December 15, 1908, is an important day. The first World Cup will be held today.
Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, is the venue for the first Football World Cup. The atmosphere is very warm now, and the people are focusing on this world football competition.
Tang Ning has been planning for today for a long time, and the whole of Brazil has been mobilized by him.
After more than a month of preparation, after review and screening, 32 countries participated in the World Cup for the first time.
European countries: Britain, France, Germany, Portugal, Belgium, Luxembourg, Spain, Italy, Netherlands, Greece, Sweden, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Turkey.
North American countries: Canada, United States, Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua.
South American countries: Brazil, Chile, Argentina, Venezuela, Peru, Colombia, Uruguay, Paraguay, Bolivia, Ecuador.
Asian countries: Japan.
African countries: Egypt, South Africa.
Although the World Cup in Brazil was planned in a hurry under Tang Ning's planning, there were still many participating countries.
Brazil, as the largest country and the most powerful country in South America, has many countries related to it for business, trade, and residence for other reasons.
Rio de Janeiro, as the largest city in South America with a population of one million, has no shortage of foreigners here.
Tang Ning took out 50,000 pounds as a bonus for this World Cup. This amount is still very large, which is equivalent to about six million US dollars in future generations. It is too tempting for people.
Originally, Tangning initially thought that he couldn't recruit so many countries and was planning to find someone to impersonate him, but the reality told him that he had to worry too much.
In this era, there are not many large-scale world sports games, and the most famous one is the Olympic Games.
The holding of the Olympic Games was not as mature as that of later generations. Each of the previous Olympic Games took more than five months to hold.
The reason for this is actually very simple, that is, they are waiting for athletes from various countries, and these athletes are very casual, and some do not need the name of the country or the national team at all.
As long as you are interested and think you have strong athletic ability, you can represent your country. In British India, there was a situation where one person represented it, and that person even won a medal.
In this World Cup, of course there is no such thing as a national team.
Except for Brazil, which has been prepared for a long time, they are all a group of people who improvised to represent their country in the competition, hoping to get bonuses.
Not all of these 50,000 bonuses belong to the champion.
For this World Cup in Brazil, the prize money of 50,000 yuan is divided into eight parts: 20,000 yuan for the champion, 13,000 yuan for the runner-up, 8,000 yuan for the third place, 5,000 yuan for the third place, and the remaining four parts are divided equally.
This is very exciting. There are 32 teams in total. The two teams are randomly matched. The winner is determined in one game and then moves on to the next game.
In other words, as long as those who enter the quarterfinals after two rounds of knockout rounds will get at least one thousand points, and if you are lucky, you can get more.
In such a large-scale football exchange between countries around the world, although they are all private representatives of the country, it still has a sense of honor.
With the blessing of money and honor, the charisma is quite strong.
The organizers of Rio de Janeiro have received requests from many countries and many cobbled-together teams to participate.
However, there were too many teams. The organizers of the Rio de Janeiro World Cup required that each country can only have one and rejected the requests of all teams.
Rio de Janeiro has stipulated for teams from these countries that only the strongest teams can represent their countries in the competition, and multiple teams from one country are not welcome to participate.
This rule irritates many people!
Yes, how can one country have so many teams? Can cats and dogs all represent it?
This is obviously not possible.
The teams participating in football matches from 31 countries also think so.
Only the strongest can represent the country. It is too ungraceful for a random team of rubbish to participate in such a world football competition.
Therefore, under the arrangement of the rules, teams from each country went through a screening process, and the organizers of Rio de Janeiro personally came to supervise.
During this screening process, the Brazilian people watched a preview of the football match and were fully motivated.
In the national team qualifiers, every qualifier is watched by many people.
The teams competing for the only spot to represent the country tried their best and fought fiercely on the field and played wonderfully.
A team from a small country only plays one or two games before choosing a team.
But teams from big countries have to play at least five games before they can choose a good team, and they are also the most attractive.
In Brazil, among the foreigners today, Germany and the United Kingdom have the largest number of foreigners, and they also have the most business contacts with Brazil.
There are more than 20 teams from Germany and England competing, all wanting to be the only one to represent the country and play the most fascinating football.
The UK played 22 games and three teams were born: England, Scotland and Ireland.
Originally, the organizers only gave the United Kingdom one quota, but the United Kingdom is well known for being bulky, and people from the three places made trouble many times.
After Tangning learned about the situation, she realized that this was too familiar.
In later World Cups, Britain participated in the qualifiers, but there were four: England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales. If you add Gibraltar, it would be five.
However, in this era, Wales is usually counted as part of England, and the Welsh people also consider themselves to be English, so there are now three places.
Understanding is understanding, but Tangning will not make an exception. Instead, he will watch the excitement and let the three of them compete to choose the strongest representative.
Austria-Hungary played six times, and two teams, Austria and Hungary, were born.
These two teams also caused trouble for the organizers, but Tang Ning also asked them to fight to determine the strongest one.
This is also the case in the United States. The South, North, and West of the United States have never dealt with each other.
The Dixies in the South are determined not to cooperate with the Yankees in the North, and the Latins in the West don't want to be with them either.
At the organizer's suggestion, after the three teams competed, Dixie was selected to represent the United States.
The qualifiers were a hit, and Tangning spread it to the world through the media, completely making Brazil Rio de Janeiro's World Cup famous.
What is football?
That’s the biggest sport in the world!
Basketball, baseball, cricket, and rugby are all aside. Football is the boss from beginning to end.
Brazil's World Cup this time has a lot of money, which is completely different from the Olympic Games.
In the World Cup in Brazil, there are no gold, silver or bronze medals, only a five-pound Competitor Gold Cup, which is quite heroic.
Of course, this Competitor Gold Cup will only be given to the champions, but will not be given to them. After the game, they will be given a silver replica.
On the 12th, at nine o'clock in the morning, each country officially started fighting.
Brazil's opponent is Argentina.
After 90 minutes of competition, Brazil won 5:1. This result greatly boosted the morale of the people and the public opinion was applauded.
This chapter has been completed!