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Pelé, seen here following Brazil's 1970 World Cup win, epitomized "the beautiful game" Image: Wikipedia

Can Brazil Soccer Get Its Beautiful Game Back?

Experts have long been warning that a sell-off of Brazilian talent is seriously damaging ...

Robinho must serve his nine-year jail sentence for rape in his native Brazil

Brazilian Justice Rules Robinho Will Serve Italian Nine-year Rape Sentence in Brazil

Brazilian judges have ruled to uphold former footballer Robinho’s Italian rape conviction, adding that ...

Zagallo reached the World Cup final in various capacities

Brazil and World Say Goodbye to Old Wolf Zagallo, Four-time World Cup Champion

Brazilian football legend Mario Jorge Lobo Zagallo died aged 92 on Friday of multiple ...

Players from Botafogo wearing Parimatch jerseys.

How the Russia-Ukraine War Is Interfering with Soccer Deals in Brazil

A Brazilian soccer club says it is considering its future relationship with its shirt ...

A Braziliian football player is seeen dribbling the ball. Image: David Zalubowski/AP Photo/picture alliance

Football Scandal: Brazil’s Beautiful Game Is Becoming the Dirty-Trick Game

In a bland, cold courtroom on Monday, another football career likely ended. The Court ...

Held aloft as the embodiment of the beautiful game. Alessandro Sabattini/Getty Images

Pelé, We’ll Never Forget You for All the Joy You Brought the World

Pelé, soccer’s first global superstar, has died at the age of 82. To many ...

Here Pelé is shown in 1971, in Paris. (AP Photo/Levy)

Netflix Documentary on Pelé Passes Up a Chance to Deal with Brazil’s Class and Race

A recent Netflix documentary about the legendary Brazilian soccer player Edson Arantes do Nascimento, ...

Generation Amazing, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and Flamengo FC officials with participants of soccer classes for poor kids in Rio.

Qatar’s Generation Amazing Reaches Out to Poor Kids in Rio

Two former Brazil footballers have been teaching soccer to poor children in Rio de ...