Brazil 2014 - Costa Rica vs England
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Football Index:
World Cup Finals:
Brazil 2014: Costa Rica vs England.
1st Round Matches at Brazil 2014.
Tuesday, 24th June
Group Match - Nothing to Play For
Costa
Rica vs 
England
in Belo Horizonte.
Match Preview
In the final Group D matches, Costa Rica took on England in Belo Horizonte while Italy played Uruguay in Natal.
Costa Rica and England had never met before in international football competition.
The Match
Costa Rica only need a point to top the group; England are out.
Costa Rica would also top the group if the Italy vs Uruguay game were to end in a draw or one of the teams only win by a solitary goal.
Some encouraging signs from England, but nothing positive. Encouraging that they didn't go in at the break a goal down; nothing positive, in that they didn't score a goal to please the England fans who continued their vocal support.
All those England fans who paid to travel to Brazil, should be given a free ticket to the next home game.
Half-time: Costa Rica 0 - England 0
The yellow cards started to trickle in during the second-half; three inside
seven minutes.
One thing about this World Cup is the general lack of cards, that seems to have resulted in more goals; as less stoppage to write in the notebook equals more flowing football.
Daniel Sturridge came close to putting England in front, midway through the second-half, but nearly is not good enough.
Steven Gerrard and Wayne Rooney came on late in the second-half and almost combined for a goal; the story of the tournament for England..... almost!
Nothing doing, in a game with nothing to play for.
Final Score: Costa Rica 0 - England 0
Teams
Costa Rica:
1-Keylor Navas; 16-Cristian Gamboa, 6-Oscar Duarte, 3-Giancarlo Gonzalez, 19-Roy Miller;
15-Junior Diaz, 10-Bryan Ruiz, 5-Celso Borges, 17-Yeltsin Tejeda; 14-Randall Brenes,
9-Joel Campbel.
England:
13-Ben Foster; 16-Phil Jones, 12-Chris Smalling, 5-Gary Cahill, 23-Luke Shaw; 8-Frank
Lampard, 7-Jack Wilshere, 17-James Milner, 21-Ross Barkley; 20-Adam Lallana, 9-Daniel
Sturridge.
Referee: Djamel Haimoudi - Algeria 
3 yellow cards:
52 mins - Ross Barkley (England)
56 mins - Adam Lallana (England)
59 mins - Giancarlo Gonzalez (Costa Rica)
The Road to Rio
2014 World Cup Finals - Knockout Stage.
Second Round
Argentina vs Switzerland 
in Sao Paulo.
Brazil vs Chile 
in Belo Horizonte.
Colombia vs Uruguay 
in Rio de Janeiro.
Costa Rica vs Greece 
in Recife.
France vs Nigeria 
in Brasilia.
Germany vs Algeria
in Porto Alegre.
Holland vs Mexico 
in Fortaleza.
Quarter-finals
Argentina vs Belgium 
in Brasilia.
Brazil vs Colombia
in Fortaleza.
France vs Germany
in Rio de Janeiro.
Holland vs Costa Rica
in Salvador.
Semi-finals
Brazil vs Germany
in Belo Horizonte.
Holland vs Argentina
in Sao Paulo.
Third-Place Match
Brazil vs Holland
in Brasilia.
2014 World Cup Final
Germany vs Argentina
in Rio de Janeiro.
World Cup Finals
Uruguay 1930:
Uruguay trailed Argentina at half-time (1:2) but replied with three goals in the second half; to win the first ever World Cup Final (4-2)
on July 30th, 1930.
Italy 1934:
Italy were one of the countries who missed out on the vote to host the first World Cup but managed to win the prestigious golden trophy
for the home fans.
France 1938:
The third World Cup was held in Europe for a second time, although Germany had annexed Austria, and Spain was in civil turmoil.
Brazil 1950:
Although no cup-final as such, Uruguay and Brazil went into their final game with the winner guaranteed to be champions; a draw would be enough for Brazil.
Switzerland 1954:
The fifth World Cup tournament produced a record number of goals, including a 7:5 encounter between Austria and Switzerland in Lausanne.
Sweden 1958:
Brazil presented a 17 year-old Pele to the world; who went on to claim a hat-trick in Brazil's 5:2 semi-final win over France and bag another two in the final.
Chile 1962:
Czechoslovakia overcame Hungary in the quarter-finals and Yugoslavia in the semis, while Brazil took care of England and the host nation, Chile.
England 1966:
Geoff Hurst scored a hat-trick, in the final against West Germany, as England triumphed in a thrilling game watched by Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II.
Mexico 1970:
1970 belonged to Pelé, who earned his third World Cup winners' medal when Brazil got their hands on the Jules Rimet Cup.... for keeps.
W. Germany 1974:
Johan Cruyff was the player of the tournament as total football became the buzzword of the day, even though Holland lost to West Germany in the 1974 final.
Argentina 1978:
Holland contested the 1978 World Cup Final, in Argentina, for the second time in a row. As in West Germany,
they again finished runners-up; to the hosts.
Spain 1982:
The Spain 82 World Cup finals increased to 24 teams and the format was changed to have two group stages, with four second-round groups of three.
Mexico 1986:
In 1986, Mexico became the first nation to stage the World Cup Finals for a second time; having only staged the competition sixteen years previously.
Italy 1990:
In 1990, Italy became the World Cup of stalemates. Both semi-finals were drawn out through penalty kicks. In the final itself, the only goal came from the spot.
USA 1994:
Once Team US had played a few games most of the nation began to understand they were hosting the greatest show on earth and how the game was played.
France 1998:
France became the sixth nation to win the World Cup on home soil. Thirty-two teams competed in the 16th World Cup; better known as France 98.
Korea-Japan 2002:
The 17th World Cup, held in Korea and Japan, was the first World Cup finals to be shared by two hosts and the first to be held in Asia.
Germany 2006:
The 2006 World Cup Finals ran from 9th June to 9th July; the opening
match in Munich and the final in Berlin. Munich and Dortmund hosted the
semi-finals.
South Africa 2010:
Eighty years after the First World Cup Finals in Uruguay, the world's most prestigious football competition was finally hosted on the African continent.
Brazil 2014:
Five times World Cup Champions, Brazil, get a second chance to hold the prestigious World Cup Finals; 64 years after they last hosted the tournament.
Russia 2018:
VAR made its World Cup debut and set out to change the course of a game with some crucial rule infringement watching and vital on the spot decisions.
Qatar 2022:
When FIFA executives met in Zurich to decide on who would host the 2018 and 2022 World Cup Finals, Qatar was probably the biggest surprise to many.
United 2026:
The 2026 FIFA World Cup Finals will be jointly hosted by Canada, Mexico
and the United States. The United Bid won the hosting rights ahead of
Morocco.
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