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World Cup – Brazil Kept Brazilians Breathless

The streets were completely bare during the game. Family and friends got together in their homes or at bars for our debut game. There was this natural cheerfulness around, the optimism of a great match. In my house, the yellow and green preparation took some time. The kids were in this state of pure excitement as they ornamented the house in the colors of our flags and we prepared the food. Cold beer and soda in the fridge, popcorn popping in the pan, and we were ready. Oh, and how could I forget the bets? Yes. During the world cup there are all kinds of “bolão”, bets in which the people in a group guess the score of the game and pay a pre-established amount of money for each bet they make. Whoever guesses the correct score by the end of the game, gets all the money.

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World Cup Ads in Brazil

The World Cup gives a boost to businesses around the globe in many different forms by generating employment and lots of sales of all kinds of accessories world-cup related. Not to mention the number of journalists, photographers, cameramen, all kinds of professionals involved in the millionaire-deal broadcasting industry of this worldwide event that mobilizes millions of fans everywhere.

One of the businesses that heavily invests in financial return in a very timely manner is the advertisement world. In Brazil, the theme of the moment is heavily used in every single commercial, brochure, banner, billboard throughout the country. Big sports names like Nike, Adidas, Coke, Pepsi, explore master soccer moves and swing of the best players in the world.

This Pepsi ad is an example of mixing culture aspects of this world cup in Africa with fans and their love for soccer. And, of course, the underlying message of the drink they sell. Anyhow, a great commercial worth watching. Kaká, one of our best players known all over the world, is one of the commercial’s stars:

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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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