The Soccer World Cup 2014

The Football world cup (Soccer) began in the year 1930.Since then every four years except in the years1942& 1946 , when it was not held due to Second World War. The current Champion of the World Cup is Spain by virtue of their winning the title in the year 2010 when Was held inSouth Africa. In the past the World cup football(Soccer),was won mostly by the Latin American nation Brazil 5 times ,4 times by Italy,3 times West Germany,2 times by Argentina& the inaugural winner of 1930 World Cup Uruguay. The other nations who had the title once are England France& Spain. The inaugural two matches were held simultaneously on The 13th of July 1930 between France & Mexico an USA&Belgium. The matches were won by France& USA. Thus France& USA are the winners of the first match played simultaneously in World Cup. In the current World Cup held in Brazil,there were a lot of surprises until now.the holders Spain was eliminated in the first round itself.The 4 time title winners Italy also got themselves out of the World Cup. The most celebrated team Brazil who had the title 5 times ,had performed as a dark shadow of their past Glory until now. The Days of the great Masters like Pele,Ronaldo,Ronaldinho,Kaka,Carlos,Romario are gone & the present Brazil Team was held to a draw by their Arch rival Mexico& in the pre quarter match against Chily they just escaped from the jaw of defeat after penalty Shoot out . Chily Played brave game& was worth winning by all means taking into account the short passes,long Passes,dribbling ,shots to the Goal& above all their understanding in the field were much better than Brazil. Except for the Performance from their Goal keeper Julio caser & striker Neymar ,the Brazilian Team looked an ordinatry team.in view of this,Brazil does not appear to have a sure place in the final.it is also reported that when Brazii's game extended to Penality Shoot out ,a couple of their fans collapsed due to heart attack. There are a few teams left in the competition who have not won a world cup title so far. They are Colombia,Netherlands,Costa Rica,Nigeria,Switzerland,Algeria,Belgium and USA. Out of these 8 teams worth of winning this World cup for the first time,Netherlands,Belgium& USA are likely to be the fore runners forerunners for the title taking into account their performance in this World Cup until now. The World Cup football is the Most widely viewed & followed sporting event in the World exceeding even the Olympics Games. The most tragic casualty of this World cup is the exit of Mexico who were performing well .But the cruel ill luck In the injury time against Holland decided their fate. The last World Cup held in 10 Stadiums all over South Africa,on an avergge over 50,000 people watched each match. This is a measure indicating how popular the World cup football( Soccer) is around the World. Generally ,people have a fancy for anything new .the World cup does not appear to be an exception for this kind of thinking. As the most popular team Brazil does not appear to be worth of winning the current cup,taking into account their Performance so far which depended more on luck than genuine skill,a new Champion is always welcome. Let us hope One of the three teams Netherlands,Belgium& USA would come up as the new champion of the most popular and Spectacular Sporting event, Football World Cup 2014. SreedharanMundanat 30th June 2014 09-20 AM(IST)