The FIFA World Cup, often just called the World Cup, is a worldwide organization football competitors opposed by the senior guys nationwide teams of the participants of the Federation Internationale de Football Organization (FIFA), the sports global controlling body. The championship has actually been awarded every four years because the inaugural competition in 1930, other than in 1942 and 1946 when it was not held as a result of the Second World Battle. The present champion is France, which won its second title at the 2018 event in Russia.
The present layout includes a certification stage, which takes location over the preceding 3 years, to determine which groups receive the competition phase. In the tournament stage, 32 groups, consisting of the instantly certifying host country(s), contend for the title at locations within the host country(s) over regarding a month.

The 21 World Cup events have actually been won by 8 national teams. Brazil have won 5 times, and also they are the only group to have played in every competition. The other World Cup winners are Germany and Italy, with four titles each; Argentina, France, as well as inaugural champion Uruguay, with 2 titles each; and also England and also Spain, with one title each.
The World Cup is the many distinguished organization football event worldwide, along with the most extensively seen and adhered to single sporting occasion worldwide. The collective viewership of all suits of the 2006 World Cup was approximated to be 26.29 billion with an approximated 715.1 million individuals watching the final match, a ninth of the entire population of the earth.17 nations have actually hosted the World Cup. Brazil, France, Italy, Germany, and also Mexico have actually each organized twice, while Uruguay, Switzerland, Sweden, Chile, England, Argentina, Spain, the United States, Japan as well as South Korea (jointly), South Africa, and also Russia has each organized as soon as. Qatar will certainly organize the 2022 event, and 2026 will certainly be jointly organized by Canada, the USA, as well as Mexico, which will certainly offer Mexico the distinction of being the first country to host games in 3 World Cups.

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• experienced Timo Boll

This has not yet experienced Time Boll in his more than 20-year-old profile lives: this Tuesday, a table tennis world championship in the US begins in Houston. In sharp contrast to their geopolitical rivals from China, the United States in this sport is still a developing country. According to Bolls own experience, this also expresses itself in that the quite enthusiastic spectators sometimes in the middle of the ball change.

The contract for this World Cup, the Americans got anyway. On the one hand, to open a sports enthusiastic market. And on the other hand, to remember the ping-pong diplomacy exactly 50 years ago. At that time, Americans and Chinese expand their tensions with the help of table tennis sports. Only friendly two players of both countries at the 1971 World Cup. After that, the state leaders of both countries met for the first time.

Ovtcharov, Ma Long and EU In are missing

In Houston, the European Champion Boll is therefore one of the medal candidates, because in singles are missing several big names: the Olympic Third Dimitri Ovtcharov from their own team is not there because of an ankle injury. Defending champion Ma Long and the former world ranking EU In were not nominated by the Chinese to give some younger players a chance.

The Germans are at least remotely known. For early October, the men and women each won the title at the Team European Championship, though stars like Ovtcharov, Boll, Nerissa Sonja and Han Ying, if not played by their own drive. The Heroes of Club said Patrick Franziska and Nina Tottenham. The second big emotional story to Ovtcharovs second great emotional story brought part of epic appearances at the Olympic Games shortly before. And they themselves want these services now also confirm at the once again significantly higher World Cup level.

It was great for me super nice to win the EM and also the European Top-16 tournament. Just because you could see: the others did not play — and is still running on me, said the 24-year-old Tottenham of the Germans Press Agency. Ive been shown that Im not just a co-run, but also to the best belongings. I have always said that I can not retrieve something unconscious games and my performance often can not give me this success a lot of confidence.

Opportunities in double and mixed bigger

Middle Ham and Franziska are in Houston in single, double and mixed at the start. Since the single competition of a World Cup more Chinese, Japanese or South Korean (five per country) played as at Olympia (three per country), the chances of coming far to come in double and mixed naturally. So Patrick Franziska won at the 2019 World Cup together with Nerissa Sonja the bronze medal in Mixed. In Double, even the World Cup title seemed possible until his partner Time Boll had a strong fever on the day of the quarter-final.

We already said that we are attacking again. We will do that in Houston, said the 29-year-old Franziska. Team EM and Top 16 were ideal for me. Now Im very well-prepared, just because I last played so many matches.