There is much concern in the press about how far behind Brazil has fallen in its ambitious construction plans for hosting the World Cup. Will Brazil be able to pull off hosting the World Cup?
Sure. It’s not a trip to Mars, it’s just a bunch of soccer games. How many professional soccer games are held every year? 10,000?
There will no doubt be traffic jams, confusion, delays, crowding, broken promises, and unmet expectations, but that’s all part of the Authentic Brazil Experience.
Los Angeles proved in 1984 that you can put on a fine Summer Olympics without spending hardly anything. Rather than build a new Coliseum, Rose Bowl, and magnetic levitation people-mover, the organizers went out and bought some color-coordinated (“Festive Federalism“) rayon banners, construction paper, and paint. And it was a big hit.
When in doubt, put out more flags.
Over at Vox Popoli, Vox Day notes how many international soccer “friendly” games are a little too friendly, as in being fixed by gamblers.
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If Brazil plays the way they played Spain last summer – and the refs let them get away with that physical style of play – they’ve got a good shot.
The Los Angeles Olympics was the first to really milk the full potential of corporate of corporate sponsorship. I had an official 1984 Olympics Everlast heavy bag when I was a kid.
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When in doubt, put out more big-breasted Brazilian hotties.
It will be interesting to see how the American sports press handles the “latin way.” They had great fun mocking the Russians at Sochi. I suspect they will not do the same with the Brazilians.
If South Africa can, any nation can.
When in doubt, put out more big-breasted Brazilian hotties. Good bods, homely faces.
I can remember standing at the curb, on the southeast corner of the intersection of Brooklyn Avenue N.E and N.E. 45th Street, in Seattle’s University District, watching the Olympic Torch Relay go by, from east to west, on N.E. 45th Street, en route to the L.A. Olympic Games, late one afternoon, in July 1984. Oh, to be 27 again!
“When in doubt, put out more big-breasted Brazilian hotties. Good bods, homely faces.”
Double-bag mine, please.
Just a fw yeras ago, the chattering clases were talking up Brazil – along with India, Russia and South Africa, as the ‘BRICs’, supposedly the new wunderkinds on the block, the ‘new Chinas’ if you will. None of them have lived up to the hype, most particularly Brazil, of whom the chatterers have been curiously quiet. Basically, its trade numbers, its growth rates etc are abysmal, absolutely nothing to get worked up about at all. Wager that Angola is a better performer, on growth statistics, alone.
I saw an article about how prostitutes in Brazil are preparing — so at least they’ll probably be ready.
Currently in Curitiba, Brazil doing some last minute maintenance on a power plant. They aren’t ready.
The wimen are hot though.
No. Of course not. Brazil will CANCEL the World Cup. There will be NO World Cup. Just like in 1950, when Brazil…oh wait…
Of course there will be a 2014 World Cup, somewhere in Brazil, and Brazil might even win it. If it plays Uruguay in the final, I might even watch. But I will imagine that what our host is really asking is, will it be perceived that Brazil has pulled off the World Cup? Good question. Until very recently, I suspected the answer would be no: as we saw in the Sochi Olympics, journalists arrive completely unprepared and stay that way. No one who had ever visited or even read about the Soviet Union could have been surprised by the immediate clunkiness and overall semi-success, but with journalists no such thing can be assumed. They will fail to comprehend Brazil as they failed to comprehend Russia. And yet Brazil’s PR salvation may lie not in journalists’ having no ideas in their heads, but one idea in their heads: about homosexuality. Unless Brazilians say something politically incorrect on that subject, which they won’t, they may emerge with glory.
“The Los Angeles Olympics was the first to really milk the full potential of corporate of corporate sponsorship. I had an official 1984 Olympics Everlast heavy bag when I was a kid.”
In Mission Viejo, I remember they gave all the elementary schools really well produced 23rd Olympiad booklets that gave a history of the Games and a profile of every event. Teachers were encouraged to build it into lessons. I wore that booklet out and have been hooked on the Olympics ever since. No place can ever achieve what LA and SoCal did with the 23rd Games. We did a bang up job with the ’94 World Cup, as well.
“When in doubt, put out more big-breasted Brazilian hotties”
Can’t hurt. But I have found that the Brazilian women are more gifted on the back end, rather than the front.