The World Cup can best be described as a festival of football , a festival that lasts for a month and invigorates football fans and creates new ones instantly
The South American teams dominate
Perhaps the biggest surprise of this World Cup was the failure of so many European nations
Big nations like England Spain Italy all failed miserably and a trend emerged
, The South American teams , all of them almost played out of their skins , even though they didn't have the star players , they were collectively greater than the sum of their parts
Chile were expected to do well but no one expected them to completely press and blow away the Spanish tiki taka game , Alexis Sanchez and Arturo Vidal played like men possessed and completely ran the Spanish midfield an defence ragged
Columbia were dark horses before the tournament but still I had my doubts about them because they were missing Radamel falcao . To my surprise they completely dominated their group and the severely underrated James Rodriguez emerged as probably the best number 10 of the tournament
Uruguay started out with a whimper against Costa Rica but against the much fancied Italy and England they were awesom , they were like a well drilled tournament team which defended well and left the attacking bit to Suarez and cavani , which is fair enough
Suarez amazing in these two games but he got hungry and gave the tournament a negative spin when he bit chiellini on the shoulder and IMO his ban was spot on
Not to harsh not to lenient
The big stars came to play
The last World Cup was characterised by the failure of star players but in this World Cup the star players have come to play to say the least
Messi Neymar Benzema Rodriguez Suarez all have had awesome tournaments up till now . Even cristiano ronaldo has been good but it's just that his team has been below par
It almost looks like a Madeira team would beat the Portuguese national team
All in a it's been an amazing World Cup and one can only hope it carries on this way
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