Longform.org's World Cup crib sheet

Great single page of text breakdown of all the teams in the Cup, and their schedules.

My favorite part might be the team slogans. They include the slightly incomprehensible but exuberant: “Greece is everywhere!” and Nigeria’s “Super Eagles super fan united we stand”. North Korea keeps expectations reasonable with “1966 again! Victory for DPR of Korea!”, 1966 being the year they reached the quarter-finals. There’s a lot of talk about hopes and dreams and roads and destiny, all very generically Olympian. Serbia (“Play with the heart, lead with a smile!”) and New Zealand (“Kickin’ it Kiwi style”) have the best attitudes. I like to imagine that in their native tongues, each is as cliche-ridden as USA’s “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Victory!”