I'm here for FIFA's Football For Hope Forum at the Confederations Cup. Today we were taken to the Mineirao stadium for the Brazil v Uruguay semi-final. Great stadium full of fanatical Brazilians. Seems that Brazilians' love for football is alive and well despite the current demonstrations. We had to go to the stadium four hours prior to kick-off and waited for two hours afterwards so as to avoid any possible rioting. We didn't experience any trouble but the demonstration near the stadium had apparently turned nasty with cars being burnt out. When we got back to the hotel - which was boarded up, along with most other buildings in the city centre - we sat outsuide and watched as riot police confronted a group of seemingly harmless youths, pushed them up against the wall and searched them.