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For a month, our readers and viewers inspired us to hop from one stadium to another in this expansive country here people call Brasil to tell the World Cup story. The mere knowledge that back home in Kenya you waited for our offerings instilled in us, together with KTN Senior Reporter Hassan Jumaa and Cameraman Tony Biwott, the determination to do our utmost. We struggled to communicate with the locals for we know not Portuguese. Gestures came in handy. Some of course universally interpretable, others offensive but the good people of Brasil (not Brazil as we pronounce it) took it in their stride. Till we meet again, we say adeus amigo.
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