From Rio to Riau...
Tuesday, April 3, 2001
This is the conclusion to the article Why Samba and not Sambal? originally published in Edition 24 (February 20-26) on Indonesia's quest for elusive international football success.
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In September last year, TIME magazine quoted former national coach Carlos Alberto Parreira as saying that Brazil's signature game, derives from a "passion for the ball and the beauty of the game." For him, Brazilian-style football "comes naturally"; and is: "entirely based on feeling and imagination". Indeed it's more than that. It is a real passion, an inbred religious-like fervor. But not only that, they start playing when they're really young too.
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