how fifa word cup is diffrent from cricket world cup?
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OBVIOUSLY, THERE IS NO BAT IN FIFA BUT THERE ARE LOT MORE DIFERENCES LIKE THE DIFFERENCE IN THE SIZE OF THE BALLS IN TWO EVENTS. ALSO THE NUMBER OF TEAMS TAKING PART IN  AFOOTBALL WORLD CUP IS MUCH MORE THAN THOSE TAKING PART IN CRICKET WORLD CUP.
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FIFA World Cup qualification is the process a team must go through to qualify for the FIFA World Cup Finals, or, more commonly known as the FIFA World Cup or Football World Cup. FIFA World Cup is a global event, and qualification is used to reduce the large field of participants from about 200 to 32.\n\nQualifying tournaments are held within the six FIFA continental zones (Africa, Asia, North and Central America and Caribbean, South America, Oceania, Europe), and are organized by their respective confederations. For each tournament, FIFA decides beforehand the number of spots awarded to each of the continental zones, based on the relative strength of the confederations' teams (and, some may argue, political considerations).\n\nThe hosts of the World Cup receive an automatic berth in the finals. Unlike many other sports, results of the previous World Cups or of the continental championships are not taken into account. Until 2002, the defending champions also received an automatic berth, but starting from the 2006 World Cup they also need to enter qualifying.\n\nIn the qualification process for the 2006 FIFA World Cup, 198 teams from the six FIFA confederations were allocated a share of the 32 spots available on the basis of the strength of their teams. The final distribution was as follows:\n\nEurope - represented by UEFA : 51 teams competing for 13 places (Germany qualified automatically as host nation for a total of 14 places) \nAfrica - the CAF : 51 teams, 5 places \nSouth America - CONMEBOL : 10 teams, 4.5 places \nAsia - the AFC : 39 teams, 4.5 places \nNorth, Central American and Caribbean - CONCACAF : 34 teams, 3.5 places \nOceania - the OFC : 12 teams, 0.5 places (not guaranteed a position). \nEach .5 indicates a place in inter-confederation matchups for the last two spots, namely playoffs between AFC and CONCACAF and between CONMEBOL and OFC.
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try the yahoo site for fifa world cup.
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Cricket - Involves more skills, strategy, stamina...\n\nYou can easily enjoy Cricket without your team winning...Its just the beauty of the sport..\nunlike football..where to love a team you have to hate the others...or the concept of 'hooliganism' or for that matter the very nature of football being a rough game involving body charges,rough tackles lots of warning cards....etc etc...\n\nCricket is a soothing game
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Depends on the sport.  The World Cup normally refers to football (soccer), and it's only held every 4 years.  1975 was not one of those years.
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The official language of the Fifa World Cup is English. All leading referees must know some english to participate in the Cup.
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Fédération Internationale de Football Association \n\nIt was founded by Jules Rimiet, hence the French, and the original world cup was called the Jules Rimiet Trophy, Brazil won the right to keep it when they won their 3rd world cup in 1970. It was stolen in 1983 and has never been recovered
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The Africa Cup of Nations \n\nhttp://www.egypt2006.com.eg/english/
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The fifa world cup is divided in two phase: \na) PHASE 1: The preliminary competition: where all the countries played qualifying matches to gain a position in the final competition.\nb) PHASE 2: The final competition: whose trophy is  2006 FIFA  world cup, and it's called: The Final competition for the 2006 FIFA World Cup.\nThat is why that any match in FIFA world cup is called Final, because it's shorter to say Final instead of The Final competition for the 2006 FIFA World Cup.
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World Cup Cricket 1975-2003\nfirst world cup- year-1975, Name of cup-Prudential cup, Venue- England, No.of teams-8, Winner-West Indies(291/8 in 60 overs) runner up - Australia(274 all out in 58.4overs), Man of the Match - Clive Llyod(102,38/1)\n\n2nd - 1979, Prudential Cup, England, 8, West Indies(286/9 60 overs), England(194, 51 overs), Viv Richards(138*)\n\n3rd- 1983, Prudential Cup, England, 8, India(183, 54.4 overs) West Indies(140, 52 overs), Mohinder Amarnath(26,12/3)\n\n4th- 1987, Reliance Cup, India-Pakistan, 8, Australia(253/5, 50 overs), England (246/8, 50 overs), David Boon(75)\n\n5th- 1992, Benson & Hedges, Aus-New Zealand, 9, Pakistan(249/6, 50 overs), England(227, 49.2 overs), Wasim Akram( 33, 42/3)\n\n6th- 1996, Wills Cup, Ind-Pak-SL, 12, Sri Lanka(245/3,46.2 overs), Aus(241/7,50 overs), Arvinda De Silva(107*, 42/3)\n\n7th- 1999- ICC Cup- England, 12, Aus(133/2, 20.1 overs), Pak(132, 39 overs), Shane Warne(33/4)\n\n8th-2003- ICC Cup- S. AFRICA,Kenya,Zimbabwe, 15, Aus(359/2, 50 overs), India(234, 39.2 overs), Ricky ponting(140*)\n\n9th- 2007- West Indies- Still to Come, HOPE FOR A GREAT ACTION.\n\nHope Its Enough Information And Correct As Far As I Know.
