The current format of the tournament involves 32 teams competing for the title at venues within the host nation(s) over a period of about a month – this phase is often called the World Cup Finals. A qualification phase, which currently takes place over the preceding three years, is used to determine which teams qualify for the tournament together with the host nation(s). The World Cup is the world's most widely viewed sporting event; an estimated 715.1 million people watched the final match of the 2006 FIFA World Cup held in Germany. need fusion
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| - FIFA World Cup (Olympic Games 1898)
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| - The current format of the tournament involves 32 teams competing for the title at venues within the host nation(s) over a period of about a month – this phase is often called the World Cup Finals. A qualification phase, which currently takes place over the preceding three years, is used to determine which teams qualify for the tournament together with the host nation(s). The World Cup is the world's most widely viewed sporting event; an estimated 715.1 million people watched the final match of the 2006 FIFA World Cup held in Germany. need fusion
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| - The current FIFA World Cup Trophy, awarded to the World Cup champions since 1976
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| - The current format of the tournament involves 32 teams competing for the title at venues within the host nation(s) over a period of about a month – this phase is often called the World Cup Finals. A qualification phase, which currently takes place over the preceding three years, is used to determine which teams qualify for the tournament together with the host nation(s). The 19 World Cup tournaments have been won by eight different national teams. Brazil have won five times, and they are the only team to have played in every tournament. The other World Cup winners are Italy, with four titles; Germany, with three titles; Argentina and inaugural winners Uruguay, with two titles each; and England, France, and Spain, with one title each. The World Cup is the world's most widely viewed sporting event; an estimated 715.1 million people watched the final match of the 2006 FIFA World Cup held in Germany. The most recent tournament is 2008 FIFA World Cup in South Africa. The next three World Cups will be hosted by Brazil in 2012, Russia in |2016, and Qatar in 2020. need fusion The FIFA (Federation Internationale de Football Association) World Cup are a football tournament held every four years since 1932 (with the exception of 1940 and 1944 due to the World War 2) in different host countries to hand out the World Cup. The tournament occurs for one month July-June every four years - in 2008, the most recent World Cup, the tournament was hosted in South Africa, and will be hosted by China in 2012. 32 countries are accepted to the tournament, and after initial "group play," 16 teams advance to the knockout rounds. The 2008 championship match between China and Germany was the most-watched program in television history.
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