I am Brazilian and I am making this topic to warn the foreign (especially American) that my country, Brazil is one of the most dangerous countries in the world, think very well to come here on world cup 2014 here, BEWARE!!!
I wouldn’t worry about it - most Americans couldn’t care less about soccer or the World Cup. Plus, in order to qualify for it, their team must negotiate the difficult CONCACAF quali… well, anyway, they don’t like soccer much.
The way that many of the links are broken but apparently legit suggests some kind of automated posting across many boards that has gone slightly wrong. That one about 60 manhole explosions in Rio de Janiero (I can’t help being reminded of “4,000 holes in Blackburn Lancashire”) seems to be a real news item, but the link is truncated.
I dont think they’re going be holding matches in the streets of the barrio. I’m sure your average soccer tourist will be just as fine as they were in South Africa the last time.
When you refer to the squeegee man, are you talking about the flanelinha?
Most of your links don’t seem to work so I’m not sure what I’m supposed to be worried about. Can you give a brief summary of what your links are supposed to say since I’m not going to click on all of them and I’m not going to click on youtube links to get the gist of what you are saying.
I’ve spent a good amount of time in Brazil, specifically in Rio. For the most part, the tourists there aren’t going to be leaving Ipanema and Copacabana, so it’s not like they are going to be venturing into Rocinha or other favelas. Rio is like most other major cities, don’t get drunk and wander into a dark deserted alley or street.
I don’t like Congohas airport because it’s fairly crowded and from what I recall didn’t have air conditioning, but I had no trouble getting a cab.
I wouldn’t be too worried about US tourists going to Brazil for the Cup since soccer isn’t all that popular a sport here.
As a red blooded southern American, I must ask “what is this thing called “soccer” and this “country” called “Brazil”?” And, if I do dare to go, if I speak english very loudly and slowly I take it they will be able to understand me?
This is about the most ignorant post I’ve seen in a long time. Either give up your job as a comedian or go back to hosting the Jim Rome Show.
Note that this is an incredible rating and most likely undercounts by a long shot, since most fans on the East Coast were watching in bars. By comparison LSU-Alabama, played during primetime this past Saturday drew an 11.9 rating. If you include the Spanish television market USA v England was almost certainly a higher rating. This game was at 10 am. Brazil matches will occur during US Prime hours as they’re on a much closer time zone.
Well, it was not meant to be taken too seriously, given the slightly ridiculous nature of the OP, but nevertheless, I don’t see anything factually incorrect in what I said. Yes, the World Cup is a bigger deal in the US these days. I don’t mean to belittle US soccer. But is still true that most Americans are not really interested in soccer, is it not?
The ratings you mention are for a particlaularly big game. But the audience for that game in England was about ten times bigger, relative to the size of population. What are the figures for US internationals outside of World Cup finals? In England, even “friendlies” get many millions of viewers.
Non big-game interest, and “relative to the population” are irrelevant to the bizarre OP. There were more Americans at the last World Cup than any other country besides South Africa, and there will be even more at the next one.
And the USA England Match drew 12 million US Viewers (and in reality likely much much more, since ratings don’t account for large group viewers). England’s entire population isn’t even 5 times that, let alone 10.
There were more Americans in South Africa because there are more Americans, period. You do have to take into account the size of the population.
Likewise with viewing figures - if 12 million US viewers watch something, that is about 4% of the population. A big World Cup game will get maybe 20 million viewers in the UK, or about 33% of the population. That is eight times the US share.
