Neymar was alleged to outline this tournament and currently the Brazilian has. Or rather his injury has. The tournament's poster child has been cruelly taken out and currently there's a agape hole on the house country's room wall. that is unfortunately fitting, as a result of a outstanding theme of this tournament has been absence; a vacuum wherever quality ought to be.
Getting frenzied throughout the helter-skelter cluster stages was apprehensible however proclaiming this the 'best tournament ever' will currently be seen to possess been premature. Draw up a listing of the world's most fun players and cry at what number of them failed to create it to Brazil or arrived during a state that created them appear as if astronauts attempting to require big leaps for humanity on the well-trodden surface of the native bouncy castle.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Radamel Falcao, Marco Reus, Gareth Bale and Franck Ribéry had to remain reception. Sergio Agüero quickly got slopped, Yaya Touré was injury-worn and sorrowful and Cristiano Ronaldo looked a lot of patched up than a outlaw at a Nicorette manufacturing plant. Luis Suárez torus a knee ligament however recovered barely enough to knock out European nation before obtaining himself shoed out - that, admittedly, could be a tale with a precise beauty however, on balance, it'd are higher to envision one amongst the world's most thrilling strikers totally match and happy to let his feet do the biting.
Even the surprise package, Costa Rica, had to play with a lot of inhibitions than usual because of injuries to Bryan metropolis and their prime scorer, Álvaro Saborío.
Of course, no tournament will ever welcome all the highest players - and also the performances of James Rodríguez, Lionel Messi and Arjen Robben have shown that a number of the elite have turned up and turned it on - however 2014 has still suffered from a shortage of ingenuity. it's onerous to flee the suspicion that one amongst the explanations that goalkeepers have broken-backed such a lot attention is owing to the dearth of parcel of land aptitude.
