Despite protests, strikes and the inevitable rumours
of corruption, the football mad Brazilians are ready to stage the
largest ever carnival should the host nation win the World Cup.
New innovations at this World Cup are the introduction of goal-line technology and the use of vanishing marker spray by referees at free-kicks.
What do we know about
Brazil?
It is the fifth largest country in the world and the fifth most populous with an estimated population of 202,507,013. Brazil produces more than 40 percent of the world’s coffee – 285 billion cups of coffee a year. The driving time between the World Cup’s southernmost host city, Porto Alegra, and the furthest north, Fortaleza, is reckoned to be about fifty-five hours for the 4,006kms one-way journey.
São Paulo, last month, broke its own record for the longest traffic jam ever recorded – 344 kms!
England’s game against Honduras in Miami was disrupted because of lightning but Brazil is the planet’s lightning bolt capital with fifty-eight million strikes a year – about 156,000 times a day. Let us hope that the electrifying skills on the pitch give us all a cause to celebrate when the final takes place on the 13 July. As well as the trophy the winners will bank a cheque for €25m
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