{"id":28749,"date":"2014-06-26T11:08:42","date_gmt":"2014-06-26T16:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=28749"},"modified":"2014-06-26T11:08:42","modified_gmt":"2014-06-26T16:08:42","slug":"international-students-bring-world-cup-spirit-to-brock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2014\/06\/international-students-bring-world-cup-spirit-to-brock\/","title":{"rendered":"International students bring World Cup spirit to Brock"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_28750\" style=\"width: 514px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28750\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-28750\" title=\"world-cup\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/world-cup-1024x577.jpg\" alt=\"world-cup\" width=\"504\" height=\"283\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-28750\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brock students (from left): Yoshikazu Tanaka, Mahamed Alshukri, Andre Luis Costa, Carine Wessling and Thimoteo de Almeida are some of the many international students who have watched the World Cup on a big screen set up in the International Centre. <\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>Thimoteo de Almeida would rather be watching the World Cup in person, but the 21-year-old Brazilian is there in spirit each time <em>the Canarinho<\/em> are on the big screen at the Brock <a href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/blogs\/campus-map\/international-centre\/\" target=\"_blank\">International Centre<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are around a lot of Brazilians, so we kind of have the spirit of Brazil together with us,&#8221; de Almeida, a <a href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-international\/science-without-borders\" target=\"_blank\">Science Without Borders<\/a> student, said during halftime of Brazil&#8217;s 4-1 win Monday over Cameroon that locked up first place in Group A.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-28752 alignleft\" title=\"dsc_0312a\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/dsc_0312a-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"dsc_0312a\" width=\"362\" height=\"241\" \/><\/p>\n<p>De Almeida is enrolled in Brock&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/esl-services\/programs\/act\" target=\"_blank\">Academic Transitions<\/a> (AcT) program, which is a 14-week program where students work on their English studies while taking an undergraduate course toward their degree.<\/p>\n<p>International students at Brock have been filling the centre&#8217;s main floor lounge for many of the matches since the tournament kicked off earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>More than 100 watched the opening ceremonies, and there are often at least 40 students watching matches that involve Brazil, Colombia and Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have flags sometimes here for the countries when it&#8217;s busy,&#8221; Brock international student assistant Michael Wesily said. &#8220;It&#8217;s a fun environment watching people cheer for their home team.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Wesily, who is also an international <a href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/applied-health-sciences\/academic-departments\/health-sciences\" target=\"_blank\">Health Sciences <\/a>student, said the decision was made to show World Cup matches after the positive response to last year&#8217;s Confederation Cup.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They really appreciate it because for them it&#8217;s harder (to watch),&#8221; he said. &#8220;It costs money if they want to watch it themselves (via cable), or they have to watch it in a bar.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The tournament ends July 13, and de Almeida had a predictable prediction &#8211; Brazil with a 2-1 victory over the Netherlands for its sixth World Cup title.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think we&#8217;re going to win.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>International students at Brock have been filling the centre&#8217;s main floor lounge for many of the matches since the tournament kicked off earlier this month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28750,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,1],"tags":[2025,2026,2024,1976,1512,95,847,825,613],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28749"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28749"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28755,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28749\/revisions\/28755"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}