners of each of the six FIFA confederation championships, along with the FIFA World Cup champion and the host country. The first edition took place in and the last edition was played in. In March 2019, FIFA confirmed that the tournament would no longer be active owing to an expansion of the in 2021.FIFA also organises international tournaments for youth football (, ), club football , and football variants such as and.

The latter three do not have a women's version, although a has been proposed.The is held the year before each Women's World Cup and both tournaments are awarded in a single bidding process. The U-20 tournament serves as a dress rehearsal for the larger competition. The current trophy (held by France forward in 2018) has been presented since 1974After 1970, a new trophy, known as the, was designed. The experts of FIFA, coming from seven countries, evaluated the 53 presented models, finally opting for the work of the Italian designer. The new trophy is 36 cm (14.2 in) high, made of solid 18 (75%) gold and weighs 6.175 kg (13.6 lb). The base contains two layers of semi-precious while the bottom side of the trophy bears the engraved year and name of each FIFA World Cup winner since. The description of the trophy by Gazzaniga was: 'The lines spring out from the base, rising in spirals, stretching out to receive the world.

From the remarkable dynamic tensions of the compact body of the sculpture rise the figures of two athletes at the stirring moment of victory.' This new trophy is not awarded to the winning nation permanently. World Cup winners retain the trophy only until the post-match celebration is finished. They are awarded a gold-plated replica rather than the solid gold original immediately afterwards.Currently, all members (players, coaches, and managers) of the top three teams receive medals with an insignia of the; winners' (gold), runners-up' (silver), and third-place (bronze). In the, fourth-place medals were awarded to hosts.

Before the 1978 tournament, medals were only awarded to the eleven players on the pitch at the end of the final and the third-place match. In November 2007, FIFA announced that all members of World Cup-winning squads between 1930 and 1974 were to be retroactively awarded winners' medals.Since 2006, winners of the competition are also awarded the right to wear the, up until the time at which the winner of the next competition is decided. Format Qualification. Main article:Since the second World Cup in, qualifying tournaments have been held to thin the field for the final tournament. They are held within the six FIFA continental zones (, and ), overseen by their respective confederations.

For each tournament, FIFA decides the number of places awarded to each of the continental zones beforehand, generally based on the relative strength of the confederations' teams.The qualification process can start as early as almost three years before the final tournament and last over a two-year period. The formats of the qualification tournaments differ between confederations. Usually, one or two places are awarded to winners of intercontinental. For example, the winner of the Oceanian zone and the fifth-placed team from the Asian zone entered a play-off for a spot in the.

From the onwards, host nations receive automatic qualification to the final tournament. This right was also granted to the defending champions between 1938 and 2002, but was withdrawn from the onward, requiring the champions to qualify., winners in, were the first defending champions to play qualifying matches. Final tournament.

For the various formats used in previous tournaments, see.The current final tournament has been used since 1998 and features 32 national teams competing over the course of a month in the host nation(s). There are two stages: the group stage followed by the knockout stage.In the group stage, teams compete within eight groups of four teams each. Eight teams are seeded, including the hosts, with the other seeded teams selected using a formula based on the and/or performances in recent World Cups, and drawn to separate groups. The other teams are assigned to different 'pots', usually based on geographical criteria, and teams in each pot are drawn at random to the eight groups. Since, constraints have been applied to the draw to ensure that no group contains more than two European teams or more than one team from any other confederation.Each group plays a, in which each team is scheduled for three matches against other teams in the same group.

This means that a total of six matches are played within a group. The last round of matches of each group is scheduled at the same time to preserve fairness among all four teams. The top two teams from each group advance to the knockout stage. Points are used to rank the teams within a group. Since, one for a draw and none for a loss (before, winners received two points).If one considers all possible outcomes (win, draw, loss) for all six matches in a group, there are 729 (= 3 6) outcome combinations possible. However, 207 of these combinations lead to ties between the second and third places.

Map of FIFA World Cup final hosts, 1930–2022. Green: once; dark green: twice; light green: planned Selection processEarly World Cups were given to countries at meetings of FIFA's congress. The locations were controversial because South America and Europe were by far the two centres of strength in football and travel between them required three weeks by boat. The decision to hold the in Uruguay, for example, led to only four European nations competing. The next two World Cups were both held in Europe.

The decision to hold the second of these in France was disputed, as the South American countries understood that the location would alternate between the two continents. Both Argentina and Uruguay thus boycotted the.Since the, to avoid future boycotts or controversy, FIFA began a pattern of alternating the hosts between the Americas and Europe, which continued until the.

