World Cup 4914 successfully held, Rildanor wins the trophyJuly 4914 [POSTDATED!!]
Lodamese footballer signaling for the ball to be passed to himProvidenceA new world cup edition was held, this time in Lodamun, which had done great efforts for preparation, manifesting great interest in another championship hosted back home. While the enthusiasm was smaller, it was worth it, both for the tourist industry and for the fans. Lodamun has shown great talent against Selucia but had lost eventually and failed to exist group stages. This championship brought mostly ordinary group stages, with the knockout stages offering lot of surprises and a winner nobody expected.
While Hutori, Dorvik, Endralon and Lourenne were the favorites of the competition, small powers as Kundrati, Rildanor, Kalistan have made an amazing prestation, defeating the bigger powers one by one, reachin to an interesting final. The government took more preventive efforts against hooligans but Kalistani proved unmanageable and vandalized 2 stadiums and littered where they got hands. While hooligans managed to do damage again, the influx of tourists increased once again, with billions of LODs pouring into the budget ready to be used.
The matches featured great fights between Liore and Yingdala, Endralon vs Hutori, Deltaria and Rildanor, Vascania and Talmoria, as well the rise of Dovani nations in football, with prominence being Talmoria and Vascania, Kurageri and New Englia who despite getting blowned apart in the later stages, they had showed that Dovani are strong and capable of great football, even when odds are against them. Kundrati done great matches, reaching silver, with Kalistan defeating Dorvik for third place and Rildanor brining home the gold.
Group stages ended like this:
Group AGroup BGroup CGroup DGroup EGroup FGroup GGroup HWith group stages over and with less surprise, comes then the final stages, which have showed that football is impredictable and despite Dorvik being favorite against Kundrati, they had lost heavy. The referees were again accused of misplaying and corruption, with serious cases against them from Kalistan and not only, as well the many offsides. Overall, Rildanor brought the decisive surprise to the competition, winning against Kundrati in a dramatic 2-0 match and lot of stress.
For celebrating Rildanorese victory, Lodamun has held a huge lavish party, alongside lots of fireworks and interviews, featuring as well a podium, giving in Rildanor with Ggold, Kundrati with Silver and Kalistan with Bronze. All participants are congratulated for partaking and for fighting dear for the trophy, while Lodamese national team represents a failure and sorrow as they have failed to beat more than Selucia.
[World Cup trophy raised by Rildanor who won the championship!]