{"id":1223,"date":"2010-06-15T00:11:01","date_gmt":"2010-06-15T00:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/?p=1223"},"modified":"2010-06-14T21:13:41","modified_gmt":"2010-06-14T21:13:41","slug":"umbabarauma-jorge-ben","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/umbabarauma-jorge-ben\/","title":{"rendered":"Umbabarauma by Jorge Ben"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today Brazil takes on North Korea in both teams’ first matches in the 2010 World Cup hosted by South Africa! \u00a0\u00a0And here in Brazil, everyone’s breathing World Cup season, especially sponsors and anyone who can make any money with “World Cup” specials. \u00a0And as usual, Nike has a pretty interesting campaign going on. \u00a0They’re putting together a documentary<\/a> in honor of Jorge Ben’s song, “Ponta de Lan\u00e7a Africano (Umbabarauma)”(1976). \u00a0Which is a song about an African point man, but in reality speaks to any Brazilian who’s ever played pick up soccer in the middle of a dusty street. \u00a0This song practically predicted the world cup in South Africa over 30 years later perfectly mixing African and Brazilian and European beats.<\/p>\n

Here’s a video from the 80’s (i.e., the image isn’t that great) produced by David Byrne and which alludes to everything that is Umbabarauma<\/em> \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n