FIFA World Cup - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIFA_World_CupEarly World Cups were given to countries at meetings of FIFA's congress. The locations were controversial because South America and Europe were by far the two centres of strength in football and travel between them required three weeks by boat. The decision to hold the first World Cupin Uruguay, for example, led to only four European nations competing. The next two World Cups were b…