
Football won’t rescue the nation
As club football becomes increasingly placeless and commercialized, international football begins to feel strangely real again.
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Alex Hochuli is a writer, researcher and consultant based in São Paulo, Brazil and host of Aufhebunga Bunga global politics podcast.

As club football becomes increasingly placeless and commercialized, international football begins to feel strangely real again.

Brazilians have a complicated relationship to the Seleção, clouded by political crises, the parliamentary coup and the decline of a national style.