Since King Pedro III of Brazil spent huge sums of money to establish the World Federation of Ball Sports (World Association for the Expansion and Unification of Ball Sports) and successively held World Cups for various ball sports, ball sports have been greatly promoted.
Never before has a Western royal family attached so much importance to sports activities and spent huge sums of money on thankless promotions.
King Pedro III of Brazil and his father Francisco, Duke of Braganza, are now as famous as Coubertin in the sports world because of their active promotion of ball games.
Lausanne, the capital of Switzerland's Vaud canton with a population of 40,000, was originally a small and anonymous city. However, after Francisco and his son established the headquarters of the World Golf Federation here, the city's reputation became more and more famous.
Among the various ball sports organizations under the World Football Association, the most famous one is the World Football Association. Its most popular event, the Football World Cup, has become a golden signature.
Football is undoubtedly the largest sport in the world, and the Football World Cup, as a platform for countries to communicate and reflect their respective football levels, has received great attention.
After the first World Cup held in Rio de Janeiro in 1908, the second World Cup was also planned to be held in 1910.
This second Football World Cup, after a lot of competition, six powerful football associations including Britain, France, Russia, Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy did not agree with each other and tried to undermine each other.
Finally, after some compromise, the World Football Federation decided to host the event in Luxembourg, a city with a generous budget and full of sincerity.
Once the World Cup venue has been selected, the next step is to compete for the World Cup qualification spots.
First of all, several British football associations jumped out and protested to the World Football Federation, demanding four qualifying places.
The British Football Association does not have a unified football association. They are divided into England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland. They have a long history. They even had their own football international association - the International Football Association Council.
The International Football Association Board was established in 1886 after the Manchester Conference of the national football associations of England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland (the Republic of Ireland was not yet independent at that time). The meeting decided on common regulations for football competitions in the four places and established the Four Corners of England.
The first international football competition of the championship. When the International Football Federation was established in 1904, it recognized the authority of the International Football Association Council on football rules. Since 1913, FIFA has also sent representatives to the International Football Association Council.
Although the four football associations in the UK were established early, they were too arrogant and incompatible with football relations in other countries. This resulted in that for a long time, they could only operate on their own territory, and organized organizations in other countries.
None of the international football movement wants to take them.
What did the four football associations think at first? But as time went by, they were playing their own game, and seeing so many football associations in the country gathered together to compete in a lively manner without their part, made them feel a little uncomfortable.
Since the World Football Association, a subsidiary of the World Football Association, merged with the European FIFA, it has become more powerful. A new football event, the World Cup, is being planned, which makes the four football associations in the UK very jealous.
The mechanism of the second Football World Cup to be held is more formal than that of the first World Cup. Participants in each country must be official associations recognized by the World Football Association.
Only national football associations that join the World Football Association can officially participate in the World Cup on behalf of that country.
Originally, the four British football associations and their International Football Association Board could not defeat the former International Football Association, which was a gathering of European countries. Now they are even more incomparable to the World Football Association.
If you can't beat it, join it. Ireland was the first to join the World Football Association, followed by the Scottish and Welsh Football Associations.
Seeing that it was the only one left, the English Football Association finally joined in.
In the competition to host the second World Cup, England, as the birthplace of modern football, originally had great hopes of winning the right to host the tournament. However, due to the delays of the Irish and Scottish Football Associations, as well as the opposition of other countries, the success fell short.
For the second Football World Cup planned by the World Football Association, the participation quota stipulates that each country will send one team to participate in the qualifiers, and then 32 official quotas will be selected through the qualifiers.
Many countries objected to this rule. The four British football associations were the first to stand up. They demanded that the UK have four qualifying places.
England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland think this is unfair. They consider themselves to be independent official bodies. How can only one participate in the qualifiers? This is unfair.
Among them, Ireland has the loudest opposition. They do not want to compete in the World Cup qualifying competition with the British title after defeating England, Scotland and Wales.
The British Football Association took the lead, and Germany and Austria-Hungary also jumped in. How many quotas did they also ask for?
Germany is more united than the UK, but the Kingdom of Bavaria has a lot of autonomy, so the Bavarian Football Association asked for a quota for itself, and the proud Bavarians asked to fight for themselves.
Austria-Hungary was originally a dualistic country, and the combined numbers of Austrian Germans and Hungarian Magyars could only barely suppress other ethnic groups.
Austria and Hungary are originally in an alliance, and each has its own seat in the World Football Association. Therefore, Austria-Hungary also requested two qualifying places.
England, Germany, and Austria-Hungary are all big and powerful teams. After some wrangling, the World Football Association finally made concessions.
Given that the eight troubled football associations are all very strong in football, it is unfair to other participating countries to participate in competitions with other countries.
Therefore, in the qualifiers to advance to the main draw, the four British football associations, the two German football associations, and the two Austrian and Hungarian football associations must be listed separately for competition.
After the World Football Federation made concessions, it stopped making trouble with the eight football federations of the United Kingdom, Germany, and Austria-Hungary and agreed to the World Football Federation's conditions.
After consultation, a total of eight football associations - the English Football Association, the Scottish Football Association, the Welsh Football Association, the Irish Football Association, the German Football Association, the Bavarian Football Association, the Austrian Football Association and the Hungarian Football Association - will be divided into two groups by random drawing to determine the four main match places.
In the second World Cup, in addition to reforming some competition systems and rules, the biggest reform was the establishment of sports betting.
Promoting ball sports is a money-burning public welfare activity. Although the World Football Association has deep pockets, it cannot afford the model of just burning money and not making a profit.
In order to allow the organization to develop healthily, Francisco Duke, the president of the World Football Association, decided to conduct a pilot project in football to conduct fair and open national sports betting.
The football sports lottery prize pool does not require investment from others. Duke Francisco and King Pedro III of Brazil invested 50,000 pounds.
If football betting is successful and the model is profitable, the Braganza royal family will only take 10%, the World Football Federation will take 30%, and the World Football Federation will take 60%.
This chapter has been completed!