Brazil Fans Body Paint World Cup

I usually watch the matches at home with my wife and house mates. Today's match I'll watch in a pub in Abingdon with some English friends, as we have a leaving party to celebrate from some friend that is leaving the company. The feeling is not the same, as in Brazil the people breathe football, especially at the World Cup.

Every business changes their timetable and everybody stops their activities to watch Brazil play. Here in England we don't see these things happening and we feel quite far from our country. We feel happy to have the best results at the World Cup. I know that I'll always remember this World Cup as "the one in England" as I live here since 2008.

Historically we have the best team in the world, but the times change and we need to always strive ourselves to maintain this high level. The Brazilian people don't feel close to the players, because most of them play outside Brazil, but the distance between players and fans have been shortened by the use of technologies such as Twitter, Facebook and Orkut. To be honest with you, I think the success of South American teams might be down to the economic context.

Some of the best Brazilian and South American players come from the slums. They don't have the money to buy electronic games and computers, so they need to play football to have fun. And in Brazil, especially in north Brazil, we've always had good weather, which provides good conditions for these boys to play while they are kids. They prepare themselves from a very young age.