(FILES) The Brazilian national soccer team poses before its World Cup first round match against Mexico on June 24, 1950 in Rio de Janeiro. (Standing, from L : Ely Do Amparo, Juvenal, Augusto, Danilo Alvim, Barbosa, Bigode; front row, from 2nd L : Maneca, Ademir, Baltazar, Jaïr, Friaca). The world was beginning to recover from the devastation of the Second World War (19391945) when FIFA decided in 1946, during a congress in Luxembourg, to hold the fourth World Cup, a trophy which from that moment on came to be known as the Jules Rimet Cup in honour of the tournament's founder. Only one country put itself forward to host the tournament: Brazil, where football had already become a national passion. The Brazilian authorities decided to impress by building the world's largest stadium in Rio de Janeiro, the Maracana, a venue with a capacity of 200,000. (Photo by AFP via Getty Images)