the first men's FIFA World Cup takes place in 1930 & URUGUAY was the first winner. UNITED STATES, meanwhile is the first FIFA Women's World Cup winner in 1991.
2006-11-18 23:13:06
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answered by foongwk140804 7
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well, if you're talking about the FIFA world cup, it first began in 1930 played in Uruguay from July 13 to July 30. Coincidentally, Uruguay won that same year, beating argentina 4-2. Montevideo, Estadio Centenario is where they played every game including the finals.
2006-11-18 22:18:51
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answered by kristyb872001 6
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The 1930 FIFA World Cup was the first World Cup tournament ever staged. It was played in Uruguay from July 13 to July 30. FIFA chose Uruguay as hosts in May 1929, as the country would be celebrating the centenary of its independence and the Uruguay national football team had successfully retained their football title at the 1928 Summer Olympics. As well as being the first ever hosts, Uruguay also became the inaugural champions, beating Argentina in the final, 4-2.
The first World Cup was the only one without qualification. Every country affliated with FIFA was invited to compete. However, only thirteen teams ended up participating. Due to the long and costly trip across the Atlantic Ocean, very few European teams chose to take part; two months before the tournament started, no team from that continent had officially entered. FIFA president Jules Rimet intervened, along with the Uruguayan government, which promised to pay the travel expenses of any travelling European team
Eventually four European teams made the three-week sea trip: Belgium, France, Romania, and Yugoslavia. The Romanians, coached by Costel Radulescu boarded the ship Conte Verde at Genoa, the French were picked up at Villefranche-South-Mer and the Belgians were taken from Barcelona. This is the same vessel which took Jules Rimet, the trophy itself and the three European referees: the Belgians Jean Langenus and Henri Christophe and the Paris-based EnglishmanThomas Balway. In addition the Brazilian team were picked up when the boat docked in Rio de Janeiro before arriving at Uruguay.[1] Yugoslavia travelled via the mail steamship Florida.[2]
The thirteen teams were drawn into four groups, with all the games taking place in the Uruguayan capital, Montevideo. Since there were no qualifying games, the opening two matches of the tournament were also the first ever World Cup games, taking place simultaneously on July 13; France beat Mexico 4-1 at the Estadio Centenario, while the United States defeated Belgium 3-0 at the same time at the Estadio Gran Parque Central. France's Lucien Laurent was the scorer of the first ever World Cup goal. The four eventual group winners, Argentina, Yugoslavia, Uruguay, and the United States, moved to the semifinals.
The two semi-final matches saw identical 6-1 scores, as Argentina beat the United States and Uruguay defeated Yugoslavia. Because the traditional third-place match was not established until 1934, the 1930 World Cup is unique in not having any games take place between the semi-finals and the final. However, some sources, notably the FIFA Bulletin from 1984, affirm that the match occurred (Yugoslavia 3, U.S 1).[3] This information has never been officially confirmed.
The first ever World Cup final was played at the Estadio Centenario, on July 30. A seemingly innocuous controversy overshadowed the build-up to the match as the teams disagreed on who should provide the match ball, forcing FIFA to intervene and decree that the Argentine team would provide the ball for the first half and the Uruguayans would provide their own for the second. The game ended 4-2 to Uruguay (who had trailed 2-1 at half time) who added the title World Cup Winners to the already prestigious mantle of Olympic Champions, as Jules Rimet presented the World Cup Trophy, which was subsequently named for him.
Only one player from that final, Francisco Varallo (who played as a striker for Argentina), is still alive as of 2006\
GROUP 1 : FRANCE CHILE ARGENTINA AND MEXICO
GROUP 2 : YUGOSLAVIA BRAZIL AND BOLIVIA
GROUP 3 :URUGUAY ROMANIA AND PERU
GROUP 4:USA PARAGUAY AND BELGIUM
In the SEMI-FINALS
Argentina beated USA 6-1
Uruguay beated Yugoslavia 6-1
and in the final Uruguay beated Argentina 4-2
NOTES:
Spain, Hungary, the Netherlands, and Sweden with Italy had attempted to organize the event, but retracted their candidacies.
The record of the most goals in the opening match was not broken until 2006 when Germany and Costa Rica scored 6 goals between them. The 1930 record was 5 goals.
The first player to be sent off in a World Cup was Placido Galindo of Peru in its match against Romania. Note that red and yellow cards were not formally introduced in World Cup play until 1970.
Bert Patenaude of the United States was the first player to score a hat-trick in a World Cup match, on 19 July 1930 against Paraguay. However, until November 10, 2006 the first hat-trick that FIFA acknowledged had been scored by Guillermo Stábile of Argentina, two days after Patenaude. In 2006 FIFA announced that Bert Patenaude's claim to being the first hat-trick scorer was valid, as teammate Tom Florie's goal in the match against Paraguay was reattributed to Patenaude
2006-11-19 00:13:54
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answered by Anonymous
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