2) Brazil
There are plenty of perfectly good reasons for putting Luiz Felipe Scolari’s underwhelming Brazil team lower down this list, but part of me is convinced that the Selecao have their ‘what if?’ moment.
When Mauricio Pinilla crashed the ball against the bar in the 119th minute of the last sixteen clash against Chile, the nation collectively held its breath, the 23 members of Scolari’s squad were millimetres away from becoming footballing pariahs in their own country, failing to make the quarter final on home turf.
Football has a funny habit of immortalising these moments by the events that come after them – and it is not a massive stretch to see that strike of the crossbar and subsequent penalty victory in Belo Horizonte being one of the defining moments of a Brazil World Cup victory.
They undoubtedly have to improve, however, with Paulinho, Hulk and Fred still seeming to take more away from the team than they bring to it and Oscar finding himself horribly out of form. Over to you, Neymar.