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The Underworld Aristocracy of Brazilian Footballers

The links between some Brazilian soccer stars and drug dealers are being increasingly exposed by a Big Brother culture of celebrity scrutiny that rivals England’s. The dealers and the players have formed “a kind of alternative aristocracy” — the regimented players seeing in the dealers a freedom they crave, the dealers seeing in society’s affection for the players a dynamic they can only approximate through fear. (Tim Vickery/Sports Illustrated)

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Brazil 2010 ≠ Brazil = Still Good

Brazil 2010 ≠ Brazil = Still Good: Brazil is playing patiently, less spectacularly, with two holding midfielders — not at all like Brazil, in other words? Is this what happens when you’re a budding world power? Or when you’re comfortable enough to just win instead of trying to thrash the opposition? (Zonal Marking)