Word: brazile
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...Jersey, The Unthinkable Thoughts of Jacob Green, which will come out in September. And Adam was hired with Zach to co-write an adaptation of the kids' book Andrew Henry's Meadow, about a boy who escapes suburbia by building a Utopia in the trees. "We describe it as Brazil for kids," says Braff. It's hard not to suspect he really wants to call it Citizen Kane for kids...
Gibbs could not be reached for comment at his home in Brazil...
...national soccer idiom may be by nature impossible defend in scientific terms, it nonetheless shaped the sensibilities of fans for generations. Whenever the fans of a lowly English outfit such as Bristol Rovers see their players exhibit a flash of uncharacteristic individual skill or imagination, they sing "Brazil, it's just like watching Brazil...
...today is increasingly shifting from having the national team coached by a national, to having it coached by a foreigner with good coaching credentials. The Greece team that won the recent Euro 2004 tournament was coached by the German Otto Rehnagel. In the final, they beat Portugal, coached by Brazil's Felipe Scolari. Today, almost every major African national team is run by a coach from France or Germany, England coached by Sweden's Sven Goran Erikson and Scotland is run by Germany's Berti Vogts...
...global all-stars, as are the coaches, often. And while that has greatly enriched the spectacle of club level football in Britain, Spain, Italy and elsewhere, it's effect on the national game may be double edged. On the one hand, greater efficiency has facilitated more championships by Brazil and previously unthinkable success for such relative outsiders as Greece, South Korea or Senegal. The idea that "there are no longer any easy games" at international level has become a mantra among national team coaches, as the gap between the teams has narrowed. But the more national teams try to play...