The last couple of weeks have seen Brazil return to their place as not only great entertainers, but winners capable of doing so in the most thrilling fashion DavidSneyd
Richarlison celebrates after the victory over South Korea. Image: DPA/PA Images THE JOY IS back for Brazil.
Some of that pain lingers even a decade later, a result which, at the time, was decried by one Rio de Janeiro newspaper as the “biggest shame in history”. “The Germans were happy and we weren’t. I can guarantee that a result like that will only be repeated in another 2,000 years.” A return to their place as not only great entertainers, but winners capable of doing so in the most thrilling fashion.
It was sublime in every sense, and while Neymar remains the global superstar, the Tottenham Hotspur star now stands for something less vacuous, and his support for the country’s president-elect, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, only adds to his allure for those in the country who felt its moral compass was off kilter.
“All of us who play in major leagues and have some space in the media have a great social responsibility. And this can’t be only words, we need to act more and more to help and to try to change people’s reality.
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