The U.S. men’s soccer team settles Tuesday evening into a beachfront hotel in Recife, Brazil, protected by some 700 local police officers, army troops and its own team of FBI agents, the Brazilian newspaper Estado de Sao Paulo reported.
Team officials had asked the city government to close part of the beach in front of their hotel, but were told that it was against Brazilian law. Still, local officials agreed to meet the team’s security needs with a comprehensive, but discreet, police and army presence.
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