2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil

[Yamaneko]

Best player of the tournament is Robben for me.
James was more important to Columbia than Robben to the Netherlands. Robben was on stacked team.

[Rocket Edge]

JR or Kroos would be my second choice. Columbia have a good team, underrated even. They should have beaten Brazil if they had any balls but that is more-so down to the managers tactics than the Columbian team. I don't even like Robben (I'm sure many don't), but to me he has easily been the best. The tactics of Holland's team were to feed Robben or long ball, and he always delivered.

[DarkBahamut]

I blame Psychotic for my beloved Argentina losing.

[Old Manus]

I thought Neuer was player of the tournament for me Clive

[Shiny]

Way to go Paul. All your fault. ;___;

In all honesty, happy a South American team has not won this time around, but why did it have to be Germany? Now i have to listen to all my German friends and friends who have German significant others be happy about this outcome for the next few days. Oh joy. Don't worry, World War 4 is coming soon.

[The Captain]

What a fantastic world cup!

Tied for the most goals ever scored (Thanks Brazilian Defense), plenty of new faces taking center stage and so many great games and finishes.

Ghana - Germany and USA - Belgium were the pick of the litter for me.

Messi getting the Golden Ball was.....very odd to say the least. His face pretty much said it all. Me? Seriously? He looked like someone had grounded him and told him to go to his room after he collected his trophy.

There were a few real standouts for me: JAMES, obviously. I thought Lahm had a wonderful tournament, especially once he moved back to defense. Neuer was immense. Dirk Kuyt went out in a blaze of glory as a Dutch Army Knife. Everyone's favorite butt-tearing pitbull Mascherano was outstanding. Timmy Howard had a game for the ages and David Luiz re-defined how to be play central defense by not playing it at all.

Germany were the best team in the end. They had more talent on their bench than most teams have on their starting 11. Seriously, they played without Reus, the Bender twins, barely much Gotze.... that's insane.

The real moral of the story is that patience and planning do pay off. Germany made it their mission to redefine their football after Euro 2000 and this was the fruit of their labor. I'd be hard pressed to say they aren't favorites for both Euro 2016 and Russia 2018.

Now..... we can all get back to our lives, until August at least.

I had 3 of the 4 Semi-finalists right but got the order wrong. Still, considering I picked them all pre-tournament, I'm not complaining.

Take care all.