1.   And on the streets, wherever the samba beat started, it was an invitation to turn tradition and history into pleasure.

2.   Out first was Ronaldinho beating a drum to the samba beat.

3.   Players must move to the rhythm of the samba beat and convert and prevent goals in the capoeira manner, like a Brazilian martial artist.

4.   The Brazilian women play soccer the way the men do, to a samba beat, possessing the ball as if it is tethered to their feet.

5.   The rhythm swelled as Schromin-Warwin moved to each makeshift instrument and its drummer until the warehouse filled with a loud and boisterous samba beat.

6.   Their itinerant band of fans pounded out a samba beat while Brazil displayed some left-over glimpses of jogo bonito , the beautiful game.

7.   Few samba beats were heard on this most French night.

8.   They played the national anthem to the samba beat, lighted fireworks, hooted horns or simply danced on Copacabana beach.

9.   In Brazil, soccer without the samba beat is hard to imagine.