The, hosted jointly by South Korea and Japan, was the first one held in Asia, and the first tournament with multiple hosts. South Africa became the first African nation to host the World Cup in. The was hosted by Brazil, the first held in South America since, and was the first occasion where consecutive World Cups were held outside Europe. Russian delegates celebrate being chosen as the host of theThe host country is now chosen in a vote by FIFA's Council.

This is done under an system. The national football association of a country desiring to host the event receives a 'Hosting Agreement' from FIFA, which explains the steps and requirements that are expected from a strong bid. The bidding association also receives a form, the submission of which represents the official confirmation of the candidacy. After this, a FIFA designated group of inspectors visit the country to identify that the country meets the requirements needed to host the event and a report on the country is produced. The decision on who will host the World Cup is usually made six or seven years in advance of the tournament. However, there have been occasions where the hosts of multiple future tournaments were announced at the same time, as was the case for the, which were awarded to and, with Qatar becoming the first Middle Eastern country to host the tournament.For the 2010 and 2014 World Cups, the final tournament is rotated between confederations, allowing only countries from the chosen confederation (Africa in 2010, South America in 2014) to bid to host the tournament.

The rotation policy was introduced after the surrounding Germany's victory over South Africa in the vote to host the. However, the policy of continental rotation will not continue beyond 2014, so any country, except those belonging to confederations that hosted the two preceding tournaments, can apply as hosts for World Cups starting from. This is partly to avoid a similar scenario to the bidding process for the 2014 tournament, where Brazil was the only official bidder.The was chosen to be held in the United States, Canada and Mexico, marking the first time a World Cup has been shared by three host nations.

The 2026 tournament will be the biggest World Cup ever held, with 48 teams playing 80 matches. Sixty matches will take place in the US, including all matches from the quarter-finals onward, while Canada and Mexico will host 10 games each.

See also:Six of the eight champions have won one of their titles while playing in their own homeland, the exceptions being, who finished as runners-up after losing the on home soil in 1950 and lost their against Germany in 2014, and, which reached the second round on home soil in 1982. (1966) won its only title while playing as a host nation. (1930), (1934), (1978), and(1998) won their first titles as host nations but have gone on to win again, while (1974) won their second title on home soil.Other nations have also been successful when hosting the tournament.

(quarter-finals 1954), (runners-up in 1958), (third place in 1962), (fourth place in 2002), and (quarter-finals in 1970 and 1986) all have their best results when serving as hosts. So far, (2010) has been the only host nation to fail to advance beyond the first round. A bottle promoting the 2002 World Cup in South Korea and JapanThe World Cup was first televised in 1954 and is now the most widely viewed and followed sporting event in the world. The cumulative viewership of all matches of the 2006 World Cup is estimated to be 26.29 billion. 715.1 million individuals watched the final match of this tournament (a ninth of the entire population of the planet).

The 2006 World Cup draw, which decided the distribution of teams into groups, was watched by 300 million viewers. The World Cup attracts many sponsors such as,. For these companies and many more, being a sponsor strongly impacts their global brands. Host countries typically experience a multimillion-dollar revenue increase from the month-long event.The governing body of the sport, generated $4.8 billion in revenue from the 2014 tournament, and $6.1 billion from the 2018 tournament. The FIFA for in Johannesburg, South Africa during the 2010 World Cup.Each FIFA World Cup since 1966 has its own or logo. World Cup Willie, the mascot for the 1966 competition, was the first. World Cups feature specially designed for each tournament.

Each World Cup also has an, which have been performed by artists ranging from to. Other songs, such as “”, performed by at four World Cup concerts, have also become identified with the tournament.Forming a partnership with FIFA in 1970, published its first for the 1970 World Cup. Since then, collecting and trading stickers and has become part of the World Cup experience, especially for the younger generation. FIFA has also licensed World Cup since 1986, with the current license holder.The World Cup even has a statistically significant effect on birth rates, the male/female sex ratio of newborns, and heart attacks in nations whose national teams are competing. There was no; the United States and Yugoslavia lost in the semi-finals. FIFA now recognises the United States as the third-placed team and Yugoslavia as the fourth-placed team, using the overall records of the teams in the tournament. ^ There was no official World Cup final match in 1950.

