{"id":102,"date":"2002-06-28T10:54:00","date_gmt":"2002-06-28T09:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/blog\/?p=102"},"modified":"2012-12-13T13:19:27","modified_gmt":"2012-12-13T13:19:27","slug":"brazil-gobble-turkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/blog\/2002\/06\/28\/brazil-gobble-turkey\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazil gobble Turkey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width:320px;height:240px\" src=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/common\/images\/2002\/japan\/tokyo\/semi_brazil_girl_filming.jpg\" alt=\"Brazilian girl films me\" \/><br \/>\nCamera to camera brings on the smiles<\/p>\n<p>Again we have the pleasure to share a stadium with the Brazilian fans, but this time they won leaving only one game between themselves and a possible FIVE World Cup championships. &#8216;PENTA Campion&#8217; rings off their lips with understandable confidence, though of course the mighty Kahn will stand between the sticks for Germany.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sofvm_embed alignnone\"><div class=\"sofvm_video\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Brazil v Turkey Semi Final\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XSNoBaI7NXw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n\n<p>The atmosphere and the anticipation as we arrive the semi final.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sofvm_video_post_link\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/videos\/brazil-v-turkey-semi-final\/#respond\">Comment on this video<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8216;Penta Campion&#8217; rings out <a href=\"http:\/\/195.10.250.63\/video\/mpeg\/semi_penta_campion.mpg\">here in this mpeg<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width:320px;height:240px\" src=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/common\/images\/2002\/japan\/tokyo\/semi_fake_brazilian.jpg\" alt=\"Braz\/Jap\" \/><br \/>\nBrazil, in the Semi-Final of the World Cup, play&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width:320px;height:240px\" src=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/common\/images\/2002\/japan\/tokyo\/semi_turk_jap_girl.jpg\" alt=\"Turk\/Jap\" \/><br \/>\n&#8230;Turkey in Saitama Stadium, Japan.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width:320px;height:240px\" src=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/common\/images\/2002\/japan\/tokyo\/semi_scots.jpg\" alt=\"Dancing Scots\" \/><br \/>\nThe bagpipes were here&#8230; (see them played with a brazilian drummer <a href=\"http:\/\/195.10.250.63\/video\/mpeg\/semi_bagpipes.mpg\">here in this mpeg<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/195.10.250.63\/video\/mpeg\/semi_bagpipes.mpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width:320px;height:240px\" src=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/common\/images\/2002\/japan\/tokyo\/semi_shaved_head.jpg\" alt=\"Brazil shaved into head\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n&#8230;with branded Japanese<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width:320px;height:240px\" src=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/common\/images\/2002\/japan\/tokyo\/semi_flag_mask.jpg\" alt=\"Brazil flag with face in middle\" \/><br \/>\n&#8230;flagged up Brazilians&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width:320px;height:240px\" src=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/common\/images\/2002\/japan\/tokyo\/semi_clad_braz_girls.jpg\" alt=\"The posing Brazilians\" \/><br \/>\n&#8230;ladies&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width:320px;height:240px\" src=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/common\/images\/2002\/japan\/tokyo\/semi_phil_chris_stadium.jpg\" alt=\"Phil and Chris post match\" \/><br \/>\n&#8216;n&#8217; chris and I.<\/p>\n<p>The atmosphere was thick with football, Japanese fans and the ever present FIFA branding. This &#8216;rich  man&#8217;s World Cup&#8217; game had cost us, face value, $500 each.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width:320px;height:240px\" src=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/common\/images\/2002\/japan\/tokyo\/semi_ronaldo_letters.jpg\" alt=\"Brazil crowd spells Ronaldo\" \/><br \/>\nBrazil crowd spells Ronaldo<\/p>\n<p>Ronaldo does nothing for the first half and then scores a beauty that turned out to be the winner, then it was down the hairdressers for a quiet moan about the tension he feels from the hours he spends on computer games? Yes.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width:320px;height:240px\" src=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/common\/images\/2002\/japan\/tokyo\/semi_turk_braz_friendship.jpg\" alt=\"Turkish and Brazilian reconciliation\" \/><br \/>\nTurkish and Brazilian reconciliation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width:320px;height:240px\" src=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/common\/images\/2002\/japan\/tokyo\/semi_brazil_girl_filming.jpg\" alt=\"Brazilian girl films me\" \/><br \/>\nCamera to camera brings on the smiles<\/p>\n<p>Again we have the pleasure to share a stadium with the Brazilian fans, but this time they won leaving only one game between themselves and a possible FIVE World Cup championships. &#8216;PENTA Campion&#8217; rings off their lips with understandable confidence, though of course the mighty Kahn will stand between the sticks for Germany.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Penta Campion&#8217; rings out <a href=\"http:\/\/195.10.250.63\/video\/mpeg\/semi_penta_campion.mpg\">here in this mpeg<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan"],"geo":{"latitude":35.90310290000000037480276660062372684478759765625,"longitude":139.71760560000001305525074712932109832763671875,"description":null},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":742,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions\/742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}