If you’re a soccer fan, this is going to be like a month of Christmas mornings, as the biggest sporting event on the planet is set to kick off.
Sportsnet.ca is your home for up to the minute and in-depth coverage of the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil. Check out our special World Cup section of the website, featuring all of the latest news, timely analysis, features, blogs, podcasts, photo galleries and so much more.
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We have you covered with in-depth previews of all 32 nations set to compete for the ultimate prize in soccer.
On the latest edition of the Soccer Central podcast: It’s a special World Cup preview as James Sharman, Brendan Dunlop and John Molinaro break down the eight groups.
Sportsnet’s panel of soccer commentators, writers and broadcasters offer their tournament picks and predictions.
Watch the following videos, as Sportsnet’s James Sharman breaks down Groups A and B || C and D || E and F || G and H
James Sharman and the Soccer Central Roundtable examine Brazil’s chances for success, if France can be considered a sleeper pick, and debate what will be the biggest stories of the tournament.
Sharman talks about Spain’s chances of repeating with Tim and Sid, and chats with soccer pundit Bobby McMahon about which teams will survive the Group of Death.
Soccer is a global game. It is the world’s most popular sport, played in every corner of the planet. And the World Cup is the biggest and most-watched sporting event in the world. It raises the question: Why? Why will billions of television viewers around the world watch some part of this summer’s World Cup? Sportsnet’s John Molinaro examines the reasons why the World Cup matters so much.
Our special photo essays identify 15 players to watch in Brazil, 10 youngsters ready to break out, and 10 veterans set for the swan song.
The FIFA World Cup is the biggest sporting event on the planet. Nothing compares to it. Not the Stanley Cup. Not the Super Bowl. Not the World Series. Not the Olympics. Nothing.
But how did the World Cup come to be the biggest show on earth? Sportsnet offers this comprehensive history of the World Cup, looking at the birth of the competition and reviewing each and every tournament.
Read regular blogs throughout the tournament from Sporsnet’s soccer panel of writers, including James Sharman, John Molinaro, Jerrad Peters and Ethan Dean-Richards.
Plus, English reporter Paul Sarahs will be on site in Brazil to file regular reports and columns for Sportsnet.ca.
A number of players who featured at the 2007 U-20 FIFA World Cup in Canada have become some of the game’s biggest stars and are set to play prominent roles in Brazil this summer.
Prepare to be swept away by the World Cup, played against postcard backdrops in a setting that reflects the sport’s history, its romance, its poetry. And prepare to leave your conscience at the door. Stephen Brunt writes about the World Cup’s moral dilemma.
Sixty-four years after the World Cup broke Brazilian hearts, soccer’s biggest show returns to Rio, and a nation looks to Neymar to carry on the legacy of heroes past and to heal the hurt.
