Word: braziller
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...team surprised most of the soccer world by beating Chile, Argentina and Mexico to advance to the semifinals of the Copa, the South American championship that some consider the second most important tournament in the world. Alas, the U.S. lost 1-0 to Brazil Thursday night in Maldonado, but the team played well enough to put a scare into the Brazilians, who had never lost to the North Americans and in fact had not given up a goal to them in 65 years. As Carlos Alberto Parreira, who coached Brazil to its World Cup victory last year, says...
While the Brazilians paid lip service to the Americans before their semifinal match, most felt the same way that Brazil's TV Globo sportscaster Galvao Bueno did. "This is going to be rout," Bueno told viewers. Indeed, it looked as if he might be right in the 13th minute, when Juninho feathered a free kick from the left side of the penalty area and Aldair broke free to head the ball past Friedel. But Brazil would never score again. And the U.S., which seemed tentative and tired in the first half, picked up the pace in the second. When Brazilian...
...road to respect for the U.S. team is still a long one. "Nobody takes us seriously," said Lalas. "Whenever we beat a team, they fire the coach. But when we lost to Brazil last year, we all thought we had a long way to go. We are still behind them, but much closer than we were before...
...regularly put in 16-hour days, sometimes staying up all night to scan new, hard-to-find photos for his collection. At the time of his indictment he was spending $500 a week on fresh material, much of it sent by scouts as far away as Denmark and Brazil. The slogan for his bulletin board came from closer to home, however. He was inspired by a visit to Disneyland, where a sign outside proclaims it THE HAPPIEST PLACE ON EARTH. His computer system came to be known as "the nastiest place on earth...
...violence, the current pope has been the first to single out the Mob, saysTIME's Richard Ostling. "John Paul is not one to be intimidated. He beat the Communist leaders in Poland. He's denounced the IRA in Ireland, rebuked leaders for human rights violations in places like Brazil, and chastised the Supreme Court on abortion while just a few blocks down the Mall." The Vatican could face a stiff backlash. After the 1993 speech in Sicily, two church bombs exploded in Rome and a priest was gunned down in his church...