If you were President Dilma or Sports Minister Aldo Rebelo, would you be happy to receive this letter from FIFA boss Joseph Blatter? I just got a curious email from a PR, and the obvious intent was to inform me, the journalist, that everything is getting better between FIFA and Brazil. But: 1) the fact(…)
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Brazil World Cup – please enjoy your staying
This does not look promising. The good news is that Brazil has unveiled a site that allows potential visitors to get to know the host cities for the 2014 World Cup. The bad news is that you must learn another language. No, not Portuguese, but some kind of bizarre English-Portuguese hybrid. There are some real(…)
Godfather of Brazilian football in the hot seat
Ricardo Teixeira, the man who has dominated soccer here for 22 years, is being pressured to resign over a corruption scandal. If he goes down, someone else will be putting on the 2014 World Cup. But this is not the first time Teixeira, the head of the Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF), has been on the(…)
