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ɖʀʊӄքǟ ӄʊռʟɛʏ 🇧🇹🇹🇩 Profile picture
Jul 8
EVANGELICALISM AND THE DECLINE OF BRAZILIAN FOOTBALL 🇧🇷

After yet another World Cup defeat Brazil is again soul searching - “Why has Brazil become so bad at one of the only things it still used to be good at?”

One of the most popular explanations among Brazilians this time is the rise of evangelicalism in Brazil, especially Pentecostalism. The argument goes that this has ‘spiritually’ undermined the Brazilian team. At the 2022 census about 27% of Brazil’s population over 10 identified as evangelical Protestants. In 2000 the percentage was 15.4% and in 1980 6.6%. A common explanation for this growth is that Pentecostal and evangelical churches were able to expand so rapidly over the past half century because they offered a new version of Christianity that prioritised close-knit local communities, energetic worship and a ‘message of personal transformation’ (and some also say in a derisive sense more ‘accessible’ ‘lower barrier to entry’ version of Christianity, with everything that entails) that especially resonated with ‘urban and lower-income’ Brazilians during Brazil’s comparatively economically and culturally stagnant recent history. In particular, with the kinds of demographics who lived in or adjacent to Brazilian favelas that football wunderkinds used to be drawn from

This is a kind of version of the other main explanation I have heard for Brazil’s decline; that it lost its swag, its samba, its Latin flair - or ‘duende’. You can’t really empirically prove these claims of course and both arguments (see more of this other argument below) make different root claims but the commonality they share is that Brazilian football used to have a kind of playful Latin - maybe you could say Catholic - magic to it. It was very flashy and improvised but it was also a sort of highly skilled dance that you ‘flowed’ with, it was almost liturgical. (Argentina for instance a team that still has a bit more of this)

The Evangelical argument extends into how it has affected social dynamics in the favelas too. I can’t really speak on how accurate these claims are but apparently it has made families more cautious and less communal, less inclined to ‘let kids go out and play’ ie play football with other favela kids - the focus is instead on ‘staying safe’ and ‘individual hard work at school’. For the players from this new milieu that still do get selected for top-flight football then the effect is it makes them more individualistic, less inclined to cooperate, less likely to see it as ‘a group dance’ and more inclined instead to ‘just charge in’ etc

This is what they say! You are free to buy into that however much you want. Possibly a lot of this is just ‘cope’ so-called from a country that maybe too much ties its entire identity to football. Does seem to me that part of the finger-pointing too is you can spin it as a kind of neo-colonialism, in a cultural sense. That it comes from America, from the West. You can see quite extreme left wing Brazilian accounts repeating this claim so you do have reason to be a little sceptical in that

In any case the decline is obviously multi-causal - you can also point to the rise of European football, lack of money, bad tactics or coaching, changing tactics worldwide that no longer favour Brazil, everybody else is just that good now etc. On the right, you will hear too that the decline is related to the decline of the Brazilian nation generally ie greater incompetence all round. It isn’t just that lost their Latin - or Catholic - flair, it is that they became more ‘Third World’. Evangelicalism in this sense then would be less a problem of Calvinist Predestination Teutonic Weberian Protestant Work Ethic Protestantism - more a problem of, in the extreme, Sub-Saharan African village church with a corrugated iron roof Evangelicalism

Either way there is a general feeling that the death of Brazil football represents the loss of a version of the national soul - that Brazil has now somehow changed for the worseImage
The ‘Brazil has declined in general’ explanation
Is it just ‘cope’? Image
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Jul 3
Incredible that a version of this guy exists to at least some degree in all of the Anglosphere countries. A real dark energy in the culture and people must be producing them Image
Probably something to do with the curtain-twitching Puritan streak in Anglo and Anglo-adjacent culture
Actually I have seen a version of this guy in Argentina and Spain too
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Jul 2
>out with mates watching aussie national hero gout gout only go and bloody win his race bloody love gout gout me he’s a true blue
>suddenly my mate says “have a squiz at this mate you clocked these naarmgroid posts they’re cooked as some real gronk dogs behind these ay”
>take a look
>blow a bloody gasket ay yeah nah nah mate you just didgeridon’t post things like that
>“ah yeah nah they’re properly revealing themselves here carrying on like they hate fair dinkum aussies ay racist dickhead cunts”
>“they’re cooked as some real gronk dogs behind these ay” he says again
>angrily splutter “racist dickhead cunts yeah real larrikins you are ay keep being cruel to everyone shithead cunts yeah they’re properly revealing themselves here clear as dickhead shits nah it’s cruel as I’m sure that will endear you to everyone racist dickhead cunts proud of yourself ay?”
>“they’re cooked as some real gronk dogs behind these ay” he says againImage
Gout Gout, Spanian, Drew Pavlou - True Blue ay 👍
Are you a fan of ABC Asian Baby Girl Eshays? Image
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Jul 2
Lots of other Arab leaders used to enjoy ‘appointing’ mena baddies too but they would never be able escape the damage to their public profile it would cause because they didn’t know how to do PR for liberal westerners. Have to use the right rhetoric - and Al-Sharaa is the master Image
About ‘MENA Baddies’
How to do it
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Jul 2
Latest in Brazilian memetic technology
Some Brazilians really don’t like Argentina!
You don’t need to understand any of the words to get it
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Jul 1
>get back to my CCP-owned apartment block after a stressful day getting called a gronk by eshays cunts at my retail job
>untie my ground-harness that stops me falling into the sun so I can finally relax
>log onto X
>video of sudanese refugee lobbing a boomerang at a kangaroo in wollongong is going viral among those one nation dickhead cunts
>some racist drongo cunt has replied “why is he here?”
>yeah nah racist nazi cunt nah that’s not on mate
>fly into a fit of fury I’m absolutely off my chops
>angrily type “racist dickhead little cunt you’re a little bogan cunt aren’t yah mate little cunt dickhead fuck racist cunt”
>he calls me a naarmgroid cunt back and blocks meImage
“little dickhead cunt racist dickhead aren’t yah mate little bogan fuck cunt nazi racist cunt cunt racist bogan cunt yeah nah that’s not on mate nah yeah that’s just not on mate racist cunt drongo gronk dog flamin’ drongo cunt little racist dickhead mate that’s what you are cunt” Image
Anglosphere Urban Mass Immigration Pidgin Yookayified Fusion Culture SMASH or PASS - 🇦🇺 Australia’s A. GIRL vs 🇨🇦 Canada’s PLUSHH - Smash one and Pass the other. Who are you smashing and who are you passing? Image
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