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It's Thursday morning, Ayshah here with your Newsround headlines. | :00:07. | :00:09. | |
Brazil get ready to kick off the biggest football tournament | :00:10. | :00:16. | |
And the astronauts who are cheering on their teams from 230 miles | :00:17. | :00:21. | |
First, the day many of you have been waiting for has finally arrived. | :00:22. | :00:27. | |
The tournament starts tonight with a spectacular opening ceremony | :00:28. | :00:32. | |
in Sao Paulo before the hosts take on Croatia in the first game. | :00:33. | :00:36. | |
But the build up to the World Cup hasn't been easy with many | :00:37. | :00:39. | |
Brazilians upset over the amount spent on hosting the competition. | :00:40. | :00:44. | |
There's also been concerns over whether stadiums would be ready | :00:45. | :00:47. | |
So with the World Cup just hours away, | :00:48. | :00:53. | |
Leah's there for us and has sent this report. | :00:54. | :01:02. | |
With just hours before the World Cup kicks off, kids in Rio can't get | :01:03. | :01:08. | |
enough of the World Cup. With some of the biggest footballing stars | :01:09. | :01:12. | |
from around the to get their hands on the trophy, it is worth knowing | :01:13. | :01:14. | |
group a from group D. It's the biggest football tournament | :01:15. | :01:18. | |
in the world and millions But just | :01:19. | :01:21. | |
in case you're not completely up to speed with the World Cup, here's our | :01:22. | :01:29. | |
rundown of what you need to know. The FIFA World Cup invites countries | :01:30. | :01:38. | |
from around the world to compete for the biggest prize in world sport. 32 | :01:39. | :01:44. | |
teams are split into eight groups. The top two teams qualify for the | :01:45. | :01:48. | |
knockout stages. From here it is lose and you are out. Until the last | :01:49. | :01:54. | |
two teams battle it out in the World Cup final. It began in the 1930s and | :01:55. | :01:58. | |
has taken place every four years since, except for a break during | :01:59. | :02:03. | |
World War II. Only eight countries have won the tournament. Three teams | :02:04. | :02:07. | |
dominating. Germany have won it three times, Italy four times, and | :02:08. | :02:15. | |
Brazil have won it five times. England have won it once, almost 50 | :02:16. | :02:20. | |
years ago. The all-time World Cup top scorer is Reynaldo. No, not that | :02:21. | :02:26. | |
one, this one. The Brazilian scored an incredible 15 goals. -- Ronaldo. | :02:27. | :02:39. | |
On each of the previous four occasions in South America, a team | :02:40. | :02:42. | |
from South America has one. Can Brazil do it again? -- has won. | :02:43. | :03:08. | |
You can keep up to date with everything happening in Brazil | :03:09. | :03:11. | |
on the World Cup portal on the Newsround website. | :03:12. | :03:15. | |
Along with the usual mixture of fancy footwork, | :03:16. | :03:20. | |
This is the first World Cup where goal-line | :03:21. | :03:22. | |
technology will be used but there are a few more changes, too, | :03:23. | :03:24. | |
There are a few places in this country where it gets incredibly hot | :03:25. | :03:31. | |
and humid like Manaus and further north. This is the first World Cup | :03:32. | :03:35. | |
or players are allowed to have a drinks break. If the temperature | :03:36. | :03:40. | |
reaches higher than 32 degrees, for about three minutes every half, they | :03:41. | :03:44. | |
can have a good swig. Let me tell you about this, it is not shaving | :03:45. | :03:51. | |
foam, it is free kick foam. If we have a free kick here, the referee | :03:52. | :03:55. | |
will pace out ten yards, and with his magic to, he will mark a line on | :03:56. | :04:00. | |
the pitch to tell the opposition that they cannot pass that line. The | :04:01. | :04:04. | |
crazy thing is, it is vanishing so in a couple of minutes, it will | :04:05. | :04:08. | |
disappear without a trace. This is the ball. In the last World Cup in | :04:09. | :04:12. | |
South Africa there were few complaints about the ball that | :04:13. | :04:16. | |
hobbled about in the air. Players complained, goalkeepers were not | :04:17. | :04:22. | |
happy. This has been tested for two and a half years by 600 top | :04:23. | :04:25. | |
professionals all over the world and they love this one, no complaints | :04:26. | :04:30. | |
about this. The name was voted for by the people of Brazil and it | :04:31. | :04:32. | |
simply means, Brazilian. As fans around the planet tune | :04:33. | :04:35. | |
in to the World Cup, fans out of The astronauts will be cheering | :04:36. | :04:38. | |
on their teams from 230 miles above the earth | :04:39. | :04:42. | |
at the International Space Station. Don't forget to join Newsround | :04:43. | :04:47. | |
live from Brazil at 4:20pm Leah will have a bumper packed | :04:48. | :04:50. | |
bulletin from Rio de Janerio ahead That's all from me, | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
Newsround's back right here in 30 | :04:56. | :05:01. |