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All past World Cups in a nutshell...

1930 Uruguay

Venue: Montevideo
Participating Teams: 13

Winner: Uruguay
Runners-up: Argentina
Third Place: USA

Golden Ball: Jose Nasazzi (URU)
Golden Boot: Guillermo Stanile (ARG)
Golden Glove: Enrique Ballesteros (URU)

1934 Italy

Venues: Bologna, Florence, Genoa, Milan, Naples, Rome, Trieste, Turin
Participating Teams: 16

Winner: Italy
Runners-up: Czechoslovakia
Third Place: Germany

Golden Ball: Guiseppe Meazza (ITA)
Golden Boot: Oldrich Nejedly (TCH)
Golden Glove: Ricardo Zamora (ESP)

1938 France

Venues: Antibes, Bordeaux, Le Havre, Lille, Paris, Reims, Strasbourg, Lyon, Marseilles, Toulouse
Participating Teams: 15

Winner: Italy
Runners-up: Hungary
Third Place: Germany

Golden Ball: Leonidas (BRA)
Golden Boot: Leonidas da Silva (BRA)
Golden Glove: Frantisek Planicka (TCH)

1950 Brazil

Venues: Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, Belo Horizonte, Curitiba, Porto Alegre, Recife
Participating Teams: 13

Winner: Uruguay
Runners-up: Brazil
Third Place: Sweden

Golden Ball: Zizinho (BRA)
Golden Boot: Ademir (BRA)
Golden Glove: Roque Maspoli (URU)

1954 Switzerland

Venues: Basel, Bern, Geneva, Lausanne, Lugano, Zurich
Participating Teams: 16

Winner: West Germany
Runners-up: Hungary
Third Place: Austria

Golden Ball: Ferenc Puskas (HUN)
Golden Boot: Sandor Kocsis (HUN)
Golden Glove: Gyula Grosics (HUN)

1958 Sweden

Venues: Solna, Gothenburg, Malmo, Eskilstuna, Norrkoping, Sandviken, Uddevalla, Helsingborg, Boras, Halmstad, Orebro, Vasteros
Participating Teams: 16

Winner: Brazil
Runners-up: Sweden
Third Place: France

Golden Ball: Didi (BRA)
Golden Boot: Just Fontaine (FRA)
Golden Glove: Harry Gregg (NIR)

1962 Chile

Venues: Santiago, Vina del Mar
Participating Teams: 16

Winner: Brazil
Runners-up: Czechoslovakia
Third Place: Chile

Golden Ball: Garrincha (BRA)
Golden Boot: Florian Albert (HUN), Valentin Ivanov (URS), Garrincha (BRA), Vava *BRA), Drazan Jerkovic (YUG), Leonel Sanchez (CHI)
Golden Glove: Viliam Schrojf (TCH)

1966 England

Venues: Sunderland, Middlesbrough, Liverpool, Manchester, Sheffield, London, Birmingham
Participating Teams: 16

Winner: England
Runners-up: West Germany
Third Place: Portugal

Golden Ball: Bobby Charlton (ENG)
Golden Boot: Eusebio (POR)
Golden Glove: Gordon Banks (ENG)

1970 Mexico

Venues: Guadalajara, Leon, Mexico City, Puebla, Toluca
Participating Teams: 16

Winner: Brazil
Runners-up: Italy
Third Place: West Germany

Golden Ball: Pele (BRA)
Golden Boot: Gerd Muller (GER)
Golden Glove: Ladislao Mazurkeiwicz (URU)

1974 West Germany

Venues: Munich, West Berlin, Hamburg, Dortmund, Dusseldorf, Gelsenkirchen, Frankfurt, Hanover, Stuttgart
Participating Teams: 16

Winner: West Germany
Runners-up: Netherlands
Third Place: Poland

Golden Ball: Johan Cruyff (NET)
Golden Boot: Grzegorz Lato (POL)
Golden Glove: Sepp Maier (GER)

1978 Argentina

Venues: Buenos Aires, Cordoba, Mar del Plata, Rosario, Mendoza
Participating Teams: 16

