Until recently soccer’s Mt. Olympus has had two and only two—Pele and Diego Armando Maradona.  However, over the last decade, one player has made the case that he too belongs among these two greats of the sport with his collective and individual...

The second to last game of Brazil 2014 took place today at the Nacional stadium in Brasilia.  In the game nobody likes to play the Netherlands beat host nation Brazil to claim the third place of the tournament. The game began with an all too familiar...

Brazil lost against Germany in the first semifinal of the 2014 World Cup, but the story is not that the host nation failed to reach the final, but the fashion in which it all took place.  Before the end of the first half Germany lea Brazil by five goals...

Who would have thought that the two goal scorers for Brazil would be their star cornerbacks Thiago Silva and David Luiz, nevertheless the Brazilians found their way through to the semifinals, after beating the Colombians upstarts 2-1. Brazil found...

There are not enough adjectives to describe what took place in Bello Horizonte as the knockout stages of Brazil 2014 got under way.  90 minutes were not enough, 30 extra minutes were not enough and we were provided with the first penalty shootout of...

The final series of group-stage games, which will provide two teams from each group to advance into the knockout stages of the FIFA World Cup Brazil 2014, is underway. Group B was the first in action, with Chile playing the Netherlands and Spain facing...

There is nothing like it.  Nothing comes close to the emotions that a World Cup awakens. The anticipation, the nerves, the passion, and the hopes and dreams created are unmatched. The whole world will be watching as 32 countries compete on soccer’s...