TORCIDAS BY GABRIEL UCHIDA

For the past year Gabriel Uchida has been photographing the leaders of Brazil's Torcida groups - think ultra or Barra brava - in a project that certainly wasn't for the feint of heart.

FIFA and the CBF will want to plant images of samba, girls in bikinis and locals supping on a Caipirinha into your consciousnesses during the next twelve months, and it's fair to say you won't be sticking these chaps into your 2014 Panini sticker album.

Click here for the IBWM gallery on the hardest men in Brazilian football.

Gabriel is the photographic genius behind FotoTorcida.