This document provides information on the 2014 World Cup hosted in Brazil, including the eight groups consisting of 4 teams each, with details for each nation such as their coach, star player, and best previous tournament finish. The groups are labeled A through H and include nations from around the world, setting up matches to determine which teams will advance out of the group stage to the knockout rounds.

1. 2014 WORLD CUP
Road to Brazil

2. GROUP A
BRAZIL
CAMEROON
MEXICO
BRAZIL-Coach:
CROATIA-Coach:
Luiz Felipe Scolari Niko Kovac
Cameroon-Coach:
Volker Finke
MEXICO-Coach:
Miguel Herrera
Star man: Neymar
Star man: Mario
Mandzukic
Star man: Samuel
Eto'o
Star man: Javier
Hernandez
Tournament best:
Third 1998
Tournament best:
Quarter-finals
1990
Tournament best:
Quarter-finals
1970, 1986
Tournament best:
Winners 1958,
1962, 1970, 1994,
2002
CROATIA

3. GROUP B
AUSTRALIA
CHILE
AUSTRALIA-Coach:
Ange Postecoglou
Chile-Coach: Jorge
Sampaoli
Star man: Robbie
Kruse
Star man: Alexis
Sanchez
Tournament best:
Last 16 2006
Tournament best:
Third 1962
HOLLAND
SPAIN
Holland-Coach: Louis
van Gaal
Spain-Coach:
Vicente del Bosque
Star man: Robin van
Persie
Star man: Andres
Iniesta
Tournament best:
Runners-up 1974,
1978, 2010
Tournament best:
Winners 2010

4. GROUP C
COLOMBIA
GREECE
COLOMBIA-Coach: GREECE-Coach:
Jose Pekerman
Fernando Santos
Star man: Radamel
Falcao
Star man: Georgios
Samaras
Tournament best:
Last 16 1990
Tournament best:
Group stage 1994,
2010
IVORY COAST
JAPAN
IVORY COASTCoach: Sabri
Lamouchi
JAPAN-Coach:
Alberto Zaccheroni
Star man: Yaya
Toure
Tournament best:
Group stage 2006,
2010
Star man: Keisuke
Honda
Tournament best:
Last 16 2002, 2010

5. GROUP D
ENGLAND
URUGUAY
COSTA RICA
ITALY
England-coach:
Roy Hodgson
Uruguay-Coach:
Oscar Tabarez
Costa Rica- Jorge
Luis Pinto
Italy-Coach:
Cesare Prandelli
Star man: Wayne
Rooney
Star man: Luis
Suarez
Star man: Bryan
Ruiz
Star man: Andrea
Pirlo
Tournament Best:
winners, 1996,
fourth place, 1990
Tournament Best:
1930 and 1950
champions
Tournament Best:
1990's last 16
Tournament Best:
Four-time winners
- 1934, 1938, 1982,
2006

6. GROUP E
SWITZERLAND
ECUADOR
FRANCE
HONDURAS
SWITZERLANDCoach: Ottmar
Hitzfeld
ECUADOR-Coach:
Reinaldo Rueda
FRANCE-Coach:
Didier Deschamps
HONDURASCoach: Luis
Fernando Suarez
Star man: Antonio
Star man: Xherdan Valencia
Shaqiri
Tournament best:
Tournament best: Last 16 2006
Quarter-finals
1934, 1938, 1954
Star man: Franck
Ribery
Tournament best:
Winners 1998
Star man: Wilson
Palacios
Tournament best:
Group stages
1982, 2010

7. GROUP F
ARGENTINA
ARGENTINACoach: Alejandro
Sabella
Star man: Lionel
Messi
Tournament best:
Winners 1978,
1986
BOSNIAHERZEGOVINABOSNIAHERZEGOVINACoach: Safet
Susic
Star man: Edin
Dzeko
Tournament best:
Never qualified
IRAN
NIGERIA
IRAN-Coach:
Carlos Queiroz
NIGERIA-Coach:
Stephen Keshi
Star man: Javad
Nekounam
Star man: Victor
Moses
Tournament best:
Group stage 1978,
1998, 2006
Tournament best:
Last 16 1994, 1998

8. GROUP G
GERMANY
PORTUGAL
GHANA
UNITED STATES
Germany-Coach:
Joachim Low
PORTUGALCoach: Paulo
Bento
Ghana-Coach:
James Kwesi
Appiah
United StatesCoach: Jurgen
Klinsmann
Star man:
Cristiano Ronaldo
Star man:
Asamoah Gyan
Star man: Clint
Dempsey
Tournament best:
Third 1966
Tournament best:
Quarter-finals
2010
Tournament best:
Third 1930
Star man: Bastian
Schweinsteiger
Tournament best:
Winners 1954,
1974, 1990 (all as
West Germany)

9. GROUP H
BELGIUM
ALGERIA
RUSSIA
SOUTH KOREA
BELGIUM-Coach:
Marc Wilmots
ALGERIA-Coach:
Vahid Halilhodzic
RUSSIA-Coach:
Fabio Capello
Star man: Eden
Hazard
Star man: Madjid
Bougherra
Star man:
Alexander Kokorin
SOUTH KOREACoach: Hong
Myung-bo
Tournament best:
Fourth 1986
Tournament best:
Group stages
1982, 1986, 2010
Tournament best:
Fourth 1966 (as the
USSR)
Star man: Son
Heung-min
Tournament best:
Fourth 2002