World cup slogans ALGERIA - Desert Warriors in Brazil (not at all a cliché. No, not at all) ARGENTINA - Not just a team, we are a country (the hint is in the name...) AUSTRALIA - Socceroos: hopping our way into history! (no excuses chaps) BELGIUM - Expect the impossible! (yawn!) BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA - Dragons in heart, dragons on the field! (what?) BRAZIL - Brace yourselves! The sixth is coming! (Sixth sense? Or column? Of course it refers to a potential sixth WC title, but try telling Bruce Willis that...) CAMEROON - A lion remains a lion! (unless its a tiger) CHILE - Chi chi chi! Le le le! Go Chile. (Whats Spanish for basic? Oh, thats right, its basico) COLOMBIA - Here travels a nation, not just a team (hang on, wasnt that Argentina?) COSTA RICA - My passion is football, my strength is my people, my pride is Costa Rica (reaches for sick bag) COTE DIVOIRE - Elephants charging towards Brazil! (run to the hills! run!) CROATIA - With fire in our hearts, for Croatia all as one! (we know thats not true now...) ECUADOR - One commitment, one passion, only one heart - this is for you Ecuador! (see Costa Rica) ENGLAND - The dream of one team, the heartbeat of millions! (M&C Saatchi quake in their boots) FRANCE - Impossible is not a French word (note - this is a standard French proverb, so a bit cheeky to claim it as an original slogan) GERMANY - One nation, one team, one dream! (isnt that Ed Milibands campaign slogan?) GHANA - Black Stars: here to illuminate Brazil! (clear non sequitur) GREECE - Heroes play like Greeks! (Hero... geddit?!) HONDURAS - We are one country, one nation, five stars on the heart (noticing a theme here) IRAN - Honour of Persia (Pride of Hertfordshire! Beauty of Bedfont!) ITALY - Lets paint the FIFA World Cup dream blue (did Sepp Blatter write that?) JAPAN - Samurai, the time has come to fight! (and to fall on ones sword in defeat?) KOREA REPUBLIC - Enjoy it, Reds! (actually, dont! have a terrible time!) MEXICO - Always united, always Aztecas! (bo-ring) NETHERLANDS - Real men wear orange (this is a clear winner) NIGERIA - Only together we can win (anyone with knowledge of the Nigerian teams in fighting and factions will LOL at that) PORTUGAL - The past is history. The future is victory (this didnt get past the first line of tagline proposals for the last Nike ad) RUSSIA - No-one can catch us! (thats because theyre all terrified of your leader - this one sounds like a TaTu song...) SPAIN - Inside our hearts, the passion of a champion (fairly inoffensive, this is spared execution) SWITZERLAND - Final stop: 07-13-14 Maracana! (there is so much wrong with this we dont know where to start...) URUGUAY - Three million dreams.... lets go Uruguay (sigh) USA - United by TEAM, driven by passion (and for everything else theres Mastercard)
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