00:00When Brazil scores a goal, your heart beats again.
00:03At Brazil, I'm back in it!
00:05It's the best team in the world.
00:07It's a five-time world champion.
00:09When I say the words to you,
00:10Brazil and World Cup, what springs to mind?
00:12What do you think of them winning it?
00:15This is the border of Long Island City and Astoria, Queens.
00:19This is the spot for Brazilian fans in New York.
00:23World Cup, big games.
00:25Nobody watches alone here.
00:27If we win, we help together.
00:29If we lose, we go home set together.
00:31Every fan here, family.
00:34Every match, a celebration.
00:36We are Brazilian. We never give up.
00:38When you come to Beja Flor, you get that at-home feeling.
00:41The music, the people.
00:43That's where everybody comes in to watch the games.
00:45The community is very big in Astoria.
00:47We have a lot of Brazilians here.
00:48When they come to Beja Flor, they feel like they're at home.
00:52You know, and soccer is part of this.
00:54The closest thing to home.
00:55Can't watch it there, you come here.
00:57Here, energy is contagious.
01:00If you see Pandero, this is the Brazilian music.
01:05It's the heartbeat of Brazil.
01:06When we score, everybody stand up, scream, and make noise.
01:11Everywhere you're going to see this.
01:14And you'll definitely hear chants.
01:24I am Brazilian, with much love, with much brown.
01:28Let's go, Brazil! Let's go!
01:29If you're going to come here, you must wear a Brazilian shirt.
01:32They are in blue or they are in yellow?
01:35The yellow one is like the most traditional one.
01:38This is the canarinho one.
01:39Canarinho is the name of a bird in Brazil, kind of yellow.
01:43The most popular jerseys they're going to see here is going to be like Neymar, Pelé.
01:47Legends on the back, pride on the chest.
01:53You can watch the game anywhere.
01:55But the food and drinks is what makes it like the Brazilian experience.
01:59When you're watching Brazilian game, you must try this.
02:03Dadinho de tapioca, chicken.
02:06We call franca passarinho, fried polenta.
02:09The pork belly, torresmo in Portuguese.
02:11And this is a famous coxinha.
02:14It's stuffed with chicken, pastéis.
02:17It's like emparadas, stuffed with cheese and also with beef.
02:20Food-wise, nice steak, rare.
02:23We're going to try a caipirinha.
02:24It's a passion fruit caipirinha.
02:26It's a Brazilian rum.
02:27Caipirinha makes, you know, the game even better.
02:30Caipirinha is number one.
02:32The drinks, the bites, the energy, it's all part of the ritual.
02:40When I hear the national anthem starts, like, I feel goosebumps.
02:43I imagine myself, like, being one of the players, like, I feel proud of the country.
02:47I just make my prayers at home and here I scream out loud.
02:50Every time, I'm always yelling for the game.
02:56We never, never call, like, the goal before it's a score.
03:00You know, like, you never can say, like, even if it's about to hit the goal,
03:04you never say go before, you know, it's like a superstition.
03:08I feel like the team's like your first girlfriend.
03:10It's like, the first time you fall in love, they make you dream about something bigger.
03:15Forget New York.
03:16For 90 minutes, this is Brazil.
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