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Here are more links to World Cup resources. The world cups starts this coming Saturday and runs through July 11.

The official FIFA website is at http://www.fifa.com/worldcup

From Annenberg Learner, a video segment and information about the history of soccer and its relationship to globalization at http://www.learner.org/courses/worldhistory/unit_video_25-3.html

A recent piece on NPR about soccer as a global game: http://www.npr.org/2014/06/08/318535258/the-world-cup-reminds-us-that-all-the-worlds-a-soccer-field

Nice World Cup-related tidbits from Zambombazo: http://zachary-jones.com/zambombazo/betsys-recap-world-cup-cookies-player-portraits-panini-trading and http://zachary-jones.com/zambombazo/mundial-brasil-2014-una-conversacion-con-simon-cooper

An article from the Smithsonian Magazine about Brazil’s new stadium: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/will-brazils-world-cup-stadium-middle-amazon-pay-180951630

From Larry Ferlazzo, the Best Sites for Learning about the World Cup in Brazil at http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2014/03/09/the-best-sites-for-learning-about-the-2014-world-cup-in-brazil and the Best Sites for Learning about Brazil at http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2013/09/28/the-best-sites-for-learning-about-brazil

An article in Japanese about the Japanese team, from About.com: http://japanese.about.com/od/Grammar/fl/The-2014-FIFA-World-Cup.htm?nl=1

Watch the games that Germany plays in at the Goethe-Institut in Washington, D.C.: http://www.goethe.de/ins/us/was/ver/en12535013v.htm, or in Chicago http://www.goethe.de/ins/us/chi/ver/en12951424v.htm

More German-oriented articles about the World Cup from Germany.info: http://www.germany.info/Vertretung/usa/en/08__Culture__Sports/06/02/WorldCup2014.html

Some quirky entertainment: “17 Glorious German National Team Hairstyles For Every Occasion” at http://www.buzzfeed.com/germanyinusa/18-glorious-german-national-team-hairstyles-for-ev-fr91