As national soccer teams and the photographers who have been covering them start to trickle home from the Brazil World Cup, it’s time to revisit the “On the Sidelines” project. This Reuters Pictures project was billed as a chance for photographers to share “their own quirky and creative view of the World Cup”.

The media bus driver is reflected in a mirror during the trip away from the Pernambuco arena in the rain in Recife June 28, 2014. In a project called “On The Sidelines” Reuters photographers share pictures showing their own quirky and creative view of the 2014 World Cup in Brazil. (Photo by Brian Snyder/Reuters)

Young players of Planaltina football club practise in Planaltina July 3, 2014. (Photo by Damir Sagolj/Reuters)

A TAM passenger jet casts a shadow on the ground as it descends to land in Sao Paulo June 30, 2014. (Photo by Mike Blake/Reuters)

Cable cars are seen over de Complexo de Alemao slum in Rio De Janeiro June 28, 2014. (Photo by Alessandro Garofalo/Reuters)

Graffiti is seen on a street in the city of Salvador, on June 25, 2014. (Photo by Ivan Alvarado/Reuters)

A worker rappels from the Cristo Redentor statue at the Corcovado in Rio de Janeiro June 23, 2014. (Photo by Alessandro Garofalo/Reuters)

Rain pours down the window of a media bus enroute to the Pernambuco arena in Recife June 25, 2014. (Photo by Brian Snyder/Reuters)

A woman walks over patterned paving in central Porto Alegre during the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, June 26, 2014. (Photo by Darren Staples/Reuters)

Movers rest during their lunch break in the neighborhood of Santa Teresa in Rio de Janeiro, on June 24, 2014. (Photo by Kai Pfaffenbach/Reuters)

A man rests in front of his funeral shop in Olinda, near Recife, on June 27, 2014. (Photo by Tony Gentile/Reuters)

A painting showing gauchos riding horses hangs on the wall near a television during the 2014 World Cup match between Brazil and Chile being played in Belo Horizonte, in the Farroupilha camp in Porto Alegre, June 28, 2014. (Photo by Stefano Rellandini/Reuters)

A street light is surrounded by electric cables at the Corrilhos slum in Sao Paulo, on June 23, 2014. (Photo by Nacho Doce/Reuters)

A man walks in front of a posting on a wall, of the first round World Cup match schedule at a shopping centre in downtown Porto Alegre June 27, 2014. (Photo by Edgard Garrido/Reuters)

People watch from outside as a dancer performs inside a bar in Porto Alegre June 21, 2014. (Photo by Marko Djurica/Reuters)

A fisherman cleans shrimps at a fishmarket in Olinda June 27, 2014. (Photo by Yves Herman/Reuters)

A boy stretches on a pull-up bar as men exercise around him along the beach in Recife, on June 24, 2014. (Photo by Brian Snyder/Reuters)

A youth does a cartwheel on Boa Viagem beach in Recife June 30, 2014. (Photo by Brian Snyder/Reuters)

A man walks past a graffiti near the entrance of Estadio Manoel Barradas stadium in Salvador June 30, 2014. (Photo by Yves Herman/Reuters)

A South Korean fan celebrates her team in Porto Alegre, on June 22, 2014. (Photo by Marko Djurica/Reuters)

Children walk after posing for a photo with Ivory Coast's national soccer team before their 2014 World Cup Group C soccer match against Greece at the Castelao arena in Fortaleza June 24, 2014. (Photo by Marcelo del Pozo/Reuters)