FILE - In this Oct. 16, 2012 file photo, the armadillo mascot for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil poses for photographs outside the Brand Licensing Europe 2012 exposition at Olympia in London. The ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Spain had Naranjito the smiling orange in 1982, France Footix the football playing rooster in '98, now Brazil have chosen an endangered armadillo as the mascot for the 2014 ...

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RIO (KGO) -- All balled up, this armadillo's got a lot in common with a soccer ball. The animal at the Rio de Janeiro Zoo is getting a lot of attention with the World Cup right around the corner. The ...

Who is Fuleco? He’s a blue-armored armadillo and you’re going to be seeing a lot of him during the next month of World Cup action. More than 1.7 million Brazilians, or 48 percent of those who voted, ...

FIFA and Brazil 2014’s Local Organizing Committee have picked the mascot for the next World Cup, and it could have been a lot worse, particularly if the first thing you heard about the choice was ...

SAO PAULO (AP) — A Brazilian environmental group has launched an effort to save the endangered three-banded armadillo, the mascot for the World Cup that starts next month. Trump rages at Democrats and ...

The mascot for the 2014 World Cup will be a cartoonish three-band armadillo, an endangered species native to Brazil. Depending on a public vote, the soccer-loving armoured mammal will be named either ...

SAO PAULO – Brazilians selected the name "Fuleco" for the armadillo mascot for the 2014 World Cup after a three-month vote derided by fans as undemocratic. FIFA said Sunday more than 1.7 million ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil will begin a program meant to save the endangered three-banded armadillo, the mascot for this year’s World Cup, the Environment Ministry said Tuesday. The move was ...