where was the first game of Soccer Game held?
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England. After all, they invented the sport.
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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 FIFA World Cup, held in 1930 in Uruguay, was won by the host nation on July 30th by the score of 4-2 over Argentina. \n\nGoals were scored by:\n\nDORADO Pablo (URU) 12'\nPEUCELLE Carlos (ARG) 20'\nSTABILE Guillermo (ARG) 37'\nCEA Pedro (URU) 57'\nIRIARTE Victoriano Santos (URU) 68'\nCASTRO Hector (URU) 89'
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Don't know who scored the goal.  But the first FIFA match was May 1, 1904.  The match was held in Brussels, Belgium.  The game was between Belgium and France.
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It was Mr. Lombardi of Uruguay who officiated the first match between France and Mexico on July 13, 1930, in the inaugural world cup in 1930 in Estadio Pocitos in Montevideo, Uruguay.
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FIFA was founded in Paris on 21 May 1904.\n\nBelgium faced France at the first official international match in Brussels on 1 May 1904. \n\nFor oodles more information, please check out:\nhttp://www.fifa.com/en/history/history/0,1283,4,00.html
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The first tentative Fifa World cup competition was in 1930, Uruguay.
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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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Uruguay\n\n"The first FIFA World Cup was held in Uruguay and ran from July 13- 30, 1930. It was organized mainly by Jules Rimet, the FIFA president at the time. Thirteen nations took part - six from South America, five from Europe and two from North America. Uruguay beat Argentina 4-2 in front of crowd of 93,000 in Montevideo to become the first nation to win the trophy."\n\n\nhttp://www.onlineseats.com/soccer-tickets/fifa-world-cup-2006/index.asp
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Mexico 1986\nThe fever of soccer was really there!!
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first world cup took place in 1930 in Uruguay. In the final, Uruguay defeated Argentina 4-2 in front of a crowd of 93,000 people in Montevideo, and became the first nation to win a World Cup.
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One of the earliest forms of soccer in which players kicked a ball around on a small field has been traced as far back to 1004 B.C. in Japan. The Munich Ethnological Museum in Germany has a Chinese text from approximately 50 B.C. that mentions games very similar to soccer that were played between teams from Japan and China. The Chinese kicked a leather ball ( hair-filled ) and it is known with certainty that a soccer game was played in 611 A.D. in the then Japanese capital, Kyoto.
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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.
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Evidence from many ancient societies Chinese, Greek, Mayan, and Egyptian reveals that kicking games like soccer was played in those cultures. The modern game of soccer began in the 19th century in England, where a variety of football games developed, all of which involved both handling and kicking.\n\nLondon Football Association (FA) in 1863 established the first set of rules for soccer, which was played at that time mostly in private schools and universities. The FA Cup, a tournament first organized in 1871, sparked the rapid spread of soccer in England. Regular league\nplay started in England in 1888. A game in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1872 between an English all-star team and its Scottish counterpart marked the beginning of international play.\n\nSoccer's global spread began at the end of the 19th century, when British traders, sailors, and workers carried the sport all over the world.\nBy 1930 professional leagues were operating in many countries, and that year FIFA formed in 1904 and organized the first World Championship.\nNow known simply as the World Cup, the tournament is played every four years and has become the world's most popular sporting event.\n\nThe North American Soccer League (NASL), founded in 1968, brought Brazilian star Pelé to the United States, and by 1980 the league had 24 teams.\nThe NASL suffered financially, and in 1984 it went out of business.\nHowever, the league left a legacy of growing American involvement in the sport at youth level. By the 1990s, soccer was recognized as the fastest-growing college and high school sport in the United States.\nThe Soccer Industry Council of America estimated that by 1994 there were more than 13 million boys and girls under the age of 18 who played soccer.
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the first ever worldcup was in 1930, in the south american country of uruguay. there only 3 continents, south america, europe and north america. the host went on the win the first worldcup.
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Britain is the undisputed birthplace of modern soccer/association football. \n\n\nScotland and England being co-founders of the organised game.http://worldsoccer.about.com/cs/historyandstats/a/sochistart.htm
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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.