The World Cup will play its final game this Sunday. The great final that will crown Argentina or France for the third time. Leo Messi or Hugo Lloris will lift the trophy less than 37 centimeters into the skies of Qatar which has nothing to do with the original.
Enjoy the details of one of the most coveted trophies in world sport.
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What was the first trophy delivered?
The first trophy received by the soccer world champion has nothing to do with the present. It is a figure representing the Greek goddess of victory, Nike, made of gold-plated silver with a base of lapis lazuli. It measures 35 centimeters and weighs 3.8 kilograms. It was stolen in 1983 and melted down by the thieves, as they admitted when they were arrested by the police.
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Why is it called the Jules Rimet Cup?
That original trophy was named after the third president of FIFA, a position held by this Frenchman born in 1873 from 1921 to 1954. The soccer world championship was organized under his mandate, with the trophy being received his name until 1974. the Cup currently awarded to champions is ‘premiered’.
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What does the current trophy symbolize?
The World Champion Cup represents two human figures who hold the world. The first to receive it was Franz Beckenbauer, captain of the then Federal Republic of Germany team, which won the 1974 final against the Netherlands in the championship played on German soil.
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A trophy weighing more than 6 kilograms
The current world cup received by the captain of the winning team in the final weighs 6,142 grams, of which 5,000 is 18-karat gold. It measures 36.8 centimeters and its base is 13 centimeters. Italian Silvio Gazzaniga’s design prevailed over more than 50 projects submitted to the contest organized by FIFA. Its manufacture was carried out by the GDE Bertoni workshop, in the town of Paderno Dugnano. The cost of the trophy is approximately 250 thousand euros.
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Who keeps the original?
The world champion team had the original trophy in their possession within minutes. The time that passed from the time the FIFA president handed it to his captain until the players returned to the locker room. There, the Cup was returned to FIFA, replacing it with a gold-plated replica, which after four years should be returned to the highest body in the world.
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Can one team win the trophy alone?
Not really. FIFA regulations do not provide for this possibility. The original regulations of the World Cup allowed a team to keep the trophy on the property: for this they had to win the championship three times, which Brazil achieved in 1970, so only the canarinha got this privilege. Exposed to CBF headquarters, it was stolen on December 19, 1983. It was never heard from again.
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Who is ‘Pickles’?
The dog that won the Jules Rimet Cup on March 27, 1966 is known by this name. A week earlier, the trophy was stolen from an exhibition held in Westminster, at the gates of the World Cup in England. Pickles’ nose allows him to recover from his hiding place, a leafy hedge in a London garden.
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The Cup, in a shoe box
This was the method chosen by the president of the Italian Federation to hide the trophy and keep it safe from the Nazi troops. Ottorino Barassi resorted to a method as simple as taking the Cup from the federation’s headquarters and, after putting it in a shoebox, hiding it under his bed to prevent its theft.
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What does the champion charge?
In addition to the trophy, the world champion team, as well as other participants in the final stage, receives a juicy economic prize that is now estimated at 40 million euros. The runner-up earns 29 ‘acts’, the third classified 26, the fourth 24, from fifth to eighth receive 16, from ninth to sixteenth 13 and the rest, 8.5 per head .
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Does this trophy expire?
The names of the champions are written on the base of the trophy. There is still space available for some, but it is estimated that all will be covered by the 2030 edition, so it is not excluded that at that time a new trophy will be designed or the current one will be remodeled to expand its base and leave of space to register the name of new champions.
Source: La Verdad
I’m Rose Herman and I work as an author for Today Times Live. My expertise lies in writing about sports, a passion of mine that has been with me since childhood. As part of my job, I provide comprehensive coverage on everything from football to tennis to golf.
