FIFA World Cup 2014 - Group Standings

FIFA WORLD CUP 2014 – Group Standings
Teams		P	W	D	L	F	A	+/-	Points
GROUP A
1	Brazil	3	2	1	0	7	2	5	7
2	Mexico	3	2	1	0	4	1	3	7
3	Croatia	3	1	0	2	6	6	0	3
4	Cameroon	3	0	0	3	1	9	-8	0
GROUP B
1	Netherlands	3	3	0	0	10	3	7	9
2	Chille	3	2	0	1	5	3	2	6
3	Spain	3	1	0	2	4	7	-3	3
4	Australia	3	0	0	3	3	9	-6	0
GROUP C
1	Columbia	3	3	0	0	9	2	7	9
2	Greece	3	1	1	1	2	4	-2	4
3	Ivory Coast	3	1	0	2	4	5	-1	3
4	Japan	3	0	1	2	2	6	-4	1
GROUP D
1	Costa Rica	3	2	1	0	4	1	3	7
2	Uruguay	3	2	0	1	4	4	0	6
3	Italy	3	1	0	2	2	3	-1	3
4	England	3	0	1	2	2	4	-2	1
GROUP E
1	France	3	2	1	0	8	2	6	7
2	Switzerland	3	2	0	1	7	6	1	6
3	Ecuador	3	1	1	1	3	3	0	4
4	Honduras	3	0	0	3	1	8	-7	0
GROUP F
1	Argentina	3	3	0	0	6	3	3	9
2	Nigeria	3	1	1	1	3	3	0	4
3	Bosnia and Herzegovina	3	1	0	2	4	4	0	3
4	Iran	3	0	1	2	1	4	-3	1
GROUP G
1	Germany	3	2	1	0	7	2	5	7
2	USA	3	1	1	1	4	4	0	4
3	Portugal	3	1	1	1	4	7	-3	4
4	Ghana	3	0	1	2	4	6	-2	1
GROUP H
1	Belgium	3	3	0	0	4	1	3	9
2	Algeria	3	1	1	1	6	5	1	4
3	Russia	3	0	2	1	2	3	-1	2
4	Korea Republic	3	0	1	2	3	6	-3	1

* P: Played, W: Won, D: Drawn, L: Lost, F: Goal For, A: Goal Against, +/-: Goal difference

FIFA World Cup 2014 - Live Stream

Brazil Vs Croatia - Free Live Stream

The first match of the FIFA World Cup 2014 will be played between Brazil and Croatia on Friday, June 13, 2014 (Friday morning in India) in Arena de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo in Brazil. The match will start at 01:30 Indian Standard Time (17:00 Local

Time - Thursday, June 12, 2014). ESPN will telecast all the 64 matches of FIFA World Cup 2014.

ESPN will telecast this match online all over the world for free.

The websites mentioned below will support all the leading apps and most of latest smart phones and tablets including Apple, Samsung, Nokia, Sony, Lenovo, etc will support this live stream.

Live Stream Link:

http://espn.go.com/watchespn/

Other Live Streaming Links:

http://www.livesoccertv.com/channels/livsports-live-streaming-india/

http://streamingstv.1k.pl/

http://x.co/4oE50

http://www.tsmplug.com/world-cup-live-stream/

Get live links before the match starts:

http://www.fifaworldcuplivestreaming4all.net/

FIFA World Cup 2014 - Awards - Best Young Player

FIFA Best Young Player award is awarded to the most elegant player who is at most 21 years old in the World Cup tournament. The Best Young Player award was started in 2006 in which fans could elect their favorite player on Internet on the official website of FIFA.

Recently FIFA organized a survey to elect the Best Young Player of the World Cup tournament organized between 1958 and 2002. The stunning player of the olden days Pele (Brazil) received the highest number of votes (61%) defeating Teófilo Cubillas of Peru and Michael Owen of England.

Best Young Player Award
World Cup Venue	Year	Player	Age	Country
Sweden	1958	Pele	17	Brazil
Chile	1962	Florian Albert	20	Hungary
England	1966	Franz Beckenbauer	20	Germany
Mexico	1970	Teofilo Cubillas	21	Peru
West Germany	1974	Wladyslaw Zmuda	20	Poland
Argentina	1978	Antonio Cabrini	20	Italy
Spain	1982	Manuel Amoros	21	France
Mexico	1986	Enzo Scifo	20	Belgium
Italy	1990	Robert Prosinecki	21	Socialist Fedral Republic of Yugoslavia
United States	1994	Marc Overmars	21	Netherlands
France	1998	Michael Owen	18	England
Korea/Japan	2002	Landon Donovan	20	United States
Germany	2006	Lukas Podolski	21	Germany
South Africa	2010	Thomas Muller	20	Germany

FIFA World Cup 2014 - Awards - Fair Play

The FIFA Fair Play award is awarded to the team which is found to be most disciplined and adhering to the highest traditions of sportsmanship on the field of play during the World Cup tournament. The teams which qualify to the Second Round (Round of 16) are eligible for this trophy. The Fair Play award winners receive a diploma, a fair play medal for each player and official, and $50,000 worth of football equipment to be used for youth development.

Initially only a certificate was awarded, but during 1982 – 1994 a golden trophy based on Sport Billy was awarded along with the certificate. Now a days, the trophy has a figure of a footballer. The first country to win the Fair Play award was Peru in 1970 FIFA World Cup hosted in Mexico. Peru did not receive even a single yellow or red card during the tournament. Spain was the winner of Fair Play award in FIFA World Cup 2010 hosted in South Africa.

FIFA World Cup 2014 - Awards - Golden Boot

The Golden Boot is presented to the leading goal scorer of the World Cup. In FIFA World Cup 2014, if more than a single player scores the most number of goals, then the winner will be decided by the least number of assistance required for the goals. If assists is not capable of deciding the winner, then the player who played for the least time for scoring the goals will be the winner.

Lets take a look at the previous winners:

Golden Boot Award
Year	Player	Country	Goals
1930	Guillermo Stabile	Argentina	8
1934	Oldrich Nejedly, Edmund Conen, Angelo Schiavio	Czechoslovakia, Germany, Italy	4 goals each
1938	Leonidas	Brazil	8
1950	Ademir	Brazil	9
1954	Sandor Kocsis	Hungary	11
1958	Just Fontaine	France	13
1962	Florian Albert, Valentin Ivanov, Drazen Jerkovic, Leonel Sanchez, Vava, Garrincha	Hungary, Soviet Union, Yugoslavia, Chile, Brazil, Brazil	4 goals each
1966	Eusebio	Portugal	9
1970	Gerd Muller	Germany	10
1974	Gregorz Lato	Poland	7
1978	Mario Kempes	Argentina	6
1982	Paolo Rossi	Italy	6
1986	Gary Lineker	England	6
1990	Salvatore Schillachi	Italy	6
1994	Histro Stoichkov, Oleg Salenko	Bulgaria, Russia	6
1998	Davor Suker	Croatia	6
2002	Ronaldo	Brazil	8
2006	Miroslav Klose	Germany	5
2010	Thomas Muller	Germany	5