Oddly Enough, We haven't seen the Brazilian World Cup Mascot during the games due to a problem that took place between FIFA and the Armadillo Protection Organization, who were responsible to indicate the Armadillo as Brazil's World Cup mascot. The deal is: FIFA, who got 2,4BI dollars as profit, wanted to give 300K dollars during 10 years (that's 30k / year, or 2500 dollars / month) to help preserve the Armadillos, which are endangered in Brazil. That's literally 0.0125% of the profit. Since the Armadillo Protection Organization refused this amount - which they took as an offense, btw - FIFA also removed the mascot from most places. If you notice, it didn't even show up in the World Cup Opening. :/
Oddly Enough, We haven't seen the Brazilian World Cup Mascot during the games due to a problem that took place between FIFA and the Armadillo Protection Organization, who were responsible to indicate the Armadillo as Brazil's World Cup mascot. The deal is: FIFA, who got 2,4BI dollars as profit, wanted to give 300K dollars during 10 years (that's 30k / year, or 2500 dollars / month) to help preserve the Armadillos, which are endangered in Brazil. That's literally 0.0125% of the profit. Since the Armadillo Protection Organization refused this amount - which they took as an offense, btw - FIFA also removed the mascot from most places. If you notice, it didn't even show up in the World Cup Opening. :/