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Rio de Janeiro (IPS) - The seven year old got bored after five minutes of running with no specific direction in the midst of a dozen colleagues. He left the football pitch outraged because he had failed to kick the ball once.

"That's football, you have to be patient," he tried to explain the physical education teacher trying to introduce students of the school in various sports. It does not seem the best virtue for sports.

How passion that football in regions and cultures of the most varied in the world do we explain? Why the World Cup FIFA (Federation Internationale de Football Association), which opens this Thursday 12 in Brazil, arouses much enthusiasm on every continent?

The star Romario de Souza Faria, whose five goals in the 1994 World Cup in the United States, assured victory to Brazil, no time kept the ball at his feet in each 90-minute match. He became a national hero with his shots at goal, in a split second.

In 2007, he attempted the thousandth goal of his career, a reporter noted that Romario had the ball only 16 seconds in a whole game. At one point he completed 30 minutes without touching it. The few goals, plus games without one, are tedious to many who prefer the apparent dynamism of basketball or volleyball, with scores generally over a hundred, points in every game.

For others, some are irrational rules football: offside interrupted the dispute at its climax, when the attacker is ideally placed to fulfill its mission and bring her to orgasm swollen

Some reject this sport too violent. Fractures, wounds and bruises caused by shocks, kicks or elbows, in some cases not even considered failures abound. On the contrary volleyball avoiding physical contact.

Still, football has conquered overwhelming majorities in much of the world and tends to expand, surpassing traditional preferences and strengths, as happened in the United States and Japan. You can not even claim to be a universal hobby, because it lacks relevant conquer large crowds in some countries, especially China and India where the challenge is to seduce hundreds of millions of potential fans.

The secret of the superiority of football in popularity, and therefore in business, does not appear in the court, the players or the ball, but in the heads of the spectators. It's like the show, rather than sports, how he became champion.

Many sports, mainly collective, have been able to attract massive, face or television audiences. It is the case of baseball in the United States and Japan, many countries in basketball, cricket in India, Australia and other former British colonies. But football has features that make it the most popular, able to capture the attention of 3.6 million people during its Twenty World Cup, hosting 12 Brazilian cities to the July 13 game.

A key element is to make the fan feel powerful, supporting your team or mentally analyzing the plays and performers. More than spectator, is an actor and author of alternatives that could have the game because football is an open work, a stimulus to creativity Your collective support often influence the results more than any other sport.

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His vision of the game is greater than the player reaches the whole field and all movements, in contrast to the look of the characters, limited in scope and troubled by the harassment of opponents.

All Brazilian coaches are created, it is said in jest, but it reflects a reality. Supporters develop conclusions on tactics, plays, best use and combination of characteristics of the players, a myriad of details that can be decisive.

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