Unit 8
Grades 9-10
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Pelé and the 'Whitening' of Brazilian Football
On July 16, 1950, in front of roughly 200,000 spectators at Rio de Janeiro's newly built Maracana Stadium, the Brazilian national football team needed only a draw against Uruguay to win the first World Cup ever held on Brazilian soil, and, many Brazilians hoped, to announce the…
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