Brazilians are too sensitive when it comes to soccer or anything related to it, that is why when Brazilian FA and FIFA twined together to choose a name for Armadillo Mascot and asked Brazilians to select a name from three given options, it was treated as a forced democratic way to seek the fans’ opinions. Whether anyone liked it or not, Brazilian FA and FIFA offered three names to fans to choose from; the names were: Fuleco, Zuzeco, and Amijubi, and as per majority of votes, Fuleco has been chosen as the name of Armadillo Mascot for 2014 world cup. Fuleco received 48% of total votes casted by Brazilians; other names got 31% and 21% respectively. There was another poll being run by various news channels, which say majority of Brazilian were not in liking of any of these three names, perhaps, they wanted to be given an opportunity to offer their own names. But according to FIFA, the word: Fuleco “seamlessly represents the way in which the FIFA World Cup can combine the two to encourage … [Read more...]
FIFA World Cup 2014 Kick Off Time Releases
So, keep your nerve in your hand and get to know the precise schedule time of all the FIFA world cup matches, which is hosted by Brazil. Being a western country for central Europe, means each match’s local time will be behind of European local time by around 5 to 6 hours. Anyways, FIFA has already taken great care of global time differences, consistent rest, overlapping matches, local temperature, television scheduling, and global viewers comfort in deciding the final timing of all the matches. Opening match of this event will be kicked off exactly at 5 PM local time in Sao Paulo on June 12. Being the biggest county in Brazil, Sao Paulo has the maximum number of the matches and time wise; it is around 5 hours behind of Europe so European fans will have to reverse their watches by around 5 hours to be precise. Moreover, many matches would also be held in further west Brazilian county, like Cuiaba and Manaus where local time is behind by another hour. Yesterday FIFA announced its … [Read more...]