What is the origin of the World Cup?
Until1May 26th, 930, FIFA decided to hold a football match alone, and the World Cup was born. At the 1936 FIFA General Assembly, President Rimet adopted the proposal of "holding the first FIFA World Cup open to all national teams of member football associations".
They chose to compete in the middle of the Olympic Games and decided to hold the World Cup every four years. After the third World Cup (1938) was held in France, the World Cup was interrupted due to the outbreak of World War II 12. As soon as the war ended, Brazil hosted the fourth World Cup at 1950.
Germany, South Africa, England, Monaco and Brazil bid for the 2006 World Cup, but Brazil withdrew at the last minute. In the final vote, Germany defeated South Africa by 12 1 1 and won the right to host the 2006 World Cup. This is the second time that Germany has hosted the World Cup finals. Germany last hosted the World Cup in 1974.
In order to win the bid, five countries have tried their best, from heads of state to party leaders, from celebrity artists to children, to join this vigorous bid. Among them, England invested the most in this campaign, reaching 654.38+03 billion pounds.
Although Germany's football tradition and economic strength can guarantee its success in hosting the 2006 World Cup, South Africa's voice was the highest when bidding for the 2006 World Cup, because according to the order of hosting the World Cup on all continents, it should be the turn of African countries to host the 2006 World Cup, and FIFA President Blatter also expressed support for South Africa on various occasions. Two days before the final vote of the FIFA Executive Committee in the 2006 World Cup, Brazil turned to support South Africa because Rio de Janeiro's bid was hopeless, in exchange for South Africa's support for Brazil's bid to host the 20 10 World Cup. Regarding the South African's move, German football player Su Belgen Bauer said: "The World Cup bid is actually open to Taiwan Province, and I really want to quit." British Prime Minister Tony Blair even hinted that he would give up bidding for the 2006 World Cup.
Germany's successful bid for the 2006 World Cup should be attributed to German football legend beckenbauer. His lobbying on various occasions and his position in the world football can be said to have played an important role in the success of Germany's Olympic bid. In addition, the German government said that it would waive FIFA's huge income during the World Cup, which is also attractive to the FIFA Executive Committee.
In the final vote, in the first round of voting, Morocco won 3 votes, England won 5 votes, South Africa won 6 votes and Germany won 10 votes. Morocco was eliminated first. In the second round of voting, Germany and South Africa each got 1 1 and England got 2 votes. In the final crucial round, 1 of the 2 votes supporting England switched to Germany, and 1 abstained. In this way, Germany won the right to host the 2006 World Cup by 12 votes to 1 1.
It took Germany seven years to bid for the 2006 World Cup. 1On June 2nd, 993, Wohlfeld, vice president of German Football Association, submitted his first application for the 2006 World Cup to FIFA, but the bidding process was not smooth. 1In the summer of 995, there was a conflict between FIFA and UEFA. In a document, UEFA requested that starting from 2006, the FIFA President and the host country of the World Cup should take turns to sit between continents, starting from Europe. This was rejected by FIFA.
Germany has also encountered challenges from England, which is a strong rival of continental Europe. 1June 1996, 10 European football championship was held in England. England took the opportunity to promote itself and made Euro 96 the biggest and most successful one at that time under the slogan of "Let Football Go Home".
1In March, 997, Bergenbauer became the bid ambassador of the German Football Association. At the same time, before the European Champions Cup final in Munich, the German Football Association's bid slogan was: "We regard ourselves as the heart of Europe."
1998 12 15, Bergenbauer officially took over the leadership of the bid committee, and he got his wish.
They chose to compete in the middle of the Olympic Games and decided to hold the World Cup every four years. After the third World Cup (1938) was held in France, the World Cup was interrupted due to the outbreak of World War II 12. As soon as the war ended, Brazil hosted the fourth World Cup at 1950.