What is International Tournaments?

It ended in the anger of a notoriously tempestuous final that saw Uruguay beat Chile 1-0, but that only reflected the depth of emotions this tournament drew out.

There was only depression in the host nation of Argentina on semifinal day, as Uruguay beat

Diego Maradona's world champions in the Monumental on the country's national day, with River Plate forward Antonio Alzamendi hitting the goal.

7. 1954 World Cup | Winners: West Germany | Runners-up: Hungary

With an attention-holding average of 5.38, this was the World Cup with the most goals per game,

but this was no shallow entertainment. It's hard to find a final richer in narrative, for one.

In the "Miracle of Bern," West Germany won the tournament just nine years after the end of World War II,

also overcoming the exquisite Hungary side that had beaten them 8-3 in the group stage.

On the other side of that, of course, the Hungarians themselves became the game's greatest losers, perhaps the best side never to win such a tournament.

6. Euro 1984 | Winners: France | Runners-up: Spain

right down to an attacking France winning it -- but that still makes it better than so many other tournaments. It was a festival of high-scoring games between

highly open sides, with the French hosts themselves involved in two separate 3-2 wins, one of them the fantastic semifinal against Portugal.

5. 1986 World Cup | Winners: Argentina | Runners-up: West Germany

There has never been a tournament so singularly dominated by one player as 1986 was by Maradona,

making that feat the threshold for every player compared against him since.

But it is all the more impressive an achievement because this was such a vivid and rich event.

You only have to look at the four minutes that defined the player and the tournament,

perhaps the most famous four minutes in football history: Maradona's two hugely different but equally distinguished goals in the quarterfinals against England.

So many other stories spun off from that Argentine victory, from a dazzling run by Belgium to face them in the semifinals,

4. 2014 World Cup | Winners: Germany | Runners-up: Argentina

If it feels like Brazil 2014 has only been picked because it's freshest in memory, well just think of the facets of it that will never be forgotten

as long as the game is played. It's actually difficult to pick what was the most historic storyline of 2014.

Was it perhaps the greatest side ever suffering one of the worst collapses ever in Spain's miserable tournament,

or the Mineirazo: Brazil's traumatic 7-1 defeat to Germany? Beyond that, there was Luis Suarez's bite of

Giorgio Chiellini, Leo Messi's miss that prevented him emulating Maradona and the controversy over Neymar.