Dont you think that 4 years is a LONG time between every worldcup?/?
929137
waiting 4 entire years for each world cup is what makes the world cup so great...so important, and so huge\n\nany shorter of a time in between world cups would make it mean less, and being the world cup champion wouldn't mean as much
987159
Personally, I would absolutely love that!  The problem is that I'd have to come up with a month's worth of excuses for not doing work so I could go to bars to watch the matches every 2 years instead of every 4.  Someone might start to notice the pattern if it were that often.\n\nAlso, even though August of this year (the longest possible time before the next World Cup) will be a depressing month for me, it makes the game more special that it doesn't come around very often.  If it were every 2 years, we might get jaded and not care as much.
438535
It is held every 4 years cause these guys have day jobs. They play for teams all over the world that have their own competition. It takes a lot of time and effort to plan these things too. That is also why they olympics is held every 4 years. It is more exciting this way too.
385303
THE FACT THAT THEY QUALIFIED FOR THE WORLD CUP IS A ACHIEVEMENT IN IT'S SELF, PLAY IN THE FINAL NOT FOR ANOTHER 20YRS AT LEAST.
359280
Firstly it take 2 year to qualify for the games. Plus also the European championship along with copa america is held every 2 years.
615950
I doubt it.\n\nCue the commentators banging on about 1966 when we last won it for the entire duration of this World Cup *yawn*\n\nIt was 40 years ago! Get over it!
1009792
Assuming it started 4 weeks before World Cup even began, and an average of 25 times the question is asked per day ... \nSo it's uhm .. not that many actually ... just a few hundred times!!! LOL ...
1001552
well there would be very different responses depending on the country. The countries who have won the world cup before would have probably just found it a bit humerous but nothing more. Then theres the whole tier of countries who time after time are there in the quarters, semis, and finals who for some reason just cant seem to win it all. Holland comes to mind specifically. La mechanica naranja (the orange machine) were the favorites to win the world cup on many different occasions, and they just couldnt pull one off. Check republic and Sweeden also come to mind in this group of teams. These teams would literally want to kill themselves. They would agonize over how some country who barely knows what a soccerball looks like managed to win the coveted world cup trophy before them who have been just so close so many times. Lastly, is the group of all the dark horses in world cup history. They would gain a lot of hope and confidence that a team with so little chance of winning were able to pull through and win. Personally I'm from argentina, so i would just find it a bit funny if they won, but since I live in the US now I was cheering for them. I thought the US was almost guarenteed a second round birth when ghana took down the check republic, but it was not to be. Although i think the US needs a new system of finding players at a young age before they will be able to compete at the same level that some of these other countries play at. Right now, Soccer is a sport for rich people in the US. The only way to be discovered at the appropriate age is to play club football which is extremely expensive in the us. Club teams often run $3000 a season. Some people go through the College system, but this means that the player is already 22-23 years old when he starts training with a professional team, and recieving professional training. This is way too late. In argentina, kids start playing soccer for professional clubs by the age of 12. It only costs about 20 pesos a season to join one of these professional clubs so almost everybody with good skill in the country gets discovered very early in developement, and recieve training by the best coaches in the country at a very early age. I'm off to cry a bit more about our fall to the blows of the german side. I wish america luck in future competitions.
244468
There's no 2008 world cup. This championship is held every 4 years (same frequency as the Olympic Games but with a 2-year difference). After this year's cup, the next one will be in 2010.
341075
The world cup happens every four years for various reasons.\n\nThe most important reason is that the cup is played in a different country all the time and the designated country has to prepare it self to accommodate for the influx of tourists and fans. This involves building and improving the infrastructure such as hotels, roads, public toilets, restaurants etc. Basically the country must be prepared to accommodate, feed, provide security and everything else to allow everyone to participate in this world event. Many things have to be anticipated and organised. FIFA, the group responsible for football regulations must approve the overall plan and stipulates whether a country is fit to host the event. The country must then comply to the FIFA pre-requisites. Visit the FIFA website and contact for additional information.
345050
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.
1008306
to me, it seems to be so. this time world cup 2006 doesnt seem to have any dark horse. just big name teams and players as you said.
72627
isn't it usually 4 years?
1127695
Sorry, I find it hard to think who deserves to win the World Cup coz' in my eyes, THEY ALL DESERVE TO WIN!! Consider that all those teams who are competing in the World Cup right now took four years of competitions to get qualified to play in the WC. This is why you're getting the wrong answer; you're asking the wrong question.
995523
Anything that happens only once every four years is worth getting excited about, especially when the best football players from ALL OVER THE WORLD are there to put up a hell of a show! Besides I got tired of watching the "world" baseball series, "world" NBA championships, "world" (american) football champions. How could they say they're world champions when they only play US teams?!? It's things like these that cause other countries to hate us so much.
324233
I think it's a great decision.  Since the world cup is every 4 years, just because a team was good enough to win the World Cup 4 years ago does not mean they are good enough to even make it past the qualifying round.  Just look at France in 1998 and then in 2002...two completely different teams.  I can see the host country because that's where a lot of your attendance is coming from and you don't want to alienate the citizens of that country.  Good job FIFA!!!
998750
something sent to me : )\n\nBrazil won the world cup in 1994.Before that,they won it in 1970. \nAdd these two: 1970+1994=3964. \n\nArgentina won it in 1978 & 1986.Add & it comes to 3964. \n\nGermany: won in 1990 & 1974. Again adding up,it is 3964. \n\nBy this logic, it should be true that the team which won WC in 2002,should have been the winner in 1962...bcoz 3964-2002=1962 \nHey! Brazil won in both of these years. \n\nIt is working...it is working! \nSo, this year 2006,world cup will be lifted by the team who won in the year 1958 (3964-1958=2006) \n\n& WHO WON IN 1958?   \n\nBRAZIL....BRAZIL...BRAZIL!!!!!