Close enough. I'm in Skopje and it's just as hot as it's up there in Kosovo, with lots of humidity, just like it is in my country on the Adriatic. Folks from West or North Europe find our summers pretty tough to handle. But it's not even close to how we'll feel in the Persian gulf or Brazil. I was in Ukraine for the euros two years ago and I couldn't handle the air in Kiyv. It felt like I'm breathing the Dnieper river, even if the temperature showed only 19 C. It felt like 40 over here. I can only imagine how it's like in Manaus. But the experts here think there is no difference and Marchisio was lying about the hallucinations.
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Oh, and you can stop arguing with me, folks, and start arguing with Pirlo.
"These factors are definitely important especially when you come to these countries with great heat and humidity and players more used to these conditions," Pirlo said.
"There are two World Cups. One in the north and one in the south."
Isn't Pirlo from a Mediterranean country? Why would he complain about the conditions in Brazil?