{"id":152112,"date":"2015-09-16T14:55:30","date_gmt":"2015-09-16T14:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=152112"},"modified":"2015-09-16T14:59:24","modified_gmt":"2015-09-16T14:59:24","slug":"brazilian-superfan-clovis-acosta-fernandes-passes-away-at-60","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=152112","title":{"rendered":"Brazilian superfan Clovis Acosta Fernandes passes away at 60"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most famous fans in world football sadly passed away today.<\/p>\n<p>Clovis Acosta Fernandes was a Brazilian superfan, who made sure his face was on camera at every World Cup since 1990.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget-inner\"><\/div>\n<p>Clovis Acosta gave rise to one of the most memorable images from the 2014 World Cup during Germany\u2019s 7-1 win against Brazil, as, clutching his fake World Cup trophy, and with tears in his eyes, he\u00a0summed up the feelings of an entire nation as\u00a0the Germans crushed the Selecao on their home soil.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"__wp-temp-img-id\" title=\"Brazilian superfan Clovis Acosta Fernandes passes away at 60\" src=\"http:\/\/i.idnes.cz\/14\/072\/cl6\/PES548572_profimedia_0198565002.jpg\" alt=\"Brazilian superfan Clovis Acosta Fernandes passes away at 60\" width=\"640\" height=\"455\" \/><\/p>\n<p>According to reports in Brazil,\u00a0Clovis died at the age of 60 after losing a nine year battle with cancer.<\/p>\n<p>Tweets are currently circulating on Twitter to his well known account @Gauchodacopa.<\/p>\n<p>A brilliant collage has previously\u00a0been pieced together\u00a0showing how\u00a0Clovis Fernandes has been following Brazil at every major tournament since 1990.<\/p>\n<p>See the super set of pictures below.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"__wp-temp-img-id\" title=\"Brazilian superfan Clovis Acosta Fernandes passes away at 60\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/CHf5TvTUcAAMZ6q.jpg\" alt=\"Brazilian superfan Clovis Acosta Fernandes passes away at 60\" width=\"640\" height=\"1260\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A video with Clovis Acosta Fernandes, which was produced by FIFA, can be seen below.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zmGfLZxbEJA\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Source: 101 Goals<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most famous fans in world football sadly passed away today. Clovis Acosta Fernandes was a Brazilian superfan, who made sure his face was on camera at every World Cup since 1990. Clovis Acosta gave rise to one of the most memorable images from the 2014 World Cup during Germany\u2019s 7-1 win against [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":152113,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[29,3],"class_list":["post-152112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-dr-mahamudu-bawumia","tag-ghana-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=152112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/152113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=152112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=152112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=152112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}