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Paradinha

By The World ⋅ May 20, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment
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A new rule goes into effect for today’s Geo Quiz. The World Cup soccer tournament kicks off next month in South Africa.

Soccer’s powers-that-be have been busy planning and changing the rules. This week, they banned a move called the paradinha.

What is it you ask?

Well in short it’s a bit of flashy trickery that some soccer players perform as they take penalty kicks.

Some say the paradinha is a cool trick. Others say its un-sportsman-like. The question for you is: which country has elevated the paradinha to an art form?

We’ll name that soccer-mad nation — and tell you more about the penalty trick…

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We’re looking into a little controversy that’s popped up ahead of next month’s World Cup soccer tournament in South Africa.

It has to do with that move we mentioned in our Geo Quiz, called the paradinha.

William Troop joins us from The World’s World Cup soccer desk … actually he’s right here in the studio to explain what paradinha is. Paradinha…sounds like it might be a Portuguese word…am I right?

Paradinha in Portuguese means “little stop,” so Brazil is the answer to our Geo Quiz.

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  • Paulo Vieira

    It won’t affect the World Cup at all. It won’t also affect Brazil at all because:
    1) the “paradinha” has been performed mostly in Brazilian National championships (and a little bit in other South-American countries) since last year
    2) 21 out of the 23 Brazilian players that will be in the World Cup play in Europe and don’t use “paradinha” when executing penalty kicks. None of them has ever used such trick
    3) the only 2 Brazilian players that play in Brazil nowadays and will be in the World Cup are from the defense (Gilberto) and mid-field (Kleberson). They are not “starters” and are not likely to play. And even if they are playing they won’t be chosen to execute a penalty kick.

    So, there’s actually no difference from the Brazilian National team to any European National team concerning the impact of the “paradinha”, because, actually, the Brazilian team is formed by players that don’t play in Brazil, but in Europe !!.. There’s no controversy and nobody in Brazil is worried about it !!…

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