World Cup and the Jules Rimet Cup

World Cup, also known as FIFA World Cup, is the soccer competition of the highest level in the world. It has been treated as one of the best global events together with the Olympic Games and F1. It is held every four years and any FIFA member country can send the team to enroll. This world-spread event is mainly divided into qualifying stages and the final stage.

 

The modern football originated in Britain and then it swept every corner of the world. As the rapid development of football, the international competition came into exist. On the Olympic Games held in Athens in 1896, the football was listed as an official event. At that time, Denmark defeated Greece with 9:0 and became the first Olympic champion of soccer. Since the Olympics do not allow professional athletes, the football was no longer sustainable on the Amsterdam Olympic Games in 1928.

 

Once after the Olympic Games of 1928, FIFA held a meeting of representatives and unanimously adopted a resolution to hold the quadrennial world championship. This promoted the further development and improvement of the world’s football. Initially, the new football competition was known as the “World Football Championship”. In 1956, FIFA decided to change this name into “Jules Rimet Cup” at the meeting in Luxembourg. This was in recognition of Frenchman Jules Rimet, former FIFA president’s contribution to the football. Later, someone suggested to link the two names together and called it “World Soccer Championship – Jules Rimet Cup”. Thus, at the Helsinki meeting, it was changed into “World Football Championship – Jules Rimet Cup”.

 

While talking about the World Cup, we should never neglect our gold and holy Jules Rimet Cup. The early gold cup was the special prize for the winner bestowed by FIFA in 1928 and it was designed by famous jewelry technician Fu Lieer in Paris. Its model was the Greek goddess of victory midi dresses . It was casted by pure gold in the weight of 1800 grams and height of 30cm on the marble base. This cup was a mobile prize, since everyone that won the championship could save the cup for four years, but he should return it to FIFA before the next cup for the new world champion. Besides, there was an additional requirement: who could win the world champion three times could host this cup forever.

 

In 1970 and on the ninth World Cup, Uruguay, Italy, and Brazil all had won two titles, so they all had the change to occupy this opportunity. The result was finally that Brazil laughed at the end.

 

To this end, FIFA had to prepare a new trophy for the next championship womens lace dress. In May 1971, FIFA held a discussion on the new cup. After passed 53 comments, they decided to use Italian Gazania’s comment – two wrestlers hand up the Earth. This image symbolizes the power and scale of the sport. The new cup was named “Jules Rimet Cup” and was worth 20,000 U.S. dollars at that time. On the tenth World Cup of 1974, Brazil won this cup at the first time. At this time, FIFA clamed that this new cup would never be a personal prize, so no one could own this cup no matter how many champions he got.