7 Facts You Need To Know About FIFA World Cup

source The FIFA World Cup is a sport event that takes place every four years and it's widely viewed all over the world. Over 3.2 billion people which constitutes almost half of the world's population, men and women, boys and girls, black and white tuned to watch the last edition of the World Cup which held in 2014. The FIFA World Cup has taken place for 20 times and the country with the most title won it Brazil, with five titles. Italy and Germany have won four titles each.

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The 2018 FIFA World Cup tournament is scheduled to hold from 14th of June to 15th of July, 2018 in Russia. With less than nine days to the 2018 FIFA World Cup, here are seven interesting facts that you may not know about the World Cup.

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1. The 2018 World Cup will be the first time Russia will ever host it.

1. South Korea and Japan hosted the 2002 World Cup. The first time it will hold in two counties at the same time.

2. In 1950, there was a rumor that India did not participate in the World Cup because they were not allowed to play with bare foot.

3. Uruguay hosted the First World Cup in 1930 and they won the tournament too.

4. In 1966 the World Cup trophy was stolen as it was reportedly missing for seven days before the tournament.

5. The World Cup match with the highest number of goals in history was between Austria and Switzerland. Austria won with 7-5.

6. In World Cup history, Italy has the most number of draws with 21, Mexico most number of losses with 25.

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