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More than scores, we explore the Brazilian sport's powerful stories and business side.

Brazil Sports

Aug 22, 2026

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🎣 Shooting fish in a barrel

Half the quarterfinalists in both the Copa Libertadores and the Copa Sudamericana are Brazilian. The gap that produced them is financial, legal, and by now self-sustaining.

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Brazil Sports

Aug 15, 2026

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6 min read

🗳️ From the pitch to the ballot

Dozens of former athletes are running for office in 2026. Their appeal to political parties has everything to do with the country's complicated system for electing the lower house of Congress.

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Brazil Sports

Aug 8, 2026

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5 min read

🏊 Rio's Olympic decade

Rio de Janeiro marked 10 years since it hosted the Olympics. This week, we looked at what the Games left behind.

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Brazil Sports

Aug 1, 2026

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6 min read

🏎️ Bearing the load

Gabriel Bortoleto has scored 10 of the 12 points Audi has taken in its debut season as a Formula 1 works team.

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Brazil Sports

Jul 24, 2026

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5 min read

▶️ YouTube did it

A discount negotiated in 2020 cost Brazil's biggest broadcaster the one thing it can't buy back: habit

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Brazil Sports

Jul 18, 2026

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5 min read

🚩 Two clubs, one household

A proposed buyout of Vasco has become the first real test of whether Brazil's new financial-fair-play rules can police family ties, not just balance sheets.

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Brazil Sports

Jul 11, 2026

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5 min read

🤔 What is Neymar's legacy?

The 2026 World Cup was supposed to crown Brazil's most prolific scorer. Instead, it delivered a quiet, ill-tempered exit.

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Brazil Sports

Jul 4, 2026

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5 min read

🤩 Style points matter

A round-of-16 date with the only team Brazil has never beaten reopens the country's oldest football argument: whether a title counts less if it isn't earned with flair

Elizabete Fernandes

Brazil Sports

Jun 27, 2026

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5 min read

🇯🇵 The Zico connection

In the 1990s, the Brazilian legend Zico helped build Japanese football from the ground up. Now Japan is all that stands between Brazil and the World Cup's round of 16.

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Brazil Sports

Jun 20, 2026

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5 min read

💸 Beautiful game, ugly books

Brazil has spent five years coaxing private capital into its chronically indebted football clubs. Now, it is writing the fine print.

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Brazil Sports

Jun 13, 2026

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6 min read

🤔 Debut déjà vu?

Brazil get their 2026 World Cup campaign underway tonight against Morocco. But will this be another stressful tournament opener? And where does the country’s debut tension come from?

Euan Marshall

Brazil Sports

Jun 6, 2026

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9 min read

📺 It’s all in the ads

With the World Cup less than a week away, we look back at memorable ads surrounding the tournament, and how they mirror the nation’s optimism (or pessimism) about Brazil.

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Brazil Sports

May 30, 2026

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8 min read

💛 More than a shirt

Designed via a newspaper competition, Brazil’s yellow national football team shirt is a global icon. Here’s the history behind the world-famous garment.

Euan Marshall

Brazil Sports

May 23, 2026

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9 min read

📝 Not just Neymar

Neymar’s selection for Brazil’s World Cup squad came as something of a shock. But the national team has a long history of contested call-up decisions.

Euan Marshall

Brazil Sports

May 16, 2026

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8 min read

🤔 The low bar revolution

Is Samir Xaud the best CBF president in decades? And if so, what does that say about the recent history of Brazil’s football governing body?

Euan Marshall

Brazil Sports

May 9, 2026

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8 min read

🎲 The betting lobby in Brasília

Congressional aides describe how betting companies used a years-long regulatory gray area to get Brazil “addicted” to gambling — and its sponsorship money.

Euan Marshall

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