张默妍

Fun Things About Football World Cup：

●In 1966， the World Cup was in England. The Cup was lost and someone was going to sell it. A dog found it under a tree！

●The youngest player was Norman Whiteside from Northern Ireland. He was only 17 years and 41 days old when he played in the 1982 World Cup.

Every four years， in a different country around the world， there is a big sports game. It is like the Olympics1 but only for one sport—the most popular sport in the world！What do you know about the history of the FIFA World Cup？

The first World Cup was in 1930， in Uruguay2. In the final3 game Uruguay beat Argentina4 and won5 the first World Cup. Thirteen countries played in the first World Cup. Now there are 32 countries in the game.

The first time people saw the World Cup on TV was in 1954 when Switzerland6 held the game. Now about 3 billion7 people in countries all over the world watch the World Cup on TV！

Until 2002 the World Cup was always in a European8 or an American country. South Korea and Japan held the first Asian9 World Cup. The first African10 World Cup was in 2010， in South Africa.

Brazil is one of the best World Cup teams. They are the only team that has played in every game. So far they have won it five times. Germany and Italy have both won four times. Argentina and Uruguay have won it two times. England， France and Spain have won it once.

世界杯趣味小知识：

●1966年的世界杯在英格蘭举行。当时世界杯的奖杯丢失了，还差点被人卖出去，结果奖杯被一只小狗在一棵树下找到了！

●1982年世界杯，最年轻的运动员是来自北爱尔兰的诺曼·怀特赛德，参加比赛时他年仅十七岁又41天。

每隔四年，都会有一场盛大的体育赛事在世界各地中不同的一个国家举行。世界杯就像奥运会一样，但是只筹办一种体育项目——世界上最受欢迎的运动！你对国际足联世界杯的历史了解有多少呢？

第一届世界杯于1930年在乌拉圭举行。在决赛中，乌拉圭击败了阿根廷摘下了第一届世界杯的桂冠。在第一届的世界杯中，参赛国家共有13个，如今的参赛国家多达32个。

人们第一次通过电视机观看世界杯是在1954年由瑞士主办的世界杯比赛，现如今全世界通过电视收看世界杯大约有30亿人次！

之前的世界杯比赛一直都在欧洲国家或美国城市举办，直到2002年才由韩国和日本联手举办了亚洲国家的第一届世界杯。第一届由非洲国家举办的世界杯则是2010年的南非世界杯。

巴西是世界杯史上最成功队伍的之一。他们是唯一一支参加过每一届比赛的球队，距今为止巴西已经折桂五次了。德国和意大利都是四次夺冠的队伍，阿根廷和乌拉圭两次夺冠，英国、法国和西班牙则各赢了一次。