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AFP, Rio de Janeiro
PANDA RED CARDED
A team of Chinese baby pandas lined up to predict World Cup scores have been given the red card by authorities hours before kick off, the animals' keepers told AFP Thursday.
The pandas were billed by Chinese media as China's answer to deceased soccer soothsayer Paul the Octopus, after they were originally set to predict match results by picking food from a choice of baskets and by climbing trees.
But representatives at the pandas' breeding base in southwestern Sichuan province said the bears would not be given the chance to predict results at this year's tournament, which begins in Sao Paulo Thursday.
"The predictions have been halted by the authorities," said a spokesman at the China Centre for Research and Conservation of Giant Pandas, without elaborating.
THAI JUNTA SPREADS 'HAPPINESS'
Thai football fans can watch the whole World Cup at home for free thanks to an intervention by the junta to spread "happiness" after a military coup last month.
A dispute over broadcasting rights had threatened to leave Thais without free access to the majority of the games from football's showpiece tournament - kicking off T hursday in Brazil.
But with the opening ceremony just hours away the television regulator agreed to pay up to $13 million to local entertainment
company RS to share its live broadcast rights to all 64 matches with public channels.
T he move came after the Thai junta pressed the National Broadcasting Telecommunications Commission to resolve the issue.
"RS must broadcast all 64 matches," said commissioner Suthiphon Thaweechaiyagarn. "Our goal is to allow all Thais to watch the games."
POPE WISHES FOOTBALL FANS
Pope Francis, a keen football fan who was an amateur player in his youth in soccer-mad Argentina, on Thursday wished for a fraternal World Cup, hours before the premier championship kicks off in Brazil.
"I wish everyone a wonderful World Cup, played in a spirit of true fraternity," the pontiff tweeted.
In a video message in Portuguese, transmitted by Brazilian television Rete globo, Francis also said he hoped the World Cup would mark "solidarity among peoples" who "recognise themselves as members of the unique human family."
In the video, available on YouT ube, he also said that he hoped the competition remains "a game, an occasion for dialogue, comprehension and reciprocal enrichment".
The World Cup is "an event which goes beyond linguistic, cultural or national boundaries", said Francis, adding that he believed there were "three keys" to success in sport: "Training, fair play and respect for your opponent."
A MATS OF THE PEOPLE
I Ie is not as well known as some of his German team mates, nor is he the most successful in the group, but
Borussia Dortmund centre back Mats I lummels is the most popular of Joachim Loew's 23-man-squad for the World Cup, according to a study carried by the University of Hoffenheim.
"Hummels personifies the charismatic competitor who is always calm and fair," explained Markus Voeth, the man in charge of the internet survey of929 people.
I lummels topped the list ahead of Bayern Munich trio Manuel Neuer, Philipp Lahm and Thomas Mueller, with his Dortmund team mate Kevin Grosskreutz finishing bottom of the pile.
THE 800KM DOG WALK
"Negro", a dog which went missing two months ago from the Uruguayan seaside resort of Solis, was recently found in Porto Alegre after a 800km journey with four English football supporters.
T he group had been walking for three months as part of the "Walk to the World Cup" project. The trek started in Argentina and Negro joined the party from the Uruguayan coast.
T he owner tracked the dog down via Facebook photos from the four, who had renamed him "Jefferson". After travelling to Porto Alegre to collect him, Ignacio Etchichury hopes to watch Uruguay play Costa Rica in Fortaleza on Saturday before