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Count down begins as World Cup kicks off this week in Brazil

Rio De Janeiro: The World Cup kicks off Thursday and soccer fans from Rio de Janeiro's slums to southern India's playgrounds have been shining with their passion for the sport.   While national teams are arriving




The obsession has even spread to the animal kingdom. An elephant with Brazil's flag painted on its trunk and belly kicked a ball guided by its keeper at an elephant camp in the Thai province of Chiang Mai. In Colombia, shepherds guided two teams of sheep representing Brazil and Colombia to play a match as part of a celebration of local craftsmen who make wool ponchos.