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... No. Not the overpaid prima donna with a funny shaped mouth, but the Brazillian city.

Basically, I am due to be working there for much of the autumn and am obviously hoping to take in as much football as possible. If anyone has been there and been to any games, then advice would be appreciated.

They had a lovley tour of Rio on Ross Kemp Gangs. :mrgreen:

i can honestly say i have and probably never watch that programme

Why not?, its quite good but very scary i might add.

dunno mate, but you wanna see "city of god" (aka "cidade de deus"), if you haven't already. it's a spanish language film, but it's based in the slums of rio, and is absolutely fantastic viewing.

one of the actors in it (seu jorge, the guy that played "knockout ned") was recently in "the life aquatic" as the guy who spent the whole film with a guitar in his lap playing portuguese versions of bowie songs.

I havent seen 'City Of God', i was joined to Blockbusters online service and when it came i was on holiday and the old dear sent it back..... :evil:

mum out!

But who would wash my clothes and cook my dinner then?. :(

rio's fucking class when he can be bothered

 :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

I wish I tried harder at school,then I could be working in Rio rather than Gipsy bloody lane.

Let that be a lesson to you kids. :x

Their prisons were disturbing to say the least.  :shock:  :shock:  :shock:  :shock:

Just plain wrong.

Mex is your man for South American football but this may be of some use...

http://www.futebolthebrazilianwayoflife.com/readers_tabajara.shtml

simple. move in with the bird ;)

You're joking!?, she cant fucking cook!, but she can wash clothes.

Thats how they should be here, 50 to a 4 man cell.

Did you see the crazy exorcism thing they did on that bloke?. :shock:

i have never been to brazil but have heard many horror stories about brazilia, sao Paolo and espescially rio, my advice would be to be  very very very careful, however by avoiding certain parts of the city you should be fine, which is the same of most latin america cities.

as for football, you are in  for a veritable feast, Rio has 4 major teams, vasco de gama. fluminese, botafago and flamengo.
domestically of the four Fluminese are do the best currently lying 4th in serie a, but its an up and down leauge, current copa libetadores champions sao Paolo are in mid table obscurity, and the other 3 rio teams ar having a bit of a shit season  fighting off relegation.

Flamengo are the best supported club in Brazil, and they are notorious for being followed by the working class, people actually take the piss if they are losing by chanting there is silence in the favelas. Note you dont want to hang out in the favelas.
Fluminese are seen as the rich club and are followed by the upper classes, whereas vasco de gama are the portugese based side and have a very large black following, they were the first team to play black players.

only vasco has a proper home stadium, the others have crappy little grounds and if its a match of any importance its always played at the maracana.

Excellent.

Well aware of the dangers of Brazil in general, as my colleague got mugged at gunpoint on a previous trip. He's a cocky bastard though so possibly not a fair reflection on the country.

Hopefully there will be a big game during a visit, which I can ask some of the locals I will be working with to take me to.

my mate took in a game at the maracana last year, the place is a sad reflection of it's former self, there was about 30,000 there and he said it really lacked atmosphere, dead cheap though.  Has anyone been to La Bombonera in Argentina, that's a place I'd love to watch foorball at?

City of God is a great film. (cheers for the recommendation Walt)

FACT!

Theres a great book regarding Brazillian football called 'Futebol'.

Look, I read it, and Ive read about 2 books in the last 5 years.