The history of the best cups in football: FIFA World Cup Trophy, Premier League Trophy, and more

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Best cups in football -  Have you ever wondered about the familiar cups that we often follow? How was it born? What is its name? Who designed it and which team has the most ownership? So today, let's go to learn about the origin of the legend of the 5 most famous and prestigious cups in the football world to answer the above questions.

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5/Copa America Trophy

 

Copa America is one of the oldest cups in the world. It is an award for the champion of the national teams of the South American continent organized by the South American football federation CONMENOL. The current Copa America Cup was purchased in 1916 from Casa Escasany - a famous jewelry store in Buenos Aires, Argentina- for 3,000 Swiss francs to award the tournament's first champion.

 

The South American Championship Trophy weighing 9 kg is made of pure silver, 77cm high with a wooden base with 3 levels containing many faces. The top of the wooden plaque is engraved with the names of championship teams in history.

 

 

In April 2016, a new edition trophy specially designed for the Copa America Centenario was presented at the Colombian Football Federation headquarters in Bogota to celebrate the tournament's 100th anniversary. The cup is in the form of the original Copa America Cup, added to the logo of the 2016 tournament. It is 61cm tall with a weight of 7.1 kg and is plated with pure 24 carat gold. 2 logos of the two football federations CONMEBOL and CONCACAF are also engraved on the body of the Cup. The 2016 Centenario Copa America Trophy was designed by Epico Studios in the United States and produced by the London workshop of designer Thomas Lyte in the UK.

 

As the champion in the 100th anniversary, the Chilean team had the honor to keep this golden trophy forever. The national team that has the honor of owning the most Copa America Cup in history is Uruguay with 15 championships.

 

In addition to the main cup, the Copa Bolivia - a solid silver version of the Cup was awarded to the runner-up of the 1997 tournament. This is also somewhat odd, as a runner-up team was also awarded the cup. The trophy is named after the country that hosted the 1997 Copa America with a small Bolivian flag attached to its inside.

 

4/ UEFA Euro Trophy

 

UEFA Euro, or European Football Championship, is an official football tournament that takes place every four years between the football teams of the UEFA European Football Confederation. The Euro Cup is named after Henri Delaunay - the first UEFA General Secretary, who also gave birth to the idea of organizing the European Football Championship.

UEFA commissioned the famous jeweler Arthus-Bertrand in Paris to design. The Henri Delaunay Trophy measuring 18cm tall and weighing 2kg is crafted from high-grade silver - an alloy with 92.5% Silver composition and almost no oxidation. It was crafted and done by a jeweler over a period of almost a year.

 

 

This Henri Delaunay Cup was used from Euro 60s to Euro 2004. But at EURO 2008, FIFA decided to upgrade Henri Delaunay. UEFA wanted to improve both the quality and size of the Euro Silver Cup to create a highlight for the once-in-a-four football event. Stemming from that goal, insiders realized that the size of the original Cup was too small and needed renovation.

 

This improvement work was assigned to Asprey - a famous British jeweler who designed Queen Elizabeth I's Crown. Basically, the cup retains its original shape. The material that makes up the Cup is still pure silver, but it is 18 cm taller and 2 kg heavier than the Cup designed by Arthus-Bertrand in 1960.

 

Another change is that the embossed kicker image on the back of the original cup has been omitted. The silver base of the Trophy has also been enlarged to provide stability. The name of the country that won the championship, which was previously displayed on the base of the Cup, is now engraved on the back.

 

Up to this point, Germany and Spain are the two teams with the most times to lift the Henri Delaunay Cup with three crowns.

 

3/ Premier League Trophy

 

The Premier League is always known as the most attractive club match in the world because of the fierce competition between the big teams along with the huge amount of TV rights. 

 

The Premier League has two cups: a real cup held by the defending champions and a reserve replica. These two cups will be used in the event that the two clubs may have a chance to win it on the final day of the season. In the case that more than two teams compete for the title on the last day of the season, a replica trophy won by a previous club will be used.

 

 

The current Premier League Trophy is crafted by Royal Jewelers Asprey of London. The trophy consists of a trophy body and a gold crown, with a base made of malachite. The cup base weighs 15kg and the cup body weighs 10kg. Both body and base are 76cm high, 43cm wide, and 25cm deep. The main body of the trophy is made of pure set silver and gilded silver, while the base is made of malachite - a gemstone. Surrounding the trophy will be a silver medal where the champion's name is written. The blue malachite also represents the green of the grass on the field.

 

The trophy is designed based on the emblem of the Three Lions. Two lions are placed on either side of the Cup. The third symbolized lion is the winning team captain lifting that Cup.

 

And then the golden crown will be on the player's head. The ribbons on the handles also show the colors of the teams that won that year's tournament.

 

Currently, Manchester United is the club with the most number of Premier League titles with 13 upgrades, far ahead of the second-placed team, Chelsea. The special case is Liverpool. The Kop are yet to have any Premier League titles. However, they are the club with 18 times winning the English national championships before the birth of the Premier League.

