Nagoya, Japan (CNN) -- Marcos Nunes swigs from his badly concealed bottle of red wine on a chilly street corner in the Japanese city of Nagoya before deciding the question was something between a joke and an insult. "Why have we come here?" he asks tetchily before offering his bottle, sloppily wrapped in a blue plastic bag. He is wearing a black and white football shirt. "Corinthians is like a nation, a religion ... people are borrowing money from banks, from relatives to come here. They are quitting their jobs, selling their bikes, their cars, even their fridges. It's true."
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The FIFA Club World Cup is currently taking place in Japan
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Brazilian side Corinthians will play England's Chelsea in Sunday's final
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FIFA's six confederation champions fight it out
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Corinthians have bought with them tens of thousands of fans
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More than 200,000 Brazilians live in Japan and the Japanese government issued record numbers of visas to @placeholder for the tournament, a sign not just of Brazil's well-known soccer passion, but also its growing global economic and political might.
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More than 200,000 Brazilians live in Japan and the Japanese government issued record numbers of visas to Brazilians for the tournament, a sign not just of @placeholder's well-known soccer passion, but also its growing global economic and political might.
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This isn't the first time that Corinthians has appeared in the @placeholder.
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They are crazy for the team and follow the @placeholder all around the world."
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"We will definitely win it, Chelsea will go down," he said of Sunday's final, where once again there will thousands of @placeholder fans in the stands.