The Heart Always Said Brazil, This Time the Head says so too
Is there a country more synonymous with a game than Brazil is to football? Considering parameters like population, global popularity of the game involved, and what the game means to the people of the country, the answer is a resounding “No”. The first image that conjures up when anyone imagines Brazil is hundreds of kids playing the beautiful game in the streets of Rio, in the beaches of Rio, in anything and everything where a round ball can be used to show some trickery. Most Indian football fans( especially from the part of the country I come from) swear by either Brazil or Argentina (depending on when you started following the game). Since I was born a few years after the Hand of God, and grew up just in time to see the original Ronaldo (not the robot with the six pack currently ripping shirts in Madrid) suffering a seizure at the biggest stage of them all and then redeeming himself 4 years later on the same stage, my allegiances were forever sworn to Brazil. And with how thin