FIFA World Cup preceding three years, to determine which teams qualify for the tournament phase, which is often called the "World Cup Finals". After this, 32 teams, including the automatically qualifying host nation(s), compete in the tournament phase for the title at venues within the host nation(s) over a period of about a month. The 21 World Cup tournaments have been won by eight national teams. Brazil have won five times, and they are the only team to have played in every tournament. The other World Cup winners are Germany and Italy, with four titles each; Argentina, France and inaugural winner Uruguay, with
2019 United States FIBA Basketball World Cup team for the World Cup, when the Americans plans to switch to a team of NBA players coached by Gregg Popovich. After winning the past two World Cups in 2010 and 2014, Team USA is seeking to become the first country to capture three straight gold medals. In 2015, FIBA changed the World Cup qualification process into a two-round tournament of home-and-away round robins over 16 months, which was similar to FIFA World Cup's process for soccer. Olympic gold no longer resulted in an automatic World Cup bid. The U.S. is in the Americas group of 16 teams battling for 12