Clockwise from top-left: Saipan , The Miracle of Bern , Sixty-Six , and Pele: Birth of a Legend. Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos: Sunrise Films, Univesal Pictures, IFC Films, First Independent Pictures For a tournament often billed as the world’s greatest sporting spectacle, the men’s World Cup seems curiously underrepresented in cinema. By our reckoning, there have been only 20 fictional films — less than one per tournament cycle — themed around the Jules Rimet trophy since it was first