Special Brasil Kits
Nike launches special kits for its Brazilian Clubs. In a gesture to honor the Brazilian National Team, Corinthians, Internacional, Santos, Coritiba and Bahia. The teams will wear the special kits that mix the classic yellow worn by the “Scratch” with each team’s own traditional colors. These unique third uniforms will all embody this historic moment […]
Residents Wonder How New Stadiums Will Benefit After Cup
NATAL, Brazil — From her crumbling house with the leaky roof, across a new highway from a new World Cup stadium, Maria Ivanilde Oliveira heard everything. Notes of the national anthems floated through the humid air into her living room, where her black vinyl couch was losing its stuffing and a metal bookshelf was secured […]
Brasil: Capoeira
Capoeira is a martial art infused dance, which is thought to have originated in the 16th century in Brazil. Although today capoeira has become somewhat omnipresent with the booming popularity of street acrobatics such as parkour, its history remains mysterious. Discover the story of this 500 year old martial art, and explore the best places […]
Pickup Soccer in Brazil
RIO DE JANEIRO — In Brazil, the ball is always moving. It moves on grass and on sand, on concrete and on cobblestone. Sometimes, during the rainy season, it even moves on water. Organized soccer, the kind the Brazilian national team will play next year in the World Cup, is known as futebol (pronounced FOO-chee-ball) […]
Japanese Brazilians celebrate mixed heritage
Nearly 1.5 million Japanese descendants live in Brazil, and two-thirds of those live in Sao Paulo state. Sao Paulo, Brazil – The room was a mixture of Brazilian green and yellow and Japanese red and white, as more than 200 members of the city’s large Japanese community turned out to watch the country of their […]
Black identity in Brazil
Before teams representing their countries from around the world arrived in Brazil, the country’s president, Dilma Rousseff, took the opportunity to label 2014 the “anti-racism World Cup.” The declaration came after a wave of racist incidents in soccer around the world targeting Black players, many of whom are Brazilian. While it’s a well-intentioned gesture and […]
Brasil: Samba and the Samba Schools
It all started in the end of the XIX Century in what was then known as Little Africa (Pequena Africa), the residence of the tias baianas. These were ladies who came from Bahia, and made a living selling food delicacies around town in their typical white dresses with big round skirts. They were also the […]
Beyond samba and soccer: Riots in Brazil
Only 22 years old, the footballer known simply as “Neymar” is far more than the “face of Brazilian soccer“. Since donning the iconic, canary yellow and blue kit for the first time, Neymar has sidestepped defenders as if dancing the samba, and raced up and down the pitch with the cavalier and carnival spirit definitive […]
Brasil: Not Only Known for the Beautiful Game
Of course Brazil is known for its Jogo Bonito (Beautiful Game). However, it’s also one of the most beautiful places, with rich culture. From the beautiful day and night views of Arpoador Beach and Iguaza Falls to the northern city of Olinda, which is known as the Historical and Cultural Patrimony of Humanity, and then […]
Black in Brazil
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