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Adidas's New World Cup Commercial Features Unreleased Kanye West Song, Was...
Adidas debuted a new World Cup commercial, titled "The Dream," during Saturday's Champions League final.The 60-second ad stars World Cup players Lionel Messi, Dani Alves, Luis Suarez, Bastian...
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Spoiled Food Confiscated From Hotels Where English And Italian Soccer Teams...
SÃO PAULO, (Reuters) - Brazilian health and safety officials raided the England and Italy team hotels for next month's World Cup and confiscated fish, butter, ham and other food past their sell-by...
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Belgium Player Dribbles Around 2 Defenders, Scores Sick Goal In Pre-World Cup...
Outside of traditional powerhouses Brazil, Spain, Germany, and Argentina, Belgium is one of the favorites to go deep in the World Cup.One of their key players will be 21-year-old Romelu Lukaku, who...
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LIONEL MESSI: How The New Highest-Paid Soccer Player In The World Spends His...
Lionel Messi signed a new contract last week that will make him the highest-paid soccer player in the world at $27 million per year.Going into the 2014 World Cup at age 26, Messi is already considered...
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GOLDMAN: Here's Why Brazil Is A Much Bigger World Cup Favorite Than People...
As it does every time there's a big international sporting event, Goldman Sachs is out with a huge report, available to the public, analyzing the World Cup, both from a perspective of the actual games...
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The World Cup's Boost To The Brazilian Economy Will Be Small And Short-Term
Politicians love to tell their constituents about the big boost an international sporting event will bring to their economy. Surely, this is what Brazil's leader have tried to sell to the Brazilian...
View ArticleESPN's Newest World Cup Ad Shows How The World Unites For Soccer Every 4 Years
ESPN just released its newest 2014 World Cup commercial, "Time Zone." The minute-long ad takes us all around the world, from fishermen in Valencia to mountaineers in the Andes, to businessmen in...
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It Will Cost $682 A Day To Visit Rio During The World Cup
The world is about to descend on Brazil for the 2014 World Cup, and unsurprisingly, it'll cost a lot of money to be there — $682 a day in Rio, to be precise.TripAdvisor recently came out with its...
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CHART: There May Be Fewer Red Cards At This Year's World Cup
After a three-decade run in which red cards at the World Cup rose at a quick pace, the number of expulsions were actually way down in the 2010 World Cup and that trend may continue this year in...
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The Relationship Between World Trade And The Number Of World Cup Teams Is...
The most recent expansion of the World Cup took place before the 1998 tournament, when FIFA opened the tournament to 32 teams. And there has recently been speculation the tournament could expand to 40...
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Brazilian Soccer Legend Ronaldinho Is Renting His House In Rio For $15,000 A...
Ronaldinho, the 34-year-old Brazilian midfielder and FIFA World Player of the Year in 2004 and 2005, listed his mansion in Rio de Janeiro on Airbnb for $15,437 a day for the World Cup, according to...
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The World Cup Will Be A Huge Boost For Brazil's Favelas
By the time the World Cup is over, Mary Santos da Silva hopes she will be able to afford to build an extra floor on the roof of her house.A resident of Alto de Ondina, a neighborhood overlooking the...
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Here's The Official Ball For The World Cup Championship Game
Adidas just released the Brazuca Final Rio, the official match ball for the World Cup Final at the Maracana Stadium in Rio de Janeiro on July 13.Here's what it looks like: While the ball's design is...
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Brazil Has Barely Finished A Third Of The Structures It Promised To Build For...
Football legend Ronaldo, a member of Brazil's World Cup organizing committee, said only 30 percent of the infrastructure projects undertaken for the tournament would be completed.Brazil promised a host...
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The Brazil World Cup Ball Will Favor A Certain Kind Of Team
Teams who play with a fast, passing-focused strategy might have an advantage during this year's World Cup, based on an analysis of the ball published May 29 in the Nature journal Scientific...
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Ronaldo Is 'Appalled' By Brazil's World Cup Preparations
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Former Brazil striker Ronaldo said Friday he was "appalled" at the chaotic preparations for the country's World Cup, arguing that little of what had been promised to the people...
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The World Cup's Official Instrument Is Now Banned Because It Might Be Too...
If you watched even one match during the 2010 World Cup in South Africa you'll definitely remember this sound: That's the sweet hum of a plastic South African horn instrument called the "vuvuzela." The...
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Brazil Spent $300 Million To Build This Stadium In The Middle Of The Rain Forest
In a competition for most improbable place to host the World Cup, the city of Manaus would surely make the finals. Its Arena da Amazônia sits in the middle of the Amazon rainforest, 900 miles up the...
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New York Times Investigation Finds Brazen Corruption At The World Cup
The New York Times has obtained a shocking report from FIFA, soccer's worldwide regulator, that suggests the World Cup may be incredibly vulnerable to match-fixing.The Times published its findings on...
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11 Days Until The World Cup Kickoff In Brazil, And The Opening Stadium Is Not...
When FIFA in October 2011 designated Brazil's prosperous business hub Sao Paulo as the World Cup's opening match venue, they did not imagine that 11 days before kickoff the stadium would not be...
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