Home
Posts
Brazilian football’s missed opportunity

Brazilian football’s missed opportunity

Euan Marshall

Nov 16, 2018

•

7 min read

You’re missing out on the full story

Get smarter on Brazil and Latin America

Get access now!

The full picture. The sharpest takes. All in your inbox, every day:

🏆 Award-winning journalism, trusted worldwide
📊 Exclusive charts and analyses
🗃️ Archive access
💬 Commenting

Keep Reading

Nov 29, 2025

•

9 min read

🏆 The biggest Brazilian match ever?

Tonight’s Copa Libertadores final between Palmeiras and Flamengo has been billed as the biggest match between two Brazilian clubs in history, at least in the post-Pelé era.

Euan Marshall

Nov 28, 2025

•

12 min read

🫣 Honduras braces, Bolivia stalls

The region’s last presidential election of the year could be the most conflictual. And Rodrigo Paz’s first moves to handle Bolivia’s economic crisis.

Ignacio Portes, +1

Nov 28, 2025

•

17 min read

⛽ Fuel’s gold

A police operation goes after chronic tax debtor Refit. Congress strikes down Lula’s environmental licensing vetoes, just days after COP30. Brazil’s hamstrung securities regulator is about to lose another member.

Gustavo Ribeiro, +1

Nov 27, 2025

•

4 min read

🎙️ Podcast: Good COP? Bad COP?

Carlos Nobre, head of the Planetary Science Pavilion at COP30 in the Amazon, talks to us about the conference’s results, the climate emergency we are living through, and what Brazil can still do.

Euan Marshall, +1