Besides the FIFA World Cup, what are the other Soccer Championships and how often are they contested?
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There are major championships for most every professional soccer league.  For examlpe, the MLS (in the USA) has a regular season champion based on points accumulated during the season.  0-loss, 1-draw and 3-win.  There is usually a knock-out tournament as well to determine another championship.  This goes for the other leagues around the world based in individual countries, like the Series A & B leagues in Italy.  \n\nEngland, Spain, Italy, France and Germany are thought to be the best leagues in Europe.  \n\nEach region of the world, Oceanic, S Ame, Asia, Africa, N. Ame and Europe also have their own ways of governing soccer and have championships based on countries (like world cup) and have tournaments based on professional teams like, UEFA in Europe.  For example The Champions league (via UEFA in Europe) takes the best professional teams in Europe and they play in group and knock-out stages to determine a winner.  UEFA also has a Euro Cup to determine the best national soccer team in Europe's region.  \n\nMost of the regions of the world have their tournament 2 years after the World Cup and have it every 4 years (although there are exceptions like the African Cup of Nations).  \n\nThe professoinal teams (like in UEFA) have a tournament more frequently (like every year) to determine the best professional team in a region.  \n\nAs far as I know there is no tournament to determine the best professional team in the world.  Most would feel that the European professional teams would win anyway since they pay their players the most money.  That's why you see Ronoldo and Ronoldiniho (sp?) from Brazil playing for Real Madrid and Barcelona respectively.  For this reason, the UEFA Champions league is thought of as having the best soccer tournament around.  AC Milan is currently playing Barcelona in one semi and Villarreal (from Spain) is playing the English Premier League team of Arsenal in the other.  Championship for that one is May 17th in Paris.\n\nFor each professional championship, go online and try to find each country's top soccer league and they will have more on the particular league championships (knock-out or season play) you are interested in.  Hope that helps:)
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More people around the world love soccer that any other sport in the world. Check this out: FIFA claims that there are more countries that are members of FIFA than there are countries which are members of the United Nations!
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have a look at http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com/06/en/\nhopefully you will find all what you have been looking for ...
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(m)\n\nUp to date, there have been 17 World Cups, but only seven countries have won the trophy. Brazil has won it five times, but ironically, never in their home country.
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There is in an international body governing this sport, so it's safe to say that soccer is the exactly  same sport in every part of the world, and it is call football instead of soccer,\nThe international governing body is referred to as FIFA, from the French "Federation Internationale de Football Associatif" (International Federation of Associative Football). The FIFA defines a soccer  calendar and the culmination of it is the World Cup which is held every 4 years at alternating locations. Only the best countries of each continent will go to compete, in total there are 32 countries.\nThe 32 countries are divided in 8 groups, with 4 team in each group.\nFirst Phase :\nEach team plays agains the other teams of his group.(Total 3 games per team)\nThe winner and runner-up of the group avance to the next phase.\n\nSecond Phase (group of 16):\nFrom this phase on it's one on one.\nThe winner of the game avance to the next phase\n\nThen the next phases are quaterfinals, semifinals and final.\nIn total, the teams that get to the final plays 7 games.\n\n For the 2006 world cup the 32 countries are:\nGroup 1: Germany, Poland, Ecuado and Costa Rica\nGroup 2: England, Paraguay, Trinidad and Tobago, and Sweden\nGroup 3: Argentina, Côte d'Ivoire, Serbia and Montenegro, and Netherlands\nGroup 4: Mexico, Iran, Angola and Portugal\n\nGroup 5: Italy, Ghana , USAand Czech Republic\nGroup 6: Brazil, Croatia, Australia and Japan\nGroup 7: France, Switzerland, Korea Republic and Togo\nGroup 8: Spain, Ukraine, Tunisia and Saudi Arabia
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Oh of coarse Brazil. 5 times.\n\n   1.  Brazil - 1958, 1962, 1970, 1994, 2002 (5 titles)\n   2. Germany - 1954, 1974, 1990 (3 titles)\n      Italy - 1934, 1938, 1982 (3 titles)\n   3. Argentina - 1978, 1986 (2 titles)\n      Uruguay - 1930, 1950 (2 titles)\n   4. England - 1966 (1 title)\n      France - 1998 (1 title)
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The most popular sport in the world is Soccer, name known for the americans, the rest of the world knows it as Football.
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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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what the hell is the world cup?
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There are other competitions that are scheduled round it such as the European cup, this is every 4 years too. So European teams spend the first 2 years after the world cup qualifying for and playing in the Euro Championships then once these are over qualifying for the world cup.
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Soccer is the term used for the FIFA governed sport in countries like Australia, America, Canada, where they have other sport called football, with other rules.
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Here you go.  This is a great site for information on the other cups as well.\n\nWORLD CUP 2002 STANDINGS\n                       P   W  D  L   Goals  Pts\n 1.Brazil          C   7   7  0  0   18- 4   21\n 2.Germany         F   7   5  1  1   14- 3   16\n 3.Turkey          SF  7   4  1  2   10- 6   13\n 4.South Korea     SF  7   3  2  2    8- 6   11\n 5.Spain           QF  5   3  2  0   10- 5   11\n 6.England         QF  5   2  2  1    6- 3    8\n 7.Senegal         QF  5   2  2  1    7- 6    8\n 8.United States   QF  5   2  1  2    7- 7    7\n 9.Japan           2R  4   2  1  1    5- 3    7\n10.Denmark         2R  4   2  1  1    5- 5    7\n11.Mexico          2R  4   2  1  1    4- 4    7\n12.Rep. of Ireland 2R  4   1  3  0    6- 3    6\n13.Sweden          2R  4   1  2  1    5- 5    5\n14.Belgium         2R  4   1  2  1    6- 7    5\n15.Italy           2R  4   1  1  2    5- 5    4\n16.Paraguay        2R  4   1  1  2    6- 7    4\n17.South Africa    1R  3   1  1  1    5- 5    4\n18.Argentina       1R  3   1  1  1    2- 2    4\n19.Costa Rica      1R  3   1  1  1    5- 6    4\n20.Cameroon        1R  3   1  1  1    2- 3    4\n21.Portugal        1R  3   1  0  2    6- 4    3\n22.Russia          1R  3   1  0  2    4- 4    3\n23.Croatia         1R  3   1  0  2    2- 3    3\n24.Ecuador         1R  3   1  0  2    2- 4    3\n25.Poland          1R  3   1  0  2    3- 7    3\n26.Uruguay         1R  3   0  2  1    4- 5    2\n27.Nigeria         1R  3   0  1  2    1- 3    1\n28.France          1R  3   0  1  2    0- 3    1\n29.Tunisia         1R  3   0  1  2    1- 5    1\n30.Slovenia        1R  3   0  0  3    2- 7    0\n31.China           1R  3   0  0  3    0- 9    0\n32.Saudi Arabia    1R  3   0  0  3    0-12    0
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The Fédération Internationale de Football Association, universally known by its acronym FIFA, is the international governing body of football (soccer). Its headquarters are in Zürich, Switzerland and its current president is Sepp Blatter
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Soccer has been has been my favorite for years. The rest of the games are aight but they just don't compare to soccer, and it doesn't acquire all the different components you need to play the "beautiful game." Period.
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FIFA \n\nFederation of international football associations
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not just in jo'burg. all over the country. world cup is never in just one city
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there are 32 countries.\nthere was no worldcup held in 1992\nKanu is from nigeria \nRonaldo is a brazilian, but Christian Ronaldo is a Portugese