The World Cup and Fernando Bolsonaro

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Fernando: "It's the share of my country. I think I'm entitled to wear it as a Brazilian" He says he got so excited about watching Brazil play Korea that he bought a new shirt. The January 8th riots happened, which is way more important than the story of the jersey. It was kind of the note that we were originally going to end this update on.

Back in 2017 we ran an episode about the history of Brazil's iconic, yellow national soccer jersey. We were reminded of that story during the recent world cup, and then again on January 8th as a mob of right wing rioters attacked the Brazilian capital, many of them wearing those iconic yellow shirts. Needless to say the story of the yellow jersey has taken some real twists and turns in recent years, so today we’re going to rerun the original story about the jersey’s origins, and then producer Emmett Fitzgerald is going to update us on everything that has happened since.

A Sea of Yellow