Brazil Soccer

by Simon Kuper

One night in 1999, I went to a soccer match in Rio de Janeiro’s Maracanã Stadium. The Maracanã was built to host the World Cup in 1950 and could seat 200,000 -- the largest stadium on earth. The match I saw featured Flamengo, the most popular club in Brazil, yet fewer than 10,000 people showed up. Many of them spent the game running up and down the running track, following the ball. The referee whistled shamelessly in Flamengo’s favor. Afterward, getting home at night was scary. This was Brazil -- home of the world’s best soccer players and the most dysfunctional league. Every good Brazilian player -- and many bad ones -- emigrated to staff clubs around the planet...[continued]

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Selected Photography

simple sunrise e3-hdr (Morningdew Photography) || State/Lake CTA diptic view of Chicago theatre marquee (spudart) || Untitled (TyDW) || shuttered (ten-nine) || title unknown (kazushi hirota) || title unknown (Nike Bongiorno) || JR (sabeth718) || title unknown (Brian Soko) || 21 St-Van Alst Train Station (D. Photos) || Paris (Daniel Novello) || Et le train passe pendant la lecture! / And the train passes during the reading! ;-) (Piékouagami) || Sortie en gris (Julie70) || hot town (triebensee) || "This river I step in is not the same river I stand in" (picturenarrative)

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Associated Press

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I feel I just exaggerate in this post title.
But now a day when Japanese girl is wearing Kimono we always think of Geisha.
Ideed in Japanese history Geisha was comedy actor who make up like girl sometimes we see real girl do it.

This girl is the dark side of them the old and well-known as the big proportion girl of this world Yoko Matsugane wear orange Kimono and do some dirty way of poses that some pics I cant even look it (I exaggerate again).

I thing I should stop writing and better lets you see her pics.