The World Cup 2014 in Brazil

The World Cup 2014 is going to be the sporting extravaganza of the year. There is no other sporting competition this season that will generate the kind of enthusiasm that this tournament will generate. This is because football is the world game. It is the most popular sport in the world and no other sport can captivate the hearts and minds of football fans around the globe like the football World Cup.

This football World Cup in 2014 is going to be a great one to watch. There are some great teams that are playing in this tournament, teams like Portugal, Argentina, England, Brazil, Spain, and the Netherlands, to name a few. Although the tournament has only just recently started there has already been some great games played so far.

The start of the tournament featured a great opening contest between hosts Brazil and underdogs Croatia. No one expected Croatia to challenge Brazil as strongly as they did and they certainly rattled the hosts more than was expected. Eventually Brazil was able to win the match although they did it in a very scrappy fashion and Croatia won many admirers around the world with the way they played their football.

As always with a competition of this size there is drama and controversy and unfortunately this time it was a result of a highly dubious penalty decision that was awarded to Brazil. Despite the unfortunate circumstances of the penalty it was a great opening game for the World Cup 2014 and it marks the beginning of many great games to be played in this tournament.