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

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.

Euan Marshall, +1

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

Brazil Sports

May 2, 2026

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12 min read

⚽ Club origin stories

The foundations of Brazil’s top football clubs offer broad insight into how the sport developed in the country over generations.

Euan Marshall

Brazil Sports

Apr 25, 2026

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8 min read

🏀 Remembering the Holy Hand

Brazilian basketball legend Oscar Schmidt passed away last week, aged 68. His legacy in the sport goes beyond being “the best never to play in the NBA”

Euan Marshall

Brazil Sports

Apr 18, 2026

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8 min read

⛵️ F1, on water?

SailGP, the revolutionary high-tech high-speed sailing competition held its first ever event in Rio last weekend, with a Brazilian Olympic medalist in action.

Euan Marshall

Brazil Sports

Apr 11, 2026

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13 min read

💥 Brazil’s biggest rivalries

The Fla-Flu derby between Flamengo and Fluminense is well-known worldwide, but it isn’t even the fiercest rivalry in Rio de Janeiro, nevermind Brazil

Euan Marshall

Brazil Sports

Apr 4, 2026

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13 min read

🤦🏽‍♂️ Brazil’s canary in the coal mine

Criticism of Brazil’s new kits uncovers a deeper question of the national football team’s brand marketing ahead of the 2026 World Cup

Euan Marshall

Brazil Sports

Mar 28, 2026

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13 min read

🏏 Cricket hits Brazil for six

Perhaps without realizing it, millions of Brazilian kids have played cricket, and the sport’s Olympic status is giving it increased visibility.

Euan Marshall

Brazil Sports

Mar 21, 2026

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13 min read

🏆 The South American ‘obsession’

The Copa Libertadores is one of the most idiosyncratic tournaments in world football, and holds huge importance for South American clubs. But it wasn’t always that way.

Euan Marshall

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