Doesn't Italy have four titles, too?
It's surprising to me that so few countries have won the WC. With France and Spain winning recently, I thought we were going to finally end the dominance of Germany, Brazil and Italy.
Italy won in 1934, 1938, 1982 and 2006. Germany won in 1954, 1974, 1990 and now 2014.
So the two leading European football powers have the most wins since the FIFA tournament began in 1930. Brazil remains the all-time leader. Argentina and Uruguay are tied for two titles and England, France and Spain have one title each.
There have been exactly three countries that have won more than three titles - only one of them from South America despite its reputation as a football powerhouse. The 2014 World Cup will be remembered in more ways than one but significantly for Germany ending a 24-year old drought since its last World Cup title.