Brazil’s state development bank BNDES said it will provide up to 4.8 billion reais (US$2.77 billion) for work on the 12 stadia that will stage matches in the 2014 World Cup, despite a promise from organisers that public funds would only be needed for infrastructure. (more…)
Edison Arantes do Nascimento , (born, Três Corações, Minas Gerais, Brazil, 23 October 1940), best known by his nickname Pelé, is a Brazilian football player. He was given the title “Athlete of the Century” by the International Olympic Committee. In 1999 Time Magazine named Pelé one of the 100 Most Important People of the 20th Century. While his birth certificate shows his first name as Edison, he prefers to call himself Edson, but it is as Pelé that he has become a sporting legend. (more…)
Thanks to our boy Brooks over at DirtyTackle, you get the lowdown of how a team can score 9 goals in 9 minutes while the opposition walks off the field.
Hundreds of people gather at Copacabana beach ahead of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) vote to determine the host city for the 2016 Summer Olympics, on Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro October 2, 2009.
Residents of South America’s largest country often claim that God is Brazilian and, if you believe the propaganda, the 2016 Rio Olympics will be nothing short of heavenly.The city’s Olympic bid document is riddled with superlatives – “vibrant” neighbourhoods, “bucolic” suburbs, “breathtaking” scenery and “legendary” sports stadiums – and yesterday thousands upon thousands of elated locals clad in Brazil’s green and yellow colours crowded on to Copacabana beach to celebrate what local authorities were calling a historic victory.
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