It begins with the spherical of sixteen by which the winner of each group plays towards the runner-up of one other group. This is followed by the quarter-finals, the semi-finals, the third-place match (contested by the shedding semi-finalists), and the final. The first two World Cup matches happened simultaneously on 13 July 1930, and were received by France and the US, who defeated Mexico 4–1 and Belgium 3–0 respectively. The first objective in World Cup history was scored by Lucien Laurent of France. In the final, Uruguay defeated Argentina 4–2 in front of 93,000 people in Montevideo,...