“I cried watching that game and not just because of the score. I cried because I do not know what happened to the joy of Brazilian football.”
About This Quote
(Referring to the Selecao's epic 7-1 humiliation at the hands of Germany in the semifinals of the 2014 World Cup, a beatdown made all the more soul-crushing by the fact that Brazil was the host nation.)
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