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Sacramento assistant Jordi Fernandez is taking over for Nick Nurse as coach of the Canadian men’s basketball team that will compete at this summer’s World Cup, a person with knowledge of the decision said Tuesday The World Cup in football (soccer) is a quadrennial tournament of 32 men’s national teams that is organized by the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA). It is likely the most popular sporting event in the world, drawing billions of television viewers every tournament. The World Cup happens every four years in order to have enough time for the qualification tournaments and playoffs among national teams to take place.

Additionally, four years provides the host country adequate time to plan the logistics of the tournament and how to best accommodate an influx of millions of fans. Qualifying for the World Cup is a long process during the years between each quadrennial tournament.

Each of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association’s six confederations determines its own qualification system, which produces the men’s teams that represent each confederation’s region. The six confederations are Africa; Asia; Europe; North America, Central America, and the Caribbean; Oceania; and South America.

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World Cup prize money comes from the earnings of the nonprofit Fédération Internationale de Football Association. FIFA’s revenue is generated by high bids for television, marketing, and licensing rights for major football events that FIFA organizes.

FIFA does not incur expenses for the construction of World Cup infrastructure, as those fall on the host country. The men’s World Cup all-time top scorer is Miroslav Klose of the German national football (soccer) team.   He scored a total of 16 goals across four World Cup tournaments, from 2002 through 2014.  

Marta, playing for the Brazilian women’s national team, scored her 17th World Cup goal during the 2019 Women’s World Cup, becoming the top scorer across the men’s and women’s tournaments.

She played in five World Cups, from 2003 through 2019. World Cup, formally FIFA World Cup, in football (soccer), quadrennial tournament of men’s national teams that determines the sport’s world champion.

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It is likely the most popular sporting event in the world, drawing billions of television viewers every tournament. Countries worldwide compete vigorously, many years in advance, to host the lucrative event, and accusations of bribery connected to the awarding of hosting rights have long shadowed the tournament. In fact, the 2015 FIFA corruption scandal implicated more than two dozen FIFA officials and their associates in a 24-year self-enrichment scheme that reached the highest levels of FIFA management.

The equivalent tournament for women’s national football teams is the Women’s World Cup.