Hey everybody so as you know this week is filler week because we have to research and film the next few episodes
So I asked you guys on Instagram Twitter and Facebook
What are some topics you would like me to cover on filler week and since this is the year?
2018 a lot of you have
Suggested the world cup as I'm sure many of you are already
Fully aware the World Cup will be held in June hosted by Russia this year
And then cut there in
2022 yeah when I was personally in Qatar I saw tons of signs that said like World Cup 2022 like they've been preparing for it
For years so for those of you that are not too savvy on the topic
What is the World Cup as explained by the perfect candidate me an
American seriously we Americans we don't have a problem with soccer, but we're just kind of like meh
Whereas the rest of the world is like oh yeah, but before we begin?
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What is the world cup? to begin in the 1928 Olympics or ago?
Uruguay the Olympic soccer football match, and then suddenly everybody was like hmm
Why don't we take this sport and just like make a world cup out of it and that's how the World Cup was born
Since 1930 every four years a World Cup has been held except for in
1942 and 1946 because of world war two and out of all the World Cups only eight countries have won Brazil with the most at
Five and they are the only team to have played every single World Cup next with Germany and Italy at four each
Argentina and Uruguay with two each and England France and Spain with one each on keep in mind. It's specifically England, not you cages
Politics, let's just put it this way the World Cup is the world's most viewed and followed sporting event, more than the Olympics
It's estimated that somewhere around a ninth of the entire worlds population watches it
But how do you get into the World Cup? Well first of all you have to belong to a member
Association team that is qualified to enter and today there are over 200 across the world since 1998 the World Cup has a
32 slot format to begin in 2018 a total of
208 member association teams entered the preliminary competition to hold one of the 31
Qualifying spots in addition to the host country that automatically qualifies this year being Russia
Qualification though is not divided equally amongst the countries
It's actually weighted so that the best teams from across the globe can compete so that means Europe gets 13 slots, South America gets 4.5
Africa gets 5 Asia gets 4.5
North Central and Caribbean America gets
3.5 and Oceania doesn't get a reserved spot and has to win a playoff to qualify the draw is a little confusing
But you get it after a while to draw all the teams are put into one of four pots based off of ranking so pot
One has the highest rank and pot four has the lowest rank and so on from there
They move all the teams in order of pots into eight groups the rule is you cannot have a geographical
Clash that means no two teams from the same continent Confederation can be put in the same group
except for Europe since they have so many qualifying teams they're allowed to have two European teams per group
I think right yeah up to two, yeah. This is done so that
Systematically you cannot have two top ranking teams in each group and when three or more strong teams are put in the same group
That's called the team of death when all the groups are selected each team plays the other three in their group getting three points for
A win one point for a tie and none for a loss
from there the top two teams of each group move on to the next round known as the top 16 or the
Knockout stage and from there the bloodbath begins and it's a single elimination
For each win and finally whoever comes on top is the winner well keep in mind in 2026
They're planning to expand the competition to 48 teams and yes keep in mind over the years there have been some diplomatic
controversies with the games for example in the very first World Cup
Europeans were complaining because it would take a three week long boat ride just to get to order guai the host country so in the
End only four European countries competed of course the games were canceled in World War two
back in the 70s Germany was still split between East and West and West hosted which was kind of
awkward in the Cold War era times and there was that whole 2015 corruption scandal case
but overall the games bring people from all over the world to watch with excitement just when you
confidently think you know what's gonna happen a shocker hits you with a left hook and suddenly the
Netherlands did what to Spain and even if your team doesn't win there's always like memorable moments and injuries and questionable
Injuries and the we soiree is biting everything and it's fun because you know it's a game and everybody likes games
Yeah, that's about it the World Cup explained to you by an American. I hope I did all right
Did I do all right? Anyway, thanks for watching subscribe if you'd like and yeah stay cool stay tuned