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Spectacular World Cup opening

The World Cup kicked off this morning with a flashy opening ceremony featuring music stars, traditional Brazilian capoeira performers, acrobats, gymnasts, stilt walkers, doves of peace and a giant LED football.

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Pinilla: ‘Chile not thinking about losing’

Chile are focused solely on their FIFA World Cup opener against the Socceroos on Friday, according to Chilean forward Mauricio Pinilla, who hasn’t entertained the possibility of losing to the unfancied Aussies.

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Ange’s men to fight attacking fire with fire

Socceroos assistant coach Aurelio Vidmar says Australia won't be afraid of an 'aggressive' style of attack from Chile when the two sides meet on Friday.