World Cup 1954: The rise of Germany through the 'Miracle of Bern'

World Cup 1954: The rise of Germany through the 'Miracle of Bern'

Being a European country badly affected by the Second World War, Switzerland got the right to host the World Cup in 1954. With this, the tournament returned to Europe after 16 years.

Switzerland hosted World Cup matches in 6 of its cities. Apart from the previous winner Uruguay, 14 teams went through the selection process of Europe, America and Asia. In the previous edition, some rules were changed keeping in mind the fierce crowd in Brazil. As a result, the stadium in the middle of the Alps was less crowded.

However, the activities in the field made up for the beauty of this edition. Many high scoring games were seen in the tournament and many records were broken.

Austria beat Switzerland 7-5 in the match within 90 minutes. This result is still the record for most goals scored in a single match in the World Cup. South Korea, who qualified for the first time in the tournament, returned home without conceding 16 goals.

Many goals were scored in the final match as well. Which became a situation that could be considered as a big loss for years. Hungary, who won Olympic gold in 1952 and went undefeated for 32 matches, was the main contender for the title in this World Cup.

Hungary's star players were led by Ferenc Puskas, the first global football superstar. Puskar was injured in the group stage match against West Germany and he was not fully fit.

However, he managed to give his team the lead by scoring in the sixth minute in the final. Just two minutes later, Zoltan Zibor scored, and the World Cup title almost slipped from West Germany's hands.

However, Germany managed to return to the game in their own style. Max Morlock scored in the 10th minute and Helmut Rahn scored in the 18th minute.

Morlock scored another goal in the 24th minute. West Germany won the first World Cup in history. In world football, this final is known as the Miracle of Bern. Bern is the name of the capital city of Switzerland.

This edition is the tournament with the most goals in the history of the World Cup. Where 140 goals were scored at an average of 5.38 per game.

It became the first World Cup to be televised. Although not all the matches were broadcasted, even those that were broadcast were not shown in full. Puskas, the world's first football superstar, played his first World Cup.

South American powerhouse Argentina refused to play in the World Cup for the third time in a row.

Fifth World Cup in statistics

Host: Switzerland

Team: 16

Format: Group Stage, Knockout

Game: 26

Goals: 140

Winner: West Germany

Runner-up: Hungary

Golden Boot: Sandor Kocsis (Hungary)

World Cup 1958: The rise of Pele in world football

The structure of the selection process for the 1958 FIFA World Cup was somewhat relaxed. In this edition, not only the four countries of the United Kingdom, but also Argentina returned, and the Soviet Union also participated for the first time.

However, this time, two former two-time champions Italy and Uruguay failed to qualify.

Three Muslim countries, Indonesia, Sudan and Turkey, boycotted the tournament because they recognized Israel. Meanwhile, Israel did not get to play in the main World Cup after losing to Wales in one of the knockout matches under the qualifiers.

This was the second consecutive edition of the World Cup held in a European country. South American countries were dissatisfied with this. FIFA announced the goal of holding the tournament in different continents.

This is the tournament where Brazil won their first World Cup title. The world saw the first glimpse of Pele's glory.

At that time, Pele was only 17 years old. In the first two matches, he did not get a chance in the Brazilian team. After scoring 6 goals in the last four games, a great player emerged in world football.

Pele scored his first World Cup goal against Wales in the quarter-finals. However, the world did not pay attention to him until he scored a hat-trick against France in the semi-finals.

In the final against Sweden, Pele scored 2 decisive goals and shocked the 50,000 home fans present at the Rasunda Stadium in Stockholm, giving his country its first World Cup title.

France's Just Fontaine scored 13 goals in this World Cup. He still holds the record of scoring the most goals in a single edition of the World Cup.

Pele and Brazil won the first World Cup and started their magnificent journey at the world level. Pele became the youngest player to score a goal in the World Cup. He was 17 years and 239 days old when he scored against Wales. 7 goals were scored in the final match. This record still stands.

Argentina's return to the World Cup was infamous. They conceded 10 goals while losing two consecutive games in the group stage. When the group had to return home, they had to face disgruntled supporters at home.

Compared to the previous few editions, the average attendance of fans in this World Cup was less.

1958 World Cup in statistics

Host: Sweden

Team: 16

Format: Group Stage, Knockout

Game: 35

Goals: 126

Winner: Brazil

Runner-up: Sweden

Golden Boot: Just Ferten (France)

World Cup 1962: Despite Pele's injury, Brazil are consecutive champions

The World Cup returned to the southern hemisphere after 12 years, according to FIFA's announcement of holding the World Cup in a different continent in each edition and the warning of South American countries to boycott if there is no tournament in their region.

This time Argentina was likely to get the project right. However, Chile got the support of the member countries during various competitions and the FIFA Congress and killed the project right.

Carlos Ditvern, the president of the Chilean Football Federation, claimed to host the World Cup and said at the time, "Pork nada tenemos, lo haremos todo (because we have nothing, we will talk about everything).

