For example, when I was in Brazil to speak recently, I visited the Black Six, a hip hop club in Rio.

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This week a lacklustre domestic season was drawing to a tarnished close, as lawyers for Vasco da Gama, a Rio de Janeiro club, battled to bend the rules to ensure that Edmundo, their temperamental striker, could play in the second leg of the league-championship final, despite having been sent off in the first game on December 14th.

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Six months before the match Sandro Rosell, who is now the president of Barcelona Football Club, the European champions, became a director of Ailanto, a sports-marketing firm in Rio de Janeiro set up shortly beforehand.

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