{"id":40,"date":"2006-02-22T18:09:46","date_gmt":"2006-02-22T18:09:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritoffootball.com\/2006\/blog\/2006\/02\/22\/a-brazilian-football-pilgrimage"},"modified":"2010-01-18T23:04:34","modified_gmt":"2010-01-18T23:04:34","slug":"a-brazilian-football-pilgrimage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2006\/blog\/2006\/02\/22\/a-brazilian-football-pilgrimage\/","title":{"rendered":"A Brazilian Football Pilgrimage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/common\/images\/2006\/misc\/fabinho.jpg\" alt=\"Fabinhno makes keepie-uppie look insanely easy on Copacabana beach\" style=\"width:240px;height:320px\" \/><br \/>\nFabinhno on Copacabana playing keep-up<br \/>\n(courtesy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ofutebol.com\/braziluncovered.html\">Brazil Uncovered<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>I came across <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ofutebol.com\/braziluncovered.html\">Brazil Uncovered<\/a>, a fantastic little blog by Doug Banks and Dan Osborne, a couple of days ago, and I&#8217;ve been enchanted reading the stories of their adventures ever since. This is how they describe their motivation for the trip:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We&#8217;re making a pilgrimage to Brazil to re-ignite our faith in football and rediscover just what made us passionate about the game in the first place. We&#8217;ll go to watch the players who can take your breath away with magical skill, meet the fans and try to find out just why it is that Brazilians live and breathe the beautiful game.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And what a trip that must have been &#8212; they find football wherever they go, and they report on it with an enthusiasm that belies the cynicism about the game than they express in the statement quoted above. I&#8217;d be willing to bet that the many people who are increasingly jaded by the antics of the professional game here in England would benefit from reading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ofutebol.com\/braziluncovered.html\">Brazil Uncovered<\/a> too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fabinhno on Copacabana playing keep-up (courtesy Brazil Uncovered) I came across Brazil Uncovered, a fantastic little blog by Doug Banks and Dan Osborne, a couple of days ago, and I&#8217;ve been enchanted reading the stories of their adventures ever since. This is how they describe their motivation for the trip: We&#8217;re making a pilgrimage to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"geo":null,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2006\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2006\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2006\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2006\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2006\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2006\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":189,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2006\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions\/189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2006\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2006\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2006\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}