England manager Roy Hodgson expects this summer’s World Cup in Brazil to be special.
The
66 year-old, who took Switzerland to the 1994 World Cup, believes
Brazil’s relationship with football makes it the perfect setting for the
tournament.
“I think the real feeling that this World Cup is special because of Brazil’s relationship to football,” he told FIFA.com.
“Everybody associates Brazil with football. Partly because of the
success the Brazilian national teams have had and the tournaments
they’ve won. But it’s not just that, it’s all the Brazilian players who
have played all over the world.
“They
export so many thousands of players. We’re all used to seeing the
Copacabana and other beaches filled with people playing on the sand and
Brazil is considered such a football crazy country, where the people
basically live for the game. Being a footballer is as good as it gets
for anybody in Brazil.”
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