Brazilians living in Australia are just as passionate about the beautiful game and are set to have their own festival when the games are shown live on SBS.
"If I don't play football on Sunday, it's all over, I just can't think exactly right," says Gelsimar from the Sydney Brazilian Social Club.
When the seleção won its record fifth World cup in 2002, fans is Sydney descended on Darling Harbour, creating an atmosphere to rival that in their homeland.
"Being away from Brazil, we try to make the most of it and try to make you feel like your at home, like you're back in Brazil," says Chicao from the Sydney Brazilian Socila Club.
"Last time in Japan, we basically closed Darling Harbour, we took over that place."
Even though the nation exudes optimism, every Brazilian football worries that the national tragedy of 1950 -when it lost the World Cup at home to Uruguay - will come back to haunt them in 2014.
Some of that concern was put aside the team’s impressive 2013 Confederations Cup final triumph over Spain.
With the nation’s superstar player Neymar in sparkling form, Brazil and its millions of supporters are hopeful they will finally lift the world’s most important football prize on home soil.
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