The INAS World Football Championship is an international

association football Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...

competition for athletes with

intellectual disabilities Intellectual disability (ID), also known as general learning disability in the United Kingdom and formerly mental retardation, Rosa's Law, Pub. L. 111-256124 Stat. 2643(2010). is a generalized neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by signif ...

. It takes place every four years, typically in the country that also hosts the

FIFA World Cup The FIFA World Cup, often simply called the World Cup, is an international association football competition contested by the senior men's national teams of the members of the ' ( FIFA), the sport's global governing body. The tournament ha ...

. It is organized by the International Sports Federation for Persons with Intellectual Disability ( INAS-FID) which also organizes championships in other sports. To participate in an INAS-FID event, an athlete must have an intellectual disability that was evident before the age of 18, significant limitations in

adaptive behavior Adaptive behavior is behavior that enables a person (usually used in the context of children) to cope in their environment with greatest success and least conflict with others. This is a term used in the areas of psychology and special education. ...

, and an

IQ score An intelligence quotient (IQ) is a total score derived from a set of standardized tests or subtests designed to assess human intelligence. The abbreviation "IQ" was coined by the psychologist William Stern for the German term ''Intelligenzqu ...

below 75. The latter requirement led to controversy in 2006, when third-placed Germany was disqualified because the employed IQ tests did not accord with international standards.Fußball: "Die Jungs sollen bei der WM Spaß haben"
Westdeutsche Zeitung, 20 August 2010.

Winners

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