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With billions of fans rooting and maybe praying for their favourite team, the Guy Upstairs -- God, Elohim, Allah, Lord Almighty, Yahweh, Waheguru, Creator or a Higher Power, to name a few of the monikers -- is no doubt busy these days. [Firmo Mantovani], who is from Brazil, added mischievously: \"I told them [parishioners] you shouldn't pray for Portugal to win, but I'm going to pray for Brazil. I was playing a joke.\" Sikh small businessman Satpaul Gill, 26, of Surrey, who's an England fan, said soccer is big at temples, where \"Waheguru is another name for God, meaning the wonderful Lord.\"

\"Down at the mosque, everybody is talking about the World Cup. It's the one time we don't talk of politics,\" he said. \"They talk about the spirit of soccer, at lunch, at dinner.\" Carlos Alves -- who supports Brazil, played midfield for Flamengo in a professional Brazilian league years ago and has earned a master's degree in theology -- said, \"I don't pray in the sense of asking God to help one team to beat another because Christians aren't supposed to do that. We can't feel good at another's expense. \"I don't believe if people are praying for things on their own behalf that is right,\" he said. \"I'm praying that everyone enjoys themselves and the players don't get hurt.\"