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Brazil World Cup dreams destroyed by Germany
Posted by Unknown on Tuesday, July 8, 2014 | 0 comments | Leave a comment...
Happy for Brazil to win ugly..- Neymar
Posted by Unknown on Wednesday, July 2, 2014 | 0 comments | Leave a comment...
Neymar has insisted that he is happy for Brazil to win ugly as long as it gets them past Colombia in Friday’s FIFA World Cup™ quarter-final in Fortaleza.
The occasional moment of genius from Neymar aside, Brazil have rarely sparkled at these finals but they remain in contention to win the title after last weekend’s agonising victory on penalties against Chile in the last 16.
“You can’t always enjoy yourself and win 4-0 or 5-0,” the Barcelona forward told a press conference at the Brazil team’s base in Teresopolis. “Football nowadays is so difficult, so even, that the team who is most committed on the pitch ends up winning.”
I don’t want a show. That’s the last thing we are trying to do. We are not necessarily here to produce a spectacle. We are here to run to the end, until we are tired, and come out as winners.
“I would be happy to do nothing in this game if Brazil won 1-0. That would be marvellous.”
Earlier, Neymar came through training with no ill effects, confirming that he has overcome the knee and thigh knocks that he suffered against Chile.
“I am fine. You can relax,” he told journalists after a session in which coach Luiz Felipe Scolari tried out different formations ahead of the clash with Colombia.
Scolari is likely to make just the one change to his starting line-up for the match at the Estadio Castelao, with the suspended Luiz Gustavo set to be replaced in midfield by Paulinho.
However, the coach did also try out a 3-5-2 formation, with defender Henrique replacing striker Fred and Maicon replacing Daniel Alves at right-back. The chances of Brazil lining up in such a fashion against Colombia are minimal, but Neymar insisted he is ready to adapt to any tactical changes.
“I can fit into any formation. We have an excellent coach whose job it is to decide how the team will play. With or without a centre-forward, we have to play football.”
Left-back Marcelo withdrew from training early but the Brazil camp confirmed that the Real Madrid player had no problem and a full squad travelled north to Fortaleza on Wednesday afternoon.
Source: www.fifa.com
Brazil police, protesters clash as World Cup begins
Posted by Unknown on Thursday, June 12, 2014 | 0 comments | Leave a comment...
Brazilian police and protesters clashed on Thursday, hours before the opening game of the World Cup, which has been marred by construction delays and political unrest.
Police fired noise bombs to disperse a crowd of about 200 demonstrators angry about government overspending on the event. The protesters were trying to cut off a key avenue leading to the Corinthians Arena where the soccer match will be played on the eastern edge of Sao Paulo, a Reuters witness said.
At least one protester was arrested, local media reported. A producer for CNN was injured during the confrontation, witnesses said.
The protests were expected to grow in size before Brazil’s team plays Croatia at 5 p.m. (2000 GMT).
Much of the rest of Brazil’s biggest city and business capital resembled a ghost town during the usual morning rush hour after officials declared a partial holiday to ensure traffic to the stadium would be light. About 20 million people live in the metropolitan area.
Hacker group threatens cyber-attack on World Cup sponsors
Posted by Unknown on Monday, June 2, 2014 | 0 comments | Leave a comment...
SAO PAULO/BRASILIA (Reuters) – The hacker group Anonymous is preparing a cyber-attack on corporate sponsors of the World Cup in Brazil to protest the lavish spending on the football games in a country struggling to provide basic services, said a hacker with knowledge of the plan on Friday.
Earlier this week, Anonymous attacked the Brazil’s Foreign Ministry computer networks and leaked dozens of confidential emails.
“We have already conducted late-night tests to see which of the sites are more vulnerable,” said the hacker who operates under the alias of Che Commodore. “We have a plan of attack.”
“This time we are targeting the sponsors of the World Cup,” he said in a Skype conversation from an undisclosed location in Brazil. Asked to name the potential targets he mentioned Adidas, Emirates airline [EMIRA.UL], the Coca-Cola Co and Budweiser, which is owned by Anheuser-Busch InBev.
Reuters had no means of confirming Che Commodore’s identity or his affiliation with Anonymous.
The sponsors did not immediately respond to requests to comment on the threat.
A DDoS or Distributed Denial-of-service is a low-cost attack aiming at taking a website offline by simultaneously requesting access from thousands of computers in order to jam the host server.
The threat of cyber-attacks is yet another headache for the organizers of the World Cup kicking off on June 12 in Brazil. The 32-nation football tournament has already been marred by embarrassing delays in the building of stadiums and widespread discontent in Brazil over the excessive cost of hosting the event in a country with deficient public services.
In what could be the biggest cyber-security breach since the U.S. National Security Agency allegedly spied on President Dilma Rousseff’s personal communications, Anonymous this week posted 333 documents extracted from the Foreign Ministry’s computing network.
They include a briefing of talks between Brazilian officials and U.S. Vice President Joe Biden during a visit to Brazil in May last year and a list of sport ministers that plan to attend the World Cup.
A hacker known as AnonManifest used a phishing attack to break into the Foreign Ministry’s databases and eventually access its documentation system, Che Commodore told Reuters.
“Until yesterday afternoon the hacker still had access to the system,” he said.
The Foreign Ministry closed down its email system after the attack and instructed its 3,000 email account holders to change their passwords. Federal police is investigating the breach.
A Foreign Ministry official told Reuters on Friday that only 55 email accounts were hacked and the only documents that were obtained where attached to emails and from the ministry’s internal document archive.
“The problem has been resolved. Nothing important was leaked,” said the official, who asked not to be identified because he was not authorized to discuss the matter.
But Brazilian diplomats abroad were left without email communications with their headquarters for several days. One diplomat in a European capital told Reuters on Friday the email service was still down.
