Star man: Kakå (Real Madrid)
Odds: 9-2
Biggest local supermarket: Pão de Açúcar
Fascinating food and drink facts: Brazil is so vast no one cuisine can define it, but rice and beans are staples all over. The national drink is caipirinha, a cocktail of sugar, lime and cachaça liquor made from sugar cane of which more than a billion litres are made every year. Its abv can vary from the mid-30s to 80%.
Star man: Didier Drogba (Chelsea)
Odds: 28-1
Biggest local supermarket: N/A
Fascinating food and drink facts: While production suffered in the wake of civil war in 2003, up to 40% of the world's cocoa is grown in the Ivory Coast and it is still the country's top export. At home, the Ivorian diet is similar to other West African nations in its reliance on tubers and grains but a local delicacy is aloko, a mix of fried bananas, chillies and onions.
Star man: Mun In-Guk (April Twenty-Five)
Odds: 1,000-1
Biggest local supermarket: N/A
Fascinating food and drink facts: Red tape is never popular but spare a thought for North Korea. Amid a backdrop of food shortages, the regime closed the shops last year to rein in an embryonic free market economy. Such austerity doesn't apply to Kim Jong-Il, a fan of Hennessy and Italian food.
Star man: Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid)
Odds: 20-1
Biggest local supermarket: Feira Nova
Fascinating food and drink facts: While Nando's first hit UK high streets in 1992, the Portuguese have been using piri piri sauces made with the African red devil pepper since colonial times. 'Piri piri' can apply to any hot sauce. On the sweeter side, any of the sugar-heavy pastry recipes popular here date from 18th century nunneries.
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