Colombia v Greece, World Cup 2014: live
16.52 A little factoid for you. At 38-years-old Colombia's captain Mario Yepes is oldest outfield player at this year's World Cup. I bet Clarence Seedorf wished he knew that before he praised the teams for their 'youth' about 30 seconds ago.
16.49 Colombia's most famous export since Carlos Valderama has released an unofficial World Cup song featuring her hubbie Pique.
16.45 Colombian fans look like they're going to be outnumbering the Greeks by around 50,000 to 1 in Belo Horizonte tonight.There's just this guy as far as I can tell. Not sure if he's a genuine Greek fan or just Oscar disguised in a toga.
16.40 Canny move by the Beeb, who've drafted in Neil Lennon to give us all the low-down on key-man Samaras. And we've got Juninho too.
16.38 A handy visualisation of the Colombian team. You're welcome.
16.34 FIFA are doing their bit for world peace today. The officials for today's game are American referee Mark Geiger and Iran's Alireza Faghani as the fourth official. Canada's Joe Fletcher is the neutral assistant officiating between the two of them we assume.
16.27 So what to make of every commentators nightmare, Greece? They've manfully failed to do anything of note since they won the European Championships exactly 10 years ago next month. It's been group stage knock-outs, sovereign debt defaults and internal devaluations since then.
They're likely to struggle to get out of Group C, with Japan and the Ivory Coast to come. The Greeks arrived in Brazil through the play-offs, so don't expect the heroics of Otto Rehhagel's men in Portugal this time round.
Some familiar names in the line-up. Outgoing Celtic striker Georgios Samaras starts, but there's no place for Fulham's Karagounis or the Cottagers record-signing Mitroglou.
16.19 And the team have just dropped. Ignore everything I said in the previous post, Jose Pekerman doesn't is not a live-blog fan obviously. Jackson Martinez is on the bench, while Greece have left out Fulham's firing-blanks man Kostas Mitroglou
Colombia: Ospina; Armero, Zapata, Yepes (c), Zúñiga; Sánchez, Abel, Cuadrado, James Rodriguez, Ibarbo; Teofilo Gutierrez.
Greece: Kamezis; Manolas, Torosidis, Papastathopolous, Holebas; Maniatis, Kone, Katsouranis; Salpingidis, Gekas, Samaras.
16.09 Good afternoon World Cup faithful.
Last night's goings-on in Salvador will stay very very long in the memory. It's only day three of this year's tournament, but we've probably had more quality footballing moments than in the last two World Cups put together. So don't ruin things tonight Greece/Colombia/Uruguay/Ivory Coast/England/Italy/Japan/Costa Rica.
Colombia are my dark horses unfancied underdogs for Brazil. After Chile's win last night, and Uruguay's probable victory over Costa Rica to come, the Colombians may well be over-looked, especially after Falcao won't be making an appearence. But you'd be sill for thinking the Monaco striker is all the Colombians are about. Jose Pekerman is not exactly short of attacking options to fill-in for the hitman. Expect to see River Plate's Teofilo Gutierrez and Porto's Jackson Martinez, top-scorer in Portugal for the last two years to start.
Fellow Monaco man James Rodriguez - JRod - has taken on the mantle of star player in the first XI. If you don't know much about him, here's 'James' as he wears on his no.10 shirt at Monaco, being quite good at free-kicks.
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