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Group B: Argentina 1 – Nigeria 0

Photo: La Nacion – Cancha Llena

Today’s match against Nigeria began at 11 am, Buenos Aires time. My mum, my sister and I were chit-chatting in the kitchen over cups of coffee and rounds of mate when we heard honking, wild cheering and even firecrackers. We’d missed the beginning of the match and Gabriel Heinze’s goal 6 minutes into the game. That was fast! (more…)

What the World Cup can do to your health

Doctors at emergency rooms around the world are getting ready for the onslaught of heart attacks and other heart-related maladies. Who’s to blame? The World Cup!

The British Heart Foundation posted on their website a series of easy-to-follow tips that will help you keep your heart healthy. Some of the tips are watching the matches with friends and family, staying below the maximum recommended alcohol units (ahem!), or giving up smoking.

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World Cup Brazil – We are Almost There

Some count the days, hours, minutes. I guess I know how close the World Cup is in Brazil by the blooming green and yellow colors in every single corner on the streets of my hometown, Brasilia.

The green-yellow commerce is super heated. The once unemployed population becomes street vendors selling all kinds of souvenirs that remind us of what we are about to watch. Only a few days for Brazil to star. A time of the year we forget poverty, we forget how gloomy our future might look. Some say it is like opium, mainly in the year of our presidential elections. However, we simply forget all about our ordinary lives.

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Brazil's countdown to the World Cup

If you look up, down, to any side, the colors yellow, green and blue are everywhere. Every four years, at this time of the year, my country, Brazil, stops.

Everybody seems to be a soccer expert, opinionated, know-it-all coaches. Fashion means wearing the colors of our Brazilian flag. There is no way out, the world cup is in the air. We breathe it, we feel it, we dress it, we live this moment as if it were the most decisive time of our lives. For sure, that it is for our Brazilian coach, Dunga, and for all our soccer players. However, the World Cup is so big for all that even the ones who don’t like soccer wouldn’t dare saying anything against it in June, every four years.

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