🌎 World Cup Moments: Brazil 1-7 Germany | OneFootball

Perhaps no other result in World Cup history is as infamous as Germany's thrashing of Brazil in 2014.

Brazil, widely considered the spiritual home of the beautiful game, were hosting the tournament for the first time since 1950 and were convinced that destiny would hand them the title.

The first time around, 64 years ago, Uruguay had broken Brazilian hearts as they beat the hosts 2-1 in a game still talked about today in South America.

The 2014 vintage though, were determined to make amends for those years of hurt and started the tournament in the best possible fashion.

Luiz Felipe Scolari's side finished top of Group A with wins over Croatia and Cameroon and a goalless draw against Mexico.

Chile were their opponents in the last 16 as Neymar, the face of the tournament, stepped up and scored the decisive penalty in the shoot-out.

It was another South American nation, Colombia, who the Seleçao faced in the quarter-finals and this time they won in normal time thanks to David Luiz's astonishing second half free kick.

The key moment from that win however, came in the dying seconds as Neymar was kneed in the back and was subsequently found to have broken one of his vertebrae.

It meant that Brazil's leading light and attacking fulcrum was missing for the semi-final with Germany.

And Brazil took that worry, turning it into nervousness, and completely flagellating themselves in the first half.

Brazil would, quite unbelievably, go 5-0 down in the opening half an hour and eventually wound up losing the match 7-1.

As the biggest newspaper in the country, O Globo said, it was "the most humiliating defeat in football history" and "the nation's greatest shame".

It was the country's biggest defeat in over 90 years, the first time Brazil had lost a competitive match at home since 1975 and their heaviest ever tournament loss.

From trying to avenge the 1950 trauma to ultimately superseding it, the Brazil squad of 2014 would go down in history for all the wrong reasons.