Which is the best World Cup ever? Teams National Teams. Now he is going out at the top, The two mega-events were framed as a reason for Brazilians to be proud; instead a supreme court investigation keeps unearthing unsavoury allegations, John Crace delivers a highlights package from the novelist’s correspondence with a writer friend during the 2014 World Cup, From his appointment in 2012, through three international tournaments ending with the humiliating defeat to Iceland at Euro 2016, we take a look back at Roy Hodgson’s England reign, This political history of Rio reveals a city still in the grip of its violent past. © 2020 Guardian News & Media Limited or its affiliated companies. WORLD CUP 2014 FIXTURES & RESULTS (all times GMT) GROUP A June 12 21.00 Brazil 3-1 Croatia (Sao Paulo) June 13 ... 17:00 Argentina 1-0 Switzerland (aet) (Sao Paulo) [55] JAMIE CARRAGHER: Harry Redknapp wants to return after leaving QPR... but why would he want the stress of being a boss again? Check out this video to see the most exciting goals of the tournament. My favourite game: Argentina v Iran, 2014 World Cup. ... About 2,862 results for World Cup 2014. It was the second time that Brazil staged the competition, the first being in 1950, and the fifth time that it was held in South America. All rights reserved. Available for everyone, funded by readers, My dad and I went from despair and frustration to pandemonium after Lionel Messi struck in style at the death, Before things kicked off in Russia we asked you to reminisce about your favourite World Cups. Football statistics of the country Argentina in the year 2014. Visit ESPN to view Argentina match results from all competitions, along with a season-by-season archive. Rating contenders from 1954 to 2014. July 2018. The 2014 FIFA World Cup was the 20th FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial world championship for men's national football teams organised by FIFA.It took place in Brazil from 12 June to 13 July 2014, after the country was awarded the hosting rights in 2007. This is the Argentina squad for the Fifa 2014 World Cup finals with the official squad numbers • Is this the summer Lionel Messi emulates Diego Maradona? Football statistics of the country Argentina in the year 2014. FIFA.com users have voted James Rodriguez’s first effort against Uruguay as their goal of the 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil. ... 2014. Rating contenders from 1954 to 2014, Germany’s early demise eases Brazil supporters’ recurring nightmare, ‘On the pitch there was a divide’: tales behind England’s World Cup failures, World Cup stunning moments: the 1966 World Cup, World Cup stunning moments: Italy shocked by South Korea in 2002, World Cup stunning moments: the Miracle of Bern, World Cup stunning moments: Haiti shock Dino Zoff's Italy, World Cup stunning moments: Dennis Bergkamp's wonder goal, World Cup stunning moments: Mussolini's blackshirts' 1938 win, World Cup stunning moments: Andrés Escobar's deadly own goal, World Cup stunning moments: Cameroon shock Argentina in 1990, The strange history of World Cup draws: dropouts, closed cages and dresses, Concussion protocols at 2014 World Cup failed Fifa standards, study finds, Latest Russia allegations raise big questions for Fifa – and football, Farewell Philipp Lahm, the man who won it all and left as a champion, Stadium deals, corruption and bribery: the questions at the heart of Brazil’s Olympic and World Cup ‘miracle’, Home and Away: Writing the Beautiful Game by Karl Ove Knausgaard and Fredrik Ekelund – digested read, Rio de Janeiro: Extreme City by Luiz Eduardo Soares – review. Founded 1893 Address Viamonte 1366/76 1053 Buenos Aires, Ciudad de Buenos Aires Country Argentina Phone +54 (11) 4371 9400 Fax +54 (11) 4375 4410 You did not disappoint, Random tales from the 1966 tournament that have absolutely nothing to do with Azerbaijani linesmen, Kenneth Wolstenholme or Pickles the Dog, Italy should have seen off Haiti with ease in 1974 but the group game burst into life through the unheralded Emmanuel Sanon …, On 4 July 1998 the forward took three divine touches, scored the perfect goal and sent the Netherlands into the semi-finals, An own goal at USA 94 led to horrific ramifications for Colombia’s captain, who paid the heaviest of prices for the failings of society as much as his national team, Dividing teams into groups for a football tournament should be easy but nothing is ever simple when Fifa is in charge, Almost two-thirds of head collision incidents at the tournament were not followed by players being assessed on the sidelines by medical professionals, Fifa must finally flex its muscles and deprive Russia from staging next year’s World Cup if possible doping offences by the country’s 2014 World Cup squad currently being investigated prove to be true, Philipp Lahm has won eight Bundesliga titles, six German cups, the Champions League and the World Cup.