Brazil Home World Cup 2014 Football Shirt

Brazil Home World Cup 2014 Football Shirt
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=> BUY 2014-15 Brazil Home World Cup Football Shirt

This Official 2014-15 Brazil Home Shirt is available to buy online. This is the new football shirt of the Brazilian
National Team which will be worn in the 2014 World Cup Finals.
The new Brazil football kit is manufactured by Nike and is available to buy in adult sizes S, M, L, XL, XXL, XXXL.
You can personalise your kit with shirt printing in the Nike style with your favorite stars including Neymar, Oscar or
even your own custom name and number. All our Brazil football shirt printing includes the small number on the
front of the top.
This Nike Brazil Home Shirt 2013-2014 Men’s is ideal for fans to show their support with the Brazil emblem to the
left chest and the Nike Swoosh to the right. The Brazil Shirt has a classic short sleeve style for a more
comfortable fit.
Brazil
Founded in 1914 and affiliated to FIFA since 1923, the Confederaçao Brasileira de Futebol (CBF) boasts a
staggering list of honours: five FIFA World Cups™, eight Copa Americas, four FIFA Under-20 World Cups, three
FIFA Under-17 World Cups, two FIFA Confederations Cups, four FIFA Futsal World Cups, three FIFA Beach
Soccer World Cups and dozens of continental trophies. Few federations have left anything like the same mark on
international football.
In fact, the only sour note for the country that produced Pele came in the final of ‘their’ 1950 FIFA World Cup.
Watched by 174,000 stunned supporters packed into the mythical Maracana stadium, the Seleçao let the fourth
edition of the Jules Rimet Cup slip from their grasp in a 2-1 defeat to Uruguay.
Football occupies pride of place in Brazil, and although Brazilians are also passionate about volleyball, basketball,
tennis, formula-one and other motor sports, only the legendary Ayrton Senna is revered in quite the same way as
the country’s most famous exponents of ‘the beautiful game’.
Chief among them is O Rei, Pele, whose name is almost synonymous with Brazilian sport itself, but a whole raft of
unique talents have worn the Seleção shirt with distinction down the years: Leonidas, Garrincha, Didi, Vava,
Zagallo, Tostão, Zico, Jairzinho, Carlos Alberto, Socrates, Bebeto, Romario, Cafu, Ronaldo and Roberto Carlos.
The list of players who have etched their names into the collective memory is quite literally breathtaking.
Brazilian football continues to produce exceptional new talents, and these days it is superstars Ronaldinho
(Ronaldo de Assis Moreira) and Kaka (Ricardo Izecson Santos Leite) who are thrilling football-lovers the world
over.
History
It is often said that the first European explorer to set foot in the country was Spaniard Vicente Yanez Pinzon, who
supposedly landed near the site of modern-day Recife on 26 January 1500. Officially, however, it is Portuguese
Pedro Alvares Cabral who is regarded as the discoverer of Brazil. His fleet, in search of the Indias, sailed into the
South of modern-day Bahia on 22 April 1500. Since 1530, the Portuguese Crown implemented a colonizing policy
that lasted centuries and ended when Dom Pedro I declared the country’s independence on 7 September 1822.
After 1822, Brazil was governed by an imperial dynasty until a military revolt led by Marshal Manuel Deodoro da
Fonseca forced Emperor Dom Pedro II to abdicate in November 1889. The country became a republic and,
despite a long period of instability and even military dictatorship between 1964 and 1985, it now enjoys the fruits
of democracy.

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Current President Dilma Rousseff has held the post since her inauguration on 1 January 2011.
Economy
Predominantly agrarian until recently, Brazil underwent rapid industrial growth throughout the 1960s and 1970s,
and by the 1980s possessed a fundamentally modern, diversified economy. This development went hand in hand
with heavy exploitation of its natural resources, in particular coal and iron ore.
Nearly a quarter of the world’s coffee comes from Brazil, with its plantations spread around the states of Sao
Paulo, Parana, Espiríto Santo and Minas Gerais. Likewise, Brazil is one of the foremost producers of sugar cane,
used not only to make sugar but also the alcohol that fuels 2.5 million specially-designed vehicles. Production
levels of ricin, cocoa, corn and oranges are among the highest in the world as well, while soy, tobacco, potato,
cotton, rice, wheat, manioc and bananas are also produced in large quantities. In addition, sheep and cattle are
reared in almost every state.
The Brazilian rainforest is another source of natural riches, including tung oil, rubber, carnauba oil, caroa fibre,
medicinal plants, vegetable oils, resins, timber for construction and various woods used in furniture-making. Brazil
has also begun mining fairly recently, again taking advantage of its abundant natural resources.
Geography
The largest country in South America, Brazil stretches over almost half of the continent. With the Atlantic Ocean
on its eastern coastline, Brazil shares frontiers with Venezuela, Guyana, French Guyana and Surinam to the
north. Its neighbors to the west are Argentina, Paraguay, Bolivia and Peru, while Colombia is to the north-west
and Uruguay directly south. Of all the countries in South America, only Chile and Ecuador do not border Brazil.
With a surface area of 8,547,404 km², Brazil is the fifth largest country on the planet behind Russia, China,
Canada and the United States. It covers 4,345 km from north to south between its furthest points and 4,330 km
from east to west. The highest population concentrations are along the Atlantic coastlines, most notably in the two
largest cities, Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. The capital Brasilia has a population of 2,094,000, according to 2003
estimates, and it is situated over 1,000 km inland.
Facts and Figures
Brazil has roughly 190 million inhabitants, making it the fifth most populated country on Earth. Almost 75 per cent
of them are Catholics, whilst another 26 million are Protestants. Brazil’s Jewish community is very small by
comparison.
The country is divided into five regions (Centre-West, North, Northeast, South and Southeast), which are
themselves divided into 26 states plus the Federal District that houses Brazilian capital Brasília.
Known for its enormous hydroelectric potential, the Southeast region is the most heavily-populated in Brazil with
almost 80 million inhabitants, roughly 40 per cent of the total. It is also the most densely-populated (84.21
inhabitants per km²) and has the highest urbanization rate at 90 per cent.
The official language is Portuguese, however many Brazilians speak other languages according to their origins.
German and Italian, for example, are fairly prevalent in the cities of the South.

Ben immigrated to Brazil in 2000. He is a Network Marketer and Telecommunications professional with over
12 years of experience, currently with Talk Fusion. Ben enjoys writing about network marketing, immigration
and social issues, culture, travel and gastronomy. He speaks English, Portuguese, Bulgarian and Russian.

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