The third week of the World Cup starts today, and it’s actually a little sad. We’ll no longer have three live games throughout the day, and 16 nations are about to go home. But it’s also really fun because the real decisive matches begin, and then the World Cup turns into a marvelous bloodbath.
Many Barcelona players are probably going through to the knockout stages, and four of them are part of a team that could be the big favorites going into the Round of 16: Gerard Piqué, Jordi Alba, Sergio Busquets and Andrés Iniesta (forever a Barça player) were part of two very impressive performances from Spain, who don’t really seem to be missing their manager and played great football in their opening two group games.