ocr: SPORTS people during the 1990 finals in Italy; the final the world. And nine decades after the formation alone, between Germany and Argentina, was tel- of FIFA, soccer is today the most popular sport in evised to an audience of more than one billion the world. It is played by more than 150 million people. registered players- among them some 10 million The World Cup has its roots in the Olympic women- --and viewed by billions of fans in sta- movement of the early 20th century. Fourteen diums and on televisionworiawide. In the course nations participated in the 1920 Antwerp Olym of a single year ...