The monthly payments demanded for everything from cars to football boots are rising.

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Only captain Aliou Cisse is still on the injured list, but Cisse did put his football boots on for the first time since injuring himself last Monday in training.

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Kitesurfers, tug of war specialists, curlers and figure skaters will all have had to explain what first drove them to their sport of choice, while the rest of the world laced up their football boots or took to the tennis court.

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He had to import a football and boots from Britain as there were none in Brazil.

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He said pictures of the boots, including one with the football museum's creator Vic Wayling, went perfectly with handwritten catalogues and notes.

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