France wins world football cup 2018

France beats Croatia and wins world cup. Image: French people celebrating in Paris. It's happening now and you can watch it over the internet.
This is one of the links: world cup 2018.
Good job France! Congrats!🇫🇷
Next victory: Macron demision!
All neoliberals  should step down.

World Cup 2014: Neymar faked injury

Did Neymar fake or not being injured during Brazil vs Colombia game?
In this video we can see the moment Neymar is injured by Zuniga and prior to that both of them talking to each other. There are numerous videos in Portuguese but not a single one in English but you can see in this one what has happened.

Neymar starts running and Zuniga goes after him and push him.
As FIFA is not committed to investigate or make things transparent numerous accidents like this will be in the list of suspicious cases.
As always money is the cause of lack of ethics, integrity and justice.

World Cup 2014 humiliation and indignity: Brazil vs Germany match and FIFA's scandal

I've watched the game, you might have watched it too so you now that Germany did 5 goals in 29 minutes and more 2 goals and Brazil only one. The Horror!

Everywhere in the media the words: humiliation and indignity.
It was appalling watching the five goals but even being such a terrible defeat I don't see any humiliation or indignity.
Amazement, sadness, disappointment, anger... but humiliation?

To humiliate:
make (someone) feel ashamed and foolish by injuring their dignity and self-respect, especially publicly.

The shame was not inflicted by Germans.
Brazilians self-inflicted the shame because of the expection of a normal game when the results usually have the numbers 1, 2 and when 3 is achieved it is a surprise.
Nobody lost the dignity and self-respect because something so unusual happened. Till now it is difficult to explain - for some it is easy to point to X, Y or Z but for the vast majority it was unexpected and confusing.

No, it was not an humiliation. It was a historical event because of the number 7 that is for the first time reached in a world cup. But this is part of the game. Just another number to add to the list.

Humiliation and indignity is what FIFA is doing with the black market of tickets for more than two decades.
"The Telegraph" coverage about Raymond Whelan's imprisonment by Brazilian police depict the unscrupulous and criminal fact as an "embarrassment" to FIFA while the defeat of Brazilian team as it was a catastrophe of deadly proportions using and abusing pictures of people crying and full of apocalyptic adjectives.

This is what the mainstream media do all the time: covers up the crimes and exposes what sells and we have to admit that tears sell a lot.

Best of World Cup 2014: Algeria squad to donate World Cup bonus to Palestine

Algeria team arriving home

"Islam Slimani, who scored a crucial header against Russia to ensure Algeria’s first ever qualification to the World Cup knock-out stage, said: “They need it more than us,” referring to those in the Palestinian city, according to journalist Waleed Abu Nada."

This is until the moment the best statement of this world cup and FIFA must not intervene. FIFA must not accuse the squad for bringing politics to sports.

Shut up FIFA and enjoy the money you did. FIFA turned the World Cup into a joke.

Gestures like this that give us hope.

Algeria was the only Arab country playing in the Brazil 2014 FIFA World Cup.

Brazil vs Chile: referee Howard Webb ruled out Brazilian legal goal and FIFA will do nothing

Vine @vineapp
The goal was legal as everybody can see:

The ball in Hulk's chest and no hands

There has been controversies the whole week and Chileans, Alexis Sanchez especially, put pressure claiming that the referee would protect Brazil in the match. More details on The Telegraph's article. 

It worked. A legal goal was ruled out and the whole match was favorable to the Chilean team.

Despite the numerous advantages British referee conceded to the Chilean team and even by Brazilian team itself that is not playing it's best football Chile didn't scored it's second goal and the the decision had to be done in penalty kicks.

FIFA should start thinking on solving the problems bought by a bad arbitrage. We all saw the goal was legal but the match keeps going as if no injustice was done.

The technology is there but FIFA refuses to use it as an enhancement for the arbitrage.

Other sources: "Bosnia Elimination Should Renew Calls to FIFA For Instant Replay"

World cup 2014: the face of Brazilian football

I watched Brazil vs Mexico and something was missing: a team and football.
I choose Neymar to impersonate the face of this team.

I booed this team because I'm Brazilian.

World Cup in Brazil 2014: first injured goes to CNN reporters

The games will start today and there is something very strange happening in Brazil. People are protesting because CIA started preparing the protests just like in Egypt and other countries.

Brazilians have not a clue that these protests are not grassroots.
The show started a while ago and it was not the players or the people happy at the streets that are being showed by the mainstream media: this time the first two CNN journalists Shasta Darlington and CNN producer Barbara Arvanitidis were slightly injured while covering a protest in Sao Paulo are the urgent breaking news.

A few hours before the opening what is being brought to the attention of the public has nothing to do with soccer. And there is more to come.

Something strange, evil is in the air.

Olympics 1,500 freestyle : Sun Yang gold and new world record

I just watched Sun Yang setting the record for 14min 43.25 sec:

"I did not see the time clearly at first, then I saw it."

