--- title: Google Doodle Celebrates 2014 FIFA World Cup description: Clicking on the Doodle produces a landing page with the latest FIFA schedules, scores, and news canonical: https://time.com/2863619/google-doodle-world-cup-brazil/ author: Laura Stampler article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-06-12T13:36:09.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:48:36.719Z og:title: Google Doodle Celebrates 2014 FIFA World Cup og:description: Score! og:url: https://time.com/2863619/google-doodle-world-cup-brazil/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Google Doodle Celebrates 2014 FIFA World Cup twitter:description: Score! twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # GOOOOOOOOAL: Today's Google Doodle Celebrates the World Cup > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically. by [Laura Stampler](https://time.com/author/laura-stampler/) ## Laura Stampler Jun 12, 2014 1:36 PM UTC by [Laura Stampler](https://time.com/author/laura-stampler/) ## Laura Stampler Jun 12, 2014 1:36 PM UTC Thursday’s [Google Doodle ](https://www.google.com)celebrates the [kickoff of the 2014 FIFA World Cup.](http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/12/sports/worldcup/2014-world-cup-group-preview-from-a-to-h.html) The animated illustration features host country Brazil’s green and yellow color scheme and shows little armed and legged G, O, O, G, L, and E letters jumping up and down like excited fans.  Google Clicking on the Doodle brings curious Googlers to a landing page with FIFA information, including game schedules, the official World Cup site and relevant news surrounding the games. Many other Internet companies have incorporated World Cup information on their platforms. Twitter, which anticipates that the [World Cup will be the most tweeted about event ever](http://time.com/2853293/twitter-world-cup-2014-fifa-brazil/), links the [#worldcup hashtag to a landing pag](https://twitter.com/hashtag/WorldCup)e with schedules, updated scores, related tweets and teams’ Twitter accounts. 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