The centrepiece of the FIFA World Cup opening ceremony was a ball, right in the middle of the pitch.
The first thing the ball did was to welcome each of the 32 countries in the native language.
The aerial view, of the opening ceremony was better than the other camera angles, and this was beautiful. The colour and movement of every item was scenic.
I listened to the narration, and this is what I gathered from the opening ceremony:
With a cast of 660 dancers, the opening ceremony portrayed Brazil's nature, people, music and obviously, football.
The nature:
The trees, flowers and rain represented the amazon, the vegetation and plants in Brazil. To be obvious, rain and trees are inevitable in the amazon.
The people:
A Native Indian in a canoe, probably making his way down a river in the amazon.
The music:
There was a big Brazilian musical instruments which are obviously used in music. Accompanied by dancing. If you've watched a telenovela from Brazil, you'd see their love for music and dance.
The football:
Acrobatics in the form of soccer balls were doing just that, acrobats. Then little boys and 1 girl walked into the pitch with the flags of the competing nations on their T-shirts.
The spectacular image was the ball. When it opened up, Pitbull, Jennifer Lopez and Claudia Leitte popped out, ready to sing the official FIFA World Cup 2014 song - We Are One (Ole Ola). I couldn't hear the song though.
What the people thought ...
South Africa was better
Disappointing
Primary School function
South Africa 1-0 Brazil
Was that walking broccoli ...
I expected a carnival
Who cares, when's kick-off?
And complaints about Pitbull's pants
For more views on the opening ceremony, just head to social media, there's tons. I assure you, you might get a sore stomach from people's comments.
