Fifa

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FIFA

HISTORY
The Fédération Internationale de Football Association (French for International Federation of Football Association), always was met like its acronym FIFA, it’s the company thatgoberns all the football federations all over the world. It was fount by the British Football Federation on May 21st in 1904 and its capital is in Zurich, Swiss. The FIFA organizes football worldchampionships all over the world.
The FIFA has 208 associations or football federations of different countries, counting 16 in the ONU, 11 in the International Federation of Athletes, both 213 federations.In the Amsterdam Congress, in May 28th in 1928, the fist World Championship was created by the FIFA, the first World Championship was made in Uruguay, unfortunately, Europe was in an economicemergency, so the clubs couldn’t travel. Without them the first World Championship was inaugurated in Montevideo on July 18th 1930- with just four European teams.
The second World Championship was received byItaly. For this Championship 34 football federations wanted to participate so this time there were playoffs for have 16 teams. Italy won the Championship and it was transmitted by a famous radiocompany.
The next world championship were played in Brazil in 1950. Meanwhile the FIFA continued growing, The FIFA were fifty, and it had 84 member countries. The FIFA’s world championship became themost popular championship after the Olympic Games.
The Brazilian Joao Havelange, one of the most important presidents of the FIFA, transformed the FIFA into a dynamic company and made it a commercialinstitution. He increased the number of participants in the world championship with 24 in Spain 1982 and with 32 in French 1998. The FIFA was increased by Joao to little countries like Guam, Tahiti andMontserrat.
These policies were kept by the next president of the FIFA, Joseph Blatter, because he organized the world championship in Asia (the world championship in 2002) and Africa (the world...
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