Argentina team won their third world title by beating France (4-2) on penalty shootout. It ended in a three-thirds draw after overtime, giving South America the universal wand they hadn’t had since Brazil beat Germany in the decisive match of South Korea/Japan 2002.
La Albiceleste completed the triple title after winning home titles against the Netherlands (3-1) in 1978 and Mexico against the Federal Republic of Germany (3-2) in 1986. Brazil tops the list of champions with five crowns, one more than Germany and Italy.
Fifa has agreed to distribute $440 million to the 32 competing teams; 40 million more than (400 million) delivered in 2018; and a difference of just over 80 million from the 2014 prizes (358 million).
As it happens, the World Cup champion takes 42 million dollars, that is about 210,000,000 Colombian pesos. This is the biggest prize in the history of the competition, and nearly $4 million more than was awarded in Russia 2018.
Second place France will be ‘content’ from receiving $30 million from FIFA. That is about 150,000,000 million Colombian pesos. For third place Croatia, the prize is $27 million (about 135,000,000,000 Colombian pesos). And for fourth place, Morocco$25 million (approximately 125,000,000,000 Colombian pesos).
It should be noted that all participating teams win money. Minimum reward for each selection 9 million dollarsTotal won by teams eliminated in the group stage (17th to 32nd place).
United States, Senegal, Australia, Poland, Japan, South Korea and SwitzerlandThe teams in the last 16 won $13 million.
Brazil, Netherlands, Portugal and EnglandThe quarter-finals won the prize of 17 million.
Now Argentina isn’t just getting $42 million. In April of this year, the South American Football Confederation (Conmebol) announced an extra award. 10 million dollars To the associated team that won the World Cup again. In that order of ideas, the ‘albiceleste’ would have made a total of about $52 million.
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