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

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Oct 10, 2026

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🤑 Flamengo finance

Brazil's most popular football club has licensed its brand to a payroll-loan platform as delinquency on private-sector payroll credit hits a record high.

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Brazil Sports

Oct 3, 2026

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🏈 Touchdown in Rio

The Baltimore Ravens beat the Dallas Cowboys 34-31 at the Maracanã before almost 73,000 fans and the largest audience on record for an NFL game played outside the US.

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Brazil Sports

Sep 26, 2026

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💛💚 A piece of home

Brazil's national team played a friendly in Townsville, Australia. For one longtime Brazilian resident, the visit brought back language, community and pieces of home.

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Brazil Sports

Sep 19, 2026

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🏋️‍♂️ Fitness craze

Brazil nearly tripled its gym count in a decade. The budget chain that built the market now faces franchise rivals, imported boutique studios, and apps that sit between gyms and their members.

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Brazil Sports

Sep 12, 2026

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🎰 Betting on a ban

President Lula has found a villain for Brazil's sour economic mood.

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Brazil Sports

Sep 5, 2026

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🔍 Manager by day...

Police say a striker playing for Vasco, one of Brazil's most popular clubs, is linked to a drug-trafficking gang. The player says he just knew people.

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Brazil Sports

Aug 29, 2026

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🥇 On top of the world

Alison dos Santos ran 45.80 seconds in Zurich, ending a 28-year drought and claiming a category of mark Brazil had never owned.

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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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🗳️ 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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🏊 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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🏎️ 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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▶️ 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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🚩 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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🤔 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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🤩 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

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Brazil Sports

Jun 27, 2026

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🇯🇵 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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