The tournament winner was decided by a final round-robin group contested by four teams (Uruguay, Brazil, Sweden, and Spain). Coincidentally, one of the last two matches of the tournament pitted the two top ranked teams against each other, with thus often being considered as the de facto final of the 1950 World Cup. Likewise, the game between the lowest ranked teams, played at the same time as Uruguay vs Brazil, can be considered equal to a 3rd place match, with Sweden's 3–1 victory over Spain ensuring that they finished third.In all, 79 nations have.

Of these, eight national teams have won the World Cup, and they have added, with each star representing a World Cup victory. (Uruguay, however, choose to display four stars on their badge, representing their two gold medals at the 1924 and 1928 Summer Olympics and their two World Cup titles in 1930 and 1950).With five titles, Brazil are the most successful World Cup team and also the only nation to have (21) to date.

Brazil were also the first team to win the World Cup for the third (1970), fourth (1994) and fifth (2002) time. Italy (1934 and 1938) and Brazil (1958 and 1962) are the only nations to have won consecutive titles. West Germany (1982–1990) and Brazil (1994–2002) are the only nations to appear in three consecutive World Cup finals. Germany has made the most top-four finishes (13), medals (12), as well as the most finals (8). South Koreans watching their nation on the big screens in during the 2002 World Cup when they became the first Asian country to reach the semi-finals.To date, the final of the World Cup has only been contested by teams from the (Europe) and (South America) confederations. European nations have won twelve titles, while South American have won nine. Only two teams from outside these two continents have ever reached the semi-finals of the competition: in 1930 and in 2002.

The best result of an team is reaching the quarter-finals: in 1990, in 2002, and in 2010. Only one qualifier, in 2006, has advanced to the second round., and are the only teams to win a World Cup outside their continental confederation; Brazil came out victorious in , ( and ) and. Argentina won a World Cup in North America in, while Spain won in in.

In, Germany became the first European team to win in the Americas. Only on five occasions have consecutive World Cups been won by teams from the same continent, and currently it is the first time with four champions in a row from the same continental confederation. Italy and Brazil successfully defended their titles in 1938 and 1962 respectively, while Italy's triumph in 2006 has been followed by wins for Spain in 2010, Germany in 2014 and France in 2018. Currently, it is also the first time that one of the currently winning continents (Europe) is ahead of the other (South America) by more than one championship.Total times teams qualified by confederationConfederationTotalTeams45457Top 1156Top 144Top 4Top 21stndrdth100501521Awards. Main article:At the end of each World Cup, awards are presented to the players and teams for accomplishments other than their final team positions in the tournament.

Zinedine Zidane’s infamous headbutt on Italy’s Marco Materazzi remains one of FIFA World Cup’s most intriguing stories.

In his last appearance as an international footballer, the French legend rammed his head into the Italy defender’s chest during extra time of the 2006 World Cup final after Materazzi said something to him. The France captain was red-carded and Italy went on to win the title on penalty kicks.

The incident sparked weeks of speculation about what Materazzi might have told Zidane to provoke such a reaction, and the Italian eventually acknowledged that he had insulted Zidane’s sister.

Speaking to Italian media outlet PassioneInter, Materazzi said, “It felt like a big bang, I didn’t want to take yet another scolding from Gattuso and so I held his shirt. He responded and that’s what happened, luckily, I didn’t expect it otherwise I would have had an early shower too. He asked me if I wanted his shirt, I told him I wanted his sister.”

Remembering the winning Italian side of 2006, Materazzi had said, “I was making a beautiful mess, but everyone did a bit. It’s easier to say who kept quiet. After the games it was always a party, we were a great squad. Pirlo? How many jokes with Gattuso. He always seems quiet but he’s very clever, very clever.”

Talking about toxic fan culture, Materazzi said, “In all the stadiums they sang against me ‘son of a bitch’, judges don’t understand anything. Everybody’s being all morale about this racism thing. You have to punish everybody, you have to close the Curva even for normal insults. Chants are always doing it to annoy the other side, I used to get angry. Why can they wind up me or Balotelli? If you sing against Neapolitans they close the Curva, if you sing against the Genoans they close the Curva.

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“Even if it means the end of football because there will be no more fans. You have to ignore them, otherwise, there are cameras and they don’t enter the stadiums anymore. It has to be like that in all the stadiums, otherwise, the judges are clowns and cowards.”

Zidane had also expressed regret over the incident after the World Cup. “I am not proud of what happened in 2006. I am not advising anyone (player) to behave in the same manner,” he had said.

The final was the French football legend’s last ever appearance as a player.

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