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
