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...With major changes under way in the business side of o jogo bonito — the beautiful game — a lot is at stake....
...Brazil’s greatest ever player, Pelé, fighting cancer in São Paulo’s Albert Einstein Israelite Hospital aged 82, would recognise moments of the Brazilian jogo bonito, “beautiful game”, that all football fans...
...Due to a decades-old general ban on gambling, punters were mostly limited to state-run lotteries and scratch cards, horse wagers at authorised racetracks, or an illegal but widespread numbers game — jogo...
...Change is now on the cards in the spiritual home of o jogo bonito (the beautiful game), as a drive to professionalise the business side of the sport gains traction....
...Highlights With sport club valuations on the rise around the world, the land of o jogo bonito wants in on the action....
...O jogo bonito is now being played more in the boardrooms instead of on the field in front of fans and supporters....
...He also needs Brazilians to recognise him for playing their semi-mythical jogo bonito (“beautiful game”). Unlike Lionel Messi, who ignores the media, he monitors what compatriots say about him....
...The South Americans look best placed to lift the trophy if they can continue to mix their traditional jogo bonito with a dash of Italian-style catenaccio....
...the Beautiful Game, by Karl Ove Knausgaard and Fredrik Ekelund, Harvill, RRP£18.99/FSG, RRP$16 Norwegian novelist Knausgaard loves a nil-nil draw; his Swedish co-author Ekelund loves the old Brazilian jogo...
...However, he is in fact one of the many operators of Brazil’s Jogo do Bicho (Animal Game) — a gambling racket run by mafia bosses and corrupt public officials worth R$12bn ($3.7bn) a year....
...Brazil, as represented by samba and free-flowing football, jogo bonito, is Ekelund’s passion whereas Knausgaard likes Italy and Argentina, who play “on their opponents’ weaknesses rather than their own strengths...
...Whatever reservations he might have about the Brazilian jogo bonito, philosophical and aesthetic Romanticism are central to My Struggle....
...The two hostages were identified as Kenji Goto Jogo, a freelance journalist captured in Syria last year, and Haruna Yukawa....
...He is Brazil’s last undisputed purveyor of jogo bonito – but one man is a thin foundation for a tradition....
...But there can be no excuse for turning up in Russia in 2018 (presuming Brazil qualify) with talk of 1970 and jogo bonito. That’s dead....
...Then there is the national team’s dispiriting collapse, which popped the illusion that Brazil is still the home of jogo bonito, the beautiful game....
...Neymar incarnates the idea of Brazilian football, the semi-mythical jogo bonito. However, in Brazil the national coach traditionally acts the stern tutor who tells the boys they cannot just play....
...Its footballers are renowned for their dazzling skill and jogo bonito – or beautiful game....
...So in a nation where the jogo bonito (‘the beautiful game’) is a decidedly zero-sum game, should investors take a punt for or against the hosts?...
...He set up brands Pinstripe Clothing, Starsign and Jogo in the Dale Street warehouse that now houses Boohoo. It was there that Mahmud met Carol Kane, with whom he founded Boohoo in 2006....
...Abdullah got involved in the clothing trade, founding brands such as Pinstripe Clothing, Starsign and Jogo, which his children worked for....
...The task is twofold: to win the World Cup, and to do it while playing “jogo bonito”, the “beautiful game”. Brazil almost certainly won’t manage it this year either....
...Upgrades from the regular economy cabin start at S$18 (£9). www.flyscoot.com Macau The Sociedade de Jogos de Macau, Asia’s biggest casino company, has agreed a deal with Milan-based fashion house Versace...
...started out as a flute player for Gilberto Gil, turns a troubled relationship into a musical Wunderkammer full of Afrobeat and ska; from the chittering beats of “Músico” and the John Barry strings on “Jogos...
...The animal game is known as jogo do bicho in Portuguese and its chiefs as bicheiros....
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