While most fighting games, such as Capcom's Street Fighterand fellow SNK series Samurai Shodownaren't especially heavy on story, the KOF games do emphasize plot and have canon winners for each tournament. Featuring a mashup of the greatest warriors in SNK history, the games' fighters have a myriad of impressive moves and fighting styles. Four years later, Maradona couldn't pull off the same magic, and Jurgen Klinsmann's West Germany squad secured a 1-0 victory in the final to take home the trophy.SNK's The King of Fighters franchise has been running since 1994, and its next entry recently received its first teaser trailer. They first squared off in the 1986 finals, when Diego Maradona put on one of the best individual tournament efforts in World Cup history to help lead his team to a 3-2 finals win over Germany. Argentina: World Cup final subplots 8 photosĪrgentina and Germany have an unusually rich history in the World Cup finals. Victory for Argentina would take its total of titles to three, still two short of Brazil's record five. If the finalists score two more between them Sunday, this World Cup will have produced more goals than any of its 19 predecessors. With 17 goals before the final, it was the highest scorer.Īrgentina wasn't as flashy but rode the genius of Messi, the four-time world player of the year having his best World Cup. Germany's slick, attacking, disciplined football made it arguably the most entertaining team in Brazil. This cannot be," said Renata Braga, a fan in Rio. "It is absurd for Brazilians to root for Argentina. Such is the intensity of their footballing rivalry with Argentina that many Brazilians will pray Germany wins its fourth World Cup and first since 1990. FIFA engraves the name of the winners on the base of the trophy but doesn't let them keep it, instead giving them a gold-plated replica. At 13.6 pounds, it is heavier than a newborn baby. It isn't, in fact, a cup but an 18-carat gold sculpture of two athletes, with arms raised, holding the Earth.
Hairstyles of the World Cup 15 photosīrazil's president, Dilma Rousseff, and FIFA president Sepp Blatter will together present the trophy to the winners.
Compounding their regret, Brazil also lost 3-0 to the Netherlands in Saturday's match for third place. An unfinished overpass collapsed, killing two people, in the host city of Belo Horizonte where, days later, Germany humiliated Brazil, drawing floods of tears across this nation of 200 million people.īrazilians will long rue that historic 7-1 loss in the semifinals and think the humiliation might have been avoided had a back injury not robbed them of Neymar, Brazil's best player. This was a World Cup that Brazil's black and mixed-race poorer citizens mostly saw from afar on television.īroken promises of new subway lines and other life-improving infrastructure to accompany the 12 all-new or renovated World Cup arenas reflected poorly on Brazil's bureaucracy, as did accusations that corrupt public servants skimmed off funds. However, the overwhelmingly white and seemingly well-off stadium crowds reflected Brazil's stark economic inequalities. For the finals in Rio alone, 25,000 troops, military police, firefighters and national guardsmen are being deployed, the largest ever in the city's history.
It also has helped that Brazil has launched an unparalleled security effort surrounding the World Cup. The World Cup championship match between Arge.