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The bright yellow jersey of Brazil is a symbol that units the country through the love of football and national pride, but in the last two years to adopt shirts by right -wing supporters of Jer Bolsono, who wear it on protests and cause rallies to show their political loyalty for the President of Brazil.
The famous yellow jersey was burnt in the 1970 World Cup in the imagination of the global audience. Inspired by Pelé’s spellbinding performances – he wore the number 10 jersey – the yellow shirt has represented Brazil’s success on the pitch and created a positive image worldwide for the last five decades.
The 1970 national team also got entangled in politics, especially beyond the World Cup in Mexico when a nation’s president General Medici played an important role in removing the coach – Joao Saldana – who overtook an ideal merit campaign.
Rapid forward for 2020 and Bolsoro critics say the prestigious yellow jersey has now become tainted with his close support from the Brazilian President.
Walter Cassagrende, former Brazilian national team’s footballer and former footballer of the Sao Paulo Club Corinthians, recalled the spirit of scoring a goal wearing a yellow jersey in his first match with “Selecao” in 1985.
“It was a magical thing,” Casagrande told CNN Sport, “Like a fascinating object that gave me a great feeling.”
Casagrande’s feelings lie to the left of the political chass, which separates the supporters and opponents of Bolsoro, and they feel that an item he cherished is being presented incorrectly.
“Now I consider the yellow jersey of Brazil to be abducted and approved by the right wing, so we cannot use it.”
Casagrande said that it used to have the power of yellow shirt for him that it represents democracy and freedom.
“Brazil is currently visible badly for the world,” he said. “This is the first time in my life when I am using yellow jersey against democracy and freedom.”
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As soon as possible, Bolsoro is to be criticized as soon as possible, their supporters are not slow to combat the punch.
Cosmo Alexandre, a Brazilian fighter, who holds several world titles for May Thai and Kickboxing, believes that the Left is facing many issues with Bolsoro, and is just another method for air complaints using jersey.
As a Bolsono supporter, Alexandre closed the allegations that the jersey symbolism is being manipulated, and says that the reason for supporters wearing a yellow T-shirt is simple: everyone in Brazil has a yellow T-shirt.
He explains that supporters do not always wear the Jersey of the Brazilian team, and the rallies are full of people wearing all types of yellow T-shirts.
Alexandre says that Jersey’s game is a separation between the reputation and politically representing it.
“Everyone worldwide knows about the Brazilian football team, so even though I go into a fight and I use the yellow football team shirt, everyone knows that it’s Brazil,” he said. “So it’s not about politics – it’s just that the world knows about football in Brazil.”
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Josemar de Regande Junior is a football fan who co-established a Bolsonro Swayamsevak group in his city before the election. He said that he is proud of the global reputation of the Brazilian team to win him, and the yellow jersey for him “means love, leadership, achievement and pride for the country.”
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White and blue kit campaign
However, the theme of the yellow jersey has become so divisive that a campaign is going on for Brazil to play in a white shirt.
Joao Carlos Asmkco, a Brazilian journalist, a Brazilian journalist, filmmaker and author of “Socker’s Gods”, is leading a book for a book about Brazil’s political, sociological and economic history, a campaign for the Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF), which started to leave the Yellow Jersey Ultodathar and when the program began.
CNN reached CBF, who replied that they choose not to comment on the matter, “because it is a very unique issue.”
“People loved Brazilian football because we used to play very well,” Assumpção said, “And if we play well with a white shirt in 2022 I think everyone is going to buy a white shirt. It is very difficult to change it, but I think it’s not impossible.”
White and blue jersey was considered inauspicious when Brazil lost the World Cup at home in Uruguay in 1950, so they turned into a yellow jersey, and won the five World Cups wearing it – a final record that still stands today.
Asumko’s vision to change the color of the kit, the world has to say that the people of Brazil want change in the country. “The changes that this government is making is not,” Assumpção clarified.
On the other side of the political spectrum, the color yellow, including Yellow Jersey, represents a positive change in the country. Bolsono prohibition Junior believes that the attempt to retrieve Yellow Jersey is an attempt to “misbehave the government”, which he describes as a “patriotic government that represents and supports all social classes across the country.”
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Political turmoil in the country reflects the fierceness between inter-city football rivals across Brazil. Except it is not contained by the boundaries of the city and has brought fans together in recent months.
Sao Paulo is the home of four main clubs: Corinthian, Palmirus, Sao Paolo and Santos. The rivalry between the Corinthians and the Palmiras is particularly intense, and in June, each club groups joined the streets and joined the supporters of counter-print Bolsonero.
Sociologist Rafael Castillho, a member of the collective corinthian democracy and coordinator of the Corinthian Studies Center, said that to overcome the current political situation for Brazil, it would have to be “united and accept the contrast”.
Castilho explains that the civil responsibility is to support the rival clubs and join the civic society movements, “as the country has experienced the crisis of the party’s representation and social movements, scared of police action,” he said that “the attitude of fans has attained sympathy as the share of society represents the society’s courage.”
Corinthians have a history of a mixture of football and politics. During the 1980s, during the Democracy Movement, the club team named Directus Zara was led by the leaders of the national team Socrates and Kasagarande.
Two did football with politics when the team wore a jersey during a game in 1982, in which the word “Vote on 15th” was displayed in an attempt to motivate their fans to vote in the Sao Paulo state government election.
Two years later, the Corinthians were the center of a movement called Democresia Curintiana, which Kasgrande said that more than a million people wore yellow clothes on the streets.
“This was a very important moment for Brazil’s democracy, and this yellow jersey was central for that movement,” said Cassagranty.
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The yellow jersey returned to the streets in the 2013 protests against former President Dilma Roussef and corruption. A year before the World Cup in the South American country, conservative protesters wore shirts who represented Brazil’s colors, while leftist protesters used other colors.
Both Alexandre and Regande Junior say Yellow Red T-shirts are an improvement from government supporters when the leftist power was in power, for a underlying support of communism.
Alexandre said, “When Bolsono started running, his supporters used yellow color, to show that I am Brazil and I don’t want Communism in my country.”
Battle for Yellow Jersey gives up some craving to regain a victorious past, while others proceed to create a new meaning for the iconic symbol. In such a depth country in football, it is an issue that is unlikely to go away.
Assumpção feels that it is possible only for the football community and is not associated with the right to cure Jersey for Brazilians “perhaps five years or 10, but not now.”
