World Cup 2014 Jokes and Stories – Brazil

Will and Guy are collecting funny World Cup jokes suitable for
the FIFA World Cup in Brazil. June 12th - July 13th.

• World Cup 2014 One-liners
• 
  Comedian Gatecrashes England's Departure
• Some Funny, Short Soccer
  Jokes
• Funny World Cup Stories
• World Cup 2014
  Mascot Fuleco The Armadillo
• More World Cup Jokes

World Cup 2014 - Jokes From Brazil

• The England team visited an orphanage in São Paulo
  today. "It's heartbreaking to see their sad little faces with no hope,"
  said Bernardo, aged seven.
• David Blaine is reportedly furious after England
  crashed out of the World Cup - his record of doing absolutely nothing in
  a box for 42 days was broken by Wayne Rooney.
• Why did the chicken cross the road?
  According to Fifa's
  cameras it didn't
  traverse the white line.
• I hear Oxo are making a new product.  The
  packaging is white with a red cross and they're calling it the 'Laughing
  stock'.

Comedian Simon Brodkin Gatecrashes England's Departure

Observe how Simon Brodkin, AKA as Lee Nelson, is booted and suited identically to
the English football squad members, he is even waving his passport.

Brodkin might have got away with his stunt, remember that many of the squad don't
actually know
each other, but fortunately Steven Gerrard knows everybody, he rumbled
Simon's ruse straightaway, and hollered for the security officers.

[Footnote: Brazilians themselves favour humour based on slapstick or
parody.]

England's Heroes Return Home

When the English Football Team flew home from Brazil, they arrived to a
rapturous welcome at the airport.  Hundreds of fans clapped, cheered
and waved flags as the team disembarked from the airplane.

Roy Hodgson, the coach, was smiling as he told the waiting reporters.
"I am delighted to be in Scotland and very happy that the plane was
diverted to Glasgow Airport".

Listen Out For Bloopers in Commentary

Perhaps unfairly, David Coleman is forever assocated with Colemanballs
during his commentary.  Here are 5 classic football bloopers:

• If that had gone in it would have been a goal.  David
  Coleman
• Don't tell those coming in now the result of that fantastic match.
  Now let's have another look at Italy's winning goal.  David
  Coleman
• England don't have to score tonight, but they do have
  to win.  Billy McNeill, Football Pundit
• I am a firm believer that if you score one goal the other team have to score two to win.
  Howard Wilkinson
• Wilkins sends an inch perfect pass to no one in particular. Byron Butler

World Cup 2014 Mascot
Fuleco The Armadillo

Fuleco the Armadillo will be the official mascot for the 2014 World Cup.
Ful denotes from Futebol (Football) and eco is short for Ecologia (Ecology).

The beast is a representation of the Brazilian three-banded armadillo
which is an endangered. Naturally, the mascot carries the colors of the
Brazilian flag the armadillo is yellow, with green shorts and a blue shell.
Fuleco is dressed in a white shirt emblazed with the words "Brazil 2014".

The Laws of Football

At one point during a football match in Brazil, the coach said to one of his young players, 'Do you understand what cooperation is?  What a team is?'  The little boy nodded in the affirmative. 'Do you
understand that what matters is how we play together as a team?'
The little boy nodded yes.

'So, 'the coach continued, 'When offside is given, or a foul is not seen, you don't
argue or swear or attack the
referee. Do you understand all that?'
Again the little boy nodded.

'Good', said the coach, 'Now go over there and explain it to your mother.'

Medical School

A medical professor had just finished a lecture on the subject of mental health and started to give an oral quiz to the first years. Speaking specifically about manic depression, the senior doctor asked, 'How would you diagnose a patient who walks back and forth screaming at the top of his lungs one minute, then sits in a chair weeping uncontrollably the next?'

A young man in the rear of the room raised his
hand and answered,  'A World Cup football coach?'

The 2014 World Cup Ball

The ball is a new 6-panelled 'Brazuca' made by Adidas.  It's
interesting how each World Cup rubbishes the previous ball, and then makes
zillions through producing a new super-duper ball.

Contrast the 2014 ball with those of the first World Cup final in 1930, the first half of
that first final was played with an Argentinian ball, while in the second
half they used a ball made in Uruguay - unbelievable!

This 1930 final was the original 'game of two halves'.

Half time: Uruguay 1 : 2 Argentina
Full time: Uruguay 4 : 2 Argentina

Court Ruling from the UK

A seven year old boy was at the centre of a courtroom drama yesterday
when he challenged a court ruling over who should have custody of him.

The boy has a history of being beaten by his parents and the judge
initially awarded custody to his aunt, in keeping with the child custody law
and regulations requiring that family unity be maintained to the degree
possible.

The boy surprised the court when he proclaimed that his aunt beat him
more than his parents and he adamantly refused to live with her. When the
judge suggested that he live with his grandparents, the boy cried out that
they also beat him.

After considering the remainder of the immediate family and learning that
domestic violence was apparently a way of life among them, the judge took
the unprecedented step of allowing the boy to propose who should have
custody of him.

After two recesses to check legal references and confer with child
welfare officials, the judge granted temporary custody to the England
Football team, whom the boy firmly believes are not capable of beating
anyone.

