World cup: Brazil

I am a football player for Brazil's team. In Brazil, we take football very seriously. Our country sees us as the best part of their country. They feel as if our team has a success then the country will have a success as well. But if we fail they feel as if the entire country has failed. We are highly respected all throughout Brazil, but we don’t get the royal treatment as you may think. We are just like normal people every day, but when football season begins, we are completely different than anyone else. Our main goal is not only to succeed, but to succeed without any mistakes, and nothing less than that. When we reach South Africa I expect to see a decent football field in a stadium filled with seats. I don’t expect to see buildings everywhere or great construction because Africa is very poor. They won’t have very many of the luxuries we have here so it will be very different than our lives here in Brazil. If our team were to win, back home wouldn’t be very different. We have won so many times that when we get home we get about a week to a month of people congratulating us. We get on television and we talk about how it went and how we lead the team to success. But if we lose then we are excluded from everyone’s hearts. We aren’t respected because everyone in Brazil believes that we have failed the entire country.