Why is the world cup called a cup when it isnt???
2006-07-10 10:27:47 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Sports ➔ Football ➔ FIFA World Cup (TM)
I mean when it isnt acutally a cup!!
2006-07-10 10:28:17 · update #1
What would you call it then ???
The World Trophy dosn't have the same ring to it
Originally the Jules Rimet Trophty, ....WAS a cup despite the name
Odd
Owen
2006-07-10 10:30:48 · answer #1 · answered by owenofglasgow2 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Good one.
Indeed it isnt a cup because you cant hold liquid with it, but in the whole world I think it is called like that, in Spanish its Copa del Mundo, and copa means cup, the cup you use to drink too.
But this comes from many yers ago, as the Jules rimet cup wasn't a cup too. It should be called a trophy.
But in tennis the Davis cup looks more like a bowl to make a fruit salad instead, and so on. I think the term cup has been generalised.
2006-07-10 14:31:39 · answer #2 · answered by mangueric 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Like metaphors major competitions required by Football through out the years have been played for a traditional cup European cup the Uefa cup before it was call the Fairs cup trophies normally resembled a large urn vase, etc never looked like anything near a coffee mug or a tea cup. Cup de Monde its like the offside rule you either agree or disagree that its there.
Confused its football and if Mr Blatter keeps going the way he is the rules will be changed again and it might be a silver or gold plate like wimbledon one day.
2006-07-10 10:54:59 · answer #3 · answered by jeanvaljean_1us 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The cup got stolen
2006-07-10 10:33:11 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe cause it sounds sweeter than World Trophy or maybe in the early 1900's they did indeed had Cup the award and just kept the name.
2006-07-10 10:32:03 · answer #5 · answered by biscuits 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
that's only a problem in English. In other languages it's not called a cup.
2006-07-10 10:34:43 · answer #6 · answered by wild_eep 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It used to be a cup but it was stolen.
2006-07-10 10:30:57 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
the idea came from two flys one from brazil and one from germany who were playing football on a saucer, when the ref stopped them and said why dont you play in a cup tomorrow
2006-07-10 10:33:32 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
it used to be a cup in many events of sports ...........
and the winner used to drink beer in it ...
so it is still called a CUP
2006-07-10 10:33:01 · answer #9 · answered by sighspy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i think brazil were given the original cup because they won it three times.
2006-07-10 10:38:52 · answer #10 · answered by ziggy bulldust 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