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Published: July 19th 2014
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When we got to the Manaus airport we first found Al but then could not find Ronaldo. Then we saw him holding up a sign for us. We met Ronaldo's wife Dulce. It was a beautiful drive because we saw the stadium. It was so cool. When we got settled at their house and good to go we went to a restaurant nearby to watch the Ecuador v Honduras game. On the way we saw cardboard cutouts of Neymar, Messi, Christiano Ronaldo, and Tiago Silva. I took a picture by each one. Then when we got to the restaurant we got good seats upstairs to watch the game. We were all cheering for Ecuador because Al's parents are from Ecuador. It was a really good game because Ecuador one. The food was pretty good. When we went back to their house everyone was still awake and I was sitting on the hammock. But then I fell asleep and my dad woke me up to put me in the room. however I wanted to sleep in the hammock, so he brought the hammock into the room.Roy and Kevin came in the middle of the night so I did not get to see
USA Scored!
I think this photo captures Sofia's emotion. them. But the next day when I woke up I saw them. Dulce made us a very good breakfast.
We went on an Amazon Day Tour but I will talk about that in my next blog. That night we went to a great restaurant that had amazing fish. 2 very big fish.
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The next day was a big day. USA was playing against Portugal. Of course I was cheering for USA but I wanted Christiano Ronaldo to score one goal. Kevin painted my face with the USA flag and painted his face with the Portugal flag. I was making fun of Portugal saying that USA was going to win. Then we left but only Al, dad and I went to watch Algeria v South Korea. Algeria played very good sadly because I was cheering for South Korea. I like the Asian teams. Then we met up with all the others and made fun of them. A bunch of people were taking a lot of pictures of me.
It was a really nice game. The played very well. First Portugal scored. Then we scored. Then it was halftime.....And then after
halftime we scored another point. Then it was close to finishing the game with the USA wining and then.........Portugal scored on the 5th and final minute of extra time. I did not think that Portugal was going to score again.
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The next day Brasil and Cameroon were playing. And obviously I was cheering for Brasil, all of us were. I got my face painted all yellow and green and it said Brasil. Though I would have liked to go to the game, we went to the fanfest in Manaus. There were so many people that we had to sit back in the little hill, but we had good spots. It was a pretty nice game. Neymar scored twice, and Fred and Fernandinho scored once. Cameroon scored once. I was so happy because Brasil won.
Manaus was such a great experience especially since we met new people.
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Daddy's Comments:
Wow, what an awesome time we had in Manaus. Ronaldo and Dulce were incredible hosts. I can not thank them enough for opening their house for me, Sofia and 3 of my friends (Roy,
Kevin, and Al). Their hospitality was amazing, especially since they had only met me once and never met any of my friends. A big thanks to Jana for making it happen and putting us into contact. Besides all the drinking, music, food and conversation, the highlight for me was the Portugal v USA game. What made it so great was the build up....As there were only 3 of us supporting USA (Me, Sofia and Al) and the rest for Portugal, all the talking before the game just made it that much more special. Sofia lead the trash talk and we all had fun with it....The the face painting, wow Kevin is good. The pics with Kevin and Sofia are my favorite of the entire trip....then there was the game. What a game! And to see Sofia go from sleeping during the games in South Africa (she liked the pregame activities) to yelling the "I believe we will win" and Tim Howard chants was incredible. We had thought we had won.....no we were certain that we were going to win after about 3 minutes into stoppage time that that goal on the final play was heart breaking. So it goes in
soccer, and probably only fitting that it would end in a tie with all the trash talking both sides had done previously. Harder blow to Portugal of course after losing big to Germany...
While the day trip into the amazon is in the next blog, another highlight was going to fanfest for the Brasil v Cameroon game. Great to see the enthusiasm in the fans, and though Brasil started slow, they finished strongly. Lots of fun.
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precious photo.