Brazil vs Germany is today’s only soccer game on the World Cup schedule, a headlining match between the host nation and one of the international odds-on favorites. Brazil will head into the game without the services of Neymar da Silva Santos, who suffered a tournament-ending back injury in his team’s previous game against Colombia, which has been a source of controversy in the days since. Brazil has dominated its World Cup opponents up to this point, but the game may take on a different tone against Germany, which has dominated its own games after climbing out of the proverbial Group of Death. Germany vs Brazil will continue to play the television and start time shuffle today, as matches have throughout the tournament, this time landing on a prominent TV channel.

For the Brasil National Football Team, today’s World Cup game may come down to summoning vengeance for a fallen teammate. Neymar is expected to eventually recover fully for the rest of his career, but will miss any remaining tournament games and faces a prolonged recovery after that. The manner in which he was kicked by his Colombian opponent has made the injury a particularly emotional one, turning a national sports hero into a martyr – and now that emotion plays out on the pitch at Estadio Mineirao. Of course the German National Football Team wasn’t involved in Neymar’s injury one way or the other, and has instead quietly marched toward the A Semifinal of its own accord. The outcome of the game may come down to which team can cast aside the emotionality and simply focus on the soccer match at hand.

Today’s Brazil vs Germany World Cup soccer / futbol / football game has a start time schedule of 4:00pm eastern time on Tuesday, and live television coverage begins airing at 3:00pm. The match shifts to TV channel ESPN, after some controversy over the weekend as to whether games airing on ESPN2 should have been on a more prominent channel.

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