When the whole world was busy discussing lost striking power Neymar in Brazilian team after the quarterfinal, their defense actually led them down in the semi and this South American team conceived as many as seven goals – highest in the world cup, with just one counter one in the first semifinal of 2014 world cup. The match has become historic with many feats – though painful for the Brazilians, like highest goal difference in a match, worst ever defeat for Brazil among others. Actually, Germans took the control of the game right from the beginning and never allowed their South American rivals to come even close to their lead. Neymar, the over highlighted player of the last three days, went unnoticed with the severe lapses in the defensive area. Experts are calling it the wickedest day in Brazil history especially in the world cup games while their biggest loss difference had until been just two goals that too in the world cup final. Coach Luiz Felipe Scolari is blaming himself for … [Read more...]

While Neymar’s ousted from the world cup has already become a prime time news across the world, conflicting reports are now coming via different sources - after almost three days passed he collided with Columbia player. Some of them are claiming that Barca striker could play in the final should Brazil overcome Germans in the semis and if this is true, it can surely bump whole team’s moral which is good for Seleção fans. According to local media team has had a meet with 22-year-old at his home and discussed about future course of action and if player can play in the final if not in the semis with the help of painkillers. Neymar MRI scans, taken just after the injury, show his third lumbar vertebra has been fractured and initially it was assumed to take somewhere around forty days to completely heal but now things have improved a lot. Neymar is feeling much better thank to his attending doctors who are amongst the best bone specialists. Actually, it was the double shock for his fans … [Read more...]

Brazil finally entered into the semifinal of FIFA world cup but at what cost? They lost their sensational striker Neymar for entire event after he suffered a broken vertebra during the quarterfinal match. This is perhaps the biggest shock for South Americans coz their semifinal is going to be with Germans and if they can’t find a suitable substitute by then, it would be like falling from the sky. The incident happened in 88th minute of the game when Barca star forward collided with Colombia's Juan Camilo Zuniga and later found he has broken his back and can’t play in remaining semi and final should they advance. According to team doctor Rodrigo Lasmar, injury is benign but more than enough to debar him off active football for at least one month. Luiz Felipe Scolari had predicted the scope of injury by looking at the way he was crying of pain in the field and later it was confirmed by the MRI scan. Informing the shocking loss to the whole nation, head coach of the national team, said, … [Read more...]

It always hurts when media asks you questions related to your performance and put a question mark on your skill, especially if you just played against rather an underdog. Yes, we are talking about yesterday’s last sixteen match between Germany and Algeria which was won by the Germans with a 2-1 margin, but the credit for giving a tough fight goes to the Algerians who did it again and almost put three times world cup winner under pressure. In fact, at once, it was looking like a perfect repeat of 1982 classic match where Algerians almost incapacitated the Germany to enter into the last sixteen. Anyways, though Germany won the game but it was undoubtedly a hard fought win and everyone acknowledges the tough resistance offered by the North Africans. The recent pre-quarterfinal win was also not an easy one, perhaps Germans have to fight until the extra time and Andre Schurrle and Mesut Ozil both scored in this time for the national team and took them into the last eight. If we look at … [Read more...]