We had the same problem in MA with illegal Brazilians blocking off streets and hurting our town.
Brazilian soccer fans show their colors downtown
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By David Riley/Daily News staff
MetroWest Daily News
Posted Jun 17, 2010 @ 12:34 AM
FRAMINGHAM —
With green-and-yellow jerseys and Brazilian flags wrapped around their shoulders, soccer fans packed every table Tuesday at Cafe Belo on Waverley Street.
Probably few, if any, of the 150 or so patrons expected Brazil's Cup-opening match against North Korea to be a difficult one for the defending champions, projected on a large screen and broadcast in Portuguese. Still, they cheered each Brazil goal like it was a tiebreaker.
Many Brazilian fans probably reacted the same way around the world, said Miria Slavero, a waitress and bartender at Cafe Belo.
"In Brazil, everybody plays soccer, just for fun," she said. "Everybody's excited. Everybody loves this."
In Brazilian shops and restaurants in downtown Framingham, signs of excitement were all around for the 32-team global soccer competition playing out in South Africa.
The television at Padaria Brasil Bakery on Concord Street is tuned to non-stop coverage of the World Cup. Brazilian team jerseys hang in some downtown boutique windows.
At the Brazil Legal World Soccer shop across the street from the Memorial Building, owner Robson Ramos said he usually sells 10 or 15 Brazilian soccer team jerseys a week. Since the World Cup started, he's been moving almost double that.
Think the Super Bowl, times 10. That's how more than one Brazilian soccer fan described the feeling about the World Cup, which is played every four years.
"For American people, there's the Red Sox - baseball," Ramos said. "For Brazilians, there's soccer."
Some fans said they'd heard of couples who avoided scheduling their weddings during key games.
In one extreme case, Elias Fernandes, owner of the Padaria Brasil bakeries, said he saw a Brazilian news story about a man who convinced his pregnant wife to have her doctor induce labor a week early so he could fly to South Africa without missing the birth.
"Baseball and football is big in the U.S.," he said. "Soccer is big in the whole world."
Happy fans spilled into the streets Tuesday after Brazil defeated North Korea 2-1, cheering, honking horns and playing music.
But that was nothing compared to the way people celebrate in Brazil, Delmir Belo said as he waited for an order at Padaria Brasil. Everything shuts down, he said.
"You can have no traffic, no privacy," said Belo, who prefers to avoid the crowds. He got out of work early Tuesday to take in the game at home. "Everybody's watching the game."
Some fans said they felt Brazil's victory over North Korea was a little too close for comfort. At Padaria Brasil on Irving Street, Fernandes said the team seemed like it wasn't ready to play yet.
Brazil takes on Ivory Coast on Sunday, and then it's Portugal next Friday morning.
Businesspeople are prepared for those upcoming games.
At Cafe Belo, manager Ben Potter said he plans to hire security to work with the crowd, although he had no problems on Tuesday.
"It was a good crowd, not one bit of trouble," he said. "You couldn't have asked for a better night."
(David Riley can be reached at 508-626-3919 or
driley@cnc.com.)
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