Archive for the ‘World Cup 2014’ Category
The police of Brasilia, Brazil’s capital city, wanted to be ready for the World Cup. That meant procuring goods, such as nightsticks (probably) and other stuff cops use to do their jobs. Apparently, it also meant raincoats. 17,000 of them, with a price tag of $2.66 million. That’s a lot …
Back in November, FIFA unveiled individual posters for each of the host cities for World Cup 2014 in Brazil. A few months later, and less than 500 days from the kickoff of the tournament, and we now have one official posters covering the whole event. One poster to rule them …
Brazil has a reputation for being a hotbed of amorous activity. Brazil is either sexy or tawdry or gross, depending on how you look at it. Whichever one you go with, a place like that needs many hotels that charge by the hour, because who wants to pay for a …
So far, with just over 560 days left until the next World Cup kicks off in Brazil, we have an appropriately festive logo, a funny-looking mascot (which now has a name), and several half-built stadiums which may or may not be completed in time for June 2014. Now you can …
The World Cup in the state of Rio de Janeiro is under threat after Brazil’s congress passed legislation that would take away 6% of the states budget in a redistribution of the country’s oil revenues. The law, which will certainly be challenged legally, takes some of the money that previously …
Dear Brazil: Hi, how are you? Getting ready for that big party you’re supposed to host in two years? I hope it’s all going smoothly, because the world has some concerns. Speaking of concerns, it probably doesn’t help perception that you’ve had to pull down inflatable armadillo World Cup mascots …
Each World Cup cycle has a few happenings along that way that serve as guideposts to the time left until the next explosion of orgiastic revelry and football that is the world’s biggest sporting event. One of those happenings is the announcement of the World Cup mascot, an invariably creepy …
The 2014 World Cup was awarded to Brazil on the basis of, “sure, why not? I mean, it’s Brazil, right? They’ll be great,” and that was probably the most thought that has gone into anything involved with the project since. With two years left, the preparations for soccer’s quadrennial showcase …
In anticipation of Brazil’s upcoming role as host of the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Olympics, police recently went to town in hopes of clearing out druglord-ridden shanty towns (favelas) in and around the famed Maracana stadium in Rio de Janeiro.
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