The World Cup ice-breakers
Don't know anything about football? Keep this World Cup players' guide handy so you don't get tongue-tied when the lunch or water-cooler conversation over the next few weeks inevitably gets steered towards the world's most-watched sporting event.
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Hulk (Brazil)
Not the green beast from the Marvel comic but equally incredible; the Brazilian winger (who was born with the less-catchy name of Givanildo Vieira de Souza) boasts a physique as buff as Lou Ferrigno, the bodybuilder-turned-actor who played the Hulk on TV in the late 1970s. The 27-year-old is unlikely to turn green on the pitch but with the jerseys of both Cameroon and Mexico - who are in the same group as Brazil - in that colour, that should bring out the goal monster in him.
What to say: 'Hulk is not only a great player; he's also very vocal in speaking out against racism and homophobia despite playing in Zenit St Petersburg, the allegedly racist top-flight Russian club that has never signed any non-white players until recently.'
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