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Its dead and gone! The year 2014 ends and left with so much drama, actions, crackers and ofcourse reactions and beheld so much passion in the world of football. Let’s xray those moments, shall we?

It was a massive end in top flight football competitions ranging from the end of a terrific end of the 2013/14 season in Europe with a Uefa Champions League final clash sealing up the season and Real Madrid, UCL defending champions.

Those that starred (2013/14):

• Athletico Madrid: They were the stunning surprise of the season, the Spanish side led by former Argentina international Diego Simeone were La liga winners and Champions League runners-up a feat they have not achieved for seasons.

Star Player:

* Diego Costa: On 30 April 2014 Costa won and converted a penalty in the second leg of the Champions League semi- final against Chelsea, as Atlético won 3–1 at Stamford Bridge and advanced to the final of the competition for the first time since 1974.
He scored 64 goals in 135 appearances before joining Chelsea (£32 million buy-out clause; signed a five-year contract on a salary of £150,000 a week in Costa’s contract), now scored 13 goals in 20 appearances so far for The Blues.

• Real Madrid

European giants indeed, bagging the Copa Del Ray, the Champions League trophy with capable players and a capable coach and a capable admin. Let’s just call them The Capables.
The team packed with talents such as Cristiano Ronaldo, current ballon d’Or winner and also gunning for the title again for the fourth time along side Manuel Neuer (Bayern Munich and Germany goalie) and the likes of Gareth Bale, Karim Benzema and more kept the start shining and the fire burning.

Star Player:

* Cristiano Ronaldo: Ronaldo made his return on 23 April 2014 in the Champions League semi-final first leg win over Bayern Munich. He scored a brace in the next match against Osasuna, his 100th and 101st league
goals at the Santiago Bernabéu.
On 29 April 2014, with his two goals against Bayern Munich in a 4–0 away win at the Allianz Arena for the second leg
of the Champions League semi-final, Ronaldo set a new record by becoming the first player to score 16 goals in a single Champions League/European Cup
season.

• Manchester City

The Citizens, they also attended the party and were very important guest as at 2014. They won the Premier League on the last day prior to Liverpool’s unending draw-backs and a Chelsea not precise on silver wear claims for last season.
Manuel Pellegrini showed character and possess the terrain with a strong and reliable squad that produce Africa’s best Yaya Toure, and the likes of Sergio Aguero who is red-hot this season, David Silva and more with a current ‘live-saver’ Frank Lampard on loan.

Star Player

Yaya Toure: The Ivorian was indeed the back bone of the team last season, scoring 24 goals in 49 appearances (2013/2014 season).

• Bayern Munich

The Alianz Arena is a place to be, and the occupants with their fierce supporters were the talk of German football in 2014.

Bayern had already won the Bundesliga before the last day and under the leadership of Pep Guardiola are the world class players such as Arjen Robben, a free scoring Mario Mandzukic, Frank Ribbery and a sweeper-keeper Manuel Neuer amongst others. They were sent out of the Champions League by defending champions Real Madrid but a good Super Cup title plus a Bundesliga plus a Football Association title just made their star to keep shining.

Star Player:

Arjen Robben: On 17 May, Robben scored Bayern’s opening goal in a 2–0 extra-time defeat of Borussia Dortmund in the 2014 DFB-Pokal Final, giving him his third league and cup double in five seasons with the club. His goal made him the first player to score in three separate
DFB-Pokal finals.

• PSG

Les Parisiens had a fantastic finish most importantly the Ligue 1 title after a Champions League exit falling to the resilient prowess of Chelsea, thanks to Demba Ba. With the likes of Blaise Matuidi, Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Pastore and more, the team stood out and represented france

Star Player:

Zlantan Ibrahimovich: On 16 March 2014, Ibrahimović scored both goals in
a 2–0 win over Saint-Étienne to surpass Carlos Bianchi’s club record of 39 goals in a season.[90] On
11 May, he was named Ligue 1’s player of the year for the second consecutive season.
Ibrahimović ended the Ligue 1 season as top scorer with 26 goals as PSG won a second consecutive league title.
Overall, he scored 41 goals in all competitions, including ten in eight Champions League matches.

• Juventus

Winning last season’s league title—the club’s third successive Scudetto—with a record points tally of 102 was testament to the incredible desire now ingrained
in the squad. Yet just two months after lifting that honour, its architect Antonio Conte walked away from the club, quickly taking a role with the Italian national team.

Star Player:
Paul Pogba: The young lad appeared for Manchester United only Seven times before joining Juventus in 2012 and in the year 2014 he had 9 goals in 51 appearances.
In 2001, Juventus sold
Zinedine Zidane for a
world-record fee.

FIFA WORLD CUP 2014

Brazil had one of the best World Cup moments in history, records were broken odds were real and the top of it all a German dream came alive.

With 171 goals (average of 2.67 per match)and attendance of 3,429,873 (average of 53,592 per match).

As the winners, Germany qualified for the 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup. During the 2014 FIFA World Cup, the FIFA Fan Fest in the host cities in Brazil
received 5 million people, and the country received 1 million guests from 202 countries around the world.

Juan Cuadrado and Toni Kroos finished highest in the assists table with four assists each (4:3). And Manuel Neuer as best goalie, a Luis Suarez bite that gave him a four-month ban a Stephen Gerrad slip that cost England a fall-out, a 7-1 Germany-Brazil horror, a Spanish defeat under the feet of Netherlands, a Nigeria first round of 16 qualification in 15 years and a first Algeria second round qualification, a pack of surprising goals from Lionel Messi against ( Iran, Bosnia), James Rodriguez’s dynamite, Robin Van Persie against spain…oh what a tournament. And at the end we had a tears of victory and vanquish as Argentina was denied a World Cup trophy by Germany after a decisive Mario Gotze’s finish.

2014/2015 Season

It began with Louis Van Gaal on all pages and broadcast of the sport media, and a very unconvincing start with thanks to MK Dons and more.
The Premier League battle, the Diego Costa prowess versus Sergio Aguero finesse and more.
The Spanish Laliga throwing columns on Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi that keep having hat-tricks and record making goals.
The Uefa Champions League round up to bigger ties and repeat clashes (Chelsea V PSG) (Barca v Man City).

All of these in one year 2014?
WHAT IS THE NEXT BIG THING?