Children play soccer in Rocinha, Brazil's largest and most populous favela located in Rio de Janeiro's South Zone, on Tuesday.

A Brazilian soccer fan is seen among a street vendors merchandise as people crowd outside the gate as their national team arrives for a training session at the President Vargas stadium on the eve of the FIFA World Cup quarterfinal match between Brazil and Colombia in Fortaleza on Thursday.

Picture of small dolls representing Brazil's national soccer team players set inside a special box to enhance the players' power and luck as part of an Afro-Brazilian religious ritual, taken at a religious goods shop, in Rio on Thursday.

Brazilian soccer fans crowd outside the gate as their national team arrives for a training session at the President Vargas stadium on the eve of the FIFA World Cup quarterfinal match between Brazil and Colombia in Fortaleza on Thursday. Photos: AFP