 

In the 2003-2004 season, a special unique gold version of the cup was specially created for Arsenal's players as they won the championship with an undefeated record. And it is also the only gold trophy in history since the tournament was established in 1992.

 

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2/ UEFA Champions League Trophy

 

Perhaps all football fans are avid fans of the European Cup, officially known as the UEFA Champions League.

 

Since 1992 any club that has won the Champions League games can be considered the champion of champions when this competition is a collection of the best clubs in Europe. For any professional player, their dream has been to once raise this prestigious Silver Cup because it is considered the standard, the measure of a successful season with the top Europe clubs. 

 

The Champions League Cup is 74cm tall, weighs 8kg, and is worth around 200,000 Swiss francs. The cup-winning team also received a gold medal and a smaller replica of the cup; also reserves the right to keep the real cup for one year before handing it back to UEFA in its original condition one month before the final of the following season. Because the two cup straps are shaped like the ears of an elephant, football fans also call this Cup with the intimate name that is the Elephant Ear Cup.

 

 

Before 2009, if a team won the championship 3 times in a row or 5 different times, that team had the right to permanently own this Cup. And then, UEFA will have to make another cup completely identical. Up to now, only five clubs have had the honor of keeping this cup permanently. It is Real Madrid with 13 times winning the championships, and it is the club with the most Championship titles in the league. It is followed by AC Milan 7 times, Bayern Munich 5 times, including 3 times in a row, Liverpool 6 times, and Ajax Amsterdam 4 times and it has 3 times in a row.

 

However, since 2009, UEFA will keep the original trophy forever. Thus, if a club has won all five or three consecutive championships, it will receive a copy of the cup of the same size with the champion's name engraved on it along with the insignia for the winners. winner. It's a small logo on a gray background. The logo is a partial outline of the cup with a white border, in the middle is a number representing the number of times the club has won the C1 championship.

 

These 5 clubs will join Barcelona with their fifth championship in the 2014-2015 season and have been honored to have their teachers badged every time they play. The eight iconic stars on the UEFA Champions League logo represent the eight best teams that have successfully defended the championship: Real Madrid, Benfica, Inter, AC Milan, Ajax, Bayern Munich, Liverpool, and Nottingham Forest.

 

1/ FIFA World Cup Trophy

 

If the UEFA Champions League is considered the most prestigious tournament at the club level, then the FIFA World Cup is the dream of all players of all national teams around the world. Since its first appearance in 1930, two versions of the cup have been presented to the champion. The Jules Rimet Cup was awarded from 1930 to 1970, and the FIFA World Cup Cup was awarded from 1974 to the present. The trophy's original name was Victory, but it was later renamed to honor former FIFA President Jules Rimet.

 

By order of FIFA, this trophy was completed in 1928 by a Parisian jeweler named Abel Lafleur. It was cast in 1.8 kg real gold with a 4 kg granite base and was valued at US$10,000 at the time. The Jules Rimet Trophy has the symbol of Nike - the god of victory in Greek mythology.

 

 

The Brazil club had the honor of keeping the cup forever when they won it for the third time in 1970. However, this Jules Rimet Cup was stolen in 1983 and to this day the original has not been found. It is believed that the Cup was melted into gold by thieves.

 

The competition to choose the replacement cup was organized by FIFA in preparation for the 1974 World Cup. 53 samples and sculptors created were sent in from 17 countries around the world. Finally, the work of Italian artist Silvio Gazzaniga was selected by the FIFA Committee. The World Football Federation also named this Cup the FIFA World Cup.

 

The Trophy will be awarded on a rotating basis, meaning that no winning team will be able to keep it permanently. But the winning team will be awarded a miniature model trophy and keep the actual trophy in between the two World Cups.

 

The 36.5 cm high trophy is made of 5 kg of 18-carat gold with a diameter of 13 cm including two layers of malachite blue stone. The Cup was required to be hollowed out inside, as if made of solid gold, it would probably mold from 70 to 80 kilograms - too heavy to hold the Cup high.

 

Bertoni - a famous jeweler in the city of Milano is the one who crafted the Cup with a total weight of 6,175kg worth $200,000. With the symbolism of two men holding the earth, artist Gazzaniga depicted the cup with lines popping up from the bottom, spiraling upward to expand and embrace the world. That sculptural art highlights the compact human figure rising up elegantly, showing the image of two male athletes in the jubilant moment of victory. West Germany captain Franz Beckenbauer was the first person to hold the trophy at the World Cup in 1974.

 

At the base of the cup, the words FIFA World Cup are embossed.  The winning team at each World Cup will be engraved on the bottom of the Cup. As of 2018, 12 historical champions have been engraved on the base. If the Brazilian team has the honor to keep the Jules Rimet Cup permanently, then the German team is the national team with the most number of times to raise the FIFA World Cup Gold Cup with three championships since this cup was born in 1974.

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