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Brazil's Dance with the Devil

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Publisher
Haymarket Books
Language
English
Published
2016
  • Tournaments
  • Democracy
  • Social aspects
  • Political aspects
  • Soccer
  • Sports tournaments
  • World cup (soccer)
  • Olympics

As the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Olympic Games approach, ordinary Brazilians are holding the country's biggest protest marches in decades. Sports journalist Dave Zirin traveled to Brazil to find out why. In a rollicking read that travels from the favelas of Rio de Janeiro to the fabled Maracanã Stadium to Zirin examines how athletic mega-events turn into neoliberal Trojan horses.