AcesHigh

Castelão

Estádio Nacional

Arena Fonte Nova

Arena Pernambuco

MINEIRÃO

I will post here some updated photos of all 12 World Cup stadiums in Brazil. One stadium per post. I will post in the same order as below, so if you want updates in the stadiums still under construction, scroll down to them. 6 stadiums were ready for the Confederations Cup last year: Maracanã - Rio de Janeiro (Rio de Janeiro state) Mineirão - Belo Horizonte (Minas Gerais state) Arena Pernambuco - Recife (Pernambuco state) Arena Fonte Nova - Salvador (Bahia state) Estádio Nacional - Brasilia (Federal District) Castelão - Fortaleza (Ceará state) other 6 stadiums will be ready for the World Cup 2014 Beira Rio - Porto Alegre (Rio Grande do Sul state) Arena da Baixada - Curitiba (Paraná state) Arena Corinthians - São Paulo (São Paulo state) Arena das Dunas - Natal (Rio Grande do Norte state) Arena da Amazônia - Manaus (Amazonas State) Arena Cuiabá - Cuiabá (Mato Grosso State) MARACANÃ

Bash me, but this football played with the heart is much better to watch than the technical tick tack precision of Barça. This is what i like in football, the drama, which some Americans don't understand when they complain about the number of goals.

Lol.. gotta love chelsea using some classic Copa Libertadores tactics, like cramps, ball boys not returning the ball. Big difference is that if was a Libertadores match, PSG would probably pick a fight when eliminated.

Barça wanted Luiz. Now, FIFA banned them from buying any player for one entire year.

damn... I am not sure, but I think that ball would go in even if Davi Luiz had avoided contact. It was on curve to inside the goal and it had already gone through everybody.

I like Oscar, although he exploded in Brazil at the club arch-rival to mine. But mark this... Oscar will only be his former self after the World Cup. I am quite positive that he is not playing all he can, may be conscious or maybe not... he is saving himself for the World Cup in his home country. I say it may not be conscious... but you know, that little fear in the deep part of your mind that you may injury a muscle stretching too much your leg, or suffer a tackle and break a bone... and lose the most important Cup in his career (even if he plays other Cups after 2014, this one will surely be the most important in his career.) I think this is affecting MANY brazilian players right now in many clubs around the world. Again, not consciously. As I answered above, I think his par will be permantently lowered for Chelsea until the end of the World Cup. I bet he will have a great World Cup.

Ref criteria: only yellow card the player if it´s a brazilian lol Cavani breaking leg tackle from behind? Nope. He is uruguayan. the cynical faul on Hazard that stopped a Chelsea counter? Nope. Not from a brazilian.

thank Scolari for that. http://www.fourfourtwo.com/news/club-form-key-scolari even if unconsciously, brazilian players were probably mentally unfit, worried about the most important World Cup in their lives, in their home country. Scolari's warning probably woke-up a few of them.

More than that... is a world cup in Brazil. World cups in your home country is a one in a lifetime opportunity. I predicted Oscar returning to form WITH Chelsea after the world cup...

Oscar, since he provided both assists. (Is a corner kick from which a goal is scored considered an assist?)

exactly no such thing. Referee has to judge if it was a clear goal chance. (which imho it was, because it was Oscar. If it was let´s say, Ramirez, it would not be a clear goal chance lol)

ok, I think this should be a red, but stupid commentators don´t know the law. There is NOT SUCH A THING as "last man" law. The law talks about CLEAR GOAL CHANCE. It so happens that usually when the last man commits the faul, its a clear goal chance. As imho in this case. But not always.

from a bycicle kick from midfield!

I think Mourinho forgot about the bench... well, the game is thrilling, I agree, but look to your back José!

another chance wasted... come on :(

Mourinho must shake a bit the team... they are falling on production...

I can´t BELIEVE! 3rd time in the post?!?!?!?!?!?!

not even The Flash could have taken his arm away from the ball path at the picoseconds between the city player kicking the ball and it hitting Matic´s arm!

oh come on, the City player KICKED THAT BALL into Matic´s arm! Only way to avoid that is to remove your arm by surgery!

oh, too bad that last Ramirez pass didn´t went through. I sensed a goal there.