Winner: Argentina
Runners-up: Netherlands
Third Place: Brazil

Golden Ball: Mario Kempes (ARG)
Golden Boot: Mario Kempes (ARG)
Golden Glove: Ubaldo Fillol (ARG)

1982 Spain

Venues: Madrid, Barcelona, Vigo, A Coruna, Gijon, Oviedo, Elche, Alicante, Bilbao, Valladolid, Valencia, Zaragoza, Sevilla, Malaga
Participating Teams: 24

Winner: Italy
Runners-up: West Germany
Third Place: Poland

Golden Ball: Paolo Rossi (ITA)
Golden Boot: Paolo Rossi (ITA)
Golden Glove: Dino Zoff (ITA)

1986 Mexico

Venues: Mexico City, Guadalajara, Puebla, San Nicolas de los Garza, Queretaro, Monterrey, Leon, Nezahualcoyoti, Irapuato, Zapopan, Toluca
Participating Teams: 24

Winner: Argentina
Runners-up: West Germany
Third Place: France

Golden Ball: Diego Maradona (ARG)
Golden Boot: Gary Lineker (ENG)
Golden Glove: Jean-Marie Pfaff (BEL)

1990 Italy

Venues: Rome, Milan, Naples, Turin, Bari, Verona, Florence, Cagliari, Bologna, Udine, Palermo, Genoa
Participating Teams: 24

Winner: West Germany
Runners-up: Argentina
Third Place: Italy

Golden Ball: Salvatore Schillaci (ITA)
Golden Boot: Salvatore Schillaci (ITA)
Golden Glove: Sergio Goycochea (ARG)

1994 USA


Venues: Pasadena, Pontiac, Stanford, East Rutherford, Orlando, Chicago, Dallas, Foxborough, Washington DC
Participating Teams: 24

Winner: Brazil
Runners-up: Italy
Third Place: Sweden

Golden Ball: Romario (BRA)
Golden Boot: Oleg Salenko (RUS), Hristo Stoichkov (BUL)
Golden Glove: Michel Preud'homme (BEL)

1998 France

Venues: Saint-Denis, Marseille, Paris, Lyon, Lens, Nantes, Toulouse, Saint-Etienne, Bordeaux, Montpellier
Participating Teams: 32

Winner: France
Runners-up: Brazil
Third Place: Croatia

Golden Ball: Ronaldo (BRA)
Golden Boot: David Suker (CRO)
Golden Glove: Fabien Barthez (FRA)

2002 Korea/Japan

Venues:
Korea - Seoul, Daegu, Busan, Incheon, Ulson, Suwon, Gwangju, Jeonju, Daejeon, Jeju
Japan - Yokohama, Saitama, Shizuoka, Osaka, Miyagi, Oita, Nligata, Ibaraki, Kobe, Sapporo
Participating Teams: 32

Winner: Brazil
Runners-up: Germany
Third Place: Turkey

Golden Ball: Oliver Kahn (GER)
Golden Boot: Ronaldo (BRA)
Golden Glove: Oliver Kahn (GER)

2006 Germany

Venues: Berlin, Dortmund, Munich, Stuttgart, Gelsenkirchen, Hamburg, Frankfurt, Cologne, Hannover, Leipzig, Kaiserslautern, Nuremberg
Participating Teams: 32

Winner: Italy
Runners-up: France
Third Place: Germany

Golden Ball: Zinedine Zidane (FRA)
Golden Boot: Miroslav Klose (GER)
Golden Glove: Gianluigi Buffon (ITA)

2010 South Africa

Venues: Johannesburg, Cape Town, Durban, Pretoria, Port Elizabeth, Polokwane, Nelspruit, Bloemfontein, Rustenburg
Participating Teams: 32

Winner: Spain
Runners-up: Netherlands
Third Place: Germany

Golden Ball: Diego Forlan (URU)
Golden Boot: Thomas Muller (GER)
Golden Glove: Iker Casillas (ESP)

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