{"id":127059,"date":"2022-12-19T13:31:06","date_gmt":"2022-12-19T08:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=127059"},"modified":"2022-12-19T13:31:07","modified_gmt":"2022-12-19T08:01:07","slug":"fifa-world-cup-2022-concludes-argentina-beats-france-on-penalties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/fifa-world-cup-2022-concludes-argentina-beats-france-on-penalties\/","title":{"rendered":"FIFA World Cup 2022 concludes: Argentina beats France on penalties"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>FIFA World Cup 2022:<\/strong>&nbsp;At the Lusail Stadium in Lusail, Qatar, Messi&#8217;s Argentina won their 3rd World Cup trophy in six final appearances in history by defeating France 4-2 on penalties (after a score of 3-3 after extra time). It had won two in&nbsp;<strong>1978 and 1986 under Diego Maradona.<\/strong>&nbsp;Lionel Messi had come close to winning in 2014 but La Albiceleste lost the final 0-1 to Germany. The sole connection to Messi&#8217;s Qatari campaign in 2014 was his Golden Ball award as Tournament Player of the Year. He became the first player to take home two Golden Balls at the World Cup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/category\/daily-quiz\/daily-quiz-december-2022\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">December 2022 Current Affairs Quiz<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Notably:<\/strong>&nbsp;The<strong>&nbsp;22nd edition<\/strong>&nbsp;of the World Cup just ended and for another 4 years for the next World Cup. Also, The 2026 World Cup will be held across three different countries,&nbsp;<strong>the United States, Canada and Mexico.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2022 FIFA World Cup Awards:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Top 4 team Rankings: Argentina (Winner), France (2nd), Croatia (3rd) and Morocco (4th)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Golden Boot Award:&nbsp;<strong>Kylian Mbappe (France);&nbsp;(8 Goals)<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Golden Ball Award:&nbsp;<strong>Lionel Messi (Argentina); (7&nbsp;goals and registering 3 assists)<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Golden Glove Award:&nbsp;<strong>Emiliano Martinez (Argentina)<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>FIFA Young Player Award:&nbsp;<strong>Enzo Fernandez Enzo Fernandez<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>FIFA Fair Play Award:&nbsp;<strong>England<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Silver Boot Award:&nbsp;<strong>Lionel Messi<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Bronze Boot Award:&nbsp;<strong>Olivier Giroud&nbsp;(France)<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Silver Ball Award:<strong>&nbsp;Kylian Mbappe<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Bronze Ball Award:&nbsp;<strong>Luka Modric (Croatia)<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>FIFA World Cup: List of all previous winners<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>1930: URUGUAY<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1934: ITALY<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1938: ITALY<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1950: URUGUAY<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1954: GERMANY<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1958: BRAZIL<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1962: BRAZIL<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1966: ENGLAND<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1970: BRAZIL<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1974: GERMANY<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1978: ARGENTINA<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1982: ITALY<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1986: ARGENTINA<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1990: GERMANY<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1994: BRAZIL<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1998: FRANCE<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2002: BRAZIL<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2006: ITALY<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2010: SPAIN<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2014: GERMANY<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2018: FRANCE<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>FIFA World Cup: List of previous Golden Ball Winner<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>2018: Luka Modric (Croatia)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2014: Lionel Messi (Argentina)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2010: Diego Forl\u00e1n (Uruguay)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2006: Zinedine Zidane (France)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2002: Oliver Kahn (Germany)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1998: Ronaldo (Brazil)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1994: Rom\u00e1rio (Brazil)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1990: Salvatore Schillaci (Italy)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1986: Diego Maradona (Argentina)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1982: Paolo Rossi (Italy)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1978: Mario Kempes (Argentina)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1974: Johan Cruyff (Netherlands)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1970: Pel\u00e9 (Brazil)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1966: Bobby Charlton (England)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1962: Garrincha (Brazil)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1958: Didi (Brazil)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1954: Ferenc Pusk\u00e1s (Hungary)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1950: Zizinho (Brazil)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1938: Le\u00f4nidas (Brazil)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1934: Giuseppe Meazza (Italy)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1930: Jos\u00e9 Nasazzi (Uruguay)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>FIFA World Cup: List Of previous Golden Boot Winner<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>2018: Harry Kane- England (6 goals)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2014: James Rodriguez- Colombia (6 goals)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2010: Thomas Muller- Germany(5 goals)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2006: Miroslav Klose- Germany (5 goals)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2002: Ronaldo- Brazil (8 goals)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1998: Davor Suker- Croatia (6 goals)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1994: Oleg Salenko- Russia (6 goals)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1990: Salvatore Schillaci- Italy (6 goals)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1986: Gary Lineker- England (6 goals)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1982: Paolo Rossi- Italy (6 goals)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1978: Mario Kempes- Argentina (6 goals)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1974: Grzegorz Lato- Poland (7 goals)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1970: Gerd Muller- Germany (10 goals)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1966: Eusebio- Portugal (9 goals)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1962: Florian Albert- Hungary (4 goals)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1958: Just Fontaine- France (13 goals)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1954: Sandor Kocsis- Hungary (11 goals)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1950: Ademir- Brazil (8 goals)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1938: Leonidas- Brazil (8 goals)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1934: Oldrich Nejedly- Czechoslovakia (5 goals)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1930: Guillermo Stabile- Argentina (8 goals)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FIFA World Cup 2022:&nbsp;At the Lusail Stadium in Lusail, Qatar, Messi&#8217;s Argentina won their 3rd World Cup trophy in six final appearances in history by defeating France 4-2 on penalties (after a score of 3-3 after extra time). It had won two in&nbsp;1978 and 1986 under Diego Maradona.&nbsp;Lionel Messi had come close to winning in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":894,"featured_media":127060,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4992],"tags":[58,59],"class_list":["post-127059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-december-2022","tag-international-current-affairs","tag-sports-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/894"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127059"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127061,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127059\/revisions\/127061"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}