Maracana memories as a new section awaits
- Last in a array on eye-catching World Cup images
- This one captures a Trophy unaware a 2014 Final
- Germany’s Maracana idea favourite among several blank Russia 2018
In a fast-moving universe of football, it already seems a apart memory.
Yet this FIFA World Cupâ„¢ Final from 4 years ago represents a final glance of a pleasing game’s biggest tournament. It will sojourn that way, too, during slightest for a subsequent week, until a new section in a World Cup story starts maturation in Russia subsequent Thursday with a 2018 edition’s Opening Match.
The 2014 decider unfolded, of course, in a fantastic vicinity of Rio de Janeiro’s Maracana stadium, and resulted in German exhilaration and Argentinian heartbreak.
Manuel Neuer described a win as a “dream come true”, while Mario Gotze reflected on a “indescribable moment” that was his extra-time winner.
But while Joachim Low lauded Gotze as “a spectacle child – a child wonder” in a game’s aftermath, a 2014 hero’s repudiation from Germany’s 2018 squad reflects how fast football moves on. Indeed, only 9 of Low’s title-winning patrol have done a cut for Russia 2018.
The theatre is therefore set for new heroes to emerge, and for uninformed tales to unfold.
Did we know?
Among a singular equipment from Brazil 2014 during a FIFA World Football Museum in Zurich is a tracksuit ragged by another of Germany’s Maracana heroes, Thomas Muller.
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