Aldo Rebelo
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 11 Jun
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The teams in Brazil are not restricted to states or cities, like they are in Spain.
The team is from Barcelona, or Madrid, or Catalonia, or the team is from Castilla, or Basque Country, or Galicia.
Not here.
Here the teams are national institutions.
And people identify with the sport of soccer because of these virtues.
It was the first institution that promoted the young black man, that recognized his talent, his capacity.
Only a young man from the middle class could receive this kind of recognition.
Soccer created this opportunity.
And it became the sport of the workers, of the downtrodden, of the immigrants, of the Italians, for example, who created Balmiras.
The Italians suffered a lot of discrimination here, by the old elites of the country.
So they created these teams, the rail workers.
The rail workers went and created their own teams.
So I myself, as a very young man, still living in the countryside of Alagoas, started supporting Palmeiras.
Because next to Santos, which had Pelé and Botafogo, which had Garrincha, it was one of the country's best teams.
And in 1951, or rather in 1945, there was a classic match between Corinthians and Palmeiras in São Paulo to raise funds for the Communist Party campaign.
So I wrote a book called The Red Game.
And why were they raising funds for the Communist Party?
It was a recognition of the role of the Soviet Union in the Second World War, the effort of the Allies.
The Communist Party mobilized people to go and fight the Nazis and Nazi Germany.
So, there was this recognition.
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