Riots! What riots? FIFA's official World Cup champagne announced amid Brazilian social unrest
Ever the grand arbiters of taste, the FIFA bods figured now was the best time to announce such a deal
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Taittinger was today announced as FIFA's official champagne of World
Cup 2014 - while embers still smouldered in Belo Horizonte from violent
unrest.
Protests have marred this month's Confederations Cup as ordinary Brazilians took to the street to express their disgust at the misuse of public funds, including the hosting the global football showpiece.
Police and the BOPE - Brazilian special forces - have retaliated to protests across the country with the use of tear gas and rubber bullets, a response condemned by international onlookers.
Protests in pictures: ONE MILLION demonstrators take to the streets
MirrorFootball's Jack Lang last week described how Brazil's footballers had taken the brave and unusual step of supporting the protests, while FIFA President Sepp Blatter brashly complained that people shouldn't be using his competition to give visibility to their protest:
“I can understand that people are not happy, but they should not use football to make their demands heard," Blatter told Brazilian newspaper O Globo.
“Brazil asked to host the World Cup. We didn’t force it on them,” he oinked unsympathetically.
FIFA's ill-timed announcement will do nothing to abate anger in Brazil at the conduct of world football's governing body.
Estado de Minas - the local newspaper for Belo Horizonte, the city that hosted Brazil's semi-final win over Uruguay on Wednesday - led with "Brazil wins, Belo Horizonte loses" and a picture of the blazing city.
Protests have marred this month's Confederations Cup as ordinary Brazilians took to the street to express their disgust at the misuse of public funds, including the hosting the global football showpiece.
Police and the BOPE - Brazilian special forces - have retaliated to protests across the country with the use of tear gas and rubber bullets, a response condemned by international onlookers.
Protests in pictures: ONE MILLION demonstrators take to the streets
MirrorFootball's Jack Lang last week described how Brazil's footballers had taken the brave and unusual step of supporting the protests, while FIFA President Sepp Blatter brashly complained that people shouldn't be using his competition to give visibility to their protest:
“I can understand that people are not happy, but they should not use football to make their demands heard," Blatter told Brazilian newspaper O Globo.
“Brazil asked to host the World Cup. We didn’t force it on them,” he oinked unsympathetically.
FIFA's ill-timed announcement will do nothing to abate anger in Brazil at the conduct of world football's governing body.
Estado de Minas - the local newspaper for Belo Horizonte, the city that hosted Brazil's semi-final win over Uruguay on Wednesday - led with "Brazil wins, Belo Horizonte loses" and a picture of the blazing city.
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