Podcast
Black in Football / 2.Black Shirts
For many years, the clubs on the Zona Sul-Tijuca axis were able to take advantage of their hegemony in the Rio championship, because in 1923 a small club would leave the second division to change the history of football forever. Dressed in their black shirts, young black, mestizo and poor white people left the most undesirable places in the city and formed the team that drew crowds of people playing football that brought all the big teams to their knees. They came to score some goals, and maybe win some games, but along the way they called into question concepts of race and class within the four lines of football.
Black History
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