Sports · July 13, 2014

2014 FIFA World Cup Final

Name: 2014 FIFA World Cup Final
Start: 2014-07-13
Location: Maracanã Stadium, Brazil

12 years ago · Maracanã Stadium, Brazil

12th anniversary

The final match of the 2014 FIFA World Cup, the 20th edition of FIFA's competition for national football teams, was played at the Maracanã Stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on 13 July 2014, and was contested by Germany and Argentina.

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The 13th anniversary falls on July 13, 2027.

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b. 1978

Miroslav Klose

Miroslav Josef Klose (German:; Polish: Mirosław Józef Klose; born Mirosław Marian Klose; 9 June 1978) is a professional football manager and former player who is the head coach of 2. Bundesliga club 1.

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b. 1983

Philipp Lahm

Philipp Lahm (German pronunciation:; born 11 November 1983) is a German former professional footballer who played as a full-back or midfielder.

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b. 1984

Bastian Schweinsteiger

Bastian Schweinsteiger ( SHWYNE-shty-gər, German:; born 1 August 1984) is a German former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. Earlier in his career, he primarily played as a wide midfielder before later switching to a central midfield role.

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b. 1986

Manuel Neuer

Manuel Peter Neuer (born 27 March 1986) is a German professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for and captains Bundesliga club Bayern Munich.

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b. 1987

Lionel Messi

Lionel Andrés "Leo" Messi (born 24 June 1987) is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a forward for the Major League Soccer club Inter Miami, which he captains, and the Argentina national team.

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b. 1988

Sergio Agüero

Sergio Leonel Agüero del Castillo (born 2 June 1988), also known as Kun Agüero, is an Argentine former professional footballer who played as a striker. He is regarded as one of the best strikers of his generation and one of the greatest players in the history of the Premier League.

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b. 1988

Jérôme Boateng

Jérôme Agyenim Boateng (German pronunciation:; born 3 September 1988) is a German former professional footballer who played as a centre-back. Boateng started his career at Hertha BSC where he developed from the youth ranks to the first team.

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b. 1988

Mesut Özil

Mesut Özil (German pronunciation:, Turkish:; born 15 October 1988) is a German former professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder. Known for his ball control, technical skills, creativity, passing skills, and vision, he is widely regarded as one of the best midfielders of his generation.

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b. 1988

Mats Hummels

Mats Julian Hummels (German pronunciation:; born 16 December 1988) is a German former professional footballer who played as a centre-back. Considered one of the best defenders of his generation, he was known for his tackling, anticipation, goal scoring ability and deadly crosses.

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b. 1989

Thomas Müller

Thomas Müller (German pronunciation:; born 13 September 1989) is a German professional footballer who plays as a forward or attacking midfielder for Major League Soccer club Vancouver Whitecaps. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest players of his generation.

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b. 1990

Toni Kroos

Toni Kroos (German pronunciation:; born 4 January 1990) is a German former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. Regarded as one of the greatest midfielders of all time, he was known for his vision and pinpoint precision passing.

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b. 1992

Mario Götze

Mario Götze (German pronunciation:; born 3 June 1992) is a German professional footballer who plays as a midfielder or forward for Bundesliga club Eintracht Frankfurt.

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1540–1596

Francis Drake

Sir Francis Drake (c. 1540 – 28 January 1596) was an English explorer and privateer best known for making the second circumnavigation of the world in a single expedition between 1577 and 1580 (being the first English expedition to accomplish this).

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b. 1942

Harrison Ford

Harrison Ford (born July 13, 1942) is an American actor. Regarded as a cinematic cultural icon, Ford's accolades include nominations for an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, two Emmy Awards, five Golden Globes and two SAG-AFTRA's Actor Awards.

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b. 1934

Wole Soyinka

Akinwande Oluwole Babatunde Soyinka (born 13 July 1934) is a Nigerian writer, playwright, and poet. He has written three novels, ten collections of short stories, seven poetry collections, twenty-five plays and five memoirs.

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b. 2007

Lamine Yamal

Lamine Yamal Nasraoui Ebana (born 13 July 2007), commonly known as Lamine Yamal or simply Yamal, is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a right winger for the La Liga club Barcelona and the Spain national team. He is widely regarded as one of the best players in the world.

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Treaty of Berlin of 1878

The Treaty of Berlin (formally the Treaty between Austria-Hungary, France, Germany, Great Britain and Ireland, Italy, Russia, and the Ottoman Empire for the Settlement of Affairs in the East) was signed on 13 July 1878.

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Hong Kong flu

The Hong Kong flu, also known as the 1968 flu pandemic, was an influenza pandemic that occurred between 1968 and 1970 and which killed between one and four million people globally. It is among the deadliest pandemics in history, and was caused by an H3N2 strain of the influenza A virus.

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1985

Live Aid

Live Aid was a two-venue benefit concert and music-based fund-raising initiative held on Saturday, 13 July 1985.

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Attempted assassination of Donald Trump in Pennsylvania

On July 13, 2024, Donald Trump, then a former president of the United States and the presumptive nominee of the Republican Party in the 2024 presidential election, survived an assassination attempt while speaking at an open-air campaign rally at the Butler Farm Show Grounds in Meridian, Pennsylvania, just outside…

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