Everland Football Magazine

Its nothing bigger than wining the world cup. Every football player dreams about it.The world Cup is the biggest cup for international teams. Thru out history many legends has come and go in this tournament, but still today winning the World Cup is the biggest thing a football player can do.1930 was the first year the tournament took place. After that it has been played every four year accept durin the world war two 1942, 1946 when the tournament got cancelled.The qualification to the tournaments is different depending on witch part of the world the country is from. The different zones are: Africa, Asia, North and Central America and Caribbean, South America, Oceania, Europe. So the countries in Asia qualifies buy playing each other and so on. Before each tournament FIFA decides how many world cup spotsEvery zone will get.The qualification round starts about three years before the main tournament. Out of all this countries participating only 32 will go to the main event the World Cup.The 32 teams that manage to go to the main event gets divided in to 8 groups with 4 teams in each one of them. The place for the main event is different from time to time. Eight years before the tournament, FIFA decides witch country the tournament will be held in.At the main event hundreds of thousand people gather. They have travelled from all over the world just to show their team and country support.Every team jn the group meet each other one time. The two first teams qualifies to the playoffs. Sixteen teams qualifies to the play offs. And after that one by one teams starts to disappear. The rounds are, second round(16 teams left), Quarterfinal(8 teams left)Semi finals(four teams left) Final(two teams left).

1958, Sweden World cup

Pele is only seventeen years old and scores two goals in the finals against Sweden.This was the beginning of something special the world’s best football player of all time has showed his self for the world.

1986, Mexico World Cup

Maradona makes an historical game against England in the quarterfinal. This game was going to make Maradona historical for two reasons, one of the most beautiful and spectacular goals ever seen, and one of the biggest cheat goals the world has ever seen. This game was all about Maradona and nobody will ever forget this game especially not the Englishmen.

1994, USA World cup

Maradona does an amazing game in the first group stage with his argentine. After the game the American police arrest the star for finding traces of drugs in his blood. This was a big scandal the world maybe greatest player of all time has been arrested during a World cup.

1994, USA World cup

it’s the final of the world cup its Italy versus Brazil and penalty shooting. Roberto Baggio is about to shot Italy to the victory with his penalty. Roberto maybe the most loved and best Italian football player of all time misses the penalty buy shooting meters over the bar. Brazil wins the game. Baggio and all of Italy will always remember that missed penalty shot.

1998, France World cup

It’s the final at the world cup in France. Brazil the team every body depends on is shaken buy a great rumor before the match. The teams star and best footballer Ronaldo is not going to play. Every body is chocked and cant get any answers but when the match begins he is on the field. Ronaldo plays his worst game in the tournament and Brazil lost the game 3 to 1 against France. Later its reviled that Ronaldo was very sick but played the game anyway.

2006, Germany World cup

It’s France against Italy in the world cup finals. France is up one goal when Zidane does something he will regret for the rest of his life. After an incident in the Italian penalty area Marco Materazzi and Zidane starts to argue with each order, some words are sad and Zidane turns around and knocks Materazzi with his head. Materazzi falls down to the ground and Zidane the captain of the French team gets a red card and leaves the field. Italy won the game later on Penalties.

Champions league are one of the biggest tournaments in the world.It’s a tournament for the best Club football teams in Europe. The team that winsthis tournament is classed as one of the best club teams in the world.The tournament as we know it today had its debut in 1992. It was renamed to Uefa Champions league in 1998. The game has developed since then and the status of the tournament has grown enormously. The first team to win the tournament was Fc BarcelonaIn 1992. Barcelona was one of the best teams in the world at that time. After this the tournament have been played seventeen times and teams like Manchester United, Real MadridAnd Milan have all won the tournament. The Italian club Milan has won the Champions League three times so have also the Spanish team Real Madrid. This makes these two clubs the best clubs in the history of Champions League.Champions league was from the start meant to be a tournament for the champions from each league in Europe. But now teams can be able to qualify to the tournament and by that way be apart of this big event.The tournament is edified by first a group stage and after that a play off. The final is played at different arenas every year witch are decided buy the UEFA committee two years ahead. This match is the biggest event in European Football each year and millions of people watch the game.

Winners of the champions League

AC Milan–2007FC Barcelona—2006Liverpool FC.—2005FC Porto—2004AC Milan—2003Real Madrid CF—2002FC Bayern München—2001Real Madrid CF—2000Manchester United FC—199Real Madrid CF—1998BV Borussia 09 Dortmund—1997Juventus FC—1996AFC Ajax—1995AC Milan—1994Olympique Marseille—1993FC Barcelona—1992