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The 2018 FIFA World Cup will be the 21st FIFA World Cup, a quadrennial international football tournament contested by the men's national teams of the member associations of FIFA. It is scheduled to take place in Russia from 14 June to 15 July 2018. This will be the first World Cup ever held in Eastern Europe, and the first held in Europe since 2006.
The 20 World Cup tournaments have been won by eight different national teams. Brazil have won five times, and they are the only team to have played in every tournament. The other World Cup winners are Germany and Italy, with four titles each; Argentina and inaugural winner Uruguay, with two titles each; and England, France and Spain, with one title each. The current champion is Germany, which won its fourth title at the 2014 tournament in Brazil.
The World Cup is the most prestigious association football tournament in the world as well as the most widely viewed and followed sporting event in the world, exceeding even the Olympic Games; the cumulative audience of all matches of the 2006 FIFA World Cup was estimated to be 26.29 billion with an estimated 715.1 million people watching the final match, a ninth of the entire population of the planet.
Sadly, for the first time in the tournament’s history, the Italian team did not qualify — which was heartbreaking for many. Participation of the national Italian team in the World Cup is, for many, almost mandatory — since this phenomenal group of players participated in every championship of the FIFA World Cup from its establishment in 1930 and has lifted the trophy an astounding total of four times. The first time the Italian team was triumphal was in 1934 when they were playing against the Czechoslovakian team. The second time they won was in 1938 against the Hungarian team, and the third time was in 1982 when they played against the powerhouse team of West Germany. The last time the Italian team won the World Cup was in 2006 when they played against France.
Engraver: Valerio De Seta
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Depicts a sequence of football moves and is reproduced on a soccer ball. On the right is the name of the designer, V. DE SETA, while around the primary design is the inscription REPUBBLICA ITALIANA. REPUBBLICA ITALIANA • |
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Depicts figurative references and elements representing the Russian cities that will host the world cup and encircle the official logo of the FIFA WORLD CUP RUSSIA 2018 sporting event. On the left is the letter R, identifying the Mint of Rome, and below the primary design is the value of 10 EURO. FIFA WORLD CUP |
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