World Cup 2014: Protests before opening ceremony

A masked man throws a stone towards riot policemen during a protest by people demanding better public services and against the money spent on the World Cup soccer tournament in Sao Paulo (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

At least 200 protesters clashed with riot police as they sought to block a road five miles from the Arena Corinthians, and sabotage the World Cup 2014 opening ceremony, an event that has cost billions of pounds of public money in a nation fraught with poverty and inequality. At least one person was detained by police, and six people injured, three of them journalists.