While various other sports including hockey and basketball offer tournaments that take place on the international stage, as well as several other events such as the summer and winter Olympics, it is the World Cup tournament that has taken the biggest platform in the world of betting on sports. Since 1930 the best soccer nations in the world have gathered at a specified nation for the tournament to take place, with the victor getting to declare themselves champions and celebrate for the next four years until they have to defend their title. 32 nations get to experience the games by cheering for their own team every four years, while the rest of the world sits and watches, some thinking about what it would take to become a part of the tournament.
While the numbers are great for sporting events such as the Super bowl and the Olympics, an estimated 715.1 million people turn their channels to the World Cup matches every four years. The tournament serves not only as a way for one nation to ultimately take home the title of, “best in the word, but as a way of bringing together millions of people, and uniting them all for love of the game. The World Cup is that important because it is a way for millions to connect, and a platform for greater ties to be sewn between nations participating.
