Smooth flight from New York to Recife. Fernando Torres comes with National Team squad after the U.S.A. tour to face its first game at FIFA Confederations Cup. An intense storm and strong winds gave welcome to the team in Brazil. On Thursday afternoon the team will held its first practice in Recife.

7,000 kilometers and nine hours of plane trip is the distance and time separating New York and Recife, but not only that, but the weather has alienated these two cities.

The National Squad plane took off shortly before 14:00 hours Spanish, from a sunny morning at JFK and landed, about twelve o'clock, CET, amid heavy rain in Recife. Bad weather forced the international, technicians, journalists and the rest of the expedition to take umbrella to get from the plane to the airport lounge.

The team is already concentrated at the Golden Tulip Hotel in Recife, located directly at the beach of Boa Viagem Urban 7 miles of white sands, green waters and natural pools.

The team will wait here a day 16th in which open their competition against Uruguay squad in the newly renovated Arena Pernambuco, a state with over 46,000 people capacity. The three teams in the city are the Nautical, Santa Cruz, former club of Rivaldo, and the Sport Recife, which has the dubious pride in 1957 rejecting the transfer of a young player named Pele as he was unknown.

Recife is the capital of the state of Pernambuco and one of the cities with more cultural activity throughout Brazil. In fact is known for the large number of artists who choose this place to live. Other than that by tourists is one of the best examples of colonial architecture from all over Brazil, as it was home to Dutch.