* The South American Football Confederation (CONMEBOL)
* The Union of European Football Associations (UEFA)
The tables above show the full story and the history of the World Cup ever since 1930 when the first tournament was organised and 18 more tournaments followed. Hence UEFA winning 10 Cups and CONMEBOL 9 Cups almost equalising in terms of the number of Cups. However in terms of finalists UEFA almost doubles CONMEBOL.
Country-wise distribution gives us 3 from Latin America and 9 from Europe.
20th World Cup is taking in Brasil as a host nation and leader of the crew with her 5 Cups in her hand.
No statistics can give any prediction to the winner of any match in football which makes the game so exciting and interesting.
One out of seven people is expected to watch the games from TV all over the world which means at least one billion people will be in front of their screens on and off.
As far as favourites are concerned well despite the fact of unpredictability of the football game itself one may expect Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay from Latin America and Germany, Portugal, France, Croatia, England from Europe to reach the quarter-finals but then who knows Holland,Spain,Russia may replace any one of the European countries easily.
Predictions and expectations are always existing until each game kicks off then it is up to the teams to get the final results which is why football is the biggest entertainment of any kind of existing sporting events.
So no one is to be blamed for or congratulated upon any result obtained since predictions are guesstimations as well as expectations which have so many variables yet very few equations to enable us to calculate beforehand.
Hence enjoy fully the fun of football from one match to the other.
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