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Global Health Economics and
Sustainability
Promoting peace through microbiology and sports

Table 3. The FIFA World Cup dominant winners, number of wins, host locations, and years of victory
FIFA history Winning nation Hosting nation Victory scores Year won
The dominant nation Brazil Sweden 5 – 2 1958
Chile 3 – 1 1962
Mexico 4 – 1 1970
USA 0 – 0 (3 – 2, pens) 1994
Japan/Korea 2 – 0 2002
2 dominant nation Italy Italy 2 – 1 1934
nd
France 4 – 2 1938
Spain 3 – 1 1982
Germany 1 – 1 (5 – 3, pens) 2006
rd
3 dominant nation Germany Germany 2 – 1 1974
Italy 1 – 0 1990
Brazil 1 – 0 2014
3 dominant nation Argentina Argentina 3 – 1 1978
rd
Mexico 3 – 2 1986
Qatar 3 – 3 (4 – 2, pens) 2022
4 dominant France France 3 – 0 1998
th
Russia 4 – 2 2018
5 dominant Uruguay Uruguay 4 – 2 1930
th
Brazil 2 – 1 1950
th
6 dominant West Germany Switzerland 3 – 2 1954
th
7 dominant Spain South Africa 1 – 0 2010
8 dominant England England 4 – 2 1966
th
Note: For national teams that have the same number of wins for the World Cup’s final, their numbers of run-ups are used to determine their positions.
Source: (Historyofsoccer.info, 2023).
Abbreviation: FIFA: International Federation of Association Football.

political, racial or tribal, gender-based, intimate partner, 4. Discussion
national or state-level, professional or job-related, and
targeted hate crimes (Figure 2). 4.1. Objective one: To determine the linkage
between sports-associated infections and global
Irrespective of unavoidable human differences, peace, quality health, and entrepreneurship – The
achieving the common good (SDGs), has put all human case of football matches
races in one boat, like COVID-19. In a boat, no one is
cleverer or more important than the other. If two or more Every footballer is a valuable human resource of a team or
individuals are crossing to the other bank of the river in club; without them, there is no team. It takes individual
a boat but want to all sit at one side, they will drown. The players to form a team. The beginning of winning a
21 -century world is like individuals crossing rivers in a football match is the unifying spirit of the team (Robles-
st
boat/canoe in the middle of the river. To be able to cross Palazón et al., 2022). This and love among players helped
this river, disease prevention is paramount. them freely pass the ball among themselves to score
(Pulle, 2018a). Evidence of unity among players is shown
The literature revealed that, like SARS-CoV-2, it infects in Figures 3 and 4. Figure 3 shows a referee maintaining
everyone without discrimination; every human being peace. If a player refuses to pass the ball to another due
can be victimized by honor-based murder. Some writers to hatred, it does not affect only the player but the whole
falsely tagged “honor crimes” as feminine issues; there are
research findings that revealed that honor crimes affect team. For a national team, it negatively affects the whole
all genders (Table 4). There are multiple causes of honor nation. The same happens if the players are infected.
crimes; every human being is a victim (Figures 2 and 7), Robert Kennedy said in 1968 that “What we need in
like infections. These are further discussed below. the United States is not division” (Staff, 2022). Rephrasing

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