""I have gone through many things this year, training very hard in many places like Australia and Athens. The training environments were very challenging. My time reflects my training.""


I love swimming and watching the professionals is a ballet for me. Unfortunately little is said about the style of each swimmer and it's characteristics.
Race competitions are highly underestimated.
Congratulations Sun Yang! It was a beautiful spectacle and I would also cry if I was there.

Image: AFP, Christophe Simon.

A brief flying

I found this picture at Acidcow.com and found it amazing. I wonder how does it feel during these seconds while the body is apart from the bike and is almost flying.

“I am Ashamed to be a Participant of the Match in Chechnya” Raí Brazilian Football Player

In a world where ethics and measuring consequences for one's actions is fundamental a Brazilian football player give an incredible examples of dignity, integrity and concern with human beings. I just came across with this letter Raí left at his site in 23 March, 2011.

It is about a game he attended in Chechnya that can be seen as a practical joke played by Chechen leaders. Here is the translation of the letter and I want to thank Raí for not only his commitment to Brazilian's children but also for his convictions that makes him an activist of humans rights and also as a man that can be an idol and a role-model as an athlete and someone who fights for his beliefs. 


“Chechnya: The Day that I was Betrayed”

“Just over a month ago, I received an invitation from intermediaries to be a participant in a game in the Russian Federation, the country that will host the 2018 World Championship. The event would be for the inauguration of a new stadium and the match would be against a local team which is lead by Ruud Gullit. 

I was on a vacation with my partner who is responsible for conducting these negotiations, and I accepted the proposal if everything was confirmed and the payment was made 10 days before travel. I confess that there was a lack of information and I behaved with recklessness to confirm everything. My naive thought was this: I had attended similar things in Europe before, and this time it would be in Russia. I would meet with old friends and also earn a quick buck. But, frankly, my decision was not motivated by financial gain.

 What I earned didn’t change anything in my economic situation and is the equivalent to what I charge for a two hours lecture in São Paulo and much less than what I donate frequently to human rights projects. Only a few days before our travel, I was notified that the location of the match had changed; it would now be in Chechnya. This news made me feel strange because I knew about a hideous war was taking place there between Chechenian separatits and the Russian army. 

However recent reports were saying that the situation had calmed down for a certain period of time. I tried to inform myself about the president of that republic but maybe I didn't search well enough. I decided to go to honor a commitment I did. What happened was I became part of something that I most condemn in my life. I attended an event that was blatantly political and populist, and without knowing the possible consequences and intentions. 

I'm sure that what is happening in the Arabic world demonstrates that a soccer game and some of it's idols will not change ideological convictions but the outcome of this choice is in me. I felt terrible because I act inconsequently and didn't take the criteria I usually do. When after the game I realized what was really at stake I felt like hiding of everything and everybody, me included. Until our arrival in Grozny, the Chechen capital, everything was a great joy, because friends were reunited. Immediately, memories of everything that came to pass in the big victories returned. 

But the fact is that there was a military climate in Grozny: giant photos of men who are in power are all around and very few people are seen on the streets. Something seemed very strange to me. Only later I learned from a Russian interpreter that 98% of the city was destroyed during the war. I imagined the memories of people who saw those battles and still live there. I also heard that some NGOs are accusing the current head of the republic of human rights violations. Based on what I saw there, it would not surprises me. 

We arrived in Grozny in the beginning of the afternoon. We ate and went to the theater in one of the reconstructed buildings, for a presentation of traditional dances and music, also with an international attraction. We were received very kindly by all. It was the only moment that I got close to the population that seemed fine. Women was the vast majority at the audience because it was 8 March, international women's day and many of them had their mobiles filming everything. I can even say that it was a pleasant moment and I could feel, even if for a few moments, the human part of that city that tries to build itself again.

We stood in a hotel in reasonable conditions practically in the statium of the home team that has many Brazilian football players. The statium was sold out and 15.000 people sang all the time. Just hours before the game, we learned that the president, Kadyrov and his companions would be our opponents. The only good news was the duration of the game: only two halves of 25 minutes each. 

The officers asked us "not" to play with full force, it was like a "joke". Even thou Gullit and Mattaus were at the opponent team, there was no condition whatsoever for a true game. Besides the president there were others that have never been a footballer athlete. It was like playing in the backyard, but the audience seemed happy. Score aside, I took two important lessons from this stupidity (that is how I felt): I will closely follow the political process in Russia and Chechnya, and will much more alert to these possible lapses of evaluation. I can say that this experience was at least an important learning experience. I write this letter the same way and with the same intensity that I wanted to hide after the event, I need to expose myself and express my shame." Raí Souza Vieira de Oliveira

Update: Someone left a comment and with a link for this site about Chechnya. I added the label Anna Politkovskaya to this post. She was a great human being and very concerned with Chechnya. May her R.I.P. There is a video-documentary at this site about her with captions in English.