{"id":1018,"date":"2010-04-27T13:30:30","date_gmt":"2010-04-27T13:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/?p=1018"},"modified":"2010-04-27T02:17:53","modified_gmt":"2010-04-27T02:17:53","slug":"world-cup-countdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/world-cup-countdown\/","title":{"rendered":"World Cup Countdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The World Cup, one of the biggest sporting events for Brazilians, is coming up in June, and Brazil is already gearing up for the soccer excitement. Today, we&#8217;re going to take a look at interviews with some of Brazil&#8217;s <em>futebol<\/em> stars who will represent their country in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dunga<\/strong>, Brazil National Team Coach<\/p>\n<p>Interesting fact: Dunga&#8217;s real name is Carlos Caetano Bledorn Verri, but he was given the nickname Dunga, which means &#8220;Dopey&#8221; (from the Seven Dwarfs) by an uncle who thought he would never grow up to be tall.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Entrevista : Dunga para o Esporte Fant\u00e1stico\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IqBPNR696UQ?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><\/p>\n<p><strong>Kak\u00e1<\/strong>, Midfielder<\/p>\n<p>Interesting fact: Kak\u00e1 is a devout Evangelical Christian, and he donates 10 percent of his salary to his church.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1CRo37Pkz2c\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1CRo37Pkz2c<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Robinho<\/strong>, Left Winger<\/p>\n<p>Interesting fact: Robinho was &#8220;discovered&#8221; by Pel\u00e9 when he was only 15 years old.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mXwXDYtinLs\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mXwXDYtinLs<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.widgetbox.com\/widget\/world-cup-2010-countdown\" target=\"_blank\">Join the countdown to the World Cup<\/a> on your blog, Facebook, or Twitter!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The World Cup, one of the biggest sporting events for Brazilians, is coming up in June, and Brazil is already gearing up for the soccer excitement. Today, we&#8217;re going to take a look at interviews with some of Brazil&#8217;s futebol stars who will represent their country in South Africa. Dunga, Brazil National Team Coach Interesting&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/world-cup-countdown\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[1851,147],"tags":[1949,2156,8494,2524,8495,2637],"class_list":["post-1018","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-learning","category-sports","tag-brazil","tag-futebol","tag-players","tag-soccer","tag-stars","tag-world-cup"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1018"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1031,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018\/revisions\/1031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}