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Tuesday, June 8, 2010

Summer Extravaganza - World Cup Mania

As we all know, the FIFA World Cup 2010 will be held from 11th June. So, this subseries will be all about Football and facts and trivia regarding the World Cup and football altogether. So we begin today....

Today we will have some elementary facts on Countries that have won the FIFA World Cup in the years. The world cup was not held in 1942 and 1946 due to World War II. The format is Year, Winners, Runner Ups, Host Country.

1930: Uruguay, Argentina, Uruguay
1934: Italy, Czechoslovakia, Italy
1938: Italy, Hungary, France
1950: Uruguay, Brazil, Brazil
1954: West Germany, Hungary, Switzerland
1958: Brazil, Sweden, Sweden
1962: Brazil, Czechoslovakia, Chile
1966: England, West Germany, England
1970: Brazil, Italy, Mexico
1974: West Germany, Netherlands, West Germany
1978: Argentina, Netherlands, Argentina
1982: Italy, West Germany, Spain
1986: Argentina, West Germany, Mexico
1990: West Germany, Argentina, Italy
1994: Brazil, Italy, United States
1998: France, Brazil, France
2002: Brazil, Germany, Japan/South Korea
2006: Italy, France, Germany

More Foot Bol up for tomorrow....

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