Funny World Cup Stories

World Cup Football -
Car Insurance

Car insurance companies in the England will be pleased if England crash out of the
2014 World Cup in the early stages.

Based on information collated from the
2010 World Cup it appears that England's drivers crash their cars more often
on England match days. In 2010 crashes leapt by some 17% generally during the whole tournament.
Back in 2006, accident figures when England played against Portugal and lost on
penalties rose by over 42%.

Funny Scouser Soccer Story

Memory Man

Robbie, the Scouser, [person born in Liverpool, England], is touring
America on holiday and stops in a remote bar in the hills of Montana. He's
chatting to the barman when he sees an old native American sitting in a
corner-complete with full tribal gear, long plaits and wrinkles.

'Who's
he?' enquires Robbie.
'That's the Memory Man,' responds the barman. 'He
knows everything. He can remember any sporting fact. Go and try him out.'

So Robbie wanders over and asks, 'Who won the 1965 FA Cup Final?'
'Liverpool,' replies the Memory Man.

Robbie is flabbergasted.
'Who did
they beat?'

'Leeds,' is the reply.' And the score?'
'2-1.'

Amazed but not totally convinced Robbie Dave tries something more
specific.
'Who scored the winning goal?'

Without blinking the native
American replies, 'Ian St John.'

Robbie, the Liverpudlian returns home and regales his relatives and
friends with his tale, and he's determined to return and pay his respects to
this amazing man.

Ten years later he has saved enough money and returns to
America. After weeks of searching through the towns of Montana, Dave Robbie,
the Scouser steps forward, bows and greets the old man in his traditional
native tongue, 'How.'

The Memory Man squints at Robbie and says, 'Diving header in the six-yard
box.'

World Cup Records That Are Unlikely to be Broken in Brazil 2014

• Number of individual goals scored in the competition - 13 (Just
  Fontane in 1958)
• Attendance - 173,000 [++] in the Estádio do Maracanã. (Brazil 1 : 2
  Uruguay)
• Youngest World Cup player - 17 years 41 days (Norman Whiteside
  Northern Ireland 1982)
• Fastest red card - 56 seconds, Batista on Gordon Strachan (1986)
• Only one Englishman has won the Golden Boot (Gary Lineker 1986)

Football Philosophy

Some Funny, Short Soccer Jokes

Tax Problem

Apparently, the England FA is under investigation by the HMRC
for tax evasion.  Word is Lancaster Gate have been claiming for Silver Polish for
the past 48 years.

God's Football Team -v- Devil's Team

God, and the devil were each having a holiday in hyper-space.  The
topic of conversation turned to who could turn out the best football team.
Much to the God's surprise the devil proposed a football match to settle
their dispute.

As God was leaving he said to the devil,

"Don't you realise that all the
'good' players go to heaven?"

The devil, smiling, responded "Yeah, but we've got all the refs!"
See funny soccer referee jokes.

Note: Anybody who watches three games of football in a row should be declared brain dead. Erma Bombeck

Scottish Referee

What do you call a Scottish player in the first round of the World Cup?

The Referee.  [Funny how one referee joke reminds you of another]

World Cup Referee

It was the World Cup Final dinner and dance held in the evening, after
the final.  The festivities were in full swing when three newcomers
arrived without tickets. 'It's all right,' said one, 'we're friends of the
referee.'

'Whoever heard of a referee with three friends?', said the
bouncer as he threw them out.

Funny Football Snippets

1. An edition of Observer Sport Monthly featured a small item about a Moroccan parachutist. The one who, at the opening ceremony for the 1988 African Nations Cup in Casablanca, watched by royalty and the most
   important men in world football, delayed kick-off by missing the pitch and getting tangled up in the floodlights, where he hung upside down for 45 minutes.
2. During the last Nations Cup in Mali two years ago, there was a full-scale punch-up on the pitch, involving a Cameroon
   coach and Malian soldiers. The coach, a former World Cup goalkeeper, had placed a charm in the Mali net. Witchcraft, juju, call it what you like.
3. My favourite was the tale of the South African team which drove out of town, walked backwards and barefoot off the team
   bus into the bush until they found a termite mound, urinated on it, then walked backwards to the bus again - and still didn't
   win the league.
4. A Manchester cinema, for the World Cup Finals 2002, offered sushi-flavoured popcorn for England's
   matches.

'I understand you're a member of the school football team,' said a
visiting uncle to his eleven-year-old nephew Jimmy. 'What position do you play?'

'I'm not sure,' answered Jimmy, 'but I think I heard the teacher say that
I was the team's main drawback.'

Fouler English
Published in The Times June 2 2014

Sir, Your leader "Fouler English Usage" (May 31) reminds me of the way
the word was used with true mastery by a Celtic supporter at a football
match at Aberdeen in the 1970s, where his team were losing to the home side.
In response to a local supporter who admonished him for effing and blinding
his way through the first half, he shouted: "Ya effin' auld effer, ya effin'
couldn'y even effin' spell effin' effin!"

My companion at the match, a junior Oxford don, observed with some
admiration: "What extraordinary economy of language -- that was noun,
adjective, verb, adverb all from one word in one sentence -- and including a
gerund too!"

Richard Lingham
Devoran, Cornwall