The FIFA World Cup has undoubtedly been the biggest sporting event in the world since its inception from 1930The world Cup is going to be held in Qatar this year in November 2022, the Mundial will be hosting 32 of the Best Footballing countries around the world to compete for the much-coveted trophy, sadly there is more information out about the host nation, players, records, teams, their preparation among much other news yet little is know about the trophy.
This article will disclose facts about the silverware questions like who designed it, what materials were used to make it, and how it got lost plus many pertinent and intriguing details about the FIFA WOrld cup trophy that you are not aware of.
The first fact to know is that only two trophies have been used for the World Cup in all previous 21 editions; they are the Golden Goddess (The Jules Rimet) and the Current FIFA World cup trophy, it is important to note that this cup has a significant impact on the history of the competition, as we go on I will expand the details.
The first country to ever win the FIFA Cup trophy is the south America Country Uruguay in 1930, only eight countries have won the trophy since the Tournament began they are Brazil, Uruguay, Germany, Italy, Argentina, Franc, Spain and England.
The FIFA World Cup trophy has had several names, the first name given to the first was
“Coupe du Monde” which means World cup, the 14 inches was made of gold-plated sterling silver sculpture which showed Nike the Greek Goddess of Victory holding the octagonal cup up high over her head, with the time it was named Golden Goddess or Victory but after the world war ended in 1946 it was renamed Jules Rimet.
Throughout the history of the World cup only two designers have designed the trophy, the Jules Rimet was designed by French sculptor Abel Lafleur and the current one was designed by Silvio Gazzaniga from Italy.
The Jule Rimet trophy survived World war II, the war affected anything in the world at that time, Italy had just won the 1938 FIFA world cup, and the war broke out in Europe in 1939 because of its sentimental and treasure value attached to the trophy, the Nazis chased and search for it but it took the insight of FIFA Italian Vice president Otorina Barassi who had the trophy move from the secure vault and kept it in his shoe box under this bed from the Nazis, after the world war, Jules Rimet, FIFA's third President (he served FIFA for 33 years) and the man who launched the FIFA World Cup after World War II was over, was honoured with the naming of the initial trophy cup in 1946.
In 1966 just four months before the England FIFA World Cup, the trophy was stolen at an exhibition at the Westminster Central Hall but was found seven days later by a dog, FIFA then decided to make a replica just in case it got stolen again
In 1970 After Brazil won the trophy for the third time, FIFA was obliged to give it to them for keeping so FIFA designed a new one by the Italian Sculptor for the 1974 World Cup he later designs the UEFA Cup and Super Cup trophies. The new award measures 14.5 inches long and 6.1 kg in weight, it is 5 kilo in weight fashioned of 18-carat gold and depicts two people lifting the earth, it
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