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The Confederations Cup is played between the winners of each of the six federations in the world (plus the World Cup winners and the host nation) . It is also known as the "mini World Cup" and played every four years (usually in the country that will host the upcoming World Cup).\n\nA total of 8 countries participate in this tournament. Last years Confederation Cup in Germany included:\n\nGermany (host nation), Brazil (World Cup holders), Argentina (South American winners), Greece (European champions), Mexico (North American and Carribean winners), Tunisia (African winners), Japan (Asian winners) and Australia (Oceanian winners).
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Everything is wrong with this picture. This by far has been the worst world cup ever and it is due to the incompence of Sepp Blater and Fifa. Fifa is a ban on football kowtowing to the Uefa countries and laundering money for them while football in Africa, Asia and South America suffers.
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History of the FIFA World Cup\n \n\n--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n \nNo other sporting event captures the world's imagination like the FIFA World Cup. Ever since the first tentative competition in Uruguay in 1930, FIFA's (Fédération Internationale de Football Association) flagship has constantly grown in popularity and prestige.\n\nA group of visionary French football administrators, led in the 1920s by the innovative Jules Rimet, are credited with the original idea of bringing the world's strongest national football teams together to compete for the title of World Champions. The original gold trophy bore Jules Rimet's name and was contested three times in the 1930s, before the Second World War put a 12-year stop to the competition. \n\nWhen it resumed, the FIFA World Cup rapidly advanced to its undisputed status as the greatest single sporting event of the modern world. Held since 1958 alternately in Europe and the Americas, the World Cup broke new ground with the Executive Committee's decision in May 1996 to select Korea and Japan as co-hosts for the 2002 edition. \n\nSince 1930, the 16 tournaments have seen only seven different winners. However, the FIFA World Cup has also been punctuated by dramatic upsets that have helped create footballing history - the United States defeating England in 1950, North Korea's defeat of Italy in 1966, Cameroon's emergence in the 1980s and their opening match defeat of the Argentinean cup-holders in 1990.... \n\nToday, the FIFA World Cup holds the entire global public under its spell. An accumulated audience of over 37 billion people watched the France 98 tournament, including approximately 1.3 billion for the final alone, while over 2.7 million people flocked to watch the 64 matches in the French stadium. \n\nAfter all these years and so many changes, however, the main focus of the FIFA World Cup remains the same - the glistening golden trophy, which is the embodiment of every footballer's ambition. \n\nWorld Cup Summaries\n \nYear Champion Runner-Up Result 3rd Place Host \n1930 Uruguay Argentina 4-2 United States Uruguay \n1934 Italy Czechoslovakia 2-1 (ot) Germany Italy \n1938 Italy Hungary 4-2 Brazil France \n1950 Uruguay Brazil 2-1 Sweden Brazil \n1954 West Germany Hungary 3-2 Austria Switzerland \n1958 Brazil Sweden 5-2 France Sweden \n1962 Brazil Czechoslovakia 3-1 Chile Chile \n1966 England West Germany 4-2 (ot) Portugal England \n1970 Brazil Italy 4-1 West Germany Mexico \n1974 West Germany Holland 2-1 Poland West Germany \n1978 Argentina Holland 3-1 (ot) Brazil Argentina \n1982 Italy West Germany 3-1 Poland Spain \n1986 Argentina West Germany 3-2 France Mexico \n1990 West Germany Argentina 1-0 Italy Italy \n1994 Brazil Italy 0-0 (3:2 pk) Sweden United States \n1998 France Brazil 3-0 Croatia France \n2002 Brazil Germany 2-0 Turkey Korea / Japan \n2006 - - - - Germany \n \n \n\nTeam Records\nBrazil holds the most World Cup championships with five and Italy and West Germany/Germany are tied with three World Cup titles. Hungary has tallied the most goals in a single World Cup when they scored 27 in 1954. In the 1954  World Cup Austria beat Switzerland 7-5 for the most goals (12) combined in a World Cup match. Hungary beat El Salvador in 1982, 10-1 for the highest goal differential in a World Cup match (Hungary is also the only team to score 10 or more goals in a World Cup).\n\nIndividual Records\nGerard Muller is the top scorer in World Cup history with 14 goals. Salenko of Russia scored 5 goals in a match during the 1994 World Cup. Guillermo Stabile of Argentina was the first player to ever record a hat trick (1930 World Cup). Hakan Sukur of Turkey scored the fastest goal in World Cup history in 2002 when he scored 11 seconds into the match against South Korea. Lothar Matthaus of Germany / West Germany has the most appearances by a player in the World Cup with 25. Norman Whiteside of Northern Ireland
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FIFA = Fédération Internationale de Football Association
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there are qualifier matches throughout the time before the worldcup that teams must win to continue on.  those with the most wins in the qualifiers are those that make the actual tournament known as the world cup
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world cup was not played last year
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what the hell is the world cup?