Due to the success of the Olympic Football Tournaments, FIFA President Jules Rimet with driving force, and began again to consider staging your own international tournament outside the Olympic Games. 28 May 1928 decided the FIFA Congress in Amsterdam; organize a world championship organized by FIFA. with Uruguay now two times world champion was in football (in 1924, the beginning of the era of professional FIFA) and its centenary of independence celebrated in 1930, FIFA named Uruguay as the host opening event at the World Cup.
The national associations of the selected countries were invited to send a team, but the choice of Uruguay as a venue for the competition meant a long and costly trip across the Atlantic Ocean for European sides. In fact, no European country pledged a team to send up to two months before the start of the competition. Rimet eventually persuaded teams from Belgium, France, Romania and Yugoslavia to make the journey. A total of thirteen countries: seven from South America, four from Europe and two in North America.
The first two games of the 13th World Cup was also July 1930 and were held by France and the United States, Mexico, which won 4-1 and 3-0, respectively in Belgium. The first goal in World Cup history was made by Lucien Laurent of France. In the final, beating Argentina 4-2 in Uruguay before an audience of 93,000 people in Montevideo, and that was the first nation in the World Cup to win.
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