I live in Astoria, Queens, where the largest population of Brazilians lives in New York City. Whenever there is a game everyone seems to get ethnocentric crazy. Incidentally, whenever anyones home team wins a game everyone gets even crazier. Brazilians do not need a great many reasons to party. A Word Cup series however, calls for painted faces, flags everywhere, caravans of honking cars and/or motorcycles, etc.
Brazil and Australia played against each other today for the World Cup final. It was a great fucking game. I thought that they would have tied at zero-zero but those two final goals towards the end of the game were amazing. I have never been into soccer other then when I played it in middle school. I have however been following the World Cup games because they are playing the games on the giant flat screen at the restaurant where I work.
In other news, Brazilians celebrate Gay Pride. Only 2.4 million showed up for the event.
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