30 FIFA World Cup 2014 Wallpapers

“The World Cup experience is more than just the game of football. It’s an event. And it will fly by faster than you think. It will end and you’ll be saying, ‘Wow, it’s over already?’ You have to remember to take it all in and enjoy it.” – Cobi Jones

The FIFA World Cup (or just the World Cup, as it is colloquially known) is the biggest event in football, and one of the biggest events in sports, in general. Second only to the Olympics, in prestige, the World Cup brings together national teams from across the globe, and pits them together in what many consider to be the finest spectacle of football possible.

The first ever international game was played in 1872 in Glasgow, between Scotland and England. It wasn’t until 1930, that the first ever FIFA World Cup took place in Uruguay. The host team won the game, and it is an event that Uruguayans still talk about fondly. This says a lot about how important the competition is to people, and how invested both the fans, and the teams are in winning the sought-after cup.

FIFA was founded in 1904, and have had several attempts of creating a world tournament before the one in Uruguay. Their first attempt came in 1906. Switzerland was the host, but due to these being the early days of football, FIFA’s official history regards the tournament as a failure.

The current 32-team model was implemented fairly recently, in 1998, at the World Cup in France, allowing more teams from Africa, Asia and North America to take part in the competitions. The results of this change were soon visible, as teams like Ghana, Senegal and the USA started reaching legs of the tournament traditionally “reserved” for teams from South America and Europe.

To further encourage diversity, there are talks of expanding the 32-team system to 40, Sepp Blatter, FIFA’s current president, stating in 2013:

“From a purely sporting perspective, I would like to see globalisation finally taken seriously, and the African and Asian national associations accorded the status they deserve at the FIFA World Cup. It cannot be that the European and South American confederations lay claim to the majority of the berths at the World Cup.”

The current competition is well under way, and we are guessing that there are quite a few of you that have caught football fever, so we have decided to make a list of some cool Brazil 2014 wallpapers we really like. If you want to see more awesome football themed images, check out our article on Rudi Gundersen’s Stars of Brazil 2014.

Desktop Wallpapers

First off, we’ll be showing you some of the coolest wallpapers we can find for your regular desktop or laptop PC.

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The competition is in Brazil, so it is safe to assume that you are going to be seeing a lot of wallpapers that are referencing the country’s flag. There are a lot of kitsch wallpapers out there, but we do not think that applies here. Great color, great texture, great taste.

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A simple wallpaper, depicting the actual cup the winners get. The patterned background is really what makes it background, as opposed to just a picture. It is available in various resolutions.

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This wallpaper depicts Fuelco, Brazil 2014’s official mascot, who is a three-banded armadillo, a Brazilian native species of armadillo. His name is a blending of the words futebol (football) and ecologia (ecology), as the three banded armadillo is a vulnerable species.

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The designers went through a lot of trouble to create a brand identity for the World Cup in Brazil, so why not show them some love and use that identity as a wallpaper?

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There are going to be more wallpapers like this, because the people over at DesignBolts.com made some really excellent World Cup wallpapers. If you want to check out all of them, click this link, here.

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Spain is 2010’s World Cup winner, so of course we were going to give them a shoutout.

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A close-up of the cup.

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Arena das Dunas is definitely our favorite venue from the competition. The architecture is simply stunning, and this wallpaper captures that perfectly.

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You can’t have a proper football wallpapers list without having at least one football thrown in.

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Robin Van Persie is, as the wallpaper itself states, the Dutch national team’s captain, as well as one of their most beloved players.

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Another wallpaper from DesignBolts.com.

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Can’t pick between football and cup? No worries, here’s a wallpaper with both.

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What would football be without the football players?

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An empty field, that’s what it would be.

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Although, we have to say, the field does look beautiful, doesn’t it.

iPhone Wallpapers

Since you’ll probably be wanting to take football fever with you, it is time we show you some of the best iPhone wallpapers we have seen.

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Brazil is an exotic country, and nothing says exotic quite like a macaw.

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We have always loved France’s football team logo (and a few others, so you will be seeing more of them on our list), and that is why it gets a spot on our list.

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So you can have the logo on your desktop and on your iPhone.

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The same goes for Brazil 2014’s adorable mascot, Fuelco.

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One if the most epic moments from the tournament had to be the welcome flag, placed at the feet of the gargantuan statue Christ the Redeemer.

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The logo again, this time on a plain white background.

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You will probably recognize this wallpaper from the list of desktop wallpapers above.

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A wallpaper with some of the most famous players from the tournament.

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The Cup as it is meant to be: held by the joyous, tired hands of the winners.

Now, as promised, a few more national team logos:

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That concludes our list of World Cup 2014 wallpapers. We hope you’ll find that special wallpaper that you have been looking for, to keep enthralled in the game, even if your favorite team got knocked out.

Don’t forget to share your thoughts, and any other cool wallpapers you find, in the comment section below.