World Cup Diary: Nation's hope, apprehension continues for another day

Updated Mar. 4, 2020 5:05 p.m. ET

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The scene at the Delirio Carioca Bar, tucked away on a side road behind the Copacabana Beach, was replicated all over Rio de Janeiro. Friends and neighbors gathered round televisions on street corners or in what they call "pe sumo bars" â it literally means dirty foot bar in a nod to being homely and unpretentious â out in the open air as they summoned all the goodwill they could muster in the name of the Selecao. It wasn't a cross-section of life. It was all life; From babies to grandparents and everyone in between, decked out in yellow and green and drenched with a heady combination of hope and apprehension.