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Your Final: Watching the World Cup

July 18, 2014

The World Cup final was watched all over the world. In living rooms in Africa, pubs in Europe, friends came together in America and families watched in the Arab world.

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WM Finale Fans in Neu Delhi
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Kick off! - Special:"Your Final"

Kick Off! filmed people watching the final all over the globe. On a beach in New Zealand, a kiosk in Berlin, a taxi in Moscow and between tunas in the morning market in Tokyo. We filmed people watching the thing they love.

More than 700 million people in 194 countries watched the final between Germany and Argentina. No other single event is watched by this many people. The World Cup final divides people into two camps, it brings people together and also drives a line between friends, it sends one nation into ecstasy and depresses another. The match mirrors everyday life: The tragedy of success and failure.

Kick off! sent reporters out around the world to film people watching the final. And people around the world sent us material of them watching the match. The world's greatest game from a different perspective.