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World Cup Facts You Didn't Know Before
The World Cup is a large international soccer tournament held every four years. It is the most popular and prestigious international soccer tournament in the world.
The World Cup is the most-watched event in the world, with over 1.3 billion people watching the 2018 tournament. The World Cup is a competition between national teams that takes place every four years.
The first World Cup was held in Uruguay in 1930, and the most recent was born in Russia in 2018. The World Cup is the biggest event in the world, with more viewers than the Super Bowl and the Olympics combined.
Here are seven fun facts about the world cup:
- The World Cup is the most popular sporting event in the world, with an estimated 715 million people watching the 2010 final between Spain and the Netherlands. The final match between France and Croatia was watched by an average of 204 million people, making it the most-watched sporting event in history.
This record was broken only a few weeks later when an average of 391 million people watched the World Cup final between France and Croatia.
2. The first-ever World Cup was held in Uruguay in 1930, with just 13 teams participating.
