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Brazil has hosted the World Cup previously; it was back in 1950 when the Brazilians lost to Uruguay in the final. The Brazilian football team, however, are undoubtably the most successful football nation in the history of world soccer.
Of course, we have some way to go yet before we see the beautiful game being played in the beautiful country, asSouth Africa will be hosts for the 2010 World Cup. Despite this, there is already a mouth watering World Cup anticipation and an unmistakable pride, not to mention a flurry of activity in Brazil regarding the 2014 World Cup.
There are 19 cities very eagerly hoping to host some of the games, at least 7 of them will be bitterly disappointed as it’s highly likely that only 12 venues will be approved.
We will keep you updated on the chosen cities for the World Cup; Brazil 2014, but here are the hopefuls; Sao Paulo, Fortaleza, Belem, Recife and Olinda, Rio de Janeiro, Florianopolis, Belo Horizonte, Curitiba, Campo Grande, Rio Branco, Salvador (2 venues), Brasilia, Porto Alegre, Goiania, Maceio, Manaus and Natal.
Before moving on to Brazil Serie A, let me tell you very briefly how Football came to Brazil. It was an Englishman, from Southampton; Charles ¨Charlie¨Miller, who's father, John, was part of a large contingent of Railway Construction Engineers working in Sao Paulo. It must be said however, that football (under a different guise than today)was already played in Brazil, by the Corinthians Football Club, a team largely formed through boys studying at Sao Paulo's elite Public Schools and Universities. But on Charlie Miller's return from his education in England he brought with him some soccer equipment and a rule book and formalised the game into what it is today. An interesting aside is that in them days, football was played with the utmost chivalrous sportsmanship, for instance, when a team conceded a penalty, the goalkeeper of the offending side made no attempt whatsoever to save it - now that is sportsmanship! And the rest as they say, is history, summed up by the common saying in Brazil of "The English invented it, the Brazilians perfected it." , and when you have won the World Cup 5 times, who can argue with that?
Brazil Serie A
Série A (Brasileirão) is where the giants of Brazilian league soccer hang-out – in fact, 20 of them. Brazil Serie A has the usual playing format of each team playing one home and one away game – there are 2 primary objectives; to win the Brazilian Serie A title and to avoid the drop into Serie B – At the end of the season 4 teams drop into the oblivious 2nd tier; Serie B.
Brazil is a massive land mass, and a flight to an away game can take a few hours, this gives home teams a distinct advantage with partisan crowds and regional differences all contributing to home advantage. However, the teams that tend to dominate Serie A are the Rio and Sao Paulo football clubs
Here are the 2008 contenders:
Sao Paulo, Santos, Flamengo, Fluminense, Cruzeiro, Gremio, Porto Alegre, Palmeiras, Botafogo, Atletico Mineiro, Vasco da Gama, Internacional , Atletico Paranaense, Figueirense, Sport Club Recife, Nautico Capibaribe, Goias, Vitória, Ipatinga and Portuguesa.
