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⚽ All the latest news going into the weekend’s action ⚽ Premier League: weekend guide Mail Tom Jonathan Liew’s column on how Brazil’s footballing and political dysfunction feed each other is a good read We hear a lot about football’s power to unite a nation.
Perhaps we underestimate the extent to which it can also divide; the way it can reflect the very worst of ourselves, our greed and vindictiveness, our lust for feuds and, petty entertainment.
There is a Women’s World Cup being hosted in Brazil next summer and while Lula has sought to fast-track the professionalisation of women’s football, Bolsonaro’s only public utterances in the field of women’s sport have been to assert his opposition to trans athletes playing it.
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