São Paulo Soccer Game February 16th

With the Staudium of Morumbi 5 minutes from where we lived, there was no way I was going to miss out on a game while visiting Brazil.  Brazil is pretty much synonymous with the word Soccer around the world.  It's one of the main topics of discussion among all Brazilians.  If you ever visit Brazil though, there's a couple of rules and things about the soccer that you need to understand (for your own safety.) While it's true that it's completely normal for people to walk the streets wearing soccer shirts for their team, be very mindful of the shirt that you wear and where you our in relations to territory.   It might seem like I'm exaggerating the danger, (I probably am)however, if you wear the wrong shirt in the wrong bairro or worng situation there's always the possibility that you could be mugged.  Take for example, the four main teams of the city São Paulo Coríntios, Santos, São Paulo and Palmeiras.  Each one is pretty much rivals and whenever there is a game between two of them there is heavy police and security.  Fans of Coríntios, notorious for their violence and a common enemy among the rest of the teams, were last year prohibited from entering ANY football stadium besides their own due to a incident in a world soccer game.  

And so recently, I had the opportunity to go to one of the soccer games at the morumbi, where São Paulo played some obscure team.  Happily São Paulo won 2 to one against the team.  On a more epic game I heard that the fans are much louder. Even then, the fan base were pretty energetic with everyone up on their feet and someone playing some big drum that sounded eerily like the one played in the Fellowship of the Ring by the orcs (Don't take that the wrong way, I wasn't comparing São Paulo fans to the orcs).  I guess at the end of the day I was happy that my first soccer game in Brazil ended without any incident.