which country won the very first FIFA World Cup?
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It was Uruguay back in 1930 when they beat Argentine 4-2. A little extra info the tourney was also held in Uruguay :)
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allnationsca is right, the first match of the first World Cup (Uruguay 1930) was France x Mexico, in the Pocitos stadium in Montevideo on July 13th 1930. France won 4x1. USA x Belgium (3x0) took place on the same day, but according to FIFA France x Mexico was the opening match of the 1930 WC.\n\nThe Uruguay x Argentina (4x2) that other people mentioned was the 1930 WC final (and so the first WC final), on July 30th 1930.
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I think this is what you mean...\n\nThe first World Cup was Uruguay 1930. The opening match was France VS Mexico. France won 4-1 and here's the scoring history:\n\nLAURENT Lucien (FRA) 19', LANGILLER Marcel (FRA) 40', MASCHINOT Andre (FRA) 42', CARRENO Juan (MEX) 68', MASCHINOT Andre (FRA) 86'.\n\nSo, Laurent from France scored the earliest (or the first?) goal in the history of World Cups.\n\nNow, the FASTEST goal in World Cup history... 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.
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uruguay.. won and hosted it 1930\n\nUSA got 3rd place.
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The first World Cup was in 1930. It was staged in Uruguay.and was won by Uruguay. England didn't participate because they believed the World Cup was fully representative of world football. England didn't play in the World Cup until 1950. England was knocked out of the competition by a squad of U.S. part timers 1-0. The World Cup that the teams are playing for is not the original . The first cup was the Jules Rimet Trophy. That cup was retired when Brazil won it's third World Cup Championship. When the next nation wins the present World Cup three times they will retire that trophy as well.
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First worldcup was held in UruGuay in 1930.the hosts won the worldcup.
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The first World Cup game played by the USA was July 13th, 1930 in Uruguay against Belgium. A 3-0 victory by the USA as well!!\n\nUSA went on to win their group but lost to Argentina 6-1 in the semifinal.
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SWEDEN!\nin the 1958's FIFA World Cup in Sweden.\n\nIt was won by Brazil, who beat Sweden 5-2 in the final for their first title. The World Cup marked the debut on the world stage of 17-year-old Pelé, who would grow to be considered one of the greatest footballers of all time.
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Uruguay, the defending Olympic champions, had the first world cup in 1930.  Uruguay beat Argentina in the finals 4-2 at Centenario stadium.
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Uruguay, 1st Worldcup which they won..
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Uruguay won the inaugural world cup in 1930 in their home soil. they defeated Argentina by 4-2 in the final held in Centenario Stadium in their capital city of Montevideo on July 30, 1930 with an attendance of 80,000 crowd. Referee of the final match was Mr. Langenus of Belgium.\n\nGoal scorer for Uruguay was Pablo Dorado 12', José Pédro Cea 58', Victoriano Santos Iriarte 68' and Héctor Castro 89'. Scorer for Argentina was Carlos Desiderio Peucelle 20'\nGuillermo Stábile 38'. \n\nBrazil won the world cup most time so far - 5 times - 1958, 1962, 1970, 1994, 2002.
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In Uruguay in 1930\n\nwon by Uruguay\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifa_world_cup
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The first world cup was held in (and won by) Uruguay.  The first match of that tournament was France vs Mexico
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Lucien Laurent of France against Mexico in 19' minutes of the inaugural match of the world cup in 1930 in Estadio Pocitos in the capital city of Montevideo of Uruguay. France eventually won the match by 4-1.
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Uruaguay was first one to win while hosting the world cup in 1930. Then Italy did it in 1934, England in 1966, West Germany in 1974, Argentina 1978, and finally France in 1998.
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The first Football World Cup was staged in 1930. The games were awarded to Uruguay as they were the Olympic champions at the time and since they were celebrating the centenary of their independence. As well as being the first ever hosts, Uruguay also became the inaugural champions, beating Argentina in the final, 4-2.\n\nThe first World Cup was the only one without qualification; teams were invited. Due to the long and costly trip across the Atlantic, very few European teams chose to participate; two months before the tournament started, no team from that continent had officially entered. FIFA's president, Jules Rimet, intervened, along with the Uruguayan government, which promised to pay the travel expenses of any travelling European team. Eventually four teams made the three-week sea trip: Belgium, France, Romania, and Yugoslavia.\n\nThe 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 13th; France beat Mexico 4-1, while the USA defeated Belgium 3-0 at the same time in Estadio Gran Parque Central. France's Lucien Laurent was the scorer of the first ever World Cup goal. The USA's Bert Patenaude scored the first hat-trick in World Cup history, as his team beat Paraguay 3-0. The four eventual group winners, Argentina, Yugoslavia, Uruguay, and the USA, moved to the semifinals.\n\nThe two semi-final matches saw identical 6-1 scores, as Argentina beat the US and Uruguay defeated Yugoslavia. Because the traditional third-place playoff 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 as Yugoslavia refused to play the 3rd place play-off against the USA. [citation needed] However, some sources, notably the FIFA Bulletin from 1984, affirm that the match occurred (Yugoslavia - US 3-1). [1] This information has never been officially confirmed.\n\nThe first ever World Cup Final was played at the Centenario Stadium, Montevideo, on July 30th. 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 later to be named after the man himself. Only one player from that final, Francisco Varallo (who played as a striker for Argentina), is still alive today.
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The first tentative Fifa World cup competition was in 1930, Uruguay.