{"id":7458,"date":"2012-11-29T03:56:10","date_gmt":"2012-11-29T03:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.generalknowledgetoday.com\/?p=7458"},"modified":"2012-11-29T03:56:10","modified_gmt":"2012-11-29T03:56:10","slug":"fuleco-the-official-mascot-of-the-2014-fifa-world-cup-brazil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/?p=7458","title":{"rendered":"Fuleco -the Official Mascot of the 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fifa.com\/mm\/\/Photo\/Tournament\/Mascot\/01\/70\/22\/82\/1702282_FULL-LND.jpg\" alt=\"Fuleco wins name game\" width=\"444\" height=\"249\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Fuleco is the Official Mascot of the 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil\u2122 has a name, with more than 1.7 million people voting for\u00a0Fuleco\u2122.<\/p>\n<p>The three-month public voting campaign, supported by FIFA Partner Coca-Cola, proved to be popular as the Brazilian public came out in force to cast their votes. More than 48 per cent voted for Fuleco\u2122, ahead of Zuzeco (31 per cent) and Amijubi (21 per cent), making it the unanimous winner.<\/p>\n<p>Ever since being introduced to the public, Fuleco\u2122 has been making his presence felt by touring the host country and getting to know the people of Brazil. The latest results from FIFA\u2019s independent brand tracking research indicate that he is fast becoming popular in Brazil:<br \/>\n\u2022 89 per cent of Brazilians said they had seen the Official Mascot<br \/>\n\u2022 Fuleco\u2122 is seen as a likeable character \u2013 he scores an average of 7.3 out of 10 on appeal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fuleco is the Official Mascot of the 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil\u2122 has a name, with more than 1.7 million people voting for\u00a0Fuleco\u2122. The three-month public voting campaign, supported by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/?p=7458\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[3230,207,1041,3231,3232,3233,3234],"class_list":["post-7458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs-club","tag-2014-fifa-world-cup-brazil","tag-current-affairs","tag-currentaffairs","tag-fifa-world-cup-brazil","tag-fuleco","tag-fuleco-the-official-mascot-of-the-2014-fifa-world-cup-brazil","tag-fuleco-wins-name-game","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7458\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}