Brazil 1-7 Germany: 2014 World Cup semi-finalists - where are they now?

Brazil’s 2014 World Cup exit is an unforgettable moment in football history, for all the wrong reasons.

With expectation high thanks to emerging stars and being tournament hosts, Brazil delivered throughout and managed to reach the semi-final.

Beating Chile and Colombia in the knockout stages process, the stage was set for Brazil, who were just one game away from a potentially historic final, in search of their sixth World Cup.

But, as we all know, that didn’t happen. They crashed out of the last four, and crashed out hard at the hands of eventual winners Germany.

By ‘hard’, we mean they were demolished in a 7-1 thumping, that completely ruined what was meant to be their tournament to deliver on, with what was the biggest defeat in Brazilian football since 1920.

Falling behind after just 11 minutes to a goal from Thomas Muller, Miroslav Klose’s record-breaking strike put Brazil 2-0 down some 12 minutes later; his 16th World Cup goal. And at 2-0, they capitulated. Toni Kroos grabbed a third merely two minutes after Klose’s, and a fourth just another two minutes after that.

Sami Khedira then added another to make it five after 29 minutes. Inside the first half an hour of the World Cup semi-final, Brazil were 5-0 down. Belo Horizonte was stunned into disbelief end emotion, and rightly so. They’d just watched their nation crumble completely.

It somehow got worse after the break, too, as the Selecao couldn’t stop the rot. Andre Schurrle, in inspired form, popped up with a brace for himself to make it 7-0 on the scoreboard with just over ten minutes to play.

Oscar managed to save the tiniest amount of face for the country at the death, scoring to deny Germany a clean sheet, but that was as good as it got on one of the darkest