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Brazil: Buy a Name!

September 5th, 2010 · No Comments · Abu Dhabi, soccer, Sports Journalism, UAE

Brazil is big on referring to athletes by just one name. Which I don’t have a problem with, generally, and especially not for athletes. Their given names,  Portuguese-based most of them, tend to be elaborate affairs. Pele, the most famous Brazilian of them all, was christened Edson Arantes de Nascimento, which is a lot of […]

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