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"FacebookPinterest\n\nLast we heard from Harrison Barnes, Golden State Warriors forward and NBA silly season trade rumor candidate, he was off for Brazil, to take in some World Cup with fellow professional basketballers and Adidas representatives John Wall, Ricky Rubio, and Joakim Noah. The four played some beach soccer, took a helicopter tour of Rio, ate what Barnes called \"the best steak dinner of my life\" at Rio's Churrascaria Palace, and took in two games, France versus Ecuador, which was a boring 0-0 tie, and Germany versus USA, which turned out to be kind of a bummer. When he got back home to Oakland, Barnes called to check in.\n\nWho's the best soccer player out of your four? I'm guessing Rubio, because he's Spanish.\n\n \"We played some soccer on the beach, and some volleyball. Ricky was definitely the nicest soccer baller. Joakim was second, and I was probably a little better than John. If Ricky and Joakim are World Cup material, I'm like parks and rec material. And John's right there with me. It didn't look like he had much experience playing.\"\n\nWhat's it like on the ground there?\n\n \"The country is just ecstatic. I haven't seen Brazil when it's not the World Cup but right now there's so much diversity going on. The general attire is some kind of soccer jersey, whether it's Mexico or the U.S. or Brazil. Everyone is showing pride for their country.\"\n\nHow were your seats?\n\n \"For the Ecuador game, we were probably 15 rows up from the pitch, which was nice. We got the whole experience. We joined in the wave, and did some chants. Then we flew to Recife [for the U.S. game], and it was raining. We had box seats right on the side of where it stopped raining, with an awning over us. We were out of the rain.\"\n\nIt was flooding in Recife, right? People couldn't get to the stadium for the U.S. game.\n\n \"We landed in Recife and I took a nap. When I woke up, it was all flooded outside. I'm seeing cars up to the windshield in water. I thought our driver took us off the road into the ocean. I was like, 'What's going on?' People were riding horses in the water. It was wild.\"\n\nWas it great once you got there?\n\n \"The atmosphere was crazy. I've played in some great arenas, but being in front of 75,000 and 46,000 people going nuts, was totally different. I only saw one goal scored in two games but it was crazy to see the support\u2014the American fan support was impressive. We were out there deep.\"\n\nWas the U.S. game kind of a bummer?\n\n \"Yeah, but we knew that we were probably okay based on goal differential. We were in a box, watching Ghana versus Portugal on a TV to make sure we'd be okay. Me and John were really into it, talking trash to Ricky, because Spain was on their way out. Joakim was there cheering against us. His team was France.\"\n\nHow did Ricky take Spain's performance?\n\n \"He took it pretty hard. I don't know how he's doing right now. I told him, 'Hey, you guys hoisted the trophy. Appreciate it. Let someone else have a chance.'\""^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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