The Official Brazil 2014 World Cup Thread

Here's the prize money FIFA gives to each team according to their finishing position, or round. I suppose a good part of it is given to the players:

• US$8 million – To each team eliminated at the group stage (16 teams)
• US$9 million – To each team eliminated in the round of 16 (8 teams)
• US$14 million – To each team eliminated in the quarter-finals (4 teams)
• US$20 million – Fourth placed team
• US$22 million – Third placed team
• US$25 million – Runner-up
• US$35 million – Winner

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazil_2014#Prize_money

 

So if my bad math skills are correct, that's $358 million total. That's a crapload of money.

 

That's only the money the FIFA pays. National football assosiations, hand out money for a win or getting into the next round too. Germany i.e. will pay 300,00 Euro ($407,000) to each player, if they win the title. Spain was about to give 750,000 each, but that's another story

The Brasil vs Columbia game, was played very hard and the Spanish referee let it went on this way. Too bad it finally ended into Neymar got serious hurt and the Columbian player didn't even get carded.

I would have preferred, to play vs Columbia, so we didn't have to play vs the whole stadium too. Furthermore, I hope we get a better referee, because this kind of foul-football isn't exactly what we like to play

@TJ, game will start at 10 pm here, so that's okay

 

I'm still confident in my earlier pick of Argentina to win it all.

 

Kudos to Costa Rica. They played with way more heart then the Dutch, only to loose the penalty shootout.

So we're going to have two S. America vs Europe semin-finals. Not sure if to hope Argentina beats the crap out of Oranje or we.

 

Germany vs. Netherlands is my final. duck FIFA and its objective to have a south american champion no matter what.

 

Marco Rodriguez will be the ref in the Brazil vs. Germany semifinal. He's Mexican, and the guy who missed Luis Suarez's bite...

 

No! An American referee, he probably speaks portoguiese too and can comunicate better with the Brasilians.

 

In the Mexican league he always seems to favor Club America (and old joke we have over here...usually the best mexican ref is the one who favors them the most), which by the way, plays with yellow jerseys...

Just saying...

 

We are screwed!

 

Here what each German player earns as a bonus

 

brazil all the way doges !!!!

only because that's who i got in my pool. oh plus duck the eurotrash !

 

Idk why but I find myself disliking Germany.

Also, I really really don't line the Netherlands, only because that douche robben is a douche. And I think it's funny that I come to that conclusion do quickly during this world cup, because apparently that's basically the widely held opinion of him.

 

Tonight's game is probably the most unpredictable game of the whole tournament. Brazil have lost both the only in-form attacker and only defender period for the game, yet with the embarrassingly bias officiating and Low's absolute butchering of the German line-up...I just don't know how to call it.

 

It's because Germans are the wurst.

 

go Germany!!! polands not in the world cup but the germans have a polish player named lucas podolski

 

Wow Brazil down 4-0 and it's not even 30 minutes in. Lmao