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Football or futbol: Saints' players relish both as World Cup set to begin

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By Rod Walker

Typically, it’s all about football around the Brees household. That’s what you’d expect when the man of the house is one of the greatest quarterbacks in NFL history.

But as Drew Brees found out last week, football is apparently starting to lose a little ground to fútbol.

A trip to the barbershop last week proved it.

“My son went to get a haircut a couple days ago and he told the lady, ‘I want it to look like Cristiano Ronaldo,’ ” Brees said. “So we have Cristiano Ronaldo running around the house right now. One of them wants to be (Lionel) Messi and one wants to be somebody else. So we have the World Cup well-represented in our house right now.”

So expect Brees, as well as some of his teammates in the New Orleans Saints locker room, to tune in Thursday when soccer’s Super Bowl — the World Cup — begins. ...

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