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Zig Zag Towers in Doha, Qatar

2018 FIFA World Cup

Tournament details

• Host country Russia
• Dates 14 June – 15 July
• Teams 32 (from 5 confederations)
• Venue(s) 12 (in 11 host cities)

The defending champions, Germany, were knocked out in the group stage. It was the first time since 1938 that a German side did not advance from the first stage of a World Cup tournament, and the fourth time in the last five World Cups that the title holders had been eliminated in the opening stage of the tournament after France in 2002, Italy in 2010, and Spain in 2014.

Saturday, June 30, 2018

Cavani, Ronaldo and Suarez.

Diego Maradona displayed a banner of a stained glass picture of himself (from the 1990 World Cup) during Argentina vs. Nigeria match. (26 June 2018) 😃⚽😎

Robert Lewandowski; Poland vs. Japan

Final; Moscow 15 July 2018







France President Emmanuel Macron embraces Kylian Mbappe next to his Croatian counterpart Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic








Russia president Valdimir Putin stays dry as his FIFA counterpart Gianni Infantino (left) takes the brunt of the storm

Brazilians react to World Cup heartbreak following loss

Brazilian fans react to their team’s 7-1 loss at the end of their 2014 World Cup semifinals against Germany at the Mineirão Stadium in Belo Horizonte.

• Brazil has won five World Cups but no Brazilian has won a Nobel prize.
• In winning the right to host this year’s World Cup (and the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro in 2016) Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Brazil’s then president, wanted to highlight that the country now has other reasons for confidence beyond football. The tournament would showcase the planet’s seventh-largest economy, a vibrant democracy and remarkable social progress that has seen poverty and income inequality fall steadily in this century.

The 7-1 semi-final thrashing on July 8th 2014 at the hands of Germany in Belo Horizonte’s Mineirão stadium was Brazil’s Armageddon. It was not just the scale of defeat—the worst since 1920. It was also the manner in which Germany’s fast and technically superior players cut through the home defence, as easily as a machete through cassava. To rub salt in a gaping wound, it is Argentina—Brazil’s arch-rivals—who will face Germany in the final on July 13th.

This humiliation has left Brazilians shell-shocked. No other country in the world has a closer identification with football, as Rodrigues’s hyperbole highlights. That may partly be because Brazil has no real Hiroshimas to fear: apart from brief engagement on the Allied side in Italy in 1944-45, it has not fought a war since the 1860s (against Paraguay). Through good fortune and tolerance, it faces neither military threats, nor terrorism, nor ethnic or religious tensions.

 On Tuesday, the pain was raw and immediate. Even Dilma Rousseff, Brazil’s president, felt it necessary to post her sadness on Twitter. “I am immensely sorry for all of us,” she wrote.

Iconic “sad Brazilian fan holding World Cup trophy” later handed that trophy off to a German fan

Brazilian newspapers react to World Cup heartbreak following loss

Confira quais são as maiores goleadas da História das Copas do Mundo

1) 15/06/1982- Hungria 10 – 1 El Salvador

2) 18/06/1974- Iugoslávia 9 x 0 Zaire

17/06/1954- Hungria 9 x 0 Coreia do Sul

3) 01/06/2002- Alemanha 8 x 0 Arábia Saudita

12/06/1938- Suécia 8 x 0 Cuba

4) 21/06/2010- Portugal 7 x 0 Coreia do Norte

19/06/1974- Polonia 7 x 0 Haiti

20/06/1954- Turquia 7 x 0 Coréia do Sul

19/06/1954- Uruguai 7 x 0 Escócia

5) 08/07/2014 - Alemanha 7 – 1 Brasil

03/07/1950- Brasil 7 x 1 Suécia

27/05/1934 - Itália 7 x 1 Estados Unidos

 We Are One (Ole Ola) [The Official 2014 FIFA World Cup Song] (Olodum Mix)

World Cup 2014 : Argentina vs Switzerland final score 1-0

Argentina moves on to the quarterfinal round, staying alive in this World Cup almost entirely thanks to Messi’s individual brilliance, and will face Belgium, a 2-1 winner over the United States.

Russia will host the 2018 World Cup; Qatar was selected as host of the 2022 World Cup

• Russia will host the 2018 World Cup
• Qatar will host the 2022 World Cup

ZURICH (AP) - Russia will host the 2018 World Cup.
It was chosen Thursday by FIFA's executive committee over England and joint bids by Spain-Portugal and Netherlands-Belgium.

Russia won despite the absence of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in Zurich. At the last minute, he declined to make a final pitch for his country.

Qatar was selected as host of the 2022 World Cup, beating out a bid by the United States to bring soccer's showcase back to America for the first time since 1994.

FIFA's executive committee choose Qatar over the U.S., Australia, Japan and South Korea in a secret vote Thursday.

2010 World Cup's Picky Octopus

Paul, the so-called octopus oracle, sits on a soccer ball in his tank at the Sea Life Aquarium in Oberhausen, Germany. The octopus has seemingly had a tentacle on the pulse of the tournament, becoming a global sensation after correctly picking all six results for the German team -- including a stunning first-round defeat against Serbia and the semifinal loss to Spain. Paul on Friday predicted a Spanish win over the Dutch team in Sunday's final. He also foretold a German win in Saturday's third-place match against Uruguay.