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The World Cup Final is the most widely viewed sporting event in the world, with an estimated over 1 billion people watching the 2014 tournament final. [1] Brazil is the most successful national team in the history of the World Cup, having won five titles, earning second place, third place and fourth place finishes twice each.
Brazil, [b] officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, [c] is the largest and easternmost country in South America and Latin America. It is the world's fifth-largest country by area and the seventh largest by population, with over 203 million people. Brazil is a federation composed of 26 states and a Federal District, which hosts the capital ...
The teams had met once in the World Cup, in Brazil's 2–0 group stage victory in 2018.With Serbia playing as Yugoslavia, the sides had met 18 times, including four encounters in FIFA World Cup group stages: in 1930, 1950, 1954 and 1974, with one victory for each and two draws.
The country remained as the only national team to have participated in every installment of the FIFA World Cup. They are the only team to win all seven matches they played, achieving the highest number of matches won by a team in a single tournament in the history of the FIFA World Cup. [1] Brazil reached the final where they defeated Germany 2 ...
There are 24 World Heritage Sites in Brazil, and a further 22 sites on its tentative list. The first site in Brazil, the Historic Town of Ouro Preto, was inscribed on the list at the 4th Session of the World Heritage Committee, held in Paris, France in 1980. [4] The most recent site, the Lençóis Maranhenses National Park, was inscribed in ...
Brazil team prior to their group game against Costa Rica at the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia Brazil supporters at the 2018 World Cup. On 14 June 2016, Tite replaced Dunga as manager of Brazil. [97] [98] At the 2018 FIFA World Cup, Brazil finished top of their group. [99]
The two teams had met in 68 previous matches, [30] including three times in the FIFA World Cup knockout stage, all won by Brazil (1962, semi-finals: 4–2; 1998, round of 16: 4–1; 2010, round of 16: 3–0). Brazil opened the scoring when from a corner David Luiz turned Thiago Silva's flick-on into the net.
Neymar's strike seven minutes into stoppage time was the latest ever at a World Cup in regular time. [20] This was Brazil's first World Cup victory thanks to a goal scored in the 90th minute. [21] Costa Rica were knocked out of the tournament after this game for the first time since 2006, with a game to play.