By Frans van Hees | www.AboutBrasil.com | Week 24, June 2014

Sao Paulo — Today,

World Cup Soccer 2014 in Brazil

in Brazil was officially opened in

Arena Corinthians

in

Sao Paulo

.

At 3.15 pm local time, a colorful ceremony inaugurated the twentieth global World Cup final tournament in the history of soccer . In the show, about 600 dancers and acrobats portrayed the three treasures of Brazilian culture: nature, people and soccer. In front of sixty thousand spectators rapper Pitbull and singers Jennifer Lopez and Claudia Leitte brought the ceremonial hullabaloo to an end with their official World Cup song 'We Are One'.

After the ceremony the opening match of World Cup 2014 will be played between host country Brazil and Croatia.