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Description
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.
Obverse
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A portrait of King Felipe VI wearing badges of Captain General, his title "Felipe VI King of Spain" above, date below. FELIPE VI REY DE ESPAÑA |
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Reverse
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On the back, on a background of wavy lines reminiscent of the Spanish flag, appears the image of a soccer ball. Surrounding the ball, in the upper part of the coin, four players in different game attitudes and, in the lower left, the shield of the Spanish National Football Team. Value and the logo of the Royal Spanish Mint (crowned letter M) on the right. Inscription "FIFA World Cup Russia 2018" below. 100 |
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