The Brazilian football team will play the World Championship in the category in the country starting on September 24th. From the Arab world, aside from Egypt, the Emirates team will also participate.
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They are from Tunisia, Morocco, the Emirates, Egypt, Algeria and Saudi Arabia and are going to play the final of the Danone Cup of Nations, promoted by the yoghurt brand, in October, in São Paulo.
In 2010, the emirate should host the America’s Cup, the most traditional yacht race, disputed since 1851. The site was chosen by the Swiss Alinghi team, winner of the last edition.
The Brazilian federal government is going to invest the funds in infrastructure work in the cities that will host matches of the FIFA World Cup 2014.
Abu Dhabi-based team Al Jazira hired Ricardo Oliveira for 14 million euros, in the country’s most expensive football transaction ever. He will team up with Rafael Sobis, the second most expensive.
The men’s team is going to play the World Championship in the category from July 20 to 31 in the country. Also playing will be the Arab teams of Egypt, Qatar, Morocco, Kuwait and Libya.
Brazil will promote a match for peace in the Arab country, similar to the one held in Haiti in 2004. The initiative is part of a strategy for promoting the Brazilian image abroad through sports.
The Arab country is starting to establish a sports community and wants to become reference in Olympic education. For this, the director of the Doha Olympic Museum, Christian Wacker, is in Brazil.
Representatives of the country’s Olympic Museum will attend the International Forum on Development of Olympic Sports, to start tomorrow and end on Wednesday in the capital of Rio Grande do Norte.
The Brazilian women’s rugby team competed last weekend in the United Arab Emirates and finished in tenth. It was the first-ever Latin American participation in the championship.
Both Arab countries were classified to the cup after reaching the finals of the African cup. The games begin on September 30th, but Egypt should also play two friendly games with the Brazilian team.
They will come from five countries in the Gulf and Africa to participate in the IAAF/Caixa World Half Marathon Championship, to take place in Rio de Janeiro, in October.
Brazilian businessman Alain Levy crossed the Strait of Gibraltar from Spain to Morocco last month. The effort was part of a personal challenge for Levy, who swims as a hobby.
Twelve Brazilian teachers were selected to teach the martial art in public schools in Abu Dhabi. The emirate plans to make jiu-jitsu into the national sport.
