WORLD CUP USA ‘94: ROUND OF 16 : Spotlight : MIX-IT-UP ZONE
What do you get with overzealous security guards and scoop-driven Brazilian journalists?
Trouble.
Both sides may have spent a little too much time at the espresso stand in Palo Alto by the time everyone entered the mixed zone, an often scary area known for hand-to-hand combat in an attempt to interview players.
Some take mixing too literally.
A couple of Brazilian reporters were ejected from the mixed zone and exclamations of Portuguese profanity followed.
Then there was a clear blast of English from one cameraman, who shouted: “Brazil isn’t the third world. You are the third world! We are not animals. We are people.”
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