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Brazilians want one thing from their football team: Hexa
Brazil’s soccer group appears to have restored a few of its mojo. However is that sufficient to win the World Cup in Qatar?
Judging by the temper again house, the reply is sure. Not many are doubting that the Seleção will win the title for a sixth time and the primary time in 20 years.
Hemerson Cabral, 35, has seen many adjustments within the constructing he works as a janitor in São Paulo, Brazil’s largest metropolis.
For the reason that World Cup began final month, extra Brazilian flags have been hanging out of home windows and residents are immersed within the event.
“When Brazil are taking part in, many individuals end work so that they get again house earlier to observe it with the household or with the neighbours,” Cabral mentioned, including that he believes Brazil will beat France within the closing.
“They’re the one impediment. It will likely be an awesome match and Brazil will win. The ambiance at Brazil matches is second to none. I don’t suppose there are soccer followers like us. We enter the pitch with the gamers.”
Cabral isn’t the one one to consider within the Hexa (a sixth World Cup title for Brazil). In accordance with a survey carried out by Apoema analysis, 71 % of Brazilians suppose Brazil will win the title this yr.
Soccer has been the nation’s major speaking level in the previous couple of weeks. Everybody has an opinion. The World Cup and the group are dominating conversations in bars, work conferences and taxi rides.
Rio de Janeiro is internet hosting a FIFA Fan Pageant, the place folks can watch the matches and live shows. Town can be internet hosting themed events till the ultimate on December 18.
The World Cup can be serving to companies increase their gross sales. Brazilian jerseys are seen in all places.
When the World Cup began, Cintia Sampaio, 30, was stunned by the demand for jerseys at her store in João Pessoa.
“The gross sales began to extend through the elections [in November] as a result of folks wore it [jersey] for the politics facet of issues,” Sampaio mentioned.
“The World Cup began simply after the elections, and it was insane. I used to be promoting lots of of jerseys every day, and it was so busy on the store that I didn’t have the possibility to have breakfast or lunch.”
Sampaio added that the blue jerseys have grow to be extremely popular this yr.
“I don’t have them now.”
Brazil’s ardour for soccer is plain, however some folks have been involved politics might outshine the matches. Not like different years, the World Cup vibe simply took over the nation when the competitors began on November 20.
In the previous couple of years, Brazil has grow to be extremely divided by politics and nationwide icons such because the Brazilian flag and yellow jersey have grow to be an emblem of the intense proper.
Now, the streets are coated with inexperienced and yellow, and the temper throughout the nation appears lighter, due to soccer.
“I feel we’re going by a second of renovation within the nation, we’re happier,” mentioned Melissa Paulino, 31.
“At the very least for me, it brings an additional degree of pleasure and vitality to help Brazil. I consider the Hexa is coming now. It has been 20 years since we received the World Cup, so it’s time, proper?”
Like many others within the nation, Paulino’s routine adjustments when Brazil performs. She makes certain to be free so she will give attention to the sport.
“It has been a very long time since I felt so thrilled. I’ve combined emotions concerning the match towards Croatia. I’m additionally nervous as a result of we are able to’t lose.
“I don’t have a ritual for watching the match but when I put on one thing when Brazil wins, I preserve sporting it for the subsequent matches. As you may think about, the jersey I wore through the 7-1 [Brazil’s loss to Germany in World Cup 2014 semi-finals] doesn’t exist any extra.”
However regardless of the widespread hope and optimism, some Brazilians consider the present facet isn’t one of the best the nation has seen.
Luciano Valente, 44, is worried as a result of “the gamers are infantile, and so they depend on Neymar an excessive amount of”.
“We received most matches as a result of the groups we confronted weren’t on the prime of their video games,” Valente mentioned. “Any further, we’re going to compete with groups which might be extra aggressive and ready. Do we now have an opportunity to win? Certain, however we want emotional intelligence.”
Even those that aren’t often soccer followers appear to benefit from the World Cup vibe.
Rosa Maria Ferreira, 72, likes watching the video games alone at house. “I consider we’re going to win 4-0 towards Croatia.”
Brazil received the final of its 5 world titles in 2002. Gabriel Furtado, 15, was not born then.
“I’ve by no means seen Brazil win a World Cup, so I’ve excessive expectations this yr. I consider we now have many probabilities to win. I’m thrilled, I feel we’re going to beat Croatia,” mentioned Furtado.
