Much of the stories over the past few days about the World Cup have been about how what is arguably the world's football mecca has given .
We like nuanced narratives, so here's a bit of video taken by .
As he describes it, he turned on his video camera over his neighborhood. The streets were eerily quiet, because everyone was inside watching Brazil's national football team � or the seleção Brasileira � taking on Croatia on Thursday.
After every goal, the city came to life. Listen:
Copyright 2021 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.