12/06/2014 Newsround


12/06/2014

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It's Thursday morning, Ayshah here with your Newsround headlines.

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Brazil get ready to kick off the biggest football tournament

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And the astronauts who are cheering on their teams from 230 miles

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First, the day many of you have been waiting for has finally arrived.

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The tournament starts tonight with a spectacular opening ceremony

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in Sao Paulo before the hosts take on Croatia in the first game.

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But the build up to the World Cup hasn't been easy with many

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Brazilians upset over the amount spent on hosting the competition.

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There's also been concerns over whether stadiums would be ready

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So with the World Cup just hours away,

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Leah's there for us and has sent this report.

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With just hours before the World Cup kicks off, kids in Rio can't get

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enough of the World Cup. With some of the biggest footballing stars

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from around the to get their hands on the trophy, it is worth knowing

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group a from group D. It's the biggest football tournament

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in the world and millions But just

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in case you're not completely up to speed with the World Cup, here's our

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rundown of what you need to know. The FIFA World Cup invites countries

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from around the world to compete for the biggest prize in world sport. 32

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teams are split into eight groups. The top two teams qualify for the

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knockout stages. From here it is lose and you are out. Until the last

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two teams battle it out in the World Cup final. It began in the 1930s and

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has taken place every four years since, except for a break during

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World War II. Only eight countries have won the tournament. Three teams

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dominating. Germany have won it three times, Italy four times, and

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Brazil have won it five times. England have won it once, almost 50

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years ago. The all-time World Cup top scorer is Reynaldo. No, not that

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one, this one. The Brazilian scored an incredible 15 goals. -- Ronaldo.

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On each of the previous four occasions in South America, a team

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from South America has one. Can Brazil do it again? -- has won.

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You can keep up to date with everything happening in Brazil

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on the World Cup portal on the Newsround website.

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Along with the usual mixture of fancy footwork,

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This is the first World Cup where goal-line

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technology will be used but there are a few more changes, too,

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There are a few places in this country where it gets incredibly hot

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and humid like Manaus and further north. This is the first World Cup

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or players are allowed to have a drinks break. If the temperature

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reaches higher than 32 degrees, for about three minutes every half, they

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can have a good swig. Let me tell you about this, it is not shaving

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foam, it is free kick foam. If we have a free kick here, the referee

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will pace out ten yards, and with his magic to, he will mark a line on

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the pitch to tell the opposition that they cannot pass that line. The

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crazy thing is, it is vanishing so in a couple of minutes, it will

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disappear without a trace. This is the ball. In the last World Cup in

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South Africa there were few complaints about the ball that

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hobbled about in the air. Players complained, goalkeepers were not

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happy. This has been tested for two and a half years by 600 top

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professionals all over the world and they love this one, no complaints

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about this. The name was voted for by the people of Brazil and it

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simply means, Brazilian. As fans around the planet tune

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in to the World Cup, fans out of The astronauts will be cheering

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on their teams from 230 miles above the earth

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at the International Space Station. Don't forget to join Newsround

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live from Brazil at 4:20pm Leah will have a bumper packed

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bulletin from Rio de Janerio ahead That's all from me,

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Newsround's back right here in 30

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