Like Paulino, Furtado additionally believes he may help the Seleção.
“I watch it with my household or with my faculty pals. Brazil received the matches I watched at house, so the quarter-final, I’ll watch it with my household.”
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Clashes erupt between university students and riot police outside Egyptian embassy in Beirut
Clashes erupted on Monday between pro-Palestinian university students and riot police outside the Egyptian embassy in Beirut. Dozens of university students gathered outside the embassy, holding Palestinian flags and calling on the Egyptian government to open the Rafah border crossing and allow humanitarian aid to enter the Gaza Strip.
Clashes erupted on Monday between pro-Palestinian university students and riot police outside the Egyptian embassy in Beirut. Dozens of university students gathered outside the embassy, holding Palestinian flags and calling on the Egyptian government to open the Rafah border crossing and allow humanitarian aid to enter the Gaza Strip.
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Israeli excavators discover 2,300-year-old gold ring at City of David site
Israeli researchers digging in Jerusalem’s City of David archeological site have uncovered an “exceedingly well-preserved” 2,300-year-old gold ring that is believed to have belonged to a boy or girl that lived in the area during the Hellenistic period.
The piece of jewelry, which is “made of gold and set with a red precious stone, apparently a garnet,” has “accumulated no rust nor suffered other weathering of time,” the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) announced Monday.
“I was sifting earth through the screen and suddenly saw something glitter,” Tehiya Gangate, a City of David excavation team member, said in a statement. “I immediately yelled, ‘I found a ring, I found a ring!’ Within seconds everyone gathered around me, and there was great excitement.”
“This is an emotionally moving find, not the kind you find every day,” she added. “In truth I always wanted to find gold jewelry, and I am very happy this dream came true – literally a week before I went on maternity leave.”
EXPEDITION TO ‘HOLY GRAIL’ SHIPWRECK FULL OF GOLD, EMERALDS BEGINS IN CARIBBEAN SEA
The Israel Antiquities Authority says the ring was “recently found in the joint Israel Antiquities Authority-Tel Aviv University excavation in the City of David, part of the Jerusalem Walls National Park, with the support of the Elad Foundation.”
It will be put on display to the public in early June during Jerusalem Day.
“The ring is very small. It would fit a woman’s pinky, or a young girl or boy’s finger,” the IAA cited Dr. Yiftah Shalev and Riki Zalut Har-Tov, Israel Antiquities Authority Excavation Directors, as saying.
Tel Aviv University Professor Yuval Gadot and excavator Efrat Bocher added that, “The recently found gold ring joins other ornaments of the early Hellenistic period found in the City of David excavations, including the horned-animal earring and the decorated gold bead.”
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“Whereas in the past we found only a few structures and finds from this era, and thus most scholars assumed Jerusalem was then a small town, limited to the top of the southeastern slope (“City of David”) and with relatively very few resources, these new finds tell a different story: The aggregate of revealed structures now constitute an entire neighborhood,” they said.
“They attest to both domestic and public buildings, and that the city extended from the hilltop westward. The character of the buildings – and now of course, the gold finds and other discoveries, display the city’s healthy economy and even its elite status. It certainly seems that the city’s residents were open to the widespread Hellenistic style and influences prevalent also in the eastern Mediterranean Basin,” the researchers added.
The IAA says “Gold jewelry was well-known in the Hellenistic world, from Alexander the Great’s reign onward” as “his conquests helped spread and transport luxury goods and products.”
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The Take: Why all eyes are on Rafah
PodcastPodcast, The Take
The aftermath of a deadly Israeli attack on a tent camp for displaced Palestinians in Gaza’s southern city of Rafah.
Days after the International Court of Justice ordered Israel to stop its operation in Rafah, Israel hit a tent camp there, killing more than 45 displaced people. As the world condemns the attack, Israel’s war on Gaza continues.
In this episode:
- Akram Al Satarri, freelance journalist
- Imran Khan, (@ajimran) Al Jazeera senior correspondent
Episode credits:
This episode was produced by David Enders and Khaled Sultan, with Manahil Naveed, Catherine Nouhan and our host Malika Bilal.
It was edited by Amy Walters.
Our sound designer is Alex Roldan. Our lead of audience development and engagement is Aya Elmileik and Adam Abou-Gad is our engagement producer.
Alexandra Locke is The Take’s executive producer. Ney Alvarez is Al Jazeera’s head of audio.
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