{"id":6091,"date":"2022-12-19T11:34:54","date_gmt":"2022-12-19T06:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=6091"},"modified":"2025-03-27T12:44:07","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T07:14:07","slug":"fifa-world-cup-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/fifa-world-cup-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"FIFA World Cup 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About the Football World Cup:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The Football World Cup is an international soccer tournament held every four years to determine the best national soccer team in the world.<\/li>\n<li>The first official World Cup was played in Uruguay 1930.<\/li>\n<li>The tournament is the first to be held in the Arab world and only the second to take place in Asia, after Japan and South Korea joint-hosted the event in 2002.<\/li>\n<li>This edition will be the last to feature just 32 teams, with the tournament being expanded from 2026 inwards in order to feature 48 nations.<\/li>\n<li>2026 World cup edition will be hosted by 16 cities in three North American countries: Canada, Mexico and the United States.<\/li>\n<li>The winner of the FIFA World Cup 2022 will take home $42 million, which is Rs 3.47 billion in prize money. The runner-up is likely to get $30 million, which is Rs 2.48 billion.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What was the name of the ball in FIFA World cup 2022?<\/h3>\n<p>Al Rihla was the official FIFA World Cup 2022 ball. The name means &#8216;the journey&#8217; in Arabic and the design has been inspired by the culture, architecture, iconic boats and flag of the host nation,Qatar.<\/p>\n<p>Source:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/sports\/football\/qatar-2022-final-fifa-world-cup-2022-final-day-live-score-updates-argentina-vs-france-8330375\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Indian Express<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Football World Cup is an international soccer tournament held every four years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":6092,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6091","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}