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Hundreds of thousands greet Germany's victory parade

Hundreds of thousands of Germans welcomed their triumphant national soccer team home from their triumphant World Cup
Özil donates World Cup money

Mesut Özil is to 'support the surgery' of 23 children in Brazil. Should more players be doing similar things?
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- Our writers' review all the action from Brazil
Fifpro: Concussion dangers ignored

Fifpro, the players' union, has accused Fifa of failing to protect players over its treatment of concussion
- Kramer says he is unable to remember first half'

World Cup 2014 in 90 seconds

A stop-motion animation of the finals

All the highlights from the 2014 World Cup crushed into a 90-second stop-motion animation
'Messi did not deserve award'

Mario Kempes has joined the growing criticism of the decision to award Lionel Messi the Golden Ball
- Dominic Fifield: Argentina lack Messi magic
Scolari dropped after Brazil failure

The CBF have confirmed Luiz Felipe Scolari has left his job as Brazil manager after the hosts' failure
- Toby Moses: dos and don'ts for World Cup targets
- Poll: vote for best and worst of World Cup

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Germany v Argentina at World Cup final

Germany win the World Cup final

Brick-by-brick animation: Germany's Mario Götze scores the decisive goal to bring home the trophy

World Cup Show 2014: the reaction

Neymar recovering from World Cup back injury – video

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World Cup champions Germany get heroes' welcome in Berlin – video

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World Cup Show 2014: Germany v Argentina reaction – video

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World Cup Show 2014: all the fallout from the final – video

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Pictures: Front-page reaction around the globe

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Who should replace Steven Gerrard as England captain? – poll

Poll
Wayne Rooney, Joe Hart, Gary Cahill, Leighton Baines and Adam Lallana are in the running, but who should lead the team?
The gifs that keep on giving: World Cup winners and a Tour de France wheelie

Featuring a baseball player with eyes on the back of his head, a creative gymnast and a man doing keep-ups up a lamp post
Our favourite things online this week: World Cup fans to memories of Lord's

Featuring photos from Brazil, Robin van Persie showing off, sad footballers, fickle fans and the birth of the home of cricket
Premier League: Chelsea players ran and played the most at the World Cup

Toby Moses: Premier League stars played a combined total of more than 16 days of football during their summer break, covering 2489.9km of Brazilian turf in the search for glory. It’s not much of a holiday
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Match reports

Germany beat Argentina to win World Cup final with late Mario Götze goal

A beautifully taken extra-time goal by Mario Götze helped Germany win the 2014 World Cup final 1-0 against Argentina at the Maracanã
World Cup final 2014: Germany v Argentina – as it happened

Minute-by-minute report: Mario Götze scored a stunning extra-time winner as Germany secured their fourth World Cup at the Maracanã. Scott Murray was watching,
Holland heap misery on Brazil with World Cup third-place play-off win

A third-minute penalty from Robin van Persie set Holland on their way to a 3-0 victory over Brazil in the World Cup third-place play-off in Brasília
Brazil v Holland: World Cup 2014 third-place playoff – as it happened!

Minute-by-minute report: Holland scored early and late to inflict a comprehensive defeat on Brazil to finish third
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11 things the tournament taught us

David Hills runs through the list

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Betfair 7 days ago

World Cup betting boosts Betfair profits

4 Sep 2014: Punts on the Brazil tournament drive quarterly revenues and profit to record levels
Television 27 days ago

BBC's Match of the Day marks 50 years as an institution of English football

15 Aug 2014:
Football highlights show is now key to BBC1's Saturday-night schedule but barely 20,000 viewers watched its first broadcast
Luis Suárez 29 days ago

Barcelona’s Luis Suárez to learn result of biting ban appeal on Thursday

13 Aug 2014: The outcome of Barcelona striker Luis Suárez’s appeal against his ban for biting will be announced on Thursday
Modern-day slavery in focus 43 days ago

Fifa: we will monitor Qatar's treatment of migrant World Cup workers closely

30 Jul 2014: Football's world governing body attempts to defuse outcry over revelations that migrant workers earn as little as 45p an hour
Premier League 43 days ago

Premier League referees will use vanishing spray in new season

30 Jul 2014: The Premier League has given the go-ahead for referees to use vanishing spray in the 2014-15 season
Fifa 44 days ago

Ray Whelan still in prison amid doubts over World Cup touting charges

29 Jul 2014: The executive’s lawyers and employers are concerned about flaws in the Brazilian police investigation and are adamant that Whelan was acting lawfully

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