Tag: armadillo mascot

• Monday, November 26th 2012 - 19:54 UTC

  “Fuleco” will rule over the 2014 Brazil World Cup

  

  FIFA has named the mascot for the 2014 Brazil World Cup “Fuleco,” a word which organisers say transmits a message of environmental awareness, Football plus ecology.

• Tuesday, September 18th 2012 - 06:23 UTC

  Meet the official mascot for the 2014 FIFA World Cup: the Brazilian armadillo

  

  Brazil has chosen an endangered armadillo as the mascot for the 2014 FIFA World Cup. While nature's version is light brown in colour, Fifa's mascot is yellow with green eyes and a blue shell, the colours of the Brazilian flag, and will be holding aloft a football.