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Football tournament FIFA World Cup final Founded 1930 ; 95 years ago (1930) Current champions Argentina (3rd title) Most successful team(s) Brazil (5 titles) The FIFA World Cup is an international association football competition contested by the senior men's national teams of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), the sport's global governing body. The championship ...
1964 British Home Championship (October 12, 1963 – April 11, 1964) Shared by England, Scotland and Northern Ireland. 1964 Taça de Nações (May 30 – June 7, 1964) Argentina. 1964 AFC Asian Cup in Israel (May 26 – June 3, 1964) Israel India South Korea; UEFA European Football Championship in Spain (June 17–21, 1964) Spain Soviet Union
A total of 471 players have been in the winning team in the World Cup. Brazil's Pelé is the only one to have won three times, while another 20 have won twice. Only players from Brazil and Italy, and one player from Argentina, have won the World Cup more than once. No player has won two World Cups both as captain.
June 21 – Jim Bunning of the Philadelphia Phillies pitched a perfect game in a 6–0 victory over the New York Mets. World Series – St. Louis Cardinals win 4 games to 3 over the New York Yankees. The Series MVP is pitcher, Bob Gibson of St. Louis. AL MVP – Brooks Robinson 3B, Baltimore Orioles; NL MVP – Ken Boyer 3B, St. Louis Cardinals
This is a compilation of every international soccer game played by the United States men's national soccer team from 1950 through 1969. It includes the team's record for that year, each game and the date played. It also lists the U.S. goal scorers. The format is: home team listed first, U.S. listed first at home or neutral site.
The system used in the World Cup up to 1990 was 2 points for a win. In this ranking 3 points are awarded for a win, 1 for a draw and 0 for a loss. As per statistical convention in football, matches decided in extra time are counted as wins and losses, while matches decided by penalty shoot-outs are counted as draws. Teams are ranked by total ...
In their penultimate game of the season, Ipswich Town lose 3–1 to Blackburn Rovers, confirming their relegation two years after winning the League championship. 22 April 1964 – Leicester City win the League Cup – their first major trophy – with a 4–3 aggregate victory over Stoke City.
The top twenty are most likely accurate as no players before the mid-1980s amassed more than twenty or thirty caps. For example, Boris Bandov , the player active before 1980 with the highest number of caps, played 33 times between 1976 and 1983, while Perry Van der Beck played 23 times between 1979 and 1985.