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5 championships - Brazil
Brazil is the benchmark for everybody else in international football. The Brazilian national team – also known as the “Seleçao” – have headed the world rankings unchallenged for the past eleven years except for a short break between May 2001 and May 2002...
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4 championships - Italy
A map of the country appears to be a pointer as to an Italian’s big love: Italy’s outline is similar to that of a football boot. Between Turin and Milan, Rome and Naples, “Calcio” is the biggest passion...
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3 championships - Germany
Three World Cups (1954, 1974, 1990) and three European Championship titles (1972, 1980, 1996) are included in the far reaching chronicles of the Deutschen Fußball Bundes (DFB – the German Football Association)...
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2 championships - Argentina
Nowhere else on the South American continent does football have such a long a tradition as it does in Argentina. The south Atlantic country is, so to say, “South America’s mother country of football”...
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2 championships - Uruguay
A football crazy population of just three and a half million in a state only double the size of Bavaria provided the benchmark in the first half of the past decade...
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1 championship - England
“Rule, Britannia, Britannia! rule the waves,” is one of the best loved chants of English football fans. But the supporters only once had a real cause to sing the song: 1966 in England at the eighth World Cup...
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1 championship - France
The team line-up is one for eternity. Barthez; Thuram, Desailly, Leboeuf, Lizarazu, Karembeu (57 mins Boghossian), Deschamps, Petit, Zidane, Djorkaeff (76 mins - Vieira), Guivarc‘h (66 mins - Dugarry)...
 Joseph S. Blatter has been the President of the International Football Federation (FIFA) since 1998. Under the Swiss’ management the World Cup has become big business. GES/Augenklick
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The History of the World Cup
The first attempts to organise a football FIFA World Cup™ were made as early as 1905, but it took 25 years before the first FIFA World Cup tournament was held in Uruguay in 1930...