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Part One: Switzerland, Spain and Austria
10 July ~ As the 2014WorldCup comes to its climax with a final between Germany and Argentina this weekend we asked football magazines from around Europe to ...
A look at how attitudes towards Germany's national team have changed over the years, inspired by the music of Kraftwerk. By WSC illustrator Tim Bradford.
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... e signed contracts with various players, but local commercial interest in this WorldCup is less intense than in 2010, when they beat fierce local rivals Egypt in a play-off to qualify having been abse ...
... in their last WorldCup appearance in 2002. In addition, at Euro 2012 they started brightly in their group, beating the Czechs 4-1, but then got progressively worse before crashing out with a 1-0 defeat ...
... e has recorded the official WorldCup song in French, which caused some controversy as he's Flemish. With the majority of Belgian travelling fans being Dutch-speaking, it's not obvious that the offici ...
US hopes were tempered by their difficult group draw, yet initial despondency has been replaced by a restrained optimism. The theory goes that if they can beat their WorldCup bogey team Ghana in the first ...
Nigeria head to Brazil as unexpected African champions, which has increased fans' expectations. Although the usual bonus-related tensions can't be ruled out, coach Stephen Keshi has largely been able to ...
... amsung Galaxy (with Lionel Messi) and Bimbo bread (taking over from Messi), to name but a few. Around half of his £27 million-plus annual earnings reportedly come from endorsements.
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... although a number of Bosnian players have featured in previous WorldCups as part of multi-ethnic Yugoslav sides.
Is the coach popular? Safet Susic is a national hero, popular throughout the forme ...
What are the expectations for the team? Perhaps a little more muted than normal, mostly because of coach Alejandro Sabella's quieter, less all-out-attacking style. But given the nature of the draw I think ...
... t each other's teams. Reinaldo Rueda took Honduras to the 2010 WorldCup finals, and was naturalised as Honduran by the country's congress. Government ministers in Ecuador want him to get the same hon ...
What are the expectations for the team? Following the players' strike at the 2010 finals the French public fell out of love with their national team so spectacularly that any mention of the WorldCup can ...
... will not be releasing a WorldCup record – the Swiss FA press officer says he was in favour of one but lost the argument.
What will the media coverage be like? The TV coverage across the various lan ...
What are the expectations for the team? The achievements of the national team at the last three WorldCups, combined with the host of titles won by Bayern Munich's homegrown players in recent years, mea ...
... ng an energy company. However, 1982 WorldCup-winner Paolo Rossi's performance in an ad for a leading credit card company, gulping anxiously as he sits in a Rio barbershop chair while the razor-wielding propri ...
What are the expectations for the team? Despite Uruguay's struggles in qualification, expectations are relatively high for the WorldCup itself. They are a strong tournament team, have history on thei ...
... lute when he scores, but the rest of the team have nothing prepared.
What will the media coverage be like? The coverage is huge even when Costa Rica are not in the WorldCup, so in 2014, and with one of ...
... best football for years if they are to make it – although fans will expect at least one positive result along the way. Ivory Coast had the strongest first round groups for the last two WorldCups, so thei ...
... ed stunts are slim.
What will the media coverage be like? It will be non-stop and anyone who has ever represented the Samurai Blue at a WorldCup finals, including but not limited to Masashi Nakayama ...