The FIFA tries for many years already to expand the range of leading soccer nations. More nations were allowed to participate. The ration of European countries was reduced. Development resources were poured into potential new markets.
True: The gap between the teams did shrink quite a bit. But now we [...]

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The group games saw pretty solid referees performances. A lot of good calls. That has has changed quite a bit with the heightened intensity of the knock out round.

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The world cup is in a transitional phase right now. The first teams are returning home (and let go of their coaches). The remaining teams are hyping up a bit more.

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The answer is pretty simple: All of them.
Here is the reason why:
Related to Forrest Gump you could say that soccer is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you are going to get.
Some of the most acclaimed teams have performed rather poorly and unexciting so far. Just [...]

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Here is a team that has been written off by their national press. The have the strongest league in the world but much of that is credited to the foreign superstars in their teams.
It looked like the blend of the Spanish players sans their foreign stars was just the perfect mix. [...]

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The highly anticipated first appearance of the hyped up Brazilian all-super star team ended in a pretty big disaster even though the team won 1:0.

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We are into day four of the tournament. Twenty teams have played so far. time for a little update. The game continues to get faster. The effects of Adidas introducing a new “fastball” for the tournament are noticeable in my eyes.
The atmosphere in and around the stadiums is great. I spoke [...]

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4 years of cold turkey are cover. The biggest sport event of the world is about to take off. The LA Times titled last Sunday already: “Party on Klaus!”. Usually they don’t talk to me the directly;-)
Our blog countdown of videos to warm up is over. All I need now is a few stretches and [...]

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This little clip tells you more about Italian passion and culture than three weeks of site seeing;-)
You don’t have to understand a word of Italian to get the story.
And yes: Soccer does matter and is obviously more important than trivial questions about life or death;-)

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The very super best collection of soccer mishaps. MUST SEE !!!!!!!
This one can’t be topped. It should have been reserved for the last day of the countdown but I couldn’t control myself.
Sit down with a cup of coffee and enjoy this collection for the connoisseurs.

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