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King Of Kings: Football World Cup (7801 words) |
 | Deep-seated football rivalry led many Brazilians to celebrate Argentina's elimination, and vice versa, but there were also plenty of fans who were hoping for a final World Cup match between the two giants, which would have consolidated South America's hegemony for a long time to come. |
| Football, despite the globalisation of the sport, continues to be dominated by a growing number of European countries and by South America's Southern Cone, specifically Argentina and Brazil, since the decline of Uruguay in the last few decades. |
| The month-long event to determine the best football, er, soccer team on the planet began when July started and ended, well, it has ended, right?Yeah, I know, Italy won the World Cup, outlasting France in penalty kicks in the championship game.');}-->The suspense at the end during the penalty-kick portion of the game was incredible. |
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Brazilian national football team (264 words) |
| Brazil is the national football team with the most FIFA World Cup victories: five after winning in 2002. |
| In the Football World Cup 1962 Garrincha and his mates went to Chile and won the second world title, called at the time the Jules Rimet Cup. |
| After finishing as runner-up in the Football World Cup 1998, in the Football World Cup 2002 Brazil won its fifth World Cup at the tournament in Japan and South Korea. |
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