Final confirmed to take place at 80,000-seat Lusail Stadium at 18:00 on 18 December Four matches a day throughout the group stage ensures optimal rest time for the teams Qatar’s unique footprint allows later assignment of group matches for the benefit and comfort of fans The iconic image of FIFA World Cup™ champions France lifting […]
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The ten-sport scorer of Brazil’s first World Cup goal
Preguinho scored Brazil’s first World Cup goals 90 years ago today Football was one of ten sports in which he won trophies He refused to get paid for playing a sport he loved Coelho Netto, a high-profile author, playwright, politician and poet, yearned for one of his 14 kids to become a sportsperson. He decided […]
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Colo-Colo rewarded for talent production line
FIFA launched Women’s World Cup Club Solidarity Fund in 2019 Colo-Colo were one of the first clubs to have benefited We hear from the club to learn more about its impact for development In 2019, FIFA launched the first FIFA Women’s World Cup Club Solidarity Fund, which rewards clubs for providing players with a professional […]
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Romania’s football-crazy king
Romania played in the inaugural FIFA World Cup Their first match, a 3-1 win over Peru, took place on this day Here’s the story of King Carol II’s extraordinary influence on the team What’s the first thing a king does when he assumes the throne? Well, when the decade was the 1930s, the country was […]
Romario rises to the occasion
Romario scored the semi-final winner against Sweden on this day in 1994 The little striker was the smallest man on the pitch by a full three inches Brazil went on to win their first FIFA World Cup™ since 1970 That Romario was the man to put Brazil into their first FIFA World Cup Final in […]
Lucien Laurent, the first World Cup goalscorer
To mark the 90th anniversary of the first goal ever scored at the FIFA World Cup, FIFA.com recalls the career of the man who scored it: Lucien Laurent of France. Firsts are never forgotten. In scoring the first ever goal in FIFA World Cup™ history, in the Uruguayan capital of Montevideo on 13 July 1930, […]
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Rimet’s World Cup vision realised
The first FIFA World Cup kicked off in Uruguay 90 years ago today Then FIFA President Jules Rimet battled stiff opposition to the tournament The first Trophy was ultimately renamed in his honour It took over two weeks for the Conte Verde, the Italian steamboat in this image, to reach Montevideo in 1930. On board […]
FC Makunishi’s pride in star product Sugasawa rewarded
FC Makunishi one of 800+ clubs globally rewarded via FIFA Women’s World Cup Club Solidarity Fund Fund designed to recompense clubs who helped players to an elite career Nadeshiko star and FC Makunishi product Yuika Sugasawa played at France 2019 It was well past bedtime when the club faithful at FC Makunishi excitedly tuned in […]
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The breakthrough Bleus in numbers
Sixty-eight years – that’s what it took France to win a tournament they had been the architects of. Two headers – that’s the unlikely recipe a likely hero used to rock its record champions. The 93rd minute – that’s when a ponytailed prince belied position and numeracy to apply the coup de grâce. Those numbers […]
Zidane heads France to the heavens
“He’s bigger than the Pope. This World Cup will be all about Ronaldo just as ‘70 was about Pele and ‘86 was about Maradona. Only the almighty God can stop Brazil.” Those words were uttered by Nigeria’s Taribo West. They were grudgingly accepted by innumerable other rival players heading into the 1998 FIFA World Cup […]