<ol>	<li style="text-align: justify;">THE 2022 Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) World Cup kicks off this month, with more than 30 teams participating. In the tournament&rsquo;s 92-year history, only eight countries have won: Brazil, Italy, France, Germany, Argentina, Spain, Uruguay and England. This year, Brazil goes in as the big favorite, with odds of 9 to 2. The host nation automatically earns an invite, though Qatar will need a miracle to cinch the trophy. Their odds of winning: 250 to 1.</li>	<li style="text-align: justify;">his Is the first time the Cup is being held in the Middle East and during the Northern Hemisphere&rsquo;s winter. Summer temps in Qatar regularly top 100 degrees, so for the safety of both athletes and spectators, organizers pushed the month long contest out to late November, when the weather is more mild.</li>	<li style="text-align: justify;">A COMMITTEE votes to select the World Cup host country years in advance. Since Qatar&rsquo;s bid won back in 2010, the Qataris in charge of that bid have been accused of bribing for votes. They wouldn&rsquo;t be the first. Former FIFA official Chuck Blazer admitted to taking bribes for the 1998 World Cup in France and the 2010 tournament in South Africa.</li>	<li style="text-align: justify;">URUGUAY WAS the A first host&mdash;and winner&mdash;of the World Cup back in 1930. The final match played out in front of 60,000 spectators. The most recent World Cup final, held in Moscow in 2018, attracted a crowd of 78,000. Another 1.12 billion tuned in live at home or at their local soccer bar.</li>	<li style="text-align: justify;">RUSSIA BASICALLY 5 disqualified itself from this year&rsquo;s Cup. In a preliminary qualification round, the Russians had to beat at least two of the three other teams in their pool. But all three&mdash; Poland, Sweden and the Czech Republic&mdash; refused to play against Russia in protest of its invasion of Ukraine. FIFA then disqualified the Russian team, an otherwise strong squad that was certainly good enough to go to Qatar.</li>	<li style="text-align: justify;">NO WORLD Cup was held between 1938 and 1950 due to World War II. The 1950 tournament in Brazil featured separate East and West German squads. It wasn&rsquo;t until the 1994 World Cup that Germany took part as a unified team. West Germany won in 1954.</li>	<li style="text-align: justify;">THAT 1950 Cup was also the first to feature England, despite soccer being an English invention. That year, Team USA beat England 1-0, though some British newspapers reported the result as USA 1, England 10, as editors believed the real score had a typo. Both sides believed it would be an easy win for England, and double-digit goals were expected. This match is considered by many as one of the greatest upsets in World Cup history.</li>	<li style="text-align: justify;">U.S. SOCCER fans balked when our team failed to qualify for the 2018 Cup: The U.S. hadn&rsquo;t sat out since 1986. This year, we&#39;re back in, with odds to win of 80 to 1. One of our best players is Timothy Weah. He was eligible to play for a few countries, including Liberia where his father, George Weah, is the current president), but chose his native United States. The elder Weah was a soccer star in his own right and was named the 1995 FIFA World Player of the Year.</li>	<li style="text-align: justify;">WHILE THE U.S. O men have never won a World Cup title, the U.S. women&rsquo;s team has won four, including the previous two tournaments. The first women&rsquo;s World Cup started many decades after the men&rsquo;s, in 1991. That first one was held in China, but the Americans left with the trophy. Our team is so dominant that we have won half of all the World Cups to date. The women play every four years, just like the men, but not on the same schedule. The next women&rsquo;s World Cup will be held in 2023 in Australia and New Zealand.</li>	<li style="text-align: justify;">BUDWEISER IS a major sponsor of this year&rsquo;s Cup. The problem? Public drinking is outlawed in Qatar. In an attempt at compromise, drinks will be sold before and after the matches but not during, and they won&#39;t be allowed in stadium seating areas. Tournament organizers tested similar arrangements at a 2019 preliminary match in Qatar. Bus trips from the drinking zone they set up ata separate venue to the soccer stadium where the game was taking place took more than an hour with traffic.</li>	<li style="text-align: justify;">FRANCE COULD become the first team to claim consecutive World Cups since 1962, when Brazil won it back to back. But the Dutch want to make their own history, having finished in the top four in four previous tournaments, then losing all three of their final matches.</li>	<li style="text-align: justify;">WHOEVER WINS, they won&rsquo;t get to keep the 18-karat gold trophy for long. Like hockey&rsquo;s Stanley Cup, the FIFA World Cup&mdash;which depicts two figures holding up the Earth&mdash;is not reproduced for each tournament. Instead, the previous winning team passes it to the new champs. Another similarity to the Stanley Cup: The current statue is not the original. The first FIFA trophy was stolen right out of its display case at the headquarters of the Brazilian football association in Rio de Janeiro in 1983 and hasn&rsquo;t been seen again.</li>	<li style="text-align: justify;">SO FAR, the 13 World Cup has eluded the two most famous players on the planet: Cristiano Ronaldo of Portugal and Lionel Messi of Argentina. Both are competing this year in their fifth World Cups, but both are also in their mid-30s, which is when most players retire. This could be their last chance to hoist soccer&rsquo;s most important trophy.</li></ol>

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