Sports

Sports in Brazil are a big deal and are not at the same time, let me explain. In Brazil we are very passionate for some kind of sports, if you are guessing soccer as the main sport there you are right. However, generally we only give heed to soccer, volleyball, judo, MMA (mixed martial arts), and swimming; I guess this happen because we are good at these sports and we are not in others, save some exceptions. The great problem is that the government do not support and/or help people who want to practice sports in Brazil, and this makes much more difficult for everyone there, especially if we consider that Brazil is a poor country. As we talked before, soccer is a huge deal in Brazil, you will see people (it does not matter the age) playing soccer everywhere in Brazil. They play in fields, in the sand, in case you are on the beach, in courts, or even in the street. One main difference about soccer there and here in the US is that there in mainly play by men, although we have a few women who plays it too. As the most successful sport we have, we received the FIFA 2014 World Cup, but we did not won it. We are the only country who participated in all editions of the World Cup (the most important soccer tournament), and we are the only one who won five times. Even though if you are not really into soccer, you probably know about the Brazilian team and some players like Ronaldinho and Neymar. In addition, we are the team who won more soccer tournaments in history, however we never won the soccer competition that takes place during Olympics.

Neymar

Talking about Olympics, we are going to hold the 2016 Olympics, that is going to take place in Rio de Janeiro City (learn more about Rio by clicking here Rio de Janeiro). Everyone is very excited for it; again especially regarding those five sports cited in the beginning where most of our Olympics medals come from. Brazilians also have a big hope that we finally win soccer tournament since we have the "home factor" now. Volleyball, swimming, and judo's athletes brought some golden medals home in previous editions.
As mentioned in the post about Rio, Rio is not a secure city, you will need to be careful during Olympics if you planning to go, however it is guaranteed that you will have fun during your time in Rio and in Brazil.

Rio 2016 Olympics logo