July 8, 2010

The World Cup is culminating in an epic final with two teams that have never won the World Cup before.

• Spain’s best was a mediocre 4th place in 1950.
• The Netherlands have fared better in the past reaching two World Cup finals in 1974 and 1978 and a fourth place in 1998.
• It is the first World Cup final ever to have not included either Brazil, Argentina, Italy or Germany.
• Neither teams have played each other before in a major tournament.
• Wikipedia has a great round-up of teams that have made the top four throughout the history of the World Cup.

As a Football Manager fan you just can’t miss this epic FIFA World Cup final, and since it is streamed online and available on many cell phones too in case you don’t have access to a TV.

If you are going to watch it online be very careful of spammers and scams that have jumped on the World Cup fever. Don’t fill in any surveys, offers or pay any money to watch this event live online. You can watch it for free.

BBC1 will be streaming the World Cup live from its website for UK viewers. ITV will also have the 3rd place playoffs on its website.

If you are outside of the UK then you can find a library of World Cup streams on this site. An international feed for the World Cup Final should be available here.

It will be interesting to see the managing styles come to play in the Final. Spain have a very tight well organized team that has strong possession, although has lacked on goal scoring abilities, but that did not stop them against lead goal scorers Germany.

For the Netherlands, it is the chance to break the odds for underdog fame.

(via Pop Crunch)