Brazilian football’s race problem

“The remarkable thing about Flamengo’s Brazilian national championship success last weekend is not the 17-year wait nor the indian summer enjoyed by 37-year-old Serbian midfielder Dejan Petkovic. The real surprise is that, in Jorge Luís Andrade, the club has a black coach. SporTV pundit Telmo Zanini called it a “landmark” and stated: ‘Hopefully this will become a symbolic day for Brazilian football and help to open doors for black coaches’.” (WSC)

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