The FIFA World Cup happens once every four years and this year, of course the FIFA World Cup is hosted in Russia
so in this episode of FTD facts
I'm gonna be exploring 10 interesting facts about the FIFA World Cup that you need to know. What's happening your buddy
My name is Leroy, Kenton
And yeah, if you're a big fan of FIFA
You probably know a lot of them already or if you're just kind of new to FIFA or just already know about the organization
In general this is some pretty interesting stuff. So you've got to watch it till the end
alright, and if you are a big fan of FIFA
Let me know by giving this video a big thumbs up. You love watching the World Cup you love watching football
Let me see those thumbs ups. Okay. So starting off with our first fact so FIFA. It's actually a French acronym
Not an English one since it is a French acronym for fédération Internationale de Football Association
I am terrible in French
So this where you get the acronym that spells out FIFA now if it was in English, it would be the International Federation of football
Association
Iff a but it's not that it's FIFA. So that fact is irrelevant
Okay on to the next fact, so when was a FIFA World Cup actually founded well
It was over a hundred years ago actually in the year
1904 the FIFA headquarters is located in Zurich Switzerland and currently there's
211 member nations all apart of FIFA now, I mentioned that FIFA as an organization started in
1904 but that wasn't actually the first world cup the first world cup was actually created in the year
1930 but FIFA being a French acronym the first World Cup wasn't hosted in France
It wasn't even hosted in Zurich Switzerland where the now headquarters are but it was actually hosted in Uruguay. Yeah
So 1930 you're gay hosted the first World Cup
And not only were they the first host nation, but Uruguay was also the first nation to win the World Cup. They beat Argentina
4-2 in the finals that year now guys
Did you know that the FIFA World Cup is the most widely viewed sports event in the entire world almost three
Two billion people worldwide watch the FIFA World Cup. That's approximately
46 percent of the world's entire
Population but these stats are based on the amount of people that watch at least one minute of the World Cup
So I wonder what the percentage is for the amount of people that watch every single match of the World Cup
well
That's not even possible
Because some of the matches go on like the same time unless you're flipping back and forth on channel to channel
But I know those hardcore fans exist out there. They're watching every single game without fail
Let me know down below in the comments
Actually, if you're one of those people who watch every single game of the World Cup
So, of course, we are familiar with the fact that every single FIFA World Cup is hosted in a different country
but in addition to that the country that's hosting the FIFA World Cup is actually automatically
Qualified to participate in the tournament
So if you're a host nation like you really want to win or at least get past the first round
Because like you didn't even have to work to be qualified in the World Cup
So I mean like to lose in the first round is kind of embarrassing
For all your music fans out there, you're gonna love this next fact so over the past little over two decades
Music has been a big part of the World Cup
Right and because of that there's about six official music albums that were released to correspond with the FIFA World Cup
from the years
1994 to the years 2014 and of course 2018 has its own set of music
especially that huge track by Jason Derulo
colours and in naming those albums in 1994
there was glory land music of the World Cup was in 1998 the official album of the
2002 FIFA World Cup was in 2002 voices from the fifa world cup was in 2006
Listen up the official
2010 FIFA World Cup album was in 2010 and
One love one rhythm was released in 2014 now going back to the start of FIFA as an organization in
1904 when they just started there was just seven nations a part of it and those nations were France Belgium
Denmark the Netherlands Spain
Sweden and Switzerland and in case they've got Americans watching the united states joined FIFA in the year
1913 now once upon a time India actually qualified for the
1950 FIFA World Cup. However, it's an interesting thing like they qualified for it
However, the team withdrew because they didn't allow players to play
Barefoot I guess that was a big thing in India players are looking towards playing barefoot
But know when you're on the soccer field, you know, and you get stepped on by cleats. You don't want to be barefoot
Well, I guess India didn't work around that and India, I don't think has been qualified for the World Cup since then
Okay guys, so we're almost at the end of this episode
It's got a couple more facts for you guys Brazil, which is my favourite nation in FIFA
I'm always cheering for them. And if Brazil gets eliminated, I'm going to like Argentina or Spain but of the entire World Cup history
Brazil has won the most World Cup titles now
They've won five titles from 1930 the country has also participated in every single World Cup
That was ever held. However when the FIFA World Cup in 1950 and the Year in
2014 was hosted in Brazil. They didn't win any of those in 1950. They were defeated by Uruguay and in
2014 they were
brutalized by Germany now
I see this fact for last because it's one of the most
Interesting facts that I was wondering about and I'm sure you were too
How much money is FIFA giving to these players for playing in this tournament?
so the prize money that FIFA gives to the winners of the tournament is
35 million. Well that was in the year 2014, but in 2018 this World Cup
They're gonna be winning 38 million dollars cap, so they're taking home
but I mean
it's crazy because like that's what the winners get but I mean the
Runner-ups aren't that far behind?
Right, the runner-up team gets 28 million dollars this year
So you don't even really have to worry about winning the World Cup
You may just want to come runner-up and you still get a huge payday anyways
But I mean like not even just that because like teams in the first around get paid eight
Million dollars, so it's a win-win regardless. Just get to the World Cup and you're getting paid big either way
I'm still looking forward to it doesn't even matter how much these players are getting paid to play
It's still an awesome and amazing sport to watch
I love the FIFA World Cup and let me know down below in the comment section
What are your thoughts about FIFA as an organization or like what teams are you most excited to see?
I want to hear all your thoughts and comments down below joining on the
Conversation and thanks for watching this episode of FTD facts at the end of this episode
I'm gonna have a playlist of videos that we've done all dedicated to the 2018 FIFA World Cup
So you definitely want to check it out as well as we talk about different countries and cultures
from all around the world here and FTD facts
So I'll have a playlist to those videos as well until next time guys. You have been awesome
I'm gonna go work on some more videos probably another FIFA one. So I'll see you guys real soon
Alright guys, so here's the playlist that I was talking about
you definitely want to load up on your FIFA knowledge because it's that time of the
Year or time of the four years when FIFA is going on
and also if you just want to learn more about different countries and cultures all around the world here are some of our
flagship videos on FTD facts
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