The biggest competition of football tournaments, the FIFA World Cup is about to begin right from 12 June 2014 and will complete after one month in 13 July 2014. This 20th FIFA World Cup is being for the second time in the history the FIFA World Cup 2014 by Brazil, a country gifted with natural resources and rich cultural aspects. Before hosting this, Brazil had arranged the FIFA World Cup in the year 1950. One of the S. American countries, Brazil was chosen by consent and uncontested to be the FIFA World Cup 2014 host country in an election conducted in 2007. As per the statement issued by FIFA, this competition is being organized in South American continent for the fifth time where as the first it had been hosted by Argentina in 1978.
There are altogether 32 countries including the organizer country Brazil to contest only in the matches. The other 31 countries were successful to be selected through the FIFA qualifying matches held in June 2013. The qualified teams will play 64 matches. To host these matches the stadiums some of which are setup new whereas others are renovated are located in twelve different Brazilian cities– Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, Brasilia, Belo Horizonte, Cuiaba, Curitiba, Fortaleza, Manaus, Natal, Porto Alegre, Recife and Salvador respectively out of the twelve, Stadium, Six-Rio De Janeiro, Fortaleza, Belo Horizonte, Porto Algre, Salvador and Curitiba are renovated to be used for the FIFA World Cup 2014 while other Six Stadium have been newly built. Among six new, some have already completed and some are under construction. Rio de Janeiro is the largest stadium with the total capacity 76,935 spectators. The opening match is scheduled to take in Sao Paulo at 17:00 hour on 12 June 2014 between Brazil and Croatia. However, the matches for the third place will be held between the loser teams of the match 61 and 62 respectively at 17:00 hour on 12 July 2014 in Brasilia and the final match will be played between the winner teams from match 61 and 62 at 16:00 hour on July in 2014 in Brasilia and the final match will be played between the winner teams from 61 and 62 at 16:00 hour on July 2014 at the largest stadium of the world cup this time Rio de Janeiro.
Uruguay, Italy, Germany, England, Argentina, France, Spain and Brazil who have been successful in bagging the trophy of the FIFA World Cup -either one of the other – since the first organization of this tournament in 1930 – have continued their journey to the trophy this time also. Nonetheless, Spain can prove themselves a great threat to other champion teams since their victory over the Netherlands by 1-0 in the final tournament held in the19th FIFA World Cup. Coincidently all the four world cups that had been hosted in S. America were beaten by the national teams of the very continents, It’s the ‘wait – and – see’ situation will they again be able to keep p the record?
This time the FIFA has announced to use a new and fair technology namingly ‘goal-line technology’ in the final matches in order to prevent controversy in the match. The technology which was developed by the German company Goal control and provided to the FIFA in Oct. 2013 is believed to be of much assistance to the referees on the ground that it was experimented flawlessly three times at the 2012 club WC, 2013 Club WC and 2013 Confederations Cup. Next new use will be of ‘Vanishing Spray’ in the final matches of this world cup. This spray which vanishes after a minute was successfully tested at the 2013 FIFAU-20 WC, 2013 FIFA U-17 WC and 2013 FIFA Club WC. This spray will be used during a free kick to mark the ten-yard line and the circle to put the ball.
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