Spain vs Netherlands Prediction, Chile vs Australia and Columbia vs Greece prediction

La Roja is on a hat-trick this world cup, after the deserving win in FIFA WC 2010 and Euro 2012. The Oranjes will try to take revenge for their loss in South Africa but as the Spanish side is strong as always, I am not convinced of Netherlands to win. Star studded Espanya has numerous option to select even if some key players are injured. Atletico's Diego Costa is suffering from hamstring problem so he is unlikely to play in this match for which David Villa or Fernando Torres may be brought in to have some scores coming. Expect some goals with such world class players in both sides, and the cards... it will definitely be less than that of 2010 finals, but early 3 points is what I expect for Spain. Their style of playing (tiki-taka), world's best midfielders and winning trends, show they are not letting me down for this match. This crucial win will earn them enough points to top Group B so as to meet the Group A runner up and probably all other win to a hat-trick. Here is my prediction for all the matches on the Nepali date (Jestha 31).

Spain vs Netherlands.

Where: Arena Fonte Nova, Salvador

When: 12:45 am June 14 (Jestha 31)

Prediction: Spain 2 Netherlands 1

Head to head: 10, 5 won by Spain, 1 draw and 4 by Netherlands.

Chile Vs Australia

Where: Cuiaba 

When: 3:45 am June 14 (Jestha 31)

Prediction: Chile 1 Australia 0

Head to head: 4, 3 win by Chile, 1 draw.

Colombia Vs Greece

Where: Belo Horizonte

When: 9:45 pm June 14 (Jestha 31)

Prediction: Colombia 1 Greece 1

Head to head: Single play which resulted in a win by Colombia.

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Brazil vs Croatia, Mexico vs Cameroon Prediction.

As we (Nepal) are ahead of western time (having standard time of GMT+5:45), which is 8:45 hours ahead of Brazilian time, It is on June 13 (Jestha 30) here in our country that the very first game of the World cup 2014 kicks off with the host Brazil take on underdog Croatia. Though it seems vary rare that Croatia wins over the host Brazil, they will not leave any stone unturned to shock the host. Record has it that the host does not always start good with such immense pressure, and the nerve racking uproar can make best of Brazil to outperform or perform least. Neymar who is seen as the contender for the Golden boot, will definitely try to beat Croatia's inept defense and will score at least one. Croatia will suffer much in this match as his key player Mario Mandžukić (Bayern Munich forward) is suspended for this match due to the red card in the match against Iceland. Big pressure mounts on midfielder Luka Modric in this match. Lets see how will the underdogs play against this "favorite" team on paper.
I always love predictions and as I look back, I happen to cover some of the exciting events, like the Oscar awards, Golden Globe to Euro Cup 2012 to the Constituent Assembly election 2 in my blog. I was also the winner for the World cup 2006 predict and win contest held during my lecturing at Kathmandu Engineering College. This time, we are organizing a similar type of predict and win contest at office for FIFA world cup 2014. Administering the management of the contest and similar workload at office, I may not be able to post such predictions for every match but I will try to include the key matches. The reason: Like I already said-> I love predicting.

Here is my prediction for both the matches of Group A.

Brazil vs Croatia.

Where: Sao Paolo and in your TV/ Computer (just for fun!!).

When: Jestha 30 1:45 am (June 13).

Prediction: Brazil 2 Croatia 0

Head to head: Brazil had met Croatia two times before, in which Brazil won once, and another ended in a draw.

Mexico Vs Cameroon.

Where: Estadio Das Dunas, Natal

When: Jestha 30, 9:45 pm

Prediction: Cameroon 1 Mexico 0.

Head to head: Just 1, won by Mexico.

Disclaimer: As more of my intuition came into play for this prediction (with some football pundits remarks), do not blindly use this for betting. Also I may not predict the same in the Predict and win contest happening in my office. 

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1974 ad featured in the world cup 2014 song "The world is ours".

Nepal's popular rock band 1974 ad is featured in the remix of the official World cup song "The world is ours" originally sang by Brazilian-American singer David Correy. The song used 120 musicians and producers from all around the world, including our own 1974 ad. The video shows the snippet of the Nepali version of the song, composed by 1974 ad at 00:32. CocaCola had organized a competition for Nepali bands to send their composition, from where they selected the best one who worked with 1974 ad for the Nepali version. Actually David Correy teamed up with CocaCola to create 24 localized versions of the song which took 300 hours of studio time, One being the Nepali version called "Cha Sansar ma hamro". 

Official Facebook page of 1974 ad shared the mashup song of the different language versions and expressed the awesome experience in working for the world cup theme song. It is truly a proud moment for all the Nepali people to have our band featured in the FIFA world cup 2014 anthem. Another exciting reason to watch the world cup here in Nepal. Be ready for sleepless football fun people!!

Here is the mashup song The world is ours (World's remix) in Youtube.

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Fifa World cup football 2014 schedule in Nepali Time.

As the Fifa World cup 2014 is approaching near, people search for the news for the most celebrated event of the world and even download the schedule of the whole tournament. But the timings of all the matches are not available in our Nepali time and people need to do the conversion every time they need to see the timings. So I have done some compilation and calculation to put the schedule in Nepali time. But for the date where the time crosses 12 at night, the date should be the other day but it is not changed to avoid the edit on the original date. Brazil is hosting the 20th International Men Football tournament and the opening ceremony is going to take place on Thursday June 12 at Sao Paulo before the kickoff of the match Brazil Vs Croatia (Nepali Time 01:45) (Jestha 30, 2071).

Altogether 32 countries from Africa, Asia, America, and Europe are allocated to eight groups, each containing 4 teams. Each team play all other in the group stage, resulting in altogether of 48 matches (Six games in each group * eight group). Top two teams (due to the points) from each group qualify for the round of 16, and they play the knockout stages (Quarterfinal, Semifinal) to reach the Final. The Final match of World cup 2014 will be held at Marcana Stadium, Rio de Janerio on July 13 12:45 am Nepali time (Ashad 29, 2071) and the winner along with such prestigious cup, will get $ 35 million. 

Nepali are crazy for Football and most of us don't miss a single match in this whole tournament despite the play is at such awkward hours (in the wee hours). For this mega event there will be screenings in all of the sports bar, pubs and restaurants in Thamel, Durbarmarg of Kathmandu and in other cities too. Some locals even organize a gathering with the screening of the games through moderate Projector, with generator as a backup for Loadshedding hours. As power cut is expected to reduce more by then and the availability of screenings everywhere, people without Inverter need not worry much. Live streaming is another solution in the cities where 3G is available, but make sure you have enough balance and battery in your mobile.

Government owned Nepal Television (NTV) has been broadcasting the World cup tournaments from a very long time even Avenues TV did it for 2010 world cup through Media Hub. But it is not clear who has got the rights to telecast the world cup 2014 matches live in Nepal.

Here is the schedule of the FIFA world cup 2014 tournament group stage matches.

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Here is the schedule of the Knock out stages of the World cup Football 2014.

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