FIFA World cup is a high level football tournament introduced to collect national teams around the world in a single competition. The game begins since a year of 1930 and Uruguay was first country to organize and winning the tournament.
Since than Brazil was most successful country in the tournament series. They had won the cup five times since their first victory in 1958. Their last time won the cup was in 2002 at South Korean and Japan.
Beside Brazil, Italy and Germany also well knows as most successful country in football history. Both countries had finished top four as many as eight and twelve times respectively. However there were another five more countries did won the cup as a total of eight countries. The countries were Argentina, Uruguay, France, England and Spain.
The Netherlands and Sweden another successful countries history but never won the cup. Both countries did finish as top four for four times. The Netherlands was three times reached to the final but still fail to finish as a champion. However for Sweden they did in final only one time but finished third was two times.
South Africa was the latest host nation organized the tournament in the year of 2010. It was also first time ever the tournament organized by African countries. Spain becomes the winner of the tournament by beating the Netherlands 1-0 in final match and it was first ever European teams won the cup outside their continent. After South Africa, the tournament will held in Brazil in the year of 2014.
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