There had been fears that the Brazil 2014 will be another boring one, succeeding South Africa 2010. But the World Cup is definitely one of the best, and even a special report will be compiled by the Fifa's Technical Study Group will prove it.
So far, the record for most goals in the World Cup is currently help by France 1998. However, the tight matches between the teams will most probably result in a record breaker for most number of goals.
"The record of goals is 171 at France 98; we are 154 with eight games to play and with an average of 2.75 goals per game, this record could be beaten. The football gets better each tournament. There's been the recent contribution of Spanish football, with Barcelona and the national team, and that has passed on to a lot of teams, raising the tempo and quality, and this World Cup has taken it higher," said Gerard Houiller of the research.
He continued, "A lot of teams play with two strikers, sometimes three. Argentina played three up against Switzerland with Lionel Messi, Gonzalo Higuaín and Ezequiel Lavezzi. In Europe, they used to play with one lone striker and a line of three behind."
He noted the abundance of strikers saying, "so many good strikers at one time." He adde, "We have a generation of outstanding strikers now, Neymar, Messi, Benzema, Van Persie, Robben, James Rodríguez, top players who really give everything."
He also noticed the boom of great goalkeepers. "It is also a World Cup with good goalkeepers, Brazil, Mexico, Costa Rica, Belgium, and others [like the US]. Training of goalkeepers is the area that's improved most over the last 20 years. When I started as a coach, I was doing also the training of the goalkeeper. Now you have a former goalkeeper and an expert in their development. One of the best goalkeeper coaches, who teaches a lot, is the one with Louis van Gaal, Frans Hoek, who makes everyone step forward."
"When players are crying here that shows you how much they care. We saw the Algeria coach crying and he's not even Algerian. It shows the love for football and the World Cup,'' he finished.
With reports from www.telegraph.co.uk
