Football, Worldcup, Fun - Brazilian people

Football, Worldcup, Fun

With just days to go before kick-off of the world's biggest football tournament, we take a look around the globe at how people are getting gripped by World Cup fever.

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Brazil, Football or Carnival

Samba dancers wearing bodypaint, feathers, glitter- and not a lot else - have taken to the streets of Sao Paulo for the opening of the country's wild carnival festivities.

Dancers from local samba schools put on a spectacular parade through the huge Sambadrome arena as up to 30,000 revellers looked on.

Similar to Mardi Gras, the five-day-long street party builds up to Ash Wednesday and the beginning of the Christian season of Lent.

The carnival's excesses are considered an "act of farewell to the pleasures of the flesh," before Lent, during which Christians are supposed to abstain from bodily pleasures. Carnival is celebrated in towns and villages throughout Brazil, but the festivities in Sao Paulo and 

capital Brasilia are the biggest - with around half a million foreign tourists flocking to the country every year.

Other Aspects, Protests

Meanwhile ,the streets of Brazil’s biggest city are showing little of the thrill seen at the tournament’s edition four years ago in South Africa, English Football Association Chairman Greg Dyke said. The possibility of widespread protests during the month-long event and the objection by some Brazilians to public money being spent on sports venues may explain the lack of interest in a country that lives and breathes soccer, he said.

“What I’m surprised about this city is that you wouldn’t know there is a World Cup going on,” Dyke told reporters in Sao Paulo yesterday. “The only reason you’d know there’s a World Cup here is because half the people are on strike and you can’t get from the airport.”

The start of world sport’s most watched event has been marred by threats of street protests and a wave of strikes including subway and museum workers as opposition to the event grows. A poll released June 3 by the Pew Research Center found that 61 per cent of Brazilians say hosting the World Cup is bad for the country because it takes money away from schools, health care and other services. Streets in Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, where the final will be played on July 13, are missing the decoration and painting that preceded past tourneys.