FIFA World Cup 2022: Greatest show on Earth returns
FIFA World Cup 2022: Greatest show on Earth returns
At its best and its worst, the FIFA World Cup is more thrilling than any other event can conjure up. A live performance unequalled in its vigour and trickery, the thralling geometry of its movement a mere foil to the violent earnestness of its combat. From 1930 to 2022, from Pele to Zidane to Mbappe, here's a walk down the lanes of the history of the beautiful game
2014 A bloodsport without bloodshed If there was any doubt that football isn’t a bloodsport, watch Brazil’s humiliation in its illustrious World Cup history as they were thrashed 1-7 by Germany in 2014 semi-finals. Brazil’s defence was pierced with such frequency and brutality that the German coach’s half-time team talk was about not making a fool of the Brazilians on their soil. It was Brazil’s first World Cup semi-final defeat for 76 years, and their first defeat at home in any competitive match for 39 years.