His statement became an unofficial slogan at the World Cup. Indeed, they had become very weak. Because two years ago in 1960, Chile had to face the most powerful earthquake of 9.5 magnitude.

The preparations for the competition were badly affected. The project site scheduled for 8 cities was reduced to three cities.

When the tournament started, all four teams selected from South America started their campaign with victories.

Europe's 'big' names were slowly picking up points with draws or wins. The goal difference was started to be the criteria for entering the knockout stage from the group stage matches. In the event of a tie, the rule of replay was abolished.

Not only football but also clashes were seen in 'On Field Action'. The worst situation was seen in the group stage match between Chile and Italy. Where the players of both teams got into a fist fight.

This match was called the 'Battle of Santiago'. At that time, the Italian team had to be escorted out of the field under police protection.

The home team Chile won two of their three games in the group stage, defeating the European champion Soviet Union and reached the semi-finals. In the semi-final, he lost to the former champion Brazil.

Czechoslovakia defeated Yugoslavia in the second semi-final. There was a very low attendance in that game.

After falling behind early in the final, Brazil lifted the World Cup title for the second time in a row with a comeback win. Brazil also became the third country to win two World Cups. After Pele was injured in the match against Czechoslovakia in the group stage, Garrincha led Brazil's front row.

After the Great Earthquake of 1960, the people of the host country had enough reason to be happy. They came third in the competition. In this edition, the Golden Boot award given to the top scorer was handed over to 6 players.

Pele, who emerged in 1958, had become the best player in the world. Four years later, he became a global superstar. However, he was injured in the group stage match and missed the rest of the match.

The number of goals in the game started to decrease after the new rule of goal difference for entering the knockout stage. In this edition of the 'low-scoring' World Cup, an average of 2.78 goals were scored per game. This is the lowest goal average ever.

World Cup 1962 in statistics

Host: Chile

Team: 16

Format: Group Stage, Knockout

Game: 32

Goals: 89

Winner: Brazil

Runner-up: Czechoslovakia

Golden Boot: Garrincha and Vava (Brazil), Leonel Sanchez (Chile), Dražen Jerković (Yugoslavia), Floren Alvert (Hungary) and Valentin Ivanov (Soviet Union)

Qatar World Cup winner will get 5.5 billion, how much will others get?

 The World Cup, which will start next week (November 20) in Qatar, is shaping up around the world. The best 32 teams in the world are currently preparing for the FIFA World Cup in Qatar. The selected teams are busy announcing their teams.

The biggest football tournament, the FIFA World Cup, is one of the biggest sports events in the world. It is attracting the attention of the whole world.

Many people are interested in who will win the World Cup title that lasts for a month.

Qatar, which is about to make its debut as a host in the World Cup, and the 31 selected nations will compete for the World Cup trophy from November 20 to December 18.

In the end, only one team out of 32 will be the winner. Along with the winner of the World Cup, all the teams playing in the World Cup will also get cash prizes.

The World Cup winner will receive the FIFA World Cup trophy. The price of which is said to be equal to 20 million US dollars. The trophy, studded with 18 carat gold, is 36.8 cm tall and weighs 6.1 kg. However, whoever wins the World Cup does not get to take the entire trophy.

The World Cup winner will receive a huge amount of cash along with the title.

The amount of money the World Cup winner gets is amazing. And, in every edition, the amount that the winner gets is increasing.

The winner of the World Cup in Qatar will receive the highest ever amount of USD 42 million. That is 4 million more than France, who won the World Cup in Russia four years ago. Similarly, 7 million more than the 2014 Brazil World Cup.

The amount that the winner of the upcoming World Cup will receive in Nepalese terms will be about 5 billion 44 comrods.

The World Cup winner will get 5.44 billion 23 million 60 thousand 9 according to the Nepal National Bank on Sunday. Similarly, the runner-up will get 30 million dollars, i.e. 3 billion 887.4 million Nepali currency.

The third place team will get 27 million or 3.49 billion 86 lakh 60 thousand rupees and the fourth place team will get 25 million or 3.23 billion 95 million rupees.

The team that reaches the quarter finals will get 17 million ie 2 billion 20 million 28 lakh 60 thousand rupees.

The teams that reach the last 16 will get 13 million dollars or 1 billion 68 million 45 million 40 thousand. The team playing in the group stage will get 9 million ie 1.16 billion 62 lakh 20 thousand rupees.

The total prize money of the Qatar World Cup is 440 million or 57 billion 152 million rupees.

Prize money in Qatar World Cup

Winner: $42 million

Runner-up: $30 million

Third place: $27 million

Fourth place: $25 million

Quaterfine: $17 million

Last 16: $13 million

Group Stage: $9 million

Which World Cup winner received how much money?

1982, Italy: 2.2 million

1986, Argentina: 2.8 million

1990, Germany: 3.5 million

1994, Brazil: 4 million

1998, France: 6 million

2002, Brazil: 8 million

2006, Italy: 20 million

2010, Spain: 30 million

2014, Germany: 35 million

2018, France: 38 million

2022, ? : 42 million