[BRAZIL] For host Brazil, the road to the 2014 World Cup leads through, well, London. Its preparations begin in earnest next month with a week-long camp in Rio– opponents still TBD — and Coach Mano Menezes has called up many of Brazil’s young stars whose big test could be the 2012 Olympics. One player who won’t becamp: Santos striker Neymar, about whom Mano says, “We will leave these recent problems away from the national team.”

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