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| | Xtratime Community - Class, Ethnicity, and Color in the Making of Brazilian Football. |
 | | The Vasco team, champions in the second division in 1922, had a secret: it had recruited the best players from the working-class suburbs, whether they were white, black, or mulatto, and kept them in a regimen of semiconfinement, financed by the club, where the athletes focused exclusively on football. |
| | Professional football became a means of emancipation for black athletes--a necessary condition, as it turns out, for establishing football as a "national" sport. |
| | On the other hand, the French team was able to arouse the enthusiasm of local multitudes--which in the beginning of the Cup seemed quite cold--because it became a symbol of the success and the legitimate integration of the sons of long-stigmatized proletarian immigrants. |
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