{"id":337,"date":"2008-11-11T16:11:57","date_gmt":"2008-11-11T20:11:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/?p=337"},"modified":"2014-07-21T19:01:36","modified_gmt":"2014-07-21T19:01:36","slug":"sports-in-portuguese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/sports-in-portuguese\/","title":{"rendered":"Sports in Portuguese"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Though the most popular sport in Brazil is obviously soccer, today we&#8217;re going to take a look at how to say the names of different sports that are played or popular in Brazil.<\/p>\n<p><strong>futebol<\/strong>: soccer [foo-chee-BOH]<\/p>\n<p><strong>volei<\/strong>: volleyball [VOH-lay]<\/p>\n<p><strong>volei de praia<\/strong>: beach volleyball [VOH-lay deh PRY-ah]<\/p>\n<p><strong>basquete<\/strong>: basketball [bahs-KEH-chee]<\/p>\n<p><strong>futsal<\/strong>: indoor soccer [foo-chee-SOW]<\/p>\n<p><strong>jiu jitsu<\/strong>: jujutsu (martial art) 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