Colombia

Colombian Team

Its share of world

Colombia's participation in the world had its best start to a brilliant 3-0 win over Greece annotated Pablo Armero, Teofilo Gutierrez and James Rodríguez.8 Then came the victory over Ivory Coast 2-1 and finally closed the first phase with a 4-1 win over Japan, achieving 9 points to qualify for the second round as Group C.9 in the last match of the first round against Japan, the goalkeeper Faryd Mondragon entered the field to 85 minutes, getting the record of oldest player to participate in the history of the World Cup.In knockout Colombia faced Uruguay, achieving overcome with two goals from James Rodríguez.11 Finally he found the hosts in the quarter-finals, losing 1-2. With this result closed the better participation of Colombia in the World Cup to date, which took fifth place finish, adding for the first time four straight wins and a positive difference of 8 goles.12 is noteworthy that 6 goals scored, striker James Rodriguez ranked first in the scoring of the World, becoming winner of the Golden Boot Mundial.13 His first goal in the match against Uruguay was highlighted as the best goal of the tournament by voting users page FIFA.14 addition to finalizing the World Cup, FIFA gave Colombia the Fair Play Award of.

Bibliography

https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colombia_en_la_Copa_Mundial_de_F%C3%BAtbol_de_2014