FIFA World Cup in 2006. One of the bus attendant was wearing this.The 2006 FIFA World Cup was the 18th, the international football world championship tournament. It was held from 9 June to 9 July 2006 in Germany, which won the right to host the event in July 2000. Teams representing 198 national football associations from all six populated continents participated in the qualification process which began in September 2003. Thirty-one teams qualified from this process, along with the host nation, Germany, for the finals tournament. It was the second time Germany had hosted the FIFA World Cup while it was the first since the reunification in 1990 (the 1974 was held as West Germany).