FIFA trophy was initially named Victory and was a gold-plated sterling silver sculpture of the Greek goddess of victory Nike. The trophy was passed over from winner to winner until 1970. That year, Brazil won the World Cup for the third time and got to keep it. They would have never seen the original trophy but for a black-and-white mongrel named Pickles, who saved it a couple of years before. But that's not the end of the amazing stories that happened to the trophy.

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