The Soccer World Cup, also known as the Football World Cup, is the international football (soccer) competition for the men’s national teams of the member countries of the Federation International de Football Association (FIFA), football’s global governing body. The championship has been awarded every four years since the tournament started in 1930, except for the interruption of the World War II, when tournaments were not held in 1942 and 1946.The tournament involves 32 teams competing for World Cup Soccer title at different venues in the host nation, South Africa for 2010, over a period of one month. For the 2010 World Cup, the competition will start on June 11 and will end on July 11. A qualification phase, involving 204 of the 208 FIFA national teams started in August 2007 and has determined the teams that qualify for the tournament, with the host nation being an automatic qualifier. The last World Cup was held in Germany in 2006 and after the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, the next one will be held in Brazil in 2014.
The 2010 World Cup will be the first tournament to be hosted by an African nation, with South Africa beating Morocco and Egypt in a bidding process that involved all-African nations. The choice of Africa to be the venue for the 2010 Football World Cup was in accordance with a new policy of rotating the event between football confederations, a policy that was later revised and unfortunately abandoned in October 2007.
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