Brazil's long love affair with football is consummated with the hosting of the 2014 World Cup. But protests and strikes seem to show the romance turning sour.
"Love and marriage, love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage," wrote Sammy Cahn in 1955. Brazil and football hasn't yet been threaded into a witty ditty.
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