Hanuš DiGuiseppi

The World Cup is a huge badge of honor and a point of pride for many countries, whether they’re looking to add to their collection of wins or finally join the elusive club of victors. In addition to the pride and national honor, these players are competing for a chance to hoist the famed World Cup trophy.

Here are 10 facts about the World Cup trophy:

The trophy was originally named “Victory” before being renamed in 1944 after Jules Rimet, the third President of FIFA. The inaugural World Cup was held under Rimet’s tenure and he is often credited as being the creator of the tournament.

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on FIFA.

In the months leading up to the 1966 World Cup in England, the Jules Rimet Trophy was on display at the Stanley Gibbons Stampex rare stamp collection exhibit in Westminster. Accounts vary on how the thief bypassed security, but the trophy vanished in plain sight.

When Joe Mears, chairman of the Football Association, received a ransom note demanding £15,000, the police dispatched a team to the meetup site and arrested Edward Betchley, a petty thief who claimed that he was simply the middleman.

Betchley was in custody, but a week went by and the trophy was still nowhere to be found. David Corbett, a local lighterman, was out for a walk with his dog Pickles when the Collie took note of a package in the bushes nearby. The trophy was returned and Pickles was immortalized with countless honors and a loyal fanbase.

Nearly two decades later, the trophy went missing again… this time for good, without the heroics of Pickles. The trophy, settling in Brazil since 1970, was stolen in the middle of the night and rumored to have been melted down into gold bars, despite not being pure gold.

While the federation still fell victim to theft after the Pickles event, they had the wherewithal to create a replica before the second incident.

The trophy is now permanently stored at the FIFA World Football Museum in Zurich, Switzerland. It does leave for rare occasions including the World Cup trophy tour, the draw for the next World Cup, the tournament’s opening game and of course, the Finals.

Just because the trophy no longer embarks on a world tour, doesn’t mean the winning country goes home empty-handed.

Instead, FIFA has a bronze replica that is gifted to the winning country.

The most valuable trophy in the world is surprisingly small compared to the likes of the Stanley Cup and Vince Lombardi Trophy.

Measuring at 14.5 inches and 13.5 pounds, the trophy is easily held by players.

It’s never been confirmed, but all signs point to a hollow trophy. Experts say that a dense trophy of solid gold would be far too heavy for even some of the best athletes in the world to hoist, leaving many to believe that the trophy is in fact hollow.

There isn’t a clear-cut list for the most expensive sports trophies in the world, but the World Cup trophy is consistently believed to be the most valuable… and it’s not particularly close at around $20 million.

The next most valuable trophy -- horse racing’s Woodlawn Vase -- checks out at a mere $2.5 million.

Unlike the Stanley Cup -- which features the names of every member of the winning team -- the relatively small size of the World Cup trophy requires some creativity. Rather, the name of the championship country is inscribed on the bottom of the trophy in the native language of the winner.

There was a mix-up, however, in 2006, when the trophy was inscribed with “Spain” instead of “España.”

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The e-ticket status codes are visible from the e-ticket record display, TWD.

The following table lists the existing e-ticket statuses.

Note: All statuses are not used or supported by all airlines.

(a) = Status codes that may only be set by an airline, provided that the change is permitted in accordance with IATA resolution 20.60 or IATA resolution 722f as applicable.

(c) = Status codes that may be set by either a CRS or an airline.

Whenever a CRS changes the status to one marked with a (c), the status immediately prior to the change must be O (open for use).

Whenever an airline internally changes the status to one marked with a (c), the status immediately prior to the change may be any status, provided that the change is permitted in accordance with ATA resolution 20.60 or IATA resolution 722f as applicable.

(i) = Status code O that may be set by a CRS only at the time of ETKT issuance. It may be set internally by an airline at any time for any change from another status code to O, provided that the change is permitted in accordance with ATA resolution 20.60 or IATA resolution 722f as applicable.

(d) = U - Unavailable: Indicates Interim status (airport control, checked-in, irregular operations, lifted/boarded, refund taxes/fees/charges only, suspended, unavailable).

(e) = Y - Refund Taxes/Fees/Charges Only: Indicates the validating carrier has determined the coupon is no longer available for use as ticketed, applicable taxes/fees/charges may be refunded and considered as closed status.

(f) = Z - Closed: Indicates the Validating Carrier has determined the coupon is not available for use. This is a final status, no follow-up action is permitted.

(g) = A FIM (Flight Interruption Manifest) is issued by the airline when the airline has to involuntarily reroute a passenger due to flight cancellation or major flight delay.

Airline offices can indicate a reason for an involuntary change to the itinerary, such as a rerouting, or a change in flight accommodation, such as an upgrade or a downgrade. The involuntary indicator appears in the I column, which is next to the ST column and is not shown in the e-ticket record display here.

The following table lists the involuntary statuses:

Remarks on the status requirements for e-ticketing transactions: