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The Cup was to be a disaster with stadiums collapsing and raping and
mugging and all that didn't happen. The loss was a sad thing, but
Germany was the better team so....

On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 6:38 AM, Kai Frederik Lorentzen
<lorentzen at hotmail.de> wrote:
>
> Wasn't the political mood in Brazil already very bad during the football
> ('soccer') world championship in Summer 2014? Dilma Rousseff got confronted
> with aggressive slogans shouted by thousands at the opening match. And then
> came that legendary semi-finale ...
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oo2_yFv1kmQ
>
> Although some Brazilians joked afterwards that it's better to lose one
> semi-finale than to lose two world-wars, it cannot be denied that a myth had
> been shattered. The fallout is still there.
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> http://www.droemer-knaur.de/buch/8418431/71-das-jahrhundertspiel
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