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The 2014 FIFA World Cup was hosted by Brazil and was won by Germany. Thirty-one national teams competed in the tournament across 12 venues in Brazil from June to July 2014. It was the first World Cup to use goal-line technology and vanishing foam spray. Germany defeated Argentina 1-0 in the final to claim their fourth World Cup title.

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World Cup

The 2014 FIFA World Cup was hosted by Brazil and was won by Germany. Thirty-one national teams competed in the tournament across 12 venues in Brazil from June to July 2014. It was the first World Cup to use goal-line technology and vanishing foam spray. Germany defeated Argentina 1-0 in the final to claim their fourth World Cup title.

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2014 FIFA World Cup

The 2014 FIFA World Cup was the 20th FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial world
championship for men's national association football teams organized by FIFA. It took
place in Brazil from 12 June to 13 July 2014, after the country was awarded the
hosting rights in 2007. It was the second time that Brazil staged the competition (the
first was in 1950), and the fifth time that it was held in South America.
Thirty-one national teams advanced through qualification competitions to join the host
nation in the final tournament. A total of 64 matches were played in 12 venues
located in as many host cities across Brazil. For the first time at a World Cup finals,
match officials used goal-line technology, as well as vanishing foam for free kicks.
[6]
FIFA Fan Fests in each host city gathered a total of 5 million people, and the country
received 1 million visitors from 202 countries.[7]
Every World Cup-winning team since the first edition in
1930 Argentina, Brazil, England,France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Uruguay
qualified for this tournament. Spain, the title holders, were eliminated at the group
stage, along with England and Italy. Uruguay were eliminated in the round of 16, and
France exited in the quarter-finals. Brazil, who had won the2013 FIFA Confederations
Cup, lost to Germany in the semi-finals and eventually finished in fourth place. In the
final, Germany defeated Argentina 10 to win the tournament and secure the
country's fourth world title, the first after the German reunification in 1990, when as
West Germany they also beat Argentina in the World Cup final. Germany became the
first European team to win a World Cup staged in the Americas,[8] and this result
marked the first time that sides from the same continent had won three consecutive
tournaments (following Italy in 2006 and Spain in 2010).[9][10]
As the winners, Germany qualified for the 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup in Russia.

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