USA defeats Australia in RoboCup Challenge final
This week, autonomous humanoid robots from the USA and Australia faced off in RoboCup Challenge final, which was held in Beijing China.
This week, autonomous humanoid robots from the USA and Australia faced off in RoboCup Challenge final, which was held in Beijing China.
• Germany has defeated Argentina 1-0 to claim the 2014 World Cup.
• The winning goal was scored by Mario Götze in the 113th minute.
• Germany destroyed Brazil in a hail of goals, defeating the host nation 7-1 to progress to the 2014 World Cup final.
• Goals were scored by Thomas Muller, Miroslav Klose, Toni Kroos (2), Sami Khedira and Andre Schurrle (2).
• David Luiz scored a cracking goal from outside the box to secure victory for Brazil in a 2-1 win against Colombia.
• Brazil will face Germany in the semi-finals without its captain Thiago Silva (suspension) and Neymar, who was injured in the final minutes of the match and will miss the remainder of the World Cup.
• Uruguay has progressed to the knockout rounds of the 2014 World Cup by eliminating Italy in a 1-0 victory.
• The winning goal was scored by Diego Godin shortly after Giorgio Chiellini alleged that Luis Suarez bit his shoulder.
• FIFA has said it will investigate the incident and deliver a decision before Uruguay’s game against Colombia on Saturday.
• Argentine FA President Julio Grondona said he believed Argentina scored a late goal against Iran on Saturday because ‘jinxed’ Diego Maradona had left the Mineirao stadium by then.
• In response, Diego Maradona showed Argentine FA President Julio Grondona the finger on live television, telling him to “jinx this”.
• Mario Balotelli has headed the winning goal in Italy’s 2-1 victory over England at the 2014 FIFA World Cup.
• Other scorers in the game were Claudio Marchisio for Italy and Daniel Sturridge for Englan
• Embarrassingly, England’s team physiotherapist injured himself while celebrating England’s goal, and had to be stretchered off
• Tony Abbott wished the Socceroos luck ahead of their opening World Cup match against Chile, in a Youtube video earlier this morning.
• The PM addressed his message to ‘Ange, Mike and the Socceroos’
• The captain’s name is, in fact, Mile (not Mike) Jedinak
• The opening match of the 2014 FIFA World Cup has ended in Brazil 3, Croatia 1.
• 2 goals were scored by Brazilian superstar, Neymar and the other by Oscar.
• Although the 2nd Brazilian goal resulted from a ‘soft’ penalty given against Croatia, Brazil sealed their dominance with Oscar’s goal in 2nd half overtime.
• It seems Brazil are on the march this World Cup!